Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

* AMERICAN ITEMS. *. . East. Lightning struck a load of hay about Wliioh fiver persons were at work, at Worcester, Yt. One man was killed and the others were prostrated) and the wagon was set on fire. Twenty-five firemen went into a burning carriage factory at Pittsburgh, when the side wall and floor gave way. precipitating ten them to the floor beneath. All were injured, four of them being dangerously hurt by the fall .and the flying bricks and timbers. The failure of Hilgert, a sugar dealer of Philadelphia, for $500,000, has additional interest lent it by the discovery of the fact that the bankrupt has forged acceptances on customers throughout the country to the extent of $600,000. Two Philadelphia brokers got deeply interested in matching pennies, from which they changed to nickels and then to dollars, fyhen one had lost $1,500 his opponent gave him three chances to double or quit. The result was a loss of $12,000 in three matches. Sections of the New England States, New York and Pennsylvania were visited by tertrifle thunder and rain storms. Lightning struck and demolished churches, residences and barns, and severely shocked many citizens. Tho loss from all sources is very heavy. » A conflagration broke out at Gardner, Ho., in a planing-mill, and was only stayed when property valued at $200,000 had been destroyed. About twenty acres were burned over, including all tho factories on the lower dam. Two lives are reported to have been lost. r r Severe storms, accompanied by lightning, are reported in the East. At Stamford, Ct., lightning struck in several places, and in consequence the Presbyterian Church, two residences and a hat factory were destroyed by fire. Four men were killed and three badly injured. At Scranton, Pa., the Court House struck : at Easton, Pa., two buildings were struck; at Harrisburg, Pa., two barns ; at Long Branch, N. J., a summer-house, and a policeman fatally injured by the electrio current; and in numerous other places loss of life and property is roported. The Cumberland valley in Pennsylvania and Maryland suffered greatly from a terrific storm of wind and rain. The city of Chamborsburg, Pa., was literally inundated. A fire at Gardner, Me., swept away s2ot,*ooo worth of manufacturing property. Joseph Doelger, who began to brew lager beer in New York at the outbreak of the war, died of paralysis, leaving $1,000,000 to his heirs. Ten of tho jurors in the Jennie Cramer murder trial held a reunion at tho Malley homestead in West Haven, Conn. Tho wholesale price of matches at Philadelphia lias been advanced from 25 cents « *1.50 per gross. By a premature biasi explosion on the. West Shore railroad, near Cornwall, N. Y., four men were killed and several others badly latodWwt The Mutual Union and Western Union companies, through their representatives at Dayton, O.iio, are involved iulitigation over an interesting question relative to tho obligation Of a telegraph company in tho matter of the transmission of messages filed by a rival company. The Western Union refused to receive from tho Mutual Union dispatches addressed to places not reached by the lines of the latter . company, and suits have boen brought against the Wostern Union under a State law which imposes a" fine of SIOO for every refusal of the kind. Bright’s disease swept off Rear Admiral David S. McDougall, at Sau Francisco. The wife of Bishop Talbot died in Indianapolis, at the age of 72 years. The revised return of the Indiana wheat crop show it to be the largest ever raised by any State in the Union—47,ooo,ooo bushels being the figure stated. Tlie earnings of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company for the last fiscal year amounted to $23^685,000; profits, $5,378,000. Diedricli Peters, a Chicago cigarmaksr, shot and mortally wounded Frida Kreikmoier. A bullet intended for the unfortunate girl struck and wounded her friend. Frances Mans. Peters ended the tragedy by shooting and killing himself. A fire whjch broke out at Dwight, 111., destroyed a row of business houses on West street, valued at SIB,OOO. The Wabash depot at Jacksonville, IIL, which cost $28,000, was also swept away. In a suit brought by the Denver, Utah and Pacific Company against the Longmont road it is alleged that the latter is bonded for $444,000, when its total value is not over $90,000, and that the expenses of the concern are more than S3OO per day, while its receipts are not S3O. Trains have beer, discontinued. Victor Leseurc, one of the oldest and wealthiest citizens of Danville, 111, died of what is called genuine Asiatic cholera, after an illness of three days. The Burlington road refuses to pledge itself not to lay any more track in Colorado. It is quite evident that the Burlington is pushing toward a pass which will enable it to build to the Pacific coast. Administrators of five of the victims of the Scioto disaster hare begun suit against the Wheeling and Parkersburg Transportation Company for SIO,OOO in each case. Many more suits will follow. 4. Booth. Sandy Bynum, a prominent colored Republican, was shot dead at Huntsville, Ala., by ex-United States Deputy Marshal T. G. Hewlett. The assassin is under arrest. In Lafayette county, Ark., Constable Applegate and a posse went to the house of John Cox, who, with Will Agers, was suspected of murdering a negro named John Wesley. In the house were both the men wanted and two other#. *>.Xliliy resistod, killed Applegate and two of the j-osse, and escaped. Wesley, tie murdered negro, was a large land-owner in Lafayette couuty. Chas. A. Vogeler, a prominent citizen of" Baltimore, is dead. He was known as “ the greatest advertiser in the world.” The steamer Golddust, bound up the Mississippi river from Vicksburg to St. Louis, exploded her boilers within 200 yards after leaving the wharf at Hickman, Ky., killing seventeen persons outright and wounding fortyeight, many of whom cannot survive. The boat took five immediately after the explosion and, burned to the water’s edge. A Shreveport (La.) dispatch says a west-bouud train on the East Line railroad from- Jefferson, Texas, was wrecked near Whinsboro, Texas, killing Conductor Fowler, Mail Agent Charles Harper, Express Agent Ike Boas r aud a passenger named Fetro. Several others injured. The Health Officer of Texas has advis‘<l tlie,Governor that a yeltow-fever epidemic is impending at Brownsville.

The Democratic Sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME vl.

At a local election at Frankfort, Ky., a negro named Edward McElroy fired a dou-ble-barreled shotgun into the crowd at the polls, and then shot at Sanford Egbert Pistols were then drawn by about twenty persons, and the colored man was soon dispatched. A party of young ladies from Virginia and Maryland have arrived at Mount Airy, N. C., fully equipped for a pedestrian tour of the mountains. Their trip will extend over seven hundred miles of rich scenery, aud consume two months. Mexican section hands on the Southern Pacific road attacked Chinese laborers at Yesta and drove them to El Paso, inflicting serious wounds upon some of them. By an arrangement with the widow of William Euston, the city of Charleston has come in possession of a portion of $500,000 left by him to found a refuge for aged poor people, flight acres of ground have been purchased on which to erect neat cottages. At a meeting of the Stock-dealers’ Association of Maryland, Dr. W. H. Rose, of the United States Agricultural Association, said pleuro-pneumonia was on the increase in Maryland, and great care shonld be taken to prevent its further spread. Albert Lower, a traveling salesman for a Detroit firm, was murdered by burglars at Columbus, Ky. POLITICAL POINTS. A Montgomery (Ala.) dispatch says : The election for Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Superintendent of Education, Treasurer, Auditor and members of the General Assembly was held to-day (Aug. 7). So far no disturbance is reported. The election was very quiet. Democratic success conceded. Very few Republicans were running for the Legislature. A Louisville (Ky.) telegram says: From returns received from the State election held to-day (Aug. 7), the Democrats have elected one Judge of the Court of Appeals —Gen. Joseph H. Lewis, present inoumbeut; also, three Judges of the Superior Court—Bowdon, Richards and Ried— and the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, Capt. Thomas J. Henry. Joseph E. McDonald has been elected Chairman of the Democratic State Committee of Indiana, and J. Riley was chosen Secretary. Ex-Congressman J. M. Leach, of North Carolina, publishes an open letter withdrawing from the Democratic party. Congressional conventions were held in many districts, on tho 9th inst. The Republicans of the Sixth district of Virginia nominated David I. Woodfin for Congress. Tho Democrats of the Tenth Ohio district placed Hon. Frank Hurd in tho liold. Gen. Janies 8. Robinson was re nominated in the Ninth district of Ohio by the Republicans. The Democrats of the Nineteenth Illinois district renominated Hon. II chard Townshend. The remaikable contest in the Twelfth Illinois district, in which the Democratic Convention spent two days at Mount Stirling and throe days at Beardstown, closed by llio nomination of James M. Riggs, of Scott county, a dark horse, on the 1,521-t ballot. In the E'gliteenth Oiiio distrct the Republicans nominated William McKinley,, Jr. A. M. Scales was renominated at Raleigh, N. C., by the Democrats, who will also return J. 11. Blount from the Sixth district of Georgia, and J. C. Clements from Ihe Seventh The Nebraska Democratic State Convention is set for Sent. 14, at Omaha. At a meeting of the Anti-Prohibition League of Indiana the following resolutions weropassid: Resolved, That at the election in November next we will support the Democratic party. liesolved, That we request all independent voters who caro more for the welfaro of our country than for party to stand by us in the battle for personal liberty. This action was takon after the proceedings of the Republican Stato Convention. Stewart, independent Republican candidate for Governor in Pennsylvania, has invited Gon. Beaver, the regular nomineo, and Pa’tison, the Democratic candidate, to discuss with him in public the political matters of the State. WASHINGTON NOTES. The appointment of Gen. Grant and William H. Trescott to be Commissioners to negotiate a commercial treaty with Mexico is made in accordance with an amendment to one of the Appropriation bills, which makes provision for the payment of the expenses of the commission. Secretary Lincoln says there will be no difference in the disbursements of river and harbor appropriations from the policy pursued last year. The Bureau of Statistics-has sent out a statement of the number of immigrants arrived in the United States for the fiscal year ended Juno 30, 1882, as compared with the preceding year. Tho figures are as follows : Countries 1882. 1881. Increase. England and Wales... 85,175 66,204 18,971 Ireland. 76,43! 72,342 4,090 Scotland 18,937 15,158 3,769 Austria 16,770 21,109 *4,339 Germany 249,505 210,485 39,021 Norway 29,10(1 22,705 6,395 Sweden 61,607 49,750 14,846 Dominion of Canada. 98,308 125,391 *27,083 China 39,579 11,890 27,6^9 All other countries.. .110,590 74,377 36,213 Total 789,003 669,431 119,572 •Decrease. President Arthur has been invited to visit the West this summer, and it is understood, if business will permit, he will make the trip about the beginning of September. The President and some members of the Cabinet, a Washington dispatch reports, have planned an excursion on the Tallapoosa to the navy yards along the Atlantic coast. Postmaster Genbral Howe is to spend several weeks in Wisconsin. Secretary Lincoln, on account of the death of his mother, has abandoned his trip with Gen. Sheridan through the Yellowstone, and will take a vacation at Rye Beach. Attorney General Brewster and Secre tary Frelinghuysen will rusticate at Long Branch and Capo May. The committee appointed to inquire into the decline of American shipping is as follows : Page, of California ; Candler, of Massachusetts ; Robeson, of New Jersey; Dinglev, of Maine ; McLane, of Maryland, and Cox, of New York, on the part of the House, and Miler, of New York ; Conger, of Michigan, and Vest, of Missouri, on the part of the Senate. The number of printed columns occupied in the Congressional Record by the proceedings of the House during the session is 9,223, and the Senate 6,038, The select committee of the House to examine the contracts for the application of the appropriation for work, etc., for the improvement of the Mississippi river, organized and agreed to meet in Cairo early in November and proceed with the work. The Commissioner of the General Land Office has forwarded to the Receiver and Register at Duluth, Minn., printed proclamatious, announcing an offering of lands at pnbhesale, to be made at Duluth on Dec. 4 next. TU© crop returns up to Aug. 1, just

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1882,

compiled by'the Department of Agriculture at Washington, show an improvement in cotton as compared with one month ago, and, while the plant has suffered from unfavorable conditions in many parts of the South, a large number of the returns indicate an unusually heavy yield for the country as a whole. The spriDg-wheat average is higher than for several years, and the total product of winter and spring wheat for 1882 is estimated at 503,000,000 bushels. Corn averages higher in condition than at the same time last year, but is nevertheless very low in the States of largest acreage. Oats, rye, barley, buckwheat and potatoes all average unusually high iu condition. The report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics for the year ending Jane 30 shows the total of trade between this country aud the rest of the world was $1,566,859,456. The disappointed women who failed to get appointments in the Washington departments have formed a “ woman’s labor organization,” and adopted a series of resolutions bitterly denouncing Secretaries Lincoln aud Teller.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The annual meeting of the American Photographers’ Association met at Indianapolis with 500 delegates in attendance. The United States Minister at St. Petersburg has been advised that Congress has made provision for bringing home the remains of Lieut. De Long and his companions, and Lieut. Harber hits received orders to bring the bodies on slodges to Orenburg, where metallic cases will be in waiting. Mr. Ingram, of Montreal, on the day preceding his retirement from the post of assistant manager of the Merchants’ Bank, induced the chief teller to pay him $4,700, on the false statement that the directors were about to make such an appropriation in his favor. The fact that tho recent storms in Northern Ohio swept away thirty bridges in Holmes county gives some idea of the ruin to crops. Twenty-five Apaches, recently captured by Mexican troops, were shot at Chihuahua. The present Wheat harvest in Canada is repoi tod to bo one of the best on record. J. S. Hunter, a prominent notary of Montreal, is a defaulter to the extent of SIOO,000, having embezzled the amount while managing a large estate.

FOREIGN NEWS. The united opinion of the Irish members of Parliament is said to be that the proceedings of the English Government in Egypt are most unwarranted aud brutal. Parnell says the present operations iu Alexandria are apparently the outgrowth of a long series of plans of Government agents in the East Eighty square kilometers of crops were destroyed by a conflagration in a Russian Caucasus province. • An event unknown for 200 years was the presentation at the Court of St James of Archbishop Lynch, of Toronto, as a prelate of the Roman Catholic church. The British imports for July, as compared with the same month in 1881, increased £2,500,000. Ihe comparative increase of exports is £945,000. A German organ of Bismarck asserts that England, whose traffic so preponderates on the Suez canal, cannot be expected to be satisfied with placing that great water-way under the control of a mixed commission. The Greek Government has appointed a commission to proceed to England and contract for the construction of powerful war vessels. The steamer Mosel, from Bremen for New York, with over 600 passengers and a cargo which includes French jewelry valued at 91,500 francs, struck on Lizard point in a dense fog. Nine boats were launched, and all the passengers were landed at Penzance, Wales. A great anti-Christian excitement is reported among the Mohammedans of Beyroui Syria, Decause of the death of a Moslem, as is alleged, at the hands of a Christian. Many of the Christian residents fled to the mountains for safety.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

At the annual meeting of the National Bar Association, at Saratoga, Alexander R. Lawton, of Georgia, was elected President, and the following resolutions were adopted : Resolved, That in view of the frequent occurrence of cases of irregular and fraudulent practices in the conduct of suits for divorce, involving the abnse of a process of the courts, breach of professional obligation, and connivance at actual crime, -the local councils of the association and the several State and local bar associations be respectfully requested to so far as possible expose such irregularities and frauds, and secure the punishment of all parties concerned in them. Resolved, That, in view of the growing evil of hasty and ill-considered legislation, and of defective phraseology in statute law, the association recommends the adoption by the several States of a permanent system by which the important duty of revising and maturing acts introduced into Legislatures shall be intrusted to competent officers, either by - tbe creation of special commissions or committees of revision, or by devolving the duty upon the Attorney General of the State. A caboose attached to an engine on the Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad, a short distance from Waseca, Minn., with fifty-seven laborers on board, left the track and rolled down an embankment, injuring thirty-five of the occupants, many of whom Trill die of their wounds. Fire at Spokane Falls, Washington Territory, destroyed property to the amonnt of over $400,000; partially insured. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is busily engaged in getting ready for issue the new gold certificates, and it is expected that they will be distributed the latter part of next month. The Canadian Pacific railroad is being pushed forward at the rate of three miles a day. Four men were drowned at Flesherton, Ontario, by the capsizing of a boat. The Toronto Globe publishes reports showing that recent heavy rains have reduced the grain crops in Canada from 25 to 80 per cent in the aggregate. Two thousand Indian warriors are in the Mazatlan mountains, near Urea, and are burning the crops and murdering the inhabitants. In twelve days forty-five persons have been killed within a radius of twenty-five miles of Ures. Mexican officials are among the number. Chess Thomas was hanged at Palestine, Tex., for the murder of Houston MoMeans, March 6, 1881. The official census of France, just completed, total population of 37,672.048. There were 321 families, representing

“A Firm Adherence to Correct FYincivles.”

1,619 persons, evicted in Ireland during the month of July. The number of outrages for the same period was 231. The Czar of Russia has so far recovered from his fear of the Nihilists as to venture out of his palace unattended by a guard or escort Stephen J. Meany, the Irish agitator, who had just returned from America to his native town, Ennis, was arrested there as a political offender. A Vienna journal publishes a telegram statiog Gen. Ignatieff had been arrested at Kamenetz, and haul been sent to St. Petersburg, guarded by an escort The tide of Dutch emigration has turned from the United States and is setting in for South Africa. A hue of steamers will be established between Amsterdam and the port nearest the TransvaaL Prof. Esmarch, the eminent German surgeon, has published a lecture, in which he asserts that President Garfield would be alive if he had received proper medical treatment.

FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

The Senate conferees on the Naval Appropriation bill reported au agreement on the stb inst. The report was accepted and the bill passed. The sum of $33,000 was appropriated for the mileage of Senators who attended the session convened Oct 10, 1881. The President sent in the following nominations: Joseph W. Johnston, of. Virginia, Collector of Customs, for the District of Newport News, Virginia ; Joseph B. Mitchell, Surveyor of Customs for Yorktown, in the District of Newport News. In the House tho Senate amendment to a joint resolution for the establishment of diplomatic relations with Persia was concurred in. The use of the rotunda and adjacent rooms in the Capitol was granted the Garfield Monument Committee of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland from Nov. 25 to Dec. 3. The Senate amendments to the bill relative to steam vessels were agreed to. A report from the Committee on Foreign Affairs detailed the reasons why no demand could be made on Shipherd for his papers relative to the Poruvian claims. A message was received from the President regarding alleged American citizens imprisoned in Ireland. They are three in number, and have been offered freedom on condition of leaving the country. The Secretary of the Navy was instructed to institute an inquiry relative to the loss of the Jeannette. The conference report on the Sundry Civil bill was agreed to. Bills were passed by the Senate, at its session on the-7th inst, to pension the widow of Gen. Ramsey, to repeal the export tax on tobacco, to allow employes of the Senate an extra month’s pay, to appropriate $60,000 to supply the deficiency iu fees of Distnot Attorneys, to convone a court of inquiry as to the loss of the Jeannette, to create a seleot committee upon American ship-building, and to bridg9 the Mississippi at the mouth of the Upper lowa river. Mr. Brown offered a resolution of thanks to John F. Slater, of Connecticut, for donatiug $1,000,000 to the causo of education in the South. A resolution was adopted for an investigation into labor strikes. An attempt was made to secure a sine die adjournment, but it failod. The House did nothing except to lingei out the day, in the hope that the Senate would adjourn. On Tuesday, the Bth inst., at 3 o’clock p. m., Congress finally adjourned. That day in the Senate, Mr. Wmdom submitted a report in regard to the use of* money to defeat the Bonded Spirits bill. A bill wag passed to transfer to the Garfield Memorial Hospital certain property of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home. Mr. Pendleton secured the adoption ol ’a vote of thauks to the presiding officers. Hon. David Davis, Messrs. Anthony and Bayard were appointed a committee to notify the President that the Senato was ready to adjourn. A request by Mr. Morrill that the Tax bill be passed by unanimous consent was received on the Democratic side with aeris ion, and the Senate adjourned sini dio. The House of Representatives, aftei listening to the reading of the journal, took a recess to noon, and subsequently extended il to 3 o’clock. Messrs. Hiscock, Carpenter and Atkins were appointed a committee to wait or President Arthur, who informed them that he had no farther business for Congress. Several ineffectual attempts were made to pasß Senati bills. Speaker Keifer returned thanks for gen crops treatment, and tho'members left hastilj for their trains.

Don’t.

Don’t live on the shady side of the street; flowers need sun. Don’t live in the midst ot gloomy and dark surroundings ; you cannot afford it; economize in some other way. Don’t live in a room with bare walls. Chromos, heliotypes, wood-cuts and prints are all cheap, and for frames you may make them of straws or “splits.” A cross made beautiful with twining tendrils of crimson woodbine may suggest that other cross, on which the hopes of men are placed. A picture of clasped hands and raised eyes will suggest the All-Father, who hears our supplications. Pictures of a sunset sky, a running brook and waving mead-ow-land, lead us away into the fresh, still country, even though the sound es drays and railway whistles and street- 1 car tinkling bells be in our ears. If pos- ; sible do not have a home without music; : let it soften and mellow the home-life and hold young hearts together. Don’t read books and papers which suggest thoughts you would not utter.. They stain the §oul; they burn the heart. Can you thrust'your hand into soot and bring it out white and clean ? Can you singe your clothes and not have the smell of fire on' your garments ? Beware of books which are suggestive of evil, though they be clothed in the purple and gold of fine language. Don’t watch for dishonesty and evil intention in those around. Hold every man honest until proved otherwise. Thus believing in others, you will draw out of them their best, for men, ordinarily, are their best to those who bdlieve in them. Also keep your heart young and green by faith in your fellow-man. Don’t foraake your church, even though its privileges are poor. Sermons will be helpful influences in your life. You may only carry away a single sentence of a sermon, thus ; “Make the best of yourself.” The sound, too, of music will help to drive away the evil spirit of jrour soul, and raise you into a higher atmosphere; nearer to truth and to God. Don’t live your life alone, without forming friendships and iove ; your nature needs love, you were made for it, and other natures need von. You are robbing yourself, you are robbing others, if you live like a hermit. Therefore go out' into God’s world and limy our Kfejftnt for others.— Youth'B Companion.

A Harmless Mayor.

A Londoner, who lately crossed from Canada to Ogdensburg, asked his hackdriver as to the population and form of government of Ogdensburg. On being informed that it was an incorporated city* the chief officer of which was a Mayor, he inquired: “And does the Mayor wear the insignia of office ?” “ Insignia—what’s that ?” asked the astonished liackman. “Why, a chain about his neck,” explained the cockney. “Oh, bless you, no,” responded the other; “he’s perfectly harmless, and goes about loose.” Boston Sunday Budf/ct. The census returns give 165,000,000 pounds as the amount of wool clipped from 35,000,000 shedp in the United States in the spring of 1881. Ohio and California head the list ih the amount of production

DANCING IN MEXICO.

Solemnity of Ball Boom Ceremonies— No Talking Allowed. It must be confessed, writes a correspondent of the New York Times , that a rural “dance ” in New Mexico is a most dismal affair, but that the active participants in such entertainments derive some sort of enjoyment therefrom is proved by the frequency with which bailes are arranged. There is not much preliminary formality about these rural gatherings. Whoever feels the spirit of dancing strong within him engages the services of the village musicians and sends forth word to the neighborhood at large that on a stated night there will be a baile at a given house. Everybody is free to come without further ceremony. There are no restrictions of fashion as to costume. The sheep herder in his patched overalls and cowhide moccasins will bo as welcome as the don in his best attire. Nevertheless, most of the people who attend the baile have done something for the betterment of their customary appearance. The women are dressed in tbe same style of magnificence which we have seen at the horse race, and to their white shirts the men have added paper collars aud bright-colored neckties, the knots of which persist in working around under the wearers’ ears. Mexican etiquette is not strict in demanding washed faces and hands under any circumstances, but there are at least some among the company who have gone through the motions of ablution, and whose complexions are consequently a shade lighter than usual. The ball-room is not imposing either by its size or decorations. Each townlet has some one room which, by reason of its broad floor and superior dimensions, is recognized as the regular place for social festivities. Benches and a few chairs are ranged round the sides, half a dozen candles stuck into bottles and other candelabra improvised for the occasion are fastened to the walls, and then everything is in readiness for the ball to go on. The music is that of a fiddle and an accordion, sometimes of both, when the village rejoices in the musicos. Although the Mexi an musician is self taught, he is often able to produce quite tolerable sounds from his instrument, some allowance being made for the cheap quality of the latter. At all events he plays well enough to content his audience. Except when actually dancing the men and women do not mingle. The women seat themselves at one end of the room, and the men cluster at the other end. Nor is conversation beiween partners in a dance permissible. A Mexican who should see his wife or daughter talking with her partner while dancing would at once suspect that some intrigue was hatching between the pair under cover of the noise of the music and dancers’ feet. Americans who are npt familiar with ways of Mexicans, and those who are aware of the interdiction against conversation but who choose to trespass against the rules are likely to meet with a blunt admonition to the effect that dancing and not talking should be the present business in hand. And the Mexicans themselves dance as if in fact they were engaged in some very grave and rather doleful ceremony. At a note given as a signal by the musician, such men as propose engaging in the quadrille, or whatever may be the dance announced, walk solemnly across the room and hold out each a hand to his chosen partner. Then, in all silence, they take their places on the floor, and the music begins. There is no “calling off” of figures as is the custom among rustic Americans. All the dancers know what to do, and they do it with serious deliberation. Neither dawdling indifference nor frolicsome capering is a habit of Mexican dancing. Sober ponderosity, reminding one of the terpsichorean performances of the trained elephant in a circus, is the prevailing characteristic of the movements of the women as well as the men. The dancers are oppressively observant of time and the proper step, and all move together with the precision of machinery. When the music ceases the lads hand the lasses to their seats with an air as if they were confiding dear friends to the grave, and then return to the men’s part of the room.

A Great Constitutional Conflict.

The extraordinary constitutional conflict which is taking place in Norway, between King Oscar on the one side and the largest proportion of the Norwegians on the other side, appears to be approaching a serious crisis, and deserves attention. A constituticnal struggle has for several years gone on also in Denmark; but King Christian lias, in a most prudent and constitutional manner, kept “ the King ” in tho background, leaving the Ministers to carry on the fight with the constitutional means in their power; and even the Radical leaders were honest enough a short time ago to acknowledge that the Cabinet had remained strictly on legal ground. The consequence is that King Christian is trusted by the nation, and that his popularity daily increases, notwithstanding the Parliamentary troubles. In Norway, on the contrary, King Oscar speaks personally as “the King.” It is “ the royal!” which a few days ago delivered a speech from the throne to tho members of the Norwegian Storthing, of which a garble ! extract appears to have been telegraphed abroad, but which in its entirety certainly is unique among speeches from the throne in a constitutional country, re sembling in reality more the “hoc volo, sic jubeo ” of a Roman imperator than a speech from a constitutional King. The c .nscquencc of this outburst of the royal wrath lias made a dosp impression in Norway ; all the more as the Norwegian character is naturally proud and selfconscious, and a republican rising eii masse against the union with Sweden under King Oscar, preceded or followed by a declaration of a Norwegian republic, is openly discussed. The popularity of tho King and the dynasty naturally suffers. Already the Storthing lias a second time refused to vote the increase to the appanage of the Crown Prince consequent on his mar,riage, and nobody would be surprised to see the Storthing take the most extreme measures in ; the fight for what rightly or wrongly is considered tlie liberty of the nation against tbe dictation of the King. —St James Gazette.

Lincoln's Home Life.

When children came to Abraham and \fary Lincoln, the* husband and wif dopttd the old-fashioned custom <1 ■ailing each other “father” an 1 ‘mother.” And up to the fatal hour of Lincoln’s death they never used any »ther form of address in the family, -in m atmosphere like that which then en veloped the White House nothing bu t the stiougest conjugal affection could lave maintained even- a shadow of d<* mestie. happiness. But it is a matter of record t' at Lincoln; in M:is own hqfnelr phrase, constantly referred to his home

and family, to his wife and boys and to his daily domestic concerns with real enjoyment and with the unaffected simplicity of a villager who had never dreamed of political power and greatness. —New York Times.

Trainable Animals.

First, only the most highly organized animals are amenable to exercise, or, what means the same thing, trainable. After the generally-distributed oompan ions of men, the horse and the dog, the most teachable animal is the elephant. Charaisso found intercourse with the apes on board the Rarik uncommonly instructive, “for,” as Calderon says of the ass, “they are almost men,” and he made the profound remark that they might be able to bring themselves up to the mark if thev did not lack the property which Newton held to be one with genius, steadfastness. Carnivore*, with the exception of the cheetah (Felis jubata), ruminants and rodents exhibit only moderate teachability; yet Herr Fritech considered the draught-oxen at the Cape of Good Hope wiser than the horse, and in Brazil and Thibet sheep are trained to carry loads. Among the birds, the higher ones are the parrots, starlings, bullfinches and canary birds; the falcon ranks with the cheetah in teachableness. Chameleons, snakes and carp are only moderately teachable. The training of bees is only apparent; they always perform their trick under a kind of compulsion. The immense host of other creatures all around us show no more aptitude for trainiug than they do, for the reason that every animal within its own circle has no need of instruction; what we call instinot affords to animals, without efforts of the individual, more than any exercise can. What practice could teach birds to build warmer nests, to find the way south more certainly, oi bees to solve their geometrical, spiders their mechanical problems? Instinct and perfectibility complement eaoh other, as it were, in the ascending series of animals to a growing sum, so that, the more instinct retreats before perfectibility, by so much does the living being stand at a higher stage. Secondly, although the animals we have named, and many others beside, are susceptible to exercise aud trainable, animals still do not of themselves exercise and perfect themselves, but do so only when man takes them to school. Therefore, the animals around him appear less susceptible to training, the lower the stage at which he himself remains. Higher races of men would certainly have tamed the beautiful zebra and quagga ; the elephant, brought with Hannibal over the Alps, fell back with Northern Africa into wildness. Only nutritive and formative augmentation of advantages which an animal may have acquired in the wild state could come into consideration here, and these would have to be hereditary to lead to perfection in a course of generations. —Popular Science Monthly.

Tipping His Wife Out.

The women of the lower and middle classes of Wales are noted for their independence and the tenacity with which they hold to their own ways. Mr. Wirt Sykes, in his book on “Old South Wales,” gives an illustration of the pertinacity with which a married woman strove to retain her reputation of being “the better man of the house.” A middle-aged and thrifty couple were of one mind as to their frugality and industry, but constantly at loggerheads as to who should be master. One evening, when the domestic storm had become too severe for the husband to endure, lie shut himself ud in the stable in order to escape his wife’s tongue. His intention was to remain there alone until two o’clock in the morning, when it would be time for him to start with his horse and cart for the market town. His wife, auticipating his purpose, hid herself under the straw in the cart. When the man was well out on the road his wife popped up from the straw and began her “ Caudle lecture ” at the exact point where it had been broken off by his retreat to the stable. For a moment he was dazed by the unwelcome apparition. But recovering himself he executed a flank movement which emancipated him from her strategy. Pulling out the pin, he tipped the cart, and the voluble woman was shot out into the road with her unfinished lecture. Whipping up his horse, the triumphant but ungallant husband went rattling down the road, leaving his persistent wife to get home as best she could.

Fascinated by a Snake.

A veritable instance of the peculiar fascination which the snake exerts was witnessed within a short distance of our city. The •gentlemen who saw this says he was walking leisurely along the road when his attention was directed to the movements of a brown thrash which was fluttering about near a small plum bush, and, at intervals, giving a cry as of distress. He walked up to the bush supposing he would find a brood of young birds. He looked carefully, but saw nothing, and was walking off, when he noticed that the thrush had returned to the bush from which he had frightened it. He waited a moment to watch its movements, when he saw it fly down on the ground beneath the plnm. There it stood still a short while, then began to circle around the trash, still crying in its peculiar tones. This circling was kept up for a while, and then the thrush seemed gradually to weaken, and at length stood perfectly still—immovable, with its wings partly open, and with its head bent forward. He drew nearer to the bush, when he heard an ominous hiss, and, looking down under the plum, saw a huge black suake coiled up and about to spring upon the bird. He frightened the snake away and picked up the bird, which made no effort to escape, and seemed powerless. In a few minutes, however, the bird revived, and shortly afterward flew off,— Petersburg Index.

Anxious to Help.

Senator Vance, of North Carolina, frequently illustrates his speeches with anecdotes, 01 rather parables, which he relates in a manner that seldom fails to bring down the house, no matter how much the majority may disagree with him politically. Speaking one day against a bill which he considered "penny wise but pound foolish,” he said it reminded him of a kind old man who lives at the top of a hill in North Carolina. One day a wagoner came by and unfortunately got his team "stalled” at the foot of the hill. To the old man’s house he went, asking the loan of a pair of mules and a "fifth chain” to help him up the hill. Said the kind old man : “My friend, I have not got a pair of mules or a filth chain to save your life. But I am always anxious to help a m m in distress; I can lend you the best fiddle you ever drew ft bow across,”

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NUMBER 29.

SECOR ROBESON.

The Unenviable Position of «1»® Republican l eader in Congress. TFrorn the New York Bun.] Secor Robeson has recently passed through such an experience as is without a parallel since the foundation of the Government, and to which the poorest wretch, with a remaining spark of manhood in his nature, would not have tamely submitted. He has been twice branded by Mr. Whitthorne and by Mr. Hewitt, in the House of Representatives, as “a thief, a liar and a perjurer,” and without challenge. As an individual in this matter, Robeson personally is of no more account than any other successful thief, though de titute of many of the qualities by which Tweed held his friends to the last hour of his disgraceful career. There is not a particle of generosity or of common liberality in the corrupt jobber who converted the Navy Department into a broker’s shop for contracts, for promotions, and for all official favors upon which blackmail might be levied. Avaricious, meanly selfish, gluttonous, and pretentious on stolen money he has grabbed all he could lay his hands on, and invested the stealings to serve the base passions which he has pampered at the public expense. His wealth and his pomp have been used to gain recognition among the weak, the silly and the credulous, when they are m fact the witnesses of an infamy which should have shut him out from decent society. This foul character is tolerated because he is the accepted leader of the Republican party in the House, bolding some of its foremost trusts, and en joyiug some of its best distinctions, in spite of the fact that the respeotable press of that side, for their own relief, denounce Robeson, and deolare he must be cast off. And it is well known that the most reputable Republicans in Congress are weary of this unsavory burden' and, regard'Robeson’s connection as a politioak* calamity. But these protestations have no real value. They are worthless in presence of the astounding fact that, dishonored, shunned and despised, as Rob 'son is, he still is allowed to command the Republican column, and the. party follows his lead. He brought in the Navy bill, after retaining it for five months beyond the usual time, and in this bill he affirmed as proper and necessary to be executed to the last letter the venal contracts for the monitors, which his successor had officially pronounced illegal and disgraceful. He would not allow the work to be done at the navy yards. Ho would not permit opqn and fair competition. No, the jobs must be completed by the Roach-Robeson ring on the basis of addition. division and silence. These monitors, pronounced to be worthless by the highost professional authority, even with all the improvements that may be put upon them, have already cost more than $18,250,000. It is estimated that at least $6,750,000 wtll be needed to complete them, and in the hands of the ring, with William E. Chandler in the seat of power, $8,000,000 will hardly foot the bills. These condemned ships will average five millions each, if finished on' the present estimates, or more than twice the cost of England’s latest and best ironclads. What did the strait-laced Republicans do after Mr. Whitthorne and Mr. Hewitt and Mr. Atkins and others had exposed the jobs which even the falsified reports of the Navy Department could not conceal ? Did they condemn or even rebuke Secor Robeson for his bill, with the most barefaced jobbery written all over it ? No! They fell into line, with Mr. Harries of Massachusetts acting as whip for the occasion and Mr. Hiscock making the rally, and voted solid for the infamous bill. This is the record. It cannot be erased. The stream does not rise higher than its source. Secor Robeson is the chosen leader of the Republican party. He w«b made so with a lull knowledge of his career in the navy and with the results of two investigations spread over recent history. He is a tit representative of that party which has shouldered him, and which must take the responsibility pf the load. THRICE BRANDED. During a discussion in the House of Representatives, Secor Robeson referred with a sneer to the deafness of W. E. Robinson, Representative of the Second district of New York. Mr. Robinson was absent from the House at the time. The next morning Mr. Robinson rose to a personal explanation, and said: “I acknowledge, Mr. Speaker, that Providonce has seen fit to afflict me, not exactly with deafness, but with hardness of hearing. I know of only one gentlemen more to be pitied than I, and that is a certain gentleman who has had fastened on his head the charges of liar, thief and perjurer, and waa the only member who did not bear them.” This terrible- retort, which stamped infamy on the forehead of the man against whom it was directed, and which was repeated for the ’.third time within a few weeks, produced no visible effect on Secor Robeson. •. „ What must be the moral and the political condition of a party tliat.accepts and honors aa a leader a man who before the civilized world and ,in presence of his associates has been publicly denounced three times as a common, felon by respectable and Responsible members of the House ? There was a time in J;he life of the Republican party wlfen great "’and humane principles inspired its action. If a foul reproach like this had been fastened on a Republican "he would have been tried by drumhead courtmartial without delay and whipped out of camp at the tail of a cart. Not so now. This man, publicly denounced a “thief, liar and perjurei,” is tolerated by the party because it is known that he owns the Speaker, and treats him as a personal chattel ; because he is part of the machine ; because he disposes of patronage; because he boasts of being a loyal and radical Republican ; and because he is rich with ill-gotten gains.

Caught with Both Hands in the Treasury.

The Bepublican party as seen in Congress, both branches of which it controls. is not a party of reaction. Unlike the democratic party, it does not go back to the days of Thomas Jefferson, or point with pride to various venerated leaders now defunct. Neither is it a ( party of progression. It;is a party of the present, and it attends to business < the way a pioneer at Chicago kept hotel —" like hell. ” . As an organization it is after the almighty dollars of your Uncle Samuel, and it tc&w care that upu© of

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them escape. It finds a surplus revenue of $150,000,000 and declines to reduoo it in such manner that the payers of this enormous surplus shall have the slightest relief. Its proposition was to take the tax off patent medicines, bank checks, playing cards, perfumery and the like, a proposition so ludicrously absurd that after a little ventilation of its grotesquery by the opposition the bill fails, and the Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means is glad to run to Colorado in order that he may avoid any further consideration of the subjeot. The surplus is retained, whioh’ was probably the original purpose, since the proposed reduotion was obviously a sham, and to dispose of that surplus to the best advantage of the jobbers Keifer was made Speaker. The increase of the appropriation bills thus far is $80,000,000, and the mammoth River and Harbor bill is quickly passed over the veto of the President To bring abqut this result, Democratic aid was asked and given ; but the public has been educated into the belief that the Democratic party was nothing but an organized appetite, and that all the morality, the eoonomy, A he patriotism, the deoenoy of the republic was found in the party of Robeson, Keifer, Page, Butterworth, Hubbell and Horr. • The Republican party is a party of the present, whioh couldn’t possibly engage in anything less harmful than looking back with assumed fondness upon the record of the fathers of the republio. It is a party whom the President has caught with both liands in the public treasury, and one whioh has impudently borne off tlie plunder, notwithstanding his cry of “ Stop thief Chicago Times, «...

The Sooner the Better.

Our Republican authorities at Washington have been considering the propriety of abandoning the suit set on foot against Mr. Tilden to compel him to pay over an income tax whioh he paid and got a receipt for years ago, as it was assessed against him by the lawful officers of the Government,, he being at the time unable to determine what his income actually was, or whether he had any income at all. It appears that the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue have been pondering upon the subjeot and think best to get rid of it, provided the counsel of the Government and the court here do not see some very strong reason to the contrary. We opine that publio sentiment will heartily concur in this determination. This suit is one that ought never to have been brought. The ouly reason for beginning it was to persecute the man whom the Republicans had defrauded of the Presidency. Thousands of wealthy citizens had failed to make a return of their incomes for reasons not half so conclusive as Mr. Tilden’s, and nQthing was done about it afterward ; and there would never have been any thought of a suit in liis case but for Mr. Tildeu’s political eminence, and for the desire of those who had wronged him to do something to humiliate him. The prosecution of Mr. Tilden has damaged no one but those who brought it; and the sooner it is abandoned tho better it will be for all parties concerned, exoept Mr. Tilden himself.— New York Sun.

The Spoils System.

The angry insolence of the spoils system that we behold, like the fierce roar of a monster driven to his den, shows its consciousness that the battle lias begun in earnest,. It has begun—the battle between the most dangerous abuses of administration pud the patriotic good sense'of the country. Gentlemen, there is no m6re doubt of tho issue than there is of the justice of our - cause. If any man is dismayed by the uproar let him recall the story of tho war. In ilia midst of a battle a sudden sharp shout rang out fiomtlie o e ny’s line, and a young Union soldier, who was in his first fight, turned to his comrade and asked what it was, “ That,” cried liis comrade, “ that’s the rebel yell. Docs it frighten you ?” “Frighten me ?” said the young soldier, as ho pressed more eagerly forward, “ frighten me ? It is the music to whi ih I march.” Gentlemen. when the enemy’s yell is tho musio to which the soldier marches, he marches to victory. —George W. Curtis' Speech .

Bombardments.

The history of bombarding towns affords an instance of something like actual deterioration in the usages of modern warfare. f Regular or simple bombardment, that is, of a town indiscriminately, and not merely of ife fortresses, has now become th» established practice. Yet what did Vattcl say in the middle of the Inst century? "At•present we generally content ourselves with battering the rampaffcs and defenses of a place. To destroy a town with bombs and red hot bollg ir an to which we do not proceed without cogent reasons. ” What said Vanban Still earlier? "The fire muat be directed simply at the defenses and batteipieq of a place, * m * .* * and not against the bouses.” Then let us remember the English bombardment of Copenhagen in 5 1807, when the cathedral and •qhio«3Uo houses were destroyed : the German bombardment at Strasoburd in 1870, where rilled mortar ♦ werd*hsed f<#' tbe first time, and the 'famous, libratry and picture gallery destroyed ;, and the German bombardment of about which, strangely enough, evefti the finlifarf Conscience of the Germans *was struck, so that in the highest doubts about the propriety of .such a proceeding at oue time prevailed from a nfifr&l nd less than from a military potHtof view. With respect again to sacked or>publio buildings warfare becomes increasingly destructive.* It was the rule in Greek warfare to spare aocre l buildings; and the Romans frequently spared sacred ar.d ether buildings, as Marcel lus, for instance, at Syracuse. Yet when the French ravaged the Palatinate in 1089 they not only set tiro t.» the cathedrals, but sacked the tombs < f the auciotjt Empeois at Spiers. Fret - Crick IK destroyed the tiutst building t at Dresden and Prague, in 1811 tn > English forces destroyed the Capitol at Washington, tho President's house an 1 other public buildings ; and in 1815 the Prussian General, Blucln r, Was wit i difficulty restrained from blowing up the Bridge of Jena at Paris and tint P.llac pf Austerjitz. Thpre is always the excuse of reprisals or accident. Yet Vat,tel had sftid (> i language which but repeated the language of „ Polybius ivqd Cicero): "W » ought to spare those edifices which do honor to human society, and no n<<t cont* ,i ’“ute to 1 the enemy’s strengti , such as tenj.ples, tombs, .public buddings and all works of remarkably ty. "—@mtleman’9 Afagatine.