Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1882 — Page 7

THE NEWS.

: Home Items. The Hop. John C. New has accepted the Russian Mission, so it is said. New York erected $47.000.000 worth of new bnildings daring the year. 7Smallpox is spreading rapidly in Newark, N. J., and Fort Wayne, Ind. It is diminishing m Chicago. There are 3,489 licensed saloons in the cityof Chicago, which pay $181,428 i a the city treasury. Mrs. Cruz, living at .Florence, Los Angeles, county* Cal., gave birth Thursday, to.jaix female children. General IJatch, the Indian fighter, gives full credence to the reported massacre of Nana and his band - by Mexicans. Small-pox has been reported from thirty-seven towns and villages in Illinois, in most of which the epidemic is under control. During the past year there were in Louisville, seventy-three murders, seventeen’suicides, and sixty-six accidental deaths. Commissioner of Pensions will in a few days send aa officer of his bureau to investigate pension frauds in the Southwest. The House Committee on Elections, will, it is said, decide that neither Cannon nor Cainbell are entitled to the Utah seat in Congress. There is alarm over the supposition that the government printing officeat Washington is unsafe. There was quite a panicthere Saturday. AtTombstone, A. T., Deputy United States Marshal Earp, was fired at by three men, and received nineteen shots. He is not expected to recover. j A little boy, six years old, was shot dead Thursday at Oshkosh, Wis., by one of his playmates with a gun which was not supposed to be loaded. Two girls' aged 11 and 13 years, respectively. and a boy aged 10, wereburned toneatb in a fire at a boarding house Sunday, near Richbug, Pa. There have been fourteen serious railway accidents during the year, and the number of persons killed in this way amounts to more than 1,000. The Chicago Board of Trade has passed resolutions favoring increased compensation to the employes of the United States Life-saving Service by Congress.

It is said that Judge Advocate General Swaim decides that the court martial which tried Cadet Whittaker for mutilating his own ears was illegally constituted. A Chicago physician, who has made a specialty of cancer, has discovered what he claims to be a positive cure. He will lay the details before the profession shortly. At Biddeford, Maine, a young man named Moore shot his affianced, Miss Belle Cushman, dead, and .then shot himself. Jealousyis supposed to have prompted the double crime. During the past year the .Peoria distilleries manufactured 19,091,538 gal-. lons of spirits, consuming 5,003,972 bushels of grain. The revenue on whisky for the year was $12,463,872. The Brooklyn Board of Education are exercised over the remark made by Henry Ward Beecher in his sermon on New Year’s Day, that the men who perverted educational funds should be hanged. For the foundation of the Garfield Professorship in Williams College, which requires an endowment fund es $50,000, the sum so:;far subscribed is $35,000. Of this amount SB,OOO was raised in Boston. General Grant, interviewed by the New York Times, has expressed the opinion that great injustice has been done to-General Fitz John Porter, and will in due time publish his views in extenso on the case. . At Graham, Texas, two murderers broke jail after wounding one of the jailors and shooting the other. They were pursued by citizens,who shot both dead, but not before they had wounded two of their pursuers. A Washington paper hints that Mr. Blaine has already entered upon his campaign for the Presidency in 1884, in which, it is alleged, he will try and form a constituency from “liberal Democrats and Republicans.” During the past year the Illinois Humane Society has rescued 186 children from conditions of neglect or cruelty, and has also investigated 789 cases of ill-usage of dumb animals. During the year just closed there was almost an epidemic of defalcations among persons intrusted with the care of other peoples’ money, and nearly all Would be attributed to a mania' for speculation. Baron Von Schlozier, for twelve years German Ambassador at Wash ington, has been recalled by his government and will leave on Wednesday. He is to be the representative of Germany at the Vatican. The Chicago Christian Army '.has been organized under Bishop Fallows, a minister of - the Reformed Epieeepai Church. Its members will wear a uniform and march through the streets to the music of a drum corps. TheJßeV* Richard JCain, the colored Bishop of Texas and Louisiana, and wife, nave sued the Galveston, Texas and Louisiana railroad for $20,000 damages, for being refused a., ride as firstclass passengers after purchasing a ticket. g Congressman Burrows, of Michigan, will take the position that neither Cannon nor Campbell, of Utah, phould be allowed a seat in Congress—the first because he is a alien, and the second because he did not receive a majority of the votes .cast. Monday, the legal New Year Day was dtfiy observed throughout the Drilled States as a general holiday. In Washington the President held a grand reception, which was very largely attended, and other receptions were held by the ladies of Cabinet officers,

Chief Justice Carter is reported to 1 have said that If Gaiteau, the aseamtn, was either gagged or excluded from the courtroom, he would‘be entitled to a hew trial. On this account, it is ailed red, Judge Cox allows the fellow so much latitude. •"-* •• ~ The wretches who perpetrated the outrage and massacre at the Gibbons’ homestead, near Ashland, Ky., have been'arrested; Their names are Neal, Craft and Ellis, They were present at the fire, and at the funeral one drove the hearse, and another was pall-bear-William Gilchrist, of Philadelphia, was Swarded the SI,OOO prize offered.by the Cincinnati Musical Festival Association for the best original composition for orchestra. The judges were Carl Reincke, of Germany; M. St. Ssens, of France, and Mr; Theodore Thomas, all well-known musicians. The catastrophe at Shanesville, 0., on New Year’s Eve, where the eutire floor of the Town Hall caved in, was much worse than at first reported. Two persons were killed on the spot, five fatally injured, and some twenty persons .’received injuries more or less sevehe. • / *

Three German burglars, who came as cabin passengers to New York from Europe, were arrested on their arrival Tuesday. They are charged with burglarly and larcency of 24,000 marks (about $6,000). One-quarter of the amount was found on their persons and in their baggage. - , • On the Boston and Maine Railroad, near Kennebunk, Me., Monday, as train drawn by two locomotives had partially crossed an iron bridge, when it broke down, throwing the four last cars down an embankment, where they took fire and were destroyed. One man was killed, one fatally and about twenty severely injured. A mysterious Washington special to the Louisville Courier-Journal says: Vlt may be accepted as abertainty that Brady will not, under the present administration, as he waa under the one previous, be furnished wnh transcript Of all the papers prepared, and a history of all the steps taken by those supposed to be at work in the alleged prosecution of the star-route thieves. There is yet good? reasbit 1 for believing that something will be accomplished in the court against the star-route swindlers. Dutch potatoes from Holland are being largely imported into New York. A bag of these esculents worth $3.59, weighs 155 pounds, and is about equal to the ordinary barrel of two&nd a half bushels. They have been imported into New York for some years, but this year more largely than ever. Holland has a reputation for the unequaled quality of her potatoes. She is as famous in this as in the cultivation of the tulip, the hyacinth aud crocus. It is said that many attempts have been made to cultivate a similar grade of s)otatoes on Long Island, as it was beieved the sea air would favor them; but nothing has been obtained that equals the product of the sandy soil of Holland and its painstaking, industrious gardners. The Dutch potatoes, it is said, retain their soundness far into the'summer months. . 3 \

' 1 Foreign, Mile Sara Bernhardt receives SIOO,000 for her St. Petersburg engagement. A Tangier dispatch states that the French troops are fighting frontier tribes. At Roscommon the officers of the Ladies’ Land League have been arrested. . *, The Emperor of Germany has cejtej brated the 75th anniversary of his admission to the army. The Czar has subscribed 100,000 roubles (about $80,000) to the sufferers by the recent riots in Warsaw. Arzate, a robber chief, with thirty of his band, were captured near Chihuaf hua, Mexico, and promptly executed. Iroquois and Foxhall, the famous American racers, will, it is said, be matched for a race early (next season at Newmarket. The Irish police .have discovered a quantity of rifles and ammunition in the basement of a Protestant church, in the County Clare. Captain Cheyne, of the British Navy, is trying to enthuse Canadians with his project of making a trip to the North Pole in a balloon. —A

A branch of the Irish Property Defense Association has been formed of merchants and land owners in the city and county of Dublin. The Khedive of Egypt has forwarded S4OO to the fund for the erection of a Garfield hospital at Washington, and promises to send SI,OOO more. Seventeen hundred persons, mostly young men, were arrested in Warsaw by the Russian authorities in connection with the recent riots there. Bismarck is reported to have submitted to the powers a proposal for a congress to consider the resestalishnient of the Pope’s responsibility. 'The anti-Socialist law of Germany' has, in three years, been the means of diasolving 225 Socialiat societie@,„ and of suppressing 758 of their publications. In seizing the property of the Pullman Crir Company, the Canadian customs officials own they have “found a mare’s nest.” Tire prosecution has been abandoned. The two Croghan sisters were murdered near Mullingar, Ireland, because they were suspected of giving information to the police. The assassin has not yet been arrested.

O’Brien, the editor of United Ireland, the Land League organ, will, it is said, be released from jail on. account of falling health, provided he will promise to leave tfie-cbuhtry. <7 Mr. Henry Gladstone, son of the British Premier, who has been travelipg in Ireland, states that the repressive measures of the government are proving successful, j\ ~ ABt. Petersburg dispatch says that the government has recently discov-

ered a custom house steal at Tagarzog, Involving millions of rubles. All the officials have been arrested. A Berlin journal faTauthority for the statement that Borne servants of the Portuguese royal household have been dismissed for complicity in an allleged plot to poison the king, Dom Luis I. A brace of polygamous missionaries from Utah were roughly handled by a London mob, while attempting to hold a religious (?) service, and were obliged to seek refuge in a police station. The Rt Hon. W. E. Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, told the English Liberals who asked the liberation of the imprisoned Land Leaguers that the present condition of Deland would not justify such clemency. The Socialists at the New York convention, among other small reforms, wanj to abolish the offices of President" and Vice President of the United States and substitute a Federal Council, to be elected by the House of Representatives. The “Grand Society of Railways” of Russia is to be declared insolvent. On the St, Nicholas Line the sum of 25,000,000 .roubles of government money has been misappropriated. The government proposes to assume the control of the roads of the society,

THE STATE.

Michael Hennesy, intoxicated, wg shredded by a train near Perry viUe the other day. While William Reprogle, a young farmer living near Hagerstown, was driving a nail, it broke, and a flying fragment struck him in the eye, entirely destroying it.

Mrs. Jennie Ogden was laboring under a fit to temporary insanity when she left her home, in Jeffersonville, the other day. She has returned now, and is in a fair way of recovery. A small boy named Jones, while fool Ing with a revolver at Muncie. fired it off, the ball striking a boy standing nearby the name of Sulivan, in the face, making a fearful flesh wound, The building occupied by John C. Hiatt, drug store and Masonic lodge, at Monrovia, were burned Thursday morning. It is supposed to be the work Of an incendiary. Insurance, $1,300. Frank Briggs, aged thirty-three, employed on the farm of William Clary, three miles from Wabash, attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a corn knife. He will not recover. James Lyons, of Rushville, died of typhoid fever on the same day and at the same hour that he was to hayebeen married to Miss Rachel Seward, who was at his bedside almost constantly for foiir weeks. Wiliam Bloom hart, of Rush Creek, while chopping struck the ax into his knee, splitting the knee cap, and Ira Pruitt made a mistake and fell down stairs, , dislocating his shoulder and breaking his collar bone. The regularly located preachers of Indianapolis, finding that the revival meetings of the Rev. Mr. Harrison (the boy preacher) are weakening their congregations, have withdrawn their support from him. Methodist circles are excited over the matter.,

There was rather a singular wedding in the court house at Booneville yesterday. Among divorces granted was one to David Gentry and one to Mary Crow, both from the country. Within fifteen miutes after their marital bonds had been served the couple met in the corridor of, the court-house and were married by a justice of the peace. The grajiad jury has returned an indict ment against John J. McCourt, ex-po-liceman, of Evansville,for conspiracy to defraud an insurance company out of $16,000, in connection with Julius A. Coleman, Charles Lucas, Jessie Upfleld, and others. McCourt was on the police force and was suspected of beingparticeps criminis in the conspiracy. He has been arrested at Brownsville, Tenn.

The store of Mrs. L. Hair at New Albany, a hair-dressing establishment, was entered the other night by a burglar, who used a false key, and the drawer was relieved of S2OB. Mrs. Hair found a note in the room left by the burglar, but foolishly destroyed it. The money consisted of a one hundred dollar bill, three twenty dollar bills and notes of smaller denominations. Ne clew to the thieves. The Statisticaljßureau has completed a table showing the different vocations of women and the number engaged therein as returned by the various Township Trustees of the State. Women are engaged in fifty-two vocations, among which are the following: Apiarists, 37; authoresses and newspaper correspondents, 16; bar tenders, as an occupation, 52; boarding-house proprietors, 533; book agents, as an occupation, 107; farmers, 2,253; clerks, as an occupation, 522; physicians, 98; printers, as a trade. Si; preachers, 126; bookbinders, 27; basket-makers, 20; anil many other vocations where womeahavenot heretofcr& Leen known professionally. John McCelland, of Jeffersonville filled three pop bottles with powder, attaching fuses and set fire t»4jie fuses in his back yard. The thing would not go off as he expected. QHe concluded tohave another trial. He removed the bottles to his kitchen, placing them on the table. Soon afterward MfS. McClelland attempted to remove the lamp cnimney to light the fuse of a fire cracker, when the lamp exploded, setting fire to the fuses of the bottle, and a terrific expidsion occurred. Mrs. McClelland was frightfully burned by the coal-oil setting fire to her cothing, and will probably die. Mr. McClellan was burned in several places, and one fragment of glass from the exploded bottles was so deeply imbedded in his flesh that the surgeons could not remove it. A littlegirl named Barry, aged thirteen years was badly hurt, a piece of glass entering her side. She can not recover.

JOCOSITIES.

A Northampton (Mass.) man boasts that he has attended Church for sist 1 years at an aggregate expense of $1 Heavens! Does he take “the beyond’ for a dollar store? “No no,’’ she said, “Charles can never be anything to me more. He has come outiu last season’s overcoat; and oh ! ma, if it only matched mv new dress, I wouldn’t care so much; but it doesn’t and we have parted. A Bishop’s wife was telling the story of Jonah to her child the other day. “Such a big fish swallowed him, my dear.such a big fish—it might have even swallowed your dear papa” The child was eating grapes, aud was of an Inductive mind—“ And would he spit out the skin, mamma?” When Anna Dickinson, as Hamlet, stoops to pluck a posy . from the grave of Ophelia, and her" back suspender buttons snap off, it would be worth the price of admission to see her grab the waistband of her trousers with one hand and ram the fingers of her other hand Into her mouth in search of pins. “But I pass,” said a minister, recently, in dismissing one theme of his subject to take up another. “Then I make it spades,” yelled a man from the (gallery, who *was dreaming the happy hours away in and imaginary game of euchre. It is needless to say that he went out on the next deal, assisted by one of the deacons. Job Shuttle has abandoned going to the Theater altogether. When he wants au evening’s enjoyment he hangs his wife’s new “Rembrandt” beaver hat on the gas bracket, sits behind it and looks at it intently. He gets just as much satisfaction as he would by going to the Theater, and saves the price of a ticket. A lover who had gone West, to make a fortune for his “birdie,” wrote to her: “I’ve got the finest quarter section of land (one hundred and sixty acres) 1 ever put my foot down on.” Birdie wrote back: “Supposeyou buy another quarter section, John, so w® can have a lawn around your foot.” John “made a home,” but Birdie never was mistress of it. A man who saw another reach for his hip pocket, thought the follow meant to draw a revolver on him and so shot him dead. Then he found that the man was about to draw a flask to treat him, and he much reerretted his hasty act. But he remarked that the last Wishes of the deceased should be carried out, and took a drink from the flask. Such a touching example bt respect for the last wishes of the dead, says the Boston Post, is seldom seen.

Fashion Notes.

New York Evening Post. Muffs match the bonnets. Fur gauntlets are worn again. Shirring is out of favor # , Polonaises much bunched up are parts of new costumes. Sleeves slightly gathered into the arm hole are more stylish than those made with puffs. A new fringe of chenille is called sealskin fringe from its resemblance to that fur. Feathers are again worn in the hair with full evening dress—matrons wearing them to the exclusion of floral garniture. Beading is still carried to an extent that is really absurd/ From the sole of the foot to the crown of the head we are literally covered with beads. All the woolen dresses are simply made, theleadirigcolors being Vandyok brown, Venetian green, mahogany red and royal blue, the latter being an especial favorite. A new color is announced called “Pharaoh”; it is a yellowish shade cf red and is said to derive its cognomen from the brick-making propensities of the ancient King of Egypt. Medium-length bodices seem to be going out of fashion, for if not extravagantly long the basque, so-called, hardly deserves the name, as it is but a waist pointed in front and very much cut up over the hips. Width of skirt and fullness of drapery are now considered quite as essential to the stylish toilets of young misses as to their mammas. The long, dinging princesse dress is almost abolished, and in itsplace are dressy robes coveredwith puffings, shirrings, tunics, frills, revers, - and immense sashes.

The Fontaine Locomotive.

New York Times. Standing in a “stall” in the roundhouse of the Pennsylvania railroad, in Jersey City, is an odd-looking locomotive bearing the name dt “Fontaine.” The engine is constructed for speed, and, although it has not ‘yet made its trial trip, it Is expected that it will run at the rate of ninety miles an «hour. The machinery, instead of being below the medium fine or the boiler, is almost entirely above it. There are three pairs of driving wheels, but only two rest on the tails. The third pair are on top of the boiler, directly in front of the cab. These wheels are termed the “main drivers.” and the power is communicated to them from the cylinders. The whole affair weighs 38 tons. Bomb engines weigh 50 tons. The cylinders am 17 by 24 inches in dimensions. Tpe amount of steam carried when running 49 130 pounds. The passenger engines bn most' failroads carry :14(| pounds. The only striking feature of the “Fontaine” to tbe eye is tbe general appearance. The presence of th|e extra pair of wheels on top of the bpilj >1 has won for it the names “earn'd’) and “grasshopper.” While the eng m 1 looks strange in comparison with ethers il does not appear ill-proportioned It is gay in paint and embellishn ents, and the smooth brass and iron ] tarts are brightly polished. The engine was invented by Eugene Fontaine, a Frenchman, formerly a locomotive engineer, whose home is in Detroit, Mich. It is the second one bujilt| and was completed about » month ago. It was constructed at thr Grant Locomotive works. In Patierstn. engine is now run: In j on the Canada Southern Railroad, In May last it drew two coaches from Amheratburg to St. Thomas, a distance of 111 miles, In 98 minutes. The entire run from, Amberetburgto Buffalo, 255 mPejs, was made in 235 minutes, including stop 3 for coal and water. fcp , While a reporter of the Times was inspecting the engine in the roundhouse in Jersey City, yesterday after-

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noon, a well-dressed, pleasant-faced man, who stood a short distance away smoking, was pointed out as the engineer. The reporter learned that his name was Lorenzo H. Clapp, and that he was formerly an engineer on the Canada Southern. He said he would be glad to explain the peculiarities and merits of the engine, and told the reporter how the machinery was constructed and how it operated. He said the locomotive had been drawing a work train on the Erie Railway for the week past. It was set at bard work to take the rough edges off the machine ry. Engineer Clapp spoke of the engine as No. 2, and the one on the Canada Southern as No. 1. He thought No. 2 superior to the other in some respects. He let it out two or three times on the road, and attained a speed of seventy-five miles an hour. The reporter asked how It behaved. “It ran like a bird and rode like a parlor car,” replied Engineer Clapp, with enthusiasm. “I want to tell you,” he added, “that I can go faster on No. 2 than any man in the world.” “Isn’t the daDger increased by running fast?” “I doEPt think it is. The engine hugs the rail and is as steady as a clock.” The reporter learned from Mr. Fontaine that the trial trip would be made in a very few days. No, 2, if the expectations of the inventor are realized will run Detween Jersey City and Philadelphia. The use of the engine for a year or so will be given to the railroad company. The cost of the Fontaine engines will riot be much more than that ot the common style.

Two Girls Save Seven Lives.

Montreal (Canada) Witness. ; On Friday evening seven young men, who live several miles down tbe Ottawa river, started to skate to Gatineau Point for the purpose of attending a special service, which was being held in the church at that plaee, for young men. When they arrived opposite Kettle Bland they happened to strike a piece of bad ice, and tive of the party fell through. The other two did the best they could to rescue their , comrades, but, after they had got several of them oiit, The ice on which they were standing gave way, and they 1 themselves got into the water. Two Misses O’Neil, daughters of Super-

intendent O’Neil, of the Dominion Police, witnessed the aooident from their house on Kettle Island, and witji Seat presence of mind these two young lies ran lor their father’s boat, which they pushed across the Ice until they came to the brokeu spot, when they launched it and succeeded in rescuing the young men who were in the water. They were not a moment too soon, for ope of the young men was utterly exhausted, and was taken out pf the water senseless.

The Cause of the Excellence of Our Trotters.

London Field. The excellence of trotters descended from Messenger, to sire to whom almost all the American trotters trace their pedigree,' is sometimes, attributed to tbe fact that this famous sire bad iu him a stroug cross of Barb, as distinguished from Arab blood. The D irley Arabian and the Godolphin Arabian—whose blood appears in all the best, English racehorses of the laStcentpry —were in reality Barbs, and no Arabians; they came from Barbary and Africa, and not from Arabia and Asia. Bai bary is rough, stoney, hilly, inter-, sected with ravines, and covered la, many places with prickly bushes. 1 The districts of Asia in which the purest Arab horses are bred present, on the other hand, flat or slightly undulating surfaces, with scanty vegetation, while for the most part they are carpeted with thick layers of sand. In Africa the horse, being unable to gallop with safety, accustomed himselX to a trot, as being the safest and easiest way under the circumstances, and tie adoption of this action forces him to bend the knee and to develope the muscles which are thus brought into play. In other words, Barb horses trot, while Abrabiau horses gollop, because nature imposes upon each the necessity of adapting their action to the ground in the midst of which they are severally torn. The Presbyterian Bynod, composed of delegates from presbyteries in the adjoining parts ol Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, admitted a negro for several years, hut in-tbe present session the question of excluding him was , raised, And a majority votea to turn him oat. This action was based solely on his color. \