Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1884 — DANIEL WEBSTER'S MEMORY. [ARTICLE]

DANIEL WEBSTER'S MEMORY.

Menticvllo Natioaal: Abont 8 o’clock Monday the fir* bell sounded SD'I it was soon ascertained that the fire was located at the residence of Mr Er 1 , Loughry ou Bluff street. The fire company was soon on the ground and ’he'fire extinguished before it had got fairly undo’, headway The fire origin ted from a defective flue. The alarm of fire sounded 10 o’clock on Sunday night was occasioned by the burning es the old barn situated ou the Isaac Reynolds homestead property, Th- fire was undoubtedly the work efan incendiary,the flames first appearing in a shed attached to the main building, and in which was slowed an old threshing machine be longing to ‘Martin Witz. This machine. we understand had lately been insured for S3OO. The ire »pr rad so rapidly that, before those living in the immediate vicinity arrive!, the entire building was wrapped in flatnf s. One of the most disastrous fires ever experienced in Monticello originated in Henry Jost’s dry goods store Sunday night, January 6, burning out Roberts & Ylnson’s hardware store. Henry Jost’s dry goods gtoro, Ed. Wardner’s tin store, W. B. Keefer’s taller shop, and Mrs. Dunfee’s millinery shop. No policy on Ed, Gardner’s otoek, hut Mr. Keefer had an insurance of SI,OOO on the building; Roberts & Vinson have a policy of $3,000 on their stock and Witz & Roberts have a $2,500 policy on the factory building; Henry Jost, we understand, holds a $5,000 policy on his stock ot dry goods, while Mrs. Dunfee had no Insurance on her •tack or building, In Canada spool thread is sold at three cents a spool, in the United States ths price is five cents; difference i wo cents a spool, er 66 per cent, above the Canada price The population of the United States is equivalent to 11,000,000 families, of live persons each. Estimatmg the vonsuttiption of spool thread at six dozen each p*r family annually, the eost of the thread at Canada prices would be $23,760,000, while in the U. S. the cost would ba $32,600,000; a difference of $18,840,000, which protection puts into the pockets oi monopolists. The extra twooenfs per spool goes inio the pockets of the manufacturers and at the same time they continue the - reduction es the wages of the ernnloyees. - The Albany, (N. Y,) Argus, in ecm mooting on what a tariff is for, says that the primary pui pose of a tariff shoald be the equitable provision of the revenue requsite for the Government. That purpose is the justifieatien of any tariff. The sum requited for that purpose is the limit warrantably predicable of aay tariff. A tariff for any ether purpose and ene exceeding any saeh sum is a subject for reform, like any other net or sys teas of mal-legisUtion. This is the doctrine of tho Democratic party, j The doctrine that a tai-iff is no' for revenue, but for monopolies, that Hs purpose is tbe protection of manufacturers at the expense-of the consumer and producer classes es the land, is Republicanism pure and sim pie. There are persons and papers in that parly that affect to be revenue reformers—but they show tneir hypocrisy or cowardice by supporting iavanably its protection platforms audits protection candidates.” Th* Democratic proas of tho country has only to emphasize tho policy of ref*rm in tariff taxation, and show the people how-and to what extent they have been plundered by an iniquitous tariff coasted and sustained by the Republican p rty to • •insv - an endnrljjj victory-«, Uilff, too, which puts the pr,a;«eds into the pockets of uoiiupolisis. i-.-jov*i oi into the treudurv for the suumrt 'he Government, 5 ’•«'W'' ■ ——- <e .»» Occasionally Republicans of the present day, in accompanying the swing of the bloody shirt with a howl about Southern brigadiers andrebfl influence in Congress, seem to fo-ge that portion of the men of the South who earned a reputation tor infamy during the rebellion now sccupy’iheguiglieot st- it; in the Hepublican synagogue. Mahone. who advocated the murder.ef Union pris oners, is iu honored leader in the U. g. Senate and is so bitt *X In his am-' tipathy to Eeinocrats that b$ boast ’’ W & r . ••• ’ f •

ofjhls having never stopped upoa th* Democratic side es the Beaate floor since ho became a Senator. Celon*) Mosby, who raised the “black sing” ornamented with tho skull aid crossbones dating the war, is now Consul General to Egypt. Bloody hand*d Chalmers, who led the butchery at Fort Pillow was th Republican eaadidate far C?agrees in his Dist.ict in Mi ssissippi at the last election, and claims to have been. elected ; prob aoly every Republican member of Congress Witt vs'» to give htm a seat. Amos T. Acker mar, who was Ge er al Rob Toombs’ ot staff, and proclaimed the doatriim of shotting evo~y®gro in his tracks that was found wearing tao uniform of a Ui.ion soldier or giving aid to the Union cause, was made Attorney General of the United States, th* highest officer of tho Government, under Grant’s last adminittfalion.—South Beud Ti/aes.

(Detroit Fre« Press.) , Several weeks ago the late James Burns told how, in 1836, Daniel Wooster paid a visit to Detioit and was civen a reception by thy ci izens a the National hotel. “I Jwas about twenty-six years old,” said Mr. Burn , “and had j Ist risen to the distinction of being in business for myself. Foi that reason I suppose, at all evsntsjl know no other cause, I was invited to be privately Introduced. with a lot of other young busine s men, to Mr. Webster, “Well, sir, I went fully impressed with th* greatness of Mr. Webster, and I eoafess somewhat elated over the honor thus accorded me. W* all assembled in the parlor, fifteen or twenty in number. Presently Mr. Webs'er entered the room, and we were introduced. A suciaf general chat of perhaps half an hour followed, Mr Webeter talking all over the room a.d/with no one in particular, after which we took eur leave. T e remarkable feature whkih Impressed me was the faot that Mr. Webster, who had met fifteen or eighteen ordinarK young men for the first time and that in a general way, called ui all bv name and without hesitation or mistake as we tank our leave," “I’ve heard that memory of names wau onejjof Danief Webster’s strong points.” | “But the story isn’t finished," said Mr Burns. ”Fuur yenra“later I was in New York' buying goods. I hnd not seen or hardly thought of Mr.. Webster in that time. I had just urued from Wall street to go up Broadway, when I saw a magnificent figure ahead of me. Co»fident that it was Mr. Webster, I ani'diensd my pace, passed •him. and at the n«it corner stopped to pet a fai look at him. I was aot mistake* in the mm, and 1 was immediately filled frith the desire to sffeak with him, but I was held hack *y the thought that he weuldu’t remember * young chap like myself. 1 followed him a block before I coaid make up my mind to accest him. Every bedy on Breadway turned and looked admiringly at him as he passed, and finally I thought it would be in keeping with western character to be a littfe for wird. So with ‘How do you do, Mr. Webster?’! stepped to his side. Turning slightly and half stopping in his walk be looked intently into my face an instant and, said, ‘Why how do you io, Mr, Burns? I’m glad te see you sir .’ Aud us wo walked together up to the Ast r house I ■actually believe he inquired after every man he met at his Detroit reception, and that he called each man bj name as though they were his intimate friends. From that hour I knew the value of a good memory, and from that hour I began te cultivate my own.