Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1885 — Facts for Soldier Boys. [ARTICLE]

Facts for Soldier Boys.

The soldier boys should understand that our Democratic Commissioner of Pensions, General Amu Black, has reversed the onler of proceedure in cases for pension before him, in that, instead of treating the applicants as dead-beats and perjurers, and seeking to find an excuse for rejecting their claims —as has been the case under Republican rul 3 — he makes his iuiiligs upon justice and common sense, and in looking up evidence in their cases seeks to assist them in establishing their claims, mid when established is allowed aud a certificate issued at once in accordance with law, and hence it ’is «,haL claims are being paid to men all over the country who have been pleading for simple justice the past fifteen years with no success under the Dudleys & Co. Comrade Miles, of Kendalville, who has just received about $2,000 in settlement of ms long-standing claim, is the latest witness to the facts above sta ml, and many others we know \ f could do likewiso. And yet we are told by certain fellows who think the war is not over, that the ! .’v. -j.ocrh.ts would cat off all pensions and re-enslave the negro if once in power.—Albion Democrat.

The d y following the nomimtio ; of Ira Davenport, republican n . r(f i vei nor, Typographical Union No. 6 sent a letter to him, which after referring to the utterances of the party platform on servile labor, called Mr. Davenport’s attention to the employment of non-union printers in the Tribune office. He wfes urged to use his influence. eve the Tribune adopt union to denounce* the paper’s* 'motnods- ' publicly.— Failing to do tW he was informed that it would be. take?: for granted that |h< preferred t! ■■ support of White! aw Reid, rather than the support of the o rganized labor of New York. Mr. Davenport up to this time has made no reply, and the union is preparing to boycott him.

Several /ears ago Paymaster Tucker, He nat >r Logan’s son-in-law, took advantage of a survey and pre-empted certain lands in Arizona which had always been considered as belonging to the Zulu Indians. When the facts in the case were brought before t resident Arthur he issued a proclamation restoring the lam's to the reservation. Senator Logan made an earnest protest against this decision, and the matter hung fire until the other day, when Commissioner Sparks decided that the lands belonged to the Indians, and that Paymaster Tucker had no claim upon them.

President MoGosh, of Princeton College has two daughters who are great walkers. They are in the habit of walking to Trenton and back, a distance of about twenty miles, where they do their shopping. One day a dude accosted Miss Ikidgct McCosli on the road and said, in the usual manner: “Beg pardon, but may I walk with you?’' She replied: “Certainly,” and. let herself out a little. After the first half mile the masher bogan to gasp, and then as she passed e.e " a smile, he sat down j tiii 0 Li. :i milestone and mopped the perspiration from his brow. Ex-Senator DaAid Davis tells a story which may be useful to stump speakers in future campaigns. One day, while on the stump himself, ho had occasion to say: “I know no East, no West, no North, no South.” “Then,” said one of his hearers, “you’d better go home and study up your geography.” It broke me all up,” says Mr. Davis, “and from that time on till the close of my address there was no personal magnetism in my bursts of campaign eloquence.” Professor (looking at his watch): “As we have a few more minutes, I shall be glad to answer any question that any one may wish to ask” Student: “What time ig it, please?”