The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-02-04

mighty Father. Will Thou In Thine mercy ana
goodness shower Thy unaIIoyed blessings
upon the loyal people of these United States,
but send Thy hot damnauon upon the South
ern ku klux end the Northern Democrats. for
they are constantly sowing strife and discord
among Thy children"
A PIoUs p~aterfamiIias was helping his To-
year-6ld son to master his Sunday school
lesson. That lesson happened to be devoted
to the parable OF the sower. In the course of
his instruction the father asked his son the
meaning of the word stare, , and the son re-
piled, 81 don't know exactly, but mother
can tell you all about it," 'why your mother,
my sons" "Well, she must know, for a little
while ago, when you didn't come home for
two or three days, I asked mother where you
were, and she said she guessed you were on a
tare."
THE New Orleans Democrat calls attention
to the fact that the December returns of ex-
ports from the bureau OF statistics place New
Orleans second only to New York I'm exports,
the exports of New York amounting to $685.
35O,522, while those of New Orleans reach sl2,-
1892. With the completion of the railway
connections contem plated, and the necessary
improvements to facilitate the navigation of
the Mississippi river at all seasons OF the year,
there is no reason why New Orleans may no:
soon be classed second to New York in point
of population as well as in the matter of ex-
ports.
AN American student at Heidelberg writes
to his family in MeadviIle that the American
colony were not much pleased at the way Gen.
eral Grant and party conducted themselves
during their visit there. LAS for the son
jesse" writes the student, che was taken
down to the Anglo-American club, and there
by his talk so disguised tue Americans there
gathered that they openly told aim to cheese
it, and most of them left the room. This /
heard from three or four fellows VINO were
present. They said his talk about me and pa
was the most sicRening they ever heard. But
Idon't suppose you can visit the inanity of
the children upon the fathers even to the first
generation
a FORMER president OF a New England COL
lege, after getting a seat in a horse-car, noticed
one of the freshmen OF his college curled up
in front of him, and exhibiting obvious signs
of vinous exhi .aration. a close inspection
revealed the fact that the state of inebrety was
not hastily put on like a hat, but had been
worn closely like an undershlrt) for several
days. For a few moments the president sur
veyed the undergraduate with an expression
of mingled commiseration and disgust, and
finally he exclaimed: "Been on q drunk
The half-conscious student rallied his stray
ing senses, and with a gIeam of good fellow
ship in his eye, somewhat unexpectedly ejac-
ulated, "So-hIc-have IT.
JUST two months before President Jefer-
son. second Inauguration he said: any Opin-
ion originally was that the president of the
United states should have been elected for
seven years, and forever ineligible afterward.
L have since become sensible that seven years
is too long to be irremovable, and that there
should be a peaceable way OF Withdrawing a
man i'm midway who isdoing wrong. The SER
vice for eight years, with a power to remove at
the end of the first four, comes nearly to my
principle as corrected by experience; and 1t is
in adherence to that, that L determine to with
draw at the end of my second term. The
danger is that the indulgence and attach
ments of the people will keep a man IN the
chair after he becomes a dotard, that re cleo
ton through life shall become habitual, and
election for life follow that. General Washing
ton set the example of voluntary retirement
after eight years. l shall follow il. And a few
more presidents VIII oppose the obstacle of
TO any one after awhile who shall en-
deavor TO extend his term. Perhaps it may
beget "A disposition to establish 1t by an
amendment of the constitution. I believe Z
am doing right therefore IN pursuing my
principle
TIE Louisville Courier-Journal talks ex-
actly right when it says: Our Republican
fellow citizens in Indiana who are trying TO
get a black population In that state have not
succeeded In convincing anybody that the
Indiana farmers are hungering for black farm
hands. In making such a statement as they
did in November last, just at the threshold of
winter, when farmers always dispense with
hired men as far a. they can, the exodus gen.
tlemen committed a silly blunder. If they
really want 100000 negroes in Indiana there is
no use making false IN The farm
laborers are not needed, but if the Republicans
want the blacks just to look at and ADMIRE,
ought to he willing to quarter them in
their own houses and feed aud clothe them
while they are enjoying the dusky spectacle.
II the negroes are wanted for voting purposes,
as is getting to be apparent, the Republicans
should admit ii instead of uttering deliberate
enc We observe that the farmers of
Indiana vigorously deny that they wan black
farm hands, and the conviction is generally
forcing itself upon the minds of the people of
that State that If the scrubby Republican pol
succeed in introducing 100000 negroes
into the State they will be taxed to support
just about 100000 paupers, mostly old men and
women.
THE INSANE HOSPITAL.
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