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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-18
WAR CORRESPONDENTS.
The Position They Held During the War
of the Rebellion.

The Position They Held During the War
of the Rebellion.
Newspaper correspondents, as the
war for the suppression of the rebellion
progressed, found their position grow
ing more and more unpleasant. Gen
erals who demonstrated their conscious
ness of their own incompetency, and the
parasites who blossomed on their stats
in the glittering blazonry of gilded
buttons and dazzling shoulder-straps
were accustomed, however to disguise
their incOmpetency and failures by at
trlbuting them to newspapers and their
army correspondents. They had as
often succeeded in deluding the public
upon this subject as they had failed in
discharging their duties. Being re-
duced to the necessity of palliating their
own unsatisfactory conduct and their
mismanagement, abuse of the press had
seemed to them the most plausible mode
of escape from the disagreeable position
in which they had found themselves 1t
was a noticeable fact that the only gen
erals in this war who warred upon the
newspapers were those who had acquired
unenviable or odious distinction in cam
paigning or field operations. But it
was a still more conspicuous fact that
in most instances in which they ar
ralgned army correspondents their
accusations were of a personal char
acter. They did not charge that cor
respondents had exposed their plans to
the rebels, or that they had ''given aid
directly or indirectly to the enemy,"
but they whined because their manage
ment and their personal conduct was
unfavorable or disparagingly criticised.
The allegation is true, and in represent
ing facts in this connection, correspond
ents discharged the duties which they
were expected by the public to perform.
There is no process of reasoning which
will satisfy intelligent persons that ex-
poSures of incompetence or neglect can
iniure the public service, while it is
dcmonstrable that in the long run it
promotes the cause in which the cOun-
try is engaged, by leading to the dis
placement of officers from command
which they are unfit to exercise. Mill
tary commanders are public officers.
As such their conduct is open to criti-
cism, and the press must not be muz-
zled or suppressed for the statement of
facts which do not harm the cause of
the people, or for the expression of con-
victions based upon such facts.-Ben.
Pcricy Poore, IN Boston Badget
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-18
HOW EASILY THINGS GO WRONG.

"Alas! how easily things go wrong"
A sigh too much or Il kiss too long.
And fathers patience is quite worn ont:
There hurried step and wrathful shout
And the dream of u youthful pair is Ger
A youth escapes through the open door,
With terror imprinted upon his face.
And goes down the street at flying pace
With hat in hand and dog in chase.
The dog to the flying youth draws nigh;
There s savage Yrowi and ii piercing cry,
Alas! how easily things go wrong;"
Why did the lover stay so long?
A painting youth at his mothers door
Is vowing he'll go out to court no more;
A dog is returning with visage grim,
Dragging an listers tails with him.
Alas! how easily things go wrong"
When lover foolishly tarries too long;
And yet how easily things go right
When he leaves at a decent time of night.
He's wise who this in his memory logs;
Fathers are fathers, and dogs are dogs
Boston Courier
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-18
A COUNTRY DOCTOR.



Sacrificing Old-Time Worker.
He was an excellent specimen of the
country doctor, self-reliant, self-sacri-
ficing, working great deal harder for
his living than most of those who call
themselves the laboring clasScs-as if
none but those whose hands were hard
ened by the use of farming or mechan-
cal implements had any work to do.
He had that sagacity without which
learning is a mere incumbrancc, and he
had also a fair share of that learning
without which sagacity is Ike a traveller
with a good horse, but who can not read
the directions on the guide-boards. He
was not man to be taken in by names.
He well knew that oftentimes very inno-
cent-sOunding words mean very grave
disorders; that all degrees of disease
and disorder are frequently confounded
under the same term; that run down"
may stand for fatigue of mind or body
from which week or month of rest
will completely restore the overworkcd
patient, or an advanced stage of mortal
illness; that "secdy" may signify the
mornings state of feeling, after an
evenings over-indulgence, which calls
for a glass of soda-water and cup of
coffee, or a dangerous malady which
will pack off the subject of it, at the
shortest notice, to the south of France.
He knew too well that what is spoken
lightly of as II nervous disturbance"
may imply that the whole machinery of
life is in deranged condition, and that
every individual organ would groan
aloud if it had any other language than
the terrible inarticulate one of pain by
which to communicate with the CON
sciousness--Oh 0er. Wendell Holmes, IN
atlantic MoRthlG
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-18
The Average Cost of Living.

How many persons have even arough
idea of the average sum upon which by
far the larger part of the citizens of the
United States are fed, clothed and
housed9 A recent statistician estimates
that eighty per cent. of the population
of this country is supported by from
forty-five to fifty cents per capita day.
AT the latter figure this makes $164,25
as the average annual cost of living;
but, as by average we mean the balance
between extremes there must be many
persons who have not even this sum to
live upon. That fifty cents a day is a
generous estimate will be admitted when
it is remembered that many mill opera
tives earn only from five to seven dollars
a week, and that the wages of farm
hands run from twenty to thirty dollars
a month, and that on these sums several
persons are often supported. When it
is remembered, too, that some other
human beings have a yearly income
equal to what is necessary for the sub
sistence of 500 or 1000 of these ''aver-
age mortals, the startling contrast be-
tween the extremes of our modern So
cety must be most evident PhiLadel-
phia Bulletin.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-18

An improved lead-headed nail for
use in putting on corrugated iron roofs
has made its appearance in the market
The shank of the nail is round and suf-
iiciently sharp at the point to enter the
wood readily, and may be driven home
in the usual way. The head flat
tens under the blows of the hammer,
or punch may be used, which will give
it conical head. The lead of the head
comes in contact with the sheet iron in
such a way as to lessen the chance Of
leaking. - Chicago journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-18

The Episcopal Bishop of Missis-
sippi. Dr. William Mercer Green, is in
his eighty-eighth year. yet on recent
visitation he preached nineteen times,
baptized eight and confirmed thirty
three persons.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-18

Nearly one hundred chests of leaves
colored with soapstone and Prussian
blue to resemble tea were confiscated
recently in New York.-M X Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-18

Mrs. Gadabout-"W Well they say
woman is conundrum, anyway" Mr..
G.-''You are just about the easiest Co
nundrum | ever did see" II amp
WhyP" al never come home without
finding you out. philadelphia CGR
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-18

II can't furnish you with brains,
madam" he exclaimed. 81 don't see
why you can't, " she replied. "You don't
seem to have any use for them your
self. IN y. Grdphic.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-05-08

The following patents were granted
TO citizens Of Indiana. week ending
April 70. 1885. reported expressly for
this paper by Jos. n Hunter, Solicitor
of a american aud Foreign Patents, 936 X
street. Washington. ID CT:
T. H Mccullough, Richmond. fire
'irleyrsp.i system; l. II. Mccullough.
Richmond. non interfering fire telegraph
system ard apparatus l. ~. Mccullough.
Richmond, electro mecbanical gong
striker; l. II. Mccullough. Richmond,
multiple signal box for fire and police
llelegfaps Wm. r. spencer. Richmond,
seat aud opera chair; j.. W. Forbes,
N ilkn-on. Indicator attachment for ssw
lmiI head blocks; j. :. Naerv. New Al
Ihany. CIR brake; Michael Statesman
Columbia cify. railroad crossing josiah
Philippe. Bichnell. gate: Vim : Reeve
lEdwa,dspori. check rowing aiiachmen'
for corn planters: y. 4. shannon, Car.
llislc. trnp attaching device; Vim. A
Wheeler, Indianapolis. clge ufing ma.
chine J Fl. Ilardmaa. hcpsalacr, wire
floating lie boat; Nathaniel ShahNtall
Flint. sulky plow q 4. Van Auken
Pheasant Lake. flood fence H. &. Bippus
Evansville. 9Th wheel
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-05-08

No; long since we saw q romping. hap
nv bov. iul Of life and sunshine to-day
We saw hi- little form shroudcd in III
tiny coffin. with folded hsnds and pat
iering feet siiIled for ever.
Beautiful flowers begin 20 peep forth
"a hear tie music of Spring time. but be
will gather them no more. Other chill
drcn will gladden. our hearts with their
lsughter. but this happy boy vii! be
heard oD earth no more
Bennct Rose was four years and one
month old. aud was an intelligent and
promising child. aud his death is . sad
siiiic'ion 70 the bereaved parents, VIM
and Nna Rose.
How sad ID see those household treas
urcS taken from Us How our hearts
,carn 10 hear their noisy feet again. ans
when All have gathered around the lionel,
iire-side. hew we miss them. and Ions
for bn, ono more embrace. Yet happ,
thought il j. that we will one day NEE
dear. departed children, where We vii
part from them no more.
Mus T.. GREENE.
ITrLAxp, May Cd. lss5.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-05-08
SCHOOL FUND MORTGAGES.
A Decision Of Interest Relative
10 Sales Of Real Estate Under
Them.

State Superintendent Holcombe has
Submitted TO the Atiorney-General a
question which involves legal point af-
fccting every county in the State. II Is
as follows: "Can the county Auditor
proceed 10 sell mortgage lands under
mortgages given 10 the school fund Al
any time after proper notice, on failure
10 pay any insiallment Of interest, when
the same j. due. or must be make all
sales on the fourth Monday Of March in
each year 4"
ATTORNEY General Hord. after giving
the subjer investigation, has prepared
an opinion which. after citing the vari-
Gus authorities, goes on TO say: Under
this statute the county auditor could,
when the interest or principal OF any
such loan becomes due and remains un-
lpsid, sell the mortgaged premises at any
liime after lawful notice IL
was intended that the county auditor
should possess q speedy and summary
remedy 10 enforce collections. Ii lie
was required to sell on the fourth Mon
lday in March only. then in many in
stances The officers could not enforce COL
lleciions Tor year after the delinquency
and defalcstion. Ii Is my opinion that
on failure 10 pay any installment of in
lterest. when the same becomes due, the
scounty auditor j. authorized 10 sell the
Hand AZ any time after sufficient and
proper notice The duty imposed on
him " statute. 80 offer for sale on The
fourth Monday in March. annually 81
moriNgcd lands on which payments q
interest are due on The first day of Jan
uary aud unpaid on the day Of sale y
INTENDED 10 be mandatory. lie may sci
Al any time after de'alcaiion and Lawful
notice thereof, but must offer fer sale o.
lie fourth MONDAY in March. annually
all morigaged lands. on which paymen
of interests are due on the first day 9
January and unpaid on the day Of sale
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-05-08

Timely Action Of tho State Board
OF Health I'm Protection Of
the People.


The Indiana Stnte Board Of Health ts
making preparations 70 ward on
Asiatic choiers, and has issued warm
ing circular ordering county, city and
town Boards Of Health TO make an inn
mediate effort 10 place their localities In
= sanitary condition, by the following:
.Let there be such cleaning Of sewers
drains and bitches: and such ventilating.
driving, lime washing and disinfecting OF
cellars and damp and unclean places, that
IL cholera comes, it shall find no soil or
foul surface in our entire state In which
10 propagate i;s deadly germs.
Especial attention is called to the I'M
portance Of compelling the owners OF
hotels and boarding houses, landlords,
railroad officials, school officials, sherins,
county commissioners, city councils.
TO yn trustees and all others in control
cf property, to I. oroughly clean and
disinfect their premises and prepare
suitable wster-closets for their employees.
tenants and scholars, and 10 have them
|in good condition, aud frequently clean-
ed. and .disinfected; also the supply OF
drinking water should be kept free from
pollution and sacredly guarded. Re-
member that water is the commonest
medium through which cholera spreads
hence the absolute necessity Of protect
ing the supply from contamination by
drainage from foul places, from surface
washing, or by seepage through the
ground from neighboring sccumuia-
ltions Of filth
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-05-08

People generally. aud even those who
may DC termed steady readers aud close
observers. have but faint conception o.
the magnitude and iufnence the press ~
th- country has attained. From care
FIJI examination Of the advance pages q
the lss5 edition Of the AMFRicAN News
PAPER Directory. issued May Isl. b,
Geo. Il. Rowcll e. Co. Of New York, !
appears that there src lS.l<7 newspaper
aud periodicals published in the Unites
States and Canada Of these the Iniies
States hss 1878. an average Of one "a
per for ever, s67 persons. In 1854 ~
total number OF newspapers was less y,
S2s than al present. aud while the gaiI
lhi~ year IL not 90 marked ~ IN some
previous years II il still considerable
Kansas shows the greatest Increase. tn
number being 7s. while Illinois follow
with gain 81 "a. i, il curious 10 notic'
that New York. the scene Of so muci
political activity during the last ram
paig ~. should have only about onc-lhirs
a. many new papers as the State Of Penn
gylrania. A. an index 20 the compare
live growth aud prosperity Of iiffcren
sections OF the country, especially tn
Territories. the number of new paper
form All interesting study. and may wei
OCCUPY the attention Of the curious.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-05-08

The Rockville Tribune drives good
deal Of hard sense into its readers when
/, saws 10 fhc farmer: You are paying
tod s22 fora suit OF clothes that can
be bought in London for $3.50 Bnf =
protcctionist will hop up and say. "Oh,
Those clothes were made by psuper Ia
|hor. Our lahorcrs get the difference IN
higher wages" .Oh barefacci, down
right lic How much cheek does man
Iposscss who can make that statement IL
1.-The face Of the known fact that women
are making shirts IL New York for 30
cents dozen ~ cents per shirt? The,
work on the high priced pants you buy
Tor the same starvation wages
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-05-08

Mrs. McNamara Yis, Mrs. Cummis-
key, I've been married now goin' on
'twinty three year, and Mac and have
Iniver had serious quarrel.
Mrs. C.--Well, thin, its happy wo-
Iman you ought 10 be, for nsny's the row
Peter and ! have bad. God be good TO
lls all.
Ms. Men. oh. for that matter, we've
had hard words time and agin. and may
Joe now and thin blow, but what l
lmcan is niver had to call in the polices
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-05-08
Editor Ellsworth Don't Like His
Neighbors' Criticisms.

Crawford County Dsnsrrst.
How often one can hear the solder
ones" condemning kissing and at the
same time how emphatic some one will
declare they think that ii is soft, dis
gusting. With come it might be con-
-idered shockingly disgusting. while
with others il must be paralyzing. We
are not well posted in this matter, we
admit, but for the life OF us we can't see
why come talk so knowingly on the sub
beet. as II takes experience to bc well
!versed in such. The man who wouldn't
kiss . woman when che tells him with
her eyes that her lips are yearnisg, is N
Idiot. We don't mean by this that kiss.
lug Is 81 all necessary, or even proper,
but il il certainly part and parcel Of the
art Of love-msking. We believe In the
rough old verse that little Lotts used TO
sing about kissing:
/. Nobody il above IL;
The old maids love il,
And widows have finger In the pie |;
Some people are so naughty,
That they Say its very naughty,
But you bet your life they do II on
the sly"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-05-08

A Representative in the Illinois legis-
ature named Cleveland, reform seems
to run TO that name has introduced
bill to abolish the Chicago Board Of
Ilrsde'on the ground thst. u hss become
a gambling Institution. The bill may
fsi aud probably will, but it goes to
show the tendency OF public opinion,
aud may serve TO awaken some Of the
more reflective members OF that and sim
liar boards TO realizing sense Of their
position. The truth 10 that they are re-
garded - public gamblers and ninety
nine out OF every hundred transactions
in the board at Chicago are pure gamh-
ling N. "A. Ledger.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-05-08
Dcnmarlx's Agricultural Teach
ingS.

Denmark spends $55.0oo annually for
agricultural teaching. There are dairy
schools aud schools IN agriculture, I'm
proved methods are taken up bv every
Dane. from the king down 70 the hum
blcst farmer. The consequence i that
this little. cold. barren country u able 10
export large numbers Of excellent cattle,
quantities OF fnr,n and dairy produce,
while The producers are thriving and
comfortable. Exchange.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-05-08

The family wastes arc Of three sorts.
II Garbage--the kitchen solid refuse.
including ashes. Liquid waste
kitchen slops, washing water, etc 3.
The wastes of the human body. Leav-
ing the other wastes TO another time, we
call attention 10 the wastes OF our bodies
rs the most dangerous Of all, aud at the
same time ine most readily disposed or
Nothing can be more inadequate for the
purpose than the ordinary privy vault
II is not only constant offense, but
continuous source Of danger. its contents
often communicating wells at the distance
Of hundred feet or more. and bringing
disease and death into the family. Dan
gerous at all times, the privy vault - es
pecialIy 10 be dreaded Ia time OF cholera
There is but one thing 10 be done VIII
the privy vault-abolish IL! DO this =
once, before hot weather. II is impossi
Bile TO mend, improve, or make u toieIs
bic. Fill il up and be done withit. Th'
substitute for the vault 10 the earth clos
CT. II the small house that has stoof
oyer the vault Is more convenient thar
any other place tor the earth closet, u.s.
! X; Such buildings are usually eye-sores
and the filling up Of the vault remove
All excuse for the nnsightly presence
An earth closet may be placed in an,
convenient room one may be partition
ed Off In shed, in a barn, or other out
building. or the closet may occupy
small room in the house without un
pleasant results. The material required
i dry loan. not sand, but good soil. tL'
sitter the better Dry this dirt thorough
II ". by spreading 1t on q platform o
boards in the sun. When dust dry. pas
II through q sieve 20 remove Jumps
stones, etc. and store in barrels or boxc
! IN dry place. Where coal il burned
sited ashes will answer In place Of ar,
earth. but wood ashes must not be used
For the closet, selt-acting ones, in whicl
the weight Of the person liberafes Ia
dry earth from hapgcr, may be pur
chased IL preferred, but simple and In
expensive closet may be made AZ smsl
cost. that will answer az well ss the mos
costly atiair.--American Agriculturis
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-05-08

bAkfeId LAlsfpVse
A case before Squire Burk here Tues
\ day evening last was furnished counse
by telephone from Princeton sor botf
the defendants and plaintiffs in the case
A. Cole represented the plaintiffs here
while ID. ID. Doughty sssi-ted over the
telephone line from Princeton. and j. NJ
Cockrum representing the defendants
with r X Paxton assisting by telephone
The soliciting committee raising sub.
scriptions 10 the new college informed
rs Yesterday after dinner that the smounI
subscribed had already gone way over
$4,000.
G. NJ. Small. an employe Of Mike
Crisle's took over $500 and went up neal
velpin tho first Of the week 10 pss ioi
saw-logs. During the time he wss ~
that vicinity he was Knocked down anc
robbed OF over $3.50.
On last Wednesday morning about 10!
O'Clock. the engine st Sanford Beau
champs saw-milI. located on the Patok'
river in the vicinity D: where the Strrigb
Line railroad crosses the stresm. exrlod
ca with disastrous effect. The cause O.
tie explosion i said 10 have been careless
ncss. John Cochran. young man O
Pike county. 81 employc Of the mill. va
mortally wounded. aud died from tn
effects late la tie afternoon. Jesse IVES
ter. ~ this place. had his left leg broker
and oiherw ice bruised, and At this writ
ing fears are entertained that he vii
not recover Zeb. Chandler, another
empoye. had his left foot very sfverel,
mashed, but the wound Is not dangerous
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-05-08
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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-05-08

Hon. Robert w. Miers, Of Blooming
ion. has been appointed Judge Of ths
Tenth judicial District 10 fill The yacan.
IN caused hy Tic recent death Of Jndg,
Francis Wilson. This IL first clasL sp
pointment
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-05-08

We see II stated Malachi Krebs. for
merry the editor Of the Petersburg Press,
|lhe Republican organ of Pike county,
mas been indicted on charge Of extor-
|iion a. Register OF the Land Office a.
Boise, Idaho Territory.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-05-08

Alex Heron. Secretary Of the State
Board Of Agriculture, estimates the
wheat crop OF Indiana for 1885 Al 27,00O,-
600 million bushels, 100000 less tAan
the State produced last year.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-05-08

"Whisky Is your enemy But said
Mr. Smith. .'doa't The Bible say that we
should love our enemics?" Yes, Mr..
smith, but It don say we are to swallow
ltlem."
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-05-08

The followin ing are among the late post
'ofiice appointments: John IL. McCon-
ncl. Winslow Ellen Ward, Leopold;
Ambrose HuTrle, Memphis; John Hol-
enbach. Nabb Sandtord Mcintosh, Har-
|linsburg.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-05-08

A bell on the roof or a beer saloon Al
bridgeport. Conn. Is struck three taps
every time the proprietor has fresh kcQ
OF beer tapped.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-05-08

Green county i going 20 build new
Court House. al Bloomfield. The con-
srsct has been awarded to Mckay ~
Bushaw, OF Rockville, for the sum or
S6S. .9g4.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-05-08

Ex-Governor Conrad Baker died q
Ihis residence 10 indianapolis. April 70,
aged IS years HE ren:sins were taken
10 Evansville.