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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-28
REPORTING A CONVENTION.
" Special Correspondent ,, On the Trial.
aud Troubles Attending Political
Nomination.

You are gradually becoming fairly repre-
sentative Of the material out of which, with
much hewing may be fashioned a special
The goal is within touching distance. 1t is
won when you are duly labeled and dis
patched to your first State convention.
Wait a bit and see if it is q good permanent
Investment. You are now in the depths
and have got to mind your eyes, for by a
single unfortunate fiufe you may topple to
the ground this result of some years. hard
labor. You are entitled now to oil the en-
joyment that can be derived from these
duties-waiting around the delegates fol-
hours on your weary legs, asking and an.
swering million questions day, sitting
the wheat from the chat of thousand
stories, weighing the statements of the great
men from the rural portions of the State,
Analysing the movements of leaders and
their gillies, running down multitude OF
rumors, catching the drift of sentiment
forecasting results, keeping an eye on the
the telegraph Office, following up commit
tees, dishing up abstracts of platforms, los
| ing your meals and hours of sleep, answer.
ing the frantic demands of your editor for
information Ms to the why's and wherefore
Of the lateness of your dispatch of the pre-
yious night, hunting up breaks in the wires
and bad telegraphic service for the benefit
Of that perturbed individual, modifying the
man who was represented by the operator
AS not tho pronounced regular" of youl
copy, but as perverted rascal, f." and who,
alas cannot be persuaded on SO short M
acquaintance that you are not scoundrelly
assassin of character skimming the news
papers to find who has been more enter
prising than yourself, securing seat in the
convention hall, and last, but not least,
damning yourself for over having become
mixed up in such a turmoil, in so much
confusion that your head swiths and your
heart sinks, and you swear by all the gods
that IL you only emerge alive and are not
completely overwhelmed by the criticisms
Of the homo Office you will become monk
and devote yourself hereafter to relieving
distressed mankind. These are only few
Of your duties. Pen cannot describe yom
earlier sufferings in surmounting the diff
culties now lying in your path. You &C
quire nm experience which is out of oil pro
portion with the price you have paid foi
it. You have scented blood, however, and
you yearn for these periods of excitement
this rushing OF men against men, their
tramping over one another's ambitions, the
crushing out of political prospects, the de-
struction OF years of hope. You are dealing
with mereiless men. Your lot Ia with them
but are not of them unless you have beer
TOOL enough at some time VI another te
place yourself in their political grasp. |
have found these occasions interesting prin.
sipally for the study which they afforded OF
mems motives as indicated by their faces,
language, manners, and movements.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-28
THE NEW YORK MoRGuE,

During the last twelve months, according
to the report of Keeper White, not less than
$3.50 bodies have been received at the
Morgue.
The bodies of those who die in the streets
and station houses and who are found in
the river, are all sent to the Morgue Many
also come from the hospitals and the other
city institutions. These and the pauper
Iced are sent to Potter's Field OF the en-
ire number received during tho year ITO
we're unknown dead, the same MS last year.
About sixty-fve of these were subsequently
identified and buried by friends The total
number of unknown dead removed to the
Morgue since it was opened is 2,440. o.
the 5,787 corpses received this last veal
about 3, 900 were buried in the City Gene
tery and the others were taken charge of by
friends aud given proper interment.
A notable feature of the statistics of this
institution il the remarkable increase in the
lunber of dead children taken there. Dur
ing the year now drawing to close 1000
little bodies were brought to the institution,
an increase Of 405 over the number for last
year. Some of these waits are sent from
charitable institutions where they died,
without friends to care for their bodies.
The larger portion, however, as with the
adult dead, come from the homes of the
very poor.
In the majority Of cases." said the
keeper, " if investigation was made it would
be found that rum is at the bottom of it
The use of liquor not only produces extreme
poverty but takes away all self-respect, SC
that father cares very little what become.
Of his dead children" OF these ITO, mol
over half were buried in private ground
the o:her 1000 being sent to Potter's Field
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-28
Marl Twain ana nj. rriena,.

Mark Twain assembled the platform in
Buffalo, and standing before a crowded au-
dience, said. "a Let me introduce man
whom you regard-whom regard--as the
greatest living modern writer of ancient
fiction n man in whom all genius, all hon.
or, all integrity, NIL virtue--and all vice
combine to make the perfect man. for
got, his name is George w. Cable" Mr.
Cable read q selection from DR.. SEWER"
and then proceeded to introduce Mark
Twain, who referred TO his former residence
ia Buffalo as follows. "Many changes
have taken place since l was citizen of
Buffalo. miss and we all missionary
friends. Some have gone to the tomb =
some to the gallows--and some to the White
House. Let us SO live that in the uncer-
tainty which attends this life we may be
prepared for all three of these fates"--
Utica Observer.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-28
POETRY.
At Sunset,

At Sunset.
/ To me the western sky doth always seem
The enchanted country OF a dream:
Such glamour strange doth paint its clouds t.
me, 81 .1
land beyond some radiant sea-
mst-wreathed shore half yelled from sight;
But shining with softened light,
Like lovely hills through golden haze,
ON dfowsy, Indian summer days.
In purple coolness lie those distant hills,
And as gaze my heart with rapture thrills;
Vague hopes that place immortal rest
Among those " Islands OF the Blest"
Whene'er the dust and turmoil of the day
Choke out my life, and heart and brain give way
In that far sunset land seek for balm
In that celestial sea is heavenly calm.
Whene'er think OF hopes gone down,
OF buried Joys and friendships flown
or all the Incompetence here
lift mine eyes TO rich fruition there.
All yes when at the sunsets golden hour
Come erowding Ger my soul the spell and power
OF loves and hopes of earlier years,
In that great sea OF light drown my tears
For there somehow / place my heaven;
The meeting of dear souls sin forgiven;
And through the portals OF that setting sun
see a grander life begun.
Lucy Ledyd,d IN Energ Other SdhWdap
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-28
WOMEN IN A SLEEPER.

There are more hatreds engendered be.
tween women on sleeping cars than any
where on earth, unless it be in church.
Suppose there are dozen women in sleep
er and one toilet room. Passengers are
awakened, say an hour before the train ar
rives at its destination. The first woman
who gets into that toilet room will lock the
door and stay in there until she hns made
as elaborate toilet as she would at home,
while the other eleven women nre waiting.
with their hair in one hand and hairpins in
the other, and satchel on their arms, and
they hate the woman in the room. When
she comes out, the one with the most gall
gets in the room next, and though she has
talked outrageously about the one who went
in first, she stays quite as long, until the
other ten women hate her even worse than
they did the first. The ten ladies who are
waiting will by this time have concluded
that there is no show for them, and they
will try and fix up so they can go to hotel
before making their toilet. The only two
who will be fixed up will be those who have
been hoggish. crowded in and remained re-
gardless of the comfort of others. Many
ladies who travel on sleepers never try to
get in the toilet room in the morning, be.
cause there is always one or two who have
seemed to lay awake all night in order &c
make n rush ON the wash room before any
body else. Some Indies who travel good
deal can pick out the one, the night before,
who will monopolze the toilet room in the
morning. There is demand for apart
ments, certainly in sleepers, where women
can be comfortable and ut their ease with
out annoying each other. They do not mn
noy men, because men can go into the wash
room and register on the towel" put or
clean collar and pair of cuffs and make
room for carload of dirty passengers
But, good Mr.. Pullman, give the women u
sbow.-Peck's Sun.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-28
a COSTLY STATUE
The Strange History of GreenOmxh's
Washington.

For the past forty years and more people
have laughed at the cold air and naked form
of George Washington as he sits in marble
at the east front of the Capitol He has
been the butt Of all the jokes of Senator's
Representatives, strangers, and guides for
tho past four decades, and even solemn
Allen @. Thurman has aided in the ridicule.
Still this statue has longer history than
any other at the Capitol. 1t was ordered
by Congress ut the end of Andrew Jackson's
first term, and it took eight years for Hora-
ito GreOnough TO make it, He did the work
in Florence, Italy, and he made the statue
in sitting posture instead of pedestrian, as
the net of Congress demanded. II was de-
signed, you know, to stand in the centre Of
the rotunda inside the Capitol. Well, when
it was completed in 1910, the next question
was how to get il from Italy to America.
Congress haggled over it for some time, and
finally sent man-of-war to bring IL from
Genoa to Washington. In the meanwhile
Mr.. Greenough had started it on to Genoa.
1t weighed twelve tons, and it took twenty
two yoke Of oxen to haul it. As il went on
Its way through Italy, IL IL said that the
peasants thought it the image OF some saint,
and that here and there they knelt and
crossed their breasts as il went by. Wher
it got TO Genoa it was so large that it could
not be gotten through the hatchway of the
man-of-war which was to carry it to Wash
ington, and merchant vessel had to be
chartered. At last il arrived at the wash
ington Nayy-yard, and Congress was horri-
fed to see that their pedestrian statue was
sitting in chair, and that it was nude to
the waist. Henry A. Wise then said
"Ths man does not live, and never did
live who saw Washington without HIS
shirt" and the country applauded the SEN
timent. But the Maynard is not the Capt..
toll, and it cost So, 900 to bring the statue
from it to tho rotunda. When it was got.
ten to tho Capitol doors, il was found tina,
the statue, like the painting OF the Vicar OF
Wakofeld's family, was too large TO &c
through. The masonry had to be cut away,
and the door enlarged. When it was finally
put in, ii is said the floor began to sink aud
pedestal had to be built under it to sup
port it. 1t WAS soon found however, that
the rotunda was no place for it, and finally,
after number of removals, it was taken to
where it now stands in the bitter cold,
bleak air of the Capitol plateau, where the
winds can howl out Wushington's agony as
they go tearing by, aud where his naked
uess has I" the boundless area of the sky +"
for a canopy. Originally the statue was to
have cost SO, 900. II has already cost $i4,.
600 and this SUN is considerably increased
at every removal - Washington CofYespond.
sny Of the Clepeland (0.) Leader.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-28
INTERESTING STORY.
IN LOVE WITH A DOLL.

The old-fashioned improyisatore, who fig
ures in medieval italian romances, is nearly
obsolete now but met one in Naples last
spring at the Hotel DIES Etrangers, a Signor
Caprani, who has an active fancy, rare
huency and an amiability that seems mex
haustible. 1t was jolly dinner party of
eight, consisting of old Generate De Malt
zoff, of Moscow, Signor Constanzi (who was
formerly of the household Of King Victor
EmanueD, four ladies, myself and the i'm
proyiser. After we had finished our last
flask of Chianti, one of the ladies asked the
Improvisatore to tell US a story Caprani's
eyes sparkled, and he at once consented
"Pll give you q subject" said the old
General.
9 Not too difficult, please" remarked
Caprani remember, have just dined."
9 Your first love-" suggested the General
ladies in chorus.
Caprani drained his goblet, rolled up his
eyes for moment, and then started of
There is n proverb in Naples that
first-love never wholly dies / agree with
the saying; at least the saying agrees with
my experience. In my case it happens thai
when ardent love is mentioned I always ex.
perienee the same passionate heart-throbs,
the same delicious torturss that felt in
childhood.
regard it as q duty to inform you that
/ am gifted with extraordinary sensitiveness,
contrary to the rule ordinarily governing
my sex, and incompreheneible, even to my
self. Every psychologist will indose my
statement when I assert that persons of ex-
treme sensibility are usually endowed with
great precocity You can rightly conjecture
then, the extent of mine.
AT the tender age of seven 1 directed
my sad eyes to the blue vault of heaven and
sighed. 1t is true that Mt n certain age one
weeps from other causes than the birch !;
but | am willing TO wager that my tears,
born of my precocity, were quite different
from the tears of other CHI ldren, from an
emotional point of view. My parents even
went so far as to assert that howled like a
whirlwind or broken-down baritone.
81 shall not describe the tempests that
swept over and ravaged the forests of my
heart. Suffice it to say that in me Nature
had developed the man before the boy. But
to my tale.'
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-28
An Advertising Exper,,s oplalen.

"Tell me frankly, if it's no secret. what
Mr.. WanamalSer spends year on adyertis-
ing" said I, persuasiyely. "Oh, it's no
secret--$250, 000." And what medium
pays him best ?" g Oh, newspapers--de-
cidedly SO y That is tho Wanamaker opin-
ion-an experts if there is one--and it's
weighty. Yet there are many Philadelphia
business firms who think it wouldn't pay
them to Observation-Disclosures tried it,"
Pshaw it's only because they don't know
how to handle the tombstone. - Philddel-
ahia Nescs.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-28
Dakofah Farmers.

A st. Paul merchant has n very poor
opinion of the farmers in that section be.
cause they buy at the stores what they
ought to raise. Farmers !" said he con-
temptuously; why, we haven't got twenty
real farmers in this county. They are oil
nothing but wheat-raisers, and that is long
way from being farmer. A large number
Of farmers in Dakota, who own whole quar-
Ter sections of land, seldom have drop of
milk in the house, and the butter they eat
is bought at the nearest store. They don't
even keep COW or pig, or try to raise vege-
tables enough to provide for the winter"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-28

nnnK,C COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE. for
COOA - young ladies. Advantages un-
surpassed. GKoReE W. Cook, Phi. D. Principal,
Ponghkeepsie, N. \. )y'h-sm'
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-28
CHAPTER 1.
It was the night before Christmas !

1t was the night before Christmas!
Petrarch became enamored of his Laurt
on that day. That was for him and fol-
poetry precious epoch.
Iquote Petrarch because there are points
Of resemblance between his case and mine
The only difference was a saint am
sinner. He wrote madrigals and sonnets to
celebrate his lady love. He chose the most
melancholy season of the year to fall in
love. l became victim of the little god
on cold winter night after having disposed
OF half n dozen mince pies.
The Church of Santa Chiara was the scene
of his surrender. My first wound from
Cupid's arrow was received at an exhibition
of fantoccini.
But l must not anticipate.
1t was the night before Christmas.
I had not yet really loved had led
sort of butterfly existence, rowing from flow.
sr to flower, tasting sweets here and there
especially among my mothers preserves,
but had not yet felt the profound moral
enjoyment that constitutes love in its en-.
tirely. sHr3
was in my ninth year.
Do you recollect that period when love is
Two souls with but single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one7
When one dreams of lightly floating in rose-
lined clouds in the limitless expanse of ones
own heaven? .f-..,.s
10 4la
of nine one experiences oil this, and more
especially if he be gifted with my extreme
susceptibility.
1t was the night before Christmas for
he third time. fFW
My fathers sister, who lived in Posilipo,
joined us to spend the holidays.
This aunt of mine-an excellent woman
was also extremely susceptible to the allure
ments of wine, nince pies and marionettes.
Susceptibility was afamily failing.
To ceiebrate appropriately the arrival OF
our esteemed relative and the holidays at
;he same time, it was decided to go to the
play.
4 ~ CHAPTER II.
1 shall not attempt to describe the JOY
that stole over me whenever heard the
word "play.D 1t is enough that on that
evening my little head was turned, my little
heart throbbed wildly. Why that agitation,
that confusion?
Was it the anticipated delight of again
beholding my beloved Pierrotg Was it o
aovsferious uresentiment2
Precisely at the hour of seven we entered
the theatre.
Signor Mezzocapo, the manager, whom
knew by sight, with his own hands received
from my mother the tickets that were te
open for us the portals of this Elysium
gallery; and as he pointed gracefully il
the direction of the abodes of the gods, be
dismissed us with smile.
We hastened to secure our seats and
after waiting half an hour, the overture
ceased and the spectacle began.
You may imagine with what ecstatic de.
light drank in every word of that pictur
esque drama.
1t was about beautiful maiden in shor
muslin skirt, kidnapped by o villain, wrap
ped in cloak black as his own conscience
and carried of into forest crowded with
villains armed to the teeth.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-28

II cielol What agony did not suffer at
the fate of that forlorn one, whose voice
was SO tender and sympathetic. But she
had an intrepid lover with pair of long
moustaches, who at last liberated her, deal.
ing forth HIS heroic vengeance on the heads
Of the bold assassins.
He was accompanied, of course, by his
syer faithful, ever invincible Pierrot, whose
sword, riyakng Excalibur, was so potent as
to run dozen of his foes through the body
at once.
The maiden thus rescued, there was great
rejoicing, ending with the grandest nuptials,
Hhereat my whole nature was stirred.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-06
RIEL'S REBELLION.
Matters Growing WOrse-The Rebels Have
Formed "A Provisional Government.

WINNIPEG, Msn., april 5.-Tidings from
the North indicate that the state of alta rs
there is growing worse. AS before tsIe-
graDhed, dispatch from Colonel Irvine to
the Government has come through By
courier and brings bsa news.
Supplies are scarce. and unless relief gets
through very soon the mounted police and
all the Prince Albert people will be COM
piOtely at the mercy OF The rebels.
Irvine says that reinforcemeuts of 800
men are wanted at Prince Albert i'm
mediatsly.
He adds that the country people owing to
threats from the rebels are leaving their
places and that the Teton Sioux are swarm
ing over the country end committing depre-
daticns, while supplies are becoming short.
The Sioux referred to are headed by Chief
White Cap, and occupy the reserve Gear
Prince Albert. They are refugees from the
United States. Iryine's message was dated
March 30, and further word is awaited with
great anxiety.
The Hudson Bay Company received the
following from Fort Q1appelle: Just
heard from Colonel Irvine. He is waiting
reiDforcements. No particular news from
him. Teton Sioux are committing some
depreciation in Prince Albert district"
The rebels have evidently organized pro-
yisiOnal government. In addition TO re-
csipts signed by the Lieutenant Governor
ana Secretary of Saskatchewan, previously
mentioned, the Hudson Bay Company hold
others signed by the Assistant Commissioner
for the provisional government Of Saskatch
avian.
The remainder OF "a" and "B" batteries
arrived at Winnipeg this afternoon, and the
whole detachment comprising 225 officers
and men with tUenty-seyen horses aud fonr
ni1e-pounder guns, went this evening. a
detachment of Toronto troops are expected
tonight and more tomorrow sfternoOn. A
dispatch from Fort Qasppelle says that lSO
teams went to SoucnWood from that point
this morning. and that the Ninetieth Rifles
viii start in the same direction tomorrow.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-06
WHO Is TO BLAINE ?

There is quite disposition in some quar-
tiers TO find fault with Mr. Cleveland in the
matter OF making removals from Office. The
Republicans think that be is moving too
rapidly, and are making special pleas for
the upholdiDg OF the civil service laws. The
well-informed correspondent of the New
York World says that some of the Democratic
members OF the Senate are responsible for
the slowness OF Mr.. Clevsland's movements.
In his account of the matter he says that il
Is fact that the majority of the Republican
bureau chiefs who are retained in Office
have the support OF Democratic Senators
in their retention. President Cleveland said
the other day to prominent Congressional
caller: do you know that can not make
a single move in the direction of change in
any one of the bureaus of the departments
here without finding in my road three-quRr-
tiers Of the Democratic Senator's" The
President continued: Take the case of Dr.
Dyrenfurth CHIEF OF the special examiners
in the Patent Office. I understand that he
has has been an inscriptions Republican
partisan OF the most pronounced type. His
sppoin tment as Patent Commissioner would
have been simply preposterous. Yet when
l came to consider his application for the
place found that the Doctor had a majority
OF the Democratic Senators as his indorsers
and hackers. But 1t did not rest with mere
Endorsements. Fully one-half of the Demo
cratic Senators called upon me to urge in
person Dyrenfurth's appointment"
In regard to the Chief Clerk Of the Agri-
cultural Department, the same correspond
ent says that he has been entrenched behind
Senatorial and female influence. There are
at least half dozen Democratic Senators
who are insisting on Carmsn's retention.
''The same Senatorial influence which has
backed Colmsn for the Agricultural Depart
ment favors Carmsn. 1t is but reasonable
to suppose that the new Commissioner APP
pointed through this influence will be IN
clined to retain this Chief Clerk. Yet the
management OF the Office of Chief Clerk in
this department is to-day the subject of no
small scandal