Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1869 — Item for Sausage Makers. [ARTICLE]

Item for Sausage Makers.

The Conitnissionej of Internal Revenue has just made the following decision, which will be loundot interest to our butchers and sausage makers: The special tax of butchers is imposed exclusively with respect to the selling of butchers’ meat, and not for the preparation or manufacture of the same, and when any butcher, therefore engages in the manufacture or preparation for sale of any article, such as sausages, mince-meat,cured hams, etc., w hich have a separate and distinct cominercial value in the market as such, U» should be regarded as a mnnnwithin the meaning of the jaw, and he required to pay special tax ae such, without reference to the f*ct that he may have paid tax a butcher. Really the l.aas of the Revenue Department are wonderfully and fearfully got,t,en us. If a poor devil of a iwkelier aiiojjld happen to have inqre beef on hand than hv could dispose of to his customers, and should corn the same, or work it lip juto bologna, to prevent its being a ;t«\tal loss to him, be w.ouW be a jnavtu<fact*ir'ew and wouldJhave to take out a license as such. Since the decision of the Commissioner of luterual Revenue that sweet potatoes were grain, we have been almost afraid to jqR wiu}s for our shot guu, or put water a u4 sugar in our wbiskey, for fear that WP would hav e to take out a Manufacturer’s License.

•“.Chicago needs, more than anything else, 10,000 Chinamen to act as domestic*. Suck a thing as a good, well-trained servant is no more to be found in Chicago than a living specimen of the mound-build-ers. The few female servants that may he found here and there are only temporary affairs, who aro mainly interested in area and back.door JO illations, with a view to early .matrimony. Keeping house is get,ti.ug .to be a fifoss whose bearing ]>asses Chrisian enduranee. Housekeepers cannot enjoy religion while this state of things continues; and, therefore, we are inclined to believe that the shortest wav to get up a revival in Chicago would be to jni)>ort hither a few thousand mongolian servants. This done, a woman who now has only time to fret, scold, and make herself and all about her miserable, will have opportunity to enjoy religion, and to make her life agreeable. As a mis- j siouary effort, the importation of a i lew hundred Chiuamen for servants cannot he excelled.— p/iic*i</o Times. Jlc-r.e is a good thing for the Irish .and Qefn »n servants of Chicago Wcwooildn’thav.e thought it; The Times advocating the introduction of Chinese .to steal the bread from the mouths of the laboring poor of Chicago. Democracy, thou art a riddle!

Brick Pomeroy, the red hot democratic editor, heads an article in his N>w York paper as follows: Democratic ]>arty of the limited iifcjlps is sadly iu want^ Itfovant* »ru not numerous but' they .arc severe. Jt wants brains. It wants honesty. It. wants pluck. It wants unity of action. jt jf ants integrity of purpose." The Judiauapolis Jvurnaf sa\s it w aujis ftjfuat. jfn addition tp wants for the DeinW,crftijc party, the Anderson Jltrqld triftjifufly t(dds umfp as follow*: It wants It wants repudiation. It wants nigger votes,. It wants Southern independence. It wants confusion. Jt wants rebels to rule. if wants the Nation disgraced. It Wants greenbacks for gold. It wtfßa everything that is honorable, jaat and equitable. ® ■'JCo which can be added: ft wants pegro slavery. U WfMHa louda taxed. li. w/ifft# labor. % T it wants the | m

l'orter county is spiritually inclined. The i'ult/fe says in evidence thereof: "IVu had a good attendance at prayer meeting in the evening, and . many were in the spirit ol worship, but unfortunately for tlie prnver meeting, a ‘lady’ present, instead of beivg in the spirit oil the Lord's day, the • spirit *’ were in her. A lady in the nineteenth century intoxicated in a prayer meeting! Alas! tor fallen huuiauity! She disturbed the meeting so that wo w ere obliged to close. Hro. Gurney should have a policeman w itli him in bis prayer meetings so lead out those of his congregation who have the spirit in them.

The anti-capital punishment journals have thrown themselves into violent spasms over the recent execution of Dike at Concord, N.ew Hampshire. The account published in the New York Tribune, whose reporter was compelled, of course, to gauge his emotion by the Horace Cicely meter, is filled with exclamations to point tlie sufferings and terror of the wVcteh when he approached the scaffold, and here and there reference is made to the “judicially murdered.” It w ill be well to know that Pike, in cold blood and predetermination, butchered an old man and w oman, with w hom he had previously lived, in order to steal a few hundred dollars which the farmer had hoarded up from hard labor.. They were stricken down with an axe, and liberally chopped into mince meat. Of course it* is all right and proper that these two old people should be thus put out of the but when thuir devilish murderer is swung off at the end of a rope, handkerchiefs must he called into requisition, and there must be weeping and wailing. Would it not be welt to discuss the question of capital punishment independent of this maudlin and misdirected humbug sympathy.—lndianapolis Journal.