Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1885 — FRIDAY JULY 3, 1885. [ARTICLE]

FRIDAY JULY 3, 1885.

Fire-Works! at night, on the 4th, at Rensselaer. Don’t fail to see the beautiful display. Attorney-General Hord has decided that a notary public cannot hold another office of trust and piofit and legally discharge the duties of a notary.

Fun ' —There will be bushels and loads of Fun! at Rensselaer on the Fourth. The young folks make the party, but all hands laugh hearty, on the 4th. —— - I

Valparaiso Messenger: Bro. Bitters, of the Rochester Republican, ironically states that since Henry Ward Beecher has become alienated from the “grand old party” he has been hunting for the “missing link.” He might find the “missing link” in the Republican office.

Fun, Boys, Fun! —Foot races, sack races, shooting tournament and all sorts of athletic sports and innocent amusements at Rensselaer on the 4th.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer produces the statistics to prove its statement that over half the soldiers of the Union army were Democrats. The figures are 1,456,889 Democrats and 1,222,000 Republicans.

Come to Rensselaer on the 4th, with your wife and your babies; with your man servant and maid servant, and join in one day of patriotic pastime and pleasureable rest.

The colored voters of Virginia, who have deserted from the camp of Mahone and are joining the Democratic ranks, were told by Mahone and his followers last fall, that if the Democratic party came into power the negroes would be “put back into slavery.” The negroes have discovered that Mahone and his followers lied to them, and have repudiated the RepublicanRepudiation party. The chief aim of our executive committee for the Fourth of July has been to give every bod a chance to have a good time and an old fashioned reunion of neighbors and friends.

A rebe - major-general who drew his sword against the government tHat educated him got a fat place yesterday.—Pittburg (Pa.) Commercial Gazette.

And was his name Longstreet? Probably not, as that republican “rebel major-general” is now on the retired list. Or was it Mahone ? No he was only a “rebel brigadier.” but it is understood that for the first time in years he, too manifests a retiring disposition. Nor was it Mosby, nor Key, nor Settle, nor Ackerman, nor Holden, nor Orr nor any of the “rebel brigadiers” who got their fat appointments years ago—almost before they had wiped their swords dry—for b/)- ’ coming republicans.— N. Y. World.

H. R. W. Smith, of the New York World, is billed for one of the short speeches on the 4th Mr. Smith, is well knon to many of our people and it is safe to say no one will have a better hearing on the 4th.