Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1892 — Page 6

the republican. \ II Vt ■ « '■'■■»' '■■*- —* Gbom E. M »MHiT,U Publisher. RgySSFJiAER • INDIANA

Tbe declaration of Explorer ley that he will never again visit America has caused no wild flurry in the stock markets or elicited anything like a united protest from the public. Stanley owes a great deal te this country, but liis presence would not lesson the obligation. humanity if they would jiftss by dancing girls who earn S4O or S3O a week and have all that money can get for them, and do a little more for the children whe are obliged to j work in factories for $2 or $3 a week and have barely the necessities of life. In an esteemed contemporary apk pears an article with these headlines: -"“Will Have to Rest—Unsatisfactory State of Health.” On the same page, however, appears another article about Gladstone, the headlines of which announce that “The Statesman Is as Vigorous as a Four-Year-Old." Perhaps lie rS s teo vigorous and has to rest in order to get rid of some of his vigor. WniLE he was the guest of the artists of Munich at their club house recently Prince Bismarck drink the ‘‘draught of welcome" from a huge pewter jug holding a gallon and a half of beer. He did not empty it> but took occasion ,tp say: ‘‘l can drain tEejug at one draught, as Burgomaster van Rothenburg did i and saved the city thereby." No one " cared to dispute the boast, for the fame of Bismark’s achievTnents in that line is widespread in the Fatherland and his prowess unquestioned. In regard to the proposition that* some means shall be taken to prevent Anarchists from becoming citizens of this country, we say that, under our present laws, a a alien Anarchist caauot become an American citizen without committing perjury; for every man. when ho takes out papers of naturalization, must lake an oath that he will cuppcrt the Y Government, Constitution, and laws of the United States'.” AS the fundamental principle of Anarchism is opposition |o all government and law, no Anarchist can take this oath without swearing falsely. In no event can an Anarchist take a legal oath anyhow, for the Anarchist believes neither in the God by whom he swears nor in the State to which he takes an oath.. Therefore no immigrant who admits that he is an Auarchist can lawfully become an American citizen. ~ =: ~’

Last week the Duke of Beaufort, nobleman of better Plantagenet blood than the Queen herself, stood up in a London church with the Earl of Orkney, also nobleman of very good blood, and gave way to him in marriage one Connie Gilchrist, variety hall dancer. By this performance Connie ceases to be a familiar character of the green rooms and takes rank in the peerage. The peerage must be getting a little mixed in composition. This duchess of Orkney by the. sweet and commendable rules of British society may walk seventeen paces in front of the count/ ess of Warwick and thirty-five paces in front of -the Countess Spencer. The countess would not think of recognizing Connie'but for her sudden exaltation to rank. Now she is their superior andnil because a voungearh took a fancy to attending variety performances: The world has since the days of Jeames Yellowplush. The exalted spirit—thank fortune —escaped seeing such hill breeding as this bin a hcarl. •*' ■ • o In Persia aud other Mohammedan countries in which the cholera Las been prevalent the worshippers of of Allah have striven to aveit its ravages by prayer, by holy tore ,1 monies, and by impressive services in the mosques. In Russia the. authorities of the Greek Church are now trying to stop the progress of the cholera by religious processions and by commanding the faithful to prostrate themselves many times , daily before the sacred images. Russia, however, is in advance o' Persia. The Russian CTovernnicntr while encouraging the use of religious preventives, is at the same time encouraging the use of disinfectants. In the Ilnited States pious people pray for safety When threatened with danger, but our health give their whole time to thd application of those sanitary laws which, under Heaven’s bjessihgs, arc useful for the protection of the community. . ■-C i

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Twenty four houses were burned at.<Cseoeva. 111., on the 19th. Loss, $175,000. President Harrison/who Ir at Loon Lake, N. Y., was fifty-nine years old, Saturday. - ■ Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland are ranch annoyed by idle gossip concerning their every day life. Thomas Casteel. ->f Lorain. Kas.. Is trying to get a pension because his substitute was killed in thenar. The one topic of interest in England just now is the war in this country between capital and labor, r Congressman John G. Warrick. who succeeded McKlnlev In tfie House of Represen tativt;.dicd in Washington on the i4th. ’ • » At Griffin. Ga.f five children Were locked in the house by their parents. 'The building caught fire and the children were burned Jo death. A loconiotive-i>6ile7.exploded near Memphis oh the Iron 'Mountain railway, Sunday, with terrific force. The engineer and "fireman were killed. ■ Chief Harris, of thl?Cherokee nation.has forwarded to President Harrison a formal j>rote*t against the cattlctneu now gruziug Cherokee Strip. Rev. Father Zigrang. of Worthington, la., whose word is law there. Jasl Sunday directed that all saloons bo closed. The tpwn will bo dry Sundays liereaftcr. Tim once-famous trotter. Jay Eve See. has been converted to the pacing gait.and his owner, J. of Racine. \Vis - promises a sensation with him before the end of the Season. ■ / The seventeen-year-old daughter of Richard Risly, of Port Jefferson, L. 1., is afflicted in a peculiar way, being unable to close her eyes, which seem ready to drop from their sockets. dolih A. Hostwick, of the Standard Oil Company, a hiillionaire,!duiing the excite raei.t attending a fire in his handsome summer stables at Warnaroucck, N, V., dropped dead on the 17th. President Harrison Saturday issued a proclamation retaliating upon Canada for discriminating against American vessels passing through the Welland canal, by fixing an almost prohibitory tariff on freight on Canadian vessels passing through St. Mary’s canal. /The funeral of one of the victims of the Coal Creek. Tcnn., war was held at Knoxwille, Saturday, and a relief fund has been started for tho surviving families, somo of whom arc destitute. The bodies of fifteen miners, killed in the fight, have been re. covered, and more are believed to ho on the mountains. Only four of the soldiers and voiuuteers were killed/ At Wise Court House, Tenw., a most revolting outrage has been perpetrated. Re - ccutlv Ira Mull cuff, a desperate moonshiner. with his whole family was murdered, near Pound Gap. The bodies were buried .near Wise. Friday a relative, going to the graves, found that some one had dug a hole near them, inserted a dynamite cartridge, and blew the bodies out of the ground. They were found scattered in all directions. There is no clew to the criminals. - % Supervising Architect Effhrooke says thatriiio new eight-hour law wiH cost the government $3,000,000 more a year on its building contracts alone, and that it maymake a serious difference in the character of the public buildings to be erected in Washington, Omaha. St. Paul, Milwankeo and San Francisco. He saidt: “I estimate tho passage of the eight-hour law atabout 13 per cent. Tho government spends abotit $25,000,003 a year on public blindings. Thatwil Ini ake an additional expenditure of $8,000,000 a year necessary te carry out the same work. That is the difference which the new law will make in ray office aloue.” The number killed in the Tennessee warfare was greater than at first reported. Fifteen dead bodies of miners have already been recovered. Bud? Lindsey, a leader and an outlaw, was captured, and Sunday tho vigilantes proposed to lynch him. lie pleaded so piteously, offering to turn traitor and point out every man who was identified in tbe troubles as a leader. Oc this condition his life was spared. Over 400 of the miners have been captured, and will be charged with murder. Scouting parties of soldiers arc hourly bringing in other prisoners. Specialists of the Department of Agri_ culture are much concerned over the continued spread of the disease among the poach trees known as the “yellows.” Prof. Edwin F. Smith reportS\that the disease, which was originally confined to a smali district on the Atlantic cdhst, has now spread so> as to include tlie Delaware and Chesapeake region, and the peninsula o Maryland. It is abundantly established that it is contagious. It has extended,.as far south as southern Virginia, and probably as far west as Arkansas and northeastern Texas. Peach-growers are adviced to stamp out the discise by the detruction of trees in which it appears ini mediately on its first manifestation, and aro warned against the Importation of trees from.the infected rigious.

STRIKING SWITCHMEN.

Sixth Day Closes With Increasing Complications. \ Plat* Switchmen Join the Strikin'* —Ught Thousand State Troop* on the Field to Control Three llandred Switchmen. ■Buffalo, Ang. 18.—Thqjstyth day of tbcswitchman's strike" closes with increasing Complications. The leaders of this strike have witnessed the movement and massing of troops with growing determination to meet every advance of their opponents with a counter stroke. Re fore to morrow slrtH have dawned 8,000 troops In the State-service will lm upon tho held hero to watclrand control about 3CO strikers. The presence of so large a number of soldiers is relied upon by the railroad officials as a cofeowdey which they may putto work iion union niafc—atrSiulv en gaged, to break the freight blockade. What the counter stroke of the strike leaden may be to this situation was at

nightfall, to night, problematic, but ft Is not beyond the range of near possibilities that the firemen and the trainmen on all the lines where the strike Is now prevail* ing may bo called out. - v •"The situation may bo broadly stated thus: The latest addition of strength t,{jr thQ Striking switchmen was ninety men in the Nickle Plate yards who struck ber'cause they were required to handle boycotted freight. So it is now that the switchmen upon the entire Vanderbilt system to this vicinity are out Tho Lako Shore men, to be sure, were working - on tlio westerii schedule at the same rates •for which their colleagues in Buffalo went -oh strike last Saturday. They went out solely to add their strength te the moye-ment-of their fellows. The Nickel Plate men who went out to-day stFuek only otitr of sympathy, for they are receiving at, least 10 per cent, highet;, rates than the men who originatedthe strike. The Michigan Central, which is of tbe Vandsrbilt system, practically has no yards in Buffalo, its switching being done on the Central’s tracks. So stands tho Van-, derbilt system, so far as the strike in this city is concerned. The leaders of the striking men hold to-night that tbe Vauderbiit roads aro tied up and inactive at this point. They urge in addition that the Erie, the Lehigh Valley and the Buffalo Creek roads are likewise parallzed by the striw. They feel that tho movement against the roads by the then has now reached such magnl- • tilde and completeness in this locality that it may not be necessary ter any men in allied trades to be called outsat this point. Their ground ter operations is a possible calling out, of the switchmen on the Pelaware, Lackawanna & Western. Rochester & Pittsburg and the Western, New [York .& Pennsylvania roads. The relations of these roads witli the strike leaders aro ex tremely anrjcable, and they will not bf called except to make the strike abso lutely coinpletein tills vicinity. Indecd.it L more probable that the firemen and the trainmen will be called oilt on lines already affected jay the switchmen's strike. Tbe writing of this digest of tho situation at tile %our of 9 bteloyk is embar r assp,d by the fact that even before dawn of to-morrow the switchmen of tho various roads affected here may be cajicd out at Suspension Bridge, Hornellsville, Jersey City, aud‘ possibly Rochester and 'Albany. The Delaware, Lackawana & Western, which lias already conceded the demands of the men, went further to-day and formally notified its employes that tltey would not bo asked to handle a pound Of boy cot' ted freight. The result is that tho men oT this road are extremely loyal to it. One of them in the yards to-c|ay remarked that bo and his colleagues would he ready even to fight for their employers. The strikers regard the Western New York and Pennsylvania officials and the Rochester & Pittsburg officials as a “gentlemanly lot.’ Pooling so sure of this reserve ground in Buffalo the presumption is that the strikers prefer the open countenance by tlie port that might arise from tho going out | of the men op these roads in response to a call. Hence? tho counter strokes in future to be dealt the contesting roads must fall upon their interests at other points. There can be no doubt to-night that, before yielding this flight?the leaders will extend their strike west even to Chicago, and eastward -to New York, ultimately calling out, perhaps, not only switchmen, but firemen and trainmen. The strikers lookjfor wide developments in the next threy days.'" : The strikers claim fuirsvmpathy on the part of the firemen, and they state that if they are called out they will quit their engines wherever the order may reach nßrm.-__ The railroad companies at' Buffalo, un. der tho protection of tin* soldiery, sucseeded Sunday in breaking the blockade and moving trains. It is alleged the companies have been discharging firemen refusing to act as switchmen. If this is true all engineers and firemen will be culled out and the contest will begin in earnest. An investigation is being had.

FOREIGN.

Parliament has adjourned until Dev comber. l■) Font deaths occurred in Paris on the 19th from sunstroke. Gladstone is wprried by a threatened Refection in the ranks of bis natty. Trado statistics Tor tEe sqv>n months of 1892 show that Franco during that time exported to the United States goods valued at 142.735JXX) francs, and imported goods valueckat 4(51,522,000 francs. | Overthrec hundred houses at Sordovosk, i Russia, burned. Twenty-live hundred j people are homeless. Orders liavc been given that no American hog products bo placed on sale, until f after examination by the Prussian authorities. ,

HAL POINTER’S GREAT MILE.

• * He Cower* the Facing Record to 2:05 1-4 , »t Chicago.. H ‘ : The world’s pacing record went to smash lit Chicago on tho 19th. Old Johnston, who paced his mile in 2:06M, Oct. 3,1884, at the Chicago West Side driving park, <hos been dethroned, and Ual Pointer reigns in his stead. The game son of Tom Hall went around the Washington Park track Thursday in making the fastest mile eve's gone in harness. As in the case of Nancy Hanks, who on Wednesday beat the universe os a trotter, Friday’s record-breaker was hitched to a sulky with low wheels, pneumatic tires and ball bearings. Its weight was the same as that used by Dobleln driving |4ancy Hanks—(expounds. As on Wednesday the running horse Abe Lincoln was used -as a pacC-maker, but his services apparently were* not needed. Hal Pointer, with Geers driving, went to the, quarter in :3154, half 1:02?*; threequarters !.;34, mile 2:0334. I

Theory and Practice.

Puck. Mr. Baggie—Confound that tailor ’ These trousers are a mile too lengMrs. Baggie—How much shall I turn them up? ' Mr. Baggie—About half an inch.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

There is talk of establishing tin-plate works at Warren. The trade nnions of Shclbyvillo will observe Labor Day. . Muncle reports five chickens hatched by the heat of tho sun. A logrolling down bill caught and fatally crushed Daniel Warman, of Clark county. James Barrett, a "farmer near Chesterton, Porter county, was trampled to death I by a colt. ' , , | patrolman of South Bend, while asleep on his post, was robbed of Lis club and Gold watch. An emery wheel flew to pieces at CpFum. r bus, and a fragment was imbedded in | Gbarles Uanson’askull. - , - - ! 1 The court house at Lebanon xva9 gut- ; tqfl by fire Sunday. Tbe loss is placed at 111:0,000. Tfae.records were saved. Miss Anna Mueller, of Muncic, dropped ! a lighted match in a gas stove, and it was | blown to pieces, while she was severely j bprned.'/ a.:. j O. H. Doming, a contractor, of Valpara- ! iso, is being prosecuted by an employe for I violating the l&wv providing that eight I hour shall constitute a day’s work, j Duck Nesbilt, with a wagon load of intoxicants, appeared at Somerset, and opened up a bar. Soujerset is a “dry” town, and after warning Nesbit without avail, there a call to arms and he was hustled out in short order. William A. Lynn, of Randolph county, forged his wife’s name to a check for $l5O, and countersigned the check with his own name, and the bank honored it. Afterwards he was arrested, but it was held that he could not be prosecuted for forgery because of his own signature, and he was turned loose. Sharp' Hagerty has discovered a twoacre bed of clay upon his farm east of Marion, from which tho silica, when subjected to tho t.est9, has proven to be tho finest quality of fire clay. One specimen lay for seventeen days in the pot furnace of one of the window glass houses, and was found te withstand tho intense heat perfectly. A company will be organized for its development. •.Patsy Sears, presumably the oldest inhabitant of tho Hoosier States died at 3 o’clock on tho 17th. at .the bopie of'her son-in law, John Wolf,in Howard county. She was 108 years of ago, and of English descent. She 'was born in Culpepper county, Va., in 1784, her maiden name being Patsy Humphrey, and is of a family noted for longevity, her father living to round: out a century, and her motber attaining the remarkablo age of 106 t liTlßoo she married Fielden Humphrey,who died in 1828. Two of hey children are veterans of the Mexican war. Fprty years ago site married Robert Sears, who died at the age of one hundred, while f pn a visit with a daughter in Illinois. John Disbsfrt, an inmate of tho Daviesscouiity asylum, claims to be the oldest living inhabitant in tbe Hoosiefr State. He places his age at'lo3. Ho emigrated with his parents from in Virginia, atid lie a fnetnber of the Lewis-Clark exploring party, which penetrated the wilds of tho great northwest. He settled In Daviess eoupty at an early date, atid for many years manufactured the "Dishaft” wagon, which was known far ana near. When seventy three years old he married Miss Lizzie Tranton, who was fifty-four years his junior. Their wedded life lasted but a few months, when they separated. Mr. Disliart reports jha he was never sick in his life, that hjs eyesight is still good, and that he continues a good judge of tobacco and liquor. He does not showjris great age in his physical appearance, and he bids fair to .live several years. 6 Some time ago. when Choulot sshow and mcnagorie passed through Crawford cotiti ty, a boa-conStrictor of medium size escap" tetefrons. its cage aud spread consternation among the natives. As time wore away* tho iueidcut was forgotten or looked upon as a“fake,” Early Wednesday the matter was suddenly sprung afresh, near Doolittle’s mills, at when J. D. entered his 1 barn and saw the monster luJiay-loft. Doolittle had lost a calf and several shoats, of which ho could find no clow. Their disappearance was explained by the presence of the snake. Seeing tho reptile. Mr. Doolittle beat a hasty retreat, and after releasing his. horses fron the harn, and without attempt, ing to take out his wagon, buggy, and -other property, be applied a matcli and burned the structure aud ground. TEeTBow r was"^tuTTor new stay» After the fire had spent its force, the ribs of the reptile were found in the ashes, aud they were nearly as largo as the ribs of a two-hundred-pound hog. Mr. Doolittle says that ho feels worse from tho effect which the snake's vicious eyes had upon ! him than ho docs over the loss of his barn j and contents* The eyes still haunt hitn ! The contents of the barn were the principallos as the structure was an old one and was soon tq be replaced. Mr Doolittle is tho proprietor of a largo flouring mill at Eckerty. " c

POLITICAL.

Independents and Democrats in North Dakota are proposing to fuse. A call for a silver convention to meet in El Paso. Texas, Dec. 5, Las been issued. Mr. Cleveland, Joseph Jefferson, R. 11. Gilder and Wm. Crane have gone to Mashpeo—fishing: The People’s Party and Democrats will unite in opposition to Funstqn in the secoud Kansas district Wbitelaw Reid was given anon-partisan reception Saturday at Cedarville, 0.. the home of his aged mother, Platt and Quay have given assurance that they will work actively for the success of the Republican ticket j Republicans and People’s of Alabama , will fuse on congressional and electoral tickets, the Republicans to withdraw their electoral ticket q, The Democratic split in Texas is growing worse. One convention Thursday recy M-rted’Govornor Hogg and a full State aad ti'o othcr namtuated General "George Clark for Governor and a separate ticket • It Is slated that James H. Bloun t, chair -

man of the committee on foreign relations in tho present House of Representatives, will not be a member of the neit HouseAfter a servico of twenty years In the body he has decided to quit Congressional life. Both State committees are engaged in" making arraugemetts for the formal open i ing of the campaign, tho Republican on tho 3d, and the Democrats on the loth of -September. Both committees have arranged to bring prominent speakers from other •States Into Indiana on tho opening day, and all the best political speakers in tbe . State aro beipg assigned appointments. Candidate Stevenson will be the greatest attraction the Democrats will have, and Major McKinley will be the Republicans’” chief speaker. In a few days both committees will be ready to announce the list of appointments for the opening. The chair-tbe-eoram+ttees «* peet-by tho-time-set for opening the campaign the candK dates will have submitted their ilettere of acceptance to the public, and the line of campaigu will, therefore, be marked out.

A Faith Cure.

EiH Nye. Faith is necessary in the affairs of this life as well as those of a future FaTtETiss donfe mueb.Tib advance the cause of progress and human advancement and progression. Progress and advancement must naturally go hand in h&tui'. - Faith has dene much to advance progress and to give: progression to advancement (sic.). Faith in a physician has done much to advance the cause of medicine," for instance. A neighbor of mine here, through faith, in his doctor, made the discovery that it was the capsul, and net the contents, which cured him. One day the doctor had the capsules with him. but none of the filling, and so he administered the capsul. It did the patient so much now he often uses the capsul bv itself with gratifying results*. Last spring a man in Buncombe county was taken sick with a sort of misery in his side and a raising in his head. The doctor was sent for and decided to take the temperature of the invalid; so he wiped his thermometer on the knee of his trousers aud put it under the touug of the si6k man. It remained there ten minutes. Those who have given , themselves up to the gastronomic delights of ai. fifteen-cent thermometer that has Been through a long hospital practice teill agree that it gives one the gay look of a man who has just swallowed a soft-shell ostrich egg or a wet umbrella. -‘— l —■ ■ After the doctor had gone the wife said: “Agamemnon;what was that there thing he gave vou when he first come in?” . “That,” says Agamemnon, “was elecricitv, and I never got relief so quick since I was born.

No Suicide Allowed.

Harlem Mife. “I wish you wduld get me a couple of packets of cigarettes,” said the condemned murderer to the jail warden. /“Can’t do it, said the officer. “The law must be allowed to take its course.” •.'

THE MARKETS.

liter aw APonts, August 22, 133 >• All (juottttiouo for iiidiuuapolin wUau aot spociiij I GRAIN. / ’ Wli 68, o. 2 lody 740; No. 3- fodj-firej ■ wugon wheat*, 74c. Corn—No lwhite, 52c; .N 0,2 wliito. 51c; white mixed, 48c; No. 3 white, 48 «§slc, No. 2 yellow, 47>£c; No. 3 yellow, 47c.; No. 2 mixed, 47Kc; No. 3 mixed, 47c: ear,'4sc. Oats—No. 2 white,34><ic; No. 3 white,33c; No. 2 mixed, 32>jc; rejected, 3 >c. Hay— Timothy, ehoiee, $13:59; No. T. $10.50; No. 2, $10.03; No. 1 prairie, $6.50; No 2, $6.50; mixed hay, $7.50; clover, SB.OO. Bran $ll.OO per tom i WlieaL Corn. Oats. , Rjc. Chicag0........ 3 r’d WM »4 344 .... .... Cincinnati, trr’<l~ J ‘s 4! M 4; 3t?<: —US St. Louis 2 r’lt 7 > 50 31 & 00 , New York.... r’d 85 514 4 » 7» Baltimore .... 814 57 43 72 Philadelphia .3r <i 82.4 . 01 <0 Clover Seed. Toledo s 804 61U 35 7 00 Detroit. | wh BCIH 3i Minneapolis.. 754 ...it...?.-. L ; —— ■■■■■ ■/. Export grades |4 Ki@4 75 Good to choice shippers 3 8 15 Fair to medium shippers 3 40 u.;) 6* Commonshippors..... 2 Stockers, common to good 2 25(gi3 Oo Good to choiqe heifers 3 20,6)3 50 Fair to medium heifers " on L’ommoßftTuh-heiEM:*:,..i 75^3 Good to choice cows . 2 65<j3 00 Fair to medium cows. 2 Commoji old c0w5....... 1 Veals, good to ch0ice...:.;.... 4 200 Bulls, common to medium.... 1 so<®2 no Milkers, good to choice. '. 25 00 615n0 Milkers, common te medium.. l>ooS2.'oo HOGS. Heavy packing and shipping. $5 "5(35 95 Lights 5 60,0*5 po Mixed 5 60@5 <o Heavy roughs.. 5 00(<$5 49 SHRKi'. Good to choice 94 (f( a 4 ... Fair to medium 5 oq? , 5 Commomto medium 2 IOiM 1 2 Lambs, good tp choice 4 25@5 oj POULTRY and other produce.

Poultry--Hens, 9Xc $ lb; youngchickens, 12.a,i4i & lb; turkeys,fat choice hens, 12c lb aud 9c for fanev young toms; ducks, 7c H>; geo«e, 84.80 for choice. Eggs—Shippers paying 11c. llutter—Choice country gross butter.lOc; common, 6 (g 8c; creamery, retailing from store at 25c. York foil cream, 13(§14c; skims, s@7c # lb. (Jobbing prices.) Feathers -Prime geese, 35c Tp lb; mixed duck, 20c % lb. Recswav— -Dark. 35c; yellow, 40c (selling prico); dealer* pay 18@-oc, Wool— New clip hue merino, 16c; coarse wool, 17018 c; medium, 20c; black, burry,\ cotts, choffly and broken, 15017 c.” HIDES, TALLOW, ETC. Hide*—No. 1 green hides, 3s£c; No. 2 frecn hides 2>4c; No, 1 G. S. hides, 4J4c; io. 2G. IS"hides, No. 1 tallow, 4c; No. 2 tallow, 3,‘ic Horso Hides—B2o2.so. Tallow—No. 1, 43»c; No. 2, 3^c. Grease—White, yellow, 3c; brown, 234 c. - w FRUITS AND VEGKTBLEB. Cucumbers—3os 35c $ dozen. Watermelons— $ 100. Peaches—Rushel crate, 82.50 and 83.03. Tomatoes, 81 $ bushel crate; ouious, 12 Me $ doz.; radishes, 12 Me $ doz. Hew beans, 75c $ bushel. Apples—Green, 8353.25 ft brlfobe-lhird bushel box.4O;«tioe. Cabbage!—Home grown, 81 $ brl. New Potatoes, 82.25 $ brl. New sweet potatoes. BLSO $ brL" Egg plant, #1.50 $ dox. 2

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.

Uhoo 1X.— 28. THE FIRST CHRISTIAN MARTYRS ACTS 7:54-60^38:1-4. 3 " StTPT.—S4. When they heard these things they were cut' to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. School.—ss. But he. being full of the Holy Ghost, looked np steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God. and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. 56. And said. Behold, see the heavens opened, and the son of man standing oo the right hand of God. i 57. Then they cried out with a loud* voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord. -58.' And cast him out of the city, and stoned him; and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whoso name was Haul. / "bn "Goff, aud sayibgf^orSylesusl'receive” 1 my spirit. 60. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, bo fell asleep. . V .... 1. And Saul was consenting to his death. 0 And at that time there whs a great ffersecut ion against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad ’throughout the regions of Jttdea and Samaria, except the apostles. 2. And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him. \ 3. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison. 4‘. Therefore they that were scattered „ abroad went everywhere preaching the . word. ' - - —' ■ *

The section of histof-y extends over ohapters 6,7, and 8:1-4, all of which should be read in order to understand rightly this lesson. Time. Somewhero between the autumn of a. d. 36 and the summer of a. d. 37. Probably May, a. d. 37, about Pentecost. Place.— Jerusalem. The trial was in the hall of the Sanhedrim, in the temple area. The martyrdom was in the valley of Jehost|jhat, betvfgen the city and the Mount^oLQlLves^—=— J Rplekß. —lt was a time of general commotion. Pilate was removed from , being governor, and no one was appointed in his place. Tho Emperor Tiberius died March 16, a. d. 37. Circumstances. —In our last lesson we left Stephen arraigned the grejit council of blasphemy. He r defended himself in a powerful speech (Acts 7:2-53), at the close, of which our lesson for to-day begins. Helps over hard places.— s 4. Cut to the heart: the original means sawed asunder. They were intensely enraged. 55.,, Saw the glory of God: in his own future home, and God’s goodness amid%ll the evil around him. Jesus standing: not - sitting, as usually represented, but standing as if rising to help, defend, and welcome Stephen. 56. Behold, I see, etc.: this is exactly what Jesus/had foretold to this same Sanhedrim a few years before. 57. Stopped their ears: as if unwilling to hear such things. 58. Cast\liim • out of the city: they were forbidden to have executions within the city. The place was the valley of Jehosbaphat, close under the temple walls, at the foot of the Mount of Olives. - (Acts 6, 11, 13,) "They were obliged to cast the first stone; (Deut. 17: 6, 7.) Young man’s.... Saul: afterwards Paul the apostle. He was probably thirty-fom' Or thrrty-five years old at this time. 59. Calling upon God: “God” is in Italics, showing that it is not in the original. He called upon the Lord Jesus. Haul was consenting: by his vote, and by aiding the execution. Except the apostles: why did these*- remain? “Because of their greater steadfastness." They were the leaders, the organizers ;of the Church; theip place, the headquarters, of all deciples. It was not fitting that they should flee. Their steadfastness would strengthen the believers everywhere. Their fleeing would almost break up the Church. They must remain at every cost. Put (3) it is probable that they were permitted by the authorities to remain because they had not yet proclaimed the truth that the Stephen, emphasized, as to the passing away of the “customs of Moses.” 2. _ Devout men: Jews, not Christians, who thus protested against the murderT HalingT i. e, hliultngTirag- ~ ging fourth. Subjects for further study and special reports. —The difficulty about distributing funds, —How it was settled.—How this aided the church.— Stephen.—The charges against him. —His address in reply.—Stephen’s vision.—Method of stoning. Stephen’s martyrdom.—Martyrs.—The effect of the persecution.

American Sacrifices Lead the List.

Tho charge at Balaklava will live forever in song; but the feat shrinks almost to triviality when we consider the facts. According to Kinglake, the Light Brigade took 673 officers and men into that charge: they lost but 113 men killed and 134 wounded, the total being 247, or 36.7 per cent. The heaviest loss in the German army during the Franco-Hrussian war, occurred in the Sixteenth Infantry (Third Westphalian) at Mars La Tonr, where it lost, in killed, wounded and missing, 49.4 per cent. But Col. Fox enumerates no less than sixty-three union regiments which lost over 50 per cent, in single battles of our own civil war without including others where the statistics are incomplete. In some of these cases, the bulk of the loss occurred within an hour. The First Minnesota lost, at Gettysburg, in killed and wounded, 82 per cent, of the number that went in; Tho One-Hun-dred-First New York lost 73.8 per cent, at Manassas; the Twenty-fifth Massauchusetts lost 70 per cent at Cold Harbor. “Every little helps to lighted the burden, as the captain said when he threw his wife overboard.