Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1885 — A Railway Surveying Party. [ARTICLE]

A Railway Surveying Party.

». t -k.~ -• .#&»-. ,t.. ...... ... • ... ~ 'J'ho funeral services of General •Grant al’a set for Saturday, Aug. Bth. Gov. Gray, of this state, issued a proclamation, Tuesday, requesting all citizens to do proper honor to the odbasion. • Joseph C. Mnkiii. tin. (Tistiu'guislleil Democratic pMltirrau autb ■convicted perjurer and ballot-box stuffer, of Chicago, has-, not vet 'been sent to Joliet to begin time "ti his five year’s sentence. The Illinois-Supreme Court has grant'd him a supersedeas, but has re>rnsed u. allow bail. General il. H. Milro-y has been suspended from the Yakima Indian Agency, iu Trashing ton Territory,! His successor is T. A. Burns, an ex-soldier.. We. understand that this is the agency for which-our townsman, Mr. E. C N o we! s, Ava sa.ra nd i data. ' . ' : - Theie is but little difference in opinion as to the greatness of General Grant, now, and there v ill be none ai nil in the future. As long as American history is remembered, his name will rank side by side with that of Lincoln as one of the two greatest men of one of the world’s greatest epochs. Mr. Vv. H. Coovei has had editorial charge of the Remington New’S sinci early in Juno, but the News had not publicly announced the fact until last week. Mr. Coover is a polished and vigorous writer, and we are glad that he has again consented to. take charge Li the News. The choice of Riverside Park, New York City, sor 1 the la%t resting place .of the GUI Commander, is much .more satisfactory than Centra! Park, the place first chosen, but still tire feeling is almost universal among the people, that near the National capital would have been the proper place to lay iiis honored remains. The prospects „for a big corn crop are simp]v emmenrsfe. While the Democratic administration is claiming credit for that fact, thejr Will, of course, saddle upon tlie Republicans the responsibility for the failure of the wheat crop, on the-grounds that most of it vas sowed before the 1 election last ■m -

The Hon. Fred Hoover’s long :: pec ted appointment to an Indian Agency lias at last been isu;ed. It is to the Osage Agency, m Indian Territory. It is a good appointment, with a salary of 11,800, and, it, is also said, a good how for perquisites. Mr. Hoover has just returned from a visit to the agency, and will return there with his family, in August. Mr. Hoover is a -right genial amj pleasant kind of man, and of the Sort that makes many friends, ! md although The Republican was soify enctugji to see him elected to the state senate, sot politiaal reasons, we certainly have ilo objections to seeing him receive a good appointment under the political party of liis faith. It is a hard matter to serve two masters satisfactorily, and it looks mightily as though the. President had now reached a point whei e he must inevitably give mortal offense to either the old ‘'Conspiracy for spoils” wing of his party, or else to the mugwumps and believers in civil service reform. Aquila* Jones, the Hendricks postmaster of Indianapolis, has contemptuously and persistently' Holated the spirit of the Civil service law, in the . veiy face of Cleveland’s declarations of intention to enforce it. T&S Mugwumps of Indianapolis hate .laid the mat w before the PreaWent and the "**W fe, thgt 3 ndg& Thomas/ one > * *

of the members <oC the civil semes commission and Mr. Lyman, the chief examiner, are making an earnest investigation of Mr Jones’ methods. In view of what has been made known in the matter it is almost certain that the investigating committee’s report will be unfavorable to Mr. Jones, and in that ease the President’s only consistent' course will bq to make an example of him,‘and turn him out. The result would, undoubtedly, be open war between Cleveland and Hendricks, and a row of the largest dimentions in the democratic camp. About the thinnest thing out, is the effort of the Republican editors to impress their readers with the idea that the Democratic administration is responsible and should be censured for the financial smash-up of John Roach As the Republican administration had almost paid the contract price for the Dolphin, it is hardly necessary to add that John Roach’s failure, if failure it is. cannot be attributed to the Government.— Democratic, Sentinel. Tli© above paragraph, is a fair specimen of the injustice and essential uutruthfulness of democratie argument. As above stated, it is indeed true that John Roach has received from the nearly tlie whole oF the contract price for the Dolphin. Jt is equally true that the refusal of the government to accept the vessel, is tlie cause of Mr. Roach’s failure. The fact that Roach has j received the but little figure. If the government is right in the position it has taken, that it is not bound to accept the vessel; then Roach will be compelled to pay back the money; if i the government is wrong m refus-■ iug the vessel, then the money can be kept by Roach, only at the ; price of long and expensive litiga - j ion. Furthermore, and more j important still, tlie action of the j administration in this matter, meant much more to Mr. Roach than the leaving of a single expen-! sive war vessel on his hands. He ! has five millions of dollars locked .! » ! up" in several other war vessels : | he is building on don tract for the! government; and he knows full j well that this hostile 'democrat !-.' administration would be as likely j to repudiate these other vessel as ! they were the Dolphin. Their whole course in the Dolphin matter i shows that they are determined to make a little party capital byrepudiating the acts of the Naval Department of the late administration, and it would be madness •for Mr, Roach to complete the vessels in his ship-yards, in the hopes that they would be accepted.

With Possibility (li.tt iSeussclaer will gel Oil' c. A railroad surveying »arty ran a v-re-limin-iry line through RgnsgeiAer, iS;; week. It was the party lately sent out by the C. & Gt. t>., railroad company. They started two or three weeks age, and run a line from Fail Oaks, north* a stward to Laeross, a short distau.ee north of "the northeast corner of J aspet county. Returning,' they run the lire from Laeross direct to jltynsselaer. They passed through the northwest corner of the town, crossing .-tire railroad near Mr. - -tip.tier's residence. Leaving town, tney followed down the the norih bank of the river, until,, they struct the G. «!v Gt. S., a few milts north of Goodland. The lino from Lacross to Rensselaer is fouud to bo a very practicable one for building a railroad; bat the line from Fair Oaks to Laeross runs through the marshes of the Kankakee rivei” lor a good many miles, and is, therefore, not a very desirable route lor a railroad. The line through Rensselaer, ho voter, possesses many advantages, and about the only disadvantage is that it runs at jin angle of about forty-five with tjie section lines,' thus.cutting the farms up in pretty bad shape. A good many men of sound judgment, are very confident that a new railroad will soon be built somewhere along, or near, one ot thh tines above mentioned. Ayer’s Ague Cure breaks—ap the chill and fever, expels the poison .Tom the system, and restores hcalffc. Warranted to cure.