Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1874 — Page 1

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THE NEWS.

There was a terrible gale on the coast of England on the night of the 30th, which caused great destruction of life and property. The 4tnti-Tammany Democrats of New York have nominated Oswald Ottendorfer for Mayor and P. H." Jones for Register. J.. G. Abbott has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Fourth Massachusetts District, and Henry Alexander by the Republicans of the Eleventh. C. W. Chapin is the Democratic candidate in the Eleventh District." Large numbers Of men, according to a Montgomery (Ada.) dispatch of the 20th, had been summoned to appear before the United States Court in Huntevilleeirly in November. « * The Delegate to Congress from Utah, George Q. Cannon, has been indicted at Balt Lake for polygamous practices, and held for trial in the sum of $5,000.

Mackin & Co., bankers, of Newark, N. J., recently failed for $700,000. The Protestant Episcopal General Convention, in session at New York, has refused to confirm the election of Prof. Seymour as Bishop of Illinois. Gaorge B. Chamberlain has been appointed Chief of the Southern branch of the Secret Service Department. The steamer Brooklyn, of the Northern Transportation Line, exploded her boilers near Detroit on the 22d. Five passengers and eight of the crew were killed, and four passengers and seven of the crew wounded. The explosion tore her apart and she sank instantly. A convention was held at Atlanta, Ga., on the 22d to complete arrangements for direct trade between the South and Europe by means of a line of steamers between Savannah and Liverpool. It was largely attended by officers of Southern and Western railways. According to a Shreveport (La.) telegram of the 22d, papers were being prepared for the arrest of sixty-nine merchants who had pledged themselves not to retain in their employ persons who would support the Radical party in the pending election contest. Much feeling was caused by the announcement of this purpose on the part of the Federal authorities, and the pledge was again put in circulation and received nearly 200 additional signatures. Planters in the country were also signing similar pledges. Leading attorneys had expressed the opinion that the signing of suck a pledge is not a violation of the Enforcement act.

The London Times of the 23d says that President Serrano had. distributed $5,000,000 among Carlist chiefs to induce them to terminate the war. A campaign was about to be undertaken in the provinces of Cuenca and Valencia. The capture of Nena Sahib, the instigator of the great Sepoy rebellion, is announced from the British Indian Office. Henry Clews & Co., NeW York bankers, have made an assignment for tb® benefit of their creditors. Commodore Inman, of the navy, died at Philadelphia on the 23d. The full returns of the recent Ohio State election show that 238,406 votes were cast for William Bell, Democrat, for Secretary of State; 221,204 votes for Allen T. Wikoff, Republican, and 7,815 for John R. Buchtel, Prohibitionist, for the same position. The news from the Plains is to the effect that the Indians who were on the war-path are returning, discouraged, to the agencies. The following are the officers of the Missouri State Grange, elected in Kansas City on the 22d: T. R. Allen, Master; John M. Oldham, Overseer; W. Jackson, Lecturer; W. Cochrane, Steward; Dr. T. B. Turnbaugh, Assistant Steward; G. T. Bray ton, Chaplain; C. T. Quiesberry, Treasurer; A. M. Coffee, Secretary; A. J. McCraynor, Gatekeeper. A New Orleans telegram of the 23d says immense registration frauds had recently been discovered, and the matter was being investigated. The Presbyterian Synod of Illinois has decided that the Presbytery of Chicago had no right to expunge the name of Prof. Swing from the church-roll while charges were pending. The appeal of Prof. Patton was sustained and the Professor found guilty of preaching anti-Presbyterian doctrines, and his name erased from the roll of membership.

A.Galeatta correspondent of the London Timet telegraphs that it is estimated that 2,000 lives were lost in the district of Midnapore by the recent cyclone. Brazil declines to enter into mutual trade with Canada. The city of Tifiis, Russia, was nearly destroyed by fire on the 24th. Lord Derby recently informed the Spanish Ambassador that the indefinite continuance of the war in Spain showed a lack of patriotism and energy, and if the Spanish navy was vigilant the landing of arms for the Carlists would be impossible. The Count de Chambord has.been invited by the Legitimists to return to France. According to a recent Washington dispatch intimate friends of the President had said -that he had indulged in no utterances which would indicate that he had any aspirations for a. third term. It had been decided to remove the Postmasters at Galveston and Houston, Texas. On the evening of the 24th, at Cameron,

THE JASPER REPUBLICAN

VOLUME I.

Mo., while the passengers and trainmen of the eastern-bound express train on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ra3> road were at supper, six robbers boartfed the train, two of whom mounted the en-* gine and ran the cars two miles north, where they made an attempt to open the express company’s safe. Failing in this they abandoned the train. A baggageman ran it back to Cameron. The California Grangers' Executive Committee have concluded to ship wheat to England on their. own account, Morgan’s Sons, their former agents, having tailed. The official returns of the recent Indiana State election, so far as they apply to State officers, are as follows: Secretary of State —Curry, Rep., 164,955; Neff, Dem., 183,953; Bowles, Ind., 15,755; Stout, Ind., 2,981. Auditor—Wildman, Rep., 165,263; Henderson, Dem., 181,322; Prescott, Ind., 19,053. Treasurer—Glover, Rep., 164,971; Shaw, Dem., 181,380; Bennett, Ind., 19,025. Attorney-General —Denny, Rep., 166,153; Buskirk, Dem., 178,859; Beele, Ind., 18,584. Superintendent of Public Instruction—Bloss, Rep., 164,952; Smart, Dem., 180,986; Graham, Ind., 18,844. Judge of the Supreme Court—Osborne, Rep., 165,716; Broole, Dem. and Ind., 198,080. The Emperor of Germany has recently written a reply to the protest of the Pope against the persecution of German Bishops, in which he says that his Government has done all in its power to live in peace with Rome, but that it is bound to protect the State against the conspiracies of the clergy. A Madrid telegram of the 26th announces that .another body of Carlists had offered to surrender provided they could be amnestied.

The application to advance the Wisconsin raxlrdad cases for the sake of a speedy determination of the questions involved has been denied by the Supreme Court. They will therefore have to go over until March next. There is trouble with the journeymen coopers of New York. On the 26th they quit work in a body because their employers insisted that they should abandon their trade society. In a recent address Gov. Dix, of New York, announced himself as opposed to the third-term project. George Reynolds, of Salt Lake City, has been indicted under the act of Congress for polygamy, and held to bail to answer in the sum of $2,500. The Missouri State Grange has offered to lend money, without interest, to persons desirous of establishing an agricultural implement factory at Booneville. Lizzie Goff, of St. Louis, nine years old, kindled a fire with kerosene oil recently. Death followed in six hours.

The Conservative State Central Committee of Louisiana have protested to Gen. Emory against the course of Mty. Merrill, of the U. 8. Cavalry, who lately, at Shreveport, made an affidavit for the arrest of a large number of the citizens of the State for violation of the Enforce, ment act. They claimed that the offense was one strictly cognizable by the civil courts and appertaining in no manner to the military service.. They characterize his actions as being “ unmilitary and intimidating, and in conflict with the spirit of our institutions.” The man Kuhlmann who some months ago attempted to shoot Prince Bismarck makes insanity his defense. According to the London Daily News of the 27th Russia, England and Austria had notified the Sublime Porte that they proposed to make commercial treaties with the Turkish principalities without reference to the home Government. Large reinforcements sailed for Cuba on the 27th. On the 27th the resolutions adopted at the recent Baltimore session of the Executive Committee of the National Union League were presented to the President and Secretaries Bristow and Jewell. Late telegrams from Omaha say that the people in Southwestern Nebraska are starving. It is said that 10,000 people in the State will need aid to carry them through the winter. According to special dispatches to the Louisville Courier Joumal of a late date a band of masked men on the 24th visited various places in Shelby County and whipped and threatened black men and those who employed them. A girl sixteen years old, named Barrington, was shot. Great excitement prevailed throughout that section of Kentucky, and it was thought the Governor would take immediate steps to capture and bring to justice the perpetrators of these outrages. The population of Chicago, according to a recent school census, is 395,226.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Cotton.—Middling upland, 14*4@14Xc. lavs Btock.—Beef Cattle —[email protected]. Hogs —Dressed, [email protected]; Live, [email protected]. SheepLive, [email protected]. Breads tufts.—Flour—Good to choice,' $5.30 @5.90; white wheat extra, [email protected]. Wheat —No. 2 Chicago, [email protected]; lowa spring, $1.05 @1.07; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, [email protected]. Rye —Western and State, [email protected]. Barley—sl.Bo@ 1.35. Corn—Mixed Western afloat, 86H@89c. Oats—Western, 58@59Hc. Provisions.—Pork—Mess, [email protected].* Lard —l3X@l4Kc. Cheese—l2K@ls*c. Wool..—Common to extra, 46@68c. CHICAGO. Live Stock.—Beeves—Choice, [email protected]; good, [email protected]; medium, [email protected]; butchers' stock, [email protected]; stock cattle, [email protected]. Hogs—Live, [email protected]. Sheep—Good to choice, [email protected]. Provisions.—Butter —Choice, 81@38c. Eggs— Fresh, 20@21c. Cheese—New York Factory, 15@16c; Western Factory, 14@15c. PorkNew Mess, $19.00019.87#. Lard—l23£@l3c. BriadßTUTTß.— Flour—White Winter Extra,

* AIM: TO FEAR GOD, TELL THE TRUTH AND MAKE MONEY

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1874.

[email protected]; spring extra, $4.5005.25. WheatSpring, No. 2,1 84084*e. Corn—No. 3, 00 070 c. ' s Oak—No. 2,47047 KC. By©—No. 8, Wfc®B2Hc. Barley—No. 2, $1.1501.10. Wool. —'Tub-washed, 45057 c.; fleece, washed, 40060 c.; fleece, unwashed, 27085 c. Luxbrr.—Birat clear, $50.00058.00; second clear, $47.00040.50; Common Boards, SII,OOO 12.00; Fencing, $11.00012.00; “A" Shingles, $8.0003.25; Lath, $2.0002.25. CINCINNATI. Bbeadetuffs.- -Floor —$5.1505.30. WheatBed, sl.lO. Com—Booßßc. Bye—o6c. Oats—64o 56c. Barley—sl.lsol.3s. Provisions .—P0rk—520.00020.25. Lsrd-12H 01814 c. BT. LOUIS. Live Stock.—Beeves—Fair to choice, $4,500 8.00. Hogs—Live, $5.0005.85. Breadstuff*.—Flour, XT Fall, $4.2504.75. Wheat-No. 2 Bed Fall, $1;[email protected]. Corn-No. 2,75076 c. Oate-No. 2, 500503£c. Bye—No. 2, 8408414 c. Barley—sl.o7ol.l4. Pnovisioirs.—Pork—Mess, $20.00020.50. Lard —121401314 c. MILWAUKEE. Brradstuffs.—Flour—Spring XX, $5.2505.50. Wheat-Spring, No. 1,9209214 c;. No. 2, 860 8614 c. Com—No. 2,7207214 c. Oats—No. 2,460 4614 c. Bye-No. 1, 84@85c. Barley—No. 2, sl.lO 01.13. DETROIT. Bread stuffs .—Wheat Extra, $1.171401.18. Com—Bloß2c. Oats-5005014c. TOLEDO. Brradstuffs.—Wheat—Amber Mich., $1.06 01.0514; No. 2 Bed, $1.0801.04. Cora-Mixed, 78079 c. Oats—soosoc 14e CLEVELAND. Brbadbtufm.—Wheat—No. 1 Bed, $1.06@ 1.09; No. 2 Bed, $1.0301.04. Corn—Booßlc. Oats—s2@s4c. BUFFALO. Live Stock. —Beeves —54.5006.50. Hogs— Live, $5.2506.25. Sheep-Live, $4.0004.75. EAST LIBEBTY. Live Stock.—Beeves Best, $6.121406.6214; medium, $5.5006.00. Hogs—Yorkers, $5,500 5.75; Philadelphia, $6.4006.60. Sheep—Best, $4.5004.75; good, $4.0004.25.

Marriage in Mid Air.

The most sensational fair-weather bal-loon-trip on record was made to-day from this city. Although partly Barnum’s advertising business, the features it presented were so novel and peculiar that all the papers, even the Commercial , were forced into a minute description worthy of it. It was a wedding in a balloon in mid-air. The bride, a beautiftil red-headed blonde, was Miss Mary E. Walsh, one of the most charming riders in the hippodrome; the groom, Mr. Charles M. Colton, one of the ticketsellers; bridesmaid, Annie Yates, one of the riders; groomsman, W. E. Coup, manager of the show; officiating clergyman, H. B. Jeffries, Church of Christ, Pittsburgh. The halloon was in charge of Prof. Donaldson; the large balloon P. T. Bamum,—fully inflated, being used. Mr. D. S. Thomas, press agent of the hippodrome, accompanied the party. The basket, perch, ring and ropes were gayly decorated with the national colors and with artificial flowers. The passengers were all elaborately and tastefully dressed, and at the close of the afternoon’s entertainment the bridal party marched out from the hippodrome led by the grand band, and followed by the principal people of the show, to where the balloon was tugging at its tethers, impatiently waiting their coming. P. T Bamum and his bride were among those gathered to wish them a safe trip. A. rather funny incident occurred. Mr. Donaldson, finding that he could take one more passenger, called Mr. Thomas, and the latter had stepped into the basket. At that moment Bamum, who has long been talking about making a trip, stepped up to speak to the bride, who was in the basket. Mrs. Barnum was alarmed immediately. She fancied that he was about to follow his press agent into the car, and she ran up and caught hold of his coat-tails and ordered him back in an authoritative way, rather funny to see. The old gentleman followed her meekly back. At 4:80 p. m., to the music “Up in a Balloon,” the balloon sailed. Its upward flight was beautiful. It went up almost straight, with swift grace. A shower of flowers fell from it and the vast crowd of spectators cheered. When it had reached the height of a mile a parachute was dropped to indicate that the wedding in the air had been duly completed. The nuptial ceremony occupied about five minutes, the preacher making a brief address. The balloon was in tffe air only forty minutes, landing on the northern outskirts of the city on one of the hills, where the party were speedily overtaken by reporters in carriages, and where several bottles were cracked. On reaching the city proper the bridal party were taken direct to the Archepiscopal residence, where, in the presence of Archbishop Purcell, Mr. and Mrs. Colton were made man and wife under the rites of the Catholic Church, by Rev. Father Quinn. The Archbishop smiled kindly on them all, and gave to each of the party a photograph of himself as a souvenir of the happy and extraordinary occasion. —Cincinnati Dispatch to Chicago Tribune, Oct. 20.

—The Boston schools pay good salaries for good services and make a gradual increase according to length of service. They have consequently no difficulty in taking their pick from among the very best teachers. For the three or four vacancies that now exist in the Latin School not less' than 150 applicants, graduates of colleges in all parts of the country, have offered themselves. Sponge Cakes.—Beat well together two eggs, and then stir in a teacupful of powdered white sugar, and beat for five minutes; add slowly a teacnpful of flour, beating all the while; grate half a lemon into it and bake in scalloped tins. Thebe is in Pittsburgh a City Hall official who spells October with a “K.”

TEE MAT QUEEN. ADAPTED TO A BACKWARD BXASOX. If you’re waking, call me early, call me early, mother dear, And see that my room Is warm, mother, and the Are is burning clear; And tallow my nose once more, mother, once more ere yon go away, « For I’m to be Qneon o’ the May, mother, I’m to be Queen o’ the May. It froze so hard last night, mother, that really I couldn’t break The ice in my little pitcher, mother, till I thought the poker to take; You’ll And it there on the hearth, mother—hat, oh, let that hot brick stay, For I’m to be Qneen o’ the May, mother, Fm to be Qneen o’ the May. I shall pnt on my agua-scutem outsid e of my seal skin coat, * ■ ***' And two or three yards of flannel, dear, will go around my throat; And you'll see that the boneset-tea, mother, is drawn while your child’s away, For I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I’m to be Queen o’ the May. Little Eflle shall go with me, if her nose is fit to be seen; And yon shall be there, too, dear mother, to see me made the Queen, Provided the doctor ’ll let yon; and, if it don’t rain, instead, Little Johnny is to take me a part of the way on his sled. So, If you’re waking, call me erfly, call.me early, mother dear, For to-morrow may be the chilliest day of all the glad New Year; For to-day Is the thirtieth, mother, and bless’d if yonr child can say, If she ain't an April Fool, mother, instead of a Queen o’ the May. —Bret Harts, in Fast's Almanac for 1875.

A FRIEND “UP TOWN.”

Nurse Maycock was sitting in a disconsolate attitude, her cap ribbons hanging limply about, her under lip almost in contact with her nose. My youngestborn, sprawling idly on her lap, found hardly holding room there, and was sliding down the inclined plane of her knees all unheeded. Nurse, like her master, has occasional fits of gloom and depression, and her sadness, as his, generally proceeds from the same cause, that is, lack of money. “Well, Maycock,” I said, glancing round the nursery, “how are you getting on here? Children all right?” “Yes, sir; there ain’t nothing the matter with them," with a sigh. “ I don’t feel just right myself.” “ Spasms again?” “ A vi’lent pain in the small of the back-~just there, you know, sir,” said' Mrs. Maycock, giving herself a sharp blow withthe fist-on the part affected. “Liver, no doubt,” I said. “Take a pill.” “I’ve took ’em till I’m tired of’em, sir. Not but what I should feel better, I dare say, if I was more comfortable in my mind.” “ What’s your secret grief, Mrs. Maycock?”

“ Money, sir—money. I don’t know where it goes to, really; and children, sir, they’re always dunning of you. Here’s my daughter Mary going out to service, and money wanted to get her things, and where it’s coming from I don’t know!” “ I wish I knew where money would come from when it’s wanted.” “ Ah,” said Mrs. Maycock, resignedly, “ you can’t get blood out of stone. Well, thank goodness! I’ve got a friend up there,” she said, with a backward jerk of the head. “A happy frame of mind, nurse,” I said. “I wish I had such confidence in the powers above.” “ Bless you, sir, he’s the same to one as another, as long as you’ve got anything for him." “ Your meaning, Maycock? I don’t exactly understand your doctrine.” “My friend up town, sir—Mr. Gedge, the pawnbroker.” Mrs. Maycock knew that I could not be shocked at this allusion; nor was I. Still I felt bound to offer up a moral maxim or two. “ It’s a wasteful way of getting money,” I said. “You pay about 30 per cent.” “ Ab, but it’s better than borrowing, after all, sir. There’s no remarks made, and he don’t ask you for your money back again. Not but what there’s some people sets their faces against it, and my sister-in-law was one as ’ad never go nigh such places, till at last she was drove to it, and made her fortune by it the very first time she went.”

“Made her fortune,” I cried, my curiosity excited, “out of a visit to a pawnbroker?” “Yes, sir, her fortune. He’s a master builder, sir, now, her husband, and they live in a height-roomed house as he built hisself, and was having parish relief no longer ago than that.” “ Tell me the story, nurse. I should like to know how it’s done." Mrs. Maycock vigorously stirred the nursery fire, hitched her young charge into a more easy position, adjusted her cap, and began: “My sister-in-law Emma, as was formerly a Maycock, was in service for a many years with Admiral Brown, living at Witherfleld Lodge, Kingston, till she met with Rogers, being a carpenter, a journeyman, bat a very good hand, as kept company with her for a good while and then married. The Admiral’s family was very kind to them. They give her her wedding-clothes and a breakfast the day they was married, and the young ladies presented her with a beautiful silver teapot. And as they was going off —a fly and a pair of ’orses and everything grand—the Admiral comes down the steps and says he, ‘ Good luck to you, Mrs. Rogers,’ he says. 4 My daughters have found you a teapot and I’ve found the tea, and 1 hope it’ll do yon good.’ “Well, sir, Emma was crying a good deal, through having been in her [place

ever since she was a little bit of a girlfifteen years in one place; and, ‘ Thank you kindly, sir,’ she says, ‘ for all your goodness to me—you and the young ladies;’ and nothing did she think about the tea except that the Admiral meant as it was the breakfast, where they’d had tea, for to be sure, with sherry wine and everything first-rate. “ Emma had saved a bit of money, and with that her husband went into business. He were a hard-working man, but unfortunate through speculating in buying timber. And then he was taken ill with rheumatic fever, and little better than a cripple for years; and Emma had a lot of children, seven in as many years, and had her hands full with them, as you may judge. And by degrees they was brought very low. Nothing in the cupboard and seven children tugging at your apron-strings ain’t no child’s play, is it, sir?”

“ I can sympathize with Mrs. Rogers. How did she manage?” “ Well, sir, she went to the parish. She’d got some friends among them as was on the boord, and she told ’em as how she’d struggled hard to keep her heme together, and would the gentlemen kindly give her relief till such times as her husband could get into work again. Well, sir, they bum’d and ha’d; it was against their rules, they said, and so on; but the end of it was as they gave her a shilling a week for each of the children, and three and six for her husband and her. And with that and what she made going out washing they kept body and soul together. “ They’d always managed to keep a decent house about them, for that was her pride, poor thing; as I should have been too proud for to go to the parish, and would have sold every stick and stock I had sooner than d® it. But them wasn’t her feelings. ‘ We’ve paid rates ourselves,’ she says, ‘ as long as we could, and now let them pay for us.’ says she. And there was reason in that.

“ Yes, sir, she’d a nice little house, with a parlor as they never used that was as neat as a new pin. A little carpet on the floor, a little round table in the middle, two little cupboards, one on each side of the fire-place, and on one of ’em a mat in violin work, and atop of that the silver teapot.”

“Do you mean that it was the fiddle pattern, Mrs. Maycock?” “ I don’t know what pattern it was, but it was a beautiful teapot as always stood on that mat of violin wools. She’d never used it, bless you, never had made no tea in it; not when she’d company or nothing There it stood, just as she’d had it from the Admiral’s family, with the silver paper inside it and all! She cleaned it every week on Saturdays with whitning and brushed it over with an old toothbrush.

“ Well, air, Emma had just come home from a day’s washing and was lighting herself up the best way she could afore she sat down to mend the children’s things, when there was a knock at the door and Emma answered it; and, lo and behold! there stood a lady in a black silk dress with a drawn donnet, and says she, ‘Are you Mrs. Rogers?’ ‘l'es, ma’am, and what’s your pleasure?’ says Emma. Says she, 4 I’m ’ ” “ Not the district visitor again,” said I, laughing, as by Mrs. Maycock’s knitted brow and pursed-up lips I conjectured that she had conjured up before her mind’s eye an image of her bete noir. Mrs. Maycock shook her head in a way that implied a good deal. “Yes, the district visitor,” she went on; “ and so Emma says, 4 Indeed, ma’am!’ and shows her into the parlor, being a bit humbled in her mind through getting parish relief. So the lady looked here and there, and up and down, and axed Emma ever so many questions about this and that and the other; and in the middle of it all the baby cries, and away goes Emma to tend to it. Well, when she comes back the lady looks very cross and uppish, and she says: ‘Mrs. Rogers,’ says she, ‘may I ask if this here’s your teapot?’ 4 Why, yes, ma’am,’ says she, 4 as was gave me by Admiral Brown’s family.’ ‘Oh!’ says the visitor, in a towering rage, 4 and you receive parish relief, with a silver teapot, as I could never afford such a thing for myself!’ says she; and with that she flings away. “And what do you think she does? Writes a long letter to the head boord in London; and down comes a gent ready primed with everything a-purpose to make inquiries as to Emma’s teapot. And after a bit the gentlemen send for her, and say they, ‘We’re very sorry, Mrs. Rogers, but our masters say you ain’t to have no more relief,’ and struck her off the books. “ And then she was druv to it, as *ad never been to a pawnbroker’s in her life; but go she must with her silver teapot, as she cried over as she packed it away in her basket. And she shook and trembled that vi’lent as she went along, and was that pale, as people turned round to look at her. And she come to the pawnshop, and her heart failed her, and she walked en and on ever so far beyond, thinking as everybody was watching her; and at last she turned back, quite desperate, and went right in. And when she got inside the door she didn’t feel so bad, and she says to the man, 4 Being in a little bit of difficulties through want of money,’ says she, 4 would you kindly advance me as much as you can without inconveniencing yourself,’ says she, ‘on this piece of silver?’ and brings out her teapot. Weil, the man snatches it up, and he looks at it all round, and here and there, and rings it, and makes a little tiny scratch inside it, and then he fetches out his weights and scales. 4 Don’t want this, ma’am,’ says he, flinging out the paper as was inside; and Emma takes it

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up to fold it out, as it might be a sort of remembrance to her of the teapot as was gone, and, lo and behold! there was a hangvelope in the middle of the silver paper, as must have been there ever since it was give her. ‘Mrs. Rogers’was outside it; ‘with Admiral Brown’s best wishes.’ * Oh, la!’ she says, ‘ I never see this,’ and opened it quite faint-like, and there was a fifty-pound note! And that was the Admiral’s tea, as flashed into her mind after all them years. ‘ Thank you, sir,’ she says; ‘l’ll not trouble you now,’ says she, and sets off hugging her silver teapot to her heart.

“ Ahd she spent five pounds of it in sending her husband to Margate; and he caine back quite another man, and got a contrack, and with having a bit of ready money he made a good thing of it, and never looked back afterward, but come to be the man I told you of, with houses of his own, and money laid out at interest, and all through her going to her friend up town, which must be my journey when I’ve seen the children to bed. La, there’s the postman’s knock!” The postman’s knock it was; and the children tumbled one over the other in their eagerness to bring me the letters. And there was a letter that inclosed one of those pleasant crisp - papers, yclept checks, which are so grateful to the empty itching palm. And for this time I was able to save Mrs. Maycock a journey “ up town.”

Engraving by the Sand-Blast Process.

As we long ago predicted, in relation to the possibilities of the sand-blast process, we now learn that it is made to render service akin to that of the bow familiar photo-lithograph, Albert-type, and other methods of light engraving. In a paper read before the British Association at Belfast, its author, Mr. Newton, stated that, if the sand-blast be applied to a cake of resin, on which a picture has been produced by photography in gelatine, or drawn by hand in oil or gam, the hare parts of the surface may be cut away to any desired depth. The lines thus left in relief will be well supported, their base being broader than their top, and there being no under-cut-ting, as is apt to occur in etchings on metal with acid. An electrotype from this matrix may be made, and this used on the ordinary printer’s press, thus securing a printed copy of the original photograph. In the course of his experiments Mr. Newton discovered that small shot or fine grains of iron could be substituted for the sand with favorable results, cutting granite more rapidly—owing, doubtless, to the fact that these particles are not broken by the shock, hence the full effect of the blow is felt by the opposing surface. With regard to the general construction of the ma£ chine, we are informed that sand, driven by an air-blast of the pressure of four inches of water, descends with sufficient force to remove the surface of glass in ten seconds. Photographic copies in bichromated gelatine have thus been faithfully reproduced on glass. Where these pictures are taken from nature, the lights and shades produce films of gelatine of various thickness, upon the surface of which a well-regulated blast will act with more or less effect, thus producing half-tones or gradations of light and shade upon the glass itself. While delicate manipulators are applying this force for such purposes as the above, it is proposed by certain quarry-men to use it in the boring of blasting-holes and cutting of suitable rock-channels. And all this and far more still is due to the observing genius who first noted upon the window-panes of a Cape-May cottage scratches and abrasions made by the wind-blown sand, and who, having detected nature at her work, stole her secret, and secured for it letters-patent, and with them, it is hoped, such a fortune as his scenius and enterprise justly merit. — Appleton's Journal.

Secret Assassinations in South America.

A Buenos Ayres paper says: “An important discovery bas just been made. For some time past well-known residents in San Isidro have frequently disappeared without anything being subsequently heard of them. A train from the north recently left a case at the San Isidro station, and the persons to whom it was consigned immediately applied for it and left for a farm in the neighborhood on which there is a solitary house. Rumors of revolution which had been current led the Justice of the Peace to be on the qui vive, and happening to notice the case he imagined that it might contain'arms for the use of some of the suspected rebels. He therefore ordered some policemen to. follow the case and examine it on its arrival at its destination. It was carried into the house through a doorway so narrow that entrance, even one at a time, was difficult. They found themselves in a narrow and short hallway, and pushing on entered a room about five yards square, in which were a number of skeletons and bones, and other human remains. On the wall at the end was an inscription in Italian, meaning, 4 So die all traitors.’ Another small room was then examined and a large cellar. Nothing remarkable was found in the first, but in the cellar a large number of stilettos, daggers, knives, pistols, and other murderous weapons were found. On many of these weapons the same inscription, 4 So die all traitors,’ was found, and it may not be out of place to remember that the same were found on the dagger which some years age caused the death of the Italian Consul in' Buenos Ayres. The cellar was also full of bones, and among them the head of a woman was observed to which still adhered.” f

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A poor old man committed suicide in San Francisco because a pictorial sheet characterized him as an “old nuisance.” In view of the dreadful mortality from yellow fever at the Pensacola Navy Yard, the Nautical Qastette suggests the closing of that station from Aug. 1 to Nov. 16. Some people complain about their children being non-observing, but we’d like to see the child who won’t observe how the family pie is cut and who gets the biggest piece. —Detroit Press. Barrels of flour and fruit sent from America to Queen Victoria are always turned over to one of the married servants, who has red hair and a nose like a bugle in a table leg .—Danbury News. Salt Lake seems to have lost its savor. When the Saints first came to the valley, says a California paper, the waters of the lake yielded one pail of pure salt to three of water. It now requires five pails of water to yield one of salt. A Springfield (Mass.) gentleman concluded to have a bath the other evening, and in the dark got hold of a chunk of stove-blacking by mistake for the soap. A more polished man than he was has never been seen in the whole State of Massachusetts. Mark me results of advertising: William Wakeman, a California farmer, advertised for a wife, and got one. So far so good. But here he made his mistake. He stopped advertising, and how disastrous the consequence. The wife packed up all his money and fine linen and went —no man knows whither. A WiLLiAMETTE (Oregon) farmer wanted a hand to drive a reaper, and his married sister, who was there on a visit, heard him say he would pay $1.50 a day for a hand. She stepped forward, claimed the job, took the reins, and kept it up for several days, doing first-rate work. Saturday last a hound belonging to a man named 'Bcudder, of Fayette, Ohio, was tied toAtm end of a rear car on a Canada Southern train during the stop at Wyandmta His owner had a bet that the dojpwould keep up with the train and come into Detroit all right, and the hound did. The train ran at its usual rate of speed and the dog did not have to be pulled a foot of the way. The amount of the wager was SSO, the bet being S3O to S2O that the dog could not win, —Detroit Free Press. A clergyman of the Church of England was recently asked to say grace at dinner on board an Atlantic steamship. He arose, evidently embarrassed, and recited the familiar juvenile prayer beginning, “ Now I lay me down to sleep,” etc., to the surprise of some and amusement of many passengers at the table. He afterward explained that when called upon he could not recall one of the many forms of expressing thanks, and uttered the child’s prayer unconsciously. Clergymen sometimes surprise and amuse us all! —“ Norval," in N. T. Mail. The Lynchburg News, in a brief account of the game, rattlesnakes and other ferce naturae to be found in the Virginia mountains, mentions that in this wild and dismal scope of country there are many wild hogs, which do not hesitate to attack the traveler, and they are without doubt the most dangerous denizens of the mountains. They are usually found in herds of from five to twelve, and the sight of a human being is the only signal for attack that they require. The intruder has then nothing left him but to outrun them or climb a tree and wait for them to leave. One cause of accident in blasting but little understood and which applies to powder as well as nitro-glycerine is thus stated: “ The blaster, not aware that he is a walking charge of electricity, proceeds to his work, inserting cartridge after cartridge of nitroglycerine until he comes to the last, which is armed with the electric fuse. The moment his hand touches one of the naked wires the current passes through the priming and explosion follows. Let a blaster before he handles these wires invariably grasp some metal in moistened contact with the earth or place both hands against the moist walls of the tunnel.” A novel runaway has just come to light. Two little girls, aged nine and ten years, arrived in Philadelphia a few days ago on a trip from New York. They were imaccompanied by any adult, and were pot on a tramp, determined to see the worn. The little ones reside in the metropdns, from which, having seen all that was to be seen, they resolved to make a “ tour of the globe.” Their habits de voyagement were composed of shawls, dresses and bonnets, each a gold watch, finger-rings, ear-rings and breast-pins, and about S6O in money. They were re ■ turned to their home next morning under the guardianship of an irate papa. Can this be beat?

A young man residing with his father in Patcbogue, L. 1., a few nights ago heard a noise in the direction of a watermelon patch and, looking out of his bedroom window, saw a man in the act of 44 hooking ” one. He seized a gun loaded with small shot which he kept handy for such purposes and blazed away at the supposed thief. A yell followed and the young man was horrified to discover by the' voice that he had shot his own father. The “old man” came running into the house with a big watermelon under his arm which he had been selecting for breakfast the next morning, and it was found fortunately the entire charge had lodged in the melon—not a shot having struck the* person of the supposed thief.