Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1885 — Broken Chords. [ARTICLE]

Broken Chords.

The Current : Do not be afraid to fcttj. Any permanent investment you contemplate may be safely entered upon now. - Tub year 1885 finds four English Judges still actively pursuing their judicial labors after attaining the age of fourscore yeafs. They are Vice Chancellor Baoon, who is in his 87th year; Judge Petersdorf, in his 85th; Judge Hulton, is his 83d; and Judge Baylev, of the Westminster County Court, also in his 83d year. Women serve on juries in Washington Territory, and at the recent trial of a faro dealer there the jury consisted of six persons of each sex. James Mitchell met Susan Thompson for the first time in the box, proposed marriage to her and was accepted, and the wedding took place immediately on the conclusion of the trial. The faro dealer was convicted. Mbs. Eugenia Makes, of Frankford, Philadelphia, whose death is announced, was a slave of Thomas Jefferson and was at his bedside when he died. She took great pleasure in telling that while at Washington she cooked so nice a breakfast for Gen. Jackson that he went to the kitchen to compliment her, and accompanied his compliments with a $5 gold pieoe. Mb. Henby C. Pedder, formerly the confidential employe of Arnold, Constable & Co., and the largest stockholder in the Manhattan Magazine, who lived in royal style at a costly villa in New Jersey, and who disappeared suddenly, is said to be living now in St. Kitts, one of the West India islands, where he was born, and living in good style, too, but that can be done at St. Kitts, it is said, with $25 a month.

Teaching a school for Indian boys ,in New Mexico is attended with some inconveniences. The other day several Apache braves visited a school at Albuquerque where their sons were pupils, full of wrath and whisky. They wanted to clean out the whole establishment because they had heard that the Indian lads were occasionally punished. And the only way to pacify them was to get them so drunk that they were helpless. Once every two years the Arkansas preachers have a chance of entering into a political contest. The chaplaincies of both houses of the Legislature are elective offices, and sometimes the struggle for success is attended by all the features of a vigorous campaign. “Look here,” said the Rev. Bograndle, addressing a member of the House, “I want your vote. I ain’t much of a hand at singin’, but when it comes to prayin’ —standin’ right up an’ axin’ the Lord to bless a Legislature w’y I am etarnally thar. I-can pray the socks ofen any of these other fellers.” The North China Herald reports that there died lately at, Pekin the greatest Chinese mathematician of the present century, His name was Li Shan-lan, and he was professor of mathemathios at the Foreign College in the Chinese capital. “He differed from the mathematicians of Europe in this respect, that he denied the nonexistence of a point. ‘A point,’ said Prof. Li, ‘is an infinitesimally small cube/ and in saying this he only renroduoed the theories of Chinese sophists 2,000 years ago.” And when you come to think of it, how can anything be without length, breadth, and thickness ?

At the late meeting of the California State Teachers’ Association A. L. Bancroft delivered a .lecture on a proposed new alphabet. The Sacramento Union says: “Previous to.the address charts •were distributed showing the proposed ‘San Francisco Alphabet for Bevised English Spelling, 1884.’ This shows a scheme of thirteen vowels, four diphthongs, and twenty-four consonants. The system may be summed up particmlarly ka the statement that it is ‘shorthand’ written in a long way. The charaoters, apart from the ordinary alphabet, resemble ordinary letters now in use generally. Mr. Bancroft explained the ohart at length, and claimed for the ‘San Francisco alphabet’ a variety of advantages." Ton opinion is advanced by several London papers, and is echoed by certain New York journals, that Edmund Yates ha 3 no other course open to him than to resign from the several dubs with which he is connected, in order to save expulsion, which seems to be oonsidered the inevitable alternative. As Mr. Yates is in prison, Rerang a four months’ sentence for a libelous paragraph which appeared in his paper during his temporary abBenoa, and was written by a titled woman oontributor, it will probably net be clear to the ordinary comprehension why Hr. Yates should be expected thus to abase himself by withdrawing himself from the dubs end

tacitly acknowledging himself unfit for association with the members. His imprisonment is, under the circumstances, neither disgraceful nor degrading, and the reason why he should be put under social ban is not apparent at this distance. On the contrary, a common sense of justice would seem to urge that sympathy be extended to him by his friend and associates. If he is wise he will refuse to resign, and, should the expulsion come, he may feel serene in the consciousness that, if a stigma exists, it rests not upon himself, but upon the clubs which force him out because of a misfortune that he could not avoid.

William M. Evarts, who has recently been elected Senator of the United States, was bom in Boston, Feb. 6, 1818. He was the son of Jeremiah Evarts, who was born in Sunderland, Vt., Feb. 3, 1781, and died in Charleston, S. C., May 10, 1831. The latter graduated at Yale College in 1802, was admitted to the bar in 1806, practiced his profession in New Haven for about four years, and from 1810 to 1820 edited the Panoplist, a religious monthly magazine published in Boston. In 1812 he was chosen Treasurer of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and in 1820, when the Panoplist was discontinued and the Missionary Herald was issued by the board in its stead, he took charge of the latter periodical. He was chosen Corresponding Secretary of the board in 1821, and retained that office until his death. William Maxwell graduated at Yale in 1837, studied in the Harvard law school under Judge Story and Prof. Greenleaf, and was admitted to the bar in New York in 1841. In 1849 he was appointed Deputy United States District Attorney in New York City. He held this position four years. In 1851, while temporarily acting as District Attorney, he distinguished himself by the prosecution of the persons engaged in the “Cleopatra expedition,” a Cuban filibustering scheme. In 1853 he was counsel for the State of New York in the famous Lemmon slave case. In 1861 he and Horace Greeley., were rival candidates before the Republican caucus for United States Senator from New York. The name of Mr. Evarts was finally withdrawn, and Ira Harris was elected. In the impeachment trial of President Johnson in the spring of 1868, Mr. Evarts was principal counsel for the defendant. From July 15, 1868, to the close of President Johnson’s administration he was Attorney General of the United States. In 1872 he was counsel for the United States before the tribunal of arbitration on the Alabama claims, at Geneva, in Switzerland. Mr. Evarts was a member of the law firm of Evarts, Southmayd & Choate, in New York, and was President of the State Bar Association. For many years his reputation as a lawyer has been national, and he has been engaged in many of the most important cases tried in the country. Among others may be mentioned the celebrated Parrish will case and the contest of the will of Mrs. Gardner, the mother of President Tyler’s widow. He was the senior counsel retained by Henry Ward Beecher in the action brought by Theodore Tilton, the trial of which lasted six months. The most important cause in which hjr. Evarts was engaged as an advocate was that of the Republican party before the electoral commission at Washington, in the early part of 1877. Mr. Evarts is also widely known as an orator. On many important occasions he delivered addresses which received marked attention. Among these was the eulogy on Chief Justice Chase, at Darmouth College, in June, 1873; the centennial oration in Philadelphia, in 1876. and the speeches at the unveiling of the statues of William H. Seward end Daniel Webster in New York. Mr. Evarts has been a Republican from the organization of the party.

Air never seems so unhappy as it does when it is beiog crowded through a tin horn by a man wtth a bad breath. —Musical Record. To add sweetness to the harmony of a piano, just cover the keys with molasses before the-performer commences to fondle them.— Washington Hatchet. It is said that a violin played among a flock ot geese will start them to dancing. Every one who has attended a dance is aware of this fact.— Newman Independent. A lady in Connecticut has a harp 300 years old, andJohnßon says he wants her to come to his boarding-house and match it against a piano he hears there every day.— Cincinnati Merchant Traveler. As a young lady of Siverlyville was singing “My Heart's in the Highlands” a few evenings ago, her brother remarked that there would be more peace in the family if her voice were there also. —Oil City Derrick. Gounod says: “Those who do not like music are diseased.” Heaven help us! for we must be far gone. Miss Pedalnote favored us with some music the other evening, and people said it was splendid; but it seems that we were diseased and didn’t know it.— Bouton Transcript. I know no such thing as genius; genius » nothing but labor and diligrnmgmjmmUr Moaartk.