Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1883 — Page 3

WASHINGTON NOTES.

(Jarfidd monument fair netted $7;- ’ Oklahoma Payne’s raid’s have, it is l aMdi Oost the government *300,000. no longer hoped at Washington to h pue the bill limiting the silver dollar fe The House Military Committee is op* to putting Gen. Grant on the re- , jhe pension appropriation bill has * been reported, to the full oommittee. It appropriates $81,000,000. The pension appropriation bill approbates $86,505,000, and rcappropriates I unexpended balance. ■ The sub-oommittee whioh has charge of the postoffioe bill has retained the ’ulanse providing for a reduction of letter postage to Jrwo cen taper half ounce. Government clerks are horror stricken the proposition now pending in Congressto increase their hours of labor per m from six (lunch time inducted) to seven. • The House Oommittee on Commerce nearly completed the river and har.jjjor bill, which will amount to about in addition to the Mississippi A brilliant dinner party, given by JDis.triot Attorney Corkhill, celebrated Gen. Sherman's sixty-third birthday, Thursday *tiight The General made a speech in whioh he said he was ready to retire to private life, with thanks for the liberal t and suitable provision made for him. The Attorney-general has discharged Till the colored employes of the depart- - ment of justioe. The cause is said to be that the colored employes are suspected tfvof being too keen to see the color of the. Mooney of the Star route defendants. The ’discharged employes propose to hold an 'indignation meeting. 4; The House committee on patents has Mr. Vance to prepare a bill to v amend the Revised Statutes applicable to ’ patents as to provide that American patents shall run fifteen years, the time the { lnvention is patented in a foreign country; a making all patents of whatever class to * extend seventeen years; not to revive any <* American patent now dead, or to extend living patent whatever, but to apply ( jpnly to patents hereafter granted. ck. Captain J. B. Eads flatly denies the *3Ntßtement that there is sufficient water , € jn the jetty channel at the mouth of the a Mississippi. He also denies the state|ment of the Attorney- General that he is f required to maintain a channel twelve

a half miles long. He says'; “It is aOfapiece of the treatment I have always from the Government, simply ’t>ecause I have a contract as an individ,;uaL It is disgusting and ought to cause Line’s cheeks to tingle with shape. The •> water in the pass is as deep as ever, and ■'*a committee of Congress,who investigated Ihe matter lately were delighted.” 6-" The Speaker has laid before the House * communication from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury urging the necessity of an amendment to the pending inrevenue bill, providing that any of distilled spirits shall be forfeited to the Uuited States if suoh spirits 'shall be found to differ in proof from the proof indicated by the marks and stamps thereon, unless such differences shall be Occasioned by the lapse of time, the con- ' ditions under which the spirits have been stored or kept, or by other natural causes * The letter urges the nesessity of action in Hhia matter by the present Csngress. * In the House, Wednesday, Representative Steele presented a memorial of the citizens of Adams county protesting against putting lumber On the free list. The memorial states that it would result Ruinously to the interests which give emI v ployment to 1,600,000 people and $300,000,000 of oapital; that it would simply operate to increase the value of standing timber in Canada by the amount of the duty which it is proposed to take off; that there is a growing demand for American timber in Winnepeg, and the duty not be taken off of Canadian lumber by this Government unless Canada <will agree to admit American lumber into free of duty. The emmorial was preferred to the Committee on Ways and fcHoHhS. h -Mr. Bice, who has charge of the Mexican pension bill, said that he had Uitle jftiope of getting the bill passed this session. Mr. Kelly, he said, had promised itim that if possible he would give him a i-ehance to call the bill up, but that he thought it very doubtful that v he could get the bill through. The annual amount that will be required to pay these pennons will be something less than $1,500,"000. There are about fourteen thousand veterans who will be entitled to the penI'irion or $8 a month. Logan has given notice in the Senate l that he would offer an amendment to the [wundry civil apgropriation bill that the act to place colored soldiers on the same footing as other soldiers as to bounty and pensions be so construed as to extend to juid include the heirs of such soldiers in | their claims for military service, and the -accounting officers of the Treasury be diY

xaoiKftb I,adjust the «!«<«« of aiieh heirs as would have to^and Said act Senator Dawes will offer an amendment to the same bill to provide for paying the Cherokee nation S3OOOOO “out of the funds due under the appraisement of Cherokee lands west of the Arkansas river,” on condition that the Cher* okees shall first execute conveyances satisfactory to the Searatary of the Interior for tracts now occupied by the Pawnees Poncas, Hex Peroee, Otoes, Missouris and Osages, to whom (in their tribal capacities) these lands are thereupon to be patented. Frequent oomplaints are being made of the inaccuracy of the late oen us, owing to the attempt to oover too much ground and embrace toe many statistics. The latest oomes from Philadelphia. The census takers made the gross value of the products of publishers, printers, bookbinders,etc.,in that city, s9,2sl,ooo,whereas it is now proven that the real value is $23,905,000. The work of completing the tabulation and preparing the work for the printers is now being rapidly pushed forward under the personal supervision of General Walker. So much distrust'in the accuracy of.the figures has been awakened in the public mind, however, that it is feared that the value of the completed work will be seriously impaired. The Treasury regulations governing ths distribution of the standard silver dollars and the law authorizing the issue of silver 'certificates are being used by the New York and Boston banks to obtain transfer of large amounts of money from one city to another without expense to themselves, but with considerable cost to the government for transportation charges. The manner of doing this is to deposit currency in the sub-treasury in one city and obtain an order for standard silver dollars to be sent to a correspondent city from the mint, and the correspondent immediately upon receipt of the coin, presents it to the sub-treasury in his city and asks for silver certificates. Several million dollars have been transferred in this way rectptly, costing the government several thousand dollars, without lessening the number of silver dollars in the treasury, but with the effect of completely glutting the vaults of the New York' sub-treasury with them. Rev. Dr. Hicks has brought suit against the Evening Star Publishing Company, of this city, and the Graphic Company, of New York, charging both with having published a libel on him, and claiming $35,000 damages n each case. Articles appeared in the Graphio as a special dispatch from Washington, dated Jan. 19,1883, and in the Star of Jan. 20,1883. Plaintiff is pastor of the Church of the Tabernacle, this city, and was the spiritual aaviser of Guiteau, who willed him his body. Subsequently the body was taken to the Medical Museum, and the story got abroad that Hicks had demanded $2,000 of the Surgeon-General before he would permit the bones of the skeleton to be articulated. Articles reflecting upon the reputation of the clergyman appeared in various newspapers, and he now seeks legal redress. His counsel say that they propose to sue for libel every paper in which the unwarranted, and, ah they claim, the untruthful statement appeared. They expect to be oocupied in that way for some time to come.

Holding Produce for a Rise.

Indiana Letter in Country Gentleman. The present prices are a lesson to those farmers who are always holding their produce for a rise, which nine times out of ten does not come. Wheat sold in July and August at $1.04 to sl.lO ; com November, 500 : December, 47c ; hay, in August, sl2 to 13 per ton, and the indicacations are that they will not reach the top figures before another crop. They not only lose the difference in price, but nterest, shrinkage, ratage, damage from weevil, and all the other ills that stored grain is heir to. They renew their notes and let their store bills run, thus not only losing themselves but discommoding others. My invariable rule is to sell as soon as the crop is garnered, and my average prices for the past five years have been as follows: Wheat, $1.06 ; corn, 43%0, and hay, sl2, which is a very satisfactory price. The wheat weighed 108 bushels per 100 measured bushels, and the com realized 500 dry, and no cribbing. A great many of our farmers do not realize *he value of fertilizers, especially clover and a rotation of orops. Hundreds of acres of land have lost their fertility by the the raising of oom year after year, and if, as a result, the owners come out behind at the end of the year it is because * luck is against them.” If farmers would sow clover with their wheat each year and turn it under for the next crop their crops would soqn be doubled. In experimenting with clover I have brought the yield from 16 bushels of wheat per acre to 43% bushels, and have had an average of 34 bushels per acre on 70 acres. Dashes of red appear everywhere in the toilet, fro "the plumes on the tjoouet to the “clocks’’ of black silk hop«.

PA'S MARVELOUS ESCAPE.

The Bad Boy’s K Tackles His Now Firs Escape, and Finds Cm for Vaaellna. Peck’s Bon. “Got any vaseline?" said the ted boy to the grocery man, as he went in the store one oold morning, leaving the door optn, and picked up a cigar stub that had been thrown down by the stove, and began to smoke it. “Shut that door, dum you. Was you brought up in a saw mill? You’ll freon every potato in the house. No, I haven’t got vaseline. What do you want of vaseline?” said the grocery man, as he set the syrup ksg on a chair by the stove where it would thaw out “Wan’t to rub it on pa’s legs," said the boy, as he tried to draw smoke through the cigar stub. “Why, what’s the matter with your pa’s legs? Rheumatiz?” “Wuss nor rheumatiz,’* said the boy, as he threw away the cigar stub and drew some cider in a broken tea cup “Fa has got the worst looking hind legs you ever saw. You see, Binoe there has been so many flies pa has got offal soared, and has bought three fire escapes, made out of rope with knots in them, and he has been telling ns every day how he oould rescue the whole family in case of fire. He told us to be cool whatever happened, and to rely on him. If the house got on fire we were all to rush to pa, and he would save us. Well, last night ma had to go to one of the neighbors, where they was going to have twins, and we didn’t sleep much, cause ma had to come home twice in the night to get saffron, and an old flannel petticoat that I had broke in when I was a kid, cause the ma went did not know as twins waaofc the bill of fare, and they only had flannel petticoats for one. Pa was cross at being kept awake, and told ma he hoped when all the children in Milwaukee were bora, and got grown up, she would take in her sign and not go around nights acting as usher to baby matinees. Pa says there ought to be a law that babies should arrive on the regular day trains, and not wait for the midnight express. Well, pa he got asleep, and he slept till about eight o’clock in the morning, and the blinds were dosed, and it was dark in his room, and I had waited for my breakfast till I was hungry as a wolf, and the girl told me to wake pa up, so I went up stairs, and 1 don't know what made me think of it, but I had some of this powder they make rad fire with in the theater, that me and my chum had the 4th of July, and I put it in a wash uish in the bath room, and I touched it off and hollered fire. I was going to wake pa up and and then tell him it was all right, and laugh at him. I guess there was too much fire, or I yelled to loud, cause pa jumped out of bed and grabbed a rope and sashed through the hall towards the back window, that goes out on a shed. I tried to say something, but pa ran over me and told me to save myself and I got to the back window to tell him there was no fire just as he let himself out of the window. He had one end of the rope tied to the leg of the wash stand, and, he was climbing down the back side of the shed by the kitchen, wth nothing on but his night shirt and he was the horriblestlooking object ever was, wjjih his legs flying and trying to stick his toe nails into the rope and the side of the house. I don’t think a man looks well in society with nothing on but his night shirt. 1 didn’t the hired girls for being scared when they saw pa and his tegs come down outside the window, and when they yelled I went down to the kitchen, and they said a crazy man with no clothes but a pillow case around bis neck was trying to kiok the window in, and they run into the parlor, | and I let pa in the kitchen. He asked me if anybody else was saved,and then I told him there wasn’t any fire, and he must have dreamed he was in hell, or somewhere. Well, pa was astonished, and said he must be wrong in his head, and I left'him thawing himself by the stove, while I went after his pants, and his legs were badly cliii'ed, but I guess nothin' was froze. He lays it all to ma, and says if she would stay at home and let people run their own baby shows, there would be more comftrt ic the house. Ma came in with a shawl over her head, and a bowl full of something that smelled frowy, and after she had told us what the result o her visit whs, she sent me after vaseline to rub pa’s legs. Pa says he has demonstrated that if a man is cool and collected in case of fire, and goes deliberately at work to save himself; he will come out all right”

William Patterson’s Will.

CarneeviUe Register. . William Patterson whs a very wealthy tradesman of Baltimore. In the early days of Franklin county, Ga., he bought up a great many tracts of laud in the bountx, in l speut a good portion of his ti no in locking after his interests there. He was said to be as strong as a bear »ud as b ave as a lion; but, like all brave men, T e w*>s a lover of peace, arid, indeed, a -i- d :::ous rnnp. Nevertheless his

pitch. ** * fighting On one occasion he attended a public gathering in the lower part of Franklin County, at some District Court ground. Daring the day two opposing bullies and* their friends raised a row, and a general fight was the eaneequenofc At the beginning ofthe affray, and before the fighting began, Billy Patterson ran in the crowd to penaade them not to fight, but to make peaoe and be friends. But his efforts for peaoe were unavailable and while making them, some of the crowd in the general melee struck Billy Patterson a severe blow from behind. Billy at once beoame fighting mad and cried out at the top of his voioe, “Who struck Billy Patterson?*’ Nooneoooldor wonld tell him who was the guilty party. He then proposed to give any man SIOO who would tell him “who struck Billy Patterson.'* From SIOO he roee to SI,OOO but not SI,OOO wonld induoe any man to tell him “who struck Billy Patterson.” Yean afterward, in his will he related the above facts and bequeathed SI,OOO to be paid by his executors, to the man who would tell “who struck Billy Patterson.” His will is recorded in the Ordinary’s offioe at Carnesville, Franklin county, Go., and any one curious about the matter can there find it and verify the preceding statements.

Siberian Exiles.

George Kennan, author of “Tent Life in Siberia,” delivered a lecture on “Siberia,” in New York, recently. He said that if the United States and every oomitry in Europe except Russia, were put into Siberia there would stili remain 1,000,000 square miles uncovered, and that a broad bel} of land extending from the southern part of Siberia to what is known as the Central Forest was one of the most fertile and genial places in the Russian Empire. The idea that exile life in Sitaria is one of suffering in dungeons, and that political agitators suffer untold miseries in mines is all a mistake. “The Russian government,” he-said, “in the beginning sent at its prisoners to Siberia in order to settle the oountry. Good homes were provided and farming utensils given to the exiles, and such is the case to-day. There are two divisions in the exiles, the first of whioh we will designate as convicts, and the second as simply banished. The first class work in the western part of the tract I bare alluded to. There are no exiles in any of the very cold parts of Siberia. The only convicts who work ip mines are men who, had they committed the same crimes in America, would either have been hanged or imprisoned for life. The second have farms whioh they cultivate for themselves in the eastern district. Most of the inhabitants are descendants of exiles, who were banished ong ago for very small offenses. The number of political prisoners is very small. From 1867 to 1872 64,225 people were sent to Siberia; 5,800 were sentenced to hard labor, and the rest were only banished. There are annually about 443 political offenders transported, two-thirds of these are nobles, and one-third of the other classes.. So this proves that Nihilism is not a popular uprising against thd Russian government. Tomsk and Omsk are two of tho wealthiest places in Siberia, and most of the political prisoners are sent there. Omsk has 20,000 inhab itants, 452 merchants, a public library, a boys’ military school and a ladies’ seminary. I visited one of the political exiles, who, as a photographer, had made money there. He was living in a fashionable house, adorned with pictures and works of art. He spoke bitterly of the practice of transporting prisoners, but almitted that qe was living well. I know that there have been crimes committed in Siberian prisons, but crimes as bad have occurred in our own land. Transportation there is a great and growing evil to society. The prisoners are, however,very well treated. I think that the custom of transporting prisoners will be slopped in a very few years or greatly modified.”

The Sun’s Total Eclipse.

The total eclipse of the sun on the 6th of May next will last six minutes, and no longer one will probably ooour within the hext one hundred years. It will be partially visible in' many places, but few will see it in its entirety, as its path lies most eniirely through the ocean, touching land nowhere but at a little island in the South Pacific called the Caroline eland, which is out of the track of any established commerce of travel The French government has determined to sond an expedition to that island, and it is probable that a grand international gathering of astronomers will meet there to take part in this scientific quest.

The Cows of the Country.

The cow population of the United States is 12,611,148, or abont one cow for every four people. This only includes milch oows, and their value is estimated at $340,400,936, an average of $27 per head, based upon their prices in different states. The population of Syria and Palestine is estimated at 2,076,321. Of these only 6,000 are Protestants.

Religious Intelligence. The Rev. Charles EL Spurgeon is in friUng health again, and is only able to preach one sermon each Sunday. A movement has been started in Italy to hold the services of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Italian language. The new church in Moorasville, Ind., was dedicated on Thursday, February 1. Bishop Bowman and Dr. J. S. Woods officiating. Fart of the religion of the Hindoos is to be kind to animals. They oarry this into suoh practical operation that they moot hospitals for sick and homeless brutes. A biography of the late Bishop Edward Thomas is in process of preparation by his son Dr. Edward Thomas, President of the Nebraska Conference Seminary. Bishop Kavansngh, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, has his residence in Si Louis. But he reocntly attended the Florida conference, and was prostrated, and will be oompelled to re main in Florida during the winter. The Otis bequest had yielded already to the American Board $778,982.89, leaving $271,409.12 to be used in the next ten years. Fifty thousand dollars has been appropriated to educational institutions in Ceylon and the Turkish Empire. The United Presbyterian Church of Sootland mourns the loes of nearly all of the fund providing for the support of its deceased ministers’ wives. It amounted to £85,000, £30,000 of whioh has disappeared with the defaulting treasurer, Peddie. The undergraduates at Oxford, England, have formed what they palled a Salvation Army. The object is to do Christian work in an aggressive way, but to avoid the clap-trap show of the followers of General Booth. At Lincoln Cathedral there is a beautiful stained-gloss window made by an apprentice out of gloss rejected by his master, who was so mortified by recognising it as superior to any other in the olmroh, that according to tradition ho killed himself.

Half a Century in Jail.

Union) own (Pa.) Special. William Sfcandford, known tliroughoqt Fayette oounty as “Crazy Billy," died this morning in the county jail, where lije had been a prisoner over fifty-one consecutive years. In 1831 Billy drove Alexander Crow and wife out of their home in Spring Hill township. The neighbors came to Crow's rescue, and by strategy overpowered Billy, who was armed with Crow’s gun, butcher-knife and axe. Billy was 6ent to jail at Uniontown for trial Soon afterward William Updegraff was looked up for drunkenness, and during the night Billy asked a stick of wood if he should kill Updegraff. The billet Said yes, and Billy crushed in the drunkard’s skulL The following June Billy was tried and acquitted of murder on account of insanity. For eighteen years he was chained by the leg to the floor of his cell. Since 1848 he has been allowed to roam at will, being harmless. Eighteen sheriST have gone in and out of office while Billy was a prisoner. Four ex-sheriffs will serve as pall-bearers at bis funeral to-morrow, and the entire bar will turn out. Billy was about eighty years old, and was born in England, but beyond this nothing is known of his earliest history. Just before dying he called for his mother : “Dear mother.” This was the only time he was ever known to refer in any Way to any one connected with his childhood.

The Peanut Crop of 1882.

William E. Worth, a communion merchant at 388 Greenwich street, has just returned from a trip through Virginia and North Carolina, where he went to inspect the peanut crop of 1882. He reports that in both states the area planted considerably exoeeds that of former years. In August the crop looked so well that the farmers expected an unusually large yield, but just before the time for digging a season of very wet weather rotted the stems of the most thoroughly matured nuts. This caused a great lot*;. The crop promises, however, to be as large and of as good quality as the average crop. The yield averages about forty bushels to the acre. In Virginia the crop will be 1,500,000 bushels. Because the yield falls below the expectations of August the farmers are crying short crop«. On account of the scarcity of labor a large part of the crop is not packed off and this partly accounts for the falling off of receipts in the market Another cause of the recent advance in price and the good financial condition of the farmers have tempted them to hold their crops for higher prices. In Tennessee the crop is from 850,000 to 400,000 bushels, of the very best quality, and in California .the yield ia said to be good. The now ranges from $1.75 a bushel for the best grade tp $1.20 for the poorer grade. Last yaMb the price was higher on account, of the almost total failure of the crop. In 1880, a good year the beet peanuts were only SL2S a bushel.