Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1877 — Preliminary Signs of Revolution in France. [ARTICLE]

Preliminary Signs of Revolution in France.

The French people are growing more and more restive under the government of the Marshal-President MacMahon. He entered upon power with the prestige of a great soldier and patriot, whose only desire was to see his country again restored to the proud position which she occupied as one of the live great powers of Europe. Beginning well, he has since largely forfeited the public confidence by arbitrary measures, which, if continued, always lead to revolution among the most mercurial population in Christendom. Everybody knew his royalistic sentiments, but, nevertheless, it was hoped that he could be safely trusted with the affairs of a republic. Napoleon the First once said that if he lifted his hand from the press his power would soon vanish. MacMahon has followed that Emperor in crushing the freedom of the press for the present, unmindful of the fact that a similar measure caused the restored Bourbons to get out of France with the speed of Arabian horses. The power of the press has wonderfully increased since the days of Napoleon and Charles X., and cannot be long curbed even by the iron hand of so old and experienced a soldier as MacMahon. There are mutterings now of that undying revolutionary ‘volcano which has underlaid France since the overthrow of Louis XfV. No one can tell when it will burst into flame and fury. Booth’s Theater in New York is to be demolished, after an existence of only ten years. The property was bid in by Oakes Ames for $400,000. This sum, though less than half its first cost, is more than its remunerative value, and hence the owner has decided to change the use of the property. Thirty years’ experience proves the Graefenborg Vegetable Pills to bo the miUVrf and most effective medicine ever known f; complete cure of headache, biliousness, liver complaints, nervousness, fevers and diseases of digestion. Sold everywhere; price 25 cents per box .Send for almanacs. Graefenbercr Co., New York. b ' CHEW The Celebrated “ Matchless” Wood Tag Plug Tobacco. The Pioneer Tobacco Company, New York, Boston and Chicago,