Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1883 — MAKE $2O FOR CHRISTMAS. [ARTICLE]

MAKE $2O FOR CHRISTMAS.

The publishers of Rutledge’s Month* ly offer twelve valuable rewards in their Monthly for December, among which is the following: We will give S2OOO to the person telling us how many verses there are containing but three words each in tne Old Tccrament Scriptures by December lOtb, 1883. Should two or more correct answers be jeceived. the icward will be divided. The money will be forwarded to the winner December 15th 1883; Persons trying for tb* reward must send 20 cents in silver (no postage stamp* taken) with their answer, for whic they will receive the Christinas Monthly,in which tne name and address of the winner of the reward and the correct answer will be published, and in which several more valuable rewards wili be offered. Address RU TLEDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY. Easton. Pa.

Thu first thing the approacnig congress should do is to wipe out a lot of useless custom houses. The New York Commercial Bulletin refers to these dead head custom houses by saying that there is one of them in “New Jersey wnicb yielded but 72 cts of revenue in a ,year. Another, in Maine, cost $3,000 -per annum, and yielded $429; another cost nearly $5, 000 and yielded SSOO, One in the State of New York (Dunkirk) cost tne governmen $2,192. and brought to it just $20,70, Beaufort, North Carolina, cost the government last year $2,194, and yielded the enormous revenue of $x3,84, and to collect that required the herculean efforts of seven officials. The expenses of the custom house at Saco, Me., were $807; revenue, $16,10. At Saluria, Texas, it needed the combined exertions es eleven men to collect a little les3 than $12,000. and their salaries were considerably in excess of the iijeotne. Again, the expenses of the Te.-he (La;) district amounted to $7,041, and the revenue collected $236 86. The reveuue received at St Augustine, Fla,, amounted to $59 75. and it took six stalwart office-holders to collect it. at a cost of $1 765; and so on to the end cf the chapter.” Such a State of affairs is an outrage ou the people, and is not to the credit of the “grand old party" that they have been allowed to xist for year* and years. Wipe them out.