Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1888 — LINCOLN’S PREDICTION. [ARTICLE]

LINCOLN’S PREDICTION.

President Lincoln, m answer to a letter from a friend in Illinois, used the following language: “Yes, we may all congratulate om selves that this cruel war is nearing a close. It has cost a vast amount of treasure and bleod. — The best blood of the flower of the American youth has been offered upon our country’s altar that the nation might live. It has been a trying hour for the republic; but I see in the near future a crisis arising that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of mv country. As a result of the war corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in h gh places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavto prolong its reign by working on the prejudices es the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the country is destroyed. 1 feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever bes ore in the midst of war. God grant that my fears may prove groundless.”

Union Christmas Entertainment at Opera House, December 26th, 1888. The surest evidsnee of the efficiency of Mr. and Mrs. Brcwn as instructors in Art is the continual increase in the number of pupils. □ln this locality the aspirants who think their great services ‘deserve recognition in a sub itantial way’ are so numerous that, when they receive their reward, the democracy will thereafter roll up the majorities in this countyAunt Jane Nowels, wife of Stephen Nowels, and mother of Wm. Nowels of this townshio, Jformerly a resident of this county) died at her home, Elk falls, Kansas, on Thursday of last week, aged about 74 years. For the third time inside of two years has death entered the household of Mr. Healy and claimed a loved one. On last Saturday evening, after a tries illness. Miss Lucy B. Healy departed this life, in the 19th year of her age. Loved by all vho knew her, the sincere sympathy of the entire community goes out to the thrice—stricken family. Religious services were conducted by Father Willard, assisted by Father Dick, at St. Augustine’s Catholic church, last Sunday afternoon. The remains were interred in the family lot, in Weston cemetery.