Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1882 — Page 6

RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN. BEO. E. MARSHALL, Editor and Proprietor.

NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Timothy Bailey, a soldier in the war of 1812, the inventor of the knitting machine, died at Ballston, N. Y. The Baltimore and Ohio Express Company paid #40,000 for the horses, wagons and harness of A. T. Stewart & Co., together with a lease of the stables The free thinkers elected as-president, T. L. Brown, of Binghamton, N. Y» The convention received a telegram from Chaplain McCabe, announcing that the Methodists are building more than one church per day, and propose to make it two. In reply the chaplain was asked to let the world haar less of Jesus’ name and see more of His works.... Edward N. Welch, a traveling salesman for a Boston lish-house, has been arrested at McDonough, N. Y., on suspicion of being the perpetrator of the daring bank robbery at Kewanee, 111. On his person was found #4,000. He will be brought westward at once. He was seen in the vicinity of Kewanee at the time of the raid... .In a professional scull race at Saratoga, which included Courtney, Riley and Ross among the contestants, the former came out second, after informing his friends that he should cer(ainly win, causing them to lose thousands of dollars... .In a fire at Walpole, Mass., George L. Ware and Calvin Gay were burned to death... .Charles Mallory, owner of a line of Texas steamships, is dead, and leaves #1,000,000 to his five 50n5....8y the will of Aroonah Huntington, of Brantford, Ont., the state of Vermont acquires #206,727 to be distributed among its educational institutions. General Charles J. Powers, of Rochester, N. Y., died in the street of apoplexy. He led the 108th New York through all the battles from Fredericksburg to the Wilderness, and had since taken high rank as a lawyer.... Early on Sunday morning the Hocking Valley manufacturing works, at Lancaster, 0., were swept away by fire.... A temperance worker at Augusta, Me., secured a warrant a ainst the officers of an express company for bringing liquors to the city. The deputy sheriff broke the locks of the store-house and seized sixty-two cases of beer. It is rumored in Buffalo that the Standard Oil Company is to purchase The Courier for #75,000, and its show printing house for #750,000... .Dr. Reybum has filed a bill for #8,500 for professional services at the bedside of President Garfield. There is good authority for the statement that Drs. Hamilton and Agnew will ask for #15,000 each. A loss of #IOO,OOO was incurred at Haverhill, Massachusettes, by the burning of three factories and three dwellings.... Sparks from a locomotive at Cleveland fired three hundred barrels of patroleum on the fiats, the flames extending to a train of fifteen oil-cars, causing a loss of #80,000.....Wi11iam liam H. Allen, of Philadelphia, President of Girard College for many years, died yesterday of Bright’s disease The banking house of William H. Lloyd k Co., of Philadelphia, closed its doors recently, with liabilities of #150,000.

A mortgage covering property to the amount of #160,000,000 was placed upon record at Philadelphia recently.... Lizzie Selden, the little girl who was kidnapped in Brooklyn a short time since has been found and her abductress arrested... .Two hotels' and a public hall at Orchard Beach, Maine, burned Thursday. The officers of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis road went over the track from Grand Crossing to Cleveland, on Wednesday, In nine hours and twenty-seven minutes.... The Russian refugee committee in New York shipped back to Liverpool on Wednesday 111 filthy and worthless Jews, each of whom was provided with creature comforts for the trip. ... .A mysterious fever is raging among the operatives of the knitting-mills at Little Falls, N. Y. Four have died and twentyeight are prostrate. The following named horses have been entered for the great ten thousand dollars purse for 2:17 class, to be trotted at Beacon park, Boston, on the 14th: Fanny Witherpoor, Black Cloud, Helene, Clingstone, Parana, Edwin Thome, Humboldt, and Santa Claus.

WEST AND SOUTH.

Agent Miles telegraphs from Indian Territory that the Northern Cheyennes declare their intention to emigrate to the Pine Eidge agency in Dakota, regardless of the wishes of Commissioner Price... .The party of six young ladies engaged in walking across North Carolina have reached Monroe, 420 miles from their starting point. One night they camped in a cemetery and slept between the graves; at another time they came upon a bear. Their log-book contains 1,246 pages of incidents.... The attorney general of Georgia is pushing to trial an action to forfeit the lease by the state, to a company of which Senator Joseph Brown is president of the Western and Atlantic railroad at $600,000 per year. Two years ago the sum of $12,000,000 was offered for the road... .Crop reports from southern Atlantic states are generally favorable, but portions of Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Alabama complain of too much rain, causing shedding of bolls and’ retarding picking. Some worms are also mentioned, supposed to be In the second crop, but it is thought they are too late to do much damage... .A desperate leap for liberty was recently taken by a noted burglar of North Carolina, who, handcuffed and tied, sprang out of a car window and went down a precipice of eighty feet, where he disappeared... .Leon-

ard Coker, a colored man, who outraged and murdered Mrs. Catherine Haynes, near Montgomery, Ala., was quickly captured, made a confession, and was lynched at the scene of his crime... .A cargo of 250 Clydes-* dale horses, chiefly destined for Illinois, has arrived at Montreal... .George Miron, who claims to have been a mechanic in Chicago for the past sixteen years, has appeared in Montreal to take possession of a family which he abandoned long ago. His wife had heard of his death, and had married again He has brought suit to recover his daughter... .A brewing firm of Davenport, In order to obtain a decision on the prohi>itory amendment, has sued a saloon-keep-irfor #ll3 worth of beer furnished two veeks ago The officers of the newly>uilt Chicago and Atlantic road passed over from’Marion, 0., to Hammond, Ind.,lna special train, and pronounced the track the best in the union for its age. Oklahoma Payne has been arrested on the Canadian river, in Indian Territory, by federal troops. .General Sherman has fixed November, 1883, as the date for his retirement from the army, when he will make St. Louis his home... .8. A. Ricker, a wellknown grain and pork operator on the Chicago Board of Trade, died at the Palmer House in that city, leaving #1,500,000 to his brothers and sisters. Mrs. Annie Burns, a Leavenworth washerwoman, died sixteen years ago, and the proper proofs of her demise are wanted in Ireland, as her six children have fallen heirs to a stake of £200,000... .Pratt, the assistant cashier of the First National bank of Kewanee, HI., has been token into custody as an accomplice in the robbery of the institution by Edward N. Welch. Pinkerton’s men captured in St Louis a dentist named James S. Scott, on charge of complicity....A C. Hesing, of Chicago, is said to have been murdered by his servant, between Hermosillo and his Mexican mine, to secure possession of #2,000, which was being token to pay the miners. His skull was found crushed and his face badly mutilated. On all former occasions he had taken a guard, bnt was persuaded by his murderer not to do so. The body was found by troops, who had previeous offlyred to escort him to the mine. A commercial loumol of Cincinnati, figuring on returns from twelve of the corngrowing states, expects a yield one-half greater than last year, or a total crop of 1,800,000,000 bushels.... Henry Pettes, one of the most prominent art-dealers in the west died at Bt. Louis from the effects of a surgical operation. Yellow fever is reported as spreading in Texas, and also among the Mexican ranches ... .Reports from Illinois place the oat crop in that state at 99,275,000, Heretofore the heaviest average was 2,401,000 and the average yield about forty bushels to the acre.... Just as a freight train was entering the depot at Hoopeston, HI., a car loaded with lumber jumped the track and went through the depot building, demolishing it and killing a boy who was standing on the platform. It is now certain that at least 120 persons were drowned by the recent flood at Concho, Texas. The loss of sheep and cattle is estimated at not less than 15,000.

FOREIGN.

Details of the outbreak at the capital of Corea show that the life of the King was spared, but the mob murdered the Queen, her son and his affianced bride, and sixteen ministers of state. The American treaty has been rejected .... The insubordination among the Irish constabulary has extended to the metropolitan police of Dublin, four hundred of whom met to voice their complaint that they received no pay for extra work. The Inspector General of the constabulary paraded the force at Limerick on Sunday, and made some soothing statements. Two legislatures organized in the Mexican city of Zecatecas, one being friendly to the federal and state government, the otherher supporting General Cadena for the Presidency. A fight of twenty minutes’ duration took place betweon Cadena’s adherents and the state troops, the former surrendering with the loss of one man. The Hungarian harvest is reported the most favorable for years... .Over 500 persons died of cholera in one Spanish town, in three days last week.... The war between the Greeks and Turks has begun again, an armistice having failed to be agreed upon. Great activity is displayed in military circles on both sides. The British Steamer Lake Nepigon bound from Liverpool to Montreal, went ashore at Wicklow, Ireland. All passengers were removed in life boats... .The city of Dublin,lreland, is in great danger of a riot. The entire police force except officers have struck, and all police stations are guarded by military detachments... .Sarah Bernhardt has returned to Paris on account of ill-health, ....War between the Greeks and Turks seems inevitable. The Greeks have driven the Turks out of the forests between Zarhas and the coast and torpedoes have been placed along the frontier of the Thessalian coast.

FINANCIAL.

Montbeal dispatches announce the failure of the dry-goods firm of Chaput & Mosse, with liabilities of $30,000, who offer 60 per cent, in compromise. Wholesale houses throughout the Dominion have been victimized by the collapse of Wurtte & Co., of Winnipeg. The public debt was reduced $16,128,251, during the month of August... .In case of the retirement of Sec’y. Folger from the Treasury Department, it is expected that he will be succeeded by Ass’t-Secretary New, of Indiana.

POLITICAL.

The Democrats of the First district of Virginia renominated George T. Garrison for Congress....A rumor is in circulation in Washington that Secretary Lincoln is soon

to be replaced by an Eastern man....A labor convention consisting of two delegates from each lodge in the state of Pennsylvania, was held at Philadelphia on the 28th. TSx democrats of the First district of Virginia renominated George T. Garrison for Congress....A rumor is in circulation in Washington that Secretary Lincoln is soon to be replaced by some eastern man....A labor convention, consisting of two delegates from each lodge in the state of Pennsylvania, was held at Philadelphia on the 28th. The Democratic Congressional Conven tion resulted in the nomination of William R. Morrison for the Eighteenth Illinois district, J. Randolph Tucker in the Sixth Virginia, J. Floyd King in the Fifth Louisiana, Nelson V. Ayers in the Second Kansas, H. A. Herbert in the Second Alabama, Tnomas Williams in the Fifth, and Luke Pryor in the Eighth; R. P. Bland in the Eleventh Missouri, and W. A Reece in the Fourth Virginia. The Republicans selected Nathan Goff, Jr., in the First West Virginia, John R. Lynch, colored, in the Sixth Mississippi, Colonel C. M. Butt in the Seventh Wisconsin, Moses A McCold in the First lowa, and A J. Holmes in the Tenth; Godlove S. Orth, for the Ninth Indiana, and W. H. Calkins in the Thirteenth. The Greenbackers placed in the field Colonel H. C. Hodge for the Third district of Michigan.... The Republican State Convention in Michigan renominated David H. Jerome for Governor and Moreau S. Crosby for Lieutenant Governor. Harry A Conant, of Monroe, was placed on the state ticket for Secretary of State, and Edward H. Butler, of Detroit, for State Treasurer. The platform . called for the submission of the question of prohibition to a popular vote.

THE WAR IN EGYPT.

Admiral Seymour is arranging with other naval commanders for police service on the Suez Canal Intrenchments are thrown up by the Egyptians to the southward of Meks, and two rebel battalions have left Abouklr to occupy the adjacent isthmus. The British have established a blockade of the Egyptian coast. Two thousand Albanians have been enlisted for service in the quarantine and other departments. Riaz Pasha will not form a new ministry for the khedive if the chamber of notables be restored. Prince Ibrahim, a brother of the khedive, asked permission to accompany the British army in Egypt, but Lord Granville declined the offer of the service. The water supply of Alexandria has become so scanty that each inhabitant is to be furnished a gallon daily from the condensing apparatus DeLesseps claims to feel happy over his share in preventing France from joining in an adventure destined to be more disastrous than that of Napoleon in Mexico. The gunboat Bittern is sent each night to prevent the Arabs from advancing upon the strand at Port Said. The commander at Aboukir released the men belonging to the Austrian frigate Nautilus. At Alexandria yesterday afternoon the British artillery fired twenty rounds of shell upon the Egyptians on the left bank of the Mahmondutn canal,, to Which a feebe response was made. The (Minotaur shelled the enemy’s outposts in the direction of Aboukir, where several thousand laborers were at work on the intrenchments. The British forty-pounders at Ramleh also cannonaded the rebel lines The men of the Austrian frigate Nautilus saw Arab! Pasha at Kafar-el-Dwar, and he would only release them on their pledge not to. disclose what they had learned. The man-of-war Minolaur has successfuyll shelled the enemy out of Mandara, on the line between Ramleh and Aboukir... .It is stated that the British intend to ,cut dikes near Meks, so as to flood a portion of the dry bed of Lake Mareotis and prevent any attack from that side... .The garrison at Meks was reinforced in consequence of the Bedouins having formed a camp on the opposite shore of Lake Mareotis....A ministry has been formed with Cherif Pasha as President of the Council and Minister of Foreign affairs; Riax Pasha, Minister of the Interior; Haidar Pasha, Minister of Finance, and Omar Lufti Pasha, Minister of War Sultan Pasha, attended by Fuad Pasha and twelve subordinates, will start for Port Said and Ismalia to accompany Gen. Wolsely as the Khedive's commissioners to explain to the population of the districts through which the British pass, that their mission is solely to establish the authority of the Khedive and overthrow military despotism. General Wolseley reports that late on Monday night his position at Kassassin was attacked by Arabi Pasha, who was repulsed with the loss of eleven guns. The British had eight men killed and sixty-one wounded. Toulba Pasha was poisoned in the rear of Alexandria. Sultan Pasha has arrived at Port Said to install representatives of the Khedive in the territory occupied by the British. The porte now insists that the troops of Turkey and England shall jointly operate from Alexandria. Three Arab sailors, guilty of mutiny, were keel-hauled on the Egyptian frigate Souda, in the harbor of Alexandria, and soon died. A fresh entrenchment of Egyptians has been discovered near Kassassin....Forty seamen from a British olad have succeeded in destroying a house on the canal which was occupied by the enemy’s sharp-shoot-ers and gave British troops much annoyance... .Arabi Pasha is withdrawing bis troops to Tel-el-Kebir, leaving at Kafr-el-Dwar only those necessary to hold the position.

Why He Changed His Sign.

An amusing anecdote is told of one of Boston’s eminent vocal teachers—Sig. Janotta—and is quite true. He moved into a large family hotel and occupied the first floor, placing on his door a fine door-plate with ‘'Janotta'.’ inscribed thereon. For the next few dayß his lessons were disturbed and his peace of mine broken by grocers, butchers, bakers, etc., who seemed to insist that he should direct them to every inmate of the house, and even at times help them with their bnrdens. Here patience ceased to be a virtue, and he finally turned on one of the tradesmen and inquired, “Do you think I run the hotel?’, “Well,” was the reply, if you ain’t the the janitor what do you put out your sign for?” A light broke upon the Professor, and now the door bears the additional inscription: “This is not the janitor’s ofiice.”

INDIANA NEWS.

People in New Alaany rre poisoning geese. The streets are strewn with them. A cloud-burst in the northeastern sart5 art of Washington comity, near Little ork,literally destroyed miles of fencing and hundreds of acres of growing corn. Less than 2,800 dog licenses have been issued by the eitv clerk of Indianapolis —badly one-half of the number issued during a corresponding period last year. W. C. Depauw, of New Albany, Ind.» offers to give $1,000,000 to Ashbury University on condition that a like sum be raised by the other Methodists Df the state. A mAN named Boyd, living a few miles east of Hagerstown, was terribly injured by a fall through a saw-mill. His injuries are so severe that they arc considered fatal. « A thorough examination of the accounts of Samuel Gibson, ex-treasurer of Delaware county, shows a shortage ol $302.91, instead of $14,000, as was at first currently rumored. Delphi offers $50,000 in bonds and eleven acres of land for the location of the shops of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago road; but Lafayette will probably get the shops on an offer of only half as much.

The wife of H. H. Cain, living « short distance south of Booneville, was severely bitten by a large copperhead snake recently. Though in a dangerous condition for several hours, the lady is now recovering. Louis Miller, a boy of 8, was playing with another boy on the bank of the canal in the western part of Fort Wayne, when his companion threw Miller’s hat into the water. The little fellow went after it and was drowned. Richard Weeks, a veteran Methodist of Indianapolis, who for years has been bent with rheumatism, walked upright into a revival meeting and announced his cure by faith, and annointing by Evangelist Barnes. The vacancy in the agricultural department of Purdue University, Lafayette, occasioned by the resignation of Prof. Ingersoll, has been filled by the appointment of Prof. William C. Latta, of the State Agricultural College of Michigan. Peter Rippetoe, son of J ohn H. Rippetoe, w'as seized by a fit while riding a horse on a road near his father’s house, at Terre Haute, the other evening, and fell from the animal, breaking his neck. The man was about 23 years old and unmarried. After four years’ litigation, Andrew Jackson, of Fillmore, Putnam county has accepted $450 and costs in a su, against the Terre Haute and Indianapi olis railroad for a ducking given toMr. J. by the hands on a freight train) in passing a water tank. The second colored camp-meeting of A. M. E. Church is holding a two weeks’ session at Hagerstown. Presiding Elder W. S. Hammond has been in attendance, and preached powerful sermons. The number oft tenters is larger than ever before, and the attendance very flattering. Judge James Hinchman, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Rush county, lied from the effects of a paralytic <troke, aged 83. He removed to this lonnty from Virginia in 1821, was the «e.*ond Probate Judge of this county ind the father of thirteen children, all •iving. His wife survives him. A Journal special from Oxford, Bel*on county, says that early last night a ooy named Edward Forbes, came nome wet, and explaining to his mother that he had fallen into the creek, she petulantly said he ought to have staid there. A few minutes after the boy got a revolver and shot himself through the heart. A lady at Indianapolis had a dispute with a oarpenter over a price on certain work done by him, in which he claimed *3O more than she says she agreed to *>av. She sat down and read the riot ct to him, and then paid what she had .greed to. He then filed suit against her for provoke, and the justice, having oeard the case, dismissed it. Amos Smith, who was formerly a orakeman on the Jeffersonville. Madijon and Indianapolis Railroad, and who was quite severely hurt in a collision with a train on the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Railroad, at the crossing of the two roads in Indianapolis, about two months ago, has brought suit against tQa latter for $20,000 damages. Mr. James D. Huff, a citizen nearShoals, missed a valuable horse recently, and upon investigation found that it had been stolen. Rewards for horse and thief were offered, and in a short timo word was received that the thief had been arrested, with the horse in charge, at Edwardsport, Knox county. The thief proved to be a brother-in-law to a brother of Mr. Huff. He is now in jail

Napoleon lIL, whose health was not of the best, used to make use of a preparation of iron, which came to be called “Syrupus Napoleonis,” and under that name crept into the German pharmacopoeia. In the new edition, however, of that work of interminable technicalities, the Syrupus Napoleonis has, for political reasons perhaps, been carefully excised. t The expenditure of revenue forms the great level from which all heights and depths of legislative action are measured.—James A. Garfield.

DANCING IN MEXICO.

Mkiag AUMwir** I**' 1 **' It must be eoafaaaed, writes a correspondent ol the NemJEork Times, the# a rural “dance ” In New Mexico is a meet dismal affair, bat that the active participants in such entertainments derive some sort of enjoyment therefrom is proved by the frequency with which baile* are arranged. There is not much preliminary formality about these rural gatherings. Whoever feels the spirit of dancing strong within him engages the services of the village musicians and sends forth word to the neighborhood at large that on a stated night there will be a baile at a given house. Everybody is free to come without farther ceremony. There are no restriction* of fashion as to costume. The sheep herder in his patched overalls and cowhide moccasins will be as welcome os the don in his best attire. Nevertheless, most of the people who attend the baile have done something for the betterment of thair customary appearance. The women are dressed m the same style of magnifloenoe which gv-e have seen at the horse raoe, and to their white shirts the men have added paper collars and bright-colored neckties, the knots of which persist in winking around under the wearers’ ears.

Mexican etiquette is not strict in demanding washed faces and hands under any circumstances, but there are at least some among the company who have gone through the motions of ablution, and whose complexions are consequently a shade lighter than usual The ball-room is not imposing either by its size or decorations. Each townlet has some one room which, by reason of its broad floor and superior dunenmons, is recognized as the regular place for social festivities. Benches and a few chairs are ranged round the sides, half a dozen candles stuck into bottles and other candelabra improvised for the occasion are fastened to the walls, and then everything is in readiness for the ball to go on. Tha music is that of a fiddle and an accordion, sometimes of both, when the village rejoices in the mnsioos. Although the Mexican musician k self taught, he is often able to prodfloe quite tolerable sounds from his instrument, some allowance being made for the cheap quality of the latter. At all events he plays well enough to content his audienee. Except when actually dancing the men and women do not mingle. The women seat themselves at one end of the room, and the men cluster at the other end.

Nor is aonverantion between partners in a donee permissible. A Mexican who should see his wife or daughter talking with her' partner while dancing would at once suspect that some intrigue was hatching between the pair under cover of the noise of the music and dancers’ feet. Americans who are not familiar with ways of Mexicans, and those who are aware of the interdiction against conversation bnt who choose to trespass against the rules are likely to meet with a blunt admonition to the effect that dancing and not talking should be the present business in hand. And tiie Mexicans themselves dance as if in faot they ware engaged in some very grave and rather doleful ceremony. At a note giveq as a signal by the musician, such men as propose engaging in the quadrille, or whatever may be the dance announced, walk solemnly across the room and hold out each a hand to his chosen partner. Then, in all silenoe, they take their places on the floor, and the musio begins. There is no “calling off” of figures as is the custom among ruatio Americans. All the dancers know what to do, and they do it with serious deliberation. Neither dawdling indifference nor frolicsome capering is a habit of Mexican dancing. Bober ponderosity, reminding one of the terpeicherean performances of the trained elephant in a circus, is the prevailing characteristic of the movements of the women as well as the men. The dancers are oppressively observant of time and the proper step, and all move together with the precision of machinery. When the music ceases the lads hand the lasses to their seats with an air as if they were confiding dear friends to the grave, and then return to the men’s part of the room.

Two Stories of Actors.

An actor, representing some Eastern potentate, had to make an imposing entrance on the back of an elephant, who, disgusted with the whole proceeding, and particularly with the glare of the foot-lights, sent the unfortunate actor head over heels in a most unkingly somersault. The representative of Oriental power was, however, equal to the situation; recovering himself before the audience had time to laugh, he indicated the animal with his scepter, and loftily exclaimed : “ Away with him! Load him with chains and apply the knout 1 He shall feel a monarch’s vengeance!” [Thunders of applause,] Still another, apropos (Herein : A supernumerary had to rush in and cry out to a dethroned King: “My liege, fly ! Fly for your life! The enemy is at-our gates !” The poor super was frightened and “ stuck deadall he could do was gasp nervously and ejaculate : “ A fly!” The monarch arose, and, with imperial grandeur, thus took in the situation : “Pursue him instantly; but—spars his life I”— Boston Herald.

Doubtful.

One was carrying home a cent’s worth of yeast iu a pitcher, and the other was going to the store for a bar of soap m bulk. “ Family you live in going away this summer ?” asked the girl with the yeast, *“Well, they did talk of it,” replied* the other; “ but the dressmaker disappointed them. Are your folks going ?” “They were going, but the milk bill came in this morning and I guess they will have to put off the trip. Dear me, but the rich have their troubles as well as us poor folkß. Good-by.”