Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1879 — Page 4

ODDS AND ENDS.

Queen Victoria drinks tea out of a saucer. » Thebe are 300,000 Russian exiles in Siberia. The slave trade in Upper Egypt has - been crushed. Th*y have a new postofßce in Texas called Hash. i C anoeing is the latest pastime for English ladies. The milk supply of New York costs 94,000,000 a year. Elizabeth, N. J., has been sued for over $1,515,000. There are 300 brandy distilleries in Middle Tennessee. Robbing stages continues to be a Texas amusement. . Artificial ice in Florida costaabout seventy cents a ton. Chattanooga has a boy orator who is only six years old. Gambling is unusually active in Washington this session. An extensive lead mine lias been discovered near Berne, Tex. f RosEwood is taking the place of black walnut in furniture. There; is one divorce to every ten weddings In Connecticut. , Omaha is building 750 new dwellings and business buildings. Negroes are said to be less liable to color-blindness than whites. Since the war 200,000 negroes have Joined the Methodist Church. The guinea hen is said to be a sovereign remedy for potato bugs. A man living in Henrietta, Tex., has domesticated four buffaloes. In Kansas they now put their wheat crop at a possible 40,000,000 bushels. There are 300,000 seamen employed on the rivers and Lakes of the West. Beans planted between thin rows of potatoes drive away the potato bug. Every State in the Union except Louisiana has a Sunday law of some kind.

The Jewish Times computes the number of Jews over the world to he 6,503,000. A Massachusetts man decides that whep a robin becomes white the cause is disease. ~ { , One hundred and eighty-three cotton mills have been built in the South /since the war. A farmer on the shores of I akeOntaria has had nine acres washed away in twenty years. , A whiter frdm California says the ground-squirrel in that State is the great pest of the farmer. s There is a Justice of the Peace in West Alexander, Va., who has married over 1,400 couples. The Key Stone spouge trade; is on the increase. Seventy vessels and 350 men are engaged in it. Farmers along the Warrior river, Ala., have planted more cotton than any year since the war. London Truth thinks the Swedes are more like Englishmen than any other people in the world. In "Paris and its suburbs tliere are more than 18,000 people who live by rag-picking or rag-selliug. Troy, N. Y., makeass,2so,ooo -worth qf shirts, collars and cuffs annually, be sides her laumlry business. A Boston woman poisoned herself aud died rather than testify against a lady friend accused of arson. A British religious newspaper, The Rock, announces that the surplice is the harbinger of spiritual death. * Fifteen general managers of railways in the United States have salaries of from SIO,OOO to $15,000 per year. Tins country uses up 1,000,000,000 ;*aper bags annually, and several manufacturers report increasing demands. It is said that Mississippi farmers ( are thinkiug of goiug into the corn aud cattle trade aud leaving cotton alone. The destruction of wild beasts and snakes is one of the duties undertaken by the authorities of the East Indies. Houston Tex., has got hi debt $2,000,000, and the tax-payers have voted to resist taxation to pay the interest.

A gentleman in Copiah county, Miss., shipped liis strawberry crop to Chicago and sold it for ten thousand doll are. The last Austrian census shows that 183 men .and 229 women in that Empire have celebrated their own centennials. * * An overseer in Paris became sc en raged at a laborer, that the blood vessels behind his eyes buret and he became blind. A German philosopher says one grain of wheat could be so multiplied in twelve j’eare as to supply all the inhabitants of the earth with food during their lifetime. Wm. Gale, of Cardiff, has just completed at Bradford, England, the feat of walking 2,500 miles in 1,000 consecutive hours. . On Easter Sunday the sound of an organ in public worship in Glasgow Cathedral was heard for the first time in 300 years. There are ten ice companies in N«w York city, and one of them, perhaps the largest in the business, has a stock of 1,000,000 tons. Egyptian ,wheat is attracting attention in California, for the climate is particularly favorable to its growth. It yields enormously. The increased consumption of opium by the working classes in England is attributed by the London Lancet to the hard times. Hannah Deal, a Swedish girl of New York, took nitroos oxide for the extraction of nineteen teeth, and laughed herself insane. Paris having copied the American idea of a college for women, has resolved to introduce the American steamboat on the Seine. The Russian Government incarcerates political prisoners a long time before trying them, and even before making charges against them. The orchards in Northern Pennsyl-

vania, which is the great fruit raising region of the State, never looked more promising than now. A maple tree in full leaf, standing in a large snow-bank, was one of the curiosities of the season at Montgomery, Vermont, the other day. The proposition for an international exposition in Mexico has been virtually abandoned for want of adequate means to carry on the undertaking. 4 John Dunn is handsome and has seventeen wives. Several were presented by Kaffir chiefs, who would ill have brooked rejection of their presents. Hartford has just had a Grand Jury whose average height was 6 feet 1| inches, and average weight was 195 pounds. The tallest was 8 feet 4 inches. 1 The largest bridge ip Europe will be completed next year. It will cross the Volga in the government of Samara, Russia, on the Siberian railroad. Tne river at the point of crossing is soul 1 miles wide. A woman at Hill, N. H., received a visit from her sister last week, it being the first time the two met for sixteen years, although living within four miles of each other.

NEWS NOTES.

I Pope Leo opposes civil marriages. Congress has passed a bill abolishing the custom’s duty tax on quinine. Th,e crops in all parts of France have been seriously injured by rains. The Knox county wheat crop aver ages twenty-five busies to the acre. Ex-Empress Eugenia is said to be dying of grief for the loss of her son. The second Chinaman was made an American citizen at Chicago, a few days ago. Secretary Sherman' will make several speeches in Maine during the month of July. Computing on’tbe; liasis of a new City Directory just isiued. the population of Chicago is about 537,000. Gold has been discovered ou Shefford Mountain, in Canada, in large quantities, causing excitement. Daniel O’Leary gained about $9,000 by his victory ill the recent sev-enty-five hour walk With Crossland. Kentucky racing men dropped about $40,000 on Kentucky horses at the races at Chicago, last Wednesday. Archbishop Pubcell expects to aise SIOO,OOO in NJejvj York city to aid in the relief of his financial embarrassments. Gen. Ben. Harrison declines kis appointment by the President as a member of the Mississippi Levee Commission. , .j " According to his present traveling programme, General Grant will' arrive at San Francisco on the 10th of September. A rill continuing the pension of Gen. James Shields to bis widow and children, has been passed by the House of Congress. Several Indian trilies express a willingness to go on a new reservation, and many Indians will occupy lands under the new Homestead Law.

Tj*k health of the Emperor* of Germany is reported to bo in a most critical state. He is sunject to prolonged faintingfits, and may go off any hour. Cety.wa.yo has sent messengers to the British commanded to treat for peace. The British have increased their demands, and the prospects for peace are not encouraging. The Land Office at Washington reports more sales of public lands during the last four months than had been made in any previous year. The office force is kept busy night and day. Swarms of grasshoppers are reported to have invaded Dakota Territory aud portions of Southwestern Minnesota and Northwestern lowa, doing great damage to the wheat and other crops. It is said that several of the old Bonapartist Generals will refuse to take the new oath of allegiauce to the Republic of France, which refusal will compel them to retire from the array. The balance of trade in favor of the United States for the eleven months of the current fiscal year ending May 31st, was $258,000,000, an increase of $12,000,000 over the corresponding period of 1877-78. A clause iu the constitution of the c Ohio Liquor Dealers’ Association provides that any member who shall sell liquor to a minor or habitual drunkard or drunken person, shall be expelled from the Association. It is said that a friend of Weston won $150,t00 by his victory, and, in accordance with an agreement previously made, Weston will get half of the amount. If this be true, Weston gained SBO,OOO by his great triumph. Dr. Georok Macdonald, the preacher and novelist, is said to have contrived a public exhibition of “Pilgrim’s Progress,” in which he personates Christrian, and other members of his numeriAte family the other characters.

A convention between Germany and the Vatican is said to be in negotiation. The German Government is to nominate the Bishops, subject to the approval of the Pope, and the Bishops will nominate the priests, subject to the approval of the government. The Louisiana Constitutional Convention has adopted a clause limiting the State tax to five mills on the dollar. This sum will barely meet the ordinary expenses of the State, leaving nothing for the payment of interest on the State debt, to say nothing of providing for the payment of the principal. The Internal Revenue receipts of the government for the fiscal year ended June 30th, were about $3,600,000 greater than the previous year, notwithstanding the heavy reduction of tax on tobacco. It is thought that this

increase is an unmistakable proof of the improvement of the business condition of the country. The late Ebon C. Ingereoll held the same peculiar views as his eloquent brother Bob, who delivered a funeral oration at the former’s grave. The Ingereoll conducted the services at the funeral of their t father in the same way, Colonel Bob making the address. The body was interred in the garden and a flower-bed was made on the grave.

Stqck-ra ISKHB report terrible 'ravages among the young Digs by hog cholera, in southern Wisconsin and Jo Daviess county. 111. A Galena dispatch says that hundreds are dying, and' the disease not only spreads from drove to drove, but is always attended with fatal results. The disease has raged for some months in Grant, lowa and Lafayette counties, Wis., Jo Daviess county, 111., and Dubuque county, lowa. The loss thereby is simply incalculable. Some farmers have been ruined, and others are much discouraged. France is now said to be the richest country in the world. England’s wealth aggregates, exclusive Jof public highways, $42,500,000,0*10. Recent estimates place France ahead in the matter of wealth. Her private property, real and personal, is set down at $43,110,000,000, and her navy, palaces public buildings and other public property, excepting highways, at $1,475,000,000, making $44,585,600,000. Acoordino to the American Ex porter the exports from the United States for the first ten months of the fiscal year show an* increase in merchandise of over $21,000,000, compared with the corresponding period of last year. The increased exports of live cattle and hogs amount to $5,000,000; flour, $3,000,000, and wheat $30,000,000. Barley exports have decreased $2,000,000, and Indian corn $8,000,000. The exports of manufactured goods generally show an increase. The balance of trade in our favor (specie excluded) for the past ten months ja $14,401,536. * Pittsburg is one of fie blackest of cities by reason of the smoke from its manufactories; but a plan is being tested that promises to make it clean. The proposition is to-wash the smoke, and the way of doing it is thus described: “The washing is done by passing the smoke through the spray caused by paddle-wheels revolving in a tank of water holding soda ash in solution. The tank and wheels are placed in the flue, between the furnace and the chimney, and, the wheels being made revolve in the direction of the chimney, the draught is increased.” The smoke, after being thus treated, will not soil a white handkerchief.

In 1878, one Collier, of Calloway county, Missouri, ran for the office of Probate Judge as a ‘’Reformer,” and was elected, having pledged himself that he would receive only half the salagjipprovided by the taw for the incumbent of that office. The Attorney General of Missouri, resisted his induction into office on the ground that be had secured his election by bribery, and the Supreme Court has sustained the objection by declaring the election of Collier null and void, and the office tho wich he was elected, vacant. Professor Swing characterises the habit of haring two sermons a week as “horrible,” and thinks that there should be a “song service at night.”! If a night-sermon is insisted on, then he sajs: “Let that sermon be awful thin. Just openly avow its thinness. Let it be known that it will be a sermonetta or a sermonilla. Let the -people learn to build up the home*charm[and joys each Sunday night, and if they will not dp this, why thep let that enslaved pastor of such a flock move out aud away as the negro of old fled from the cotton field. An intellectual man dare not quit producing, and creating, and reshaping; he 'dare not make use of his old manuscripts but neither dares he make a mere guiena fowl of himself and gabble incessantly from morning till night all around the Lord’s house.” l

STATE ITEMS.

“Elephant short-cake,” is one of the attractions of ponnersville festivities. * A colony of bees hi Marshall county, has made fifty pounds | of honey4lhis season. A pike was caught in the Wabiph, a few days ago, that weighed twentytwo pounds. f The Jefferson county veterans are David Patton, aged 101, and Sarah Mosby, aged 104. The artesian well at Rochester has become a tremendous bore to all parties concerned in its progress. v A LUMBER HEALER at Kokomo bought and measured 60,000 feet of lumber in one day, recently. Too close, application to work and study, has' made Charles Doherty, a Connereville printer, insane. A calf at Waterford, Elkhart county, aged seven weeks, weighs two hundred and eighty-eight pounds. It is said that during a recent hailstorm, in Owen county, chunks of ice six feet long came down with the hail. A Ft. Wayne man is charged with having burned out the eyes of his horse, which had offended him by running away. . % * The public square in Valparaiso is considered one of the finest places in the country for holding picnics and celebrations. It is' said that a young man at Rochester, eats fifty cents worth of opium, and drinks from one to two quarts of whisky daily. ■ Thieves broke into the Lutheran church, at Elkhart, recently, and took the Sunday-school contributions amounting to about sls. The officers and members of the Christian Church at Kokomo have ds-

termined to raise SIO,OOO for the com-' pletion of their chinch edifice. Two hundred and twelve teachers are employed in the Indianapolis public schools, and the expenses of the schools amount to about $200,000 a year. Southern Indiana, produced an enormous wheat-crop this year. Specimen counties are Gibson, estimated at 1,500,000 bushels; Harrison, 500,500 bushels. Hoodlums have damaged the machinery in the planing mill of James Wampler, at Peru, to the amount of $250. The mill has been standing idle for some time. William Walters, ex-County Superintendent of Adams county, has “vamosed the ranche,” leaving a wife and large family, and about S4OO worth of mourning friends. Four fine stallions are owned at Wabash, as follows: Blue Bull, jr.; a five-year-old imported Clydesdale; a magnificent Membrino Patcher and Blucher, an imported Norman Percheron. The Kokomo Dispatch calls the Common Council of that city “The Cave of Winds” and says it recently held an all-night session, resulting in the exemption of a policeman’s dog from taxation. I

A local preacher, at Akron, gives his marriage fees to the bride with instructions to purchase a family Bible with the money. This has been his custom for years, and he has married many couples. The Sportsman’s Club, at Wabash, numbering one hundred and twelve members, is preparing to erect a <"luh house at Syracuse Lake, in Kosciusko county, that will contain sixty commodious rooms. Samuel Boroff, a once prominent citizen of New Albany, was hustled off to the Floyd county poor house one day last week. Too much whisky reduced Samuel from affluent circumstances to wretched beggary. Aaron Stanton, of Valparaiso, is quite extensively engaged in bee culture. having near seventy swarms, and is usiDg very successfully double stands of his own device which he considers of inestimable value for propagating. Goshen has a musical prodigy, Miss Madge Wickham, eleven years of L age, has been declared by Theodore Thomas to have wonderful execution* on the piano. She will complete her musical education at the Cincinnati conservatory of music. Mary Reuter, wife of a gardener near Indianapolis, died the other daj from a fright, which brought a premature labor and brain fever. The fright was caused by a tramp who twice invaded her residence, coming in the last time through a window.

Wabash Plain Dealer: The yield of flax seed in this county, last year, was reported to tlie State Board of Agriculture at 70,000 bushels —larger by 23,000 bushels than any county in the State; Tne number ot pounds of bulk pork packed in the county was 4,262,823 —fully twice as large asfthat of any # county reported. In Indianapolis, a few days ago, a woman named Jane Beard, called on her neighbor, David Trapnell, and borrowed his little four-year-old boy After reaching home she packed up her things and left for parts unknown, taking the child with her. Her whereabouts is still unknown, and Mr. and Mrs. Trapnell are almost distracted over the loss of their little one. Kokomo Tribune: Mr. William Moore, of this city, has been invited by the Ohio Mechanics’ Institute, of Cincinnati, to present his new invention; a slide valve for engines, mention of which was made in our last issue, and his straw-burning engine and boiler, for the purpose of investigating their merits. Patterns and castings of the straw-burning engine and boiler have already been made and a practical test will soon be given of it.

Bile Doty, one of the oldest thieves in the country, was unearthed from a cave the other day, near Elkhart. He had pccupied the cave for two months. He would go out among the farmers and do odd jobs of Work. He was taken to Coldwater, Mich., where he is wanted for some crime. He does not steal for personal benefit. He steals from the rich and gives to the poor. If he happened to hear some poor person say he wanted this and that if they could only have the money to buy it, the next morning the wishing person would w r ake up and find it at the door. He has probably served more terms in Jackson prison than any other person living. A veritable Enoch Arden case was developed In Albion the other day. During the war a man named Matthews enlisted in the service, leaving a wife and two children at home. The war closed, but the man did not return, and she supposed that he was dead, although she had no positive proof that such was the case. Years passed, and the supposed widow concluded to marry agaiu, and to provide against all possible contingencies, procured a divorce from her supposed dead husband. The marriage took place, and several children are the fruits of this uuion. On Saturday the supposed dead soldier returned. He hails from the Soldiers’ Home at Dayton, Ohio. He sent for his children to come and see him at the house of a friend, and on Monday took his departure. A large sum is due him as arrears of pension. He made no explanation of his long silence.

A Shocking Scene.

The funeral of the murdered Mrs. Hull, in New York, was a chapter of accidents. When the coffin'was placed over the grave, preparatory to tne recital of the burial service, the earth at the grave gave way. The Herald says: “One of the crossbars fell and the end of the box dropped to the bottom of the grave. The bar under the head of the coffin slipped and the coffin itself was thrown down into the

grave. It lay for a moment at an angle of about forty-five degrees, the foot still supported by the crossbars and the head on the fallen box below. Mr. Mollison and Mr. Field had fallen partly under the coffin and partly into the grave. A small monument over the grave of one of Mrs. Hull’s nephews was upset by the starting back of one of the pall-bearers. A shudder of irrepressible horror passed over the entire company. For an instant every one was paralyzed. Several of the women wept and turned away their faces. Dr. Hull stood as if rooted to the ground. He moaned and wailed with awftil grief. The tears rolled from his eyes, and, as he wept he repeated again ana again, “Oh, dear! oh, dear! oh, dear!” Apparently he could not stir, and he stood absolutely still while the coffin was lifted up by a dozen quick hands and placed on a grave near by. It was slightly broken, though it retained its shape and held together. The seams at the head had sprung apart about a quarter of an inch, and the lid over the plate was partly displaced, though fortunately not enough to disclose a view of the rudely shaken corpse. < It was replaced at once, and preparations were again made for following the coffin to its last resting place Unfortunately this could not be readily done. If suitable pieces of timber had been at hand a trestle work could have been easily made, even with the edges of the grave displaced. But no such timber was there. Excepting the four stout crossbars, all that was available was a wormeaten, decayed plank. This was broken into half a dozen pieces, and one laid upon another to form an edge for the support of the bars, after at least twenty minutes of confused work and much talk by a dozen men. Even the support seemed frail, and mauy thought the body, thus pursued by a seemingly relentless fate, would again fall. The mourners stood for these twenty minutes in the full glare of the afternoon sun, unwilling witnesses of the unseemly occurence, and when at last the lowering was actualy accomplished, thejre was a general sigh of relief.”

An Indian Festival In Brazil.

Hcribner for July. The grand festival begins on Saturday evening. During the day parties have been coming iu from all directions, bringing their roupa de ver a Deus—“clothes to see God in”—on their heads. Every house is crowded with guests, and many swing their ham macks to the trees; the old women busy themselves in preparing sweetmeals and mandioea beer; and the men build an arbor of boughs before the chapel. Everybody attends the final prayer meeting, and devoutly salute the saint; then the iu several houses at once and is continued with very little intermission until Tuesday or Wednesday, as the refreshments last. Many of the young people get only five or six hours of sleep during this time. The dancers are orderly, and for the most part sober: the old people sit around and wateh them, and grow talkative, and enjoy themselves quietly, and white clerks from town move about with a pleasing sense of their own glory. On sauday morning there is an interlude, during which the grand, breakfast is served, An ox has been killed for the occasion, and the guests eat as much as they please, with their fingers for forks. Ceremonious toasts are proposed in bad Portuguese and drunk in bad wine; everbody says “Viva!” in acknowledgement of everybody’s sentiments, and there i a solemn aping of all that is redieulous in the grand of thebrancos. With this the Indians feel that they have done their duty, and return to their sports with fresh unction. The dance rustic waltzes and quadrilles,notungracefully, to the music of a violin ana a little •wire-stringed guitar. Then there is The favorite lundid, ft kind of slow fandango, involving much snapping of fingers and shuffling of feet. Tne sar-j acura dance is led off by a special musician, a merrv old fellow, who marches about the room playing a tiny reed flute witli the right hand and beating a drum with the left. One after another the couples fall in behind him, tripping along with their arms about each other very lovingly, and keeping time to his music with a little jingling songi. '

Rubbing with a Dead Hand.

T. F. Thiselton Dyer writes to Notes and Queries: “Many of your correspondents are no doubt acquainted with the famous ‘dead man’s hand,’ wliieh was formerly kept at Byron Hall, Lancashire. It is said to have been the hand of Father Arrowsmith, a priest, who, according to some accounts, was put to death for his religion in the time of Henry in. Preserved with great care, iu a white silken bag, this hand was restored to by many deceased persons, and wonderful cures are said to have been wrought by this saintly relic. ‘Striking with a dead man’s hand’ is a cure for wart in Galloway. At no distant period an instance of this superstition, we are informed, occurred at Storrington, Sussex. A young woman who had suffered for some time from goitre, and tried varied various remedies for its cure, but to no purpose, was at last taken to the side of an open coffin, in order that the hand of the corpse might touch it twice. Formerly, on execution days at Northampton, numbers of people used to congregate around the gallows to receive the ‘dead stroke,’ as it was termed. Indeed, I might quote further cases, but space will not permit. I may just add that Mr. Peacock himself has recently made mention of an example of this superstitious practice which happened at Lincoln in 1830, At the assizes that year, when Air. Lincoln, of Wytham-on-the-Hill, was High Sheriff there were three criminals hanged. After the execution, two women came, bringing a child with them. All three suffered from wens, and the dead man’s hands were rubbed on the parts affected, in the full belief that tne ceremony would produce a cure.”

Ancient Wonders.

Nineveh was fourteen miles long eight miles wide, aud forty-six miles around, with a wall 100 feet high and thick epough for three chariots abreast. Babylon was fifty miles within the walls, which were seventy-five feet thich and 100 feet high, with 100 brazen gates. The temple of Diana, at Ephesus, was 420 feet to the support of the roof—it was 100 years in building. The largests of the pyramids was 481 feet in height, and 853 feet on the sides. The base covered eleven acres. The stones are about sixty feet in length, and the layers are 208. It employed 350,000 men building. The labyrinth of Egypt containg 300 chambers and twelve halls. Thebes, in Egypt, presents ruins twenty-seven miles around contained 350,000 citizens and 400,000 slaves. The Temple of Delphos was so rich in donations that it was plundered of $50,000,000; the Emperor Nero carried away from it two hundred statues. The walls of Rome were thirteen miles around. Turgot: What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a -world, but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.

DOUBLE TRAGEDY.

A Private Marriage i» Discovered, and the Bride Commits Suicide—The Husband Unsuccessfully Attempts to Follow Her. From Dr. J. L. Jones, of this city, we learn the particulars of a melancholy tragedy which has taken from family and friends one of Perry township’s lairest and most intelligent ladies, and but for a fortunate accident would have lost to them a most worthy young man. Miss Mary Holt was the daughter of Jacob Holt, a man of wealth and prominence, and one of the most respected citizens of Perry township, one was in the prime of her young life, intelligent, cultured and refined. She wall be remembered by many of the teachers of this county as an attendant at institutes and examinations. She was respected by all. admired by many and most fondly loved by one. James Ashburn was a worthy young man, living on a farm near by. Between himself and the fair Mary there had sprung 9a attachment which, beginning iu joy, has been the death of one, and will be a lifelong blight on the other.

The family of the young lady were averse to her attachment with this young man, and had provided what they deemed a more eligible suitor, who was expected to arrive in a short time to claim the hand of the young lady against her will, but at the bidding of her parents. To secure themselves against the rigor of parental demands, the young people resolved upon private marriage, which was solemnized by Esqire Wald rip about three weeks ago, only a few trusted friends being present. They went to their respective homes, and only met occa sionally in company with a sister o the young wife. 011 last Saturday, Mr. Ashburncommunicated to his wife the fact that their secret had been divulged, and that it would be impossible to keep it from her parents. She declared she would die before she would face the storm of parental such communication would bring upon her, while he endeavored to dissuade and comfort her. Immediately on her return home, however, she went to her room and swallowed a dose of strychnine, and in thirty minutes she was a corpse. The young husband, in the agony of his grief, declared that they should not be long parted, but was closely watched by anxious friends. On Sunday he was informed by his cousin, in whose care he had been left, that the funeral procession would pass the house soon, and was asked if he would go. He replied that he would, and directed the young man to go and get the horses ready. Hardly had his companion left the room until the report of. a pistol was heard, and hurrying back, ne found young Ashburn on the floor, weltering in his own blood. The muzzle of the pistol had been placed almatt against nis forehead, but in the excitement ot his crazy grief the range had been too low. and the ball, ranging downward, had lodged in his face, without inflicting a necessarily fatal wound. He is now under the care of physicians, who entertain strong hopes of his recovery. Should he recover, he will be removed as soon as possible from the sorroVful associations of his present home and taken to Indiana, where he had formerly lived.—[Woodson County (Kansas) Post.

A Remarkable Love Story.

The most remarkable love story of the summer is told by the Port Jervis Union. Four years ago a gentleman of 23 won the heart of a lady of 19. She was the daughter of pious parents and, although she was not connected with any church, looked with a feeling akin to horror on anything approaching skepticism. But the time came when she learned that her lover; was a deist; that he had no veneration for the Bible, and took no interest in the churches. She w r as deeply pained by the revelation. She sent for her lover and endeavored to convince him of his error, but he was not satisfied with her arguments. She finally wiote to him a tear-stained letter bidding him goodbye forever. The lady mourned, but tried to satisfy herself that she had acted correctly; Two years made her more liberal than she had been. The, more she read the more she distrusted her former decision, and she finally became quite as liberal as the lover she had discarded. The lover, too, had undergone a change. Last winter a revival of religion took place in the city in which he was engaged in business. Suffice it to say that he united with the church, and in a short time became a zealous member. He thought over the action of his former sweetheart in discarding him for his infidelity, and wrote her a brief note, asking the privilege ofonce more calling on her. When she timidly apologized for her previous dismissal of him, he, to her surprise, defended her conduct, said she had been in the right, and in her place he would do the same. Her heart sank at these words. She confessed being a nr/n believer in the Bible, she had diaparded it. and with it her belief in revealed {religion. He pleaded with her, urged everything he could think gs to induce her to change her mind. She could‘not, and told him so. He felt that he must not be yoked to an unbeliever, and gave her up.

An American Girl in a Cornish Mine.

The Cornishman gives the following account of the descent to the lowest depths of Dolcoath of Miss Leila A. Noble, a young lady of nineteen, of Rome, Georgia, United States: “Accompanied by a friend and a skillful miner, the plucky explorer passed first to a depth of 1,560 leet by the manengine, stepping from the small platforms on the huge moving rod to the fixed stages at the sides of the shaft witu the~ cool, and ready step which takes away all danuer from the use of this friend to the underground toiler. But this labor was little as compared with that which succeeded. One hundred and thirty fathoms of further depth had to be reached by the descent of perpendicular ladders. This safely done, the lowest and richest parts of. the mine were explored, and a trophy gained, in the form of a lump of ore, dug by the no longer fair hand of the reddened climber. The work of the boring machines, driving and blasting huge vugbs, or spaces left by the removed ore, and rich deposits of tin were seen. The homely and kind miners were profuse in their compliments. One of them said: “I’d raatner taake the trouble to put her to the bottom of Dolcoath than I wed a strange miner from another bal; wusnt thee, you?’ The trying ascent had now to be made. Hand over hand upright ladders which would reach to nearly twice the height of St. Paul’s had to be climbed—l,2oo staves to be used. The firm aud skillful way in which she took hold of the ladders caused a miner to ejaculate, ‘I never seed a young laady klem with a moor bowider and shoorer step in my life.’ Turning to his comrade, he continued, ‘She can klem, you, better’n scores of men I have seed down here.’ This 780 feet accomplished, 1,560 more, or nearly eight times the height of the Monument, had to be

done by the man-engine. About sp; m. the bold minerees from the far West regained the surlhce, after being underground and constantly exerting herself, for four hours and a half; without showing signs of great fatigue, certainly not of exhaustion, and without a mishap of the slightest kind.”

Husband and Wife Rejoined After Two Separations.

The human memory is a peculiar faculty—as peculiar, perhaps, in forgetting anything as in remembering it. The many vicissitudes of life through which a man is whirled almost cause him to forget the early thrashings of his youth. The following circumstance is a very peculiar one: Years and years ago, before the guns of North and South thundered and broke the Eceof the two sections, a man named ywood Wilson, living in this State, married a girl whose Christian name was “Annie,” but whose other name is not, for some unknown reason, preserved among the fruit-jars of memory. Having lived tojgether several years a quarrel ensued which resulted in a suit for divorce. A divorce being granted, the parties went thgir way. Several years afterwards they again met, and, strange |to say, neither knew„ the other. Becoming they fell in love, or, as Bulwer says, rose into it. A proposal of marriage was made and accepted. The parties again lived together for severalyears, so unhappily at last that a suit was entered and granted. No children had been born to the marriage, and it did not cause very much trouble for the ?irties to pick up their traps and leave. ears passed on as years generally do, and the parties met again, this time after the great revolution. Becoming infatuated with each other courtship and marriage followed. This time they lived with each other until recently, when, from another complaint, Mr. F. E. Bridges, of this city, brought suit for the man. Suddenly, and by an almost simultaneous awakening, the parties discovered that they had thrice been married. Why they did not discover it sooner is more than the Court or any one else can tell. They will now, probably, live apart the rest of their lives, as the third failure should prove to them that there is something very uncongenial in their [Little Rock (Ark ) Gazette.

Who are Aristocrats.

Philadelphia Times. Twenty years ago this one made candies, that one sold candles and butter, another butchered, a fourth carried on distillery, another was contractor on canals, others were merchants and mechanics. They were acquainted witii both ends of society, as their children will be after them, though it will not do to sav so out loud. For often you find these toiling worms hatch butterflies—and they live about a year. Death brings a division of property, and it brings new financiers. The old gent is l discharged, the new one takes revenue and begins to travel—towards poverty, which he reaches before death, or his children do if he does not, so that in. fact, though there is a sort of moneyed rank, it is not hereditary; it is accessible to all. The father grubs and grows rich; his children strut and use the money. The children in turp inherit pride and go shiftless to poverty. Next, tlieir children, re-invigorated by fresh plebian blood and by the smell of the clod, come up agijin. Thus society, like a tree, draws itssap fromtheearth, changes it into seed and blossoms, spreads them around in great glory, sheds them to fall to earth again, to mingle with toil and at length to reappear in new dress and fresh garniture.

A Big Find—$20,000 in an Old Trunk.

On the 22d of last May Daniel Corker, of South Mexico, died,as it was thought, in rather poor circumstances. B. R. Cauthorn, was appointed'administrator of the estate, and a few days'since M. Y, Duncan and J. S. Steele, as appraisers, visited the house of Corker to appraise the property of the diseased. After going over various old notes, etc., they were about tb leave when they saw r an old leather trunk in the corner, w’hich they kicked open out of curiosity than with the expectation of finding anything valuable in it. When will wonders cease? In that trunk were nearly $20,000 in old, rusty gold coin and musky bank notes. The coins and notes bear an old date, showing that Corker did not believe iu banking his money, but hoarded Corker, in his will, leaves SI,OOO to each of his children, and the rest to his wife. He has one daughter in Texas, a Mrs, Chase. Jack Allen’s wife, one of his children, is dead, but leaves a child. Corker made his money milling and farming, or rather he made his money by saving it. —[Mexico (Mo.) Ledger.

Farmer Dodge’s Story.

At a meeting of the American institute farmers’ club, yesterday, milk being the topic, Faimer Dodge told a story as follows: “A Teuton made a little fortune here not long ago in the milk business, and decided to return to Germany mid enjoy it in his old home. In the ship that was bearing him homeward was a mischievous monkey. The monkey prying around one day, found a heavy bag and ran up to the masthead with it. The German clasped his hands in despair at seeing the bag. It had his money, all in gold. The monkey in a leisurely way pulled out a piece and flung it down to the deck, when the ex-milkman gathered it up. Then the beast tossed a second piece into the sea. Thus alternately the pieces went, one into the ocean, and the next into the distracted man’s pocket. ‘Ah,’ said the ex-milkman as he pocketed just half what he started with, ‘it is just. One-half of that milk I have sold was milk, and the money for it comes back; the other half was water, and half goes back to water.” " k

The Modern Stage Dancing.

The modem school of French dancing was first introduced to a" horrified Bowery audience in February, 1827, by a Mme. Francisquay Hutin, who appeared in a pas seul at the conclusion of Much Ado About Nothing. There was a great crowd of curious sight-seers at the theater that evening, and it is said that when the danse use appeared in her regulation short skirts every lady in the lower tier of boxes and many gentlemen indignantly left the house. How all that* is changed in these days! The management was forced to put Mme. Hutin into Turkish trousers; but this did not improve matters much, aud the attempt to Introduce the dance, which all the rage in Paris, had to be abandoned for several seasons. This pioneer dancer made her last appearance in 1831, and died a widow and in poverty. —[New York Star.

Vulgarity of New York Women.

There never were so-many pet beasts in the city as at present. On the last grand fashionable day in the park, before those who spend their entire season away from home had gone, jl counted 213 dogs, who were driving with ladies in rich carriage costume, and but eigh-ty-three little children. [Chicago Times Letter. H. 'Manri,: “Words have double weight when there is a man and character back of them ’*