Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1875 — Page 1

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THE NEWS.

An immense meeting was held at Gias* gow, Scotland, oifthe sth to protest against Vaticanism. According to a Vienna telegram of the sth the taxes remitted by Turkey since tfce beginning of the insurrection had amounted to over $80,000,000. The National Banks have been called upon for a report showing their condition at the close of business on the Ist of October. The United States Treasurer at New York has been directed to sell $4,000,000 in gold the present month. A special dispatch from Bagneres de Luchon of the 6th says the inhabitants of Arran Valley had inaugurated a general rising against the Carlists on account of the exactions of the soldiery. True bills were found by the Grand Jury of the District of Columbia on the the 6th against Benjamin B. Halleck, William H. Ottman and T. W. Brown for being concerned in the $47,000 robbery of the United States Treasury. The New York Supreme Court has affirmed the decision of the lower court which denied the motion to vacate the order of arrest m the $6,000,000 suit against William M. Tweed and ordering $3,000,000 bail. The Labor-Reformers of Massachusetts met at Worcester on the 6th and nominated Wendell Phillips for Governor; Wm. M. Bartlett, Lieutenant-Governor; Israel W. Andrews, Secretary of State; S. B. Coffin, State Treasurer; John F. Fitzgerald, State Auditor, andH. B. McLaughlin, Attorney-General. The platform favors a reduction in the hours of labor and a system of factory inspection; condemns the course of the Fall River manufacturers ; favors greenback currency and the retirement of National Bank currency. A Prohibition meeting was held in Boston on the 6th and John J. Baker was nominated as a candidate for Governor. No other nominations were made. At the late election in Connecticut amendments to the Constitution were adopted changing the time of the State election from the spring to the fall of the year and making the Governor’s term of office two years. A great many horses in Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis and other Western localities were suffering from symptoms of the epizootic on the 7th, and the disease seemed to be spreading. Serious trouble occurred at Friar’s Point, Miss., on the sth and 6th. It ap pears that at a Conservative convention on the night of the 2d Senator Alcorn severely criticised the official conduct of Brown (colored), Sheriff of the county, and the next day Brown used severe language in reply, whereupon Alcorn threat ened to shoot him. On the sth the women and children were sent from Friar’s Point, and the place was attacked by a force of 500 negroes, who were repulsed by white forces under Gen. Chalmers. In the skirmish eight negroes and one white man were wounded. D. O. Mills was elected President of the Bank of California under the new organization on the 6th.

A heavy sugar-refining firm in Glasgow, Scotland, failed for a large amount on the 7th. It was stated that several other establishments were involved. The British Admiralty on the 7th suspended the circular of July 31, directing the surrender of fugitive slaves found on British vessels. The “Garden House,” belonging to Henry Allers Hankey, located near Westminster, England, valued with its contents at over |2,500,000, was destroyed by fire on the night of the 7th. The Ecclesiastical Court has deposed the Bishop of Berlin. • According to a Constantinople dispatch of the 7th, the Sublime Porte had decreed that during five years from Jan. 1, 1876, the interest on and the redemption of the public debt will be paid onehalf in cash and the other half in 5 per cent bonds.

The United States Supreme Court decided on the 4th in the appealed St Louis Minor case that the recent amendments to the Constitution confer no right of suffrage upon anyone, and that the Constitutions and laws of those States which confine that right to men alone are not thereby void. The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America was in session in Cincinnati on the 6th and 7th. Rev. Patrick Byrne was chosen President and James W. O’Brien Secretary for the ensuing year. According to a Columbus (Ohio) dispatch of the 7th the hog disease was playing sad havoc in that section. Six thousand hogs had already died in Franklin County so far this month. President Grant and party returned to Denver on the 7th from Southern Colorado. Friar’s Point dispatches of the 7th state that Gen. Chalmers was driving the colored forces under Pease (colored) and was determined to capture him if possible. Senator Alcorn on the 7th telegraphed to Atty .-Gen. Pierrepont that there was no question of politics in these disturbances. He stated that his name had been most ridiculously associated in the matter. According to a special dispatch pub lished in the London Standard of the 9th the Servian Legislature had met on the preceding day and voted down the motion for war by 62 to 21 votes. The St. Audley and the Bristol (Canadian propellers) were burned to the water’s edge at Hamilton, Out., on the night of the 7th.' George W. Pemberton, the murderer of Mrs. Bingham, at East Boston, in

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March last, was hanged at Boston on the Bth. A New York dispatch of the Bth says that Messrs. Moody and Sankey will gin their revival on the 31st of the present month in the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Rink. John Biney, President of the Miners’ National Union, and Parks, a prominent and active member of the same association, were recently tried at Clearfield, Pa., on the charge of riot and conspiAcy. The former was acquitted and the latter convicted and sentenced to hard labor for one year and fined one dollar and costs. A Memphis telegram of the Bth says the Friar’s Point war was considered at an end. A Helena dispatch of the same date states that Sheriff Brown was at that place and had said he would not return to Friar’s Point because the negroes there threatened to kill him. Chalmers was still trying to effect his capture. The American Board of Foreign Missions, which met in Chicago on the sth, adjourned on the Bth. The officers elected for the ensuing year are: President, Rev. Mark Hopkins; Vice-President, Hon. Wm. E. Dodge; Corresponding Secretaries, Rev. Selah B. Treat and. Nathaniel G. Clark; Recording Secretary, Rev. John O> Means; Treasurer, Langdon S. Ward; Auditors, Hon. Thomas H. Russell, Hon. Avery Plumer and Elbridge Terry. A Brussels dispatch of the 9th says diplomatic relations between Venezuela and Holland had been interrupted. A London dispatch of the 9th says the cholera had broken out in the province of Mysore, India. Dr. Forbes, Lord Bishop of Brechin, in Scotland, died on the 9th. Senator Pease and U. 8. Atty. Wells, of Mississippi, with the Attorney-General of that State called on Atty .-Gen. Pierrepont, in Washington, on the 9th, and advised him that if there were no interference by the General Government in Mississippi the result- would be the redemption of the State from the difficulties now existing. Westervelt, who was convicted of being implicated in the abduction of Charlie Ross, has been sentenced to seven years’ solitary confinement in the Penitentiary. The members of the bankrupt firm of Duncan, Sherman & do., of New York city, were arrested on the Bth, on a charge of fraud. They were released on bail of $5,000 each. Mr. Duncan has withdrawn his offer to pay his creditors 33 per cent, in notes. Another suit has been begun against Wm. M. Tweed to recover the sum of $983,640, said to have been paid pn warrants fraudulently certified by him. John Ryan, of Boston, died on the 9th from injuries received in a prize-fight the day before with Michael Carney. A man named Pemberton, under arrest for horse-stealing, was lynched at Forest City, 111., on the morning of the 9th. The Chicago Journal of the 9th says that information from various parts of the West indicated that although the com in some localities had been damaged by flood or frost, yet the aggregate crop would be “literally stupendous.” Advices from the South also indicated that the cotton crop would be better than the average.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Live Stock. —Beef Cattle—s9.oo3l2.oo. Hoga —Live, $8.2538.37%. Sheep-Live, $4.00©5.75. Bbkadstuffs.—Flour—Good to choice, $6.20© 6.65; white wheat extra, $6.6537.60. Wheat—No. 2 Chicago, [email protected]; No. 2 Northwestern, [email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.30© 1 30%. Rye—Western and State, 88@90c. Barley—[email protected]. Corn—Mixed Western, 68© 69J£c. Oats—Mixed Western, 44@4'c. Provisions.—Pork—Mess, [email protected]. Lard —Prime Steam, 13%©13%c. Cheese—6%©l2%c. Wool. —Domestic Fleece, 43@6’>c. CHICAGO. Live Stock.—Beeves —Choice, $5.50©5.75; good, [email protected]; medium, $1.1524.65; butchers' stock, $2.5033.75; stock cattle, $2.50© 3.75. Hogs—Live, [email protected]. Sheep—Good to choice, $4.25©4.75. Provisions.—Butter—Choice, 80©34c. Eggs— Fresh, 22©23c. Pork—Mess, [email protected]. Lard—513.15313.20. BBBADSTurrs.—Flour—White Winter Extra, $5.7537.50; spring extra, $5.0036.00. Wheat —Spring, No. 2, $1.0831.08%. Corn—No. 2, 57% ©57%c. Oats—No. 2, 82%3«%c. Rye—No. 2, 72©72%c. Barley—No. 2,97©97%. Lumber.—First and Second Clear, $43.00 ©45/0; Common Boards, $10.50©11.00; Fencing, $10.50311.00; “A” Shingles, $2.50©2.90; Lath, $1.7532.00. EAST LIBERTY. Live Stock—Beeves—Best, [email protected]; medium, $5.2535.75. Hogs—Yorkers, $7.0037.65; 5-25; medium, $4.5034.75.

An Important Decision on the Right of Women to Vote.

In the Supreme Court of the United States at Washington, Oct. 4, in the case of Virginia L. Minor and Francis Minor, her husband, plaintiffs in error, v». Reese Happersett, in error to the Superior Court of the State of Missouri, Chief-Justice Waite delivered the opinion of the court to the effect that the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution does not confer upon women the right to vote. The court affirms in the decision that women have always been considered citizens under the Constitution and entitled to all the privilegesand immunities of citizenship, but in the admission of this general point the court decides that suffrage is not one of the privileges and immunities of the citizen, and that it is nowhere made so in express terms, and even further than this, that suffrage was not coextensive with the citizenship of the States at the time of its adoption. Applying these general facte to the constitutional amendments, the court shows that the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment never contemplated that it conferred the right of suffrage even upon the colored persons because it invested them with citizenship, and, taking this view, they framed the Fifteenth Amendment to prevent any State denying

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them the right of suffrage because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Upon this point the court said: “ The Fourteenth Amendment had already provided that no State should make or enforce any law which should abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States. If suffrage was one of these privileges or immunities why amend the Constitution to prevent its being denied on account of race, etc. ? Nothing is more evident than that the greater must include the less, and if all were already protected why go through with the form of amending the Constitution to protect a part?”

The decision closes with the following statement: “ Certainly if the courts can consider any question settled this is one. For nearly ninety years the people have acted upon the idea that the Constitution, when it conferred citizenship, did not necessarily confer the right of suffrage. If uniform practice long continued can settle the construction of so important an instrument as the Constitution of the United States confessedly is, most certainly it has been done here. Our province is to decide what the law is, not to declare what it should be. We have given this casethe careful consideration its importance demands. If the law is wrong it ought to be changed, but the power for that is not with us. The arguments addressed to us bearing upon such a view of the subject may perhaps be sufficient to induce those having the power to make the alteration, but they ought not to be permitted to influence our judgment in determining the present rights of the parties litigating before us. No argument as to woman’s need of suffrage can be considered. We can only act upon her rights as they exist. It is not for us to look at the hardship of withholding. Our duty is at an end if we find it is within the power of a State to withhold.”

A Terrible Crime at Pembroke, N. H.

Concord, N. H., Oct. 5. The terrible outrage at Pembaoke, reported late last evening, has aroused intense excitement all over the State, and hundreds are thronging the trains in their eager curiosity to visit the scene. The discoveries of to-day have, however, been few. Miss Josie Longmaid, eighteen years old, daughter of James T. Longmaid, who resides a mile and a half from the Pembroke Academy, left home for the academy at eight o’clock yesterday morning. The road is a lonely one, and in that distance there are but six houses. She was seen to pass the house of Mr. Amos Hoyt, a fourth of a mile from her home, but after that was not seen alive, nor did she reach the academy. She was not missed till evening, for her younger brother supposed that she had remained at home. Her father at once aroused the neighbors, and a systematic search was begun on both sides of the road. Shortly after eight o’clock Mr. Cope, one of the party, came upon her headless body in a dense undergrowth of birch, about three rods from the road, a mile from home. The father was the third or fourth man to see it, and as his eyes fell upon the sickening sight he exclaimed : “ Oh, my God!” and threw himself beside the bloody corpse, alternately kneeling beside it and embracing it. The ground and leaves for quite a space were completely saturated with blood, as was the butt of the tree. The clothing of the girl was torn into shreds and her underclothing torn and saturated with bloodHer dress and chemise were stripped to her breast,and three bones of the right hand were broken, as if the hand had been struck when vainly attempting to ward off a blow. The head was cut off cleanly, as if cut by a large, sharp knife. The spinal column was severed between the first and second vertebra. It was the unanimous opinion of the physicians that decapitation was performed or begun before the girl was dead, because of the evidence of her having bled freely. The body was otherwise horribly mutilated. Two rings, one of plain gold and one rubber, and a gold-enameled breast-pin and ear-rings were not to be found on the body. The body was taken home, placed in the same position as when found, the right leg doubled under the left, the right arm laid across the breast and left one under the back. At dawn search was made by a large party for the missing head, books and water-proof cloak. About eight o’clock Horace Ayer found the head partly rolled up in the water-proof about seventyfive rods northwest of where the body was found, in the same piece of woods. It was partially uncovered, resting on the water-proof, which was carefully thrown over it, but not quite concealing it. There was a wound on each side some inches long, and a cut on the top. On the right cheek there was a well-defined imprint of a boot-heel, medium size. There was also a cut on her cheek, just front of the left ear, that was probably made by some sharp instrument. A few minutes later the books were found, and near by a heavy oak stick considerably stained with blood. At about ten o’clock Deputy-Sheriff Hildreth took one William Drew, of Pembroke, into custody on suspicion. * Drew is a young man, twenty-two years of age, of dissolute habits, and lives about a half mile back of the woods where the murder was committed. He is married to a woman fully as dissolute. It was thought advisable to lock him up. Though there is as yet no direct proof pointing to him as the assassin, Officer Hildreth was obliged to draw his pistol on the crowd when he locked Drew up at Suncook. A negro named Charles Woods has also been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the crime. —Success is oneof the few things which the world never laughs at.

LOVE'S FOOLISH DREAM. I pointed to the bird, whose lay Was caroled overhead; “ His joyous strain is not more gay Than is my heart,” I said. I plucked the white rose from the tree, And placed it in her hair; “More sweet than you it cannot be, Nor you,” I said, “ less fair.” By the river’s side we stood and made A mirror of the stream; “As bright shall be our life,” I said, In my love’s foolish dream. The summer bird, whose joyous strain With my heart’s joy was one, Is fled. I listen, but in vain; For me such songs are done. The tree that bore the young white rose I plucked to give her praise Is dead years since; and this, and those, Were set in after days. The stream alone defies time’s hand To change in any way; Where we two stood, alone I stand, Bright then and bright to-day! And I am glad, because I know My heart and this bright stream Are linked by ties formed long ago In my love’s foolish dream. —London Athenaum. GREEN GRASS UNDER THE SNOW. Thb work of the sun is slow, But as sure as heaven, we know; So we’ll not forget, When the skies are wet, There’s greeiLgrass under the snow. When the winds of winter blow, Wailing like voices of woe, There are April showers, And buds and flowers, And green grass under the snow. We find that it’s ever so In this life’s uneven flow; We’ve only to wait, • In the face of fate, For the green grass under the snow. —Springfield Republican.

TAKING A SITUATION.

“ Well, girls,” said my Uncle Barnabas, “and now what do you propose to do about it?” We sat around the fire in a disconsolate semi-circle, that - dreary, drizzling May night, when the rain pattered against the window panes and the poor little daffodils in the borders shook and shivered as if they would fain hide their golden heads once more in the mother-soil. My mother, Eleanor and I. The first, pale, and pretty, and silver-haired, with the widow’s cap and her dress of black bombazine and crape; the sweetest-looking old lady, I think, that I ever saw. Eleanor sat beside her, looking, as she always did, like a princess, with large, dark eyes, Diana-like features, and hair twisted in a sort of coronal around her queenly head. While I, plain, homespun Susannah—commonly called, “for short,” Susy—crouched upon a footstool in the corner, my elbows on my knees and my chin in my hands. Uncle Barnabas Berkelin sat in the middle of the circle, erect, stiff and rather grim. He was stout and short, with a grizzled mustache, a little, round bald spot on the crown of his head, and two glittering black eyes that were always sending their dusky lightnings in the direction least expected. Uncle Barnabas was rich and we were poor. Uncle Barnabas was wise in the ways of the world, and we were inexperienced. Uncle Barnabas was prosperous in all he did; while, if there was a bad bargain to be made, we were pretty Sure to be the ones to make it Consequently, and as a matter of course, we looked up to Uncle Barnabas, and reverenced his opinions. “What do we propose to do about it?” Eleanor slowly repeated, lifting her beautiful jetty brows. “Yes, that’s exactly it,” said my mother, nervously; “because, Brother Barnabas, we don’t pretend to be business women, and it’s certain that we cannot live comfortably on our present income Something has got to be done.” And then my mother leaned back in her chair with a troubled face. “Yes,” said Uncle Barnabas, “something has got to be done! But who’s to do it?” And another dead silence succeeded. “I suppose your girls are educated?” said Uncle Barnabas. “ I know I found enough old school-bills when I was looking over my brother’s papers.” “ Of course,” said my mother, with evident pride; “their education has-been most expensive. Music, drawing, use of the globes ” “ Yes, yes, of course,” interrupted Uncle Barnabas. “ But is it practical? Can they teach?”

Eleanor looked dubious. I was quite certain that I could not. Mme. Lenoir, among all her list of accomplishments, had not included the art of practical tuition. “Humph!” grunted Uncle Barnabas. “ Queer thing, this modern idea of education. Well, if you can’t teach you can surely do something! What do you say, Eleanor, to a situation?” “ A situation?” The color fluttered in Eleanor’s cheeks ike pink and white apple blossoms. “ I spoke plain enough, didn’t I?” said Uncle Barnabas, dryly. “Yes, a situation!" “ What sort of a situation, Uncle Barnabas?” “ Well, I can hardly say. Part servant, part companion to an elderly lady!” explained the old gentleman. “ Oh, Uncle Barnabas, I couldn’t do that.” “ Not do it? And why not ?” “ It’s too much—too much!” whispered Eleanor, losing her regal dignity in the pressure of the emergency; “like going out to service.” “And that is precisely what it is!" retorted Uncle Barnabas, nodding his head. “ Service! Why, we’re all out at service, in one way or another, in this world!”

“ Oh, yes, I know,” faltered poor Eleanor, who, between her distaste for the proposed plan and her anxiety not to offend Uncle Barnaba* Berkelin, didn’t quite know what to say. “ But I—l’ve always been educated to be a lady.” “Soyou won’t take the situation, eh?” said Uncle Barnabas, staring up ak a wishy-washy little water-color drawing of Cupid and Psyche, an “ exhibition piece” of poor Eleanor’s, which hung above the chimney-piece. “I couldn’t, indeed, sir.” “ Wages twenty-five dollars a month,” mechanically repeated Uncle Barnabas, as if he were saying off a lesson. “ Drive out every day in the carriage with the missus, cat and canary to take care of, modern house with all the improvements, Sunday afternoons to yourself, and two weeks, spring and fall, to visit your mother.” “ No, Uncle Barnabas, no,” said Eleanor, with a little shudder. “lam a true Berkelin, and I cannot stoop to menial duties.” Uncle Barnabas gave such a prolonged sniff as to suggest the idea of a very bad cold in his head indeed. “ Sorry,” said he. “ Heaven helps those who help themselves, and you can’t expect me to be any more liberal-minded than heaven. Sister Rachel,” to my mother, “ what do you say?” My mother drew her pretty little figure up a trifle more erect than usual. “ I think my daughter Eleanor is quite right,” said she. “ The Berkelins have always been ladies.” I had sat quite silent, still with my chin in my hands, during all this family discussion; but now I rose up and came creeping to Uncle Barnabas’ side. “ Well, little Susie,” said the old gentleman, laying his hand kindly on my wrist, “what is it?” “If you please, Uncle Barnabas,” said I, with a rapidly-throbbing heart, “I would like to take the situation.” . “ Bravo!” cried Uncle Barnabas. “My dear child!” exclaimed my mother.

“ uttered Eleanor, in accents by no means laudatory. “ Yes,” said I. “ Twenty-five dollars a month is a great deal of money, and I was never afraid of work. I think I will go to the old lady, Uncle Barnabas. I’m sure I could send home at least twenty dollars a month to mother and Eleanor, and then the two weeks, spring and fall, would be so nice! Please, Uncle Barnabas, I’ll go back with you when you go. What is the old lady’s name?” “Her name?” said Uncle Barnabas. “ Didn’t I tell you ? It’s Prudence—Mrs. Prudence!” “ What a nice name,” said I. “ I know I shall like her.” “Well, I think you will,” said Uncle Barnabas, looking kindly at me. “ And I think she will like you. Is it a bargain for the nine o’clock train to-morrow morning?” * “ Yes,” I answered, stoutly, taking care not to look in the direction of my mother and Eleanor. “ You’re the most sensible of the lot,” said Uncle Barnabas, approvingly. But after he had gone to bed in the best chamber, where the ruffled pillowcases were, and the chintz-cushioned easychair, the full strength of the family tongue broke on my devoted head. “ I can’t help it,” quoth I, holding valiantly to my colors. “We can’t starve. Some of us must do. something. And you can live very nicely, mother, darling, on twenty dollars a month.” “ That is true,” sighed my mother from behind her black-bordered pocket-hand-kerchief. “ But I never thought to see a daughter of mine going out to —to service!”

“ And Uncle Barnabas isn’tgoing to do anything for us, after all,” cried out Eleanor, indignantly. “ Stingy old fellow; I should think he might at least adopt one of us! He’s as rich as Croesus, and never a chick nor a child.” “ He may do as he likes about that,” I answered independently. “I prefer to earn my own money.” So the next morning I set out for the unknown bourne of New York life. “ Uncle Barnabas," said I, as the train reached the city, “ how shall I find where Mrs. Prudence lives?” “ Oh, I’ll go there with you,” said he. “Are you well acquainted with her?” I ventured to ask. “Oh, very well indeed!” answered Uncle Barnabas, nodding his head sagely. We took a hack at the depot and drove through so many streets that my head spun around and around like a teetotum before we stopped at a pretty brown-stone mansion—it looked like a palace to my unaccustomed eyes—and Uncle Barnabas helped me out. “ Here is where Mrs. Prudence lives,” said he, with a chuckle. A neat little maid, with a frilled white apron and rose-colored ribbons in her hair, opened the door with a courtesy, and I was conducted into an elegant apartment, all gilding, exotics and blue-satin damask, when a plump old lady, dressed in black silk, with the loveliest Valenciennes lace at her throat and wrists, came smilingly forward, like a sixty-year-old sunbeam. “So you’ve come back, Barnabas, have you,” said she. “ And brought one of the dear girls with you. Come and kiss me, my dear.” “ Yes, Susy, kiss your aunt,” said Uncle Barnabas, fingering his hat one way and his gloves another, as he sat complacently down on the sofa. “My aunt ?” I echoed. “ Why, iff course,” said the plump old lady. “Don’t you know? I’m your Aunt Prudence.” | ? “But I thought,” gasped I, in bewilderment, “ that I WW coming to $ situation!”

NUMBER 5.

“Well, so you are,” retorted Uncle Barnabas. “The situation of adopted daughter in my family. Twenty-fivq dollars a month pocket money—the care of Aunt Prudence’s cat and canary! And to make yourself generally useful!” “Oh! uncle,” cried I, “ Eleanor would have been so glad to come if she had known it!” “Fiddlestrings and little fishes!” illogically responded my Uncle Barnabas. “ I’ve no patience with a girl that’s too fine to work. Eleanor had the situation offered her and she chose to decline. You decided to come, and here you stay! Ring the bell, Prue, and order tea, for I’m as hungry as a hunter, and I dare say little Susy-here would relish a cup of tea!” And this was the way I drifted, into my luxurious home. Eleanor in the country cottage envies me bitterly, for she has all the tastes which wealth and a metropolitan home can gratify. But Uncle Barnabas will not hear of my exchanging with her. “ No, no!” says he. “ The girl I’ve got is the girl I mean to keep. Miss Eleanor is too fine a lady to suit me!” But he lets me send them liberal presents every month, and so I am happy,

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The only Duke who reached Bong Branch last summer is now husking corn in Herkimer County, N. Y., to get money for the winter season of gayeties. A South Carolina lady has a lawsuit against the United States in which she claims $11,000,000. She would be satisfied with six or seven States and a Territory. Braid trimming will be worn greatly on winter garments, the wide and narrow together; the only rule being that the rows must be straight, or rather not curled and parallel. Tennessee farmers look meek and peaceful, and will stand a good deal of “ sass,” but kick one of their dogs and the owner towers like a giraffe and strikes out like a grizzly. Bayard Taylor goes for railroad peddlers ; but as good men as Taylor have been thankful to see the pop-corn man come along to break the monotony of an all-day’s ride. The buttons worn on a dress made recently were made of scarabees mounted in gold lozenges. It was a brocaded cassimere of bottle-gteen, velvet and faille.— Brooklyn Eagle. An English Judge has decided that no rooster in that country has a right to crow at four o’clock in the morning. Come over here, you birds, and crow all night if you want to. Seventy million dollars for the Black Hills country! Red Cloud must be crazy. We’ll leave it to any fair-minded Indian in America if it is worth a cent over $69,000,000. — Detroit Free Press. Of the new dress fabrics most to be worn the coming winter will be soft, finished silks in reversible and armure patterns, diagonals, cashmere, serge, tartan cloth, merinos and English twilled flannels. They were husband and wife, and as they stood before the soldiers’ monument she asked: “ What’s that figger on top ?” “That’s a goddess,” he answered. “And what’s a goddess?” “Awoman who holds her tongue,” he replied. She looked sideways at him and began planning to make a peach pie with the pits in it for the benefit of his sore tooth.— Detroit Free Preet.

In about a month the old weather prophets of the country will all be out predicting a hard winter. At present they are engaged in studying the amount of husks that envelop an ear of corn, observing the thickness of the shucks on the hazle-nut bush, watching the fligh. of the wild goose on her way to the South, measuring the size of the muskrats’ nests in the nearest pond, and counting the number of burrs in a prairie-colt’s fore-top. Yesterday, when an old lady on the Baker-street cars got out a nickel to pay her fare, a gentleman sitting opposite her held out his hand to take it and save her the trouble of leaving her seat. “ What you want ?” she demanded, giving him a keen look. “ I’ll pay your fare for you, ” he politely replied. “ I’d just like to see you or anyone else get hold of my mon ey!” she exclaimed. “ I’ve traveled afore this, and I know what I’m about, I do!’’ and she stalked forward and deposited her fare in the box.— Detroit Free Preet. A Providence woman visited a store a few days ago to procure some winter suits for her children, and the clerk, to assist her in making up her mind, showed her a certain styls, saying that he had just beforesold some of that pattern to Mrs. , naming the wife of one of Rhode Island’s most prominent men, for her children. She quietly remarked: “ Why, lam quite well acquainted with Mrs. , and I did not know she had any children.” This was rather a poser on the clerk, and he didn’t better matters by saying: “ I mean her grandchildren.” Thomas J. Weeks, of Jersey City, has just been sentenced to three years in Sing Bing Prison, having been found “guilty of receiving stolen goods, knowing the same to be stolen.” He endeavored to purchase lightning-rods at a reduced price of Joseph D. West, of New York. Failing, he purchased the same at his own price of Henry Zimmer, West’s clerk, having first told Zimmer he should get more money for his services and hinted to him how he could make it Zimmer sold him 750 feet of rods and omitted to report the transaction to his employer. It is one of Recorder Hackett’s sentences, and melancholy as the case is it is just— Rochester Democrat,

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Mr. Warner Tries It.

Mr. Warner, a respectable and law abiding citizen of Baker street, rode home in an express wagon the other day, having a hand fire-extinguisher and the driver for company. “What’s that thing?” asked his wife, in contemptuous tones, as she opened the hall door. “What’s that? Why, that’s a fire-ex-tinguisher—best thing you ever saw—meant to get one a year ago.” “ Jacob, you are always making a fool of yourself,” she continued, as she shut the door. “ Every patent-right man gets around you as a cat lays for a mouse.” “Does, eh? If you knew anything at all you’d know that every store and office in Detroit has one o’ these. They’ve saved lots of buildings, and may save ours.” “You throw it at the fire, don’t you?" she aske<|, in sarcastic tones. Re carried it up-stairs into a closet without replying, and she followed on and asked: “ Does it shoot a fire out?” “ If you don’t know anything I’ll learn you something! It is full of chemicals; you strike on this knob on top and she’s all ready to open this faucet and play on the fire.” She grinned as she walked around it, and finally asked: “ Do you get a horse to draw it around ?” “No, I don’t get a horse to draw it around. You see these straps ? Well, I back up, put my arms through them, and here it is on my back.” “I see it is,” she sneered. “And can’t I run to any part of the house with it?” he demanded. “ See ——• see ?” And he cantered along the hall, into the bedrooms and out, and was turning tbo head of the stairs when his foot caught in the carpet. He threw up his arms and she grabbed at him, and both rolled downstairs. He yelled and she yelled. Sometimes he was ahead and then she took*the lead, and neither of them had passed under the “ string” when the extinguisher, bumping and jumping, began to shoot off its charge of chemicals. “You old !” she started to say, when a stream from the hose struck her between the eyes, and she didn’t finish. “What in— o-u-e-h!" roared Mr. Warner, as he got a dose in the ear. They brought up in a heap at the bottom of the stairs, the stream playing into the parlor, against the halbdoor and upstairs by turns, and she gasped: “I’ll have you sent to a fool asylum!” “ Who’s a fool?” he roared, dancing around with his eyes full of chemicals. “I’m fainting!” she squeaked. “ And I’ve broken my back!” he shouted. It was a sad house when those two highly-respectable old people got so that they could use their eyes and discuss matters calmly. And she doubled up her fist and hoarsely said: “ Take that investigator, or distinguisher, or whatever you call it, back downtown and tell everybody that you are a lunatic!” And he said: “ Blame it!” I know more than all your family put together!”— Detroit Free Frees.

Wet Versus Dry Feed for Horses.

A writer in the Live Stock Journal states that feeding dry meal has been highly recommended, and I have tried it faithfully, but am not satisfied with the results; I had rather put the meal in a pail and mix it with water. When horses are obliged to work very hard it is not only right and just but for the pecuniary interest of their owners to see that they are well fed. Horses- ought not only to have good food and plenty of it but also it should be given to them wet. A great many horses are permanently injured by being kept in the summer, when they work, upon dry hay and meal Just what injury will result from this course of feeding cannot certainly be foretold. Whether it will take the form of derangement of the digestive organs or affections of the throat and lungs will depend somewhat upon the natural tendencies of the animals and the quality and condition of the food which they receive. Rut injury of some kind will likely result. It is but little trouble to wet the food, which will render it better and safer than to feed it dry. For a horse that is at work most of the time cut feed is the best that can be given. But if the hay is not cut it pays to throw on a little water. All horses must not be fed in the same proportion, without regard to their ages, their constitution and their work, because the impropriety of such a practice is self-evident. Yet it is constantly done and is the basis of diseases of every kind. Never use bad hay on account of the cheapness, because there is no proper nourishment in it. Damaged corn is exceedingly injurious because it brings on inflammation of the bowels and skin diseases. Chaff is better for old horses than hay because they can chew and digest it better. When a horse is worked hard its food should be chiefly oats; if not worked hard its food should chiefly be hay, because oats supply more nourishment and flesh-making material than any other kind of food. The better plan is to feed with chopped hay, because the food is not then thrown out and is more easily chewed and digested. Sprinkle the hay with water that has salt dissolved in it, because it will be pleasing to the animal’s taste and more easily digested. A spoonful of salt in a bucket of water will be sufficient. — N. F. Herald. —The passage of the University Education bill in France has led to the formation of a league in Italy for obtaining freedom of education. The promoters of the league are the members of the Young Men’s Catholic Association. At present lay education is under State control.