Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 19, Number 3, Jasper, Dubois County, 19 January 1877 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER

0, POAJfl, Pasllihr. JASrJCK. - INDIANA ITEMS OF INTEREST.. PerteHal Nt Eiltcrary. Grace Greenwood," after two years in Europe, has taken up her residence again on Capitol Hill, wash' ingtoa. ,Jolm Boyle O'Hellly, the poet and j journalist, la lecturing in tho Eastern States on Great Irishmen of the Century." General Joseph E. Johnson, tho ox-Confederate, is tho senior niombor of a Arm of insurance agents at Savannah, Ga. Senator Conkllng is reported to have said last week that his health will rendor his early- retirement from publie lifo an imperative necessity. Miss Ella Simpson, a daughter of Bishop Simpson (Methodist EplscoEal), has just married the Hev. 0. W. udy, a clergyman of Philadelphia. Sequoyah, a Cherokee Indian, has invented an alphabet for that tribe. It consists of 85 characters and is phonetic. Wutteppdosittukqussunnoowohtunquoh. That is tho longest word in Elliot's Indian Bible. It mesas "Kneeling to him." Mr. John B. Gough's health has become so poor that ho has been forced to postpone indefinitely all his engagements to lecture at the West. A memoir of tho.lato Gon. Win. F. Bartlctt, of Massachusetts, is to bo proared by Francis Winthrop Palfrey, of oston, at Mrs. Bartlott's special request. There is a roport that ox-Secrotary Belknap and his wife aro writing a book which will give an account of society and political lifo in Washington during the last five or six years. For the first time in tho history of journalism at the Capital the press is represented by a colored man. Ho furnishes news to a Philadelphia nowspaper and to one printed at Lexington, Kontucky. NcleHce ami IitttHttry. There aro said to be 35,000 unemployed miners in Pennsylvania. Twenty thousand gallons of sorghum have been made tn Troop County, Ga., this year. The low price of rice this year has been very discouraging to tho Louisiana rico-planters, and many of tho largest planters on tho Lafourche and the Mississippi aro preparing to go into sugar. Tho steam saw-mills, built some years ago at Apalachicola, Fla., at a cost of $40,000, were recently sold for -$50. It is the intention of experienced parties to put them in operation again. Among tho abundant vogotable productions of California the olive is bofinning to claim attention as a profitale crop. The manufacture of the oil costs about $1 per gallon, and its net value is $li per gallon, being $800 to the acre. It is stated in a foreign exchange that, by impregnating papor of good quality with a liquid prepared by dissolving shellac at a moderate heat in a saturated solution of borax, it may be made thoroughly water-proof' It is in this state transparent and impervious to fat, and may be colored by various aniline dyos. A Georgia planter thinks there is a colossal fortune awaiting the inventor of a cotton-picker which shall do for tho staple of the South what the reapers do for tho wheat crop of tho Northwest. It is not necossary, ho says, that the cotton-pickor shall do its work cleanly ; if it can but garner two-thirds or three-fourths of the crop, manual labor will tako care of tho remainder. Tho customary price for picking cotton by hand is 75 cents per 100 pounds of seed cotton, tho average yield of which, in marketable lint, is 33 pounds. The cost of hand picking, therefore, is 24 cents per pound, a very large item, which ought to bo reduced, by appropriate machinery, by rauro than onehalf. A successful invontor,who should exact as his royalty only one-eighth of one cent per pound upon tho cotton crop of the United Statos, might fairly figure his annual income at more than $8,000,000, a sum worth striving for by any mechanic who has the gift of invention. Mchsel anil Church. The Wosleyans of England have published and sold a half million copies of their new hymn books in a single year. Elder II. A. Jackson, one of tho ablost colored ministers in tho South, died recently at Natchez. Ho was educated in Ohio and then removed to Washington, where beforothewar ho accumulated property to the amount of $35,000. The colored Baptist Convention of Alabama has decided to establish a theological class In connection with Lincoln University, a State institution in Marion, and to have as many teachers' institutes as posssible held in various parts of the State. The Congregational churches in the bouthorn Statos appoar to be in a flourishing condition. They have all been represented hitherto n the Central South Conference, but the Alabama churches have now decided to form a conference of their own. -Mrs. S. 0. Whiting, of Hartford, d Mrs. Robinson, of Illinois, preach

ed for Hev. J. M. Lse, of Newark, and the Presbytery, by a vote of 10 to 28, found Mr. Lee guilty of a violation of the Scriptures in allowing woruea to preauk in his pulpit.

Maps and Xlihiim J, P. Perkins, of Fairhaven, Vt., took hellebore, instead of valerian, of a druggist's clerk, and paid the penalty with bis life. A Georgia negro stole 10 cents frem his brother, bought powder with it, and wont hunting. On returning he was shot dead for the offense. A short time since, Mrs. Annie) Fawkes, of Cedarville, Pa., was found dead in bed, with her head leaning over the cradle, tho little child in it playing with her hair, unconscious of its bereavement. The cause of death was apoplexy. A young man at Lebanon, Ky.f who was handling carelessly a double-barreled shot-gun, managed to wound himsolf in the hand with one barrel and a woman standing near by with the other. Both have since died of lockjaw. Christian Hockenbauch, of Huron, Ohio, committod suicide by hanging himself in a barn. Hockenbauch was iu comfortablo circumstances, but feared on account of hard times that his family might come to want eventually. He leavoe a wife and several children. A young man in Oakland, Cal.f camo very near putting out his eye while taking off his shirt, tho spiral portion of tho stud catching under tho lid. Ho was confined to tho house for threo weeks, under tho treatment of an oculist, and his eye has been saved, though the escape was a narrow one. Nick Staub, a young farmer of Evansvillo, Ind., went New Year's calling. At tho houso of a man named Weishormer, another man, named Christ. Wiggins, accidentally discharged a shot gun, the load of which went through btraub's noau, killing nun instantly. Tho Coroner returned a verdict of accidental shooting. FsrclKR JVetcs. The latest evidence of commercial recuperation is in the establishment of an American store " by an enterprising Now England merchant in the heart of St. Petersburg, Russia. Of late yoars every city or largo town of British India has one or more papers conducted by Hindoos and published in Hindostanee. A comic paper was recently issued at Allahabad which makes a specialty of jokes upon European vices and peculiarities. About 1,200 Icelanders have imniiSated into Manitoba, and settled on ike Winnipog at a place which they call Gimli. Tho Colonial Government has given them land and helped them to got over. They are very unlucky, however, this winter, numbers of them, especially children, having died of small-pox. Dr. Schliemann has discovered in a tomb at Argos a large golden mask and an enormous breastplate of gold. He also found the body of a man wonderfully preserved, especially the face. The head was round, the eyes large, and the mouth contained thirty-two fine teeth. There is, however, a difficulty about preserving the remains. There were alsofound 15 bronze swords with great golden hilts a mass of immense golden buttons, splendidly engraved, ornamented the sheaths of the swords; also two great golden goblets and a great quantity of other objects in gold, articles in earthenware, a carved wooden box, several articles in chased crystal, ten large cooking utensils of bronae but no traces of iron or glass. Oddt Knit Bnda. Why is fashionable society like a warming-pan? Because it is highly polished, but very hollow. " The slumber of the pure is sweet," says the Talmud. That accounts for sleeping in church, surrounded by the pewrost influences. A Paris paper says Baron, the singer, is of unusual height so tall indeed that when he went the other day to consult a doctor about a sovere cold in the head, tho physician said : "My friend, you must have got your feet wet last year." Boston Globe. Many women scold at a mark, and so accurate is their aim that they will knock all the good resolutions out of a man in three minutes, and leave him doubled up over the aching void where his manhood ought to be, liko a small boy who has became the sepulcher of a green appte. Rome Sentinel. The Brooklyn Theater people have had one grain of comfort. A windstorm visited Cleveland the other night, caught hold of a regularly ordained orthodox church spiro, and pulled it up by tho roots and stood it on its head and yanked the roof off the church, and nevor touched a theater. Exchange, An Indianian went into a Chicago saloon and asked for a gin cocktail with some strength in it." The barkeeper made a mixture of acohol, pepper sauce, absinthe, limes, and painkiller. The Indianian drank it and about a quart of tears came to his eyes, his moath contracted to about tho sixe of a safo-koy hole, and when he sufficiently mastered his emotion te speak, he said, "How much's that?" "Fifteen cents," responded the barkeeper. The customer put down a quarter and said, " Keep the change have something yourself;" then, wringing the barkeeper's hand, he added, "That's the first good gin Pre, tasted since I left home something like liquor; it's sort of quick in taking hold and slow in letting go. Come and see me, and I'll

give you some corn whisky that's better .Ml - If 1 1 . I I 11 1

sun wuiSKy mat's iik swaiiuwing a ciroular saw whole and pulling it up azaln." The barkeeper, an hour later. asked the patrolman if he had heard of an oiu man being round ueai on tne sidewalk, and when the officer said no, he danced a few jig steps, and cried, Hurrah, he's gone somewhere else to ilia ! " (Viinaan 7Vt7tu The Dismemberment ef Turkey. If we are told that the interests of justice and humanity loudly call upon this country to enter into a close, cordial and disinterested alliance with Russia for the settlement of the affairs of the East, our answer shortly Is that we have tried it. That is precisely what Mr. Canning and the Duke of Wellington attempted to do by the Protocol of April, 182G. The consequence was a series of wars, destruction of the military power of Turkey in Asia as well as in Europe, and the prostration of Turkey herself under the protection of a Russian fleet and army in the Bosphorus. Yet the liberation of Greece was a far easier task than tbedevulsion from Turkey of her northern provinces. The Mussulman population of Greece was insignificant and could be brought out. The Greeks had waged war, not unsuccessfully, for six years. The Greek nation was unanimous. The loss of Greece was not fatal to the Ottoman Empire. On the other hand, Russia succeeded in securing for herself great territorial and political advantages from these transactions, and at last held Turkey and Constantinople itself almost entirely in her grasp. If we aro not misinformed, General Ignatieff, whoso influence over tho late Sultan was paramount and who had a large share in the most improvident ana opprossivo acts of his reign, bad brought matters to a point very nearly rosembling tho alliance of UnkiarSkeleesl. The terror of the half insane and incapablo sovereign had been excited to the highest pitch by the dread of an outbreak in Constantinople. Russia was again to protect htm; a corps of troops was ready to sail for the Bosphorus, and the demand for their intervention was either signed or on the point of being signed by the Sultan when the manifestation of the Sottas, speedily followed by the deposition of Abdul Aziz, cut short the intrigue. This is a matter of secret history, and wo aro certain that there are circumstances connected with the schemes of General Ignatieff and the deposition of the Sultan which have not yet been made public. The fall of that unhappy and misguided sovereign was the deathblow to a whole system of policy based upon his subserviency to the Russian Ambassador, and nothing remains but for 'General Ignatieff to quit for a time the scene of his discomfiture. Edinburgh Review. Artilcial Ejes Seisitlve ta Light. Among the curious developments of science is the recent production, by Dr. C. W. Siemens, of an artificial eye that is sensitive to light. We wish we could add that it gives vision to the blind ; but we can not, though perhaps it contains a germ of promise in that direction. The new eye is composed of an ordi nary glass lens, backed by an artificial retina of selenium. This mineral resembles and is allied to sulphur; it is distilled from bodies that contain sulphur, in conjunction with metals such as iron pyrites, a compound of sulphur and iron. Mr. May, a telegraph clerk, employed at the Valentia Cable Lino, first observed, in 1873, that the electrical resistance of selenium was instantly altered by light, the resistance being diminished by an increase of light. Dr. Siemens makos use of this peculiarity of selenium in the construetlon of his novel eye. An electrical circuit is arranged, of which a bit of selenium forms a part and constitutes the retina. When a strong light is admitted into the lens and falls upon tho selenium retina, the current of electricity flows (by acting upon small magnets), and may bo made to work tho artificial lids of tho eye, opening and closing them, according to the intensity of the light. It is woll known that vibrations of musical sounds may, by an ordinary conducting wire, be electrically transmitted and successfully delivered to the ear. It remains to be determined whether light vibrations can, by means of selenium and electricity, be transmitted to the brain in the absence of the natural eye. Scientific American. Fewer af a little Child. Yesterday afternoon two men engaged in an angry dispute on the street, during which one shook his fist beneath the other's nose, and appeared to have worked himself into a fever heat of passion. Just then a littlo girl, almost an infant, who had boon going by, but stopped, apparently paralyzed by the man's fury, moved quito close to him, and, looking up into his faco, inquired, "What makes you so tross, mister?" It was so unexpected that the man evidently felt a complete revolution of feeling. Gradually his countenance cleared, and finally was lit up with a smile, as he patted the little peacemaker's head, and remarked as he moved away, ignoring the other man altogether, "1 guess you'ro right, little pot." "Much has been said," remarks the Independent. of the debts of citv churches; but country churches are not ii ii ' ... ....... . .1. an wi'u on. we Know or a village cnurcn iu ew Jersey wiiicii held a fourth nf .Ink- fautk'al tn mv tha tn torest on the cost j)t their lightningruu.

THE LATE KAIUtOAD KIMt.

CaMiMeilre VaHdrttIt Hit PerMNal HiiMIi, Ckaraeterlrttoa, Mrf HuilHeu JHCINHHS (From the New York fivn, Tne ohiidhood of vaaaerbiit was spent amid scenes of toil, frugality, and rigid, simplicity. Ana so, when at sixteen vears of age he voluntarily took upon himself to be a aian, be was prepared for the application and labor of manhood. Tneneeiorwara for twenty years he gave himself no leisure when there wes work to be done, runner on Sunday nor holidays, nor at night morn than in day time, did he allow himself a respite. Places of amusement were unknown to him. This portion of his life was simply a continual round of hard work. As a young man be could enjoy a glass of grog, could smoke his pipe with satisfaction, and could eat his dally rations of pork and cabbage with a hearty appetite. But he courted no society, assumed no style, and seemed to care for nothing beyond money making. lie was secretive to an extreme, never permitting his plans to be known until they were made public by their operation. He was combative, and,being endowed with a powenui frame, never feared to test his muscle with any one who was bold enough to submit a dispute to such arbitration. And it is but fair to say that he was seldom if ever worsted in a personal oncounter. As an employer he was exacting and parsimonious ; insisted that his orders should be respected without questioning: violent in his manner and lan guage, and yet withal he invariubly attacneu inose ne empioyeu. to mm so strongly that they seldom sought other service when they could remain with him. Tne unanimous verdict of these men is that be was a hard master,but a just one, kind to his men, but always careful to make all the money ho could out of thorn. During the first period of his active life, covering the years of his application to steamboating on inland waters, his children, thirteen in all, were all born. These were committed to tho care of their mother, and were trained byhor to habits of frugality and independence. The Commodore had no time, if ho had the inclination, to devote to these domestic cares. But be faithfully seconded all his wife's plans 1 .1 11 I her, without stint, with whatever money she required to provide for them. HIS IDEAS EXPANDING. In the second period of this remark able man's career, covering his stoamship enterprises, lie indulged more in the comforts and enjoyments of life. Ho built him a fine house, furnished it handsomely, and began to live like a man of means rather than as a laborer. A carriage was placed at the disposal of his wife and daughters, while an ambitious trotting horse occasionally administered pleasure to the millionaire after a hard day's work. And finally, lowaru me ena oi inia penou, m uoiumodorewas inveigled into club life and enticed to spend an evening at whist with those desirous of getting a portion of his money from him at the rate of $5 a corner. But with all those enjoyments he never neglected business. He had no imposing array of bookkeepers, cashiers, and clerks. His office, even when his business was most extended, comprised but two rooms, and three clerks did all the work, under his immediate supervision. He knew nothing of bookkeeping himself, and when it became necessary that his vast operations should be recorded in some form, he employed a man who was good at figures and could write a plain hand to keep the accounts. He never owed any floating debts and never allowed any body to be indebted to him unless he had collaterals to show for it; and these transactions he considered required no no booking. As he acquired ready money he invested it without consulting any body. As time passed along and his means increased, rendering larger operations necessary for the employ ment ox nis capital, ana stock companies more convenient or desirable for the management of these grander enterprises, he had a numerous com pany oi sons-m-iaw ironi among wnom to select officers and directors. Thus he contrived to manage all his affairs himself, or at least with the aid only of i . i . memoers oi ms own i&iuuy. THE DIVERSIONS OK A RAILROAD KINO. There came a third period the grand period in which he became the giant stock operator and the railroad king of nis ago. inuring ims penou ne inuuigea himself in leisure and pleasure more thau at any former time. In the rear of his houso on Washington Place he built a commodious stable for his horses, with conveniences for their ex ercise and treatment: bought costly stock ; provided himself with a team of matched trotters which were marvels of speed ; drove daily through the Park and on the road, priding himself on his ability to pass any thing traveling; patronized horse races,; was occasionally to be seen at the op era or theater; dined regularly at the Manhattan Club, and spent nis evenings tnore at tne wnist table until he married his second wife, and seemed really te enjoy life. Yet during these years he remained diligent in business. When he gave up navigation he removed his office to a building adjoining his stables on Fourth Street, and here, as late as 1870, he could always be found from 9 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon. Af ter leaving his office in the afternoon he matte it a rule to refuse all' business calls except those of a confidential na ture. His aim was to leave his business at his office, retire to his residence and enjoy a short nap, then take a drive on the road with his trotters and return to his club-house for dinner, where he

usually retaaiited through the evealag. This routine continued up t the tiwe of his second marriage. HIS OlO ANTIC STOCK OPERATIONS. His operations in stock were on asoale of such magnificence that his personal appearance in Wall or Broad Street was out of the question. Secrecy was essential to success in these operations, and to be seen in the market was to expose his hand. And his immediate family connections his sobs and sons-in-law were also too well known to be intrusted with the execution of these colossal transactions. This difficulty necessitated the employment of men whom he could trust implioitly, and who were habitues of the stook markets, as well as men of acknowledged shrewdness and good judgment. Such men he found in the Messrs. Scbell, Augustus and Richard, the late Henry Keep, Mr. James II. Banker.

late of the Bapk of New York, Mr. Oliver Charlick. and one or two others. These gentlemen usually manipulated tne market, giving tne orders they had received from the Commodore to trusty brokers of their own selection, who never knew whom, they were roally operating for, whatever they might suspect. Thus thousands of shares of a particular stock might be bought or sold on Yanderbilt's account, and the street remain ignorant of the fact that he was operating at all ; while if that fact had beon known it would have created a panic in the stock dealt in. In fact, his dealings were never known until settling tune came, and then it was common to see long faces and to hear the exclamation, " Old Vanderbilt has scooped the street again!" HIS DOMESTIC LIFE. It has been seen that when yet but a lad young Vanderbilt withdrew himself from parental control. He never seems to have manifested much regard for his father, but for his mother, who lived to a good old age, he always displayed the most solicitous affection and respect. Her influence was always mere potent with him than any other. Even she never succeeded in exciting in her son's breast any great regard for religion and spiritual concerns, though her example as a pious woman was not wholly loet on him. Though the family were of Dutch descent, this good woman was connected with the Moravian Church on Staten Island, and her remains now lie entombed in the cemetery attached to that church. Since her death,which occurred upward of 20 years ago, the Commodore has manifested a strong regard for that particular church and cemetery. He voluntarily conveyed to the congregation a very valuable piece of land adjoining their grounds for the enlargement of the cemetery, and has contributed liberally to Its ornamenta tion. His first wife died in this city Aug. 17, 18C8. Her funeral was attended by the Rev. Dr. Hatton, a Dutch Reformed clergyman, but her remains were taken to Staten Island and placed in the same vault with those of the Commodore's mother in the Moravian Cemetery. By his first wife, who had been his faith ful partner through many years, and who had shared the trials and triumphs of his early, career. Commodore Vanderbilt had thirteen children. Two years after her death Mr. Van derbilt married Mrs. Elliott of Mobile, a widow of remarkable personal beau ty and charming manners and accomplishments, some forty-five years younger than himself. Farm ts. Fast Meres. Sensible men are certain te be pleas ed with a brief article in a leading stock journal, in which the rage for breeding fast horses is termed a "monomania." Fast horses that is, racers so far as their utility as racers is concerned, are essentially worthless in this country of railroads and telegraphs. The only possible use they subserve is that probably, in breeding from them, horses for common usee, of better spirit, finer ac tion and endurance may be produced. If not useful in this way, then they are certainly nuisances because of their de moralizing influence. They are employed for just two things first, as in strumentalities for gambling; and sec ond, as playthings in the bands of men who have more money tnan they care to dispose of for useful purposes. It is quite fashionable for men of this class to fill their stables with costly trotters, merely for the name of riding behind "the fastest horses in the world;" the notoriety of spending immense sums on such faacies giving them more pleasure than a host of good deeds. The farmhorse serves a purpose beside which the trotter, par excellence, is as contempti ble as is tne life of a fashionable bene compared to that of a philanthropic, Christian woman. The improvement needed In horses of this class is better action, more endurance, and the habit or ability to walk faster. Farm travel is mostly done in walking, and largely so on the highway, and u breeders would look more to the development of this quality it would add millions to the national wealth. New York Observer. The school population of Kansas numbers 199,986 ; there are enrolled in the schools 142,606, and of these 85, 580 were in average daily attendance for 5i months during the year. Only 2 8-10 per cent, of the teachers employed in the public schools held the highest certificate issued by county boards of examiners; 35 2-10 per cent, hold Grade 1 certificate, and 62 2-10 hold the lowest grade certificate. Nearly two-thirds ofthe teachers employed in the public schools held the lowest grade certificate issued by the boards of examiners.