Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1882 — Page 2

CONGRESSIONAL.

SENATE. Washington, D. C., March 31. A bill was passed reimbuning Mr. Ingalls for the expenses incurred in defending his title to a seat. Mr. McMillan reported from the district committee the bill to incorporate the Garfield memorial hospital. .. • Consideration of the Indian appropriation bill was proceeded with. The bill was reported from committee of the whole and passed. After an executive session the senate adjouned till Monday. house. Mr. Randall offered a resolution granting the use of the rotunda and adjacent rooms to the ladies' national aid association for the Garfield memorial hospital for the first Saturday in May lor the purpose of holding a reception, the object being to raise funds for the association. Adopted. A joint resolution was passed approEriating SIOO,OOO to enable the secreiry of war to issue rations to persons rendered destitute by the overflow of the Mississippi river. house. Washington, April I.—Senate bill was passed to facilitate the payment of dividends to the creditors of the Freedman's savings and trust company. A bill was passed making St. Vincent, Minnesota, a port of entry. The amendments to the house bill to promote the efficiency of the lifecaving service were non-concurred in. A bill was reported making an appropriation of $150,000 to continue work on the Washington monument the next fiscal year. Ordered printed and recommitted.

SENATE. Washington, April 3.—The joint resolution was passed appropriating sl< ,000 fora monument over the grave of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, VaA bill was reported byMr.Garland to secure the safe keeping of money paid into any court of the United States. The bill for conversion or redemption of $lO refunding certificates was passed. It authorizes the secretary of the treasury, ill his decretion, to redeem at market price the balance of the certificates (about $500,000) which are redeemable with other coupon or registered bonds but have-not been E resented, to be put into outstanding onds. A fter an executive session the senate adjourned. ,

HOUSE. Bills were introduced: Appropriating $15,000 for a statistical report on the destruction of property in the Mississippi valley by the flood of 1882. By Mr. Mills—A resolution so to amend the rules as to exclude from the privileges of the floor ex-mem-bers of congress. Mr. Knott, of Kentucky, moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill authorizing the postmaster general to readjust tho salaries of postmasters of 3rd, 4th and sth classes, where the salaries have not heretofore been readjusted under the terms of section 8, of the act of June 12th, 1866. Agreed to—yeas, 149; nays, 43. . Mr. Dunnell, of Minnesota, moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill to amend the laws relating to internal revenue. Agreed to. SENATE.

Washington, April 4.—Mr. Miller, from the committee on foreign affairs, reported favorably with amendments the bill to incorporate the Maritime canal company of Nicaraugua. Immediately after the receipt of the president’s message vetoing the antiChinese bill, the president pro tern, suspended the operation of business to lay the communication before the senate, and directed it to be heard. HOUSE. Mr. Chalmers introduced a bill amendatory of the apportionment bill, providing that no congressional district in a state shall contain 10,000 more population than another in the same state, unless such excess is necessary to prevent a sub-division of the county, but in no case shall the difference in population exceed 20,000, and until the states shall comply with this law representatives to the forty-eighth and subsequent congresses shall be elected from the same districts which elected them to the forty-seventh congress. Referred. The bouse then went into committee of the wholG on the army appropriation bill. Pending action on the appeals the committee rose. The speaker laid before the house a message from the president transmitting a communication from the secretary of state with regard to American prisoners in Ireland. Adjourned. SENATE. Washington, April s.—Mr. Saunders, from * the committee on territories, reported without amendment the bill lecently recommitted to that committee for the admission of Dakota into the Union. Placed on the calendar. The presidential count bill coding up as unfinished business, Mr. Farley moved to lay it aside and proceed with the consideration of the vetoed anti-Chinese bill. The Chinese bill was then taken up Without opposition. On tlffe question, “Shall the bill pass, notwithstanding the objections of the president?” the vote was ayes, 29; noes, 21. So the bill failed, two-thirds not having voted in the affirmative. HOUSE. The house went into committee of the whole on the army appropriation bill. A long discussion ensued touching W* merits of the court of plaims and

the quartermaster-general's department as the tribunal in wnicn claims should be adjudicated. It was enlivened by a brief speech by Mr. Bragg, of Wisconsin, who alluded to “rebel claims" as a bantling reared and fattened in a Republican tent until * the Republican party lost control of tne house. Then it had driven the bantling to a seat at the door of the Democratic tent, and said, we will cry "mad dog,” ana when we come back to power we will feed vou again. He intimated that the result of transferring claims to the court of claims would be to admit disloyal claims. The committee then rose and re ported the bill. .The bill then passed end the house adjourned.

Columbus, April 6 —Senate—Petitions received: For the Brigham bill; for the Smith Sunday bill. Bills passed: House bill allowing teachers’ certificates to be issued for two, three and five years without re-examina tion; house bill for an additional judge in Toledo; senate bill requiring unincorporated banks to return full lists of their securities. The bill passed yesterday to prevent grain and stock gambling was reconsidered. The Brigham bill, to prevent discrimination in freight and passenger rates, was lost, 13 to 18. House—Bills introduced: House bill increasing the pay of supreme court judges from $3,000 to $5,000; house bill authorizing the sale of certain land belonging to the blind asylum and the purchase of another tract; house bill providing for the proper accountability of fges, costs, debts, damages, etc., by clerks of courts and probate judges; house bill prohibiting mutual insurance companies from borrowing money or creating a debt; house bill allowing cemetery associations to appropriate six feet on either side of any public road for a sidewalk. The senate resolution was passed providing for adjournment on the 17th. The committee investigating the alleged bribery of members has finished taking evidence and will probably report to the house to-mor-row.

HOUSE. Washington April 7.—A resolution was adopted directing the committee on expenditures in the war department to inquire what, if any, abuses exist or have existed in the adjudication of claims in the quartermaster general’s or the commissarv general’s departments, and the third auditor’s office. Mr. Washburn, of Minnesota, submitted the conference report on the bill to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri river within five miles of St. Charles, Missouri. Agfeed to. The house then went into committee of the whole (Mr. Robinson in the cha : r) on the tariff commission bill. Mr. Haskell, of Kansas, advocated the passage of tho bill, and when he had concluded his speech, the house took a recess. The night session is lor the consideration of pension bills.

Forty Snow-Slides in Two Canyons.

On the 15th inst. a snow-slide occurred in Lake canyon, burying many persons, four of whom were killed. The-e bodies were recovered and left on the snow, and were again buried by another slide the following night. Between last Wednesday and Saturday more than forty snow slides occurred in Lake and Mill creek canyons. Christian Habletzel was buried beneath eight feet of snow for nineteen hours. He was exhumed and found to be still alive, but there is faint hope of his recovery. At Tioga district a snow-slide buried twenty-one persons. All were dug out, but several are fatally injured. At Mill creek a snow-slide covered up ten people, -five of whom died. The storm impeded all travel. The stage from Hawthorne to Bodie, a distance of thirty-eight miles, was thirty-six hours on the road, and the stage from Bridgeport to Bodie was six hours making the last half mile into town.

Speaking Freely With the President.

A pretty good joke is told of a Missouri politician and lawyer, who, in company with a senator from his State, called on the President a day or two since. The Western politician, after he had been Introduced to the President, said to him: “Mr. President, I am very glad to meet you. It is the first time I ever had the pleasure of seeing you; in fact, you are the first President I ever saw. You look fatigued.” “Yes,” said the President, “I am annoyed very much, but the rush will be over pretty soon, I hope.” „The Weste n statesman said: “I have often heard of you, Mr. President, as being a very fine ward politician. I presume you had rather be out whooping the boys up than here, being as you are annoyed beyond measure for office.” The President laughed inordinately and said: “Yes.”

A Bight Smart Checker-Player.

James Wyllie.otherwise “The Herd Laddie,” arrived in this city last evening from St. Thomas, and is quartered at the Crosby Hotel. He proposes remaining in the city for some t me, and will give exhibitions of his wonderful powers on the checkerboard under the auspices of the Toronto Draught Club. Since his arrival in Canada (Jan. 21) he has played 1,007 games, of which he lost only one, fifty-nine being drawn and the remainder won. During his present sojourn in America he has played between 2,500 and 2,600 games,o' which he has won 2.300 and lost eleven, the remainder oeing drawn.—Toronto Globe.

Experiments With Sorghum

The Wisconsin legislature of last year passed a law authorizing a series of experiment at the experimental the State university at Madison, the appropriation being limited to experiments in making sorghum sugar and practically demonstrating the utility of ensilage. Prof. W. A. Henry, of the university, has just submitted his report of the experiments to Gov, Rusk, and the pamphlet is full of valuable information touching the subject referred to. The varieties of cane grown for the various trials included amber, early amber, (Kansas orange, Hedge's early orange, and Honduras. Prof. Swenson, the college chemist, superintended the experiments, and to his untiring zeal is largely attributed the un?ualified success which followed. rof. Swenson in his report says: ‘‘The chief object of the experiments conducted during the past year has been to demonstrate the practicability of making sugar from cane grown in this state. For this reason the work has been carried on in a thoroughly practical manner. My results are not based on theory. They do not show what might be done, but what has been done. The amount of sugar obtained is not deducted from the amount present in the cane or syrup, but represents what has actually been crystalized and separated as sugar.” It will be seen from the foregoing that the experiments have proved conclusively that sorghum sugar can be made with profit in Wisconsin, and that the farmers in that state have an additional source of income asssured to them. After describing in detail the machinery used, and the process by which the results were attained, Prof Swinson says: ‘‘A good yield of sugar may be obtained if the following rules are strictly adhered to: “First—Do not cut the cane until the seed begins to harden. “Second—Do not allow the cane to stand stripped in the field. “Third—Work up the cane as soon as possible after being cut. - “Fourth—Defecate the juice as soon as possible after leaving the mill. “Fifth—Fnr defecation use milk of lime, freed from coarse particles by straining; add it gradually to the juice with vigorous stirring, until a piece of red litmus paper is turned to a pale purple. “Sixth—Heat the juice quickly to the boiling point, as shown by the swelling and breaking of the scum. “Seventh —Remove the scum after allowing the juice to remain quiet for five minutes. “Eighth—Draw off the clear juice through an aperture near the bottom of the defecator, into the evaporating pan.“Ninth—Add sulphuric acid to clear the juice until a piece of blue litmus paper is reddened. “Tenth —Evaporate down until it reaches a density of 45 degrees B, or, if boiled in an open pan, to a boiling temperature of 234 degrees F. “Eleventh—Place in a warm room to crystaline, and in about a week it will be ready to separate.” The question whether cane-sugar can be profitably manufactured from northern cane is one of immense importance to this country. That there is much evidence against it to overcome is evident. There are men to whom the bare idea seems ridiculous. In the face of these difficulties, however. Prof. Swinson ventures to state that if skillfully conducted the manufacture of sugar from this cane will certainly pay. He has been unable to give definite figures as to the cost of production, and advocate the system of large central factories. Prof. Swinson says in reply to the question, “Can the farmer make his own sugar?” “Most certainly not, if profit is to be considered. A farmer might have a mill and make his own patentErocess flour, but it would not pay im. His business is rather to grow the wheat, while skilled men attend to the milling.”

Wealth in Walnut Trees.

Jacksonville, 111., April 3.—Mr. C- B. Wilson drove me out to his farm today to see some black walnut trees. “These trees,” he said, “were planted from the seed twenty years ago. I saw them planted.” I measured these trees and they were sixteen inches through. They would saw into timber a foot square. They would cut 300 feet of clear black walnut boat ds and then have the tops, limbs, and stump left. The stump itself would sell today for $5 to be sawed into veneers. The board |would be worth S3O. “What could you sell those trees for to timber men as they stand?” I asked. “I could sell them for $25 per tree, and then year from now they will be worth $50.” From these facts I came to the conclusion : A black walnut tree will pay $1.25 per year for the first twenty years. A thousand of them will pay $1,200 per year. Now, every Illinois farmer has it in his power to make more money off of a row of black walnut trees around his farm, than he can make on his farm if sowed to wheat. How can he doit? This way: A farm of 160 acres would be 10,560 feet in circumference. Now plant walnut trees four feetapart all around it and you will have 2,760 trees; which vill be worth $26 apiece in twenty yeais. Again, a farmer can set all of his sloughs, low places, and all hog pastures into blaci walnuts. Two thousand handsome walnut trees growing on a farm would be worth $50,000 in twenty years, and would not interfere with the farm at all. Orange raising in Florida will not pay half so well as bleck walnut raising in Illinois. \ “How should black walnuts be

planted?" I asked Mr. Bates, a nurseryman at Whitehall, 111. “The easiest way,” he said, “is to strike the ground With a common hammer in the fall, make a round hole two inches deep and drop the walnut in. It will cover itself with leaves and dust. The debris over the kernel will be so light that the sprout will be no trouble in finding its way out” “What would you do after they come up in the spring?” I’d go around and put a shovelfhll of saw dust, tan-bark, grain-chaff, or straw around each sprout. This will keep the roots damp and kill the grass or weeds around the roots. A boy could plant a thousand trees in a day in this manner. I'd plant them twice as thick as I needed them, and then thin them out.”—[Chicago Tribune. /

The Weather for April.

Scattered snowfalls about the Ist. On the 3rd and 4th, generally fine, warm weather, with frosty nights in portions of Canada and Northern New York. Unusual warmth in Western sections during the first week. Showers and snowfalls probably about the 6th or 7th (good Friday). Cool and unsettled weather may occur again, with cool nights and frosts in some sections. General signs of an advanced season about the Bth of April. On the 9th (Easter Sunday), 10th and 11th, fine warm and dry weather, with every prospect of speedy opening of navigation in Northern sections. A cold wind may set in tor a ray or two abaut the 12th. Very little rain so far < n the 13th. On the 14th and 15th. altogether, a fair, warm to hot week. The 16th—chance to cloudy and possibly cooler weather, with showers or indications of rain. Navigation probably will open on the St. Lawrence River the second week in April. Latter portion of week colder, with rain, sleet and probably snow in Northern sections, and particulary in in lower St. Lawrence and New York State about the 20th or2l. Fine warm to hot and dry weather on and after the 22d. 23d—Probable change to warmer and generally dry weather. Indications of storms, probably with high winds, with cooler and stormy weather in the West. Altogether a warm and dry week in the majority of sections. Not at all like usual April weathor on the 27th. Change to cool and rainy weather after the 28th day. 30th—Colder weather, with rain and snowfalls, in some Northern portions, probably ushering in a cold and wet May. April looks as if it might enter white in Northern sections, and very black with frost in some Western and Southwestern localities. There are indications of periods of unusual heat, which will cause rapid and premature advance of vegatation. Late and severe frosts are probable in the South and Soutiiwestdrn sections of the United States and in portions of Canada. April will likely be more of a spring or early summer months than May.

What Our Ancestors wore.

Ancient writers are agreed that the fashions in dress were carried to a great degree of extravagance between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, and that in spiti of the frequent and bitter denunciations of the clergy. A certain French monk, one Thomas Cooeete, is said to have fulminated against the steeple headdress of the reign of the fourth Edward; and so powerful was the effect of his eloquence that the women were wont to throw down their finery upon the church floor and make a bonfire of the same at the end of the sermon. The zeal of the preacher extended itself to the populace, and to awhile when ladies appeared in this headdress in public they were exposed to be pelted by tpe rabble, and, slyly adds the chronicler, the fashion disappeared for some time, but when the preachor left the neighborhood “the women, who like snails in' a fright, had drawn in their horns, shot them out again as soon as the danger was over.” The coaser and more biting the satire the less permanent effect it seems to have had oh the maids and matrons of the olden time. As the Norman knights introduced into the language most of the terms expressive of elegance and and luxury, their ladies imported fine clothes into England, and, more hateful in the sig*ht of lecturers on dress in its relation to hygiene than the finest of fine clothes, they first taught the native women to wear stays. Not content with confining their slender waists in a kind of feminine armor they brought in long trains and sleeves cf enomous length, sometimes hanging down to the ground, or tied in knots a little above the knee. To the student of historical pictures it must remain an abiding mystery how the gallants of the reign of good Queen Bess made anything but vocal love to the ladies of theli choice. What with hoops,stomacher, stuff petticoat, and ruff, the fair ones appear to haue been safe even from the most chaste salute within the impregnable fortress of the then prevalent fashion. Our great grandmothers—their heads dressed a couple of feet high from the crown’ in imatation of a man-of-war in full sail, their faces painted, patched, and powdered, their bodies incased in stiff stays of wood, Iron, and bone, and farthingales extending to the circumference of a double hogshead, awkwardly hobbling on immensely high hedls, with the aid of long.chinatopped canes —were, if their shades will forgive a candid criticism, facinating old frights!

ELI PERKINS.

RIDING HABITS.

Directions That May he Useful but That Sound Awftilly MysteriousThe latest fashions in riding habits require that they shall be fifteS by a tauor, though a clever woman ma? do the work herself by attending closely to this discription of liar cut : On the left .Ide, InfS a gore taken across to make room for the knee. This gore is not straight across, but forms a curve, making a. kind of jacket for the knee to fit in The stde breadth is like that of an ordinary skirt, but the back one is peculiar in many respects. First, there is a small gore on the U| per part, which terminates and commences again on the middle of the skirt. These gores have the same object as the one over the knee—that is, to form a space for the figure, allowing for the skirt to set properly without adding to its fullness. Other wise the wearer might be bursted out of the saddle, on the principle of the boy whose trousers were made with no fullness in the seat, and therefore pushed him off the doorsteps every time he bent to get down decorously. Fashion dictates that the habit must fit snugly from neck to toes and be made from heavy cloth. This necessitates the easement which I have described. The skirt is perfectly tight around the waist and mounted on a piece of silk galloon. On the right side, between the front and back breadth, it opens, and is fastened by buttons and buttonholes, and on the inside of this open part is the pocket. In front is a band of elastic, for the foot to pass through, like a stirrup, to keep the skirt down. • Were it not for this the dress would push up in riding. Still, that would be no great disaster, for underneath are trousers half leather and half cloth. They are closed and buttoned on each side of the hips, something like the old fashioned, flap-fronted breeches of our granddadies. The upper part is buckskin, and the legs are cloth, like the dress. The waist has two gores in front and a small side piece. The style is to be as flatbreasted as possible when on horseback. The side piece in the back is very narrow. The back has no seam down the centre, and forms a small basque, with the sids pieces falling over it and fastened on the inside of the pleat. The side pieces of the back and the back itself are thus joined by being placed one over the other. The buttons' should be very small and round. The tight sleeves button over at the wrist. On the lower part of the waist behind are three tongues with buttonholes, fastened to buttons placed a little below the belt of the skirt. The same arrangement is on the B?am under the arm. By this means the waist remains in the same place, no matter what movement there* may be in riding. Many women use fancy styles for riding habits, but such things do not last, and the plain dress is always elegant. Skirts have no more long trains as they formerly had. For a moderately tall figure the long side of the skirt is about a yard and a half, while the short one is rather more than a yard.

The embarrassments under which charitaby disposed eople frequentlv labor are shown by the case of a poor family applying for relief i n Erie. The mother came on a wintry day, clad in thin calico, and received twelve dollars with which to minister to the necessities of her povertystricken household. The poor woman was so pleased with this stroke of good luck that she immediately invested seven dollars in a nice new bonnet. Some time ago a Bucks county charitable committee gave a poor family fifteen dollars. The family consisted of a mother and three good-looking children. On receiving the money they went in a body to the photographer’s, in order to secure a picture showing how happy they looked while they had plenty of cash. They felt like millionaires as long as the,appropriation lasted, which, of course, was not a great while. In Ne/ada a liberal man, who took a notion to do a good deed, gave a melancholy one an order on the grocer for twentv-five dollars, payable in goods. The liberal man expected the melancholy man to make the best use of this in providing creature comforts for his suffering family. Instead of this the prodigal beneficiary succeeded in worrying out of the grocer ten dollars in cash and in getting from him fifteen dollars’ worth of wine and chocolate. Such cases are enough to make the liberal look closely at their cash before parting with it, or else follow it sharply to see what goes with it.

Colonel Bachelder, who is prepar* ing an official history of the battle of Gettysburg, with a view of getting the fullest and most accurate Infor* mation, has called two meetings of participants in the battle, to be held on the battle-ground itself. The (first will take place June 7, and will in* elude soldiers, Confederate and Union who took part in the fighting near £each orchard, Wheatfield, Devil’s ien, or Round Top. The second, to be held June 14, will include those who were engaged in the first day’s battle. All veterans. Union and Confederate, of any rank, who fought" on those occasions are invited to be present. "Fifteen special policemen from thfe Albany iron works, marshaled by Sergent Lem Hurlbut, and accompanied clerks Norman Shavek and Smith, formed a procession Saturday, carrying bags of gold on then shoulders through Albany streets.Themoneywas taken from the Albany City National bank, of v*hich Erastus Corning is president. The gold bearers who bad about >90,000 in their care, attracted much attention.