Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1885 — WHERE TO ATTEND SCHOOL [ARTICLE]

WHERE TO ATTEND SCHOOL

1. —Where you can get good instruction in whatever you may wish to study. 2. —Where you can get good accommodations and good society. 3. —Where the expenses are least4. —Where thiugs are just as represented, or all money refunded and traveling expenses paid. Send o>- gpooinl terms and try the Ceniv 1 i ota Normal School and Jhibire? (ullage, Ladoga, Ind.

A. F. KNOTTS, Principal.

T. < liei’hood vs. The Bloody -Shirt. To the Editor of the Democratic Sentinel: The accompanying extract is fl-om the pen of Dr. C. A. Logan, wno in years long past was a deniy..ii of Rensselaer, and well known throughout the cox ' .IT-qn r. letter fr> m whir!i it is taken s written in the fall of 1805 and dated at Leavenworth Kansas, where lie was then resitting. Al the time of writing, he had just returned from Baltimore where he had been attending a mo, ting of the Grand Lodge of the I . S. of the I. O. O. E., and ox|which ne afterwards became the Grand Sire-

It is offered for publication be. ; cause ■ reflects honor on one of our most philanthropic institutions whose professed object is to "gatli- ■ V if; mbit antagonistic natures, control the elements of dis_ •cord, U ; -the the spirit of passion fcnd ..lireefc in harmony man’s unit-

i - 'orts to fraternize the world; and at the same time discloses the magnanimous sentiments and sympathies of men who had jus emerged from the dreadful conflict of the civil war; and more especially, because it makes mention of an Individual who of -ate has dom himself .muchg honor in the eyes of the nation by the noble and conspicuous part he performed in the obsequies of Gen. Grant, and who, in all probability, will be the the next Governor of Virginia— Fitzhugh Lee:

‘‘The last meeting of the Grand Lodge of U. 8. was perhaps the most astonishing affair, vie r od by its results and developments, of this strange epoch. Representatives were present from every Southern State, save North Carolina and Florida. The Grand 1 .edge was in session one week—daring which time men of letters, of trade, officers of Government, the high and the low, all vied with each other in doing homage to that institution which amid the wreck of the country and crash f sound ties rode proudly above the din of battle and carried the white emblem of peace and brotherhood above the flags of v infuriated people. The man of the f>*r South was tkere and of the cold 1 101 til, it; id together they wept (no figure) over the desolation of four years. Ha’ l grasped hand and hearts swelled n unison, that the reign of pan, , n was over. Said Fitzhugh L • of Virginia:

T will go h me and tell my people that they have been mistaken in their estimates ot our Northern brothers; 1 will tell them wluit I have seen here to-day, and my Word for it, it,will do more towards cementing our distracted country than all the reconstruction policies of the wily politicians.’ I have no words to describe those scenes.’ J. M Lightning struck a California pear tree and cooked the fruit brown. Railroad ties cost $1 each in Mexico.