Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1889 — Page 5

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1859.

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TO THE GREAT O'COXKELL

THE TRIBUTE OF MR. GLADSTONE. Thm D'Esterr Duel Eloquent Oratory at tbe Bar, On th Platform and Elsewhere A Very Rt mar kable Man. W. E. Gladstone io the Nineteenth Century. I published, ia the end of 1SSS, a volume on the relations of church and state, which was thought to eavor of the opinions of the Oxford school. At the beginning of the ensuing session I chanced to fall in with O'Connell behind the speaker's chair. He laid his hand on my arm and said: "I claim the half of you." At all times he was most kindly and genial to one who had no claim to his notice, and whose prejudices were all against him. He had, however, without doubt, more religion than theology, and was in truth thoroughly, consistently and affectionately devout. I will not inquire whether his duel with D'Esterre requires any qualification of this statement, as applicable to the the date of its occurrence. It may be said, however, that an Irishman who, either then or for sonie time after, was not a duelist, must have been either more or less than man. And the house of commons is now familiar with the stately figure of aa Irish gentleman advanced in life who carries "with him the halo of an extraordinary reputation in that particular, but who is conspicuous among all his contemporaries for his singularly beautilul and gentle manners. To return to O'Connell. His professional business absorbed his week days in eariy life, so that his journeys from town to town were very commonly mada on Sundays; and I remember that in 1S34 he suggested alike expedient (of course after his early mass) for the journey into Kssex to Pir G. Sinclair and myself, both much otherwise inclined. Jut iu thesa letters he expresses a regret for the necessity so often iaid upon him; and, quite apart from this, persons accustomed to a I ritisli Sunday thould hold themselves disabled from pa?sir.g a judgment upon our Koman catholic fellow subject?, whoe week days nre ofUn more Sunday-like than ours. "We gather from these volumes the interesting intelligence that at one - time, when t-till full of vipor at 6ixty-four years of a;re, he seriously contemplated a religious retirement of Clongowes for the remainder of his life. In the formation of this desire, disappointment at some failure or decline of the rent may have played a secondary part, but the main motive of it is touch ngly described in these few words: "I want a period of retreat to think of nothing but eternity." So that when the final stage arrived, and ho had death in immediate contemplation on his intercepted journey, both the first faint whisper of the summons and its later and fuller sound found him watching, as oue prepared for the coming of bis Lord. The signs abound everyv. herein these volumes that he bore with him a lively sense of the presence of God, though taste and reverence withheld him from its free manifestation in the bufera infernal, the heated and cententious atmosphere of parliament. My reference to D'Esterre must be a little enlarged. But for the use of a single ami dangerous epithet ("contemptuous") in his explanatory letter about the corporation of Dublin, this unhappy antagonist would not have even a pretext for driving forward the fatal controversy. In the duel O'Connell purposely tired " low; but his shot was tatal. He o tiered to "share his income" with the widow. This was declined. To her daughter he paid an annuity daily until his death. On hearing that she was the plaintiff in a weighty suit at Cork, lie threw up imtortant briefs nnd returned the retaining fees, went flown from Dublin, pleaded tha cause and won. And it is said that he never passed a certain building that recalled the memory of D'Esterre without uttering a prayer for his soul. The duel was in 1M5. At a lau r period he fornied a deliberate resolution never to licht another. O'Connell is clearly to be regarded as a rann who desired to maintain peace, property and law. Yet his cao exhibits the difficulties which are certain to ari?e w hen, as in Ireland, legality and morality have been Ions pitted against each other in those provinces of human existence which niott concern the vital interests of the people. Accordingly, this friend of Jaw nevertheless could upon occasion recommend not only exclusive dealing, since known as boycotting, but exclusive treatment outside of dealings; and the carrying of that treatment to a point so extreme as, for example, the erection of cribs in the chapels, within which alone those who had voted wrong were to be allowed to pray. One step further planted men in the domain of sheer violence. It seems hard to deny that this etep waa sometimes taken. The violence must be condemned, and so must the recommendation, which was the immediate incentive; but not so as to blind us to tho fact that a severer condemnation is due to those who maintained abominable laws, impossible to he borne by human beinga, except in a täte of abject slavery. The tywny of the landlord, which was then counteracted by the tyranny of outrage, received in 1871 a deadly blow from the introduction of secret voting and another heavy stroke in 1SS3 from the extension of the franchise. The result has been that exclusive dealing and such exclusive treatment as may now fohow it have come to be as a rule eö'ectnally dissociated from outrage, and coercion, which has lo6t its warrant, assumes an aspect more odious than ever, because it is directed against action the same in essence as that which has been found essential for self defense by the order loving workmen of Great Britain and which is erTcctaally guaranteed to them by the law. It would noi be cay to name a man who attained to equal aggregate excellence with O'Connell in the threefold oratory of the bar, the platform and the senate. As a parliamentary speaker, no one in matching him with his contemportries of the house of commons would have relegated him to the second class; but it might be difficult to find his exact place in the first He was greatest when answering to the call of the moment in extemporary bursts, and least preat when charging himself with extended and cora1lex exposition. As an advocate, it ma v, '. apprehend, be asked without creating surprise whether the entire century has produced any one more eminent; though (not to speak of the living) Follett, had he been spared to run his whole career, would have been a formidable rival, whita fcarlet probably never once misled the mark in dealing with a jury. It is hero that Brougham, greatly bis superior in parliamentary eloquence and in general attainments, fall so far behind him. As orator of the platform, ho may challenge all the world; for whoever in the same degree as O'Connell trained and disciplined, stirred and soothed the people? But I am convinced that we ought to accord to him also the character of an excellent statesman. The world knows him chiefly in connection with the proposal to repeal the act of union with Ireland. Now I would venture to propound as the criteria cf fctatesmanbhip, properly bo called, first

the capacity to embrace broad principles and hold them fast, secondly tho faculty which can distinguish between means and ends and can treat the first in entire subordination to the last. To both these criteria the life of O'Connell fully answers. He never for a moment changed his end; he never hesitated to change his means. His end was the restoration of the public life of Ireland; and ho pursued it, from his youth to his old age, with unfaltering fidelity and courage. In this cardinal respect he drew no distinction between Kornau catholic Ireland and Protestant Ireland. Nay, he sulordinated not civil equity alone, but even toleration for his co-religionists, to the political independence and unity of Ireland always under the British crown. Perhaps the very noblest epitaph that could be inscribed upon his tomb would be a passage from the speech which he delivered when only twenty-four years of age at a meeting of Roman catholics in opposition to the union, on the loth of January, 1800: Let every man who feel with me proclaim that, if the alternative was o.Tered him of union or the re-enactment o the penal code in all its pristine horrors, lie would prefer, without hesitation, the latter, as the lesser and more aufferable evil; that he would rather confide in the jusice of his brethren, the protestanta of Ireland, who have already liberated lain, than lay his country at the feet of foreigners. This exalted sentiment drew forth "much and marked approbation." O'Connell was true to it in opposing the repeal. Whatever difficulties that measure might now entail, they had bv experience been 6hown to be at that time altogether secondary. Mr. Burke allowed to them no weight whatever. O'Connell had lived through the horrors that preceded and brought about the union. It is my firm belief that if Englishmen could have had a parallel experience- m their own country they, tory as well as liberal, would have adopted the sentiment of O'Connell, and that with their hands as well as their hearts. Repeal was the one obvious, direct and natural means of repairing the speciric mischief, nor was it then his business to appreciate the inconveniences of reversal; thougli it was doubtless a duty to take them into view when, within the walls of parliament, ho became charged as a legislator with public and imperial cares. And this is the very thing that, when the occasion arose, he showed that he was able to d-j and did. But the flexibility of his mind was indefectible, and the rebounding force of its elasticity was still to be shown. Failing with repeal, and failing with justice to Ireland, he turned to what apiears, in these pages and elsewhere, under the roughly-applied name of federalism. Miss Cusack has published a curious note by Mr. Butt, which states with considerable appearance of authority that, in lS.KJ the liberal leaders met and resolved to offer to O'Connell a parliament for Irish affairs, under a system of federal union with Great Britain. We must still hope for further elucidation of so remarkable a statement. What is indisputable h that O'Connell seems to have been perfectly prepared to adopt this guarded means of of reanimating and embodying the national life of Ireland. In a letter of October, 1844, to the secretary of the Repeal association, he gives his full adhesion to this plan, and sets forth its principles at great length, though after the manner of a man who does not feel himself to be on the eve of practical legislation. He declares, however, an actual preference for it over repeal pure and simple. In general he had a mean estimate of his coadjutors in Ireland, and calls them '"the species of animals with which I had to carry on my warfare with tho common enemy." His parliamentary follow ing was mostly of an inferior stamp, whence the sobriquet of O'Connell's tail. Tney stand in disadvantageous contrast with the body, of about the same numerical strength, w ho supported Mr. Darnell in the parliament of 180, and they could do little to lichten the multitudinous cans of their chief. One of the revelations supplied by these volumes exhibits the cnael pungency of those cares in a point not hitherto known or appreciated. Through all the years of Herculean la!vr entailed by his parliamentary dominance, and notwithstanding the largo sums, sometimes exceeding F,000 placed at his disposal from year to year by the Irish nation, he lived almost from riay to day under the pressure of the most acute pecuniary anxieties. It was probably with some idea of forethought for his family that he founded, or shared in founding, a bank and a brewery, ami it docs not appear that these bail much to do in the making or marring of bis fortunes. The only si mis of heavy personal expenditure in these volumes are that he was compelled to have several residences; that his frequent and rapid jonrnevs must have been expensive; that his charities (to which he pays a touching minute attention) were " liberal, and that his free and larce natura delighted to expand itself in hospitality at Darrynane. Xo account is presented on the pages before us, but we are safe in conjecturing that the rent wotdd have met all these charges over and over again ; and they do nothing to explain his constant use ot the instrument of credit, bis resort to the expedients of renewal, his casting himself, gain and again, sometimes in despair, on the ingenuity, the devotion and the patience of his friend and agent, Mr. P. V. Fitzpatrick, who plays a silent part in the narrative, but who.-e parts and gifts must in their line have been as remarkable &a bis active friendship was invaluable. Tho explanation lies in the ravenous demands, at that date, of parliamentary life, the heavy charges of elections and petitions, and in the fact that on him seems to have lain the burden of meeting the pecuniary engagements of many scats and persons beside his own and those of bis family. We are told of a single ilissolution which brings him five contests and five election petitions. He is too brave to complain readily, but sometimes it is more than be can bear. On the 11th of July, 1842, he writes to Fitzpatrick: ''Want is literally killing me. L have grown ten years older from my incessant pecuniary anxiety God bless you, my dear friend." But never, so far as appears, was there a man more truly superior to money; its master, not its slave. At Ids death" his personal property was sworn tinder 21,800. This value consisted principally, in all likelihood, of insurance on ins" life, which it was his practice to make large! v. But his debts were not less than 20,732, so tho true value of his personal estate was not more than 1,0 IS. He himself states tJie landed estate of the family to have by en worth 1,000 per annum. O'Connell owns himself to have been vain, but it was with an innocuons and sportive vanity that played upon the surface of his character. But how readily ho would have abdicated his leadership appears sufficiently from his own declarations. His ample faculty of w it and his intense love of fun may have sometimes too easily inclined him to r jest, even upon men whom he most reacted. Ho was sanguine in a degree, almost ludicrous, and ho was given to exaggeration. In 1S37 he declares he had ÜÜU letters a day, and at this time wh'jn letters usually were charged from Od. to 18d. apiece anil prepayment was unu-fnal. The scenery at Darrynano was the finest, tho most majestic in the world. The beag!ea were bfjyond all rivalry, and his own Performances as a pedestrian are described in Serins which raise the smile of skepticism on the lips of those who rememtar t'jat his figure, though not inactive, was erninently portly as well as too large in scale for superlative activity. On the dissolution of 1SG7 ho predicts a woA-king majority of sixty to seventy, whjh proved to be under twenty, and further vounts upon at least fifty to

be attracted by a settled ministry, of whom there was but one. In early days he thought emancipation certain and immediate long before it came; further on he was not less confident about repeal. In 183-3 the torics were down "forever." In 1S40 the tories "never will regain power." In the same year the Duke of Wellington "will be speedily extinct as a political man." This power of believing what he wished was probablv a remedial provision in his nature, and may have added on tho whole to his vast but heavily taxed working superiority. If, as some "ear, he was dictatorial, it was from a resistless consciousness of superiority. So man could be more profoundly deferential and humble for a public purose, but for a personal or private object ie never cringed. His tact and self-control in the interest of his clients were as those of Odysseus. But like Odysseus he was tempted on occasion; and once, in court, he was about to waste on an interruption of the opposing council a point which was invaluable for reply, when Blackburn, who was employed with him in the case, pulled him down by his gown. Irascible without doubt he was, and highly irascible; but he was placable in a not less eminent degree. From Richmond Bridewell he writes to Hheil, who had joined the whigs, and expostulates with him on his conduct. But mark his closing paragraph: Adien, my dear Sheil. God bless you! Bo assured of my friendship and personal regard. I am sorry, sincerely sorry, we are apart in politics, but I am ever alive to the many claims you have on my gratitude as a private friend and a public man. In all the separate phases of his life and action, which were numerous beyond the common, O'Connell was remarkable, but their combination into a whole and the character he presents to us as a human being are more worthy than any among his separate gifts, brilliant as they were, of study and of admiration. In many famous persons the acted life seems to be detached from the inner man. These belong to the category of responsible beings, but it is hard to say how far that responsibility was conscious and applied how far, nay, how much further, dormant and forgotten. Their life is not woven into contiguity by a solid and persistent purpose. Such was not tho case with this creat child of nature. Nothing in him was little, nothing was detached or heterogeneous. In the assemblage of all his properties and powers ho was one, indivisible and deeply cut. No day of his life could be severed from the rest without touching the essence and demolishing the whole. If he ever seemed to wander into violence, these were the wanderings of a moment; his boomerang soon came home. Next to his religion, and indeed under the direct inspiration of his religion, his country was lor him all in all. He had room for other genuine interests in his laro and sympathetic nature, but theso revolved around his patriotism like the satellites about a mighty planet. Few indeed, as I think, of those who give a careful perusal to these rages will withhold their assent irom the double assertion that he was a great man and that he was a good man. Upon this issue the volumes now before us wid enable us to try him, and in trying him to try ourselves. For wdio can any longer doubt that some debt is still due to him; that he was, to say the least, both overcensured and undervalued? By many he was taken to be unquestionably a ruffian, probably a public swindler of his countrymen. Beside being a great and a good, he was also a disappointed man. The sight of his promised land was not given to his longing eyes. But as a prophet of a corning time he fulfilled his mission. It seeni3 safe to say that few indeed have gone to their account with a shorter catalogue of mistaken aims or of wasted opportunities, and not only that he did much, but that he could have done more. A REMARKABLE CASE.

The Moor Defalcation and the Course of the Connecticut Mutual. Wa -hin .'ton To-t. It is a very remarkable case that of Joseph A. Moore, the defaulting agent of the Connecticut mutual at Indianapolis. Not only vras Moore permitted to run the business of the company without mvestipation long after iutimntions had been forwarded to Hartford that there was something crooked ia his management, but when the disclosures finally came showing hiui to be one of the most colossal embezzlers on record, no steps seem to have been taken to hrin? him to justice or to prevent his escape from it. On the contrary he went about town as usual, nettled with his washwoman, paid his store bills and leisurely packed bis trunk forCauada, leaving the preat corporation which he so obly misrepresented io make what it may out of the uncertain assets that he couldn't take with him. Had Mr. Moore robbed a till of a dollar and a half lie would have been in the jail or workhouse by this time. But justice moves with no Mich celerity in its dealines with criminals whose operations extend Fysteinatically through years of undisturbed speculation and swallow up trust funds by the naif million or more. It is inconceivable that a financial institution like the Connecticut Mutual should in the first place so manage its afikirs as to render such an embezzlement possible, and in the second place still more inconceivable that the embezzlement being discovered, it should interpose no hindrances to the ecaspade of its perpetrator. It isn't enorteh to sy in reply to this that the company has the ripht to conduct its own business in its own way, and that even if it does not take bad risks on the lives of its policy-holders, it may assume extra-hazardous naka on the houesty of its agent, or that, beinf a corporation of unquestioned solidity and solvency.it can stand a little thing like a half million dollar steal without afiecting its credit this is not the point. No insurance company, be its strength what it may, has the right to do an act of injustice or imprudence to the people who have enriched it out ot their savings, and whose expectations hinge upon the security of their investments ia its policies. Neither has it the rieht to intrust it- interests to the handling of men on whose integrity rests the slightest shadow of suspicion. Least of all the right, even in appearance, or through indit'erence or dilatory action, to leave open the bars of flight to one who has forfeited its confidence and made criminal perversion of its funds. Koasts and Fillets of llorse-Flesh. Mark Lane Exprew. Truly there is no accountinz for tastes. The demand in the "'foreign" qnarter of London for roasts and fillets of horse-flesh has assumed such proportions that meat venders are obliged to maintain a constant supply of this equine product. Xor do they make any secret ot the new departure in their trade; cuts of horseflesh have been for some time openly displayed in the shop windows. And to make bad worst, soup made of horse-flesh is served daily iu bcveral restaurants frequented by foreigners, as well as eteaks and daintily prepared entrees. There must, after all, be some truth in the ancient, if ratlipr illogical proverb: "T o him that hath lot his taste, sweet is sour!" A Gootl Move. To the Editor Sir: The msu that introduced the bill to abolish trustees in towns of less than 1,200 has shown his pood judgment. Any number of inhabitants less than that are not able to afford the expense of incorporation. There are plenty of small places where every sixth man fc an oilieer, and it takes all the funds to p.iy them, and there is nothing left for the improvement of the place. All these 6uiall places have their ring boodlers, so go in and Luttheiii un. A. J. 11i:.ndei;sox. Alton, Ind., Feb. 4A Cure For Insomnia. . Chicago Mud. Early this morning I stepped on to the front platform of an outbound Ogdea avenue car. "You newspaper fellows work pretty late," said the driver. "Yes," I said, "sometimes wo get beat on our sleep pretty badly." "You ought to have that copper's job," he said, tipping his head toward a stalwart policeman who leaned against a patrol-box. "Why?" "Well, then you would jjet sleep on foir beat."

MIL LINCOLN IN A CRISIS.

HOWHE MAN AGEDCH ASEAN D SEWARD Amateur Cabinet Makers Working en a w Deal and now the Wily President ltlockol the Game A Reminiscence of the Sixties. (Adranne Sheets of the February Century. The resignation of Seward was regarded as irrevocable, and all the amateur cabinet-makers were busy in the preparation of a new administration. The hopes of all the enemies of the government were greatly stimulated by this indication of divided counsels and the partisans of Gen. McClellan in particular, thought thej saw in this conjuncture the occasion for his return to power. In fact, they felt so Bure of his speedy restoration to command that they began to stipulate as the price of their adhesion to him that he should dictate his own terms on his return ; that he must insist upon the disposal of all the important commands in the army. They imagined that thy president would be so helpless that the friends of McClellan might demand any terms they thought good. The president, though deeply distressed at the turn w hich affairs had taken, preserved his coolness and kept his own counsel. On the morning of the 20th, in the pretence of several other members of the cabinet who had called for further discussion of the crisis, the secretary of the treasury tendered his resignation. lie held the written paper in his hand, but did not advance to deliver it. The president stepped forward and took it with an alacrity that surprised and, it must bo said, disappointed Mr. Chase. He then at once dismissed the meeting. From the moment when he saw Mr. Chase holding his resignation in his hand his way was clear before him. He nt once sent an identical note to the secretary of the treasury arid the secretary ot state, saying: You have respectively tendered me your resignations as secretary of state and secretary of the treasury of the United States. I am apprised of the circumstances which may render this course personally desirable to each of you; and after most anxious consideration my delilerate judgment is that the public interest does not admit of it. I therefore have to request that you will resume the duties of your departments respectively. Your obedient servant, A. Lincoln. The next morning Mr. Seward addressed a brief note to the president, dated at the department of state, and saying: "I have cheerfully resumed the functions of this department, in obedience to vour command," and inclosed a copy of this note to the secretary of tho treasury. Mr. Chase found his position not quite eo simple as that of the secretary of ptate. He did not follow Mr. Seward's example in returning to the cabinet as promptly as he did iu leaving it. He wrote him "a brief letter, saying: I have received your note aud also a call from Mr. Nioolay, to whom I have promised an auwer to the president to-morrow morning. My rejections strengthen my conviction that, being once honorably out of the cabinet, no important publie interest now requires mv return to it. It I yield this judgment it will be in deference to apprehensions which really seem to me unfounded. I will sleep on it. He had seen in the face of the president the gratification which the tender of his resignation had imparted, and returning to his Loupe, while not entirely comprehending w hat had happened, he seemed conscious that he had made a misstep. 1 Io wroto a letter to the president, from which wo take a few paragraphs;.' ' "Will vou allow me to say that something you said or looked w hen I handed you my resignation this morning made on my mind the impression that, having received the resignations both of iov. Seward and myself, you felt that you oouid relieve yourself from trouble by declining to accept either, and that this feeling was one of gratification? lie then went on to say that he was glad of any opportunity to promote the comfort of the president, hut that he did not desire him to decline accepting his resignation. 3 He concluded by saying he thought both himself and Mr. Seward could better serve the country at that time as private citizens than in the cabinet. He did not immediately transmit this letter to the president, and after hearing from Mr. Seward that he had gone back to the cabinet his suggestion that both would better retire was no longer practicable. After a Sunday passed in very serious consideration he resolved to withdraw his resignation. He was unable, even then, to imitate the brevity of Mr. Seward's note. He cent to the president his note of the 20th, inclosed in another, in which he said that reflection had not much, if at all, changed his original impression, but that it had led him to the conclusion that he had in this matter to conform his action to the president's judgment. He would, therefore, resume hi post as secretary of the treasury, ready, however, to retire at any moment if, in the president's judgment, the success of the administration might be in the slightest degree promoted thereby. The untrained diplomatist of Illinois had thus met and conjured away, with unsurpassed courage and skill, one of the severest crimes that ever threatened the integrity of his administration. He had to meet it absolutely unaided. From the nature of the case he could take no advice from those who were nearest him in the government. Uy placing Mr. Chase in such an attitude that his resignation became necessary to his own sense of. dignity he made himself absolute master of the" situation; by treating tho resignations and the return to the cabinet of both ministers as one and the same transaction lie saved for the nation the invaluable services of both and preserved his own position of entire impartiality between the two wings of the Union party. "When the cabinet had retired and left the president with the resignation of Mr. Chase in his hands he said to a friend who entered soon after, in one of those graphic metaphors so often suggested to him by the memories of his pioneer childhood, and which revealed his careless greatness Eerhaps more clearly than his most laored oflicial utterances, "Now I can ride; I have got a pumnkin in each end of my bag." Nearly a year later he said in a conversation felatins to this matter: "I do not see how it could have leen tlone better. I am sure it was right. If I had yielded to that storm and dismissed Seward the thing would ail have slumped over oue way, and we should have been left with a scanty handful of supporters. When Chase gave in his resignation I saw that the game was in my hands, and I put it through." THE "BEE LINE" AND "BIG 4." Negotiations For Their Consolidation flare It ren Kiirreitf ully Closed. NEW YORK, Feb. 8. The negotiations which have been pending for some dnyg between Cornelius Vanderbüt and Pierpont Morgan for a consolidation of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati fc Indianapolis railroad, known as the "Bee Line," and the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago railroad, generally called the "Ilig 4," have been successfully closed, and the details will probably he given out to-morrow. There has been some comIvctition between the two companies, but this ias been so slight as not to be a factor in the negotiations. The real reason isthat the otiicert of the liiij Four desired to extend their lines to St. Louis, and they lind the necessary links in the leased roads of the Kee Line. What the terms of the agreement art wa not yet be

definitely ascertained, but it is believed to include an exchange of stock. It is understood that the parties behind the deal are also working for an arrangement with the Cleveland, St. Louis & Kansas City road, which is now constructing a bridge across the Mississippi at Alton, but the otiicers of that rond prefer to remain independent, and it is not likely that they will aree to give any system exclusive connections. TWO IMPORTANT MATTERS.

The Disposal of Fines and Forfeitures and 1-leetlon of County Superintendents. To tuk Editor Sir.' I am a subscriber to Tits; Sentinel and, as Fountain county has no representative only Clint Hessler (we are democrats ia this locality), we will ask your powerful assistance ia tro measures that we wish brought before the prestnt legislature. 1. Take all fine and forfeitures for tho next four years und put them on the public highways. The school fund is large enough ; ltd es not nwl them. It would be thankfully received by our farmers of aU political parties. It will strengthen the democrats party greatly in this locality if they would pass auch sn act. 2. The legislature to pass a bill providing for the election of the county superintendent by the people. The office is one in which the people are specially interested. The present moue of electing the superintendent is not only untair, but the voters hare no choke or voice in it; the election depends entirely upon favoritism, and the best man very seldom Ret the plac: at least we find it so ia Fountain county. Now, Editor, come forth and help us. I write this by request of many democratic farmers. Vleae start the ball rolling as soon as possible. 'We will watch Thk S'ENTI.nel closely to see w hat it will di for us. Democrats say this is our legislature. We want help. Roth measures wonld greatly please our democratic friends. We are bitterly o"ofad to building up hugo monopolies. The school fund is lnrjje; tho interest runs the schvls at present. Now we need god mads to pet to the school. Please call in a few of your leading members of our democratic legislature and beat it into their head: to pass these two important measures. We are sure it will not injure our party down in theso parts. Hoping that you will brin out a favorable notice of thce measures I will wLh Thk Sentinel great success and close. Iemocraticallr, vour friend. J. M. Livixgstox. Wallace, Ind., Feb. 5. THE KANKAKEE MARSH. An Harnest Protest Against the Proposed Appropriat ion. To thk Editor Sir: A bill will soon be presented in the legislature calling for a large appropriation to takeout a ledzeof rock in the bed of the Kankakee river, near Momence, in the state of Illinois. There are good and sufficient reasons for believing that this would not benefit any of raid land more than eight or ten miles above the state line. Tor more than thirty years private parties have quarried this stone and sold it for building purposes at tho rate of ?1 per wasfon-load or S!2 per cord. It is admitted here by all who know anvthim; about the matter, that the stone will sell lr more than enough to pay the ex iense of taking out and cording on the hank of the river. Yet it is proposed that the value of this stone shall not be considered, and the state pay the full cost of taking it out! The promoters of this scheme are nearly aM large owner ot this marsh lan 1, aud bought it purely for speculation. They have lately organised and will no doubt maVe a desperate effort to induce our l-fn!ature to tax all th people of the state for their solo benefit. I need not say that this attempt at jobbery is of republican origin ; the ear-mrk-t prov? it. It is pimplv another device to "tax the manv for the benefit of thp few." l';iiJ agents, who believe in Dudleyism and all the methods that the name implies, have been selected to co to Indianapolis to lobby this measure through the legislature. Their Innuenc with the republican members will, of course, be natural and easy, but democrats will must keep the faith, and "never surrender a prineinle of such vital importance.. lowell, Ind., Feb. 7. W. II. Pixlet. To the Sportsmen of Indiana. To the Editor Sir: I understand that Mr. Frank P. Foster of Anderson, Madison county, has introduced his quail bill of two years ago, which prohibits the shooting of quails for five years, and that the committee having it in charge have reported it favorably. This is sheer foolishness. We all know that quails have beon in ernster numbers tbj past season than for ten years. Incrut.ll) Providence controls tho seasons. If wo have severe winters quiiils will ha thinned out. No statutes of man will prevent it. If Mr. Foster's bill becomes a law every genuine sportsman in the state wiil be excludi-i from field sports; every gentleman sportsman who goes afield in? for health, recreation and pleasure will e barred by its provisions, tiatue butchT cud poi-huutem care nothln? for law; they will he master of the situation and have, tho whole field to themselves. poitmcn of Indian i, what are you going to do alMHit it? Gkokoe W. Ei-knbrüy. (ialventon, Feb. 7. Mr. Charles Ttaiih, watchmaker and jeweler, Baltimore and Mount-sts., Baltimore, Md., indorses Salvation Oil for "rheumatic troubles." Hon, G, Edwards Lester, Lato U. S. Consul to Italy, author of "The Glory and Shame of England," "America's Advancement," etc., etc., etc., writes as follows: New York, August 1, 1886. 1 . 27th st. f Dr. J. C. Ateb & Co., Lowell, Mass., Gentlemen: A sense of pratitud and the desire to render a service to tho public impel nie to make the following statements: My college career, at New Haven, was interrupted by a severe cold which so enfeebled me that, for ten years, I had a hard strudle for life, lleniorrhaca from the bronchial passages vras tha result of almost every fresh exposure. J'or years I was under treatment of tha ablest practitioners without avail. At last I learned of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, ivhich I used ( moderately and in small d-jses) at the first recurrence of a cold or any chest difficulty, and from which I invariably found relief. Thia was over 25 jcars ago. With all sorts ot exposure, in all sorts of climates, I liava never, to this day, had any cold nor ' any affection, of the throat or lungs wllicu did not yield to Aykb's Chkrbt Pectoral within 24 liours. Of course I have never allowed myself to he without this remedy in all my voyages and. travels. Under my own observation, it has given relief to vast numbers of persons: while in acute cases of pulmonary inflammation, such as ITonp and diphtheria in children, life lias Wen preserved throuph its effects. 1 recommend its use in light but frequent doses. Properly administered, in accordance with your directions, it is A Priceless Blessing Jn anv house. I speak earnestly because I feel earnestly. I have known many cases of apparently conlirxned bronchitis and cough, with loss of voice, particularly anions; clergymen and other public 6poakers. perfectly cured by thia medicine. Faithfullv vours, C. EDWARDS LESTER. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, Preps red hy Pr.J.C. Ayer 5: Co., Lowell, Mrs. Sold by all'Druggiets aud Dealers in Medicine. NOTICE. In sceordance with section 514 of the Revise! Statutes of issi of the Stats of Indiana, tlie mhseritcr, a male inhabitant of Marion county, Indiana, h-reby eive-3 notics to tho citizens of tbo Twentv-finh Ward, in tho city of Indianapolis, in Center township, in said county, that he will apply to the Hoard of Commissioners of iaid county at their next regular session, to le begun on the 'first Monday iu March, 1S9, for a license to sell spirituous and malt liquors in less quantity's than a quart, to lie roid and drank on the following described premises, to-wit: Litcated on part of lots Nos. 4rA aud 6", in the McKeruan and Tierce subdivision of part of ontlot l'JS, nnd known as the southcaFt corner of McCarty and Missouri streets in the said Twentytifth Ward in said city. JNO. LfWAN. MATRIMONIAL PAPER. 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