Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1890 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

The Alton (Ill.) Board of Education has provided separate sc.ools for colored children, but the negroes want their children to attend the schools set apart for the white pupils. January 10 a score of adult negroes, accompained bv half a hundred black child.ca, went to a high school and demanded admission. Superin tendent Powell is a mild natured man an 1 offered no object ions. The black children walk ed in and took possession of all the desks they found unoccupied. The white pupils protested and began to pack up their books and make preparations to leave. Some of the colored boys grinned at the white girls, and as soon as the colored men left the building the white pupils assaulted the blacks. There was a hard fight fifteen minutes, during which books, inkstands, rulers, slates and hair filled .the air. The whites finally drove the blacks out of the yard a i continued the fight in the street. The white girls urged their champions on with encouraging shouts and brought them munitions of war when possible

Hon. Wm. E. Russell, the brilliant young leader of the Massachusetts Democracy, thus disposes of some of the misstatements concerning the operation of the new ballot law in Massachusetts: “So far as we can ascertain, the mistakes were about equally dividedbetween the parties and I think were made by quite as much ’by men of little education. The result showed in every city of the commonwealth where the Democratic vote is made up very largely of work ingmen and men who have not had many advantages in education, lhat without exception in those places the Democrats gained largely over prior year, with the single exception of the city of Boston. The contrary result in Boston was due entirely, I think, to a cause outside of the ballot law.”

Daniel Webster, m a speech delivered in Boston in 1820, thus graphically foretold th© operation of a high protective tariff la w: Hence a perpetual contest carried on between the different interests of society. Agriculture 'taxed to-day to sustain agriculture—and then impositions, perhaps, on both manufactures and agriculture to support commerce. I can hardly conceive of anything worse than a policy which shall place the great interests -of this country in hostility, to one another—a policy which will keep them in constant ’Conflict—and bring them every year to fight their battles in the committee rooms of the House of Representatives at Washington. <

Melville G. Lane, a brother of amesG. Blaine, recently appointed princinal teacher at the Chemawa Indian School near Salem, died at that institution on the 30th alt., after a brief illness. He had been a resident of Oregon since 1870, and has always borne the name of La ne for private rea sons.—Democratic Times, Jacksonville, Ore. Ex- Convict. ex-Congressman and now Collector of the Port of Beaufort Smalls has just achieved a valuable triumph in jthe appointment of a superintendent of|the Charleston U. 8. Court House Building. < ontesting Congressman Miller is, therefore, much set oack.