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Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1891-05-18

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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-02-07

Every once in a while some wal
veteran under proper circumstances
and conditions, will tell you how he
escaped death at such a place and such
a time by the "queerest chance in the
world" One of these "queerest chan
ces in the world" fell to the lot of an
old-timer who lives in Germantown,
and, in truth, it is one of the very
gueerest. He was about to leave fer
the seatsOf val in 1868, and the girl to
whom he was engaged, among numer-
GUS other things, gave him a chest
protector made by her own fair hands
and wet by her tears. 1t was meant
to be practical, and was of immense
thickness that is, it was padded to the
depth of an inch or two. During a
long and tedious campaign in chilly
weather the soldier found it invaluable
as a safeguard against colds, and
wore it almost constantly. He had it
on n morning when plunged into the
heat of a hand to-hand skirmish. The
affair developed into quite a little bat
tie and loon the struggling fire on both
sides had become rafting volleys.
" itSh II HdS all ottI liIC sOIuitI It.
tired to his tent and removed his coat
and shirt in order to stanch the flow of
blood from Il small wound in his back.
In removing the protector he felt a
sharp pain shoot through his chest,
and then he noticed the protector was
cut all up by the passage of a bullet.
An investigation developed an awfufly
''queer chance" His sweetheart had
accidentily left a needle sticking in the
pad which he had never noticed before.
This ran right through the cloth and a
bullet had struck it on the point.
The needle had been forced back clear
through a thick button on his wooden
undershirt and thence had gone a little
distance into the skin. The resistance
of the button had forced the soft lead
of the bullet clear round the needle so
that the bullet was fairly impaled on
the slender wire. Thus was the life
of the soldier saved, and through the
carelessness of his beloved in leaving
the needle in the protector.-Philadel-
phia Inquirer.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-02-07

Delemater, Quay's henceman who
ran for the governorship and was so
badly beaten by Pattison no sooner
gets ont of one trouble than he man
ages to get into another. After his de-
feat last November his bank failed un-
der suspicious circumstances, and the
result was the affairs of the concern
were investigated and yesterday Dele
mater was arrested on criminal charges
connected with the failure. 1t would
0 be surprising if Delemater who
started out IA year ago to be ons of the
leaders of the Republican party in
Pennsylvania did not land in the peni-
Tertiary. A man who becomes the
boom companion and political agent
of Quay is pretty apt to be crooked
States.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-02-07


"The children kept at me till 1 had
to promise to Co." he said as he sat
down. "Hain't bin down to Mary's in
five years, and I've got SO old l dasn't
wait any longer. It's purity tough on
an cid man like me, but l want to see
Mary and the grandchildren"
Il take it you are going to spend
Thanksgiving with your daughter 7"
remarked the man on the seat ahead.
"Tlat's it. Mary's my oldest gal.
Got five of 'em. and all married off.
She lives down at, and she would
haye me come and make a visit. Mary
was allus a good gal. and she married
a good man You'll tell ME when l
git there, won't youF"
sob, yes"
"'Cause they'll all be there at the
depot TO meet me. My son Steve writ
that | was coming"
He had about forty miles to go, and
when we passed the first three or four
stations he was anxious for fear that
he would be carried by the right one.
After that he leaned over on the win
dow and fell asleep. Just before the
GitliH di1lSCo il--tltC itf II az
spoken to him turned about and said !:
"Come. grandpa, you get off here"
The old a did not moye, and the
stranger ar,.se and shook his arm and
said:
"Wake up. grandpa. This is your
station, and Mary and the children are
waiting. Come. now
But he spoke To the dead. The old
MAJ had died while he slept-passed
away SO peacefully that not a line of
his face had changed. And we were
yet stunned and grieving when Mary
and her husband and three happy
children came hurrying into the car
and shouted:
"Here he is. Here's our grandpa
come to spend Thanksgiyingm
But lie was with his god.-N. Y. Sun.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-02-07

An exchange says that Mother Eve
never read a dry goods advertisement,
and never did any holiday shopping.
No. but she had the first pick of fig
leaves for Easter Sunday:-Baton
Rouge Advocate.
The real reason why Mother Eve
never read dry goods advertisements
and never did much shopping, was
simply owing to the fact that, in her
day, the governing rule in the best So
ciety was "Beauty when unadorned is
adorned tho most.n-N. o. States.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-02-07

A Washington letter writer publish
es the following story as told by Gen
eral Banks: "When | was called to
the command of Patterson's army
corps, soon after the first battle Of Bull
Run, the citizens of Massachusetts pre-
sented me with a magnificent bay
charger, nearly if not quite three
quarters thoroughbred. This horse
was the envy of my brother officers.
and, | must confess, he was the ample
of my eye-so much so that | never
mounted him except on special occa-
sions, such as reviews and on the
march. In battle | left him we'll in the
rear with his groom, in order that a
stray shot might not strike him. or in
the several movements made he might
not be captured. When General Grant
reviewed my little army ut Port Hud-
son l rode this horse. Grant was a
magnificent horseuan and OH that day
we'll mounted. We started ont at
a killing pace, but as fast as he vent
my horse could go much faster than
his own, and found myself confronted
with the embarrassment of not being
able to control him. Down the line
we wenta at the utmost speed. and back
again by the rear at a. killing pace.
Ny horse on the last quarter of. the
heat was only just beginning to get
warmed up. l pulled, and pulled,
until my strength at last gave way.
wlen my gallant bay, given his head,
shot past the General, and when we
pulled up | had fairly distanced the
commanding general in spite of nv
self. Our respective stats were scat
tered all along the route, and it was
several minutes before we were able
to assemble again. In the meantime.
the army stood agape and wondering
whether is was q review or a horse
race" He might have told more. The
horse General Grant rode on the occa-
sion ran away with him, collided with
a milk wagon and the General was
thrown to the ground and badly bat
tered and bruised. The General was
confined for several days to his bed.
under the care of the most skillful sur
geons, military and civil, chief among
them being DIR. Jerome Y. c.. Smith.
ex-mayor of Boston, who was "a con-
tract surgeon at the time at the mill
tary hospital at st. James Hotel-now
Nonderbank's-on Magazine street.
Fearing lest a scandal should arise, as
a sequel to the accident, DR.. Smith
prepared and the surgeons signed a
certificate, in which the statement was
carefully set forth that General Grant
was not intoxicated at the time the
accident occurred. 1t is doubtful if
General Grant eyer saw the certificate.
or even heard of it; but it was placed
in the keeping of Il member of his
military staff for Use if it ever became
necessary.--Ex.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-02-07

Massachusetts, had not been destroyed
and exterminated in this country by
the sturdy democracy of this land, this
country from one end to the other
would have been plunged into civil
strife and human blood would have
flowed on every political field of this
vast domain.
But this is not all, Mr.. President
Not satisfied with making war upon
the religion of their fello 1-citizens, re-
viving the days when they turned con-
vents and expelled nuns from their
consecrat-d habitations; not yet sa-
tisted with that internal spirit of poll
teal prescription which makes the
blacklist page that has been written in
the history of this country not salts
fed with having gorged themselves
with political power secured by hav-
ing trampled upon the religion of their
fellOw-citizens, they extended their
political warfare aud their political
prescription in still another direction.
and declared in their platform and
in their political creed that no man
who was born abroad, although he
might be a naturalized citizen of the
United States. was qualified to hold
office in the State OF Massachusetts,
that Mr.. Pat Collins, who has served
his State with distinction in the other
House; who had conferred-though he
would not say SO himself-honor upon
the constituency which lie represented
in The other House, and who only a
few days ago was rendered a position
by a Democratic Governor as judge of
the Supreme Court of Massachusetts ;
that John Boyle O'Reilly, that great
lrisl,man who made fame by his hon
esty, his patriotism, and his literary
attainraents, around whose tomb the
ether day we're gathered, irrespective
ofparty, thousands and thousands of
Boston citizens, feeling hat the State
of Massachusetts had suffered a terri
BILE bereavement-that those two men,
under the political creed which existed,
and which probably the Senator from
Massachusetts, if he had been old
enough, would have iBdorsed, we're an
worthy for a double reason to hold any
Office in the State of Massachusetts
one because they were Catholics and
the other because they were foreign
born citizens.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-02-07
His Last Visit.
THE PATHETIC ENDING OF AN OLD NEW
%YORKER,s DAYS.

He was a queer old man who board
ed the train at q small station in West
ern New York. Two young men, who
were probably his sons, brought him
to the steps Of the a and helped him
on, and as he entered we saw that he
leaned heavily on a cane and was very
feeble.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-02-07
GOUAUX's PILE CURE, tGuaranteed.)

GOUAUX'S PILE CURE, fGuaranteed.)
From w. H. Noon. bookkeeper of Roberts g.
Co., Sash & Blind Factory, ex-member of
City Council, President of the Board of Con
troll. -
New Orleans, Dec. 4, 1889.
F. G~ouaux. Esq.
Dear Sir-Tle bottle of Pile Ointment oh
tanned from you has worked wonders and
given me the greatest possible relief. Please
send me another hottie. 1t will give me
pleasure to recommend this remedy to all
persons similarly afflicted Respectfully,
w. II. MOON, 80 Carondelet st.
l endorse the above certificate as it has
cured mo also, by using only one bottle.
WILLIAM BELL,
Foreman of Roberts Sash Factory g. Lumber
Yards.
Price. $t.00 by all druggists.
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20
Strange Telephone Wire.

Whether we shall ever be able to see our friends at distance, as we now talk with them, is something for the science of the future to determine, but if we ever do so it will doubtless be through the mysterious connection between light. electricity and the element selenirfm.
 Selenium belongs to what is known as the sulphur group of elements. It is remarkable for the wonderful property by which it's electrical conductivity va ries according to the amount of light falling upon it, just as the chemical re- lations of silver are altered by the same means.
 By this singular property of selenium Professor Bell was enabled to construct an optical telephone, and actually trans mitted words and sentences between two distant points which were not con- nected in any way except by beam of light, which faithfully carried the vibra- hons of his voice to 8 selenium disk, by which they were transformed into cleo tric energy and reproduced in an ordi- nary telephone.-Youth's Companion.
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20
Goodness Seldom Pays.

A man stood in a doorway on Jeffer- son avenue nt 10 o'clock at night puff ing at a cigar. Along came second man with an unlighted cigar in his fin gers, and he halted and asked:
 "Give me light, please2"
 Certainly" was the reply.
 The smoker then took from his vest pocket a match, and from his coat tail pocket candle wrapped in paper. He struck the match, lighted the candle, and then taking a paper from another pocket he lighted it at the flame of the candle and held it out with the re- mark:
 Certainly, sir-always willing to oblige."
 The other looked at the match, the candle and the paper in unfeigned as tonishment for a moment and then drew back, pocketed his cigar and passed on with the remark:
 Much obliged, but you are too all fired civil. "-Detroit Free Press.
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20

ls36-Jay Gould, financier, born in Roxbury, Delaware county, N. Y. l843-Noah Webster, perpetrator of the English dictionary, died; born 175s. l862-Battle of Hanover Court House, Va. lS63-Regular siege of Port Hudson begun; ended July g; cavalry battle at Florence. Ala; Forty-seventh United States colored fight bravely at Lake Providence, La. 1S75-French Catholic church burned at Hol- yoke, Mass, and 75 lives lost. l888-Arrival in Samarcand of the first trans Caspian railway train. l889-Desperate conduct of strikers at Braid wood and Wilmington, Ills; all the mules in mines at latter place smothered; military called out; serious complications. 1S89-Desperate fight of tenants at Falcurragh,
 Ireland; 9 policemen injured.
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20
LIGHTNING ANALYZED.

AS to the term ''forked lightning the representations given of it by art ists, which resemble the so called thun- derbolts placed in the hand of Jupiter, are quite absurd. The flash when pho tographed exhibits itself as a line which is continually changing its course, and is described as decidedly crooked" by a very, careful observer. It never pro- ceeds for time in straight line, and then turning at a sharp angle going on further in an equally straight line, as Is represented in pictures The forking of it is very marked, and this occurs by side flashes passing off from the main track, and eventually losing them selves, like the ramifcations of tree roots. Occasionally the lightning ap- pears to start from point from which several flashes diverge in different di- rections.
 Whenever flash passes from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth the light produced by it Eliminates the sky in the neighborhood, and the more in- tense the flash the more brilliant and extensive the illumination. At times sheet lightning has been proved to elnanate from an ordinary storm dis tant more than hundred miles from the point of observation. It is, how ever, maintained, and apparently with good reason, that occasionally lightning of the "sheet" type, such as what ii called summer light night" takes place without any thunder; so that, in such cases, no actual thunder storm is in progress.
 Globular lightning is rare phenom- enon, and one that no one has yet been able to produce in the laboratory, whereas the phenomena of the two previous types are easily produced. The general description of the occur renee is that luminous ball is seen moving very slowly, not touching any object, and eventually breaking up with violent explosion and the ap- pearance of flashes of ordinary light ming. It is reported that persons have gone out from a house into a street to follow such ball and watch its move ments, so that the occurrence must have lasted at least number of sec onds
 Ordinary lightning, as is well known, is practically instantaneous. The size of the ball on different occasions has varied from that of an orange to that of a large glass lamp globe or even larger. Many physicists refuse to be- ieve any accounts of this manifesto tion of the electrical discharge, but the reports of it are too numerous and cir cumstantial for us to consider them to be entirely baseless. -Longman's Nigga zine.
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20
IN THE EVENING.

The night has come with ell her silver train.
 The moonlight stesps the sea The hour is como that can res1 again
 And dream of thee. Tns-air is stiI, the western sky is gold,
 And far on lawn and lea The shadows bring the happy thought of old
 And dreams of thee. The sweetest hour of summer day is ending;
 The song of hhd and bee To the still time their influence is lending,
 And sing of thee The rest serene on earth and heaven bringeth
 No rest to me; No song to me the lonely night bird singeth,
 Weary for thee. Thy shadow haunts the balmy summer even,
 By land and sea: Between me and the happy moonit heaven
 Rise thoughts of thee. stand beneath the stars. whose quiet shining
 But brings to me The thought of olden time. the weary pining
 For thee, for thee The lime trees breath comes waited from the
 The same old tree Where in the happy years gone by forever,
 stood with thee. o Godl to see the calm, familiar faces
 Of sky and sea; To see all things unchanged in the old places,
 But only thee. To feel the longing will, the yearning weary,
 Thy fAce to see; To feel earth's brightest scenes grow pale and dreary
 For want of thee; And know that while the stars shine on in heaven
 No sun shall bring to me Thy presence. Only as 1t carne this even,
 In dreams of thee.
 -Blackwood's Magazine.
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20
How to Eat Cheese.

Whether or not to eat cheese with the knife and fork is 8 somewhat vexed ques- tion, but the best authorities on eti- quette proclaim this as inadmissible, ex- cepting in the case of the soft, creamy cheeses, such as Erie and Neufchatel. Rochefort, Gorgonzola and other cheeses of . similar consistency do not necessi- tate the interference of the knife or fork, but may be safely taken in the fingers. -Jenness-Miller Magazine.
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20
May 2S.

l660-George, son of Electress Sophia of Han over, born; when Anne died without heirs he became George I of England. H08-Mme. de Montespan, famous mistress of Louis XIV, died. E14-Electress Sophia of Havover died; heir to crown of England by descent from James L l7S0-Thomas Moore, poet, born in Dublin; died 1852.
 lSN-Louis Jean Rudolph Agassiz, born in Motiers, Switzerland; died 1873; the last prominent naturalist of the special crea- tion" school. ls29-Sir Humphry Davy, chemist, died. 1882 Cavalry battles at Cache River bridge, Ark; Wardensville, Va., and Sylamore. Ark.
 lS64-Cavalry battles at Pleasant Hill. Mo-, and Moulton, Ala; colored troops fight at Little Rock, Ark, and Jacksonville, Fla lSS8-Hailstones as large as hen eggs fall in Iowa.
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20

May 30. 6H-Date assigned as death of King Arthur, the last champion of original Britons. ll6-Jerome (Hieronymus) of Prague, reform CT, burnt at Constance. lEl-Joan of Arc burnt at Rouen. l574-Charles Tx of France died of remorse- 'in bloody sweat" some allege-for con- senting to massacre of St. Bartholomew. l64O-Peter Paul Rubens, painter, died. l715-Charles Montague, Earl of Halifax. fa- nous financier and assistant in founding the Bank of England, died. n44-Alexander Pope, poet, died. l78-Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet) died. les2-Cavalry battle at Bonneville, Miss; FL iot's cavalry raid-f1rst of the kind; Hal leck's army enters Corinth. 1S63-Battle at Greenwich, Va 1s64-Cavalry battles at Hanover Court House. Ashland and Old Church. Va lSSS-Tornado destroyed $1,000,0O0 worth of property at C1ntonville, Pa lsao-Earthquake shocks in France and Eng land.
 l6oO-Garfeld memorial dedicated at Lake view, O.; President Harrison and others make addresses
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20

General James A. Ekin, who died at Louisville few days ago. was one of the military commissioners who tried Mrs. Surratt.
 The discoveries of tin in Germany 500 years ago, which never became i'm portant. were practically abandoned several years since.
 What we wish and what we want are sometimes very different things, al though in everyday speech the two words are often used iutarchaueeAbly.
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20

tr1c phlIOS0pher and de1st, GERARD.
 born near Bordeaux, France; died 1881. Alexandrina Guelph, only child of Edward, fourth son of George III and Duke of Kent, born at Kensington Palace; June 20, 1887, she became Queen Victoria; on the day of her birth the Savannah, first steamer to cross the Atlantic, arrived at Liverpool, 25 days from Savannah. Jane Porter, novelist, died.
 battles in Virginia--at Middletown, Newtown, New Bridge and Chickahominy. Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist and journalist died in New York city; born 1895. lSeO-The United States War Department re- moved the troops from Ellis Island in New York harbor and turned it over to be an immigrant depot.
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20

ter's son. FAT nAN"'' l660-Sarah Jennings, later the brilliant, sar- castle and imperious Duchess of Marlbo- rough" born; died Oct. Is, 1744. 1738-Patrick Henry, orator and patriot, born at Studley, Hanover county, Va; died l g. l6+The Empress Josephine died at Malmai- son, near Paris.
 -6e3-Battle of Mechanicsville, Miss. Seven teenth corps, Major General F. P. Blair. commanding.
 l864-Battle of Totopotomoy, Va, began (Sec- ond and Fifth corps, Army of Potomac). 1s68-General Winfield Scott died at West Point: born 17S8.
 lST-John Lothrop Motley, historian, died. 1890-French marines land and destroy nets of Newfoundland fishermen; beginning of a serious international complication.
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20
May 27.

M8y S7s l285-A1ighieri Dante, poet, born.
 lB4-John Calvin, theologian, died; born 1909. l66-Archibald, Marquis of Argyle, beheaded. l819-Julia Ward (Howe) born in New York city; poet, linguist, lecturer and phil lanthropist; author of Battle Hymn of the Re-
Connecticut western news., 1891-05-20
May 2b.

"0y <Os lTtJohn Pye Smith, theolo- gian, born. tS8-Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Sage of Concord, '' born at Boston, Mass; died 1882. l86-Dr. William Paley, au- thor of Natural Theolo- gy," died. lHS1Francis Edward Todle- ben, renowned military en- gineer. born. l862-First battle of Winches. ter, Va.; Gen. N. P. Banks aofoofod hv Otar vol