Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1891 — OLD AND INTERESTING. [ARTICLE]

OLD AND INTERESTING.

The Gainesville (Texas) Hesperian has perused a eopy of the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post of February 5, 1848IJ which is quite interesting to read at this late day. That paper says: “It speaks of Clay, Cass, Calhoun, Douglas, Scott, Taylor, Pierce, Rusk, Benton, Buchanan and other leading men of that dav. It speculates upon the chances of Taylor, Clay and Scott for the Whig nomination for the presidency. Its market reoorts show cotton worth from 71 to 9J cents, coffee from 6| to 7f cents, sugar at 4 cents, beef at $3.50 on foot, wheat $1.40 per bushel, whisky 26 cents a gallon, corn 60 cents a bushel, etc. It is interesting to read these old papers and compare then and now after fortr years. The market prices mentioned above were about the average—varying slightly with the supply and demand— from that year till the breaking out of the war in 1861, and puts to shame the falsehoods of the plutocratic presq that the prices of the necessaries of life were never lower than at present, and that farmers never got better rates for their products than at present —Coquille City (Oregon) Herald. It seems that Russell Harrison wanted a Government revenue steamer for aperi sonal excursion. He didn’t get it. If he i didn’t know enough to know that his father does not own the United States navy there were those who did, and they refused the young man his ocean trip.— Fort Wayne News. If you will read the dispatches printed ■ in Thursday’s papers you will observe that Russ got his Government boat by order of his "pa" and went with “ma” down the bay, where they met the steamship Majestic, and took therefrom Russ’ wife and sister.