Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1879 — Page 4

INDIANA STATE ITEMS

A mam wm gored to death near Evansville, a few days ago, by hie family milch cow. Recent accounts report sickness prevailing to an alarming extent in Miami county. Under a tree struck by lightning in Wabash county recently, sixty-Mx dead bird* were found. Tax wheat yield of Kosciusko county this year, is estimated, at a million and a quarter million bushels. It is reliably estimated that the wheat crop of Wabash county will average twenty-five bushels to the acre. Am Elkhart saloon a tie claims that be has sold liquor for eleven years without touching a drop of the stuff. A remarkable surgical operation was performed in Goshen, recently. The entire uterus was removed from a .woman.

At Valparaiso a bed was made for Captain and Mrs. Bates, the giants with Coles’ show, by placing two large bedsteads together. About thirteen years ago a son of Dr. Cowgill, of Warsaw, swallowed a needle. Last week the doctor cut it from the leg of the boy. Am average yield of from forty to forty-four bushels to the acre is a frequently reported result of the late wheat harvest In this State. A mad dog created considerable excitement In Elkhart a few days ago. The rabid canine assaulted a little girl, tearing off her clothing, but not biting her. The yard at Indianapolis where irnpecuniou&malefactors are put to work breaking stone for the streets, is dubbed the “geological garden” by the local press. Indiana sent 194,147 soldiers into the field in the war of the rebellion. Only lour States, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois, excelled that number. A LaPorteAn who was visited by sixteen cousins and several sisters and aunts has some doubts about the happy results of the temperance, forty'-day camp-meeting. . ’ 4 Francis Goetz, leader of the Elkhart Silver Cornet Band, was arrested and lodged in jail, a few days since, to answer for. indecently assaulting a seven-year-old girl. Mbs. Ellen McDermott, of Harrison county, was bitten by a spider recently, and despite the efforts of the (test medical aid she died from tire effects <»f the bite in six days. There were 67,000 acres of wheat sown in 1 aPorte county, and the estimated average yield of fifteen bushels l>er acre will give the county a product of about one million bushels. A petition is being circulated and largely signed in Carroll county, asking the Legislature to relieve Treasurer Hance from the lows of the money recently stolen from the county treasury’ by burglars. Willard P. Stanton, of Valparaiso, now claims the championship of tbe£tate as a short-distance pedestrian, and is willing to support his claim in a contest of from one to four hours with any walker in the State. Wabash Plain Dealer: John Austin, a farmer, northeast of this city’ has & hermaphrodite pig, three weeks old. Both sexes are combined in the pig, and it is the object of much curiosity. Dame'Nature even, Is liable to commit mistakes sometimes. About four weeks ago, Jerre Gaultney. a farmer living in the vicinity of Sandborn, Knox county, was walking along tlie road and observed a watermoccasin, a species of snake which abounds in marshy places, lying directly in his path. To pick up a club and attack the reptile was but the work of a moment, but when Gaultney’ struck at it, three more, of the same species joined in the fight, and the battle raged briskly. He succeeded in preventing them from biting him, however, but covered with their saliva, from the effects of which he was taken sick, and for three weeks lay in great agony. Death came to his relief. It is said that Gaultney- presented a moat disgusting appearance a few days previous to his death, the flesh having all sloughed off from his bones, the effect of the poison with which his system had become impregnated.

Angola Herald: Miss Emeline Nobles, of Fremont, was returned borne Friday, July 4th, in charge of Lieutenant C. R. Vernon and Dr. John Connell, a sanitary officer of the police of Washington, D. C. It is reported that Miss Nobles arrived in that eity one week previous and sought an interview with the President with a a view to matrimony. She was kindly taken in charge by the authorities there, who, in accordance with instructions from the lady’s friends, returned • her to her home in this county, as before stated. We did not see the officers who accompanied her, but understand they were both fine appearing gentlemen and seemed to understand their duty thoroughly. Miss Nobles is con* nee ted with L some of the best families of Steuben county, and has had the advantages of a splendid education, but for some years the unfortunate lady has been laboring under a strange hallucination, from which her friends have but little if any hope that she will ever recover. Two highly respectable young ladies, Elizabeth and Kate, aged nineteen and sixteen years, daughters of Frederick Ahalt, a reputable, well-to do farmer of Harrison county, mysteriously disappeared from home several days ago, and all efferts to gain a clew to their whereabouts have foiled. The characters of the girls were without reproach, and their parents are greatly distressed at their mysterious disappearance. John Marshall, a plasterer,

and his family recently removed from the neighborhood, and on July 12, left on a flat boat bound down the Ohio. It is suspected they 1 nduced the girls to forsake their hqme. Amob Durbin, of Johnson county, and his daughter,, are under arrest, charged with incest. The discovery was made by the daughter’s husband.

NEWS NOTES.

Iceland is losing its people by em gratton. Eugenie will enter a convent for a few months. ' America sends 100,000 doors to England yearly. West Point is very popular as a resort this season. Bob Ingersoll has sold bis 125,000 Peoria property. Another dairy fair is soon to be held in New York city. English Quakers have protested against the Zulu war. At a London fete 10,000 roses were used in the decorat ions. Penmlylvania has two lady Superintendents of Schools. SINCE 1871, 45.000 Brazilian slaves have been emancipated. There are 7,357,154 Sunday School scholars in the United States. The electric light has been introduced in the Nevada silver mines. Colonies are being organized in Massachusetts, to go.to Tennessee. The Hanlon prize cup is solid silver, and over three feet high. The Minnesota wheat crop promises a yield of 50,000.000 bushels. ' ? ’ I ! - The first State election of this year will betbat of Kentucky, on the4th of August. A deaf mute cow has been discovered by a Russian veterinary surgeon. In England they female blacksmiths who work for forty pence per week. In France it is nqt considered proper to display young ifiarriageable girls at weddings. The Egyptian Steamer Samanoot went down at sea with twenty-flve persons on board. . The happiest feature of this age is the progress of the mass of the people in intelligence. . ' Washington Territory last year exported 160,000 tor s of coal and 21,000,000 feet of lumber.

An anti-landlord agitation in the west of Ireland has lately been causing some apprehensions. , A harmless duel was fought between two young negroes, Friday, in Baltimore county, Md. The tribe of Seminole Indians have dwindled away to about 400 persons, located in South a lorida. Dr. Moffitt says mission work in South Africa has been thrown back fifty years by the Zalu war. A Macon, Ga., murderer was acquitted because the act was committed under the influence of liquer. Six ocean freight steamers sailed from New York last year that have never been heard of since they put out to sea. J i A trappest monk named Gustave Derohan has been sentenced to Jflve years’ imprisonment at St. Louis for forgery. Rev. Talmadoe is addressing audiences of from 70,000 to 100,000 persons per week, in England. There is a “Dick” Thompson “lxx)m”in HoosierdOm that will probably carry the “ancfent marriner” into the Governor’s chair. It seems to l>e settled that General Grant will not retufri to this country until the Presidential nominations for 1880 have been made. Francis Murphy is said to have lost in-San Francisco 9y stock gambling, all the money be had made by his temperance revival work. Tea culture is being revived in the Carolinas and Georgia with improved processes, and there is a probability that the industry will pay. Tuesday and Wednesday, July 15th and 16th, 1879, will stand upon the weather record of Indiana and Illinois as the hottest days of many seasons. Hon. W. H. Calkins, of the Tenth Indiana district, id. reported to be lying dangerously ill at Des Moines, lowa. When taken ill be was en route for Colorado.

The cod-fishery along the New Brunswick shore from Shippegan to Caraquet is unexceptionably good this year. Boats are averaging 2,000 to 2,500, and some even taking as high as 4,000 fish per trip. In Independence Square, Philadelphia. under the protection and mostly at the expense of the Sofas of Temperance, ten to twelve thousand people daily stop to take a drink at the ice fountains. It requires orfe or two tons of ice to keep it running cool. The jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi river are completed according to the plans and specifications. The jetty channel is Overl thirty feet deep, and a navigable channel of twentysix feet, measured at the lowest stage of the river, is found at the head of the passes. The English pajMsrs state that the Marquis of Lome, governor General of Canada, and bis wife, the Princess Louise, are about to make a tour in the United States, on which the Marquis will write a book, to be illustrated by his wife. Let the of the land prepare to be happy or miserable according to their luck on this occasion. The New Orleans papers say it was thought the exodus fever would not attack the negroes in the sugar parishes of Lousiana, but this has proved a

mistake. The negroes in those parishes j are busy prenartng to leave, and one boaton Sunday last took 300 northward. The sugar planters are becoming alarmed, and are using all their arte persuasive to induce the negroes to remain. f , ' ; One of the most remarkable cases of suicide on record is that of the deliberate self-destruction of two respectabfe maiden ladies named Trowbridge, sisters, at Hyde Park, south Chicago, by means of strangulation, a third and younger sister being present in the house during the horrible tragedy. Dread of poverty and starvation is the alleged cause of the rash act There can be no reasonable doubt that the ladies (the surviving one included.) had become insane by brooding over property and'family troubles, which, it appears, were in great part of an imaginary character.

According to the monthly oil statement of the Oil City Derrick, there were 327 wells completed in the month of June, increasing the daily production 8.205 barrels, an average of 25f -barrels per well. There are 744 wells commenced and in various stages of advancement, showing a slight decline In operations. Only ten unproductive wells we e drilled. ,« The total cost of the projected Isthmus of Darien Canal, according to M. de Lessep’s estimates, will be $50,000,600. The projector thinks that the work will be much easier than was that on the Suez Canal. In this connection, Captain Eads, of the New Orleans jetty scheme, promulgates an opinion That he could railroad that woujd transport ships across the Isthmus at a much cheaper rate than could be dSne by the canal, after counting in the cost of construction. ' Here* is a cooling item for this warm weather from Colorado: The editors of that State met in convention at Manitou on the 9th instant, and on the 10th ascended Pike’s Peak. While on the summit of the mountain a storm of snow, rain and hail broke fiercely upon the party, and they hurried to descend, which is almost half a day’s job, and before reaching Manitou they were drenched to the skin and covered with ice. They really had a narrow escape from freezing.

INTERESTING ITEMS

A Rome, Ga., man killed a,rattle snake ten feet long with thirty-five rattles. , A Belgian has been arrested who declares that he was chosen by lot to kill the King. The Brazilian coffee crop this year is 2,500,000 twigs, a shrinkage of 2,000,000 since last y < Nine men killed 224 alligators on a prairie, a half a mile long, in Polk county, Fla., in one day. The Calhoun Times tells of a bantam rooster that feigns dead and does many other tricks at command. It is reported that a new steamer is to be built for the White Star Lins with a guaranteed speed of twenty miles an hour. Wm. E. Baker, of Grover & Baker fame, has a $5,000,000 park at Weliesley, Mass., filled with absurdities of all kinds. ' A poor fisherman at Tallahassee, Fla., while digging worms for bait the other day, came upon an old brass kettle containing $1,400 in gold coin. During a business career of sixty years Peter Cooper never failed to settle wtih all his employes on pay-day, although he* often had 2,500 men in his service. '

Henry Hammond has confessed to burning an East St. Louis house for the insurance, in which a man, two women and three children were destroyed. A patent has been taken out in England on a process for removing injurious gasses from smoke, thus abolishing a great nuisance of large manufacturing towns. The Edgimoor Iron Company, of Philadelphia, secured the contract for furnishing 10,758,000 pounds of Bessemer steel, and 34,000 pounds of iron for the Brooklyn bridge. Not all the criminals in Texas escape punishment* A youth named Lowry has just been incarcerated in the Lavacca County Prison for altering the mark on a hog’s ear. The. House of Commons meets at 4 p. m. and often sits until 4 a. m., but the House of Lords meets at 5 p. m.< and adjourns promptly at 8 p. m., the dinner hour of the members. The marriage of a. loving couple in Germany is being deferred because the birde cannot prove that she was born, her existence seeming not to answer German legal requirements as to proof. The Prince of Wales apparently goes shopping more or less from time to time, if a London correspondent is correct (which he probably isn’t) in saying that he owes tradesmen JlO,000,000. j During the celebration of St. John’s festival in Ravenna, Italy, a'maniac ran into the crowded streets-with a butcher knife in his hand, and attacked everybody he met. Eleven persons were injured. Dr. Hitchcock insists that knowledge is a preventative of disease, showing that the insane in Massachusetts are nine-tenths uneducated paupers, and so are 59,000 of the 06,000 in asylums in England.

It is contrary to the laws in Cyprus to cut down trees. The son of an old priest, having cut one down, was summoned to answer. He being ill, the father went in bis place, and was condemned to seven days 7 imprisonment,

and to lose his hair, mustache and! beard. James Palmer went into an undertaker's shop at Riverton, Va., got measured for a coffin, which he-said was for a man exactly his size. “Have 'it ready this afternoon,” he said., “for the corpse will be ready by that time.” Then he went to a railroad track near by, lay down on it, and let a train run over him. Peter Igo, of Lawrehce, Mas®., wa very poor and proud. Being out of work and money, he did not make his plight known, but fed his wife and child on bread and water, and went wituout any food at all himself. A messenger who went to tell him of a chance for work, found him dead form starvation. A case of love at first sight is reported from Alaska. A sergeant of the Marine Corps is about to lead to the alter the daughter of the Indian chief, Sitka Jack. The bride having paddled alongside the Alaska with her little canoe loaded with fish, the gallant Sergeant was immediately smitten and fascinated. A bridegroom at Grinnell, lowa, received a cigar by mail, accompanied by the written assurance that it would be found to be of an uncommonly good flavor. The bride recognized the handwriting as that of a rejected suitor, and unrolled the cigar, to find several grains of strychnine in the end that a smoker would bite oft

A Brave Girl.

A desperate struggle, which makes of Miss Carrie Roberts a heroine, took place at the residence of G. H. Kitchen, a farmer, living one mile this side of Monroe, this county, at an early hour this morning. Mr. Kitchen is a well-to-do fanner, having no family but his wife, and the girl, Carrie Roberts, is employed as a domestic in his household. ’ This morning Mr. and Mrs. Kitchen went to Hamilton to attend to some business matter, leaving the house hi charge of the girl Roberts. Home hired men were working in the fields some distance away from the house, but the gjrl was the only person at home. When Mr. Kitchen and his wife had been some time gone, and the girl was engaged in attending to some duties up stairs, she thought she heat d a noise in a room below, and. coming to the top of the stairway ana looking down, she perceived a strange, ill-look-ing man, of the genus tramp, engaged in ransacking a bureau drawer in the sitting room. The girl knew that there was a large amount of money Stowed away in a tin box, which box was concealed in this bureau. Besides the money, there was also, a lot of jewelry, belonging to the family, in the same place. The brave girl’s resolve Was instantly taken, ana while the robber was engaged in transfering the valuables from the box to his pockets, he was astonished by the child suddenly springing upon him like a tigress, fastening her hands in his hair, and endeavoring to wrench the box from his clutches. For a moment he was almost dumbfounded, but he finally recovered himself, and began to try and release himself from the girl’s hold. But this he was unable to do, although he dragged the game and plucky maiden through a hall-way jnto the dining-room. Still she held on to him. lien gi ng so closely tnat he was unable to strike her and push her as he would to release himself. With remarkable coolness and presence of mind, when this strange pair had reached the din-ing-room, the girl remembered that there was a.revolver on the top of the •clock. For a moment she let go her hold upon the tramp, and, getting upon a chair, she succeeded in finding the weapon, and commenced blazing away without ceremony. The first shot caught the robber in the hand, and he dropped the treasure that he still held. He then commenced to beat a retreat, the girl still firing at him. Finally he got Into the yard, scaled the garden fence, and got away. From the din-ing-room to the fence where he climbed into the road, he left bloody marks, showing that he was pretty badly wounded. Carrie, after the departure of the villian, did not swoon, but gathered up the mqney and jewelry, and then, going into the yard, rang the dinner bell. Presently the farm laborers came in, and learning how affairs stood, they started in pursuit of the thief. Up to this writing no clue to his identity has been discovered. Mr. Kitchen retured from Hamilton, and was in Lebanon this afternoon. Your reporter conversed with him, and was shown a long letter written by Miss Carrie to her brother, nee dinner time, describing minutely the whole affair. This young lady would have made a good Amazonian warrior. No effort will be spared to bring the daring rascal, who had perpetrated this outrage, to even severer justice than he has already received.—[Lebanon (Ohio) Special to Cincinnati Commercial.

Prof. Swing on the Pocasset Trag eay.

In his sermon on “The Laws of Nature,” at Chicago, recently, Prof. Swing alluded to the horrible child murder at Pocasset as follows: That most sickening tragedv at Pocasset, where the father and mother of a beautiful and tenderly-loved child ’ felt called upon to offer their little daughter to God in a sacrifice, may well remind the Christian world what sad work Christianity may perform when it cuts loose from natural law and acts upon some theory of voices heard in the night, or upon the order of some special revelation, or upon some inc dent in a miraculous history. This father and "mother had been fed upon some form of Christianity, out of which God’s daily rules of action have all been stricken—a Christianity which had " made the universe ail revolve around Abraham offering up Isaac. The recent letter of the guilty another is one of the most pitiful pages in all terrible volumes made up by modern events. She says that her husband dally felt that he must make some great trial of his own faith, and step by step he reached the conclusion that he must offer up his daughter to Je hovah. He went onward with the terrible preparation, not fortifying himself by any study of the laws of human life and right, the rights of children, the rights of society, the tender duty of parents, but fortifying himself by the study of the story of a patriarch who lived 4,000 years ago. The mother says: “My dear husband thought that before the knife should reach the child’s heart God would be satisfied, and would stay the outstretched hand' but when this was not done, and the child lay dead in the house, we then faithfully believed that God would raise up our dead daughter, And through her resurrection preach with power the gospel of salvation.” ' But

this restoration did not come, and the lovely child sleeps In the cemetery. But if the resurrection of the little girl did not come to make effective the gospel, its decay and dust do come to render powerfill the union between gospel and natural law, and to teach us anew and afresh that Jehovah loves his laws of child life and child-prewar vation as much as He loves the story of Abraham and Isaac. Had the child been in any way spared or recalled to life there is no infant in the Second Advent Church whose tender life would have been safe on its mother’s bosom. We should have had ■mothers feeding poison to their children that they might see for themselves the Intervention of God, and have seen each* home seek its own miracle. It will not be a sufficient explanation of this distressing murder to state that the parents were insane. Indeed their reasoning was unsound, and to that degree they were insane. But we need a better solution of the crime, and that when Christian teachers fill the minds of the common'peopie with the idea that natural law is for atheists and infidels, and that Christians are partners of God, and enjoying miraculous advantages, then those teachers become the fountain of all such child murders. In England recently the civil law was compelled to interfere to break up the delusion of some Christians who were threatening their sick by means of prayer. They denied cleanliness and bath, and nutriments, and medicines, and were going to Goa in prayer. The law was compelled to intercede and set up against such a religion tne natural laws of man. At Pocasset, in our own land, the same tendency of a miraculous religion has repeated itself in a way horrible enough to arouse the continent. Insanity! Of course it was, but of such a quality that in different degrees it holds in its sickly spell tens of thousands of Christians.

A Valuable Invention.

Invention is stimulated by need, and when the world wants anything, suitable contrivances and appliances for supplying it are not long lacking. The transportation of live and dead meat from the New to the Old World has rapidly grown into a very important business, and the ocean steamship refrigerator has been so improved that it was thought nothing more could be added. But now we learn that a Mr. Coleman. -of Glasgow, Scotland, has invented a process of producing a low temperature in sea-going vessels without the use of ice or any chemical agency whatever, whereby an unlimited amount of cold can be manufactured on shipboard by the purely mechanical process of compressing and expanding ordinary air. The inventor first made a convincing test on the Circassia of the Anchor Line. On the 16th of last month this vessel landed

at Glasgow a consignment of meat, consisting of 1,216 quarters of beef ana 250 carcasses of mutton, which had been kept by this process at a uniform temperature of about 38 deg. Fahr, throughout the voyage. The machinery on board the Circassia is capable of discharging 500 cubic feet of air cooled to 40 deg. or 50 deg. Fahr, per minute; an amount found in practice to be sufficient for keeping at 36 deg. Fahr, a chamber of 16,000 cubic feet measurement, with an external temperature of 60 deg. to 80 deg. The London Times asserts that Mr. Eastman, of New York, has arranged with the patentees for using their apparatus in connection with his gigantic trade; also that the United States have sent a commission to examine, with the view of utilizing the invention in Southern refrigerating vessels to prevent the spread of yellow fever. The English War Office and the India Office are also investigating the process with a view to the supply of cool, pure air for barracks, hospitals, and other such buildings. In fact, the uses to Which such a valuable invention can be put cannot now be forecast. To mitigate, for instance, tl]e tropical heats of voyages through the Dead Sea to Africa, etc., such a process must prove of inestimable benefit. By this new process ice is altogether dispensed with, and hence the transportation of dead meat becomes safer, easier, and more economical. If all that is claimed for it become true, we may shortly expect a very rapid inreease in the meat-transportation trade.

Colonel Ingersoll Pays a Tribute of Respect to a Dead Clergyman.

The Rev. Alexander Clark, of Pittsburg, Pa., a journalist and the editor of a Methodist organ, whose death was recently announced, has received most eulogistic and tender tributes from the religious press, of the country. He died in Georgia some two weeks ago while he was the guest Of the Governor of that State, Governor Colquit. As a Journalist Mr. Clark had been somewhat conspicuous for his zeal in combatting the views of Colonel Ingersoll, while treating that gentleman with personal fairness. He once visited him in his Peoria home, and in a Eublished letter sjoke in the very ighest terms of the personal and do* mestic character of his illustrious theological opponent Now that Mr. Clark is dead, Colonel Ingersoll has paid the following tribute to the manliness-and kindness of the deceased. Rev. Alexander Clark:

Upon the grave of Rev. Alexander Clark I wish to place one flower. Utterly destitute of cold, dogmatic pride, that often passes for the love of God; without the arrogance of the “elect”—simple, free and kind—this earnest man trade me bis friend by being mine. I forgot that he was a ■ Christian, and beseemed to forget that 1 1 was not, while each remembered that the other- was a man. Frank, candid and sincere, he practiced what he preached, and looked with the holy eves of charity-upon the failings and mistakes of men. He believed in the power of kindness, and span ed with divine sympathy the hidious gulf that separates the fallen from the pure. 1

Giving freely to others the rights that he Claimed for himself, it never occurred to him that bis God hated a brave and houest unbeliever. He remem tiered that even an. infidel has rights that love respects: that hatred has no saving power, and that in order to be a Christian it is necessary to become less than a man. He knew that no one can be maligned into kindness; that epithets cannot convince; that curses are not arguments and that the finger of scorn never points towards heaven. With the generosity of an honest man, he accorded to all the fullest liberty of thought, knowing, as he did, that in the realm of mind a chain is but a curse. For this man I entertained the profoundest respect. In spite of the taunts and jeers of his brethren, he publicly proclaimed that he would treat infidels with fairness and respect: that he would endeavor to convince them by argument and win them with love. He insisted that the God he worshiped

even of an atheist. I In this grand position he stood almost atone. Tender, just and loving whi re others were harsh, vindictive and cruel, he challenged the respect and admiration of every honest man. A few more Mich clergyman might drive calumny from the Kps of faith and render the pulpit worthy of respect Tne heartiness and kindness with which this generous man treated me can never be excelled. He admitted that I had not lost and could not lose a single right by the expression of my honest thought Neither did he believe that a servant could win the re-, sped of a generous master by persecuting and maligning those whom the master would willingly forgive. While the good man was living, his brethren blamed him for having treated me with fairness. But, I trust, now that be has left the shore touched by the mysterious sea that never yet has borne on any wave the image of a homeward sail, this Crime will he forgiven him by those who still remain to preach the love of God. His sympathies were not confined within the prison of a creed, but ran out and over the walls like vines, hiding the cruel rocks and rusted bars with leaf and flower. He could not echo with his heart the fiendish sentence of eternal fire. In spite of book and creed, he read “between the lines” the words of tenderness and love, with Eromises tor all the world. Above, eyond the dogmas of his church—humane even to the verge of heresy—causing some to doubt his love of God because he failed to hate unbelieving fellow-men, he labored for the welfare of mankind, and to his work gave up his life with ail his heart. Robert G. Ingersoll. Washington, D. C., July 11.

American Competition With England.

In the third number of this year’s reports of her majesty’s secretaries o embassy and legation there is a mo s interesting report by Mr. Drummond upon the trade and industry of the United States. Everything that can possibly be thought of is,” he says, “being carried out to obtain foreign markets for United States productsand manufactures,” put thus far it is chiefly in provisions and breadstuff's that an expansion of foreign trade has taken place. In 1878, as compared with 1877, the increase in steel manufacture was only 55,916 pounds, and in cotton manufactures it amounted to no more than 255,788 pounds. In heavy machinery, his opinion is that the States cannot compete with us, but in the smaller articles they run us a close race, for this reason: “The Americans endeavor to combine strength with lightness,while we look only to strength; notice the locomotives and cars, American implements and tools, which have beautiful finish and lightness, and are more convenient than ours. Take American and English scythes, for instance. I find that the American only weigh a little over two bounds, and having a good curve ana polish under the surface, are handier and cut easier and closer than the English, which weigh nearly five poqpds, and are broad, straight, and rough, just as the hammer leaves them.” This is a matter to which Mr. Drummpnd rightly thinks our manufactures should give immediate attention, and the other point he urges upon is.the necessity for looking to the purity of our goods, as the Americans are making a great feature of this in their attempts to secure a footing in foreign markets. If these things are looked to, Mr. Drummond i'» confident of our ability to hold our own. “We have the advantagein England in our existing extensive mills an.d machinery, in the cheapness of living for our workmen, who can accept smaller wages than here, and particularly are we fortunate in the immense number of our skilled hands for manual labor, but perhaps unfortunate in haying too many unskilled. If our manufacturers can reduce the cost and expenses of production, look to superiority in the quality of their goods and wares, be satisfied with small returns, show a desire to make the welfare and happiness of the workmen their own, and they naturally work with energy, I feel sure we shall see happy times again in our manufacturingpopulation.”—[London Economist.

Little Johnny’s Philosophy.

There was a dog, and there was a cat, and there was an ox. The dog it sed to the ox, the dog did: “That’s.a mity long tail you got there, mister, with a nice tossle to the end, but you can’t waggle it wen you meet your master.-*’ Then the cat it sed to the ox, too:' “No. iudeed, and you can’t bio it up like a bloon wen you git mad.” * Then the lam it sed: “You ain’t able for to twinkle it, either, wen you think of something funny.” The ox he thot a while, and bime by he spoke up and sed his ownself: • “I plade hooky wen I was a little boy so much that I dinent learn them vain accomplishments, that’s a sack, but I got a tolably good bisness edecashun, and I gees mebbe you fellers .wude have to cum to me for to hellep you out if you had to fil a order for ox taiLsoop.” Wen Mister Gipple was in Africa lie seen sum natif niggers wich • is called Hottentops, and they likes their beef raw, like dogs, and he see em cut it ors of the cattles wile they was a life and bellerin. And sum or the cattles had ben cut up a good deal that way, but not ded. One day the King of theHottentope he see Mister Gipple, and he sed, the King sed: “Did you see any cattles long the road you cum? Cos mine have strade a way and I can’t find them.” Mr. Gipple he sed: “Yes, tir, jest over be yond that hill is a porterhouse stake with one home broke ors, and bout a mile further long yule find a rib roast eaten the , , er ®i ant l nearby I seen too houtches of bull flting sum soop bones, and onto the other side of the spring I guess yule see a liver and sum tfipe a laying in the shade and chewn their cuds.” But Mister Brily, the bucher. he nock em onto the head with axes and cut their throte in a minnit, and me and Billy we say hooray. Cows is beef, and a calef it is veal, but little pigs is mutton. One time I was in Mister Brily’s shop and he had cut ors a pig’s hed and set it on the top of a barl, and ole Gaffer Peters he cum in and seen it, and he said, ole Gaffer did: Brily, yu.e pig is a gitting

Mr. Brily he luked, and then he sed: ® a^er t you jest take that suck and rap him onto the nose fore he can draw it in.” So Gaffer he took up the stick and an ook up reel sli, and fetched the pig’s bed a regular nose wipe, hard as ever he cude with the stick, and nocked the pig’s hed off the barl, and you never seen sech a stonish ole man. But Mister Brily he pretended like he wasent a lookin, and old Gaffer he sed: “Mister Brily. you must xcuse me, but wen I struck at that pig it dodged

* nd . ?, ut it’s bed off agin the edje of the barl. —[ban Francisco Argonaut.

A Family Arrangement

Little Rock Gazette. Mr. J. L. Holcomb, a gentleman of Kentucky, but who has been in Crittenden county, this State, for several , months, tells us of a rather remarkable, though, hardly unprecedented matrimonial affair which occurred In that county recently: Out from the line of the railroad and aside from almost any other very well defined mark of civilization—marks so ill delineated, in fact, that they are as a half-worn date on an ancient coin—there lived old man Rosebury and two sons, tjvins. The age of the old man is rather doubtful, but it Is believed by his near neighbors, the nearest of whom are within a stone’s throw—that is, if the stone be thrown a mile and a half—that he is about fifty. The sons, being twins, are about the same age, twenty-seven. The nearest human habitation was a house occupied by a Mrs. Glenn and two daughters, though, pity to say, the daughters were not twins at the time of their birth, and have not yet succeeded in attaining that point. Mr. Rosebury fell deeply in love with Mrs. Glenn, and the two sons. Robert and John, fell equally as much so with the two daughters, Mary and Rachel. The most imaginable wholesale love-making ehsued. The old man and widow seemed devoted to each other, and the young people were sufficiently so to marry, which they all di •on the same day. After the ceremony the six happy souls and the six hajipy bodies repaired to the residence of the husbands. Everything worked smoothly. The old man was very kind to his newlv-made daughters, particularly so to Rachel, the wife of his son John. The kindness increased, and the other matrimonialists marveled, one to another. The old man evendisregarded the wishes of his wife, and Rachel snuffed her Grecian nose at her Roman-nosed husband. One morning, about two weeks after the marriage, the family of several divisions discovered that the old man and Rachel had gone. Searching, and not being able to find them, but, learning from a ferryman that they had crossed the river into Tennessee, the family returned. Pretty soon an ‘intimacy sprang up between Robert, Mary’s husband, and the old lady. The old lady was so wise and - had had such broad experience that Robert never grew tired of profiting by her counsel. Another disaster. Robert and the old lady ran away, leaving John and Mary, who seeing, as they were not blind, that they were leftalone, clasped them- ! selves in loving embrace, for it seems that they had loved each other from the first. Did they stay on the farm? No, sir. There is a mortgage on it. They packed up, and, according to the ferryman, went over

Advice to a Young Man.

Burlington Hawkeye. And then remember son, that the world is older than you are, iv several years; that for thousands of years it. has been so full of smarter and better young men than yourself, that their feet stuck out of the dormer windows; that when they died the globe went whirling on, and nptone man in ten million went to the funeral or heard of the death.' Be as smart as you can, of course. Know as much as you can, without blowing the packing out of your cylinder heads; shed the light of your wisdom abroad in the world, but don’t dazzle people with it. And don’t imagine a thing is so simple because you say it is. Don’t be too sorry for your father because he knows so much less than yoil do; remembeY the reply of Dr. Wayland to the student of Brown University who said it was an easy enough thing to make proverbs such, as Solomon wrote: “Make a few,” tersely replied the old man. And we never heard that the young man made any. Not more than two or three, anyhow, The world has great need of young men, but no greater need than the young men have of it. Your clothes fit you better than your father’s fit nim; they cost more money, they are more stylish, your mustache is neater, the cut of your hair is better, and you are prettier, oh, far prettier than “pa.” But, young man, the old gentleman gets the biggest salary, and his homely, scrambling signature on the business end of a check will drain more money out of the bank in five minutes than you could get out with a ream of paper and a copper-plate signature in six months. Young men are useful, son. and they are ornamental, and we all love them, and we couldn’t engineer a picnic successfully without them. But they aje no novelties, son. Oh, no, nothing of the kind. They have been here before. Don’t be so modest as to shut yourself clear out, but don’t be So fresh you will have to lie put away in the cool to keep from spoiling. Don’t be afraid that your merit will not be discovered. People all Over the world are hunting for you, and if you are worth finding, they will find you. A diamond isn’t so easily found as a quartz pebble, but people search for it all the more intently.

The New Seymour Tragedy.

An intimate member of Bishop Seymour’s family said yesterday: “The whole affair is how out of our hands, aud is being conducted by the detectives from Police Meadquarters. We in the house have no theories Low Mr. Seymour came to his death, but of course we are very anxious Tor a speedy solution of the matter. There appears to have been no motive for a murder,except on the supposition that Mr. Seymour, en going out, found an intruder who, fur some reason or other, became suddenly angry and fired the fatal shot. ■ Certainly robbery was not the motive, for nothing was missing from the body. It is true Mr. Seymour left his vest in the house, and so was without his watch: but aside from this there is little satisfaction in such a theory. As regards the reported contradictions as to the position in which Mrs. Seymour and Bishon Seytapur found the body, I can say that they agree that he was found on his back. The slight bruise on the nose between the eyes seems at first to have escaped our observation. But the Coroner or the detectives may have noticed it at the post-mortem examination, and may nave been working with that fact in his mind. Mr. Seymour wore a tall, stiff hat, and the front of the rim was found to be bent in. This might have been caused by the fall that bruised his nose, and in fact 4he stiff edge of the hat itself might have made the bruise by being crushed against Jiis no e. For this to have been the case, however, he would have had to fall on his face, whereas he was found lying on his back. It is possible that he was struck by something that crushed the front of his hat and knocked him to the ground. He might then have received the shot as he was rising to resist his aassfiant. It is very probable, however, that the shot was a chapee one from some early eelebrator of the Fourth. Whatever the cause of his death, a solution of the mystery will be a great relief to us.”— [New York Tribune.