Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1885 — From a Weil Kniown Citizen. [ARTICLE]

From a Weil Kniown Citizen.

Let the independent prCss that takes exception to John Sherman’s speech answer specifically: Is it waving the bloody shirt to argue in favor of free and fair elections? —lndian tpolts Journal.

John Sherman edmes back at the degenerate renegade, Hoadley in a crushing reply, on one of our inside pages, this Week. Thtv speech is also a noble and manly appeal for justice, equal rights and fair elections for all men, North or South, black or white. What is tlih matter with the town authorities that the sewer on the north side of Washington street ! should be allowed, to remain in its present half useless condition for! so many months? It lias been out! of brder, and badly clogged all j summer, and after every rain the water stands on the surface, in the ditches above the sewer, sometimes for days together.

Harper’s Weekly, which is more English than American in spirit, and many other papers which ought to kiiow better, sneer at this country’s claims of being a land of liberty when such affairs as the massacre of the ‘Chinese at Itock Springs, can take place Within its borders. The taunt is undeserved as the investigations of the Chinese consuls at the scene of the riots show that not a single American born person -took part in tlie crime. It is grossly unjust to hold Americans in general responsible for the crimes of all the lawless foreign er£ who comh to our shores.

The Hensselaer fair Association is paying jits premiums at the rate of 70 cents on the dollar and a very decided growl is coming up from the exhibitors. —Keinington Nncs. We believe the News is entirely mistaken as to the “decided growl” coming up from exhibitors. So far ns we have heard, and that, is from a good many, exhibitors are heartily disposed to look upon the matter of the sealed premitims m a just and generous spirit. They recognize the exceedingly bad luck that fell to the Association, in the shape of the bad weather of fair week, and acknowledge the fact that the directors are doing well in paying so large a per cent as they are doing. ; The News also understates the per cent paid; it is 75 ■ cents on the dollar not 70,

The Democratic Sentinel tries to justify its assertiou that Miss Sweet resigned at Gen. .Black’s request! by quotirg a paragraph to the same effect front" the Delphi Journal. Miss Sweeps letter of Designation is conclusive evidence of the cosreetness of our assertion that' she resigned the office voluntarily, and we quote it entire: “Chicago, 111., Sept. 5,188 o! “(Irover Cleveland, President of the United States: “I have accepted the position very recently tendered me of general Eastern manager of a business enterprise controlled by a Chicago firm. My new duties and interests will engage my [ecthe attention after Oct. 1, 188.1, and I, therefore, beg to present my resignation of the olliae of , Sigtes Pension agent, to take effect the Noth aay 1 of this month. Thanking yoik for the Confidence yob have shown me and for the courtesy and consideration bestoAved upon me by you and the officers of your Cabinet with whom I have, had business relations, I am very respectfully, your obedient servant. - Ada C. Sweet, “U. S. Pension Agent.” It will he noticed that Mhs« S%eei’§Thanks for courtesy extern! only to tie President and his cabinet and do not include the bull dozing and bull headed commissioner of pensions. '

The effect of high license in Chicago has been to make a very material reduction in the nnuiber of the saloons as,well as to cause # f * the liquor business to pay 31 liberal share of the extra burden of -taxation of which they are directly or indirectly the cause. Official statistic*? show that in 1888, when a fifty-two dollar license was in force? Chicago had 3*849 saloons’. During the quarter beginning May, Ist 1885, with the five hundred dollar license in operation the number of licenses taken out was 3,336, while for the quarter beginning August Ist, the figures indicate that the number will be reduced to 3,000. This will give"a reduction in the number of saloons as they existed in 1882 of over 800 and when we consider the increase of population in Chicago during those thre'a years, the reduction in the number of saloons? is comparatively much larger than these figures show. The case of Joliet, Ilk, is still more conclusive. There the number of saloons has been reduced, by a thousand dollar license, from about seventy to half that number. In both these cities and in every place where high license is adopted, it drives out a large proportion of the low dives and makes the saloon keepers vastly more careful in the conduct of their places*

The tenacity with which people abiie by their early lnth in Ayer’s Sarsaprilla is explained by the fact that it is the best blood medicine ever used and is not equalled in excellence by any ue\v candidate for public favor, Ayer’s Airae Cure stimulates the .action of the liver,- cleanses the bio d of malarial poison, aud rouses the system to renewed vigor. Warren ted, to cure Fever arid Ague.

A reporter of the sun, calling at the residence of Rev. J. J. .Bruce, the courtous and efficient thx collector of Williamson bounty, noticed his improvement and asked after his health. “Well;" said Mr. Bruce during the year 1877, a small, scab appeared on ifiy hose, and though it gradually grew larger, it did not grow sore or trouble me very much uutill the summer of 1878, when the in. side of the sore assumed somewhat the appearance of a seed wart, and began to itch and dischare, which made me quite uneasy. I used various salves, plasters’, and other remedies, none of which did me any permanent good, the sore gradually spreading, and my anxb ety of eo’urse increasing with the growth ‘of the cancerous ulcer Jn Oetober last my attention was 1 called to Swift’s Specific (S. S. S.), aud I be gan using it. The effect at first was to cause the sore to assume an angry look, and in a short while to discharge quantities of matter, which releived me of the poison, and the pro .gress towards recovery has been steady and sure, until to= day I have only the scar End a small sore left to remind me, of the painful ulcer, and it . has ! ceased to trouble me at all, so | far as pain ami itching are don-1-cerfi'ed' The Swift Specific has greatly improved my general health. 1 do most cor. | dially commend this remedy to i all who are suffering as I was..” ; There is probably no move reliable high‘toned gentleOf* o man m the county than Mr. I Bruce, and his endorsement of j Swift’s Specific is another evi. ; deuce of tlie great merit of the 1 remedy.---Williamson County Texas San. June 18, 1885. Far sale t by all druggists. The Swift Specific Co. N. Y. 15d W. 23d St. « Drawer 3, Atlanta, (ra*