Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1882 — Page 6

Rensselaer Republican.

BY GEO. E. MARSHALL.

WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW.

THK BAST. Thurlow Weed left a -will bequeathing his property, estimated at $1,000,000, in equal shares to three children and six grandchildren, after giving Miss Harriet A. Weed the Twelfth street residence and library.... R Porter Lee, late President of the First National Bank of Buffalo, was convicted of embezzlement and centenced to ten years in the penitentiary. Lotta Crabtree, the actress, has won her suit for $4»,000 against Benjamin F. Hand all. of Fall Hirer, Mus-a, with whom sh'- en-a/ed in the cotton commission buslne- eight years ago... .The Lackawanna Iron and Stem Company have closed tneir works at S.;nuiton for an indefinite period, throwing l,oo\j men out of employment Samuel Remington, President of the famous rifle eompony, died of pneumonia in New York. The special train bearing Mrs. Langtry to Boston killed two boys at Thompsonville, Conn., who were crossing the track in a wagon... .The/ authorities in New York are vigorously enforcing the law against Sunday desecration. TOT WIST. Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, a worker in the cause of prohibition and woman suffrage, has sued Harry Mandier, Chief of Police of Lafayette, Ina., for SIO,OOO damages for slandering her character. A tragedy net on the bills ocenrred at the Coliseum Theater, Cincinnati. Frank Frayne and company were presenting the play of “8i Slocum,* in the fourth act of which Frayne shoots an apple from the head of Lucy Blocum, who on this occasion was personated by Miss Annie Yon Bohren. A common rifle es small caliber and In bad order was used for the purpose, and the bullet struck the poor girl In the head, causing her death within fifteen minutes. Frayne was arrested and the audience dismissed..... Hon. J. T. Updegraff, who was recently re-eleoted to Congress from the Seventeenth district of Ohio, died at Mt Pleasant, Ohio, of stone in the bladder, after having been treated bv the doctors for Bright’s disease of the kidneys. The North Side rolling-mills in Chicago, employing over 1,800 men, have shut down for the winter for want of work. Three departments of the steel-mill «t Joliet have suspended operations for December, throwing about l,uco men out of employment The Grand Jury in the First Utah district, having failed to find any indictments against Mormons under the Edmunds law, have been discharged, TwMexicans stopped a stage in the vicinity of Lordsburg, New Mexico, disarmed the driver and took the mall pouch. Two Chinese passengers were ordered outside, robbed of their money and cooly shot dead. A desperate hunt for a murderer was the chief sensation at Chicago on Signday, the 3d inst A negro desperado named William Allen, four days previous, made a deadly assault upon another negro, killed Police Officer Wright, who attempted to arrest him, and then made his escape. His hiding place was discovered, ana Officer Muivihifl started out to capture the outlaw, but was hit by a shot in the head. The murderer, with a revolver in each hand, then fled several blocks, pursued by officers and citizens, and took refuge in a large dry goods box. When he had been fairly riddled with bullets he offered to surrender, but the police kept on emptying their revolvers into his worthless carcasa.... Dr. H. A. Clay, of Durango, Col., was killed by his partner. Dr. Evetzky. who then blew out his own braina The tragedy arose from a cowhiding given the murderer by some ladies.... The Hteam-barge R G. Peter took fire when about forty miles off Milwaukee, and went to the bottom, with Capt. Oisen and a crew of twelve men.

THE SOUTH. Gen. A. S. Herron, member of Con-flpess-elect for the Sixth district of Louisiana, died of heart disease at Baton Rouge. The mercantile firm of McClellan & Colthorp, of Milliken’B Bend, La., has failed for $140,000... .A license to marry a lady of 19 has been procured by C: pt. Allen May, of Hardin county, Ky., who is 101 years of age. J. C. Porter, Treasurer of Newton county, Miss., was waylaid by five masked men and robbed of sl/,00 in county funds. ... .Mose Lockhart wfts hangel at Edgefield, 8. C., for the murder of Mose B.aloek last Ap it. An express train on the Gulf road was boarded at a station seventy miles south of Dallas, Texas, by three armed men, who forced the engineer to run three miles, where a half-dozen more robbers made their appearance. The guards in the mail-ear opened fire, and the thieves retreated, when the train pulled out at full speed... .A fire at Houston, Texas, destroyed a cotton compress and 8,000 bales of cotton. Loss $500,000. WASHINGTON. The House Committee on Appropriations has practically disposed of the Indian bill, and will recommend appropriations amounting to $5,425,955, which is $1,299,775 lets than the estimates and 557,200 less than the appropriation for the current year. The Garfield Boars of Audit has allowed Dr. Bliss $6,500, Drs. Agnew and Hamilton $5,000 each, Drs. Reybum and Boynton $4,000 each and Mrs. Edson $6,000. Steward Crump can have S6OO, and Private Secretary Pruden 5200. Dr. Bliss was interviewed by the Times correspondent, and announced / that he would not accept the award mode, but would secure what his services were worth or present his bill to the executors of the Garfield estate. .... President Arthur has appointed Clayton McMichael, of Philadelphia, United States Marshal for the District of Columbia. Mr. McMichael is editor and proprietor of the Philadelphia North American. GENERAL. I The steamship Cedar Grove, from London to Halifax and St John, N. 8., struck on a ledge off Cape Canso, during a gale, and sank an hour later in ten fathoms of water. Three boats were launo ed, but only two of them, containing thirteen people, reached the shore safely. The Captain, the chief officer and a passenger are among the

missing.... The confectionery establishment of Ho sack & Wood, the asbestos factory, and a block o. wooden buildings in Quebec were burned, causing a loss of $150,000. The business failures for the week ending Dec. 2 numbered 148. The Western States had 42, the (Southern 89, the Middle 22 and Canada 14 Many failures were caused by speculation »ud the unsettled condition of the iron trade. Stephen W. Dorset, in a lengthy card to the public, recites that President Garfield ordered Postmaster General James to select a commission to examine in o the star-route charges, and that full Information was turntshed by Dorsey, which was afterward given to detectives to secure testimony for the trial in court. Alter indulging in considerable abuse, Dorsey offers to pay SI,OOO for every dollar ic can be ahewn he took from the treasury. POLITICAL. The Governor of Louisiana has refused a certif cate to William Pitt Ke logg, on the ground of non-residence in the State. ....United States Senator Morgan was reelected his own succes-br by the Alabama Legislature... .A Washington telegram says that Senator I-ogan took Public Printer Rounds to the White House tnd made him solid w.th the President The only charge against Rounds was his harboring Holm. FOKBIQN. At a meeting of the Irish Privy Council it was resolved to proclaim the city of Dublin under the curfew provisions of the Repression act, which authorizes the police to arrest without warrant all suspicious persons found on the street between one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise.... Gladstone stated in Parliament that the total cost of the war in Egypt was £3,500,00Q. Since Oct. 1 the expenses nave been defrayed wholly or in part by the Egyptian Government Fortt-six students of the University of St Petersburg have been expelled for participating in the recent disturbances. One of the most astounding failnres that has ever occurred in Europe is announced atSkopin, province of Riaxan,Russia, the municipal bank collapsing, with liabilities of over 12,buo,i*0 rubles. The whole town, as well as hundreds of families elsewhere, have been ruined. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Archibald Campbell Talt, Is dead. He was born in Edinburgh in 1811... .Before the court-martial at Cairo. Arabi Pas a pleaded guilty to the charge of r< bellion. A sentence of death was pronounced, which Khedive commuted to imprisonment -Jr life. It is believed that the fallen « , .‘»?#ain will find a home on British 50i1... ..Bidduiph, Wood A Jevons, iron and tin plate merahants of Liverpool, have suspended, with liabilities es $750.000

THE NATIONAL DEBT.

Statement ot Its Condition at the Beginning of Deoembe'. Following is the November statement of the public debt: Interest.- benrtnir debt— Three and one-half per cents ,$ 134,31 r ,7ro Four and one-half per cents 250,'km.n0» Four per cents 738.940 7 0 Three per cents 280,394,750 Refunding certificates -tl t.OVi Navy pension fund ~. H,OiK),OOO Principal 1,418,'66,8(10 Interest 10,653,308 Matured debt— Principal 9,545,0-5 Interest... t 441,409 Debt bearing no interest— Old demand and legal-tender notes. 340,740,346 Certificates of deposit 9.845, 1 00 Gold and silver certificates 108.504,20 1 Fractional currency 15,393,548 Less amount estimated lost or destroyed 7,022,014 Principal 472,112,160 Unclaimed Pacific railway interest.. 5,339 Total debt— Principal $1,899,724/U5 Interest u,i00,058 Total SI,9P ,82 ,073 Cash in treasury 287,807,173 Debt, less cash In treasury— Dec. 1, 1882 1,022,950,899 Nov. 1, 1882 1,628,491,042 Decrease ol debt during month 6,524,142 Decrease ol debt since June 30,1885.. 65,957,561 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaid 1,644,032 Debt on which interest has ceased... 9,545,055 Interest thereon v 441,409 Gold and silver certificates 108,504,200 United States notes held for redemption ol certificates of deposit.... 9,846,000 Cash balance available Dec. 1,1882.. 157,887,476 Total *.s 287,867,173 Available assets— Cash in treasury 287,867,173 Bonds issued to Pacific Railways— • Principal outstanding 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid... 1,615,587 Interest paid by United States 65,344,682 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service 15,409,850 By cash payments, 5 per cent net earnings 655,198 Balance ot interest paid by United States 39,350,632

An Unaccommodating Doctor.

Gus De Smith, who is the greatest bore in Austin, called on Dr. Dosem, and complained that he, Gus, was troubled with fits of despondency, and wanted to know what to do for it. “You must go out riding in a buggy every day with some cheerful companion who will talk to you and amuse you.” “You are a cheerful man, Doctor, and you have got a buggy, have you not ?" “Yes; we doctors never take the medicine we prescribe for others.” —Texas Siftings. . In the course of a few years the Northern Pacific railroad will run through an avenue of shftde trees hundreds of miles in length. This extensive tree planting is being done to protect the road from storms and snow drifts. In addition to having a large gang of men at this work between Fargo and Bismark, in Dakota, the officers have distributed immense quantities o' Bee! lings and cuttings to the farmers settled on the land grant, and offered prizes for skill in forestry. Recent storms have proved very destructive to oyster buoys on Long Island sound, and a large number have been swept away. Off Milford and Stratford many have been lost. Nearly all of the oysters on 500 acres near the breakwater have been ruined. at he total number of porcelain and pottery factories in Japan is 322, and they give employment to 3,004 persons, of whom 330 are women.

CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.

Some French chemists have succeeded in soldifying petroleum, in <«rJach state it burns like tallow. This oj&uification is effected by adding to distilled petroleum 25 per cent, of the purified juice of plants belonging to the family of the Eupliorliacece. A Boston genius has invented a stoneeutting machine that was shown capable of performing in twenty-two minutes what a small army of men could not have accomplished in the same time. The invention will, it is thought, work a revolution in the granite-cutting trade. As to restoring frozen bodies, Knowledge says; “Laptclunski has made a series of very careful experiments upon dogs, with the following results: Of twenty animals treated by the method of gradual resuscitation in a cold room, fourteen perished; of twenty placed at once in a warm apartment, eight died; while of twenty immediately put into a hot bath, all recovered.” A Munich professor has invented a bracelet that will remedy the affliction known as “writer’s cramp.” The penholder is fastened to the bracelet in such a manner that it ean be used to write with ease and without bringing the fingers into use at all. The hand can rest on the table, moving easily along as the letters are traced, and it is said that little practice is required to give expertness in the use of the invention. Dull gold may be cleaned in this way: Take eighty- grams calcinm hypochlorite, eighty sodium bicarbonate, and twenty sodium chloride, and treat the mixture with three litres of distilled water. It must be kept for use in wellcorked bottles. Goods to be cleansed are put in a basin and covered with the mixture. After some time they are taken out, washed, rinsed in alcohol, and dried in sawdust. The articles then have the same appearance as if new. A priest named Luigi Galimberti, residing at Milin, Italy, is said to have discovered the means of photography in natural colors and the process for enlarging such photographic productions to life-size. Another process said to have been invented by him gives what he calls phosphorescent pictures, visible at night. The priest is so hampered by poverity that his experiments thus far have beon made at the expense of and for the benefit of a few personal friends.

The number of manufacturers of telescopes who are .able, even at the present day of scientific advancement, to produce the largest-sized glasses is very small, and even these instruments have an imperfection which has thus far proved insurmountable, namely, that of bringing the rays to a focus; they still have a little deflection, like the telescope of old, and though experiments innumerable have been made to meet this fault, it remains still unremedied. As, however, the difficulty is of a purely mechanical nature, it is presumable that it will be overcome in the telescope of the future. At the Munieh Electrical Exhibition one of the curiosities was a telephone transmitting music performed at OberAmmergau, over a distance of sixtythree miles. At the palace a huge telephonic arrangement brought over music from the English Case, so that the whole immense audience could hear the pieces quite distinctly. But perhaps the most significant exhibit was a single wire which conveyed electrical energy a distance of thirty-seven miles from the coal mines of Miesbacli, where it was generated. This augurs a future for the economical use of labor which may have far-reaching results. We confess that the two/points which have always struck our mind as distinguishing the nature of brutes from that of meh, has been their inability to worship God, and to kindle a fire. It would be folly to deny that brutes can reason. A sheep dog who wants to head a flock in a narrow lane will jump over a wall and run on the other side until he has reached the exact point occupied by the sheep at the head of the nock, and then jump back in order to drive them home. A collev, who was fond of going out with the carriage, would go and hide himself as soon as he heard the order for the carriage given, so that he might not be tied up. If we analyze these many other, instances of sagacity, we cannot help admitting that a brute’s miud is capable of two or three steps of reasoning. On the other had, no animal ever manufactured a tool or weapon, even of the simplest kind; and it is doubtful whether a gorrilla himself, who is supposed to be our nearest neighbor, uses a.walking-cane. —London Spectator.

Hot Versus Cold Drinks.

In spite of the universal proverb that heat is life and death is cold, a writer in “Knowledge” maintains that hot drinks are unnatural, cold drinks natural to man. Notwithstanding this dictum says the Detroit Free Prekx, few people wil| believe it. Yerv hot drinks may do harm, cold one 3 will do more. The effect,pf moderate heat upon the body is always sanitary; the effect of cold may sometimes be more comfortable, never is entirely wholesome. Neuralgia, rheumatism, etc., are alleviated by hot applications, aggravated by cold. Hot water is found to be one of the best cures for dyspepsia yet discovered; stimulating the blood in the stomach and directing it toward the digestive nerve centers Weakness and disturbance in the bowels are cau ed by cold liquids and moderated by hot ones. If hot drinks, like tea, coffee and alcoholic stimulants, do harm, it is n®t because they arc hot, but

because of their specific effects upoD •the nerves. They do more harm when they are cold, because the beat practi, cally neutralizes their evil effects.

A Prehistoric Monster.

If I were to speak after the common fashion of the elephant as “a mammoth,” of the rhinoceros as a Titan, and the hippopotamus as Behemoth, you might fairly charge me with having forgotten that these animals," big as we think them, are really, after all, only the pigmies of other species. But I have pot forgotten it, for before me lies a paragraph announcing the discovery in Siberia of one of those colossal animals which nature is very fond of dropping in, in a staccato way, just to keep our pride down, and to remind us, we creatures of a degenerate growth, what “winter” meant in the years gone by, and what kind of a person an inhabitant of the earth then was. He had to be very big, indeed, very strong and very warmly clad, to be called the fittest in the glacial period, and to survive the fierce assaults of the paltoolithic cold. The rhinoceros, therefore exoeeds by some cubits the stature of the modern beast, and is also by some tons heavier. It appears that an affluent of the Tana river was making alterations in its course, and in so doing cut away its banks, revealing the imbedded presence of a truly Titanic pachyderm, which, for want of a fitter name, has been temporarily called “a rhinoceros.” But it is such a creature that if it were to show itself now in the swamps of Assam or on the plains of Central Africa, it would terrify off its path all the species of the present day, whether one-horned or two-horned, and make no more of an obstinate elephant than an avalanche does of a goat-herd’s hut that happens to stand in the line of its advance. At one time the whole skeleton of the great dead thing stood revealed to human eyes, such an apocalypse of mummy as should have had some evangelist "like Prof. Owen close at hand to translate it to the world; a vision of dry bones fit for the prophet of South Kensington himself. Unfortunately, however, there is no large choice of professors in Siberia. They are wise beyond measure in Arctic suffering, and graduates in the miseries of cold, but they know very little about fossils. So the stream that was cutting away its banks took the old rhinoceros in its day’s work, and cut the monster of the past away, too. Its head was eventually rescued, and so was one foot, said to be at Irkutsk. Ex pede Herculem. This foot, if set down upon one of the rhinoceroses of modern times, would have flattened it as smooth as the philosopher’s tub rolled out those naughty boys of Corinth who had ventured to tickle the cynic through the bung-hole with a straw. Beside its size, the huge monster in question asserts its superiority over existing species by being clothed in long hair, a fleece to guard it against the climate in which it lived, and from which even the tremendous panoply of the nineteenth century rhinoceros could not sufficiently protect the wearer. Thus, clad in a woolly hide and colossal in physique, the Siberian mammal not only lived, but lived happily, amid snowy glaciers that would have frozen the polar bear and made icicles of arctic foxes. — Harper's Weekly.

A Great Deal in Hats.

But leaving minor points about hats for larger ones, what a wonderful amount of a man’s respectability vests in his hats! To try the experiment, lose your hat over the bridge on a windy day and Avalk a few blocks without one. All the rest of your clothes will not save you from the personalities of the juvenile public, nor the unconcealed ridicule of the adult. It is no use to stop and remind the street boys that Julius Caesar never wore anything on his heatd. If you put your umbrella up you only make things worse. The man who lost his hat is the general joke of the moment. Mobs, therefore, hate hats. For mobs hate respectabillity and all the signs of it. In public speaking they are a very important feature. They are the orator’s weakest point. It is a fierce light that beats on a candidate’s hat. There is a loadstone in it that attracts old eggs and rotten oranges. Even dead cats have been known to display the most unusual ferocity at the sight of one. I remember when I was traveling in Ireland (as a correspondent) with Messrs. Parnell, Dillon, and Davitt, seeing a cat, though notoriously, indeed outrageously defunct, escaped from the grip of its possessor and, traversing the interval between that person and the platform, knock off the speaker’s hat. Mr. Parnell, with characteristic sagacity, generally spoke hatless. He understood mobs and and was anxious to economize his hat, but one day (it was at Enniscarthy) the mob was so infuriated by his conduct that they tried to snatch a paltry compensation in the honorable gentleman’s trousers. They got hold of his leg and pulled it through the railings but, Mr. Parnell’s suspenders proved equal to the strain and the mob was baffled. And here lies a difficulty, for if a public man keeps his hat on, the mob is liable to take it off violently; whereas if he puts it out of sight an exasperated public may thirst for his shirt. Nothing so disconcerts or deranges a man so rapidly and so completely as the loss of his hat or even liberties being taken with it. In an altercation at a street corner the hatless one is always set down by lookers-on as being in the wrong, and the police .does not hesitate to pronounce him either drunk or disorderly,’ or both.

The Later Geography.

Q. —Where are the poles located? . A.—At the school-house, town ball oz some empty store. Q. —What is a circle? A.—A gathering where the gossips sew for the heathen and tell all they know. Q. —What places have noon at the same time ? A. —Factories and boarding houses. Q. —Where do we find the hottest part of the earth ? A.—ln the same house with our mother-in-law. Q. —When are nights the longest ? A.—When yon cannot sleep. Q. —Is there a plain in your neighborhood ? A.—We should think not by the way ours is borrowed. Q. —What disadvantage in haying a bar at the entrance of a harbor? A.—lt would take away trade from the saloons in port. Q.—What is a strait? A. —Five cards following in order of denomination. (Hoyle.) Q. -Where do we find the largest and fiercest animals ? A.—At the menagerie. Q. —Where do we find the greatest number of insects? A.—Out of town on a hot night. Q. —Into what races are we divided? A.—The horse race, the boat race and the human race. Q. —How are the inhabitants of a civilized country generally employed ? A.—Tho men in working and the women in shopping. Q. —What is mining? A.—Finding out how much yon have been cheated. Q. —Name some substahees now manufactured for food ? A.—Oleomargarine and boardinghouse hash. Q. —What is commerce? A.—Selling your neighbor goods at three times their value. Q. —What do merchants do with products of the surrounding country ? A.—father them together and form a “corner” in the market. Q. —How are the commercial towns connected with the towns df the interior ? A.—By “drummers.” Q —What is fishing? A.—Sitting in a boat all day for nothing, and having to lie all the evening about what you caught, and what got away.— Detroit Free Press.

She Would, Indeed.

A visitor was complimenting the wife of a prominent public functionary on the high social position she held. “Yes, and yon are very kind, sir, to say it,” said she, “but what little social distinction I may have acquired is entirely due to my husband’s office. If he were to die now what would Ibe ? I leave it to you.” Visitor (after mature reflection) — “Yon would, madam, be a widow!”— Liverpool Post.

The Naturalist Accounts for It.

A Rhode Island naturalist, who had kept a log of wood in tbe water a long time for the purpose of gathering a colony of barnacles, was surprised to find, on taking it out, that it was wholly free from these marine parasites. "How do you account for it?” asked a friend. And the naturalist answered thoughtfully: “They may have mistaken the log for a Connecticut book agent.”— Brooklyn Eagle. It has been proven beyond a doubt that the Atlantic coast once grew oysters larger than flour barrels, but no man can say whether they put any more of him into a church-festival soup than at this day. Probably not.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Reeves $ 4.00 @ 6.90 Hor.s 6.20 @ 6.70 Cotton. 101£@ .10 J 4 Flour—Sunerfine 3.25 @ 3.85 Wheat—No. 1 White J. 07 @ I.' 8 No. 2 Red 108 @l.lO Corn—No. 2 83 @ .85 OATS—No. 2........ 43 @ .44 Pork—Mess 18.75 @19.00 Lard 11J4'3 .1154 CHICAGO. Beeves—Good to Fancv Steers.. 5.00 @0.50 Cows and Heifers 2.05 @ 4.00 Medium to Fair 4.40 @4.99 Hoos 4.50 @ 6.49 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex. 5.60 @5.75 Good to Choice Sp'g Ex. 5.00 @ 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Sprintr 93 @ .94 No. 2 Red Winter 94 @ .95 Corn—No. 2 59 @ .00 Oats—No. 2 35 @ .36 Rye—No. 2 : 67 @ .58 Bari,ey—No. 2 80 @ .81 Butter—Choice Creamery. 35 @ .37 Eogs—Fresh 27 @ .28 Pork—Mess 17.25 @17.50 Lard 10}£@ 10.54 / MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 4 94 @ .95 Corn—No. 2 69 @ .60 Oats—No. 2 35 @ .36 Rye—No. 2 63 @ .54 Barley—No. 2 72 @ .7 3 Pork—Mess.... 17.25 @17.50 Lard io&@ .10% ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 94 @ .95 Corn—Mixed 55 @ .56 Oats—No. 2 35 @ .36 Rye 5« @ .57 Pork—Mess 17.00 @17.25 Lard io&@ .1054 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 98 0 1.00 Corn 57 @ .58 Oats ’ .39 @ .40 Rye.'. 62 @ .63 Pork—Mess 17.50 @18.09 Lard 1054@ .11 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 98 @ 99 Corn 69 @ .70 Oats—No. 2 38 @ .39 DETROIT. Flour. 5.50 @ 6.00 Wheat—No. 1 White..: l.oi @1.02 Corn—No. 2 74 @ .75 Oats—Mixed 40 @ .41 Pork—Mess. 18.00 @18.50 m INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 95 @ .96 Corn-No. 2 57 @ , 6 2 Oats—Mixed 34 & .35 „ EAST LIBERTY, PA. Cattle—Best e.so @ 7.00 Fair...., 5.50 @6.00 Common. 4.00 @ 4.50 Hooa e.oo @6.90 BHKEP 8.21 @ 4.25