Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1882 — Page 3

THE NEWS.

Guiteau, the assassin, was vaccinated Sunday. , - StD&ll-pox is decreastog- in Pittsburg and vicinity. 4 .' Scoville asserts j that : somebody is sending him small-pox through the mail.. - - _ A Boston wumau who died of starvation had 14.000 in bankyami money in Jie house. • • Archbishop Purcell, is not, as was supposed, at the point of death, but in remarkably good health. The Sultan of Turkey has sent to thi country for specimens of the most improved'agricultural implements. Lieutenant Danenhower, of the Jeannette search party, id suffering from his eyes, one of which is ruined. It is believed that the rapacity of white settlers will render a war with the Crow Indians of Montana a necessity. The Senate concurred in the House resolution fixing the 27th inst., as the day for holding the Garfield memorial service. At Decatur, 111., a woman who kept a house of ill-repute was sentenced to the county jail for four months and fined $1,900. It is believed that Scoville has practically abandoned Guiteau’s case, but that, whether or no, the court in banc will not change the verdict. Two Chicago saloonists were fined in justice courts Tuesday for selling liquor to drunkards. ? The Citizens’ League were the prosecutors. Heavy snow storms are reported throughout the Eastern States, which began Tuesday morning, and are blocking horse and steam railroads. Captain Eads believes that his ship canal scheme is not receiving fair treatment in Congress, the. trans-continen-tal railroads working against it. Guiteau’s body, according to the latest story, is to be dissected and the skeleton prepared and preserved at the Washington Medical Museum. In Shawano county, Wis., 2,200 acres of land were purchased upon which to locate a colony of forty families who have not yet left the old country. A number of ladies interested in tt e cause of temperance met in Chicago and passed a resolution favoring the establishment of an inebriate asylum for women. A great snow storm raged throughout the Eastern States and Canada Saturday, which in some plaees was said to be the severest known for several seasons. So far, but five bodies have been recovered from the Midlothian coal mine, Chesterfield county, Virginia. Collections are being made for the bereaved families.. At Louisville, Ky., a man named Owens was beating his wife, when her brother, Oyler, came to the rescue. Owens raised a club to him, but was fatally shot by Oyler. A coal company at Pittsburg, Pa., has sued a labor journal and the President of the Miners’ Association for $70,000 damages for injury to their business resulting from a strike. The physicians who attended the late Piesident Garfield have decided not to ask a stated sum for their services, but, stating what they did, leave the sum to the generosity of Congress. In 1881 there were f&2 deaths from smallpox in Chicago; 1,319 in Philadelphia; 454 in New York, and 444 in Pittsburg, which had the greatest mortality in proportion to population. Small-pox in Chicago kills, on an average, one person to every 125,000 of population, and a goodly proportion of the victims who die at the Chicago pest house are tramps from other towns. , ■-•••; . , „ The Grand Jury of Westchester county, New York, have found indictments against the officials of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, on account of the Spuyten Duvvil disaster. Mr. Hill introduced a bill into the House reducing postage on letters and sealed packages to 2 cents per half an ounce, 4 cents under two ounces, and 2 cents for ea3h additional 2 ounces. It was referred. A lady sued the Continental Passenger Railway Company, Philadelphia, for injuries sustained by falling in a crowded car in which she was obliged to stand, and received a verdict of $12,000 damages. * Governor Jerome has called an extra session of the Michigan Legislature for the 23d inst, to provide, among other things, for an appropriation for the sufferers by the great fire in Huron and Sanilac counties. A call has been issued for a convention to meet at Springfield, 111., for th purpose of appointing committees in each oounty or the State to report and prosecute the railroad corporations for violations of State laws. The Pullman palace car investigation by the Canadian customs authori ties at Montreal, tended to show, on the evidence of a former employe of the company, that carpets had been purchased for the cars in Canada and sent to the United States. The Secretary of the Navy has

j r t *• v ■? / ordered the r^v^rn *• *toV America of. Lieutenant Danenhower,' of the Jeannette fßarW«proti|it tfoh,'af§3 has sent two other- officers to continue the search for Lieutenant De Long and the Guiteatjjfijja acoyilje is a “cr&tok.” The prisoner believes he will live many years yet. He intends to have a new photograph taken for money-making purposes. His health is said to be bad, as<f ajail official said he did not think he would live long enough to be haogfd. • The Presbyterian Synod, composed of delegates from presbyteries in the adjoining parts of Tennessee, Alabama iind Mississippi, admitted a negro for several years,out in the present session the question of excluding him was raised, and a majority voteu to turn him out. This action was based solely on his colbr. A Philadelphian who builds refrigerator cars has made an offer to the family of Guiteaa, the assasin;' to exhibit Guiteau’s body, after death, in this country and Europe, .for the benefit of the family. He offers to spend $25,00<? in fixing the remains. Scoville thinks favorably of the proposal. The Pennsylvania Revenue Commission at Philadelphia has agreed to a report recommending taxing money at interest and personal property at 2 mills on the dollar, and that foreign corporations should be taxed upon the ratio of business done in the State, on the same basis as home institutions. Foreign > The Queen of Greece has another son. Her oldest, Prince Constantine, is 14 years old. The Queen’s speech at the opening of parliament will indicate a better condition of Irish affairs. France is purchsing a large number of repeating rifles from - the Austrian small-arms manufactory. Germany will not adopt an international bi-metallic standard without the concurrence of England. There have been more murders of Russian Jews, and the government is fearing a fresh outbreak. A 81. John, N; 8., dispatch announces the burning at sea bt the ship Roxellana, with the loss of several lives. The Hindoo pilgrims returning to their own cities from Allahabad, are carrying the cholera epidemic with them. The international billiard match in Paris was won by Slosson, with a total of 3,000 points. Vignaux’s total was 2,553. Vera Sassuliteb, the female Nihilist, is one of a committee forming in Switzerland, to relieve the victims of Russian tyranny. In tfce palace of the Czar wood will be used as fuel, because the rigicidal Nihilists are suspected of having fixed the coal with dynamite. A Madrid dispatch states that the Spanish pilgrims bound for Rome are largely composed of the adherents of the pretender Don Carlos. The corporation of London has subscribed £BOO to the fund in aid of the Russian Jews. The Rothschilds, of Paris and London, gave £5,000 each. Bernhardt, playing “Dame aux Camellias” at Genoa, fainted and expectorated blood, and tue audience cried "Enough,” and left the theater. Russia is accused, in spite of her assertions to the contrary, of having inspired the Herzgovinian trouble by the Pan-Slavic agitation in Bosnia and Herzgovina. The ill-feeling between the citizens of Limerick and the British troops creates much uneasiness. The soldiers are stoned by the rabble when walking the streets at night. Russian newspapers commenting on the English meeting in sympathy with the Jews, ask how England would like similar meetings in Russia expressing sympathy tor the Irish. English merchants are agitating for cheaper telegraphic facilities. The government controls the telegraphic system in Great Britain in conection with the Post-office Department. The Home Rule party in the House of Commons have re-elected Parnell tbeir Chuirman, and want to agitate Irish grievances in the Commons in reply to the speech from the throne. Mr. John Dillon; writing tojthe Rt. Hon. W. E. Forster, declines the offer of leaving Kilmainham jail for the Continent, and asks that the Secretary address him no more communications. The Pope does not approve of making political capital out of the Spanish pilgrimage, and has given instructions through the Spanish Minister at Rome that the clergy alone must manage it. A letter containing a damp powder, which became explosive when dry, was recently sent to Secretary Forster by some Irish patriots. Mr. Forster had left Dublin before the letter reached the castle.

So microscopically perfect is the watch-making machinery now in use, that screws are cut with nearly 600 threads to the inch—though the finest used in the watcn has 250. These threads are invisible to the naked eye, and intakes 144 000 of the screws to weigh a pound, their value being six pounds of pure gold, - '■ ■ ———— Oats grow on clay land make the best meal, keep longest and bring the highest price.

THE STATE.

A negro woman, said to be 115 years old, has been an inpaate of the Clark county asylum for 60 years. t Fred Faust, a small-pox patient at the Teijre Haute pest house, died Without medical attendance, all the doctors refusing to visit him. Mrs* Bruins, wife of an Otter Creek farmer, has fallen heir to an estate of five hundred acres in Pennsylvania, underlying which is a rich bed of anthracite coal. A widow near Shelby ville, aeed for-ty-three, induced her daughter to discard a lover aged twenty-three,and then “made up” to him herself* and will marry him. The celebrated hunting dog,Linclon, owned by Harry Bishop, of Tennessee, which had been at New Albany for treatment on account of a railroad accident, died. This dog cost $2,950 in England. William Newton, an old and wealthy citizen of Crawfordsville, died suddenly of congestion at the house of his divorced wife, in pursuance of a threat that if he could not live with her he would die witn her. Mrs. Daniel Huff,of Newport,Wayne county, imported smallpox from Chicago, but the disease was not recognized until her husband and physician contracted it. She was infected while visiting Tier brothers at Chicago. A straw-stack belonging to Warren Wolf, living near Norristown, Shelby county , was blown over a few nights ago,burying underneath it twenty head of fine hogs and a valuable Jersey cow all of whicn were smothered to death. Two years ago Charles Biel, of New Alabany, cut his right leg with a piece of glass. The wound healed nicely, but Saturday a piece of glass an inch long was cut from near the knee, havein g passed around the leg from near the ankle. Louis Peltier, of Fort fcWayne, was badly injured Monday night by walking out of a third story window, while asleep. He had had no,somnambulistic attack for several years, and evidently had risen and dressed himself before he stepped out. Unmistakable evidence has been discovered that David Smith, who was recently murdered.by his own family in Wayne county, was slaughtered in his own house, and it is believed that the whole adult portion of the family participated in the murder. Last July George Sands, a farmer living near Milan, gave his wife S3OO for safe keeping. She hid it in a straw bedtick and forgot all about it. The bed was emptied in the orchard to be renewed the other day, and the nogs wallowed in the broken straw. Fortunately all the money except S7O was found in a mutilated, but useful condition. The contracts for the enlargement of the Indiana cotton mill at Cannelton, the first and the largest in the state, have been let. The new mill will be 375 feet in lenghtand 268 feet width, and of the same style of architecture as the present mill. It will have capacity for looms for 40.000 spindles, though but 14.000 spindles will be put in immediately—giving the capacity of the old and new mill, at the start, at 25,000 spindles. The building will be copapleted and the machinery in operation by next September. The enlargement and additional machinery will coat $250,000. The funeral of David Smith, who was murdered by his wife and sons, took place at the Christian church at Hagerstown. People were present from all parts of the oounty, and it was a day of unparalleled excitement in that village. The persons following the body were the boy George, who 3 as released on bail: Alice, the little rl who first put tne police on the right track; a brother and sister of the deceased, and a brother and sister of Mrs. Smith. The services were conducted by Rev. W. T. Warbinton. His text was: “While they took counsel against me, they devised to take away my life.” At the close of the sermon the minster read to the audience the oonfessioa of the murderers. The body was then viewed by the crowd to the number of over two thousand.

The revival meetings at Elkhart, conducted by Dr. Munhall, continue with unabated interest. At last accounts 383 persons, many of whom were railroad men, had professed conversion. Returns to the State Bureau of Statistics for the years ended May Ist, 1880, show a satisfactory increase of landowners in this State, and refute the general idea that the lands are gradually absorbed by capitalists. The Bureau of Statistics reports mine and quarry products in this State for the year ended April 30th, 1881, as follows: Sandstone quarried 946,047 cubic feet; limestone quarried 2,743,459 cubic feet; lime burned, 1,128,289 bushels; cement manufactured, 144,599 bushels; coal mined,2,128,977 tons; fire clay, 202,838 tons. The Bureau of Statistics reports that Warrick county alone produces onethird of the leaf tobacco crop of the State, and Boone township in that county, leads all townships of the State with a production in 1881 of 675,559

pounds. Whitley county produces the most maple sugar, the product last year being 170,679 pounds, and of this amount 156,591 were made in Washington township that county. Ihe total enumeration of school children .in this State in ISSI* was 714.343. The total number enrolled was 503,555, leaving 210,488 of those enumerated out of the schools. On the average daily attendance this number out of the schools would be largely increased. Making allowance for the persons between the age 3 of 16 and 21, who are otherwise engaged and do not attend the public schools, and for those who attend the parochial schools, there will yet remain at least 100,000 children, of the best school age, who never enter any school.

CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.

Tuesday, Jan., 31st. Senate,— The funding bill was farther discussed and amended. House.— The resolution requesting the President to obtain a list of American citizens confined in English prisons, was adopted, after which the remainder ol the sitting was spent in committee of the whole on the public calendar. The cpmmlttee rose without action, and the post route bill was reported and passed. * Wednesday, Feb., Ist. Senate.—A bill was reported favorably appropriating 815,000 to supply thejpeople with pure vaccinevi rus. The funding bill wa further discussed. House.— A resolution setting apart the 27th of February for Garfield memorial exercises, was adopted. The most of the sitting was spent on committee ol the whole, with Mr. Calkins in the chair, on the postoffice appropriation bill. The committee rose without action. Thursday, Feb., 2nd. Senate.— The proposition to confer the franking privilege on Senators and Representatives was indefinitely postponed. The funding bill was further considered. House.—A number ol bills were reported from committes and referred to the Committee of the whole House. The House then went into Committee of the whole the postoffice appropriation bill. Eeb., 3rd. Senate.— The bill to extend the northern boundary of Nebraska, was passed; also the Sherman funing bill by the decisive vote of—yeas 38; nays 18; A bill to authorize the Postmaster General to delegate certain authority, was passed; also a bill appropriating $?00,000 iora fire proof War Department building ;also the Honse bill admitting goods for Kansas colored people free of duty. Adjourned til Monday * HousE-The bill releasing the Philadelphia and Reading Railway from certain taxes was considered without action. Monday, Feb., oth. Senate,—After the routine of the morning hour, the resolution against the repeal of dension arrearage legislation was considered without action. House.—A number of resolutions were offered and referred. Motions to suspend the rules and pass certain bills, failed for want of a two-thirds vote.

The Indecencies of the Bible. DeWwitt Talmage. Mr. Ingersoll goes on says there are indecencies in the Bible. He dares Christians to read certain parts of the Bible in their families. He takes up the Bible from his lecturing desk and says he will read some things, and then, with an affected blush, says there are some things he dare not read in the presence of families. His delicacy and modesty overcome him. My reply is, there are things not intended to be read either in the family circle or in the pulpit, but, nevertheless, they are to be read. I can'go into the office of any physician in Brooklyn and find on his table medical journals and bis library books that the physician would not think best to read iq his family, vet they are good books, valuable boobs, indispensible books, pure books, and no physician would be worth the Dame of physician who did not own them. Now there are things in the Bible which are merely the anatomy of.sin, showing what a lazar-house of iniquity the heart is when unrestrained ; loathsome description, from the reading of which one rises with a Erofltable disgust and horror. Not to e read in public, but in private. One rises up from them not contaminated with the evil, but as one comes from the dissecting room, more intelligent than when he went in, yet in no wise enamored of putrefaction. There is a Byronic description of sin which allures and destroys, while the Bible description of sin warns and saves. Do not denounce the Bible as unfit because there are some things not to be read in the family, unless you denounce all medical journals and books. They are not fit to read in the family.

A Hard Case.

Albert Bloom slew his brother Auguste at Aurora, Ind., by striking him a Irightful blow on the bead with a heavy iron. Still the general desire of the Aurora people is that Albert mav get clear of punishment. The two were partners in business. Albert was industrious, self-respeeiiqg and popular. Auguste, though the elder by three years, was shiftless, drunken, and disliked, doing little for the joint business and constantly drawing more than half the profits* Albert’s orbetp*ance was a marvel, for nobbdy ever heard him utter a word against his worthless brother or saw him treat him unkindly. But one day Auguste, whild drunk, struck Albert’s wife, choked her, and threw her down. This was the provocation that kt last roused Albert to fury, and he made tne deadly onslaught, Immediately upon teeing what he had done he bitterly called himself a murderer, caressing Auguste and entxeatine him o.live. Arkansas lands are now somewhat.in demand—those located in the cotton belt-by capitalists whojintend engaging in cotton culture.

TABLE TALK.

Many tramps are wintering in Florida. Tbete ate 523 papers publishers in lowa. Augustus Schell is to be president of the Wagner car company. The latest charm for a lady’s watch charm is a tiny silver teapot. The Chicago Press club refuses to admit woman to membership. The Detroit public library has 42,413 books and $15,900 cash balance. Chattanooga bought $1,500 worth of bibles from a canvasser in two weeks. TheJJeannette took with her 5,000 tallow candles as presents for the Esquimaux. j Seven out of eight Boston purchasers of tickets to Oscar Wilde’s lectures are woman. Cassius M. Clay, the sire of many fast trotters, is dead, near Lexington,in his thirtieth year. The Rev. George W. Dunlap, a Western revivalist, has eloped with a fair Kentucky convert. A Macon mule that has|been in aotive •service for forty-five years has been excused from further duty. Seventy-five thousand acres of land in Wythe county, Va., will be sold at auction at the March court. King’s balloon has been brought out of the woods, above Eau Claire, in a good state of preservation. A Putnam county, Florida, tunipmeas ured three and a half feet in length and twenty-two inches in circumference. In most of the larger towns of Germany art classes have been established for mechanics, and are largely attended Ella Tunney ran heedlessly into debt for fine clothes at Seymour, Ind., and then committed suicide because she could not pay. All civil uniforms are out of date in Paris to-day. Cocked hats and silver lace are of the past, and ordinary blaok coats are de riguer. A Pawtucket hen picked the S7OO diamond out of a pin. It was safely hidden in her crop, and she did not survive the discovery. Georgia is the only southern state that, since the war. has named a country after a live Yankee. The Yankee is Wiliam E, Dodge, of New York. Col. Benj. S. Ricks, of Yazoo county, Miss., the second largest planter in the south, employs 1,000 men, and made 2,000 bales or cotton last year. Information recently- received from New Zealand justifies the belief that the colony has had a very narrow escape from being involved in another Maori war. In France nowadays brides have very few dresses in their tronsseaux, the current modes being so variable, but they have more material in the piece than formerly. An oldman at West Cheshire, Conn., has made all his property over to his wife, on condition that sne gives him food, clothes, lodging, and one pint of rum every day as long as he lives. The officials of London,Canada,have distinguished themselves by declining to protect the first Chinaman who settled in that city, and, as the roughs gave him no peace, he was compelled to quit the place. The Emperor and Crown Prince of Germany are reputed very easy going masters in their respective establishments. When the bell is a long while being answered, the latter has a way of supposing “those wires are out of order again.”

Bister Mary Joseph, the head of the Bisters of Providence.an Indiana Catholic order, who died lately, was a sister by birth of Irma de la Motte, whp renounced rank and fortune in Brittany to embrace a life of privation in the swamps ofjndiana. A prudent theatrical company telegraphed to Springfield, Mass., to learn if they would be safe from small-pox in that city. The City Physician replied: ‘■Our patients are safely lodged in the hospital, and none of them care to attend your peformance,” A sentenced murderer in Bt. Louis is reeisting*the efforts of all the clergymen who try to prepare him spiritually for death. "I have always taken care of myself,” he says, “and I guess my soul will be able to do the same.” No argument moves him. Two men fought desperately at Rosemont, Minn., and one was killed with the knife which he held in his own hand. The case is likely to puzzle a jury, as some of the witnesses say that tue wound was caused by a fall upon the knife, while others are sure that the survivor grasped his antagonist’s and in that manner made the s ab. At the recent demonstration at Avondale, Mr. Parnell’s residence in Wicklow, there were 600 carts engaged in carting the manure and 183 ploughs in operation. The men were decorated with green ribbons and the horses with green boughs. Toward the close a duntr cart paraded, from which rose the effigy of “The Last Landlord,” through which was driven a sarge fourp. onged fork amid great enthusiasm. It is proposed to light up the greater part of the Suez Canal by electricity, with the twofold object, first of enabling dredging operations to be carried ou at night instead of during the day, and next, in order that vessels may pass through at all hours instead of blocking up the passage and anchoring, as hitherto. Dan of Warrensburg, Pa., was a terrible blasphemer. A horse kl;kedhimina barn the other day, and ejaculations were uncommonly prolonged and violent. Then flames broke out among the hay, and the building was destroyed. There is ne convincing the neighbors that Dan’s sulphurous language did nht kindle the.fire.