Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1882 — Page 2

Rensselaer Republican. BY GEO. E. MARSHALL.

WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW.

THE EAST. The transactions of the New York Clearing House Association last year amounted to $48,147,8465408, being an average per day of $156,833,375. The largest transactions for one dav (Jan. 3, 1882) aggregated $240,799,252... .Fifty thousand strangers were in Pittsburgh to witness the reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic of Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and Western Virginia .Tames Stainters, an employe of the Brush Electric Light Company, in New York, while adjusting a line, received a shock which caused death almost instantly. The skin of his hands was seared off as’if they had been burned. ....Watson's Iron Works and the Craighead A Elwell Manufacturing Company’s building at Bridgeport, Ct., were destroyed by tire. Loss, $55,000. The five-story building extending from Broadway to 44 Mercer street, New York, and occupied by many Arms, was burned, entailing a loss estimated at $150,000. William Martin, a crazy bootblack, applied at police headquarters in New York for a permit to carry a pistol, in order to shoot President Arthur. He stated that he had served a term in the penitentiary for larceny... .In the river at Amesbury, Mass., by the capsizing of a small boat in a squall, George Huntington and his wife and four children were drowned.

THE WEST. As the procession of the Veiled Prophets passed along Washington avenue, St Louis, Oct 3, a section of temporary wooden seats fell twenty feet, giving broken arms or legs to a half dozen spectators.... A dispatch from Topeka concerning the collision on the railroad at Salem, Kan., says Engineers Westlake and Fisher and their firemen and Baggageman Holliday were killed. Four others were seriously injured. Thirty incendiary fires have occurred within the past six months at Youngstown, Ohio. An investigation resulted in the arrest of an ex-fireman and three accomplices on charge of arson. George Scoville filed in the County Court, at Chicago, an affidavit that his wife is insane, and asking that proceedings may be instituted to determine the question. Not having the $6 to pay the fee required, he swore that he and the patient were paupers. Two daughters of Mr. Eosecranz, residing at Lowell, Kansas, were burned to ashes by the destruction of the house by fire. The oldest coukl have escaped, but in attempting to rescue her little ister met her fiery fate... .Near Cedar Rapids, lowa, a collision of a freight and wrecking’ train occurred, demolishing both engines, wrecking sixteen cars and causing a loss of $40,000. The Grand Jury at Tucson, Arizona, has reported that the Cibicu Indian prisoners lying in jail at that place are entirely innocent, and that Agent Tiffany connived at the escape of the guilty ones. The Agent is directly charged with trading Indian goods with merchants at Globe and Maxey.

THE SOUTH. A negro named Henry Holloway was lynched at Elkton, Tenn.. for an outrage upon a white woman... .The skeleton of an immense mastodon h'as been unearthed in Bourbon county, Ky. Tennessee authorities have offered $25,000 reward for the capture of the Taylor brothers, who murdered Sheriff Cate and deputy two weeks ago....An extraordinary atrocity is briefly chronicled in a dispatch from Shreveport, La A festival was in progress at Carencro, and Adolph Marceaux, who had taken offense at something or somebody, went outside, formed into line a party of his friends, marched back into the ball, gave the command: “Halt! Aim! Fire!" and a young lady and her brother fell at the first volley, the former killed outright and the latter mortally wounded. The platoon of murderers then escaped. The Interior Department, on the advice of a special commission, has decided to wall up the spring at Hot Creek, Ark., and construct an arched inclosure over it thoughout the city, at a cost of $140,000.... Isaac Carton and wife, of Goodwater, Ga., locked three children up in the house, which was burned to the ground. The children were cremated... .John Brooks (colored) was hanged by a mob at Jacksonville, Ala., for outraging a little girl. The Grove shaft of the Midlothian coal mine in Chesterfield county, Va., in which thirty-five members lost their lives last February by an explosion, was reopened the other day and partially explored, resulting in the finding of ten bodies... .Twen-ty-four buildings were burned at Warrington, Fla.

WASHINGTON. Following is the monthly publicdebt statement issued on the 2d inst: Interest-bearing debt— Extended 6s $ 3,093,2<V) Extended 5s 177.0ii2.9iK) Four and one-half percents 250,'Hiii,009 Four per cents 738,910, 250 Three per cents 237,233,200 Refunding certificates 435,800 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt $1,421,341,350 Interest 12,219,712 Debt on which interest has ceased since maturity— Principal $ 15,955,025 Interest 615,030 Debt bearing no interest— Legal tenders $ 340,740,501 Certificates of deposit 10,070,000 Gold and silver certificates 70,476,050 Fractional currency 15,404,012 Less amount estimated lost or destroyed ($8,375,934) 7,028,078 Principal . $ 440,916,229 Unclaimed Pacific railway interest.. 5,339 Total debt $1,878,210,205 Total Interest 12,740,083 Total)' $1,890,950,288 Cash in treasury 240,830,004 Debt, less cash in treasury— Oct. 1. 1882 ; $1,044,120,223 Sept. 1, 1882 1,058,926,171 Decrease during Decrease since Juno 30, 1882 . 44.794,237 * Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaid $ 1,532,344 Debt on which .interest has ceased.. 16,959,026 Interest thereon 615,030 Gold and silver certificates 76,470,050 United States notes held for redemption of certificates Of deposit 10,670,000

Cash balance available Oct I'. 141,682,415 Total t 246,836,064 Available assets— Cash In treasury... $ 246,836,064 Bonds issued to Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable la lawful moneyPrincipal outstanding $ 64,623,612 Interest accrued and not yet paid... 969,352 Interest paid by United States 56,344,682 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service $ 15,286,467 By cash payments, 5 per cent net earnings 665,198 Balance of interest paid by United States.. 89,403,015 Prof. Tilden has submitted to District Attorney Corkhill, at Washington, a report of the chemical examination just concluded of the poisoned bouquet given Gutteau by his sister, Mrs. Scoville, the day before the execution. The report says a large bud—a half-opened flower—contained over five grains of white arsenic, not only sufficient to cause death had it been swallowed, but so largely in excess of a fatal dose that the intent or the person who prepared the flowers wou d have been defeated by emetics. The original amount of arsenic was greater than found, as the petals failed to retain in a dry state some which had adhered when moist Corkhill says he is trying to discover who poisoned the flowers, and, if fonnd, he will be held to answer.

Statistics for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882, show a large increase in the money-order business of the Poutofflce Department The amount received for domestic orders issued for the yesr was $113,400,118, and the total amount received for orders issued, both domestic and foreign, was $110,936,632. The increase in the amount received for domestic orders over the amount for 1881 was $8,324,449 and the increase in the amount received for foreign orders was $1,852,588... .The laborers in the Government Navy Yard at Washington, numbering several hundred, have presented bills to the Navy Department for pay due them, they claim, for extra work. Their demand is based upon the fact that the law fixing a day’s work in the yards at eight hours, passed by Congress and approved by the President, has not been carried out, and they have been compelled to work ten hours a day for what they claim is but eight hours’ pav. Gen. Butler has advised the step, telling them to make out bills for back pay due and he will take charge of their case.

GENERAL. The Tehuantepec Jpter-Ocean Railroad Company has constructed less than thirty miles of track, instead of 160 called for by the grant, and the Mexican Government has declared the concession forfeited The bondholders held a meeting in New York and appointed a committee of seven to represcntthem. It is proposed to appeal to the United States Government lor protection.... Francisco Olsuna and his son, Prospero, were attacked by two oandits, near Mazallain, Mexico, and the son was killed while the father was fatally wotlnded. One bandit was killed The third annual Convention of Beekeepers of North America, Dr. A. J. Cook, Michigan Agricultural College, President, and Ehrick Parmely, New York, Secretary, was held in Cincinnati Adelaide Phillips, the famous contralto, died at Carlsbad, in Germany. She was born at Stratford-on-Avon, in 1853, and ten years later made her debut as an actress in Boston. She attracted the notice of Jenny Lind, and funds were raised to give her a musical education. She first appeared in opera in New York in 1856, and in Paris in 1861. She had an elegant home at Marshfield, Mass... .The National Tobacco Association represents that the prospects of the new crop are flattering. Bandits murdered Frederick Hubbi, the Tax Collector in Tacubana, Mexico, mortally wounded Hubbi’s wife, and robbed the safe of $4,000.

In the American Board of Foreign Missions at Portland, Me., Rev. Dr. Alden announced a financial crisis which scarcely admitted of hope. William E. Dodge electrified the assemblage by dffering to double his subscription, an example which was instantly followed by a dozen gifts of SI,OOO each. A touching appeal by Dr. Webb, of Boston, caused 1,500 men and women to rise to their feet simultaneously and pledge twice the sum they had previously offered, the total amount secured being $50,000. The Irish World, having come to the conclusion that there is now no Land League in Ireland, closes its fund for that organization and remits its balance, $17,424, to Treasurer Egan The World's total remittances amounted to $342,548... .Chili’s refusal to withdraw any of her demands has put a stop to the Peruvian negotiations for peace. •The committee that lias been investigating the Fenian skirmishing fund found sufficient evidence to send the Trustees to State prison, and adopted a resolution applauding the Irish World for closing its columns to the Land League. The Buffalo Land League resolved to forward SI,(XJO to Father Walsh, the national Treasurer.... Reports from New York are that President Arthur is suffering from indigestion, malaria and kidney trouble, and that he visited that city in order to consult with prominent physicians there.'.. .Gen. Aldana, President of the State of Cundimarca, Central America, and liis Secretary have been assassinated.

POLITICAL. s Tiie Georgia election resulted in the election of the entire Democratic ticket, headed by Alexander H. Stephens for Governor, by majorities ranging between 60,000 and 45,000... .The election in Delaware resulted in a Democratic majority of 285 for Inspectors arid a Republican majority of 113 for Assessora A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga., says that Alexander H. Stephens’ majority for Governor is 60,000. Stephens has sent the Governor his resignation of the office of Congressman of the Eighth Georgia district. An election to fill the vacancv is ordered for Nov. 7. Gartrell, the defeated candidate for Governor, will contest the election, not with the hope of getting in, but to show alleged frauds and intimidation. Very few employes of the departments at Washington are going home to Ohio to vote. This practice was stopped in the Treasury Department by an order from Secretary Folger. Vacations are not given to the employes in the Public Printing Office, but Mr. Rounds says any Republican or Democrat can get leave of absence to vote, and make up the loss of pay by working extra horns on his return. FOREIGN. Premier Gladstone, speaking at a railway .station in Wales, said procedure rules In the Commons were an urgent necessity. He thanked the Almighty for the British victories in the East, eulogized the skillfulness of Gen. Wolseley, commended the bravery of the soldiers, and trusted Egvpt would soon he prosperous and happy... .The bodies of two bailiffs named Huddy, thrown Into the watenrof Lough Mask, and recovered after great difficulty, have been again thrown into their former resting place. The

Joyce family are believed to have been murdered for giving Information that led to the first recovery or the corpses... .Earl Spencer, Lord lieutenant of Ireland, reports that the Irish people show signs of amelioration, though he found 4,000 holdings upder £4 a year. He indirectly recommends emigration by the help of the Government... .A farmer named Hunt was murdered near Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland, and another named Burne was Blain in County Kerry.... The Porte has promised Greece that it will order the Turks to evacuate all the ceded’ points on the Thessalian frontier at once.... The population of Austria as shown by the recent censurf numbers 22,144,244, and is considerably less dense than that of Germany. .... Cholera is raging in the islands of Borneo and Sumatra.

In their efforts to discover the identity of the assassins of Lord Cavendish and Mr. Burke in Phenix Park, the Dublin detectives have made but little progress. The perpetrators of that horrible crime have been remarkably successful in covering their tracks, and the offer of rewards amounting to upward of SIOO,OOO has as yet produced no disclosures and elicited no information of value. The most that has thus far been accomplished is the discovery in a house in Dublin of what are believed to be the four knives with which Cavendish and Burke were butchered.... The Egyptian Notables voted to present swords of honor to Gens. Wolseley and Lowe and Admiral Seymour. The British expeditionary force will be presented with medals... .Emperor Francis Joseph has thanked Herr Tissea, Hungarian Prime Minister, for his energy in suppressing the antiJewish riots at Pressburg. The latter place will be kept under martial law for a month. De Lesseps asserts that Arabi Pasha protected the lives and property of- Europeans in Egypt, and made efforts to maintain the neutrality of the Suez canal Counsel refused to defend the Egyptian leader, being afraid by so doing they would lose their eluents....A Constantinople dispatch says the Sultan was greatly vexed at the departure of Baker Pasha to be Military Governor of Egypt, and gave orders for his arrest and return.... Cardinal McCabe, of the Irish Catholic Hierarchy, refused to grant permission to priests to attend the Dublin National Conference. ....The Directors of the Irish Exposition Company recommend the holding of expositions in the United States and England to popularize Irish manufacturers... .Insurgent Arabs attacked a French out-post on the Algerine border....A Paris dispatch says that the Suez canal is to be enlarged and improved. British officers in the Egyptian campaign of the rank of Major General and above will receive the order of Osmanli from the Khedive; officers below that rank will be given the order of Medjidie. Two commissions Will be appointed to fix the amount of indemnity to foreigners for losses sustained during the war. A London dispatch says that pensions of SIO,OOO a year, or a lump sum of $250,000 each, were offered to Sir Garnet Wolseley and Sir Beauchamp Sevmour. They chose the latter, which indicates that the available rate of interest over here is not bad, and that life-insurance in its practical aspect is understood by the War Office.' Sir Garnet’s title is not yet announced, although he is understood to have accepted a peerage, while, on the other hand, the Admiral has declined 0ne....A disastrous fire occurred in Paris, at which the Chief of the Fire Brigade was killed and several firemen injured.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

• All the Irish priests, save those under the jurisdiction of Archbishop McCabe, have been granted permission by their superiors to take part in the popular political movements for the amelioration of the condition of the country.... The Italian Premier, in a recent speech, said the relations with France were veiy friendly, while with England they were excel lent. He thought intervention by Italy in Egyptian affairs would not be consistent with her international duties... .The military tribunal in session at Balta, trying the of the anti-Jewish rioters, condemned one of the leaders to two years’ and five others to from sixteen to eighteen months’ imprisonment While baptism was being conferred near Canton, Ga., a bridge crowded with spectators gave way, precipitating 200 persons into the water. No lives were lost, but many limbs were fractured... .Rev. J. L. Denton, Superintendent of Public Instruction for Arkansas, leaped from a balcony at Fayetteville and was killed. Charges that he misused money furnished by the Peabody fund unbalanced his mind and caused him to refuse a renomination. The officers of the National Land League of America have issued a circular, entering an emphatic protest against the Truth World's statement that the League no longer exists in Ireland.... The German steamer Herder, from New York for Hamburg, with 288 passengers, went ashore near Cape Race, N. F. All the passengers and crew were landed without accident, but it is believed the ship and cargo will be a total loss.

Stewart *L. Woodford, of New York, addressing a Republican meeting in Tremont Temple, Boston, created a deep sensation by asserting that within four months of his occupancy of the Presidential chair Garfield found the pressure of party' influence so tremendous that he used the highest offices in the gift of the country in payment of political services. The receipts of the St. Louis Fair were $175,000, as against $77,000 last year. Over $300,000 worth of exhibits were sold on the grounds... .Ho? cholera prevails to an alarming extent in Hancock county, Ohio. Jacob Becker, employed in a Pittsburgh lead-pipe works, while standing on a scaffolding cleaning a shaft which was mak_ intr 150 revolutions a minute, caught his right leg in a telephone wire and was thrown upon the shaft The wire wrapped around his leg, cut it from hiß body, and he fell dead to the ground. William Dickson, foreman of the star route jury, has employed Walter Davidge, one of the Government counsel in the Guiteau case,’ to prosecute his charges against the officers of the Department of Justice whom he claims approached him to bribe him. A Little Rock dispatch says that returns of the vote in Arkansas at the September election on the liquor question have been received by the Secretary of State from all but one small county, as follows: For license, 78,880; against license, 45,041. Ohly twelve counties out of seventy-four voted against license.

Mr. Ed Trickett, the celebrated oarsman, Kingston, Canada, says: “Ihavfffound St. Jacobs Oil a sure and certain cure for rheumatism, etc. ” — New York Clipper.

FRANK JAMES TURNS UP.

He Surrenders Himself to thq Authorities of Missouri. Finding- That Outlawry Won’t Pay He Doee the Penitent Act. Frank James, the noted outlaw, surrendered himself to Gov. Crittenden, at the capital of Missouri, on the' sth inst. At dusk on that evening, the notorious desperado, accompanied by Maj. John N. Edwards, of the Sedalia Democrat , entered the Govern'or’s office, at Jefferson City. Maj. Edwards introduced Frank to the Governor. The two shook hands, and then Frank unbuckled his belt, and, handing it and his revolvers to Crittenden, he said: “You are the first man to handle that weapon since 1861.” He meant that he had carried the pistol in his belt these twenty-one years. After this performance he was handed over to officers. This startling news, says a Kausas City dispatch, was a profound surprise to even the officials here. Just after the killing of Jesse James at Bt. Joseph, last spring, the friends of Frank James in this State made overtures to Gov. Crittenden looking to the pardon of the noted robber. Papers were full of the matter at the time, and it waß even reported that Gov. Crittenden was willing to grant a pardon in the case if Frank would agree to give information concerning the members of the gang yet out Gov. Chittenden himself says he told Frank James If he wanted to surrender he must come in as any other criminal and stand trial for crimes committed. Since then the matter has dropped from public attention, and it was even stated that Frank had gone to Australia. Suddenly he reappeared on the scene, however, and this week sent Crittenden a letter from St. Louis, stating in substance that he is anxious to be restored to citizenship; that he wants to put the past behind him; that he is heartily sick of the life of an outlaw; and that he has a wife and child to plead for him and make him human, even though he were as bad as he has been described, and throws himself on the clemency of the Governor and asks that he be saved. Under date of Oct. 2, Gov! Crittenden responded that he could not grant a pardon, if inclined to, before conviction for some crime. He hopes he will abandon his past life, and if he surrenders will see that ne gets an impartial trial The response is a surrender. James’ history is known. He engaged in the Northfield bank robbery and some dozen other noted deeds of outlawry. He is under indictment in lowa for the Corydon Bank robbery; in Missouri for the Glendale, Blue Cut and Winston train robberies; in Arkansas for stage robberies; in West Virginia for bank robbery, and in Mussel Shoals, Ala, for robbing a Government contractor.

MONUMENT TO JESSE JAMEU A dtspaten from Muscatine, lowa, says: A large marble-cutting establishment of this city has jmt been awarded the contract for erecting a monument over the grave of Jesse James. The monument will be red beach granite and stand twelve or fourteen feet high, bearing the plain and simple inscription, “My husband, our father, Jesse James, died April 2, 1882, aged 34 years 6 months and 8 days. ” The contract was signed bv Mrs. Jesse W. James, and the stone was selected by her.

THE BANDIT JAILED AT INDEPENDENCE.

Frank James was taken from Jefferson City to Independence by Gov. Crittenden’s Secretary and placed in jail, bail being refused. A correspondent telegraphs that, “at the station was an anxious crowd, at the car windows and filling the aisle inside, eager to get a glimpse of the man who, for twenty years, has apparently defied the law. Once here, and several times along the route, James was recognized by old confederates —men who had known him in' the guerrilla days. Evidently he had changed much in appearance, as none of them recognized him until he had been pointed out. Jalnes is 5 feet 9 inches in height, es spare but sinewy build, with rather thin face and prominent cheek bones, light blue eyes, small blonde mustache, and hair somewhat darker. His complexion is that of a man who has been for some time in confinement. His weight is 125 pounds. Because of his spare frame he appears taller than he really is. His manners is quiet, and language that of a man in the ordinary walks of life. His dress is altogether unobtrusive, the only jewelry being a gold watch and chain. He stated that, although receiving no promise of clemency from Gov. Crittenden, he had at last nerved himself to an act which he had long contemplated, and surrendered himself to the State. He is confident that if he be tried on any single charge alone he will not be convicted; and, although having received no promises, he seems to hope that, in case of conviction, clemency will be shown because of his voluntary action. He says that his desire is to lead henceforth a quiet life with his family, and, instead of an outlaw’s career, to aid in the protection of the State against criminals. He declares that from April, 1877, until April, 1881, he lived quietly with his wife upon a rented farm in Tennessee near Nash ville. This he asserts he can prove by staunch business men of Nashville. Regarding his whereabouts since April, 1881, he is silent. He says, however, that he read the news of the shooting of Jesse in the New York Herald the morning of its publication, indicating that he was in that vicinity, and admits he has been east of the Alleghanies and in Kentucky during the past year. “When the train reached Independence the crowd fell back upon the meeting of James with his mother, wife and child, a boy of 4 years. Mrs. Samuels wept aloud, and her son's eyes were wet. The wife seemed to think only of the joy of meeting her husband again. The child looked wonderinglv from his father’s shoulder upon the scene. The waiting officers joined the party, which then drove to the Court House. “The bandit bears the marks of many battles. He has seventeen scars to show for as many wounds; has been twice shot through the body with Minie balls.”

How an Alligator Dines.

An alligator’s throat is an animated sewer. Everything which lodges in his mouth goes down. He is a lazy dog, and, instead of hunting for something to eat, he lets his victims hunt for him. That is, he lies with great mouth open, apparently dead, like the ’possum. Soon a bug crawls into it, then a fly, then several gnats and a colony of mosquitoes. The alligator doesn’t close his mouth yet. He is waiting for a whole drove of things. He does his eating by wholesale. A little later a lizard will cool himself under the shade of his upper jaw. Then a few frogs will hop up to catch the mosquitoes. Then more mosquitoes and gnats will light on the frogs. Finally a whole village of insects and reptiles settle down for an afternoon picnic. Then all at once there is an earthquake. The big jaw' falls, the

alligator eye, gulps down the Whole menageries and opens his great front door again for more. —-Sunnw South. ■/' i * & H f

BARBED WIRE.

A Great Legal Victory of Interest to Farmers and Manufacturers. [From the Chicago Tribune.! An important decision to holders of patents for barbed wire was given by Judge Gardner in the case of the Chicago Galvanised Wire Fence Company against the Washburn- A Moen Manufacturing Company. After the final decision by Judges Drummond and Blodgett in the famous barbed-wire eases settlements, as is well known, were made with all those who held any patents for barbed wire or barbed-wire' machines, under which the patents were to be surrendered to the company, and the patentees allowed to manufacture on paying certain royalty. The complainant’s agreement provided that the royalty to be paid under their license was not to be greater than that charged to any other party licensed after the Ist of January, 1881, under the several letters patent mentioned in the license, and if the Washburn & Moen Company should license other parties to manufacture under such patents at a sum than three-quarters of a cent a pound then the royalty to be paid by complainant should be correspondingly reduced. Jacob Haish, hbwfever, after a vigorous fight, finally settled on far more favorable terms, and the claiman. insisted that he was entitled to as good conditions as H«i«h The latter was allowed to make 4,ooo'tons of wire a year without paying any royalty, and 4,000 tons more at a royalty of only half a cent a pound. The Judge held that the chief object of the settlement with Haish was the termination of the litigation with him; that the purchase of his patents and the Stevens claim was a secondary matter, and was used to give the appearance of a consideration to what was in reality a license free of royalty for the manufacture of 4,000 tons yearly of barbed-wire and of 4,000 tons more at a less rate by 25 cents a hundred pounds than to the other licensees,and so a reduction to Haish to that extent, of which the complainants had a right to avail themselves under their lease. In so far as the complainant sought to secure any benefit on account of the damages for infringement agreed to be paid by them, the Judge was not inclined to grant any relief, as it was doubtful whether it could be given under the bill, and the settlement with Haish in that regard was not a violation of any agreement or understanding with the complainant.

THE COMET.

Negroes of the South Believe It Foretells the End of the World—Observations at Harvard. A dispatch from Raleigh, N. C. Bays: “The great comet, which is visible here in the eastern sky, has frightened the negroes out of their wits. Many of them firmly believe that the end of the world is at hand, and are making their preparations accordingly. The comet has already caused more repentance among the colored people than any revivalist or camp-meeting exhorter during the present generation. The bells of their churches are rung whenever the comet puts in an appearance, and meetings are held, at which the frightened assemblage offer up a petition that the path of the flaming monster may be directed away from the earth. One old negro, his lips quivering and his teeth chattering, waylaid a college professor, who has much local reputation for learning, on the street, and asked him if he thought the comet would “smash dis heah ’arth wid its flaming tail.” He seemed greatly relieved when told that there was no danger of such a catastrophe, and he hurried away to tell the ‘ old woman” what the professor BaitL A Boston dispatch states that two fine observations have been obtained at Harvard observatoiv of the comet, which almost definitely established it as one of brief period. According to present data it must have made the semi-circle of the sun in two or three hours, or at the rate of 400 miles a second. The fact that the sun’s atmosphere offers no check to its progress proves it incombustible, unlike meteorites.

The wdrid will never be in any manner of order or tranquillity until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest; and that, without the occurrence of the former, the latter are but impositions upon ourselves and others. —Steele.

THE MARKETS.

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