Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1883 — A Tobaceo Story. [ARTICLE]

A Tobaceo Story.

A most absurd amount of nonsense has besn sent over the cable in regard to her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, who was graciously pleased to slip on the royal stairs of Windsor Castle and sprain her royal Jmee. Half a score of i highprioed physicians were at onoe called in, and h was decided after a full conference that if the swelling was not interfered with it would subside of itself. Her Mqpt Gracious Majesty's leg, the chaste cable speaks of as her “limb,” can hardly be made a^22!i2U2£2£— . Mb. John Bright, in an address delivered to the students of Glasgow University, Thursday, the 22d, made a remarkable declaration. He raid that the Declaration of Independence, the French Revolution, and the English Reform Rill of 1882, supplemented by that of 1867,transferred political power from Kings to the people. With regard to Ireland he said that if the treaty of Limeriok had been observed and freedom of religion had been granted the sad history of Ireland might never have been recorded. He considers the Indian question as the great problem of the fntnre. Thu decree regulating the liquor traffic in Russia, recently signed by the Emperor, is one of the most stringent character. There is to be only one liquor Bhop in a village, and where two or three villages are almost continuous one shop most suffice for their combined inhabitants. The publican mast be a native of the plaoe, appointed and paid by the common council, and must sell food as well as liquor. If he allows any person to get drunk he ia not only liable, to dismissal, but to line and imprisonment. If any Russian village is reported to the authorities as addicted to drunkenness, the sale of liquor may be interdicted for as long a period as may seem necessary. At the annual meeting of the Silk Culture Association, held in Philadelphia, there were twelve States represented. The year before silk growers from only four States were present A further proof of the growth of this industry is found in the distribution during the past pear of eggs and cuttings among innumerable fanners’ wives and daughters, who see in the production of silk an inviting and profitable field of activity. The premiums for the beat specimens exhibited at the meeting went to growers in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Florida, Kansas and California. The belt of soil and climate in which silk culture can be successfully carried on is evidently wider than has usually been supposed. • .

Thb Memphis Avalanche comments hopefully upon the first year’s operations of the Memphis Pioneer Cotton Mill. Its capital has been increased to $200,000, and 95 looms and 2,000 spindles have been added. It haa paid a small dividend notwithstanding the disadvantages of the first year in a new business. This is a hopeful sign, and it is important ag an extension of manufacturing into a new territory. There are two large mills in Nashville, one of which weathered the fynnc and has been doing a fine business. The tendency is toward building up manufactures all over the South. It is toward healthful diffusion. .Suoh mills exist How in Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, South t arolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.

Thh pastors of Glovers ville, N. Y., have united an address for the people, condemning the practice, which they regret to see beooming more and more prevalent, of church members attending theatrical shows given by professional companies. “While we do not regard these exhibitions are all equally objectional,” they say, “we yet consider it almost impossible to discriminate, and the only safe oourse is to avoid even the appearanoe of evil. We hate at times been surprised and pained by the alarming and amazing disregard dt the claims and solemn responsibilities 6f the Christian profession. One evidtihoe'of this n the fact that many of our chnroh members do not scrapie to leave their prayer meetings to attend the theatre. This indicates a *otal forgetfulness of Christian propriety nd obligation” * Simon B. Paigb, of Davenport, lowa, committed suicide, recently. Paige was the man whose wife was suffocated at the burning of the Beckwith House,Oshkosh, Wis. He ce me driving up to,the burning building, and, it was said, -offered $5,000 to anybody who would recover his wife’s body. A fireman recovered the body,and Paige refused to pay the money, saying that he never offered it, and that it was a fireman's duty to resoue people, aryway. 3s was sued by the fireman, the case was carried to the Supreme Court, where the fireman won. It is believed by many that Paige never made the offer, and that he believed that he was being rotlbed of the |

i nywitfv Via •flfc’JL-* IfTo weaMfayl and had always generous, but the papers alluded to him as this megufel man in the world, send those who md not know anything of the and it worried him to death. He was married time, recently, but evidently was notluappy. ,f =========== Lavina UiißiOK hafe been an inmate of tNe Berks county, Pennsylvania, aims, house for twenty years, having been placed there when she was but 16 years old. A year ago an old lady was admitted to the institution and became warmly attached to Lavina. The older woman was known only as “Aunt Mary,’’ and the younger one was never addressed but by her Christian name. Several days ago the latter became possessed of a fancy to find her parents, whom she had not seen since she was admitted to the almshouse. “Aunt Mary” strongly advised her to go at once, and Lavina went over to Kutztown, where her family had lived. She found that her family was dead and was told that her mother had been sent to the oounty almshouse. She returned very much depressed, for she was certain that she knew everyone in the almshouse, and was confident that her mother was not among the inmates. The superintendent, however, became interested in the matter, and to his surprise discovered that “Aunt Mary” was no other than the mother of Lavina. Mother and daughter bad so changed in twenty years that neither recognised the other. The most dramatic scene ensued when they were informed of their relationship. The mother fell into her daughter’s arms. She was so much overcome that she died in a few minutes.

Thb rapid growth of the prairies of the. Northwest has exceeded the ability of builders to supply emigrants with homes and as a result a new industry has sprung up—that of manufacturing ready-made houses, which axe shipped to any point on a few days’ notice. These houses are complete in every respect and can be pnt together in a very few days. It is no uncommon thing for the manufacturers to send out by one train an entire block of buildings, and sometimes even an entire street. It is said that a request for an entire village like the following is sometimes received by the builders: “What i> your lowest figure for five stores, .two wagon and two blacksmith chops, one Methodist and one Presbyterian ohnrch, twenty-five cottages and a town hall and lockup,to be delivered within sixty days?” A telegram is frequently received, asking: “What canyon furnish a tidy oottage, 22x40 ft, with bay window and verandah for?” The extent to which this industry has developed may be realized from the fact that last season a single factory shipped 220 oars of this kind of material Its manufacture is mainly confined to Canadians, a singular fact, the Yankee being supposed to take up with any enterprise that bids fair to succeed, often before the one who conceives it has time to make nee of his idea. A large proportion of the houses in and around Winnepeg are said to be of the ready-made kind. These houses have not yet been very generally used on the United State side of the line, but the indications are that the emigration to Dakota this Spring and Summer will be so great as to render it absolutely necessary if the newcomers would have shelter to cover them.

B. J. Burdette. I resume my letter, but am interrupted by a tableau. The honest farmer sitting behind me eschews tobaooo. I say eschews because th it ip the biggest chew 1 can write. When the train stopped just now, the honest farmer, working his jaws industriously, opened the window disigning to expectorate all over the little town. As he fires away the train-boy passes by under the window. He catches it on his hat Now, you know the ee sy fluenoy with whioh the train-boy can express himself under peculiarly trying circumstances. Well, he is doing it now. I will draw e veil over the dreadful scene and dose my ears against the astonishing language that is bombarding the car. So > ould the honest farmer if he could. But he oan’t The train-boy is making him listen. He does not really appear to be deeply interested in wcat the t b. js saying, but the impetuous t. b. is taking enough nterest in the matter for six honest farmers. At the conclusion of the oration I see the honest farmer furtively remove his quid and chuck it under my seat. The next woman who has to sit down whe e the honest farm er has been decorating the floor will devoutly and fervently wish the train boy had killed him. And most devoutly do I say “amen” to the woman’s wish. Temperance is a grand thing; prohibition is a great refotm, drnnkeness is an alarming evil, bat the man who ohews tobaooo and expectorates all over the floor of a firstclass railway oar is an unmitigated ones, and while killing would not clean him, it would give us an exduse for putting him six feet under the ground, where his | offensiveness would not be apparent