Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1877 — OLD SETTLERS’ MEETING. [ARTICLE]

OLD SETTLERS’ MEETING.

Moxa Morton has been waving the “bloody shirt” on the Pacific coast.— Poor Moxa ! Major Calkins is said to be on th, fence. Possibly that accounts f< r Bro. James going to his roost. Well Ist him, while in that position, im< gtue himself Consul to Guano. Ata late meeting of the Board of Directors of the Jasper County Agricultural and Mechanical Association : On motion, It was ordered that a purse of SSO 00 be offered for running horses—s Jo enter, 3to start—single dash, one mile. First premium, SJJ; second, sls; third, $5- Friday afternoon, Eept. 21st, 1877. Entrance fee, 10 per cent, of purse. The Directors of the Jasper county Agricultural and Mechanical Associa (ion are hereby notified that the time for holding the next meeting has been changed from Sept. Ist to August 25th, 1877, for the reason that the time first fixed upon conflicted with the time fixed one year ago by the citizens of Jasper and adjoining counties for holding the “Old Settiers’ ” annual meeting, which was Sept. Ist, 1877. IRA W. YEOMAN, Sec’y Jasper Co. A. & M. A.

The third annual re-union of the early settlers of Jasper, Benton ami Newton counties will be held in the grove north of Jared Benjamin’s house, in Jasper county, four miles west of Rensselaer, Saturday, Sep tember Ist, 1877. All the old settlers of the counties named above, ami everybody else are invited to attend. Some of the best speake rs in the state will be present and deliver addresses. A good band of music will be in attendance. Come one and all and have a good sociable tiim*, talking over early hardships and pleasures, and comparing the present lime with that forty years ago. AU newspapers in Jasper, Benton and Newton counties art; respectfully askek to publish a notice of this mee.ing. Committee. The Indianapolis Herald, a Republican paper, says : “Judge West, the Republican candidate for governor in Ohio, accepted the nomination in a speech which was remarkable for its flat advocacy of communism. In this connection it might not be improper or untruthful to say, in the slang cl the times, that if he does not get out a counter irritant for these petroleum sentiments, he will be “knocked h—ll West and crooked,” and don’t you forget it.”

Judge K<?lley, radical M. C., from Philadelphia, recently wrote to a friend and quoted a prediction made in a former letter in which he declared that the Sherman contraction and resumption policy would result in the outbreak that has just lately occurred. He takes occasion to predict ugaity that if the policy is persevered in, before the time fixed for resumption is reached, such a state of things will occur and exist, as is beyond the power of pen or tongue to describe before which the recent troubles will pale to nothingness.