Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1881 — A. Fire Company. [ARTICLE]

A. Fire Company.

Daniel Royse. Clerk of the Supren e Court, died very suddenly a few days a go. Virginia owes $41000.000, one <f ibe blessings inherited from carptt- > ag rule. Mr. Garfield will probrbly recover Continued improvement is r porte I day by day. —♦»»-- The “stalwarts” and “half-breeds” still have each other by the ear ,at Al >any. No election of Senator ye: There arrived in New York during the past .six months 241,803 immigrants. against 176 985 same time last year. Gui.eau, the would-be assassin of President Garfield, insists that the death of Mr. G. was essential to the life of the Republican party. Oxford Tribune: To Mr. and Mrs. Rwigglns on the 7th inst. the precious gift of a girl baby: weight 10 pounds. Mother and child both doing well. Ar. Irisnman in lowa has just taught ducks to swim in hot water, and with such success that they lay boiled eggs. Who says this is not an age of improvements? Montlcelo Herald: Jasper Keyes, has disposed of the Democrat office to C. J. Reynolds, who is actively engaged in preparing to resume the publication of that paper. Three Americans, Burns, Hamilton and Wilkes, caught in Italy counterfeiting its paper money, are now galley slaves at Gaeta, serving out a twenty years’ sentence each. The New York Legislature will have to adjourn without sleeting Senators. It ought to adjourn. It is deeply incrusred with infamy. Perjury and bribery permeate it, saturate it, until it is a stench in the - nostrils of all honorable meir. Let it die. Al a dance recently given, the Prince and Princess of AS ales remained till 3a. m. The Princess received a magnificent bouquet of exoties, in the center of which, half hidden with the flowers, was a mechanical bird, which warbled several charming airs.

Hoe. Stephen W. Dorsey, “the man who saved Indiana,” passed through Chicago Tuesday on his way WestHe only remained a few hours, and would not interview. He was quite offish, not to say “cranky.” and indisposed to give up his views about anything or anybody. Oxford Tribune: On last Friday Ir. Brown struck James Byard on the side of the face, breaking his jaw and knocking him senseless for twenty minutes. The blow was unexpected and unlooked for. Brown, on his own account, appeared before ths justice and was fined $3 and costs. All the registered bonds of the national government are held, it is said, by less than one hundred thousand persons, and $410,000,000 are held by private individuals in amounts exceeding $50,000 each, Mr. William H. Vanderbilt alone holding not less than one-seventh of the registered bonds. Mr. Conkling, by his warfare upon the President, helped to cause a state of things ot which assassination was a not unnatuial result. - New York Tribune. And by the same reasoning as that of the Tribune it can be shown that Horace Greeley was responsible for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.—Boston Traveler. Patrisk Henry was twice married, and left fifteen children, and there are now living probably more than 100 of his descendants. William Wirt Henry, a member of the Richmond Bar, and Representative of that District in the State Senate, is his grandson. Senator Roane, of Virginia, was his grandson, and General Joseph 1. Johnston is his greatneplew, as was also William C. Preston, the distinguished Senator in Congress from South Carolina. Mr. John W. Bookwaiter Was nominated for Governor of Ohio, by the Demosrats in convention, Wednesday at Columbus, on the second ballot. Mr. Bookwaiter is a native as Fountain county, Indiana. He is a gentleman of fine abilities, thoroughly educated, and possesses a large fortune. He is well equipped for the coming struggle with Mr. Charles Foster and the hosts of Ohio Republicanism. We wish him overwhelming success.

The Cincinnati Gazette has gone into the conundrum business up to its eyes. Hear it: Which of the acts of the two, Guiteau or Conkling, was furthest trom rational relation to the cause? Which recourse was most irrational? Which was the madman? In which did personal pursuit show greatest derangement of the mind and greatest disregard of the rest of mankind? ♦ ♦ * Which of these, Guiteau or Conkling, has acted the most unnat urally’ Which shows the most unconsciousness of the vast consequences to others from the indulgence of his own little selfish pursuit? Which of the two is most like the madman Who would pull down universal ruin on his own head, because of the disappointment of some aapnce. Here is a group of something more than a half dozen conundrums which fcwlf.hrßeds may answer at their leisure. We don’t care a cent who comes out ahead, Conkling or Guiteau.

As our town is rapidly increasing in size we will soon have the dimensions and population of a little city. As the people augment, and the town spreads, so our means for safety and protection should be better and nearer at hand; and among our needs none demands to be supplied more imperatively than a good and reliable fire company. This subject has never been agitated yet, but it ie high time it should be. We have many buildings, both in the business and resi dent portions of our town exposed to imminent dangei from fire, and were they to become ignited in any way the whole population would be as helpless as infants in extinguish Ing the flumes, or in preventing their spread*. At the destruction of Alfred Thompson’s handsome edifice, a few months since, there was a capital exhibition of this helplessness. A hand engine, in that instance, could have controlled the fire and saved thousands of dollars worth of property; but there being no prop?r appliances to utilize the services and strength of the willing hands present, the ts. forts put forth were abortive. This occurred where the house was isolated, but how disastrous would the result be were a fire to break out in a row of buildings on our crowded streets! We need protection against the de* stroyer, and the question is what plan would combine utility and efficiency with our inconvenient facilities and our limited pecuniary circumstances. As there is no suitable or sufficient supply of water to warrant us in establishing water works, I would suggest the following plan: Ist. Let a volunteer fire and hook and ladder company be organized. Many of our young men would gladly and willingly enlist in such a noble service. 2nd. Let the town trustees or the private citizens of the town negotiate for a small hand engine. A very substantial and serviceable engine can be purchased for SSOO, and can be paid for by private subscriptions, if in no other way. 3rd. I would advise the construction ot five or six fire cisterns, the same to be located in the most populous and exposed parts of town; for instance, one at Washington and Van Rensselaer streets, one at Van Rensselaer and Rutson, one at Cullen an«l Angelica, one at Susau and Front, one beyond the river, and one in Newton’s addition. Others can be constructed as the town grows and demands them. The race would be an inexhaustible resource to protect Front street. 4th. Let a small engine house be built not far from the court house.

The total expense of this plan would not exceed SI,OOO, and that value in property would be saved at the first lire after it was adopted and put into practice. The subject is one upon which I should like to hear an expression from our citizens through the papers. Let us not be improvidently sleeping until a woful test 'shall again establish the;truth of the adage that “Experience is a dear school, but fools will learn in no other way.”

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