Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1876 — Page 1

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THE NEWS.

Hebr Renner, a German newspaper correspondent, has been arrested and maltreated by Turkish troops in Bosnia, and the German Government has been asked to interfere. The royal palace at Barcelona was almost entirely destroyed by fire on the 26th. A Bt. Petersburg dispatch of a recent date says the disorders in Northern Khokand would soon be made the Occasion by Russia forihe annexation of the remainder of the country. President Grant has signed the bill extending the time Of duration of the Alabama Claims Commissioners to the 22d of July next. A Washington dispatch of the 26th ■anya the Mexican Secretary of Foreign .Affairs had stated, in reply to a request of Minister-Foster for permission for regular •United States troops to follow raiders across the border, that the Mexican " Executive was without authority to grant such request except by consent of Congress. Mr. Foster replied that the acknowledgment hy the Mexican Government of its Inability to retrain its own citizens would be the strongest possible argument to all advocates of the acquisition of territory in Mexico. Mr. Foster said further that the citizens of Texas must be protected, and if Mexico did not prevent faittSrs fWm crossing the border the United States would. Eight lawyers of Franklin, La., recently handed to Judge- Mentz, of the St. Mary’s Parish Court,'a dooument requesting him to resign because of his alleged manifest incompetency and the Interested motives which generally influenced his decisions. The Judge replied that he had tried to perform his duty faithfully and impartially, and that, inasmuch as the signers of the paper did not vote for him, he should continue to administer the functions of his office until his constituents (meaning the colored people) called upon him to resign. The members of the bar threatened to appeal to the next Legislature to secure his impeachment.

At Cincinnati, the other night, Mrs. Lawrence dropped a coal-oil lamp. The lire caught in the carpet and her clothes, and in an instant she was wrapped in flames and fearfully and probably fatally burned. Her husband and daughter made efforts to save her and were themselves badly burned. The thermometer indicated eighty degrees above zero at Memphis, Tenn., on the 25th. While Christmas festivities were being celebrated in a school-house in the little village of Hillikon, canton of Aargon, Switzerland, the floor of the structure gave way and all were precipitated into the cellar. Eighty persons were killed and Ally more or less injured. In consequence of the vigorous bombardment of the position by the Carlists, the commander at Hernani gave notice to the national authorities on the 27th that he shoufd be compelled to abandon the post unless reinforcements were promptly forwarded. The reported death of Gen. Kodas had been confirmed by a Madrid special of the 27th. A desperate battle was fought between the Turks and Herzegovinians on the 23d, near N itehitza, which lasted during the entire day, and in which the Turks claim to have been victorious? The fighting was desperate on both sides and the losses severe. The Pacific Mills, at Lawrence, Mass., employing 5,200 operatives, have given notice pfa reduction of from 10 to 15 per cent, in wages, to take effect Jan. 1, owing to the depression in the price of printcloths. At a business meeting oi Brooklyn Plymonth Church held on the evening of the 27th resolutions were adopted acceding to the demand of Mrs. Moulton for a mutual council to advise the church and. Mrs. Moulton upon the questions submitted fey her in her memorandum of Dec. 25, whether the reasons of the church for dropping her from its membership as it did were valid and sufficient, and as to the validity and sufficiency of her .reasons for abstaining so long from the services and sacraments of the church.

The Hudson River sugar refinery, at Hastings, N. Y., was burned on the 26th, and 150 ffita were thrown oat of employment. The ninety-eighth anniversary of the battle of Trenton, which occurred Dec. 26, 1777, was’ celebrated at Trenton, N. J., on the 27fh, in a mock engagement between troops representing the Federal and British armies. Mrs. Holdson, living at Merom, Ind., while attempting to set a l«mp*on a mantel, the other evening, dropped and broke it. The coal-oil was scattered over her clothes, which took fire and burned her so badly that She died shortly afterward. . ' ' A Springfield (Ill.) special telegram of the 27th says Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, who' bad been residing in that city since her sojourn at Batavia, was greatly improved in health and spirits. Ex-Senator Wm. A. Richardson died of paralysis at Quincy, HI., on the morning of the 27th, after an illness of ten days. Geo. M, Shingle, proprietor of the City Mills, at Wyandotte, Kan., failed on the 2f7th. Liabilities from $50,000 to $70,000; assets not over. $12,000. H. Isbell and J. Bennett, two leading boot and shoe dealers at Kalamazoo, Mich , also fatted on the 27th. Isbell's liabilities are $32090; assets from $15,000 to SIB,OOO. Bennett’s not stated. Advices were received in Madrid on the 26th, giving the details of a terrible

THE JASPER REPUBLICAN.

VOLUME 11.

hurricane which passed over the Philippine Islands on the 30th of November. Two hundred and fifty lives were lost, many cattle perished and crops were ruined. A London dispatch of the 38th gays serious disturbances had occurred at Baanßfoot, County Armagh, Ireland, in consequence of the marriage of a Protestant girl to a Roman Catholic. Several Protestants had attacked the house where the marriage occurred, and during the fight which followed a number were killed and several badly wounded. A Paris special of the 28th says the Orleans Princes had decided not to take seats in thfi, Senate or Chamber of Deputies. Theodore M. Va lb, Assistant Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service, will succeed Superintendent Bangs in February next. On the evening of the 28th Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was served with a summons and complaint in a suit for “malicious prosecution,’* instituted by Francis D. Moulton. Moulton claims $50,000 damages. Fifteen States have taken a census o population in 1875, thetotal increase since 1870 being a little over 2,000,000. A like average progress throughout the United States would show an aggregate increase in five years of upward of 5,000,000, or a total population of 44,000,000. A New York telegram of the 28th states that Judge Donohue had forfeited the recognizances on seven indictments against the fugitive Tweed. Among the suspensions announced on the 28th were those of Jas. A. Smith and G. N. & J. A. Smith, woolen manufacturers, operating live mills in Massachusetts. Liabilities variously reported at from $300,000 to $600,000; assets unknown.

A numerously-attended public meeting was held in Charleston, 8. C., on the evening ot the 28th, to sustain the action of Gov. Chamberlain in refusing commissions as Judges to Whipperand Moses. Resolutions were adopted denouncing the Legislature for electing them, protesting against their elevation to the bench and declaring an unalterable purpose never to allow them to occupy the position. The Alabama Legislature met on the 28th. The Governor’s message is devoted entirely to State affairs. E. L. Paterson, Republican member of the Louisiana Legislature from Natchitoches, was shot and instantly killed on the 26 th by Cosgrove, editor of the Vindicator. A Vienna dispatch of the 29th says: “ The Secretary of State of the United States has transmitted to every European Government a circular asking for an expression of opinion regarding American intervention in Cuba.” The dispatch further says that all the Governments had replied satisfactorily, England being willing to indorse intervention at once, and other nations declaring a willingness to support intervention, but hesitating to take the initiative. A Madrid telegram of the 29th says arrangements had been perfected for the return of ex-Queen Isabella to Spain. The Alphonsists had concentrated 80,000 men in Navarre and Alava. Two hundred American Residents attended a meeting in Berlin on the evening of the 29th to protest against the declaration of the German press that the Thomas-Mosel explosion affair was the direct fruit of American civilization. A large number of Germans present cordially concurred in the resolutions. In the French Assembly on the 29th the Press bill introduced by the Government was adopted by nearly a unanimous vote. The proposal to raise the state of siege throughout the counfry was rejected—339 to 377.

The British Admiralty has recently issued another circular in regard to fugitive slaves. It declares that fugitive slaves asking admission to a British man-of-war, when in the territorial waters of r foreign State, must be received only when their lives are endangered, and once received must not be surrendered at the demand of any power. • A Labor Convention met at Tyrone, Pa., on the 29th and appointed a National Committee of thirty-seven to issue a call for a convention of representatives of labor and industry from all parts of the country, to be hdW in Pittsburgh next April. The work of consolidating the revenue collection districts throughout the country has been completed, and the number is reduced from 209 to 163. The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the retirement of $644/550 legaltender notes on account of National Bank circulation issued during December. This leaves the outstanding legal-tenders $37,182,722. The amount of additional National Bank notes issued since Nov. 1 is $1,701,280, and the total amount issued since the passage of the act is $12,715,975. The amount of Iqgal-tender notes deposited by National Banks for the purpose of retiring the circulation, since Nov. 1, is $2,987,206.

In the case of the $176,000 illegally collected as income' tax on dividends of Illinois Central Railroad .stock held by non-resident aliens, Atty.-Gen. Pierrepont has decided that the money should be returned to the company and not to the stockholders., > „ A San Diego (Cal.) dispatch received in San Francisco on the 29th says almost the entire Mexican population in the vicinity of Campo were implicated in the recent raid. Tuscon news received on the same day reports a fight between the State and revolutionary forces, twenty-five miles south of the- line, in which the former were defeated, with ten killed and a number wounded and taken prisoners. The I

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

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1876.

revolutionists were said to be marching on Hermossillo. Several additional whisky distilleries and rectifying establishments in Chicago were seized by Government officers on the 29th. / A New York dispatch of the 29th announces the death, at the house of his grand-daughter, near Richmond, Staten Island, of Father Boehm, the oldest preacher of the Methodist Church in this country, and probably the oldest clergyman in the world He was Over 100 years old. Thh residence of Mrs. Rachel Gordon, ten miles west of Rising Sun, Ind., was burned on Christmas night, and Mrs. Gand her three children, aged eight, ten and twelve years, perished in the flames. It is supposed that they were robbed, murdered and the bouse set on fire to conceal the crime. d The rote for cable dispatches other than commercial intelligence over the AngloAmerican line has been reduced to twentyfive cents (gold) per word. The National Rifle Association of Great Britain has accepted the invitation of the New York team to participate in the match for small-bores during the Centennial. Sir Henry Halford -has been appointed Captain of the English team. All the German papers except the National Zeitung have withdrawn their offensive comments upon American character. , i/j Washington dispatches of the 30th ult. say the Secretary of the Treasury would not receive checks and drafts in payment of debts due to the Government. Joseph Bork, the City Treasurer of Buffalo, N. Y., is alleged to be a defaulter to the extent of $350,00(1 or more. A dispatch of the 30th ult. days he had fled to Canada.

A call has been issued for a State Convention of the Independent party of Illinois to meet at Decatur Feb. 10, ‘to nominate candidates for State officers and to select forty-two delegates to the National Independent Convention called to meet in Indianapolis May 17, 1876. The Spencer Investigating Committee reported to the Alabama State Sen. c n the 30th uR. that frand and bribery were used by Mr. Spencer to secure his re-elec-tion to the United States Senate. Other charges of official corruption and misconduct were made against him. The report was ordered printed, with the evidence, and the committee given time to prepare a memorial to the United States Senate protesting against Mr. Spencer’s further occupancy of the seat in that body. Collector Shaughnessy, of Mississippi, having reported to Commissioner Pratt that Deputy-Collector Redmond had been prevented by armed bands from discharging his duties, and that the Mayor of Summit, Pike County, had notified him to leave, as he could not protect him, President Grant sent an order on the 29th pit, to the Secretary of War to furnish the necessary protection. A special dispatch from Summit to the Vicksburg Herald, of the 30th says there had been no armed band of men at Summit at any time. On Christmas several young men from Amite County, on a drunken spree, talked a good deal about Redmond, intending to annoy and frighten him. Redmond had a personal difficulty with one of the men and he telegraphed fur troops. The dispatch says the citizens of Summit were able and willing to protect Redmond in the discharge of his duties.

Late investigations in England by German detectives had revealed the fact, according to a London dispatch of the 31st ult., that Thomas, the dynamite fiend, once attempted to obtain insurance on a box which he said contained $30,000 in gold, and which he wished from New York to Liverpool. Inspection was insisted upon, but he refused to open the box, and the company declined to insure. The suspicion had also been raised that he was privy to the loss of the steamer City of Boston in January, 1870. Ilis accomplices were believed to be yet living in Liverpool, and to have possession of his appliances. The French Assembly was prorogued on the 31st ult. until March 8,1870. A Posen telegram ot the 31st ult. announces the arrest and imprisonment of the Bishop of Posen, who was lately convicted of violating the Ecclesiastical laws and condemned to six months’ imprisonment. The sale in Germany of fraudnlent American medical diplomas has been interdicted by the Government. N The British steamer Dante ou the 31st collided m St. George’s Channel with the steamer Gronsaver, sinking her and causing the drowning of twenty-three persons. A decree has been, issued-convoking the Spanish Cortes to consider Cuban affairs. A Washington dispatch of the'3lst ult. says the President Imdgjifother places to all the disabled vU^iioo/ aoMiers i§. moved front |>osi M** *W > Mouse be Representatives. At a meetingßepublicans held In Washington on the 30th ult. the general sentiment expressed by those present was that President Grant should be nominated for a third term. ’ V : The centennial year was ushered in amid tbe-*trijsHkg of tad Brfti£°6t Washington and many other locahtfotßAD va* te srssps' s*- 5 *- Benedict Bros.’ jewelry store, udder the Grand Central Hotel,-in New York city, was robbed a few nights ago of $25,000 worth of jewelry and diamonds. The persons m charge of the store were chloroformed by the robbers. Mr. Shearman, on behalf of Plymouth Church, and J. M. Van Cott, for Mrs. Moulton, at a conference on the morning

of the 31st ult. agreed that ten churches and five ministers should be called on each side to form the mutual council to decide on the questions submitted by Mrs. Moulton in hex-recent letter. .The mutual council will convene cm Tuesday, the 18th instant. Among the ocean steamers arriving at New York cm the 2d was the Salier, on board of which it was at one time reported there had been placed one of Thomas’ dynamite Internal machines. A severe wind-storm did considerable damage to njuperty in Chicago on the night of the Ist. A Tucson dispatch received in San Francisco on the 31st ult. says three com* panies of United States cavalry lately made a forced march to San Rafael, but returned on finding that all armed bodies bad passed into Sonera. It was reported that Pesquiera’s troops, while in Arizona,, behaved badly, taking stock and grain without payment. Anthony C. Hesing, H. B. Miller and Jacob Kehm were arrested in Chicago, on the 31st alt., on warrants charging them with complicity in whisky frauds. Hesing and Rehm were held in bail of $50,000 each; Miller’s bail was fixed at $lO,000. A warrant was also issued for the arrest of Wm. Minty, a Deputy Collector of the Revenue Department, but up to the morning of the 3d, he hatl not been found. The Illinois Distillery, one of the largest in the country, whs alsoseizqd on the 31st.

THE MARKETS.

Live Stock.—Beef Cattle—s9.so® 13.50. Hogs —Live, $7.2507.631*. Sheep—s4.soo7 00. Breadstuffs.— Floor—Good to choice, $5.55® 5.90; white wheat extra, $5.9607.75. Wheat—No. 3 Chicago, $1.1801.31; No. 3 Milwaukee spring, $1.3301.33. Rye—Western and State, 87095 c. Barley—sl.oool.lo. Corn-Mixed Western, 7114 ©73c. Oats—Mixed Western, 45@46c. Provisions.—Pork Mess, $30.63(4030.75 Lard—Prime Steam, 133tf®13%c. Cheese—7® 12(*c. Wool.—Domestic fleece, 38© 63c. CHICAGO. Lite Stock.—Beeves—Choice, $'>.3506.00; good, $4.5005.00; medinm, $4.0004.35; butch ers’ stock, $3.5)03.75; stock cattle, $3.7503.75. Hogs—Live, $6.5007.15. Sheep—Good to choice, $4.5006.2). Provisions.—Butter—Choice, 25073 c. Eggs— Fresh, 34035 c. Pork—Mess, $18.90018 95. Larde-$12.15012.17(4. Bheadstuffs.—Flour—White Winter Extra, $4.7507.60; spring extra, $4.0005.25. WheatSpring, No. 2, 95(409544c. Corn—No. 2, 48(4 04844 c. Oats—No. 2, 29x030c. Kyo—No. 2. 67068 c. Barley—No. 2, 83(4@84c. Lumber—First and Second Clear, $40,000 42.00; Common Boards, sll 00012.0'); Fencing, $12.00013.50; “A" Shingles, $2.7506.00; Lath, $1.7502.00. • EAST LIBERTY. Live Stock.—Beeves—Best, $6 0006.35; medinm, $4.7505.25. Hogs—Yorkers, $6.7006.90; 5.50; medium, $4.7505.00.

Important Land Decisions.

Washington, Dec. 27. Coup’s Land Owner for December reports decisions of the Secretary of the Interior, establishing the following principles: ■yVfv Homesteads—-The possession of an executor or administrator is, uuder the Homestead law, the possession of the heirs or devisee, subject to the right ot administration vested in the officer, and the time allowed by the court for the settlement of the estate must be counted for the heir or devisee in making final proof. The.provisions of Section ■ 2,291 of the Revised Statutes are substantially complied with by continual cultivation tor the period of five years by the heirs or devisee, personal residence not being required in their case. At a hearing to determine the abandonment in the case of the deceased homestead claimant, a certified copy of the will and other matters connected therewith may be introduced. Pre-emption—A mortgage unsatisfied, at the date of proof and entry defeats a pre-emption claim; also decisions of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to the effect that soldiers now in the regular army may, under Section 2,293 of the Revised Statutes, perform the preliminary acts relating to homestead entries therein mentioned. <

Timber Culture —The planting ot seeds or cuttings is not a compliance with the Timber-Culture act, but the General Land Office does not inquire how the required trees are produced.- If seeds or cuttings produce healthy-growing trees the law is complied with. A timber-culture settler may relinquish a portion of the land embraced in his entry and hold the re mainder. - * • AV -* ->* Salt Springs—The existence of a salt spring on a tract of land withdraws it from the operation of the Homestead and Pre-emption laws, vide Sections 2,258 and 2,289, Revised Statutes. A hearing for the purpose of proving the agricultural character of such lands is not allowed. Mineral Lands and Raifroad The question, “ Can lands containing valuable deposits of mica, inuring, if agricultarah to the Union Pacific Railroad, be the Mining laws?” was .First—Lands containing valuably deposits of mica may be patented law of May 16, 1872. Second —Alf minerals, except coal tad iron, are excepted from the grants to railroads. , ’ V'r"- : —“ Mr. Busbee says you needn’t send the paper to him any more,” said a little urchin who stuck his head into the sanctum. V All right.” “ An’ he said to tell .you he wouldn’t a stopped it only you didn’t say nothin’ about the big bog he killed.last week,” continued the youth; and then he slid down the banister into the street.—Fulton (ts. Y.) Times. —One of the fashion authorities hasdecreed that short men shall not wear Ulster coats, and that &U men who wear Ulsters shall not wear high hats. Tall women in Derby hats look like dressed-op ten-pins, and little women in flare-up bonnets look overwhelmingly top-heavy.

Details of the Dynamite Explosion at Bremerhavea.

The following particulars respecting the dynamite explosion st Bremerhaven are from the Weiner Zedong: It appears that just before the Mosel was about to sail a cart containing four eases and a barrel was being unloaded for shipment. Suddenly a terrible explosion occurred. The effect was horrible. The quay was then thronged with people—partly belonging to the steamer, partly spectators, ana partly passengers who had remained there to take a last farewell of their friends. An eye-witness who stood under the gangway of the Mosel, on hearing the terrific report, saw a number of black lumps flying about in the air, whilst very few of the persons on land remained visible. Apprehending a boiler-explosion he threw himself flat on deck, when he received a volley of sand, broken glass, fragments of flesh, bones, etc. The devastation on hoard the Mosel was terrific. No skylight was left; the cabins aft, starboard and port were either crashed in or bulged out by the pressure" or altogether smashed; the side plates of the ship were burst; the ports with their glasses and rivets forced Inward, and the whole ship was besmeared with blood ahd stuck over with pieces of flesh and other human debris. In the hold and all parts of the ship were found arms,' legs and other portions of the human frame; thus the lower hold received some limbs through the open hatchways. The sides of the hatchways were burst by the pressure, and the front of the navigation cabin on deck stove In. The whole ship was Uttered with glass shreds, which even fined the dishes from the steam kitchen as they were being served to the ’tween deck or steerage pas* sengers. The tug got off comparatively unhurt, being so much more below the quay line than the Mosel; still, the whole of its deek; was destroyed. The crew came off with a mere fright, only the engineers and stokers having been hurt slightly. On land, where the packages had been unloaded, a hole had been produced six or seven feet deep. The whole place was strewn with limbs, shreds of dress, etc. In large reeking pools of blood you might sqe here an arm, there a calf, intestines, mutilated busts, etc. Amongst the most horrible details of this calamity is the fate of the Etmer family, who were seeing off one of their sons to California. The father, mother, son and son-in-

law are dead, all four; the daughter-in-law has had her arm, and her child its hand, blown off. The case which exploded had been in the care of the carrier Westej-mann, of Bremerliavcn, and was accompanied on its way to the steamer by a Mr. Tumforde, of Whom it Is said all traee has been lost. The cart has been shattered into thousands of splinters, and the poor horse has had his four feet blown off near the hoofs. The authorship of the terrible catastrophe Is now traced to W. ‘ K. Thomas, a passenger of the Mosel. Thomas has acknowledged that he was the owner of the barrel which exploded, and that he intended to take this barrel on board the vessel for the purpose of sinking her. The motive of this diabolical wickedness appears to have been the hope > t gaining a large sum by means of exaggerated and fictitious Insurances, and the sum thus obtained was to have been shared with others. He is perfectly conscious and answers alt questions put to him. He is in the same room with many of his Victims. According to information at present in possession of the police, Thomas had prepared only one barrel for the carrying out of his horrid work, although a report had spread in Brcmerhaven that a number of machines had been put on board the Mosel, This barrel was made for Thomas *by the master cooper Delvendhsl. It was made of Btrong material, and was divided by means of a partition in the middle, through Which there was a hole. In one division it is assumed that he had placed the igniting apparatus, and the other was filled with dynamite. He accompanied the barrel when it was taken to the depot of the North German Lloyd Company, and told the porters it should be handled with bare. It is supposed that hi» plan was to effect the ignition by means of a clock-work apparatus, which in all probability was to be set in motion when he arrived at Southampton, to which place only he bad booked. It appears that he intended to sail with the ill-fated Deutschland, but the aparatus for effecting the ignitibn was not completed in time. The number of the victim is constantly being increased. According to authentic information the list of dead and wounded amounts to 180 persons. The scene at the hospital dead-house was of the most harrowing character. The mutilated remains filled a large basket which four strong men could hardly carry. There were also a number of heads, which from time to time were inspected by people looking for friends or relatives. About thirty wounded persons were in the hospital; many others were in private houses. Nearly every family in the little town has suffered severely. .

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

If you have fifty dollars in cash you can go to New York and start a savings bank. Four ex-Congressmen occupy menial positions in the service of the House, at Washington. “Guilty, with some doubts about his being the man that did it,” is a Pennsylvania verdict. Philadelphia hotel-keepers promise uot to charge more than five dollars a day at the Centennial. The worldly New York clergyman don’t put any vim into a marriage ceremony unless he sees the figures on a fiftydollar bill in> advance. The New York papers are agitating the community by discussing the question whether it is proper or not lor a gentleman to cross his legs in a street-car. Kate Field carries a revolver. Some daysome malicious person will load it, and 1 then she will have to put it in a pail of water .and run behind the door until the danger is over. Adirondack Murray says pleasure is the legitimate end of life provided it transgresses no law and injures no person. This code of morals is not generally accepted by the philosophers. The New York Herald says that 50 per cent, of the Christmas slippers did not fit, ’Twas ever thus in boyhood’s hour. Slippers never fitted them—perhaps because they were tried on improperly. A French doctor says all great criminals have been great smokers. We observe likewise that alt great criminals have been in the habit of sleeping at night and eating three meals a fay.—Rochester Democrat. The Lieutenant-Governor of Rhode Islahd should remember that there arc worse things than having a $6,000 horse die on short notice. It might have been a SIO,OOO colt and so he has made a saving ot $4,000. John Montgomery Sears, son of the late Joshua Sears, of Boston, came of age Christmas Day. He owns more than $4,000,000 of real estate in Boston, and is

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worth many millions more in mortgages and bonds of various kinds, Chester Bardon, an Oregon murderer under sentence of death, has cheated the gallows by starving himself to death., Chester always was dishonest, and to outrage the law was his fovorite amusement. He doubtless died with a grin on his cou n to nance. As a specimen of deliberately sowing the wind with a dead certainty of reaping the whirlwind, the case of the small boy who intrudes upon his grown-up sister and her young man is especially notable. But the small boy always takes the chances. — Bt. Lou in Republican. ' Nbxt year will be a great year for this American nation. It is leap year, Presidential election year and the centennial anniversary of our independence, and for the purpose of giving us a rest during so much excitement there will be one extra Sunday, or fifty-three in all. Now this is why the sly lobster blushes so after being boiled : Tbe shell of the lobster is imbued with a black or bluishblack pigmfent, secreted by the true skin, which also gives out the calcareous matter after each molt, so that lime and pigment are blended together. This pigment becouies red (pale or intense) in water at the temperature of 212 degrees. One night last week one of our saloonkeepers heard a rattling in his cellar, and procuring a tight went down and discovered a rat caught by the tail in a clam shell. The rat, after being caught, attempted to enter his hole, but was stopped by the clam being too large to follow, and was found in that position by the saloonkeeper.—Orleans American. John Kitler, a private of Company “G,” Twentieth Infantry, committed suicide at Fort Ripley recently. Five minutes before he left the mess table, went into the squad-room, seated himself on a trunk, removed his shoe, and touched thp-trigger of a rifle with his right foot. The death was instantaneous, and brains and blood were scattered about the room.

A correspondent of the New York Farmers’ Club gives an instance in which a woman’s arm was swelled to an enormous size and painfully, inflamed. A poultice was made of stewed pumpkins, which was renewed every fifteen minutes, and in a short time produced a perfect cure. The fever drawn oat by the poultices made them extremely offensive as they were taken off. The Roman Catholics are building a grand fountain in Philadelphia to commemorate the Centennial. They will issue some time the present month a medal bearing on one side a picture of the fountain and the words: “ In Honor of the One Hundredth Anniversary of Independence,” tad the reverse bearing the official badge of the Catholic Total Abstinence Beneficial Union, with the words: “ 1776 —A Tribute to American Liberty—lß76.” Old Scrooge is dead. His name this time was George Stebbins, mid he lived in Springfield, Mass. He died in a fit on Christmas Day. Although worth several thousand dollars, he has been extremely miserly and penurious, living on bacon and crackers and other cheap diet. His house, which few persons besides himself have been permitted to enter, was found to be dirty, bare and dreary, containing only a few rickety chairs, some broken crockery, an old piano and a little com.

An old man in Baltimore, who has been a great favorite with children, gave three little girls some small cakes, a few nights ago, which he hail carried in his pocket. After eating the cakes the girls were taken very ill and one of them died before a physician arrived. The lives of the others were saved by the prompt use of emetics. On going to the old man’s room he was found dead in his bed. An examination of his pocket showed that he had carried matches with the cakes and the phosphorus had poisoned them. Six years ago Messrs. Woicott, Johnston & Co., of Freehold, N. J., sold to Lewis D. Mount, a farmer, a twenty-five-cent package of what they represented as seed that woiild produce excellent early turnips. The seed brought forth late turnips of such poor quality that Mr. Mount was compelled to feed them to his cattle. Mr. Mount sued for damages before a Justice of the Peace, and was granted a judgment of ninety-nine dollars damages. The plea of the defendants was that they had purchased theseed under the impression that it was first-class, and having paid the ordinary price no fraud was intended. . Appeals were taken to the Court of Common Pleas, and afterward to the Supreme Court, and then to the Court of Appeals, and these all affirmed theoriginal decision of the J ustice of the Peace. In the suit slo,ooodamages in legal expenses have been paid. Last night Mr. Middlerib, happy and beaming, went home with both arms full of Christmas bundles and his hands were so full he couldn’t open the front-door, but stood kicking it with his knees. Presently he heard his wife skipping along the hall to meet him, and Mr. Middlerib thought he would surprise her with a little touch of lover-like gallantry. The moment the door was opened he overwhelmed her with an avalanche ck bundles, threw his arms around her, and, despite her shrieks and struggles, kissed his neighbor’s wife, who had just run in on a little informal call and was on her way out when Mr. Middlerib met her. And! Mrs. Middlerib stood about halt-way down (he hall, petrified with amazement, both hands lifted and her eyes and mouth equally wide open. Mr. Middlerib feels grateful indeed that he does not have to work to-day, because he thinks it will require just fourteen hours’ straight talkingto convince Mrs. M. that he didn’t know nil the time who Uveas.—Burlington HawkEye.

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Watching the Bessemer Process.

A CORRESPONDENT of the lf eW Tfl&j World thus describes the methq<k staircase on. a level with the Todndry cupola furnaces, into whose fieiy smaws workmen continually toss big woodep bowlfuls of coal, coke, iron and lfmestohe These cupolas are circular, about ax feet in diameter, with six tuyeres of an aggregate area of 200 square inches! The method of charging them is this : The bed of the charge Is formed of.some 5,400 tons of fuel, upon which is laid some three and a half tons of pig iron. A second bed of 1,400 pounds of fuel is then laid and three more tons of pig .iroa added. These alternate charges of fuel and pig iron continue until the cupola is filled, and it is kept thus filled teethe charging door continually. A small quantity of limestone is added occasionally, acting as a flux. The cupolas will melt 100,000 pounds of iron in nine earn secutive hours, and will bold five tons during the first few charges, but as the hearth becomes filled with slag the capacity is decreased and the furnaces require to he oftener tapped. In the cupolas, then, the first stage of the Bessemer process—the decarbonization of the pig iron—is accomplished. Emptied- now* from the cupolas into enormous ladles of several tons capacity, the liquefied inass is from them poured into trenches which lead to the mouth of the huge converters: (each holding five tons), which swing-like kettles on axes just above their centers. Brilliant pyrotechnics appear. Gaseous explosions from the hot streams toss showers of sparks high among the bean&pand pillars.: The hissing of these molten rivulets is louder than that of a thousand serpents. Decarbonized, the iron is useless. The next step in the process iB to recarbonize it to an exact degree, thus making steel of it For this purpose some smaller spiegeleisen furnaces have been charged with highly-carbonized irop imported from Belgium, and certain.proportions of their con tents.are now emptied into each of the converters, Almost instantaneously the commingling of the elements takes place and a blast of air from the fan completes the fusion as the converters are turned upright with their mouths under the projections of neighboring chimneys. The flame and din which issue from these nozzles for a. few minutes are hideous enough for hells. Suddenly the blast ceases. The fusion is complete. The steel-broth is made. Each condenser turns down its open nozzle and pours out a Vesuvian flood into ladles waiting below, over wlfht are called the ingot-beds. These bed# are sunken circles in the earth. Around their rims are set rows of molds, shaped tike long tin pails, each intended to hold just about the quantity of steel needed to make a rati. The ladles, affixed to the ends of powerful cranes, swing around these circles, depositing in each mold its portion. Cool: ing, the several portions form the steel ingots, which are transported^to the roll-ing-mill hard by, reheated white and' passed between rollers after rollers until, I elongated and shaped, they become rails.

Quick Ears,

It is sometimes surprising to see how animals learn to pick out the sound in which they take an interest from the thousand noises of the city. In Paris a man who goes about with cheap meal for the cats rings a bell as he approaches the house of % customer. Long before the members of the household detcßf the sound pussy will spring to the door, and with eager looks await the her benefactor; for, as she lias no ideas of trade, she can only look on the “ cat-meat man” as a true philanthropist. She eta always pick out his voice and tone amidst the turmoil of the busy street. A gentleman away in a Western Seaport was down on the wharf one day, when he saw a dog spring up and prance about in ' a very joyful manner. He could see no reason for the excitement; but a by-, stander explained: “ That is Mr. Fairy’s dog. He Is mate on board the Alexandria, and as soon as the dog hears the whistle of that boat he knows ft, tad goes for it.” Sure enough, the dog started off at full speed for the dock where the vessel stopped; and as soon as it touched the wharf he boarded it, and sprang to meet his beloved master. The owner of such a faithful dog ought certainly to be a good.mafi ter.. To most people the whistle of steamboat was much like another, tuft this shaggy fellow had learned the exact tone of the one lor which he watched and waited. It is still more Wonderful that dogs, and perhaps some other animals, seem to understand conversation sometimes, and act upon the hints they get in this way. A clever little fellow, who always liked to ride with folks, bat was often that np at home, was sitting in the breakfast-room one morning, when the family planned to go to town that day. “ Shall you go with the single or the doable team, father ?” asked one. “ With the double team,” was the re-, P Shortly after Dash disappeared, and nothing was seen of him until the party had got some * four miles on their way, when he meekly crawled out from under the hack seat, and wagged his tail in a way that seemed to say: “ Yon certainly can’t send me back, now I have got so ®far.” He seemed to know which sleigh to hide in, tad could only have learned from the conversation. — Lutheran Observer. Woman's Journal , in an article on “ Masculine Physiqttfe,” warns every woman in search onlt husband not to bestow a glance on the “ lean” man, but to “shun him es she would a pestilence.” Comforting teaching this to lean men.