Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1883 — Page 3

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA G. E. WAUSHAT.T., - - POTXJgBPL

These were 539 deaths, 569 births* 247 marriages and 1,412 arrests in New York city last week. A correspondent in the New York Examiner (the Baptist organ) says: ■“More pastors are wanted in Missouri. Some one said recently that Missouri cOuld furnish work for 1,000 commonsense ministers. Salaries range from $660 to SI,OOO for men who can preach and work among the people. Kidglove ministers are not wanted. Mb. John Leveridge, the oldest lawyer in New York, will be 92 years, old Sept. 1. He distinctly remembers the funeral of Washington, witnessing it, in company with his sister, at the corner of Broadway and Yesey streets. The event was forcibly impressed upon his mind by the fact that when he got home he and his sister were soundly spanked by their mother. Capt. Ericsson, the inventor of the screw propeller, the monitor and hosts of other contrivances, is now 80 years old, although he appears only 50. His method of preserving his health is peculiar. Upon rising in the morning he ru)>s his skin briskly with dry towels, Then he takes a cold bath, in summer using crushed ice. Then come gymnastic exercises of a vigorous desorip. tion. When his system has recovered its normal temperature, Ericsson breakfasts upon eggs, tea and coarse brown bread. Then comes work.

Six years ago the schooner Ida Burdsall, commanded by H. C. Brewer, of Point Pleasant, Bailed from Philadelphia for a Southern port. She was never seen or heard from again. Mrs. Brewer finally married again and is now living happily in her old home. Two weeks ago a sealed bottle w.as picked up at Ocean’ Beach, near the home of the former Widow Brewer. Containing a hurriedly-written message from her husband which had been afloat in the bottle for six years. He said his vessel was being swamped in a storm off Cape Hatteras, and he expected to go down in a few minutes. He urged his son to.be kind to his mother and care tor her tenderly. The son and mother both recognized the handwriting at sight. That there are spots in America still a long way from the rest of the world in everything except geographical position is shown by the fact that the people of Anticosti have just reported their experience with Wiggins and his storm prophecies. Lying in the wide estuary of the St. Lawrence, the inhabitants of this bleak island expected vast trouble from the big blow of which they had in some way been warned, and set themselves to putting things in readiness. They even prepared extra shovels for use in digging their way out of the snowdrifts about to bury them. The hardest feature of the case is the fact that the Anticostians have been obliged to wait three months for the sweet satisfaction of telling how they made fools of themselves.

The safe of the Granite State, which was burned in the Connecticut river a 1 few weeks ago, contained but failed to preserve $75 in bank-notes belonging to the crew. The charred fragments, to all appearance a hopeless lot of rubbish, were sent to Washington, where experts with powerful microscopes have succeeded in identifying a considerable part of them. These certified fragments have all been redeemed by the banks which issued the notes except one, of the denomination of $5. This, the National Bank of Virginia, at Richmond, refuses to redeem, according to the Hartford Times , for the reason that the officers of that insti-. tution cannot see in it any resemblance to a bank note, and are unwilling to accept the decision of the Treasury at Washington. • The sparrow is a saucy adversary, afraid of nothing and seldom worsted in a fair fight, but of course he has to yield to superior numbers. Thus, not long ago in the'Austrian town of Klagenfurth, a throng of persons watched a siege which left a sparrow in a most deplorable situation. He had taken possession of the nest of a pair of swallows under the balcony roof of a savingsbank, and when they returned refused to be ejected, whereupon they flew off and presently returned with a score of their kindred, each bearing a lump of nmd in its bilk Before the sparrow realized what was going on his enemies

had shut him up in the Best, leaving only one small opening, out of which, at last accounts* his neck was hanging in a disconsolate manner. A Pons named Semiloff recently made a death-bed confession at Reed City, Pa. When a boy in Poland on the Russian frontier his father made him swear that lie would join with him in the extermination of the Russian family of Romanoff, one of whose members had eloped with young SemilofTs mother. His father began his instruction by killing a priest of the Romanoff family, leaving the pistol by his side, and the impression that he had Committed suicide. The murder of another of the family in Italy in whioh the son assisted resulted in the conviction of the father and the escape of the son to this country. In the Pennsylvania mining regions he encountered one Romanoff who had escaped the exile of the family to Siberia. One night two years ago Semiloff killed him. His disappearance caused nq inquiry, and was never investigated. Semiloff described the spot where he had buried the Russian, and the skeleton of a man with a huge knife still sticking in his body waa found there.

The semi-annual payment of interest on registered United States bonds, which occurs in January and June, is now being made. While it is very difficult to obtain exact information as to the largest receivers of interest from this class of United States bonds, yet, like almost anything else here, it can be had if one wants it badly enough. This year the largest single bondholder the treasury department knows is Mr. Vanderbilt, who will receive the interest on $37,000,000. A year ago he had $50," 000,000, but he has disposed of $13,000,000 for some purpose. The next largest owner is Mrs. A. T. Stewart, who has about $30,000,000. As some of hers are coupon bonds, the amount of her holding cannot exactly be told. ,Ten years ago Mr. A. T. Stewart had $40,000,000 in bonds, the most of them being sixes. Mr. Gould has $13,000,000 in registered bonds, and a large number of coupon bonds which he keeps to use as collaterals in Wall street when he needs large sums of money. A California millionaire, Mr. Flood, is the next largest holder, He has $15,000,000. Then there is an estate in Boston and three or four persons Jn New York who have each $lO,000,000, and a lady in New York—unmarried, too—has $8,000,0.00, andD. O. Mills, Whitelaw Reid’s father-rin-law, $4,000,000. On the other side of the water, American securities are very pqpular, and are preferred to those of other nations, because the rate of interest is higher than that paid by any other great power. The house of the. Rothschilds holds nearly one-quarter of America’s whole bonded debt, as, including all the bankers of that name, they have $400,000,000. Baron Leopold and Sir Nathan Meyer de Rothschild each owns $30,000,000, and the head of the Vienna houA has $25,000,000 in his own right. Lady Hannah de Rothschild, married the Earl of Roseberry a year or two ago, brought to her really-impoverished husband $20,000,000 in American four-and-a-halfs. The Baroness Burdett-Ooutts-Bartlett has $20,000,000 of our. four-and-a-rhalfs, the Duke of Sutherland $5,000,000, and Sir Thomas Brassey $5,000,000.*

Theodore Parker and His Pupil.

In the life of Theodore Parker°a very beautiful incident one day occurred. It was before he was known to fame. He was only a teacher then, in Watertown, I think. He had among his scholars a little witch of a boy, whom no reproof and no persuasion cQuld induce to keep himself in order. One day, after his more than usually troublesome conduct, Mr. Parker required the little fellow to stay after school to be whipped. So the time had come for this last -resource # of the exhausted patience and skill of the teacher. According to directions, the little fellow held out his hand for punishment, as took it, Mr. Parker said, he looked down into the little face,and, as the boy looked so much like . his little sister, whose Conduct was all right' and who had won Mr. Parker’s love—he stayed the rod, and stooped down and kissed the innocent lips that were ready to break forth into crying and sent the pupil home. Is it probable that he was a worse boy after that? Somebody knows who tins boy was; man, if living now. I wish we “could learn from him the effect upon his life of that kiss of Mir. Parker’s.—Springfield Republican. A u betttbn of the cost of the British royal yachts shows that the average cost for maintenance of the yaoht Vicand Albert during the last teq years has been at the rate of $150,000 a year. The truly- wise man should have no keeper of,, his secret but himself.—< QuizoL

THE BAD BOY.

“I see your pa wheeling the baby around a good deal lately,” said the grocery mau to the bad boy, as he came w the store one evening to buy a stick of striped peppermint candy for tne baby, while ilia pa stopped the babywagon out on the sidewaix and waited for the boy, with an expression of resignation on his face. “vVhat’s got into your pa to be a anrse girl tms hot weather?'’ “Oh, we have had a circus at our house,” said the boy, as he came m after putting the candy in the baby’s hand. “You see, Uncle Ezra came back from Chicago, where he had been to jell some cheese, and he stopped over a couple of days with us, and he sard we must play one more joke on pa before he went home. We played it, anu it’s s wonder lam alive, because I never jaw pa so mad in all my life. Now this is the last time Igo into any jokes on jhares. If I play any more jokes I don’t want any old uncle in to give me a way.” “ What was it?” said the grocery man, as he took a stool and sat out by the front door beside the boy who was trying to eat a box of red raspberries on the sly. “Well, Uncle Ezra and me bribed the nurse-girl to dress the baby up one evening in some old, dirty baby clothes, belonging to our washwoman’s baby, and we put it in a basket, and placed the basket on the front door-step, and put a note in the basket and addressed it to pa. We had the nurse-girl stay oufr in front by the basement stairs, so the baby couldn’t get away, and she rung the bell and got behind something. Ma and pa and Uncle Ezra and me were in the back parlor when the bell rung, and ma told me to go to the door, and 1 brought in the basket and set it down, and told pa there was a note in it for him. Ma, she came up and looked at the note as pa tore it open, and Uncle Ezra looked in the basket and sighed. Pa read part of the note and stamped and turned pale and sat down, then ma read some of it, and she didn’t feel very well, and she leaned against the piano and grated her teeth. The note was in a girl’s handwriting, and was like this: Old Bald-headed Pet—You will have to take care of your child, because I cannot. Bring it up tenderly, and don’t, for Heaven’s sake, send it. to the founding asylum. I shall go drown myself. Your loving Almira. “What did your ma say ?” said v the grocery man, becoming interested. “Oh, ma played her part well. Uncle Ezra had told her tlie joke, and she said ‘retch,’ to pa, just as the aotresses do on the stage, and put her handkerchief to her eyes. Pa said it was ‘false,’ and Uncle Ezra said, ‘Olx, brother, that I should live to see this day,’ and I said, as I looked in the basket, ‘pa, it looks just like you, and I’ll leave it to ma.’ That was too much, and pa got mad in a minute. He always gets mad at me. But he went up and looked in the basket, and he said it was some Dutch baby, and was evidently from the lower strata of society, and the unnatural mother wanted to get rid of it, and he said he didn’t know any ‘Almira’ at all.* When he called it a Dutch baby, and called attention to its irregular features, that made ma mad, and she took it up out of the basket and told pa it was a perfect picture of him, and tried to put it in pa’s arms, but he wouldn’t have it, and said he would call the poliae and have it taken to the poor-house. Uncle Ezra took pa in the comer and told him the best thing he could do would be to see ‘Almira’ and compromise with her, and that made pa mad and he was going to hit Uncle Ezra with a chair. Pa was perfectly wild, and if he had a gun I guess he would have shot all of us. Ma took the baby upstairs and had the girl put it to bed, and after pa got mad enough Uncle Ezra told him it was all a joke, and it was his own baby, that we had put in the basket, and then he was madder than ever, and he told Uncle Ezra never to darken his door again. I don’t know how he made up with ma for calling it a Dutch baby from the Polack settlement, but anyway, he wheels it around every day, and ma and pa have got so they speak again.” “That was a mighty mean trick, and you ought to be ashamed of yourself. W here do yoq expect to fetch up when yon die?” said the grocery man. “I told Uncle Ezra it was a mean trick,” said the boy, “but he said that wasn’t a priming to some of the tricks pa had played on him years ago. He says pa used to play tricks on everybody. I may be mean, but I never played wicked jokes on blind people, as pa did when he was a boy. Uncle Ezra says once there was a party of four blind vocalists, all girls, gave an entertainment at the town where pa lived, and they stayed at the hotel where pa tended bar. Another thing, I never sold rum, either, as pa did. Well, before the blind vocalists went to bed pa caught a lot of frogs and put them in the beds where the girls were to sleep, and when the poor blind girls got into bed the frogs hopped all over them, and the way they got oat was a caution. It is bad enough to have frogs hopping all over girls that can see, but for girls that are deprived of their sight and don’t know what anything is, except by the feeling of it, it looks to me like a pretty tough joke. I guess pa is sorry now for what he did, ’cause when Uncle Ezra told the frog story I brought home a frog and put it in pa’s bed. Pa has been afraid of paralysis for years, and when his leg or anything { gets asleep he thinks that is the end of nim. Before bed time I turned the' conversation onto paralysis, and told about a man about pa’s age having it on the West Side, and pa was nervous, and soon after he retired I guess the

frog wanted to get Acquainted with pa, -’cause pa yelled six kinds of murder, and we went into his room. Yon know how cold a frog is ? Well, you’d a dide to see pa. He laid still, andsaid his end had come, and Unde Ezra asked him if it was the end with the bead on, or the feet, and pa' told him paralysis had marked him for a victim, and he could feel that his left leg was becoming dead. He said he could feel the cold, clammy hand of death,, walking up to him, and he wanted ma to put a bottle of hot water to his feet. Ma got the battle of hot water and put it to pa’s feet, and the cork came oat and pa said he was dead, sure enough, now, because he was hot in the extremities, and that a cold wave was going up his leg. Ma asked him where the cold wave was, and he told her, and she thought she would rub it, but she began to yell the same kind of murder pa did, aud said a snake had up her sleeve. Then I thought it was time to stop the circus, and I reached up ma’s sleeve and caught the frog by the leg and pulled it out, and told pa I guessed he had taken my frog to bed with him, and I showed it to him, and then he said 1 did it, and he would maul me so I could not get up alone, and he Baid a boy that would do suoh a thing would go to hell as sure as preachin’ and I asked him if he thought a man who put frogs in the beds with blind girls, when he was a boy, would get to heaven, and then he told me to Lite out, and I lit, I guess pa will feel better when Uncle Ezra goes Away, cause he thinks Uucle Ezra talks too much about old times. Well, here comes our baby-wagon, and I guess pa has done penance long enough, and I will go and wheel the kid awhile. Say, you call pa in, after I take the babywagon, and tell him you don’t know how he would get along without suoh a nice boy as me, and you can charge it in our next months’bill.”— Peck’tt Sun.

A Modern Jean Valjean.

The novelists are continually being out-done by the chroniclers of facts in throwing about life the rosy tints of romance. The story of George Avery is more remarkable than the fiction of Hugo. His variations of social condition have been very singular. In 1870 Avery was but 21 years of age, yet he was arrested for the murder of John Haynes, of Pike county, Pa., with the evidence conclusive against him. On the way to prison the officer who had him in charge drank so heavily that he became drunk. Avery took the key, unlocked the shackles, and drove on to town with the drunken officer, whom he put to bed in a hotel, and then proceeded to deliver himself up. He was held in jail for four months, when his case was put on trial. The testimony against him was overwhelming, yet, to the surprise of everyone, he was acquitted. The day following his discharge he was arrested for burglary. He was found guilty and sentenced to a term of two years in the penitentiary at Philadelphia. After being released he opened a law office, and caused the arrest, for perjury, of several citizens who had testified against him in the burglary case. He failed to prove the charge, the costs were put upon him, and, being unable to pay them, he was sent to jail. Again released, he returned to Rolands, his old home, where afterward burglaries became frequent though no evidence was obtained against Avery. Two years later he set np as a lawyer at Oil City. He secured a good business and was doing well whdn he was arrested for forgery, convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for five years. While in this confinement he fell in love with a 1 daughter of the Warden, who reciprocated his affection and offered to aid in his escape. He refmted to leave until his time expired. When he got out he returned to Rolands and soon after professed religion. He did some preaching, but after swindling a neighbor ont of SIOO, returned through the persuasive influence of a shot-gun, he went to Luzerne county lor a change of experience. There he did something that got him into the penitentiary. When freedom embraced him again he went to the mining regions of the West, opened a law office, and began speculating in stocks. Lajt year he “struck it rich,” making $750,000, which he invested in Government bonds. Then he sent for his sweet heart, the Warden’s daughter, wh< joined him in Chicago, where they wen married. He is now living a straight forward life in a Western State. He it 34 years of age, of excellent habits and declares he has been the victim ol circumstances. He says that when ht goes East again it will be as a United States Senator. —Chicago Inter Ocean.

Straw Lumber.

The somewhat-startling prophecy is hazarded that in the future lumber will be of stray instead of wood. Experiments already instituted show that it it make “wood” or its substitute from straw, of a tensile strength surpassing ordinary building woods. This material is capable of being carried through all the manipulation that wood is, aoes not shrink, takes a high polish, and is waterproof. In short it not only answers all the purposes of wood, but is vastly better than it. There are two waste substances which have never yet been made profitable to man; and these are coal-dust and wooddust, commonly called saw-dust. If any one can ntilize these and turn them into lumber or fuel, it will be a substantial advantage.— Mechanical Engineer. Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice, and yet evreybody is content to hoar.—John Selden.

CURRENT AFFAIRS.

Gossip About Passing Events in America and Europe. The Cholera, Bradlaugh’* Case, Irish Affairs, the Lotteries, Eto. Cholera Periods. That most dreadful of human scourges Astatic cholera, is surely making Its way westward, and it will in ad probability reach our shores by the summer of 1881, if not sooner. Some Interesting faots regarding the periodicity of this pestilence hove recently been published by a writer in the Detroit Pott and Tribunt, who has evidently given the subject considerable attention. 1 correspondent writes to him, saying: "I notice that the cholera is now raging in Egypt By the way, did it aver oocur to you that the cholera appears at exact intervals of seventeen yearn via :'1832,1840,1866,1888?” The correspondent omits, however, as is pointed out, the severe cholera epidemic of 1853 and the milder one of 1818. The cholera period, it has been proved beyond doubt, Is not seventeen years, but twelve yean Starting with the great epldemio of 1788, then fallowed the twelve-yearly return of it in 1768 and.l7Bo-81. It appeared again every twelve yean in Asia, ana three tunes twelve, or thirty-six yean afterward, came the terrible Indian epldemio of 1817. In twioe twelve yean from 1817 the cholera broke ont again in 184 L In 1806, twioe twelve years from 1841, the epldemio again broke out in Asia and reached America the next year. The yean hare given are those upon whioh the plague actually made Its appearanoe in its native home, not the yean upon which it reaehed America. Sometimes uta plague takes one year, sometimes three or four, to oomplete Its circuit of the globe. The question is often asked: "Cannot the plague be stopped or chocked?” It has naval been stopped or checked yet

British and French Halations. The statement as to the complications in Madagascar mads by Hr. Gladstone in the House of Commons, confirms the reports telegraphed some weeks ago, and bean out the opinions then expressed, that TAmand would not rest quietly under the insult offered by the representative of Francs in Ifadagasoar. > Madagascar, it should be remembered, la the third in size of the large islands of the world, and has an area five times as largo as that of Illinois. It has for many’years been the understanding among the European powers that the native authority in Madagascar be upheld, and that equal Commercial privileges be extended to aIL But for many years France has sought every pretext to extend her authority, and within the last few months has entered rn open hostilities, On the 80th of May French fleet bombarded Majungee, the largest seaport town on the west coast, and drove the natives from that aide toward the capital. On the 15th of June the natives occupied Tamative, on the east coast, the principal trade port of the island, and advanced on 1 ananarivo, the oapital. While these operations were being pushed in Madagascar the Malagassy Embassadors were negotiating with the French authorities at Paris. When the oapture of Tamative was announced negotiations were broken off, and England submitted inquiries, the answers to which may preoipltate wan The Bradlaugh Casa It is an Interesting question to Americans, and, indeed, to all believers in representative government, how long an English oonstltuenoywili submit peaceably to be disfranchised unjustly by Parliament, That the exclusion of Mr. Bradlaugh from the sate to which he has been repeatedly elected is aa unjust and arbrltrary abuse of power by tha majority in Parliament would seeip to be self-evident His constituency is olharfy entitled to representation, and they have a moral and legal right to choose their own representative. True, their oholoe is subject t^Mtiiauuagni been complied with. Mr. Bradlaugh, standiqg prepared to take the oustomary oath, and acknowledging that it would be binding oi his conscience, has aa absolute legal as wall aa moral right to a seat in the House That tha House should obstinately and repeatedly refuse him this right, and thus practically disfranchise his constituency, simply because its members dislike his opinions on religions subjects, is aa astonishing fact to Americans, and one whioh throws much light en English conservatism and English prejudices In no other free oountry would such an abuse of power be now borne pattentiy by the aggrieved parties, or tolerated by public opinion. The FaraeU Party Gaining Greuad. ' Now that we have a full account of the election fa County Monaghan, which resulted In the return es Mr. Healy to Parliament, we can estimate the bearing of the incident upon the prospects of the Parnell party In the next House of Commons If in a county where according to tradition and precedent the saltation against England should have met with Uttie encouragement, the Home Buie candidate can obtain a majority of 'nearly a 100 ever the combined vote of Us Conservative and liberal competitor, nothing apparently can hinder Mr. Parnell's friends from controlling about the threefourths of the Irlshdelegation In Parliament at the next general election la view of suoh accessions to the strength of the advanced Irish parte accessions which should enable it to extort from the imperial Legislature almost anything short of oomplete independence—lt is unreasonable to aay that nothing can ha gained for Ireland by constitutional agitation. Mr. Healy's election proves that simost every reform ooveted by Tri«h p a_ trtote may be speedily secured, provided (ha legitimate endeavors of honorable men are not thwarted by the advocates of assassination and explosion.

The Late Tom Thumb. The death of Gen, Tom Thumb is the loss of a notable factor In the world of rim flip - meht He had occasioned a great deal o t happiness, Innocent, if not of the highest 1 order. The mere sight of the little me* was enough to send a thrill of pleasure coursing through the beholder, and when he went through his simple programme* the ohildlen were delighted It la pleasant to think that a freak of dwarfiahneas could l be utilised so well for the public, and it iS also pleasant to know that the General haft< bla share of the benefits derived from hia littleness. With all his boyishness Tom waa a manly man. The death of the famous dwarf waa very Wdden He had lust ris£n from bed, and shortly after being left alone by his brotber-in law waa 1 heard to fall. Going to his room, he was found lying on the floor dead. He was burled at Bridgeport, Ot, where a largo oonoourse attended the funeral ceremonies .An Oshkosh paper said a man hoed up In his garden his wife’s wedding ring, which had been lost twenty-one yearn This was the Item that caused Farmer Farrow to remarks “Wal, Pd like ter know what the d ® u s'« that feller had planted in h s garden 'all that time. He most have been pootgr light on the hoe.*