Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1875 — Page 1

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THE NEWS.

A Berlin telegram of the 4th says Turkey was collecting a large force with the view of ending the Herzegovinian insurrection at a single blow. Hans Christian Andersen, the Danish poet and novelist, died at Copenhagen, Denmark, Oft the 4th, aged about seventy. The French National Assembly ad. joumed on the 4th. It .will reassemble Nov. 4. The census of New York city, just completed, shows a total population of 1,064,372—an increase in five years of 91,166. A hail-stobm, accompanied by an earthquake shock, visited Omaha, Neb., •on the morning of the 4th. The hailatones demolished windows and roofs in the city, doing damage estimated at several thousand dollars. The rains which continued in many sections of the West up to the sth caused the heaviest floods known for many years in the Ohio and Mississippi Rivera and several of their tributaries. Immense damage has been done to harvested and growing crops. Railroad travel has been suspended on some of the roads in the flooded districts, and much damage to property other than crops was inflicted. The National Educational Association was recently in session at Minneapolis, Minn. The officers elected for the current year are: W. T. Phelps, of Minnesota, President; W. D. Henkle, of Ohio, Secretary; A. P. Marble, of Massachusetts, Treasurer. Thirty-three Vice-Presi-dents were chosen, the first being D. B. llaxar, of Massachusetts. At the late election in Alabama the call for a constitutional convention was carried by 15,000 majority. A Colored Editorial National Convention was recently held in Cincinnati and was attended by representatives of all the colored newspapers in the country and by some leading men of the colored race not connected with the press. The question of civil rights was discussed. A Louisville (Ky.) telegram of the 4th places McCreery’s (Dem.) majority for Governor at between 30,000 and 40,000. On the sth a water-spout burst over Him, Prussia, inundating the place and doing great damage. A bridge and several houses were swept away and thirteen persons drowned. A Calcutta telegram of the sth reports disastrous floods in the northwestern provinces of India. Fifty dollars ot conscience money, due for income tax, was received at the Treasury Department in Washington on the sth from Pittsburgh, Pa. The committee engaged in counting the funds in the United States Treasury have finished their work and report all correct except the $47,000 deficiency, which robbery they believe was committed by - some one connected with the department. The O’Connell centennial was duly observed in many cities in the East and West on the 6th, the celebration in some places beginning on the sth and ending on the 7th.

Commander Andrew Jackson Drake, United States navy, died at Newark, N. J., on the night of the 4th. An Indianapolis dispatch of the sth says that the loss from the recent floods in the central and southern portion of Indiana aggregate 50 to 60 per cent, of the entire crop. In the low lands along the Wabash River it was thought that 200,000 acres of com had been entirely destroyed, which, at sls per acre, would aggregate $3,000,000. Two bottles were recently found on the lake shore near Chicago containing messages purporting to come from Donaldson and Grim wood, the missing aeronauts, but their genuineness is questioned by parties familiar with their handwriting. One of the documents reads as follows: “July 16—2 a. m.—We cannot stay up more than an hour longer, as the gas is rapidly escaping. N. 8. G.” The one hundredth anniversary of the birth of O’Connell, the Irish Liberator, was celebrated at Dublin, Ireland, on the sth and 6th. On the first day ceremonies were held in the cathedral, at which Cardinal Manning officiated. On the latter there were processions and orations and in the evening illuminations and a banquet. At the latter a disturbance arose, caused by the Lord Mayor calling on Charles Gavan Duffy to respond to the toast—“ The Legislative Independence of Ireland.” Mr. Duffy on rising was greeted with great uproar and calls for the Home-ruler, Dr. Butt. The Mayor made repeated and ineffective attempts to gain a hearing and finally vacated the chair. Dr. Butt then began to speak, when the gas was extinguished and the company dispersed in great confusion, leaving unfinished the series of regular toasts. At Rome on the sth, at the chapel of the Irish College, pontifical high mass was celebrated in honor of O’Connell’s memory. A London dispatch of the 6th says eighteen additional cotton mills had closed at Oldham. The number of idle operatives was about 20,000. A violent tornado passed over a portion of Knox County, 111., on the evening of the sth, doing considerable damage to life and property. Mrs. John Anderson, of Henderson, was killed outright, and many others of the injured were not expected to survive. In Wataga eight houses were blown to pieces and several persons wounded. To the north of Knoxville the new residence of Mr. Burton was totally destroyed and all his family injured. A New York dispatch of the sth says that Drexel, Morgan & Co., of that city, had perfected arrangements with Duncan, Sherman & Co. and Alexander Duncan father of the leading member of the firm

THE JASPER REPUBLICAN.

VOLUME I.

of D., 8. & Co., by which the branch houses of the former firm in London and Paris would cash all orders and letters of credit of the latter firm held by travelers in Europe. A number of local architects who were appointed to investigate the new CustomHouse building in Chicago have unanimously reported in favor of continuing the work on the original plan and with the same materials. Over 40,000 persons united in an amnesty demonstration at Dublin on the 7th, in the cemetery where O’Connell is buried. Resolutions were adopted favoring home rule and amnesty for the imprisoned Fenians. Accounts from Damascus to the 23d of July say that cholera was raging violently there. Four hundred cases were reported daily, but the real number was thought to be somewhat larger. The disease was also reported raging in Antioch and adjacent towns. Capt. Bogabdub, the American pigeonshooter, recently defeated Rimell, the English champion. Serious riots occurred in Glasgow between Orangemen and Home-rulers during the O’Connell celebration. Several were severely injured. A revolution has broken out in Kokhand, in Central Asia. The Khan is reported to have fled and his troops to have gone over to the insurgents. The Government pension rolls contain the names of 228,034 pensioners, a decrease of 4,871 since last year. The amount paid out in 1874 was $1,225,000 less than in the previous year. The journeymen printers of Washington (D. C.)*bave accepted the employers’ terms of fifty cents per 1,000 ems for general composition and forty cents per hour for time work.

Benjamin B. Halleck, a clerk in the cash-room of the Treasury Department in Washington, Wm. H. Otman, a saloonkeeper, and an old gambler named Brown were arrested for the theft of $47,000 from the Treasury Department, on the- 7th. A special of the evening of the Bth says Halleck had made a full confession. It was thought $40,000 of the money would be recovered. A committee of the creditors of J. B. Ford & Co. recommend the acceptance of thirty-five cents on the dollar. An explosion occurred in a Government arsenal near Philadelphia on the morning of the 7th, killing one boy and wounding eighteen others. The business portion of Victory, N. Y., was destroyed by fire on the 6th. Loss estimated at $250,000. An old woman and a boy were burned to death in one of the houses and a fireman fell from a ladder and was killed. In the case of John D. Lee, charged with being the leader in the Mountain Meadows massacre, the jury reported on the 7th that they were unable to agree and were discharged by the Court. Hon. Charles Schaeffer, formerly State Treasurer of Minnesota, committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver in Oakland Cemetery, St. Paul, at the grave of his wife, on the morning of the Bth.

The Massachusetts Republican State Convention will be held at Worcester on the 28th of September. The trial of Alexander and William Collie on the charge of obtaining large sums of money from the London and Westminster Bank on false pretenses came to a sudden end on the 9th by the announcement of the fact that Alexander had absconded to the Continent. Fourteen thousand five hundred dollars of the $47,000 stolen from the Treasury Department were recovered on the 9th. The money, consisting of twenty, nine SSOO bills, was deposited in a bank at Alexandria to the credit of Otman. A Washington dispatch of a recent date says the Government income for the last fiscal year is larger than any estimate made. The Chicago Industrial Exposition will be opeq on the Bth Of September and continue one month. Gov. Beveridge has issued a proclamation offering a reward of S4OO each for the arrest of the perpetrators of the murders committed in Williamson County, 111., within the past two years. The county has also offered a reward of SI,OOO. The majority in'Alabama Tor the State Constitutional Convention is 16,500. The delegates stand politically as follows: Democrats 81, Independent Democrats 6, Republicans 12. Ira P. Rankin has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the First California District.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Lid Stock.— Beef Cattle—sll.oo3l3.2s. Hogg -Live, $7.5007.62*. Sheep -Live, $4.2536.26. Bkeadstutts.—Flour—Good to choice, $6,403 8.85; white wheat extra, $6.8537.50. Wheat—No. 2 Chicago, $1.3931.40; No. 2 Northwestern, $1.3931.40; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1,433 I. !4. Rye—Western and State, $1.0831.10. Bar--1ey—51.3031.36. Corn—Mixed Western, 813 87c. Oats—Mixed Western, 63364 c. Provisions. —Pork—Mess, $21.50321.65. Lard —Prime Steam, 18K31SKC. Cheese—63lll4c. Woou—Domestic Fleece, 50363 c. CHICAGO. Lite Stock.—Beeves—Choice, $519036.25; good, $5.2535.75; medium, $4.5035.00; butchers' stock, $3.2534.00; stock cattle, $8,003 3.75. Hogs—Live, $7.b0®7.90. Sheep—Good to choice, $4.0034.50. Provisions.— Butter—Choice, 24328 c. Eggs— Fresh, 1414315 c. Pork—Mess, $21.40321.45. Lard—513.45313.50. Brxadstuvm.—Flour—White Winter Extra, $6.2537 25; spring extra, $5.5036.00. Wheat —Spring, No. 2, $1.26312614. Corn-No. 2,72 07214 c. Oats—No. 2, 59@6<fc. Rye-No. 2, 84385 c. Barley—No. 2, $1.2231.25. Lumbbr.—First Clear, $45.00046.00; Second clear, $43.00345.00; Common Boards, $10,003 11. Fencing, $10.00311.00; “4” Shingles, $2.5032.80; Lath, [email protected].

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

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1875.

CINCINNATI. Bmadstutfs.—Flour—s7.2s©B.oo. Wheat—Red, $1.6501.75. Corn—73O7oC. Hyo-flßc®sl.oo. Oat*—7s37Bc. Pnonaio* *.—P0rk—521.50021.75. Lard-13* 014*c. m ST. LOUIS. Lot Stock.— Beere*—Good to dunce, $6,000 6.50. Hogs—Live, $7.4008.00. BMADSTUVre.—FIoor—XX Fall, $5.7508.50 Wheat-No. S Red Fall. $15401-55. CornNo. a, 70071 c. Oats—No. 8, 60©81c. RyeNo. 2,86 H @B7*4 c. Pnoviaio*a. —Pork—Hess, $22.00®22 25. Lard —l2*olßo. MILWAUKEE. Bmabstuvm.— Floor—Spring XX, $4.7505 00. Wheat—Spring No. 1, $1.31*01.83; No. 2,5t.38 0133*. Corn-No. 2, 72072*c. Oats-No. 2, 52* 053 c. Rye—No. 1,79081 c. Barley—No. 2, $1.1401.16. DETROIT. Bbbamtuym.— Wheat Extra, $1.5401.55. Corn—No. 1,77©78c. Oats-No. 1, 61®61*c. TOLEDO. BnnADSTtnrm. —Wheat—Amber Mich., $1.51* 01-52; No. 2 Bed, $1.55*01-56. CornHigh Mixed, 77077*c. Oats-No. 2, 61©61*c. CLEVELAND. BnnADSTDns.—Wheat—No. 1 Red, $1.53* 01.54; No. 2 Red, $1.48*01.49. Corn-High Mixed, 81©82c. Oats-No. 1, 670680BUFFALO. Lot Stock.— Beeves —ss 6007.00. HogsLife, $7.5008.12*. Sheen—Lire, $4.750535. EAST LIBERTY. Lot Stook.— Beeves—Best, $6.5007.00; medium, $5.7506.00. Hogs Yorkers, SB,OOO 8.15; Philadelphia, $8.2508.40. Sheep—Best, $5.2505.50; medium, $4.7505.00.

State Fairs for 1875. Illinois Ottawa Sept. 13—18 Ohio Columbus Sept. 6—lo Indiana Indianapolis.... Sept. 27—Oct. 2 lowa Keokuk Sept. 27—Oct. 3 Wisconsin Milwaukee Sept. 6—ll Nebraska Omaha Sept. 21—24 Michigan East Saginaw Sept. 13—17 Minnesota, St. Paul Sept 14—17 California Sacramento Sept. 15—25 Colorado Denver Sept 21—25 Chicago Industrial Sept. B—Oct 9 St Louis Fair Oct 4—9 Cincinnati Indus Sept 9—Oct 9 Connecticut Hartford Oct s—B Georgia Macon Sept 18—25 Maine Portland Sept 21—34 Maryland Pimlico. Baltimore. Sept. 14—17 Masssa'setts Hort.. Boston Sept. 21—24 Montana Helena Sept, ft— Oct 2 National Expos... Rome, Ga Oct 4—9 New England Manchester, N. H.... Sept. 7—lo New Hampshire.. .Manchester Sept 7—lo New Jersey....... Waverley Sept. 20—24 N ew York Elmira. Sept. 27—Oct 1 Oregon Salem Oct. 11—16 Pennsylvania Harrisburg. Sept. 27—29 Rhode Island Cranston, Providence.. Oct •*>—7 south. Wisconsin. Janesville Oct. 5—9 irginia Richmond .Oct. 26—30 West Virginia Clarksburg Sept 7—9

Hans Christian Andersen.

The cable conveys news of the death, at Copenhagen yesterday, of Hans Christian Andersen, the celebrated Danish novelist. He was something over seventy years ot age, having been born at Odense in 1805. His father was a shoemaker, too poor to give the boy any better education than was to be had at the charity school of the town, and even this meager opportunity was denied him after he was nine years old. Soon after this he had the good fortune to be taken into the house of a clergyman’s wife and employed to read aloud to her, and in this way his first knowledge of literature was gained. Subsequently, while working in a neighboring manufactoiy for the support of his widowed mother, he acquired a taste for reading plays, using his leisure hours in this way, and at last, becoming ambitious for the career of an actor, he applied for a position at the Copenhagen Theater, but was unsuccessful, and, being unable to obtain employment as a joiner, and having been so unfortunate as to lose his fine voice, he was reduced to dire straits of poverty. He tried writing tragedies, but without success in attracting attention, until at last an influential gentleman, perceiving genius in the young man, secured for him free admission to one of the Government institutions of learning. From this start he made rapid progress, and afterward took a full collegiate course, soon becoming favorably known as a poet. A journey to Italy formed an epoch in his career, and under its inspiration he wrote his “ Improvisa. tore.” In “ Only a Fiddler” he described his own early struggles. Andersen visited the court of Denmark in 1844 by special invitation, and soon thereafter he was granted a liberal annuity from the Government, whereby he was enabled to follow freely the impulses of his genius. The divine fire was not subdued by royal patronage in Andersen’s case. His improved circumstances gave him the means with which to travel extensively, and he has since repaid the world with his charming tales, which have been translated into English, German, French, Dutch and even Russian. —Chicago Tribune.

How Mr. Culver Saluted a Stranger.

Mr. Culver, on Nelson street, got out his hose to sprinkle the road in front ot the house, Friday evening. He dragged the hose to the front and put the muzzle on the fence, and then hastened down to the cellar to turn the water on. Just as he disappeared in the door an elderly couple, accompanied by a young lady, appeared around the comer and approached the premises of Mr. Culver. The gentleman was swinging a gold-headed cane and discoursing on the beauty of the evening and the trimness of the cottages they were passing. “Now, that place,” observed the old gentleman, stopping exactly opposite the nozzle, which none of the party observed, and pointing at Mr. Culver’s pretty house, “is a place which just suits my eye. It is not too large nor too small. It has the requisite amount of room inside and outside. The yard is a model of—r-” And just at that unhappy instant the water was turned on by the unconscious Mr. Culver, and, the old gentleman’s beaming face being in exact range with the dreadful nozzle, the stream struck Mm with such blinding force as to knock him completely off the walk, and he went over backward into the street, bare-headed, swinging his cane in the air, and vehemently sputtering: “Ooh, Kawwish,boo, dosh, wicherwish, goo-woo, thunder and lightning I M-U-r-4-CT!’ '—Jkmbwry News.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

St. Louis has her new drinking fountain in order and many of her citizens are tasting water. ? An Englishman was lately struck by lightning out West and they spoke of him as a “ blare ted Britisher.” New York babies are dying at the rate of 100 a day. The heat is too much for them, poor little innocents. A man who received many unreceipted bills said he never paid any attention to a communication which was not signed. Instead of fighting duels Virginians go out and see who can make the best shot at a stump and who would have been hit. It is now proposed to enlist men in the army as cooks, and at each recruiting depot to establish a school for their trainSaufobnia is no place for you, my friend, if you are a quack doctor. They use ’em there to make corduroy roads with. The Government has changed the postoffice of “ Roaring Sam,” Indian Territory, to “ Highland,” and the residents are as mad as hop. The butchers of Montreal are going to start a paper with $50,000 capital. Blood will tell. Perhaps the English language will be slaughtered.

The Sartoris baby hasn’t said anything very cute yet, and his teeth don’t come along very rapidly, although he is a month old and is one of foe heavy-weights. Eggs are only worth ten cents a dozen in North Carolina. It is this poor recognition of their efforts which makes the N. C. hens look upon life as a failure. You can travel all day in New Hampshire and not find any door-plates, but, then, foe kitchen floors are as white as chalk and all the girls can bake bread. The Inter-Ocean says there are 25,000 young men in Chicago who can’t afford to many. It’s sad. Did any of them ever think of going to work and earning something? This is foe season when the festive moth devourefo thy parlor carpets, easy-chaire and laid-by winter garments, and likewise thy precious furs, if thou lookest not after foe same oft-times and carefully. One can learn to be an astronomer in a year or two, while it takes a man three years to learn to play the accordion. Now, then, shouldn’t we look up to an accordionist more than wc do ? —Detroit Free Press. An old Colorado miner writes that all a man needs for a complete summer outfit in that country is one lasso rope, one rifle, with ammunition, and one sack of salt. Any energetic man can kill and steal whatever else he needs. A tall, stalwart Indian is often seen about foe streets of Virginia City, Nev., dressed in calico like a squaw. 4 He is compelled by the Piutes to wear women’s clothes for cowardice shown in battle several years since. The Indians all make their cowards adopt the hard station of squaws.

Mystery Unraveled A Strange Story.

The Providence (R. 1.) Journal tells the following story, which seems to be literally true, and yet is stranger than fiction: Many of our older citizens will readily recall the excitement and wonder that was created some twenty-five years ago at the sudden and mysterious disappearance of Mr. Jeremiah Perce, a well-to-do grocer on Sabin street, leaving a wife and two children (all of whom are now living), and at about the same time the as sudden disappearance of Mrs. Harrington, wife of Thomas M. Harrington, who was then living in one of Mr. Perce’s tenements. Mr. Perce left the city on pretense of going to New York to transact business and never returned. It was at the time supposed that the two had eloped, but nothing certain was known in regard to the matter. A short time afterward—about six months, as those knowing the facts now recollect it—Mrs. Harrington returned in an apparently penitent mood and had an interview with her husband, at which she received permission to take one of her children, named Mary, a little girl of five years (there were three children in all, a sister older and a brother younger than Mary), down street with her to purchase for her some needed articles of apparel, and was to return with her six o’clock that evening. From that time the father heard nothing from the child or the mother until within a few weeks, and they have long been supposed to have been dead. Nor did the family and Mends of Mr. Perce hear anything from him, though the most strenuous efforts were put forth to discover his whereabouts. The Odd Fellows, he having been prominent among them, sent out men in search of him, in the hope of finding something concerning him which would remove the stain from his character, but without avail, while his relatives sought for him as unsuccessfully. The family and friends of Mrs. Harrington also strove to learn something of her, but her tracks were effectually covered up, and they got no trace. Some of her relatives believed she might have fallen a victim to a railroad or steamboat accident, there being geveral of these reported about that time, while Mr. Perce’s Mends were unwillingly forced to the beliefthat he had been murdered. Time passed on, the missing ones were legally declared dead, and the affair was well-nigh forgotten by ail except those intimately interested. Very recently, however, public attention was attracted to the following advertisement, inserted in the Providence Bulletin and Journal: i Wanted. —To know the whereabouts of any person by the name of Harding, Studley or Harrington, who has resided in Providence for the past or fourteen yews, or of

any persons who are akin to any family of thia name. A lady in this city who has relatives with these names is desirous of hearing from them. Address Nat G. Barter, business manager Sentinel and Pioneer, Fort Scott, Kansas. This was seen the same evening by Mr. Harrington, the brother of the girl who had been so long missing, who at once forwarded a telegraphic dispatch to the above address, stating that there were parties of all these names living in this city, and that one of them had a daughter stolen about twenty-three years ago who had never been heard from. This was received at Fort Scott at eight o’clock the next morning, and by noon (oh, foe wonders of foe telegraph!) a dispatch in answer was revived here which brought to young Mr. Harrington and his father foe joyful news that their long-lost sister and daughter, whom they had for so many years believed to be dead, was Btill living. Letters followed as rapidly as Uncle Sam’s mail arrangements would allow, and it was soon ascertained beyond foe shadow of a doubt that foe news brought by foe telegraph was true. Although so young when she was taken away, foe girl, now married and foe mother of two children, yet remembered enough of her early life to assure her relatives in this city of this, had not her mother, who is still living, put her in possession of other facts. As soon as she could make arrangements she left her home in Fort Scott to pay a visit to her relatives, and arrived in this city a few days ago. The joy of her meeting with her father, brother and other relatives can be better imagined than described.

From Mrs. Barter’s strange story the following facts are gathered: She distinctly remembers her mother promising her father to take her back at six o’clock on the day she was stolen. She says she was with her mother two or three days before she realized that she was being taken away from home. She remembers Mr. Perce joining them, but does not know where, not at that age being acquainted with towns, cities, etc., but it was somewhere while they were traveling, and soon after they left this city. He, it seemed, had changed his name to Charles Pierce (the ie as long c), and at once taught her to call herself “ Mary Pierce,” threatening her with severe punishment if she called it anything else, or if she told anyone her name had ever been Harrington. They spent about a year in Dubuque, lowa, mid St. Paul, Minn., and then went to Texas, where Mr. Perce was engaged in raising cattle and sheep, at times doing very well and at times not so well. They remained in Texas for some years and then removed to Baxter Springs, Kan., where Mr. Perce, who had been failing in health for a couple of years, died, about fourteen years ago, leaving three sons by Mrs. Harrington, all of whom are now living. She says he was at one time a Universalist clergyman and at another a Spiritualist, and that wherever he went he won the respect and good-will of his fellow-men. An investigation into the statement that Perce was a Universalist clergyman shows that no such man was known, hereabout, in the ministry of the denomination. In the record, however, appears the name of one William Pierce, who was at Lancaster, in Texas, in 1855, and may possibly be the man with whom the story has to do. He was unknown to most, if not all, Universalists here. The only other Pierce in the denominational ministry is the esteemed clergyman who has long been settled at Attleboro. Amidst all her wanderings and hardships she never forgot that he was not her father, or that her right name was Harrington. She assumed her own name as soon as Mr. Perce died, she then being about fourteen years of age, and at once set herself to work to learn, if possible, the whereabouts of her father and other relatives, should any of them be alive. She said nothing to her mother about her efforts in this direction. But having somehow got an idea that she had resided in Boston, she, at different titnes, got Mends to write to parties in that city, making inquiries, which, of course, resulted in nothing. After repeated failures she gave up the task, though ever alive to anything that might perhaps put her upon the right track. After Mr. Perce’s death her mother sometimes spoke of her relatives,-but never volunteered any information in the matter, and she did not think worth while to ask for it. Time passed on, she grew to womanhood, and finally married Mr. Nat. G. Barter, business manager of the Sentinel and Pioneer, Fort Scott, Kan., where she now resides.

The duties of housekeeping and of caring for two children were not sufficient to erase the intense longing to find her relatives. Her mother had frequently spoken of her family within a few years, and Mrs. Barter had learned the names “ Studley” and “Harding” as among them, and when, not long ago, her mother spoke of a desire to see her sister in Providence, (the first time Mrs. Barter had ever heard the name of this city mentioned in this connection), inspired with new' hope, she at once took means to learn if any of her relatives were yet living. Her husband, being a newspaper man, and having full faith in the virtue of advertising, sent the notice for publication in the Journal and Bulletin, with the joyful result stated above. Another pleasant incident connected with this matter is the discovery by Mrs. Barter that her sister, who was a year or two older than she, is married and now living out West, not 500 miles from her own home, whom she has already visited, and where the mother is now living, having been offered a home with the child to whom she had been dead for twenty-three years. This story seems wonderful beyond belief, and it to also wonderfhl that, of the two families at that time made desolate, every meiqber except Mr. Perce is alive.

NUMBER 48,

The Home of Jefferson.

Constance Fknimork Woolbon writes to foe Cleveland Herald : Monticello, foe once beautiful home of Jefferson, is situated on foe top of a mountain, a few miles from Charlottesville, Va., and commands foe most extensive view I have ever seen from a private house—on one side 150 miles of foe Blue Ridge, on foe other a landscape so broad and far-stretching that foe eye can scarcely take it in. The old mansion is large, with wings, piazzas, a dome and some singular, half-underground passages and offices on each side. It is empty and deserted now, save by squatters, who ‘‘show foe house for a quarter.” I shall never forget foe horrible old man who came to meet us in foe hall —squalid, ragged, with rolling, half-sightless eyes and reeling steps, he thrust out his dirty hand, muttering: “Two of yerf two of yer! Yer can’t come in till yer pay,” and curled his crooked yellow fingers in and out like foe claws of some wild animal. We paid hastily and then retreated to call in foe driver as a protector; when we returned, however, we found that the creature had disappeared, leaving only a bright little negro boy to act as guide. Nothing is left in the poor, lonely old mansion save a mirror, the top of foe horse-chair or gig in which Jefferson drove around foe grounds during the last years of his life, foe old antique plaster moldings over foe doors, and the large square clock in the hall whose balls swung down and marked foe days of the week set in panels in the wall. There is a light ladder in the hall which Jefferson made with

his own hands, and used for foe purpose of winding this clock, which is placed high up over foe front door, with a dial on foe outside of foe house as well as within. The bed-rooms are all made with recesses in foe old French style, where the frame of foe bed is built into foe wall, and forms part of foe wood-work of foe house. To Monticello, during foe owner’s life-time, came distinguished visitors from all lands, among them Lafayette. Jefferson wathen old and infirm, unable to walk, but he was driven to foe edge of foe plateau where the road begins to descend, and there he waited for Lafayette’s carriage, which was coming up the mountain. A number of people had assembled to wit ness the meeting. The two old men assisted from their carriages and went to meet each other. With foe single word, “Jefferson!” “Lafayette!” they clasped hands, and all saw foe tears in their eyes.

The view from Monticello resembles in many respects that from Lookout Mountain. A short distance below the house is the burial ground; here the author of the Declaration of Independence lies at rest, surrounded by his family. But the gates have been broken down, the horizontal slabs over the graves of his wife and daughter are gone, and the small obelisk to Jefferson himself is so defaced and broken that it is but a shapeless block, where even the name can no longer be traced. Originally the inscription was as follows: “ Here lies buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia.” This family burial-ground had its origin in a boyish promise. Jefferson and his Mend Dabney Carr, who afterward married Jefferson’s sister, were in the habit as boys of climbing up a particular tree on the side hill and sitting there together for hours. They agreed to be buried under that tree, and exchanged a promise that in case of death the survivor should carry out the wish. While Jefferson was in France Dabney Carr died, but on his return, finding that his friend had been interred in. another place, he ordered the body ex. humed and' buried it under the hillside tree, near which his own tomb also was afterward made. In these centennial days would it not be well for the nation to put in order this little mountain burialplace of Thomas Jefferson?

The Spanish Miner.

A reviewer, speaking of Hugh James Rose’s “ Untrodden Spain and the Black Country,” says: Decidedly the most characteristic part of Mr. Rose’s book is his account of the “black country,” or mining districts, of which he had considerable experience. The Spanish miner is as rough and reckless as those of his calling generally, but he has many of the most sterling qualities of his country people, with more than ordinary Spanish lightheartedness.- He works exceedingly hard, but he lives tolerably well, although but poorly paid according to English ideas. Mr. Rose gives a vivid account of his day’s occupation from the start at early morning, when he breaks his fast on cakes, coffee and aguardiente bought at the stalls set out along his road, to the more solid supper with his family of an evening, when he relax eS%fter his labor with music and merriment. He is fond of song, and improvises freely as he goes along to his work, choosing the subject of his monotonous refrain from any casual incident that may strike him. Like all Spaniards he insists on religiously celebrating any number of festas, although ius manner of making holiday is apt to degenerate into debauch. For the morality of the mining districts is as low as may be, and the certainty that their lives will be short seems to induce the miners to make the most of them in their own way. Their work is often dangerous, for the native mine-owners pay little attention to the internal economy of the mines, and the strongest constitutions succumb to the unwholesome atmosphere the miners inhale. The quicksilver mines of Almada are, of course the most deadly. In these the salivation is excessive, and it is said to be almost as bad among the copper veins of Rio Tinto. In the lead mines, strange to the action of the mineral is

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more gradual; but pulmonary consump tion, fever and “ lead colic” are foe most fatal complaints. The miner seldom lives to a greater age than thirty-four, and it is a common saying with foe girls in foe neighborhood: “It is hard to marry a miner, for he must leave us so soon.” That proper sanitary precautions might do much to prevent this mortality is proved by the experience of foreign companies. Bnt in Spain, as everywhere else, the workmen object to restraint and regimen, although death and painful disease are foe penalties of neglecting them; and the native mine proprietors, with foe national indifference, leave their people to do as they please. Although foe miner takes his copa of strong liquor after his coffee, or corrects with occasional stimulants foe foulness of foe atmosphere he breathes, as a rale he is not addicted to drunkenness. He is content with poor wages and is cheerful on coarse fare; and if he must be called superstitious rather than religious at least he makes life endurable by cultivating a cheerful fatalism. These men of foe “black country" are naturally among foe roughest and least educated classes of foe population yet Mr. Rose pronounces them to he “ Nature’s gentlemen.” He says, talking of the miner: “He could not say or do a rude thing. To walk with the stranger; to relieve him of any load he may be carrying under a burning sun; to offer you—and foe oiler is meant —a share of his simpie'meal, if you chance to come upon him when dining, is simply his habit.”

Perfectly Satisfactory.

She said she’d take a dozen of eggs, but while the grocer was counting them out she asked the price. He told her and she shrieked: “ Seventeen cents?” “ Yes, ma’am.” “Why, that’s outrageousl” “ Well, it’s hard times and everything is up.” She sat down on a sugar barrel, sighed several times and asked if eggs were likely to be lower or higher. “ I don’t claim to be a prophet,” he replied, as he twisted a sheet of paper into the shape of a tunnel, “ but I dare say that they’ll be down to sixteen and one-half cents in less than a week, and perhaps go lower. Trade, which is naturally depressed during July and August, is looking up a little. Our exports of gold are now equaled by our imports. The calling in of bonds puts more ready money afloat, and capitalists are much more hopeftil this week than last. The crops are about ready to move, navigation prospects are brighter, and public confidence in financial measures is rapidly returning. One thing moves around another, you see, and though, as I said before, I am not a financier and my predictions are not entitled to any great weight, it seems clear to me that eggs have got to come down. A great current of eggs is setting toward this point from a dozen different directions, and even if the calling in of bonds and the sale of surplus gold don’t produce lower prices I cannot see why figures should go up.” She reached into the pickle barrel, nipped a cucumber, and went away wondering why her husband never knew anything.—Detroit Free Press.

A Desperate Ox.

A small tragic drama has just been enacted in Paris which seems to throw a good deal of light on the probable effects of climate on animal character. The actors in the scene were worthy of La Fontaine—an ox, a bull-dog, a number of gardiem de paix, and some private citizens of the quarter of La Villette. The ox was one of a troop proceeding to the great market in that region, and whether owing to an instinctive horror of his approaching doom, or in consequence of “ the cries of the inhabitants of the quarter,” he became animated with an unfriendly spirit toward the latter, and, with mischievous intent, rushed full gallop into a neighboring passage or court-yard. Thereupon a door was shut and a pitched battle ensued between the animal and the two or three gardiens who had followed in pursuit. These valiant warriors hoped at first to gain an easy victory by the sole use of their swords. But they were mistaken and had to flee for their lives round the circle of the confined arena. Meanwhile the tenants of houses overlooking the court-yard resorted to the lasso trick, endeavoring to entangle the monster’s legs or neck in nooses of cord and rope. Here again the intended victim turned the tables on his assailants by dragging one of them down, rope and all, from his window. At length firearms were resorted to, and one of the gardiens, drawing a revolver, fired all its seven barrels into the sides of the ox, without, however, doing much apparent damage. The next strategic movement was an appeal to heavy artillery in the shape of a chassepot. Even then, however, it required three deliberate shots from a sapeur pompier sauvetewr to make an end of the poor beast. But the most characteristic episode in the whole affair was the attitude of the dog, who, although described as a u gros chien buU-dogue," was quite unequal to the occasion, and crouched basely in the corner, oblivious of the world-wide reputation of his ancestors and his ancestral land. Either the breed of horned cattle in France must have very wonderfully improved in strength and courage, or else the air of Paris, nowise apt to calm the pugnacity either of man or beast, must operate strangely in soothing the ferocity of the acclimatized genus bulldogue. The reason that a Nevada murderer didn’t escape when the jail-door was accidentally left unlocked was “ because he didn’t have a clean shirt to go in.” He to a man of taste. * ‘