Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1884 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER. INDIANA, a t IftMHALL, - - ' Ptrauma.

THE HEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. A WELL *f natural gas, of eight thousand horse power, was struck in Pittsburgh at a depth of 15,000 feet The financial situation does not improve sufficiently fast to allay serious apprehensions, says a New York dispatch of May 24. It is said that the Bank of Montreal has recently poured into Wall street $8,000,000 in gold. A syndicate has taken from Fisk A Hatch all their Government bonds, which must prove a measure of great relief to the banks. James 11, Keene has offered his creditors notes payable in twelve and eighteen months. The common stocks of" only five railways on the list stand above par, and of late the greatest depreciation is m dividend-payers. The stock market is again demoralized. Burlington, in the-face of a quarterly dividend, closed at 111. Lake Shore was driven to 83J. Erie secondmortgage bonds fell from 61J to 55J. Northwestern common closed at 96§, and St. Paul at 67 J. Delaware and Hudson was hammered from 95 to 88J, and Lackawanna from 106 to 978- Pullman closed at 99. At Savannah, New York, an express and a passenger train came into collision on the New York, West Shore and Buffalo Bailroad, killing four men outright and seriously injuring nine others. The accident was Speed by the carelessness of the engineer the express train, it is thought. One of the injured will probably die of his wounds. ... .Brabender, President of the broken savings bank at Erie, Pennsylvania, was taken to jail, at his own request, for protection against mob violence.... A verdict of SIO,OOO was obtained against the Brooklyn Oity Bailwav Company, for running OTer a child and cutting off a limb... .James Keene’s liabilities are now estimated at about $176,000.

THE WEST. In the City Hospital at Kansas City Durfus‘Weaver, a maniac, after attacking two patients and Steward Winfrey with a knife and. attempting to bum the structure, was shqt dead by the steward... .Henry Dillon, of Akron, Ohio, desires to find his children, who were carried away by their mother. He has recently inherited a large fortune in California. A detective of Kansas City states that A. H. Sheldon, formerly President of the Bine Spring Milling Company, with $50,000 in his possession, employed two detectives to arrest him and conduct him to a train, where, assuming a complete disguise, he left for Now York and sailed for England. The story of his abduction at the instance of his partner is said to be false William Marshall, an advance agent in the United States army, who enlisted in 1823, recently died at Fort Mackinac, after thirty-six years of continuous service at that post. When the New York express from Chicago reached Jackson, Mich., the other night, three men informed the passengers in the rear coach that they must move into the next ear; and as the travelers passed out

on the platform they were relieved of all their valuables by the men. The robbery was bo skillfully effeoted that the train moved ®ff before the amazed victims cenld give an alarm.... Daniel McCamley, an 18-year-old youth, who was born in Rhode Island, was a witness in a Justice Court at Dubuque, lowa. In reply to questions he said he did not know the nature of an oath, had never been to a Sunday-school, could not read or write, had never heard of God, and believed that Andrew Jackson was President of the United States.... A 6-year-old girl, the daughter of William Dyke, living near Hillsdale, Mich., was murdered near that place. David Stone, a half-witted uncle of the girl, was arrested for the crime.... A new species of worm is said to be ravaging the cornfields of McLean County, Dlinoi9. It is about an inch long, of yellowish color, and of the diameter of a pin.... Keports of the condition of the grain crops in Illinois, lowa, Minnesota, and Dakota continue to be very favorable... .The Nebraska Diocese of the P. E. Church elected Dr. Worthington, of Detroit, Mich., Bishop, as successor to Dr. Clarkson.

A HORBYIFYING tragedy was enacted at St. Louis. At an early hour in the morning Mrs. Alexander Edmont entered her husband's room, where she procured a razor, and, returning to her own room, deliberately cut the throats of her 3-months-old baby and 4-year-old daughter. Passing to another room she tried to cut the throat of a third child, a 6-year-old girl. The screams of the child awakened the woman’s husband. While he was dressing . the wounds of his child his wife attempted to cut her own throat, inflicting a dangerous and probably fetal wound. Mrs Edmont was no doubt insane r-when she committed the terrible deetfe. .She had been an inmate of a lunatic asylum, but it was thought that she had been permanently cured George Aiylerson, an aged farmer, of Bowling Green, Ohio, was beaten to death with a hickory cane by his insane wife, who has twioe been confined in an asylum. ... .Jack Hanley has been convicted of prize-fighting in Saunders County * Neb., and will serve a term in the penitentiary. ... .The State Veterinary Surgeon- of Kansas, after a protracted tour, reports glanders prevailing among horses in fifteen counties. f There boilers in the sash factory of Carr, Byder & Wheeler, at Dubnqne exploded the other day, killing five persons and seriously wounding several others. The engineer is said to have been running with butlittle water.

THE SOUTH. Ellett, Dewey & Co., wholesale dry goods, Richmond, Va., have failed for $200,000. ) r i Thomas H. 6mith, an age d merchant of Baltimore, has been expelled from the Christian Church for taking a dollar from the contribution bncket He explains that on his rounds as a deacon he changed a bill for a lady and thoughtlessly retained it Heavy rains in the river districts of Louisiana have badly damaged the crops. . Planters and business-men arc much discouraged. WAMIinOTOn. Some of the Democratic Congressmen predict that Congress will adjourn about the middle of Jane. Nearly till are of

opinion that it will adjourn before the meeting of the National Democratic Convcntion. Much will depend on the action of the Senate ih the matter of the appropriation bills. ‘ The » House Committee oil, Agriculture lhas decided to report adversely a resolution appropriating $25,000 for the purchase ot seeds for distribution among the sufferers by the overflow of the Mississippi and its tributaries. Bepresentative King . was present, and read a telegram from his? State to the effect that the people were on the point of starvation, and would die unless seeds were immediately distributed. The members of the committee were of the opinion that if star-! vation was imminent the distribution food, and not seeds, would be proper.... A bill granting a pension of SSO per month to' Mrs. DeLong, widow of the ill-fated Jeannette explorer, will be reported favorably, to the House. ' —j- "

Twenty Southern Congressmen have had a conference recently for the purpose' of devising means to procure the adoption! of legislation this session reducing the ms ternal-re venue taxation. It is thought that the plan agreed upon is to call up aJjfll already introduced removing the tax on fruit brandies, and seek to amend it by inserting a provision removing Ihe tobacco. The Southern men do not hope for favorable action on the part of the Ways and Means Committee. Capt. George H. Perkins, U. S. N., was ordered to take command of the Hartford, the flagship of the Pacific squadron, last week. He wrote to Secretary Chandler protesting against the order and asking him to revoke it. The latter replied, reminding Capt. Perkins that he has enjoyed a year’s leave of absence and two years’ practical exemption from duty, refusing to revoke the order, and telling the Captain in good set terms that if he does not obey the order before tfjie 14th of June his resignation will be accepted.

POLITICAL. The business men of New York gathered at Cooper Union in vast numbers to indorse the administration of President Arthur. The chief speakers were B. H. Bristow and Bev. Ward Beecher... .The Ohio Democratic State Convention will be held at Columbus June 24 and 25 .. .The Bepublicans nominated Gen. James S. Negely for Congress in the Twenty-second District of Pennsylvania, and T. M. Bayne n the Twenty-third District. Danville (Va.) telegram: “The election passed off without disturbance. The Democratic, or white party, nominees were eleoted. Capt. W. P. Graves beats J. H. Johnston, the present incumbent, for Mayor by 402 votes. About seventy negroes voted the Democratic ticket. One hundred did not vote. Gov. Cameron came up in the morning and remained all day. He said, pleasantly, that he had received a carpet-bag full of letters about sending troops, and had come to see for himself.,* and was pleased with the quiet and order.” .... The Fourth Indiana District Democrats have nominated Hon. William S. Holman for Congress. Congressman C. C. Matson, of the Fifth Indiana District, was renominated by the Democrats, In returning thanks, he predicted that the forty-one Democratic Congressmen who voted against the Morrison bill would be read out of the party at the Chicago convention The Republicans of the First Kansas Congressional District unanimously nominated E. N. Morrill for re-election... .Theßepublicans of the Fifth Kansas District renominated John A. Anderson for Congress.... The Democrats of New Hampshire held their State convention at Concord. Frank Jones, Henry 0. Kent, Frank A. Mac Kean, and Alva Snlloway were chosen delegates-at-large to Chicago. The platform demands a reduction of the war tariff, and insists that the Democratic majority in the House continue their efforts to establish the revenue system on an honets basis. Tilden and Hendricks received unanimous indorsement.

GENERAL. Surveyors are locating a railroad from Coalport to Cresson, Pa., to open up a large bituminous coal-field. Contracts have been made for the construction of a road of 350 miles from Washington County, Arkansas, to the eastern State line. H. C. Blanchard, coffee merchant at Bichmond, Va., has failed for $223,000. Joseph B. McDonald, lumber dealer at Woburn, Massachusetts, is insolvent, owing $125,000... .The Mexican Central Railroad has been adopted as the international postal route by the United States and Mexico.... Private letters to New Orleans say the Captain General of Cuba has liberated some desperate criminals upon condition that they join Aguero’s band and assassinate him. Aguero is burning and pillaging on his march, and his force is being daily augmented.

Charles B. Clark was hanged at Little Valley, N. Y., for killing his wife. Laban Stevens was executed at Waverly, Ohio, for the murder of Anderson Lackey. Leonidas Johnson (colored) was hanged at McDonough, Ga., and John McKetchem (colored) was swung off at Waycross, Ga. ....St. John (Newfoundland) telegram: “The French brig Senovine sank on the eastern ledge of the great banks some time in the first week of May. An English trading schooner which recently arrived brought on a portion of her wreckage—trunks, beddingj and clothing, all identifying the lost vessel. She sailed from St. Malo, France, March 5, bound to St. Pierre, M. I. Q., laden with a general cargo. The orew of ten men, with fifty-three passengers, all perished.” The St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company has been notified by the Collector of Customs at Winnipeg that no hogs could be imported from the United States into Manitoba for breeding purposes; that the shipment of hogs into Manitoba is forbidden except under regulations providing.for the immediate slaughter of all hogs entered. Under such regulations a bond, must bfe given as a pledge that they will be ’slaughtered immediately.... A rumor from the City of Mexico is to the effect that President Gonzalez will next month nsk Congress to allow him to resign. .... Thirteen deaths from yellow fever occurred at Havana, Cuba, last week.

FOREIGN. Over 100 branches of the Land League of Ireland have passed resolutions requesting Michael Davitt to forego his two years’ lecturing tour in Australia and America, saying that his services are needed jn Ireland in the interest of the national organization. Several constituencies want to have the honor of electjng Davitt to Parliament, but it is understood that he is averse to taking the oath -of qualification, and wiH not becomes candidate..,., ** .

A Socialistic outrage is reported ffom Munich. The Sodausts pulled down several of the German flags at the celebration of the thirteenth anniversary of the defeat of France, and replaced them, with red flags and revolutionary mottoes, and the police had to be called to restore the Colors and suppress an incipient outbreak Lord Dufferin stipulates that if Turkish troops are sent into the Soudan, British officers must be placed in oommand. England, he promises, will pay all the expenses, and must hfcve sole control of the withdrawal of the forces.... A cablegram chronicles the suicide of Bev. Henry T. Edwards, Dean of Bangor.. ,

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

New York special to Chicago Times: “ Yonr correspondent called at Greystone for the purpose of verifying a sensational report printed in a morning paper regarding the health of Mr. Tilden. After waiting u few minutes in a reception-room, Mr. Tilden himself came in unannounced. He said that the report of his failing health was a pure fabrication, and utterly without foundation; that his health at present was better than it had been at any time during the past year, and that he had merely run down to Greystone for a few days to personally oversee some improvements that he is making On the place. Mr. Tilden shook hands warmly with the correspondent, excusing himself with the remark that he was just about to take a walk through his grounds and make a visit to some pet . animals.”.===— Strong’s Bank at Green Bay,Wis., with a capital of $50,000, has failed. Henry Strong is President. Heavy withdrawals on account of recent failures led to the crash. It is stated that depositors will get 75 cents on the dollars.... Jacob Seramom, of Chicago, has been sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary for a vain attempt to reduce to criminal habits a German girl of 16 years, named Teresa Bosine. Flames swept away the large seed warehouse of Hiram Sibley & Co., on North Clark street, Chicago. The loss is estimated at $250,000, with an insurance of 70 per cent., largely in foreign companies. Mr. Sibley is credited with a fortune of $16,000,000. He is at present engaged in erecting two mammoth ten-story warehouses adjoining the structure which was burned, and will doubtless proceed to build a third. . ...Lightning fired a tank of crude oil at tlio Atlantic Befinery, in the southwestern quarter of the city of Philadelphia. The names spread to other tanks and caused several explosions. Cannon were taken from the arsenal to the sce&e, and used in piercing a large tank threatened by the fire. The loss is about $600,000.... One-half of the Mail Building at Toronto, Ontario, was burned, and the telephone service of the city was destroyed. The loss is about $100,000... .Other fire losses of the week were as follows: Losses. Chicago, hide and tallow warehouse $40,000 Manhattan, Kan..hotel.. 15,000 Cannon Falls. Minn., 5t0re5 .......... t... 85,000 Sioux Falls, Dakota, hotel 7... 15,000 Brockton, Mass., plow works..... ..£..... 25,000 Cleveland, Ohio, oil tank 15,000 Decatur, 111., tile works 10,000 Hollldaysburg, Pa., nail works 10,000 Stone Bridge, N. Y., hotel 25,0 0 Long Island, N. Y., canning works—... 100,000 Avena, 111.. business h0u5e5.............. 15,000 Waupaca, Wis, basket fact0ry........... 10,000 Henry, 111., live stores 15,000 Menasha, Wis., bedstead factory. 15,000 New Orleans, warehouse and contents... 150,000 Caro, Mich., business b10ck............ .. 35,0Q0 Chattanooga, Tenn., business property.. 75,000 Fort Yates, Dakota, store., 10,000 Lancaster. Pa., tobacco factory 15,000 I ronton, Ohio, nail inill 25,000 Buffalo, N. Y., paper mill 40,000 Oshkosh, Wis., shingle-mill 10,000 Sheboygan, Wls., tannery 10,000 Carroll, lowa, seven buildings 15,000 Reading Mass., rubber factory 200,000

Mb. Ingalls reported to the Sefiate from the Committee on Judiciary, on May 26, a substitute for the joint resolution introduced by Senator Jackson, proposing an amendment to the Constitution relative to terms of office of the President and Vice President. Favorable reports were made on bills for two additional Associate Justices for the Supreme Court of Dakota; for a commission to run and mark the boundary lino between Indian Territory and Texas, and to forfeit the unearned land grants of the Atlantic and Pacific Road. A bill was introduced to authorize the enlargement of the barracks at Newport, Ky. In the House of Representatives, bills were introduced to appropriate $50,0(W for a home fot* disabled soldiers of the Confederate army at Fredericksburg, Va.; to abolish license taxes on dealers in tobacco; to open overland communication with Alaska and develop her commercial resources; to ltension all honorably discharged soldiers of the rebellion at the age of 46 years, and for the fining and imprisonment of any national bank official who shall bring loss on the institution by loans made for his own benefit. The contested c.notion case of Wallace vs. McKinley, from the Eighteenth Ohio District, was taken up. The majority report unseats McKinley and declares Wallace entitled to the scat. The minority resolution confirms the right of the sitting member. Speeches were delivered by Messrs. Turner. of Georgia, and Adaihs, of New York, in support of the contestant's case, and by Messrs. Hepburn and Robertson, of Kentucky, and E. B. Taylor, of Ohio, in support of the eontestee. Mr. Robertson is the only Democratic member of the Committee on Elections who signed the minority report, and he appealed to his side of the House not to vote to unseat McKinley.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. B KEYES J $ 6.25 @ 7.80 HOOS 6,35 & 6.00 Floor—Extra. 6.75 @6.60 Wheat—No. 3 Chicago 95 @ .97 No. 2 Red 1.02 @ 1.0356 Cons—No. 2 62 @ .63!$ Oats—White. 40 @ .44 Pork—Mesa 17.56 @IB.OO CHICAGO. Beeves —Choice to Prime Steers. 6.75 @ 7.26 Fair to Good 6.25 @6.75 Butchers’....... 6.00 @5.75 HOOS , T 6.50 @6.00 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex 5.50 @ 5.75 Good to Choice Spring... 4.50 @ 6.25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 90 @ .91 No. 2 Red Winter 1.06 @ 1.03 Corn—No. 2 .63 @ .54!$ Oats —Nof2 31 @ .32 Rye—Ne."2. 62 @ .63 Barley—Na 1....AT....*. 54 @ .56 Butter—Choice Creamery 18 @ .20 Fine Dairy......... .15 @ .17 Cheese—Full Cream............. .11 & .12 Skimmed Flat Ofe @ .07 Eggs—Fresh.. .. .13 @ .14 Potatoes—Peachblows .34 @ .36 Pork—Mess..... 18.60 @18.75 LABD mtvivmt * • •"* Wheat—No. 2.......... .90 @ .92 Corn—No. 2 54 & .65 Oats—Na 2 .83 @ .35 Barley—No. 2 .65 @ .66 Pork—Mess..., 18.00 @18.50 Si. LOUia" ““ '*“> Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.12 @ l.ii Corn—Mixed.. 61 @ .52 Oats—Na 2. 31 @ .33 Rye...., 60 @ .62 Po “- M “* wsmm- " M Wheat—Na 2 Red i.OB @ Ll 2 Corn 68 @ .59 Oats—Mixed..,...:. 36 @ .37 Pork—Mess....'. 17.76 @18.25 *■*" Tdiiuii. ' •“ ® •“* Wheat—No. 2 Red ... os @ 1.02 Corn—Na 2 68 @ .60 - DEfEorr:- ss F10ur...;. ... ; 6.50 @7.00 Wheat—Na 1 White. 1.07 @ I.OBH Corn—Mixed 58 @ .60 Oats—No. 2 Mixed. 37 @ .40 PORK-Mess... 20.00 @20.50 Wheat—Na 2 Red 1.01 @1.03 * @ .35 Cattle —Best 6.00 « 6.60 Fair. 6.50 @6.25 Common. 3.75 @ 4.25 Hogs. , 5.50 @5.75 Bhekp .....ilk A6O @ 5.00

A GOLD BRICK.

The Part It Played ia a Clever Swindling Operation at Baltimore. ( A Wholesale Swindling Game Played by a Sharper in St. PaoL Swindled Ont of 15,600. [Baltimore Telegram.]

Marcello Triaca, a well-to-do Italian restaurateur of this city, has iust been victimized out of $5,600 by one of the cleverest swindling games ever practiced in Baltimore. The rogues have escaped, and detectives have started West after them, thinking they have gone in that direction. Triaca about two months ago became acquainted with a stout Italian who came here from California. Two weeks ago he left Baltimore to return to California. Last Monday he came back, said he was going to bring his family , here, and got Triaca to go with him to a bank, where he deposited $1,500. Now comes .the curious part of the swindle. Triaca and his friend went out to look for a house. While on their travels they met another Italian, who carried a well-filled satchel, which, when -opened, seemed to be full of money. The man appeared to be demented, and became very communicative, in a crazy, disjointed style of talking. He told them that he had come from Colorado, where he and a brother had been making heaps of money for years. The brother was dead, and had left all his money to the crank, who had it all, amounting to about $40,000, in hiß satchel. He was on his way to Chicago, where lie had a 6ister living. He tossed his money about, handling the bars of gold and packages of S2O gold pieces very carelessly. The big Italian whispered to Triaca it would only be a friendly act to take this crazy fellow-countryman home and keep him from losing or being robbed of all that wealth. The suggestion was acted upon. The big' man suggested that it would inspire confidence in them on the crank’s part if they showed him they had plenty of money, and he would the more easily allow his money to be taken care of. Acting on this hint, Triaca went to several banks in which he Jaad amounts and drew out in all $5,600, the big Italian also drawing out his $1,500 deposit. Then the crank said he must go at once to Chicago. They started for Claries Street Depot to see him off. But his money was an incumbrance, he said, and if his new-found friends would only take it, put the money with theirs, and keep it for him he would be much obliged. Upon this the big Italia* handed the crank his roll of bills, Triaca following suit, and the crank stuffed the money in his satchel as carelessly as if it were old papers. He handed the satchel, bursting with all this money, to his friend* but in a moment took it back and got S2OO in notes, saying that would serve him till his return from Chicago. Triaca hurried away to put the Batchel in a place of safety. At home he opened it, to find nothing but worthless paper and bars of iron a foot long rolled tightly in paper, at the ends of which the sly cheat had put one or two S2O goldpieces. He had by some sleight-of-hand taken every dollar of tho money out, either when he pretended to 6tuff Tnaca’s in the satchel or when he got out the S2OO for traveling expenses.

Swindling by the Wholesale, [St. Panl Dispatch.] This city was never confidenced as it was yesterday and to-day. About noon Tuesday a smooth-looking man, about 25 or 26 years of age, entered the jewelry store of C. C. Berg, at Third and Cedar streets, and presented a card purporting to belong to the firm of John James & Co., iron and brass founders and machinists, LaCrosse, Wis. He gave his name as Wilber H. Jones, and at once bought .some diamonds, amounting in all to about $225. In payment for these he presented a check on the LaCrosse firm, and was given $75 in change. About 2p. m. the same man went into the jewelry establishment of Myers & Finch, on Bridge Square, and bought a bill of goods, giving in payment another check. Myers & Finch lost $1,055. He made a call on Glenny & Gilman later, and purchased S2OO worth of goods, tendering a check for S4OO, in return for which Mr. Gilman gave a check for S2OO. The man had been in correspondence with several parties, notably Myers & Finch, for some time, and had written hio communications on the engraved letter-heads of the firm, with his own name at the top, between those of the members of the firm. Dyer & Howard are out $250. The Case Livingston was victimized out of SIOO. Ransom & Horton, hatters, were also downed. Duncan & Barry lost two suits of clothes. Palmer, the tailor, got caught for three suits of clothes. Emil Gerst lost $3,000 worth of diamonds. Ed Brown, & Third street jeweler, lost some djamonds, an d described the operator as being five feet ten inches in height, of dark complexion, bristly black moustache, with a peculiar motion of the jaw. It is impossible to ascertain who have been bitten. To do so one would have to take Wabasha street and Third street on both sides for their entire length. The swindler’s operations almost caused a panic.

OSTRACIZED AND BANISHED.

The Alleged Murderer of Zorn Burns a Homeless Wanderer. s [Lincoln (Ill.) Dispatch.] This week will see Orrin A. Carpenter, the once wealthy and highly respected citizen of Limibin, a homeless wanderer. He has sold his property in this city and closed out his business, and is going no one knows whither. He is the first man who was ever banished from the State of Illinois by a mass convention of the people. His ostracism has been complete. He gobs because he cannot live here. No one will buy anything of him or sell him anything. No one will speak to him on the street or elsewhere. His wife and his beautiful daughters are served in the same way. Friends and fellow church members, who have known them all and been associated with them in many good works for years past, treat them as strangers. The feeling is unanimous; the ostracism universal. In spite of Carpenter’s acqnittal of the murder of Zora Burns, his former housemaid, the belief in his guilt is general. The circumstantial evidence, whieh was strong and id some respects damning at the trial, has been made more so since then by fresh diseoveries, and no one in Lincoln doubts his guilt fora moment.

CHIPS.

In the English northeastern ports 137 ocean steamships are idle. East Cleveland is, to have an electric motor for drawing street cars. Professional courtesy is a nice thing to see. A Pittsburgh poet speaks of “one Dante.” Fred Douglass has a .colored protege with a talent for tragedy that is said to excel that of Booth or Banrett. ■ a s*' Mbs. Plunkett, of Boston, has written a book urging women to became plumbers.

WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.

M. Pasteur Is Sue He Has Pound an Antidote for Hydrophobia. -rffrgaini’iijHtJTriV - ’ ■ _ — " • A That eminent scientist, M. Pasteur, who has made so ma-ay important discoveries daring the past few years hearing upon the health of man, not alone in the domain of cause and effect, bnt also in the very practical direction of furnishing remedies for ailments considered incurable, has now added to his laurels by discovering a remedy for hydrophobia, which has hitherto been considered fetal when once it had obtained a foothold in the system. The following cable dispatch to the Chicago Tribune, setting forth the details of his remedy -—which is simply inoculation for a preventive, like vaccination to prevent small-pox —and giving the details of the method he employed in his experiments with <rogs, monkeys, and rabbits, will be found extremely interesting: M. Louis Pasteur, the celebrated French chemist, claims to have made a discovery ot the most vital importance—nothing less. In fact, than a complete cure, or rather antidote, for hydrophobia. In an interview with a Figaro correspondent M. Pasteur says: “Cauterization of the wound immediately after the bite, as is well known, has been more or less effective, bnt trom to-day anybody bitten by a mad dog has only to present himself at the Laboratory of the Ecole Normale and by inoculation I will make him completely insusceptible to the effects of hydrophobia, even if bitten subsequently by any number of mad dogs. I have bei n devoting the last four years to this subject. I found out in the first place that the "Virus rabigue loses its Intensity by transmission to certain animals and increases its intensity by transmission to other animals. With the rabbit, for instance, the virus rabique increases; with the monkey it decreases. My method was as follows: I took the virus direct from the brain of a dog that died from acute hydrophobia. With this virus I inoculated a monkey. The monkey died. Then with, the virus already weakened in intensity, taken from this monkey, I inoculated a second monkey. Then with the virus taken from the second monkey I inoculated a third monkey, and so on until I obtained a virus so weak as to be almost harmless. Then with this almost harmless virus I inoculated a rabbit, the virus being at once increased in intensity. Then with the virus from the first rabbit I inoculated a second rabbit, and there was another increase in the intensity of the virus. Then with the virus of the second rabbit I inoculated a third rabbit, then a fourth, until the virus had regained its maximum intensity. Thus I obtained virus of different degrees of power. I then took * dog and inoculated him first with #ie weakest virus from the rabbit, then with the virus from the second rabbit, and finally with the rabbit virus of maximum intensity. After a few days more I inoculated the dog with virus directly from the brain of a dog that had just died of acute madness. The dog upon which I experimented proved completely insusceptible to hydrophobia. The experiment was frequently repeated, always with the same successful re-

“But my discovery does not end here. I took two dogs and inoculated them bo.th with virus taken directly from a dog that had just died of acute hydrophobia. I let one of my two dogs thus Inoculated alone and he went mad and died of acute hydrophobia. I subjected the second dog to my treatment, giving him the three rabbit inoculations, beginning with the weakest and ending with the strongest. The second dog was completely cured, or rather became completely insusceptible to hydrophobia.” M. Pasteur then went to a kennel and caressed a dog that had undergone this latter operation. Said M. Pasteur: “Whoever gets bitten by a mad dog has only to submit to my three little inoculations and he need not have the slightest fear of hydrophobia.

THE MOON INHABITED.

Towns, Villages, and Cultivated Field* Can Be Seen. At the astronomical observatory of Berlin a discovery has lately been .made which, without doubt, will cause the greatest sensation not only among the adepts in science but even among the most learned. Prof. Blendmann, in that city, has found, beyond a doubt, that out old friend the moon is not a mere lantern, which kindly furnishes light for the loving youth and gas companies of our planet, but the abode of living, intelligent beings, for which he is prepared to furnish proofs the most convincing. This question has agitated humanity from time immemorial, and has been the objeot of the greatest interest. But the Opinions have always differed very widely, and no two minds held one and the same. Already in ancient times the belief prevailed that the moon was inhabited with some higher organized, intelligent beings, somewhat resembling man, and in order to communicate with them the earthly enthusiasts planted rows of trees, several miles in length, so as to form the figure of the Pythagorean theorem. The celebrated astronomer, Schroder, in the beginning of the present century, fancied that he could detect places on the surface of the moon which periodically grew lighter aaid darker, and from this fact he derived the conclusion that the phenomenon was a proof of existing vegetation. During the last few decades, however, the idea of life on the moon has been held up to ridicule, and totally scorned by men of ” learning. But, nevertheless, it has now been proved to be correct. By accident Dr. Blendmann found that the observations of the moon gave but very unsatisfactory results, owing to the intensity of the light power of the moon’s atmosphere, which is that strong that it affects the correctness of the observations in a very high degree. He then conceived the idea to make the objectglass of the refractor less sensitive to the rays of the light, and for that purpose he darkened it with the smoke of camphor. It took months of experimenting before he sucoeded in finding his right degree of obscurity of the glass, and when finally found he then with the refractor took a very accurate photo of the moon’s .surface. This he placed in a sun microscope, which gave the picture a diameter of 55J fget. The revelation was most startling. It perfectly overturned all hitherto entertained ideas of the moon’s surface. Those level plains which formerly were held to be oceans of water proved to be verdant fields, and what formerly was considered mountains turned out as deserts of sand and oceans of water. Towns and habitations of all kinds were plainly discernible, as well as signs of industry and traffic. The learned Professor’s study and observations of old Luna will be repeated every full moon when the sky is clear, and we venture to predict that the time is not far off when we shall know more about the man in the moon than as being an agent in English politics.

CLIPPINGS.

The “Able-Bodied Liars’ Club” is an institution of Ottumwa, lowa. Minnesota has no less than 7,000 lakes, which take up over 2,700,000 acres of territory. The stone of which the Arc de Triomphe in Paris is composed is fast crumbling away. It is said that Gov. Waller, of Connecticut, is to become a partner in a New York law firm. A sparrow has built a nest in the left hand of the bronze statue of Daniel Webster, in Central Park, New York. Tux New Orleans Exposition is said to have the largest building in the world. It has thirty-three acres of floor area. The Prince Imperial of Austria speaks, it is asserted, every dialect. Jsnown in the Austrian dominions, except Tuikjeh.*^^ A farmer at Magnolia, N. 0., made SBOO last year off an acre of tuberoses.

THE WORK OF CONGRESS.

What Is Being Done by the 1 National Legislature. A resolution -was offered in the Senate, * Hay 20, asking by what authority Commissioners had examined sections of the Northern Pacific Road constructed subsequent to the time specified by law. The Senate passed the mth cultural appropriation bill, with clauses setting aside $20,000 to sink artesian wells on the plains and $15,000 to encourage silk cultural Bills were also passed to bridge the Mis 4 souri River from Douglas County, Nebras-i ka, and for the construction of a public building. at Detroit at a cost of $900,000. The House debated the report of the Elections Committee in the contested election case of En-j glish vs. Peelle, of the Indianapolis district! Mr. Converse (Ohio) and Mr. Lowry, Chairman of the Elections Committee, spoke in favor of the adoption of the report. In the oourse of his remarks Lowry reflected seriously on Congressman J. 8. Wise (Readjuster), from Virginia, intimating that he was a lower animal than a mule. Mr. Rosecrans offered a resolution for an inquiry by the Judiciary Committee into the facts of the survey of public lands belonging t-o San Francisco. Mr. Hewitt made a statement that a published letter en the tariff bill to Henry W. Oliver, Jr., bearing his signature, was a fabrication by a Pittsburgh journalist. The House refused to concur in the Senate amendments to the DiDgley shipping bill. Messrs. Ellis, Holman, and Ryan were appointed a committee of the House to confer with a committee of the Senate on the Indian appropriation bill in the matter of the Senate amendments to the House bill.

Bills for the erection of public buildings at Portland, Oregon, to cost $250,000, at Sacramento, Cal., to cost SIOO,OOO, at Dayton, Ohio, to cost $150,000, were passed by the Senate, May 21. and also bills for public buildings at Washington, D. 0., and Opelousas, La. Bills w re passed to authorize the bridging of the Mississippi at Sibley, Missouri, and at some point between St Paul and Natchez; to bridge the Missouri at Rulo and White Cloud, Kan., and at the mouth of the Dacotah, and to bridge the Illinois between its mouth and Peoria. Mr. Wheeler was confirmed as Internal Revenue Collector for -North Carolina.There was an exciting time in the House over the English-Peelle contested seat from the Indianapolis district. The minority report declaring that Peelle (Rep.) was elected and entitled to retain the seat was adopted by a vote of 121 to 117. Mr. Springer, of Illinois, changed his vote, in the nick of time, in order to move a reconsideration, and pending a division on the motion an adjournment was carried by a majority of one. The Democrats who voted with the Republicans to retain Peelle in his seat were: Aiken, Beaoh, Boyle, Budd, Connolly, Dargan, Findlay, Greenleat, Hardeman, Herbert, Hewitt (Ala.), Hunt, Jones (Wis.), Lore, Mills, Morgan, Neese, Peel (Ark.), Potter, Stevens, Stunner (CaL), Throckmorton, Tillman, Turner (Ga), Woodward, Worthington, and Yaple.

The Labor Bureau bill was debated in tbe Senate May 22. It was supported by MessrsVan Wyck and Blair, and opposed by Mr. Ingalls, of Kansas. Tbe Senate sent to the foot of the calendar the bill prohibiting the mailing of newspapers containing lottery advertisements. Bills were passed to permit the bridging of the Mississippi at St. Paul; to provide for holding terms of court at El Paso, Texas, and to appropriate $25,000 to compensate tbe ofiicers and men of the Government steamer J. Don Cameron for damages incurred by her loss in the Missouri River seven years ago. The House of Representatives reconsidered its action giving the contested seat to Mr. Peelle, and voted to seat William English, who appeared and took the oath of office. Mr. Horr ma'ie the charge that the father of the newly admitted member had abused the privileges of the House by attempting to influence votes in the case. A special debate ensued, and a resolution was adopted that the eharge be investigated by a select committee of seven members. Bills were passed authorizing the construction of bridges across the Missouri at Rulo and Decatur, Neb. The Speaker presented a draft of a bill by the Secrotary of the Treasury to permit the exportation of spirits to adjacent foreign territory, with a drawback for internal revenue taxes paid thereon. A bill authorizing the construction of a railroad from Sioux City, lowa, westward via the Nebraska Valley to some point on the Union Pacific > west of the 100th meridian, and not west of Granger, Wyo., was reported to the House by the Committee on Pacific Railroads. The new road, it is said, would open up a territory as large as Illinois and Indiana together, would shorten the route to San Francisco 300 miles, and it is claimed that its cons' ruction would benefit Northern Illinois, lowa, Nebraska, 'Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Southern Dakota. The bill proposes to confer advantages on the new read similar to those conferred on the Union Pacific, with the Important exception that there shall be no land-grant. Mb. Aldrich’s substitute for the House labor bureau bill was passed by the Senate, May 23. It provides for the establishment of a labor bureau in the Department of the Interior, which shall be under charge of a Commissioner, te bold office four years, who Shall collect data relating to capital and labor, and make an annual report to the Secretary of the Interior. Senator Harrison reported favorably from the Committee on Territories the bill which provides that the Dakota Legislature shall consist of forty-four members of the Council and eightyeight members of the House, and that at the next general election there shall be elected .two members of the Council and four members of the House in each legislative district. In a debate on the bill to provide for protecting tbe interests of the United States in respect to incumbrances, Mr. Beck said that under the letter of the act the President conld pay off the Union Pacific Railroad mortgage. Mr. Slater stated that on the maturity of the Union and Central Pacific mortgages, in 1895, these roads would owe the Government SIBB,000,000. The pension appropriation bill was passed. In the House, Mr. Weller denied that he had been solicited by William H. English to absent himself on the occasion of the unseating of Mr. Peelle, and he expressed the hope that the investigating committee would inquire into the matter. Mr. Kellogg called for an inquiry into his alleged connection with the star-route frauds, and the matter was referred to the Judiciary Committee. A bill was passed appropriating $300,00* to nay certain quartermaster claims, one-half of which is due to citizens of Tennessee. In committee of the whole, a favorable recommendation was made on tbe bill to retire Henry J. Hnnt „ as a Major General. At the evening session forty-two pension bills were passed, including one giving SSO per month to tbe widow of Gen. Ord. ,

The bill restoring Alfred, Hopkins to tbe rank of captain in tbe navy gave rise to a long debate in the Honse on May 24. Hopkins is the officer who left Pensacola without have when the yellow fever prevailed there, and, was dismissed from the service. The bill was finally passed. Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, presented the conference report on the bill to establish a Bureau of Animal Industry—the Honse eon - ferrees recommend concurrence in all tbe Senate amendments. The amount of the appropriation is SIOO,OOO, and the jurisdiction of the Commissioner of Agriculture is limited to snch investigation and snch disinfection and quarantine measures as may be necessary to prevent the spread of contagions and infections diseases from one State or Territory into another. The Commissioner is prohibited from applying any money toward paying for the animals It was found necessary to slaughter in order to prevent the spread of disease The report was agreed to. A bill was passed to iSermlt Lieut. Reynolds, of the navy, to accept a decoration from the Emperor of Austria for saving eleven lives. The Senate was not in session.

Don’t sell your S2O watch for sls, young man. Put it up at a charity fair raffle, 100 chances, $1 a chance, and give the poor twenty chances and the fair twenty, and you’ll make a decent profit on the watch yourself.—Burlington flawkeve. •> . “I beg a thousand pardons for coming so late.” “My dear sir,” replied the lady, graciously, “no pardons are need,ed. (You can never come toe late." In the man whose known tender caresses, there is a fiber of memory which can be touched to gentle issues.— Marian Evans. . firm without pliancy, and the pliant without firmness, resemble vessels without water and water without vessels.— Lavater. ■■ 1 ——,v May I always have a heart superior with economy suitable to my fortune. — Shenstone. 1 (. ■■■_ nm . ... . Charles Readers will gives a portrait of himself to the Harpers’ editorial rooiV'