Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1889 — A Deserted Cemetery. [ARTICLE]

A Deserted Cemetery.

The public debt was reduced to e tiiue 0f513,685,094 during the month of September. The elections in the new states, Tuesday, resulted in favor of the Republicans in the two Dakotas and Washington and probably for the Demociats in Montana. Dr. R.V. Pierce of Buffalo, N. Y., has sunk a million dollars in an unprofitable mining scheme, in California. He will have to sell a good many boxes of Pierce’s perfectly purgative prickly pellet pills to make up for that loss.

President Harrison is keeping his promise to the people by calling in the money the democratic administration deposited in certain pet national banks, without interest, and is using it to buy up government bonds and thus save paying interest on them for years. The amount in the hands of these banks has been reduced, in this manner, from $65,000,000 in Cleveland’s time to to $47,000,000 now, and the same process will be continued until the whole sum has thus been called in and put where it will do the most good to the people at large. A pestilent, canting hypocrite was neatly exposed in Indianapolis a few days since, when the fact was made public that the editor and proprietor of the Indianapolis News, who has stopped at nothing in his abnse 'of cause-of the remission of Sim Coy’s fine, was himself one of the most prominent signers of the petition for the remission of the fine of Bernhamer, Sim’s partner in crime. The News is one of the most thoroughly and contemptibly dishonest, hypocritical and twofaced of all the self-styled independent Republican papers published anywhere, and it should be a matter of rejoicing that its hypocritical pretenses, in this particular instance, have been so effectually exposed.

The site the New Yorkers have chosen for their world’s fair (when they get it) comprises the noted Riverside Park, where rest the remains of General Grant, in a magnificent boiler-iron mausoleum, which must have cost close on to two hundred dollars —but the New Yorkers didn’t pay for it. Probably the Gothamites are ©ounting on making -a sidc-siiow of the hero’s tomb and mausoleum, but, thank heaven, they have not got the fair yet, nor do they seeffi likely to; while as for the remains of General Grant, they are likely to be removed to some place that is American in something besides geographical situation, and where there is patriotism enough and liberality enough to erect something besides a boiler-iron mausoleum to his memory. General 0. O. Howard, who ought to be a good authority, in an

article in one of the October magazines, on the subject of the nuinber of Indians now living in the United States, says that the census of the Indians has lately been accurately taken and that their total number, excluding the Alaska Indians, is 262,620. And the assertion is made, which will strike a good many people as a surprising piece of information, that the Indians in this country, instead of being a surely and rapidly diminishing race, are now, on the contrary, actually increasing in numbers. The causes for this change from decreasing' to increasing are that now the Indians are all being gathered together and kept on reservations, and have no idih'p destructive wars, either between tribes or with the white men; ;md they have better and more regular food, better shelter and better doctoring.

A lady in Nebraska sends us a poem, headed as above. It describes in about 75 long and not altogether rythmical lines, the condition of an ancient grave-yard in Gillam tp., and in a- letter- accompanying the poem, she says that persons of wealth, Jiving in and about Rensselaer, have near relatives buried in that place. As for the poem itself, we can truly say that its quantity, though great, scarcely makes up. for what it lacks in quality, and think our readers will lose but little if we leave it out, but it may serve a good purpose to here call attention, in this manner to what is said of the condition of the cemetery. It is described m language forcible if not poetic, as utterly neglected, trampled over by “bovine hoofs;” its stones misplaced or broken in two; the ground * * * "So s unken from the top That it lacks a foot in depth of filling up*” And a good deal more of the same tenor. It is evident, unless the author has given way to her poetic imagination to an inordinate extent, that the cemetery is in a most disgraceful condition and that it ought to be looked after, immediately.—