Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1881 — Boarding-School "Edification." [ARTICLE]

Boarding-School "Edification."

“Where is that boy of yours?” asked a lady of her colored servant. “Bill is requirin’ his eddification al a boardin’-school. ” “I didn’t know thero was u colored boarding-schixil in Galveston!” “Bill didn’t know it nudder (ill he sassed de teacher. Ho foun’ it out my' quick den, for de teacher yanked a board often de fence and whacked Bill till de nabors ’lowed dar was a safe being blowed open.”— Galveston News. Tire new Warner observatory which is being erected at Rochester is attracting much attention in social and literary as well as scientific circles. The new telescope will be 22 feet in length, and its lens 16 inches in diameter, thus making it third in size of any instrument hectoforc manufactured, while the dome of the observatory is to have some new appliances for specially observing certain portians of the heavens. It is to be the finest private observatory in the world, and has been heavily endowed by Mr. Warner.

John Sherman received th® Ohio radical caucus nomination for U. H. Senator. , ; Augusta, Georgia, is enjoying flue sleigl.mg, th® first in a quarter of a century. James G.Fair had a larg® majority | in the Nevada Legislature for Unned States Senator. Last Monday. at Alpena, Michigan, Mrs. Alice Williams, as a sacrifice to the Lord, severed tier tongue with a , Dr. Gl®bu, the late Democratic candidate for Governor of California has just finished threshing his wheat, ami he has 460,000 sacks full. He does not seem to need uu office to keep him from starving. I The “dead luck” in the State Sen I ate was broken Saturday by Democrats thro wing their support to Brouse, for'Socretary; Seat s, for Ass i Secretary, ami Monroe for Doojkceper - all nationals. Porter’s inaugural was a regular partisan harrangu®. Some of the ( stalwart Senators were so delighted . with it that they desired it to rank as , a message-and moved its reference I to committees of that body. The grandson of his grandfather j is about to be elevated to office b> ; radical representatives, seeing as how . rhe people themselves have always ; repudiated hire. He has received the radical caucus nomination for L S.Senator,

The South Bend Herald puts it this way: - “There were twelve hundred thousand negro votes cast for Gailinld. The Republican party thus represents the ignorance of the country instead of its intelligence. Take this vofe from 4,432,415 and it leaves a total white vote in his favor of 3,-32,-415. which leaves a popular white ma jority against him of. 1,;>13,*J72. Fraud Hayes will soon retire from the position wrongfully withhold from another. He will have exercised the authority and drawn the salary pertaining to the Office, but he will he solitary and alone of all th® Executives who will,be unable to claim rightful title, and in his oommuninga with himself he will constrainedly admit^'After all, I was never President of tiie Unite I States, and am only a Fraud.” « Delphi limes: Capt. Frank Chilcote, of Rensseltcer, for four years a soldier comrade of the Times man, was in the city Wednesday, and of " course called at tnis office. Frank is always a welcome guest at our tneside, his political shortcoming being entirely forgotten in the recollection of his off-tried companionship in camp, on the •inftrch and upon the field. Gome again, “Yank.” Mr, W. S. Smoot, a constable of Iroquois township, came to Kentland last Friday morning bringing with him his uncle, Mr. Edward Anderson, of Peoria, and his uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Falkner, of Illinois, who were returning home after having visited their Indiana relatives for a week or more. Mr. Smoot did not fail to Mill on the News and left‘a favorable! impression,—Kentland News. And when in Rensselaer, “Ben” and this same uncle Anderson, who by the way is a clever old gentleman of strong Democratic convictions, favored the Sentinel with a short visit. The radicals, when they had the j >wer, placed the ballot in the hands of the negro, and it is well for that party—if not the co uh try—to-day that it did so. Sambo holds the balance of power. His colonization in sufficient numbers in this State carried Indiana; the vast population of them in Pennsylvania carried that State, and others were carried by the ' same element. Mr. Garfield has a popular white majoiity against him of 1,513,972. Not very consolatory. An exchange combats with considerable vigor the argument that city weeklies are cheaper and better than county papers because they give more columns of reading matter for the money. Do the city papers, it asks ever give you any home news? Never. Do’they say anything in regard to your own county? No. Do they contain notices of your schools, churches, meetings, improvements nod hundreds of other local matters vs interest, which yourjpaper publishes without pay? Not an item. Do they ever say a word calculated to draw iteation to your county and its numerous and thriving town#,and add to their progress and enterprise? Not a word. And yet there are men weo take such contracted views of this matter, that unless they are getting as many square inches of reading in their own paper as they do in a city paper, th®y think they are not getting the worth of their money. It reminds us of the person who took who Jteok the largest pair of boots in the box. simply because they cost no more than the smaller pair thut fitted him. A New Orleans writer says of the negro exed usters: Many of those who went to Kansas, Illinois, Missouri and oth*r places North, have returned, and give such dolorous accounts of th® unhappy condition of the exodusters, the coldness of the country.and other dreadful things that exist in ths West, thut they have discouraged many who otherwise might have gone. They say that Aha only success emissaries have in inducing th® negroes to leave Ihe plantations, is when they tell them

of the delights and pleasures of the j cities. Th® apostles who tell them of ' these are usually those nomads who j-erve as waiters on steamboats and roustabouts and stevedores on the levees. > These people go to the river towns and cities and induig® in lives , of dissipation and during the off Beason they are idle, loaf among their friends, and tell stories of their adventures that cause others to try the same life. But this has comparatively small effect on the masses of country laborers, th® influence being chiefly exercised on those who liarbur about the towns and cities. As these disaffected or flitting creatures leave, immigrants come in from the older Eastern toutberr. State®, and in many portions of the cotton-growing legion the influx if* a surprise to the people- They are welcome, too. and fostered, foi the reason thut they have not been effected nearly so much by the late Kansas exodus fever as the dwellers in tnis Valley were. Thes® new-comers are said to be more shrewd,-industrious, and better domesticated ,thuu the immigrants.— There is no doubt, to , that since the country has been cleared of the malcontents, politicians, and emissaries who created dissatisfaction and trouble (lining the past few years, the leniaming negroes are much more prosperous and make and save more money than they ever did before.— ,'li.ny ol the planters have arranged niatte-s so that their hands can not getanv whiskey, thejeountry groceries being cut off from their custom. Inis alone has brought abou peace and prosperity in Parishes and sections thut, only a lew years ago, were ' the devils own deus. The experience of the poor deluded negioes who were induced to leave ihe South to v®te the Republioan ticket, instead of receiving the “forty • teres of land and a mule,” have se cured privations, cold, hunger, frozen feet, etc., and are glad, to get back. — Flic winter of 1880 bl has onyinced them ihat the North is not their couniry, and ftliat the friendship of the radicals on y extends to their votes. Recently the officers of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati <& St Louisßailwav .-—Pan Aaudle Route—inspected he iiyek for the purpose of awarding premiums lor lbßo, previously announced, with the following result; ROAD MASTERS. premium. s'tji) sor best division, Hugh McManus. Shi TION EOREMDN. First premium, sbo for best section on main line, P McCormick. Second premium, ?10 for foreman having best section on each of main line divisions; Ist section. Thoma# Hurt; 2d section, John Roach; 3d -lection, M. Harty. \ Third premium, *25 to foreman who shows greatest improvenmntj/i gauge, surface of track and bio vat ion of curves since the flrsjt of ‘he year on each, of the main line divisions; Ist section,!:. L? Adams; 2d section, John Karns; 3d section, W. Bogent. Fourth premium #4O to foreman haying best section on each of branch lines: 4th section, M. Broderick;. sth section James Willoughby. Fifth premium, .*25 to foreman having best yard, including Dennison, Steubenville, Colliers and Pittsburgh: A. McDonald. Dennison. In makii.-gthe inspection, particular attention was paid, to the following point.: Line, gnige, surface, elevation. of curves,joints, dailast, syacing of ties, frogs, switches, ■ igna’s, ditches, road crossings,' sidings, station graunds, fences, general appearance of sections, prompt obedidnee of or- ; derj, and strict attention to duty.

Hie recent decline iu coffee, of which this country usis more than any other nation in the world, and live times as much as Great Britain, will probably be permanent, as it is due, not to the casual over-supply, but to a cnange in the manner of ®onductiug the trade. Railroads recent ly coustracted from Rio Janeiro, bring the coffee mors speedily from the plantations, ami steamers, which have supplanted sailing Teasels, have greatly shortened the trip from Bra- i zil to this country. The trade in I coffee, in other words, has goae thro ? tiie same secular change as the trade in tea. The day for great firms buying oy the ship load and carrying great stocks has gjne by. Orders by cable, shipments by steam and purchases by job lots have taken the place of the slow but princely methods of a few y«ars back. Congressman Orth, who is said to be proud of his German ancestors and of his knowledge of the German tongue, is described by merry friends as addressing the Austrian Emperor at Vienna iu this beloved language.— Tho Emperor, it is related, afterward monti®ned Mr. Orth to another American in complimentary terms, and then added: “What was the dialect in which Mr. Orth delivered his address? 1 knew, of course, that it was not English. and I thought that I detected some faint traces of ' the Teutonic tongue in some of the word#.” The house which Davy CrycKett once lived in at Lawrenceburg, Tenn., is still standing, and divers person# in the neighborhood possess legal documents written out by his own hand asJusticeof the Peace. H® had a mill near the house, but, it is said, went off hunting and electioneering while his wife took care of that institution. Mrs. Crockett was a woman of greaj strength, and could handl® sacks of grain witn ®ase.

Those ice sleds upon which skaters in Germany push their lady friends about on the ice, whispering sweet things into their willing ears the whil® ought to be introduced into this country. They are sleighs rather than sleds, very comfortable and very tasty as o design, the figure of a swan being the favorite. Bro. Mock, of th® Fowler Era, gave us a short call yesterday, The Reynolds application for license goes to Newton county on change of venue. When you feel a cough or bronchial affection creeping on the lungs, take Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, and cure it before it becomes incurable. The parties tried in Circuit Court for burglary at. Remington were acquitted. Wallace, of Monticello, and S. P. Thompson, for defence. The home troupe was greeted by a large audience at the Opera House, Saturday evening, and the cerformance of the company gave very general satisfaction, eliciting frequent applause,