Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1885 — Our Friends, the Postmaster-Editors. [ARTICLE]

Our Friends, the Postmaster-Edi-tors.

New York Sun: The editors of some of our esteemed Democratic contemporaries in the country towns have had the felicity of being appointed Postmasters, and many more of them are doubtless looking forward to the enjoyment of that felicity. We hope they will g t it, and we are sure they deserve it. These Democratic editors in the small towns have long done faithful service to the party, often in the face of great discouragements and with no immediate prospects of reward. They have whacked away at the It publicans year in and year out, and it is right that they should have their share in the benefits of the change for which they have worked so well.— The editor of a country paper is often his own publisher and his own printer. He usually has good business qual ties, and is fitted to be an efficient Postmaster, * * and will not neglect his office for his paper, nor his paper for his office. - Alexander H. Stephens always stuck to it that the most villainous and depraved scene ever witnessed by him was at a religious meeting. A man went up among the “mourners’ whil his wife, a handsome young woman remained on a back seat. When the husband was busily engaged in prayer, the wife was listening complacently to a wild young man who was making love to her. The Rensselaer Public Schools open next Monday, September 7th. The parents should have their children ready to enter the first day.— They should aid the teachers all they can in encouraging the children to be punctual and avoid being tardy. Jasper Co. Fair—next Tuesday.

Bro. Marshall’s idea of civii service is to retain in place all republican appointees- He is particularly distressed over the removal of lady officials. We trust the administration will rapidly cancel all appointments made to forestall its action as those enumerated in the Republican. We notice a larger proportion, of ladies are being appointed to office than has heretofore been the case, and while our neighbo - is so solicitous with reference to their removal from place, may he always remember that no Democratic administration ever sanctioned and directed the removal of a woman from this world to the world beyond.

“Jap Turpin,” in the Indianapolis Sentinel, of Wednesday, says: I lately talked with Judge Lamburt, who was Mrs. Surratt's counsel before the Military Commission that condemned her to death. He stood with his client on the scaffold and registered an oath that after a quarter of a century should have passed away, to reveal the awful conspiracy. It i > a chapter in American history stained with inexcusable blood. Since her execution he has refused large sums of money for a history of the case. He was induced to write but one article, and that was in response to a personal appeal from General Hancock, for the North American Review. When Mrs. Surratt was hanged the Repul lican press of the country said that it was all right. When General Hancock became the Democratic candidate for the Presidency, the press that had applauded received a new revelation and pronounced her “taking off” an atrocious murder. The strange part of the story is—passion having passed away—the world believed her innocent. More than his quarrel with President Johnson, his complicity in the Surratt tragedy is thought to have broke the iron constitution of EdwL. M. Stanton. Haunted by her accusing . spirit, there are people, forced to believe that he sought the grave of a suicide. The object of the partisan press was to make the Democratic candidate, if not accessory, largely responsible for the murder of an innocent woman. General Hancock commanded the department, but he was innocent of any authority ov r the commission. I suppose Mrs. Surratt’s trial, or the alleged trial and the neck breaking result, is one thing iu which Stanton had his own way. But evidence that was withheld from the consideration oi the Commission, will appear in the Judge’s book, which is to be issued next year.

White County Democrat; We chronicle this week the death of one of our oldest and most esteemed citizens, Uncle Johnny Peters. For several months Mr. Peters has been failing, and on Wednesday he passed away. He was buried under the auspices of the G. A. R., of which order he was a member. vv e can bear testimony to the fact that Mr. Peters was an obliging neighbor, true in his friendships, warm in his attachments, he was an honest, upright citizen. He was a member of the 46th Ind., and in What is known as Gen. Banks’ Cotton Expedition he was struck by a spent ball, inflicting a bruise from which he suffered to the day of h s death, but through technicalities obtruded by the exclusive friends( ?) of the soldier late in power was unsuccessful in his application for a pension. He leaves an aged, helpless widow, and we trust that Gen. Black will see that justice is done in this matter. Tuesday last J. W. Duvall received a telegram from Kansas, an. nouncing the death of Mrs. Cassius M.|Hopkins, formerly of this place. Mrs. H. was a sister of Mrs. Duvall. Her death was caused by lightning, Monday evening. Monday last, while at work on Paris barn, Ed. Smith cut a severe gash in his left hand with a hatchet Drs. Loughridge & Bitters bound up the wound. B®“* Don’t forget the Fair.

WANTED.—AII parties knowing themselves to be indebted to me are requested to call and settle

at once.

R. H. YEOMAN.