The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-03
POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

The Cincinnati Enquirer is grievously trou-
bled that "there is disposition to run to
buncombe in the Ohio legislature"
The bankrupt law ought to be repealed.
1t was a necessity when it was enacted, but
it is nuisance now. Once in twenty years.
or oftener such an act is needed to clear up
business and settle the estates of insolvents.
But it should be a temporary expedient, not
a permanent measure.-Utica, New York,
Observer.
There was never a time in the history Of
our country when the laboring classes were
as tremendously united as at present, and if
you only bear in mind the points upon
which they have been brought so closely to-
gether the circumstances which brought it
about, and the reforms to be effected by uni
ted political action, who can donbt the re-
sult?-Macomb ILL., Granger.
The Danville. H., News makes public a
little private opinion, which as piece of
universal sentiment is benefcent. 1t says:
Not one of the four publishers of the Dam
vile News ever voted a democratic ticket
certainly not in many years; not one OF them
voled the liberal ticket in 1872. and not one
of them will ever again vote the republican
ticket unless it offers something better than
it has offered for year past.
The Grant organs are sneering at the
farmers movement and their platform, but
they will find out, before the close of the
present year, that it is a movement that will
sweep the credit mobilierites and salary
grabbers, monoplists and corruptionists from
power, and place honest men in their places.
Joliet ull.) Signal.
We knew, when they began to make
women justices of the peace in Wyoming,
that matters would speedily become mixed
and miscellaneous. Just fancy Rhadaman-
tina forced to try her own husband for the
misdemeanor of drunkenness, and worse. to
pronounce him guilty" and to fine him;
and worse still, to pay the fine herself, TO
prevent her lord and master from going to
jaili Where she held the court we are in
formed, but it is just possible that the poor
man was arraigned, tried, convicted and
sentenced before he got out of bed in the
morning.-New York Tribune.
Whatever else may be said OF the Asian
tee expedition, one thing is quite certain
that it is being conducted in a perfectly
novel fashion. Usually the troops are sent
out first, the commanders -chief delaying
his arrival until everything is ready for the
commencement of active operations. In the
case of the Ashantee war, however, the chief
was the first to start, attended by a large
staff and great number of extra officers.
The principal staff officer is already on his
way home, badly wounded; other officers
have been wounded more o. less severely
some few MORALLY.
Goethe called on Schiller one day, and not
finding him at home. seated himself at his
friends table to note down various matters.
He was soon seized with strange indispOsi-
| tion, from which he nearly tainted, but find
| ing il proceeded from a dreadful odor, he
traced it to drawer, which he found full Of
decayed apples. He stepped out OF the room
| to inhale the fresh air, when he met the wife
of Schiller, who said her husband kept the
drawer always filled with rotten apples, be-
cause the scent was so beneficial to him that
he could not think or work without it.
Queer, amt it?
"Is the editor ln?" was the query of one
George Huntington, who called at the Office
of the Middleburg (Vt.) Register with an
open jack-knife, to settle little difficulty
with the editor of that paper. "He is" re-
piled the knight of the scissors, as he pro-
ceeded to calm the irate Huntington by
pouring over him three four bottles of
ink, rubbing in the liquid with an Office
stool. Huntington expressed his entire sat
/ isfaction.
Such is fame. A Western paper speaks Of
''McKulkys, the republican candidate for
governor of New Hampshire" and nobody
seems to know the difference.-Boston Post.
And yet benighted Boston paper found it
out. satl- -su4