Decatur Journal, Volume 1, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 27 September 1879 — Page 1

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7WWS OF THE DAY. Ohio has organiz’d a Stgte Archery Association. « I’ HE Oneida Community has made ret * profits of $76,000 last year. . A Mississippi market rep<rft reads: “ Local securities high priced, whiskey active, and shot-guns steady.’’ The trial of the Rev. Mr. Hayden for the alleged murder of Mary Stannard, in Madis.m, Conn., has been still further postponed. It is said that Alexander H. Stephctis has received $35,Q00 royalty from the sale of his book on the war of the rebellion. The New York Herald wants Talmage to convert Cetywayo. Talmage will have enough to do to convert the Presbytery when he gets back. William H. Vanderbilt controls 3,260 miles of railway and employs 27,706 men, who receive some $1,178,000 salaiy, each month. A contemporary says: The principle business of Indianapolis set ms to be to try Mis. Clem. Hear anti release, and hear and fail to agree, are the legal results in the “ celebrated case." — • Strikes are the rule in Pittsburg at present, ami failures will be next in order should th r >re be the slighest falling away of the demand for iron work and glass. T*itr. business of the Patent Office for the last-fiscal year resulted in a net profit to the government of $159,495. But once before was there ever so profitable a year. - The Elmira JdiwDser says that Mr. Evarts is flirting with the Princess over in Canada. When, ohj when will these horrible scandals cease I And Lome is such a hand with a shotgun, too. .:— Autumn leaves are just now a subject of interest to those who keep sutnboarders. Ought’em leave withpaying their board bills? they indignantly ask. Mr . Nimmo, chief of the bureau of statistic*, has been invited Io attend the international statistical congress, which is to meet in Rome" on the 20th of Octa ber next. _ — r — tft Mr. Edison's agent in England has just filed the final specification for his third English patent on the subject of the electric light. It seems to be the most important patent Mr. Edison has yet taken out on this subject. • • - ACCORDING to the Leavenworth (Kan ) Tinies, a member of the United Stjates river survey says that the Missouri river improvement will never be complete until its banks are riprapped from its mouth to the head of navigation. Certain public lands in the upper peninsulnof Michigan heretofore withdrawn for railroad purJose*, have been restored to the homesteJd.. gnd pre emtion settlement, the grant to the railroads having lapsed by reason of nonconstruction or change of route. — A western correspfindent says that Duluth isa inonumenvof fungus growth and rapid decay. It is but a few years since its tremendous cackle made a din that was heard all over the Union. I.ike the grasshopper, it sang for a season and was then heard no more. The reckless Captain Goldsmith and wife, who left Boston some months ago, for Liverpool, in a little sailboat called the Uncle Sam, were picked up off Newfoundland, just in time to *ave their lives, their boat having been nearly wrecked, and their provisions destroyed. •* The calculation in England is that $10,000,000 in gold will soon be transferred from that country to this. It should be remembered that this is chiefly on account of breadstufts. When the cotton crop goes forward, it will pull still more gold from the vaults of Europe. “ Everythin*; in my life has come ' too late. I could not buy good footland clothing until my health was ruined. Now, I have the dearest wife, but I cannot live to enjoy happiness,” said the late Henry Merritt to his young American wife, who was known to Philadelphian*, a* Mias Anna M I-ee, the painter. Barnum will never quit the show bu*ine<*. He stated the outline of a plan in which he i« interested, with several New York capitalists, • to give that city a vast mu(turn, aquarium, lecture room, theater an I gardens, upon a scale of magnificencie hitherto undreamed of. The enterprise, if carried out, will cost $1,500,fioo before the doors are opened. The New York HrmU give* its opinion very decisively regarding polygamy among the Mormora. it says: “Th* leading Mormon* do not occupy a saintly poart: n. Several of them are in the

pen'nteutiary. More ought to be there. The confession by one of the leaders of ’ opinion that a hundred women are anxious to marry one man because they are moved by an inspiration of the Holy t Gho t sounds like an emanation f rom the devil.” The correspondent of a swiss paper r warns collectors of antiquities to beware of fabricated specimens of articles purporting to belong to the age of bronze . and to have been found among the remains of lake dwellingsand in the beds . of rivers. He says there is a regular manufactory of these things near the Lake Bienne, and that bronze swords are ! being offered at 100 francs each, which ! are hot worth as many centimes. If, as Jay Cooke was wont to say, a national debt is a national bessing, Rlis- ! sia must be One of the most blessed nations of the earth. Her debt is enor mous, and rapidly increasing. Sheowes France $2,826,155,000; England $568, 800,000; Holland, $422,535,000, or a total for the three countries of $3,827, 490,000. Besides this she is floating #556,082,562 in paper money, a part of which is interest bearing. The brisk little lady of 72 summers Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, has arrived in Washington. She tells the Post that she will endeavor to reform Congress—a startling suggestion, truly. Her plan is to equip a large hotel in Washington where the accomodation and prices will encourage the Congressmen to take their wives and children to the Capitol with them. Should tbe Congressmen have their wives with them, thinks Mrs. 'Gaines, they wouldn’t be so wicked. If the quarrels between the great coal producing companies have no other good results, they will at least be likely to keep coal down to prices which may be regarded by retail consumers with a considerable degree of satisfaction. The man who has in hand a little ready money will be able to lay in his stock of coal for the winter at rates which would not be possible if the producers were upon friendly terms with each other instead of being at war. The Hudson river grape crop, all accounts say, is very large. The bulk of the crop is grown on the western sljore, between Esopus and Cornwall. It is stated that in the aggregate, the vines will yield, three tons to the acre. During the last three years large quantities of cuttings have been planted. This year many vineyards will yield a full'crop for the first time. The principal variety grown is the Concord. The Delawares and Hartfords are cultivated in a few places to a limited extent. The Chinese in California have organized branches of the Masonic order, and are turning the organization and its secret methods to considerable practical use. To counteract the influence of this fraternity, mutual protective societies are being formed by non-Masonic Chinamen, who a*sert that the Masonic order is antagonistic to the present em[ieror of China. All of the lival associations that characterize Chinese life in California are noted for the bitter animosity existing between them, and these secret fraternities are not exceptions. ■ Captain William H. Place, who spent fifteen years in the capacity of a public carrier over the old Vanderbilt route across Nicaragua, speaks in giow--1 ing terms of toe projected canal Across that country. According to the Cap 1 tain’s statement—and he should lie familiar with the subject—there is water communication at present from the Gulf of Mexico to within five miles of the Pacific ocean. The work of making a canal over this short span, he says, present? no intricate engineering problems, and labor is plenty on the Pacific coast. Religious revivalism in England has taken a curious form, outside the established church. The converts join what • they call the Salvation Army, the leader of which is style 1 a General, and i the idea of a warfare against sin is cari ried out in numerous way*. The differI ent congregations are “ crops,” and are [ designated by numbers; the word “soldier” takes tbe place of “ brother ” and “sister;’’ and before each meeting a ■ procession moves through the street* of I I the neighborhood with drums) fifes and i banner*. The meetings are of the ■ I American camp meeting sort, the fer- ‘, vor being so demonstrative as to jtartlc •' staid John Bull. This country seeks for nothing more I than is its proper due from other counters. What it gets in the way of priv- ’ ileges from others it is willing to pay 1 for. But having paid for privileges, it ' wants them. This undeniable right • seems to have been wantonly refused by the Dominion Government, under one r protext or another, in the Fortune Bay affair, and not only that, but positive damages were visited on friendly American fishermen. Os cour«e the United Htates cannot tamely put up with such treatment of our citizens, and all par- • ties will sustain the Government in any r proper diplomatic action to obtain re- ” drew* for injuries done, iu violation of r the Treaty of Washington, and to pree! rent the repetition of such wrong*.

“NO COMPROMISE YKITII DISHONESTY.”

DECATUR, INDIANA, SATO

HEWS OF THE WEEK. . K ansasCjty has an exposition, too. The St. Louis Exposition has opened. Wheat is advancing- four cents in <»no day, at Chicago. Fever is reported as increasing at Concordia-, Mississippi. The floor of a synagogue at Szolonak, Persia, gave way, killing eighteen women. Wages are to Ke advanced ten per cent.,at Fall River, on and after October Ist. Cynthiana, Kentucky, has struck a “copious vein of oil,” seven feet from the surface. John Carlyle, younger brother of the historian, Thomas Carlyle, is dead. The yellow fever is said to have spread across the river at Memphis and now exists in Concordia in the most malignant form., Immense beds or veins of the finest bitumin* ous coal have been discovered 145 miles westj of fyji Antonio, Tt4as, near tne Rio (Irande. Four negroes and one white man were publicly whipped at New Castle, Delaware, for larceny. September 22, the seventeenth anniversary of the emancipation proclamation, was celebrated at many points in the Nofth, by the colored people. An attempt was made to assassinate a postmaster at Blackville, South Carolina, by a ruffian named Williams. Williams did not abscond, nor has he been arrested. Eleven prisoners sawed their way out ot a new $30,000 jail at Chillicothe, Ohio, last week. Nearly all of them have been recaptured. The report finally comes that King Cetywayo has been captured by Marter, commander of a squadron of dragoons. John T. Sharp, who murdered Elder I). Y. Benjamin, near McArthur, September Bth, has been captured lurking in a grove of dense underbrush. A number ol grain dealers in Chicago have been “caught short” owing to the rapid rise in cereals. R. 11. Golsan A Co. and Debondio A Co. arc sufferers. . Lew Wallace, is calling for more troops to put down the “ untamed ” Indians. He rcpoTts their atrocities on the whites as something horrible. Controller Goloschm idt, at Atlanta, Ga., has been impreilchcd and disfranchised. The trial of Treasurer Renfrco is in progress, and others are to follow. The school board of St. Louis arc having trouble with the German element. They arc not teaching enough German in the public schools. The l T tc Indians arc becoming unmanageable. They don’t like farming and assert by concerted action that they do not mean to do any more of it. They have made a raid on the agency buildings'and destroyed them.* Rev. J. P. Thompson, name was recently mixed up with that of Mrs. De Land, in a scandal, is dead. It is said that this cruel report had much to do in hurrying his death. He was very old and feeble at best. Charles Glass,, the murderer of Carter Newman, last March, was hanged at Cairo, 111., last week. “ Not a tremor, not a move ment of the lips, not a word, not a struggle,” and he was dead. One of those* horrible accidents resulting from carelessness, occurred at Wheeling, W. Va. f the othcf day. John Altmcyer, while feeding a nail machine, was caught'by it and literally torn to pieces. Peace has been made with the fierce Zulus. The native chiefs arc to have control of their territory without being trammelled by British authority. Cetywayo is to he sent to Cfipe Town. John Russell Young, the New York //rrcorrespondent who travels with Grant, says of thy General that he is not a candidate for the Presidency unless he is nominated, and then, when that has occurred, he’ will make up his mind as to how he had better act. The Georgia House of Representatives a most unanimously voted down a resolution co demning Governor Colquitt for alleged corruption in office, and passed a resolution asking the Governor to examihe into the conduct of the principal keeper of the penitentiary. The following pedestrians began the six 'lays walk tor the Astlcy belt on the 21st inst., at Gilmores Garden, New York: Weston, Rowell, Hazel, Guyon, Ennis, Pane hot, Merrett, Hart, | Krohnc, Dutcher, Taylor, Jackson and Fcrdermeycr. Wm. Lenanear, at Martinsville, Ind., shot and killed his drunken persecutor, Flora Fluti, who, not satisfied hy using insulting language toward Lenancar. followed and |»elted him with stones. One incentive which lead Lenanear to commit the rash act was the fart that Fluti often boasted in public of ruining Lenan ear’s sister. Lenancar has the popular sympathy. Evf.ry day comes the report that cereals are rapidly advancing. Wheat raises from two to four cents a day, and the greatest excitement prevails at the great market centers. Oati, rye, barley, corn and pork are also steadily | raising. On the 22, spring wheat at Chicago advanced three cents, and fall wheat two and a half. The disgraceful conduct of the strikers at J Fall River during the past week will <*\ idently not redound to the benefit of labor. While four families of French Canadians were pacing from their homes to the mill, wticre they have recently been employed, they were set upon by i an infuriated mob of strikers and roughly ! "toned. Oue man was knocked down and | terribly beaten. A w-min with a babe in her | ' arms was knocked dovntand brutally kicked. Terribi e suffering is reported from the j west. A telegram from Denver says that about sixty families were rendered homeless by the i Caribou fire, which wa> more extensive than at first rep«»rted. The loss i* not less than Fires are raging all through tbe mountain-. | and (he sky and are hidden hy smoke. The Vte Indian* have started m<*( of (be fires for J spite. A nwriTTH frem .Madrid says: “Thai ■ Spani'h <wveramea( w ra(her embarrassed by I : (he increasing agiUtn-n in Cuba, (icneral | Martinez Cwmpne ha* proposed t.» bi* colleagues, to make a clear -utement of hi< reform policy at as (he Cortes meet*, but (he Ministers aad Conservative leaders want to defer the ‘ marriage of King Alfono,.” BsklaXW is experiencing the greatest trouble 1 between lalr< and eapital. The mill* arc either- r|©«i»g altogether « running *n short time, aad thaaaaads of workmen are thrown I eat of empkyment. At Mescley, tbe number

of strikes is increasing daiw> mid it is expected that within a week everyidH in that iistrict will be stopped. At Gl‘>W°P» tw " mills have closed, each throwing intoW^ ei,p<> three thousand men and women. r Tms bit of news is telegraphc.l from Washngton tv the Cincinnati (’odh/o s Next week anybody can get "ho wants it, as Secretary Sherman trar tA longer any doubt that resumption is permwcn*. and wilFTTiot hcieattcr attempt to hoar® his go|<|. Heretofore gold could only he o||ained at the SubTreasury nt New York. Whe rc- ord of eight months and a half show/ that people prefer greenbacks to gold, an»l «tca<l of l>. ing cajle-l fur tn redeem legal tendw?, go|.| beer brought to the Treasury an I legal tenders asked in exchange. Reports from Memphis fife if an encouraging nature. Thanks te th*T continued cooler weather, the existencejf yellow fever is no longer regarded with tei acr that ha - atterifled it throughout tire hott-r months. The mortality has diminished to from three to five deaths a day, most of those who bcojne afflicted with the disease, recovering. The hoard of health of Memphis have published; a circular warning refugee'? who have not had |the fever in former years net to return until eslit-or ten days after frost. Those who have han the fever will now be permitted to return. ’The total number of cases to date arc 1,210 ; doßths, 340. The last session of Congress appropriated $25,000,000 to pay arrears of pensuiis. It is said thaFinoreThan two thirds of this has already been paid out, and that allot ittwilPhave been paid by next January. While tbb amount has been pretty equally distributed aifcong the Northern states, more of. it has gone South than would be supposed. There wc|e wrer 300,000 Southern white men in thd Union army, and half as many colored. The following distribution jn the states named may be of interest : Ohio Indiana h 750,000 Illinois Western Pennsylvania 1,350,000 Kentucky 680,(XMl Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida 1,|50,(M)0 Os course there has been a considerable amount paid to other Northern states not above mentioned. The return of General Grant to American shores has been the means of creating more excitement among our people than even his most sanguine admirers could have expected or even desired. The ovation over such an event has never been equalled in cither the history of this or other countries. When the steamship City of Tokio heaved in sight, bearing the exPresident and his party, fifteen thousand people went out to meet tjiq, incoming vessel, among whom were the General’s intimate friends, relatives, committoos, etc. The city of San Francisco was all ablaze. The streets were decorated in profusion, and with the ringing of bells, the volley of cannon and the continuous cheering, all was one din of-cunfwren and excitement. Hundreds vs carriage* and thousands on foot made up the processmn. All classes took a hand in the proceedings, even to Rear tyiy’s followers,who,two weeks before his arrival, contemplated hafiging the General in effigy on the Land Lots, on his arrival. Grant is the first great military man who ever cireumnavigatcd the globe. He was received with the greatest honors by all countries, showing that every Qation was friendly towards—not Grant alone — hut America. His trip ar'-und the globe covered two years and four ni' iiths. We may add, that Grant positively a cits that bo is not a candidate for the Presidency. . .. The Last Temble Holocaust. Os the Boston holocaust, it said that wlien’the fire was diseoverd by tbe policeman at 1 1 :|5 flames were breaking out of the first floor, having burned through the stairs, making them impassable. Smoke was rolling up the narrow stair-cases and awftkend the inmates. Before the firemen cvuld arrive with their Ind ders they had either leaped fiom windows, gone to the roof in hope of safety, or droppc-l uflo ruled in the halls. The list of dead comprises | five, which number may be increased to .- even or eight— The old couple on the first floor made their escape and were not heard of dur ingthe night. The Gillespie family escaped with the exception of the wife and mother. The latter fifty years old, might have r«<-aped hy walking only about six feet, but became bewildered and swooned in her ruum. She was found by the fin - man in an apparently dying condition, and taken to the station with other victims of the fire. Her injurie- are terrible burns, external and internal. Rose Pfeifer, aged twenty-three, was found in the hall of tire second floor. Mrs. Pfeifer and two children jumped fi£»m the window and were but slightly hurt, but Pfeifer. ! the father, was l<-«t. Mcroth, on the third floor, lifted hj* son Charles, aged fourteen, out of the window mid allowed him to drop to the ground, a distance of forty feet, then his wife and daughter Rosie to jump, which they did. Last of all he himself jumped to the ground, and in falling met instant death. Mrs. Meroth is at the City Hospital with fractures of both legs and one arm and her face bruised beyond recognition. The daughter Rosie sustained no serious injury, but Charles is badly hurt, llehlred tank his wife to the roof, and then went down stairs, where he was I caught by the flame* and burned. pr»»Hably fa tally. Mrs. Hcldred’* body, charred beyond recognition, was f-nind on the nx»f. Charles Hcldred, the -on, z is at tbe hospital internally injured from jumping to the ground, with an arm broken. The Pefinsylrania Murderers. A special frem llarrishnrg. Penn., eaya: j •• The Board of Pard-ns have refused to recommend tbe murderer*. Peter McManus and Jno. ' O’Neil, Mollie .Maguire* of Northumberland county, and Andrew Tracy, of McKean, to (he favorable consideration of the <»overn«»r. and they will be hanged An the 9th of Ctctohrr. i McManus and O’Neil on December lb, with a dub and hammer, beat to death Fred- 1 , eriek Hewer, then Gwoner of Northumberland . county, and a watchman at a collier near Shamoken. The murderers were arrested this j year. Tracy, who was a lawyer of McKean county, murdered Miss Mary Riley, his c*»u-in. 1 September I*. by shooting her in the head while she wa« walking with a rom|-aDi*>n. the aesassin apprea' king from behind. Tracy , had been in love with the girl, and hi* friend* • aMert that be shot her ln> a fit of insanity, canned by tbe obetade* in terpc.*ed tv the inter- j ' marrying of «a»in- in tbe Celh«dre Church. ‘ which Miss Riley and himself were nremher*. C**un«d fer the Comm- nwealth before tbe Pard<*n B'-erd w*erted that tbe evime was inspired | by jealousy, (teulting from pleasant relations |

)AY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1579.

existing between tire girl and a man named Thomas Carrollwho says they were engaged to be married.” Murder and Its Penalty. The “ boy murderer,” Louis Guetig. was hanged at Iluiianupoli.-, on the 19th inst., the anniversary "f the murder of the young lady Miss McGl'-w at lii*hmul>. There was n.ever a more deliberate murder than that of whi< h Guetig was guilty. The enii-u for the rash act was jealousy. The girl who was employed in the same hotel in which he was clerk, and who. had been receiving his attentions, had rejected him <»n aeooiint «d’his dissidute habits and in protection of h< r ow n good name. He became furious, procured a revolver, and shot her. In the presence of two companions, she begged piteously on her knees for him to spare her life, saying she would promise anything .he asked. Hcedlcs.« and heartless he shot her, first in the face, then in tbe and then in the head. When arrested he said with an oath that he had intended to kill her and avus glad he had done it. He has paid the penalty of his crime paid it in the same stoic, and even fiendish manner that he ha.*, all along, betrayed over the ijjurder of innocent Mary MeGlew. " White Squaw Heap Brav??’ [Hot Spring*, Cnr. Charlton Loader.) Miss Maggie Foreman came a few days ago to the Springs, which are situated twenty-eight miles above Fort Steele on the head waters of the North Platte, with her sister. Jim Adams, a noted hunter and scout, accompanied the narty as a guide and general protector. Aaams, who is Miss Foreman’s brother-in-law, was raised in Mount Pleasant, lowa, and came West in the early days of the Union Pacific Railroad. He is a brave scout. On Tuesday last Adams started ona broncho to ride to a surveying party on Medicine Bow mountains, leaving his trained horse with us. Adams had been gone but a little while when Misrf Foreman expressed a desire to ride her brother's horse. She galloped around the camp fora while, and was about to dismount, when a shot was heard about five hundred yards up the river, and a moment later an enormous black elk came dashing out of a ravinf*, with Jim Adams in full chase. The elk was wounded, but yet able to run at great speed. The writer handed to Miss Foreman a large army Colt’s revolver | Miss Foreman took the weapon and started toward the elk. The horse bad been thoroughly trained for such work by Mr. Adams and dashed forward with frightful speed. Adams urged his horse in a vain endeavor to overtake her, but the little broncho which he bestrode was no match for his own favorite steed. The elk started for the mouth of a canon altoula mile distant, through which it could reach the higher mountains. Miss Foreman was seen to fire the revolver at the elk. Two,three, four shots were, fired, and yet llie speed of the elk was not lessened, but at the fifth shot it was ol>served to qaver, stagger, and in a moment fall heavily to the ground. Then Miss F. was seen tc halt and fire another shot into the animal as it la}' struggling near the horse's feet. The elk weighed alsiut one thousand pounds. A number of Yuma Jack's band of Yute Indians, who witnessed the chase,’giiz.ed upon the heroine with amazement, one of them l remarking: “ White stpiaw heap brave I —ride all same like wind in storm.” • The Hair We Wenr. The South of France and Brittany contribute to tbe human hair market the largest amoutof the black hair. 1 hither each vear agents of the Parisian wholesale houses go to gather an average crop of more than two hundred thousand jsiunds weight. From one to five francs is about the usual price of a head of hair. The dealers arc provifled with rile lions, silks, lacesand jewelry, which they oTten succed in exchanging for black or goltlen tresses. They attend all the fairs . and merry-makings, and at a Breton fair may lie seen a nttmlicr of them surrounded by peasant girls ready to lie sheared like sheep as they Bland in a row one after another with their caps in their bands ready for the scissors, and their long hair combed out and falling like a veil alaiilt them. Sometimes it is a man and sometime* a woman w ho cuts off the hair, placing it in a large basket, provided for the occasion and into w hich everv succe-sive crop <>f hair, tied up in a wisp, is thrown by itself. As it is the fashion in those parts .to wcaraclose cap, which thoroughly obstructs the view of coils or braids of hair.it can make no difference whether they have them or not. Hence, it is said, the girl* seem to bring their hair to market a« regularly as they do |ieas and cabbages and egg*, ami that a peasant girl parts with her haji as readily as the stern uncle in obl-fa-h---ioned play* parts with his guineas in the last act. For choice heads of hair, like choice ol<l pictures or choice old china, there is no limit in the price they may command. King Alfonso’s Bride Elect. The Archduchess Marie <’hristine of Austria, who is to become the wife of King Alfonso XII. of Spain, is a lady twentv-one years of age. Her traits are grace and youth, but no one would think of calling her pretty. Still, in conversation she is charming, and her eye is full of vivacity.' She is very fond of darn - ing. rather too much so indeed to meet ’ the views of formalists who think that such an inclination is not quite the xhing in an aW>e*s. the young Arch--1 duehow bolding that dignified position ; in relation to the Church. ShcisAbl*-* of the Noble « banter of Prague, and has under her jurisdiction twelve (’hanoi- ’ ne— s. Her charge under the ’tatutes j established by Marie-Therese. give her a revenue of 20,000 florins ner year, the <'hanoinesses having a salary of 1.200 florins each. It requires* certain degree of nohilitv to secure admission to the Chapter, and as the title of Arcbdnchera is neccsNirv in order.te secure the title of Abhew In the Chapter of Prague, that position will remain vacant a long time if the present Abbess becomes Queen of Spain. Sr>WAY-ecHQOi. Teacher — “ You must recollect that all I am telling you happened one thousand eight hundred ami *eventy-nine years ago." Pupil Ix>r, miss, how the time do ; alip away!"’

Mesmeric Matrimonial Miseries. [New York Knh.» The Rev. Mr. Munson, who performed his own marriage ceremony before tbe Adventist congregation at Worcester, Mass., and is now in jail on the charge of horse stealing, has finally lost the sympathy of his wife, formerly Miss Eaton. Hhe says that he controlled her by mesmeric influence, and absence from him has broken the spell. Their union was brought almui by correspondence. Munsoi), who then lived in Missouri, wrote to the Dansville, (N. Y.) he wanted a “ hygienic wife.” The editor published the following comments: “This gentleman wants to got married, wants a ‘ hygienic wife,’ and wants mo to introduce him. Now, I don't know the gentlejnan, except as he states his own case; but, if there be.any girl or woman wbo herself wan ts to ge t married, and would like to tie addressed by a man who claims to be a good Christian, but does not want to marry one . who has not a conscience toward, and an intelligent love for, the laws of life and health, she can address this person as above. I give this notice at his request, and trust that he is i incere in making it.” Miss Eaton answered the clergyman's appeal, a large number of letters passed between the (wo, and at length he went to Worcester to ' see her. She did not like him at first, I but gradually he gained complete control ; of her, and she did all that ho told her j to do, even to cutting off her uncom- I monly beautiful hair. i —— • • J Do Men Resemble Animals I A writer in the Boston Trnvlh vSu- ! quires, “What animal am I am} then proceeds to (as others have 'Tone before him) the close resemblance not only in the faces of men with those of boast.*, but similar characteristics in their mental and moral composition. No man, I he thinks, likes to be told he looks like a I dog; no woman that she resembesa sheep. | ami yet then' are men ami women who l look like both. The miser has his prototype to the rodents, whose two narrow, gnawing teeth arc eternally reproduced inhumanity. The proud |>eculiarity of the strong gray beards is to look like a lion—ami Longfellow has that distinction. Christopher North looked like a noble mastiff; hut other men had a more ludicrous resemblance to dogs of an inferior breed. A much-whiskered individual driving in a Victoria down town, with his Scotch terrier, asked a witty lady what she thought of them. hy!” said she “I thought you were beside yourself!” A man of the Dundreary type can look very like a terrier. The bull-dog finds his manly prototype in Bill Sykes, and we have all seen slender, I greyhound loooking men, and little, j mean, ferret faces, on the lookout for | game. Men of sardonic temper ami smooth outlines, who are wiseemmgh to I wear a white, straight muslache, have a grand resemblance to a Bengal tiger. They look cruel, but it is a handsome, strong cruelty. No one can help respecting a Bengal tiger, although his traits are scarcely amiable. When Women Become Sensible. | Eaulmii p .J s The man who meets and loves tlic woman of twenty-five is truly fortunate, I ami she is equally fortunate in meeting and loving him, says a writer in a feminine journal. At that age she seldom de-I reives herself ami is seldom deceived. I She may not have, she is not likely to j have then, her first sentimental exnerieneeL but such experience al sticli an age is more than sentimental and ran ly cverllceting. She looks back at tlmyoiithy she imagined she was enamored of bc= tween sixteen oreigh teen, oreven twentytwo, and fliey are worse than indifferent or’repellant to her—they are ridiculous, and in some sort she, a* she then was, is ridiculous to herself. She cannot but think what she escai>c<l: she cannot but lie grateful to her destiny that her sympathies and affections have ln>cn reserved for a worthy object and a higher end. At twenty-five, if ever, a woman knows and estimates herself. She is less liable to emotional or mental mistakes; she is far surer of her future, lie- ! cause she feels that her fate is, to a rer , tain extent, in hetown hands. Not only is she lovelier and more loveable, broader and stronger than she has been, but her we<ldc<l happiness and powers of endurance are in a manner guaranteed. Miss Thnndon’a Athenfnre. • | |Wal*rtown Tim** v ’ i Probably the handsomest balloon as- ' cension that ever took place in Northern ! New York was made by Miss Thurston, at Carthage, on Friday the sth inst. It 1 was witnessed by thousands of people. The people of Ixiwville saw her as she ’ passed over that place, since which time nothing has Is-en heard from her. A ’ telegram from Port la-yden told nothing <>f her whereabouts had been heard there. Messages from L>wvillc and Carthage stated that no tiding* have yet l>een received there. Great anxiety about I this brave lady cxi«ted all along the I j route between thiacity and Utica. Finally, a dispatch from Lowville, on Satur- • 1 Jay night. saysMfat Miss Thurston came : | out of the woods, arriving there at 6 o’clock Saturday evening, having spent the I previous night sitting on a log. The balI l<sm got away from her, and carried I everything with it. Her clothes were 1 badly torn, and she was somewhat but ' ! not seriously hurt. Young American Philosopher*. *<»«i Wnrill* ReraM.; “Whist," said one of two small hoyi sitting on the curbstone, as a dapper ■ looking girl went tripping by—“ Whist, Jimmie. li*ten to that rattle in the gal s, i walk, hain't she got a cork leg on her with the hinges some rusty?" “No,’ said Jimmie, putting his ear down to i the pavement to catch the sound of the retreating footsteps; “'tain t that; it's them bras* heels the women wear* on their shoes nowadays; one of em’s come loo*e and it hangs down kind o'whopper jawed like, and tingles in her trot. SeeT' “I does." said the other boy, taking a ( rag off his sore toe. preparatory to wash , ing it in the gutter. It is strange how few political caadi- > I dates have the slirhtret doubt of their I election.

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PASSING SMILES. 1 don’t waste the pills. WhilpMr’ Van Daren was cleaning the house, fche fr»un<i tunneold pills, and she said to her spouse-. -y “ It's too had to wast«- th» in, And jm» I will taste flu iu And quickly she swallowed the pills ?he had found, But ««M»n she was grieving, Her btom.u'h was heaving, And shn was *■> ill that she < "ul'l jwt get round, H' r «jH»u«A |hkcl<sl "tt f<®' a <l«h tor in haste— Thirtv dollar* his bill—but the pills didn'tlymste. —New Vork People. The most numerous see-J-rpents— Jim-jams. I The house-builder’s waffblrlfrig is a put-up job. ' Is the knot in the porker’s tail a pigs tye? Some men pay attention who never pay anything else. A i’Horism by aperfectly reckless belle: “ Be flirtuous and you will be happy.” Fishes arc iiard-beartcd things; we all know that fishes spawn their young. “ Out on a fly as.: the affectionate husband said when his wife jumped out of the window. C , If your wife object to kissing you be- 8 cause you smoke, simply remark that you B know some girl who will, that-ettles it. The difference between a woman and an umbrella is, that there are I when one can shut up an umbrella. It doesn’t do any good to swear, but : vou can’t make a man Ijeliere it,, when I lie gets up in the morning'-and finds his ; dog has chawed a hole in his boot. After man, came women, and after I woman the d 1. That doesn’t sound j very elegant, but then there iS lots of | truth in it. | “/Beauty and booty,” says a Whitehall young man, “is all right,, except when the daughter’s beauty is accompanied by the old gentleman's bootee.” Statistics prove that women's teeth ! decay at an earliqr age than men’s, which i conclusively proves that spruce gum is more injurious than tobacco. •. 'F.'.'.l'.’.'.y.. •.t'.".'i»-.'.'m'.”.e”..-.. ' —Rdclnstee Ejpre«». We can knock the spots out of the above: F 1 y t i m e.— Bouton Journal of Commerce. “ Don’t you think,” saida husband in a mild form of rebuke to his wife, “that women are possessed hy the devil? I .’ “Yes” was the quick reply, “as soon as they are married.” ?A MAN'Ayho- will coolly stand hy and see a fellow being try to unlock a a lamjepost with his night-key to the front door, was built on a false foundation, and needs overhauling. They told the old man his girl was keeping a milliner store, and when he ' went home ami told it. all the neighbors j wondered what she kept a mill in her store for.' j _ “ Don’t be afraid to praise your scrI vant» when they deserve it,” remarksail ; exeh;nrgeutnnThc~TniTin»e the husband tries that on the hired girl she has to hunt for another situation, j Loan Beaconsfii:i.i> freqti<-nilystarts in his sleep haunted by ri i-co r d officers and weeping widows, and shri'-ks out: “ Hence! horrible shadow, unreal mothcry, hence!” but they don’t hence. He asked her: “Going away?” “Y’es; going to the sea baths.” “ What! io mii-Ii chilly weather ns,-this?. Y'ou wil never go into the water?” ’"“Oh, yes I will; I'm all fixed up for that.” “Really?” ■ I “ Yes; I've had all my bathing dresses 1 trimmed with fur.” “ Boy, don't you know any better than to lie loitering around the streets in this wav on this beautiful Sabbath day?” said a Sunday-school teacher <tn his way to his Bible class. “ < th. my eye, I guess Ido, sir; I'magoin' fishin'just as soon as the other fellows come along,” exclaimed' the young hopeful. “ DON'T Im- cast down, my |s>or woman,"said a peripatetic philanthropist to a native of the Grebn I*b-in the midst of squalor and wretchedness; ‘ you intv yet get ahead in the world." “Ahea<l is it?” wa.« the quick retort, “ and shore if I cud get a hear! of cabbage for |iitn« It, and brid and petaties for the child<-rs, it wud l>e all I'+ax." “ Epwarh,” said Mr. Rice, “ what do I hear,, that you have disobeyed your grandmother, who told you ju*t now not to jump down these steps :'” “ Grandma didn’t tell us not to. papa; she only c.itne to the door and said. ‘ I wouldn't jump down those steps; Ixiy.*.’ and I shouldn’t think she would, an old lady like her!’’ A St. I/iUIR doctor, speaking of his wife, says: “ I don't love her; I have never had a kind word from her for years. When I come in from my practice I want a pleasant face and a kind word. It isn't the woman's fault, I suppose. God Almighty himself couldn’t ; live with her, and He made her.” Had i' the doctor no hand himself in making i her what she is? Singular, but a married man in a ■ i street car can see the look of pretty I anxiety come over a pretty girl's face clear at the other end of the car the moi ■ nu nt she logins to fumble for her fare long b»foreshe is ready, but lie can’t see i. his wife down on her knees crawling ■ round in the straw feeling for the nickel she had dropped, until the driver wraps the lines about the brake and comes in to help her.— l lav:keyt. There are many would-be aristocrats who have little more claim to blue blood than the old Irishwoman, who, in bid- . ding her son paid-bye on his leaving the parental roof, said: “ No. Jimmie, when you get yer shtand, an' haz yer peanuts an’ yer apples shin’ like shtars in the hivina all in a row side by side, an' the gintiemt ns <-<>ine along to buy, don'tforgit who yez are. Hould your head high, , tor there’s great talk now about furrust . families, an’m yer doin’ up the bundles ' tell thim yer grandfather was the furru’t ’ man who iver set foot or squatted upon the bogs beyont.” i' , Viewing His Patients. «, One of our eminent physician* took a i six-year-old girl into one of the cemeteries • i in the city, and in the course of their r rambles they came across a grave on ’ which the little.one read the inscription, i and then the doctor told the chilli that the person buried there had been one of his patients in life The child stood a moment ami looked at the grave indicated. I and then at the many others around, and ingenuously asked, “ Were all these yo-tr patients, too?”