Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1876 — Page 1

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THE NEWS.

According to the London Twa# of the 19th the British Cabinet had decided to any proposition Austria might make after its presentation. J A proposed banquet to Gambetta, by his Republican friends at Marseilles, was forbidden by the French military com mander on the 18lh. The failure of a large silk-house, with over $1,009,000 liabilities, was announced from Lyons, France, on the 18th.

A Berlin dispatch of the 18th says that Thomassen, the dynamite, fiend, was charged, in 1866, with scuttling a ship on board of which be had goods insured in England for £24,000. A Washington dispatch of the 17th says the Texas Border Committee had appointed a sub-committee to examine the information in the War Department on the subject of raids from Mexico, etc. The committee would not visit Texas, but would send for persons and papers. The United States Court has recently decided that a State cannot compel a peddler to pay license for selling articles produced in other States, on the ground* that it is a tax upon the goods themselves, a discrimination against the products of other States, and is in conflict with that clause of the Federal Constitution which declares that Congress shall ’have the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States. Gov. Hartranyt was reinaugurated Governor of Pennsylvania on the 18th. A party of Indiana editors, numbering over 200, on a visit to the Centennial grounds in Philadelphia, on the 17th, resolved in efiect that the 'Exhibition should receive the encouragement of Congress to the extent of the $1,600,000 appropriation asked for, but that the Government should disclaim all liability for the expenses incident to the enterprise other than for the amount specified in such appropriation. At a meeting of greenback currency men at Madison, Wis., on the 18th, a State Central Committee was appointed, consisting of one member from the State-at-large and one from each Congressional district. A committee was appointed to draw up a declaration of principles. The ballot in the Kentucky Legislature on the 18th for United States Senator resulted in the choice of James B. Beck, who received 106 votes to 15 for Wadsworth (Republican), and five scattering. He will take his seat on the 4th of March, 1877.

In the Mississippi Legislature on the 18th L. Q. C. Lamar received 110 votes fbr United States from the 4th of March, 1877, the Republican members voting blank. It is said . that at a private caucus of the Republicans it was decided not to participate in the election of Senator on the ground that the late election was carried by fraud and violence. Gov. Kirkwood was elected United States Senator on the 18th by the lowa Legislature. The vote stood: Senate — Kirkwood, 40; Leffler, 9. House—Kirkwood, 68; Leffler, 28. His term in the Senate will begin March 4, 1877. Miss Dona Herndon, residing near Springfield, lII.', on the 18th spilled some burning-fluid from a lamp in her hand and became enveloped in flame, and was horribly and fatally burned. On the same day, at Delphos, Ohio, George Sheeter threw a lot of coal-oil into a stove to hurry up the fire, and was seriously burned. A'telegram of the 19th announces the defeat of six Turkish battalions between Ragusa and Trebigne by the insurgents under Gen. Peko. '1 he Turkish loss was 300 killed and wounded, and the insurgent loss much less. A Roms (Italy) special of the 19th says the Italian Government had closed the Catholic seminary at Como because it refused to admit the Government Inspectors. This was considered the moat pronounced act yet taken by the Government in its dealings with the Roman hierarchy, and important results were thought likely to follow, Several important failures occurred in EnglaWßfa the 19th. A Madrid telegram of the 19th announces that Gen. Tristany, the noted Carlist leader, had given his unreserved submissionto Alphonso. -

In a late letter Treasurer New states that 50 per cent, of the legal-tender notes and fractional currency sent to the departmeotin Washington for redemption are fit for circulation, and he reiterates the decision stated in a previous circular that in no case will the Government pay the charges upon such notes or currency when the same are fit for circulation or when the same are sent in. disregard of the regulations, but the expenses of such redemptions will be deducted from the returns made therefor. In his letter to Senator Gordon, asking for the removal of his political disabilities, Gen. Beauregard says he makes the application that he may be qualified to serve as a member of the Louisiana Levee Board of Commissioners. The town of Apollo, on the West Pennsylvania Railroad, was almost entirely destroyed by Art on the night of the 18th. Loss between $40,000 and $50,000. The Alabama Legislature on the 19th adopted a memorial to the United States Senate to inquire into the right of George E. Spencer to a seat in that body. The Supreme Court of Michigan has decided that the Sunday Liquor law acted at the last session of the Legislature is constitutional. According to a Vienna special of the 90th Idubobntoht bad resigned the leader, of $9 Htraegonniag Qa

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VOLUME 11.

account of the concentration of Turkish troops on the Montenegrin frontier the Prince of Montenegro had called a couacil of Senators and military officcra, which resolved that ifsuch concentration result ed in Montenegro on that side it should be considered a eatut belli, and the Prince should summon all Montenegrins able to bear arms and march into Herzegovina to aid the insurgents. ■ A dispatch of the 20th says the “ real obstruction to Pinchback's admission to the Senate at present is the question whether there is a de jure Government in Louisiana.” ' . At a Republican caucus of the Maine Legislature on the 20th delegates were chosen kF the National Republican Convention and a resolution unanimously adopted favoring Hon. James G. Blaine for President of the United States.

The Plymouth Church advisory council has been called for Feb. 8. The Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention will be held at Lancaster on the 22d ot March. The Moody and Sankey meetings in Philadelphia have been closed. Mr. Moody is reported as having said that he regarded the revival in that city as the most successful he had ever conducted. The number of meetings and Bible readings held during eight weeks was 248. The total of attendance upon the services is estimated at 900,000, and the expenses were about $30,000- At the closing meeting, held on the evening of the 19th, over 12,000 people were present, and as many more were turned away for lack of room. A collection of over SIOO,OOO was taken up to aid the completion of a new building for the Y. M. C. A. One lady, whose son had been converted, sent as a thankoffering a diamond ring, for which a gentleman gave SI,OOO.

On the night of the 19th a mob attacked the office of the Neat and Preet, of Cimarron, New Mexico, and threw the press, type, and other fixtures into the river. Eight persons, members of a prominent boarding-house in Columbus, Ohio, •were taken seriously ill on the 20th, caused by eating pork. Other persons in the city had been affected in a similar manner, and from a like cause. The Illinois Fanners’ Association, for three days previous m session at Bloomington, adjourned on the 20th. Resolutions were adopted demanding the withdrawal ofthe National Bank circulation and the issue of greenbacks direct from the Treasury, to be a legal tender for all debts, public and private, except the principal ahd interest on the public debFcontracted to be paid in gold, anti interchangeable for registered borids bearing a rate of interest, to be paid in geld or legal tenders, at the option of the holders, not exceeding 3 per cent., said bonds being redeemable at the pleasure of the Government in from ten to fifty years; and declaring that the transportation of the country should be under the direct supervision and control of the .public authorities ot the nation, State, county, township or city, according to the inter-State or local character.

R. B. Oakley, proprietor of the -Corporative Credit Bank, of London, was arrested on the 21st on charges of fraud, false pretenses and conspiracy to swindle depositors. He was examined before the Lord Mayor and committed without hail. Victor Hugo issued an address to the Senatorial delegates for Paris and France on the 21st, in which he asks them to found a democracy which shall “end foreign war by arbitration, civil war by amnesty, and distress by education.” Geobge H. Jacobs was hung at Joliet, 111., on the 24st for the murder of his wife on the 26th of last May. Marshall Crain, the hired assassin of one of the parties to the Williamson County vendetta, was also hanged on the same day; at Marion, 111. The Wisconsin Republican State Central Committee have called a State Convention to meet at Madison on the 22d ot February, to select delegates to the National Convention and to nominate a State Electoral ticket.

A suspension of all mining of anthracite coal in the Pennsylvania mines has been decided upon from Feb. 7 to March 11, inclusive. The Ohio Republican State Convention will be held at Columbus on the 29th of March. On the 22d a collision occurred on the Great Northern Railway in England which resulted in the death of thirteen persons and caused serious injury to many others. The accident took place in the midst of a blinding snow-storm. Among those killed" was the son of Dion Boucicault, the wellknown playwright. Mother Stewart, well known in connection with the Ohio crusade, made her first appearance before a London audience on the evening of the 23d. Ragusa telegrams of the 22d report continued fighting between the Turks and the insurgents in which the latter generally had the advantage. Trebigne was threatened With famine. A report prevailed in Constantinople on the 22d that the Porte had accepted Count Andrassey’s. proposal for the pacification of the disturbed provinces.

A Berlin telegram of the 23d says a German squadron, consisting of three iron-clads and one tender, would visit Philadelphia during the Centennial. An Austrian army of observation numbering 50,000 is reported to have been ordered to the Dalmatian frontier to await emergencies. A Madrid telegram of the 23d announces that the Ministry had secured a large majority in the new Cortes. The opposition numbered seventy. The Russian Imperial Academy has recently elected Prof. Newcomb, of the Jtyval Observatory Washington, Prof,

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

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1876.

i (wOtilu, »• lots Prof. Whitoey, of New Haven, as correYork on the 22d from Havana a force led by Henry Reeves, 2,500 strong, had invaded Bagua County and destroyed sugar estates, some of which were valued at $2,000,000 each. Sagna La Chica, where there were warehouses containing 1,600 hogsheads of Muscovado sugar, had been burned and all the sugar consumed. The estate Cayocspino was in the hands of the rebels and of course destroyed. The correspondence between Secretary Fish and Minister Cushing and other foreign Ministers ot the United States were transmitted to the House of Representatives on the 21st. This chiefly consists of a rescript of the note to Mr. Cushing, the tone of which does not materially differ from that part of the President’s message relating to Cuban affairs. Nothing was given of the replies received from European Governments to the advisory circular forwarded by Secretary Fish, and no allusion made to any correspondence with the Spanish Government direct since Nov. 5,1875. The latest counterfeit circular shows that there are in circulation spurious bills on the First National Bank of Indianapolis, the First National Bank of New Albany and the first National and Richmond National of Richmond. Jordan, Clark & Co., one of the leading wholesale clothing firins in Boston have suspended, owing to the falsification of their books by their confidential bookkeeper, Frank Sanford, who has absconded.

The wife of Sir Hugh McKenzie, of Canada, lately eloped from Montreal with John H. Biydges, taking with her her four children. The parties were arrested in New York and subsequently discharged. A brother of the lady and a Canadian officer endeavored to have her return with them to her husband, but she positively refused, and the etoping couple departed together. The New York Sunday Mercury of the 23d says that a body of representative Uongregationalists was about to be organized tor an investigation of the Beecher scandal, and an inquiry as to the fitness of Mr. Beecher to remain a Congregational minister. The originators of the movement are said to be the Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon, of New Haven; the Rev. Dr. L. C. Bartlett, of the Chicago Congregational Seminary, and the Rev. Dr. Henry M. Dexter, of Boston. A man named Edward Williams, who, with a Mrs, Meling had been arrested for the murder of the latter’s husband, was taken from the jail on the night of the 22d, at Barboursville, West Va., and hanged by a mob. He acknowledged the crime. Mrs. Meling was also threatened with a similar fate, but was finally spared. She said she had repeatedly attempted to poison her husband, and accused herself of being the cause of the murder by Williams, but beeged most pitiftilly for her life. A freight train on the Cincinnati & Marietta Railroad went through an iron bridge over Spring Grove avenue in Cincinnati, on the afternoon of the 22d, killing three men, wounding two and totally wrecking the bridge, locomotive and eleven freight cars.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

On the 17th the petition of P. G. T. Beauregard, for the removal of his political disabilities was presented in the Senate and referred. Bills were* introduced—to amend the acts to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, approved Joly 1; 1868, and July 2,1874; to recover from the Central and Union Pacific Railroad Companies the bonds and coupons issued to them in excess of the amount prescribed by law; in relation to lands heretofore granted to railroad companies; to amend the laws relating to silver colds. A concurrent resolution was submitted proposing a common unit of money and accounts for the United States and Great Britain. A petition of dtisens of Massachusetts was presented, asking that a law be passed making each member of Congress directly responsible to the electors of his district, the minority of whom, if he does not meet their expectations or justify their confidence, may at any time recall him and appoint a successor. ... Several bills were Introduced in the House, among which were the following: To prevent traffic in spirituous or intoxicating liquors in the Centennial buildings or grounds during the Exhibition: to repeal the act providing for a redistribution of National Bank currency; to reduce the salaries of all the executive and legislative officers of the Government, except the army and navy, over $1,600, 20 per cent., and to fix the salary of the President at $25/00; to repeal the act for the resumption of specie payment; by Mr. Banka, for the removal of all political disabilities. An amendment to the Constitution was submitted by Mr. O’Brien —as an amendment to Mr Blaine’s propositionproviding that no State shall make any law respecting the establishment or prohibiting the free exercise of religion, disqualifying ministers of the Gospel from holding any office of trust or emolument, either State or National, and providing that no public moneys raised for school purposes shall ever be under the control of any religions sect. Mr. White moved to suspend the rules and bring the House to a vote on the Amnesty bill introduced by tarn, and from the benefits of which Jefferson Davis was excluded, and also to vote on an amendment striking out that exception, which motion was lost for want of the requisite two-thirds—yeas 185, nays 110. A motion to suspend the rules and adopt a resolution declaring in favor of the repeal of the Resumption act was lost—yeas 112, nays 158. A resolution was adopted calling on the President for copies of all correspondence with Spain in reference to the island of Cuba. A constitutional amendment was Introduced and referred limiting the Presidential term to four yean. The proposition was agreed t 0—166 to 102—to amend the rules governing the offering of-amendments to the general appropriation bills so as to make the rule read: “No appropriation shall be reported in such general appropriation UII, or be in order as an amendment thereto, for any expenditure not previously authorized by law, except in continuation of an appropriation for snch public works and objects as are already in progress; nor shall any provision in any such bill, or amendment thereto, changing existing law, be in order, except such as, being germane to the subject-mat-ter of the bill, sbal) retrench expenditure.’’ On the 18th the credentials of James B. Eustis, claiming a scat m Senator from Louisiana, were prMoptffi} |b fb* option being

I made to their reception on too ground of irregularity for want o< We Governor's they I were ! » id over. The memorial of the lyi»ud referred. A bill wA passed to secure attendance and payment of Wttneaees before military covite. The resolution for the appointment of a special committee to investigate the books and accounleof the Treasury Department was taken up and Mr. Boutwell entered into a lengthy explanation of the manner of keeping accounts in the diferent ofltoea of that department. After the oflering of amendments and remarks by other Senators the matter went 0ver....1n the Honse a proposed amendment to the Conrtltution was reported from the Judiciary Committee to the effect that no person who haa held, or may hereafter bold, the office of Preaident shall ever again be eligible to said office; notice of * substitute was given by the minority of the committee. An advene report was made on the bill to abolish capital punishment. Bills were passed—to extend the time for stomping unstamped instruments to the Ist of January, 1877; to extend for three months the time for claimants before the Alabama Claims Commission to prove their claims. Several bills were introduced. The Centennial Appropriation bill wae considered in Committee of the Whole. Mr. Williams, of Wisconsin, offered a proposed amendment to the Constitution, supplementary to the amendment proposed by Mr. Blaine, providing that no money raised by taxation in any State shall be appropriated for the maintenance of any sectarian school or sectarian institution.

On the 19th twenty-one petitions from citizens ot Ohio were presented in the Senate asking for aid in the construction of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Mr. Davis’ resolution for a special committee to investigate the books and accounts of the Treasury Department was taken upend further debated, the nendingquestion being a motion to amend by referring the subject to the Finance Committee. A bill was passed amendatory of the act of June 20, 1874, amending the charter of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company and for other purposes. Mr. Morton spoke at length in favor of his resolution relative to the Mississippi election .... A constitutional amendment was introduced in the House providing against the enactment by Congtess of any special or local law, where a general law can be made applicable, in regard to granting pensions, bounties; lands, relief to individuate, etc., and leaving to the courts to determine whether any special Jaw could be embraced in a general enactment, The Centennial Appropriation bill was further considered in Committee of the Whole, Messrs. Phillips of Kansas, Harrison, Kelley, Reagan of Texas, and Frye speaking in support of, and Messrs. Cochrane and Tucker in opposition to, the measure. Ox the 20th various petitions vfere presented in the Senate asking for a repeal of the tax'requiring a two-cent stamp to be affixed to bank checks. Mr. Morton continued his remarks on his Mississippi resolution. Bills were introduced—to amend the Pacific Rcilway acts of July 1 and July 2, 1864; to provide for challenges to jurors tn trials for bigamy and polygamy in the Territory of Utah, and to amend Sec. 4 of the act in regard to courts and judicial office in the Territory of Utah, approved June 24, 1874; in regard to postal routes, Postofflees and post-roads. The resolution to continue in force the joint rules for the government of the two houses of Congress, except the twenty-second rule, in regard to counting the votes for President and Vice-President, was discussed and adopted. ..In the House an adverse report was made on the bill to reduce the postage on first-class mail matter to one cent for each half ounce. The Centennial Appropriation bill was further debated tn Committee of the Whole, being advocated by Messrs. Townsend of New York, Jones ot Kentucky, Banks Und Swan, and, opposed by Messrs. Stenger of Pennsylvania,'’ Felton and Cook.

Ox the 21 st the memorial of Stanley Matthews and a committee of the National Bailroad Convention recently held in St. Lonie, setting forth the advantages of certain thoroughfares, and Making aid for the Southern Pacific Railroad, was presented in the Senate and referred. Mr. Boutwell announced the death of Vice-President Wilson, and, after a graceful eulogy, offered the usual resolutions of respect; eulogies were also delivered by Messrs. Hamlin, Ingalls, Bogy and Anthony. Adjourned to the 24th. ..A MU was passed in the House—l4'3 to 100—for the retirement, on full pay, of Judge Wilson McCandless, of the Western District of Pennsylvania, la consequence of physical disabilities, notwithstanding he has not attained the age of seventy years. Action was taken on the resolutions in honor of the memory of the late Vice-President Wilson, unanimous consent being given to extend the privilege of the floor to a deb gation of Indiana editors during the eulogies to be delivered. Eulogies were pronounced by Messrs. Warren, Harris (Mass.), Kelley, Knott, Aymer,

Kasson, Banks, Lynch, Hurlbat, Lawrence, Lapham, Reagan, Joyce and Blair, after which the resolutions of respect were adopted. On the 28d the Senate was not in session.. The House adopted resolutions—directing the Committee on Appropriations to inquire into the expediency of making any appropriation for the support of the Sioux Indians, and also into the right of having white men excluded from the Black Hills country; requesting the President to impart to the House any communications which may have passed between the Government of the United States and any European Government besides Spain, in regard to the Island of Cuba. The Centennial Appropriation bill was further considered in Committee of the Whole.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Lrrx Stock.—Beef Cattle—slo.oo®.B.oo. Hogs —Live, S7.aBH©MO. Bheep-$5.60©7.25. Brbadstuwb.—Flour—Good to choice, $5,400 5.90; white wheat extra, $5.8607.75. Wheat—No. 8 Chicago, $1.2201.24; No. i Milwaukee spring, $1.2301.25. Rye—Western and State, 88096 c. Barley—sl.oool.lo. Corn—Mixed Western, 71 @73c. Oats—Mixed Western, 43@44c. Provisions.—Pork—Mcm, $20.75021.00. Lard -Prime Steam, 12MO18MC- Cheese-6@l2Kc. Wool.—Domestic fleece. 42065 c. , [ CHICAGO. , ’ : Livb Stock.—Beeves—Choice, $5.2506.00; good, $4.5005.00; medium, $4.2’04.60; hutchera’ stock, $3.25©4.00; stock cattie, $3.2 04.00. Hogs—Live, $7.0607.80. Sheep—Good to choice, $4.7305.50. Provisions.—Butter—Choice, 25032 c. Eggs— Frosh, aofcsic. Pork-Mess, $19.*»K©19.25. Lard—512.25012.30. BBXADBTurrs.—Flour—White Winter Extra, $4.7507.50; spring extra, $4.0005.25. WheatSpring, No. 2, $’.0001.0014. Corn-Mo. 2, 48*4 ®43*e. Oats-No. 2,3QHOmc. Rye-No. 2 66H067C. Barley—No. 2, Lumbub—First and Second CMkr, $40,000 42.00; Common Boards. $11.00012.00; Fencing, $19.00013.00; “A” Shingles, Lath, $1.7502.00. EAST LIBERTY. Lrru Stock.—Beeves—Best, SBOOO6-10; medtnm, $5.0005.50. Hogs—Yorkers, $74)007.10; Philadelphia*, $7.3007 40. Sheep—Best, $5.50 ©6.00; medium, $5.0005.25. —Within the past twenty years Connecticut has expended about SIOO,OOO for libraries tad apparatus fa the public schools of that State. About three-fourths of this has-been contributed voluntarily, and the remainder has been furnished by the State. ______,, —There to a strange rumor that Pere Hyacinthe, now on his way to this country, is to receive & call from a leading Vlmrrb IB sii city.- HtnM,

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TAw ’Art Unio«—-A tove best of iaiubo MflMrtf 1 WBtllrtK - j Skating risks are al! the rage in Ea. glaad. When does a laborer do the best digging? When he’s apode by the day. What a world of sorrow io contained in the simple item: “ A poor, houseless dd man.” When the Declaration of Independence was signed there was not a bank i* America. A Montreal physician, asking for the renewal of a note, writes: ”We are in a horrible crisis; thvre is not a sick man in the district.” An itinerant preacher from Ohio has been holding " meetings” m Baltimore, near the City Hall, his chief object being, confe sedly, to convert the city officers. What Is there in the constitution a baby that prompts it to lay asleep all day in order to get a good square opportunity of bellowing the roof of the house off at mtonight?

Brooklyn is the home of a charming girl with a face so sunny and alluring that an old gentleman recently mid to her: “If kisses had been entirely unknown she would have invented them.” A writer in Ftauur remarks that aman is a man whether he be bachelor or bom dick; whereas a woman may only be properly so-called when she has fulfilled her destiny as wifirand mother. You would not sink from the way that some people strut around and lord it over others that all men have sprung from one or the other of the three brothers who “climbed down” from the ark. Oliver Wendell Holmes says that young men from nineteen to twenty-five ought to be put under a barrel. It .does seem as if the average young man about that period in his life should have a head put on him. ; The German woman is described as “ absolutely contented with her lot, despising the frivolity of the French, the freedom of the EngHsh and the fearless strides and absolute independence of the American women. ” Never presume to shake hands with a red-hot poker until you have been properly introduced. A little politeness on the part of one and all »f us in matters of this kind will do much -toward improving the civilization of the nineteenth century. In tiie Hartford Cowant of a century ago is an advertisement of a runaway wife, wherein the deserted husband delicately speaks of her merely as having “ behaved verie odly.” It might be well to adopt that substitute for the too-plain 'fiangnage of to-day. The Communists at Wallingford, yonn., are about to start a university, in which will be taught printing, book-binding, stereotyping, electrotypmg, engraving, hygiene, commercial transactions, agriculture, woodworking, machine business, domesticlndestry, Journalism, Communism, etc. The Woman Suffragists of New Haven, are discussing the question: “Are the women of the country more responsible than the men for the extravagance of the times?” Btlt to a thoughtful mind it would seem that as long as men don’t wear eighteen yards of cloth in their pantaloons there’s net much need of considering the matter seriously.—JforwicA BnlIttin. ?■

—As the space set apart in the Exhibition buildingfor the American book trade has been found to be inadequate, it has been proposed to double the space for books by erecting an ure of iron, forming a second floor’ over the entire space, reached by staircases on either side. A willingness has been expressed by the leading publishers to share the expense of $5,000 for this structure. A case of chronic laziness is reported at Washington. A young man appointed to a clerkship in the Treasury Department was conducted to his desk and informed what his duties were. The chief of the depaitment discovered him, a short time after, comfortably reposing in his seat with his feet characteristically resting on lhe desk. “ Heltof” said the chief; “don’t you expect to do any work?” “Work be hanged!” exclaimed the astonished youth; “ I had to work hard enough to get here.” The IfeMoger du Midi states that a merchant vessel arrived at Marseilles lately, laden with sugar, from Batavia. “ While in the act of unloading the workmen suddenly left their task, and, rushing up to the deck, gasped out inarticulate words. Among the hampers they had found three immense boa-constrictors. These reptiles seemed to wake from a state of lethargy, and advanced toward the terrified men, who had only just time to hoist themselves on deck and close the hatches. The Captain was, of course, obliged to suspend the operation of unloading and to look tor the means of getting rid of these strange passengers. Two pigeons were poisoned with strychnine and dropped into the hold. They were devoured at once, but only two of the serpents died. The third reptile has not been seen again, and it is with the greatest trouble that the Captain can get men to assist him in unloading the ship.” —The Northern Presbyterian Church in its march South has organized the Synod of Atlantic, composed of six presbyteries in four States, having 123 churches, forty-four •ministers and about 10/100 members, mostly colored. Most of the churches have preaching but once a month, but other services are kept up regularly. _ —When a man has nothing elw to tex hetexMhta resources.

NUMBER 20.

An Incident in the Life of the Late Dr. S. G. Howe.

vxwmw wwa* w amio via «» vieit, and was there when one of the Polish insurrections was put down. The disaster filled Paris with crowds of Polish refugees. A committee for the relief of these sufferers was formed, of which Lafayette was President. Dr. Howe was one of the officers of the committee, and attracted the notice and won the affection of Lafayette by his great services. During the early proceedings of this committee it was found necessary to send a secret agent to Berlin. From this enterprise those most ready to undertake other perilous deeds shrank, and, among those who were in tiie secret, Lafayette aid not find a single volunteer. At length Dr. Howe volunteered to face the peril, but Lafayette refused the offer, because, he said, he could not spare Dr. Howe from the work in Paris. But the necessity was urgent, and, as no other person could be found for the trust, Lafayette reluctantly consented to intrust the business to Dr. Howe. Lafayette drew up a letter of instruction for Dr. Howe, and the doctor started for Berlin, under the conviction the secret of the mission was unknown to all save Lafayette

and himself. Berlin was reached in safety. When Dr. Howe reached his hotel he saw a gentleman walking on the pavement. soon as Dr. Howe’s light baggage was disposed of in an upper room he came down-stairs to the pavement, where he was saluted by the stranger, under the impression that Dr. Howe was a brother Englishman. The gentleman proposed a walk, to which Dr. Howe agreed. After walking together toward the suburbs they started back on their return to the hotel. For some reason, but not on account of anything connected with the secret mission, Dr. Howe stopped a short time in the suburbs. As he turned toward the hotel he saw his English friend walking the pavemqpt evidently in great perturbation. As he passed Dr. Howe he whispered, without stopping: -“ The d'annet are aft-er-,you.” Dr. Howe had Lafayette’s letter es instructions in his pocket, and, knowing that it would compromise him, he at once determined on his course. The three soldiers entered his room with him, and they were thrown from their guard by Dr. Howe’s apparent willingness to go with them. As they descended the narrow stairs one of the soldiers was in advance and one on each side of Dr. Howe. At the head of a long flight of stairs Dr. nitdenly seized his right and left companions and hurled them headlong against the soldier in front, all three of the soldiers falling to the bottom of the stairs. Dr. Howe returned to his room, locked the door, and prepared for the destruction of the letter of instructions. The guard understood this as perfectly as Dr. H. understood it. Two of them sat down near his door; the other went into the yard. When Dr. Howe opened his window to throw out the letter in small fragments the guard gathered the pieces. Dr. Howe said he was confident that no one of the pieces had two letters on it. After the completion of the mutilation Dr. Howe opened his door and surrendered. He was marched off io prison, and next morning taken before the military police, where, to his horror, he saw his letter as perfectly put together as it had been before he tore it into pieces. He was ordered to a Prussian fortress near the frontier forconfinement in a dungeon. He knew that at one part of the journey the vehicle approached.within about a mile of the frontier, and, on reaching that point, he sprang from the wagon and started for the boundary line. Unfortunately he sprained his ankle, which interfered with his fleetness; but, notwithstanding the accident, Dr. Howe had nearly reached the line of safety when his guards caught him. Upon reaching the prison he was thrown into a dungeon, and the authorities not only refused to permit the prison docter to do anything for him, but refused to let him have any more waler than he could

drink, for fear that he would use it to mitigate the sufferings in his sprained ankle. He said that words could not describe his anguish, extending through many weeks. He often hoped for death. The Hon. Edward Everett was our Minister to England, and, after many vexatious delays, he finally secured the release of Dr. Howe. His constitution was shattered, and he was for manv years a sufferer.—LouiteiUe Courier-Journal.

French Costumes.

Unique combinations of color and some contrasts are found in newly-imported Parisian costumes. There is a fancy for arranging brown and blue together. Thus, a new French dress has a skirt of nutbrown velvet, with a long over-dress of pale blue cashmere. Another rich suit has a long apron and sleeves of very dark leaf brown cashmere, with a cuirass and lower skirt of striped brown and blue silk. The trouts of the cuirass have but one dart, and are cut bias, with the stripes meeting in the center. The long side forms are of cashmere. The high English collar—atl'east two inches broadis of silk lined with cashmere, and is turned back in front to show the lining. The flat mother-of-pearl buttons have dragons engraved on them, and are sewed on through eyes. The deep apron is edged with brown silk fringe tied with " * qlriyf fru>ma a nnrnn /wmt ah 4 I •"* - •

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It is more particularly in the attention paid to small details that the beauty of French dreases consW. Different materials used in the same costume are nicely matched in shade, and the trimming is of the most appropriate kind. Among pretty and new arrangements of flounces are those with groups of side pleats, three in a cluster, fastened down two inches below the top, then turned backward and fastened again. This is done on straight woolen flounces, and the lower edge is finished with a narrow, side-pleated frill of silk. Another plan has first a tfoxpleated flounce at the foot, then a side pleating, then a gathered bias flounce above. There is a special fancy for a single box-pleated flounce around the bottom of the skirt; in these box-pleats are made to stand out very ftilly, like a ruche. Square trains of three straight breadths are very popular when made of velvet, while the front breadths of the skirt are of silk. The train is scalloped on the sides and across the bottom, or perhaps it is finished by loops of the silk cut out, lined with another shade or contrasting color and turned upward to the edge of the skirt, so that the lining is seen. Other trains have a broad band of bias velvet on theedge. < .

One large pocket is more stylish than two on the over-skirt. There are various designs for pockets. Some are deep, slender pouches, drawn up like reticules near the top, others have four or five straight rows of side-pleating crossing them, while still others are pleated from top to bottom and trimmed with a bow. Cuffs cannot be of too simple shape for stylishness; in fact, the favorite fashion dispenses with them altogether, and merely has the sleeve cut to flare over the wrist and remain open in the side seams. Piping folds and pleating are the trimmings for cuffs. Lady Washington sleeves, with full ruffles at the elbow, are worn with evening dresses. Transparent sleeves of net or figured lace are also worn with thick silk or velvet cuirasses. —Harper’t Batar.

INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL AND TECHNICAL.

The tinners of New Orleans recently struck against a4O per cent, reduction of their pay. The New York Central & Hudson River Railroad managers prohibit the shipment of potatoes in barrel or bag. By the suspension of ISO collieries in Pennsylvania, recently, about 25,000 persons were throw out of employment. Brass wire should be softened before being used for rivets. To soften, heatand allow to cool, or dip in water.— Trade Journal. It is stated that over 13,000 tracts of land, embracing 2,500,000 acres, remain unpatented in Pennsylvania, upon which there is due the commonwealth $750,000.

There were fifty-three suicides in Maine during 1875. Of these, eighteen were by hanging, twelve each by shooting and drowning, six by cutting the throat, four by poisoning, and one by choking with a garter. There were also nine futile attempts at suicide, Of which jhree were by taking poison, two each by drowning and throat-cutting,; and onp each by hanging and shooting. , - s . . In a carefolly-prepared paper on “ The Daily Newspaper Press,” read by Mr. Hubbard before the American Social Science Association, at Boston, were given the following interesting statistics as to the circulation of daily newspapers in various cities of the United States: CitiM. Population. Circulation. 805t0n250,000 205,000 New Y0rk.986,000 440,000 Philadelphia674,ooo 2no,COt Baltimore267,ooo 66,000 Chicago29B,ooo 80,000 Cincinnati. 216,0 X 00,000

ban Francisco SO,GO St. Louia 310,600 - 60,000 LouiavUle 100.041 78,000 A NRW process for preserving wood from fire and decay has been invented. It consists first in kiln-drying the wood, which deprives it of all moisture and much of its volatile turpentine and other inflammable matters. It is then put into suitable cylinders, in which lime and water, with sulphurous acid gas, are forced into the pores of the wood under considerable pressure. The wood is removed,dried, and is then ready for use. The chemistry of the process consists in the formation of a soluble sulphate of lime by means of the sulphurous acid and the lime; thiscrystallizes as a bisulphite, which oxidizes and to converted into the sulphate of lime or gypsum. As this is an exceedingly insoluble salt, it to not easily removed from the pores of the wood, and not only by its presence protects it as a non-cOnductor of heat, but deoxidizes all matters which are likely to prove objectionable as ferments.— N. Y. Tribune. . ' r Oub native walnut wood to, according to the Cabinet-Maker, one of the best materials in the world for furniture—when oiled, approaching very near the color of dark old oak, and finishing much finer. The American walnut, however, requires the grain to be well filled with a composition to resist the action of . the heat in most dwellings, and to this effect mere oiling is not adequate, as it leaves the pores of the wood so open that it absorbs the heat; thus, in a room al a temperature of some seventy-five degrees, the oiled walnut will absorb the heat to within five degrees of the heat of the room, while varnished oak will reflect the heat and will not "reach over forty-five to fifty degrees. On this account the wood should be well seasoned and the grain filled with shellac or other material, to prevent the shrinkage. Linseed oil hardens wood, and well-made walnut work, finished with It and shellac, will in a few years acquire a polish almost like bronze and, it may be ftdtJed, a# | beautiful ip appaaranc?.