Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1879 — Page 1

II OU AC K B.JAim#, ' f ‘ PKorairroiios* filfe RENSSELAER UNION, Rknhski-asr, JAgrics Covnty, Tnp. Ono ropy one yeiir.ll; »t* montljs, SOeeaU; tluiH) mouth*, (tUlrliiUll Cl>h Ih mletmce. Single copy, * rental two «'Pius,» cent*; more thnn two copies, » cent* ouch. A DYKRTISINO SCH KM'IX.-*™ <]P l*°: elto corner of Uila page for torriu ana price of advertising in this newspaper. JOB PRINTING—\ largo aißortnibht ol type and other material for poster, pamphlet, '“‘circular and kindred work. 1 rice* low.

W. H. & C. Rhoades OPEN FOR THE SPRjNG TRADE. GREAT REDUCTION IIST HARNESS. All goods In our line reduced from 20 to 25 per cent, for cosh only A GOOD SEWING MACHINE, $25. Needier, Machine Extras, etc., always on baud. Also an extensive stock of Baddies, Bridles, Whips, Trunks, Valises, Saddlery Hardware, Leather Findings, Collars, Brushes and CombeCARRIAGE TRIMMING and leather repairiug a specialty. New Shop and Bales Room south side nfi at KUki DqiuiuqKwii* OI W iUUllligvUu oticct, lvmioßCiuvi | Indiana. NEW HARDWARE STORE JUST OPENED! Be it known that Ezra L. Clark has lust opened a Hardware Store in Nowels’ Building, Rensselaer, Indiana, and will keep constantly instock a full line of * HARDWARE, TINWARE, WOODENWARE, Carpenters’ Tools, Table aud Pocket Cntlery, Silverware, Revolvers, Ammunition of all kinds, rARBX AND GARDEN SEEDS and every thing else usually found in a lirat-class Hardware Store. All goods sold at LOWEST CASH PRICES. Parties wishing anything in my line will do well to call, examine goods and learn prices. E- L. CLARK. Just Received A. S. LARUE, Has juat received aud has now on exhibition at his place of business in Corner, opposite A. McCoy ■& Thompson’s bunk, a large and fresli supply of - v t 5 —-4CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES, ■which he proposes to sell as cheap as ■the cheapest. H«also keeps constantly on hand a full line of Cigars, Tobacco, Confectionery, Queensware, Canned Fruits, Nuts, Stationery, etc. dive him a call. ...... ~i GEORGE GRAUEL, Manufacturer of and Deader in • HARNESS, SADDLES, Bridles, Collars, Whips, HORSSE CLOTHING-, &c.,&e. ■Strict attention jmid to repairing. Front Street, below Washington, Rensselaer,, Indiana, . LESLIE C. GRANT, BLACKSMITH. ißhopat Terhtine's old stand on Front atreet. All work warranted. Call. STOVES. Office, Parlor and Kitchen SVOVGS, Wood and Coal Burners, KITCHEN RANGES, For Wood or Coal Burning, Kitchen Hardware, TINWARE, &c., At CHILDERS’S. Tin Work a Specialty. Bologna Sausage, Fresh Bleat, Bologna Sausage 8} cts pe r lb. Pork - “ .6 “ “ Colce Leaf Lard 6 “ “ Pork Steak 4to 5 “ “ Best Reef Steak 7 “ “ Fore Quarter “ 6 “ “ Choice Roasts 6 “ “ Bolling Pieces 3,.4 “ “ BEDFORD & SHARP J S New Meat Store. FITZ W. BEDFORD DBAXjIIR X3XT AGRICULTURAL 3 IMPLEMENTS. Threshers, Reapers, Mowers, Rakes, Eagle Cu ltivators an il Harrows. The celebrated FurstA Bradley. Jones and Oliver Chilled Flows, NEWTON WAGONS AND BUGGIES. Riding and Walking Cultivators. Brown Corn Planters. All kinds of Field, Gardeu, Baru and Stable Implements. Farm Hardware VIOTOZt BOAXiBS For Hay, Cattle and Railroad Tracks, Also Building paper, Lime, Plastering Hair, Cement, Pumps,'dec. Field and Carden Seeds Ip bulk or.by the small package.' Ffcrm add Gal-den Pfod nets sold at retail. One door above "Shanghai.”

THE RENSSELAER UNION.

VOLUME 11.

SILVER WANT.F,D. tIMMET KANNAL, DRUGGIST & PHARSACEUTIST, * RENSSELAER, INDIANA. S ft >ure MedicineSt Oils Paints ’ Varnishes. Brushes Lamps,Lamp Chimneys, Car i h°n Oil Guaranteed 150 Fire Test, Blank Books, Stationery, Albums, Fancy and Toilet Articles, Perfumeries, Soaps, &c FI3STE OONFEOTIONERIT. Strictly Pur© "Wines and Liquors * FOR MEDICINAL PURRQBE3. CHOICE CIGARS, SMOKIMG ikl) CHEWING- TOBACCOS. Fully prepared to furnish the public with everything usually found In his line, at prices as low as any house in Jasper county. Thanking patrons for their favors he would ask a share of patronage, feeling of his ability to give satisfaction in ail cases. Physicians’ Prescriptions and Family Reolpes Carefully Compounded.

W. J.IMES, DEALER IN School Books, Blank Books, Stationery, Drugs, MEDLCINES, A-r -.-v Paints; Oils, 'Varnishes, CHEMICALS, TOILET ARTICLES, PERFUMERY, PATENT MEDICINES, READY-MIXED PAINTS, Brushes, Lamps, Wall Paper, Window Shades, FINE WINES AND PURE LIQUORS, Strictly for Medical Purposes, \ CONFEOTIONERIT, <ScOTliis stock of goods iu all departments, is fresh pure and first-class. There is non,, lu-iter iu the market. In addition to the above enumeration, a full supply is kepi of Slafes, Pencils, Orayons, Pens, Fine Writing Paper, Envelopes. Lead Pencils, lCrascjf for pencil and ink, and all articles pertaining to the Statiojiery Line. > THE MIEOW GAUGE CLOTHING HOUSE , - - ■ ‘ • . ' ‘ r ; - y - . „ +*■ - TAKES THE LEAD . . . ; n . _ .. • \ . • With the largest and best selected stock of MEN’S AND BOY’S CLOTHING, GENT’S FURNISHING GOOCS, HATS AND^APS, v v. % Which were bought at LOWEST CASH PRICES, and will be sold at astonishingly low figures. v .1 * • . JU,' Don’t Invest One Dollar u ' ; r * - ' ■ "*l.: ■' t; ‘<r r. ‘ ' -« ' A ' .V " In Clothing or Furnishing Goods until you have seen our goods and learned our prices. ' THE NARROW GAUGE GLOTHING HOUSE, Hemphill Building, Rensselaer, In 3.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, JULY 17,1879.

HARPER W. SNYDER, Attorney at Law, REMINCfON, Jasper County, Indiacd. W. H. PIERCE. Attorney at Law AND NOTARY PUBLIC, Remington, Ind., Collections a specialty and made iu nny part of the state. Office in Hathaway building, up-stairs. Dr. G. A. MOSS. Physician and Surgeon, In Spitler’ Brick Building. Opposite Court House,- Rensselaer. Dr. J. H. LORGHRIDGE, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Below Austin Hotel. Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running unsettled longer than 3 months. Dr. MOSES B. ALTER. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, At W. J. Imes’s Drag Store. * Dr. I. B. WASHBURN, Rensselaer, Indiana. Will give special attention to tlie treatment of Chronic Diseases. DR. 0. C. LINK, H O ME OF AT HIST OFEXOB In Austin’s Hotel. Rensselaer, Ind. MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE, Attorney at Law, Rensselaer, Indiana, Attends to ail Business of the Profession with promptness and despatch. Office on Washington street, opposite . tlie Court House. Si mon P. Thompson, David J Thompson A ttornry at Law. Xotary I'ublic, THOMPSON & BKO., Attorneys at Law* Rensselaer, Indiana, Practice in all the Courts. We pay particular attention to paying taxes, selling and basing lands. DXARXON X* BPXTX.EH, Collector and Abstractor. K. 3. DWlfinlXS. ZIMKI DWiaOINS. R. 8. & Z. DWIGUINS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Rensselaer. Indiana. We have money to loan to farmers atS per rent interest on tong time. Call at tlie Citizen’s Hank auil sue us. FRANK W. BABCOCK, Attorney at Law And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newton and Benton counties. Lunds examined. Abstracts of Title prepared. Taxes paid. Collections a specialty. DANIEL B. MILLER, Attorney at Law, Notary Public and Ins. Agt. Careful attention given to tlie collection aud prompt remittance of claims. Oefick:—Up-stairs, Room No. 8, In titarr’s Block. RENSSELAER HOUSE, J. W, BIBBITT, Proprietor, * RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Centrally located and commodious. Recently renovated and newly furnished. Good tables and clean beds. Every attention paid to the wants of guests. Good stabling in connection with the house. A. McCOY ft THOMPSON, BANKERS AND CATTLE BROKERS, Buyandsell domestic exchange, make collections on ail available points, pay interest on certified time deposits, etc. Hours from 9 o’clock a. in. to 4. o’clock p. m. __ ‘ _—' ' “ B. 4 Dwiggiu, „ Zlmrl Dwiggias, Prtn't. Cathitr. Citizens’ Bank, RENSSILA KR, INDIANA. Docs a general banking business; gives special attention to collections; remittances made on day of payment at current rate of exchange; interest pnld on balances; certificates bearing interest, isstiod; exchange bought and sold. This bank owns the burglar safe, which took the premium Ht the Chicago Exposition in 1878. This safe is protected by one of Sargent’s time locks. The Lank vault used Is as good as can be built. It will bo seen from the foregoing that this bank furnishes as good security to depositors ab can be furnished. a Month and, expenses guaranteed to V* • Agents. Outfit free, Suaw & Ui., Augusta, Maine. 1

THE POLITICAL TEST IN THE JURY BOX.

The careful Attention of voters is called to a subject that iias recently bebtl biouglit into prominence by the disciiMsions ot leading politicians and the debates in Congress. The democratic party congratulates ttarcovHrt*y-imd-glorjiLcs itself because of a new principle which lias been engrafted upon the practice in the federal courts, providing that each jury shall be equally divided, as to she politics uC-th o raen who between the two most J poiyerfu' political organizations, numerically speaking. The rider upon one of the Hppropration bills passed at the session of Congress that has jtist closed, provides that all juries of the federal courts hereafter empanncled shall be composed one-half of each of the now most prominent parties. The language of the demagogues who .claim for such legislation the laurel wreath of excellence, is, in substance: “We have provided for the impartial drawing of juries; justice has been made a farce by partisan juries; we have provided a remedy for the evil, and restored to the system its lost impartiality and its original purity.” Many ot the republicans opposed the enactment of this law for the reason that each citizen of the nation should eftjoy the inalienable light to choose his own occupation, his own religion, and bis own political affiliations unvexed by proscriptive laws. To require by law that the religious convictions, or the want of them, or that the political opinions of a citizen shall be declared upon oath under the direction of a court as a necessary prerequisite to liis admission to the jury-box, is in plain violation of the spirit ot the constitution of the United States. That every man’s political opinions are saered, and that no man shonld be required on oath, under to declare with what party he affiliates, is a proposition that finds an assenting response in every mind that believes the doctrine of personal liberty; and the principle has been recognized as correct by the legislatures of those states that have successively provided for the secret ballot. Men have an honest right to differ as to the most equitable methods of administering their own government, and this may divide them into many parties, as the history of our own and every othef nation abundantly proves. To proscribe a man from fitting on a jury unless lie is attached to one of the two most powerful of these, is a gross outrage on his personal rights. The requirement that each jury must be composed equally of members of the larger two parties, excludes all minor parties, and is a radical innovation upon personal liberty. It is an innovation that at once abridges the rights of the minority which justice says should be carefully guarded;ibut conditions might arise by which even the rights of the majority would be denied them, as could easily be the case were there live or more parties existing at the same time. A principle oi near kinship, indeed the same reasoning, would require a religious test for juries, and the establishment of a national churdh whose tenets fitness for jury service should be measured; this would be a violation of the letter of the constitution, (see Ist amendment). A patriot’s love for his country is almost as sacred and nearly as intense as his lovejfbY his God. This enactment virtually places fealty to party above citizenship and love of country, and unless a man belongs to one or the other of the larger parties he is proscribed and deprived of a part of bis rights as a citizen as though he had been guilty of a misdemeanor or had been convicted of a crime. In Jasper county at the last election if a law oi this nature bad been in force it would have been difficult to have decided whether the democrats or the nationals should be made to stand aside, owing to the peculiar state ot their fusion. In other oounties republicans would have been disqualified, If the principle was made to adapt itself to local conditions. No doubt the law was intended to iiiake one-half of every jury democratic, not at once, perhaps, but finally; for if tlie juries of the federal coqrts are organized on this plan, why not also the juries ot tho state courts from the highest to the lowest? Suppose a man is drawn as a juror and to the lawyer’s question “What ißyour politics?” he should answer, “Sir, that is my own purely personal and private affair; I refuse to say.” According to this new doctrine be would be in oontempt of eourt, and liable to fide and imprisonment. This power to compel men in open court on oath under the pains and penalties of perjury, as a prerequisite to a plaoe in a jury of their peers, to declare fealty to one ot two political parties, when oarried to the extent warranted by tbe endowment of. tho principle, makes party supreme; whereas it should ever be subordinate. If the democrats intend to claim that he who serves his party best Serves best his country, they should bring forth better fruit iban thtff have been producing for twenty years

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■ past or than was mntnred by them i jrf the session of Congress that hat just adjourned. Then, again, (he establishment of such a principle irf tho courts places the independent thinking man under a social bh». If his ideas of right and justice and policy do not coniorrn to one or the other of two parties which for the lime may happen to count the most adherents, he i» virtually stigmatised as dishonost, unfaithful and Unjust. Suppose our democratic friends arc successful in establishi ing this young protege of theirs. Experience teaches that parties, like all things else oi earth, wax and wane in beauty, in power, and in importance. It has been the dominailt party, it has also held a second place, and the mutations of time (for God is just) may find it yet farther rearward. How, then, will these friends of oars bear up Under the stigma which in their folly they prepared for their neighbotii, but which has justly fallen upon’themselves ? Then should democrats choose to openly maintain that membership iu theweaker party imparts a moral stain the heart and beclouds the judgment, they would earn a reputation for consistency and candor, and their evidence would have the weight of experience, whatever philosophers might think of the conclusion when applied to the whole human family. Moral pestilence certainly will corrupt the judgment and blunt the sense ot duty; this, too, may be observed to a painful degree by those who find it common among their associates; yet while it may be natural enough tor a party to think none are better than its votaries, still it is grossly unjust, andno party has the right, to fasten a suspicion of such infamy upon the residue of mankind. This new rule in the selection of juries seeks to cu,ro the effects of partisan trials' upon the theory of simUia sintiltbus; by compelling twelve intense partisans equally divided on doctrine to render unauimous verdicts. Will this not make hung juries the rule, rather than the exception? When men’s political convictions are a cause for peremptory challenge in all our juries, then, indeed, will the jury system become farcical. The same parity of reasoning that is urged in favor of prescription in politics would apply with equal propriety and. with equal force to religion, to vocation, to social position and to froperty. Is the principle right? t may bo that abuses ot tbe jury system have been brought to light where, as heretofore, all citizens are peers, and limited peremptory challenges without cause are guaranteed ; but does the cure lie in the direction of proscription oil account of political convictions? If it does then minorities have no rights, and men mußt obey the dictnm of party caucuses, without question, regardless of their own conviotions, and in preference to the constitution of their government. To tbe justice of this proposition wise and impartial minds must demur.

Messrs. C. D. Stackhouse & Son will give a Jersey Red pig, worth $25, sex at option of the receiver, to the person who will up the largest club over fifty of new subscribers to The Rensselaer Union at $1 a year; time for raising the club limited to January Ist, 1880. They will also give two bushels of the celebrated Clawson wheat to the person who will secure tbe largest club.of new subscribers for this paper, at $1 a year, before the first day of September, 1879. In addition to these splendid premiums the publisher will pay $5 gold coin on the first proposition,*s2.so gold coin on tbe second proposition and ten cents for each »new yearly subscriber procured by those who fail to secure either of the prizes offered above. Competition open to all; the field is unlimited—the papers will be sent to any addresß in the United States free of postage; names may be sent in as fast as secured and a record of them will be kept and the proper credit given. All must bo new subscribers, (not renewals), for not less than one year, and >1 must be paid for each to Horace E. James, publisher, Rensselaer, Ind. This is by far the best proposition to aetive men and women to act as agents ever made by a business bouse in this county. Tbe business is honorable, the work is ligfit, tbe expense is nothing, the pay is liberal and sure. There is no capital requirod save energy and a pleasant address, and no risk run. 1 There oan be no loss and there will be fair pay for otherwise idle time. Gen. R. 11. MUroy, CoT. Kline Q. Shryock, Judge D. P., Baldwin, Col. Hill, Capt. t>. B. McConnell, DeMotte and Judge Ablegate are mentioned tri connection -with the republican nomination for Congress from the 10th diatriot of Indiana in \BBO. There is no scarcity of good material in the republican ranks. On the democratic side it seems almost inevitable that Senator Wood will receive the nomination, although he ia likely to find competitors in ei-Senators Skinner and ilykeuran and possibly in Senator Major. Either Mr.

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Skinner or Mr. Wood wo«ld firor* a strong man in the field ntid represent llu* district with credit, if they might be cored of their pcrfitioal hercsierf. Still there ia small danger of their soocess, if the republicnns show ordinary wisdom in the? management of their campaign. • The Clawson winter wbsat id attracting vpusual attention atneng farmers everywhere, and a lively discussion of its meilts is being made in the agricultural journals. It is a beardless, club-headed variety, amber colored grain, quite hardy and prolific. C. D. StaoW-> house & Son, whose reputation ranks them with the most enter-' prising farmers oil Jasper count/* have experimented with this variety oi wheat for three consecutive seasons, and are highly pleated with it. Their experiments were' not on a large scale, bnt were ern-' cial, and satisfied the gentlemen that the Clawson was better adapted to the soil, climato and cultivation of this region than any other variety of wheat known to thenar This year they had about si* acres, which is estimated will thresh bo>' tween thiity and thirty-five bushels' to the acre. The entire crop will be for sale at Childers’ store. Justices of the peace and constables have often importuned thtf proprietor of Thk Union to keeps in stock the blanks for Which they have use in their officiaf capacities/ lie has decided to do so and .noyf can supply them with the kinds they have most occasion for, and at very low prices. He also has a lot of neatly designed deeds, leases/ mortgages,chattel mortgages, notes for public sales, notes, receipts, (the latter three in books neatly bound); together with writing paper, envelopes, writing fluid, pens, pencils, erasers, etc., etc. Call at Taw Unioh office. r Lewiß Davisson and S. B. Jenkins, of Barkley township, experienced threshers and machinists, thef other day bonght of C. B. Steward one of the J. I. Case A Co’s Eclipse steam threshers and engines, brand new from the shops at Racine, Wisv The Case machines have made £ brilliant record in Jasper and Newton counties in the past three years. Fjymers need not longer experiment with rattle-trapß and horse-' killers. The maohine here noted is, we believe, the pioneer steanf thresher of Jasper county. The children’s concert realised the sum of $8.75. After deducting 45 oents for expenses SB.BO was left lor a payment on their organ. At the special request of Qenerai Vart Rensselaer his donation of $lO will also be applied for this purpose, which leaves only $18.49 unpaid/ The committee extends tbankW frt each participant in the coneert, ana to the ever courteous publio which has so generously given assistance? and patronage to the undertaking'. The Normal school opened Monday morning with encouraging prospects. Teachers and student*are alive with energy and earnestness, seemingly determined to make this the most successful session ever held. Reports come daily that others are actively arranging their affairs to enter this sohool within if week or two —just so soon as the busy time of harvest is past. * It is reported that Will W» Harding who went to Devall’a Bluffy Art./ ten days ago for a stock of drags, is in quarantine and not permitted to come north. The yellow fever fright, which has been intense the. past week in the river districts of the southern states, ia Subsiding, and business and travel are likely soou to resume their wonted flow. Messrs. C. D. Stackhouse A Sort have shipped abroad and delivered' to local buyers, this week, sefCVal Jersey Red pigs from their superior herd. Their strain of Jersey Red swine is rapidly becoming famous for many points of excellence which they combine in a* remarkable degree. Without doubt they art an extraordinary breed- of hogs/ Dr. S. W. Ritchey, Thos. Boroughs,Esq., and Hon. , prominent members of the oouuty national greenback organization, were together ip Th* UNioir offioe on Monday. The meeting wad purely incidental and baa no covert significance. Drop in, gentlemen'/ as ofteu asyou have leisure to do se7 Au excursion to the Wfandtemperance jubilee at La Forte, ia on the programme for next Sunday, tMTOOtif. Fare for the round trip* from Rensselaer, $1.50. Train will be run from Rensselaer at ?fso a. m/ to eonneol with the Bradford train. Returning train leaves La Forte at 8:30 p. m. Miss Mafia Hatton of Mrs. Reth-' rook’s millinery store, returned t 6 Ft. Wayne on Monday. Her ladylike manners and intelligent conversation during he* sojourn here won friends who would be glad to welcome her as a permanent oitixen of Rensselaer. Hon. Anson Wolcott of Logans* port and Col. Healey of (Joodlaatr were in town Tuesday. George B. Parkiaon and. Ida B<Gwin took out * marriago Hoeae* July 12th.'