Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1884 — Banking Inteiligence. [ARTICLE]

Banking Inteiligence.

. A whojjsale manufactory of Swiss stamps of old issues has been discovered in Zurich. The forgers have gone about their work very thoroughly; they [have collected scraps of old letters jearing postmarks with various dates bm 1843 to 1860; and, the better to eceive the unwary, they have stuck he stamps on to these pieces of >peMe. P. T. Barnum jammed one of xis fingers in a door lately, which, totether with the election going wrong, md other matters, has caused him to emark dejectedly to a reporter that e is feeling badly, and if the Lord alls him he is ready to go. Resignaion to the divine will is an excellent aing, but perhaps Mr. Barnum has ot fully considered the matter, or he ould regard the prospect of occupyng a humble back seat even in a heavnly audience as less attractive than he proud position of manager of the greatest show on earth.”

It remained for a Texas “professor” -though of what does not appear—to rrange a plan of doing penance for a rime that has not been discovered, yet o tortures the guilty one that the usual lethod of obtaining relief is to make onfession and be duly tried and senenced. Prof. Hatton—not Mulhatton —of Crockett, Texas, has pleaded guilty of stealing a horse, and has been sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. Those who know him assert that Ue has certainly done this to atone for [iome crime of his that the authorities have not suspected him of.

■ Bates for living were never higher Vi Washington than they are now. A Venator, who has to live upon his salBy, went to one of the up-town hotels Bid asked for rates for himself, wife, Bid daughter. He wanted a sittingBom and two bed-rooms. The amiable B'oprietor said he could accommodate ■m with the room and board desired K>on the fifth floor for $l4O a week. Blut that is more than my salary.” Bl can’t help that,” said the landlord. BVe have no trouble in getting these Biures. ” This same Senator tried for ■ >oms in a fashionable flat, and found ■ rat on the top floor he could get four f \nall rooms for $250 a month. This |. Id not include board.

} Twenty-five Senatorial terms expire frith the present Congress. Fourteen of the retiring Senators are Democrats, jleven Republicans, as follows-. Pugh J)em.) of Alabama, Walker (Dem.) of Arkansas, Farley (Dem.) of California, Kill (Rep.) of Colorado, Platt (Rep.) of Ponnecticut, Call (Dem.) of Florida, rown (Dem.) of Georgia, Logan (Rep.) f Hlinois, Voorhees (Dem.) of Indiana, Ilison (Rep.) of lowa, Ingalls (Rep.) f Kansas, Williams (Dem.) of Kentucr, Jonas (Dem.) of Louisiana, Groome 3em.) of Maryland, Vest (Dem.) of lissouri, Jones (Rep.) of Nevada, Blair Rep.) of New Hampshire, Lapham Rep.) of New York, Vance (Dem.) of ;orth Carolina, Pendleton (Dem.) of fhio, Slater (Dem,) of Oregon, Cameri (Rep,) of Pennsylvania, Hampton f)em.) of South Carolina, Morrill (Rep.) \ Vermont, Cameron (Rep.) of Wiscono. The Democrats in California and regon will be succeeded by Republics.

1 Philadelphia has a children’s aid Bciety, the object of which is to pro■de for dependent and destitute little Ihes, who would otherwise become inmates of almshouses or orphan asylums. The main purpose is to keep Children from getting “institutionized,” I4(d even the best of asylums or public m-omes” are not made use of by the ■ciety, except for temporary shelter Br their charges. Great care is taken ■ investigating the character of the Keople with whom the children are ■laced. They are usually given for adoption, occasionally are indentured l|r service, but in either case are reRrded as wards of the society, and are lost sight of. It is claimed that jdie children thus taken direct from Iheir own poor homes or even from the wreet adapt themselves more readily ■ their new surroundings and home Rmosphere than do others taken from asylums. ,

' The rush to secure seats at the New fork Avenue Presbyterian Church, frhere President-elect Cleveland will yorship, is something unprecedented. ( ?he membership of the society is very large, and vacant seats command a premium. Pews that could readily have pen secured two months ago for $l5O lar annum, are now eagerly snapped [p at dbuble that sum, although the oclapants will not live here on an average kx months in the „ yepr. Old mosslack Democrats, who have not seen the bside of a church in a generation, are roiohg the most importunate of bidders. ■ was so after Garfield’s election. As ■ by magic the humble little one-story ■une Christian Church on Vermont

avenue, whose very existence few people were aware of, suddenly became the Mecca to which crowds of fashionable people and politicians wended their way each Sunday. Upon the succession of President Arthur the current changed to the direction of St. John’s. The incoming of the Cleveland administration diverts it again into a new and less fashionable channel.

Centenarians: Mrs. Welch, aged 112 years, died recently in the Rutland, Vt.j poorhouse. Darby Green, of Reading, Conn., recently celebrated his 101st birthday. His constitution is strong and his health excellent. Mrs. Phebe Briggs reached her 100th anniversary on Sunday last. She was horn in New Milford, five miles distant from her present residence, and has never crossed the State line. Marvin Smith, of Montville, Conn., who performed gallant service in the war of 1812, recently celebrated his 100th birthday. Edmund R. Kidder, of Berlin, Mass., was bom Aug. 17, 1784, and is still strong and healthy. Mrs. Clarissa D. Richmond, of Milton, Mass., is 102 years old, and has good prospects of living several years longer. Mrs. Sally Powers, who lives in the Augusta, Me., almshouse, is 106 years old. In Vermont, during the three years ending last January, sixteen centenarians died —a remarkable record. Luther Holden, of South Wallingford, died a few moths ago, aged 102. Concerning the living, Miss White, of Newbury, is over 101. She is partially blind, but her hearing is good and her memory is excellent. She can repeat poetry—which she has committed to memory in the past —by the hour, has a good appetite, and converses freely. Mrs. Gakfieed, writes a Washington correspondent, did a very graceful and a very sensible thing ih asking John Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, to act as the guardian of her infant children during their legal minority. Graceful, because Tucker was one of Garfield’s truest friends; sensible, because a better man could not have been found for that responsible position. When Tucker came up from his professorship in “the University,” as the Virginians call it, a brilliant, scholarly, bighearted, old-fashioned Virginia gentleman, to sit in the House of Representatives, he sought out the most cultivated among his associates and made them his friends. This was not difficult, for no one ever knew Him long without loving him. Among them all he found no one so congenial as Garfield. Although they differed diametrically in most things, yet they had much in common. Garfield was a big-brained, bighearted boy, his enthusiasm tempered only by his culture. Morally weak and unfitted by nature and by education for politics, he was socially a most charming companion, and intellectually a rarely well-cultivated man. Tucker was personally as delightful as Garfield, excelling him as to his ability to tell a good story, and was intellectually his peer in every respect; At the same time he was morally strong, as honest as he was fearless, although he was no better equipped for political life than Garfield. Of course, their political views differed in toto. Tucker was a State-rights man; Garfield was a nationalist. Tucker was a revenuereformer ; Garfield, though at heart he was a revenue-reformer, bowed to the will of the party bosses and avowed himself a protectionist. But one day, after their friendship had become a fixed fact, Garfield came over to Tucker’s desk, on the Democratic side of the House, and said: “Tucker, you know I am a protectionist; but I want that there should be free trade hereafter between you and me in matters literary.” “With all my heart* ” responded Tucker;” and from that time to the day of Garfield’s death they were the closest friends. They both loved literature—all letters, ancient and modern, but perhaps most all the Greek and Latin classics. Every day they managed to steal time from even the most engrossing of their legislative duties for an excursion into those ever-blooming fields. Sometimes they met in the library, sometimes in a committee-room, or again on the floor of the House itself. Rather an odd growth in such volcanic soil.

He wanted a position in an Austin bank. The President was satisfied with his credentials, but, before engaging him, put him through a little civilservice cross-examination. “Suppose, now, a man was to come in here to deposit s2ft in $1 bills, how would you count them ?” “I’d wet my finger and lift up each bill until I got to the last one.” *Why would you not lift up the last one ?” “Beoause there might possibly bo one more bill under it, and it the depositor was to see it he would want it back, but if the twentieth bill is not lifted up and there should be another bill in the pile the bank makes it. Don’t you see ?" “You will do,” said the Bank President. “You have been in the business before, but I didn’t’suppose you knew that trick.”— Texas Siftings.' Catholic journals advocate the discontinuance of preaching fulsome eulogies and the writing of fulsome obituaries respecting the dead.