Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1884 — BRIEFS. [ARTICLE]

BRIEFS.

Delegate Oubay, of Arizona, says all that Territory needs is water and good society. That's not much, but they are important Items. • Kate Field is something of an actress, something of a writer, something of a singer, something of a lecturer, and something of a fashion expert. ToitrHiLDuit Thobnsteindottib Holm, at present In Canada, edited at Roikjavik an. historical novel in Icelandic, entlted “ Ryrfw* jolful Svetnssj/n," il There is a man in the Mississippi Legislature named Chrlstmae.

’ (Concluded from Ist pag«-) came out of obscurity, shone in the brief glare of infamy, and taen sli-a Into dishonored retirement. Ue is universally despised. If he shows his head now it is only to draw u« on himself some expression ”f the eon tempt which every henorable man feels for him, and he also draws in suits upon the better men who thro mistaken motives have seen fit to associate h s' name with theirs in the worthv work of Prison reform —New York Sun.

Notwithstanding the protection (?) giv-n to “home industry!” by the existing high tariff, only 8,000 mill operatives at Fall River, Mass.. have struck against a r duction of wages. The lordly proprietors have resolved to dispatch agents to Europe to con tract ior t,.e so-called pauper labor. The Logansport Pharos: “The Hon. Thomas J. Wood is making an excellent record bn Congress and has already introduced several important measures i i the House. One is te reduce the tariff on print paper. The passugt of such a law would be welcomed by the publishers <*( news papers all over the country.” The gold bugs and their organs keep up a continuous yawp about the accumulation of silver dollars in the Treasury. What are the facts i n the case? Th® silver coin and bullion in the Treasury amounts to $l2B 00,000 and the silver certificates to $97,400,0J0. That i« to say the silver represented by certificates is in circulation, helping the buJness of the country, consequently the silver in liii Treasury belonging to the Government amouni.to only $30,600 000, about t>3 cents per capita of population, and the entire amount coin and b illion, is only aboutj $2 32 per capita, and yet the gold bngs dema id a halt in coining silver dollars. In France the silver in circulation p«i capita is about $lO The gold bugs can,t have their way ust no w. Mb. Ed.: Th® Republican editor goes off into a paroxysm of injured innocence. This week he would have his readers infer that you are the an* thor of the productions of “A Citizens, and whines like a whipped spaniel fer sympathy. He thinks he sees the “ear-marks’ ia certain phra ses 'Used. That is a compliment 1 was not prepared for, and if I can drop him into your harzds I know he will be spqedily brought to bis senses Now, I hold no ill will toward the editor of the Republican, nor am I engagvu in creating a feeling against him. If any such exists i is the res suit of his indisereet and promiscuous reference to people. My reference to his mothod of dealing with Bloomer was to show up his ingratL tude. The school difficulty would and ought to have been satisfactorily settled without .he interfrsrenje ~f a nowspapar. And in fact I know Capt. Burnham is perfectly *ola and aosirous of maiutaing discipline wi 1 - out euch assistance.

Ido think the in teres s of every community would be subse-.ved, it the system of making public every littte affair, (and not unfrequenily incorrectly and improperly) should cease. If by drawing attention to thin I can accomplish that in Rensselaer, my eflurt will not have oean in vain. If the editor cf the Repub lican win adopt that plan, and not cut right and left at the suggestion of Tom, Dick and Harry that that is the proper way to conduct a paper, my object will be accomplished In conclusion, and because the ed*» itor of the Republican disputes it, please insert: Cackle No. 1, “After all these years* the Delinquent List again appears in The Republican. • • ♦ ♦ —Rensselaer Republican. Jan. 17. In the same paper, eighth pagtl: Cackle No. 2. The Delinquent list which anpears in this issue of The Republican. mikt serve to excuse t e somewhat belai-d appeal ante of the paper and also some little diminution in the customary amount of i;e-»s and editorial infcrter. * ♦ “ Cackle No. 3; That interesting con tinued story entitled “Delinquent Tax List" etc., etc.—Republican, Jan. 14th. Cackle No, 4 —The time was when t.o Delinquent List paid to its publishers as much us S3OO or S4OO each year. * * • ' * * * | —Republican, lan, 31J. And so tn each week until ray al luslon to it acted as chill and stopped it A Citizen.

OUR SCHOOLS.—W® think our town, and in fact our county. Is to be congratulated in regard te standard of excellence to which the seheols of Rensselaer are so rapidly attainingboth in discipline and in the thor eugbness of the work performed. We are surrounded by a pi(Ul us regionlot country, needing facilites for educating the boys and g iris, which can net, under existing circumeta ces, Le furnished by the country -cbools. With our long terms of school, our fine new s.-hool building, :h« cheap rate of tuition and especially with th > thoroughly practical course of study adopted and thorough and prac'ical methodof ttashing. We are now supplying thi, ueed in addition to meeting our own educational wants in the most satisfactory manner. We learn that about a score of the young ladies and gentlemen of tue surrounding court try have been availing themselves, during the present school year, of the facilities offered, and all express themselves fully satisfied In every respect. And we >-re glad to learn that, without exception, the conduct of these young people has n®en such as n»t only to reflect credit upon themselves and their parents,Jbut so as t® have made them a valuable acquisition te the schools, which, we fear, cau no’: always be sola of those whom loving parents have been in th® habit of sending lo'g distances frem home to receiv less than cur g o ools are now furnishing to these - tudents.

A Grand Surprise at the Poor Farm.—Ou last Friday evening over forty friends and neighbors of Mr; Simon Phillip?, ' Superintendent of the Poor Farm, met at Mr. L. L Daugherty’s tor a party, as Mr. Phil w lips supposed. Ac 7 o’clock Mr Phillips was “ou time.” In about a hour thereafter he was sent for io great haste ou the pretense of tramps being at bis house. When he reached home he was surprised to find t e tablas loaded with an excellent suoper, prepared by his daughter, Mrs. C- A. Roberts, and al! the pafy from Mr. Daugher ty’s following, A handsome rocking chair, a set of silver knives, forks, spoons and a "general taste" were the fruits of the beginning of his 61st year. After four hours of feasting, music. social chatting, and plenty of fun, the guosts retired to their respective homes, hoping that Mr Phillips may live 61 years more, and that they ma again surprise, and take him by “etorm” as nicely as they did this time. O. M. D. Every house in Tell Oitv lad., is in the w.iltr, and eveiy house has a skiff. Business is entirely suspended in Newburg, Ind. Water i uns through all the stores of the town. There are 3,000 houses under water in Newport Ky., and 20.000 people without hotpes. Cleveland, O , is doing nobly for the sufferers. Sen.,tor-elect Payne led ofi with SI,OOO. Fix or save thousand people o( Cincinnati aie inak ng their homes in the School houses ct the city. A four-year old bey was found floating on a raft in Cincinnati Tuesday night. He was taken to the “Mation House, but did not know -ho he was, One of the sights witnos '.in Newport, Ky.. was a whole f ,ily eating their dinner iu ’he second st®iy of a house. They had their furniture piled on the roof, and were seeming very contented. 'I he water below them was fully forty feet deep.