The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-07-01
UNSURPASSED usHERs.

pierce the air as / moved away.
UNSURPASSED USHERS.
woNDRoUs FEATs OF MURRAY AND CALDWELL
SELF APPOINTED UsHERs OF THE BROOK
LYN COURT RooM-THEIR POINTS OF CON-
TRAsT.
The New York Herald gives funny
sketch of two of the Plymouth brethren who
have been acting as ushers during the trial:
For over q hundred days, two men, named
respectively Murray and Caldwell, have
acted as ushers in the courtroom. seating
the ladies and the brethren and friends of
Plymouth church. Murray is well-to- do
merchant in New York, and Caldwell is
speculator in paintings and engravings.
Murrayis dapper sort of person with a
black mustsche, a fresh complexion and a
qnick manner. In order to exercise sort of
official authority as usher, he borrowed a
deputy sheriff's shield, which he wears
on the front of his coat. Cald-
well is a tall, heavy man, with
a Burnside pattern of mustache and
whiskers, dresses well and talks to the Ia
| dies IN a fatberly way. He was very atten-
| tive TO Bessie Turner while that blonde siren
| freGuented the court room. He has more
dignity than Murray but less influence. The
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receives 50 so per day for his services from
the Plymouth brethren, who have raised a
fund TO defray certain expenses of the trial.
These two men have become so expert in
ushering people 10 places in the body of the
court room, and finding seats for them, that
their performances during the pressing day 3
of the past week have been positively mar
vellous. The writer has seen the court
room filled, to all appearances, in every part
as early as 10 O'Clock in the morning, and,
TO his extreme astonishment, after the lapse
of an hour, during which several hundred
persons more entered and found room, long
J stream of the brethren have come in and
been comfortably seated By
THIS SURPRISING PAIR OF UsHERs.
They conjure up chairs and camp stools oft
of the very floor. They stow away peopls
in seemingly inaccessible places. No lady
had TO stand during all the past week while
Murray and Caldwell were around. To
; their credit, it must be said, thst they have
worked hard and well, and been the means
of saving great deal OF confusion, which
must have otherwise arisen if every visitor
|. had TO %nd a seat for himself. Toe dexterity
of these self-appointed ushers in handling
chairs and camp stools is truly amazing.
Caldwell has been seen to spin a camp stool
over the heads OF people and land it in a va
cant spot with unerring precision. To send
lady spinning after the camp stool would
seem to be feat equally easy to him. In the
matter of arranging chairs they have grown
wonderfully proficient. Daily AT lunch time
, the outgoing audience knock the chairs
about until the floor appears TO be
3 in perfect state OF chaos. Presto, the as
: tOnished stranger sees the chairs and camp
: stools fall into regular alignment like SOL
, diers on parade. Caldwell gives tip here
: and Murray tip there to a few chairs and
= SENDS q sort of magnetic current through al
the rest aud brings them into line in an in.
: stsnt. Their fame as ushers has gone
abroad, and it ia said that several offers
have been made them by theatrical man.
. ayers and pastors of popular churches in New
! York. The managers OF Round Lake camr
= = meeting, of the Metropolitan, Booths
! ! Theater, Tony Pastors Opera-house, DR.
= Halls church and Bishop Shows tabernacle
i. want Caldwell Tor usher. Murray is better
. adapted for theater, Caldwell for a church
: : the latter for escofting heavy weighted
!. : dowsgers to the pews, the former for watt
ing with wave Of his hand bevy of smil
ing beauties into their seats in the audi
torium; Caldwell for camp-stools, Murray
for chairs; the former for elder solid womeI
n OF roomy dimensions, the latter for festive
Z and slender innocence of sweet sixteen; tht
one for
soLEsIN AND ORTHODOX REsPECTABILITY,
> the other for gay and mercurisl irregularity
: Caldwell for roast beef and plum pudding
: Murray for ice cream and strawberries. Tn,
Y habit of handling chairs constantly anC
: showing people TO places in the court room
|, tor over a hundred days has so far grown OF
' the pair OF ushers as to lead them uncon
. sciousjy into several ludicrous mistakes. Il
: crossing the ferry to New York the othe
day, Caldwell fOrgo. where be was and i'm
!, agiued he was still IN the court room, Ladie
. were standing up in the rear of the boat
2 when Caldwell jun ped to bis feet and cried
This. wav, LADIES' leading forward TO tn
> front long string of females. none OF whom
: : even then, TO the inexpressible anguish O
= poor Caldwell, were accommodated will
- seat, for the boat was crowded. In tn
u cars be has frequnntly forgotten himself, ,an'
N given orders for the passengers t.
- sit closer. He has been known to start oi
~ ahstractedly from hume with chair in hi
= hand, and wherever he goes he ia constant,
:, knocking chairs about. II is supposed hi
y will 60 into the chair-nakiug bushes
~ when tue trial is over. He can do almos
- anything with q chair-balance IL on th
" end OF his nose or twist il into a camp-stool
:, Murray Is even more afflicted win the chair
7 omania. He sleeps on chairs and camp
stools. His future coat OF arms will be
,s chair rampant, and when the trial. over b
- intends to buy all the chairs that the Plym
> outh brethren have sat upon, and max
- presents of them TO his friends. The on
upon which the portly form of the Plymont
pastor rested will be presented by Murray {
the Smithsonian Institution. Other distr
d. guished chairs, such as the one in which Ey
a arts reclioed when he smiled sarcastically
Beach, and the one into which Porte
y dropped after he hurled the accusation
In falsehood at the plaintiffs pleader, will
r. raffisd for in aid of home for indiger
lawyers.
40 Here let me observe that death from ligh
= ming must be painless. The nerves OF I'll
ut human body DO not convey sensation
IN pain instantly TO the nerve certers. The