Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1886 — Page 7

®fje democratic Sentinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. i. W. McEWEN, ... PuBUSHn

A popular term formerly in use for the nails on the ten fingers was the ten “commandments,” which, says Nares, doubtless led to the swearing by them, as the real commandments. In the same way the fingers were also called the ten bones, and it was a common thing to use the exclamation, “By these ten bones.”

A Maine lady, being advised to take an ocean voyage for her health, hired ’ staterooms for herself and maid on one •of the steamers which ply between Portland and Boston, took along all “the necessary conveniences and many luxuries, and made forty trips without quitting the vessel. She was much benefited by the voyage.

The arithmetician Dase, who died in 1861, declared that he could count thirty objects of the same.kind as easily as other people could count three •or four. The truth of this assertion was often proved when the arithmetician, with lightning rapidity, gave the correct number of a herd of sheep, or the books in a library, or the windowpanes in a large house.j

Boston Corbett, who killed John Wilkes Booth, took up an eighty-acre -claim near Concordia Kan., six years ago, and he thinks the llepublic is ungrateful for not giving him a patent of the land. He is not particularly happy, and says that, but for religious tracts sent to him by Eastern friends, life would hardly be worth living—that is, unless he gets his land tract also.

It seems that French students can be more substantially demonstrative toward an unpopular instructor than their American fellows. M. Chatin, of the Paris School of Chemistry, was about to lecture his botany class, recently, when he was assailed with a shower of potatoes, eggs, butter, cheese and onions from all parts of the hall, and shouts of “Resign! Resign!” were raised.

Of the wife of President Knott, of Union College, it is said that while her health permitted she made it a duty to know personally every student in each class, and she never forgot a face or a name, always recognizing an alumnus, and with the greatest animation recalling little incidents of his college -days. It was her custom to invite the boys, one or two at a time, to take tea and spend an evening with her.

“Long” John Wentwoth, of Chicago, being asked the secret of his good health and long life, said to a friend the other day, that he had made it a point to eat "when he was hungry, drink when he was thirsty, and sleep when he was sleepy. He rises when he gets ready. He eats anything he wants. Once he liked whisky, but he found it too powerful and gave it up. Now he drinks Rhine wine and two gallons of water a day.

Jacob Miller, of Fountaindale, Pa., .married his first cousin, and between 1860 and 1874 eleven children were born to them. Of these all were of unsound mind save one, a daughter by no means bright, who is married. Eight •others are alive, and five of them are idiots, and the others little better. Mrs. Miller is dead, and her husband, who is a prosperous farmer, lives alone with his eight unfortunats children. He says that his misfortune is a “stroke of providence.” An honest Irishman and his crippled •daughter named Kavanagh have been living in Detroit in greatly reduced circumstances. Before he left Ireland Kavanagh’s pretty sister attracted the attention of a wealthy lady, who engaged her as a traveling companion, and took her on an . extended tour through the old countries. A few days ago he received word that his sister had •died in Sydney, New South Wales, leaving him sole heir to an estate valued at over $1,000,000.

Some orie not long since invented a papier-mache ooffin. Among the advantages claimed for it were its close resemblance to wood, its lightness, waterproof quality, and incombustibility, though why this latter quality should recommend the new casket is not apparent The paper casket has been patented, but has not been put upon the market. Iron and bronze caskets have been for some time in favor, and .recently marble caskets have come in. They are practically indestructible, hewing made of a composition of marble

dust and Portland cement, and molded and baked*like pottery. A certain peculiar post-mortem vanity has found gratification in transparent glass coffins, but hard wood is still more u ed than any other material, and for all practical purposes it is, doubtless, as satisfactory as anything else. On the score of healthfulness, indeed, the less durable the casket the better for the surviving population of the earth.

The will of Kate Rowsand, the little dwarf that was known all over Europe as “Madam la Marquise,” contains a novel feature. After she had disposed of all her property there remained her wardrobe. “Well," said she, “my dresses and everything that I wore must be far too small for the littlest child; but in order that some poor little girl may be happy, I desire that ten pounds sterling may be applied to the purchase of twenty dolls of my size, which shall all be dressed from my wardrope and given to orphans. ”

During the recent difficulty between Bulgaria and Servia, Gabdan Effendi was the enyqy from Turkey to the Bulgarian Government. He wears a false nose. When he set out from Sofia for Constantinople, the Bulgarians gave him a passport, upon which the words, “A pasteboard nose” were written under the head “Particular Marks.” The Turk immediately complained bitterly to Prince Alexander jf the rudeness of his employes. The Prince apologized with a smile, and made the diplomatist a present of a snuff-box for consolation.

The new base-ball catcher’s glove is out for the season, and is widely different from tliat of 1885, says the Boston Herald. The palm is not so heavily padded, and the ends of the fingers are protected by sole leather helmets. When a hot ball comes against the end of the catchers hand, when encased in one of those new-style assassination protectors, it simply unhinges the arm at the shoulders, where it can be readily replaced by another one, without delaying the game more than for a moment. The old-style glove did not take this kind care of the wearer’s fingers. Generally they were driven in through his ribs, whence they were with difficulty coughed up or removed with a pipe wrench, in a damaged condition, or else they were completely worn out by the attrition and impact of the ball so that they had to be filed completely off. The advantage of the new glove will be obvious to all men who have looked upon the catcher when he moveth himself aright, after stopping a solid shot with the first joint of his longest -finger.

Instinct as a Guide to Health.

Many of our progress-loving contemporaries would be rather alarmed at the discovery that the principle of our social, medical, and educational reforms during the past two hundred years has been a restored trust in the competence of our natural instincts. So foreign was that rule of conduct to the moral standard of the middle ages that its importance was recognized only in its apparent exceptions, the supposed “evil propensities of our unregenerate nature,” such as poison habits, sloth, and sexual excesses. The real significance of such aberrations would reveal the difference between natural appetites and abnormal (artificially acquired) appetencies, and teach us the necessity of tests of that distinction to all persuasive instincts, and occasionally to otherwise unexplained aversions. But even with those limits a critical study of our protective intuitions would surprisingly show in how many respects the hygienic reforms of the last two hundred years could have been anticipated by the simple teachings of our senses. For the wards of instinct a temperance sermon would be as superfluous as a lecture on the folly of drinking boiling petroleum, for to the palate of a normal living being—human or animal—alcohol is not only unattractive but violently repulsive, and the baneful passion to which that repugnance can be forced to yield is so clearly abnormal that only infatuation of the natural depravity dogma could ever mistake it for an iunate appetite. In defense of the respiratory organs, nature fights almost to the last, The blinded dupe of the night-air superstition would hardly assert that he finds the hot miasma of his unventilated bedroom more pleasant than fresh air. He thinks it safer, in spite, or, perhaps, because of its repulsiveness. “Mistrustall pleasant things,” was the watchword of the mediaeval cosmogony. Long before Jahn and Pestalozzi demonstrated the hygienic importance of gymnastics children embraced every opportunity for outdoor exercise with a zeal which only persistent restraint could abate.— Dr. Felix L. Oswald , in Popular Science.

In Mr. Francis Condor’s method of puriiying sewage, the principal active agent is sulphate of iron. The pro ess has been tried with success upon a small quantity of crude foul sewage, and there is every reason to infer a like result on a large scale. Sulphate of iron has long been known as a disinfectant of great efficiency.

INVOKING AID FOR IRELAND.

Gladstone Issues a Manifesto to His Mid* lothian Constituents for Home* Buie Indorsement. He Argues His Position Broadly, Claiming the Opposition Embraces Wealth and Social Influence. Mr. Gladstone has issued a manifesto to his Midlothian constituents, in which, after explaining that his age and desire to reserve his strength for the coming contest in Parliament has prevented him from taking part in the Easter recess campaign, he referred to the messages received by him from such capitals as Washington, Boston, and Quebec as proving that the sympathy of the English-speaking race is with the home rule movement. He says that they must not be discouraged if, in the upper ranks of society at home, they hear a variety of discordant notes, and continues: Gentlemen— You have before you a Cabinet determined in its purpose and with an intelligible plan of its own. I see very little else in the political arena either determined or intelligible. I will now proceed to speak of the state of things within and without Parliament and the nature and import of the next great step to be taken for the progress of my measure. I speak now of the home-rule bill and leave the land-purchase bill to stand on the declaration already made, adding only an expression of regret to find that while the sands are running from the hour-glass the Irish landlords have given no indication of a desire to accept the proposal framed in a spirit of the most allowable regard for tlioir apprehensions and interest Ido not underestimate the grave importance of differences of opinion among Liberals. Borne are inclined to rule the whole question against us by authority. They say: “Surely such a number of able, consistent, even extreme Liberals would not have succeeded except in obedience to the imperative dictates of truth and reason.” I will say nothing of the motives which determined us to confront the risk of such a parting. I earnestly recommend a Reference to the lessons which history supplies. It is not tho first time in the history of liberalism that a section of the Liberals under chiefs of distinction and ability have dissented from the general view of the party, to the delight and doubtless the advantage of the Tories. There was an illustrious secession previous to the war with Bonaparte. There was a similar secession when it was proposed to disestablish the Irish Church. But eventually, in both cases, it was proved that in principle the party was right and secession was wrong. Comparing these with the present secession it was impossible not to be struck with a vital difference. In each previous secession the dissentients agreed upon an active, substantial policy. It is not so now. Some are in favor of unlimited coercion ; others of moderated doses, while a few oppose coercion altogether. On the other side, some oppose local government, some would give it to the counties, some to the provinces ; some, again, would give an administrative center with legislative prerogatives, while some propose a legislative center without executive power. Some, indeed, go beyond the proposition of the Government, and actually recommend federation. Some alter the proposals which thev would recommend with every new speech. All this is proof not of the weakness of tho men but of the helplessness of their cause. We have at least the advantage of one voice. The secession, however estimable it may be otherwise, is a perfeot babel on Irish politics. It is admitted on all hands that social order is the first of all political aims To secure this in Ireland the Liberals who are in secession offer a hundred conflicting remedies—or else no remedy at all. These remarks are as applicable to the Tories as they are to the Liberals. The opponents of the Government’s measure make a remarkable omission in their speeches. In each, whether suggestive or critical, they fail to express confidence in the permanent success of their opposition. To live from hand to mouth seems to be the height of their ambition, while they suspect what we all know—that the strife can only end in the concession of home rule. If this is so the real question is not the tritfmph of Irish autonomy, but the length and character of the struggle. Therefore we want to shorten, they to prolong the struggle. We say “Give freelythey, by acts if not words, say “Let us only give what we can no longer withhold.” We say “Give now, while the position of the kingdom iga the affairs of the world is free and strongthey prefer to wait for a period of national difficulty, that we may yield to the Irish demand in terror, as we did in the war of 1778, as wo did to .the demands of the Volunteers in 1782, as we did to Bonaparte in 1793, and as we did in the civil war of 1829. We say: “Act now, when moderation of thought and language rules in Irish counsels, when by the willing concurrence of all sides every arrangement for the reservation of imperial prerogatives can be made complete and absolute." They would postpone till an hour comes when the demands may be larger and means of resistance less. We say: “Dealas with a matter between brothers—a matter of justice and reason.” They renew a tale, alas I too often told, whose prologue is denial with exasperation and resentment; whose epilogue is surrender without conditions and without thanks.

CALEB WALTON WEST,

Newly Appointed Governor of Utah Territory. The«nan whom President Cleveland has selected to succeed Eli H. Murray as Governor of Utah is a resident of Cynthiana, Ky., where he was born May 25, 1844. He was educated at Millersburg, in the same State. At an early age he manifested a strong bias toward the profession of law, but his reading was stopped by the breaking out of the war. He was only 17 years old when he enlisted

in the Army of Northern Virginia, and was one of the company led by Joe Desha. After a year’s service under Desha, Mr. West joined the command of General John Morgan, and was one of his staff when that officer was in camp at Greenville. At the close of the war he prepared himself for the law. He was admitted to the bar in 1866, after serving for a time as Deputy Clerk, during which he read diligently. In the same yedr —1866—he was appointed County Attorney to fill an unexpired term, and was afterward elected to continue in the same position. • He was elected County Judge of Harrison County in 1868, but resigned the position to prosecute his profession, As a lawyer he haa been notably successful.

DYNAMITE IN CHICAGO.

An Organized Attack by Criminal and Vicious Men Against Life and Property. Anarchists and Socialists Execute a Deeply* Laid Plan to Destroy and Kill. • . ■ . . * ' m ' *•*••-*■ • Fifty Policemen Wounded, Many of Them Fatally—Many of the Mob Slain. Bloody Scenes Almost Rivaling the Paris Commune In the Streets of Chicago. The result of the pernicious and inoendiary doctrines which have been for several years preached in the streets and halls of Chicago by alien and criminal agitators, says a Chicago paper of Wednesday, was seen last night, when a dynamite bomb was thrown into the midst of a squad of policemen who were performing their sworn duty, and sixty of them were dangerously wounded, some fatally. That it was an organized and premeditated attack admits of no doubt, and the outgrowth of the riot at the McCormick reaper-works on Monday, when some anarchists were most justly punished for an attempt to destroy property. Monday night, after that not was quelled, the following circular was scattered around the city: • “Revenge! Workingmen, to arms 1 Your mastors sent out their bloodhounds, the police; they killed six of your brothers at McCormick’s this afternoon. They killed the poor wretches because they, like you, bad the courage to disobey tiie supreme will of your bosses. They killed them because they dared to ask for the shortening of the hours of toil. They killed thorn to show you, ‘free American citizens,’ that you must be satisfied and contented with whatever your bosses condescend to allow you, or you will get killed! You have for years endured the most abject humiliations; you have for years suffered unmeasurable iniquities ; you have worked yourselves to death; you have endured the pangs of want and hunger; your children you have sacrificed to the factory lords; in short, you have been miserable and obedient slaves all these years. Why? To satisfy the insatiable greed, “11 the coffers of your lazy, thieving masters. When you ask them now to lessen the burden lip sends his bloodhounds out to shoot you, kill you! “If you are men, if you are the sons of your grandsires, who have shed their blood to free you, then you will rise In your might, Hercules, and destroy the 'hideous monster that seeks lo destroy you. To arms 1 we call you ;to arms! “Yoon Brothers.-” Tuesday afternoon it was followed by the following, which was thrown broadcast throughout the str'eets of the city: “Attention, Workingmen 1 Great mass-meet-ing to-night, at 7:30 o’clock, at the Haymarkot, Randolph street, between Desplaines and Halsted. Good speakers will be present to denounce the latest atrocious act of the police—the shooting of our follow-workmen yesterday afternoon. The Executive Committee.”

In response to this, a large crowd of anarchists and socialists assembled at the point indicated, and were harangued by a trio of blatant communists. Their talk was of a most reckless and incendiary character. One, Sam Fielden, a socialistic Englishman, was the last speaker. Said he : "We who come here to address you aro socialists; rebels to the law! Legislation will never help you, never! Martin Foran went to Congress in the interest of labor, and yet he tells you that no legislation can be had for the workingman. Can’t we? When the rich man understands that it is not healthy to live among a lot of discontented workmen we shall be able to get legislation and not before.* Fielden continued in this strain until 10:20 p. m„ when 160 polloe officers left the Desplaines Street Station and marched north on Desplaines. He stopped when the first line of officers was ordered to halt opposite the wagon from which he spoke. A thousand men had meanwhile gathered. The police marched toward the crowd in platoons, headed by Inspector Bonfleld and Capt. Ward. The line of the first division of officers filled the street from side to side. The police marched into the crowd, sweeping it to the pavements, and pressing it before them. When tho front column reached the speakers’ wagon Inspector Bonfleld ordered “Halt 1* Capt. Bonfleld cried: “In the name of the State of Hlinois I command this crowd to disperse I* As the words left his month a spluttering spark of fire arched through the air from the opening of the alley and over the speakers’ Wagon. It was the burning fuse of a dynamite bomb. It was well aimed in its deadly mission. It fell directly in the middle of the street, and between the first two double columns of police. The instant that it struck the ground it exploded with a terrible, sullen roar. It did its deadly work well. Twenty-nine mangled men fell groaning to the ground. The bomb broke the ranks of the officers. A gatling gun could not have cut a wider swath. A scene of horror followed, the details of which may never be known. The officers were demoralized and broke ranks. Many huddled together in the street and stood their ground. Others fled after and with the crowd. They needed no order to fire. In an instant every man’s revolver was in action, and every man shot to kill. For an instant after the explosion, the crowd seemed paralyzed, but with the revolver shots cracking like the tattoo of a mighty drum, and the bullets singing in the air, the mob plunged away into the darkness with a yell of rage and fear. It was almost an indescribable scramble for life. Scores of men were knocked down by those behind them, and trampled upon like cattle in a car, unable to rise. Over twenty wounded persons were picked up and borne away. Those oh the inner circle of the crowd were at the mercy of the police, and were shot down. Tho police pursued the mob for half a block up and down Randolph street. No man was spared. All who were overtaken by the officers were shot down and clubbed. In a moment after the explosion the streets were cleared, but within a radius of 100 feet of the. spot where the bomb had fallen fully sixty men lay wounded on the ground. The center of the street seemed full of writhing, groaning men. calling for help. Under the iron stairway on tho northwest corner of the street two citizens lay, one insensible, the other moaning feebly and unable to rise. Down the basement stairway, under them, three men lay. Propped against the lamp-post on the comer was a wounded man, and at his feet, in the gutter, another. Across the street, on the northwest comer, three men lay in the gutter. At the head of the basement stairway one lay silently. Another sat up, holding a bleeding leg and begging the officers not to kill him. Reclining on the stairs below them were two suffering men, and in the area-way below, three more. East and west on Randolph street wounded men lay in doorways. Within five minutes after the firing had ceased eight men lay in the alley, near the wagon, between' Randolph and Lake streets. No citizens were dead that had been found within an hour after the riot. For some minutes after the mob had dispersed the police kept up a frenzied search for any who had taken refuge nearby. Those who met the officers calmly were allowed to go, but all who attempted to escape were mercilessly clubbed, The work of gathering the dead, dving, and wounded was promptly begun. Forty-eight policemen were found to be wounded, eight or ten of them, it is feared, fatally. The fugitives from the scene of the riot poured into Madison street in an irresistible stream. The open stores, which here offered the first shelter, were besieged and instantly occupied by breathless and terror-stricken crowds. Close in the rear of this terrified throng the wounded followed at the best speed their injuries would permit. Men ran at a staggering pace, with the blood trickling through their clothing. Others rushed frantically through the street, shrieking with pain. Couples and small groups came dragging a wounded friend whom they hadithe oourage to rescue. Several fell fainting in/the streets and were pioked up by sympathetic m«n in the crowds. _.. \

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—A large and enthusiastic meeting of representative business men of Evansville was held recently to protest agaiust Senate bill 6047 and Senate bill 1718, now pending before Congress, to allow* either the Chicago, St. Louis and Uew Orleans or the Illinois Central Railway. to build a bridge over the Ohio River at or near Cairo, Illinois. The resolution adopted is of some length, and endVihus:'. “tVe, as citizens of Indiana, request Senators Voorhees arid Harrison, and Hon J. J. Kleiner, and all members of Congress, to use their utmost endeavors to defeat the legislation so attempted and proposed." —A man, aged about 40 years, and a resident of Huntingburg, was fun over and killed in the yards there recently. He was unloading lumber from a car, when a switch engine with several cars approached, striking the car on which he was standing with such force as to throw him to the ground. He fell on his back and the front wheels passed over his body, throwing the ear from the track. There being a caboose between the engine and the car on which he was working, the train men were unable to see him. He leaves a widow' and one child, who were dependent upon him for support. —Three men started together from Parker to Muncie recently to attend tho congressional convention. They started home on a freight train at night, and then a short distance east of Selma one of them fell from the car and was run over and horribly maugled. His dead body was discovered by passers-by, picked up and cared for. His comrades assert that they know nothing as to how the accident occurred. This has led to suspicion of foul play. The man leaves a widow and two children in destitute circumstances.

—Capt. Henry Scott, of Evansville, an old citizen and steamboat man, and late local inspector of boilers at that port, left his home recently. His actions of late have been sucb as to make his family feel apprehensive for his safety, he having given evidence that his mind was deranged. The police and a number of friends started in search of him, and found him wandering about aimlessly, nearly eight miles above the city. He was brought home and placed under guard. Capt. Scott is 81 years of age. —Louis Anderson, of Seymour, a contractor for brick work, fell dead in his yard recently. Mr. Anderson was an. enterprising citizen and highly esteemed. He was a member of the K. of P. order, and was engaged in the management of the 6th of June celebration to be held at Seymour by that order. He ..bad contracts for the building of Blisho’s large flouring mill, a new fire engine-house, and Brunnig’s Concert Hall. • ' —Two local toughs were jailed at Loganßport, recently, for assaulting a wellknown citizen in the street.. They were not locked in cells', and were no sooner put behind the bars than they made a murderous assault on a helpless prisoner. Before he could be rescued, his face was beaten to a jelly. The Sheriff swore out papers, charging them with assault and battery, with intent to commit murder.

—The will of Mrs. Ezra Smith, of Richmond, who died some time since, provides that her property bo placed in the hands of the trustees, for the maintenance of a widows’ home. The bequest will amount to $30,000. The provisions of the will are that, if the city or cOnnty will put up the building, the property of which she died possessed was to constitute a trust to maintain the home.

—One hundred and thirty-seven persons who, during the past winter, united with the United Brethren Church, were baptized at Middletown recently. A revival was held there last winter, which continued through the greater part of January and February, and in all about 150 persons were added to the church. One hundred and thirty-seven had never been baptized. —At Lafayette, as a 15-year-old boy was on his way to school, another boy, apparently 17 years old, ran out of an alley and stabbed him four times in the breast. The knife was evidently a dull one, and the wounds are not serious. Several school triends were with the boy at the time, but no one recognized his assailant, who escaped. —A lady of Terre Haute met with an accident that may prove fatal. While in an outhouse the ground floor gave way and she was precipitated below. No one being al home, it was half an hour before her cries for help were heard. From her waist down she is paralyzed. —A well-known German citizen of Osgood has recently received a letter from his brother in Germany to the effect that he has fallen heir to an estate of $41,000. He is quite iubilant over the good tidings, and intends leaving for Germany very soon. —Muucie is making great inducements to get the Dueber Watch Company, of Newpoit, Kentucky, to locate at that place. If successful this will add nearly 3,000 to its population, as the company employs 800 men, with a pay-roll of $300,000 a year.

—A lady of Edwardsport was found dead in her bed roeentlj and an empty phial near her pillow. The phial had contained carbolic acid, of which she drank during the night. She was not in want, but a morbid fear of the poor-house drove her to suicide. —David Carroll, 14 years old, a deaf mute at New Albany, who was in the habit of jumping upon railroad trains in motion, was run over by a train and killed. —Gas has been struck at a depth of 700 feet at the Portland Gas Company’s well. The well has been visited by thousands. It will be drilled deeper.