Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1886 — Obituary. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.

Margaret K. Swain died at her homo in Rose Lawn, Newton county, Indiana, on Kebruaay iOth, 1880, She was born in Kpsom, New Hampshire; Feb., 17(h, 1817. Her maiden name was Locke. She was a member of the Free Will Hitptisf. church for ..about 30 years She was married tc A. D , Swain, April Sib, 181 Lat Kpsop. Tliey moved to OltfA i in LS.'di, where they lived uutil 1800, j which time they moved to Rensselaer, ; Indiana. "Mr. Swain died in April 1878, ! ami was buried in 'Weston eernelbry, in Kens-itlaer.. Mrs. Swain and her sou, Silas L,, moved to Rose Lawn, Newton oout.ly, about three yeahs ago. Mrs. Swain died of parlysii, and had been sick about four months. Funeral scr- ! vices were bold at her late residence, I conducted by Lev. id. .13ill 1 anil was I hugely attended by the many, friends | of the family, after which t ie remains | were tak .n to Rensselaer and laid to. I rest by 'the side of her deeCasitl Ims- ! uaml.

a t _ . . *■» Dr. .1. AI. Justice, probably the oldest pension surgeon in Indiana, was removed on Saturday by. Commissioner Black, to make room for some “inoffensive” Democrat. No cause*is given for the removal, and it js hardly possible that any can be given except the one that is coinmonly invented to meet such emergencies--that of “offensive partisanship.”, Dr. Justice was president of the board, and lias served since 1804, having received his commission from Abraham Lincqhi. The pension department, like all other departments of the government, is prostituted, in the interests of reform, to the seekers after spoils. We would ask all -good Democrats to examine this case, with others, and then read again the Democratic platform of the last national campaign. Of ail the promises embodied in that document not one has been fulfilled; every promise has been violated or ignored.— Logjiiisporl Journal.