Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1881 — Page 2

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HERE AND THERE.

The Emperor of China has the small pox. Host.. James N. Tyner appears to be “in for durin." Mb. Conklino has given up bis ’ooms at Washington. • There are 5,000 armed soldiers In the County of Cork,- Ireland. The inflax of Chinese into Australia It causing considerable commotion. Chinese immigrants are. still arriving at San Francisco in large numbers. * The-tail of the comet is four millions of miles long, but it deu’tjwag the comet. Jesuit priests, expelled by order of the Government, are leaving Nicaragua in squads. . It is now reported that European harvests promise more tban an average crop of grain. The New York saiooq keepers are - organizing for the purpose of making their own beer. Gen. Footer has received notloe of his appointment as United States Marsal for this Statei. The Bfjtish Parliament Is giving ■ three days of the week to the consideration of the land bill. s I The Jews In New York are raising SIO,OOO for the relief of their persecuted co-religionists In Russia. an Anti-Monopoly League hss been established in every Assembly district of the State of New York. Mr. Porter, a census expert, estimates that the National debt is owned by less that 100,000 persons. * • The commission of Judge Robertson as the Collector of the Port ‘of New York has been signed by the President. A Judge of election at Chicago has been found guilty of fraud on the bal- ‘ lot-box, and sentenced to imprisonment. ;j Col. Dudley has taken the oath of • dice, and entered upon <he discharge of his duties as Commissioner of Pensions. , • The London, England,- newspapers crowded With the prospectuses of speculative companies recently organized. * The King of Biam has Just sent over a stone for the Washington monument, and the Legislature of Nebraska appropriated SI,OOO to help along. The Grand Jury at Albauy, N. Y., has found indictments for bribery against'three Legislative lobbyists— Barber, Phelps and Edwards. The Tiades’ Union of New York are demanding a weekly half-holiday ou Saturday aftertToons, and employers ki*e generally opposing the demand. The grand Jury at Albany, N. Y., Inis presented twelve indictments, of « hich seven are sealed, and the names of the persons indicted are not disclosed. * 4 .

A proposition to abolish capita punishment recently received 80 votes in the English House of Commons, hut was defeated by 189 votes in the negative. • Prof. Klein, of Kentucky, claims to have discovered the comet last September, and says it is the same visitor l hat produced a disturbance of the element in 1783. * It Is rumored in Washington that the President is abbut to ask Attorney CP.-neral MacVeagb to resign, and that illlara E. Chandler will probably be .offered the position. ' —_ % The saloon license having been recently raised In Pittsburg, Pa., from SOO to S3OO, the s&loonatics refused to pay, whereupon 300 of them were indicted in one batch. It is said that \V illiam/Herndeo, the former law partner of Abraham Lincoln, is now a pauper, at Springfield, 111., in consequence of his intemperate us 6 of ardent spirits. The wheat harvest in Southern Kansu* is over, with an estiniated average yield of fifteen bushels to the acre, against sixteen bushels last year. The grain is of superior quality. In Oregon, recently, while a farmer was driving 1 a drove of 1,110 sheep over the Blue Mountains, the sheep stampeded and leapt over a precipice, killing 950 of them outright All the gambling houses of St. Louis have been dosed, an act of the Legislature declaring the" keeping of sueh houses a felony having gone Into effect midnight Saturday. The maimed soldiers’ and sailors’ League pf Philadelphia, has drafted a pension bill, fixing the pension of all combatants who lost a limb or the use of it, at forty dollars per month. At Merced, Cal., last week, a fire swept over 7,250 acres of wheat and other grain, destroying everything iu its course, including many farm houses and a great deal of farming machinery. . " The Pennsylvania Legislature passed an act making bribery, corruption or frauds at primary electionE and delegate conventions misdemeanors, and punishing them accordingly. Baron Maonus, the German Minister at Copenhage#, who was summarily dismissed by his Government some months ago because of his domg honor to Sarah Bernhardt, the French actress, is now a lunatic. i Professor Peter Litchfield, the Hamilton College (Utica, N. Y.) astronomer, says the dark line through the center of the comet is the shadow of the nucleus. He doee not believe this is either the comet of 1809 or that of 1812. i A stone fifteen feet wide, twenty- . five feet long, seven inchee thick, and weighing twenty tons, has been quarried in New Jersey,and will be laid in front of the New York residence of W. H. Vanderbilt.

The French astronomers aay that 1 the comet has no head worth speaking of, bat an immense tail, which Is seven million leagues in length. It is to be visible about three weeks longer and then to disappear for seventy-four yean. - * - ' - - Minneapolis, Minn., is to have a monster flouring mill, requiring 10,000,000 bushels of wheat per annum to supply it. It will turn out five and-a half barrels of floor per minute, 333 barrels per hour, 8,000 per day, and 2,400,000 barrels per year of 300 days. It was announced in the British House of Commons Monday' that twenty-seven Justices of the peace have been reported guilty of corrupt practices during the last general election, and fifteen have placed their resignations in the hands of the Lord Highchanoellor. A celebrated French physician says that tobacco smoking oolora the bones. Think of that, gpnng man, when you pufl your cigar or cigarette. How can you bear to have your bones a sickly yellow or dirty brown, when they might be beautifully white? Swear oft, y. m., swear off. A striking illustration of the depreciation in the value of landed property is afforded by a remark made recently by one of the rioheet noblemen in England, who, in conversation on the subject, said he should be glad to get a return of one per oent. on the estimated value of his land. Because Mollie DeHart ovas only 13, her parents forbade her to marry Bruce Cooper, a yonng lawyer of Moore head, Ky. The couple eloped, but had not gone maoy miles before the bridegioom was very sorry for what he had done, advised the girl to return home, and committed suicide by shooting himself.

An English is wearing him sellout in New York city in an effort to confer lasting benefits npon this country by walking 6,000 quarter miles in 6,000 consecutive ten minutes. Such humantarians as this British hero and Griscorn, the Chicago faster, are sure to receive more than their due of honor and renown from the great American public. General Sherman lately stated that Custer, previous to his last fight, had ridden his men so hard that When they went into the fight they were net, upon dismounting, able to stands but staggered like drunken men, and in some instances were merely clubbed to death by the Indians. Riding as they rode, lad est with amunition, they were whipped before they could strike a blow. • ~ ' Astronomers are s'ill undecided as to the identity of the comet now visible in the heavens. Professor Swift, of Rochester, thinks it resembles Donates comet of 1858, and is not the one of 1812. Professor Draper, of New York, believes it is not Gould's comet, seen about June 3, in South America, while P{pfessor Stone, of Cincinnati, thinks it is the same one seen by Dr. Gonld, and also that it may be the comet of 1807, whose return was not expected for 1,700 years.

A census expert estimates the distribution of the bonds as follows: “In the absence of exact figures, I should say that the New England States own about eleven per cent, of- them, ihe Middle States about forty-three per oent., the Southern States a trifle over two per cent., and the Western States nearly eight and one-half per oent.. while the banks, insurance companies, and other corporations own about thirty-five and one-fourth per cent." The latest ill news from Russia is that there is a famiue in various departments of the empire. The condition of the population in these districts is said to be wretched in the extreme. At the same time typhus is reported to be raging iu a deadly form among the garrisons of Uraisk and Kalmikowa, in consequence of the bad food supplied to the troops. Tainted fish and meat are said to have been furnished by contractors. The condition of the Jews in Russia is improving somewhat. In one village in the district of Kieff the peasautshave voluntarily compensated the Jews to the extent of 800 rubles for the lose they had suffered, the amount of money, though insignificaht, being evidence of a return of human feeling. Good effect is also expected from orders given by the Metropolitans of Moscow and Kieff to, the clergy of those districts to preach against the persecution of the Jews. - The new Rhode Island liquor law provides that no license shall be granted for any place situated within 400 feet of a public school, and that a majority of the land owners within 100 feet of the place for which the license is asked shall be sufficient to prevent thq. granting of the license. interest is furious and breathes vengeance against the members of the Legislature who succeeded in passing the law. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that the total values of the exports of petroleum and petroleum products from the United Stales during the month of April, 1881, and during the ten months ending the same, as compared with similar exports daring the corresponding periods of the previous year, were as follows: April, 1881, $2,762,716; April, 1880, $1,995,182; ten months, ended April 30.1881, $31,401,223; ten months, ended April 30. 1880, $32,607,997. *

A bio fight Is organizing against that most tyranical of all monopolies, the Standard Oil Company, which has for some years absolutely controlled the petroleum interest of this country. Many of the oil refinery firms and companies of Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, are combining for mutual protection agkinst the Standard Company’s despotism, and to aggravate the hatefulnees of this despotism, it has been discovered recently thst the Standard Company has been cheating by a shortage of fromone to four gallons m the contents of its barrels. Of the late Henry 8. Lane an old friend relates, he was chosen Chairman of thi Philadelphia Republican Convention in ’56, just after a severe Attack of illness. Pale, cadaverous and

weak, he took the eha&.'and was regarded with astonishment by the Southern delegates, some of whom asked. “What is there about that man to recommend him for Chairman?" Presently Mr. Lane began to epe#k, and In the flowery manner especially pleating to the Southerners. At the end of his speech they rushed over to the Indiana delegates, enthusiastically shaking hands, and one exclaimed. In the exuberance of his joy, “Heavens! he’s old Demosthenes! Have you any more men like him in Indiana? ’ The Census Bureau gives us the grain product of the United States for the year 1879. From these tables we learn that from 62,327,952 acres planted in oorn there were raised 1,772,909,846 bushels; from 35,478,065 acres in wheat the y iuld was 287,745,626 bushels; 36,150,611 acres of oats produced 407,970,712 bushelk; 2,005,466 acres devoted to barley gave ui 41,149,479 bushels; the 1,844,321 acres sown in rye brought fourth 16,918,795 bushels, and the 856,304 acres of buckwheat gave a return of 9,821,721 bushels. The total, acreage for oereals in. 1679 was 118,665.619 j and the yield nearly 3,000,000,000 bushels, or an average of fifty-four bushels to each individual of our 50,000,000 of population.

The New York workmen In many trades who have been trying to secure a-half holiday on Saturdays are, contrary to first reports, meeting with considerable suooess; and if they are not too greedy the chances are that their “demand" will be generally conceded. Some of the employers are willing to give their men two hours of leisure on Saturday, but say that 1 an entire half day would jeopardize their business. It is thought that the men would do well to accept this offer, aud not make it the pretext for a foolish strike. If they get two hours Ibis year, and are grateful for so much, they may get more hereafter. This movement is a reasonable one, anu considerate employers will not frown upon workmen who ask for a few hours of leisure once a week.

The emigration statistics of Germany are engaging the serious attention of the Imperial Chancellor, who has submitted to the Bundesrath tables showing that during the year 1880 no fewer than 11,454 young men liable to military service quitted the Fatherland for America. As the exodus during the pait year was nothing beyond the common, whereas this season tinnumbers are assuming alarming pro portions, it seems likely that the military service will be deprived of at least 20,000 young men. The worst feature of the case, of course, is that the emigration of this class means a twofold loss to the country—the sinew and backbone of the land are leaving it, and the aged, infirm, and children are left behind. The chief exodus seems to be from Prussia. Bavaria, with a population equal to one-ninth of the whole of Germany, only supplies one-twentieth of the emigrants, seeming to demonstrate the fact'that life in the .south is not so unendurable as in Prussia itself.

THE NEWS.

Home items. The Board of Agriculture of theStute of Ohio estimates the wheat crop this year at 44,000,000 bushels. Saturday evening the Jews In one New York synagogue raised $1,500 for their persecuted 00-religionists in Russia. Mrs. Antony, vise of a clergyman at Shelbyville, Tennessee, fatally shot herself while attempting ter shoot a hawk. In a*quarrel between two lads, aged 13 and 10, respectively, in Boston, the younger one shot the other, inflicting a fatal wound. Buffalo reports the arrival of the largest tyw of lumber from Michigan which ever passed through the great lakes. It consists of 3,250,000 leet. Mrs. Miller and her young son were instantly'killed by lightning on Sunday evening at Sturtevart Station, Ala. The in taut in her arms was uuinjured. John G. Saxe, the wit, is becoming a confirmed hypochondriac, partly from want of exercise, and partly from brooding over the loss of his children. Hostilities have been opened between the Gould and Vanderbilt railroad combinations. May it be a war to the death. “When rogues fall out," etc. The finding of the Whittaker court martial, with a fuff account of the proceedings, comprising 7.500 foolscap pages, has been forwarded to Washington. There are 44,497 postoffices in the United States. During the year 2,894 were established and 1,408 discontinued. The number of postmasters commissioned is 10,441. Commissioner Raum has decided that the sum of $165,445 07 Is due the United States Government on evasions of tax by the three Canadian banks doing business in Chicago. Attorney General MacVeagh Insists that there will be no “letup" in the Star Route prosecution, the President and the Cabinet being determined to go to the root of the busint ss. The sleeping Hungarian, who has been in a camatose condition for 135 days at the Lehigh (Pa.) county poorhouse, has spoken a few words, and may, therefore, be said to be awake.

Parnell has net yet decided as to the date of his visit to this country, the object of which is to discourage the *xertiens of that pestilent blatherskite, O’Donovan Kossaand his skirmishers. The international pigeon race was flown ou Saturday from different'parts of tbt United States and Canada, the distance to their homes being 250 miles; the winners made that distance at the rate of a mile in two minutes.

A youth of seventeen, namtd Frank Fritz, of Columbur, Ohio, having no funds to pay for a meal at a Cleveland restaurant, drew his revolver, and fired twice at the reetauranteur, . George Williams, almost instantly killing him. A game of base bail was played at Albany, N. Y., Wednesdsy, by Stalwart and Democratic members,' of the Legislature, for the benefit of the families of the men who wire killed while working on the new Capitol building. There were seven innings—Democrats, 58; Stalwarts, 26. A contract has been made in St. Louis for an experimental shipment of 30,000 husbela of Spring wheat from St. Paul to Glasgow, Scotland, by bargee to New Orleans, thence by steamer. If the shipment proves successful others will follow. The rate for the first shipment was 28 cents per bushel.

tfcm had a protracted wem on of nomlnating a candidate for the Governahip. On the twelfth ballot ex-State Auditor Sherman received 510 votee, or one vote more than a majority, whereupon his nomination was made EBanlmooo amid gteet enthusiasm. Mi. Brhwn, private secretary to President Garfield, who was entrusted with a private mission to United States Minister Lowell, relative to the Irish land troubles and the part played therein by Irish Americans, is returning with a large and lengthy report gleane 1 by United States Consuls in Ireland. . , Mr. Euler, a fire works dealer, was fined five shillings in. Philadelphia Thursday morning for a breach of the anti-fire works act, passed in 1721 (against the peace of our sovereign Lord, his most gracious Majesty King George the First of England.") The magistrate insisting on the fine being paid in shillings, the defendant bought them of a Third street broker. T. J. Gould, a retired business man, was murdered while traveling on an express train from London to Brighton and bis corpse thrown out at Baloombe Tunnel. A reporter named Lefroy or Mapleton is suspected, and robbery is believed to have been the object. The English railway carriages are divided into sections or compartments of half a dozen seats, ana the doors ol these sections are looted between stations. Several notable murders have occurred in railroad carriages. ' . , On Saturday evening William G. Whllney, a sop of the well-known litigant. Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, was murdered by his brother-in-law, James Y. Christmas. The two men and their families, who lived with Mrs. Gaines in the Catacazj mansion,Washington, bad been in business together, ana the quarrel which caused the murder was in regard to the settlement thereof. They left the dinner table together, and as they passed into the hall Chrismas drew a revolver and shot Whitney through the heart. The murderer has been arrested.

Foreign.

That S&n Diego Tichborne is a fraud, at least so his neighbors say. The Mexican government proposes to establish a National bank. Thirty thousand nail-makers in Staffordshire, England, have struck for 30 per cent, higher wages. There are no prospects ol a good English harvest, and doubts are' entertained of even an average one. A Paris dispatch reports the appearance of a new and terrible contagion resembling leprosy at Toulouse. The Journal de St. Petersburg officially denies the report that Russia intends to act belligerently towards China. It is believed that the negotiations between France and England foi a new commercial treaty will fall through. This j ear the emigration from Sweden to America will reach 70,000, which is about one-sixtieth of the entire population. At the attack of Alegian insurgents on the Spanish faction, at Saida, 100 were massacred, and 400 wounded and taken prisoners. Spain has fallen on prosperous times, which is proved by an improvement in internal affairs and a large diminution in the national debt. Further particulars of the electric railway of Siemens and Halske, the inventors, tried in the suburb of Berlin, state it to be a success. *

A report from Piedra? Negras states that several American engineers have been killed in Mexico in consequence of disputes regarding right of way. Ennis, the policeman, who killed a farmer, named Maloney during a writ riot near Dublin, has been committed for trifl on the charge of murder. Russia thinks that if England can protest against the action qf Fenians in America, something should be done by European powers to limit the conspiracies of excited Nihilists. The German authorities are taking measures to hinder the large emigration from the fatherland. A bill with this object is to be introduced into the next session of the Reichstag. McAuliffe, a process server who gave evidence against the president of a local land league, was shot dead at his residence near Castle Island, County Kerry, Ireland, Tuesday evening. In the Henley regatta, which commenced Thursday, the Cornell crew were “a bad third” in the race for the Steward’s Cup. The Americans are said to row in a cramped, jerky, slow style. Bon Amaua, tho rebel chief of Oran, Algeria, is said by spies to have murdered the French soldiers captured by him, and spared only thirty-three of the Spaniards whom he took prisoners near Baida. The Right Rev. Dr. Nulty, Bishop of Meath, Ireland, speaking atMultlfour-' ham, indorsed the Land League and desired them to pay the expenses of evicted persons with the aid of the Irish Americans.

Spain is discussing the question of free trade versus protection. The protectionists, at a meeting held in Barcelona, pointed to the flourishing condition of the United States as a powerful argument in their favor. A Montenegrin officer, who went to the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, to obtain an audjence of the Princess of Montenegro and was refused that honor, stabbed the officer on duty, whereupon another officer shot the Montenegrin dead. The leaders of the Black Division of Nihilism informed the government in their letter that it was unnecssary for them to repeat their criminal enterS rises, as the measures of the new Holsters were fast driving the country into revolution. A land-slide is in progress above Lake Tburn, Canton of Berne, Switz* erlaud. On the land are meadows and bouses, and the whole is gradually sliding into the lake. In the Canton oi Orisons 1,300 sheep with their shepherds were overwhelmed by an avalanche.

A St, Petersburg correspondent asserts .that the policy of the present Russian Ministry is to show that the milder rule of the Melikoff Government was a failure. To do this they pretended to discover plots and conspiracies to alarm the Czar and to intimidate and.coerce the journals. At |darseilles, two oil mills and a manufactory where Italians were employed, have been incendiarized. Damage estimated at 6,000,000 francs. At Turin, Messina, and Milan antiFrench demonstrations were made, which were quelled by the military. Colonel Oregon, who was commissioned by the Mexican Government to inquire into the cause ot the Moreles Bridge disaster, has reported that the sole cause was the defective construction of the bridge. Collections are being made in the City of Mexico' for the relief of the sufferers. At Prague, the capital of Bohemia, a festival of German students was interrupted by Czechs, and, in the course

mote stabbing oeeurred. This interne* quarrel will no doubt spread throughout Bohemia. The Constantinople court which triad the persons implicated in the murder of Abdul Asia, the late Sultau of Turkey, havepaased sentence of death upon Midhat, Mahmoud and Nouri Pashas, Fahri Bey, All Bey, Nedjib Bey, Hadji Mehmer, Mustapha “the wrestler,” and Mustapha ‘Hhe gardener.” Izxet Pasha and Zyda Pasha received ten years* penal servitude. Thu Canadas have lost 120,000 inhabitants by emigration to the United States during the last year, and now there is an effort making to induce the Irish people, who are determined to flee from the oppressions inflicted upon them by the English landlords, to locate on Canadian soil. To thin end, Sir John MacDonald, who is iu London, is turning his persuasive powers. He hopes to reach theoar of the Irish peasantry, and secure a favorable consideration mainly through the influence of the Catholio priesthood.

THE STATE.

There are 523 convicts in the State prison south. The number is decreasing. Thk corner-stone of a new library hall at Ft. Wayne has just arrived from Ireland. It weighs two tons. The County Superintendent of Allen county has been oonvicted of criminal libel and fined twenty-five dollars. The Ohio Falls car company, at Jeffersonville, now has on its pay roll 1,400 men, not including the contractors. One hundred and forty-seven new members were received into the*Seoond Presbyterian church at Indianapolis last Sunday. A stone forty-two feet long, four feet wide and three foet thick, was quarried in the Dark Hollow quarries, near Bedford the other day. The comer stone of the Lutheran church, about five mil9s south ot Wabash, was removed and robbed of about four dollars in coin the other night A horse gofloose in a car and jumped out while the train was iu rapid motion, near Cambridge, and took to the woods, hut was captured uninjured and sent on his way. • Dogs are creating great havoc In the Northern burying ground at New Albany, digging into the graves iu such a manner as to overturn the tombstones in some cases. On Wednesday, cugressman George W. Steele, while mowing grass with a scythe at his farm near Marion .severely cut his knee. The iujnry is considered serious. The Howards have 300 men employed at their shipyard at Jeffersonville. They are now building two 300-feet boats forjthe Anchor line, besides other smaller work. James Barclay, of Butler township, DeKalb county, charitably kept a tramp one night last week, and the scamp rewarded his benefactor by stealing $176 from him and decamplug.

The.organ factory at Fort Wayne is soon to be enlarged. The present capacity is forty organs per week. With the new addition seventy more skilled workmen will find employment. TAn eighty pound pig of iron fell on the hand of Paul Neaskutski, an em ploye of the Oliver chilled plow works, at South Bend, mashing it terribly,and running a splinter through it. The national camp meeting for the promotion of holiness will begin at Warsaw, August sth, and last for ten days. Revs. J. H. Inskip, Wm. McDonald, J. A. Wood, and others will be present. The New Albany Forge works has about completed the extensive addition to its works. The company has recaivod a 36,000 pound pair of shears, capable of cutting a-four inch square cold bar of irou. Frank Jenniugß, of Washington, a boy 17 years old, was shot through the leg Thursday night by some unknown person. He will be a cripple for life. No cause Is known as to why the shooting was done. Doc. Eagan, of Attica, was being hoisted out of a well he was cleaning, and when near the surface the windlass slipped and he fell forty-five feet, and alighted in two feet or water, receiving but little injury. James Brown, of Brownstown, aged 18, has been paying attentions to the daughter 'of J. D. Womack, much against the latter’s wishes, and the young man was so informed Sunday morning. He immediately retired to a secluded spot and snot himself fatally. A gang of three robbers set upon W. H. 801 l man, of Lopaz, St. Joseph county, tied and gagged him, and robbed his house of SSO. He was released by a passing stage driver, and headed a party who captured tho robbers after wouoding one of the them In six places, and put them to jail. A|bold robbery occurred near Charlestown on Friday. Mrs. Mary McCoy, a widow, was robbed of $1,900. At the time the money was taken the family were at supper on the porch in the back part of the house, and the thief entered by the front and escaped before the theft was discovered.

Johnson Boxweli, a young man working on a farm in Van Buren towm-hip, Grant county, while out hunting, climbed a tree to get a squirrel, and fell a distance of forty feet, breaking his leg ana receiving other serious injuries. The bone in the leg was driven through his flesh and clothes. John White, a resident of Luce township, Spencer county, was struck by lightning on Wednesday and killed He was caught in the storm that day, and sought refuge and a change of clothes at the houße of Jas. Parker near Richland. While changing his clothes the lightning struck the house and killed him. Col. Charles Denby and George W Bhankllu, one of the editors of the Evansville Cornier, got into a row over a law suit They were standing a store door and knocked each other through the windows on each side of the entrance, and continued the battle on the inside until they were separated. Both were considerably punished. The friends of Hanover college, the faculty and the trustees, seriously contemplate erecting a com odious hotel on one of the beautiful points at Hanover commanding the magnificent view of the river, and keeping it, conducted in first class style, lor a summer resort and as a home for the students during the sessions of the college. Henry county is agitated over the alleged cruel management of its county asylum. The officers are charged with whipping the paupers with a wagonwhip, giving old and infirm women insufficient food, and with detaining the able bodied ones, able to -work, when an opportunity is presented to them of getting work and making something.

On Monday evening at Huagland. nine miles south of Fart Wayne, men were working on an unfinished church, thirty feet from the ground, when a a storm struck the building, tearing it to pieces. Two men were seriously injured, another had his thigh broken in two places and his arm broken near the shoulder. Mr. Kennett, a resident in the near

neighborhood of Osgood, went coonhunting a few evenings sinoe, taking With him his six year old son. While crossing an open field the child was set upon by a large and ferocious dog, which flew at the child, biting it about the faoe and body so terribly that the little fellow’s life is despaired of. Mr. Kennett fortunately shot the dog and aved his child. Ata dance at New Amsterdam, Har rison county, Tuesday night, Halleck Mathers and Clay Cunningham fought about a women, and Mathers cut Cunningham’s hand nearly off at the wrist with a knife. A free fight followed among the crowd, in which Charles France was stabbed in the shoulder by an unknown party and it is thought fatally hurt. William Brennon, living in Martin oounty, ten miles north of Shoals, a rough of desperate character, had a difficulty with his son-in-law, John R. Huff, and threatened waylay and kill him. Next day Brennon was found dead in the road, with a revolver and a pair of knucks near by. It is beiieved that the parties met and Huff wascomSelled to shoot his antagonist in selfe tense.

Charles Waite, a gardener liviDg two miles west of New Albany, placed some bread and butter, poisoned heavily with arsenic, in a buoket in the door yard of his residence, to poison dogs that annoyed him at night. He arose early next morning, forgetting to remove the poisoned bread, and nis two year old daughter ate it, causing her death the same afternoon. - Theodore Pfeaster, of Lafayette, got drunk and insisted on marrying Miss Maiy McOlsen at once. She agreed and they rode to the Clerk’s office and got a license. They then proceeded at break-neck speed, in search of a justice. In turning a corner, the vehicle went over, and the prospective bride received injuries in the spine End head that may prove fatal. ' Tne wedding was postponed. ; Evansville is built over a four foot vein of bituminous coalman d three shafts just outside the city limits are operated by three different companies. For one hundred miles to the north, east, south and west this coal stratum is continuous, varying in. thickness from four feet to eleven feet, and ranging in quality from the best bituminous to the purest and only block coal in the country, and is reached at the depth of from eighty to two hundred and eighty leet. The New Albany Ledger-Standard prints a new theory of the Mauck m'irder which occurred nearly two years ago in Washington township, Harrison county. It is that other parties known to be bitter enemies of the Maucks, committed the murderous assault upon Mrs. Mauck and Sarah Vaughn, and then murdered Mauck ou his way home from the lime-kiln after he had' been informed of the murder. The theory gains strength from the fact that although Mauck was crippled by lime-sores on his sett, and unable to move rapidly, the most diligent search was unable to find him, and his whereabouts still remain a mystery.

About Animals.

On a hollow tree being thrown down some weeks ago iu England, two owlets were found, fori whom their considerate parents had provided two young rabbits, two good-sized rats, more'than twelve mice, and several birds. A farmer at Kickapoo, Illinois, had a dog that some time ago disappeared. The other day he returned a mere skeleton. It was then discovered that the dog had dug into & gravel and sand bank for a skunk, throwing the dirt behind him, and after he had caught and killed the skunk he found himself in a tomb, from which it took him sixteen days to dig out. A shepherd dog on the farm of Mr. Thomas Halo, at Seeleyviile, Penn., attracted attention last winter. He was seen repeatedly to drag a piece of bark up a steep hill back of the farmhouse, where a thick crust had formed, then deliberately seat himself on it and slide to the bottom of the hill. Many people have witnessed this strange freak of the dog’s. After coasting down the hill several times the dog would carry the bark sled to a place of safety until-he needed it again. A western Massachusetts farmer last summer found a nest of youug crows and at once killed them. Upon opening them to see what they had been fed upon, he found only potato beetles, Now, if the crow is acquiring a taste for potato beetles, will not the farmers regard him with more favor? Will they not overlook, to some extent, his past trangressions and bis foudness for a little green corn, and consider anew his claims to public favor? Let the crow have a chance to redeem his character. If he is the enemy of the potato beetle he deserves to be regarded as the friend of the farmer.

The hook and ladder company of Oswego own a dog named “Truck,” whose services are esteemed more valuable than those of any of the firemen. Recently the alarm sounded while the men were a block away and out of hearing. But they heard the dog barking furiously and knew what he meant. Hastening to the house and opening the door, they found “Truck” greatly excited, with his lamp in his mouth, running to and fro between the horses and the door, to inform them that an alarm had come in. The men understood and hurried to the fire, the dog running as usual with lautern in his mouth. A case has just been tried at Rutland wherein damages of SSO were wanted for the poisoning of a cow. It was testified that the creature ate old meat, bones and soap-suds, and that upon one remarkable occasion one of a party of men who were whitewashiug the railroad bridges, having left his overalls, stained with paint and lime, on the borders of the field, returned just in time to see the second leg disappearing down her throat, the rest of the garment having been already swallowed. She suffered no material damage from the meal, and it is supposed that the jury could not make up their minds that an ounce or so of Paris Green could have affected a cow of such omniverous propensities. A letter-writer says: After the battle of Fredericksburg it fell to my duty to search a given district for any dead or wounded soldiers their might be left, and to bring relief. Near an old brick dwelling I discovered a soldier in gray, who seemed to be dead. Lying by his side was a noble dog. with head flat upon hiß master’s neck. As I approached, thedog raised his eyes to me good-naturedly, and began wagging bis tail; but he did not change his position. The fact that the animal did not move, but more than all, the intelligent, joyful expression of his face, convinced me .that the man was only wounded, which proved to he the case. A bullet had pierced his throat, and, faint from the loss of blood, be had fallen where he lay. His dog had actually stopped the bieoding from the wound by iayiug his bead across itl Whether this was causal or not, I can not say, but the shaggy coat of the faithful creature was completely matted with his master's bldotL A hunter says: How many times, on my hunting excursions, have 1

witnessed the poor kangaroo-j-when a the almost hair-1 less and utterly helpless little Joey (as its offspring is called) and cast it. whilst at full speed, Into a tuft of high grass, from file rflhlesa hungry spring over tne Joeysfas 11 if such puny prey were unworthy of their notice, ana continue in hot pursuit of the poor panting mother, who, if so fortunate as to outstrip the hounds, in one hour’s time would instinctively return to the Bpofwhere she had left her young one, and, on recovering her dear Joey, would hurriedly replace it in its sanctuary, and retire liar away, amidst the

hills and valleys, for many successive weeks. Bat Master Joey Is frequently captured by the huntsmen, reared up by hand, and invested by a bright scarlet collar to distinguish him from his uncivilized brethem. I brought up one which formed a great source of mirth and admiration to ns all. To witness gentle, unsophisticated Joey turn out of his warm crib at daylight, and join the hounds and a half a dozen huntsmen, displaying his great agility and delight by clearing dogs, buckets, aud iron pots at a single bound, added considerably to the fun and goodhumered witticism which always enliven an early hunting party, even in the green forests of the antipodes. In the heat of the chase, gentle Joey—arrived at the age of two years—could keep pace with the swiftest of our pack; invariably took his place, leaping in the midst of them, and was always ia at the death.

A remarkable piece of canine instinct was lately witnessed in Williamsport, Pa. A little child of Mr. 8. J. Drinkwater, not two years old, was out in the street, and a dog oelonging to the child noticed a horse bitched to a carriage coming along at a rapid pace and on a line with his little friend,. Apparently thinking that the driver would not Cum out, the dog jumped into the street and threw his front legs around the child, and endeavored to gull it to the sidewalk. Finding that e was unable to accomplish this, he pulled the ehild down ana spread himself over it, with his four legs outside iu which position he remained until the horse and carriage passed. This act was witnessed by the childs mother and others. Does it not look as if he possesses reasoning powers, and that this dog resolved to sacrifice his own life to save that of the child? The albatross attempting to rise from the water, (he is supposed to be unable to rise from the laud or a ship’s deck,) flaps his wings violently to* get his body out of the water; at the same time paddling with his webbed feet, he acquires a degree of momentum sufficient with outstretched wings, to carry him forward and upward ujnm an easy iodine. During this first rise, he will generally give a few heavy, lazy flaps, and then stretch his wings steadily to their full extent. As he rues, lie must gradually lose hii acquired momentum. When it suits him to acquire more momentum, by a movement of his tail he takes a shoot downward at any 'angle that suits his convenience, still with outstretched wings. By this movement his velocity is rapidly increased, and he soon acquires a sufficient momentum to carry him to a height equal to or greater than that from which* he started to take his downward flight. By this wave-like motion he willjtravel day after day for hundreds of miles, perhaps giving at long and irregular intervals a few lazy flaps with his immense wings.

A Bald-Headed Man Buying Drugs.

Milwaukee Sun. There are two mad" men in Milwaukee. One is a bald-headed man and the other is a druggist. The bald man told a doctor that his hair was falling out, and asked him if he didn’t know something that would stop it. The doctor said he would fix him, so he wrote out a prescription, which was as follows: Chloride of sodium i 1 oz. Aqua pura 8 oz. The bald man went to a druggist and had the prescription put up, paying $1 for it. He asked the druggist if he wasn’t a little high, but felt ashamed when the druggist asked him if he knew how much aqua pura cost a gallon. He said he didn’t, but supposed it came high. The druggist told him that aqua pura was one of the most penetrating drugs in the store, and as for chloride of sodium, there was nothing like its and the war in Peru had sent it up a kiting. He said if the trouble in Chill kept on there was no knowing how high it would be. The bald man used the medicine, aud felt as though it was doing him good. His wife noticed little new hairs coming out, and he felt good, so when it was gone he took the bottle to the store aud had it filled again. The chap who filled it this time was another man, and when tne baldheaded man threw down a dollar the druggist said: “Oh, never mind; we won’t charge anything for that.” The bald man asked how 'that was, when the druggist said: “Why, it’s only salt and water, anyway. The salt is only two cents a pound, and the water is pretty cheap this year.” The baldheaded man gave one gasp, and said: “I paid $1 for filling that Ixittle before, ana I want my money back. It’s a bald headed swindle. I thought that Peruvian-story didn’t look plausible:”. The druggist gave the man a box of cigars to keep still about it.

An English Tale of American Life

Bradford (Eng.) Observer. Jack Finehart had one love affair, and only cue. It was his romance in life, and he was very cnary of talking about it. But I learned tbe facts, and they form a startling commentary on border life and the character of the man. He and his brother both fell in love with the same girl, the niece of an officer in the regular army, then stationed at Camp Douglas, Utah. Jack could hate as well as love, and he could make and keep a promise. He and his brother came to an agreement by which both men pledged themselves never again to see or speak to the young lady, the penalty for a violation of the contract being that tbe offender should die at tbe hands of the other. The brothers shook bauds over the bargain, and each went his way. Six years after, Jack sought out his brother, traveling over 2,000 miles to do so. He told him quietly that he had broken his oath, and wanted the compact kept. The brother remonstrated, but Jack was firm as adamant. He had forfeited a pledge, and he was ready to die. The end of it all was that the two brothers met on tbe bank of tbe Platte river one lovely summer evening. Jack drew a heavy derringer, cocked it, and bauded "it to his brother. Tbe latter drew off a few paces, leveled the weaoon, and looked once more at Jack. “I cau’t do it,” he said. Finehart stood there, solitary, tall, his arms folded, and an expression of quiet melancholy <on his face. “I am ready,”’ was his sole reply. The brother leveled the pistol, took deliberate aim aud pulled the trigger. The cartridge did not explode. Jack took one long quiet look at it, and seeing bis brother about to fire again, once more gazed at tbe river. Suddenly tbe brother raised bis Arm, aud tbe deadly weapon whizzed through tbe air and fount] a last resting place beneath the turbuleut waters of the rushing stream. Jack advanced in anger. “You are <a perjurer,” he said: “I would have killed you,” and disdaining the proffered bant] of his brother he strode rapidly away. The two never met again.

TABLE TALK.

An English woman has lately been apppointed a church warden. *• Minnie Palmer, the actress, is under $5,000 bonds to her manager not to marry for five years. > The audience which gathered in Rochester to hear Talmage lecture was so small that he refused to appear. ’ It is asserted that the German Government is anxiously endeavoring to devise measures to arrest the enormous flow of emigrants.. San Francisco still rejoioes over its one pound and a half baby, and mothers and physicians seem equally pleased and astonished. The child is well formed and in good

The subecriptian to the Hungarian conversion loan is the greatest financial success ever achieved by AustroHungary. Twenty-five times tho required amount was offered. The original of Mr. Millais’s two exhibition pictures this year “Cinderella” and “Sweetest Eyes Ever Been,” is Miss Buckstoue, the clever and pretty daughter of the London manager. According to Herr Fuchs’s annual report on the subject of volcanic eruptions, the activity of volcanoes in 18S0 was rather small;.the only remarkable eruption, was that of Mauna Loa, on the island of Hawaii on Nov. 5, * f The Baltimore boy who wanted l to please his mother ahd therefore stk>le : money from his father to give her as his own earnings, has been sent to the Reform School. It looks as though another great railway manager had been spoiled. v j. There are many prehistoric ruins In Arizona. A writer in the Tucson Citizen says that six miles north of Camp Lowell, at the base of the Santa Catalina Mountains, there are the remains of an ancient town covering an area of about 60 acres. It is said that the wife of an English officer has, written to tell him that, having embraced Buddhism, she, in right of her new faith, divorces him. It is feared that her change of faith will be extensively followed if it be found to carry with it such privileges, Mexico is becoming the favorite field for missionary enterprise. The Methodist Church South appropriates $82,500 this year, and other denominations are showing increased energy in that direction. Mexico,will at thk rate, soon outrank China and Africa in missionary estimation. A swarm of bees lately made their appearance in the Strand, one of the most crowded thoroughfares of London and settled on the Army and Navy Gazette office. A gentleman belongiug to the field hived them successfully. Had this occurred in days of old the Delphic oracle would have been in request. Puhch records the following conversation: “How uncommonly well the Tories have treated Bradlaugh.” “What treated him well! Why, they don’t allow him to enter the House.” “Exactly. They SD&re him all the boredom of debates,but let him go Into the smoking anil dining rooms, where all the fun is.” The Whittaker wilt forgery, by means of which a Philadelphian’s millions was all but secured by the criminals, is being fully described in their trial By one of their number. Seven persons were concerned in the Slot, and the actual forging was done yan expert penman, who was hired for the purpose, while the body of the document, comptising thirteen pages of foolscap, was written by a lawyer. A San Francisco undertaker made a contract to bury the city’s pauper dead forsixty cents each. As that price would not begin ‘to cover the cost of the regulation coffin and digging 6t a grave, much curiosity arose as to the expected source of profit. ‘ The matter is now clear. He advertises for relatives or friends of every pauper who dies, and keeps the remains as long as possible for recognition. ,In half the cases somebody comes forward to pay well for a burial elsewhere than iu the Potter’s Field. George Gottung of Ban Francisco had a youug wife, who liked to go to balls and picnics, while he preferred to remain quietly at home. He resolved to reform her by punishment. He began by boxing her ears, next kicked her, and at the third offence gave her a sound thrashing. Still she was not obedient. As soon as the black marks' were gone from her lace she went, to & garden party. George thought thatn little stabbing, not deep enough to kill, might have the desired effect. Ho followed her with a sharp knife iu his band, and prodded her several times in the manner intended, but finally struck a deeper blow, and she died on the spot. His defence is that the homicide was accidental. *

A Hint to Wives.

New York Post. * Almost every one has had occasion some tune to wonder how certain married people of their acquaintance ever concluded to go througn life together, so little do they appear to have in common in middle age.lt is pathetic and yet at the same time there is something ludicrous about it. It is truly a curious spectacle to see a husband and wife who have positively nothing to sav to each other, who communicate, to be sure, in regard to the commonplaces of every day life, but who are dumb so far as any real interchange of thought is concerned; \*ho sit through an evening’s entertainment or nde a hundred miles side by side, with nothing to indicate »>eyond the fact of their proximity that here are two people who have chosen eaeh other out of all the world Xaccording to the common superstition) to be companions. If they drift apaH the husband is almost always blamed, while in many cases the wife is in fault. While her husband in his work comes in contact with men of ideas, and becomes a part of the life that is pushing on into a different plane, and so is brightened and broadened even while he is wearied by it, she allows herself to be absorbed in the little details Of her work, and at length her thoughts do not rise above them, and while she rehearses her little vexations, andrdweils upon them, she fancies that he is free from annoyances, unless indeed it is some great trouble worthy of women who know ho more of the real life of their husbaiids than they do of a perfect stranger. That there is no need of this is showh by countless examples. Picture Mrs. Carlisle, as Mrs. Oliphant describes her,incessantly occupied with the little cares of a household, when she was not only obliged to arrange thiDgs for her husband’s comfort, but also to invent eontriVances to save him little troubleß,and yet at the same time was possessed of a mind capable of appreciating his greatest work and of correctly estimating his character, and was withal- so interested in all that concerned him that tbe half hours spent in quiet talk with her, her husband declares to have been.the most delightful moments of his lile! There need be no greater disproportion between a husband and wife whose circle is smaller and whose ability is far leas. Some of the most beautiful examples of devoted affection and complete companionship are not told of in magazine articles, they are going on before our very eyes in humble homes, and tbe truth is there appreciated that in order to be all that one ought to be there needs to be that “renewing of the mind’, of which Hamertoii speaks in the “Intellectual Life.,’ No man or woman who gives thought to this,matter can conclude that it is wise to draw continually upon the capital with which they started, but will try to increase it; by fresh thoughts, and" by making themselves constantly interesting and helpful to eafch other.