Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1875 — Page 1

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THE NEWS.

Wk. M. Tweed reached New York city on the 23d, and was held to bail in the sum of $3,000 lo answer an indictment found against him in 1873, and of SI,OOO on the Grand Jury indictment of May last. He was afterward taken in custody on a civil suit and conveyed to Ludlow Street Jail, to remain until bail in the sum of $3,000,000 is furnished. According to a Wilkesbarre (Pa.) telegram of the 22d a final settlement of the coal-mining troubles had been reached and all the collieries in that region would start on the 23d. The Indian Bureau in Washington, on the 23d, received a dispatch from Prof. Jenney, of the Black Hills expedition, dated near Harney’s Peak, June 17. He says: “I have discovered gold in small quantities on the north bend of Castle Creek in terraces or bars of quartz gravel. Gold is found from Castle Creek southwardly to French Creek, at this point, and the deposits are almost wholly in Dakota. The region has not been fully explored, but the yield of gold thus far has been quite small, and reports of the richness of the gravel bars are greatly exaggerated. The prospect at present is not such as to warrant extended explorations in mining.” The New York State Prohibitionists met at Syracuse on the 23d and nominated: For Secretary of State, G. D. Dusenbery; Comptroller, Anson A. Hopkins; Treasurer, Stephen B. Ayers; State Engineer and Surveyor, George A. Dudley; Canal Commissioner, Ira D. Bell; State Prison' Inspector, John B. Gibb; Attorney-Gen-eral, Ed. T. Marsh. Strong prohibition resolutions were adopted. Mr. Beach finished his argument for the plaintiff in the l ilton-Beecher trial on the 23d, after which he presented to the court affidavits concerning additional evidence which he desired admitted, and asked for a reopening of the case to that end. The Judge took the matter under advisement. In accordance with a decision rendered by Judge Blodgett that alleged illicit distillers must surrender their boAhgtt? the Government officials, theJjaliflllctates Marshal on the 23d took jffiHNnQQof all books belonging to the estaolllfßnents recently seized in Chicago. The California Independent State Convention, held at Sacramento on the 23d, adopted a platform mainly devoted to the transportation question. A full State ticket was nominated, headed by Gen. Bidwell for Governor and the acting Governor (Pacheco) for Lieutenant-Governor. A dangerous counterfeit five-dollar note on the First National Bank of Canton, 111., is reported from Washington. It is similar to the counterfeit fives on the f Traders’ National Bank of Chicago. It was reported in London on the 24th that the Marquis of Lome and the Princess Louise intend making a tour of the United States.

Count von Abnim has finally been found guilty of abstracting public documents from the archives of the Paris Legation and sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment. The report of the commission to examine into the condition of the Chicago Cus-tom-House was published on the 24th, and is substantially that the foundations are unsafe and the stone of a poor quality. Secretary Bristow has decided to stop work on the building until the meeting of Congress. At the opening of his court on the morning of the 24th Judge Neilson announced that he should deny the application for reopening the Tilton-Beecher case, and the papers were filed with the Clerk of the court. The Judge then delivered his charge to the jury, and at one o’clock they retired for deliberation. The lowa Opposition State Convention assembled at Des Moines on the 24th and nominated Hon. Shephard Leffler for Governor; Capt. E. B. Woodward for Lieutenant-Governor; W. J. Knight for Judge of the Supreme Court; A. R. Wright for Superintendent of Public Instruction. The platform declares against a third term and favors a reduction' of* the President’s salary and the resumption of specie payment as soon as the same can be done without injury to the business interests of the country, and in the meantime favors a sufficient supply of national currency for business purposes, and opposes the present National Banking law. A motion that the party organization be known as Democratic was tabled. A severe wind and rain storm on the night of the 23d destroyed fifty houses and three miles of sidewalk and fences inJDecorah, lowa. Dispatches from France, dated June 25, represent that the loss of life by the flood in the Garonne had been appalling. Over 800 houses had fallen in Toulouse, and it was reported that over 1,000 persons had perished. In the St. Cyprien quarter 213 corpses had already been recovered. At Tremouillet five houses only remained standing out of 400. In the district of Foix two villages had been submerged and many dead bodies had been found. A letter was received in New York on the 25th giving an account of the great earthquake at Circuta, South America, on the 18th of May. The first shock killed in a single instant 8,000 people out of a population of 10,000. Garcia, who stole Murillo’s famous picture from the Seville Cathedral, and who was kidnaped in Cuba and subsequently sent to Spain, is reported to have been shot at Madrid without trial. The Carlist fortress of Misavet, on the river Ebra, is officially reported to have surrendered. A Berlin dispatch of the 25th says Count von Amim would appeal from the

THE JASPER REPUBLICAN.

VOLUME I.

late decision of the Kammergericht in his case. Prof. Donaldson and three members of the press made a balloon ascension from Toronto on the 28d and were picked up the next day by a vessel five miles off Point Peter, on Lake Ontario. The New Hampshire House of Representatives on the 25th passed resolutions censuring the Governor and the Council in the Senatorial matter, by a vote of 174 to 166. Mortimer Thompson, better known as Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. 8., died in New York city on the 25th. There were three executions for murder iu New England on the 25th. At Dedham, Mass., James H. Costley was hanged for the murder of Julia Hawkes, and at Thomaston, Me., Louis Wagner and-John True Gordon swung from the same scaffold. Gordon was insensible when hung, having stabbed himself in the breast with intent to commit suicide. At Plymouth Church prayer-meeting on the evening pf the 25th Mr. Beecher, referring to the scandal trial, said he should continue to act as pastor of Plymouth Church no matter what the verdict of the jury might be, because he felt that bis congregation would still have faith in and stand by him. The jury had not agreed upon a verdict up to the morning of the 26th. Three vinegar factories were seized fn Cincinnati on the 25th for illicit distillation of whisky.

A dispatch from Omaha, signed by United States Senators Hitchcock and Paddock, was published on the 26th, declaring the reports of grasshopper ravages in Nebraska greatly exaggerated. They had done but little damage, and only in isolated cases. The crops promised well. Judge O. B. McFadden, Delegate to Congress from Washington Territory, died on the 25th. The damage by inundation in the Garo«»ersgion was estimated on the 28th at £15,000,000. The lowest estimate 01 deaths in the flooded districts was 2,000. Inundations have recently occurred in Bohemia, Moravia, Corinthia, Tyrol iyjd Beriat, with considerable loss Of life and immense destruction of property. Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Indians havesigned an agreement to relinquish theii hunting privileges in Nebraska for $25,000 in horses, cows, wagons, etc. Mrs. Tilton has made an affidavit in which she denies the statements made in the affidavits of the alleged new .witnesses upon whose evidence a reopening of the Beecher case was asked for. She also solemnly declares that she is innocent of all the offenses charged against her in connection with Mr. Beecher, except that under the influence of her husband she had made charges against Mr. Beecher which both she and her husband knew to be false. A tornado passed over Detroit on the evening of the 27th. Its path was about 500 feet wide, and thirty houses were destroyed. Four persons were killed and many others injured.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Live Stock. —Beef Cattle —[email protected]. Hogs —Live, [email protected]. Sheep—Live, [email protected]. Breadsttjffb.— Flour—Good to choice, $5.30® 5.65; white wheat extra, $5.70@6.&). Wheat—No. 2 Chicago, )1.11H®1.12; No. 2 Northwestern, [email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.15® I. Rye—Western and State, 90c@$1.00. Barley—sl.2s®l.3o. Corn—Mixed Western, 82® 83c. Oats —Mixed Western, 62@63c. Provisions. —Pork—New Mess, [email protected]. Lard—Prime Steam, 13M@13 l /4c. Chees6—s® 12Mc. Wool.— Domestic fleece, 49@63c. CHICAGO. T.m Stock. —Beeves —Choice, [email protected]; good, [email protected]; medium, [email protected]; butchers’ stock, [email protected]; stock cattle, $3.50®4.75. Hogs—Live, $7.15©7.30. Sheep—Good to choice, $4.00®4.50. Provisions. —Butter! —Choice, 20@25c. Ep^s— Fresh, Pork—Mess, [email protected]. Lard [email protected]. Brbadstufvs. —Flour —White Winter Extra, $6.00®7.25; spring extra, [email protected] WheatSpring, No. 2, 97V4@97Mc. fCorn—No. Ss, 66 >4 @67c. Oats —No. 2, Rye—No. 2, 89@90c. Barley—No. 2, $1.20®1.25. Lumber. —First Clear, [email protected]; Second Clear, [email protected]; Common Buards, slo.oo® 11. Fencing, $11.00; “A" Shingles, $2.75 @3.00; Lath, [email protected]. CINCINNATI. Bbkadstuffs. —Flour —[email protected]. WheatRed, [email protected]. Corn—67@7oc. Rye— SI.OB @l.lO. Oats—ss®6oc. Barley—No. 2, [email protected]. Provisions. —Pork —[email protected]. Lard—l2® 13tfc. ST. LOUIS. Live Stock. —Beeves —Good to choice, $5.70® 6.60. Hogs—Live, [email protected]. Breads tuffs. —Flour —XX Fall, [email protected]. Wheat—No. 2 Red Fall, [email protected]. CornNo. 2, 63@63Kc. Oats—No. 2,53@54c. RyeNo. 2, [email protected]. Barley—No. 2, [email protected]. Provisions.- -Pork —Mess, [email protected]. Lard —l2@lßc. MILWAUKEE. Bbradstctfs.—Flour—Spring XX, $4.7595.00. Wheat-Spring, N0.1,[email protected]; No. ?, 9914 c @sl.oo. Corn—No. 2, 62tf@63c. Oats—No. 2, 48K@49c. Rye—No. 1, 94@95c. Barley—No. 2, [email protected]. DETROIT. Bbkadstvvts. —Wheat—Extra, [email protected]>4. Com—No. 1, 66@67c. Oats—No. 1, 53*@54c. TOLEDO. Bread btutts. —Wheat Amber Michigan, [email protected]; No. 2 Red, [email protected]. CornHigh Mixed, 70*4@71 c. Oats—No. 2, 52>4@f 3c. CLEVELAND. Bbradstotts.—Wheat—No. 1 Red, $1.2214® 1.23; No. 2 Red, $1.17!4©1.18. Com—High Mixed, 72@73c. Oats—No. 1, 59@60c. BUFFALO. Live Stock. Beeves—[email protected]. Hogs— Live, [email protected]!4. Sheep—Live, $4.50®5.00. EAST LIBERTY. Live Stock.—Beeves—Best, [email protected]; me dinm, $6.00®6.26. Hogs—Yorkers, [email protected]; Philadelphia, [email protected]. Sheep-Best, $4.75® 5.00; medium, [email protected]. A senior thus describes his unsuccessful attempt to gain the attention of a young lady: “ I wanted to see her ever so much, but some old fellow rushed in ■ ahead, and there I was eliminated by substitution.”

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

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1875.

THE OADTS JUDGMENT. An honest slater, by mishap, 'Slid from the giddy seat Where he was perched, and from the roof Fell headlong in the street And ss he fell—woe worth the dayl Down from bis seat on high, He chanced to strike with all his weight Upon a passer-by. “ For snch a fall my hurt is small,” The grateful slater said; “But what is this that I have done? Alas! the man is dead!” Aud soon the stranger’s son appeared; And when the man confessed What he had done, he straightway went And ordered his arrest. Before the Cadi'now he stands, Of whom the angry son Demanded justice, speedily, As for a murder done! “ What is thy plea?” the Cadi said; “ To slay a man, qr cause That he be slain (without excuse), Is death by Turkish laws!” “Allah is great!” the slater cried; “What is to be win be; The case occurred as you have heard; I make no other plea!” “Allah is great! and law is law!” The Cadi made reply; “ ’Tis clear the slater, by his fall, Did slay the passer-by; “ But as there seems no certain proof Of criminal intent— And that the penalty adjudged May suit the strange event—- “ The prosecutor—’tis decreed— » Upon the roof may climb, And, falling on the prisoner, Shall thus avenge his crime!” —John 0. Saxe.

GODIVA’S HANDKERCHIEF.

Godiva was going to town, hair and all, and that implies a good deal (as it did when one rode through Coventry). From her feet to her hands her appointments were perfect. Her chestnut brown hair threw its curling tassels down over a suit of lighter shade, her brown hat served as foil for the pheasant’s plume erected thereon, her gloves were No. 6, her boots No. 2. She felt that she did herself credit, and was disposed to beam on the world generally in consequence. “Town” that morning meant some shopping, some visits, a girl from the intelligence office for “ Ma” —a little saunter generally, for Godiva was unspoiled enough to enjoy the window side of pictures and pretty things, and was not wholly averse to the prolific view of herself the glass was complaisant enough to hold up for her amusementDid I say she was very pretty? Yes, she was, except when she cried or had a cold in her head, under which circumstances nobody that ever I heard of looked well. So this dainty little lady reached the station without ruffling a feather and, seating herself in the cars, she glanced about her for subjects for mental discussion as young damsels will. There was the usual young woman with the saffron-hued baby in a blue cap with narrow white taste ribbons falling into its eyes—and the two masculines in attendance, one apparently the father and the other the uncle, each taking turns at holding the baby in the most unnatural position possible while the mother tied her bonnet-strings and clucked, with a pin in her mouth, to her winking progeny. Godiva recalled the wicked publican as she murmured to herself: “ I never did see so many ugly people in my whole life! that woraanreally makes me ache, she is so sinfully plain, poor thing! But I dare say her husband dotes on her. Achee! achee!” her sentence ended, abruptly. “ Oh, thou base conductor,” thought she, “ how couldst thou leave open that door?” feeling* immediately, her fate was sealed, as a fatal shiver ran over her. She put her hand in her pocket for her handkerchief, but her Russia leather pocket-book and a small key alone showed themselves in answer. “It isn’t possible that I have been off and forgotten my handkerchief!” ejaculated she, the color coming to her cheeks as a hitherto unnoticed pair of blue eyes, belonging to a young man, glanced at her from a seat near. “ Dear, dear me! what shall I do? I shall have to sniff, in spite of good manners.” Here she gave a gentle drawing of breath and held her face close to the window, absorbed, apparently, in the uninviting prospect; but the tickling in her throat, the coming drops in her eyes, ah, no! betokened a cold already upon her. Godiva groaned in spirit. “If only I was that ugly woman over there, whom I laughed at— I wish now I hadn’t —and wore cotton gloves, I could give a sly pinch to my nose, as she does, but —O! what can I do till I reach town? I feel worse every moment and I must have a handkerchief now. I can’t wipe my eyes *on my dress or my petticoat because I can’t get at them, nor my starched linen sleeves —sniff, sniff—who ever heard of a lady without a pocket-handkerchief before! Achee! achee-e!” This very audible reverberation startled the gentleman opposite into giving his fair neighbor a quick glance through his eye-glasses. Then he palled his mustache with a perplexed expression. What does that girl look at me for, I wonder? the glance seemed to say, and he took off the eye-glasses, which, O aggravation ! he proceeded to polish nicely on the whitest of handkerchiefs. This was too much for Godiva’s watering eyes. “ If,” murmured she, “ I thought he was married I would ask him to lend me his handkerchief, I declare I would! He couldn’t think I had any design on his heart if he only knew how I felt—o dear me! dear me! lam a wretched being and I shall certainly go wild before long. I have to keep my mouth wide open now, and I neverjean get through a day in town, never.” Poor Godiva, what avails your fine feathers?

Necessity, they say, knows no law, and Godiva was desperate. She rose from her seat and touched the gemteman genUjH>*t his arm, hunying him to his feet with a bow and a look of “at your service, ma’am,” which deepened into a mingled expression of doubt and amazement as his fair neighbor held out her hand and said: “ May I trouble you to lend me your handkerchief, sir?” He blushed very red indeed and so did she, bnt he gave her the handkerchief and sat meekly down again, wondering like Chicken Little if the sky wasn’t falling. Godiva had possession, which is nine points in the law, to be sure, but after the first satisfaction she could not but be aware that she had unlawfully possessed herself of what wasn’t hers. The click of the car-wheels would fall into the jingle of “What will that young gentleman do —do—if he should need his handkerchief too—too —but perhaps he has another. Some people do carry two—two!” and rattle it unceasingly as the train flew on; but the final query: “What will he think of me?” remained unmoved by any philosophy. She felt the blue eyes stealthily regarding her with a comical look. At last the train stopped and Godiva got out and walked away with the pockethandkerchief—and the young man got out and walked away also without any. When one is very wretched or very anything you don’t want to be, work is the best specific, and so, as shopping is the severest toil a woman is ever known to accomplish and live, Godiva endeavored to busy her thoughts and shopped energetically; but there was more frequent resurrection of them than was agreeable, since every time she used the big cambric she thought of the young man and blushed. After she had bought every bargain she could find, and engaged from the intelligence office a graceful Hibernian with a face tied up in a dingy towel, and who submitted, perhaps, on that account to the misery of living with an Hinglish cook, as “them Hinglish has orful tempers, mem,” Godiva lunched very satisfactorily to herself and felt her cold diminishing every moment. Let me leave her eating strawberry-ice, and follow our hero awhile. He was quite an elegant fellow, blessed with a

blonde mustache and an admirable temper, but his name was Peter Brown. One cannot have everything in this world, so Peter comforted himself by mental sympathy with Romeo and felt as sweet as if he were called Caesar de Montmorenci. He was fastidiously delicate in his tastes, and a woman with a cold in her head was a horror to him, so, when he found himself regarding with interest the young lady in the cars who had such an evident influenza, he felt he had a new sensation,’ and it was wholly novel to have her march off with his embroidered cambric; but Peter was a youthful sage, and believed profoundly in all women being “temples of pure marble, lighted by lamps fed by holy oil,” and thought no ill of any. So he went his way; on it he met a special friend of his, a Mrs. Darry, who was overjoyed at the meeting, since she wanted him of all things for some private theatricals she was about to get up, in which Peter would be “altogether lovely,” as she graphically said. Who could resist such a speech from such lovely lips ? Not Peter Brown; and so it came about that in a month after the handkerchief episode the drawing-rooms of Mrs. Darry were brilliantly lighted, and half the world stood on tiptoe to see the other half move on fantastic ones upon the mimic stage set off from the end of the long room. The curtain rose to the entrance of our friend Miss Godiva, got up after the fashion of Louis XIY., and beautiful to look upon. When in the course of the play my lady has to say: “Ah! I have seen Monsieur before,” Godiva gave a very natural start, for in the lover entering she sees neither the stage Marquis nor the real Peter Brown, but the young man whose handkerchief lies in her upper drawer, and whose wrought initials, P. 8., are a frequent reproach to her. Godiva saw quickly that her Marquis did not in the least connect the patched and rouged lady before him with the catarrhal era, and the play went on and off with grand success ; everybody outdid himself. Peter congratulated himself that he had not fallen prostrate over his long sword or harpooned anyone with his spurs, and Godiva herself that she had escaped with her life from her three-inch heeled slippers (this was before their introduction into society). Aften the incense pouring was over and Peter had emptied his censer at the fair Marquise’ feet Mrs. Darry presented Mr. Peter Brown in due form to Miss Godiva —why should I tell her other name since the reader sees it must be speedily merged in Brown —dear neutral tint? Godiva and Peter were neighbors, and what says moral and immortal Miss Maria Edgeworth? “Propinquity is the origin of love.” When this fact was ascertained bouquets with the young gentleman began to arrive frequently at Miss Godiva’s door, and suddenly Peter desired to learn German, Godiva being proficient therein. Why is it people in love avoid their mother-tongue so? Even Bottom was translated when he fell in love! And so the golden winter passed on into the rose-colored summer, and the young people walked in the garden as lovers should. Godiva, half in jest, asked Peter if he could furnish German enough to translate for her two lines of Heine’s version of greeting: “ Wmn du tine Bom schant sag Ich lam tie gusten." (“If you see a Rose, "say I send my love to her.”) Peter’s heart swelled within him. He thought nothing was ever prettier than the rose blushing before him, and said so. “If only she would bloom for him! Would she?” Bo they entered Paradise and spoke a new language from that day, and they found not the slightest difficulty in

expressing themselves In It, as had been sometimes the case in German. A year after all this behold Peter and Mrs. Brown, nee Godiva, at home; there is a charming little library opening from their drawing-room; a wood fire enjoys itself on the hearth and glows over hyacinths which are opening in heavy spikes of white mid cream-colored towers; before the fire Mr. Peter smokes his cigar and lazily tries to puff the smoke through the fur of an unoffending cat near him white he remarks to Mrs. Brown that it’s singular cats shouldn’t like cigar smoke; then relapses into silence. “ Well?” said Godiva. “Yes, dear—l was thinking just then by a queer chain of thought, first of this cat’s sneezing, then of colds in one’s head, then of a funny little thing that happened tome once in the cars when I was coming in town. Did I ever tell you about the young woman who carried off my pocket—hullo! eh?” as Godiva blushed suddenly and nestled in her chair. “Go on, dear,” said she, calmly. So Peter related the tale twice told, concluding with: “She was really a very pretty young woman, too, Puss. Perhaps I should have called on her if I’d known where she lived, or if. I had not gone to the Darry theatricals, met you, and tumbled into matrimony in consequence. Who knows what might have been?” The cigar rings ascended regularly, and the smoker appeared to reflect on past virions, but Mrs. Brown kept demure silence. “ What in the world are you thinking of now, my heart’s delight?” said Peter, half hoping that his lady wife was faintly stirred by jealousy. “ Thinking of, Peter? Why, the moral of your story.” “Moral! What is it?” “Me, Peter, Commend me to the discernment of men! Did you never really discover till this moment that your sniffling friend and your wife were one and the same? Yes, dear, I’m the moral.” So saying, Mrs. Brown rose, and produced from her work-table a small white packet, which she unfolded as she approached her wideeyed husband —“ and here’s the pockethandkerchief.” “By Jove!” quoth Peter Brown. — Portland Press.

“Figure-Training.”

The following extracts are made from opinions expressed by medical men, apropos of the corset, in the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine: First Opinion— ‘ 4 My medical experience, therefore, leads me to the following conclusions: Firstly —That, provided the corset be perfectly made, accurately fitted and gradually applied, and at the same time ample space allowed for the expansion of the chest, the waist may be laced to extreme slenderness without endangering the heart or lungs. Secondly —ln those who, having grown rapidly, perhaps, or from some other debilitating cause have a tendency to indulge in stooping and ungraceful postures, the strict application of tightly-laced corsets may be deemed indispensably necessary. Thirdly —Although the very early adoption of corsets is most effectual as a means of bringing about and establishing the exceedingly graceful proportions so much aimed at at the present time in fashionable society, yet the neglected figure of the adult may be vastly improved by such appliances—a gradually-increased tension of lace being all that is required to completely remodel the figure.” Second Opinion—“l am of opinion that moderate support -at the waist by means of stays, although causing some compression, is harmless and beneficial for ladies, and even necessary for their style of dress; hut I strongly advise all ladies when trying to 4 make the figure’ never to go be. yond the limits of comfort.” Third Opinion—“As a medical man, and not one of the old school, I feel perfectly justified in saying that ladies who are content with a moderate application of the corset may secure that most elegant female charm, a slender waist, without fear of injury to health.” Fourth Opinion: 44 So far as I have observed, tight-lacers are, as a rule, active, brisk, healthy, young people. At any rate, though no doubt extreme tigljt-lac-ing may do mischief, I have very rarely met with instances of it. I have sometimes seen decided improvements in health follow when tight-lacing has been enforced by a careful mother or governess on an awkward, round-shouldered girl.” The editor of the Magazine follows these extracts with: 44 For the future our columns will no longer be open to the discussion of the subject of so-called 4 figuretraining.’ Some of us would prefer to call

it, with Dr. Conquest, ‘improving and modeling God’s last, most beautifnl and perfect work.’ We are far from advocating a loose or untidy style of dress, and we know that corsets are not only indispensable with our present mode of costume, but that our climate would not permit us to be loosely dressed. The east wind gets up our sleeves and in at our necks as it is! Well-fitting corsets are comfortable and supporting, but tight ones are net only a torture but a folly. Look how the baby of a few weeks old protests against the bands in which he is swathed. When they are removed with what enjoyment he stretches the round limbs, first one leg, then another, then makes the acquaintance of his own little fists, which he seems to take for something good to eat, blinking contentedly all the time and reveling in his freedom. In counfries where children are permitted to be without any kind of swathing they begin to creep about and run alone at a much earlier age than they do with qs. ~Gen. Eaton, United States Commissioner of Education, estimates the child population between the ages of six and sixteen in the thirty-seven States and Territories at about 10,288,000. An army of 800,000 teachers in needed to educate this host of citizens and future freemen

NUMBER 42.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Donaldson say* he expects to be kilted this summer on some of his balloon trips. The Appletons keep ten presses going on Sherman’s Memoirs, yet find that the demand outruns the supply. Jackson, the Boston defaulter, says that people had no business to trust him. Wonderful coincidence—all his victims say the same thing. No, don’t you do it. If you are courting a woman and she talks about your settling $5,000 on her, you just settle yourself out o’ that Tis naught when woman humbugs man, For that’s the good old style; But oh! man's confidence in man Makes countless thousands smile. When a Detroit sign-painter gets to work there is no “ stopping” him. He says: “Groceries provisions sugars teas oils codfish starch the nimble sixpence is our motto we can’t be undersold if you don’t see what you want ask for it." “No, gentlemen of the jury,” thundered an eloquent advocate the other day in a Denver court, “ this matter is for His Honor to decide, who gjjs there sleeping so beautifully.” His Honor opened both eyes and mouth, and said: “All owing to your narcotic speech, sir.” He leaned on the fence pouring out warm vows of love and admiration to the lovely being on the other side. It was dark. We could not see her fttce, hut she said: “Pray desist. You are too vacillating. Only a week ago you told that same story three doors below here.” They parted. If a man wishes to cruelly lacerate the feelings of an acquaintance, he remarks: “ A cow would regard your feet with comj placency,” and upon being questioned why he answers: “Because she would see at a glance that her hide would not have to be cut down very much to make shoes for them.”

Canning green currants is done as any fruit canning is, but the following recipe is worth trying: Gather when green, strip off the stems, put the currants into dry, clean bottles and cork, with rosined corks, tightly. Kept in a cool place in the cellar they will be fresh for a year or more, and are very nice in the winter for pies. Two persons were once disputing so loudly on the subject of religion that they awoke a big dog which had been sleeping on the hearth before them, and he forthwith barked most furiously. An old divine present, who had been quietly sipping his tea while the disputants were talking, gave the dog a kick and exclaimed: “Holdyour tongue, you silly brute! you know no more about it than theydo.”

By an order from the Postoffice Department separate pouches for registered letters will soon be placed on ail the principal mail routes in the country. This will be invaluable assistance to the mail robbers. Heretofore they have been obliged to carry off bags of unremunerative letters and with much care and toil fish out ftie letters that had money in them. Thus doth a beneficent Government extend its benefactions over all its subjects. —Detroit Tribune. A Mexican bandit was recently shot and killed near Lone Pine, Inyo Gouuty, Cal. The “Investigating Committee” which went out to discover the cause of the robber’s death made a report, which the Inyo Independent says was as follows: “Lone Pine, Inyo County, Cal., May 20, 1875—We, the undersigned members, who were sent by the Committee of Six to investigate and find all particulars regarding the killing of the Mexican, do find that the man was one of the robbers or bandits, and that his name was Jose Maria Guerro; that we found him in the canon described and that we buried him according to Hoyle.” There is a young colored woman in Oskaloosa who has a strange history, if the story told by herself and friends be true. She. is called Maggie Adams, and is about seventeen years of age. Until recently she had lived with a family by the name of Allen, in. the south part of this county, who came from Missouri to Kansas. During all the years since the war she has been in a state of slavery, receiving nothing for her work, being compelled to do washing, etc., for various families, allowed no books or opportunities for learning, and kept in ignorance of the fact that she was no longer a slave. She was kept so jealously guarded that she knew nothing whatever of the abolition of slavery, and was enlightened and her release procured by a yonng colored man who somehow learned the facts and went to work to have her set at liberty.— Leavenworth (Kan.) Times.

A Strange Female Propensity.

Thk Sacramento (Cal.) Record-Union says: “Whether it is a natural result of champagne atmosphere and strawberries all the year round, we know not, but it has become evident that there is something in the air, in the soil, or in the social conditions of San Francisco which in spires the women of that sea-girt peninsula with a perennial yearning to hill lawyers. The number of lawyers who have been shot or shot at by females id' San Francisco is real’y appalling. Crittenden, McDermott, Cobb are among the most prominent cases, but the calendar, indeed, abounds with them ; and now behold an attempt to. takevoff W. H. L. Barnes in the abrupt and explosive manner which seems to be the chosen method of launching gentlemen of his profession on their dubious voyage of exploration to the other shore. We submit that, in consideration of the frequency of these peculiar attempts at what may be called 1 clam homicide,’ it would be idle to pay much attention to the details of each ease. It is evident that these are phenomena Ulus*

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testing a law of nature not hitherto recogA machine for writing spoken words has been invented by M. H. Huppinger. The Revue Industrietie describes the machine as bring about the size of the hand. It is put in connection with the vocal organs, the instrument recording their movements upon a moving band of paper in dots and dashes. The person to whom the instrument is attached simply repeats the words of the speaker after him insudibly. This lip'language is then faithftilly written out. — New York Herald.

A Blunt Physician.

A writer in Chambers' Journal says : “ Foremost among the old English physicians must stand out that blunt, clever, irascible Yorksbireman, Dr. Radcliffe, whose memory the great library of Oxford (for which he bequeathed £40,000) will never allow to perish. Though there was perhaps a certain pride about his honest bluntness, we must respect the man who could tell the truth even to royal patients. Two years after his arrival in London Radcliffe was appointed physician to the Princess Anne of Denmark; and soon after the accession of King William was rewarded for the cure of two of William’s favorites by a present of 500 guineas from the privy purse. Though refusing the position of Court Physician, Radcliffe is said to have received from the King in six years nearly 8,000 guineas. His gains, indeed, seem to have been enormous ; for in 1691 he received 1,000 guineas from Queen Mary for successfully prescribing for the young Duke of Gloucester, the son of the Princess Anne; and we cannot disbelieve the story that Dr. Gibson made 1,000 guineas la year by receiving patients who were unable to obtain admission to Dr. Radcliffe. In 4694 he attended the good Queen Mary for the small-pox, and on merely reading thepre-

scriptions of the other physicians at once pronounced her 4 a dead woman;’ a prediction very soon verified. Queens and princesses might shrug their pretty shoulders at his name, but they could not dispense with Hadcliffe’s services, and we find him telling a messenger of the Princess Anne 4 that she had nothing but the vapors, and was as well as any other woman in the world could she but think so.’ He was dismissed the court for this hit. . Even royal pride, however, had to bow before the great doctor, and he was, in 1699, again sent for to see the Duke of Gloucester, whom he at once, abusing roundly the two court physicians, pronounced as beyond the reach of medicine. In 1695 King William gave Radcliffe £1,260 and made him the offer of a baronetcy, which he declined, having gone abroad to attend the Earl of Albemarle, who, on his recovery, had sent him 400 guineas and a diamond ring. Even the King Radcliffe did little to conciliate, and told him frankly that all promises to cure him were futile. He might, he said, if he gave up drinking long toasts with the Earl of Bradford (who drank hard), live three or fotir years; but no art would carry him further. When the King was finally seized with dropsy and asked the doctor what he thought of his legs, Radclitfe replied: 4 Why, truly, sir, I would not have your Majesty’s two legsfbr your three Kingdoms.’ Can we wonder that William ever afterward refused to see the blunt doctor, in spite of the intercessions of the Earl of Albemarle and other nobles?”

Buying a Bride.

Two young men, one of them residing in the northern part of this county and the other in the southern part of Steele County, were each enamored with one and the same young lady. The affections of the lady were about equally divided between the two. Hard words and blows failed to settle the difficulty. As a last resort the Freeborn County man agreed to relinquish all his right and title to the fair damsel for the sum of SIOO. The other chap couldn’t see it. Freehold County showed a willingness to do the fair thing by then offering to give SIOO and take the disputed property himself. Steele County scorned the offer. Our man raised the bid to $125, which was not accepted. One hundred and fifty dollars failed to reaeh him, bat when the bid was raised to $l6O it proved to be too much for his cupidity '> and with eagerness he cried out: “ Take her.” 7 All this time the expectant bride stood looking on, an indifferent spectator, apparently caring not whether Freeborn or Steele County finally came out ahead. The winning man |gave his note for $l6O, with the bride’s father as indorser, and the marriage took place without any un necessary delay. And now we understand the parties propose to resist the payment of the note on the ground of “no value received. ’Albert Lea (Minn.) Standard. Some time ago a beautiful and intelligent young lady informed her intimate friends that she was engaged to be married to Mr. A. Last Thursday night was fixed for the wedding, and a number of cards of invitation were sent out. The guests assembled, but, no bridegroom appearing, at a late hour they withdrew, full of sorrowful sympathy for the lady and fierce indignation against the man who had so overwhelmed her with mortification and disappointment. On the next day the lady was a raving maniac. The gentleman in the case, however, asserts that he was not engaged to the young lady, and had no idea of it, nor did be know anything about the wedding that was appointed for him. He deubtless tells the truth, and the arrangements for the wedding, on the part ot the unfortunate young lady were but the premonitory symptoms of the insanity afterward folly developed. —Richmond (Fa.) Journal. n