Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1877 — Page 1

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NEWS SUMMARY

THE WAB IN THE BAST.

A Bucharest special of the 17th says that it is known to many that the Czar was privately warned last August that, if Bnssia entered on a second campaign, it would be impossible to restrain England from hostile action. Influential Russians consider the present moment highly favorable for direct negotiations between Russia and Turkey. A Vienna correspondent telegraphs that Turkey’s first pacific effort may be regarded as a failure. Germany hinted that treating directly with Russia would be the shortest way of coming to an understanding. It seems that, when the neto was first mentioned, the Austrian Government replied that it could not hold out any hope of successful mediation on such basis. A Constantinople telegram says: Erroneous interpretations having been given to the circular of the Porte inviting mediation, it is officially explained that Turkey does not approach the powers as a vanquished state, since she still has two lines of defense which the Government believes she would be able to hold The Porte, by its circular, desires to intimate its willingness to consider the proposals made by the Constantinople Conference. As the war began owing to Turkey’s refusal te adhere to those proposals, the Porte thinks it might be terminated now on that basis. Russia has called out 60,000 more troops. Reinforcements are constantly arriving at the scene of the war. Gen. Todleben has been appointed commander of the army of Rnstcbuk, with Prince Imeritinsky as his Chief-of-Staff. A Ragusa dispatch reports that 6,000 Turks from l’odgoritza compelled the Montenegrin corps to retreat into their own territory, and are now marching to succor Scutari and Antyyuri. A''liondon dispatch of the 20th says : “The anxiety felt here aH to the policy of tha Government in relation to the settlement of the Eastern question is growing more intense from lionr to hour. The Cabinet Councils hold in rapid succession, and resulting in the announcement of the assembling of Parliament three weeks before the usual time, have created a profound impression.” Suleiman Pasha, with 10,000 men, has arrived in Constantinople from Varna, on his way to Adrianople, to take command of the army in Roumolia. The movement of the hulk of his army by the same routo is in progress, leaving a strong garrison in the Quadrilateral fortress. Gen. Todleben has been appointed to the command of the army of tlioCznrowitch, who will return to Russia. The siege of Rustcliuk, Hliumla and Rasgrad will now 1)0 pushed. A cable dispatch says a fresh levy of 300,000 men lias been ordered by the Porte, and that the Russian advance is to be resisted to the bitter end. Russia is evidently not at all disturbed at the turn affairs have taken in England. The Volos, which speaks from a point in the nearvicinity of the throne, says that the issue of this “political episode' 1 will be awaited without anxiety by Russia, who will quietly continue the work she has begun, confident that her ultimate triumph will be in no way hindered by British intrigue.

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

The French legislative body has voted the budget, and the Government has introduced a measure abolishing the oppressive restrictions placed upon the press. The Chamber has adjourned to meet Jan. 8. A London dispatch announces that Parliament will meet Jan. 17, threo weeks in advance of the usual time, owing to the condition of affairs in Turkey. Austria's policy of neutrality has been reaffirmed by Count Audrassy in a speeoh to tho Budget Committee, iu which ho stated that the Government would prevent the extension by Servia of operations iu the direction of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Gen. Grant lias been visiting Herculaneum and Pompeii. Michael Davitt, a Fenian sentenced to fifteen years’ penal servitude, has been released from Dartmoor (England) on a ticket of leave, after serving half the torm of his sentence. MacMahon has once more succumbed to the inevitable. He has ordered that all prosecutions against, editors, publishers, and newsboys, for alleged infractions of the press laws since May 16, bo dismissed.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

l'iist;. The suits against the estates of Peter B. Sweeny and Elbert A. Woodward, of New York ring memory, have netted the city #444,982. John McAllister, Jr., optician, died lately, in Philadelphia, aged 92. He was the oldest living graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Three children of Mrs. Catherine Ilyan, of Randolph, Mass., were suffocated, a few nights ago, by ooal gas; also Mary E. Burry, who was stopping with thorn. Mrs. Ryan herself is not expected to live. A frightful disaster, caused by the explosion of a boiler in a candy factory and the immediate igniting of the building, occurred in New York, on the evening of Dec. 20. From the New York papers we glean the following particulars of the calamity: “The people in the neighborhood of Barclay streot and College place were startled by an explosion that sounded like the discharge of a cannon. The concussion broke many hundreds of window panes, some of them two or three blocks away, and instantly extinguished every gaslight burning within an equal radius. The rattle of window sash and the crash of broken glass was accompanied by a shock like that of an earthquako. This was followed by the crash of a falling building, and the people on Barclay street saw almost the whole inside of the five-story building, No. 63 Barclay street, torn out and shot up into the air with almost indescribable violence. The fountain of debris, according to the testimony of eyewitnesses, rose fully thirty feet above the roof, and before it had fallen the shell of the building, witla such of its inner fiamewoik as waH not torn away, was enveloped in flames. Thousands of people at once gathered, and in five minutes the engines were on the ground. The spectators were s+vtled a minute after by seeing a man emerge from the flames and appear on the rafters that supported the second floor. He was a horrible -jgJL't. hair and beard were burned ofT, blackened and smeared with blood and his clothes on fire. He stood for a moment as if irresolute, and the crowd yelled, ‘ Jump !’ «Jump !’ He glanced back once, and seeing certain death behind leaped to the ground. He was badly injured, but still alive when the ambulance took him to the A ladder was shortly placed against she broken front, when out of the burning interior came three men and two boys, their clothes on fire and their wounds bleeding. Tbs| their way down the ladder and were >i, M ff for treatment. Two or three only roni Sswciey street doer, One boy m <lt>f wt by tfe* inm tb« s«*<«

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had entirely swallowed up the approach. Officer Dunlap, of the Twenty-seventh precinct, was the first man to clamber up the ladder. At the second story he found a young womrn, one of the employes in the confectionery establishment. He caught her just aB she was falling back, she having probably inhaled smoke or flames, and, telling her to cling around his neck, he Bwung her on his back and descended the adder. Reaching the ground, *he officer carried her to a store near by, but she was dead when he arrived there. Meantime the flames spread through the entire store, and burst out at the doors and windows of the College place front. Barclay street, College place, Park place, and Greenwich street were occupied by the engines. Three more alarms were rung, and soon nearly twenty engines were deluging the burning building with water. Hot withstanding all efforts, the flames gained rapidly. Within an hour the great candy store was a heap of rains. ’Hie interest frem the first had centered in the probable lose of life. Bo few were known to have escaped, and so many were known to be in the building at the time of the explosion that the most alarming rumors were set afloat. It was learned, however, before the fire was over that many persons, how many was uncertain, had escaped by the College place entrance. Borne were also known to have escaped through the hack yards and over the roofß of the neighboring buildings to the west, so that a reasonable hope existed that the most had been saved. The curious desire to gaze upon suffering and death was felt by many, and the police, who were present in large numbers, had all they could do to keep an avenue open from the store doors where the injured lay to the ambulances as they drove rapidly up. Every ambulance in the city had been ordered to the scene, and as fast as possible the sufferers were taken to the hospital.” Henry Van Dyke was hanged at Canton, N. Y., last week, for the murder of his wife, in July last. The criminal passed his last night on earth singing comic songs, clog-dancing and smoking. He told the Sheriff he wanted to be hanged at 11 o’clock, so as to be in hell for dinner. When some clergymen who had visited him started to leave, ho turned a couple of handsprings, and, bringing up with a circus pose, shouted after them, “ What do you soy?” A grand reception was tendered President Haves by the Union League Club, on the occasion of his visit to New York last week. West. It is reported that boring for oil has been begun 100 miles south of Dead wood, and that petroleum of a very good quality has been found. The California Legislature have elected J. T. Farley, a Democrat, to succeed Mr. Sargent in the United States Senate. 11. W. Wetherell, wholesale millinery and fancy-goods merchant, of Chicago, has failed. The failure of Kelley, Morley & Co., heavy coal dealers in Chicago, is also announced. Dispatches from Helena, Montana, report that Sitting Bull has recrossed the line, and is now camped in the Bear Paw mountains, with a largo force of Sioux and Nez Perccs Indians. South. At Riohmond, Va., a man has been arrested on suspicion of having murdered Charles Bolden, at Gilson, 111. He gives the name of Richard Robinson. This is one of the murders which have been laid to Frank Rande. All available United States troops have been ordered to tho relief of tho Texan militia on the Rio Grande. Affairs in El Paso county, Tex., were brought to a crisis on tho 17th by the surrender of the small band of Texans who were surrounded by overwhelming odds of infuriated Greasers. Three of the Americans, Judge Howard, Atkinson and Mcßride, were shot as soon as captured. Tho Governor, in his dispatch to Washington, expressed a fear that all the prisoners would be executed uuless speedily released by the arrival of United States troops. The troops who, under Col. Young and Lieut. Bullis, pursued a marauding party into Mexico, have returned in safety. On the return they encountered very had weather, rain falling continuously. A dippatch from Mesilla, N. M., dated Dec. 22, says: “The 1 Texas rangers who surrendered at San Elizario, having gathered reinforcements, started yesterday to recapture the arms taken by the Mexicans. It is reported that the forces encountered, and a fight followed, in which Lieut. Mortimer, of the regular army, was killed, and two soldiers captured, and that the invaders took a cannon from tho detachment of United States troops. A portion of the Mexicans then crossed the Rio Grande, whither they were followed by Texas rangers. Lively work may be expected at any hour. Gen. Hatch, with two batteries of artillery and one Gatling gun, has arrived at the scene of disorder.”

WASHINGTON NOTES.

A Washington dispatch says : “ The President's messago on the civil service, which will bo ready to send to Congress soon after the holidays, will show that the President does not intend tp surrender any position which he has assumed in his controversy with the Senate. It will set forth the President’s views with respect to patronage, and will call attention to the fact that, by the action of tho Republican National Convention and by State Conventions, Congress as well as the President has been instructed to enforce the civil-service policy, and that he, the President, is simply endeavoring to carry out to the letter the instructions given him in advance by those who elected him. In this message the President will take very strong ground as to the constitutional right of the Executive to originate all nominations. The message will set forth in clearer light than before what the President’s intentions are upon civil-service reform.” The President has pardoned Joyce, the St. Louis whisky crook. A Washington telegram of the 20th says: “ The administration news from El Paso confirms tho reports that the difficulty there had no international significance. Dispatches from army officers say that the Mexicans were, in fact, Texans, and did not cross tho Rio Grande. From careful inquiry to-day, it can be stated that tho President sees no reason or occasion for war with Mexico.”

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.

The opinion of the naval Court of Inquiry into the Huron disaster has been promulgated by the Secretary of the Navy. The conclusions are that Commander Ryan is primarily responsible for the loss of that vessel, and that Lieut. Palmer, the navigating officer, made errors in navigation ; also, that the deck officers on the night of her loss might have been at fault in not ascertaining the accuracy of the perpendicular soundings reported to them from time to time. The ship is reported to have been in every respect stanch and seaworthy, and she was iu that condition up to the time she struck. J. B. Jones, Major commanding the Texas State forces on the Rio Grande, telegraphs Congressman Mills, at Washington, that 150 of the mob engaged ia the San Elimio affair vm Mesie»n rtttWM from Mexico. avid tfett

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they had been drilled by a regular Mexican officer for days previous to the fight.

POLITICAL POINTS.

It ia said that James T. Farley, the new Democratic Senator from California, who is to succeed Sargent in March, 1879, is a silver remonetizer and an extreme free-trader. Mr. FarlejAis also known to be opposed to granting a subsidy to the Texas Pacific or any other railroad. He is opposed to Chinese immigration, and favors the abolition of customs and the establishment of free trade. The Grangers of Nebraska, at their recent annual convention, passed a series of resolutions favoring the unlimited issue of greenbacks.

DROWSED BY A DOG.

A Convict Battling for Jlle and liberty in the Waters of the Savannah. [From the Savannah News.] A report was current in the community on yesterday morning of an uprising of some of the convicts belonging to the force under the lease of Col. T. J. Smith, now at work on Hutchinson’s island, opposite the city ; and the escape of seven, after the guard had been overpowered and murdered. In the northern side of tho building occupied by the forces as sleeping quarters there was a hole about two feet square, where the chimney of the sugarrefinery stood, which had been closed up with bricks, mud being used instead of mortar. About quarter after 1 o’clock George Billups, a negro, who slept near the opening, managed to free his feet from his shackles, and, pushing the bricks out, worked himself slowly through the hole, which as about three feet from the ground. In getting out" however, he struck against the man who slept in the bunk next to him. The movement awakened the fellow, who, raising himself, discovered George’s legs just disappearing through the aperture. He at once gave an alarm, crying to the guard who was on duty at the door that a man was escaping. The guard darted around the building and caught sight of George running toward the bank of the Savannah river. He immediately opened fire on the fugitive, firing six times at him. About three hundred yards from the building one of the dogs caught the flying negro, who was impeded in his flight by the dense swamp reeds. After a short struggle, during wkich the guard fired at him again, he succeeded in freeing himself from the dog, and continued running toward the river. On reaching the river bank the negro plunged boldly into the water, and the dog after him. When about twenty yards from the shore the dog seized him again, and a fight for life and liberty ensued in the waters. The night was clear, but not sufficiently clear to enable the guards to discern where the man wa3. His cries and struggles with the dog were heard, and in a few moments the dog returned to the bank. As nothing was seen of the convict on this side, it is believed that he was drowned It is supposed that he was wounded by one of the shots, and it is certain that he was badly bitten by the dog when he was first caught and during the struggle in the wate* The morning was very cold, and he would most probaply have been numbed before he could have swum to this side, even had lie not been injured. Hence there is but little doubt but that his dash for liberty resulted in his finding a watery grave. George Billups was a young negro convicted of burglary in Fulton county Superior Court.

Fashions in Lingerie, Etc.

Plain deep cutis of double black crape with collars to match are worn by widows. Plaited frills of black crepe lisse with the same at the wrist, or else cull’s, are worn for all other first deep mourning; but these are only worn a short time, as the preference now is for white about the neck and wrists. Large white cuffs of very sheer organdy have a hem or facing an inch wide stitched on, and are fastened by thread buttons; these are worn outside the sleeves. There are more dressy cuff s made of three row’s of levers edged with fluted footing, and held by a black ribbon bow. Breakfast caps for widows have large crowns and plaited frills of organdy muslin, with a wide band of black basket-woven ribbon around the crown. More dressy caps for widows are flat pieces for the top of the head made entirely of widow’s ruches of crimped white tarlatan, with four strings of narrow black ribbon tied under the back hair. Squares and pointed Mary Stuart coiffures are made of revers, footing or organdy, with ruches; a black bow is laid on top; some have wide, white muslin strings tied beliind. Black stockings are now most used by ladies in mourning. Balmoral skirts are of black twilled wool or of fine felt, trimmed with a single knife-plaiting. Undressed kid gloves are liked because they have no luster, and, moreover, are less expensive than dressed kid.— Harper's Bazar.

A Dog and Bear Fight.

On Wednesday evening Mr. Nat Bagwell, in company with one or two of his neighborhood, were out in tiie woods two miles north of Bobinsonville, Bed Biver county, Tex., hunting for wild hogs. They came upon a dead hog, just killed and half devoured by some wild animal, and, looking around, they saw a few yards off in the bushes what at first appeared to be a huge hog, but what proved to be a very large bear. One of the party proceeded to a neighbor’s bouse to get dogs to make the attack, while the others remained to watch the wild beast. The dogs soon came, and then the fight commenced. Fifteen or twenty shots were fired during the encounter, and when the chase ended all the dogs were killed and the bear was two miles from where the fight began. The carcass was brought into Clarksville last Thursday. —Clarksville (Tex.)Banner.

A. Japanese Rip Van Winkle.

The Japanese have tho story of Bip Van Winkle in another form, A young man fishing in a boat on the ocean was invited by the goddess of the sea to her home beneath the waves. After three days he desired to see his old father and mother. On parting, she gave him a golden casket and a key, but begged him never to open it. At the village where he lived all was changed, and he could get no trace of his parents until an aged woman recollected having heard of their names. He found their graves 100 years old. Thinking that three days could not have m;ide such a change, and that he was under a spell, he opened the casket. A white vapor rose, and under its influence the young man fell to the ground. His hair turned gray, his form lost its youth, and in a few moments he died of old age. The country population of California is only equal to the population of Ban Irostcwoo,

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

1877.

From Its Entrance to Its Exit, The Old Tear’s Record of Great £ Events. CHRONOLOGY. JANUARY—I. Republicans and Democrats each organized a Legislature In Louisiana.... 2. The Porte refused the terms of the International Conference... .4. Extradition treaty signed between the United States and Spain. .... 6. French steamer L’Amarique went ashore at Seabright, N. J.: no lives 105 t.... 7. Duel between J. G. Bennett and F. May. ....8. Two Governors were inaugurated in Louisiana, and the Metropolitan police were attacked by a mob at the State House..; .9. M. Grevy elected President of the French Chamber of Deputies. The Nicholls Government took possession of New Orleans and besieged Gov. Packard in the State House.... 10. Louisiana Republican Legislature elected W. P. Kellogg to the Senate.... 11. President Borrerro, of Ecuador, overthrown.... 16. Gen. Diaz overthrew Iglesias in Mexico. Senators Blame, Windom and Ferry re-elect-ed.... 17. News of a terrible famine in British India. Arrest of the Louisiana Returning Board ordered by the House of Representatives for contempt 18. Turkish Grand Council unanimously rejected the modified terms of the Peace Conference.... 19. A great famine reported in C0rea....21. The chief engineer of the Ashtabula bridge committed suicide... .23. Afire in the Stonehill colliery, England, caused the death of fifteen miners... .24. John R. McPherson elected Senator from New Jersey 25. Judge David Davis elected Senator from Illinois.... 26. The Electoral-Commission bill passed by Congress... .30. Both houses of Congress choose members of the Electoral Commission, and tho Justices of the Supreme Court select the fifth Judge....3l. The Electoral Commission organized.

FEBRUARY—I. The electoral count commenced.... 3. Five firemen were injured by an explosion at a fire in New York... .5. Midhat Paha succeeded by Edhem Pasha as Grand Vizier of Turkey. The steamer George Washington sank off Cape Race ; twenty-five lives 105 t.... 8. A nolle proseequi was entered in the bribery case of Secretary Belknap.... 11. The Egyptian troops defeated by.Abyssinians.... 12. Thirty-three illicit stills were captured in Georgia, and Lieut. Mclntyre was killed... .15. An attempt made to assassinate Gov. Packard... 16. The steamer George Cromwell wrecked, and thirty lives 105 t.... 24. Postmaster McArthur, of Chicago, discovered to bo a defaulter. Three schooners were wrecked on Long island coast, and eleven men drowned.... 27. Gen. Diaz was elected President of Mexico. MARCH—2. The result of the electoral count announced in Congress. Gov. Hayes arrived in Washington... .3. President Hayes took the oath of office, the 4th of March occurring on Sunday... .5. Inaugural ceremonies took place. Seven livos were lost by the burning of a hotel at Karns City, Pa." One life and $500,000 lost by fire at St. Louis. The Senate met in special session.... 8. Seven lives were lost by a panic in St. Francis Xavier church, New York.... 12. Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, resigned... .19. Disturbances take place in New Orleans between the Nicholls and Packard factions ... 20. J. Donald Cameron in Pennsylvania and Stanley Matthews in Ohio elected Senators... .21. Special commission sent to Louisiana by the President. Ex-Mayor Oakey Hall disappeared from New York... .23. John D. Lee shot at the scene of the Mountain Meadows massacre.... 27. A mill reservoir broke away at Stafford, Ct., destroying $500,000 in property and two lives... .30. Good Friday services held. APRIL—I. Easter service celebrated ...6. Herr Camphausen replaced Prince Bismarck in the German Chancellorship... .9. Spotted Tail surrendered.... 10. Troops were withdrawn from Columbia, S. C., and Chamberlain gave up the fight for the Governorship... .11. Southern Hotel, at St. Louis, burned ; fifteen lives 105 t.... 17. Tweed confessed.... 19. The Nicholls party gained possession of the Louisiana State Government... .20. Troops were withdrawn from New Orleans... .24. Judge Spofford elected Senator by the Louisiana Legislature. The Czar issued a proclamation of war against Turkey, and Russian troops crossed into Rouraania... .27. Russian

troops occupied Giurgevo.... 28. Twelve men j were kft'ed at a fire in Montreal, Canada. I MAY—I. Three men killed by the falling of : the New York Postoffice r00f....2. Russians j captured IJayazid.... 3. Ten persons buried j under a landslide in Canada.... 4. Threo | murderers executed at Abbeyville, S. C.... I 6. Proclamation issued for an extra session of Congress. Seven men killed by the bursting of a boiler on the steamship Sidonian.... 7. Eight lives were lost by the bursting of a boiler on a coasting vessel at the mouth of the Mississippi... .8. The most important sewing-machine patents expired. ... .9. Seven men killed by a colliery explosion at Wadeville, Pa... .10. Russian troops crossed the Danube in small force at Galatz. ....11. Several persons were killed by the falling of the walls of the Rockford (Ill.) Court House 12. Linseed-oil workh in Brooklyn were burned; loss, $500,000. A drawn battle took place near Batoum.... 17. Gen. Grant sailed for Europe. Six persons were killed by a collison between two vessels near New York.... 19. The Russians captured Ardahan... .21. Roumania declared herself independent.. ..22. Seven men were killed While launching the steamer Saratoga, at Chester, Pa. ...24. The Russians were repulsed at Kar5....26. A Turkish monitor was sunk in the Danube... .29. TheEuglishAmerican Fisheries Commission was made up 30. Decoration day generally observed. Gen. Grant arrived in England. JUNE—4. Tw’enty lives lost and much property destroyed by a hurricane at Mount Carmel, 111. A train was wrecked near St. Louis, for the purpose of plundering, killing three persons .... 8. Eleven men were killed by the falling of a wall at a fire at Bridgeport, Ct. Galveston, Tex., was visited by a $2,000,000 fire.... 9. Contract was made for placing the 4 per-cent. 10an... .15. Six lives were lost by the breaking of a dam at Belvidere, N. J... 18. A fight was reported between the troops and the Nez Perce Indians in 1dah0....21. Eleven Mollio Maguires were executed in Pennsylvania. A terrible fire destroyed $12,000,000 worth of prsperty and thirteen lives at St. J0hn....22. One officer and thirty-three soldiers were killed by Indians in 1dah0.... 25. The Turks won a battle in Asia Minor. Bustchuk w r as bombarded by the Russians... .26. The President visited Boston. .. .27. Harvard College made the President anLL. D... .28. A steamboat boiler exploded at Silver Lake, Mass., injuring eighteen persons. JULY—I. Crossing of the Danube effected by 60,000 Russians at Sistova... .2. A Turkish sortie from Kars was repulsed.... 3. Wells and Anderson, of the Louisiana Returning Board, were indicted. The Pan-Presby-terian Council commenced at Edinburgh.... 4. Independence day celebrated as usual. Six persons were drowned at Woburn, Mass., by the upsetting of a b0at....6. A twelve hours’ battle was fought at Biela ; the Russians captured the place 9. Gen. Ord’s troops followed a party of horse-thieves into Mexico. The village of Pensaukee, Wis., was destroyed by a tornado, killing six persons. Russian troops captured Tirnova. The Turks destroyed Cherketil. a town on the Black sea coast.... 10. The Russian left wing w’as driven out of Armenia.... 11. Seven workmen were suffocated by gas in a coal mine at Brookfield, Pa.... 15. Gen. Howard fought the Nez Perces, losing thirteen men. The steamer Eten was wrecked off the Chilian coast; over a hundred lives were 105 t.... 16. Two St. Louis banks suspended. The Russians captured Nikopolis.... 17. The strike on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad took place. Russian treops under Gen. Gourko passed the Balkans.... 20. A riot took place at Baltimore on account of the strike ; troops fired into the crowd, hilling eight persons.... 21. The Russians were defeated at Plevna. The Turks lost Sohipka pass.... 22. Many lives and millions of property were lost by a riot at Pittsburgh. United States troops were sent to the scenes of disturbance at various points. Capt. Crapo finished the voyage to England in a whale-boat... .25. Rioters and police skirmished in Chicago... .26. More fighting took place in Chicago.... 31. The Russians were again defeated, with a heavy loss, at Plevna. AUGUST.—I, The troops fired on the mob at Scranton. Pa., killing four and wounding iwvMft}. % The Turks were reooexrttfl &t

Eak4-S*gfcni. ...6. News was received of a terrible famine in British India.... 10. The first telegraph line in China was put in operation. .... 11. Gen. Gibbon fought the Nez Perces in Montana, losing twenty-five In killed and wottndea, the Indians losing forty-five... .16. The Turks bombarded Ginrgevo.... 16. Centenary of the battle of Bennington was celebrated.... 18. A satellite to the planet Mars was discovered.... 22. The Turks were repulsed at Schipka pa55....28. Osman Pasha was defeated at Timova... .25. Russian troops were defeated in Armenia... .26. Bridge at Omaha was partially destroyed.... 29. By the wrecking of a train on the Rock Island road, twelve persons were killed. SEPTEMBER.—3. A $350,000 fire happened in New York; feur persons were burned to death.... 4. The Russians captured Lovatz. .... 5. Crazy Horae was captured and killed, .. V. 12. About 100 lives were lost by the collision of two vessels in the English channel. .... 13. Heavy fighting occurred around Plevna.... 15. Yellow fever made its appearance at Femandina, F1a.... 22. Gambetta was sentenced to impriaonmont... .24. The upper stories of the Patent Offioe were burned out. Osman Pasha was reinforced and revictualed at Plevna... .30. Col. D. H. Arm stong was appointed Senator from Missouri. OCTOBER—2. William C. Gilman was discovered to be a forger to a heavy amount at New York. Mukhtar Pasha repulsed two atr tacks... .3. Suleiman Pasha succeeded Mehemet Ali in the command of the Army of the Danube 5. The steamer Massachusetts was wrecked on Long Island sound. The Nez Perces surrendered to Gen. Miles. .... 12. Gilman, the forger was sentenced to five years in prison 13. Mukhtar Pasha was forced to retreat..... 15. Congtessmet in special session : Samuel J. Randall was elected Speaker of the House. The Republicans carried the French election 16. The Russians gained an important victory in Armenia. About 10,000 cirgar-makers struck in New York 20. A Roumanian attack on the Grivitza redoubt was repulsed with terrible slaughter 22. Upward of 200 lives were lost by a colliery explosion near Glasgow, Scotland 25. Desperate fighting took place northwest of Plevna 27. Kars was completely invested. NOVEMBER—I. President Hayes visited tlm State Fair at Richmond, Va. Oakey Hall returned to New York 4. Earthquake shocks were felt in many places in New England and Canada 6. Daniel W. Voorhees was appointed Senator from Indiana 12. A Turkish attack on Gen Skobeleff was repulsed.... 14. Field, Leiter & Co.’s store was burned in Chicago 16. Three banks closed at Reading, Pa. The French Ministry resigned... .17. A mill burned at Fall River, Mass.; loss, $500,090. .... 18. The Russians carried Kars by assault. A French Cabinet was organized.... 23. The Fishery Commission awarded $5,600,000 to the English claimants. A great fire occurred at Bahia, Brazil.... 24. The war steamer Huron was lost off the North Carolina coast; over 100 lives lost. Great damage by floods took place in Virginia.... 29. Thanksgiving generally observed. DECEMBBR—I. Kellogg and Butler were seated iu the Senate.... 3. Congress met in regular session. Eleven lives were lost by tho burning of the steamer Lotus... .4. The Russians were defeated at E1ena....7. The Turkish advance on Tirnova was checked.... 9. Osman Pasha surrendered unconditionally ...12. The Servian troops were ordered to cross the Turkish frontier.... 13. Suleiman Pasha was defeated in an attack at Matchka. .... 15. The Porte called for tho intervention of the powers... .20. Milne’s Hotel, Edinburgh, Scotland, burned ; ten persons killed. Candy factory boiler iu New York exploded and building burned; about fifty persons killed.

NECROLOGY.

JANUARY—3. Gen. J. J. Abercrombie, U. S. army; Roslyn, L. L; 73.... 4. Commodore CorDelius J. Vanderbilt; New York ; 83.... 8. Rev. Alexis Caswell, President of Brown University; Providence, It. I.; 78.... 15. Ethar Shepley, ex-Chief Justice of Maine and ex-United States Senator; Portland, Me.: 87.... 17. Rear Admiral Joseph Smith, U. S. navy; Washington; 86....26. Daniel Haines, formerly Governor and Judge of Supreme Court of New Jersey; Hamburg, N. J.; 73... .28. Signor Blitz, magician -. Philadelphia ; 66. FEBRUARY—4. N. T. Changamier, senior General of the French.army ; Paris ; 70.... 6. Col. John O’Mabony, Irish patriot and exile ; New York ; 60. Rear Admiral James Alden, U. S. navy; San Francisco; 68....8. Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes, U. S. navy; Washington; 76.... 10. Rear Admiral Theodoras Bailey, U. S. navy ; Washington ; 72.... 11. Sir Wm. Forgusson, eminent English surgeon ; L0nd0n69.... 18. Rear Admiral Charles 11. Davis, U. S. navy: Annapolis, Md.; 70....20. Rear Admiral Louis M. Goldsborough, U. S. navy ; Washington, 72. ....21. Maj. Gen. Amos B. Eaton, U. S. army; New Haven, Ct.; 71.... 25. Gen. A. Von Steinwehr, U. S. volunteers; Bqffalo, N. Y.... 27. Ex-Gov. Joseph Johnston, of Virginia; 92. MARCH—2. Jcel T. Hart, American sculptor; Florence, Italy’’; 67....3. George Odger, representative of the workingmen of England. .... 6. E. J. Moses, Chief Justice of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C 7. Matilda Heron, actress ; New York ; 46... .8. Gen. John F. Benjamin, U. S. volunteers, former M. C. from Missouri; Washington; 60.... 10. Baroness Rothschild; Europe... .12. Mme. Ootavia Walton Le Vert, authoress; Augusta, Ga.... 18. Emory Washburne, ox-Governor of Massachusetts; Cambridge, Mass.; 77.... 25. Walter Bagehot, English political and financial writer; England. APBIL—3. Capt. Frederick Lanrbush, military adventurer: New York; 111. Amos Morse, former U. 8. Senator from Maryland; 82.... 10. Commodore Joseph D. Marvin, U. 8. navy; Yokahama, Japap... .11. RossWiDans, millionaire and mechanician; Baltimore, Md.; 80.. 22. Gen. William E. Lathrop, Commander of the Grand Commandery of the United States, Rochester, N. Y.; 83....29. Rev. William G. Brownlow, former Governor of Tennessee; Knoxville, Tenn.; 72. MAY—9. Commodore Benjamin J. Totten, U. 8. navy ; New Bedford, Mass.; 71.... 14. Charles H. Bryan, ex-Judge Supreme Court of California ; Carson, Nev. H. H. Emmons, Judge U. 8. Court; Detroit, Mich.... 17. Edmund Quincy, author ; Dedham, Mass.; 70. ... .19. Edward Kent, ex-Governor of Maine; Bangor, Me.; 75... .23. Wm. H. C. Hosmer, poet: Avon, N. Y.: 63.... 29. John Lotbrop Motley, historian; Dorsetshire, Eng.; 63. Fletcher Harper, publisher; New York ; 71. JUNE—4. Sophia Frederica Matilda, Queen of Holland; 59. ...7. Edwin White, historical painter; Saratoga Springs, N, Y.; 6Q....13. Ludwig lIL, Grand Duke of Hesse ; Darmstadt, Germany ; 71.... 14. Gen. Frederick Henning3en, filibuster aud author ; Washington ; 62.... 15. Lady Sterling Maxwell, authoress ; London, England; 70.... 17. Geo. T. Davis, former M. C. from Massachusetts; Portland, Me. Daniel D. Pratt, former Congressman from Indiana ; LogaDsport, lud.: 64.. . .18. John S. C. Abbott, historian ; New Haven, Ct.; 71....22. Commodore John R. Goldsborough, U. S. navy; Philadelphia; 69.. . .24. Robert Dale Owen, author, socialist and ex-Congressman from Indiana ; Lake George, N. Y.; 73. JULY—I. Robinson Palmer, first ' Senator from Maine; Perry, Me.; 91... .2. Samuel D. Evans, former M. C. from Texas; Washington; 68.... 7. Cardinal Angelis; Rome, Italy; 85.. 20. Thoma 3 Placide, actor; Tom’s River, N. J.; 70....27. Joseph H. Tuthill, former M. C. from New York; EllenviUe, N. Y.; 66... .29. Hon. George Ward Hunt, First Lord of the English Admiralty; Hamburg, Germany; 62... .30. Commodore*J. W. Swift, U. S. navy; Geneva, N. Y.... 31. Samuel Warren, English novelist; London; 70. AUGUST—3. Gen. Charles Frederick Von Steimnetz; Landek, Silesia; 81.... 11. M. Blanc, European gambler, worth $17,000,000; Paris.... 16. Rev. Asa Dodge Smith, President of Dartmouth College; Hanover, N. H.; 72. Ralejgh Daniel, Attorney General of Virginia; Richmond, Va.; 72.... 18. M. Villiaume, French historian; France.... 27. Cardinal Bizarri; Italy; 75. James Ware, exJustice Supreme Court of Massachusetts; Salem, Mass.... 28. Ben De Bar, actor and manager; St. Louis; 64....29. Brigham Young, Mormon prophet; Salt Lake City; Utah; 76....30. Wilson Shannon, ex-Gover-nor of Ohio and Kansas; Lawrence, Kan.; 75. Raphael Semmes, commander of Confederate cruiser Alabama; Point Clear, Ala.; 68. SEPTEMBER—I. Edward L. Davenport, tragedian; Canton, Pa. ; 61 3. Louis Adolphe Thiers, ex-President *of France; St. Germain, France; 80... .James C. Hopkins, ex-Judge of U. S. Court; Madison. Wis .20. I<oui« Y, Bogy, U. S Senator

from Missouri; St. Louis; 64....23. Urbain Joseph Le Terrier, French astronomer ; Paris ; 66....26. Commodore James M. Prailey, U. 8. navy ; Philadelphia; 67. OCTOBER —8. Mile. Teresa Titiens, prima donna; London; 43. Archbishop James Roosevelt Bay ley, Roman Catholic primate of United States; Newark, N. J.;63.... 7. Edward Granville Eliot, former Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ; London ; 79.... George L. Fox, pantomimist; Cambridge, Mass.; 52... .Edwin Adams, actor ; Philadelphia ; 44... .29. Gen. N. B. Forrest, Confederate army; Memphis, Tenn. NOVEMBER—I. Oliver Perry Morton, U. S. Senator from Indiana; IndianaDolis, Ind.; 54. Field Marshal Wrangel. of the Prussian army ; Berlin, Ger.; 93.... 7. Amelia, Qneen Dowager of Saxony ; Dresden, Saxony ; 76. .... 10. George J. Barry, Chief Engineer of U. S. navy; Philadelphia; 44.... 17. Geo. S. Bangs, former Superintendent of Railway Mall Service ; Washington ; 62. Paul Boudet, former Senator and Minister of France ; Paris ; 77... .24. Moses H. Grinnell, ex-Con-gressman from New York; New York; 64.... 30. Commodore Charles H. B. Caldwell, U. S. navy ; Waltham, Mass.; 56. DECEMBER—7. Benjamin Huger, Confederate Major General; Charleston, 8. C.; 71.... 12. George W. Rawson, Justice of Supreme Court of New York; Lyons, N. Y.... 15. Lord Henry Percy, General in English army ; London ; 60.... 17. Gen. D’Aurelle de Paladines, French army; Pari*; 78.... 18. Charles Clarke, ex-Govemor of Mississippi aud Confederate General: Mississippi; 67.

THE UNCOVERED HAND.

How a Dog Led to Where It* Murdered Master’s llody was Burled. [From the Evansville Journal.] Some time during the latter part of last May a barber named E. A. Barlean, employed in the Union Depot barber shop, disappeared suddenly. At the time of disappearance he was known to have had about S7OO on his person, besides a fine watch and olher trinkets of value. A strict search was instituted, and the 23d of June his clothes were found, or at least a portion of them, in an outhouse. The discovery was made during the heat of the agitation caused by the railroad strike, and did not create such a sensation as it would have done under ordinary circumstances. But it whetted the determination of his friends, who set to work in earnest. On the 26th of June, Henry Burner, a carpenter employed also in the Union Depot, was found to be wearing some articles of clothing which had belonged to the murdered man, and for the possession of which he could give no satisfactory explanation. He was arrested and carried before Judge Heidenrich, but there was no proof of his complicity in the murder, and it was apparent that he must be acquitted.

Barlean’s friends, however, determined upon holding this clew, and pressed the prosecution, and, on the 29th of June, Burner was sent to jnil in default of bond, on the charge of grand larceny, based on his possession of the clothes. He has been in jail ever since awaiting trial, and is there at present. Yesterday morning great excitement was created in Vincennes by the discovery of the body of the murdered man. It seems he had a favorite dog, which, since his disappearance, has been hanging around the Union Depot. About three weeks ago the dog was observed to go very often to a clump of trees about a quarter of a mile from the depot, along the line of the Ohio and Mississippi railroad. He would disappear in that direction and be gouo for an hour or more, and then come walking back slowly to the depot. That was repeated almost every day, and yesterday morning a gentleman observed liim with curiosity. He saw the dog go and scratch under one of the trees. The gentleman, desirous of unravelling the mystery, followed him, but on his approaching. the spot, the dog became enraged aud showed fight. The gentleman armed himself with some stones, and soon made the dog retreat. He then proceeded to the place, and saw a dead man’s hand protruding from the earth and sticking up with open fingers. He examined the place, and found that the dog had scratched much of the earth away from the body, which was buried only a few inches from the sight. It was about 7 o’clock in the morning, but the discoverer of the horrible mystery soon procured assistance, and the body was readily identified as the body of the unfortunate barber, E. A. Barlean.

Our New Wheat-Competitor.

British India has several times made up deficiencies of agricultural products in other parts of the world. It did so during the Crimean war, when the supply of Russian jute failed; and again during the American war, when the exports of Indian cotton rose at a bound from 200,000,000 to 800,000,000 pounds per annum. Western Europe now wants wheat, and India has gone into wheatgrowing. An article in the last number of the Fortnightly Review gives an interesting statement of the progress of this industry during the last few years. It shows that the imports of Indian wheat into Great Britain increased from 291,200 bushels in 1872 to 6,136,160 bushels in 1876, and to 9,283,130 during the first nine months of 1877. These figures have special significance in view of the fact that wheat-growing is still a new branch of agriculture in India. When the facilities for gathering the crop and bringing it to market are improved, as they eventually will be, India, which is already the third wheatexporting country in the world, may successfully compete with the United States for the first position. India has the advantage of every variety of climate and' soil. Whatever can be grown in the tropics or the temperate zones can be produced there. Tribune.

A Boy’s Letter to Booth.

The following graceful letter, addressed to Mr. Edwin Booth, was sent to the office of the Utica Republican the other day, with the request that it should be given to the famous actor upon his expected arrival in that city : West School House, Prospect, December the eighth-th, Mr. Edward Booth. Dear Sur and friend : Heeling that you was going to come to Utica to perform in a play called Hamlet I would like too say that us boys is getting up a Exhibitun for the benefit of the diseased Soldiers and their widows und orphans and would like to engage you to take the leading part. I have talked it up with the boys and will do the square thing with you, and I am arterized to make you the following offer. We will come down after you with a good conveyance and will give you at the rate of Ten Dollars per day and board, and shall want you about one week. If you think it necessary you can have one or two of your best wimmen actars come up with you but we cant pay them over about Three Dollars a day and feed. You know how it is yourself, this kind of business is awful unsertain. You can have some fun out of it a hunting deer and foxes around Flamsburgs and Ed Wilksuns Please Let me know as soon as you can. Yours truly, James Sweet. P. Scrip.—ls you come eallating to hunt, get Frank Meyers’ hound. She is a good one. Yours truly, James Sweet. Direct to Prospect N. Y. care of George Wardin.

A colony of Texan emigrants is forifiing at Rutland, Vt., and an effort is making to have it the largest eolony ever sent out from New England,

$1.50 ner Annum.

NUMBER 46.

DIPHTHERIA.

A Care for tlie Dreaded Disease. [From the Scientific American.} Dr. E. N. Chapman, of Brooklyn, N. Y., has discovered an antidote to the poison of diphtheria, by which the percentage of deaths is reduced to less than one in fifty. Statistics show that the percentage of recoveries in cases treated under the usual practice is thirteen, or eighty-seven out of 100 sufferers succumb to the fell disease. 0 Diphtheria first appeared in this country in 1858. Dr. Chapman, in 1859, lost several oases, and became distrustful of the regular methods. He had been using aToohol in the cure of ship-fever, and he determined, though contrary to all rules, to try it in diphtheria. To his surprise, several of his patients recovered. He tried qmnia, and found it acted well, but not so quicklv. At last he settled on a combination of the two, alcohol and quinia, and with these remedies he claims that diphtheria is more amenable to treatment than many common diseases. In an epidemic, such as diphtheria, all are affected by the morbific agent, but a few only yield to it. Mature, vigorous persons have vitality enough to resist the disease. Children and weakly adults are its usual subjects. Dr. Chapman considers that there is, almost always, superadded a local and direct exciting cause, such as defective exercise, improper diet, dark rooms, damp houses, imperfect ventilation, and poisonous emanations from decomposing filth in privies, cesspools, sewer-pipes, etc. To such agencies the strongest constitution will soon succumb. The blood being deteriorated, its vitality is lowered; and then the sympathetic nerves, failing to receive due stimulus, waver in their efforts to carry on the animal functions. “All local treatment,” he says, “is worse than useless. It exhausts the nerve force, and induces greater injection of the blood vessels, thus favoring the exudation. “Alcohol neutralizes the diphtheretic poison, sets free the nerves of animal life, subdues the fever and inflammation, destroys the pabulum that sustains the membrane, cuts short the disease, conquers its sequelae, and shields other members of the family from an attack. Upon the subsidence of the fever, as is usually the case in from twenty-four to thirty-six hours, a purulent secretion begins to loosen the membrane, and soon, thereafter, to detach it in flaky, ragged fragments. This process may take place, and recovery be possible, even when the larynx and trachea are implicated. The membrane is seldom renewed, when this secretion is maintained by a steady use of the remedy. Alcohol is as antagonistic to diphtheria as belladonna to opium, or quinia to malaria. Like any other antidote, it must be given promptly at the outset, or otherwise its potency will be lessened, perhaps lost altogether. ‘ ‘Alcohol does not act as a stimulant, nor induce any of its ordinary effects. Enough may be given to cause profound intoxication in health, and yet there exists no signs of excitement or odor in the breath. ” Quinia is an efficient alloy to alcohol. It energizes the ganglionic nervous system, and thus enables the organism to right itself and resume its function. Dr. Chapman sustains his position by citing numerous cases in which this treatment was successful. He states that, in his long experience, ne only knew of one case where a drunkard had diphtheria. He generally gives the alcohol in the form of whisky.

THE FLOWING BOWL.

Some Facts in Regard to the Liquor Traffic. In the annual report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue are some interesting facts for the consideration of social reformers and political economists. In the State of Maine there are no distilleries or rectifying establishments, but four breweries, six wholesale liquor dealers, and only 402 saloons. In the State of Kentucky, which is about equal in population, there are 764 distifleries, 54 rectifying establishments, 37 breweries, 240 wholesale liquor dealers, and 4,284 saloons. In Vermont there are only 2 breweries, 1 wholesale liquor dealer, and only 433 saloons. New Hampshire has 2 distilleries, 12 wholesale liquor dealers, and 930 saloons; while little Rhode Island has 42 wholesale liquor dealers and 1,270 saloons. The following table will show the number in some of the other States, in the order of magnitude of the traffic :

i i i STATES. » » 3 •§■ ~ | I f Hi f New York 11l | 379 74123,854 Pennsylvania 140 381 483 16,105 Ohio 1061 218 397 14,248 Illinois 75 148 247 10,548 California 401 182 269 8,408 Missouri 64 94 226 6,369 Massachusetts 39 36 251 5.386 New Jersey 158 59 40 5,518 Indiana 120 97 104 6,006 Michigan 1 153 80 4,696 Wisconsin 9 266 81 4i477 Maryland 32 77 176 3,320 Kentucky 725 37 240 4,224 lowa 24 134 70 3,691 Louisiana 1 12 144 3,280 Texas 12 42; 118 2,960 Tennessee 475 2 127 2,853 Virginia 616 71 49 2,578 Minnesota 117 34 2,044 Georgia 300 3 80 2,028 Connecticut 189 29 1 58 2,495 North Carolina 1,026 | 37 1,884 District of Columbia j 15' 17 1,105

The above are the States which show the greatest number of saloons, wholesale liquor dealers and breweries. These statistics are compiled from the number of licenses issued by the Government, and, of course, do not include the thousands of places where liquor is sold illegitimately. The total number of licensed saloons or drinking places in the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1877, was 164,598, or, calculating from a population of 45,000,000, one for every 280 persons. The total number of wholesale liquor dealers is 4,604; brewers, 2,758 ; rectifiers, 1,130; distillers, 4,992. In the District of Columbia there are more saloons than there in Colorado, Dakota, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, Washington Territory, West Virginia, or Wyoming. There are nearly three times as many saloon-keepers in the District of Columbia as in two-thirds of the States and Territories named.

One Fault.

He was a meek-eyed Granger, and, as he came hesitatingly into our presence, an uncommonly slinkly-looking yellow dog slunk in between his master’s legs. “Mister editor,” said the visitor, “that there dog may be homely, but he is the best cattle dog in this country; yes, sir, he is the best cattle dog I ever saw, but he has one fault—just one fault, sir—he won’t look at the cattle till they are oooked. "ms-burner's Falls (Mass,) Reporter,

gemocratif £mtinel JOB PRINTINB OFFICE IJu better facilltlee than any office In Kortbireatern Indiana for the execution of all branches of «TOB FRUSTTING. PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Dodger to a Price-list, or from a Pamphlet to a Poster, black or colored, plain or fancy. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

LAST TEAR AND THIS. BT MBS. M. A. KIDDER. Last year, when wedded life was new, And, like the springtime, promised bliss, Each hour and day of rosy hue— I now, my friend, contrast with this 1 You ask me what I miss from out My household orbit, aa I move 7 I answer, with a wife’s sweet doubt, “ I miss the atmosphere of lore. “ Last year my husband’s gentle hand Would pluck from out my path the thorn, And gladly ransack sea and land, That he his 1 darling’ might adorn. The loving look, the tender tone, The anxioua heart, with fond care rifa All these I miss, as here alone I sit, a sad, neglected wife. “ Whence came the change I cannot tell; 1 only know that, day by day, X tried to do my duty well, A faithful help-meet, grave or gay; I only know I miss the smile Of him who was my hope and pride— The loving words that did beguile My spirit, when a happy bride.” Oh ! man, could you but know the gloom Of that fond heart your love once thrilled, That waits within the silent room— An empty chamber, never Ailed ! The deep-drank agony that speech Can never tell! That dreary life! You’d place your heart within the reach Of her, your faithful, loving wife 1

WIT AND HUMOR.

Men who have made their mark— Those who can’t write. A man with a false set o’ teeth does not necessarily have a falsetto voioe. The Philistines are not the only people on record who were jawed to death. Woe to the inexperienced little fish who goes out to enjoy himself on his own hook. When is a bald-headed man apt to be reminded of his youthful days ? When he thinks of his top. “No, ma’am,” said a grocer to an applicant for credit, “I wouldn’t even trust my own feelings. ” Two oystebs in a gallon of lukewarm fluid at a church fair are no longer called stews, but aquariums. Bbown says he has been so often deceived in the chicken he gets at his boarding-house that lie now calls it the mocking bird. A thin person may succeed as a lecturer, but when a fat man gets through speaking and sits down, he always leaves a deeper impression. A woman suggests that when a man breaks his heart it is the same as when a lobster breaks one of his claws ; another grows immediately. Pbobably one of the most trying times in a man’s life is when he introduces his second wife, 17 years old, to his eldest daughter, who is past 20. Pbofessob—“ In one evening I counted twenty-seven meteors sitting on my piazza.” Class expresses great astonishment at the sociable character of the heavenly bodies. “ A man who’ll maliciously set fire to a shed,” said Mr. Slow, “ and bum up twenty cows, ought to be kicked to death by a donkey, and I’d like to do it myself.” Slow is very severe sometimes.

“ What will the Indians do with their money when they get home ?” inquires the Graphic. They won’t get homo with it, stupid. Do you suppose the noble white man is entirely dead?— Rochester Democrat. He wouldn’t swear to it.—A witness, on entering the box had a Testament presented to him, but he declined to bo •worn. Being asked his reasons for refusing, he naively replied : “I’ll tell a lie wi’ ony mon i’ England, but I’ll not swear to it.” Now come the days when the sturdy farmer dumps a load of dirt into some mull-hole in the highway, yells, “ Haw, Buck!” at his off ox, pricks the nigh one with a bradawl; and goes home under the impression that he has worked oat his road tax in full.— Puck. A young man hired as a clerk was told by his employer that all the clerks slept at the house, and that it was closed punctually at 10 every night. “O, don’t apologize!” said the youth. “ I don’t care what time it’s closed, if it’s only opened early enough in the morning.” A shipwrecked Irish sailor was narrating how he and his companions had floated about at sea for twenty days in an open boat. “ And what did you do for food, Pat, when the provisions gave out?” asked a bystander. “Shure, and we dined on one of our officers. ’Twas the first mate we’d had in a fortnight,” was the reply. They were sitting together like two crows on the same limb, and he was softly whispering of bright eyes, and souls that had but one thought, and mutual affinity of hearts, etc., when she, lifting her blue eyes to him, and allowing her lips, on which carmine wasn’t well spread, to fall slightly asunder, remarked : “What d’ye so-y ?” There was a little gathering the other evening, and a lady, with a desire to chasten the conversation, asked a young man if he had ever felt a deep and subtle thrill, a fullness of feeling, so to speak, that reminded him of another life. He said he had. It was when he was in the country, and the doctor called it cholera morbus and charged him four dollars a visit.

A Biver that Does Not Give Up Its Dead. The Colorado river (not our Texas, Colorado; is noted for “swirls,” so called. They occur everywhere, but only at high stages of water. A bubble rises from the bottom and breaks with a slight sound on the surface. The water at the point begins a rotary motion, so small that an inverted tea-cup might cover it. Larger and larger grows the circle, till a surface of forty feet in diameter is in motion, spinning round a fun-nel-shaped hole in the center, two or three feet across at the top, and coming to a point in the depths below. Often a large tree floating down the stream is caught, and its foremost end thrust up in the air twenty or thirty feet, whim the other passes underneath—the exposed end to be slowly drawn down again, and to disappear. Three soldiers—deserters from Camp Mohave—passing through the ravine in a skiff, immediately below the fork, suffered their craft to run into a swirl. One of the crew, at the first intimation of danger, threw himself overboard, beyond the charmed circle, and, as he swam away, he turned his head and saw the boat spin round until, one end being drawn into the vortex and the other upheaved iu the air, it slowly sank as it revolved into the turbid bosom of the river, its human freight to be seen no more; for the Colorado river does not give up its dead—no corpses lodge on its shores.— Huntsville Item.

Nevada has a law authorizing the public whipping of wife-beaters. A whipping post has been ceremoniously S laced in front of the Court House ia ■TUtiU.