Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1878 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Id Philadelphia there exists what is known as the white and biafck hat faction of the republican party. Don’t fail to go to C. C Starr's new store for anything you want in the Grocery or QueeDsware Hne, and examine his goods and prices before making your purchases. Standard goods and low prices, for cash, is his motto. Alexander Clifford Grant, aged 13 years and weighing 15 pounds, has just died at Frankfort, Kentucky. A Marseilles almanac predicts ’for 1879 the death of Bismarck, Gortschakoff, and Beaeonsfield. At East Bridgeport. Conn., a coio: - ed youth of twenty has been sued for breach of promise by a colored maiden three and a quarter times bis age. Jewelry is made in Germany from the pure blood of the ox. The blood is dried, reduced to powder, and then moulded aud polished. Wnat nextij Philanthropical agriculture—giving your fellow-man - a dig under the ribs,” and then harrowing his feelings. Young swell: “1 should like to have my mustache dyed.” Polite Barber: ‘Certaiuly; did you bring it with you?” A lady’s favorite dog having bitten a piece out of a male visitor’s leg, the lady said: “Poor, dear little creature, I hope it will not make the dog sick.” “What will you take for ten nights’:* telegraphed a San Francisco manager to Artemus Ward. “Brandy and sngar,” was the answer of Artemus. A bill is peudingin the South Carolina legislature to make adultery tie only grounds for a divorce, and prohibiting either party to marry during the lifetime of the other., Au old lady from the south said si e never could imagine where all ill Smith’s ch ne from until she saw in a Ntw England town a larg-i sign, “Smith Manufacturing Company.” Ex-Confederate General Hood, who is minus one leg, has just returned from Texas with his children—three pairs of twins —to New Orleans, where he proposes to settle permanently. “Either marry m a or die,“ said Mr. Bisbee, of New York, to Miss Hunt.— Sbo married him, and thus, says the Philadelphia Chronicle, did woman’s foolishness cheat the undertaker out of a job. oi: c is. The father is a sword swallower, the mother is a fat woman, a daughter is a Circassian girl, one son is a contortionist, another—hideously deformed—is a wild man from Borneo, and a third lectures on the cur - osities. A lawsuit fora small piece of woodland, which was claimed by both branches of a family, has just been settled at Aix, France, after lasting 56 ye*rs The loser had to pay the winner’s costs which amounted to $L2.000. Mr. Birdsall went to Lake county, Dakota, to buy land, just as a political canvass was opened. He concluded that he would like to besheriff and without any hesitation, although an entire stranger to the people, announced himself as a candidate.- He was elected, too. The salmon berry, as a rival J to straw parries, is a new claimant for uotice. It, comes from Humboldt county, at the northern extremity of California. It appears to be a spe cies of raspberry of giant size, and well pronounced strawberry flavor. It bears continuously from March to mid June. “Fifty years hence,” said an old infidel. “people will wonder that, there should evei ha’ve been a discussion aboui a place of future pun shrnent.” “Yes,” responded a clergyman, “people who are now fifty years old will then no doubt wonder that there should have been any need of discussing it ” In a depot is a placard announcing “No Smeking” posted over an oil lamp. Two Irishmen appear, one smoking. “Pat,” says the other,“ye’re thransgressiu’ the rules of the establishment, ye are.* “How’s that?” askerl Pat. “Don’t you see that—No Smoking?” “Yis; but can’t ye Bee, ye spalpeen, the remarkjis addressed to the lamp?” A Cincinnati court has refused to grant a divorce where a young woman married as er a 16 days’ acquaint aneeship au adventurer who pretended to be the sou of a wealthy land owner. The fraud, Judge Avery ruled, was an inducement to marriage, not in the marriage contract itself, which is not affected by previous misrepresentations as to name, fortune or social standing. “German Syrnr.” No other medicine in the world was over given such a test of'dts curative qualities as Boschee’s German Syrup. In three years two million four hundred thousand small bottles of this medicine were distribut'd free of charge by Druggists iu ibis country to those afflicted with Consumption, Asthma, Croup, sever JCot gns, Put - mortia and othci diseases of the Throat and Lungs, giving the American people undeniable proof that German Svrup w, l cure them. The result has been that Druggists in eve ry town and village in the United States are recommending it to their customers. Go toyoui Druggist, and ask what they snow about it. Sample Bottles 10 cents Regular size 75 cents. Tnree doses will relieve any case. Blaine’s Resolution. [New York Graphic.] We have not tue slightestjobjeetion to the passage of Mr. Blaine’s resolution for “Investigation.” Let us have all the information that can be obtained on this as well as on other matters, But there is nothing to l.e gained by reasoning from false premises. No amount ot “ißvestigation” can change human nature. It may be true that every negro citizen in the south feels himself bound to vote the republican ticket as a matter of conscience, and is ohly prevented from doing so by fear of violence on the part of his white neighbor. It m .y be that he f els nothing of the sort, and that he is perfectly willing to win the friendship of his white neighbors and to advance his own immediate interests by voting the democratic ticket. We rather imagine that ihe latter is the more correct view of the case. It would probably be a mistake to suppose that our southern politicians are f ols. No very great risk would be run in assuming that they know what they are about. It is much easier, cheaper and safer for them to win the negro voters by flattery, cajolery or bribery th n to drive them away from the polls by violence. A congr-ssiona* committee of investigation ean genera'ly find what it seeks. Mr. Blaine's committee, if it is appointed, will probably be able to report some cases of bulldozing; but, perhaps, if all were known, ii would be found that there 1 is as much bulldozing in Massachusetts as lp South Carolina.