Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1875 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER UNION. Thursday, September 2, 1875.

Congress can make a paper currency for use in the United States, but this nation is not yet quite powerful enough to compel the commercial world to adopt it as a substitute for gold. An Administration newspaper at Monticello—the Herald —classes the editors of this paper with such infamous cutthroats as “the Bender family and the Younger brothers.’' May Jehovah forgive brother I luff this and all other vagaries arising from softening of tfie brain, one of many deplorable results that follow excessive vicious indulgence in youth. His condition excites our profoundest pity! ————-• w Col. Healey attended the meeting of the stockholders of the Indianapolis, Delphi Chicago railroad company at Delphi yesterday. The meeting was held to elect a board of directors and officers for the ensuing year. It was also expected that some definite plan would be agreed upon for future action. As he has not returned at the hour of our going to press we can not report what was done al the meeting, but hope, however, to be able to publish next week that it was determined to resume work immediately. It is stated by the Laporte Herald that Miss Celia Wilkinson has been employed to teach in the public schools of that city, during the approaching winter session. This lady is well known in Jasper county, where she has taught several terms of schools, both public and private, in the country ami at Hensselacr. The board ot trustees tendered her a position in our town school for the coining winter, and were anxious to employ her. As a teacher she is quite successful, and iu that most difficult as well as SNosUumportant department of a school, the primary’, has very few equals. A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa., to the Chicago Times gives an imperfect account of the Chappell cattle transaction which occurred in this county recently. The dispatch says a man named Crawford (evidently Chappell) brought 136 Mead of cattle to a Pittsburg firm, desired them to get the best rates in the market for him, and wanted payment made in currency. It was not convenient to pay the full amount that Way, but they gave him SI,OOO m currency and a negotiable draft for $2,000 and forwarded balance by express to him at Rensselaer. The dispatch also stated that Chappell had run about 200 head of cattle into Chicago in the same manner. All the owners have yet been able to recover was the money sent by express, less than SI,OOO, and ChappeTT TiaiTnotT yet been found, though an accomplice, whose name is given as Truxall, was arrested.

Rev. 11. O. Hoffman, Chaplain of the 17th regiment Indiana volunteer infantry for a year or two, and who at one time was pastor of the M. E. church at Rensselaer, is now at Quincy, 111., preaching to a congregation of five hundred members strong, among whom is General Prentiss of Shiloh battle fame and a prominent lawyer of that city. Between General Prentiss and Rev. Mr, Hoffman a quarrel has broken out, in consequence of which Prentiss was arraigned before the church charged with slandering his pastor. The trial was in progress last week, creating a great deal of excitement not alone in -Quincy but also to more or lesl extent over the State. The specifications of the charge upon which Gen. Prentiss is being tried are (1) that he called Mr. Hoffman a liar, and (2) said he was a libertine. Gen. Prentiss appears as his owmcounsel, enters a plea of justification to each specb fication and promises to prove all he has said and more too. In his testimony Mr. Hoffman mentions having once lived at Rensselaer but has nothing to say of the scandal arising from his indiscreet attentions to a susceptible widow of his flock, and the jealousy of a rival brother minister of the same denomination who was paying his devotions at the same shrine—a *

scandal which so crippled church that it has not yet regained'! the influence it possessed in community prior to his settlement here though more than a decade has elapsed since he moved away.

Objections to the Interconvertible Currency Scheme.

In a letter of recent date, a valued correspondent who has at times taken an active part in the discussion of popular themes, states his objections to the position taken by the inflationists upon the subject of our national finances. He says: I do not like the theory of finance advocated by Wendell Phillips, Peter Cooper,- Benjamin Butler, Judge Kelley, and the Ohio democrats. Ist. Gold and silver are the standard of values, the world over. Nobody can prevent [change] it. 2d. Exchange of currency for national bonds, and vice verbal, at the will of rich individuals, makes the treasury debtor without its consent. But to what amount can never be known, nor the necessary taxes to pay the interest provided for. Capitalists will control the funds as they dd now, with this extra advantage: They can retire the currency at their pleasure, and manipulate prices spring and fall at their heart's content. % 3d. A poor man,-or a business man in a pinch, could never negotiate a loan, except at ruinous rates, carrying disaster to natural capital and to commerce, giving them over irrevocably to the control and greed of capitalists. 4th. As the advocates of this schem't both in this country and in England are capitalists —neither commercial men nor laborers—it will be well enough to examine the. theory carefully and closely before adopting it. sth It certainly can be of no benefit to a co'inmercia! or business man, for he does not wish to retire his capital. but to keep it in trade. 6th. It can be of no benefit to a laboring man, because he lias no capital to deposit. 7th. Capitalists alone arc to be benefited by this measure, and they would not advocate it were it not to their advantage and for their express interest.

At present idle capital and idle labor are seeking employment side by side, but neither can make satisfactory investments; both are losing time and advantage. So many business men made fortunes out of the war and retired from active life so suddenly that their places could not be supplied with men known to trade; but after a few years of waiting, which is inevitable, a leading class will be at the head whose characters and reputations will be established, and in tjll likelihood things will revert again to their natural course. Better be patient and wait awhile until this can be effected, than resort to such an experiment as these men propose. At best this experiment can help only one class—the rich and independent—wealthy, idle consumers—who neeed no help. Let the laborer, the farmer, the artizan, the poor man and the commercial or trades man look well to a project arising from such a source, which oilers them no advantage and holds out to them no inducements. It will cripple the freedom of the government by leaving its finances iu the control of irresponsible and unknown meu in private life, compel it to levy taxes at the option of capitalists, and compel it to keep large amounts of surplus bonds at all points within reach of money-lenders for their special convenience, but not for the aid or benefit of anyAiublic oe private enterprise. In other words it would place a corruption fund in every city to monopolize the energies of the country. I do not like the looks of it. How is it that capital is so plenty in this country at the present time, thousands being offered to loan in every county at high rates of interest inine per cent, on large loans), on long time, with trippie security, over undoubted , names, while small amounts on short time demand double interest rates? Ko menfflant and no man in legitimate business can afford to pay such rates of interest. If any agree to pay them it must be those who are devising desperate ventures, for no proper or legitimate profits can lattbrd them. Add this onerous interest and the necessary profits for a I tradesman to live by bis business, together, and people cannot stand to I pay such enormous advances over wholesale prices. They stop consumption, trade stagnates, merchants fail, ! and depression and bankruptcy follow upon the laborer and business, compelling forced sales,.while the capitalist reaps the harvest of Ins loans by retiring his capital aud buying in the property of his "debtor at a third of its j value, “as noted in the bond” when I lie advanced his loan. Put forward and perfect this scheme of finance, and the rotation of- these results will > be as regular as the diurnal revolution iof the,earth.

Many claim that interest is too high and ought to be restricted to a less per cent, by law. Others think that rents are rather high and ought to be restricted. They ignore the fact that scarcity makes dear, and plenty cheap. Some of those who now lend money at the rates complained of, have accurnulated it, by such economy and selfdenial of indulgences as some who borrow scorn to think of practicing. If they had practiced it they would not only have no need of borrowing, but would themselves have cash to lend, and as demands of borrowers would be but few and and cash awaiting such demands abundant, interest would of course be low. The rule that prices will be high or low according as supplies are more or less than the demands, is stronger than a statute law, and such a statute cannot be enforced with good effect.-*— Valparaiso IYV

Remington News.

Oats 30 cents a bushel, corn 60 cents, potatoes 40 cents, butter* 20 cents a pound, lard 15 cents, hams 17 cents, eggs 12| cents a dozen, flour $9 per barrel... .Mr. Charles Hathaway was married last week ... .There will be a balloon ascension during the fair.... .Remington is a popular resort for base ball players... .Week before last O. B. Mclntire & Co. sold $19,000 worth of real estate... .Rev. Mr. Crow is now pastor of the Presbyterian church at Remington... .Pat Lally shot at a prairie chicken the other morning and succeeded in lodging his charge in the legs of his horse and the nose of a friend who was hunting with him;.the chicken escaped unhurt... .The Remington dramatic troupe is thoroughly reorganized and terrific sounds are now heard nightly proceeding from the vicinity of Carpenter’s crfc.ek ....Seven more numbers close the first year of the Remington Record. Among the indictments recently returned by a Chicago grand jury was one against Henry Woodbury, of Brooklyn, N. Y., for offering Alderman Fitzgerald $1,500 to vote for an ordinance in favor of giving the right of way along Wabash avenue to the Chicago & South Atlantic Railroad Company. The Tribune says a requisition will be foi warded at once for Woodbury.

UUSIVESS CARDS. DR. G. A. MOSS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office between McCoy &. Thompson’s bank and-Kainiaf’s drug store.. D~r7jTh7 LduGifitTDG PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. DR. MOSES B. ALTER, 2 ’ PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office in Harding & Willey’s drug store. DR. R. Y. MARTIN, _ PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office opposite the postoffice, above the stone store. Dr. h. h. moss; PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office with Dr. G. A. Moss. Lodges in his office. MF. CHILCOTE, . ATTORNEY, AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. Office on Washington street, opposite the Court H ouse square. QIMON P. THOMPSON, D ATTORNEY AT LAW, Pros. Atty, buthcircuit. Will practice in the Courtsof Pulaski. Jasj er. Newton and Benton counties. Thompson & bro/s LAW & REAL ESTATE OFFICE, Over McCoy & Thompson’s bank. Martin & iiealey, attorneys at law. Wim . 11. Martin, Kentland, Joshua Healey, Rensselaer. W ill practice in the courts of Jasper and adjoining counties. Office Washington street above Front, Rensselaer, Ind. I RAW. YEO MAN. 1 ATTORNEY AT LAW. Notary Public, and Real Estate and Collection Agent. Office iu the Court House. A McCOY & THOMPSON, BANKERS. = Buy and sell domestic exchange, make collections on all available points, pay interest on specified time deposits, etc. Office hours from !) a. m. to 4 p. m. J B. SPANGLE? . . TAILOR. East side of public square, (nittingand making done to order, and warranted to fit. P HI LLIP^ ARNESS sH op Harness and saddles kept in stock and made to order. Front street, below Washington. All work warranted. 7-24 QMITII & HARDING, O PAINTERS Orders respectfully solicited for house and sign painting. Special attention given to "raining and inside work. George robinson, HOUSE BUILDER. Will make estimates and contract to build houses, barns, bridges, and do all kinds of general carpenter work. SAMP. ERWIN, BLACKSMITH. New brick shop, From street, above the old saw mill. Also, iu connection, a ■yx/ooD SHOP V V where all kinds of wood work repairing will be done to order. Prices below competition. SHINDLER & ROBERTS, BLACKSMITHS. At Warner’s old stand on Front street. Horseshoeing, machine repairing, carriage ironing, etc., done neatly and cheaply. Grant & downing, BLACKSMITHS. Shop on Front street, next door above the stage office, at Duvall <Sc Goff’s old stand. Patronage solicited. - - T-fYERY STABLE 1 j AND HACK LINE. • J. W. Duvall, Livery Keeper, Front street, above Washington, is prepared to furnish horses, carriages and teams for any part of the country, either with or without drivers. Daily mail hack conveys passengers and express goods to and from Francesville. Freight wagons on the road daily. JAMES & HEALEY, GENERAL JOB PRINTERS , And proprietors of The Rensselaer UnioS; Job-work and advertising tariffs below competition. Oldest and widest-circulated paper in the county. VVEED~(b\ F~ YV SEWING MACHINE. Fast becoming the most popular sewing machine.in the world. Noted for simplicity, durability, light running, beauty,and of management. We refer to more than thirty families in Jasper county who are using them. Nearly 309,000 in use. Sold on leases, payments, or good time. Special inducements to Grangers and other purchasers for cash. Needles, Oil, and Attachments for any machine iu the market. ■ Office on Front street, near the school house, Rensselae'r.lnd. , C.W.CLIFTON.

REMOVAL. Tn Accordance with previous announcement R. FENDIG has, this week, moved his stock of Dry Goods, Clothing, Groceries, &c. into MRS. HEMPHILL’S New Brick Store. people JXZE O JXT KS "Sr Who buy-their Merchandise of R. Fendig, whose stock was recently proved from the Old Stone Building into Mrs. Hemphill’s new brick. CLOTHING May now be bought very cheap for the ready money atN. Fendig’s store. Having moved into the fine, new, elean and well-lighted store room in Mrs. Hemphill’s brick building, those Who buy their clothing at this establishment can see just what they are getting. A fine assortment of tailors’ supplies—Coatings, Vestings, Thread, Buttons, &c., &c, —kept in stock.

GROCERIES. Those who prefer fresh and select < Iroeeries—Sugar, Tea, Coflee, Spices, Soda, Soap, &c.—may always find a choice lot at R. FENDIG’S north side of Washington street, in Mrs. Hemphill’s new brick store. A larger quantity than ever will be kept on hand in future. REHOVAL. R. Fendig adopts this method of informing his friends, customers and the public generally, that he lias moved his large stock of Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing. &c., into Mrs. Hemphill’s new brick store, where he will be most happy to wait on all who desire anything in bisJine of business. Boots and Shoes. No house in the place' possesses better facilities for buying light and heavy goods iu this department. We deal in nothing but good quality of articles, and sell as cheap as any in the market. For foot-wear of every description call on li. Fendig, lately moved into Mrs. Hemphill’s new brick store. HAS MOVED H GOODS INTO MRS. HEMPHILL’S NEW BRICK STORE, -r Ljauc 11 on IjcarU That R. Fendig has moved his store? Did you know that he occupies the best room in Rensselaer? Are you aware that he keeps a large stock of goods ? Do you know his prices are very cheap ? Have you seen his goods and compared their quality and prices with those kept elsewhere ? DON’T TOWN

Without calling at Mrs. HEMPHILL'S NEW BRICK and seeing JR. F E A » IG in his NEW QUARTERS. REMOVAL The public generally is respectfully informed that I have moved my large stock of GENERAL MERCHANDISE into Mrs. S. A. Hemphill’s new brick store room, oh Washington street, nearly opposite the Post dilice, w’here it will be my pleasure at all times to receive the calls of friends and customers. As in the past so—in the fqture, it will be my constant endeavor to keep as good stock and sell as cheaply as any other dealer here. My LOSG EXPERIENCE in the business, and extensive acquaintnaee with the markets are certainly advantages of no mean order, while the fact that I buy for cash makes it possible for mo to give my patrous all the benefits of prices. Thankful for Past Favors it will be my constant aim to merit future confidence and patronage by conscientious attention to business. Please recollect that my stock is always selected with special reference to the of this market, and it is my constant pride to keep as good, as varied, as large, and as cheap an assortmeiat, as any to be found in this region of country. Call on me at. my new quarters, and verify'the truth of these statements by personal inspection. 2R. EEHSTJDIO-

A LARGE STOCK O F STAPLE* FANCY GROCERIES, PROVISIONS. &c.. May always be found at the Shanghai Build ing. Sugars, Teas, Coffee, Spices, Canned Fruit, Soap, Candles. Coal Oil, Indigo, Baking Powdeis, Soda, Cream Tartar, Nutmegs, Flavoring Extracts. Candies, Raisins, Nats, «. FLOUR, best brands, by the barrel or sack, Hominy, Rice, Sait, Crackers, Cheese,Salt Fish, Beans, Dried Sweet Corn, &c. TOBACCOS. Standard favorite brands of Plug, Fine Cut, Shorts and Smoking Tobaccos ; excellent Cigars ; Pipes, Cigar Holders, and Tobacco Pouches. QUEENSWARE, GLASSWARE, Table and Pocket Cutlery. Stoneware, Tubs, Pails, Washboards, Clotheslines. Churns, Meal Selves, and hundreds of other articles usually kept in such stores not necessary to cnumeiate. HOLIDAY GOODS, The most extensive and varied assortment of Holiday Goods in the county, ranging from children’s Tin and Wooden Toys, Dolls, and Fancy Candies up to Elegant Silver Table Sets! All Of which will be sold for a fair business profit. Country produce bought and kept for sale. Call at the Shanghai Building for good fresh Groceries and Provisions. 7-12 C. C. STARR.

8300,000.00 TO AT NINE PER CENT. INTEREST On Real Estate Security, ONT LONTGr TXJVI2S, -- ANDIS AMOUNTS TO SUIT APPLICANTS. No Insurance Required. Apply to, or address by mail, giving location, value, and full description, R.S.&Z.D WIGGINS, Attorneys & Loan Agents, Rensselaer. Indiana. E_ Tu_ PRICE z DEALER IN Jewelry, Spectacles, Notions, &c. Repairing done to order, and promptly. All work warranted. Store north side of Washington street, sec end door below Van Rensselaer, Rensselaer, Ind. 7-34 LET THE LOUDMOUTHED CANNON ROAR! iF? DEACON TUBBS - Founder of the Old Line Drag Store And all his men have been heard from. They havfe crossed Washington street, fortyfive. degrees southeast of their old stand,and taken up quarters in THE NEW BRICK BUILDING At the point of the bayonet, after six months of heavy bombardment, and now have peacable possesion of the position where they calculate to remain and do business, unless dislodged by the enemy, which event, from the best information we can obtain, is not likely to transpire very soon. They have a very large assortment of DRUGS, MEDICINES, STATIONERY BRUSHES, GROCERIES,&C. A All of which will be sold low for cash. You will find Deacon Tubbs and the two imps Frank and Will as busy as bees in clover fields.compoundiug and patting up medicines, while the handsomer and more proficient MAJOR MUCKLESWORTH Is standing guard on the other sice of the house, handing out Books, Pens and Paper, and wrapping up Soothing Syrup, Wallace’s Bitters, Indian Choiagogue, Climax Salve, HOSS POWDERS. Stove Polish, Roback’s Pills, Vinegar Bitters, Itch Ointment, Anderson's Dennador, Uncle Ben- Joe’s Bell Tongha Syrnp, Hair Oils, Pepper Sass. &.C., &c. Come ail and see us in our New Brick Store—we will sell Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes. Dyestuffs and Groceries cheaper for cash than can be bought in any other house in town. HAROISG & WIULEY.

THE CHEAP CORNER. People who- trade in Jasper County, and all others who may be interested, are hereby informed that the place to buy Dry Goods, Clothing, Groceries, Notions, <fcc., is on the northwest corner of Washington and Vanßensselaer streets, in Rensselaer, at A. Leopold’s Store. My stock of Dress Goods is the largest, most complete, best selected and lowest priced ever brought to this place, and includes a fine line of SILKS, LUSTRES, MOHAIRS, MERINOS Alpacas, Prints, Pongees, Poplins, Reps, Scotch Plaids, Empress Cloth, Waterproofs, Ginghams, &c. My stock of Men’s and Boys’ Coats, Pants, Vests, Overcoats, either by single articles or in suits, cannot be excelled in finish, quality or cheapness. I not only make a specialty of READY MADE CLOTHING

but also keep an extensive variety of Tailor’s Goods, such as Broad Cloths, Doeskins,. Casimeres, Tweeds, Jeans, Vestings, Ducks, Denims, &c. r by the piece or yard. Also, brown and bleached MUSLINS. TICKINGS, Sheetings, Table Linen, Oil Table Spreads, beautiful Stand Covers, Crash Toweling, Bed Spreads, Wool Blankets, Cotton and all Wool Flannels. Balmoral and Felt Skirts, Knit Goods for men, women and children, ladies’ and gentlemen’s Underwear, Hosiery, Gloves, Pocket Handkerchiefs, &c. BOOTS AND SHOES. The public are respectfully invited to call and inspect my large and superior stock of leather, rubber and serge goods, for men’s, women’s and children’s foot wear. My stock in this department is unsurpassed by any in the market. GROCERIES. In connection with my other goods I shall keep a select lot of choice Staple Family Groceries, including Sugars, Teas, Coffees, Starch* Spices, Soaps, Dried Fruits, <fcc.; also asplen did article of Tobacco, both for chewing and smoking. * All the above enumerated articles, together with thousands of others we have not space to name here, will be kept in stock and sold at the lowest reasonable prices. When you want bargains- in Dry Goods, Clothing, Groceries, Bodts, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Notions, <fcc., go to LEOPOLD’S CHEAP CORNER-