Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1885 — WHICH? [ARTICLE]

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Philadelphia Times: The new mme for bloody-shirtism is the I) lirium Shermans. Head G >vernor Headley’s exco- ■. 'tion of the arch demagogue John Sherman, in to-day’s Sentinel, Commauder-in-chief Burdette of t ie G. A. R. has issued a circular urging all members to contribute 15 cents each for a monument to General Grant. A tramp went into a house in Missouri and spit on the parlor carpet. The woman was sick in bed, but she got up and broke his collar-lone and ran him to the woods. ... - -♦♦♦ -♦♦- Jno. L. Makeever, Esq., formerly of Rensselaer, and Miss Jennie Jarmin, were married Sept. 3d, at Osceola, Nebraska. The Osceola paper give a brilliant description of the affair. We are requested to announce that the Day Brothers will engage in the Coal trade the coming wint ?r, and invite consumers to consult with them before procuring their supply.

Crown Point Register: Ex-Con-gressman Wood says he has succeeded in putting in several democratic postmasters in this district within the last week, aYd he expects to reward more of his friends in the near future.” Exposition Rates.—The station agent at this -lace will sell round trip tickets to Chicago and r -turn, for $2.95, on Tuesdays and ’hu sdays of eve’y week until Oct. 14th. Good return on any regular train until Monday fol--1 »wing Uiedav when sold. The Louisville Courier-Journal says: Colonel Mulligan, whose widow has just been made pension agent at Chicago, was the American Regulus. -When a Confederate prisoner he was 1 eleased in order that he might go to Washington and ask for an exchange of prisoners. He was unsuccessful, and was advised not to return; but he was a man of honor and went back to take his place in the Confederate prison.

The Democratic Sentinel sa s that “Miss Ada Sweet, of Chicago, h s accepted Gen. Black’s request to resign.” The statement does injustice to Miss Sweet. She has resigned the office, but not in response to Gen. Black’s invitation, but because the firm of A. H. Andrews & Co., the furniture and school supply dealers, have offered her a better salary to take charge of a branch of their business in the East than she draws as pension agent.—Rensselaer Republican. The Delphi Journal, a republican paper, on the same subject says: “Miss Sweet has finally been retired from the United States Pension offlc-, located in Chicago, through the aid of Gen. Black, Commissioner of Pensions, backed up by the power of the present Reform Democratic Administration.” Of course the additional comments of the Journal prove that it is not pleased at the alternative Jest Miss Sweet resignation or removal —but the extract goes to show up the inventive talent of our neighbor in the line of Sweet falsification. If the Delphi Journal is correct, then the Rensselaer Republican is wrong. We leave these organs to the enjoyment of all the Sweet comfort they may derive from the power exercised by “the present Reform Democratic Administration.”

Monticello Herald: J. 8. Casad’s vineyard has produced a ton of giapes this season—the product of young vines. . About a thousand bunches were grown in paper sacks, which it is claimed make the grapes mcr. delicious and improves their condition lor preserving, While the keeper of Jumbo, the .thirty thousand dollar elephant was h ading him along the railroad track, half a mile east of St. Thomas, Ont., Tuesday light, a freight train came up behind unnoticed and ran him down, injuring him so badly that he died in thirty minutes. The trick elephant, Tom Thumb, was also injured, his leg being broken. Jumbo was supposed to be about thirty years old, and is believed to have been the largest elephant ever held in captivity.