Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1882 — Page 2

RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN. MARSHALL A OVER ACKER, Proprietors. • 11 * — — RENSSELfER, : * INP<

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Pacific bank, Of Boston, has resumed business. Eighteen persons were killed at Genoa, Nevada, by a snow slide. The Russians will send an expedition to explore northern Siberia in the summer. In event of a war Greece proposes to remain neutral, especially with regard to Turkey. General Grant and family will pay a visit to the president at the white house this week. Rev. Dr. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., was among the guests at Minister Morton's last formal reception in Paris. Pond’s extract company’s works, at Williamsburg, N. Y., burned. Loss on stock and building, $150,000. “The Tomb” and “The Morgue” are the enlivening pet names of boarding houses in a suburb of New York. The bill recently before the Wisconsin assembly to prohibit the sale of tobacco to minors has been rejected. In the event of an Austro-Russian war it is hinted that German/would take an active part on behalf of Austria. At Washington, D. C., JohnS. Heywood was sentenced to nine years impfisonment for the murder of Thos. Foragth. Paul Hayne, the Georgia poet, is dangerously ill at his home near Augusta. He recently suffered another severe hemorrhage.

It is propo ed to erect in the central hall of the new cotton exchange, in New Orleans, astatue of Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin. Crow Dog, the Sioux chief, is being tried at Deadwood, D. T.,far the murder of Spotted Tail last August. He entered a plea of not guilty. At Marseilles, France, the crystal nalace theatre burned. Loss, 1,000,000 francs. The actors had great difficulty in escaping from the burning building. While Emperor William was leaving the Academy, yesterday, his foot slipped on the stairway and he fell. His right elbow aud knee are slightly contused. Fifty-one members of the opposition in Servian Skuptschina have resigned, and the assembly has been prorogued until the election of new members. A brace of French Canadian swindlers, by false representations, fleeced Montreal merchants of over $150,000 worth of goods, with which they fled to Chicago. Judge Harrington, a prominent attorney of Indianapolis, dropped dead in his office. He was the defendant in a suit for $50,000 damages brought .by his divorced wife. Near Reading, Pa., an aged couple, who lived alone in a farm-house, were attacked by two masked burglars, who bound their victims and plundered the house of $1,5u0. Frederick A. Palmer, late auditor of the city of Newark, N. J., was sentenced to state prison for twenty , years for obtaining money from the treasurer on forged warrants.

Fred Newberg, late clerk of the Ohio board of public works, who forged checks on the state treasury to the amount of $20,000, was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. At Cherry field, Me., as Mrs. Hetty Sprague, a widow, was leaving church, Chester Cunningham stepped up, drew a knife and cut her throat She died almost instantly. Jealousy. Lieutenant-Colonel Forsythe, commanding at Fort Cummings, telegraphs that he has investigated the report of an outbreak of the Indian scouts at Gill river, and finds it untrue. Bartholomew Desmond, of Cincinnati, was found dead on the street. He bad been drinking, and while intoxicated carried an open knife in his pocket, and by some means stabbed himself fatally. Albert H. Thomas, jr., son of Rev. Albert H. Thomas, of Memphis, was found dead on the front porch of a grocery store in the northeastern portion or the suburbs of the city. His death is a mystery. Mr. James Gordon Bennett is said to have purchased a new drag in Paris which he will send to Newport for service during the coming season. It is said to be one of the handsomest vehicles of the kind ever made. Henry G. Rogers, United States minister to Sardinia under President Van Buren, and one of three surviving members of the Pennsylvania constitutional convention of 1837, died in the county alms house at Lancaster, Pa. A Paris correspondent believes Bismarck thinks seriously of letting the tense relations between Germany and Russia take their course. No confi deuce, he says, is felt in Berlin of the alleged wish of the czar to remain friendly with Germany. Navin, the ex-mayor of Adrian, Mich., is much deeper in the mire ol embezzlement than at first supposed. As agent for a number of private citizens he is alleged tohaveeucumbered their property and appropriated to his own use the funds thus raised.

INDIANA.

The house committee has agreed to recommend th» eon-(.ruction of public buildings at New Albany, to cost $7,0(f0. Hereafter tire convicts'in the prison at Jeffersonville are to he allowed tobacco, a luxury denied them for the past four years. The Ohio Falls Car company is building fifteen passeugei coaches for the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railway. William Smith, ah eleven-year-old son of James Smith, of Salem, went fishing, fell in. the creek, and was drowned, lie was Subject to epileptic fits. So many ladies have been accosted and insulted bn the streets of Muncie that one of them set 3 an ■ example to her sex by wrilking abroad with a revolver in her hand, The saloon and general store of George French, at New Lebanon, viljage six miles from Sullivan, burned Thursday night. He thinks the temperance people know something about it. Loss $2,000. Edward Tobin, aged fifteen was received at the prison south, from Wayne county, to remain one year, for petit larceny. He only weighs ninety pounds, and was sent up for stealing a ninety pound stove in Richmond. • The sheriff closed the dry goods and gents’ furnishing establishment of Emil Becker, at Plymouth, on a claim of SIO,OOO. Tt is known that another claim of the same amount’will follow. Bad roads and poor collections are the alleged cause for tire failure. The principal of the public schools at Williamsport is said to have struck one of the lady teachers a terrifiic blow in the face witli his hand,- while engaged in a dispute. An investigation resulted in the discharge of the principal and the elevation of the lady to his place.

Cicero Watts, a young farmer of Greenfield',lias received word that he is an heir to part of the celebrated Spangler estate of Germany, and will at once take steps to prove his heirship. The estate amounts to many millions. W. H. SkekeU, of Kentucky, is also an heir. Their part will be over SIOO,OOO. William Isley, a farmer, started from his home, a few miles south of Veedersburg, a few days ago, saying that he was going to see.a neighbor about a half mile distant on business. He, has not been seen or heard from since. He 1 had been buying timber, and it is thought lie had money with him when lie left. Foul play is feared. Aaron Jones, who was last week sentenced to jail, at Rushville, for thirty days for perjury, has heretofore stood well in the community, and is among the wealthiest farmers of the county. It is thought the judge will pardon him, as he is 62. years old. *’ A suit instituted against the state in the name of Carroll couhty, to recover certain amount's of money"expended in advertising delinquent tax lists, will, if successful, bring the state in debt to the several counties for nearly $200,000 onjt]ie4ast_collection of taxes. The in the Walton murder trial, now ThXprogress at Vernon, is very damaging tch-Garrett. Frazier, the negro murderer and Iris wife, both give very plain and manifestly honest evidence against him. Mr. Frazier testified that Garrett brought the ammuui* lion to the house ou the afternoon before the shooting. Garrett is losing his cheerfulness. • . ’ Argus Dean, llic Madison peach grower, predicts that the pencil blooms will be unusually full, and the only danger is the spring frosts. From the fact that two crops have been gathered in succession, the yield will be less in quantity and poor in quality, unless wise care has been taken of the trees. The prospect for all stone fruit is quite as good as for peaches. The newspaper men of tjic second coufrressioual district have derived so much icncfft from the editors’ and publishers’ union, inaugurated by them at Vincennes six months agu, that they now propose to extend the organization to embrace the state, and with that end in view have called a meeting at the Grand hotel in Indianapolis, on the 29th of March, to discuss the matter.

A soldiers’ reunion will be held in Attica on September 19 and 20, 1882, which will he participated in by the following Indiana regiments: 10th, lltli, 12th, 15th, 10th, 20th, 33d, 40th, 60th, 63d, 72d, 86th, 116th, 150tli, 154t1i and 11th cavalry and 18th battery. The arrangement committee, consisting of one member of each of the regiments named, will meet in Attica on Saturday, March 25, apd they invite all their comrades who can conveniently go, to meet with,,them on that day. Particulars of a desperate fight between David Abshire, a farmer living near Roann, and his wife have been received. Mrs. Abshire became enraged at her husband and attempted to dissect him with an ax, and in self-defense he gave her a drubbing, which will probably result fatally. Mrs. Abshire, who lias been married before, attempted to carve her deceased husband in the same way and receives but little sympathy. The Jeffersonville correspondent of The Louisville Courier-Journal denies that the crazy Miss Herman, who lately deceased in the Clark county alms-house, comEleted a fast of sixty-two days, or that er body was reduced from 192 pounds to a mere matter of about 70 pounds. The remains made a healthy looking corpse of 125 pounds, and persons who saw Miss Herman within the last two weeks assert that she was strong in voice and mind, and not very weak physically, and that she could not have fasted the time specified. Friday night a tramp broke into the residence of U. P. Forbes, Peru. Ilis wife was the first to discover the man in their bedroom, aud awoke hot husband, who ouietly pulled,a revolver from under iiis pillow and shot, the ball passing entirely through the abdomen. The man, though not dead, is in a dying condition. He gives the name of Fred Whittei', of Halifax, England. He. lately left water Valley, Miss., and was on his way to Patterson, N. J., where lie says lie has an uncle living.- Two letters was found in his pocket recommending him its a young man of good moral habits, etc.

MISCELLANEOUS. France has a Chinese lawyer. Niagara is h> have another bridge. Virginia hak 172 tobacco factories. Five rail ways are projected across the desert of Sahara. During the plst seven years Germany has sent 10,000,000 corsets to tljis country. It has been discovered that cat-fur makes beautiful cloak linings. The female population of Germany exceeds the male by 863,165. There is the greatest activity in the New York leal estate market. In Boston over $75,000,000 worth of property is owned by women. The city of Boston pays annually SBO,OOO for sweeping and cleaning the streets. Many Scoteh and German families are moving to Montana. A morgue is being built at Savannah. Red straw hats will be popular next season. _lt is estimated that 25,000 New Yorkers will “Yurrup” this summer. A man named his boy Twice, so that lightning wouldn’t strike him. Faber, the pencil man, gets the wood for his pencils from Cedar Key, Fla. This is the height of tne season in Florida. A false charge of stealing 25 cents drove an Illinois girl insane. There are more Hebrews in Philadelphia than-in all New England. The City of Mexico is full of Amer icans, nearly every hotel being full of them. Mormonlsm receives an average of two thousand recruits every year. A National Prohibition Convention will beheld in Chicago August 30. Now there is to be a Polar expedition started from Denmark. In Russia there are 24,746 nobles.

A Georgia planter hires negroes who play the banjo. Illinois marketed $49,003,000 of live stock last year. The latest style of Russian sleigh— The Jewish massacre. High officials in China are urging the introduction of railways. There are six railway lines partly completed in South Africa. Presbyterian blue is the very deepest and latest shade of that color. The New York Times says Judge Blatchford ia worth three or four millions. A party of professional gamblers, have broken four Milwaukee faro banks. The tomato pack of this year is estimated at 2,000,000 cases. The cable companies havb been pooled again. Russia is the land of nobles, policemen and peasants. Chrysoberyl is the technical name of cat’s-eye jewels. The Elmira reformatory has begun to made sewing machines^ There are twenty colored Episcopal ministers in this country. Wall street is discounting good crops for 1882. Omaha will shortly be twenty-five years aid. North Carolina has eighty cotton and woolen mills in operation. A Florida ralway man has invented a combined headlight and danger signal. An observer reports that most of the nothern guests in Florida have gray hair. Castle Garden can no longer accommodate the flood of immigration. Bonner says that two minutes will yet be slow for a trotter. Washington, 111., has a female police Magistrate. The French Cabinet discussed the American bog question. Electricity is used by the English in launching ironclads. A cremation society has been incorporated in San Francisco. Mr. Tilden subscribed to the- Garfield fund.

West Virginia makes 21 per cent of all the nails in the United States. A dry sewer on a New York thoroughfare is used by tramps for lodging house. New Orleans schoolteachers have not been paid for five months. Alabama lias a surplus of $4,000,000 in the State Treasury. Rsrus and Grafton make a majestic team of trotters. A telephone monopoly Is buying up the local monopolies in lowa. The German translation of “Nana” has beensupprfessed in Berlin. Xhere are 100 per cent, more divorces in Philadelphia yearly than in any other city of the Union. : Prune grape .vines before the sap hows. There is no time to lose. It is better *o encourage a farmer’s son to own a calf or a sheep than a revolver or a setter dog.

Not The Way to Do.

In localities where the extraordinary merifrof Dr. Guysott's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla becomes fully known, it leads the sale of a|l other'remedies, and,although, in some in-stances,-eertain druggists have been known to recommend some other remedy as a blood purifieror strengthening tonic, by the Bale of which they make greater profit, nevertheless it is a fact that intelligent pereoris will not be thus persuaded, but will insist on the druggists procuring Dr. Guysott’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla, as it far excels all medicihes as a blood purifier, strengthening tonic, liver and bowel regulator, and kidney care. A trial will prove its merit as a general health renewer. Its princigal ingredients are Yellow Dock, arsaparilla, Juniper Iron, Buchu, Celery, and Calisaya bark, and it acts on the blood, liver, bowels, kidneys, and nervous system at one and the same time, rebuilding a broken down constitution as if by magic. Try one bottle. The New York Sun grows pommunicative on the Garflela-Chase letter business. Declining to discuss the letter on its merits, the Sun says that none of the theories as to what prompted its publication are true, and adds: “The Sun alone is responsible for printing the letter, although its publication may not have been a serious shock to the feplings of the stalwarts, or even to Mr. Blaine; and as for slanders and malice, they had nothing to do with it. No truth can be slanderous, however great a shock it may be to one’s prepossessions; and there never was any malice in the Sun toward Garfield.” -Whether there was malice or not, the shot seems to have gone wide of its mark. Is the Sun satisfied with the result? Mr. George M. Whiting. Middletown, 0., writes: “I was an invalid many years, suffering from general debility, nervous prostration, blood impurities, dyspepsia, painful urination, weak lungs, catarrh of the bladder, and extreme physical weakness. Dr. Guysott’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla has brought me out,and made me a sound, healthful, vigorous man. I can never say enough for this wonderful strength and .health restoring medicine.”

As ghastly a volume as has appeared in a long time is just issued from a Springfield, Mass., publishing house, and purports to be the work of Samuel Bowles in the spirit land. According to this chronicle a grand reception was accorded to President Garfield on his arrival “on the other side,” George Washington making the formal introductory speech while “tears, trickle through Garfield’s fingers.” Lincoln was present, arm in arm with Wilks Booth, and Benedict Arnold looked on unctuously. The language of the narrative rese.nbles that of Bowles about as closely ae the conversation of a shoulder-hitter does an oration of Demonsthenes. - Many persons are bitterly opposed to “patent medicines,” and will rarely use them at all. There is no doubt that many are worthless, yet a remedy that has stood the test for years, like Dr. Sherman’s Prickly Ash Bitters, and its sale and popularity increasing every day, must have merit or it would have disappeared long since. The Britton family, of German town Pa., are supposed to be the most persistant paupers in the country. Four generations from the old stock are now supported by the community. This legacy of indolence is not yet exhausted, but the Relief Association has laid its hands upon some of the youngest heirs, and compelled their attendance at school, hoping they will be educated to decline their inheritance as did one of their great-uncles, who broke away from his family, and become a useful citizen.

Duty te Others.

Chambersbuko, July 26,1876. This is to let the people know that I, Ansa Maria Kricfer, wife of Tobias Erider, am now past seventy-four years of age. My health has been very bad for some years past I was troubled with weakness, bad cough, dyspepsia, great debilty and constipation of the bowels. I was so miserable T could hardly eat anything. I heard of Hop Bitters, and was resolved to try them. I have only used three bottles, and I feel wonderfully good, well and strong again. My bowels are regular, my appetite good, aad cough all gone. I feel so well that I think it my duty to let the people know, as so many knew how bad I was, what the medicine has done for me, so they can cure themselves with it. Anna M. Krideb, Wife of Tobias Krider. It is customary in Zion Methodist churches for members to pass in front of the chancel rail at each Sunday morning service and lay on the treasurer’s table their contributions. Treasurer Hill on a recent occasion took his seat as usual in the Saratoga church. Pastor Taylor ordered brothers Lee and Bordley to remove him and take charge of the money. This was done amid great excitement. A Kansas man and woman have been married to each other once a year for four years, a divorce having separated them after each union except the last ohe.

Father is Getting Well.

My daughters say ‘-How much better lather is since he used Hop Bitters. He is getting well after his long suffering from a disease declared incurable, and we are so glad that he used your Bitters—A lady of Rochester, N. Y.

Chicago.

Flour—Steady with fiair demand. Grain—Wheat unsettled, but generally higher; No. 2 Chicago spring. $1 No, 3 Chicago spring, $1 08)|a ttejgv Oats unsettled, but generally higher; regular, fresh, 65c. Rye steady and unchanged. Barley steady and unchanged. J Provisions—Pork, fair demand but at lower rates; sl6 80al6 85 cash and April,sl7 00al7.02i^May ;sl7 2(>a1722)£ June. Lard, active but a shade lower, at $lO 65 cash and April; $lO 80a. 10 82>£ May; $lO 92)£ June. Bulk meats, easier; shoulders, $6 60; short rib, $9 65; short clear, $7 85. Whisky—Steady and unchanged at $1 18. Call—Wheat, firmer but not quotahigher. Corn, steady and unchanged. Oats, easier but market declined % to Mo. Lard, strong and higher at sl7 10 May; sl7 32>£ June; sl7 50a17 62)£ June. Hogs—Receipts, 14,000 head; shipments, 7,500; market good and demand leading upward and 10 cento higher; common to good mixed, $6 25 a 6 80; heavy packing and shipping, $6 90a7 45; light hogs, $6 25a6 85, skips and culls, $6 00a6 10. Cattle —Receipts, 4,800; shipments,. 2,500; market strong and active and sto 10 cents higher; exports, $6 50a 7 25; good to, choice shipping, $5 85a 6 35; common to fair, $5 25a5 75; mixed butchers, $3 10a5 25, all sold; stockers and feeders slow and weak; common to fair, $3 25a4 25; good to $4 50a5 25. Sheep—Receipts, 4,000; shipments, 1,700; market strong, active ana and firmer; inferior to fair, $4 00a 5 50; good to choice, $4 00a5 75; lambs, $6 00a6 25. *

New York Dry Goods.

In jobbing trade reported actively yesterday there has been continued an increased scale, though buyers are less numerous than at corresponding seasons. Their selections comprised fuller and more miscellaneous assortments. Woodbury & David mills cotton, also Ravens cotton, Bear ravens and Manlona ravens light cotton, advanced lc per yard. Manville & Slater rolled Jaconets, reduced to 6o Cotton goods have been in quiet, but steady request, and through many moderate takings in the usual quota deliveries, business has been of good proportions. In brown and bleached cottons the supply has been much better conditioned than in colored goods, but the latter will show a change in a little while as there is a better feeling throughout the market and prices show a growing steadiness. Prints have been in good request and a fair business is daily recorded, although as in previous reports choice styles and specialties Jiave the preference. Dress goods are in daily request for moderate assortments of fancies and staples, underwear and hoisery quiet outside of the distribution in execution orders. Woolens in moderate demand, but the chief business is in through deliveries on orders. Foreign goods market fairly active in all departments, with novelties and specialties commanding general attention.

New York Produce.

Flour—Dull; superfine state and western, $3 BLa4 50; common to good extra, $4 50a5 10; good to choice, $5 15 a 8 50; white wheat extra, $7 00a8 60; extra Ohio, $4 65a8 00;St. Louis, $4 75a 8 60; Minnesota patents, $7 50a8 60. Grain —Wheat unsettled, opening at % to higher, afterwards lost advance and declined J£ to closing heavy; No. 2 spring, $134; ungraded red, $1 19al 44; No. 2 red, $1 old; $1 35; mixed winter, $135; ungraded white, $1 35al 40. Corn %to lc higher, afterwards los3 advance, closing weak; ungraded, 72a 78c; No. 3, 76: steamer, 76a77;N0. 3, new; old. Oats, W to %c higher, closing weak; mixed western, white western, 52 a6oc. Eggs—Western, fresh, higher and firm at 16c: Provisions—Pork, strong but quiet; new mess, sl7 37}£al7 62>£. Cut meats strong; long clear middles, $9 62>£; short, $lO 00. Lard weak; prime steam $lO 90al0 95.

Cincinnati.

Flour—Stronger; family,ss 65a6 00; fancy, $6 40a7 00. Grain —Wheat, strong and higher; No 2 red, $1 35 Corn, strong and higher at 71a71%c. Oats,strong and higher; No 2 mixed, 51 %c. Rye dull at 91c. Barley in fair demand at SIOO. Provisions—Pork, firm at $lB 00. Lard, dull but firm at $lO 70 offered. Bulk meats auiet at $6 62}£a9 t>o; bacon, in good demand at $7 62)£a 10 37>£. Whisky—Active and firm at $118; combination sales of finished goods of 761 barrels on a basis of $1 16. Butter—Stronger; choice western reserve, 31c; choice central Ohio, 33e. Hogs—Firmer and higher; common and and light, $5 50a6 85; packing and butchers, $6 40a7 30; receipts, 636; shipments, none.

Toledo.

Wheat strong; No. 2 spot, $1 36X* Corn strong; No. 2 spol, 69JgC. Oats inactive. Clover seed—No. 2, $4 60; prime, $4 80; prime mammoth, $5 75. Closed-r-Wheat but firm; No. 2 red spot, delivered, $1 36. Corn firm; high mixed, 70c bid; No. 2spot, 69%. .

East Liberty.

Cattlfe —Receipts, 340; market firm; best, $6 25(36 50; fair to good, $5 50($ 6 00; cornmoh, 4 60@5 00. Hogs—Receipts, 500; market firm ; Philadelphias, $7 50a7 60; Yorkers $6 75a7 00. Sheep— Receipts, 3,000; market firm and prices ranging from $5 00@6 50.