Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1875 — Not Used to Kindness. [ARTICLE]

Not Used to Kindness.

“Is this the postoffice?” inquired a stranger the other day as he approached the stamp-clerk’s window. “It is,” was the reply. “And you have stamps here?” “Yes, sir.” “ Will you be so kind as to please sell me one?” “ I will.” “ I am very sorry to have to bother you,” continued the stranger while the clerk was tearing off the stamp, “ but I want to send a letter out and I hope you’ll excuse me.” “ That’s all right,” said the clerk. “ Yes, I believe it is all right,” said the stranger. “I am a thousand times obliged for your courtesy, and now I want to beg one more favor. Can I mail this letter here?” “ Why, of course.” “Can I? Here, give me your hand, young man! I’ve lived around and about for over forty years, and I’ve seen hard times. I ain’t used to this sort o’ kindness, and it goes right to my heart!” And itcouldn’tbe said that he was drunk. —Detroit Free, Preu. ' The announcement that in 7,800,000 years the Falls of Niagara will have subsided has driven two hotel proprietors insane and trebled the highest rate of hack fare known in twenty-five years. —The prospects are that green apples and cholera will be about a month later than usual this year.

During the celebration in New York City on the sth, seventy-three accidents occurred by fireworks and pistols. The “Keeley Motor,'* about which so much has been written, is denounced by the Scientific American as a base fiaud. A reward of $3,450 is offered for the murderer or murderers of Milo Eames, the engineer recently killed on the Vandalia road. ' Let’s go to Virginia. Hereafter, in that State, husbands are to be exempted from liability to pay the antenuptial debts of their spouses. There ! a Texas judge decides that the Civil Rights Bill is unconstitutional. — That settles it. Let an extra session of Congress be called at once. West Point has just turned out fortythree new officers; but if recruiting goes on as briskly in the future as in the past, they will soon have a private apiece to humiliate. The Indianpolis Sun, the Independent organ of Indiana, keeps hammering away on the greenback question, as if the existence of the government depended on that question. A cotemporary reviews “The Work of God in Great Britain, under Messrs. Moody & Sankey, 1873 to 1875.” Isn’t that rather shockingly reversing the order of things. ? The battle of Bunker Hill wasn’t fought on Hunker Hill, and the battle of Waterloo wasn’t fought at Waterloo.— We must have our little shams, no matter who gets whipped. Rumor has reached this country that Stanley, the explorer, has married an ■African king’s daughter, and is learning to wear a ring in his nose, and a shoe string around his waist. Governor Tilden, of New York, has exercised the veto power to some purpose, no fewer than one hundred and thirty-seven bills by the last Legislature having failed to receive his signature. The railroad passenger rates from New York to Chicago have been raised to 818, and from Baltimore and Washington to Chicago to §16.50. This is quite an advance on the rates which have prevailed for some time. One of the commissioners of Wayne county has resigned because the law compelled him to grant liquor license. If all county commissioners were of the same mind, the poor saloon keepers would be objects of pity, indeed.

Secretary Bristow is still after the recalcitrant distillery. He hooks on to them with a grip of steel wherever he finds them, whether in the large cities or in remote and obscure places. Some have been found of late in the hills of Missouri, the wilds of Wisconsin, and the woods of Texas. The Democratic nominee fbr Governor in lowa is of the old fossilized, pro-sla-very type of that party. He is a Virginian by birth, and was born, as one of the papers of that State aptly puts it, not with a silver spoon, but with a nigger in his mouth. Such a man will hardly be supported by the Liberals of lowa. The Republicans of lowa have nominated the old War Governor, Hon Samuel J. Kirkwood, as their candidate for Governor. He is deservedly one of the most popular men in the State, and will sweep it as with a whirlwind on the day of election. The balance of the ticket is also made up of able, honorable aud popular men. The Republicans of that glorious State mean to win every time. A bold and daring attempt was made to rob an Adams express car on the Terre Haute, Vandalia & Indianapolis Railroad, about 30 miles west of Terre Haute, on Friday of last week, in which the engineer was shot down and killed at his post. Several arrests have been made, but the main perpetrators have not yet been found, although large rewards have been offered, It is believed that the notorious James, Brothers were the leaders in the affair.

The following is a complete list of the elections to come off during the year 1875: Kentucky, Monday, August 2. California, Wednesday, .September 1. Arkansas, Monday, September 6. Maine, Monday, September 13. lowa, Tuesday, October 12. Ohio, Tuesday, October 12. Virginia, Tuesday, November 2. Kansas, Tuesday, November 2. Maryland, Tuesday, November 2. Massachusetts, Tuesday, November 2. Mississippi, November 2. Minnesota, Tuesday, November 2. Missouri, Tuesday, November 2. New York, Tuesday, November 2. New Jersy, Tuesday, November 2. Pennsylvania, Tuesday, November 2. Texas, Tuesday, December 7.

The temperance women of a township in dreen county, Ohio, have discovered a good way to get even with the men for not permitting them to vote. It is said that they have served the saloon keepers with the poll books of the last election, as a notice not to sell any of those men liquor, under penalty of the amended Adair law. If men are deprived of their whisky as a consequence of voting, there will be a tremendous falling off in the Democratic vote bf Ohio. . ■

There is one plank in nearly all of the Republican platforms adopted this year which is worthy of notice. It is the declaration in favor of the indissoluble union of the States and the supremacy of the Nastonal Government. The Nation is now nearly a hundred years old and there have been more than a hundred times when the need of having this doc trine firmly established and universally accepted has been painfully apparent. The Republican party is committing itself unalterably to a theory which will reader disunion impossible.— Crawfordsville Journal. w From the Crawfordsville Journal we learn that a little stir has been created in that vicinity by the report that representatives of certain Indian tribes had appeared aud laid claim to some of their lands. It seems that there are some 800 acres which the Indians claim rightfully belong to them by virtue of a reservation made many years ago. The land is occupied by one of the Meharries. A few weeks ago it was visited by the chief of one o£ the Wcstern tribes, who asserted the claim in a mild way. He is still in the neighborhood and a meeting has been arranged for the 20th of this month at which representatives from seven tribes are to be present, when the claim will be discussed.

Probably uo civil trial has ever taken place which has created so wide spread an interest, and none the result of which was looked for with more intense interest and anxiety than the Beecher-Tilton trial. Like all other trials, people were divided in opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the defendant, and by a large majority these views, whether for or against, were honestly entertained. Our view all along has been that the whole proceeding was instigated and instituted on the part of those engaged in it to crush Mr. Beecher, not that they in their hearts believed him to be guilty of the gross immoralities with which he was charged, but for ulterior and selfish purposes. The entire course of the trial, the evidence produced, tile attitude aud manner of tire plaintiff’s witnesses, in fact, everything connected with the ease from the day it commenced until its close, to our mind, substantiated and confirmed the belief we first entertained. The verdict of the jury is certainly a victory for Mr. Beecher, and will be so taken the world over. The nine jurors who -stood manfully for him during the tedious days of discuss : on, were right, and as time passes and men’s minds get more composed, they wilWtcceive what they honestly and justly deserve, the approbation of the people.