Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1875 — Page 1

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THE NEWS.

According to a London telegram of the 23d the Cariist official organ claims that Don Carlos had saved Cuba and the honor of Spain, his late offer of a trace to Alphonzo having induced the Government of the United States to modify its demands. Madrid telegrams of a late date say that several Republican sympathizers had been arrested in that city, and more had left their homes to avoid a Hirefate. Revolutionary and Republican documents were being privately circulated. « « Alexahdrk Colin, the oelebrated French primer, died at Paris on the 28d. A Berlin dispatch of the 23d says advices had been received from Herzegovina that the insurgents had captured an important fort with all its garrison, commanding Lubel. Several important positions had also been occupied by them in the vicinity of Hava. (Central Asia) dispatch of the 23d says that the Kiptsehaks had rebelled and invested the citadel and Russian camp. The Russians resisted successfully for three days, when the Kiptschjdts retreated, leaving 3,800 dead on the field. The death of Vice-President Wilson makes Senator Thomas W. Ferry, of Michigan, President pro tempore of the Senate, ex-officio Vice-President of the United States. A Washington special of the 23d says orders had l>een issued at the Navy De. partment for fitting np five mbre irohclads, making a total of twelve iron-clads which, within the previous three weeks, had been made ready for active service, and embracing nearly all the available iron-clads on the list.

At the recent session in Cincinnati of the Woman’s National Temperance Convention resolutions were adopted recommending Gospel temperance prayer-meet-ings, cheap lunch and lodging houses, free reading-rooms and temperance clubs; urging American women to train their children to hate intoxicatingliquors; expressing gratitude to God that thfc corruptions of the whisky ring had been exposed, and commending the Postmaster-Gen-eral for removing from his department all assistants addicted to alcoholic beverages. Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer was re-elected President of the society. Among other matters it was voted to try to keep the sale of liquor out of the Centennial grounds next year, Mrs. Wittenmyer saying that it would cost at least $50,000 to do it, for that amount had been paid already by a brewer for the exclusive right to sell beer inside the inclosurc.

The official returns of the Oregon election give Lane (Dem.) for Congress a majority of 267. The South Carolina Legislature met in annual session at Columbia on the 23d. The trial of William O. Avery, late Chief Clerk of the Internal Revenue Bureau, at Washington, was begun at St. Louis on the 23d. He is charged with conspiring with McDonald, Joyce, etc., to defraud the Government. The election of officers for the National Grange, on the 23d, resulted as follows: Master, John T. Jones, of Arkansas; Overseer, J. J. Woodman, of Michigan; Lecturer, A. B. Sinedley, of Iowa; Steward, A. J. Vaughn, of Mississippi; Assistant Steward, Mortimer Whitehead, of New Jersey; Chaplain, S. H. Ellis, of Ohio; Treasurer, P. M. McDowell; Secretary, O. H. Kelley, of Kentucky; Gatekeeper, O. Dinwiddie, of Indiana; Ceres, Mrs. J. T. Jones, of Arkansas; Pomona, Mrs. Goddard, of Connecticut; Flora, Mrs. Adams, of Minnesota; Assistant Steward, Miss Gartie Hall, of Louisville. A disastrous gale prevailed off the coast of Fifeshire, England,' on the 24th. Several fishing vessels were lost and about thirty seamen perished. Cardinal Rauscher died on the 23d at Vienna. The Mercantile Bank of Leeds, England, suspended on the 24th. Liabili. ties, $350,000. The London Times of the 26th says the British Government had lately bought of the Khedive of Egypt £1,000,000 worth of Suez Canal shares. The Paris newspaper Le Pays was seized on the 25th for publishing M. de Cassagnac’s speech to the Bonapartists at Bellville. A Madrid telegram of the 25th announces the capture of San Cristobal with all the Carlist positions in the vicinity of Pampeluna.

Tbs American residents and visitors in Berlin: appropriately celebrated Thanksr giving Day,. Rev. Dr. Thompson preach, ing the sermon. At the close of the services resolutions wetfc adopted expressing sorrov at the death of Vice-President Wilson and directing that a telegram of condolence be sent to the United States. The Chief of the Ordnance Bureau, United States Army, in his annual report calls for an increase to the annual appropriation for arming and equipping the militia. The following is the aggregate strength of the militia of the Uhited States: Organized, 84,724; unorganized, a,701,977. The Indians in the United States aggregate of whom 10,000 are put down as “civilized/’ 185,000 as “semicivilized,;Bl,ooo as “ barbarous.” This does net include the Alaska Indians. A coal-oil lamp exploded in the bedroom of Mrs, Charlotte Chew, of Camden, N. J., on the morning of the 25th. Miss Laura Chew jumped out of bed, w|iep her night clothes caught fire and she opened a window (bn the second floor of the building) and either jumped or fell to the

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grojind and was so terribly injuredthatshe died ina few minutes. The -cjfothes of the mother also took fhre, and she waa. so dreadfully burned that sheexpired during the day, Mid William Chew, he% sen, was severely burned. - William B. AsTcpt, eldest son of the late John Jacob Aster, died in New York city on the 24th, leaving a fortune og nearly $80,000,000. Five children survive him—-threesons and two daughters. Deceased was eighty years old. ' ' Mr. Murray, editor ofilie South Bend lad Jr printeraSS sub-ecffto£ Mhis eoipidy' and discharged her and afterward inserted an article in his 'paper offensive *to her. She subsequently assaulted him on the 1 street with a cowhide, which he attempted to take from her, and in the scuffle which ensued she was thrown to the ground. Justice William Palmer took sides with the girl and Murray also assailed him editorially, and Mr. Palmer on the 22d shot Murray, the ball taking effect in his lungs, inflicting a severe and dangerous wound.

The Indiana Republican State Central Committee have called a State Convention to meet at Indianapolis on the B2d of February, to nominate a State ticket, including ' candidates for Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, etc., and to select delegates to the next National Republican Convention and nominate fifteen candidates for Presidential Electors to be chosen at the general election In November next. The State election will occur on the second Tuesday in October. A committee appointed by the National Grange to arrange a marriage ceremonial have reported adversely and toe organiza- ‘ tion has sustained their report. In toe case of Leopold Wirth and Robert Kiewert, on trial at Milwaukee for conspiracy to defraud the revenue, the ’jury on toe 25th rendered a verdict acquitting the former and disagreeing as to the latter, standing, it is said, eight for conviction to four for acquittal.

On the 26th the Public Prosecutor at Berlin applied to the upper house of the German Parliament to indict Count von Araim for treason because of his alleged authorship of the pamphlet which reoeafcly appeared attacking Count Bismarck and the existing condition of things in Germany. " c - , At a business meeting of Plymouth Church, held on the evening of the 26th, an answer to Mrs. Moulton’s demand for an investigation was read, in which it was denied that her accusations against Mr. Beecher were a good defense for her past conduct, per proposition for a mutual council was accepted nevertheless. A New York dispatch of the 26th announces the suspension of the Manufacturers and Builders’ Bank, of that city. A run was also inaugurated on the People’s Savings Bank, but the officers dlosed the doors of the institution and took advantage of the sixty-days’ notice which they Me authorized to require of depositors. There was a slight run oh the Security Savings Bank also.

The Southern Pacific tioh was recently held in St, Louis, and delegates were in attendance from twentyseven States and Territories,. Resolutions were adopted favoring a Southern transcontinental railway from the Mississippi, via El Paso, and setting forth the reasons why such a road should be constructed ; recommending the buildipg erf extensions of and connctions with the Texas & Pacific Road from the most eligible points to New Orleans, Memphis and Vicksburg; that the construction of such a line and branches . can be best secured by , the extension of Government fid to snob line and branches in the form of a guarantee of interest, pot principal, on a limited amount of 5 jjer cent. constructiQn hopds, payable in fifty years, so that the entire liability assumed shall not in any went exceed $2,000 per mile per annum. Provision was made by the convention address in this behalf to the people of the United States and to the President and Congress. ’k’HE Indiana Suprejne, Court has lately decided, in the case of an attorney who brought suit to recover for services in procuring a divorce, thafA promisemadebya married woman Jo pay, when she shall be ditorced, for services rendered her by an attorney during her coverture is void, and a promise made after she is divorced to pay the same is invalid for want of consideration.

Hon. John Turner, a well-known attorney and editor of the Mauston (Wis.) Star, attempted suicide by shooting, at the Vilas House, in Madison, on the 26th. Last fall Mr. Turner defended a Mrs. Ingersol upon the charge of murdering her husband and secured her acquittal. On die 26th she preferred the charge of forgery against him in the settlement of an insurance claim. At last accounts Mr. Turner was very low, and it was thought he would not recover. A Paris telegram of the 27th says that hard times prevail in that city. Worth, the man milliner, was reported to have lost very heavily by the pressure «ud to have become financially embarrassed, mainly, it was said, through the failure of his prominent American customers. King Alphonso’s eighteenth birthday was celebrated at Madrid on the 28th nit. A, report prevailed that the King would soon take the field against the Carlists. A Berlin dispatch of the 28th ult, says Montenegro and Servia had cohtluded an offensive and defensive alliance in favor of Herzegovina and againßt Turkey. A Berlin telegram <sf the 29th ult. says a report prevailed that a charge of treason had been preferred against Count von Arnim.

OUR AIM: TO FEAR GOD, TELL THE TRUTH AMD MAKE MONEY. . i -i i ikt ••fs'-. -v*. ..i -K vl j-H. J.iaf ..

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•Washington dispatches of toe 27th state that the negotiations between Spain and toe United States were proceeding favorably, and toe relations between the two countries might be regarded as exThe Ohief Clerk, and about a dozen other pfeogataent clerks of toe Interior Department at Washington were removed or transferred on the 27th by Secretary Chandler. In his annual report Lieut.-Gep. Sheridanrecommends toat toe cart and treatment of the Indians be confided to the War Department, and that tody 'be subjected to the same , laws and penalties as civilized people, instead of being left amenable td norlaws. He alto favors compulsory education, and advises the settlement of the Black Hills question. Ex-Gov. English, of Connecticut, has been appointed to fill toe vacancy in toe United States Senate caused by the death of Senator Feny. The Moody and Sankey meetings in Philadelphia were very largely attended on toe 28th. The Interest in the work continued unabated. ■ Mr, Beecher was subpoenaed on toe 27th as a witness in toe libel suit of Mr. Bowen against the Brooklyn Union. <r THE ofiicial majority tor toe# new Constitution in Missouri is 76,238. The Constitution went into effect Nov, 30. ; The Cherokee National Council on toe 27th canvassed toe votes past at the , late election, and declared Rev. Charles Thompson elected Principal Chief over Ross by a majority 6f eleven. The Ross men, have a majority in both houses of the Council. Secretary Bristow on the 27t0 sent a telegram to the United States District-At-torney at St. Lotus emphatically denying toe rumor that he wap interested in a dis-tillery-house at Louisville, Ky., and stating that he did not desirfe toe matter to rest upon bis denial, but requested that “ every person whose name has been or can be given you as having knowledge of such alleged facts shall be brought before toe Grand Jury and subjected to the most rigid examination.” The Secretary adds: “I beg to repeat toe request heretofore communicated to you, that these frauds on toe Government, Bhril be probed to toe vfery bottom; toat every ramification -qsf foe ji|g4bldW*ffate lowed in. every part from beginning to end, and that no ope haying connection with or guilty knowledge oUts operations shall be permitted to escape. So far as this department is concerned, I ask that every allegation against any officer of it, from its head to its humblest employe, be thoroughly investigated and vigorously prosecuted, if any grounds exists thereior. I have read this to'the President, whorepeats his injunction: * Let no guilty man escape.’ ”

THE MARKETS.

NEW TORE. Uv* Stock.—Beef Csttle— |lo.oo®tß.eo. Hogs -Live, $8.0008.12#. Sheep—s4.oo©6.2s. Bbkadstuvfs. —Flour —Good to choice, $5.55® 6.00; white wheat extra, $6.1008.00, Wheat-No. 2 Chicago, $1.25®1.26; No. 2 Northwestern, $1.26©1.27; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1,280 1.80. Rye—Western and State, 84®94c. Barley—sl.oool.lo. Com—Mixed Western, 74#® 76c. Date—lfixed Western, 44®46c. Provisions. —Pork—Mess, $22.10022.25. Lard —Prime Steam, New, 13®13#e. Cheese—6© Jlkfc. _ Wool.—Domestic fleece, 43®65c. CHICAGO. Livs Stock.—Beeves—Choice, $5.5006.25; good, $4.5006.25; medium, $4.0004.50; batchers’ stock, $2.7504.03; stock cattle, $2.7503.75. Hogs—Live, $7.0007.50. Sheep—Good to choice, $3.85©4.50.Pbovisioks. —Butter —Choice, 28©82c. Eggs— Fresh, 24025 - Pork—Mess, $20.00020.25. Lard—sl2.2o® 12.25. Brradstuits.—Flour—White Winter Extra, $5*2547,50i $4.5005.73. WheatSpring, No. 2, SI.CW*4I.O6X. Com-No- 2, 5154 @sl#c. Oats—No. 2, 30#©30#c. Rye—No - . 2, 68V4060*. Barley—No. 2, 88®88#c. -,*»» Lukbrb—First and Second Clear, $40.00®, 42.00; Common Boards, $11.00012.00; Fencing, sl2 00013.00; “A” Shingles,s».79®B.oo; Lath, $1.7502.00. EAST LIBERTY. Lit* Stock.—Beeves—Beet, $6.0006.50; medium, $5.0005.87Vi. Hogs—Yorkers, $7.0007.80; Philadelphia, $7.5007.80. Sheep—Best, $5,250 5.50; medium-, $4.7505.00.

Contested Seats.

The following is a list of the contested seats in the United States House of Representatives, with the names of-the contestants. Republicans in small capitals; Democrats in Roman: AlrfTmma Haralson. .Fred G. Bromberg. A1abama........ Williams.. .Jambs T. Rafibr. Alabama....... .Hays. .James T. Jones. Florida Pubman.... John A. Henderson. Florida ....Walls Jesse J. Finley. Gedtgia Hart ridge... John E. Bryant. Georgia Smith Ricrabd H.Whitblt Illinois Farwbll .riJohn V. Le Moyne. nii00i5....... ...Writing ...Leonard F. Boss. Indiana Huntbb Harrison J. Rice. Indiana. Baker ...... Freeman Kelley. Kentucky White Harrison Cbckrill. Louisiana Morbv .. .William B. Spencer. Mhrrind Wa15h........ Lloyd Lowndes. Massachusetts-. Frost JosiabG. Abbott. Minnesota Strait,. ...E. St. JulienCox. Pennsylvania...Frrbmrn... .Thomas ft Florence. Pennsylvania...Egbert......'Carlton ft Curtis. S. Carolina.:. ...Iloge :.Benj. B. McGowan. S. Carolina.. ....Wallace ...Joseph B. Kershaw. ■vffpwr ..Gb»disrr.....jAjttsH. flaw, j*: New Mexico. ...Elkins Pedro Valdes. Several of the Mississippi seats, the credentials of which have been awarded to Democrats, will also, it is said, be contested by Republicans. :

AH English officer at a large dinner party sat opposite a petty German Prince. The latter after dinner began “ flipping” some water from a glass, in aheerwantonness, and contrived to throw- some of it in the young officer’s face. The officer was equal to the occasion, and, without a moment’s hesitation, said, smilingly: ‘ ‘ That’s a droll trick, but we do it better in En gland,” aqd with a loud laugh he tlirew a glass“ of water into the princely countenance. The royal boor was, of course, very angry, but what cduld he do? : , -» ■ - A “ down-Eabt” editor asks his subscribers to pay up, that he may play a similar jots upon his creditors.

Death of Hon. Henry Wilson, VicePresident of the United States. Washington, Not. 22. Vice-President WduboiTdied very suddenly at 7 -.30 this morning. He rested well last night, awoke at seven o’clock this morning, and expressed himself as feeling bright and better. He sat up in bed to take his medicine, lay down on his left side Mid expired in a few moments without a struggle. It havmg been represented last night toat the Vice-President had so much improved that be would be able to leave toe city for toe North this week the intelligence of his sudden death this morning fell With startling force and suddenness on the community. The Vice-Prenktent seemed on Saturday to be a great deal better than arauy time during his late sickness, but yesterday he was not quite so well. • Postmaster Burt, of Boston, called in the morning, and had a pleasant conversation with him. . Mr. Crosoman, of New York, a literary- friend, also visited toe Vice-President on business concerning his (Mr. Wilson’s) unfinished volume on the subject of slavery. The Vice-Presi-dent being in a condition requiring rest Mr. iCrosspum retired. The Vice-Presi-dent then (dept from one to three o’clock, when he rose. Mr. Grossman returned W the. afternoon at the Vice-President’s request, and remained until evening. The Vice-President went to bed at an early hour, and slept tolerably well during the night In his writing intervals he asked for water. About midnight he got iip and walked around his room. Then, going to his table, he took up a little book of poems entitled “ The Changed Cross,” with the motto “ Not as I will, but as Thou wilt,” and read three verses from it, one of which is as follows: Help as, O Lord, with patient love to bear Each other's faults, to suffer with true meekness; Help ns each other's joys and griefs to share, Bnt let ns turn to Thee alone in weakness. Other verses had been marked in the book, among them the following: What if poor sinners count thy grief the signal of an unchastened will; He who can give thy soul relief knows that thou art submissive still. This volume belonged to his wife, and contained a photograph of her and their son, both deceased. He treasured it beyond value and alwayß made it his companion, from which he seemed to derive much comfort. After reading the verses he spoke with gratitude of toe kindness of his friends during his sickness, and of the widespread sympathy in his behalf. He then returned to bed, in a happy mood, and slept. At three o’clock this morning he awoke, complaining of pain in his stomach. One of his attendants rubbed it, and, being thus relieved, he again fell asleep. At seven o’clock he awoke, remarking that he felt brighter and better than at any time previous. He said he was going to ride out to-day, as his physician, Dr. Baxter, had advised him to do so if the weather was fair.

At twenty-nine minutes past seven o’clock he said he would get up and take breakfast. He then called for “bitter water,” which had heretofore been prescribed, and, having drank it, he laid down, with his left side on the pillow, as if with sudden exhaustion, breathing heavily, but uttering no words, and in a‘ few moments he died without a struggle. SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. The following brief sketch of the life of the late Vice-President is taken from the Chicago Tribune of the 23d: The life of the deceased statesman has been a marked one, and its record is one that may be profitably studied by all Americans. Born in 1812, in poverty, he was apprenticed-to a farmer at ten years of ape, and served laboriously until his majority, in 1833. ’With little opportunity for schooling, he found the means, evea in those days, when books were aot as plentiful or as accessible as now, to *ead a great many volumes of history and biography. As soon as he had completed his apprenticeship on the farm he walked to Natick, Mass., where he engaged at shoemaking, at which he worked diligently, practicing temperance and rigid economy, until he had accumulated some SSOO. He then tried to improve his limited education by attending an academy in New Hampshire, but the depository of his savings having become insolvent he returned to shoemaking at Natick. His good habits and his natural abilities, however, made him conspicuous among his associates, and in 1840 he was enlisted m behalf of Gen. Harrison’s election to the

Presidency, he making a great to any speeches. From that time to the present he has been conspicuous in American politics. He was almost continuously a member of either one or the branch of the State Legislature, and frequently the presiding officer. He was an active anti-slavery man, and opposed the annexation of Texas. In 1848 he left the Whig National Convention when it rejected the anti-slavery platform, and. united with the Free-Boil party. For two years he edited an anti-slavery paper In Boston, serving also in the Legislature. In 1852 he presided at the Free-Soil National Convention in Pittsburgh. In 1858 he was the Free-Soil candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, but was defeated. When the Know-Nothing organization elected Gardner Governor of Massachusetts Mr. Wilson was a member' .of that party, but when that party subsequently rejected an anti-slavery platform he abandoned it. In 1855 he was elected to the U nited States Senate in the place of Edward Everett, resigned, and continued by successive elections a member of that body until 1878, when he resigned to be

come Vice-President, to which place he was eleeted in 1872. THE FUNKRAL. i-.-ii-.-. , The funeral services in Washington of toe late Vice-President Henry Wilson took place in the Senate Chamber on the morning of toe 26th. m . ;V .1 The crowd in attendance was large, notwithstanding the weather was unfavorable,, and many were unable to gain admission to toe building. The Senate Chamber was heavily draped in mourning, and the catafalque was placed, immediately in front of dm Vice-President’s table. Seats were arranged on the floor for the President and hte Cabinet, members of Congress, Judges of the Supreme Court, and other prominent persons who attended toe services. The casket containing the remains was brought into toe' room by twelve soldiers and placed upon the catafalque, two privates of the Marine Corps taking position one at the head and the other at the footof toe coffin, and standing “at rest” during die entire service. The chair of the VicePresident was vacant and heavily draped in mourning. Among the numerous floral offerings on the casket in the Senate Chamber was a large monument bearing the following inscription : Floral offering from the South, by the Rev. David Wells, for the funeral of the lamented Vice-President, the student, statesman, philanthropist and Christian, whose name will ever live’in the annals of his admiring countrymen, and whose memory will be cherished by the wise and good, without respect to section or party. Selections of Scripture were read by the Rev. Dr. Sunderland, after which the Rev. J. E. Rankin delivered an eloquent discourse. After prayer and benediction by the Rev. Dr. Sunderland the coffin was closed and the funeral cortege was formed add proceeded to the depot of the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad. The funeral cm in which the remains were conveyed to the depot was elaborately trimmed with black cloth and surmount ed by five heavy black plumes. It was drawn by six white horses, caparisoned in black, each one led by a groom in mourning. Surrounding this car was a guard of honor, consisting of three non-commis-sioned officers and ten privates, under command of G. B. Haycock. The casket having been placed on the platform at toe depat, Senator Thurman, Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements, addressed the Massachusetts Committee, and consigned to them the remains of the Vice-President, Col. Wyman replying to the Senator’s address. The body was then placed in the car and, accompanied by toe Massachusetts delegation, the Congressional committees and a large number of other gentlemen, was taken to Baltimore, where a large crowd was found in waiting at the depot. Notwithstanding a heavy and cold rain was* falling at toe time toe streets for nearly two miles, extending from the Charles street depot to the City Hall, were crowded on both sides by people of all conditions, who waited in a severe storm for more than an hour for the procession to crane and go. The arrangements here were Qf the most systematic and satisfactory character. The Fifth Maryland Regiment formed toe principal escort through the city, in full uniform and bearskin hats. The hearse was drawn by lour black horses led by grooms, and as the concourse passed through the city amidst the toiling of bells, the ringing of chimes, and the music it was a mournful and impressive spectacle. The casket was placed on a bier in toe rotunda of the City Hall, and for an hour and a half a vast crowd passed through and took a last look at the features of the

departed. The remains arrived in Philadelphia at 10:40 p. m., where they were met by over 5,000 people and escorted to the StateHouse, the Second Regiment of the National Guards erf Pennsylvania acting as the guard of honor. After the body had been transferred from the hearse to the hall, and placed in the room where the Declaration of Independence was signed, the doors were thrown open to die public. Although it was midnight thousands had waited for an opportunity to take a last look at the remains of the Vice-President, and a line which reached a distance of several blocks was formed and the throng eomm sneed passing in, and was almost continuous during the night and until ten a. m., many persons being unable to gain admittance. At eleven o’clock the body, was placed in a hearse and taken to the depot m route for New York city, where it arrived about four p. m., and was met by five regiments of infantry, officers of the regular army, 400 policemen,-a battalion of the Fire Department, numerous committees from political and other civic bodies, and officers of die National, State and municipal governments and a large concourse of people, and escorted through the city to the depot en route for Boston.

The funeral cortege reached Boston at 10:30 on the morning of the 28th. Eight policemen in dress-uniform, who had been detailed for the purpose, bore the casket from the train to the Beach street entrance. Capt. Haycock, with his detachment of twelve marines who bad accompanied the remains from Washington, together with the officers of the Filth Maryland Regiment, marched on either side of the casket as a guard of honor. Immense throngs lined the streets on the route to the State-House as the remains were conveyed thither, and the utmost quiet prevailed and great reverence was shown to the deceased by the crowds of people through which the procession passed. Doric Hall, where the hody lay in state, was heavily but simply draped in black and white. On their arrival set the hall the remains were formally delivered to the State authorities, Gov. Gaston receiv-

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tag them on behalfof toe State ina few feeling remarks. The ceremonies of the occasion were of a solemn and impressive character, and not less than 30,000 pecule passed through the hall daring the day and evening to take a last view of the features' of toe deceased statesman.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Tab Bartoris baby will be home in time for Christmas dinner. It makes a hen tender to Jet her lay awhile after she is dead. A cactus at East Fairfield, Yt., is *®- ported with 215 buds and blossoms. “ Hard-times parties” and “calico balls” ought to be very popular this winter." '• Derating clubs are taking toe place of last yeM’s spelling-matches in the country towns. . n „ ~ y.nißo means nothing until the mercury in toe thermometer reaches it, and then there’s trouble. It is estimated that no less than 50,800 snorting, puffing and screeching locomotive engines inhabit this mundane sphere. An exclusively colored panel in a Louisiana court lately returned the written conclusion: "We, the verdict, find the jury guilty.” Ip names mean anything the recent marriage of Mr. Grippia and Miss Clinch gives promise of an occasional lively matrimonial set-to. It is said toat there are more lies told in the sentence “ I am glad to see you” than in any other six words in the English language. . “ Latin and Greek are all right,” said a Delaware farmer, as he halted his team, “ but gimme a man who can plow around an apple tree ’thout touching the roots.” A man ta Greenville, Tenn., has captured twenty-seven hawks by setting a steel-trap upon the dead limb of a tree upon which they have been in the habit of alighting. A New York rabbi states that he has admitted thirty-eight Christian male adults to membership in the Iraelitish Church. There was a marriage ceremony immediately after each case.

A careful housewife in Altoona, Pa., put an eighteen-doilM order and a tendollar greenback into toe drawer of the coffee-mill for safe-keeping. Next morning tie family enjoyed a twenty-eightdol-1m cup of coffee. A little fellow only nineyears old was arrested in England a few days ago for causing the death of a girl eleven years old. He struck her in the stomach with his clenched fist, and she dropped immediately, dying soon after. A surveyor, while fixing the boundaries of a farm in Huron, Wayne County, N. Y., a few days ago, discovered that more than seven acres of land had been washed away by the waves of the lake since the first survey was made. The signification of pet names appears to vary according to locality. Out in Arizona, for instance, a “jolly dog” is a man who keeps a well-stocked private grave-yard—at least this is the term applied in an Arizona paper to one of the plass. If there is anything that will bring tears to the eyes of an Indian tobacco-sign it is to witness a young lady undergoing the trying ordeal* of endeavoring to bring a fallen elotoes-iine full of clothes to a realization of its solemn duty. —Detroit Free Preu.

At; the departure of the Prince of Wales from England, says the Boston Commercial Bulletin, a sailor rebuked a landsman who was laughing at the grief of the royal family in the following juaprempta: Avast with your laughing, You heardess land lubber; At such a sad parting What can Whale* do but blubber? A Philadelphia friend, who rejoiced in the name of Comfort, paid his devoirs to a young and attractive widow named Rachel H——, residing on Long Island. Either her griefs were too new or her lover too old, or from some other cause, the offer was declined. Whereupon a, Quaker friend remarked that ft was not the first modem instance he had known where Rachel refhsed to be Comforted. The Sanitary Inspector of Glasgow, Scotland, has found that the yellow toyballoons sold to children are poisonous. He says that the coloring matter consists of one part of chromate of lead and three parts of carbonate of lime. Children, being in the habit of applying their mouths to the orifice of these balloons for the purpose of filling them with air, may readily receive a quantity of such poisonous powder into their mouths. Toy-bal-loons, therefore, although admirably fitted few playthings at baby-tarms and other institutions of a similar character, shonld be viewed with Suspicion in every wellregulated nursery.— Exchange.

There is nothing half sofiinny as a practical joke, and this, as told by an Eastern paper, is a regular rib-tickler: “Frederick Walker and Peter Kohler, of Guttenberg, N. j., stuffed in old stilt of clothes with straw, the other night, and carried it to Bull's Ferry road and Herman avenue, where they placed it against a lamp-post. About midnight they began an imaginary quarrel in a loud tone, and continaed it until a number of people were aroused from their beds. Then they shot the imaginary man. The body fell down; and the young men ran away. The neighbors, thinking a murder had been committed,, chased the young men, and Kohler was shot in the leg before the deception was explained.” Think what solid enjoyment Mr. Kohler will have laughing at that for six weeks while he nurses his leg, and what a scream ing three it would have been for his whole family if he had been shot in the head.

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A CONSTANT RSAJDNN. ” —-<■ ■ A Ta* ovenrorked.acribe of toe ut U wo ,TtyY Sat wondering—moneyleaa wight— . , *-. u . If bk office would cxer be cleared of Its debt, With toe times so deplorably tight— When toe tread of old leather w*a board <*) toe stair And a stranger atopfai tßto tVOweto. vw m Who asked with the V you»air Which toe bore is bo apt to assume: “How are ye?” The editor rose with a amlle M! i ’'•* And pleasantly yielded hte ehafar- - .«sa Placed the visitor's sadly unbeautifu) tile • (Which exhibited symptoms oTUear) On the top of toe desk, alongside oT hfi own (A shocking old plug, b* the way), And then asked la a rather obsequious “Can we do anything for you to-day?” “No—l jest called to see ye,” the visitor said, “I'm a friend to toe newspaper man”— ‘ Here he ran a red handkerchief over his head And accepted the edttor*t fan—- “ I hev read all the pieces you’ve writ for year sheet, * And they’re straight to the pint, I confess; That »ar slap you gin Keyser was sartinly neat— You’re an ornyment, sir, to the press!” “I am glad you are pleased,” said toe writer, “ indeed; But you praise me too highly, by far- 4 - Just select an exchange toat you’re anxious to read, And, while reading it, try this cigar. By the way, I’ve a melon laid up for a treat— I’ve been keeping it nestled in ice, It’s a beauty, sir, fit for an angel to eat— Now, perhaps, you will relish a slice f” Then the stranger rolled up half a dozen or more Of toe choicest exchanges of all — Helped himself to toe fruit, threw the rinds on the floor, ! t - Or flung them at llise on toe wall. Re assured his new friend toat his ** pieces were wrote • In a manner oncommonly able” — As he wiped his red hands on the editor's coat That bung at the side of the table. “ By the way, I’ve neglected to ask you your name,” Said the scribe, as the stranger arose; , “That’s a fast,” he replied, “ I'm Abtmalech Bose, ' You have heerd o’ that name, I suppose? Pm a-livin’ out here on the Flddlefcpwn Creek Where I own a good house end a lot; The Oaattte git* around to me wUnst every -,week— . I’m the constantes f reader you’ve got!” 1 Ablmalech Bame,” mused the editor, * B-a-m-e *’* (Here his guest begged a chew of his ‘ twist’)— “lam sorry to say your mellifluous name Doesn’t happen to honor my list!” “ ’Bpoee not,” wee the answer—“ no reason it should, For ye see I jlne lots with Bill Prim— He’s a reg Tar subscriber and pay* ye in wood, , , And I bony your paper o’ himj” —“ Brlc-a-Bmc" in Scribner 3 * fbr Deember

A Courageous Woman.

Mr. Moms Fogg, a wealthy fanner, lives n mile from Gorham Village, Me. He is a widower, and his housekeeper, a Mrs. Jewett. On Tuesday forenoon a knock was heard at the front doori and on opening it Mrs. Jewett, who was alone in the house, saw a tramp standing there, n He asked to see the mistress of thq house. She replied that she was.the only mistress , at the time!:' The man then inquired sot the gentleman of the house, and WaS told he was down in the field, He appeared ; very anxious to see him, and wanted Mrs Jewett to go down and call him.. She refused, and told the fellow she couldn’t talk with him any longer, and shut the door in his face. While the lady was j talking she thought she heard some one up-stairs, so she went directly to lur room and, taking a pistol, stepped into another room, where, sure enough, she was com ’ fronted by a large and ugly-looking aim,, who was endeavoring to secrete himselt in a closet. With the utmost coolness Mrs. Jewett aimed her' pistol at him rfttd requested him to depart. He demurred at first, when the lady made another step forward and cocked the pistol. The fellow then ran down-stairs and up fhe.road. The man at the front door also disap. peared. —Boston Herald. ' ’ *•

A Boy’s Experiment.

Mr. M. Conrad Welbon tells the following story of his early efforts at fiu» experiments: “ When I was a little boy, on my father’s farm, I once made a little experiment on my own account, and carried it through secretly, for the purpose of enjoying the sunwise it might create. With this view, as soon as father got through planting his com, I selected and marked off, unknown to him, a small space near the center of the field. To each stalk of corn planted on this space J gave special attention, for the purpose of finding out how much each grain planted could be made to produce by giving it extra manure and extra hoeing. When the corn was gathered the difference between my pet stalks and the rest of the field attracted my father’s attention, and I remember bow puzzled he was in trying to account for it. When, at length, I: disclosed the secret, he instantly inquired how much extra work and manure I had applied. ‘ Tell tpe this exactly,* said be, ‘and I can tell the value of the experiment.’ I told him I had simply doubled what he had given to the rest of the field. After examining the result and comparing it with foe rest of the field he found that his yield was at the rate of forty-four bushels to the acre and mine althe rate of sixty-nine bushels. ‘Now*’ said he, ‘if extra culture and extra manure are good for single stalks, they must be good for the whole crop.’ So the next year he adopted myplan for the whole crop, and found that toe gain was even by seven bushels, than in my experiment.”