Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1887 — The Indiana Taily-Sheet Fo ters. [ARTICLE]

The Indiana Taily-Sheet Fo ters.

Judge Suit, of Frankfort, is advocating the rights of a grain shipper of that city before the interstate commission. He says the L., N. A, A C. 11. It is violating the “long and short haul ’ clause i-f the new law by charging a higher rate fiom Frankfort to the cast than from Indianapolis, lie pro-/ poses to bring the company to Trnrc if there is any virtue in the h.tor-state commerce luw, ami if .-iicce-the rs all along the line will r<an Lie benefits of Lis efforts. — Monticello Herald. ■ The Reptrbhc.*ttrs'v-rOtHo al Lliei-r state couventioi. last week, formally placed John Sherman in the tleld as a candidate Igtthe presidency. Mr. Sherman's reputation ■as a givaFandJ ehlightcned: stalesrn a rests on' a silkier foundation than that of any other living American, and whoever imagines that any other man will have a walkover at the Republican National convention when Honest John is -vn the track, will be likely to find themselves mightily mistaken. In Fowler, according to the Era,: brick and gravel side-walks are; h coming very popular, after a Jong, and, ac/ording to the Era, ' very unsatisfactory expeiienee with board walks. In Monticello the Herald says,the terms of the; side-walk problem are exactly the reverse, and the people are adoptag die b aid walks after long and; unsatisfactory experience with brick and gravel. In th s town,, which has had considerable exper-1 ience with all three materials men-, tioned, the ‘•concensus of opinion’’ is much in favor of the boards and that material see ms likely to p evail for side-walk purposes for many y ears yeb.

Tlie Fowler Review that the democratic cdi ors we: e notresponsible for the utter ua-es oi “this blab-m uthcd spoiism::!', Scott Ray.” Bui Scott Ray- is the president of the §ss< elation a\d is official- ni’ouUir.pi • olore than that be made a .-speech in a sixibr strain hist year, and n resolution ei dorsi.’g the principles < f the a ldress was formally a l pted by th? a.-s■ ;c'.::t:ou. The t■ t r of the Review has gcT"Tii'A‘ **posto bee an litisto be expect?.l th it he would defend the administration to earn his sa a y, butthe great - majority of who are still among the lean and hungry outs, tliini as Ray doUB, whether they have his courage in expressing their opinions or hot,-- . -- 1

After the manner of most Ind-; trials to wli idi |-Oiitical sui-, hiuscaube injected, that of the, tally sheet forgers has come to a . lame and impotent conclusion byj disagreement of the jury. To those

who watched it from a distance sufficient for prevention qf local prejudice or party bins the result would seeni to be altogether unwarranted by the tliiect arid cirotnnstfintial evidence. That forgery was committed goes without raying; the tallysheets were conclusive as to that, i The guilt of at least four oh the indicted men was directly sworn to bi t*i thins, uho, it may I*o . ads inittcd, wns h • patty to the crilne and uho 1 ail accepted the oil rs o; the prosecutiot) and tut tied iii! > - n> r. IdoiiT.ver weak ofdtself til" evidence of such a one may he, it was iu this case supportcil iiy. ctrcunist.antial evidence of gnat strength, and was not directly contradicted by any witnesses other i th IWI the accused, whose evidence was of course - open to the same suspicion of interest which attachled to that of the informer. The characters of the chief suspects I were proven to be bad. Here,then, was a self-eviilcnt i crime, the direct evidence of an accomplice, much circumstantial evidence as to the accused;, having been at a place favorable to its commission, possessed of the tallysheets which were made the vehicles of forgery, having a motive to perpetrate forgery, and bi ng persons of bad character. For conviction there was direct evidence, proof of opportunity for doing the crime, motive for doing it, ; character predisposing to its doing, : and circumstances showing that if the accused did not make the forgeries no one else could i have made them. Against coniviction there was just the oaths lof the accused. In Chicago such tiials generally terminate otlur- ! wise than in a disagreement of the jury.—Chicago Inter-Ocean. When you want newspaper favors, you strike your ‘‘home paper,” don’t you? If you want your town boomed and your property increased in value, you expectyonr home, .Newspaper, to do it, don't you? Yet you kick been use your home paper hasn’t kas-mSSlrreall i: 1 g 1 a:111 1'r in 11 -a.-, a city paper, don’t you? Still 0:1 the who to. you think your homo papo.r is a mighty good filing- tor a town, don’t you? And you predude the homo paper from' thi .kn g' - llm-fow4j-.is u g-io4 1 not giving it sufficient patronage, U >r.'t y.-u? You wiudd noi t xpi'ct I a home paper circulating only h undrods, t; > »glve you as much reading matter as a city | I’.pc*', h?ircufeting thousands, wcmM-yhn ? I’ou would not expect the pri c o? the former to be as low as the- hitter, would you? Ex. IWM » W - On the Fourth of d uly a young min named Littlejohn, of a respectable parentage, but himself rendered somewhat I’otorious for his wild and reckless habits, committed an assault and brutally outraged the person of a young daughter of William Frettinger, in Newton county. He was soon after arrested and lodged" m jail at Kentlaiid. The circumstances of the assault and the condition of the outraged girl who has been from clii Id hood a sufferer from physical intirmites, wrought up a very excited and bitter feeling toward the yogng culprit, so much so that mob Ir.wpvps feared,and to. guard against such an oeeurrepce he was brought to this place and placed:in ja:t the day forldwirighis ineareeratioii at Kentland, ami so remained until last Saturday, win n lie was released on for his appearance at the'next term of tlit' Sov.-tbn circuit' court. - Fowler B< vmwr--There are (>o3 convicts in tl e prison north. There Lave been : l-’l convicts leeeiyed there thus' far during the year 1887. The -Li ated-term dias util.: been so sev< re on the convicts as the people wGidd' naturally suppose for f they v.-ilt but stop and consider t>l at tii e eel 1 Imusi dar e .canstruc td entirely of st '!!-', .-.-. id that, the buddings are 1 igh attd -exe dlenilv 1 ii'ilaitd, and it will be seen'that ■ plaeo has been reddy quite; coo'. In the shops a.so the best ventilation is c.fftrJi d. Loganspn t Journal. Th? ‘'.saw bones” and “tooth carpenters” , are qusrreling over I ike lemainsyf Luella itlabbitt the i i rtner declaring that they are ■ < i a lal l iigeii ircm d.~> to~.-110 j years, wdriie the hater lasisis that the head, is that of a man of e'> v us, The “saw-bonehave the •?. murage of the entiie structure' jo’ base their opinion upon, and v,m scarcely be mistaken on the! question of sex.—Logansport ,o. 7 ±— ~ : - 1 A fine calf boot for £2:50 at Hemphill & llon? h's. —— i ■ J'--' : Try our rousted coffees. They can't be beatfort he money LalU£ Bros.