Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-10-01

eighty or ninety dollars which supposed had been
contributed that night to my ways and means.-
Finding me determined, the audience gradually
dispersed each individual casting wistfuI and side
yug gances toward the stage, which by this time
was beginning to be dismantled.
Mooning The doorkeeper to follow me into
sort of shed adjoining the theatre proceeded to o.
pen the ticket box in his presence, while he sat
down on a bench in the corner to wait for his wa
ges. found seren tickets in the box, and turn
ing to the waiting doorkeerer. who was buslly en-
gagged chewing tobacco. and splitting, l asked him
what he had done with the rest.
They are all thar be replied. with great COM
posure, looking intently at beam in the shed. and
rocking his right knee, which he held in lis clench
ed hands, and raised about half way from the floor
to his chin.
'All where = was the very natural question
next propounded.
10 the box where you told me to put 'em, he
answered. still eyeng the beam raiter.
i fluid but seven here,' remarked, Il want TO
know where are the tickets for the 100 or $50
people saw in the house to night.
| tell you again they are all thar, sir, he an
swered s!urdily and allow ,, wont be safe for
no man 10 insInuale any thing agin my character
he continued, releasing his knee and taking very
large quid of tobacco from rusty steel box. and
cramming il into his mouth.
Il DO not wish to insinuae any thing against your
character said | soothing'y but want to know
what YOU have done with the tickets.
They are thar, he again alleged every one
OF 'em thar, no one has passed me without giving
me ticket. and they are all thar.
began TO get little pettish, and asked the to-
bacco chewer to explain himself. There were
nearly 200 people in the house, urged.
Thar war full tha:,' he admitted.
We'll them. enqured finally, where are the
tickets ? will you explain the mystery?'
My friend the, tobacco chewing doorkeeper, re-
newed his grasp on his raised knee. deliberately
withdrew his eyes from the rafter, and fixing them
half closed upon mine, at length afforded the de-
sired explanation thus:
You engaged me to keep your door: and
performed my dootes 10 The best of my abilities.
Cor which you are Indebted 10 me three dollars and
want my money. No person has passed me
without licket-my character is above suspicion
ADD no one must say nothing agin it,
My good friend ventnred to say, don't wish
to say nothing against-'
mo, should lhIuk not--you'd better nol.' he
continued. for I'm too well known here, we'll as
was sayin, you employed me as doorkeeper-
had nothing 10 do with the winderS and that's
whar your hundred and eighty people come in
you tarnal fool TO leave EN- open. when there war
SIGH crowd comm from camp meeiin'!
paid the fellow his three dollars and the next
day was on my way TO the warm springs in The
famous county of Buncombe. where they raise the
largest peaches, and the yeowest children 10 all
creation.
GERMANV.-The able European correspondent
OF the Philadelphia Gazette, TO whose pen are
often indebted, writing under date of Antwerp Aug.
l7th, fully confirms all we have published, from
time to time, from The Paris papers. respecting The
unsettled state al Germany. and the prospect of a
serious outbreak there. The letter quoted says:
But the quiet progress of industry and COM
merce IN Germany, is more than ever threatened
by internal revolutions. 1t cannot be denied tina
the religious quarrels ofthe new Catholic and pro-
tesant dlssenters linked as they are with political
demands for freedom, are becoming more formi.
dabe; especially on The Rhine in SiIesia, and 10
the Northeastern provinces of Prussia. Secret so
clees and Clubs are. sprnging up all over Germa.
ny, and the Prassian Capital ITSELF is the head
quarters flhe communists. Germany is approach
ing crisis which will shake all Europe with its
consequences. The king Of Prussla's progress
through his dominlcds, was everywhere gloomy
in the extreme. All Cologne few 10y alsls de-
manded permission 20 serenade him, and to ar.
range torchhsht procession, but their number
was so small tina, it was thought best for the king
10 decline, TO prevent an open failure. The ex-
peling of two deputies from the dutchy of Baden,
has excited feeling of Indignation all over Ger
many, and the Diets of the Southern States have /
been more stormy than in 1888 when the people /
were supposed nearest revolution. The Ger
mans are now without the liberty of the press as
they were in 1888 when The Southern States ELL
loyed that boon. The country has become so well I
educated that even with shackled press the peo-
pie understand esch other, aud are preparing for
for general opposition. The trouble arising in
The political constellation of Germany, NAV for
while, impede the progress of industrial develope-
meni. but it will be only for moment, and be fol.
lowed by more conyenial Legislation or the SUBJ
ect.-Pilot.
The BETTER WAY.--'rhe sons of the poor die
rich, while the sons of the rich die poor! What
TO toll through life, acquiring
wealth to ruin our children! Butter to use our
money as We 60 along-educate our sous-secure
l.