Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1886 — The Cleveland-Black Pension Slate. [ARTICLE]

The Cleveland-Black Pension Slate.

Penniless slave mother, Whose three sons fell for the Union SOO.OO Sporting Colonel Dick Wintersmith,Washington man-abont-town, friendly at the bar anil heir-at-law to his Bourbon son, ; who “ ’tended door" in the House of Representatives and* had served in the Confederate army. Distressing pass 3,500 Fitz John Porter, disobedient officer and arrogant subordinate : New York Police Commissioner at 57.0C0, and granted a cumulative pension that Btarts with 3,378 Mrs. General Hunter, widow General David » Hunter. Husband gallant soldier in three wars, serving bis country fifty years. Obeyed orders till his heart stopped. Most distinguished quasi-military service, President of Porter court-martial. Aged widow needs help. Gets it—in a horn —........ 0040 Grand total, as footed up by entire public school: Disunion and insubordination 55.575 Patriotism and the Union OXOO Note.—Colombia, this school wants the old artthmetlo just as soon as yon can find oopies enough to go around —1888, or sooner. —Chicago Int.-r Ocean.

The New. York Sun's assertion that “the Democratic party is not a free-trade party or a protectionist party; it is the Democratic party,” reminds the St. Louis GlobeDemocrat of “the case of the unfortunate Missoniinn who, being exposed to raids on his property from both armies during the war, had a habit of saying, when asked his politics: Tm neither a,Union man or a Confed’rit; I’m jest nothin’, and d d little o’ that.’ ” "•'>o:™- JjiV"— - - ; 1 Dis am mine poy’s pirthday. I most giff him somedings—what shall I giff him? Py golly, I guess I get his tooth palled. The ate hour business is a past time.