Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1883 — Page 1

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THE FI.UMBERS' CONVENTION. . The plumbers have met i t s congress. In their rich robes of purple and gold; The agsre ate wealth of these craftsmen Is reckoned in millions untold. And an affluent plumber addressed them: The chamber was solemnly still, * # When Uc a.ked why their guild should not alwavs ' Be paid tor .concocting, a bill. H° declared that his bills were so lengthy That his outlay or paper was great, That hi-* cteik was kept busy till midnight Inv. nting new bills on a slate. That the making np of fresh items Was too much for a head made of wood: That the pnbi.c should pay lor trained brainwork. And ttic meeting resolved that It should. * And now, rs the cold of the winter . Makes breaks for the pipe-mender’s skill, Ah bur hers mrj-t look for th s it'm: “Five dollars for work on the bill.” —/fox on A deer User,

HOW RAOUL WAS MARRIED.

My friend Raoul was njarried day before yesterday at Sainte Clotilde. * * I arrived at the church; there was an immense crowd, and the ceremony had already commenced. The priest finished his address, and ended it by this sentence: “Be therefore united on this earth until you are finally united in heaven.” I was unable to keep back a little exclamation. Raoul was not wedding a young girl. He was marrying the pretty little Countess Jeanne de Charmelieu, the widow of my friend Gaston de Charmelieu. This lovely woman was destined to make my friends happy—Raoul after Gaston. On the earth nothing would be more simple— Gaston having withdrawn himself, there remained Raoul; but there above, in heaven, for the final union there will be two of them—Gaston and Raoul, the first and the second husband. I fell into a most profound reflection. That sentence of the priest of Sainte Clotilde probably made a part of all the little discourses he delivered in his marriage ceremonies., He had most likely made the same promise to Gaston five years before. He had probably told him if he lived and died in a Christian manner lie would meet his little Jeanne again among the angels, the archangels, tlio thrones and the rulers. *

In the meanwhile there was great confusion on all sides of me. The large organ pealed out Meriftelssolm’s wed-ding-march. I followed the crowd, which took me to the vestry-room. My hand was shaken by the bride and by the bridegroom, but I did not speak a single word to either of them. I don’t think I should have been able to resist saying to Raoul, “Did you hear and really comprehend what the priest said about the final union? There will be two of you for your final union.” I quitted the church, and made two or three calls. I went home; I went out riding; 1 dined at my club; I went to the opera; and all the while this foolish idea mastered me: “How will they— Gaston and Raoul—clear tliis up in the other world?” I went to bed, and to Bleep, and it was there that the dream began—a dream, don’t forget it; it is a dream.

I found myself in Paradise. In the station was a great movement of the trains. The ears left empty and came back full. The station-master was Saint Thomas. I talked to him, and he in a very obliging way explained to me the organization of the service. The trains, lie said to me, “leave the earth, touch at the .Infernal Legions, and at Purgatory, and. stop at Paradise. Just at present we have a great many people here—a great many. They have annoyed the sainted Father a little in these last few years, and he has had a little air of persecution put in the religion which has wanned up the lukewarm and has decided the indifferent. The council is an excellent thing and does us a 1 great deal of good. In short, w'e are very well contented indeed. There has been for several months a constant increase in the number of passengers for Paradise: Every day when the trains leave the earth it is necessary to put on more cars. I will let you judge of things for yourself. Ten minutes after 7. * * * The ex- { tress is about to arrive. Certainly, we lave express trains from the earth—don’t you hear the whistle ? We have taken the French organization because it is the best. But our communications with the planets are as yet not complete. Look well uoav, the train arrives. We have as you see carriages of three classes—first, second and third —a van for baggage, and a compartment for dogs. The people are getting out; give good attention and remember that * no great people go second-class. Tha small shopkeeper goes a little. She is generally a partisan of Voltaire’s philosophy. A free thinker and a critic is the little shopkeeper. In the thirdclass there is a great crowd; either all bad or all good. There is also a crowd in the first-class. Ah! One must know too that the rich have the greatest opportunities for getting their salvation. They have all their time to themselves, and, even admitting that they give the greater part of it to Satan, they can alway find, at great intervals, an hour or two to-get in with their religion. God is not so black as He is thought to be. He contents Himself with very little. Just stay here two or three days and you will see at least fifty trains, and in them you must assuredly see some one you know. l'ou will yourself perceive that one can gain Paradise very cheaply.”

He is a gossip, this Saint Thomas. He talked, talked, talked; but I had not been listening to him for several moments. My widow of Sainte Clotilde! The wife of Gaston! the wife of Raoul! It was she! I had seen her pretty head appear through the' portiere of the sleeping-car, and beside, light and active, she had lightly jumped from the car, and in doing this she showed her ankles, which were charming. She ran all around crying: have my ticket. ” I remembered having seen her one day in the station, at Compiegne getting out of a special train which was taking the guests of the Empress to her chateau, and on that day, too, she showed her ankles and ran about crying, “My trunks; don’t let them forget" my trunks —I have fourteen.” A royal officer of the station of Compiegne -came to her and said: “Do not worry, Madame la Comtesse; I will take charge of your trunks. That is what I am here for.” Saint Peter came to her in the station of Paradise and said: ““Your ticket, Madame; will you nave tne goodness to show me your ticket?” “Here it is, sir.” “Perfectly correct; you can pass. Here is the entrance to Paradise. ” My little iriend made a pretty bow

VOLUME VII.

and passed on. A foolish idea took possession of me. I wished to follow her into Paradise. Who knows? Perhaps Raoul had died, and my widow was going to find herself "between her two lmsbands. I asked Saint Thomas if he could not let me in. “Yery easily,” he replied. “They won’t keep me? I will be able to leave? Because, don’t you see, however delightful Paradise may be. if I still liave several good years oh earth, I would like just as well not to lose them. Life is only for a time, and Paradise is eternal. ” “Don’t be frightened' you will be able to .get out. Come,” and he took me to Saint Peter. “You will recognize this gentleman,” he said to him; “he will only go in and out.” “Enter sir, enter; I will recognize yon.” Here I am in Paradise, and I arrived at the right moment. Raoul and Gaston, who had lain in wait for the passengers, had already thrown themselves on their wife. Gaston had taken her right hand and pulled from one side, saying: “Jeanne, my dear Jeanne.” Raoul had taken her left hand and pulled from the other side, saying: “Martha, my dear Martha.” She had two little names, and she had thought it best, when she became engaged to her second husband, not to keep the nickname which had been used bv the 'first. This was an adorable creature who had a wonderful delicacy of sentiment. Raoul and Gaston in the meanwhile did not either of them let go of her hands. “Jeanne.” “Martha.” “I am your first husband.” “I am voitr second lmsband.” “My rights are not disputable.” “ sir. let go of Madame.” “Lam hot speaking to you, sir. Ido not know you.” “I do not know von.” * * * Now they had been intimate friends during their lives on earth, and could never pass"each other without stopping. Raoul did not budge from liis place near Gaston, and the dispute between them became hotter. -They raised their voices. Life is very peaceful in heaven, but it is a little monotonous, and the least event has the same effect as a runaway has in a little provincial village. All the blest, both male and female, gathered around from all parts. Some took the part of the first husband, some of the second. As for Jeanne, she had disengaged her hands, and spoke neither to Raoul nor to Gaston. Saint Thomas-had accompanied me into Paradise. “ This kind of thing,” I said to him, “must often happen. Women who have had two _ husbands are not at all rare on earth.” “Grantea; but Avhat is new, absolutely new, is this fashion of two men disputing about one wife. Ordinarily, in the same circumstance, the question is, which one would not take back liis wife ?” “And when the situation is reversed, when there are two wives and only one husband?” “ Ohl then it is entirely different.. The question among the women is which one will be able to get back her husband. Women are wild for husbands, even in Paradise. We had, however, an odd incident on the day Napoleon I. arrived.” “Ah! He is in Paradise, Napoleon I. ?” “ Oh! he had a little while in Purgatory; and, frankly speaking, it was justice. Look at his history with Pius lU. at Fontainebleau! He was still in Purgatory when, in 1852, after the coup d'etat, Napoleon 111. behaved so handsomely to Pius IX. that it was thought that they could not decently keep the uncle of such a nephew in Purgatory any longer. So they opened the gates of Paradise to him. He arrived, and his first words were: ‘And my two wives ?’ ‘ Have you any preference ? ’ ‘ Yes,. certainly. I will most willingly take back Josephine.’ “They immediately run to Josephine. *lt is Napoleon. He is here, and he wants you.’ ‘I am very sorry,’ answered Josephine, dryly; ‘but, after what happened in 1809, never, never, never.’

“They go immediately to Marie Louise, who screams, ‘1 see Napoleon again ? I who live so peacefully with the General! Don’t speak to me of Napoleon. Let him take back Josephine.’ Neither one nor the other would change her resolution. Napoleon remained standing alone, feeling rather vexed, when Mme. de Stael ran up. * Napoleon,’ said she, ‘ give him to me. I will take charge of him;’ and they live very happily together.” At this moment Saint Peter was interrupted by a cry from the crowd of “The Eternal Father! the Eternal Father !” Ikwos the in truth the Eternal Father. He was passing that way by chance, and, having heard a noise, he stopped. A dream —this is all a dream, fee careful and don’t forget that. Be ally he was the Eternal Father of the Italian school. In a gray cloud,, a long white beard, and with an admirable air of indulgence and of charity, he is a common and virtuous Jupiter. He stops and asks what is going on. They tell him briefly. “Very well,” says the Eternal Father, “what could be more simple? Madame is here as a reward for her Christian sentiments and her religious conduct. She has a right to the greatest possible happiness. Let her decide which of these two gentlemen she prefers. ” “But,” observes Gaston, “that one of us which shall be beaten comes in last?" Gaston, who owned a racing stable on earth, still kept using the most deplorable expressions even in the presence of the Eternal Father.--“Very well,” answered the Eternal Father, “to the one of you who is not chosen I will give one of the women who have not been reclaimed, and who are encumbering Paradise. ” “Make haste, madame, don’t let us lose any time. Make your choice. ” Silent and motionless Jeanne stood between her two husbands, and both Gaston and Baoul tried to think of a sentiment which would go most surely to her heart. “Bemember,” said Gaston, “that when I married you you had only 800,000 francs for a dot.” “And you had not a cent when I, in my turn, married yon; your dot bad gone for frippery, and Monsieur had idiotically eaten up his fortune in baccarat and the races. ” “You had only 300,000 francs, and I ' could have married little Blanche de Timiane,who had 1,000,000. I know very well that your father said to me: ‘I give a new dot of 300,000 francs to my daughter; ’ but he paid me in the stock of his Bolivian mines, which stock, at the end of three months, was worth 14,000 francs, instead 300,000.”

The Democratic sentinel.

“I did not think about the question of money. I always said to myself: ‘lf I marry, I want the prettiest and most stylish woman in Paris.’ That is the reason I married yon, Jeannette.” “Fourteen thousand francs! I had but 14,060 francs! And yet did-I ever dispute one of your dressmaker’s bills? And they were outrageously dear, those bills. I still remember certain memoranda of 17,000 fcancs.** “And I have had one of 23,000! * * * And, too, I did not have, like Monsieur, a million francs of rentes; but I was so proud of your beauty, Jeapne, and the uproar which tins beauty created in the world. Your luxury was my great pride. What laces -and diamonds! What carriages! What horses! What liveries! And vour chamber, Jeannette, your chamber of rubysatin 1 And. then the boxes in all the first tiers! * * * Three hundred, francs did I pay for the first box to ‘La Famille Benoiton ? ’ ” “Boxes? He speaks of boxes! Why, even before I was married, it was I who always paid for the boxes. The first one at ‘Petit Faust’ cost me 400 francs, and in 1868 I gave 500 francs for one at Patti’s benefit.” “ The date!—he remembers the date! Why, you dined with me five times a week, Monsieur, and you were always crammed in our box at the Italiens and the Opera; you who make so much fuss about two or three miserable boxes offered to my wife. ” “ Two or three? But, in truth, such particulars are infamous. ” , “It is my advice,” said the Eternal Father, who was beginning to get impatient in his cloud, “cut it short, gentlemen. Cut it short, and I entreat you, madame, make choice:” Jeanne remained impassive, and the two husbands talk, talk, talk. “ Remember, ” said Gaston, “ for you I ruined my career. I resigned my commission of Captain of the Hussars, because you dicLnot want to come to the garrison at ‘ ‘ And I attached myself to the Empire on account of my love for you. Monsieur, you have gone to the Ministerial assemblies and to the official balls. That kind of thing amused you. You were not willing to renounce them, while, to the great horror of all my friends, I consented to show myself at the Tuileries. lat the Tuileries, at the house of a Napoleon!” “No politics,” cried the Eternal Father, “and, above all, nothing derogatory to the Emperor Napoleon tH. He has but to withdraw his troops from Rome. What would become of the council ?”

“So be it; no polities. Beside, I have a few conclusive words to say,” said Gaston. “ Jeane, my dear Jeanne, remember ‘our love,’ our long walks in the evening in the woods to your father’s, at Roches-Grises. We walked slowly, very slowly, through the little lanes, your head on my slioul-* der. And then, on the day of our marriage, we went all alone, at six o’clock, by the post. We arrived at my house at midnight, in the most horrible cold. The country was all white, don’t yon remember ? And what an immense tire we found in the chateau, and in what trouble we both were!” “ Really, sir,” brusquely interrupted Raoul, “such reminiscences are out of place/’ “ff is possible, Monsieur, but I am allowed to do it—to speak of my love and also of my confidence. Mv confidence was a splendid thing! What a number of people said to me, ‘ Take care of Raoul.’ ‘ Raoul,’ that was Monsieur. * That he is very fond of you is understood; but there is one person that he is still fonder of, and that person is your wife.’ I disdained all this gos«in.” “ I have a word to say, too, on the subject of confidence. Later, sir, after you, when I, in my turn, was the husband, the little slanderers still went their way. They spoke to me about Monsieur de Lericourt—to me! What an absurdity! He was my best friend!” ♦ I noticed that Jeanne could not help giving a little start when she heard the name of Monsieur de Lericourt. I noticed it, but Raoul saw nothing, and continued': “And then Lericourt was killed in Mexico, and when you heard this unexpected news, my darling, you allowed such a natural and legitimate expression of grief to escape you. I received an abominable anonymous letter. ' ‘ Your wife,’ it said, ‘ has more tears for the friend than she would have for her husband.’ I never spoke to you of that letter. Suspect you! suspect Lericourt!”

“What is this about - Lericourt?” cried the Eternal Father. “Ishe a third husband? lam getting mixed up with all this.” “One more word, Eternal Father, only one. But to conclude: the day of my marriage with Madame a priest—an excellent priest—declared to me at Sainte Clotilde that our union on earth should be followed by an eternal union in heaven.” “And I, Eternal Father,” answered Gaston, “on the day of my marriage at the Madeleine—a Bishop, do you understand—not a priest—a Bishop?—made to me in the same words the same promise.” “This is getting very embarrassing,” muttered the Eternal Father, “very embarrassing. My representatives on earth act in a very thoughtless manner sometimes. But you, Madame, who are saying nothing, speak, it is for you to decide.” “In your infinite goodness, Seigneur,” she replied, “you will allow me to make an arrangement to become the wife of M. de Lericourt, who is over there in that little cloud, and who has been making signs to me for the last fifteen minutes.” I turned my head and I perceived Lericourt, who, in his little cloud at the left of Us, was making the most expressive and gallant gestures. Yet another friend, Lericourt! This charming woman was, I repeat, called to contribute to the happiness of her friends both in this world and the next. “Why did you not say so immediately?” answered the Eternal Father. “This will harmonize everything. Make your arrangements with Monsieur de Lericourt. What I wish for is that you inay be happy in Paradise, since you have been a good Christian.” * * * * * * * And here below I awoke with a start, so realistic did this discourse seem on the part of the Eternal Father.— From the French. No English town has grown so rapidly as Cardiff, in South Wales, which now ranks even above Newcastle a-i a coal post. Its docks aggregate an area of 150 acres. Prof. Swing, of Chicago, characterizes the Salvation Army as ‘ bric-a-brac in religion.”

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2,1883.

HORATIO SEYMOUR.

Views of the Retired Statesman Upon the Present Political Situation—The Progress of Centralization Sinee the Close* of the War Revalaion of PahUc Opinion in 1888. In an article upon the political situation published in the North American Revieic, ex-Gov. Horatio Seymour, of New York, says: The results of this year’s election have excited much comment. At first view they seemed to be due to the dissensions in the Republican ranks, but on closer study their explanation i» found to lie deeper; it is a “ground swell, ” of which all surface disturbances are effects, not causes. To get an understanding of this subject it is necessary that we dismiss from our minds all partisan prejudices, for it concerns the organic principles of our Government, and demands a thoughtful consideration. The American people are divided into two parties; these grow out of the form of our Government; each is needed for its preservation. All agree that there is a division line between the powers of the General and the State Governments. To enlarge unduly the power of the States, endangers our Union. To extend unduly the jurisdiction of Congress leads to corruption. For a long time the Democratic party had the direction of affairs. The division of our country into free and slave States led the latter, out of fear of Federal interference, to carry the doetrino of State rights too far. Civil war was the result. After the contest was over there was a reaction against the doctrine of State rights. A feeling grew up that the stability of the General Government might be insured by giving to it larger powers. Jurisdiction was mistaken for strength. The sentiment was carried too far, for, while State rights have been ujidulv magnified, they still exist, and are as sacred as the rights of the General Government.

Our oldest political organisms are those needed by local communities, and which are designed for the preservation of the rights of the respective localities. These organizations have different names, but they are substantially what we now call towns. Notwithstanding the diversities of language and lineage in our country the people gave like powers and forms to their local governments. Our Union and constitution grew out of these facts. Their existence depends upon preserving the boundaries between the different governmental functions thus established. At the close of the civil w ar public feeling was so excited that a prejudice grew up against the term “rights of States.”

At the last Presidential election the Republican party’selected,as its candidate one who went very far in favor of “centralization.” He expressed his joy that power gravitated more and more toward the national capital. A member of the Cabinet in 1880, speaking of our Government in an address which was circulated by the Republican organization, said: “It must not be forgotten that this Government is no longer the simple machinery it was in the early days of the republic. The bucolic age of America is over. * * * They are the interests of nearly 50,000,000 of people, spread over an immense surface, with occupations of endless variety and great magnitude, producing interests so pushing, powerful and so constantly appealing to the Government, rightfully or wrongfully, that the requirements of statesmanship demanded in this age are fa/different from those which sufficed a century ago.” To show how far recent administrations have drifted from the positions held by the patriots who formed the constitution, it will only be necessary to refer to the warnings uttered by Washington in his farewell address. It is remarkable not only for its wisdom and foresight, but from the fact that it aptly describes the condition into which we' have been drawn by the influence of destructive currents: “The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of Government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power and proneness to abuse it which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of “political power by dividing and distributing it into different depositories and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasion by the others has been evinced by experiments, ancient and modern, some of them in our own country and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them.” The words uttered by Washington and by Gen. Garfield respectively show the difference between the policy now most favored by the Republican party and that advocated by the patriots of the Revolution.

I have no intention tojmpeach the patriotism of those who Iwld opinions which grew out of the excitements of civil war. But, in their eagerness to extend the jurisdiction of the General Government, they went too far, and exposed the country to unforeseen dangers. A review of the events of a few years past, as set forth by Republican journals, will make this clear. The capital of our country is on one side of this continent, at a great distance from most parts of the Union, without commerce or manufactures, and ordinarily no one has occasion to visit it except for business with officials. Lavish expenditures are as necessary for its citizens as good harvests are for the farmers. Every appropriation in favor of points however remote is in some degree a benefit to its citizens; it makes a clerkship or some employment for a resident. Hence Washington has rapidly grown from a small -place to a city of 150,000 inhabitants. It cannot be denied that the views of its people regarding expenditures arg affected by their interests, and that they make the local atmosphere which members of the Governmeut breathe when they reach the capital. It is not necessary to repeat the history of the corruptions which have brought dishonor upon the American people, and which have occasioned demands for reform from all parts of the Union. Those who have lived under these baleful influences, when they return to their homes, find they have been misled by the local ideas of the capital. The increase in the revenues of tho Government has given to Congressmen vast sums of money to vote away for various purposes. Much is used for the payment of the public debt, much

is voted away for the benefit of those who have schemes which they wish to have executed at the public cost. This draws from all parts of the Unidn shrewd and unscrupulous men, who seek a share of the lands or money given away. Within a few years our Government has assumed a new aspect. It is now made np of a President, who holds for four years, and whose energies are absorbed by the distribution of places: of Senators, whose terms are six years, and who are engrossed by legislation touching our domestic affairs or our relations to other countries —they, too, are pressed with the labor of attending to the personal interests of their constituents seeking place or legislation; of members of the House, who .hold for two years, in which time they cannot attend to all the calls made upon them antUnt the same time' learn the details of ottr Government, or of the abuses which are growing up. The fourth body is the “lobby,” rapidly increasing in numbers, who hold tlieir places for life. Many of them make their homes in Washington; they alone are familiar with affairs, and acquainted with the clerks and other’s who fill the departments. These are the men who. in the language of the late member of the Cabinet already quoted, are “producing aspirations and interests so powerful and complicated in their nature and so constantlv appealing to the Government, riglitfully or wrongfully, that the requirements of statesmanship are far different from those which sufficed a century ago.” Republican journals have made it known throughout the land that this last-named organization is so potent that it defies the Government itself in its own courts, by the aid of its own agents. These facts liave aroused the attention of patriotic Republicans, who find that they are the results of their own doctrines of centralization. The fruit of centralization is found to be a system of temptations which will grow worse as our populatioif inoreases in number and wealth. In dess than thirty years this country will contain 100,-’ 000,000 of souls. Its income will grow still more rapidly. The amount of money in the hands of Congress to be given away for all sorts of objects will, as past experience shows, increase in a fourfold ratio. Congress is now overburdened with duties, and it tfsually adjourns more in consequence of the weariness of members than because its task has been done. All thoughtful men in each pai*ty see that this state of things must be corrected; that we must go back to the teaching of the constitution, and .that a strict construction of the powers of Congress will leave less opportunity for corruption.

It is this feeling which has produced the political results of the j*ear 18S2. It has burst the strong bonds which held together the Republican organization. A party which has doubts about the correctness of its views loses the power to adjust its controversies. Should they be adjusted, the tap of the drum will not call back citizens to its ranks. I say this, not because I would throw discredit upon the Republican party; on the contrary, the sentiments which govern large numbers of it 3 members are patriotic and honorable, as are their efforts to check abuses which have grown out of mistaken views of policy. It would be an insult to say that they were governed by their passions or personal interest. No; the results of the election of 1882 were not due to local causes or» controversies. They were the product of a general belief that the doctrines of centralization have fostered serpents’ eggs where they were expected to give strength to our Union. "We have reports of corruptions not only in the postoffice, in the signal service and in the police force to protect the property of the public from wrongs and robberies, but also in the collection and use of political assessments, which Congressmen claim they have a right to make, while they punish as crimes such acts by other officials. Other departments, where there are greater temptations, are yet to be looked into.

The circumstances of the elections differed in the several States. -The character of the nominations had the usual influence. Whatever difference there may have been as to harmony or strife in the ranks of parties, all were overborne by the feeling in the minds of thoughtful, calm and patriotic Republicans that they had drifted into errors under the influence of passions inflamed by civil war. And this has been confirmed by every day’s reports of judicial proceedings where the Government lias been bafflecTin its effort to punish wrong-doers, in many instances by the corruption of its own agents. All feel that in the near future, when our population shall be 100,000,000, our Government cannot go on unless it returns to the constitutional policy of our fathers. *ln view of the evils growing out of vague constructions of file constitution, and of usurpations of indefinite powers, the public is inclined to heed this warning of Washington: “If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be, in any particular, wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by- which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield.”

The New England Fathers.

The character of the New England fathers was well defined in a poem by Allen G. Spooner, delivered before the New England Club thirty-seven years ago. Herewith is an extract relative to Sabbaths and the Quakers: On ft'indav his house was still as a mouse— The high wavs almo-t 8 qniei ; The Caurch-warden ttotft caught the boy who was out, And gave him the stocks and low diet. The dutv th -n, for heast. wife and men. Was t 1 bor six days out. of seven; On the t-evjutli, in the b st cf their toggery dr st. To wo;k harder to get into Heaven. Foul weather or fair, they were constant in pray* r, ' * Bnt i o hrift all t' e time kept a squint: And in matters of trade, when a bargain was made, Th ir fao’B were set like a flint. Innov tions in f ith th'y opposed unto death; ■* t the cart’s tail they dragged the poor Qn ke-: with oerision and jeers, they cropped heretics ears, And fe t they were serving their Maker. A veterinary surgeon of Binghamton, N. Y., successfully removed onehalf of the tongne of a valuable horse, upon which was an epiphhyticnl cancer, without much blood or trouble to the horse. Atlanta, Ga., claims to have the finest church in the South.

WATERY GRAVES.

Collision* in the North Sea of the Steamers Sultan and j Cimbria. The Latter, with 490 Souls on Board, Almost Instantly Founders. Over Three Hundred Lives Known to , Have Been Lost. [Cable Dispatch from London.] The Hamburg-American steamship Cimbria, disabled in collision, went to the bottom of the North sea last Friday. Hundreds fonnd watery graves. The Cimbria left Hamburg with twenty-three cabin passengers, 362 steerage (mainly German artisans), and a crew numbering 9& She grounded in the Elbe, but was taken off without damage and started on her voyage Thursday afternoon. Friday morning, In a thick fog off Borkum, she came in collision with the steamer Bultan, and sustained-such- severe injuries that it became apparent she must sink almost at once. The officers did all in their power to rescue the imperiled passengers, without a moment’s loss of time life-belts were distributed and the order given to lower the boata This, however, in consequence of the vessel keeling over on her side, was found to ffie very difficult on one side and absolutely impossible on the other. As the second officer was still engaged cutting the spars loose, so there should be as much driftwood as possible for people to cling to when the inevitable foundering should occur, the vessel with a plunge went down. He seized hold of a spar, but, as several other passengers clung to it, was obliged to let go, and swam to a boat This boat was subsequently picked up by the Theta The second officer steered the Theta to Cuxhaven Seventeen other persons have been saved by the steamer Diamant. from the Wesser light-house, making lifty-slx thus far known to have been rescued. The number of lives lost is estimated at fully 300. The passengers were mostly emigrants from Eastern Prussia. Among them were six American Indians, who had been on exhibition in Berlin for some J;ime. A survivor makes the following statement: “The weather was clear and damp up to 1:15 o'clock,” says the survivor, “but a heavy fog then set in, which continued and increased in density. The engines of the Cimbria were kept at full speed until 1:80, and at half speed till 2, after which they were kept at slow speed About ten minutes past 2 the whistle of another steamer was heard, and the engines of the Cimbria were stopped instantly. The Sultan’s green light was not observed until she was only 15u feet off from the Cimbria The latter was struck abaft the bulkhead, on the port side, keeled over to starboard, and speedily sank.” As soon as the Hamburg-American Company received intelligence of the dreadful disaster they took prompt measures to rescue the shipwrecked passengers. The steamer Hansa and four largest available vessels at Cuxhaven were dispatched to search for the missing boata The West India steamer Bavaria also left during the night with similar object. Up to 11 o’clock Sunday night nothing had been heard from the vessels out scouring the ocean. The steamer Saltan has arrived on the Elbe. The officers and crew absolutely refuse to give any information concerning the collision. Ther Captain has submitted a statement to the British Consul, but this is inaccessible. The Sultan has a large hole in her bow seven feet above the water line. The Cimbria was an iron vessel, built at Greenock, Scotland, in 1807. She had six transverse, water-tight bulkheads, and three iron decka Her length was 3291£ feet on the water-line, her breadth of beam forty feet two inches, her depth of hold thirtythree feet, and her gross measurement 2,964 tona The Cimbria is the third steamer lost by the Hamburg-American line within the last few yeara

Survivors say the last moments of the sinking Cimbria were terrible. The air was filled with the agonized shrieks of doomed passengers After the steamship had plunged to the bottom hundreds floated around for a short time until benumbed by the icy waters, and then sank to rise no more. They say that after having left the Cimbria their boat was capsized, and they sought shelter in the rigging of the fated steamship. They remained in this position ten hours, freezing from cold, and expecting every moment to be their last The women and children on board the Cimbria were first placed in boats. All of the survivors praise the conduct of the Captain and crew of the Cimbria, who never moved from their posts, and did everything in the power of man to save life until they themselves were ingulfed in the wavea They affirmed that while they were in the ringing the lights of the Sultan were clearly visible, and that their cries for help must have been heard on board the Sultan, which, instead of coming to their rescue, -steamed away. A rising young German writer, Leo Haberman, of Vienna, well known for his excellent description of Russian life, and the Sisters Romner, professional singers, and well known as the “Suabian Nightingales,” who had recently been performing in Berlin, perished. Berlin suffered severely by the disaster. Six families lost their breadwinners A majority of the passengers were poor Prussian, Hungarian and Russian peasants There were also on board fourteen French sailors, who had only taken passage at Havre Of the women on board the Cambria only three were saved. The Sultan was seized and her officers imprisoned by the German"authorities at Hamburg.

CHINESE IN FRAGMENTS.

Eight Tons of Blasting Material Explode with Terrific Force Near San Francisco. « Fifty Chinese Workmen Blown to Atfims. Gel'gram f r om PerVel v, Cal.] The mixing- house and six packing-houses of the giant-powder works at Point Clement, near West Berkeley, exploded at 4 this afternoon. The shocks of seven explosions were felt in this town. One white man, the foreman, named Conk, and between forty ahd fifty Chinese are known to have been blown to atoms. Nearly the entire plant was destroyed by fire, which began immediately after the explosion. The superintendent was thrown a long distance, but was not hurt. Physicians went down from Berkeley and West Berkeley The fire still raging. A large magazine, containing over -00 tons, is still safe About eight tons exploded. The dwelling-houses on the east side of the hill are safe, but all the glass is shattered. • It is now known that the number of Chinese killed Is not as great as at first reported. Not over thirty are missing. The fire is still raging, and more explosions are expected momentarily. "The scene in the vicinity is terrible. Bodies can be seen lying near the mine of fire, but the men d;ire not rescue them for fear of their own lives The assistant superintendent is missing, and is supposed to be killed. The sup- rintendent was not at the work& A workman, named Oscar Forguffskv was pulled from the ruins, soon after the explosion, seriously hurt Seven, Chinese have been taken from the debris, all badly hurt All the houses in a radius of haft a mile are completely shattered. The doors and windows of the dwelling houses of the employes on the opposite hill were blown in and most of the occupants dashed to the floor. end barn 1 - were laid flat Tne buildings of the Judsou works, on the side of the hill where the blasting powder is manufactured, were thrown over, and the mill will probably have to be rebuilt Tlie cause of The first explosion in the mixing house is yet unknown. The other explosion followed fin the space of .two minuter ~

NUMBER 1.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

The Legislature was in session but a short time on Jan. 2(1 Senator Brown introduced a bill for the purpose of protecting the freedom of election to employes of manufacturing establishments, and bqped upon the alleged bulldozing in the South Bend shops last faL The executive appointments on the benevolent boards were made the special order for Tuesday morning. The House adopted Mr. Jewett’s amendment to the rules giving the Speaker power to order the second reading of bills on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, to the exclusion of other bills, except special orders There was vigorous discussion the Senate, Jan. 22, over the fixing of the rate of interest on school-fund loans at fi per cent, and. although a final vote was not reached, the v&tes on subsidiary motions indicated that a very decided majority was in favor of leaving the rate at 8 per cent, as it is fixed by the present law. Senator Henry introduced a bill for an Appellate State Court to be composed of five Judges, elected as are the Supreme Court Judges, and having exclusive appellate jurisdiction in all civil cases of less than SSOO except where the title of real estate, construction of a statute, or a constitutional provision is involved. This is similar to the Frazer bill introduced in the House. Senator Yanoey introduced a bill providing that all engineers of stationary steam engines shall be compelled to undergo an examination as to their competency, and be properly licensed. D» the House, Mr. Crittenden introduced a bill authorizing cities and tojvns to tax foreign insurance companies l per cent, on their gross earnings from life and. fire policies in each municipality. Mr. Heston introduced a bill making it obligatory on such insurance companies to publish ilieir statements ouly iu one paper having the largest circulation in the State, instead of two, as now provided. Mr. Antrim has introduced a bill compelling railroads to pay all their employes at least once every month. Mr. Henry introduced a bill In the Senate, Jan. £s, creating an Appellate Court, to consist of five Judges, to have exclusive appellate jurisdiction in civil cases under SSOO. It will not have jurisdiction over appeals by defendant in felony eases, or by tne State in criminal cases, or from Superior Courts in general term. The act has an emergency clatifc. The Governor is to a point the Judges, who shall serve until their places may be regularly filled at a general election. The Senate laid on the table a resolution reported from the Committee on Executive Appointments to cut off the official heads of all the. appointees not authorized by law, Mr: Yancey introduced a r solution authorizing the retention in power of all the present officers and Trustees of the State institutions. which was laid on the table. The remainder of the session was devoted to a heated political discussion over the appointments made by Gov. Porter as of the “Benevolent Institutions. ” The Democrats vpte t to postpone the consideration of’ the appointments until the 30th inst, so os to allow the passage of a bill. reorgantz ng the institutions in the meantime, arid this was carried by a strict party vote. The debat ; on this question assumed a general political character because of the open declaration of Senator Bell that no would vote against the confirmation of Qen. John Coburn, who has been nominated sos President of the Board, because he was ®ne of the visiting statesmen who perpetrated the most outrageous frauds of the century iu making R B. Hayes President of the United States after the election of 187(1 The Senate ordered printed Mr. Graham’s bill makingit a ground of ineligibility for any county official to charge or take any illegal fees, the action to be brought by any freeholder before the Circuit Judge, who shall 'investigate the charges, and, if they are substantial, shall declare the office vacant for the unexpired tet mos the offender. In the House a number of important measures were Introduced, prominent among which was a bill to permanently endow the State University by an annual tax of 2 cents per SIOO cm the taxables of thff State. Two bills Were introduced providing for the repeal of the act establishing a State Board of Health, and Mr. Price introduced a bill making legal the verdict of eleven jurors in any case, although one should not agree to it. - The Souse adopted a resolution to instruct the ommittee on Prisons to prepare a bill, and report the same to the House, to provide for the relief of free labor from competing with convict labor, and to provide for some way to make convict labor self-supporting. During the discussion of thip question, which was quite animated at times, Mr. Gibson, in whose county the Southern Prison is located, said the idea that the convict labor in that prison affected free labor was wrong. He said the contractors sold the product of the prison labor at the market prices. A resolution by Mr. Shockney directing the Prison Committee, in order lo prevent collusion between directors and contractors, to report a bill fixing the minimum price at which convict labor could be let was, on Mr. Gibson’s motion, laid on the table. A lolnt convention of the two houses elected the following officers—the nominees of (he Democratic caucus: State Librarian, Miss Lizzie O. Callis; Directors of the Southern Poison, Dr. W, D. H. Hunter, Dr. H. V. Morvell; Directors of the Northern Prison, George Majors, John C. Shoemaker, Henry Ma ning. A resolution was adopted by the Senate, Jan. 24, providing for the payment by the State of the costs incurred by tlye Superintendent of Public Instruction in the case of the State va the Superintendent of Schools in Martin county, charged with corruption in selling the questions prepared for examination of teachers, by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, which was read the first time. The entire session was devdted to the discussion of the constitutional amendments, the question being in the majority report of the Judiciary Committee that the amendments were not properly recorded last session, and were therefore not legally pending. The Democrats sustained this position on the ground that the constitution provides that such amendments shall? be entered, iu full, while the Republicans claim that this S revision is merely directory and Tidt m'ariatory. Speeches were made by Senators Johnson and McCullough for the Democrats and Bundy and Foulke for the Republicans. In the House, Mr. Williams, of Knox, offered two new amendments to the constitution, which are to relieve the Supreme Court of the necessity of publishing ulfc their decisions in full, and providing that only Important decisions shall be printed,; which were withdrawn under a point of order. The same member Introduced a bill defining the offense of compelling or attempting to compel a person to marry, and fixing a penalty therefor. The object of the bill Is to relieve Chatfefc Wetzell, an attorney of Vincennes, from. the persecution of Annie Stewart, who bos liiip for mouths East, claiming that he has promised to marry er, but weakened. Mr. Petftibonc introduced a bill in the House to. provide for the issue of (14) bonds of SIOO each, the money to be used in the drain rig© and recamalion of the Kankakee swamp lands. The bill provides for a State Board Of Drainage, to" consist of the Governor; t!je’ Attorney Geneso*, land two competent persons, to Jie, appointed by the. Governor, these persons to be resident* at or near the lands of the Kankakee valley, and interested ivi the di afnage>and reclamation, of the same. , Mr. Montgomery ottered a resolution, which was adopted, instrAOting the Committee on Judiciary to consider the expediency of exempting from taxation mortgages, loans of-money, sales #1 proper* ty, and other evidences of debt, when at the same time the subject of the debt“B taxed. The Uiscusstfm of _the presefitwtotus of the coustltulional itihStrtmeuts, occupied the attentionof *ldtafche3 'of Assembly oh Jan. 35. In the Senate lip FoQke concluded Ids long Argument and • lengthj speeches were also made ,by Benators *Voylcs, Campbell, Brown and SpafUY Tiie amendments came up in the House as a special order, and the. .discussion hinged upon the motion to adopt the nT'moi'lty'report of the Judiciary, Cotnmfttee, declaring that the amefidmeEiiWw* were pending. Speeches were made py Patted, of Khot; Hetiren, of Washington; Frasier, of Kqsciusko, and Hustem, of Fayette, all these gentlemen. with the exception of Mr, Hdfirrtfto, speaking in faVortof the proposition. .The Brown bfll. for the Yeoxganizatwn of the benevolent institutions was engrossed, with the addition of .fax amendment offered, by Senator Spann, providing that twfemale department of tffg insane Asylum be fiacqd in charge of a competent female physfflan, %nd an additional,section, token frownthe Wilson bill, providing for the removal: of officers for-cause, tiie Gavernor to till the vacancy until the next meeting & of th« Legislature, and that the General Assembly -had eleqt the first inejnnhents immediately on the taking effect of the act. •„

THE DEMOCRATIC SENTINEL. 1 ppjgßlj ■,"■"■■■ Off . „qur job Beinting orncE Has better facilities than any office In Northwestern Thdlana -for the execution of all branches of AST PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. **• Anythin?, frost a Dodger to a Price-List, cr from a Pampli et to a Poster, (ffrok or colored, plain or taper HfV - ■ -

RAILWAY HORROR.

Terrible Acoident on the Southern Pacific Road. v Many People Crashed and Roasted to Death. A telegram from Tehlchipa, CaL, says: „ Shortly after midnight Friday night the overland express on the Southern Pooiflo railroad stopped near here to take on an extra engine to assist in pulling up a grade of 120 feet to the mile While making the change by some menus the train, consisting of express, mail and baggage oars, two sleepers, one coach and a smoker, became free and started to run full speed down the grade. The air-brakes had been token off, and the men who should have been tend ing hand brakes were away from their posts, one attending to switching the extra engine, and the other relighting his extinguished lamp. The train gathered headway quickly and was soon dashing down the grade at the rate of a mile a minute. At a sharp ourve in the road the coach and smoker, which were ahead, broke their coupling and separated from the rest of the train, making tne turn safely. The sleeper and the mall, express and baggage cars were daubed against a high bank, then thrown back and rolled down* fifteen-foot embankment The lamps and stoves at once set fire to the wreck, which was Instantly In a blaze. Harry Connors, the news agent, who was sleeping in the baggage-car, was awakened by the movement of the car, and aroused Jumes Woodhull. tip bat'gage master, just as the ear made the jump. The roof ot the oar split open,, throwing both men out .severely bruised Connors, while lying on the ground unable to render any assistance, saw the train entirely enveloped n flames, heard the shrieks of the dying victims, and saw the n vaimy endeavoring to sfruggle from the burning ruins Porter Ashe and his a ife occupied a lone drawing-room of one of the Bleepers and were awakened by the crash. They succeeded in getting out without Injury, \>ub o the sixteen other occupants of the' oar not one is believed to have escaped In the meantime the occupants of the coach which kept on the down grade succeeded in stopping it. thus saving the lives of siime forty occupants of that and- the smoking-car. They immediately walked back to the scene of the acoident, but found only the smoldering ruins of the train and the four who had escaped with their lives lying bruised and bleeding in the darkness, shivering in the piercing cold night air and rendering assistance to eaoh other. Word was sent here at onoe and assistance soon arrived «As soon os possible medical otter 4amce was sent from Sumner andßakersfla I *, and subsequently frond Los Angeles Sean,S sos tlie dead soon showed twenty-one had perished Eleven were burned beyond all recognition,only headless bodies and charred limbs being found Of the body of Mrs. Downey only the head and bust remained, and these were recognized by her jewe ry. All the bodies and fragments wore gathered up and put in coffins,. The wounded were remov a to the baggage-cur, and, on the firrival of a relief-train from Los Angeles, were sent to timt ci y. Of the dead the colored porter. Wriglit. was crush d; Express Messenger Charles Pierson bad his head shattered; five were burnt, but were reoogniztfble, viz.: Miss Mainie E. Squires, Mm H. O. Oliver, Mrs. Downev, M Wecherea and Mrs. James Cassell. Two unknown, but supposed to be discharged soldiers, were found dead, but were not burnt. One other body, that of a large man, was found badly chaired It is supposed to be the remains of CoL Lnrrabed, ex-Congressman from Wisconsin. Gov. Downey says that Larrabee was on the train, and he lias boon missing since the accident The remaining eleven are still unidentified The wounded arc Mrs. Oapt J. K. Brown and daughter Ida, Lee Waterhouse, Mra A. L Waterhouse and two children, John T. Cassell, ex-Gov. Thomas Downey, James Woodall. F. W. Dougherty, Mrs. P. C. Hatch, Mys- R. Hutch, the maid of Mrs. Porter Ashe, R. C. R ns, Ste hen Coffin. J. W. Hearls, and Capt T. H. Thatcher. The mall included one pouch of registered letters for St Louis, Mo., and 100 small packages of registered letters for other places.

HORRIBLE CRIME.

.. * —| Three Children Slain &// Their Lunatic Mother at Milwaukee. Their Little Bodies Hacked to Pieces in a Frightful Manner. A terrible crime was committed in the city of Milwaukee a few days ago, a mother killing her three little children—the oldest 4 years, and the youngest 18 months—ln a most brutal manner,’literally cutting them to pieces and completely disemboweling them. From a local paper we glean the following of the blood-curdling horror: When the reporter reached the dingy apartment >ta-re the deed was committed he beheld a ten ‘ ble sight Left <?f the door stood a large,. aw bed, -and on the scanty, dirty bed clothes lay the prostrate forms of three little girls They were a ghastly group. The little bodies were nude and cut up in a terrible manner, The oldest girl had a large number of gashes made with a butcher-knife all over her little body. The arms of the second girl were cut off near the shoulders, the lower extremities hung to the body by thin shreds of flesh, and the little body was completely disemboweled. The small body of the babe was cut into six pieces, the head and extremities being completely severed from the trunk. Near the foot of the bed a voung woman, only partially dressed, wi h disheveled hair, crouched on the floor. 1 e d down by two strong men. Upon a table near by were the remnants of a frugal breakfast, and carelessly thrust among the cups and saucers lay an ugly-looking butcher knife, blood dripping from the blade, and a ooop»r’« knife, or qaiaper, with two handles, also smeared all over with blood. The butchery was honible. Blood dripped from the bed onto the uncarpeted floor, forming a large pool. The whole surroundings were exceedingly squalid. Poverty and uncleanliness gave the yoqms a dreary look, was not improved ’ by their* bittCr old atmosphere The young woman held down was the murderess Her hands were sme red with Wood, and the frbnt of her dress was dyed in gore. A stttanic smile played about her mouth and her whole appearance was that of an insane person. She was a fair-haired young per-on, and her features were not had. She is about five feet three inches high. Over her head was a bed-qiiilt and when she had been placed before the lire in the police s ation she told her story*in broken German. When asked kdw*be'murdered the chlldien she >aid she stabbed one in the breast and an ther in the shoulder. They cried hut little, as she made cmick work of the butchery. She smiled as sue pronounced the last words The woman 4isea a draw-shave and two small ca> vlng knives. With the former she shaved the children's bodies, and with the latter she -stabbed an 1 disemboweled them. While their bodies were shockingly mutilated, their heads were untouched. When a kaq what had caused her to do the fearful deed, she replied, “I read it in the boot* Her insanity is of religious form, and sho thinkß she has madeaxgreat sacrifice. She 'kept smoothing back \ her hair with her WOody hands, looked atNtlie crimson stains, and smil> d. Her eyes had a wild look. The sight was so terrible that the officers turned away sick at heart Hacked and cut and stabbed ahd chopped legs and arms, horribly severed from the body, is the butchering described In the shortest way. The husband stated that ever since their arrival in this country they had trouble, as there had been considerable sickness among the children.. About Christmas time she had read something in a paper that seemed to have nad a great effect oh her. Since then she Was spent whole days looking at a small prayer book in her lap. cooking no food, and not even beating the room. She Is doubtless insane from worrying because the sickness of the children prevented her from attending church. - -i _ - •The London Lancet, advocat e stocking* made Ike gloves to prevent soft corns. ,.i. . Ulllw *