Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1881 — Arthur is now in a position where [ARTICLE]

Arthur is now in a position where

he can repay John Sherman for kicking him out of the New York 'Custom House. Sherman is in the Senate over which Arthur is the President. He can rap John over the head at pleasure, especially since Arthur’s New York friends have presented him with a gavel of solid ivory ornamented with gold. Among the Ababs. —CorKins—John, how do you like the way I use Mac, up, this week?, John—The deuce of it is somebody else did it for you? Corkins—lt didn’t toko me ten minutes to write it. John —Copy it, you moan? Had you written it we would be a week in arriving at tiie meaning of your English. Fowler Era: The editor of the Rensselaer Republican came up to Fowler Tuesday for a removal of life ennui, attending his normal existence in Rensselaer, it’s wearing on his physique. Ennui — Ennui!—Oh, Yes, Webster defines it as a feeling of disgust. Disgust at What? Rensselaer? Poor fellow But. than he’s goiug to Heaven soon. “Where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest.” The meincit slanderer of General Haucoek, during the late canvass, was Grant; and he is ashamed of himself, judging from his efforts to avoid the former. He staid away from the ceremonies at Delmonieo’s the other night on the occasion of installing the officers elect of George Washington Post 103, of tiie Grand Armv of the Rcnn»%lic, because he was afraid he should meet Hancock. Slanderers are always cowards.

Posey County, Indiana, claims to have raised the largest cow in the world. Her name i* Lady Posey; breed, mixed Durham and Big English. Her measurement are: Greatest height,s feet 10 inches; girth 8 feet 9 inches; length 10 feet 6 Inches, or iuciding tail, 17 feet. Her form is good; aud, though not fat, she weigh 3 3,000 pounds. Her color is red and white, red predominating. Age, six veais. Her present owner lives in Stark county, Illinois. • . - =— Monticello Herald: Messrs. Mitchell & Taylor, of Terre Haute, Ind., who are the attorneys looking after the Kenton laud claims, have written ten to Jos. V. Iveuton, under date of March 9, that they ; re in great hopes of recovering a number of his Kentucky land claims. One of the firm has just returned from Greenup, Ky., where a suit is now pending for the Kenton claimants, and the prospects are favorable for the recovery of 4,000 acres of the land iu question. There are several thousand acres of land in that region supposed to belong to the Kenton estate and estimated to be worth sls per acre.

Who can tell what has become of the old military bounty land warrants? There are outstanding nearly twenty-five thousand of 160, 120, 80 and 40 acres each which were issued to soldiers or their heirs for services rendered in the Revolutionary war, Florida war, 1812 war, Mexican war, Arostook war and Indian wars. They amount in tha aggregate to over two’million, five hundred thou sand acres. They must be among the old papers left by your giandfather, your father or your mother, and not thought to be of value. Let the reader of this article see if he or she can not find one oi more of them, and when found, take steps to secure the legecy that rightfully belongs to the decendants of these old patriots.

Did Corkins say anything personally derogatory of Messrs. Smith and Ross, when they applied for license? No, Why? They were Republicans. Did he name out and condemn personally those mixed up in the billiard hall racket a few weeks ago? No.— Why? They were republicans, and officials at that. Does he ever indulge in personalities toward Republicans implicated in wrongdoing? Nary time. Why? It wouldn’t serve his partisan purposes. Does he make It a rule to reflect upon his political opponents? Yes la and out of season. Why? For party reasons. Is he as anxious for the right as he professes? Yea, verily, provided it is profitable to the party, and through the party t© himself.

D. A. Fawcett, formerly editor of the Flora Record, was admitted to practice law at the bar of Carroll Circuit Court, last week. Our neighbor across the hall is again parading his right to hold and express opinions, and how cheerfully he will permit others to hold and express different views; throws out a little taffy to Reynolds, tackles us for advertising applications for license [which would be as readily granted on written notices], and then says be is going to heaven. Hear him; “Freed from the shaekles that bind us in lowly estate, we shall be permitted to rise above the sphere fit only for‘amateur’editors and dwell in the realms made glorious by the evenesceut light that radiates from his intelligent countenance upon numberless sateliles that wait around his throne eager to catch the words of Wisdem that fall, like dew, from his honied lips.“ Too had —too bad. So soon as ho gets there, he’ll presume to dictate to God Almighty how the universe sho’d be governed.