Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1882 — Page 6

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THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Henry Smith, a wealthy German citizen of Xeniarbas been arrested for receiving stolen goods. Mrs. Daniel Reardon was seriously and probably fatally wounded by a runaway accident at Fremont. A woman named Laird, in Mansfield, Ohio, .whose jnwfeand .has deserted he*, has started out through the statAo find him.'The Meigs oounty delegation, to the Democratic congressional convention have been instructed to vote fer A. J. Warner for oongress. The Democratic primaries held at Columbus have placed the renomina tion of Representative Converse beyond aperadventure. Fifteen thousand people are reported to have visited the camp of the First Ohio National guards, at Rich mond Indiana. The camp has disbanded. EmanuaTß. ScKheidei‘,”ft' German priest, renounced the Catholic faith at Pittsburg and joined the Methodist Episcopal church. Adana Weaver was seriously and probably fatally Wounded' by a falling tree, in a storm in Upton township, Knox county, O. - - - H. Swope, of Indianapolis, is lying in a dying condition at that place from a "blow in the head inflicted by a man named Ellis. Folger A Co., hardware merchants at New Orleans have failed, and filed suit against their creditors. Assets $80,000; liabilities $91,0Q0. The secretary of the treasury decided to affirm the assessment of duties of 2% cents per pound on axle forgings Imported at Toledo, Ohio. The Republican convention which failed to nominate a successor to Representative Updegrafl, is to meet again at Barnesville, August 18th.

The Cincinnati board of trade and transportation has been informed that freight may fas shipped by the south Atlantic ports to Europe by October 16th. - The Ladies’ Educational and Sanitary Aid Sooiety, of Cincinnati, is rendering timely and well considered assistance to the Hebrews exiled from Russia. -~ A two-year-old child of Nelvin Smith, a wealthy Montreal merchant, hen been abducted, and a ransom of $50,000 demanded on penalty of the child’s life. A young man named Wilbur Bethard, whose home is at Dublin, was run over by the cars at Elmwood, on the C., T. AH. Y. R. R., and terribly crashed. He afterwards died. The body of Ferdinand Winters, of Cincinnati, who was supposed to have committed suicide at Huntington, has been exhumed and submitted to medical tests, foul play being suspected. A Berlin dfepatch says: “The arrival of Baron Von Schloezer, ambassador to the p&pel court, is generally regarded as equivalent to a temporary rupture of negotiations between Germany and tbe Vatican.” H. H. McFadden, editor of the Bteubenville Gazette, was knocked down by an ex-convict named McDonald, because he refused to give his authority for statements made iu his paper concerning certain events..

In the house of commons John Bright, referring to his resignation, stated he had nothing to explain or defend. The sole reason of his retirement was that he could not concur in the government’s Egyptian policy. The body of the Earl Crawford and Balcarres, stolen some time ago from the fondly vault in Abbotshlre, has been found in the grounds of the family estate. A man suspected of complicity in the theft has been arrested. “Tug” Wilson deposited $12,790 in a New York bank as his share of th« winnings of Monday night’s fight. He has challenged Sullivan to fight him for $2,600 a side within four months, for the championship of the world. The national executive committee of the North Amerioan Turners’ union, at St. Louis, has issued a manifesto to all turners’ associations in this country, calling upon them to resist the present prevailing temperance agitation. In Pittsman Valley, New Mexico, Henry Jansen and Charles Boneateint Hwedes, and William Warton, tough, about a blanket. The Swedes cut Warton nearly to pieces, He, ip turn, killed Jansen and mortally wounded Bonestein. General Grant has been giving his opinion upon the eastern question to a Record reporter. He sides with England, and believes an English protectorate would help develop tne resources of the country and improve the Condition of the people. Our Atlanta, Ga., dispatches announce that Senator Hill’s condition is much worse than at any time since bis arrival from Eareka springs. The eaneer is eating his throat away, the fiesta sloughing off in quantity, gnd no hopes are entertained for his recovery.

CONGRESSONAL.

SENATE. Washington, July 14.—0 n and after Monday next the senate will meet at 11 o’clock a. m. Mr. Logan, from the committee on appropriations, reported the pension appropriation bill. Printed and laid over. A number of pension bills passed. The house pension Mil was amended by the adoption of a general provision prohibiting the payment of double pensions. - The tax bill was then taken ud and Mtvßayeed reviewed and critioised the measure. He said that for the mot nine in tne nißiory oi tne country the senate had originated a bill to change the tariff because party exigencies demanded it. , , • Mr. Beck offered an amendment reducing ten cents per pound the tax on manufactured tobacco. Pending discussion the matter went over for tne day. Alter an executive session the senate adjourned till to-morrow. HOUSE. Washington, July 14.—The house proceeded to the consideration of the remaining senate amendments to the deficiency appropriation bill, which had not been concurred in yesterday. A large majority of them were nonconcured in. Few of them gave rise to debate except tbe one appropriating s3B,o©<Mbr- the payment or mileage to senators who attended the special session of the senate, convened October 10th, 1881. Mr. Townshend characterized this amendment as a little salary grab, and hoped the house conferees, when appointed, would not yield to tne senate on-that- point.

The amendment was nou-concurred in. : The last amendment in the bill was that constituting a board of audit, consisting of the first and second comptrollers of the treasury and the treasurer of the United States, to whom shall be referred all claims and determine all allowances to be made growing out of the illness and burial of the laie President. James A. Garfield. Debate followed. Finally a vote was taken and the senate amendment was non-concurred in—yeas, 78; nays, 83. The house went into committee of the whole on the senate amendments to the river and harbor bill, but as the amendments were not printed the committee rose and they were ordered printed. The house then took a recess. The evening session will be for the consideration of pensions. Tbe house at tne evening session agreed to the senate amendment to the house bill granting a pension to Augustas Miller. This amendment prohibits the payment of double pensions. Pension bills then passea to tbe number of forty, among them -the senate bill granting an increase es pension to tne widow of General Custor* The house also passed bills granting seventy-five condemned cannon for monumental purposes and then adjourned until to-morrow.

SENATE Washington, July 16.—Mr. Anthony introduced a bill repealing so much of the army appropriation bill as provides for the retirement of General Sherman and Lieutenant-Gener-al Sheridan. Referred. On motion of Mr. McMillan, the senate insisted upon its amendments tn sch» river and harbor appropriation ordered consisting of Senator McMillan, Jones, of "Nevada, and Ransom. The.gpnate at 4:50 adjourned until Monday. house. MFT Williams, of Wisconsin, reported back from the foreign affairs com mittee the resolution offered by Mr Cox requesting the president to communicate any information in the possession of the state department in reference to any modification in the stipulations under which the French cable company were permitted to land its cattle upon the shore of the United States to the effect that it was not to combine with other companies to raise th - rates, without congressional action to prevent consolidation. The house went Into committee of the whole on the senate amendments to the river and harbor appropriation

iu« ur»L »na tue seventeentn Amendments were concurred in. The Hennepin canal amendment gave rise to a discussion, in the couref of which Mr. Hutchins, of New York, expressed hope that the house would give such an emphatic condemnation to the scheme that it would never show its head again. The amendment was advocated by Messrs. Henderson and Springer. It was non-concurred in. The remainder of the amendments were non-concurred in, the whole number being 160. The committee then rose, and th' house non-concurred in all the senate amendments. An unsuccessful effort wad made to have an hour spent in hearing requests for unanimous consent. Adiourned. SENATE. Washington, July 17.— Mr. Allison, from the committee of confer•hoe on the legislative, judicial and executive appropriation bill, reported that the committee were unable to agree. " . ' The report was agreed to and a new conference committee appointed. Ti.e house amendment was concurred in to the senate bill to encourage and promote telegraphic communication between America and Eur>pe. After an executive session the senate adjourned. HOUSE Washington, July i;.—Mr. Robinson. of New York, introduced sev-

ing on the secretary of the navy for the instructions under which Commodore Nicholson threatened to open fire on the city of Alexandria under certain contingencies, and to inform the government whether American sailors and officers were performing police duly in Alexandria under the British admiral, and if so'by what authority. All the resolutions were referred . J Mr. Bingham, from the postbffice committee, reported tbe bill in regard to the nay-of letter carriers. It provides for a third grade of letter carriers, known as the auxilleries at S6BO ayear; also.for substitute letter carriers, and so providing that prefer-ence-til grades shah be made ait the end of the years since: the hill passed. The rules were suspended and the senate to 80—for the salodf the site of the old'postoffice building.on Nassau street, New York, with an amendment increasing theminimum price from $i«0O,QO0 to $600,000. : » Adjourned. *.ik.v , * I SENATE. Washington, July 19.—The senate presented a communication from Brevitf Major-General McQnade. transmitting a resolution adopted unanimously at the recent annual meeting of the society of the . fifth army corps at Detroit, asking tMt, justice be done General Fitz John Porter. Mr. Jewell gave notice that he would call up the bill for General Porter’s relief the first Monday in December next. Mr. Logan’s Chinese bill was considered without action. Pending the discussion of the tax bill, Mr. Allison, by unanimous consent, called up the house joint resolution continuing the appropriations of the last fiscal year until July 31st.« Resolution adopted. '. l ft Wi HOUSh. , In the. House the session was almost entirely taken up In disposing of the contested election case of Smalls vs. Lillman. After a prolonged and excited debate the previous question was ordered and the mi norifcy report being rejected, the seat was voted to Smalls. Mr. Smalls then appeared and took the oath as member of Congress from North Carolina. The Alabama case of Smith vs. Shelly was then taken up—l 46 to 1— and Mr. Rauney, of Massachusetts having taken the floor the house adjourned. SENATE. Washington, July 20.—Mr. Cockrell oalled up the house joint bill to relieve certain soldiers of the late war fsom the charge of desertion. The details of the measures were discussed by Messrs. Cockrell, Harrison. Plumb, Hoar, Platt and Blair, wMi Morrill moved to proceed withr lhe tax bill, and Hale supplemented this with a motion to take up the |wVal appropriation bill. A protracted rambling debate’ followed. Upon the order of business the pending bill retained its place as unfinished business of the morning hour hereafter, and Morrill’s motion to lay aside all pending orders and to taki up the tax bill prevailed—yeas, 35; nays, 29. The pending amendment was to strike out the provision repealing the taxes on bank capital and deposits of bank checks. The pending amendment was 15 to 41. The senate committee amendment to the first section as amended by the reduction of tax on tobacco wad then agreed to—39 to 9 and the question recurred on the remainder of the section. The portions adopted fixes the taxes on manufactured tobacco after January Ist, 1883, at twelve cents per pound, and provides a repeal of taxes on the capital and deposits of banks and bankers, and shall not effect such taxes as are now due and payable, and tnat the repeal of the stamp tax on bank checks, drafts, orders and vouchers shall not take effect until October Ist next. The bill then went over until tomorrow.

HOUSE.

Washington, July 20.—Mr. Calkins called up the resolution offered yesterday reciting that it had been asserted bj Mr. Blackburn that the mistake made by the tally e’erk in footing up the roll call was a falsification of the Record, and directing a special committee to inquire into the matter. Mr. Blackburn having denied that he made any charge, the resolution was withdrawn and the house resumed consideration of the Alabama contested election case of Smith vs. Shelly. , Mr. Ranney, of Alabama, presented the case for the majority and. urged, inasmuch as the contestant, who had been legally elected, had recently died, the seat be declared vacant.

The resolution declaring the seat vacant was adopted—yeas, 145; nay, 1. Mr. Reed, of Maine, called up ihe resolution reported by the committee on rules on the Bth of Maroh, for morning rules, so as to provide that during the morning hour, it shall be in order to consider suoh bills reported from oommittees as the committee In charge shall direct. It also provides for the designation by the committee of measure to be considered when the house goes into . a committee of the whole.

Mr. Reed so modified the resolution as to provide for its going in’o effect the first day of the next session. Mr. Blackburn, of Kentucky raised the question of the consideration, and the Democrats refrained from voting, thus leaving the house without a quorum. Adjourned.

The Hens at Kirby Homestead.

:j The nurae girl, needisg outdpOt exei-ciaft. wap fpveu the entire charge of the hens, and the men folks relived of this duty, A programme was arranged, which was carefully carried out, with au astonishing increase in number of eggs. Tbe .new system' of .gement is the nearest perfMtfctf, judging,by result*, of any have ever practiced. Herts iWneeriy risen. Early in the moming tbeytare fed buckwheat—two quarts for 80 hens.. About IQ o’clock they are given four quarts Of apples or carrote, or both, cm. Up fine fn the chopping btrwl witlrthe tjrrtdl* cakes, potato slafce, etc., left over :in the kitchen, and water also is,placed before them -it would be hette* if ,w#rspejL, In tht middle of the aoe again fed corn, ly charred. I ''iti ‘tt***’ Wlfi &reak up easily, f s kept sis tfte'he'n-tiomiS codstantiy, an* also, another box wlsteftesb sbelladn. it pounded up as line as possible.- Another bgjr is filled with coarjje sand from wMcfplheiifcro * dan be replenished wjtb c? yeL,, SlacKed 1 nee is also accessible. We ” , fto keep feed >S#oi«' l the all the tihie'.bnt Chfty got too f it and werr poor layers, 'i hey mast be fedefjgv in the morning*—requiring but alible—and they must be fed with regularity. j i a yariety of feed, and ihUst have some vegetable food to be kept healthy artd dbwvft. They are fond of apples and also of careofa axoqllent for a •changer -buckwheat is one of the best kinds br grtrtlt ffeeding entirely of corn is not so good There should wiwys be a mixture or variety .of grain, o kvbep ftWice a day hens .will not gorge t lemselvee and thus produce disease' in the crop fad digestive organa as they "fcre r >*t to do when only fed once a day. Jt better to divide the ft For-u quarter of> yve have almost Thia man always has egmtenwU. - Farmers’ poultry, are fioo closely mbrad, which makes them weakly aaa impotent f and they ars careless about the old) hens. Young hens a 1 every other year, introducing new blood In no case should - a male be allowed to breed with his own offspring. Vary few farmers consider these' things, and hence poor £4-turna—[N.-Y«, Xribuna

Literary Destinies.

m Spectator. Tine perversities of literary destiny are certainly felrange. Charles Lamb spent the better part of his life upon tne summit of a lofty stool in a London office, copying words aud figures into a series bf folios. Miss Braddon is conducted by inscrutable fate to the n6vaUst’s desk, there io > squander a forty-clerk power of persistent penmanship in turning romance into ridicule. - Slip Has IRtle. imagination, an indifferent taste, and ho humor; and yet stye fias written nearly two shore of novels, which have been read by hundred of thousands of readers, and the .pages of ’which are unstained, so far as we are aware, by anything #orfe than, sensationalism and vapidity. Where to look for a parallel to such a tour de force wc know not. il Ouida’s” “success” is due to her unfaiTthg prui riency: Balzac’s to* his inexhaustible Kahlua f rGcprge Klioi’sjb ker intellecmm sympathy. Miss Braddon, without tbe aid of either pruriency, genius, or Intellectual sympathy, is almost as widely known, and is perhaps more load than any of thebemfe-gientioned writers. Whore is the explanation of this anomaly to be soughtrWheremust hi* * largo class of minds .’which can find repose neither hr deep, nor iu waking idleness, but only in a superficial mental movement, which" shall deceive the mind proper into fancying itself occupied,tand thus enable it to steal some .actual rest. Now, undoubtedly no ifteirtal movement can be more superficial than that produced by an uncritical perusal of Miss Braddou’s novels, and therefore no inward calm more unruffled.

What I Feed My Hens.

Germantown Telegram. I saw in a late local in your paper, that ybti wish me toinfortnyour readers how I feed my hens. I will gladly do so. L b aye twenty-fiye hens; they are a mixe'tf sidcV, ESf y-Bfefer white leghorns,'Wild the food thafcTfeed them is corn and' wheat, and Wro quarts of thick milk and black’peppy —about 1 cent’s worth of pepper to a quart twice a week; besides that, I give them the offal- from: the table and grass. In the Winter I warm the corn and give them water to drink. The lot that I keep there in.is fifteen feet square and a light warm pen* The number of eggs laid is as follows: January, 108; February, 258; March, 806; April, 864; Mai,4lo; <dmrfMS33; July, 308; August, 287; September, 280; total, 2,654. The first six months I had twenty-five hens, the next three months I had twentyfour. lam responsible for this stateWhich it strictly correot- .

A strange sea monster has been seen by a sea captain who recently arriVed at Galveston, Texas. The master mariner reports that while about half way between Maderla and St. Vegas, Canary Iblands, he passed One of the most remarkable fish tjhut he ever saw. This marine monster is described as beinv ahodt fqrfcr in length, with four largl fins or wings, arranged in a row down its baok. These fins varied in length, according to the reckoning of Captaui Larson, from eighteen to Iwenty-Vwo feet, and in width from six to nine feet.' At the time of its being sighted the fish was about a quarter of ,& mile $o wiiid,w«rd ,of the vessel, aud was t Uflung the water with its tail and wings, 'evidently iu combat with some other monstefi>"

Brlght's Disease, Diabetes, Kidney. Liver or Urinary Diseases,

6f any of those diseases if you ac« Mopiltitiors, a» v thoy wjfil ifavcnt and our* the worst oases, even (vhoa ytfu nave been mad* worie by some groat putted u|, pretended nur««. 1 When a man is drawn upon a jury we suppose it may be called a panel picture.

THE MARKETS.

Chicago. FjourriffifaiUccsAfri i Grain—Wheat, N 6 S red winter, unsettled a«d generally lower; No 2 Chicago irregu lar, f s 1 J 6@ 128; regular uneetOed and gwxerajly Tower, $i 26% WWr demand but lower, 76%@76)6c.0at8 l fair demand and Rye easier, 69c. t ,i 2?@128«. Butter—Easier; creamery, 19® 24%c; dairy, 14@21c. Provisions Pork, unsettled, and generally lower; S2O 70@20 75 cash: S2O 65@20 6734 September; S2O 85 October; sl9 50 November; sl9 50 year. Lard, active aqd a shade lower ; sl2 30 cash; $1232)£ August; SI2 45@12 47)6 gfeptembeir; $12,55 October, sl2 30 the year, Bulk meats steady and unchanged. ' Whisky—Steady and unchanged at sll6. Freights—Corn to Buffalo, l%@2c. Call—Wheat, No 2 red winter, unchanged; spring easy, $1 84)6 AugUst: regular unsettled and generally igher, $1 06% Juljp. Corn fairly active and a shade higher, 76%c. Oats irregular, 51%c July. Pork irregular, S2O 65 August; $2 > 82)6 September; $2092)6 October; sl9 65 the year. Lard moderately active and higher; $1232)6 @l2 35 August; sl2 45 September; sl2 62%@12 67% October. • Hogs—Receipts 11,000; shimnents, 8,200; market firm; good to'choice, 6to 10c higher; mixed, $7 36@8 10; heavy packing and shipping, $3 15@ 880; light, $7 40@815; skips, $4 90@ 7 85. Market closed s eady; all sold. Cattle—Receipts, 4,700; shipments, 2,400; market very dull, weak and lower offal 1 grades but the very best; exports, $7 40@S 00: good to choice shipping, $6 76@7 10; eommon to fair, $4 50@6 25; thin natives and grassers almost unsaleable; butchers, $2 40@ 4 60; Stockers and feeders, $2 50@4 50; Texans weak but not lower, $3 70@ 5 80; half- $4 90@5 76. • Sheep—Receipts, 1,0')0; shipments, 680; market unchanged; quality very poor; slow; stockers, $2 60@3 25; poor to fair butchers, $3 25@8 75; medium, $3 90@4 10; good, $1 2Q@4 50.

New York Produce. Flour—Heavy; superfine state and western, $3 70@4 75; eommoß to good extra, $4 75@5 > 60; good to choice, $570 @9 00; white wheat extra, $8 25 @9 00; extra Ohio, $4 80@8 00 ; 8% Louis,s4 80 @9 00; Minnesota patents, $8 25@ 9 25, Grain—Wheat, firm; No 2 spring, $1 21; ungraded do $1 00@1 2o; No 3, $118; steamer No 2 red, $118; No 2 red, $120@120% certificates; $120)6 @1 20% fob; $1 21% No 2 delivered; No 1 red, $1 21; mixed winter,- $117; ungraded white, slls@l 23; No 8. white, $116; No 2 white sllß@l 18%. Corn opened %@ %c lower, but afterwards recovered and advanced %o, closing firm; ungraded; 81%@83c: No 8, 82%c store; 88c elevator; 83%@83)6c delivered; No. 8, 81@82%e; September, 83%@ 84%c, closing 83%c; October, 83c. Oats, cash strong; mixed western, 61 @630; white 63@68c. Eggs—Western fresh, quiet and firm at 20@20)6e. Provisions—Fork quiet and unchanged; new moss, $22 25. Cut meats, scarce and firm: long clear middles, sls2s@lß 75. Lard weak; prime steam, sl2 fo@l2 90. Butter—Weak at 14@25c. Cheese—Quiet and firm at 6@9%c.

Halt! more. Flour—Qaiet and steady. Grain—Wheat, western, active and lower closing firmer; No 2 western winter red spot, $118%; July, $1 17% bid; August. $1 16%@1 17%; September, $1 16%@116%. Corn, western, about steady and dull; mixed spot, 84c asked; July* 88%c asked: Auust, 83%@83%c; September, 84% @ 85%c. Oats, quiet; western white, 68 @7oc; mixed. 62@65c; Pennsylvania, 65@70c Ryejfirnuer and higher, 87 @ 91c. Hay—Firm and demand active: prime to choice Pennsylvania, sl7 00 @lB 00. Provisions —Firm and active; mess pork, $22 50@23 50. Bulk meats —shoulders and clear rib sides packed, sll 00@13 87%. Bacon—shoulders, . sl2 00; clear rib sides, sls 25; hams, sls 50@16 25. Lard, refined, sl4 00. Butter—Firm; western packed, 14@ 20c; creamery, 23@27c. Eggs—-Lower and dull, 18c. Petr leum—Higher and firm; refined, 7%c. Coffee—Quiet; Rio cargoes ordinary, B%c@9%c. Sugar—Steady; A soft, 9%c. Whisky—Steady at $115@116.

Cftaeinnati* Flour—Dull and unchanged; family, $5 80@6 00; fanoy, $6 30@7 00 Grain—Wheat heavy and lower; No 2 red,new, $1 02@1 08. Corn firmer, 800. Oate dull, £7%c. Rye, dull, 75c. Provisions—Pork < steady, $22 60. Lard quiet, sl2 87%. Bulk meats, $9 14 00@il4 50. Whisky—lrregular; high wines, $1 15; combination sales of finished goods, 627 barrels, on a basis of sll4. Butter—Quiet; choice western reserve, 22c; choice central Ohio, 200. Hogs—Steady; common and light, $6 00@8 30; packing and butchers’, $7 86@8 90. Receipts, 387; shipments, 57. . » Toledo. Grain—Wheat firm; No 2 red, new, $110; old, $1 15. Corn firm; No 2, 78%C. Closed—Wheat weaker; No 2 rod, new held $1 10; old, slls Corn, steady; No 2,77 c. Oats quiet; No 2 August, 38c bid. * Dr. C. S. Morley, Pontiac, becomes prison physician at the lonia house of correction.