Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1875 — Page 1

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LATEST NEWS.

An Interesting Budget of Spanish News. Judge Emmons’ Opinion of the CivilEight* Bill. Letter of Gen. Sheridan Concerning the Black Hilto. Passenger Rates to the East Largely Reduced. A Chisago Editor Imprisoned for Contempt. Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc. TUB OLD WOBLU. Paris dispatches of the 24th announce the breaking up of a conspiracy which had for ita object the assassination of Gen. Cabrera, the reensant Carlist chieftain. Don Carloa recently issued a decree calling into the military service all the males in the Navarre Provinces over eighteen year* old. Louis Kossuth was lately defeated in a parliamentary contest in Hungary. Moßßthan 10,000 people attended the funeral of the late John Mitchel, at Newry, Ireland, on the 23d. A destructive fire occurred in Osaka, Japan, on the 7th of February, which burned 1,200 buildings and caused the loss of several lives. On the day before 300 houses were destroyed by fire in Yokohama. A battle has been fought with the Car lists at Huguet, in which they lost 300 and the Alphonsists sixty-eight killed. According to advices from Estella, on the 26th, Gens. Mundera, Saballa and Tristany had united in a protest against Gen. Cabrera’s manifesto In favefr of Alphonso. According to a Melbourne (Australia) dispatch of the 26th twenty Communist prisoners had escaped from New Caledonia, under the leadership of Dr. Rastaaul. A Madrid dispatch of a late date saysAhat on the arrival of Gen. Loma at Zuruguary the Carlists fraternized with the Alphonsists, and fervent demonstrations were made by both armies in favor of peace. Estella dispatches of the 28th say that deputies from the four provinces occupied bv the Carlists had met to consider the demand of Don Carlos for contributions and replied that the country is exhausted, that fresh sacrifices are impossible, and that Don Carlos should procure funds abroad. Madrid dispatches of the same date report that Don Carlos had ordered persons found reading the Cabrera manifesto to be shot. There had recently been additional evidences of fraternization between the Carlists and Alphonsists on the banks of the Orea. A Bantander dispatch states that Don Carlos had left for Ram ales with sixteen battalions and artillery to meet a threatened invasion. Spain had paid 11,000 thalers for the Gustav outrage. A hurricane passed over Yancouver Island on the 24th. At Victoria several vessels were badly injured, trees were uprooted and some of the telegraph lines demolished. The French Government lately denied to the Due de Montpensler a passport to Spain on the ground that in-giving it the Government would be establishing a precedent by which ex-Queen Isabella might be enabled to return to Spain, which was undesirable. Over 100,000 people met in Hyde Park, London, on the 29th nit. to sympathize with and demand justice for the Tichborne Claimant.

THE SEW WORLD. Bessie Turner's cross-examination was concluded on the 24th. She corrected several dates and admitted to having made mistakes in her evidence before the Church Committee. She also reaffirmed her testimony as to -Mr. Tilton’s conduct in his family and toward her. George L. Perkins, of Norwich, Conn., testified that he saw Mr. Beecher in the train on the Boston & Albany Railroad, en route for Boston, on the 4th of June, 1873, the date fixed upon by Mrs. Moulton as the day Mr. Beecher confessed to her. Mr. Geo. S. Sedgwick and Mr. C. C. Higgins, lawyers, testified to having seen Mr. Tilton in the company of Mrs. Wood hull and Miss Claflin in a communistic procession in 1871. John C. South wick testified that Mr. Tilton had denied to him the truth of the Woodhull scandal as far as it related to Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton. On the 25th the testimony of James B. Woodlelgh, formerly in Mrs. Woodhull’s employ, was given. He had often seen Mr. Tilton at the house and also at the business office of Mrs. Woodhull; He was at the office very often in the summer of 1871. The question of the*publication of. the scandal was discussed in witness’ presence; Mr. T. said she ought to publish it, as he could not do it, for they would crush him; he said Plymouth Church would pay SIOO,OOO to have it stopped. Witness had many times seen Mr. Tilton and Mrs. Woodhull sitting together, with their arms around each other. Richard Adams Gray and Lucy Ann Giles (both colored), formerly in the employ .of Mrs. Woodhull, also testified to having seen Mr. Tilton frequently at the Woodhull house, and to having witnessed many demonstrations of affection between Mr. T. and Mrs. W. The witness Gray remembered a conversation between Mr. T. and Mrs. W. about getting Mr. Beecher to preside at Mrs. W.’s Steinway Hall meeting in 1871 ; Mrs. W. said he had better preside or she would make.it very hot for him, and Mr. T. said he (Beecher) would have to and would preside. Several witnesses testified in the Beecher suit on the 29th ult. as to the whereabouts of the defendant on the 2d, 3d and 4th of June, 1873. Mr. Turner and son testified that Mr. Beecher arrived at Peekskill on the afternoon of the -2d early enough to take dinner. Two telegraph operators testified to sending a telegram on the morning of the 2d announcing Mr. Beecher’s intended visit to Peekskill. One witness swore he saw Mr. B. there at that time. Mr. Tilney, a lawyer, swore that he was married in Brooklyn on the evening of June 3by Mr. Beecher. Frederick A. Putnam testified that he saw Mr. Beecher at the depot of the New Haven Railroad on June 4, 1873. John Winslow and Stephen D. White, members of the Plymouth Church Investigating Committee, and H. B, Claflin testified to

THE JASPER REPUBLICAN.

VOLUME I.

the statements made by Mr. Tilton on me evidence against Mr. Beecher, relating to Mr. Tracy’s connection with the case, and to the settlement of the difficulty between Mr. Tilion and Mr. Bowen. The Grand Jury of the District of Columbia have Indicted Whitelaw Reid, of the New York TrCmne, for libeling ex-Gov. Shepherd. The United States Supreme Court has recently decided that dividends and profits earned in the last half erf the year 1870 are subject to the Income tax of per cent Ih his charge to the Memphis Grand Jury on the 22d Judge Emmons, of the United States Circuit Court, instructed them to the effect t-jitti. the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution applies to States only, and that the denial to a negro of the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations and privileges of theaters and inns is a matter that the State Governmentalone controls, and can only be reached by a civil action. A recent Washington dispatch says that the late John Mitchel was in fact a citizen of the United States, as appears from the records in the office of the Clerk” of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. James Brown was hanged at Pottsville, Pa., oh the 24th for the murder, more than three years ago, of Daniel S. Kreamer, his wife, her mother and Annette Kreamer. A special committee report was made in the Rhode Island Legislature on the 24th, relating to the late conflict of authority between the United States Marshal and the State Constables over the wholesale stock of liquors attached by the Marshal and afterward seized by the State Constables because sales were made from the stock in violation of the State law. The committee censure the Providence Chief of Police for aiding the United States Marshal, and recommended the adoption of a resolution requesting the Governor to transmit to the President of the United States a statement of the facts relating to the interference of the United States Marshal for the District of Rhode Island with the State Constables in the discharge of their duty. Gov. Kellogg has issued a call for an extra session of the Louisiana Legislature, to meet on the 14th of April, to carry out the adjustment of political difficulties and for other purposes. * In answer to a telegram from one of the miners who lately came from the Black Hills as to whether he would be permitted to return with reinforcements and provisions, Gen. Ord is reported as saying: “Troops from Fort Laramie and hostile Indians have both gone for the miners. For their sakea I hope the troops will reach them first, as the military orders are simply to bring in the party, confine the leaders, burn their wagons and destroy their outfits.” A National Conference of Representative Workingmen will be held at Cincinnati on the 7th of September. An opinion has been given by the AttorneyGeneral to the effect that the vacant Judgeship in Louisiana caused by the resignation of Judge Durell cannot be filled until the next session of Congress. A New Orleans dispatch of the 26th says Judge Woods had decided that the power to select a District Judge in his circuit to fill the Durell vacancy rested in him.

The Republican State Convention of Rhode Island has nominated: For Governor, Henry Lippett, of Providence; Lieutenant Governor, Henry T. Sissen, of Little Compton; Secretary of State, J. W. Addeman; Attorney-General, Willard Sayles; General Treasurer, Samuel Cork. Gen. Augur reached New Orleans on the 26th, and assumed command of the United States troops stationed there. The Prohibitionists of Michigan have withdrawn the State ticket nominated at Lansing in January last. The reasons which have led to this decision are stated by the Chairman of the State Central Committee as follows: First —The renomination of Judge Graves to the Supreme Court by Democrats and Republicans; Second —The non-political nature of the offices of Justices of the Supreme Court and Regents of the University; Third — The resignation of three of the candidates nominated at the Prohibition State Convention. A body of armed Mexicans attacked several ranches near Corpus Christi, Tex., on the evening of the 26th, and robbed one store, taking several Americans prisoners. After the Ist of May mutilated currency will be redeemed according to the proportion remaining of the bill. The Senatorial excursion party left Washington on the 29th for Mexico. It is composed of the following persons: Senators Cameron, Patterson, Dennis, Anthony, Morton, ex-Senator Chandler, Tom Scott and wife, Wayne McVeigh and wife, Ben Perley Poore, of the Boston Journal , and Miss Poore, Mrs. Senator Morton and ex-Gov. Brown, of Georgia, and wife. The State Department has officially assured the Mexican Minister that it has no political 'significance whatever. According to a Washington dispatch of the 28th instructions had been issued through the War Department to the General commanding in Texas to deal summarily with Mexican raiders. The Rhode Island Democratic State Convention met at Providence on the 27th and nominated Col. R. Cutler, of Warren, for Governor; John B. Pierce for LieutenantGovernor; Charles E. Gorman for AttorneyGeneral, and Philip Rider for General Treasurer. A material reduction of passenger rates to the East over the Michigan Central, Michigan Southern and Pittsburgh & Fort Wayne Roads was announced in the Chicago papers of the 29th, to go into effect April 1 or as soon as the necessary tickets could be printed. The reduction is as follows: To New York, from $22 to sls; to Philadelphia, from sl9 to s£3; to Baltimore and Washington, from sl9 to $9; to Boston, from $27 to SIB.B5 —the tickets to be used within forty-eight hours of their issue. Freight rates were unchanged.

The proprietors of the Chicago St. Elmo restaurant were recently before United States Commissioner Hoyne on a charge of having violated the Civil-Bights law, and were discharged on the ground that a restaurant is not an inn, and hence does not come under the provisions of the law. In the ease of Mrs. Minor, of Missouri, who claimed the right to vote under the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court has decided that the Constitution of the United States does not confer the right of suffrage upon anyone, and that the Constitutions of the several States which commit that trust to men alone are not thereby void. The court was unanimous in this decision, which was delivered by the Chief-Justice.

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

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1875.

G«N. Spinner has resigned ss United States Treasurer, to take effect July L The resignation has been accepted by the President, and the position offered to and accepted by John C. New, Cashier of the First National Bank of Indianapolis, Ind. The California Democratic State Convention is to be held at San Francisco on the 29th of June. The new city directory of St. Louis claims that there was a population of 490.000 in that city on the Ist of last January. Several days ago an article appeared in the Chicago Tima characterizing the Grand Jury in the Criminal Court of Chicago, which had Just found four indictments against Mr. Storey, the editor, for libel, as a disreputable, contemptible and dishonest body. Because of these strictures Judge Williams issued an order that Mr. Storey should show cause why ha should not be punished for contempt. The hearing occurred on the 39th ult. and resulted In Mr. Storey being sentenced to ten days’ confinement in the County JaiL About eleven o’clock on the evening of that day a writ o supersedeas was issued by Judge McAllister, of the Supreme Court, under which Mr. Storey was held in the sum of $2,500 to await the action of the Bupreme Court. James Lice, the San Francisco millionaire, has filed in the Recorder’s office of that city a revocation of the trust deed executed last July conveying his property to trustees for various benevolent purposes. He recites that he wishes to provide for parties having natural claims on him, and, with returning health, to give his personal attention to the execution of his designs. The acts heretofore performed by the trustees are confirmed. W. S. BBIfATE~BXTBA session. In the Senate, on the 23d, the Louisiana resolution was further debated by Messrs. Tr ._» a /Tin. Walker. Thnrman and Christiancy. An'amendment condemning the use of the army in 1872 and military interference in the organization of the Louisiana Legislature was rejectea 22 to 88. A farther amendment was offered that “nothing hereto wntained ls meant to affirm that said Kellogg is % Jure Gov_ xenial ana. ana was also rejecieu 24 to 33. The question recurring on the caucus substitute for die Frelinghuysen. reolutloiy It Bruce, BurnffiLfi’RssflSip /if_ \ jLfrtrriil rvt V iiorton, P&ddock t P&ttcrson, fPen-r. Wadleigh. West, Windom. Nays— Bayard, Bogy, Booth, Caperton, Cockrell, Cooper, Davis, Dennis, Gordon, Johnson (Tenn.), Jones (KaO, Kelley, Kernan, McCreery, Saulsbnry, Stevenson, Thurman, Wallace, wnyie. Withers. The resolution as amended was then adopted—B3 to 24.... Executive session and adjournment. In the Senate, on the 24th, in executive session, the nomination of Don A. Pardee as United States District Judge for Louisiana, vice Durell, resigned, was tabled. ...After the confirmation of other nominations the select com mittpp Annotated to wait on the President re ported thafthat official had ? ofar^ cation to make to the Senate.... After ej°te thanks to the Vice-President and to President pro tem. Ferry the Senate adjourned sine die.

THIS MARKETS. March 29, 1875. New York.— Cotton— l6%©l7c. BJour— Good to choice, [email protected]; white whe»textnL $5.50® 8.00. Wheat —No. 2 Chicago, SU3 No 2 Northwestern, SI.IB©LSO; No. 2 MllwauKee sens®? $10.00©13.00. Hoos — Dressed, Western, *9.2 © 9.soHive, $8.0008.50. Sheep- Live, $6.50©8.00. CHIOAOO.-Bssws-Choxce, gwd; $5.60©5.85; medium, te.25®5.50, butters stock, $3.75©5.00; stock cattle, J3.50®4.75. Hods —Lbre, good to choice, $7.00©8.w). K^new^WK 1 ’ Factory,'l7@t7i4 r c k $4.6006.75; spring extra, $4.25Q4.75. Wheat —String, No. 2, 94%©943£c. Com-no. 4 67%©69%c. Oats— No. 2, 56©56%c. Bye 2, 98%©99c. Barley— Ho. A sl-0501 -06- wool -Tub-washed, 45©Ssc: fi«g* washed, 40Q 50c; fleece, unwash ad, 27©37c. First clear, ;*econdclear, $46-00© 50.00: Common Boards, Fencing, |12.060i3.00; “A” Shingles, $3.0003.25, Lath, JFJfO'-Red, $1.1001.15. C Oats —60©64c. Barley -520.50020.75. Lard— l3X©l4Jic. 4.9 CK 2 Bed Fall, s l ; l2X©l.l3*-C£r« -No. 2, 69©70%c. Oats- -No. 2, 03©64c. Rye-Ko. 1, $1.04®1.05. Barky—No. 2, SI.BO ©1.22%. Pork— Mess, $20.50020.75. Lard— l3l4 ©I3XC. Milwaukee.— XX, $4-6°©^oo--t —Spring, No. 1, $1.01©1.01%, No. i, 94% ©94*gc. Com —No. 2, 68©68%c. Oats -No. -, 53%©54c. jßye—No. 1, $1.0501.06. barley—Ho. 2, $1.07©1.08. . _ Cleveland. — Wheat —No. 1 Red, $1.17%© 1.18: No. 2 Bed, $1.12%01-13. Com - 72© 73c. Oafe-No. 1, 60©61c. Detroit. — Wheat —Extra, sl-20%©1.21. Com —72%©76c. Oats— s9%@6oc. Toledo. — Wheat —Amber Mich-, $1.13%@1.14; No. 2 red, $1.13%©1.14. Com— High Mixed, 71©72c. Oats —No. 2, 59©60c. Buffalo. — Beeves — $5.6007 .00. Hogs-U\e, $7.50©8.00. Sheep —Live, $5.7507.00. East Liberty.— Cattle— Best, $7.00©7.25; medium,ss.7oos-75. Hogs— Yorkere, $7.0007.40; Philadelphia, $8.P0©9.00. Sheep—Best. $6.65© 6.85; medium, $6.2508.40.

Gen. Sheridan on the Black Hills.

Headquarters Military Division or the I Missouri, Chicago, March 86,1876. f Gen. W. T. Sherman, Headquarters of the'Army, St. Louis, Mo.: General —ln reply to your question: “ What de you know of the Black Hills?” I respectfully submit the following remarks: My first knowledge of the Black Hills was derived from interviews with the late Father de Smet, a noted Catholic missionary, whom I met many years ago on the Columbia River, in Oregon, from whom I heard the Indian romance oi a mountain of gold in the Black Hills, and his explanation of that extraordinary and delusive story. To Indians, frontiersmen and explorers the Black Hills country is much more extensive than that particular locality brought to the Dotice of the public by the recent explorations of Qen. Custer, and gets its name from the black, scrubby character of the timber which grows on the sides and tops of the mountains and hills. It comprises the whole of the country bounded on the east by longitude 103 degrees, on the south by the Sweetwater and Laramie Rivers, on the west by the Big Horn and Wind Rivers, and on the north by the Yellowstone River. This is really the country of the Black Hills; but embraced in it are several localities called “ Black Hills.” For instance, the “ Black Hills of the Laramie,” the “ Black Hills of Powder River,” and the “ Black Hills of the Shyenne River,” the latter being the locality in which Gen. Custer made his reconnoissance last summer, and about which there is so much speculation at the present time, and within the bounds of which, it is supposed by a large number of people, is to be found the Father de Smet mountain of gold. Father de Smet’s story was that while living with the Bioux Indians he was shown by them nuggets of gold which they informed him had been obtained at different points in the Black Hills, supposed to be from the beds of the Big Horn, Rosebud and Powder Rivers and from branches of the Tongue River; and on his representing that such yellow metal was of the greatest value they told him they knew where there was a mountain of it. Subsequent

investigation, however, proved that the IndiAn mountain of gold was nothing more than a formation of yellow mica, such as may be found in a number of places in the above-de-scribed country. . I had scarcely given the story a thought after this, until about three years ago, when I happened to be in New York, and it was there brought to my recollection by a prominent gentleman, who asked me where Father de Smet was to be lound and in slated th at some one should be sent at once to get from him the secret of the gold mountain which would pay the national debt, etc. After I had informed him that it was an old and exploded story his ardor cooled, and the excitement about the “mountain of gold however, that the Black Hills country was embraced in my military command, and two years ago It became apparent to me that a military post in the Black falls of the Shyenne would soon become necessary for the proper protection of the settlements In Nebraska from the raids of Sioux warriors, who always before they commenced depredating on the frontier secured a safe place for their families and villages to the locality mentioned. Believing that these Indians would never make war on our settlements as long as we could threaten their families and villages to thiß remote locality, abounding in game and all that goes to make Indian life comfortable, and with this purely military object in view, the order was given for the Custer reconnoissance. • . „ . , The discovery of particles of gold by alluvial washing near Harney’s Peak, on the eastern slope of the Black Hills of the Shyenne, followed, and brought to the surface the Father de Smet story for the third time. The Black Hills of the Shyenne, described by Gen. Custer, are situated between the north and south forks of that river, one of which is known as the Belle Fourche. the other the South Fork; and although I have the utmost confluence in the statement of Gen. Custer and Geh. Forsyth, of my staff, that gold was found near Harney’s Peak, I may safely say there has not been any fair test yet made to determine ita existence in large quantities. „ , There is not a Territory in the West where gold does not exist, but in many of them the quantity is limited to the “ color,” which is as much as has yet been obtained near Harney’s Peak. The geological specimens brought back by the Custer expedition are not favorable indications of the existence of gold in any great quantity. Still, it may be there; but as the treaty of 1869, duly ratified, virtually deeds this portion of the Black Hills to the Sioux Indians, there is no alternative but to keep out trespassers. But to go back to the Father de Smet information, there is not much doubt of the correctness of his statement that gold exists in large quantities in the Black Hills, but much further west than the Black Hills of the Shyenne. I have seen nuggets from the Big Horn and Tongue Rivers, and many specimens from near FortStambaugh, in the Upper Wind River country, where mining has failed for want of water for alluvial washing and from hostilities of the Indians; and I have good reason to believe—in fact, it is quite certain —that gold exists in the Owl Creek Mountains, in the Lower Wind River, and in the headwaters of the Powder River and the Rosebud, all these localities being, under the general meaning, in the Black Hills, and outside of the Sherman, Augur and Terry treaty of 1869, except so far as the privilege to hunt game. It has been my intention to communicate much information this coming summer to the Government on the above-described country; and as the Indians have no absolute right to the soil, there may be but little difficulty in extinguishing their hunting privileges. I purpose, if you do not object, to open up the Yellowstone River by sending Gen. George A. Forsyth and Col. Grant, of my staff, up the Yellowstone to the mouth of the Big Horn, as soon as the ice breaks, which will give the lowest tide of water, having already secured a steamboat to make this exploration. If Gen. Forsyth is successful I will send Gen. Custer, with a command from Fort Lincoln, across the mouth of Powder River, thence up on the south bank of the Yellowstone, crossing Powder River, Tongue River, Rosebud, and on to the mouth of the Big Horn. This country is as yet entirely unexplored and the expedition may develop a very valuable auriferous section and make the Father de Smet story to some extent true, but I am of the belief that the mountain of mica has not changed to gold. I will also send an expedition down Wind River, through the Owl Creek Mountains, from Fort Stambaugh, via Fort Brown, to the mouth of the Big Horn, and will bring it back through the parks about the head waters of Powder River visited by Capt. Mills and his command last summer. These parks are for beauty fully equal to those described so graphically by Gen. Custer as existing in the Black Hills of the Shyenne. I may also say from my own knowledge that the valleys of the Big and Little Po-po-agie, Little Wind River and Main Wind River can scarcely be excelled in beauty and fertility, while the student of natore will find there the most extraordinary upheavals of the earth’s crust probably to be found on this continent. I am of the opinion that this country is gold-bearing, but of its abundance there can only be a conjecture at present. I feel quite “confident of our ability to prevent the intended trespass on the rights of the Indians, and Cavalry and infantry in the. Department of Dakota are being moved at the present time to the most available points to carry out my directions of Sept. 3 of last year. Were it not for these precautions on the part of the Government there might he a repetition of the California Gold Beach and Gold Lake humbugs, with a still greater suffering, as many of the persons now crazy to go to the Black Hills never think of how they are to exist after they get there, or how they could return in ease of failure. If they will only wait for further information from the Government, which now seems to be desirous of making concessions to meet these new interests, there will be no one more willing to aid in ascertaining their value. So far as the troops are concerned, I will promise activity in the present emergency, and a conscientious performance of duty. Should the points from which the miners start be so remote as to make it impossible for our scanty force to watch them, we can occupy the two or three gaps in the Black Hilis and effectually exclude trespassers. Very respectfully, (Signed) P. H. Sheridan, Lieutenant-General Commanding.

The Georgia Tornado.

Augusta, Ga., March 23. The path of the tornado was from 200 to 600 yards wide. The cyclone was cylindrical in shape, and rotated with fearful velocity from north to south. The front cloud was b’ack as night and half a mile high; the rear was illuminated by a bright light. It traveled nearly due east, veering a little to north. After devastating Camak the tornado seems to have divided, one portion going east by north, and crossing the Savannah River above and below Augusta, both proving equally destructive, laying waste everything in their track. Huge trees were broken like reeds, and in some instances carried three-quarters of a mile. The tornado was preceded by a dull, heavy roaring, as of heavy artillery in the., distance. It spent its greatest fury in about three minutes. An eye-witness says the senses were utterly deadened and appalled. There was a crash, a roar, and the mingling of a hundred -terrific and unearthly sounds. Houses were demolished, and oaks that had- withstood the storms of a -century were snapped in twain. There is great distress in the devr. astated district, embracing eight counties in Georgia and two or three in South Carolina. The destruction of property is immense, and the-J|Bt of "And WUf appalling, V' •

CURRENT ITEMS.

Spring vegetables cannot be expected yet, but it is almost getting time for bonnet bills. - - --'mm But for sweet faces, sweet smiles and sweet songs, there would be no heaven on earth. It comports with the eternal fitness of things that a drunkard should speak in gutters! tones. It appears on the authority of the statisticians that one of woman’s rights is to live longer than man. A BABY with twenty-eight toes has been born in Stockton, Mo. What a character for corns he will be! Shobmakebs complain that the times are so hard they can scarcely keep sole and upper together. A Troy printer has five wives that the officers know of, and they suspect the existence of three or four more. An eccentric woman in New York has established “ a home for indigent cats,” where she feeds about eighty. Another way to dispense with cemeteries without cremation—-Take all the newly-invented pills and don’t die. Good authority says that there are but eighteen words in English which came to us from the language of the ancient Britons. From all recent accounts of life in Florida, the abbreviation Fla. would be more significant with the insertion of the vowel E. After Jan. 1, 1879, all obligations payable in New York State in dollars must be met with dollars —gold dollars and nothing else. “ What a shame that I should be starving !” exclaimed a poor corset-maker out of work—“l that have stayed the stomachs of hundreds.” It is said Egypt is the home of the fragrant onion. There is this about the onion—you can always tell where it is.— New York Mail. A law forbidding the payment of different salaries in the public schools on account of sex has Just passed the Legislature of California. At a funeral at Madison, Me., lately, the man who was buried was placed beside two of his dead wives, while *wi> living ones attended the funeral. Southampton, Mass., has only three cents in the treasury, but then the town has no debt and the three cents is so much ahead. Three hundred years have passed since Lucrezia Borgia lived, and now they are trying to make her out a kind and gentle woman, a sort of third-class angel. A lazy school-boy who spelled Andrew Jackson “&ru Jaxon” has been equaled by a student who marked the first of a half-dozen shirts “John Johnson” and the rest “ do.” Dxo Lewis says that a man could live ten years on raw apples, but alter the seventh or eighth year it is believed that the patient would want a rutabaga or a Hubbard squash to break in on the monotony.

“ No, sib,” said a wefiry-looking man on a street-car to an individual by his side, “ I wouldn’t marry the best woman alive. I’ve been a dry goods clerk too long for that.” The parents of a young lady hired her to take cod liver oil, giving her sl. Lizzie—for that was her name—contributed the money thus obtained to the grasshopper sufferers. If she don’t get a long mark on the credit side we are mistaken. —Toledo Blade. “ What becomes of all the pins?” — Ex. If the writer of that will move around the house in his stocking feet after a day of dressmaking he will get more real valuable information on the subject than all the books in the world can give him. During the last four years and a half Gaul has averaged one and one-third Cabinet Ministers per month —total, 66. The average is on the increase, moreover. “ Too many cooks spoil the broth,” says the proverb; and the real trouble with France is that she has always had too many. People should eat to live, not live to eat. A New Yorker visiting this city remarks that the philosophic thought of Boston is common even among the streetcar conductors. He instances the conductor, who, on ringing the bell, the other evening, at a dark side street and being rewarded for stopping his car by presently seeing a fat woman struggle up out of the impenetrable night, remarked as he started the car again: ‘I, had an intuitive perception that she was coming out there.”—.Boston Transcript. A story is told of one Busby and Mrs. Busby, of Trenton, N. J., celebrating their iron wedding. They made a feast and invited one hundred and twenty guests. The first three or four guests that arrived all brought flat-irons. The coincidence was laughable, and all laughed. But when the next eight or ten brought flatirons and looked jolly over them Mrs. Busby grew sick of the ironing business, and Busby got mad. He began to scent a preconcerted ironical joke, and his bosom was ruffled by the irony of his best friends. Long before the next hundred guests had come, all lugging flatirons, Mrs. Busby was laid out on a sofa, and Busby had gone to bed drunk. The only variations in the present were, one friend brought a flat-iron holder, and another, from Philadelphia, contributed a cow-bell. Busby’s suspicions were incorrect. It was no trick at all, except of universal human nature. The whole proceeding was natural. The fact was that Trenton had a large overstock of flat-irons and sold them at seductively low rates —almost gave them away. Everybody had to do something and everybody invested in flat-irons because they were dirt cheap. The proceeds oi that iron wedding were 218 flat-irons, ont holder and a cow-bell. Busby and wife have resolved not to celebrate their, silver wedding at all, at least not publicly. —St. Louis Republican.

Why the Cities Are Overcrowded.

There is hardly a city in the United States which does not contain more people than can get a fair, honest living, by labor or trade, in thejiest times. When times of business depression come, like those through which we have passed and are passing, there is a large class that must be. helped to keep them from cruel' suffering. JStill the cities grow, ..while whole regions' of the country—especially its older portions—are depopulated vear by year. Yet the fact is patent to-day that the only prosperous class is the agricultural. We have now the anomafv of thrifty fWpers andstarv*

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ing tradesmen. The agricultural classes oftheWest are prosperous. They had a good crop last year, and have received good prices for all their product; and while the cities are in trouble, and manufactories are running on half time, or not running at all, the Western farmer has money in his pocket and a ready market for everything he has to sell. The country must be fed, and he feeds it. The city family may do without new clothes and a thousibd-Jnxurious appliances, but it must have bread and meat. There is nothing that can prevent the steady prosperity of the American farmer but the combinations and “ corners” of mid-dle-men that force unnatural conditions upon the finances and markets of the country. . This is not the first occasion we have had for allusion to this subject, and it is not likely to be the last. The forsaking of the farm for city life is one of the great evils of the time, and, so tar, it has received no appreciable check.. Every young man, apparently, who thinks he can get a living in the city, or at the minor centers of population, quits his lonely home upon the farm and joins the multitude. Once in the city he never returns. Notwithstanding the confinement and the straitened conditions of his new life, he clings to it until he dies, adding his family to the permanent pop ulationofhis new home. Mr. Greeley, in his days of active philanthropy, used to urge men to leave the city—to go West—to join the agricultural population, and thus make themselves sure of a competent livelihood. He might as well have talked to the wind. A city population can neither be coaxed nor driven into agricultural pursuits. It is not that they are afraid of work. The average worker of the city toils more hours than the average farmer in any quarter of the country. He is neither fed nor lodged as well as the farmer. 'He is less independent than the farmer. He is a bondslave to his employers and his condi tions; yet the agricultural world has no charms for him. ' , , Whatever the reason for this may be, it is not based in the nature of the work, or in its material rewards. The farmer is demonstrably better off than the worker of the city. He is more independent, has more command of his own time, fares better at table, lodges better and gets a better return for his labor.. What is the reason, then, that the farmer’s boy runs to the city the first chance he can get, and remains, if he can possiblv find there the means of life?

It can only be found, we believe, in the social leanness, or social starvation, of American agricultural life. The American farmer, in all his planning, and all his building, has never made provision for life. He has only, considered the means of getting a living. Everything outside of this —everything relating to society and culture—has been steadily ignored. He gives his children the advantages of schools, not recognizing the fact that these very advantages call into life a new set of social wants. A bright, well-educated family, in a lone ly farm-house, is very different material from a family brought up in ignorance. An American farmer’s children, who have had a few terms at a neighboring academy, resemble in no degree the children of the European peasant. They come home with new ideas and new wants, and if there is no provision made for these new wants, ana they find no opportunities for their satisfaction, they wifi be ready, on reaching their majority, to fly the farm and seek the city. If the American farmer wishes to keep his children near him he must learn the difference between living and getting a living; and we mistake him and his grade of culture altogether if he does not stop over this statement and wonder what we mean by it. To get a living, to make money, to become “ forehanded’ this is the whole of life to agricultural multitudes, discouraging in their numbers to contemplate. To them there, is no difference between living and getting a living. Their whole life consists in gett'ypg a living; and when their families Mine back to them from their schooling, and find that, really, this is the only pursuit that has any recognition under the internal roof, they must go away. The joys push to the centers or the cities and the girls follow them if they can. A young man or a young woman, raised to the point where they apprehend the difference between living and getting a living, can never be satisfied with the latter alone. Either the farmer’s children must be kept ignorant, or provision must be made for their social wants. Brains and hearts need food and clothing as well as bodies; and those who have learned to recognize brains and .hearts as the best and most important part of their personal possessions will go where they can find the ministry they need. What is the remedy? How shall farmers manage to keep their children near them? How can we discourage the influx of unnecessary —nay, burdensome — populations into the cities? We answer: By making agricultural society attractive.- Fill the farm-houses with periodicals and books. Establish central read-ing-rooms, or neighborhood clubs. Encourage the social meetings of the young. Have concerts, lectures, amateur dramatic associations. Establish a bright, active, social life, that shall give some significance to labor. Above all, build, as far as possible, in villages. It is better to go a mile to one’s daily labor than to place one’s self a mile away from a neighbor. The isolation of American farm-life is the great curse of that life, and it falls upon the women with a hardship that the men cannot appreciate, and drives the educated young away.— Dr. J. O. Holland , in Scribner's Monthly.

Disguised Female Cab-Drivers.

A woman has recently been _ detected in England who has been driving a cab, in the guise of a man, for the past ten years. She was born, it seems, at Taunton, Somerset, where her father was land agent to a nobleman. She had a great liking for “ handling the ribbons,” and learned to drive horses while very young. When little more than fourteen years of age she was married to an army surgeon by the name of Honeywell, and her name, as a married woman, is Margaret Honeywell. The two lived so unhappily together that at length she ran away from home and went to London. She there met with a woman who had formerly been farm-servant to her father and who had married a cabman, and, from what she heard in regard to the cabdriving business; she resolved to earn an independent living in that branch of industry. By wearing her hair short, amd by a judicious use of clothing, she man- ’ aged to present the appearance of a short, stout man. Her face* being of a

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masculine type, her complexion florid, and she having an impediment in her speech caused by a defective palate, inspired to render the illusion perfect For three years in London and six in Liverpool she plied the whip as a cab “ man,” her sex being unknown and unsuspected by all. Mrs Honeywell states that during the time she acted as a “ cabby” she saw a notice in a newspaper that her husband had failed in business. In all probability the public would not have heard, for some time, of this female cabdriver, bad it not been for her unfortunate share in a theft, which caused her arrest and discovery. A similat instance has occurred in Paris. Some months ago the driver or a cab died suddenly, and was replaced a few days later by a quiet, delicate-look-ing confrere, who was rather remarkable for his civility to his customers and for his singular unsociable find silent manners. The other coachmen dubbed him “ Little Louis,” and troubled their heads very little about him, though, in spite of bis silence and unsociability, he was always obliging, and ready to render service to anyone. The other day poor “ Little Louis” was missing from his stand. He had fallen sick, and had been taken to the hospital, where it was speedily discovered that the quiet little coachman was in reality a woman. It appears that she was the wife of the coachman, who had died suddenly. Being left with an infant a few months old, she had formed the desperate resolve of taking her dead husband’s place, and thus supporting herself and her child. So she put her infant out to nurse, donned male attire, and for some months endured all the hardships and exposures of a cabdriver’s life. At the end of that time her child fell sick and died, and then the poor mother broke down, too, and became seriously ill. A few days of fever and delirium in the hospital, and then the end came, and the poor creature’s toils and sorrows were ended. A strange, sad little romance was this out of the many that stud the annals of the poor of Pans.

A Carious Association.

The recent death in New York of one of the seven survivors of the Tontine Association of that city draws attention to that organization, which was in many particulars a most curious one. It was founded in 1792, the incorporators being all Knickerbocker merchants who met daily in a coffee-house on Broad street for reflection and intercourse. In time, as it ceased to furnish the necessary accommodations, it was abandoned for a new site at Wall and Water streets, where was erected the building famous in the history of old New York as the Tontine coffee-house, at which gathered all the distinguished lawyers, writers, actors and merchants of that day. The association took its name from Lorenzo Tonti, a Neapolitine,who flourished about 1653, and introduced among capitalists a system of betting on human life. The property was divided into 203 shares, which were sold at S2OO each. The shareholder chose a nominee during whose life he .was to receive his equal proportion of the net proceeds of the income from the property, but on the death of any nominee the member’s interest in the capital stock was forfeited to the other shareholders whose nominees survived. The lives of the nominees thus became precious and were solicitously guarded. For many years the interest on each share has averaged 8f per cent. The number of the nominees was originally 203, the same as the number of shares, but in 1839 it had been reduced by death to ninety-three. The recent death leaves only six nominees, all of whom are over eighty years of age, one of them being in his hundredth. The property is now worth a million of dollars, to which, eventually, one of the six shareholders must succeed, on an investment by his ancestor of S2OO.

How a Homan Buys Meat.

When a woman enters a butcher shop to select a piece of meat for dinner she has her mind made up to take mutton roast. Therefore when the butcher rubs his hands and asks what she will have she promptly replies: “ I’ll take some of that mut ” She stops there. Her eye has caught sight of a ham and she suddenly decides to take ham. “Is that nice ham?” she inquires. “Best ham lever saw, madam. How much?” “ Well, you may give me three p . Well, 1 don’t know either. My husband was saying he’d like some sausage. Have you any real nice sausages?” “Plenty, madam. Now, then, how much sausage will you have?” “ It’s pork sausage, is it?” “Yes, ma’am.” “ Well, I suppose a pound would be enough for our small family, but—but ” “ Shall I weigh a pound, madam?” “ I was just wondering if a veal potpie wouldn’t suit him better,” she an swered. “You have veal, 1 suppose?” “ O yes, madam. Here’s a splendid bit of veal—as good a piece as I ever “ Yes, that does look like nice veal,” she says, lifting it up. “ Amd you’ll take it?” “Let’s see!” she muses. “Y —no, I guess not. I guess I’d better take pork chops.” “Nice chops. How much,” he asks. “One of those slices will weigh a pound, I suppose ?” “About a pound, madam.” “And it was a young hog?” . “ Quite-young, madam.” “And you’ll cut the rind off?” “Yes, madam.” “Well,” she says, heaving a deep sigh, “ I guess you may give me some beefsteak —some that’s nice, and be sure to cut all the bone out.” And she’s only been half an hour coming to the point. — Detroit Free Press. , —According to an official statement there are 22,871 persons at Berlin who have to pay taxes on their incomes, viz.: One of them has an annual income of 600,000 thalers, one of 480,000 thalers,one of 320,000 thalers, one of 240,000 thalers, two of 200,000 thalers, two of 180,000 thalefs, one of 160,000 thalers, three of 140,000 thalers, seven of 120,000 thalers three of 100,000 thalers, ten of 80,000 to 100,000 thalers, nine 0f.68,000 to 80,000 thalers, seventeen of 56000 to 68,000 thalers, thirteen of 48,000 to 56,000 thalers; consequently seventy-one persons have each more than 48,000 thalers a year. Two hundred and forty-four persons have each 20,000 to 48,000 thalers a year, and 471 persons have each 9,600 to 20,000 thalers a year.