Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1875 — Page 1

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THE NEWS.

Joseph H alp hen, a Parisian diamond merchant, failed on the 16th, with liabilities estimated at $3,000,000. ' * _ GcnoßOßD’s remains were quietly buried in the Catholic cemetery at Montreal cn the morning of the 16th. The coffin was imbedded in cement and was placed upon that of his deceased wife. . ThE Vice-President was not as well on the 16th as on the previous day. Hia physician reported him as resting comfortably in the evening, and excluded all visitors lrom his room. The New York. Court of Appeals on the 16th dismissed the appeals in both of the Tweed cases. Reduction of bail aud bill of particulars were, by this decision, refused. The majority of Pillsbnry (Rep.) lor Governor of Minnesota is officially stated to be 11,899. Pfaender,'for State Treasurer, had 8,919 majority. Eighteen Mormons, residenta'of Franklin, Idaho, have been indicted for polygamy. Earthquake shocks were felt at San Francisco and at various Southern California and Arizona on the night of the 15th. A Hendaye telegram of the 17th states that Don Carlos had lately written to King Alphonzo offering to agree to a truce should the Cuban difficulties cause war between Spain and the United States. A Berlin dispatch of the 17th says the Crown Ikince of Germany had not proposed to visit the United States during the centennial year. A late Washington dispatch states that Secretary Bristow had contracted with the syndicate for the whole of the remainder of the $500,000,000 5 per cents. The Secretary would take no action in regard to selling the 4 and 4% per cents, until Congress meets. Cokhissioner Smith has resigned his charge of the Indian Bureau, and George Jerome, ex-Collector of Customs at Detroit, has been appointed as his successor.

The commission appointed to negotiate with the Sioux Nation for the Black Hills region have forwarded their report to the Secretary of the Interior. The failure of the negotiations was caused by the preposterous demands oi the Indians. Considerable excitement existed in Washington on the 17th over rumors ot serious complications with Spain. Orders were issued for the sailing of three ironclads, bat subsequently revoked, the latest news being that the impending troubles had been satisfactorily adjusted. The American Woman Suffrage Association met in New York on the evening of the 17th. JBishop Gilbert Haven presided and made the opening address. THE Committee of the Union League of America, recently in session at New York, have called a meeting of that body for Dec. 8, in Philadelphia. The official returns of the election in Wisconsin give the following results: For Governor, Ludington has a majority of 801; for Lieutenant-Governor, Parker’s majority is 1,011; Secretary of State, Doyle’s majority is 621; Treasurer, Kuehn’s majority is 2,804; Attorney-Gen-eral, Sloan’s majority is 1,811. There were 600 scattering votes, mainly cast for Prohibition candidates. The monument to Edgar Allan Poe, at Baltimore, was unveiled on the 17th, with imposing ceremonies. The National Grange met in Lonisville, Ky., on the 17th with full delegations from nearly all the States and Territories.

The second annual convention of the National Women’s Temperance Union met in Cincinnati on the' 17th. Two hundred delegates, representing nineteen States, were in the convention. According to a special Berlin telegram of the 18th the Prussian Government had decided to bring before the Ecclesiastical Court the Bishop of Treves and the Archbishop of Cologne, with a view to their deposition. A Rangoon telegram of -the 18th says a conspiracy to seize the arsenal and burn Rangoon had just been discovered. A great many Burmese had been arrested. A Madrid dispatch of the 18th says an order had been issued forbidding the acceptance of communications from Don Carlos,except the announcement of his unconditional surrender. A Washington dispatch of the 18th says the Spanish Minister had been advised from Madrid that his Government has conceded the demands recently made by the United States Government concerning Americans captured in Cuba and tried by court-martial. The $3,000 stolen from the Treasury Department since Mr. New became Treasurer have been paid by Mr. New himself out of his private resources. It is stated that he has not assessed the employes to make the amount good. In his annual report the PostmasterGeneral states that the cost of inland mail transportation for the last fiscal year was $15,353,369, an increase of 8,776 miles in the length of routes as compared with 1874, but a decrease of $48,688 in the cost of the service.

Among the failures announced in New York on the 17th was that of “Bricic” Pomeroy, proprietor of the Democrat of that city. His liabilities were estimated at $140,000, with no assets. The hbel suit of Henry C. Bowen against the Brooklyn Eagle for SIOO,OOO came up in the Brooklyn City Court on the 17th and was put over for the term. At Salt Lake City, on the 18th, Judge White rendered a decision releasing JJrigha® Young from imprisonment on *

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VOLUME 11.

writ of habeas corpus, and directed the Marshal to pay the expenses of the process, amounting to $484. The Marshal had also received notice of suit for lalse imprisonment. On the 18th, at Pine House, Ga.,fc train of empty freight cars ran into a passenger train on flie Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Railroad, the engine telescoping the ladies’ pasringur-car, and throwing it and the smoking-car from the track. A boy, one year old, was steamed to death and several other persons were more or less seriously injured. A touNG Swedish girl named Caroline Klang, of Indianapolis, Ind., was fatally burned on the morning of the 18th by the explosion of a coal-oil lamp. Two rectifiers doing business at Milwaukee, Wis., were found guilty of whisky revenue frauds on the 18th. Great excitement was caused in St. Louis on the 18th by the developments made in the trial of ex-Supervisor McDonald for conspiracy to defraud the Government revenues in whisky transactions. The testimony against tbe accused was strong and tended to implicate prominent parties not previously suspected. A Montgomery (Ala,) special bf the 18th says the majority for the hew Constitution of that State would not be less than 50,000. A Denver (Col.) dispatch of the 18th announces the arrest of the last of the seven men who murdered the four Italians in that city a few weeks ago. . The number of German exhibitors applying for space at the Philadelphia Centenial is 1,140. Cardinal Pietro diSilvestri died in Rome on the 19th.

According to London dispatches of the 19th the Ministry had telegraphed to the Prince of Wales advising his immediate return from India, in consequence of the unsatisfactory attitude of the native Princes. It was stated in Washington On the 19th that the repair and preparation of Government vessels had no more reference to Spanish affairs than to those of any other country. Orders had been given to hurry along the completion and equipment of the new sloops-of-war lying in the Delaware, and to get a number of monitors ready for service. The Attorney-General of the United States recently expressed the opinion that Ann Eliza violated the United States statute when she married Brigham Young, and consequently had no legal claim against him for alimony. Official returns from all the countiea in New York show a majority for Bigelow (Dem.), for Secretary of State, of 14,812. The Temperance candidate received 9,882 votes. The total vote was 765,574.

Mr. Moody delivered his farewell discourse in Brooklyn on the evening of the 19th to a crowded audience. The services in Brooklyn will be continued under the auspices of the local clergy. Messrs. Moody and Sankey left for Philadelphia on the 20th to begin their labors in that city. Con Megrue, one of the leading witnesses in the McDonald case at St. Louis, swore, on the 19th, that something like $400,000 a year was collected and distributed among the members of the “ ring” for four years, and that one of them received $50,000. Megrue also published a card on the 19th saying that neither Gen. Babcock, Orville Grant, Col. Casey, Commissioner Donglass, Col. Holt, Col. Luckey nor any other officials or citizens of Washington, except William O. Avery, had to his knowledge been connected in any way with the “ring.” - The Indianapolis Sun of the 20th publishes an appeal to Congress, signed by over 3,000 voters of that city, demanding the repeal of the Resumption act; the retirement of all National Bank notes and the substitution therefor of Government legal-tenders, and the refunding of the national bonded debt into bonds bearing, say, 3.65 per cent, per annum, interconvertible with national legal-tender paper money at the pleasure of the holders. A mass-meeting was also called to be held in Indianapolis on the Ist of December to emphasize these demands. A Galveston (Tex.) dispatch of the 19th says a raiding band of Mexicans had crossed the river from the American side the day before with a large herd of stolen cattle. A demand had been made upon the Mexican authorities for the return of the plunder and the arrest of the robbers, which had been unheeded, and Col. McNally, of the Texas State militia, had crossed the Rio Grande and attacked the reinforced raiders. He had killed four of them, and at last accounts was still in the enemy’s country. The United States troops were concentrating at Brownsville, but would not cross.

There was reported to be three and a half feet of snow at Evanston, Wy. T., on the 19th and more falling. . On llie afternoon of the 19th Prof. Martine’s dancing hall in West Chicago was destroyed by fire. The burning of the supports caused the roof to give way and eight firemen were precipitated into the burning mass. All were recovered more or less burned and otherwise injured- - some of them fatally, if was thought.

THE MARKETS.

new York. Livb Stock.— Beef Cattle—*lo.oo©lß.oo. Hogs —Live, *[email protected]. Sheep—*4.to®t.2s. BKKADsixrrTS.—Floor—Good to choice, *5.65© 6.10; white wheat extra, *6.15@8 00. Wheat—No.. 2 Chicago, *1.25©1.27; No. 2 Northwestern, *1. 2601.27; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, *1.20© I.EO. Bye—Western and State, »S*3c. Barley— *1.08®1.10. Corn—Mixed Western, 73H© 75c. Oats— Wbtefi Western, ic.

nnn aim, TO NEAR GOD. TELL THE TRUTH AND MAKE MONEY.

RENSSELAEK, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1875.

Pwmaio*s.—Pork—Mesa, [email protected]. Lard -Prim* Steam, New, t2}fi®l**c. Cheeae-S© 12#e. ' * Wool.— Domestic fleece. 4SS6Sc. „ CHICAGO. Lit* Stock.— Beeves —Choice, *5.50®8.00; good, *4.50©5 25; mediant, $4.0004.80; butchers’ stock, $5.500a.7»; stock cattle, *2.7808-75. Hogs—Live, *7.26©7.45. Bheep-Good to choice, 14.0004 80. Provisions.—Butter—Choice, SOOBBC. Bggs— Freeh, 22®25c. Pork-Mesa, *20.20020.25. Lard—sll.Booll.Bs. Beeadstufm. —Flour—White Winter Extra, *5.7506.00; spring extra, *4.87H©6.G0. WheatSpring, No: 2, *LO6MOI-06M- Corn—No. 2, 51 ©6IJ4C. Oats-No. 2, aOHOaOMe. Rye-No. B, 6SHOB7C. Barley—No. 2, BS©BSKc. Lumber— First aad Second Clear, $42,080 45.00; Common Boards, *II.OOOIB-00; Fencing, *1150012.50; “A” Shingles,*2.7soß.oo; Lath, *1.7502.00. EASTLIBHBTY. Lit* Stock.—Beeves— Beat, *60008,50; medium, *5.000521. Hogs— Yorkers, *7.0007.25; Philadelphia, *7.5007-75. Sheep-Best, *5.250 5.60: medium, *4.7505.00.

Alice Clary’s Love.

L. M. C. furnishes the New York Evening Pott with some reminiscences of the life of Alice Cary, whose fame as a poet stands high in the annals of American letters, and among the rest sketches this story of Alice’* early but blighted love: Clovernook graveyard is a small inclosure near the road, shaded by tall locusts mid wild-cherry trees. It has an air of abandonment and neglect, but nature has taken it kindly to her heart. The graves are overgrown with ivy and long grass, and blackberry vines twist about the mossyheadstones. The tallest monument is in memory of John Lewis, a native of Denmark. His farm adjoined that of the Carys, and his widow became the second wife of Robert Cary, the first Mrs. Cary having died when Alice was about fourteen years old. She—Mrs. Lewis—sold the greater part oi her farm to a gentleman from the East This was Charles Cheney, brother to the silk manufacturers of that name. He had previously been engaged in business at Providence, R. 1., but an unfortunate speculation had swept away his property, and it was by the aid of his brothers that he was enabled to buy the farm near Clovernook. He purposed here to engage in the culture of the mulberry tree and feed silkworms. He was accompanied by his wife, who was an invalid and did not long survive her removal to the West Alice Cary was a shy, awkward schoolgirl when she first knew Mr. Cheney, and had never before seen any person so refined, so gentlemanly and well-bred. He was greatly superior to the people among whom he took up his residence; not that his mental endowments were very great or better, perhaps, than those of some of his neighbors, bat his had been brought out by education, aud found expression in graceful manners and polished phrases, while theirs were imbedded in the clownish fetters from which their position and circumst n»c i©>>f life had in no way tended to free them. Chiefly through his instrumentality in the course of a few. years the neighborhood of Clovernook was changed from a thinly-inhabited and illcultivated district to one abounding with vineyards and orchards, and dotted with public edifices and private residences, surrounded by green lawns fringed with clipped hedges. As years passed on the shy, rustic school-girl grew to womanhood, and the proud and cultured neighbor of whom she had stood in snch awe, learning of her thirst for knowledge, lent her books from his library and encouraged her efforts toward self-improvement Their appreciation of the same authors formed a bond of kindred tastes between them, and was the beginning of a more intimate acquaintance and interchange of thought and feeling. For him it wap intellectual companionship and the charm of contact with a fresh, growing mind, filled with beautiful thoughts and earnest aspirations. For her it was an education of mind and heart, the revelation of a new life, the “ opening of a sealed fountain in her bosom.” What wonder if he who was her ideal realized, the highest type of manhood she had ever known, should win her heart? He did win it, and in the highest sense of the phrase she never loved another. In every case of heart-history there is much that is sacred to those immediately concerned, and should never pass beyond them into the cold and curious world.

It all happened many years ago, and the particulars of the story are known to few. Suffice it to say that this was the first and only love of Alice Cary’s life, and it ended there. Mr. Cheney went East and married, and she read the announcement in a newspaper. Later she left dovemook, around which clung so many bitter-sweet memories, and went to New York, where she made her home during the remainder of her life, and gathered around her a circle of appreciative friends, many of them gifted and great. Though many prized her worth and sought her hand, she never forgot the love-dream of her early womanhood. Around it clustered all the bright and tender associations of youth, and as she receded from it and- her hair grew gray, it “ gathered # a pathos from the years and graves between.” Her life, though Messed with the companionship of noble minds and loving hearts, was in one sense solitary and incomplete, for she missed the crowning blessing of womanhood, the love that wonld have been at once her inspiration and reward, and have satisfied the long, ings of her nature as no personal achievement or fame could have done. Three young boys were arrested at Yamasha, Quebec, a few days ago foe piling logs on * railroad track “to see the cars jump,” the cars “jumping” and killing some twenty people. On account of their tender years they were held irresponsible and discharged.

AN OLD MAN. The hour far spent, the harvest In, ' He goes serene fl!©ngA»ways, Blessed with the sunshine that befalls The Indian summer of his day*. A dear old man whom all men love, Who loves all men, and ronnd whoae head, Aa round the brows of ancient saints, The silver locks a nimbus shed. “ ■* Just as the sun comes sifting through The violet vapors on toe hills, Building a land of promKe where The vista with new glory thrills, Bo shines his smile on all he meets, A tender after-glow aad mild; He sees toe other side of life, And takes it sweetly as a child. For genial aa toe autumn day That spells us with its soft surprise, Life seems to wait, as waits the year, Obeying his benignant eyes. He dreams not of a dark unknown So close at hand, so chill, so drear, The ice-cold and snow-covered grave; He only sees the sunshine here. He lifts his eyes up to the hills Whence cometh all his help, and stays To bless us with toe light that Oils The Indian summer of his days. —Harriet Prescott Spofford, in Harper't Bazar.

WINNY’S WISH-BONE.

a thanksgiving-turkey story. The big brown turkey’s days were numbered. For several weeks Aunt Rhoda had fed him like a prince or a pacha, in view of his anticipated sudden death, and now as she stood by the kitchen table finishing up tbe last touches to the pumpkinpies that were to “ follow his remains” she said to Winny, who sat near her stoning raisins for the mince-meat: “My cup of happiness would be full if Joel could help eat him!” “ Joel eat who, auntie?” and Winny’s brown eyes sparkled and her red lips grew redder with the laugh she was struggling to keep behind the wall of even, perfect, white teeth. Aunt Rhoda had such a curious way of saying things, continuing a train of thought' in her own mind and expecting everybody would know just what the links meant. “ Why, eat old Gobble, to be sure; don’t you bear him singing his last Bong out in the yard ? They say swans sing a death song, why shouldn’t turkeys? He knows he is to be killed shortly. Ah, me! Thanksgiving, and he to be away on sea! —and he’s so fat and nice.” Winny laughed outright now as she cried: “Well, auntie, I suppose you mean Gobble is ‘nice and fat’ and Joel is ‘away on sea;’ but If Joel isn't hero I think we can have just as good a time picking old Gobble’s bones!” and a toss of the head told very plainly that Joel, in its curly estimation, would not be such a very desirable acquisition to the festive board.

Winny WeMen was Aunt Rhoda’s niece’s child. Siifce the death of her parents—not quite a year—Winny had come up country to live with her mother’s aunt, and as the old lady was quite alone now, her only child, Joel, having gone to sea, she was very glad to have the brightfaced, merry girl as a constant companion. Winny had lived in the city all her life before she came to Aunt Rhoda an orphan, and she knew very little of country people and their ways, but 'she liked them now, since she lived among the good, honesthearted folks who made the “ways” pleasant, and they all grew to love the pleasant-faced, bright city girl. Winny had seen very little of her annt before she came to her for a home, and oi Joel she remembered nothing, save that when she was a very little, short girl he was a very tall, awkward boy, who used to bring home the cows and help milk them with his great red hands in the barnyard. Aunt Rhoda talked incessantly of him, and Winny was tired of the sound of his name and the list of his virtues; and im_ agined, besides, he must be a middle-aged man by this time, instead of the “ boy* Aunt Rhoda called him. “ Homely and awkward still, no doubt,” she thought to hdrself, when Aunt Rhoda ended her tales oi his “ goodnesses” with her usual “ and there isn’t another boy like him anywhere round!”

This Thanksgiving Winny expected two of her girl-friends from the city to come out and have an old-fashioned country dinner, and Aunt Rhoda had invited the young doctor from the' village to call in the evening; and besides, the girls were to have two young gentlemen-friendsto'drive out with in the evening and take them home; so that altogether Winny had a pleasant time in prospect without Joel, and was consequently more interested in her thoughts ot them than in Aunt Rhoda’s wishes tor her absent son. Very selfish, no doubt, but very girl-like and natural. Thanksgiving morning dawned clear and cold. Poor Gobble was beginning to turn a pale golden brown in the oven when Winny’s friends drove up to Annt Rhoda’s hospitable door, where Winny stood awaiting them. Such kissing and embracing and laughing and talking as there was in the qniet old house! Annt Rhoda wiped her eyes as she listened to the merry voices, and said to herself as she basted tbe turkey: “If my boy was only here—and he’s roasting so nice and brown, too!” “Who’s coming after you, girlsr* asked Winny, when the overskirts were all pinned back tighter and the crimps pulled out “fluffier.” The three girls came dewn-staira In the parlor, where Aunt Rhoda had had an old-fashioned wood fire bnilt on the hearth. “ Isn’t that gorgeous?” cried the girls toge’ber, girl-fashion, as they entered the room. “ Who is coming, did yon ask?’ 1 continued Katie Grafts, settling herself in •Aunt Rhoda’s big chair.

“Well, Miss Winny, I'll tell you. Two of the splendidest young men you ever saw! We know yon will like them —and one we invited on purpose for you to fall in love with, and vice vena." “Indeed! How kind," said Winny, laughing. “ But I never intend to marry, so I shan’t fall in love. May I ask, however, who the youth is— ‘ what’s his name or where’s his home?” “ No; don’t tell her, Sne,” cried Katie, stopping her companion’s mouth with a dimpled white hand. “ Let’s hang up a wish-bone over the door for Winny, and then see if the right one comes in under it first.” “ But supposing it’s the wrong one —Dr. Gray may come, first —what then?” asked Winny. Why, whoever it is we’ll give up our interest in him. Yon shall have the first man who comes in under the wish-bone—-shan’t she, Sue ?” and the ripples of laughter reached Aunt Rhoda again, and made iter sigh. ; Such a dinner! Old Gobble in state at one end, chicken-pie that melted in one’s mouth at the other, to say nothing oi Aunt Rhoda’s famous canned com and peas and beans; then the mince-pies and pumpkin-pies and plum-pudding! Ah, Aunt Rhoda knew what girls liked, and helped them bountifully; and there wasn’t a merrier table anywhere round the country that day than Aunt Rhoda’s. To be sore, when they first sat down Aunt Rhoda was a trifle pale and looked as though a very little would make her cry instead of laugh; but the girls kept back the tears and, with their happy* faces before her, she put her sad thoughts away. “And now, girls, this is Winny’s wishbone, and we’ll hang it right over the parlor door and we’ll all watch to see who enters firat,” and Katie Crafts, the tallest of the three, mounted a chair and hyng old Gobble’s breast-bone over tbe parlor door. It soon grew dark enough for lights, and they were all sitting round a warm, blazing fire, listening to Aunt Rhoda tell how Joel came to go to sea, when steps were heard coming up the walk aud a knock at the door announced the arrival of some of the expected guests. “ Now, Winny, take a good look at your future husband,” whispered Kate; and, as she spoke, a tall, handsome, sunbrowned man rushed into the room and took Aunt Rhoda in his arms and kissed her again and again. “ And to think it’s Joel, after all!” said Aunt Rhoda, after the excitement of his unexpected return had subsided and she had finished hugging and crying over her boy and had introduced him, twice over, to all three girls. “ Why, who else would it be, mother? Surely you wouldn’t welcome My other man as warmly aa you have me!” and Joel looked at his mother in a very natural sort of surprise. “ No—no—but old Gobble, you know —and Winny’a breast-bone ” Aunt Rhoda began, in her usual bewildering, mixed-up fashion. “Oh, auntie—please!” whispered Winny in a beseeching tone; and then auntie laughed and stopped short, and just then the two young gentlemen and Dr. Gray arrived, and Joel forgot, in the introductions that followed and the merry gamesthat made the evening all too short—forgot his mother’s mysterious half explanation of her strange wonderment that it “ should be him, after all!” “Let us know if it comes true, Winny,” cried the girls as they bade their friend good-by, and Winny shook her curls at them and echoed, “If it comes true!"

That night when she had gone up to her room Winny thought to herself, as she combed oat her long, brown ringlets: “ What an improvement the sea must be to ugly boys. Here is second-cousin Joel a handsome man—and he used to be a hideous boy! Not so old either. He can’t be more than twenty-seven. 1 was five when he used to take me to the barnyard to see him milk. Nine years are a big gap when one is flve*. Wonder if he thinks I have changed?” and Winny held the candle clde to the glass and scrutinized her pretty, dimpled, rosy face very closety.

Strangely enough Joel’s thoughts seemed to ran the same way that night “ What a pretty girl Winny has grown into. How the years change one,” he said to his mother after Win*y had bade them good-night. “ Indeed she is—and as good as pretty. I only wish I had a daughter just like her,” answered Aunt Rhoda warmly. “Would you like a daughter, mother?” asked Joel, taking up Winny’s picture that lay on the table and studying it intently. “ Yes—(me just like Winny, Joel—and if you’ll look on top of the parlor-door maybe you’ll find one,” replied Aunt Rhoda in her rambling, queer mode of speech; and with these words she kissed her boy good night and went to bed. “ What on earth does mother mean? Is she crazy? Look on top of the parlordoor for a daughter! Well, I’ll look!’’ and, reaching up his hand, Joel found Winny’s wish-bone. “Ah, ha! That’s the answer to the riddle, is it? lam agreed! Til keep it for a talisman;” and, with a laugh to himself at the thought, he put old Gobble’s bone in his vest pocket. Joel’s ship had come home quite unexpectedly, bat it stayed a longer time in port than he thought it would—long enough for him to find his mother * daughter and himself a wife, “on top of the parlor door, too*” he declared ever after. When old Gobble’s sons and daughters began to ran round the door-yard that spring, Winny wrote down to her girl friends; v.-. A . && Dear Girls—ln old Gobble's breast-bone a heart beat for me! Come see If ft bas not

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“ come true”—lor on Easter Monday a wedding will take place at Aunt Rhode’s, and It is altogether toe result of our eating the Thanksgiving turkey and your hanging up Winny’s wish-bone. —Hearth and Home.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An old sailor’s yarn is his stock in trade. Christmas is coming, and when the roll is called that morning every little child should he able to answer, “Present.” At a laundry near Jersey City 6,000 pieces are washed daily, and 100 barrels of soap are used per week. “ Big washing!” Five young American ladies have lately received “ honor certificates” from the examiners of the University of Oxford, England. Some Icelandic colonists on the shores of Lake Winnipeg, in Canada, have taken up a'tract ofl,ooo miles, fifty miles along the shore and twenty miles inland. Two and a half acres of rock, at Hell Gate, are to be lifted, next Fourth of July, with 80,000 pounds of pitro-glycerine. Somebody will be very apt to get hurt. Santa Rosa, Cal., claims to have the largest eucalyptus tree in the State. It was planted fifteen years ago and is now 140 feet in height and two feet in diameter. Wyoming Territory has no public debt and SB,OOO are stowed away in the Treasury for a rainy day. The assessed value of property is $8,604,006, an increase of $4,500,000 in the past two years. The great astronomer of Paris, Leverrier, who discovered the planet Neptune, which could eat up this little earth of ours and not suffer from indigestion inconsequence, has made a prediction which is noteworthy. It is that the winter of 1875-76 will be uncommonly severe. Enormous quantities of snow are to fall in December and January. A St. Lake paper says; “It may be of interest to a large number of young gentlemen and ladies in this city just now to know that there is no Marriage law in the Territory. Simply standing up in tbe presence of ydur mother-in-law and saying: ‘ Sal, let’s hitch,’or, ‘ Jerusha, let’s go pards for life,’ constitutes a legal marriage and doesn’t cost a cent.” Hiram S. Beers, one of the original proprietors of the Boston Herald , is now a type-setter in the office of that paper. A few days ago he had the pleasure of setting a take from an article printed in the Herald thirty-eight years ago, which he recognized as having been set by him when it first appeared. The take came to him the second time in the usual way—by lot. Quite a stir has been created in Paris by the refusal of the Government to recognize a title of nobility conferred by the Pope, or to permit the newly-made nobleman to bear it at all. It says that the Pope is no longer a temporal sovereign, and has no right to confer titles of nobility which shall come in competition with those granted by the monarchs of the earth. * A malicious attempt has been discovered to stop the working of two of the Western Union Telegraph company’s wire between San Francisco and Sacramento by wrapping them with fine wire, one end ot which was fastened to a nail driven into a tree in such a manner that it could not be seen by the line-men. It was several days before tbe difficulty was discovered. The company offers a reward of $250 for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons. The act is a penitentiary offense. Wm. Welch, a lawyer and a thinker, proposes a new rule of suffrage. His plan is to allow a citizen forty-two years of age two ballots, and one sixty-three years or over, three votes. This would give the controlling power to men of age and experience. Those who have accumulated property, who have families about them, who have given precious hostage to society for good behavior and learned wisdom, would have the weight in public affairs that is given them in the family.— Madison Journal. At a festival at a reformatory institution, recently, a gentleman said, of the cure of the use of intoxicating drinks: “ I overcame the appetite by a recipe given to me by old Dr. Hatfield, one of those good old physicians who do not have a percentage from a neighboring druggist. Tbe prescription is simply an orange every morning a half hour before breakfast. ‘ Take that,’ said the doctor, ‘ and you will neither want liquor nor medicine.’ I have done so regularly, and find that liquor has become repulsive. The taste of the orange is in the saliva of my tongue, and it would be as well to mix water and oil as rum with my taste.” The following sad tale of disappointment is told by the Portland (Me.) Press: “ A lady of this city recently started to ride from Boston to this city on a ticket which read ‘ From Portland to Boston,’ but the conductor said it wasn’t good, and she was obliged to purchase a new ticket. On her arrival here her husband was very indignant at the conductor, and decided to test the legality of toe thing. Consequently he purchased a ticket for Boston, and then started back an the ticket that the conductor had reftised to accept from his wife. He had no idea that the ticket would be accepted, and he saw a chance for a fortune by being put off. He had consulted authority and decided not to be ooled, but to stand his ground, and if the officials put him off, why then a suit against the road and a large sum in damages. But alas! it didn’t work. When the conductor came around betook the ticket without a word, and the would-be plaintiff in a suit came to Portland terribly disappointed with the w«ty* of railroads.”

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The Animal Resources of the United States.

The Smithsonian Institution is at present engaged in making a collection to illustrate the resources of the United States as derived from the animal kingdom; and to this end invites the co-operation of All who may have it in their power to render any aid in the undertaking. *p9&kisu form part of the Governmental display to be made in accordance with the act of Congress of March 3,1875, and the Executive order of March 5,1875. The general object of this exhibition Is to show, first, specimens of all the animals of the United States which are hunted or collected for any economical purpose whatever; second, the products derived from the various species, both In thefir crude and their applied or manufacturing condition; third, the apparatus or; devices by means of which, directly or indirectly, these objects are pursued, captured and utilized by sportsmem, hunters, trappers and others. For the purpose of rendering this exhibition complete and strtettymtiional-in its character’the Smithsonian Institution invites donations of the objects from manufacturers and dealers, and communications concerning thefav, with the guarantee that full credit .shall be given to all contributors on thq labels of the articles and in the cataloguetUftnd publications of the exhibition. After the collection referred to has served its purpose at the International Exhibition it will be transported to Washington and form a part of the permanent display of the National Museum, in charge of the Smithsonian Institution, where, a? in Philadelphia, proper acknowledgments will be made to all who have aided in rendering it complete. The more expensive articles will berets ceived as a loan should they be deemed* important to the exhibition, to be-after-ward returned; but it is expected that, ip. far as possible, all specimens will be presented so that they may form part of the permanent display at Washington. Specimens may be sent by express oK mail; or, if in large bulk, by railroad conveyance. Their transportation will be paid on receipt in Washington, to whi ch place tiiey should be forwarded, addressed to the Smithsonian Institution, and marked “International Exhibition 1876.”;, ' and with the name and address of sender.

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The First Chinese Iron-clad.

The first Chinese iron-clad has been just completed; I cannot say launched cause die stopped half-way down the ways,, and refused to be persuaded further. I suppose, however, that the Hitch is only temporary. She is a small vessel of only 105 tons measurement, 104 feet length on load line, and 20 feet 4 inches extreme breadth. Her armor is 2% inches thick amidships, tapering to 1% inches at the extremities, and having 4% inches oV. tack backing. She is armed with a &%- inch Krupp gun, and has a ram bow. Her offensive power has been much diminished by the Chinese insisting on having the gun fixed. Nothing could persuade them that if me gun were brought over to fire from either side the vessel would not inevitably heel over and capsize; so the gun had to be placed permanently in the middle of the bow, and only one porthole exists for firing forward. Of course it will be understood that she was designed by an English architect and built under English supervision. The Chinese can do nothing for themselves yet, with all their appliances. The workmen are intelligent and apt enough, but the knowledge necessary for designing is completely wanting. I am almost inclined to doubt whether they are capable of acquiring, or rather applying, it, Very certainly—what is more to the purpose now—they are thoroughly in competent to handle or fight an ironclad effectively. In the event of a war all these ships, on which China is wasting money that would be far better laid out on railroads, would be captured in a fortnight.—Chinese Cor. London Times.

The Adventure of Two Oregon Ladles.

The Portland Oregonian tells the following: Yesterday Mrs. M. and Miss C., a couple of well-known ladies of Eakuna, went out into the woods back of town to gather mosses and leaves for ornamental work. Busily intent upon the objects of search, they paid little heed to the route they traveled, until the approach of night warned them erf the necessity of returning. Looking about, they failed to And the path by which they came and realized that they were lost. Every step added to their bewilderment, and as darkness soon set in their situation became painfully unpleasant. Hearing the movements of some animal in the brush near them, they ascended an alder tree with a celerity that would astonish the average female. The animal, whatever it was, remained in the vicinity some time and the ladies remained in the tree, where, with pen* knives drawn, they determined to make it warm for any foe that might attack them. About midnight they heard the welcome shout of Dick Sorter, the veteran hunter, who was at the head of a party in search of them. A few miqptes more and Dick, with his lantern, was at the tree. The thankfulness of the ladies and the joy of their friends can be imagined better than described. This is the kind of weather that makes the dashing young man wish that instead of spending a dollar and a half for that massive diamond-pin last summer he had judiciously invested it in a pair of winter drawers. —Norwich Bulletin. * Ore evening spent at home in study is more profitable than ten lounging around country taverns.