Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1881 — Page 3

Rensselaer Republican. M> if itt at Ormcxis, Ed*. A Props*. RENSSELAER, : : INDIANA.

HERE AND THERE.

France has 14.750 miles of railroad oow in operation. New Hakfchtu was shaken bj an earthquake Saturday. During the month of July, 80,007 immigrants arrived in this eoantry. *to be held soon at Vienna. Austria. Ths Treasury official* at Washington are preparing for a flow of gold from Europe. The Lord Mayor of London it a Methodist, and a regular attendant at spring wheat crop of the Norteweat wttLbe a fuflavetags in quantity, and efgood quality. ’ Thu Krupp cannon teetory In Oermmay is crowded with often, and works 18,000 men. . Dr. Ha WILTON la authority tor the stateaaent that the FresWent's wound fifteen inehes long. Whales in Boston harbor and sharks in New York harbor, are the sensations in those cities. It is expected that these will be thirty thousand uniformed militia at the York town celebration. The President wrote to his mother last Thursday, assuring her of his confidence that he would recover.

Thb Kentucky State Board of Agriculture reports the shortest crops in that State, this year, sinoe 1554. At a bull fight in Marseilles, France, Sunday, the amphitheater seats fell, killing 12 persona, and wounding 150. • - "Mikactlotjs cures >in answer to prayers.” are reported from a faith camp-meeting at Ok! Orchard, Maine. The winter wheat crop of Illinois is dosely estimated at 22,1^4,279 bushels this year, against 64,060,000 bushels last year. / Leo Hartmann, the Russian Nihilist, has officially declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States. ■ The latest reports show that the wheat crop in England is a little below the average, while in France it is odnakierably below. Wilson, a farmer, recently shot by his brother-in-law, Rand, in the southern part of the Btate, is getting well with seven bullets in his body. It is said that General Robert Lowry, the Democratic nominee for Governor of Mississippi, was taught to read by his wife after their marriage. The Gaiar has reeenfljrwceived rnoJjlAbf weapons and engines for assassination' with a wiitten request that he would' select one to be used on his own person. ' • ' The law of compensations appears to be in full operation in the crop prospects. The wheat yield is short, bat the potato .prospect is uncommonly fine. ) . It is stated that the traveling expenses of 100,000* “drummers” em-ployed-by the merchants of the United States are $120,000,000 a year, exclusive of salaries.

Cast el ar is battling foPuniversal suffrage In Bpaln. while our grent and good Woolsey talks about ,a restricted suffrage and an aristocratic civil service. „It Is asserted that the crucifix which ■ Columbus held in bis hand when he first landed upon the American soil, is now in the possession of a lady in Colorado. ' - Mr. Brown, the President’s Private -Secretary, states that the President contracted dyspepsia in the army, and has never been entirely free from it -since. - , * Thb new telegraph line, the Mutual Union, is rapidly approaching completion. and will open for Western business in October, if It isn’t gobbled In byJayGonld. Governor Porter says he will not call jm extra the Legislature, and has hot been asked to do so by more than two members of the General Assembly. Lake Francis’s barn, on Rolling Prairie, Laporte county, foil of grain, horses and implements, was burned by an unknown incendiary- Loss, $2,500; no Insurance. k A twelve-year-old colored girl in Peoria, HI., recently gave birth to a healthy, well-developed child that weighed thirteen pounds. Mother and child were doing well at last accoonts-

No fewer than 60,003 or 60,000 are still annually conveyed to the Turkish and Egyptian porta in the Rad Bea, where they are disposed of to dealers from ail parts of the Sultan’s dominions. . Commissioner of Pensions Dudley a reported to be considering the advisability of recommending an act of Congress pensioning ail Union soldiers who sutlered in rebel prisons during , the late war. During the last fifteen* years of slavery the South raised 46,876,691 * bales of eotton. Daring the first flfyears of freedom, that is from 1866 to 1880, the number of bale* produced was 66,438,336. X TD Right Reverend Joseph C. Talbott, Episcopalian Bishop of the Dioeese of Indiana, is lying dangerously 01 at Indianapolis, from the effects of a paralytic stroke. This Is bis third attaek, and a fatal result Is fbaasd. TnpiatM filed in New York city for the construction of now buildings 's>.n the eity during the second quarter of the year involve an outlay of |17 f * Mfi.6B9. Among the structures contemplated ar* eight places of m&o% to*tag wilbfWQ. r T , * • IJCf 'T"" ~~ r M . ", i .I Is fast aslscp. Urns is only mm good

the newspapers are two small, feeble Hebrew sheets; and the railroad improvcmanta are yet to bu —flu. The rmourcea of the 2,115 Natkmal Banks on Thursday, June », I«» amounted to They had in circulation notes to the amount of and held Individual deposits to the amount of $1,001,751,04A42. . ': r v Tax heat on tha Colorado deeert la terrific. At Yuma the thermometer frequently regdetaraUßY and tba air la so rarefied that objects 100 mllea distant appear* very near. A man requiraa five flaUona of water daily to quench thirst. Thx German Government has allowed the Catholic clergy to exercise , thehr old influence upon the pubDe schools in regard to their administration. Different diocese* have been Instituted, the payment of clergymen* salaries renewed, and the rights of the order tor cursing the alofc enlarged. AT the recent accident on the Grand Trunk Railway, the engineer, John A. Haworth, of Montreal, was found dead with his area around the whistle rod. In the instant as time before hie death, he had managed to blow tlie whistle twice for breaths, and died In the act of performing this doty. While in eonte parts of Europe intense beat has been experienced this summer, u others severe cold has occurred. In Switzerland, during Jane, vegetables froae in the fields and grans In the meadows. In the North of Scotland potatoes and turnips were badly damaged.

Captain W. H. How gate, who has figured so largely in the public eye during the last two or three yean, and who was arrested the other day, for a $50,000 defalcation and taken as a prisoner to Washington, is quite ill at his residence in that city. The woman in his case was a treasury clerk. The Supreme Court of Nebraska decided, Friday, that the high liquor license law of that State is constitutional in every particular. This law requires saloon keepers to pay a license of SI,OOO and give bond in the sum of $5,000, in cities of over 10,000 inhabitants. In the smaller cities the license tax ißssoo. At Venango, Pa., a few days ago, two children, while playing among the weeds around a well, were bitten by snakes. The mother went to their assistance, leaving a kettle of hot water on the floor, into which a third child fell while she was geme. The ohildren all died. The final settlement of the great Irish Land Bill question is tersely summed up as follows: "Gladstone,' swearing he would ne’er consent, consented, and Salisbury, swearing he would ne’er relent, relented. The home-rulers, swasring Tney would neferrepent, repented. And England is safe again.” . , 1 fl : It is said that on last Sunday the President awoke from a troubled sleep and said: “I dreamed that I was dead, and the doctors were dissecting me.” The account further represents that the dream cast him down greatly, and he did not recover from its effects for a considerable time—all of which may be true, and then again it may not. - V

It is estimated that the total amount paid annually to foreign shipowners for carrying American products abroad la not less than $150,000,000. Another large sum is expended by Americans traveling in Europe for passenger teres, etc.; so that it' is prubable that we pay back to the people of Europe in these ways many more .millions than they pay ns unsettling the balance of trade againfjithem. 4 Ex-Gov. Dinqley, of Maine, olaims that, as a result of the prohibitory liquor law in that State, every brewery and distillery has been dosed; that the bar-rooms have been greatly reduced in number, there being at present but 700, and these "mainly secret;” thaj the liquor sold in these places does not exceed $1,260,000 In annual value, or $2-per inhabitant, against sls in the other States. A table of official statistics shows that the wages of thirty-six different trades in France in 187 T averaged fiftytwo per cent, higher than in 1853. The lowest increase given is forty, for colliers, and the highest seventy?four, for bskers. The com pilar notes that the rise has been highest in those trades in which machinery has come largely into use. The price of bread has remained stationary.

Commissioner of Pensions Dudley has issued the following order, which may be of interest to ex-soldiers having claims pending in that department: Dipabtxkkt o» TBi Interior, \ PEinoH Orvic*, WaalilngtoD, Aag.lO.j Ordered, Thatin ail pension claims wherein more than one disability la alleged, the claimant shall be advised upon completion of the proof of any one of the alleged disabilities of the evidence still necessary to the establishment of the others, and that this office upon request therefor, will Issue a certificate for the disability thus established Without prejudice to any rights he may have on account of disabilities then not proven. W. W. Dud let, Commissioner. —in „ a Thk celebrated Sprague divorce case will be tried at Providence, R. 1., early In September. The Judge before whom the case will come gives the counsel notice that If any evidence of an indecent nature ia to be presented, he will hear it ia private, to prevent the foul details from being seat abroad over the land to corrupt the morals of the young. This action of the Judge is highly commendable, but It reflects with-corresponding severity upon those who would publish and those who would patronize the prurient filth.

Dtiftixo the last fiscal year 80,000,000 local tetters and 11,000,000 local postal cards were delivered In New York OUy. The total number of mail letter* dettvered was 61,000,000, and of letters collected 96,000,000, and this is but a small part Of the vast business done in the New York port office, done, too, m IheTYitane says, “with a praiseworthydispateh and an absence of comp Met that mart be called remarkable,” yrt them are foolish theorists in the eeantiy rtbo teU ns that the citil serv-

acta in every department of the civil OH* of the ibo*l of pemaaeot prosperty and probahle political peace and toleration in Misttalppl is thwrapid subdivision of bar g»eat plantations into to small terms. Whars tears were 42,840 plantation* In 1800, of the average number of S7O acres eaoh. In 1871 w* find 68428 terms, the average of white wa* 196 aero*. Tu 1860 the process of aubdi vision shows still greater results, the number of term* being increased lo TCjflß, and fha average number of aeree to each term being decreased to 186 Another point of Importance is teat the soil le cultivated more thoroughly now than hater* tee war. Notwithstanding the area of cultivated land is fees than In 1660 the production of eotton la twice aa great. Comparisons are often consoling. We complain of tee few hot days of our heated terms, but suppose we had heat cute as » described by a British officer* wife In Burmah by the following incident: "A friend gave my hueband some owl's eggs, which he left In a plate in tee drawing-room, the cooleat place in the house, being in tee oenter and surrounded by other rooms. The eggs ware on a table in the corner and were forgotten. Some days after 1 saw one of the eggs moving, and slightly chipped.. Presently out came a little owlet The other eggs followed suit, until they were ell hatched. This may seem impossible to any one who has not lived where the thermometer Is generally 105°,”

Thb Baltimore American elucidates a subject of melonehollc interest in these days as follows: "The hotel plan of cutting a watermelon like a tulip, and putting a lump of loe la it, is all wrong, because ice should never touch the pulp; but the burial of the uncut melon in ice for two days ft wise. Then cut lengthwise, and eat between meals. People deal unjustly with this fruit sometimes by eating a hearty dinner first, and then topping off with a melon, and then if a moral earthquake sets up in the interior; they charge It to the melon. The watermelon was intended as an episode—an interlude — a romance without words—a itocturne in green and red—not to be mingled with bacon and grtens. Its indulgence leaves a certain epigastral expansion, but this is painless and evanescent. The remedy is to loosen the waistband, and—take another slice.”

Enanoiust Moody is endeavoring to make it.Bunday all the while at Nortbfield, Mass., where ho and Evangelists Whittle, Sankey, and others are balding three religious meetings of various kinds every day. This is not directly a movement to convert sinners, but a summer gathering of Christian workers for recreation and improvement The clergymen of the region round hold aloof, staying away from all services, and discouraging their people from attending; but the gatherings are, nevertheless, of considerable size, being composed largely of visitors from a distance. Mr. Moody retaliates upon the clergy by such remarks as these: “I don’t believe a man oan preach Christ acceptably and preach and work in Sunday School, and attend funerals, and meetings, snd lawn parties, and parties where they dance, and fairs where they have grab-bags. The Holy Ghost sets a man apart from the world.”

The following appears to be a sensible view of the condition and prospects of the President: "The danger from the wound of the President is not that it is a deep one in the sense of direct penetration. It is because it extends a great distance in an almost vertical direction in the muscular tissues forming the walls of the abdomen. Being thus deep and narrow in an almost dilectly descending direction, the ball having deflected, it is a hard wound to drain. Such a wound heals by granulation, that is, by the growth of new flesh, which is accompanied by the discharge of pus, which must have a free outlet. The incision in the lower portion of the wound was made for the purpose of helping the flow of pus. The upper part ol the wound has now a chance to heal. The last operation will not only reduoe the extent of the wound but will enable it to drain much better. For these reasons the case ought now to be greatly simplified, unless there is suppuration taking place around the ball. In that case there is no help but to extract It.”

The duties of a locomotive engineer are described by an expert as follows; "He must keep his eye on the track ahead, watching the switch targets by day and lights by night. He must be on the lookout for a danger flag at all times. He must keep informed of how much water there is in the bdiler by constantly trying the gauge cocks — must neither have too little nor too much. He must watch the time so as not to run ahead of time nor to lose time. He has the throttle and reverse lever to attend to, and must see that the latter is in the notch which will use the least amount of steam—that

make use of the expansive qualities it possesses. He must be sure that the pump or injector, whichever the engine is equipped with, is working all right and putting the proper amount of water in the boiler continually. He must watch the steam gauge and the gauge which indicates thp amount of compressed air contained in the reservoirs, to be used for the brakes. He must watch bis air pump and not let it stop, in order to have plenty of compressed air whenever he has oooasion to apply the brakes. The whistle must be blown and the bell rung on approaching stations or obscure crossings. If he is running a freight tfkln he must also use good udgment in keeping out of the way of first-class trains. In all cases of danger ahead he most reverse his engine, sand the rails, and apply the brakes, or,‘if be has not the all brake, he must then whistle brakes.” And this very busy man is at all times when on duty exposed to great danger from broken rails, collisions, defective machinery and many other causes of aoeidents. Certainly to act well his part he, must

THE NEWS.

y~ r* TJ Railroad building is now |qingron j so Ote oenntry at the a week. A rich vein of silver has been discovered near Fort 801, in the reearvar tiou of tea Kiowa Comanches. A Braid wood. HI., Marshal named Stewart, has been arrested for beating a prisoner so severely as to cause his death. Daring the pest fiscal year IHP 229,902 were collected by the Commisstoner of Internal Revenue and paid Into the Treasury. ’ * The colored Bishops of the Southern Methodist Episcopal C-harch have arrived in London, to take part to the Methodist Edhmenioai Council. * . Parties from the Rosebud Agency state that Spotted Tall was killed for sedoeing another Indian squaw, and they my this was the 150th oflepf*. Anticipating a cold winter, Chicago coal merchants have raised the pride from f 7.26 to $7.75 pel ton for range and nut coal. They claim there is a searci tyDanville, one of the most important oenters for leaf tobaooo In Virginia, reports the certainty of a short o*dp thereabouts. What there is will bo of poor quality, The St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners have instructed the police to arrest every man known to have, or suspected of having, firearms on their persons. A team of English professional oricketerß is being formed visit America and Australia, with Shaw as Captain. They will sail from Liverpool toward the end of next month. <t

A San Antonio special says Lolren O. Pomeroy, alias Charles L. Royal, was arrested Sunday, charged with appropriating a valuable letter while postmaster at Hebron, Ind. Professor Parkhurst, the astronomer, asserts ttaht there is no reason to fear p collision between the earth and the new comet, as the latter will not oome within 50,000,000 miles of our planet. In the case of McGrath amkMoKevitt, tee dynamite fiends, the Liverpool jury found both persons guilty, and sentenced McGrath to penal servitude for life and McKevitt for fifteen years. An American missionary has obtained, after an interview with General Tgnatieff. Russian Minister of the Ulterior, a letter to the authorities allowing him to preach to the Inhabitants of the district of Cauoasus. A mountain, twenty miles east of Mount Idaho, I. T., on the 9th Inst., sent forth a column of fire and smoke several hundred feet in height, with trembling of the earth distinctly felt, seventy-five miles distant.

Commissioner Dudley, of the Pension Bureau, is considering the advisability of recommending to Congress a new act, the object of which will be to pension all soldiers who were in rebel prisons any length of time. The Mascalero Apaches are giving the settlers in New Mexico considerable trouble. .The Indians are divided iqto small bands, and are committing murders and depredations. The citizens have taken the field against the red savages. A cordial invitation has been extended by the United States government, through its Minister to Germany, to the family of Baron Steuben, Inspector General of George Washington’s army, to become the guests of the Nation at the forthcoming Yorktown celebration. The assault made by Guiteau upon McGill at the jail is believed to have resulted from nervous excitement. He desired General Crocker, the jailer, Thursday, to Inform his sister m Chicago that he was well, that he regretted the assassination, and was prayiDg dail/ for the recovery of the President. ! As the arrangements for the York town centennial celebration are developed some idea r of the grand scale on which it is to be conducted is afforded. It is believed that the various States are contributing at least 30,000 of their citizen soldiery. The Governors of the various States, with their staffs, will alone form a small regiment. Within the past few days a remarkable revival has commenced in the quarter of Chicago which is largely occupied by houses of ill-fame. Minnie Brooks, for years the proprietress of one of these houses, has been converted, and has abandoned a life of vice. At her house prayer meetings are being held for fallen women,.which are already meeting with good results. The latest report from Rosebud Agency is to the effect that Crow Dog and Black Crow conspired with other Indians to assassinate ’Spotted Tail, with a view of making Black Crow chief in place of the murdered man. The criminals have been arrested and sent to Fort Niobrara, where they will be tried under the laws of the Tearitory. . • Yung Wi Chaing, the Assistant Commissioner of Education, attached to the Chinese Legation at Washington, states that the removal of the Chinese youths from Hartford is not on account of any fear of their being Americanized, but because the Imperial Government wishes to avail itself cf their services. Special agent Bigelow, after a tour o investigation in the Dominion of Canada, found that one-third of all the mall sacks, and four-fifths of all the pouches used by the Canadian Post Office Department belong to the United States, It i» likely that the State Department will make a demand on Canada for compensation lor the use of the property. v

Foreign. Mysore, one of the largest territories in Hindostan, is suffering from drought. At Adrianople the Turkish revenue officers have been detected in a gigansystem of fraud on the government. The Right Honorable W. E. Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, will retain that office as long as the coercion Mil is in force. One of the Greek brigands who captured Colonel Suter, last April, was arrested near Athens with 11,000 francs in his possession. > Signor Marinetti, a distinguished Alpine traveller, was, with two guides, overwhelmed by an avalanche while ascending Mont Rosa. The London Times says that the land MU in its present shape gives the tenant termers all that Reasonable men expected, or even demanded, a year The Chilians have suffered % dt—; trot* defeat at Pisco, forty-two leagues smith of Lima. It is reported that otf the Chilian force of 400 men only 26 withiom on^.

antt-Jewishrfot*^ the jpjfti two dtfuiafrhed tlrefce heW Frederick William, the | Crown Prince, ttu interested himself in the anti. Jewish persecution, and, as a eon; tea ihe. the Ministerial wfatte-toatt dinner, gtv«,wwi summer b*„JI» . Premier of England to his colleagues, was attended *fiya guard of police. The House of fjords has sueenmbed to the Inevitable, waiving thsig; proposed amendments (with a protest, however,) to insure the speedy passage of-the bill, with the magnamimodß denlgjv aidiogtbe solution of The Par nail branch of die Irish Land League at Cincinnati, paaerid resolutions severely condensing Irishmen who fevor the use of dynamite, and other 'Nihilist methods to promote theoaase es Ireland. *uc The House of Lords looks upon the Irish land bill as s yepry bitter doss, which It is compelled xo accept as an will be considerably amended by them, however, before It receives the royal signature. , < * she Orangemen in Liverpool have enlisted 406 laborers to reap the harvests of “boycotted” farms. Sixty of the recruiter started fbfr Dublin Tuesday. More disturbance*, will attend this movement as a matter of oeurse. ~ Prthie Bismarck is going away for a few months’ rest to Varsien, and is this week arranging matters of policy with his ministers, prepared, whan he returns to the capital, to find the church question settled and the elections concluded. ,i- ' '» In the House of Commons Parnell told the members that 09 acoount of the imprisonments under the coercion bill, Ireland felt no gratitude for the passage of the land biU, which, moreover, he attributed to land league agitation. - : 1 f •

Afghanistan dispatches state *that the battle between the Ameer and Ayood Khan lasted three hours, and that 800 or 400 men were killed on each side. General Hume, in command of the Anglo-Indian contingent at Quetta, had from 6,000 to 6,000 men with him. His nearest outpost '"as ’seventy-eight miles from Candahar. , * v v < v ■ ; ■?. * f An investigation by a member of the Russian Imperial Government Into the Jewish persecution at Khar Koff suggests the fact that in that city the Jews outnumber the Christians, and monopf olize trades and accupations. The Minister of the Interior has called for statistics on this point from tbe Governors of Western Provinces, with a view to regulate this condition of things.

THE STATE.

Oil has been struck ip Shelby township, Jefferson county. *’" There are thirty-one fully equipped military companies in this State. Two hundred men are now employed on the new State House. • ' It is probable that Governor,Porter and other Indiana speakers, will take a hand in the Ohio campaign next month. William Brio ham, an eccentric old miser, died at Valparaiso Thursday. He appeared to be very poor, but left an estate worth *5; 000. • James Miller, a prominent young farmer south of Rushville,' choked to death from the effects of a wheat-beard lodging in his throat. Money enough has been subscribed for a new First Presbyterian church building at Crawfordsvllle,to cost *ll,000. The contract has been let and the work began. A big burly negro, employed by ,a well-to-do German farmer near Inglefield as a hand,'fell in love with his employer’s daughter and Was discharged, but the infatuated girl folio* ed him to Evansville And married him. Rev. E. H. Sabin, of Conneraviile. is organizing a-troupe of colored 'Jubilee singers, with which he expects to take the road in a few days. The doctor is connected with a church at Austin, Tex.,over wbihb hangs a debt he hopes by this means to pay off If the law of this State against carrying concealed weapons was enforced with even a little vigor, the fearful work of the ready revolver would be greatly diminished, and security for life and property greatly increased. ‘ John Taylor and wife of Centerton, who have figured conspicuously so the Justice’s oburt lately, wefe ort Saturday night taken out by a maskisl mob and torrihly beaten with thorn bushet. The cause is given as cruelty to thsir children and general meanness. Miss Dora,the eleveu year old daughter and only child of Hon. B. H. Burrell, of Brownstown, accidentally run the end of a parasel handle down her throat Saturday, and grave fears were entertained 'for a while that the injury would prove fatal. She is now in a fair way to recover. , On Sunday night, while F. M. Haynes, a lawyer of Washington, was walking down M a ain street, he was struck on the back of the head by some' unknown person with a brick; inflict-, ing what is thought will prove a fatal fracture of the skull. Charley Crossmi, with whom he had some trouble, and who is now missing, is supposed to have thrown the brick. Mrs. Morris Epley, of South Bend, was bitten by a rattlesnake on Friday, while out gathering green corn. The fangs entered at a point a little over tbe heel. She died Monday morning at 2 o’clock, having given birth to a obild about ah hour before. The child is living and apparently healthy, although it k claimed the poison entered its system. On the evening of July 9, at an icecream party at the residence* of. John Roller, Jackson township, Madison county, Dallas Cook threw a stone .through a Window, striking Wm.B, Hougnman in tbe forehead. The blow stunned Hough naan at the apparently recoved, and a few days since he complained of his head, last week was paralyzed, and died on Sunday. Cook lias been arrested for mprrj While a young map named Zimmerman, with his father-in-law were taking home a load of furniture for his new house, near Milton, the fire from their pipes communicated with the straw in which the furniture was packed, and before they noticed it a fierce little conflagration was raging in the back of the wagon. The team became frightened and-ran away, down the n th A tka Mara i/m a# itarair arranH d+irl .A« -- t-tfU hv r- TBSZ3- ttL i. «*«/.: Th* health Of Mrs, Garfield la *ng»ly

VENTRILOQUISM.

Some of the Tnoks which Ventril--1 'Trim iiinik uB giptiest.ventrilovuists?” “Well, there was an old Athenian named Eurykles, who is spoken of in history as a master of the art. Then were' Rrofessor Alexandre and. Louis Bra bout, of modern times. They were both Frenchmen. Brabout lived in the fourteenth century, I believe, mod was said to be the beet ventriloimint - Irnram A lnvan uTIIIc lirC WUIIU" tivvr afWWt' dre lived at an earlier period, and was noted moM for his mimic powers than for his ventriloquial powers. Professor Love, of England, was oelebrated in the art, and was, rivaled by Professor Harrington, who tiled the other day in JHafKo&iff tSf &S& are the greatest. Davies is now retired in Australia, and MojQabe has recently signed a oon tract to go there this season, Dayiee wa&tbe first ventriloquist to introduce;‘figures’ as assistant to “McCabe a great practical Joker. Several years ago he was <m board of a Mississippi river steamboat, and forming an acquaintance with the engineer waa allowed the freedom of the engine 'room. He took aseat in the corner, and, pulling kis hat down over his eyes, appeared to he lost in reverie. Fraosntly a certain part of tbe machinery begin to squeak. The engineer oiled it and went about his usual duties. In the oourae of a raw minutes the squeaking was beard again, and tne engineer rushed over, oil-can in hand, to lubricate tbe same spindle Again he returned to his Dost, but it waa only a few minutes until the same old spindle waa squeaking louder than ever. ‘Great Jupiter:’ he yelled, ‘tbe thing’t bewitched.’ More oil was administered; but the engineer began to smell a rat Pretty soon the spindle began to squeak again, and, slipping up Dehind McCabe,the engineer squirted a halp pint of oil down McCabe’s back.’ There,’ said he, ‘1 guess that spindle won’t squeak any more.” The joke was so good that. McCabe could not keep it, and he often tells it with as much relish as his auditore receive It “At another time McCabe was confrosted by a highwayman, oh ohe of tb* lonely streets of Cincinnati, as he was returning to his hotel from a moonlight picnic. The tobber presented a oookea revolver at the ventriloquist’s bead, demanding his money or his life. McCabe’s quick wit saved him. He threw his vaice behind the robber, exclaiming, ‘Hold, villain, you are my Kner !’ The frightened scamp turned ead, and McCabe dealt him a blow that felled him to the ground. He the* secured the revolver, and march'd the scoundrel to the police station, “Louis Brabout, the great French •ventriloquist, was also a great Joker. The story is told of him that he fell in love with a beautiful young novitiate who was soon to take the veil. The sentiment was returned, and Brabout arranged for an His inamorata succeeded in getting outside of the convent wails, and the two hurried away to the house of a neighboring priest. The holy man was awakened and requested to perform the marriage ceremony. Hisiefusal was a thing to be expected, bat Brabout was too cunning for the old man. When he said ‘No!’ most emphatically, and Was about to rdlee a commotion and have the novitiate returned to the Cloister, a deep, sepulchral voice was heard coming from the bowels, of the earth. It said: “I am thy father, and am still in torment. Marry this couple to each other and my probation in purgatory will be over.” “The frightened priest called upon ail the saints to project him, and proceeded to perform the ceremony with greater alacrity than be had ever shown on a similar occasion.” “Do you ever play jokes” “Not often. lam ndt given to such sports as a general thing, but occasionally amuse myself at tne expense 1 others. Last year I was traveling with a musical combination. One day while ridihg on the care, I threw my voice into a covered basket, and set up & ferocious barking like a dog. The lady beside whom the basket was sitting gave a soream and bounded out of the seat. Then I made a cat join in with the row, and a brakeman came running pell-mell to quiet the disturbance. He jerked the lid off of tbe basket and found nothing but a lot of delicious peaches tbe lady was taking home. The crqwd was considerably mystified. Then I set a bumblebee bussing about the brakeman’s ears, aud he retreated. A gentleman who was standing near heard a wolf growl so ferociously behind him that he tumped about two feet high. Then the lady was led to believe that a mouse’s neet had found lodgment inher pocket and the circus waa complete. But I don’t believe much in suen capers, and generally forego the fun I might have if so disposed.”.

Disraeli’s Feminine Foe.

Birmingham Post. They say that the big bunch of hothouse flowers which arrived from a distance on the night before the interment was sent by a fair and persevering enemy, with whom old Lord Beaconsfield had been compelled to maintain a continued warfare ever since he was first known to her as young Disraeli'. The lady was young, too, at that time, and very fair. Her husbaDd was Disraeli’s most intimate friend, and she knew that his advice had always been, to foregot the marriage in consequence of her well-known high spirit and uncertain temper. But what mau in love ever listened to a friend’s advice? The pair were married and started for their continental honeymoon according to custom- On their return Disraeli paid*a visit to his friend at the beautiful mansion be had hired: atfthe instigation of his bride—a house far beyond the means be then had at command as a beginner in the literary career of which he lived to become for awhile tne leading star. To a close observer like Disraeli it was soon easy to pereeive that ah bad ridt gone quite so metry as ihe marriage bells which had ap lately chimed for the wedding, amj by degrees _the great author unfolded to hfs friend a tale of woe founded on facts of temper too terrible to relate, to which Disraeli the baohelor could see no remedy buta speedy separation, expressing bis conviction that his friend had fallen into trouble, and that the sooner he could manage to get out of it the better. He bade him remember that domestic troubles tern his wife’s temper would soon destroy his literary talent, and that, after a brilliant debut, he would sink to nothing, and that, from what he had already heard, he should think that there would be found sufficient motives for separation, and that he would assist him in the plea by every means in his power. “I shall never dare to riropose such a step,” moaned the husband, in a despairing lone, “Oh, leave her tome; let me talk to her,” said Disraeli, confidently. “I have never yet been defeated by any woman.” •» At this moment the folding oorsof the drawing room burst open with wrath, and before the speakers stood the enraged wife in her nightgown, with her hair dishevelled and a dangerous fire in her eyes. The room adjoining was her bedroom. She had heard every word of the conversation and rushed like a fury to the defense ofher domestic hearth. 'With a ijhrili battle cry she rushed upon tire enemy, iS under him as the most expeditious ofllrtMtoC him to oL-y the mute

pointing*vith^Tflng^to thedoE' she was sufforated by rage, and eoUhl net utter a syllable. The intruder, on life side, was so completely overcome bound towarathedoor, and vanished without Single word,’

The Wealthiest Colored Man in Georgia.

A special dispatch from Atlanta, Ga. to the Cincinnati Enquirer, says: His name Is Henry Todd, and he lives at Darien, in this State. When i, youth his master died and left him his freedom as are ward for hisforthful attention daring the slaveholder’s last sickness. Young Todd was so esteemed by the family that they insisted on his remainihg m their employ, and paid him a handsome salary. He was sort of assistant overseer on the plantation. By the kindly aid of white mends he soon became aland owner, and then a prosperous farmer. In a few years his affairs showed the result of industry and natural business talent in a snug little fortune. His quiet mannner ana strict uprightness guarded him from the bitter prejudice which in those days both races felt for the average “free nigger.” HenTy Todd soon had money enough to hold slaves himself, and he purchased several as a matter of economy. When the Confederacy fell he lost twenty negroes and some money in Confederate -bonds. This severe blow was in a measure counteracted by his good fortune, having on hand a crop of ootton, which then demanded 60 cents a pound. After the war he continued his farming operations, but also engaged In the lumber business. His remarkable success continued, and up to to-day he owns two large lumber mills and exports very extensively. He is 76 yean old, and has an excellent education. He is worth *IOO,OOO in good investments. He lives in a neat country home, surrounded by a family of five children, who enjoy the luxuries of life. Every Summer they leave the coast and spend the hot months at a house which they own In one of the cool mountain nooks of Nprth Georgia. Henry Todd has carefully kept from active participation in politics, though he has frequently been solicited to be a candidate. His example is in every, way healthy for the negroes of Georgia. He is public-spirited and generous, giving freely to charitable objects. He has educated his children well and will leave them rich.

A Female Philosopher from Concord.

Chicago Intor-Ocean. A young lady on the Wes-t Side has just returned from Boston. While there her uncle, who is a reporter on a sporting paper, took her to the Summer School of Philosophy at Concord. She heard some one read an essay'on, „Tbe absoluteness ot absolutism,” and became infatuated with the doctrine taught. “Chawies,” said she to her lover the other evening (he is a clerk in a harness store)—“Chawies, do you realize that you cannot differentiate the indissoluble absoluteness of the absolute?” “No!” he replied, “to tell the truth, I don’t,” and, as it was the first time he had seen her since she got back, the suggestion struck him with alarm. “Do you ever stop to inquire,” she began again, “into the incohation or the rudimentary incipience of the rhapsodical coagmentation of your thoughts of love?” “Well, not to speak of,” he said. “Then, if there is one drop blood in your heart that pulsates for me; if there is one conceit, nuoscopic or psycologicai, that in the.incogitancy of your dreams, or in the perquisition of year waking hours, absorbs a thought of me, I beg that you would eliminate any abstruse or tqui vocal particles of distrust from the profound and alltranspic:: .us abnormality of your love.” “Great heavens, Maria, have you Bwallo wed a dictionary ?” “No, I have not,” she said with a stern and forbidding look of displeasure. “I have been to the School of Phdosophy at Concord.” 1 .

A Roman Catholic Church.

The extent and elaborate organization ot the Roman Catholic Church throughout the world are illustrated in a striking .manner by an official list lately published at Rome under the direction of the Pope. The enumeration of hierarchical titles in the East and West together includes a total of--1,136 offices, ail of which except about 100 are at the present moment occupied. Of the dignitaries who rank next below the Supreme Pontiff, there are sixty-three; and of patriarchs, comprising both the Western and the Easterri rites, there are eleven. Tbe Archbishops of the Latin rite number no less than 137, with 600 Bishops. The Oriental rite is administered by only fifty-one Archbishops and Bishops together. Of officials bearing the title of apostolic delegates there are six, of apostolic vicars- twenty-six and apostolic perfects 102. But of the Bishops and Arohbishops as many as 290 are appointed to titles called in partibus infidslium. Four members of the College of Cardinals are over eighty years of age, and only throe are under fifty. Twenty-nine, or nearly half ol the sacred College, are between seventy and eighty years old; fifteen are between sixty and seventy, and twelve are between fifty and sixty. There are twelve Roman Catholic Bishoprics and one Archbishopric in Great Britaiu, while in Ireland there are twenty-four Bishoprics and four Archbishoprics. In the whole of the British dominions the number of Roman Catholics prelates was recently estimated at 118.

Georgia Cyclone.

Americas (Ga.) Republican. Mr. Z. T. Baisden gives up the following story of a whirlwind that visited his place about 12 o’clock on Monday, seining all his hands and some visitors very badly: A whirlwind occurred in a twelve-acre cornfield that was about four feet in diameter and sometimes a hundred feet high. The body of it was perfectly black, with fire in the center and emitted a strong sulphurous vapor that could be smelt three hundred yards from it. The whirlwind would divide into three arid move rapidly over tbe field, twisting up the corn stalks by the roots and carrying them np. These three minor whirlwinds would then oome together with a feud crash, cracking and burning, and shoot high up int* the heavens. Three young ladies who were visiting Mrs. Baisden, went within about 160 feet to observe it. but received such a shower of homing sand upon their feoea and Becks that they ran affrighted to the house. Mr, Baisden rays that he cannot aooount for this strange phenomenon, and it certainly frightened all who saw it Tbe strange part was that it contained fire yet did not appear to burn the com that it did not tear up, and its sulphurous vapor sickened and burnt all who got dose enough to get a full breath of it.

Careful Martha.

[Burlington Hawkeye.l “Are youjprepared for death?” the clergyman asked, with a termor of emotion in his voice, as he took the sick womkn’s hand in his own. A shade of Ktient thought crossed tbe invalid’s *, and by-and-by she said see didn’t believe she urea; there was tbe bedroom carpet to oetaken up yet, and the paint up Btaire had hardly been touched, and she did want to put up new -curtains hi the dining-room, but she thought if she did not die until next Monday she would be about as near ready as a wopaan with a big family *hd no girl ever expected to be, .. .. - I*. a. Ato.v *>’. s'* l

FOR AND ABOUT WOMWN.

■ .* 1 1 - She read all tbe books of science, _ Hcr Ungers were covered with ink, She hooted at m&rriam nm»rwva She talked of the ■ She quoted Sevang and preachers Or gw*t«r ot renown— She aUast marrieda 1 clown. increase and parasols diminish. Basques are single and , double Alligator-skin belts are adapted for walking suits. . Pocket handkerchiefs are no longer worn at the belt- ' Fabrics intended for evening arose-, lected by gas light. Bluff <?r white chamois gauntlets are worn at riding parties. Bosom bouquets are pinned low on the right of the corsage. A prudent girl: “Mary is a very good, prudent girl. She rays to me one day as she was breaking the curd: “Mother, I will never let loose my affections on no man till I have proved him to be pious and in good circumstances.’ ” Remark about bachelors: Dean Stanley remained a bachelor until he was forty-six. Miss Anthony has done the time thing until she is—but let us not pnrane this painful subject. A flatterer strikes a snag : “Madam,” he gallantly observed, “I have your image photographed upon my. heart-” “Indeed,” she said, “a sort of negative impression of me, I suppose.” Women’s rights: Sir William Hamilton said: “On earth there is nothing • great but man.” Thanks, Sir Wijiiam; no, thanks awfully. Now, what have you to say, Mrs/: Livermore ? Mrs. Lucy Hooper in Harper’s Bazan paints Parisian trades people in black colors. She declares that, as a rule, they are thoroughly unreliable, and asserts “that nearly every French dressmaker or milliner looks upon her American customer mi her lawful prey, to be fleeced and cheated as seemeth beet unto herself.” One of the newest agonies of this intense age is for a young gentleman to send to his adored and adorable a largesized Japanese parasol covered withthose raptin-ous pastoral decorations so common to Japanese high art- This signifies: “Shall I sit in the shade with you this afternoon.?” And she generally does. It is hard work to think of nothing arid yet be engoged in thought, but a courtier in the day %of Queen Elizabeth thus explained how it could be done, when asked by Her Majestv: “What does a man think of when he thinks of nothing?” “He thinks of a woman’s promise,” was, the reply. This fellow no doubt had been promised something and had failed to see it*

Tbe side-saddle has been roundly b used and ridiculed, but the London Academy thus oomes to its defense. “A side-saddle, with the extra crutch, affords quite as sure a grip—in feet a more powerful one—than can be 'Obtained astride a horse, and it is only in physical strength,which may too often* be only abused, that a man has any advantage as a rider over a woman. Tbe only case- where' strength is wantea with a horse is to conquer vice, and no woman should ride any horse the character of whioh is not guaranteed. It is not suitable for any lady to. take up the duty of a horse-breaker.” The records of suicides do not often contain such evidence, of disregard of physical sufferings as was shown by a woman named Coyn*, wha lived near Manchester, England. This woman, who had p&Bßed the middle age.poured paraffine oil over her head, and when it had run down upon and saturated her clothing she set fire -to it. The injuries she sustained resulted in hci death in a very few minutes*.' This case has only been equalled in recent; times by a Gloucester gentleman, who built a funeral pyre in the yard of his house, and, having set fire to it,mounted to the top and there awaited his end, which soon came.

May and December at Saratoga.

f —r : a Cor. Cincinnati Knqairer. , A youthful wife is one of the wonders of Saratoga at present; not so much because she is only 17' as that her husband is 00. The difference in their ages is fully apparent,for he looks all of his years, while her face man- > nersand area* are extremely girlish. More than that, she has a baby—a dot of a thing only & months old; it seems like a doll in its girl-mother’s arms, and she is mighty fond of displaying it. When the nurse hrings it to her in the midst of a party of young fellows, and she demurely'walks off toheFroom to give it nourishment, theyVget mad with envy at the veteran nusband. That makes the young women of her, and altogether she is a highly aggravating little creature. Tbe most affecting thing she has done yet was at a big hotel nop. She wore a dress quite low in the back, and was ravishingly pretty. While she danced her venerable spouse jsat on the veranda smoking and chatting with a circle of men—old and young. Suddenly she ran out to him, put her hands on his knees,"bent her need into his lap, and said, in the tone of a child to a parent: . “Please scratch, mv back.” Ti-a old fellow thrust his hand down the back of her dross a little, clawing her soft skin with his brown, wrinkled fingers. “A little to the other side,” she murmured ; “there —that’s the spot. Thank you.”/ And she ran bpck to her waltz part l ner, totally unconscious of the tingling she had caused among the male spectators

The Assassin’s Ancestry.

Antwerp, N. Y. Gazette. * It seems to be an established fact that the brother of Charles J. Guiteau, the assassin, was formerly Mrs. Jane Howe, of this village. Her father. Major John Howe, was one of the early settlers here, and was the first merchant who brought a stock of dry goods to Antwerp. Mra. Devillars, of this village, distinctly remembers the Howe family. Jane Howe was born here, and about 1830 removed with her father to Oswego county, where she was married to Guiteau, who was a French Hugenot. Charles, the assassin, was born iri Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1841. Subsequently, bis mother died, and his father married Marie Blood, of Cazenovia. His father died c about eighteen months ago, but his stepmother is still living in Freeport. Illinois. The New York Sun says: “While conducting revival meetings in Milwaukee last June, Mrs. Van Cott exhibited several letters written to her by Charles'J. Guiteau, prefacing the act with the statement, in substance, that Guiteau was formerly an infidel, who had been converted through her efforts, and that since his conversion he was-tbe smartest and most influential young man in Chicago. The letiera were neatly tied together with perfumed bine ribbon and were a mixture of ambiguous dissertiona upon things spiritual, rhapsodical references to his all-absorbing affection, profound admiration for and inexpressible gratitude to the lady evangelist, who, he said, had saved him. Said one of the ladies whp was privileged to read the letters: ‘Mrs. Van Cott expressed at tbe time great pride in showing the letters, and seemed highly to esteem the author.’ A lady says that she knows that Mrs. Van Cott is -the wealthy widow the crack brained fellow thought he could marry.” One of thATjest acts of the New York Legislature was the enactment of a severe law against the adulteration of food, which law is now being enforced by the State Board of Health, through analysts operating in aU parts the State.