Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1881 — Page 3

Rensselaer Republican. M . VSII A 11. & O V K RACK EB, Ed*. A Propr*. REXSBELAER, : : INDIANA.

THE NEWS.

Home Items. New York has raised 122,100 for the JAiehigau sufferer*. Labor troubles in New Orleans are assuming a serious foam. ■ The Mayor of Bay City, Mich., states that there are 5,000 homeless families in the burned district of Michigaq. , General Grant arrived at Long Branch Saturday evening, and immediately called at President Garfield’s cottage. ... At New York Tuesday, 650 Mormons were landed from the steamship Wyoming. They are destined for Salt Lake City. ... m The rain of Tnur9day was general, b.'eaking up the drouth over a large area of parched territory. Secretary Blaine has been requested to take President’s Garfield’s place at the Yorktown Centennial ceremonies. The lowa grape crop is below the average, but is o’s good, quality, and will be higher in price than that of last year. , „• . The Grand Jury of the District es Columbia adjourned till October without taking any action regarding starroute cases. .* Y)f 21,321 emigrants who left Liverpool durin'g'Che month of August, 18,072 were to the United States, and 2;967 to British North America. Chicago is doing more building this year than at any year, since the one which followed the great fire. Two million brick per day are being laid. Four hundred Jews are on their way to this as their new land of promise. This emigration is undoubtedly the result of the anti-Jewish prosecution. - A The timber limits and limber camps along the Scoot River, Ont., are being devastated by fire. Immense quantities of manufactured lumber have already been destroyed. \ The Rev. Father Campbell, Canon of St. Peter’s, Rome, has abjured the Catholic faith, and embraced Methodism. Me says his deci-ion was caused ' by the hostility of the Pope. During a heavy storm at Dauviile, 'Va., iii which trees were uprooted and fences blown down, the Confederate Military Hospital was destroyed, in-' juring several colored people. * One thtusand Chinese coolies are expected in Han Francisco by the steamer Oceanic. * Sitting Bull has beeu removed from Standing Rock Agency (o Fort Randall. The chief strongly objected to the removal, and he’had to be. bound ami carried on board the steamer. Ex-Secretary Stuart, of the Brooklyn Boanl |if Education, hss abeen {Ait under SIO,OOO bonds to answer for embezzlement. The aipount of the shortage is $107,000. 1 Guifeau has been removed to aiioth--er cell the'location of which is kept a secret from all except the warders w ho guard the | art of the building in which the new cell is located. China and Japan are each claiming the ownership oftheLooChoo Islands. ( hina means to light for possession, and is having a w hole fleet built -in England, some of the ships being a-i ready finished. ■ 1 Governor Sheldon, of New Mexico, says there is reason to fear a general participation on the part of all Indian tribes in that territory in the warlike demonstrations of the Nana and White Mountain Apaches. An effort is being made by Ids attorney to take tlm case of Sergeant Mason, the man who missed Guiteau, from milit&iy jurisdiction. The military officers are persuaded that Mason is deranged somewhat. . The citizens of Arizona Territory are to 'be armed, and those liviug in regions liable to suffer from incursions of the red men will be organized into mili'ia companies to resist future attacks of the Apache Indian*. The coal operators in the Pittsburg region have conceded tothedemand of half a cent a bushel extra demanded by the miners, and the threatend strike is averted. To get even, coal is to be raised in price tomerchants 1 cent per bushel. . A call has been issued f<fr a national convention of the agricultural* manufacturing and commercial interests of the country, to be held at Cooper InsUtute, New York City, November3o, In the interest of protection to American industry. As the guard at the Washington jail vfc’as being received Sunday, Sergeant Mason fired at Guiteati, the bullet coming within a few Inches of his bead, d b believed* that Mason was sufleringpfrom the effects of strong medicine lecently taken for chills. The labor troubles in New Orleans .continue, and have assumed a serious shape. Shot guns are being used by the strikers to* intimidate the nonstrikers, who eex as teamsters cr as cotton , ecrewefs for vessels. The Mayor has ordered the State National Guard to aid -the police in preserving the peace. , '

Foreign. .Limerick, Ireland, is excited over the arrival of 600 police who are to quell the disturbances there. • By a land Blip near the village of Elm, Switzerland. 200 persons were killed and thirty houses destroyed. ' Great dissatisfaction exists among thejdockholdora in Paris over the slow and unsatisfactory progress of the Panama h*nal. The Ku»*’an Government proposes appointing loci!commissioners to conmtsUr the Jlfthti 'potion in places! . where they pfr* mtoato. At KncckfisgsV, *U>rk County, Ire-I land, forty di«gai*ed rnen broke into LLe house of three brothers named i , Mahoney, and shot them down. The Irish publican* who refuse*] to ' supply the cor,* tabu I ary with, re‘re*b- : menLs afo to be refused renewal off heir license*. Tire same rale t* to lei applied to livery or posting-hour* keepers.

At Bristol, England, a ve*n*l from i? discharging a cargo * of hnman bones for a local fertilizer company. The remains, among .which are skulls with hair still attached and limbs complete, are believed to those of the fallen defenders of Plevna. The Cleveland (England) Iron master* have. appointed a committee to act in concert with the Scotch manufactures tc reduce the amount of man□factored iron. This has rlroady had the effect of raising the price of iron. The Methodist Ecumenical Couna] to London discussed the use of (ho Bfwapapar for the advancement of

Christianity. Some advocated theesUhlishment of a well-endowed church paper. Others thought such journals were too narrow-minded. The London Times, representing the English Government and the Liberal party In Great Britain, says of the resolutions .adopted by ths Land Convention; “Great Britain will no more tolerate secession than the United States tolerated it in I 860."

The Central Land League at Dublin has issued a series of resolutions to be submitted to the national convention demanding home rule, denouncing the coercion act, rejecting the land biU, and pledging itself to adhere to “its solemn pledges’’ until all theobleota for which it was organised are fulfilled. As an inducement to the laboring oiaases to join the movement, bona fide laborers are to be elected to Parliament aud peasant proprietorship is to be established. As it is impossible for the English government to yield to these new demauds the Anglo-Irish troubles will begin again, and last until the league accomplishes Its alms or is Itself annihilated.

THE STATE.

At a band contest at Anderson, the Jonesboro band was awarded the first piize. *. Prof. Gebest, of Madison, is organising a brass band, the musicians all to be ladies. The Catholics of Oonneraville propose building a new cathedral adjoining 81. Gabriel’s school. Bill Myers, a bad character of Wabash, tied his wife by the thumbs and applied a heavy black snake whip to her bare*bock until she fainted away. The woman’s back is fearfully cut. Officers are after the brute. An adopted daughter of the late Jesse Meharry, Mrs. Lydia Wilson, of Lafayette, will contest the will on the ground that she has not been treated in it “in all respects as his own child,” according to the contract of her adoption.

Willie Brown, a 18-year-old son of James Brown, of Sugar Creek township, Shelby county, shot his six-year-old brother, While playing with a revolver. The ball entered the thigh near the groin, producing a very dangerous wound. 1 On Monday night Nat Garrish, a saloon keeper of Fortville, and Charley Shaffer, hi 3 bar tender, engaged in a fight, in which Garrish was badly hurt. Afterward Garrish’s saloon was stoned. In tbfe melee Mrs. Garrish was struck with a stone and seriously injured. The twelfth annual convention o' the Youug Men’s Christian association, of ludiana, will be held in Richmond, on the 22d to 2-sth insta. The eessioQs of the convention will be held ia the First Presbyterian church. Certificates granting reduced rates over all lines operated by the P., C. & St. L. railway, (Panhandle! can be bad upon application to L. W. Munhall, Indianapolis. A strange and fatal malady has broken out among the horses of Wabash. Iu the earlier stages of the disease the animal is feverish and refuses food. Later his limbs swell and he is unable to move about. Jiist before death ensues great lumps and welts appear on the sides aud back, and the breast is enormously swollen. The disease runs its course in about ten days. About fifty horses are sick .in Wabash alone, and there have been two deaths.

Earnest Jacobs, of Decatur, drove home with too much whisky iu him. He began to fight his horse in the stable, when the animal struck back, doubling the unfortunate man up against a tie-piece of the building, from which he bounced back underneath the horse. He lay there nearly all the evening, and when louud was nearly trampled to death. His injuries are supposed to be fatal. On Monday Jack Davis, who has beeja working for Mark Austin, at Winchester, for some time past, eloped with the latter’s fourteen year old daughter. Davis Is aCarolinian, about twenty-four years old. At Harrisville Mr. Austin fuund Davis,' and with him what appeared to be a young boy, but which was his girl, who had donned boy’s clothes ana had her hair cut close off. Bne returned with her father without any hesitation, and claimed that she had been intimidated. Water is so scarce in Brown county that John Hickey, who is hauliugdogs from the woods, is compelled to take water back in barrels for his men and oxen. Rattlesnakes discovered where the water was kept, ana, for tbo last week or two have congregated around the barrels at night to the great fear of the men and fright of the teams, some nights keeping up a fearful hissing and rattling. A number of the snakes have been killed, but still the men are afraid to sleep near the barrels.

It has Just been discovered that one of the stations on the Underground railroad was located two miles south of Wabash. The bpilding stands on a bill overlooking the Lafontaine and Wabash turnpike, and is a plain brick structure. It was built by a man named Elias Thomas, in the year 1856, and oy him was used as a residence. No one knew of this being a place of refuge for slaves until recently a new family moved in, and an examination revealed the vault for secreting"passenger*” en route for Canada. Theloundation of the house is sunken deep into" the ground, formiog a sort of basement. This cellar is divided into two compartments by a stone wall. One side is entered by a door, and the ctber apparently is without an apperture. A trap-door in the floor above, however, which was always covered by a carpet, gave easy means of access, and many colored men were let down into th*e depths of the mysterious cellar while on their way from the south to Canada. It is said that anotfier station on the liue is situated near La Gro.

While returning from the country, a j party of picnickers heard a great com- | motion in a house on the Liberty pike, near the city limits of Richmond, there were screams, cries, yells, groans and oaths, mingled with a crash of furniture and sounds like people were scuttling and falling inside. There was not a light visible,-and they approached j the building cautiousty, ana by peering in at the window they could see j ! **ven or eight men and women lying on the floor with their heads covered with quilts, table cloths and coats, and behind the house were several more so ; badlv scared that tbev could hardly ' *P*** They said tFiat, while two I «piritualists from the dty and one : from Fort Wayne, were holding a aearweln ihe dining room, the spirit* MrMdtd like a flash of lightning and -threw • heavy extension table uo In the air and let It fall with such force that It was broken, the chairs were knocked from side to side and broken, the dishes were smashed,and in the m id* t of tbe uproar the ghoet of a man who committed suicide near there appeared carrying his booU In bis hanas. The door flew back on Its hinges aiul he walked away leaving the house in darkness and silence. A shoemaker, who was in tbe company, said he mended the suicide’s boots the day before he took bi» life and Le recognised those the ghost carried by the patebea

A targe quantity of the plunder taken by the “sbarp-curvo” robbers on the Chloago and Alton train has been recovered, mm

HERE AND THEBE.

Guitkau was forty yean old on the oth task Washington is to have a “Garfield avenue.” . Guitbau is in absolute solitary confinement. . • Christiancy divoroe case Is again on deck. The hostile Apaches number 900 fighting men. Philadelphia Is threatened with epidemic small-pox. Postmaster General James Is a victim of hay fever. Lorillard’s Passiac has been scratched for the St. Leger. Senator Ben Hill is reported to e In a critical condition. All the Michigan forest fires have been extinguished by rain. lowa cheese has been awarded a gold medal at a fair in England. A short crop is causing a considerable rise la the price of tobacco.. The flow of the gold of Europe to thlsoouutry is steady and copious. It is stated that 40,000 Americans nave sailed for Europe this season. It is said that the President’s mother has aged very much since he wa« shot. The prospects of a heavy fall and winter business are everywhere most cheering. It is estimated that the cotton crop has been damaged to the extent of 35 per oeut • The Public School instruction of Cincinnati oosts, per year, $22,50 for each puplL Kbntvcky is credited with the election of two women to tho office ol County Clerk. 'j Last Wednesday was the hottest day experienced iu Philadelphia for flfby-seven years. It is charged that Mormon influence is responsible for the outbreak of the Apache Indians. 2 The political creed of English Radicals is stated as follows: “No crown, no lords, no church.” The Evangelist Sankey has gone to England, and his 00-laborer, Moody, expects soon to follow. A late di. patch reported the cattle in Ontario dying in largo numbers bn account of the drougth. The finding of the church court trying Rev. Dr. Thomas for heresy, at Chicago, is against him. The educational fund of Brooklyn, N. Y., lias been robbed of over $200,000 by dishonest officials. Vanderbilt has expended $4 .'OO,000, nearly a whole year’s income, on his new “palatial’’ resilience. IkiE Pennsylvania .Railway Company makes no charge for its service in removing the President to Long Branch. New Yobk wholesale dry goods merchants report the heaviest saies in their experience during the mouth of August. Several persons were seriously, if not fatally, injured at the recent reunion sham battle, at Bloomington. Illinois. j" The Detioit Free Pre*s man thinks that “early to bed and early to rise, Is good for the sleeper, but rough on the flies.” The cases of Sessions et al., at Albany, N. Y. t (indictments for bribery,) have been postponed until the next term of court * Two brothers near New Castle, raised and sold, this season, from two acres of ground, over S7OO worth ol watermelons. Col. “Bob” Inqersoll cleared $30,000 last season from his lectures. That would have paid for the labors of sixty tract distributors. The American race horse. Iroquois, hai won another great victory in England, takiDg the famous St. Leger stakes at Doncaster. Cattle raised in Oregon are now driven over tjie mountlans to Montana, and thence are shipped to Chicago “and a market” The "immediate cause of General Burnside’s death was an obstruction of the circulation through resulting from a spasm of the ventricles. The Republicans of Cincinnati have nominated Col. “Bob” Harlan, a colored man, as a candidate for Representative in the Legislature. The Pennsylvania Railroad contemplates a considerable reduction of passenger train time between New York, and Chicago and St Louis. An investigation shows that the private banks of New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago, owe the Government $1,250,000 of revenue taxes. Gen. Pope„ puts the whole Indian question in a nut shell in his saying that “the band that feeds them, (the Indians), if iron-clad, can control them.”

Mr. William M. Evarts, late Secretary of State, has been compelled to pay $14,000 in arrears of taxes in New York City, which he has fought for five years. The New York police have closed the pool selling rooms in that city. Be ft remembered that pool-polling is contrary to law under tkD uvw code in this State. It Is said the President la very anxious to attend the Yorktown Centennial next month, and says: “I may be able to gd there yet.” Heaven grant that he may. r After months of experimenting, jiersons in New Orleans have succeeded In making butter out of cottsn seed oil, that will pass iu the maiketfor the best dairy article. A heavy tax upon the manufacture of pocket weapons is recommended as a proper safeguard against the deadly work of the ready revolver and its less conspicuous cogeuers. The people of Louisiana are just awakening to a realisation of the fact that they have more ftau .17,000,000

acres of tim tiered land In that State, that is vastly valuable and easily marketable. Senator Ben Hill has lost about ono-half of his tongue in two operations performed upon it for cancer, and it is yet feared that the disease is spreading and must soon terminate The tobacco crop of United States Senator, John S. Williams, of Kerftuck y, was sold In Cincinnati, the other day, for $21,419.06. There were 94 hogsheads of it, produced on 75 acres of land. The Indianapolis Sentinel says: “If the President gets well the credit is likely to be divided between medicine and prayer. If he should die the doctors will be permitted to take all the responsibility.” Australia is to be a competitor with America in the meat market of Englapd. A steamer last week reached Liverpool from Australia with 120 tons of fresh meat In excellent condition. An Item going the rounds says that the poison of a bee sling may b* forced out by pressing the barrel of a small key firmly for a minute over the wound. No wound or swelling will result.

The saving by Star Route reductions up to September 13th, is estimated by Postmaster General James to be $1,600,000. He expects to make the amount $2,000,000 by the first of January. 'A French Milliner has Invented an article called the “paralune.” Its use Is to ward off the rays of the moon from fair lunatics heretofore exposed, without protection, to that blighting influence. A destuctive typhoon has visited tho coast of China, near Shanghai. Over 200 vessels were driven ashore. Included in the losses is $3,000,000 worth of tea, stored for shipment, which was washed away. By a vote of thirty-tour to five, the Georgia Senate has passed an antiMormon bill which makes it a felony for any person, by persuasion or otherwise,'to attempt to mislead or influence others in the commission of the crime of bigamy or polygamy. Travelers visiting Glendale, Mo., the scene of the recent train robbery, report that the robbers captured a twobufhel coffee sack full of pocket book*, watches aud jewelry, and’that the valuables taken amounted to at least $30,000.

The London Truth says that Canada is an incumbrance upon the British government, and that Ontario, the only desirable part, is bound bv its position and business relations to become, in course of time, one of tho United Slutes. The twelfth annual convention of the Young Men’s Christian Association, ot this State, will be held at Richmond, commencing Thursday, September 22d, and closing on the following Saturday. A large attendance is expected. It appears that under the new code Justices of the Peace will not have authority to sentence offenders to imprisonment. They can only impose fire*, aud all cases in which the penally is imprisonment must go to the C it uit Court. Ik Dr. Bliss is correctly reported, he is of the opinion that the bullet by which tho President was wounded has become encysted, and that the passage made by the hall is closed and healed for about tbrto and a half inches from the location of the ball and within nine inches of the surface.

The inhabitants of Arizonia are organizing for self-defense against the hostile Indians, aud the government will provide them with arms. Governor Fremont is hastening back to his post, end will have an opportunity to again distinguish himself as a leader of meu. The twenty mile race between Miss Cooke and Mug Jewett at the Minneapolis, Minn., fair, was won by the former, who came out ahead by one hundred yards in 47:30. One of Miss Cooke’s horses, Emma Dixon, dropped dead just as she dismounted at the end of the sixteenth mile. A N i;w Orleans paper, which vigorously advocates the building' of cotton mills iu Louisiana, says “the little town of Fall River” made more meney in 1677 by the manufacture of 140,000 bales of Southern cotton than New Orleans made in the same year handling 1,300,000 bales. A few days ago in Virginia, a man rolled out of bis bed and was killed by 1 the fall. About the same time, at Lynn, Mass., G. A. Rogers fell 160 feet in a collapsed balloon, with “inconceivable velocity,” upon bis face In the sand, and is now busily engaged In telling how he felt while be was falling.

Tiie much talked of '‘meanest man” lives and does business in Boston. On the recent day of prayer for the President he closed his store for two hours in order that his employee might attend the prayer meetings, and then “docked” each one of them two hours for lost time. A woman is asking a Chicago court to divorce her from two husbands. One of the husbands deserted her, marrying another woman, and the wife thinking he was dead married again. Now she wants to be free from-him on account of his bad conduct, and the annulment of her last marriage because it'was not valid. Rev. Dr. Thomas, of Chicago, IIL, will recognize the authority of the church court that recently tried him for heresy to suspend him from the ministry until the General Conference which meets October sth, shall pass upon his ci<9. He still maintains the orthodoxy of his belief, and will not seek new any church connections with Unitarians or Universalisfs.

M. Leon Chotteau, the able French commercial savan who recently visited the large cities of the United States and addressed tbe Boards of Trade, has published communications to the French Minister of Foreigu Affairs and the various Chambers of Commerce inl'ratice demanding t4© repeal

of the law prohibiting the importation of American pork. A Washington special states that it is hinted by Commissioner Dudley that he has discovered a ling in the pension bureau that has made a large sum of money out of fraudulent pension claims. It is understood that the Commissioner is trying to induce a member of the ring to turn state’s evidence in order that bis accomplices may be discovered. Onb of the indications of the pros' perity of the country Is the extraordinary sales of publlo lauds during the last year and a half. Officials of the general land office say that the returns for. the fiscal year 1881, when completed and tabulated, will show that the sales of land during the year will exoeed the sales of any other in the annals of the government. Thb laws of Michigan regulate the retail liquor traffic. Recent enactments provide that liquor canuot be sold In any room where theatrical exhibitions are given, nor in any adjoining room, and it Is not lawful to keep a pool, billiard or card-table, or any game, in any room in the same building in wbioh liquors are 'sold. Saloons must dose at 0 o’clock p. m/, except where city ordinances permit them to remain open until 10 o’clock p. m. r

A recent enactment in Canada provides that the beastly cowards who commit violence of any kind on women shall be imprisoned, and shall receive an application of the cat-o-nine-tails every ten days. If the law made one further provision for the worst of these beasts, it would be perfect or Its kind. / The wretch Gulteau was terribly frightened by the Shot of Sergeant Mason last Sunday. When the attendents reached his cell after the shooting, he was found crouched in a oomer, uttering prayers for protection, and writhing about the floor In an agony of fear. The fright continued all day, and fears were intertained that hiß reason would give way. It was a punishment that nearly reached his deserts while it lasted. The church court that recently tried Rev, Dr. Thomas, of Chicago, for heresy, was composed of nine Methodist clergymen. It is now said that their vote stood on the charges as follows,: On the Thomas views of the atonement, four with Thomas ahd five against him; on hiß views of the inspiration of the Scriptures, three with him ami six against him; on his views on future punishment, one with him and eight against him. From this statement it appears that his heresies have obtained a considerable foothold in the church.

Mr. Ia M. Bates, a member of a prominent New York dry-goods firm, in a recent reportoriol interview, dwelt with much unction ou the growing prospects of the south. He stated that no merchants came to the New York market with so much ready money to purchase goods as those from the southern states. The majority of them have the cash to pay for their bills, ranging from $6,000 to $7,000. He gave as a reason for this that the south was recuperating from a long period of depression, tbad her magnificent re sourocs were being developed, and that large amounts of capital wero flowing in from the north for her products and to develop her industries. % The alleged heresy of Dr. Thomas consists in the fact that he holds and preaches that all the books of the Bible are not of equal authority upon the consciences of men; that the atonement was not the effect of a penalty executed upon Jesus Christ and that there may be justification and redemption after death. Dr. Adam Clark and John Wesley are quoted as holding the same view with Dr. Thomas on the first two points, and it is claimed that there is no article in tho Methodist creed that is contravened by the Thomas teaching on the last point. The district Conference will probably sustain the charge of heresy,but the General Conference will not dispose of the matter so easily.

CJen. « Ambrose E. Burnside, Utilted States Senator from Rhode Island, who died suddenly at Bristol, that State, on the morning of the 13th Inst, aged 57 years, was a native of Indiana. He woa a graduate of West Point and served wi(h distinction In the Mexican War. and the war of the rebellion, attaining the rank of Major General in the latter service. He was also distinguished In civil life, having held many important positions of rub--110 trust including that of Governor of Rhode Island. He had Just entered upon his second term as United States Senator. The story of his life may be summed up by. saying that he was a brave soldier, an honorable man and a true patriot

Judc/e McCrary, of the United States Circuit Court of the Missouri district, has given a decision of great importance to railroads and transportation companies as well as to the public. Ihe gist of it is that courts have the right to prevent transportation companies from discriminating in favor of or against any class of customers to the prejudice of others of the same class; that a railroad company is bound to carry freight for any ex press company, and that it must not discriminate against it in favor of itself or any other express company; and that courts may even go so far as to fix maxlnum rates which may be eharged by railroad companies for the transportation of express and other freight

Investigations make in Canada and Michigan show that the destructive forest fires generally start and spread in the branches and foliage of trees that are left on the ground by the lumberman. The resinous bougln of pine, hemlock; spruce, and fir, will, when dry, kindle with tbe touch of a spark, and ploduoea heat so intense as to give a fire a great headway. It will then dry the wood in living trees to such an extent that they will burn readily. After a forest fire has been raging for considerable time it heats tbe air that moves before it so that it prepares the trees through whioh it passes to feed the advancing flames. 4 fire owe under wijl gpner-

' ally continue in its course till an extensive clearing or a body of water is reached, In addition to a large area of forest and faitns, about thirty villages and smsSe** towns Were either partly or completely wiped out by the recent terrible forest fires in northeastern Michigan. It was one of the most appalling calamities that has ever occurred in thus country. The loss of human life is now estimated at about fiOO, and the loss of property is Immense. The flames were driven forward over many miles of territory by a terrific hurricane, and camre upon the inhabitants so suddenly and overwhelmingly, that escape was iu many instances impossible. Great distress is reported among thb survivors in the region of the calamity, and their appeals for relief should be promptly responded to by the charitable throughout the land.

The attention of General Neal Dow having been called to a statement that 604 persons have paid government special tax as retail liquor dealers in the city of Portland, Maine, he explains by saying that the 604 persons are all who have paid this tax in the whole State. “The law of Maine provides that the sale of liquor for medicinal and scientific purposes shall be placed in the hands of a , responsible agent, and every city and town in Maine is supposed to have such an agent, and all these agents and other persons selling, are required by the tJnited States law, to pay the special tax miscalled /license,’ consequently a large number of the above bo4 ‘licenses’ are issued to agents whose sales are legitimate.” Under this explanation, it is possible that prohibition does, practically, prohibit, in Maine.

The hostile Apaches of Arizona have commenced a general war against the whites. Reinforcements are going forward to strengthen the inadequate force of United States troops now in that region. For a distance of 100 miles along the Southern ‘Pacific Railroad there is ft reigh of terror. The inability of the President will probably prevent any decided change of the Indian policy, under the aggravation of this outbreak, but it seems to be an opportunity for vigorous treatment that should be pressed to the Uttermost. If the army Cotiki be reinforced by Indian fighting volunteers, and war waged upon these hostiles until they shall be exterminated or forever subdued, and all the Indians of the country taught a lesson they will never forget, the Government would only be doing it plain duty. The “peace policy” will be much more practicable after the savage fed devils have been convinced by a severity they can understand, that they must submit to a superior jx)wer, or be destroyed.

The subject of Sunday law and Sunday observance is receiving a thorough overhauling at Indianapolis, and a broad area of the bard-pan of common sense has been uncovered. In this hard-pan it is discovered, and generally conceded, that Sunday laws are, or should be at least, chiefly a police regulation, securing to man and beast a neceesaiy one day’s rest of seven; that this regulation is subject to the necessities of society, and hence the work needed to supply these necessities is, or should be, considered proper and lawful, while all labor or employment outside of the limits of these reasonable necessities is, or should be, unlawful. Under the law it is the province of the courts to define these necessities, but the average public sentiment will soon settle that matter, if the basis ®f public opinion is once firmly established. Keeping the idea in view that Sunday is to be as neariy as possible a day ot rest for everybody, there need be no great difficulty iu determining between the necessary and useless disturbance of the purpose and meaning of the day’s separateness from other days.

The Rev. Charles Rohe, pastor of the St. Paul’s German Lutheran Church of Detroit, is the object of a curious suit brought in the Wayne Circu.t Court by some of his parishioners. It grows out of his views on salvation. The Rev. Mr. Robe’s interpretation of the scheme of salvation is that God, from eternity, has predestinated those persons to eternal life of whom he foreknew that they, by the grace of the Holy Ghost, would believe in Jesus Christ, until their end. At a recent meeting of the Missouri Synod the scheme was interpreted to be that God, without respect to faith or unbelief, has from eternity predestinated certain persons unto faith aui salvation that they shall and must be *aved, as certainly as God is God, and besides him there is none other. The Rev. Mr. Rohe said that he could not not subscribe to any such interpretation, and told the Synod so. Five members of the Synod agreed with him, and they were all expelled from membership, and now twenty-two of the members of St. Paul’s want the Rev. Mr. Rohe to resign, and the refining ninety want him to stay. As lavishes to . stay, the twenty-two have brought suit to compel him to go. If the suit that will follow soon is the means of deciding just what is the correct interpretation of the true scheme of salvation, the Rev. Mr. Rohe will not have lived in vain, but then again, it is not probable that the decision of the Wayne Circuit Court will be accepted by the doubting aud inquiring world as a final authority on such a subject. It is a knotty question for the court to tackle, and if there is not a decision that will be satisfactory, there is a fair prospect of a naughty row among the contending hretbren-

THE MARKETS.

CIIICAGO. Opening. High’t. Low’U CJoe’g Wheat, Oct, SI |l SIX »129% »1 31% Corn, •* «i r t% 67 66% 06 '1 Oats, •• 40# 4IX *>% 41% NEW YORK. Flour— Doll; round lioop Ohio, J 6 15a*650"; choice, S 6 Go@7 50; snperflue western, fo2s@ 6 00; common to good extra, *6 0006 00 choice white wheat 17 Wheat—Dull: %&Ic lower, No. 2 Ked, teller!October, fl 48%l(3l 48 ■%; seller November, *1 sl%@t 61%; seller December, fl 65. (John— Heavy and %&%o lower; mixed Western, spot, 62@71c: future, 7(f%(a,7G%c. Oats— Unchanged; Western, 43m5.c; seller No. 2 October, 41c; seller November, and quiet. Pork—Du.l and easier; spot Nev-Aless •1975(320 00. L,aki>—lo(<il2%c lower; heavy stenra-ren-dered, fl 2 32%. TOLEDO. WnaAt—Opened weak; closing firm and higher; No. 2 lted, cash, tl4l; seller October fl 45; seller November, $1 47%; seller December, fl 50. COHjr—Firm; high mixed, GB%c; N 0.2 cash, seller October, 68c; seller November, 69%c. OA®-«rm; *O.B 4040, v

A WOMAN FARMER.

Mrs. Osgood, of Maine, Cuts and Baals in Six Tons of Hay |in One Day, Lewiston (Me.) Journal, Just beforte dusk, Wednesday evening, a brown-faced and pleasant-look-ing woman, with a short, weil-built figure and firm step fastened a plump, contented looking bay horse in front of the Boston Tea Store, and tossed a molasses jug out of her wagon. She wore a widow’s veil and shawl. “There,” said a gentleman, “is one of the most wonderful women in the country, Mrs. Osgood, of Minot Center the woman farmer.” So when Mrs. Osgood came out of the store, with her strong arms full of toolasses-jug, saltbox, and Ihis-and-that, the Journal scribe began to ply his interrogations. “How much hay will you cut this year?” “Twelve or fifteen tons. I’ve cut about six tons already. I commenced mowing at 7 o'clock this morn ing, and mowed most of the forenoon. I spread thirty-five common stacks of bay,and after dinner I got in four good one-horse loads, in Reason to get down here at 4 o’clock and market a lot ot berries.” “Do you cut your hay with a machine or a scythe?” "Both; I can mow either way. I have a one-horse mower.” “Do you any help?” “Only what I get from the children. There’s a girl 14 years and a bey 11, who help me a little.” “Is the girl going to make a farmer?” “I don’t know. I want to make a farmer of her, but she says she don’t like the idea very well.” “How much of a farm have you?” “I have now about forty acres. I have planted this year half an acre of onions, two acres of potatoes, three-fourths of an acre of beans, and sowed,half an abre of oats. I have done all the Work myself. I have run the farm five years, and I haven’t paid out a cent, not one cent, for help, and I ain’t going to, either iwith much emphasis). Last winter went do am in the woods, and cut and teamed out ten cords of cord wood.” “Does your farm pay well?” “Yes, it’s beginning to pay pretty well now. It was all run down when I came there and commenced work. It only cut bay enough for sr cow and a horse. .Nowit cuts twelve tons. I have dug out the rocks and leveled off the fields with my own 'hand?; so I shan’t be thrown out when I ride my mowing-machine. I keep two cows, one horse, and a lot of sheep, and.ihere are alot of hens running around.” Mrs. Osgood then started Dobbin for home. Here is a woman who finds time between planting .her acres of potatoes and onions, mowing a dozen tones of .hay, chopping ten cords of wood in snow knee-deep, and all the hard woork of running a forty-acre farm, to take care of the milk of two cows, make butter and bread, and do all the kneading, cooking, and sewing on buttons for a family of children, and yet has nothing to say about woman’s wrongs or woman’s* rights.

Immigrants.

N. Y Herald. • ‘ It has been estimated that the average sum possessed by each immigrant when he lands on our shores is somewhere about S6O. The largest sums of money are brought over by men over fifty years old, and represent the savings of a life-time, carried here for investment. The people who can best be relied upon to reduce the general averageof capital introduced oy immigrants are thte Slavonians and Polandere. A great many of them have to be helped with samll sums to get them away to where they wish to settle. The Hollanders,on the other hand, frugal, industrious and clean, come pretty well provided with money, as a rule, and are, apart from considerations of personal beauty, among the pleasantest to look at. One of the most curious distinctive peculiarities of the costume of the women is a strange sort of helmet, made of brass, teilver or gold, according to the wealth of the wearer, filagree work, or exquisitely chased—a thin sheet of metal,-closely fitting to the head, and worih under a snowy linen cap. On each side the thing comes down on the temples in metallic curl. They all wear wooden shoes, and it is really amusing to see the children, even little toddlers just beginning to walk, clattering about easily and securely in the clumsy sabots. Of all immigrants the Germans are the least demonstrative in meeting their friends. Hearty hand shakings’ sometimes a solemnly administered kiss on the»cheek, and an explosive “So!” ora formal “Wie gaetes?” are about all they generally indulge in. But that their hearts are as warm and their affection are as deep’y stirrerhas auv other person’s may easily be read in* their tear-moistened eyes and the happy smiles that light up their countenances. The Russians are great kissers. Tne Italians greet with noisy laughter, kisses, and irrepressible chatter. But of all the wild welcomings those of the Irish are the most vigerous. Shouts, embraces, ejaculation of 4i Glory be to God!" “The saints be with us!” “Al* anna,” and the like, make the rafters rink. In cases where children living and prospering have 6ent for parents to join. them, the greetings are even mere wildly enthusiastic. , .

Indian Legends.

Vlrglnia City (Nev) Enterprise. About the time the new comet was at its brightest, we took the occasion ol a call from Captain Sam, of the Piute tribe,to ask him about the notions held by his people in rega d to such celestial visitants. Sam said he would presently bring to us an old man of his tribe who had thtf whole dome of Heaven by heart. In some trepidation, aftef so much ceremony and prepatatiou, we finally ventured to ask the venerable savant if ho knew anything about the comet recently seen flaming in the northern sky- He did—he knew all about it. “It was,” be said “a wounded star.” Said he: “It is'badly hurt, but it wilt get away-” Without further ceremony or preamble he proceeded to give us the whole ecouoray of the celestial realms iu a nut-shell, so to sas. It was as follows: “The sun rules the heavens. He is the big chief; the moon is his wife,and the stars are his children. The sun he eat him children whenever he can catch them. They are aU -the time afraid when he is passing through in ‘the above. When he, their father,gets up in the morning.you see all the "stars, his children, fly out of sight—go away into the blue—and they do not make to be seen again till he, their father, is about for going to bed. Dowji deep under ground—deep, deep—is >a great hole. Here he go into this hole, the sun, and he crawl and he creep till he come to his bed; see • then he sleeps there all night. This is so little,and be, the sun, eo big, that he can Dot turn around in it, so he must, when he has had all his sleep, pass on then through, 1 and we see him next mdrning come out in the East. When he so comes

oat he begins to hunt up through 'the sky to catch and eat any that he can of the stars, his children. He, the sun, is not all seen. The shape of him is like a snake or lizard. It is not his head that we see, but bis belly stuffed with the stars he has times and times devoured. His wife, the moon, she goes into the same hole as her husband to sleep her naps. She have always great fear of him. the sun, that have her for his wife, and when. he comes into the hole to sleep she long not stay there if he be cross. She, the moon, have great love for her children, the stars, and is happy to be traveling tip where , they are. And they, the children, feel safe and smile as she passes along. But she, their mother, cannot help but that one must go every month. It is ordered by Aah-ha, the Great Spirit, that lives above the place of all. Every mQptfe to do iWftilow QUO Of ohU4-

ren. Then then the moon feel sorrow. She must to mourn. Her face she do paint it Mack, for a child is gone. But the dark you will see wear away frond her face—little, little, little every day, and after a while we see again all the face bright of the mother moon. But soon he, the stm, her husband, swallow another child, and she pat again on her face the pitch and the black.”. “But bow about the comet?” ’ r ’. “ Well,!’ said the philosopher, “sometimes you see tbe sun snap at one of the stars, bis children, and not. get good, fast hold—only tear one hole and hurt it. It get wild of pain and go fly away across the sky with great .mout of blood from it. It then tery ’ffkid; and, as it fly. always keepits head turn to watch the sun, its father, and uevfei* turn awfty froth him its fkce till faj out of his reach. Having thus disposed of the whole f business of the realms above, the sage was inclined to come down to mundane matters, and suggested that much, talk made him hubgry. He was not too proud to accept four bits. Sam, however, who had been listening very attentively to tile astronomical doctrine* of thb Wise man ,6f. hW tribe, and who evidently wished to hear more, went on to say that when the white men first came to the country and began to dig great shafts, many of his people feared they intended to dig down to the subterranean passageway of tbe sun and moon, cateh them both, carry them away, and leave the whole world in darkness. To this the old philosopher answered that such a thing was impossible, owing to the great beat above and about the hole. He said all the white men could do was to get out some of thb rocks above tbe underground road of orbs, and which had absorbed their brightness as. they Jfty aslefep in their beds below, these rocks producing, iff the case of tbe moon white metal, .(silver) and in the case of the sun the yellow metal (gold). Captain Sam now said that they were ready to take their leave, and would be glad to carry with them a small piece of the white' metal mentioned by the wfce man of the tribes

Senator Edmund’s Platform.

Letter to Massachusetts Republican?. The for the practicftj sdpreiiiacy of our principles is one that in tne nature of things, rarely ends, for, iu some form or other, the safety of equal rights—equal in benefit and equal in burden —is always menanced. Borne of the immediate measures ior these final objects of good government, I think, ought to be: To preserve and improve the laws for the security Of national civil rights; to make ds effective as possible provisions for the purity and farrnessof Congressional elections; to establish by law the methods of ascertaining the result of Presidential elections, so as to give the conclusive effect the Constitution demands to the action of each State,and to prevent the exercise by the houses of Congress of anything in the nature of appelate ot revisory power over the action df the constituted alithority of tbe State in such cases; to so improve the civil service as to diminish, and, if possible, remove the evils of place hunting, and the interchange ot favors between the members of the legislative and executive branches of the government, auff to free the tenure ol a great number of officers from dependence upon politifcal favor or political opinion; to readjust the reVenne laws upon the basis of producing the greatest revenue with the least and neartst equal burden to the people, aud of developing and encouraging the industrial pursuits of every calling of our citizens; to bring both the theory, and practice of the government in regard to the'cnrrency to the point of a fixed and-uniform metallic standard of values and making coin only a legal tender in the payment of debts: and promote, so far as the na? tional government can lawfully do so, the increase aud diffusion of education among all the citizen?, and in evecy part of the republic.

Mummies in Thebes.

New York Tribune. Tiie finding at Thebes of thirty-nine, mummies of Egyptian royal and priestly personages, which baa been hailed Sn Europe as the greatest arcbielogical liscoivery since Sir Henry Liyara’S rfe* searches in Nineveh, grows iu importance. Two-thirds of the mummies are now identified by means of the inscriptions upon their cases, and the manuscripts found. They are, for the most part, Kings and Queens, with their children, ranging through sou! dynasties, beginning with the seventeenth aud ending with the twentyfirst, or, stating it ir Highly, from 2,000 to 1,700 B. C. The mummy of tht? Pharaoh of Isiael is among these lb a perfect state of preservation, and the mummy of Thomas 111, in whose reign the obelisk that stands in Central Park was first erected. The imagination fa rly falters iu the attempt to realize that these figures have been brought back from the vast shoreless sea of Egyptiau aD tiqulty to our own day, and our very doors. Lotus flow- i ers that look as ii they been {ducked a few months ago,” are found ying in the wrappings of Kings who : v*ere dead centuries- before the Pharoab of Israel was born,and the passage of nearly 4,000 years has not dimmed the beauty of the colors of the inscriptions aud penciling?, “which are as bright and fresh as if tbe artist had touched them bu* yesterday. This is a wonderful prize for arcbteological science, the full meaning of which scholars probably are just beginning to appreciate.

Why We commence Dinner With soup.

Sir Henry Thompson. The rational, of the initial soup has often been discussed. Some regard it as calculated to diminish the digestive power, on the theory that eo much fluid taken at first dilutes the gastric juices. But there appears to be no foundation for this belief. A clear soup disaDpears almost immediately after entering the stomach, and in no way interferes with the gastric juice, which is stored in'its appropriate cells ready for action. The habit of commencing dinner with soup has. without doubt, its origin iu the fact that ailment in this fluid form—in fact, ready digested

—soon enters the blood and readily refreshes the hungry man, who, after a considerable fast and mu6b activity, sits down with a sense of exhaustion to commence his principal meal. In two or three minutes after he has taken a plate of good warm soup, tbe feeling of exhaustion disapears, and irritability gives way to the gradual rising sense of good fellowship wiih the circle. Some persons Lave the custom of allaying exhaustion with a glass of sherry before food—a gastronomic no less than a physiological blunder. Injuring •the stomach and depraving the palate. The soup introduces at once into the system a small installment of ready digested food, and set res the short m-rioif of time which must be spent by the stomach in deriving some nutriment from solid ailments,as well as indirectly strengthening the organ of digestion itself for its forlh-comingduties.

A San Francisco husband, returning from an alleged fishing trip of three days, asked bis wife if she received the fine trout he sent her from the lake. She gave him a stony glare aud replied : “I received tome fish, I believe but Ibe market man also left word that he had gotten your telegram, but as he hadn’t enough fresh water trout he sent you some first-rate codfish in stead.” ‘-D-did, eh?” stammered the wretched benedict. “Yes, he did; and uow,Bir,perhaps you’ll be good enough to explain Quiofc curtain,