Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1882 — Page 2

RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN. MARSHALL A OVEBACKEB, Proprietor* RENSSELAER, : : IND.

NEWS TN BRIEF

Jean Gustave Walter, the French philosopher, is dead. The Evans & Foos implement factory at Springfield, Ohio, burned. Seventy head of blooded horses,sold at Eminence, Ky., brought $15,210. A dispatch from Cairo states the situation is hourly becoming worse. A daughter of Commodore Whiting was married to Mr. Derring Fosdeck, at the church of the Epiphany,Washington. A mandate has been issued to the Russian press to forego reports of Jewish massacres, or even discuss the question. Neal, a horse thief and generally a disreputable character, was hanged by vigilante near Rockford, Washington territory. In a crush of Jewish refugees at Brody, who were clamoring for assistance to emigrate to America, one man was killed. Walter A. Foss, of Lowell, Mass., is to start from Milford, N. H., on the 29 th inst., on a trip to Chicago and return by bicycle. The graduating class of the Illinois institution for the deaf and dumb, at Jacksonville, numbered , fourteen. Four were females. An ovarian tumor weighing tweDtyflve pounds was successfully removed from Miss Pierce, a suburban resident of Lafayette, Ind. Mrs. Eva Humphrey, named in connection with the alleged wife of Navin, the Adrian forger, committed suicide at Toledo, Ohio. James Higgins, of Vincennes, Ind., has been found guilty of killing his wife, and the punishment fixed at three years' imprisonment. Two of tho members of the British Royal Geographical society will undertake a voyage in search of the Leigh Smith Arctic expeditiqn. Mark Twain’s southwestern trip has brought to light the fact that he served three months in the confederate army under General Stirling Price. A black bear in a park at Richmond, Ind., grew lonesome and joined a school picnic, where it frolicked harmlessly with the little ones until shot. Governor Crittenden boasts that since the death of Jesse James travel in Missouri has perceptibly increased, even commercial travelers taking to themselves confidence.

Reliable reports from the Michigan fruit belt state the late severe frosts did not affect peaches or apples, but grapes and strawberries were slightly injured, with enough left for a fair crop. O’Donnell, Home Ruler, in dedouncing the repression bill, said the Irish ought never rest until the administrative affairs of their country were disenthralled from British interference. Judge Gresham, of Indianapolis,has refused to entertain a motion to set aside the appointment of J. H. Devereux, president of the Bee Line, as receiver of the Indianapolis & Bt. Louis railroad. Arabi Bey and the rebellious army officers positively refuse to quit Egypt. He maintains the country is with him, though the French consul tried to disabuse him of his error. Fort Monroe is the largest single fortification in the world. The fortifications at Gibraltar cover more ground, but they constitute seven distinct forts, while Fort Monroe is one and complete. J. H. Weber, night watchman at Tucson, Arizona, while crazed by drink, fired several shots among a crowd, one of which instantly killed a young man named C. M. Hinton. Weber is in custody. A horrible atrocity is"reported from Smorgoue, a Kussian village. The place was destroyed by fire, and Jewish children and property, placed for safety in a cemetery, were burned by the populace. The English and French ambassadors have again assured the porte that England and France have no idea of a*iy radical intervention in Egypt, but are simply considering the best means of insuring order. The mystery attending the burning of buildings last summer at Richmond, Indiana, has been unveiled by a confession of one of the incendiaries after he had been converted in Cincinnati by the boy preacher, Harrison. <

Moses Bilk, a notorious ruffian and murderer, was riddled with bullets by Sheriff Taylor at Fort Spurkey, Indian Territory. Bilk was drunk and quarrelsome and resisted arrest, making a desperate debt. He is credited with killing live men and being an accessory la many murders. James C Hueston, general agent of the New York associated press, has received through the department of state from the German government the “medal for saving from imminent danger.” Mr. Hueston rescued Tberese Erke from death by drowning while he was sojourning at Ems, Germany.* \ _

INDLANA.

Decoration day will be generally observed. There is promise of an abundance of blackberries. Oakland, Gibson county, boasts of a building boom. • Horse-shoe pitching is a favorite sport at Hazleton. The Hazleton saw mills are running at their full capacity. Tuere are now 709,424 children of school age in Indiana. The chintz bug has put in an appearance near Cynthiana. Albany is to have three mounted policemen. , The Herdlc coaches have been put in operation at Lafayette, and are expected to be popular. The Edwardsport miners are out on a strike against a reduction of about five per cent on their wages. Manufacturers of briok at Frankfort have suffered great loss on account of the heavy rains. One yard lost 16,000 in one day. The postoffice at Heilman, Warrick county, has been discontinued, and mail lor that place will hereafter be sent to Selvin. William Barley and Thomas Culaertson fell from a scaffold on B. F. Holmes’s house at Marion, and both were seriously injured. There are about fifty cases of measles in Wabash, though the disease is in a very mild form, aud none of those afflicted are seriously sick. John Deitz was arrested at Tipton, charged with shooting a saloonkeeper named Hughston atEllsworth, Kan., in February last. Wife-whipping seems to be still cultivated as one of the fine arts,by some of the brutes who have the semblance of men, in Princeton. Vincinnes is to have a Herdic coach line. The coaches have been purchased and the line will begin operations in about two weeks. There seems to be a pretty fair equilibrium of sexes among the school children *f Gibson county The number of males is 3,992 and the females number 3,716. Good steam-makiqg coal is furnished to the manufacturers of Evansville at 75 cents per ton, on the line of the Belt Railroad and at from 94 to 97 cents per ton, delivered by wagon in any other part of the city. Hon. William Baxter was thrown from his buggy, near Richmond, and considerably bruised, thougn it is thought he is not dangerously injured.

While David Simonton and his wife, of Liberty Mills, Wabash coun - ty, were out driving night before last the horse ran away and threw Mr. Simonton out ot the buggy, inflicting serious and perhaps fatal injuries. The house of Mr. Ed. Brown, at Gibson Station, was entered the other day by thieves, during the absence ol the family, and quite a large amount of clothing taken, the loss amounting to about $75. It is believed that Edward Young, who was found dead from morphine, self-administered, at the Worsham bouse, Memphis, was no other than the defaulting agent of the C.,-1., St. L. & C. railway. The large mill of the Nelson Bros., eighteen miles south of Wabash, was totally destroyed by fire. Loss,s9,ooo. There was not a dollar of insurance. The fire originated in the engine room. “Uncle Bob” Harrison,,of Salem, is now over eighty-lour years old, and has worked on a newspaper at Salem ever since 1817—a period of sixty-five years. He is doubtless the oldest printer in the state, if not in the country. The Variety Bracket-works,at South Bend, assigned for the benefit of creditors, and Chicago parties closed Plummer’s ninety-nine-cent store, which came to the city a few months ago from Kalamazoo. Lemuel Hatton, of Connersville, was walking along* the high river bank with his ten mouths’ old baby in his arms, when the embankment gave way, precipitating him several feet. The child fell under him and was badly bruised, having one leg broken. Louis Kuhns, confined in the county jail at Anderson for shooting Samuel Young, escaped on Bunday. His wife and a colored man visited him in jail and blacked him up as a darkey, and the turnkey allowed him to pass out with his wife without suspicion.

Two boys, sons of a widow named Scott, aged respectively twelve and fifteen years, are in jail at Greencastle for robbing Frank Hay’s store, where the mother is employed, of a quantity of jewelry, which was found iu their possession. They have both been Fu tne house of refuge. It appears that Joaquin Miner lived near Rochester in this state in his earlier years. He writes to Mr. Robert R. Reed, of that place, in response to an inquiry, that he remembers his home near there, and his visits to the grain warehouse of Pollard & Wilson, where Mr. Reed was then employed. Mr. Millar’s father, Joaquin says, was then very poor, aud the boys had a hard time of it, in proof of which he told how they sold hickory-nuts and bought each one of them a book with the proceeds. t

IR A CIRCUS MENAGERIE.

Peculiarities of Ihe Animals and The Prices A little mouse ran across the floor of the elephant cavero in the Madison Bquare Garden the other night. It stopped to listen ana look at every sound, and was ready to scamper away to its hole at the first sign of dagger. The performance was over, and the elephants were lying on their sides fast asleep. Without stopping to calculate the consequences the mouse jumped upon the outstretched trunk of one of the largest elephants in the herd. Instantly the great beast sprang to his feet, trembling in every limb, and sounded a shrill blast which plainly bespoke fear. The frightened mouse vanished but the trump aroused the other elephants and terror spread among them. It was some time before they could be induced to lie down again and much longer before they closed their eyes in slumber. “The mouse created all that alarm aud commotion,” said Col-George Arstingstall, the godfather of the baby elephants, after quiet had been restored. “The sight of a mouse will make an elephant frantic with fright, he added,” and I can only explain this singular fact by the supposition that when running wild the elephant must be attacked by a mole, or some animal resembling the mouse, which fastens itself to theii bodies and worries them.”

Col. Arstingstall is the only person at least in this country, who has been able to breed elephants in captivity. He has spent half his life among them, and is familiar with their habits and peculiarities. The panic which the unoffending mouse was the means of causing made the subject of elephants an interesting one to the knot of a dozen persons who remained in the garden. The reason that the elephant is considered the bead of the menagerie is because it is the largest and most intelligent of animals. No circus, however email could hope to exist without an elephant. Whole herds form a part of some shows, and no showman would admit that the number couli be too largi Young and old love to watch tne hHge animals, and no matter 'how many times they may see them they never weary of them. The Indian and the Asiatic elephants are preferred by showmen on account of their superior intelligence. The African elephant is larger, but not so knowing. An untrained elephant at the age of 28 or 30 is worth SIO,OOO and a performing elephant $15,000. It is a mistaken idea to suppose that elephants born in captivity or that have been long domesticated are easier to train than those fresh from the jungles. After a wild elephant is subdued it is taught very easily. Elephants learn more readily when 18 or 20 years old than at any other period of their lives. Col. Arstingstall said that in 24 hours he could teach one to do any trick that it was.possible for it to do, even to standing on its head. A block and pul’y is generally used. The elephant is pulled up into the position that it is desired to assume, and the word of command is given as though the animal were doing the trick of its own accord. After this operation is repeated a few times the elephant will execute the act at the proper signal. Columbia, the first baby elephant born in this country, now two years old, went to school last winter, and proved an apt scholar. She takes the part of a clown in the performance. She sits at a table uses a napkin, fans herself, and does a dozen little things that make the children, and their elders too, adore her. When the tricks are first taught the elephants like to do them, and will often go through a performance of their own volition. But after the novelty wears off they regard them as work, and are inclined to shrink, When they rebel they must be soundly flogged, aud after that they will not refuse to perform their parts. Elephants will not submit to abuse. It is necessary to treat them well, but at the same time it is imperitive that they should understand that they must mind their master. One would hardly think that elephants could be insulted, but they can. They are extremely sensitive and resent indignities. If they become attached to a person their affection is warm snd lasting. They often form deep attachments for dogs, horses, camels, and other animals. Elephants are exceedingly mischeivous and likewise inquisitive. Tliep want to know all about everything, and once they do a thing that they ought not, they will never forfet it, but, on the contrary, forever eep it up. One ofCol. Arstingstall’s herd has acquired the habit of pulling up every stake that is driven to chain it to. It watched the manner in which the men took the stakes up and put the same plan into prac-, tice. It kicks the stake until it is loose and then draws it out of the ground with its trunk. Another elephant finds innocent diversion while it is being tiansported through the country by putting its trunk through the ventilator of the car and drawing out the coupling-pin, thus dividing the train. The experiment tried by the elephant the early part of last season worked so well that it continued it all summer. Elephants will open spring locks, raise latches, and do almost everything that they see a person do. Their trunks are always reaching out. The regular rations of au elephant consists of 125 pounds of hay, two bushels of grain, and a barrel of water a day. Potatoes they are particularly fond of. If there is one thing more than another that elephants lilt® to do, it is to take a bath. Jn the water they are like a lot of schoolboys. They dive roll over, splash, and indulge iD every sort of caper. A bath contributes to their

good health, and when travelling they are given every possible opportunity to bathe. When asleep they lie on their sides, generally on the right. The\ snore vigorously and can often be heard a longdistance. They dream, as indicated by grunts and kick, but what about, of course, no one caD tell, When on the road they ace put in the cars about 8:30 o’clock in the evening, and they invariably sleep until the train starts four or five hours later. Four elephants are usually put in a single car if it is large enough, and one of the number remains awake apparently on guard, while the others are resting. The slightest noise will awaken them, and they are on their feet at once. When they are young, elephants are quite playful and that is often the case when they reach years of maturity. Two or three times a day the youngest of the two babies in the Madison-Square Garden has a play-spell. It rolls aud tumbles about in the hay with its keeper as if bound to break its neck and cuts up no end of funny antics. It is just learning that it possesses such a wonderful appendage as a trunk. It runs, it into pockets, seizes watch chains, and feel* of every object it sees with It. The sedate mother when she is playing with her l abe sways back and forth and fondles it with her trunk. When the young one goes to sleep it lies down in front of her and BUe covers it with hay.—[N. Y. Mail.

Mohammedan Sensualism.

No one of the Mohammedan races has carried out the license given to sensual passion by the Koran and the adhering tradition to such an extent as have the Ottoman Turks, and no race has suffered so much from that license. The evil consequences are far-reaching and baleful in the extreme. It is to feed Turkish sensuality that the slave trade throughout the empire and in the interior of Africa is maintained. The beautiful, fair daughters who are purchased from the Georgians and Circassians also find their way at last to the harems of Constantinople, Brusa, Smyrna, Adrianople, Aleppo, Bagdad, and other towns and cities of Asia Minor. One of the direct results of this sensuality is that the Turks have degenerated physically during the past 200 years. That the conquerers of Constantinople were a hardy race of great physical strength there can be no doubt; that the great majority of modern Turks are of an effeminate type is equally certain. Very many of them are persons of fine appearance, but they are physically weak, without elasticity, giving the impression of men who have lost their yitality. The same may be said even more emphatically of Turkish women; they are small in stature, of a sickly complexion, easily fatigued by slight exertion* and become prematurely old. After the age of 40 all feminine beauty is gone; the eyes have become sunken, the cheeks hollow, and the face wrinkeled; and there remains no trace of the activity and physical strength often seen in English women of 65 or even of 70 years of age. Another immediate resalt of the prevailing sensuality is the mental imbecility of multitudes of the Ottoman Turks; great numbers among them are intellectually stupid. Many even of the young men have the vacant look which borders close on the idiotic state. Severe mental application is for them almost a physical impossibility. It is well known that in all branches of business where considerble activity is required the Turks employ Christians to work for them, This is owing, not so much to a lack of education, or to a general want of energy, as in many cases to a mental incanacity which often amounts to real imbecility. Obvious illustrations of the special topic now discussed is furnished by the royal family itself. Sultan Abdul Mejid, Sultan Abdul Aziz, and the deposed Sultan Murad were all men of depraved minds, vicious habits, intemperate and sensual in the extreme, and were alike devoid of moral character and mental capacity. Mental incapacity, however, from the causes alleged is not eonflned by any means to the wealthy and aristocratic elasses; it is found in all grades of society.—The British Quarterly review.

The Price of a Belt.

A young married lady was staying at the eountry house of a noble duke. She so repeatedly expressed her ardent desire to own a Norwegian belt, she so pathetically deplored the inefficiency of her pin, money, the stinginess of her husband, that her host, before the visit was over, begged her to order for herself the trinket she required—a matter probably of eight or ten guineas—and to accept it as a remembrance of the pleasant hours spent together under the same roof. The lady blusliingly but unheaaitatingly accepted, and forthwith on her rqturn to London, went to Bond street and gave her orders with such throughness and minuteness of detail that among the adjuncts to the belt was to be seen a silver-handled, sil-ver-feruled, silver-monogrammed umbrella. These etceteras run up the bill to $lO7. The total was too muclf for the Duke’s gaJantry. Angry at this extension of the contract, or at the.magnitude of the disbursement, he deemed in incumbent on his good breeding to forwafd the bill to the husband, with a polite note informing him that his boundless regard for the wife precluded him from offering to her a present of marketable value, as he would thereby encroach on conjugal privileges The woman did not storm, the Duke did not blush, the wife had her costly toy, the husband paid, the world talked. All is well that ends well.

Washnmo* D. C_ M»y 15th, 1880 Oimim—Haring been a fnfferer for a long time from narrou prostration and genera) debility, I was adrised to try Hop Bitters. I hare taken one bottle and I hare been rapidly getting better erer* since, and I think it the best medicine I erer used. I am now gaining strength and appetite, which was all gone, ana I was in despair until I tried y«or festers. I am now well, able to go about and do my own work. Before taking it I was oomplet#ly prostrated.

MRS. MARY STUART.

Evictions of tenants for non-pay-ment of rent have been resumed in many parts of Ireland.

Flour—Nominally and unchanged. Grain—Wheat,demand active, price* advanced and unsettled, sl2B@l 2 4#; No. 3 Chicago spring, sll4@l 16#: Corn, fairly active and {higher, 74% @74#. Oats, dull, and prices a shade lower, 51#c. Rye,. steady, 77c. Barley, steady, $1 00@1 05. Butter—Dull; creameries, 22@250; dairies fair to choice , 14@20e. Egg*—Fairly active and a shad* higher, 16#c. Provisions—Pork,firm and higher; sl9 62#@19 75 cash; sl9 60@@19 65 May; sl9 65@19 67# June; sl9 87# @l9 90 July; S2O 06@20 07# August; S2O 15@20 17# September. Lard, tally active and a shade higher; sll 42#@11 46 cash; sll 45@11 47# June; sll 60@11 62# July; sll 72# @ll 76 August; sll 82# September: sll 36 year. Bulk meats strong and higher; shoulders, $8 75; short rib, sll 40; short clear, sll 75. Whisky—Steady and unchanged at sll6. Freights—Corn to Buffalo, 2c. Call—Wheat, dull and lower, $1 28# @1 28#, May. Corn, fair demand at lower rates, 74#@74#0, May. Oats, dull and prices a shade lower, 61#c, May. Pork, firmer but not quotably higher. Lard, generally unchanged, but some sales rather higher. Hogs—Receipts 22,000; shipment* 4,500; active and 6to 10c higher f with a poor quality of offerings; common to good mixed, $7 40@7 95; light hogs, $7 40@8 05; heavy packing and shipping, $8 00@8 60; skips and culls, $5 75@7 50. Cattle —Receipts, 3,800; shipments, 8C0; strong and active and 10 to 150 advance; no extra stock here, quality being poor; exports, $7 75@@8 00; good to choioe, shipping, $7 30@7 60: common to fair, $6 25@7 00; mixed butchers, plentiful and easier, $2 50@ 2 65; grass Texans, a trifle easy but prices steady,s4 40@5 50 for canners; $5 65 @6 25 for shippers; stockers,s3 50 @5 50. Sheep—Receipts, 600; shipments none; steady; inferior to fair shorn, $3 10@4 00; good to choice, $4 50@5 10; wooled, $510@6 10. Drovers Journal, Liverpool, reports American cattle advanced #c; best, 17#c; /sheep steady; best, 18@20e.

Baltimore.

Flour—Easier; western superfine, $3 25@4 50; extra, $4 75@5 75; family, $6 00@6 75. Grain —Wheat, western steady and inactive; No. 2 winter red spot, $1 43#; May, $1 43@1 44; June, $1 43 bid; July, $142#@142#; August, $1 42@1 42#. Corn, western dulland' easy; western mixed spot and June, 81#c bid; July, 82@82#c. Oats, quiet but firm; western white, 61@63c; mixed, 60@61c: Pennsylvania, 60@ 63c. Rye dull, 87@90c. Hay—Steady, sl7 00@18 00. Provisions—Firm; messpork, sl9 75. Bulk meats, shoulders and clear rib sides, packed, $9 50@ 12 25; bacon shoulders, $lO 25; clear rib sides, sl3 25; hams, sls 26@15 50. Lard, refined, sl2 75. Butter—Dull; western packed, 16@ 25c; roll, 15@20e. Eggs—Quiet, 19@20c. Petroleum—Quiet; refined, 7#@ 7#c. Coffee—Firm; Rio cargoes, B@9#c. Sugar—Quiet; A soft, 9#e. Whisky—Quiet, $1 20@1 21.

Cincinnati.

Flour—Firm: family, $6 003)6 25; fancy, $6 50@7 25. _ Grain—Wheat dull and lower; No 2 red, $1 33@1 35#. Corn quiet and firm, 77#@77#0. Oats quiet, 55#0. Rye dull, 82c. Barley dull, $1 08. Provisic ns—Pork steady, S2O 25. Lard, stringer, sll4O. Bilik meats steady and higher, $8 50@ll 1, 75. Bacon stronger, $9 00@12 25@12 75. Whisky—Active and firm, $1 14; combination sales of finished goods 853 barrels on a basis of $1 14. Butter—Quiet and unchanged; choioe western reserve, 20c; choioe central Ohio, 18c. Linseed Oil—Dull, 66@57c. Hogs—Firm; common and light. $6 00@7 76; packing and butchers, $7 25@8 00; receipts, 661; shipments, none.

Detrolt.

Flour—s 6 00@6 50. Grain—Wheat firm and unchanged; No 1 white.sl 36#; May,sl3s# ; Ju* e, $1 88#; July, $1 28; August, $1 12#; September, $1 11#; year, $110#; No 2 red, $141; No 2 white, sl32# asked. Receipts, 1,800 bushels; shipments, 6,000.

Toledo.

N oon board —Grain—Wheat,steady; No 2 red spot. May, $1 40}£. Corn, steady and in fair demand; high mixed, 80c; No 2 spot, 78>£. Oats, steady; No 2 spot May, 58c; market closing v dull; quotations nominally and unchanged.

East Liberty.

Cattle—Receipts, 2,057; market slow at about last week's prices. Hogs—Receipts. 4,700; market firm; Philadelphias, $8 10@8 40; Yorkers, $7 70@8 00. Sheep—Receipts, 7,800; market dull and yic off from last week.

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