Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1881 — Page 3

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HERE AND THERE.

There Is a “corner 4 ’ on lemons In New York City, t • All the Miefaigan forest fires have been extinguished by rain. The Methodist Ecumenical Confer* ence favors international arbitration and Christian schools. • \ The snow-fall in lowa last Friday covered.three-fourths of the Blate, and in some places reached a depth of four inches. ’ , • • . ‘ It is stated that the average Free ch family is three, the average English family five and the average Irish family seven. , The LLlfoois liquor dealers have inaugurated a movement for a national convention of their fraternity, to be held in Chicago. Ireland has 3,000,000 of drainable land, and a company has been formed in London to reclaim this land under the Irish land bill.

An unusual mark ol regard for the late President is the order of Queen Victoria for her court togointu mourning for one week from the 21st inst. . Mother Garfield was 80 years old ’on the 21st Inst If the President bad lived until the 19th of November* he would have completed his fiftieth year. Henry Ward Beecher bays that he Is entirely cured of bay fever, after suffering with it for over thirty years. The disease has been considered incurable. * Over 2,000,000 sheep have been sheared this year in Michigan, and the clip amounts, by official figuies, to 10,974,163 pounds, or nearly 5| pounds ;>er bead. The Chicago Tribune says <he three physicians whose services in the President’s case were recently dispensed with, have made a charge of SIOO per day each. • The Land League agitation is to be resumed with increased fury and biterness.** Whatever is is wrong»’appears ihfe e mo:e^ WOrd ° f the It is feared by many that Mrs. Garfield will not live song. The terrible tr.als through which she has passed leave} lier in bad condition to withstand inevitable nervous reaction.

The examining committee of the Boston Public Library in i tß auilu . al report says, “there are Christian a the ° !d Tea *®ent is 5 9 den book to the young.” THE J ew 8 In Russia are about to hold a general meeting, to be attended depu hes representingall the princiCO “ muoi «es, to consider their apparently hopeless condition V - WKIGHT - ex-Gov-nor of Tennessee, was sent to Jail the other day for contempt of court. He reaud purged himself of the contempt after two hours of confinement. An Indianapolis scientist is fully persuaded that he can create a storm center, and biltjg « n a ra j Dj iu the dry . time of drought, by the explosion of 100 kega of powder “deep down in a well.” •’ The best of sermons, lithographed and ready for instant use, can be purchased in Chicago at the low price of thirty-five cents the market there’s no excuse for so much poor pulpiteering. The 1 resident died in the anniversary of the battle of Chicamauga, a contest in which he iendered glorious service to his country. The‘coincidence, to say the least of it, is very striking and • suggestive.

The Methodist Ecumenical Conference passed a resolution condemning the opium traffic, and calling on the government of Great Britain to deliver that country from the guilt of supporting so great a wickedness. When Mother Garflel 1 was told of the death of her son, she was greatly shocked, but becoming more calm she said: “It la not possible that my son James is dead. Ido not wish to live any longer. I shall soon be with him.” Bishop Simpson Is stated to be the most noticeable man in the Wesleyan Ecumenical Council, now in session in London, Tall, stately, dignified, venerable alert, he Is conspicuous in appearance and weighty and commanding in debate.

Dr. Luoenbell, the brother of Mrs Cbristiancy, rent a challenge to the ex-Senator the other day. Mr- Christiaucy respectfully declined the honor of being shot at by his irate brother-in-law, and swbre out a warrant for Xi» arrest. Director Swift, of the Rochester Observatory, says a new comet appeared at the very hour General Garfield was passing away. With the aid of a good telescope four comets are now visible, a circumstance unusual, Director Swifts adds, if not portentous. It is said by intimate friends that Gen. Garfield was always of the opinion that he would die on the 19th of September, the anniversary of the battle of Chicamauga. The testimony is abundant that be had strongly peculiar notions on presentments and kindred subjects.

Michigan correspondents 'report that in the burned district the intense heat killed the fish in the river, and they rose to the surface by hundreds. In Eckland, a cow making for the river got mired, and was so thoroughly cooked that-she fell to pieces when the attempt was made to pull her out. The Relief Committoe at Port Huron, Mich., acknowledges the receipt ot over $120,000 for the fire sufferers of that State. A ton of clothing arrived there Tuesday from Chkagn. ExGtovernor Marshall Jewell, of Connecticut, has forwarded SI,OOO for the sufferers. / , The usual monthly report of the Agricultural Bureau shows that the condition of the cotton, corn and tobacco crops has greatly declined

since the last report The falling offis owing almost who Uy to the protracted drouth. In Missouri and Kansas there are complaints of the ravages of the chinch bug in the corn. It is stated that the township in wbieh Garfield lived is about equally divided politically, but so great is the love and respect cherished for him by those who know him beet and most intimately, that when the votes were counted at the last Presidential election every one was found to be for him. Barnum’s big ox died at Ottawa, Illinois, a few days ago. The carcass yielded two barrels of tallow, and the hide, though very thin, weighed 129 pounds.. The steer was so fat that he could only be exhibited part of the time, as he would breakdown with the fatigue of traveling, and standing up for exhibition.

Dr. Hamilton was asked to explain how it was all the surgeons felt the bullet in the President’s back. He responded that the small lump they mistook for the ball was merely a gathering of the pus at the end of the long cavity, which had never become infiltrated, but remained hard, and to all appearance resembled the ball. A bushel of wheat or com or potatoes would .be just the thing to send to the Michigan sufferers. They need these things for food and seed, and if every farmer who could send one of these bushels would leave it at one of the city ware-houses there would soon be a store creditable to the county and well worth sending to Michigan. It is convincingly evident that Mason, the soldier who attempted to shoot Guitcau, is either a monomaniac or that he is seeking notoriety. In either role, he is a good subject to be left severely to whatever fate the law and the facts of his ease may decree for him. This country is able to take care of itself without the guardianship of such men as Mason. It is probable that the Senate of the United States will be convened in extra session at an early day, and thatfit will be organized by the election of Senator Bayard as President; but there is also some talk of conferring that honor upon Senator David Davis. The President of the Senate thus chosen, would succeed President Arthur in case of his death, holding the office until another President could be elected as the law provides.

Governor Jerome, of Michigan, has istued a proclamation with reference to the suffererers by the recent great fires, in which he says: “The necessity for continued assistance to enable the sufferers to go through the coming winter and become self-sus-taining is in no wise abated. The well known generosity of the American people has never been invoked in a more meritorious cause.” ' r President Arthukwss born in a 'small log cabin, in the town of Fairfield, Vermont, on the sth of October, 1830. His father, Dr. Wm. Arthur, was a Bapfiat minister, who came to tbe United States from Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland, when only 18 years old. President Arthur married Ellen Lewis Herndon, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 1859. In January, 1880, Mrs. Arthur died, leaving two children, a son aged 17, and a daughter aged 11. It is probable that Mrs. McElroy, a sister of the President, will be the lady head of his household in the White House.

Liberia, according to a letter from Biship Penick, of the Episcopal church, is in a dismal condition. The whole of the Cape Mount district is involved in war. The savages are destroying farms and towns. The Deople are starving, and the greatest distress prevails. “Neither pen nor word,” he says, “can describe the horrors of the case. Hundreds are dying of starvation. Food cannot be had. Casadas and potatoes are stolen from the fields, leaving the owners to perish of hunger. Men drop dead. Robbery is the rule; no property is safe.”

Reports received by tne Department of Agriculture at Xyashington show that the general average condition of the potato crop September 1 was 70, a decline of 22 per cent since August 1. The condition last September was 90. The severe and protracted drouth is the chief cause of the unfavorable outlook. The general average ot the seven States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and lowa, which together produce threefifths of the crop of the country, is 68, or within 2 per cent of the average of the whole country.

The report of the Prussian Minister of Agriculture shows that the wheat crop is fully 20 per cent less than an average crop, and 25 per cent, less than estimates. In rye the falling off is from 25 to 30 per cent. All other crops are short from 10 to 15 per cent. In hay the falling off is from one half to two-thirds, while present prices ($24 per ton) are double last year’s at the same time. So great is the drouth that large processions of peasants, both at Dusseldorf and Cologne, have come to the churches asking and offering prayers for rain.

Free Masonry is astir with a sensation in England. The Prince of Wales lias just issued, under his sign manual, his warrant for the formation of a new lodge of Free Masons, to be called “The Gallery Lodge.” This lodge is to be confined exclusively to journalhts and gallery reporters, and His Royal Highness has sanctioned the appointment of Mr. H. Massey as first Master, Mr. F. Bussey as first Senior Warden, and Mr. Thomas Nushell as first Junior Warden. The want of such a privilege has lopg been felt.

Russian journals publish terrible details of the ravages of diphtheria, now epidemic in Russia. It is reported that in certain communes and parishes, all children under fifteen years have died. The origin of the attack dates from 1872, when the db ease first appeared in Bessarabia. Since then it has spread far and wide over the south empire, whence it lately began to make rapid progress toward the east and northwest In Pultawtf, a province of considerably less than 2.000,000 inhabitants, there have been 45,548 cases, 18,766 fatal.

While the Liquor Dealer’s Association ot Illinois was in session, a day or two ago, at Bpringfield, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, of Chicago, was, also, in session, and engaged in earnest prayer that tbe acts and resolutions of the Springfield conclave might come to naught Among the resolutions of the latter was one expressing sympathy for the President, and a desire for his recovery. Thus extremes met, and of course tbe pious Chicago ladies don’t expect, or wish, that their prayers will “ciunt” as touching that one point of agreement. There’s a plain lesson iu the incident, however, that the antagonizlhg bodies can find profit in pondering upon. A Little Rock special briefly - describes one of the most fearful horrors of criminal annals as follows: “Jane Campbell, a colored woman, living near Dyke’s Mill, La., killed two of her children, aged respectively ten and twelve. The woman beat out their brains with a pine knot for some trivial act of disobedience. After the inquest, and when the cause of death became generally known, a mob of whites and blacks dragged Mrs. Campbell from her cabin, tied her to a stake, and despite her screams, literally roasted her alive.”

It is widely mentioned tjiat tbe statisticians of Switzerland have established a singular relation between public houses (saloons) and divorces, that is, tbe number of divorces granted are in exact ratio with the number cf public houses. For instance, in the cantons which have thirty-seven public houses to every thousand full grown inhabitants, there are seventy-eight divorces to every thousand marriages; in tbe cantons which have twenty-five public houses to every thousand, there are only fifty-seven divorces to every one thousand marriages; and in those which have only sixteen public houses to every thousand, there are only thirty-six divorces to every one thousand marriages. This is a good argument for the temperance advocates.

THE NEWS.

Home Items. Since last November six deaths, including that of the President, have occurred in the Garfield family. At the Central Music Hall in Chi cago a meeting was held Sunday on behalf of the working women. The meeting was a success in point of attendance aud interest aroused. Ex-Secretary Stuart, of tbe Brooklyn Board |of Education, has abeen put under SIO,OOO bonds to answer for . embezzlement. The amount of the shortage is $107,000. Supervisor Coates, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Cranston, N. J., dropped dead Tuesday ihoruing, on reading the news of the President s death. Guiteau has been removed to anoth er cell the location of which is kept a secret from all except the warders who guard the part of the building iu which tbe new cell is located.

District Attorney Corkhill says the trial of Guiteau will take place in Washington, that there will be no difficulty iu tbe matter, and he believes there will be no attempt at lynching. China and Japan are each claiming the ownership of the Loo Choo Islands. China means to fight for possession, and is having a whole fleet built iu England, some of the Ships being a-[ ready finished. An effort is being made by his attorney to take the case of Sergeant Mason, the man who missed Guiteau, from military jurisdiction. The military officers are persuaded that Mason is deranged somewhat. The case of a midshipman .who died in Washington Saturday morning of chronic pyaemia is believed to be somewhat analogous to that of the President. He suffered six jnont hsand fourteen days, and was kept alive for a long time on stimulants. The campaign against the hostile Apaches has been initiated by the march of Gen. Carr to Ciblcu with 200 United States soldiers and a company of scouts. The Indians are strongly intrenched in one of the naturally fortified portions of Arizona. At Mattoon, 111., a farmer named Hostley was so enraged at being passed on the road by the carriage of the Vallandingbam family, that he ordered his son to fire at them, which the young man obeyed, mortally wounding Mrs. Vallaudingham. The murderer has escaped. The Washington Gazette publishes a statement that the Roman Catholic Church Is making an effort to secure a large tract of land connected with the Puget Sound mission valued at sl,ooo r 000, and that the priests are working to secure the dismissal of Indian Agent Wilbur, who is apeused of favoring the Methodists. ,

The assassin Guiteau, when ed of the death of the President, said: “I am very glad that his suffering isover; I am very sorry that I caused him so much suffering, because it was entlred' outside of my intentions. I was directly by Divine Providence to remove him. and,l meant to do it without causing him pain.” The whole amount so far subscribed for the benfit of Mrs. Garfield amounts to $157,599 38. Of this $125,000 was invested in 4 per cent, government bonds, the interest on which will amount to $5,000 a year. Persons desiring to unite in this fund are directed to remit to the United States Trust Company, 49 Wall street, New York. Cyrus W. Field is the Treasurer. The Coroner of Monmouth county, New Jersey, notified Attorney General MacVeagh soon after the death of the President that he intended to hold an inquest on the body, and demandAl that the assassin Guiteau should be produced. He was shown that an inquest was unnecessary and withdrew the demand. Had it been complied with Guiteau would never have reached New Jersey, and this was supposed to be a plan for getting him into the hands of the Jersey men.

Foreign. It is believed that at their recent meeting the Czar asked the advice of Bismarck m regard to checking Nihilism. At Clonakitty, County Cork, a land meeting, attended by 10,000 men, was held, at which resolutions were passed pledging those present to continue the present movement till landlords are abolished. Throughout the Dominion of Canada, the death of the President has awakened the greatest sympathy. “Had he belonged to the British Empire,’' says a Montreal dispatched, “no greater evidences could be given than ore apparent beie of the respect in which he was held, or of sorrow for hla untimely end,” ,

THE STATE.

A huge tooth, supposed to have once been one of the molars of mammoth was found in Elkhart county last wsek. It weighed Ilf* rounds, and had a grinding surface of.sj by 3j inches. . The ares of wheat sown in the State this fall win far exceed that ol any previous year. In some cases the seed drills are run both night and day by neighbors, one working at night, tbe other by day. Mrs. John H. Wade, wife of a wellknown printer, for many years foreman of the Evansville Journal news room, is one of the two heirs to the estate of Bimeon Jaseph, sr., of Cannelton, worth SIOO,OOO. Four students who were suspended from Purdue, University, for not complying with a new regulation requiring all students to pledge themselves not to be members of “Greek letter” societies durir g their college course, have sued to test the authority of the faculty to make such a regulation. Daniel Dukenhill, an old citizen of Itoward township, Washington county, tied a rope around his body and arranged a signal, and then descended his well to clean it out. Feeling the effect of the “damps” he made the agreed signal, aud those on tbe outside commenced drawing him up. He shouted out to them to draw faster, aud this so excited and frightened them that they ceased pulling on the rope when he was half way up, aud, fastened it to the curb, went for help, leaving the old man dangling head downward. When help arrived he was dead. A nearly occurred near Greensburg. While cleaning a well David Lanham was overcome by noxious gases, anq called for those above to pull him qp, which they proceeded to do, but after raising him fifteen feet bis strength failed and be fell to the bottom. A man named Terhune descended, nut could not succeed in getting him up, and let him fall again. After some more delay he was taken out, but died soon after.

How the Ancients Conducted Their Elections.

Herbert Spencer. As hitherto, so again, we must go back to the beginning and take up the clew. Out of the earliest stage of the savage horde in which there is no supremacy beyond that of the man whose strength, or courage or cunning gives him prominence, the first step is to the practice of election—deliberate choice of a leader in war. About the conducting of elections iu rude tribes travelers are silent; probably the methods used are various. But we have accounts of elections as they were made by European people during early times. In ancient Scandinavia, the chief of a province, chosen by the assembled people, was thereupon “elevated amid the clash of arms aud tbe shouts of the multitude;” and among the ancient Germans, he was carried on a shield. Recalling, as this ceremony does, the chairing of the newly elected member of Parliament up to recent times, and reminding us that originally among ourselves election was by show of bands, we are taught that tbe choice of a representative was once identical with the choice of a chief. Our House of Commons had its roots in local gatherings like those in which civilized tribes select their head warriors. Besides conscious selection, there occurs among lude people selection by lot. The Samoans, for instance, by spinning a cocoanut, which on coming to rest points to one of the surrounding persons, thereby single him out. Early historic races supply Illustrations, as the Hebrews in the affair of Haul and Johnathan, and as the Homeric Greeks when fixing on a champion to fight with Hector. In both these last cases there was belief in supernatural interference; the lot was supposed to be divinely determined And probably at the outset, choice by lot for political purposes among the Athenians, and for military purposes among the Romans, as also in later times, tbeuse of the lot for choosing deputies in some of the Italian Republics, * and in Spain (as Leon during the twelith century), was influenced by a kindred belief; though doubtless the desire to give- equal chances to rich aud poor, or else to assign without disp.te a mission which was onerous or dangerous, entered into the motive er wai even predominant. Here, however, the fact to be noted is, that this mode of choice which plays a part in representation may also be traced back to the uses of primative people.

Stowaway Emigrants.

London Telegraph. Not very long ago I was standing on the quay ■ f a North country port wlien a cattle ship hauled alongside. Her decks v« ere full of horned beasts, and what with the bellowing of these animals, the hissing of steam, the shouts of the seamen and the whirring of a great steam-winch, the uproar was tolerably confusing. In the midst of the beast*—that is to say, bobbing and glowering among the stalls, with ashen faces and sandy hair, and picturesquely wild raiment, were some forty or fifty inen, women and children. “Who are those people?” I asked a byslander. “Emigrants,” was the answer. “Emigrants!” I exclaimed. “Surely these cattie ships don’t carry emigrants?” “Yes they do.” said the man. “And where do they sleep?” I inquired. “Among the cattle, in the forepeak, in the leescuppers, anywhere. There are more stowaways than emigrants. They pay a tri He for the passage. They bring no bedding; or, it they do. they never lays ’em. They lump together anyhow.” > “What are they?” I asked. “Germans, Danes, Norwegians, and tlw like,” he answered. “They’re bound to America. They’ll smuggle themselves over from Liverpool somehow, just as they’ve smuggled themselves across the North Sea. Money’s an object with them, I sp’ose, and they don’t mind how nasty life is, so long as it’s cheap.” From inquiries I afterward made I found that what had been told me was quite true. Hundreds of the poorest orders of Scandinavian emigrants are landed on our northeastern coast eveiy year by these cattle ships. Their sufferings during the voyage across the North Sea are not to be described. It is liteially a fact that they lie in the mire and filth of the decks, or are crowdeel without bedding, without accommodation of any kind below—masses of them, men, women and children, huddled together, battered down in darkness aud foul air in stormy weather, aud feeding one knows ot how nor on what.

The Largest Land-Owner on the continent

Reno Gaaette. Col. Dan Mufnhy, of Helleck’s Station, Elks county, came to California in 1844, and may be said to have made the county pay him well for his time. He is now probably the largest private land-owner on this continent* He has 4 000,000 acres of land In one body in Mexico 60,000 in Nevada, and 23 000 in California* His Mexican grant* he bought four years ago for $200,000, or 5 cents an acre. It is sixty miles long and covers a beautiful country of hill and valley, pine timber and meadow land. It comes within twelve miles of the City of Durango, which is'to bea station on the Mexican Central. Mr Murphy raises u heat on his California land, and cattle on that in Nevada. He got 55,000 sacks last year and shies 6,000 head of cattle a year right along.

TABLE TALK.

Mr. and Mrs.- Brooks disagreed aa to which of their two sons should milk the cow, at Davis, lowa, and the man in his anger killed the woman. George Doane, a leading lawyer at Erie, Pa., became insane at a camp meeting, and believes he is the youngest of twenty-three sons of Jehovah. The Chicago Times calls the Tribune the Joemedillean, and tbe Tribune calls the Times the Billstorean. The prize for wit has not yet been awarded to either. Mrs. Jessie Fremont Ferris, a niece of Gen. John C. Fremont, made her debut as an actress at Rochester this week, with tbe intention of remaining on the stage. The Boston Investigator’s way of saying "He died” is as follows: “He passed tbe boundary which limits our knowledge of the duration of individual consciousness.” “The truth is,” as seen by the Retailer, a journal devoted to alcohol, “that the world never drank so moderately or ridicously ot all beverages as at present” Gertie Hamilton took a small doee of morphine at Bfoux City, not because she wisbeo to die, but in order to touch the heart of the man she loved. The plan succeeded. On recovering, she learned that be had swallowed poison in earnest, aud was dead. The name is lackingin this Western item of news: “An eminent Judge of Indiana, now indulging in his annual debauch, has broken a faro bank at the Hoosier capital.” The diversion of a company at Seymour, Ind., is to run their engine to the residence ot persons who have become objectionable, and drive them out by floating the houses. O n the body of an outcast woman bo drowned herself at Detroit was ound a gold medal, which she had received for remarkable scholarship on graduation ac an academy. The song writers’ painful working of the mother theme would seem to have culminated in the latest production, judging by the title, “An Old-Fash-ioned Photograph of Mother.” The project of a second Suez Canal under English auspices is tbe subject of discussion in the Alexandria press. The advantages proposed include a quicker transit ana a reduced tariff. A Philadelphia mail carrier delivered his own love letters, but that method of courtship failed of pleasant results, for the girl broke her word after promising to marry him, and he is suing her for damages. Official returns now published give the number of of diptheria in Russia in 1879 as over 83,000. In the Kharkoff Government 33 per cent, of the sick die; in the Poltava Government, 40 per cent. A sexton and his enemy fought in a churchyard at Millsboro* Del., and the sexton was thrown into a freshly dug grave. Then the other undertook to bury him alive, and had almost completed the job when help came. Chang, the Chinese giant, as pictured in Western circus advertisements alongside persons of presumably ordinary stature, is not less than twentyfive feet high, though his real height is eight feet; and Tom Thumb, who is now about three and a half, is made to appear less than two,

How They Traveled in the Good Old Time.

In the sixteenth year of the reign of Charles 11. of England was established the first turnpike-road where toll was taken, which intersected tbe counties of Hertford. Cambridge and Huntingdon. -Until the middle of the eighteenth century, however, most of the merchandise conveyed from place to place was transported on pack-horses through short distances. Between distant places a cart was used, a pack-horse not being:able to trimsport a sufficient quantity of goods to pay the cost of the Journey. The common carrier between (Selkirk and Edinburg, a distance of thirty-eight miles, required a fortnight for his journey going and returning. In 1687 a coach for passengers between Edinburg and Glasgow, a distance of forty-four miles, was drawn by six horses, and the journey to and fro was completed in six days. In 1849 the same route was made, by a route three miles logger, in one hour and a half. In the year 1763 there was but one stage-coach between Edinburgh and London. This started once a month from each of these cities. It took a fortnight to perform the journey. In 1835 seven coaches started daily between London and Edinburg, which performed the journey in less than for-ty-eight hours. In 1763 the number of passengers by the coaches between London and Edinburgh could not have exceeded about twenty-five monthly. In 1835 the coaches conveyed about 140 passengers daily. Until the close of the last century, the Internal transport of goods in England was performed by wagon, and was so expensive as to exclude every object except manufactured articles aud such as, being of light weight and small oulk in proportion to their value, would allow a high rate of transport. Thus the charge from London to Leeds was at the rate of £l3 a ton, being I3jd per mile. Between Liverpool and Manchester it was 40s. a ton, or 15d. per ton per mile. Heavy articles, such as cool and other materials, could only be available for commerce where their position favored transport by sea, and, consequently, many of the richest districts of the kingdom remained unproductive.

Long-Lived People.

Betsey Trautham, of Tennessee, died in 1834. aged 154 years. The following f>articulars of this individual are given n the National Gazette, from an account dated Murfreesborougb, Tenn., February 22d, 1834: She was born in Germany, and emigrated to the British colonies in America at the time when the first settlement was made in North Carolina, in the year 1710. At the age of 120 years her eyesight became almost extinct, but during the last twenty years of her life she possessed the power of vision as perfectly as at the age of 20 years. For manj years previous to her death she was unable to work, and is said to have required great attention in her friends to prevent the temperature of her body from falling so low as not to sustain animal life. At the time of her death she had entirely lost the senses of taste and hearing. For twenty years before her death she was unable to distinguish the difference between the taste of sugar and vinegar. At the age of 65 she bore her only Child, who is now living and promises to reach an uncommonly advanced age. Solomon Nabit, of Laurens county, N. C., died in 1825, aged 143 years. Nabit was a native of England, where be lived until he was 10 years of age. He then came to this country, and resided in the State of Maryland till about fifty five years before his death, when he removed to South Carolina, where he passed the rest of bis life. He never lost bis teeth or his sight, and, a few days before bis death, he joined a hunting party and actually killed a deer. Henry Francisco, of Whitehall, N. Y., died in 1820, aged 134 years. Francisco is stated to have been born in France, in 1686, but at the age of 5 years left that country in company with his father, who fled from religious prosecution, and went first to Holland, and afterward to England. He was present at the coronation of Queen Anne, and was at that time 16 years old. He fought in the wars of that Queen,under the Duke of Marlborough. In the early part of the last century he came to New York, with his father.

He was wounded in Braddock’s defeat was carried to Quebec during tbe Revolutionary War, and suffered much from wounds. Wonder Booker, a negro, of Prince Edward county, Va., died in 1819,aged 126 years. This individual was a slave belonging to George Booger, of Prince Edward county, Va. He received his name from the circumstance that his mother was in her 68th year at the tune of his birth. He was of great strength of body, and his natural powers, which were far superior to those of people of color in general, he retained in a surprising degree. He was a constant laborer in his master’s garden till within eight or ten yean of bis death. The most extraordinary instance of longevity in modern times, with regard to satisfactory evidence that can be found, is that of Peter Torten, of Zorten, a native of Kafrock in Hungary. He died January 5, 1724, at the age o f 185. A few days before his death he walked, with the assistance of a staff, some miles to ask charity of the travelers. He had but little sight, and his hair and beard were of a greenish white color, like moldy bread, and few of his teeth remained. His T food consisted if pulse and bread with a little brandy. John Bovin and his wife, also na tives of Hungary, died in the year 1841 —the former in the 172 d and the latter in the 164th year of her age, having been married 147 years. The most extraordinary instance of longevity in Great Britain was exhibited in the person of Henry Jenkins. He was a nativeof Yorkshire, lived to the amazing age"of 169 years, and died on the Bth of December, 1670. Next to Jenkins we have the famous Thomas Parr, who was a native of Shropshire, aged 159, and died in January, 1768. James 1 Bowels, aged 152. lived in Killingwor b, and died on the 15th day ot August, 1656. Colonel Thomas Winslow, a native of Ireland, aged 146, died on the 20th of August, 1766. The Countess of Desmond, in Ireland, saw her 140th year. William Evans, aged 145, lived in Caernavon, afid in the year 1872 still existed, and Du miter Radudoy, aged Jl4O, lived in Harmenetead, and died on the 15th day of August, 1656.

Fishing.

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The" Conspiracy to Assassinate Washington.

An attempt made to assassinate Gen. Washington in New Pork in 1776 is Imperfectly described as follows, by James Thacher, a Massachusetts surgeon, in the Continental army, in “A Military Journal During the American Revolutionary War,” under date of Sept. 10, 1776: “I have omitted to record the following incidents till I could ascertain the particulars of the reports. We 1 arn by accounts from New York that some time since a plot of a most atrocious nature was detected in that city. A gang of Tories had associated for the purpose of Joining the British army, and concerted a plan, it is said, to assassinate his Excellency Gen. Washington, and some other officers; and while our army were engaged with the enemy to blow up our magazines, etc. The Mayor of the city, and an armorer who was engaged in making rifles for the Tories, and several others were taken into custody and committed to close prison. The Mayor, on examination, confessed that he received money from Gov. Tyron to pay the armorer for the rifles. Two of his Excellencie’s guards were confederates and a third, to whom the secret was confided, honestly disclosed the information. Several of these miscreants were tried and convicted, and two or three were executed.” A foot note of this account quotes as follows from one of David Ramsay’s histories: “Gov. Tyron had suborned the then Mayor of New York to assist the Royal forces on their arrival in that city, and Gen. Washington was to be assassinated. This detestable design was rendered abortive by apprehending Thomas Hickey, one of Gen. Washington’s life guard-men, who was engaged in the conspiracy, and had engaged others; this false miscreant was tried by a court martial on the 28th of June, found guilty, and was executed the same day, amid the curses of the American army.”

“Send For Mother.”

“Dear me! it wasn’t enough for me to nurse and raise a family of my own, but now, when I’am old and expect to have a little comfort, here it is all the time‘Bend for mother!’” And the dear old soul growls and grumbles, but dresses herself as fast as she can. notwithstanding. After you have trotted her off, and got her sa'ely la your home, and she flies around, administering remedies and rebukes by turns, you feel easier. ■ It’s all right now, or soon will be—mother’s come! In sickness, no matter who is there, or how many doctors quarrel Over your case, everything goes wrong" somehow till you send for mother. In trquble, the first thing you think of is to send for mother. But this has Its ludicrous as well as as its touching aspect. The verdant young couple, to whom baby’s extraordinary grimaces and alarming yawns, which threaten the dislocation of its chid, its wonderful sleeps, which it accomplishes with its eyes half open, and no perceptible flutter of breath on its lips, causing the young mother to imagine it is dead this time, and to shriek, “Bend for mother!” in tones of anguish—this young couple m the light of experience which three or four babies bring, find that they have been ridiculous and given mother a good many trots for nothing. Did anyone ever send for mother and she tailed to come? 'Never, unless sickness or the infirmities of age prevented her. As when, in your childhood, those willing feet responded to your call, so they still do, and will continue to do as long as they are able. And when the summons comes, which none disregard, though it will be a happy day for her, it will be a very dark and sad one for you, when God, too, will send for mother.

THE SURGEONS’ BULLETINS.

Official History of the President’s, Casa, as Presented to the Oodntry. 1 July B—Whilethe President is by no means out of danger, yet his symptoms continue favorable. Condition less favorable. More restless and again complains of pain in his feet Joly 4—President’s condition changed very little. Complains much less of pain in his feet Slight amelioration of symptoms during past two hours. Slight vomiting occasionally. Not so comfortable. July 5-*-Condition this morning decidedly more favorable; no vomiting; less tympanitis. Favorable condition continues. The condition of the President continues as favorable as at the last bulletin. July 6—Passed a most comfortable night and slept well. Condition has remained as favorable as when last bulletin was issued. Condition has further Improved. July 7—Passed a most comfortable night and continues steadily to imSrove. Is cheerful, and asks for addional food. Condition continues quite as favorable. July 8- Condition continues favorable. More comfortable than on any previous morning. Progress continues to be favorable. July 9—Passed a tranquil night. We regard the general progress of the case as very satisfactory. Continues to improve slowly. Buly 10—Passed the most comfortable night he has experienced since he was wounded, sleeping tranquilly and with but few breaks. General progress of his symptoms appears to be favorable. July 11—Passed a comfortable night; condition shows an improvement over that of yesterday. Rather .more fever, this afternoon. July 12—Comfortable this morning. Is passing a comfortable day. General condition rather better than yesterday. July 13—Is doing well this morning. His gradual progress toward recovery is manifest,and thus far without serious complications. July 14 —Passed a comfortable night and continues to do well. Progress of case continues to be satisfactory. July 15—Is doing admirably this morning; afternoon fever slighter than on any day since the 3d. July 16—Passed another good night, and is steadily progressing toward convalescence. July 17—Since yesterday the President has done as as our hopes then indicated. July 18—Passed another comfortable night, and is doing well this morning. This day, however, was not quite - as comfortable as yesterday. Rather more afternoon fever.

July 19—Has had a better day than any since he was wounded. July 20—During the past twentyfour hours progress has been uniform and satisfactory. July 21 —Has had another good day. July 22—Progress of the case continues without material change. Suly 23—More restless night. At 7:30 he had a slight rigor (chill), reaction followed promptly. At 11:30 he bad again a slight rigor. July 24 —More restless than usual during the night. Counter opening made through integument of back, which, it is hoped, will facilitate discharge of pus and increase chances of recovery. July 25—Has done well during the day. July 27—Slept sweetly last night with but a single break of short duration. W o und looks well and pus healthy in charac ter.' July 28—President passed a pleasant day an d has taken his nourishment with a pparent relish. July 29—General condition of patient satisfactory. Jvly 33—Gradual improvement of his general condition in all particulars is observable, and is recognized by himself. July 31—Appearance and expressions this morning indicate continued improvement. . August I—Heappears strongei, and has evidently made good progress on the road toward recovery during the past few days. August 2—Continued to progress favorably during the day, and appears perceptibly better in his general condition than yesterday, a more natural tone of voice being especially perceptible.

August 3—General condition better than yesterday. Passed a very satisfactory day. August 4—An extremely good day. Physicians hopeful. August 7—Bad febrile symptoms. Pulse reached 104. August B—Another incision made. He bore the pperation well. August 9—Second incision seemed to do well. The President wrote his name. August 10 —Passed an excellent day. Officially signed an extradition paper. August 11—He wrote a letter to bis mother. - August 14—Seized with nausea; vomiting and physical prostration. August 15-Vomiting continues. Pulse 130. August 16 —Enemata restored to. August 17—Enemata successful. Renewed hope. August 18 —New complications. The right parotid gland becomes inflamed. August 19—He becomes homesick and wants to go to Mentor. The cleansing tube inserted nine inches further into the wound. August 21—Vomited twice after passing a bad night. Gfeat anxiety. August 22—The doctorsacknowledge the existence of septicaemia, and admit that it has existed for ten days. August 24—The parotid gland operated on. Dr. Agnew hastily summoned.

August 25 Another unfavorable turn. The swollen gland causing much trouble. August 26—The President’s mind wanders. The parotid gland discharges through the ear. August 27—Pulse more frequent and patient feebler. August 28—The President eats milk toast and feels better. All encouraged. August 29—Another incision made in the parotid gland. The swelling diminishing. September 2—The removal of the President fixed for some time next week. He appears better. September 3—Saturday again brings a relapse. He eats a reed bird. September 4—Vomiting again ects in. September s—The hottest day and night of the year. The Presiden t anxious about bis removal. September 6 —ThePresident removed to Long Branch, and stands the trip well. September 7—A hacking cough appears. Drs. Beyburn, Woodward and Barnes retire from the case. September B.—A cool breeze brings new life to the President. The surgeons encouraged and Dr. Bliss pronounces the patient convalescent. September 9—The pulse, temperature and respiration nearly normal. • September 11—A new complication. An abcess formed in the lungs. September 12—A decidedly better day. September 13—The Presidedt sits. up. September 14—He sits up for an hour and a half. The pulse goes up in the evening to 112. Septenber 15—The surgeons more explicit in their bulletins, and admit septicaemia. - September 16—The case again hazardous. There has been a steady loss. His mind wanders. The bulletins show continued high pulse and temperature. September 17—A severe chill at noon, followed by vomiting and great prostration, but the President partially rallies. . J

September 18—The President has another chill, but not so severe as the one the day before. The President slowly sinking. The doctors almost cease to hove lost hope. September 19—The President died at 10:85 P. M.

For and About Women.

" THE PIE HIS MOTHER MABE. I’m mlatrece of a pretty boose 5 h And often do I try To make my worthy, faithful spouse A dainty apple pie; Bnt when the' pie is nicely dono, • With crisp and tend er crust, My worthy hush nd, half in fun, Gives me a gentle thrust, By saying, “You cook wall, Irene, without good Bridset*s aid: But oh! my dear, you should have seen The pie my mother made.” Tisjust the same when I make bread; Upon my ear doth fall No praise to make my cheek blush red, His mother gets it aU. v But then it comforts me to see *_ Him gobble what I make; Whether an apple pie it be, Or loaf of bread, or cake. ladies’ collars are to turn down. Frogs of braid or of passementlere x will trim basques to suits. Sateen made of cotton is so well prlntel that it looks like hand-paint-ing. Dog collars made of small scarlet flowers are effectively worn with costumes of black surah and Spanish lace. The latest novelty in pocket handkerchiefs is to have the owner’s autograph copied iu embroidery upon one corner. Lawn handkerchiefs with blue or pink borders are often worn around the neck in place of collars, the ends tucked in the folds of the surplice waist. ; The latest style of new shoe has a heel of the dice-box ,order, poetically called Louis Quinze, and has a lattice work of straps across the instep. • Tn artificial flowers there is a great vogue soy cut silk blossoms, the bluebell, geranium, hyacinth and polyanthus, being all reproduced in this manner. Pink Gingham has been worn to such an extent in London that the good-natured Princess of Wales has been forced to fly to the rescue and wear blue. Women all over the country have contracted the habit of killing tramps by shooting them. If this feminine pastime is not discouraged we* 7 shall very soon be afflicted with a- “corner” in tramps. Annie Louise Cary seems to have really left the stage with the intention of never returning to it. When she first said so, it was thought that an increase of pay would change her mind, or that she aimed at some incidental advertising, but she steadfastly refuses to make any engagement for next season on any terms.

The Sold Wife.

A New York reporter interviewed Mrs. Lauter, the woman who was sold by her husband to a lover for ou6 dollar. She seemed a little reticent at first but as her troubles had been fermenting for some time, she threw off a narrative that was spicy, if ndt e.<q>ecialiy true. “I am.” replied the purchasable fair, “about 32 years of age, and I love Jansen. My husband I used to like, but to tell* the truth. I got a little tired of him, and that’s the reason Why I shook him. He is better off than Jansen, but what does that mean? I love the one and despise the other. When I first saw Jansen I loved him, and I have doted on him ever since. Havo you ever seen him? No. Well, he is tall and red-haired, with blue eyes and a brown beard. His nose is a little inclined to be rosy, but of such a delicate tint that one wouldn’t notice it in a dark room. He is very handsome,and such a jolly fellow. Why, when I didn’t know him much more than a week he took me into his arms and kissed me on the end of my nose. Of course, I struggled and slapped his face, but, oh! how I liked "it. 1 used to go out with him some, but we always behaved ourselves. He used to buy me ice cream, and I used to make him neckties. But at last Lauter suspected something and commenced to scold me. Of course this was something I would not stand,no wife should.and I slapped bis face and told bion I would do as I pleased. He was fool enough to get mad at this, so when Jansen came a few days after our trip to the country, he tackled him and called him lots of bad names. After a while he cooled down, and in a sort of sneering way said that I was worth so much that?l oughtVto be sold, and added that he would sell out cheap. Jansen said he would give fifty cents for me, and hauler said he would take one dollar. Janseu agreed and a bill of sale was drawn up. Here it is: "New York, August 3d, 1881.—I, Ed ward A. Lauter, of the city, county and State of New York, do dispose of all my right, title and interest in the woman known as my wife, to Ferdinand Jansen, of the said city, county and Btate of New York, for the sum and in consideration of sl, lawful money of The United States of Amer-

E DWARD LAUTER.

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“This I am going to keep and make him sweat for what he has done. Sell me out, will he! Weil, if I get my fingers in his hair he’ll have a bald spot where I struck. He is—ugh! I couldn’t find words enough to describe him. Ob! yes; I shall live with Jansen now an<i never go back to Lauter. I’m sold —the wretch; but let me catch him.”

The Bray of the Mexican Donkey.

The New Orleans Democrat recounts the many good qualities of the Mexican burro that has lately been introduced into that city as a child’s horse, who, it seems can banquet on splinters and scraps, carry immense loads, and is faithful, uncomplaining, decile and tireless; but, “w’e regret to say,” continues the Democrat, “the burro brays. Amazing as is his strength,bisstamina, his amiability,his courage, these things are as nothing compared to his bray. That such a tremendous and far-reacn-ing sound should emanate from so small a source constitutes the eighth wonder of the world. “When the little blue burro—thev are nearly all blue —concludes to celebrate his scanty period of relaxation by a good, healthy; whole-souled bray—when he humps his little back and shuts his appealing little eyes, and lets his ears lie along his back, and then gathers himself into one ecstatic note, it is enough to make one envy, the sainted dead, and long for the ccld and silent grave The sleepers for a mile around start up with the sweat of terror on their furrowed brows, children fall down in fits, the sick believe they have heard Gabriel’s horn, and the very atmosphere sbud<h rs likea human ■ creature. Burros don’t often bray’, because they havn’t much time for braying; but they "bray sometimes, and that is what keeps them so low in the scale of. animated nature. Without his bray, the burro would be little short of an angel. As he is, however, be is an animal to be admired at a distance and in the abstract.

Ex-Governor Hendricks of Indiana says a word for ministers’ sons, among whom he thinks that bad ones are really rare. They make the best of our authors, teachers, and editors. “When men of this kind have bsoomo worthless,he thinks, “it may have arisen from their want <»t business training, by which th«y did not learn thrifty habits, and yet lacked the reiglous stimulation or their parents.” The dreamers are a new Minnesota sect, who believe that dreams ore revelations of divinity, and only heed cor-, rect interpretation to serve as guides to holy living. Their leader professes peculiar expertness in this regard, and nis followers report all their dreams to him toise interpreted,