Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1883 — DR JHATFIELD ASA POET. [ARTICLE]

DR JHATFIELD ASA POET.

WOO<-’! Wood!! Wood!!! -Dear reader, mat wood vcu promised us. Why do not our radical brethren jubilate over the recent ReDublicac victories. Be careful about sending rponey by mail tor lottery tickets; it might get you into jail, as the postoffice depart* me t Holds mat it is unlawful for any person to use the mans for any purpose eooceruiug lottei ies. The civil right* trill which a republican supreme court has reorutlj uccided unconstitutional was vetoed bv Preside ut Johnson, on the 27th of jhatch 4807. Bis objection that it wu* uiKOUsiituttonal was well taken On last Monday night the greatest demonstration *v*r witnessed in Lynchburg, Xu., was held, iu celebration of tbe defeat ofMahone. The The whole city was ablaze, Resolutions were passed guaranteeing the negroes full justice before the law in all matters, and regretting the partisau reports of the Danville riot,- as injurious to the State, r.nd as r.n invention of Mahon© to excuse his overwhelming defeat. Our worty Bro. Marshall says fbtit the HcDublkuti voids at the lute election " voted as they shot.” Yes. in Virginia *bey voted under eom.uuEd of one Billy Mahone, supported by his aecidency President Arthur, aud Jlahune. was accu.-tomed to shoot at “ b!ue-coats,” In Massachusetts they voted against Buttler who was at one tinm engaged iu .-hooting at “graycoats." However, in this case selfishness may have been the propelling influence. They didn’t want to give up the lucrative business of tunning human bides. Notwithstanding tbe fact that Billy Mahone. the rspudiatioGlst. Was back* ed by President Arthur nt>d the entire republican machine In his vilainous practices the people rebuked him and his national allies at the polls by a popular majority not far short of 30.U00 and a grand democratic majorhy in both branches of the Virginia Legislature. The people not only of Virginia but the entire country were greatly dishonored by the disreputable trade made and entered iuto by Mahone and the corrupt leaders of the republican party and dire results for a time followed. Vengeance bow' ever, came surely und terribly and the dishonest coalition was brought to grief. Any one who can read th« signs of the times cauuet. tail to comprehend the fact that the republican party must go. Buperintendent McGrath, of tbe Bad way Mail Service, Chicago, thus explains the new standard of tirneor the twenty four hour system. He nays*

As I understand it. this system does away with the a, m. and p. m. business. It begins the day fi,om midnight find contiuties for twentyfour boms. the twelfth hour being noon and the twenty fourth hour midnight. The minutes . between the cloi-e of the day. the twenty-fourth hour. ui.d ouo hour after midnight, will hi expressed as so many minutes after midnig’ t Thee four min utes after 12o’clock, midnight, current time, will be shown as :04. indi* eating that the day is feur minuteold; nnu so continues tin il sixty minutes me reached, when t e liour is 1:00. Front that point it will be shown as now, 1:10, 1:15, and so on, until it is 2:00 The same rule governs through lie entire twenty four hours all numbers Lvdow 12:00 indicate “a. m.”and all above 12:00“p.m.” Here it, is in a nutshell. The New’ York World.says: In all of i'uesdiiy’s elections, what the Democrats have done is encour aging and significant. Whitt the Republican# have failed to do is equally acceptable to the Democracy. The Republic*ns were to 'have certainly retained Ohio. They lost the State by an emphatic majority on a full vote, They were confluent of redeeming Ne*v York They hove suffered a defeat in spite of rp, it' bar mony. their money an I then- campa.gu a id in the face of Dam-."* cratic <V. ion •ud di-aff.o’iau. They weic ■ ' of <t, tqribg New j.-r.-” y. Tii \y in spite of their slanderous assaults or. the Democrat*? ic caudi late'. They were confident oi the triumph of the Mahoue Arthur coalition in 'Virginia. They are wiped out of existence in that State They have just redeemed Massachusetts and Pennsylvania by meagre majorities, barely holding tyhaf is fheirs by light of long :• s - .-.-sion. They are compelled to begin the - Presidential contest with a desperate effort tojregain, or not to loose coafirmed Republican States.

The New York Observer tells the following anei’ihiie of the lath Dr Hatfieki, the pastor, and Ids chorister, Mr Jones: Mr. Jones was re 1 ting up :» grand musical pet form uce by his choir of an nnthm he li'id comp *«ed to the words of Waite’ psalms The first verse enda with the splendid words: “O, may mv heatt in tune he found, Lise David’s harp of solemn sound.” Jones came to his pastor to get his approval of a change of these linos so as to ted: 'O mav mv heart be tuned within, Like David’s sacred violin.” We can see the cute and sunny smite of the do: tor as he heard the now version. But be said lie could improve cv, n that, and he wrote *o the amazement of .1 ones: ••O, v. iv my heart go diddle, diddle. Like uuto David’s sacred Addle.” Jones sang the psalm according t< . ttts* Origin of ‘‘Ma*hre.”— Mr. Charles Via okay in the Pall Mall Gazette, gives the origin of the Row mueh need designate »n “rnashnr.” It went over to Eng» b nd from this country, Into which it had been Inb educed by Iriih emigrants. The woi<l masher is derived from the Gaelic maiso, pronounced masher, and signify* mg fine; handsome, «sd was originally applied iu deiision to a dandy, It it now in similar derision appropriately applied to modern, undeveloped men, whese so’e aim is to dress well and ogle ladies

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