Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1880 — GREENBACK MEETING. [ARTICLE]

GREENBACK MEETING.

Since the late elections the old hard money parties are ringing it all over the land that “the Greenback party is dead.” To test this statement we call upon all independent persons, without regard to former political associations, whs hold to the principles of the Greenback Labor party, and I expect to support candidates fully ' identified with these principles in all elections, County, State and Nations], to meet at the Court House, in Rens selaer, on Saturday, January 24, at 10 o’clock a. m., to organize, or rather re organize, the party in Jasper county, in preparation for the great coming conflict; and failing then, continue the contest till they accomplish their object—an entire change in the whole financial policy of this great country and witness the downfall of the hearties? ap.l ruinous inflation and contraction managers now in power. A, B. Clinton, Charles H. Price, B. W. Harrington, William Pierce, Samp. Erwin, C. P. Hopkins, B. W. Ritchey, and many others.

Gen. A, D. Streight employed a negro family or two on his farm near Goodland recently. The Herald went off half cocked and Yazoo-like, made it a dozen or more. When its attention was called to the falsity of its statement, it promised to m ke a correction, but the correction was little better than the original false statement.—Kentland Gazette. The Herald made no false statements in regard to the negro immigration to this place. Twenty-two colored North Carolinians arrived here at the time we stated, and were at once forwarded to Col. Straight’s farm northwest of town. If these 22 healthy darkies were the remnants of only a “family or two,” then all we have to say is that North Carolina offers extra inducements in the way of propagation. The Gazette's assertion that our attention was called to the “falsity of the statement,” and we “promised to make a correction,” is an unqualified lie. No one but a fool would presume to question an evident fact. - Good land Herald.

New York girls like busses better than the elevated railways. Butter Scotch, at R. E. Spencer & Co’s. An ounce of keep-your-mouth-shut is better than a pound of explanations after you have said it. Oysters, by can or dish, at R. E. Spencer & Co’s. It is the easiest thing in the world to discover all the grease spots on a man’s coat when you don’t like him. R. E. Spencer & Co. have received another invoice of fresh candies. “It is the little bits ov things that fret and worry us,” says Josh Billings; ‘‘we kan dodge an elephaut. but we kan’ a fly.” Ralph Fendig is selling all kinds of Ladies’Fancy Goods at less than cost. Go and see. No matter how handsome a family’ monument a man may have in the cemetery, he never wants to lie on his back and look up at it. Every Lady who examines the goods at Fendig’s exclaims, “O, how pretty! And so cheap!!” Give a girl long eye-lashes and small hands and she will put up with No, 6 feet and marry all around a curly-headed girl wearing one’s and a half. R. E. Spencer & Co. is the only firm injtown that make flesh Butter Scotch, and Ice Cream Candy and Taffy. Teacher—“ln commemoration of what did the Jews keep the Passover*?” Sharp 80.v —“In commemoration of the Israelites passing oyer the Red Sea.” The handsomest and cheapest Dry Goods in town are at Fendig’s. And don’t you forget it. A Boston pick.pocket appealed from a sentence of four months, and the new trial sent him to the State prisoj for four years. He is now figuring up how much he made.

Ralph Fendio purchased a bankrupt stock of goods at less than cost and is selling thorn for a song. Try him. Pupil—l know how mano davs there are in a year—three hundred aud sixtyfive and a fourth. Parent—ls that so? Nhere does the fourth come in ? Punil —Fourth of July. 1 Fendio desires all indebted to him to call and make payment at an early day and save costs. He has waited patiently, and intends soon placing|all accounts in proper hands for collection. Sister—-‘Come, little pet, it is time your eyes were shutdn sleep.’* Little pet I think not. Mother told me to keen my eyes open when you and Mr Skibbons were together.” The style of this year. Young lady of the period. “Governor, $lO, please. I am going to take a gentleman to the party to-night and want a carriage. Of course, she gets it; the little darling.” Postmaster-General Key is about to issue an order prohibiting the placing of stamps upsidej down on letters. Several postmaste-s have recently been seriously injured while trying to" stand on their heads to cancel stamps placed in this manner. This being leap year, a Main street young lady thought she would make a proposal, and she did. She proposed to the young man who had been keeping he up nights that he clear out and give some oue else a cnance, aud he took the hint and cleared. An Irishman was accused of stealing a handkerchief of a fellow traveler, but but the owner, on finding it, apologized to Pat, and said that it was a mistake’ “Arrah, my jewel,” retorted Pat. “it was a two-sided mistak<—you took me for athaif, and I took you for a g. ntlemau.” A young lady who had been married a little over a year, wrote to her matter-ot-fact old father, saying, “Wg have the dearest iittle cottage in the world, ornarueuted wnk the most charming iittle creepers you ever saw.” The old man read the letter aud exclaimed, “Twins by thunder!” . ’ Artemus Word once said, softly aud sadly to Mark Twain: “Clemens I have done too much fooling, too much trifling; I am going to write soraething that will live.” Said Twain: Well. what, for instance?” Ward sadly replied, “A iie.”

An establishment near Paris works 30 incubators, and up to September of last year had “turned 0ut”42,000 chicks. An old lady in Wichita}- ays she ne- • er could imagine where all the Smiths came from uotil she saw in a New England town a large sign ‘ Smith Manufacturing Company." . ~ -■««». ■»—"■ A deaf mute used the new audiphone. “Can you pay me that $5?” —these were the first words he hoard. “I prefer to remain iv. my original condition,” he said, sternly, and threw the audiphone out of the win dow. The eldest son of W. A. Harrington was examining a revolver the other evening, when the weapon was accidentally discharged, sending a bullet through the boy’s hand. No bones were injured, the bail only making a severe flesh wound which is rapidly healing, but Floyd is probably satisfied with his knowledge of loaded revolvers.—Goodland Herald. The Philadelphia Record says: Get - eral McClellan strides the key note of the policy which should direct the administration of our two-fold governmental system when he says in his recent message to the New Jersey Legislature that no concessions sho’d be made which would t -nd to impair the present absolute control of the State authorities over the National guard and militia in time of peace, or which would give the general Government the slightest supervision over any part of it, except under the cir<cumstances provided in the Federal constitution.

It is not always a safe matter to hazard remarks upon the personal appearance of those with whom we are brought in c >n tact. A story is told of a specimen of the traveling Englishman wiio was regularly sat upon tor venturing upon an impertinence ot this kind. It was at ati ble d’hote at Bologne The Englishman In question, a very b imptious individual was accompanied by a lady, and sitting opposite to them was a young German, ou whose fingers were a number of massive rings. After gazing in a most per sistent manner at hitn, the Englishman, adaressing his companion in a loud tone, said: ‘T hate to see a man with rings on his fingers!” The German replied to to this with a supercillious sort of sneer, so the Englishman ‘‘went for” him again and said, in a still louder tone. ‘‘Do you know what I would do with a ring if I had one?” Before the lady could reply, and to the great amusement of all who heard it, the German broke in, *‘Vare it in your nose!” A writer in a Western paper tells how he was blasting with gunpowder Rome large and tough logs. From one of the logs thus split open crawled an enormous serpent, which was easily killed. 'The man who tells the story continues from this point as follows: “On stretching it out I found it to be SlJ'eet two inches in length, and the thickest part of its bo>iy measured 29 inches in circumference, ft was a different speeies of serpent from any I had ever seen be ore. lis tail was armed with a sharp-pointed and curved horn; its body was variegated with alter nate brown and dirty yellow stripes, and on close examination I discovered that it had been totally blind, its eyes seeming to'have turned into a refleetionless. hard, hone-!ikcsubstance. This explained Its undecided, hesitating movements when it first came from the log. A strange crease appeared about the neck; just back of the head, which I found to be caused by a stout thong of leather, about which tire flesh of the serpent had grown until it was sunk almost out of view. Cutting this thong ana removing it, I found attached to its under side a copper plate which had been heretoforo hidden by the body of the snake, and on one side ot which was scratched, ‘D. Boone. April 15, 1779.’ I split the log in two, and near the lower end of the hollow I found where there had once been an opening, but long j ears ago it had been closed up with a plug made of oak wood, about and over which the maple had grown until it was almost concealed, the' dead appearance of the. small portion visible of the oak plug was all that called my attention to its existence. My theory of the matter is this: Daniel Boone,‘“many years ago, on the date recorded upon the piece of copper plate about his neck, and imprisoned it wiihin the hollow of the tree by means of the oak plug, where his snakeship had remained until the day I delivered him to the free air and sunlight again.”