Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1883 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]
“Gath“ interviews Dorsey. Secretary of .the Republican National Com paign purposes?” “Not a dollar of it. I made that a oondiction precedent to my going there, that those who paid in the mossy should send their own man to disburse It. Mr. LeviP. Morton was the treasure of the special finance committee,..and the disbursements in* Indiana were made by Mr. Stephens cashieif of the Noy ih Rivsr bank in New York.” * “How much money was used by your special committee?” ”1 think a little o er $400,000,” "How did you manage to spend or disburse that enormous sum’” “The poll of the State disclosed the condlction of the vote, and the coun committees made an estimate of the money needed in each precinct, and'th* money was given to them, each one showing j rst how much th* other got. In this way itjjwas next to impossible for any man to rppropriate the funds of their own usee and then the moaty was placed nearest where it was needed. “You went to new York after the campaign in Indiana. Did you do any egaetive financial work there?” “Just abont four timos as much as in Indiana.”
“I suppose Mr. Arthur knew where the fund* were raised and AAhat disposition was made of them in New York?*’ “Well, he was fn a position where h* could, and I have never heard it charged that Be took any pains to keep form knowing all that was done with it, The truth is, our campaign in Indiana was mere child’* play com* pared with that in New York ” Geqera, Fitzhiagh Lee has been in vitedby th* Grand Army Post of Bangor, M*. wbioh number* among its members 350 old soldiers, to deliver before them and the citizens of Bangor hi* lecture on the “Battle of Chancellorsville,” which recently met with groat suocess in the Southern cities. The invitation, which i* signed “ by Dr. A. G. Hamlin, a nephew of exVioe Preeident Hannibal Hamlin, as a chair of the committee, assures General Le* that tho ex Federal soldiers will be pleaded to listen to his description os the battle of Chancellors ville, and that “they will be pre Dared to accept its truth*, for the deeds of valor performed on eithei side during the war have now bsoome ihe property of the Nation,” General Lee is further assured the invitation is ottered in good -faith, and ha* no ulterior political obj*et whatever, hence he will not be expected, to arrange his lecture to auit New England fancies, but to say whatever he thinks proper and light. Dr. H, mlin names several other New England- citiesin which he thinks the lecture can be successfully delivered being convinced that the old soldiers of the Grand Army “would be very glad to lend their assistance in aiding to obtain funds for the use of the Southern Historical Socisty, for the truth must prevail in the end.” Gen eral Lee who was a distinguished calvairyman in the confederate ser-* vice, and has since the war delivered many eloquent and scholarly ad clre*Bes, has respoded to the invita tion in the Same .rank spirit that while it is out of his power to accept the invitation at this time, it him pleasure to do so at some future day. In Atlant, and in other parte of Georgia, “nigger turkep“ is the name adplisd to to the head of a hog. A man who bought 1.000 of them for gratuitius distribution on Chnstmas, says of the “nigger turkey”: “It furnishes more meat for less money than anything else, as cl there are few thing* juicier or better. It is easy to cook, needs less trimming, and will impart its savor to a bigger potful of truck than chunk of meat of meat or meat or like size. You can eat every bit of it bat the teeth and the hinges of the jaw bone. ” One of Boston’s celebrities is dead in the per*on of G orge Washington Simmons, proprietor of the Oak Hall Clothing Store, one of the very first of the establishments of that kind to gain a widespread reputation by persistent advertising. He began business when seventeen and lived to be nearly seventy. H* gained fortune and fame, and set the *xam pie of house before th* bublic to imitatore in every city *f the unionA gentleman who had only been in Austin three days, but who had been paying attention to a prominet Aus belle, wanted to promise but afraid he would be thought to hasty. H# dedicated proaohed the eubjeot ns follows: “If 1 were to speak to of marriage, ufter only making your aeqiaintanc* three days ago, what would you say to it? "Well, I should soy never put off till to-morrow that which you done day before yesterday. Fortcroup administer a teaspoon ful of strong alum-water; repeat the dose until free vomiting oecurs. Fut the feet and limbs in hot water •*d then rap up in flaaaei; place on tb*|chest a poltice of oornmeal aprink led with mustard. Beware of cold drought. As the attack departs, ad* minister a dose of magnesia, rhuoarb or castor oil. When children are lia ble o croup, always keek the alums water solutioh ready on the washstand.
Capt. David Crocket, formerly of Tennessee, and later of Mississippi ccuuty in Missouri, was taken from St Louis Monday to the Chester 111. penitenitary to serve a five year’s sentence for counterfeiting. He is a grandson of the famous Davy Crock* et. He is six feet in stature and bears a striking resembience to the to the portraits of the great Crockett W£o died at the Alamo, On the’,7th of November the peepie sat down on HubbellismS on the 4th of December the President of the United States put his foot down on Hubbellism; on the 1.8 of December the Supreme (. ourt branded Hubbellism ae a crime. When will congress get ready to do its shere iu the work of eradicating Hubbellism b— Washington Post.
Notici. -All persons circulating petitions in Jasper County askmg the legislature to submit th* constitutional amendments to a vote of the electors of the State at a spaeiai election, will not send them to the grand ,> Temperance council, but send them to Ezra C. Nowels, at Rensselaer eo they can be compared, and prevent any name fross being dublicated. By order es committee, Ezra C. Nowms, ) | Chas. W. Com, >Co». s . Rev. G*o. Hath*. )
