Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1879 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

voeeign news. Between seventy and eighty miners were killed by a fire-damp explosion in a Saxony oolliery. A man forced his way into the hall of the Medical Council, at the War Ministry, in Constantinople, and wounded four persons with a dagger. The attempt on the life of the Czar of Russia, at Moscow, appears to have been a much more desperate affair than tbe first reports of the occurrence indicated. An infernal machino was placed in the railway track, and the mine exploded by a battery at a distance. Fortunately for the imperial traveler, s baggage train was mistaken for that of the royal party, and thus the Emperor narrowly escaped unscathed. The baggage train was blown to atoms, and, but for the mistake, there would not have been enough of the Czar loft to insure a funeral. A war has broken out in Western Africa between rival cliiofs, in which 200 persons have already been killed, and all tho prisoners on both sides cooked and eaten. Advices from South America report that the allied Peruvians and Bolivians have been completely defeated at Tarapaca, Peru, by the Chilians, who have taken possession of the town; and that, per contra, the Chilians have been disastrously defeated by the allied Peruvians and Chilians at Loa. Twenty villages in Eastern Boumelia liavo risen in arms against the Government. A terrible famine prevails in Saxony and upper (Silesia. Franco has been visited by a heavy fall of snow, suspending railway traffic in seme districts. New York’s Cleopatra’s needle is almost ready for shipment from Alexandria to this country. United States bonds are hardly to be had in tho London market now. Thomas Brennan, another of the Irish agitators, was arrested at Dublin, Deb 5, for utterances at the Balia meeting. Egypt is preparing for an invasion of Abyssinia. A tidal wave recently swept over tho Monkishal island, in the Bay of Bengal, drowning several hundred persons. The Nihilists who made the last attempt upon the life of the Czar covered up their tracks so thoroughly that they will probably never be discovered. An immense Irish meeting was held at Castlerea, on Sunday, Doc. 7, which was addressed hv Pur mil and other Irish agitators. Delegations were presont from Balia and other adjaoont towns. Tho men wore green sashes, rosettes, and sprigs of green in their hats. One delegation cai riert pikes in tlioir hands, which somo fmenred with red paint to giva them a sanguii ary and blood-stainod look. There was much ixbtement, and a serious collision wa 8 narrowly averted. M. Le Boyer, Frenoh Minister of Justico, has resigned.

DOMESTIC) INTELLIGENCE. l£a»t. A fire on Market and Sixth streets, Philadelphia, burned proporty valued at upward of half a million dollars. Megarga Bros, and A. M. Collins, Bon A Co., paper dealers, woro the principal sufferers. The Presbyterians of Philadelphia have boon robbed by flio of their finest church edifice—the Oxford Protbyte lin —which was built, a few years ago. at a cost of $240,000, Another bungling execution was witnessed at Bmothport, Pa., the other day. Andrew Tracy, a young fellow who, in September, 1 78, killed Mis i Mary Itoilly because she refused to marry him, was the victim. The culprit was conducted to the scaffold, where it was supposed everything was in prime trim; but whon tho Sheriff cut the trap rope the culprit fell to the floor of the corridor, the knot-end of the .rope loosening. A now rope was obtained, and Tracy was lifted to the platform again, and tho Sheriff cut tho traprope again. This timo the doomed man’s neck was broken. Tracy bequeathed his remains to a relative, with a request that they bo disposed of according to tho ancient Roman custom — burred instead of buried. A building on River street, Troy, N. Y., occupied by several large shirt and collar manufacturers, was burned last week. Loss estimated at $350,000. Eighteen huudred persons were thrown out of employment by the fire. E. B. Bigelow, the woll-known inventor, has just died at Boston. William Ketcham, United States District Judge for tho Western District of Pennsylvania, is dead. West. Gen. Grant visited Dubuque, where the whole populace turned out to welcome him, on the Ist inst. Reports come from the West that the Mormons are tryiDg to incite the Ute Indians to another uprising. Chicago papers record the death of Gen Jefferson C Davis, of the United States army, which occurred at tho Palmer llouso, in that city. Gen. Davis was a native of Cla.ik county, Ind , and was 51 years of age. Ouray, the friendly Ute chicftaiD, has finally succeeded in enticiug the White river savages into tho agency at Los Pinos. Tin y arrived on tho let inst., all armed to the tee'b, a in’ wo**r w 'coined by the Peace Commisdonera and. ilnir neon, prepared in the same manner against a sudden attack. As the season approaches the holidays it will always be noticed that Manager Haverly, of the Chicago Theater, manages to secure “ Humpty Dumpty ” for tho delectation of the litdo folks. With no departure from the usual custom, that sprightly yointg gentleman “ sits on the wall ” at Haverly’s every evening this woek. Tho Tony Denier troupe has the particular Ilumpty niw there, and no better travels. A monster meeting, called to express sympathy for the Irish in their land-reform agitation, was held at Chicago a few nights ago. A number of prominent citizens made speeches. The Bonanza firm of miners have sold the Yellow Jacket and Hble A Norcross mines. Old Sitting Bull is giving the Canadians considerable tronble, and they threaten to expel the whole band of Sioux savages. Gen. Grant arrived in Chicago on the evening of Deo. 8 for a six days’ sojourn. He was received quietly by a few personal friends. A terrible aooident occurred at a mining shaft in Virginia City, Nev., a few days ago. The engineer, at the ohanging of the shift, ran the cage into the sheaves. Eighteen men were In the eage, and on the skip beneath. One man was instantly killed, four fatally and t»J the rqst seriously injured.

THE Democratic sentinel.

* JAS. W. MoEWEN Editor.

VOLUME ill.

Colorow, one of the Ute chiefs, testified before the Adams Peace Commist-icn, at Los Pinos, that the Indians had been encouraged by the Mormons to make war on the whites, the Mormons offering to furnish them with arms ana ammunition. Advices from Los Pinos Agency to Dec. 5 report the commission as “ progressing finely. Jack has so far proved the most valuable witness yet examined, answering all questions promptly, keeping nothing back. He claims the removal of the agency was the commencement of the trouble; that on an elevation of 8,700 feet, with the frost every month of the year, farming was impossible; that he and his hands received no rations for a year, which he claims was a violation of the treaty of 1808; that his engagement with the troops was a fair fight. Ho calls Douglass a squaw man for having attacked the agency, and insists that a white man under the same circumstances would have fought Thorn burgh. The Chicago Commercial Club gave Gen. Grant a grand banquet at the Grand Pacific Hotel, in that city, on the evening of the oth inst In the afternoon of the same day the General performed the ceremony of planting a tree at Booth Park, in the southern section of the city, in tho presence of a large and distinguished assemblage. South. A largo force of armed moonshiners surrounded sixteen revenue deputies near Atlanta, Ga., and delivered a prisoner whom the deputies had arrested. Medford Waters (colored) was hanged at Blkton, Md., last week, for the murder of Jenkins Whaley (colored;, Nov. 13, 1878. His last words, spoken from tho gallows, were: “Don’t none of you ever take this pattern. Keep out of it.”

WASHINGTON NOTES The public-debt statement for November shows tho following figures: Decrease of debt, #799,828; cash in the treasury, $207,217,088; gold certificates, #18,87'.),200; silver certificates, $7,007,910; certificates of deposit outstanding, #14,100,(XX); refunding certificates, #2,011,750; legal tonders outstanding, s34fj,081,010; fractional currency outstanding, $15,704,848. Secretary Sherman has Issued a circular iuviting proposals for the sale to tho Government of $1,000,000 of the 6 per cent, interest-bearing bonds of the United States, known as “ sixos of 1881.” The bonds thus to be purchased will be applied to tho sinking fund. The House Committee on Elections has dismissed the Indiana contested case of McCabe vs. Orth, and tho latter will be allowed to retain his seat unmolested. Secretary Evarts telegraphed to the Czar the President’s congratulations on his escape from assassination. The Attorney General has notified the House Appropriation Committee that the amount needed as a deficiency appropriation for • United States Marshals and Deputy Marshals during the current fiscal year is #(>00,000. This is the amount voted by the two Houses at the last sossion, which President Ilayes vetoed. The Secretary of the Interior decides that the bonefits of the Timber-Culture law may be secured by planting cottonwood trees. This reverses a previous ruling. Nearly 200 bills were introduced in Congress the first four days of the se-sion.

POLITICAL POINTS. The election held in Louisiana for Btato officers, on the 2d iust., resulted in the choice of tho outiro Democratic ticket by about 20.000 majority. The Leavenworth Times has obtained the views of fifty Kansas oditors as to their favorite candidate for,President. Tho Republican editors almost unanimously in favor of Grant, while those of Democratic proclivities aro divided between Bayard and (Seymour. Congressman Keifer, of Ohio, thinks that'(Secretary (Sherman diminished his chances for the Republican nomination for the Presidency at least 20 per cent, by the financial “suggoßtious” or “recommendations” in his recent report. The official vote of New York at the November election for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and State Engineer—the latter the only office secured by the Democra's—is as follows: Governor, Cornell, 418,567.; Robinson, 375,790; Kelly, 77,566; Lewis (Gr’bk), 20,286; Hears (Proh.), 4,437; scattering, 4,489. Lieutenant Governor, Hoskins, 485,300; Potter, 435,013; Whiting, 28,167; Bronson, 3,9o2;scattering, 4,489. State Engineer, Soule, 425,580; Seymour, 439,641; Nagle, 22,684; Hooker, 4,021; scattering, 5,351. Official vote of Wisconsin for Cover nor, at tho late election: William E. Smith, Republican, 1(K),533; JamesG. JoDkins, Democrat, 75,080; Reuhou May, Greenbacker, 12,996; W. R. Bloomfield, Prohibition, 387; scattering, 577.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Gen. Grant will probably not visit Washington until after his return from Mexico. From Cuba comes the announcement of the defeat of the insurgents, with a loss of twenty-three men kilted A steamer which arrived at New York last week from England brought $1,200,000 in gold. Dennis Kearney, the California agitator. is going to make another Eastern tour.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. The first regular session of the Forty-sixth Congress convened at noon, on Monday, Dec. 1, and a committee was appointed to inform the President and House of Representatives that the Senate was ready for business. President Hayes’ message was read,after which the Senate adjourned. 1 he following nominations were sent in for confirmation by toe President: George W. McCrary for United stales Judge in the Eighth Circuit; Joseph B. Leake for United States District Attorney in the Northern District, of Illinois; Charles U. W. French for Chief Justice of Arizona Territory; Norman Buck for Assoaiate Justice in Idaho Territory .. .On the opening of the House. 232 members answered to their names, showing fifty-six absentees. The new members from lowa, New York and California took the oath, after wliich the usual committee to inform the President and the Senate was appointed. After a short recess, the President’s message was received and read, when the House adjoume l. Resolutions were introduced and referred in the Senate, on the 2d inst., pledging the protection of the Government to the Nicaragua canal, and Senator Burnside made a speech reaffirming the Monroe doctrine in reference to this work. At its conclusion the Senate went into executive session, and. when the doors were opened, adjourned In the House two resolutions were introduced declaring it the opinion of the members that no change be made in the currency laws at this session; another in relation to the Inter-oceanic canal; srd several bills by nnanimous consent, among which was one by Mr. Thompson, of Kentucky, on the reference of which to the Committee on War Claims, a vote resulted 114 to 111... .Caucuses were held by Senators of both p rties in relation to committee* appointments. In the Republican caucus, Mr. Baldwin, the new Michigj&a Senator, was recommended to fill the place < f his predecessor, Mr. Chandler, on the committees. Benator Perry presented the credentials of Henry P. Baldwin In the Senate on the 3d, and he took the oath of office. Mr. Beck introduced a bill to authorize the payment of customs duties in

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1879.

legal-tender notes; also, to authorize the purchase of foreign-built ships by Americans. Mr. Bayard offered a resolution that “notes of the United States shall be receivable for all dues to tbe United States, except duties on imports, and shall not be otherwise legal tender Mr. Ingalls presented a resolution. “ that the present volume of United -tates i otes thonld not be reduced, and that said notes ought to continue to be a legal tender in the payment of debts.” ....Mr, Wood introduced a bill in the House limiting interest on refunding bonds to 3J£ per cent. Bills introduced; By Mr. Weaver, for the relief us the soldiers and sailors who served in the ia‘e wa'; by Mr. Goode, relating to the celebration of the Yorkt wo centennial; by Mr. Finlay, transferring the Indian Bureau to the War Department; by Mr. Garfield, to facilitate the refunding es the national debt.... The foUowing nominations were sent to the S Date by the President: Charles Beardsley, low a, to be Fourth Auditor of the Treasury. Coilec ors of Internal Revenue—L. B. Crooker, Second District ot Illinois; Alfred M. Jones, Third District of Illinois; Howard M. Kutchin, Third Dirtrict of Wiscons.n. Indian Agents—Charles Hatton, Michigan, for the Shoshone Agency, Wyoming. A short session was held in both houses on the 4th, and at its close they adjourned t ■ the Bth. In tbe Senate a biU was introduced by Mr. Morri 1 to facilitate the funding of the public debt. > Mr. Carpenter offered a resolution that, t e present c> ndition of financial affairs being excellent, no c hange was expedient. A number private bills were offered, and a short executive session was he1d....1n the House a resolution was presented by Mr. Gillette, declaring that Congress is not only opposed to any reduction in the volume of United states legal-tender notes, but is in favor of substituting greenbacks for national bank notes, and that it is in fay-rot the free and u uestricted coinage of the 412’i-grain silver dol’a a.

A Coffee-Field in Brazil.

From a very full account of tbe Brazilian coffee industry in Scribner’s Monthly, we take this description of the field-work, written from personal observation by Herbert H. Smith : In Southern Brazil, a coffee-field seldom lasts more than thirty years. The plantations are made on the fertile hillsides, where the forest has been growing thick and strong. But tho soil here is never deep—six or eight inches of mold at the utmost. In the tropics there are no long winters, with mats of dead vegetable matter rotting under the snow. The leaves fall singly, and dry up until they break into dust; logs and decaying branches in the shady woods are carried away by white ants and beetles; hence the mold-bed increases very slowly; in twenty-five or thirty years the strong-growing coffee-trees eat it all up. Most planters simply cut down the forest and leave the trees to dry in the sun for six or eight weeks, when they are burned. S , more provident, lets the logs rot where they lie, which they do in a year or two; in the open sunlight they are saved from insects, and the ground receives a large accession to its strength. Back of the house there are two yards or small fields, four acres, perhaps, together. The ground is covered with earthen pots set close together, only leaving little pathways at intervals. Each of the 200,000 pots contains a thriving young coffee-plant. The ground forms a gentle slope, and water is con stantly running over it, so that it is al ways soaked. The pots, through orifices at the bottoms, draw up enough of this water to keep the roots moistened. The young plants are protected from the sun by mat screens, stretched on poles above the ground. This is a costly system. Most of the planters take r root shoots at random from the old fields and set them at once into the unprepared ground. Sr. S ’s experiment has cost him probably $20,000; the pots alone cost SII,OOO. But he will make at least $50,000 by the operation. In the first place, he gains a good year in the start that he gives to these young plants. Then they are not put back in the transplanting; the pots are simply inverted and the roots come out with the earth. They are set into mold or compost which has been prepared in deep holes. The tender rootlets catch hold of this at once, and in a day or two the plant is growing as well as ever. The nurslings come from selected seeds of half a dozen varieties. Sr. S has them planted at first in small pots. A dozen slaves are engaged transplanting the six-inch high shoots to larger pots. Little tired-looking children carry them about on their shoulders, working on as steadily as the old ones, for they are well trained. Sr. S *- wants to make his plants last fifty years, so he is careful and tender with them. The little blacks will be free in 1892, so his policy is to get as much work as possible from them while he can. The plants are set in rows, about ten feet apart. They grow, and thrive, and are happy out on the hill side. Warm sunshine caresses the leaves; the ground is kept free from intruding weeds and bushes, and the planter waits for his harvest. After four years, the trees are six feet high and begin to bear. By the sixth year, the crops are very large—three or even four pounds per tree at times. Meanwhile, corn and mandioca are planted between the rows. Often in a new plantation the expenses are nearly covered by these subsidiary crops. In this month of November only a few of the slaves are in the new fields. November is the principal gathering month, and almost the whole force must be at work in the bearing orchards. From sunrise to sunset, men, women, and children are gathering the berries in baskets, working silently and steadily under the overseer’s eye. Every day, each slave* gathers on the average berries enough to produce fifty pounds of coffee. The pickings are collected in carts and brought to the mill-house, where the seeds must be prepared for the market.

A Horrible Tragedy.

A canoe recently left Loma Loma, in the Fiji islands, with natives on board, bound for Toytoya. They were going about when a sudden squall sent the sail against the mast, capsizing the canoe. The unfortunate passengers clung to the canoe, and might have escaped with consequences no worse than those which would have attended discomfort and exposure, but for the fact that the capsize occurred in a locality infested with sharks. The ravenous monsters seized their victims one by one, devouring twenty-three out of the twentj-five unfortunates whose lives were thus placed at their mercy. Of the two who escaped, one is a woman; but her situation is very critical, the whole of the flesh having been tom oft one leg.

Appreciated.

A Scotch clergyman, whose habit it was to preach hell-fire to his congregation in large doses, had occasion to visit a poor, sick parishioner. After enlarging with considerable unction on his favorite topic, he said to her, “ Now, my dear woman, did you ever appreciate the tortures of the damned before?” “ Nae, nae, never till you came here," was the ra’hei equivocal answer.

“A Finn Adherence to Correct Principles.”

HOME INTERESTS.

Next Yeai’a Garden. A rather curious text to write upou when the ground is frozen several inches deep, all vegetation dormant, and the boisterous wintry winds are whistling aronnd our homes; when Jack Frost is ever on the alert to find some crevice or cranny where his icy breath can penetrate ,to ‘lie desb action of some of our floral pets. As we gather around the genial hearth-stone of this happy “ Home " let ns look back with pleasure on tbe beauties of oar gardens daring the summer now passed away, and then plan onr campaign for the coming season, resolving to sti 1 more beautify our homes by decking them with lovely flowers. Some nover had a garden; then by all meins get one tbe coming spring, even if it be no more than a box of annuals growing on your window sill. It always seems to me when’ I pass a house where tbe windows are filled with flowers that kind, intelligent people livo there, for some way or another the two always seem 'o go banc’ in hand together. Otherp, again, had the least litsle mite of a garden containing somo of the old-fasli-ioDod perennials, and those are better than none, but for brilliancy of color and darability of bloom the annuals deserve the first place. At some future time I propose to talk about a number of the choicest annuals with instructions how to grow them. Quite often inquiries come from beginners as to the best sorts for them to start with. They have seen something pretty somewhere or other and want it, but do not remember that the covetod flowers were brought to perfection by experienced growers. A novice is almost sure to fail with the small seeds such as the Petunia, because they bury them in tho a il, while these very fine seeds should not be covered at all. Asters, Balsam®, Pinks, Phlox and Zinnia are some of the moat desirable, easily-cultivated animals. To me, and no doubt to maDy of my readers, there is a peculiar charm in raising choice plants from seed. How eagerly wo watch for the first appearance of the tiay cotyledons or seed leaves, and as eagerly observe their growth from day to day until they still further excite onr admiration by producing lovely flowers! lam going to tell you of two kinds you can raise this winter, and have them bloom next summer. Get a shallow cigar box, fill it with sandy, porous soil, sow the seeds thinly, dust a little sand over the seeds, just enough to cover them. Now put on a piece of damp flaDneL Keep it there and moist until tho seeds germinate; then you may put on a pane of glass, and as the seedlings advance in strength remove the glass and let them take their course. . Geranium seed sprouts readily in the temperature of an ordinary sitting room, and if bloom is desired next summer, sow them at any time from now until February, and bed them out in May. Seedlings are always robust, and sometimes a really good variety is produced, to say nothing of the economical way our flower beds may be filled. A paper of seeds costing a dime will produce as many plants, in careful hands, as one could purchase for two dollars at somo greenhouses. Veroenas may be grown in the same way. Tho seeds look like little pieces of sticks, and one lady returned them to me last spring under the impression she had received sticks for seeds. Sow them as I have directed, and, if you have patience, in time you will be rewarded with very thrifty plants and large, fragrant flowers. To get good plants it is of the utmost importance to secure good seeds, and these can only be procured from those who understand what flowers to raise the seed from. Like produces like, hence the seeds should be sowed with an eye to producing plants which shall be the admiration of every beholder. Verbena seeds take much trouble to save, and are not included in the six varieties already spoken of. As I have had some experience in the vegetable garden as well as floral, I shall be glad to give my readers any instruction in my power. For any hints or helps you may desire, drop me a line and I will do my best to assist you.

Ainsworth, Washington Co., lowa.

Beggotty Gives Thanks.

Thanksgiving day and a steady down-pour of raiu. How many homes are happy to-day, welcoming the loved ones, caring for the children, and blessing Him whose loviDg kindness has brought together tho old and young ununited families, and given one and all in this broad land so much cause for a tjmuine Thanksgiving. If the weather is doleful, so much more cause to make the fireside bright and beaming; one more reason to remember tho poor and suffering, whose coffers are empty and larders bare of even necessary food. Yet, even to-day, the poor man may find many reasons for thankfulness; work is plenty, wages good, and to those who care to help themselves plenty is holding out her bands, piled with all good and useful. If hearts are aching for the lost ones, if the vacant chair, the empty crib, the loving caress we long for, the cheering word we miss, remind us that Ihe reaper has visited our homes since the church-oells rang out their last Thanksgiving chimes, let brave hearts and stroue will bring smiles for our families and friends, not tears, remembering this is the home day, when everything sad and sorrowful must be put away, and only joy-bells ring out their peaus, while frolic and fun hold carnival iu our homes and by all our firesides. May each and every member, reader and critic of our circle enjoy to-day tho fullest measure of happiness, aud peace and plenty reign supreme in heart and fireside. La Moillo has said just tho right thing of Burns. His very faults made him understand and appreciate human nature, and he wrote for the common people as well as those of intellect —above bis own, maybe—and touched a chord in every human heart when be sings of “ Auid Lang Syne,” “John Anderson,” and the “Cotter’s Saturday Night.” If any one does not at least respect the Bible their lives must bo wanting in something which time will only make more needful, and they will long for a peace which only its teachings and precepts give us, bo the intellect ever so brilliant, the mind overflowing with brilliant wit, and the heart full of good and noble aspirations. Peggotty. Milwaukee, Wis. How to Dress a Fowl. After the fowl has been well cleansed, fill with this dressing: Plenty of bread; better not have it too fresh; crumble, then add salt, popper and summer savory (we always use sage for pork dressing, but for nothing else), which can be procured at the groceries by the bunch; roll and rub through a sieve yourself. If your bread should be too stale, moisten with a little water. Sometimes mother puts oysters into the dressing, giving it a very pleasant flavor. Edna. Chicago, 111. Two Good Recipes. Here is one ,way to make good mince-meat pies. Take six pounds of currants, three pounds of raisins (stoned), three pounds of apples (chopped fine), four pounds of suet, two pounds of sugar, two pounds of Deef, half-ounce of mixed spice, one pint of brandy. Press the whole into a deep jar when well mixed. Also, to pack sausage in jars: Make your sausage-meat Into cakes, and put into the oven and let cook until they are almost done; then pack into a jar and run hot lard over them. Aunt Loring. Gridley, 111. Wedding Cake. I send recipe for wedding cake, which you will find very nice, I think: One pound of butter, one and one-fourth pounds of sugar, one pound of flour, thirteen eggs,three pounds of raisins stoned and chopped, mace, nutmegs, cloves, and cinnamon, also citron to taste, one wineglass brandy, one teaspoonful saleratus dissolved in water. Plainfield, lowa. Aunt Kate.

Deadwood.

Deadwood is booming. About two months ago it was in ashes; now it is livelier than ever. This is, of course, but a repetition of the experience of every burned-out American city, and is another example of the innate energy of Western life. The town is rebuilt with large brick and frame structures vastly superior to the original ones. All the merchants are in business again, many of the firms having over SIOO,OOO worth of goods in stock. Mechanics’ wages, which were $8 a day, have now dropped to half that figure, and last, but not least, Deadwood has 713 gari>-

biers busily plying their vocation. Who says Deadwood is not the future great?

HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY.

To Behove Dandruff. —Wash the hair thoroughly in rain water, with a good deal of borax dissolved in it Pumpkin-pie Made of Squash.— Take a good-sized crooked-necked squash one-quarter of a pound of butter to a milk-pan of squash; Sweeten to taste. A bottle of cream; one quart of milk, unless too thin. Season with mace, a little nutmeg, brandy and rosewater. One dozen eggs and a little salt—eggs beaten. A Cube for Stammering. —A correspondent says: Go into a room, where you will be quiet and alone; get some book that will interest but not excite you, and read for two hours aloud, keeping your teeth together. Do the same thing every two or three days, or once a week, if very tiresome, always taking care to reed slovily and distinctly, moving the lips, but not the teeth. A Nice Dish. —Two eggs, one pint of milk, bakers’ bread—as it is more porous—cut into thin slices; dip the bread into the batter and fry each side brown in butter. Then boil one cup of sugar in two cups of water, and, after adding vanilla or lemon flavoring, pour over the bread, and cover dish so as to' steam and keep hot. It is well to reserve part of the sauce to put on each slice when serving. To Make Book Oakes. —Break six eggs in a basin, beat them till very light; add one pound of pounded sugar, and when this is well mixed with the eggs dredge in gradually half a pound of flour; add a few currants. Mix all well together and put the dough with a fork on the jbaking-tin, making it look as rough as possible. Bake the cakes in a model ate oven for half an hour. When done allow them to cool, and store them away in a tin canister in a dry place^ To Soften Hard Water. —Take two pounds of washing soda and one pound of common lime, and boil in five gallons of water for two or three hours; then stand away to settle, and dip ofl the clear water from the top and put into a jug. Gan be used for washing dishes or cleaning, and one teacupful in a boiler of clothes, put in after the water is hot, will whiten the clothes and soften the water, without injury to the hands or clothes. I use an old iron pot to make it in. Sweet Potato Pudding.—lngredients : Two pounds of raw sweet potato, half pound of brown sugar, one-third of a pound of butter, one gill of cream, one grated nutmeg, a small piece of lemon-peel, and four eggs. Boil the potato well and mash thoroughly, passing it through a colander; while it is warm mix in sugar and butter; beat eggs and yelks together, and add when the potato is cold; add a table-spoonful of sifted flour; mix in the grated lemon-peel and nutmeg very thoroughly; butter a pan, and bake twenty-five minutes in a moderately hot oven. May be eaten with wine sauce.

MR. RENNIE.

During more than a century inventors have turned their ingenuity to constructing machines capable of imitating the human voice, though what practical purpose they might serve if ever so perfect it is difficult to discover. One of the latest of these efforts, and perhaps the most successful, is a machine made by M. Faber. It consists essentially of three parts—the wind-producing system, the sound-making apparatus, and the articulating arrangement. As for the first, nothing particular need be said; it is simply a series of bellows. The second, the sound-producer, the larynx, is an ivory tube so constructed that within certain limits the length may be varied so as to cause a difference in tone produced. Probably he would have been more successful had he adopted some more elastic material. The articulating apparatus iueludes a part for soundiug the vowels and another for pronouncing the consonants. The former are due to the passage of air through openings of different shapes, made in diaphragms placed successively in the current of air by the action of levers moved by the fingers; in addition a special cavity, destined to produce nasal sounds, can be put in cominflniShtion with the former at pleasure by means cf a particular lever. The consonants are produced by pieces, the action of which is analogous to that oi the lips, the teeth and the tongue, and the rolling of the R is caused by a wheel. All these imitation organs are put in motion by fourteen keys very ingeniously disposed in a way to produce the necessary intensity of action and variation in sequence of the parts destined to pronounce a syllable. The number of fourteen keys is sufficient, for by certain variations in the touch the intended sound can be regulated as strong or weak at pleasure. As might be expected, the laDguage of the machine is very monotonous, and is by no means perfect, as some sounds produce a much better effect than others; however, in general, the words pronounced are easily understood. They cannot be compared to the changes in the human voice, and whatever improvements the machine may receive, the question still remains, What use is it? — Galignani’s Messenger, Paris.

American Girls Marrying Englishmen. Lord Grantley married last week Miss K. Mac Vickers, a young American lady, who has acquired fame from her beauty. It is curious how many American girls marry Englishmen. This is because they know how to make themselves pleasant. English girls are, as a rule, either too gushing and talkative, or have nothing to say for themselves. American girls unite the tact and savoir vivre of tho French woman with the solid qualities 6f the Anglo-Saxon race. They know how. to set off their natural advantages with dress, and they are almost always philosophically good tempered. London Truth.

Mr. Gardner, an English consular officer in China, speaking as one who had spent much time in visiting the opium-shops, and who had “tried upon himself the experiment of immoderate opium-smoking,” holds that, when all has been said against the drug, “it is incontrovertible that thousands of hard-working people are indebted to its use for the continuance of lives agreeable to themselves and useful to society,”

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THE OLD GRANT GUARD.

[From the New York Sun.] It is claimed for Gen. Grant as a peculiar merit that “ he does not go back on his friends.” Fidelity to friendship is a noble virtue when the objects of it are deserving. It becomes a low crime when they are venal and unworthy. As President, Giant disgraced that great office by extending the protection of the Executive over felons and thieves whose rascalities were notorious to the whole country. But for bis scandalous interference with the course of justice, Babcock and others like him would today be cracking stone in striped suits. They were saved from the penitentiary because the Chief Magistrate was base enough to prostitute his trust in their behalf. Babco ;k is holding an honorable and profitable position in the Engineer Corps at Baltimore, over the heads of honest men, when public opinion has long ago consigned him to infamy in the rogues’gallery. If he had not been the possessor of secrets of the White House which, if exposed, would have caused immense trouble, and if he had not been capable of exposing them for his own interest, Grant would have hesitated long before employing all the authority of the departments to aid in a technical defense, and before furnishing secretly to Babcock’s counsel information which rightfully belonged to the prosecution. The ring chiefs and the plunderers, who flourished during the era of Grantism, are all jushing to the front and shouting lustily for a third term. Sacor Robeson opened his confidence freely the other day, and said the movement was bound to succeed. In that event Mr. Cockling would be called to the first place in the Cabinet, and he himself would take the Navy Department again, more in vindication of his character than for any other reason. Belknap went especially to to assist at the ovation in that city. He does not believe the Nicaragua canal project has any solid basis, so that it might serve as a diversion to prevent Grant from being the Republican candidate next year. Belknap stands very near Grant, who expressed formal regret for his resignation as Secretary of War, after he had confessed his guilt in selling post trad rships. Therefore, when Belknap says the Nicaragua scheme is a humbug, he probably knows what ho is talking about, and is more candid than the political managers who are seeking to throw dust in the eyes of the public. In the event of a restoration, of course Belknap expects to be vindicated by resuming the War Department. Delano has his eye steadily fixed on the Interior, which he converted into a bonanza during the period when Indian contracts were sold to the highest bidder, and the improved lands of poor settlers were spoliated by railroad corporations that had become experts in the golden rule of addition, division and science. Chorpenning Ores well, who reduced straw bidding in the postoffice to an exact science, and, as was said of the Prince of Wales in the Lady Mordaunt case, swore like a gentleman before the committees of investigation, believes that a strong man is needed to carry *him back into an office which is alleged to have yielded a profit of a round hundred thousand a year, exclusive of the cost of luxurious living. The ancient Taft, who hired an army of Deputy Marshals to aid the Hayes fraud, and who paid nearly half a million out of the treasury for partisan service, clings to the hope of a chance to make opinions to order, as Grant’s Attorney General. He is a boomer whose zeal is not tempered by age and is stimulated by ambition. All the old guard and their confederates, like hounds on a scent of game, are in full cry. They look forward to the day of restoration as the Israelites did to the land of promise. 'lhey have parceled out the honors in advance, and settled the equitable principle of a distribution of the spoils, so as to avoid quarrel hereafter. All this is considerate; but perhaps the chickens are counted before the eggs are hatched. [From the Springfiold Republican.] Grant was 50 years old when he became President the second time. Probably not one of the thousands who are prating about a change in Grant’s character by the simple process of going around the world have ever seen a man over 50 change his habits, his principles or his friends. Grant’s character from 1873 to 1877 is his character to-day. He is already showing it by seeking his old associates. Belknap’s “brazen face and yellow beard” was noticed in a carriage behind Grant’s in the Chicago procession. He was present at the receptions of the week, and “Gen. Belknap paid his respects to the Grant party and was warmly received by the General and Mrs. Grant,” saysan eye-witness. “Boss” Shepherd had a particular invitation from Grant to meet him at the Chicago celebration, according to the Hartford Times’ Washington correspondent, a man usually accurate in minor Washington gossip. It has always been understood that Maj. Babcock was in communication with Grant during his absence. Where the “old man” is, there the “boys” will gather themselves together.

Colonizing Indiana.

Two hundred negroes arrived here to-day from North Carolina, on their way to Indiana, where they are to be colonized. Most of them had barely enough money to reach this city. Their fare from here to Indianapolis is made up by the Repub'ican committee of this city. The Republican committee in Indianapolis has made arrangements to care for them on their arrival. This is only one of the many delegations headed Indiana-watd. Fifteen hundred negroes will come on in a few days. They will be rushed into the State until enough have been put there to paint out in black the Democratic majority in that State.— Washington dispatch to Chicago Times.

Coming !

The nervous mother of a bright little boy was alarmed lest he should take the whooping-cough, which prevailed in the neighborhood. She talked so much about it and worried over it, that she had infected the child to such an extent that he would scarcely leave her side. One night after the little fellow had been put to sleep, a donkey was driven past

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the house, and, when just opposite, set up his he-haw. With a shriek the little fellow was out of bed, screaming at the top of his voice, “The whooping-cough is coming, mammal the whoopingcough is coming f”

THE LEGAL TENDERS.

Programme of the Republican Party. [From the Cincinnati Enquirer ] Advices from Washington city are that some Republican Senators and members of the Hon e are at present unfavorable to retiring any of the existing volume of legal tenders, fearing the effect of such action upou the Presidential election of next year. No Republican who opposes such reduction need, however, to be deceived by the contemplated delay. The retirement of all the $346,000,000 and upward of greenbacks is the Republican programme, and if that party succeeds next y;ar the plan will be carried out' This $346,000,000 draws no interest, circulates as money, and commands a small premium over gold. Funded in 4-per-cent. bonds, it would draw about $14,300,000 interest per annum, payable quarterly. What need is there of thus increasing the burden of our large public debt? The only true answer is, the na'ional banks demand it, and the Republican party is the party of the national banks. They are arguing (?) that the Government ought not, upon principle, to issue any paper promises to circulate as money. Why? Surely there is nothing in the Federal constitution forbidding it. After the crash of 1837-1840 the Sub-Treasary law enacted by Congress expressly gave the Government that power, it being thought much better for the Government to rely in time of need upon its own credit than to give its credit to a national bank and pay the bank interest for giving back to it that credit. Series of deman d treasury notes, issued before and at the beginning of the late war, under the provisions of the Sub-Treasury law, are instances of the unquestionable exercise of this power. Taking it all in all, that Sub-Treasury law was the wisest and most practical financial measure ever adopted in the United States. From its enactment until this day all its main provisions have remained upon the Federal statute book, and their observance has done almost everything in enabling the country to extricate itself from the crushing debt occasioned by the war, as was the case from the crashes of 1837 and 1857. The national banks wish their notes to supply the place of the United States legal tenders, they taking that amount in bonds at 4 per cent., payable quarterly. They will thus reap $14,000,000 interest annually paid them every quarter. They will then loan out $335,000,000 of their notes—promises to pay debts—at from 7 to 10 per cent, interest. This they can do, as the Government, upon the pledge of the bonds, will have given them its credit and be paying them quarterly $14,000,000 a year for taking it, and their notes will circulate wherever the Government credit extends, and would not circulate, except locally, without it. No wonder the national banks want the greenbacks retired*; and they willinevitably succeed in their desires if the Republicans succeed in the coming Presidential election. No one need be deceived by the do-nothing policy of the Republicans at this session of Congress, though urged to action by" Secretary Sherman and President Hayes. They intend to do the bidding of the national bankers as soon as they dare, which will be immediately after the Presidential election is over, if they are successful. Our national debt has been enormous, and is yet large. It has, as can be demonstrated, been, by the legerdemain of Wall street and national bankers, already paid twice over, and they seem to desire its payment three times—that number being, in the estimation of the superstitious, a charm.

The End of the World.

Camilla Flammarion, the well-known French scientist, thus expresses himself in La Correspondence Scientifique regarding the ultimate of our globe: The earth was born; she will die either of old age, when her vital elements shall have been used up, or through the extinction of the sud, to whose rays her life is suspended. She might also die by accident through collision with some celestial body meeting her on her route; but this end of the world is the most improbable of all. She may, we repeat, die a natural death through the slow absorption of her vital elements. In fact, it is probable that the air and water are diminishing. The ocean, like the atmosphere, appears to have been formerly much more considerable than it is in our day. The terrestrial crust is penetrated by waters which combine chemically with the rocks. It is almost certain that the temperature of the interior of the globe reaches that of boiling water at a depth of about six miles, and prevents the water from descending any lower. But the absorption will continue with the cooling of the globe. The oxygen, nitrogen and carbonic acid which compose our atmosphere also appear to undergo absorption, but slower. The thinker may foresee, through the mist of ages to come, the epoch, yet afar off, in which the earth, deprived of the atmospheric aqueous vapor which protects her from the glacial cold of space by preserving the solar rays around her, will become chilled in the sleep of death. As Henry Vivarez says: “ From the summit of the mountains a winding sheet of snow will descend upon the high plateaus and the valleys, driving before it life and civilization, and masking forever the cities and nations that it meets on its passage. Life and human activity will press insensibly toward the intertropical zone. St. Petersburg, Berlin, London, Paris, Vienna, Constantinople and Rome will fall asleep in succession under their eternal shroud. During very many ages equatorial humanity will undertake Arctic expeditions to find again under the ice the place of Paris, Lyons, Bordeaux, and Marseilles. The sea coasts will have changed, and the geographical map of the earth will have been transformed. No one will live and breathe any more except in the equatorial zone up to the day when the last family, nearly dead with cold and hunger, will sit on the Bhore of the last sea, in the rays of the sun which will thereafter shine here below on an ambulent tomb revolving aimlessly around a ageless light and a barren heat.”

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INDIANA ITEMS.

A series of weekly lectures to workingmen will be given in Terre Haute this winter. During the past week very important discoveries of coal have been made in Pike county. The next convention of the Indiana Music Teachers’ State Association will be held at Fort Wayne on December to 31, inclusive. A notary public in Bartholomew county has been arrested for marrying a couple under the mistaken idea that he might lawfully do so. Timber thieves in Dubois county tfre cutting and selling wood from State lands, and Auditor Munson has notified the Sheriff of the county to arrest the depredators. Judge A. L. Roache has been appointed, by the Governor, a member of the Ohio R ver Improvement Commission, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lazarus Noble. It is believed that the first annual report of the Indiana Bureau of Statistics will show at least 75 per cent, of answers to the questions sent out. The Massachusetts bureau the first year only got 10 per cent, of answers. William T. S. Manly, County Treasurer of Cass county, and a piominent citizen of Logansport, died in that city last week. He had held the offices of Street Commissioner, City Councilman and Sheiff, the latter position two terms. Thob. Poole, aged 94 years and eight months, died nt his home in Butlerville, recently. He was a gallant soldier iD the war of 1812, and was the next to the oldest man in Jennings county; has over 100 grandohildren and eightyeight great-grandchildren living. A young man, named Wiley, residing near Rushville, was hunting, and upou attempting to discharge his gun at a coon the gun was so heavily loaded that it burst, driving the breech-pin entirely through his head, making a terrible wound from which he died in a short time. Annual Keport of the Auditor of State. The following statement is a condensed exhibit of the balance in the State treasury of each of the funds, Nov. 1, 1878, and the amount received and disbursed during the fiscal year from the several funds, closing Oct. 31,1879: Amount of cash in the treasury Oct. 31, 1878 $524,356.46 The above amount was the aggregate of balances belonging to the various funds of tho treasury, as follows: General fund $303,421.41 Common-school fund 2,692.20 School revenue for tuition 121,171.77 College fund.. 2,282 88 College-fund interest tJ6C.It) Swamp-land fund.... 385.11 Fued of unclaimed estates 12 251.07 Three-per-cent, fund 32.13 Sinting fund, excess of bids 2.088 52 New State-House fund 16,091.23 Total $524,356.46 Receipts from all sources during the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 1879, were as follows: General fund $1,838 958.54 School revenue for tuition ... 1 950,538:58 College fund 13,595.00 College fund, < xcess of bids 31 2.02 College fund, interest 7 629.47 Swamp-land fund 225.85 Fund of unclaimed estates 406.38 New State-House fund 325,958.07 Total amount of Treasurer’s re ceipts filed during year $4,137,613.91 Deduct amount of transfer and refund iug reciipts 950,392 54 Leaves net cash receipts to the tress ury during year $3,187 221.37 Add cash balances in treasury Oct. 31, m 1878 624,866.46 Makes total receipts, including balances : $3,711,577.83 The amount of warrants drawn on the State treasury from the several funds from Oct. 31, 1878, to Oct. 31. 1879, are as follows: General fund $ 1,975,795 01 School revenue for tuition 1,940.078.12 College fund 10,325.00 College fund, interest 8,484.50 Swamp-land fund ' 61.00 Fund of unc’a med estates 709 02 Three-per-cent, fund 32.1! New State-House fund. 142.738.64 Total amount of warrants drawn during year $4,078,218 45 Deduct amount of transfer and refunding warrants 950,392.54 Leaves net cash disbursements from the treasury during year $3,127,825.91 Which being deducted from the total receipts leaves cash in treasury, Oct. 31, 1879, as follows: General fund $226 584 91 Common-school fund 2,692.20 School revenue for '.uition 134.032.23 College fund 6.532.83 College fuud. excess of bids 302 02 College fund, interest 105.16 Swamp-land fund 549.96 Fund of unclaimed estates... 11.948.43 Sinking fund, excess of bids 2,088.52 N*w State-House fund 19.),315.66 Total balance $683 751.92 , The condition of the public debt of the Btato at this date is as follows: FOREIGN IIEBT. Five-per-cent, ceitiflcates $14,409.99 Two-aod-one-half-per cent. certificates. 2.925.13 War-loan bonds 189,000 00 Temporary-loan bonds, due 1884 510.000.00 Temporary-loan bonds, due December 1,1879 .... 200.000.00 Temporary-loan bonds, 1881 200,000.00 Internal-improvement bonds 27.000,00 Total $1,098,895,12 DOMESTIC DEBT. Sc! 001-fund bond No. 1 $709,024.85 School-fund bond No 2 2.668,057.30 Sahool-fund bond No. 3 784 234.00 School-fond bond No. 4 177,700.00 School-fund bond No. 5 175,767.07 Total $3,904,783.22 Total d bt $4,998 178.34

A Man with a Baby’s Mind.

A very singular case comes from Burgettstown, Pa., which place the Rev. Dr. Marqus Ormond left that he might walk through the Southern States in search of health. Late one night in 1878, when he was in bed, word reached him in Washington, Pa., that his residence and fine library at West Alexander had been burned. This was a great shock to him. In March of last year he complained of pain in his head. For two months he was unconscious and lost his speech. Gradually he began to make known his thoughts, but he was much like a child. Mrs. Ormond and his children worked hard with him, and finally he learned the alphabet and could make out short words. He knew the faces of his children, but could not remember their names. When he wanted Mollie he would ask for Clara. The physicians advised that his mind should not be overstrained again. They also concluded that his weight should be reduced, for he was in robust physical health, and he was fed with skimmed milk. By suoh treatment his weight was brought down from 220 to 150 pounds. He has not improved aDy for the last year. His writing is merely a mechanical act—simply a copy of the words his wife writes for him. Singularly enough he is able to count, and can make a good bargain. Physicians cannot account for his condition. He goes on the walking tour \o strengthen his mind.