Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1875 — Page 1

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THE NEWS.

A Republican delegation from Mississippi called upon the Attorney-General at Washington, on the 15th, to explain the omditMM of affitire if that State. They declared that, owing to the White League organizations Mississippi Republican voters were not able to exercise their political fights. They claimed that there was always danger of serious difficulties unless their State Government, which was utterly unable to them protection, should have assistance from the General Government The Attorney-General advised the delegation to return to Mississippi and confer further with the Governor and ascertain wha they could do in their own behalf. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs read a statement before the Red Cloud Commission in Washington on the 15th, in which he denied the charges made against him by Prof. Marsh. A confidence-man, calling himself G. W. Benton, .was arrested at Muscatine, lowa, on the 15th, for having sought to defraud by inserting an advertisement in the Chicago Tribune for a Congressman’s clerk, offering $2,000 and Expenses. His plan was to reply to each applicant to send five dollars to defray expenses of advertising, telegraphing, etc. He had received a large number of letters in answer to the advertisement. At a State Temperance Convention held at Janesville, Wis., on the 15th the following State ticket was placed in nomination : Governor, H. C. Tilton; Lieuten-ant-Governor, D. W. Gilfillan; Secretary of State, H. W. Brown; State Treasurer, D. W. Ball; Attorney-General, William Monroe. The Nebraska Republican State Convention which met at Omaha on the 15th nominated George B. Lake, T. F. Gantt and Samuel Maxwell for Judges of the Supreme Court. Bev. W. E. McLaren, of Cleveland, Ohio, was, on the 15th, elected Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Illinois, receiving thirty-nine out of sixty clerical, and fifty-five out df fifty-eight lay votes on the second ballot The Rev. John Henry Hobart Brown, of Cohoes, N. Y., was elected Bishop of the Diocese of Fond du Lac on the 15th. According to Madrid telegrams of the 16th the Carlist town of Oyarzun, together with the Governor and his subordinate officers, had been captured by the National forces. Belgrade papers of the 16th complain that Turkey had again violated Servian territory. The latter’s armament was continuing.

In a letter to Gov. Ames, of Mississippi, published on the 16th, Atty .-Gen. Pierrepont quotes from a dispatch he had received from the President, in which the latter says: “ The whole public are tired out with these annual outbreaks in the South, and a great many are ready now to condemn any interference on the part of the Government. I heartily wish that peace and good order may be restored without issuing the proclamation; but if they are not, the proclamation must be issued; but if it is, I shall instruct the commander of the forces to have no childish play. If there is a necessity for military interference, there is justice in such interference as will deter the evildoers.” The Attorney-General then suggests that Goy. Ames exhaust his own resources to restore order before receiving Government aid, which can be given him when necessary by the troops now in the State.

The ninth reunion of the society of the Grand Army of the Cumberland occurred at Utica, N. Y., on the 15th. Senator Conkling, Gen. Sherman and Col. George J. Waterman delivered lengthy and eloquent orations. President Grant, Gens. Hooker and Slocum and ex-Gov. Seymour weie present and made brief speeches. Gea. P. H. Sheridan was chosen Presided Of the society for the ensuing year; Gen. H. M. Cist, Corresponding Secretary; Col. John W. Steele, Recording Secretary, and Gen. J. S. Fullerton, Treasurer. The next meeting will be held at Philadelphia J sly'Saad 7,1876. Dist.-Atty. Britton, of Brooklyn, and the Rev. H. W. Beecher have expressed a willingness to enter a nolle prosequi in the libel suit of the latter against Frank D. Moulton, but Mr. M. emphatically demands a trial under the indictment pending against him. Ex-Senator Carl Schurz reached New York on the 14th from Europe. Gen. Plaisted (Rep.) has been elected to Congress from the Fourth Maine District to succeed Samuel F. Hersey, deceased, by about 1,000 majority.

In a Papal Consistory at Rome on the 17th the Pope announced the creation ot seven additional Cardinals and seven Bishops and Archbishops, none of whom were Americans. The ring and title were conferred on Cardinal McCloskey. The Carlist Committee of London published a report on the morning of the 18th, from Hendaye, that the Alphonsists under Tarda had murdered several Carlists in cpld blood in the Aran Valley. The New York State Democratic Convention met at Syracuse on the 16th and 17th. The platform declares that “a speedy return to specie payment is demanded alike by the highest consideration of commercial morality and honest Government,” and reaffirms the declaration of principles adopted by the State Convention of last year. The following State ticket was placed in nomination: Secretary of State, John Bigelow; Comptroller, Lucius Robinson; Attorney-Gen-eral, Charles S. Fairchild • State Treasurer, Charles N. Ross; State Engineer, John D. Van Buren; Canal Commissioner, Christopher H. Wolrath; State Prison Inspector, Rodney R, Crowley.

THE JASPER REPUBLICAN.

VOLUME if.”

Rev. Henry War* Beecher has declined the proposed public reception at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. A terrible norther prevailed in Texas on the 16th. - A special of the 17th says the city of Galveston was mainly under water, and that in the’ principal streets it was frbm three to five feet desps.| The Santa Fe Railroad bridge across a portion of the bay had been swept away and thirty persons employed the . Government works had been drowned. The Nebraska Democratic State Convention met at -Omaha on the, 17th and nominated E. A. Thomas for Judge of the Supreme Court. The resolutions adopted declare in favor of a sound currency in coin or its equivalent The election in Orange County, N.C., to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. Graham, has resulted in the election of the Democratic candidate (Patterson), by 600 majority, giving the Democrats two majority in the convention. In the Bill of Rights lately adopted by the Alabama Constitutional Convention, is a section which reads as follows: “ The people of this State accept as final and. established the fact that from tie Federal Union there can be nd secession of any State.” . . of the fast mail trains over the New York* Central and Lake Shore Roads reached Chicago on the morning of the 17th, in a trifle over twenty-six hours from New York city. Constantinople dispatches of the 19th say that latest advices state that the European Consulshad despaired of bringing about negotiations between the Bosnian insurgents and the Turkish Commissioner. They were more hopeful of the pacification of Herzegovina. A. Vienna dispatch of the 19th says an insurrection had broken out at Tiskovae. The Turkish, guard-house had been burned and the garrison fled. A Constantinople dispatch of the same date says a telegram had been received from Mostar announcing the defeat of a large force of insurgents near Vishegrad. At River du Loup, in Canada, on the 18th, snow fell to the depth of twelve inches.

Benjamin B. Halleck, charged with stealing $47,000 from the United States Treasury, waived an examination on the 17th, and was sent to jail in default of S4O, 000 bail. Theodore W. Brown, accused of the same theft, was examined on the same day and also remanded. Congressman White, of Alabama, has been appointed an Associate Justice for Utah. The Secretary of the Interior was be fore the Red Cloud Investigating Commission on the 17th, and flatly denied the damaging statements made by Messrs. Marsh and Welsh. A Boston dispatch of the 18th says that Postmaster Bort, of that city, had been removed from office, and Edward C. Tobey appointed as his successor. The news from Galveston, Tex., of the 19th was to the effect that the damage occasioned by the storm in that city had been over-estimated. But few lives were lost, and the property destroyed would not exceed $200,000. N. B. Judd, Collector of Customs at Chicago, has resigned his office, to take effect Oct 1. Santa Fe dispatches of the 19th say tremendous storms had prevailed throughout New Mexico during the preceding ten days. The town of Las Cruces had been nearly destroyed by the bursting of a water-apout Great damage had been done to the crops.

THE MARKETS.

NEW FORK. Livb Stock.—Beef Cattle—[email protected]. Hoge —Live, SB.O @8.25. Sheep—[email protected]. Bmadstuws.—Flour—Good to choice, $6.00© 6.40; white wheat extra, [email protected]. Wheat—No. 2 Chicago, [email protected]; No. 2 Northwestern, [email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, sl.Bo© I. Rye—Western and State. 90@92>4. Barley—[email protected]. Corn—Mixed Western, 76@ 78c. Oats —Mixed Western, 43@57c. . Pbovisions. Pork Mess, [email protected]. Lard—Prime Steam, 13%@13%c. Cheese —4@ 10c. Wool.—Domestic fleece, 43g65c. . ; J CHICAGO. Live Stock—Beeves—Choice, $>[email protected]; good, [email protected]; medium, [email protected]; butchers’stock, [email protected]; stock cattle, [email protected] Hogs—Live, [email protected]. Sheep—Good to choice [email protected]. Pbsvibions. —Butter—Choice, 26@30c. Eggs— Fresh, 14H@15c. Pork—Mess, [email protected]. Lard—[email protected]. Bbsadstufts.—Flour—White Winter Extra, [email protected]; spring extra, [email protected]. WheatSpring, No, «, [email protected]!4. Corn-No. 2, 61 @sl)4c. Oats—No. 2, 37K@38c. Rye—No. 2 76@76%c. Barley—No. 2, [email protected]. Lumbbr—First Clear, $44 [email protected]; Second Clear, [email protected]; Common Boards, slo.oo@ 11. Fencing, [email protected]; “A” Shingles, [email protected]; Lath, [email protected]. EAST LIBERTY. Lrvx Stock.—Beeves—Best, [email protected]; medium, [email protected]. Hogs—Yorkers, [email protected]; Philadelphia, [email protected]. Sheep—Best, $5.25© 5.50; medium, [email protected]. - In a recent address before the Smithsonian Institute, Dr. 'Lincecune gives the following interesting report of the curi ous little balloon-spider and its work: u I once observed,” says the writer, “ one of those spiders at work in the upper corner of an open, outside door-shutter. She was spinning gossamer, of which she was forming a balloon, and clinging to her thorax was a cluster of minute young spiders. She finished up the body of the balloon and threw out the long bow-lines, which were flapping and fluttering in the now gently-increasing breeze. Several minutes before she got ready for the ascension she seemed to be fixing the bottom and winding her hammock-shaped balloon; and now, the breeze being suitable, she moved to the cable in the Stern, severed it, and her craft bounded upward and, soaring northward, was soon beyond the scope of observation,” Z

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

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1875.

The Recent Disasters on Lake Michlgan.

The Chicago morning papers of the 14th contain detailed accounts of the loss of the propellers Equinox and Mendota, as given by rescued pasties. The only known survivor of the crew efthe former vessel reached. Chicago on the 13th, having been picked up by the schooner is condensed as follows: Burns, who was a wheelsman, remained in the wheelhouse until five minutes of the time the Equinox Went down. When the line by which the Mayes was towed was Cut the propeller had nearly eight feet of water m her hold. Her gangway hid been stove in by the heavy seas and the salt between decks was washing overboard. She had only two boats. One had been launched, containing Capt. Dwight Scott, the mate, two firemen, six deck hands and another man, unknown. There were twenty on board in all, including two ladies. The propeller went down by the stern, and just before the sinking Burns And Capt. Woodruff had been working to get the second boat launched. Tlie tacklifigcaught, however, and neither h avin g# knife with which to cut (he guys it became tod late, and Burns and Capt..'Wbodliuff took to fenders, of which the former secured two. The upper works ofithe.propeller floated off, and Buras seeing the deck of (he pilot-house within a short distance of him, struck out for it and succeeded in getting upon it, thus losing sight of Woodruff. The Equinox went down about ten miles off Point Sauble, at about two o’clock Friday morning, ora little after, and Burns feels quite certain that all, except those in the boat, perished, as also Capt. Woodruff’, as the latter could not possibly live in that sea on the fenders. The young ladies, the daughter and niece of Capt. Scott, were so overcome by fright that they were easy victims. Besides these ladies there were left on board five persons. A blanket and sheet, from the berth below the pilothouse, were secured by Burns, and he lashed himself to the uprights in which the wheel was rigged, and so floated. He went through a terrible ordeal, and became so chilled and exhausted that had it not been for his precaution in lashing himself he must have been washed off ami perished. An hour or two after the sinking of the propeller the second cook came drifting in the vicinity of Burns, who says he unlashed himself, swam to the man and got him aboard the pilot-house deck, but he soon afterward died and washed off. Later, the boat containing those mentioned above came along. Capt. Scott asked Burns to enter it, but he preferred not, and the boat and raft soon afterward separated, the boat going Burns does not know where. The gale was at its height, and Barns does not think Capt Scott’s party ’weathered it. At least, if die boat had outridden the storm or been picked up, she ought to be heard from by this time. Burns took to the fenders at about two a. m. Friday and was taken off his raft about sixty miles off the Manitous,the middle of the lake at nine p. in. Saturday, the raft going to oieces soon after. Eight of the survivors of the Mendota also reached Chicago on the 13th. One of their number, a seaman, tells the following story: There were twenty persons on board the propeller, including two ladies, the Captain’s wife and the Steward’s wife. They had a prosperous voyage until they reached Glen Harbor, on Lake Michigan, about four o’clock Thursday afternoon, when the wind began to blow a gale from the northwest. A few hours later the wind changed to the north, and a fearful ..sea was m&ing. They passed Point Betsey k at a quarter past twelve Friday morning, and the propeller, though laboring, went along all right. At about two o’clock one of the barges, the Morning Star, broke adrift. By this time the arcjies of the propeller broke away and she began to make water. They then let go the other barge. This was about eight miles east of Point Sauble. When it was observed that she was sinking one of the boats was lowered. The Captain was the first to enter the boat and the mate the second. Everybody that could crowded into it. The crew were told not to get in it by the Captain, but to launch the second boat, though he knew there was not time enough to do it Ten crowded in the boat, and -when the Captain saw his wife was not in it he tried to have her saved, and in the effort to do so .he fell eut of the boat, and was jammed between the arch and boom. The Captain got back into the boat again, and more tried to get in, but they were driven back by the mate. The Captain’s father fell out, and was killed by being jammed between the bulwarks and the hawser-box. In the effortto save the Captain’s wife, who was seen clinging to the hawser-box, the owner’s son, Billy Crossthwaite, and the second engineer were.tlirown out of the boat. No effort- was made to save them, and Mr. Crossthwaite climbed up-on the pilot-house, ontop of which he was last seen. This left but eight persons in the-boat. They pulled for a quarter of an hour toward the sinking boat, trying to save the Captain’s wife. At about three o’clock the vessel went down stern first Nothing could be heard from those left on board of the wjMck, except that the Steward’s wife cried: “ Oh, m> God!” The wind was terrible, and the waves were filling the small boat in which they were, but by bailing they managed to keep it afloat They were on the boat twenty-nine hours, and were once passed by a vessel which he is confident was the schooner Emma A. Mayes, and, though they made signs of distress no notice was taken of them, and the schooner passed on. When they neared land they saw a small schooner coming toward them, which proved-to b»4he Addie, of Manitowoc. They were taken <on board and kindly treated by the Captaiv and crew and taken into Manitowoc.

The Ocala (Ga.) Banner says that John Simpson has a turkey gobbler that some time since became animated with the maternal spirit, and by his actions and ma • Denvers showed very plainly that he wanted to be a mother. He (the gobbler) took to a nest and set one week without having any eggs placed under him. Mr. Simpson then concluded to let him try his hand on three eggs. The gobbler set three weeks and brought forth a brood of three young chickens that now follow this self ■constituted mother, who acts toward them in precisely the same manner as a hen would. ' -« A roue at Paderborn, Prussia, on the 12th, burned 100 buildings and rendered 300 families homeless,

IT CAN BB DONE AGAIN! Th* hOl of life is steep to climb, And rough aad high beside; The World, your efforts ie aeeend, May .mtmtantly deride; Bufto the top y£uy»tmay rise— ?? So strive with might and mala, - It’s oft been climb’d before, my man, You can do it yet again! The stream is broad and deep, I know. And very hard to swim; The mist is on the water, low, The other side is dim! But the river must be cross’d by you In sunshine or in rain; ~ , It’s oft been crossed before, my man, You can do it yet again! The road is long and dark, you say, And dangers lurk unseen; You fear the lion’s dreadful spring, The dagger long and keen; But though lions in the way may lurk, And sorrow come and pain— It’s been traveled, oft before, my man, It cap be doee again! The field is hard to plow, you cry, The seed is yet to sow ;\ The harvest time isyet to-come, \ / The com Is yet to grow; O, foolish man, God in his time Will give the golden gritin— He’s done it oft before, my man, '* » He’ll do it yet again! . Famfs golden temple gleam’s afar! Yoh see the shining gate Stand open wide for those who learn '. Go! Enter its immoral shrine, Free from all spot or stain— It’s oft been won before, my man, Toucan win it yet again! When some dark sorrow comes unthought, And shadows all your life, And from your clinging arms are tom Frfend, husband, child or wife; I know ’tis hard to be resign’d To bear your spirit’s pain— It’s oft been borne before, my man, > You can bear it yet again! If life’s revolving hand has turn’d And thrown you on the ground, You are not the first that’s fallen As the wheel of Life goes round; But see, that wheel is rising now— You must your grip maintain, It’s upward turn’d before, my man, It will do it yet again! Though sin and bitter shame be yours, Through folly or through crime, God pardons you if man will not If you’ll redeem the time; To win back what you’ve lost is hard, But strive with might and main— It’s oft been done before, my man, It can be done again! Ho! Ye who fight against the wrong And love the good and true! Behold, old things pass swift away And onward come the new! With fearless hands and noble hearts Break error’s galling chain! We’ve done it oft before, brave men, We’ll do it yet again I —Rev. Allan Curr, tn Chicago Standard.

A Collection of Puzzling Questions.

An ingenious correspondent of the Herald of Health gives the following fifty questions, each to be answered by the name of a well-known author. The guessing of these questions will form a pleasant evening entertainment: 1. What a rough man said to his son when he wished him to eat properly. 2. Is a lion’s house dug in the side of a hill where there is no water. 3. Pilgrims and flatterers have kneft low to kiss him. 4. Makes and mends for first-class customers. 5. Represents the dwelling of civilized men. 6. Is a kind of linen. 7. Is worn on the head. 8. A name that means such fiery things I can’t describe their pains and stings. 9. Belongs to a monastery. 10. Not one of the four points of the compass, but inclining toward one of them. 11. Is what an oyster heap is like to be. 12. Is a chain of hills containing a dark treasure. 13. Always youthful as you see; but, between you and me, he never was much of a chicken. 14. An American manufacturing town. 15. Humpbacked but not deformed. 16. An internal pain. 17. Value of a word. 18. A ten-footer whose name begins with fifty. 19. A brighter and smarter than the other one. 20. A worker m precious metals. 21. A vital part of the body. 22. A lady’s garment. 28. A small talk and heavy weight. 24. A prefix and a disease. 25. Comes from a pig. 26. A disagreeable fellow to have on one’s foot. 27. A sick place of worship. 28. A mean dog ’tis. ', / * 29. An official dreaded by the students of English universities. SO. His middle name is suggestive of an Indian or a Hottentot. 31. A manufactured metal. 32. A game and a male of the human species. 33. An answer to which is the greater poet, William Shakespeare or Martin F. Tupper?” 34. Meat! What are you doing? 35. Is very fast indeed. ; 86. A barrier built by an edible. 87. To agitate a weapon. 88. Red as an apple, black as night, a heavenly sign or a perfect fright. 39. A domestic worker. - 40. A slang exclamation. 41. Pack away closely, never scatter, and in doing so you’ll soon get ather. 42. A young domestic animal. 43. One that is more than a sandy shore. " ' 44. A fraction in currency and the prevailing fashion.

45. Mamina is in perfect health, my child; and thus he named a poet mild. 46. A girl’s name and a male relation. 47. Take a heavy field piece, nothing 'Mb.'''"' 48. Put an edible grain ’twlxt an ant and * bee, and a much-loved poet you’ll see- . . 49. Common domestic animal, and what it can never do. ' 50. Each Hrihg head In time, ’tis said, will turn to him though he be dead. ANSWERS. 1. Chaucer. 2. Dryden. 8. Pope. 4. Taylor. 5 Holmes. 6. Holland. 7. Hood. 8. Burns. 9. Abbott. 10. Southey. 11. Shelley, 12. Coleridge. 1& Yonng. 14. Lowell. 15. Campbell. 16. Akenside. 17. Wordsworth. 18. Longfellow. 19. Whittier. 20. Goldsmith. 21. Harte. 22. Spencer. 28. Chatterton. 24. De Quincey. 25. Bacon. 26. Bunyan. 27. Churchill. 28. Curtis. 29. Proctor. SO. W. Savage Lander. 81. Steele. 82. Tennyson. 38. Willis. 84. Browning. 85. Swift. 36. Cornwall. 87. Shakespeare. 38. Crabbe. 89. Cooke. 40. Dickens. 41. Stowe. 42. Lamb. 48. Beeehdr. 44. Milton. 45. Motherwell. 46. Addison. 47, Howitzer 48. Bryant 49. Cowper. 50jGray.

The New Weather System.

Cooley is the inventor of an improved system of foretelling the weather. He has a lot ot barometers, hygrometers and such things in his house, and he claims that by reading these intelligently and watching the clouds in accordance with his theory . a man can prophesy what kind of weather there will be three days ahead. They were getting up a Sunday-school picnic in town in May, and as Cooley ascertained i that there would be no rain on a certain Thursday they selected that day for the purpose. The sky looked gloomy when they started, but as Cooley declared that it absolutely couZdn’f rain on Thursday everybody felt that it was safe to go. About two hours after the party reached the grounds, however, a shower came up, and it rained so hard that it ruined all the provisions, wet everybody to the skin and washed all the cake to dough. Besides, Peter Marks was struck by lightning. On the following Monday the agricultural exhibition was to be held, but as Mr. Cooley foresaw that there would be a terrible northeast storm on that day he suggested to the President of the society that it had better be postponed. So they put it off, and that was the only clear Monday we had during May. About the first df June Mr. Cooley announced that there would not be any rain until the 15th, and consequently we had showers every day right straight along up to that time, with the exception of the 10th day, when there was a slight spit of snow. So on the 15th Cooley foresaw that the rest of the month would be wet, and by an odd coincidence a drought set in and it only rained once during the two weeks, and that was on the day which Cooley informed the base-ball club that it could play a match, because it would be clear. On toward the first of July he began to have some doubts if his improved weather system was correct he was convinced that it must work by contraries; so when Prof. Jones asked him if it would be safe to attempt to have a display of fireworks on the night of the sth, Cooley brought the improved system into play, and discovered that it promised rainy weather on that night. So then he was certain it would be clear, and he told Prof. Jones to go ahead; On the night of the sth, just as the professor got his Catherine wheels and sky rockets all in position, it began to rain, and that was the most awful storm we have had this year. It raised the river nearly three feet As soon as it began Cooley got the ax and went up-stairs and smashed his hydrometers, hygrometers, barometers and thermometers. Then he cut down the pole that upheld the weath-er-cock, and burned the manuscript of the book which he was writing in explanation of'his system. He leans on “ Old Probs” now when he wants to ascertain the probable state of the weather.— Maa, Adeler, in N. T. Weekly.

An Affecting Incident.

A correspondent of the Vicksburg Herald, writing from Raleigh, N. C.,says: “It was love in death. He saw her sinking fast; he knew it, she knew it—it was consumption. He nursed her like a little ehild, the great, strong man, and they were in the room together the night she died. She wanted to see out—to gaze once more at the world outside —but he entreated her against it and told her that to take her up would make her worse, but she told him she was dying anyway, and he lifted her tenderly in his arms and walked with her from window to window, holding her to his breast and showing her this object and that, and pointing out every pleasant thing, and she kissing him at intervals, till the last breath had gone and the kiss died cold on his cheek. Woman’s love! When God made man, He put all of Heaven in a woman’s love and told Mm to win it and be worthy of it.” A fleasing ebisode id subberlife at the bouataids last week was a beetig of the Udited States Hay Fever Associatiod at Bethleheb, Dew Habshire. Sobe five or six huddred of the afflicted were id atteddadce, idcludig Hod. F. B. Fay, of Chelsea, ad Hedry Ward Beecher. Letters of coudsel ad cobfoil were read frob various physiciods, ad recipes and prescriptiods were freely idterchadged. Br. Beecher bade a ftiddy speech, id the course of which he expressed the opiniod that the Labedtatiods of Jerebiah ad the thord Id the flesh of Paul had ad idtibate relatiod to hay fever. After a gederal sdeeze the Associatiod adjourd to beet dext tibe.— Life on the ocean wave is all very nice; it is death on the ocean wave that all so much dislike.

NUMBER 2.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Money is one of those peculiar things that, the closer it gets the harder it is to reach it. , Mb.-Harrowing, of Milledgeville, Ga.', while shooting at a cat recently, shot his onlyson. * Lex Spotted Tailionis is what the New York World calls the law of the Black Hills. Don Piatt says that French coflfee is mere slop and London women are as homely as pineapples. .. n ? /• Thirty-five lives were lost on New Orleans steamers during the first half of tikis year—twenty-one by fire. A Bt. Louis paper says that a sensible married couple ought to live on ten dollars per week and save something. - Matilda Cross— Cairo—single woman —weighs 423 pounds—says she wants someone to love her for herself alone. Canada encourages single-blessedness. One of the agricultural societies there offers a prize for the best bread baked by bachelors. The Cresset, of Denison, Tex., remarks: See to it that your wife is kissed and petted and caressed, even if you have to do it yourself.” The people in the United States over 100 years of age—fit subjects for the Centennial —now count up just 412 as far as heard from. An association has been formed in London to secure a supply of live cattle fromthe United States to meet the wants of the English market. Father’s hair ,is growing gray,” is the latest popular ballad; and it is enough to make it to see the way young people are acting now-a-days. Mr. Corn recently sent in a petition to the Chicago Common Council. They should certainly grant him an ’ear-ing.— New York Commorcial. English ivy growing on a wall' does not promote dampness, as has been long supposed; on the contrary, it is said to produce the opposite effect. In many localities oysters and the public schools are opened simultaneously. This accounts for the raw-oysterous conduct of some of the scholars, A New Hampshire man sends fourteen of his children to one school, and when they combine against the teacher he knows he can safely bet on the result. Is our civilization a failure and is the Caucassian played out? The people of Huntington, N..Y., wanted to hang a man because he flogged his wife. Benighted Huntington! The London Mark Lane Express says that the British “ crop is short as a whole, and large importations will be necessary.” Of these it is estimated, two-thirds will be drawn from this country. A Philadelphia.paper talks of “Respecting Cranberries.” Such sour-dispo-sitioned things are not worthy of respect. —Exchange. But people stand goodhumoredly a good deal of cranberry sauce. The happiest moments in a woman’s life are when she is making her wedding garments; the saddest, when her husband comes Jiome late at night and yells to her from the front steps to throw him out some key-holes, assorted sizes. “As A husband,” save a Chicago man, “ I’m ever willing to do my share about the house. My wife for instance, puts up all the preserves in the summer—it is pleasant then; but when cold winter comes I don’t ask her to do anything about them —I put them all down alone.” Mouse holes in wallsand closets should be first filled with lime and afterward pasted over with plaster of Paris, mixed with water. It is a good plan to keep a paper of the latter in every house, as it Is useful in filling cracks, and, in fact, comes in many other ways into household econo-. iVIn Providence, R. 1., a man who was under examination oh charge of being a common drunkard stated that his strange action op. a certain occasion was not owing to intoxicating liquors, as alleged, but to “ the concern of mind arising from trying to negotiate a mortgage on his property to get money to pay his bills and taxes.” Wilmington, N. C., reports a sea serpent ninety feet long and as big as a barrel in its vicinity. He ran on one of the shoalsand a party of brave then ran to attack him, but he raised his head and opened his mouth wide enough to swallow them one at a time and they retreated discreetly. The sea serpent is a diffusive reptile.

A horse belonging to a fanner in Gates, N. Y., while running at large in an orchard recently attempted to swallow a large apple. Jt stuck in his throat, and, hardly able to breathe, he reared and tore around the tree like mid. There was a wonderful hurrying to and fro for a short time, but the animal war finally secured, a pair of long tongs were brought from the farm-house and the apple was withdrawn. Upon examining the edge of the sharpest razor with a microscope, it will appear fully as broad as the back of a kniferough, uneven and full of notches and furrows. An exceedingly small needle resembles an iron bar; but the sting of a bee, seen through the same instrument, exhibits everywhere the most beautiful polish, without a flaw, blemish or inequality, and it ends in a point too fine to be discerned. The threads of a fine lawn are eoarser than the yarn with which ropes are made for anchors. But a silk-worm’s web appears perfectly smooth and shining and everywhere equal. The smallest dot that Is made with a pen appears irregular and uneven. But the little specks on the ■ wings or bodies of insects are found to be the accurate circle, ~ „

OJMHiwtar Cohuaa ..... MW Bcßinbßß Cabm, five lines or less, one year, insertion, and five centa aline for each addftfoMl nsertion. . Rmuiab ADvzwHsmflnn* payable monthly, A change allowed every quarter on yearly a&fer U Communications of general and local interest solicited. ■-

Pariah Dogs.

Mrs. Bkrton says, in “The of Syria”: “ A few words about the street dogs, as I have become very ftunlHar wM their habits and customs In all EaSteth towns they have sprung up from the time of the creation, they multiply extensively, they belong to, nobody, they are pot sacred, but, as they are town scavengers, nobody kills them. With the Mdslem it is a sin to, take life, but it is allowable; or rather it is the practice, to torture, mafan and ill-use shorn of death. These poor brutes live on the offal of the town, they sleep in the streets. They are ill-used by the whole population, and, like Ishmael, their hand is against every one and werf one’s hand is against them. The beat them, kick them, stone them, so that out of 18,000 you will not see a dozen old ones with a whole body or four sound legs. They are so unused to kindness ISiat if you touched one it would bite your hand off like a wild beast, supposing thatyou were going to injure it. Were you to remain alone in a bazaar at night shut up with them it is probable that they would at-' 1

tack you in a pack and-kill you. There is a story of a sea Captain who drank ja little much and lay down in a public place. In the morning only a gnawed bone or two, his sailor’s cap and tattered clothes told the horrible story. It is quite possible that'this should happen, the animals are so starved. Their habits are regulated by laws of their own. I have grown, in the solitude of Salahiyeh, to learn them. At night, when profound stillness reigns in the village, you suddenly hear a dog coming down fromthe Khurdish burial-ground on the roots of the mountains. He communicates some news to the dogs nearest the borders of the village. There is achorus of barking; it ceases, and a single dog is commisioned to bear the news to the dogs of our quarter. They set up a howl, which ceases after a few minutes, and one of our lot is detached, and files dovm the gardens td the dogs near the Babies Salahiyeh. Whatever the canine; news i»,;to about twenty mjnutes itis passed round toalj the dogs of Damascus. I cultivated the affections of those of our quarter, and found that in attachment and fidelity they differ in nothing from the noblest mastiff or most petted terrier; every time my husband or I went out a dog was sent on guard by their community to accompany us to the border of his boundary, when he appeared topass us on to a friend in the next boundary, to wag his tail for a bow, and to take his leave, as a savage chieftain would frank you from tribe to tribe. If a stranger comes they set up a chorus of barking and follow him in crowds. If a dog goes into another territory, all the others fly at and fasten on him, as if they said: ‘Who’s that, Bill?’ ‘Astranger.’ ‘-Then ’eave ’art a brick at him!’ If an English dog cornea M»eng them they bark around and try his mettle, and he has to settle the question for himself the first day, like a new boy at a public school.” - -

The Dead-Letter Office.

About one letter in 180 that are written goes to the Dead-Letter Office. Hence 1-180 of the expense of the service should be charged to the office, which Would he about $1,200,000 per year. There are ninety-five clerks employed in. the Dead* Letter Office proper, at an aggregate sal ary of $94,000, but of course this does not include the cost of transportation, stationery, nor the labor of handling the 4,000,000 of dead letters that arc sent annually from the different postoffices in the country to Washington, and the more than half of them that are returned to the writers. Frequently, after being sent to several different postoffices, and being returned each time with information regarding the writer, the letter, with its valuable, or in valuable,* it may be, contents, finally reaches its nomadic writer. Letters have been known to travel around a year or more in this way. When' the writer is found the receipt is returned with his signature; the fact is recorded on the books with the other record. Often it happens that neither the wnter nor the person to whom a letter containing money is addressed can be found, and in this case, after a reasonable search, the letter is numj bered and filed, and the money is deposited in the United States Treasury to the account of the Dead-Letter Office, from which it can be reclaimed by She sender any time within four years, providing satisfactory evidence can be shown that the claimant is entitled to the same. After four years an act of Congress only can restore it to its original possessor. The same is done with checks, drafts, bills of exchange, commercial paper of this character, although these are more easily traceable because of the signatures, indorsements, etc. Very frequently large sums of money are found tphave strayed into this “pound” for vagrants, almost always because of the carelessness of the sender. The other day a eheck for £IO,OOO was found in a partially-directed envelope The drawer of the check was easily known from his signature and the letterhead used, and he has receipted for his valuable inclosure, it to to be hoped, by this time. Several months ago a check for $25,000, drawn to bearer, came to light when an unstamped envelope was opened, but the owner was easily found. '■ The largest piece of commercial paper ever known to come into the Dead-Letter Office was a bill of exchange from a San Francisco bank on a Chicago bank for about $3,000,000. This was in 1878, and it will be noticed that the value of the dead letters that year was somewhat larger than it ever was before.— Waeh. flfir, Qhiago Inter-Ocean,. - r . i -i?. yw The proudest people are invariably those who have the least to be proud of. ■ VW ■-* r - ’ One of the most tedious things in life is. waiting for a rich old aunt to drop off.