Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1882 — Page 7

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

A Cleveland lawyer has been convicted ot sheep stealing. Rush Medical College, Chicago, has just graduated 179 new doctors. The face and left hand of General Garfield have been cast in bronze fcr his family. The Obio House of Representatives has passed a bill the suppression of “bucket shops.” A man with horns on.his head, was among the emigrants recently landed at Castle garden. The Treasury will have $33,000,000 to disburse on interest account during the firsthalf of March. Coal oil has been discovered at Litchfield, 111. “Excitement is rife and speculation runs high.” Residents of Northern Louisiana and Eastern Arkansas are again reported to be in a distressed condition. The Readjuster nominees for Supreme Court Judges, in Virginia, have been elected by the Legislature. The State. Board of Health at Spring field, 111., reports a general decrease of small pox throughout the State. At Carlinville, 111., and at Macoupin damage to railroads, bridges, and farm property, by recent stroms, is very great. A Gloucester, Mass., dispatch announces the probable wreck of three schooners from that port, involving a loss of fifty lives. All convicts sentenced by the courts in Wyoming Territory will be herea:ter sent to the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet. At Philadelphia, the five Qivil suits against Wiley’s (the star route contractor sureties) were decided in favor of the government. Sergeant Mason complains that he has been confined in a dingy, rat-in-fected cell, and that he has not been treated as well as Guiteau. Anti-Mormon meetings continue to be held ia various parts of the country, at which resolutions are passed as si'’ Congress to suppress polygamy.

Secretary Lincoln has ordered 100,* 000 rations to be sent from St. Louis for the benefit of the sufferers from the overflow iu Mississippi and Arkansas. A saloonist named Wyatt, was fatally shot in Louisville, Ky., for resisting and firing at United States officers. He a deputy Marshal himself. Troy, New York, has a little girl, aged 11, who is an expert safe-robber. A large quanity of jewelry was found at her home, the result of her thievish skill. At New Orleans, Monday, the first car of through freight from San Francisco without breaking bulk arrived. It was fourteen and a half days en route. At Paducah, Ky., five persons who lived on a flat-boat were drowned during astorm Tuesday, as was also a man named Little, who went out in a boat to their rescue. In Harrisburg, Pa., that monst monopoly, the Standard Oil Company, was sued by the State to recover the sum of $3,145,541 due for taxes on its capital btoek. A proposition pending in Congress to appropriate $10,000,000 for the construction of seven first-class ships of war, of different styles, meets with general favor. Davidge and Porter, who assisted the prosecution iu the trial of the assassin Guiteau, have been allowed $2,500 on account. They are still retained in the case. The steamship Illinois arrived at Philadelphia Thursday, from Liverpool, with 325 Russian Jewish refugees. Duriug the voyage only one death, that of a child, occurred. The House Committee on Indian Affairs, has agreed to recommend the ratification of the agreement for the sale of a portion of the lands of the Crow reservation in Montana. General Rosecrans denies the assertion made by Mr. Blaine that when General Garfield becaihe connected with the Army of the Cumberland he found -‘well developed troubles.” The Utah election case, will, it is said, be decided by the House Committee adversely to both Cannon and Campbell, and the Territory will be instructed to send a nou-polygamous delegate to Congress. The House Naval Affairs Committee will report a bill to appropriate $lO,000,000 for new ships, and $2,000,000 for the completion of the five new monitors now in course of construction. An early opening of lake navigation is predicted this year. During the winter, says a Duluth, Minn., dispatch. there has not been ice in Laka 1 Superior sufficient to interfere with navigation. On Saturday morning, Wm. Leet, aged 12, in Crabb & Co.’s needle factory, at Newark, N. J., was passing a coil of wire through a machine, when the wire broke and coiled around him, cutting him in two. Arkansas City, eight miles southeast of Little Rock, is completely submerged. It is the post, village of Ar kansas county. Between Memphis and Cairo the ivater has done and is doing immense damage. The pastors of Chicago who are op-

pcs 3d to Sunday theatricals and the alleged immorality of the stage are organizing a committee of five ministers from each denomination to take measures to rectify these defects. AL Kenosha, Wis., a young lady teacher in one of the public schools delivered a lecture to the ..hoys of her room on comparative anatomy, and illustratated it* by vivisecting the pet kitten of a reverend citizen. The crew of a wrecked British bark consisting of the captain, hisjwife and two children, and two seamen, were rescued from an open boat off the coast of California by the steamer Newburn. They were starving. Mr. MacVeagh, .ex-Attorney General, appeared before the House Commerce Committee on behalf of the Pennsylvania Railroad, whose attorney he is, and made an argument against interstate commerce legislation. “2. At Etna, Pa., a small town a few miles above Allegheny City, on Saturday night, two men were disputing, when a third interfered and stabbed one of the disputants to the heart, killing him instantly. The murderer was drunk. The Center county,Pennsylvania,woman who, two weeks ago, had a tumor weighing 112 pounds removed from .her body, at Philadelphia, has entirely recovered, and will leave the University Hospital in a few days. A terrible condition of things is re* ported from the overflow in the Mississippi Valley, where many lives have been lost, ana the loss of livestock and farming property has already been incalculable. The outlook for the immediate future is very critical, C eorge Ellis, who confessed that was present when the Ashland girls were outraged and murdered, and declared the diabolical deed was done by Craft and Neal, has made another confession to the effect that he wasn’t present and knows nothing about it* Two Chicago cracksmen, Garrity and McCowan, who had been found guilty of burglary in La Salle county, were sentenced by the court at Ottawa to the Penitentary for four years and six months each. It is stated that the Auditing Com mittee on the Garfield illness, will allow Dr. Bliss $25,000; Drs. Agnewand Hamilton, $15,000 each; Drs. Reyburn and Boynton,-. $10,000; Mrs. Ed son, $5 000; Steward Crump, $3,000, and the employes of the Executive Mansion two months’ extra pay. The Coroner’s jury at Chester. Pa., returned a verdict holding Professor Jackson criminally responsible for the late explosion, by which eighteen lives were lost. Charles Vanhorn will also be held for leading firemen into danger upon the assurance that there was none. Captain Stonmgton, of the steamer Newburn, has picked up a part of the crew of a wrecked British bark off the coast of Lower California. The rescued party consisted of the captain, wife and two children, and they were about to resort to cannibalism. A child and the two seamen died.

Between Memphis, Tenn., and Friar’s Point, Miss., (120 miles), four breaks in the levee have occurred. The largest one, above Austin, Miss., is six miles long, and the plantations contiguous are flooded, entailing much loss to~the planters and great suffering to live stock. A survivor of the steamer Bahama, foundered February 10th, has arrived at New York. He went down with the steamer, came to the surface, and was so fortunate as to come across a big ice chest, into which be got, and floated around for six days before being picked up by a passing vessel. The grand jury of the District of Columbia has finally presented an indictment against A C. Soteldo for murder. The original finding of the jury was for manslaughter, but it was for the reason that the law declares the killing of a person by another—even unintentionally—while committing a felony is murder. There is considerable excitement in railroad circles iu the East over the veto, by the Governor of New Jersey, of the bill to enable the New Jersey Central railroad to increase its capital stock. It is a war between the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Central Companies on the one hand and Garrett and Gowen on the other. The Auditing Committee pn the expenses attending the illness of President Garfield are reported to have ageed to grant Mrs. Garfield the balance of the salary due on the unfinished year. Surgeon Barnes is to be retired on the grade of a Major General, and Dr. Woodward raised to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Mrs. Garfield was visited at her home in Cleveland Wednesday by a committee appointed by the e--Confederate soldiers of Cincinnati to present her with a series of resolutions, engrossed on parchment, handsomely framed in marble. The presentation speech was made by’Colonel C. A. Withers. Mrs. Garfield and the mother of the late President were both deeply affected. Charles Wright, a defaulting clerk, having lost $5,000 In various sums .at the gambling den of A 1 Hankins, the employers of the defaulter, a wellknown insurance firm in Chicago, have commenced action in the United States Circuit Court against Hankins to recover the amount, alleging that the gambler knew that the clerk was robbing his employers. The first proof of the Jnew flve-oent postage stamp, containing a vignette

0f General Garfield, and known as the (jaffiel^stamp, and which is intended as a present to Queen Victoria from the American Bank Note Company, reached Washington on Saturday. It is an excellentlikeness, and is enclosed in a maunificeut and costly framebf ebony, with matting of sterling silver and bordering of pure gold. It will be transmitted to Queen Victoria through the State Department. There is a movement on foot to have a duplicate made for Mrs. Garfield. Foreign* Tunisian Arabs have burned the city of Hammah. The military element in Egypt, backed by Steve Pasha, leigns supreme. The specie in the Imperial Bank of Germany "has increased 8,600,000 marks. M. Rouzaud, the husband of Mme. Christine Nilsson, died in a lunatic asylum. Americans in Berlin oelebrated *the Washington Anniversary by a grand banquet. A rumor comes from St. Petersburg that Skebsloff will be ordered to reside on his estate. Parnell is undergoing a week of solitary confinement, for trying to smuggle a letter from his prison. At the forthcoming congress of Dan ish-American antiquities, the King of Denmark will be the patron. Captain Selby, commanding H. M. S. Falcon, has died ot the injuries he received from an Albanian ruffian. A German dispatch states that unless the condition of Russia improves, the Czar will abdicate after his coronation. At Vienna it is reported that one of the rebel leaders of the Herzogovinians has tied, and that another one was captured.

Financial affairs in Egypt are declared by the British and French Comptrollers to be in a very unsatisfactory condition. The axle of a hearse broke at the entrance to the Necropolis, Toronto, on Saturday. The coffin fell to-the ground and broke open, letting the corpse roll out “The severity of the weather has driven thousands of Herzegovinians into the adjoining State of Montenegro, where they are being relieved, from Russian funds. Lieut. Danenhower will not be allowed to leave Irkutsk for St. Petersburg until the weather moderates. Other survivors of the Jeanuette will leave at onoe. The Austrian army encountered the Herzegovinian rebels, 1,000 strong, on Thursday, February 23d, and after a nine hours’ battle, defeated them, with a heavy loss to the latter. The Austrian loss was very small. To show his friendship for Austria, the Sultan will concentrate several battalions of troops where they can prevent the Albanians aiding the Herzgovinian troops. Gladstone will not allow any inquiry into the working of the land act in Ireland to be made, on the. ground of its being prejudicial to the interests of the government. A dispatcn from Engineer Melville was received at Irkutsk, January 31, in which he said: “We are just entering the wilderness in seareh of De Long and bis party.’At the Stettin railroad depot in Berlin, the explosion of and infernal machine shipped in a box of dry goods, caused a conflagration. The shipper of the box has been arrested. Sis Leonard Tilley, the Canadian Minister of Finance, has estimated the cost of running the Dominion Government next year at $53,000 000, which is ten millions more than last year. M. Davitt has been'elected lrom the County Meath to the seat in Parliament rendered vacant by the resignation of A. M. Sullivan. This is considered an iudorcement of tbe no-rent policy. Senor Castelar, says a Madrid dispatch, commenting on the Skobeltff speech* thinks that the Latin races of Europe should unite with the Germans to resist the incoming invasion of the Slav race. Cardinal Manning, the head of the Catholic hierarchy in Great Britain, presided at an “influential meeting” of the Mansion House (London) commute for the relkf of the persecuted Russian Jews.

Bradlaugh, the English free-thinker, member of Parliament for Nottingham, took the Bible oath in the House of Commons Tuesday, but was not allowed to tfike his seat pendiug the decision of the House. Eight persons, including Herr New - aid, ex-Burgomaster of Vienna, Herr Jauner, manager of the Ring Theater, the Chief of Police, and Chief of tbe Municipal Board of Works, have been indicted and held for trial for contributing, by their negligence, to the catastrophe of the Riug Theater, December 8, whereby 650 people lost their lives; Bradlaugh, tbe free-thinking mem-ber-elect from Nottingham, was ex polled from the House of Commons by a vote of 291 to 84. Mr. Gladstone said that, while the House had exceeded its powers in refusing to allow Bra ilaugh to take the oath, he, on the other hand, had been guilty of flagrant disobedience. Bradlaugh has gone to Nottingham to contest the Mection lot a fcudceesWf 'to* tMseir* He Mil dmfleSs. be re-elected.

Bewitched.

[Paris Correspondent.] “I dined ala table d’hote the other night at one of the principal hotel.-. Besides good dinner I got bold of an itm, which, as it is characteristic of the capital, is worth the telling. ’Twas given nie by my neighbor at the fable, a resident of the hotel for the pasteighteen months, ‘Do you know,’ said he. while he was waiting the arrival oi the roast, ‘the fatuous Baron Sterwich?’ I did hear of him.'' ‘Well, that is he across the table, six persons to your left.’ I looked over and saw a fine-built, gentlemanly-looking individual, with the air and beaming of a naval officer, in conversation with a very distingue lookiug lady, his junior by several years. “Is that the Baroness Sterwich to whom he is so attentive?” I asked. “That?! Why, she is his wife, his confederate.’ And then he told me the following brief story of their lives: At forty years the Ba*rou tired of Paris and its many pleasures, and, almost penniless, wandered off to Bordeaux, where he met a widow, recently arrived from South America. She had a beautiful daughter, and was said to be immensely wealthy. The Baron soon asked for and obtained the hand of Mile. Mariquita, and they were married.JAlter their weddiDg, whilptbe young wife was resting on tne arm o her husband, the Barou returned to her and said: ‘My dear I hate deception; I must make a confession, and when it is ended we will understand each other. The 140.000 fiances which I preteded to have for a future are a'l worthless ponds. The young wife sftiiled as she, in turn, said: ‘I too dislike deception. The 300,000 acres of land which my dear mamma told you I own are so far in the interior of Brazil that no one knowst their whereabouts. It would take many Barou Haussmau and many millions of money to open them up to commerce.’ Iu a few days they reached Nice and then went to Monaco. Here the Baron tried his luck aud lost all the money they had iu the world, save only about 2,000 fiances. ‘Let us go to Paris, said she; and they were followed by a rich Russiaff Prince, who was blindly in love with the handsome Bironness. Arrived in Paris, the Baron and his wife determined on a bold experiment with the young Russian. They invited the Prince to dine with them, and it so happened that that evening the rain came down in torrents. At 9 o’clock the Baron stepped to the window,’ he said; ‘quite impossible for us to go out for our coffee.’ Madame took up her cue and said: Then, in that case, Prince, will you permit me to make you a cup of tea?’

“The enamored Muscovite declared that he was enchanted by tbe suggestion. ‘We will have our tea eu tamilie,’ added Mariquita. softly; ‘how happy we shall be!’ and she stole a look at the Prince which caused that susceptible individual to blush down to the roots of his blonde hair. ‘Suppose we have a game,’said the Baron. ‘lam quite agreed,’ was tbe ready response of the Prince. The Baron shuffled the cards. ‘I sha 1 be on tLe side of the Prince,’ exclainysd tbe Baroness, placing her chair close to the one he was seated in; ‘and, if you have no objection, mon ami, I shall bet fifty louis on his hand.’. ‘No objection whatever,’ replied the polite Baron. The play went on. Madame’s warm breath so enveloped the Prince that he could not see, much less understand, what was going on. Long since they had been playing ‘double or quits.’ and the stakes had now reached an immense sum. At 10 o’clock the Baron again got up to look out of tbe window. The Prince had already lost 300,000 francs. ‘Madame, will you kindly permit us to light our cigars?’ asked the gallaut Baron. The Baroness graciously gave her consent, and her husband went into another room after the fragrant weed. After he had lelt the room tbe Baroness whispered to the Prince, ‘Do not leave* yet awhile; he has to go out at 11 o’clock, and then we shall be alone.’ Ihe Baron returned, cigars were lighted and play was resumed. The additional hour cost the Prince just 150,00:) francs. At 11 o’clock the rain still descended in torrents. It was impossible for the Baron to go out. But as tbe Prince was leaving, tbe Baron said to him: ‘I shall be happy to give you your revenge on my return from Lyons.’ ‘Then you must go?’ exclaimed the Baroness. ‘Yes, mv dear.’ ‘When?’ ‘To-morrow night.’ The lady gave the Prince a look which almost melted him at her feet. ‘You must not neglect the Bareness, my dear Prince, while lam gone,’ remarked the Baron. ‘With your permission I shall be only too happy to be of the slightest service to Madatne,’ was the reply of the love smitten Russian. The next day, oright and early, the Prince sent the Baron every franc which lie owed him, and waited patiently for night to come on. When, at 8 o’clock, he called at the hotel, he learned, to his stupefaction, .tin t Madame la Buroune had accompanied Monsieur It Baron on his southern trip. The Prince soon discovered what a tool he. had made of himself, and went back to Bt. Petersburg. The Baron and his wife you see before you.”

Trouble in a Silver Mine.

[Laramie Boomerang.] A few nights ago a well-organized effort was made to jump the Centennial mine, which came very near being a success. The parties who under too a to jump the mine were two Rocky Mountain pole cats with a bad record. Almost as soon as they entered the tun nel from the east the men in the mine began to suspicion that somebody with a bad breath was in the lower level. The suspicion grew uutil.it as»um*d about the size of a bale hay. It Was resolved to drive out the intrude!* Mayor tfbwney went kown and threw a chunk of free milling (IfUanz Vt the enemy. Then the Major went back to the rest of the party to hold a consul-

lotion. " The rest of the partv didn’t S em so tickled toseebirn-as he thought toey ought to be. Thev shunned him and evaded him, and told him that his presence wasn’t agreeable under the circumstances. Although thetoiue is a very valuable onej it was almost decided at one time to abandon it to the jumpers. At list, however, everybody made a grand rush for the tunyel aud demolished the euem.v with longhandled w shovels. Major Downey bunded down the information into the office with a long pole, He also told a friend tbit he would go out of town this forenoon to a quiet spot, beyond the graveyard aud change his clothes. The R >cky Mountain polecat, before it is domesticated, is not prized as a song- 1 ’ ster very much; but he has a way of making his presence felt wherever lie goes, and even Ju death you can not forget him. There Was one of these docile creatures got into our cellar once a good many years ago, aud, the ventilation of„ the cellar being very poor, the air was soou vitiated to such an extent that the clock stooped. We don’t care for death iu auy form|iu which it may come. Those who know us will agree that we never weaken. We have faced the deadly watermelon, wtieu strong men were falling thick and fast, aud we have stood at the muzzle of a daily newspaper and mowed down spiiug poets like broad swaths of timothy hay, and never weakened or squealed; but the dappled quadruped witu the a'l pervading presence appeals to our valor iu vain. Our victory over him has altvays been vicar ous.

Habit in Horses.

[New York Sun.] Horses learn their duties just as a boy learns his trade. Some years ago Thirty-three engine had a horse named Buckskin, oil account of his color, that had to be sold because he was soft footel. You see their feet can’t stand the terrific w r ork at tbeengiue forever, aud they are sold at auction when they’ve outlived their usefulness on the engine though they are perfectly good for other purposes. Weill, Buckskin was bou ht by a Seventh avenue seedstore man. He found him a good horse and used him well. One day he was on Seventh avenue with a heavy load of seed, aud was just above Twentieth street when there was an alarm of fire from Thirty-seventh street.. Twelve, truck came sweeping out of Twentieth street and went bowling up the avenue with her gong ringing. Buckskin was alone, he had a big load and was ont of practice; but he went to that fire in first-class style, jerking the load of seed up the avenue iu a way that made people look, After that they tied him when there was any fire under way. “That reminds me of engine Thirty’s old team. They were bought by a truckman. One day he was carting a heavy load of goods from a north river steamer, when he had occasion to, pass the team’s old engine house in Spring street. When an engine team returns from a fire the horses walk, right up on the sidewalk, are unhitched and the engine backed in. When Thirty’s old team came to the house they walked right up, too. The driver might have as well tried to jump over a house as to stop them. There they stood, waiting to be unhitched, and they wouldn’t move. Finally one of the firemen told the driver to get up on his seat and get a good firm hold of the reins. Then he went in and struck the alarm. The horses thought it was a fire, aud away they went like a shot, load and all. The truckman avoids Spring street now,” “Very intelligent.” “I should say so. It reminds me of Thirty-three’s teuder horse, Bill. You know the horses have to be hitched up many times a day without leaving the house. Along side of the engine is a rope that the engineer rings the gong with when goiug to the fire. When they have a hitch up St Thirty-three and don’t go out, Bill waits till he is released from the lender and then goes to the engine, seizes the rope and rings the gong like a pirate. Tnat’s his idea of fun. He learned the trick himself. They have some good horses up iu Thirty-three. They’re fed four times a day—at 8, 12. 6 aud 8 o’clock, and exactly 15 minutes before feeding time oue of the engine horses, Jim, begins to pound the iron column at tne head of his stall with his off fore foot. That foot just falls there with the force and regularity of a trip hammer till Jim gets his feed. »

THE MARKETS.

CHICAGO, Opening. High't. Low’t. Clos’g Wheat, April, *128% *12«% *12% II 27% Corn, May, 01 % wy, 63% 64% Oats, April, 41 4t% 41 41% NEW YORK. \ F,lour—Dull and unchenged; western superfine, 73©4 20; extra, ssoOi«is 8>; lainily, *625®7 25. Wheat— higher; rather quiet; No. 2 red seller March,-81 31%/tjl 3'4; seller April, 133%<g131%; seller May, 8i ler June. 81 32. CoRN-%iar%c better; fairly active; mixed Western, spot, 05%@80c; futures, 67%@69%0. better; Western, 48(2,5 lc; No. 2 seber February, 50c. Beef— and steady. Pork— Dull and weak; new mess, *l7 50®, 17 75; old *lB 50@16 75. Lard— lo@lsc higher and unsettled; steam rendered, 810 60, BALTIMORE. Flour— Q,uiet and unchanged. Wheat—Western active and higher; winter red spot, *128*431 26%; seller Februory, 81 27 asked; seller March, (120*4<ai 2744; <eller A_pril, *1 1 30%@1 30%; seller May, $1152%<&132%; seller June, *1 30%@1 81% seller July. *1 W/„<gt\ 20. Corn—western dull; mixed spot, seller March, «5%@8«%c: seller April, 67%fZ»68%c; seller May, 60%&6tf%c; seller June. 70e bid, Oats -Irregular and higher; Western white, 50(<j5!c; mixed, 47<a4«%c. KYJt—Dull at. 85&07C. }' TOLEDO. , WHiAT-Qulet; No. 2 cash, 8123%; seller Kebruary, *1 21 bid ; seller March, *128%; -eller April, fl 25%; seller May, *1 28; seller June, ti 24%; seller July, *1 14; seller An* gust, *1 11; seller the yeart SlUtb Corn— tip let; high mixed, 83c; No. 2 cash seller February 1 80c; seller March, flOcM seller April, 61%c bid; seller ler June, «0c bid. * Oats— <iulte; No. 2, 44«.