Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1882 — Page 6

RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN. MARSHALL A OVERACKER, Proprietors RENSSELAER, : : IND.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Turkey is preparing to. send 80,000 troops to Egypt. A tornado visited Mound City, Mo., doing considerable damage. Nineteen buildings were destroyed by fire at Lincoln Center, Me. Dayton, 0., is strongly bidding tor the location of Heidelberg college. The Italian deputies has apporved the treaty of commerce with France John H. Vornbrock, a St. Louis wholesale furniture dealer, is embarrassed. D. E. Ardis, an Atlanta, Georgia, invalid, killed himself in a Louisville hotel. The graves at the Confederate cemetery, Chattanooga, were decorated Thursday. - The increased importation of American products is alarming the Italian government. Four hundred and sixty-two agrarian outrages in Ireland during April are reperted. Welles Pettit was executed at Talequah, Chrokee Nation, Indian territory, Friday. Owing to the unusually large amount of ice, the Labrador seal fishery is unsuccessful.^ A sister of the late Jesse James resides in Wichita, and is said to be a most excellent woman. The ex-mayor of Vienna, who was accused of neglect at the burning of the Ring theatre, has been acquitted. Col. Henry Brackenbury, royal artillery, succeeds Col. Hillier as inspector general of the Irish constabulary. Col. D. B. Henderson, of Dubuque, lowa, was elected secretary of the Re publican congressional campaign committee. The receipts of the ladies’ tea party held in the rotunda of the capitol at Washington, last Saturday evening, f jot up over $4,000. Irvin Mann, a well-to-do young farmer of Carmel, Mich., hung himself forty-eight hours after his marriage. No reason known. Quite a number of national banks in the west and northwest are giving up their present charters and reorganizing under the present law. Egypt is in a turmoil. The ministry are on a strike against the khedive and repudiate his authority, but he has the support of the Turkish sultan.

The United States grand jury of Yankton D. T., have found indictments against Cameron, Havrevold, and Russell, the land, scrip criminals. Governor Foster has appointed Judge M. W. Oliver, of Cincinnati, a trustee of Miami University, at Oxford, vice Colonel Ozro J. Dodds, deceased. The residence of widow Smith, at Anoka, Minnesota, was struck by lightning, and a litle boy four years old was killed,and two other children ■eriouslyf shocked. Mrs. Esther A. Cooley, of Bingham, Me., has received a commission from Goverbor Plaisted to solemnize marriages, administer oaths, and take acknowledgements of deeds. The French ambassador to England has been instructed to propose to the English government that an'angloFreuch squadron be immediately dispatched to Alexandria. The Massachusetts senate has before it a bill for the appointment of a metropolitan police force to serve anywhere in the state, with the apparent purpose of enforcing the liquor laws. The state department and the gov ernment of Mexico are in correspondence looking to an arrangement to prevent successful Indian outbreaks £u the border. In obedience to public sentiment, Mr. James Gordon Bennett will abandon his proposed Arctic expedition, which was to have been on a much giander scale than that of the ill-fated Jeannette. In the Hancock county (O.) infirmary is Mrs. Betsy Johnson, a colored woman, one hundred and nine years old, said to have been a slave and cook of General George Washington,father of his country. Michael Davitt, In a letter to the London Standard, acknowledges the failure of the appeal to force on the part of the Irish, and states his willingness to advocate a peaceful solution of the questions at issue between England and Ireland. It is reported the relations between the Egyptian ministry and the EnSlish and French comptroller general as been ruptured. It is said the ministers intend to ask the chamber of notables to petition the porte to remove the kbedive on the ground that he is incapable of governing. At the Baptist convention at Greencattle, South Carolina, a resolution was adopted providing for a committee to confer with other Baptists,with the purpose of co-operating for the production of a new translation of the Bible, and giving to the nations of the earth, in their respective languages, the pure word of God.

INDIANA.

A big blackberry crop is predicted. A big pawpaw crop is predicted. • Pike county will hate a larger acreage in corn than usual. Warrick county will have an increased acreage of corn. Rockport will have a chair factory in operation by August. v Mt. Vernon supports 22 saloons and two bakeries. An immense crop of watermelons is being planted in White river bottoms W. S. Lamar has assumed editorial control of the Rockport Journal, Capt. Palmer retiring. , Hazel ton ahd Petersburg are soon to be connected with the Princeton telephone exchange. Bennett Williams, of Cynthiana, says the fleas are devouring his corn that is up. Indiana has 186,361 farms. Of these 147,963 are occupied by owners and 276 of these contain over 1,000 acres. Four cases of small pox are reported from Michigan City. Mr. Irving Armstrong has sold the Vevay Democrat to P. T. Hart and F. M. Dalmazzo. Al 2 days’ camp meeting will be held by the Methodists at Hartford City, commencing July 28. Ou the farm of Michael Owens, near Reynolds, from a newly bored well, 100 feet in depth, escapes a stream of gas which burns like coal gas. The city council of Lafayette is In fa /or of supplanting gas in that city with the electric light, and so voted in a recent meeting. During a storm at Bedford, a few nights since, a veritable shower of atones fell. They were of various sizes and shapes, some being as large as a man’s fist, and others quite small. W. 8. Culbertson, of New Albany, paid his $6,463 57 taxes the other day. W. C. DePauw, of New Albany, {>aid his taxes the other day ainountng to $,226 51. The deficiency of Samuel Gibson, ex-treasurer of Delaware county, now foots up over $15,000. A stranger leaped from the ferry boat in Jeffersonville into the Ohio river and was drowned. By actual count there are 235 persons at Wabash at the head of and conducting business on their own account. ' * A $3,000 school house, at New Corner, Delaware county, was demolished by the recent gale. It will cost sl,600 to reconstruct it. The third trial of F. A.’Fisse, for the murder of Conrad Shafer, terminated at Brookville Saturday night in a verdict of acquittal. Rachal Coward, a colored woman ot Jeffersonville, aged 107, appreciating the necessity of early piety was baptized into the M. E. church. Herman Wittkernber, aged about 65 years, living in Butler township, Franklin county t was accidentally drowned in Pike creek.

The finest elm in Richmond, near the Indiana yearly meeting house, was ruined by lightning during the recent storm. The meeting house was slightly damaged. C. 8. Ratliff, a farmer of Grant county, who was a few days ago kicked by ahorse, has just died of his injuries. Nearly every bone in his (face was broken and all his teeth were knocked in. The river and harbor'appropriation bill, as prepared by the committee, gives $50,000 to the improvement of ae Wabash river, and $20,000 to that of White river. - Michigan City harbor gets $80,009. The First National bank, of Peru, has just opened a branch establishment at Monticello, with W. T McLean as cashier. This bank will occupy the field of the defunct First National bank of Monticelle. Dr. Burke a brother of the murdered under secretary for Ireland, lives In Lafayette, and at a meeting of the land league protested against the idea that the crime was caused by friends of the league. Frank Long, of Rising Sun, a young man 18 years of age, was severely cut In the neck and arms at a dance a few miles above that town. He claims that he does not know his assailant but it is thought by many that he does, and is afraid to squeal. Wm. Allen, while walking in the woods, near Richmond, discovered a collection of fenakes of all kinds and sizes disporting themselves in a marsh, and killed 27 of them with a club, many more escaping into the swamp. Somebody shot at Lemuel Long, a resident of Cementville, near Jeffersonville, while he was in his house standing near a light. Long is the man who killed Mitchell, a negro in that hamlet a few months ago. It is charged that Mitchell’s wife did the shooting. Long was not hit. Major Warren D. Tackett, prosecuting attorney of Decatur county has returned on his wav home from Virginia, on an unsuccessful search f..r St. Clair Bryant, a witness if. the Walton murder case at Greens burg.

CONGRESSIONAL.

4 . BERATE. Washington, May 6.—A resolution was offered by Mr. Windom for the appointment of an investigating committee of five to inquire whether any money had been raised by contri bution or otherwise from parties interested, to promote the passage or defeat of the bill relating to distilled spirits in special bonded warehouses, and if so, tor what uses the money had been expended. Adopted without debater Senate bills passed—Restoring part of the Fort Niabrora military reservation, In Kansas, withdrawn for military purposes from the public domains; permitting the lot formerly purchased for a government building in Memphis to be utilized as a site for a public building. Adjourned until Monday. house. e Washington, May s.—The house went into committee on the tariff commission bill. At the evening session forty-five pension bills passed. Adjourned till to-morrow. house. Washington, May 6.—The house we’at into committee of the whole on th > tariff, commission bill. The committee rose and reported he bill to the house. The previous question was then ordered, and Mr. Kasson closed the debate. * At the conclusion of his speech the bill passed—yeas, 151; nays, 83. A resolution was adopted permitting the contestant in the Alabama contested election case of Watson vs. Oates to withdraw his papers. This leaves Oates in possession of his seat. Mr. Hubbell. introduced a bill to enlarge the duties and powers of the deFartment of agriculture. Referred. t provides that the department of agriculture shall hereafter be an executive department, and the commissioner shall be known as the secretary ol agriculture, and bureaus for the collection of information concerning railways, 'manufactures, mining interests and animal,indu stry will be attached to the department.* Adjourned. SENATE. Washington, May B.—A bill was introduced tor the relief of FitzJSbn Porter. The provisions are the same as the house bill, Mr. Groome introduced a joint resolution tendering the thanks of congress to aDd conferring an additional rank on Chief Engineer George W. Melville, United States navy. Referred. HOUSE. Washington, May B.—Bills were introduced and referred; By Mr. Townsend, of Illinois—To place the tax on salt used in curing pork and beef on the same basis as salt used in curing fish. By Mr. Calkins—To aid in makin further Arctic explorations, and detailing Master Lucien Young as commander of the expedition. It authorizes the secretary of the navy to purchase a vessel of the proper size and structure for an expedition at a cost of not exceeding $60,000, and appropriates SIOO,OOO foi the expenses of the expedition. By Mr. Bragg,of Wisconsi—For the relief of Fitz John Porter. It authorizes the president, in order that justice may be done to said Fitz John Porter, to appoint Fitz John Porter, late major-geuefal of United States volunteers and brevit brigadier-gener-al and colonel of the army, to a position of colonel in the army of the United States, the same grade and rank held by him at the time of his dismissal from the army by'sentence of court martial, and in his discretion to place him on the retired list of the army as of that grade.

SENATE. Washington, May 9— All the pending house bills donating condemned cannon for monumental and other purposes were called up. The superintendent of the census asked for an appropriation of SBO,OOO to defray the expenses of his office for the remainder of the fiscal year. HOUSE. Washington. May 9. —The bill enlarging the powers of the agricultural department was taken up. Mr. Hubbell, of Michigan, then submitted the amendment to the (bill agreed to by the committee on civil service reform. Upon this and upon the original bill the previous question was order* ed. Adjourned. SENATE. Washington, May 10. —The senate bill passed establishing an assay office at Deadwood, Dakota. The house joint resolution appropriating $60,000 to supply the deficiency for the current year for fuel, lights, eto., in buildings under control of the treasury department passed. Adjourned. house. Washington, May 10.— The house passed, by a vote of 172 to 7, without amendment, the bill creating an executive department of agriculture, which provides the department shall be under the control of secretary, who is an experienced and practical agriculturalist,and establishes departments of agricultural products, animal industry', lands and statis ics. The conference report on the Indian appropriation bill was agreed to. The house went into committee of the whole on the Indian appropri 1 ation bill. The bill finally passed—yeas, 134; nays, 18. The Geneva award bill was discussed and went over. Adjourned.

SENATE. Washington, May 11.—The L. Madison Dav claim for a certain small lot of land in New Orleans which at the time 1t was purchased by him at a judicial sale, under the confiscation act, was covered by a mortgage, but was bought upon representation by the government that no incumbrance upon it existed, was passed—yeas, 27; nays, 22. Six Democrats voted with the Republicans in the affirmative. The conference report on the Indian appropriation bill was submitted. The total has been reduced by the couference $466,200. The report was concurred in and the bill passed. Adjourned. house. Washington, May 11,—Mr. Sherwin, from the committee on education and labor, reported the bill to aid in the support ot common schools. Ordered printed and recommitted. It provides that tor the next five years there shall be annually appropriated ten million dollars to aid in the support of free common schools, which amount shall be known as the ‘‘common schools fund,” and which shall be apportioned to the several state? and terri ories according to the number of their illiterate population over ten years of age. An amount not exceeding 5 percent, of the sum apportioned may be used for the education of teachers in the public schools. The house resumed consideration of the Geneva award bill. After discussion the previous question was ordered, but without further action it went over. Mr. Steele, of Indiana, from the committee on military affairs, reported the bill authorizing a retired list for non-commissioned officers of the army who have served continuously for a period of thirty years. Committee of the whole.

A New Thing.

One of the • ver-recurring tasks of the church and Sunday school world is that of providing attractive musical, spectacular and dramatic entertainments for their anniversaries, festivals, fairs, and other meetings. Some of the milder ecclesiastical performances have become somewhat stale.. The oyster stew party is not always enlivening in December nor the strawberry festival in May. The magic lantern has already, exacted a large penalty from the eyes. The scriptural and patriotic tableaux have become very familiar. The dialogues in costume, though by no means like the actual stage, yet shock some uncompromising enemies of the footlights. Mrs. Jarleys’s wax works are very ancient, and jugglery too often breaks down. Even the returned missionary will not draw like the menagarie, and the comic recitationist is outdone by the clown of a travelling show. But of late a new church entertainment has been found, which has spread like wildfire. This is the broom drill. Performed by the prettiest young ladies in the congregation, clad in tight-fitting jackets or dress coats, and with jaunty short skirts, the whole arranged with a proper mixture ot decorum and coquetry, this spectacle has proved enormously alluring. The grab bag and the doll lottery are tame compared with this device, which is, indeed, far ahead of the religious dance of the Shakers as a spectacle. The mo)t hardened the-atre-going youth of the parish can be drawn to see the young ladies’ Bible class in costume and armed with brooms. There is even already a literature of the subject—a manual of the broom drill—like a base ball guide or a hand-book of billiards. The question whether the devil should have all the best tunes is superceded, for the time, by the inquiry whether British blondes should have a monopoly over Sunday schools of female warrior drills.

The safe in a macon office had a combination lock, and the numbers were known only to the two members of the firm; yet money was* stolen from it frequently, and the lock showed no signs of having been picked or forced. It was clear that the thief unlocked the safe in a regular way, and to solve the mystory a watch was kept one night. While all was dark the men heard somebody go to the safe, turp the knob, and open the door. They fired in that direction, and a yell proved that the culprit was hit. Then they lit the gas, and found that he was a negro bootblack, only 13, who had frequented the office. He had learned the combination, not by seeing the figures, for he could not tell one from another, but by watching and remembering the motions made by those who did the locking and unlocking. Several weeks of close observation had put him in practical possession of the secret, and then, by biding under a counter, and being often 1 in when the place was closed for the night, he experimented until sucessfull. Washington, D. C., May 15th, 1880 Gentlemen —Having been a sufferer for a long time from nervous prostration and general debility, I was advised to try Hop Bitters. I have taken one bottle and I have been rapidly getting better ever iflnce, and I tbink it thr, best medioine I ever used. I am now gaining strength and appetite, which was all gone, and I was in despair until I tried ytur Bitters. I am now well, able to go about and do my oyrn work. Before taking it I was completely prostrated. •

MRS. MARY STUART.

The settlers in Duck Valley, Nev., fear an attack from the Bannock Indians. Gold exports yesterday, SIOO,OOO. Nearly $2,000,009 is engaged for, today’s steamer. Vaccination is made compulsory at Atlanta, Georgia, under penalty of five hundred dollars fine" and thirty day’s imprisonment. v

Chicago.

Flour—Quiet and unchanged. Grain—Wheat, moderately active and higher afc the close, $126; No, 8 Chicago spring, $1 14@116; rejected, 85@95. Corn, demand active and prices advanced, 74% @74%. Oata. demand fair aid higher, 68%. Rye! dull and unchanged, 78c. Barley, dull and nominal, cash 90@$1 00 September. Flax-seed, weak and merchantable, $1 38@1 40. Provisions—P6rk, demand fair and higher, $lB 26 cash May; $lB 75® 18T7% June; $lB 95@18 97% July; $1912%@19 16 August; sl9 25@19 September; sl9 17% year. Lard, demand fair and higher, sll 37%@ 11 40 cash,May and June; sll 65 July; sll 65@11 67% August; sll 75@1177% September; sll 25@11 27% year. Bulk meats, fairly active ana shade higher; shoulders $8 00; short rib, $lO 80; clear, sllls. Whiskey—Steady, sllß. Freights—Com to Buffalo, 2c. Butter—Dull and tending downward ; ordinary to fine creamery, 22® 25c; fair to choice dairy, 12@20c. Eggs—Weak, 16c. Call —Wheat in fair demand and irregular ,$1 28% May. Cora lower, 74%e May. Oats quiet and unchanged, 63%@58%c May. Pork lower,slß 72% @lB 75 June; $lB 92% July; sl9 05@ 1910 August. Lard lower, sll 37% June; sll 50@11 62% July; sll 62%@ 11 65 August; sll 70@1175 September. Hogs—Receipts, 24,000; shipments, 6,000; fairly active; prime, strong but low qualities 5c off'; common to good mixed. $6 90@7 45; heavy packing and shipping, $7 50@8 00, including larders and Philadelphias; light, $685 @7 46; skips and culls. $450@6 60. Cattle —Receipts, 4,000; shipments 1,500; slow; best steady; others weak; exports, $7 40@7 75; good to choice shipping, $6 76@7 16; common to fair, 5 to 10c lower, $5 75@6 60; mixed butchers’ steady at $2 65@5 60; Texans, steady and unchanged; $3 85 @5 75, sales mainly at $4 60@510. steady at recent decline; stackers ana feeders, more active, steady at $2 75@ 5 00. Sheep—Receipts, 900; market glutted and badly weakened; prices lower; poor to fair, $3 40@4 25; medium, $3 45@4 40; good to choide, $5 00@6 50; best sheep l%c lower than ten days ago.

Baltimore.

Flour—Dull. Grain—Wheat, western, dull and higher; No 2 winter red spot and May, $1 40; June, $139%@1 39%;July, $1 25@1 25%; August, $125; No 2, September, $l6O bid. Corn, western, firmer; mixed spot 81%casked; May, 81%@81%c; June, 82c bid; July, 82%c bid; August, 83%c bid. Oats dull; western white, 61@62c; mixed, 59@ 60c; Pennsylvania,6o@62c. Rye dull; 95c @sl 00. Hay-Quiet, sl6 00@17 00. Provisions—Firm; moss pork, $lB 75 @l9 60. Bulk meats; shoulders and clear rib sides packed, $9.00@11 76; bacon, shoulders, $9 75; clear rib sides, sll T 5; hams, sls 00@15 60. Lard, refined, sl2 75 Butter—Firm; western packed, 18@ 30c; roll, 15@23c. Eggs—Firm, 17c. Petroleum—Nominal. Coffee—Quiet, B@9%c. Sugar—Steady, 9%c. Whisky—Steady, $1 23.

Cincinnati.

Flour—Firmer and unchanged! family, $5 75@6 10; fancy, $6 Grain—Wheat steady with lair demand at $1 34@1 38. Corn good demand and firmer at 76@76%c. Gats fair demand and stronger at 54c. Rye dull and lower, 85c. Barley dull at *1 08. Provisions—Pork quiet and firm at sl9 00. Lard quiet and firm; hold at sll 35. Bulk meats stronger, $7 75'@ 10 80. Bacon good demand, $8 50@ 11 50 @l2 00. Whisky—Steady and good demand, $1 12; combination sales of finished goods 745 barrels on a basis of $1 12. Butter—Dull and drooping; choice western reserve, 22c; choice central Ohio, 18c. Hogs—Steady and firm; common and light, $5 50@6 75; packing and butchers’, s7lo@B 00; receipts 670; shipments, 500-

New york Dry Goods.

The principal feature of the market is the uniform price of 10)6 for Canton and- Renfrew ginghams by the jobbing trade. The general demand for any and all classes of goods has been very moderate, but through the wide distribution of homeapathlo qualities of all classes of cottons and woolens at the immediate wants of jobbing and manufacturing - branches of trade are fairly supplied. The tone of the market is very steady, and values are without change; in fact, for all leading qualities they show much firmness.

East Liberty.

Cattle—Receipts, 627 head; market slow; best, $7 6U@7 75; fair to good, $6 50@7 26; common, $5 00@6 00. Hegs—Receipts, 500; market firm; $7 25 @7 45. Sheep Receipts, 8,600; market demoralized and prices ranging from $4 00(8)5 60. ' .

Toledo.

Noon board—Wheat dull; No 2 red, $1 87)6. Corn dull; high mixed, 78%c; No 2,75)6c. Oats quiet; No 2, 64c. Afternoon board—Wheat steady and nominal; No 2 red held a 1 $137)6. Corn firmer; No 2. 74% c.

Detroit.

Flour—s« 00@6 50. Grain—Wheat very dull; No 1 white, $1 36)fc I No 2 red, nominal; receipts, 6,000; shipments, 1,500.