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THE NEWS.

Rice (Rep.) wu elected Governor oi Massachusetts on the 2d by a majority of about 5.000 nTW flggfrm (DemJ. Crano (Rep.) was elected to Congress in tbs Pint District Carboll (Dem.) is elected Governor of Maryland by about 15,000 majority. Legislature Democratic. Tmt election in Chicago and Cook County on the 2d was a very exciting one and resulted in the choice of L. C. Hack (Rep.) ss County Treasurer over A. C. Hesing (Opp.) by between 8,000 and 4,000 majority. Local and personal matters entered largely into the canvass, and a third and independent (Dem.) candidate was in the field and received over 7,000 votes. The Republicans did not claim their victory as a partisan one. About 55,000 votes were polled in the city of Chicago alone —the largest vote ever cast. According to a special telegram from Berlin of the 3d the Northern powers had requested Austria to transmit a proposition to the SubHme Porte, embodying the guarantees to insure the performance of the Sultan’s promise of reform to the insurgents in bis vassal States. It was believed in Berlin and Vienna that Turkey would be unable to suppress the rebellion, and that armed Austrian intervention would take place in the spring. A Berlin dispatch of the 3d announces the destruction by fire of the arsenal at Realsberg, Prussia. Over 40,000 rifles had been burned. Loss about $5,000,000. J. J. Ronaldson & Sons, London West India merchants, failed on the 8d for $350,000.

United States Minister Schenck has recently written a letter to the London Timet exposing and denouncing the systematic sale «f fictitious American university diplomas. An official d ispatch published in Madrid on the 3d says that the last of ihe Carlists in the province of Catalonia; numbering six officers and 680 men, had surrendered, and that the province had been entirely pacificated. The El Cronista of the 3d stated that Gen. Saballs, having returned to Spain, had been arrested by Don Carlos and would, together with Gen. Dorregaray, be court-martialed because of his failure to prevent the late disasters in CataloniaA. P. Gaylord, of Saginaw City, Mich., has been appointed Assistant AttorneyGeneral for the Interior Department The Secretary of the Treasury has addressed a circular to Collectors of Customs stating that no further importations of neat-cattle or hides will be allowed for the present from England, in consequence of the prevalence of the foot and mouth disease in that country. The annual report of the PostmasterGeneral, just completed, shows that during the past year 8,640,797 letters were received at the Dead-Letter Office in Washington, of which number 210,377 were foreign. These dead letters contained $3,546,993.44 in money, drafts, etc.—all of which except about $375,000 was returned to the senders. The returns received on the morning of the 4th from the Pennsy] /ania election indicated that Hartranft (Rep.) for Governor had received about 17,000 majority.

The new Legislature of New Jersey is composed as follows: Senate —Republicans, 12; Democrats, 9. House—Republicans, 37; Democrats, 23. The Tammany ticket was defeated at the late election in New York city. Recorder Hackett was successful by over 5,000 majority, and Morrissey was elected State Senator by about 2,000 majority. The news received up to the morning of the 4th rendered it probable that the Democratic State ticket had been elected. The Albany Evening Journal of the 4th put the Democratic majority in the State at between 8,000 and 9,000. The Legislature is Republican—Senate by 12 and House by 16 majority. A duel with pistols was fought in New York city on the 2d between two Polish Jews named Joseph Goldman and Moses Piskall, who were partners in business. Goldman was killed and Piskall mortally wounded. A xtre at Sherman, Tex., on the Ist burned sixty-five business places, the postofflee, every printing office in the town, and rendered some thirty families homeless. Loss estimated at $300,000. A shock of earthquake was felt at Atlanta and other places in Georgia on the night of the 2d. The Arkansas General Assembly convened on the 2d. A man named Jackson, of Jefferson County, HI., while getting out of bed the other morning before daylight, accidentally stepped upon the body of his daughter, who was sleeping cm the floor, crushing in her chest and killing her instantly She was fifteen years old, and her father weighs over 200 pounds. The official canvass of the recent election in lowa completed on the 3d, gives Kirkwood 31,745 majority for Governor. A Jackson (Miss.) dispatch of the 8d says the Democrats had carried that State, electing their entire ticket in nearly every county. They had about thirty majority in the House and six or eight in the Senate. The Democrats had also elected the entire Congressional delegation with the possible exception of the Sixth District The State was peaceful. A Berlin telegram of the 4th says Prussia had requested Austria o prevent Bishop Foerster from exercising any episcopal functions touching the Prussian portion of his diocese while residing in Austria, i The French Assembly reassembled on the Ob, !

THE JASPER REPUBLICAN.

VOLUME 11.

Secretary Robeson is a candidate before the New Jersey Legislature for United States Senator. V|jr V A St. Paul telegram of the 4th says PiHsbuiy(Rep.) few Governor of Minnesota had about 12,000 majority. E&ender (Rep.) Cor Tfreseurer ran behind hrl ticket, but was' probably elected. Legislature Republican. • » ' DavtC Robinson, living Comity, Ind., on the night of the 8d shot two of his children with a revolver and then cut their throats from ear to ear. His wife and one son escaped by running. His dead body was- found the next morning fourteen miles south of Kokomo. It was supposed he jumped or tell from a freight train on which he was making his escape. , - v . Duke D’ Pasquier was on the sth elected President of the French Assembly. A Madrid telegram of the sth says the Government had received a note from the Vatican insisting upon the execution of the concordat with the Holy See; refusing to recognize the royal placet; attributing the civil war to religions toleration, and demanding that the Bishop of Urgel be fried by ecclesiastical judges and not by an ordinary tribunal. By the decision of the umpire of the American and Spanish Claims Commission for the settlement of clKiihs of citizens of the United States against Spain Joaquin G. Deangerica is awarded $748,180, with interest. * r i

At a business meeting of Brooklyn Plymouth Church on the evening of the 4th the names of Deacon West and Mrs. Frank D. Moulton were dropped from the roll of membership on the ground of continued absence. Mrs. Moulton was accompanied by her counsel, Roger A. Pryor, who read a protest signed by Mrs. M., in which she reiterated the charges against Mr. Beecher, which she said she knew to be true by confessions made to her by Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tiltpn. It was reported in Brooklyn on the sth that the New York and Brooklyn Association of Congregational Ministers had appointed, a committee of its members to examine into the charges against Mr. Beecher and report whether he ought to be retained in membership. The United States Grand Jury in Chicago on the sth found a large number of indictments against persons alleged to be guilty of violations of the Revenue laws. Returns received by the Albany Argus of the sth give Bigelow (Dem.) for Secretary of State of New York 16;798 majority. It thought there was a prospect of a further increase. Three of the counts in the indictment against H. B. Claflin&Co., of New York, for complicity in silk-smuggling frauds have been sustained by United States Judge Benedict. The Atchison (Kan.) Daily Champion of the sth has returns from 89 of the 103 Representative districts in Kansas, showing the election of fifty-eight regular Republicans, eight Independent Republicans, eleven Democrats and twelve elected on People’s and Reform tickets. The State Senatorial vacancy had been filled by the election of a Republican, and the Republicans had elected two of the three District Judges. A St. Louis special of the 4th says the Grand Jury in the United States Court at St. Louis had indicted Wm. McKee, one of the proprietors of the Qlobe-Democrat, and Constantine Maguire, late Revenue Collector, for conspiracy to defraud the Government of its revenue in connection with the whisky tax.

On the 6th the London stock market was greatly depressed in consequence of the report that Austria had garrisoned the frontier forts and was preparing to take a hand in the Turkish troubles. It was reported on the 7th that 30,000 Servian militia had assembled on the frontier and that that Government had sent an agent to Paris and London to negotiate a loan. The Serapis, with the Prince of Wales on board, reached Bombay on the 7th. The Republicans in Washington on the evening of the 6th fired 100 guns over the victories gained by them at the elections on the 2d. The President was serenaded, and briefly responded. There were issued by the Postoffice Department during the month of October 21,138,000 postal cards, being 5,000,000 more than during any previous month. John A. Raymond has been appointed Postmaster at Vicksburg, Miss.,-in place of Henry R. Pease, suspended under the Tenure-of-Offlce act. The claim of the State of Nebraska for $53,938, being 5 per cent, on the value of the estimated quantity of Indian reservations in that State, has been disallowed by the Treasury Department. The following-named gentlemen compose the committee appointed by the Congregational Association of Ministers to investigate the charges against Mr. Beecher: Rev. Wm. Taylor, New York ; Rev. Dr. William Ives* Budington, Brooklyn; Rev. Profs. Parsons and Martin, of the New York Theological Seminary, and Rev. Charles H. Everest, of Brooklyn. Plymouth Church has referred to a committee the charge made by Mrs. Moulton against Mr. Beecher. A great multitude of people attended the Moody and Sankey services, at the Brooklyn Rink, on the 7th. Some 3,000 people were unable to gain admission. The Congressmen elected on the 2d are: First Massachusetts District, Wm. W. Crapo (Rep.); First Mississippi, Louis Q. C. Lamar (Dem.), re-elected; Second, G. Wiley Welles (Rep.); Third, H. D. Money (Dem.); Fodrth, O. R. Singleton (Dem.); Fifth, C. E. Hooker (Dem.>;' Sixth, Roderick Seal (Dem.); Thirty-third New York,

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

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1875.

Nebon 1. Norton (Rep.); Oregon, Henry I Warren (Rep.). ■ The election retains in Colorado show that the Territorial Legislature will be composed as follows: Coiincil—RepubliDemocrats,#. House—RepubliAccording to a Milwaukee dispatch of the 7th Ludington’s (Rep.) majority for Goverttor of Wisconsin would be about 1,000. Kuehn (Dem.), for State Treasurer, was probably elected. The Republicans had a majority of seven in the State Senate and one in the Assembly.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Lin Stock.— Beef Cattle—slo.oo©l2.7s. Hogs —Live, $8.0008.18*. Sheep—t4.CoOC.lßH. Bbxadstuttb. —Flour —Good to choice, $6,000 6. o 5; white wheat extra, $6.4008 00. Wheat—Ho. 8 Chicago, $1.8001.88; Ho. 8 Northwestern, $1.8801.88; Ho. 8 Milwaukee spring, $1,840 1.86. Rye—Western and State, 80O88c. Bar-ley—sl.lool-18. Cera—Mixed Western, 730 74Hc. Oata—Mixed Western, 86* ©B7c. tv: Provisions.—Pork-Mess, $28.60038.76. Lard —Prime Steam, New, 18*©18*e. cheese—«HO UC. , r ; Wool.— Domestic Specs. 48066 c. CHICAGO. Lira Stook,—Beeves—Choice, $5,6008.80;. good, $4.7906 40; medium, $4.85©4,7»; butchers' stock, $*6003.78; stock cattle. $8.0608.76. Hogs—Live, $7.86©8.00. Sheep—Good to choice, $4.25©4.65H. ProwsiOHS.—Butter—Choice, 80033 c. Eggs— Fresh, 24®26c. Pork—Mess, $21.75081.86. Lard—slß,76ol2^s. BBXADSTUTva,—FIoor—'White Whiter .Extra, $5.7508.00; spring extra, $5.0003.00. WheatSpring, Ho. 2,.51.< 801.08*. Corn—Ho. 2, 61* ©MHc. Oate-No. 2,31*®31*c. Bye—Ho. 2, 68038*c. Barley—Ho. 2,81088*0. Luvbxb—First and Second Clear, $48,000 45.00; Common Boards, $10.90013.00; Fencing, $11.00013.00; “A” Shingles, $8.600890; Bath, $1.7908.00. BAST LIBERTY. Lrva Stock.—Beeves—Best, $6 8308-76; medium, $5.00©5.M). Hogs—Yorkers, $7.8007.60; Philadelphia, $8.00®8.86. Sheep—Best, $5,850 5.50; medium, $4.7506.00.

Great Destruction to Life by a Boiler Explosion.

The boiler of the engine Centralia, of the Easton & Amboy Railroad, exploded on the morning of die Ist at the Raritan siding near South Somerville, N. J. The following particulars are given in the New York papers of the 2d: The engineer, the foreman of the laborgang and three other men were killed, and thirty-three laborers were scalded, some of them fatally. The cause of the explosion is said to have been the wornout condition of the boiler and the lack of water kept in it. The engine left Boundbrook about seven a. m. with a construction train, consisting of a caboose and a number of empty gravel-cars, for the purpose of assisting in the repair of the road. The engine was attached to the rear of tha-train and directly in front of it was the caboose and another containing about forty-eight laborers. When the train reached the siding, about two and a half miles west of Boundbrook,*it was run upon a side-track in order to allow the eastern-bound passenger-train to pass. While standing here the boiler of the engine, without any warning, exploded, wrecking the iocomo tive, shivering the caboose to atoms and pouring steam and boiling water into the car in front of it. The laborers occupying the caboose, unconscious of danger, were talking and laughing together, and when the shock came were scattered like leaves before a hurricane. Some of them were blown through the roof and sides and by the force of the explosion were lifted twenty or thirty feet into the air. But eight men escaped uninjured. Many were severely wounded by flying fragments of the cars and engine and two or three were fatally scalded. Five were killed almost outright. The boiler was carried high in the air and landed about 100 feet from the scene of the disaster. Col. Palmer H. Thompson, foreman of the labor-gang, was burned about the body and injured internally. He died about four p. m. He was commander of a Pennsylvania regiment of militia during the late war, and leaves a wife and one child. When the physician came to attend him he said: “ Attend to others first; I am not hurt as badly as they are.” Before dying he described how the force of the explosion had thrown him through the roof of the caboose and thirty feet high. While falling he thought of clutching the telegraph-wires, which he saw many feet below him, to break his fall, but, thinking it would be useless, refrained. He alighted on a tie, which broke in one of his ribs and burst in one of his lungs, which produced a fatal internal hemorrhage. Bound brook was the scene of intense excitement, as the explosion, though it occurred two and a half miles from there, was distinctly heard. Wood-choppers working several miles distant heard the reverberations and hurried to the scene. Many stories were afloat as to the cause of the accident, but, in the excitement that prevailed, it was impossible to ascertain where the blame rests.

Thebe are some peculiar facts concerning the distribution of the nightingale in Europe* It is found as far north as Sweden and as far west as Spain and Portugal, and yet it never visits Scotland, Ireland or Wales. From the boundaries limiting its habitat in England it appears that the bird is restricted to those portions of the country which are covered with secondary or tertiary formations. Hence it may be inferred that the insects on which it lives do not obtain means of subsistence where the primary soil prevails. —The number of church buildings owned by the Southern Presbyterian Church is 1,797; of this number 520 are vacant. The number of preachers without charges is 203; the whole number of preachers is 1,084.

A PARTING. Good-by, then!" And he turned away, Ho other word between them spoken; You hardly could bawejfufeMed tint day How cloee a bond was broken. The faint, Blight tremor of the hand That clasped her own in that brief parting, Only her heart could understand Who saw the tear-drops starting— Who felt a sudden surge cl doubt Come rushing bade unbidden o’er her, As with the words her life without His presence loomed before her. The others saw, the others heard A calm, cool man, a gracious woman; A quiet, brief farewell, unstirred IJp aught at all uncommon. She knew a solemn die was cast, She knew that two paths now must sever; That one familiar step had passed Out of her life forever. To all the rest It merely meant A trivial parting, lightly spoken; Bhe read the bitter, mute intent, She knew—a heart was broken! —Bark* Grey, in Appleton? Journal.

OUR HALLOWLEN.

“Can’t we have some kind of a good time on Halloween —do something to remember this one particular night, for we shall never all be together bg&in—something on tiie soul-harrowing, blood-creep-ing order, as befits the night?” We were jt merry party pi school-girls, most of whom were already beginning to aspire to the dignity of young-ladyhood; but just where the dignity came in I fail to remember, for a madder, merrier set never waked the echoes of that old school building of M , or made the staid townspeople hold np their hands in horror at their wild pranks. The time was close at hand when our band would be broken up, and so we wanted a remembrance of this last Hal. .Oween. Plan after plan was brought up, discussed and rejected. We were about giving up, as no one seemed to agree, when Belle Brown arose in her majesty (and she was a regal-looking girl) and said: “I’ll tell you, girls: all come up to our house and we’ll try having a sup. per. You know you are bound to see your future husbands if you give them something to eat. Not a hot supper, you know, but a real nice cold one; and it the spirits of our future spouses don’t appear and devour everythin? we can eat the supper ourselves and manage to have a little fun anyhow.”

Now, Belle’s father was a widower, and she his precious only; consequently she ruled the house, the good and most fond father giving up to her wildest schemes with a gentle sigh of resignation that was touching to bqjiold, especially v/hen we all knew Belle got her love for fun and her great ingenuity for getting into and out of scrapes from that same father. Now the rest of us made up our minds frequently to have certain doings and gatherings at home, but the making up of our minds and getting the heads of the house to make up theirs in the same direction were two entirely different things. So most of our plans for what we called a regular “ train” were very apt to come to an untimely death. But when Belle arose in her might and grasped her scepter we knew the thing was bound to go, whatever it might be. How we did envy that girl her unbounded power over her father and that deaf old housekeeper, who couldn’t hear us if we pulled the whole house down about her ears! I don’t think we meant anything very bad by it, but I don’t believe there ever was anyone so afflicted whose affliction was the subject of so much secret rejoicing and congratulation. You see, most of us were apt to be. brought up rather suddenly in our mad career by the persuasive remark of the high in household power—” I will not have it. This noise must be stopped; it’s enough to wake the Seven Sleepers.” Few of us had much sympathy for the above-mentioned Seven Sleepers, and would a little rather have waked them than not. If sleep and death are so near akin, I think we were waking them in good old Irish style. Belle, as mistress of ceremonies and hostess, arranged the plan for our frolic. It was to be kept a profound secret from alLbut the initiated. We were to assemble at her house, have as much fun as we could in the early part of the evening in story-telling and games and whatever else the gentleman who lives in a place which shall be nameless could find for “idle hands to do.” A table was to be set with a plate for every £iri present. Our future husbands were expected, if they behaved as all well-bred spirits were said to, on that night, to enter as the clock struck and seat themselves, each one at the plate of that particular fair who was to represent all of hope, joy, truth, faith and all the other virtues for his especial edification the rest of his natural life. If any were to die unmarried that seat would be left a miserable blank. I remember we spent some time dis cussing whether we should put our names on the plates representing us. Borne thought the spirits couldn’t amount to much if they couldn’t find their right places without such distinct pointing out. It was decided after much talking to use the names, as one of the girls said, “ to prevent all mistakes and future heartaches.” The eventftil evening came and a merry party we were. We tried all the projects we could think of, even to bobbing for apples in a basin of water. As it grew later we grew quieter. It was a dismal night; the wind howled and moaned as though all the spirits of the air were abroad. The old trees around the house tossed their branches in the wild air and moaned with loud complaining. Our table was most temptingly set forth with many a dainty. We looked at it with longing eyes, and it had certainly been arranged more to the substantial taste* of us

mortals tiflm the airy sort of fare that we are taught to believe specters prefer. I should think the poor, cold, half-starved things would be glad of any excuse to get a good, solid meal. The house sat rather high, with a long, terraced walk to the front gate. It was an old-fashioned brick, with a wide hall running through the entire center and large rooms on each side. On one side was the family sitting-room, with the dining-room directly back. Here we held our court. Ab the time wore on our talk grew strongly tinctured with the supernatural. All the ghost stories we had ever heard or read (and what school girl has not a store of them ?) were aired, to the shivering delight of the greater number, although some of the braver ones did pooh-pooh them, and say, “Stuff and nonsense,” We knew they only did it to appear brave. And oh, goodness! how the 'courage was slowly but surely oozing out at our fingerends! /. The household were all wrapped in the slumbers of the just. As the night wore on everything grew so still, all sounds of life seemed to have ceased. Nothing to De heard but the sobbing and sighing Of thc wind through the trees around the house, and occasionally a louder shriek that sent little shivers of fear creeping oyer. us. But we only huddled the closer together, feeling there was comfort in numbers and nearness. We began to grow exceedingly nervous and very quiet, for the “witching hour” was almost come. Directly the old clock in the hall peeled out, the twelve strokes falling with a clear ring that cut on the still air. I think we all held our breath till the last faint echo died, when one of the girls convulsively grasped my hand, saying: “What’sthat? Listen!” And we did listen. I know that no more strained, solemn silence was ever kept.

Sharp up<*n the midnight air came the steady tramp, tramp of footsteps. Through the gate, up the walk, and slowly around the house they went. Another time steadily around, and yet another. The mystic circle of three is then complete, and as we listened with blanched faces and dilated eyes the steps came upon the front porch, the hall door flew open with a crash, and tramp came the feet toward the dining-room. The door was flung wide, and, “ angels and ministers of grace defend us!” may I never gaze on such a hideous band again! Two or three of the girls had quietly gone off in a gentle little faint in one corner. If the rest of us didn’t faint it was simply because we couldn’t, for it would have been the easiest way to shut out that horrid vision. This band of demons, specters, goblins or anything else you please filed slowly around the table, led by one who had something like the head of a horse with the body of a man. There were ghastly, grinning skulls and sheeted dead, and every horror one could think of. That we were not all turned to idiots by fright was a mercy. Borne of the girls were in hysterics, some screaming, some shivering with fear. The fainters had decidedly the best of it, as they were blissfully unconscious of the whole scene. This band of brothers paid little attention to the uproar of the frightened girls, but chose their seats and deliberately began an attack upon what we had expected and rather hoped would fall to our lot. The first to recover herself was Belle. “ I say, girls, those ghosts eat uncommonly like men, and seem to have very human appetites. Stop that awful noise over there,” said Belle to some of the screamers, “and help me attack these creatures, and Bee if they are not genuine flesh and blood, after all.” Belle, with most praiseworthy courage, made for the individual demon who had selected her card. She threw considerable more strength than elegance into the manner in which she relieved that particular goblin of his outer wrappings, and, lo! he stood revealed, a most promising young doctor of the town. The sight of so well known a face gave some of the rest courage, and the gentlemen soon stood shorn of their ghostly toggery, and proved to be a set of young fellows whom we had always considered nice, quiet young men. By this time, having taken much longer to write than to occur, the fainters consented to sit up, look interestingly pale, and altogether do the wilted-lily business. I’m not sure we didn’t all look pale, but would not like to be positive about the interesting part. In vain we besought the youths to tell us how they learned of our frolic. Tortures wouldn’t wring it from them. The evening ended pleasantly enough, but we had all been so thoroughly frightened I don’t think we would ever care to repeat the experiment We were never able to discover who betrayed us, but always had a sly suspicion of Belle’s fun-loving father. Most of the actors in that scene are widely scattered. Many dead. Bright, queenly Belle had one of the saddest of lives, short as it was. But she rests quietly enough now, and but few know the story of her short, sad life. Some of the party are happy wives and mothers, although I never heard of any of them marrying the one that chose her that eventful night. Most of us parted soon after, never to meet again. But wherever the broad earth may hold them I am sure they must sometime give a thought to our mad frolic on “Halloween.”— Harper'sßazar. —The discovery of a subterranean forest just below the surface of the bed of the Thames River is attracting a good deal of attention in England. The oak, the alder and the willow are the principal trees found. These retain their vegetable character, but other signs show that the forest belong to the period of the elk and the red deer in the south of England,

NUMBER 9.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Neuralgia is said to be a “cheeky 4 ’ disease. .?•* 1 ■■■-.Lib ft It is stated that there is more railroad building this year than in 1880. When a broker says a man is of no account, he means no hank account. ' A Chinaman in San Francisco is the latest victim of kerosene lunacy. He tried to light a fire in the American way. “ Tax korse bit his master, How came it to pass? He heard the good pastor Say ’All flesh is giasa.’ ” A Montreal physician has lately sued his landlord for $20,000 damages for illhealth, caused, he alleges, by the unhealthiness of the house in which he resides. According to Dr. Hall, a person should always sleep with his face turned to the wall. The Detroit humorist says “ That’s all right, especially if his wife has been jawing him.” j_ A Kentucky couple planned an elopement and the girl invited forty or fifty Mends to be in waiting at her house “to see how romantically they scooted.”— Detroit Free Press.

The Massachusetts State census shows that there are many thousand more women than men in that State. What few men are there, though, are believed by Massachusetts people to be the cream of the world. If ladies of the period ale; as just as they are beautiful they will contribute something toward a monument for King Canute. He was the person who originally ordered the tide back. —St. Louis Republican. The Springfield (Mass.) Republican tells of a small terrier at Meriden, Conn., that lost part of his tail last winter, and now it is growing out again, and at right angles, too, so that he carries behind a kind of stove-pipe elbow. AN ingenious contrivance to evade the Maine Liquor law has been discovered at Bangor. ,It consists of a barrel within a barrel, furnished with a faucet, which when turned one way supplies sweet cider, and when turned in another supplies lager beer. She was brushing his hair and he enjoyed being fussed over amazingly. Rolling up his eyes, he said: “ My dear, why was Columbus, when he landed in America, like me now ?” She couldn’t tell him and he explained: “Because he was tickled at being fust over.” “There maybe such a thing as love at first sight,” remarked a Detroit girl, as she twisted a “ friz” around the curl-ing-iron, “ but I don’t believe in it. There’s Fred—l saw him a hundred times before I loved him. In fact, I shouldn’t have fallen in love when I did if his father hadn’t given him that house and lot.” Bostonians complain that their Cochit uate tastes awfully. The Water-Board think it is nothing but the taint of decaying vegetable matter, but a prominent' scientist says the trouble is that the water now drawn from the lake is what has been at the bottom unmoved daring the summer and has grown almost putrid.

It is related that when Mrs. Molly Richardson, late of Baldwin, Me., was in her ninetieth year, as she was one day eating a fine apple she remarked that she would like to raise some fruit of that kind. She therefore planted the seeds, one of which sprouted and became a thrifty tree. Mrs* Richardson lived to be ninety-seven years old, and ate fruit from the tree. The registering officers in New York recently refused to register two citizens of New York city employed by the Government at Washington on the ground that they had lost their residence. The wouldbe voters applied to Judge Lawrence for a mandamus , which on the day preceding the election was granted, the Judge holding that being in Government employ the applicants did not lose their residence. There is a singular natural curiosity about one and a half miles from Thompson, Pa., on the Jefferson branch of the Erie Railway. It is a deep, narrow crevice between the rocks, about sixteen inches wide. A stone thrown into it can be heard for several seconds strike from side to side, the sound becoming fain ter and fainter until it dies away. Owing to the unevenness of the gap it has been found impossible to measure its depth. On a cold, frosty morning the warm air arising from this pit and coming in contact with the cold air without makes it appear like a smoking chimney.

The Curse of the Koh-i-Noor.

Mrs. Burton —the wife of Capt. Burton, Ihe African traveler, and a lady of great culture and intelligence—writes a book about the curse that clings to the Koh-i-Noor. This famous diamond is now the chief jewel of the British crown, and Queen Victoria sometimes wears it. Mrs. Barton advises her to discard the great diamond of ill-omen, and suggests its utter destruction and obliteration from the face of the earth. The Koh-i-Noor has been a ray of the light ofthe world for a long time, (and to annihilate it would be like blotting out a star. Still Mrs. Burton thinks it ought to be extinguished for the harm it has caused, and entailed upon all its possessors. The Koli-i-Noor is supposed to have been a product of the rich mines of Golconda. Its history iaindeed quite singular, independent of the traditional romance that surrounds it like a halo of misty light. It has been the ambition of Kings, and caused the fail and destruction of empires. - It is responsible for many assassinations and conspiracies, and has mustered armies and won and lost battles, and played smash with the Indian monarchies generally. The finder is supposed to have been murdered for it, and

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to have cursed his assassin and all future possessors of the “mountain of light” with his last breath. It is bis cufM that still clings to it, accenting to Mrs. Barton. It is the purest Stone in tiie world, and though not now the largest its value is fabulous. Its slim by the family of Bunjeet Singh, the Lion of the Punjab. At the conquest of the Punjab the Koh-i-Noor became a British crown-jewel and fell into, the lap of Queen Victoria. Mrs. Bartoptells the Queen that Lord Dalhousie, who sent it to her, dtod soon afterward; that tiie Duke of Wellington, who gave the first stroke to the new cutting of the diamond,,lived but three months, and that Prince Albert next fell a victim to the ancient curee.. Bhe warns the Queen to throw it « giveitaway to her “ dearest ecutay,” if she has one, and predicts that Its passes slop bodes disaster to England. Notwithstanding her culture and intelligence Mire. Burton appears to be painfully superatitious. She seems to have been magnetized by this great white stone. 14 is ; ' hardly likely that she wants to make ty a terror so as to get hold of it herself, though such things have been, and the Koh-i-Noor, with its good name, is A princely fortune in a very small nutshell. If Queen Victoria is like other women she will hold on to her diamonds.—£<, Louis Republican.

The Primitive Doctors of Detroit

Nor more than five acres of Michigan had been chopped and logged off before a doctor arrived in the State,- and they barve continued to arrive ever since that hour. The first hundred or so didn't doctor after the set rules of allopathy or homeopathy. The grand object was to give a sick man his money's worth of medicine and a little over. Drugstores were few and far between in those days and every doctor carried his medicines with him. Indeed this rule was practiced up to fifteen or twenty years ago, when physicians all at once got the notion that it was more convenient and stylish for the patient’s friends to turn out St midnight and walk from one to five miles to get a prescription filled than it was for the doctor to sit by the bed and deal out the drugs. The first doctors were very energetic _ and ambitious. If a man fell sick they called it fever’n ague and pushed powders; liquids and other things down hiß throat until a change occurred.. If he get worse they gave the disease some other name and put on mustard plasters, gave the patient calomel, kept his feet warm and doctored him on that theory until ho rallied or was still further reduced. If he got well it was a big card for the doctor. If he died the doctors for sixteen miles around would swear that the person couldn’t have been cored nohow. It can’t be ascertained that more than one of those early practitioners ever gave up a patient in despair. That pne was a resident of Wayne County and was celled to see a pioneer living seven or eight miles from Detroit. The man had some sort of low fever and the physician attended him for a month without noticing, any improvement. On the contrary the patient seemed to be sinking, and fearing to lose practice if the man died on his hands the physician decided to abandon the case. Calling the wife out-doors he said: “ I can’t come any more; I am going to Cleveland to live.” When she asked about her husband’s prospects, he replied: “He is certain to,die. I never saw such a case before. I commenced with l A’ in the alphabet of medicines, and have run him down to 1 and so forth,’ a&d haven’t moved him a peg.” The patient fell out of bed and broke his arm next day, and in three ““inOfiths was able to carry a bushel of wheat; to Detroit on his shoulder. , , < . The doctors were just as polite and gentle in those pioneer days as they are now, and, catching the spirit of the rap-idly-growing country, they frit that time was the great desideratum. A doctor living in Macomb County, when called upon to set a broken leg for a laboring man, examined the limb and said: “If I set this limb it will befive or six months before you can walk. If £ paw it off and make you a wooden leg you’ll be out splitting rails in less than three' months.” The man declined the generous offer and the doctor sighed drearily as he rolled down his shirt-sleeves. Those doctors, too, had warm and sympathetic hearts. One of them killed ’R* man in Washtenaw County by giving him, poison instead of calomel. Upon disoovering his mistake he rode out to see the widow and, after a few preliminary remarks, said: * f “ I’m very sorry, Mrs. Cotter, but 1t can’t be helped now; John was a pretty' good man, but there’s others just as good. I’m willing to do the fair thing by you, being as it was my mistake. A brother of ; mine is coming from York State next week, and he shall marry you inside of three months!”. And he did. And it was just as hard for doctors to collect their bills then as it if now. A Detroiter who had doctored in one faulty for three or four years without getting any pay started out one morning with the avowed intention of collecting something or raising a tornado. He returned after four or five hours covered with mud, hat caved in and blood on his coat collar. “Get any money of Jones?” asked a Mend. “No; but I squared up with him and left him a receipt in full,” replied the doctor, pointing to his left ear. Half of it had bCCD bitten off.—Detroit Free Press.