Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1875 — Page 1

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LATEST HEWS.

Europe Darkened by a Huge War-Cloud. An Interesting Batch of German News. Additional Troops for the “ Ever-Falthful Isle.” Alphonso Arrests the Protestinn Educators. Terrible Tornadoes in Illinois and Arkansas. “ Federal*” and “ Confederates” to Fraternize in Chicago. Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc. THX OLD WORU). A correspondent of the Paris Journal det Debats writes to that paper from Borne that the Pope will take up his residence in the United States if it should become impossible for him to remain in Rome, and it was with a view to such emergency that Archbishop McCloskey was elevated to the Cardinalate. Thb public prosecutors at Liege, Brussels, ou the 7th commenced an investigation into the Duchesne plot for the assassination of Prince Bismarck. A bill to enable unmarried women to vote for members of Parliament, introduced by Prof. Fawcett, was refused a second reading in the British House of Commons on the 7th, by a vote of 153 to 187. -The Premier voted with the minority. Dispatches of the Bth from Berlin say that Herr Sigl, editor of the ultramontane paper Vaterland, recently sentenced in contumaciam for publishing an article offensive to Bismarck, had been arrested by the authorities at Salzburg, Austria, on the application of the German Government, and sent to Berlin. The Bishop of Breslau had refused to resign his see, and legal proceedings had been instituted to enforce compliance with the decree of the court. The Government had announced its intention to prosecute the German subscribers to the Car list fund, on the ground that they were fomenting a rebellion against a friendly power. At. twin wo rumors of war prevailed in Berlin, Vienna, Paris and Rome on the Bth, which a Berlin Ministerial journal of that date says portended a warlike combination against Germany. Thß Spanish Government has concluded to send 15,000 additional troops to Cuba. The professors of Die Madrid University who have protested against the recent reactionary educational laws have been arrested. Thb French Government has instructed its Consuls to summon for the last time French subjects abroad liable to military service to have their names registered at the Consulates. Gen. Elio, a Carlist General of distinction, has given in his adhesion to King Alphonso Pabl Boynton started from Dover, Eng. on the morning of the 10th to cross to France in his life-preserving dress and arrived at Boulogne in the evening. He was obliged to leave the water about five miles from France on account of the darkness and boisterous weather. According to a Madrid dispaten of the 10th the Presidency of the Madrid University had been conferred upon Le Fuente, the former editor of the Carlist newspaper. There was much dissatisfaction at the appointment. An EBtella report of the same date is to the effect that the Carlists had shot eight Alphonsist prisoners, on the 7th, in reprisal for the Carlists recently assassinated near Taffalaque. Thb Bessemer steamer made a satisfactory trial trip from Gravesend to Calais on the 13th. Thb Humane Society of Boulogne has voted a gold medal to Paul Boynton. Considbkablb loss of life was lately occasioned at Shanghai by a collision between two steamers. Official reports of the 13th announce the defeat of Carlists at Tolosa, with 100 killed.

THB KKW WORLD. Or the 6th, Mr. Beecher con tinned his denials of the evidence of Messrs. Tilton and Moulton, and gave his explanation of the letters which had passed between himself and Mrs. Tilton, denying that they bad any meaning which would warrant the construction put upon them by the plaintiff, and claiming that they related chiefly to Mrs. Tilton’s domestic troubles and his own sympathy for her ah her pastor or friend. In his examinaon the Bth Mr. Beecher continued to explicitly deny all the statements of the prosecution Involving any criminality on his part in connection with the scandal. In regard to Mrs. Moulton, he says he was a frequent visitor at her house, where he always met with a cordial and lady-like reception from her. He said he was not at her house on the 2d or 8d of June, 1872, nor did he ever make a confession to Mrs. Moulton of criminal conduct as charged in her testimony. Witness testified that at one of the interviews between him and Mr. Moulton, at the house of the latter, in January, 1871, when Mr. Tilton was threatening to publish a card relating to the scandal, Mrs. Moulton said to him (witness) that she did not believe the stories they were telling about him, and that she believed he was a good man. To this remark witness responded that she might be sure he was a good man. Owing to the illness of Mr. Beach, of the prosecution, the Beecher trial was adjourned on the morning of the 9th to the 12th. In his examination on the 12th Mr. Beecher denied each and every statement contained in Mrs. Moulton’s testimony that referred to an admission or -confession on his part of the crime with which he is charged. He declared he had never had any conversation with her in which the alleged crime was discussed; she never advised him to make a confession to the church, and he never threatened suicide. f. T. Baknum, the great showman, was

THE JASPER REPUBLICAN.

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elected Mayor of Bridgeport ou the sth. Join Robinson, the well-known circus man, was defeated on toe same day for toe same office Got. Tildbw, of New York, has pardoned James W. Ingersoll, tried is connection with the Tweed case, and sentenced in 1873 to five years’ imprisonment for forgery in the second degree. Cold weather, with alight fall of snow, was reported throughout toe central portion of Califgrniaou the sth. Fears for the safety of the fruit crop were entertained. At the election la Wisconsin on the Bth Edward G. Ryan was chosen Chief Justice of toe Supreme Court without opposition. Tbb Court of Claims baa decided that toe power vested in the President to pardon crimes does not authorize toe restoration of forfeited or confiscated property. On the 7th W. Ringgold, Postmaster at New Orleans, was suspended under the Tenure-of-Offlce act, and John M. G. Parker appointed in his place. Late Washington dispatches report toe discovery of numerous frauds upon the Postoffice Department in connection with mailroute bids.

Tn Rhode Island State election occurred on the 7th. There were three candidates for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, and toe vote was so divided between them tost no choice resulted. The remainder of toe Republican ticket for State officers is elected by between 11,000 and 12,000 majority. A general reduction in passenger rates from the East to Western points has been made. Undbb a recent act of the New York Legislature a new suit has been begun against William M. Tweed, to recover $6,196,957 which was paid out under the Board of Audit of 1870. Additional strikes in the Pennsylvania mining regions were reported on the 7th. Troops had been called on to assist in patting down any outbreaks that might take place. Thb municipal election in St. Louis on the 6th resulted in the election of toe Democratic candidate (Barrett) for Mayor by a plurality of about 700. A quantity of giant powder stored in San Francisco exploded on the 7th, blowing up many of the adjoining buildings and causing the complete destruction of a bonded warehouse in the vicinity. Several lives are reported lost.

Congressman Wheeler arrived in Washington on the Bth, en route for New Orleans, to assist in carrying out the Louisiana compromise. Thh strike of iron-workers at Pittsburgh, Pa., which had lasted since last fall, ended on the 7th, in favor of the workingmen. Two mills resumed operations on that day, and others would soon follow the example. Count Maheeaschi arrived in New Tork on the 7th from Europe, and announced officially to Archbishop McCloskey that the Pope had conferred on him the title of a Cardinal of the Roman Church. A vert destructive tornado passed over Edinburgh, HI., on the evening of the Bth. One church was crushed to atoms and dve dwellings were blown down. Some twenty young ladies and gentlemen and children were in the church at the time the wind struck it, and all of them were more or less injured, many of them quite seriously. On • the same evening a like visitation was experienced near Little Rock, Ark., in consequence of which trees were uprooted and seven houses destroyed. A Mrs. Jones was killed and her two daughters seriously Injured. At the approaching reunion in Chicago of the Army of the Rpublic “ all the surviving soldiers and sailors of the late war throughout the country who regard the flag of the United States as the emblem of undivided and indivisible nationality” are invited to be present. The reunion occurs on the 13th, 13th, 14th and 15th of May. On the morning of the 9th a band of strikers attacked a company of militia near Hazelton, Pa., and a few shots were fired. A ballot was taken on the 9th in the several mines of the Delaware, Lackawanna <fc Western Railroad Company of Scranton, to decide the question of a strike, and resulted in favor of work by a vote of 1,513 to 319. The property in New Tork known to have been in the possession of Mr. Tweed at the time of his exposure has been attached in the interest of the new $8,000,000 suit brought against him. Patrick O’Shea was hanged at St Louis on the 9th for the murder of his wife a little over a year ago. News was received at Leavenworth, Kan., on the 9th, that 2,000 of the captured Indians under guard at the Cheyenne Agency had made their escape. The troops attempted to retake them, but were repulsed. Richard Gibbs, of New Tork, has been appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Peru. The attempts in the New Tork Legislature to pass an act enabling Mrs. Tilton to testify have failed.

The vote in Connecticut at the recent election was as follows: for Governor—lngersoll (Dem.), 58,785; Greene (Rep.), 44,301; Smith (Pro.), 2,809; scattering, 114. Total, 101,009. Ingersoll’s plurality, 9,484; majority,- 6,661. For Con gressmen—Democratic candidates, 51,093; Republican, 47,311; Prohibition, 1,909. Total, 100,313. The vote for Governor in Rhode Island was as follows: Hazard (Ind. Rep.), 8,717; Lippitt (Reg. Rep.), 8,841; Cutler (Dem.), 5,169. Dan Bryant, the minstrel performer, died at New York on the 10th. Hon. Ben. Wade has written a letter declining to be a candidate for the Governorship of Ohio. He gives three reasons: First —His voice is used up so that he cannot make a speech. Second—He has sworn never to take the stump for an office for which he is a candidate. Third—He cannot afford to take the position. An official dispatch from the Cheyenne Agency to Gen. Pope gives the particulars of the revolt at that agency on April 6. While the guards were attempting to iron one of the Stone Calf Indians the prisoner broke away. The guards fired and hit him. This provoked several shots from the camp of the hostile Cheyennes, causing great consternation. The hostile Indians tied to the Sand Hilfe. The friendly Indians stood true. Uapt. Rafferty, in command of sixty cavalrymen, was sent in pursuit of the fugitives. He. waa reinforced by Gen. Neil with three companies. Owing to the depth of the sand the troops had to dismount and change on 'foot. The Indians held their position in the hills until

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

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1875.

night and then retreated under cover of darkness. The troops were repulsed three times, with a lots pf six mortally and ten slightly wounded. Gen. Pope at onee started all the available troops from Hayes, Dodge and North Fork cantonments to intercept the fugitive Indians, who were mostly unarmed. Tbb Supreme Court of toe United States has decided that money borrowed by a banker in the course of business is not taxable as capitaL A boilrh exploded in the gingham mills at South Adams, Mass., on toe 13th and throe men were killed and two others fatally injured. At Clinton, Mass., on toe same day, a grocery store was destroyed by fire and a Mrs. Dinsmore and her father, who occupied rooms over the store, were burned to death. The residence of P. P. Clifford, at New Haven, Conn., waa also burned on toe 13th, and Mrs. Clifford perished in the flames. W. H. Harper, toe Chief Grain Inspector of Chicago, baa been suspended from office by Gov. Beveridge because of certain alleged discrepancies in his fiscal accounts. He refuses to yield up bis books and assets. Warrants were Issued on the 10th for toe arrest of clerks in the Poetofflce Department implicated in toe recently-discovered frauds in that department. Treasurer Spinner has received an autograph letter from the President accepting his resignation aa Treasurer of the United States and expressing for him the warmest sentiments of regard and the highest appreciation of his probity, patriotism and official integrity. : n. A Salt T.ake telegram of the 13th says toe trial of John D. Lee and W. H. Dame for connection with the Mountain Meadow massacre has been postponed. They were arraigned and pleaded not guilty, but the prosecution was not ready. Thb United States District Court, at Detroit, has sentenced Daniel Pratt, a Jackson jeweler, convicted of writing obscene matter on postal cards, to the State Prison for two and a half years. Woken are now eligible to appointment as Notaries-Public in Illinois. Brigham Young has been re-elected prophet, seer, revelator and President.

THE MARKETS. April 18, 1875. NnwYobk.— Cotton— l6#©l7e. Flour— Good to choice, [email protected]; white wheat extra, $5.76® 6.25. Wheat— No. 3 Chicago, $1.21®1.24; No. 3 Northwestern, $1.22®1.25; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, [email protected]. Western,[email protected]. Aarfey— [email protected]. Com —92#®93c. Oats— Western, 78@74c. Pork— New mess, $93.50099.75. Lard— Prime steam, 15#©15#c. Cheese— lo® 1614 c. Woof—Domestic fleece, 48®60c. Beeves—sll.ooolß.oo. Bogs —Live, Sheep— Live, $6.0008.00. Chicago.—Assess—Choice, $5.8506.25; good. $5.5005.75; medium, $5.0005.50; butchers stock, $3.7505.15; stock cattle, $3.9504.75. Hoc*—Live, good to choice, $7.7508.75. Sheet) —Good to choice, $5.7506.50.. Butter — Choice yellow, 25©83c. Eggs— Fresh, 15©16c. Pork- Mess, $21.80®21.90. Lord—sls-15@ 15.20. Cheese— New York Factory, 17#©18c; Western Factory, 17©17#c. Flour—i White winter extra, $5.00®7.00; spring extra, $4.6005.95. Wfisaf—Spring, No. 2, $1.0201.04#. Corn—No, 2, 70#©78c. Oofr—No. 2,58061 c. Ay*-No. 2, $1.1901.15. Bariev— No. 2, $1.07®1.08. Wool —Tub-washed, 45©58c; fleece, washed, 40® 52c; fleece, nnwasbsd, 27©37c. LumberBint clear, $62.06055.00; second clear, $48.00© 50.00; Common Boards, $11.00012.00; Fencing, $13.00013.50; “A” Shingles, $3.0003.25; Lath, $fi00©2.25. Cincinnati.— Flour— ss.ooos.lo. WAsa'—Red, $1.1201.18. Com —73®75c. Bye— sl.l6®l.l7. Oats —64®70c. Barley [email protected]. Pork—--521.75022.00. Lard—ls#®ls>4c. Bt. home.—Cattle —Fair to choice, $5.4006.15. Bogs— Live,[email protected]. Flour—XX Fall, $5,000 5.26. WAsof—No. 2 Bed Fall, $1.30#®1.31. Com -No. 2, 77©79#c. .Oafs—No. 2, 66®67c. Ays-No. 1, $1.0601.08. Aarfey-No. 2, $1.85 ©I.BO. Pari—Mess, $51.75®22.0*. Lard- 14ft ©lsc. Milwaukee.—-Flour —Spring XX, $4.9005.80. Wheat —Spring, No. 1, $1.07#@1.08; No. 2, $1.02 01.02J4. Com— No. 2, 72#©78c. Oofs- No. 2, 57#®58c. Ays—No. 1, $1.0901.10. barley— No. 2, *1.9501.06. Clzvbland.— Wheat— No. 1 Red, sl.2o#© 1.21; No. 2 Red, $1.15#©1.16. Com—High Mixed, 77©78c. Oats—No. 1,680696. .Dbtboit.—WAsaf—Extra, $1.23#®1.2354. Com -No. 1, 78#®770. Oats- No. 1, 65©65#c. Toledo.— Wheat— Amber Mich., $1.1901.19#; No. 2 red, $1.1901.19#. Com— High Mixed, 76®76#c. Oats— No. 2, 64#0*6c. Buffalo.—Assess— $5.5006.50. Bogs— Live, $8.8508.76. Sheep —Live, $0.0007.25. Bast Liberty.— Cattle— Best, $6.2606.75; mediutt, $5.40®5.50. Bogs— Yorkers, [email protected]; Philadelphia, $9.5009.75. Sheep— Beet, $6.80© 7.00; medium, $5.5006.25.

Ladles' Panama Hats, Etc.

Among novelties for the spring and summer "are very fine plaited French Panama hats. These are commended for their exceeding lightness, elegance of shape, fineness and durability. They are as soft and pliable as chip braids, do not break when bent, are not injured by rain, and are so elastic that they may be rolled in a small parcel without spoiling their Bhape. They are most admired when made in the stylish Bretonne shape, with round crown and flexible bnm curled upward in front, but without wire. They are also shown in the Directoire shape, with flaring scoop front, and narrow brim behind. The damask ribbons already mentioned are the favorite in Paris for trimming bonnets. All the Jacquard looms in St.' Etienne are employed to make this rich fabric; the imitations of domestic manufacture are very poor in comparison With the imported ribbons and scarfs. Chip bonnets in the Directoire and Bretonne shapes are of ecru shades, with a border of several rows of the chip of dark bege brown or fawn-color. Another novelty is a very light bonnet made of a glossy silken braid. -This is very frail, and should be reserved for carriage use and fair weather. Chip flats, or plateaux, like those in use years ago, are now imported, and milliners aad the crowns and shape the brims to suit the wearer’s fancy. These come in chalk white and pearl-color, and .will make most distin-guished-looking hats when trimmed with velvet, feathers and roses. The new Derby or French walking hat is an improvement on the English walking hat now in vogue. It is shaped precisely like the Derby hats worn by gentlemen; the crown is high and round, and the narrow brim projects in back and front, and is rolled slightly all around. These are most popular in black and brown chip and in fine English Dunstable braid. The few ornaments imported consist of gilt and silver slides, buckles, and brooches of filigree in old medimval designs. There are also ribbons and galloon studded with polished jet or silver spangles. Flowers, branches and leaves of jet with gilt or with silver are occasionally used.— Harper** Bazar. A «■«. They do not “ take a thing back” any more in California; they ‘‘ fife a deed of revocation.”

INDIANA NEWS ITEMS.

Allen County. Bailey A Dorley’s blacksmith and wagon shops at Fort Wayne were recently burned, involving a loss of about $1,580. Haekford County. Samuel Huggins, an aged fanner, living near Hartford, committed suicide by hanging toe other day. It la supposed he committed toe deed on account of having to pay a debt for which he was security. Oar County. The Knightsville Enterprise says: “It was reported last week that an attempt had been made by some one to burn toe Lafayette Iron Company’s furnace. A man was seen in the stock-house with a bunch of kindling saturated with kerosene and was arrested and brought to town, butnotolng could be proved against him, so he was set free- He returned again to the furnace a few days ago and the negroes called a meeting and appointed a committee to attend to him. They accordingly caught him and gave him a severe flogging, and he has not been seen in these parts since.” Deeutur County* . James Trimble, a livery-stable keeper at Greensburg, recently fell dead from hia chair whilst sitting in his office. His death waa caused by heart disease. Elkhart County. Lafayette McCullough, aged thirteen years, son of John McCullough, living three miles east of Goshen, was kicked on the head by a horse a day or two ago. His skull was so badly crushed that the brains protruded. Henry County. A few days ago a son of Henry Woods, who lives near Grant City, fell froma hay-mow to the floor, a distance of sixteen feet HU skull was fractured, and the little fellow died. Howard County.

The Kokomo Tribune of a recent date says: “ Mr. Joseph Miller and wife, formerly a Mrs. Higgins, reside on Smith street, this city. They have not lived happily together for some time. One night Mrs. M. was awakened by her husband, whom she saw standing near her with a razor in his hand. She got up and found that he had taken all of her clothing and was about leaving the house with it. Her son drove him away, but he returned on another evening. Mrs. M. was lying in bed when he came in the room, rushed up to the bed and drew a luge butcher-knife and attempted to kill her. He was promptly arrested.” HnsUngton County. Fred Baler, a student at Concordia College, in Fort Wayne, was drowned at Huntington a few days ago. Laporte County. J. Kilburn, of Wanatah, accidentally shot himsoif through the abdomen the other evening, while taking a gun from a wagon. The wound was thought to be fatal. morion County. A few nights ago an incendiary fired the Indianapolis, Cincinnati A Lafayette Rail road bridge, spanning White River a few miles above Indianapolis, and the wooden structure, 850 feet in length, was totally burned and the piers more or less damaged. The fire was discovered by the outgoing Chicago express engineer just in time to prevent running upon it, and had the train not been three minutes late it could have swept through without trouble. The break necessitates a transfer at the river. Mrs. Fenschew, a lady seventy-two years old, was killed at Indianapolis the other night by a runaway team. While a party was engaged in firing a salute at Indianapolis the other evening, in honor of the late Democratic victories in Connecticut, the gun prematurely exploded, injuring William Petrie horribly. Part of one of his hands was blown off, both eyes were destroyed, and he was shockingly burned about the breast and face. Matralmll County. As the evening freight train was recently approaching Bourbon a son of James Lynch attempted to jump on the train for a short ride. He fell under the wheels, cutting off his left leg below the thigh and crushing the right leg below the knee. No hopes are entertained of his recovery. No blame is attached to the railroad company. Owen County. A clergyman in church at Vandaliia, where the old custom of keeping the men and women separate is observed, recently saw a couple sitting together, and laying his sermon aside he began rebuking them very emphatically. They stood it as long as they could and then left the church Putnam County. Three of the prisoners in the County Jail made their escape a few days ago by breaking a water-pipe and climbing through a hole made in the wall. Shelby County. A destructive Are visited Shelbyville a few nights ago, which destroyed property valued at $40,000, on which there was about $30,000 insurance. The fire originated- in the drug store of McCrea A Bishop, whose loss was about $7,000. The Volunteer newspaper office was also destroyed. Loss $5,000. Steuben County. The double residence of Messrs. Frailies and Chittenden, at Angola, was consumed by fire a few mornings ago, involving a loss of SB,OOO. St. Joseph County. A destructive fire a few mornings ago, at South Bend, destroyed the barns, outhouses and back fences of an entire square; also a large frame building belonging to the Studebakers and occupied by J. C. Decker as a livery stable. Loss SB,OOO. Tippecanoe County.

Edward Stuart, a young boy, was run over and killed at Brick Creek, on the Toledo & Wabash Railroad, a few days ago. He jumped from the train while it was in motion and fell stunned upon the trade. The train, backing up to the station, ran over him. The receipt of wolf rad fox scrips, for which a bounty of five dollars is paid, is rapidly depleting the county treasury. Vigo County. Hulman’s distillery at Terre Haute was recently sold to Crawford Fairbanks, of that city, for (150,000. Rev. E. F. Howe, erf the Terre Haute Congregational Church, has received a gift of (800 from his parishioners and left for Europe to spend it. The enumeration of the school children of Terre Haute has just been completed. The total noraber of children is 6,492. Of these 109 are unable to read and write. Wajrae County. James Reid was thrown from a Wagon by an unmanageable horse, at Ricbpiopd, the otlfor day and fatally Injured.

"a tenSeJSdent at Bluffton, too other day, resulted in the death of Mrs. Oman. She had been clearing up rubbish in bar garden, and set it on fire. Stepping $© toe blazing heap to put on more rubbish, her clothing caught fire, consuming every vestigeSif it and burning her in a horrible manner. Whitley County. The Columbia City Tbsl has come under new management The salutatory la somewhat sarcastic* 1, aa toe following paragraph illustrates: “ Our patrons are invited to make our office, during office hoars, a place of common resort If you desire to read communications from corrrespondents before their appearance in our paper you can help yourself to all such, as each drearer connected with our massive ‘ editor’s table* imt labeled that you can make no mistake, ana in doing so you will save us the answering of so many questions aa to what we are going to have in toe coming issue. Our exchanges will be *t all times where you can without difficulty secure one or more, aa you may desire.”

The Story of a Love Letter.

A romance in real life is not fry any means so uncommon as people fancy. Indeed, as an able critic says, it is not enough on the part of a novelist to bear in mind that truth is stranger than fiction, but he ought also to strive to prevent his fiction being as strange as truths. A lost or missing letter is not unfrequently in sensation novels the key to all the passionate sufferings and sorrows of parted lovers. Short-sighted, we may even say shallow, wits have gravely argued for the absurdity of fancying that in real life any two sensible people would stake the happiness of their future on the intelligence or infallibility of a letter-car-rier. Yet hearts may be broken and lives marred by accidents such as oaly happen in the best-regulated sensation novels. An artisan at Oxford, England, sent a letter to his sweetheart proposing to marry her. Now it so happened that at the same time some student posted a newspaper to a comrade in New Zealand, and the letter in some mysterious way got entangled in the folios of the newspaper. It therefore went /to the other end of the world instead of to the damsel who was so wearily waiting at home for her lover to “ come to the scratch.” Of course the lover got no reply to bis letter and took the “ huff,” so to speak,' and so the two, whose desire it was to cleave to each-other, were parted and might have been parted forever. The Oxonian in New Zealand, however, returned the love letter at once, and it was only on its arrival, after many weary months of misunderstanding and sorrow, that the Oxford artisan and his sweetheart found the cloud that had settled on their lives happily cleared away.

Poisoned by Impure Candies.

Sunday, as Ole Bergason, of Republic, Lake Superior, returned from church, he found his three little children, a girl aged eleven, and two boys, aged six and eight, writhing in pain on the fioor, in convulsions, in consequence as he afterward discovered, of some candy they had eaten. He immediately went for a physician, who, upon arriving on the scene, discovered, after some littie searching, some green sugar. This, undoubtedly, wap the canse of trouble. Antidotes were immediately administered, and although at the present writing the children are suffering a great deal they are-out of danger. Alter having attended to all the immediate wants of the little sufferers the doctor went to the store where this candy was purchased to secure a sample of this sugar, where he found a man named Thomas Thompson suffering from similar symptoms. Upon inquiry it was found that this man had also partaken largely of the same article. Bveryihing was done to make the man comfortable He lay in great agony, and after an all night’s job was declared out of danger. A chemical test made by the physician in attendance of the sugar revealed the fact that the coloring matter in this candy was arsenite of copper, or, in other words, Paris green, in such quantities that two grains of the sugar gave off sufficient copper to copperplate two dozen large-sized needles perfectly.— Detroit Free Press.

Interesting and Important Discoveries In France.

We learn from La Forge (Aube) that an interesting discovery has just been made in Les Corbieres by the engineer of the copper and lead mines near Tnchan. Having remarked at the top of the mountain which overlooks the village of Padern a grotto presenting the character of a dwelling of the prehistoric epoch, researches were made, which have been crowned with complete success. By the side of fragments of skeletons of wild animals and of human bones, the abundance of which shows a long series of generations, the subterranean excavations have brought to light articles of rudely-constructed pottery, daggers made of sharpened bones, and, above all. pieces of shell carved into hooks and pierced with a hole, so as to be hung round the neck of the owner, evidently serving for knives in those remote ages. The use of tools made of shell is a fact which has not yet been demonstrated m the antediluvian caverns. It would lead to the supposition that the vast plains of Le from Perpignan as far as the environs of Estagal, were formerly the bed of the sea, and that the alluvium of the Tet and the Agly is relatively recent. All the objects discovered nave been offered by M. Barnier to the Museum of Natural History at Toulouse. — Galignanfs Messenger.

Gum-Copal.

Capt. Elton, English Consul at Zanzibar, gives an account of a forest of gnmcopal trees standing a little back from the coast and away from the town. The name given to these trees by the natives is MH Sandarusi , but they are probably a species of Hymencea, of natural order Segumenaza (to which the peas and lo-cust-trees belong). The trees are of gigantic size, on the average measuring sixty feet in height after the upper branches were lopped off; four feet three inches in circumference at the base and two feet ten inches at the lowest branch, twenty-one feet from the ground. Hie gum is found in a liquid state, deposited between the bark and the wood. Wherever the tree happens to be injured there the gum collects in considerable quantities. It w(s also seen by Capt. Elton, in several instances, OB the tipper tide of the brands. Jr} qn» £fi*e a deposit TM

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found at the foot of a tree where a de’ cayed branch had fallen. From this it seemed probable th\t where the trees have fallen to pieces from old age lam quantities of the gun may he found /Rosts of insects feed upon the MU Bandarusi. In one branch a family of ants had established a large nest behind a wall of the gum and were rapidly eating to the heart of the wood, while legions of wood-lice had found their way within the bark to the resinous deposit. Capt. Elton came to the conclusion that the ravages of these swarms of insects lead to the slow but sure destruction of the trees. When a tree has fallen a few years suffice to bury it under the shifting sands which cover the sienna-colored subsoil. The slaves accompanying Capt Elton stated that one could travel two days toward the interior before leaving the copal trees; hut, at the rate at which the clearing progresses, it will not be long ere the entire forest will be cat down. Gum-copal trees are found in Mexico, Brazil, Madagascar and India. The resin is said to have been originally brought from Mexico.

Hew Two Hogs Cared for a Lost Child.

Yesterday morning we gave an account of a child wandering away from home on Thursday last, accompanied by two dogs. The whole neighborhood had turned out and searched night and day without success at the time we wrote the account. The following is a copy of the handbills struck off and circulated: LOST BOY —TO THB PUBLIC. Yesterday afternoon William Norman, my son, left my residence, five miles from Lexington, on the Salt Pond road, and was last seen on the road to town. He is five yearn of age, wore a dark woolen coat, dark jeans pants, patched on the knees, and waa followed by two dogs; one a black and the other of a dark yellowish color. Any information regarding his whereabouts will be thankfully received, and will relieve toe anxiety of a mother and father. William A. Smith. Lexington, Mo., April 2, 1875. From Mr. M. Carroll, the popular bag-gage-master of the Lexington passenger train, we learn the following particulars of the discovery of the child yesterday morning, which certainly shows the wonderful sagacity and faithfulness of the dogs which acocnpanied him: As in our account yesterday, the last seen of the child was in a fence-corner with his dogs. From there it seems h« wandered into the woods belonging te Judge Woods, eight miles from Lexington and three miles from his home. Here, probably, night overtook the little wanderer Mid darkness closed upon him, cold, tired and hungry, with none to aid him but his faithful four-footed companions. The nights at this time of the year are too severe for a robust man to be exposed, and certainly a tender child, almost an infant, would succumb to the biting temperature. But there is a watchful Providence above, and His interposition in this case seems miraculous. The faithful dogs, with an instinct that seems equal to human intelligence, went to work and scratched together a bed of leaves. Into this the boy crept, and then the intelligent animals laid down, one on each side of him, and kept him warm through the night with the heat of their bodies. Morning broke with the boy safe, his shaggy guardians remaining at their post. 'Though rested and refreshed, he was almost famished with hunger. Again the wonderful instinct of the faithful dogs was equal to the emergency. They sat out foraging, chased and killed a rabbit, and brought it to their young charge, laying it at his feet. The boy eagerly ate of the raw meat, and when discovered was busily engaged in appeasing his hanger. When the party who discovered him endeavored to approach the child the dogs became exceedingly ferocious, and would not let one of them approach him. The boy’s father and dogs’ master had to be sent for before they could get the child from his noble protectors. The joy of the parents can be easily imagined, and we will guarantee to say that all the wealth of Lafayette County would not purchase one of these dogs.— Sedcuia (Mo.) Democrat , April 4.

Decision of the Supreme Court on the Woman-Suffrage Question.

The recent decision of the United States Supreme Court in regard to the constitutional right of women to vote, as delivered by Chief-Justice Waite and unanimously concurred in by the other Judges of the court, is as follows: Miner vs. Hoppersatt; error to the Supreme Court of Missouri. This is the case presenting the question whether under the Fourteenth Amendment a woman, who Is a citizen of the United States and of a State, is a voter in the State notwithstanding the provisions of the Constitution rad the laws of that Stafo confine the right of suffrage to men alone. It is said that women are citizens. They are persons, and are, nnder the Fourteenth Amendment, declared to be citizens of the State wherein they reside. But it did not require that amendment to make them such. They were before persons and people, and were not in terms excluded from citizenship by the Constitution. The Federal Constitution was ordained by the people of the United States, composed of the people of the several States, rad whoever at the time of the adoption was one of the people became a citizen. All children of parenta within the jurisdiction are themselves citizens. The Naturalization laws are reviewed to show that show that women have always been considered citizens the same as men; also the laws giving jurisdiction in Federal cases. It is then said that the Fourteenth Amendment did not affect the citizenship of any woman any more than it did of men, and thus Mrs. Miner’s rights do not depend upon it. She has also been a citizen from her birth, .entitled to all the privileges, immunities, 'etc, of citizenship. The amendments prohibited the State in which she lives from abridging any of those rights. The right of suffrage Is not made in terms one of the privileges of the citizen. The United States has no voters, and no one can vote for Federal without being competent to vote for State officars. The elective officers of the United States are chosen directly or indirectly by the voters of the States. The amendment did not add to the privileges or immunities of the citizens; it simply furnishes an additional guarantee for the protection of such as he already had. Nor is the right erf suffrage coextensive with the eitizenship of the States. When the Federal Constitution was adopted ail the States but Rhode Island had Constitutions of their own, in not one of which were all citizens recognized as entitled to this right. And under all these eircurastances it cannot be for a moment doubted that, if it had been intended to make citizens of the United States voters, the framers Of the Constitution would have so expressed that intention. and not have left so important a change hi the condition of citizenship, a« it then existed, to implication. But if further evidence Is needed it is to be found in the provisions Qt tbs Constitution. If suffrage is necessarily

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» part of citizenship, then the provisions of toe’ Constitution which gave citizens of each State all toe privileges and immunities of citizenship in the States, precisely as toe citizens of those States are. Other provisions, among them that relating to the apportionment erf Representatives, were cited to the same point But still again, after the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment it was found necessary to use in the Fifteenth Amendment the following language: “The right of citizens of toe United States to vote shall hot be denied or abridged by the United States orby any State on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude ” The Fourteenth Amendment had provided against any abridgement of the privileges or immunities of citizens and if toe right of suffrage is one of them, why amend toe Constitution further to prevent its being denied on account of race, color, etc.? The duty of toe United States to guarantee to toe State a republican form of government is discharged in protecting those governments which were recognized aa being republican in form by toe Constitution when adopted. The Governments of the States being then accepted, it must be assumed that they are such as fire to be guaranteed. The admission of new States is then considered, and it is found that there is nothing to favor the idea that suffrage is a right of citizenship, but everything to repel it; also, the restoration of toe States to toe Union after toe war, none of them having provided for female suffrage. Besides, a person who has simply declared his intentions to become a citizen of toe United States may vote under certain circumstances in Missouri and other States, and thu could not be if suffrage depended upon toe right of citizenship. The court are unanimous in toe opinion that toe Constitution of the United States does not confer toe right of suffrage upon anyone, and that toe Constitutions of the several States which commit toe trust to men alone are not necessarily void.

CURRENT ITEMS.

It is estimated that the products of Kentucky yield greater revenue to the United States Treasury than ft paid by the whole of NeW England. Skvkntbrs men on a train of cars in Maine vainly attempted to quiet a crying baby. Along came an old woman, pulled a pin out of toe baby’s heel, and all was peaceful and serene in two minutes. A silent member of Congress, being entitled to send his speeches free by mail, put his frank on himself and wanted to ride free in a mail-car under the pretext that all his speeches were in him. Hn blushed a fiery red; her heart went pit-a-pat; she gently hung her head and looked down at the mat. He trembled in his speech; he rose from where he sat and Bhouted with a screech: “ You’re sitting on my hat I” Taylor Pudding.— Two-thirds of a cup of butter, four eggs, one cup of molasses, one cup of sour milk, one and one-half teaspoonfuls of soda; salt. Floor to make a thin batter; cloves, allspice, cinnamon; boil. To be eaten hot, with sauce. Good manners are the blossoms of good sense and, it may be added, of good feeling, too; for if the law of kindness be written in the heart it will lead to that disinterestedness in little things as well as great things—that desire to oblige and attention to the gratification of others which is the foundation of good manners. It is said the American Screw Company, Goddard Brothers and ex-Gov. James Y. Smith have each subscribed $5,000 and the Gorham Manufacturing Company SB,OOO toward Rhode Island’s quota for the Philadelphia Centennial. The total asked of the State is $56,870, and it will undoubtedly be secured without difficulty. “Mydear husband,” said a devoted wife, “ why will you not leave off smoking? It is such an odious practice, and as your breath smell so?” “Yes,” rhj./fed the husband, “ but only consider the time I have devoted and the money I have spent to learn to smoke. If 1 should leave off now all that time and money would have been wasted; don’t you see?” The Brown University boys are charged with “ wavs that are dark’’ in their recent spelling contest with the girls of the Normal School in Providence, R. L The words were to be selected from the daily papers of a certain >date, and the story goes that the students secretly procured the publication of an article containing numerous unfamiliar scientific terms.

Axr old woman-sat on a bench in the Grand Trunk depot yesterday, wiping her eyes with her handkerchief, when a portly man, full of sympathy, said to another: “Tie sad to see the falling tear. It always makes my heart ache to see an aged person in trouble.” Walking up to her he kindly asked: “My good woman, why these tears—why do you weep?” She took down the handkerchief, looked up in surprise, and bluntly answered: “I’ve got the wust cold in my head I’ve had for forty-six yean."—Detroit Free Press. A prisoner hi the Chicopee (Mass.) Jail cut his throat with a piece of glass. Surgeons were hurriedly brought, and, after a difficult and skillful operation, the severed arteries were tied and the gash sewed up. While this had been going on he had several times tried to speak, but had been unable to do so. After the surgery was over he said, with an effort, “All fol-de-rol, doctors. Tiled to tell you so, and save you any botber oi stitching me up. I’ve chawed some of the glass, I have.” He really had swallowed bits of the glass. In a few hours he died. A luxurious beggar is William Mowers, of Millerton, N. Y. Mr. Mowers and his family (consisting of a wife and two children) have been supported by the town nearly all winter because (as he said) he could get no work and bis family were suffering. He was offered a job of shoveling snow by the railroad cow pany at $2 per day. The poor, starving man refused to go to work unless they would give him (8, “for it was real hard work to shovel snow, and.he shouldn’t work for no s2l not he! he would do nothing first.” He was then offered a Job dumping wood, hut with an oath he refused, saying “ that was too hard work for him; he did not like to chop wood.” When given a $lO order from the town to get provisons for his family the first article he called for was some canned fruit and some pickles, necktie for himself and two dresses for Ms starving wife. He mourned his inability to procure a set of bosom studs and a fingerring to stay the cravings of his empty stomach. A few days ago this needy man left Millerton for parts unknown, owing a poor man S6O for rent. His family was ts&en to the poor-house on the Ist of April.