Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1881 — Page 3

Rensselaer. Republican. 11 ■ '■ . MAMSAu * Ovnxrxxß, Ed*. a PropM. RENSSELAER, ; : INDIANA.

HERE AND THERE.

Now come frosts in Scotland injur* pg the crops. Jeff Davis is in England ‘ enjoying” poor health. DaAsmoos fires’ are raging in the pine forests of Michigan. * Kansas trumps the drought with a corn crop of 100,000,000 bushels. A bushing fall trade is reported from al| the large cities of the country. The high price of wheat in St* Louis has drawn shipments from Toledo. . Wednesday wai the hottest day of the season at Boston, Massachusetts. MudiTTudes of squirrels are overrun nin g Arkansas, causing large losses to planters. The State of Michigan supplies about two-thirds of the salt produced in this country. < Cholera has appeared at the port of Aden, Arabia. Out of thirty«seven cases thirty proved fatal. A bicycue race for a puree of SIOO will be a feature at the State Fair, oij, Wednesday of Fair week.

The trunk-line railroad war and its slaughter are discouraging to the antimonopoly movement There are politicians who think that Senator David Davis is looming as a possible President of the Senate. It is stated that Commissioner Dudley estimates that $88,000,000 will be required to pay pensions next year. The Masonic lodges of Spain are ottering assistance to the Jewish refugees from Russia who will settle in Spain. z .The total amount of reduction by the discontinuance of the Star route mall service March 19th is sl,470,779. The Ohio river has been lower this season titan it ever was before since its rise and fall has been observed and noted. Lt is estiulated that the hog crop of thia year is twenty-five per cent, below the average in number and condition. , In the vintage of Hastings, Mich., with a population of 2,000, one hundred and fifty cases of virulent diphtheria are reported. • The losses- by-'fire in the United . States, during theseven montbs'ending August plst, suggest an estimated loss of $60,000,000 for the year 1881. The study of grammar has been discontinued in the public schools of Cincinnati, and elementary lessons in the best English substituted therefor.

Harry and James Garfield, sons of he President, left the "White House, op Monday evening, for Williams College, where they will resume,their studies. - The work of improving the Wabash river, under the supervision of Major Smith, V. A., Jias been commenced and wull extend from Terre Haute to Vincennes. y The trunk line railroad passenger ■ war has broken' out again at Cnicago, with tremendous fury, and tickets to New York aud. Boston are selling at five dollars? In Albany, New York, during the last twenty-five years, while the population lias increased 39 per cent., the consumption of op|um has inerwased 900 per cent. Indian raids continue to be reported in Southern Colorado, New Mexico and Nor them and United States troops and armed citizens are pursuing the spoilers. Mr. Vernor "missed his guess” on twenty-seven of the thirty-one days of the “long month of August,” and has probably retired from the weather prophet business. - A silver service valued at S7OO has been* presented to D. W. Caldwell, General Manager of the Pennsylvania leased railroad lines, by citizens of Colymbus, Ohio. Beer brewing appears to be considered a noble calling in England, as Mr. Gladstone has recently selected a wealthy London brewer as a new “Peer, of the realm?’

Workmen are engaged in putting down extra tracks on the Pennsylvania Railroad, with a view to making ,it ultimately a four track line from Pittsburg to New York. » The alleged Nihilist, Hartmann, who is attracting so much attention Is this country, is pronounced a fraud h|* Russian authoritv. Mrs. . 'Lincoln is recovering her health, and expects to spend the winter at Washington with her son, Secretary Robert T. Lincoln. Three of the Presidents physicians, Dr*. Heyburn, Barnes and Woodward, have, at bis request, retired from atteodauce upon him, leaving Dre. Bliss, Hamilton and Agnew, in charge of the eaanu * The saloons were all closed at Indiaoapoite last Sunday, while the streets were eumparatirely deserted and the ehurdM* were unusually well attended. lite an />peti question whether tMs ndurui has >um« to stay ■or > IM'him o the last fifteen years county and etty indebtednew* have increased la this country over a fl,ixjo,(XX),ooo, or nearly W per cent, of the national debt. The necessity of a period of retrenchment and economy is loudly suggested by these figures. The foreign trade of this country loathe fiscal year ending June 30, TBBI, amounted to the tremendous sum total of >902,377,346. On the other band we imported from foreign countries merchandise and bullion amountAng4o fiOKWlOfl tbs assets of the life la*

New York State have nearly doubled, increasing from $211,849,116 to $417,797,554, or 97jjfr whilj their plus has inoreased ahMt 8-5 per cent., or from $58,585,825 t$ $71,561,670. , The distance from Washington Long Branch by the short route taken by the Presidential railroad train, is 228 miles. The trip was made in precisely 389 minutes—that is, in six hours and twenty-nine minutes, or at the rate of a mile in one minute and fortythree seconds. B*VttAL thousands of the good people 'of Birmingham, Alabama, were amused and edified, the other day, by witnessing a fight between two bulldogs ajjd a wild cat. The cat blinded both the dogs, and was declared the victor, after, a savage battle lasting twenty minutes. Shortly after bis election last fall, Geu. Garfield wrote to a friend saying: “I believe all my friends are more gratified in the personal part of my triumph than I am, and although I am proud of the noble support I have received, and the vindication it gives me against my assailants, yet there is a tone of sadness running through the triumph that I can hardly explain.” The latest dodge in avoidance of the prohibitory liquor law in Kansas, is the authorization by the City Councils of Topeka and other cities of the issue of city licenses for the sale of “soda, mineral water, and other drinks.” The effect of this action is to free the" liquor seller from the interference of the police, and to throw- the burden of the enforcement of the State law upon the prohibitioadsts. • •

Embezzlements by officials of secret societies are not very numerous, but in too many instances, probably, they are hushed up and condoned. Sometimes, however, a sterner course is pursued, as at Seymour, this State, a few days ago, George Pomeroy was arrested on a charge of embezzlement rom Beharrel 'Encampment, L O. O. F., and held to bail in the sum of S3OO. Pomeroy was Secretary of the Encampment, and of Lincoln Lodge. The pecuiarities of legislation in Maine are illustrated by the laws bearing upon the subject of surgical dissection. la that State no medical student can be graduated unlees he has had regular practice in a dissecting room, and no bodies can be lawfully dissected except those of criminals which have been executed; and capital punishment has been abolished. Hence, if the law is obeyed, the law must be violated.

The banks all over the United States now refuse to receive Canadian silver fractional currency except at a heavy discount. It is stated that in New York this discount amounts to 5 cents from off the face value of each of the pieces, from the 20-cent piece upward, while the 10-cent piece and the 5-cent piece are received for only 7 and 3 cents respectively. The discount is put on on the principle of “tit for tat,” the Canadians .having discounted American silver. The New York Sun describee a “sublime , spectacle” showing th sanctity of human life, and the equality aud fairness of our institutions as follows: “There is no other man in America so universally despised, so universally abhorred, as Charles J. Guiteau. He is imprisoned for shooting down the .Executive Head of the government. And yet in such sacred regard is human life held in this country that the army and the navy are already put in requisition to protect the life of this execrated miscreant,and to secure to him a fair and impartial trial. Verily," the equality and fairness of our institutions are.not an idle and empty boast, but an invaluable reality.”

It is noted (hat of late the rush of British capital into all descriptions of American investments has been immense. These are principally railways, banking, insurance, and commercial business. But now there are unmistakable indications of a movement among the higher middle class in England that point to the settlement ot regularly organized British communities in the Western and Southern States. Tennessee, Virginia and Colorado, are just now the favorites. But the movement ter spreading to Kansas, the Carolinas, and even to Louisiana and Texas. Large amounts of British capital are being vested in lands in the United States oq bond and mortgage. Evidently the English people have had enough of Egyptian, Turkish and Peruvian bonds,and have made up their minds to plant their feet upon the solid earth and among civilized people.

A strange incident of our times and the of the opposition to anity among some who claim to be men of thought and culture, is noted in the fact that X morions have gone to Ceylon, in the East Indies, in order to teach and preach Buddhism. It Is claimed that the schools of these teachers have great success, and that they openly oppose the spread of Christi* anity. Many of the wealthy natives are repoi ted to be contributing liberally to the support of the enterprise. There are already in the new schools on the island over 600 pupils who have been taken from Christian missionary institutions. In the meantime, Mahommedanism is grasping at Africa with renewed fknatlc zeal; while in Asia that old religion which has for ages dominated the hearts of hundreds of thousands ’of millions is a second time preparing to grapple with the faith of Europe. These are curious signs and portents of the times.

A popular theme is very justly and Judiciously commented upon by the New York Hun as follows: “It may well be a source of national pride that all which is Justly said of the self-sacri-fice and of the thoughtful and tender devotion of Mrs. Garfield to her husband during his long and distressing illness, might be aaidwlth equal Justice of almost every American wife under similar circumstances. Indeed, nothing leas is expected of American women ; and though they attract little or no attention, such instances of wifely care and watchful affection are of constant occurrence, in the palatial houses of the rich and in the humbier dwellings of the poor and lowly ;so that when Mrs. Garfield is praised, the high pvooooneed upon her belong

not to her alone, but are tributes to the character, the disinterestedness, and the of American, in general. Indeed, so much is the exercise of alßthffiK wpmanly virtues looked public would be greatly shocked at the manifestation of any lack of them in a case where the sufferings of a husband have been so terrible and prolonged. Many a common laborer, living from hand to mouth on his daily earnings, possesses the priceless treasure of a wife just eadevoted; while it is fortunato. that the conspicuous example of a President’s wife has brought these common hut high qualities of American women so prominently before the world.”

THE NEWS.

is -Mo me items. ■ Monday, September sth, was Chicago’s hottest day of the season. A remarkable mirage was seen at Long Branch just as the President arrived. A St Louis dispatch says all the Eastern railroads there are now selling tickets to New York for sl6. Guiteau was hung in effigy at Buffalo, Saturday night, in Niagara square, in the presence of 3,000 people. A baby weighing thirty-two pounds was born at Washington, the other day. Its fkther is an undertaker. During the month of August 33,840 immigrants landed in New York, making the arrivals since Jan. 1, 310,475. The amount of grain in store in Chicago i 511,348,152 bushels.. At the same time last season it was 5,074,064 bushels. At Jamaica, L. 1., a tavern keeper named Kemmel killed his wife, set fire to the .tavern, and then hanged himself.-, J There was' a heavy snow storm in the Black Hills on Monday and Tuesday. Six inches of snow fell at Deadwood City. . Active recruiting to fill vacancies in the United States army is going on in Washington, and recruits and officers are being ordered to Arizona. The notorious Josie Mansfield, whose association with James Fisk, Jr., is so well remembered, is keeping a gambling house in Paris. At Paterson, N. J., a man named Shorroqh, was killed by being struck in the stomach by a base ball. He lingered but a few minutes. Maud 8. will be turned into pasture to rest. ‘She has trotted over 4,000 miles and won $20,000, and her season was only half finished when she retired.

A terrific explosion occurred Tuesday morning at the Grant Powder Works, two miles from Marquette, Mich. Ten men and boys were blown to atoms. The Industrial league of America has addressed to manufacturers and others a circular suggesting the necessity o'a tariff convention in Chicago next November. Thousands of acres of forest inWayne and Pike counties, Pa., are burping. Fires are re;»orted from several townships in Pike county aud in Sussex county, New Jersey. General Lew Wallace, the. new United States Minister to Turkey, presented his ■ credentials to the Sultan, who expressed bis sympathy with President Garfield. « In dispensing with the services of Dr. Heyburn and Surgeons Barnes and Woodward, the President and Mrs. Garfield tender them a graceful tribute of appreciative thanks. The new St. Mary’s Falls canal was opened by the passage through the new lock of the steamer City of Cleveland, Captain Albert Stewart, which arrived at Marquette on Friday last. Mormons to the number of 550 sailed from London Monday for Utah. Switzerland aud Germany contribute the greater number. Two thousand Mormons have left Liverpool this summer. In the Jennie Cramer case at New Haven, Conn., Tuesday, Professor Crittenden, the expert chemist, stateh that while he did not think she was drowned, he would not swear she had died from arsenic.

| (The Most Rev. John Martin Hennl, Archbishop of Milwaukee, died Wednesday, aged 76 yeare. He was noted for his piety and learning, and built up the Chtholic Church in the Northwest. Shinkel, who has been accused of “giving away” the Cornell crew, has arrived at New York from Europe. He denies the allegations of his late comrades, and threatens to commence legal proceedings against them. Wesson F. Davis, late tax collector at Houston, Texas, has been found to be a defaulter for over >IOO,OOO, and suit will be brought against his bondsmen, one of whom is William R. Baker, mayor of Houston. The Chicago and Alton railroad authorities do not believe that the James brothers had anything to do with the Glendale robbery. They believe the offenders to be the residents ot the neighborhood, who are a desperate and lawless gang.

On Wednesday evening, a Chicago and Alton passenger train was stopped pear Glendale, Missouri, bylteyenteen masked and armed meh, who robbed the > xpress car and all the passengers on the train, securing about >15,000 in money and valuables. An Erie, Pa., dispatch says Mary?J. Leo, aged 19, a daughter of Prof. Leo, bedriddenHbr four yeare, got up Bunday and walked to church. Her cure is believed by her friends to be the result of special prayers by Methodist pastors and others. Two French ladies, sisters, named Christine Marion and Eliza Neitler, were made citizens of the United States. Monday, in the Superior Court of Chicago, by Judge Gary. This is said to be the first recorded case of the admission of women to citizenship. ' Vennor said in Washington on Tuesday, that the indications pointed to very wet weather in the Northwest and generally throughout the Northern States, and that the wet season would set in about the middle of the month and continue to the end. But every one has an opinion of Vennor by this time. J The Commissioner of Indian Affairs at Washington received a dispatch Monday from Tiffany, of the Ban Carlos Agency, Arizona Territory, that the Apache massacre was not nearly as had as at first reported. Captain Hentig and ten men were filled. General Carr, he says, Is not killed. General McDowell has telegraphed the Adjutant General that Captain Hentigand seven men were kilted, and that Lieutenant Gordon was Wounded in the attack on the fort. Boston and the surrounding country bad a natural phenomenon Tuesday in a peculiar condition of the atmosphere, which wm [pf a fog-like

character, and seemed to change the cuioy» u* various objects. The league base ball game was postponed on accent of light Thjs oondittoo oT the atmosphere lasted from morn! nj till evening. At Providence, R*l., the day was dark and sultry, the gar being lighted in offices aud factorlee. The same features as at Boston were observed at Hartford, gas log buraal th rough the day.

Foreign. It to stated that Mrs. Langtry has seldom been seen in London daring the last ss—on. In the vicinity of Ottawa, the capital of Canada, rains have extinguished the forest fires. Dublin merchants have subscribed £B,OOO for an exhibition In that city of Irish manufactures. The Union Mail Steamship Company, estimates the loss of life by the foundering of the Teuton at the Cape of Goodhope, to be 236. Anti-Jewish note broke out aUStolp, Pomerania, on Sunday. The troops charged on the mob, wounding sixteen persons, and were in turn stoned by the mob. Kettle, a “coercion act” prisoner in Kilmainham Jail, has offered himself to the voters of the County Monaghan as the Land League candidate for Parliament. In the chess contest at Berlin, Mason, of New York, is so far the champion, with three games won. Blackburne, of London, and Zuckentort, of Berlin, won two games. The election in the County Tyrone, Ireland, for a member of Parliament in place of Mr. Lytton, resulted in the return of Dickson, Liberal, wi’h a vote of 3,161. Colonel Knox, Conservative, polled 8,070. The Parnell candate, Rylett, only scored 904. It is stated that Miss O'Brien, noted in connection with her letters to the London press concerning the treatment of steerage passengers on transatlantic steamers, is now traveling as steerage passenger in vessels crossing tlie Atiantic. > Mr. Sexton, one of the Home-rule members of Parliament, visited Ridington, Sheridan, and Walshe, coercion act prisoners, at Kilmainham Jail, near Dublin, Ireland. It is claimed that they are all indisposed from their dtirance.

The Will of the People, the Nihilist newspaper which has just appeared again in St. Petersburg, warns spies of their fate, gives a list of 400 Nihilists arrested *lnce November, condemns the Czar’s policy, and threatens to deal the enemy a filial blow. The result of the recent French election will constitute the new Chamber of Deputies as follows: 459 Republicans; 47 Bonapartists, and 41 Monarchists. The Republicans comprise the Left Center, 39; the Left, 168; Republican Union, 206, and Extreme Left, 46. A Geneva correspondent says the conductors of the Free Word, the new Russian newspaper published for circulation in Russia, state that, as open advocacy of their opinion in Russia is prohibited, they have abandoned Russia for the free soil of Switzerland. A Cork dispatch says a party of men engaged in raiding for arms, near Mill street, Thursday night, encountered a polico patrol, and, in the conflict ensuing, a farmer’s sou, named Hide, was shot dead, and three other raiders and a policeman were wounded. A Constantinople correspondent says Germans and Englishmen interested in the welfare of the Jews have set a movement afloat to obtain a grant of laud in Syria from the Porte, for allotment to the Jews desring to emigrate from countries where they are subject to peisecution. A delegate is now here trjiug to secure the Porte’s approval. The Sultan favors the scheme. «

THE STATE.

Anderson is really moving into the ranks of thriving towns. Since January 1, 1881, the has expended >IOO,COO in substantial improvements. Christopher Quinn, molder by trade, was found dead and horribly mangled in the Muncie railroad yard, at Fort Wayne. He had br en on a spree and lay down on the truck to sleep. Perry Alexander, of Evansville, intended to shoot a dog, and the piece was discharged before be could get it out of his pocket. The bullet plowed a furrow in bis thigh where it still remains. Typhoid fever has appeared at Rushville in a most malignant form. In the family of Wm. J. Bebout (six in number,) all save Mr. Bebout are victims of it. Mrs. Bebout has died and the others vre dangerously ill. The Snyder wife murder case, transferred from Tipton to Muncie on change of venue, resulted in a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree and a life sentence. The nrisoner was very sanguine of acquittaf. Henry Hooper,of Lafayette,has been arrested, charged with the murder of bis brother, John Hooper, who was assassinated last Tuesday night. A Kokomo gentleman named Clark, had occasion to chastise bis mother, when his meddlesome siste interfered. With'a few adroit blows he reduced her nose to pulp, and left a few other marks of his prowess on her face. He was escorted to one of the most substantial buildings in the place by a a high public functionary. On Saturday, at noon, the family of J. K. Marsh. Esq., of Jeffersonville, were, taken suddenly ill from something eaten at dinner. The symptoms were so serious at first that it was thought they were fatally poisoned. But the physicians subsequently discovered tiie illness was due to muriatic acid taken in the stomach, from artificial vinegarused upon the table. David Willi Ams was killed at the Gibson bounty (fair grounds the other day, while training a horse. It shied and threw him from the sulky, but his foot caught in the wheel, and be was dragged a considerable distance. His head was dashed against a tree, scattering his brains in every direction.

On a farm three miles from Muncie, on Saturday afternoon, while Horatio Guthrie’s seven year old son was engaged in driving a team attached to a land roller on his father’s farm, the team became frightened and ran away, throwing the boy off and in front of the roller, which passed over him, killing him instantly. The largest railway tunnel in Indiana is the one on the Louisville, New Albany and St Louis railway through the knobs, under the village of Edwardsville, five miles west of New Albany. Its total length is 4.563 feet The excavation is through limestone the entire length, and the tunnel has been worked from both ends and from two shafts proceeding in both ways., Mr. Hudson of Jefferson county recently cut down a tree in an open field. When the tree fell it broke, exposing a cavity, opt of which fourteen snakes

came squirming and crawling, and were killed by Mr. Hudson. He says be could find no opening leading to the cavity, and the snakes seemed to be tatfnd fr»m long- 'emfl&ement In the dark. Hbw they got thereto a conundrum. j VW Judge W. B- Loughridge, once a judge of the probate court at Huntington, and later for several years up to 1827 editor of the Miami County Sentinel, an old pioneer of northern Indiana, has been declared insane. The charge of insanity before the court was made* by hto wife, who asked to be made his guardian. This was the occasion of a hotly contested suit, defended by parties claiming to be creditors of Judge Loughridge. A daughter of Thomas Casey, of South Bend, while punching a shoe with a pair of sharp pointed scissors, let them slip and perforated her thigh to the depth' of. an inch and a half, lacerating the femeral artery so badly as to cause what is known in surgery as traumatic aneurism.,--. The blood caused a pulsating sac about the size of an egg, which was constantly Increasing in size. The surgeons ligated the artery above and below the wound, and the patient is doing well. The. operation under skillful hands is not considered extra hazardous.

John C. Russel, living about three miles north of Campbellsburgb, was accused of stealing a watch from a man named Elliot, and arrested. While being brought to that place by an officer they were met by a mob who took charge of Russel, and tried to extort from him a confession of the theft by hanging him to a tree, raising and lowering him by intervals by means of a rope. He persisted in his innocence despite their horrible trea ment,and was finally released. Russell now brings suit for malicious prosecution and for damages in assault and battery. Several of the assaulting party are known.

The executors of the estate of Governor Williams, one of whom is James 8, McCoy, a son-in-law of the deceased governor, some time ago determined that the contract made by a Pittsburg marble firm with some of the relatives of Mr. Williams for a SSOO monument should not be carried out, and that the shaft should not be piaced over the grave. The contractor has completed his Job, however, as near as he was allowed to, and has a very fine Italian shaft to put up. It is in the shape of two upright columns supporting an arch. The apex of the arcnis crowned with an urn. On the face of jthe arch in rustic letters are the words “Our Parents.” On the right column is chiseled the name of the Governor, James D. Williams, and on the left column his is wife’s. Nancy Williams. The work is said to be a fine job for country skill. Employes of the marble firm went tp the Williams cemetery a few days ago and laid a foundation for the monument. Afterward they went back to place the shaft in position, and to their astonishment found that the foundation had been torn up and a plank fence placed around the graves by Mr. McCoy. The marble men did not attempt to remove the obstructions, but placed the monument on the lot of John Williams, a son of the late governor, and within six feet of the latter’s grave.

Dr. Storrs With the Snakes.

Buffalo Express. * ' ' The Rev. Dr. Storrs,of Brooklyn,who was out in the woods near the White Sulphur Springs, in Virginia, the other day, relates a peculiar snake story. During his walk he saw confronting him, upon a dead level with his own face, a rather unusual countenance. It was that of a large black snake, with a white ring about its neck. It stood up in his path with what appeared to be several rods of snake trailing hack in the perspective. The Doctor did not use his professional weapon of prayer, but stood paralyzed with fright. As be gazed terror-stricken, the snake disappeared like a flash, and reappeared in the path beliind him, his head curved over his until it again gazed into his benign dblintenance. The learned doctor “ducked, - yelled, and ecotted,” to use hisown language. He made his first mile in thirty seconds, and came in with a long lope upon the home-stretch of the second with his long sandy hair standing up like the fretful quill of the porcupine. An irreverent man who head of the Doctors adventure, said that he had a friend who once had them the same way. He was continuing in this slanderous way when some friends of the doctor came to the rescue and drove the irreverent min out.

Abusing Western People.

The New York Tribune, edited by Jay Gould’s hired popinjay and snob, “Little Breeches” Hay, has been disturbed by the presence of some Western people in tnat city, and regardless of the fact that the Tribune receives a large share of its patronage from the neople of the West, assails them in a tirade of pot-house abuse. Let Western people read the following, and then say whether it deserves any more of their support: “Many visitors from the West have been seen in the streets of late. Their jaiment and their manners have marked them as not of the people of New York. They can be daily seen flattening their noses against store windows,writing letters oh hotel paper in the reading rooms of the various hotels, admiring the animals in Central Park, button-holing the police to learn the ‘sights’ of the city, and gazing in open-mouth wonderment at the Coney Island cows. Generally speaking, the male of the species is characterized by a railway guide, clothes that have been slept in, and a shockingly bad hat. “The female is given to linen dusters, lunch baskets and guide books of New York. Thus equipped, they are to be seen on the cars and boats in and around the city, from a very early hour in the morning until other fowls have long gone to roost. Of late they have become übiquitous. They have swarmed like the seven-year locusts, which they resettable in voracity and noise. Famine and tobacco juice mark their path. ■ The hordes that appear daily on Broadway have caused redoubled vigilance on the part of shop keepers and policeman. Who and what the were was at first a mystery. “But it was noticed that their number began to increase rapidly after passenger rates were cut. An investigation of hotel registers and careful study ot the subject disclosed the fact that these eager pilgrims are the unsophisticated children of the West. The Chicagoese, whose diamonds flash in the eyes of dazzled and bewildered New Yorkers, have invaded the city. Likewise the solemn citizens of 8L Louis are here, each clinging to the garb and ideas of his grandfather, together with the sleek pork packers of Cincinnati, and ague-smitten, whisky-drinking sight-seers from the river bottoms of various Western States. Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Kansas City, and Texas send delegations which swell the vagrant multitude.

An AEsthetic Romance.

Byracusc Herald. A young lady leaned idly against tne richly carved staircase of a mansion on Warburton avenue, Yonkers, and gazed languidly into the brilliantly lighted parlor, in which groups of those on whose cheeks the bright flush of health was glowing glided gracefully through the figure of a waltz. Tristisslnia Vere was an only child. As her name indicated, a great sorrow was connected with the entrance into a cold, cruel world of this red-lipped beauty, whose nineteenth birthday was being celebrated by the merry; throng to whom allusion has been made, On

the night of her birth the young father who had looked forward with such tender joy to this crowning point in his life, had started out hurriedly for the doctor and fallen into a coal hole* The nurse said, it was & bad omen. When Mr. Vere sued the owner for $25,000 damages and got a verdict tor 6 cents, he remembered this. Turning sadlv away from The ‘ Court House, an old Gypsy woman stopped him. “Do you know me, W. H. Vere?” she hissed in a low voice, her face lighting up with a malignant look. “No, woman, what, wouldst thou with me?” “Forty-seven yean ago,” muttered the old crone, hoarsely, “your dead and gone father put ipecac in some melons that were growing in the back yard of the Vere mansion. The next day qur entire family threw up all they possessed. I was only a little girl then nut I remember the cold, pitiless smile on the face of your haughty father as he rode by our humble cot, and saw my youngest brother going to the drug for something to settle his stomach with, and swore to be revenged. I have kept my oath. My son was on the jury that tried your case, and his vote defeated you. But do not think my anger is sated. The O’Rourkes hardly ever forgive. Ere another sun shall have risen a deep sorrow will fall onjyour house. Remember the gypsy’s warning and tremble.” And with these words the toothless virago stepped silently around the corner and was lost to sight.

That night the celebration of Tristissima’s nineteenth birthday took place. In the excitement of the event W. H. Vere thought of nothing but bow to make his guests happy. At 11 o’clock the butler approached his mistress and whispered a few words in her ear. A frightened look passed over her face, and hastily seating herself on a fauteuil she sent a servant to summon her busband. He came. “Bill,?’ she said hoarsely, ‘some one has stolen the ice cream.” “God help us!” ejaculated the griefstricken man. “Why did I not heed the gypsy’s warning?” The party was a failure, and the haughty pride of the Vere family was humbled. The next morning a little boy brought home seven empty icecream freezers, saying that a dark visaged man had handed them to him for delivery. The old gypsy woman disappeared mysteriously and was not heard of for six months. At the end of that time she—got out of jail.

Dressy Women at Saratoga.

Saratoga Letter. The lady at Cougress Hall with 139 dresses is still astonishing the natives and strangers two or three times a day and finds her path a pleasant one. There is one prodigy here in the person of a dame who lies not repeated a toilet once in three weeks, although arraying herself in two or three different dresses daily, and yet aunounces to her admiring satellites .that she has no maid; that she would not trust one of them. The tales of her sixteen trunks and one room full of wardrobes and racks of her finery are not half so astonishing as the fact of her having no neat-handed Phyllis to sort out and take care of the innumerable bonnets and boots, gloves, fans, flowers and furbelows that match with and accompany each toilet. It must be that my lady lies awake nights to plan the spectacle of the coming day, and toils when others rest, that she may surpass the rivals of her chosen cult. A Mrs. Greenway, of Baltimore, now reigns as the “diamond princess” of the season, setting herself ablaze from crown to girdle with her dazzling jewels, and making all the other diamond wearers in a ball room pale and green with their lax admiration. Mrs. Astor’s regalia is the only famous one that surpasses this Baltimore collection, and it would seem as if the lady had been in Sin bad’s cave or in a snewer es diamonds, so thickly do they cover her neck, arms and every finger. Besides all this glitter of precious stones, the gossips credit her with possessing 395 dresses, a fact that is intensely mournful and truly heart-rending when it is known that a watering-place season hardly lasts over sixty days, and that three dresses a day for all that time will leave ninety-five gowns not worn.

The Mrs. Garfleld Fund

New York Tribune. Although no special effort hag been made by the promoters of the movement, the feeling of anxiety concerning the President has directed attention to the Garfield family fund,which, during the days of his supposed recovary, seemed to be slipping out of public notice. Some of the wealthiest men in the country have privately pledged themselves for the payment of a large sum in case of the President’s death, and there is no question in the minds of those who have been active in securing subscriptions, that if the end should come, which the Nation is dreading now, the amount of money which will voluntarily flow to the fund will greatly exceed in the aggregate the lare sum originally proposed. Thus far $156,767.62 has beei^subscribed, and all of this sum, except $5,000 (which came as a conditional subscription from Columbus, O.), has been paid to the United States Trust Company. Acting under the conditions of the trust, this company has purchased,and now holds for the fund, $125,030 of United States 10 per cent, registered bonds, on which the interest is $5,000 per annum. The bonds cost 26, and last night there was a cash balance with the Trust Company ot $6,176.40. Certificates for the $125,000 bonds have been placed in Mrs. Garfield’s hands through the PostmasterGeneral.

Sleeping for a year.

A case of prolonged somnolence that may serve as a companion piece to that of the sleeping Hungarian in Pennsylvania is reported, from one of the hospitals of Niederweisel, in Germany. The twelve-vear old daughter of an innkeeper fell into a deep trance in March, 1880, -and continued in that condition for the entire remainder of rhe year. She was carefully observed by physicians and nurses in the hosqital to which she was removed, and there can be no doubt as to the authenticity of the statements made in regard to her. No medicine was given her, and the small quantity of nutriment that was prescribed had to be administered by forceing her mouth open. She bad normal sleep at night, but during the day lay wholly motionless, and apparently without sensation or conciousness. At first much emaciated, herappearance subsequently became fresh and healthy. About the beginning of the presentyear she suddenly recovered her power of speech, and was soon wholly restored in other respects. She is now entirely well. It is also said that dunng the whole period of her suspended animation she was fully cognizant ol everything that took place about her.

A Warning to Some of our Lah de Dahs.

Burlington Hawkeye. “Walter” said one of our portly merchants to his six-year-old hope. “I don’t mind how short you have coats cut so long as they strike you below the shoulder blades; neither does it trouble me to see you choking yourself to death in a pair of tight paints. Nor am I much concerned in how many scarf pins you sport a day,or how large a bundle you carry to the laundry every twenty-four hours. Though the sight of your moustache, in its feeble efforts for life, makes me faint, yet I can bear up even under that, but let me ever catch you wearing your watch chain on the outside of your coat and you’ll go to woik in the store putting up groceries before you can say ‘quite too utter,’ Do you hear nje?” 4

SELECTED MISCELLANY. All up-hill wort when we would do; all down-hill when we suffer.—Bailey. No man is more miserable than he thatHiath nd adversity.—J er many Taylor. ‘ Half the ills we hoard in our hearts; are ilia because we board them.—Barry Cornwall. • An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.—Mrs. L. M. Childs. Youth is the tassel and silken flower of love; age is the full corn, ripe and solid in the ear. We carry all our neighbors’ crimes in sight and throw all our own over our shoulder. If we could only be as rich as some men we would almost consent to be as foolish as others. < Slumber not in the -tents of your fathers. The world is moving. Advance with it —Mazzini. No life can be utterly miserable that is heightened by the laughter apd love of one little child. Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.—Lock. The qualities we possess never make us so ridiculous as those we pretend to have.—La Rochefoucauld. Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse, —Johnson. The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.—Epictetu. It is the habit of mankind to give the fine flour to the wcrld and the bran to God. If|it were our duty to thank God for our sins we should be singing praises nearly all the time. i He who trusts to the word of a knave is no less a fool than a man who tries to hold an eel by the tail. When we are sick we are willing to be very religious, but when we are well we prefer to do as we please. To talk about virtue when you are not virtuous yourself, is like giving a man a check when you have no mouey in the bank. You can’t get peace of mind out of evil doing, or, as the old proverb runs you can’t take a cow from a man that doesn’t own one. Though avarice will preserve a- man man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too poor to be wealthy.—Thomas Paine. Let those who would affect singularity with success, first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be very sure to be very singular.—Lacon. The best die and the cunning live. Courage goes ahead and scales the ramparts, aud falls in the ditch. Cowardice sulks and populates the earth.

If he really thinks there Is no distinction between virtue and vice, why,« sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.—Dr. Johnson. Reflect upon your present blessings, of which everyman has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.—Charles Dickens. You ought not to ask for any 'favors from fortune; all that you have a right to demand is that you shall, like a horse that is willing to dqhis share but not willing to pull the wole load, be put even on the whiftletrees. A certain amount of opposition !s a great help .to a man. Kites rise against, and not with, the wind. No man ever worked his passage any where in a dead calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore, because of opposition. A really good man had rather be deceived than be suspicious; had rather forego his own right than run the venture of doing even a bard thing. This is the temper of that charity of which the apostle says it shall never fail.

Leadville’s New Sunday.

Leadville Herald. A Sunday in Leadville to-day is a very different thing from what it was two years or even a year ago. At that time the only distinction between the days of the week was that on Sunday, if anything, more business was done, and the crowds on the streets was greater. It was the day generally selected for all kinds of entertainments, and, with the exception of one or two modest congregations that met for religious services whenever they could find a spare room, there was little or no opposition to the attractions to the theaters and billiard halls. Merchants and clerks looked forward to it as a day of extra long hours and Laid work. At the mines the seven days Were one and the sama, and the fashion which they set, was the one that generally prevailed. The sound of the church bells would have been mistaken for a fire alarm, so novel would it have seemed, and even the strictest church goers at home kept track of the days of the week merely by the aid of the almanac. Gradually a few leading merchants closed their doors* on Sunday, and its importance as an exceptional day of business began to decline. Others followed the example thus set,and a gradual reaction set in, until many of the mines discontinued all work not absolutely necessary. Still the day remained more of a holiday than one of religious observance, as in the freedom of a western mining town it will always remain to a greater or less extent. During the transformation the various religious denominations had been organizing and gaining strength and soon the proverbial liberality of a mining community was seen in the number o handsome churches that arose. For tunately their pulpits were filled with liberal minded men, who could sympathize with the sentiments and rough customs of a new community, and were thus able to exercise an influence that would otherwise have been but little felt, and if the idea of a paster presiding over a dancing party among his parishoners seems a little too liberal to some of the good conservative people in the East, they must remember the story ot Mohammed and the mountain, as well the greater freedom and liberality of Western and especially mountain customs ' and ideas. Practical, common sense preaching, and earnest parochial work have built up large and healthy congregations, and when the church bells ring this morning the Sabbath quiet of the street and the throngs of well dressed and intelligent people wending their way to the church, will witness that the orthodox Sunday has at last reached Leadville.

The Dead Sea.

Our afternoon’s march over th bleak, treeless, and brown mountains of the wilderness was inexpressibly tiresome until we came in sight of the Dead sea. It lay 2,000 feet below us—a mirror of silver, set among the violet mountains of Moab. More precipitous descents over rocks a sand brought us, by sundown, to the two towers of the most unique monastery on the globe. The famous convent of Mar Saba is worth a journey to Palestine. For thirteen centuries that wonderful structure has hung against the walls of the deep, awful gorge of the Kidron. It is a colossal swallow’s nest of stone, built to the height of 300 feet against the precipice, and inhabited by sixty monks of the Greek churchgenuine Monicheans, and the followers of St. Saba and St. John of Damascus. No woman’s foot has ever entered the convent walls. Instead of woman’s society they make love to the birds, who come and feed off the monk’s hanus. Every evening they toss meat town to the wild jackals iu the gorge below. At sunset I climbed the extraordinary building—was shown into the rather hand; some chyreb, and into the chapel or cave of St. Nicholas, which contains the ghastly skulls of the monks who were slaughtered by Choe-

roes and his Pei dan soldiers—and gazed down into the awful ravine beneath the convent walls. Some monky in black gowns were perched as watchmen on the lofty towers; others wandered over the stone pavements in a sort of aimless vacuity. What an attempt to live in an exhausted i occi ver * *? » ’ The monks gave us hospitable welcome, sold us canes and wood-work, and furnished us lodgings on the divans of two large stone parlors. 1 One of the religious duties of the brotherhood Is to keep vigils, and through the night bells were ringing and clanging to call them to their devotions. The vermin in the lodging-rooms have learned ot keep up their vigils also; and as the result our party—with one exception—had a sleepless night I have such a talent for sleeping, and like Pat, “pay attention to it” so closely, that I was able to defy even the fleas and mosquitoes of- Mar Saba. By daylight the next morning we heard the great Iren door of the convent clang behhad-Us like the gate of‘Bunyan’s “Doubting Castle,” and for five hours we made'"a toilsome descent of the desolate cliffs to the shore of the Dead eea. That much maligned sea has a weird and wonderful beauty. We took a bath in its cool, clear waters, aud detected no difference from a bath at Coney Island, except that the water has such density that we floated on it like- pine shingles. No fish from the salt ocean can live" in it, but it is very attractive on a hot noon day. A scorching ride we had across the barren plain of the sacred Jordan, which disapointed me sadly. At the place where the Israelites crossed and our Lor 1 was baptized it was about 120 feet wide; it flows rapidly, and in a? tui bid current of light stone color. Its size and appearance is the perfect counterpart of the Musikingum a few miles above Zanesville. Its useless waters ought to be turned off to irrigate its barren valley, which might be changed into a garden. For oeauty the Jordan will not compare with Elijah’s brook Cherith, whose bright,'sparkling stream went flowing past our lodging-place at Jericho, We lodged over night in a Greek convent (very small), and rode text morning to see the ruins of a town made famous by-Joshua, Elijah. Zaccheus, and the of Bartimeus to sight. Squalid Arabs haunt the sacred spot.

A Story of “Wild Bill.”

The surrender of Sitting Bull recalls one of the “genuine Indian scouts” of Gen. Custer. He was a fellow of. most singular temperament, and was known on the plains as Wild Bill, albeit his actual name was James Hickok. Wild Bill, under circumstances of particular aggravation, shot and killed a desnerado in Missouri. Years became a member of “Buffalo Bill'd droll theatrical cenppany, and, in compliance with the stofy nlay r had to repeat every night upon stage the killing, which as a made him famous. “Bill’ watched £ "* first rehearsal patiently, thetrhe v J to the stage manager: “I can’t k-L that thar chap, no how,” quoth “Why .not?” inquired the manager/ “Well,” said Bill, tranquilly, “Buffalo slings him around in the first act, and Maeder , clips him in the ear in the second act, and Mrs. Maeder drives him out of the ranch with a broom in the third act. Then I have got to kill him after r\ll in the fourth act. Why, I never killed such a coyote as that in my life! It’s all wrong, partner! It’s all wrong making him out such a squaw man as all .that. By goll, sir, he was the biggest gen tie mau I ever shot!” Although he' carried a dozen bullets, more or less, deeply imbedded in his flesh, “Wild Bill” never sustained an internal wound. He was killed while playing cards by a scoundrel, who for SSOO blood money paid him by a gambler, sneaked up behind Bill and blew his brains out. Bill was, strangely enough, a very honest and courageous fellow, vl>o, in his office of Marshal, was the terror of the “crooked” gamblers of the territory. Tlie post-mortem examination of his remains explained bis immunity from tire penetrative builet wounds- It was discovered.that his ribs were welded together, t|ie Intel costal cartilegcs and muscles having ossified. His lungs and heart, therefore, were naturally protected by a cuirass of bone. Such was »the wonderful rapidity withwhich “Bill” could draw his pistol that even in the sudden death which befel him, he had time enough and sense enough to put his hand on the butto f his re,velvet.

Preparing Peanuts for Market.

Southern Farmer’s Monthly. Peanuts, to be prepared for the. market, are placed in a large cylinder,from which they enter the brushes, where every nut receives fifteen feet bf brushing before it becomes free. Then they are dropped on an endless belt, passing along at the rate of four miles an hour. . On each side of the belt,stand girls,who .with a quick motion of the hand, pick out all the poor looking nuts, allowing only Ihe best to pass the crucible. Those that do pass drop into bags on the floor below. When the bag is filled it is sewed up and branded as “cocks,’’with the figure of a rooster prominent both sides. The peas caught, up by the girls aye thrown to one side, again picked over, and the best singled out, bagged and br'anded as “ships.” These *, are as fine a nut ss the first for eating, but in tiie shape and* color do not compare with the “cock.” The third grade is brandy as “eagles.” These are picked oS|t of the cullings of the “eoCks” and “ships.” The cullinge, that are left from the “eagles” are bagged, sent to the top story what little meat is in them is shaken out by a patent shelter. The nuts being shelled by this new process the meat drops in bags below, free from dust or dirt of any kina, and it is then shipped in 200 pound sacks to the it Is bought by the confectioners for the . purpose of making taffy or peanut candy. It may be here stated that a peculiar kind of oil is extracted 1 from the meat of the nut and in this specialty a large trade is done among the wholesale druggists. There is nothing wasted, for even, the shells are made useful. They are packed in sacks tnd are sold to stable keepers tor horse beddiner and a very hcalthv bed they make.

A Connt Who Was a Good Sleeper.

Count Napoleon Bertrand, son of the companion of Nappjeon I.at St. Helena died recently in Paris. The count was a very eccentric man, and every year he used to hire a room in a hotel and go to bed for three months, after having given orders for fowl to be brought to him once a day and not a word to be spoken, by the servant. He was asleep during the si?ge of Paris. One day the bread was soabrmnible that he flew into a rage and forced the waiter to tell him the reason, which was that the city was besieged by the Prussians. Count Bertrand was stupefied fora moment. At last he got up and wandered about the hotel fora time, saying to himself, “Paris besieged? besieged. What oughta Bertrand -to do?" And after a few minutes reflection he said, “I will go to bed.” And he went to bed and slept out the siege. He was an assiduous attendant at the Bonapartist masses. _ I John Sheppard, an infidel of Oria‘n‘ Neß., built a platform alongside a Methodist camp meeting ground, and made daily speeches against the doctrines preached by the Methodist minis ters. He was a great annoyance to the Christians, and they tried bard to convert him, ,bnt all in vaih. One day an impulsive clergyman prayed, that if; Sheppard could ba silenced in other way, he might be removed by death. That evening the infidel died very suddenly, and it would be difficult to convince the people there about that he was not killed in direct answer Co the prayer.