Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1877 — What Our Great Men Are Doing. [ARTICLE]

What Our Great Men Are Doing.

The exchange list gri'es the following facts in regard to the present whereabouts and doings of some great men : George Washington recently put up at the Stockbridge (Mass.) station-house, and has been brought before the Brooklyn courts for deserting liis w'ife Elizabeth. Andrew Jackson is a policeman at San Jose, Cal., and is also in the toils of the law for burglary at San Francisco. Sam Adams has just been pardoned out of Sing Sing, and William Wirt heads a gang of Philadelphia burglars. Patrick Henry, Andrew Johnson, Stephen A. Douglas and John C. Fremont are on the tramp in various parts of the country. William Penn is foreman of a New Jersey fire company, and is in trouble for deserting his wife, and Horace Greeley keeps a hotel in Santa Barbara, and has been arrested in South Carolina for chicken-stealing. Napoleon Bonaparte is on the New Orleans grand jury. G. Garibaldi drives a Chicago express wagon; Thomas Moore is in the Dayton (Ohio) poor-house, and Julius Caesar keeps a hotel at San Jose, Cal.— Harper's for August.