Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1883 — Page 7

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. G. E. MARBHAT.L, - Pubusheb.

Several years ago a Maryland farmer and his wife granted the request of a traveling stranger, and gave him a night’s lodging. He told a story that interested them, and they allowed him to remain as their guest for several months. At last a cable message, which he had long said would come, was delivered, and he departed for Europe. He has lately sent his hostess and her husband. SIO,OOO. An angel does not often look like a tramp. A New Yorker had a fine watch cleaned and thoroughly repaired. A week later it stopped. He then interviewed about twenty jewelers. He learned from them that it had a broken mainspring, was dirty, had broken jewels, a cog-wheel was gone, he had dropped it, it had broken pinions, etc. Thoroughly disgusted, he took it to t?ie jeweler who had warranted it for a year, and learned that it was in perfect order, but that he had forgotten to wind it the night before. The watermelon trade is growing into immense proportions. An estimate, which seems to have been made with considerable pains, says that the number of melons raised in Georgia this season was not far from 6,500,000. About 1,200,000 were eaten in Georgia, made into syrup, opened for the seeds, Or left on the vines. Three acres of land produce two car loads. There are about 1,200 melons in a car load. The cost of raising a car load is not far from sl4, and that of gathering and loadiog is sls. The average net profit is about $45 to the car load. The total profit on the Georgia crop this season was nearly a quarter of a million dollars. A certain Postmaster has written to the Postoffice Department as follows: “I desire to know whether, in case a suspected horse-thief, whose mail is accumulating in this office, shall write to me to forward it to him at another office, I will be justified in disclosing his address.” Judge Freeman, Assistant Attorney Generar for the Department, is of the opihion that even in such a case as this a Postmaster must respect the confidential relations between himself as an official and the patrons of his office, and must refuse to disclose any private information received by him in his official capacity. Efforts were made for a long time in Germany to direct the course of emigration from that country toward Brazil, where a fertile soil, a healthful climate, a friendly Government, and gifts of land were promised to Teuton settlers. Many German colonies were induced by these representations to locate themselves within the Brazilian domain; but they have failed wretchedly, and in almost every instance the story of their collapse has been one of sickness, death, and general Aisery. The history of these attempts at German colonization is now giviyi in a connected form in a series of articles originally printed in the Allegemeine Deutsche Zeitung for Brazil, and now republished in pamphlet form in Vienna, with comments by t«B Austrian ConsulGeneral at Rio. The narrative that they furnish will prove sufficient to deter German emigration to Brazil for ' many-yesqrprtogjcmne.

Mr. W. W. Taylor, English millionaire, on landing at New York, had his pocket picked of $30,000 in drafts. Drives to Fifth Avenue Hotel, informs the clerk he has lost $30,000 and desires an officer. Detective Pryor arrives. Mr. Taylor can’t recollect name of bank ih New York drafts are drawn on. Detective Pryor begins to think him a fraud. Mr. Taylor sends to the office for bis other little bag. It is full of money. Detective Pryor is amazed, both at the coolness and cai’elessness of this Englishman of money. He eventually recovers Mr. Taylor’s lost $30,000. Taken from his pocket by a man whose professional name is "Albany.” Albany induced to give up the wallet. Albany is very mad when told that payment on the Englishman’s draits could not be stopped as he had forgotten the name oft the bank they were drawn on. He howlied, threw his hat on the street and stamped on it. South America is going to work in earnest to increase the production of quinine. President Barrios has brought over a great planter, Forsyth, from Ceylon, to manage the enterpise, who has already ridden over 1,000 miles to select good sites, and arranged for the planting of 5,000,000 cinchona trees. It is intended to try the experiment both in South America and Mexico. An English authority states that the Culture of the cinchona has been so r profitable to the British Government in India that in the three years since the trees were first set out the original investment of $750,000 has butthe trees have value of

$5,000,000. Has the experiment ever been tried in Florida? We see no reason why it should not succeed in the damp glades of the interior of that State, as they possess the twb requisites of an almost tropical climate and a heavy rainfall. , Philadelphia Press: The public domain is being taken up by settlers at a rate which will soon exhaust it. The number of homestead timber-culture entries and cadi sales for the year ending June 30, 1863, were 43,591 in Dakota, Kansas. Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The entries for the same States and Territories in 1882 were 29,086. In Dakota alone 3,267,227 acres were taken up last year. This evidently cannot be continued many years in succession. There will soon be no desirable land left in Dakota. The only other fertile and promising territory is Washington, which is also having a boom, and will have a greater one with the completion of the Northern Pacific Vast quantities of valuable agricultural and tjmber lands remain unclaimed in the Southern States. Texas is rapidly filling up, and, as the North ceases to attract immigration by the gradual occupation of its best band, the restless spirits always looking for cheap land and virgin soil will be drawn irresistibly southward. Mormonism still has the upper hand in Utah, and the Salt Lake Tribune is still calling on the Federal Government to quit fooling and do something. Its latest exhortation was couched as follows: “If it is the office of a Government to govern, and if it is proper for a Government to enforce its laws, why not do it? The law of 1862 having been nullified, and the law of 1882 having been nullified, let sterner measures be resorted to. Let us have the Legislative Commission, and if that fails let us have martial law. It is folly to say that polygamy can’t be stopped while the Government has not as yet made a serious effort to do it. What is the sense of exercising ourselves in word-play over quibbles? Qf what avail is good reasoning, or word-fencing, about incidents in presence of the great question. Shall the Government govern? Here are two great forces advancing steadily to a final clash, each gathering momentum with every rolling sun, in full view of which the Government potters and the editors and socalled statesmen quibble and wrangle. It is time to move. the previous question: Will the Government govern?” The astonishment with which the world will receive the intelligence that a blacksmith keeps a set of books, and that Jay Gould served his apprenticeship in bookkeeping “where the village smithy stands,” will be overshadowed by the surprise crea'ed at his own admission that he once actually got down on his marrow-bones and prayed. But then that was a great many years ago, and the glib narrator, who is above such little weaknesses now, deprecatingly characterized it as a “silly lot of stuff.” .Rising from his knees, he made up his3g»nd to go ahead, and in due time “go? ahead” so fast that he bought , out one partner and the other committed suicide. Among the interesting tehnicalities of modern railroad operating or railroad financiering which Mr. Gould neglected to explain, were the alternate processes of “skinning the road” and “doubling the though there- are faint „ gleams that he»had “caught on” as early as 1857, when, as he told the Senate Committee, he bought up Rutland and Washington at 10 cents on the dollar, became President, Treasurer and General Superintendent, “and—got out when it was consolidated with the Rensselaer and Saratoga. Even at the age of 21 or thereabouts Mr. Gould was no chicken.

George Eliot’s Creed.

I remember how at Cambridge I walked with her once in the Fellows’ Garden of Trinity, on an evening of rainy May, and she, stirred somewhat beyond her wont, and taking as her text the three words which have beep used so often as the/aspiring trumpet calls of men—the words God, immortality, duty—pronounced with terrible earnestness how inconceivable was the first, how unbelievable the second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third. Never, perhaps, have sternei accents affirmed the sovereignty of impersonal and unrecompensing law. I listened, and night fell;" her grave, majestic countenance turned toward me like Sybil’s in the gloom ; it was as though she withdrew from my grasp, one by one, the two scrolls of promise and left me the third only, awful with inevitable fates. And when we stood at length and parted, amid the colum nar circuit of the forest trees, beneath the last twilight of starless skies, I seemed to be gazing, like Titus at Jerusalem, on the vacant state and empty halls—on a sanctuary with no presence to hallow it, and heaven left lonely of a God.—Mi/ey’s Essays. Every great example of punishments has in it some justice; the suffering i individual is compensated by the public good. ' >■ ——> —.-yl ■■■■*< The prodigal • robs his heir; the miser robs himself. The*xniddle way 13, justice to ourselves and others.— Bruyere. . •.

THE BAD HOY.

“Say, you think of about everything mean that is going, don’t yon?” said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he came in to show that his black eye had been cured. “The minister explained to me yesterday how you caused him and your father to lay and soak in the water for about three hours, one hot day last summer, in the lake, and they both blistered their backs. The minister says the skin has not stopped peeling off his shoulders yet. What caused you to play such a mean trick on them ?” “Oh, it was their own fault,” said the boy, as he looked with disdain on a watermelon that was out of season, and had no charm in October. “You see, the night the sociable was at our house, the minister and some of the deacons were up in my room, which they used that night for a smoking-room, and while they were smoking they were telling stories about what fun they had when they were boys, and I remember one story the minister told about finding some girls in swimming once, and stealing their clothes, and making them wait till night, and then a girl had to fix herself up with newspapers and go home and send a wagon after the rest of the girls. The minister thought it was awful cunning, so when the church had the picnic last summer on the bank of the lake I remembered about it. Beats all, don’t it, how a boy wall remember anything like that ? Well, after dinner I saw pa whisper to the minister, and they took a couple of towels and a piece of soap and started off up the lake about half a mile, and I knew they were going in swimming. Well, it didn’t take me very long to catch on. I got an overdress that one of the girls had been wearing to wash dishes, and a shawl, and stole a, hat blogging to the soprano of the choir, anda red parasol that a girl left under a tree, and I went down in the woods and put on the clothes, over my pants and things, and when pa and the minister had got in the water and were swimming around, I put up the parasol and tripped along the shore like a girl picking flowers, and when I came to the stump where they had put their clothes I didn’t look toward the water, but acted tired, and sat down on the stump and began to fan myself. You’d a dide to see pa look. He crawled up on the beach, in the shallow water, and said, ‘Elder, do you sen that?’ The elder looked, with hisself all under water except his head, and said, ‘ Merciful goodness! Squire, we are in for it. That interesting female is going to sit there and read a novel through before she goes away.’ I peeked through the fan and could hear all they said, while I pretended to re d a novel. They swam around, and made a noise, but I was deaf, and I thought it wasn’t any worse ior me to sit on the stump than “it? was for the minister, when he was a good little boy, to steal the clothes of the girls. I stayed until I got tired, and didn’t hear them when they hollered to me to go away, and after awhile they got watersoaked, and had to do something,-so the minister broke off a piece of a tree and dressed himself in it, and came toward me, and said: ‘Madam, excuse me for troubling you, but if you will go away while I get my clothes, I will take it as a favor.’ I pretended to be insulted, and got up and walked off very indignant, and went back to the picnic and returned the clothes, and pretty soon they came up, looking as red as if they had been drinking, and the picnic was ready to gb home. Somebody told pa it was me, but I don’t know who it was who gave it away. Anyway, he chased me clear out out of the woods with a piece of sapling. That was the time I told you I was too tired to ride, and walked home from the picnic. Pa has forgiven me, but I don’t believe the “minister ever will. Don’t you think some of these pious folks are awful unforgivin’ ?” “Oh, people are not all so good as you and I are!” said the gfbeery man, as he watched the boy making a sneak ,on a bunch of grapes. “But did you go to the circus?”

“Circus! Will, I should assimilate. And it is a wonder I am not there yet. But whatever you do, don’t ask pa if he was at the cirnus, will kill you. You see pa and I drove up to the race-track, where the circwrwSs, in the. evening, and after the circus was out we waited to see the men take the tents down, and after they had gone we started to drive home. It was darker than a squaw’s pocket, and I drove out on the race-track, and the old horse used to be a racer and he picked up his ears. Pa tooK the lines and said he would drive, ’cause we were out pretty late, and ma would be nervous. I told pa I didn’t believe he was on the right road, but he said he guessed nobody could fool him about the road to town, and bless me if he didn't drive around that track about eight times! Every time we passed the grand stand, which pa couldn’t see, on account of his eyes, I laughed; but I thought if he knew the road so confounded well 1 could ride as long as he could. After we had rode around the track about eight miles and I was getting sleepy, I mildly suggested that maybe we had better stop at a house and inquire the way to town, and pa got mad and asked me if I took him for a fool. Then he drove around a couple of times more, and the man that keeps the track he came out with a lantern and said ‘hello!’ Pa stopped and asked him what he wanted, and he said, ‘Oh, nothin’,’ and pa drove on and told him to mind his business. We went around the track again, and when we got to the same place the man was there, and I guess pa thought it was time to inquire the way, so he pulled up and asked the man what he was doing there, and the man said he wjb minding his own business. Pa asked him if we were on the right road to town; apd the man said if we wasn’t in any hurry he would like to have us drive on the track all night, as it was a little heavy, and he wanted to get it in condition to speed the colts the next day, but if we had to go we could drive out the gate and take the first left-hand road. Well, pa was mad, and he wanted to know why I didn’t . tell him we were on the track, but I told him he seemed to know it all, and it was dangerous to advise a man who knew it aIL He didn’t speak all the

way to town, but when we put out the horse he said: ‘Hennery, if this thing gets out your pa will have the reputation of being <|mnk. If you tell of'it you are no friend of mine.’ So I shall not say anything about it,’cause it is a mean boy that will go back on his pa. ” And the boy went out whistling ? She’s a Daisy. ” — Peck’s Sun

Triumph of Surgery.

Modern surgery is able to provide a man with a new nose, new lips, new eyelids,and an artificial throat. It can do more; it can, liy the process known as skin grafting, provide him with a new skin. The following description of the process is reported by an Englishsurgeon: “The patient, a pretty little girl of 8, was admitted into St. George’s hospital. Two years 8 r had caught fire, burning both legs from the hips to the kdees severely. “After a year’s treatment the left thigh had healed up; but the right one had never got better, and presented a terrible ulcer, extending all down the outer side. , “For four months she lay there without any signs of imnrovement. On the sth of May, the child was brought into the operating theater, and placed under the influence of chloroform. “Two small pieces of skin were snipped from the back with a pair of sharppointed scissors, and imbedded—planted, in fact—in the granulations or ‘proud-flesh’ of the wound —two tiny atoms, scarcely lugger than a pin’s head, and consisting of a little mpre than the cuticle or outer skin which we raise in blisters by rowing or exposure to a hot sun. “Five days later, no change was visible ; andJby-and-by the operation was considered to have failed, since the pieces of skin had disappeared, instead of growing as had been expected. “But twelve days after the operation, two little white cicatrices appeared where the seed had been sown ; and in my notes I find that a week later these were big enough to be dignified as ‘islands of new issue.’ “The most wonderful, part of it was that, not only did these islands grow and increase rapidly in circumference, but the fact of their presence seemed to stimulate the ulcer itself, which took on a healing action around its margin. “Several more grafts were implanted subsequently, including morsels from M. Pollock’s aim, from my own, aiid from the shoulders of a negro; the last producing a whit j scar-tissue like the rest. In two months the wound was healed, 1 and the Iktle patient was discharged cure d. ” ■ —■— No science has made more rapid progress during the last century than surgery. The skillful surgeon is becoming one oi the best friends of mankind.

The Chair of Slate in Westminster Abbey.

Many things were strange to me in this Pantheon of Britain, where each loyal Englishman covets a place, but the strangest sight was the Queen’s chair, used only on coronation days in that ceremonial of utmost pomp and splendor. I had supposed the chair of state, which took part in the most splendid pageant of the proudest city on the face of the earty, was of ivory and precious stones, cloth of gold, jeweled and dazzling to the sight. But no, as the the ancestors of the Empress of India, so sits she. This old arm chair is of carved oak, almost black, very dirty and dilapidated. Part of the carven back is broken off, the remainder serbbled over; the velvet covering, if velvet it was, is worn down to the ragged foundation. The arms thereof are covered with dirt, as if greasy fingers had been wiped on them. Perhaps they are regal finger-prints, and the divinity which doth hedge a king forbids covering them with the work of plebeian hands. On its own merits it would hardly bring $lO in a furniture shop, unless some crazy hunter of antique bric-a-brac should take an insane liking to the four badly-carved lions which support the heavy seat. The historic chair holds associations more precious than gold, than much fine gold; phantoms from out the stillness of the past flit before us as we stand beside the time-worn, dusty relic. Long lines of Kings “come like shadows, so depart in this chairwery English sovereign from Edward L—second founder of the Abbey, who lies in its center (1065) —to the time of Victoria (1837) has been inaugurated and enthroned. Edward I. originally intended the seat of the chair should be of bronze; but afterward had it adapted to the Stone of Scone, on which the Scottish Kings were crowned, which is imbedded in the Plantagenet oak. It was his latest care for the Abbey, and'brings to the place a mythic charm with its many legends and varied traditions. They veil the nakedness and shabbiness of the antique seat with such grace that we begin to comprehend why it is allowed to remain unaltered in the alterations of many centuries.—lndependent.

A Rising Country.

The Puget Sound region of Washington Territory—and that means an area larger than the State Massachusetts—is destined to do and see great things in the near future. It has i» wealth of the finest lumber which finds a market even in the Orient, great agricultural resources, coal and iron, excellent bar-, bus, ready connection with Poit* land and the East, and a broad and deep, outlet, in the Fnca straits, to. the Pacific ocean. And then it has a mild c’imate and a “live” class of people, a fair sample of whom are those who are building up, as if by magic, the cities of Seattle and Tacoma, on the banks of the sound. Seattle is already a solid town, with all the modern improvements, and has a budling, ambitious, public-spirited population of nearly 10,000. Either Seattle or Tacdtna— thev are thirty-five miles apart —-will be the great Puget sound metropolis of the future, and Oregon’s now substantial and lively city of Portland will have to look out for a jwwerfill competitor in trade, manufacture and general prosperity! Ex-Gov. Shuman, in Chicago Journal*. , • The latest improvement in bulls is educating them to work a tread-mill.

WAR SCENES RECALLED.

Reunion of the Army of the Tennessee at Cleveland. The Old Commander-in-Chief in Eis Glory. [Cleveland Telegram.]' .. The Society.of the Army of the Tennessee has been holding its sixteenth annual reunion here. There was a large attendance. The business meeting -was held at the Ontario tabernacle, and was called tQ order by Gen. Sherman, who expressed the deepest gratitude to the society for postponing the reunion from Oct. 4 to the present date on his account. Letters of regret were read from Gens. Hancock. Crook, Prior, Harrison and others. A committee reported that satisfactory arrangements had not yet been completed for holding the next meeting at the Yellowstone park, und the matter was recommitted. A motion to wear uniforms at the reunions and badges at all times was defeated by a decisive.vote. In reading an invitation to meet at Cincinnati next week with the Army of the Cumberland, Gen. Sherman referred to the two societies as the Siamese twins. In the afternoon the members went to Lake View cemetery, where they visited Garfield’s tomb." Gen. Grant is expected to arrive to-morr6w. In the evening a great crowd assembled at Euclid Avenue opera-house, which was elaborately decorated with flags and shields showing the many battles in which the army took part. At the front of the stage was a portrait of Gen. McPherson, wreathed with laurel and immortelles, and draped with a flag. At 8:30 the reveille was sounded behind the scenes, after which the curtain was raised, disclosing seated on the stage Gens. Sherman, Fallows, Leggett, Logan, Poe, Fairchild, Belknap, Hickenlooper, Noyes’, Strong, Force and Fuller, and Govs. Foster, Fairchild and others. Miss Dora Henninges sang the "Star-Spangled Banner,” the Arion quartette joining in the chorus. They also sang ‘Tenting To-Night on the Old Camp Ground.” Gen Sherman then announced the order of exercises, and presented the Kev. Capt. John Mitchell, who offered prayer. Gov. Foster welcomed the society to the State, saying that both victorsand vanquished in the late war now follow the same flag, and are both ready at the drop of the hat to fight together for that flag against the whole world if need be. Mayor Farley next formally welcomed the society to the city. Gen. Sherman responded to the addresses, and was about to sit down, amid vociferous applause, when a huge camp-kettle in flowprs was presented to him, and the cheering was renewed. When he could be heard, he turned to those on the stage, remarking: “I suppose we must keep the pot boiling.” He then presented Miss Alice Mitchell, of Chicago, who sang “The Battle Hymn of the Kepublic,” assisted in chorus by the Arions. Bishop Fallows, of Chicago, was introduced, as the orator of the evening, Gen. Sherman remarking that “He is a General, he is a Bishop; you can take your choice of titles. I know he was brave and gallant in war; he is eloquent in peace.”

Bishop Fallows began his address by giving a vivid description of the battle of Corinth, a battle in which the most splendid heroism was displayed by the soldiers of the North and the soldiers of the South. The reverend gentleman did not express a very warm admiration for Jeff Davis. He said: “A gentleman very prominent in ‘the late unpleasantness’ has been endeavoring to play the part of ghostraiser—Mr. Jefferson Davis. He has been as unsuccessful in his combat with that illustrious, intelligent gladiator and uncompromising friendof 4he Union, Judge Jere S. Black, as he was with the armies of the United States. It is one of the most marvelous exhibitions of the magnanimity and assured Strength and position of a mighty nation that It—permits—the leader of the great Confederate movement, which convulsed the continent and shook the earth, to write a book in two volumes on ‘The History of the Confederacy,’ and enjoy the profits of the sale—that it allows him to reopen the questions which lead to our civil war, and to attempt to prove, in spite of the logic of reason and of the logic of events, that South Carolina, in the position it assumed before the war, was all right, and the Government all wrong. When we remember that regiments, brigades, divisions, and whole army corps once marched along singing, “We’ll Hang Jeff Davis to a Sour Apple Tree,” and that the only reason why the sentiment of the song was not put into execution was the sheer inability, as things then were, to make the connection between the tree and the subject of the song. Mr. Davis must certainly share in the feelings of the pious old woman who, whenever she heard of any one who had felt the halter draw, was wont to exclaim most earnestly, ‘What a mercy • I’m still alive.’” After a lengthy yet eloquent discourse on the events since the war, and present friendly feeling between North and South, he closed amid much applause. The regular programme was thus completed, and Gen. Sherman announced that it would be in order to call upon those upon the stage to make short, pithy remarks. Gen. John A. Logan was first called out, afterward Gen. Belknap, Gen. Noyes, Gov. Fairchild, Gen. Leggett, Gov. Fletcher, and Gen. Force. The following officers were elected: President, Gen. William T. Sherman; Vice Presidents, Col. William B. Leach, Gen. Madison Miller, Col. H. L. Barnum, Capt. William S. Bums, Col. H. S. Hntchinson, Col. H. T. Noble, Maj. J, H. Plunket, Col. William H. Gibbon, Col. John McFall, Maj. John J. Safely, Capt. J. D. McFarland. Maj. William C. Clayton: Recording Secretary, Col. L. M. Dayton; Corresponding Secretary. Gen. A. Hwkenhx>pefv l 4keaiw)rcr,Ahm. M. F. Borce. Gbn. Grant was elected Orator for next year, amid prolonged, fervent applause. It was voted to hold next year’s reunion on Aug. 15 and 16, at Lake Minnetonka, Minn., with headquarters at Ho-tel Lafayette. After the business session it is proposed to make an excursion to Yellowstone park. The following were appointed a committee to arrange for it: Gens. Pope. Strong. Sanborn, Logan. Raymond and Sprague, Col. Everest and Lieut. Andrews. It was resolved that the wives and daughters of members shall hereafter be admitted to banquets of the society. A telegram of condolence was sent to the family of Gen. Steednfan, and a hearty greeting to the ex-prisoners of war assembled at Decatur. The reunion closed with a grand banquet at the skating-rink, Gen. Sherman officiating as master of ceremonies.

OTHER REUNIONS.

About 200 ex-prisoners of war gathe*» 1 at Decatur, 111., where many of them re alcd their experiences. Addros -es of, welcome were made by Judge Nelso > and Gov. Hamilton. Addresses were il’-o delivered by Gen. R. J. Oglesby »i>l Congressman Rowett. Mrs. Martha . Burdick read a poem prepared for the occasion. Gen. Oglesby declared for a pension for every man who had suffered in Confederate prisons. It was resolved to ask of Congress a half pension for those who were in captivity from two to six months; three-fourths pension for those imprisoned from six to twelve months, a full-pension for all who suffered loss of liberty for one year or more, besides $2 for each day's confinement. There was a big reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic at Goshen, Ind. Not less than 10,000 people were in attendance. One of the features of the day was a broom brigade from Kendalville. composed of ladies; The sham battle was brilliantly executed.

MERE MENTION.

The Mississippi river is very low and cannot leave its bed. Is some parts of <e South brickmakers are getting st> a day. A string of pearls is the fashionable fulldress necklace for young ladies. Atlanta, Ga, is moving for a permanent art and industrial exhibition building. The Lee Association, of Mobile, ask far for a monument to Raphael Seinmep. San Francisco is trying to prevent the * landing of lepersfrom the Sandwich isUuda

A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

Commemorating the Disbandment of the Victorious Revolutionary Armies. Thousands of People Unite in the Ceremonies at Newburg, N. Y. Fifty thousand people attended the celebration at Newburg, N. Y., of the anniversary of' Washington's farArell to his army. The streets were gayly decorated, and the procession was four miles in length. Senator Bayard, of Delaware, was President of the day, and ex-Secretary Evarts was orator, both gentlemen delivering eloquent addresses,’ the first speaker sketching the scenes of Revolutionary times, and Mr. Evarts eulogizing Washington as the patriot, soldier and statesman. Pyrotechnics and social reunions closed the events of the day. A correspondent at Newburg furnishes the following account of the ceremonies: The day was one of the loveliest imaginable. The sun shone brightly, and the temperature was all that could have been asked. The confidence of the people in the glorious sunshine of the 18th of October has had its vindication. During the preparations for this centennial celebration of Washington disbanding and taking leave of his victorious army, all questions about possible rain were met with the answer that for the past ten years the 18th of October had been clear arid bright, and that a benediction of sunshine was expected. Great crowds of people arrived by boats and trains last night and thronged the down-town streets. Many persons could not find lodgings, so crowded were the hotels and dwellings.of the city and towns roundabout. A torchlight procession, firemen's displays, fireworks and much enthusiasm were the preparations last night for to-day. The bay was illuminated by electric lights along the river front, and a large number of vessels, including yachts, steamboats and Ltaited States war ships, riding at anchor, made a picturesque scene. Brass bands and the hfe and drum seemed not to be still during the night. Mayor Ward'held a reception In honor of the distinguished guests, At sunrise to-day five navy vessels fired salutes, which were responded to from shore by cannon planted at Washington’s headquarters and elsewhere on both sides of the river, and by the ringing of all the church bells. There were immense throngs of people on, the streets. One train on the West Shore railroad arrived in four sections with 1,500 passengers. One Erie train, with two engines, had nineteen cars packed with people, and the platforms -were, also crowded. The New York Central and local roads were also, pouring into town masses of people. Farmers’ families wefe coming In all sorts of vehicles, and farm hands were along afoot. The lawn nt Washington's headquarters was thronged long before the hour of beginning the expreises. Two hundred New York policemen j-.ided the local force in preserving qrder. The City never presented so fine a display. Flags floated everywhere, and there was an unclouded sky.

At noon scores of steamboats arrived, bringing military and excursion parties. ’The Seventh regiment, of New York, with thtf veteran corps, arrived by special train. The |Twenty-thffd and Thirteenth Brooklyn regiments arrived on the steamers Grand Republic and Columbia. Owing to the late arrival pt the State, troops, the parade was not even forming at the time appointed for the march. The Putnam Phalanx was a notable body, pnd looked as if a band of “old Put's” toldiers had come again upon earth with their uniform, step, and tactics of Revolutionary days. * Although at 12:30 there was no appearance of the parade, the scene around the reviewing stand was inspiring. . Spectators crowded every vantage spot and enthusiastically cheered the various organizations on their marches to the rendezvous. The court-house was decorated with the national flags, streamers and bunting, and the residences on the opposite side of the street bear the arms of Massachusetts and Virginia. Gov. Cleveland and staff arrived from Albany on the West Shore train at 10:30. The train bad eighteen coaches crowded with passengers. President Arthur sent a letter of regret. Ex-Senator Conkling was also invited, but could not come. The procession started at 12:15, an hour and a quarter late. The Governors and their staffs, the Generals and their staffs, and the marines, . soldiers and favorite troops of the State made an imposing display, while joined with these were the visiting troops of veterans, civic societies, etc., which made the pfdce?siqn four miles long. It marched in .five divisions, with five bands of music in each division. The line yas much crowded with people, who applauded enthusiastically. The windows and steps everywhere were filled with ladies, who clapped their hands or waved their handkerchiefs as the troops marched past. As the head of the procession reached the grand stand, there was great enthusiasm among the people. The Governors of the different States, Senator Bayard, the chaplain, orator, poet and others, who had special parts assigned them in the exercises, wheeled from the ranks to the receiving stand. The ‘‘march past” took place to enlivening music, and the parade was dismissed. The people then hastened to'the lawn in front of Washington’s headquarters, where the -exercises took plage. -After .the introductory overture by the fine band of tbeSev* enth regiment. Mayor Ward called the assemblage to order, and Dr. 8. Iranaeus Prime offered prayer. The “Te Deum," for 500 voices and the band followed, and then Senator Bayard was introduced as the President of the celebration exercises. The Senator delivered an eloquent address and was frequently applauded. “Hail Columbia” by the nluwn« pnrl hand, an original poem by Wallace Bruce, and a grand chorus, “No King but God,” followed. Senator Baj ard then presented the orator of the day, the Hon. Wm. M. Evarts,* who received a most cordial welcome, and delivered an oration with “ Washington” for his inspiration, which was much appreciated by the multitude of hearers. The hallelujah chorus was given after the oration, and Bishop Coxe pronounced the benediction. The great crowd then scattered to a march by the band. The ;>eople enjoyed themselves in their own way throughout the afternoon. In the evening there was a fine pyrotechnic display. Salutes were fired and ships were dressed, and there were many social reunions. - 1

ALL SORTS.

Frank Carpenter, of Sodus, Jf. Y, recently pared sixty-five bushels of apples in nine hours. It is said that the two unfinished tunnels on the Northern Pacific road will e'tl $lO - 000.100. Lord Coleridge's salary is $40,C00 a years while the Chief Justice of the United States, receives SIO,OOO. The agent of the Cleveland Humane Society found a family of eight persons living in a chicken-coop. • Fashionable young ladies should not forget that Goliath died from the effect o. a bang on his forehead. A well-to-do maiden ladv in Patten, Me., worked out her town tax this summer with rake and hoe on the road. Me. Francis F. Fargo, of Buffalo, N. Y., claims to have raised a sunflower this year fifty-two inches in circumference. Sitting Bull is reported to be very trick. It will be remembered that several Senators made; speeches to Sitting Bull a few weeks «*° ' ■ Miss Ella Hmt,ahandsome girl of Sey mour, Ct, killed herself with a shot-gun because her stejwno’ her made her wear a dress which had been rumbed in a shiwer. i Some land in the city of London was lately 1 sold at the rate of S^3OO,WJ an acre ■ e- , -