Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1875 — Page 1

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LATEST NEWS. Great Financial Eemlsion in Berlin. No More American Potatoes for France. The Late Tornado in Georgia and South Carolina. Three Hnndred Person* Killed and MM Injured. The Poetofflce at Neuoee, Tex., Surned by Mexloan Raiders. Prlfbtfal Railroad Aeetdaa* at Tyrone, lowa. Miscellaneous, Personal and General Notre.

THE OLD WORLD.

Da. Fuerster, the Prince-Bishop of Bres,au,has been summoned to resign his Bishopric because be promulgated the Papal encyclical against the Ecclesiastical laws. The French Cabinet has issued a decree prohibiting the Importation of American potatoes. According to a special dispatch from Berlin of the Ist a great financial crisis had occurred. There had been twenty-eight failures and several suicides in consequence of financial reverses. Oh the Ist the Carlists were reported to have entered the province of Santander with a view of penetrating Castile. Tna Uruguayan Chambers have passed a decree suspending payment of interest on the pnblic debt and providing for its redemption by the iasue of new paper at a forced price' A Berlin dispatch of the 3d says that eighty ad been imprisoned In Posen and that delegate who had been administering the Archbishopric of Posen since the incarceration of the incumbent bad been arrested. Thi funeral of John Martin, brother-in-law of the late John Mitchel, was attended by 30,000 persons on the 2d. * Schichken, the agent of Russia in Servia, has been appointed Minister of Russia to the United Btates. According to a Madrid dispatch of the 3d the Carlist Gen. Saballa had lately had an interview with Gen. Campos at Qlot, under a flag of truce, with the view of seeking terms for the transfer of his allegiance from Don Carlos to King Alphonso. Wilson, MoLay & Co., metal merchants, London, England, havt suspended, owing to difficulties arising from thair American rail contracts. Their liabilities are estimated at $1,000,000.

TUB NEW WORLD. On the Slet nit. the Ble* Public, of Paris, announced the intended abdication of the Emperor of Brazil in favor of hta oldeat daughter, the Countess d’Eu. The paper adds that “ the Emperor on his abdication •will make a tour of Europe, after which he will proceed to the United States, where he will make his home.” H. B. Clajxin continued his evidence on the 80th ult., his testimony pertaining chiefly to the tripartite agreement, which witness stated Mr. Tilton agreed to, and both Mr. 'niton and Mr. Moulton con* sen ted to the award ai the arbitration ($7,000 by Bowen to Tilton) and to the condition that all the papers relating to the scandal should be burned. On (he cross-examination Mr. Claflin said the arbitrators never considered the truth or untruth of the stories in the papers relating to the scandal, nor did they discuss them. Charles Storrs gave testimony relating to the tripartite agreement He also stated that in January, 1871, Mr. Tilton had told him that Mrs. T. had accused Mr. Beecher of improper proposals. After the publication of the Woodbull scandal Mr. T. had said to witness that it contained a great many lies about Mrs. T. and Mr. Beecher, and that nothing criminal had occurred. Several witnesses testified as to Mr. Beecher’s visit to Feekskill on Hie afternoon of June 2, 1873. Mr. Storrs concluded his evidence on the 31st ult., and was followed by Mrs. Mary E. Perkins, sister of Mr. Beecher, who testified that she spent the whole of the winter of. 1871-’72 at the defendant’s house, during Hie absence of Mrs. Beecher, and was in the habit of receiving Mr. Beecher’s guests, and during that Hose did not see or hear of Mrs. Tilton being at the house. Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Moore swore that they would not believe Kate Cary (who was once in their employ) under oath. On the cross-examination they said they formed their conclusions from stories they heard while Kate was in their employ. James Redpath testified that Mr. 711ton showed him the “ True Story” in January, 1873. Witness was shown and identified a copy of the u True Story” shown him by Mr. T. The cross-examination of Mr. Redpath was continued on the Ist He stated that in an interview he had with Mr. Beecher the latter did not deny that he had given Mr. Tilton tause of offense. When asked if, in all his conversations with witness, Mr. Beecher had denied the commission of the crime with which he is charged, witness answered that he did not ask him about it Mr. Beecher was the next witness called to the stand. He said he had conscientious scruples against swearing on Hie Bible, and was sworn by the uplifted hand. He then gave a detailed history of his life and his acquaintance with Messrs. Bowen, Tilton and Moulton down to about the year 187$. His evidence for the d%y closed with a statement of an interview by witness and his wife with Mrs. niton and Mrs. Morse, at Mrs. Tilton’s residence, and at her (Mrs. T.’s) request, on which occasion Mrs. Tilton and Mrs. Morse spoke of the domestic difficulties in Mr. niton’s family, and the result of which was that he (witness) coincided with the views of Mrs. Beecher that a separation between Mr. and Mrs. niton would be the wisest course for them to pursue. On the 2d Mr. Beecher denied any and all charees of either criminal conduct or intent bn his part in his relations with Mrs. Tilton at any time. He reiterated his statements made before the Church Investigating Committee, and flatly contradicted the evidence of Hears. Tilton and Moulton with

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regard to the confessions of criminal conduct they alleged he had made. He declared that the letter of contrition which he signed was written by Mr. Moulton when he (witnesaF was laboring 'under great excitement caused hy his fear that ha might have been unintentionally led into doing Mr. Tilton an injustice by listening and subscribing to the reports in circulation' against him (Tiltop) at the time of his difficulties with Mr. Bowen. H* said th*t Mr. Moulton suggested to him that Mrs. Tilton had allowed her * affections to be alienated from her husband and to center upon witness; and it was, >this assertion on the part of Mr.Moulton, together with the fact that Mr. M. emphatically pronounced false many of the scandalous reports afloat against Mr. niton’s moral character, that led him to express himself in a contrite manner for haying contributed, unintentionally, to ML Tilton’s sorrow. Witness denied reading or having read to him at that time the memorandum of his remarks made by Mr. Monlton, and which he signed at Mr. M.’s request as being the better way of showing to Mr. Tilton that he enterlftiaed po unfriendly or hostile feelings toward him. Henry M. Cleveland, manager of tiie Christian Union, gave his testimony in tiie Beecher case at his residence on the 3d. It is stated that he testified that Mr. Beecher waa in the offlee of the Union on the 3d of June, 1878, between eleven audtwelypo*«tock of that day. That ia the date «• which Mrs. Monlton, in her testimony, said Mr. Beecher waa at her house for three or four hours, and talked of suicide, and when she advised him to confess to Plymouth Church. Mr. Beecher’s examination was continued on the sth. He repeated hi* denial of being the author of the letter of contrition, or of the expressions reported by Mr. Moulton. He denied the statement of both Messrs. Tilton and Moulton that he had ever confessed even a minor offense in connection with Mrs. Tilton. In relation to the celebrated Interview sworn to by Mr. Tilton, at which the paternity of one of Mr. Tilton’s children was in question, Mr. Beecher denied that any such interview ever occurred, apd pronounced the story a “ monstrous and absolute 60sehood.” The Rhode Island Prohibition State Convention has renominated the present Governor and Lieutenant-Governer. The remainder of the ticket was made up from the Republican State ticket.

The Augusta (Ga.) correspondent of the Louisville Courier. Journal says the recent, tornado which passed over parts of Georgia and South Carolina was the most destructive ever experienced in the United States. The number killed in Georgia was not less than 800 and the wounded number 1,500. The casualties in South Carolina are reported to have been equally numerous. A kerosene lamp recently exploded and set on fire the h<ftne of a farmer named Colson, twenty-five miles from Wadena, Minn., and the flames spread so rapidly that in a moment the night-clothes of the father, mother and five childreh'Colson dashed out of a window and rescued his family, but in a sad condition. They all dragged themselves to the nearest neighbor’s, a mile distant, barefooted and naked, leaving tracks of their progress in the snow. The father and two children have since died of their injuries, and it was thought the mother and remaining son could not long survive. The Ohio Legislature adjourned sine die on the 30th ult.

At St. Louis on the 29th ult., in the case of A. C. Buell, charged with libeling ex-Senator Chandler, of Michigan, in the Detroit Free Freu , a year ago, appealed by the Government from the United States District to the United States Circuit Court, March 9, Judge Dillon, of the latter court, rendered a decision affirming that of the lower court, and Mr. Bnell was discharged. Tux trustees of the Lick fund in San Francisco have held a meeting to discuss Mr. Lick’s revocaUon of his will, and express a determination not to resign their trust. The Postoffice at Neuces, Tex., was burned by a band of armed Mexicans dp?}?g the recent raids from over the border. The Postmaster himself barely escaped with his .life,, the robbers believing that he had perished in the flames of the burning building. A man named Smith was murdered,' and serein Americans were taken prisoners and subjected to the most cruel treatment One of the leaders of the gang was afterward captured and taken to Corpus Christ!, where he w*a summarily tried by a people’s court ana hanged. At Washington on the Slat, *R. it foeTrf. ported that the yellow fever bad become epidemic in Havana. On the 31st ult Gen. Sheridan issued a general order declaring the policy of the Government In reference to the Black Hills region. The order covers a letter from the Department of the Interior to the Secretary of War, dated March 28, in wJtd&Jt is stated that a competent geologist would be sent to explore that region, and if it be found that the precious metals exist in large quantities efforts wonld be made to extinguish the Indian title guaranteed by the treaty of 1868. .Negotiations had already commenced to this end, but the presence of trespassers in that section was likely to endanger their success, ud the Interior Department therefore called upon the War Department to remove intorlqpera and furnish a military escort for the geological party.

The following is the statement of the condition of-the public debt April t: Six per cent, bonds 51449.135.900 Fite per cent, bonds 574,852,750 Total coin bonds $1,723,888,650 Lawful money debt 14,078,000 Matured debt. 7.973,650 Legal-tender notes 379.298,883 Certificates of deposit 43,045,000 Fractional currency 44,343,209 Cbln certificates ;.... 24,191,900 interest .'. 1 29,049,419 Total debt $2,255,968,711 Cash in Treasury— OOin *84,105.520 Currency 5,182,412 Special deposits held for the redemption of certificates of deposits as provided by law 43,045,000 Total in Treasnry..... $132.332.933 Debt less cash In Treasnry I. $2,138,634,778 Decrease daring March 3,681,210 Bondi issued to the Pacific Hallway P® fM Companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding 461.623512 Interest accrued and not yet paid.... 969,853 interest paid by the United States.. 26,264,102 Interest repaid by the transportation ilS!!KS~r*r»%ia s ' 943,718 Gov. Coke, of Texas, telegraphed to the Washington authorities on the 31st nit, announcing the recent raids made in that State

OUR AIM; AO FEAR GOD, TEETHE TRUTH AND MAKE MONET.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1875.

by Mexicans, and calling for protection against the Invasions. John C. New, the successor of Spinner li Treasurer of the United States* is said to begs hard-money man. * ms--Ssvebal riots occurred in different mining districts in Pennsylvania on thp Ist, and to some instances the disturbances resulted to the loss of life. The Governor wss taking active measures to put a stop to the outbreaks. ' -.Li Lam accounts state that the ice at Bay de Noquet, on the upper Michigan shore of Lake Michigan, was stxty-one inches thick. George Reynolds, a Mormon, on trial at Salt Lake City for polygamy, haa been found guilty by a jury composed of Mormons and non-Mormons. A motion to set aside the verdict because defendant had not been arraigned and asked to plead, and had never had the indictment lead to him, was granted, after which the defense waived a new trial, with a view of taking the case to the Supreme Court In the case of Delegate George Q. Cannon, on the same charge, the defendant plead the statute of limitation, and was discharged. - a Washington telegram of the 4th says the Mexican Government would soon be informed of the enormity of the offense recently committed by invading Mexicans on the Texas border,with a demand for reparation to satisfy toe national bono?. g**-* l^ Ex-State Senator Robert McKenna, of Tennessee, was lately tried for marrying the grand-daughter of his former wife and sentenced to the Penitentiary for five years. He has been pardoned, A New Orleans dispatch of the 4th says the Senatorial excursion to Mexico had broken up, several of the party deciding to go no farther. A few would proceed to Vera Cruz by the regular mall steamer and as private travelers. The fear of the yellow fever mid toe illness of Mrs. Morton are, among the causes alleged for a change of programme.

The suit of Morton and others against the State of Nebraska, involving the title to the rich salt beds near Lincoln, has been decided infavor of the State. ” On the morning of the 4th the Chicago express train collided , with the Pacific express train on the Chicago, Bnriington <fc Quincy Railroad, near Tyrone* lowa. Both engines and several cars were demolished. H. L. Miller, conductor; C. M. Pickle, fireman, and W. A. Gardner, express messenger, were instantly killed, and several other employes were injured, some fatally. One passenger waa reported killed and several wounded. The accident is said to have been caused by the telegraph operator at Tyrone neglecting to hold the Chicago-bound train until the other train had passed that point E. C. Walker, of Michigan* Aa® been appointed Inspector of Indian Affairs. ’**• President Grant stated on the sth that he could see no reason for apprehension of war between Mexico and the United States. Nothing would be done by this Government tn gin ii jressmii yesult * Hundreds of prominent ladies have peti-tioned-the Governor and Council of Massachusetts that the sentence of Pomeroy, the boy-fiend, be executed, as a safeguard io Children. ;

£ The State election in Connecticut occurred on the sth. The returns up to the morning of the 6th indicated that Chas. R. IngeraoU (Dem.) is re-elected Governor by about 7,000 majority. The Congressmen elected are: First District, Geo. M. Landers, Dem.; Second, James Phelps, Dem., Third, H. H. Starkweather, Rep.; Fourth, Wm. H. Bamum, Dem. The Legislature is Democratic. P. T. Barnum was elected Mayor of Bridgeport. Two men, named Owens, arrived at Yankton, D. T., on the 4th, direct from the Black Hills, bringing with them several nuggets and particles of gold which they took out with an ax. They left four of their number behind and came back for provisions and tOOIB. A late dispatch from Key West, Fla-, says there had been but four cases of yellow fever tbere, and the disease bad already disappeared. >■' " >;•; The trial of' John D. Lee and 'others, charged with participation in the Mountain Meadow massacre, has been postponed. ... A young son of Jacob Welker, of St. Park, Ohio, was fatally burned on the sth by the explosion of cap while ha was hurrying u£ a fire by pouring oil upon tt. The case at Delegate George ,Q. Cannon, for jfolylfcmyfTias been appealed to the Territorial Supreme Court, and bonds given for his appearance in the sum of $5,000. A Detroit akpateh of the stb says the Republican State ticket for Supreme Court Judge and Regents of the State University of Michigan had been elected by from 10,000 to 15,000 majority. The election in Cincinnati on the sth resulted in the success of the Democratic municipal ticket by from 1,000 to 6,000 majority, Johnson, for Mayor, receiving the heaviest vote. Gen. Sheridan was at New Orleans on the sth. A dispatch of that date says he was looking after the troubles on the Mexican border.

TAB HARKKTt. Apbo. 5, 1975. N nw Yoax.— Cotton— l6*ol7c. Floor—Good to choice, *5.1505.46; white wheat extra, ssso® spring, *1.2001.22. AJM—Western,[email protected]. Barley—fi. 3001.35. Corn—B§*@Bßc. Oat*— Western, 71073 c. Pork— New mess, *21.75022.00. hard— Prime steam, 14K©14Xc. Cheese— lo® lOJic. Woof—Domestic fleece, 50®00c. Metre*— $10.0001300. Hog* —Lite, $8.0008.50. Sheep— Live, *6,2507.25. Chicaso. — Beeves — Choice, *5.8606.35; good, *5.5005.75; medium, *5.0005.50; butchers' Stock, *3.7505.00; stock cattle, *8.2504.75. Mops—Lite, good to choic*. *7.2508.50. Sheen —Good to choice, *5.5006.50. Butter—- , Choice yellow, 25031 c. Jtggs— Fresh, 25026 c. r. Pork— Mess, new, $21.5'021.40. Lard—% 14.250 14.3 J. Cheese—item York Factory, 1754018 c; Western Factory, 17@17*c. Flour—White winter extra, *4.5006.75; spring extra, *4.2504.75. Wheat— Spring, So. 2, 95X@97*c. Com—Ho. 2, 69@70*c. Oats—no. *, 57X@S9*c. Bye—no. 2, *1.6201.05. Bartey—TSo. 2, *1.0801.09. Wool -Tub-washed, 45056 c: fleece; washed, 400 52c; flgffft. —. an wash id, 27037 c. Cmnhir First clear, *52.00056.00; second clear, *46.000 50.00; Common Boards, *11.00012.00; Fencing, “A" Bhlnglgs, *3.0008.25; Lath, Cntonraan.—Fletfr—4s.ooos.lo. Wheat— Red, *1.1201.16. Com —7lo7Bc. Aye—*l.llol.l2. porL--Bt. Lams.-rCattlo— Fair -to choice, *5.2508.15. —No. 2, 76*071*c. Cute—No. 2, 6l@64*e. Aye-No. li *1.0201.05. Barley— No. 2, *1.20 @1.22*. Fork-Mess, *21.40021.50. Lard—l 4 r -mr-m** Mxlwadkkb.—Flour—Spring XX, *4.9006.20. WAeof—Spring, No. 1, *1.0101.08; No. 2, 94* 095 c. Com—No. 2, 73*©75*c. Oats -No. 2. S6os6*c. Aye—No. 1, *1.0601.06*. barley—Ho. 2, *1.0501.0 i. CustßiiAHD. Wheat —No. 1 Red, *1.17*0

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CURRENT ITEMS.

New York is seriously talking about a scheme for importing domestic servants from India. .... Ah indignant Jerseyman is going to more to South Abingdon, Mass., where the town canflot have a centennial until' 1975. ’ The block of Switzerland granite which is to serve for a monument Over the grave of Agassiz has arrived at Cambridge, and is now receiving the ioscrip tion. "'?**. . It is said that nothing will cure a poet’s affection for his idol sooner than to catch her at the dinner-table excavating the kernel of a hickory-nut with a hair-pin. > ' • Somebody in Baltimore claims to have •Sen a phantom dog one night recently. This is encouraging to those who have long wished to see phantom dogs supersede all others. A young lady while out walking heard for the first time of her mother’s intention to marry again, andehe wan obliged to sit right aown and csy about it. She could not go a step farther. Texas talks of dividing herself into two States. The worst thing about Texas is that there is too much of her. You could put four or five lUiuoises into her, geographical area and have a big margin to spare. If is asserted that the proportion of the married among the insane is smaller than that of the single j but this may be because an insane married person doesn’t show anything abnormal in his miserable melancholy.

A gold knee-buckle Of good workmanship was recently found by a citizen living in the vicinity of Braddock’s Field, in the western part of Pennsylvania. It is thought to have belonged to one of the unfortunate victims of Braddock’a defeat. The Berlin correspondent of Land and Water says that if a field infested by thistles be planted with rape seed the latter will thoroughly starve, suffocate and chill the weed out of existence. The experiments tried with different varieties of rape seed have been completely successful. A Bridgeport (Conn.) company have just finished a refrigerator-car to be used in bringing strawberries from the South, and the Standard says: “This is the first refrigerator-car of this kind ever built, but will probably he soon followed by thirty more to be used on the different roads about the country.” A seventeen- in Paris -reeently induced a companion of eleven years of age to steal 900 francs in gold and then strangled him, threw him into the Seine and walked oft with the money.He was sentenced to twenty years in the galleys, “ having escaped the death penalty," we are told, “on account of his youth.”

Adulteration of food is made a penal oSense in England, and the laws are.executed with great rigor. Iu this manner purchasers are protected from sharpers and given good articles instead of Spurious ones. In this country a like reform is necessary, for here, as in England, adulteration of articles of food is carried on to a large extent. Applause: It spoils the child, it ruins the youth and makes a strong man weak. Given too oft, it heats away the judgment, unbalances the will ana wrecks the greatest minds. It fosters pride, cradles selfishness and turns to curd the sweet milk of the heart. It tears down what adversity has builded uo, and numbers its victims most among the gifted. Inasmuch as paper has been made available for the manufacture of almost every variety of furniture and articles of dress, it is passing strange that paper coffins should have been left till this late day unthought of. The undertaker is certainly not an enterprising party. Trank-makers have long been credited with using all the unsalable printed books; but at the present rate of production, were every traveler supplied with a van load of these troublesome impedimenta to traveling, such a stock would remain that all the bookshelves in the world would not contain a tithe of them. To further reduce the stock a manufacturer out West proposes to supply every journeyer to that bourne whence no traveler returns with a last trank made of papier mache , waterproofed with asphal turn. —Scientific American.

Adventures on the Ice—Terrible Sufferings.

Thb steamship Numberg, Capt. J aeger, which arrived at Baltimore on the 28th nit., from Bremen and Southampton, brought ten men who had been rescued from the jaws of death. The Baltimore papers give the following particulars: Of thirty-four men belonging to the fishing village of St. Mary’s, coast of Newfoundland, Who engaged in an adventure to rescue an abandoned vessel in the ice, thirteen were frozen to death, ten reached Baltimore, three are on a schooner hound to Bermuda, and the other eight were taken on a vessel hound to Newfoundland. Andrew Mooney, a man of thirty-six years, with an intelligent, honest countenance, who is among those on the Nurnberg, said yesterday that all were neighbors to each other and nearly all were born in St. Mary’s. He and a number of others have large families,-which they happed by fishing in the summer. The ice had been firm all winter and some of the villagers had gone out upon it frequently to hunt sea birds. It had shown no signs of moving before that" fatal day. Reports had been received lor a week from the headlands that a vessel was seen drifting about, hod oil the 2d of March the brig was discovered two and a half miles from their shore fast in the ice.. The party of thirty-four (all men but James Grace) was quickly gathered, and they started out on the ice to her and spent the day on board. Toward evening they started homeward, hut had siot proceeded far when the terrible fact was presented to them that the ice had parted between them and the shore and the opening was increasing every moment. Consternation seized upon them as they hastened forward, and each threw away his heavy outer clothing as he ran, to be encum-

bered as little as possible. When the brink of the ice was reached the space of water between them and the shore was half a mile wide, the ice having broken one mil© out from the land and the immense field upon which they stood, floating steadily further out to sea. It was novy quite dark, the party were exhausted and but half clad, and they prepared for the terrible cold which sooa set in. At first it rained until they were all wet to the skin. The rain then turned to sleet and snow, the; wind veered to the northward and the cold became intense, the fierce blasts of wind cutting them to the hope. Tb«n ■ began the effort for life, the men stomping their feet, Tunning madly about, ana the more sturdy encouraging the# weak and faltering. The cold still increased until, as Mooney‘says, it had reached a degree ofinteniity not equaled before in that latitude (hiring the winter. At midnight the cold and exhaustion began to tell upon the doomed ones in the little party. First one and then another of them would'lie down saying that he could go no further. The others would pick them up and try to keep them on their feet, but after reeling for a short distance like drunken men they would fall senseless upon the ice and die without a struggle. Those able to keep their feet had enough to do to keep themselves from falling into the fatal lethargy, and with sad hearts each victim was left to his fate. Father or son or brother saw each other fall and were powerless to help. When morning dawned seven corpses were counted at intervals Upon the ice, and of the remainder none could tell who was to be the next victim.

A field of ice twenty feet square floated-near the brink of the ice in the open water, upon which nine of them got, hoping that it would float toward file shore tee aud they could thus save themselves: When it had flouted yards from the ice upon which their comrades stood, it grounded, and.' the unfortunates remained upon it for three days and nights, during which time six of them died, the other three being those picked up by the schooner George 8. Fogg on fixe 6th of March. When it is remembered that seven perished the first night, it is wonderful that even three of the nine on the Small' ice-field escaped Alive, they having endured hunger as well as the cold. All the food they had in all that time was a small whiteflsh, which was frozen in the ice. This they divided between them. Of the three men two are on the Number*, via : John Fuer, in the ship’s hospital, badly frozen, and James Peddle. The eighteen men remaining after the nine floated off on the small ice-field made their way back to the abandoned brig, which was tightly jammed in the ice and was carried with it. All expected to die in her, and some of them had lost their senses before reaching her the second time. There were no stores on the brig, and they subsisted on molasses, a few oranges and edible scraps that could be fgund. Tfee fishermen. who admit they are unlettered, could not read her name, but knew she was not English. The crew had left jn the ice for Hollowroad, a village near St. Mary’s, March I. The brig moved with the ipe for a week in sight oi the land, and the fishermen were on her ten days. At length one evening at sunset a schooner was seen four miles away, which had been caught iu the same field that imprisoned the brig. That night the half-famished men held a council, and determined to reach the schooner next day or die in the effort. Next morning at daylight they embarked in the brig’s small boat, which could scarcely hold them all, and after straggling through the tee nearly all day reached the schooner George S. Fogg and were saved. There they met the three survivors of their nine comrades who left them nearly two weeks before; the three, singularly enough, having been saved by the same vessel which rescue£f*'the. other eighteen. Cart. Spence gave them plenty Of food, and if the prayers of those grateful, honest, poor Irish fishermen can avail to make his future life prosperous he will never want of this earth’s stores. The twenty-one fishermen and crew of seven over-crowded the little schooner, but the Captain had food enough for all, and all file discomfort they experienced was from their circumscribed- quarters. Borne of the most robust of the party perished, and some of the more frail escaped, among them the bov James Grace. On that terrible night, March 2, the boy and other delicate ones were placed in the middle of the throng as they stood or moved about, and thus secured some shelter. To a question as to how the news would be received in St. Mary’s, Mooney replied, as he brushed a tear away: ‘‘There is now mourning in every household, for they do not know any of us are saved.” He said he had six children, and that some of those who died have families equally aslarge. The ten men were taken in charge by the British Consul, who will send them home in the Caspian, which goes to Halifax this week.

—The other evening when a Sixth street father boxed his son’s ears as* a punishment for impudence the lad stood before him and remarked: “See here, lather, I was reading this morning that the dram of the ear is one of the most sensitive things in the human system. A sudden blow upon the ear is liable to produce deafness, and the practice of cuffing children cannot be too severely censured. It is but a relic of that dark period when a man with a wart on his nose was put to death as a sorcerer.— Danbury News. —Golden Hair. —Since ealden -hair is so muen in favor, it is well for mothers to know that thoy oaa preserve the golden color of tkeir children’s locks by a persistent and careful washing with csstile soap and water. The hair should be braided and dipped n peatedly into the suds and then wiped with a towel, and this operation should be performed once in four or five days. If persevered in, the roots of (be hair may darken as the child grows older, but the mass will keep its sunny tints as long as the owner wishes. Rzchanqe.

—A. gentleman in San Joaquin County, Cal., owns a flock of 2,000 ewe sheep, 1,300 of which had 2,400 lambs this season, thus increasing Ihe flock 120 per cent. Nearly all of the sheep produced twins, and twenty of them produced triplets- i-■ ¥■ -t. • - ; .-* ••• I —Patient to doctors after consultation: “Tell me the worst, gentlemen; am I going to diet” Doctors: “We are divided on that question, sir; but there is a majority of one that you will live”

NUMBER 30.

BEX ALWAYS MADE HOME RAPE In an old churchyard stood a stone, Weather-marked and. stained, - The hand of Time had crumbled It, - So onlmart remained. Upon one side I could just trace, “In memory of our mother!" An epitaph which spoke of “ home" a Was chiseled on the other. Fdgaxed on monuments of tome High towering to the skle6; I’d seen the sculptured marble stone Where a great hero lies; But by this epitaph I paused, And read it o’er and o’er, For I had never seen inscribed Such words as these before. “ She always made home happy!" What A noble record left; A legacy of memory sweet * 4 " To those she left bereft; And what a testimony given By those who knew her best, Engraven on this plain, rode stone That marked toeir mother’s rest. It was a humble resting place, I know that they were poor, But they bad seen their mother sink And patiently endure; Thev had marked her cheerful spirit, When bearing, one by one. Her many burdens up the htil, ; Till all ter work waa done. So when was stilled her weary head, Folded her hands so' white. And she was carried from the home She’d always made so bright, Her children raised a monument ' That money could not buy, . As witness of a noble life Whose record is on high. A noble life; but fatten not In any book of fame: Among the list of noted ones None ever saw her name; For only her own household knew The victories sh.e had won— And none but they could testify How well her work was dono.

The Mission of the Fly.

The generally-received opinion about flies is that, despite limitless ingenuity expended on patent traps and poisoned paper, they form one of those ills of life which, it not being possible entirely to cure, must perforce be endured with as good a grace as may be. Consequently when they ruin our picture-frames and ceilings, insinuate themselves into bur milk and molasses pitchers, or lull us to sleep with their drowsy buzzing, only to bite us during our slumbers and render the same uneasy, we thank fate that the cold weather will rid us of the pest. To be sure, they are scavengers in their way; but after we have spent several minutes is picking a score or more out of the butter-dish we arrive fit the conclusion that it is an open question whether they do.not spoil more good material than they carry off bad. Festindlento, good reader, hasten slowly and do not anchor faith to such opinions until you are eertain that the above sum up all of the fly’s mission in this world. Mksca domestica (science uses six syllables in Latin to exp Tess that which good round Saxon epitomizes in two) is a maligned insect. He fulfills a purpose of sufficient moment to cause you to bear his inroads into your morning nap with equanimity, or even complacently to view him Congregated by the score within your hidden sweets..

Did you ever watph a fly who has just alighted after soaring about the room for some little time? He goes through a series of operations which remind you of a cat licking herself after a meal, or of a bird pluming its feathers. First, the bind feet are rubbed together, then each hind leg is passed over a wing, then the forelegs undergo a like treatment; and lastly, if you look sharp you will see the insect carrv his proboscis oyer his legs and about kis body as far as he can reach. Hie minute trunk is perfectly retractile and it terminates in two large lobes, which you can see spread out when the insect begins a meal on a lump of sugar. Now the rubbing together of legs and wings may be a smoothing operation; but for what purpose hi this carefully going over the body with the trunk, especially when that organ is not fitted for licking, butsimply for grasping and sucking up food?

This query, which perhaps may have suggested itself to thousands, has recently for the first time been answered by a Mr. Emerson, an English chemist; and certainly, in the light of the revelations of that gentleman’s investigations, the fly assumes the position of an important friend instead of a pest to mankind. Mr. Emerson states that he began his self-appointed task of finding out whether the house-fly .really serves any appreciable purpose in the scheme of creattefeoxcepting as an indifferent scavenger, by capturing a fine specimen and gluing his wings down to a microscope slide. On placing the slide under the instrument, to the investigator’s disgust, the fly appeared covered with lice, causing the offending insect to be promptly released and another substituted iu his place. Fly No. 2 was no better off than fly No. 1, and as the same might be predicated of flies 3,4,5 (or o| n flies, as the algebras have it), Mr. Emerson con-

eluded that here was something which at once required looking into. Why were the flies lousy? Meanwhile fly No. 2, on the slide, seemed to take his posi tion very coolly, and extending his proboscis began to sweep it over his body as if he had just alighted: A glance through the microscope, however, showed that the operation was not one of selfbeautification ; for wherever the lice were, there the trank went. The lice were disappearing into the trank; the fly was eating them. Up to this time, the investigator had treatedhis specimen as of the masculine gender; but now he changes his mind ana concludes it to be a female, busily devouring not lice but her own progeny. The flies then carry their young about them; and when the family get too numerous or the mother too hungry, the offspring are eaten.' Awhile reasoning thus, Mr. Etoerson picked up a scrap of white writing paper, from which two flies appeared to be busily eating something, and put it under the instrument. There were the progeny again oh (he paper rad easily rubbed off with a cloth. “ This,” he says, “ set me thinking. I took the paper into the kitchen again and waved it around, taking care that no flies touched it, went back to the microscope and there found animalcules, the same as on flies. 1 had now arrived at something definite; they were not the progeny of the fly, but animalcules floating in the air, and the quick motions Of the flies gathered them 6n their bodies and the flies then went Into some quiet corner to hare their daintv meal.” ? The investigator goes on to describe how he continued the experiment in a

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. 1 iUL. L ... = variety .of localities, and how, in dirty and bad-smelling quarters, he found the myriads of flies which existed there literally covered with animalcules, while other flies, captured in bedrooms or well-ventilated, clean apartments, Were miserably lean and entirely free from their prey. Wherever filth existed, evolving garma which might generate disease, there were the flies, covering themselves with the minute organisms and greedily devouring the same. Mr. Emerson, while thus proving the utility of ihe fly, has added another and lower link to that ewriouu and necessary (drain of destruction which exist* in animated nature. These infinitesimal animacules form food for the flies, the flies for the spiders, the spiders for the birds, the birds for the quadrupeds, and so on up to the last of the series, serving the same purpose to man. He certainly deserves credit for an interesting and novel investigation and for an intelligent discernment which might even attack the more difficult task of teaching us the uses—for nature makes nothing without, some beneficial end—of the animalcules themselves.— Scientific American.

Hairs Turning to Snakes.

There are few- boys or girls residing in the country who have not heard marvelous stories of horse or cow hairs turning to snakes when thrown into water. Very likely these wonderful tales of the metamorphosis of hairs into squirming reptiles were told them by some fond mother and indorsed by all the neighbors ; and who hut a born skeptic could disbelieve such unquestionable -authorities upon all subjects which naturally attract the attention of inquisitive children? Fortunately for mankind, a few do escape from what may be termed a life-long subjugation to the *“ tyranny of errors, and, though it may cost them many a pang and heartache to see the idols of their youth dashed to pieces, one by one, by the remorseless hand of the scientific investigator, still the final results are very much like the extraction of a molar by a skillful dentist. The pain may be acute during the brief ‘ operation, but there is always a peculiar sense of relief which somewhat compensates for one’s sufferings. But the majority of mankind do not pass through any such ordeal, but remain steadfast and true to the faith of their childhood, else the hair snakes and similar marvelous productions would have long since died out, instead of being alive and as lively as they were centuries ago. This common belief in the transformation of hairs to snakes has been forcibly brought to my mind of Hte by several paragraphs on the subject which have appeared in a Western paper,- the editor of which has been sharply criticised by some of his readers for doubting the existence of such productions. Of course the only facts brought forward on the part of those who hold that a hair may become a living reptile are their belief in what somebody else, equally as ignorant, had told them. Without claiming to speak as an authority on this subject, perhaps I may throw out a few hints that will aid those who are in search of tie truth in regard to the nature and habits of what are ■ termed “ hair snakes.” It is probably unnecessary to add to What I have already said that hairs do not turn to snakes, no matter how much they may wriggle about when thrown into water. There are, however, several species of small black, or very dark, parasitic worms, found in water and wet places, which, to the unassisted eye, look

very much like snakes; and these are the wriggling creatures supposed by many persons to be transformed horse hairs. Very few of our scientific naturalists have made the study of the Gordius or hair worm a specialty; hence, their true life history may not be fully known; but tbis much has been discovered, towit: Thcv live through the greater part of their lives in the intestines of insects, such as spiders, crickets, grasshoppers and various species of beetles which live on the ground or under stones in low, wet places. The next question which would naturally follow is: How do those worms get into the insects? Let us suppose that one of these worms is living in the water or under a stone where it is damp or wet and there deposits her eggs, which are so minute that it requires a glass of high magnifying power to detect them, although they are fastened together in a long string of many 'thousands in each. From these eggs minute tadpoles, like worms, are hatched, and these lie in wait for some luckless cricket, beetle or other insect of proper size to supply a comfortable home for the worm in which it may thrive and grow to full size. When such comes within reach the little tadpole makes the most of the opportunity and penetrates the body, where it thrives on the contents of its habitation. When the .worm is fully grown it agaiu escapes to the water the first chance; ana anyone who has sufficient interest in this subject to catch a few of the large black crickets in the fall and throw them into water will be pretty

sure to find an occasional specimen containing one or more of these hair worms. The worms will leave the cricket almost instantly upon touching the water, showing that they are waiting for just such opportunities to escape to their apparently natural element. The worms may hie kept in a fair condition for examination and study in alcohol, although they will become quite brittle if the spirits are of high proof. I have obtained specimens of. the Gordius from various species of the cricket family, but the most interesting specimens in my collection are from a species of large Texan beetles known as Gasimachus. In collecting the beetles they were thrown into alcohol, and the worm thinking (if worms do think) it was water started to leave its home, but only succeeded in withdrawing about four inches of Us entire length (whatever it may be) before the spirits killed it. In another specimen ot the same species of beetle there appears to have been two of these hair worms, both having made an unsuccessful attempt to leave at the same time, but King Alcohol stopped their progress beyond a certain point just as he does some other creatures of a higher order. Hair worms, or horse-hair snakes, are not transformed horse or cow hairs, no matter how many persons there may be to testify that own eyes" witnessed the transformation. A- pair of ordinary eyes, backed by a good quality of brains, don’t amount to much in these days of superior compound microscopes, either monocular or binocu-lar.--Rural New Yorker. —England is on a grand wild-goose chase far nore of Shakespeare’s books.