Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1883 — CRYSTAL WEDDING. [ARTICLE]

CRYSTAL WEDDING.

On Thursday eve ning of last week it being the 15th auoiversary of the wedded life of our esteemed fellow* citizen, Ezra C. Nowels and his esti-, mable wife, a large numoer of friend s conceived the happy idea of affording them a rare treat, in a genuine SURPRISE PARTY. All preliminaries having boen arranged in the.afternoon, they met in the evening at the agreed rendezvous. aDd going into a “committee of the whole.” concluded it would be quite appropriate to c irry te the happy couple some slight tuken of their good will and esteem. Consequently, the ladies were detailed by their husbands—self-con-stituted lords and masters— to make a selection of some gift suitable to the occasion; and after due delibera. tion, decided it would be proper to select crystals, which they did in the shape of a set of decorated Chiua* ware. After the selection had been made all repaired at a late hour, to the res’ idenee of Mr. Nowels, and finding every indication that the family was “sale in the arms of Morpheus,” literailj “stormed the castle,” and “held the foit” afterwards. All went merry as the traditiona 1 “marriage bells,” and after asbor t time 'had been ‘ spent in soeial ecn versation and lively games, the hostess ana -uneed refreshments. When all had gathered about the “festal board” Charles H, Price, in a short speech, on behalf of the assem* bled friends, offered congratuiations f tendered the “slight token,” and expressed wishes of many happy returns, &e., &c. At a late hour the party adjourned feeling amply repaid for having brav ed the inclement weather, and de„ voutly wishing the genial host and hostess might live t# celebrate their 30th anniversary.

A. PARTICIPANT.

A statement made by ex-Congress~ man Dezendorf in a speech at a Republican meetisg at Williamsburg a few days ago has caused a flutter In Virginia politics. He quoted President Authur as sayiig: Dezeucorf.l know|that yoM.have been badly treated, but lam powerless and cannot prevent it. The caucus of Republi can senators made an agreement with Mahcne which JI am bound ts caxry out.” Mr. Dezendorf further said: “I understand that Mahons will adaresa the people of Southampton in a short time, and when ha does I intend to meet him ia that couutry, face to face, and charge him wiih selling his vote.” >4S»»The officers of the Smithsonian institution ace quite proud of a relic of antiquity whieh they have just put en exhibition. It is tue statue or a lion brought from Tunis to the Centennial ex position in 1876- It was sculptured some time before the beginning o' the Christian era, and was placed iu the temple o? Astorces built by tbo Romans ut Carthage. One night during the centennial the Brit • ish consul-general at Tunis, who was then at£Piiiladelphia, was visited by an Arab chief, the latter offered te obtain the lion for the consul general for a given sum of money. The offer was accept d and on the following night the chief and several other Arabs conveyed tne relic from its place in the exposition te a place agreed upon. Subaeqantly the relic was donated to the Smithsonian Institute by the British consul. The lion is of stone and Is in a good state es preservation.

The fellowing is suggested as appropriate to be inserted in the Republican platforms hereafter: Resolved. That we have fooled the negro about as long as we can • there fore, “we mu=tgo.” Resolved. That the Civil Rights bill, though unconstitutional from the star:. mane the coloied voters think we were honest fellows and -tilled them irto voting for ua a long time; Therefore, we must get up some bing else and try to fool them again. Amen. Col. J. B. Maynard ou Thomas A. Henuiic ks. From a speech deliverfed at Sheibyville, October 13tfc From the Indianapolis Sentindl: The speaker felicitated himself because it was bis good fortune to take part in tne Shelb.vville shout for joy over the Ohto victory, t ( o see J homas A. Hendricks surrounded by his ad miring neighbors with whose good name, prosperity and fatue, he must be fotcyer identified. The speaker saidjjhe had been at Mount Vernon, he had walked the pathways where Washington walked, seen the trees he planted, the broad acres lie had cultivated; the Potomac, whose majestic flow Washington had admiredHe had seen the room where Wash" ingtou died, and the tomb where his ashes await the resunvet’on- He had stood beneath the shades of Ashland, forever associated with the name of Henry Clay. He hadgread of Monticelio, though off of the great lines of travel, is to be forever in tne iine of the highway of sublime thought and purpose because it was the home of Jefferson. He had read of the Hermitage, and ‘by the Eternal would like to stand uncovered at the tomb of Jackson and breatbe an a *» mosphere impregnated with the siii> it of devotion to Democratic principles which forever hovers areund the sacred spot. I am now ; said the speaker, in Shelbyville. Tnis vast audience will disappear from the face of the earth; other generations will come, live and move and pass away. Years, massing themselves into cen turies* will retreat as other years ad-* vance. Your blocks of granite will crumble under the battling banner of the elemeuts and the gnawing tooth of time, and still the name «f Shelby ille shall live, because it will forever be associated with the name and fame of Thomas A, Hendricks-

The Butler campaign in Messaohu* setts is attracting the attention es the ceuntrv as election day draws. A recent Boston special says: The latest accusation against Governor Butler is that he sent a man before the Unite ! States Senate Committee to testify to the tanning of human ski ns. Governor Butler knew nothing of the man or his testimony UDrill he read the report in the Globe the next morning, all the pa persin the city baviDg suppressde if. Mr. Chance, the witness’ avers that he did not intend to sav any thing about it when he went before the Committee, but that it was brought out of him in an unguarded monu nt. He refused to be lnterv ewed after the hearing, for fear it might, cause trouble to him. This did not save him. He was promptly discharged by his employer, “The newspaper* have lately been making inquiries as to what Colonel French thinks of Butler’s picture book As a picture book I don’t think much of it; as a campaign document it is the most effective we have ever issued. It is making hundreds of votes for Butter The moment the Repubjtsan press called attention to it, and after the Republican Committee bad backed out of its offer to circulate it, the demand for it from Republicans was immense. The papers said it was unfit to put into any family, but ail the Republicans are eager for it so I believe it does not shock their families as much as the Republican managers expected. The document aim*ply portrays the condition of things and tje atrocities committed a* tbs Tewksbury Alms House, for which th# Republican party is responsible.”

John Quincy Adams received a salary from the United S:a es government for sixty-rii e years and the sum total must have amounted to half a million At the close of his presidential term lie had uad fifty two pears of office holding, and his salary had aggr-ga ed $425,000; still, h»bad seventeen years of congress after tnis and died at die car>rol at a eengress" ionai session. At the age of fourteen he went to Ru.-.sia ns the private sec ‘rotary of die American legation, and be was in niter years minister to England, Germany. Portugal, Russia, and the Netherlands. The late Judge Black is said to have received th“ largest fee ever paid to ala wyer. He argued and won a case.ia the United States Supreme court for ibe New Almaden quicksil ver company, with Reverdy Johnsoand Judah P. Benjamin against hiran and was paid a fee of $250,000. “There isn’t au infidel in this whole room,” remarked a member of the Chicago <>xchauge o r thefioo:. “That can’t b>- true” sai l nn outsider. “Yes, it is,” was the rejoinder, ‘’every Idessof these fellows believes in a ’future.’ ” Sergeant Jasper, the hero who figures ia revolutionary annals ia to have a monument at Savannah. Of the SIO,OOO required for the work s6,* 887 have been subser bed. Blundering Americans apes of the English in attempting to eay hawlfpawn far half past, get it haw If-past or half-pawat. The latest feminine tests have real pockets like a man’s.

On Thursday last, Ezra C, Nowels, Auditor of Jasper county for ih« past four years, turned over the office to his successor, Ge#rge M. Robinson, with tne work don# up to the moment he took nis leave. Mr. Nowels perI formed the duties of bis position with ! fidelity, honesty and ability and toward those having business with him he was always obliging and courteous. Summed up—he was a model official, and entitled to the plaudit, “Well done” »■###•- Ben Butler’s canvass of Massachusetts is certainly very remarkable.— A Boston letter says: His tour of the Stat is one of the remarkable features of the campaign. Ah hough weighted by six'y five years of life, he displays au en which only a vigorous constitution could impart. Assailed right and left, and with tbo press almost a unit against him, he has never cried for quarter. From, morning to night he keeps on his tour of the large cities and towns of the Commonwealth sometimes making as many as four speeches a day in as mauy different places, and always providing a new theme. His tour has b< en a decidedly enthusiastic one, and he has boen listened to by larger crowds than have as a general rule attended those of his hpponeuts. He is now, however to receive assistance. and next week Democratic thunder will ba supplied by Mayor Albert Palmer of Boston, who floated iuto office oa the Rutler wave; excollector William A. Simmons, who was removed fromthe Boston Custom House by ex~.Pr«sident Hayes, and who is a tecent convert toDemoeracy; Judge Josiah G. Abbott, an old line Democrat; Colonel Joseph H. French, the chairman of the State committee and ex:eonga-ssman John K. Tarbox. It makes but little difference to the Governor as to whether he is assisted or not, as he relies on no oae so much as he does on himself. A portion of the bridge over the jioqmos, at ihis place, went down yesterday under the weight of a lot of cattle WOOD! Woodll Wood!!! -Dear reader, that wood you promised us. William Clark and master Victor Moore visited the family of Walt Culp, in Carroll c#unty, this week, The new mill is under cover and enclosed and soon the machinery will be placed in position. Last week ©t Circuit Court.