Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 21, Jasper, Dubois County, 28 June 1872 — Page 3

ata. Sherman's Reception by the Kuhslan Antoerat Cool Treatment of Ueut. Grant. A letter from Moscow, Russia, dated May HO, gives the particulars of the first meeting of Gen. Sherman ami party With the Czar Alexander. Sherman arrid in Moscow May 1H, after ten day' steady staging from Sebaatopol. The next day the Cir waa to leave St. Petersburg to viit the Crimea, and it waa announced that he would atop fifteen minute at Moacow to change locomotives. Gen. Sherman and companion donned a fall uniform and repaired to the depot to await the Imperial arrival, and were conducted into the Imperial roonia provided there. At last the train bearing the Emperor came. The Km peror soon after appeared on the platform, dressed in b a usual uniform, and wearing a white fatigue cap. Ho step ped down from the car and commenced talking with those around with an air of authority. He advanced, stopping here and there to say a few words, to different pfltWti and then stepped up to Mr. Curtin, shook hands with him cordially, inquired about his health, expressed his satisfaction at seeing him apain. to which Mr. Curtin responded, and then presented Gen. Sherman. Ilia

Majesty extended bis hand, aske'i the General how he bad enjoyed his trip through Russia, expressed himself very glad to make his acquaintance, and hoped the rest of hi stay in Russia would lie pleasant. Mr. Curtin then presented Lieut. Grant; nd Col. Audt-n-ried, but the Kmperor did not give his hand to Grant, but, simply hoping he was well, continued speaking to Mr. Curtin and Gen. Sherman, and soon after walket! away, and the reception was over. No words of friendly greeting for his father, no regrets for his short stay in Kussia. A cool, a decidedly cool reception, more than matching in coolness that of Alexis in Washington. A Slight Mistake. Wtfhincton Corres pndenc9t. Louii Democrat. The introduction of the colored element into the membership of the House and Senate will inevitably lead tomany cases of mistaken identity, in spite of the Amendments and the Civil Rights bill. A friend of mine waa the victim of one the other day. He had come here from the West to see the sights, and was engaged i i the inspection of the Representatives' Hall and the admiration of its beauties. He had been admitted to the floor, and at the time of the incident was seated in the cloak room. It happens that theie are several very well dressed und well behaved colored servants connected with the House, and always on hand to execute the orders of members in the corridois and committee rooms. My friend had seen several of them obey the commands of members and visitor?, and, as he needed a little " waiting upon" just then, he thought he would muster one of them into his service. So, beckoning to a neatly attired citizen of African descent who Mood near him, and who modestly answered his call, he said to him, ".Jim, will you show me to the barber's shop: I want to get shaved and have my boots blacked.1' This was a little too much for 'Jim," who was none other than one of the honorable members from South Carolina, Mr. Elliott, I believe. " 'Scuse me, sah t 1'se not a waitah ; I'se a membah." I need not say that the visiting gentleman trom the West was extremely mortified at the indignity offered to one of the people's representatives, and very quickly bowed and talked his best apology. He made his way out of the cloak room as quickly as he could, and vowed that while he remained at the capital, he would avoiS the possibility of relating his mistake, by employing white "help" exclusively to do his little chores and yet he said he couldn't help what he had done, as the colored waiters resembled the colored members so closely that it was impossible to distinguish one from the other. Neuralgia. People arc continually complaining of neuralgic pains. Whenever theie is an ache or an anomalous kind of erratic pain which seems to be peculiar, and too stubborn to jield to common remedies which every old woman suggests, whether appropriate or not, that i called neuralgia. A Frenchman's definition was quite as good as if it came from the most learned physician in language that no one could understand, or pronounce correctly if he could. '' I)er nurida ja like von needle in da leg. Wee monsieur, ven dey stick une leetle jimbiet in de flesh so dat it vont go in no more, den skrew him one time more and dat's nuralaja," The difference between neuralgia and rheumatism is simply this, viz f rheumatism is an inflammation t f the fibers of a muscle ; neuralgia is supposed to be an inflammation of the tissue or case which surrounds a nerve. I' inflamed in the slightest degree, it consequently compresses the pulp or substance of the nerve, therefore the cause is purely mechanical, and sometimes continues a vH long time. Rheumatism yields to remedies much more readily. When neuralgia assumes that dreadful form called tie doloroux, ordinarily confined to nerves of the face, it seems to come y sudden paroxysms almost beyo.id the power ot human endurance. That " probably due to mental excitation, "tiniulants, improper, indigestible food, which quickens the action of the heart; nd a quicker pulsation forces blood wto the inflamed nerve case, and that explains it mechanically. A widow won $20.000 from a German gambler at Baden Baden, and a French General, whose hatred of Germany is undying, married the avenger of his country and the $20,000.

The Perils or Meddling With Handcuff. from tl Uli (N.Y) OUmar. An amusing incident incurred in Little Falls, the other day, which created considerable innocent fun at the expense, of a pleasant young lady. Officer Becker, of Herkimer, conveyed a man from Utica to Little Falls, who was charged by a crazy man with larceny. Alter arriving at his destination, the officer was sent back to Herkimer to summon the principal witness. Before leaving Little Falls he deposited hia handcuffs in the telegraph office, at the depot, for safe keepiag, not caring to carry them about in his pocket, and left for Herkimer on the day express, about noon. He had hardly arrived in that village when he received a telegram saying, Come back to the Falls, quick I" There was no train going east within two hours, and a reply to that effect was telegraphed back. Another telegram was reclved, imploring him to go back to Little Falls as quickly as possible. Officer Becker waited anxiously for the train, fearing that something dreadful had happened in connection with th prisoner. When he arrived at Little Falls he was dragged into the telegraph office as quickly as possible, und without a word of explanation being

given, the key of his handcuff's was demanded. Officer Becker's laugh came in just about this time, and his anxious mind was relieved. He enjoyed the laugh heartily, but a young lady sitting in a shady corner of the telegraph office felt like anything else but merriment, it appears that, with woman's natural curiosity, the young lady had been examining the steel bracelets, which were never intended to encircle fair hands like hers. By accident, or design, one of the young lady's friends closed the handcuffs, and the young lady was subjected to the mortification of wearing the inelegant bracelets until Officer Becker arrived. She smiled through her tears as the officer entered the telegraph otfice,and will never meddle with such dangeous articles ag-tin. Bryant's Fust Obit Compliments to Bennett. To call Mr. Bennett a "great journalist" is an entire mistake; be was a great news vender, and made in his calling a world-wile notoriety. But he never discussed any great public question, either social or political, with knowledge or sincerity. He never enlightened the political mind by the variety or extent of his information nor directed it by the earnestness of his convictions. He was not a statesman nor a scholar, nor a philanthropist, nor even a politician. What he said from day to day was said merely to produce a sensation, to raise a laugh, or to confirm a vulgar prejudice ; and so far as he had any influence at all as a writer, it was one that debased and corrupted the community in which his paper was rea I. He did more to vulgarize the tone of the press in this country than any man ever before connected with it; and the worst caricatures that ti.e genius of Balzac. Dickens and Thackeray has given us of the low, slang-whanging, dissolute and unprincipled Bohemian, of the Lonsteaus, Jefferson Bricks, and Capt. Shandons of the journalistic profesiqn, failed to depict what Bennett actually was. His earlier career indeed was so shameful and disgusting that he was banished from respectable society, and the impression it left was so strong that, with all the wealth he subsequently made by the prostitution of his energy and talent, he could not procure social recognition anywhere. New York Post. Gallantry of American .Seamen. The gallantry of the American seamen who saved the cit of Marseilles, together with a thousand ships, recently, is enthusiastically commended by all the European papers. While the squadron was lying at anchor in the densely crowded harbor, an explosion occurred on board an Italian petroleum vessel, setting fire at once to the ship and her dangerous cargo. There seemed no possibility of preventing the spread o! the flames to the other merchantmen, and such an event would certainly have lesulted in the de-truclion of the city, which is built densely to the water's edge, and has very inadequate fireextinguishing apparatus. Wnile everybody else stood paralyzed the seamen of the American squadron put off in their launches, boarded the burning vessel, scuttled her until her cargo was under water, and then by a united effoit in their open boats towed her out into the bay wtiere her burning could not endacger any other craft. Their coolness and daring were greeted by prolonged cheers from the harbor and the shore, and Marseilles is loud in the praises of the men who at the risk of their own lives saved at once a city and a fleet of merchantmen. Master and Man in Japan. No feature in Japanese society is more curious than the relations between master und man. The master admits his servant (provided of course that he be of the military class) to his intimate society ; but the servant never assumes a liberty. He takes his place at dinner with the utmost humility, and having done so, bears his share of the conversation, addressing freely not only his master, as if he were an honored guest, and for a while they would appear to any one not acquainted with a language most fertile in subtle distinctions to be on perfectly equal terms. Yet the moment the feast is over the man retires with the samo profound obeisance and marks of deference with which he entered and immediately relapses into the servitor ; nor will he in any way presume upon the familiarity which, having lasted its hour, disappears until occasion calls it forth again. Feudalism strips service of servility, and although the feudal system is a thing of the past, its traces must long remain.

Irish Whisky. If the account given by the Dublin Evening Mail of the adulter ttion of whisky is correct, it would txi advi-able for even the. most convivi I Irishman to be a little moderate in bis potation- until the British Legislature has taken some steps for his protection ; and if the advocates of the Permissive bill, now before Parliament, wou'd circulate extensively among the working classes authentic deaciiptions of the frightful poison which they often consume under the name of whiky, they might, in the opiLion of the Mail, gain a lartre ac

cession to their ranks. The influence of terror would have a great effect on some who now revolt at the idea of being permissively coerced. The crime of adulteration, it 6eems, prevails in all parts of Ireland, but the astute people of the North appear to have graduated with high honors in this diabolical chemistry. Dr. Hodges, of Belfast, has recently had occasion to examine several samples of whisky, which he found adulterated with naphtha, cayenne pepper, and vitriol. One sample, described as a fair specimen of the drink sold in low class public houses, was composed almost entirely of naphtha, with a Blight coloring of whiskv. But even this was outdone by the skill of an itinerant practitioner in a northern county, who, by a scientific combination of cayenne pepper, vitriol, spirits of wine, and bluestone, transmutes a gallon of water into a gallon of whisky at the cost of one enny. The physical effects of the consumption of these concoctions are, it is stated, frightful. Indeed, delirium tremens pro duced Ly drinking pure whisky is a joke compared to the consequences of indulging in the adulterated article. The coats of the stomach are corroded, the brain disorganized, and the career of the consumer when not arrested by the hand of justice in consequence of the crimes committed during the madness produced by it generally ends in paralysis or insanity. Rise in Prices The Problem Explained. What is the cause of the general rise in prices ? Depreciation of our currency as compared with gold accounts for ten per cent, of it, but that is relatively a small portion. The supply and demand for commodities bear about the same proportion as they did forty years ago, yet we find the cost of family requisites advaneed nearly double in that space of time. Thus $300 would go as far in supporting a family in 18S1 as $400 in 152, or $S0O in 1872. On the other hand, wages have risen in even greater proportion. The mechanic who got 1 in 1832 got $1.50 in 1852, and now gets $3 or more. The cause is not far to seek. The increased supply of the precious metals from California, Australia, New Zealand, British Columbia, Nevada, and other mining regions, has been so great within the last twenty years that probably the whole stock of these metals now in use is more than double what it was then ; and as the e metals are useful only in exchange, if there are twice as many dollars to exchange for the same quantities of commodities the value of a dollar will decrease by one half, although, apparently, it is the price of the commodity itself that is doubled. Taking this fact into view, prices, although greatly altered, nominally, are, relatively, pretty much the same as they formerly were. Should the quantity of gold and silver diminish oue-half, or, what would amount to the same thing, should they remain stationary while the productions and the commerce of the world doubled, the " good old times" would return again when a dollar would go as far as two will now. txchaige. The Japs Take a Hand at Our National Game. From l it- Wa ihlagton Chroniclf . The royal YedJo Japs, who are some as orange slingers, bottle holders, rope walkisu,and pole climbeis, played a royal game of b. se ball with the Olympic Club, of Washington. For two days preceding the game the Japs practiced under the guidance of Prof. Brainard. Under this tuition it was expected that the Orientals would come to time, but they did not. Prot. Gangero, who handles the balls on the stage so well, let every "red hot" from the bat slip through his fingers with an ease that caused the little boys peeping over the fence to Jub him M old butter fingers.'' Vjuietaro, alias Buckingham, Jr., was the best pop in the bunch. There was no pigeon English about his playing. As a battist, Astaro was extraordinary. When his turn came to the bat he would jump with great alacrity into position, and after eyeing the pitcher for a moment, and then measuring the distance to the fence in the rear, would proceed to uns trip with an alacrity that made the bystanders blush for his nudity. Astaio, however, kept his pants on, but, after these immense preparations for a home run, invariably went out on three strikes. The Japs enjoyed the fun, and, through the courtesy of the Olympics, were allowed to make seventeen runs in the five innings played. The Mortality of Three Great Cities. We have before us the bills of mortality of Paris, London and New Yo?k, for a single week in May. The returns from Paris and New York are for the week ending May 25 ; those from London are for the week ending May 18. They may be briefly summarized as follows : With a population of 3,251,800, the British metropolitan district counts for 1,268 deaths ; with a population of 1,980,000. Paris shows the record of 812, and with a population of 942,300, New York has 646 deaths. These figures give New York a very alarming preeminence over the two European capitals with which it is compared. During

the eek ending May 18, 39 people died a l utii tuut -

in Lion.on out oi o"y oi me population. During the week ending May 25, 42 people died J Paris out of wry 100,000, and during the . HM week tb.- rate ! New York wa 68outoT every 100,UJU. AVic York Times. An Italian Love Tragedy. The city of Borne has been agitated recently by a tragedy as fearfully romantic as any that have been told ia romance or sung in opera. On the 25tb of February the Princess Caterina Chigi, a beautiful girl of eighteen years, went out for a walk to a jeweler's on the Corso. Nothing more was heard from her until the 27th, when her body rose to the surface of the Tibtr. It was clad in the rich attire she wore on the day of her disappearance, but it was stained with blood from a dagger stab in the breast. The weapon, which had a beautiful diamond hill, still remained in the wound, while on the plain white collar, pinned to her dress, was written the word vendetta, Vengeance, not the desire of robbery, was the inspiring cause of the crime. The deceased had been sought and won by Erberto Ginglie, junior prince of Aldobrandini, a house like hers, among the most illustrious in Home. Religious ideas, however, gained possession of her mind, and she resolved to enter the cloister. The 25th of March, the feast of the Annunciation, was fixed upon as the day when she would turn her back upon the world. When Erberto knew of her determination he was very angry, charging her with perjury, and vainly endeavored to induce tier to abandon her change of plan. He then became sullen, and absented himself from the Chigi palace, where he had hitherto been a frequent visitor. The circumstances of Caterina's death would make one suspicious, if not quite confident, that she had fallen a victim to Erberto's rage, even without positive proof that he was her assassin. They view things somewhat differently in Italy, and at hut accounts Erberto had not been arrested. His high rank has given him immunity, and made many believe that he could not be the perpetrator of so fiendish a crime. The ownership of the very valuable dagger would seem to bos easily traceable, Aid it is probable that ere this Erberto has been taken into custody, unless other developments have shown that another person is the criminal. The idea of Caterina's suicide is not tenable. The Chigi family are in the deepest mourning, and it will be long before the public will cease to talk of the sad fate of the young and beautiful princess. Roving Rodents Remarkable Midnight Migration. From the Monmouth (S. J.) Dmucrat. A week ago the roads in the lower part of Hopewell township were literally covered with rat-tracks. These tracks marked the migration of the rats in the night. The movement occupied two night, and so closely did tLey travel that the entire width of the sandy road was covered with the foot-marks ; even the ruts were also in this way marked. It is certain that the two companies must have numbered several hundred individuals. It is no new thing for thee vermin to migrate or change quarters in this singular manner. But inasmuch as they must comprise the assembled occupancy of many places, and as these places in this portion of the pines are very widely scattered, the whole affair is not withoc . i gular interest. How do they communicate their intentions so as to act with such unanimity ? Tins stream of rat life was made up of contributions from houses and barns, and perhaps mills from varying distances. Then comes the sagacity of taking two nights for the tramp that is, of dividing into two companies ; for this was assuredly a wise precaution against the danger of being destroyed. It must be confessed that there is more in this matter than anyone's philosophy is capable of answering. In Europe it is prettywell known that the barn rats are accustomed to these migrations in the spring of the year. But beyond the observed facts, how little does any one know ? Direct Your Letters Carefully. The Postal Record says that during the psst year there were sent to the Dead Letter Office nearly three million letters. Sixty-eight thousand of these letters could not be forwarded, owing to the carelessness of the writers omitting to give the county or State; four hundred thousand failed to be sent because the writers forgot to put on stamps, and over three thousand letters were put in the postotfice without any address whatever. In the letters above named was found over $92,000 in cash ; drafts, checks, etc., etc, to tha value of $3000,000. There were over thirty-nine thousand photographs contained in theabove letters. Of course nearly all the money and valuables were returned to the owners, but much needless delay, many charges ot dishonesty, etc., might have been saved if the writer of the letters could have been a little more careful, and taken the precaution to see that their letters were in mailable condition before depositing them in the postotfice. It is more thsn probable that ninetenths of all the complaints, losses and delays which are laid to the Postoffice Department are in reality due to the carelessness of their writers. Tat intense hardness of the black, unclearable diamonds, which are used in boring machines and for dressing millstones, is such that a single one has been employed for more than a year in dressing a pair of mill-stones daily, without perceptible wear or diminution of cutting power. The application of the diamonds to boring and drilling is due to a Swiss engineer, M. Leschot.

Personal.

Alexis spent $200,000 iu tjfcit country. Gi.v. Joi Johnstons history of the war is ready. 9m retary Bootwkll plowed an acre of land in Groton, Mass., a few days ago. Tm remains of ex-King Louis Philippe are to be taken from England to 1 1 mce. Mortimer Thompson (" Doestickslis connected .editorially with t ih Minneapolis Tribune. Foe a Presidents of Asbury University have been made Bishops of the Methodist Church, to wit: Simpson, Ames, Clark and Bowman. There is now in Paris a French painter, born at Bordeaux, named G. Washington. His signature is said to closely resemble that of his great namesake, but there is a painful silence regarding his early reputation for veracity. Dr. Hlstox. of Baltimore, has been acquitte i by the Church of the scandalous charges brought against him, but the reverend gentleman will have to answer a ciiminal pro-e:ution, the Grand Jury having indicted him for adultery. The bankruptcy of Koopmanschap, the importer of Chinese, is announced in the San Frenciseo papers. His liabilities aggregate f 260,000, and he holds $100,000 in notes given by Chinamen for allowances and passage money, which are valueless James Gordon Bennett was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, New York, on Thursday, June 13. The following eminent journalists actel as pall-bearers : Horace Greeley, of the Tribuve ; Manton Marble, World; George Jones, Times; Charles A. Dana, Sun; David M. Stone, Journal of Commerce ; James Brooks, Express ; Hugh II a-tings, Commereial Advertiser; Rotrt Bonner, Ledger; George W. Childs, Philadelphia Ledger; Fredrick Hudson, formerly of the Herald. Twice Dead An Extraordinary Case. Six or eight weeks ago a family named Vhestwy. consisting of husband, wife and a child, came to the city from Macomb county, and rooms were engaged at the house of a Bohemian named Loidwiest. Vhestwy, up to a week ago, worked in a lumberyard, but was taken ill one day and had tb go home. The doctor pronounced his case typhoid fever. The patient received no help from the medicine, and soon after died in some sort of spasm. James Havlemeyer and Augustus Worthe dressed the corpse for the grave, the dead man's Sunday clothes being used in place of a shroud. It was the intention to have the body conveyed to Macomb county and interred beside a dead s-jn, and a team was engaged for the purpose. Vhestwy had a week's growth of harsh beard on his chin, and a young man named Fremra volunteered to remove it. He had worked with the dead man at digging a cellar, and the two had something of an acquaintance. The body had not been put into the coffin yet, and there were in the room when Fremm commenced operations with the razor the men who i ad dressed the corpse, the widow and a neighbor woman. Fremm applied the lather, and at length began using the razor. He had not taken above three or four strokes when the dead man raised his arms, moved his body and tried to sit up. The women ran away frightened, but one of the men put his hand under Vhetwy's head and helped him so that he almost sat up straight. He opened his eyes, looked at Fremm, and distinctly uttered the words i " What's the matter of me Fremm? I feel very queer 1" One of the women, who had returned to the door, twelve feet away, plainly heard the words. Tue man seemed to want to speak further, but gasped for death, closed his eyes and fell back. His heart continued to beat for three or four minutes after, and then the man died for the second time. Detroit Free Press. The Owners of Ireland Less 20,000 of Them in All. A return has just been issued by the House of Commons about absenteeism. It appear thit less than 20,000 persons own the soil of Ireland, of whom 5,982 own less than 10 acres. These, of course, are resident ; and so a 5,589 more, owning an average o! 1.600 acres apiece; while only 1,443, owni.g altogether 3,145,514 aerOi or a seventh of the soil, are usually resident outside the island. A considerable number 1,465 reside away from their properties, but still in Ireland, and the remaining few are occasional visitois. Absenteeism can hardly be counted, therefore, among the grand grievances of Ireland, more especially as many of the richest absentees are among the more spirited and lenient landlords. Lord Palmerston, for example, was a much better man to live under than any resident squireen. Remarkable Snrgery. Hattie Thomas, of Naugatuck, Conn., was caught in some machinery about a year ago, and the scalp was worn entirely off her nead from the nape of the neck to her eyebrows. Her physician, finding that she was likely to rally from the first effects of the accident, began transplanting pieces of skin from her arm to her head. The experiment proving successful, a number of Miss Thomas' friends volun teere 1 to furnish whatever new material was needed, and sixty-four pieces of " seed-skin," many of them as large as a half dollar, were put on from time to time, which now cover her head as perfectly as the original skin, while the lady's health ia entirely icstored.