Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1882 — Voting for Road Superintendent. [ARTICLE]

Voting for Road Superintendent.

In answer to several inquires made by newspaper men, the Attorney General writes: “The legislature seems to have made no provision for the voting for road Superintendent where a precinct lies partly within and partly without an incorporated town. Seperate ballot boxes or different colored tickets cannot be used* Have tickets with the name of the person to be voted for Superintendent printed for those out of towm, and other tickets printed with the name left off for those residing in the town. You will then have to trust to the honesty or the voter to vote the proper tieket/

Judge Sterrett, the man in whose office Horace Greeley learned to stfck type, is still living at the ripe old age of eighty-two. He says he thought the first time Horace applied for work that he was a runaway apprentice, and he refused him rather abruptly, but afterward learned whom ho was by a neighbor near the State line, and sent for him and took him to his house to board with him Horace was a slow boy. but full of pluck and perseverance.

Policeman Kirwan, of Ba'timore* was placed in?a dilemma. While on hie post he saw one young woman attacking another with a horsewhip. It was his duty to arrest the assailant, undoubtedly; but she was his wife, and the other was his compaion ' In a flirtation. Under these circumstances he refused to interfere. The Police Commissioners dismissed him. Dr. Smith now swings into the cir cle with a live white sqirrrel, the same having been corraled by Billy Smith, two miles east of Delphi. Its legs and tail are brown, while its back and greater porticn of ite body ure of a grayish white. Doctor has opened negotiations with Barnum. He assures the people that it is no “white owl” scheme.—Delphi Times. f A small specimen of male humanity in a Sunday school, lately undertook to memorize a remark of Solomon, but recited in tils way: “A wise son maketh a glad father but a foolish sou is just like bis mother.”