Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1885 — Page 2

ftljc DfmocrafitSenttnel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W McEWEN. - - - PUBLISHEK

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Henry Dickerson, of Moravia, N. Y., shot and killed his wife and then shot himself. Jealousy was the cause. Dickerson can not live. Tlie works, warehouse, and offices (except the hinge department) of the Pittsburgh Hinge and Chain Factory at Beaver Falls, Pa., were burned, rendering 400 persons idle and causing a loss of 835,000. John Howell, a farmer residing near Starrucca, Wayne County, Pa., shot four of his children, ranging in ago from 3 to 11 years, and then shot himself. His wife and eldest daughter wero absent at the time of the tragody. Mrs. Fennell, of Trumbull, Conn., was last spring bitten by a dog. On the street in Bridgeport, the other night, she was attacked by hydrophobia with such violence that it required five policemen to remove her to the station house. Ono of the oflicors received a severe bite on the arm.

In a single-scull race at Albany, for a purse of SI,OOO a side, John H. Teemer defeated Edward Hanlan by three lengths. Spectators from Pittsburgh wero heavy winners. The ox-champion of the world acknowledged that he had been fairly beaten by a better man. John Howell, at Starucca, Pa., confessed to killing his four children. He gave them arsenic, then shot them, and sat in wait for his wife and sister, whom ho also intended to kill. He finally shot himself, and upon regaining conscioumcss made the horriblo recital. The business of the New York Stock Exchange during the week was the heaviest known for many years, the sales being 3,690,680 shares. There was a nail famine at Pittsburg, the result of the long strike. Other markets had to be drawn upon. Twenty-five children were poisoned at the Home of the Friendless, in Allegheny City, Pa., from drinking milk. They all recovered after prompt treatment.

WESTERN.

A dastardly deed was committed near Waco, Neb., by a man named lirandt, who *i‘ running a threshing machine. It appears that a boy aged thirteen year.*, while «ittirig bands, accidentally cut Brandt’s hand. Brandt became enraged, and told the boy that if be cut his hand again he would run him through the machine. The boy became excited, and in a few minutes did again siigbtiy cut Brandt’s band. Brandt thereupon seized the boy and shoved him into the cylinder head first. He wus instantly killed, bis bead being almost completely torn from his body. Brandt tied, but was captured and taken to Waco, where ho narrowly escaped lynching. The rate of taxation in Illinois for 1885 has been fixed at 42 cents on the SIOO of tuxablo property—2B cents lor general revenue and 14 cents for school purposes. One man was killed and seven seriously Injured by the giving way of an arch in tho Illinois Capitol at Springfield, burying the victims under a mass of brick. Jacob Kauffman, a well-known musician, committed suicide at Denver, Colo., by divesting himself of his clothing and crawling several times back and forward through a barbed-wire fence. When discovered tho body was shockingly lacerated, the wires being covered with blood and shreds of skin and llesh. While B. J. Shay, a prominent realestate dealer of San Francisco, was at dinner In the Novada restaurant with Mrs. James C. Brown, of Healdsburg, Cal., the husband of the latter walked In, drew a revolver, and fired two bullets into him. Shay’s wounds arc believed to bo fatal. Jealousy caused the trouble. Near Platte Lake, Mich., two hunters mistook a woman who was picking cranberries for a bear, and shot her in the neck, Inflicting a mortal wound. August Bienlow, who was arrested in Cleveland for passing counterfeit money, hanged himself in the cell. The city of Evansville has failed to pay the Interest coupons on $3,000,000 of water bonds. The holder of tho security is an Eastern life insurance company, which is privileged to take possession of the waterworks at its pleasure. An interview lasting an hour was held In St. Louis, between Samuel N. Brooks, of Hyde, England, and his son, Hugh M. Brooks, who is charged with the murdor of C. Arthur Preller. Only a deputy sheriff witnessed the scene. The elder Brooks expresses his belief that the trial will result in an acquital. The order of the Chief of Police of Cleveland, Ohio, closing all saloons on Sunday, was generally observed.

SOUTHERN.

By the explosion of a boiler in a sawmill at Ridgeville, S. C., three persons were killed and three others received a terrible scalding:. A mob surrounded a wooden buildin* used as a jail in Murfreesboro, Ark., in which one Churchill, a murderer was confined. After saturating- the structure with oil, they fired it, Churchill perishing: in the flames. The victim made piteous appeals for mercy. A war of rates between the Georgia railroads resulted In sales of tickets from Atlanta to Chattanooga for $1 or less. £. M. Cox, a prominent lawyer of

Petersburg, Va., whose health had become greatly impaired, killed himself with a revolver. He left a large family, and carried life insurance to the amount of $15,000. A Fort Worth, Texas, official says a contract has been made with an English syndicate for the delivery on the wharf at Galveston, fortnightly for the next five years, of 3,000 frozen carcasses of beef cattle. The price stipulated is 6ix cents per pound for the beef, and nine cents for tno bides. The delivery, it is reported, will begin at once. Prairie fires are raging in Texas, and have so far burned over 501,000 acres. J. C. McFerran, a noted horsebreeder of Kentucky, died on his farm near Louisville, aged 73 years. He leaves an Immense fortune. The. Catholics of Richmond have taken steps to inform the Spanish Government In regard to the utterances of Rev. Dr. Curry, recently appointed Minister to Madrid.

WASHINGTON.

Two daughters of Alexander R. Shepherd were married at Washington last week, the bridegrooms being Edward A. Quintard, of Tennessee, and Walter M. Hrodic, of Mexico. President Cleveland will not, it is said, recommend a transfer of the entire Indian service to the military authorities, but while preserving the civil system as to tho immediate control, education, and civilization of tho In Bans will bring in tho experience, integrity, and executive capacity of the army ollicers to provide and distribute food and supplies. This Ideu is substantially that it is cheaper to feod and cloth tho Indian well than to fight him. Judge Maynard, Second Comptroller of tho Treasury, says that tho Indian servieo is in a very bad condition, and that it is his intention to reform it. For this purpose ho has ordered suits to be brought against tho bondsmen of a dozen or inoro Indian agents. The Hydrographic Office has issued a new map of the Arctic region, which embodies tho results of tho latest explorations. The arrangement is such that the names and relative position of all places around tho polar basin can be seen without turning the map around, as is usually necessary, and the eye is not bewildored by a multitude of meridian lines concentrating at the pole. A very simple method of determining tho latitude and longitude of any point is afforded by two lines intersecting at right angles at the polo, along which the degrees are marked. The Naval Hoard appointed to examine the unfinished cruisers, the construction of which was begun by John Roach, report that the fair market value of the Chicago Is $725,640; amount necessary to complete the vessel, $208,010. Tho value of the Atlanta Is fixed at $020,387; amount necessary to complete the vessel, $41,591. The Boston is worth $610,023; amount necessary to complete the vessel, $50,195.

POLITICAL.

President Cleveland has appointed F,. V. Long, of Indiana, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of tho Territory of New Mexico, to succeed Judge Vincent, ro moved. The fol owing Federal appointments are also announced from Washington: Robert I*. Waring, to be Assayer and Melter at Charlotte, N. C.; George 8. Savage, to be Collector of Customs for the district of Cherrystone, Va.; L. Q. Washington, of the District of Columbia, to be a commissioner to examine a section of railroad constructed by the Northern Pacific ltailroad Company; S. I. Anderson, to be Collector of Customs at l'ortland, Me.; Louis K. Church, of New York, to he Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Dakcta; \\ m. W. Porter, of California, to be Associate Justice of the bupieme Court of the Territory of Arizona: Wm. H. Barnes, of Illinois, to be Associate Justice of the Territory of Arizona; John O. Shields, of Michigan, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Arizona; Israel Green, of Mitchell, I). T.. to be agentfor the Indians of the Sisseton Agency in Dakota; Wm. H. Bickford, Receiver of Public Moneys at Shasta, Cal.; Sylvester Ball, Register ol the Land Offico at Shasta, Cal.; Edward Bessinger, of New York, Consul at Beirut; Daniel W. Heiring, of Tennessee, Consul at Tegucigalpa; C. H. Vaughn, Collector of Customs at Sag Harbor, N. Y.; James Tilton, Collector of Customs at, Great F.gg Harbor, N. J.; T. F. Donovan, Surveyur of Customs for the Port of Patchogue, N. Y. The official vote in Ohio will show Foraker’s plurality to bo 18,158; the total vote, 231,232. The Prohibition voto looms up to 2?,000. Influential citizens of Fort Wayne have requested President Cleveland to appoint Hon. A. P. Edgerton to a place on the Civil-Service Commission. Washington special: “Friends of Mr. Windom, who have been spending a few days quietly In Washington, say he is going to run for Governor to succeed Hubbard, hoping to score in the race for McMillan’s seat.” Senator Sherman, on being serenaded in Washington, made a speech, in which he proposed a reduction of thirty-eight Representatives in Congress and tho Electoral College because of tho disfranchisement of negroes. In regard to the relations between President Johnson and General Grant, it is believed by General Sherman that the controversy would have been settled by the appointment of General J. D. Cox as Secretary of War. Vioe President Hendricks suggests that President Johnson believed in restoring and not in, reconstructing the States. Gen. Sickles states that Grant said enough to him to reveal his alarm for the safety of the Government during the reconstruction period. Senator Arkell, of New York, reports Grnnt as saying that he had personally been the means of preventing a second civil war of a menacing character. President Cleveland announced to a gentleman whom he called into consultation that he was determined to adhere to his civil-service policy, whatever might happen in or out of his party, and was satisfied tho country would approve of his course. In speaking of the Chicago Appraisersbip, for which there ae thirrty-flve candidates, he said he bad laid the matter over in tho hope

that time would assist him in solving the' question. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Coon has sent his resignation to the President, and Mr. Youmans, Acting Chief Clerk, will probably be his successor.

MISCELLANEOUS. There is no abatement in the smallpox at Montreal, 294 deaths being reported for the week. The disease has broken out at Ottawa, where two stricken children were found concealed in a cupboard. There were 146 failures in the United States reported to Bradutreet’g during the week, against lot In the preceding week, and 234, 209, and 137 In the corresponding weeks of 1884, 1883, and 1882, respectively, liratllitreei'x Journal, in its weekly review, says of the state of trade: Special telegrams to Ilradulreel’s report no special change in the general trade, situation. At Boston business is quiet after the late ex-ceptional-activity. In some lines it is disappointing, yet the general confidence that sales are to increase rather than diminish remains unshaken. The dry-goods market at present is dull. RetaOers are believed to’ be carrying the large volume of goods lately shipped from first hands, awaiting the demand for consumption. There is a better demand for funds for use in regular trade channels. There is a fair movement of wool at seaboard markets for consumption. The larger factories are well stocked, while the smaller ones are buying freely for early wants. Manufacturing is relatively active and prices are firm Holders regard the situation confidently and are not anxious to sell. There have been some fairsized importations of raw wool of late. Trade at Philadelphia is fair in Some lines, but there is no general activity. At Chicago the volume of trade is lighter than during last week. There is, however, considerable confidence that the np-grade movement is to continue. There lias been some depression in feeling, owing to the decline in the price of wheat. Reports from interior points tributary to Ch cago are moderately favorable, and while the demand for funds therefrom is smaller it is still noticeable. There is less demand for currency from New York. At Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Burlington (Iowa), St. Louis and St. Paul there is less activity in commercial circles. Ex-Gov. Paige, of Vermont, died at Rutland, and Miss Ettie Yilas, sister or Postmaster General Vilas, at Madison, Wis. The funeral of Henry W. Shaw (Josh Billings) took place at Lanesborough, Mass. Work has been suspended on the Pacific end of the Panuma canal, but ono half of the excavation has been made for a stretch of three miles on the Atlantic side. Mexico continues to wrestle with the tariff question, and a committee on revision has been appointed, which is expected to work a reduction of duties. A plan for taxing rural property and forcing colonization Is also being discussed.

FOREIGN.

Mr. Ross Winans, who has gained notoriety by converting a part of Northern S otland into a deer park, was mobbed and stoned last Sunday by irate Caledonians. The Pope is said to have decided to give Laval University at Quebec an importance equal to that of tho American college at Rome, and ecclesiastics can then complete their theological studies on this side of tho Atlantic. An attempt to assassinate Estrupp, the Premier of tho Danish Cabluot, was made at Copenhagen by a young compositor named Rasmussen, who fired two shots from a revolver, neither of which took effect, and was in tho act of shooting a third time when seized by detectives. The English army in India is preparing for tho invasion of Burmah, and King Theebaw is doing his best to make a vigorous defense. The British Privy Council has dismissed the npj.eal of Louis Riel, tho Manitoba rebel, and ho will doubtless mount tile gallows at Regina on November 11. The decision creates great excitement among tho French people of Canada. The English colony in Paris is highly indignant over an article by Rochefort defending the acts of Louis Riel and defaming Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales. The populace of Madrid have become impatient of the dilatory action of the Government on the Caroline Islands question, and fears of an outbreak are entertained. Tho German Legation is still closely guarded. In the Town Hall at Birmingham, England, with a large and enthusiastic audience, Lord Randolph Churchill opened the campaign. He declared that the Conservatives wore not. accountable for the death of Gen. Gordon In the Soudan. He likened the foreign policy of the Liberals to that which caused England to lose part of her American colonies. Remains of a balloon in which Frederic A. Gower attempted to cross from France to England July 18 have been found In the English Channel. Tho balloon was seen to fall into tho sea and float for a long time, but no assistance was given by a sea captain who saw the disaster. The Marquis of Lome, a Liberal candidate for Parliament, undertook to address tho electors of Brentford. His hat was smashed on tho platform, and rotten eggs wee thrown at him until ho left the stand and ran through the streets in the rain to the railway station. He favors free education, local self-government in Ireland, and the principles of the Free Land League. All the European powers have accepted the Porto’s invitation to attend a conference at Constantinople upon tho annexation of Roumeha by Bulgaria. A body of Servian troops have crossed the Bulgarian frontier, and an opposing force has been sent out to meet them. Prince Bonaparte has issued a manifesto urging his friends to uphold th 3 republic of France, as the monarchists are at present too weak,to secure the government, and should not precipitate a revolution. Mr. Bleazby, an extensive land-owner in the county of Cork, Ireland, joined the Parnellitos, and abated his rents 15 per cent, in addition to the reduction of 30 per cent, made by the courts. The Patriotic Union of Dublin has issued a manifesto denouncing the Irish National League, and appealing to the people to maintain the integrity of the empire.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The taking of evidence in the trial ol Ferdinand Ward was begun at New York on the 26th of October, the District Attorney in his opening remarks warning the jury that they must remember Ward was on trial for larceny, not for “sending Gen. Grant broken-hearted to his grave.” James D. Fish, the ex-President of the Marine Bank, was the first witness, and eyed the defendant savagely. He detailed the presentation of a check for $71,800, drawn against a check for $75,000; the rejection of the latter by the First National Bank; how Ward failed to adjust the matter, and the efforts to raise sufficient lunds to meet the dishonored paper; the depositor the $150,0)0 which Gen. Grant borrowed from Vanderbilt, and the placing of the money to Ward’s personal account. The cross examination failed to elicit anything, and Fish’s brother, an official of the Marine Bank, corroborated the testimony. The rear car of a Wabash passenger train left the track near Laporte, Ind., tumbling over several times and rolling into the ditch. Thirteen persons wero seriously injured. C. J. Hayes and S. O. Prescott, of Chicago, have commenced suit against the city of Waterloo, lowa, for $50,000 damages. In 1884 they were arrested and imprisoned lor seven days for peddling goods without a license. The point made is that the ordinance under which they were prosecuted infringes upon civil rights. Tho ordinance in question is based upon lowa statutes, but tho latter does not provide for punishment in case of refusal to pay license.

Without cause, J. 0. Henning shot and killed his mistress, Mrs. Lottie Vo ner, at Rockville, lnd. The murderer, who is a peculiar character, and by some considered insane, attempted to conceal himself, but after a diligent search by citizens he was captured and placed in the jail. The mob surrounded tho structure, determined upon a lynching, but wiser counsels prevailed, though for hours the greatest excitement was exhibited. The husband of the victim was shot and killed two years ago by Charles Rutledge in a quarrel relating to Mrs.Volner, whom her husband considered to be unduly intimate with Rutledge. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue appointed Godfrey Jaeger, of Elmore, Ohio, to be an Internal Revenue Agent, vice John W. Phelps, resigned. The Secretary of tho Interior has made the following appointments of Special Examiners in the Pension Ofiico under the civil-service rules: Ebon E. Clark, of Maryland; Travis F. Hensley, of Missouri; Thos. A. Stocklagor, of Kansas; John H.Anthony, of Illinois; George P. Smith, of Kansas; E. D. Gallion, of Virginia; I'. W. Edwards, of Illinois; Jacob F. Klugh, of Pennsylvania; Arch McGinnis, of Indiana; Q. E. Browniug, of Illinois, and Howard S. McCandllss, of Virginia. Mr. Johnson, who accompanied John McCullough, the actor, from the Rloomingdale Asylum to Philadelphia, ex presses the opinion that the actor will get better. At Springfield, Mass., William Woodside lowered the world’s bicycle records for six to ten miles, inclusive, covering tho ton miles in 2.): 12 1-5. Rowe lowered the three-quarter mile record to 1:55 1-5.

How to Cure a Cold.

Pour about half a pint of boiling hot water over about a drachm of pulverised camphor, and inhale the vapor arizing therefrom ten or twenty minutes. Great relief is at once experienced, and after two or three repetitions the discomfort is said to disappear entirely. —El Siglo Medico. Could conjugal affection be more strictly displayed than it is in the subjoining? “And so, Doctor, you think my wife avill get well ?” “I am sure of it, if you can persuade her to take this dose.” “Doctor, take it she shall, if I have to break every bone in her body.”

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $4.60 @ 6.25 Hoos 3.76 @ 6.2) Wheat—No. l White .98 @ .99 No. 2 Red 90 @ .97 Corn—No. 2 so @ .52 OATS—White 34 @ .38 Fork—Mess 10.00 @12.50 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 5.25 @5.75 Good Shipping 4.25 @ 4.75 Common 3.00 @ 4.00 Hogs 3.25 @3.75 Flour—Extra Spring 5.00 @6.50 Choice Winter 4.75 @ 5.26 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 86 @ .8656 Corn—No. 2 41 @ .415 2 OATS—No. 2 . 24 @ .26 Rye—No. 2 615 2 @ .6256 Barley—No. 2 66 @ .68 Butter—Choice Creamery 24 @ .26 Fine Dairy., 17 @ .20 Cheese—Full Cream, new 0956® .1056 Skimmed Flats 0656® .08 Eggs—Fresh 17 @ .18 Potatoes—Car-lots, per bu 42 @ .45 Pork—Mess 8.00 @ 8.50 MILWAUKEE, Wheat—No. 2 86 @ .8656 Corn—No. 2; 41 @ .4156 Oats-No. 2 24 @ .26 Rye—No. l .61 @ .62 Pork—Mess 8.00 @ 8.50 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 94 @ .90 Corn—No. 2 44 @ .45 Oats—No 2.. 26 @ .28 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 93 @ .94 Corn—Mixed 3856® .3956 Oats—Mixed 24 @ .25 Pork—Mess 8.5 u © 9.00 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No 2 Red 95 @ .9656 Corn—No 2 45 @ .46 Oats—Mixed 27 @ .28 Rye—No. 2 65 @ .67 Pork—Mess 9.60 @IO.OO DETROIT. Beef Cattle 4.50 @ 5.00 Hogs..., 3.25 @3.75 Sheep ; 3.00 @3.50 Wheat—No. 1 White 90 @ .91 Corn—No. 2 44 @ .45 Oats—No. 2 27 @ .29 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 92 @ .94 Corn—Mixed 41 @ .43 Oats—No. 2 25 @ .2556 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best ; 5.00 @ 5.50 Fair 4.00 @ 4.50 Common 3.25 @3.75 Hogs 3.50 <m 4.00 Sheep 3.00 @ 4.50 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. l Hard 1.02 @ 1.65 Corn. . 48 @ .60 Cattle 4.50 @ 6.00

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Monroe County claims immunity from Trustee frauds. —The Floyd County poor-house has sixty-nine inmates. —Mrs. Mary Young died in Muncie- from the effects of a stove falling upon her. —Rev. Milton W. Stetson, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Orleans, is dead. —Henry Chamberlain, one of the pio. Deers of Fort Wayne, died in that city Monday. —A strange malady resembling milksickness is prevailing among the cows of Wabash County. —Hon. W. C. DePauw has given to DePauw Female College, in New Albany, an aggregite of $25,000. —A man digging a well near Lafayette came to a vein of petroleum, under which was a stratum of lead. —General Hascall, of Goshen, was divorced from his wife, to whom he had been married about twelve months. —E._ W. McKenna, Superintendent of the Louisville and Indianapolis branch of the Pan-Handle, has resigned. —A grand jury in South Beud indicted Thomas Jaton for murder in the first degree for killing William Snyder. —ln Muncie, Mrs. Swain got judgment of S3O against the F. W.. C. & L. R. R. for being carried beyond her destination. —James Kerr, an old resident of Lagro, fell into an old lock of the abandoned Wabash and Erie Canal, and was instantly killed.

—A burglar entered the residence of Father Schmidt,, in Muncie, covered him with a revolver, and then ransacked the bouse. —David G. Miles, of Laporte, a patient in the Indianapolis insane asylum, hanged himself. His father committed suicide several years since. —A sugir refinery at West Point was fired by lightning Sunday night, and destroyed, with its contents. Loss, $20,000; insurance, $2,000. —Mrs. Emma Pine has sued John H. Heffner, at Lafayette, for $15,000 damages, claiming that Heffner has at divers times asserted that she steals turkey eggs. —The barn of Stephen O. Dehart, near Lafayette, wa? bur ied, together with six valuable horses and a number of farming implements. Loss, S2,SCO; insurance, $1,200.

—lndiana psople are much disappointed in learning that Judge Gresham has decided lo become a cit zen of Chicago. He has leased the residence of Postmaster Judd, on Delaware place, in that city. —Prof. W. Williams, of llocliesterg, has accepted Hu Professorship of Pedagogics m Franklin College. He will assume the duties of this department at the beginning of the next term. Jan. 7. —<■ ames DeCump, of Otisco, Clark County, was getting out stave lumber north of Char.estowu. when a .urge oak tree 1 ell, catching him under it, crushing his leg* frightfully and inflicting fatal injuries. —lda Stephenson, a Sioux Indian girl who with fifty-nine others, is attending White’s Mauuu Libor Institute, south of Wabash, while playing fell backward and struck the floor wiAsrnh violence as to susta.n injuries whwh will prove fatal. Mrs. E.eeta Haven, who had been oast ofl’ by her husband, quitted her home at Logtusport, lea.ing a note stating that to avoid lu era I expenses she would drown herself. The rivers have been diugged, but uo body has beea found. —While playing foot-ball at Wabash, Dorsey Coate, sou of County Treasurer Coate, suffered a very severe fracture of the light arm. A young son of Nelson Zeigler, a well-known dry-goods merchant, was also severely injured at the same time. Samuel McDonald, an employe of a Chicago book aud map firm, has been imprisoned at Winchester for attempting to bribe a township trustee to perpetrate a fraud. McDonald was formerly Trustee of. Niles Township, aiul stood high in Delaware Countv.

—Last Saturday night Oliver Hutsler, of Webster Township, Harrison County, received the most terrible flogging ever administered to any one by the Hnrrison County Regulators. A physician reports that his back was beaten into a jelly and that every portion of his body bears marks of the lash. He is charged with stealing ducks. —The shooting of Harrison Taskel, the colored hostler, by Menirod Huendlind is the second homicide that has occurred in the Indianapolis Court House, which was opened in 1877. In 1878 Warren Tate, a well-known character, shot and killed William Love during the progress of the trial of a suit, instituted by Tate, growing out of a business transaction, in which Love was a witness. —Dr. Neyron, Rrofessor of Anatomy at Notre Dame University, is the Nestor of physicians in the country. He is 04 years of age, and was a surgeon in Napoleon’s army during the Russian campaign and at Waterloo. After the restoration he became a priest, and was an early missionary in the Northwest. He is still able to conduct his class, and few men of 70, it is said, are so strong and active.