Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1885 — Page 7

The Republican. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. H. E. MARSHALL, * - Pvginßm.

Thk Current-. Do not grow suspicions of the business man whose honor is unsullied. Now is the time he most needs your confidence. Now is the time you most need the cheering influence of his energy. Austria employes 14,450 officials in her postal service, England 91,000, Germany 79,384, France 53,299, Italy 18,790, and Russia 15,557. During 1883 Germany showed the largest amount of business, and England the largest surplus over expenses. The postal receipts last year were as follows: Germany, $44,488,000; England, $39,850.000* France, $32,145,000; Russia, $12,133,000; Austria-Hungary, $8,141,000; Italy, $7,092,000. One of the curiosities of the New Orleans Exposition is an air flower from the City of Mexico. It is two inches long, and resembles a beetle wish wings and horns. The wings are of light sea-green color, dotted with specks. The now whi£e, and at the points very short The body of the flower is pale yellow and deep orange, and gives a slight hyacinth perfume. Including the broad, bananashaped leaves, the entire plant looks as though molded in wax. » A curious explosion happened in a Charleston, South Carolina, household the other day. A pot containing coffee ■tfas boiling on the stove, when one of three children in the room observed that the steam was escaping from the top of the pot He was about to raise the lid to prevent the coffee from boiling over when the lid was blown off and the steam and boiling coffee hurled .about the room. All of the children were more or less scalded, but not seriously. It is supposed that the spout was choked up by the grounds, and that the lid got fastened in some.way. New York World: Colombier and Bernhardt told some ratheiOtall stories .about their experiences while traveling in America, but neither of them could boast of Aimee’s experience. This little French woman had to walk a mile in tho mud, owing to the burning of a railroad bridge in Kentucky, and losing her slippers had to perform the feat in her stockings (pale blue). Then the party had to wait for hours in an open field with a blizzard raging, and so they built a house, of trunks, lit a fire in the center, and put the French woman in it, where she defied fate by singing “Un Mari Sage” from “La Belle Helene.” ~ . When Gen. “Bob’* Toombs, of Georgia, goes up to Atlanta on one of his periodical sprees he throws off all his Southern dignity and becomes for the time being “hail fellow, well met” with every one. Recently he sprinkled a little red over the town in the company of a.n aspiring young legislator, separating from him in a wee hour of the night. The next day the General met his whilom acquaintance in the lobby of the Markham House, the latter approaching him with a gracious bow and saying, “Good morning, General; how doyou do to-day ?” The General took no notice of the remark but turned and looked out of the window. “Why, General,” resumed the other, “don’t you remember me? I was with you last night” “Well, sir, what of it?” roared the old warhorse, turning upon him wrathfuly. “Am I to be obliged to recognize every d—n fool who gets ona spree with me ?”

Miss Mibanda Davis, of Stafford,. Connecticut, is known far and wide as the “starsingwoman.” She is 32 years old, and has been starving ever since the age of 17. Occasionally sle £akes a sip of water and eats a few cracker crumbs, but that is all Sometimes she goes forty-seven days without food or drink. Although emaciated, her general health is moderately good. All efforts to account for her inability .to eat have proven unsatisfactory. To a newspaper correspondent Miss Davis avowed the belief that she was possessed by a devil When she said this a spasm stiffened Jier limbs, the joints extendin £ with ? fg^f^harp«plo eyes blazed, to use the newspapfL man's words, “like the diamonds of hell” Miss Davis declares that all her life she has felt the sway Of the evil spirit tempting her to every species of deviltry. She is constantly watched, but has never shown a disposition to be violent or to commit any crime

An industrious, simple, and courteous monarch is “Count Vasili’s” estimate of iSranz Josef of Austria. "Having urgent business to- dispatch one day,” he' relates, the Emperor had his dinner placed on his writing-table. His aide-de-campdined at the sama time m anwdjoining room. After the meal the Emperor opened the door and said: ‘You can go; I shall work alone. What do you think of this food?* It seems to me, your Majesty, that the dinner was not first rate,’ replied the aide-de-camp. The Emperor then exclaimed: "What difference does that make to yon ? You can make up for it at a hotel, while I pm obliged to content myself With thw trash. lam not allowed to go where others go.’ His work at an and, the

Emperor remains along and reflects. Sometimes he feels scruples about what he has done, and if on the morrow some one echoes his doubts he modifies his past resolution. It is this temper of mind—4»ver striving to achieve the best—which in a chivalrous nature has sometimes made the Emperor Francis Joseph appear vacillating. Tourgueneff bore his last illness with great fortitude. “It qeems I may linger twenty years with my incurable illness. But is such life worth living? I cannot walk: I cannot stand; lean .only sleep, thanks to morphia, and lie only on the left side. But enough; if I ever get better, you are sure to hear ik,at once." “Remember Goethe,” he said at another time. “Was he not saturated with every human blessing? —great fame, loved by women, hated by idiots; his works translated even in Chinese; the whole of .Europe rushing to kneel before him. And Napoleon even said to him, ‘C’estun homme.' Well, and with all that, when he was 82 he declared that during all his life he had been actually happy only a quarter of an hour! So, you see, we must not grumble.” In December, 1882, he wrote: “I repeat, lam not losing heart ; till I did not give up all hope it was much worse. I am 64. 1 have enjoyed my life, and now I must shut up. But how I wish I could go tc Russia.” In the published volume.oi his correspondence, the last letter — written in pencil with almost a dying hand —is addressed to Count Leo Tolstoy, and is dated June 28, 1883. He died on the 22d of the following August. __ The question of plants in bed-rooms is still being discussed by medical authorities. At a medical conference recently held in France it was demonstrated to the satisfaction of all the savans there present that plants, as long as they are plants only, may safely, and even with advantage, be admitted tc the elysium from which they have sc often been exiled. These pretty ornaments, as a learned writer now declares, “far from being hurtful, are beneficial inasmuch as they exale a certain amount of ozone and vapor, which maintain a healthy dampness in the air, and besides that are destructive of the microbes which promote consumptive tendencies in human beings. It is only flowers, and not the plants which bear them, that do the damage. Ferns are innocuous, roses and sunflowers are pernicious, at least during the interesting period while they are in bloom.” This is all right so far as the medical questions involved are concerned; but the discussion does net touch the real objection to plants in bed-rooms, which is, that whenever the man of the house has to get up after the catnip tea, or any other sort of “nip,” he invariably falls over them, greatly to the damage of his shins and to the disturbance of his usual serenity. Plants should never be in a bed-room. James Marshall thirty years ago gave to his brother, John Marshall, a farm of 400 acres on Thorn Creek, Pennsylvania,’ upon condition that he would go and live there. The offer was accepted, but no deed of the farm was ever issued to John Marshall. He continued living there until a few years ago, when, with his family, he moved back to Pittsburgh, but paid taxes on the Thorn Creek farm as usual. When James Marshall died he disposed of all his property by will, but did not enumerate the farm as part of his possessions. No one considered the farm to be worth bothering about until the oil excitement in Thorn Creek began. Then the heirs of James Marshall claimed the farm as part of their father's estate, and leased it for drilling' purposes. The great Armstrong well, which flowed 9,000 barrels a day, was struck on this farm, as were several other wells nearly as prolific, and the Marshall farm became the richest oil territory that had ever been developed. The heirs of John Marshall claim that they had a legal title to the farm, owing to their twenty-one years of continuous possession. This title was recognized as good by Thompson H. Lines, and he bought the farm a few days ago. Nearly $300,000 worth of oil has been taken from the farm, and it is valued at $500,000. ' -

The Coen.

"It is rare that you hear a hunter nowadays speak a good word for the ' oon,” said one of Sullivan County’s Te ?7in sportsment, “and yet, if you M , 'Ejection to this much-berated animal he tell you. More abundant widely distributed oyer the American than any other game animal, eivipt, perhaps, the rabbit, it is less frequently ehcoun tered when not hunted for than even the rarer animals. And yet the coon prefers to live in the neighborhood of men. In a -country totally uninhabited and wild you may turn your best dogs loose and you’ll never run a coon up a tree. A coon is always on the alert, even when treed, and many a cunning old fellow I have known to leap from his perch high up in a tree and alight in the midst of hunters and dogs, and make his escape by the very boldness of his maneuver. The coon is a monomaniac en .the subject of water. The first thing when one starts' out of an evening, it makes for the nearest running water and drinks and bathes preparatory for its foraging expedition.— Chicago Herald. Db. Kubui has so little faith in the Kuhe recently s w^w^d l^ of the bacilli without any ill, effect.

TALES BY TELEGRAPH.

Occurrences of a Sensational • Nature in Various Farts of the Country. turions Incidents, Death-Dealing Accidents, Dark Tragedies, and Other Phases of Life. A HARD WINTER. » . ■ Long Island Sound Frozen from Shore to Shore. For the first 11 me in ten years, says a New York dispatch, Long Island Sound is frozen •ver. A solid field of ice extends from Hell Gate to New London. The powerful Sound steamers are the only boats that have been able for several days to cut a channel through, and ene of them—the Narragausett—was fast tn the ice for twenty hours. She was rtfMSCd this afternoon, a good deal damaged by her struggle with the heavy ice-floes. Navigation of the Sound is now practically suspended, and is likely to remain so for some time. The embargo to navigation will cause a serious loss to shipping interests. A large number of craft of every description are ice-bound, some severely damaged thereby.

Two Men Frozen to Death. [East Tawas (Mich.) special.] Last Thursday morning John and Abram Johnson. Finlanders, left here for Gardner’s Camp, and on Sunday three others left for the same place. About three ml es from there they found John Johnson lying in the snow unable to rise. Both his legs from the feet to the knees, and both his hands were frozen. He was brought here and died during the night. He Baid that feeling tired he told the other man to go ahead, and he would soon follow. He had been out two nights with the mercury at 26 degrees below zero. The other man was found dead one mile farther on. Lake Michigan Frozen Over. Milwaukee dispatches state that Lake Michigan is frozen from shore to shore, the ice rang-* mg from nine inches to three feet in thickness. The propellers City of Ludington and Wisconsin are frozen in somewhere in the lake. Borne distance north of South Haven seventeen men of the missing steamer Michigan came ashore, having traveled on the ice a distance of twentythree miles from the vesseL They left thirteen men aboard, with rations for a month and ninety tons of coal. , The Severest Ever Experienced in Montana. A recent dispatch from Helena (Montana) says l : “This is the most severe winter that has been experienced here since the first visit of Lewis and Clarke, and has no parallel in the history of Montana.” Killed Himself Shoveling Snow. Frank LaVesee, of Roscoe, near Rockford, 81., strained Lis system so severely in shovel* ing snow during the late blockade that he died from the effects. Coal Famine in an Illinois Town. The scarcity es fuel at Saybrook, Hl., caused the citizens to seize forty tons from a train going through on the Lake Erie Road, for which they offered pay. ______ Michigan Fruit Injured by Frost. The injury by intense cold to fruit trees.in Michigan has been so severe that but half a crop is anticipated next season. SOUTHERN SENSATIONS. - Fiddled for a Dance with a Bullet In His Head. A negro named Edward Goode, while full of benzine, undertook to show how he could fire a blank cartridge into his moutb.says the Charlotte tN. C.) Observer. Unfortunately the pistol was loaded. He called the attention of his companions to the fact that he was going to commit suicide and pulled the trigger. He reeled, and as he gasped for breath smoke rolled from his month and blood trickled down on each side of his thin. At the time he fired he had about an Inch of the pistol barrel in his mouth,- sfnd his head was thrown slightly backward. The doctors say that it was the most marvelous escape from instant death on record. Wounded as he was, Goode returned to Mount Holly and played the bass fiddle tor the dancets until past midnight, when the bullet began to make itself felt in his head. Hie mouth is badly burned by the powder, and this gives him more pain than does the bullet. A Romantic Kentucky Tragedy. [Louisville special. J As a train from Louisville to Shelbyville was crossing the junction at Hansborough the engineer discovered the dead bodies of William Adams and Tena Wilmouth lying side by side on the track. Between Adams’ legs was a revolver with three chambers empty. Near them stood the buggy in which they had been riding, ana in the shafts lay the dead body of ths horse. Adams, Miss Wilmouth, and the horse had each’been shot in the head. All were stone dead and cold. William Adams was but a youth and the dead girl had not yet gone through her teens. They had long been sweethearts, but parental objection had prevented their union, audit is supposed that they agreed to die together rather than submit to separation. Desperate Fight with a Mad Dog. A mad dog was killed, after a desperate fight, at the residence of Mr. H. J. Lewis, in Eastatoe township, this county, last Tuesday night, says a telegram from Richmond, Ga. The dog was a black hound, and fought Mr. Lewis’ dog for nearly thirty minutes before he was killed. Mr. Lewis and Messrs. W. E. and J. M. Nimmons pounded the dog with hoes, guns, and stacks. Finally a sharp-pointed iron bar, weighing about ten pounds, was thrust clear through the dog. and a load of shot sent through his carcass. Alter all this he sprang up and jumped on Mr. Lewis' dog again before he died. The dog never made a particle of noise during the fight, except when shnt. No damage was done by the dog, except the biting of Mr. Lewis' dog.

A Hen, a Hawk and a Man. The following comes from Cochran, Ga.: P. M. Solomon, of this place, was at T. J. Bentroe'a, in Laurens County, and while tutting In the house he heard a fuss among the chickens outside. Upon looking out he discovered a large hawk and a hen engaged in a desperate combat. They fought 'like two gamecocks about fifteen minutes, when Mr. Solomon put a quietus on the hawk by putting a load of shot under his feathers. The hen seemed to realize that she had a friend, and strutted around her victim and gave vent to her joy in vociferous cackling. The hawk had devoured all of her brood but one, for the safety ot which she was fighting. A Boy and His First Cigar. Al - year-old son of Mr.' B. Bunch, ot Economy. Marion County, Mo., reports a St. Louis telegram, smoked a cigar and died from tobacco poison in about half an hour. The boy was smoking in a store and soon began vomiting violently. He was carried home and his father went for a physician, abont 100 yards distant, but v?hen he returned with the physician the little fellow was dead. .—.— Killed by Kerosene. A few days ago m Hawkins County, Tenn., says a Knoxville dispatch, James Reynolds put kexeoene oil on the tops of the h< ads of his three litQe children, aged 2,4, and « years, for the purpose of killing vermin. Two of the children died within two hours, but a physician saved the other. REMINISCENT. A Congrewniusn Killed by Chagrin. Senator Vest's reference to the two Representatives from Ohio who brought from a newspaper man and had published in the Record the same identical speech w.thin two weeks ins stirred up some reminiscences of Congressional plagiarism. It •» told by one of the old-timers St the Canftbl that Speaker White, of Kmtocky, eanC* Dili a death as the result ot expo-uretor dcinx some’-htoa of thl * klnd w{ri e be was Speaker ot the House, in the Twenty-seventh Oonerese. and ~ man, he was wtnnwlXi business that when STtad Oiwof these men who are It au^ t ** ™te money to write hiwals handed him just a little while ri ™ e J* to deHverit, and be pet it'im poeket without reading. Wuen toe time cans be rose and, stawiy unfolding the inannscrtoK read the address. It wa< very brilliant. bnCi£ wre Aaroa Burr’s-famons vaieflictory to thfi The .-peaker never recovered from tbdl shock. He went home, was taken very ill and *** saptorod he kbled him<elLfar shame.' *"

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Atchison of Missouri, Bhnqn Cameron of Pennsylvania, and Hunter ot Virginia. GRAVE STORIES. Graves Opened by Ghenls. Three miles south of Point Pleasant, W. Va., is a church called Pisgah, attached to which is a rural burying-ground. The other morning, says a telegram from Poiiit Pleasant, when the sexton went to dig a grant, he was horrified to find half a dozen graves open. The corpses had been taken from their coffins Mid stretched on the ground. In one or two instance* limbs were severed from the body. The graves had been opened without regard to family. The bodies lay in one place, arranged in the shape of a Greek cross. There is no clew, and no reason waa assigned for the horrible act The bodies had evidently been exposed for a day or two. Blushing In Her Coflin. The vault in a Baltimore cemetery, says a dispatch from that city, in which the remains of Mrs. Charles Henderson, of Dubuque, were placed, is being closely watched. The woman died suddenly, and the body was shipped to Baltimore for burial, where the casket was opened, and a blush was noticed suffusing the features of the supposed corpse. Some physicians think Mrs. Henderson is in a trance. Recalled to Life. John Wisholm is alleged to have died at Newport, R. 1, but the agonizing walling of his son is said to have recalled the old man to life, he then relating a joyful experience during his transitory stay in the other world. Mr. Wlsholm, it seems, died tar good last week, and now rests beneath the snow.

TALES OF THE FOREST. A Faithful Dog and an Heroic Boy. [From the Portland (Ore.) News] There are some interesting side points relative to Funk’s poor, starved babies, who wandered away in the hills of Mehama Sunday morning, which we previously published in the News. They were not found till Monday noon. A shepherd dog, which was a household favorite, followed and guarded them during the long, dark hours, when the rain came unceasingly down. No doubt the faithful creature protected theni from the many wild animals in the deep woods. - But the heroic deed of the older child, which the wires failed to correctly record, remains to be added. He took his own little coat from his shivering body and put it on his weaker brother, saving him from freezing, while he-endured in a cotton shirt, hours after hours, the keen blasts of that mountain storm. Think of this from a child but 6 years old. and let any who can say he is not as much of a hero as any of the fullgrown Spartans of old, of whom the classics so eloquently telL He Killed a Red Bear. [Troy (Pa.) dispatch.} Peter Brow, of Liberty, Tioga County, while in the woods a few days ago discovered the track of an animal which was strange to him, although resembling a bear's. He followed the track, and came upon the animal and shot and killed it It was a bear, but no one in this region ever saw another one like it Its legs are much longer and thinner than those of the native bear, and its nose is longer and sharper. Ito fur is nearly red. The animal is much smaller than the black bear, although it is evidently a full-grown one. old hunters say it is probably a specimen of what is known in Michigan as a cranberry bear. This is a bear occasionally killed in the marshes in that State.

NEW WAY TO COLLECT OLD DEBTS. The Novel Contrivance Introduced in Chicago. (Chicago telecram.] -2A debt-collecting firm styled “The Retail Merchants' Protective and Collection Association” has started a “Black Marla" collectors' wagon in Chicago. This will fill a long-felt want. The “Maria" is a large, four-wheeled vehicle, something of a cross between a grocers’ wagon and a wagon and a hearse. It partakes largely of the characteristics of the famous “Black Maria" prison vans of England, and also of the dime museum advertising wagons of this country. The purpose of the wagon is to attract attention, and thereby shame the debtor into paying, consequently it is necessary to have something unique. The Maria' recently started here is a large black box, with openings at the front and sides. At each side and on the back the following legend is displayed in large white letters: “Old bills collected promptly by this association." The plan of operation is simply to keep the wagon standing before the debtor’s house a certain time every day until the debt is paid. The manager speaks proudly of the success of his firm in Cleveland and other cities. Be says Cleveland is able to keep two "Marias" constantly employed, and he does not see why Chicago should not have half a dozen. He intends building a splendid new “Maria" for Chicago in a very short time. He says it will have grand mirrors on the sides and bm:k, and plumes or waxworks on the roof, just like a circus wagon, and will be such a contrivance as any landlady or housekeeper will be proud to see at the door.

IN THE TOILS. The Notorious ex-Gov. Moses Again in Prison. [Boston special.! In the Superior Criminal Court at East Cambridge the ease of ex-Gov. Moses, of South Carolina, charged with obtaining under false pretenses from T. W. Higginson, of Cambridge, came up for sentence, the defendant having pleaded guilty. Moses made an eloquent appeAl for mercy, reviewing his past career, and said that his mind had given way under ids troubles, instancing the paltriness of the crime in proof thereof. He was sentenced to six months in the House of Correction. Indicted. [San Francisco telegram.] G. W. Tyler, leading counsel for Mrs. HillSharon in the Hill-Sharon divorce case; Max GumpeL the handwriting expert; T. C. Cashman, and J. F. McLaughlin have been Indicted by the State Grand J ury for implication in obtaining 128,000 from Senator Sharon’s counsel for the spurious document known as the TylerGumpel contract. McLaughlin has absconded with the monsy. The threeothers have surrendered, but were released on bail.

PERISHED BY FIKE. He Gave His Life for Another. George Scott, 70 years of age and a wellknown resident of Gib-on, IIL, seized & young Igdy who had set her clothes afire at a red-hot stove and carried her out into the snow. She escaped with slight Injury, but be was sa badly burned that be lived only a few hours. All Escaped but Nellie. A tenement house on North street, Cincinnati, burned the other night. A colored family named Brice, Itving'in the second story, were aroused by the tlames. The father, mother, two boys and the baby escaped through a window, but Nellie Brice, 12 years old, perished. Two Miners Burned. An explosion of gas occurred at Packer Colliery No. 2, near Girardville, Pa. James Lafferty, of Girardvide, was fearfully burned; Daniel Kerwick, of Lost Creek, bls partner', was badly burned and so mangled that he can not recover. THE DEADLY COAL-PIT, Half a Dozen Men Killed in a Pennsylvania Mine. IWilkesbarre (Pad spjcial ! . A terrible accident occurred at the Hillman vein mine, within the limits of this city. A brief stoppage of the air-fans, caused by the beating of a journal, allowed the gas to accumulate in toe mine, and a terrific explosion was the result. Twelve men were so badly burned that four of them have since died. The recovery ot five of the others is extremely doubtful. The injured men, who are m the City Hospital, present a frightful appearance, their bodies being burned ail over. They wore stripped and covered wi'h oil, and are constantly bathed with * solution of oil and other ingredients.

MOHTTALK. A Btood-and-Thnnder Anarchirt Meeting , in New York. The aaarch’sts led by Herr Moot, met eight handled strong in Concordia Hall, New York, mya a dispatch from that city, and talked blood and thunder mixed with dynamite for two boors. The meetnur wac to commemorate the death of August Eeinwforf, bat very little was said about turn. One man said tt wenld be a very rood thine to kills Brillion women and children, even if they were innocent, provided the cause were advanced, one week by so doing. Herz Wort also thought ft jnteM be well to kill tha. namber« people, and spoke very strongly in favor of dynamic. . ' ULFE IN TEXAS. Trafo-Wreekeva at Work. > A Marshall tTexaal dispatch reports that an attempt was made to w reck sad rob a passenger train from X Loot*. near Wayne, betwsssi Jettrrwn and Texar-nna, by removnut a rail A fratbt train mnning in advance W the pasoenaer foU Into the trap, and the eadns and eight freight earn were wrecked. Ntfsqj was heart. , Mam has sent 40.000 barrels df apples, scanw* the wster this kmod«'

WILLIAM M. EVARTS.

The Great Lawyer - Statesman Upon the Lesson of the November Defeat. [New York special] Some time ago the Union League Club appointed a committee to arrange for a formal reception to William M. Evarts commemorative of his election as. United States Senator. It was resolved to make the reception as simple and as social as possible. Invitations were sent to a great many of the prominent members of the Republican party throughout the country, and also to every member of the Legislature of this State. The members of the club and their guests assembled in the club theater about 9 o’clock p. m., filling the little auditorium completely. Soon afterward Mr. Evarts entered, leaning on the atm of Judge Noah Davis, Vice-President of the club. The Senator-elect was escorted to a sqat on the stage. Judge Davis presided, and in calling the assemblage to order he remarked that those who composed it had come to tender congratulations to a man whom the Legislature, “in obedience to the will of the people of the entire State,” had chosen tc represent New York in the United States Senate. A congratulatory address was read by Mr. E. B. Hinsdale. The Senator-elecl was congratulated upon his election, and the whole body of the citizens of the - State were congratulated that they have secured his eminent abilities for that high office. Good party principles, the address said, could produce no practice, results for the people until the party which holds them could secure the offices in the government so as to enforce and exemplify the principles. The address continued as follows: “We think that, notwithstanding the defeat of the Republican party in the late general election, the majority of the people believe in its policy, and that they believe the personal rights of all citizensand the national prosperity of the country would be best conserved in its hands. After reviewing very briefly the great work that the Republican party had performed, the address enumerated the leading issues now before the country, and expressed confidence in Mr. Evarts’ ability to fittingly express in the Senate the sentiments of the people of New York State upon those issues. The applause that greeted the Senatorelect when he arose to respond to the address was tumultuous in its enthusiasm. It lasted two minutes. Mr. Evarts said, among other things: “I have no desire to conceal from you that the actual circumstances which marked the transaction of the election, and that found an echo in your kind applause, rests upon something more important than marks anything personal to myself or anything in the ordinary routine of political promotion. We, t e Republican party, that were framed into the means of saving this country, and that through every danger and against every obstacle, and with every degree of triumph and prosperity have built up an uninitiated territory and an uncorropted constitution to be greater and better than it was ever framed or imagined by the great founders of our Government; we, the Republican party, find ourselves cast out of power and surrendering to a reactionary party the possession of the same nation and ennobled Government It is twenty-eight years since the people of this Government intrusted the Executive power to a Democratic party and a Democratic President. Now again they have intrusted that power to the same patty and a President of that party's selection. We in New York cannot conceal from ourselves that the center of the array of the Republican party in the United States was pierced st this point that was committed to our defense. No'doubt some bitterness of reproach might be, should be, and is fe:t in Connecticut, in New Jersey, and in Indians that, when New York failed, there was not an a lay of sufficient strength to succeed and to save the downfall of the

party’s poss-ssion of ihe Government of the UnitM States. Bat, look at it as yon will, wa can not disguise it at all from oarselves; we can not hide it from the great party of the nation that the defense; the protection, the power that waa intrusted to this State, was not adequate to perform the part, and in the fall of this great defense fell, at least for the moment, the possession of the fortress of the Constitution. Now, I am not wrong in saying, I am ante the history of the election teaches ns all, that the Republican manhood and sober patriotism in this State fairly counted a majority of the people, if we had all agreed among ourselves. If the Republicans in this great State had been able to look alike upon their duty and their service Nov. 4, we should not now lament a transfer of the power of oar party to the reactionary party of the Democrats. Well, it so happened that there was one stronghold in the Government that oar party had not lost, and fortunately will be able to hold a certain check on the Executive power on one hand and the Democratic authority in the popular House of Representatives on the other—l mean the Senate of the United States. That was not lost by the election in November. ** SOME PROPHECIES. Mr. Evarts said that ifhe was to believe the generous congratulations he had received and the press of the country, "We are nearer to a union and enthusiasm for the party, as a party and notching efee, than we have been since 1860, and I believe that as we enter upon the contest in the conduct of the Government and in the suffrage, so we shall pull through it daring the coming years. We are as sure as that election shall come around in this city, and then in the country at large, that we shall reinstate in the posession of that power the Republican party, and then shall have settled forever that odious and dangerous element that has disturbed us for forty years—a Solid South. I believe that we shall have shown in these four years and in our renewed power that just as long as there shall be a practical suppression in the Southern country of the suffrage which the Republican party has conferred upon the enfranchised race, there shall be found enough men at the North to vote one way upon that subject, so as to secure the promotion of this enfranchised people and teach a lesson that votes suppressed at that end will only breed a double growth of votes at the North. I submit to you that jn the last contest for the Senatorship it has been an open, it has been a free, it has been an honest, it has been a goodtempered, it has been a brotherly contest that has preceded; and, gentlemen, this public contest ftom the press, and, in the opinions Ot mankind, in the State, and in the deliberative bodies themselves has taught a lesson that if the public men of the State win trust the people at large directly. that relation between the public men and the party at large, no matter who shall be successful among the competitors, is a better and a greater success for the party and the people than the triumph of the most admired men if it ie got by other means than that of the will of the people." It would be intereeting to know how the •2,000,000 said to have been plundered from the revenue of Kentucky during the i last fifteen years was distributed among the 1 Democratic patriots of the State.—JSr.

The Habits Of Birds.

Birds do not cough and aneeze, Iml thoy A roam and snore, making tho most distressing sounds, as if strangling. They hiccough—a very droll affair it h, too—and they faint away. A goldfinch being frightened one night, ilk his struggles wm caught between the wires, and gave a cry like the squeak of a mouse in distress. On my hastening to his release, he slipped out into the room, and flew wildly about till he hit something and fell to the door. - He was picked up, and his fright culminated in a dead faint. Tho little head drooped, the body was limp, apparently perfectly lifeless, and he was lain in his cage ready to be buried in the morning. He was placed carefully on the breast, however, and in a few minutes he hopped upon his perch, shook out his ruffled feathers, and composed himself to sleep. One feat sometimes ascribed to man is, in the case of birds, a 1 teral fflet—they can sleep with one eye open. This curious habit I have watched closely, and I find it common in nearly all the varieties I have been able to observe. One eye will does sleepily, shut tight and appear to enjoy a good nap, while the other is wide awake as ever. It is not always the eye towards the light that sleeps, nor is it invariably the one from the light. The presence or absense of people makes no difference. I have even bad a bird stand on my arm or knee, draw up one leg, and seem to sleep soundly with one eye, while the other was wide open. In several years* close attention I have been unable to find any cause either in the position or the surroundings, for this strange habit No “set old woman’ is more wedded to her accustomed “ways” than are birds in general to theirs. Their hours for eating, napping, and singing are as regular as ours. So, likewise, are their habits in regard to alighting places, even to the very twig they select. After a week’s acquaintance with the habits of a bird, I can always tell when something disturbing has occurred, by the place in which he is found. One bird will makp the desk his favorite haunt, and freely visit tables, the rounds ot chairs, and the floor, while another confines himself to the backs of chairs, the tops of cages and pictnre frames. One hemit'thrnsh frequented, the bure-ya, and looking-glass frame, and the top of a cardboard map which had warped around till the upper edge wm almost circular. On this edge he would perch for hours, and twitter and call, but no other bird ever approached it Still another would always select the door casing and window cornices. Every bird has his chosen place for the night, usually the highest perch on the darkest side of the cage. They soon become accustomed to the situation of the dishes in their .cages, and plainly resent any change. On my placing a drinking cup in a new part of the cardinal’s residence, he came down at once, scolding violently, pretended to drink, then looked over to the comer where the water used to be, and renewed his protestations. Then he returned to the upper pereh, flirting his tail and expressing his mind with great vigor. A few minutes passed, and be repeated the performance, keeping it up with great excitement until, to pacify him, I replaced the cup. He at once retired to his usual seat, smoothed bis roughened plumage, and in a few moments began to sing. A dress ot new color on the r mistress makes great commotion among these close observers, aud the moving about of furniture puts the the tamest one in a panic. —Atlantic Monthly.

An Anecdote of Admiral Foote. From an article on Admiral Foote and the gnu-boats, by James B. Eads, in the Ceutury. we quote the foilow;nq: “In the railway train a gentleman who sat in front of me, learning that I . had .constructed Foote’s vessels, introduced himself as Judge Foote, ot Cleveland, a brother of the Admiral. Among other interesting matters, he related an anecdote of one of bis little daughters who was just learning to read. After the capture of Fort Henry the squadron was brought back to Cairo for repairs, and, on the Sunday following, the crews, with their gallant flag-officer, attended one of the churches in Cairo. Admiral Foote was a thorough Christian gentleman and excellent impromptu speaker. Upon this occasion, after the congregation had assembled, some one whispered to hun that the minister was ill and would be unable to officiate; whereupon the Admiral went up to the pulpit himself, and after the usual prayer aud hymn, he selected as the text John xiv.. 1, ‘Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me,' .Upon this text he delivered what was declared to be an excellent sermon, or exhortation, after which he dismissed the congregation. An account of the sermon jras widely published m the papers at the time, and eame into the bands of his little niece just referred to. After she had read it she exclaimed tc her father; ‘“Uncle Foote did not say that right* ■“Say what right?* asked the lather. " ‘Why, when he preached.* “ Wbat did be say?* “‘He said, 'Let not your heart lie troubled: ye believe in God, believe also io me.’ ** ‘Well, what should he have said t inquired the father. ti " ‘Well, be ought to have said, ‘Let not your heart be troubled - : ye believe in God,believe also in the g-un-boat*.' *

A Purse Proand Texan.

Mr. Thomas Schooler is due of tbs richest merchants in Austin. He is, moreover, very superciiliotm and arrogant, and does not hesitate to show Ids comtemvt for poor people. One day * young law student st the University entered the private office of Mr. Schooler, and announced himself assn applicant for the hand of Miss Schooler. - "How much are you worth?* “I'm pretty well off. I reckon Tvs got about $5,000.” , "Only ss.ooo'Great Scott Young man. can you read?” ' . K “Yes, sir.” “Then why don’t you read that sign on my office door?” and be pointed so a sign which r**ad : , ' “No tramps or beggars admitted