Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Thirteen of the men who wrecked a IpasHrtiger train in Spain, last year, ha ve been oewiit-noed to death, and thirteen to twenty j'rxj'ti’ imprisonment. Extensive preparations continue to be made by Russia in anticipation of a war with China. War material in large quantities is being forwarded to the Russian provinces adjacent to the Chinese territory. Fourteen hundred people in North Hungary are living on grass and mushrooms, nml t he famine is increasing. A Constantinople dispatch states that /fifty brigands have been killed near Salouica, .others captured and their prisoners secured. Queen Victoria, in the speech on the opening of the British Parliament, expresses the hope that, in concert with other powers, Great Britain may succeed in securing the fulfillment of the treaty of Berlin, both with reispect to reformsiii the Turkish administration ■and the settlement of territorial questions. In reference to the affairs of Ireland, it is announced by her Majesty that the renewal of the notorious Peace Preservation act, which expires within a few weeks, will not be asked by the Government. The Queen congratulates Parliament and the country on the cordial relations existing between England and all foreign nations. The British Government favors the recent act of Congress authorizing an International Sanitary Commission to be held in the United Stiites. There has been considerable full in American railroad stocks at London, in consequence of the failure of the Philadelphia and Reading Company. Within a few days the. European powers will send identical notes to Turkey, demanding a settlement of the Armenian, Greek and Montenegrin questions, and. if the mswer to this is not satisfactory, a conference will be. held in Berlin in Julv.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. 1-Caat. John H. Foster <V Co., of Boston, grain commission merchants, have failed, with liabilities of about 150,000. The brewery of John Gardiner A Go., Philadelphia, has been partially burned. Loss, $200,000; insurance. >130,000. A young man living at Port Jervis, N. It., who, on a small salary, has dressed expensively, had plenty ot money, and ma le the girl to whom he was engaged presents of diamonds, is under arrest for the forgery of 260 checks mi his employers' bank account. Forty buildings in Coudersport; Potter county, Pa., have been destroyed by lire. The loss was about 5200,000. Au abandoned mine under Scranton, I’a., is caving in. the results being great alarm and the destruction of considerable property. A .sensation in Eastern financial circles has been produe'd by th" suspension of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, and the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, winch are practically identical. Seventy buildings have been destroyed by lire in Edenburg, Pa. Most of the citizens were at a circus when the conflagration started, and nothing was done to extinguish the flames until about twenty houses bad been ignited. Maj. John T. Harrold has obtained a judgment of >:>0,00i) against the New York Elevated Railroad Company for inpiries received in an accident on the roid. Several Philadelphia firms have foiled owing to the collapse of the Philad'hihia and Reading railroad. An express agent at Bed Hook. N. Y., has run off with $5,800 belonging Io a na

We«t. Potter Palmer Ims sued the Chicago J'ribunv for libel, claiming .*25,000 damages. Fifteen squntters, who recently attempted to locate on tin' North fork of the Canadian river, in Indian Territory, have been arrested by a detaelime Indians attacked a wagon train en route to New Mexico, near Fori Davis, Texas, killing a man ami a woman. Eleven other personl in the vehicles tool; to the bill.; and imide their escape. Tire whites are fleeing from the San Pedro region, New Mexico, on account of the incursions of the Indians. Nine prospectors are known to have been killed, and it is supposed that five others have been killed. A Santa Fe telegram states that the horses of Gen. Hatch’s command having given out, the troops are following Victoria on foot. The Indians lately killed seven people at Lunas ranche, besides killing some herders in another locality and stealing some children. A party of invaders of Indian Territory have been arrested by Gen. Pope. 1). K. Jones, the inventor and first manufacturer of hicifer matches, has just died at Chillicothe, Ohio, aged 89 years. A train on the South Pacific Coast railway, carrying a large number of picnickers, jumped the track near Santa Cruz, Cal., killing thirteen and wounding nearly forty of the passengers. Many of the latter will die. An excursion train became stalled in the tunnel at St. Louis, and, the ears filling with smoke and coal gas, a panic among the passenger.; ensued, which resulted' in the serious injury of many. Tom Boyd, the new Sam Patch, jumped from the suspension bridge at Cincinnati into the Ohio river, the other day, receiving no injuries. South. Henry S. Foote, Superintendent of the New Orleans Mint, and an old-time Southern politician, died recently at his home, near Nashville, Tenn. Hon. John B. Gordon, United States Senator from Georgia, has tendered his resignation, and yx-Gov. Joseph E. Browu has been appointed his successor. Clark Mills’ equestrian statue of Jackson was unveiled at Nashville, Tenn., in the presence of 20,000 people. A large section of Georgia has been visited by a tremendous rain-storm. It is said the fall in twenty hours amounted to nine inches. Bridges were swept away, trains stopped, and crops ruined.

POLITICAL POINTS. The California Workingmen’s Convention adopted a resolution in favor of Senator Thurman for President, by a vote of 11. to 41. The Minnesota Republican Convention, held at St. Paul, May 19, instructed the delegates to Chicago to vote for Senator Windom for President. - A resolution declaring Blaine to be the second choice of the convention was voted down. An anti-third-term resolution was q furred to a committee and not reported hack.

The Democratic sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME lv’.

The Dakota Republicans have elected two delegates to the Chicago Convention for Windom first, and Blaine second. The Virginia Democratic Convention selected twenty-two delegates to the National Convention at Cincinnati. They are uninstructed, but are understood to be favorable to J mitre Field. The Minnesota Democrats held their State Convention at St. Paul May 20. The delegates to the National Convention received no instructions. The resolutions declare that tiie State delegation should act as a unit; that the Democrats of Minnesota would “never again submit to a reversal of the popular will by fraud or violence,'' and that no President should have a third term. The California Greenbaekers have elected four dclegates-at-large, headed by Denis Kearney, to the National Convention to be held at Chicago. The Mississippi Greenback Convention was held at Jackson on the 20th of May. Delegates to the Chicago Convention were aj>pointed without instructions. The Democratic State, Convention of New Jersey, in session at Trenton, May 20, adopted resolutions denouncing centralization and the presence of troops at the pulls, favoring hard money and opposing monopolies of all kinds, favoring the two-thirds rule in convention and declaring that Mr. Hayes occupies the Presidency bv fraud.

The California Democrats elected an unpledged delegation to Cincinnati and adopted resolutions declaring that Mr. Hayes was seated by fraud, and that the issues of the present campaign are the right of self-govern-ment, maintenance of the reserved rights of States, and resistance to imperialism and Chinese immigration. Thurman was the favorite Presidential candidate by a large majority. The Pennsylvania Prohibitionists, at their State Convention, held at Altoona, nominated a Stat<' ticket, elected delegates to the National Temperance Convention, and nominated Presidential Electors. A resolution was adopted condemning the pardon of the Legislative bribers. There is a good deal of dissatisfaction among Georgia Democrats at the appointment of ex-Gov. Joseph E. Brown to succeed Gen. Gordon in the Senate. At a large Democratic meeting in Columbus, [Gov. Colquitt was denounced for appointing Brown, and declaring that he (Brown) is not a representative of Georgia, nor of the Democratic party, but a t ian who betrayed the State in her hours of trial. Brown is almost a Republican, and was one for several years after the war. He was delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1868, and voted for Gen. Grant’s nomination, sustaining him in the convention, and acting with the Republicans for several years. He is one of the wealthiest men in Georgia. The Nebraska Republican State Convention met at Lincoln May 20, and, after an all-day and night session, elected six Blaine delegates to the Chicago Convention. The Greenback Convention of lowa was held at Des Mornes may zo. a. vv. Walker, of Poll;, was nominate I for Secretary of State ; Matthew Farrington of Bremer, for Treasurer; G. W. Swearingen, of Fremont, for Auditor ; W. A. Spurrier, of Adams, for Attorney General, and Thomas Hooker, of Dallas, for Register of the Land Office. The delegates to the National Greenback Convention at Chicago were instructed to vote for Gen. J. B. Weaver for President. The Illinois Republican State Convention, after a stormy three days’ session at Springfield, selected forty-two uncompromising Grant men as delegates to the National Convention at Chicago, and adopted the following resolution, offered by Senator Logan, who led the Grant cohorts in the, convention ; “liriiolvi'il, That, Gen. U. S. Grant is the choice, of the Republican party of Illinois for the Presidency, and the delegates from this State are instructed to use all honorable means to secure his nomination by the Chicago Convention, and to vote as a unit for him, and the said delegates shall have power to till all vacancies.” The following resolution was also adopted : “A’cso/red, The Republicans of Illinois, in convention assembled, declare that they will support the nominees, of this convention for State offices, and the nominees of the Chicago Convention for President and Vice President.” Senator Logan heads the dele-gation-at large to the Chicago Convention. The delegations from the nine Congressional districts that were favorable to Washburne and Blaine protested against the action of the convention in choosing the district delegates, but as the Grant men were in the majority they were overruled. The following Stale ticket was placed in nomination : Governor, Shelby M. Cullom ; Lieutenant Governor, John M. Hamilton ; Secretary of State, H. D. Dement; Auditor. ('. I’. Sweig rt ; Treasurer, Edward Rutz; Attorney General, James McCartney. Alabama Republicans have instructed their twenty delegates to the Chicago Convention to support Grant. Seymour clubs are being formed in Chicago. The Galena Gazette, whose editor is a personal friend of Gen. Grant, and knows whereof he speaks, publishes the following in the issue of May 24 : “'An item has been going the rounds of the press asserting that George W. Childs, of the Philadelphia Lwbjer, had stated that Gen. Grant would order his name withdrawn from the contest at the National Convention m Chicago. Neither George W. Childs nor any one else has authority for making such an assertion. Gen. Grant's name has never gone before the public as a candidate for the Presidency by any word or act of his own, and he most certainly will not order his name withdrawn. A very large class of American people have chosen to make him their candidate, and if the Republican National Convention at Chicago sees fit to tender him the nomination he will not decline it. This we know to be a fact, and wo publish it because it is well that the Republicans of the country should cease to hold the matter in doubt.”

WASHINGTON NOTES. A Mr. George, at present connected with the Census Bureau, but formerly interested in railroad matters in the South, has sent a letter to the-Senate Committee on Pacific Kailroads, charging bribery and corruption on cer tain members and ex-members of Congress. He states that in 1871 the incorporators of the Texas Pacific railroad paid •‘5=92,000 to Congressmen and Senators in order to obtain a land grant, and that, later on, bonds to the amount of $1,000,000 were distributed for the same purpose. The charges have created quite a sensation at the capital. It is said that in case Congress adjourns without providing rules for counting the electoral vote, President Hayes will immediately call it together again. The President has decided to appoint Horace Maynard, United States Minister at Constantinople, to succeed Judge Key as pQitniant r Geperal.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1880.

The much-talked-of boat race on the Potomac was won by Hanlan, Courtney giving up, and going to his boat-house without making the entire course. The President has nominated Postmaster General Key for Judge of the Eastern district ot Tennessee, Horace Maynard for Postmaster General, and Gen. Longstreet for the Turkish mission, to succeed Maynard. An expert in penmanship has testified that Finley wrote the anonymous letter to Mr. Springer. The ship Liberia has sailed from New York with sixty emigrants for the African republic. Within four days two steamers landed 4,0000 f the best class of German emigrants in Baltimore, and nearly ail of them left immediately for the West. Upward of 2,500 emigrants arrived at Boston in one day, and at once proceeded to Chicago, whence they will scatter tlirough the West.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, and ten other Sioux chiefs will go to Washington soon to discuss the proposition to permit railroads to run through the Sioux reservation. Trickett, of Australia, has challenged Hanlan to row him on the Thames, in November, for the championship of the world. The General Assembly of the Northern Presbyterian Church was opened on May 20, in Madison, Wis., with a sermon by Dr. Eels, of Cincinnati, and Dr. Paxton, of New York, was elected Moderator. The General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church met at the same time in Charleston, S. C., listened to a. sermon by Dr. J. P. Wilson, and elected Dr. T. A. Hoyt, of Nashville, Moderator. By a vote of 229 to 139 the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in session at Cincinnati..decided not to elect a bishop of African descent. Judge Treat, at St. Louis, decides that a river steamboat, which employs a crew for a roun 1 trip and dismisses them before the trip is ended, is liable for their transportation back to the starting point and their wages until their arrival.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. Copies of reports upon Alaskan affairs were received by the Senate on the morning of Monday. May 17, from the Secretary of the treasury, in response to a request. A communication from the Secretary of War was received, transmit ing the petition of officers of the army for the enactment of such legislation as will entit’e all Lieutenants of the army who have served fourteen years in the gr ide of Lieutenant to the rank of Captain. A bill parted for the construction of a public building at Peoria, 11!. Mr. Bayard, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the bill lately introduced by him, reguiatii g the pay and appointment of Deputy Marsha’s. Mr. Vance submitted a resolution directing the Secretary of the Treasury to inform the Senate what method is observed in the revenue service in subtracting tare on foreign sugars imported in boxes. Adopt'd. On motion of Mr. Pendleton, the S' mate passed the joint resolution authorizing the Secretary ot War to furnish artillery, tents, etc., for use i t the so'diers’ and sailors’ reunion at Columbus, onio, m Aumi.-i, 1880. Tk. PosioH'ive Appropriation bill was taken up and passed, as amended. A message from the President was received, inclosing a synopsis by Secretary Evarts of the correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britaai in rohition to the Fortune bay outrages. Mr. Hyner and the Secretary agree that it is. the imperative duty of the United States to consider what measures should be taken to maintain the rights of Americans under the treaty of Washington, and to obtain redress for the. denial of those rights. Mr. Evarts advises the President to recommend that Congress reinforce the duties on fish and fish oil, the product of provincial fisheries, as they existed before the treaty of Washington came into operation, to ho continue until the two Governments shall arrive nt an agreement regarding the iuterprelaiion of the treaty.... In the House bills were introduced: By Mr. Cox, requesting the President to commuircate to the House all correspondence in regard to the persecution of the Jews by the Russian Government; by Mr. Young (Ohio), to tax and regulate the manufacture and sale of glucose or grape sugar: by Mr. Young (Tenn.), calling on the Secretary of the Interior for copies of the written testimony taken by the comluission to investigate the charges against the Indian Bureau ; by Mr. Turner, proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting Congress passing a bill appropriating more than $10,009, except by vote of a majority of the members elected; by Mr. Whittliorne, for the adoption of a suitable meter to accurately measure the quantity and test the gravity ami temperature of distilled and malt liquor. After a short debate, the motion to suspend the ru’es and pass the River and Harbor Appropriation bill was agreed to—-yeas, 17!); nays, 47, The bill authorizing national, banks to loan money on mortgages was defeated. A bill was passed providing times and places for holding United States Circuit Courts for the District of lowa.

Mr. Davis, of Illinois, from the Judiciary Committee, reported favorably to the Senate, May 18, on the bill to establish a District ami Circuit Court at Chattanooga, and to add the county of Gruudy to the Eastern district of Tennessee. The bill passed. The bill torn p ibie building at Pittsburgh .was passed, a.-, wijre the bills for an additional land district in Kansas, and to construe and define the act to cede to the State of Ohio unsold lauds in Virginia, the military district oi that State. A resolution was agreed t > asking what action had been taken in regard to the claim of Kansas for 5 per cent, of her sales of public land. Messrs. Withers, Beck and Booth were appointed members of the couieii-uce committee on ine Postolfice Appropriation bill. Messrs Saulsbury and Morgan spoke in favor of Spofford in the contested-election case from Louisiana. It was resolved that on and after Thursday next the Senate meet at 11 a. m. The Committee on Appropriations was given leave to sit during the daily sessions of the Senate for the remainder of the session. The President nominated Nathan Goff, Jr., of Clarksburg, to be United States Attorney for West Virginia, and Andrew J. Evans, of Waco, to lie United States Attorney for the Western district of Texas....ln the House, Mr. Loring introduced a bill to give effect to the message of the Pre ident re’ative to the outrages upon our fishermen under the Washington treaty. An ret to place colored persons who enlisted in the army on the same footing as other soldiers as to bounty and pension was pasred. The Pension Deficiency bill was passed. The Agricultural Appropriation bill was referred to the committee of the whole, where it was discussed at length and amended. An evening session was held, when the Court of Pensions bill was debated.

On the meeting of the Senate on Wednesday, May 19, Mr. McMillan presented various communications favoring the bill for establishment of a school of forestry. Mr. Cameron presented the petition of the widow of Gen. Ileintzelman praying a pension of SSO per month. A short debate upon the Political Assessments bill took place. Senator Butler, of South Carolina, opposed reopening the Louisiana contest-ed-election case in a speech. The President nominated Horace Maynard, of Tennessee, for Postmaster General; James Longstreet, of Georgia, Minister to Turkey, and David M. Key to be United States District Judge for the Eastern ano Middle districts of Tennessee.... In the House, the Agricultural Appropriation bill passed with several amendments, and then, by a vote of loti against 97, the House went into committee of the whole on motion of Mr. Tucker, who stated his intention to call up the Tariff bill. The opponents of the tariff succeeded in postponing consideration of this bill, and the House adjourned till evening, when a session was held for consideration of the District Code.

hi the Senate, on the 20th inst., after reports from the majority and minority of the select committee on counting the electoral votes, the bill to establish a retired list for non-commissioned army officers was taken up, and amended so that when an enisted man has served as such fifteen consecutive years in the army honorably and faithfully, and the last five years thereof as a non-commissioned officer, he shall be eligible for appointment as Second Lieutenant in the army corps of the line in which he has served, and passed. Mr. Cockrell introduced a bill donating twelve condemned cannon to aid in the erection of a monument to Gen. James Shields. Mr. Garland spoke in favor of unseating Mr. Kellogg.... In the House, the bill regulating the Municipal -Code of the District was passed, as was the bill to carry into effect the second and sixteenth articles of the treaty between the United States and the Great and Little Osaize Indians. The House went into committee of the whole and considered several reports from the Committee on Public Lands, and continued the same order of business at the evening session.

The Marshals bill was taken up in the Senate on the 21st inst., at the request of Mr. Bayard, and, after amendments, was passed. The Committee on Commerce was given leave to sit during the session of the Senate. The bill loaning tents, etc., to soldiers’ reunion at Muscatine, - lowa, was passed. The Legislative Appropriation bill was passed, after a short discussion. ~

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

In the House, a bill making appropriations for the payment of certain claims reported allowed by the accounting officers of the treasury was taken up and passed; also, a liill for the relief ot John D. Defrecs, Pub.ic Printer. Mr. Cox, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported back a resolution calling on the President for information in regard to the expulsion of Israelite citizens of the United States from SL Petersburg by the Russian Government. Adopted. The House then considered bills reported yesterday from the committee of the wbo'e relative to public lands, and the various bills agreed to in committee of the who e were passed. Mr. Colerick, from the Committee on Elections, reported a resolution relative to the contestede’eclion case of Duffy vs. Mason, Twenty-ninth district of New York, declaring Mason; the sitting member, entitled to the seat. The resolution which was the unanimous report of the committee, was adopted. The Pension bill Was passed. The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was reported t > the House, appropriating $20,729,987. The aggregates submitted to the committee aggregated $24,374,020. The present bill exceeds the amount appropriated for 1880 by $1,255,953. Senator Morgan’s resolution determining the method of counting the electoral vote was discussed at some length in the Senate, on Saturday, May 22, but no action was taken. The bill passed extending the northern boundary of Nebraska so as to include the present Territory of Dakota south of the fortythird parallel, east of Keyapada river and west of the main channel of the Missouri river, when the Indian titles shall have been extinguished. On motion of Mr. Hampton, the bill was taken up and passed to complete the survey of Getiysburg battlefield, and provide for the compilation and preservu'i in of data showing the various positions and movements of troops in that battle, illustrated by diagrams. It appropriates $50,090.... The House discussed the bids reported from the Committee on Public Bni'dings and Grounds. None were jiassed. The bill passed to provide that dealers in icat tobacco who do not sell or consign for sale leaf tobacco to an amount exceeding 25,000 pounds in anyone specia -tax year shall pay license of but $5.

INDIANA NEWS.

New Albany has two sets of city officials, and a lawsuit on hand. Judge Biddell, of the Supreme Court, succeeds to the duties of Chief Justice by rotation. The Tenth regiment Indiana volunteers will hold their next annual reunion Sept. 16 and 17 next, at Frankfort. The Indianapolis telephone exchange now has 600 subscribers, with more than 1,200 telephones in use in the city. There Mill be a rendezvous and review of Indiana and Illinois artillery companies at Terre Haute next week, The old Vietas house, an ancient landmark of New Harmony, one of the old Community buildings was burned last week. The first annual meeting of the Music Teachers’ State Association of Indiana will be held at Franklin, June 22, 23, and 24. A Logansport merchant escaped payment of a note for $3lB by proof that it was given in satisfaction of losses at the poker table. Thf. crooked lightning-rod man has been getting in his work in Daviess county, fleecing several farmers out of various sums.

Simon Allen has brought suit against Dr. C. M. Linley, in Morgan county, for alleged malpractice in resetting a fracture;! i-.idius, and asks for $5,000 damages. The Grand Lodge of the Catholic Total Abstinence Societies meets at Lafayi ette June 8. Delegatus from all the lodges in the State will be in atttendi mice. A case of shocking inhumanity on the I part of a daughter, mimed Marietta Fay, toward her mother, has just come to light at Fort Wayne. The girl is only 19 years old. Federal officers are beginning to remark that the Government building at Indianapolis is too small, and that large additions must soon be made or a new ■ structure erected. The family of ('apt. John Box, residing ten miles nc rth of New Albany, are I strangely affected .with some disorder, ami there is a question whether the • cause is poison or milk sickness. James V. Kelso, an attorney of New i Albany, will contest the legality of the j constitutional amendments recently ; adopted and declared law. The case will probably go to the Supreme Court immediately. The Vincennes University having established in court the validity of a lottery franchise granted by the Territorial Legislature of Indiana, parties who know how • to use such a thing have bought it for a ; consideration not stated. Two children who were separated from their mother six years ago at Evansville have been found in a Catholic school at Terre Haute. The father died before the separation, while the mother was sick and afterward declared insane, | but subsequently recovered. i Last Meek Elisha Reed came out of the I county asylum, at Indianapolis, to re- : ceive $3,838.14 of back-pension money. i He now owns a saloon, which he purchased, presumably, to afford him an easy means of obtaining a livelihood. The estimate for the wool clip in Clark, Floyd, Crawford, Orange, Martin, Harrison, Lawrence, Dubois, Perry, Spencer, Warwick, Washington, and Scott counties for 1880 is 750,000 pounds. Prices rule at 30 to 33 cents f< >r mi washed, and 50 to 75 cents for washed.

A woman at Indianapolis .fell down stairs while in a delicate condition, causing the premature birth of a child, which, strange to say, was marked on the side similar to the mark received by the mother from the fall. The child is still living. Gen. Bf.n Harrison, of Indianapolis, has joined the Mississippi River Coinmission on a trip on the river to examine into the proposed- reservoir system of maintaining navigation. He will continue in that service until the Chicago Convention, to which he is the top delegate from Indiana.

The corner stone of the Capitol at Indianapolis will be laid, it is thought, late in August, at the time the Knights Templar Masons are returning from the conclave at Chicago. This will enable a large number of Knights, not only from Indiana, but from Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, and States farther South to take part in the ceremonies. Mrs. Nathan Coggeshell, of Marion, is likely to die from a rat-bite inflicted about four months ago. She attacked the rat with a broom, and it bit her through the fleshy part of the right hand. The wound healed over in a few days, after which it festered and became very painful. She has been growing worse ever since.

A horse died in Indianapolis, the other day, from the effects of a bite by a cop-per-head snake, inflicted within the city limits. The animal was grazing on the commons near the house, when it suddenly gave a neigh of distress and threw its nose violently in the air. The wife of the owner ran out to see what was the matter, and discovered the snake lying in the grass and killed it. A slight puncture was visible on the nose of the horse. In a short time its body began to swell, and continued to (io so until death came to its relief.

HOME INTERESTS. Hirdie and Oirlic. “ What is that I see, Far tq> in the tr<e, llidiug among the leaves— Ain’t you afraid of the breeze, Litt'e birdie?” “ Not afraid of the breeze am 11 Do you not know that I can fly Ont of the reach of the storm? I’ll tell you what I am doing here; Gome and listen—lend me your ear, Little girlie. “ I’m gathering twigs to build a nest, And after a whi e 1 will toll you the rest; Ho go away now and leave me alone; Um happy as a Queen upon Iler tllrone. Run away, please, but come again soon, Little gir.ie.” “Oh I how is this ? I’m almost sure Yes. these little eggs, so white and pure As pearls in the depth of the sea ; Hidden they are in the bran new nest; I’ll run away—l can guess the rest, Little birdie 1 “ Now, what is this I spy, Soaring above me ever so high ? Three litt'e birdies learning to fix— See I oh, see 1 how hard they try, Reaching towuid the bright b.ue sky, Mother birdie. “ Dear, oh, dearie me! There is nothing now to tee— The nest all empty, birds all gone I” Litt'e Bessie stands all alone ; Sadly she says, “Oh, where have you flown, Litt.e birdies ?” •So often the nests of our own dear homes Are left by our loved ones, and we are alone ; Sad and sorrow ful, oh, how we miss 'lhe loving embrace, the good-night kiss ! And when we call by name that we lose, Echo answers, “ Meet me above ; Coiui', loved one, come.” Uuicago, 111. Aunt Lucy.

Write a. Helptul Word.

Each one in tins world has a work to do—a mission to fill. If God has placed any task before uh, it is our duty to accomplish it, and the hand of Providence will convey it where it is most needed. We may never know its good influence here, but it may win for us a Htar-gernmcd crown in heaven. Many of us never miss the time we use ; and if we have responsibilities crowding upon us we must try to find time to do some good in the world, and an hour spent in writing, though it contained but one encouraging word, would in the end be far more profitable than if spent in some giddy, gossiping throng that could have no refining infiuenee whatever upon our natures. We cannot all expect to become bright constellations in the litI erary world, neither do all aspire to it. Others I may marry, and bury their genius forever beI ncath the .thousand petty cares of life. But i yet each has his part to perform ; and, though | we may be but a small, lusterless star, or only a darting meteor, let uh endeavor to reflect the faint ray of light that God has given us upon • the hearts of our fellow-creatures that tread a darker pathway than ours. Perhaps many that ■ enjoy our literary productions would fail to appreciate the deeper works that have been handed down to them by the inspired bards of the past. 1 have known ministers of the gospel, men of learning, men of talent, and gifted with oratory, to go out into secluded localities and deliver their beautil’ully-worded, gilt-edge 1 sermons to illiterate congregations. I Were they fully comprehended? Were they fully appreciated? The old brothers would shake their heads ;nd say : “Ah, I came here i to-day with the expectation of hearing some- , thing that would do my soul good, but I have been sorely disappointed. No doubt the good ; brother meant well, but religion is not what it , used to be : oin- putting on too miicn style, too hyferlutin entirely.” ' Ana uiv . old sisters would put their heads together and whisper, “I wouldn't give old Parson Smith for forty like him. Why, my sister, if he’d a bin here to-day, with his good, old-fashi me-1, plain talk, thar wouldn't a bin a dry eye in the house, and tlwir’s nary a doul.t in uiy mind but what some of us would have girt ter shouting.” And now, dei'r friends, if we are not gifted with the flowery eloquence that some admire let ns be content with satisfying the thirst of humbler minds, and. like good Parson Smith, we will, receive our just reward here, or hereafter.

I will here relate to wu a bit of my own experience. Al <uit two years ago, I was requested io read an original essay upon the subject of temperance before the Temperance Union of our city. I very is luetantly complied with the request, but yet I will assure you that I did my very best upon the occasion. I dislike to hear people say. “ I could have done better if I had tried.” and I think it the poorest excuse every muttered by mortal lips. If I attempt to do anything, body, mind and soul are thrown into the one great effort ; if I fail it is a total failure. Consequently I wrote the essay and I read it. Many of my friends were delighted with it, and insisted upon it being published. I yielded to gratify otliers, as I considered the whole affair of but very little consequence. A short while after, an old man bent with age, liis locks frosted by the bleaching hand of time —a stranger to me, one that I had never known —approached my husband on the street, and, pointing to the little blue badge pinned on the side of liis coat, said, “My friend, see here I This is your wife’s work : tell her forme that her temperance essay put that ribbon tin re.” “ Did you hear her read the essay ?” inquired mv husband.

“No, nor I have never seen her: but, away out here in my little country home, I read it in the newspaper. Every word of it spoke in thunder tones to my soul ; and tell her for me that I have taken the pledge. I have joined the ‘Murphys,' and intend, so help me God, to lead a new life, to drink no more whisky, and try to get to heaven in the end And tell her tlr t [ hope some day to meet her there.” Had the intelligent masses of our community brought bright garlands to twine my brow, strewn nature’s fairest flowers for my feet to press, and sung my name throughout the land, it would have failed to have brought the thrill of joy to my soul that this simple message from that hoary-haired man awakened there. And, with tears of joy streaming from my eyes, I poured forth the deep gratitude of my soul, fervently thanking my Heavenly Father that He had opened the way before me, and given me the power by which I might be the instnim< ntality of saving one soul from the eternal horrors that hang around n drunkard’s death. Steele. COBIXTH. Miss. Women and Children. In some society, where people meet on equal footing in regard to culture, it may bo well to be free and easy. At other times and in other places one cannot be too reserved, and, in my humble opinion, 'tis better to err on the prudish side than on the reverse. You know yourself that a modest, dignified girl or woman is more respected by even the worst specimens of manhood than is her rattle-brained swtor who makes free with everyone. Is it not true ?

Some one has been holding “slouchy wives ” over the coils, and comparing them to the careless Miss who had little to do but keep herself sweet looking. The two should not be compared. Not that I admire slouchy women. Ido not. I know (not by experience, though.) that many a farmer’s wife does all her own housework, keeps two or three children in clean aprons and faces, rocks baby, helps pa do the chores, etc. It is hardly reasonable to expect her to be the pink of propriety in regard to dress, is it ? Do not think for a minute that any lady prefers to look “slouchy.” No, indeed ; that is not our greatest fault. Still, I maintain, though I may be ostracized for the opinion, that in cleaning house, and doing such work, the older the dress the better the work. I fancy if you “starchy” gentlemen happen to call on a friend and find pa’s slippers, surmounted by an old felt skirt, surmounted by an old plaid polonaise, without a ruche, surmounted by the red face and frowsy head of your friend: I say, if you find her with upturned eyes and rapt gaze, busily engaged with whitewash brush on the woodshed ceiling, don’t condemn her, but call egain in the evening. Sometimes pater familias and the boys are so busythat,unless the “ women folks ” took hold, such work would remain undone.

Anna does not seem to share the opinion that children are cherubs. Well, Anna, they are not—now are they?—as demoniac as you portray them, but a mixture of both. In short, they are human, only they are purer and more teachable than we, who are grown. Those who have charge of children are intrusted with something very precious. Young natures are so easily molded that bad as well a i good impressions arc readily’ grasped by the eager little child. How -carefully should we guard our words in the presence of children. When we realize how they hang on our words and imi-

! tat® much that we do and say, wc should always be On onr guard, I oilee read (ill Swedenborg's wofks) that we are all the Image of our loves. If we love the beautiful we become beautiful, and vice versa. If we admire a per1 son, we become like him. Children, I think, are influenced most by their mother. If she is a true, refined lady, they will, in all probability, be refined and gentle like her. lam afraid we do not always realize the full weight of our responsibility in teaching little children. Let us ever keep this tru'h before us, that the child of the present is the man of the future, capable of becoming either an angel of light or of darkness. I love my calling as a teacher, and though it has many cares attending it. and weary limbs and achiiig throat is the rule when dismission conies, a pair of little arms about one's neck, a flower presented by a baby hand, or a soft voice saying “Teacher, 1 love yon,” is rich reward for one’s efforts. Roxy Gi.EN. ——, Wis. Farm Cife. These drizzing, rainy days are not the most enjoyable seasons on a large farm. Neighbors are too distant to be very social, and the mud is so deep that we cannot get about much, and the winds are enough to scar on e to death. We have ilot always lived Ona farm, and hope the time will come when we will not have to live so far from the conveniences and comforts of city life. To be sure, in some respects, the farmer’s life is very independent. If we till the soil, and sow the seed, we are sure of plenty to cat, and good fresh butter, rich cream, and fresh eggs are a luxury. Spring chickens are pretty good eating, but, Oh, dear! there is lots of hard work for the women folks, and there is very little sight-see-ing ; the vivid extent of prairie becomes monotonous ; wc wish we could put our Eastern hills on rollers, and drop them here and there, and that we could only, by some magic power, remove some of the beautiful forests, and place them just where wc would like to have them. Father thinks his farm is wonderfully nice. He stands upon the porch and views the landscape o'er, exclaiming, “ I’m monarch of all I survey,” and thinks he can count millions in what may be ; but I say to him : “ Come, father dear, don't count the chickens before they are hatched; for the grasshoppers may come!” and he goes into the sitting-room, and says to mother: “I guess Peggy don’t fancy farm-life altogether.” And this is another thing I don't exactly fancy—that is the name of Peggy. My name is Margaret ; and at boarding-school, and in my old “ Home,'' I was known by no other ; but, I guess, maybe it is one of the peculiarities of farm life, and I would like, if ever Rover should see this, for him to know that I do not like the name. Father and mother may call me Peggy, but no one else must. I have a friend whose father has recently removed from a city to a beautiful country seat, and she writes that her special work is the care of the chickens. She has names appropriate for them all, and her letters afford us rare fun. Now 1 am going to name our chickens. Map.'’.ahet. No Town, Kan.

The Deacon Wins on the Homestretch.

Place -—Baptist Chapel, Saturday covenant meeting. Persons present, the church members belonging to the society —presided over by the pastor. An interesting meeting followed, as this was the last covenant with the elder. Pastor—And now, brethren and sisters, as this is the last covenant meeting I expect to be with yon, you will allow me to talk with great plainness. (Here followed some rather sharp r qwoof.) Brethren, will you keep up the Sunday morning services and the Wednesday evening prayer-meeting ? I will take a vote on it. (Vote almost unanimous.) Now, then, vho will you appoint for leader? (Deacon F. chosen.) Presently, with great deliberation, rose the stately old deimcii. “ I accept with reluctance the place assigned me ; my health, as you know, is not good. I don’t like to be out nights, but I will try to do my duty, and I hope the brethren and sisters will do theirs. But, brethren, bo assured of one thing, if, xvhen I do come, I find only two or three of you here, I shall cease coming regularly.” Pastor, with reproof in his tone and a self-satisfied twinkle in his eye, “ Have you, deacon, forgotten the promise of our Divine Master, ‘Where two or three are gathered together in My name there I am in the midst to own and to bless?’ ” I thought, a» I looked at the glowing and egotistical countenance of the zealous pastor and then at the discomfited deacon, “He has got yon now, sure.” But not so. The d“acon came to his feet before the minister sat down, and, eying him sharply, said, “ Elder, those two or throe spoken of by the Master I can find m m v house, and thus the blessing may be secured without traveling through the miro.” The minister kept his feet soln ■ limo, but not one Word could ho reply. —-Lapeer (Ohio) C'arioit.

Only Case on Record.

One of the mules in the Big Evans is going lame on three legs to-day, and thereby hangs a brief but marvelous tale. On last Thursday afternoon this mule in question was not working, and amused itself romping about the corral. There was a post, containing a number of nails partly driven, within tlfb confines of the inclosure, and the mule discovered that fact. Backing up within easy reaching distance, it began kicking the nails home. When the head of a nail projected but a short distance it would tap it gently with its iron-bound hoof, and drive it just as a carpenter with a good hammer would a nail. When a nail was only half driven then it would require a heavier blow, but the mule apparently understood perfectly the weight to be applied to the nail. Something like fifty or sixty nails were driven in this manner, and then a rough old twenty-penny was encountered. Two or three fair blows were administered without any perceptible results, and then the mule fairly trembled with subdued rage and anger. Stepping a little further- away from the post, it laid back its ears, doubled up its back, and fired away with both ends. The blow was a terrific one, and the post was broken off at the ground. In the kick, though, the mule had in some manner outdone itself, and sprained the tendons of the left hind leg seriously, and now goes lame. It is the first instance where a nude has been known to lame himself in a kicking matinee. Leadville (fol.) Chronicle.

Sagacity of Ants.

When Dr. Franklin was in Paris, as he sat quietly alone at his breakfast one morning, he saw a number of black ants busy with the contents of the sugarbowl. He drove them away, but they returned. Again he dispersed them ;in a few minutes they were seen climbing from lump to lump, as if nothing had happened. To try their ingenuity, he had the sugar-bowl suspended by a string from the ceiling. They endeavored to reach it by standing on each other’s back; several mounted in this manner and reached upward, but in vain ; the chain of ants fell down as fast as it was raised. After repeated attempts they went away, and he supposed they had given up the matter; Imt presently he saw them descending the string and dropping down upon the lumps of sugar. They had sealed the walls, traversed the ceiling, and discovered another road tq the treasure.

$1.50 nor Annum.

NUMBER 16.

A SIHTHERA DEI,E« ATE TO CHICAGO. ! Said Plkplhi Hensparrow, of North Carolina, To her tpouse, when the sun was quite high : “ Git up, you big loafer, and stretch me a line, And hang out these clothes for to dry.” | “ Oh, ’taint worth the while,” her Tobias replied ; “ My sperrit despises such work. I I’ll soon lie as happy as a clam at high tide; I’ll soon be content as a Turk. ■ “ No more of this washing, you Phcebe, for you ; I No drudgery after a whi'e; For you shall have nothink whatever to do, But dressin’ and puttin’ on style. “ I’ll build you a house in the heart of the town, And paint it in colors brick bright, I And yon from the window shall brashly look down Alike on the black and the white. “ I reckon I’ll buy Col. Jimmerson’s place—’Twill suit me, I know, to a charm— And git me blood horses to ride and to race, While the niggers look out for the farm. “ It’s goin’ to take cash, and a heap'ou it, too, To hold the Republican fort. I wish that I knew—say, Pho.be, do you How diamonds sells by the quart ?” i “Law sake I”exclaimedPhodx 1 ; “ the man is a loon; | His head’s in a terrible state.” I Tobias replied : “ The convention's in J tine, And yon bet I'm a full delegate 1”

NO PLACE ON THE TICKET FOR THEM.

Senator Bruce, Frederick Douglass, Milton Turner and other prominent colored men of the Republican party, says the New York Sun, have been holding counsel at the capital with a view to obtaining recognition at Chicago on the Republican ticket. This ambition is not unworthy, but the managers of the machine are not likely to give it much countenance. They cultivate the colored vote very earnestly, and profess abundant sympathy for the race, but when the practical test is made this sympathy exhausts itself in sentimental phrases. There are distinguished colored men in different parts of the North, yet none of them have been sent to Congress, and very few have gained seats in the State Legislatures. Senator Bruce will soon close his career in Congress, without any prospect of re-entering public life from Kansas, which is destined to be his future home. The prejudice against color will follow him on to the free soil, where the great battle for his race was fought more than twenty years ago. When the commission which was sent to San Domingo to whitewash that nefarious job returned to Washington, Grant invited all the members of it to dine at the White House, with the conspicuous exception of Frederick Douglass. He had messed with his white colleagues on terms of perfect equality during the trip, and had joined with them in signing a report that stands to-day as a stigma and a reproach to every name that it bears. But Grant would not admit him to a seat at his table. It is well known that the Republican majority of the Senate was theoretically disposed to admit Pinchback to a seat m that body. But they kept him dancing attendance for three years, and then dismissed him, with a consoling allowance of full pay for a place to which they denied his title in the end. Pinchback is a colored patriot who does not prefer a back seat when he can get a front one. Modesty is not his most shining virtue. He was virtually rejected by a vote of the ladies of the White House, the Cabinet and the Senate. They knew if “ Pinch ” was once admitted he would assert every political right and social privilege of a Senator, and claim as much for his family. Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Fish, and the other grand dames of that shoddy epoch, determined that it would never do to have Mrs. Pinchback figuring at their feasts. They passed an order in council of the boudoir that the husband of Mrs. Pinchback should be sent back to Louisiana. For political effect Frederick Douglass was made* United States Marshal at Washington, but he exercised none of the social functions which belong to that office. Colored men have been sent to Liberia and Hayti, and some of them are messengers and clerks in the departments. But there the recognition stops. Senator Bruce and his associates, who are now organizing for a demonstration at Chicago, will only have their labor for their pains. Conkling. Cameron and Company have no other use for them than as hewers of wood and drawers of water in the party.

A Strong Indictment.

John M. Shirley was the President of the Democratic Convention of New Hampshire, and made a short sj>eech, in which he arrai ned the Republican party for its misdeeds, so they will not want to hear more from him if th s be his indictment. He said, speaking of that party: It has overruled the precepts of the great Nazarene and taught the religion of hate. It has created armies of officeholders larger than those with which Napoleon silenced the continent, and has gorged these Hessians with the plunder wrung from an overtaxed people. It has trampled the covenant of the fathers under f<x)t whenever it would serve a party end, and packed that great tribunal, the Supreme Court of the United States, to set aside a decision promulgated bv the ablest and purest of its own leaders, Chief Justice Chase. It has driven beyond its pale or sent into exile Seward, Chase, Greeley, Bates, Browning, Blair, and a host more who stood by its cradle. Even Sumner died under its ban, and death spared others a worse fate. Whoever hesitated in the work of demolition was lost. The evil genius of the party slew him ; the creature devoured the creator. Four years ago it doomed the edifice of its hate, corruption, and fraud, installing in the White House, over the ashes of the father of his country, the “ fraud ” who had been beaten by more than a quarter of a million of votes, and now it proposes to consummate its work with the third term, which is but another name for the empire, with the “man <M horseback” at its head.

The Negro at West Point and Other Points.

We would suggest to the Republican organs now complaining because negro cadets are not taken into the bosoms of the young white children of Mars, that it will be an exceedingly difficult thing for them to find any locality in the North where negroes are received into white society on terms of equality. The colleges of New England are rarely honored by the presence of negro student. How many negro students are found at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Bowdoin and other institutions whose authorities never cease professing to believe in negro equality, social and political ? How many negroes are seen in Northern hotels, Northern

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temperance and secret organizations, in Northern churches on Sunday ? Our Republican contemporaries know perfectly well that what they insist shall be the rule* at West Point is the rule nowhere else. In no region on the globe is the negro so fully maae to understand and think he is not a social equal as in the Northern States.— Louisville ('ou-rier-Journal.

Just the Difference.

As long as the Republicans had control of both houses of Congress they practiced this joint rule in the counting of the electoral vote : Resolvetl, That no vote in any electoral certificate of a State shall be counted, if eithir the Senate or the House shall object thereto. The Democrats, now in control of both houses, have agreed on this rule : Rcsoh'ed. That no vote in any electoral certificate shall be rejected, unless both the Senate and the House shall object thereto. The Republican papers which are burning once-used powder against this rule never turn the lights on the rule of their own party. The greater fairness of the Democratic rule is obvious; but, it pledges the Republican napers to call it “ a conspiracy to steal the Presidency.” Gentlemen, there never was but one Presidency stolen in this country. The Democratic party did not steal that. —Albani/ Ar</us.

Feers, Not Vassals.

It is not at all certain that the Republicans can elect anybody to the Presidency this year. It is mathematically certain that they cannot elect Grant. The Republicans, therefore, have their choice between a chance of success and the certainty of defeat. In the old feudal days it was thought a tine and praiseworthy thing for the vassal to throw away his life in his lord’s quarrel. But our Republican readers are not vassals. They are peers ; the peers of Grant, the peers of Conkling, the peer.; of Cameron, the peers of John Logan. If they throw away their votes upon an impossible candidate, they will do it of their own free choice and with their open eyes.— New York Situ.

On Which Side?

A correspondent writes to the I’hila delphia Tinies for an answer to that question which has long puzzled the beaux—on which side should a gentleman ride when escorting a lady on horseback? The editor says: “This is a point on which usage is not sharply defined. It was formerly the general custom for the man to ride on the off side of the lady, for the reason that he could thus bring his horse much closer to hors without inconvenience to her, and would avoid the danger of entangling bis stirrup or spur in her habit. The shorter and less voluminous skirts now worn make this last consideration of less importance. Though a man riding on a. lady’s left must still keep a respectful distance, there is a very strong argument in favor of this position, that he lias his right hand toward her, disengaged and ready to aid her in ease of accident, to catch her bridle, or herself should she fall other saddle-girth {slip. And this is not. all. It is probable find, the custom of riding on the lady’s right really arose from the fact that in England you take the left of the road, and the man should always be next the passers-by. But with us the law of flu* road is reversed, and the num should therefore ride upon the near side, that he may be between his companion and those whom they may meet. The practical arrangements seem thus in favor of the near side, and it will be founcl that custom tends increasingly in that direction.

To Cure Fits of Sneezing.

A correspondent of the IJrifish Medicdl Journal “During the recent rapid changes of temperature I caught a severe cold in my head, accompanied by almost-incessant sneezing. My unfortunate nose gave me no rest. The slightest impact of cold air, or passing from the outside air into a warm room, equally brought on a fit of sneezing. , In vain I snuffed camphor and pulsatilla ; the light catarrh still triumphed over me. At, length 1 resolved to see what the maintenance of a uniform temperature would do toward diminishing the irritability of my Schneiderian membrane, and accordingly I plugged my nostrils with cotton wool. The affect was instantaneous ; I sneezed no more. Again and again I tested the efficacy of this simple remedy, always with the same result. However near I was to a sneeze, the introduction of the pledgets stopped it at once. Nor was there any inconvenience from their presence, making them sufficiently firm not to tickle, and yet leaving them sufficiently loose to easily breathe through.” This is really worth knowing, for incessant sneezing is among the greatest of smaller ills, and it seems only a rational conclusion to hope that this simple plan may furnish the most efficient remedy against one of the most distressing symptoms of hay fever.

His Uncle’s Draft.

An old tradesman in a country town sends his. nephew Alfred to study law at Paris. He gives him an old code annotated by a leading member of the village bar, and says to his young relative, “ J will pay you a visit in March, and, if 1 am pleased with yoift- progress, I will give you such a tip as will make glad your heart, and cause your face to shine. ” In March the old gentleman calls on his nephew. “Well, Alfred, hard at work, I see. Made good progress with your code ? Pretty well through it, I expect, by this time.” “Yes, respected sir, my life has been one demnition grind. Your venerable, friend’s marginal notes I found of great service to me while laboring at the code. ’ “Good boy, excellent young man. You got my draft, of course ? It is a pleasure to me to reflect that my bounty was not ill-1 >estowed.” “Your draft, uncle? No; I never received it.” “ Gimme that code.” The old man opens the old book and shows his stupefied nephew a draft for 2,000 francs dated five months before, which has all the time been reposing between the first two leaves of the code.

Signs.

If he puts his arms around her like a bear, and stops her breath when lie kisses her, they are not married, but are likely to be. If he puts his hands on her shoulders, leans forward a little, snatches the prize and falls back, they have been married two weeks. If ho comes up with his hands in his pockets, looks out of the window, says, “Well, goody,” gives her a tasteless smack, and rushes off, they have been married two years, and life is a desert. A wag says of a toper : His nose has passed the rubicund.”