Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1880 — LIFE INSURANCE. [ARTICLE]

LIFE INSURANCE.

The Royal Protective Union, of Ft. Wayne, is the cheapest aml' 4 m< st practicable Life and Accxlent Insurance Company that now extends its benefits to the people of this district, Tin ; /association is purely mutual and is the oldest form of protection in America It furnishes Life Policies for one-fourth the amount charged by the old system of insuring.— The Plan is similar to that of the Masonic Mutual Aid Societies that haye gained the confidence of the public at large. We insure .all persons between the ages of 15 and 65 that can pass the examination.— It ersts sl2 to become a member of this association in the district. The death assessment is $1 for each member that dies- Also an assessment of $3 per year is made for sick and accident fund. Each member receives $5 per week when sick or disabled by accident The amount of policy runs from SI,OOO to $4,000, according to age, payable at death, or at a certain number ot ears—from 10 to 25 years. Full particulars will be sent upon application. Local agents wanted in every town in the district. Emmet ixannal, Rensselaer, agent for Jasper county.

James Ingraham, of Wynn’s Mill, Ga., is 125 years old. When a man gets tight the devil generally gets loose. Blaine and Sherman, it is said will combine against Grant, There are said to be at this moment more editors in than out of prison in Russia. A British soldier of the line is clothed for about sl2 a year, his red tunic costing about $3 75. The Cincinnati Enquirer says its candidate for the Presidency is the “nominee of tue Cincinnati Convention.” “Wiwn I die,” said a weary husband, “I want logo where there aie no more tires to make.” ‘Perhaps you may,’ said iiis good wife.

The Russian authe ities have decided to check emigration to America, and have caused the <ur<st of several emigration agents. Two little girls, aged six and seven ve.rs, d: u h er, of Calvin Beal, were a<ci ici tby Groaned a 1 South] Bend i n I'uisday of last week. One of file saddest and must vexatious trials that comes to a girl when she marries is th 4 she has to discharge her mol: - er ami d riend on a servant girl. T .e credit ot the Slate of Mississippi is at par. Iler wai rants aie equal to currency and arc pail on demand. Iler bonds command a premium in the market. The Philadelphia Record reminds Senator Bl ihic to net fo”get to put a cabbage leaf in his hat about the beginning ot June , a hen there is ieally danger of stinslro.. is.

‘Cre-ar,’ said a good natured gentleman to his colored man, T did not know till to-day that you had" been whipped la.it week? Didn’t yon, massa?’ replied Caesar. ‘I know’d al the time.’ ‘Twenty years ago,’ says a colored philosopher, ‘niggers was wof a thousand dollars apiece. Now dey would be deah at two dollars a dozen It’s ’stonishin’ how 7 de race am l imnin’ down,’ The Nashville American is decidedly in favor of the no.nitui ion lr, the Republii'aiis of Senat e Brine tor Vice President. ft would be en'irely pleasant t sit down on both wings i f the party at once.

The Baptist clergymen of Philadelphia have felt the action of the pardon board in the Kemble case to be so decided an imirage mi juslim* that, being in coufercn< c, they formally denoti: eed it in round S’ t terms.

George Trekiior C.iirtio does not, from the lOmce of his inform f ion, doubt that General Von Muitke said tii.it it the A •neiie.'.n Government had supported Geneial Me,Cl Ilan the war would have been ended two ye .rs s.-oner th ia it was.

"lie Augusta ((Rcrgia) t hronicle has n:;me Ge <iu coviry that John Kelley sarcastic .ilv ( b.-uwed that Colonel lagers’ iiT disbelief in the existence of hell re, .I. ; - i ini in< apable < f c mpreheuiling what .‘dr. Biaine end arid during thememorab'e interview with Mulligan.

Washington Post says that Mr. Kheimun has not lived ir vain. Ti e mention of his name in the lilmois Repiib.iean Conventiuu elicited a cheer from nve rui.d. d< ieg ifi 8. Three of these cheerful rustics subsequently explained t1.,.t il.i-v “thought it was old Tecitmp.”

Week before lust El: Ju: Reed came on* of tile i-.mnly asylum at Indhinapo'D to icceiye s-3s.il of back pension money. He now owns a saloon, which he ’nought, presumably, to afford him an ea-y menus of obtaining a livelihood. He fin Is quite a change in his circumstances within a w vrcc k 3. •

Tlie v tei'an Tini;-’<>.v Weed s ivs that ii 1 .<> ' uii (io th': T" st llii’ig to dof'imt Giant, lie will make an effort to attend Hie Chicago Convention. He has not a" :l G>nve:ith'!i since Linco’n’s nomii> i‘i n;t w. nty teti s ago. Win.il. Seward was Me. Weed’s candidate, and his deleat w:.s keenly felt

About a year befote his death, some o -ese.it William Cu lent Bryant a pictuie of at-pie liiu'soms. In acknowledging it he wrote: “They do not <xactlysuit the last days of life, il 'ocinbr r, but they d > a ree chaimingiy with that new springtime of existence, my eniranee to which can not be far off, and where I hope t find the orchards of Paradise in lull blossom.”

A Greenbacker writes to the National View, denouncing John Sherman as “a breeder of famine, a sec-u geof God. a Herod 11., an as tssin of liberty, a c. licit'it of the pe pie, a renegade from he ’, begotten in sin, conceived in.iniqtiity a id spewed r<-d hot out of the womb ot hell into the lap of civilization, to curse and blast and damn this country worse than the scv,.n plagues of Egypt.”

Rm-lies!i r Smitlna': .it should be genera 1 lv km: 'ah among soldiers that all aj..-plie-i ions for pensions and for addi'io u l bounty should be made before July Ist, liirio, as alter limt date no allowance will 1 e made. e.\e p - from the date of the application. There are yet a number who tire entitled to. pensions and additional b .tinty who have made no effort to secure it. Such should be putting in th<i‘ claims immediately-

The New York World tells a whole wagon loud ot l.u h when it says that the lie, üblicttns are getting u S'liore ha’moniouS very fast. It' only one half of what th - Shetman j aners say of B.alne, and .he Blaine pap rs <f Grant, and the Giant papers say of Blaine and Sherman is at all tine, ail those distingu shed Repot licaiis shou d be candidates for at lea -t three terms apiece in the penal iniliiutiuns of the country.

Delphi Times: The profound learning and rgtimei t .live skill d'splayed by the Delphi Join n il, Brookston Reporter and other so-called newspapers, in discussing the relative physical attributes of the young ladies of the different towns surpasses ordinary comprehension. The ladies can display the proportions of their pedal extremcties to the best advantage by kicking the brain receptacle of such journalistic ninnies.

A case has just been decided by Judge Ciia-e of Cass county, that will put about S2O.COD into the pockets of the soldiers of that county. The case is like this:— Dmihg the rebellion the couniy offced a bounty for volunteers. At that lime there was a large number of enlisted men from that county already in the field. Their time had expired and they re-enlistea as veterans, causing themselves to be assigned to Cass county. The county will have to pay the bill.

Mr. Tennyson once found himself surrounded by a throng of ladies who were more than usually gushing. He availed himself of an opportune pause to remark that he looked upon women as the flowers of the human race. “What a sweetly pretty idea! How poetical!” exclaimed a chorus of silvery voices. “Yes, ladies,” continued the Laureate, “and the reason I think so is because they never shut up except when they sleep.” Poets are now at a discount in that circle of culture.

The Hon. William Hunter, Assistant Secretary of State, who is now suffering from a stroke of apoplexy, is one of the oldest officials in government service. He has been in the State Department more than fifty years, and is a walking cyclopedia of dates and precedents in regard to international affairs. No man living has so extensive aud accurate a knowledge of the diplomatic history of the goyeamnent, and he has been indispensable to every Secretary ot state .for considerably more than a generation past.