Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1882 — Page 3

THE STATE.

Frank ih Connersville for ntjallnifniniwii. Blfnil'i inspiration. ' Rev. E. J. Scott is arranging to start a religious paper at Marion, under the direction of the society of friends. New Albany *cu>italists propose to start locomotive that city with $1,000,00<! capital. fTife <fit# giving them gribt Encouragement. * Mrs. Harvey Gaddis, of Frankfort, in stepping out on the back porch, slipped and fell.to the floor, fracturing the left thigh bone neat the hip. Charles J. Gregory, who shot ah unruly pupil in his school, some two weeks ago, has been bound over to the Shelby circuit court, at ShelbyviHe. August Bloom, of Aurbra, while drunk, attacked the wife of his brother Alfred. Ttys latter struck idm on the head, from which cause an d whisky he died. f y The school house at Oswego, Kosciusko county, was burned on Wednesday. Some of the scholars who had recently been cupelled frqm eciiooj are supposed to have Set it on lire. The bo&td of comniissioners of Madison county have ordered the erection of a new court house, thp cost of which shall not exceed $150,000, and G. W. Bunting, of TntlianApolls, has been chosen as architect. While John Binge and Jim Blake, of Warsaw, were engaged in a friendly tussle, Binge was thrown upon a broken-backed chair, one of the posts of which entered his body near the groin, injured him very seriously. The safe at the depot, at Worthington, was blown open, by burglars, last Thursday night, arid about $7 in small change taken-; The safe is a total ( wreck. The tickets were strewn promiscuously over jhe room, but none of them were taken.' Robert J. Malaby, who lived a short distance in the country horn Kokomo, had not been seen for several days, and when his house was entered he wafe found dead* upon the floor, apparently having fallen from a chair which lay tilteaover by his side. He is supposed to have died from natural causes. < Joseph Talmier, a young man of Mishawaka, wak accidentally shot on New Year’s eve, the ball entering the skull an inch and a half above the left eye. Apieqeof the skull, more than an inch square, was removed andnearly a spoonful of brain and part of the ball taken out. He has a chance of recovery. . » A man entered a drug store at Madison and cleansed his coat .collar with benzine. After saturating the cloth and obliterating a grease spot, he went to the cigar case, got a cigar, and in attempting to light jt the benzine ignited and a blue Blaze enveloped his chin and face, but did little damage. . Wednesday, Mrs. Bennett, an old lady aged seventynscven years, who has been living with her daughter, Mrs. G. Asher,on the Haw-patch near Ligonier, was burned to death while sitting in her chair. She had been smoking, and it is supposed that a spark of fire fell from her pipe into her lap, lighting her clothing. The other night Mrs. Rothenberger, with her two children thinly Clad, came to the County jail at Anderson and begged to be allowed to remain over night, stating that she was on her way to heaven and was tired out. Her husband is one of the Heading school teachers of Madison county and a worthy citizen of New Columbus. Mrs. Rothenberger is insane on the subject of religion. - TheVineinnes Sun, the first [paper published in the territory now comprised within the states of Indiana, THinoise, Michigan and Wisconsin, has just moved into its new and commodious quarters. It was established as the Indiana Gazette, July 4, 1804, and published under that name for three years, when it was burned out, and * soon after resuscitated under its present name. It has had many vicissitudes and owners, but never was more vigorous and prospers than at present. Over $4,000 in bogus notes against Fountain county farmers have been negotiated in Attica and Covington. The amount of school revenues ap, portioned to the State Normal school and counties of the State this year is $864,844, or $1.20 per capita for each child enumerated. hj > Harrison, the misnamed “Boy Preacher” revivalast, is at work again in Robert’s Park church Indianapolis, and his labors are quite as successful as they were last winter. It is said the Directors of the Franklin Life Insrance Company, of Indianpolis, are taking the preliminary steps to wincj up their business. They say the mortality for the past year has been unusually heavy, policies to the amount of $30,000 in excess of the natural and anticipated death-rate having become due. The Secretary says the company is entirely sound; that it does not owe a dollar beyond one or two policies not yet due. AttorneyJGeneral Baldwin has given an opinion that a license to retail liquors begins from the moment it is granted by the Board of County Commissioners, and not from the tube it is issued by the County Auditor. Also, in response to an inquiry, he submitted the following reply: MThe liquor license fee exacted by incorporated towns is paid into the town treasury, to be used for general purpeses. The fines collected for violations of. the ordinances of such towns are likewise paid into the town treasury for a similar purpose.” The state board of health has extend-

'ed the time for the vaccination of school children until January 30, as insufficient notice had been given in some parts of the state where local health boards had not' been organized. A circular to the local boards from the state board requires that school superintendents shall be given notice in writing of the necessity for vaccination. In case of the refusal of pupils, the superintendents shall make due report to the local shall thereupon serve proper notice upon delinquent pupils or parents, and then, in the event of continued refusal, proceed to prosecution. Dr. Stevens, secretary of the state board, thinks it would be well for cities and counties to map out districts and assign physicians thereto, for'vaccination work and pay them out of the public treasury. A case testing the question as to the jurisdiction of justice of the peace to try certain cases, w%s decided by the Supreme Court, Tuesday. It was supposed the legislature had, at its last sitting, taken these case out of the justices’ jurisdiction. The court holds, Judge Worden delivering the opinion, that justices have jurisdiction in all cases where a fine is the only punishment that must be inflicted, though imprisonment in the county jail might, but need not necessarily, be imposed ; that - j ustices have no j urisdiction in cases where both fine ment must be assessed in p/nishment. This decision is on a case of malicious trespass, and the justice I had jurisdiction. The decision gives justices of the peace jurisdiction in cases ofassault and battery, malicious trespass, etc. Justices are now, in respect to jurisdiction, placed back in the same position tfiey were under the old law and have jurisdiction in accordance with the opinion of Miller'against the State and other cases heretofore rendered under the old statute.

Hemp Stretchers.

Jersey City, N. J„ January 6. Martin Kaukowsky was executed in Hudson County Jail shortly after 10 -a. m., for the murder of Rina Miller, in the woods near Guttenberg, in May last. When Kankowsky awoke this morning he said to Keeper Liddell, “It is my last morning,” and at once got up aad dressed. He partook of a light breakfast, and soon after the Sheriff entered the cell of the doomed man and read the death warrant, after which Kankowsky’s arms were pinioned and the noose adjusted. At 10:16 o’clock the trigger was sprung, and Kankowsky jerked about eight feet into the air, breaking his neck instantly. He made a single convulsive movement, and all was over. New Orleans. La., January 6. Terrence OchiHe and Sterling Ben, both colored, were hanged at Franklin, St. Mary’s parish, at noon to-day, for the murder and robbery of an old man named Larmund, who had $5,000 on his person at the time the crime was committed. Ochille, Ben and two brothers named Beasley, were convicted of the crime, but the Beasleys were sent to the penitentiary for life, Ochille and Ben made strong appeals to Governor McEnery, but he refused to interfere. They marched to the scaffold firmly and met their fate without flinching. There was a drop of five feet. They died with very little struggling. Elmira, January 6. The execution of Joseph Abbott, convicted of killing George Reed, a fellow-prisoner, in the New York State Prison, in this city, in April, 1880, occurred to-day. Abbott arose at 6 o’clock and partookjof a hearty breakfast and conversed cheerfully with his attendants and friends up to the time of execution. The rope was cut by the Sheriff at fifteen minutes past 11, and the prisoner jerked about four feet into the air. His neck was broken and he struggled for; about five minutes after the drop fell.

Marshall, Mo., January 6. John A. Phelps was hanged here at noon to-day for the murder of Elijah Keyton. Phelps worked for Key ton, and with the latter’s nephew devised to killed and rob the old man. Phelps hid behind a fence, waylaid Keyton, beat his brains out and rifled his pockets of $175. It is said he cared no more for killing Keyton than for killing a cat. Phelps slept only three hours last night, but ate a good breakfast this morning. He lately became converted and was baptised, and on the gallows expressed the belief that he would go to heaven. The gallows were erected in King’s pasture, a mile from town, and though a stormy day of rain and sleet, a crowd of several thousand stood' in the storm to witness the hanging. St. Louis, January 5. Two murderers, Joseph Michael Kotovsky and Charles Ellis, the latter colored, were executed in the jail this morning. Both men retired to bed early last night. Ellis slept until nearly 5 o’clock, but Kotovsky arose at 3 a. m. They partook of a. light breakfest,'and then conversed with Barber and Ward, who are to hang next Friday. Devotional exercises, were then resumed until the reading of the death warrent, which took place in jail. When asked if they had anything to say, both replied nothing. The noose was then aejusted, and exactly at five minutes to 9 both murderers were flung nto eternity. Ellis’ neck wis

broken, but Kotovaky slowly strangled. z * t;The erime for 'which Kotovsky was executed was the murder of a young girl named Augusta Simms, on October 10,1878. She had been his sweetheart, but had jilted him. „ J Charles Ellis shot and killed Mack Sanders, a colored roustabout, on May 9,1880.

Selling Out a Menagerie.

New York Sun. Bolivar was a very sad elephant yesterday as he stood under the larse tent At Van’Am burgh & Co.’s wiuterquarters at Amenia. He glanced wistfully from the double-horned rhinoceros to jl. R. Thompson, who stood upon a high circus wagon proclaiming Bolivar’s virtues. Bolivar was sad because he was about to be parted from his friend, the rhinoceros, who himself was much depressed. The Burmese cow was eyeing enviously the doublehumped Bactrian camel, called by children and poets “the ship of the desert.” Two dromedaires “which,” said a keeper in an explanatory tone, “they has but one hump, whereas most folks think they has two,” were hanging their heads in decorous silenoe. The hyena laughed his mocking, sardonic laugh at the oryx and the hartebeest. and even went so far as to ridicule the Hay animal Bolivar has been for mafly years the five-ton pet of Van Amburg& Co. They never never punished him when he strolled from his stall to the candy stand and consumed its contents in the absence of the guileless vender. They merely called out, “Johnson is coming,” and then Bolivar hurried back to his stall. Johnson had been Bolivar’s keeper, and his insinuating manners have given him great influence over this child of India. These five tons of elephantine matter were greatly admired yesterday. Ad, Forepaugh and his son Addie with respect; Johnny Forepaugh, O’Brien’s agent, was lost in calculations, while W, W. Cole, striking an attitude in which he resembled Edwin Booth in Hamlet, muttered: “To buy or not to buy.” Jim Bailey, Dan Shelby, Doc Thayer, the ex-showman; W.W. Stewart, Doc Riley, Sam Booth Oscar Hyatt, W. C. Coup, Wiggins o Detroit, Lewis Sells, Kelch, Gayiard & Tryer, Hutchinson, Fuqua, Barnum’s horsemen; Martin, the Robbinses, and Furzman were there,while Hys ft Frost and O. J. Ferguson, who are Van Amburg & Co., pervaded the tent. “Bolivar,” said Mr. Thompson, from the wagon, “is the largest elephant in this country. The only elephant that is larger belongs to the Prince of Wales, and is at the London Zoo. Bolivar will dance a waltz, balance himself on a pedestal, and stand on two legs. What do you bld for Bolivar, gentlemen?” “Five thousand dollars,” sang out Jake Reed, Ad. Forepaugh’s buyer. Bailey went him one hundred better, and the bidding continued until Bolivar was knocked down to Forepaugh at $7,100. “The double-horned rhinoceros, gentlemen,” called out Mr. Thompson, “weighs 3,500 pounds. There’s none like him. What’s your bld gentlemen?” Again the bidding was between Forepaugh and Bailey, until the rhinoceros was knocked down to the former at $2,450. Most of thd other animals were also bought by Ad. Forepaugh, whose purchases aggregated $17,500. The bids on the Burmese cow and the zebra were so low that these were not sold; and they regarded the proceedings with contempt. The Gromedary brought $325, the Bactrian camel $325, and the hartebeest $260. Then some wagon cages and wardrobe wagons were put up. A large number of horses were sold to farmers from the neighborhood! The prices varied from SBO to $257.

All the animals excent the oryx were left op the ground. * The shades of night had fallen when two men emerged from the depot bearing a wooden slat box. A horn moved violently to and fro between two of the slats and a leg was kicked lustily at the nearest carrier. A man who walked alongside was poking his umbrella into the box. and stirring it around as one stirs a soup ladle. “Is that the oryx?” asked Cole. And again he received an affirmative answer, he again struck a Hamlet attitude and muttered: “Alas, noor Oiyx!” □ ,r Van AmburghA Co.say that they are not selling because they intend to retire, though the contrary opinion was expressed by several showmen. Van Amburgh’s name has been on the show bills for sixty-one years. New Zeland is constantly taking more and more of our canned things.

THE MARKETS.

. </■ CHICAGO. . / Opening. Hlgh’t. JiOw’t. Cloa’g Wheat, Feb. 1129% 8128% 8128% JI 29% Cbra. 62% 62% , 62% 62% Oats, “ . 44% 44%/ 44% 44% new york/ \ Flour-Steady and In buyers’ favor: round hoop Ohio, 55 20@6 fc: choice, 86 80 @8 25: superfine western, s4@4 75; common to good extra, »5 00@6t>0; choice 86 10*4 9; white wheat 87 25<®825. ® Wheat—About %@%c lower and fairly active speculative trading; No. 2 red cash Si 43%; seller February. 81 4&%@1 45%; seller Marcl, seller May, i149%@ Corn—%@%c lower and more doing; mixed Western, spot, 63@71»; lutures, «9%(a 74%c. Oats—A shade easier; INestern, 49&54C - A? 611 ?*;, seller February; seller May, bOo. Beef—Steady aud qtllet; mess new extra, sl2 00* an ? new mess, 817 7o; old do, spot, 816 75. T Lari>—Opened strong and afterwards became easier; steam rendered, 81130. , ; | BALTIMORE. Flour—Unchanged but easy. Western Wheat—Western quiet find dull; No 2 winter red, 5p0t,.1140%@l 4tf%; seller January, 8140@@l 40%: seller February, 8142%<a seller March, 1 44%@1 45; seller April,- 81 46% @1 46%. I. Corn—Western steady and dull; mixed spot, 68@68%c; seller February? 09&@69%p----seller March, selleJ- ' tfay, 76c asked. OATfil-Firm; Western white, 51@52c: mixed 49@50c; Fennsy Ivan la, 49@52<; Kye—Nominal at 95c@-l 00, Hay—Active and firm at 820@25. TOLEDO. Wheat— Dull; No. 2 Red, cash. 8189; gelFebiuary, SI 40; seller JAtc i,Bl 41% : ‘sehe r May, 81 44%. 74 ’ Corn—Dull; No. 2 cash, seller January? 65e; seller February, 65%c seller .May, Oats—Neglected; No. 2 cash, 46c. Cwyer 81 p rhne, 1512; seller February 8o 17%. ’

HELP IN THE KITCHEN.

i Experiences of a Lady of Laramie With a Few of Her Domestics. Boomerang. desire to advertise for a girt to do ral housework.” said a Laramie to the butioees man of the Boomg yesterday. ( I have had some r trouble and annoyance during the year, and would like, it I could, tO get a good girl who ditiers in many respects from those I have been wrestling with. Last fall I heard of a good girr who was working for a neighbor of mine, and went to work systematically to get her. Tfound out afterward that it was a put-up job on me, and that the neighbor wanted me to get the girl more out of revenge than anything else. The girl’s, name was Cleopatra. She wanted $27 per month,and the use of the piano. I was so sure that she was a good girl that I engaged her on that layout. Cleopatra had so m*ny lovers that we had to move the sofa into the kitchen on Sundays, and my husband and myself sat around on the floor, while Cleopatra wooed the festive mule-puncher. We wanted to throw all the home influences we could around Cleopatra, so that she would feel perfectly cheerful, arid like one of the family. She used to wear my dresses, when I was away, but when I asked her to let me wear her wardrobe she seemed hurt, and her whole system was churned up with convulsive sobs. By-and-bye my dresses got kind of shabby, as the result of continuous wear by Cleopatra and myself, and so she got discontented,and went away. Then I got a nice girl from Nebraska; but just as she had learnd to make a pie that would yield to the softening influences of time, she married a man? from Bitter creek, who was so cross-eyed that. When he wept, the scalding tears would roll flown tho back of his neck. I then secured a girl from the old country. She couldn’t speak the English language fluently, and so we didn’t have a very sociable time of it. When I would tell her to wash the dishes, she would generally black ’ the stove or bring in a scuttle ol coal. I used to pour out my soul to her sometimes, and ask her to confide in me, but she had a far-way look, like a man who cannot pay his board bill. One day at dinner I asked her to bringin the desert, but she didn’t grasp my meaning, and through some oversight brought in the dishrag on a tray. She used to wash the children’s faces with the stove rag, and brush their hair with the shoe brush, and in that way soon Won their esteem and regard. One day, while v e were at table, shq brought in the soup, and in an ungarded moment stuck about seven inches of her thumb in the hot soup, in order to get a more secure grip on the tureen. In the first impulse of coy and maidenly surprise she thoughtlessly dropped the tureen and soup in my husband’s lap. My husband is a shy and rather reticent man, but he rose with a graceful movement to his full height, and killed her with the carving knife, and kicked her gory remains under the table. After the inquest I got a hollow-eyed girl from Fort Collins. She was an orphan with pale hair that she used to work up in the hash. She was proud and impulsive in her nature.and ate everything in the house. We used to hear her in the middle of the night foraging around after cold pie and fragments of rich and expensive grub. She had a singular yearning for jam and an impassioned longing for preserves that we never succeeded in quenching. When the jelly and fruit cake gave out she would sadly turn her attention to cold ham and mustard,with the smouldering ruins of baked beans, and cold cabbage and vinegar. We stood it until groceries came up so, and apples got to be seven dollars and a half a barrel, and then we asked her to send in her resignation. Shortly after that my husband made an assignment. What I would like now is a good girl, not so much as a companion and confidential promoter of financial ruin, bat more to wrestle with-manuel labor in the kitchen at so much per .wrestle and board. lam not difficult to please, but I don’t want to pay the saihe salary that a cashier in/a bank gets, just for the sake of having.a pampered menial in the house who dosen’t do enough work to drive away her ennui.”

Strategy vs. Strength.

Harper’s. ‘ The sand-hornet is the greatest vil-lain-that flies on insect wings, and he is built for a professional murderer. He carries two keen cimeters besides a deadly-poisoned poniard, and is armed throughout with an invulnerable coat of mail. He has things all his own way; he lives a life of tyranny and feeds on blood. There are few birds—none that I know of—that care to swallow such a red-hot morseL It is said that not even the butcher-bird hankers after him. The toad will not touch him,seeming to know by instinct what sort of Z chain-lightning he contains. Among insects this hornet is the harpy eagle, and nearly all of them are at his mercy. Even the cicada, or drum-ming.barvest-fly, an insect often larger and heavier than himself, is his very common victim. Considering these characteristics, it was of special interest to witness such an incident as I have here pictured, where one of these huge tyrants was actually captured and overpowered by the strategy of three black ants. I had left the meadow, and was ascending a spur of the mountain by the edge of a pine wood, when suddenly I espied the hornet in question almost at my feet. He immediately took to wing, and as be fleW on ahead of me I observed a long pendent object dangling from his body. The incumbrance proved too great fu obstacle for continuous flkht. and he soon dropped again upon the path, a rod or so in advance of me. I overtook him, and on close inspection discovered a plucky black aht clutching tightly with its teeth upon the hind foot of its captive, while with its two hind legs It clung desperately to a long cluster of pine needles which it carried as a dead-weight. No sooner did the hornet touch the ground than the ant began to tug and yell for help. There were certaitily evidences to* warrant such a belief, for a second ant immediately appeared upon the scene, emerging hurriedly from a neighboring thicket of pine-tree moss. He was too late, however, for the hornet again i sought escape in flight. But this attempt was even more futile' than the I

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WONDERFUL SUCCESS OF OUR GREAT REDUCTION SALE OE Over-Goats i! I,IOS Remaining unsold and which must positively be sold out by Jan. 25th. PRICE NO OBJECT. Underwear - Merino Shirts & Drawers 25c. AlLWool Scarlet, 66 “ $1.05 They are worth double the money. FZZx’a.VLS Bros. THE FAMOUS CLOTHIERS AND HATTERS __l-OGANSPOBT, IND. $20,000 WORTH! Diamonds,Watch.©s, Jewelry, Silverware Spectacles, Oloclss «2s Musical Instruxn’nts to be sold before January Ist, 1882. The Greatest BAB.GAXBTS ever offered in this market. 20 to 25 per oent. below regular nrlce H. C. EVERSOLE, Jeweler, Iwog-ansport, Zxxd_ 424'Broadway, opposite Pearl Street.

formed for the plucky little assailant had now laid hold of another imped* iment, and this time not only the long pine needles, but a small branched stick also, went swinging through the air. Only a yard or so was covered in this flight, and as the ant still yelled for re-enforcements, its companion again appeared, and rushed upon the common foe with such furious zeal that I felt like patting him on the back. The whole slgrftflcance of the scene be had taken in at a glance, and in an instant he had taken a vise-like grip upon the other hind leg. Now came the final tug of war. The hornet tried to rise, but this second passenger was too much for him; be could only buzz along the ground, dragging his load after him, while his new assailant clutched desperately at everything within its reach, now a dried lea', now a.tfny stone, and even overturning an aCorn-teup in ltd grasp. Finally, a rough stick the size of a match was secured, and this proved the “last straw.” In vain were the struggles of escape. The hornet could do no more than lift his body from the ground. He rolled and kicked and tumbled, but to no purpose, except to make it very lively for his captors; and the thrusts of that lively dagger were wasted on the desert air, for weether or not those ants knew its searching pro* pensities, they certainly managed to kt ep clear of this busy extremity. How long this pell-mell battle would have lasted I knownot, for a third ant now appeared, And it was astonishing to see him; with every movement of the hornet, he in turn would lay hold of a third stick, and at the same time clutch upon those pine needlee to add their impediment to the burden of his own body. Practically, the ants had won the victory, but what they intended to do with the floundering elephant in their hands seemed a But it was to them only a question of patience. They had now pinned their victim securely, and held him ta» await assistance. it came. ' The entire neighborhood had been appraised of the battle, and in less than fivSLjyiinufes the ground swarnleawith an army of reenforcements. They came from all directions; thevpitched upon that hornet with terrible reroctty, and his complete destruction was now no only a question of moments.

A Story and a Moral.

Springfield Republican. A cnief-justice of a large State, sixty* two years old, with sixteen years of creditable Judicial service behind him and a fair prospect ofanother term before him, is in about assecure a position as American politics offer; and seven years ago this was the place I. P. Christiancy held when he consented to become a candidate of the coalition in the Michigan Legislature opposed to Zach. Chandler. The old man, Who bad lived for twenty years fn a little town in a quiet way, reading his diclslons once a week and presiding - over a still court, came into the Washington whirlpool to shamble unnoticed about tbe Senate chamber,to shout himself hoarse in a great hustle and to pass headachy days after long sessions of tho Senate. He aged astonishingly and the $5,000 a year, which bad looked big when he was getting $4,00i) as Chief Justice, slipped through his fingers like water. The old man, wonted to early hours and simple village manners, was unutterably bored by Washington society, and when a bright-eyed, white-throated young ran her fingers through his thin locks he married her. His years have been full of trouble ever since. To economize and to get back his mortgaged house he let Chandler have the seat in the Senate, Jud went to Peru. There he has lost is reputation as a public man. His divorce suit has riddled his private character. For months he has been a public mock. Now his room has been broken open and s tot of jewelry he had taken in trust stolen. As Solon, the Greek philosopher said, “Bet on no man’s luck until he is boxed.”

Examinations for State Licenses.

Indianapolis Journal. Hon J. M. Bloss, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, is engaged in/sending out circulars to the various teachers of the State, appointing the time and place for the annual examination fori State I''censes as provided by the Staie Board of Education. The requirements are not materially changed from last year, and the examinations ~ will be held June 20, at the places and by thepersona|designated. Indianapolis, Prof. H. 8. Tarbell: Evansville,: Prof. John Cboper; Fort .Wayne, Ptof. Jahn. K Irwin: Lafayette, President E.rljJ., White; Naw Albanv, President Lemuel Moss; Terre Haute, Prof. Geo. P. Brown.