Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1879 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

BOBEIGN NEWS. A London dispatch announces the death of Hir Itowland Hill, the founder of the cheap-poetage system. By the way of Rio Janeiro it is reported that serious riots have occurred in the Chilian capital, the people being dissatisfied with the conduct of the war. Late advices from Yokohama report that the cholera in Japan “continues virulent, but there are signs of abatement within the present month. Thus far, there have been 45,000 attacked and 25,000 deaths. The Government displays unflagging energy in confronting and checking the disease. The Emperor has given 970,000 from his private funds in aid of sanitary measures.” A large number of English farmers embarked at Liverpool for New York Uot week. The capital of some of them amounts to from 92,500 to 93,000 apiece. Several of those not quite so well ofT have formed partnerships, pooling their capital, one firm having an aggregate of 96,000. They will come West and “grow up with the country.” Two bands of insurgents have taken the field in Cuba. The fire at Irkutsk, in Siberia, according to an official report just issued, destroyed 1,200 houses and sixty lives. Within a period of two weeks, ending Aug. 20, the enormous amount of 98,000,000 in gold bullion was shipped from London to New York. W. S. & S. Caine, iron merchants, Liverpool, have failed. Liabilities stated at £150,000. The failure is partly owing to losses in the American trade. News received in New York from Cuba sots at rest all doubt as to the resurrection of the Cuban revolution. The tidings are that an army convoy has been captured by Capt. Rojas and a small band of Cubau patriots while on the road from Manzanilla to Bayamo. The booty that fell into the hands of tho Cubans was as follows: 930,000 in gold coin, intended for tho arrears of payment of troops; 60,000 cartridges; 500 rifles, a number of kegs of gunpowder, a large quantity of clothing, provisions, etc. A Berlin paper publishes statistics of tho wheat harvest throughout Europe. Take 100 as representing the average harvest, that of tho present year in Austro-Hungary may be represented by 78; Germany, 85; France, 78; Switzerland, 80; Italy, 82; England, 76; Russia, 79; Roumania, 90. DOMBSTIO INTELLIGENCE. East. Ex-United States Senator John C. Ten Eyck, of Now Jersey, is dead. Weston and Rowell, the pedestrians, have arrived in New York from England. They come to take part in tho international walking tournament to begin at Gilmore’s Garden, New liork, on tho 22d of September. The Oneida Community, whose internal dissensions and troublos from external causes have been the occasion of many articles during the last yoar, have taken an important step toward reorganization, by formally abandoning the system of complex marriages, or promiscuous intercourse of tho sexes. A magnificent statue of Gen. Custer, costing 915,000, has just boon unveiled at West Point The grand jury at Harrisburg, Pa., has indicted threo members of tho late Pennsylvania Legislature for conspiring to advise and promote corrupt-solicitation of members of tho Legislature. West. The Chicago wholesale houses in all linos of trade already report a very encouraging opening of the fall trade. At Columbus, Ohio, the other day, a respectable-looking man walked into tho Capi•tol City Bank, called President Rickley’s attention, and entered into conversation about the purchase of some bonds. In a few minutes another man came in and also engaged Riokley’e attention concerning some other business. Tho first man slipped away, walked over to the water-cooler, and Mr. Rickley supposed he was only taking a drink. Rickley’s attention being drawn toward tho last man, he lost sight of the man at tho cooler. Presently he saw him leave the bank. Going into the vault, Mr. Rickley discovered that 95,000 in currency and 915,000 in bonds wore stolen. The bold sharpers made their escape.

The Chicago Commercial Bulletin prints reports from 308 counties of the Northwest in regard to the condition of the springwheat crop. The increase in acreage is placed at 12. 20 per cent.; the average yield per acre is estimated at 12.1)2 bushels, against 11.42 last year, and the grand total of the yield is fixed at 137,849,615 bushels, against 108,744,374 bushels in 1878. This yield is divided* up among the States as follows: Illinois, 3,400,705 bushels; Wisconsin, 20,034,450; Dakota, 7,303,800; Montana, 02,500; Minnesota, 30,573,406; lowa, 19,882,000; Colorado, 181,000; Idaho, 450,000. Tho winter-wheat crop in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, lowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Wisconsin is estimated by the Bulletin at between 190,000,000 and 200,000,000 bushels. Tho Utah Supreme Court has reversed the order of Judge Boreman, under which several of tho Mormon chiefs were imprisoned for contempt, in refusing to obey the court in the matter of Brigham Young’s estate, of which they are executors. The prisoners are now at liborty, and some other means will have to be found by the claimants to get at the state. Full-page advertisements in the Chioago Sunday morning papers announced the appearance, tliis week, at McVicker’s Theater, of Den Thompson, “ the original and only” Uncle Josh Whitcomb. Of course, that was all that was necessary to crowd that large auditorium, t has been a standing conundrum with the sritics, “What makes Uncle Josh draw so?” People go to see the large-hearted old Yankee, not only once, but several times, and laugh and cry by turns throughout the performance. That would seem to be an answer to the query.

South. Castle Thunder, the old Confederate prison at Richmond, Ya., caught fire the other day, and burned down. At Memphis, for the three days ending at 6 o’clock p. m., Aug. 27, there were twonty-two deaths from yellow fever, and ninety-four new eases. Several prominent citizens had been attacked by the disease. Among tho deaths was that of Miss Fannie B. Moores, of Littlo Rock, Ark., a daughter of tho late Solon Borland, ex-United States Senator, and a lady of fine literary ability. The Governor of Tennessee has issued a proclamation urging the people of the State to contribute aid to suffering Memphis. Several cases of fever are reported at New Orloans. The wife of tho ex-Confeder-ate Gen. J. B. Hood died of tho disease, and Qep. flood bimseif and one of bis children are

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down with it Two deaths from yellow fever are reported at Bt. Louis, and there are said to be other cases scattered about the city. Mrs. Chisholm has gone to Kemper county, Miss., to attend, as a witness, the trial of the parties aecused of the murder of her husband, Judge Chisholm. She was accompanied by Gen. Stewart K Woodford, District Attorney at Now York, who will assist in the prosecution. For the two days ending on the evening of Aug. 29, twenty-seven new cases of fever and seven deaths from the plague were reported to the Memphis Board of Health. New Orleans dispatches of Ang. 30 report the disease spreading in that city. Henri Stewart and William Elliott were hanged at Fort Bmith, Ark.,.Aug. 29, for murder committed in the Indian Territory, There were fifteen deaths from yellow fever at Memphis, fpr the two days ending on the evening of the 31st ult. Fifty-eight new cases were reported to tho Board of Health in the same time. The authorities were confident that there would be an early abatement of the plague. The total number of new cases reported for the week was 171—white, 87; colored, 84. Total number to date, 848. Total number of deaths from yellow fever for the week, 51; total number to date, 228. The Howard Association report having 208 nurses on duty in 193 families; 132 white and 61 colored.—At New Orleans, no additional cases were reported for the three days ending on the Ist inst. Gen. J. B. Hood and his daughter Lydia died of the disease on Aug. 31— the father in tho morning and the daughter in the evening. Another daughter was seriously ill with the fever. Gen. Hood leaves eleven children, the eldest 10 years, the youngest (twins) 3 weeks. His physical condition had been bad for some time, caused, it is alleged, by financial reverses. The death of his wife affected him very much. He leaves a manuscript of the history of tho war, which he intended to have published this fall.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The President has appointed J. B. Leake District Attorney at Chicago, in place of Mark Bangs, resigned. The Secretary of War has reviewed the proceedings and findings of the courtmartial of Jan. 16, 1864, by which Surgeon General Hammond was dismissed from the service, and recommends that the findings and sentence be annulled and set aside, and that in accordance with the authority conferred by tho act of March 15, 1878, the name of William A. Hammond bo placed on tho retired list of tho army as Surgeon General, without back, present or future pay, or allowance of any kind whatsoever. Tho recommendation of tho Secretary of War has been approved by the President. A statement from the Internal Revenue Bureau shows that tho number of gallons of spirits produced during the fiscal year of 1879 was 71,892,017, against 50,1.03,053 gallons in 1878.

POLITICAL POINTS. Col. Brownlow, of Tennessee, recently had a conversation with George W. Childs in regard to tho nomination of Gen. Grant. The latter is ropiesented as saying that “another term as President could add no glory to a fame great as Grant’s, and his influence for good, with his countrymen of all parties, would be far greater out of office than in it. As the General’s friend, he was earnestly opposed to his candidacy. He was also satisfied that, it was distasteful to Gen. Grant to again be made a candidate for office.”

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANING!*. Col. L. D. Ingersoll, Librarian of the War Department, at Washington, and well known in nowspaper and political circles in the West, died recently in Colorado of consumption. The August crop report of the Department of Agriculture at Washington shows that the general average of the condition of com on the Ist of August was 93, against 93 in July. Tho area planted in buckwheat shows a slight decrease since last year. The condition of the potato crop is 93, against 88 in July. Tho snmmor of 1879 has not been favorable for the hay crop. The drought of June and July, which was so detrimental to other crops, also seriously shortened this. Timothy hay is i V>vo tho average in only eight States. The telephone is Beginning to compete with its elder brother, the telegraph, foi long-distance business. A line is said to bo nearly completed from the District of Columbia to Cumberland, in Western Maryland, something more than 100 miles. Two of the repeat ing stations are seventy miles apart. The celebrated trotting horse Rams Jias changed hands, and is now owned by Z. E. Simmons, a New York lottery man. The price paid for the horse was 936,000.

Revenue Receipts—lnteresting Facts.

A Washington telegram says the total receipts from internal-revenue taxation during the past year wore $113,448,830. The revenue came from six different sources, namely, the tax upon whisky, highwines and distilled liquors ; on manufactured tobacco, beer, and oth 2 fermented liquors; on the capital and deposits of banks; from the sale of adhesive stamps to be placed upon bank cheeks, perfumery, watches, patent medicines, and other things, and from a few other smaller sources. Tho 'ollowing table will show the exact amount obtained from each: Distilled spirits $ 52.520.284 Tobacco, cigars and snuff 40,135,002 Fermented liquors 10,729.320 Banks and bankers 3,198,883 Adhesive stamps 0,237.537 Miscellaneous sources 517,802 $113,448,880 l The increase in the production of distilled spirits within the last year has been greater than in any year since a record was kept, being more than 20 per cent. In tho fiscal year 1879 the production ivas $71,892,858, while in 1878 it was but $56,103,053, making an increase of $15,789,800 In one year. The amount of distilled spirits remaining in warehouse at the close of "the fiscal year of 1878 was valued at $14,008,773, while the amount remaining at the close of the fiscal year of 1879 was $19,208,603, an increase of $5,119,830. The increase in the exportation of liquors from this country during the last few years has been very remarkable, and from a mere trifle five years ago it has grown to be one of the largest branches of exportation. We are sending liquors to the countries from which we imported them five years ago. The following shows the value of liquors exported dqring the last five years: Fiscal year 1875 $ 587,413 Fiscal year 1870 1,308,900 Fiscal year 1877 2,529.528 Fiscal year IS7B 5,499.262 Fiscal year 1879 14,837,737

Grant and the Presidency.

Washington, Aug. 81. The Hon. Etihu B. Washburne, who is summering on the Eastern coast, has recently received a letter from Gen. Grant, saying that those who expect him, upon his return to' the United States, to enter into a Presidential campaign will be greatly mistaken. He says that, in his Presidential term of eight years, he has received whatever honor attaches to the position, and that he does not desire to bo President again, and does not conceive of any possiblo circumstances which could induco him to consent to be a candidate; still, while

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all this is true, he-adds that, if it should happen at any time that the Republican party should need him for any purpose, he would not fail to respond.

FEDERAL FINANCE.

COINAGE. The coinage executed at the United States Mint in Philadelphia during August aggregated 1,894,220 pieces, valued at 92,233,497. Of this amount 1,876,050 were silver. OUTSTANDING CURRENCY. The following is tho statement of United States currency outstanding on the Ist inst.: Old demand noleg 9 61.485.00 Legal-tendtr nc teg. a'l igguts 846,6 j 1.016.00 One-year notea of 1 1 47.145.00 Two year noteg of 1803 14.000.00 Two-year coupon notes of 1863 23,700 00 Comp .und-interest noteg 200,050.00 Fractional currency, ail issues 15,702,069.20 Total 8863,852,005.26 BANK REDEMPTION AGENCY. Following is a statement of tho operations of the National Bank Redemption Agency for August: National-bank notes disposed of during the month: Notes fit for circulation assorted and returned to the bankß of issue, 94,( 32,200; notes unfit for circulation assorted and delivered to the' Comptroller of the Currency for destruction and repl iceinent wi’h new notes, 92,735,500; notes of failed, liquidating, and reducing banks deposited in ilio treasury of the United States, 9519,0X1. Total for August, 1879, 97,287,3J0; total for August, 1878, 918,471,459. THE NATIONAL BANKS. The Comptroller of the Currency reports the amou-jt of national-bank circulation ou'standing, on tho Ist inst., 9329,344,147, exclusive of 91,448,840 of national gold bank notes. Total increase of national-bank circulation since the Ist of January last, 87,(21,293. The amount of increase in the month of January was ?fX)7,975; Feoruarv, 91,648,401; March, $1,081,026; April, 92,018,034; May, 9393,901; June, 9151,386; July, $266,240; August, 9853,410. There lias been an increase of legal-tender notes deposited for the purpose of retiring circulation since the Ist of January, 1870, of 92 ,285,273. The amount of 10-40 bonds ou deposit as security for circulating notes at national banks is 91.0,512,900.

The Spragues.

A dispatch from Narragansett pier, under date of Sept 1, says: “The seeming quiet that has reigned in the Sprague mansion at Canonchet since the return thither of Mrs. Sprague and her children and the hushing up of the scandal was broken in upon yesterday by the sudden departure of that lady, accompanied by her threo little daughters. The son chose to remain with his father. Mrs. Sprague claims that ever since her return to Canonchet with her children she has been subjected to many annoyances by the Governor, which culminated on Saturday in an actual outburst on his part. Her friends say the Governoi, coming home Friday morniDg intoxicated, suddenly went into the room where the nurses were dressing tho children, and, seeing Mrs. Sprague there, said: ‘l’ll show you who is master here! ’ and, without further words, took hold of her arm and shoulder, dragged her around the room, and attempted to throw her out of tne wiudow, saying before witnesses that he would do so. He was prevented from carrying his throat into execution by those presoiit. Thechildion were balf-drecaed, and screaming with fright. Mrs. Sprague began quickly to make preparation to Joave, and, Saturday afternoon about 5:30, quietly took her departure, accompanied by her three children, their nurses, and luggage. So well were her. plans arranged that tho Governor and his nephew, Arthur Watson, who w r ero keeping watch upon her movements, knew notliing about her departure until the party had a good hour’s start and were, many miles away. A suit for separation, brought by either husband or wife, will probably be at once instituted to settle the right to the control of tho children.”

Civil Service and Politics.

Washington, Aug. 29. charges have been preferred from different parts of the country before the President against Federal officials for active interference in the management of polilical conventions, and bo has been asked whether his Civil-Sorvico order is still in force, or whether, as has been stated in various quarters, ho now regards it as a dead-letter. To one of these correspondents the President, a few days since, addressed tho following reply: My Dear General: I have your note as to the intotorencco of Federal officeholders in the Republican County Conventions. This is the first I have heard of it. I agree with you that the interference of public officials with partisan political management ought to be stopped, and that the order on the subject be enforced. The truth is, that the less public officers have to do with partisan political management the better it is for the public, service an:l for their party. A public officer can best promote the interests of his party by rendering faithful and efficient service in performing the duties of his office. If you will send me the names of those you complain of, with a brief statement of the facts against them, I will see that the affair is looked into and justice done. I am glad to know that the ru’.e on the subject is more generally complied with as it is better understood, and that the public senti-

ment sustains it.

Elections This Fall.

Elections will be held in the following States on the days named : Maine, Sept B.—Governor and members of Legislature. Ohio, Oct. 14.—State officers and membersof Legislature. lowa, Oct 14.—State officers, members of Lc gislature, and one Congressman to fill a vacancy. Maryland, Nov. 4. —State officers and members of Legislature. Massachusetts, Nov. 4.—State officers and members of Legislature. Minnesota, Nov. 4.—State officers and members of Legislature. New York, Nov. 4.—State officers and members of Legislature. Wisconsin, Nov. 4.—State officers and mem bers of Legislature. Mississippi. Nov. 4.—Members of Legislature. New Jorsoy, Nov. 4.—Membersof Legislature. Pennsylvania, Nov. 4.—State Treasurer and member's of Legislature. Louisiana, Dec. 2.—On the adoption of the new constitution.

New York Greehbackers.

The New York Greenback State Convention was held at Utica, Aug. 29. Commodore William Voorhees presided. A delegate from Corning advocated a coalition with the soft-money Democrats, and nominated Allen C. Beach. The name was received with storm of hisses, and a recess was taken. After recess, Richard Schell, of New York city, was nominated for Governor. The nomination was reoeived with hisses, cheers, and great confusien. Mulford, of New York, said he and those whom he represented would bolt the nomination of Schell, and put a new ticket in the field, with a new organization behind it The name of Richard Schell was withdrawn. Harris Lewis was then nominated for Governor, and John Wciling for Lieutenant Governor both by acclamation. The ticket was then completed by the nomination of P. K. McCann for Secretary of State, John A. Shannon for Comptroller, Julian Winnie for Treasurer, George Wright for Attorney General.

Our Comical Progenitor.

A little fellow rushed into the street, recently, to look at a monkey that accompanied an organ-grinder who was playing in front of an adjoining block. Never having perused the “Origin of Man,” he gazed in wonder and admiration a few moments, and then rushing •into the house he met his grandmother, to whom he addressed this inquiry: “Grandmother, who made monkeys?” “God, my boy,” replied the old lady, in her candid way. “Well,” said the excitable grandson in rejoinder, “I’ll bet God laughed when he got the first monkey done !”—Norwich Bulletin. A bachelor, upon reading that “ two lovers will sit up all night, with one chair in the room,” said it could not be done unless one of them sat on the floor. Such ignorance is painful.

Bis Last Leap, as Described by an Eye Witness. [Rochester (N. Y.) Cor. Chicago Inter-Ocean.] Sam Patch, as he was familiarly called, was a native of Paterson, N. J., the son of “poor but honest parents,” and for some years lived there alone with his widowed mother. He is said by some persons to have been a lazy, shiftless and dissipated fellow, but I was assured by an old and reputable merchant of the place, a few years ago, who knew Sam well, that this was not so. The same gentleman kindly took me to the place where he made bis first leap into tile Passaic river, of some eighty or ninety feet, and which he repeated several times. During the summer of 1829 Patch went to Niagara falls and made one or two successful leaps into the seething waters below. In October of the same year he came to Rochester and gave out that he would leap from a small island above the upper falls. This was the last of October, and was an occasion that called together more people than Rochester ever saw before. Fully 50,000 were on hand to witness, for the first time, a daring feat that no other man had ever attempted in this country. On this occasion I took my stand below the falls, close to the water’s edge, and nearly under the projecting rock from which he was to jump. Promptly at the hour announced, Sam made his appearance on the spot and was greeted with cheers and a tiger such as any human might be proud of. After surveying the vast assemblage for a moment, he removed his outside garments and tied a red bandana arourfd his waist. Soon he waved a farewell to the people on all sides, which no doubt sent a chill through many a bosom, and, with arms extended, leaped into the waters below. I shall never forget the sensation as I looked up and saw him coming down. Just as he reached the water he brought his arms to his side, and went in without a ripple upon the surface. In an instant he reappeared and swam ashore, with no injury, save a slight bruise on his shin against a sunken tree. He was taken upon the shoulders of some present, and carried up the bank, where he received the hearty congratulations of all the vast, admiring crowd. On the 9th of November following lie madt? another and his last leap, this time from an elevated platform 25 feet high, making the whole distance of the leap 125 feet. It was a chilly, unpleasant day, with some ice in the river, and, to protect himself from the cold, he drank rather too freely of brandy, as we noticed in following him close on to the island, from which he was destined never to return. He ascended the place of leaping with apparent easo and coolness, and, after looking out upon the sea of heads for a moment, he as, before, removed all his garments except pants and shirt, and, tying the bandana again around his body, he motioned to all a last farewell, and walked off to almost instant death. He struck the water on his breast, and as it closed over him we felt sure that for him this was the “last of earth.” Diligent seai-ch was at once made for his body, but all in vain. Early the next spring, however, it was found floating at the mouth of the river at Charlotte, with the handkerchief still on. His remains were decently interred in the village cemetery.

A correspondent of the Weekly Baptist writes: A recent number of the Weekly Baptist speaks of a French actor praying for success in a new piece. I am reminded of another ease resembling this, which has never been in print, and was told in confidence by the actor himself a few weeks before he died. “Billy” Otis was, to use Keene’s own expression, the best Lord Dundreary she ever had, and he repaid her good opinion by a profound regard which seemed after her death to pass into reverence for her memory. It was he who, when hardly more than a mere boy, carried the invitation to President Lincoln to attend the theater on the fatal night of the assassination. Before his death, which occurred not far from four years ago, he left the stage and gave recitations, repeating whole plays and carrying all the parts along, as well as giving shorter impersonations, reproducing even the manner of Laura Keene and other actresses, without unnatural affectation and with wonderful power. I once heard him render “Our American Cousin,” and when he arrived at this point he paused and told the story of the assassination as it was behind the scenes. When the shot was fired he was in the act of buttoning Miss Keene’s glove as she was preparing*to go on the stage in bridal costume. At first, mistaking the shot, she sent a request that the carpenters should not fire pistols during the acts, and then, when the truth became known, rushed to the washstand, and saturated the whole front breadth of her magnificent bridal dress with water, which she wrung out in a vain attempt to resuscitate the unconscious victim. On the stage Miss Keene’s influence was on the side of good morals, if not religion, and profanity was' rigidly excluded, even where, in the “School for Scandal,” the whole point seems to lie in the word “damnably,” as uttered by the deceived and undeceived husband. It was remorselessly stricken out. “They will think badly enough of us; Jet ns give them no occasion.” It was a secret known only to her that Otis was in the habit of offering a short prayer just before going on the stage, such as “Oh Lord, help me through this act.” Sometimes he would find himself upon the stage and his prayer forgotten, when he wpuld step behind the scenes a moment and return, upon which she, understanding where he had been, would say (aside), “God bless you, my boy 1” Not long after he confided this secret of his life to me a fatal sickness seized him, and he soon went where he knew whether his prayer had b.een a real utterance of Christian faith or not.

R. B. HAYES.

Colors of Thoroughbred Horses.

The modern thoroughbred horse is most commonly bay, frequently chestnut, less frequently brown, rarely black, and still more rarely roan, and scarcely ever gray. Cecil, an authority, writing in 1855, calculated in the previous thirty years the Derby had been won by sixteen bays, seven chestnuts and seven browns; the St. Leger by seventeen bays, eight browns and five chestnuts. Since 1855 the proportionate number of bays has been maintained, the number of chestnats has increased, the number of browns diminished, and no gray or roan has won either of these

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An Actor’s Prayer.

great stakes. Gustavns, a gray, won the Derby in 1821, and Frederick, another gray, won the same race in 1829 —nothing of that color since. There has been no gray horse of repute since Chanticleer, who, at 4 or 5 years old, in 1847 and 1848, won many royal plates, the Goodwood stakes and the Doncaster cup. There were only two grey stallions named in the Racing Calendar of 1872—Master Bagot, an iron gray, and Strathconan, a light gray, descended from Chanticleer, through his dam. —Book of the Horse.

USEFUL INFORMATION.

Window gardening with geraniums, calceolarias and mignonette will keep flies out of the room. A composition of three parts tin, five parts bismuth, and two parts lead, will melt at 21 deg. Fahr. This forms a good fusible plug for boilers. Apply wet tartaric acid to the iron stain on your marble-top table. Let it remain on the spot twenty-four hours, wash off with sapolio or strong potash water. Be careful not to put your hands in the potash water, as it may take off the cuticle, and perhaps make sores in the flesh of your hands. Flies have a habit (unfortunately for housekeepers) of settling upon freshly cleaned mirrors and windows. To prevent this, cut up on onion into a bowl of water, and after leaving it in long enough to impart the strong flavor of the onion, remove it, and use the water for cleaning. A friend suggested -that a few drops of oil of pennyroyal would answer the same purpose, and be more agreeable to use. The Scientific Neivs calls attention to the importance, at this season, of getting rid of all vile smells about dwellings, and makes this practical suggestion: “The article commonly used to disinfect foul places is chloride of lime, but in reality it is not of much value. It may and generally does remove bad smells, but the cause still remains, as the chloride simply destroys the gaseous emanations. The much-advertised disinfectants are usually catchpenny nostrums, and unworthy of notice. One of the very best known disinfectants is old-fashioned ‘ copperas,’ or sulphate of iron, which can be had very cheap.” To Mend Stockings. —A lady, who finds in the practice of the homely art that she brings comfort to her family, gives these suggestions as to stockingmending: Given a dozen pairs of woolen ribbed socks. Select from them the two or three pairs most worn; cut away the heels and toes, and lay by the better parts for use in mending—well, yes, for patches. From the best hose retained to be repaired cut out the worn heel, and from the patches cut a new heel precisely like the old one. First sew the bottom of tbe heel, then sew it into the place made vacant. Use soft cotton, or else the tine, soft mending yarn, which comes, of all colors, on spools. Sew tho raw edges “over and over,” about as close as a nice overcast; so that when this new heel is worn out you have only to pull the thread and insert another. The thread must not be so tight but that the seam will flatten and become imperceptible to the foot. To sew in such a heel will require about one minute. If the toe is worn, so that the new dams seem to take from the old, and the rent is made worse, cut it off so far toward the instep as is thin. From the top of one of the socks put aside cut a new toe like the old. Sew across the end, and then around the foot, observing to make the seam, as before, flat and soft. When again worn out, repeat the process, till the entire dozen, like the fabled ducks, have eaten one another up.

Labor Statistics.

Superintendent Wright, of the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics, has prepared a report for the next Legislature of that State. He says that the number of convicts in 1878 in all the State prisons of the Union was 29,197, of whom 13,186 were employed in mechanical industries. The greatest number was in New York and the smallest in Rhode Island. Three systems of labor were found to be in practice. The first is the contract system, which is adopted in Massachusetts and generally in the Northern States, and which consists in selling the labor of the prisoners for a stipulated time and at a fixed price per day to the highest bidder, the work usually being done within the walls of the prison, under the supervision of an agent of the purchaser. The second is the lessee system, which consists in leasing convicts to a party for a specified sum per year, with the provision that the lessee shall feed, clothe, and discipline the convicts, and, indeed, attend to the entire work of their care and maintenance. This system is adopted in some of the Southern States. The third is the “publicaccount” system, according to which the oificers of the prison purchase all the raw materials, manufacture the goods, and sell them in the open market for the best price they can get, the same as any manufacturing establishment. At the rate of 40 cents a day, which was the average, the wage-earn-ings for the whole year amounted to $1,624,515. At $2 per day, which is the average price of similar labor outside of prisons, these same men would have earned $8,122,576. The products of prison labor, if we take the labor at $2 per day, did not exceed $20,000,000 in 1878, while the products of all the mechanical industries of the United States amounted to $5,000,000,000.

The Fathers of the Church.

Some racy stories are yet extant in Virginia and Pennsylvania of the old Methodist and Presbyterian clergymen, who, when the country was first settled, used to wander up and down the wilderness, like Elijah, preaching and warning the ungodly. One of the most noted was Lorenzo Dow, who, it is said, once followed a robber into the forest, arrested hinq single-handed, brought him into the “ meeting,” set him in front of the pulpit, and preached the terrors of the judgment to him until the poor wretch fell on his knees and confessed where he had hidden the booty. On another occasion, Dow had a public argument with a man who professed infidelity. The good old preacher’s righteous rage waxed hotter and hotter, until, exclaiming, “'V’engfeance is the Lord’s, but He chooses His instruments,” he leaped from the pulpit, and then and there gave the astonished scoffer a sound threshing. Another godly old man was troubled with a most vicious, scurrilous wife, He

bore her revilings meekly for years, until, finding the cow dead in the barnyard, a way of escape suggested itself to him. He brought her out, placed her at the head of the cow, and he stood at its feet. “ I promised to bear with you, Peggy, till death us do part,” he said. “ Now I’m free! ” and he walked away, never to return. A diary kept by one of these primitive pastors is still extant, hnd is a curious record of humble, unflinching faith in God in petty trials. “ Canrot go to the synod without a hat,” is one entry. “ Have no hat at all. Mentioned it in my prayer to-night. So did wife.” A week later, he writes: “ Have no hat yet, although I have spoken to the Lora about it every day. Must go bareheaded, and humble my vanity.” However, the next day he writes: “ Rec’d $2 from Joseph Bright. Bought a hat. lam thankful to Him who sent it.” These men were ignorant, probably, but they made up in sincerity and zeal what they lacked in education. They had, too, shrewdness, experience and virtue, and were usually the advisers the “sense-carriers,” to use a homely term, for large districts of country. “ The minister ” settled many a dispute, quieted many a domestic feud which now would end in a lawsuit or a divorce.

Hugo’s Home.

• The salon is hung with red silk, bordered with yellow bands. Over the fireplace is a Venetian looking glass, Venetian brackets, and the chandelier is also old Venetian, with colored arms. Upon a clock, in the middle of the mantelpiece, is placed a Japanese elephant, with his fighting castle. The body of the elephant is of gilded bronze, with his trunk raised in the air. An old piece of furniture, inlaid with steel, a Louis XV. clock, representing Time and his scythe, a sofa and chairs in velvet and silk, complete the furniture of the room, the ensemble of which conveys an impression of luxury together with a taste for the beautiful things of art. Mme. J. Drouet’s customary place is upon the sofa to the left of the fireplace, and here she holds, as it were, her private reception, while the master occupies the sofa on the other side, and is always to be found in that portion of the room, standing or sitting. Extremely courteous with ladies, he kisses their hand when he salutes them, is very spiritualistic, and every evening discourses upon the immortality of the soul. Once, at least, in the course of the evening he feels tho necessity of speaking upon religion and on the ideal; he is also very fond of anecdote, tells a story admirably, if a little slowly, and possesses a wonderful memory which never by any chance fails him. Beyond the saloon is a smaller room, hung in splendid Cordova leather. The bedroom and dressing-room of the poet are on the first floor. The garden is charming, with fine trees, and the kitchen large and comfortable, leaving nothing to be desired. M. and Mme. Lockroy inhabit a small house next door, and communicating with that of the poet.

Avariciousness of the English.

Nothing is more novel and stunning in its effect upon travelers from this country in England then the constant obtrusion of the everlasting sixpence in places where we should consider it an insult to all proper or sacred feeling. An Englishman in almost any rank will accept pay or money for kindly -services, which here the poorest would offer gratuitously. If he tells you the way on the street or gives you the time of day, or a light for a cigar, no matter how good his coat, the chances are that you will not offend him by a tip. If a lady calls at a friend’s house, she is expected to tip the servant who shows her to the drawing-room; if you stay by invitation at a private house over night, you will find the whole corps of servants drawn irp waiting for their money in the hall in the morning; their master saves himself so much of wages by your gifts, and counts on saving it. Very few Americans would be willing to throw open the privacy of their homes to the public to increase their income; but if an Englishman’s house is his castle, or can by any means be made a show place, he turns an honest penny by exhibiting it. The shilling, or crown, or sovereign paid by visitors to the servants who escort them through the great houses goes, not to the servant as is often supposed, but directly into the pocket of the master. In the cases of Chatsworth, Blenheim, and places of that grade, the revenues of the ducal owners are increased thousands of pounds by this means. The American is just as fond, probably, of the almighty dollar as his British cousin, but he manages to get it in a different way. —New York Tribune.

Men Who Make the World Better.

“I haven’t been in these parts,” observed a grizzly old gentleman at our shoulders in car 124, “for nigh on to twenty year till now, and I love to ride up and down in these ’ere cars to sea if I can set my eyes on the face of an old friend. It does me good to see human faces, for I believe there is something good behind ’em. I'm a forty-niner. I remember the time when 1 was 5,000 miles from home, straight as the crow flies, without a red cent. I was hungry, thirsty, tired, miserable and moneyless. ‘ Hello,’ said a voice; * Hello back,’ said I, and then a young fellow came down the land, and he said, 1 Old boss, how are you ? ’ ‘ Hearty,’ said I, ‘ and dead-broke.’ Then the young fellow plunged his hand into his pocket and drew out as much as S3OO in bright gold. ‘ Help yourself,’ he said, and turned his head away. ‘ I knew you when I saw you only a dusty speck on the road. You gave me a drink and got me a doctor when I was threatened with the tremens, and there is nothing in the world too good for you.’ I love to live rfly life over,” continued the old Californian, “because I seethe noble in human nature all along the line. Let ’em say what they please, there is such a thing as principle among men, and there are lots of us who try to live up to it.” As the car stopped on a switch, he stepped off and stretched himself under an elm in a numerous-daisy field, beaming upon the world at large approvingly over his gold-bowed spectacles.^—Providence Journal. The small, meek-looking wife of Tom Cottrell, a Missouri horse-thief, followed him weeping out of a St. Joseph courtroom, after his trial and conviction. In the corridor she flew at the Sheriff like a tigress, threw him on the floor, and thus enabled the prisoner to Blount a mule and escape.

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NUMBER 30.

EDWIN BOOTH.

The Great Tragedian Going to Englnml. [From the New York Tribune.] The most important and interesting theatrical hews that has reached us in many a day is the news that Edwin Booth intends to act in London, and that negotiations are even now in progress, between Henry Irving and himself, with a view to his appearance in that city. Edwin Booth is our greatest tragedian. He is in the prime of life; he has been thirty years an actor; his name is associated with some of the noblest dramatic undertakings that ever were attempted; he has been of incalculable benefit to the stage, equally by his pure life, high principled conduct, dignity, integrity, and rare genius; he never has had anrequal on the American stage in Hamlet or in Richelieu; he stands alone in those characters which are colored with romantic weirdness, and of which the central attribute is spiritual pathos; he has been accepted in a larger repertory of great characters than any contemporary actor has even attempted; and he is a better actor today than at any previous period of his life. Edwin Booth on the London stage, accordingly, will be a very prominent and significant figure—for he will illustrate to the British public not alone his own genius and accomplishments, but the condition of American taste and scholarship with reference to the drama in its. highest branches. That public has already seen our greatest comedian. Jefferson, and has awarded to him evon a higher rank than was claimed for him here—not hesitating to name him with the best artists of the best school in France. When it has seen Edwin Booth it will fully understand to what degree of excellence the art of acting has been carried in the New World Mr. Booth, will go over next spring, and it is not unlikely that Mr. Irving, a little later in the same year, will make his longcontemplated visit to America. Mr. Booth acted in London in September, 1861, under Buckstone’s management, in the Haymarket- appearing as Shy lock, Sir Giles Overreach and Richelieu—and subsequently in Liverpool and Manchester; but that was eighteen years ago, in war time! It will be very different now. Mr. Booth should—and we confidently believe he will—play great engagements in London and the principal cities of the kingdom, and afterwards in Paris and the dramatic centers of Germany. His standard repertory how includes Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, lago, Macbeth, Shylock, Wolsey, Richard 11., Richard 111., Benedick, Petruchio, Richelieu. Payne’s Brutus, Bertuccio in the “The Fool’s Revenge,” Ruy Bias and Don Csesar de Bazan, and this list could be considerably extended. It is an extraordinary thing that any actor should have attained to an even degree of excellence in such a wide variety of great characters. Mr. Booth has done this—and, in several of them, has risen to a lonely pinnacle of eminence, peerless and incomparable.

Fashions in Beard-Wearing.

English spies who penetrated into the Norman camp before the battle of Hastings brought back word that the Normans were mostly priests and shavelings. Harold laughed and said these priests would prove good men of war. It seems that the habit of entirely shaving the face thus prevailed among the Normans, while even the dandies of the English court wore mustaches, and the less fashionable people probably did not shave at all. In England only priests were shaved, whereas in the Greek Church priests set more store by their beards than did even Julian the Apostate'. If Peter the Great fined all bearded men, our Elizabeth also raised money by taxing beards. It was in her reign, however, that the beard was clipped into as odd shapes as a Dutch boxwood bush, while the more distinguished courtiers dyed theirs a bright red color. The beard was valued at 20 shillings in that old English law in which everything had a price, while the thigh, if- broken, could be paid for by a fine of 12 shillings. The free wearing of the beard in private life was long thought “un-English”—that is to say monstrous. It was connected with revolutions and Leicester square. The reform, the liberty to -do as people please, is almost an affair of the last thirty years. Comparatively few people find it necessary to present themselves with what Macaulay “gave the person who shaved him,” namely, “three cuts in the chin London News.

The Zulu King.

King Cetywayc, whatever his natural ability, is a savage —a man of blood, who ruled his people with a rod of iron, taking human life whenever it suited his purpose or his caprice. Not long before the war, a daughter of Dr. Lindley visited the kraal of the Zulu chief, and describes him as a fine specimen of “the noble savage,” havirg a commanding presence and rather a benevolent countenance. But the impression of benignity was marred by certain things which came to her ears, though they were told in whispers. A “cliief man ” had just been strangled, because some witch doctor had pointed a finger at him, an 1 accused him of witchcraft, at which a maid of the court, who had loved him, could not restrain her tears, whereupon she was strangled, too; and still another was made to share her fate, because of of an untimely manifestation of sympathy. It is not long since Cetywayo ordered a massacre of hundreds of the young women of his people, because they refused to marry his old soldiers. The overthrow of such a brutal despot is a greater relief to his own people from the terror which keeps them in bondage than it is to the English colonists who are their neighbors. — Congregationalist.

Honors to the Brave — A Goose Story.

On Wednesday an interesting fight between two geese was witnessed in a vacant lot on Summer street, near South Union. A flock of geese were engaged in extracting from a large mud-hole such delicacies as are relished as food by that festive bird, when a strange goose made his appearance and began quietly grubbing, evidently deeming the mud-hole common property. For some time the appearance of this stranger was not noticed, but at last one of the geese looked up and beheld the intruder, and, walking to his companions, seemed to communicate the intelligence to them. A short consultation was held, and one of the number approached the intruder, and, as subsequent actions proved, extended a challenge for a com-

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bat. This challenge was promptly accepted, and the two began to fight, all the geese surrounding the two cackling fiercely. For a period of about ten minutes the warfare was waged fiercely, and at the end of that time the intruder began to press his antagonist so hard that he took refuge in flight. The intruder, after following liis opponent a short distance, returned to the spectators and was received by them in silence. Hie raised his wings and strutted round, cackling all the time. The whole orowd then followed the vanquished goose, hissing and striking at him with their mouths, and forcing him away. The victorious intruder was taken into full membership, their former companion being banished. The process of grubbing in the mud-hole was then resumed with unwonted activity.— Nashville ( Tenn .) American.

INDIANA NEWS.

School Statistics. Two important statistical tables, compiled from reports received from county officers, have been completed at the office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. One table shows the number of teachers licensed for the present year, and the summary of the returns shows the following totals: MALE TF.ACIIKKB LICENSED. For two years ; . 1 ,005 For on and a half years .1,615 Fur one yea- 2,1 Ml For half year 2,400 Total 8,1(8 FEMALE TEACHEIIK LICENSED. For two yea's ... F r one and a half years UtO For one year 2,( 40 For half year 2.2.’ft Total 5 81.1 Total < umber of te chers licensed 13,1167 Number < f applicants reject, d 1,88(1 Number o licenses revoked....’ 1 The following table shows the apportionment of school revenue to the several counties, the number of children, the amount of revenue received from liquor licenses, and the total of Congressional township revenue, common school revenue and tuition revenue from local taxation paid since the last apportionment:

)i f I | Total Tuition | j Revenue | Revenue from j Liquor Li- : cense* | . \Xo. of Children, j

COUNTIES.

Adams., 5,0 5 $ 800.00 $ 10.92’.9, Alien 2}.: 50 3 750,00 52 328,87 Bartholomew 7.770 300.1)0 19.1v3.31 Benton 3 OSS 200.(0 12 903.40 Blackford.. 2,575 -1,302.77 Boone 9,433 800.00 10 513 4(1 Brown 8 727 0.(110. -11 Carroll 0117 15.002.57 Cass fl.fW 558.(0 , 21,-112.71 Clarke 0.8.8 1,0.0.00 Sl.mi 07 Clay 8.007 17.488.r4 Clinton 8,022 100.00 18 757.48 Crawford 4,272 ..... 0.813 1 5 Daviess 7,828 1,075.00 14.528.80 Dearborn . 0.8(6 750.00 17.0V1.83 Decalur 8 118 17,803 20 DeKalk «,!*« 1,11:0.0) 11 800.14 Delaware 8,510 17.485.44 Dubois 6,123 800 00 1 0.581.03 Elkhart 11.210 20 o 11.30 Fayette 3.000 .100.00 11 7513.8 Fioyd 0,100 13,100.80 'Fountain 7,030 1.000.00 16.157 07 Franklin 7 710 100.0 ft 18,535.00 Fulton 4,003 600.00 0.735.(5 Gibson 7,030 20(l.( 0 17,4('8.23 Grant 8,018 18,050.07 Groeno 8,472 500.00 17 420.77 Hamilton 8.341 20.105.88 Hancock 6,70(1 11 030.04 Harrison 8,550 800.00 1 5,475.08 Hendricks.... 7,817 ..... 18.041.50 Henry 7.912 2 0.10 10.001.82 Howard : 6 650 14 406.6 S Huntington 7,005 500.(10 13.415 05 Jack-soil 7,005 500.00 18 42 .12 Jasper 3,378 10,120.78 Jay. 6 717 14,450.12 Jefferson 12,(Hilt 2,00U.00 22.235 55 Jennings. 6.007 100.00 12,821.05 Johnson 6,535 700.00 18,080.1)0 K nox 10,821 074.00 18,387.01 Koseiusko 0,008 15 ’.OO 20,150.00 Lagrange 5.204 700.0 u 13,085.11 Lake 5.225 150.00 15.346 88 Laporta 10.000 1,150.00 20,878.32 Lawrence 0,503 . 12.007.31 Madison »,850 l 500.00 20 4(50 01 Marion 35 202 6.700.00 63,714 47 M.rsball 8,386 200.00 10,670.14 Marlin 5.000 9,281.01 Miami 7,030 500.00 1 8 281.53 Monroe 5,573 11,070.55 Montgomery 0,724 400.00 21.803.15 Morgan 6,712 700.00 17,858 77 Newton . ........ 2.7-43 200.00 8,405.28 Noble 7,877 1,500.00 18.616.88 Ohio 1,078 200.00 4.143.43 Orange 5.262 100.00 0,465.61 Owen 6.047 300,00 12,713.41 Parke 6.60.) 10,008.60 Perry 6.654 11.236.35 Pike 5,716 200.00 10,7(5.40 Porter 6,228 15.411.23 Posey ; 6,270 700.00 16.W6.56 Pulaski 3,677 300 00 6.779 04 Putnam..... 7,936 400.00 20.1(61.56 Randolph 9.128 22,791.13 Ripley 8.060 1,150.00 13,897.68 Kush 6.181 8,114.94 18,973.38 Scott 3,139 100.(0 5.463.88 Shelby 8,476 17,751.37 Spencer 0 211 700100 17,558.35 Starke I 1-037 400.00 4 803 05 St. Joseph '. 6,227 100.00 10,077.11 Steuben 10,570 20.753 86 Sullivan 7,463 200.00 14,573.50 Switzerland 4,685 7,501.81 Tippecanoe .. 14,512 1,574 32 30,450.10 Tipton 7T... 6,285 600 00 10.280.01 Union 2,581 8,711.08 Vandcrburg 17,05 s 2,500.00 20.503.27 Vermillion 4.(111 200.00 12,072.35 Vigo 15.554 1.200.00 34 303.55 Wabash 8.525 • 22.083.07 Warren 3,932 100.00 13,130 08. Warrick 8,283 800.0(1 16.272.66 Washington 6,966 200.00 13 215.07 Wayne 13,173 31.221.55 Wells 6,312 (0,487.89 White 4,524 400.00 12,433.28 Whitley 5,865 200.00 11,529.77 Total 707,845 <54,138.20 $1,535,452,92

The amount of Congressional township revenue is $110,585.11, of common school revenue apportioned $1,050,649.32, and of tuition revenue from local taxation $320,080.28. State Items. The State receives $104,138.26 from liquor licenses. President Hayes, while at Indianapolis, will be the guest of W. B. Wright, late of the Indianapolis, Bloomington and Western railroad, and formerly a citizen of Columbus, Ohio, and near neighbor of Mr. Hayes. George W. Leach, acting as a detective, lately arrested James Clark, at Sullivan, for a supposed outrage. The man attempted to escape, when Leach fired three times. The first shot killed an innocent spectator, Henry Fry, Leach’s best friend. The second passed harmlessly between two young ladies walking arm-in-arm. The third shot hit Clark in the back. Clark and Fry will die. The large barn and training stables belonging to James Wilson & Son, of Flat Rock farm, four miles south of Rushville, have been destroyed by fire, together with eleven head of horses, all fast ones and very valuable. The following are the names of the horses: Vesta, Sid Maury, Georgiana, Lucy Matlock, Hannah !>., Western Sportsman, William L., Bay Sallie (pacer), Holbrook (stallion), Reaper and Donald Smith. The value of the stock will exceed $20,000, and the total loss will exceed $30.000. The fellow who dropped into a chair containing a tack has been uneasy ever since, and now sits down on the installment plan.