Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1882 — Page 6

RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN. MARSHALL AOVERACKER, Proprietors RENSSELAER, : : IND.

Ingersoll has been offered and accepted SIOO,OOO to deliver one hundred lectures. Morrill, of Vermont, is the senior senator of the United States senate in age. He is seventy-two. The man who predicts a cold summer is very numerous just in the eolumns of the weekly press. The inventor of our modern telephone admits that the Chinese knew of such an instrument three hundred years ago. Miss Ada Sweet has been nominated to be pension agent at Chicago at a salary of $4,000 per year. “Sweets to the Sweet.” Thirty-one ladies voted at the recent school election in Madison, Neb. A vile and slanderous local paper remarks that the candidate who had the loveliest mustache was elected. A new guide-book to Europe with six maps will soon be published in a volume small enough for the vestpocket. It will fujly represent the vest pocket full of knowledge that the average tourist brings home from Europe. Says the Pittsburg Post'. “The removal of Jesse Janies affords an opportunity to Cyrus W. Field to expand his taste for monuments. Jesse has more friends than Andre.” Yes, but the English nobility isn’t sweet on James.

The advocates of the auti-Chinese bill always estimate the earnings of the Chinese as a total loss to this country, wholly ignoring the fact that every dollar of their earnings necessarily represents its equivalent in labor performed—that is to say, in production of some kind. Mrs. Sarah J. Van Buren’s face now ornaments the columns of the press land. She ,is the discoverer of a “Ladies’ Tonic.” Sarah knocks the colored hosiery right oft of Lydia E. Pinkham for beauty and of course will sell the most medicine. A European art journal says that Mlle. Louise Abbema will send to the Salon this year four female figures representing the seasons. They are all portraits of celebrated actresses: Barretta posed for spring, Samary for summer, Bernhardt for aityimn, and Reichsmberg for this winter. This strikes us as liable to be a very thin picture of autumn.

The May Century presents the third of the five covers designed by Mr Vedder, the chief items of which are the figure of a young girl (Spring) with sunlight, flying bird, and a frame of blossoms, the three appropriate signs of the zodiac being combined aS before in a medallion at the left, and the blossoms are carried up into the borders of the title. ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ The legislature of Tennessee has evidently been vaccinated for the governorship and it has taken pretty thoroughly. Out of seventy-eight members whom a newspaper man tried to .interview, sixty-three refused to talk because they expected to be nominated for governor and didn’t want to oflend anybody, while the other fifteen were busy running for congress. ' A noted physician says many per sons simply by deep and rapid inhalation of pure air can become as intoxicated on oxygen as if they had taken .a drught of alcoholic stimulants. This, in connection with the fact that a scientific paper has proven that there is alcohol in rain water, should reduce the number of saloons. All a fellow will have to do is to go to the rain barr.4 with a section of gas pipe, and then take a breathing spell. It wont cost so much money.

Some of the English journals have been much exercised by the statement that found its way into the newspapers that Mr. Gladstone had recently gone to the London Tabernacle to hear Mr. Spurgeon preach, and that he had, after the sermon, gone to the vestry and, drank the preacher’s health in a glass of wine. When that story gets fairly started in this country we will read how Gladstone had the delirium tremens in the vestry and that Spurgeon was found dead drunk under the table. If the A merean Journalist can not improve on the English version then is our profession indeed in vain, I

INDIANA.

A madlson cat habitually adopts a young chiCK every year and rears it as tenderly as if it were its own offspring. •« Willie Summers, for a longtime engineer at the Terre Haute water works, was found dead in an alley the other night, from over indulgence in stimulants. Mr. M. D. Helm, an Indianian, business manager of the Washington Critic, has accepted the foremanship of the Congressional Record division of the government printing office. Frank Wright, a son of Mr. Carter C. Wright, of Evansville, car inspector of the E. and T. H. railroad, fell overboard off the tug Isabella on Thursday morping and was drowned. It seems that somebody at Kokomo has remembered Long’s request, and is trying to keep his grave green, A few meek wild de were lifted up their timid heads last Sabbath on the spot where the remains are buried. The mines in the vicinity of Stanton are still closed. Theie seems to be a determination both on the part of the miners and operatori. Some predict serious results if they continue closed for any length of time.

On Thursday, near Sum lan, a German carpenter by the name of Gideon Reible was killed by engine No. 58 C. 1., St. L. and C. It is supposed he sat down on the track and went to sleep. He was about thirty-five years of age. Hon. Joseph E. McDonald is one of the incorporators of the Florida Mill Land and Lumber Company, which starts out with a capital of $500,000 and 625,000 acres of timber land. There is not much politics in the scheme, but large prospective profits, built upon a yellow pine platform. Harry G. Thompson, a son of Col. R. W. Thompson, and George M. Allen have purchased the Terre Haute Express, the sale to take effect May 1. The paoer will be edited by Samuel P. Bullen, now of the Washington Capital, who will arrive soon. The price paid is unknown.

A six-year-old son of Mr, Joseph Geiman, residing a short distance northeast of Madison, met his death in a painful and distressing manner. He had a grain of corn in his mouth, and in coughing sucked it down his windpipe. It lodged in his lungs, causing hemorrhage, and resulted in death a few hours later. Two tramps, entered the residence of Jacob Ratclifte, at Greencastle, Saturday night, and, finding Mrs. Ratclifte alone, they demanded money. On her refusal to comply they choked her almost insensible, ransacked the nouse and left. A. A. Milligan, a liquor dealer of Muncie, is in trouble for shipping eighty-five whisky barrels to Cincinnati without removing the brand of the inspector. The penalty is severe unless he can show conclusively that there was no intent to commit fraud. Yesterday Mr. Paul Hendricks was fifty years old. He Is living in the same house he was born in, and yesterday he went into the same room in which he first saw the light and the same woman was there yesterday that was there fifty years ago.—Madison Star.

Will Beverly, of Henderson Ky., sot into an altercation with Frank 'inch, of Evansville, at a saloon in the latter place, and hit him over the head with a bluilt instrument, fracti ring his skull. Beverly was arrested, and Finch will probably die. A few nights since a serious cutting affray occurred at the Clarkesville school house, in Clarke county, in which Joseph Criswell was stabbed four times by Oscar Kelley. The wounds are considered quite dangerous. Kelly is still at large, having probably fled to Kentucky. George Higgins and Arm. Malone became involved in a quarrel over a game of billiards, in a saloon in Carlisle, when Higgins cut Mahone across the abdomen, letting his bowels out, from the effects of which he will die. Higgins was arrested and lodged in jail at Sullivan. The examination of Miss Asn an, of Albion, on charge of poisoning Mrs. Kettlebar, has been continued until May 15, for the purpose of allowing time to exhume the body and hold a post mortem examination. She was held to bail in the sum of $5,000, which she gave, and she has been released from jail. The township in which Columbus is situated on Saturday voted $70,000 to aid in the construction of the Columbus, Hope & Greensburg railroad. Work is already begun on the east end of the r >ad, and trains are prorflised to be running the entire line by May 1, 1883, or sooner if the bonds are immediately placed.

Geo. Sipes, aged ninety-one vears, died near Bedford a lew days" ago. He was born in Kentucky in 1791, and served in a Kent.ic cy regiment during the war of 1812, being present at the battle of New Orleans in 1815. He was one of thepioneer settlers of Lawrence county, and died upon the farm he cleared over 50 years ago. Julian Simonds was found lying dead on t’e pike about two miles south of Farmland, in Randolph county. There was a bulllet hole in the side of his head and a revolver lying near the body, with one chamber Mr, Simonds was a young man, twenty-eight or thirty years of age, and resided in Henry county. It is not, known whether, he committed suicide, or was murdered for his money.

CONGRESSIONAL.

SENATE. Washington, April 21—Mr. Blair, from the committee on education and labor, reported back the bill to aid in the establishment and temporary support of common schools. Discussion of the Mississippi river improvement bill was resumed, and Mr. McPherson advocated an increased appropriation of $15,000,000. The bin was then laid over as unfinished business The resolution for the appointment of three senators to investigate charges and complaints against internal revenue officials in the Sixth collection district of North Corolina, with power to compel the attendance of witnesses, &c., was adopted. After an executive session the senate adjourned until Monday. house. Washington. April 21.—The bill was passed fixing the second Tuesday in October as the time for the election of congressmen in West Virginia. At the evening session twenty pension bills were passed; also, bills giving condemned cannon for monumental purposes, including thirty cannon for a monument to General John Fulton Reynolds, twelve for a monument in Indianapolis to Oliver P. Morton and eight cannon captured from General Burgoyne to the Saratoga monument association. Adjourned till to-morrow. HOUSE. Washington, April 22.—A bill was passed authorizing the erection of a light on the tower of the Chicago water works crib. SENATE. Washington, April 24.—8i11s were passed: To provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of states and territories over the Indians and for other purposes, as amended on the motion of Mr. Dawes, by substituting for the clause exempting lands acquired by Indians from taxation for twenty-five years. The provision declaring the lands allotted for that period shall be held by the United States in trust for the benefit of the allottees or their heirs. The senate, after an executive session, adjourned. HOUSE. Washington, April 24.—Mr. Rboinson desired immediate consideration of the resolution concerning imprisoned American citizens, but the matter went over until to-morrow. A bill Was passed appropriating $ r 0,000 to be expended under the direction of the secretary of war and to be immediately available for the removal of obstructions from Hell Gate, New York. Under the call States many bills .were introduced and referred. The house then proceeded to the consideration of business relating to the District ol Columbia. On motion of Mr. Steel, of (Indiana, a bill was passed for the muster ana pay of certain officers of the volunteer service. Adjourned.

SENATE. Washington, April 27.—Mr. Sherman introduced a bill to regulate the coinage of standard silver dollars. It repeals so much of the act of February 28,1878, abthorizing the coinage of standard silver dollars and restoring the legal tender character, and directs the purchase and coinage into standard silver dollars not less than 200,000,000 in silver bullion per month. The law directs the purchase of bullion from time to time and its coinage only when in the opinion of the secretary of the treasury the further coinage of such dollars is demanded for public use and convenience. Referred. The conference report on the postoffice bill was submitted and adopted. The disputed item concerning special mail facilities on trunk lines fixes the appropriation at S6OO 000, and provides that said facilities are to be extended as far as practicable to the principal cities of the United States.

HOUSE. Washington, April 27.—Mr. Townsend, of Ohio, submitted the conference report on the bill to promote the efficiency of the life-saving service. The speaker laid before the house a message from the president respecting the troubles in Arizona. After a brief speech by Mr. Springer relative to the importance of immediate action, the message was referred to the committee on military affairs, with leave to report at any time. Ifyouarea frequenter or a resident of a miasmatic dietriot. Barricade your system against the scouge of all new countries—ague, bilious and intermittent fevers —by the use of Hop Bitters. » LUDINGTON, Mich., Feb. 2, 1880. I have sold Hop Bitters for four years and there is no medicine that surpasses them for bilious attacks, kidney complaints and many diincident to this jnalarial climate. H. T. ALEXANDER. The late Dr. Edward L. Beadle, of Poughkeepsie, made several public bequests. His will provides that $25,000, after the death of certain persons, shall be distributed among several New York hospitals lamed in the document, and that a second $25,000 shall be distributed among other religious and beneficial organizations. Twelve other bequests, giving from $2,000 to $6,003 each to charities in Poughkeepsie and elsewhere, are provided for. Zerroondaki, consul at Montreal for Greece, has been arrested for an assault on a girl ten years of age. The gross earnings of railroads in Missouri for the year 1881 amount to $25,000,000. A clock made of paper is the latest acquisition to the field of mechanical ingenuity.

More Than Two Score Persons Buried by Snow-Slides From the Sierras.

No alarm was felt by the inhabitants until about 4:30 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon, the 15th, when the first avalanche turned loose an 800foot precipice near the top of Mount Scowden, which rises to a height of 2,500 feet between and at the confluence of Lake and Mill Creek Canyons, overlooking the southern section of ofthetownof Lundy. This body of loose, dry snow dropped about 800 feet, where it struck upon a bench of the mountain, bounded out upon the air compressed beneath it, sailed over the tops of the tallest pines and came down, vertically, 1.500 feet irom its last point of contact with the earth. This demolished the residences Of and buried Mr. and Mrs. Winters, on the north side of Chicago avenue; Mr. and Mrs. Mayes and their three little girls, and a man named Antone Silver and four Frenchmen on the south side of the avenue. The last named party consisted of Joseph Caron, George Chagnon, August Dorvan and August Duval. Caron and one of the Mayes girls each saw the great mass of snow descending. Caron called to his companions that a snow cloud had burst above them, and the little girl rushed into the house and told her mother a cloud was falling. Stove-pipes and chimneys were Allied without being broken, shoeing that the hard, packed snow descended vertically. The second avalanches was no small affair, and was even more terrifying than the first. It started from a cliff over-hanging the business centre of the town, where no snow slides was ever known to occur.’ Three-fourths of the population were in the streets in the course of the avalanche when i started and they could not flee, as the snow was five feet deep and soft. Fortunately the slide struck on a broad and elongated rock mound or bench projecting from the mountain near its base and burst into a cloud of spray, or rather the compact snow was disintegrated and sent whirling with the velocity of fine shot from a gun, the rush of air created by the avalanche being sufficient to lift men from their feet and knock them several steps and to drive the fine snow into the planks of the building on the opposite side of the street. An avalanche that shot doWn Mount Discovery, on the west side of Lake Canyon, at eleven o’clock Wednesday night, buried many persons, swept away cabins and mining work, and covered the bodies of some of its victims’to a depth of forty-five feet. On reaching the open moraine an - avalanche down Mount Gilcrest spread out like a pigeon’s tail, to a width of nearly half a mile, and rolled down in a huge wall of snow 300 or 400 feet high. In a space of one hour and a half no less than nine ponderous avalanches were witnessed from the town, some of them running clear across Lake Lundy and one crossed the creek below. Forty-five men, two women and three little girls were buried by the slides. Four men were killed and many wounded.—Bodie Free Press.

Vegetable or mineral

A physican writing to a jonrnal of medicine, not long ago, proclaimed against the use of mineral poisons in curing diseases, on the ground that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred more michief than benifit was the result. In his practice he dispensed entirely with the use of mercury, etc., and attributed his success mostly to his prescriding vegtable and herb medicines only. In the face of these facts, every invalid should take warning. Tone up the system and give strength to the various organs of life by using such a remedy os Dr. Guysott’s Yellow' Dock and Sarsaparilla. Its soothing and refreshing influence will drive away all physical and mental distress. It is especially strengthening to the urinary and digestive organs. A single bottle will prove its merit. It is very pleasant to take.

The other morning, says the San Francisco Call, a Chinaman made an exhibition on Montgomery street near Pine, which somewhat surprised the passers-by. The Chinaman was going along the sidewalk, minding his own business, when a Western Union Telegraph boy threw a piece of orange at him and struck him on tjie head. He turned and chased the boy, who ran . At this point a young man of twenty or twenty one years stepped up and said to the Chinaman, 11 Let that boy alone!” He received in reply a blow from the sooulder that cut his upper lip and made the blood fly. The blow seemed to stun him at first, but he rallied and attempted to return the compliment. The Chinaman, however, “put up his props” in true pugilist id style and looked decidedly the better man of the two for a moment. However, another member of our superior race came up and struck the Chinaman, and his first adversary became bolder and got in a blow. It was now two to one, with a prospect of being at any instant six to one, and the Chinaman hastily retreated. A young man signing himself J. L. D., writes as follows: “Six months ago I felt all broke up, I was very nervous. The least excitement caused my heart to thump like an engine, at other times it seemed to cease beating altogether. I also had dyspepsia bad, and at night I was very restless, and had disturbing dreams. My whole system seemed to be out of fix, and pimples and sores troubled me greatly. . was advised by my diuggist to try Dr. Guysott’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla. It has restored me to perfect health. H. R. H. the Princess Louise is expected to arrive in Canada the latter end of May. Eugene Root and John Harrigan, two farmers in Morris, Genessee county, Mich., quarreled over a line fence, when a son of the latter struck Root with an .ax, inflicting wounds which will probably prove fatal. Gen. Skobeleff is dangerously ill.

Chicago.

Flour-Quiet but fina ; common to choice western spring, $4 75@7C0; common to fancy Minnesota, ssoo® 7 50; patents, $7 50@y 00. Grain—Wheat, Unsettled and lowers $1 38 cash ;No 3 Chicago spring. sllß@f 20. Corn, unsettled and lower; 70}£c cash. Oats, quiet but steady at 49J4c. Rye, dull and lower at 86c. Barley, firmer at $; t>6@l 08. Flax seed—Steam; good to high grade merchantable, $1 35@1 40. Provisions—Pork active but a shade lower; $lB 00 cash and April; sl7 95 @lB 00 May; $lB ll’@lß 12)4 June; $lB 27)4@18 30 July; $lB 45@18 47)2 August. Lard active but lower; sll 00 @ll 05 cash and April: sll 02U@ll 05 May; sllls@ll 17)4 June; $1127)4@ 11 30 July; sll 42)4 August. Bulk meats, demand active; shoulders, $7 50; short rib, $:0 30; short clear, $lO 65. „ ' * Butter—Dull and tendency downward: fair to fancy creamery, 23© 88c; fair to fine dairy, 15@23c. Eggs—Firmer at 14)4 c. Whisky—Steady atsl 19. Freights—Corn to Buffalo, 2V@ 2)4c. Call—Wheat, irregular and generally lower an $1 39)4 April. Corn, active. firm and higher- at 71c May. Oats fairly active and a shade higher at 49@49%c May. Pork, active’ but ’a shade lower at sl7 95 May; $lB 05© 18 07)4 June; $lB 25 July; $lB 45 August. Lard, in fair demand but at lower rates; sll oC@ll 02)4 May; sll 12)4 June; $U25@L127)4 July; $1137)4 August; sll 47)4 September. Hogs—Demand active, and prices have advanced 5 to receipts, 23,000; shipments, 7,(0); common to good mixed, $6 75@7 30; light, $6 75@7 35; heavy packing and shipping, $7 35@7 80; skips and culls, $350 @6 50. Cattle—Receipts, 5,500; shipments 2,400; very brisk and firmer; exports, $7 60@7 85; good to choice shipping, $6 90@7 40; common to fair, $6 50@ 6 80; mixed butchers steady at $3 00 @5 60; grass Texans in fair supply and steady at $4 00@600;stockers and’feeders, $3 30@5 40. Sheep—Receipts, 1.600; shipments 1,400; very steady and active at 10@ 15c higher; scalawags and stockers, $3 50@4 50; common to medium, $5 25 @6 50; medium to good, $6 75@7 00; choice to extra, $6 25 @7 50.

New York Produce.

Flour—Weak; superfine state and western $4 00@5 10; common to good extra, $5 00@5 80; good to choice, $5 85 @ 9 00; white wheat extra, $7 25@9 00; extra Ohio, $5 20@8 50; St. Louis, $5 20@ 900; Minnesota patents, $7 50@9 25. Grain—Wheat opened strong and advanced K to %c afterwaid; last improvement decliued to Ic, closing dull; No 2 sprlng,sl 44; No 3 spring, $1 24 ; ungraded red, $1 08@ 148^; No 3 do, $141; No 2 red, $1 47>£@1 48; certificates, $1 46 delivered; mixed western, $1 35; ungraded white, $1 20@l 41; No 2 white, $1 37%; steamer No 2 do, $1 SO. Corn 1 to 3o lower, unsettled and depressed; ungraded, 84@88c; No 3, 86@86%c; steamer,* 86c; No 2, 86%@ 86% c; elevator, 86@88c delivered; No 2 white, 91@92c. Oats easier; mixed western, 61c; white western, 60@63c. Eggs—Western fresh, steady with a fair demand at 17@17%c. Provisions—Pork nominal; new mess, $lB 25@18 40. Beef quiet but firm. Cut meats dull and nominal. Lard firm; prime steam, sll 32%. Butter—Quiet but steady at 10@ 80c. Cheese—Steady; for choice,B@l2%c.

Cincinnati.

Flour—Firm and in fair demand. Grain—Wheat in good demand; No. 2 red, $1 41@1 42. Corn weaker at 74%c. Oats active and lower at 53c. Rye quiet and firm at 93c. Barley nominal at sllo@l 12. Provisions—Pork quiet at $lB 75 @ 1900. Lard quiet at sll 00@ll 05. Bulk meats quiet and firm at $7 25@ 10 25. Bacon steady at $8 00@t112% @ll 75. Whisky—Active and firm at $117; combination sales of finished goods, 642 barrels on a basis of sll7. r Butter—Quiet; choice western reserve, 25c; choice central Ohio, 22c. Hogs—Firm; common and light, $5 75@6 75; packing and butchers, $6 85@7 85; receipts, 1,468; shipments 152. i r

Bast Liberty.

Cattle—Receipts, 136 head; market firm at yesterday’s prices; best, $7 25 @7 76; fair to good, $6 50@7 CO; common, $5 50@6 25. Hogs—Receipts, 1,000 head; market firm; Phiiadelphias, $7 50@760;Yorkers, $7 00@7 25. Sheep—Receipts 2 000 head; market active; clipped, $5 50@6 50; no wooled on market.

New York Dry Goods.

The market was quiet in all departments. Export demand for cotton goods is very steady. Shipments today, 2,276 packages. Prints in good delivery for specialtiesjbut otherwise quiet. Wide cambrics, foulards and lawns in steady selection for moderate assortments. New York jeans and cottonades dull.

Toledo.

Noon board. Grain —Wheat, dull; No. 2 red spot, $1 38% @1 39. Corn, dull; high mixed, 77c; No. 2 spot, 78%c. Closed—Wheat, weak; No. 2 red spot held at $1 38%. Corn easier; No. 2 spot held at 75c. Oats, quiet and weak; No. 2 held at 51c.

Detroit.

Grain—Wheat dull and unchanged; No. 1 white, cash, April and May, $134X5 June $133%; July, $1 28%; August, $1 11% asked; September and year, $1 08% bid; No. 2 red,sl 39%; receipts, wheat, 19,C00 bushels; shipments, 1 000.