Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 29, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1881 — Page 7

4L TTIE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 20, 1881 .

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OUR FARM BCDUET.

Jin Eminent Veterinarian Interviewed Begardlsg Cattle Diseases. üume Remarkable Cows The Wage of Puia Labor Farm Kote, Et. Legislation Regarding Cattle Disease. Dr. Charles P. Lyman, the eminent veterinarian, who watched the landing of American cattle in Liverpool last summer, and whose report on the subject is now before Conres. in connection with other important documents laid before both Houses by Commissioner Le Due, was interviewed .In Washington last week regarding the al-

( U'ged cattle disease, and the disturbance

'-created in England about the importation 01 feattle. Je was asked:

"Are you sure that any cattle infected Lritli pleuro-pneumonia were ever landed in England from this country?" "No. Nor are all the British authorities sure of it." "Out of nearly 11,000 beasts landed and examined in London during parts of July

X and August, in noone of which could plenro-

pneumonia De aetecteain me living ui,

f the Inspector of the Veterinary Department

of the Privy Council condemned, alter postmortem examination of the lungs, six cases. The.se six cases have been traced back, and :n oil .Tnt nn it ha been found that tho

Ij 4U GM VÄWf - - V animals undoubtedly came from the West, I and over lines of rail which are entirely V north of any localities that are known to be contaminated, the fact a part of their

journey eastward was generally maue through portions of Canada. This, of course, means that we have this dreaded cattle scourge established among our Western herds; that Chicago, Buffalo. Albany, Boston or Portland are deceased centers, or else the disease is not pleuro-pneumonia at all. 'If pleuro-pneumonia exists in the West, or there are diseased centers in and about the points named through which the cattle pass on their journey eastward, the information now in possession of the Department of Agriculture will insure its exact location after a little time for examination. " In relation to the last phase of the matter, all that can at present be said is that the particular lunps exhibited present, in their fresh state and to the naked eye. all the lesions of the contagious disease, but on a very small scale, and in addition there is another lesion that is constantly present in these condemned lungs which has never . been described by any authority or noticed by any of our veterinarians to be a constant or even a known accompaniment of the disl ease in question. What bearing this fact 'may have upon this part of the question a further and more minute investigation of -"the subject can alone decide. Professor : William Williams, of Edinburgh, a comrxirative pathologist of world-wide celebrity, averts that the lungs examined by him Jrevious to my visit disit did not show the esions of the disease, but that the changes noticed were caused by bronchitis.' "Since niv report was written," he added, 'l have continued my investigation in thi country, and not the slightest indication of pleuro-pheumonia among cattle can be found in the West, nor outside of the small

' ' district in the East in which it was located I I by myself la.st vear." I I The Doctor insisted tliat a National law on 'a 41 ia nuwunrr and It in fart, the

only enactment foreign governments will respect. On this bead he said: "I asked Professor Brown, supposing drafts of cattle were made from our healthy Western district, transported over lines of rail which were ntirely away from our infested districts in cars used for these and no other attle,if inspectors could guarantee that they had not been in the same yard, or mixed with üuy other cattle on the route or at the port of embarkation, and were healthy at time of shipment, and inspection at the port of debarkation should show that caw after cargo coming under these regulations should be landed free from pleuro-pneumonia, would the embargo be raised in favor of cattle so inspected from kuch a port? To this Professor Brown answered that even if England were disposed to remove the restriction from any one port

1 under certain methods of inspections, as he I understood it, the United States was not, as I matters now stood able to prevent cattle f coming to said port from any point that ( people chose to send them. I told him that I I thought the matter could undoubtedly be arranged with the State authorities and llailf road Companies so as to be ierfectly safe.

lie intimated that this would De too loose an arrangement to give England rauch confidence, and further said that he he did not know what there was to prevent a diseased or infected animal from being sent at any time from the infected Eastern District directly to the parts in the Wej-t from which these drafts were being made. The Government of the United States, as a Government, had not as yet shown the slightest interest in the matter, and that, in the absence of any National laws relating to the movements of animals exposed expsed to or infected with contagious diseases, he should not advise anv change from their present methods. Here a representation was made petti mr forth the sovereignty of

I States and their powers that a fetate could

Vmike any laws upon the subject that she thought proper, providing it did not conf nct with the Constitution of the United

t States. In answer to this the opinion given

was that decidedly, in this matter, the.se j could not tüke the place of National laws;

f that it would be highly impracticable for

Great Enuin to recognize indepen Jent State governments while dealing with the United btates." Soma Remarkable Cows. Prairie Farmer. The question has been, asked us, "What amount of butter ought a good cow to produce in a year?" A cow that will make 200 pounds of butter in a 6eason is a fair one. The skim milk of euch a cow, fed to thirty pigs, will make 200 pounds of dressed pork. A cow that will do this will pay the dairyman, but he should Strive to improve his herd so that every cow will make a better record than this. The dairy stock of the country is steadily improving. It is a matter of necessity so far as the profits oi the day are concerned. As an evidence of what may be accomplished. we give the well authenticated records of some remarkable cows. It is not claimed that entire herds of dairy cows may be pro duced to equal tnese remarkable milkers, but such instances show that a vast imprjva ment in that direction can be made. The 'Oakes cow" h:s a trial record show ing that her milk yielded sixteen pounds of butter ier week, from May 17 to December 20 following, besides furnishing a quart of milk daily to the family. This was in 1816. The cow is described as being of moderate size, with a straight back, a fine, clean head broad hips, with milk veins and udder of me Desi iorra ana capacity. There 19 nothing to show how much Improved Diooa enterea ncr composition, but as a pofd many Short Horns had -been im ported in the vicinity of Kennebec, Me where she was bred, it is not improbable that the claim that she was a high grade is true. a a a An autnentic recoro is given oi a cow kept at Lewes, England. In eight consecu tive years she gave an average of 1,210 gal ions oi mi iK per year, one was milked one year for 328 days, and gave an aggregate of 1,230 gallons, from which 540 pounds or putter were mane. i ne record does not state what the breeding of this cow was. A cow belonging to P. Bnyder of Vineland N. J., of no particular breed, but indicating. from the description given of her, a conaderaoie portion ox shorthorn blood, rave in 291 71, 5.C33 pounds of milk from which 196

pounds of butter were made in 1875. She dropped her calf again January 5, 1876, but her milk was not saved until January 15, and from that time until January, 15 1877, 3GG days, she gave 10,015 jounds of milk. The vieldof butUr from 9,91 pounds of milk was Z'.iG pounds; 0115 pounds of milk were sold, which if made into butter would have raised the yield to 423 pounds of butter for the year; a pound of butter tc 25.04 pound of milk. She was kept in a stable and fed twenty pounds of dry hay, uncut, three Suarts of cornmeal and nine quarts of brau ivided into three feeds pet day witlva pint of oil-meal added. Of later records the most notable are the Jerseys Eurotas, Jersey 1111 of Scituate, and Jersey Queen, and the Holstein cow Zwann, of Elgin, in this State. The last named cow, from and including Mav 12. 1873, to and including March 5. 137, or 298 davs gave 12.G10K pounds of milk, or 1.4G2 4-G9 gallons within a small fraction of five gallons per day. Dr. Teflt savs it costs $40 to keep her the year, and the milk brought him an average for the year of

ten cents per gallon or a iraction oi sio -v. TDe butter record of Jersey Belle of Scituate embraced a whole year. At her height she produced of twenty-one pounds per week, and held an average of nineteen pounds for the first five months; at the termination of her year she had given 705 pounds of butter; and the figures showing the amount of butter produced by Eurotas slightly exceed these. This cow produced 778 pounds and one ounce of butter in eleven months and six days. This is her actual record. Those who had charge of her say that had a full test been kept the previous year she would have exceeded this record by at least 100 pounds. The cow Jersev Queen, owned at Barnett, Vt. Burnusses these bv her record of last vear. She dropped her fourth calf March 10. 1S79. and from that date to March 15, 1881, she made 74G pounds of butter, besides the cream used in the family Ol nennen owner, and milk sold, which, ujon investigation, showed that thirty pounds of butter might justly be added to the figures given. The Largest Cow. Posey County, Indiana, claims t have raised the larirest cow in the world. Her name is Lady Poney: breeds, mixed Dueham and big English. Her measurement! are: Greatest height, five feet ten inchjC eirth, eight feet nine inches; length,, ten feet 8i x inches, on including tail, sevtiteen feet. Her form is good ; and, tkoiTJ not fat, she weighs 3,000 pounds. Her lor is red and white, red predominating. Age, six years. Her present owner lives in Stark County, Illinois. The Wagri of Farm Labor. This is the time of the year when labor on the farm becomes the question of the hour. It has been said that among the drawbacks to intelligent culture in our country is the uncertain tenure of the soil. The agricultural laborer, as a general thing, is emr loved for about nine months in the year, n the spring he is tobe looked after, and before he is secured numberless little matters, which result in great-moment after a while, are left undone till the help comes, when it is too late to do them properly for the best results for that season. Where farms are large enough to afford it, and those who farm are engaged in a life pursuit, the best results have been found to follow from so managing as to have the help employed all the year round; and all the better if sach heli be married and can be comfortably domiciled in tenant houses on the grounu. Advantage can thus be taken of every turn of good weather to get the work done at the proper moment, to the great benefit of the subsequent crop Moreover a man regularly employed is likely to take more interest in his work than one who knows he is but temporary, and the emloyer has more chance to bear patiently with the man while both are learning one another's ways. There is besides the absolute question of abor at this season, another which always troubles one, namely, that one of wages. The carpenter, for instance, who ge's in the city $2 50 to $3 per day, has to pay perhat 16 or $18 per month for house rent, while provisions of every kind have to be pur chased, and often at high rates. Even the smallest scrap of fuel has to be bought, and there is nothing but what coats hard cash to g t it. A hand on a farm, especially if he is comfortably tenanted, has less rent, less ex pense in provisions and less demand on his waes in every way, and this should ways enter into calculations as to fie worth of services. Even when the (ingle man is boarded in the family, it is still about the same. Sixteen dollars per month and board in a family on a farm is better for the hand than $1.50 without any other privi leges in a city, as any single young man who has tried the diflereace can readily testify to. It is not, theret'jre, a fair comparison be tween the actual cash of the city and the cash wagei of the country. Nominally less. the result is generally greater, and this re sult should be the basis of calculations There is no doubt, however, that we loe much by transitory labor, and it will be wise for all who can to make such arrange merits tu will enable the laborer to be steadily employed the whole year. Farm Notes. The Game and Fish Commissioners of Maine advise the farmers to make war on cats. Mr. Hiram Sibley, of Rochester. N. Y owns 400 farms in New York, Michigan and Illinois. Dalrymple, the great wheat farmer of Dakota, cleared $2 oO.OOO on his 1SS0 crop. He marketed 500,000 bushels. Mr. Gladstone, In consequence of the ae ricultural depression, have given his tenants Zo ier cent, remission on thetr yearly rental Over 1,000 hogs died with what is called cholera, in the neighborhood of Geneseo. iienry county, Illinois, within ten days. It is said that if sod land is plowed just betöre tue Cora is planted, the worms will feed upon the sod and not injure the corn The winter wheat crop of Piatt County, iiiiuois, nuer uioruugii examination, is snown to nave uecn uniniurea by cold or drought. Ten millions of cattle are annually slaughtered in this country to supply the home demand for meat, which is valued at $400.000.000. Our exports of corn to foreign countries during 1880 were about 90.000,000 bushels, against 78,000,000 bushels for the preceding year. The Courier de San Francisco speaks of three vines near Sonoma, Cal., twenty years of age, each of which yielded this year 150 pounds o: grapes. A good deal of stock has frozen to death in Morgan County, Uf.. during the recent cold spell, thus showing that our farmers are no better providers of shelter thau their En gl ish brethren. The average yield of corn Is less than onehaiioithe possible yield. When we think how little the second half of 100 bushel -i of corn costs p-racre. the profit of growing sucn a crop becomes apparent. It should never be forgotten that rich cat lie ioou maKes ricn manure, anu rich ma nure heavy crops, while, on the other hand poor iceu means lean cattle. p-or manure and inferior crps. If any farmer who raises spring wheat ha not g-iod. clean ecd, now is the time to be looking it up. There is more leisure and rn-tter chance to find it now than just at seed time. It can also be thoroughly cleaned No farmer should sow weed seeds, as he will always have, volunteer weeds enough. - It will pay to bow nothing but the best seeds o all kinds, free from foul weeds and mixed grains. A good plan to get good seed is to tret the grain-dealer to watch the wheat a i comes on the market, and let him buy it as he can generally buy it cheaper than the farmer can, and in mid-winter it can gen erally U bought 25 to 50 per cent, cheaper

than at seed time. Get good seed; sow early; cut early, and thrash early and, as a general thing, sell early. The champion woman fanner of Maine is probably a woman at Minot Center, who has herself cut awl yarded ten cords of sled -length wood this winter. She is a strong Scotch woman, about thirty-five years of age. Her husband is living, but past hard work, being over seventy years of age. She carries on successfully a large farm, doing nearly all the work herself. Messrs. Allem and Bailey, editors of the American Short Horn Herd Book, writes that the compilation of pedigrees for their twentieth volume is now nearly completed. It will be larger in its number of pedigrees and from a much greater number of contributors than awy previous) volume, and by their strictness in geneakgy through every possible known sire and dam of anterior records, eactk pedigree will appear in the most authentic way. The book will be issued in May next Some unsophisticated purchasers of boney imagine that by buying honey in the comb they are sure of getting an unadulterated article. A great mistake. There is an establishment in Ikwton where artificial combs not foundations merely, but combs are made in such perfection that it would require an expert to detect the fraud. Paraffin, not wax, is the material used. When the combs are made they are filled with imitation honey made from glucose, worth three or four cents per pound, and flavored to the taste. A hot iron is then passed over, the cells are sealed, and the "comb honey" is ready for sale. All live stock should be kept clean. They should not t exposed to severe weather of winter, not only because it is cruel, but because it does not pay. It costs money for an animal to keep itself warm, for it must be done at the expense of the food it gets or the flesh it has already gained. An animal is in many respects an engine, and its food is the fuel. Any shelter given to farm etock saves in food, just as a covering to a boiler saves fuel. Another kind of exposure is especially injurious, that is of horses that have had active exercise by driving. If a horse is brought in wet with sweat, he should be first rubbed down and then blanketed, if the weather is cold, otherwise he will be

chilled and very likely take cold. STRANGE DISCOVERY, By Which We May Tet Hear the Bounds of the Fires Raging In the Son. Youth's Companion. Professor Tyndall of London, has just in vented a new scientific apparatus that, when properly used, eives most singular results. and shows that the wonders of the photophone have only just begun. Ihe ph otophone has already been d esc n bed n the Companion, and you may remeber it s an instrument invei.ted by Professor Bell for causing a beam of light to convey a telephonic message to a distance. In the new apparatus, a beam of light rom a lime light, or even a casdle, is thrown uion a common glass nai-k having a long neck. To this is fastened a rubber speaking tube that may be placed to the ear, so that any sounds in the flask may be heard through the tube. Between the na?k and the light is placed a circular disk of metal, havingnarrow slots, or openings, placed like the spokes of a wheel round the edge. When the disk is at rest, the beam of light may pass through one of the slots and fall on the Mask. If, now, the dik is made to turn rapidly on its axis, the light win reach tue nask in . series of Hashes, as it shines through the lots one after another. Here the curious discovery comes in. When the flask is tilled with a gas, or a vapor, say the vapor of sulphuric either, common street gas, oxygen, terfumes like patchouli or cass a or even smoke, and the beam of light is made to fall on the flask in a series of alternate flashes, the operator, listening with the speaking tube at his ear, will hear strange musical sounds inside the Mask. The pilch of these tones will correspond exactly with the speed with which the disk is maue to turn, and each kind ot gas, or vapor, in the flask will give a different kind of note, some soft, some loud, and some very sweet ana musical. This is certainly the most remarkable dis covery since the pliotophone.and It shows that lieht may be made the means oi making sounds audible at a distance, even when the eye can see no difference in the light. It even suggests the idea that we may yet be able to liear the sounds of tires ragiiig in the sun. It may, indeed be only a hint to yet more wonderful and unthought-of relation ships between light and sound, which may be utilized as a medium of communication. Dafttardlj Attempt to DeeelT sin Aged Negro. Galveston News. An aged negro came into the Kay office. and approaching the desk of one of the staff. the following conversation took place: "1 say, boss, 1 want Co be sot right." "Go ahead, but be quick." "Am dar a man named Rescue Conkel in Washington City?" Certainly." "And women folks ain't safe when Rescue am about, on less someoody kivers Kescue with a shot-irun?" "i es; benator Uonklingis very much that kind ot a man." The old dafky was absorbed in thought for a brief space, and then he went at it again. "Galveston City is in Galveston County, ain't it, boss?" "Yes." "Den because Galveston City am in Gal veston County, Washington City, whar Res due Conkel lives, is bound to be in Wash ington County, on the Brazos? " "Nonsensel Washington County is more than a thousand miles from Washington City. W ho told you that lie7" "Jim Webster djd, sah. Ise gwine to take my old mudder up to Washington County, on the Brazos, to fee her folks. She am ninety-five years old, an' Jim Webster said it wasn't safe to take her dar fo' account of Uesrue Conkel, on less I had a gun." "What did he tell you that lie for?" "Dun no, 'cepting dat he has got a shot gun he wants to sell me powerful bad. Anxious to Show the Price of Ills Principles. INew York Sun. Our esteemed c temporary, the New York limts, printed, yesterday, a letter from oue of its correspondents giving an interesting account of an interview with General L. A. .Sheldon, the second self of General Garfield. Among the subjects discussed was Senator Mahone, of Virginia. "I understand," said General Sheldon, "that he and his friends do not want to go back to Virginia to do battle n ihe coming campaign and have their ot p nents taunting them with the remark. l ou have gone over to the Republican par ty, and have nothing to show in return.' " This, then, is Senator Mabone's standard of political morality: He inot only ready to oarter principles lor oinces, but he is no jxhanied ot the trade!. On the contrary, he - lories in it, and is anxious to make pii-blie exhib tion to his friends of the consideration for wl.ich he sold hiiuselt! . e know Chat when the slave auction Mock used to exist at Richmond, the poor slaves when put up lor sale, took a pride in bringing a high nrioe; but we never heard before that this feeling extended to any o the white men of Virginia. Constructive InfidelityIQslveston News. A negro entered a lawyer s office and asked for a private consultation. He then stated he wanted a suit brought against his wife for divorce. "On what grounds?' asked the lawyer; "on account of infidel Ityr' "Yes, boas; you hit it first pop. She goes to pra'r meetin' foh time a week, and don't conid home till way late in the Bifat."

A PICKPOCKET'S KIXDERG1BTEN.

A Remarkable Story Told by' m Little Boy .. of Ills First Lesson In Tneft. fNew York Sa.l Toliceman Herman LefiVrts, of Irepeetor Byrne's command, arraigned bt fore Justices Smith, Kilbreth and Power, yesterday, Edward Logenstein, of 105 K?sex street, a bright, intelligent lad of fourteen, for trying to pick pockets at Broadway and Union Square on Monday afternoon. TIe thoroughfare U thronged every afternoon by ladies on their shopping rounds, and there are frequent complaints made to the police" of robberies, lefferts saw several well-known young thieves, but the boy Logenstein, evidently a novice, went so boldty to work, he said, as to particularly attract attention. He put his hands right into ladies' pockets, and ran away when they turned to look at him. He got nothing, however, but LefTerts followed him and arrested him at Tenth street and Broadway. "When I first saw him," said 'Leflerts, "I noticed him in company with two other boys whom we have under suspicion. I asked him if he knew them. He said that he did; that they lived in Lis neighborhood. I asked him what they were doing. He replied that the boys belonged to a thief s school; that they were trained to steal by a man who lived in Ludlow street, ! near Grand. These boys, he said, were sent out by this man every afternoon to different Earts of the city. They were accompanied y bigger boys, who watched them work, and so soon as one of them stole a purse or a bit of lace, or a bilk handkerchief, a biirger boy would come up and take the things. He said that when the little fellows were sent out they carried books with them, as if they came home from school, to throw olT suspicion. ' I then asked the prisoner," continued LefTerts, "who these boys were. He gave me the names of several of them, and also told me that any Friday afternoon I could see them coming out of the man's house in Ludlow street. He said that the boys were first taught by bigger boys, who worked Grand street. I then asked him what he was doing there, and he replied he was looking on to see how it was done. Then I arrested him." Edward Logenstein had listened attentively to what Policeman Leflerts had said. He denied emphatically having taken any part in picking pockets. He said he knew there was a school for thieves kept by a man in Ludlow street, near Grand, and that several of his schoolmate Wloiiued to it. He had worked eight months for Oppenheim er & Mora, lithographers, of No. 24 North William street, for $3 a week. The firm, however, had moved to Jersey City, and he had been to Macy's that afternoon to apply for work. On his return from Macy's he met three of the boys with scliool-tvvks nnrier their arms. They were working Fourteenth street, and tainted out to him two bigger boys who were watching them from across the street. They told him they had a good deal of fun, and were well paid, Then they loid mm to waicti ana see tnetu work, lie saw them pick several ladies' pockets. But he did not try to pick one. "W here are your parents" asked Justice Smith. "My mother is sick, sir, and is now in onghkeepsie. and my father has gone to take care of her." "Wiiat does your father do?" "He interprets in the Police Courts for the Bohemians, and sells cigars and anything he can get. lie met with an accident three years airo, and can not work much. I have two younger brothers." Hut you told the othcer that you were watching the boys steal so that you might see iow it was done, said Justice Kilbreth. 'Now. what do you n ean?" "1 did not intend to steal. Judge, but I heard so many boys talk about how they picked pockets that I wanted to see how they did it. Yes, Judge, I did give the poiceinan the names of some of the boys because I heard them say they were made to steal." The lad was remanded to give time for further investigation of his case. Miss lusher, who has charge of the Ltoys rison, said tliat Miss Elder, Logenstein's teacher in the Stanton Street School, had ailed upon her and said the boy was re markably intelligent and bright; that he was an apt student, and she could hardly believe he was jmilty. Miss Elder said she would try and rind some person who knew the lxjy. While Miss Gertrude M. Hawthorne, of No. 108 East Twenty-third street, was walk ing on rourth avenue near Twenty-seventh treet, on Thursday evening. David Melcer, eighteen years old, of No. 10-1 Bayard street, snatched her pocketbook, which he passed to Morris Schoenberg, thirteen years old, of No. 2a Ludlow street. Ihe two lads then ran away. They were caught by Tolice Captain Ryan. Yesterday, iu the Yorkville I'olice Court, they were held in $1.000 bail each. Melcer said he wanted to attci.d the walking match at Madison Square Garden, and having no money to purchase a ticket. he concluded to steal some. There was $1.25 in the pocketbook. PASTOR RAMSHELL'S WI FK. 11 is a Presbj terlan and She a Roman Catholic. I Washington Pootl The effort to deiose Rev. Charles B. Ramdell from the Duli.it of the North Presbv terian Church of this citv because he has married a Catholic wife is the absorbing topic of the day. "The history of the case is an inter esting one. uev. Mr. liamsdell. the principal actor, is a man of great ability. a zealous Christian worker and a straightfor ward, honest, warm-hearted man. He graduated with high honors at Yale College, in 1372, and then prepared for the mm tstry at the Union Theological Sein inary, of New lork, graduating at that Institution in 1875. His first and only charge was the North rresbyterian Church f this city. His wife, whose name has, un fortunately Out necessarily, been brought into controversy, is a Washington lady of high stand irg. Her maiden name was Mis May Brooks. She is a graduate of Notre Dame College, Maryland. She is a devout Christian lady, but very liberal in her reli gious views. The marriage of these two pernuns was solemnized by a Protestant minis ter Ilev. Dr. l'atton some sixteen months ago in Chicago. Mr. Ramsdell's acquaintance with his wife began several years prior to their marriage, ihe younx clergyman was at that time a clerk in the Treasury Department, and boarded at the house of the youne lady's mother. The lady was, by h way, a Bcholar in the class conduc ed at that time by Mr. Ramsdell iu the Sunday school of the New York Ave nue rresbyterian Church The acquaint ance ripened into love, and the young pas tor, when he wedded his bride, had 'jeen it) charge of the North Church for a bo at three vears. Up to that tirue he was exceedingly popular with all the members of the Church. His marriage at once created dissension, as bis fair and gifted bride was, at the time of her weddimr. a devout member of the Ro man Catholic Church. After her marriage she remained faithful to her vows to the Church-of Rome, attending mass and the confessional. She always, however, at tended the Sabbath morning service at her husband's Church. The dissent over the pastor's marriage continued day by day to erow in stteneth. and in May last the dis senters took formal action to secure a dis solution of the pastoral relation. At a Church meetine. held May 4. 1880. the initial Ktep was taken which culminated in theexcitinsr trial that nas rust oeen con eluded before the Washington Presbytery The discussion was resumed yesterday by Judge Charles D. Drake calling for a vote upon a resolution affirming that, "in the opinion of the Presbytery, no Presbyterian minister has a moral right to marry a Catholic woman." Thereupon Rev. Joseph T. Kellv. castor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, one of th accused pastor's warmett

friends, offered as a substitute a resolution that the Presbytery was of opinion that such marriages shojild not be contracted, yet, in view: of the self-denying and successful labors of Mr. Ramsdell, the expressed wish of the majority of his congregation that he should continue Lis pastoral relations, and the fact that his wife does not oppose him in his work, recommended that the petitioners let the matter rest. Then Erwin B. Linton, a member of Mr. Ramsdeirs Church, spoke for the majority. He said, among other things, that "the majority ask that no Kteps be taken by this Presbytery looking toward the dissolution of cur pastor's relations. That majority have had full time to consider the effect of the pastor's marriage upon their minds as Christians, and say they desire him to continue his ministrations to them, leaving his wife to the influence of omnipotent God, and praying Him to direct her heart" The speaker, after becoming thoroughly acquainted with her feeliugs toward the Protestant Church, her love for many of its member, and her love for the Savior, had itot the shadow of a doubt but that in fulness of time she would be one of them and would gladly work with them. At length a vote was taken on the Kelly substitute, and it was lost. Then a vote was taken on a resolution of Judge Drake, "That the pastoral relationship be dissolved." This was a test vote, and it resulted in a defeat of the resolution, by 19 to 13. This put the case where it was when they began. A Com- j mittee of Reference, of five, was appointed. This resulted in a majority report in favor of H)3tponing the whole subject, and a minority report in favor of a dissolution of the pastoral relation. Much talk followed, and then the adoption of the minority rejtort was voted upon. The result was a tie. The majority repoit was then lost by a vote of 14 toli This result again placed the whole matter where it was at first. Dr. Sutherland then moved that the Committee be discharged and the whole matter laid on the table. This was decided in the affirmative by a vote of 14 to 11. When this was announced a sigh of relief went through the congregation. "Well, we have gained the day," said Dr. Sutherland to the clergyman next to him. Mr. Ramsdell, whose face had been a study during the few momenta that his fate had hung trembling in the balance, seemed an

other person. Out in the lobby, Mr. Ramsdell held quite a reception, and received numerous congratulations. The ladies especially seemed on his side. It is understood that the disaffected mi nority in the Church will bring the matter to the attention of the Baltimore Synod, and hat the case will then be taken to the Gen eral Assembly. Baby Monkeys. Chambers's Journal. Monkeys are born in almost as helpless a condition as human beings. For the first fortnight alter birth they iiass their tune in being nursed, in sleeeping, and looking about them. During the whole of this time the care and attention of the mother are most exemplary; the slightest sound or movement excites her immediate notice; and, with her baby in her arms, she skill fully evades any approaching danger by the most adroit nianuevers. At the end of the first fortnight the little one begins to tret about by itwlf, but always under its mother's watchful care. She frequently attempts to teach it to do for itself; but never forgets her solicitude for its safety, and at the ear liest intimation of danger seizes it in her arms and seeks a place of. retuge. hen about six weeks old the baby begins to need more substantial nutriment than milk, and is taught to provide for himself. Its powers are speedily developed, and in a few weeks its agility is most surprising. The mother's fondness for her offspring continues; she devotes all her care to its comfort and education, and should it meet with an untimely end, her grief is so intense an frequently to cause her own death. "The care which the females bestow upon their offspring." 6avs Duvancel, "is so tender and even refined, that one would be almost tempted to attrib ute the sentiment to a rational rather than an instinctive process. It is a curious and interesting spectacle, which a little precaution has sometimes enabled me to witness, to see these females carry their young to the river, wasli their faces in spite of their childish outcries, and alto gether bestow upon their cleanliness a time and attention that in many cases the child ren of our c wn species might well envy. The Malays indeed related a fact to me, which I loubted at first, but which I believe to be in a great measure continued by my own subsequent observations; it is, that the young siamangs, while yet too weak to ?o alone, are always carried by individuals of their own sex; by their fathers if they are 'males, by their mothers if females. M. d'Osbonville states that the parents exercise their parental authority over their children in a wrt of judi cial and strictly impartial form. "The young ones were seen to sport and gambol with one another in the presence of their mother, who sat ready to give judgment and punish misdemeanors. When any one was found guilty of foul play or malicious con duct toward another of the family, the parent interfered by seizing the young crim inal by the tail, which the held fast with one of her vixvn till she boxed his ears with the other." Sir. Evarts Joke. Secretary Blaine is reported to have de clared recently that it would be the iolicy of the Administration not to keep any one in the foreign service who has already been there eight years. "Eight years," he said, "are long enough for any one to hold an office of honor and profit. Men work for re ward, and young men are specially ambitious of recognition, and, so far as my influence can bring it about, the young, live men- of the party shall receive such recognition under this Administration. Curiously enough, says a correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, this declaration was made in response to a delegation from North Carolina, who were tnsistlngthat William l Maneum. Consul at Nagasaki, Jatan, should be removed. Mr. Evarts, who was in the room, listened to the efforts of these gen tlemen and approved Secretary Blaine's pol icy. when the following colloquy is said to have occurred: Evarts "I am a civil service reformer; but. then, if vou reallv intend to inancu rate this new policy I would advise you to begin somewhere else; Ion t disturb Man cum." "Whvr "Well, it would be" "Be what? Hasn't he been there a long time?" "l es; but you see " "I see notli ing to prevent his removel." "But, then " 'But, then, what?" "Why, he's dead." "Dead?" "Yes, as dead as Julius Cu-.sar. He died eight or nine months ago." The North Carolina delegation retired. Going to See a Girl. Auburn (Mich.) Courier.J The Eel River Road shows up the latest smash-up of railroad material. Last Sunday a train ran off the track between Aoburn Junction and Cedar Creek, smashing several cars badly and destroying a quaintity of flour and grain. The most prominent sensation connected with the smash-up is as follows: A young man from Butler, dressed in a suit of black broadcloth, and his "mug" adorned with a spring plug-bat, was on bis way to see i girl. The conductor was on the en gine when it jumped the track. and, walking along to the rear end of the train, he spied some object crawling out of the mud and water that accumulated along the ditch. I arose, and there before him stood the would-be lover. "Hello, what's uo?" asked the conductor. And emptying the water out of his plug, he remarked: "I'm a h-11 of a looking thing to go and see a girl, ain't IT' Ladies probably think that bangs are kiljIng. They are sometime fatal. The one that Ooliath got in the forehead did the business for him.

AN EXPLANATION.

BYtoD RoseoE, ro CAIKOCa.KD jack looa.x. ' A (rii a.t Confederate Brigadier. We often uttered notes of warning. Because they kept aloof from us. Our party men and measures scorning. But when, to aid us in our need. A Brlgadeir comes squarely over. That aH of grace a mantle is. Hi former faults aud crimes to cover. Though euch a Rebel he may be That Union blue can never dye him. No such objection shall we urge. But gladly take him up and try him. . ssMmsiafltfH3P Though he may favor and defeud a, , .. Wild measures of reputation, liC That matters not if he will aid Q Our party to control the Nation. T". r Kor what he was, and what he U. Let no man censure or all defame him ; The thought that covers this is That we in time of need can claim him. So we have caught our Brigadier In spite of Democratic bluster, And at the apex of our rch Have placed the champion Readjustee At onee we give him place and power. And mean to make his honors larger. Extending even to his friend. The Brigadier named Riddlebarger. We still abuse the Brigadiers, And hope to reap the glory of it. But gladly fold them ii our arms Wheu we consider party profit. TABLE GOSSIP. The ereatest massher uen-dlir trr tl tie smallest potatoes. A Dutchman, describing a pair'of horses, said: "Dev was exactlv Alike der off one." ' " ' George Eliot once wrote: "Hasanvone ver pinched into its nilulou smnllnoui : Ia cobweb of prematrimonial acnn.iintanr. si dp?" If anyone has, please write. He was a loud talker, but, in the opinion the cirls. ver "wft." Saucv TWsi vhn of idn't care called him "Mr I!,n.f,. " because he was so loud and so sott. On the U2d, within twelve hours. Saturn will he in conjunction with the sun: Juniter and Saturn will be in close conjunction, and neu mere w.n ne a monkey-and-parrot of a time all around. But, bv'the wav. where do we come in on this celestial circus? Old Lady "Oh. Mr. Hackles, you've stuffed my parrot very badly! All the eathers are coining out already!" Taxider nist "Why, Lor' bless you, Mnm, that's he perfection o' s-tufUn' ! You know th mi s the niouttin' season's now a now the coraitf on. Mum." A young wife lately lost her lnmhand who was about seventv vears old. "Hut how did you ever hapjen to marry a man of that age?" asked oneof her friends. "Whv " said the young widow, "you see 1 onlv liad the choice between two old nu n, and, of course, I tuik the oldest. The jury system, like a i.itf-e of l.r.K-n.l. has its right sid, where the colors all blend beautifully, and its wrong side, where the threads hang loose. A Welsh Jury, after deliberating about a horse theft, brought in a verdict of "(unity, with some little doubtas to whether the prisoner is the right man." The long hair of a lady of Pine Valley be came wound around her neck in her sleep ko tightly that, had hell not been at handshe would have suffocated in a few momenta. This is the disadvantage of wearinz' hair that can the hung over the back of a chair at night. Nature doesn't always get what the poet calls "the bulge" on art. At the recent opening of the Nevada Lesislature an Eastern minister wan invited to perform the religions service. He accepted the call and closed the ceremony with the Lord's Prayer. hen he had finished State Senator Doolan turned to Senator Ham mond and remarked, audibly: "He stole that prayer, and I'll beton it. I heard it almost word for word in Eureka at a funeral over ten years ago." Sacramento (Cal.) Star A child taken ill, is presented bv consid erate aunt with several fine oranges, one of which she begap to devour with every manuesiaiion oi aciigiit. "Ana what do you say to kind auntie, who brougkt you the beautiful oranges?" inquires grandma, anxious to call out the latent politeness in the child's character. "She mav bring me some more when these are gone." responded the child, her face shining with satisfaction and orange juice. In swallowing Mahone. the Republican party, like the whale that swallowed Jonah. has bit off more than it could chew. Buffalo Courier. The whale didn't bite Jonah, it bolted him whole, and he was far safer in the belly of the whale than he was when on board the crazy old ship that carried him. New lork Commercial Advertiser. Whv uon i you tea me wnoie storyr Jonah was chucked overboard because he had repudiated the true faith, and his presence on board the ship was a calamity. The whale endured him as long as possible, but be was too nauseating a morsel, and the whale was glad to spew him forth. An Englishman of some note dined with a Boston family one day. amf a pet boy was raucn interested in watching him and listen ing to his connersation. After dinner the gueht took him on his knee with the remark: I hear that you know a ereat many lan guages; tell me how many you know." "Oh, l know t rench and uerman and Italian and Spanish, and that's alL" "Kon't you know Ingush .' akea the visitor. "ro, 1 don l know English," he answered, with a very positive shake of the head, "i es, you do. certainly," persisted the hnehshman. "I tell you I do not," replied the child, almost impatiently, very emphatically. "My papa knows English, I s'pose, but I only know two words in English." "And what are they?" " 'Ouse and 'oree." Boston Journal. Sufficiently Asinine. fSt. Louis Republican. i ne women oi the soutn nave proven their capacity as disorganize, and to-day ao more man ail otner causes to make resi dence in the Souih of Northern men un pleasant and unprofitable. This is due to their ignorance, and to what Miss Hardaker would term their exceptionally small brain power. Indianapolis Journal. This is surely sufficiently asinine. The writer thinks he is discussing the "ethics of sex," but the atrophied brain, etc., of such a dolt incapacitates him from treating the subiect. He is probably a hermaphrodite. and it is, therefore, an offense to all women to be discussed by him. Walking advertisements: Every man woman and child who has once tried Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup can not say enough in its praise, and this is the reason why its sale is constantly increasing. A testamentary disposition. Pater "Now. my boy, I've been making my will, and I've left a very large property in trust lor you I merely wish to ask you if you've any suggestions to offer?" Son "Well, I don't know that I have, sir unless hum (pon der) Quesh'n is as things go nowadays, would n t it be better to leave the property to the other filar, and ah 'point me the trustee .' 1 unch. Troublesome Children, that are always wetting their beds ought not to be scolded and punished for what they can not help. They need a medicine having having a tonic effect on the kidneys and the u- inary organs. Sach a me!ii-ine is KidneyJ Woi t. it has stiecinc action, uo not tail to get it for them. Exchange. For Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Depression of Spirits and General Debility, in the various forms; also, as a preventive against fever and ague, and other intermittent fevers, the "Ferro Phosphorated Elixir of Coliaaya," made bv Caswell, Hazard b Co.. New York, atvd sold brjafl druggists, Is the best tonic; and lor patients recovering from fever, or other sickness. It bunt equal.

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