Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1881 — HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

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