Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1880 — Washington as a Voter. [ARTICLE]

Washington as a Voter.

Washington voted at all the Fairfax elections until the close of his life, uniformly supporting the Federal candidates. Although living some distance from the Court House, at the Alexandria Market, he generally voted early. The polls were reached by a flight of steps outside, which in 1799 had become old and shaky. When the General reached the steps l he placed one foot upon them, and shook the crazy ascent as if to try its strength. Instantly twenty brawny arms, one above the other, grasped the stairway, and a dozen men’s shoulders braced it. Nor did a man move until the venerable chief deposited his vote and returned. “I saw his last bow,” said one of them half a century afterward; “it was more than kingly.”— Harper's Magazine. The Bey of Tunis is 70 years old, and has no ships, little money, and badly armed and dressed soldiers. There are 150,000 Jews in the city—one-fifth of the entire population. The women wear no skirts of any kind; they feaye long stockings of many hues.