Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1875 — Page 1

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THE NEWS.

The court to which the appeal in the case of the Tipperary election was referred on the 26th unanimously decided that the late John Mitchel was disqualified from occupying a seat in Parliament and that his opponent, Mr. Moore, is entitled to the place. It is stated that when Congress convenes the Postmaster-General will use his efforts to have the present law governing postage on third-class matter or transient newspapers modified. On the 26th President Grant in an address to the Sioux delegation said he had always been a friend of the Indians and was anxious to do what he thought was if or their good. He said the country where they live would not support them -should the Government supplies be withdrawn, which supplies might be withdrawn at any moment without any violation of the treaty. He did not ask the Indians to leave without their consent, but there was a territory south of their reservation where they could much better support themselves. He wished the delegation to think over what he had said.

The Pennsylvania Republican State Convention met at Lancaster on the 26ih, and organized by the election of Gen. Harry White as President and C. D. Elliott as Secretary. Gov. Hartranf t was renominated by acclamation, and H. W. Rawle was nominated for State Treasurer. Among the principles enumerated in the platform which was adopted were: Equality of all men before the law; the harmony of the Federal and State Governments; the unity of the nation; in favor of civil rights; adherence to the unwritten law of the country limiting the Presidency to two terms; protection to home industries; protection to labor; cheap transportation; free banking, and indorsement of Hartranft’s and Grant’s administrations, and favoring a general system of laws regulating municipal governments. On the evening of the 26th, in Boston, a terrific explosion occurred in a drug store on the corner of Washington and Lagrange streets, which completely" wrecked the building, in which were about twenty-two people, nearly all of whom were more or less injured, six being killed. The cause of the explosion was unknown at last accounts. The building was a four-story brick. The adjoining buildings were considerably injured by the shock. A fire occurred in Lexington, Ky., on the 24th, which destroyed about thirty buildings in the most valuable portion of the city, involving a loss of from $500,000 to $1,000,000. On the 27th Secretary Delano made a speech to the Indian delegation at Washington, in which he sought to convey the wish of the Government to do that which was for the best for both whites and Indians, and also that it could not stop the whites from settling in the Black Hills. He spoke of the advantages of the territory further south, and mentioned to them the inducements to change their location. Spotted Tail replied. He said he was not the man to break a treaty; he desired to remain in the reservation; he knew it to be a good country; he respected the treaty which had been made, and if white men invaded the Black Hills it was not the fault of the Indians,

A horrible accident occurred at Holyoke, Mass., on the evening of the 27th. During the evening service which was being held in the French Catholic Church, the draperies of the altar caught fire from a candle and the building was soon on fire. The audience numbered about 700 people in the body of the church, who escaped, but on the stairway leading from the gallery human beings were packed in a dense mass. As the flames rushed toward them many leaped to tbe floor beneath, and were trampled to death. The gallery skirted both sides of the building, with only one entrance from the front The scene was fearful while it lasted. Sixty-six men, women and children were either burned or trampled to death, and the fatally wonnded would make the loss of life fully seventy-five. One family of four were in the church %nd all killed. Many were pulled out by the arms and feet so badly burned that they lived but a few hours, the flesh peeling off on being touched. Some were taken out with scarcely any flesh remaining on their bones. Judge Porter concluded his argument for the defense in the Beecher suit on tbe 26th, and on the 27th Mr. Evarts commenced his summing up. The Grand Lodge of the Good Templars of the World, recently in session in Bloomington, HI., elected the following officers for the ensuing year: R. W. G. L., Col. J. J. Hickman, of Kentucky; R. W. G. C., Joseph Malins, of England; R. W. G. Yi T., Amanda Lane, of Massachusetts;' R. W. G. S. W. 8. Williams, of Canada; R. W. G. T., R. R. Scott, of Missouri; Superintendent of Cold Water Templars, Mrs. M. B. O’Donnell, of New York. Louisville, Ky., was fixed upon as the place for the next session. A change was made in the constitution which provides that Grand Lodges may be chartered in States where Grand Lodges already exist, upon the petition of existing Grand Lodges. Hon. Horace Maynard, United States Minister to Turkey, has reached Constantinople. A regent issue of the Levant Herald says a series of terrible earthquake shocks ook place early in May in the province

THE JASPER REPUBLICAN.

VOLUME I.

of Broussa, in Asia Minor. Several villages were destroyed and 2,000 persons lost their lives. A Caklist battery located at Mount Rico on the 27th fired on a Spanish squadron, and the Admiral was killed and several of his officers wounded. The Cortes of Portugal lately passed an act granting unconditional freedom to remaining Portuguese slaves. The Secretary of the United States Treasury has retired $987,760 from the currency balance of the Treasury, the same being 80 per cent, of additional circulation issued to banks during the month. The accounts up to the morning of the 29th place the number of dead by the Holyoke (Mass.) disaster at seventy-one; fatally burned, twenty-two; .otherwise burned and wounded, twenty-seven. A Kansas City (Mo.) dispatch of the 28th says that a large band of Indians were encamped on the forks of the Salmon River in Kansas, and that the citizens had been obliged to abandon their homes. The Chicago Journal of the 28th says the reports from the grasshopper-in-flicted regions of the West indicated that the first reports were greatly exaggerated.

Dr. J. H. Eccleston has been elected Episcopal Bishop of lowa. Four children of S. M. Christian, of Versailles, Ohio, were burned to death a few days ago by the explosion of a can of coal-oil, with which one of them was kindling a kitchen fire. According to a London dispatch of the 29th ult. Paul Boyton, who started the day before to cross tbe British Channel from Cape Grisnez, France, in his life-saving suit, landed between Dover and South Foreland on the morning of that day, having been in the water continuously for nearly twenty-four hours. An investigation concluded at Berlin on the 29th ult. shows that the offer of Wiessinger to assassinate Bismarck was merely an attempt to extort money. The ships Alert and Discovery, of the British Arctic expedition, Bailed from Portsmouth, England, on the afternoon of the 2Wth ult The Secretary of the Treasury has di" rected the sale of $500,000 in gold each week during the month of June. The 29th ult. was observed as Decoration Day in many parts ©f the country. Sunday, the 80th, and Monday, 31st, were observed in other localities. A LETTEirfrom President Grant to the Chairman of the recent Pennsylvania Republican State Convention has been published, in which he disclaims all desire for a renomination. He says: “I am not nor have I ever been a candidate for a renomination, i would not accept a nomination if it were tendered, unless it should come under such circumstances as to make it an imperative duty—circumstances not likely to arise.” A number of business blocks in Springfield, Mass., were destroyed by fire on the 80th ult. Loss estimated at nearly $500,000. The graves of the Confederate dead in the cemetery at Nashville, Tenn., were decorated on the 28th ult., several Federal and ex-Federal soldiers being present.

THE MARKETS.

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THE HOLYOKE HORROR.

Some Particulars and Touching Incidents of the Terrible Disaster. Spbihgeteld, Mass., May 28. The hero of the disaster was John Lynch, a brave fireman, who was the first to respond to the alarm. He described the scene, when he reached the burning church, as appalling. Wedged tight and immovable in the doorways was a dense mass of humanity from six to eight feet in height, none of them being able to stand upright from the terrible pressure of the crowd behind, while upon and over them a sheet of flame rolled like a wave, streaming far out into the open air. Without a moment’s pause to consider their danger, Lynch and Chief-Engineer Mullen rushed into the flames, spurred on by the Siteous cries: “ For God’s sake, come and elp us!” and began pulling out the boaies. A moment later and a well-di-rected hydrant stream from the Mount Holyoke hose struck the brave rescuers, and undoubtedly saved them from being burnt alive. The first persons drawn out were burning, but they were passed directly through the stream of water and the flames were extinguished. Borne of the poor creatures fell fainting on the long flight of wooden stairs leading down to the street, and a few were able to walk. By this time the entire fire department had arrived, and worked with such energy and will that when the fire was extinguished the charred wooden walls of the structure were standing and were pulled down by the hook and ladder men, in order that search for the bodies might be made. Only a verv few moments, comparatively, elapsed after the water struck the building before the fire was out, but the destruction to life during that brief period was terrible. Wild efforts were made by the people to rush pell-mell into the burning building to rescue their friends, and it was with difficulty that they were kept back. This was particularly the case with parents who had on the first impulse rushed from the church to save their own lives, but who, remembering that they had left their children behind to perish, returned impetuously. Actual personal violence had to be used in several cases to keep the women back. All about the streets men, women and children were watching and piteously inquiring if their friends had been saved. One woman was positive that her husband had perished, and could only be quieted by the assurance from a friend that he had just been walking with him. One of the most touching cases was that of two little girls about twelve years of age, who rushed for the entrance of the building while the fire was at its height, thinking to find their father and mother, who were within. They could only be restrained by an officer, who took them in his arms. The church was erected in 1870, entirely of pine, about 100 feet long by sixty wide, two stories high, with galleries on the sides and the north end about twenty-five feet wide. There were two doors in the north end and the vestibule, from which two doors opened into the body of the church. The galleries opened into the vestibule. At the rear end was another door, by which a few persons escaped. Immediately upon the breaking out of the flames all the occupants of the galleries rushed to the east door, and, falling upon one another, choked up the doorway with their bodies, piled in all ways, seven or eight deep. Here most of the lives were lost From this mass Chief Mullen rescued one young woman, after having taken off two dead bodies from above her. The Chief and others had their clothes almost burned from them, and were badly burned about the hands. One woman jumped from the highest window down upon the front steps, breaking her arm. A man with two children in his arms jumped from a window and escaped. One poor woman, enveloped in flames, shrieked out: “For God’s sake, save me,” and was dragged out. Some sprang from the gallery windows and were seriously injured, and one person appeared at a window completely wrapped in flames, and after tottering there an instant fell" to the ground dead and unrecognizable. Hundreds of men went to the wreck as soon as an opportunity was offered to search for bodies, and a force of police was organized to keep back the large crowd which had gathered. The greater number of bodies were found in the fatal stairway, burned, some of them, to a crisp. The body of one woman was found in the seat which she had occupied, her clothing entirely burned off. A fleshy woman, weighing about 180 pounds, was dragged screaming from the mass. She was carried a short distance from the church and placed on the grass, while her flesh actually peeled on her back, and in a moment she fell over dead. The scenes last night and to-day in the school-house basement, where the bodies of the dead were carried, were heartrending in the extreme. In some instances the features were distorted, as though extreme agony had been suffered before death, but many looked as calm as though smothered. All were blackened with smoke; some were burned beyond a possibility of identification, nothing remaining but the trunk. Louis Desjerdin, fifty-four years old, whose wife and daughter were both burned to death, became insane to-day from grief, and cried Continually in agonizing tones: “ Oh, my Julie!my Julie!” Some were taken out alive wbo were under others who were dead, and owed to this fact their own salvation. One of the most protracted cases of suffering was that of Mary Desjardin, wbo was burned past all recognition and blinded. She somehow found her way to the hill north of the church and wandered around there about twenty minutes before she was found and taken to her home, where she died about eleven o’clock this morning, having lingered fifteen hours in fearful agony. The fate of Amminie Menaer and her lover was a touching event of the fire. She was the organist for the evening in the absence of the regular one, and was cut off from escape when the church was burned. Her lover escaped, but finding that she was still within turned to rescue her, was overcome with the flames, and perished with her. —lt was discovered that a deaf man carried off the honors at a spelling-match. Sympathizing with his infirmity the enunciator had given the champion the words to be spelled on a slip of paper. After the exposure by a man who was all ears the success of the deaf man was nob so pronounced.—if. 0. Republican.

The Third-Term question—Letter from President Grant.

Washington, May 50. President Grant has written the following letter to Gen. Harry White, President of the recent Pennsylvania Republican State-Convention: Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C., 1 May 89, 1675. J Dear Sir: A short time subsequent to the Presidential election of 1872, the press, a portion of it hostile to the Republican party, and Sartlcularly so to the Administration, started le cry of “ Ctesarism” and the “ Third term,” calling lustily for me to define my position on the latter subject I believed it to be beneath the dignity of the office which I have been twice called upon to fill to answer such a question before the subject should be presented by competent authority to make a nomination, or by a body of such dignity and authority as not to make reply a fan subject of ridicule. In fact, I have been surprised that so many sensible persons in the Republican party should permit their enemy to force upon them and their party an issue which cannot add strength to the party, no matter how met. But a body of the dignity and party authority of a convention to make nominations for the State officers-of the second 4Btate in the Union having considered this question, I deem it not improper that I should now speak. In the first place, I never sought the office for a second, nor even for a first nomination. To the first I was called from a life position, one created by Congress expressly for me for supposed services rendered to the Republic. The position vacated I liked. It would have been most agreeable to me to have retained it until such time as Congress might have consented to my retirement with the rank and a portion of the emoluments, which I so much needed, to a home where the balance of my days might he spent In peace and the enjoyment of domestic quiet, relieved from cares which have oppressed me so constantly now for fourteen years, but I was made to believe that the public good called me to make the sacrifice. Without seeking the office for the “second term” the nomination was tendered to me by a unanimous vote of the delegation of all the States and Territories selected by the Republicans of each to represent their whole number for the purpose of making their nomination. I cannot say that l was not pleased at this and at the overwhelming indorsement which their action received at the election following. But it must be remembered that all the sacrifices except that of comfort had been made in accepting the “first term.” Then, tod, such a fire of personal abuse and slander had been kept up for four years, notwithstanding the conscientious performance of my duties to the best of my understanding, though I admit, in the light of subsequent events, many times subject to fair criticism, that an indorsement from the people, who alone govern republics, was a gratification that it is only human to have appreciated and enjoyed. Now, for the * third term,” I do not want it any more than I did the first. I would not write or utter a word to change the will of the people in expressing and having their choice. The question of the number of terms allowed to any one Executive can only come up fairly in the shape of a proposition to amend the Constitution—a shape in which all political parties can participate—defining the length of time or the number of terms for which any one person shall be eligible for the •fflee of President. Until such an amendment is adopted the people cannot be restricted in their choice by resolution further than they are now restricted, as to age, nationality, etc. It may happen in the future history of the country that to change an Executive because he nas been eight years in office will prove unfortunate if not disastrous. The idea that any man could elect himself President or even renominate himself is preposterous. It is a reflection upon the intelligence and patriotism of the people to suppose such a thing possible. Any man can destroy his chances for the office, but no one can force an election or even nomination. To recapitulate, I am not, nor have I ever been, a candidate for a renomination. I would not accept a nomination if it were tendered unless it should come under such circumstances as to make it an imperative duty—circumstances ndt likely to arise. I congratulate the convention over which you presided for the harmony which prevailed and for the excellent ticket put in the field, and which I hope may be triumphantly elected. With great respect, your obedient servant,

The Isthmus Canal.

The United States Isthmus Explorinf Expedition has returned to Colon, and reports that its labors were eminently successful in running a line for a ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien. There are now three routes designated for passing ships from ocean to ocean, and all of them have their advantages. The most northern route is the Tehuantepec; tbe middle, the Nicaragua, and the southern crosses the Isthmus of Darien. From one of the locations engineers declare that a practicable path can be chosen to shorten tbe distance from ports on this continent to those of Asia. At the present time all ships starting from the eastern side of North or South ca have to pass far south around Cape* Horn before they can run either north for ports along the coast or start sheets for islands in the Pacific or points in Japan, China or other parts of Asia. This is a ruinous waste of time, especially when the Cape of Good Hope has been practically blotted off the nautical charts by the Suez Canal, which is now in working order. In a short time all the facts in relation to the three projected routes will be laid before the country in an official shape, and the next Congress may be asked to take some steps in regard to the matter. That a canal can be cut from ocean to ocean is conceded. The opinions of engineers settle that point. Of course there are impediments of no trifling character in the way, but they can be removed by the hand of science. The Suez Canal has been constructed ; there is a tunnel beneath the Alps; the cable speaks with “most miraculous organs” from under fathoms of deep sea waves. In a few years it is expected that cars will be speeding from France to England with a depth of water above them sufficient to float the largest man-of-war. If these works are possible why not a ship canal from ocean to ocean across the waist of this continent? The croakers declared the Suez Canal could not be built. They predicted it would soon be choked with the shifting sand of the desert They have proved false prophets. The same men put in print their estimates to convince the public that the Suez Canal wouldjmake no returns of a satisfactory financial character. The business foots up in a totally different direction. In

the year 1878 the working expenditures of the Sum Canal amounted to 28 per cent, of the gross receipts. Hie revenue for that year waa $2^830, 000, of which the preferred charges absorbed $2,845,000 leaving $1,485,000 for a share dividend, which is 8f per cent. In 1872 there were 1,082 vessels passed through the canal, representing 1,489,000 tons. In 1878 the vessels increased to 1,178 and the tons to 2,085,000. Again in 1874 there was an advance both by vessels and ton nage. The former amounted to 1,264 and the latter to 2,424,000. The British standard* of commercial growth is ap plied to the advance of the canal’s business, which is “ a minimum increase of 5 per cent per annum.” Less than this would have added one-half of 1 per cent each year to the dividends of the company. If the affairs of the Suez Canal Company exhibit such results as those given from official sources there need be no fear for the cash returns from a work that would pass vessels from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. If the Suez Canal is a success its parallel enterprise will not be a failure. These facts are sufficient to draw attention to the report of the Darien expedition, which will soon be made public and induce a more careful consideration of the whole subject. —Philadelphia Timet.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A bevolver —The earth. “ Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves.” But then every tree has to produce leaves before fruit. —Wash floor-cloths in clear, warm water, then go over them again with a wash composed of an egg well beaten and mixed with a pint of warm, clear water. This will give them a newness which will be quite lasting. The luxury of calling a lawyer a shyster in St. Louis is so cheap that no newspaper need practice self-denial or economy in this regard. The Republican has just been assessed one cent damages as the result of a protracted libel suit. Somebody is trying to precipitate a panic in California by publishing the statement that tbe savings banks of that State owe their depositors $70,000,000, and have but $3,000,000 of cash to pay up with. • AN advocate in Paris appeared at the bar wearing bis mustache, "And the President called his attention to the fact that mustaches were forbidden. “Well,” said the advocate, “ I never knew before that the sword of justice was a razor.’’ The London Newt thinks that all this discourse about chords of color, symphonies of white and blue, sonorous spaces of ultramarine and bright-hued passages of music may remind the irreverent of Artemus Ward’s “Do my eyes deceive my earsight?” They are telling some pretty huge stories about Tremor W. Park, of Bennington, Vt., these days, as that he has made something like $17,000,000 by some lucky mining speculations in California, has an income from his mines of $15,000 a day, and is the fourth richest man in the country. “I want it nice and strong and snuglike,” said the widow, exhuming a fresh pocket-handkerchief and controlling her sobs with difficulty. “Oh, that’s all right, ma’am, that’s all right,” returned the undertaker, tapping, the coffin merrily, “hecouldn’t get out of it, ma’am, if he had a mind to.”

U. S. GRANT.

John Chinaman, when he wants to hatch fish, after having collected the nece'ssary spawn from the water’s edge, places a certain quantity in an empty hen’s egg, which is sealed up with wax and put under a sitting hen. After some days they break the egg, empty the fry into water well warmed by the sun, and there nurse them until they are sufficiently strong to be turned into a lake or river. It is said that when a Spaniard eats fruit he always plants the seed thereof for the benefit of posterity. As a result no country is so bountifully blessed with fruit as Spain. The Mayor of Topeka, Kan., seems to be imbued with a similar unselfishness. One afternoon, lately, at his request, all business was suspended in tbe town and the whole population went to work and planted in the town about 1,000 shade trees of several varieties. A surr has been instituted in the Circuit Court of Kenton County, Ky., by Alexander Brown, a colored man, who was last winter employed as a roustabout on the steamer Bodmann. On the “ cold Saturday” Brown was ordered by the mate to perform some duty on the boat, and was not allowed to approach the fire to warm for the Bpace of three hours, in eonsequence of which, as he alleges, his, hands were so badly frozen that the flesh all dropped from his fingers, crippling him for life. He demands SIO,OOO damages.

The gender of the ’Frisco hoodlum is not necessarily masculine. Recently a Chinaman died, and his widow set about burning his clothing and effects, according to custom. The rite was performed on a street comer, near which lived a number of Irish women, whose delicate nostrils were offended by the fames of the burning articles. They gathered in force and descended upon that “ Heathen Chinee,” whom they picked up from her seat on the curb-stone and set into the midst of the fire. The miserable creature’s clothing was instantly in flames, but her tormentors prevented her from escaping for sometime, when some men arrived upon the scene and rescued the poor woman, who fled screaming to her home.

NUMBER 38.

APPLE BLOSSOMS. BY ELLEN TRACT ALDEN. Once on a time, in early dawn of summer, Among the trees the question chanced to rise—- “ Which of us is the fairest, the most comely?" A towering pine tree boasted in this wise: “ Behold me, all ye puny ones, behold me! Look at my shoulders reaching to the sky! Look at my tasseled mantle—green forever! How can ye donbt or question?—here ami!” A stately elm tree upward gazed a moment, In acquiescence bent her regal head: “ Ay, thou art tall and gayly decked, my brother, Bat 1 have more of symmetry,” she said. A languid willow, musing, softly murmured: “Yes, shapely is the elm, and tall the pine; Bat see, O friends (she made a sweeping courtesy), You must admit that gracefulness is mine.’ “Ah, well; that’s not the point,” replied a maple; “ ’Tis not of grace we’re talking, not at all; And as for form, why, lam well proportioned; And as for height, why, one may be too tall.” “Hold!” cried a tulip tree; “am I not shapely? And illy would the pine tree’s tassels green Compare with these broad leaves, so smooth and shining, Or with the bells of bloom that swing between!” “ Conceited fools!’’ a gnarly old oak tree grumbled; “ Bragging of your fine clothes and shape and length! Bab, with your silly prate and idle prattle! There is most beauty where there is most strength.” At that a plain, ill-favored tree took courage—- “ And I, too—l am rugged! lam stout!” “ Ye-hee, hee, hee!” the little sapplings giggled: “Ha, ha, ha, ha!” the grown-up trees did shout And, one and all, they laughed and laughed together, And, one and all, together did they say: “ Oh, listen! ugly scrubs lay claim to beauty! Who ever heard the like before to-day!’’ But MotherjNature frowned at their derision; Seeing the humble tree with grief downcast Her wand she lifted: lo! the slighted claimant In comeliness all other trees surpassed! A downy robe the knotted limbs enveloped In folds whose fragrance thrilled the wond’ring air— A robe of pale, rose-tinted blossoms woven! Amazed and breathless did the scoffers stare. And, one and all, they turned from jest and laughter, And, one and all, together whispered they: “ Behold, garment of our brother! Who ever saw the like before to-day!” Since then, alway, in early dawn of summer, Dame Nature lifts her wand the trees to shame Who envy him that wears the apple blossoms And wish they had not mocked his modest claim.

A Tragedy in a Russian Circus.

Startling scenes have heretofore occurred in circuses, notably the murderous struggle between the two brothers Reiner during a performance of the Wollschlager troupe at Innspruck, in the Tyrol, on the 6th of August, 1843. But an event of still more interest took place on the 31st of March last at the Eisseff Circus, in Novgorod, Russia. The Eisseff Circus is one of the largest in Eastern Europe. It is known throughout the Russian Empire, and its performers rank very high. Its clowns were native Russians, and their quaint capers and jokes were among the chief attractions of the performances. The best of these clowns was Maxesoy Lidersky, a young married man of thirty. He seemed to be a bom Centaur; his body seemed to be destitute of bones, and his face, all muscle, was susceptible of the most wonderful changes. He received a higher salary than any other member of the Eisseff Circus. Among the funny acts in the performances of the latter at Novgorod was an English horse-thief’s capture, sentence to the gallows and ludicrous escape, when already dangling in the air. The horse-thief was personated by Lidersky, and his miraculous escape from, death by the halter was effected by his jerking himself from the cross-beam to which the rope had been fastened, and the spectacle of the cnlprit making his escape from the gallows after kicking the air for a few seconds, and then running away with the rope round his neck, would invariably elicit thunders of applause from the convulsed spectators. For ten nights in succession the horsethief scene had been enacted without an accident, but on the 31st of March it terminated in a terrible tragedy. Lidersky, who received a salary of one hundred silver roubles a week, was a man of extravagant habits. His princi pal pastime was playing at cards for high stakes. On the 30th he had won from another member of the Eisseff Circus nearly three hundred rubles. The loser, MazzeffTjer : ring, had asked the loan of fifty rubles from him, which Lidersky had somewhat scornfully refused. Tjerring had left the bar-room of the tavern, where they had been playing, muttering threats against Lidersky. These threats had been overheard by a waiter, Ivan Grossyk, who spoke to Lidersky about it. * “ Oh, he is nothing but a braggart,” had been Lidersky’s reply: “When he gets his next week’s I will give him satisfaction, but not with my own money.” The two circus men met at the evening performance, and Lidersky addressed a playful remark to'Tjerring.

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“ Don’t speak to me, flog," had been the surly reply of the latter. The horse-thief scene was enacted that evening, and it passed off as usual. Lidersky slipped from the cross-beam, which, to facilitate the escape, had been planed and greased, and bowed to the applauding spectators. “ It is strange,’’ whispered to another member of the troupe, “that Lidersky is not afraid of meeting with some accident while enacting this scene.” This remark attracted no notice at the time; but it served to fasten, in connection with the facts which we have related, the guilt of what followed where it belonged. Next evening the circus was again densely crowded. When the manager announced the horse-thief scene there was an ah! of suspense among the spectators. Lidersky, in the oddly exaggerated costume of au English jockey, pushed a fellow from his horse, was caught, sentenced to be hung by a Judge dressed up as King Louis the Fourteenth of France; a horribly grotesquely costumed hangman appeared, put the cross-beam into the hole in one of the wooden pillars, and then marched the culprit clown up the ladder with the rope round his neck. The rope was fastened round the crossbeam, and then Lidersky was launched into eternity! Yes, into eternity; for the rope did not slip off as usual; but it remained fixed to the cross-beam, anti the poor clown kicked and struggled in reality for his life. Horrible to say, the spectators believing all this to be in the play, applauded the desperate struggles of the poor devil in the most enthusiastic manner. For full two minutes had he been suspended in the air when the truth flashed at last upon the manager that there was something wrong. The ladder had to be brougnt back to the cross-beam; the rope was untied; Lidersky was lowered to the ground—he was dead. The scene that ensued in the circus beggared description. The arena was at once filled with a surging, violent mass of indignant men, who wanted to know how their favorite clown had been brought to so untimely an end. Surgeons endeavored to bleed him, but without effect. He was stoaMlead. Then the important question arose: What had prevented the rope from slipping as usual from the very smooth cross-beam? The latter was examined, and then the cause of the lamentable accident was discovered. A notch had been cut into the crossbeam about six inches from its and, and, to still further prevent the rope from slipping off, a couple of nails had been put into the cross-beam, exactly under the notch, the nails being left to protrude about one-third of an inch from the wood. It was plain from this that the poor clown had been murdered! The indignation of the crowd increased to the highest pitch when this startling fact became patent. The corpse of the clown was removed to his house, where his young wife received it with heart-rending manifestations of grief. The crowd meanwhile refused to leave the circus, notwithstanding the efforts of the police to clear it. Outside aD other immense multitude gathered. Threats against the manager, to whom the event was attributed, were uttered by thousands of voices. Finally the authorities resorted to the peculiarly Russian fashion of dispersing a crowd. The fire-engines were ordered up and six streams of ice-cold water were turned upon the multitude. The bath had au instantaneous effect. Drenched to the skin, the mujiks ran away howling and cursing. The facts inculpating Tj erring as Lij dersky’s murderer were evolved during the night. Tjerriqg had made preparations to leave Novgorod when he was arrested. He has confessed his crime, and, as he is the son of a Russian serf, and, therefore, belongs to the lowest class of Russian society, the barbarous punishment of being branded with the letters K. A. T. (meaning penal servitude) with a redhot iron on the forehead, one hundred lashes and transportation for life awaits him. Not long since a graduate from one of our Eastern theological schools was called to the pastoral charge of a church in the extreme Southwest. When about to start for his new parish he was unexpectedly detained by the incapability of his presbytery to ordain him. In order to explain his non-arrival t* the appointed time, he sent the following telegram to the deacons of the church: “ Presbytery lacked a quorum to ordain.” In tbe course of its journey the message got strangely metamorphosed and reached the astonished deacons In this shape: “ Presbytery tacked a worm on to Adam!” The sober church officers were greatly discomposed and mystified, but after grave consultation concluded it was the minister’s facetious way of announcing that he had got married and accordingly proceeded to provide lodgings for two in stead of one. The schooner Alfaretta, .eighty-six tons, Capt. George Warner, arrived at Boston a few days ago, from Port Gilbert, Nova Scotia, with a cargo of wood and piling and four passengers. Capt. Warner is a lad of only eighteen years of age, and this was his fifth trip as master. He has a crew of five, all told, and is in business for himself, buying his wood in Nora Scotia and selling it ip Boston.