Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Tho speech of Chief Justice May, of tho Queen’s bench in Ireland, in which he refuged to grant a postponement of the Irish state trials, has caused great excitement among the Laml-Lcaguers, who profess to regard it as a plain intimation that the power of the court will bo used in the interest of the Crown during these trials. Numerous outrages are reported from Iroland. In attempting to execute a decree at Ballingilly, Bailiff Mulholland was shot dead by a man named Graham. In many small towns the Land Leagne has caused the letters L. ~L. to l>o painted over the doors of sympathizing shop-keepers. A leaguer at Portadown has been threatened with death unless he ceases addressing meetings. Nangle, the Ulster tenant, who fired at his landlord, has lieon sentenced to twenty years’ penal servitude. Capt. 11. W. Howgnto, of tho signal •ervico, has tendered liis resignation. Spain lias taken 50,000 shares in De Lesseps, Panama-canal enterprise. Healy, Mr. Purnell’s private secretary and a member of Parliament, has been indicted at Cork on a charge of intimidating Manning The British Admiralty has at last abolished tho cat-o’-mne-tails in tho navy, which, henceforth, is to be disciplined without flogging. Graham, who shot Bailiff Mulholland, near Cookstown, Ireland, has been committed for murder. An explosion of tire-damp in a Welsh colliery, near Cardiff, killed eighty-six of the miners. The shaft in which the explosion occurrcd is within half a mile of the Dinas colliery, in which there was a similar catastrophe two years since. Cremation has been legalized by the autho'i'itics of Home. De Lesseps’ Panama canal scheme meets with little or no support in England. The agitation of the laud cpiestion has extended to England. Two more regiments of British troops are to ho dispatched to Ireland. A Dublin dispatch says the Claremorris police patrol, near Irishtown, fired on a body of men whom they suspected were about to attack a house. One man, who was seriously wounded, was arrested. The loss of life by the recent explosion in a Welsh coal mine is now placed at 100. No less than 1,430 English farmers went into bankruptcy last year. News of the death of Madame Theirs, widow of the late President of the French republic and celebrated historian, is telegraphed from Palis.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. JtCast. The tirni of Arnold & Sons,' of Now York, which for some time has essayed to control the coffeo market of tho world, yesterday retired from the business, having first made r.n assignment. Liabilities, $750,000 to SBOO,OOO. Five men and a woman were killed by tho explosion of a boiler in a steam saw-mill at Wendell, Mass. The anthracite coal interest has agreed to mine but three days in each week this winter. 'There has been another heavy failure in tho New York coffee trade. Bowie, Dash A Co., one of the syndicate which essayed to control tho coffee trade of the world, has suspended, with liabilities of $1,400,000. By a fire in Ferris court, Philadelphia, Ann Higgins and John Lyons were burned to death. John Story, a New York warehouseman, has died from the bite of a fly.

Inspired by jealousy, a man named Wardman killed his lnislress, Minn Pinldiam, in Lawrence, Mass., and then fatally shot hitusolf. Four cases of fatal freezing are reported from New York. 'West- • Her & Co., wholesale liquor dealers, and G. 11. it J. d. Collins, wholosalo leather dealers, have boon burned out at Omaha. Total loss, $125,000 ; insurance, SOO,OOO. The extraordinary phenomenon of a child slowly petrifying whilo alive, which for some time has confounded the medical men of Cleveland and elsewhere, has been terminated l>y the death of the littlo one. Two thousand Oklahoma colonists, encamped at Arkansas City, Kan., formulated an address to President Ha>es, announcing their intention to settle upon the ceded lands of Indian Territory, and demanding that Gen. Pope ho forbidden to interfere with their plans. Capt. Payne and several of the colonists crossed the lino on the night of the Bth inst. Two men were killed and several othors wounded by the premature explosion of a blast in the Forman mine shaft at Virginia City, Nev. Mrs. Glassma, a German woman of Marquette, Greenlake couniy, Wis., in a fit of temporary insanity killed her babe by cutting its head nearly off, and then cutting her own throat, dying almost instantly. Advices from Dakota indicate that the . Sioux there are unwilling to accept as binding on them the agreement of tho Spotted Tail and Ked Cloud band to the Milwaukee and St. Paul road right of way through the great reservation. They claim that tho Rod Cloud and Spotted Tail band had no right to cede anything, and there is trouble in prospect, Dr. Earll, a Chicago practitioner and notorious abortionist, has been sentenced to five ’•ears in the penitentiary for criminal malpractice, ivoulilng in the death of a young and beautiful girl.

A horrible double murder was recently committed near Colona, Henry county, 111. The victims were Mr. Thomas Dilley, a wealthy farmer, and his wife. They were discovered by some neighbors one morning in one of the slooping-rooms of their house, their skulls broken, and their faces and heads horribly disfigured. Near the bodies was found an old spado-handle, 'stained with blood, with which the murders had evidently been committed. Robbery was the object of the authors of the horrid crime. A shocking accident occurred in Cincinnati, during the progress of a conflagration, by which five gallant firemen lost their lives. They had entered a burning building and were bravely worldng to subdue the flames, when they became surrounded by fire and wore suffocated. George Scott, a half-breed Indian and negro, was lynched at Brazil, Ind., by a party of masked men, who took him from the jail where ho was confined for outraging Mr*. Allison, wife of his employer. Joseph Jefferson, the greatest exponent of legitimate comedy in America, has been #Uowiu§ the younger theater goers—older ones

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VOLUME IV.

had no need to bo instructed to that effect—that he was not an actor of a single part, by Ids assumption of the role of Bob Acres, in Sheridan’s sterling comedy, “ The Rivals,” at McVicker’s Chicago Theater during the past week. The house was crowded nightly ; but, in deference to the popular demand, one week of the stand-by, “ Rip Van Winkle,” is to be given. Following Mr. Jefferson, a holiday entertainment by Hermann, the cunning prestidigitator, is underlined, while during the season Sara Bernhardt, Ada Cavendish, Lotta, Annie Pixley, Salvini, and other promised. Noutli. The three negroes who murdered Mrs. Kennedy, in Clarenden county, 8. C., were lynched at the soene of the tragedy. A party of revenue officers had a tight with moonshiners near Huntsville, Ala., resulting in the death of Deputy Marshal John B. Hardie, and the wounding of Deputy Collector Bone. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has ordered a relentless war to be waged against the illicit distillers in that section. The Railway Commissioners of Georgia liavo ordered the reduction of fares on firstclass roads to 3 cents per mile, and the roads will retaliate by an effort to abolish the board. A Nashville dispatch reports a tight near Cooksville, Putnam county, Tenn., be. tween the Welshes and Capi. James Davis, United Ktates Deputy Collector, and United States Commissioner G. W. Campbell, Davis was Idled and Campbell beaten nearly to death. Tilnmn Webster, a saloonkeeper, and William Stewart, a farmer, quarreled at California, Ky., about a woolen comforter, when Stewart went home, got his pistol, and, as he returned, Webster shot him through the head, killing him instantly. Webster escaped. Both men are married. Duping tho services at Zion Colored Church, near Pleasure Ridge, Ky., Matthew Miller and Sylvester Weathers, two brethren of the congregation, becamo involved outside the door in a AiffioultyTibout a female member. After a fist-fight, Weathers shot and fatally wounded Miller. The elegant residence of Charles O. Fisher, m Baltimore, took fire the other morning, and two colored servants sprang from a fifth-story window and were killed. WASHINGTON NOTES. Gen. William B. Hazon has been appointed Chief Signal Officer of the arm}-. This promotion advances Gen. McCook to tho Colonelcy of the Sixth infantry. Gen. Ord having been retired, Gen. Auger will tako the Department of Texas. It is reported that Gen. O. O. Howard will take command of the Military Academy and Gen. Schofield be sent to California. . Senator Blaine wants to reduce letter postage to 2 cents. The latest suggestion for a Cabinet office is Gen. Francis A. Walker, Superintendent of the Census, to be Secretary of the Interior. __ Hon. Richard W. Thompson has tendered his resignation as Secretary of the Navy. He says tho American branch of the Panama Canal Company, of which he has been made President, will be organized in January, and that the total subscriptions to the scheme are $120,000,000. Justice Strong, of the United States Supreme Court, has resigned. He lias accepted an offer of employment hereafter as counsel for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company. Gen. Walker hopes to have the census tables of population completed by the 6th of January, when the question of apportionment n ill be taken up in Congress, but it is hardly probable that any legislation on the subject will be perfected. Gen. Sherman says that, if Gen. Grant must bo placed at the head of the army, he will himself retire next April, when lie will be 62 years of ago, and make room for Gen. Grant. Some legislation, however, would be necessary to give Grant Gen. Sherman's place, if Sherman should retire, as, by law, that office ! expires either by the death or resignation of I Gen. Sherman.

POLITICAL POINTS. Gov. Fisk, of Kentucky, who was Governor of the State at the outbreak of the war, and did much to aid in preventing the State from seceding, is mentioned as a proper person to represent the South in Gen. Garfield’s Cabinet. The Governor of Missouri has given Ford, Greonbacker, the certificate of election as member of Congress from the Ninth district. According to the official returns Ford’s majority is 2. Allen Campbell has been nominated and confirmed Comptroller of the city of Now York, in place of John Kelly, who retires to the shades of private life.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The few demons of Victoria’s baud still living have devastated the ranches near Chihuahua, Mexico, and murdered and mutilated thirty persons. When Gen. Terrasas was marching homeward with ten men, a band of thirty A]laches appeared and slaughtered eight of the soldiors, cutting into strips tho flesh of one who was riding in Victoria’s saddle. Counterfeit $lO United States treasury notes are being circulated extensively throughout Canada. Burned: The Theater Comique, at St. Louis, loss .$35,000 ; Yarnell’s pickle factory, in St. Louis, loss $40,000 ; a block of buildings in Springfield, Mass., loss *5125,000 ; a hotel and three adjoining buildings at Silver Cliff, Col., loss, $15,000 ; Jones’ tobacco factory, at Richmond, Va., loss $30,000. Sara Bernhardt, the actress, lias vanquished. Secretary Sherman in the contest about duties on her dresses. She persuaded him they were her “implements of trade,”and as such, under the statutes, entitled to admission duty free. So they were admitted, and the thrifty Sara gets back the duties exacted. Grey, convicted of the murder of Sullivan, was hanged at Sherbrooke, Quebec. His last words were : “ I am ah innocent man.” He claimed throughout that his only guilt was in plundering tho body of the murdered mau. The subscriptions to the De Lesseps canal in the different nations of the world are said to more than double the amount required to complete the great ditch. Several of the Jesuits expelled from France have reached Montreal, and in the spring will go to farming at Oka, on a tract of 800 acres provided for them by the Seminary of St. Sulpice. Burned : Jay Gould’s conservatory, the largest in tho country, at Irvington, N. Y., loss $100,000 ; over 100 houses at Pensacola, Fla., loss $500,000 ; a manufacturing block at Sharon, Mass., loss $40,000 ; Richardson’s saw manufactory, at Newark, N. J., loss $50,000 ; a baggage car on the Louisville Short line railroad, loss $05,000.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 18S0.

Twenty-two lives have been lost by the wreck of an unknown vessel in Pleasant bay, New Brunswick. Rich gold discoveries are reported from Alaska.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. The second session of the Forty-sixth Congress assembled at the Capitol In Washington on Monday, Dec. 6. The Senate was called to order at high noon, and prayer was offered by Chaplain Bullock. James L. Pugh, of Alabama, and Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, were sworn in as Senators, and the credentials of Senator Edmunds, of Vermont (re-elected as his own successor), were read. A committee was appointed to notify the President that the Senate was ready for business. After a brief recess the Senate reassembled, the message was read, and an adjournment voted. The House was called to order by Speaker Randall at precisely 12 m. The roll-call showed 227 members present The customary committee to notify the President that the House was ready for business was appointed, after which there Was a call of the States for biffs and resolutions. Mr. Cox, of New York, offered a resolution calling upon the President to communicate to the House the new treaty with China. Mr. Hurd, of Ohio, offered a joint resolution declaring that a tariff for protection (so called) does not. m most cases, protect the interest it pretends to protect, that it does not increase the wages of workingmen, that it builds up one citizen at the expense of another, disturbs the primal law of trade which governs exchanges by supply and demand, and is highly detrimental to American commerce. Pending action on the latter resolution, the President's message was received and read. In the Senate, on the 7th inst., Mr. McDon< aid introduced a bill to authorize local taxation oi treasury notes, and Mr. Ingalls a resolution calling upon the President for information in regard to the hreatened invasion of Indian Territory. Mr. Jones, of Louisiana, presented the credentials of the Hon. Thomas C. Manning, the new contestant for Senator Kellogg’s seat, and they were read and filed. Ia the House, Mr. Beiford offered a resolution asking the Secretary of the Interior to state the authority for imprisoning at Fort Leavenworth Sub-Chief Douglas, of the Ute tribe, charged with complicity in the murder of Indian Agent Meeker. The Senate resolution relativ-. to counting the electoral voles was called up by Mr. Bickuell. After prolonged debate, the Speaker decided it a matter of privilege. The previous question was then called, aud the Republican members refused to vote, upon which Mr. Bicknell withdrew his demand for the previous question.

Mr. Ingalls introduced a bill in the Senate on Wednesday, the Bth inst., providing for the issue oi $10,000,000 of fractional currency of the denomination of 10, 25, and 50 cents. Mr. Teller presented a bill to provide certain regulations concerning the manner of conducting elections for Representatives in Congress, and to pnnisb violations thereof. A bill for the erection of a public building at Quincy, 111., was presented by Mr. Davis. Mr. Morgan presented a constitutional amendment giving Congress authority to make rules for opening the votes cf the Electoral Colleges, having them counted by the two houses, and declaring the result of the e’.ectiou. Mr. Randolph gave notico of a substitute for the bill for tho relief of Fitz John Porter, authorizing his reinstatement in the army at a rank no higher than Colonel, without pay for the period since his dismissal. A bill for this sale of the Fort Lamed military reservation was pasted. Mr. Paddock introduced a bill for a State Government for Dakota. In the House, Mr. McCook, of New York, introduced a joint resolution to place IT. S. Grant on llie retired list of the army, with the rank and pay of General. The day was mainly devoted to debate on the Bicknell resolution concerning the counting of the e.ectoral vote. Mr. Robeson offered a substitute providing that the two houses, in joint session, the Vice President presiding, ascertain and declare tho result of Presidential elections. ”

In the Senate, on the 9th inst., very little business was transacted, and that body adjourned to Monday. The civil-service portion of the President’s Message was referred to a special committee with instructions to report at an early day. On motion of Mr. Paddock, the bill providing for the sale of the remainder of the reservation of the confederated Otoe and Missouri tribes of Indians in Nebraska and ansas, and for other purposes, wai p assed. Mr. Pendleton introduced a joint resolution to obtain the privilege of opening a highway through British Columbia to Sitka and Fort Wnuige'l. Alaska. Iu tho House, the Fortification Appropriation bill was reported and leeonimitted. It appropriates $100,<X)0 for fortifications and $50,000 for torped -es. Mr. Kelley introduced a bill repealing tho tax on haul: cheeks’, friction matches, bank capital a id deposits. Mr. Aldrich, of Illinois, introduced a bill amending the law In relation to the tax on savings banks. Sir. McLane then led off in debate on the electoral-vote resolution, on which tho rest of tho day was spent. The Senate was not in session on Friday, Dec. 10. Iu the House of Representatives, Mr. Hubbell reported the Pension Appropriation biff. It provides $48,000,000 to pay army pensioners, $1,110,000 for tho pay of navy pensioners, $250,000 for exam ink ing Surgeons, and $25,000 for salaries, etc. Mr. Shelley reported a bill for Hues of mail steamers to Mexican and Central and South American ports. The Speaker presented a communication from M. Gambetta, President of the French Chamber of Deputies, in relation to the exchange of documents. Tho Hou o refused to consider the concurrent resolution on the electoral vote, and adjourned to Monday.

A Maniac’s Horrible Crime.

A blood-curdling tragedy was enacted a few days ago at Chester, 111. A young farmer named Louis Tockstein, living near that town, who had grown crazy from religbus excitement, was adjudged insane and ordered to the asylum at Jacksonville. He was in charge of a couple of guards in a hotel in Chester. The maniac asked one of them for water to it ash with. it was got for him, and as the guard handed the pan to him he dashed the contents of it in his face and then jumped out of a window. The other guard caught him bv the overcoat as be jumped, but Tockstein got out of the garment and ran down tfie road. He ran a quarter of a mile before he came to a farmhouse, occupied by Thomas Ryan, an old man of (58, liis widowed daughter, a Mrs. Smith, a 12-year-old girl, a daughter of Murphy, and his grandson, a little boy. Before entering the house, Tockstein had secured possession of an ax. lie told those in the house to kneel and prepare to die. All obeyed him but the little boy, who ran out and alarmed those persons firing in the adjacent neighborhood. He said lie would give them but fifteen minutes to live, but before that time was up he had brained and killed Ryan, his widowed daughter, and the little girl. Then he cut off the little girl’s head, and, taking it up by the long hair, he ran with it down tne road to the nearest house, which happened to be that of a Dr. Gordon. He found a servant there, and ordered lier to kneel down and say her prayers, telling her that her time had come to die. She screamed, and Dr. Gordon and a hired man who happened to be near, hearing her cries, ran into the house, and, after a struggle, overpowered the maniac and tied him with ropes. But a few weeks ago Tockstein was a Catholic, but for some reason, or other he left that faith, joining a Protestant church, and becoming an enthusiast on religion, talking and thinking about it until it set him crazy.

Liberties With an Emperor.

Though great men have often enjoyed frolics with children, it is, nevertheless, hard to imagine the Earl of Chatham at full length on the floor, plnymg marbles with his boy, and complaining that the boy had cheated him. And it is equally hard to think of Lord Macaulay, just before one of his eloquent speeches in Parliament, racing like mad up and down the staircase of his sister’s house, with a troop of wild nephews and nieces in hot chase. But it is harder than all to think of Napoleon, who had no great love of children, captivated by a liitle English girl, and indulging in madcap frolics. When he was banished to St. Helena, the house designed for him was not in readiness, and he took quarters with an English family at the “Briars.” 1 A little daughter of the family, named Elizabeth, had no fear of the great Emperor, and they had famous romps together. One of Napoleon’s attendants was horrified, one day, at finding the Emperor on his knees, m a comer, whither Elizabeth had driven him, having first snatched his sword, and flourishing it vigorously, with threats of killing him. She compelled him to fall on his knees and beg for mercy, and the attendant surprised him in this attitude. ‘ ‘There is a time for work aud a time for play,” but it's mighty unevenly divided among soma people.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Frincivles.”

GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.

Exercise (or Girls. Moderate exercise in the open air is doubtless beneficial. But excessive dancing and skating are both injurious to women, especially before they have acquired the bill measure of their physical powers. Horseback exercise, which seems a successful means of strengthening the English constitution, is oftentimes too violent for their less-robust transatlantic cousins. The American soil and climate have given a temperament to the race quite at variance with that of the European family, and which requires widely-different treatment. A Sensible Girl. The Princess Augusta Victoria, the bride of the German Emperor’s grandson and the future Empress of Germany, is not wealthy, having a dower much smaller than many a merchant’s daughter. But she is an excellent young woman, clever and sensible. Spiritually, it is said, she was nursed on rationalism of the kind which the Crown Princess inherited from her father. Her charitable qualities, the housewifely grace with which she cuts bread-and-butter for the little boys and girls of Potsdam and Cliarlottenburg, her engaging manner and her soft Teutonic cast of beauty will endear her to her people. Pretty Women. It is not thfe smiles of a pretty face, nor the tint oi her complexion, nor the symmetry of her person, nor the costly dress or decorations, that compose woman’s loveliness. Nor is it the enchanting glance of her eye, with which she darts such luster on the man she deems worthy of her friendship, that constitutes her beauty. It is her pleasing deportment, her chaste conversation, the sensibility and purity of her thoughts, tier affable and open disposition, her sympathy with those in adversity, and, above all, the humbleness of her soul, that constitute true loveliness.

How Mrs. Grant Didn’t Go to a Banquet. A banquet was to be given to the General by one of the Japanese dignitaries, and so much of the learning and the power of the Japanese w'as to be represented that the General was anxious to have his share of the entertainment well conducted. Mrs. Grant was accordingly requested to be in readiness at a certain hour, so that there would be no delay. When the hour arrived she had not made her toilet. The General sent to her and found that she had a Japanese silk peddler in her room. The man’s wares were spread all around, and she was asking prices and trying to make a bargain. It was time to start, and the General went ahead in his vehicle, leaving a member of his traveling company at the hotel to follow with Mrs. Grant as soon as she was ready. This gentleman paced the hall for an hour, waiting for ttie ex-President’s wife. She was deep in business with the silk peddler, and apparently forgot all about the banquet. At length the peddler went away, pleased at the sales he had made, and Mrs. Grant began to make her toilet. She “hurried on her things,” and at length was ready. As the vehicle was on the way to the banquet-liall, Mrs. Grant spied her husband returning. Dinner was over, and he was on his way back, covered with flowers and decorations and laden with presents. “Goodness me!” exclaimed Mrs. Grant] “ there’s Ulyss. I know he’s mad from the way he looks. Stop and let me get out.” She quickly descended from the carriage, got into the one occupied by the General, and returned to the hotel. She said to her escort the next day that “ Ulyss was so mad he hadn’t spoken to her yet.” The incident did not escape Grant’s “Boswell,” but it was not recorded.

Pungleup’* Test. Woman is by nature so erratic and inconsistent a creation that it doesn’t do to bet on even her most marked characteristics. For illustration, old Mr. Pungleup, of Nob hill, was commenting on the railroad velocity with which young ladies jabber to each other when they meet, without either in the least understanding or replying to what the other says. “ It’s just a mean falsehood gotten up by you good-for-nothing men ! ” said the youngest Pungleup girl,.indignantly. “All right,” said her father, benignantly; “we’ll try an experiment. I see your friend, Miss Gluckerson, coming up the street. .Now, I’ll wager that new walking suit you w r ant so much that you can say ‘ roast turkey" and cranberry sauce’ in response to the first halfdozen remarks that she makes without her noticing the fact.” “I never heard anything so perfectly absurd,* replied Miss P.; “however, I might as well have that suit—it’s just too lovely for anything—so I’ll just do it to teach you a lesson.” “Mind, now,” said her father, as the. front door bell rang, “fair play. You mustn’t change your expression in the least, and you must repeat tire sentence in your usual voice and manner—that is to say, in a single breath—all run together as it were. ” Just then Miss Gluckerson was shown into the parlor, and through the library door old P. could hear the usual oscillatory peck exchanged, and Miss G. exclaim, without even the smallest comma in the whole remark: “Oh you lazy thing been here a perfect age don’t look at this hat perfect fright going to have flowers set back and bow changed why wasn’t you at matinee Harry was there.” “ Boast turkey and cranberry sauce,” rapidly inserted Miss P., accompanying the words with that preliminary and concluding gurgle with which all women, for some occult reason, invariably adorn their conversation when desirous of being agreeable. “Going to Mrs. Bladger’s party?” continued Miss Gluckerson, with the serene rattle of a brook over the pebbles. “ Molly Smith is going they tell me she paints pa’s promised me a phaeton in the spring saw that hateful Mrs. Guppery on the street buff overskirt and green rucking just fancy. ” “ Boast turkey and cranberry—” “ Oh, George Skidmore’s mother’s dead. Ouch! got a flee in my sleeve little beast just eating me up alive bury her next Sunday did you get that edging at Gimp’s ?” “ Boast turkey and cran—” “The girls at Clark’s are to graduate next Thursday Jennie Giggles is going to be square cut with inside illusion and white lad boots can’t yon come round for' dinner to-morrow and stay all—” “Boast turkey and—” “Night, and show Milly your new basque ? That man with a light overcoat stared at me again yesterday Jim O’Neill is going East this candy frightful stale.” “Boast turkey—” “ Ma thinks Mrs. Brown ain’t proper

those ferns are just too lovely look at these cuff's clean this morning are my crimps coming out yours ain’t Lillie Skippen says you met Charlie Boggs the other night and he said something nice about me tell me quick 1 ” “ Roast turk—” “ Why how perfectly absurd you are, Linda,” interrupted the visitor, angrily. “You don’t listen to a word I say I was asking about Charles Boggs not roast turkey George Shelly thinks you’re awful nice now tell me what did he say good gracious ! what are you hugging me for ? ” “And, Tilda,” thoughtfully remarked Miss Pungleup, after the matter had been explained and her father admitted that he had lost by a scratch, “ I believe in my heart that if you hadn’t thought about Charlie just then, I shouldn’t have had any new suit this winter.” All of which goes to show that there s at least one subject upon which one may hope to secure the temporary attention of the inscrutable female mind. —San Francisco Post.

Remarkable Devotion to a Little Girl.

About the year 1770 an Italian lady named Fagniani went to London with good introduction, and was received in the first society. She was greatly admired by the wits and men of fashion, and, after a time, went back to her own country, in due course of time she paid .other visits, but, by-and-by, it became a subject of remark that her little girl, who bore the pet of “Mie-mie,” and not her mamma, was the object of devotion of two celebrated men about town, the old Duke of Queensbury, “Old Q, ” and Mr. Geo. Selwyn. The proceedings of the Tatter became, in course of time, so extravagant and even ridiculous as to excite the concern of his rational friends. He adored this little creature; he wished to adopt or buy her at a great price; he was wretched, almost to the verge of melancholy madness, in her absence, making vain appeals, and taking every one into his confidence. All affected to sympathize and—laughed at him. He was, however, fortunate enough to secure as his agent one of the liveliest, wittiest and, perhaps, most disreputable of the free clergymen who then “hung loose upon society ” —Parson Warner, a rollicking, boisterous person, at the service of any gentleman of condition. This worthy agent was dispatched to Paris to try and arrange matters, and, no doubt, to tempt the Fagnianis with more handsome offers. They began to waver. Mme. Fagniani had now another child, which made the affair easier, The delighted Selwyn could not restrain himself any longer, and rushed over to Paris, really hoping to conclude matters. But, after tantalizing hopes and delays, the hapless wit found that he was as far off as ever from the accomplishment of his hopes. The parents would not consent. Mr. Selwyn remained lingering in Paris, his woes and his mournful fate attracting the attention of even the French. His English friends, kept informed of all the stages of the affair, affected to be indignant. The miserable man was wasting away—had lost his appetite; and the well-known English physician at Paris, Dr. Genu, assured him that, if he gave way any further to this infatuation, his reason would go. The family, dreading some outrageous step, at last thought it better to come to terms. Within a few days, strange to relate, all was happily settled and in a fortnight this wonderful child was carried off in triumph to Matson, her floating admirer’s place in England. There she was installed as queen of the place, under care of Miss Selwyn. Every whim of hers was gratified. She was taken to Tunbridge, where she was exhibited in a coquettish Spanish hat and lace. The rollicking Warner was often bidden there and delighted his patron by his devotion to the little thing. In every letter was a postscript addressed to his “little queen” and signed “Your Snail.” There she remained until gout and dropsy and old age began to overtake Mr. Selwyn, who died in the year 1791. Mie-mie inherited £33,000.

A Mexican Market.

The market, says a Mexico correspondent of the Alta-California, furnishes an abundance of eggs, chickens, cheese and milk. Fish can most always be had, being brought from the Santiago Biver, twenty miles distant. In my next I will write in respect to this river. A nice chicken can be bought for a real and a medio (18 3-4 cents), and a dozen of eggs for the same. The cheese mostly used is called panda, and comes in the form of small cakes, is white and soft, and eaten when freshly made. Milk is brought into town on the backs of animals, and is plenty and cheap. There is a belief that it is dangerous to drink it in any quantity and clear; that, if a glass of it be drank, and the person becomes excited or angry, the chemical affinities of the milk and blood are such that a poison is produced that creates immediate death. ' Flour sells for 12 cents per pound. The amount used is considerable, notwithstanding that tortillas, or corncakes, are a necessity in every family. The bread and cakes are all furnished by the baker. The bread is made in the form of rolls, which are sold at 4 cents each. Of the sweet bread, there is a great variety, and each family, in purchasing, procures the assortment. It is made into small cakes of different shapes, and sold at from 1 to 3 cents each. The entire ignorance of the value and use of stoves of course necessitates a simplicity in the art of cooking, and the excellence of the production of the cocinera is very remarkable, when this is considered. There is not a stove in use in Tepic. The original, antique furnace, that has been in use from the time of the Spaniards, is still cherished as superior to any modem innovation. It is simply of brick, of convenient height, with an opening on top to contain charcoal, which is the only fuel used, and on top of which the cooking utensil is placed. An opening underneath furnishes draft. All the cooking utensils are made by the Indians from clay. They are all glazed; some ornamented with colors, and are cheap but frail. They are all sizes, from a spoonful up to ten gallons. They are brought into the towns on the backs of Indians and donkeys, packed in crates, and are offered for sale about the Plaza on Sunday. This is an important indusity, as all families must use more or less, and the constant breakage creating a continual demand.

How Toothbrushes Are Made.

Although the toothbrush is not a very complicated article, no small degree of skill is required in its manufacture. In the first place, care must be exercised in the selection of bone from which the handle is to be made. For this purpose the thigh bone of an ox is used, aud instead of boiling these with the joints on —the method commonly in vogue—these joints are sawed off previous to the boiling process. The increased heat necessary in the former method renders

the bone unfit for the purpose of the brush manufacturer. On arriving at the factory the bones are first sawed into the required length and thickness for brush-handles. They are next turned with a model in a similar manner to that employed in the manufacture of shoelasts. Then comes the polishing process, which is done by means of a sort of revolving churn. An ingeniously contrived machine now takes the pieces and deftly punctures holes for the bristles, while grooves are cut in the top by saws. Now being ready for the bristles, they are introduced *to the department for this work. Girls are usually employed for this branch of the business. After putting in the bristles, they are backed with sealing-wax to fasten them securely in place and to fill up the groves. All that remains to be done is to brand the brushes and pack them for market.

He Couldn’t Help It.

Here is another case of a boy who couldn’t help it. A prominent and dignified citizen was loooking through the third-story window of a block on Jefferson avenue, which he had thoughts of renting, when the idea suddenly struck him to look into the alley in the rear. He raised the sash of a window and peered out upon ash boxes, coal scuttles and barrels of straw without number, and was about to close his observations when the sash came down with a thud and struck him behind the shoulders. In his fright he fell to his knees, and while the solid half of his body was all right the lighter was over the window sill. In addition to the weight of the sash auy movement of the body was accompanied by pain. The sash could not be reached with his hands freely enough to lift it, and it soon occurred to the prominent citizen that he ought to have help. He could not expect it from behind, for he was alone in the store, but as he looked down into the alley a boy came stumping along to find something worth lugging away. • “Hello, boy! hello!” called the citizen. “ Hello yourself !” cried the boy as he looked up. “Say, boy, come under the window here; I want to speak to you.” “ Not much, yer don’t,” chuckled the gamin. “You can’t drop no coal scuttles on my head. ” “ But I don’t mean to.” “ Mebbe not, but you’ve got a bad face on you for all that. When did you get out of the jug?” “Boy, I wau’t your help.” “So does your aunt ! Don’t get me to stand in with no such duffer as you are!” “I am caught in this window and want to get out. ” “So would I! Been prospecting for old junk, eh? You’ll get six months for that!”

“ If you’ll come up stairs and help me out I’ll give you a dollar !” “ A dollar J You can’t play no dollar store on me, old man ! If you make up another face like that at me I’ll hit you in the eye with this old lemon. 1 don’t look starched up, but I don’t let any man insult me all the same. ” “Don’t you know who I am?” softly asked the citizen. “ Naw, I don’t; but I’ll bet the perlece do! You’ve got one of the hardest mugs on you I ever saw, and I’ve a good mind to give you one just for luck ! Look out now.” He made as if he would throw, and the citizen dodged. This was such fun for the boy that he kept it up for three or four minutes, and the offer of $2 had no effect on him. Then he gathered six or eight old lemons and oranges together and said: “ I believe you are the boss hyena who knocked dad down at the caucus, and I’m going to drive your nose back exactly an inch!” “If you throw at me I’ll call the police !” exclaimed the citizen. “ The sooner ye call the sooner ye’ll be jugged ! Here’s to hit you square on the nose!” The opening of the back door of a store and the appearance of a man disconcerted the lad’s aim, and the lemon struck the citizen’s hat instead of his nose. His yells brought a climax, but the air was full of tropical fruit even as the boy dusted down the alley and turned a corner. The boy couldn’t help acting that way. He was born so. He wouldn’t have been a bit like a boy to run up stairs and released the man. He didn’t have a fair chance with his spoiled lemons, but boys soon get over disappointments. —Detroit Free Press.

A Noble Example.

Mrs. Robert L. Stuart is at the head of the cooking school. What a. noble example this woman gives the public! Her husband is worth $4,000,000, but this does not relieve her of the claims of duty. She takes an interest in social advance, and therefore lends her influence to the improvement of the culinary art. The Stuarts have always been a useful family, and though limited to two generations, they have done enough to immortalize the name. The father came from Edinburg a bankrupt in pm - se, fleeing from his creditors, but rich in purpose and courage. He opened a cent candy shop and worked fifteen hours a day, until the creditors were paid in full. The amount was £1,500, equal to $7,500, but money was then worth double its present value. The sons inherited the business, which th#y made immensely profitable, and they shared their profits ltberaily with objects of benevolence. They have been among the leading philanthropists of the day, and their benefactions in the aggregate are probably more than a million. Mrs. Stuart now gives what is really of more value than money, when she takes the presidency of a cooking school. This feature in education has been sadly neglected, and it is time a reformation took place. —New York Cor. Cincinnati Gazette.

A Drummer’s First Trip.

A Cleveland merchant determined to send his son for a trip on the road in the interests of the house. The young man was rather averse to going, but his father’s persuasions were all-powerful, and he went. He was out some ten days, and on his return his father anxiously inquired, “Well, my boy, did you get many orders?” “Yes, father,” answered the new-fledged drummer; “I got quite a number.” “Good!” exclaimed the delighted father. “I knew you would succeed. The young man grinned and answered: “Well, the first order I got was in Squashbog. I went into a man’s store there and he said ‘ git out!’ In Bungville I got my second order. This time it was ‘ skip!’ My third order was ‘chase yourself ’round. ’ My next order was ‘scoot,’ and—” But the old gentleman hastily arose and, kicking his hopeful’s samplecase across the office, sternly commanded the young man to go out <uid help Jim load the truck,

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NUMBER 45.

ODDS AND ENDS.

And we arise to ask, what is it that makes a locomotive tender? It is said that two of the best steel engravers in this country are women. The bride and bridegroom at a Nashville wedding had only one leg apiece. Never attempt to get rich too rapidly. You may cut a coupon so that it will not be redeemed. A man may live to extreme old age and then commit the biggest mistake ol his life. According to Victor Hugo, to call a man an ass is to compliment him. Hugo thinks the ass is the wisest of creature. Never does a man believe so strongly in the attraction of gravitation as when he sits down in a chair and finds it gone. There have been three great Irvings— Washington Irvings, Irving the famous London preacher, and Irving the actor.

A stupid man, in buying a book, said to the book-seller, “I will take two copies while I am about it, as I may wish to read it twice.” Many women who are really brave pale every time they find themselves in front of the looking glass with a powder puff in their hands. A blue stocking has written an essay on “The Disadvantage of Being Pretty.” Most girls are good-natured, and willing to put up with the disadvantages. A very curious incident occurred near Louisville the other day, a railroad train being thrown from the track without injuring anybody above the rank of major. There are some 35,000 more females than males in Philadelphia, and yet some people wonder why some girls marry bowlegged men. —Philadelphia ChronicleHerald.

A Chicago grocer sells soap, every tenth cake of which contains in its centre a gold dollar, and the citizens of Chicago are getting to look tolerably clean.— Poston Post. This significant sentence is from a Massachusetts school report: “As this office involves neither honor nor profit, there seems no plausible reason why it should not be filled by a woman.” A Western young lady who has been visiting Boston says the young men there are so vain that they act as if they thought they were doing you the greatest possible favor in speaking to you. A religiously insane woman in Massachusetts goes about the neighborhood every morning delivering personal messages which she believes she has received from heaven during the night. A valuable heifer belonging to a Massachusetts farmer recently broke its leg, and it had to be amputated. The animal has since been fitted with a wooden leg, on which it moves around with ease.

Susan Jane must have been scantily dressed when she was loooking out for her lover and sang: He’ll come to-niglit, the wind’s at rest, The moon is full and fair. I’ll wear the dress that pleased him best, A ribbon in my hair. A Philadelphia quack informs the public that he is not at all exclusive. “If a patient wants it gentle and mild, I’m a homoeopath, and when anybody wants thunder and lightning, I’m an allopath. ” In a paper published in Rhode Island, in 1762, the following account of a protracted drougth is given: * ‘Our cows are drying up, our pumps are dry, there is no water, and the minister of the Baptist church is dead.” A Pailadelphia man has perfected an invention whereby sour kraut can be boiled in the house without any of the inmates smelling it. The invention consists of a small liver-like pad of Limburger cheese worn under the nose.— Philadelphia Chroni^le-llerald. To poets: In order to write poetry suitable for publication, it is necessary, first, either to understand the art of versification or to possess a singularly correct ear; second, the poet must have something to write about, something more than a general desire to die or be a star; and third, when he feels the fit coming on he should go and blacken a stove. A story comes all the way from Atkinson, Kansas, to explain why Clara Louise Kellogg lias never married. In her school days she fell in love with a poor boy, and they exchanged vows of constancy. She wenton the stage and made a fortune. He declared that he would not become her husband until his wealth equaled hers—and it has never done so, though he has struggled hard to increase it to the required amount. It would save a great deal of embarrassment and perhaps add to their emoluments if clergymen generally were to (fiiarge a fixed rate for marrying couples for the third, and so on. They might even issue tickets, as they do in milk factories, with a reduction to persons taking a quantity. In order to encourage lawful wedlock, the job should be done very cheaply to young couples, but the clergy could take it out of widowers and old bachelors.

Story-Telling.

The question of story-telling is rather a nice one. Swift regards it as not altogether a contemptible talent, “considering how low conversation now runs among us,” but he justly remarks that the story-teller should change his company very often, “that he may not discover the weakness of his fund.” And, indeed, this is the very melancholy part of the story-teller’s life, that, however agreeable he may be as an acquaintance, no man in his senses will consent to become intimate with him and stand the fire of his eternal repetitions. We believe he never marries; even a woman’s devotion has limits. Such are the pitfalls that, according to Swift, beset the art of conversation, and his remarks apply with undiminished force to us. The list, although a long one, is still not exhaustive, as we find in Cowper some new classes of talk-spoilers. Such are the grimacers, who “assent with shrug and contradict with a twisting of the neck, are angry with a wry mouth and pleased in a caper or minuet step;” the emphatical, “who ram down every syllable with excessive vehemence and energy;” the half-swearers, “who split, and mince, and fritter their oaths into gadsbut, adsfish, and demme,” and “those who nickname God’s creatures, and call a man a cabbage, a crab, a queer cub, an odd fish, and an unaccountable muskin.” —Saturday Review.

A Suggestion in Photography.

In view of the evil of repeating at elections, fraudulent registration, and so on, a San Francisco gentleman suggests the use of photography as a matter of precaution and certainty. The expense, he says, would not be greater than the present system of registration. The personal history of voters could bo put on the back of their respective photography so much of it as relates to the

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birth, naturalization, etc. Yoters could all he arranged in wards and precincts as now, and, as a number is called and a ballot deposited, the voter’s picture could be dropped into a separate box prepared for that purpose.

INDIANA NEWS.

It cost about $703 to liquidate the expenses of the Indiana Electoral College. Homer Kelly, of Sullivan, was caught by a falling window and almost choked to death. The public schools of Crawfordsville were closed the other day on account of the prevalence of scarlet fever. The body of a dead man, found near a haystack two miles from Bruceville, Knox county, was partially eaten by hogs. Out of 1,272 school corporations in the State, Supt. Smart reports over 1,000 of them entirely without indebtedness. During the last six weeks fourteen deaths have occurred in Dublin, Wayne county, mostly from diphtheria and scarlet fever. Several saloon men at New Albany are to be prosecuted for selling liquor to persons to whom they had been forbidden to sell.

The new starcli-works at Franklin are almost ready for beginning operations. The works will furnish employment to about fifty hands. Gov. James D. Williams, it is said, leit an estate of 4,000 acres of land and $25,000 in money. There is a will but it has not been probated. It is estimated that the expenses of the funeral of the late Gov. Williams, which will be borne by the State, will total up something over SI,OOO. Grandmother Hannah Gwynn, relict of Charles Wwynn, a soldier of the War of 1812, aged 91 years, died near Cambridge City, the other night. She was sick but a short time. Gov. Gray issued his first pardon, the other day, to a young man named Clark, from the Governor’s own county, Randolph, sentenced to one year’s imprisonment for the theft of a $0 pistol. Francis G % Morgan, an old and highly-esteeme'd citizen of Randolph county, died at. his home in Spartansburg, of a cancerous affection, a short time ago. Mr. Morgan was formerly Commissioner of the county, and was 52 years old. The last Legislature of Indiana neglecting to vote an appropriation for the expense necessarily attending the meeting of the Legislature in January next, the Attorney General of the State has been asked for his opinion if there is any way out of the dilemma. Mu. Thomas Lyons, an old and prominent citizen, died last week, at his residence, near Covington. Mr. Lyons was Sheriff of Fountain county from 1858 to 1862. In 1866 he was Republican candidate for County Treasurer, and in 1876 lie ran on the same ticket for Recorder.

Gen. John Scott, a resident of Vigo county for the past fifty-five years, died recently. He was born in New York m 1793, and was pensioned for service rendered at the battle of Sackett’s Harbor in the War of 1812. Gen. Seott came to this State in 1826. He was 88 years old at the time of his death. Martha Lockhart, a young woman who worked in the family of John McNelly at Seymour, accidentally set fire to her clothing, and was so severely burned that she died. She lighted a fire and threw a burning paper on the floor, and while in the act of stamping out the flames set her clothing on fire. Prop. Lewis Prough, principal of Vincennes University, died last week, of erysipelas. Prof. Prough took charge of the university in December, 1872. He was born in Summerfield, Olio, March 5, 1840; graduated at. Antioch College in 1861, with high honors. As an educator he had few equals in the State.

Willie Edwards, aged I‘2 years, died a few days since of lockjaw, in the New Albany poor-house. Willie had no father or mother, and, like Topsy, he just grew up and happened in at the county poor-house, where he lias boarded for three years past. Not long since lie was sent out on a bleak day to husk corn, and was found nearly frozen to death. The citizens of Bluffton have been greatly excited by the decision of the Supreme Court, annulling and setting aside the amended charter of Bluffton passed by the Legislature some eight years ago, greatly extending and increasing their powers and jurisdiction. The decision is far-reaching, and will also affect many other towns and cities. The Supreme Court take the position that the Legislature has no power to grant special power and extend the jurisdiction of incorporated towns and cities by special enactment. The sum involved in this decision will amount to about $20,000 taxes to be returned to property-owners illegally collected since 1872. Hon. B. C. Hobbs, ex-President of Earlham College, has gone to Northern Georgia and Eastern Tennessee on a mission to the Cherokee Indians, In 1836 the Government granted the Western Cherokees reservations in the Indian Territory, and those east of the Allegheny mountains lauds in Georgia and Tennessee. The latter were granted an educational fund of $40,000, which has never been paid, and it is for the purpose of securing it and the accrued interest for the purpose of establishing schools among them that Mr. Hobbs has gone South. After a conference with the chiefs he will visit Washington and claim the appropriation in their name.

An Indiana newspaper correspondent has been shown a rare relic, in the shape of an Indian tomahawk and hatchet combined. It was near the shape of a plasterer’s lath-hatchet, with the bowl of the pipe in the “pole,” and the handle serving as the pipe-stem. The body of the instrument is brass, the sharp edge steel, the latter being brazed into the other metal in a very artistic style. The instrument was found recently by a little girl, named Faulkner, in Owen county, Ky. The little girl and some other children were digging in a small mound when they found the relic. They also found a human bone, which frightened them so that they quit digging. On one side of the tomahawk the figures “1673” are visible, they having been scratched in the brass by a sharppointed instrument. It is supposed to have been traded by the Spaniards to the Indians. The difference between dancing and card playing is just exactly the difference between the reel and the I-deal.