Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1888 — Page 2

ThcJßcpublican. Gko. E. Marshall, Publisher. ' - ■ V - RENSSELAER, IN pIAWA

Prof. John W. Scott, the father-in-law of Gen. Ben Harrison, is an SI,BOO clerk in the pension office at Washington, and is the oldest man in actual service on the rolls of the Government. Murat Halstead and Gen. Harrison were students together at Miami I niversity. The following table shows the length of each of the past Republican Conventions in days: D«y» of . bar* oI Year. duration. Year duration. 1866 2 1«2- ’ - 8 1864 ._. 1 1880 6 1868 r 1884- < The only convention in the past which equaled the present one in duration was that held in 1880, at which Garfield was nominated. The deiay in reaching a choice was due principally to the contest between the forces of Grant and Blaine. The convention began on Wednesday, adjourned on Saturday night to Monday, and completed its labors on Tuesday night.

FLOODS IN MEXICO.

Telegraphic communications, which have been interrupted for several days by the floods, have been restored, and the particulars of the terrible disaster on the line of the Mexican Central Railway, particularly at I eon and Siloa, are obtained. During the past ten days the table lands between the City of Mexico and Zacatecasy have been visited by unprecedented rains. At Silao 325 houses were destroyed, but the destruction at Leon was even wprse.

Monday night brought to that city one of the most terrible scenes ever witnesssd in any country. People believing themselves to be secure from the flood went to bed in those parts of town where the water had not found its way. The steady downfall of rain with the extensive water bed of the outlaying country, increased the flow of the river and rapidly extended its channel, until over half of Leon was under water. Houses tumbled in rapidly, having been worn away by the water, and the loss of life commenced, unparalleled in the history of any of the great inundations of modern times. As the buildings fell the unfortunate sleepers were eit her crushed to death or drowned. One whole night of terror followed. Men, women and children fled to the street in their night clothes, some to find shelter on higher ground and others to be swept away by the flood. On Tuesday morning rain was still falling, and there was no perceptible decrease in the stream of water. The loss of life reached into hundreds, but the threatening danger had closed the channel of sorrow and the hushed voices denoted nothing more than fear for the future. All night it poured,until Wednesday morning saw the lake surrounding the city undiminished in size with steady rain disturbing its surface. In the afternoon, however,it ceased’ raining, and the waters commenced to recede. The people recovered from their fright, though water was still covering a portion of the city. It is estimated that 700 persona perished. The destroyed houses are estimated at 2,000 and the loss at $2,000,000.

Many other towns have been badly damaged, but loss of life is only reported from Silao and Leon. The estimate of loss of life and property given are the smallest reported,but are certainly within the bounds of truth. The very last statement just received places the number of houses destroyed in Leon at 2,224 and the homeless families at more than 1,000. More than 250 bodies have been recovered from the ruins, and there is no probability that the entire number will fall short of 700. Information has been received at El .Paso from the flooded district in Mexico that 1,500 lives were lost by the inundation and that 1,000 bodies have been recovered. Leon is a city of 100,000 inhabitants, and a large part of it is in ruins. The Mexican of Customs at El Paso Del Norte received an official dispateh stating that one hundred miles of the Mexican Central railroad is impassible and that it will be ten days before mails can get through and twenty days before freight can be moved. * — ; The general passenger agent of "the Mexican Central railroad received a telegram at El Paso, Tuesday, from the Mexican Central agent at Silao, saving that in two days the track would be so that passengers could be taken through the flooded area with one transfer. Steps'are being taken for the relief of the sufferers by the terrible overflows along the line of the Mexican Central. It seems that 1,500 people were drowned in Leon alone. Oyer 1,000 bodies have already been recovered. In some districts the drifting water is full of dead bodies floating ar thick as drift-wood, and tbe steneh pervading the country is frightful. Measures are being taken all over Mexico to raise funds for the sufferers. ~

A Chicago Police Justice has made a funny legal blunder. He has built a ~ftge~bouse mi Another huhi’h lotrnndffie man will neither buy let him removeit The surveyor got the wrong line,and the owner of the propertv wasn’t say inga word.

NONE LIKE JESUS.

FAITH LIFTS US OUT OF THE PIT. And S«U Our Feet on th* Rock of A*»«Jtast As Wo Believe Will Be Our B<ward -Cfcrint Will Never Desert Va. The Rev. Dr. Talmage’s subject Sunday, was “None Like Jesus.” He took for 4>is text “Unto you therefore which believe He is precious.” I. Peter, chap8, verse 7. Following is the sermon: We had for many years in this Country commercial depression. What was the matter with the stores? With the harvests? With the people? 1-ack of faith. Money enough, goods enough, skillful brains chough, industrious enough, but no faith.. Now what damages the commercial damages the spiritual. Our great lack is faith. That is the hinge on which eternity turns. The Bible says we are saved by faith. “0,” save some one in the audience, “I have faith. I believe that Christ came down to save the world.” I reply that in worldly matters when you have faith you always act upon it. For instance, if I could show you a business operation by which you could mak<? SS,(XX) you woulcj jmmediatelv go into it. You would prove your faith in what I tell you by your prompt and immediate action. s»ow, if what you call faith in Chrtst has led you to surrender your entire nature to Jesus and to correspondihg action in life, it is Snuine faith, and if it has not, it is not ith at all. »

There are somethings which I believe with the head. Then there are other things which I believe with the heart. Awl then there are other things which I believe both with the head and heart. I believe, for instance, that Cromwell lived That is a matter of the head. Then there are other things which I believe with the heart and not with the head. That is, I have no especial reason for believing them, and yet I want to believe them, and the wish is the father to the expectation. But there is a very great difference between that which we believe about ourselves and that which we believe about others. For instance, you remember hot a great while ago there was a disaster in Pennsylvania amid the mines; there was an explosion amid the damps, and many lives were lost. In the morning you picked up your newspaper, and saw that there had been a great disaster in Pennsylvania. You said:,“Ah, what a sad thing it is; how many lives lost! O, what sorrow!” Then you read a little further on. There had been an almost miraculous effort to get those men out, and a few had been saved. “Oh,” you said,, “what a brave thing, what a grand thing that was! Howwell it was done!” Then you folded the paper up, and sat down to your morning repast. Your appetite had not been interfered with, and during that day, perhaps, you thought only two or three times of the disaster. But suppose you and I had been in the mihe, and the dying had been all around us, and we had heard the pickaxes jUSt above us as they were trying to work their way down, and after awhile we saw the light, and then the life-bucket let down through the shaffi and suffocated and half dead we Had' just strength enough to throw ourselves into it, and had been hauled out into the light. Then what an appreciation we would have had of the agonv and darkness beneath, and the joy of deliverance. That is the difference between believing a thing about others and believing it about ourselves.

We take up the Bible and read that Christ came to save the world. “That was beautiful,” you say; “afine specimen of self-denial. That was very grand indeed!” But suppose it is found that we ourselves were down in the mine of sin and in the darkness, and Christ stretched down His arm of mercy through the gloom and lifted us out of the pit, and set our feet on the Rock of Ages, and put a new song into our mouth. O, then it is a matter of hand-dapping; it is a matter of congratulation; it is a matter of deep emotions. What kind of' faith have you, my brother? It is faith that makes a Christian, and it is the proportion of faith that makes the difference between Christians. What was it that lifted Paul and Luther and Payson and Doddridge above the ordinary level of Christian character? It was the simplicity, the brilliancy, thepower, and the splendor of their faith. Oh! that we had more of it. God give us more faith to preach, and more faith to hear. First: I remark that Christ is precious to the believer, as a Savior trom sin. A man says: “To whom are you talking? lam one of the most respectable men in this neighborhood; do you call me a sinner? Yes’ “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.” You say: “Howdovou know anything about my heart?’’ I know that about'it. for God announces it in His Word; and what God says is always right. When a man becomes a Christian, people say: “That man sets himself above us.’, ’O, no! Instead of setting himself up, he throws himself down. He cries out: “I was lost once, but now lam found. I was blind once, but now I see. I prostrate myself at the foot of the cross of the Savior’s mercy.’’ What a grand thing it is to feel that the bad words I have ever altered, and all the bad deeds I have ever done, and all the bad thoughts that have gone through my mind, are as though they had never’ been, for the sake of what Christ has done. You know there is a "difference in stains. Some can be washed out by water, but others require a chemical preparation. The sin of the heart is so black and indelible a mark that no human application can cleanse it, while the blood of 'Jesus can wash it out forever. Oh, the infinite, the omnipotent chemistry of the Gospel! Some man says: “I believe all that. I believe God hMs-fergiven the most of my sins, but there is one sin I cannot forget.” What is it? Ido not want to know what it is. but I take the responsibility of saving that God will forgive it as willingly as any other sin.

Again I remark that Christ is precious .to the believer as a friend. You have commercial friends and you have family friends. To theeominereiai friend you gtrwhen you have troubles. You can look back to some day—it may have been ten or twenty years ago—when,-it-vou had not had that friend, you would have been entirely over-thrown in business. But I want to tell you this morndng,o£ Jesus, the best—business friend-w man ever hadZ He can pull you out of the worst perplexities. There people in this audience who have got in the habit of putting down all their worldly troubles at the feet of Jesus. Why, Christ meets the business man on the street

and says: “Oh, business man. I know all thy troubles. .1 will be with thee. I will see thee through.” Look out how you try to corner or trample on a man who is backed up by the Lord God Almighty. Look out how you trample on him. O, there is a financier that many of our business men have not found out. Christ owns all the boards of trade, all the insurance companies and all the l*anking houses. They say that the Vanderbilts own the railroadsjbut Christ owns the Vanderbilts and the railroads, and all the plottings of stock gamblers shall be put to confusion, and God with His little finger shall wipe out their infamous projects. How often it has been that we have seen men gather up riches by fraud, in pyramid of strength and Ireauty, and the Lord came and blew on it and it was gone; while there are those here to-day who, if they could speak out in this assemblage, or dared to speak out, would say: “The best friend I had in 1857; the best friend I had at the opening of the war; the best friend I ever had has been the Lord Jesus Christ. I would rather give up all other friends than this one.”

But we have also family friends. They come in when we have sickness in the household. Perhaps they say nothing; but they sit down and they weep as the light goes out from the bright eyes, and the white petals of the lily are scattered in the blast of death. The watch through the long night by the dying couch, and then, when the spirit is gone, soothe vou with great comfort. They say: “Don’t cry, Jesus pities you. Aft is well. You will meet the lost one again.” , Then when your son went off, breaking your heart, did they not come and put the story in the very best shape, and prophesy the return of the prodigal? Were they.not in your house when the birth angel flapped iis wings over your dwelling? And they have been there at the baptisms and at "the weddings. Fam? ily friends! But I havfe to tell you that Christ is the best family friend. O, blessed is that cradle over which Jesus bends! Blessed is that nursery where Jesus walks! Blessed is that sick brow from which Jesus wipes the dampness! Blessed is that table where Jesus breaks the bread!; Blessed is that grave where Jesus Stands with His scarred feet on the upturned sod, saying: “I am the resurrection and the life; he that belieyeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live!” Have you a babe in the house? put it into t lie arms of the great Childover. Is there a sick one in the house? Think of Him who said: “Damsel, arise.” Are you afraid you will come to w ant? Think of Him who fed the five thousand. Is there a little one in your house that you are afraid will be blind, or deaf, or ame? Think of Him who touched the blinded eye and snatched back the boy from epileptic convulsion. Oh, he is the best friend.

Look over your family friends to-doy and find another that can be compared to him. When we want our friends thev are sometimes out of town. Christ is always in town. We find that some stick to us in prosperity who Will not in adversity. But Christ comes through "darkest night, and amid ghastliest sorrow, and across, roughest sea, to comfort you. There are men and women here who would, have been dead twenty years ago but for Jesus. They have gone through trial enough to exhaust ten times their physical strength. Their property.went, their health went, their families were scattered. God onlv knows what they suffered. They are an amazement to themselves that they have been able to stand it. They looked at their once happy home, surrounded by all comforts. Gone! They think of the time when they used to rise strong in the morning and walk vigorously down the street, and had experienced a health they thought inexhaustible. Everything gone but Jesus. • He has pitied them. His eye has watched them. His omnipotence has defended them. Y’es, He has been with them. They have gone through disaster, and He was a pillar of fire by night. They have gone across stormy Galilee, but ’ Christ had His foot on the neck of the storm. They felt the waves of trouble coming up around them gradually, and they began to climb into the strong rock of Gcal's defense, and then they sang, as they looked over the waters: “God is our ’ refuge and strength, an ever present help in time of trouble; therefore, we will not fear, though the earth be removed, though the mountains be carried into the midst of tire sea, though tne waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.”

I remark again: Christ is precious to the believer as a final deliverer. You and I must after awhile get out of the world. Here and there one perhaps may come on to eighty, to ninety years of age, but your common sense tells you that the next twenty-five yearsdvlH larid the majority of this audience in eternity. The next ten years will thin out a great, many of the family circles. This day may do the w’ork for some di us. Now why do I say this? To scare you? No; but just as I -ivould-stand in your office, if I were a business man and you were a businessman, and talk over risks. You do not,consider it cowardly to talk in your store over temporal risks. s it base in us this morning to talk a little while oyer the risks of the soul that are for eternity? In every congregation death has the last year been doing a great deal of work. Where is your father? Where is your mother? Your child? Your brother? Your sister? O, how cruel does death seem to be! Will he pluck every flower? Will he poison even- fountain? Will he put black on every door-knob?. Will he snap every heart-string? Can I keep nothing? Are thereno charmed weapons with which to go out and contend against him?-Give me some keen sword, sharpened in God’s ifrmory, with which I may stab him through. a Give me some battle-ax that I may clutch it and hew him from -helmet to sandal! Thank God! thank God! that he thatrideth on the pale horse hath more thana match in Him who rideth the white home. St. John heard the contest, the pawing of the steeds, the rush, the battle-cry, the onset, until the pale horse came down on his haunches and his rider bit the dust, while Christ, the conqueror, with uplifted voice declared it: ‘'< ffi. Drath, I will be thy plague; Oh, Grave, I will be thy de’struction.” —The scpukhei heft-lighted-castle outlie sh °re of heavenly seas, and sentinel I angels walk up and down at the door to guan I it. The dust and the dampness of -t.htL- grave are ~ only a spray <>f the white surt of celestial seas, and the long breathing_of the dying that you cal! his gaspmg.'iß oirly the Inhalation of the air of heaven. Oh, bless God, for what Christ is to the Christian soul, here and hereafter!

I heard a man say some time ago that they never laugh in heaven. I do not know where he got his authority for that. I think they do langliJn heaven. When victors come home, do we not laugh? When fortunes are won in a day, do not we laugh? After we have been ten or fifteen years away from our friends and we greet them again, do we not laugh? Yes, we will laugh in heaven. Not hollow laughter—not meaningless laughter, but a full, round, clear, deep, resonant outbreak of eternal gladness. Off! the glee of that moment when we first see Jesus. I think we will take the first two or three years in heaven to look at Jesus; and if, in ten thousand years,there should be a moment when the doxology paused ten thousand souls would cry out: “Sing! Sing!” and when the cry was: “What sbuall we sing?” the answer „ would be: “Jesus! Jesus!” Oh! you may have all the crowns in heaven; I do not care so much about them. You may have all the robes in heaven; I do not care so much about them. You may have all the scepters in heayen; I do not care so much about them. You may have all the thrones in heaven; I do not care so much about them. But give me Jesus -T-thaHtf’fenough heaven for me. Oht Jesus,. I long to see Thee.’ “chief among ten thousand, the, One altogether lovely.”

Lord Jesus, help that man. He site far back to-day. He does not like to come forward. He feels strange in a religious assemblage. He thinks perhaps we do not want him. O! Jesus, take that trembling hand! Put thine ear to that agitated heart and hear how it beats. O, lift the iron gate of that prison-house and let that man go free! Lord Jesus, help that woman. She is a wanderer. No tears can she weep. See. Lord Jesus, that polluted seul, see that blistered foot. No church for her. No good cheer for her. No hope for her. Lord Jesus, go to that soul. Thou wilt not stone her. Let the redhot chain, that burns to the bone till the ichor hisses in the heat, snap at Thy touch. O, have mercy on Mary Magdalene. Lord Jesus, help that young man. He took<®oney out of his employer’s till. Didst Thou see it? - The clerks were all. gone. The lights were down. The shutters were up. Didst Thou see it? 0, let him not fall into the pit. Rememherest Thou not his mother’s prayers? Bhe can pray for him no more. Lord Jesus, touch him on the shoulder. Touch him on the heart. Lord, save that young man. There arg many young men here. I got a letter from one of them, who is probably here to-day, and I shall have no . other opportunity of answering that letter. Y'ou say you believe in me. 0, do you believe in Jesus? I can not save you, my dear brother. Christ can. He wants and waits to save you, and He comes to-day. to save you. Will you have him? Ido not know what our young men do without Christ—how they get on amid all the temptations and trials to which they are subjected. 0, young men, come to Christ to-day, and put your soul and your interest for this life’ and the" next into His keeping. In_ olden times, you know, a cup-bearer would bring wine or water to the King, who would drink it, first tasting it himself, showing there Was no poison in it."then passing it to the King, who would drink it. The highest honor I ask is that I may be cup-bearer to-day to your soul. I bring you this water of everlasting life. I have been drinking of it. There is no poison in it. It has never done me any harm. 0, drink it, and live forever. And let that aged man put his head down on the staff, and let that poor widowed soul bury her worried face in her and these little children fold their hands in prayer, while we commend you to Him who w’as wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities; for to you which believe He is precious.

FIVE PERSONS KILLED.

A party of sixteen ladies and gentlemen hired the steam yacht Olivette and left Newark, N. "J., at 8 o’clock, Sunday night. It being flood tide, the jetty'at the mouth of the bay, was covered with water. The pilot had scarcely got his bearing when he heard a sharp, grating sound, and realizing that he was on the jetty, stopped the engine. Several of the male passengers jumped over.on the jetty, and in doing so the boat lurched and slid off into deep water. The girls then made a rush for the side of the boat. This caused her to keel over suddenly, and in a second she turned bottom side up. The air was immediately filled with screams for help from a score of persons struggling for - their lives rrr the water. Their cries were heard at Greenville and other points on the bay, and rescuers soon went to the scene of th<accident. But when the boats arrived it was was found that six of the party had been swept away and drowned. The bodies have all been recovered.

SIX MEN KILLED.

A fatal accident occurred at Cable City, a few miles north of Shamokin, Pa., Tuesday evening, on the Pennsylvania railroad, in which six laborers of a gravel train were killed and five fatally injured. The train hands of the gravel train escaped by jumping. A freight train from Sunbury, with more cars than it could place on ®ne raiding, was distributing the cars on several tracks wdien a gravel train ran into its rear enn. The cars of the freight train mounted the gravel train and the laborers, were crushed to death. Out of eleven laborers, but one escaped uninjured. The laborers saw , their danger in time to escape, but were so badly frightened that they were unable to move. It is said the flagman of the freight train was not in position to flag the gravel train. - The -dead were brought to Shamokin and the injured taken to the Miner’s Hospital. * ”

The official report of Russia for 1887 shows that the population of the Empire* -There were 46,26 T deaths violence, 32,000 fires, 2,377 distilleries,. ? 132,000 wine and beer shops, 24Y sugar i refineries, 8 universities, 38,581 orthodox" ' churches, 1,287 Catholic, 708 Protestant, * 349 synagogues, and 8,957 mosques.

INDIANAPOLIS.

Special Correspondence. ) ? - The campaign of 1888 is fairly opening up. The Republican State Committee officials have opened up headquarters at the Denison Hotel, with Chairman Huston and the Secretary in charge,Wlio will remain here until after the election. Chairman Jewett and the Democratic Committee, assisted by Secretary S. P. Sheerin, of the National Committee,have headquarters at 14 and 16 South Tennessee street, and are busily engaged in developing and directing the opening of the contest.

Mr. Harrison is receiving many callers from all parts of the country and all classes of people. His nomination has diverted the attention of the whole country in this direction. Among the more prominent callers were the California and Vermont delegations ,in a body, several delegates from Virginia, Florida and the South, E. L. Shepherd, editor of the New York Mail and Express, Hon. Stephen B. Elkins and many political clubs and delegations of citizens. Scarcely an hour passes that Mr. Harrison or his entertaining lady are not called upon to entertain some one, and it is done in a manner that does full credit to their discretion and excellent judgment.

While here Mr. and Mrs. Elkins dined with ex-Senator McDonald and lady. Several thousands of Indianapolis citizens visited the Harrison residence and its distinguisned inmates during the course of Saturday evening. There were two organized bodies of callers, one, non-partisan, consisting of old soldiers, irrespective of party; the other, the Harrison (colored) League. The old soldiers, several hundred strong, rendezvoued at the New Denison House and marched to the residence. Major James L. Mitchell (Democrat) served as spokesman, and in the presence of a large audience told General Harrison that they “came as comrades, neighbors and friends to pay our respects and congratulate you warmly for your grand success at Chicago.” The recipient of these honors made a happy response. In conclusion he thanked “especially those friends who differ with one in their political views, that they have put these things aside Monday night, and have come here to give me a comrade’s greeting.” There was then a cordial handshaking, at which Mr. and Mrs. Harrison were on the one side and the old soldier on the other. These scenes were repeat"edTn"kindrafter the soldiers had gone, upon the arrival of the Harrison League. There were several hundred colored men, not a few of them having their wives with them. Ben D. Bagby, speakingfor the club, pledged untiring support to the nominee of the Chicago Convention and expressed the belief that disfranchised colored voters in the South will find in General Harrison a friend and champion. The response by General Harrison was touching and appropriate. He remembered as a boy seeing the escaping slaves and keeping their secret; he remembered the faithful services of the colored man during the war; he rejoiced in the progress of the colored race, and looked forward to the perfect emancipation which will remove remaining prejudices. There was much handshaking, music and applause following the speeches. Chairman Jewett has appointed John A.HollmanandAdolpliusTLiedusticEen as additional members of his executive committee. Gen. Harrison has received over 3000 congratulatory letters and telegrams since his nomination, all of which have been or are being answered, and requires no little labor. Among the letters was one from Senator Sherman expressing warm friendship for General Harrison and an intention to support the ticket.

THE NATIONALTREASURY.

Cood.tion ot ihe Public Deb*—The Year’s Receipt*and Expenditures. The reduction in the public debt during June, as shown by the statement issued from the Treasury Department Monday, is $14,420,502, and for the fiscal year which closed on Saturday, June 30, $113,844,080. During the preceding fiscal year the debt was reduced $109,707,676. The total debt now, less cash in the Treasury, aggregates $1,165,584,656, and of this amount $1,015,146,012 is in-terest-bearing debt. In round numbers the interest-bearing debt to-day is made up of $714,000,000 4 per cent, $222,009, OOffTij per cent.. $64,500,000 Pacific railroad 6 per cents, and $14,000,000 navy pension fund 3 per cent, bonds. The net cash or actual surplus in the Treasury on July 1 was $103,220,464, against $40,853,369 a year ago. One year ago the Treasury gold fund balance was $186,875,669, and to-day it aggregates $193;866,246, an in crease of $7,000,000 during the year; the net silver fund balance was $73,348,425, against $47,634,842 to-day, a decrease of $26,000,000 during the fiscal year just closed. Standard silver dollars are steadily accumulating, and the Treasury now’holds $243,879,487 of this c<sin, of* $32,000,000 more than on July 1,1887. ....Government receipts from_alL snurcesduring June amounted to $32,490,777, $33,070,884 during June, 1887, and for Tthe fiscal year the revenues aggregated ~53T97329;425r8gain5t during the preceding fiscal year. Customs receipts for the year just.closed aggregated $219,397,076; internal revenue receipts, $124,824,973, and receipts from

I miscellaneous sources amounted to >132,168,375. This .shows an increase, compared with the preceding year of but $2,000,000 in customs receipts, 6,000,000 in internal revenue, and a falling off of SIOO,OOO in receipts from miscellaneous sources. While the revenue has increased about $9,000,000, the expenditures for the year just closed which aggregate $269,089,939, have also increased alxmt $1,000,000, The ordinary expenses of the government for the*, year were $745,161,500 or about $100,000,- > OOO less than the preceding year, the pension charge was $81,575,967,0r $5,500,000 greater than the year before, while the charge, which is growing less and less as the debt is paid off, was $44,789,572, or $3,000,000 less than during the preceding year, $8,270,842 was paid in premiums on bonds purchased during the year. With total receipts amounting to $379,000,000 and total expenditures aggregating $269,800,000, the surplus revenue for the fiscal year.just closed will amount to $110,000,000, against $103,471,097 during the last fiscal year.

A MAN WITH MANY WIVES.

A'man who may justly lay claim to the title of the champion bigamist, iLthe stories told of him are true, now occupies a cell at a Chicago station house. He says his name is J. B. Aldrich. H,e has been living under the name of J. B. Willington, at No. 6288 Wentworth avenue, with wife No. 23. At least a police officer from Detroit, who was in Chicago a few days ago looking for Al- ’ drich, said that the latter had twenty-one wives living in different parts of the country besides the one at Detroit, and the one with whom Aldrich wassupposed to be living in Chicago. He is known in Detroit as J. B. Brown, and is supposed to have a wife living in Baltimore, Md. Almost nothing is known by the Chicago police of the story, Aldrich is a carpenter, forty-two years old. He is a tall, finely formed man with a very intelligent faee and prepossessing appearance.

Imaginary Hydrophobia.

Times A case of simulated hydrophobia was that of a policeman whom I saw a few years ago. The man was then in the Park Hospital, held down on the bed by three or four stout men, in order to restrain him from violence, and. snapping like a dog at everybody who came in his way. At the sight of water he became intensely excited, foamed at the mouth, and went through a series of frightful contortions of the limbs. But when I took a glass of water in my hand and told him in a commanding voice to drink immediately, he sw’allowed the liquid without the slightest difficulty. My tone and action had diverted his mind from himself, and had set up a train of thought altogether different from that to which he had previously been subject. Nervous sedatives in large doses were given to him, and by the next day all his symptoms had disappeared. On inquiry it was ascertained that he had been bitten by a dog several days before, and that his comrades had frightened him by their questions and suggestions. Not a year passes that cases similar to the foregoing are not reported in the newspapers. Tire fact is that real hydrophobia is a very rare disease, eight cases only of it having come under my person al observation during the whole of my professional career, while the false disease is very common.

Notes on Preserves.

The WntiMihold, - —-G—-----r —— - ~~ . Preserves should boil gently to prevent burning, “simmer” people used to say,-and that the sugar may penetrate well. Peach and pear preserves are standards along with quince. We like plums. A good damson is excellent, and grapes are always in order. To clarify syrup mix thoroughly., the white of an egg with the dry sugar in the kettle, pour over it boiling water and all impurities will immediately arise. Grape jelly is also quite as desirable as anything in the jelly line. A person recovering from sickness will relish grape jelly almost before all other sauces, and, if possible, it is well to have some on hand for this purpose, if no other. In the making of jams my good cook book tells me the fruit should..he.thoroughly bruised before cooking, as this prevents its hardening. Jams also require almost constant stirring,and a good ladle or paddle should be in possession of every housekeeper.

A Lovesick Savage.

One of the young bucks in the Wild West show is smitten by the charms of a certain young lady living at Port Richmond. He goes to the house every morning, and placing his elbows qn the fence, will rest his chin in his hands and look up at her window with a woful countenance. When she goes out on an errand he will accompany her at a re-* spectful distance. Thus far the young brave’s overtures have not been in the least disrespectful, although the young lady is in mortal dread least he break into the House some mghtand carry her off as they used to do in the good old days of the dime novel hero.

Onward and Upward.

Harper’ B Bazar. —“ ‘Onward and Upward* will bo tlie maxim ol tne new paper," said the editor, proudly. And it proved a happy maxim, too. For three short months the paper went onward, and then it went upward.