Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Lorillard’s Iroquois won the race for ‘ 2-year-olds at Newmarket, England. The cost of Beaconsfield’s scientific frontier war in Afghanistan to date has been more than £13,000,000. The Russian Government is improving the military roads beyond the Ural mountains, in anticipation of a war with China. All parties in Germany are convinced that the Government cannot hope for co-oper-ation from the present Parliament, and that it will be compelled soon to appeal to the people. It is thought that the German Minister of War is bent on increasing the standing army of the empire to 2,000,000 of men, and that, sooner or later, he will succeed. Russia has ordered several ironclads lo the Pacific, to be in readiness for the breaking out-of hostilities between Russia and China. It is said that Japan has rejected the proposal of China to enter into an alliance against Russia. Sir Bartle Frere Inis tendered his resignation as Governor of the ('ape of Good Hope. • • An -explosion in a London iron foundry re lilted in f lu- death of twenty-five persons. About twenty others were seriously injured, jo.ne it L b< lieve-1 fatally. A terrible incident from Nihilist life is reported from the Russian district of PutilofT. \f (be moment of his arre - a young nobleman wis shot by Ina own fath'-r. The father then shot himself. The Russian students, who in many instances are men past 20, have been prohibited from marrying. Their sweethearts are bus pected of an even more uueompromising r.idi calism than is attributed to the students tliem-

DOMEBTIO INTELLIGENCE. Blast. Four moll were killed by the explosion of a l oiter in the Merchant iron mill at Romo, N. Y. Seventy thousand barrels of oil were l.nrned at Bradford, Pa., which, with the tanks and machinery, make an aggregate Ion; of >190,000. Destructive fires are reported in the cranberry bogs and cedar-timber land south of Barnegat, N. J. Fire broke out a second time in the region of Bradford, Pa., wiping out several small villages and burning hundreds of oil establishments. The losses amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Some. unknown scoundrel sent the Spanish Consul General at New York an infernal machine, filled with the most destructive explosives, and, upon opening it, he was badly, ~ though not fatally, injured. •. A powder-mill explosion near Pottsville, Pa., resulted in the killing of one man * > and the fatal burning of three others. ■ ? Three men were hanged at Lebanon, Pa., May 13, for being accessories to the mur- ” ’ dor of one Raber, whoso life they had heavily insured. Two other persons' who were con- ■*- ccvtied in the conspiracy had been previously ’,'J banged, so that live men have paid the penalty “ ' of t heir lives for compassing the death of one num. The American Bible Society lias just held its sixty-fourth annual meeting in New ' York. The annual reports showed receipts of the year at >608,342. The Hon. John W. Fos- . ter, of Indiana, United States Minister to Russia, was elected Vice President, and the Hon. John Jay manager. The entire business portioii of Milton, Pa., lias been destroyed by fire. About -100 buildings, including all the churches, banks, . hotels, newspaper offices, etc., were burned. • 'Tin- flames spread so rapidly that several people lost their lives. In the excitement thieves preyed upon much of tho unprotected - property, one lady being relieved of ■■>6o,ooo in United States bonds. The loss by the conflagration is estimated at .>2,000,000, and 3,060 people'were rendered homeless. Girl Mitnke, the murderer of John Atloff, was hanged at Buffalo on Friday of last week. He refused to see his wife, blasphemed in tho. presence of a clergyman who vainly endeavored to converse with him, and met death w ith the same stolidity which ho had maintained since his arrest. Chief Justice Sanford E. Church died suddenly of apoplexy at his residence in Albion, N. Y., on the 14th of May. Judge Church has been one of the leading men in New York politiesfor nearly forty years, and was very popular with all parties. His name has been frequently mentioned in connection with the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. Judge ( 'hutch was born in 1815, and was, therefore, 65 years of age. The body of a Philadelphia police officer. who died in 1874, has been found to be petrified. It weighs 500 pounds. West. A. rumor lias reached Denver of the massacre of twenty-five prospectors by the Indians in the Lower Gunnison country. No particulars are given. A teacher in one of the public schools of Chicago has been arrested for whipping boy, whose body is said to bear marks showing that the punishment received by him was unduly severe. A mob of railroad track-layers undertook to rescue one of their co-workers from the jail at Augusta, Kan., but the City Marshal killed their leader and compelled them to beat a retreat. A fire at Fayette, Ohio, burned forty buildings, valued, with their contents, at >75,000. A collision between the United States Marshal’s posse and a large crowd of settlersypn railroad lands in Tulare county, Cal., resulted in the killing of several of the latter and the wounding of two or three of the officers. An explosion of live boxes, nearly 100 pounds, of giant powder occurred in a blacksmith shop at Central City, Dakota, instantly killing Samuel Kimble, foreman of the mine, and Joseph . Trudell and Jonas Gilmore, employes. The bodies were most fearfully torn to pieces. The country, for an area of a mile square, was strewn with small fragments of flesh and the ruins of the shops. Victoria’s band of Apaches attacked the Indians on the San Carlos reservation recently, and killed an entire family of thirteen. The health officers of Chicago announce that the city is now virtually free front all danger of the spread of small-pox. Three convicts escaped from the peni tentiary at Columbus, Ohio, by locking then guard in the kitchen and scaling the outei walls. A coal-mine shaft near Norway, Mich, caved in, burying sixteen miners. Tliirteen o the men were taken out alive, after much dig > but the three others were crushed t< death,

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JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME IV.

A man named John Allendorf, claiming to be a resident of Linn county, Kan., has arrived at Leadville with a harrowing report of a massacre in the Ute country. He says he left home in company with seventeen companions, weeks ago, and that after taking out considerable metal on the reservation his party was attacked by the savages, he alone escaping to tell the tale of the slaughter. A large number of citizens of Denver are arming and equipping themselves regardless of expense for a prospecting tour in the Ute country. They will make war on the savages if the latter molest them. The popular comedy “ Engaged ” is continued another week at McVicker’s Chicago Theater, with Abbey's New York Park Theater company in the cast. This sparkling piece has drawn immensely, and for that reason and the popular demand is continued. A party of twenty-live men from the Black Hills, who were out in pursuit of the murderers of John Diffenbach, recently encountered and had a severe light with a band of Indians on the Little Powder river. One white man and four redskins were killed in the conflict. Mrs. Smith, of Angola, near Fort Wayne, Ind., went to a ball, leaving her three children, two girls and a boy, at home. Late in the night David Fry entered the house in a drunken condition, lipsct a lamp, thereby setting tire to the house, which was soon burned to the ground. Fry and the three children perished in the flames. A six days’ (twelve hours per day) walking match has just teen conte.stf d in Chicago, with the result indicated below: ,V/Zr.«,| .Mi'lrx. Sherry 13-17 < Irosslaud 1315 Olmstead 1137 j Unknown 13(35 Campana 13'27 iCauston '275 The time made by Sherry, the winner, is said to be the best on record. Boutlx A frightful explosion is reported from Baltimore. David P. Shannon A Co., junk dealers, purchased a quantity of condemned shrapnel shells at Fort McHenry, and took part of them outside to break up. While this work was going on, one of the shells exploded, killing six persons and seriously wounding two others. The bodies of all the killed were badly mutilated, and that of one man who stood near was literally blown to atoms. Portions of bis body w< n- found in every direction, and the largest pari discovered was an arm. The report of the explosion was heard a distance of live miles. A ■white man named Thomas White has just been hanged at Spartansburg, S. C., for the murder of a colored man.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Republican Convention of Nevada. held May 11, appointed six delegates to the Chicago Convention, and instructed them to Support Blaine. The, State Senate of New York has voted, 17 to 14, in favor of granting women the right of suffrage. Four political State Conventions were held May 12, In Michigan the Republicans instructed for Blaine, but an anti-Grant resolution created a tumult, and was promptly tabled. The Florida Republicans instructed for Grant. In West Virginia the Blaine Republicans had things their own way, instructions for the Senator being opposed by only a few Sherman men. The Wisconsin Democrats elected four delegatcs-at-largc to the Cincinnati Convention. No instructions were given, but they are understood to be. opposed to Tilden. The Republicans of Florida have nominated S. B. Conover for Governor. The Vermont Greenbackers met in convention at Montpelier on the 13th inst., and selected delegates to their National Convention. The followingis from the Boston Advertiser of the 14th inst.: “In an interview with E. B. Washburne, visiting his brother at Portland, he states his candidacy for the Presidency is out of the question. He is for Grant first, last and all the time, repudiates all combinations with other candidates, and will not be a candidate under any circumstances. The charge that he is guilty of duplicity toward Grant ho denies, and says the result of the Cook County Convention was a greater surprise to him than any one else.” Wyoming sends one Blaine and one. Grant delegate lo Chicago. The Republican and Democratc National ('ommittecs have been petitioned to afford accommodations at the conventions for delegates from State and National WomanSuffrage Associations.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Ex-Senator Christiancy has commenced proceedings at Washington for divorce from nis wife. Among the important measures pending before Congress, and which many members are desirous should be disposed of this session, are the Electoral-Count bill, the Clnnese-Immi-gration.bill, and the Tariff bill. 'j’lic Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports the exports of domestic breadstuffs for April at >12.679.115 against >14,168,630 for April, 1879, and for ten months, ending the 30th tilt., >207.306,615 against >149,088,266 for the ten corresponding months of the previous year.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Dr. Livingston, ex-Indian Agent at Crow Creek, who has been tried on several charges of crookedness and acquitted in each case, has secured another verdict of not guilty < n the fifth indictment, relating to the alleged stumpage frauds. Tiie United States Supreme Court, in a recent decision, declared lotteries to be a Species of gambling, and bad in their influences, and that States had a perfect right to abrogate their charters. The Methodist General Conference, at Cincinnati, elected H. W. Warren. C. D. Foss, J. F. Hurst and O. E. Haven Bishops. The Western Nail Association has reduced prices from $4 to $3.25 per keg. Mills will hereafter run one week and suspend two. Twenty-two steamers left British ports during the past week with passengers for the United States. Several companies are putting on extra vessels, and nearly all find themselves unable to provide promptly for the emigrants who apply for passage. Burned : The Mihills Manufacturing Company’s works, Fond du Lac, Wis., loss $200,000 : twenty-one business houses and several dwellings at West Liberty, Ohio, loss $300,000 ; a large part of the village of Stuyvesant, N. Y., loss $200,000. Eight clubs are entered in the race for the League base-ball championship of the United {States. At the close of the second week’s play Chicago was ahead of all competitors, having won eight games and lost one ; Worcester had won six and Jost two ; Cleveland won six and lost three; Bos! on won four and lost four ; Providence and Troy had each won

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three and lost five ; and Buffalo and Cincinnati had each won two and lost seven games. All the clubs have to play a series of twelve games with each other. In the Whittaker investigation at West Point, all the five experts in penmanship expressed the belief that Whittaker wrote the note of warning, and one of them created a sensation by testifying that the note of warning was written on a piece of paper tom from a sheet on which Whittaker commenced a letter to his mother. Whittaker still stoutly maintains his innocence. A New York paper publishes a list of eighty names of Cuban revolutionists who have landed on the island with a quantity of dynamite, blasting powder and a large number of 36-shooting rifles. A number of Americans are with the expedition.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. The President pro tern. (Thurman) laid before the Senate, on the morning of Monday, May 10 a communication from the Secretary of the Interior stating that his estimates of March 5, 1880, for the deficiency for arrears and the army and navy pensions have been found insufficient, ami transmitting the increased estimate. The report of the conference committee on the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill was presented by Mr. Eaton and adopted. After the morning hour, the Kellogg-Spofford ease was the subject ot a speech by Mr. Hoar, occupying the whole day. The Senate rejected the nomination of George S. Houghton to lie Census Supervisor Third district of 10wa.... In the House, under the call of the States, the following bills were introduced and referred : By Mr. Doggett, for the survey of lands within the railroad subsidy limits; by Mr. Lounsbury, amending the Revised Statutes so as to allow national banks to issue notes to the extent of 90 per cent, of the market value of bonds deposited to secure circulation; by Mr. Frost, a resolution asking what, if any, circular letter had been given to Gen. Grant to foreign Governments on his foreign tour; by Mr. Newberry, to extend tho time for completing the Northern Pacific railway; by Mr. Young (Ohio), appropriating $40,000 to rebuild Memorial Hall at Day ton, Ohio; by Mr. Carlisle, to reclaim waste and arid lands; by Mr. McCoid, to regulate commerce by railway between the States; by Mr. Cabell, allowing tobacco manufacturers to import liquorice and liquoricepaste in bond, and exempting the same from duty; by .Mr. Wright. a resolution declaring that, after the 15th inst., the session of the House shall begin at 11 o’clock a. m. Mr. McGowan, from the Committee on Epidemic Diseases, reported back the joint resolution requiring the President to call an International Sanitary Conference to meet in Washington, D. C. Passed. The Legislative, Executive, and Judicial bill was reported from the Committee on Appropriations. It appropriates $16,120,931. Consideration was then resumed of the Curtim-Yo-cum contested-election case, and the House was addressed by Mr. Stevenson in support of the claim of Ihe contestee. Mr. Frost introduced a bill providing that army officers should be promoted according to date of .'commission. At the'night session of the House, Mr. Stevenson, of Illinois, made a speech favoring the election of President and Vice President by a direct vote of the people.

On Tuesday, May 11, the Senate concurred in the House amendment to the joint resolution authorizing the President to call an International Sanitary Conference. The amendment includes in the countries from which dc'cgates are to be invited those subject to cholera. Mr. Hill.spoke two hours nud a half upon the Keilogg-Sp jfford case, and had not concluded at adjournment In the House, after reports from the Ways and Means Committee, the Curtin-Yocum con-tested-election case was decided by the adoption of a resolution that Mr. Yocum was entitled to retain his scat, by a vote of 153 to 75. The House then went into committee of the whole upon the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill, but adjourned before finishing it. In the evening the House proceeded to the consideration of the Steamboat bill, and after considerable debate, and without making much progress in the bill, adjourned.

In the Senate, on the 12th inst., Mr. Hill finished his speech upon tho Kellogg case, his remarks occupying the whole day. The President nominated Janies L. Dryden, of Illinois, to lie United States Attorney for Montana, and John S. Bigley, of Newman, Ga., to be United States Attorney for Georgia. The nomination of Bobert M. Wallace to be United States Marshal for South Carolina was rejected by the Senate In the House, Mr. Hooker introduced a bill abolishing the Indian Commission. A large number of committee reports were made, and the bills were disposed of as recommended, after which the House went into committee upon the Legislative Appropriation bill. An evening session was held for consideration of the District Code bill.

The President pro tem. of the Senate laid before that body, on Thursday, May 13, a communication asking for $57,900 for deficiency in the service of the land offices. Mr. Voorhees submitted a resontion directing the Secretary of tho Interior to report to the Senate the names of all railroad corporations in the United States to whom grants of land have been made by compliance with the terms of the "rants within the time specified therein; also the number of acres of unearned lands claimed by each of such railroad corporations, and the period of time when their right to them expired under the limitation contained in said grants. Adopted. A bill abolishing tolls on the Louisville and Portland canal, and authorizing the Government to operate the waterway was passed. Messrs. Hampton and Carpenter debated the Kellogg case, both in favor of Mr. Kellogg retaining his seat. Ralph P. Buckland, of Ohio; Charles C. House!, of Nebraska ; George B. Smyth, of lowa, and Daniel Chadwick, of Connecticut, were appointed Government Directors f the Union Pacific Railway Company.... At 10:30 Wednesday’s session of the House was continued. The Speaker announced the appointment of Mr. Culbertson iu place of Itrcgan as member of the committee to investigate the alleged corruption in the election case of Donnelly vs. Washburn. The House went into committee of the whole on the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation bill. At noon the s-.ession became the regular Thursday meeting, and the committee consideration of the Legislative bill was continued. Mr. Springer replied to Mr. Orth’s explanation of the Venezuela matter. Mr. Cobb introduced a bill appropriating $9,000,000 to supply the dilicicncies in the appropriations for the payment of pensions for the present fiscal year, and asked for its present consideration. It went back to the committee.

In the Senate, on Friday, May 14, Mr. Thurman called up a joint resolution authorizing a court of inquiry in the case of Thomas Worthington, late Colonel of the Forty-sixth Ohio Volunteers, and it was passed, with amendment. The bill providing for additional accommodations for the Congressional Library was passed as amended. Messrs. Pendleton and Cameron, of Wisconsin, spoke upon the case of Kellogg, both against unseating the sitting member. Adjourned to Monday. The President appointed N. G. Ordway, of New Hampshire, formerly Ser-geant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives, Governor of Dakota Territory... .In the House, the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was considered in committee and afterward passed. Mr. Gibson reported a resolution for adjournment May 31, which met with much opposition, and threatened fi’ibustering by members who favored legislation upon the tariff at the present session. The matter was undecided. The House met at 7:30 and immediately went into committee of the whole on the bill regulating the municipal code of tho District of Columbia.

The Horse.

What a noble servant, what a splendid and right royal gift to man, is the horse! That fine creature is as much entitled to kindness and forbearance as a human servant or friend, in all respects in which he can appreciate it, and cruelty to him, for aught I can see, is as sinful. Who can witness, without pity and wrath, the blows inflicted upon that noble animal every day in opr streets, in anger or recklessness, to force him along with a burden too heavy for him, or to an unnatural speed, or merely to afford vent to the vexation, or impatience, or animal energies of a more brutal driver—a creature, too, with a skin so sensitive that a fly can drive him to distraction !

His look of gentle submission, or sometimes of reproachful appeal, or of flashing indignation, is very touching to the tender-hearted. It appeals forcibly to the human heart, and stamps every wanton, superfluous blow as cruel, coldhearted sin. And many who are not cruel-hearted, are yet thoughtless, and commit the like outrage from sheer thoughtlessness, forgetting that in susceptibility to pain the horse is the equal of the man.

The municipality of Nice lately caused the house in. which Garibaldi was born to be demolished ; its materials were bought by a Frenchman for $3,000. A large number of English people were present t-o see the house pulled down, and every one of them carried away a fragment as a relic.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

HOME INTERESTS.

Nellie’s Diamond King;. Oh! breathe not her name; she hath gone far away, Far away to that world where the beautiful stay; We mourn her long absence; why does she noUeomc Once more to caress us and smile in our home ? Ah! Iter lily-white hands of nature’s pure mold Are folded and lovely, though icy and cold; The soft, gentle touch of her finger so light. Thereon gleamed a diamond, flashing and bright. Oh! bring it not forth; the flash of the gem Will deepen our sorrow and dizzy our brain; No, no! it may lie in its satin-lined case, Where her beautiful fingers has made it a place. Am I dreaming? Will Nellie ne’er come home to sing? Or wear on her finger her new diamond ring ? Whene’er we behold it, the tear-drops will bring To our heavy, lone hearts: that gift—Nellie’s ring. Fond memory clings to the boon ; overwhelmed Is the fond, doting father, mother, and friend; ’Tie for Nellie we mourn, not the new diamond ring, For she sings with the angels as angels do sing. She wears on her forehead a diadem crown. And, for aught we may know, a ring in her home; She is more than an angel, adorned like a bride, Her glorified spirit, untrammeled, untried. She is waving the banner salvation doth bring, Betrothed to her Savior, she is wearing His ring; Uncase the sad relic, for the tears we have shed Are diamond-like droppings on the grave of our dead. Chicago, 111. Nettie’s Motiieb.

Strawberry Culture. A neighbor of mine last summer had an abundance of garden ground, and was very successful at raising potatoes and vegetables in general; these he would sell and purchase strawberries and other fruits. One day I said to him, “ Why don’t you grow your own berries?” “Oh,” he, “it costs more to grow them than they are worth.” Now I differ with him there. If he or any one else would purchase a hundred strawberry plants this spring and set them out on good land, well enriched with hen manure and wood ashes, at a distance of two feet apart each way, then for the labor you will get a partial crop this season and a full one next year sufficient to supply a good-sized family from air investment of not more than a dollar. I need scarcely ask how far a dollar would go, if you go to a nursery to get your strawberries, but at a shilling a quart would make only eight of them, so I think my neighbor was very far in error. Now suppose yon make up your mind you are going to put in some strawbeiTy plants, the next thing is the selection of varieties. There are some kinds called the pistilate, which produce no fruit unless hermaphrodites or perfect bloomers are planted with them. However, you can always count sure on a crop from either Wilson's Albany or Green Prolific. These two are old well-known sorts, such as have been thoroughly tried, and will stand the test. Enough plants' to set twenty-four feet, single row, will be mailed, postpaid, for 15 cents, just to let you try raising them in your own garden. When'your plants reach you, before you go to set them out, put the roots in a puddle of dirt and water stiiTed together to the consistency of cream. Then set each plant the full length of the roots, leaving the crown of the plant even with the surface of the soil. Never set plants on ridges ; rather a little higher than lower than the level. About two weeks after setting, sow common, salt over the bed at the rate of ten bushels to the acre, and each year following, just before they bloom. The salt tends to produce moisture—a very important item in growing strawberries —besides it is sure death to givibs, which do great damage by eating off the roots just beneath the surface. The soil should be kept well loosened up between the rows and around the plants, and all the runners ent off until September, then allow them to form some new plants, training them with the aim of making a compact row about eighteen inches wide. Cover the strawberry bed with clean straw or prairie-hay as soon as the ground freezes. Only barely cover the bed, for, if you put on too much, you will smother the plants. In the spring remove the covering to each side of the plants, leaving it between the rows fox' a mulch, to be removed entirely when fruiting is over. Spade or plow between each row, tearing out most of the plants, leaving only enough to grow fox' another year. Mb. Rennie, Ainswobth, lowa.

Prof. Payne at Home. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen ; glad to see all so comfortable and complacent. This home institution is a grand tiling in our land. Without it civilization would snuff out, the preacher might hold forth till doomsday, and the schoolmaster stay within. A very fine thing this home arrangement. So poke up the fire and turn on the lights. But more upon this point anon. Ahem! Do any of you gentlemen of the “ Home” use tobacco ? Or is that a spittoon back in the corner there? How is this, ladies? Do any of you ladies practice tight lacing, paint deep, pinch your feet in high-heeled gaiters. bang yoiu - hair iu front and false-switeh it behind, chew gum, drink tea and gossip about your neighbors ? Ahem ! I have just made arrangements with a legislative friend of mine to introduce a bill before the State Legislature whereby all mothers bringing erring babies into any church, lecture-room, concert, ox- other place of public amusement, shall be immediately sent off to the Reform School.

Uncle Lute, I give you a hearty slap on the back for your pithy remarks on this “hands-off” business.' No woman will erect a perpetual lighthouse over her virtue, warning “Beware” from afar, except a prude or a simpleton. Hit ’em again for me. I was amused at the lady who, because a certain gentleman, in a competitive flight of his muse, expressed himself as renouncing all fame “ for the love of one pure woman,” thought that, because he cherished such lofty sentiments, he must be a tit mate for an angel. Now, does she not know that there is a great deal more preaching done than there is practicing, and these poets, as a rale, who are so lofty and touching, never really feel and practice what they express ’? The poet who wrote that stirring address to hc-abeds, commencing,. “False luxury, and will not man arise,” etc., did so. snugly ensconced in his bed waiting until breakfast was ready. And it is universally known that the poet who wrote “ A life on the ocean wave ” never was at sea in his life, and had as mortal a dread of water as a dog smitten with hydrophobia, so appearances and words are altogether deceiving and untrustworthy. As to slouchy wives, I have no charity for them. I would ignore their existence if I could. Many wonder at the great reluctance on the part of young men of to-day to marrying ; but when I see the frowsy heads, the untidy, unbecoming dresses of the wives of those young men who are married, I cease to wonder. It is a little singular that women think it necessary before marriage to “ fix up ” and look always at their best to win and keep the loves of their sweethearts, but think it altogether unnecessary after marriage. Were women as particular to keep themselves looking becoming and to be always in the best of humor when wives as when sweethearts, we would have fewer slighted and misused wives in our land. And a tidy, painstaking wife will always make a husband less careless and slouchy. A man with a slouchy wife, be he naturally ever so “starchy,” never cares much for his own appearance. And now my oracle closes its mouth and considerately opens its ears. Prof. Payne. Chicago, 111. Progress. We cannot remain in a dormant state while we are in possession of our natm-al faculties. Oux- minds are ever eagerly and constantly grasping after knowledge and future developments. Science and literature are continually on the wing, pressing upward and onward, and with this mighty tide we are also being wafted on, and the results of time and experience are indeed wonderful.

What would our dear old grandfathers and grandmothers, who have been silently sleeping in the tomb for the past thirty years, say were they to behold us now, and see how wc live, and the improvements of the last fifty years ? Probably they would think we were living like Kings and Queens in comparison with the way that they used to live. Sewing-machines have taken the place of the old-time-used spinning-wheels, both large and small. I can remember how I used to enjoy the buzz-buzz of my grandmother’s big spinning-wheel, and watch the long, white, soft wool rolls, as she would draw them ont and transform them into fine threads, and reels or wind them on the spindle. With her white cap and broad, wide, full frill, close to her face, and her large handkerchief brought around her neck and crossed in front so nicely, I thought she was the best grandma that ever was. I can distinctly remember of hearing my grandfather say that he guessed people would ride in carriages that would go without horses some day, fin now ths means of transports-

tion from place to place is carried on with almost Ughtning rapidity. The telephone is one of the very great improvements of the present age. The audiphone is considered to be another. I converse in my room with people in any part of Chicago, through the telephone, and have found it many times to be a very great convenience. And what will the next fifty years bring forth ? I shall not be here to know, but as long as this world continues to exist it will continue to move on in the same ratio of progression. Nettie. Chicago, 111.

An Act of Manhood. I beheld a beautiful sight the other day, one that brought a thrill of pleasure to my heart and a fervent blessing to my lips. It was not a display of rare and costly fabrics, no rich design ox - elaborate work of art, no tempting bit of drapery or gorgeous floral combination — only a simple, ingenious act of devotion that brought with it a reverence for man entirely unknown before, and left a vivid impression stamped upon the sacred walls of memory. It is to be regretted that pictures of the same class are so rare that only now and then can one be procured with which to adorn the inner sanctuary of life for the nobilit" of nature that I saw represented in such beautiful coloring is, as far as my observation can determine, seldom seen iu the walks of every-day existence. The world may be filled with true and noble men and women, as, indeed, I have faith to believe it is, but only now and then do' we find one of either sex that takes as deep thought of the obligations under which they exist as they properly should. It is a rare occurrence to see young people devote thomselves to the wellbeing and enjoyment of their parents when under tlxe influence which society exerts over their actions. The old-fashioned dress and appearance of the mother, though in days agone she may have seemed tho true embodiment of a saint in her faithful love and devotion to her charges, too often brings the blush of shame to the cheek and the ungrateful word to the lips. Then neglect, with its chilling, blighting presence, steps in, and mother's heart aches and longs for a little Of the love and tenderness she once lavished on the one who is ashamed to own the tie, and fails to stand manfully beside her, protecting her with his brave presence as she has fox' so many jezrs cherished and protected him. But there are those in the world who dare the remarks of society, and stand nobly beside the old love, bidding defiance to the new, braving the contumely of tlxe false hearted for the sake of hex - who has been his sole reliance in the days agone. This is the beautiful sight I behold : A young man supporting the bent form of his aged mother, tenderly caring for her and making his own elastic step conform with her slow and labored plodding, unconscious or entirely careless <>f what the world might say of her oldfashioned garments and wrinkled visage. Do you wonder that I called down the blessings of the angels upon his perfect manhood? ORLENA. Chicago, 111. Bible Kiddles for the Children. What was the age of the youngest King when he came to the throne, and what was his name? How many foxes did Samson tie firebrands to, and what did he do it for? What King killed Uriah for his lieautiful wife, and how did he kill him ? How many dreams did Joseph, when he was a child, dream, and where was he when he dreamed them’? From what originated the name of Jacob s Ladder? How many dreams did King Pharaoh dream ; what was the result of those dreams, and who interpreted them ? Who deceived his blind old father, and by so doing stole his brother’s birtliright, and how did he do it? Who sold his birthright to his brother for a mess of pottage ? What made Samson so strong, and how did he die ? How many years was Noah building the ark before the ilood ; how many people were saved iu the ark, and how old was Noalx when he died? Who was the first man killed by a Cain? Nettie. Chicago, HI. Why Roys Loaf. Here I come once more, and I don’t know where to commence. I guess I will have to tell why the farmer boys loaf. In the first place, the boys were allowed no privileges at home, or but few at best. They had no games to play of evenings, because their parents did not think right to play, or they might make a little noise, as boys are apt to do, and then it might take a little money to buy t hose games. Perhaps they have no interesting books to read, no newspapers, and, in short, they have nothing to amuse themselves of evenings. The consequence is, they go to the store to loaf, and have all the fun they wish. After a habit is formed, it is not very easily broken. Remember the old saying, “A stitch in time saves nine.” A little money spent for books, games and newspapers will save a heartache, and, perhaps, many boys from learning the baa habits generally picked up in town, such as chewing, smoking and drinking whisky. Farmer Boy. Colburn, Ind. Washing Fluid. For the benefit of housekeepers, 11l give a recipe for washing fluid that I know is good and. will not rot clothes: Borax, four ounces ; saltpeter, four ounces ; sal soda, twen-ty-four ounces; sal ammonia, one-half ounce; aqua ammonia, two ounces; alcohol, four ounces ; spirits of camphor, one-half ounce. Dissolve all in one gallon soft water, put in a jug and cork tightly. Put the clothes to soak over night, or for a short time in the morning, in warm suds containing one-half teacupful of the fluid. After rubbing, boil a few minutes in suds containing one-half teacupful of the fluid. I always put my elotlies in cold suds and let them come to a boil, and not boil over ten minutes, if as long as that. Then suds and rinse again in bluing water. They will look nicely. Pansy. Mondovi, Wis. _ From Georgia. For the benefit of some who would like to hear a description of this part of our country I would say that I live in the extreme southwestern part of the State, near the beautiful little town of Fort Gaines. This thriving little town, with its majestic water oaks, evergreen shrubbery and salubrious climate, is pleasantly situated on the banks of the Chattahoochee river, near the Alabama and Georgia line. This country for climate, health and a productive soil can hardly be excelled. Our main productions are corn, cotton, sugar-cane, peas and potatoes. Cotton is king. Small patches of oats and wheat are sometimes planted, but I think the grain crop this year will prove a failure, as it is nearly rained with rust. Georgian. Fort Gaines, Ga.

An Irish Romance.

In these days, when everything is driven by steam and stopped by airbrakes, and even the ticking of our hearts is regulated by a golden key, like most excellent clockwork, there is very little room for “ a romance in real life. ” In a certain county in Ireland, however, not quite a hundred miles from Meath, there dwells a family of nine beautiful maidens, who are wont to amuse themselves by assuming the apron and mob-cap of “neathanded Phillis,” and make themselves all sorts of pastry in the garden. Not very long ago the cry ami ’orn of the ’untsman was heard without, and one of the aforesaid nine, with her sleeves tucked up and her bare arms befloured. rushed to the garden gate, which, opening on a lane, shut behind her just as a smart young Prince, attached to an imperial suite, attired in buckskin and pink, came trotting up. ‘ ‘ Which way has the fox gone ? I did not know such pretty wild flowers grew in the hedges about here before,” said young Marlow. “And what may your name be ?” She bit her lip, blushed, and fairly bolted, but when the others came up he -was a little surprised and abashed on learning that the heroine was no other than a granddaughter to the most noble Marquis who first informed our most gracious Majesty of her uncle’s death. Wnrld.

THE CROP OF CANT.

Radical Hypocrisy Eloquently Ventilated in the United States Senate. [Extract from the Speech of Senator Vest in the Spofford-Kellogg Case.] Mb. President : In the absence of any argument on the other side of the chamber, and from those who oppose the resolutions reported by the Committee on Privileges and Elections, we axe left simply to sxu'mise the grounds of those who advocate the claim of the sitting member from Louisiana to remain in this body. I say that no argument has been made on the opposite side of this chamber against the resolutions of the committee. A report is before us coming from the minority of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, destitute of argument, destitute of facts, and consisting alone of partisan abuse; I use the words deliberately and advisedly. Sir, there can be no graver question presented to the American Senate than that involved in the issues now before this body. A sovereign State, and the fairest and most unfortunate of all the States of this Union, mangled and torn by the sharp teeth of the wolves that gathered about her, is a suppliant before us, and her sister States can alone give her justice. Leaders of the Republican party, eminent statesmen who stand before the couixtry as the dictators of its policy, join the minority report, in which this extraordinary language, the only salient point in it, is presented to file Senate of the United States :

“The men whose professions of returning loyalty to the constitution have been trusted by the generous confidence of the American people are now to give evidence of the sincerity of their vows. The people will thoroughly understand this matter, and will not be likely to be deceived again.” It requires no sensitive scrutiny to know the meaning of this insulting and offensive statement. Because the Senators upon this side of the Chamber, or, as the Senator from Maine (Mr. Blaine) elaborated it, “the Senators from sixteen States, lately in rebellion or sympathizing with rebellion,” do not construe the law as announced by the minority of the committee, and do not believe that the sitting Senator from Louisiana is entitled to his seat in this Chamber, they are denounced as false to their oaths of allegiance to the constitution, and unworthy of the confidence of an honest people. Sir. I have, n > language suitable to this presence in which to express my contempt for a charge like this.

I desire in this discussion to say nothing more partisan than the nature of the issues involved necessarily must cause. It is useless to disguise the fact that the American people look with peculiar solicitude upon the decision of this case, because it reminds them of the fact that the administration now in power in these United States obtained that power from the ven- abuse which to-day is sought to be reiterated m the Senate of the United States. Sir, when instead of argument we receive abuse, it is adding insult to injury. What is this declaration of the minority of the Committee on Privileges and Elections upon a question involving the existence of the constitution itself but an appeal to the partisan passions of the hour? What is it but a declaration to the people of the United States that the Republican party propose to merge and whelm all the other issues in the single fact that sovereign States of this Union have dared to trust in the Senate of the United States men who risked life and fortune and all in common with their fellow-citizens in those States, and what is this but an insufferable taunt of the most despicable order ? The crop of cant springs perennial and eternal with the Republican party. The cotton crop may fail from the ravages of the caterpillar. Wheat may perish with rust ox - weevil. Corn may be destroyed by thought ox' floods; but the crop of cant is more certain with the Republican party than “seed-time and harvest.” Who does not know that all this virtuous indignation about the constitution simply menus indignation because the Democrats in this Senate do not intend to allow the outrage committed upon a sovereign State by a partisan majority to remain unredressed, or that the Republic: n party shall profit by their unconsritutional and illegal action ?

“ The men whose professions of returning loyalty to the constitution have been tru ted by the generous confidence of the American people." We heard this retrain at the extra session, and it promises to be the catch-word of the coming canvass. “ The men who struck at the life of the nation must not be trusted to make its laws. The Confederate Brigadiers are traitors to the constitution they have sworn to defend.” And yet the world knows and tbe past proves that the test of patriotism nud loyalty to the constitution is simply voting the Republican ticket and giving the offices of the country to the Republican party. When did Longstreet, or Mosby, or Key express penitence for the part taken by them in the Rebellion? Show me one word from either of them indicating regret for having led the charging columns that dashed their tattered gray against the Union lines. No, they have not repented, but they have done what covers every transgression, they have given their adherence to the Republican party and supported its ticket. To-day, in the leading Republican paper in this city, in the LfepuWican, which I have now in my hand, is a declaration from Gen. Mosby, now the accredited Minister- of the United States to a foreign country, now in full fellowship with the Republican parly, now a great apostle of the party of God. morality, progress, and reform, in regard to his part in the Rebellion :

“I said this four years ago, and my words are now prophecy fulfilled : ‘I feel a just pride in their glory, and am as jealous ol the military honor of the Southern people as any man oil their side. A generous foe would not ask to deprive us of it. I know that Gen. Grant would not.’ ”

And to-day this gentleman stands the acacredited Minister of the United States Government abroad, and says that he feels as much pride in his record as a Confederate soldier as he did when his flag waved in terror for four long years before the national capital. By what and when and how did Mosby, Longstreet and Key, the Postmaster General, obtain the confidence of the Republican party? When they voted the Republican ticket, and to give the offices of the coixntry to the Republican party ; when they said, we give the spoils of the National Government, wo vote this ticket, this mystic piece of paper that wipes away all sin and hides all transgressions. Why, sir, there is not in all the pharmacopoeia, from the days of Hippocrates, any drag with such miraculous effect as that tiny piece of paper on which is written the names of the Republican candidates at an election.

Not all the water of the Jordan : not the pool of Siloam itself; not the famed talisman of Saladin presented to the royal Richard ever had the medicinal and heahng virtues of a Republican ballot! It casts oblivion over the blood and carnage of Shiloh -and Chancellorsville, hides the sex-ried ranks of Longstreet and the black flag of Mosby which for four long years waved in terror before the national capital; and it even stills tlxe groans of Libby and Andersonville ! There’s a drop, said the Peri, that down from the moon, Falls through the withering airs of June, Upon Egypt’s land ; of so healing a power, So balmy a virtue, that even in the hour That drop descends contagion dies, And health reanimates earth and skies. But even this mystic drop compares not in efficacy with the drop of a radical ballot into the box of a returning board, although from the bloodiest hand that grasped musket or saber in the army of the Confederacy. Who has not seen the repentant sinner coming forward to the mourner’s seat, while the ecstatic melody burst from gladdened hearts : Nothing in my hands I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling. In every orthodox creed repentance is current coin; but not so with our Republican brethren. There is no welcome from them to an empty-handed sinner, no matter how full he may be of repentance. He must come with the radical ticket in his hand, prepared to vote it early and often. Mv'. President, I assert that there is not a Confederate Brigadier in this Chamber who would not be appointed to any office within the gift of the administration, and receive the votes of Republican Senators in confirmation, if without one syllable of repentance for the past he should promise allegiance to the Republican party for the future. Ay, sir, even xny friend from South Carolina, “the Hamburg butcher,” who has been cartooned in the illustrated Republican papers as a leadex- of the Ku-Khxx, with a sword ten feet long and spurs weighing ten pounds each, riding until midnight “fetlock deep ” in negro gore—even he, by sacrificing honest conviction and real manhood, could be accredited abroad, and grace with his many accomplishments a foreign court.

A Conclusive Answer. Dr. Murphy was boasting recently that the climate of Minnesota beats the climate of California or any other State, and, with a triumphant air of exultation, exclaimed i "Look at xnef Behold my

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beautiful rounded form. When I came here I weighed only ninety-seven pounds, and now I weigh 275 pounds. What do you think of that ?” One of the sons of the late Bishop Willoughby, standing by, said: “Why, doctor, that’s nothing; look at me. I weigh 175 pounds, and when I came to Minnesota I weighed only six pounds.” The doctor left.—A?. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer-Press.

Plain Truths "Well Spoken.

Ex-Gov. Hubbard, of Connecticut, in a recent address to the Democratic Club, of Hartford, took occasion to give some advice to that locality. We extract as follows: Great emergencies sometimes occur in the history of government, where the nation’s life and the liberties of the whole people are at stake. At such times parties are too small for the nation's needs, and they give way for the time being to a great, heroic and overmastering unanimity of the people. But such supreme occasions are rare. The ordinary and normal administration of government, in this and in other free countries, has been and always will be conducted by one or the other of twogreit contending parties, and, while bril>ery, intrigue, fraud, ballot-box stuffing, and the rascalities of returning boards may give occasional success to either, that will prevail in the long run which stands for the soundest principles of justice, liberty, law and order, and for the most honest and wholesome methods of political administration. This great party of ours is no transient growth of yesterday and to-day. It dates back to the formation of the constitution, is memorable in its history and rich in its faith, lineage aud achievements. It has witnessed the overthrow of I know not how many adversary parties. It will, in my opinion, notwithstanding occasional mistakes, witness the overthrow of all others, and last in its essential principles as long as the republic lasts. But this must be on condition that it forget not the faith of the fathers, and stand, in the future as in the past, on a higher plane of patriotism, principle and action than any other. To this end there are a few cardinal truths it must never forget. 1. The essentials of our traditional faith. The largest liberty of the citizen consistent with good order. The greatest good of the greatest number, as the object of all laws and constitutions ; a jealous holding in all matters of local self-government to the rights of the States, those primitive democracies intended by the fathers as barriers against the aggressions of the central power; and at the same time a faithful maintenance of the Federal Government in all its delegated sovereignties, as essential to the union of the States. Retrenchment and reform in the Federal revenues, honesty in Federal administration. Honesty in the nation’s credit to the last farthing, no matter at what cost. Honesty in the nation’s money to the last grain and pennyweight. A paper currency redeemable in gold and silver only, and good faith in everything. 2. The purity of popular elections as the indispensable condition of free Government. I lack words to give dne force and emphasis to this thought. The buying and selling of votes, repeating at the polls, the intimidation of voters by then- employers, the deviltries of returning boards, no matter whether in Maine, South Carolina, Louisiana or Florida, are all poison-' ous' to free institutions, and will, unless restrained, prove fatal to them. I know not how it comes about that so many men, honest and honorable in other relations, arc willing in politics to leave honor and conscience beliind them, and give themselves over to every form of political debauchery with greediness, A man who really believes m democracy, and that, as a voter, he is one of the rulers of the State, and equal to the foremost man m the republic, and yet sells his vote for a piece of silver, is a Judas in politics and a traitor to himself and to every other member of his party. I add, that that the buyer is as bad as the seller, and worse, for he is a dealer in corruption at wholesale. It ought to be the business of this association to do something for the repression of these growing evils, and to see to it that every Democratic voter casts a free and independent ballot, and that his ballot is fairly counted.

3. Honesty in official administration. I know no way of accomplishing this but by proposing honest men for office. To select candidates because they are political ringsters and can command the support of the bummers of both parties, or are willing to do duty work in the aid of their own candidacy, is the highest possible folly as a mere matter of policy. A party which has dirty office-holders will itself pass for dirty. There is no avoiding it. The place for the’ Babcocks, Belknaps and Tweeds of a party is the prison, if possible ; if not, then in the rear, out of sight and out of smelL So, then, I urge, not only as a matter of political morals, but on the grounds of party expediency, that everywhere, and particularly here in our own city, town and county, we put forward our best men for places of public trust, and that we resolutely apply to this question of official candidature, from the lowest local office upto the highest, the old Jeffersonian test: “Is he honest, is he capable, is he faithful?” A party incapable of applying this test, and nominees incapable of enduring it, will not be supported by the people, and they ought not- 1 >to be. 4. Unity of party action as essential to party efficiency. We have suffered quite too much in recent elections from the lack of this, and it is high time we had found a remedy. Adherence to one's party, when it no longer represents the essentials of one’s political convictions, is, I freely admit, no longer a duty. It is servitude rather. But to desert one’s flag, to fall into fractions, to withhold one’s vote, to hire out to an opposing candidate, or even to retire into a new party attitude, either from personal pique and disappointment or from bargaining and venality, is a base apostacy to one’s political faith and treachery to associates,. Have we not had of late something too much of this in our own ranks ? Let us have done with it. Tins city, town, county and State upon a free, fair, and unbought election is, I make no matter of doubt, clearly Democratic. What we need, and all we need, is, I repeat, union and concert of action among ourselves—candidates that will honor the constituencies that honor them, honest platforms that say what we really believe and mean just what they say, elections fairly conducted, and a free suffrage exercised from conviction and without fear or favor of any man, and honestly canvassed. This is what' we want; this is what we must try to secure. And, this secured, the grand old Democratic party of Jefferson, Madison, and Jackson will come to the front once more in solid column, and victory will rest on its banners.

A Thrilling Adventure.

Near the Umatilla river, in Oregon, recently, a Mr. Green was digging a well, and Mr. Scott, his brother-in-law, while 1 ireaking a young horse, approached the well, when the animal made a plunge at him. Mr. Scott dodged and the horse tumbled into the well, striking Green and crushing him to the earth. The only thing that prevented him from being instantly killed was a box suspended by a rope. This sustained sufficient weight to allow him to breathe. Scott, realizing that the frantic efforts of the horse would kill the man beneath him, seized an ax and jumped down upon the animal, when a life-and-death struggle ensued. He at length managed to deal the horse a fatal blow. Every time the horse, struggled large quantities of earth poured down upon Green. Scott climbed out and ran a mile, and a half for help. Returning as quickly as possible, men set to work cutting th< horse to pieces and hoisting it out of th< well. Mrs. Green was present and cheered her husband by telling him that he would soon be released. The poor man was suffering intense agony, ami said he could not live a minute longer. He bade his wife farewell in choking sobs. With frantic efforts the animal was tom limb from limb until the last piece was cleared away, and the unconscious man was found buried to his chin in dirt and gravel, saturated with blood, and was lifted to the surface. He was carried to his home, where restoratives were applied and in a short time he spoke. Although no bones were broken he was badly crushed and bruised, and may be confined to his bed for weeks.

Mbs. Hur,da Rooebtson, of Bethel Vt., has reached the age of 101 years.

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INDIANA NEWS.

Indiana is being overrun with eir cuses. Elizabeth Landson died lately near Evansville. She was 102 years-and 11 months old. Eleven in all of the Harrison county mob that murdered Henry Long have been arrested. The school enumeration of Logansport shows that there, are 3,600 children of school age in that city, 500 less than last year. Absalom Knight, a student at Earlham College, Richmond, had his skull fractured by a base-ball knocked foul by the batter. The enumeration of school children at Indianapolis, just completed, shows 26,522 within the corporate limits, a gain of less than 50l) over last year. Charles Hinchman, a 12-year-old son of ex-Sheriff Hinchman, of Jennings county, has been appointed a page in the national House of Representatives. Measles at Indianapolis arc said to be taking a fatal turn, attacking the brains of the victimsand producing convulsions, from which death is the Only relief. A valuable horse belonging to Das id Hewitt, living near Liberty, got loose in th) stable and butted its brains out against a beam. It is pronounced a deliberate case of suicide. The Council of Madison, by a vote of 8 to 4, has repealed the former ordinance appropriating $50,000 to the 8., B. A M. road, and ordered the destruction of the bonds issued therefor. It is now announced that tin 1 corner stone of the m w State House' cannot be laid before August, as there must, previously be laid four courses oi stop" upon the outside walls and 600,000 brick in the inner ones.

An industrious and respectable young German at N< w Albany married, the other day, a young woman nominally colored, but who would never be taken by any who did not know her'pedigree for anything else than a pure-blooded white. Suit has begun at New Albany against, the Pennsylvania railroad to recover SIOO,OOO for the injury done Anna Hollman by bt'ing inn ov< r on the 12th oi April by a train running at a high rate of speed. Both arms of the girl were cut off. An old white horse, the sole survivor of the four horses that drew the Jr arw<in President Line- In's funeral cortege in Indianapolis, in 1865, is spending Ins last days on the Eoudray farm, six miles northwest of the city, one of the oldest horses in the county. G. W. Hoss, LL. D., Ims resigned his chair at the State University, to lake effect at the close of the present collegiate year. Helms I.ought the Kansas Pdueafional Jonrnal, and will lea ve Indiana about the 12th of June to take charge of it, making his home al T> • peka. The pump-factory and r<-sidciio ■ of Isaac Rarden, at Greenfield, were destroyed by tire the oiler night. Lo , $8,000; insurance, SI,OOO. Si-pposed to be tin 4 work of a.n incendiary. It looked, for a while, as if the entire town would be destroyed, ns a terrible gale was blowing at tlie time. Edward Weakley, aged 18, and Jerome Roles, aged 11, were squirrel-hunt ing two mile,s south of Shelbyville the other day. While walking along in search of game, Weakley’s gun w as pr< maturely discharg'd, and a portion oi t he contents lodged in young Holes’ face. The wound inflicted was very serious.

At Richmond, the other day, a 5-yc;ir old boy named Nelson fell from a sec-ond-story window and disjointed his neck. A physician was called, who twisted th<‘ vertebra' info position, and the child is rapidly recovering from the accident. This is one of a very lew such cases which have ever come um’.'r the notice of the medical profession, and is well authenticated.

A case has just been deeid. d by Judge Chase, of Cass county, that will pul about $20,000 into the pockets of the soldiers of that county. Th case is like this: During the reb-Ilion th" county offered a bounty for volunteers. At that time there was a large number of enlisted men from that county already in the field. Their film* had expir'd, and they re-enlisted as veterans, ciHismg themselves to be assign cd to Cass c. ainiy. The county will have to pay the bill.

Ex-Mayok Himphkeys, of South Bend, died the other night, aged (if years. He was one of the most eminent physicians in the State, an officer of several medical associations, and one of the Commissioners of the Indiana Hospital forthe Insane. At the beginning of the Rebellion ho went out as Surgeon of the Twenty-ninth Indiana volunteer infantry. Later ho was made Brigade Surgeon, and, in 1862, was appointed one of the eight Medical Inspectors of the army by President Lincoln, ami served as such until a year after the. close of the war.

A Sapphire That Weighs a Pound.

The London Telegraph says that Berlin has just learned to its astonishment and gratification, from a report of the Polytechnic Society’s latest meeting, that within its walls reposes a treasure of almost fabulous value, tlx' very existence of which had been hitherto unsuspected. A member of the above-maim d society is the enviable owner of the largest sapphire in the world -a stone weighing nearly fifteen ounces. Pitre sapphires of good color hold so high a rank in the gem market that, were this gigantic jewel of the first water, it would be worth no less a sum than £3,200,(XX). It is, however, not absolutely free from' impurities, a fact which materially diminishes its practical value, but enor mous bids for it, made at different times by German Princes ami wealthy mineralogists, have been invariably r. j oted by its proprietor, who has constituted if an heirloom, and confided it, in deposit, to the custody of the state judicial authorities. A sapphire weighing marly a pound may fairly claim to rank as among the wonders of flic world, 11 would lx interesting to learn how so extraordinary a gem came into the possession of the Prussian savant who exhibited it to the wonder-stricken gaze of his fellow Polvte.ehnieians tin' other evening.

A Yard.

“You do not mean to call that a yaid, do you?” said an indignant housc-hunt-er, 'looking at the little inclosure at the rear of an “elegant residence” which the broker was showing him; “why, there is not more than three feet of ground there.” “Well,” said the imperturbable house-agent. “ tl »’ >e fp< t make A yard, do they not ?”