Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1884 — His Sister Jessie. [ARTICLE]

His Sister Jessie.

[San Francisco call.] v There is a young man in Oakland who has a young sister by the name of Jessie, who was sent to a lashionable school for young ladies. He said when he left home he wondered if ahewoiild acquire the airs and affectations that certain young ladies he knew had hv attending the fashionable seminary. After being there a year he began to flatter himself that his sister was proof against sucli nonsense, when he received a letter signed “Jessica,” instead of ‘.‘Jessie,” as heretofore. In answering -he wrote something like this; “Dear sister Jessica: Your welcome letter received. Mammaica and papalsa are well. Aunt Maryica and Uncle Georgiea started for Santa Gfuz mountains yesterday. Have bought a new horse: it is a beauty; it is named Maudica. etc. your affectionate brother, Mamica.” The next letter was signed Jessie.

- Some ot the veterans of the late unpleasantness vigorously denounce President Arthur for the veto of the Fitz John Porter bill, and, as one of Porter’s old soldiers, I heartly sympathise with him. Mr. Arthur was an original abolitionist, but is one of those prudent men who are soldiers In time of peace and citizens in time ot war. He won his title of “general” while acting as quartermaster general for Governor Morgan, and though he was taunted a good many times in public and private for not take ing his six feet of stalwart humanity to the front, he only smiled end stuck to his law practice and some govsiAmeot contracts that brought him m money Under the circumstances he could hardly appreciate the cause of Fitz John Porter, who. in the opinion of the men who fought under him, was as good a sokller and as true a patriot as the war tarnished—[New York letter tp Philadelphia Record.

fur the Rockville (I ad.) Tribune: Will Beadle, of the Rockville Tribune, explain how the tree trade can advance the price of wheat?—Frankfort BannerHe Will: he will. Here is Gnba begging the privilege of trading u» cheap sugar for wheat, aud here is Guiaoa producing the purest sugar in the worll at a net eost of two cents a pound, and asking to trade tt to us for wheat. They cannot r- lae wheat in those countries —too hot. When Demerara sugar wa* untaxed, it retailed at Rockville' at six @ seven cents a Jpound A bushel of wheat under free trade bought fifteen pounds of pura sugar; now it buys ten pounds of dirty glucose. In the name of God and common sense, why should not hot countries raise sugar, and cold oues raise wheat, and make a free exchange? He who seis up an indnstry out of its place, invites nature to be his competitor, and'fights against God.

The New Ycrk Evening lost calls attention to the fact that the president’s argument in the Fitz John Porter veto is disposed of entirely in the case of Surgeon General Hammond. He was dismissed by sentence of court martial August 18, 1864. An act of congress, approved March 15 1878, in its first act authorized the president to revive the proceeding of that court martial, and to annul and set aside its findings sentence, if, upon review, he shout'd deem it right and proper so todo. The second section in the eveut of the findings and sentence thus being set aside, further authorized the president to place General HammoDd upon the retired list (without pay or allowance) aud on August 2t, 1879, he was restored to the army, and his name was placed on the retired list, where it yet remains Every point of objection to the Fitz John Porter bill is here met and in the face of such precedents the objections offered show their sheer injustice and lack of any value.'