Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1885 — GEN. GRANT [ARTICLE]

GEN. GRANT

Passed away yesterday morning at 8:08 o’clock. He died peacefully. surrounded by family and friends, and the nation mourns. The Reusselaer Post, No. 84, G. A. R., on the announcement of th death of Comrade General U. S. Grant, appointed a committee to make arrangements for a suitable memorial service, to be conducted by the Post, and the entire community will be invited to join with them. The funeral services are announced to take place on Tuesday of week after next, when the wlioD nation will participate in the last sad rites. Due notice will be given of arrangements made for proper observance at this place.

Uncle Tom liobinson returned last Saturday from a trip to Kansas, the home of hisgrea political leader, ex-Gov. John P. St. John. ■ Price & Price, attorneys, Highmore, Dakota, lost their library Thursday of last week. It was jjcycloned.” Some of the volumes have been heard of up in Manitoba. Charlie writes to a friend here that he intends to stay in that section if there should be a cyclone every day and two on Sunday. Our old friend Joe Sain, of Monon, has been appointed postmaster for that place. A good selection, and we extend congratulations.

About tlie thinnest thing out, is the effort of the Republican editors to impress their readers with the idea that the Democratic administration is responsible and -hould be censured for the financial •mash-up of John Roach. As the Republican administration had almost paid the contract price for tne Dolphin, it is hardly necessary to add that John Roach’s failure, if failure it is, cannot be attributed to the Government. Tne cheap foreign labor, imported to ffil the places of Americans in tne iron works at Cleveland, Ohio, is costing the people more than it i oines to. Hundreds of extra police, damaged property, suspension of business costs farm excess of the thrifty, fairly paid Americans. It might be well to let these soulless corporations protect their own property in times in which they have themselves occas. ioned strifes with their employes and presumed upon their weakness. The police jand militia should hardly be used to enforce oppression. These corporations are protected against foreign competition, but our toiling citizens are not protected against competition with imported foreign cheap labor. Our hard-fisted, sinewy sous of toil are entitled to an equalization in this matter, instead of being required to face the clubs of the policemen or the bayonets- of the military.

Gentlemen, I cannot permit a question of mere rev nue to be considered alongside of a question of morals, but give me a sober population, not wasting their earnings ofl strong drink, and I will know where to get my revenue.- T Gladstone to Brewers of London. Miss Bessie Hincks, a prominent member of Boston society, was walking in that city, when her dresr caught fire from a smouldering fire cracker, and she was horribly burned, death following in a few hours

Three young bantam chickens belonging to Charles R. Hambnght, of Yark, Pa., lay eggs that a pure white on one side and a beautiful strawberry on the other.

A Pathetic Address in “oiirt. Capt. E. T. Johnson, of Indianapolis, recently on trial and acquitted at Greenville, Tenn., for the killing of Major Henry, in 1884, for debauching his wife, who afterwards committed suicide, made the following extraordinary speech in Kokomo some years age, as reported at the time in the papers of that city: “E. T. Johnson tried his first case since his resumption of the practice of the law in Kokomo last week. As is known, his long illness has seriously impaired his hearing, and he was compelled to use a large, uncouth ear-trumpet in order to hear the testimony of witnesses and the cross questh ning of the opposing counsel, on - of whom was an attorney named Garngus, and who took occasion once or twice to be merry over the big tin horn. In his speech Johnso* retorted as follows: “Several times during this trial the gentleman has sneered contemptuously at my infirmity, and at the unsightly ear-tr . mpet it compels me to use. My dear sir, if this trumpet is s > distasteful to you, try to imagine how loathsome it is to me. I never look at it without a shudder. My hand never touches it that I do not struggle with the impulse to lling it from me as the most hideous thing on earth. Should you put that trumpet to your ear you would hear sounds that would make your very eyeballs start from their sockets. You would hear the heaving and tossing of the most dreadful billows of suffering that ever rolled across a human soul. You wo’d hear groans unutterable, denoting the agony both physical and mental through which I have passed during the last five gears. L.,..,: “ ‘You would hear the fierce shock of a lofty ambition suddenly dethroned, and the tumbling and falling of crushed and ruined hopes. Try again, and you may hear the heart-broken cry of a young father as he strained his deaf ears in vain to catch the whispered words of his dying child. “Jesus Christ—blessed be His holy name! often wept but never jeered at the misfortunes of humanity. My friend, I know you did not mean what you said; tire words came from vourj lips, not from your heart. And 1 now give you back your flings, with this assurance: If the heavy hand of missortune should ever be laid on you, stripping you of yoitr splendid and perfect manhood, in all the wide world no heart will offer you more profound ami sincere sympathy 1 then mine.”- l’ivi* >nth Democrat.