Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1885 — How the Day was Observed. [ARTICLE]

How the Day was Observed.

It is now auiiouuced tliiit the Bartholdi Pedestal fund is completed. To the enterprise and public spirit of the New York World, is due the credit for the successful completion of the fund. \Vomen employed id various postoffices throughout the country are being rapidiy discharged and their places given to men. The hunger and thirst of the democratic party are such that politeness is out ofthe question.—lndianapolis Journal. Last winter’s Legislature passed a stringent law forbidding under severe penalties, all kinds of Skin games, like wheels of fortune and the like on Fair grounds. Men in the positions of fair officers are under strong obligations of duty to the community, to set an examof cheerful and strict obedience to salutory laws. A. J. Kitt, editor of the Goodland Herald, has been fippbitited Post-master at Goodland. We have a Warm place ih oiir heart for Brother Kitt, and fire very glad that he has got the office, but all the same we doh’t mind mentioning the fact that the Administration found -it necessary —to violate its civil service reform pledges in order to make a place for him by removing his prede-cessor-and a woman at that. The Austrian government has followed the example of Ital y and refused to receiveKeiley as American Minister to that nation. Keiley is the unreconstructed rebel who lately declared that the war for the union was “a gross and bloody outrage.” The story that the Administration has caused to be circulated, to the effeifj that Keiley Was refused by Austria because his- wife was a’ Jewess is not generally credited. President Cleveland has gone into the woods to have some fun for a few weeks,' and left the government to run itself. we have no fault to find with him for - indulging himself in a brief vacation from the cares of office and the importunities of the office seekers, but as our democratic exchanges were unsparing in their censure of the President’s republican predecessors for doing the same thing, an expression of opinion from them 1 upon the subject would-be very appropriate at this time

A number of prosecution's were begun in Indianapolis last week against physicians who had neglected to take out licenses under the provision of the new law, and the result was that, figuratively speaking, new doorways had to be made to accommodate the medi - •ine men who were rushing to .hr clerk’s office after licenses.' The method in which the prosecutions were conducted made the niattel' look as though it was done • more from a desire to make something; out of it than from any zeal for the public good. Ji he commission which, at the instance of the Indianapolis Mugexamined into the political methods of Aquilla .Jones, the postmaster, have givthe old gentleman a very su'ccesstul coating of white-wash. In slice of the fart that he bad*openly Jibd boldly removed efficient subm'dniates for no other reason than tbfiy were and old them so when he reiuoved ’’n-m'-the commission could not Sd that he had .violated the civil . they understood d- stid', ffidde a report that wak ; mw- «bm m pmlafory of Jones’ rnph?

The day of f Grant’s funeral Received proper observance in Rensselaer. The Court house, the G. A. R. hall and nearly all the business houses were heavily and tastefully draped with the usual black and white symbols of mourning. Among ;the busine-ss hquses which deserve especial mention on account of the profusion of their drapery may be mentioned The Citizens’ Bank, The Trade Palace, Hemphill & Honan’s storei Ludd Hopkins’ store, Hannahs drug store and The Republican office. The exercises of the day were udder the direction of the G. A. R. post, and the previously published programme was successfully carried out; in the presence of a very large and-sympa-thetic assemblage of people. Messrs. E. P. Hammond, S. P. Thompson; Tr~~W7 Babcock, 'J. W. Douthit and Rev. T. C. Webster were the speakers of the occasion. "Col. Hammond spoke of Grant as a commander of armies, Mr. Thompson as a civil r.uler, Mr. Babcock spoke of him 4n regard to his domestic relations, Mr. Douthit discoursed oLthe estimation in tvhich his contemporaries have held him, while Mr. Webster spoke of the noble fortitude in which the great departed bore his last sickness, and of his final heroic and triumphant death. The speakers rose to the magnitude of the occasion and the many sided Character of our ever-to-be-venerated leader were set forth in felicitous language.