Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1878 — Page 1

•• J JS. J AMEB IkopMtKroK or THE RBNSSELAEB UNION, t *fc»MKLA»K,JA»r«It COUKTT, 1K». Ono copy onO year, m<n»th», Moen tn; thNomonttuKlUilrtoea week*). 25 cento; alvny* Single copy, 9 cento; two topies, 6 cunU; mure than two < opposite earner of thio pogo, foe term# and price of advertising iu thia newspaper. y©T» jm»tiUMr*-A large assortment of Xf."A:w.sK! “

Rich and Valuable Lands npVar Sajedxeap. Wedoairc toouill attention to tho fact that wc nre offering Mr aale u largo quantity of durable real eatato at prices which defy competition. The scarcity <»f money anil the cloaeneas of tho times enable uh to offer them, lands nt prices and upon terms very favorable to pnrcliasors., I’artlon desiring large Isxlies of land for stockgrowing purposes can Iweasily suited, .laspor Is considered one of the boat counties in tho state for agricultural and grazing purposes. The lands lying in the vicinity of Itunsselaer and in the routlicm portion of the county cannot bo surpassed for farm purposes. •Among the numerous tracts wo have for sale we des Ire to call especial attention to tlie following*. 8W qr IS, 28, <l. Price, 11.000. Terms: Onefourth eash, balance in one, two and three years at 6 per cent. Interest. This is a beautiful piece of unimproved prairie land, well drained and within four milesof .Itousselnor. Desirable as an Investment and will make a good farm. * , ~ , E hf ee qr nnd «w qr so qr SB, SO,-5. 1 rice, 1500. One-third cash, biunuco in one and two years at B per cent, interest. Desirable pasture lands. N w qr sw qr, b bf sw qr ST, and nw qr nw qr 84, 28, 7, 210 acres. Rich prnirie land, eon venient to roads and school bonne, in good neighborhood, aud will make a good farm. 1 rice. |lO per acre. One-third cash, balance in one and two years at 6 por cent. Interest. E hf nw qr 27, 30, 5, 80 acres, sl’rice, |2OO. One-half cash, balance in one year at 6 per cent interest. Trairio land, well locatadumd very clmjhik <sh| Sw qr ne qr 31,80, 7. Price, |IOO. He qr nw qr 27, 80, 7. Price, 9100. Tho last two tracts are very cheap—well worth the price asked. ’ ~ , , , Give us a call, and examine the list of lands we have to offer you. . _ THOMPSON & TIRO.

RAILROAD TIME CARDS. Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago R. R. Co. o a w.t-i xto. i. On and after February 15,4878, until further notice, trains will run on the Indianapolis, Delphi A Chicago Railway iw follows: noiku east. Leaves RKKMKbAEKat 11:00 A. M. “ Ridge.. into A. M. •• Hanging Wove H:4« A. M. ** Jzcc. 11 :T>s A. M» ■* Sharpsburg flag. Arrives llKAPFoirn 12:10 P. JI. GOINS WEST. Leaves Bkadfohdat a.. ■■■ 2:00 P. JI. “ Sharpsburg. 3g. ... Flag. •* Lee. 2:15 P. JL •* Hanging Grove. .'.pS . ■ ■ • • 2:35 >’• M. •• Zard Flag. •• Pleasant Ridge,... 2:6t> I’. JI. Arrives RkXßßKLAiU|glit| 3:15 F. JI, HEGLER, ■jfßF superintendent. ■WOHN Jll 1.1.1 KAN, Assistant Superintendent. Mtslmni, CiMiBMU St. Lonis R'y. “3PAM'-3HtjhJSn>UE BOfTTS." Condensed Time Card -Columbus and State Line Division. May istJn., xsts. GOING BAHT. No. 1. No. 5. Lve. State Liue , ~....+ 2.05 p. in. t 0.30 a- in< Art. Legunsport 3.00 *‘ 9.15 “ a Lve. *• *l.oou«in. Arr. Jltrlon. 2.33 “ 11.07 “ . •• Hartford 3.17 “ 11.50 “ “ Ridgeville 4.10 •• 12.40 p.m. “ I’nionCitv AOS “ 1.10 “ “ Bradford 'junction 6.00 “ 2.00 “ •• Piqua 0.23 “ 4. IB “ ..... t"5.20 “ “ Columbus 12-ilu p. m. 7.25 “ GOING west. No. (>. No. 8. Lve. Columbus * <!.:)<) a. in. 5.40 p. m. Arr. Urbana... 8.06 “ 7.40 “ •• Piqua 0.5 s “ !).U0 “ “ Bradford Junction .* 9.22 “ -f 9.30 “ “ I’nionCitv 10.25 “ 10.43 “ “ Ridgeville. 1u.58 “ 11.20 • r Hartfoid .11.50 “ 12.35a.m. “ Marion 12.1) p. m. 1.20 •• Logansport* 2.40 •" 3.00 “ State Line 10.20 •• lo.io “ Richmond and Chicago Division. GOING NIHITU. No. 2. NqklO. Lve. Cincinnati. 7.30 a. m. . " . . “ Richmond Arr. Hagerstown.. .. . 11.33 “ “ Newcastle 12.05 p.m *•, Anderson. i.2i) “ Kokomo . 3.00 “ * 2.15 n. m. “ Logansport. 4.00 “ 3.05 “ “ (hicilgo. 8.30 “ 7.60 “ OOINU SOI'TH, Nil. I.' No. 7. Lve. Chic.tgo , * 8.20 p. m. rj- 9.00 a. in. Arr. L0gan5p0rt......... 12.45a.m. 1.40 p.m. “ Kokomo. .. jto, . 1.50 •• 3.00 “ “ Anderson JK.. ... 4.87 “ Newcastle 5.35 “ “ Hagerstown 6.05 " “ Richmond 6.56 “ “ ‘Cincinnati. 9.50 “ •Dally. +Duily : except Sunday. Trains do not stop where time is omitted. W. L. O’BRIEN, Gen'l Pass. A Ticket Agent, 'Johinihns, Ohio

MmtYWwMLJ. Hon. Geo. H. Chapman, Receiver. Lafayette, Bloomi’gt’n & Mississippi R. R. The shortest nnd most direct route, milking making iiuniedidte eounoctioiis lor passengers botli East an<t West, coatensd Time card ol Througn Trains, Nov. 25,1877, WlSTwAmn. soTtiiaki). Leave , ’ ' Arrive . 6,UopiU'. ISeston.. B.lsiim| B,3opm':New York 7,00 am 1,50 n in . . Albanj-. 2,00 aml 8,90 pHi Philiidelpliiui 0,45 ami 5.25 a m i... Elm ira... i 8.47 pm I ml. Buffalo. l,ospmi I 7,05 pm 1 Cleveland I 7,19) am■ 8.25 pin NeW YorlT 7,oft' a m ll,r>spm Philadelphia B,ooa a> 9,101> in .Baltimore. 7,15 am I,sopin .I’l Usburgh 1,10 ain 1 9.55pm' (Teatime 4.36. tin Leave .C.C’.C. & I r’y; Arrive 7,80 pm Cleveland. 7,10 am 10,08 pm Shelby Jue'n 4,45 am 10,85 pin Crestline I 4,22 ain 3,11 pm Columbus. ‘ 8,13 am 10,55 pm .. Galion... I 8,60 am 2,09 a m .. .Sidney... 112,15 a m 4,48 a mi. Muncie .. »,O7 p m * Leave | FA K Arrive ' 7,00 am Kokoino . 7,15 pm 12,32 pm 8,15 a ml. Frank fork 5,43 pni 10,45 am 6.25 u in| Muncie® 6,85 pin 6,oßanil Alexan'd rw 5,55 pin 0,23 a m 1... Elwood.. 5,88 pm Learn 0,48 ain | . Tipton M6pm Arrive 00 p m 7,42 am.. Frankfort 4,09 p m 9,45 am OOpni 8,42 a in. Las ’ J line’n B,lopm 8,33 am 03pm 8,60 am . Lafayette . llj)6pm 8,26 am. ,15pm 9,32 am .Templeton. 2,21 pm 7,B2tin 48pm|10,37am . Hoepston . 1,22 pm 6,09 am 41 p m 11J» ana . Paxton... 12,87 pin Gibson . 12,05 p m.7’,l2pm ,Mpm 1,20 pm Rl<x>mingt'n|lo, 50am|6, 10pm C* A»R Arrive i Arrive *<ooam I>l3pm Bloomington 2,20um'2,30pm 4,ooani 8,25 pm .st Ixmls . 7,45 pin 1 7,45 am Bloomington 10,50 a nil 2,13 am .Mexico ..| 2,30 ain 10,15 am Kansas City 0,05 urn 1,03 pm Atohlson ' tup in 12,13pm,.5t Joseph. Xlfikliiu tMOpm •Waka... zWam ’ Leave i I C K K «,00pm Bloomington 7,43 a m . * Monm l ..Dtihuuuu 9,10 pm .. Leave I B A w An ire 1,20 p m Bloomington 10,50 a m 8,20 pm .. I’eorta . i).osa in 9.20 pm .. Omaha .. 6,4opin Arrive CBJt Q Leave Throngh tickets on sale fur til J points cast and wLfiFayWto CBy Tiokpe <mice, in CfiToi' nan’a Bank building, smithwest corner public quart). Bedncad rater for Eniigrantand Colo, list Parties. For information iu regard to ickel rates, etc., nddti-ss G. w. Smith,General assenger Agent, ImFiiyolte, Indiana. E. 11. WALDRON. 0-27 General Superintendent.

THE RENSSELAER UNION.

VOLUME 10.

NEW YORK STORE F. J. SEARS & CO.

See! See! IWrETW GROCERY! Having moved info his new brick buildini', just east of Bedford & Jackson’s block, and added largely to his superb stock C. G. STARR invites everybody to call and examine his Uan-ißd Fruits, Dried Fruits. Hams, Bacou Shoulders, Lard, Molasses, Vinegar, Cheese Rice, Iloiuony, Beans,Soap, Starch, Indigo Baking Powders, Soda, Cream Tartar, Salt Sugars, Coh, - Teas, Spices, Salt Fish, Cigars, Tobaccos, Meal, Nutmegs, Fluvoilng Extracts, Pocket and Table Cutlery, Queeuswure, Glassware. and many articles we have not the space to enumerate, kept iu stock atull times. Goods exchanged foi marketable produce. Remember tlie place—he lias moved recently, and is now in His Handsome Hew Building’, and without doubt has the largest, best and cheapest assortment in Jasper county,e with out exception. Come and see for yourselves 21-3 m C.C. STARR

TO ADVERTISERS. G6o. P. Rowell & Oo.’s SELECT LIST —-OF I local Newspapers. —•— J Many persons suppose this list, to bo compose! of CHEAP, low priced newspapers. The fact is quite otherwise. The Catalogue states exactly what the papers are. When the unmo of a paper is printed in FULL FACE TYPE it is in every instance the BEST paperin theplace. When printed in CAPITALS it is the ONLY paper in the place. When printed in Roman letters it is neither the fleet nor the only paper, but IS Ustinlly a very good one, notwithstanding. The list gives the population of every town and the circulation of every paper. IT IS NOT A CO-OPERATIVE LIST. IT IS NOT A CHEAP LIST. At the foot of the Catalogue for each State tho important towns which are not covered by' the list are enumerated. IT IS AN HONEST LIST. Tho rates charged for advertising ere barely otiy-flfth the publishers' schedule. The price for one inch four weeks i n the er.tire list is $635. The regular rates of the papers for the same space and time are $3,136. 85. The list includes 9TO newspapers, of which 163 are issued DAILY and SOT WEEKLY. They are located in SYS different cities and towns, of which 92 are State Capitals, 32S places of over 5,000 population, and 444 County Sente. LISTS SENT ON APPLICATION. Address GEO. P. HOWELL & CO.’S NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING BUREAU, 10 Spruce St. (Printing House Sq.), N. Y. AB A DAY to Agents canvassing for the V / Fireside Visitor. Terms and □ / Outfit Free. Addrers P. 0. VICKERY, T Augusta, Maine. 82-6 m. FITZW.BEDFORD Tiyi a T,Tg..-n>. usr ' AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS Threshers, Reapers, Mowers, Rakes, Newton Farm Wagons and Buggies; Victor Hwy, Cattle and Railroad Tragic Scales ; Eagle Cultivators and Harrows; the celebrated Furst & Bradley, Jones, and Oliver Chilled Plows; Riding and Walking Cultivators; Brown Corn Planters end all kinds of field, gerden, barn and stable implements, term hardware. Also, azxd. ObardLem. Seeds In bulk or by the Small package. Building Fairer, Lime and Plastering Hair for sale; One door above “Shanghai Building." ■ t - .

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, AUGUST Ist, 1878.

CHEAPEST IN THE STATE, All kinds of Job Printing—posters, sale bills, letter-heads,bill-heads, statements envelopes, business cards etc. Address cards a specialty; nil colors; all populiu patterns; great variety of type. Try me. Cali on, or hddress, llokack E. James, Rensselaer, Indiana. DR. I. B. WASHBURN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON BENSSELARR, IMDIANA, Tenders his professional services to the people of Jasper and adjoining counties. Having studied the various school* of medicine be is eclectic in practice and liberal toward all, choosing the good and ing the injurious. For several years he has made a special STttoY of Diseases of Women and CMldren, and will give special attention to the treatment of Chronic Diseases, Chronic Ague, Catarrh in tho Head, Inflammatory Disease of the Eyes, Diarrhoea, tfcrofuia. Disease of tlie Heart, Lung, Liver and Stomachj Tumprs removed without the knife. Day or night calls promptly answered. Office opposite Post-office. Residence on Front street, near the mill. 11-ts. •TEJ'W’ jestjEsh.. ■w. SI. OK-WUNT (Recently of Logansport.) Will keep on hand a largo assortment of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry consisting of Eight-Dny, Thirty-Hour, Weight and Spring Clocks, Watches of various kinds, Necklaces, Watch Chains, fxickcts, Brooches, Pins, Shirt Studs, Bracelets, Charms. Rings, Sleeve Buttons, Cuff Pins, Ladies' Sets, Masonic nnd Odd Fellows' Pins, Castors, Cake Baskets, Butter Dishes, Cnll Bells, Cups, Napkin Kings, Fruit Knives, Tableware, Silver Thimbles, etc. Gold, Silver nnd Steel Spectacles to suit all .ages and sizes. All goods warranted as represented. Watches, clocks and jewelry reptiired. Fine watch repairing a specialty. Agent for the Western Cottage, Estey, Mason & Hamlin, Burdette and George Wood Organs, Decker Bros., Weber, Story & Camp, \ alley Gem ami Bradbury Pianos. All first class instruments. MEBIO’S CURKS ETavfzr Thc "' orst fyrn,s of Cliilts,. rcvci Fever, Dumb Ague, Fever . whlnmi Chills, N< ur.ilgia, or and inny kind of Ague, Sick Hendnche. General Debility, or Loss AQU6 ;«f Appetite. Cures the Liver, [Cleanses theßtomaeh, Purifies Clire ' l *' e Ihiilds up tho Sys- ’ tern, makes you feel like yourIN self, and never fails to euro r TnvTvn an d ' cee P cured, und is a cerLlOul I] tnin prei’entive to all Malarious Diseases. OR Sold by W. J. Imkh, Bensseluer, Ind. Manufactured by rlllS. . PIRSHIMC * CO., 46-8n»o. Plymouth, Ind. Farm Machinery. The widely famous Farm Machinery of the Deere & Mansur Company of Moline, Illinois, is sold in Rensselaer by H. V. CHILDERS Dealer in HardifMO, Tinware, Stoves, Farming Implements, Cabinet Furniture, &c. JOHIV DEERE PLOWS. Wooden Beam, Iron Beam, “Highland” Turf and Stubble, “Prairie Queen” Breaker, Cllpin Sulky Plows, the Advance Walking Cultivator, Rotary Drop Corn Planter, the "Monarch” Slide Drop Corn Planter, &o. Cabinet Furniture. Tables, Stands, Bureaus, Lounges, Bedsteads, Sofas, Chain, Cupboards, Kitchen Safes, and other articles in this line, will be sold nuieh cheaper than ever, and just a li,tll<j Cheaper Than Anybody Else. The place to buy nil of these articles and many others not here enumerated, is at the Hardware and Tinware Store of Henry V. Childers, i (recently David James’.) All kinds of tin repairing, roofing, spouting, Ke., Ac., done id bottom prices.

WILL THEY PLEASE DEFINE!

Will Hon. George Major, candidate for state senator for the 24th district, please say whether, in case he is elected to the general assembly, ,ha will vote for Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees for United States senator? Will ifon. George H. Brown, candidate for representative for the 4.5 th district, please say whether, in case he is elected to the general assembly, ho will vote for Hon.. Daniel W. Voorhees for United States senator? Tills is an important question, and a specific answer is desired from eacli of the gentlemen interrelated.

ANOTHER FRIEND OF LOYAL SOLDIERS DISCOVERED RUNNING FOR OFFICE.

Mr. Ezra C. Nawels, democratic candidate for auditor of Jasper county, made a friendly visit to The Union office last evening and requested us to announce that the remark derogatory to tlie character of Union soldiers attributed to him was made in the of debate at least ten years ago; that lie did not say they were “mostly from the lower uneducated classes of society,” but he did say that about onefourth of them were Ignorant and could not read or write. Mr. Noweis further said that he was always a friend of tlie soldiers aud this statement was made In tlieir defense as an argument why they should not be disfranchised. He (Noweis) did ndt vote for Mr. Tilden for president, but lias long been in the habit of voting for republican candidates for office; his name appeared signed as chairman of tile township committee to a call for a democratic convention this past spring while he was hundreds of miles from the county. He does not favor the success of the democratic party, nor does he subscribe to democratic principles, but being a candidate for office he finds it necessary to be prudent; if democrats will endorse him and vote for him he is powerless to prevent it, but they will not be voting for a democrat. The Union is glad to make this announcement at Mr. Newels’ repeated request. It is unspeakably glad to learn that Mr. Noweis was intensely loyal during the war. It is glad to know tliat lie is opposed to the democratic party and to the principles and candidates of tlie democratic purty. It is glad to learn tliat lie long ago began voting against deint>eri4jc candidates. It is glad to find him bold enough to tell this, while a candidate of the democratic party, in a republican newspaper office, in a mixed eompapy of republicans, democrats and nationals. It was sorry to hear from him that he had not. been reading tlie newspapers' for two years and was not posted upon tho political questions now being discussed. It hopes to learn as tlie campaign advances tliut Mr. Noweis was a gallant soldier in Hie Union army, was several times shot to pieces by rebel, bullets, while defending his country, that ids name appears on tlie pension rolls, aud tliat he decides to vote tlie entire republican ticket next October.

THOSE NAUGHTY COMMISSIONERS.

The deniocrutic Democratic Sentinel wants to know, you kuow, why the honorable board of comintssipners of Jasper county prefer to advertise in The Union to turning over public patronage to its cofters. Well, there are several reasons why they should do this. First: Because The Union is Sentinel is only a patent medicine organ, and tlie law provides that advertisements of a publu; Character must be published in n newspaper. Second: Because The Union has a much larger and more general circulation in Jasper county, in tlie stateof Indiana, and in tlie United States of America generally than Hie Di moeratic Sentinel ever had or ever will have under its present management. Third: Because The Union is read by nearly every person in the county, whether subscribers or not, while hundreds of people have never yet seen a copy of the Democratic Sentinel, and scores of tboee who have aqqandered tlieir means for it seldom open it for instruction. Fourth: Because the members of the board nf county commissioners are republicans who prefer to place the patronage in their control as the auditor is directed by statute to do—with the papcriiavlifg’the largest circulatlou witbin the county, and, when they can do so just as wei! as not, to give it to a newspaper which represents their political doctrines, aud is not forever filled with low scurrilous abuse of their political aud personal friends. Fifth: W hen the democrutiu -auditor and democratic clerk of Jasper, county, who rank the commissioners,, set an example by dividing the patro;hNge which they Control and give a small portion of it to The Union, to the influence of whiuh paper aud its friends they are largely Indebted for their election, there will be plenty of time for the-Demowafto Sentinel to pick a quarrel With the board of county commissioners, and for the editor of the Democratic Sentinel to personally assail memborsof thesohoql board of the town of Rensselaer for not making donations to the support of democratic newspapers. If the state-mv-ul of a candidate on the, uulioual

greenback labbr democratic ticket of Jasper county is true that thereto an understanding between them and the democrats for them, in case they are elected, to give all of the county patronage to the Democratic Sentinel, and tlie Democratic Sentinel is certain as it claims that that ticket will all be "successfully elected undefeated” by a “numerous and overwhelming majority,” why dosen’t it wait decently and with patience for its appointed time? Meanwhile The Union wilt grow better week bj week at the low price of one dollar a year, fifty cants for six months, twenty-five cents for three months. Job printing done in the neatest style of the art cheaper than any other house in the state of Indiana. It was because tlie proprietor of The Union did the work cheaper aud neater that lie received the award this year of the contract for the agricultural society’s printlagi the school printing, and the last court docket.

DEMOCRATIC MALIGNITY.

Horace E. James, consul st Turks Islands aud editor ot tbo Rknsselakk Union, • » • evidently Ims nu eye to money. Two years ago Thk Union offered to sell out Calkins to the democrats for |8(X). This wus considered too high a price and refused. This yeag Calkins lias bought its friendship witli a petty consulship to Turks Islands.... Horace sold himself clieap this year on uccouut ot hunt times, and we liave no doubt but tliat lie will be in the market again before tlie campaign is over and will offer himself cheap to . any one ready to .buy him; but we can assure Horace that lie ueod not look to Senator Winterbotham for a bid. That gentleman is it practical business man and too good a judge of material to waste bis money ou a man who lias no influence among those who know'him. Horace has sold out once too often to be of any service to any one. and we advise him to stick to Calkins and keep his grip on the consulship, so tliat it ho cannot winter through at homo he can remove to tlie island.-, where lie can live on baked turtles’ eggs the year round, and get drunk with the natives on tirosli without expense to himself or his benefactor Calkins.— Val/Mi-altu JtMtenyar. To the charge that "two years ago The Union offered to sell out Calkins to tlie democrats for $800,” a positive, unequivocal, emphatic deuial is made. It is false in general and false in detail. A demand is hereby made upon Mr. Ziimuerman, editor of the Valparaiso Afewenffcr, to state explicitly the time when such a proposal was made, the place where it was made, the names of the democrats to whom it was made, and the name of the man who made it. He muse relate the circumstances of this infamous transaction in fullest detail. If thin is not done he appears to tlie public a wanton liar, a malicious slanderer, a villainous traducer of character. The wrong has been deliberately infiieted, the offense is wanton and malicious, the assault is unprovoked; there is no paliation, no mitigation, no apology for it.

The insinuation that Horace E. Janies is addicted to drunkenness is as false and slanderous as the charge of corruption; as cowardly; as contemptible. The most vindictive enemy he may have in Jasper county, where lie has lived twenty-five years, would not make such a statement expecting it to ho believed by any man, woman or child who has knowledge of his habits. What motive prompts Mr. Zimmerman, editor of the Valparaiso Jfcnscngcr, to invent and publish such a false insinuation against a person whom he never saw half a dozen times, who never drank with him, who never tempted him to drink, who is a private citizen, who is not,a candidate for office, who never spoke an unkind word about him, with whom he lias no quarrel, may not be known but may be surmised when it is considered that Mr. James is a republican and that Mr. Zimmerman’s paper is i ib« ~ctohJpion, of a. uub is currently reported has, within two weeks past, broadly hinted to democrats in Rensselaer that he iiad money to buy an election to congress, and the disposition to use it for that purpose. -Mr. Zimmerman, editor of the Valparaiso may, as his language suggests, have personal knowledge of Mr. Winterbotham’s practical business habits; he may know, as he claims, what material that gentleman has decided to invest his money in. and whom he has concluded it will not be safe to insult or tempt with his corruption fund; this there is no disposition to dispute; but certainly it is not wise to reveal these plana so early in the campaignp better wait until he has secured a nomination. A lesson in this peculiarly democratic method of electioneering is furnished by the experiehce of that great prototype of this class of politicians, Mr. Samuel J. Tilden, which men of transcendent business qualities might easily learnIt has been saidJn these columns that nothing is too mean, too disreputable, too false, too contemptible for democrats to adopt to secure their aims. When the democratic party resolved to perpetuate the crime of slavery democrats did not hesitate to strike at the life of the government. They deliberately plunged the nation into civiljwar, with its attendant horrors—its bloodshed, its cruelties, its Waste, its enormous debt under which the people still groan. By this war men were separated from their families, children were taken from aged aud dependent parents, the youth of promise were cut off when life, full of happiness and Iqve and hope and fame and honor, was dawning as ap entrancing vision. Democratic madness and democratic treuson filled the land with mourning. The wailing of widows uud vrpbutis, as they gathered

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in homes made cheerless by a demo* cratic rebellion, was heard in every hamlet: and sorrow, like a pull, rested upon the hearts of the people. In those troublous days when patriots rallied to the defense of the constitution, laws, liberties and free institutions their fathers iiad left to them as a precious Inheritance, on the one hand democrats assaulted them with sword and cannon and muskets, and on the other hand democrats ass'aiied them with falsehood, reproach an<i calumny. To be a Unionist was to be a “Lincoln dog,” or a ‘‘Lincoln hireling.” To enlist under the stars and stripes was to be catalogued as from “the lower, uneducated class of community,” whose deatli upon the battle Held, in the malarious camp, in the cheerless hospital; in the horrid prison pen, fur from friends, home* and loved ones, was not to be lamented and deplored, but to be counted a blessing to society. The democratic press denounced every prominent loyalist for a villain, every efficient army commander for a robber, every private soldier for a thief. Governor Morton was traduced with a malignity that intensified with the years; the democracy scowled upon him as lie lay upon his deathbed, and cursed his lifeless cluy in its grave. President Lincoln was ridiculed, reviled and assassin-, ated by democrats. General Grant was slandered by democrats while lie was hi the Held, maligned by them throughout the eight years of bis presidency, and to-day is an object of their revengeful, bitter, unrelenting hatred. Nor did democrats find satiety in the abuse .of loyal statesmen and soldiers. Their base tongues wagged foul slander against the de-

senseless wives and daughters of the patriots serving their country, and perverted the title soldier’s widow, which should have enlisted warmest sympathy, into a synonym for harlot. It is not strange that men who cherished treason are brutal towards the weak; it is not strange that they deal in cowardly innuendo and slander the innocent; It is not strange that they attempt to corrupt the people. It is not strange that men who act with a party whose conventions ure swayed with money, whose nominations are bought and sold as merchantable commodities—a party whose candidates buy their nominations and buy their election to office—whose nuAtoual leader oilers SIOO,OOO for the vote of is not strange that editors who know these crimes are committed, who defend them, and* who become willing accessories to them—it is not strange that such men suspect the integrity of others. Defending wrong, men weaken their perception of right- Consenting to crime, they become criminal. Advocating the democratic party, they are demoralized.

- It is said by the Michigan City .Enterprise that Senator Winterbothani, who aspires to the democratic nomination for congress, "goes the whole “figure for a sound currency and “throwß'fiat’ to the dogs, he believes "in greenbacks convertible into goid “and silver at the will of the holder—“a sound republican currency. He “follows the doctrines of the demo'‘cratic fathers, which Mr. Weir does "not preach. Tliat St. Louis speech “had a gold and silver ring to it that “will secure its author the nomi nation,, "if tlie rock-rooted, rnountuhi-liut-“tressedand unchangeable democracy -"prove true to titWlirlrnelples’.*’ One tiling may be stated as about settled: It to that Mr. Winterbotham will be nominated at Valparaiso; and if Mr. Weir accepts tlie nomination which will probably be tendered to him at Wanatah to-day, it will be with the understanding between himself and Mr. Winterbotham that lie is to run and make speeches in the district with his expenses paid by Winterbotham as a capper to seduce republican votes from Calkijjs w.liile Winterbotham leads tlie democracy straight through the field- Iu other words, there to strong grounds for the suspicion that Weir will take the emoluments of the congressional office while Winter botliam tries to get the honor. This is probably what the latter meant intimated to Jasper county democrats that he was prepared to buy his way into congress-

Republicans are cautioned not to invent and circulate campaign Iles, after the manner of democrats, about the candidates on the democratic county ticket. Don’t circulate the report that Ezra C. Nowels is a cripr pled soldier; don’t say that he was wounded in the Dodd raid, that he shot himself through the hand with a big horse pistol, for he didn’t. It was another man who was crippledJn that unfortunate manner. Ezra may have been there all the same looking for gentlemen of culture from the higher walks of life, or he may have taken them a barrel of coal oil or a case of boots to prevent th<? extortions of the middle man, but Ezra wasn’t wounded, and republicans oughtn’t report such a campaign slander on him. Flat money Is nothing. Nothing is worth nothing. To pay n debt with worthless money is repudiation-

Quarter col. * .....•4W Fractions! part* nt a year,*! *|uitsM« ratwt totslnem card* not owwwUnjt <hm» Inch IS o year, S 3 for *f x rtionttir, |s f,,r three month* ••-*-** Hendtnff n»Hee», lte*t puMftalloh 10 cent* a line, each pubikattoe theraiStßrSioenU a line* Yearly ail verti semen la arc. «uUeet to thrift changes (one change i*t three nwrtrtlmj, at Ww optiirttor the advertiser, free of extra cliitrys. JaapOr county must tie pithl lor sh *lvaue4 o» flrnt publication. when ic*a Shah column io rise; and quurtarijr In advance wbeff larger. ... , ... . ■— Mt /

When the ballots are counted peat October it will be discovered that f«w< very few, republicans have voted for the members of an Independent national greenback labor reform ticket who are pledged to bus tai it at the county seat a democratic newspaper whose columns are filled week after week with scurrilous, wntitdn, mnHclous personal aftnekif of men for no earthly provocation other thafc Be-* cause they aye republicans. Charley II Price, deiHocratic candidate for county clerk, will discover this ahd be sad that his organ had not mors sense, A little leaven leaveileth the whold lump, and the nomination of Hospital Steward Charles P. Hopkins on the democratic county ticket for surveyor maketh said ticket a soldiers* ticket by the sanction, approval and seal of those peculiar fnciidta of so’P diers, the democracy. , , „ ....—„.„a Don’t brother Miller think he may possibly be counting bis chickene several days before they are hntclred when he promises to give the' patron-* age of the recorder's office to sustain the democratic “organ” attbe towrrty seat? John Lee i» said to have congfdh' sional aspirations. Coflfroth has peremptorily declined the democratic nomination in the ninth district, ojitl Mr. Lee is said to be willing to acwpfr it. ■ , If the democratic candidate isn’6 elected treasurer of Jasper county,'! and he never will be,perhaps he might start a pie bakery out in the far away state of Kansas and make -

Duvall's Bluff, Arkansas.

Editor Uniob; We arrived here on the’ 29th of July, and both my wife and 1 have enjoyed better health than usual; this is especially true of Mrs. Jaekson. But I ant sorry to say that Mr. GretnfieM’s Capt. Payne and Press. Abbett have nearly all been sick with btllious attacks. Mr. Abbett is still sick, with so perceptible chills or fever but n general depression of the vital powers. This town is located on the western swhf of White river, on a crescent made by a bend of the river. On the convex edge of this crescent a series of ridges or hillo approach the river like the ribs of a fan, with ravines between the hills that carry otf the drainage of the. country to the rear. These ravines converge at or near the town, as if fearful that if they did not combine their small forces the mighty river in iu capricwuseurves migid escape them altegethar. These hills at and near their eon vergenconf the river are somewhat abrupt, and gave name originally to the town, or landing as it was first called. As these, hills recede they widen at their tops and form a series of plateaus, at first undulating, until they reach a fine rolling prairie about a "toile west, which is a portion of Prairie Grand, the largest nralric in Arkansas. The second Sabbath after snr arrival I had the pleasure of attending a union Sabbath school, over which our friend the Kev. Capt. Payno presided with bis usual inaiiter in modo as well as fortiter to I*. His • preliminary remarks exhorted the teachers that whatever they found for their hands to do, they do with alt their might. I was much edified by the bible class of adults, who were led by our old jolly friend Jesse Greenfield. The class very inUlligcnUy answered quusGuUs touching the locations in the geography of the of the Hebrews, as also the lands of the Moabites and the other surrounding peoples of bible bis Mg. Now for the weather! I have found several persons who claim the appellation of the "oldest inhabitant,” and they individually and collectively aver that this is tlw longest and strongest heated term they have ever experienced in this state, though I see in the Northern dalies that iftoheat has attained a higher altitude there to tire thermometers than it has here. 28. Uwivrg to basiness WBHEte‘= which could not be neglected, I fiwled Io I mail this letter at the time it was written. , and 1 am now happy to inform the many friends of the Greenfields, Abbett and Payne that they ure mil much better iu health. 1). L JacksoX.

Blue Ribbon Meeting.

Programme for the blue ribbon mas-t----ing to be Held at the Chrisfiuft thiifcb, Monday evening August sth, 1878: 1. Music by ladies’ orchestra. 2. Reading the scriptures, by 11. W. Wood. , 8. Prayer, by Rev. Jenkins. 4. Music, by Misses Lola Mow, Ethic Hopkins nnd Rosa Raker. 5, Declamation, by Muster Willie Wood. G. Declamation, by Miss Etta Spiller. 7. Song, by Miss Ella Thompson. 8. Speech, by John Makeover Jr. <J. Intermission. Id. Music, by ladies* orchestra. 11. Essay, by Mr. Douthlt. 12. Soug, comic, by Sylvester Healey. 18. Declamation, by Miss Bell Alter. 14. Speech, by Mr. Florence. 15; Singing and signing.

Republican Convention at Goodland.

ronnMioan AftnwhftHnn fur JUw jViWWNIWIe w’Me'vveevevw wr* ’ Benton and Mewlon counties met at Goodland Saturday and indorsed Judge E. I’. Hammond, of Jasper county, for reelected, aud nominated Frank w. Babcock of Jasper county, for prosecuted attorney. The representative convention nominated Dr. J, M. Rodenmn, of Benton county, by acclammation. This is a strong Judge Hotnmond is on ornament to ctw bench. Frtink W. Babcock to « h** reeoph'ted standing in his proftwton. Dr Rvdctnan is a well-known ctown and hold in high esteem.— LafnyeM Cwtrutr.

Throws Up the Sponge

Judge Coffroth positivitydolines tomakc the raw for congress on thej demoOwtto ticket in this dlsltiol. ( Jlo »o stated te the O3nirrcs»io»iftl comtnittw of the mfitw ; triot, at the Lahr house yesterday. His busicoss engagements tori,id it, be twW. The resignation was accepted,wnd it W decMW to held another convention Aagito Sth. Lafayette will be the place of meetin«,the hwie of representation to remain