Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1896 — Page 5

Our Clubbing Otters. The Republican and the Sew York Tribune .$1.75 Chicago Inter Ocean $1.85 Indianapolis Journal.. ■. $2.15 Inter Ocean & Tribune $2.10 Offers open to all. . Old subscribers as well as new. Tile For Sale. Tile of all sizes, from 4 inches up. Enquire at our office over Ellis & Murray’s store. Burget & Penn. * - 'K Ferguson <fc Wilson will give you the privilege to pay 1-5 of your oan each year and put the contracts in the mortgage. / . Now is the Time. To procure fine Building lots. Wider and deeper than any other inside the Corporation, at prices and terms suitable to everybody who wishes to invest. Call on A. Leopold, proprietor of Leopolds Addition. Office, Model Store. Good residence to rent. Apply to Hollingsworth & Hopkins. The People’s Picture Gallery. Over Poster & Wishard’s. Call and inspect work. You can save $1 on a dozen fine cabinets. Ferguson & Wilson furnish money on the B <fc L plan at the lowest rate Only $1.40 per month. FARMS FOR SALE and EXCHANGE. M. M. Tyler, Demotte Ind. Has several good farms for sale al-' so 5 farms to exchange for a stock of general mdse. All nice, good land, perfect title and situated near Rail Road Towns, and only 50 miles from Chicago. Write or Telephone me at Demotte Ind.

TWO LIVES SAVED.

Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of Junction City, 111., was told by her doctors she had Consumption and that there was no hope for her, but two bottles Dr. King’s New Discovery completely cured her and she says it, saved her life. Mr. Thos. Eggers, 139 Florida St. San Francisco, suffered from a dreadful cold, approaching Consumption, tried without result everything else then bought one bottle of Dr. King’s Now Discovery and in two weeks was cured. He Js 1 naturally thankful. It is such results, of which these are samples, that prove the efficacy of this medicine in Coughs and Colds. Free trial bottles at..., Regular size 50c and SI.OO. F. B. Meyer

TROUBLE! TROUBLE!

If you want trouble with your Binder and mower don’t buy a Deering for you will not get it. During the winter of 1893, F. M. Martin, of Long Reach, West Va.,, contracted a severe cold which left him with a cough. In speaking of how he cured it he says: “I used seyeral kinds of cough syrup but found no relief until I bought a bottle of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, which relieved me almost instantly, and in a short time brought about a complete cure.” When troubled with a cough or cold use this remedy and you will not find it necessary to try several kinds before you get relief. It has been in the market for over twenty years and constantly grown in favor and popularity. For sale at 25 and 50 cents per bottle by F. B. Meyer.

TO HORSE OWNERS.

For putting a horse in a fine healtey condition use Morris’ English Stable Powders. They tone up the system, aid in digestion, cure loss of appetite relieve constipation, correct kidney disorders and destroys wcrms, giving new life to an old or over-worked horse. 25 cents per package; 5 for SIOO. Sold by F. B. Moyer.

WILL MAKE HENS LAY.

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DISTEMPER-CAUSE & TREATMENT.

Is the title of onr little book which tells about one of the most loathsome and dangerous diseases affecting horses, sheef) and dogs, with unquestionable proof of the merits of Craft’s Distemper and Cough Cure in the treatmeb£» of lire same. Sent Free by addnssing The Wells Medicine Co. . LaFayette Ind. The remedy is sold by F. B. Meyer.

Do you want to buy a lot?

Warren & Irwin have a large num-ber-of the finest-lots in the city for sale at low prices and on easy terms.

BUCKLEN’S ARNICA SALVE.

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Coms, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. for sale by F. B. Meyers.

HAVE YOU A COLD?

If so, then instead of taking so much quinine and other strong medicines, t/ke a pleasant and mild stomach and bowels remedy, which will cleanse the system, and you will be surprised how quickly the cold will leave you. Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin will do this better than any other. Trial size 10c (10 doses 10c)’ larger sizes 50c and sl, at F. B. Meyers . x

IT GROWS.

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MORRIS ENGLISH WORM POWDER. 2

A Specific remedy for worms; warranted to cure tqe worst case of worms known, or money refunded. Knocks pin worms in horses every time. Equally goock, for all kinds of worms n horses, sheep and dogs. Price £0 cents at drug_ stores or post paid by mail. The Wells Medicine Co., L - fay ette, Ind. — * —** —

DON’T STOP TOBACCO

HOW TO CURE YOURSCLF WHILE USING IT. The tobacco habit grows on a man until his nervous system is seriously affected, imparing health,comfort and happiness. To quit suddenly is too severe a shock to the system, as tobacco to an inveterate user becomes a stimulant that, his system continually craves. “Baco-Curo” is a scientific cure for the tobacco habit, in all its forms, ; carefully compounded after the formula of an eminent Berlin physician who has used it in his private practice since 1872, without a failure. It is purely vegetable and guaranteed perfectly harmless. You can use all the tobacco you want while taking “Baco-Curo.” It will no tlfy yoti when to stop, We ' give a written guarantee to cure permanently any case with three boxes, or refund the money withlo per cent, interest. “Baco-Curo” is not a substitute,;but a scientific cure without the aid of will power and with no Inconvenience. It leaves the system as pure and free from nicotine as the day you took your first chew or smoke. Cured By Baco-Curo and Gained Thirty Pounds. From hundreds of testimonials, the originals df which are on file and open to Inspection, the following is presented: Clayton, Nevada Co., Ark., Jan. 28, 1895. Eureka Chemical & Mfg., La Crosse. Wis.— Gentlemen: For forty years I used tobacco in all Its forms. For twenty-five years of that time I was a great sufferer from general debility and heart disease. For fifteen years 1 tried to quit, but could’nt. I took various remedies, among others "No-To-Bac.” “The Indian Tobacco Antidote. ” Double Chloride of Gold," etc.,etc., but none of them did me the least bit of good. Finally, however, i purchased a box of your "Baco-Curo” and it has entirely cured me of the habit in all Its forms, and I have increased thirty pounds In weight and am relieved from all the numerous aches and pains of body and mind. I could write a quire of paper upon my changed feelings and condition. Yours respectfully, P. H. MarburV, PastorC. P. Church, Clayton, Ark. Sold by all druggists at SI.OO per box; three boxes, (thirty days, treatment), $2.50 with iron-clad, written guarantee, or sent direct upon receipt of price. Write for booklet and proofs. Eureka Chemical & Mfg. CO., LaCrOss Wis., and Boston, Mass.

An Affidavit.

This is to certify that on May 11th, I walked to Meliuk’s drug store on a pair of crutches and bought a bottle of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm for inflammatory rheumatism which had crippled me up. After using three bottles I am completely cured. I can cheerfully recommend it.—Charles H. Wetzel, Sunbury, Pa. Sworn and subscribed to before me on August 10, 1894.—Walter Shipman, J. P. For sale at 50 cents ,>er bottle by F. B. Meyer.

Our Former Court Houses.

Tli.e following article, prepared at our request by oue townsman, Hon. M. L. Spitler, gives the siibstance of his address at the “Farewell” meeting at the old court house, last Wednesday evening, July Bth, 1896. In the early history of our State, that portion of the northwest part of the State comprising what is now Benton, Jasper, Newton, Warren,' Lake and Porter Counties was attached to the County of Wabash. In 1825 and'"lß26 Warren County was organized, and County-seat located at Williamsport in 1828 and afterwards confirmed in June 1829. In 1834 and 1835 the further organization of the Northwest territories into Counties were completed. Out of this territory two counties were organized; Jasper County embraced the territory west and north of the Southeast Corner of Section Thirty-three (33) Township (24) North Range six (6) West, as far west to the State line of Illinois, and north to the township line dividing townships Twenty-nine (29) and Twenty-eight (28), which is just south of the now Catholic Cemetery, south of the College ’ The territory north of this to the township line dividing townships Thirtythree (33) and Thirty-four (34) embraced what was then named Newton County. In 1836 Porter County was organized and in 1837 Lake, thus depriving Newton County of all its territory north of the Kankakee River. At this time Jasper County was attached to White County for judic.al purposes. Previous t to being attached to White, it was attached to Warren; land deeds Jor lands in our County were recorded in Warren and White Counties, according to their date. In 1838 Jasper County was organized an independent County to which Newton was attached for some purposes, and to White for others. In 1839, by an act of the Legislature, Commissioners were appointed, to locate the County seats of the New Counties. Said Commissioners were empowered, if they deemed best, to consolidate the Counties of Jasper and Newton and name the seat of justice for the consolidated territories. These Commissioners considered it advisable to consolidate the two counties and fixed the County seat at the “Falls of the Iroquois River.” They gave the name of Jasper to the consolidated territory and the name of Newton to the County seat. The name of Newton was afterwards changed by an act of the Legislature to Rensselaer and by this name it is known at the present time.

In 1840, the Countv of Benton was struck off the consolidated county of Jasper, our territorial limits thus being the line between townships Twenty-seven [27] and Twenty-six [26] on the south and the Kankakee River on the north. This broad expanse of territory remained ours until December Term 1859 of Jasper Commissioners’ Court. After a long and warm contest, contestants having been once in the Supreme Court, the formation of the new County of Newton was organized by absorbing all our territory west of range seven [7] to the State line. ' The original County of Newton lost its name in in 1839, to receive it again in 1859 out of a portion of its old territory with a portion of old Jasper. Our first seat of Justice was fixed at the house of Robert Alexander in Parish Grove in January 1838. In March 1839, the Commissioners met at the house of George W. Spitler located about half a mile south of Lyons mill, then located near the present site, of the thriving town of Brook, which was in what is now known as Newton County. The time is too short and the space too limited to go into detail. We can only state results. You will see our Court House was the residence of Robert Alexander in 1838. Itr 1839 it was moved to a log house 16 feet square near the south bank of the Iroquois River, west, of Brook. In 1839 it was moved to the falls of the Iroquois at what is now known as Rensselaer.

’ George W. Spitler who at that time held all the County offices except Sheriff and -Treasurer built and donated to the County the first Court House. The next was a building on Cornelia Street between Front and Van Rensselaer, erected between the pressent residences of Mr. E. D. Rhoades and John Eger, James Van Rensselaer, proprietor of this town, donated a block to the County for a public square and also

four additional lots for erection of other public buildings. # ' In 1845 Mr.- Van Rensselaer erected a two story frame building 31 by 36 on lot 10 in block 13 which consisted of a Court Room below and two jury rooms above. This building when not used for Court purposes was used as a town hall, church, school rooms and reputable gatherings of all kinds and character. In 1854 this building was sold at public auction to one C. W. Henkle. In 1853 our County Commissioners determined to erect a new and more commodious Court House with accomodations sufficient.for all our County officers. Heretofore the, County officers held their offices in their respective houses as there was no other suitable place. In 1854 the contract was let at public auction to Benjamin Hehkle for $10500.00, be being the best bidder. « This building was seventy feet long and forty feet wide with six rooms below and court room above with two stair ways leading into Court Room. This bqilding was completed in 1856 and accupied soon after by the County Officers. This was really their first home. On January 18, 1865 this building was burned. The brick walls alone remained standing. The contents of Auditor’s and Treasurer’s offices were completely destroyed. In the Clerk’s office all the papers, records, and' files of Circuit Court and nearly all of Probate and Common Pleas Court were destroyed. The Recorder’s records were saved except Deed Records 2 and 11 moitgage record 3 and some unimportant records. This was a great financial loss to the County and to the Citizens and public generally. The loss was inestimable. Hardly a term of court ever passes without manifesting this loss. Our county commissioners however were prompt to act and on April -4 a contract was let to D. J. Silvers of Fort Wayne Indiana to rebuild the Court House psing the old walls, at a cost of SIO,OOO. In June following he was also awarded the Contract for building two vaults in the building at a cost of $954.00. September 8, 1865 this building was completed and occupied by the officers" and has been continuously thereafter until the 6th day of July, 1896 when the building was abandoned.

From year to year as occasion required this building has been repaired and changed until its condition no longer addmitted of repair, its accomodations no longer sufficient to meet the requirements of our growing needs and population. It was small, inconvenient and the officers could no longer dispatch business with promptness and comfort. Our commissioners have wisely determined to remove the old Court House and erect a new one, large, commodious and sufficient to fill all requirements of a great and growing County. The first jail was built in 1847 and consisted of hewed logs twelve inches square and was 20 by 26 feet in size, divided into two rooms, and was located on lot 10 in block 14. This building was sold in 1856 to Alfred Thompson for $20.00 who removed the same, and thus passed out of existence and quite out of memory of people. Until the erection of the present jail in 1883 our prisoners were confined in the jails of the surrounding Counties of White, Benton and Tippecanoe according to the character of the criminal. Our present Jail was built at a cost of $11,655, and was completed in 1883.

Jasper County Summer School.

The Jasper County Summer School will convene Monday, July 20th 1896, in the Rensselaer High School Building, and continue in session for five weeks. Classes will be conducted in all the Common School Branches Science of Education, and Literatqre. Forenoon sessions only, com-, mencing at 7:30—-Tuition $4.50 in advance or SI.OO per week. Supt. Sanders of the Rensselaer Schools, and Newton Warren, Prin. of the Sheridan High School will have charge of the work, assisted by County Supt. For any information call on or address, J. F. Warren Co. Supt.

' We have some desirable town property for sale. Vacant lots and improved property. Warren & Irwin.

How It Strikes The Chronicle. So far as heard from there is not a single, great Democratic paper west of the Mississippi and north of Mason and Dixens’ line ‘that repudiate the work of the Chicago convention. And some of these great Democratic dailies, as for instance the New York Sun, one of the most influential Democratic papers in the country, comes out boldly for McKinley. Jn Chicago not a single paper Supports the platform and candidate. The Chronicle, the chief organ of Democracy west of New “York City, repudiates the convention in termes that for strength, bitterness land vigor,, seldom exceeded in newspaper editorials. As a sample of the way the Chronicle and other leading Democratic papers speak of the action of their party’s national convention, we append the following extracts from the Chronicle’s leading editorial of last Friday: “If men ever were reserved for destruction—if from the days of Belshazzar and Sennacherib to those of George lIJ, and Jefferson Davis a supreme power has at any time visited with madness and blindness the creatures, of evil whose overthrow was necessary to human progress, the -gibbering malevolents, Tillman and Altgeld, and all who have followed them in their new crusade of sectionalism, disunion, repudiation and ruin have been under the shadow of that awfnl Will. The Chicago convention has not spoken for the democrats of the United States. It has voiced the ignorance and the immorality, the covetousness and the dishonesty of the least enlightened elements of our population. No center of intelligence and progress and justice is represented in its pronouncements. The Chicago convention has been controlled by and has spoken for the disappointed graybacks of the confederate armies and their kindred, the moonshining lazzaroni of the mountain districts of the south, and for the whooping desperadoes, silver monopolists and debt shirkers of the far west, who never voted a democratic ticket and never intend to.

.The Chicago convention, made up for the greater part of interlopers from the various populistic organizations of the south and west, and by a few score of unconscionable scalawags from the north, wearing the collars of bosses like Altgeld, has not only spoken falsely for the democracy; it has degraded and disgraced the American name before the world in a manner that no similar gathering ever equaled and which every patriot may fervently hope no succeeding aggregation of moral and intellectual degenerates ever will* imitate. Impudently and falsely assuming to represent the most intelligent, most energetic, most self-re-liant people on the globe, the Chicago convention humbly asks for the American republic a place in finance and commerce at the feet of Costa Rica, China and Mexico. With an impulse born of bigotry and fanaticism, it flies in the face of the great commercial nations, closes its eyes to all the pages of history, and, intent only upon winning the approval of the populistic silver protectionists who are soon to meet in St Louis and who have directed its acts in Chicago, it arrays itself on the side of a debased currency and the repudiation of public and private debts* Platform and candidates stand for retrogression and ultimate barbarism.

Platform and candidates repre- ' sent democracy not at all, but are streaked all over with the financial immorality of the Confederate States of America and the bonanza silver mining league and the corrupt senatorial syndicate. Tillman and Altgeld typify and illustrate in their own offensive personalities the violence and recklessness of this latest departure from democratic faith. Both of them able and adroit, both resourceful, both brutal in method, both coarse in speech, both malignant, both revengeful, both insane with evil ambition, both filled with a sleepless zeal to destroy the democratic party, which they know to be a conservative hnd patriotic force not to be enlisted in support of their revolutionary frenzies —the one stands for all that is abhorrent politically at the south as the other stands

for all that is politically dangerous at the north. Aiding and abetting these miserable counterfeits -of democratic leaders, these base imitations of democratic statesmen, are a great host of renegade republicans and populists, the Tellers and Waites, the Blands and Bryans, the Pennoyers and Stewarts, the Taubenecks and Joneses, all hating the democratic name and all hoping that the disintegration of a splendid party may bring to them some trifle in the way of plunder or of spoils.” X,

CORRESPONDENCE.

REMINGTON ITEMS. We are sorry to hear that we lose Miss. Harrison from our schools next year; but fed that she is justified in leaving us as she has a longer term of school and better wages than our teachers receive. Mr. Dennis O’Rielly and Miss. Janie Shearer were quietly married at their own home, which had previously been.put in readiness for the interesting event, last Wednesday evening. The ceremony was performed by Squire G. B. Chappell. Mrs. Maude Hel vie returned to her home in Ohio last week. % Mrs. G. E. Marshall and children were in town Friday. Elder Carpenter delivered a most interesting address at Fountain Park Sunday afternoon. The audience though not as large as could have been wished, was quite fair sized considering the distance from town Misses Mabel Parker and Nellie Traugh from the Presbyterian church and J. D. Carson from the Christian church are delegates to the C. E. Convention at Washington. Robert Watson who has been an old resident here for a great many years left Tuesday of last week, for an indefinite sojourn among his old friends and acquaintances in Flemingsburg, Ky. Fred Griffin, wife and boys have been visiting the former’s parents for the last ten days. They left Sunday for Oxford; accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bowman and Miss. Stella Griffin. From there Mr/ Griffin will return to Chicago, but the rest of the party will come jack here.

BARKLEY ITEMS.

Oats cutting is the order of the day and the crop is excellent Miss. Maggie Lowman contemplates visiting her brother in Tennessee in the near future. Elder Morgan of Valparaiso preached at the Christian church last Sunday eve. The new Gifford dredge is in pro*' cess of construction near the headquarter farm. Grandmother Gratner returned last Saturday from a three weeks visit with her daughter, Mrs. Ellen Ott of Ft Dodge, Kan. She reports that Mr. Ott’s health is rather poor and no crops at all in that section of Kansas. She returned wearing a pair of gold spectacles bought of a train news agent and her son is still laughing. Losing and finding is the order of the day at this time of the year. The latest find was last Monday morning; the objects found was a pair of black silk fist mittens. They were given to John R. Lewis, who will return them to the owner and we trust the owner will reward him quite liberally.

FROM WEST CARPENTER.

Oats harvest opened on the 6th with prospects of an excellent crop. Hay nearly all up, in an excellent condition. tMrs. L. S. Alter got her hanc pretty badly burned on the 4th while helping the children with some fireworks. A very pleasant picnic at Mr. Geo. Welch’s on the Fourth. The Mennonltes have a flourishing Sunday School and church at Bowdie school house, west part Carpenter Tp, Services evey Sunday a. m. in both German and English.

Our Clubbing Offers.

Oar clubbing arrangements with both the Chicago Inter Ocean and the New York Weekly Tribune have been renewed for 1896. The Republican and Inter Ocean both one year for 11.85. The Republican and New York Tribune, both one year, for 11.75. All three papers 12.10. These rates are open to all, old subscribers as well as neve. For good buggies, at low prices call on C. H. Roberts.

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