Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1875 — Page 4

THE RENSSELAER UNION. Thursday, December 30. 1875.

THER ISTROUBLEIN CAMP

Hdn. Richard Thompson, Gen. Benjamin Harrison and Hon. Dan. j *fel D." Pratt, jjroniipent and saga- j 'cions republican politicians, have ! Written public letters in which they decline to permit the use of their names in convention in connection with the nomination for governor on the republican ticket. While the best material of the party arc thus exposing to it a cold shoulder, and declining its honors, they do it very gracefully and assign reasons which, though plausible, Would hardly be thought of were the prospects of an election at all clear. The action of these gentlemen, together with the well-known fact that great diversity of sentiment exists in all circles, from*' the lowest to the highest, upon questions which must be discussed in the approaching campaign, have caused great dismay wire-pullers; and it is now being urged in influential quarters that toe meeting of the Stats convention, appointed for the 22d day of February next, be postponed until the middle of June. They hope by that time to be able to quiet much of the alarm that has grown out of the whiskey revelations now ’being made public; to be able to diagnose public sentiment; to have a platform perfected that will be sufficiently obscure, equivocal and Well garnished with attractive phrases, to captivate the multitude; and to have all the work of the convention so neatly cut and thoroughly dried as to be able to announce with a ,great flourish of trumpets and of penny whistles bow unanimous; harmonious and enthusiastic wwre its deliberations.

As yet, however, no “distinguished leader” has ventured to "sound a key-uote” for the approaching “important campaign so ■fraught with Interest to the people and the welfare of the nation;” and it is not likely any will be bold enough to do so until after the crooked whiskey trials are concluded, and it is ascertained how deep and extensive are the ramifications of this rottenness. The Inter-Ocean gave its.. readers a Christmas treat in the shape of an article, purporting to be based upon an interview With General Babcock, which strongly hinted that Mr. Secretary Bristow was more deeply implicated in the whiskey frauds than either of the persons who have already been indicted; and the article directly and explicitly charged that Mr. Bristow was privy and consenting to irregularities by which certain railroad corporations, or the officers appointed to collect that branch of revenue, have swindled the government out of “millions and millions of dollars.” The Chicago Tribune, Cincinnati Gazette, New York Tinies. and some other republican newspapers are attempting to break the force of the Inter-Oceans charges by stigmatizing its exhaustive, two-column, leaded article as “sensational,” “infamous,” “unscrupulous,” “violent,” etc. But that port of pooh-poohing will not satisfy the people. The article has been copied entire into nearly, every prominent newspaper of the land, and given a wide publication. As these charges emanate from one of the most ultra and non-conserva-tive papers of the republican party —a journal whose settled policy has been to uphold every act of the party and endorse everything'done by those members of the party who occupy official positions, or at least to maintain a masterly silence when it did not fully endorse—more importance will be attached to them by the mass of people than if they had been preferred by democratic papers, or the class of independent journals which the Inter-Ocean and nearly every partyorgan has constantly villified during the last five or six years. Nothing short of a complete and unequivocal vindication of Mr. Bristow, in a court of competent jurisdiction, by positive testimony of unimpeachable character, after a thorough investigation, will satisfy the public and convince them of -

factory for the Inter-Ocean to say j that its charges are unfounded and resulted from a misapprehension of facts, for they were too circumstantially told for people to believe that statement; neither will it do for Mr. Bristow to rest with a full reJ traction of its statements by the | Inter-Ocean, because if that paper is base enough to destroy an innocent man’s character and villainous enough to attempt to ruin the reputation of an upright public officer because he is engaged in bringing guilty men to punishment, it could be hired for money, or some other consideration, to suppress whatever ugly truths it might know, and to impeach itself.. But the Inter-Ocean will not do this. In a vigorous editorial that appeared Wednesday, it thrusts back savagely at -the Tribune, and says : In no manner, immediately or remotely, directly or contingently, have any of the responsible editors or managers of this journal an interest to the amount of a farthinir in whisky or whisky rings, ®r in the fate which awaits or may await any person charged or to be charged with frauds upon the Federal revenue in the wh isky traffic. If the Archangel were upon earth and engaged in the control of a newspaper, he could not be more free from corrupt complicity with whisky thieves br |he whisky rings than we know ourselves to be. The italicised words of the above quotation were not so prominently marked in the paper in which they first appeared, but they are not less significant on that account. They substantially reiterate the charges it had already made and intimate that more may follow and other persons be implicated.

At Indianapolis, also, things are not altogether lovely. There is something wrong about the postoffice, which has been managed for several years by Col. Holloway, who is Senator Morton’s brother-in-law; and the United States grand jury have been set on the trail to ferret out what is causing the effluvium from that source. Then there is a branch of the whiskey ring in the State, a portion of which was laid bare by the St. Louis prosecutions; and this needs to be further developed. Already prominent Indiana republican politicians have been implicated more or less fully as belonging to, and sharing profits with, this cancerous criminal combination; and intimations strong and hints of various degrees of breadth are being indulged in respecting the virtue of others, which causes great distrust among the people. Taking all these facts into consideration—the whiskey ring influence in Indiana; the post office irregularities at Indianapolis; the ch arges of the Inter- Ocean against prominent members of its own party ; the trepidation of Thompson, Harrison and Pratt, manifested by their declination of proffered honors ; the dismay, hesitation and vacillation of the convention-manip-ulators ; the wide-spread dissatisfaction towards President Grant’s administration known to exist in its ranks; and the great diversity of opinion upon questions of governmental policy—make a gloomy prospect for the republican success in Indiana in 1876.

A late number of the Indiana Farmer says that J. F. Williamson & Son, of Deer 1 Lick Fann, near Thorntown, recently sold to Cyrus J. Brown, of Jasper county, the yearling short-horn bull Graceful Duke 12,893, sire Duke of Edgwood--13,923, dam Lady Grace by Grand Duke of Moreton 5,732, which has Itaken several prizes this year, w-. . -- - = ‘lt is reported in the Delphi Journal that Samuel, ySnngest son of Gen. R. H. Milroy, died last week at Olympia, Washington Territory, where the family now resides. He was about 12 years old. Bruce, another son, is at Delphi this winter. Our Brook, Newton county, cor« respondent writes that roads are nearly impassable; butter is worth 25 cents a pound; eggs 25 cents a dozen ; an old fashioned fist fight occurred on the streets op Christmas day; the Grangers, are wide awake at Brook. acknowledge the receipt of a map of the Northwest, which includes the spates of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, lowa and Minnesota; together with a copy

of the “Illustrated Union Hand Book for 1876,” both issued by the Cincinnati Weekly Times, and given to each subscriber to that first-class newspaper. The Hand Book contains a reliable calendar for 1876 and about 90 pages of double column reading matter. The latter is interesting to the general reader, illustrated witli numerous engravings, and arranged under appropriate such as statistical, agricultural, scientific, youth’s, governments of the world, household recipes, miscellaneous recipes, social and domestic, poems, election returns, and a synopsis of the principal events occurring in all parts of the world from January Ist to November 30th, 1875. Tfie subscription price of the Weekly Times one year is 82 for single subscribArrangements are perfected by which we are enabled to offer it in connection with The Union as follows: The Times §2, Map of the Northwest $2, Hand Book §l, Rensselaer Union 82 —total $7 — for $3.90. The. Times in politics is consistently republican.

A private letter received from Boulder county, Colorado, and dated 17th inst., says: “We write with the doors of the bouse open; chickens are singing as though it were springtime, and the mountain forests are as green aS in June; grass looks dead and dry, but ranchers do not feed ,tjheir stock, Jind cattle look fat and sleek. At noulder City, a town of perhaps one thousand inhabitants which is situated at the foot of the mountain and furnishes supplies for the people of,many a mile of territory, prices are: Potatoes 1| cents a pound (everything of that nature is sold by the pound), corn 2 cents, oats 2 cents, green apples 16 cents, flour 3| to 4| cents, beef at retail 8 to 12 cents; dry goods are some higher here than in the States; live cattle sell cheaper than anything else; chickens are worth $4 to $5 per dozen, turkeys $1.50 each; butter and eggs are very dear. People have excellent health in this region.”

Rensselaer Schools.

The attention of parents is earnestly called to two things: First, to the reports of the last term, especially to the items of tardiness and absence. There is entirely too much time lost in these ways. Time enough has been wasted during che last three months to-give one pupil a fair common school education. This is unjust to your childrenin two ways; for it deprives them of a large amount of education which is paid for and to which they are justly entitled; besides, you permit them to form habits of irregularity and dilatoriness that will follow them through life. Many of the failures in life may be traced directly to the habits of irregularity and inattention formed in youth by the permission of parents and connivance* of teachers. Second, our school will reopen on next Monday, January 3d ? 1876, promptly at half past eight 4’clock, and it is the earnest of teachers and trustees that every scholar be in his seat at that time. The next term will last twelve weeks and we want every pupil there every day. \

The trustees at a late meeting adopted a set of rules for the government of our schools, similar to the rules of LaPorte, Delphi, and other good schools. It is hoped every parent and every good citizen will cooperate heartily with teachers and trustees in enforcing these rules and in making our schools equal to any in the state. The children of Rensselaer are just as intelligent as those of any other community and with regular attendance, good order, andV earnest our schools can, at bnce, be placed on a footing where they will compare favorably with the best. It costs just as much to run our schools with one hundred pupils as it does with two hundred, for teachers’ wages go on and fires burn just the same, whether the school rooms are full or empty. Let us then act the part of ordinary wisdom and get the worth of our money. The teachers are in earnest, let the parents get in earnest, and we will have a profitable school. Com.

$20,000 Wanted. The undersigned would respecfully inform those of his patrons who are in arreats for blacksmithing that for the three long years that he has been doing business in Rensselaer and faithfully laboring all the time to satisfy his customers, he has not been in such pressing need of money as at the present time, and has never before had occasion to spur up those who are owing him. But now he needs money to pay off his indebtedness and purchase new material with which to carry bn his business, and takes this method of earnestly requesting ail those who are indebted to him to call in, settle and pay up. If you can’t pay all, pay what you can. Every little will help. Sampson Erwin. Rensselaer, Oct. 27. 1875. 6-3 mos.

BUSINESS CARDS. Dr. G; a. moss, PH YSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office between McCoy &, Thompson’s bank and Kannal’s drug store. DR. J. H. LOUGHRIDGE. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. DR. MOSES B. ALTER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office in Harding & Willev’s drugstore. DR- R. Y. MARTIN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office opposite the postoffice, above the stone store. MF. CHILCOTE, ~ . ATTORNEY, AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. Office on Washington street, opposite the Court House square. - —— * Simon P, Thompson, David J. Thompson, Attorney at Law. Notary Pnblic. LAW AND REAL ESTATE OFFICE. THOMPSON & BRO. Our Simon P. Thompson attends all courts of the 30th Circuit. MARTIN & HEALfcY, ’ ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Wm. H. idartin, Kentland, Joshua Healey, Rensselaer. Will practice in the courts of Jasper and adjoining counties. Office Washington street above Front, Rensselaer, Ind. IRA W. YEOMAN AT LAW, Notary Public, and Real Estate and Collection Agent, Office in 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 9 a. m. to 4 p. m.

JW. NORRIS’ • HARNESS SHOP. Harness and saddles kept in stock and made to order. Washington street. All work warranted. 7-24 EORGE ROBINSON, ' HOUSE BUILDER. Will make estimates and contract to build houses, barns, bridges, and do all kinds of general ca rpeuter work. SAMP. ERWIN, BLACKSMITH. SAL ___ New brick shop, Front street,' above the old saw mill. Also, in connection, a VVOOD SHOP v V where all kinds of wood work repairing will be done to oiler. Prices below Competition. * SHINDLER & BLACKSMITHS. At Warner’s old stand on Front street. Horseshoeing, machine repairing, carriage ironing, etc., done neatly and cheaply. Grant & downing, BLACKSMITHS. Shop on Ffout street, next door above the stage office, at Duvall & Goff’s old stand. Patronage solicited. GW. TERHUNE’S . BLACKSMITH & WAGON SHOPS Front street, above Washington. All kinds of blacksmithing and wood working done to order at reasonable prices, by the best mechanics. Particular attention to shoeing horses, ironing and repairing wagons, &c. AUSTIN’S HOTEL. J. AUSTIN, PROPRIETOR. This house is centrally located in the business part of town. New house, new furniture, good tables, experienced landlord. Is recommended to the traveling public. Hopkins house. R.J. HOPKINS, PROPRIETOR.

Excellent table, convenient location, careful attention to wants of guests, and experienced management are its reemmendations to popular favor. Restaurant. S. HEMPHILL Keeps a choice assortment of Sugar, Coffee, Tea, Crackers, Nuts, Confectionery, Fruit, Oysters, &c, Best brands of Tobacco and Cigars in the market. Warm meals served at all hours. Washington street, north side, between Fendig’s store and Platt’s grocery. INSURANCE. —If you are aware of the importance of Fire Insurance, you will insure your property in the Hartford, the old est fire-insurance company in America; organized in 1810. Jasper county represented by Ira W. Y Roman, Agent, Rensselaer. TNSURANCE. 1 M. H. RICE, FRANOESVILE, Solicts in Jasper and Pulaski counties for the Continental Insurance Company, of New York. Risks taken against fire and lightning. Policies issued on the installment plan. 8-2 m LIVERY STABLE ’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 back conveys passengers and express goods to and from Francesville. Freight wagons on the road daily. on real estate security, for long time, and in amounts to suit applicants. No insurance required. Apply to, or address by mail, giving location, value, and full description, R. S. Dwigcins <fc Co., Attorneys and Loan Agents, Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana. % John Miller, Thos. Boroughlp, Surveyor. Notary PußJic. MILLER & BOROUGHS, ” DEALERS in REAL ESTATE, Make collections, pay taxes, rent farms, buy and sell real estate, furnish abstracts of title. Have a large and select lot of land on hand for sale at low prices and easy terms. Office on Washington street, in Spiller’s brick building, opposite the Court House.

THE IIM ffIIRIMI FOR 1870. A great Presidential Campaign will soon commence. That struggle will determine whether the Government of the United States shall continue to be administered by the party which preserved it from dismemberment or by the men who endeavored to destroy or refused to help save it, in order that Slavery might be maintained. Those who desire the Republican party to remain in power cannot more efficiently contribute to that end than by increasing the circulation of Tan Chicago Tribune in their neighborhoods. Among the leading Republican newspapers none takes a higer rank or -will wield a more potential innueuce in the next Presidential Campaign. Every intelligent citizen will find it indispensable for the facts and arguments it will contain. THB TRIBUNB'S PLATFORM. On the leading measures before the public, Thb Chicago Tribune bolds the following views, believing them to be right as well as Republican: „ 1. A Reform of the Currency, making it as stable and good as gold and silver, without injury to the debtor classes. 2. Reduction of direct State, and indirect National Taxation. 3. Economy and Retrenchment in Pnblic Expenditures; no Bounties or Subsidies of lublic Moneys for Private Schemes, or Payment ot Rebel Losses out of the National Treasury. - 4. An honest maintenance of Public Credit, and Condemnation of Repudiation in any form or shape. 5. State Control and Supervision over Common Carriers and Corporate Monopolies, not to oppress them, but to protect the people. 6. Exposure and Punishment of all Official Corruption and Frauds on the Revenue. “Let no guilty man escape.” 7. Honest and Fit Men for all Offices—giving good Unionists preference over former Secessionists. 8. Sovereignty of the Union in all National Matters; State Rights and Independence in all Local Matters. 9. Election of President by direct vote of the People, without the clumsy and dangerous intervention of Electoral Colleges, which may some day cause a Civil War. 10. A Constitutional Amendment prohibiting a division of the Public-School Funds of any State for Sectarian Purposes. The Political Department is but one of the many excellent features of Thb Tribune, on which is based its claims as a superior FAMILY AND HOMB PAPER. As a newspaper it has few equals in the United States. Its Home and Foreign Correspondence, Literarv and Miscellaneous Departments, are exceedingly rich, instructive, and entertaining, and the Agriculural Department, eminently practical, contains matter always seasonable, and suited to direct application to the active operations of the Farmer. In the Department Field and Stable is given valuable information as to the dis eases and care of live stock, this contributed by a Veterinary Surgeon of skill and experience, who will answer all questions asked by correspondents. The Weekly Tribune is not dated in ad vance of its publication, but contains the dispatches and news up to Wednesday morning, the date of issue. Before subscribing for any other paper send for specimen copy of Thb Weekly Tribune, sent free, and examine it. Terms of Subscription. WEEKLY TRIBUNE. Single copy postpaid ....$1.50 Club of five, per copy..postpaid.... .... 1.30 Club of ten, per copy..postpaid........ 1.25 Club of twenty per copy postpaid 1.15 One free copy with every club of twenty. The Tribune Company pays the postage, w hich j* 15 cents per year, and this makes The Weekly, in clubs of twenty, cost the subscribers only one dollar and postage. Daily Tribune, not including Sunday edition, postpaid, 1 year. $13.00 Parts of year at same rate. Sunday Edition, double sheet, postpaid 1 year 3.00 Tri-Weekly, postpaid, 1 year 6.50 Parts of year at same rate. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY. 14-2 t.

THE WEEKLY SUN. 1776. NEW YORK. 1876. Eighteen hundred and seventy-six is the Centennial year. It is also the year -in which an Opposition House of Representatives. the first since the war, will be in power at Washington: and the year of the twenty -third election of a President of the United States. All of these events are sure to be of great interest and importance, especially the two latter; and all of them and everything connected w>th them will be fully and freshly reported and expounded in Tine Sun. The Opposition House of Representatives, taking up the line of inquiry opened years ago by Thb Sun, will sternly and diligently investigate the corruptions and misdeeds of Grant’s administration; and will, it is to be hoped, (ay the foundation for a new and better period in our national history. Of all this Thk Sun will contain complete and accurate accounts, furnishing its readers with early and trustworthy information upon these absorbing topics. The twenty-third Presidential election, with the preparations for it, will be memorable as deciding upon Grant’s aspirations for a third term of power and plunder, and still more as deciding who shall be the candidate of the party of Reform, and as electing that candidate. Concerning all these subjects, those who read Thi Sun will have the constant means of being thoroughly well informed. The Wkxkly Sun, which has attained a circulation of over eighty thousand copies, already has its readers in every State and Territory, aud we trust that the year 1876 will see their numbers doubled. It will continue to be a thorough newspaper. All the general news of the day will be found in it, condensed when unimportant, at fulllength when of moment; and always, we trust, treated in a clear, interesting and instructive manner. It is our "aim to make the Weekly Sun the best family newspaper in the world, and we shall continue to give in its columns a large amount of miscellaneous reading, such as stories, tales, poems, scientific intelligence and agricultural information, for which we are not able to make room in our daily edition. The agricultural department especially is one of its prominent features The fashions are also regularly reported in its columns; and so are the markets of every kind. Thb Weekly Sun. eight.pages with fiftysix broad columns is only $1.20 a year, postage prepaid. As thia price barely repays the cost of the paper, no discount can be made from this rate to clubs, agents, Postmasters, or anyone. The Daily Sun, a large four page newspaper of twenty-eight columns, gives all the news for two cents a copy. Subscription , postage prepaid, 55c. a month or $6.50 a year. Sunday edition extra, sl.lO per year. We have no traveling agents. Address, THE SUN, ’ » ' ' New York City. SAVE MONEY By sending $4.75 for any $4 Magazine and THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE (regular price $6), or $5.75 for the Magazine and THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE (regular price $3). Address * r 'THE TRIBONE, New Turk.

REMOVAL To the Famous STONH BMC! The People’s Cheap Store! Arrival of the Champion Stock of Merchandise of the season. The greatest BARGAINS Ever offered in Rensselaer! Don’t pay out your money until you call at the famous Stone Store and examine the CHAMPIOV STOCK Consisting of Men’s, Youths’, Boys’ and Children’s Clothing Made up in the most approved and fashionable style, and the beauty of it is It was all bought for

At a Heavy Discount Enabling me to SELL LOWER Than any other House, unless bought in the same manner. tlje Cubits: I would give special invitations to examine my stock of Dress Goods, * Shawls, Ribbons, Trimmed Hats, And everything else that is generally kept in the Dry Goods line. Call and satisfy yourself. 820! Is offered to any store keeper in the State who will show ‘a better and cheaper stock of Boots & Shoes! Recently bought of the largest House in Chicago, and at a Very Liberal Discount.'

My Stock of HATS AND CAPS Will be complete, and is a rare selection, embracing all the Latest Improved Styles. FURNISHING GOODS! At such prices that everybody must buy whether FRIEND OR ENEMY! I MEAN B USINESS ! And all I ask is a call, that I may convince everybody of the fact that they can Save Money By purchasing of me. IDOUT’T FORGET -THE—FAMOUS STONE STORK pay no Rents and ask no Tiineon Goods. Thanking the public for past favors and soliciting a continuance of remain, as ever, A. Leopold.