Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1888 — Page 4

HIE REPUBLIC AN I e., ■ >’ . L " Thursday, February 23,188£,

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DIKECTOBY COUNTY OFFICERB Ci el . k Jamb.' F.lhwix. . Bhenff■ Samvki. E. Veoman. Auditor J Al"v Treasnrer ... 1 *’ i" A ' n Recorder. Thomas As.him Surveyor James c. rnn.n* r.s Coroner..... ■ ■.. •■ ■ 1«g 1 - 1 '.'. 111,1 ?•; I 8 u p cn n tendon i zlstlhstri. t Asa t . IMevo, Commicsioncrs pl District .•> 1,, 1 <Sd District .<*• 1 • < I (Fomin<«A/o»er«’ Court— Fir'd Mm'dayk ’•* -V<i»'c* Jnne.Setdtmbtr and Pecemter. I JUDICIAL Circuit Judge p - r^. TE f. ll :'' ' Prosecuting Attorney ' .. .«. " • MAh.iiAi.i-. . Ter.na of Court—Firkt Monday in January Third Monday in March; Tint Monday/n'. June; Third Monday in October. CORPORATION OFFICERS ; Varahal... v>x - »■ w<,on -1 Clerk Cii is. Wai;m » , treasurer.... <.( ."iai.ii < let Want il. r. lIENJAMIN |2d Ward .l ilts;F. Wkhs Oouncllmcn <&1 War<i......hn i>. Hno-Uir.s. |dthWard " M. I.KKBsm.MI 4 lith Ward.. ALEUKn TbOMi'son. JASPER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION Jesse Gwin.Trnstcc .. Hansing Grove tp. James 11. Guild. Tru5tee............. ‘■ !l 1 1 l alu l »-’- Fred S. Metser. Trustee" a• k ;, r tp. John 1.. Nichols Wyklvy >• Elzer A. Griswohl. Trustee ....M.ir.on t . Frank WeLsh, Trustee..... Jackson treeland.Trustee..••■ Nev, ten tp M . F. Schivanke, 'I rU'stee Keener tp. •faille!’ N. White. Trustee tp. L.F.Sntrer. Trustee ... W heathen tp.: Oscar M VriiTV, Trustee.... .•. ..Carpenter tp. Washington Scott. Trustee'. .Milroy tp. Stephen T. Comer, Trustee I n .s.irtp W. H. Coover Kennugton. Dr. 1.8. Wastilnirii hensselaer Frank.!. Wane;; t ..ui.ty Mq-t.

Persons who were disposed to take strong exceptions to The Republican's suggestion last week, in regard to the gas well, are requested to read Mr. Aliev’s well considered article on the subject of gas, in this week’s issue. Mr. Alter has availed himself of ample opportunities, and studied well the subject of gas, and gives good and cogent reasons for his ' ■"7 7 i— HiwirTi im-niv—nn ' ; ■ The congressional district convention to elect two delegates and. two alternates, to represent the 10th district at the National Republican convention, will be held at Delphi, April 19. The time and place for the convention to nominate a -eandldate--lor- Congressman and candidate and alternate candidate for Republican elector have not yet been arranged. Rensselaer is fairly entitled to this convention, and we speak for it now. o The district convention on ground hog day was held at Logansport. Convention No. 2 is called for Delphi on April 19. Later there will be another district convention to nominate Republican candidates for elector and con gress. Rensselaer asks for that We have a pleasant town, first-class hotels and clever citizens. We have never had the convention. Our Republicans need the good influences of the convention and the convention needs the good influence of our citizens. ~ Senator Sherman thus summarizes the results of President Cleveland’s civil service reform policy: “He has practiced the most gener - • al, sweeping removals in the public office's since the government was established. He found 2,359 presidential postmasters in office and he has removed or changed 2,000 [of them. His Postmaster (general, out of 62,000 employes under him, has removed 40,000. Out of thirty-three Ministers abroad the President removed or changed thirty-three, a large portion of whom are men distinguished in the war against the Union. Ont of 56,000 places he has removed or changed 43,000, and out of the 43,000 there are not fifty republicans among the appointees. For an administration that .banks on the idea of civil service reform this beat the record.

The Valparaiso Messenger, Bourbon Democrat as it is, gets mighty close to the truth in the following brief paragraph: JosephMediH,of theChieago Tribune, wants High-Tariff Blaine to run on a tariff reduction plat* formlsK President Medill is eraa

Make the Shares Worth Two Hundred DoHars.

If there is a building and loan society in the, that’has its shares of less face valpe than 8200 we have never heard of it. There are good reasons this, and the sharesof the association just organizing in Rensselaer, should, by all means, be made s2o'9 each. The weekly installments will .be the same at 8-00 as if they were only 8100 each. And the only advantageous feat tire of the SIOO shares over the 8200 is that the latter will have to run two or thr.ee years longer before they pay out. But this one disadvantage, if it really is many advantages, on the side of the S2OO shares. The weekly < r monthly payment will be the same on each share whether it be $lO9 or S2OO. The cost of miming the Association will be the same, per share,-at $lO9 as at $230. The S2OO- share will be much better for members who Wish to borrow, for each of their shares will entitle th era io a. lorni of S2OO, im-tend of 8100, while the week'y installments by which he pays back the loan are no greater iij the one case than the other. The S2OO shares will bo much more profitable for the stockholders, as the loans will command better premiums, ami the money paid in on installments will remain longer at compound interest. In short, to sum up the comparative- value of the SIOO and lire S2OO shares, we may safely estimate tha: tlie holder of a SIOO share would pay upon it 870.0r.875 in installments and assessments, in between 5 and 6 years time, and would then get back SIOO. On the 8200 share the holder wouldpay froni S9O to 8100, in about 8 years time, and get back S2OO. A big adventage in favor of the 2001 shares,. In the 8100 share method yott- put-Bfo i ii, to- every 8100 you get out; in the 8200 share method you put only $.50 in, to every 81tKyou get out. The great difference results from the greater premiums paid for the.longef time loans; and the longer time, the paid in .installments aie drawing compound’ interest. em *SV WRA.MXXWABVWW ■ -Tlie-Tollowing is from the Shelbyville Democrat of the 6th instr ‘•So old Libby prison is io be taken from Richmond to Chicago and set up as a side-show to.‘the bloody-shirt circus to exhibit in that city next June. Well, let her go Gallagher. The building that was used for storing Yankees during the war has since served a similar purpose . for commercial fertilizers, so you may tear it dWn and carry it away if you will, but the scent of those twin geraniums will bang ’round it still.” < Nothing more outrageous than this has ever appeared in a Northern paper, and not, in recent years, in. any Southern paper. That the Democratic organ in one of the party’s strongholds in Indiana should thus go out of its way to insult Union soldiers shows the inherent baseness of Northern Democracy and its eagerness to do dirty work for the South. The memories of Libby prison are very horrible and yet very sacred, and such treatment of the subject as that above quoted argues a degree of partisan malignity 'lhat would be hard to find outside of the Democratic press of Indiana. The proposed removal of Libby prison to Chicago is purely a business venture, the intention being to set it up as a show, and the entire absence of political motive in the transaction make the comments of the Democrat all the more con-temptible.'-Indianapolis Journal?

The Duluth, Minn., Sunday Tribune, of the 12th inst, devotes its entire first page to glorifying a new press, just purchased for that paper. The press prints and folds 12,000 papers per hour, and more, if crowded and is, undoubtedly, a great and successful invention. The most interesting feet to people in this vicinity , connected withjt, is that it was invented and perfected by J oseph L. Cox, a former resident of Lafayette, and personally well known to

Too Big For His Country—A Sample of the Kind of Men Free-Traders Are.

From CongresHincn McKinley’# Speech at Lincoln. Dimuie, Ncw. York, Feb. IJ. ■— LI Again the agitation comes from the scholars, so-calkd, and the poets, from whom we gladly take our poetry, but whose political economy we must decline to receive; from the dilettanti and the diplomat, the men of fixed incomes, who have no investments except in bonds and mortages, who want Oiverythingcheipbut money, everjr thing eftgy to secure but coin, who prefer the customs and civilizations of' other countries to our own, who find nothing so wholesome as that which ’ is imported, whether manners-or merchandise, and want no obstructions in the «hai>e of a tariff placed upon- the free use of both. A college-bred American who had travelled much in Europe,' whose inherited wealth bad ena- i bled him to gratify every wish of his heart, said to me a few years ago, with a sort of listless satisfae-1 tion, “that he had outgrown his , country.” What a confession I Outgrown his country! Outgrown America 1 Think of it ! I felt at the time that it Would have been: truer had l.e said that his country j Lad outgrown him, but he was in ' no condition of mind to have ap- 1 predated so patent a fact. He had ■ bad no connection with the pro-' gressjve spirit of the country. He I had contributed nothing to its! present proud position, or to the { uplifting and welfare of his fel- i lows; lie had no.part in the march ' of the tiepublic. The busy, pushing American lad of humble origin, ; educated at she public schools, had ! swept by him, as effort and energy J always lead and leave the laggard 1 behind. His inheritance was not invested in productive enterprises, nor was his heart located where it sympathized with the aspirations <«f the people with whoin he was born and reared. His country had got so far ahead of him that he was positively lonesome, put of line 1 and in the rear of the grand pro ' eesffion. He was a free-trader, he told ni'- so, c’i'l < in plained bit- : terly of the tariff as a burden upon ; the progressive men < f the coir -. try, and tfiat it severely lmndii,ar, t i ped him.. When I pushed him z ]>a:iiri;l:ii'ize the trammels whic' the urilf imposed upon him,' ; one of our sixty millions of pecpl;l, he raised his band, which han never been n iled by labor, n---touched by Inn to : ' '‘c’ltly en- ■ <•;?.-••••d in a Er< : h 1- 1 sr' “These gloves coine musiy 1 high.sir, by, reason ci the ■ tariff; ihe duty is actually added to I their cash value, which falls heav- i ily upon us consumers.” What answers could I make to sum an indictment.*? How could? I repel such a blow at our great industrial system? Discussion would have been idle. I could only regard him in speechless silence, and gaze uj on him with a feeling mixed wit,, curiosity, pity and contempt.

AN ABLE ARTICLE.

Os The Subject ofGas. As there has been much said and written about the Natural Gas production, and vast amounts of spent in searching for it; may 1 add a few suggestions to the many already advanced? Without' entering into the dis- j cwssiou of the origin or extent of natural gas, let us ascertain where the most likely places are to find ; this rich deposit of cheap fuel. ; It is a query to many why gsis ’ is seldom found except in the’ Trenton rock? and if peculiar to' the Trenton rock, why not fijid gas where ever Trenton rock is found? . lu reply to the first I will say the Trenton rock is a name, given to a very porous strata of rock of jfarying thickness, extending over a large part of the U. 8., and perhaps over the entire world Where this strata comes near the surface, it is noted for its numerous caves, of which the Wyandott and Mammoth caves, are the most noted. Immediately above the Trenton reck, lie another strata of close texture, being in general impervious to water,, or gas.. Now consider all the pores of the Trenton rock filled with water, which readily finds access ' at some points: as the gas has been originally formed in or below the Trenton rock, it would naturally rise to the highest point possible, either to the surface or to the solid strata above the Trenton rock. Again if the Trenton rock was on a level we might expect a steady flow of gas, where ever the Trenton rock was reached. But the convulsions of nature, in volcanic action and earthquakes have thrown the strata of rock in-, to large, irregular waves, of many miles in extent; these again being broken by smaller waves, often of only a few miles in

These waves or elevations and depressions extend from the surface to unknown depths. Not the surface of the ground as we see it, but from the surface of the rock, which varies from a few inches tq many feet below us. From the foregoing it readily appears that to strike gas ive must penetrate the fipn . impervious strata to a porous one, at or near the crest ot these wave-like elevations of the rock strata. Here' again two other factors appear to make? the first expeiiments uncertain It may be the gas in the particular elevation in .in which we are trying has found a passage to the surface and ages ago lias escaped to the open air, or it may and often dues' happen that the boring strikes the Trenton ami-oilier strata of nock at a point where the stone is comparitively solid and free from pores or crevices, hence no gas is found, or if found it is in very small quantities. In this case a new hole if only a few rods distant may be a regular gusher. If water is found on entering the Trenton rock the chances for gas are not good, but if no water is found boring should be continued entirely through the Trenton rock. Now for a local application of the foregoing: The height of land lor a large tract of country around here seems tube just east of Rensselaer, at. Pleasant Ridge, where it slopes rapidly to they west and nearly horizontally to the east. Hence if gas is ever found at Rensselaer -iiAvill be the -western—odge—of—asmall g'as field, of which the Monon creek will roughly mark the eastern edge, while an abundant supply might be expected from J’ ; . fudge to Francesville. - was suggested last week that I.wring at town be abandoned, I would suggest tltet the next trial be imide near Pleasant Ridge. Please excuse this lengthy Tar- - ffele, but, having visited the gas fields of Penn., in 1876'and again just a year ago, and h’ai ing stud led the geology of Ohio and. Ind., .and talked with Prof. Collett and • ai.er geologists, 1 have ventured i ? express my opinion on this much :. ijted of ; ■ : (Mtegiieiß Yours, . S. Alter.

[?]tions from Senator Simon.

E. a PvEPUBLi x: I have .■‘.•a requested by R< publicans 4osuggest a form, of a 'call forßeptiblican nominating conventions. A- Republican, .voter feels that he would like to make or be a part of the-nominating jury. In a primary election or mass convention the voter, and in a delegate . con volition the member should be the counting unit. ? A large mass convention affords few facilities for equal rights. A ■’'mary election brings ties and i minorities to vex us. Th-, rnuik ami ■ V voter loves a sqmvote and ;.L<> a majority decisiA nominating jury, one of w' .. each voter, helps select, cai act fairly if not changed by proxy, or substitute. The following form would need modi’iiAuion for a township containing a town or city: REPUBLICAN TOWNSHIP CONVENTION. The Repulpli caTl voters of Gillam township will meet at their respective school houses on Friday, March 23, 1888, at 7 p. m. to elect ?. <lolcgnto J arid-lake one La 1lot for "a"■"Ropublican township ticket. The delegates will meet at Center school house, on Saturday, March 2-1, at 2p. m., to estimate the ballot cast and complete the nominations by a majority ballot of the delegates. Should a majority of the ballots .designate one man for a place on the ticket this would be a nomination by direct vote. The work-cam be completed by.f,fee delegates.

S. P. Thompson.

DeafnesslCan’tbe Cured by local applications, as they can not reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is .by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed conition of the mucus lining of theEustachain Tube. When this tube gets inflamed, you have a rumblingsound or imperfect hearing, and wheatit is entirely closed, deafness is the result, and unless the inflamation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which isuething but an inflamed condition of the mucus surfaces* We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of deafness (caused by catarrh) that we cannotcure by taking Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. vhjENEY & Co., Props. Toledo, O. ggTSoldby Druggists,7s eta.

igfckcifpW ’ One that is of sufficient importance for everybody to read about. We have ‘ „ o ’ Just A Little Left Over of our winter stock and we must get rid of it. In ordef to do so 7X - . we haveL" -77SLASHED PRICES RIGHT AND LEFT And have ceased to pay any regard to cost. Stsits & Overcoats We v.’ill sell for next to nothing. We do not want to carry anything over to next season. We must - OUT -s- EVERTTIIOT® It is tlie greatest dollar chance ever heard of and demands a very early call. This great sale lasts for a few days only. Then we prepare for our ®reat ->-Spriug Stock. It will soon be here and we must have room for it. Come and help us to clear out. WILLEY & SIGLER, . Rensselaor. Ind. yifiWilliSliH I keep ©is sal© si complete stock of all kinds of LUMBER. LATH?.Y? (.amber VCg a SHEVOItES, H S Stone, Egg, || S SASH DOORS. AND PITTSBURG AND K Having purchased my stock for cash, I can and WILL offer superioi inducements to cash buyers'. Give me a call before buying else where. B. F. 16-36 ts.. fess fe w H BWy fa® ii li S The undersigned have now a complete stock of IiTS AB gMg Including Yellow Pine and Poplar, , from the south, which we propose to sell to our patrons It Bottom P« ©iw facilities sos? obtaining our stock £g»om first handsel enables us to olfex* Special Bargains as an inducement for patronagCw And to all wine will .jome and see us, we promise square dealing and Best Prices- Come, see us and save monejfRespectfully, db Co,

-MedicineSAT WHEATFIELD. At the post office building, in the town of Wheatfield, a full supof the best and most reliable patent medicines, are always on sale. The following is a partial list: Dr. D. Javne’* Medicines. Dr. J. A ver’s Medicines,.. At. S, Medicine Co's.-Medicines, Dr. J. H. McLean’s Medicines. a7j. White’* Me<Ucin«u .. _ _ Lyman Brown’s Medicines,, n. snj.< : Dr Geo. Douglas*’ Sold by S. D. CLARK, •X Wheatfield, Ind

Notice of Prices of Liquors. The undersigned gives notice to the public that hereafter he will sell beer, wines and liquors, at his saloon; at the following prices: Beer 2 bottles 25 cents. “ 2 glasses 5 “ . _ Best Whiskey, per qt. 80 cents. •» » « pt 40 “ •< “ “ |nt. 20 “ •< j- • * “ glass 5 “ ... Large quantities sold at wholesale rates. I have several hundred dollars worth of fine whiskey in same, at the above prices. Call—and examine stock. Mi O. Halloban . - - - I