Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1875 — Page 1

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THE NEWS.

On the 38th the city of Wis., was for the third time within the last few years visited by a disastrous conflagration. The area burned over is about a mile and a half long by half a mile wide. The principal business blocks and the finest residences were destroyed, including all the newspaper offices, the Opera-House, the Court-House, the banks, all the hotels except one, the telegraph office, several saw and shingle mills, and millions of feet of lumber. Three lives were lost and hundreds of families v ‘‘•re rendered homeless. The loss is *riously estimated at from $750,000 to $3,000,000. Lord Hobart, Governor of Madras Presidency, India, died on the 38th. The Prince of Wales was installed Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of Masons, at London, on the 38th. Judqb Pierbepont, of New York, has been tendered and has accepted the United States Attorney-Generalship. In his evidence in the Beecher case, on the 28th, Mr. Traey said that in his interviews with Messrs. Moulton and Tilton they only charged improper proposals and that Mr. Tilton denied the truth of the charge now made. Mr. Moulton had never told witness that defendant was guilty of the graver charge, and witness had never told him that if it were true it was a case where lying was justifiable. He had advised the destruction of the documents in Mr. Moulton’s possession. The agricultural implement and car pet manufacturers of Great Britain have decided not to send their wares to the Philadelphia Exhibition, on account of the tariff which the United States imposes on the importation of such merchandise. The French manufacturers are said be preparing contribute liberally.

The final act of reparation for the Gustav outrage occurred at Santander on the 28th, when the German flag was saluted with a royal salvo of artillery. At Pap Hollow, a small village near Wilkesbarrd, Pa., on the 29th, a Constable and two deputies, armed with legal documents, endeavored to eject a miner’s family from a house that had been bought at Sheriff’s sale- As the officers entered the house they were met by the women of Lawrence O’Connell’s family and driven away with stone,s and other missiles. The Constable shortly after returned with five polieemen and several deputies, and two arrests were made. As they were taking the prisoners away the miners opened upon them with firearms, killing two and mortally wounding another. They retreated to Wilkesbarre, gathered a posse of twenty-five armed men and started for Pap Hollow once more, where about 3,000, men, women and children were assembled. O'Connell’s house was surrounded and they were again fired on. The O’Connells were finally captured, ironed and taken to Wiikesbarre. Ex-Senator SUhurz and family left New York on thd 29th on a visit to Europe. Mri* Schurz was given a complimentary banquet just before his departure by several of the leading citizens, at which William M. Evarts presided. The direct testimony of Gen. Tracy was finished on the 29th, and he was cross-examined by Mr. Beach. His evidence was in the main contradictory of the statements of Messrs. Tilton and Moulton in regard to witness’ connection with the parties prior to the beginning of the suit. The Weber furniture factory in Detroit and ten or twelve adjoining dwell-ing-houses were burned on the 29th, indicting a loss of about $300,000. Oh the 29th announcement was made that the breaks in the Union Pacific Railroad, cansed by the freshets in the Rocky Mountains, had been repaired, and that trains had resumed their regular trips. A coal-mute explosion occurred on the 30th ult. in Bunker’s Hill colliery, North Staffordshire, England, while the miners were at work. Twelve dead bodies had been taken out at last accounts, and the twenty-three remaining in the mine were not expected to be recovered alive. Count Waldeck, the French artist, died at Paris on the 30th ult. at the remarkable age of 110 years. A bill was recently introduced in the German Reichstag abolishing all religious orders in Prussia.

At the end of Mr. Tracy’s cross-exami-nation on the 30th ult. Mr. Evarts announced that the defense rested their case. Mr. Beach said it was due to the prosecution to state that they made no objection to allowing Mrs. Tilton to be called as a witness, although she was incompetent under the statute. Mr. Evarts said it had never been a question with them whether Mrs. Tilton would be a witness, as they knew the law was against them. If Bhe could at any time have been admitted there were grave questions to be * considered, and that if his client needed any additional evidence it wonld be his duty to adduce such testimony. They had not been brought to angr pcint when they were led to consider the force of the evidence. Mr. Beach replied that, in his view of tiie law, the counsel were mistaken in the intent of the law as to the propriety of allowing the wife to defend herself. It was not its policy to forbid that adverse position, but he only mentioned this matter first so that if counsel desired to produce the lady they were at perfect liberty to do so. Mr. Evarts said he did not believe the consent of counsel made the wife a competent witness. Judge Neilson said there

THE JASPER REPUBLICAN.

VOLUME I.

was no Question about the allowability of the other side to offer this lady as a witness. It would be a very trying position for her, but on the whole he was Charles C. Stanley and ts. W. Maddox were called in rebuttal, and testified that Mr. Tilton was not with Mrs. Woodhull in the-Communist procession. John Swinton testified that he walked arm-in-arm with Mr. Tilton in the procession, and that he did not see either Mrs. Woodhull or Miss Claflin during the procession. On the cross-examination witness said he was surprised to see Mr. T. in the procession, and did not suppose, before seeing him there, that he would be present. An Oshkosh (Wis.) special of the 80thult. says the loss by the late great fire was then estimated at $2,500,000, with about $950,000 insurance. Of the eightynine business houses destroyed contracts had already been made tor the rebuilding of at least half of th«ln. Everything in the bank vaults had been recovered in a good state of preservation. The property destroyed had been decided to have been about as follows: Five hundred residences, sixty-nine stores, three banks, five printing-offices, opera-house, Postoffice, four hotels, two engine-houses, three school-houses, five churches, telegraph offices, one depot, five mills and lumber-yards. Relief was needed. The recent cold weather is reported to have destroyed the young grasshoppers in many sections of Minnesota, and it is generally believed there will be no further trouble from this pest. The Michigan Legislature adjourned on the 29th ult. The Attorney-General of Louisiana has filed a petition in the Superior District Court against State Auditor Charles Clinton and the securities on his special bond for the aggregate sum of over $500,000, including accounts received by him from tax collectors and unaccounted for. Judges Brooks and Dick, in a late charge to the Grand Jury of North Carolina, declared the criminal features of the Civil-Rights act unconstitutional. French arid English gunboats have been ordered to the banks of Newfoundland to prevent threatened trouble between the fishermen of each nation.

A portion of the Carllst forces on the frontier of Nav»re have revolted, demanding peace and recognition of Alphonso. The diplomatic controversy between Germany and Belgium has been concluded to the satisfaction of the fqrmer Government. St. James’ Hall, in Liverpool, Eng., was burned on the 2d. Loss $150,000. The blockade around the provinces occupied by the Carlists has been re-es-tablished. The condition of the public debt May 1 is reported as follows: Six per cent, bond* $1,132,177,060 Five per cent, b/bnda 580,362,750 Total coin bond*. $1,718,589.850 Lawful money debt $14,678,006 Matured debt 19.659440 Legal-tender notes 878,123,492 Certificate* of deposit. 47,865,000 Fractional enrrency 48,809,165 Coin certificate* 22,4ti8,800 Interest.... 35,828,1 TS • Total debt. $2,274,796,475 Cash In TreasuryCoin $94,625,669 Currency...- 1,096,375 Special deposits held for- the redemption of certificates of deposit, as provided by law 47,885,000 Total in Treasury.... $143,587,044 Debt less cash in Treasury $2,181,809,431 Decrease during April 2,325,346 Decrease since June 30,1874 11,778,809 Bonds Issued to the Pacific Railway Companies, Interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding $64,69*512 Interest accrued and not yet paid.... . 1,298,470 Interest paid by the United States.. 26,264,102 Interest repaid by the transportation of mails, etc..... 5,946,430 Balance of interest paid by United States - 90,318,458 The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the sale of $5,000,000 in gold during the month of May. On the 2d the Department of Agriculture reported that the area of land in winter wheat this spring is 7 per cent, above that of last year. -* Ida Greeley, the elder daughter of the late Horace Greeley, was recently married in New York to Col. Nicholas Smith, of Covington, Ky. *. ••:

According to the official returns of the Connecticut State election Ingersoll (Dem.), for Governor, received a majority of 0,521; the average majority of the rest of the Democratic State ticket was about 5,500. The Democratic majority on Congressmen was 2,857. The Philadelphia Press states that all hopes of the recovery of Charley Ross had been abandoned. A British ship arrived at New York lately with a cargo of salt, arsenic and' other merchandise. The salt was stored in the hold and the arsenic in betweendecks. Daring the voyage some of the packages of arsenic were broken, and the contents distributed about the decks. On the ship’s arrival the cargo was delivered to the consignees, and the salt was sold and mast of it sent out of the city. Subsequently fears arose that some of the arsenic might have come in contact with the salt, and an analysis of portions of the latter showed the presence of the poison. The salt already sold was ordered back to New York for examination, and large quantities of it have been returned. A colored man named J. Reed recently shot a policeman at Nashville, Tenn., and was lodged in jaiL A large and excited crowd attacked the jail on the night of the 30th ult., seized the prisoner, fastened a rope about his neck and took him to the suspension bridge, from which he was thrown with the intention

OUR AIM: TO FEAR GOA T*U L THE TRUTH AND MAKE MONEY.

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of hanging him; but, the rope breaking, he Ml ninety feet on the rocks beneath, and f rom thence into the river. He was shot once on the way and again at the bottom. Hu body *•**"*. The Attorney-General of Louisiana has filed a petition in the Superior District Court, claiming that John C. Moncure was elected and is legally entitled to the office of State Treasurer, now held by Antoine Dubuelet. Telegrams were received in London, on the Bd, announcing great victories achieved by the Carlists at Breda and in Arragon. The United States Supreme Court has recently decided, in the case of the State of Maryland against the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, that the capitation tax provided for in the charter of the road is a valid and constitutional contract. The opinion was expressed that a State cannot impede commerce, and that Congress has the power to regulate interstate commerce; that this is one country commercially, and that the progress of merchandise mnst be unimpeded. While no local interests could interfere with Hie due progress of commerce the rights of the State must also be protected, and hence the decision that the charter of the railroad is a legitimate, reasonable and constitutional contract with the State.

On the morning of the Bd, in the Beecher case, Mrs. Tilton, who was present, sent a written communication to Judge Neilson, which she requested him to read aloud before the opening of the proceedings of the court. After reading the note the Judge said the matter would be considered. The note was unden tood to refer to the question of Mrs. Tilton being allowed to testify. Several witnesses were sworn who testified to the effect that Mr. Tilton was not in the company of Mrs. Woodhull in the Communist procession. Albert Martin, the Superintendent of the Mission Sunday-school of Dr. Storrs’ church, testified that he was at Mrs. Ovington’s on the day that Bessie Turner went before the Church Committee and that Bessie was in the back parlor with Gen. Tracy for over two hours; witness could hear them conversing together but could not understand whgtwas said; witness took Miss Turner around to Mr. Storrs’ in order thaUßhe might testify before the committee. Franklin Woodruff was recalled and testified to two interviews, at which he told Mr. Tracy that Mr. Tilton’s charge against Mr. Beecher was for the greater crime alleged, and that Mr. Beecher had advanced SSBO for the relief of Mr. Tilton’s family.

THE MARKETS.

SEW YORK. Cotton— Middling upland, 16%@16%c. Live Stock.— Beef Cattle—sll.soolß.2s. Hogs —Live, ...\@.... Sheep—live (unshorn), $6.00 @B.OO. Bbbadstotws.—Flour—Good to choice, $5,250 5.50; white wheat extra, $6.5006.20. Wheat—No. 2Chicago, $1.1801.20; So. 2 Northwestern, $1.19 01.20%; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.8001.21%. Rye—Western and State, 96c051.08. Barley—--51.4001.45. Corn-Mixed Western, 90092 c. Oats—Western, 73@75%c. Provisions.— Pork—N ew Mess, $22.00022.12%. Lard—Prime 'Steam, 158018 c. Cheese-100 «%c. WoOL.—Domestic fleece, 48060 c. CHICAGO. Live Stock.— Beeves —Choice, $6.2506.50; good, $6.8506.10; medium. [email protected]; butchers’ stock, $4.2505.75; stock cattle, $4.0005.40. Hoga—Live, $7.7508.75. Shew—Good to choice (unshorn), $5.7506.75. Provisions. —Butter—Choice, 24032 c. Eggs— Fresh, 14%@15e. Cheese—New York Factory, 1701 T%c; Western Factory, 16%@17c. PorkMess, $21.85092 00. Lard—515.55015.60. BnEADßTtrrrs.—Flour—White Winter Extra $5.0007.00; spring extra, $4.6005.25. WheatSpring, No. 2v $1.0401.04%. Com—No. 2, 76 @76Vic. Oata-No. 2, 62%@65^e., Rye-No. 9, $1.0601.07. Barley—No. 2, $1.2801.80. Wool.— Tub-washed, 45058 c; fleece, washed, 40050 c; unwashed, 27037 c. Lotcbeb.—First Clear, $5*00056.00; Bocond Clear, $44.00047.00; Common Boards, SII,OOO tjj.oo; Fencing, $18.00013.50; “A” Shingles $*0008.25; Lath, $2.0002.25. CINCINNATI. BREJLDSTtrrrs. —Flour Red, $1.8001.85. C0m—73075c. Bye-sl.lß @1.20. Data —67069 c. Barley—No. 2, $1.8501.40. Provisions.— Pork—$21.90022.00. Lard—ls%@ 15*c. - . ST. LOUIS. Live Stock.— Beeves—Fair to choice, $5,500 6.37%. Hogs—Live, $6.7508.30. Bkbxdbtojws.— Flour—XX Fall, $6.5005.60. Wheat—No. 9 Red Fall, $1.8601.86%. CornNo. 2, 73%@74%c. Oats—No. 2,63@64%c. RyeNo. 1, $11)701.68. Barley—No. 2, $1.8901.35. Peovisions.— Pork— Mess, $22.00022.87)4. Lard -15019% c. MILWAUKEE. Bbeadstutes.—Flour—Spring XX, $4.9005.20. Wheat-Spring, No. % $1.06%@1.07; No. 9, SI.OB 01.08%. Com—No. 2, 73@73%c. Oats—No. 2, 60V4061C. Rye—No. 1, $1.1801.17. Barley—No. 9, sl-20%@1.25. DETROIT. ... Brbadstuits. —Wheat—Extra, $1.3001.30%. Com—No. 1,75V4076V40, Olfta-NoJ, 65066 c. TOLEDO. BBXADSTum. —Wheat Amber Michigan, $1.2401.95; No. 2 Red, $1.24%@1.25. CornHigh Mixed, 77077%c. Oats-No. 2,64%@65c. CLEVELAND. BaEAiwnnws.—Wheat—No. 1 Red, $1.28)40 1.29; No. 2 Red, $1.21)401.29. Ccjm—High Mixed, 77078 c. Oat#—No. 1,67068 c. BUFFALO. Lite Stock.—Beeves—ss.7so6.B2%. Hogs— Live, $7.5008.86. Sheep—live (unshorn), $6.40 06.80. EAST LIBERTY. » ' Lite Stool—Beeves—Best, $6.7507.60; medium, $6.0006.25. Hogs—Yorkers, $7.7508.00; Philadelphia, $8.9009.10. Sheep—Best, $6,500 7.00; medium, $5.7508.85. A young man who had.been discharged from employment in a Boston railroad office applied to be reinstated the other day, and was told that his request would be granted if he would get married. The officials immediately forgot the matter, but the young man soon returned with a girl. A Justice of the Peace united them on the spot and he was restored to his position. Boston complains of stagnation in her business-blood.

NO-OS A KISS. A we* bit, winsome, feoonie girl’s , >■. My Sadie fair, - Like grapevine tendrils are the curls Of her darkmafr. Her face is bright, and loving Bght Shines in her eyes, I love her well and would I might Her thoughts surmise. I know she loves, and loves full well. She told me so, Bnt whom she loves she will not tell. When I would know. And whether Pm the happy one That owns her heart, Or whether she is making ton With coquette’s art, And only teasing me in play, I cannot guess. I hope, and yet wheme’er I pray She will say yes. She laughs a merry little laugh Like robin’s trill, And says I am too dear by half To treat so HI. Some dsy when I chance to see This wayward miss PR hold her till she answers me, No—or a kiss.

TALE OF TWO WEBBINGS.

i. I was y^mg then, for the first wedding I am about to describe took place forty- ■ five years ago. I was toe minister’s wife, and my husband’s parish was in the northern part of the State of New York, just verging upon the Adirondack region. Our people were mainly simple, home-spun Scotch folk, and our church belonged to what was known as the “Seceder” persuasion. Many of the people talked the Gaelic, and all of them retained the Covenanter prejudice against hymn-singing and instrumental music in the house of God. On Sabbath the precentor stood in the little stall made for him beneath the pulpit, and, tuning-fork in hand, led off the Psalm, reading every two lines. Though all the people had books not all of them could read —and those who could would not have been willing to see the old ways forsaken and the reading of the line abolished. A little north of us was a colony of Dutch folk who had no regular settled minister as yet and were dependent on the missionaries sent out by the Dutch Reformed Church. These people came sometimes to our meeting and usually counted on my husband to attend their burials and perform the marriage ceremony at their weddings.

The winter of ’29 was very cold, and the deep snow lay upon the ground from October until nearly the first of May. One bright, moonlight but bitter cold evening, having finished my day’s work of housekeeping, mending and writing letters, and my husband having finished his work of sermon-writing and committing—oh! what a work it was to write a sermon an hour long every week and then commit it to memory!—-for our good Scotch folk would not listen to a read sermon—and having brought in the wood for the night and foddered the cow, we were sitting by the cheerful hickory fire, roasting apples and cracking nuts and talking over our affairs, when out ok the clear, frosty air broke the cry: “Halloo! Halloo the house!” “There’s somebody for me,” said my hushand, and, opening the door he answered: “Halloo! what do you want?” A team and big openT sleigh, or rather sled—for it had no sides—stood at the gate and a voice from it answered: “ Good evening, Dominie; I came down to get ye to ’tend a weddin* up in the ‘clips’ (cliffs). Jake Consall wants to jine Sally Ann Lihkumfilter, that lives down to ’Squire Houghtalin’s, and they want you to come and splice ’em—there’s a couple of dollars in it, sure. Will ye come?” “Aye, aye!” responded my husband, “I’ll be out in a few minutes.” Coming in,.his eyes twinkled with fun as he said: “I’ll warrant that fellow is the Yankee that has come up from Albany to teach the cliff school. He’s an eye to the main chance, too. Did you hear him clinch the invitation to go out this cold night with the prospect of a two-dollar fee ? Well, with a salary of only $506, and the baimie there to educate, every dollar helps.” The baimie was our baby-girl, about six months old, lying asleep in the cradle. “O Malcolm,” said I, “ask the man to come in while I change my dress anfi get ready. Do take me and the baby! I have never been to one of those Dutch weddings, and it is so lonely in this great, old house without you l” i( But, Susan, it is so cold, and the wee baimie—what’ll you do with her?” “ She isn’t undressed yet, and her slip is clean; I’ll wrap her up well and tuck her into my muff.” Well, of course he consented; and in ten minutes we were out on the sled, sitting down in the straw, and well covered with bear-skins and buffalo-robes. The muffs we wore in those days were very large—they’d be a curiosity now—and the baby was very small; so, as I promised, I tucked her into it and she slept all the seven miles. When we arrived, the guests were assembled ; sitting-room and graft kitchen full. The house, was an old-fashioned one, with four rooms on the first floor, with the same above, and over all a gteat garret. The sitting-room was furnished with old-style, plain mahogany furniture, straight-backed chairs, heavy tables and a great bureau nearly five feet high, ornamented with brass handles, mid almost as black as ebony with age. Brass fire-dogs, bright as rubbing could make them, reflected the objects around them; a bright fire glowed in the Ample fire-place, and on the floor was a home-made rag carpet. The kitchen was an immense,room, and had affre-piaee at each, end of it large enough to hold the

biggest back-log that might be cut in the primeval forests close at hand. From the oaken rafters overhead hung strings of onions, festoons of dried apples, long garlands of pumpkins, rides of bacon and brown hams. In one corner stood looms, and beside them a great spinning-wheel and a “JTenny.” The beds had been cleared away from one of the bedrooms on the first floor, and in it were set the tables toy the entertainment Loaded with cold roast turkey and chicken, mince and pumpkin pies, “ole kokes,” doughnuts, jumbles, plain cake, pound-cake, fruitcake, apples and nuts, they fairly groaned' under the weight of their hospitality. Boon after our arrival there was a little stir and clearing of space about the door that separated the kitchen from the sit ting-room, aryl the bridal party came in. The bride was young tad had the bright ruddy complexion so universal with the girls on those hills, living active, useful lives as they did. She was dressed in some soft material of worsted and silk; the short sleeves and four-inch bodice were dashed with blue, and she wore a blue sash, and blue morocco shoes with high heels. The groom was a stalwart, broad-shouldered young fellow, fine in homespun clothes and brass but tons. The Yankee schoolmaster and thd bridegroom’s sister were groomsman and bridesmaid. The marriage ceremony was short and simple. Then followed much kissing and many jokes, some not so remarkable for wit as a certain coarseness that passed for it. Supper followed, and great was the merriment when the bridesmaid drew the ring that had been put in the wedding-cake! After supper the table was cleared as by magic; the elders retired to the sitting-room and the hostess’ bedroom, where on the high-post bedstead, hung with blue checked curtains, slept my little baby, unconscious of all that was around her; of all that was before her. The young people had gathered in the kitchen and sapper-room, and soon the sound of their merriment came in to us, for though I was not yet twenty years old I was the minister’s wife and had to sit—much against my inclination—with the staid, old people. “Hunt the slipper” and kindred games were played with forfeits, and after a while there was a sort of lull, and then a scraping and twanging sound, and I knew the alarm for us to leaveihad sounded, for the fiddles were being tuned for the dance; and, sure enough, my good husband at once arose and said very gravely, “ Susan, I think we had better be going now.” Soon we were wrapped up, and baby, who opened her blue eyes only a minute, and stared about as if unable to decide whether this was a part of her dream or not, and then shut them again, was tucked once more into the great muff, and we accepted the invitation of one of our own deacons to ride home with him and his wife. “ Did you get the two dollars, Malcolm?” I asked, when we were again at our own hearthstone. “ Yes, indeed,” he answered, “ and another dollar beside, which the schoolmaster told me was for .making the ceremony so short. Old Dominie Van Horn, of Johnstown, who used to do the marrying, was wont to keep the poor creatures standing an hour and sometimes inore. The Yankee ‘reckoned’ I had tied ’em jest as fast in five minutes.” And the dear fellow put into my hand three silver dollars, saying, “ There, Susan, there is so much toward educating the wee baimie.”

I shall take little space to tell of wedding number two. lam old now—sixtyfive on Christmas Eve. Times have changed in forty-five years. A few weeks ago Malcolm—his hair is “ like the snow” now—and I came to the city to visit our daughter—the “wee baimie” whom 1 once carried in my muff. And last week we were invited to attend a wedding atone of the collegiate churches in Fifth avenue. The bride was the grand-daughter of the young ‘woman who was married that night, forty-five years ago, up in Montgomery County. What a contrast there was in the weddings and in the brides! This young girl, in her trailing satin dress, white as sheeted snow; her point D’Alencon flounces and wreath of real orange-blos-soms, was as pale as a lily, and her waist was so slender that I wondered how she had strength to carry the weight of her train. Ho roses save white ones bloomed on her cheeks/ No wonder! She never milked the sweet-breathed kine; she never carded wool and flax, and spun and wove, as her handsome grand, mother did. The wedding was a very grand one. From the church door to ttie sidewalk there was an awning, and the pavement was carpeted. There were six bridesmaids and groomsmen, and the church was filled with gaily-dressed people. The clergyman who married them wore a gown and read the service from a book. Then at the house there was a great display of flowers and presents, and the bride and groom, sorronnded by their attendants, stood in state for hours and received their friends; and wines and ices and wonderful confections were served; and after the guests had left, the bridal party went in a special train on their wedding tour. I suppose it is I who am wrong and that these changes are but necessaiy concomitants to the advance of wealth and culture, but it does seem to me that there was more heartiness, more realness in the did than in the new. WotScfii’t our girls have more red roses in their cheeks, more vigor in their frames, if we could go back to the simpler life of forty-five yews ago ? Would not we all be better mid happier ?—‘ ‘ Scotch Qranite,” in 2?. T. Observer. ThR hunt fbr Charlie Ross still. continues. No heart is so wicked that it does not feel a pang of sympathy for the poor lad’s parents, and the recovery of ►the boy would be gladly hailed by *?e*y household in America.

NUMBER 34.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Bon^see their palmy days when they arrive at a spanking age. The man who courted an investigation says it isn’t so good as an affectionate girl. It is said that Digger Indiana are never known to smile. They are grave Diggers. -- ’ Mama claims to hare been the first State to allow women to solemnise marriages. They have an Amalgamated Tailors’ Society in England. What is an amalgamated tailor? * When a cold acquaintance suddenly changes and becomes kind, look out for him—he expects pay for it. The courts of South Carolina have ruled that in the trial of an issue of fact involving the examination of a written or printed instrument it is good ground of challenge to a juror that he cannot read. A half century ago an old gentleman in Southern Massachusetts caused every shingle with which he covered his roof to be first dipped in boiling whale oil. The other day his grandchildren replaced the shingles on the old mansion for the first time, and found many of them in a perfect state of preservation The young and progressive live in the future; the age<Land retrogressive in the past. Hope inspires the former; memory is dear to the latter. Most men run half the race of life, then, turning, walk back to tire starting-place—childhood. Few are toe noble souls that press on to the end.

“Do you know that only two out of every 100 who come to Chicago- to try their fortunes succeed?" said Old Realist to a brawny youth applying at Ms bank for something to do, the other day. “That maybe, sir,” replied the lad, “but I’ll be one of the two.” That boy will get along. A story is told of a woman in Providenoe who, having secured a good place to see the St. Patrick procession, reported to a policeman that she had lost her child and earnestly asked him to find it for her, as she did not dare to go in search of it, for if she did she would “ lose her place.” M Shall women,” exclaimed Lucy Stone in a public lecture at Providence, the other day, “ leave their children at home and neglect them while they go to vote?” Just at this point a little infant that had been qujggK sleeping in its mother’s arms in protest to some motherly correction, cried out lustily: “No-o-o!” The Lawrence (Kan.) street railroad has been sold at Sheriff’s sale, and at a low figure. One party bought the track, right of way and franchise, and the equipment was divided among several parties. It will probably require the formation oi a new company to get the fragments of property together again and put the road into operation. A Boston lady, while in Paris two years ago, sent a letter to her sweetheart, a ship Captain, addressing it to St. Helena. It missed the wanderer, and followed him about the world, finally returning to Paris, where the Captain’s banker forwarded it to Boston. It reached him one evening as he was bouncing a six-weeks-old baby on his knee, he having married the writer ofthe letter a year ago.

They have a new wrinkle in Boston for making chickens out of old hens—that is, by breaking the breast bone about one and one-half inches from the point where a person feels for it. It looked as if it had been done with long pliers by bending the bone up. It is very nicely done, and cannot be discov ered until the chicken is dissected. This is no fish story, for I bought them myself; but I should call it foul play.— Oor. N. T. Herald. Colorado is a promising field for politicians who are out of Jobs or expect to be soon. There are two United States Senators, one Representative in Congress, a Governor and State judiciary to be chosen the moment the act of admission is consummated. Then there are also the United States Collectorship of Internal Revenue, the minor State offices, such as Secretary of the Commonwealth, Auditor and Surveyor, Generalships, Lieutenant-Governor, and all the lesser functionaries incident to State sovereignty. Boston offers some prodigies in the way of cats. Five kittens were bora in one of its suburbs recently, each of which was joined to another after the manner of the Siamese twins. Hie owner, who had doubtless never, heard of Baraum, had them all drowned. At the South End, the Boston Herald says,a lady has a kitten, not two months old, which has five heads—one in the usqal place and one at each knee-joint on both front and hind legs. The tail grows perpendicularly up from the back, and cannot be bent downward without causing the animal to cry. Thx steamship Nova Scotian, which arrived at Baltimore recently, from Liverpool, via Halifax, reports that at eight a. m. on the 14th of April, in latitude 42 deg. 20 min., longitude 49 deg. 10 min., an immense ice-field was met in the Atlantic. The steamship skirted its edge for five hours, and altered her course to escape it. From the mast-heads, as far as the eye could reach with the aid of glasses, an unbroken stretch of ice was to be seen, extending for many miles. There were in it many small icebergs and a number of vessels, some of them long distances from the outer edges, and seeming to have been caught there s long while before. There were a ship, tyro barks, a brig, and other yenels so

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ee - far in they could not be made out. This ice had come down from the Arctic regions, and the imprisoned vessels had doubtless come many utiles with it, and will not be liberated until the warmer waters of the gulf stream melts them out. The steamship also reports that eight American fishing schooners had been forced to seek refuge in the harbor of Halifax, whete they were -driven by the heavy fields of floating Arctic ice.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Thb Terrs Haute Exprt** office suffered an Incendiary fire not long ago. Mercxb’s carriage factory, at Terre Haute, was burned a few afternoons since, involving a loss of $10,009. Thb Obenchain flour mills, twelve miles, north of Logansport, were burned the other day, with 2,000 bushels of wheat Loss about $12,00% William Ross, who, it is claimed, was the oldest man in the United States, recently died at his residence, near Smithville, of old age. Mr. Ross was bom in Guilford County, N. C., on the 17th of May, 1758, which would make him 117 years old. A tbw mornings ago Mrs. Abram Lewis, a Hebrew lady firing with her husband and children at 14* Virginia avenue, Indianapolis, clambered to the roof of her two-story residence, and precipitated herself headforemost to the pavement below, a distance of twentyfive feet She alighted upon her head, fracturing her skulL A few mornings ago' Mr. Henry Butler, of Romulus, while engaged in cutting down an old burning tree on his farm, was struck on the head by a piece about afoot through, and two or three feet long, that broke off the top : A physician was immediately sent for, but he was past all earthly help. He lived two or three hours after the stroke. Case Kinder, returning to his home, near Frankfort, in an intoxicated condition, fell from the coupling-pole of his wagon, astride of which he was seated, his head falling between the spokes of the hind wheel. When discovered the spokes of -the wheel had beaten his head to a jelly and the horses were jogging along with their dead driver still holding the lines. The following postal changes were made in the Btate during the week ending April 24,1875: Established.—English, Crawford County, Henry A. Smith, Postmaster; Garrett, DeKalb County, William A. Pratt, Jr, Discontinued.—Marey, La Grange County. Postmasters Appointed.—Ascension, Sullivan County. Thomas Crary; Boggs town, Shelby County, John W. Hutchison; Chambersburgh, Orange County, James W. Montgomery; Duff, Dabois County, Jacob H. Lemmond; Mount Prospect, Crawford County, James A. Brown; Sheridan, Hamilton County, John T. McMinds. Louis Rosbngabtsn, of Indianapolis, has sued the Hebrew congregation of that city for blowing the “ Trumpet of Jericho” two days each year since 1867. His bill was $25 per day, or SBSO altogether. Blowing the “ Trumpet or Jericho” is probably the least known of any of the religious services of the Jewish Church. It has been done, however, since the time of Moses, both by the ortho, dox and reformed churches, and is considered in Hebrew circles as being one of the most solemn and important services in their doctrine. At the time Moses went on the mountain to receive the law. the thunder and lightning was very severe, and the blowing of this trumpet is meant for an imitation of the thunder. The office is considered as one of great honor and only awarded to the most exemplary persons. A man’s moral character must be far above suspicion, and if he violates any of the rules of the church, doing business on their Sunday (Saturday), for instance, he is not capable of holding the position in the church. Members of the Hebrew congregation, made defendants in this suit, say that Rosengarten has held the office the length of time stated in the complaint, hut laugh at the idea of his entering suit for a recovery of salary. To “blow the horn,” they say, is an honor which many persons are glad to possess, and never in the history of the church has it been a salaried position. The born is a common one and is of the same shape and material as the old powder flasks, and is a hard instrument to blow. It has only to be blown for about five minutes each of the two New Year’s Days. During the services of the day the “ trumpet sounder” takes his position at one side of the pulpit and at a given time sounds the signals. There are four of these, each of but a few notes, and they have to be repeated three times, making twelve times at one service. As said before, it consumes about .five minutes’ time each day, or ten minutes in a year. So Mr. Rosengarten wants five dollars a minute for the use of his lungs in blowing “ the horn of Jericho.” — Sentinel.

A French Lunatic.

Rousseau once wrote: “If it were only necessary for yon to hold out your thumb in order to cause the death of an lmmensely-wealthy mandarin in China, whose heir you would be, are you sure that you would not extend your thumb?” This passage one day attracted the attention of Henri de Lacreis, a young Frenchman of excellent family, but /whose brain was a little affected by the loss of his fortune. He thought, “If I could stretch out my thumb and that would be enough to kill my unde and cousin, I should become very rich.” In a sort of hallucination he extended his arm toward die photographs of his relatives and said, “ Let them die, so that I may inherit.” Fifteen days later his uncle and cousin were carried off by typhoid fever. Within the last six months remorse preyed upon Lacrois’ enfeebled intellect and he imagined that his spell caused die death of his relatives. He heard voices from all sides of his room calling, “thou bast killed us! Thou hast killed us!” He, delivered himself up to the police and asked to be executed. He died a few days ago in an insane asylum. ■ •=- The height of ahticipation —A dentist sitting in his own chair all day and grin* ning at the candy-shop over fee way. It takes only seconds to arrange a duel.