Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1883 — WHITE HOUSE MAGNIFICENCE. [ARTICLE]

WHITE HOUSE MAGNIFICENCE.

Plain people think there is a great deal too much saoobbery about corations and dandyism of the White House, Everybody woeld like ,o se e the executive Mansion becommingly epuipped. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been liberally printed in the last ten or twelve years for furniture and for household objects, It is believed that a larg® portion of this money ‘was diverted 40 other uses. When Garfield came in, Congress voted SBO,OOO for furniture, although large sums bad been granted to Hayes for that object. A part ot this fund was expended. At the last ses slon $2,000 dollars was voted to Arthur for furniture, without the least show of good reuson. This money, and the remainder of previous ap*» propriations, have been applied to gaudy embellishment of the White House, in which it is said, the President and some of hie fair friends have shown unsual interest. The pomn and parade about the establishment want the tone of refinement which belongs to good breeding and to the established hab its of vroli organized social life. The delecate simplicity of a former day seems to be succseded by a.coarse postivoness. f nil of flashy display and determined self assertion.

A man by the name of Wflffam Pendergast was, some time since, m tto the Penitentiary on aw charge of passing a counterfeit sil- , ver dollar. A man who had the name es being an expert, based upon tweutytiv* years experience, was ! the principal witness in the caae. ! He protested to know allabott c<»unterfeit *f!v«u eoln and his testimony j brought Pedetgast’s conviction ofj counterfeiting- Possibly the fact ] bad something to do with Pender- | past’s conviction. But it so happen- I ed in this case that when the ceinj which was befora. the Court was i sent to Washington for examination preliminary to paying the reward j it was found to be geuuine instead of ! counterfeit. The expert of “twentyfive yeat’s experience* was sboWn j to be misukeh. Pendergast was not ; guilty. He had violated no iaw. He was innocent as the Judge who sen- j tenced him to the Auburn Prison to associata with tnieves and cut throats, and yet we notice that the j President is highly applauded for consenting to“PABOOX* Pendergest. Pardon for what, in toe name of all righteousness? The .idea of pardon- ■ iag an Innocent man is a base libel ] upon language—an insult to all the j proprieties of speech. Pendergast ] was the victim of a cruel wrong. ! His cas ■> did not demand pardon, but justice. Ho passed genuine money and was sent to Prison on a false ch»rge and a fals testimony. His case demanded reli*»ee, not pardon, and the Government should do more j tbangstrike off his fetters. It should j do something for the outrage it permitted by listning torn charlatan who set himself up ns an expert. 8. P. Sheerin,’Clerk of the supreme ; Court, is fortunate as well as popular A few days ago {he was an ordinary blacksmith, pounding iron, had little of this world’s goods and a limited educaMon. Instead of idling away lei. ure buurs he devoted every mo inent to study and the improvement of his mind. He became Becorder of Cass county and afterwards purchased the Lo gansport “Pharos” He quietjy made the canvass for the nomination for Clerk oi Supreme Court, and made friends wherever he went , Out side the candidates for Supreme Judge, who had no Greenback opposition, Mr. Sheerin received a greater majority than any man on the Democratic State ticket, From a poor, friendless bov Mr. Sheerin has risen to one of the most honored and lucrative offices iu the State Whst an example for the boys of t£e present generation to emulate. ■ An Ohio Repu lican visiting friends in Indianapolis. was pleasantly rallied abouYTh« condition of ;his party in Buckeyedcm. Being asked , about the treatment receiyed at the j bands of the Democrats, the Buckeye replied that it reminded him of the treatment received by a man in a Philadelphia hospital. The patient j said: “The doctors amputated both my ieet, removed my clavical, cut off mv right arm, trepanned me, took out a piece of my inferior maxillary, sawed my left so innominatum in two, and were about to exsect five or six ribs, wuen a fire broke out in the establishment and the polioe got away with the rest of my body in safety.” That, said the Ohioan ia about the condition of the Repubiican party rn Ohio.

An English workingman, just past the middle age, found that his pipe, whioh for many years had been a great comfort to him', was beginning to seriously effect his nerves. Before giviug it up, however, he deter* rniued to find out it there was no way by which he might coatinue to smoke without feeling its effects to an injurious extent He accordingly wrote to a medical Journal, aud was recommended to fill the Dowl of the pipe one-third full of table-salt, and press the tobacco hard down upon it, as in ordinary smoking. The result was very satisfactory. During the process of smoking the salt solidifies, while remaining porcus, and when the hardened lump is removed at tbe end of the day’s smoking, it is found to have absorbed so much ot the oil of jobacco as to e deeply colored. Tbe salt should be renewed daily.