Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1888 — FORGIVE AND FORGET. [ARTICLE]

FORGIVE AND FORGET.

George W. Libby, in a communication from Washington to Vha Richmond (Va.) Dispatch, in regard to the proposed transfer of Libby prison from Richmond to Chicago, writes: “I would not like to see the old house removed as around it clusters some of the fondest memories of a happy youth and early manhood, but if it is to be carried to Chioago and converted into a museum whose walls are to be decorrted with scenes and incidents relative to the prison, I could furnish a pen-picture from facts which, if faithfully portrayed on canvass, should have a conspicuous place among them. It is this: “An old gray kairtd man (whose only offense against the United States government was in havng a prison named after him by accident, and a son in the confederate army) being carried through the streets of Boston handcuffed, followed by a jeering, hooting crowd; also my mother, aunt and sister, the last with a nursing babe in her arms —conducted to the alms house in Norfolk, Va., by a colored guard with drawn sabres. But I am now a loyal citizen of the United States and think shch scenes and incidents should be forgotten.”

We take pleasure in calling the attention of our readers to the following extract from a letter to the Eldredge Manufacturing Go., Chicago, written by an English dealer in Sewing Machines: Gents: I have telegraphed you this day to send on as quickl / as possible 50 No. 2 tables and covers. I find I shall be out of these much sooner than the other styles. The stands and heads you can send at earliest convenience.

I am very much pleasgd to say that these last hundred machines are highly satisfactory. For finish, smoothness and easy running, 1 really believe they are unequalled by any other Sewing Machine selling in this country. The machines require less preparation for delivery than any other machines I have handled during the whole course of my experience extending over 20 years. Yours Truiy,

THOS. RHODES.

Mrs. J. W. McEwen is agent for these machines in this county.— Call and see them before purchasing elsewhere.

One Equalizes the Other.— Protecting manufactures with cue hand and raw materials with the other is such a travesty of common sense that the human mind recoils in the effort to grasp it Protection had been going thirty-five years in this country before any-

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