Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1878 — A 8200.000,000 Steal. [ARTICLE]

A 8200.000,000 Steal.

[Baltimore Gazette.) Senator Davis, of West Virginia, recently arose in the senate anti declared upon his own personal responsibi.i.y a teadiness to prove that “the public debt statement had been altered to the extent or $200,000,000 or mo. e “ This is not a loose aud reckless statement. Senator Davis has been a member of the select commit ue to investigate the books aud accounts of the treasury department, aud he thus speaks from accurate though perhaps not complete- information. He made this statement as a preliminary to n request for permission for his committee to sit during the recess to continue the examinations. Senator Davis is known to he a man of great caution and earnestness. Ilia judgment is sound, his in dustry and force of will are recognized. He is u bank officer and trained in examination of accounts and books. He never would have stated in the senate on his own personal responsibility the startling fact that the people of this country had been swindled out< f $200,000,000 and the frauds concealed by forced balances and false entries on the treasury books unless he lmd positive proof ol the truth of his words. Andyet this solemn accusation that crjminates the present aud the past administrations created no stir, no excitement. The resolution for a further time to examine the books was quietly “laid aside." The republicans still have a majority iu the senate. Secure in this John Sheriiiau does not rush forward to “take the aggressive" nor to demadd to be beard by counsel. He doesn’t desiie to bo heard at all on the subject. This inquiry is, to our mind, of momentous import, second hardly to the electoral frauds. The tax payers of the country have a right to know what set of men got this enormous sum of mouey, aud what was done with it; who grew immensely rich in office, and who left a le acy of $200,000,000 of debt, or sl2,ooo,oooper jear of iuterest upon the shoulders of the people.

An 11 year old girl was attacked by a game cock at Nelson Furnace. Ky.. recently, its spur penetrating the brain. An Irishman who stood near the third base watching a game of base ball was sent to grass by a foul which struck him under the fifth rib. “A fowl was ut? Begorra I thought it waz a mule.” Business is reviving in Valparaiso, according to the Messenger, which says: “On last Friday afternoon we noticed 49 able bodied men standing with their hands in their pockets and their mouths and eyes wide open, watching six men laying brick in the basement of the Sayler building. “You are aware,” said the poetic Rogers to an Ohio congressman who celled at the white house to express his sympathy for Hayes “that profan ity in any disguise is something that 1 he president abhors, but when I hear this fraud investigation characterized as a “damned barren ideality,” I do not call it swearing.”