Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1881 — TABLE TALK. [ARTICLE]

TABLE TALK.

Philadelphia is to have several negro policemen. Pastor Sale, of the Baptist church at Mason City, lowa,- has been deposed for Beecherism. The Egyptian budget for the year 1830, approved by the Comptrollers, shows a surplus of about $5,000,000,arising from improoved revenue and decreased expenditure. Henry E. Dixey.the comedian,points with pride to the fact that he made his first appearance on the stage only four years ago as the hind legs of the dancing heifer in “Evangeline.” Flies are said soon to disappear from a room containing a plate of the following mixture: Half a teaspoonful of black peper in powder, one of brown sugar,and one of cream mixed together. The will, as contained in eleven different papers, of the late Pope Pius IX who died on Feb. 7,1878, has recently been proved ip London, the personal estate in England being sworn under £BOO. Mrs. Logan; a Millwaukee widow, received a legacy of $175,000, and at once became an object of matrimonial interest. She seems to have become a little contused by her suitors, for she promised to marry Mr. Kelly, and then married Mr. Spencer. The consequence is a breach of promise suit by Mr. Kelley for $25,000. The other night M. Gambetta attended a fete in one of the laboring quarters of Paris, in aid of a local popular library. He made no speech. When the enthusiastic spectators greeted him with “Vive Gambetta,,’ he said ‘fbiftraPro^PJJSL®!! ‘Vive Gambetta.’ greeting. I prefer to near you ‘Vive la Republique.’ ” The Golos (Russian) said in a recent issue: “The last five oi six years have produced a very unfavorable influence on the finances of the State, and the economic position of the country. Trade is at a stand still, there Isa great fall in our securities, and a deficit of fifty millions. Since the catastrophe of March 1, matters have become worse. All activity on our markets, and bourses is paralyzed and confidence is at an end.” At the recent peace palaver at Elmina between Sir Samuel Bowe and prince Buaki, step-father of the King

the Ashantees, the neighboring WMgspri nhiwfti, with their followers, were also present Each king had an enormous umbrella of bright colors held over turn, while he himself was covered with golden ornaments, Prince Buakibavingthe most. His arms were so weighted with the golden bracelets that-tney wfere supported by a man on each side. z *~ Lord Dunmore has been giving his concerts “for men only” at Aberdeen House. Nothing can be more free and easy than these musical gatherings. The audience is permitted to come and go between the performances, to chat together, anft hold discussions from bench to bench. Here assemble the different members of the aristocratic London World who prefer good music for nothing to bad for which they must pay.

The old-time Texan believed that ho crops could be successfully grown in his State west of the Colorado River. The Rev. Adirondack Murray, who is farming in that region, writes to the Boston Herald that such is far from the fact. He instances the Capota farm, the largest in the Southwest, which is owned by Northern capitalists and worked according to Northern ideas. This year’s crop is as follows: Indian corn, 350 acres; rye,4oo; wheat, 20; barley, 150; oats, 250; alfalfa, 50; millet, 30: sorghum, 10; artichokes, 10; turnips. 200; hay,* 200. But Mr. Murray thinks that greater profi Leonid be made out of cotton and tobacco, under energetic management. New Hampshire has anew law taxing church property when it exceeds $10,003 in value. The Congregational Church ot Manchester refu ed to pay on the ground that the act was unconstitutional; but the Supreme Ccurt has decided that, under the Constitution of that State, it is compstentfor the Legislature to treat church property like any other in the matter of taxation,and that the fact of long exemption does not affect the question. Nobody can conceive what motive James Daly had for the mischief which he did at New Haven, where he was employed on a steamboat company’s wharf. A number of new carriages were shipped every day by that line, and Daly had charge of them, ft was found that imnearly every shipment one vehicle had a small' piece cut out of one spoke. The damage was not heavy, yet was troublesome, for it necessitated the return of wheel to the factory and the insertion of a perfect spoke. The whittler was Daly, and he was caught by a detective, who watched through a hole in the roof of the wars shed. He says he has no idea why he did it. V . ? A Toronto baby, left by itself, perambulator while asleep, fell out firsuch away that a strap suspended it by the neck, and it was dead when discovered. A. Sacramento baby’s hands were tied to prevent it from scratching its head, which was affected with salt . rheum, and while thus bound it fell with its face in a basin of water, which , drowned it. Much more horrible was the fate of the Philadephia baby, who was left to sleep in a room infested by rats. The mother was careful to spread a netting over the little one as a protection against flies, but was not miiidful of the ravenous vermin. When she returned, the infant had. ceased to struggle against the rats, its face was gnawed away, and death ensued immediately. ' ' A woman appeared at a Rock Island hotel, engaged a room, and asked to have her brother sent up when he arrived. A sleek young man soon came, inquired if his sister was there, and was shown to her apartment. A bottle of whisky was ordered, "and the . next thing heard from the pair wus the noise of boisterous revelry. The landlord interrupted the diversion, and 8 threatened to turn the disturbers out. The young man, who was very drunk, sobbed out in a maudlin way: “For God’s sake, don’t do that; I’m a Methodist preacher. lam really; my . name’s Meredith.?’ He told the truth, for he was the George Meridith, a remarkably popular pastor of a church at Kansas City, and the woman was a deacon’s Wile. • • • T