Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1880 — Too Active. [ARTICLE]

Too Active.

Tour little son is perhaps troublesome. He is never quiet, and is constantly demanding attention. - How shall you abate this nuisance ? You may try to destroy these bad habits by scolding him, by rebukes, by lectures, by punishments. That is one way, but not the best. These bed, habits oAsn spring from an instinct of activity, an intense desire to do something, which the Creator has given the child as a means of mental and moral growth. In trying to poll up the tares you are in great danger of rooting out the wheat also. If you succeed by fore* in changing his disagreeable torment of perpetual activity into a dull qpriei, you have changed a bright boy into a dull one. A bettor way than destroying this tendency ts to folfill it by giving him plenty of occupation of an innocent kind, d-ive him a heat) of Band to dig, block# of Wood to'buHd witih gfc? {* tools, and boards to saw. Set him at tmne work, useful or interesting, or, at kaat, harmless. He will like all this better than he likes miachisf- AH Us irregular activity was a ay for something to do. dive him that, /Mad yoa will have no further trouble.

Hatch for coegieSk. The president informed the cabinet that he would leave Washington Thursday, to visit the paetfle coast. The Republican of the third district of Wisconsin, bare re nominated George 0. Hazel ton for congress. Ex-Lieutenant Governor A. Hart has been nominated for coognto to Hillsboro, Ohio, by the Republican*. During a difficulty at Leeville, Texas, three Littlefield brothers, William PLil hp and Houston, were killed. ’ f John A. Richardson, sitting mam her, has. been renominated for coegras from the First South Carolina district. General James Craig has been nominated for congreat, by the Democrats of Iks ninth Missouri district (St. Lode.) - - W. H. Waldby, s banker of Adrian, tea bean nominated for congress by the Democrats of the Second Michigan die trick i The Assistant Treasurer at New York has been instructed to purchase $8,506000 in Government bonds on accouaf of the sinking fond. ' W. T. Debase, the artist, died to Fayet, July 18, aged fifty. He was a native ot Rotterdam, and for twenty-six yean ranWent of New York. . •

The sale ol the Galveston, Brsxos and Texas narrow goage i ail road has been postponed until Nov. 80. It will take place at Philadelphia. Parties from the sdene report that Victoria's Indians whipped Urieraoo, in a late fight, instead of being whipped, and are going into Mexico. James K. Jones, of Hempstead county, Arkansas, has been nominated for congress from the Second congressional •district, by the Democrats. D. Wyatt Alien end Geo. D. Tillman have been renominated for Congress in the Third end Fifth South Caroline districts by the Democrats. 8. W. Hoffman, ex-city auditor of Cincinnati, has been arrested on a warrant charging him with, embezzling SIB,OOO daring his term of office. A dispstc i from Cairo says: It U believed the Egyptian cotton crop will be 22,506,000 pounds less than that of ISM and about fifteen days late. The London Standard’s St. Petersburg correspondent telegraphs that competent authorities say the Russian harvest is the worst since the famine of 1878. A London dispatch from Candahar states that General Brooks was shot during the late sortie while bringing in CapL Cruikshank, who was wounded. 1$ Wm. C. Matthews, D. D., s well known Presbyterian minister of Louisville, died August 24, st Lsgrsnge, Ky., where he was spend iog the summer. - The first bale of new cotton from Alabama to .the northern market was sold at he coton exchange, Cincinnati, for 18$f cents a pound. It came from Decatur. Prohibition Reform party in New Jersey have called a state convention for September 1, to nominate a candidate for governor and choose presidential electors. .

The mechanics and blacksmiths in toe employ of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul railroad company struck tor an advance of five per cent in wages on Wednesday. The anthracite coal interests in Pennsylvania, have agreed to advance eastern price ol egg and stone coal 20 cents per ton for September. No other changes trave been made. A conference of the Turkish ministers have considered the last collective note from the powers. They were ot toe opinion that Turkey cannot commit an act of self-mutilation. Five buildings oc :upie i as saloons, concert halls, shooting galleries, restaurants, etc, near the Bay district race track, San Francisco, were burned August 84. Lorn $80,000; partly inanred. Mark Baughton, a prominent citizen ol Sturgis City, Dakota, committed suicide at that place Sunday night by shooting. Despondency, caused by the unfailhtuT□eas of his wifei was the csose. The New York Democratic state committee has been called for Friday next, to consider the question of holding aeon, vtntion to nominate a candidate for chief justice of toe cotfrt of appeals. Judge R. C. Will, Greenback candidate for county treasurer of Pulaski county, Arkansas, was thrown from a wagon at McAlmont, while addressing a political meeting, and fractured his arm badly. Judge Page, of Austin, Minn., was shot in his house August 34, and killed by some unknown assassin. He has for years been the principal mover in a great political, social and religious feua that has agitated Southern At mneaota.

Richard O. Adams, the defaulting postmaster ot Dead wood escaped from the custody of the marshal August 26. Adams’ career has been a disgraceful one, and hia leaving the hills is but a repetitionof his exit from various other places. A large reward is offered by the marshal for his capture.

A young man named Edward Me Kes*ell, shot and killed his mother, near Wanseon, Ohio, August 24th. McKessell testified before the coroner that he was attetaptlng to shoot a chicken, and the gun was accidentally discharged, instantFj killing his mother who was sitting it a window. McCauley’s theatre, at Louisville, hae been purchased by John T. McCauley, and will, as heretofore, be conducted and managed by him aa the leading place of amusement in the city. The leading attractions Ln the country have been secured and the coming season will be one of the most brilliant seen there. Dr. EarlL the notorious abortionist .of Chicago, who not long ago served ont a term in the penitentiary at Joliet for prac ticing his abominable profession, is again in trouble. _ The dead body of an apparently respectable woman was found in the hall leading to his office, and Dr. Earll was discovered wiping plood from the floor where she lay. He was at once ar-_ aested by ah officer who made the diaeovary. 5 •

A Baa Francisco Tucson dispatch, dated August26th, says: Bhenff Botnar, with a roese, left here last night to Intercept and arrest the Mexican brigand Reyes, who, with hit band, were reported to be in the vicinity.., Butner met them about eight miles from town, and a fight ensued, ln wbiCh fifty shots were fired. The Mexicans fled, leaving several dead and wounded animals and weapons on the field. The sheriff followed, bat soon lost the trail in the darkness. The brigands are supposed to namber about fifty. A London dispatch trom Bombay, discussing the news of the dangerous state of affairs at Uabnl says: This early hot striking proof of the impolicy of hasty withdrawal of our forces from Cabal is a step most strongly condemned by nearly every military man ia India. It has ere atari great erateiqant. Tbe is raging at p&shmwur, daily increase* ia violence. The certainty of severe losses of the retiring troops was oos of the reasons most strongly urged against tbe policy of the withdrawal of troops dating the hottest sari most unhealthy period of the year.