Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1881 — Vote fop President, 1880. [ARTICLE]

Vote fop President, 1880.

Hancock, Democrat, * 4,424,690 Garfleld, Republican, - 4,416,584 Weaver, Greenback, - 313,893 Pielps, - * - * * 4,138 Dow, Prohibition, - - 10,791 Scattering, - 2,122 Total, • 9,169,218 Hancock over Garfield, * 8,106

The Czar of Russia was killed the 13th inst. Frye, of Maine, succeeds Blaine in the U. S. Senate. No member of the Poland Commit- " tee need apply for an appointment under Garfield. The Republican State of Minnesota has settled with her creditors at fifty cents on the dollar. The motion to confirm the nomina of Bobt. Lincoln as Secretary of War was made by Mr. "V oorhees. It seems to be settled that Hon. Edward McPherson will be First Assistant Postmasteral General. Were the Constitutional Amend ments constitutionally subbmitted io a vote of the people? That’s the question now. Gov. Porter has been compelled to call an extra session of the Legislature. This will cost the State $125,' 000. So much for Republican incompetency. * Clark Mills, the sculptor, took a piaster cast of the features of Senator Carpenter after death, from which a bust is to bs made for the Congres* sional Statutory Hall.

Simon Cameron said of his son-in-law W ayne MacVeagh, (Garfield’s attorney general) a few days ago, that the best he could say of him was that he was a “snob.” Gen. Geo. B. McClellan, of New Jersey, has been elected a member of the Board of Managers for the National Soldiers’ Home, in the place of Gen. John Love, of Indiana, deceased. The Pittsburg Post prints a war episode in which General Garfie d figures extensively as the man, who, under military law, signed the order for the execution of a great grandson of Martha Washington. It is false to say Hayes was made President by accident. He was elevated to power, and the record will staud against him and his party while the world stands. He has won an •ternlty of infamy. We have never purchased a glass or liquui auu OiauK it aa a Viov.vaoe We have never purchased it in any quantity and used it as a beverage.— Can the immaculate Corkins say as much for himself? * The Kentland News says S, P. Thompson, of Rensselaer, made the closing address at the temperance meetiQg at thatfDlace Monday night of last week, giving his ideas in a concise and pleasing manner. “O, that we had keen an editor like McH wen.“—Corkins. Oh, how eloquentl “How romantic!! Yain delusion—he don’t mean it. He knows that he can improve upon the management of the Chicago Times.

It has been proved that at the receni charter election in Philadelphia, a man registered in twenty-four different wards and voted once in each, for which interesting day’s work he got $25. Philadelphia has a strict registry law. McPherson, who, according to the Republican, and a few other radical papers, figures Garfield a few thousand majority on the popular vote, has been invited by the new postmaster general to accept the position o f first assistant in his department. The Democratic members of the Forty-sixth Cdngress voted for and passed the three per cent, funding bill, but the retiring radical fraud strangled it. This strangling operation will cost the people from $12,000,000 to $15,000,000 per annum.

Chairman New, of the Indianapolis Journal says: “Pernaps it wll be advisable to run the next campaign in Indiana without a central committee or any local organization. There seems to be a growing opinion that such machinery is an incumberance.” Chairman New is jealous of Dorsey. Governor Porter has vetoed two of the bills passed by the legislature. That body might as well adjourn and and the members return to their homes, for it does not appear to be able to accomplish any good for the State. The bills vetoed relate to fees and salaries and defining cruelty to nlmals. A correspondent of the Scientific American says: “Let any one who has an attack of lockjaw take a small xuantity of turpentine, warm It and pour it on the wound, no matter where the wound is, and relief will follow in less than a minute. Nothing better can be applied to a Severe cut or bruise than cold turpentine; it will give certain relief almost Instantly, Turpentine is also a sovereign remedy for croup. Saturate ft piece of flannel on the and chest, ftnd in every case three or four drops on a lump of sugar may be taken in fvardly. ,

Tyner has been appointed minister to Peru—lndiana. Kentland News: Mr. W. G, Smcot, a most worthy citizen of Iroquois towhship is enjoying the advantages of a petit juror this week. He is the gii*st of his son-in-law, Sheriff Ulrey. M- nticello Herald: Scott Harrison lost liis light hand by having it caught in the cog wheels of Kan’s saw mill Tuesday evening. It was amputated by Drs. Clark & Tracy at Dr. Robinson’s office Wednesday morning. Over in Ohio the former friends of Hayes are so aeliamcd of the means by which he was made President that they hare a distaste for calling him President Hayes and a prominent Republican paper says, “Let us call him Governor.” Quite right, Hayes is entitled to be called Governor but has no claim upon the title of Piesident. 4AM An old man-rapidly acquired $30,060 worth of property at McGregor, la. Feeling that he would soon die, he wrote letters to his relatives in the East, soliciting aid to cdfry him through the winter. The only response wafe from a niece, who sent him SSO out of her earnings as a school teacher, and to her he left the entire estate.