Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1874 — Page 1

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THE NEWS.

According to • Berlin dispatch of the 18 th the Government had been defeated on that, day in the Reichstag upon a proposed bank bill by 127 to 158. The President of that body at once tendered his resignation. Thirty-two of the Turks charged with the murder of the Montenegrin Christians have been found guilty and sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment each. " , According to a New York dispatch of the 18th the New York Central & Hudson River* Railroad Company had discharged 1,500 men, nearly one-sixth pf the whole number employed, and largely reduced the wages of those that remained. Serious labor difficulties are reported in the Pennsylvania mining region. The suit of Theodore Tilton against Henry Ward Beecher has been definitely set for trial on the Bth of December. The Metjtodist Board of Missions, recently in session to New York, appropriated $821,000. A late Madison (Wis.) dispatch says that after throwing out the votes of the towtf of Lincoln and the First Ward of the city of Grand Rapids, Cate (Ref.) had a majority of two votes in the Eighth District. The last of the three men concerned in the express robbery at Cincinnati was arrested on the 18th. They subsequently confessed their connection with the affair. A)1 but $9,000 of the money had been recovered on the morning of the 19 th. The Arkansas Legislature on the 18th passed a bill authorizing Gov. Garland to offer a reward of SI,OOO each for the arrest of Smith and Wheeler. According to a London telegram of the 19th an American boat in the Clyde had been run down and seventeen sailors on board drowned. A Hendaye dispatch of the 19th says the vigorous cannonading from one of the outlying forts of Irun had again compelled the-Carlists to abandon their position in front of that city. King Coffee, of the Ashantees, has been compelled to abdicate, and his nephew has been installed King in his stead. Three workinen were killed and fifteen seriously injured, in Paris, on the 19th, in' consequence of an explosion in a chemical manufactory. The building and a railroad station hard by were destroyed. A Constantinople dispatch of the 19th says an Egyptian army had captured Darfour and killed the reigning Sultan. The Anti-Secret Association of Illinois, recently in session at Chicago, adjourned on the eyening of the 19th. Resolutions were adopted severely condemning all secret organizations. The Nevada Legislature stands politic cally as follows: Senate —Republicans, 18; Democrats, 7. Assembly—Democrats, 16; Republicans, 31; Independents, 3. Charlie Ross has turned up again, this time in the possession of F. W. Peyton, of Huntington, W. Va., who offers to hand him over for $5,000. A Little Rock special of the 19th says that all the State offioers of Arkansas elected on the ticket with Lieut.-Gov. Smith v except the Secretary of State and Attorney-General, had indorsed Smith’s application for recognition as Governor. Chamberlain’s majority for Governor of >?outh Carolina is 10,667. An explosion occurred in the Warrenvale coal mine in Yorkshire, England, on the 20th, which caused the loss of twenty-four lives. A Washington dispatch of the 20th says the Cabinet had unanimously decided that no present recognition of Smith’s claim to be Governor of Arkansas should be made. ; • The libel suit of Henry C. Bowen against the Brooklyn Argn* resulted ip the acquittal of the defendant on the 20th, the jurors holding, however, that, while the defendant was legally exempt from conviction, the printed matter in the Argus relating to the deceased Mrs. Bowen was atrocious and cruel. The Kansas'State Central Relief Committee have issued an address appealing for aid for-the sufferers in their cautioning the public against placing their benefactions in the hands of unauthorized and irresponsible parties. Parties solicMng aid by authority will have the indorsement of the Governor of the State,,and such indorsement will be a guaranty &f their responsibility. The appeal closes as follows:

Individuals or local committees desiring more specific information concerning matters connected with the relief of our people should address directly the Secretary of the committee, and all remittances of ftmds should be made to the Treasurer at Topeka, With emphasis we assert that our suffering people are net wasting in enterprise, nor courage, nor any of the elements of true manhood. The uncomplaining patience with which even women and children are enduring the misfortunes that have fallen upon them is.,uothing short of heroic. Our people have not lost fakh in themselves nor in the resources of the in which they live. In their behalf we confidently appeal to the liberality of those who consider it a privilege to minister to the wants of the suffering. (Signed) E. S. Stovkb, Lieutenant-Governor, and President of the Kansas Central Belief Commission. A motion to release certain Democratic Deputies was made by an Ultramontane member in the German Reichstag on the 21st, and defeated aJter a speech by Bismarck m opposition. The Argentine gunboat Panama has been, surrendered totbe Brazilian authorities. Correspondence with Europe from Buenos Ayres has been forbidden. According to a London telegram of the 21st Germany has secured a port on the Mediterranean from the Emperor of Morocco.

THE JASPER REPUBLICAN.

VOLUME I.

The Spanish gunboat Prosperidas is missing and supposed to be lost. She had 200 men on board. The Pope has written to Cardinal Cpllen and the Irish Bishops thanking tllfem for their recent condemnation of Prof, Tyndall’s address at Belfast. r**Representatives Wilshire and Lowe, of Arkansas, have notified the AttorneyGeneral that they intend to file an argument in opposition to the claim of Smith to be of Mrs. Fred-. Gfrtmt made Iter debut in Washington society at a party given by the wife of the President. About 300 invited guests were present, and the bride was heartily received. The attempted kindling of a fire with kerosene at Trenton, N. J., on the 21st was the cause of the death of Mrs. Riley and her infant. The editor of the Chicago Times has been held to bail in the sum of $1,500 for libeling N. K. Fairbank, of Chicago. In San Francisco, on the 21st, “Fullerton” trotted three heats in 2:20|, 2:20f and 2:20J —the three fastest consecutive heats on record. The Louisville Presbytery having severely reprimanded Dr. Wilson, pastor of the Louisville First Presbyterian Church, that organization has withdrawn from that body. The Chairman of the Nebraska Relief and Aid Society has cautioned the public against giving to unauthorized persons. Contributions should be forwarded to Alvin Saunders, Treasurer, and E. B. Chandler, Secretary, Omaha, Neb. Wm. Sharon, a San Francisco banker, recently presented his daughter with a check for $1 ,000,000 on the occasion of her marriage. It -was reported in Little Rock on the 21st that the Republican State Central Committee of Arkansas had received several letters from the northwestern part of the State offering five companies of old Union soldiers to Gov. Smith. The late sensational dispatches reciting that the people of Arkansas were being troubled by the White League and that arrests of the friends of Smith were being daily made are authoritatively denied. The usual London fog prevailed on the 23d. Travel on land and water was very dangerous, and numerous accidents were reported. Lady Franklin has renewed her offer of SIO,OOO reward for the recovery of the records of Sir John Franklin’s Polar expedition. Victor Emmanuel opened the Italian Parliament on the 23d by a speech from the throne, devoted mainly to the financial system of Italy and measures of public safety. The Secretary of the Interior has requested the War Department to remove the miners operating in the Black Hills in violence of treaty stipulations. A. B. Mullett, Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, tendered his resignation on the 23d. .Secretary Bristow promptly accepted it. Mr- Beecher’s attorney? have appealed from the order of the court denying the motion for a bill of particulars in the suit brought by Mr. Tilton. Hon. W. B. Wickham was sworn into office as Mayor of New York on the 23d. The Minnesota State canvassers have awarded the certificate in the Second District to H. B. Strait, the Republican candidate. The following is the official vote for Secretary of State cast at the recent election in Indiana: J. E. Neff, 182,154; W. W. Curry, 164,902; J. C. Stout, 16,233. Gov. Garland has offered a rewai'd' of SI,OOO for the apprehension of Smith and SSOO for Wheeler. Smith, according to a Washington dispatch of the 23d, was in the Government Arsenal at Little Rock. Gen. Emory has ordered Lieut. Hodgson to be tried by court-martial upon, charge? preferred by Gen. Morrow, based upon Hodgson’s recent ccßduct in Northern Louisiana. A tornado destroyed large portions oT Tuscumbia and Montevallo, Ala., on the 22d. In the former place twelve persons were killed and many injured. In the latter two persons were killed and twenty iM^ired. According to a Madrid special of the 24th the Spanish Government had expressed a willingness to pay to the United States indemnity in the Virginius case, calculated upon the same basis as that according to which the settlement with Great Britain was effected. An engine on the dummy railroad between Hyde Park and Chicago jumped the track on the 24th, turned over and crushed the engineer to death. A newsboy was fatally scalded by escaping steam. At a meeting of the Indiana State Grange, held in Indianapolis on the 24th, the following officers were elected: Henley James, Worthy Master, Marion; C. W. Davis, Lecturer, Kentland; Russel! Johnson, Steward; F. C. Phillips, Assistant Steward; B. F. Ham, Chaplain; Q. H. Brown, Treasurer, Rensselaer; M. M. Moody, Secretary. Muncie; Alpheus Tyner, State Purchasing Agent, Indianapolis. The Granges in the State number 1,999. An appeal for aid for the sufferers *by the recent tornado it Tuscutobia; Alh'.;* has been made. On the 24th the General Grand Chapter of Masons of the United States met at Nashville, Tenn. The majorities ia the First and Second Louisiana Districts are officially announced as follows: First—Randall

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

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1874.

Gibson, Dem., 6,718; Second—E. J. Ellis, Denu, 4,759. ’ 11 An, injunction waft served on the Chicago Board of Trade on the 24th, just as 'they Were voting bn the expulsion of Jack” Sturges for uncommercial conduct hr connection with a recent com corner, forbidding them to take any farther steps in the matter until the court gave them permission. . The following appear to be the facts in relation to thejaielyrreported defalcation of the' Treasurer of the Missouri State Grange: At the recent meeting at Kansas City Mr. Quisenbury was called upon for the whole sum in the treasury —s2o,ooo—it being wanted to invest in a manufactory. 1 It then came out that Quisenbury had invested the funds of the Grange in various ways, and that they could not be realized at once k • He raised $4,000 cash and has since give%to the Executive Board of the Grange deeds of trust on two farms said to be worth SIB,OOO, and executed a bond of personal security, which has been accepted by the Board, and has agreed to pay the w.hole amount by next July. It is not believed that the Grange will lose a dollar. Gov. Houston, of Alabama, was. inaugurated on the 24th. In bis address he said: “The citizens of Alabama (truly desire peace and perfect restoration of fraternal relations between all sections -of our common country. They are loyal to the Government of the United States and will readily yield cheerful obedience to its authorities and laws. They only ask to be permitted, under the Constitution and laws of the country, to exercise, secure from unwarrantable interference, the right of governing themselves at home by just and wisely-exercised laws for local self-government.”

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. ‘ r Cotton.— Middling upland, 14&@14Xc. Live StooK.— Beef Cattle—slo.oo®tSLso. Hogs -Dressed, $8.62H@845; Live, $6.75©7.12‘ / 4. Sheep —Live, [email protected]. Breadstuffs.— Flour—Good to choice, $5.06 @5.75; white wheat extra, $5,75@8J15. Wheat —No. 2 Chicago, [email protected]; lowa spring, $1.06 @1.09; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, [email protected]}4. Rye —Western and State, 94@96c. Barley—sl.3o® Provisions.— Pork—Mess, [email protected]. Lard —Prime Steam, 14@1414c. Cheese—l2*4@ls3£c. Wool. —Common to extra, 45@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]. r~ < Provisions.— Butter—Choice, 32@3Sc. Eggs— Fresh, 24@26c. Cheese—New York Factory, 15@16c; Western -Factory, 14@15c. PorkNew Mess, [email protected]. Lard—l2&@l3c. Breadstuffs.— Flour—White Winter Extra, [email protected]; spring extra, [email protected]. WheatSpring, No. 2, 885i@89c. Corn—lo. 2, 81 @Bl *c. Oats—No: 8, 64*@64*c. Rye—No. 2, 90@91c. Barley—Ko. K,'51,*[email protected]*4.- c •*'=• Wool. —Tub-washed, 45@57c.; fleece, washed, 40@47c.; deece, unwashed, 27@S4c. Lumber.—First clear, [email protected]; second clear, [email protected]; Common Boards, sll.oo@ MS.OO; Fencing, $U,[email protected]; “A’? Shingles,. [email protected]; Lath, $3.0Q@&25. . w„„,Red, [email protected]. Com—New, 69@70e. Rye—[email protected]. Oats—6s@«oc. Barley—[email protected]. Provisions.— Pork—[email protected]. Lard—l3%@ ST. louts: ' Lot Stock. —Beeves—Fair to choice, $4.75® 6.00. Hogs—Live, [email protected]. 1.35. Corn—Mixed Western afloat, 88V4@89c. Oats—Western, 64»4@66c. Breadstuffs.— Flour—XX Fall, $4.50@5 25 Wheat—No. 2 Red Fall, [email protected]. Com—No 2, 70@71Hc. Oats—No. 2, 57@58c. Rye—No. 2,89@90c. Barley—[email protected]. Provisions.— Pork—Mess, [email protected]. Lard —l3H@l3s*c. . MILWAUKEE. Bkeadsttjffs. —Flour —Spring XX, [email protected]. Wheat—Spring, No. 1, No. 2, 9114 @92c. Com—No. 2, 74@75c. Oats--No. 2, 49® 50c. Rye—No. 1, 93@94c. Barley—No. 2, $1.31 @1.32. DETROIT. Breadstuffs. —Wheat Extra, [email protected]. ,Co*n—Bl@S2c. Oats—s4® 5414 c. TOLEDO. Breadstuffr. —Wj*eat —Amber Mich., $1.09 @1.0914; No. 2 Red, [email protected]. Corn—Mixed, 69@70c. Oats—s4@s4l4c. CLEVELAND. Breadstuffs.— Wheat—No. 1 Red, sl.ll® 1.12; No. 2 Rad, [email protected]. Cora—New, 6614 @67c. Oats—s6l4@s7c. BUFFALO. Live Stock.— Beeves— [email protected]. HoggLive, [email protected]. Sheep—Live, [email protected]. EAST LIBERTY. Live Stock.— Beeves Best, [email protected]; medium, [email protected]. Hogs—Yarkers, $6.50@ 7.50; Philadelphia, [email protected]. Sheep—Best, [email protected]; good, «[email protected].

The Darwinian Theory.

The Dundee Advertiser says: “It is not generally known that a series of elaborate experiments intending to illustrate the law s affecting the variation and selection of species have been for some years going on under the direction of able and intelligent naturalists. These experiments were begun soon after the appearance of Mr. Darwin’s great work, and their object is to discover the extent to which, by persistent effort, species may be varied, to what degree particular organs may be changed by a. different circumstance and condition, and how far feeble and. A radimefttary development may be increased and accelerated by special conditions and wants. These experiments are carried out with the utmost care, and their results recorded with accuracy; and they will no doubt in due time throw much light on the doctrines of development and natural selection. The period during which they have been conducted baa, as yet, been too brief to yield important results, and they may possibly have to be carried on for more than half a century before their scientific value is really ascertained. These experiments are under the direct supervision of nearly all the more eminent naturalists of the day, including Sir John Lubbock, Mr, Darwin, and Mr. Wallace; and they will be the first sustained scientific test to which the laws affecting the variation and origin of the species have been subjected.”

Annual Pension Report.

f WASHINGTON, NOV. 16. 6fei. J. H. Baker, Commissioner of Pensions, under date cjf Oct. 15,1874, has submitted his annual report to the Secretary of the Interior. During the year 5,758 applications for army invalid pensions were allowed, at an aggregate annual rate of $39,332.50; the pensions of 8,063 pensioners of this class were increased at an aggregate annual rate of $416,257.50; the losses to this roll from death and other causes were 6,105, whose pensions with the amount of-re-duction of the rates of other invalid pension? aggregated $377,442.55 annually. On the 30th of June, 1874, there were 102,457 army invalid pensioners on th? roll. The aggregate annual pay of this class was $10,058,377.54. The increase in the number of this class was 2,658, and the aggregate increase of pensions was $431,137.45. During the year 3,051 new pensions for army widows and dependent relatives were allowed, at an aggregate annual rate of $116,433, and the pensions of 12,932 pensioners of this class were increased at an aggregate annual rate of $403,111.22. There were stricken from the roll of this class of pensioners 7,632 names, whose pensions aggregated sl,250,118.05. On the 30th of June, 1874, there were on the roll of army widows and dependent relatives 107,516 names, at an aggregate atfhuaUTate of $18,537,195.56, the decrease for the year being 4,572 names, and the decrease of pensions of this class being $424,568.03. On the 30th of June there were 1,551 navy invalid pensioners, at an aggregate annual rate of $169,492, an increase in the year of 121 in the number of pensioners, and $18,954.25 in the annual rate of pensions of this class. On the 30th of June there were 1,785 pensioners on the navy roll of widows and dependent relatives, at a total rate of $287,534, an in crease for the year of 15 in the number of names, and $6,984 in the rate of pensions.

The names of 571 new pensioners were added to the roll of survivors of the war of 1812, and 1,217 of this class were lost by death, leaving on the 30th of June 17,620 pensioners of this class at a total annual rate of $1,691,520—a decrease for the year of 646 in the number of pensioners and $62,061 in the rate of pensions of this class. The names of 818 widows of soldiers of the war of 1812 were added to the roll, and 554 were lost by death during that period, leaving on the 36th of June 5,312 pensioners of th'is class —an increase for the year of 259 in the number of pensioners and $24,864 in the rate of pensions.

The total number of pensioners of all classes on the 30th of June, 1874, was 236,241, a decrease of 2,170 during the year; the aggregate annual rate of pensions of all classes on June 30 was $26,254,07140, a decrease from the preceding year of $5,64543. The roll contains the names of 410 widows of soldiers in the Revolutionary war. Certain specific increasqa allowed to invalid pensioners by laws passed at the last session of Congress, and the steady increase of the number on the -invalid pension roll, will probably bring the disbursements to invalids for the present fiscal year up to those of last year; but in the payment to widows, miners, etc., a reduction may reasonably be expected

During the year 234 claims for bountyland warrants were allowed, the warrants calling for 35,640 acres of land. The number of applications for bounty lands received during the year w*as 529. There are now upon the suspended files of the office nearly 100,000 applications for bounty lands,. Of this number 350 cases were prosecuted during the year. The existence of suspended claims is a temptation to unscrupulous. agents to fabricate testimony witl a view to obtaining the allowance of claims not ad-, misable Upon existing known evidence. The d ait Congress granting bounty lands has been in force for twenty years, a sufficient time for all those who are entitled to the benefits to avail themselves of its provisions. It would, therefore, in the opifiion of the Commissioner, be consistent with justice, and for the interest of the Government, that a limit should be put by Congress to the period during which the various acts granting bounty lands shall continue in force. During the last fiscal year the Special Service Division has performed important service in the detection and prevention •f fraud in the proseention of claims for pensions. Claims were investigated by this division numbering 1,263, and during the year tlurteen persons were convicted of violation of the law relative to the prosecution of claims, and five awaited trial at the close of the year. The, amount of appropriatiomthat will be required for the pension service dur ing the fiscal year ending June 30,1876, will be $30,500,000.

Report of the Commissioner of Internal Royenue.

Washington, Nov. 19. In his report Commissioner of Internal Revenue Douglass states the receipts for the fiscal year at $102,644,747, or $2,644,747 in excess of the estimate. The es timate of the current fiscal year is $107,000,000. The total drawback on spirits, tobacco, and general merchandise for the past fiscal year was $52,346, and for 1874 $35,495. No spirits were exported for drawback during the last year, and the quantity of tobacco was very slight compared with the amount exported in bond. The amounts refunded for taxes illegally collected were $618,667in 1873 and $239,749 in 1574. The receipts from distilled spirits for the fiscal year of 1874 were $49,444,090, a net decrease of $2,655,280. Tire receipts from special taxes on recti-

tiers and dealers show an increase of $799,413. The production of spirits during the year waS 69,572,062 taxable gallons. Seizures amounted in value to $476,362. Hie amount of distilled spirits remaining in warehouse Sept. 80 for payment of tax was $12,577,096, making a decrease of $3,240,013 from June 30. The amount remaining for export was reduced in same time from 2,145,010 gallons to 1,047,714 gallons. The annual receipts from all sources relating to fermented liquors for the. year were $9,304,679. Receipts from tobacco in all forms, $33,242,875, a decrease of $1,143,427, due to the closing out of bonded warehouses in the early part of the year and the effect of the panic. From November to the present time there has been a steady increase of collections over any previous corresponding period. The largest amount collected in any quarter Iras the first quarter of the present fiscal year—year from this source are expected to aggregate $36,000,000. The production of tobacco for the last fiscal year was 118,548,619 pounds, an increase over the preceding year of 2,107,684 pounds. The number of cigars, cheroots, etc., on which taxes was collected was 1,886,697,498, or 75,662,852 in excess of the previous year. The quantity of tobacco removed without paymefit of tax for exportation for the fiscal year was 10,800,927 pounds, an excess of nearly three-quarters of a million pounds over the preceding year. The Commissioner considers it indispensably necessary to control the movement of raw or leaf tobacco by the continuance of the leaf clauses of the act of June 6,1872.

The receipts from other sources were: Bank deposits, savings banks, capital and bank circulation, $3,387,000; adhesive stamps, $6,136,844; penalties, $364,216; articles and occupations formerly taxed, but now exempt, $764,880. The Commissioner extols the working of the system abolishing Assessorships and leavina the whole matter with the Collectors as securing more prompt payment and a larger amount of tax. The tax against banks and bankers realized $3,000,734, an increase of $403,013 over the previous year, notwithstanding the financial disasters of the fall of 1873, and is^largely due to the new systeritof assessments, the results of which are still more apparent in the rise from collections from special taxes the last quarter of the fiscal year 1872, when they amounted to $3,303,539, against $5,855,581 in the last quarter of the fiscal year 1874. The Commissioner suggests that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, hereafter, upon his requisition, furnish all the stamps necessary under the law, except proprietary and documentary;"and asks a positive provision from Congress upon the subject.

Should Congress wish to abolish stamps on bank checks, etc., perfumery, cosmetics, patent medicines, matches, etc., which yielded last year $6,136,844 (but he is still of opinion that the revenue cannot be reduced with safety), the Commissioner says an equivalent codld be had by increasing the tax on spirits ten cents per gallon, which would yield $6,957,000, of four cents a pound on tobacco would yield $4,012,000.

The Troubles of a Somnambulist.

Mortimer J. Loomis, says Max Adeler, is now one of the most violent of the denunciators of railway monopolies. Since liis last adventure on the cars he hates a railway worse than an Arapahote Indian hates a bald-headed Shaker. Loomis has fits of somnambulism occasionally, and at.sugh times he has an uncontrollable tendency to wander into dangerous places. More than once he has been surprised, upon waking, to find himself roosting on the -comb of the roof, or hanging headforemost down the well, with one leg around the bucket handle. He went out to Pittsburgh a few days ago, and when he entered the sleeping-car the thought struck him that he might get to prowling about during the night while asleep and walk off the platform into the better world. So he went to the brakeman and gave him a dollar, with strict instructions that if he saw him walking around that car in hia sleep to seize him and force him back at all hazards. Then Loomis turned in. About two o’clock Loomis awoke, and as the air of the car seemed stifliSg he determined to go out on the platform for a fresh breath or two. Just as he got to the door that vigilant brakeman saw him, grabbed hint, floored him and held him down. When Loomis recovered his breath he indignantly exclaimed: “You immortal ass! What d’ you mean? Lemme get up, I tell you; I’m as wide awake as you are.” But that myrmidon of a grasping corporation put another knee on Loomis’ breast, and insisted that Loomis was asleep; and then he called another brakeman and after a terrific struggle, during which Loomis received bumps and blows enough to wake an Egyptian mummy that had been dead for 6,000 years, the railroad man jammed him into a berth, put a trunk and eight carpet-bags on him and then sat on him to hold him down till morning The first thing Mr. Loomis asked for when he arrived in Pittsburgh was a respectable hospital where they cored the temporarily insane. He thinks his reason was partially dethroned by his effort to comprehend how that brakeman could have the face to ask him for another dollar because of the trouble Loomis gave him during the night. —The average car horse endures four years.

NUMBER 11.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A Vermont woman owns a shinglemill, and being the mother of eleven boys she iB turning out shingles which, for family use, discount the boot-jack by four. , ..ij, ‘ . ; Y** A Chinaman in Massachusetts who lost his cue by a scalp disease felt that he couldn’t count anything in this world, and committed suicide. Kerosene is retailing at ten cents per gallon in some of the Eastern cities. If rightly used a gallon would lay out twenty-one hired girls, which is less than half a cent a girl. Notwithstanding the notorious dimensions of the shoes worn by St. Louis womeh, a slanderous Louisville journal says those interesting creatures insist on calling themselves the down-trodden sex. A man had better have a millstone tied to his neck and be cast into the sea than to promise to marry a Texas girl and then refuse. The whole country turns out to hunt him, and he is generally left to grow up with a tree. James Hallow, of West Dudley, Mass., labored bard for thirty years to procure a “ home of his own.” Last month, after those many years of parsimony, he pufchased a farm, settled on it, and died twenty days thereafter. Those who have been in the, United States Senate chamber during a heavy shower remember that the noise made by the rain upon the roof was so great as to render the transaction of business almost impossible. This has now been remedied by the use of lath and plaster under the tin roof.

It was in a Massachusetts village that an old scissors-grinder, calling on a minister, made the usual query:Any scis-. sors to grind?” Receiving a.negative answer it was the minister’s turn, which he took, by asking; “ Are you prepared to die?” The question struck home. Gathering up his kit and scrambling for the door°he exclaimed, terror-stricken: “Oh, mercy! You ain’t a-going to kill me, are yon?” Old Prob. seems 4o have played a severe practical joke on the young grasshoppers in the West. The continued late warm weather hatched the grasshopper eggs, and the foolish young things commenced skipping about quite lively in anticipation of a pleasant summer campaign. In a few days the sharp frosts nipped the life out of them to a hopper, and they perished, untimely, silly victims of misplaced confidence. A New Bedford clergyman amazed his congregation the other Sunday by suddenly leaving his pulpit, trotting down the aisle, and striding off toward home. The choir sang, and r then there was an awkward, fidgety waiting. Soon the pastor shot into the church again, sopping perspiration from his forehead with his handkerchief, and read his sermon without explanation. He had forgotten his manuscript—that was all. A Clerk’s Joke.—One of the clerks in a Woodward avenue store yesterday’ raised a third-story window and balanced a straw man on the Mil 'ln such a position that people across the way were certain that some one was hanging to the casing for dear life. Ip one hour fifty people entered the store to say that some one was about to fall from the window, and most of, them passed out of the side door looking down-hearted in taking their leave. —Detroit Free Press.

A Justice of the Peace recently went with a young man in the country to the house of his intended, for the purpose of uniting the two as man and wife. It seems the bride-elect changedrher mind, and, instead of being married, heaped many imprecations Upon the head of her would-be husband, who, driven to desperation, seized her, and holding her by main force called upon the Justiee to proceed, who refused to do so. The scene is described as ludicrous in the extreme.—Magnolia (N. G.) Record.

Prison architecture has reached the acme of perfection at Due West, 8. C. They have a building there in which windows and doors are entirely dispensed with. The prisoners are hoisted outside by means of a rope and dropped in from the top. Once in it is evident that they must stay in a place so wonderfully deficient in egressive facilities. A captive may have kind friends outside willing to Aid him, but what friend can secretly bring a derrick and rope into the prison, and, if he could, how or by whom is it to be worked? Every man who is in the habit of getting drunk should read this touching, perhaps truthful, little story from the Detroit Free Press , and immediately reform: “Wednesday afternoon a halfdrunken man named Croy, living in Canada, was wandering arbund the Potomac, accompanied by a big dog and having lots of money. Yesterday morning he was found in an alley, sleeping a drunken sleep, and his dog was keeping watch over Urn, and would allow no one to come near until the man shook off his sleep. The dog had been stabbed twice with a knife, and there were two extra hats in the alley, showing that tlieres had come to rob the man and that the dog had fought them off.” The Salem (N. Y.) Press of a recent date says: “ There seems to be no end to accidents happening from the premature discharge of firearms. Not a week passes but we are called upon to record casualties of this character. The latest that has come to our knowledge occurred Tuesday. Lewis Bichardson, a young man residing in this village, undertook to shoot a cat, but the tables were reversed: the cst succeeded in shooting him. It happened in this wise: Richarflsofi took the cat in his arms and car-

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ried it to a point near the railroad woodshed intending to shoot it. The pat proving fractious, he held it with one hand while he put the revolver between his knees and cocked it with the other hand. Just as he finished this part of hia task the cat’s tail caught in the hammer, and in attempting to free her tail pulled the trigger, and the contents of the revolver cut, her tail ip two and entered Richardson’s leg.” There was an adroit robbery of an express car at Delaware Station, a little hamlet on the Delaware, Lackawanna* Western Railroad. The train stopped at the station for supper, remaining thero fifteen minutes. The express messenger being hungry. Jocked the side, shut the door of the express car, locked it, and bolted off to supper. He forgot the door of his car on the other side of the platform. The robber remembered it, opened it In a few seconds, placed a tie against the car, and by main force slid the safe — a mere iron box weighing 218 pounds—to the track, closed the door, and*lugged his ponderous capture away. Coming to a high fence, he pulled down enough of it to admit the safe, and after dragging it fifty yards further pried it open. He made a hurried examination of its contents with a light, and secured SB,OOO in casb ?nd jewelry, leaving nearly four times that amount in greenbacks, done up in paper in such a manner that he could not discover what they were. The robbery and examination were completed so rapidly that the train had barely left the station when a resident of the village encountered a man running from the spot. A few minutes It.ter the safe had been discovered before the express messenger had missed it, and reflected upon his ostrich-like stupidity.

Plated Silver Ware.

Pirated ware originated in England about the middle of the last century, the first application having been made to small articles in 1742 by Thomas Bolsover, a Sheffield mechanic. The new elegance brought within the means and supposed proprieties of the middle class took the name of “ Sheffield Plate,” not from the process of plating, but from the silver ware of which it was an imitation. Plate, in this sense, is not our Saxon word cognate with flat, but was borrowed from -the Spanish plata (silver), and applied to all utensils made of the precious metals, in whatever form. To our elderly readers “ Sheffield Plate” will still have a familiar sound, for under this name the beauty of silver was first popularized in America, and to a far greater extent than even in England. Probably the Sheffield and Birmingham manufacturers of plated ware at one period exported more' goods tb This country than they sold at home. A further and greater advance was made in 1838 by the invention of electroplating, or rather the practical application of the method which bad been known, but strangely neglected, for thirty years. At one stroke plating was' greatly reduced in cost, its applications. indefinitely extended, and its effects incomparably improved. Everybody in America is now familiar with the ordinary wares of our numerous electro-plat-ing companies, and there is hardly a cottage worth two hundred dollars in the country where such wares are hot' found the rich plating of the Elkintons in England and the Gorhams in America is too high in first cost for the strictly popular demand. ; Within half a century the business of the American silversmith was mostly confined to making spoons to order for the jewelers, who rarely purchased more than one or two dozen at a time, for particular orders. About 182.7 it was noticed that the silversmiths began to venture into the manufacture of light spoons for general sale through a class of cheap jewelry peddlers, who are still well remembered by natives of the New England of that period. The Providence manufacture had begun to be extended and brought into national relations by the enterprise of a young goldsmith, named Jabez Gorham, who adapted his work to the general requirements of the trade, and made his way with it in the Boston market by underselling and outpushing the unmercantile mechanics of his craft. The droll account the old gentleman, who died about five years ago, used to give of his semi-annual marketing in Boston is more expressive than a general description could be of the very modest status of the now imposing silver trade of our chief cities—how the Boston jewelers' assembled at his lodgings, pursuant to notice, that thdy might be all admitted at the same moment, without partiality, to view and divide the little trunkful of new jewelry spread out upon his bed !—Scribner's Monthly for December. —Poor young thing! She fainted away at the washtub, and her pretty nose went ker-slop into the soapsuds. Some said it was overwork; others, however, whis : pered that her beau had peeped over the back of the fence and called out: “ Hullo, there, Bridget, is Miss Alice at home?” — New York Commercial. —A gentleman in the cigar business sends this autumnal gem to the editor of the Detroit Free Press: Tie autumn, and the leaves are dry, And rustle on the ground. Producing fn’ards of cigars At a trifling coet per pound. —A San Juan miner who has been prospecting in Southwestern Colorado has found a whole forest of petrified trees, with petrified birds sitting on the limbs singing petrified notes. i r i ■ ■ ■" - —When a man marries for money Punch thinks it is more appropriate to speak of his spending the money-moon.