Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1884 — Page 3

THE BAD BOY.

“Wish you a happy New Year, and I ■will take it in oranges,” said the bad hoy as he smiled on the groceryman, and began filling his pockets with the luscious tropical fruit. “Just you hold on,” said the grocervman, as he stopped the boy from taking any more. “Here’s a herring. When anybody wishes another a happy New Year he should allow the victim the privilege es selecting the weapons, as they do in a duel. Now, oranges are liable to give you the winter cholera, -and if they did, I would be liable for damages; but you take this smoked herring and eat it, and 1 will take the -chances,” and the groceryman unloaded the boy’s pockets and handed him the herring. “Dear me, what a free-hearted old lellow you are,” said the boy, as he took oft his mitten and began peeling the herring. “Here, you’d better take back the head and skin of this herring and give me a cracker, and then I will tell you what a brave man pa is.” “Tell me - about your pa. I haven’t heard anything from him for a long time,” said the groceryman as he handed the boy the cracker, and -at down on a half-bushel measure by the stove. “Well, you see, last night we got to talking about haunted houses, and pa said there was no such- thing as a haunted house. He said whenever any unusual noise was heard in a house, instead of investigating it, people got scared and went around talking about the house being haunted, and before long everybody believed it, the reputation of the house was ruined, and everybody was nervous. Pa said that haunted houses was on a par with spiritualism, find people of sense never took any stock in either. He said if I ever heard of a haunted house, to let him know and he would go through it and investigate it in the dark. 1 thought to myself, ‘boss, you can’t fool Hennery!’ and 1 laid for pa. That evening my chum’s •cat came over to visit our cat, and when it was time to *go to bed the two cats were sleeping by the stove, and pa told me I better put the cats outdoors and go to bed. So I took the cats up carefully and raised up the cover to the piano, and laid the cats down in the back side of the instrument, among the strings, and petted them, and' they went to sleep 1 and I shut down the cover, and we all went to bed. Pa and ma sleep right over the parlor, and I sleep at the back of the house. Along about 2 o’clock in the morning, about the time cats usually get woke up and begin to prawl around, there was a faint scratching of toe-nails on the strings,and a yowl that sounded as though it came from the sewer. It was evidently music, such as you get at boarding-houses where a boarder practices on the piano for her board. I listened, and pretty soon there was two ‘rneous’ and a ‘spit,’ and the strings acted as though they were being walked on the way a cat does when she puts her paws up in your, lap and lets her toe-nails go through y6ur pants; I got il£ and went to pa’s room, and ma was setting up in bed with her nightcap oft’, her hair standing right up straight, and she was trying to get pa to raise up and listen, but it wasn’t pa’s night to listen, and he put his head under the bedclothes and tried to snore, bat I knew pa was scared. I told pa that I wasn’t afraid, but I wished he would let me sleep on the lounge in his room, and pa raised up and wanted to know what the row was, and just then the cats in the piano seemed to have come together for their regular evening fight, and of all the music you ever heard, that beat everything. Pa listened and said it was somebody next door trying to play opera, but ma said something was in the house, and told pa the house was haunted, and for him to get up and investigate. Pa was kind of ’shamed to be afraid, so he got up, and all was still, and he got his pants on and went out in the hall, and just then the cats got to fighting another round, and pa rushed into the bath-room and closed the door, and yelled for me to open the window and holler for the police. I got up and asked pa, through the door, if he was afraid, and he said no, he wasn’t afraid, but he thought, seeing he was in the bathroom, he would take a bath, and I told him if he was afraid I would go down and investigate, because there was no haunted house that had any terror for Hennery, and I went down and let the cats out, and they got on the back fence, and had a real sociable time, and after it was all still, pa came out with a towel in his hand and tried to make us believe be had taken a bath at 2 o’clock in the morning with cold water. I don’t think it is right for a father to try to deceive his little boy in that way. Pa must have washed himself real hard, for he was pale as a ghost when he came out of the bathroom, but he was paler still in the morning, when he found the piano full of cat hair. He thinks the air from the register blew into the piano. But lam sorry for pa, as he has had trouble enough trying to keep from failing, but he had to go to the wall.” “What! You don’t tell me your father has failed?” said the groceryn>an, as he took down the ledger. “Great heavens! he owes me seven dollars,” and the man groaned. “Yes, pa says that is the only way he can make a dollar. I don’t know anything about the business of failing, but as near as I can get at it, by hearing pa and his attorney talk about it, there is money in it if it is worked right, and if I was in your place I would work an annual failure department into my business. The way to fail is to get credit for all yon can, and sell for cash, and when you sell the best tilings, have somebody that you owe, a relative, or a fellow that you got confidence in, get on his ear and get out an attachment and close you up, or else make an assignment to qfcfellow that stands in with you, and let him offer the creditors 10 cents on a dollar in notes, payable in six, twelve, and eighteen months. By the time six months are up, you can buy the first note for 50 cents on a dollar, and you can fail again before the other note comes due. Pa says there is more money in it than in running a bank, and he is awful anxious to have the thing fixed up in time for him and ma to go to Florida fcr the winter, so they can get back in time to go

to Saratoga next summer. I asked pa if it was honest to iail, when ma had property enough in her name to pay all debts and have plenty left, and pa said he and ma was two different persons. Gosh, I . thought a man and his wife were one. Weil, a fellow learns something every day, don’t he? Say, yon would be a total failure on general principles, and if I was in your place I would have some style about me and bust. You can never amount to anything going along the way you do, and never getting ahead any. Let me tell pa’s lawyer that I can get him a job putting you through bankruptcy, on shares. ” “No, sir, never,” said the groceryman. “I have always paid a hundred cents on the dollar, and I always will. It is true I cannot put on much style,, not as much as some I know who have failed, but I can look everybody in the face and—but, say, Hennery, you might tell your pa’s lawyer to come in here this afternoon, and I will have a talk with him. If failing is going to be the style, and a man isn’t going to amount to anything unless he has failed, and there is money in it, and your pay says it is honest and all right, I might conclude to fail once for luck, but keep it dark, ” and the groceryman began to look about the store at the old back number washboards, and wormy dried peaches, and things that were not salable, and wondered if it wouldn’t be a good idea to fail and get rid of the old stock and buy a new one on trust, while Hennery went out to break the news jto his pa’s lawyer that he had got another job for him. — Peek’s Sun.

Circus-Riders.

A little boy known as Leo Carlo was brought into court in Philadelphia, to testify to his brutal ill-treatment by the manager of a circus. The child—whose real name and parentage had been forgotten long ago—had been in the circus since his infancy, and was now in training for a bare-back rider. He charged that his master, as he called the manager, compelled him to ride an unbroken horse, that frequently threw him. Whenever this happened he was beaten, kicked, and at last the sharp spike with which elephants are pricked was plunged into his body. During the course of the trial, many noteworthy items with regard to circuses were brought to light. It was stated that to become an acrobat a child must be put in training as ea?ly as its third year. The master stands over the child with a whip during each lesson. A few years ago a similar case gave the public a glimpse behind the curtain of the circus tent. The “w oman with the iron jaw’” who was noted for her enormous strength, had a child that she called her son, but had bought when he was a baby, and whom it was proy.ed she systematically starved and drugged with gin to keep him below a certain weight. * ‘ There are many of our boy-readers in country places who have been dazzled by the glories of the traveling circus. The ring, glittering with lights, is fairy-land, and the liying creatures in velvet and spangles, the happy creatures who dwell therein. These the boys envy with a fierce contempt of their own homes and work. They forget that the fun, in all shows, belongs to the audience, the work to the performers. There is, perhaps, no trade which re? quires harder or more constant manual labor than that of the circus-rider. His days are taken up with rehearsals, he travels all night, and lodges in the lowest inns. Tne mistake of the fall at which he laughs and the clown jokes, ufill be punished behind the curtain with a whipping, if the rider is a boy, or, if he is a man, by the profane curses of his employer, or by the lessening of his miserable wages. The white lead used in painting the face and head, in the case of two of the most celebrated of American clowns, brought on a softening of the brain and death, and almost inevitably produces some kind of cerebral disease. Stick to your farm, boys, or your schools! There is no tempting Dead sea fruit so full of bitter ashes as the lives of these gaudy creatures whom you so much envy. — Youth’s Com panion.

India Rubber Trees.

The belt of land around the globe 500 miles south of the equator abounds in trees producing the gum of India rubber. They can be tapped for twenty successive seasons without injury; and the trees stand so close that one man can gather the sap of eight in a day, each tree yielding on an average three daily. Forty-three thousand of these trees have been counted in a tract of country thirty miles long and eight miles wide. There are in America and Europe more than 150 manufactories of India rubber articles, employing some 500 operatives each, and consuming more than 10,000,000 pounds of gum per year, and the business is considered to be in its' infancy. But to whatever extent it may increase, there will still be plenty of material to supply the demand.— Floral World.

Adulterants.

Glucose 'or corn-syrup lias proved itself a great find for adulterators of foods, etc. It lias found its way into beer, serves as a substitute for bottled honev and maple svrup, and is largely used as an adulterant in sugars and syrups. Tim Boston Popular Science News says a hew field for its use has been found by the adulterators of milk, who are evidently delighted to find that glucose enables them to add water to milk without decreasing its specific gravity—thus escaping detection by the lactometer test, which is the usual and most ready test employed by inspectors —Dr. Foote’s Health Monthly. Of the 162 members of the Illinois Constitutional convention of 1847, or, in other words, of the convention which framed the constitution of 1848, there are only thirty-six still living, not counting the three members of whom no traces can be found. The association of survivors, formed the other day, ■will soon be without a survivor.

Reducing Taxes.

The ordinary expenditures of the Federal Government for ten years, including the current fiscal year, exclusive of the interest on the public debt, exhibit a striking increase, as the following table*will show: 1870. Ord nary expenditures 1104,421,507 1871. Ordinary expenditures 105,863,911 1872. Ordinal y expenditures 153,201,85!! 1873. Ordinary expeudirnr. s 180,488,637 1874. Ordinary expenditures 178,618,965 1871).'Ordinary exp. (Dem. Honse).... 169,000,029 !87G. Ordinal y exp. (Dem. House).... 158,216,526 1877. Ordinary exp. (Dom. House).... 142,535,497 1878. Ordinary exp. (Dem. House).... 184,463,452 1879. Ordinary exp. (Dem. House).... 161,619,934 1880. Ordinary exp. (Dem. House).... 169,090,062 1881. Ordin ry exp. iDem. House).... 177,142,879 1882. Ordinary exp. (Rep. House) 186,904,232 1883. Ordinary exp. (Rep. Home) 206,218,006 1884. Ordinary exp. (Rep. House) .... 218,297,298 The expenditures for the current year are thus $41,154,419 more than in 1881, and $31,393,066 more than in 1882. The total appropriations, including the interest on the debt and all extraordinary expenditures, from the year ending June 30, 1872, up to and including 1883, exhibit a like increase. 1872. By Republican Congress ..$176,119,183 1873. By Republican Congress 173,495,015 1874. By Republican Congress 197,920,292 1875. By Republican Congress 182,804,929 1876. Dem. House of Representatives. 179,166,209 1877. Dem. Honse of Representatives. 164,653,639 1878. Dem. House of Representatives. 144,492,149 1879. Dem. House of Representatives. 174,743,606 1860. Dem. House of Representatives. 192,188,000 1881. Dem. Honse of Representatives. 189,356,251 1882. By Republican Congress 216,465,197 1883. By Republican Congress 295,729,015 Yet the Republicans with very rare exceptions unite in the shout, “Don’t reduce appropriations!" There is an unemployed surplus of more than $100,009,000 now in the treasury. The Secretary of the Treasury estimates that the surplus revenue for the fiscal year ending next June will be $85,000,000. From the decrease of. the interest on the debt and the natural increase of business, this surplus is likely to be larger than smaller in succeeding years unless taxation is reduced. In seven years this annual surplus, even if not increased, will reach $595,000,000, or over $100,000,000 more than enough to rsgleem all the bonds then possibly redeemable without paying high premiums. The Secretary says the same annual surplus until July 1, 1907, with the $100,000,000 left after paying the 4| percents., would amount to about $1,460,000,000, while the whole amount of debt then redeemable is less than $749,000,000. Yet the cry is raised by the President and re-echoed generally by the Republican party, “Don’treduce the surplus!” Prodigal expenditures, profligate appropriations and a surplus beyond all our indebtedness necessitate unnatural and taxation. The people complain. Business is depressed. The cost of living is increased. Directly and indirectly money is squeezed out of the pockets of the people unnecessarily. Yet everywhere is heard the Republican watchword, “Don’t reduce taxation !” The Government is to be run on the high-pressure principle. The debt is to be paid on the high-pressure principle. The peopleware to be squeezed on the high-pressure principle. To what special interests which have paid the Republican party for special protection may continue to enjoy it. In order that labor, which suffers from the increased cost of living, jnay continue to suffer, and that monopolies and corporations which have amassed immense fortunes through the pampering aid of Republicanism may continue to add to their wealth. In order that the party in power may have control of an enormous corruption fund as a means of bidding for the support of the greedy and unscrupulous. Of course some use must be suggested for the surplus revenue. Establish government free schools, say some, and thus add to the Postoffice, Treasury and Judicial patronage, stretching into every township in the Union the patronage of school teachers and other school officers, reaching to every school district. Give the surplus away to the States, say others. Let the Federal Government act as Tax-Collector for the States is Mr. Blaine’s proposition. Cut ditches all over the land and improve coast defenses, is Secretary Chandler’s plan. But with a few honorable exceptions no Republican voice is heard saying, reform taxation; reduce extravagant ex- ■ penditures, discontinue corrupt subsidies and appropriations; do not be in undue haste to pay the debt; relieve the people and the business of the country by moderating taxation; give fair protection to American . manufacturers; make the cost of living less than it is, and do not heap unnecessary burdens on the masses for the sole benefit of the favored few! The Republican cry is of a different character. There are factions in the party—jealous, embittered, revengeful. But they are all ready to unite in the watchword, “Don’t reduce taxation or appropriations. ” —New York World.

Political Notes.

The result of the Republican primaries in Philadelphia last week shows that the old Cameronian rings are still alive. They carried everything. Brewster, Arthtrf’s senile dude, wants to quit the Cabinet; but Arthur, .t is said, will not let him go, but tells dm he must remain at his post and lance to the investigation music when the bands begin to play. Mr. Blaine is to be interviewed in regard to his views of the loyalty of Grant. In 1880 Blaine charged that Grant wanted to overthrow the Constitution and liberties of the people and leclare himself dictator. There were ‘■>o6” who stood by Grant. How do they stand now? Will Blaine please ■ome to the front and explain^ The New York Evening Post, speakng of Henry B. Payne, says: “He is a man of high personal character and inblemished reputation in private life, lis brief experience in public life has hown him to possess abilities whicl wlapt him for valuable public servic nd there is reason for believing thai icwill make a most creditable Senator." Jo paper in the country could say that of J ohn Sherman, the Republican Sen itor of Ohio.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Anderson expended $200,000 in construoUoq of new buildings in 1883. The Bauer libel suit against the Terre Haute Express. damages being laid at $25,000, resulted in a verdict for plaintiff for SIOO. Mrs. Epps, of Huntington, convicted of the murder of her husband, has been refused a new trial and sentenced to imprisonment for life. The editor of the Greenfield Jeffersonian thus acknowledges a courtesy extended: “Our thanks are due Mrs. S. W. Wray, of West Main street, for a liberal slice of a mammoth pumpkin.” Representative Stockslager expects an early consideration of bis bill now before the House Military committee, removing the sharge of desertion from the army by Alexander Nugent, of Seymour. The Hon. Pliny Hoagland, one of Fort Wayne’s oldest and wealthiest citizens, died after a short illness of disease of the heart. Mr. Hoagland had for years been olosely identified as a Director with the interests of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chioago and the Grand Rapids railways, and Vice President of the Fort Wayne National hank. He had served in the State Senate. Ben Battles, a noted Pike county desperado, was captured in Ulinols by ex-Sherlff Hargreave and George W. Gulllck, two detectives, in some obscure place in Illinois, and lodged in the Pike county jail. It is rumored that Battles was connected in the recent murder of Henry Custin, at Petersburg, for whioh outrage Charles Harvey was lynched. The Board of County Comlssioners have taken a very proper step In the matter of building a work house, and have advertised for ground, not less than fifteen nor more than twenty acres, upon which to looate the proposed structure. The county is annually paying out large sums of money to support able-bodie*d men and women in idleness. The measure should be pushed to as rapid completion as possible. This would do away with the necessity for a new jail, and in this way, too, thore would be a great saving to the people.—lndianapolis Sentinel. The will of the late William J. Wise, the bachelor millionaire of Vincennes, creates consternation among tho disinherited nephews and nieces. .Of the thirty nephews and nieces three got the bulk of tho property. They are Mrs. William R. Miles, Mrs. Edward L. Ryder and Frank M. Fay. The property consists of Jx60,000 in Government bonds, real estate In. Vincennes, and farms all over the adjoining territory, valued at $500,000. An effort will be made to break the will. The relatives are scattered over Indiana Ohio and adjacent States. Philip Dahlkn has been arrested at Terre Haute charged with blackmail. Some days previous to the arrest, J. L. Somes, a druggist, received a letter signed “J. J, Courtney,” saying that the writer had proof that Somes invited a young lady Into the baok room of his store and kissed her over the counter, and that unless he gave tho writer SIOO he would divulge all to his (Some’s) wfte. Mr, Somes wrote a letter telling “Courtney” that a registered package for him was id the postoffioe. Dahlon inquired for the package and was arrested. He was sent to jail in default of $1,600 bail. 1 The apportionment of the common sobool revenue has been made by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The amount collected from counties during the year was $727,638.84; from semi-annual interest on n«n negotiable bonds, $117,143.49; balance in treasury at last apportionment, $6,676.90, and from other sources $11,331.97, making a total of $861,791.29. The amount apportioned is $848,461.30, and $370.37 is added to the shares of different counties on aocountof errors in the enumeration of school ehildren. The State Normal school is given SIO,OOO, and there is a balance of $2,959.62 left in the treasury. The apportionment per capita is sl.lß, and it is shown by the enumeration that there are 719,036 school children in the State. The jury in the case of The State vs. Cloon Keyes, indicted for the murder of Bamuel Stewart, of Fiord, Carroll county, returned a yerdict of not guilty. Alex. Keyes, son of the defendant, is alleged to have seduood Stewart’s daughter. Being sued for bastardy, young Keyes married Miss Stewart, but afterward refused to recognize, live with, or support her, though residing in the same town. Stewart, the 22d of July last, told young Keyes that he must either live with his wife and support her as he should or leave tho county. Young Keyes armed himself and sought out his father, telling him what had occurred between him and Stewart. The elder Keyes does not seem to have known that his son had a weapon, and together they started out to find Stewart, as the father claims, to fix the matter up. Tho elder Koyes and Stewart engaged in animated conversation, in which, young Keyes joined, calling his father-in-law a liar. The latter attempted to strike Alex. Keyes with a chair, when the father sought to stop him. At the same mo" ment Alexander, drew his pistol and killed Stewart. The State sought to hold the father as a principal equally culpable with the son. The son’s trial will come up soon. "

Indiana Statesmen. Nativity and ages of tbo Indiana delegation in Congress, as given in the Congressional Directory: SENATORS. Name and birthplace. Age. D. W. Voorfce s, Butler county, Ohio 50 Benj. Harrison, Hamilton county, Ohio 50 REPRESENTATIVES. ThomaH M. Browne, New Psris, Ohio 55 Thomas J. Wood, Athens county, Ohio 39 Wm. H. Ca kins, Pike county, Ohio 42 John J. Klein r. West Hanover, Pa 39 Robert Lowry, Ireland 61 Thomas R. Cob', Law ence county, Ind 55 Strother M. Stoikslager, Harrison county, , Indiana 42 Wm. 8. Holman, Dearborn countv, Ind 61 Courtland C. Matson, Brookvillc, Ind 4:1 Stanton J. Peelle, Wayne county, Ind 41 John E. I amb, Terre Haute, Ind 31 George W. Steele, Fayette county, Ind 44 Thomas B. Ward, Ohio 49 Probably a better plan to prevent mobs from breaking into Jails than the election of brave Sheriffs, would be to provide every Jail with a full-blooded Siberian bloodhound. We believe Marlon county stands alone in the country for such a humane provision to preserve its prisoners from all danger from mob violence. —lndianapolis Journal. Negotiations are pending for the removal of the Methodist College from F6rt Wayne to Wabash. Attica Is endeavoring to erect a new opera house.

THRILLING SCENES,

Witnessed and Told by Survivors of the Lost City of Columbus. Heartrending Recitals from the Few Survivors. [Compiled from Various SouroesJ Of the horrors that followed the first shock there is abundant testimony. Capt. Wright had been on duty ever since they left Boston, and, having taken the ship safely through the most dangerous part of the sound, he went to his state-room for a few momenta to get warm. He left three mates and a quartermaster in the wheel-house, with instructions to follow the course he had marked out. He had been below perhaps twenty-five minutes ( when there was a bump. It was not a crash or severe shock. Every one near the pilot* house heard the mate give the wheelman tho order to “port," Capt. Wright felt sure, aahe jumped to the wkeel-nouse, they had riin down some sailing craft, antt, without stopplug to look, ho shouted to the man at the wheel " Hard a port” Instantly realizing the actual situation, he endeavored to work the vessel off, first by steam power and then by setting the jib. Neither experiment was of any avail, and within five minutes Capt Wright knew that his ship was doomed. The first blow on the rooks did not arouse more than half of those on board, but repeated pounding and noise of exoitement soon brought nearly all from their state-rooms. When the oaptain abandoned his efforts to get her off, the vessel had already settled enough so that the sea began to break over her. Then every thought was turned to the means of saving life. Capt. Wright rushed Into the saloon cabin, where more than half the passengers, hardly awake, were trying to realize the cause of alarm. The oommander sharply, but without excitement, bade everybody keep 0001, but to dress and put on their llfo-prese-vors. Even as he entered a wave followed him, and there was a terribly distressing Scene. But the crowd seemed half paralyzed instead of frenzied in their terror. Ladles bogged for help, but most of them Obeyed the ordors of the officers and the calmer men in the room. Noarly everybody present had on a life-preserver, > properly adjusted,, boforo going on deck. Nearly all bad partly dressed bofore being driven from tho state-rooms and oabin by the water. There were a few exciting' incidents at this stage of the catastrophe. One lady begged Capt. Wright to save her two ohlldren, but the full extent of the danger was not realized, So that there was no great panic. The water filled the state-rooms and cabin slowly, and there was the continual pounding of the vessel on the ledge. But within twenty minutes all below decks became untenable, aud then tho real horrors of the night began. Just as tho passengers reached the deok a tremendous soa struck tho ship. A great white mass of roaring water fell upon the stranded vessel. Sixty terror-stricken passengers t stood upon the gale-swept deck, seeking whioh way tq turn In the darkness. A moment, and they were gone. So sudden was it that not a shrlok or a prayer came from the little company ere the great wave engulfed them. Every woman and child on board died at that moment. Those In the rigging and upon the house had only time tQ clutch tighter their supports when the fall of water was upon them. There was no opportunity to a* slst the women and children to the rigging, where they would have been for a time safe, and it is well there was not time, for death would have been just as sure, though perhaps more slow and more agonizing. About sixty souls remained on board after this first stroke pf death. Tho fate of more than half of these was still more terrible. Half a ; dozen succeeded, after great struggles, In launching a boat, and when they got a few feet away from the ship tbelr boat capsized, 1 and they, too, were drowned before the eyea of those remaining In the rigging, With the shipwrecked men it becamo a test of endurance. Boon after daybreak the Smoßo-Btaek was carried away. A few were clinging to the stays, and most of these were swept off. Then the house broke up, and the sow thereon succeeded in roitohing tho rlggiug, they being In all sorts of po- j sitlons. Two were supported on a loose swinging rope between the masts. They dangled there In the wind for hours, with the rope supporting them under the armpits. The gale swung them buck and forth like clothes on a lino, while the spray of every wave breaking over the ship drenched them. They were soon benumbed, and probubly died as they hung, the stiffening of the muscles in the cold holding them. One of them was swept away about 0 o'clook und the other disappeared about 11. Men clung one above another to tho cross-trees. Those close together could exchange a few words occasionally, aud sad, hopeless words they became as the hours wore on und no help appeared. Those who, putting their legs through the cross-trees und partially sat upon the rope, were soon benumbed below tho hips and lost all control of their limbs. John L. Cook, of Portland, Me., who with ('apt. Wright left the wreck last, says that among the confused muss who were struggling and screaming when the ship first' struck the reef he noticed a middle-aged man and his wife. Their conduct was in markod contrast with that of tho other passengers. The panic which hud seized the others was not shared by them, but their blanched faces told that they realized the peril which surrounded them. The only movefhent of muscles or nerves was that produced by tho chilling atmosphere. They stood close together clasping each other’s hands, as if about to contemplate suicide together, and thus fulfill the marital vow of standing by each other in the varying tide of life’s fortunes and misfortunes. As the wreck careened with the gale from one side to the other, and while the spray aud waveß drenched them at every moment, the husband turned and Imprinted a kiss upon tho companion of his life, and while thus embraced a heavy sea broke over the wreck aud both were washed uway and not seen afterward. Mr. Cook remembers particularly two men—one u seaman and the other a passenger—who held on in the rigging for live or six hours before they surrendered to the elements. (Jp to the last moment they were conscious, and, as they relaxed their hold from the ropes and went down, their last words were of tbelr families aud homes. One

mail who had held out uguinst the stormy elements was killed by the tailing smoke* stack just ns he was about to be rescued, and by the same event a couple of the crew were so disabled that they only survived the tom* pest a l'ew moments longer. Second Assistant Engineer Henry Collins states he was uloep in his stateroom when awakened by the shock of the vessel's strlk* lng. He hastily dressed and hurriedly ran on deck. Passengers from the main saloon who were crowding on deck were washed overboard as fast as they came up the coin punionway. ‘*l wont to the engineer’s room and saw no one there, then returned to the deck, and, seeing the sea b>caking clear over the ship, 1 made for the inizzen rigging, whore I watched everything and waited for a chance to escape. I saw passengers drop out of the rigging frozen stiff. All the women were completely helpless. The shrieks of the men in the rigging were awful. I prayed that I might die and be relieved of #y terrible agony. Some men cursed and swore, but the'majority prayed for death. All the sufferings of a life-time were crowded into these few terrible hours iu the rigging.”

SPLINTERS.

Colonel Oliver H. Payne, son of the new Senator from Ohio, is nearly 60 years old and a bachelor. Two of Brigham Young’s sons have died drunkards, two of his daughters are married to the same ushband, and another son writes poetry. The total number of actions brought in the High Court of Justice in England last year was 100,000, one-third commenced in the district registries and two-thirds in London. Mr. Baunum has decided to give his whin elephant the name of Tom Thumb. V

EXCHANGING NEWS.

Meetings of Yarious Associations Con* nected with Agricultural Interests. Nebraska Horticulturists. The Nebraska State Horticultural Society held a three davs’ session at Lincoln. There was an interesting display of fruit. The Society was reported to be la a flourishing condition. Nebraska Agricultural Society. The Nebraska State Agricultural society held lip annual meeting at the State capital. It was decided to hold the State fair at Omaha for one year only. Tho original proposition of Omaha was for a period of five years. The i fair will bo held the first week in September. Michigan Poultry Show. • The annual exhibition of the Combined State and Central Michigan Poultry aasoolv tion was held at Battle Creek. About 40* entries were made by leading breeders in all parts of tho State and a few outside. It is pronounoed the largest and finest exhibition yet held In the Sta.e. Cane-Growers In Council. The Mississippi Valley Cane-Growers’ association held its fifth annual meeting in St. Loula, the President, Col. Norman J. Coleman, in the chair. The attendanoe was larger than in any previous years. In his address the President congratulated the society on the achievements of the last year. The planting of cane was yearly extending, and the value of the sirup produced from the northern cane was fully $10,000,000. Bee-Keepers In Convention. The Northwestern Illinois and Southwestern Wisconsin Bee-Keepers’ association held a two days’ session In Freeport, 111. There i was a largo attendance ofo members. The eleotion of officers resulted as follows: President, E. Whlttlesoy; vloo president, Rosooe Gammon; secretary, Jonathan Stewart, treasurer, B. Kleoknor. The members engaged in i the discussions with a great deal of Interest. Tho next meeting of the association will bo held at llookton, May 20, 1884. Wisconsin Wool-Growers, Tho Wisconsin Sheep-Breeders’ and WoolGrowers’ association held its annual mooting at Whitewater. Tho tariff on wool was debated, and tho conclusion was that th< tariff should be restored. Otfloers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, W. L. Parker, of Beaver Dam; Vice President, C. S. Clelaud, of Janosville; Secretary, H. J, Wilkenson, of Whitewater; Corresponding Secretary, C. K. Gibbs, of Whitewater; t Treasurer, W. H. Hardy, of Genesee. Nebraska Farmers? Alliance. | The Nebraska State Farmers’ Alllanoe held a two days’ session at Koarnoy. A platform was adopted declaring lfi favor of national and State legislation to regulate railway traffic, with both maximum find minimum rates; demanding the abolition of national banka and the substitution of ourrenoy by the Government direct; opposing protection and demanding a tariff for revenue only; asking Congress to reclaim all unearnod land-grants and reserve the public domain for actual seb tiers; and opposing the acquirement of public lands by foreigners. Farmers and the JBarbed Wire Monopoly. The Jowa Farmers’ Protective Association, formed for the purpose of fighting tho Washburn A Moen bar bed-wire monopoly, con. vened at Des Moines last week. The association appears to be In a very satisfactory condition. The Secretary, in bis annual re* port, expresses his opinion that henceforth the wire monopoly will devote its time and energy to a guerrilla warfare, seeking to make she litigation as expensive and vexa* i tlous as possible to the farmers. The farm* j ers’ responses to the appeals hav« been hearty and generous. Minnesota Horticulturists. There was a large attendance at the Minnesota State Horticultural society meeting in Minneapolis. Col. Robertson, of St. Paul, ■poke on the manner of cultivating the oot toawood tree. The" Secretary read a paper from O. M. Lord, of Minnesota City, on native plums, which was discussed at great length by the members. F. (>. Gould, of Exoclslor, read a paper on “Blight in Fruit-Trees.” Mr. Pearce, of Lake Minnetonka, also presented a puper on the same subject, and Mr. Gideon one on “Blight—Cause and Cure.” The report of the Entomologist of the socloty, R. J. Mendenhall, of Minneapolis, was presented, followed by a paper by Mrs, H. B. Sargent, of Lako City, upon “A Beginning In Silkworm Culture iu Minnesota.” lowa Millers. The lowa Millers’ association, in session ' at Des Moines, discussed the relative merits of buhrs and rollers. One old-style miller said he was making forty pounds of flour to the bushel and selling his tailings for feed. Roller millers gave their produot as ranging from four and one-half to five bushels to the barrel, the cost of conversion being close to 50 cents per barrel—tbe est mates, including power, help, interest, etc. Steam mills would use 00 to 100 pounds of soft coal to the barrel. Tho bulir and single-roller prooess men claimed that the full-roller prooess diminishes tbe nutrimqnt value of the flour, which was not answered by the others. Hon. 8. D. Nichols claimed also that winter wheat has more sustenance value than the hard wheat. Mr. Sharpe said tbe main fault with the buhr millers was that they did not generally clean their grain so well as those using rollers.

Illinois State Orange. About 300 Patrons of Husbandry were present at the annual meeting, in Springfield, of the Illinois State grange. The address of welcome was delivered by Col. C. V. Mills, of the State Agricultural department, which was followed by an address delivered by J. J. Woodman, Master of the National grange, who in a very elaborate manner presented the aims and objeots of the order. The committee appointed a year ago to visit the In* I dustrial university at Champaign made a re- ! port In which they met the objections to the course of study and the alleged charges of lneilicienoy. A resolution was adopted fixing Belleville as the next place of meeting. Gov. Hamilton tendered the delegates a reception at the Executive mansion. The resolutions demand that the Bureau of Agriculture be made an Executive department, and Its head a Cabinet officer. They recommend the establishment of experimental farms in the several counties of the State, or the addition of experimental departments to county farms already existing. The report of transportation, which was adopted, asks the Illinois delegation in Congress to urge the enactment of laws to regulate commerce between tho States, and to’ support a liberal measure for the construction of the Hennepin canal as an enterprise of national commercial Importance for the increase of transportation facilities, and the i regulation of charges on traffic by rail.

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Citizens of Christian county, Ky., claim to have lost $750,000 in the Chicago grain' market during the past winter. ' Teresa Tda, a young violinist, who has become famous by her performance* In Germany, is the daughter of a cobbier wbo lived in Florence. . ■ s ‘SI ' The Burprising sunsets Which reached around the world created superstitious fear in India, and numbers of holy men went about preaching impending disaster. I A Texas man has invented a machine for | washing dishes.