Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Dervish Pasha, the Turkish Governor <of Albania, has entered Issek and suppressed the insurrection. He will send the Albanian leaders in chains to Constantinople. M. Seguin, correspondent of the Paris Telegram, was murdered by Arabs in Tunis, who were promptly court-martialed and shot In all the divisions which have occurred in the British Parliament regarding the Irish Land bill the Government have had a large majority supporting them. During the eviction riots in the islands off the Donegal coast, Ireland, the people destroyed the small boats belonging to her Majesty’s gunboat Goshawk, whereupon the gunboat opened fire upon the people. A land agent has been shot near Woodford. One policeman died and some soldiers are not expected to live—the result of the Clonmel riot. Field Marshal Tegethoff, brother of Admiral Tegethoff, the circumnavigator, committed suicide in Vienna. The chief participators in a demonstration at Marseilles on behalf of the woman Nihilist, Hessy Hellman, have been sentenced to fine and imprisonment Iroquois, Mr. Pierre Lorillard’s 3-year-old colt, won the famous English Derby stakes, at Epson Downs. This is the first time an Ameri .an horse ever won this, the national English race. On the race course were the Prince of Wales and his brothers, the Dukes of Edinburgh and Conuaught, with ladies of the royaj family, and some German potentates. Lorillard is said to have won $2,000,000 on the race The census recently taken in London ■hows a population of 3,814,571. Daniel Mac Sweeney, a Land-League President at Falconasb, Ireland, has been sent to Kilmainham jail. He claims to be an American citizen, and intends to appeal io the United States Government for protection. Among the weapons employed by the Irish patriots was a hive of bees, which was let loose on the constabulary as they rode forth to evict tenants. It appears that the revised New Testament cannot, according to Lord Chancellor Selborne's decision, bo read in the English Church until it is authorized by some sufficient authority. Buch authority either the Queen, who is the nominal head of the Anglican Church, or the Houses of Convocation.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. XCast. Edward Desendorf, a Brooklyn printer, killed his wife and then committed suicide. in the O’Leary international pedestrian contest at New York, Edward Vint, a Brooklyn shoemaker, captured the belt. He made 578 miles in six days, which exceeds all previous records. A train on the Pennsylvania railroad was wrecked by an open switch near Trenton, N. J. Two passengers were killed, and ten others seriously injured. Coal-mine agents held a meeting at Philadelphia, and, to prevent over-production, agreed to stop work in their mines six days in this and three days in next month. The tug Jake Brands blew up off Bandy Hook, N. J., and the engineer was blown overboard and drowned and his eon fatally injured. West. Capt. Paul Boyton left St. Paul on the 30ih ult. for Cairo, in a suit of inflated rubber, hoping to paddle the distance in sixteen days. He then proposes to float down the Missouri from Fort Benton to St. Louis. John E. Clapp, catcher and Captain of the Cleveland Base-Ball Club, was approached by J. 8. Woodruff, a clerk of Chicago, who attempted to corrupt him into giving away games. The catcher was incorruptible, and “ gave away ” Woodruff instead, and the young man was exposed in the Chicago papers. Mr. John Griscom, the New York faster, who went, to Chicago to fast forty-five, and perhaps fifty, days, began his task on Saturday, May 28, at noon, after partaking of a hearty meal with a number of professional men and others, among whom was Dr. Tanner. John L. Eaurich, an Indianapolis policeman, shot his wife in the right eye and right lung, put a bullet in the arm of her father, and wound up by killing himself.

A feud of long standing impelled Prof. Charles Stickney, of Denver, to kill M. T. Champeau. Mrs. H. 0. Devroe sprang between the men and wag unintentionally slain. Three masked robbers entered a store at Nortonville, Kan., drew revolvers, and forced those present to keep still while $1,200 was extracted from the safe. Anti-prohibitionists in Kansas have ingenious methods of evading the new liquor law, “Jug trains” are doing a good business. The friends of temperance believe that the law will eventually be entirely successful. South. A duel took place near Charleston, W. Va., between John P. and George Nunley, uhcle and nephew. George was shot in the mouth before he got ready to fire. The most careful estimates put the cotton crop of last year at 6,400,000 bales, or nearly a million and a half bales more than the splendid crop of 1879. The greatest crop over raised under slavery was that of 1860, which fell about 1,600,000 bales short of the yield of last year. Fred Douglass, as part of the decoration ceremonies, delivered an historical oration on John Brown at Harper’s Ferry, Va. Quite a number of Confederates and old Virginians gathered to hear him. Among the latter was R. M. T. Hunter, who was the State’s Attorney An attempt was made at Gainesville, Texas, to arrest John Thompson for carrying concealed weapons, when he turned upon his pursuers and killed Deputy Sheriffs Charles Meredith, L. Krilht and Samuel Meredith. At .Frederick, Md., a fine monument was unveiled, at Mt. Olive Cemetery, over the graves of the Confederate soldiers who fell at Antietam and other battles fought in that vicinity. U. 8. Grant has been elected President of the Texas Western Narrow-Gauge road, and active operations toward the Rio Grande will be at once commenced.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Judge Rayner, the Solicitor General of the Treasury, is declared to be in his dotage, and will probably be removed. In the case of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company vs. the United States the Court of Claims awarded the company damages amounting to $291,117. The suit was for money due for mail service, and the company . sued for $1,000,000. There were issued during the month of May $8,342,070 worth of national-hank notes, and there war* surrendered and de-

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stroyed <1,745,919. The net increase of national-bank note circulation for the year ending May 30 has been <9,216,250. The circulation of the standard silver dollar from the treasury vaults has practically stopped altogether. During the fall and early winter there was quite a demand for this coin for the purpose of moving the crops. That demand stopped when the crop movement was over. Since the Ist of January last there has been no call for silver. All the dollars that have been coined since that date remain in the sreasury. Further than this, the silver in circulation has found its way back into the vaults. The amount outstanding has steadily decreased. Coinage at the rate of a little over <2,000,000 a month goes steadily on.

Coinage in May, $12,223,550, of which $2,300,000 were in silver dollars. President Garfield promises to attend the Atlanta Exposition in November. Col. William A. Cook has been commissioned Special Assistant Attorney General, and will have charge of the prosecution of the star-route ringsters. Facts developed by the investigation m!o the star-route frauds caused Secretary Windom to request the resignations of Sixth Auditor McGrew and his deputy, Lilley. By reducing and discontinuing a number of superfluous star-route and steamboat mail-service lines the country was saved last month the handsome sum of <445,547. "The resignation of First Assistant Postmaster General Tyner has been in the hands of the President for some weeks, but not accepted. Tyner is not now acting, and is said to be unwilling to do further duty in that place. The President has appointed William Gouverneur Morris, of New Jersey, Collector of Customs for the District of Alaska, and Augustus Brosins, of Pennsylvania, Agent at the Niobrara Agency, Neb. The following is the public-debt statement for May: Six per cent, bonds $ 196,378,600 Five per cents 4,39,841,350 Four and one-half per cents 250,000,000 Four ner cents 738,652,750 Refunding certificates • 694,850 Navy pension fund 14,000,(XX) Total interest-bearing debt $1,639,567,750 Matured debt $ 10,600,005 Legal tenders 346,741,646 Certificates of deposit... 10,860,0<X) Fractional currency 7,109,102 Gold and silver certificates 56,685,850 Total without interest. 421,396,598 Total debt $2,071,561,354 Total interest 17,853,705 Cash in treasury 236,496,088 Debt less cash in treasury $1,852,921,971 Decrease during May 11,150,721 Decrease since June 30, 1880 89,250,323 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaid $ 2,451,043 Debt on which interest has ceased 10,600,1'05 Interest thereon 737,292 Gold and silver certificates 56,685,850 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit. 10,865,000 Cash balance available June 1,1881.... 155,161,896 Total $ 236,496,088 Available assets— Cash in treasury .$ 236,496,088 Bonds issued to Pacific railway compan-> les, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding $ 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 1,615,587 Interest paid by United States 99,528,566 interest repaid by companies— Interest repaid by transportation of mails By cash payments of 5 per cent, of net earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by the United States 34,617,028

POLITICAL POINTS. There is said to be considerable opposition in the Republican ranks of Ohio to the nomination of Gov. Foster. Speaker George A. Sharpe and three other members of the Republican Caucus Committee sent to each Republican member of' the New York Legislature a call for a caucus on the evening of May 30. Only thirty-one responded to the call. The friends of the administration gathered to the number of fiftyseven and held a conference. The Democratic members met in caucus and resolved to support Francis Kernan and John C. Jacobs for the Senatorial seats. The balloting for United States Senators to succeed Messrs. Conkling and Platt began in the New York Legislature on Tuesday the 31st ult. In the Senate Conkling received nine votes, against six for John C. Jacobs, six for W. A. Wheeler, five for 8. S. Rogers, three for Gov. Cornell and five scattering. Platt received eight votes in the Senate, against seven for Kernan, six for Wheeler and ten scattering. In the House, twenty-six votes were cast for Conkling, fortyseven for Jacobs (Democratic nominee), fifteen for Wheeler, six for Cornell, eight for Rogers and twenty-four scattering. Platt received twenty-one votes in the House, Kernan (Democratic nominee) forty-seven, Depew fourteen, Cornell twelve, while thirty-three votes were divided between a dozen other persons. The first vote for United States Senators, in joint convention of the New York Legislature, taken on the Ist inst, resulted in no manner materially different from what the preliminary vote of the preceding day indicated. Conkling and Platt received the same number of votes in the aggregate that they then had, and they came from the sama persons. Cornell’s vote was the same, and Depew forged ahead a little. The few minor changes were of no significance. Hayes has been interviewed on the Garfield-Conkling imbroglio. He says that Conkling is a monomaniac on the subject of his own importance in the world, and has made three attempts to destroy the Republican party. Conkling has sent a dispatch to Ma-> hone, in which he says: “ Your every effort for the true advancement of the South, and to make elections real and fair, has my whole heart, and deserves the co-operation of Republicans everywhere.” The New York Legislature balloted twice for Senators on the 2d inst. For the Conkling vacancy the first ballot resulted: Conkling, 34; Jacobs, 50 ; Wheeler, 19 ; Rogers, 11; Cornell, 21; scattering, 14. Second ballot: Conkling, 33 ; Wheeler, 17 ; Jacobs, 52 ; Bradley, 1; Rogers, 15; Cornell, 22 ; Fenton, 3. For the Platt vacancy the first ballot resulted : Platt, 28 ; Kernan, 53 ; Depew, 28 ; Cornell, 11 j scattering, 36. Second ballot: Platt, 28 ; Depew, 80; Kernan, 52; Cornell, 13. Others scattering. The lowa Greenbackers, in convention at Marshalltown, nominated Hon. D. Clark, of Wayne county, for Governor; Hon. James M. Holland, of Henry county/Wor Lieutenant Governor; AD. Dabney, of Madi son county, for Supreme Judge; and Mis. Mary E. Nash, of Des Moines, for Superintendent of Public Instruction.

The New York Legislature took one ballot for Senator on the 3d inst. Conkling received thirty-four votes for the short term and Cornell nineteen. For the long term Platt and Depew had thirty votes each. Henry Ward Beecher was honored with one vote. The Democratic vote was cast for Kernan and Jacobs.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY INDIANA, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1881.

The Virginia Readjuster Convention, after a lively session of three days at Richmond, nominated Mayor William E. Cameron, of Petersburg, for Governor, and ex-United States Senator John T. Lewis for Lieutenant Governor. During the war Cameron served as Adjutant General of Mahone’s brigade, and since the war has been a devoted political follower of his old army commander.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Burned: The Collier white-lead works, St. Louis, loss <140,000; a railroad depot, two churches, and other buildings at Kenton, Ohio, loss <46,000; B. W. Hoyt’s shoe factory at Epping, N. H„ loss <86,000. D. L. Moody has gone to his home in Northfield, Mass., for the summer. who prosecuted John Brown. When Douglass had finished his oration, Mr. Hunter was one of the first to congratulate him. Ransom Cook, the inventor of Cook's auger and the Armstrong gun, is dead. There is lack of unanimity among the religious press of the country regarding the Revised New Testament. In regard to the outrages upon American- fishermen at Fortune bay and at Aspee bay, Secretary Blaine and Minister Thornton have reached an agreement. The claims aggregate <103,000, and it 16 covenanted that Great Britain shall pay <75,000 in gold and take a receipt in full. Decoration day was pretty generally observed as a holiday throughout the country. There were the usual floral decorations on the graves of the heroic dead. Nothing of unusual interest marked the celebration at any point. The General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in convention at Pittsburgh, Pa., decided to erect an educational establishment at Clarksville, Va., for the benefit of the freedmen.

For the five months ending May 31, the arrivals of emigrants at Castle Garden, New York, amounted to 182,108. For the corresponding period last year the arrivals were 135,336. Arrivals for the month of May were 76,812, a larger number than for any one month in the history of Castle Garden.

INDIANA NEWS.

A snake, said to be nineteen feet long, was seen on the farm of Hon. J. W. Sansberry, near Anderson. The 5-year-old son of Wm. Pitts, living south of Knightstown, was burned to death in a straw-pile set on fire by some children.

Farmers in Hamilton county complain of damage done to the corn by wire and grub worms, in many cases necessitating entire replanting. R. J. Wilson was training a SI,OOO trotter at Rushville, a few days ago, when it reared up, fell back and broke its neck.

William Schoopmire, of Bising Sun, was bitten on the right wrist by a bulldog, supposed to be mad. His arm is frightfully swollen. A hen killed at South Bend, the other day, was found to contain eight fullsized eggs with soft shell and seven others of different sizes, or fifteen eggs in all.

A disease resembling lung fever has made its appearance among the horses of Jackson township, Huntington county, and causes death in a very short time.

dr. N. P. Howard, Sr., of Danville, has had under his treatment the largest woman in America, if not in the w orld, Mary Powers. It is stated that her weight is about 800 pounds. Mrs. Elizabeth Stanfield died of paralysis of the heart at Fairmount, lately. Her age was 88. She settled there in 1836, and her husband laid out the original plat of the town. In 1879 Frank McDonald, aged 15, and Naoma Moore, aged 14, were married at Shelbyville, and lived together as man and wife until last week, when the boy concluded he wouldn’t play any more, and resigned. Two small boys of Highland township, Greene county, were out in the woods. One of them suggested that the other eat spikenard as a remedy for his cough. The boy ate what proved to be wild turnip, and was dead in five hours.

The Logansport Pharos has been presented v’ith a portion of a newspaper printed in Philadelphia, on Thursday, November 9, 1798, and the renowned name of Thomas Paine appears at the masthead as editor. An item reads: “Gen. Washington is expected to visit this city about the first of next month.’ The new drainage law of Indiana is now in full force apd effect, and it is the duty of Township Trustees at the time they select Road Supervisors, the first Monday in June, to name six Drainage Commissioners, and from these the Judges of the respective Circuit Courts will appoint two. Washington Benson, a wealthy farmer of Porter, Mich., met his death in an encounter with a vicious stallion near South Bend. The animal first crushed him with its fore feet, then grabbed his face in its teeth and bit off his right cheek. Until beaten off with clubs the brute continued to crush in the old man’s ribs and eat his face. A representative of the Indiana Coal road, a newly-proposed line of railroad to run from Terre Haute to Columbus, through Vigo, Green, Sullivan, Morgan, Brown and Bartholomew counties, has visited the latter city to record a mortgage of $1,500,000 on the roadway and equipments when built in favor of and to secure the bondholders. The mortgage has been recorded in each county through which the road passes. Rev. D. E. Hudson, of South Bend, editor of the Ave Maria Magazine, at Notre Dame, is the fortunate owner of a photograph of a picture that has a history. It is a photograph of the only sketch made of the Emperor Napoleon 1., and was secretly drawn by the attendant physician immediately after the great General’s death, and by him presented to a family who idolized the dead Emperor. Hqn. S, M. Stockslager, member of Congress for the New Albany district, has inafle tlie foU owing selections for the positions in Mih Naval Academy at Annapolis and the Military Academy at West Point: Cadet to the United States . Military Joseph H. Shea, of Scott county. JMr. Shea is a nephew of Col. Thomas Shea. For alternate cadet to Military Academy, Edward M. Lewis, of Floyd county. Cadet Midshipman in the navy, Martin McO. Fullenlove, of Floyd county. For alternate, Edwin V. Johnson, son of ex-Mayor Johnson, of Seymour.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

THE BLACK DEATH.

Came of the Annual Outbreak of the Plague. It is generally supposed, says the Chicago Tribune, that the inundation of the low lands of the Euphrates river is the only cause of the outbreak of the plague, or black death. They are a contributing, but not the only cause. The real cause of the pestilence has bean known for years to the Persian and Turkish Governments, but they have done nothing toward its prevention. The black death is not an uncommon disease in that part of Mesopotamia lying southwest from Bagdad, between the right shore of the Euphrates and the Syrian desert. It has made its regular appearance there ever since the year 1872, between the months of December and June. In Nedjeff, or Medsched Ali, is the grave of Ali, the son-in-law of the Ptophet Mahomet. From there leads a desert road, marked out by the bleached bones of camels and human beings, to the so-called Lake Euphrates, which receives its water through the Hintieh canal. To the northwest of this lake is situated the city of Kerbela, where is to be found the golden mosque and the grave of Hussein, the son of Caliph Ali and the daughter of the Prophet. These two cities are the real breeding-places of the dreadful disease. To Nedjeff and Kerbela the Shiites, or religious followers of Ali and Hussein, chiefly Persians, send the dead bodies of their friends and relatives, because they believe that to be buried near Hussein’s or Ali’s grave will assure their souls certain admission to paradise. Caravan after caravan, each camel loaded with two felt-covered coffins on each side, arrive there daily and deposit their ghastly freight for interment, which, during months of travel from the Persian highlands, has been decomposing and is filling the air with its pestilential odor. The coffins are placed in shallow trenches and covered with about an meh or two of earth. But this is not all. The whole country around Nedjeff has become one vast graveyard, and, in consequence of the frequent floods occurring in the Euphrates, all the lands on both sides of the river are inundated, the light covering of earth is swept from the coffins, which, being made of light material, fall to pieces, and thousands upon thousands of corpses are left rotting under the rays of an Oriental sun. The waters finally recede, or are gradually absorbed by the soil, poisoning all the wells in that country. From 12,000 to 16,000 corpses are sent there annually for interment by the Shiites. The Jews send annually several thousands of their dead to be buried near the grave of their prophet Ezekiel, which is also near Kerbela. Beside these caravans there arrive flotillas of pilgrim boats loaded with corpses on the Euphrates by way of the Semawat branch and the Bar-i-Nedjeff. Not only are they filled with, this pestiferous freight, but the coffins are even hung outside of the boats, loading them down to the water’s edge. The constant arrival of these caravans and flotillas with their freight of decaying human corpses, and added to this the careless burial, must be regarded as the cause of the outbreak of the plague, and the fatalistic negligence of the Persian and Turkish Governments, which do not interfere until the disease has become epidemic; explains why it has not been suppressed during the last ten years. For a long time a special treaty has been in existence between these two Governments relative to the transportation of these corpses, but so far it has been a treaty on paper only. The people of America are in as much danger as the rest of the world. It is about time that the civilized nations of the earth should make this question of the transportation of corpses under an Oriental sun an international question, and force the two Governments directly interested to execute the provisions of their treaty in good faith.

Big Time Over a Foot. The San Francisco Chronicle, in a recent issue, says: “A young lady took a car which brought her to the foot of California street, and there took a seat on the dummy car, which bore her to the vicinity of her home on Octavia street. As she left the car and was crossing the track upon the southern side her foot slipped and turned and was caught fast in the crack where the wire cable passes. Some imperfection in the roadbed had caused the narrow aperture to expand, and the young girl’s narrow foot was entrapped. The engineer of the east-bound dummy saw the obstacle on the road in season to check his swift approaching car, and alighted, with the conductor and several passengers of an investigating mind, who endeavored to release the slender foot, but their efforts were vain. Another car, and another, brought up in funeral row, and constant re-enforcements in the way of passing pedestrians cheered and enlivened the scene. An attempt was made to pry the iron rails forming the cable channel further apart, but they firmly resisted all efforts. Everybody had a suggestion. “Push your foot forward;” “Pull it back;” “Tip it sideways;” “Liftyourheel higher.” The unhappy girl was almost fainting, but she persevered in her efforts to extricate the offending member. By this time travel on the road had virtually ceased. The last car had long ago passed, and was steadily approaching to fall into line at the rear of the singular procession. Down-town passengers fretted and fumed, or. slowly climbed the hill in disgust. On every street corner groups of waiting people berated the laxity of street-car management. Reporters from all the down-town dailies were proceeding westward to learn the meaning of the large crowd reported to have assembled in the Western Addition. From the scene of the accident envoys had been dispatched to the railroad shops to bring appliances for taking up a section of the road. At this juncture a tall, brawny Englishman, in the dress of a mechanic, forced his way through the throng, and in a cheery voice, marked by the Derbyshire dialect, asked: “Ha’ ye tried onfastenin’ the young leddy’sshoe?” Ten buttons flew from as many buttonholes; in the twinkling of an eye the foot was free.

Over $2,300,000 for Champagne. A striking instance of the unparalleled financial condition of the people of the United States is shown in the official reports of the French Government, giving the value of champagne exported from France to the United States. The - consumption of champagne in America has steadily increased for the past three years, but the increase of 1880 is remarkable, showing the largest per cent, of gain of any like period since this wine has been known to commerce. In 1877 the value of this wine exported to the United States was $1,293,398. In 1878 and 1879 the amount was slightly in excess of this, but in 1880 it jumped

up to $2,317,593. These figures are suggestive, as showing increased capacity to purchase luxuries. As a matter of fact, every article of luxury upon the list of imports shows an increase in 1880 over auy previous year. So far as can be judged from this, the American people are becoming what is called full-handed, and arc slinging their money around right royally.

BEES AND BEE-RAISING.

The stingless bees belonging to the genus Melipona have been long known both in Europe and in this country. It is doubtful about there being any plant that will pay to cultivate for honey alone, although there are many which will pay to cultivate for fruit and honey. Which will pay best will depend upon how the owner is situated. Comb honey is capped over by the bees just as soon as it is sufficiently evaporated so that it will not sour in the cell if the temperature is kept at 100 or 102 degrees, as that is just the heat of the hive when the honey is stored. A smoker is used to tame bees, in order that they may be handled easily. It is a pair of small bellows, with firebox and funnel attached, so made that it can be worked with one hand. Smoke, properly applied, has the effect of quieting the irascible little insects. Keeping bees in the old box hive is entirely out of date, and the sooner it is abandoned the better. The difficulty with it is that you cannot regulate the internal economy of a colony, but must leave the bees to do pretty much as they please. Bees need management, the same as cattle, poultry, sheep, hogs or any other kind of farm stock. The last bees to die in a colony are generally those near the queen. Their last feeble morsel is divided with their mother, and oftentimes her position shows she had survived her children some time. Before giving your seeminglydead bees up in despair, make one earnest effort to restore them and you may be rewarded by saving a valuable queen and colony. Everybody knows that hornets, wasps, yellowjackets and ali the varieties of wild bees will be incased in frost and ice for months, and as soon as warmed and dried will be as active as ever. But the honey bee is not so constituted. Her blood is warm, and her system must be supplied with food to sustain life ; yet during winter she lies in a semi-torpid condition, and may even seem to be dead, and yet be restored.

A Queer Society.

Says a New York correspondent: “Twelve members of the York Masonic Lodge of this city organized last year a society which they styled ' ‘The Mortal Twelve of York.’ Its members are: Frank J. Griffith, Assistant Superintendent of the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad; William Scott, Freight Agent of the New York and New Haven Steamboat Company; Col. J. B. Montgomery, Thomas Keating, Harry Gurley, Edward Ganong, Robert Wharton, Lewis W. Walton, Edwin A. Quick, J. J. Shay, J. Hunt, and Fred Kline. The initiatory fee is $5, and the annual dues are sl. No otiier members can be admitted, and no person not a member can attend any of the meetings. “There is to be a regular meeting of the society every year on the evening of the second Wednesday of October, at which a dinner is to be served. On the death of any member, according to the by-laws, a special meeting must be called, and the sole object shall be to discuss the virtues of the deceased member, be they many or few. Should they be few, then each virtue is to be discussed so much the more thoroughly, for his shortcomings are not to be mentioned. A rosewood case, divided into twelve compartments, with a cut glass bottle in each compartment, containing a quart of sherry, and on the outside the owner’s name, has been deposited in the vault of a safe deposit company, to be taken out only when some member of the society dies. On that occasion the case is to be opened in the meeting, and the wine in the bottle bearing the name of the departed member is to be drank by the others in silence. Then the bottle is to be returned to the case, together with the date of the owner’s death and other information concerning him.

“On each succeeding similar occasion all of the bottles, the full and the empty, are to be set before the surviving members, and the contents of the one bearing the name of the member last deceased drunk in silence. It is provided in the by-laws that the last surviving member, on the death of his solitary associate, should discuss by himself the virtues of the departed man, and drink of the wine in the bottle bearing his name, ‘and he shall thereafter each succeeding year, on the date set apart for the annual meeting, have the box and contents placed before him, and then and there shall partake of the remaining bottle or bottles as far as his judgment allows or dictates, until the same shall, if possible, be disposed of.’ “The twelfth man is enjoined, before his death, to bequeathe the case, its contents, a copy of the society’s by-laws, and a synopsis of its history, to his heir, or any other person as he may feel disposed, enjoining him to guard and hand down the same to succeeding generations.”

Don’t Do It.

Don’t gamble. It’s a sin to bet on the wrong horse. Don’t boast of your little vices. They will advertise themselves. Don’t worship wealth. It is better to bend the knee to obtain it. Don’t let your dog sit in front of a saloon door. He may annoy the bartender. Don’t ask your milkman why the lacteal fluid is blue. He may not be a scientist Don’t spend your life in reproving the sins of your friends. Try the beam business awhile. Don’t trust your minister too far. Better keep awake and see that he preaches no false doctrine. Don’t imagine you are fitted for no profession. Everybody knows how to edit a newspaper. Don’t ask your butcher what his sausages are made of. Everybody knows that they are made of meat. Don’t trouble yourselves about your neighbor’s affairs. If he can’t attend to his own business let him hire a boy.— Catskill Recorder.

They had been engaged for a long time, and one evening were reading the paper together. “Look, love,” he exclaimed, “only sls for a suit of clothes!” “Is it a wedding suit?” she asked, looking naively at her lover. “Oh, no,” he answered; “it is a business suit” “Well. I meant business,” she replied.— New York Commercial.

A POSTOFFICE INQUISITION.

[Washington Cor. New York Sun.) Confederate Brigadier Mahone does not appear to be content with the notoriety he has already achieved. He has now invoked the aid of the Postoffice Department to keep up his fame. The following postal-card, addressed to Senator Vance, of North Carolina, but intercepted at the Washington postoffice and never delivered to him, was the basis of an information lodged against the writer by one W. T. Henderson, an in-, spector of the Postoffice Department, charging a violation of section 3,893 of the Revised Statutes: Please send me yr speech on that damm dog Mahone. John Cabmichael, Middleburg, Loudon county, Va. March 31, 1881. The words used are not actionable, even if “ damm ” had all the force that Carmichael probably intended it should have, to express his scorn of Mahone. Section 3,893 says : * ♦ * No postal-card upon which indecent or scurrilous epithets may be written or printed shall be carried in the mail. This is the flimsy foundation for a prosecution which would be amusing but for the principle involved and for the facts that were disclosed before the Commissioner. That Mahone instigated it is manifest, and that the department became the instrument of his small revenge was made quite clear in the examination. ‘ James E. Bell, superintendent of the city delivery of the Washington Postoffice, was the chief witness. He testified as follows: Q.—By what authority did you read that postal card ? Do you know that it was positively prohibited by law ? A.—Yes, but I considered it my duty and took the risk. Q.—What regulation gives you the authority to peer into the mails? A.—l considered the card obscene and unmailable. Q. —In your experience, as you say, of seventeen years, have you ever known a case of prosecution like this ? A.—Never in the Washington office.

Q.—ls it your habit to suppress postal cards? A.—Frequently. For example: Abusive postal cards are almost daily received against the President, but they never reach him ; we burn them up. * * * He further stated that the post mark showed the card had passed under the eye of the Postmaster General. Upon a most frivolous pretext, and without color of law to justify it, the private correspondence of a citizen is stopped at the postoffice in Washington, and with the privity of the head of the department, merely to gratify the resentment of the repudiating Senator from Virginia. The clerks, with the consent of Mr. James, make inquisitions into the mails, and, as Bell testified, “ take the risk” of arresting what matter they please in defiance of law. He confessed that it was “almost a daily” practice to suppress and burn postal cards abusive of the President.

If this authority can be assumed by subordinates without restraint, where is it to end ? What security is in the mails, when clerks at the terminal points, right under the eye of the Postmaster General, and, as appears in this case, with his full knowledge, may seize and destroy correspondence regularly posted and paid for. This postal card was the property of Senator Vance. It was deliberately withheld from him by the officials of the Washington postoffice after full consultation among themselves. In that act they committed a felony, and, as an example and a protection to the public at large, every one of them should be sternly prosecuted under section 3,892 of the Revised Statutes, as follows: Any person who shall take any letter, postal card or packet, although it does not contain any article of value or evidence thereof, out or a postoffice or branch postoffice, oi - from a letter or mail carrier, or which has been in any postoffice or branch postoffice, or in the custody of any letter or mail carrier, before it has been delivered to the person to whom it was ad dressed, with a design to obstruct the correspondence or to pry into the business or secrets of another, or shall secrete, embezzle or destroy the same, shall, for every such offenae. be punishable by a fine of not more than SSOO, or imprisonment at hard labor for not more than one year, or both. The insolence of office is past bearing. Private rights are constantly outraged, and public interests are sacrificed by the audacity, corrupt connivance and insulting defiance of the servants of the people. They form a close corporation, organize rings, plunder at pleasure and then ask taxpayers, as Tweed did, “ What are you going to do about it ? ”

More Breakers Ahead for Garfield.

There is one rock upon which the Garfield administration is liable to split in a way to sink the whole concern. A failure to support MacVeagh and James in their efforts to break up the postoffice rings, to stop the plunder and to punish the guilty, would do the business effectually. But are MacVeagh and James to be supported ? There is reason to believe that the President is already frightened, and would gladly turn back if he dared. The nomination of Chandler had a bad look. MacVeagh never had any friends among ring politicians and public thieves. He had none among them in Pennsylvania, where they were the ruling class. He knew precisely what he had to expect when he came to face them here. They had resisted his appointment to a man, and showed that they fully appreciated the force of the battery he would be likely to open on them from the Department of Justice. Accordingly he was no sooner warm in his seat than they set to work to get him out, and Chandler was the lever chosen to hoist him. Blaine insisted upon making him Solicitor General. MacVeagh told the President that when Chandler came in he would go out, but the President yielded to Blaine, and relied upon his ability to coax MacVeagh to remain. Thereupon every jobber and every agent of every corrupt lobby in town put his shoulder to the wheel to confirm Chandler, and so drive MacVeagh to resign. Had he been confirmed, Garfield would have been comEelled to choose between them; and ad he ever signed Chandler’s commission the Attorney General would have retired, and the surrender to the corruptionists would have been complete. James and MacVeagh, it is well known, mean to stand or fall together. They have determined to prosecute the star-route rascals according to law. to mete out to them full legal justice, and to break up the system by which they grew rich enough to buy Indiana for Garfield. If Messrs. Dorsey and Brady are so extremely anxious for a hearing as they pretend to be they will not be disappointed. They will probably succeed in getting it before a jury of twelve good men and true, whose verdict will have some weight with the country. Mr. James feels that he has a mission, and a great one. In pursuit of it he has parted with Conkling and Platt, and remained

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behind to perform a greater public service than either of them ever dreamed of; but he is well aware that without the Attorney General he would be powerless. It is quite safe, therefore, to say that whenever MacVeagh goes, James will go with him ; and then the administration will be left to its Chandlers and its Tynors.— Washingtonletter.

Miss Mulock’s Romance.

It was “ John Halifax,” published after she was 30 years old, that brought her fame, and made the task of earning her daily bread a little less arduous. Seven years later she was awarded a pension of S3OO a year. She was nearly 40 when she married. In 1865 Capt. George Lillie Craik, an officer in the English army, who had been in the Crimea, met Miss Mulock, and, although some years her junior, addressed her and succeeded in winning her hand. They Broved8 roved most congenial companions, and leir married life was all they could wish, with but one exception, the woman whose love for children amounted almost to a passion, who wrote ''Philip, My King,” was denied the happiness of feeling baby fingers upon her cheek or of ever hearing herself called mother. Thin was a severe sorrow, but even this pain was partially assuaged. Strangely enough, one dark, rainy night, while she and her husband were speaking of children and of the joy and brightness they bring to so many dwellings, there came a loud ring at the bell and then a furious knocking. On opening the door, lying upon the sill, they found a basket inclosed in many wrappings. When thev were removed they discovered a lovely little baby only a few hours old. The child was wrapped in one roll after another of India muslin, and on its breast was pinned a note, begging Mrs. Craik to be kind to the little waif thus brought tother door, and assuring her that no mean blood flowed in its veins. Tenderly she lifted the little thing in her arms, and her heart opened as warmly to take in the poor little deserted creature. They called the child Dorothea, God-given, and she became their adopted daughter, as tenderly cherished and as passionately loved as though she had been their own.

The Almond.

The almond is a native of Asia and Africa, but is cultivated also in Europe. In the North of Europe it is grown only for its beautiful flowers, which appear before its leaves, and for its foliage, as the fruit does not ripen in these northern latitudes. The blossoms resemble those of the peach, but are larger and paler in color—sometimes almost white. The wood of the almond tree is hard, of a reddish tint and is used for furniture. The chief value, of the tree lies, however, in its fruit. There are several varieties of almonds, but they may be generally classified as sweet and bitter. The sweet almonds are familiar to every nut-loving child. They are pleasant to the taste, but are the most indigestible of all nuts. Bitter almonds are also cultivated for the nut, from which a valuable oil is pressed. When in a crude state the oil is very poisonous, on account of the prussic acid contained in it, and many persons have died from its careless use. When properly prepared the pure oil is not dangerous poifcon. It is used as a medicine, as a flavoring extract, and for perfuming soaps, oils, blacking and many other articles of commerce.

Almonds are mentioned several times in the Bible. They were among the gifts which Jacob directed his sons to take to the unknown Joseph in Egypt. The seven-branched candlestick had the bowl of its branches modeled after the almond. In Ecclesiastes the tree is used as a symbol of old age, and it is also alluded to by the prophet Jeremiah; and in Numbers we learn that Aaron’s rod that budded was cut from an almond tree, for it “yielded almonds.”

Camel Riding.

The complaints which have been made of the difficulty of riding a camel—of the headache and nausea it causes—proceed, in Gen. Colston’s opinion, from travelers who do not know how to ride them. After the rider has once mastered the art of mounting and dismounting, there is no further trouble, and any one accustomed to horseback may, in the General’s opinion, learn in a single day to ride and manage the camel. “He is the most docile and manageable of all animals, excepting only the Egyptian donkey.” The simple art of easy camel riding consists chiefly i > not permitting your camel to walk, except in deep sand or over steep, rocky ground, where you cannot help it. “ There is not a more back-breaking, skin-abrading motion than a camel’s walk; but, if you press him into a gentle pace, which is the natural gait of a dromedary, he moves both legs on the same side together. Thus he will go all day, with perfect ease to you, and no fatigue to himself, at the rate of about five miles an hour. In that gait his motion feels exactly like that of a very easy trotting horse, though, of course, camels are like horses, some moving easier than others. With every increase of the rapidity of his gait, he goes rougher. ” The higher speed of the dromedary enables the traveler to ride on in advance, and take two or tliree rests in the course of a day, in order tc allow the slower burden camels to come up. But they all camp together at night— Chambers' Journal.

Who Take “T.”

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What Is Man?

This little life-boat of earth with its noisy crew of mankind, and all their troubled history, will one day have vanished—faded like a cloud-speck from the azure of the sky. What, then, is man ? He endures but for an hour, and is crushed before the moth. Yet in the beginning and in the working of a faithful man is there already (as all faith from the beginning gives assurance) a something that pertains not unto this death element of time; that triumphs over time, and is, and will be, when time shall be no more. if . t Is that cheese rich?” asked Bloggs of his grocer. “Yes,” was the answer, “there’s millions in it."—Hartford Post.

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NEW MEXICO.

Curl ohm Helle* of l*re-Historic Rare* —Ruin, of Building* and Aqueducts. In New Mexico are to be found the ruins of cities, of cathedrals and palaces, that speak in unmistakable language of a people that lived and flourished so long ago that no history or legend tells who they were, whence they came, or whither they went. No one can tell their name, or by what wonderful law of Providence they have been completely wiped from the face of the earth. It is conjectureci by some antiquarian, says a Saute Fe correspondent, that, even before ancient Thebes existed, there dwelt upon the plains of New Mexico a people whose power and splendor were unrivaled among the nations of the earth. That there were cities here, and large ones, too, is a well-settled fact; but it will only be when the earth gives up its dead I hat their history will be revealed. Abxit 100 miles southeast of Albuquerque is Gran Quivera, one of these interesting relics of the past. It is in the midst of a country as barren as the desert. No streams of water flow near it, and the surface of the country shows no signs of vegetable growth whatever. The whole region is deserted, while in the midst of it stand the ruins of an ancient and large city. For centuries the forces of nature have been at work upon its crumbling walls, and the winds have brought showers of sand until the walls are covered, so that nothing can be seen but the tops of the highest walls. The streets are filled up with debris and sand until they are leveled up with the roofs of the houses. There is one building that tow - ers above the rest, and that can be seen for fifty miles in approaching the city. Its walls are four feet thick and eighty feet high. The building was 160 feet long, and from eighty to 100 feet wide, and had a basement the entire length of the structure. The first floor was evidently a counoil-chaml'er, where sat the Solons of the long ago. This floor was supported by very large timbers, that still stretch across from wall to wall, and are well preserved. The ceiling is not less than fifty feet high, and the timbers that support it still remain, with bracketsupporters extending out from the sides of the walls. These timbers are larger than any growth of timber now to be found anywhere in this region of country. The carving and moldings on these old brackets speak of the workmanship of that people, and show that they were skilled in art and in architecture. The art displayed exhibits taste, culture and the skillful use of tools, and demonstrates that they had tools of good quality, if not machinery. Not far from this wonderful site aie the ruins of an aqueduct that extends from the city to the mountain. This is built of masonry, the stone laid in cement. The w.all in many places stands firm and strong to-day, yet it must have been built many ages ago. In durability it surpasses our best masonry, and in workmanship is not inferior to much that is called the best. The people who built these walls lived here, and have departed, leaving nothing but the workmanship of their hands behind them—have left neither legend nor tradition to tell who they were. The inhabitants of the country are as ignorant of them as the traveler who, for the first time, looks upon these wonderful ruin*.

There are other ruins quite as interesting in the Canyon de Cliaco, in llio Arriba county ; but those, like those of Gran Quivera, are dusty with age, and without any legend or history to tell us who dwelt there. The next wonderful things to bo seen are the homes of the “cliff-dwellers.” These homes are doubtless built for protection from dangerous enemies. They excite great surprise from their inaccessibility. In Mancos de Chelle there is a wall 1,200 feet high, and, at a point 200 feet perpendicularly from the top, a pigeon-hole, and, at otner points about the same distance apart, other pigeonholes (large openings) on a horizontal line—four cliff-housds, one in each opening. How these people entered these houses, and how they came <ffit, is to us of this day a matter of surprise and conjecture. Some say that they used a long ladder, and, after they entered their homes, took the ladder in; but either the ladder must have been of very high and peculiar material, or the “ cliff-dwellers ” must have been giants.

It is evident from these old cities and towns that New Mexico had a population in the ages of the past far in excess of the present population. These ruins are not in localities, but all over New Mexico. In the mountains are found mining shafts, ruins of rude smelters with large piles of slag, and other indications that show they were acquainted with the precious metals, and were generally an active and industrious people. When the Spaniards first came to this country (800 years ago), that the Pueblos were older than seven generations is stated by the Spanish historians who preserved the record of their discoveries and the curious things they saw.

The Elder Booth.

The elder Booth was at times the victim of strange fancies. Once he took the fancy to be an absolute vegetarian, and while possessed of this idea be wai' traveling on a Western steamboat, and happened to be placed at table opposite a solemn Quaker, who had been attracted by the eloquent conversation of the great actor. The benevolent old Quaker, observing the lack of viands on Booth’s plate, kindly said: “Friend, shall I not help thee to the breast of this chicken?” “No, I thank you, friend,” replied the actor. “Then shall I not cut thee a slice of the ham?” “No, friend, not any.” “Then thee must take a piece of the mutton; thy plate is empty,” persisted the good old Quaker. “Friend,” said Booth, in those deep, stentorian tones whose volume and power had so often electrified crowded audiences—“friend. I never eat any flesh but human flesh, and I prefer that raw.” The old Quaker was speechless, and his seat was changed to another table at the next meal.

His Little Mistake.

Merimee, in his “Letters to Panizzi,” tells a good story of Mrs. Caroline Norton and Lord Suffolk, whom she had bantered at a charity fair to purchase some trifle at an exorbitant price. “Don’t you know,” said his Lordship, defending himself feebly, “that I am the prodigal son?” “No,” was the answer; “I thought you were the fatted calf. ” • A Chicago editor got hold of a map, and presently exclaimed; “Bytunket, the Mississippi river ruift?*by St? Louis, doesn’t it I” And then he wrote a paragraph referring to the Mississippi as a miserable brook, — Boston Globe.