Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1875 — Page 1

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THE NEWS.

A passenger train on the St. Louis, & St Joseph branch of the St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern Railroad broke' through a trestle-work over a ravine near Gower Station on the morning of the 17th, precipitating the mail and express car and two passenger care down to the bottom, a distance of twenty feet. Seeing the trestle give away the engineer put on all steam and succeeded in running his engine safely over, breaking loose from the train. There were fifty or sixty passengers on the train, over forty of whom were injured, but the only one killed was aman supposed to be E. J. Anglina, of St. Louis. Several others were likely todie from their injuries, among them Oapt.W. H. B. Warren, of St. Joseph, Mo., and Judge R. A. Debolt, member of Congress from the Tenth Missouri District. Rev. Charles G. Ftnnet, of Oberlin (Ohio) College, died very Maddenly on the 16th, at his residence Oberlin, of heart disease. The royal yacht and family, while crossing from Osborne to Portsmouth on the afternoon of the 18th, ran ir,®o and sank tike yacht Mistletoe. Three of the ladies and gentlemen <» the Matter were drowned and one was killed^ a Spanish steamer shipping war materials at Barcelona, on the 17th, was Jb wra up and sunk. Fifty persons were Iknled or drowned. The Democratic State Convention of Massachusetts will meet at Worcester Sept 22. Duncan, Sherman & Co. have issued a circular to their creditors proposing to pay thirty-three and a third cents on the dollar in full settlement of the indebtedness of the firm. Hon. D. M. Key, of Chattanooga, has been appointed by the Governor of Tennessee to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate caused by the death of Andrew Johnson. The Republican Convention of the First IMississippi Congressional District met on ;tbe 18th, and split, one wing nominating *G. Wiley Wells and the other A. P. Howe :for Congress—the latter receiving a majority of the colored votes.

According to a Madrid telegram of the 19th a royal brigade had routed the Carl ist Gen. Dorregaray while endeavoring to penetrate into Aragon, and forced him to retreat with his command into the mountains near Catalonia. Prof. Jennet, in a letter to the Indian Bureau, dated Black Hills, July 81, says that in the valleys of Spring and Rapid •Creeks the gravel bars contain gold in ‘quantities sufficient to yield fair remuneration for labor economically and skillfully applied, assisted by proper tools and mechanical appliances. The citizens of Augusta, Ga., have been considerably excited of late over an alleged conspiracy on the part of the colored population in Burke, Jefferson and Wash, ington Counties to massacre the whites. Several arrests have been made and it is said that some of those arrested have confessed the conspiracy. The body of young Grimwood reached Chicago on the 19th, where it was received by the friends of the deceased and conveyed to Bristol, 111., for final interment The watch found on Mr. Grimwood’s person stopped at 11:20 o’clock, thus indicating that the plunge into the water must have occurred at that moment, which was probably about the time the aeronauts encountered the fiercest part ot the storm. Mr. Wood, of the Chicago Journal , who superintended the transportation of Mr. Grimwood’s remains, stated on the 19th that traces of the balloon —consisting oi sand-bags and pieces of the cloth of which the air-ship was constructed—had been found about eight miles north of where the drowned man came to land.

The Woman’s National Christian Temperance Union will hold its second annual meeting at Cincinnati on the 17th, 18th and 19th of next November. The troubles in Williamson, Jackson and Franklin Counties, 111., were unsettled up to the 19th. Recently J. B. Maddox, a Tjgll-known Franklin County farmer was notified that the Ku-Klux proposed to make him a domiciliary visit on a certain evening. The Sheriff was notified and concealed his posse about Mr. Maddox’s residence. The outlaws, being summoned to surrender, opened fire on the Sheriffs party. The fire was returned and one of them was mortally wounded. The ringleaders were arrested and imprisoned. According to a Constantinople dispatch of the 20th later intelligence from the scene of the insurrection in Herzegovinia was more satisfactory; a prompt pacification of the troubles being anticipated. It was reported at Vienna on the 20th that the siege of Trebigne had been raised and some of the insurgents driven across the frontier. Russia, Austria and Germany had recommended the suspension of hostilities with the view to afford an opportunity to ascertain the grievances of the insurgents. All the powers had united in urging Servia and Bosnia to remain neutral, mid the Memorial Diplomatique, says this advice would be backed by force if necessary. A St. Petersburg telegram of the 20th says the Russian Gen. Kauftnan had been directed to organize mi expedition against Khokand to avenge recent attacks upon Russian soldiers. The National Statistical Bureau shows a decrease of 89,000 in the number of immigrants for the year ending June 30, 1875, as compared with the previous year. Locke’s print-works at Passaic, N. J., suspended on the 19th, throwing 300 per" sons out of work.

THE JASPER REPUBLICAN.

VOLUME I.

News was received-at Washington on the 20th of the death at Callao, Peru, of Rear-Admiral Collins, commanding the South Pacific fleet. He died of erysipelas after a three-days’ illness. A report prevailed in Paris on the 21st that Turkey had accepted the friendly offices of the foreign powers in securing the restoration of peace in her northwestern provinces. Ferdinand of Austria, lately deceased, left by his will $6,000,000 to the Pope. A Ragusa dispatch of die 22d reports the capture of seven forts n*arthe 'Montenegrin frontier by the in^Urg^hts. It was rumored at Santander on the 22d that a plot i> ee n discovered having for its ofrjact the murder of Don Carlos. Bev dra i persons had been arrested an( i ’imprisoned. The Swiss National Council lately passed resolutions for the suppression ot convents and Sister* of Charity. The American rifle team arrived at New York on the 21st. They were heartily received. James H. Noe, Sr., member of a brushmanufacturing firm in New York city, encountered a burglar in his store on the 22d, whom he attempted to arrest, but was himself fatally beaten with an iron bar. bound and robbed by the villain, who threatened to return and kill him if he made any outcry before he had time to escape. At Reading, Pa., lately, Mrs. Bessmger was ordered by her husband to leave the premises and take her two little girls with her, while he would retain their boy. Next day she went to the canal with the children and, after filling a basket with stones, she bound the basket securely to her body and, taking the three children in her arms, leaped into the canal and all were drowned. The indignant neighbors, on the occasion of the funeral, which occurred on the 21st, and was attended by over 1,000 people, fired shots at the husband and he was hurriedly placed in a carriage and driven off under guard of the police. The population of the city of New Orleans, as shown by the recent census, is as follows: Whites, 145,721; colored, 57,647; total, 203,368, an increase of 11,966 upon the census of 1870. The population

of the whole State is: White, 404,861; colored, 450,029, an excess of colored over whites of 45,668, and total increase of 128,115 over the census of 1870. Gordon, the Black Hills miner lately under arrest at Omaha, was released on parole on the 21st. He afterward surrendered his parole and then, by direction of his counsel, attempted to escape. He was rearrested by Gen. Ruggles and confined in the guard-house. He subsequently had the General arrested for false imprisononment and also caused the arrest of the General and his clerks for assault and battery. According to a special in the London Standard of the 24th the Herzegovinian insurgents had massacred the ninety-five Turkish prisoners captured at Marsie. Vienna official reports of the 23d indicated the wheat crop in Austria and Hungary would not yield more than 5,500,000 quintals. The quality was also poor. Portions of lowa, Michigan, W isconsin, Minnesota and Northern Illinois were visited by quite severe frosts on the nights of the 21st and 22d. The full official returns from all the counties in Wisconsin show the total population of the State to be 1,236,690. President Nutt, of the Indiana State University, died at Bloomington, Ind,, on the 23d, of remittent fever. Col. D. R. Anthont,-wlio was shot on the 10th of last May by W. W. Embrey, made his appearance on the streets of Leavenworth, Kan., on the 23d, after having been confined to his room for 104 days. An Augusta (Ga.) dispatch of the 23d says that some of the negroes connected with the recent troubles in that State hed made confessions. Jake Moorman testified that nineteen counties were to have been embraced in the insurrection —Friday, the 20th, being appointed for the uprising. . A report prevailed in Chicago on the 24th that a Government detective named James E. Miller had been shot at and wounded by some one supposed to be acting in the interest of parties implicated in the whisky frauds. Miller is an exGauger and had volunteered his evidence in behalf of the Government.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Lite Stock.—Beef Cattle—sll.sool2.7s. Hogs Live, Sheep-Live, *4.5006.00. Brsadbtunnb. —Flour —Good to choice, $6.25® 6.70; white wheat extra, [email protected]. Wheat—No. 2 Chicago, $1.31 @1.32; No. 2 Northwestern, $1.3301.34; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.36® I. Rye—Western and State, $1.06®1.10. Barley—sl.Bo®l.36. Corn—Mixed Western, 77® 82c. Oats—Mixed Western, 60®64c. Provisions. —Pork— Mess, [email protected]. Lard —Prime Steam, 13X014C. Cheese—6®lo3£c. Wool.—Domestic Fleece, Go®63c. CHICAGO. Lira Stock.—Beeves—Choice, [email protected]; good, $5.0005.60; medium, $4.2505.00; botchers’ stock, $2.75®4.00; stock cattle, $2.76® 8.75. Hogs—Live, $7.7008.00. Sheep—Good to choice, [email protected]. Provisions.—Butter —Choice, 24@28c. Eggs— Fresh, 13V4@14c. Pork—Mess, $20.76020:80. Lard—sl3.osolß.lo. Bk*adstpits.—Flour—White Winter Extra, $A.50®7.75; spring extra, $5.50®6.50. Wheat —Spring, No. 2, $1.18*01.19. Cora-No. 2,67 @67*c. Oats—No. 2, 39*@40e. Rye—No., 3, 80®81c. Barley—No. 2, $1j03®1.04. Lumber.—First Clear, $45.00046.00; Second clear, $43.00045.00; Common Boards, SIO,OOO 11. Fencing, $10.00011.00; “A" Shingles, $2.5003.00; Lath, $1.7502.00. CINCINNATI. Ur* ab stunts. —F10ur—56.7507.00. Wheat—Red, $1.8501.40. Corn—7so79c. Rye-88@90c- Oats -66070 c.

OttRAIMs TO FEAR GOD, TELE THE TROTH AND MAKE MONET.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1875.

Pkotisioks.—Pork—f2l.26Oßi.So. Lard—l3* *l4c. .. .... ST. LOUIS. Lit* Stock.— Beerei—Good to choice, $5,500 6.37*4. Hogs—Live, $7.3008.25. BauAOflTDm. —Flour—XX Pall, $5.7906.25. Wheat—Ho. 8 Bed Pall, $1.49*1.80. CornNo. 2, 66©67c. Oata—No. 2,44*4 ©4sc. ByeNo. 2,75®76c. Pbotisiohs.—Pork—Mess, (21.50*22.00. Lard -130UC. MILWAUKEE. BnoNTvm. —Flour—Spring XX, $5.00"Wheat—Spring No. I, $1.29*4*1.30: v *1.23. Corn—No. 2, 68®09c 039 c. Rye-No. 1, " $1.06*1.07. <*oßo6, Barley—No. * DETROIT. Bb *Ao*toip*b,-, Wheat Extra, $1.47*1.80. Own—No. 1,75®78c. Oats— No. 1, 42©43c. TOLEDO. BUBAnsTom.—Wheat—Amber Mich., $1.42 *1.43; No. 2 Bed, $1.39*1.40. Corn-High Mixed, 76*76*4c. Oats—No. 2,52054 c. CLEVELAND. Bhkadstojts.— Wheat—No. 1 Red, $1.47*4 *1.48; No. S Red, $1.42*4*1.43. Corn—High Mixed, 81*82c. Oats—No. 1, 46*47c. BUFFALO. Lrvx Stock.— Beeves Live, $7.75*8.25. Sheep—Live, $5.00*5.50. EAST LIBERTY. v Live Stock.— Beeves—Best, $8,50*7.00; medium, $6.00*6.95. Hogs Yorkers, $7.75* 8.00; Philadelphia, $8.40*8.60. Sheep—Best, $5.26*5.50; medium, $4.75*5.00.

The Body of Young Grimwood Found His Sad Fate.

On the 15th day of July last Prof. Donaldson made a balloon ascension from Chicago, accompanied by N. S. Grimwood, a reporter attached to the Chicago Evening Journal. The wind carried them over Lake Michigan, in the direction of Muskegon, Mich., which point, had the current continued in the same direction and of like intensity, they would have reached about two o’clock on the morning of the following day. About midnight a terrible storm arose, and the wind suddenly shifted to an opposite direction. At that time they were thought to be within twenty or thirty miles of Muskegon, and as neither aeronauts nor the balloon had been seen since the impression prevailed that they had either found a watery grave in the depths of the treacherous lake or suffered a not less horrible fate by being carried into the wilderness of Northern Michigan, where they must have inevitably perished of starvation. The feeling of regret at their untimely fate was universal, and, though some professed hope of their ultimate return, the great minority believed they had miserably perished. Such was the public feeling on the 16th day of August. On the afternoon of that day, thirty-three days after ascension, a telegram was received from Montague, Mich., announcing the finding of the body of young Grimwood on the lake shore, between Whitehall and that place. The discovery was made by a Mr. Beckwith, who carries the mail between Stony Creek and Montague. During his trip along the lake shore he noticed a peculiar smell and was attracted by it to look along the beach in search of the cause. When he came up to the body .it was lying on its face and partially covered with sand. Decomposition had already set in, and Mr. Beckwith describes the appearance of the remains as most horrible and offensive. At first Mr. Beckwith thought it might be the body of some sailor who had been washed overboard from some vessel, and which, though a sad event to those related to him, had not a public interest sufficient to require him to try to identify him. He looked again and saw what appeared to be a life-preserv-er, and then, remembering the loss of the aeronauts, he overcame his repugnance and carefully examined the dead. The pockets contained a watch on which was engraved the name of N. 8. Grimwood, his diaiy, in which were brief jottings of the incidents of his trip, a numbered ticket to the Chicago Public Library, and other things which showed conclusively that it was the body of poor Grimwood. It had on a full suit of clothes excepting boots and hat, and the preparations made, by tightly buttoning the coat and putting on the life-preserver, seemed to indicate that the young man had prepared to swim* and might have succeeded in sustaining himself above the surface for some time had the life-preserver been of any use. After being examined the body was buried near where it was found, it being impossible to transport it with the appliances at hand. As soon as the finding of the body was known a search was immediately instituted for traces of Donaldson or the balloon. The shore for several miles was carefully looked over by men in parties and singly, but no other body had yet been found and no trace of the air-bag had been reported up to the evening of the 18th.

A dispatch to the Evening Journal gives the following as a copy of the jottings in Grimwood’s diary: up in a balloon! From the earliest days of childhood I have always had a presentiment that some time, sooner or later, I was bound to rise. There are some people who make 6port of presentiments, but, after all, a presentiment is a handy thing to have around. Where would I have been to-day if I hadn’t had a presentiment? In accordance with my presentiment, I have risen, as it were, to a “point of or--der.” Like a great many politicians, I rise by means of gas. I regret the fact that there are only two of us—Prof. Donaldson and myself—as I would like to belong to the “ upper ten.” Prof. Donaldson seems to be a very pleasant gentleman, although a philosopher and aeronaut. Although it id scarcely an hour since I struggled into eminence, the restraints of my position ate already beginning to be irksome to me and wear upon my spirits. I cannot help reflecting that, if we fall, we fall like Lucifer, out of the heavens, and that upon our arrival upon earth, or, rather, upon water—for we are over the middle of Lake Michigan—we would be literally dead. The Chicago Journal of the 18th says: “ Mr. Grimwood was a young man of more than ordinary promise—physically, stalwart, robust and strong; intellectually, cultured, studious and unobtrusive; socially, of a peculiarly pleasant, gooa-na-tured and humorous disposition—often witty, always gentle; and morally, highminded, of noble instincts, the best of habits and above reproach. He was ambitious of excelling as a practical newspaper man. He became a reporter only as a step-ping-stone to something higher in the journalistic profession, and had he lived he would no doubt have been a successful humorist and essayist in literature. His last words among his assembled associates in the Journal office on the afternoon of the day he ascended in the balloon were jovial, and he was unusually full of good spirits. He was twenty-two years or age in February last, and was engaged to be married to a lady in Lockport, 111. His aged father, Mr. William Grimwood, of Kendall County, 111., is in the city to-day, sadiy awaiting the arrival of the body of his son,”

THE HOUR OF THE DISASTER. In regard to th* time of the fatal accident the Journal of the 20th ways: In speculating upon the probable time the balloon went into the water, the we‘ „ found on the body of Grim”- . '" cn furnish very valuable as* 4 ...ood ms-j, the testimony it pi- if ind^fed lately conclifr* IS hb( almost absospeaks- - TBbugii dtimb; it still b l ' ’ , *»ff tnbiigh it has become rusty V'uyihg five weeks in the Water and on tfife shore, still it feveals the secrets of the iftst fearful houf and the struggle with death* Upon Which so much has teen said and written, it is a small, lady’s gold watch, and when found the crystal was gone. The breaking of the crystal, in , all probability, occurred at a period subsequent to its going into die Water, and quite likely while the body was drifting toward the place where it was found upon the shore. The hands remain undisturbed, and point to twenty minutes past eleven. . Was that the fatal moment when, struck and overcome by the gale, ballast all oat, the balloon refused longer to carry its load of human freight, and Pave them over to a helpless and unequal struggle with the waves ? The Watch was received at this office in exactly the condition it was When taken from the pocket of Grimwood. It is important to know, in order to determine the value of the evidence, whether it was run down, and if it was then but little or nothing is determined by it. This question was determined this morning by ate examination by Mr, J. H. Allison, the experienced watchmaker at the establishment of Matson & Co. He opened tJfe watch, the first time it had been opened sinceft was closed by Grimwood himself in-th# balloon. The examination revealed that the watch had certainly not run more than five hours and twenty minutes after it was woundup. Mr. Allison states, what accords with reason and the belief of everyone, that Die watch would stop almost instantaneously after goinginto the water. The cases he found somewhat loose, which would readily admit the water to the works. Five hours and twenty minutes before it stopped would be six o’clock, the time when it must have been wound up. The time when the balloon went up, as observed by a Journal man, was eleven minutes to five. So the watch must have been wound while they were in the clouds. The time indicated by the watch corresponds to the time they would meet the squall. The gale that night is a known fact. The testimony of the watch conflrmsthe theory of the disaster generally accepted by the people, which is, discarding all far-fetched and fine-spun theories, that the balloon and its passengers were swept into the lake before tie fUry of the blast.”

Marriage.

Evert now and then some of the jour. nals in the large cities have a spasm upon the economy of marriage and the amoiint of income necessary befbfe matrimony can safely be contracted. A-year or two ago the New Yolk Timet devoted column after column to the subject for many days, and the Inter-Ocean is now following suit. Scores of communications from all sorts of people are interesting, as showing the varying opinions of people on the subject, and many are amusing and racy, and others are quite instructive as relating the experiences of those who have tried matrimony, and write out what they know about its costs and pains, and penalties and pleasures, for the benefit of the single. But the object of them all is supposed to be to find and declare the exact point at which the amount of income will warrant a man in taking a wife—to decide, in fact, upon an arbitrary amount-that will enable a man to say: “ Now I can take and support a wife.” This is what cannot be done, and so in the end the long discussion of the subject amounts to nothing, except in the gain of some incidental information that may be of use to young people about to marry. The amount of income necessary to marriage depends entirely upon who the contracting parties are. What is their position in life, how they were reared, what their dispositions and tastes are, what they expect, the circles they desire to move in, and the sacrifices they are willing to make for the sake of marriage, if any sacrifices are required. Says one writer: “As life is now in the large cities, and as things go, it would take a brave man to marry upon an income of $1,200 or $1,500 a year.” It would take nothing of the sort. If a man is willing to confine himself to the kind of life such an income will support for the sake of a woman, and the woman consent to share such life with him, then the couple will find that the income named will procure them all the necessaries of life and some of the luxuries. If they are happy enough in each other’s love and the pleasures of their mutual affection to make them content with their lot there is po reason why life should be unpleasant to them, or why they should not enjoy it as well as though they had SIOO,OOO a year.

When a young man says to a woman “ I cannot marry you because my income is but $2,000,” he may be, all things considered, earnest and exercising good judgment. His own tastes and habits, the tastes and habits of the woman, their social ties and obligations and expectations, the experiences they have been trained to, may make marriage between them upon such an income like suicide, or the means of bringing upon them endless misery and unhappiness. A man and woman matrimonially inclined must be their own judges of their ability to marry upon the income that will be theirs, and no arbitrary rule that will cover the case of another couple will meet their case. But when once they resolve to take their chances upon a small income, to live as that income enables them, and to be content to give up all else for each other, then they may find in such marriage much pure happiness. —Cincinnati Gazette. !* 1 ■■ j - — u„ .♦« —An Oregon Justice' of the Peace married a couple ‘ Recently, regulated Uieir family difficulties as best he could from time to time, and when the husband killed his wife and then himself the same friend in need acted as coroner and undertaker and read the funeral service,

Imports and Exports During Last Year.

WASHureroK, An*. 14. The detailed statement of importe and exports for the year ended June 90, 1875, has just been issued by the Board of Statistics. Compared with the preceding fiscal year a marked falling oft in the segregates of out foreign and domestic trade is shown. The total value of imports for the year was $553,906,253, a falling' off" of nearly $42,000,000 compared with the preceding year. Of the merchandise imported $167,180,644 was host-dutiable, leaving $386,725,609 to pay $156,479,131 collected from customs last year. The decrease in gold coin imported was $5,773,813, and m silver coin $2,205,916. During the year the excess of gold coin exported, compared with 1874, was $30,542,827, and silver coin $569,252, which shows a loss in coin for the last fiscal year of over $89,000,000. IMPORTS. The following table will show the values of the leading articles imported during the last fiscal year, compared with the corresponding year 1874: Commodities. 1875. 1874. Gold coin $12,115,155 (17,888,468 Silver coin 5,908,170 8,114,066 Gold bullion 1,581,688 1,614,669 Bilver bu11i0n...... 1,295,754 837,688 Chemicals and drugs,. . 10,272,511 8,756,882 Coffee. 50,591,488 55.048,967 Tea 22,673,703 21,112,2»4 Fish...,* 3,008,781 3,207,929 Hides and skins, not furs 18,536,884 16,444,877 Fur skins, undressed.... 1,518,172 848,215 Paper materials 4,770,745 4,668,748 Buttons, all kinds 2,391,847 2,132,087 Fancy g00d5............. 5,662,107 4.518,987 Fruits,lnclnding nuts .. 12,587,568 8,281,418 Perfumery and cosmetics 881,991 348,500 Precious stones 3,999,598 8,274,790 Jewelry of gold and silver 687,490 849,130 India-rubber, crude 4,675,490 6,196,140 India-rubber, manuf’s of. 514,161 808,830 Brass, mSnur’s 0f..... .. 295,439 355,062 Copper, manuf’s Of 587,310 428,745 Cotton, manuTs of. 27,657,961 27,198,869 Flax, manuf’s 0f......... 17,694,688 18,414,798 Hemp, manors of. 3,218,803 8,79i,15i Iron and steel, msnTsef. 18,676,250 23,993,546 Jute, manure of. 8,882,258 1,806,285 Lead, manure of 1,444,976 2,164,788 Lear her, manuf’s of, including kid gloves 10,248,597 10,571,r« Silk, raw 4,504,306 8,854,006 Silk, manor* of. . 24,380,916 23.996,888 Tin, manors of.. 13,038,353 18,064,702 Tobacco, manors of 6,851,039 8,706,605 Wines, spirits and cordials 7,759,464 ■ 8,636,469 Malt liquors 1,742,120 1,752,539 Glass and glassware..... 5,805.015 6,287.964 Opium and extracte 0f... 2,037.793 2,546,228 Salt 1,806,748 2,239,311 Sugar 70,027.172 77,463:107 Molasses and melado 14,998,821 15,372,180 Stone and chinaware .... 4,303,577 4,882,35” Wood and manuf s 0f... 8,078,295 11,215,966 Wool and manuf’s of 55,850,740 55,133,444 Straw and palm-leaf and manufactures of 2,325,569 2,0K1,878 Human hair and manufactures of 578,691 897,693 Coal, bituminous 1,798,689 1,950,425 Spices, all kinds 2,285,486 2,351,796 EXPORTS. The total value of commodities, the growth, product, and manufacture of the United States, exported during the year was $643,081,433, against $693,039,054 in" 1874, a decline for the last year of $49,957,621. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics nays flie value of domestic merchandise exported to Canada in railroad cars, not included in the above figures, is about $14,000,000, which would make the actual falling off in domestic exports for the year, compared with the preceding, about $36,000,000. 1 The annexed table will show the value of the principal articles of American growth and manufacture exported for the year ending June 30, 1875, compared with the year ending June 30, 1874: Commodities. 1873. 1874. Agricultural implements (2,625.373 (8,089,758 Animals, 1iving.......... 2.668,900 8.810,888 Breadstuffs 111,455.304 161,198^54 Cotton, raw 190,638,625 221,223,580 Cotton, manufactures of. 4,071,786 3,096,840 Coal, bituminous 1,789,126 2,236,084 Drugs, chemicals, etc... 2,403.035 2.22V83 Fruits, green and dried.. 1,633 520 994,1*2 Furs and fur skins 4,396,424 8,834,366 Hides and skins not fur. 4,729,725 2,560,382 Manures 616,878 288,876 Oils 81,963,793 43,121,607 OH-cake 5.138.300 4,099,360 Provisions. 79,342,323 78,229,010 Resin and turpentine... 2,774,419 3,046,431 Seeds , 1,237,887 675,857 Sewing-machines 1,797,939 1,594,296 Clocks. 1,222,914 1 007,507 Distilled spirits 349,915 1,164,618 Spirits turpentine 1.924,544 2,758,933 Sugar - 2,616.475 1,057,334 Molasses 1.135.993 569,972 Hops 1,286:497 27,973 Tallow 5,692.203 8,135,320 Brass and manufact’rs of 1,000.629 503,531 Hemp and manufact’rs of 899,321 1,143,259 Iron and manufact’rs of 10,994.862 9,578,694 Steel and mannfact’rs of 6.392,656 3,601.960 Leather and manurrs of 7,324,113 4,786,518 Wood and mannfaet’rs of 17,689,294 21,128.721 Wool and manufact’rs of 215.268 196,268 Tobacco, leaf 25,241,540 30.399.181 Tobacco, mannfact’rs of 2,716,217 2,737,730 Quicksilver 1,075,796 580.221 Gold coin.. 59,309,770 28,766.948 Silver coin 5,115.670 4.555,418 Gold bullion 2,238,775 3,818,543 Silver bullion 17,197,814 22,498,782 BREADSTUFFS IN DETAIL.

The following will show the value of breadstuff's exported in detail: 1875. 1874. Barley $61,347 $810,738 Bread and biscuit 610,092 676,197 Indian com 24,456,987 24,769,951 Indian corn-meal. 1,890,533 1,529.399 Oats 290,537 383.762 Rye 204.590 1,568,882 Rye-flour ’4.984 388,313 Wheat. 59,607.863 101,421,459 Wheat-flour 23,110,074 29,258,094 Other small grain and pulse 804,214 670,146 Maieena, farina, etc... . 364.153 322,448 PROVISIONS IN DJCTAIX*. Bacon and hams. $28,611,930 $33,883,906 Beef 4,197,950 2,956,676 Butter 1,506.764 1,092,881 Cheese ...... 18,659,561 11,896,995 Condensed milk, 123,565 79,018 Fish, all kinds 2,994,713 2,023,813 Bard 22,900,486 19,308,019 Meats, preserved. 735,112 848.246 Oysters. 170,258 223,733 Pickles and sauces 18,860 20 784 Pork - 5,671,495 5,808,812 Onions.... ~ 51,259 52,057 Potatoes 522,144 471,832 Other vegetables.. • 187,368 109,688 Vegetables prepared or preserved 32,063 46,398 The value given for domestic exports, except coin and bullion, is currency. The value given for imports is gold. The value of foreign commodities exported from the United States during the year was $22,574,710, against $23,780,338 the previous year. The value of foreign merchandise remaining in the warehouses of the United States on June 30, 1875, was $56,706,221, against $59,699,063 in 1874.

A Courageous Workman.

Yesterday morning, about nine o’clock, as tfje boat Good Templar was passing under the Perry street bridge that Spans the Erie Canal, a little daughter of the Captain of the boat (Johnkfo); Shout eleven years old, took it into her head to swing from one of the iron rods of the bridge, and before she could release herself the boat-passed on and left her suspended over the water. Her cries attracted the attention of the workmen engaged upon Gen. JRathbone’s new foundry, but her position was such that it seemed almost impossible to render her any assistance, she being

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about midway under the bridge, and the ‘Only alternative left her, apparently, was to drop intothe canal and take chances of being rescued by some of the spectators. This she would not do, yet it was but a question of time before she would be compelled to relinquish her hold and drop exhausted into the canal. At this juncture relief came to the little sufferer. A man named Michael Casey, residing on Ferry street, seeing the crowd, had come to learn the cause of the excitement: A glance was sufficient. With a coolness worthy of record he divested himself of coat, hat and boots, and getting down the side of the bridge took “a flying leap and caught the iron rod on which the little girl was suspended. He then “ walked” hand over hand till he reached her, and having got his arm around her waist lowered her down until she rested her arms on his feet. In this way he returned to the towpath side of the canal and deposited his charge in safety on the bank. It was a herculean task and one which would reflect credit upon a professional gymnast, not to speak of the coolness and courage displayed by Mr. Casey. —Albany Argus.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Plenty of chestnuts in New York this year. A person looking at some skeletons asked a young doctor present where he got them. He replied: “Weraised them.” True heroes still live. The lover who plunged intothe surging flood at Niagara, the other day, in a vain attempt to rescue his betrothed did a noble deed—nobler than most that are found in song and story. It is one of those strange but true things which are sometimes met with that, while it rains very easy nowadays, yet it also rains exceeding hard; and that, though the water Mis easy and hard, it still comes down soft. At a funeral of a woman in Slawson, the other day, a neighbor in attendance, feeling it necessary to say something sympathetic to the afflicted husband, kindly observed: “ You’ve got a splendid day for the funeral.”— Danbury Newß. A Texas newspaper contains the following: “On account of an accident our eleven-year-old ‘ devil’ is the only typo in the office this week. Except a little over two columns he has set up the entire paper in four days. Several articles appear just as they came from the stjjck.” The Catskill Mountain House has been visited by a distinguished party of English noblemen. They remained three days, during Which time they filled all the vacant rooms with the h’s they discarded in conversation, and “ don’t you knowed” the head waiter into brain fever. > - -; The young trout that Seth Green and his piscatorial agents have been “ planting” in some of the rivers and creeks are voraciously and unceremoniously “gobbled up” by the hungry bass, pickerel, sunfish, etc. Trout, like human innocents, can live and thrive only where there are no greedy devoufers of their kind. It is seldom easy to seethe hidden benefaction in that Which is an apparent affliction. A boy who was “ confounding” the mosquito was told by his pastor that “ doubtless the insects are made with a good end m view,” when tile young scamp replied: “ I can’t see it whether it is in view or not. At any rate I don’t like the end I feel.”

Two AND A HALF MILLION of dollars have been collected by Mme. MacMahon for the relief of the sufferers by the late inundations in France, and that’s the kind of a wife to have in the family. With such a helpmeet a fellow when hard up would have only to go out and get inundated and then await developments.— St. Louis Republican. Thet have mellow soil in Pennsylvania. One morning, recently, while a Berwick farmer was driving his horse across a field the earth suddenly caved in under the animal’s hoofs without any warning. The farmer made every effort to save his horse, but before he could do anything it had sunk ten feet into the ground, where it soon smothered. “Jim, can you tell me where I’ll find Lawyer f” asked a friend in our hearing yesterday, of a gentleman who is notorious for always being found elsewhere than in his sanctum. “ No, have you looked for him ?” “ Yes, looked all over town.” “Have you looked in his office?” “By Jove!” said the gentleman, a new light breaking over his countenance, “ I never thought of that;”—Napa (Cal.) Register. A remarkable dandy has just died in San Francisco. His name was A. J. Stevenson. Although very old, he used dyes and cosmetics so deftly that he looked to be only middle-aged. He was wealthy and a bachelor, and his aim in life seemed to be to wear the best clothes that could be bought. Many years ago he was implicated in the abduction of a young woman, was tried on a criminal charge, but it was supposed that a liberal expenditure of money averted a conviction. And now he has done his last dying, has this dandie.

A Boston publishing-house finding the new rates of third-class postage too exorbitant, prepared the following postal card, which they mailed to some of their subscribers: “ The ridiculous Postal law. by which we are compelled to pay treble postage on all magazines sent to subscribers in what is known, as * ‘ Sort’s Syndicate,’ compels us to establish a postal service ourselves. Your magazine will be left by the 10th of the month at-—where please call for it hereafter.” that the cards were not delivered they learned at the Postofflce that they were ; withheld because “ the firm were using the mail to scandalize the department.”

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GOING HOMB. The way is long, my darling, The road is rough and steep, And fast across the evening sky I see the shadows sweep. But oh! my love, my darling, No ill to us can come, No terror turn ns from the path, For we we going home. Your feet are tired, my darling— So tired, the tender feet; ... ~.. But think, when they are there at last, How sweet thereat! how sweet! For lo! the lamps are lighted, And yonder gleaming dome, Before us shining like a star, Shall guide our footsteps home. We’ve lost the flowers we gathered So early in the morn; And on we go with empty hands, And garments soiled and worn. But oh! the great All-Father Will out to meet us come, And fairer flowers and whiter robes There wait for us at home. - Art cold, my love, and famished ? Art faint and sore athirst? Be patient yet a little while, And joyous as at first; For oh! thfe sun sets never Within that land of bloom, And thou shalt eat the bread of life And drink life’s wine at home. The wind was cold, my dwling, Adown the mountain steep, And thick across the evening sky The darkling shadows creep ; But oh! my love, press onward, Whatever trials come, For in the way the Father set We too are going home.

Can a Dead Man Groan?

Dr. E. Holland writes as follows on this subject in the British Medical Journal: “ The possibility and probability alike of such a circumstance as the utterance of a groan after somnatic death are sufficiently heterodox to ordinary credence to induce me to record the fact of my having, in connection with others, heard a veritable dead man groan. J. 8., aged fifty-seven, committed suicide by hanging. After he had teen very effectually suspended for an hour he was out down by me and two others. As the double rope was slackened from the neck air escaped from the thorax through the larynx, and a pro longed, rather loud groan was the consequence. The two men who assisted me exclaimed: ‘He ain’t dead;’ and I, for the moment, foil in with their views, ripped open his clothes, and practiced artificial respiration; hut I soon noted that ‘there was not the slightest attempt at respiration; that the heart was still to eye, hand and ear, and that his well-opened eyes were glased as only a dead man’s eyes glaze, and that the dilated pupils ware insensible to strong light. He was certainly dead, and dead from the first, and the groan we all heard had, I imagine, the following causation: The suicide braces his body for the final throe by taking a deep breath; and, when hanging is the method adopted, the constriction of the air passages is too immediate and effectual to allow this air to escape; but, when the rbpe is relaxed, the lungs and thorax contract with sufficient force to occasion a groan, even an hour after death.”

Children’s Fears.

The objects that excite the-fears of children are often as curious and unaccountable as their secret intensity. Miss Martineau told me once that a special object of horror to her when she was a child were the colors of the prism, a thing in itself so beautifhl that it is difficult to conceive how any imagination could be painfully impressed by it; but her terror of these magical colors was such that she used to rush past the room, even when the door was closed, when she had seen them reflected from the chandelier by the sunlight on the wail. A bright, clever boy of nine, by no means particularly nervous or timid, told me once that the whole story of Aladdin was frightful to him; but he never was able to explain why it made this impression upon him. A very curious instance of strong nervous apprehension, not,how ever, in any way connected with supernatural terror, occurred to a young girl about eight years old, the daughter of a friend of mine. The mother, the gentlest and most reasonably indulgent of parents, senther up-stairs for her watch,, cautioning her not to let it fall; the child, by her own account, stood at the top of the stairs with the watch in her hand till the conviction that she certainly should let it fall took such dreadful and complete, possession of her that she dashed it down, and then came in a paroxysm of the most distressing nervous excitement to tell her mother what she had done.— Mrs. Kemble , in September Atlantic.

—A very valuable plastic material has been Introduced in Paris, the constituents of which are gutta-percha, oxide of zinc, amianthus and sulphate of baryte* in conjunction with various colors. The guttapercha is first prepared and hleached by being dissolved in rectified naphtha, benzole, or sulphuret of carbon, and when the compound does not exhibit sufficient elasticity, caoutchouc is added. After the gutta-percha is prepared and filtration effected the solution is placed in a still, the other ingredients are added, and the whole well stirred together. Heat is then applied until all the volatile oil is driven off, when the material is removed to the desiled molds. It is said to be suitable for quite * variety of molded works of art, tissues, or artificial flowers, and when rolled into sheets forms a substitute for leather in certain cases. —“Mrs. Mary Coffin” is Credited with an unsuccessful attempt to smuggle a Chinese cargo into California. “ Honest tea is the best, Polly G.”—Graphic,