Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1879 — Page 1

■OIAUK I. MKII. *»1TI!I a.OUUL JAMES A CIBSEL, rtoriiirou or THE BENBBELAER UNION, SiMiii.m. JjiifM Coi'inri I*»> One copy one year, $1; six ““Ml throe month*, (thirteen wesks), M cent* miA An advance. Si ngle eopy, 8 cent*, oopim, I cent*; more then two copies, * cent* oech. ADTSRTISIXO ToUBDUL*--*** epposit* cornor of this p**e for terms end price of advertising in this newspaper. JOB PRIXTIXG.-k large assortmentof type end other materia) tor poeter, pamphlet, similar end kindred work. 1 rioea low.

W. H. & C. Rhoades OPEN FOR THE SPRING TRADE. GREAT REDUCTION I3ST HARNESS. All good* in our line reduced from 20 to 26 per cent, for cash. only. A GOOD SEWING MACHING FOR s2si Needles, Machine Extra*, etc., always ot hand. AUo an extensive stock ot’ Saddle*,. Bridles, Whip*, Trunks, Valises, Saddlery Hardware, Leather Findings, Collars, Brushes Comb*. CARRIAGE TRIMMING aad leather repairing a specialty. New Shop and Sales Room south side of Washington street, Rensselaer, Indiana. TSTEW HARDWARE STOREJUST OPENED! Be it known that Ezra L. Clark has jtyst opened a Hardware Store in Shanghai Building, Rensselaer, Indiana, and will keep constantly in stock a full line of HARDWARE, TINWARE, WOODENWARE, Carpenters’ Tools, Table and Pocket Cutlery, Silverware, Revolvers, Ammunition sf all kinds, ■aw * •a-r./r a ~KT~P n- a ■P.'PEIT SEEDS and everything else usually found in a first-class Hardware Store. All goods sold at LOWEST CASH PRICES. Parties wishing anything in my line will do wsil to call, examine goods and learn prices. E. L. CLARK. Just Received A. S. LA RUE Ha* just received and has now on exhibition at his plaoe of business in Leopold's Corner, opposite A. McCoy and Thompson's hank, a large and fresh supply of CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES, which he proposes to sell as cheap as the cheapest, lie also keeps constantly on hand a full line of Cigars, Tobacco, Confectionery, Queensware, Canned Fruits, Nuts. Stationery, etc. Give him a call. GEORGE GRAUEL, Maker of and dealer in OABIiIH, SADDLE!, Bridles, whips, Blankets, ■&<?. Repairing Done Promptly. Front street, below Washington. LESLIE C. GRANT, BLACKSMITH. Shop st Thrkpns’s ol 1 stand ou Front strict. All work warranted. Call STOV ESS. ■ Office, Parlor and Kitchen STOVISSS, Wood and Coal Burners, KITCHEN RANGES, For Wood or Coal Burning, Kitchen Hardware, TIN WARS, Ac., At CHILDERS’S. I Tin Work a Specialty. ' Bologna Sausage, Fresh Bleat. Bologna Sausage S| cts per lb. Pork “ 6 “ “ Colce Leaf Lard « “ “ Pork Steak 4to 5 “ “ Beat Beer Steak T “ “ Pore Quarter 6 “ “ Choice Roasts 6 “ “ Bolling Pieces 3, 4 “ “ BEDFOMA SHARP’S , New Meat Store. FITZ W. BEDFORD DBAIiBR. XWT AGRIVULTUKAL WUUNTL , Threshers, Reapers, Mowers, Rakes. Eagle Cultivators and Harrows. The celebrated Furst A Bradley, Jones and OUiver Chilled plows. NEWTON WAGONS AND BUGGIES. Riding and Walking Cultivators. Brown Corn Planters. AH kinds of Field, Garden, Barn and Stable Implement*. Farm Hardware .... r^v, ' VXOTOR SOAXsZIS For Hay, Cattle and Railroad *Traeks. Also. Building puper. Lime, Plastering • Field and GTarden Seeds In balk or by the small psekage. Farm and Garden Products sold at retail. Ohs door abort! “Shanghai.’’

THE RENSSELAER UNION.

VOLUME 11.

SILVER WANTED. 4 _ t EMMET KAjS'NAL, DRUGGIST & PHARMACEUTIST, RENSSELAER, INDIANA. S ft ure ru & s ’ Medicines, Oils Paints, Vamißhes» Brushes / Lamps,Lamp Chimneys,Car bon Oil Guaranteed 150 Fire JpEtSSdffHEfmi Test, Blank Books, Stationery, .Albums, Fancy and Toilet Articles, Perfumeries, Soaps, &c [, FINE OONFECTIONERTT. Strictly Pure "Wines and Eiqu.or& FOR MEDICINAL. PURPOSES. CHOICE CIGARS, SMOKIMG AND CHEWING TOBACCOS. Fully prepared to ftirnisk-the ptiblio with everything usually found in his line, ut prices a. low as any house in Jasper county. Thanking patrons for their favors he would still ask a share of patronage, feeling of his ability to give satisfaction in all cases. Physicians’ Prescriptions and Family Recipes Carefully Compounded.

W. J. IMES, DEALER IN School Books, Blank Books, Stationery, Drugs, MEDICINES, Taints, Oils, Varnishes, CHEMICALS, TOILET ARTICLES, PERFUMERY, PAINT HUB, RUDV-D PAINTS, Brushes, Lamps, Wall Paper, Window Shades, FINE WINES AND PURE LIQUORS, Strictly for Medical Purposes, OONFECTIONERY, & cO. This stock of g<>. d, in all departments, I* fresh, pure and first-class. There is none better in tin- market. In addition to the nbo.\e enumeration, a full supply i* kept of Slates, Pencil*, Crayons, Pens. Ink, Fine Writing Paper, Envelopes, Lead Pencils, Erasers for pencil mid ink, and nit articles pertaining to tho Stationery Lin*.

Tit© Narrow Gauge CLOTHING HOUSE TAKES THE LEAD i With the largest and best selected stock of MEN’S AND BOYS’ CLOTHING, . GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS, HATS AND CAPS, i- 1 Which at LOWEST CASH PRICES, and will be sold at astonishingly low figures. V ■ ; V * -H. , ’V. . 'l, 1 ... ' ' * Don’t Invest One Dollar In Clothing or Furnishing Goods until you have seen our goods and learned our prices. %■ - ■ 1 e' ■ L- ; - ' / mnup WMB Hemphill Building, Rexuutelaer, Ind.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, MAY 15,1879.

#77 a Month end expenses guaranteed to W» * Agent*. Outfit tree, SHAW A Co.. Aeguota, Maine. 11-80)' HARPER W. SNYDER, Attorney at Law, REMINGTON, Jasper County, IndianaDr. G. A. MOSS. Physician and Surgeon, In Spitler's Briok Building. Opposite Court House. Rensselaer. * Dr. J. H. LOUGHRIDGE, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Below Austin Hotel. Ten per cent, interest will be added to ail accounts running unsettled longer than 8 months. Dr. MOSES B. ALTER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, At W. J. luies’s Drug Store. DR. 0. C. LINK, HOMEOPAT HIST OJTXCB In Austin's Hotel, Rensselaer, Ind. MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE, Attorney at Law, Rensselaer, Indiana, Attends to all Business of the Profession with promptness and despatch. ©Alice on Washington street, opposite the Court House. *- ‘ ' Simon P. Thompson, David J. Thompson, A ttom&y at Late. .Votary Public. THOMPSON Sc BRO., Attorneys at .Law, Rensselaer, Indiana, Practice in all the Cogrts. We pay particular attention to paying taxes, selling and leasing lands. KARSOZr X.. BPXTX.EB, Collector and Abstractor. B. >. DWJGGINS. ZIXRI DWIGGINS. R. 8. ft Z. DWIGGINS, Attorneys at Law AND LOAN BROKERS. One Hundred Thousand Dollars to Loan on first mortgage, on five years time, at nine p*f vent. interest, in sums of $3lO or over. FRANK W. BABCOCK, Attorney at Law And Real Estate Broker. i Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newton and Benton counties. Lahds examined. Abstracts of Title prepared. Tuxes paid. Collections aspocialty. DANIEL B. MILLE&, T" • — , ~*v“ Attorney at I*aw, NOTARY PUBLIC AND INS. AG’T. Careful attention given to the collection and prompt remittance of claims. Office:-—Up-stairs, Room No. 8, in Btarr’s Block. IRA W. YEOMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW Notary Public, Real Estate. Collection ft Ins. Agent. All legal instrumonts carefully written. Office over N arrow Gauge Store. A. MoCOY ft THOMPSON, BANKERS AND CATTLE BROKERS, Buy and eell domeatio exchange, make collections en all available poinu, pay interact on specified time depoeits, etc. Houre from 0 o’clock a. m. to 4 o'clock p. m. X. 4 Dwiggins, Zimrt Dwiggins, Prtt't. Cathiir. Citizens’ Bank, RBXSSELA Bit, JXDIAXA. Does a general franking business; gives special attention to collections; remittances made on day of payment At current rate of exchange; interest paid on balances; cert ideates bearing interest issued; exchange bought and sold. This bank owns the burglar safe, Which took the premium at the Chicago exposition la 1878. This safe is protected by on* of Sargent's time locks. The bank vault used la as good a* can be built. It will be seen from the foregoing that this bank furnishes ** good security to depositors us can be furnished. i, ■ ' - GROCERIES, Cigars, Tobacco, COMTIiBBUHn TOR BOOK ABOVE AUSTIIPS HOTEL. Xj. ttjteur.

IS THERE NO BALM IN GILEAD ?

A man grows up among relatives who take pride In him. They give him educational advantages more than ills fellows enjoy. He marries the choice of his youth; a good woman with kindly disposition, possessed of plousing manners, intelligent, virtuous. She bestows upon him the wealth of a young, undivided affection. Beautiful, bright and interesting children are born to him. He is petted by the public and is promoted to positions of trust, honor and reasonable profit. He is surrounded by faithful, enthusiastic and unselfish friends. The world is kindly to him uud to liis. He developes a fondness for exhilerating drinks. At first they are taken moderately, with a jolly companion or twH, and the boys have a good time. Indulgence follows indulgence; health beglus to fail and business is neglected. Qood times turn into midnight orgies. Friends see the signals of trouhle ahead, and they warn him of approaching danger. Ife laughs ut their fears and toys with the rocking billows of appetite. Friends plead with him and expostulate against his folly. He is deaf to their entreaties, aud rejoiees in his madness until the ominous roar of breakers thunder luhio maudlin ears. Hjt makes preteuce of repentance, and promises reformation. Wifeand friends cluster arouud to cheer him and encourage his good resolution. The public rally to his side and lend him their aid. A few days or weeks, perhaps two or three months, pass, and his resolution and pledges are broken reeds drifting far away to tlie leeward. Kindly words of expostulation are insolently resented. One by one, with a sigh of heartfelt pity and a hopeless shake of the head, friend after friend bids farewell to cherished hopes of reformation. They become discouraged, fold their arras in dumb dismay, and woefully wait the inevitable catastrophe. The victim of appetite flounders helplessly at the mercy of a stormy sea. The yawning deeps of a drunkard’s degradation lie in the valleys of the white-capped waves. He surrenders to the demon of appetite without conditions. Intoxicants he will have, even if he must steal them. He abuses his helpless children, and cruelly wrongs the suffering, patient, grief-worn wife. He publicly Insults her whose virtue is as spotless as the virginal suows of the mountaiu tops, with cruel charges of infidelity to her marital vows. He reels home at midnight from a drunken carouse, snatches his innocent sleeping babe from its mother’s arms’ and, with a savage oath, hurls it upon the floor. He hisses a volly of vile epithets upou his wife, and, us she attempts to protect her babe from his drunken fury, he brutally strikes her' He threatens to murder wife and children. She runs in terror to neigh hers and implores protection. They respond to her appeals, prompted by feelings common to humanity, aud haste to the assistance of her children. He discovers them to be his personal friends and intimate associates. He insults ans abuses them because they interfere to prevent the commission of crimes thatshock mankind. What should be done iu such cases? Is not the law deficient that it does not inflict a penally sufficient to check and prevent such outrages? Is it not a mawkish sentimentality that discovers pity for the depravity of such men? Suppose he should strike your child? Suppose lie should breathe his foul charges against your wife, or sister, or daughter, or mother? Would you be patient with him? Because he has given a solemn and sacred pledge to cherish and protect that woman is he to be excused and commiserated when he breaks that pledge? Because she is his wife must public sentiment rest with him when he abuses hers Only a cowardly man will strike a weak, defenseless woman ; only a base dastard will charge her to her face with unchastity—the most terrible of all accusations against woman. What ought the wife to do? Perhaps she has neither living father, brother, mother or sister; possibly the littlo dowry of her wedding dav has long since gone to indulge-her husband’s sinful appetite. The rounded fullness of her youth is disfigured by the rough excoriations of sorrow. The bright roses of maidenhood have been overrun by the wau blossoms of disappointment, neglect and cruelty. She is encumbered with helpless children. Ought she to continue to live with him who has caused her to sorrow, who has loaded upon her the burden of shame which darkens all joy and turns Into bitterness all things that should conduce to earthly happiness—to Buft'e^— to endure abuse—to hope for miraculous reformation? Who can auswer these questlous aright? What physician will prescribe an Infallible cure for the terrible madness of drunkenness ? What humanitarian will devise a sure relief from tho stuj; penduous wrongs of Intemperance? Is there no balm iu Gilead? T r ~- j To One and All.—So many frauds MvsUstna petpetnitud upon thbse whx. are entitled to pensions uudsr the government, that it has been found necessary to make the strictest regulations

NUMBER 35.

for their protection. Among these regulations is the following for the government of postmasters: Soc. 101. It l* not proffer to deliver a letter from tlie Pension Omcc to any 011 c ntlier than tliu nersmi addressed, or to a memlwr of 111* pr her family, or u legal guardian of the pensionur, ami uriucr no c[rcmu|tunco* to ilullTor such letters to nil attorney, claim-agent, or broker. —Jttffiilatiniu 157.1, pitgc ITS, This regulation Is reiterated anil •mphusizetl In the United States Official P6stal Guide for April 1879, page 67, section GO. In the Post Office Gazette for May, 1879, under "Rulings of the Department,” ruling 5 reads “a letter addressed to n pensioner from ono of the pension agendo*, must under no. eircumatancca ho delivered to any other peredn.'’ With these explicit and multiplied prohibitions before him tiio postmaster at Rensselaer will under no circumstances whatever, neither upon the verbal or written request of the principals, deliver pension papers to any other thau those named lit section 161 of the Regulations above quoted. The treasurer of the Morton monument fund reports the following contributions from Rensselaer and vicinity, through Dr. James Ritchey s Judge E. P. Hammond, lieutenantcolonel eighty-seventh Indiana volunteers, S 10.00; Dr. G. A. Moss, surgeon one’ hundred and fifty-first Indiana volunteer, $1.00; H. W. Wood, ninety-third Ohio, $100; M. F. Chlicote, captain forty*eighth Indiana volunteers, $ LOO; D. J. Thompson, seventh Ohio volunteers, $1.00; D. H. Yeoman, lieutenant eightyseventh Indiana volunteers, $1.00; A. J. Yeoman, $1.00; John M. Wasson, lieutenant fortieth Ohio infantry, $1.00; Dr. I. B. Washburn, surgeon forty-sixth Indiana volunteers, $100; E. L. Clark, ninth Indiana, $1.00; Jonathan Branson, $1.00; J. F. Watson, $1.00; J. C- Morgan 60 cents; C- J. Brown 50 cents; total, $22.00,

Monticelu) society is all rlpt upover the scandalous acts of the greenbackera at their late corporation election. If reports are true they outdid "both corrupt old parties” In deeds of shame, and the leaders richly merit the infliction of the penalty provided by law for corrupting the ballot. As a rule those men who procure their election to office by disreputable means are not likely to scruple about what use they make of the power and advantage they have thus obtained. Corrupt political practices and dishonest financiering are building a reputation for the people of Mouticello which will not be an advantage to them in their relations with the world, and which, sooner or later, they will find occasion bitterly to regret. Veto. —President Hayes promptly vetoed the modified democratic ridcred army. bill. The brigadiers must yield. The loyal president is too much for the conspirators. The democratic position is untenable. The republicans hold the fort. Hqrrah for Hayes! His backbone is not near the fraud that democracy hoped it would beHon. Morgan H. Weir ou Tuesday of last week ran as an independent candidate for mayor of LaPorte, and very easily beat Mr. Nyo, his democratic competitor. Of course republicans generally voted for Mr. Weir, who is really a republican at heart*, although he has acted with the de* mocracy since the campaign of 1872. Rampant states rights democracy sticks out all over the Crown Point Star, like spines on the fretted porcupine. It is almost as mean a rebel sheet in a weak way as the notorious Okalona Stales. The Star probably bankers for cheap notoriety, but it lacks the ability of "Col. Harper, the wild-eyed child of destiny.” It Is authoritativly stated that Remington will soon be blessed with another newspaper. Whether the men who engage in the enterprise are blessed with a liberal patronage or whether they fail remaius to be tested. If they succeed it will be more than all previous undertakings of the kind have done. We deprecate and denounce the diabolical scheme of the Rensselaer UNION to Inlure the reputation of Mouticello by publishing that ostensible Railroad Romance.— MonticMo Utruld. There is not a repudtator in the that would not denounce an attempt to ‘‘injure his reputation.”

Contracting Her Specialty.

Prom Delphi Journal. Monticello is anxious for the I, D., & C. machine shops, ami would give a good round price for them. That is to say she would agree to giro a good price and sho would contract to pay 5100 000 just as quick as a 5100. Money Is no object to her when it cones to contracting. Contracting is her specialty.

A Man to Trust.

From Hartford Couranl. The people hare come to trust implicity in President Hayes, that ho will stand between us and nntional disaster and dishonor. Two men at LaFayette were recently arrested and in the Tippecanoe cirouit court for stealing a" si agio egg. They had a jury trial, witneesee - were exfreasUied,«fflMH&eel..Jtrgtted., and, jhe. juijgtj gave the law. After deliberation the jury sentenced them to ten days imprisonment in the county jail. The coats of the. trial > amounted to $1 -12.26.

uiuniN unuaniiul Oue column, oae year......... .......... 4* Hull column, “ Quarter col. •* «MS Eighth col, *• ■ -■. . IM# h i mil parts of a year, M eqaltaMe rates Hnslnoes curls not exceeding one laeh speeo Ail legal notices ami advert l*«a*»ta, at ••* i.ipti.hrd statute price. . ' f t.-utr.xtga. Mending notice#,- flHt lmhHralten 4«**t* 1 11m*, oNrJi publication UiiTvAfUr 3 collta ft tlftftw Yearly advertisement* ar* «trts*** *••**• changes four change In three months), at fa* option of the adv*rtla*r, freon extraOfiarg*. Advertisements for peraoaa not roefdeaii «u .fustier county must be paid for !• advance of first publieattna. wheo leas than oae-qnartor column la sir*; sadqnartarlylaadvaJMawhsm larger. „ J> k , . . L v .,

Democratic Promises and Faretleed.

From the Indianapolis Journal. The detnocratie platform declared that tho -'salaries of all public officer* should be roduccd." This was (heir party shibhoIfiih during the Inst campaign. lit* •hallow were their promises is shown by a comparison of the old statutes on this subject with the now t'e* and salary Uw, and tiio statute for the government of the benevolent institution*. They redueed the governor's salary SI,OOO, knowing it could not lake effect until after the expiration of Governor WHliams’ term, and would only apply to hi# republican successor. The ealary of the governor’• private n# retury was SSOO, (1 Davis, 17ft.) It in now ftieJTai f 1 .fkty. The salary of the secretary of itato wae not redueed. llnder the old etahsto (1 Davis, 468) he was allowed SI,OOO for deputy hire; under the new he is allowed $2,100. The salary of the clerk of the printing bureau was raised from #9OO to $1,200. Tho salary of the adjutant-general waa nised from SBOO to $1,260. The sulitry of treasurer of etato remain* unchanged. Under the old statute ho wae allowed SBOO for clerk hire. Now ha la allowed $2,100 for a clerk and watchman. The salary of the superintendent of public instruction was $2,000 (t Davis, 778). Now it ie fixed at $2,500. The state librarian’s salary wae $ 1,200 and no clerk hire was allowed unde# the old statuto (1 Davis, 609). The new law gives an assistant at $760, a janitor at S9OO, and a watchman st S6OO. The salaries of the trustees Of the blind asylum are each raised from S3OO to MOO. The salaries of the commissioners of the insane hospital are each increased from S3OO to S6OO. ’ The salary of the president of the. board of bneevolent institutions is raised from ssoo,as fixod by statute (1 Davis, 480), to S9OO. The salary of the sheriff of the supreme court is raised from S2OO to S3OO. The fees of county treasurers are increased one per cent, on delinquent taxes paid without levy, and it is not believed by those who are competent to judge and uninterested that tho fees of the other county officers have been materially reduced in the aggregate. We have yet to hear that a single officer has tendered Ms resignation.

Intelligent Reasons.

From Ilarpert Watty. Tho republican party, as we understand it, asks the support of the country, not because this is a Confederate oongrees of rebel brigadiers, nor for any other spook and bogy reason, but because the republican h the party of the just assertion of the national authority always and every where within the Union, ot honest finance, of honestly guarded elections, and also because it eontains the active friends of n thorough reform of the system of the civil serviee. Against a positive position like this the democratic cry of taking the bayonet from the polls, when iherearenotbayonetseooiigb to “go round, 11 and when they have never wronged a voter, and when the real purpose of the demand is evident; or the ery of “fraud’’ as against a perfectly lawful settlement of the presidential question of 1876 j or the ory of “Down with the national banks” as against the best banking system we have ever known—is flitile and foolish. If republicans themselves choose to compromise their own strong position by trying to raise an issue upon “a new rebellion,” and to depend for success upon renewing the passions of the war, they take a very perilous and wholly unneceaeary responsibility. The logical and positive republican position is impregnable. The new voters of Ibelast four years are not to be excited with war appeals and denunciations whieh -Arouse the vetrans. But tbe issues of which we speak are perfectly intelligible to them, and can not be set aside as parts of a policy of bate. The legitimate.notional authority at home as weil’a* abroad, free elections, honest money, and administrative so* form—these are cries to which every trnn American heart will respond.

Defrauded Out of Pensions.

Those who are interested in the securing of bounties and back pay from the government will be interested but pnined, to learn that it is reported that widows and heirs of dead Union soldiers hLve been defrauded out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by claim agents who swarm in Washington. These rascally fellows would secure an original power of attorney to prosecute a claim, and then, it is said, forge all the other papers necessary to collect the money. In many instance* the victims would live a distance from the Capital, and would be put off under one pretext or another until the time fixed by the law for the payment of the claims had expired, when thw agent would suddenly cease all correspondence and there the game would end. Last woek three men were arrested In New York for collecting bounty money on (brand papers. To head off the injury thus Joan to innocent clients, a bill ban been Introduced in the United Slates sonata, providing that widows and minor belra of doceased Union soldiers, who havo been defrauded of the bounty and arrears es pay due them by means of forgeries perpetrated by their attorneys or other persons, shall, when such forgeries have beea the result of no fault or uegligeuce on tbe part of tho claimants, be paid the amounts equitably due them .—Prairie Farmer, j. _

A Friendly Boost.

From Crown Point Star. lion. 8. P. Thompson, of Rensselaer, was in Crown Point Wedncsdey, and dropped in on us for old acquaintance sake. We have often heard Mr. Thomeon’a name used in a connection not wholly unconnected with congressional honor*, and it ie with pleasure that we give Ijim a friendly boost in that direction, by saying to our republican friends that they cannot pick up a better piece of congressional timber in the district then 8. P. Thompson.

An Improvement.

From Fowler Domoorat. Prank Beboock returned to Rensselaer, lost Thursday evening. having discharged his duties in the brief epaoe of two day*. Mr. Babcock doe* aot believe lo consuming valuable time and putting the state to »tedless expense over trifling oauaee. In IMP respect he is an improvement over the average prosecutor. „ The authorities of the township* between M onticelle slWA'dlelphl, which bavs voted aid to the Indianapolis Delphi end Chicago : rsssssSwafttSSipie funds to eirtond the Hoe forty miles further toward Indianapolis.— ladfampoli* I Journal, , ■