The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-07-12
LIFE IN LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL. June 20.-rwelve days at
sea in constant company with 40 human
beings gives keen observer of human
nature broad field for comment, especially
IL. eight days out of twelve are foggy,
when wet decks, rough sea, drenching
sails. confine all in one room. There Is
no place in the world, not even at
home. where people are so nonchalant
as at sea. The elegant young banker Will
fiirt desperately with the giddy goAerness,
walk the deck, play card, aud be her
slave. Ii pleasant moon beams he will
rush off to some remote corner OF the snip
and there, meath a wing of canvas, spread
his shelteriDg arms around aslcklY seam
stress and whisper passion In her
ears. Others will exhibit their taste
tor card playing, others reading, gos-
sipping and drinking, and the well
behaved crowd that left Sandy HOOK Will
show all their peculiarltles before they
reach "merrie England" Some will
bOsst their wealth, Others relate their mis-
fortunes. Such a mixture! Butcher, bs-
ker, banker, teacher, and some irrepressi-
BILE correspondents of penny sheet, will
sit down and tell unwilling listeners his
relations with
BUTLER, MORTON, AND OTHER NOTORIOUS
CHARATERs.
All! what pleasure when land is in sight
and one can leave the company of such
queer specimens of humanity, for con-
Tess in my fifteen trips across the briny
deep / never met such queer types; and
thought, Well, America can spare them.
We have plenty without them there.
When 1 heard that an elder OF Brigham
Young's was going over just to
bring ten hundred Mormons over,
i sighed and said: "Yet England
throws pOlygsmy in our face and thrusts
Salt Lake MoTmons upon us by the
Thousand" These MOrmons l met on the
ship had a certain amount of education.
There were three OF them-s father and
two daughters, one aged twenty and the
other fifteen, who, at that early age, knew
as much of human nature as most women
of forty. Was il their example in Salt
LakeY Echo answered, Was i'll
What q shudder passed over me, as I saw
large dinner knife find its way to the
mouth of a wealthy butcher from Salt
Young, and how glad was and selfish to
wish MIN sea-sIck so as l might be spared
the uDpless ant sight of seeing MIN in dan
ger OF cutting his ripe red lips with glow
ing steel; but unfortunately he always
managed to be- present at dinner, much 10
minister of the "High Church." known
as St. c., in the Quaker City,
whose seat was 50 situated at the table as
to force him to see the two "Venuses" do
the same thing as their wealthy father.
My compaguon de voyage, q pleasant lady
full OF esprit, said they reminded her OF
good na ured animals; besides, she said,
there was grtss deal TO be forgiven a man
VINO had two wives, sixteen children, and
SIX DAUGHTERs-IN-LAw,
ne SON rot twenty-five having three
legitimate wives and several children. But
the butcher wa a millionaire, so most peo-
The American consul here is genial Yves
tern man, Gen. Lucuis Faircbild, the hero
OF many a hattie in our late civil war, OF
which he carries the sad signet-an arm!ess
sleeve. he has been consul here since
1872, aud no man has shed more credit on
the ccnsuls @ than he, by his attention to
his duties. BE resides a short distance Of
Liverpool with his family, consisting o.
his wife two children. Mrs. Fair
chi was q noted beauty in Washington
society, when she was Miss Bull
while the general as q teau and 9
politician de-erves no faint praise
/ asked the general what he thought oi
the elections. He said he was not at all
surprised at the result, though a staunch
Republican. He said that Hendricks was
the man for the Democrats. He said they
must have a Western man. Sp'aking Oi
America be csa d iJ Gods country" He
said it was utter iD2Ossbility for a
Small Idmlly 70 nV6 III LlN6TpOOl QnO6l
s. 600 year, gold. Prices were exhorbi-
tsnt-desrer than London. The
general is very hospitsble and enter
tsins a great many Americans who arr
trsnsientlv scjOurDing In this great seaport
city. WI bout naming any one, he in
formed m it was sad to see the number.
OF destitute Americans who were fl ,atine
all over Europe, and who struggle to reach
Liverpool, and there hope to be- sent home
by the consul Ofcourse the number gro We
larger each day. Each one has some psiu-
full story To rela'e In most cases they are
persons who bave held good p sitions in
lie. What a pity it ia thai young men
and women Gao not be impressed with The
great truth-.bere is no land like one'-
own when the pocket is empty.
Europe il all well enough when there as q
well-liped pure at Command, but it IL
SHADES" To poor Am ricsns, snC even Il
the coDsul Is moved y their painful stu
atoms, 1t IS net pleasant to be sent TO the
S'Lsnd OF the FIR 8" with several bundred
emigrauts in eeraee. To ambitious a ).
veuturers would say, Europe has no
harvest tor Won; t. romantic yong folks
who have little money, Keep IL and re-
main at home, tor lite on this side of the
Atlsntic is not eouleur de rose. This
in this Instance It is better e
to be practical than poet cal
THE HOTELS Nv LIVERPOOL
ere numerous. The Washington, kept by
an American. is very essoDsble, prices va
rying from So to IS per dsy. but 7, spite the
advice OF numerous friends, went with q
party to the no al known as the NORTH
Western, "" ere room 'or one person on
the firth door c0sts only half crown
about 81 cents of our money, but they
charees shilling aud six pence for 20 vice
which means iwels and the making ofthe
bed; then a candle il q lilliDg aud six
pence, or what 5hey term "lighis ''-thres
shi,lings. So ores lodgiI costs sbout 81 SO
Dinner OF fsb, potsIoes, ssparaxu-
piece OF pie, plain bread. minus