Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1878 — Hayes, Sherman and Matthews in Council. [ARTICLE]

Hayes, Sherman and Matthews in Council.

Washington Letter in the Sunday Press. The day after Anderson put out the worst of his letters Hayes arose early in the morning and went to see Sherman before the Secietary was out of bed. Imagine his surprise to find Stanley Mathews sitting by Sherman's bedside. and the Secretary of the Treasury sitting up in bed with his night-cap on! Matthews bowed and was silent, Sherman smiled a diabolical smile.— Hayes wore a storm-cloud on his mas sive brow, and he had a copy of the testimony in his hand. The situation was intensely dramatic. “Mr. Secretary,” said the President, “what do you think of all this?” And Sherman quetly untied the strings of his nightcap, laid that useful article aside, cleared his throat and replied, “It is aell, sir.” Mathews, with downcast eyes! said, “They are crowding ua.“

Winchell tells a story of a stranger seeing an Irishman leaning against a post watching a funeral procession coming out of a brick house at his side, when the following diaio°tie ensued: “Is that a funeral?” “Yis sir I’m tbinkin’ that it is.” “Anybody of distinction?* “I reckon it is, sir ” “Who is it that died?” “The gintlernan in the coffin, sir." The revolution at Washington is ended; but the republicans of Indiana passed their resolutions before they found it out. Their devotion to Hayes is as touching as the devotion of Mrs. Micawber to Micawber,—Pennsylvania paper. The Baltimore Gazette says: “We all know what human ingenuity and hard swearing can do for a man in a tight place, but we would remind Mr. Sherman that a steamer will sail from port for Europe on Wednesday “Don,” said the veteran Simon, with a troubled airjafter reading Sherman’s explanation about that letter to Weber and Anderson, "perhaps you’d better stop calling him Uncle John; he’s only a relation by marriage, anyhow.”

Hereafter when the republicans want any election frauds committed they will be very likely to Dick out good, honest men for the work, and not employ any more such red-headed rascals as Anderson.—Phflad’a Times. A Florida man mistook a mule for a ghost and poked it with a stick. The verdict recited that he came to his death by using too short a stick in probing the unknowable for evidence of a future existence. Artificial ice sells in New Orleans for ten dollars per ton, and northern ice, which formerly sold for twenty to twenty-five dollars, has been driven out of the market. n « P, tica Republican (Senator Gonkling’s organ) asserts that “it is no more difficult to serve God and Mammon than it is to serve the republican party and support Hayes.” The New York Tribune says: “The President never had many friends, but it begins to look as if he bad one too many-of the kind.” Does it mean Sherman, Mathews or Anderson? , <?ffVt n ’t k® aaid a coup* 8 2 obs two mechanics; brows. out to do tfcat.-was the re>ly The usual salutation in Washington now is, “How is your title?”