Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1886 — NEWTON ITEMS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEWTON ITEMS.

The fine weather received a decided backset Saturday, but evervthing is lovely at present. The wheat and grass is beginning to grow and it is to be hoped that spring has come to stay. The political excitement, which has been rather quiet heretofore, is rising. The Democrats met at Sayler school house last Saturday, and nominated Jackson Freeland, for Trustee, and Charley Paxton for Assesso. They are both good men, and in every way qualified for the places. The other nominations are equally good. “Your Brother,” of the Republican, fails to respond to the article of “Young Democrat,” of the Sentinel. Cattle are looking well at present, and some that have been corned all winter are almost ready for market. The quicksand is very bad in places along the roads, which renders travel exceedingly difficult. Cornelius Sayler, who has been very sick for some time, is on the mend. The Republicans are growing desperate and will spare no efforts in the future to regain power, but if the Democrats act” prudent! • there is no dang r but that vi Lory will continue to be theirs. Republicans are greatly troubled at seeing so many post-masters turned out; they can’t understand (?) why it is. Father Havens has made arrangements to preach at Sayler school house every four weeks. A Sunday school has been organized at Saylerville, regular sessions to begin the first Sunday in AprJ. Charles Benjamin is Superintendent, and is an excellent man for that place. Shorty. Match 23,1886.

Go to the Dickens! an don’t fail to see Mrs. Jarley.

How Washington Won a Man’s Wife.- When Washington was a young man, in traveling along the upper Potomac, he stopped at an inn one • ay and inquired the news. The landlord told him the s nsation of the day was a jumping match for a wife on?the estate of one of the richest planters near by. On being told it was open to all comers Washington started for tbe place and arrived th re just as t : e jumping was about completed. He notice 1 that the young lady in question was highly pleased with the successful jumping of one of one of file competitors who had out-distanced nil the others. At the close Washington asked if he might try his .chance; he was told to go ahead and made by far the best jump of the day. As he ret.irned to the crowd he noticed that lady’s face had|fallen, and lie went up to her and remarked: “You would havejpreferred I had not been tbe one to excel the other.”

' he lady candidly said this was so. “Then,” said Washington, “I give my chance to him,” and returned as unknown as he came.— Toward the close of the revolution this young lady, then the wife of a colonel of militia,met Washington, and on telling her husband that she had met him before, he doubted the fact, and the two went to Washington to decide it. “Yes,” replied General Washington, “I saw your wife at the j umping match before she was married, and I believe I won her.” —New York Tribune.

Go to the Dickens! and don’t you fail to see Mark lapley,' Silas Wegg (with his wooden leg), Betsy Trotwood, Sam Weller, Old Quilp, David Cop-

perfield, and five other characters selected from Charles Dickens!