Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1884 — BRIEFS. [ARTICLE]

BRIEFS.

Newhill, N. C., claims a storm of red rain last week. A copy of John Eliot’s bible was sold In New York on Tuesday for SOSO. Six thousand beau guesses at Cincinnati realized $1,500 for uood sutferers. In the Congregational Church at Grinnell, lowa, a pew is named for Wen Sell Phillipa and is set apart for colored people. Gustavs Hauck, of Philadelphia, tried to hang, shoot, and down himself because Selempe Nennerowicz married another fellow. Senator Drown, of Georgia, pays the largest real estate tax in Atlanta. He owns $400,000 worth of property in that city alone. As an evidence of the recent remarkable growth of Texas, it is stated that the State has now sixty-four organized counties in which no vote was polled at the last Presidential election. The Southern Biwmae argues that ’the mound-builders were drowned by floods.

After thjo adjournment of the Co. Cob venlion, the Democratic voters of Marion township are requested to meet and place in nomination candidates for the Town-hip officesHENRY FISHER, Chairman Dena Township Committee The Republican editor don’t like our “garbled”? extracts. Let us weep. Dear, weepint? Geoige, it seems you were a tnita of a coy, according to yeur confession, when the civil war burst upon us. .You wsre running the streets of some town in Illinois, crying as though your little heart would break oyer the assassination of—the Government. You held the peculiar idea tha; Mr. Lin coin was the Government; Now tell your readers how you come to kn*w so much about the political history of Indiana? After yon have done this we will give you some pointers. “His sneer at the sorrow the editor of this paper felt at the murder of Lincoln,” etc.—-Republican. When we consider, the of the editor of the Republican that he was a mere boy at. the time that monstrous crims was committed, his claim that ha mourned in sackcloth and ashes—that he wept bitter tears—and that he expects to be believed is simply an illustratio'- of his Our neignbor claims to have been exceaihgly young at the outbreak of the Civil war. and, yet alludesjio our ‘well known copper-head record’ etc., with a vim that might lead one to suppose that he was not so young after all. However, his allusions “to the time when the “outragedjloya’ ists of Monticello wete ?o nearly upon the point of teariig his den of se dition down above bis head,” etc,, shows that he was old enough io knew more than|any body else—in fact is better posted in falsehood than in facts. Why, dear, weeping George, there were no “outraged loyalists” in Monticello, except those who had demai.dcd that the south be permitted “to go in peace* and declared that “She was a loathsome burthen to the weary muaoles of the north;” and further expressed their readiness to plant “gravestones to the death of |he Union.” That class presumed litre yourself, and your wri ter this week that they possessed all the “loyalty and pairioti m,” but they were top cowardly to make anyth] eats. We took no stock in the declarations that the constitution waa “in league with hell and a covenant with death.” We took ne stock in Banks’ announcement that under certain coutingcncies'he was willing

to "Let the Union slide:* nor in the declaration of the leading Republican organ ■ N. T Tribune—that* tie flag was a flaunting lie,” etc. No, sir, our beloved weeping brother, we had n sympathy in these utterances and it would net have been healthy for your “outraged loyalist*,“ to have proposed an outrage upon us. H'n T. J. Wood has presented a number of important bills in the House, among them Jone for pensioning Union prisoners of war, .and another for the equalisation of boun ties, and the Republican calls them “baited-Jor-gudgeon-bilis.” Alas! The history of tariffs shows that when they are prohibit ry or approx imately sq, retaliation generally fol lows ou the part of the country whose products are excluded. Our tariff shuts out uiany ar:i«!«s which Europe eoub send us. European States apply lex talionis and our port is shat out frosa their markets. If we retaliate they may shut out our agricul* tural products, which make up BO.per cent ot >.ur exports.—Lafayette Sun day Times, Aid yet thero is a set of nincumpoop newspapers which trjr to p r> suade farmers that 1 , protect! vejtariffs are just what they need to advance their prosperity. They are told that their butter and cheese, their beet and pork, wheat and rye, corn and barley, are all protected by the Re* publican tariff, as also their hay and live animals. We have protection to such an extent that overproduction iajpauperizing labor and monopolists tell their employesit you do not like it we will import labor from Eurone, and, for augnt we care you may starve. ffigh protective tariff's have closed the markets of tile world to our manufactured wares, and now they are operating against eur agri* cultural interest. While these fact* stare the country in the faee we are told that, the remedy is more factories end high tariff taxes. We want more markets for our manufactured wares and for our agricultural products, and the way to reach them is uot by high tariff t. xation.—lndian* apoli? Sentinel.

A house that a workingman ought to get built for sboo, owing to tariff taxation, be has to pay S6OO for; for a house that should cost him SI,OOO or sl’2oo he mugi pay $1,200 or 1,4u0. it is one of the miseries of our system that a very small part of this onsrout. rax t;oes to pay the dub; of the eov* eminent and thereby diminish the future rate of taxation. The bulk of the money necessarily paid for the house that shelters the workingman is a premium given to protected makers of iron, lumber, glass, etc., whom the law invests with the power to levy forced contributions upon those who use thesejmaterials.•[Philadelphia Record. It Is not worth while to conjecture what the Republicans io Congress and out will de. They are agairst any reiuetiow of tariff. They are arrayed against any cutting down of taxa'ion They have not kept their promise made in the creation of a Tariff Commission, and in the utterances es that Commission which was its creature. The country must choose between the two schools of economists—between the Democrats, who ate oxerting themselves to re duee taxation, and Republicans, who resist each redaetion.—St. Louis R?publ ican. Indianapolis News;—Upon our st. .loment of the great reduction of the national debt, in the last eighteen or twenty years, our easily-pleased contemporary, t l 'e Joupnaf, enunciates. “ths work of the Republican pain.”- We haven notion that democrats and gr-enbackers and exrebels have helped to pay tho taxes which have paid that debt. We are in 'avor of giving even the devil his due; but any party which might have been in pow r during these years must have been bound by concurrent public opinion to cut down the national dsbr. Many funny things have been said to and about Susan B. Anthony, ant nothing more gre’esque than th* remark of the fr< sh member of Congress who on being introduced, congratulated her on the ‘ improved health of her son, the Senator from Rhode Island.” , The melancholy discovery is made that “gosh" is the worst kind Of swearing. Eliot in bis Indian Bible use? “osh” (my father) for the Almighty, and the early missionaries employed “gosh” (your father). It is s .id the Indians at once adopted the ' latter word for rb« use of.profanity. An Alabama Justice of the Peace, who was tardy in payinsr over a claim of SSO which he had adjudicated, being offended at the tone off a letter i from the claimant asking for the money, promptly paid ti e amount by chock J less $2,50. whiefi he fined the claimant for contempt of Court because of the letter. Buttermilk is believed to gently stir up tho liver.