Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1883 — Page 7

The Republican. RENSSELACT, INDIAN A. G. E. MARSHALL, PUBUSUB.

A Louisville man, having gone to see a play where the principal actress plunged from a ferry boat into the riy. er, astonished his room-mate that night, who sat up reading, by rising straight on the bed and, throwing his arms wildly above his head, dive headforemost to the floor. On opening his eyes he asked if she had been saved, and then it was learned that he «had been dreaming, and that he plunged from the bed to the floor to save Carrie Swain from a watery grave. He has a' sore ‘head and a bruised body, but he will be able to be out in a few days.

The sleeping-car companies make their porters lower each berth *at night, whether occupied or not, so that the person having the lower berth shall not enjoy more comfort than is bought. The object is to make it necessary for any one who requires a whole section to pay accordingly. The Illinois Legislature has now made a law. providing that any person paying for a double lower berth in a sleeping-car “shall have the right to say whether the upper double berth shall be opened or closed until such Upper berth is actually sold and occupied,” and that thereupon it shall be the duty of the conductor “to comply with the request of such persons or persons. ”

The possibilities of a boy’s pocket have often engaged the descriptive powers of humorous writers, but no imaginative literature has ever included the actual experience of a Philadelphia lad named Robert Cridland. He was observed the other day, in the Chestnut Hill Consolidated School, .picking a small package with a pen. An instant after a loud noise rang through the room and Robert was bounding into the air, minus two fingers and a thumb, while the Consolidated School rapidly became disintegrated. His plaything was a small dynamite cartridge which he had found in a quarry and had put among the treasures of his pocket, in order to while away the monotony of the. arithmetic hour. After all, boys of larger growth handle dynamite as carelessly as young Cridland, and with even less excuse.

Boston Globe: F. D. Handy, of Northboro, Mass., keeps a meat market which has been infested with wharfrats of prodigious size. Mr. Handy has recently placed in* position a new large meat refrigerator, and the first night after it was set in place a huge rat gnawed his way through the thick planking to the interior, and was enjoying a fat repast when discovered. His ratship was captured, and Mr. Handy, armed with a pair of pincers, proceeded to pull .out all the teeth the rat had in its head. At the conclusion of the operation the rodent was allowed to depart, with the prospect of being obliged to subsist hereafter on spoon victuals. Th§ singular feature of the case is that, although the number of rats formerly about the premises was very large, yet since the dental operation not a rat has'* been seen or heard about the market.

Famine is the present distress of Iceland as it has been of Ireland. To aid the sufferers Great Britain subscribed about SIOO,OOO, or less than one-fifth the loss in cattle and produce. Farming is an impossibility in Iceland, and the people are entirely dependent on the outside world for food. The wealth of .the- people is in live-stock, which they exchange for breadstuff's and fabrics, and the starvation of stock by the failure of grass has reduced the people to a dire extremity. take years to replenish the stock, and unless there is some better means; afforded to meet the requirements of the people, they will die of starvation by the hundred next winter. The people of several places have expressed a desire to leave, Iceland and come to America. They are a thrifty, honest people, and as they only number 70,000 there is room for them all in this rich country, where lands are fertile and industry fruitful. It is thought 900 families will speedily be brought over.

An old Indiana lawyer named Judge ■Complete, who had been used to hav* ing his own way in court, once arose .and began an argument for the purpose of darraining a new and young United States District Judge. Before the lawyer had gone far, the new Judge interrupted him with: “Judge Complete, .you needn't pursue this line of argument any further. You know that is

not the law. The startled old counselor could hardly believe his own ears, “What did you say, sir?” Ke asked,* sharply. “I said,” repeated the young< Judge, “that you need go no further on that line of argument; that you were not stating the law as it Ist* “Well, sir; well, sir,” said the old gentleman, taking off his eye-glasses nervously, “perhaps your Honor knows the law better than I doand then, in a more insolent tone, “your long experience no doubt enables *you to speak.” “Mr. Clqrk,” said the new District Judge, “enter up a fine of $25 against Judge Complete for contempt of court;" and Judge Complete, routed for the first time in many years, sat down in a daze. The young Judge is now known as Postmaster General Gresham.

The Town of Red Bank, N. J., is all torn up because Mrs. Finch has built a board partition dose to the windows of Mrs. Loew’s house which looked directly into Mrs. Finch’s bedroom. She had warned Mrs. LoeW while she was building that she would not suffer the window to remain unobstructed. She had the ground surveyed twice, and felt sure that* she had built the obstruction on her own land, and will not take the boards down. Mr. Loew, husband of Mrs. Loew, says: “I did think I would contest the right of Mrs. Finch to obstruct the view from my '- windows. But I have.come to the conclusion that I do not care to get into a quarrel with a woman. The lawyers tell me she had no right to put up such a structure for the mere purpose of cutting off light and air from my building, although she has a right to build on her own lot so as to shut up my windows. However, if she chooses to let the obstruction stand, I do not propose to interfere, with it. As it stands on my land about two inches, I have no doubt I could cbmpel her to move it; but I guess it will be quite as much annoyance to her as to me.” It is only a variation of the “line fence” difficulty.

Boston Herald: Mrs. Lydia Pinkham, of Vegetable Compound fame,* died not long ago of paralysis at her residence, No. 233 Western avenue, Lynn, Mass. There was no woman in the city so well knoyn as she; her name had a world-wide circulation and fame and had become almost a household word. She was born in Lynn, Feb. 9, 1829, both her parents being Quakers. Her maiden name was Estes. She passed through the public schools, graduating at the Lynn Academy and teaching school both at Wareham, Mass., and Lynn. Some forty years since she was married to Isaac Pinkham, by whom she had font sons and one daughter. Three of the former are dead, but her husband is still alive, as also her daughter, Mrs.- Caroline C. Gove. Fifteen years ago, Mrs. Pinkham commenced to manufacture the compound which has made her so widely known. She first started in the business in a very small way, apd used to distribute the medicine about to those whom she thought needed it. Seven years ago the firm commenced to advertise extensively all over the world, the sum annually spent in this way being not far from $200,000. During the past three years Mrs. Pinkham has been at the head of the firm, devoting her entire energies and time to it. Mrs. Pinkwas a Spiritualist, and her funeral was conducted by a proponent member of that denomination from Boston.

Tit for Tat.

“One day,” said a gentleman, “before harvest, I met a fashionably dressed person with a large handful of ears of wheat taken from my fields. I saluted him respectfully and expressed my admiration of the beauty of the wheat. ‘Yes,’ said he, ‘it is truly a.fine sample, and does the farmer great credit who grew it.’ I acknowledged the compliment, and asked him from which of my fields he took it. After he had pointed it out, he assured me he always liked to take a good sample home, as it interested the ladies. Upon that, noticing with admiration the style of his coat, I asked him to allow me to look at the skirt. He readily did so, and I quietly took out my penknife and cut a large piece from the tail. The gentleman bounced and swore; but I told him I always took samples of cloth, and I found they greatly interested my wife. I added that he had eno more right to take my wheat, than I had to take his coat, and that I wished the public to bear this truth in mind.” This was experience bought with a vengeance.— Chambers’ Journal.

Thk last census shows that the number of foreigner's living in Paris is very considerable. There are 45,281 Belgians, 31,190 Germans, 21,657 Italians, 20,810 Swiss, 10,789 English, 9,250 Dutch, 5,927 Americans, 5,786 Russians, 4,982 Austrians and 3,616 Spaniards. The German colony in Paris ■was greatly increased since 1876. It consisted at that time of only 19.024 .soul*.

THE BAD BOY.

“I hear yottr Unde Ezra is here on a t* lit,” said the grocery man to the bad y. “I suppose you" have been haying a high old time. There is nothing that does a boy more good than to have a nice visit with a good uncle, and hear him tell about old times when he and the boy’s father were boys together.” “Well, I don’t know about it,” said the boy, as he took a stick of maccaroni and began to blow paper wads through it at a woodsawyer who was filing a saw outside the door. “When a boy who has been toxigh has got his pins all set to reform, I don’t think it does him any good to a real nice uncle come to the house visiting. Anyway, that’s my experience. I have backslid the worst way, and it is going to take me a month, after Uncle Ezra goeq away, to climb up to the grace that I have fallen from. It is dam discouraging,” said the boy as he looked up at the ceiling in an innocent sort of a way, and hid the maccaroni under his coat, when the woodsawyer, who had* been hit in the neck, dropped his saw and got up maid. “What’s the trouble? Your uncle has the reputation where he lives of being one of the pillars of society. But you can’t tell about these fellows when they get away, from home. Does he drink?”

“No, he don’t drink, but as near as I can figure it he and pa were about the worst pills in the. box when they were young. I don’t want you to repeat it, but when pa and ma were married they eloped. Yes, sir, 'actually ran away, and defied their parents, and they had to hide about a week for fear ma’s father would fill pa so full oft lead that he Would sink if he fell in the water. Pa has been kicked over the fence, and chased down alleys dozens of times, by my grandfather when he was sparking ma, and ma was a terror too, cause her mother couldn’t do anything with her, though she is awful precise now, and wants everybody to be too good. Why, ma’s mother used to warm her ears, and shake the daylights out of her, but it didn’t do any good. She was mashed on pa, and there was no cure for her except to have pa prescribed for her as a husband, and they "ran away. Uncle Ezra told me all about it. Ma hain’t got any patience with girls now days that have minds of their own about fellows, and she thinks their parents ought to have all the say. Well, maybe she thinks she knows all about it. But when people get in love it is the same now as it was when pa and ma were trying to keep out of the reach of my grandfather’s shot gun. But pa. and Uncle Ezra and ma are good friends, and they talk over old times and have a big laugh. I guess Uncle Ezra was too much for pa in joking when they were boys, ’cause pa told me that all rules against joking were suspended while Unde Ezra was here, and for me to play anything on him I could. I told pa I was trying to lead a different life, but he said what I wanted to do was to make Uncle Ezra think of old times, and the only way was to keep him on the ragged edge. I thought if there was anything I could* do to make it pleasant for my uncle, it was my duty to do it, so I fixed the bed-slats on the spare bed so they would fall down at 2 a. m. the first night, and then I retired. At 2 o’clock I heard the awfulest noise in the spare room, and a howling and screaming, and I went down and met Uncle Ezra in' the hall, and he asked me what was the matter in there, and I asked him if he didn’t sleep in the spare room, and he said no, 'that pa and ma was in there, and he slept in their room. Then we went in the spare room, and you’d a dide to see pa. Ma bad jumped out when the slats first fell, and was putting her hair up in curl papers when we got in, but pa was all tangled up in the springs and things. His head had gone down first, and the mattress and quilts rolled over on him, and he was almost smothered, and we had to take the bedstead ' down to get him out, the way you have to unharness a horse when he runs away and falls down, before you can get him up. Pa was mad, but Uncle Ezra laughed at him, and told him he was only foundered, and all he wanted was a bran mash and some horse liniment, and he would come out all right. Uncle Ezra went out in the hall to get a pail of waiter to throw on pa', ’cause he said pa was afire, when pa asked me why in blazes I didn’t fix the other bed slats, and I told him I .didn’t know as they were going to change beds, and then pa said don’t let it occur again. Pa lays everything to me. He is the most changeable man I ever saw. He told me to do everything Uncle Ezra wanted me to do, and then, when I helped Unde Ezra to play a joke on pa he was > mad. Say, I don’t think this world is run right, dq you? I haven’t got much time to talk to you to-day, ’cause dJncle Ezra and me are going fishing, but don’t it strike you that it is queer that parents trounce boys for doing just what they did themselves. Now, I have got a friend whose father is a lawyer. That lawyer would warm his boy if he •should tell a lie, or associate with anybody that wte bad, and yet the lawyer will defend a man he knows is guilty of stealing, and get him clear, and take the money he got from the thief, who stole it, to buy the same boy a new coat to wear to church; and he will defend a man who committed murder, and make an argument to the jury that wiM bring tears to their eyes, and they will clear the murderer. Queer, ain’t it? And say, how is it that we send missionaries to Burmah, to convert them from heathenism, and the same vessel that takes the missionaries there carries from Boston a cargo of tin gods to sell to the heathen? I think the

more a boy learns the more he gets mixed/” « * . “Well, how’s your theater? Have any of the great actors supported you lately?” said the grocery man, to change the subject “No, we are all off on vacations? Booth and Barrett, and lots of the stars, are gone to Europe, and the rest work down to less high-toned places. Some of the theater girls are waiters at summer resorts, and lots are visiting relatives on farms. I tell you, it makes a difference whether the ’relatives are visiting you or you are visiting them. Actors and actresses feel awfully when an old granger comes to the town where they are playing, and wants to see them. They are ashamed of his homespun clothes, and cowhide boots, and they want to meet him out in an alley somewhere, or in the basement of the theater, so the other actors will not laugh at their rough relatives, but when the seasen is over, an actor who can remember a relative out' on a farm, is tickled to death, and the granger is all right enough there, and the actor does not think of the rough, nutmeg grater hands, and the blistered nose, as long as the granger relative will put up fried pork and things, and “support” the actor. My Uncle Ezra is pretty rough, and it makes me tired sometimes when I am down town with him to have him go into a store where there are girl clerks and ask what things are for, that I know he don’t 'want, and make the girls blush, but he is a good-hearted old man, and he and me are going to make a mint of money during vacation. He lives near a summer-resort hotel, and has a stream that is full of minnows, and we are going to catch minnows and sell them to the dudes for fish bait. He says some of the fools will pay 10 cents apiece for minnows, so, if we sell a million minnows, we make a fortune. lam coming back in September and will buy out your grocery. Say, let me have a pound of raisins, and I’ll pay you when I sell my uncle’s minnows.— Feck's Sun.

Letters to Millionaires.

The name of Mr. W. W. Corcoran is so widely known by his deeds of philanthropy, and is intimately identified with every movement that is calculated to alleviate suffering and improve the condition of the unfortunate, that the appeals which come to him for all sorts of charitable purposes are almost overwhelming. For instance, a lady, entirely unknown to Mr. Corcoran writes a long letter, in which she states that her husband is worth $50,000, and is doing a large and prosperous business. The writer, however, desires to be independent of her husband, and asks Mr. Corcoran to send her enough money so that she may live on the interest. The letter is well-written, and closes with an urgent invitation to Mr. Corcoran to come and make her yisit at her home in New England, to see her garden and enjoy the fruits and flowers. The writer was evidently well-to-do in this world and refined and educated, yet, amid her prosperity, she had one ambition which was not satisfied, and that was to have a bank account of her own. In this particular she is not, perhaps, an isolated example, but the course of reasoning which led her to think that an entire stranger would help her is entirely unique. “I want a barrel of mess pork, and I want you to send it to me,” was the laconic but peremptory letter received from a man in one of the Southern States. Mr. Corcoran, amused by this strange demand, sent the pork as requested. What was the result? He was rewarded by receiving a request for “another barrel.”

A young lady asked Mr. Corcoran to send her a pink-silk dress, trimmed to order, to enable her to attend a ball in Virginia. This letter is much in the style of an order to a dressmaker, and there is nothing to indicate that the writer had any doubt but that the request would be granted. Another lady correspondent, living in Europe, sends sixteen pages of commercial post, closely written, giving a history of her family, which seems to have had a very ancient origin, and requesting that $6,000 be sent to her address, to enable her to take a trip to the southern part of France for the benefit of her health. It is said that Jay Gould receives scores of begging letters every day. Mr. C. P. Huntington, President of the Central Pacific road, is probably worth $15,000,000. He is also in receipt of very many begging letters. His letters are from all portions of Europe and the United States, and contain requests based on every imaginable scheme. *

Henry Clews, whose wealth is estimated at $10,000,000, receives a large number of letters asking for help. Many of the applicants are unfortunate operators in Wall street, and they often find in Mr. Clews a sympathetic friend. Russell Sage is not credited with "throwing money away," as he terms it, and brokers generally observe: "A man with $10,000,000, who will wait in his office over half an hour to catch the 5-cent trams on the Elevated road, must be too poor to give money away for sweet charity.” James R. Keene, his friends say, receives scores nf begging letters every day, and Cyrus W. Field is the recipient of more than any other itan in Wall street circles. He gives away SSO per day for* charitable purposes, his intimates assert, and generally answers correspondents who solicit alms if he thinks it is charity worthily bestowed.— Washington Star. Mam is unjust, but God is just; but finally justice triumphs.— Longfellow.

STATE CONVENTIONS.

lowa Republicans Nomine Goy. Sherman for Gov. Hubbard Similar? Honored J' Minnesota. lowa. The Republican State Convention of low ', met at Deo Moines on the 27th of June, and completed its work in leas than three hours Hon. John A Kasson was made temporary Chairman. Every county in the State was represented. Col D. B. Henderson, of Dubuque, was made permanent presiding officer. On motion of J. HcLozier. Buren R. Sherman was renominated for Governor by acclamation. On motion of Aaron Kimball, of Howard, 0. H. Manning was icnominated for. lieutenant Governor by acclamation. On motion of Mr. Russell, Professor Akers, of Unn, was renominated for Superintendent of Public Instruction by acclamation. Judge Reed, of Council Bluffs, was nominated for Supreme Judge on the first ballot The platform was reported through Senator Wilson. It is quite lengthy. The first resolution reviews the past record of the is dealt with in the tol1 That whfleweextend our earnest sympathy to the people of all countries who are struggling for their rights, in oppositon to oppressive laws and systems, wfe also plant ourselves on the side of the homes of our own people in their contest against ths saloon: that when the Republican party of lowa pledged itself in 1879 to give to the people at a special non-partisan election an opportunity to vote on a proposition to so amend the constitution of the State as to prohibit the manufacture and sale as a beverage of intoxicating liquors it acted in good faith, and the special election of June 27,1881, evidences the redemption of the pledge so given, ana we now declare that we accept the result of that election with its majority of 29,974 votes in favor of the adoption of the amendment so voted on as the verdict of the people in favor of constitutional and statutory prohibition, and without making any new test of party fealty we recognise the moral and political obligation which requires the enactment of such laws by the next General Assembly as shall provide for the establishment and enforcement of the principle and policy affirmed by the people at said non-partisan election, and to that end the fqlth of the party to plodffOd. . Other resolutions of general Interest are as follows: 4. That the power to regulate State commerce belongs tp the General Assembly, and that which relates to Inter-State commerce to Congress, and both should be so exerclsed'as to establish a just equilibrium between producers, transporters ana consumers, and all arbitrary dtocnminations of pools and combinations to prevent competition or work injustice to communities or individuals at either competing or nonoompetlng points should bo prohibited, and such prohibition enforced; that the General Assembly at its next session should enact a law prohibiting the giving or receiving by publiq officers of any railway pass during the terms of office, and the same should bo enforced by proper penalties against both givers and receivers. 6. That stability to desirable tn such public policy as relates to and effects all productive industries, and we condemn the threat of the lowa Democracy and keep at unrest said industries and the capital ana labor employed therein by gradual and persistent efforts to so change the customs laws as to establish free trade, and insist upon such revenue laws as win encourage American industries and protect American labor, in order that the American workingman shall have • fair day’s wages for • fair day’s work, and tend to assure permanent employment. 7. That the inability of the Democratic party during the six years that it held undisputed control of the House of Representatives of Congress to agree on legislation for the revision of thetariff and the reform of the civil notwithstanding both subjects were constantly and prominently present in its platform, promises and campaign activities, and the passage of laws affecting noth of said objects by the Republican Congress at its late session, demonstrates anew the incapacity of the former to deal with questions of great public concern, and that the country must rely on the latter fog practical legislation. As well-grounded supports for such reliance we point not only to the action of the late Republican Congress, as heretofore mentioned, but also to the additional foots that the customs and internal taxation was reduced over 1700,000,000,1202,000,000 appropriated for the payment of pensions to our soldiery and still an abundant revenue was provided to maintain the public credit and meet all of the demands on the treasury of the*natlon. The other resolutions favor the creation by Congress of a Department of Industry and improvement of waterways; favor the repeal of the time clause in ethe application of soldiers for pensions, and the exemption of soldiers’ pension money and homesteads from execution. The last three resolutions are as follows: 10. That, in the Interest of public order, personal security, and economy in the administration of ttie laws, we favor such amendments to the criminal code of the State as will make more certain and speedy the oonviotidn of criminals and the punishment and prevention of crimn and at the Same time leesen the burdens imposed upon the tax-payers by the numerous and vexatious delays now too often attendant upon the administration of justice. 11. That, in view of the rapid development ol the mining industry of lowa, the large numbers of workingmen emyloyed therein; and the dangerous character of the work, we favor such legislation as will provide for the safety of ths persons and lives of the miners, and also foe the prompt, just and equitable adjustment « the differences between the employers and employes in said industry. 12. That we refer with pride to the fact that the public debt of lowa to exticgulshed, and that the rate of our State tax to less than that of any other Western State, and we congratulate Gov. Sherman and our State administration on the faithful and efficient manner tn which our public affairs have been conducted. 18. That the wise, conservative administration of President Arthnr meets with the hearty approvalfof the Republicans of lowa, and we cordially approve the promise diven by him to the delegation appointed by the Philadelphia Convention of Irish-American citisens that the subject of the grievances contained in the resolution of said body presented to him should have thorough and exhaustive investigation, and such action as the Government may lawfully take.

Minnesota. ———— The Minnesota Republican Convention assembled at St. Paul, with a D. Gilflllan as Temporary Chairman. Committees were appointed and a recess taken until evening; On the reassembling 0. IX Gilflllan was nominated as Permanent Chairman by the Hubbard faction, and J. & Piilsbnrv by the Windomitea Gilflllan was chosen by a vote of 140 to M Gov. Hubbard was nominated by acclamation. A resolution was introduced condemning the action of the Republican Legislators who refused to vote for Windom as Senator after he had received the caucus nomination last winter. This was laid on the table by a vote of 148 to 02. The Committee on Resolutions reported a platform indorsing the National administration. approving the whisky and tobacco tax. declaring for a tariff for revenue so adjusted as to favor the development of manufactures, favoring civil-service reform and liberal appropriations for internal improvements, and favoring the submission of the question of prohibition to a popular vote. The resolutions were adopted. a A Gilman was nominated, for Lieutenant Governor on the second ballot, and Prod Vorbaumhach for Secretary of State by aodemation; for Treasurer, Charles Kittleson; K. J. Hahn f« Attorney General, and J. H. Baker for Ballroad, (fommiseioner. Hon. William Dolnan, of Independence, waaahosen Chairman of the Republican