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THE NEWS.

TMmmm A Doyte, Qiu ItsyMiSiin candidate, was re-elected Mayor of Providence, R. T n on the 11th. The city Council is largely Republican and anti prohibition. The International Typographical Union has called for funds to complete the Greeley monument. The Baltimore & Ohio and the Grand Trunk Railroads have decided not to join the Eastern combination to raise the rate of freights from the West to the seaboard. - - ‘ The Arkansas Legislature met On the 10th under the new Constitution. Gov. Baxter delivered his message on the succeeding day, congratulating the people on regaining control of their own affairs, and trusting that the victory will be used wisely and well; that no proscription will be indulged in toward any class. He referred with pride to the new Constitution, and urged many reforms. He said the State had no idea of repudiating any of her just debts, and recommended some provision looking toward a funding of the outstanding indebtedness. The Commissary-General has notified Gen. Ord that the Government supplies are barely sufficient for the subsistence of the army; therefore no rations could be issued to the sufferers from the grasshoppers in Nebraska. According to Utah dispatches of the 11th serious snow-storms prevailed in the mining regions. Ex-Benator Pomeroy’s trial for bribery has been postponed until April next. John W. Head, Member of Congresselect from the Fourth District of Tennessee, died on the 9th. Count von Armim was re-arrested at Berlin on the 12th.

A violept snow-storm visited the'south of England on the litii. The weather had suddenly become unusually cold. The New Hampshire State Democratic Convention will be held on tht sth of January. - The nomination of J. J. Hoyt to be Collector of Internal Revenue at Chicago was withdrawn on the 12th, and Philip Wadsworth appointed. The Secretary of the Treasury has decided to consider an account in favor of Nebraska for 5 per cent, of the value of public lands lying within her limits, included within the reservations made by treaties with Indians. This decision will control the pending claims from several other States. A New York dispatch of the 12th says that at least 10,000 men and women are out of employment in New York city. The latest returns from Minnesota, received on the morning of the 12th, give the Republicans a majority of three on joint ballot. Gov. Garland and the other State officers of Arkansas were inaugurated on the 12th. On the 6th, in a battle with the Cheyennes, on McClellan Creek, the United States forces lost one killed and four wounded and the Indians fifteen killed.

A New Orleans dispatch of the 12th says Gov. Kellogg had requested the Election Returning Board, which met on that day, to allow the Opposition party to be represented. The Democratic State Committee had appointed a committee of three to be present during the sittings of the Board and witness the canvass and completion of the returns. A false report of the death of the Queen caused great excitement in London on the 13th. A Hendaye dispatch of the 13th reports the Carlists in good position at Andoain and ready to fight again. An express train on the Great Western Railway of Canada was boarded at Port Credit, on the night of the 13th, by a band of five masked men, who quietly gagged and bound the baggageman and express messenger, and robbed the express safe of between $40,000 and $50,000. The Postmaster-General has protested that he has no intention of recommending an increase in the Ate of postage. The State Department has received information confinfiing .the report that Spain had paid her indemnity to England growing out of the Virginius affair. The trial of the Tilton-Beecher civil suit. has been postponed until the first Monday in December.

Late returns from the Eighth Wisconsin District indicate the election of McDill by a small majority. " Hon. C. B. Farwell has been given the certificate of election as Member of Congress from the Third Illinois District. His official majority is placed at 186. According to the appendix of Treasurer Spinner’s report the receipts for the last fiscal year were $761,799,530.88, and the expenditures $742,247,173.35. The balance in the Treasury at the close of the year was $150,731,533.63. The receipts of the Postofflce Department for the same period were $11,990,816.38, and the expenditures $11,560,216. A Washington telegram of the 15th says there was in the Treasury $lO,414,000, the proceeds arising from the seizures of cotton and other captured and abandoned property. The Grand Jury of the Criminal Court of Cook County, Hl., have found an indictment against Wilbur F. Storey, editor of the Chicago for a malicious libel against Mr. N. K. Fairbank, of Chicago, whom the Times charged with having abstracted money from the relief fund. Daniel O’Mara and Patrick Irving were hanged at Montrose, Pa., on the 12th, for the murder of O’Mara’s mother

THE JASPER REPUBLICAN.

VOLUME I.

and sister, and Wm. E. Udderzook at Westchester, Pa., for the murder of Goss, Ms partner tea conspiracy to defraud insurance companies. On the 14th a delegation of the Illinois mine-owners represented to the Governor that a general strike of miners was imminent throughout the State, and that in some sections where a strike prevailed an attempt had been made' to fire the mines. On the 14th Gov. Garland, of Arkansas, issued a warrant for the arrest of * Lieut.-Gov.” Smith and his Secretary of State, on the charge of treason.

The remains of a German named Schilling were discovered a few days ago in the furnace of a Cincinnati tannery. A day or two subsequently the young son of Andreas Egner confessed that his father, one Rufer and himself murdered the poor man By pounding him on the head with an oaken stick and punching him with pitchforks. To hide the evidence of what they had deme they (brew the body into the engine furnace. All were arrested, and the boy and Rufer confessed their share in the deed. On the 14th Mrs. Rufer became insane and tried to murder her little child. Egner, the elder, sturdily denies his complicity, and says both the others are crazy. The Government of Saxony has forbidden the practice of cremation, according to a Dresden dispatch of the 16th.

According to St. Petersburg telegrams of the 12th a socialistic conspiracy had been discovered at Moscow, and an unsuccessful attempt made to murder the Czar. Numerous arrests had been made. Von Arnim’s trial has been set for the Ist of December. Meantime, in consequence of his feeble condition, he is to remain under police surveillance at his own house.

Ralph Waldo Emerson has been defeated in the content for the Rectorship of the University of Glasgow by Disraeli, by a vote of 500 to 700. A Hendaye dispatch of the 16th says the Carlists were again besieging Irun. Religious riots have broken out in Poland because of the disinclination of the people to submit to the authority of the priests appointed by the Government. Several of the leaders have been arrested. At the recent election in New York Tilden received a majority of 54,937 uotes for Governor over Dix. The American Express Company’s safe was robbed at Cincinnati on the 15th of $50,000. A man named Black was arrested.

J. D. White (Rep.) appears to have been elected from the Ninth Kentucky District by a majority of 500 votes. The Supervisor of Registration and the Court-Clerk of St. James’ Parish, La.-, were arrested and held to bail in the sum of SI,OOO each on the 16th upon the charge of altering the returns of the recent election. A New Orleans dispatch of the same date nays the United States troops would be removed from the StateHouse on the following day. The Alabama House of Representatives was organized on the 16th by the election of Anderson (Dem.) as Speaker. On the 16th the North Carolina Legislature was organized by the election of Col. R. F. Armfield as President of the Senate and John L. Robinson as Speaker of the House. The House stands 84 Democrats, 84 Republicans and 2 Independents. The Senate, 38 Democrats and 12 Republicans. On the 16th, according to an Associated Press dispatch, perfect quiet prevailed in Arkansas. Gov. Garland has sent a communication to the Legislature, recounting what he had done in regard to the Smith proclamation, and* asking that the law be amended so that he could offer a larger reward than $206 for the arrest of Smith and Wheeler.

The British Government, a London dispatch of the 17th says, had decided, at the instance of the Geographical Society, to fit out another Polar expedition. A report was current on the morning of the 18th in London that Gen. Laserna, the Spanish Republican commander, had died on the preceding day. The Arkansas imbroglio "was discussed by the Cabinet on the 17th. The President stated that he should not interfere except to keep the peace until he was better informed as to the merits of the case. Judge Poland, of the House Investigating Committee, was telegraphed for. The roof Pittston (Pa.) coal mine fell in on the 17th, killing several of the miners. A steam tug exploded her boilers at the Government works, near New York, on the 17th. Five of the crew were killed and the Captain fatally injured. The steamboat Empire sank at the JjTew Orleans levee on the 17th in consequence of being too heavily laden. It was reported that from thirty to forty lives were lost.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. * Cotton.—Middling upland, 14*4@14%c. *Lmt Stock.—Beef Cattle—slo.oool2.so. Hogs —Dressed. $8.5008.75; Live, $6.62H06.87H. Sheep —Live, $4.5006.25. Bbeadbtutts.—Flour—Good to choice, $5.05 ©5.75; white wheat extra, $5.7506.15. Wheat —No. 2 Chicago, $1.0601.09;' lowa spring, $1.06 01.08; No. 2 JTllwaukee sprhig, Rye —Western and State, 93095 c. Barley—sl.3o© 1.35. Corn—Mixed Western afloat, 8808814 c. Oats—Western, 6454065 c. Provisions.—Pork—Mess, $20.00020.25. Lard -=Prime Steam, 15%@15%c. Cheese—l2£olsMc. Wool.—Common to extra, 45068 c. CHICAGO. Lira Stock.—Beeves—Choice, $5.5006.00; good, $4.7505.25; medium, $4.0004.50;. butchers’ stock, $2.2503.75; stock cattle, $2.5008.60.

OUR AIM: TO REAR GOD, TELL THE TRUTH AMD MAKE MONEY.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1874.

York Factory, 15016 c; Western Factory, 14015 c. PorkNew Mmi, [email protected]. Lard—l3%©l3%c. Bartoatem.—Flour—White Winter Extra, $5.6006.25; spring extra, $4.2505.00. WheatSpring, No. 2, 809Wfcc. Corn—Ko. 2, 74* OOSKc. Oats—No. 2, 49©49%c. Bye—No. 2, 86087 c. Barley—No. 2, >1.3 @IX2. Wool.—Tub-washed, 45057 c.; fleece, washed, 40©47c.; fleece, unwashed, 27@f4c. 12.00; Fencing, [email protected]; “A” Shingles, [email protected]; Lath, $2.0002.25. ' Cincinnati. BnnansTvm.- -Flc ar—[email protected]. WheatBed, [email protected]. Corn—New, 64065 c. Rye—--94@95c. Oats—s3@s6c. Barley—fl .2501.80. Pboyisioms.—Pork—f 0 Lard—l3©

18%«. ST. LOUIS. Lrm Stock,—Beeves—Fair to choice, f16.25@ 7.00. Hogs—Live, [email protected]. Bbxadbtufvs.—Flour, XX Fall, [email protected]. Wheat~No.2Red Corn-No. 2, 69@70c. Oats—No. 2, 53@54c. Rye—No. 2,87@88c. Barley—sl.lßol.2o. Pnonsioxs.—Fork—Mess, [email protected]. Lard -12H©13c. , MILWAUKEE. Bbxadstuits.—Flour—Spring XX, [email protected]. Wheat-Spring, No. 1,$1.00K©1.01; No. 2,90J4 @9oJ£c. Corn—No. 2, 75@75J4c. Oats—No. 2, 48@ 49c. Rye-No. 1, 90@91c. Barley—Ne; 2, $1.23 ©ijm. ; DETROIT. Bmamtutm.—Wheat Extra, sl.l7H@l-1?. Corn—Bo©Blc. Oats—sl@s2c. TOLEDO. Bmadbtciws.—Wheat—Amber Mictu, $1.17M 01,17%; No. 9 Bed, $4.0501.0554. Corn-Mfrs*, 68@68J4c. Oats-52©8KKc. U CLEVELAND. < BRKADsnrrrs.—Wheat—No. 1 Red, fl.ll© 1.12; No. 2 Rad, $1.0401.05. Corn—New, 65 @66c. Oats—so©slc. BUFFALO. ? Livk Stock. Beeves Live, $6.2506.80. Sheep—Live, [email protected]/,. EAST LIBERTY. Livb Stock.—Beeves Best, $6.0006.75; medium, [email protected]. Hogs—Yerkers, $6.50© 6.75; Philadelphia, [email protected]. Sheep—Best; [email protected]; good, $4.2504.50.

Locusts and Witches.

The little island of Ayios Strati, situated to the south of the island of Lemnos, has for. some years past been troubled by an annual invasion /of locusts. The plague of these’insects has become so intolerable that the local authorities of the island lately, instituted an investigation of the matter, and discovered that the nuisance was attributable to sorcery. A council was immediately held, and • presided over by the Turkish Governor, at Which it was decided to make an example of the guilty parties. Seven women, suspected of witchcraft were at once taken into custody, and, failing to produce any satisfactory proofs of their innocence, were condemned to be cast into a deep pit in an ancient building. The witches, one of them being an old woman of ninety and another a young girl of sixteen, were kept alive during a month with provisions which their relatives were allowed to lower to them by means of ropes. Two of the women were married, and thejr husbands were imprisoned and heavily fined for being united to witches, In the meantime Emin Bey, the Caimakam of Lemnos, who has jurisdiction over Ayios Strati, hearing of these measures, and also hearing that, notwithstanding the imprisonment of the witches, the locusts were as numerous and troublesome as ever, gave . orders for the release of the captives. One of the women died shortly after h'6r release, and the affair has, according to the Dardanelles correspondent of the Levant Herald, led to legal proceedings. The released witches and the two husbands who were imprisoned and fined cited their persecutors to appear before the Medjliss of Lemnos. As, however, the parties cited are all primates, and consequently influential people, it was impossible to obtain redress. The plaintiffs then appealed to the Vali of the Archipelago, Ibrahim Pasha; but, as three months have elapsed without any notice being taken of the application, it is considered improbable that the primates of Ayios Strati will be taken to task for their unsuccessful crusade against locusts and witches.— Pall Mall Gazette.

Interesting Postal Statistics - Annual Report.

Washington, Nov. 11. Hon. E, M. Barber, Third Assistant Postmaster-General, has completed his annual report. It shows that during the last fiscal year there were issued to Postmasters, for sale to the public, 632,783,000 adhesive postage stamps of the value of $17,275,242; of plain stamped envelopes about 65,000,000, valued at sl,927,952; of stamped envelopes bearing a return request 52,000,000, valued at $1,733,738; of newspaper wrappers some 19,000,000, valued at $220,000, and of postal-cards 91,000,000. The increase in value of the ordinary issues over the preceding, year was $1,668,488, or over 8 per cent. These figures represent the cost of manufacture added to the postal value. 1 It is estimated that for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876, there will be required to defray the cost of adhesive postage stamps $149,764; of stamped envelopes and wrappers $446,520; of post-al-cards $159,806; and of advertising $115,000. The number of stamps, etc., issued each year increases at a uniform rate of about 10 per cent, per annum, but in consequence of more advantageous contracts having been effected the estimate for the above items is some $31,000 less than the sum appropriated#©? them for the current fiscal year. The Dead-Letter Division received during the past year 4,601,773 letters,'-repre-senting an actual or nominal value of $4,637,429, exclusive of jewelry and other property, which class of inclosures is treated as possessing no money value that can with correctness be determined. One million three hundred and ninety-

two Jwo hundred and teventyfour letters, $09,868, were delivered to the owners of writers, including 225,893 foreign letters, which were returned unopened to the countries from whence they came. Of the remainder some 2,600,000 were either worthless, containing circulars, etc., or could not be delivered and were destroyed. The rest ' are filed for reclamation or are in the hands of Postmasters for delivery. : The Third Assistant strongly recommits* 'that provision be made by law for furnishing to each and every Postmaster throughout the country indelible ink and other requisites for effectually canceling postage stamps and for postmarking. Hone of the postofflees are now furnished by the department with any such articles for the protection of the Government. Mr. Barber estimates that the proportion of washed stamps used again in payment of postage is 5 per cent, of the value of all the stamps sold each year, causing an annual loss of $1,000,000 to the revenue of the department.

'Die report describes the plan devised by the Third Assistant, and approved by the Postmaster-General, for collecting newspaper postage under the Prepayment law, which is to go into effect next January. This system provides, in brief, for the prepayment by stamps affixed to -a memorandum ofmailing, or, in other words, to a stub in a book retained by the Postmaster at the mailing office, a receipt showing the weight of the matter and the amount paid being given by the Postmaster to the person mailing the same. The stamps affixed to the stub to be canceled by a cutting-punch. It is expected that, notwithstanding the reduction of rates by the new law, this system of compulsory prepayment .of newspaper postage will yield a larger revenue than has ever been collected. Comprehensive inquiry seems to warrant the belief that in the city of New York alone not less than $600,000 per annum will be paid, a sum which is little less than one-half of the entire revenue from newspaper postage throughout the United States during the fiscal year. It is, however, impossible to estimate the actual increase for the whole country, owing to that provision of the law which allows free mail circulation of newspapers in counties in which they are printed.

How They Played It on Dougherty.

One day last week four or five Detroiters went into Macomb County to shoot squirrels and kick their shins against logs and fence-rails. They had just eaten a cold lunch in the- woods one noon when one of the party, a young man named Dougherty, stretched out on- his back, pulled his hat over his eyes and gave his mind up to the work of assisting his body to catch a little rest. The remainder of the party, having an understanding beforehand, quietly withdrew, one by one. One.of them passed around to a bush near Dougherty’s feet and took a tin rattle-box from his pocket. Another stood close to the young ifr&gi’s legs and in a suppressed voice, when was given, whispered: “For Heaven’s sake! Dougherty, don’t move so much as a finger! A big rattlesnake is right under your leg!” Dougherty was flat on his back, eyes covered, arms sprawled out, and his voice trembled as he replied: “ My God! what shall I do?” “ Keep perfectly quiet! It is your only hope! If you even raise a finger he will dart his fangs into you!” The man with the rattle-box gave it a shake, and reached out and laid a club across Dougherty’s legs, while the other man moved off about twenty feet and exclaimed :

“ Heavens! What can we do? If we shoot we may kill Dougherty!” The club was rolled off on the ground and the victim whispered: “ For mercy sake, kill it!” ‘ The club was rolled over his legs again, the box shaken, and the man whispered back: ”Be quiet or it is instant death! I think the snake wants to go to sleep, and ■if you will keep still you will be all right.” , „„ • , f *4 - The box was shaken, [the club moved jarounef, and finally the “ snake” seemed to Dougherty to settle down on his breast. He dared not whisper for fear of rousing it, but one of the men called <out:‘ ' - ■ “ There! it is asleep! We*ll move away and wait for it to glide off!? The whole crowd moved over behind a bank ancTlaughed and. tolled and tore up the dfrt until they Were exhausted,* while, poor Dougherty lay there like a log, not even daring to. draw an ordinary breath. The sweat ran down his -face and started out from his body until his shirt was wringing wet. The fellows took their guns and tramped away, leaving him,thus, and were gone an hour and a half. When they returned Dougherty was sitting up,’ having discovered the jokfe about"five minutes previously. He didn’t have a word to say, but there was a whole unabridged dictionary in his eye. Thejf spoke to him. hut for an answer he rose up, shouldered his gun and made ar bee-line for the highway, and none of the party has met him since.— Detroit Free Preet. ~

An Aberdeen preacher recently commented in the following complimentary way upon the conversational value of men and, wo men: “ There is the same difference between their tongues as between the hour and minute hand—one goes ten times as" fast and the other signifies ten times as much.” —The tea -crop of Japan last season amounted to 19,854,000 s all of Which the United States imported.

THANKSGIVING. . O mkn! grown sick with toil and care, Leave for a while the crowded mart ; O women I sinking with despair. Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day, and come As children back to childhood’s homel Follow again the winding rills, Go to the places where you went, When climbing up the summer hills, In their green laps you sat content, And softly leaned your head to rest On Nature's calm and peaceful breast. Walk through the sere and fading wood, So lightly trodden by your feet, When all you, knew of life was good, And all you dreamed of life was sweet, And let fond memory lead you back O’er youthful love’s enchanted track. Taste the ripe fruit of orchard boughs. Drink from the mossy well once more, Breathe fragrance from the crowded mows, With fresh, sweet clover running o’er, And count the treasures at your feet Of silver rye and golden wheat. Go sit beside the hearth again, Whose circle once was glad and gay; And if from out the precious chain Some shining links have dropped away. Then guard with tenderer heart and hand The remnant of thy household band. Draw near the board with plenty spread, And if in the accustomed place You see the father's reverend head, Or mother's patient, loving face, Whate’er your life may have of ill, Thank God that these are left you still. And though where home hath been you stand To-day in alien loneliness; Though you may clasp no brother's hand, And claim no sister’s tender kiss; Though with no friend nor lover nigh, The past is all your company— Thank God for friends your life has known, For every dear, departed day; The blessed past is safe alone— God gives, but does not take away; He only safely keeps above For us the treasures that we love. —Phabe Cary.

The Date.

Dates, to us merely an occasional luxury, are to the Arab the very “ staff of life,” just as the camel is his “ ship of the desert.” The date tree, one of the large family of palms, is a native of both Asia and Africa, and will grow readily in any sandy soil where the climate is not too cold, It was long ago introduced into Spain by the Moors and a few are still found even in the south of France. But the most extensive date forests are those in the Barbary States, where they are sometimes miles in length. Growing thus the trees are very beautiful. Their towering crests touching each other, they seem like an immense natural temple. The walls are formed of far-reaching vines and creepers that twine gracefully about the tall, straight trunks, and the ground beneath is dotted with tiny wild flowers that, with their rainbow tints and bright green foliage, are more beautiful than any floor of costly mosaic. For worshipers there are thousands of gay plumaged birds, flitting from bough to bough as they carol forth their morning and evening songs, their little bosoms quivering with gladness. The Bedouins, or wild Arabs of the desert, who consider it beneath their dignity to sow or plant or cultivate the soil in any way, depend upon gathering the date where they can find it growing wild, but the Arabs of the plains culti-vaUHt-with-great care and skill, thus im-

proving the size and flavor of the fruit, and largely increasing the yield. In some varieties they have succeeded in doing away with the hard seed, and the so-called seedless dates, being very large and fine, are highly prized. When ripe the date is of a bright golden color, fragrant and luscious, and in the- dry, hot countries where palms grow no better food for morning, noon or night can be found, while one never wearies of the sweet, pulpy fruit gathered fresh from the tree. But the trees do not bear all the year round, of course, and so the Arabs make what they call date honey, using for this the juice of the ripe fruit, and those who can afford it preserve dates fresh through the year by keeping them in close vessels covered over with this honey. Wine and spirits are also made from dates by distillation; but they are sold for the most part to foreign traders. For the Arabs are exceedingly temperate in their habits, and poor and ignorant as many of them are a drunken man is never found among them. There is still another product of the date, one that is of vast importance to the poor Arabs in their long journeys across the desert. This is date-flour, made by drying the fruit in the sun and afterward grinding it to powder. It is then packed in tight sacks and if stowed away from the damp, will keep for years. This is food in its most compact form, easily carried about, and needing no cooking; it has only to be moistened with a little water and the meal is ready for eating.—St. Nicholas.

A Curious Pair.

I was once sitting, writes a correspond ent of the Popular Science Monthly, in a cool underground saloon at Leipsic, where without people were ready to die from the heat, when a new guest entered and took a seat opposite me. The sweat rolled in great drops down his face, and he was kept busy with his handkerchief, till at last he found relief in the exclamation. “Fearfully hot!” I watjhed him attentively as he called for a cool drink, for I expected every moment that he would fall from his chair in a fit of apeplexy. The man must have noticed that I was observing him, for he turned toward me suddenly, saying, “ I am • curious sort of person, am I not?” “ Why?” I asked. “Because I perspire only on the right side." And so it was; his right cheek and the right half of hi forehead were as hot as fire, while the left side of his face bore not a trace of Srspiration. I had never seen the like,* d, in my astonishment, was' about to"

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enter into a conversation with him regarding the physiological curiosity when his neighbor on the left broke in with the remark: “ Then we are the opposites and counterparts of each other, for I perspire only bn the left side.” This, too, was the fact. So the pair took seats opposite to each other and shook hands like two men who bad just found each his other half.

How Mind-Reading Is Accomplished.

In Sunday morning’s Preu appeared a long article giving an account of the experiments of J. R. Brown, the so-called “mind-reader,” before several of the learned faculty of Yale College. Tossy the least, it is somewhat remarkable to see professors of Yale College unduly surprised by the performances of Brown, when the performances of the very same somewhat miraculous feats lie within the power of almost any person. Mindreading, as performed by Mr. Brown, is but a simple parlor amusement, which can be shown any evening, when the proper conditions, which are simple, are complied with. Dlustrative of this fact, a little personal experience may be detailed. More than three months ago a Prue reporter, spending the evening with a party of young ladies and gentlemen, first saw the same principle exhibited, and the very same feat which Mr. Brown performed upon his first experiment shown. A young lady of the party was blindfolded. One of the party then took a small table mat and carried it into another room, placing it upon a stand. Returning, the lady blindfolded took with her left hand the right hand of the person who had placed the mat in the other room, and she placed her right hand for a few moments upon her companion’s forehead. After standing in this position for a very short time the right hand was removed from the forehead, and raising the left hand of her companion, still holding it in her own, to her forehead, she went directly through intricate passage-ways to the very article.

After this experiment the same was repeated with other members- of the party, the articles each time being different and placed in a place unknown to the person blindfolded. The reporter was one of the number who took the character of the “ blind goddess” for the performance of two experiments. After being blindfolded and the articles hidden, he began to search for it, going directly to it at first, and, unconscious of his relative position in the house, and believing he was still going forward in a straight line, he suddenly came to a pause and experienced the strangest feeling he had ever known in his life. It is hard to explain it, but it was more like endeavoring to fly without knowing how to begin—a seeming effort to go up after something. This sensation is explained by the fact that the articles secreted had been placed some distance above his reach. Instead of going directly forward, as he had supposed, he was told he had continued to walk by the article without stopping, going from it for a short time but immediately returning. The experience during the second experiment was much the same. He is told that he passed the article more than a dozen times, then pausing before it. The article was placed below his head, and he only remembers feeling a sensation similar to some one pressing gently on the back of the head, and realized that his head was pressed upon a book—the article of which he was in search—safely deposited in the lap of a young lady. The only conditions necessary are that the person whom the then blindfolded person leads should keep the mind intently on the object and where it is hidden. The “ mind-reader” must as well keep his mind intent on the fact that he searches for something. The experiment is a decidedly amusing one which does admirably to while away an evening. While the reporter has never seen the other experiments detailed in the article in Sunday’s issue tried, he has no doubt they can be performed by almost any one as well as Mr. Brown.— St. Paul (Minn.) Press.

Nine Hours in a Cistern.

Yesterday morning about eight o’clock a little two-year-old child of Mr. Webb Calhoun, living two and a half miles north of the city, fell into the cistern, and the mother, who happened to see the child fall, jumped in after it. Mr. Calhoun, who is dealing in stock, was away from home at the time of the accident, and there was no one on the place, and Mrs. Calhoun, being unable to get out, was compelled to stand in water waist deep from eight o’clock in the morning until five in the evening. The unfortunate woman probably would have had to spend the night in that distressing condition, where, no doubt, she and her child would have perished before morning, if, by her screams, she had not attracted the attention of some children who were returning from school. The school-children heard her cries for help, but it was some time before they discovered and rescued the almost exhausted lady. Indeed, she was so much chilled and fatigued that it will be fortunate if she escapes a severe illness. Dr. Sibly was sent for about seven o’clock last evening, and it is "hoped the lady will escape serious consequences from her long bath.— Dteaiur (III.) Magnet. A good-looking and polite horse-car conductor pleased and married a rich widow in Sacramento recently, and now all the young men are offering for situaTtions on the Btreet-railrdadiß?

- ■ ■ ADEVRTIBING RATES. One Column one Year S6O 00 One-half Column one Year One-quarter Column one Year 24 00 Busnraae Cabxm, five Ifree or leas, one rt<r, $5.00, payable one-half in advance. /, y Lxgjjl Advkrtisxmbnts at legal rates. • Local. Noncia, ten crate a line for the flrst insertion, and five crate a line for each additional naertlon. Rbgulab Advibtibmknts payaNe monthly, q A change allowed every quarter on yearly Uver tisemente. CoMxtnacaxioNs of general and local interest solicited.

The Last Rat Story.

The Cincinnati Timu speaks of a wah* of extermination made upon rats lii fl certain establishment in that city, and vouches for the truth of the following: It was about ten o’clock this morning, while the workmen were engaged tn r claiming out the cellar aforesaid, they came across rats of all colors, sizes, ages, that numbered by actual count .1,000 to an aught. The rodents, when they saw their enemies, who came upon them unawares, had pressing business in other

parts of the building. All -of them started out at a rattling rate on an excut sion, but about 500 or less never reached the secure retreat of friendly holes. They dropped by the wayside, and breathed their last. When the lively interest of the discovery had ebbed to wondering talk over the affair, afresh impetus was given to the astonishment of the workmen by the finding of one of them of a large bottle with a capacious opening. In this bottle was a rat of uncommon size, living as snugly as if he desired no other happiness than to remain there always and look out on the frisky sports of his kind. A very good reason for this wish can be offered in his inability to come from his glass casing without breaking it. He went in there

when quite young, as reasonably supposed, a very sick rat, and it devolved upon his companions to bring him such delicacies as a very sick rat would crave. His disease being prolonged, owing to the incompetency of his doctors, nature used her own restoratives, and the afflicted rodent became well again. But he found that in the meantime he had reached maturity, and, through the unceasing,attention of his nurses and the good things which were provided for him, that he grew

to be of large, vigorous frame and had a superabundance of muscle for an ordinary rat. So well did he fare and grow that when he was able to leave the protection of his glass palace he Could not squeeze through the only exit. He contented himself with the situation, inasmuch as he would be able to live like a lord on the contributions of his friends for the rest of his days. But the destroy-: ing workmen, frightening away a part of his race and killing the rest, came across his citadel, and, satisfying their curiosity for a time by inspecting it and him, demolished it with a club. At this display of deadly will the rat, released, scampered to the nearest hole, but taking part of his curious house with him, stuck fast * just as he got out of sight. His enemies punched with sticks until he gave up the battle, and was drawn out a bleeding corpse. If any one does not believe this the dead rat can be produced.

How Dry it Was.

An honest old farmer from the country gave his recollections of the hot spell as follows: “ It was so dry we couldn’t spare water to put in our whisky. The grass- was so. dry that every time the wind blew it flew around like so much*ashes. There wasn’t a tear shed at a funeral for amonth. The sun dried up all the cattle; and burnt off their hair till they looked like Mexican, dogs, and the sheep all looked like poodle puppies, they shrank up so. We had to soak all our hogs to make ’em hold swill, and if any cattle were killed in the morning they’d be dried beef at dark. The woods dried up so that the farmers chopped seasoned timber all through August, and there ain’t a match through all the country—in fact, no wedding since the widow Glenn married old Baker, three months ago. What few grasshoppers are left are all skin and lege, and I didn’t hear a teakettle sing for six weeks. We eat our potatoes baked, they being all ready, and we couldn’t spare water to boil ’em. All the red-headed girls were afraid to stir out of the house in daylight, and, I tell you, I was afraid the devil had moved out of his old home and settled down with us for life. Why, we had to haul water all summer to keep the ferry running, and —say, it’s getting dry; let’s take suthin.” — Louisville Commercial.

An Untimely Interruption.

The boys tell a good one on Jim Barndollar, of the Osage Agency. It seems he had sent his washing to a full-blood Osage squaw, who was to have it done and bring it home on Saturday night. The squaw failed to fulfill the contract, however, and on Bunday Jim had to goto church with the same suit he wore during the week- In the meantime he had sent word to his washerwoman to “ bring them shirts.” He had just got comforta-' bly seated in the church, and the grave minister had opened up in thunder tones on sinners generally, when in stepped a big Osage Indian with a package under his blanket, who began making all kinds of unintelligible signs to our friend.Jim appeared-to take no notice of presence, however, until by his audible whisperings and frantic gesticulations the Indian had attracted the attention of the entire congregation, and fairly horrified our hero by drawing forth a shirt with a stunningly clean front, several pairs of socks and other things that go to complete a fashionable young man’s wardrobe. This was too much for him, and he immediately arose and, beckoning the persistent laundry-clerk out, he then and there exhausted both the English and Osage vocabulary of* epithets, after which he took charge of the clothes and told the dusky warrior to go his way. Profane language is prohibited at the agency, but it is said that Jim made good use of all the emphatic religious adjectives that came within his grasp Coffeeville (Kan.) Courier. < ’ Nuts that ripen all the year round— Herald.' * n