Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1896 — ARMENIA. [ARTICLE]

ARMENIA.

A meeting for the purpose of expressing sympathy with the suf. fenng people of Armenia, and protesting against their persecution,is called for next Sunday afternoon, at 2:30, at the M. E. Church. All the pastors in town may o confidently expected; and all the churches, it is to be hoped, will be represented. The public generally is cordially i vited. It is a matter of interest that the only two democrats elected to the presidency since the war have been stanch supporters ot the Monroe doctrine. Mr. Tilden was no less emphatic in this line than Mr. Cleveland is. Ten years ago Mr. Tilden engaged- in a special effort for the strengthening of our seas coast defenses, and a large amount of the work tnat has been done in that line since then may fairly be taken as the indirect result of his agitation of the question.—lndiauapolis Sentinel.

The adoption of a SI,OOO license law in Philadelphia in 1888 reduced the number of saloons in the city from 5,773 to 1,343. This vear the licenses granted reach 1,670, yielding an income to the city of $1,670,000. A naturalist who sewed bits of red silk to swallows caught in England, identified one of the same birds in the neighborhood of the pyramids. With regard to sparking over ;he front gate, a good deal can be said on both sides.—Texas Siftings.