Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1882 — Page 2

RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN. MARSHALL * OVEBICEEB, Proprietors RENSSELAER, IND.

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Fifty thousand dollars in silver bars /was exported yesterday. The New York and Brooklyn excise bill has passed the assembly. Secretary Hunt says he will tWve for St. Petersburg about the Ist of May. Amnesty will be granted the insurgents in Herzegovinia who return home. The Free canal resolutions ascorrected by the New York Benatebave again passed the assembly. John M. Hubbard, of Chicago, has declined the appointment as treasury ’ agent at Seal Island, Alaska. The Boston friends of Mr. W. J. Florence are petitioning the president to give the comedian a consulship. Baroness Burdett-Coutts bade Jumbo a friendly good-bye, going to the dock tp give him his final dose of English buns. In Japan there is a society for the study of the French language which is about to publish in French a history of Japan. Hon. Paul J. Doneghy, representative in the Kentucky legislature from Boyle county, and a Mexicjn war veteran, is dead. Edward Olmstead, a prominent young lawyer -of Wilmot, 0., was waylaid, badly beaten and robbed near Beach City, Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, of New York, has given a house and grounds complete on the south shore of Long Island, to be used as a place of summer resort for the poor children of that city. The hearing on the petition of Sergeant Mason for a writ of habeas corpus before the United States supreme court, will come off on Monday next. The application at Chicago for the appointment of a con-ervator of the estate of the murderer of President Garfield has been denied by the court. The man who “bunkoed” Charles Francis Adams out of SIB,OOO was Gilbert Fitzgerald. He was raised in Milwaukee, and has many wealthy relatives there. Mr. Nat Pepper, a former Cincinnatian, and the oldest son of the late Capt. James H. Pepper, well known in marine citcles, died in Milan, Texas, on the 10th inst. An edition de lure of Thackery’s works will soon be published by Estes & Lanriat. There will be only 250 copies in the edition, which will have 217 illustrations. Dr. Harmon Schroeder, of Bloomington, 111., recognised authority on fruits, says the damage to fruit throughout central Illinois is much greater than is generally supposed. William Beck, aged twelve, of Racine, Wis., shot himself fatally because after having been out late on the preceding night his father woke him with harsh works in the morning. J. E. Millais has been elected foreign associate in the French academy of fine arts, in place of the Italian sculptor Dupre, lately dead. Millais’ comSititors were .Franz Liszt and the elgian sculptor, Guillaume Beefs. President Keep denied to a reporter that Chicago & Northwestern intend to build an extension to Denver, but says the intention is to push the system into the northwest, and will even neglect the Black Hills territory for the present. The official returns of the United States consulate at Sheffield ol exports to the United States for the quarter ending March 31,shows an increase of £33,344. The improvement is chiefly in steel and steel rails. Mr. John Russel Young, the new minister to China, is to be dined by the Harrison literary association, of Philadelphia, on Saturday evening, and by the Philadelphia Stylus club, which is composed of journalists, on the following Monday evening. The Council Bluffs, lowa, Nonpareil has reports of the wheat crop from western lowa which shows that little winter wheat has been sown but the prospect is very flattering. No locality reports less wheat sown than last year, and in some cases the average is 3334 per cent, greater. Frank A—Judd, aged 36, son of N. B. Judd, of Chicago, ex-minister to Russia, was declared insane and sent to an asylum. He was engaged in«a lead mine in Colorada and contracted lead poisoning, causing paralysis of one side of his body and brain. His friends hope to cure him. The Catholic clergy of the diocese of Cashel and Emly have passed res olutions pledging themselves to exert all their influence to prevent outrages, and demanding a cessation of the coercion and the eviction of tenants for arrears of rent, and also pledging themselves to co-operate with the people’s representatives with the object of securing an amendment to the land act. At Charleston, 8. C., the steamer Planter exploded her boiler just after leaving the dock. Jake Washington, a colored deck hand, was killed -and L. F. Bosong and W. T. Ham, mate and engineer, were seriously scalded. Two co.ored men were slightly injured. No passengers were hurt. The vessel and cargo are slightly damaged.

INDIANA.

Madison is having a spiritualistic revival. Kendallville has a ten months old pig that milks a cow as perfectly as a calf could. In every county where the proposition to buy the toil roads was voted upon it was defeated. Lafayette is soon to have an extensive match factory if pending negotiations do not fall through. Mr. Edward Harbesoq, of Jeffersonville, by the death of a relative in Louisville, has fallen heir to $13,000. Lewis Butch, a saloon-keeper at South Bend, was killed yesterday morning by being run over by the cars. Hermann Bahr, a mechanic in the Barnet iron works at Lafayette had an eye whipped out by a flying piece of steel on Saturday. The Indianpolis Central Bank has closed. This is caused by a loss of $30,000 through the dishonesty of the late teller, Arthur Mueller. Mrs. Ellen Walton, charged with the murder of her husband, was released on bail at Greensburg on Saturday, the bond being SIO,OOO. L. K. Hill, a citizen of Centerville, was frightfully injur, d yesterday afternoon by his team running away. He had his arms and three ribs broken. The Madison Courier, of Thursday, contains a touching sketch of the home-life of the late Colonel Garber, written by his son Michael, the present managing editor. The experts employed to investigate the books of ex-County Treasurer Gibson, of Delaware county, have filed their report, showing a shortage of $14,000 and over. Gibson has not yet been arrested. “Four Columbus faro banks were busted the other day, and one could hardly get a calm answer from any citizen in the town. Every one argued that it was the beginning of another financial crisis.” On Thursday morning, at New Albany, Charles Chapman, a street-car driver, was shot by Lee A.. Beckham, Assistant Superintendent of the street-car company. The shooting was iu self defense. Chapman may recover. The Supreme Court has decided that Mrs. Ellen V. of being a party to the murder of her husband should be let tc bail. It is said that the citizens of Greensburg are greaCjr incensed over this decision. A stock sompany, with a large c ipital, is now being organized to construct an opera bouso and hotel at New Castle. It is designed to commence operations at an early day, and push the enterprise with all the speed money can command, and have the premises ready for occupation by fall. A man named John Lawson was run over, early this morning, near Chesterton, by a Lake Shore train, and instantly killed. He had been in that place last night drinking and showing a considerable sum of money, from which a suspicion arises that he was murdered and robbed, and placed upon the track to conceal the crime. The Coroner is holding an inquest. The Greenfield Democrat says: “Some days ago, at the funeral of his father, a son wanted the silver plate, marked “Our Father,” removed from the casket, saying that he did not want that mqch silver buried. This same son, when asked for two silver half dollars to be placed over his father’s eyes to close them, said that if he let them go he wanted some one to be responsible for them. He marked the money, so he could identify it. - A few weeks since, a man representing himself to be George E. Strong, and a member of Mercer Masonic Lodge, St. Mary’s Ohio, applied to the Martinsville Lodge for relief, which was granted, his evidence of good standing seeming go id. Inquiry afterward developed the fact that he was an imposter, and he was arrested, fov nd guilty of obtaining money Under false pretenses, and sentenced to Jeffersonville for four years. One day last week, says the Atica Ledger, a woman living a few miles south of town, whose name we could not learn, went to a neighbor’s leaving her six months’ babe sitting on the floor with a piece of dried beef in in its hands. The house cat took posession of the beef, and the smell *on the babe’s fingers caused it to commence eating them. The two first fingers were badly lacerated, and the cat was Btill at work when the mother returned. The child is not serious--ly iujured. Indianapolis Journal: There is some speculation, together with a great deal of complaint, as to when the Revised Statutes will be issued and ready for distribution. A Journal reporter who, yesterday, took the trouble to look into the matter, was authoritively Informed that it was highly probable that the work would not be completed before some time in May. It was claimed that the prolonged delay was to be attributed to the slow manner in which the printers were working, together with the immense amount of work being put upon the index of to the volume. The work will be quite volumnious, numbering fully 1,800 pages. It has been in preparation for several months, and the impression is prevalent that there has been a great deal of needless delay in its publication. The State officials are receiv ng complaints in larger numbers, and It seems that the admonition of patience In the matter has almost ceased to be tolerable.

DISHORNING CATTLE.

It is not generally known, perhaps, that firing the poll of a calf when quiteyoung will prevent the horns from growing, and make a veritable polled animal of it. The operation is not as painful or cruel as that of castration, which all admit to be necessary. It is thought, by those well qualified to jndge, that it is Dot even as painful as the ordinary branding so extensively and universally employed over the grazing districts of the West. A veterinarian recently stated, in the Breeders’ Gazette, that it would serve no useful purpose to teach people the correct method of performing this operation. A writer replies to him in the same journal, as follows: Would it be more painful than firing the tendons of a horse? or the practice, so common is some sections of branding? How much more painful is it than to insert a ring in the sensitive membrane of the nose? Is it humane to allow aD animal of immense power to develope a strong, sharp weapon with which to inflict terrible wounds upon human beings, upon norses and colts, or upon its own kind? Does not every bovine that reaches maturity with horns inflict more pain, in the barnyard or at the watering trough, than would have resulted in firing its poll? The first colt ever bred by the writer lost its life by a thrust from a “harmless cow.” This winter another was severely injured and suffered intense pain for weeks—more pain than wosld have resulted in firing the polls of a whole herd of calves. The removal of horns from mature animals must, of course, be condemned as a general practice; but the preventive treatment in calves will soon be regarded as necessary and humane. A 9 the doctor says, “The absence of horns in cattle is certainly a considerable advantage to the farmer the feeder, breeder and shipper, for reasons which are too obvious to need any explanation.” Is it not a fact that these num erous and obvious reasons place the repression of horn growth in the category of proper and necessary operations? The temporary pain of which is fully justified by the increased safety of human beings. Castration, a much more painful and dangerous operation, can be justified by no more or cogent reasons. As the doctor deems it improper to describe the operation, permit me to offer the following, which lie can correct if erroneous in any particular: Before the horn makes its appearance clip the hair from both sides of the poll over the spot where the horn grows; take an ordinary firing iron, or any pointed iron that can be kept hot, and mark over the clipped space three or four lines each way, being careful not to burn through the skin, as this is needless, if there is any horn growth after this it will be simplv a nubbin, and a second firing would prevent this. Perhaps the doctor knows a better method; if he does, he can render the cattle breeders no greater ser - vice than to de-cribe it. There is no breed of cattle so good but what they would be better without horns, and the day will come when bovine horns w ill be regarded as a curious relic of barbarism. Now permit me to gently call in question the doctor’s dictum that this practice would not establish a breed of hornless cattle. Why have underground fish no eyes? Why have domesticated cattle smaller horns than wild? Nature is an economist; she ceases to produce what is needless; she conforms the organs and shape of animals to their surroundings. Man can guide and expedite these tendencies. An accidental variation is often transmitted. The persistent repression of a growth that natural pauses are gradually reducing will surely aud certainly result in its total extinction. A cross from the Jersey to the Short-horn unites the efforts of two breeds to diminish Uorn production, and the result at most is only a stub. Add to this the constant sid#,of man in destroying a feeble growth, and nature would soon cease alt effort.

Barnum’s Young Monkey.

A pretty faced and intelligent looking little monkey called Minnie, belonging to the Barnum show, pressed dimiuative image of herself to her breast yesterday, and cast halfaffrighted glances through the bars at the crowds. “Minniepresented Jock, the father, with twins yesterday.” explained Keeper Bpm Hodges. “Both were females. One never drew the breath of life, but the other, safe and well in its loving mother’s arms, will doubtless grow up the pride of its parents.” When Mr. Hodges arrived at the Garden Sunday morning he found Minnie with a babe in either arm. One was limp and motionless, but the other was applying itself industriously to the task of extricating nourishment from the maternal breast. Mr Hodges mounted the stepladder to take away the dead babe, and Jock, the father, who was in the next compartment in “murder’s row,” became greatly excited He almost succeeded in wrenching open the door, and he did succeed in grabbing Mr. Hodgps by the hair of the head. He pulled unmercifully, and only by vigorous action in compelling him to release his hold did Mr. Hodges save himself from premature baldness. When he had caused Jock to relax his grasp, Mr. Hodges reached into Minnie’s compartment and took her lifeless infant from her. She cried like a child at the loss, while the tears coursed down her cheeks. She was nearly distracted,and, with her live offspring in her right hand, extended at arm’s length, ran into the far corner of the cage. She moaned and wailed for a while, but finally dried her eyes when she saw she was safe from further interference, and gave her undivided attention to her young. All aay long yesterday she held her babe tightly

in her arms, and was as solicitous for its welfare as any mother could be. tifr. Hodges said it was the first time win monkeys were born in captivity. The surviv'ng twin is about 5 inches in length, with a tail about an inch longer than itself, an abnormally developed head, and a perfect picture of its mother. Minnie is 4 years old and weighs about 15 pounds. She was brought from Africa when a year old. Jock the father, has reached the age of 10 and weighs 20 pounds. He was captured when 4 years old.—[N. Y. Times.

Utah Wedded Bliss.

It was a soft balmy night in spring, the burning sunset was hanging its golden tapestries across the mellow west, and the electric light was just beginning to flz and spit along the main streets when Elder Snoozer was sitting in the elegant boudoir of widow Smith, whose rich b.own eyes and desirable real estate penetrated the bachelor’s inmost thoughts. “Can you, Sarah,” he said, throwing his enormous hand upon her shoulder, on the further side, “come to my Dome in the Second ward, where I will be your slave?” “Will that squint-eyed first wife of yours be made to stand around when I come?” “When your dulcet voice sounds through the ancestral halls Hannah will get to the coal-bin. She will have about five hours sleep a day and work for you the balance of the time.” Inside of the week they pass through the Endowment house where Elder Wells made them one. Old Snoozer took in a fine piece of real estate with a good looking woman, and was happy. Two years passed, and the ance beautiful Sarah, bending over the washtub and lamming the endowment robe of the third wife viciously against a tree until the suds falling over the tender flowers gave them new life in the hot July sun, is the sort of picture the passing bullwhacker contemplates. “How do you like the new deal?” asks the first wife, who is chopping wood hard by. And the language of wife No. 2 is not fit to print in a family newspaper.—[Salt Lake Tribune.

RAW MEAL.

An Illinois Man Stealing to Save Bis Family From Starvation. There are many cases of destitution in this city and vicinity, the result of the recent high waters, and the most harrowing tales of suffering come to our ears from every source. It seems that the most destruction was caused on the Illinois side of the Wabash River, above this city, about the line dividing Lawrence and Crawford Counties, in Illinois. One of the most wretched cases was detailed to the Enquirer correspondent by a person of undoubted veracity. A poor laborer, with a family of children who had not had food for two entire days, went to a mill in the neighborhood to ask credit for a twenty five pound sack of corn-meal For reasons the propriety of which is not necessary to discuss, the miller refused. The man, driven to desperation by the vision of his starving little ones which arose before his eyes, seized a sack of the coveted meal and hastened toward his heme as fast as his legs could carry him. The miller did not give chase, but went instead to a Constable and sent him to the house of the hungry thief to either bring the meal back or arrest the man. The Constable set out on his mission and arrived at the home of the starving family in time to witness a most extraordinary sight. Fearing pursuit, and impelled by hunger to “make hay while the sUn shone,” figuratively speaking, the man, woman, and children were mixing np the meal with cold water and eating it raw, fearing that delay necessary to its cooking would be disastrous. The Constable, disgusted with the motive of his visit, quietly stole away, leaving the poor people in the enjoyment of their meal, to tell the hard-hearted mill* r that another officer than he must be selected to make the desired arrest. —Irring 111. Argo.

An Unfortunate Sparrow.

On the north sijie of the public square stands a post-lamp of the Brush electric light, which has been disused since the mast system went into operation, a couple of weeks ago. This glass globe had been broken, and itoccured to a sparrow to build her nest inside. Things went smoothly until the electric company tried the experiment of shutting off' the mast light, aud turning on the electric current to the post-lamps. Mrs. Sparrow was bewildered for an instant by the iqtense flood of light, but true to her game nature, she flew at the hissing intruder with vengeful intent. That ended the story. The carbon burned on serenely, and birdie lay very quiet at the bottom of the globe. She will never chirp again. Playing Ajax was not in her line.—[Cleavland Sunday Sun.

Change of Kind.

I declined to insert your advertisement of Hop Bitters last year, because I tlien thought they might not be promotive of the cause of Temperance, but find they are, and a very valuable medicine, myself and wife having been greatly benefitted by them, and I take great pleasure in making them known. REV. JOHN SEAMAN, Editor Home Sentinel, Afton, N. Y. Dr. Lamson as written an account of his moveme o. at abcu the time of his visit to W 8 bledon, just before the death of you m g John,but many of the statements therein have been proven untrue. The defense obtained evidence from servants employed by the doctor while at Bownemouth. All depose to eccentric acts on the E&rt of the prisoner and to the elief that he is insane.

Chicago.

Flour—Strong and higher; common to choice western spring, $4 55»c 00 • common to fauey Minnesota. S 5 00a 7 50; patents, $7 50a® 75. Grain—Wheat excited and higher but closed rather easier; No 2 Chicago spring, $1 35al 36;N0 8 Chicago spring. $1 10)*al 1334 5 rejected, 78a82c. Corn active, firm and higher at 73%a75%[c Oats strong and higher; for futtfrede-' livenes, 5134 c. Rye fairly active and a shade higher at 82a84c. Barley quiet but firm at sllO. Flax seed—Moderately act!vi and higher; poor to good crushing, $1 00a 135; choice western sowing. sl4oa 1 50. Provisions—Pork unsettled but generally higher at $lB 20al8 25 cash and April; $lB 1734*18 20 May; sl7 3734 a 18 40 June; $lB 5734a18 60 July. Lard unsettled but generally lower at sll2s)4asl] 30 cash and April: sll 32%a1l 35 May; sll 45a1l 4734 June; sll6oall 62)4 July; sll 7q August. Bulk meats unsettled but generally v- lower; shoulders $7 2j5; short rib, $lO 25; short clear, $lO 45. Butter—Easier; creamery 33a40c; dairy 25a35. Eggs—Quiet but steady at 1334 c. Whiskey—Steady and unchanged at $1 19. Freights—Corn to Buffalo, 2%c. Call— Wheat active, firm aud higher at $136. Corn active, firm and higher at 74c. Oat ■ strong and higher at 42%c. Pork demand active and prices have advanced; $lB 25 May; $lB 52>4 June; $lB 70 July. Lard strong ana higher; sll 40 May; 11 52)4 all 55 June; sll 65a1l 67> 2 July: sll 7234 August. Hogs—Receipts, 22,000; shipments, 7,500; dull at 6 to 10c lower; about all sold; common to good mixed, $6 60a 7 10; heavy| packing and shipping, $7 10a7 65; light, $6 66a7 10; skips and culls, $5 50a6 50. Cattle—Receipts, 5,500; shipments, 2,700; very active, rather excited and 10c higher; exports, $7 40a7 65; good to choice, $6 60a 7 25; common to fair, $5 80a6 60; mixed butchers strong and active at $3 00a5 50; cows, $3 75a5 00; bulls, $3 00a5 75; distillery cattle, $6 20 a 7 50; stockers and feeders, $3 35a4 60. The yards are well cleared. Sheep—Receipts. 1,400; shipments, 2,600; market active and strong and 10 to 15c higher; common to choice shorn. $5 75; poor to medium wooled, $5 75a6 50; good to choice, $6 50a6 90.

New York Produce.

Flour—Steady aud unchanged. Grain—Wheat 1 to 3c higher; excited and unsettled; No. 2 spring, $1 35; No 3 do, $1 24%; ungraded red, $1 20al 25; No 4 red, $1 26; No 2 red, $1 41al 41% in store; $1 43%al 44% new; $1 42% al 44% old; No. 1 red, $1 48%; winter, $1 37: ungraded white, $1 30al 3734; No 2 white, 138%. Corn opened 34 to %c higher and excited; ungraded, 84a 87%c; No 2, 85a8534c instore; 86a8f>34 c elevator; 86a8734e delivered. Oats % to 34c higher ;mixed western, 59a60>4; white western, 60a63e. Eggs—Western fresh, firm at 17a 1734Provisions—Pork firm; new mess, $lB oOalß 1234- Cut meatß quiet but stronger; long clear middles, $lO 59a 10 75; short do, sll 2234. Lard stronger; prime steam, sll 60. Butter—Dull and weak at 12a39c. Cheese—Quiet but firm at 80,1234 c.

Baltimore.

Flour—Unchanged and firm. Grain—Wheat, western, opened higher but closed a shade easier; No. 2 winter red spot $142 asked; April, sl4l bid; May, $1 42 asked; June, 1 37%@1 S7H J July, $1 21%@1 21>£ ; August, $1 19 asked. Corn, western, firm and inactive; mixed spot. bid; May, 83}£@83%c; June, 83>£c; July, 83%@83%c. Oats, higher aud active; western white, 63@65c; mixed, 60(262c; Pennsylvania. 62@65c. Rye, dull at 9 J(295c. Hay—Unchanged. Provisions —Firm and unchanged. Butter—Weak and lower; western packed, 18 @4oc; roll, 25@3Jc. Eggs—Quiet at 16@17e. Petroleu m—U nchanged. Coffee—Dull; red cargoes, 8%@9%c. Sugar—Firm; A soft, 10c. Whisky—Higher at $1 22.

Cincinnati

Flour—Firmer but not higher. Grain —Wheat firm and higher; No. 2 red, $1 33. Corn, stronger at 78% a7934c. Oats,strong and higher at 53%e. Rye, scarce, firm and higher at 92)4a 93c. Barley, scarce and firm, held at $1 05. Provisions—Pork, quiet and firm at $lB 50. Lard, quiet at $1125. Bulk meats, good demand at $7 12)4al0 20. Bacon, in good demand at sßall2sa 1175. - Whisky—Firm at $1 17; combination sales of finished goods, 633 barrels on a basis, sll7. Butter —Firmer; choice western reserve, 32c; choice common Ohio, 25c. Hogs—Firm, common and light, $5 60a7 10; packing and butchers, $6 65a7 50; receipts, 690; shipments, 296.

Toledo.

Noon board—Wheat dull; No. 2 red spot April, $1 35. Corn dull; high mixed, 79c; No. 2. spot, 77%c. Oats quiet; No. 2,54 c. Closed—Wheat strong; No. 2 red spot $1 85)4' bid. Corn firm; high mixed, 80c; No. 2 spot, 78%a79c.

Detroit.

Flour—U nchanged. Grain—Wheat quiet but firm; cash, $1 32: April and May, $131%; June, $ i 28% bid: July, $1 23% ; August 2 and September, $110: year,sl 08; No. - red,sl 35; No. 2 white, no sales; re. ceipts, wheat,l,Boo; shipments, 1,100 —— Representative Alien, of Missouri, died yesterday morning.