Decatur Democrat, Volume 25, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 18 November 1881 — Page 1

• VOLUME XXV.

4 FARM AJD GARDEN. Both for its effiietiipon fattening and upon health, a small amount of leeciu-d wood ashes sli uld be given to swine. 'lhe food without this is rich in phosphoric acid, .but has little lime, and tlie equivalent shoiXld be thus supplied. " i » o The dependence of the farmer is to be more and indre on stock. Stock itself and its products are more'and more in demand, while the manure must be had to make farming successful. - Success with stock, then, includes almost everything else. . " Hereafter in Great Britian there will be a certain course of training for veterinary surgeons. After 1883 the farrier and the cattle doctor will be superseded by men who must’pais a lawful examination in regard'to the disease of horses, cows, sheep and dogs. 4 N All parts of the oleander are deadly. A very small quantity of the leaves, has been known to kill a horse. The flowershave produced death in those persons wiro carelessly picked ahdate them. The branches, divested of their bark, and used as skewers, have pole rued the meat roasted op tlierrr and killed seven out of twelveptopte who partook of It. The soot of soft, or rather bituminous coal dusted upon onions, when wet with dew is said to be a remedy for the maggot. The mother fly closely resembles the house fly. As soot is a good fertilizer nothing is lost by its application, even if it doespiot always destroy the maggot it might be well to try soot deriveu from the burning of pitch pine or other soft woods. Corn and hogs.—From carefully commoted experiments by different persons, it has been ascertained that one bushel of corn will make a little more than ten pounds of pork, gross. TaKing the result as a basis, the following deductions are made, which all our farmers would do well to lay aside for a convenient reference:

Red clover has found more favor than ever with farmers living where tiie drouth was severe the pas: summer, having demonstrated in a marked man?er its drouth-enduring character. It has intruded itself into meadows considerably during the past few years, and we learn that where hay was cut early this year the red clover sprang up immediately, grew rapidly and soon blossomed. Cows that were turned in kept up their record in milk. The scales which drop off from iron when being worked at forges, iron trimmings, filings or other ferruginous material, if worked into the soil about fruit trees, or the more minute particles spread thinly on the lawn, mixed with earth of flower beds or in pots, are extremely valuable. They are especially valuable to the peach tree, and in fact supply necessary ingredients to the soil. For colored flowers they heighten the bloom ; they are also found to be beneficial to the pear tree when worked in around their roots. The Scientific American this as an excellent mode for preserving eggs: lake fresh ones, pula dozen or more into a small willow basket and immerse this for five seconds in boiling water, containing about five pounds of common brown sugar per gallon. Place the eggs on trays to dry. Then pack, when cool, small ends down, in an intimate mixtuie of one part of finely powdered charcoal and two of dry bran, in this way they wiil last six months or more. The scalding water causes the formation of a thin skin of hard albumen next the inner surface of the the shell, and the sugar or syrup closes ali the pores.” When corn sells at 12J$ cents per bushel pork costs IJ S cents per pound. When corn costs 17 cents per bushel, pork costs 2 cents per pound. When corn costs 25 cents per bushel, pork costs 3 Cents per pound. When corn costs 33 cents per bush el, pork costs 4 cents per pound. When corn cosft 50 cents per bush1, pork costs 5 cents per pound. The following statements show what the farmer realizes on his corn when sold in the form of pork: When pork sells at 3 cents per pound, it brings 25 cents per bushel in corn. When pork sells at 4 cents per pound, it brings 45 cents per bushel in corn.

Barbed wire having come so suddenly into fashion as a part of the material for the best and cheapest fence, the substitution of iron fol wooden posts was necessarily not far off. Aud now a fence consisting wholly of iron is made and sold for oOcents a rod for short distances and something less for long ones. This fence consists of three doubled and t wisted barbed wires and a post of inch iron gas-pipe five-and-a-halt feet long, furnishedjwith a flange and that with triangular wings, which, set a rod apart, keep it in place. A mile of three wire fence complete (so tbe inventors say) weighs less than a ton and may be put into a common wagon and set up by two men and a pair of horses in a comparatively short time That the objections to barbed wire on the score of barbarity, is one wholly of ignorance and a false sentiment, is proved by the rarity of accidents on the Illinois Central Railroad, which was the first to adopt aud introduced into Southern Illinois.

At Leavenworth, last Wednesday, J. G. Waples, of Texas, and Miss May Richards, of Kansas, were ni irried. Prof. P. J. Williams, of the Kansas State university, performed the ceremony and did it in just one-half minute. The couple exchanged no pledgee and made no vows. The ‘love, honor and obey’ was conspicuous bv its absence. A local paper says:’ “Prof. Williams simply said that if Mr. Waples and Miss Richards were desirous of being made man and wife they should clasp hands, and, that action being performed, he said that this beautifui symbol was t»pical of the sacred and holy union, and he pronounced the twain one.” Then the groom kissed ail the bridesmaids. It is thought that the photograph which Mrs. Garfield will select to send Queen Victoria will be one which was taken in Painesville, Ohio, by a country artist, but which all his friends’ who have seen it think the best likeness of the late president. Queen Victoria has now reigned forty-five years, a little longer than Queen Elizabeth. Dr. N. C. Hall, of Davisburg Michigan, was sent np for life for wife murder.

The Decatur Democrat.

NEWS SUMMARY. Garfield’s maxims have already appeared in the English, Irish, Scotch, French, Gbrffiftn, Italian, Spanish, Maltese and Turkish papers. .The new insane' .asylum of Michigan will lie located at Traverse City, where. 400 acres of land have been secured, half a mile from the bay. ■ Abraham Lincoln had a mask taken of his face, a fact which is but little known, ami an engraving from it will appear in the" December Century. Mme. Gerster, who reached New York on Monday, said that the pleasant feature of her ocean trip was the absence of a piano on the steamer. Edward I Darling, tbe composer of the new comic opera, “Twelve Jolly Bachelors,” which lias just been produced in Boston, is but 19 years old. Addresses by Professor Swing and Mr. Emery A. Storrs, of Chicago, are among the attractions in the winter’s bulletin of the social club of Evanston. I our of the six southern Methodist bishops are incapacitated for duty by ill health. _ Bishops Keener and McTyire are able to report for active Trickeft, the .Australian oarsman, now in this country, is about to go baek ho no, not being able te get a match with Hanlan, the Canadian sculler.

Another expedition is being prepared by the French at Kairwan for operating in Southern Tunis. It will consist of 10,(MX) men and 11,000 transport animals. A conscience fund has been started for the Michigan treasury, the first money ever returned by a Michigan man having just been sent in. It was only $25. In Naples an American flag eight feet long floats over a stand of peanuts, and the dealer, who never saw America, has as much business as he can comfortably attend to. The following bit of Paris gossip was in a letter from a young American to his father: “All the theatres and many of the churches are now open every Sunday in this city. The fashion in men’s hats changes far more often in England, France and America than in other countries. The sombrero worn in Don Quixote’s time is in fashion in Spain to-day. A western woman, who recently completed her term of ninety-nine years in the penitentiary, has determined hereafter to earn an honest living. She has joined a ballet troupe. The Ontario Commercial Traveler says that drummers have now a craze for wearing skull caps, and they often, whtn staying at hotels, don a red woolen nightcap, such as their grandfathers slept in, on arrival and wear it throughout the evening.

McPherson, of Toledo, had been a hard drinker for many years when his wife, on her death bed, made him solemnly pledge himself to t< tai abstinence. After three days, without alcohol, he gave up the struggle; yet he would not break his vow, and suicide became bis desperate resort. A party of mulatto girls appear at one Chicago variety theatre as “Yannabacka Geisha dancers, direct from tne tea gardens oi lukiu,another establishment the same evening, as “genuine Comanche maidens,” their natural color answering both purposes, though their features do not. The oldest twins in the United States are George and. Edmund Gravely, of Leatherwood, Henry county, Va. They will be 93 years old on the Ist of December next, and are in good health. Their mother lived to be near 100, and their father died at 90. At the Michigan agricultural college. Lansing, thirty-three students were suspended for complicity in robbing a melon patch, and then forcing the man who was robbed to refund the money paid him by the thief. Some young men have queer ideas of honor. Mme. Louise, the celebrated milliner of Regent street, Loudon, had taken Hughenden Manor from the estate agent intrusted with its letting by Lord Beaconsfield’s executors, but they refused to confirm the letting to one who evidently would use it as an advertisement, and have leased It to Sir Samuel Wilson.

J. Engla, a young medical student ( of Lincoln, 111., committed suicide. , He was disappointed in a love affair, ( and shot himself in front of the door , of the house where his beloved lived. ( He left a letter stating that remorse ( of conscience was the cause of his ( deed. His parents are well-to-do res- , idents of Greenville. , The Presbytetian synod, composed of delegates from presbyteries in the < adjoining parts of Tennessee, Ala- ' bam a and Mississippi, admitted a ae- i gro for several years, but in the present session the question of excluding : him was raised, and a majority voted to turn him out. The action was i based solely on his color. A young girl in St. Louis, while playing leap frog with some of her 1 companions, caught her skirts upon the head of the last one in the row, causing her to fall on her own head. A few days afterward, on returning from school, she complained of a violent head ache, and died next day of congestion of the brain. If girls are to play leap frog they must wear “divided skirts.” The sermon that the Rev. Jam s L. Hill delivered at Lynn, several days days ago, was not remarkable in quality; yet the preacher became so affected that he had to lean on the desk for support, the sexton fell flat in an isle, the choir could not sing the doxology, and a number of women were carried out in a tainting condition. It was e»al gas from the heater, and not the eloquence of the pulpit, that produced this commotion. The American negroes now performing as minstrels in London do not encounter any of the social prejudice which they are accustomed to at hom°. “The spectacle,” says a correspondent of the Clipper, “of colored men and white women walking arm-in-arm up Piccadilly is calculated to daze gods and men. How it affects the swells, who have been in the habit of making Piccadilly their pet promenade, I can only conjecture.” Capt. Meyer, of the German schooner Phoenix, at Callao, reports that he has diseevered a new island in latitude 7 degrees 48 minutes south, and i longitude 83 degrees 48 minutes west, about 100 miles west of Punta Aguja, t the nearest land. It is said to be of ! volcanic origin, about fifty feet high at its greatest elevation, and is one square mile in extent. The British ■ ship Kingfisher and the L nited States • steamer Alaska have gone to verify the discovery.

TELEGRAPHIC. Troy, N. Y., November 12.—This evening a skiff ferry boat with nineteen persons was swamped by the swell of three propellers while crossing the river from this city to Port Schuyler. The following are known tq be drowned, and three others missing: George Hayes, a single man; James Diamond, Thomas Marion, sr; Giles Leroy and Henry Leroy, his son, Francis Reilly and James Kegs. Mrs. Leroy, who is - dying, has not •been Informed of her double loss. Owing to the great excitement it is very difficult to obtain accurate particulars. Parties are searching for the bodies. New York, November 12.—The Suu’s special from Troy, New York, says: At about six this evening a large skiff, owned by Giles Leroy, of Port Schuyler, drew up at Burden’s wharf, on this side the river, to take the residents of West Troy employed at Burden’s mills to their homes. The night was dark, and owing to the south winds and recent rains the waves were of unusual height and the river very high. As near as can be learned the following persons were in the skiff when it left the Troy landing: Giles Leroy, Henry Hesson, Francis Reilly, Garrett Hesson, Thomas Manian and sou, Thomas and John Lever,Thomas Fox, John Stevenson, John Keyes, Miles Hatch, George Hay, Fleming Trimble, James Dimon, William O’Neill, Michael McMahon and three others whose names could not be ascertained.

When the boat had almost reached the middle of the river, Thomas Fox, who was sitting in the stern, saw three propellers rapidly approaching from the south. He called to the oarsmen to stop, but they failed to do so, and the propeller nearest the west shore passed by within a few feet of the bow of the skiff. The latter, which all agree was overloaded, having the gunwales nearly even with the water, passed the first swell in safety, but in reaching the second shipped considerable water. The third almost filled the boat and the occupants became greatly alarmed. The men, aware that the boat would sink, called for assistance, aud one of the propellers, the Cora, turned around but the others continued on their course. The < 'ora steamed slowly towards the skiff, but before she could reach it the boat had capsized and ail the men were struggling in the water. Tho«. F>x being unable to swim, grasped the keel of the skiff and called to his aisociates to follow his example. Several of them did so, and held on until the Cora drew alongside. On board the Cora were John Kennedy and Charles Pickett and his brother. -The’ last named, although but fourteen years of age, displayed great bravery and wonderful presence of mind. Calling on the men who were hanging on to the capsiz -d skiff to hold fast, he tnrew life preservers right and left to their less fortunate companions, and then bracing himself against the side of the tug pulled up John Lever, who weighed about 170 pounds. The following men were then picked up by the Cora: Thomas Fox, John Lever, John Stevenson, Garrett Reiley, Thomas Manion, jr., and two strangers whose names it was impossible to ascertain. M!? flttgf Amble, Milo Hatch, Michael McMahon aud Wm. O’Neil were picked up, Trimble being almost dead. The following are known to be lost: Giles Leroy, the fireman, and his son, Henry, Francis Reilly, a teamster, who leaves a wife and eleven children; Thomas Manion, sr., a blacksmith’s helper, who leaves a wife and five children; John Keyes, a laborer, who leaves a large family; George Hay, a single man about twenty-five years of age; and James Dimon, a married man with no children. Three others are unaccounted for. Mrs. Leroy, who has been dangerously ill for a long time and is not expected to live forty-eight hours, has not yet been informed of the loss of her husband and son. Mr. Manian buried a daughter only three weeks ago. While it is admitted that the skiff was overloaded, it is also agreed that the propellers had no lights on their bows and that the tugs, the Cora and Hattie M. Betts, and the Linda M. Newlin were racing whrn the accident occurred. Captain Harvey Robinson, of the Betts, and the captain of the Newlin, when asked why they did not stop, said that they did not hear the cries for assistance and did not learn of the accident until an hour after it occurred. The river near the scene of the disaster is dotted with small craft searching for bodies, but owing to the condition of the river the task is very difficult, and at 11 o’clock only one body had been found, that of Henry Leroy. Garrett Reilly, the one-armed man who was rescued, owes his life to Fox, who, although unable to swim himself, grasped Reilly by the collar as he was sinking and pushed him toward the skiff. A few years ago a similar accident occurred near the same spot, by which five lives were lost. New York, November 12.—Michigan relief fund, $128,711. Adeline Patti has consented to give a concert on Wednesday next, the proceeds to go to the above fund. The concert will be under the auspices of the manager's committee on Michigan relief. The following is the form of invitation as telegraphed to the gentlemen whose names are appended: The manager of New York’s committee for the relief of sufferers by the Michigan fire have the honor to invite you to a benefit concert to be given by Madame Adeline Patti on next Wednesday evening at Steinway hall. It is desired to make it a national innovation to America’s great and generous prima donna. Forma) invitation by mail. George N. Sanders, Ch’n.

Pekby Belmont, Sec. The above was sent to President Arthur and members of the cabinet, General Sherman, Major General Wright, Admiral Porter, Chief Justice Waite and associate justices, Governor Cornell and judges of the court of appeals, the governors of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Connecticut and Delaware, Senator Bayard, and the mayors of Boston, Philadelphia, Trenton and Baltimore. Fire Commissioner Purvey to-day sent Mayor Grace $2,321, the proceeds of tickets sold by the firemen of the city for the entertainment to be given in aid of the Michigan sufferers. Canton, 0., November 12.—The fine residence of Dr. Connigan. on West Tuscarawas street, took fire this afternoon from some defective arrangement of a new heating furnace which had Just been put in in the basement. The fire originated in the frame work of the house, the first

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alarm being- given aliout 5 o’clock, calling the department out, and the fire was extinguished apparently. It broke out again about 7 o'clock, causing another alarm, and the department responded promptly and began puttingout the’fire. They had just retired for the second time when th-y were again called to the scene. The fire is smoldering in the walls where it is difficult to reach it and threatens to destroy the entire building. Men are at work cutting in various places searching for the fire, and a detail of firemen will remain on duty all night. The damage already amounts to several hundred dollars. Detroit, November 11.—The new steamer Brunswick, owned by Capt. Beevick, of Detroit, built last year at Wyandotte, and valued at SISO,(XX), foundered last night on Lake Erie off Dunkirk, N. Y. The engineer and two cooks were lost. The Brunswick was rated as No. 1 with the Star, and was insured for $75,000, of which $55,000 was placed in Chicago. She was commanded by Capt. Chamberlain. Buffalo. November 12. — The schooner Carlingford, with wheat from Duluth for Buffalo, and the steam barge Brunswick, bound up the lakes with coal from Buffalo, colflMed when off Port Colborne this morning, both sinking soon after. The crew of the Carlingford, consisting of Captain Holmes and six men, escaped after a pull of twenty miles in a rough sea, with the exception of one sailor named Edward Conway, who ran back after something while the vessel was sinking. Three of the crew of the Brunswick were also lost. The Brunswick was valued at SIOO,OOO, and was insured for $70,000. The Carlingford was insured for $20,000, and her cargo of wheat for $25,000. Louisville, November 12. —Just after the matinee at Buckingham theatre this afternoon Wm. Smith, John Martin, Tim Cronin and Don Waldron, “the big four” of minstrel fame, were arested by Duputy Sheriff Kermin upon bail warrants sued out by William E. English, proprietor of English’s opeia hous , Indianapolis. The atiair caused quite a stir in theatrical circles, and there was for a time no little commotion about the jail. As to the cause of the arrest, English says that some months ago the “big four” made a contract with him to appear at his theatre in rndianapolis on the 7th and Bth of the present month and failed to comply with their contract, inasmuch as they cancelled their engagement without giving him enough time to secure another combination to fill their piaces. He says he repeatedly wrote to them and they failed to answer his letters. By the terms of the contract the “big four" were to receive 65 per cent, of the gross earnings aud he the re mainder. He thinks he was damaged to the extent of S3OO by their not filling the contract, and this is tiie amount which he claimed, together with t wenty-five dollars for probable costs. Lima, 0., November 12.—Shelby Tayler, one of our old residents, died at 2 o’clock this morning after a severe illness. Mr. Taylor was assessor of internal revenue of this district under President Lincoln and later cashier of the First National bank until two or three years ago, when his health failed. He was recorder of Shawnee Commandery Knights Templar, of eWclenl officer! lie will fe’fcuried by the Knights to-morrow (Sunday) at 2 p. m. from Trinity M. E. church. The services will be conducted by Rev. L. C. Webster. He leaves a wife, one son and three daughters to mourn his loss.

Harrisburg, Pa., Novenißer 12.— Deputy Attorney-General Gilbert and Insurance Commissioner Foster appeared in court and asked for writs of quo warranto for the dissolution of a member of the Mutual insurance company that did not comply with the terms of their charter. The application was received, and Friday, tiie 25th inst., was fixed for argument. This movement on the part of the city has created confusion among the different companies in the city, of which there are about twenty. They intend to combine and present their side of the case through the best obtainable legal ability. New York, November 12.—Frank White, of New York, and George Holden and their backers, met to-day to make final arrangements for a prize tight for $5,000 and the featherweight championship of America. Long Point, the famous battle ground of the fight between John C. Heenan and John Morrissey, was chosen as the place of meeting, and Wednesday, the 16th inst., the day anpointed for tiie contest. It is understood Patsey Shephard and Billy Edwards will second White, while Dooney Harris' and Arthur Chambers will second Holden. The pugilists leave to-mor-row night for Erie, where a boat will carry them to the battlefield. Jackson, Miss,, November 12. —A cyclone struck the premises of Matt F. Ash, near Madison station, yesterday, completely demolishing and carrying away all the buildings and severely injuring Mrs. Ash and two of her children and four other per-

sons. I Yankton, Dak., November 12.—A , Press telegram emenating from Pitts- • burg, Pa., credits Chief Justice Shannon, of this city, with stating that *: the charges filed against him are the work of the Indian and land rings. , The statement is incorrect. The , charges are made by a large majority . of the bar of his district desiring his , removal because of his alleged hostility to them, which injures the 1 causes of their clients, and in consequence their business. The charges £ include partiality, extreme irritabil- * ity of temper, abuse of attorneys in J court and out of court, frequent intox- 1 icatiou, and sending a fictitious letter ‘ to the attorney-general for the purpose of injuring a former United 1 States marshal of Dakota. These ' charges can all he sustained by an 1 abundance of evidence. There is no 1 ring work abo .t it. Detroit, November 12.—Dr. John M. Leonard, a practicing physician of Burlington township, Calhoun county, for forty years, was arraigned before the United States commissioner to-day and plead guilty to having made and circulated bogus silver coins. He was committed to await trial. An officer seized a trunk full of dies and apparatus for making i counterfeit coins of every description from a nickle to a dollar. Leonaid is seventy-four years old. Mendon, Mich., November 12.— i About 2:30 this morning a heavy rain s storm caused the flume at A. V> akes man's grist mill to give way, letting • the water through the race, washing awav the banks, and carrying away , the Main street b’idge and about 100,I 000 feet of lumber belonging to James ‘ Johnson A Co. Loss between $4,000 . and $5,000, perhaps more. s Detroit, November 12.—Hiram > Crewell, aged 40, who had been em- > ployed in the lumber woods, was ! found dead on the doorsteps of a pri-.

vate residence in East Saginaw. An examination showed two staos in his head, one of which was sufficient to cause death. Jack Ryan, employed as a cook in the lumber camp, attempted to ] awn Crewell’s pocketbook this morning for a drink of whisky. He was at once arrested. A man named Michaels has also been arrested. Both were seen in company with Crewell last night. Chicago, November 12.—Arrangements for the national tariff convention to be held here in Chicago Tuesday, November 15, have been perfected. The attendance will be large, Strong delegations have reported from North and South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Kentucky und Missourri and all other states. The headquarters of the executive committee will be at the Grand Pacific hotel, where the delegates will report. Alamosa, Cal., November 12. — Sheriff Smith and posse, after a prolonged chase and running fight, captured and jailed four notorious horse thieves at Cannejos. There were five thieves in the party, one of whom was killed and another wounded in a fight. The names of the thieves are not known. Woodstock, N. 8., November 12. — The loss by yesterday’s fire foots up over SIOO,OOO. Great difficulty is experienced in finding shelter for the homeless. The mayor has provided accommodations for a number in the town hall of Montreal. It is snowing here to-night. Lima, 0., November 12. —Shelby Taylor, one of the best known citizen's of Allen county, died to-day after a long illness. He was cashier of the First National bank for many years, and a leading member of tbe Knights Templar. New Orleans, November 12—Captain Joseph A. Aiken, a prominent steamboat man and wharf lessee of this city, is dead. Ouray, Col., November 12. —Andy Begges shot and instantly killed Tobe Williams to-night.

A WILD RIDE. A Louisrille Doctor’s Experience With Guerrillas. An interesting event occurred to me in my lifetime, remarked the doctor, which might do to write up. In the year 1866, when the guerrillas were very numerous in Kentucky, I was living with my father in one of the mountain counties in the northern part of the state. One morning I started to go from my father’s farm to that of a neighbor, about four miles distant. I was dressed in a grayish blue suit, with a close-fitting blue cap, aud had much the appearance of being a federal soldier. To make the picture complete. I was mounted upon a large, raw-bon-ed, gray mule, that was one of tbe strongest and wildest auimals in that part of the country. I trotted along the road at a brisk gait, and in a short time had reached~the summit of a hill about two miles from home. The country around was veryrough and broken, and directly below me was a large ravine, at the end of which was a broad valley, in which there was a farm house. I was sitting on my mule, down in the valley, when I saw three men step out of the ‘Xglance sufficeff'tb show tnat tney were guerrillas. They saw me about the same time I did them, and, taking me fora federal soldier, started to get their horses. I knew I was m for it, and determined to try them for a two-mile race. The ravine runs so that they could ride up through it without me seeing them, and come out on the road directly behind me.

I determined to dodge them, and, turning my mule short around, I laid on whip and spur and started him down the road, and if ever a mule did its duty that one did. I had got about three hundred yards away when I heard a yell behind me, and knew that the guerrillas were in hot pursuit. The race continued this way for about half a mile, the mule going at a breakneck rate of speed over rocks and stumps, and my pursuers following close in the rear. About 50 yards in front of me the road made a short turn, and by striking across the country I could cut off about half a mile to my father's house, but to do this I would have to jump a high fence. I resolved to try the experiment, and tunning toward the fence struck the mule with the whip. He made a terrific bound, and in going over cau lit his hind foot on the fence, throwing him violently on the ground on the other side, while I was sent over his head about 20 feet. I fell on the broad of my back in the mud, and was not hurt by the fall. I gathered myself up, and looking around, saw the mule walking away. I instantly went, to him, and jumping on him again, galloped off. By this time, however, my pursuers were close on me, and when they saw me ride away a second time, opened fire. One bullet struck me on the shoulder, and another glanced along the mule's back, making a slight w’ound. The pain produced made the animal perfectly wild, and he struck out, striking a direct line for home. Just ahead of us was a farm house, on the other side of which two roads forked, one leading, in a roundabout way, to my father’s house, and the other and broader one leaping across the country. The mule made straight for the house, and clearing the fence at a leap, dashed through the yard, and out on to the road He turned down the narrow road, and we were soon out of sight of pursuit in a strip of woods. The guerrillas also come through the farm yard, but took the wrong road. The frightened mule still continued to run, and I was powerless to stop him. In a few minutes he halted me in my father’s yard. The next day I made inquiries about the matter, and found out who the gentlemen were. All of them turned out to be men living close around. I did not venture out for a week afterward, and when I did I took care not to dress as a federal soldier. As for the mule, I kept him until he died, which occurred a few weeks ago.—]Louisville Courier-Jour- . nal.

Lefroy, who murdered Mr. Gold, a retired merchant, in a railway carriage on the Midland railroad, between London and Brighton, was convicted of the crime in the criminal court of Maidstone, Kent. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge’s summing up was decidedly against the prisoner. The jury were out ten minutes, and brought in a verdict of guilty. After being sentenced to death, he still maintains his innocence. A young man named Sylvanus Howe attempted to cut his wife’s throat with a razor, in Detroit, and inflicted a severe but not fatal wound. He then immediately took a large dose of prussie acid and died in fifteen minutes.

AFBW FUNNY FANCIES. Ancient conundrum answered; The spirit of mortal is proud because It i-osts fifteen cents a glass. It begins to look as though Mother Shipton was right. Another baseball league has been organized. Arithmetical: If a dime with a hole in it is worth five cents, a dime with two holes in it is worth ten eents. Mr. Vennor says it may snow and it may not snow on New Year's Day. We are ready to bet $75 to $1 that Ven nor is right. A bycicie rider in Boston had three ribs broken the other day l>y falling from his machine. Bycicles are some times not so useless as they may seem.

A humorous bray: Said the lecturer: “The roads up these mountains are too steep and rocky for even a donkey to climb; therefore I did not attempt the ascent.” A Chicago firm has invented a bedstead with a wardrobe attachment. This is an excellent idea. This will enable a woman to smell her new silk dress while she is asleep, You never hear of a defaulting editor, never. Os coure there is very little to default, barring paste; but honesty comes as naturally to an editor as drinking water. When tiie police of Columbus were charged with laxity, they turned on the chargers and exhibited the record of how many times they had taken them home when drunk. Modesty is the best policy: “Why” said Brown, “Pinory has forgotten more than you ever knew.” “I don’t know about,” replied Fogg. “I knew he had forgotton every thing." A long procession: A procession of men passed through Main street this morning,and wete an hour and a half passing a giyen point. The given point was a saloon.—Rockland Courier. Guesswork: Students under examination in physics: “What planets were known to the ancients?” “Well, sir, there were Venis anu Jupiter, and. —after a pause—“l think the earth, but I’m not quite certain.” Millinery jotting: “Ma,” remarken a New Haven belle, “do you know what has become of that old trunk lid of grandma's? It would make a beautiful hat for the theatre with a few feathers on it."

Singular unamity: “Dollookany thing likeyou, Mr. Jones?” inquired Cauliflower. “I hope not,” was the reply. “Dili a man take you for me? “Yes.” “Where ishe? Imust lick him.” “Oh, no, he‘s dead. I shot him on the spot. Cordiality; lam very glad to meet you, sir," said Brown, politely. “Are you?” replied Fogg; “here’s a note you may be glad to meet it, also.” Brown wasn’t so powerfully gad to meet it, but he had to. I A Boston man has a project on foot for a Club for young ladies. —New York Tribune, A Chicago man has a project on foot for a club for young men. He will keep it in the front hall. That man has a pretty daughDidn’t know it was loaded: “How are you Brown?’ exclaimed Fenderson. “I have been on a regular wild goose chase, and I’m glad I’ve found you at last.” Fendensou supposed he must have said something l pretty smart the way the boys laughed, but he cant for the life of him tell what it was.” Minute philosophy: Picking up Charlie Smallface’ memorandum the other day we noted this entry; “Boys what minds their mother always get lots of goods things to eat; but boys what minds their fathers gets more stricter rules laid down every day. I go in for feed and shall let the old man ruu his chances,” , A widow's might: A New Jersey widow couldn’t earn six dollars a week at the wash tub. She became a clairvoyant, and her income increased to sixty. It just shows thst a man begrudges the quarter he pays for washing his shirt, while he will cheer fully give a dollar to stick bis nose into the other world before the show begins. Let the dear kitten out of the bag: Georgie, aged four years, was playing with his toys when bis cousin Mary of sweet eighteen, seized him and gave him a kiss. George broke away crying out “Sauce box!” “Oh, fie," said his mother, “Georgia mustn,t say that.” Georgia—“Tha’ts what Cousin Mary said herself last night to that Tillington man when he kissed her.”

Neighborly pleasantries: „We have passed a very pleasant evening,” the ! Gadabouts remarked as they stepped ' out of the residence, “and we wish to return thanks for your kindness.” After the door was shut between him and them, Fogg was heard to murmur. “The horrid bores! ‘Return thanks!" What do you mean by that? I'm sure I never thanked them for coming.” Outrageous proceedings: An old fellow whose daughter bad failed to secure a position as teacher in consequence of not passing an examination, said: “They asked her lots of things she didn’t know. Look at the history questions'. They asked her about things thing* that happened before she was born! How was she going to know about them? Why, they asked her about old George Washington and other men she never knew! That is a pretty sort of examination Reports from all parts of Ireland disclose most extraordinary eagerness on the part of farmers to go before the land court In some districts large sums of money are being subscribed towards the foundation of a mutual protection fund. Mr. Gladstone, speaking at the Lord Mayor’s banquet in response to the toast, “Her Majesty’s Ministers,'said that he could discern signs of improvement in Ireland where the peogle were determined to give the land act a fair trial; that South African affairs were settled, and Afghanistan under a single ruler. A call has been issued by the fund commissioner of Missouri for $250,000 in state renewal funding bonds, to be redeemed December 1. The bonds called in were issued in July and December. 1875, and are numbered from 543 to 571 inclusive, and 672 to 892 inclusive. Only one person was saved from the wreck of the British steamer Calliope, from Odessa for Bremen, lost on the Spanish coast. King Ashakree, of New v alabar, Africa, is engaged in a sanguinarywar with some of the more powerful shield.

THE TRIAL OFGUITEAU. FIBST DAY. ¥V ASHINGTON, D. C., Nov 14th.—At ten o’clock the prisoner was brought into court and his handcuffs removed. After considerab.htime was consumed, live jurors were sworn in and the panel ceing exhausted seventy-five additional names were drawn from the box. The prisoner then insisted upon, and did, make an inflammatory speech, stating the doctors and not he were responsible for the president’s death. He spoke of the breach in the republican party,!and said he was doing aservice to God and the country when he fired the fatal shot. He succeeded in convincing a few only that hej wascrazy. The court then adjourned nntil Tuesday. SECOND DAY. Washington, D. C., Nov. 15.—The day was entirely consumed in the examination of jurors, and when the panel of seventy-five was exhausted four morejurers had been selected, making nine. A new panel of seven-ty-five was ordered, and the court adjourned to Wednesday. There was some little difficulty in maintaining order, and there was some disposition among the crowd to applaud at times the remarks of the jurors being examined, but it was promptly suppressed by the marshals.

Eccentric John Muir. Twenty years ago there came to Wisconsin University a queer genius named John Muir. He was of Scotch parentage, stunious, industrious, industrious, inclined to have but few companions, yet social, was a lover of quiet fun and long rambles in the country, and like many others, who have their way to make, cooked his meals in his room. In all things he w'as not singular; his remarkable trait w’as his love of practical mechan ics and invention. He seemed to need few tools; an ax, saw’, jackkntfe and gimlet were his chief weapons, while almost anything served as material. His clock served as a center, about which several of his most interesting machines clustered. This w'as in the form of a scythe and snath, hung in an old knarled burroak grub where Father Time is supposed to have left it. The scythe was split lenhthwise, and in the opening thus formed was a train of wheels constituting the works. The motor was a heavy stone, concealed under the roots and moss from which the clock rose on the table. The year, month, day,hour,minute and seconds w'eie indicated by index arrows on the various paper dials. The pendulum was also an arrow with a . heavy copper point. His study desk was provided with a spring trap-door, under which moved a rack in which his books were set up separately on their backs, He arranged his study hours for each lesspp, and connected the machinery of Ins desk to the clock so that, at the appointed moment, the trap door opened, dropped (the book into its dlok, and closed the trap under it. His bed was a machine utterly destructive to the “little more sleep” of the siuggard. It was hung on a pivot and supported at such a heighth that, when turned up it stood nearly perpendicular, foot down. The foot was held up by a lever. Beside the bed was a Tamp stand, on which the fluid lamp, then in use, was placed at night. To this bed the clock was connected, and then set for rising. In the morning the machine took offthe extinguisher, struck a match, lighted the lamp, and then withdrew the lever, letting the bed dowm and bringthe occupant out on his feet. I have known him to satisfy the curiosity of visitors by putting them into the bed wrong end to, and so bringing them out head down. In summer time he connected this bed with the east window by a linen thread. A sun glass was so adjusted as to burn of this thread when the sun came to the right position. I roomed opposite him, and he arranged signals by which I was often called to see a bit of fun, in particular, with his ‘loafer chair;’ this was a wooden chair with its bottom split; apparently to cure this split an awkward chunk was nailed over it near the front; this caused the sitter to spread his knees; as soon as the supposed loafer, but real victim, leaned back, he pressed a concealed spring which fired an old pistol directly under the seat. The wonderful leap of the victim was worth seeing. Nor did John forget the ladies,, who sometimes came to see his machines. Out of a raisin a huge, vicious looking black snider was made, which was so suspended as to drop before the fair visitor when she was well seated in his best chair. It w’as delicious to hear them scream. John has the reputation of knowing more of the Yosemite valley and the Nevada mountains than any other living person.

The Cymbalom.—Supper being over, we went out upon the terrace, 1 on which by this time the moon was shedding her silver light, glistening on the vine leaves, and casting sharp, black shadow’s on the whitewashed walls. Most of the guests dispersed themselves to continue their dessert in the vineyard, but I remained beside the gypsies, attracted by the curious shape of one of the instruments on which they’ played. One of ' the men was seated before an empty barrel, in lieu, I supposed, of a table, and on it he bad placed a flat wooden ( instrument, something like a shallow t box, almost a yard in width, but rather less in length. I supposed it to j be a stringed instrument, until, coming nearer, I discovered that what I { had taken for strings were long flat strips of glass, arranged in different , lengths. In each hand he held little . sticks, made something like the hammers in the interior of a piano, and , with these he struck the glass keys. Yet to say he struck the keys gives * an imperfect impression, for the ham- ’ mers only trembled and quivered and . danced in his fingers like the drops of a fountain falling into the basin below. One note was never long drawn out vibrated in never-ending ' repetition, particularly when the air played was slow and melancholy. This instrument is the cymbalom; and in every Hungarian melody there are notes which are only producible in neriection on just this instrument, although first-rate performers can execute a feeble imitation of its trembling tones upon the piano.—The Argosy. Fire in the Polkinhorn building at Washington, D. C., caused a loss of i »3*,000

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HOUSE AND HOME Vegetable Time Table.—Potatoes. boiled, thirty minutes. Potatoes, baked, forty-five minutes. Sweetpotatoes, boiled, fifty minutes. Sweetpotatoes, baked, sixty minutes. Squash, boiled, twenty-five minutes. Green peas, boiled, twenty to forty minutes. String beans, boiled, one to two hours. Shelled beans, boiled, sixty minutes. Green corn, thirty to sixty minutes. Asparagus., from fifteen to thirty minutes. Spinach, one to two hours. Tomatoes, canned, thirty minutes. Tomatoes, fresh, one hour. Cabbage, forty-five minutes to two hours. Cauliflower, one or two hours. Dandelions, two to three hours. Beet greens, one hour. Onions, one or two hours. Beets, one to five hours. Turnips, white, forty-five to sixty minutes. Turnips, yellow, one and a half tv two hours. Parsnips, one or two hours. Carrots, one or two hours. When cooking one often burns the fingers or arm and there is not time to tie them up. Take a piece of soap, dip it in water and rub it over the spot Continue to do this until the surface is covered. It will afford great relief. Rusk.—Two cups of dough, one tea cup of sugar, half a cup of butter, two well-beaten eggs, flour enough to make a stitt dough. Set to rise and when light make into high and rather narrow biscuit. When again light sift sugar and cinnamon over the top and bake.

Graham Gems.—Beat up an egg, put with it a quart of buttermilk, make a stiff batter with Graham flour, add a little salt and a heaping teaspoonful of soda. Have the gem-pan hot and greased, put the latter in and bake in a quick oven half an hour. Raised Waffles.—A quart of sifted flour, a pint of new, lukewarm milk, two thoroughly beaten eggs, a tablespoonful of melted butter, a teaspoonful of salt, and a half teacupful ot home-made yeast. Let it get very light and bake in a hot, greased waf-fle-iron. Ice-Cream Cake No. 2.—Make good sponge-cake, bake half an inch thick in jelly pans and let get cold. Whip a pint of thick, sweet cream, until it looks like ice-cream, sweeten and flavor with vanilla. Blanch and chop a pound of almonds, stir into the cream and spread very thick between the cakes. Clean Lamp Wicks.—The wicks of kerosene lamps should be changed frequently, or, if not too short, washed in strong, hot soapsuds, with sor»e ammonia in the rinsing w'ater. Many times the trouble with poor light from kerosene lamps arises from the wicks being full of the sediment or refuse matter which comes from the oil, and impedes the free passage of the kerosene throught he wicks. Ice-Ckeam Cake No. I.—Two cups of sugar, one of butter, whites of eight eggs, a fourth cup of sweet milk, three and a fourth cups of sifted flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder flavor and bake in jelly tins. Boil two cups of water stirring constantly, vv nen thick and clear, pour boiling hotover the whipped whites of two eggs. Beat until almost cold. Flavor and spread between the layers. Bluing Clothes—Do not put clothes into the bluing-water until they have been well shaken; if tossed in while folded as they come from the wringer they are almost certain to be streaked with bluing, and although after repeated washings these streak* will come out, every one knows how aggravating it is to use napkins or handkerchiefs that show traces of careless washing. Mending Kid Gloves.—Any one can sew up a rip in a glove If only they have enough patience, but to mend a a tear so that it will look well and wear well is quite another thing. It may be done nicely by working a fine button-hole stitch all around the rent, then draw the edges together, pntting the needle back and forth through the buttont-hole stitches, not into the kid at all. A Meat Pie.—This makes a nice dinner and a cheap one, as it can be made of bits, scraps, etc., of beef, veal or pork. Cut the pieces fine, cover with water, cook, season well Make a paste as you would for tea biscuits, roll it out to half an inch thick, cut in narrow strips, lay over the boiling meat, cover closely with a tin cover, and let it cook about t wenty minutes. It will cook nicely and will be appreciated by all who eat of it.

Chow-chow. —Take one large head of cabbage, two large bunches of celery and 12 onions, cut all tine and add one teacupful of salt. After 24 hours drain and cover with vinegar, to remain 12 hours, drain again aud add a quarter of a pound of mustard, three green peppers, chopped fine, tablespoonful of cloves, and the same of black pepper, half a eup of salad oil, and a cup of brown sugar; cover with good vinegar. Home-made Rolls.—Put two quarts of sifted flour into a deep dish, rub a half tablespoonful each of butter and lard into the flour, make a well in the center aud pour in a pint of cold, boiled milk, stir in enough flour to make a thin batter, then mix in a half cup of good, home-made yeast, a half cup of sugar and a little salt. Let it become light, kaead down, let rise again, then mold, roll a fourth inch thick, cut into rounds with a cake cutter, put a little melted butter o . one-half and lap nearly over on the other. Place on the pan nearly aa Ijjcb apart. The practice of head hunting still exists in Borneo, though it is evidently dying out in the regions over which the Dutch have any control. It is a curious custom. No youth is allowed to don the tokens of manhood or pay his addresses to any Maly maid till he has been able to pring in two or three of his enemies’ heads. Births, marriages, and deaths and many other events in the lives of these half-savage people cannot be properly celebrated without the presence of a few fresh heads: and in almost every house one or more of these trophies are stowed away up in banana leaves. It appears likely that the custom is simply a survival from cannibalism. Indeed, among the few remaining cannibal Dyaks in Koeter it is still the custom to reserve the head for the cheif, the remainder of of the victim's body being divided among the common people.

Secretary Windom states that the entire expense of all his refunding operations since he became secretary of the treasury is less than $4,500. All the rivers in upper Albania have overflowed their banns and large tracts of land are inundated. At Sontari several lives have been lost.