Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1885 — Page 5

THE REPUBLICAN. Rensselaer Time Table. ■ Passekokr TRAINB North: ) ' Sovrif: 4:59 A. M- 10:?,3 A. M. 3:67 A.M. V 11:28 r. M. 5/18 P. Isl. 10:28 P. M.

RENSSELAER MARKETS.

CORRECT*?) EVERY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. j ' Wheat.. t $.75 @ .80 Corn.i \ . .38 Oats l . .28 @ 30 Eye ~ 50 Timothy 5eed............ 1.00 Clover Seed .. 4.50 Hay, Timothy. s'oo @ 6.00 fiav, Wild t 3.00 @ 4.00 sßotter .18 /Eggs.. 10 Potatoes .40 Apples .70 Salt, per barre 1........... 1.35 feacon, per fib 12^ Lard, per 12f

After a> solid week of the most objectionable weather imaginable, the sun came out clear last Sunday morning, for the first time since the Monday previous. During the present week the weather has been all that the heart of man could desire. Cloudless, balmy, beautiful and breezy, the weather seems to be tryingto make amends for its previous enormites. - Messrs. Michael Kobinson ancT W. F. Comer, two good men from Gillam township, called upon The Republican Monday. They have -just returned from a father extensive cattle buying expedition through northern Indiana and southern Michigan, during which time, they gathered up a nice bunch of young cattle, some 150 in number. Iu all their rounds* they did not see so good a prospect for wheat as their own township, Gillam, can show.

Some of our exchanges are telling tall stories regarding the number of dozens of eggs some of the grocers of their towns take in on some given day. The Kentland Gazette, for instance, says that on Saturday, the lltli inst., a grocery house in that town bought 380 dozen eggs. 380 dozen is a good many eggs, but a grocery firm in Rensselaer reported that on that same day, they bought 500 dozen, "hen berries”, and it wasn’t a very good day for eggs' either. The same firm shipped last Monday morning, 27 cases, each case containing 30 dozen eggs , or a total of 810 dozen, or a tbtal of. 9720 'eggs.

William Foster, the newly appointed receiver of the Chicago & Great Southern railroad, has fitted up for hini6cdf a private car. It consists of an ortlinary freight car divided into two apartments arranges with all the modern conveniences, colored cook, etc., bearing upon its sides the appropriate inscription ‘Receiver’s Private Coach.’ Mr. Foster and his private coach were upon the side track, at Fair Oaks, one day last week, waiting for the regular passenger train to come along and pull them into the city. The train came on time, when the receiver emerged from his palace coach and demanded of the conductor that his conveyance be hitched to the train. “I have no orders to do so", said the conductor. "Then I 1 order it”, roar ed the receiver. It would, not* work with that conductor, however, for the train pulled out leaving the irate receiver side tracked. Great men Are even subject to some of the petty annoyances of life.—Benton Review.

“Shall the Sentence be Commuted?”

We answer,'ye >! Capital puniskmefit j is a featuro ol our law “which has been borrowed from the barbarisms of the past.” The reluctance of modern juries to infiict the death penalty demon-, titrates that the tendencies of our age are against capital punishment. Had Warmer been a mail of intelligence, employed counsel, defied his guilt aud submitted his case to a jury of his countrymen, he never would have been sentenced to hang. It is a question whether or not he. would have been found guilty. Hut lie was poor, igm - rant, and in a land of strangers, without a friend, and those of his own Nationality, bitterly hostile toward hind Wpi felia idly conscious of what ho did, apd with an iuadeqalo conception of the penalty, he confessed his awful crime. Will not society he as well protected with Wartner consigned to imprisonment for life, as if he were in the grave? He has no friends of influence to importune for a pardon. The prison doors once closed around hiru, they will remain closed forever. When there are two methods of accomplishing the same result, is it not manly and IChristian-lika to. choose the more merciful? Remember, that we are not asking that he be turned loose .on soci ety,"but we do ask for life, which man can not give, and which he has no "Inond tight to take away. v . 'Justice. Vd,

From Behind the Prison Bars.

A Letter From Will Sears. Canon State Prison, April .sth, ’Bs.^ Editcjr Republican If you will allow space in your paper and think this letter worthy of publication, I will be very thankful to you. I have received many, letters from enquiring friends and am unable to answer them, as we were only allowed to write once every other week, until our new Warden took his seat, whiqh was on the 20th of last month, and he has made a great change in everything, and one is that he allows us to write every Sunday instead of every other, and, as you know, it becomes my duty to write my wife and little ones, wno are .so dear to me, and that is Why 1 afu not able to answer my dear friends. Our Warden’s namo is Gen. R. A. Cameron, and it may be that some of you are acquainted with him, as he is from your state. He is a good man and is willing to do anything he can to make it pleasant for us and there is no reason, what iver, of any one provoking punishment ,if they will try to obey the rules of the prison. He has delivered two lectures to us, one last Sunday morhing aud one this morning. We also have ing every Sunday afternoon. We have a line cliapel that will seat close to one thousand people. There are a great many citizens and visiting friends who attend our meetings, whjcli makes it very pleasant for us. 1 am enjoying myselt very well under the circumstances and my health is fair. It seems very strange to me, when I think about my case, that I, who have so many times refused to wring a chicken’s neck, when asked by my dear mother or wife, have been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, and all on account of one juryman, who was prejudiced against me, and to whom I objected, but my attorneys had exhausted- their. right of challenge and the Judge would not throw him off. He is now under arrest to appear for perjury. 1 receive your paper regularly ana you have no idea the comfort I take ’in reading the news in it fjrom my old home. It is very hard for me to write an interesting letter for I am not altogether at Lome here, and don’t get to see or hear anything, except what occurs in here. “The best letters sent out from this prison are written by tiic worst hum”, said an official of the penitentiary. They are the plausible men, the kind that can make black appear white, the hypocrites. Ho cued one who led Mrs. St. John into a long epistolary discussion on theoretical Christianity',* meantime professing a desire to get hold qf the practical kind,_ while he was simply amusing himself and puzzling her, While be planned a wider range of rascalities when his term should be out. We have no chaj>lain at the present time, a resident; chaplain would come to know worthy from spurious seekers after better thiugs. and could give expression to the sympathy whibh one who is thrown in contact with these prisoners, must often feel; A sympathetic, wise, self forgetful, chaplain in whom these men might confide, may God send through the present Legislature and Governor Eaton, for they have now a chance to think ot everything—how it all happened and what a disgrace they have brought upon themselves and others. One mam lam told died here without ever having told his real name, “Its too good a name’’ he said. “I have dishonored it and no one shall know it”. One mother came two thousand

miles to her son and then ber heart ! 7 ■ ’ ir » tailed her,' “I can never look at him in this place and in a convict’s uniform'’, she s«4d and turned homeward with at broken heart. I skid nothing of the women here, there are eight in the building, which shelters fifty times as many men. A official says ho would rather manage a thousand men than these eight women", each man has his cell. Some of them are furnished comfortably while others are bare except what furniture is furnished to them by the Siato which is as follows: Bed, two blankets, pillow, sheet and pillow case, stool, water bucket, cup, wash pan, broom, stand lamp, and spittoon, which is enough to be comfortable, besides plenty pf good things to eat and three meats a day, except Sunday. I would like to write more but my time for. writing is up aud I believe I have answered all questions I can that are propeP, aud not against our rules. * 1 Respectfully Yours, W. E; Sears. Cauon City, ,CoL

Millinery Kotice. The finest selection of Spring Hats, Ribbons, Flowers and Trimmings of ell the latest styles, ever for sale, and cheaper than could ever be bought before. Hall and examine stock for yourself. We know you* will" be well pleased with both styles and prices. At Edith Miller’s shop. , ts

What Has Become of Him?

Mysterious Disappearance of Charles W Clifton. o , A dispatch from Denver, Col., in One of the Chicago dailies, last Tuesday, gives some information regarding, the disappearance of C. W. Clifton, the well known Insurance man, of lhis place. His wife and other friends here have also lately received letters, In j regard to the same occurence. He went to Colorado last fall as General Agent, for that state, for the Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Portland, Me. On April 6th, he left his stopping plac®, near Fort Collins, taking his rifle, and saying that he would hunt through the mountains and return that evening. unless he got on the trail of game. Nothing has been seen or heard ot him since that time. Some search was made for him shortly alter his disappearance, and on Thursday of last week, a party from Fort Collins made a two days’ search, but without result. On Monday of this week, with a fresh lot of supplies, thoy T resumed the hunt, but with what result we have not learned. Of the various possible ways of accounting for Mr. Clifton’s disappearance that of suicide seems tho most probable, in view of all the known circumstances. He has lately written to his wile, in this place, in a very ; desponding tone, in regard to his health and financial prospects; and the manner in which he arranged his affairs, just prior to his disappearance, would seem t 6 indicate that he did not expect to return alive. Mrs. Clitton believes that this is',the true explanation of his disappearance,. Mr. Clinton's family consists of his well nigh distracted wife, and three young children.

■ fbhnary. Cyrus Foltz. Cyrus Foltz was both in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, December 3rd, 1831, and died at Oxford, Indiana, on Sunday, April 19th, 1885, at the age of 53 years, 4 months and 14 days. The deceased, when a child, removed with his parents, Jonathan and Susannah Foltz, to Marion county, Indiana, where he received a fair common school education, l. In the year 1854, the business life of the defeased commenced at liomiiey, Indiana, where he was married on October Ist, 1856 to Mary Rogers. For 28 years the married life of the deceased was blessed as a continual feast of conjugal and filial love. When death claimed the deceased the wife of his youth, and two children, May, (now Mrs. S. P. Thompson) and Frank, a son, composed the family circle. The deceased had resided 'at Oxford fifteen years. His daily walk and conversation were of that stamp Which molds the world for the bbtter and won the respect and esteem of all. EAn upright man, a public spirited and progressive citizen, a kind hearted neighbor whose ’every word and act were honest and charitable. Even at noon tide the life of the deceased was well rounded up as a worthy example.

ThinkN (be Sentence Should have been Ten Years. Monticello Herald. Geo. blitz was convicted of arson in the Jasper circuit Court last week and : received a sentence of one year in the State’s prison. Stitz’s crime was perpetrated for the purpose df securing the insurance upon a butcher shop, owned by him in Remington, and the result of it was a destructive conflagration and the destruction of a Largo amount of valuable property-. There seems to have been no doubt as to Stitz's guilt, yet tor his infamous crime he i 3 awarded only tho penalty that should attach to the least criminal offending. Not i satisfied with fife light punishment fix- , ed by the jury, 'ill*. Stitz has appealed to the Supreme court for additional relief, in apparent ignorance of the fact that an even balance in the scales of justice would give him a ten years’ ! sentence. * - j

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Cheap & Great Srattsrs Eailway Co. • (Office of the Secretary. * > (l}oont3r, Portland Block. Chicago. 111.. April 6th, is*®. NOTICETTS hereby given that the nnmtal meeting of the Stockholders of the\Chieago & Great Southern ftai 1W a jr*Com patty, will beheld at Faijr Oaks. Jasper County. at the depot ol the Chicago & Great Sonahern Railway Company, upon Monday, the jhduy of May,’>B6s, at the hour of 12 o'clock a., for the election of a Hoard of directors toXserve for tjie eusuing year, and'for the tran.s.fction of sucli other liu-sines* as may come beftijre the meeting. Ily order of the Board of Direews. F. K, Sfe&rStai\. April-9- IG-SS3. \

Notice; of appointment AS ADMINISTRATOR. NOTICE is hereby Riven, that the undersigned has been appointed administrator, with the will annexed, of the estate of Atifnstns 11. Bingham, lute of Jasper county, ndiana. deceased. *> • ■> Said estate is supposed to bo solvent. . MOSES B. ALTER, April 23-SO Msjr-7. Adroimsirator. Notice of Survey. —i—~— NOTICE is (hereby Riven to Simon P,’_ Thompson, Carroll C, Kent, Alex. .1. Kent. Adams D. Unub, Wm. Austin. Abbje F. Kiker, F. J. Ludler, Louis, Robt. A., and R«bt. P. Sbanklin, M. L. Spitler, D. J. Thompson, and all others interested, that I own the Southwest quarter qf the Nbrtfceast quarter of Section Four (i, Township Thirty (30) North, Range Seven (7) West, Jasper county. Indiana; and tnat I will proceed wit h tho Surveyor of Jasper coun- 1 ty, to make a legal survey of said section,': or so,much thereof as may be necessary to establish the corners and lines of my land. Said survey to begin on Tuesday, the 12th day of May, A. D. 1885. DANIEL W. MELLON. Jas. C. Thrawls, County Surveyor. Apr-23-30 May-7. NOTICE TO HEIRS AND CREDITORS OF PETITION TO SEEL REAL ESTATE. CTATE OF INDIANA,| t tv Jasper County te* In tlieJasper Circuit Court. June Term, I*B3. Jait.es H. Gieen, Administrator of the estate of Matthew Thompson, late of said county, tie, ceased, versus George (I. Thompson, Martha A. Julian, Jolni W. Lewis. Matthew J. Lewis. Elizabeth F. Lewis, Charles ft. Lewis. Martha M. Blackwell. George Blackwell. Phebe J. Cunningham, Felix H Cunningham.' Isai-e 1 <’. White. Thomas E. White, Catherine M. Howard, Augustus F. Howard. Mary J. Thompson. Margaret Thompson, William Thompson, Georgs; TliOrnpson, F.dwin R. - Douglass. Thompson Douglass, Charles Douglass. Frona D. Douglass, K. Redenbaugh. Minnie liedenbaugh. Charles.Tniivenat and Mary Jouvenat. Notice is hereby given, to the above named defendants, and to all others interested in said estate, that said administrator has filed in the Circuit Court of said county, his petition to sell certain Real Estate belonging to said decedent, the Personal property of said Estate being insufficient to pay the indebtedness thereof : and that said petition will come up fdr hearing oil the sthday ot June, 1885, the same being the seventh judicial day of the June Term, 1885, of said Court, which term commences at the Court House, in Rensselaer, in said State, oh the first day of June, in the year aforesaid. , e Witness the Clerk and Seal of said Court, this 16th day of April, A. D. 1885.'... .. JAMES F. IRWIN, Clerk A tty for Plaintiff. April J 023-30.

Non-resident Notice. . -■ • -—rState of Indian a,; _ Jasper Ofunty i o bi Jasper Circuit Court. June Term, 1885. Illpnte Deßoer,) f vs. S Joseph E. Otis. ) The unknown heirs and devisees of Jasper Corning, deceased, and the unknown heirs aval, devisees of such heirs aud devisees of SUM decedent. Said defendants arc hereby notified that said plaintiff has tiled bis complaint to recover upon certain ditch assessments, upon lands in said county.pwiied by said dclendants or iir- which thev have an interest, and also filed an affidavit authorizing this publication. Said defendants are required to appear and answer said complaint. on -Juiie Bth. 1885, the same being the 7th Judicial day of the nexj term of said court, to be held at the Court House iu Rensselaer, in said county, commencing on the lirst Mouday of .June, 1885. Witness the Clerk and Seal of said f st . ,| \ Court, this April 14th, 1885. iKfAr J JAMES F. IRWIN. Clerk '* r o Jasper Circuit Court. F. W. Sabvock and E. P. Unmmvnd Plt/s attyn. April hwpj-uo.

SHERIFFS SALE. BY virtue of « certified copy of a decree to me directed fyoin tliff Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court in a cause wherein Emery J. Church. Guardian of Hartley 11. Church, is plaintiff, awl Lorerfto D. Erwin, and Mary Ann Erwin, are- defendants, reqiiirlnjfme to makethe sum ,of Eighteen Hundred aud Sixty oiie dollars and one cent ($1,8(11.01) together with in terest aiul costs, I will expose at public saleon Saturday, the 9th day of May, 188&, between the hours pf 10 o’clock a. m„ aud 4 o’clock p. m., of said day, at the door of the Court House m the Town of Rensselaer, Jasper county, Indiana, the rents and profits, for a term pot exceeding Seven years, by the year, t..« following described Heal Estate, to-wit: The South Half (■/, i of the South-west quarter (f 4 > of Section twelve (12) Township twentyseven (27) North, Range seven (7) West, Jasper county, Indiana. And should such rents and profits not sell for a sufficient sum to discharge said decree, interest aud exists, I will, at the same time aud place and in the manner aforesaid, expose at public sals the fee simple righ t of said Defendants i:l and u> said Real Estate, of so nuieh thereof -;}* shall he necessary to discharge said decree, ■ interest and costs. , —A-' Said sate will lie made without relief from valuation or aopraisment laws, and in accord- 1 ance with the order *d Court in said decree SAMUEL E. YEOMAN, Sheriff. D-Juihl f*n - - Apr U-10-23-30. Press fee, $ SHERIFFS SALE. BY virtue of a certified copy of a decree and order of sale, to me directed frorii the Clerk'of the Jasper Circuit .Court, in cause, Xo. 3301, wherein tile Aeft-a Life Insurance 1 Company, was plaintiff. Richard A. Edwards Was cross plaintiff, arid Maria Peregrine. Mary Alin Peregrine. Catherine Parcels, John Pa;cels. Janies'Pe-egrirte. Emma Peregrine. John L. Percgriup. Martha, Peregrine, Michael Per> grille,Clare(). i’eregrine, Leonidas Peregrine* Nancy Peregrine. Ellen Peregrine, Addlsuu 1 Parkison, Commissioner of Drainage, Simon P Thompson, David J. Thompson. Marion L. ! spitler." Elizabeth Lowrey. Turner A. Knox { James H. Longhridge, Frank. P. Ritters. Israel H. Washburn, Cornelius M. Horner, Richard A. Edwards. AJipe KPtv-tr.is, William li. Austin. Administrator tie bonis non of the Estate of Thomas S. Peregrine, deceased, were dci fondants. requiring me. to make the sum of j Eleven Hundred do’fars and Sev§n cents (81100.071 in favor of the .defendant and Cro.s ! plain tiif. Richard A. Elvanls. for the sum : found aipl. deervexLto in* due him op his Cross j Coir plaint, together .with URere.M and cists. I i will expose at public sale, or. ! Satufday, the 9th day of May, ( 1885, Ibetween the hours of 10 o’clock a, rh„ and i ' o'clock p. in., of said day, at the door of ti e ■ court house, in.the town of Rensselaer, Jasper county, Indiana, the rents' and' profits, for. a term lVLexeeeding seven years, the foHoalr.g j described Real Estate, to-wit: /, ; The West Half < y a ) of the Xorthea.it Quarter, and the East Half CD of the North wi-t [quarter (V.; i of section Thirty-four (iifi'iii Towni ship Twenty-nine ,291-Norihy-of. Range Five : '>. I Y.est. conta'iuing Phi acres, more all i.i .Jasi>yr county, in the State of Indiana, And should such rents' and profit* not sod Fa- a sum sufficient to pav and discharge s.-.cl decree.’‘interest aud cost*, I will. attbe«ame I time a.id place, iii tlie manner aforesaid, expose ' at public sale Lie fee simple*,>f said Jteai Esuu % ) and all the right, title and interest of ali sn id defendants in and h»-*aid laiMaortso ranch thereof as shall be 'sufficient to cisciiarge said •decree, interest and costs. sale Will he made without relief from IvalnaUoc. or appraisement lad s,and inaccordauce with the order ot'edulff.in said decree, f Ami the purchaser at such sale, on demand umiei his certificate of purchase, will be entitled to jmssessiou of the lands so sold in fee simple. SAMVEL fc. YEOMAN, Sheriff. I Jasper County. Indiana, j thirt y MitekeH, <itty»for CroM I’UtinUf. • April 16-23-3 U-. . , ’

NEW 'GOODS,SIiI AT THE Cheap Store ! im I mm, Save the largest stock of DRY-GOODS Shown in Rensselaer. 1 We. can sell you Spring Goods,. New styles and colors, cheaper than ever before. % IKlllllllMEpYours Respectfully, I . . - inififf-* We are selling the above Cook & Heating Stoves, And after a carefiil invfestiga** tion of different manfactures, we ! GUARANTEE they have no Superior on the Market. ? •.■munrnw ' 1 f ; Also a full line of Hardware*. Implements, Tinware, and th<D celebrated Mam Vigens . Which are warranted As Goofi* as the Best. M.V. OJUQA Vm. i - «• * E&mmM tsmz, w&m? Having purchased the Lumbei Yard and Stock of F. L. CottoC > will keep constantly on sale a fall and complete stock of"* Xsiitli, Sash dumber Boons Shingles, Window^* SI sard & Soft Coali»-| Having purchased my stock for cash, I can and WiXL offer J inducements to cash buyers. Give me a call before baying elsawMwc^ aP. BENJAMOI.. I