Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1877 — Page 4

■ |T " - L ■ T_r_ru

CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.

Among the 846 democrat*, tndapcndetils, republicans and ttonde* •oripts who voted for the present auditor of Jasper Oounty there was not ops whom he thought was qu&K isled to he hie deputy. He had lived W tbopostjtv quite a quarter of « osatary »«d was personally acquainted with scores of people, bat euieng all of them there was not om whom ha dared trust, and fas eras compelled to import from another county a moral, honest and capable expert to do the tasks or a clerk. It will be well for each one of those 648 electors to take notice of this tact. It tcaohes a lesson p-hich all will be wise to heed. The peed of reform, radical and sweeping, could not have been better pointed out All of those 846 democrats, independents, republicans and nondescript* should go at once to learn the branches of study that tpre taught in the common schools bf our country. Education is needed. They should learn to read, write, spell, multiply, divide, add and subtract; they should learn to compute interest, work fractions, how to find the area of surfaces contained within given geometric lines, and to keep books by systematic rules. Each one of those 848 persons who voted for Mr. Barkley should also be very oaroful not to steal, cheat, swindle, rob, lie, swear, nor drink intoxicating liquors to excess. Especially ought they all to abstain from the immoral practice of using beverages that inebriate; fur no person who is a subject of this king of vices is fit to hold public office, or to do business for himself or others. A boosy dep nty is as much of a nuisance as a drunken prineipal. Drunkenness is becoming the national crime of the United States, aud no safeguards to prevent its spread can be made too strong. Let the necessities that cdmpellcd Mr. Barkley to seek abroad for an honest, capable, mor-i al subordinate be a warning to the people of this county, especially to those 6fß patriotic reformers who voted for him, by which they may all profit. It is a grand step towards civil servioe reform, which every department Of the government needs so much to-day, when men that have been promoted to office rise above those antiquated notions of gratitude that have come down to us from the dark ages, and, ignoring the claims of those whose friendship placed them in power, bestow upon strangers the favors they have to distribute, wh«*n they learn that ail of those friends have become Unfit or unsafe to trust. While to the casual observer Mr. Barkley’s policy may seem to throw a shadow upon the morality, houesty and education of those with whom he had associated for many years, deep thinkers and profound philosophers will take a broad view of the subject and practical men will see at once the need of a better education and higher standard of morals among the mass that vole. Very few men who run for office these modern days are modest enougii to see, or honest enough to admit,' their own lack of qualifications and employ experts to conduct publie business that it may not suffer from their own stupid blunders; fewer have the gift to distinguish in others at long range qualities that they lack themselves; and the number is •till le®* who have genius to introduce great reforms or the firmness to establish them among the people who, a* a rule, are selfish, jealous, and suspicious of all innovations. When men possessing these characteristics of greatness are brought to the snrftiae it is the doty of journalist* to bold up their examples a» model* for emulation. Sometime*, however, partisan newspapapers neglect this duty. The Uniox, being an independent paper, not influenced by narrow party considerations. It can to be just; to treat alt alike; and may commend that which i* noble and good wherever it is found. Besides this Tots Umox is one of Mr. Barkley** earnest sod warmest friends. It* feeble influence assisted him into office atyw hi* repeated failures of

on bis account. But its friendship Is as unswerving us truth; It i* as proud of him as a girt of her lover. His tame shall he eternal. Where Tnh Uxiox is read his name shall be sung, Tuk Union on every proper occasion will point out and explain ib a lucid manner to these 848 noble patriots who voted for if* best friend—the greatest genius Jasper oounty ever pfadaeta—the measures of civil service - reform he has adopted or may introduce for hia own protection and the public good. Meantimo let each one oi that immortal baud of 848 reformera swear off from bad habits and vicious practices, and dilligently study their school books.

FATHER H. M. BABB.

Hundreds of people of this county and scores of others whose business brings them into it occasionally, will i egret to learn that Mr. H. M. Babb, of Remington, has decided to move away. His residence iu the county dates back some twenty-five years, most of which period he has been the proprietor of a hotel, first in Rensselaer and afterwards in Remington. Ilis reputation as a business man and as a citizen has never been questioned. His morals are unimpeaehable. Strict integrity has marked every business transaction. There is probably not a more conscientious man in the world. His popularity with the traveling public is only limited by the number of those who have sat at bis tabic and rested on his beds. It is no disparagement of others to say that none who have engaged in the same pursuit in Jasper county have been more successful in winning the respect and good will of their patrons. He has grown gray in the service of the public as a caterer to the comfort of those who travel. His rules have been: To supply his table at all times with the best viands found iu the market; to keep at all times the best cooks; to’keepovery department of his bouse scrupulously clean; to enforce the most rigid propriety of conduct among his servants; to keep a strictly orderly and qniwt I house ; to treat all patrons with uniform and impartial respect; and to make reasonable aud liberal charges.

The friends of Father Babb are legion. They are to be found in mat\y states. Socially he is one of the best citizens of the comity, and, as was said above, hundreds will regret to see him move away. All who know him will unite with us in sincere wishes for the health and welfare ot himself and his family ip their new home. He moves to Magnolia in southern Mississippi to become the joint proprietor of a fine hotel already popular as a summer resort for people whose homes are on the low lands that border the Gulf and through which run the Mississippi river and tributary streams, and which it is also designed to make attractive to invalids from the northern states who desire to escape from the changeable and rigorons weather of our winter season. All reports that reach us from Magnolia describe the location as an elevated region above the reach of malarious influences, with pleasing landscape scenery, productive soil, excellent water, a genial and salubrious climate, and inhabited by a class of intelligent, enterprising, moral and kindly disposed people. Indeed it is just such a place as thousands at the north would be delighted to pass their winters; and the Central House will be made an attractive home for them.

The recent great fight over the presidency was simply a flcrht against the south. Northern republican leaders are en vious of the rising greatness, power, influence and statesmanship of the south. They cannot bea r the idea of southern men ruling the country. But they had just as well yield gracefully—the time will coine when the south will be In the ascendenev and a southern mau will sit in the chair of Washington, so long disgraced by »dieal rulers.— Magnolia, Muua&aippi, Herald. r We want no southern presidents snd no northern ones, no eastern presidents and no western ones; we Hrfftt national presidents. We want gi**t men to occupy the chair that • Washington honored and a Lincoln Men of broad and high and liberal and progressive

principles should preside over litis mighty nation of forty-five million people with their varied' interests, capacities and attainments, and not narrow, jealous bigots who strut, swear, swagger and whose mental vision reaches not beyond the limits of a section which is only a fraction, and that not the largest, of the whole.' Some of the brightest names of American history were borne by tnen born in the south, but they were not southerners, they were Americans, and the people of the north oherish their tame as ardently and as religiously as if their eyes had -been first baptised io the icyer light of northern skies. Our country—not the south nor the north —has been cursed long enough by the demon ot sectionalism. It is the hateiul heritage of a sadder age, the shadow of a less perfect civilization. Let us emerge from its baleful influence into the cheertul sunshine of fraternal affection. Like the spoiled children of a fond mother wo have quarreled, fought and wrought ourselves much harm and great sorrow; now as sensible grown-up people is it not wis'e to put away childish foibles and work together for the common good? When sach a determination pre. vails it will uot matter where the president is born. Let us be wise.

Newspapers may be called eemeteries when they are filled with the dead—dead advertisements. , * r Elder D. T. Halstead (of the Chnrch of God) and wife, from Rensselaer, Jasper county,lndiana, are now on a -visit to our town. We wish them an agreeable sojourn among us. —Magnolia ( Mist.') Ltrald. We have soma pretty good advertisers in Wiuamac, but none of them equal our old friend, A. Leopold, of Rensselaer, who occupies four columns of the Rensselaer Uniox the year round. He says it pays him, and we dj not doubt it.— Wiuamac Republican.

Representative Carr, of Whits county, has made a reputation during the present ses si on for solid legislative ability. Being a good debater, and having an inexhaustible supply of ready wit, it was not very desirable to be sat down on by the member from White—lndianapohs Herald. Bro. James of the Rensselaer Union gave his readers a columu of illustrations over the election of Hayes. Horace did his full share towards rolling up a magnificeut majority in old Jasper for the republican cause, and has a right to shout glory if he feels likeit—Winanuic Republican. Happening at Lafayette, Indiana, not long ago, we were amazed to find in so large a city such horrid looking newspapers —horrid iu a mechanical sense. On asking a typo friend the reason, be said it was because they used shoe-pegs for type aud apple-butter for ink.— Chicago Electrotype. “Ned Mason” turns up now in the role of a carver. At a low dance held in a little town near Jackson, [Michigan ?] last Tuesday night, he got into an altercation with Gus Warren, a Dutch comraedian, and stabbed him. He went into Jackson, gave himself up, and is now confined in the county jail. —South Bend Register.

The law requiring the doors of theatres, opera-houses, public hails, museums, churches, colleges, seminaries and school-houses to be hung so as to swing outward went into force last week. By its provisions all the doors to the buildings indicated above must be changed within sixty days, under the penalty of a tine of SI,OOO. — Indianapolis Journal. Mr. H. M. Babb, front Indiana, has secured a lease on the Central House at this place, and will take possession on the first of April. * * * He has been spending a week in Magnolia looking around with a view of locating here permanently. He expresses himself delighted with our country and climate, and should he supqeed ip the purchases he has in view, tye able to influence many otheip to come here. Magnolia (Mi*?.) Herald. ' " “ B I

Real Estate Transfers.

For lh« week ending March 21, 1877, (he following transfers of reel mt*t« were recorded in Jasper oounty: Mary A. Carpenter to Henry Fisher, part ej 18, 2b, 7, sw nw 23, 80, 7—340 acres $12,000. Alfired Thompson to Simon P. Thompson, undivided one-half tw sw 32, 31. 7 20 acres, SBO. Alfred Thompson to Allen J, Yeoman, e« sc, es es ne 10, 28, 7—120 acres, 53,C00. John W. Shover to George 8. Shover, gl nw 82, 28, C—Bo acres, SIJ>OO. Henry Weston et al. to John C. Van Rensselaer, el nw, e} sw, wj se, part ne 80, 89, 6, $lO. Quit claim. Eli Dowell to Alfred Thompson, «} se 33, 29, 7-80 acres. $1,388. Sheriff Jssper County to Sanford A. Morgan, lot 8, block 2, Chambers & Morgan’s addition to Remington, SOO. Sheriff*s deed. Auditor Jasper County to John Goetz, part nw neo, 18, 7—2 acres $97. Tax title. Elizabeth 8. Miller to William F. Miller, ne sw, sw sw 21, 27, 7—Bo acres, $1,750. Twelve prisioners are incarcerated in"the LaPorte county jail.

LEGAL NOTICES. Jyj'OTICE OF SURVEY. State of Indiana, Jasper countv. sa: Surveyor section 6, in town 27, north range 6 west. I, John 1.. Turner, hereby give notice to John 0. Layman, Mary K. Bright, Mary A. Kepler, Robert 11. Titson, Vetnl Vermet, Elizabeth 11. Sutton, Jared Benjamin and John Barker that 1 am the owner of the aw& aud the w>4 of the n«• ‘i of section six (6), in town twenty-seven (27), north of range six (0) west. In said county and state, and that I desire s survey of my said lands and that I will proceed with the surveyor nl said county ou Monday, the second day of April, 1877, to make u leeal survey of said section six (6), or so much thereof as may be necessary to .locate, establish and perpetuate the lines and corners of my lands located therein. March 14, 187". JOHN 1,. TURNKK. Frank W. Babcock, Att’y for Applicant, 28-8 t gHEBIFF’B SALE, By virtue of an execution to rue dire .-ted from the clerk of the Jasper circuit court, I will oxjiose at public, sale to the Inchest bidder on Saturday, the 81st day of March. 1K77, between the hours of 10 o’clock a. in. and 4 o’clock p. m. of said day, at the door of the court house of Jasper county, the rents and pro tits for a term of not exceeding seven years, of the following described real estate, to-wit: The southeast qnartwi' of section thirty-two (82), township twenty-eight (28), north of range seven (7) west, in Jasper county, ami state of Indiana; and on failure to realize the full mnouut of judgment, interest and costs, 1 will at the same time and place expose ut public sale the fee simple of said real estate. Taken ns the property of Thomas Kane at the suit of Uaus, Lei liman aud Company. Said sale will be made without relief from valuation or appraisement laws. GEORGE M. ROBINSON, Sheriff Jasper county, lifdiana. March sth. A. 1)., 1877. Urmston & -Martin, Att’ys for Pl’ff. 23-Bt. EMMET KAItNtAL Druggist and Pharmaceutist, DEALER IN DRUGS, PATEHT MEDICINES, FAINTS, OHS. ANIV FINK BRANDS OF Washington Street, Rensselaer, Indiana.

DRY GOODS! ]VEW FALL AND WINTER STOCK! um Has returned from the jobbing market with a very large stoek of l>ry Goods, Clothing, Piece Goods, Furs, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, etc., and now offers Best Dress Goods, i Best Piece or Tailor’s Goods, Best Ready Made Clothing, At prices which defy competition. No dealer this side of Chicago cun undersell hi* cash figures on these articles; and no stock is superior in quality. WOOLEN GOODS, COMFORTERS, NUBIAS, BLANKETS YARN AC. A liner, better or cheaper stock of goods in this line was never brought to the county; it embraces many articles not here enumerated that will be appreciated by all who inspect them. Furs for Ladies, Furs for Children, Furs for Gentlemen. These Furs are the winter styles of 1876; very good, very tasty, and very cheap. Kothiug better or clnaper in this line will be offered in Jasp:x county this season. Overcoats Very Cheap. Overcoat * Very Cheap. Overcoats Very Cheap. No person wanting an overcoat for a man or boy can be dissatisfied with my prices. My assortment ia large and varied, and includes some of the best goods ever shown in this town. They must be sold. Hats, Caps and Fur Caps. Hats, Caps and Fu Caps. Harsy Caps and Fur Caps. Call in and look at these goods They are a little extra—a little better than an average—and because they are good I am proud to show them. Ladies* said. 2S/£is»es’ Sitoes, diildxexi’a Slxoes, Men’s a,mcL "Boya? Soots. A splendid, well-selected stock of custom work in tho boot and shoe line, embracing every grade popular in this market. Also, Rubber Over-shoes, knee and bip boots. STAPLE FAMILY GROCERIES. STAPLE FAMILY GROCERIES, STAPLE FAMILY CROCERIES. Sugar, Coffee, Tea, Saler*tus,.Soap, Ac., as good as the best. Also Tobacco, both chewing and smoking. Come and examine. araEaroxona Washington Street, (north side), Rensselaer,'lndiana. is the place for bargains this season in fhll and winter dry gcmdi, overcoats, clothing, underwear, boots, thoea, kui*, taps, handily pmcaaiea, etc, ste. • k*: -asMw .■ 'a \ * •«?* . •*‘f.:* - ''

See! See! BUBW GROCERY! Ifavlug moved into the sew brick building of Meavra. Bedford & Jackson and added largely to bis snporb stock G. C. STARR invitee everybody to call and examine his Canned Fruits, Dried Fruits. Haros, Bacou Shoulders, Lard, Molasses, Vinegar, Cheese’ Rice, Homony, Beans,Soap, Starch, ludigo’ Bah lug Powders, Sods, Cream Tartar, Salt, Sugars, Coffees, Teas, Spices, Sait Fish, Cigars, Tobaccos, Meal, Nutmegs, Flavoring Extracts, Pocket and Tuble Cutlery, Queensware, Glassware., FLOUR, and many articles we have not the space to enumerate, kept in stock at all times. Goods exchanged foi marketable produce. Remember the place-—he has moved recently, and is now iu Bedford & Jackson's New Block, right hand door. The largest, best, and cheapest assortment in Jesper county, r will) onr exception. Come and see for yourselves 21-3 m C.C. STARR

r l f— J O-X-jIJ— J-L-jISInT ♦ Barbed Fencing Wire, Warranted all Steel! FOB S-A.T .33 -A-T N. WABNE’S HARDWARE STORE, RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

THE POUNDER HARROW As a Slanting-Tooth Harrow. Don’t Buy a Now Harrow until you \m Seen CKEO. ZE3I. FOTTISriDBE’S ,j ' TT". "-'tr- —.... . -. Flexible Diamond Harrow Work. It will Clean itself perfect)} Jn Cornstalks or other Rubbish. It will ran over any Fixed Obstacle tbat your horses can get oxer, without injury. It Adjusts itself Perfectly to the Inequalities of the Surfhce. It is Lighter on the Team. It does Twice the Work of a 40-tooth Scotch Harrow in the same time. It Combines Three Harrows in One,[viz: The Straight Tooth, the Slanting Tooth and the Flexible Harrow. The Teeth are of .WROUGHT STEEL, and evory part of every Harrow is ftally warranted for>n«Jysajr. SEND FOR CIRCULARS, Or call and see tbe Harrows at Goodland, Rensselaer or|Uoaslngton. See Cut above. f . J. F. WILLCOX, GENERAL AGENT, 1 GOGOL AND, IND. NOBNAir WARNER, JANES PEHLEY, 23 Agent at Rensselaer. Agent at Remington,

J. W. DUVALKS / Xil VS St 7 STABLE AND DAILY HACK'LINB. United State* mail hack* ran dally, except Sunday*,between Renaaelaer and FraueoavlUe, making connections at the latter place with tralna on the Louisville, New Albany & Chisago Railroad, and conveying passenger*, expresaage,ltnd freight each Way. Good* ar money shipped by Express to any part of tha United States. lira; Teams, # tors, or Witat, furnished upon application. Stock boarded by the day or week. Oflroe and Sale Stable ®» Front street, above Washington, Ransaelaar, Indiana, j r’t

L-! 1 . i T. S. "W XG-^OItE, WATCH AND CLOCK MAKER, WP . T f| [ j > Shop in W .J. lines’ drug store. All work wniTiiuted. Prices u low as wilt insure good work. 9-m nf. A. J. REED’S HOOSIBR HAY SX.IDB. One of the Greatest Labor-S&vlnr Machines Invented for the Hay*Fleld! Cheap. Practical. Durable. Efficient. Two men and one span o( horses can hau and stack more hay with the Hoosier Hay Slide in one day, than five men and twoapau of horses can in the same time with any other appliance. * Easy to load, and unloads itself. Price, 14-foot Slide, $7 ; lti-foot. $lO. A. J. REED, Pleasant Grove, Jasper County, Ind. Manuinctured by 0. A. Nelson & Ce., Francesville, Ind., and G. W. Terhuns, Rensselaer, Ind. Aoznt: —F. W. Bedford, Rensselaer, Ind. AGENTS WANTED—Territory cheap and on leasonable terms. Patented late— April 6, 1875. 44tf. nTwarner, DEALER IN HARDWARE, Of AM: Kinds, RENSSELAER, IND. Keeps cou&Uuitly on hand a large itotk of Stores, Tinware, Furniture, etc., eti. Would respectfully invite the citizens es Jasper and adjoining counties, when in need of anything in bis line, to give him a call before purchasing elsewhere. A careful inspection of his stock is aU that is necessary to convincq anyone that ha keeps none hut first-class goods, and sells them cheaper than they can be sold by aay oilier dealer in the country. He defies competition. Remember the place. .V--1 Xulloeral Comar, 9-5-ts. Rensselaer, Ind.