Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1879 — Page 4

INDIANA INKLINS

Kokomo to suffering for lack of a brass band. South Benders enjoy band concerts every evening. , The marrying borineas is booming in Wabash eoanty. A Goshen ben to credited with laying soar eggs a day. A soldier’s monument is to be built in Randolph county, forthwith. A Gcshbm butcher recently killed a five-months-oki calf that weighed 826 pounds. A UTTUBMAKJ! was discovered in a ear load of ice, at South Bend, the other day. The Louisville, New Albany A Chicago, is the longest railroad in the State. It has 228 28-100 miles of main track. ‘Thb destruction of many barns filled with the new crop, by lightning, to reported in the State papers. Are the lightning rod men all dead? It is said that weeds from four to five feet high grow along the principal streets of Warsaw, and the advertising columns of Warsaw newspapers confirm the credibility of the report. Among the best wheat yields reported in the BUte to that of William McAlister, of Gibson county, who got 550 bushels of Fultz wheat from ten acres. p. E. Studebaker, of South Bend, has given SSO as the start of a subscription to erect a stone above the grave of the mother of Abraham Lincoln, at Lincoln, seventeen miles from Rockport.

A human beast at Rochester ate thirty-three raw eggs and then drank a quart of cider. Unfortunately he survived the dose, but there is some oomfort in hairing that it made him “mighty sick.” Mbs. Dr. Haverfield, a highly educated lady of Indianapolis, has been appointed state medical examiner for Indiana for a large foreign insurance company. She to the first woman ever choeen in this country for such a position. Carney, of Fayette county, recognized on the streets of Connersville the other day a horse stolen from him thirteen years ago, and recovered his property by replevin. The man in whose possession the horse was, was entirely innocent of crime, having purchased the animal ten or twelve years ago. _ During the recent harvest, Miss Charlotte Bruce, a comely Scotch lassie, living near Lexington, in Jefferson county, cut 100 fibres of wheat with a reaper, keeping five binders, and a part of the time six, “humping themselves,” as they expressed it. She had six horses, remly harnessed, and when one pair got tired she got another. Kokomo Dispatch : An i nterestlng law suit is pending before Justice Bennett at Fairfield. A member of the legal fraternity of this city brought suit against an aspiring young man of Taylor township for consultation and other legal services. Among the items of the attorney’s bill is ten dollars for writing ten love letters for the defendant. The young gentleman thinks the eharge too high for writing the epistles of love, and irmaking fight to the action. Much fun Is expected at the trial of the cause.

At Leesville, Lawrence county, recently, the Transatlantic Circus had a performance not on the bills. Some sharpers got hold of a man by the name of Dare anc tried to beat him out of his money with games, but Ending that he would not gamble, snatched his money from him. Then a shot was tired into the canvas, after which the showmen caught three citizens, dragged them inside the tent and lashed them to a wagon, and beat them nearly to death. By this time the citizens raised, and with shot guns and revolvers, soon succeeded in releasing the men from the hands of the showmen. Over 100 shots were fired, resulting in mortally wounding four showmen and severely wounding several others. One citizen was dangerously shot. Peru Herald: John Spangler, a respectable and worthy farmer of Pipe Creek township, was approached by two agents for a Kalamazoo wind mill

company, and as he expected to erect a Wind mill bn his farm the agents exi ercised all their arts to induce, him to i award them the contract Finally he .. said that he would take articles to the ' amount of S4O, and willingly signed the contract they handed him. Spang- * ler cah neither read or write, and therefore trusted to the honesty of the agents. He was much surprised Saturday to find them on hand at his farm prepared to erect a wind mill oom pie te that would cost him $270. He declared positively that he only ordered the pump, while they produced the original contract signed by him for a wind mill and pump complete. The old gentleman came to town Saturday and compromised the matter by paying the men S9O to release him from the contract. So be is minus money, pump and all. Peru Herald: Adgil Newman and Adam Eberley live over on the South Side. There was a matter of indebtedness of twenty-five cents between the families, and Eberley sent his little son for the money. Newman gave him a beating, but no quarter, which resulted In a “set-to” between the father of the boy and Newman, in which a >nife and some stones were used. Complaints and coimter-complaints were plead before Esquire Antrim, and both parties were fined according to law. Newman was unable to pay or stay bis and he was obliged to go to JaiL A very dramatic scene was enacted at the time of his incarceration. He carried his little babe in his arms to the jail door followed by his wife. The lady fainted, the prisoner was heartbroken, and the child knew not whether to cry or to laugh. Getting down on his knees, Newman passion-

aU that was forking to make it decidedly impressive was a Bttle better

ODDS AND ENDS.

Thb Atlanta University for colored people to in a flourish tag condition. Dr. LrMotnb has disinherited hto sou who refused to cremate hto child. A child has been born near Columbus Ga., with a transparent abdomen. Thb fires In the dismal swamp have broken out afresh, and are raging fiirionaly* Germany has imposed a duty on ford equal to $1.1) per one hundred pounds. , Mrs. Mills, of Fonda, N. Y., fell dead from fright on hearing a man cry murder. Disastrous storms in Belgium and floods in the Valley of the Rhine are reported. A book has been publish to prove that the remains of Columbus are at Havana. , “Talmage's advanced agent calls him “an eminent divine and Christian warrior.” - - President Hayes will rusticate at hto old home in Fremont, Ohio, during September. When the Emperor of Germany visits Ems he engages ninety rooms for himself and suit The Boston Globe puts the cost of the Fall River strike at a million dolforsa year. - More than a thousand newspapers have been started in the United States since the Ist of January. Chloroforming people on the streets of New York and robbing them haahaoome quite common. Lightning struck a Tecumsuh, Michigan. Sexton and knocked him into a grave he had just dug. In two districts of England 985,870 spindlers are idle, and the cotton in dus try is everywhere depressed.

A Philadelphia Italian has imported thirteen professional crippled beggars from Italy for speculation. Deputy Sheriff Featherstone shot Thomas Gaither three times in court at Martin, Texas, Wednesday. The young peoplejof Jackson County Oregon, have discarded dancing, but go through the figures on horseback. The English and Scotch dairymen say the importation of large quantities of American cheese to running them. Two negro boys had a butting match at Greenville, N. C.,_ the other day, and one butted the other into the next world. The ndications of a revival of busies* in the Lehigh Valley are very grest, both in mining and smelting ores. A recent authority on swimming ays that a good swimmer can go two miles an hour without the aid of the current. Rev. Josef bCook preached to a San Francisco, audience on a Sunday evening, and on Monday sent in a bill for SIOO. ' The Tuil|toh banks are unable to tell the of their paper money in circulation, knd it is rapidly becoming worthless.

American Anthracite coal has been successfully tried in Italian locomotives, and the Consul at Florence telegraphs that large orders are fourthcoming. The United States Consul at Port Sarnia reports that 27,327 Canadians, mostly well-to-do farmers, emigrated to the United States last year, by way of Port Sarnia. . The rats are so numerous in the Andover, Maas., poor house that they steal the food of the Inmates off their dishes at the table, and they fear that they will be devoured by them. Thomas Harlan, of Hollis, Ills., lit a slow-match at the bottom of a mine, and signaled to be pulled up to get out of the way of the blast. He fell from the bucket and lay on the bottom of the shaft with a broken rib, when his young son seeing the peril his father was in, slid down 75 feet of rope and snatched the fuse in time to prevent the explosion. i Charles H. Qjilly tramped Into Beading, Pa., a few days ago, hungry, ragged and disconsolate. A year before he had made the people of that city stare at his ways of squandering $20,000 that had been left to him. On the latter visit he begged a meal at the hotel in which he had once occupied the finest apartments, and slept in a barn where he had previously kept his horse.

Martha Lewis, a widow of Phoenix, near Syracuse, N. Y., gave five sons, all she had, to the defense of the Union in the late war. They were all killed in battle, and she was left without support, and has ever since been maintained by the community as an object of charity. She has now secured back pensions due her dead boys to the amount of SI,BOO, and is also guaranteed an annuity of $96.

NEWSLETS.

Mississippi hasn’t a National Bank within her borders. The cholera is raging at some of the Japanese sea-porta. lowa was the champion hog raising State of the Union, last year. A street in Paris France has been named after President Lincoln. There were, thirty-four deaths from yellow fever in Memphis, last week. It te said that Mr. Lorillard lost $25,000 on Parole, in the Good wood cup contest. ' ’ Seventy-nine Icelanders, wild intend to settle in Minnesota, arrived in New York, a day or two ago. It is said that over 40,000 pounds

contract on hand in assisting the President to choose a successor to Minister Welsh. Joseph Medill, principal proprietor and editor of the Chicago Tribune, to the owner of the fiuneus pacing horse, “Sleepy Tom.” It to intimated that within a short time Government employes will be requests I to accept 10 per cent of their salaries in silver. It to estimated that the postal receipts of the United States for the present year win reach $32,000,000, as against $18,344,511 in 188». The Colorado potato bug has established its base of operations in Ireland, and creates as much alarm there as the yellow fever does in this country. It to considered a fact of some significance that a Catholic church building was dedicated a few days ago, at Plymouth, Mass., the home of the Pilgrim fathers. A family named Ouellette, residing near Ottawa, Canada, was poisoned a few days ago by eating pork from an animal which had been feeding on potato tops sprinkled with Paris green. The internal revenue receipts of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1879, were $2,820,740 greater than in 1878, despite the heavy reduction of the tax on tobacco. The receipts for beer alone, were over $10,000,000. Thb railroads of the United States show gross earnings, during the past year, of $490,000,000, against $478,000,000 during the previous twelve months. The westerh railroads are prominent in these statistics for their prosperity

Prof. Chandler, of the New York Board of Health, says that scarlet-le-ver caused msre deaths In New York State, last year, than yellow fever did in the South, and yet failed to excite public apprehension, or to make people ordinarily careful to prevent infection. The Executive Committee of the National Board of Health has issued a circular on disinfection. It advises thorough scrubbing and moist cleansing to be followed by fumes of burning sulphur at the rate of eighteen ounces per 1,000 cubic feet of space to be disinfected. Nearly 300 engineers, on a strike at Bradford, Eng.,are preparing to emigrate to the United States and Canada, in accordance with invitations received from various branches of the Amalgamated Engineers’ Societies in the principal engineering centers. A dispatch from Madrid, Spain, intimates that the Cabinet, at the next session of the Cortes, intends to introduce bills for the gradual extinction of slavery in Cuba and the payment of compensation to proprietors of slaves, the freedmen to give some years of labor for their liberty. The Czar has Just issued orders for the construction of six new State prisons, to accommodate three thousand six hundred convicts, and has decreed thirty million of roubles for 'their building and fitting up. Two other huge State prisons are being erected, one in Siberia and one in trans-Cau-casia, to accommodate some ten thousand offenders.

The London Keo nomist has an article entitled, “Commercial Depression, ” in which it shows that, the exports of produce from the United Kingdom have fallen in value £69,0*0,000 since 1872, the figures for that year being £195,000,000, and for 1868, £126,000,000. The largest decrease is £26,000,000 in the exports to the United States; the nextiargest is £12,500,000 in the exports to Germany; the next largest, £6,700,000 to Holland, the next largest£s,ooo,ooo to Egypt (including the transit to India previously to 1874.) The decrease in the exports to China amounts-to £2,900,000, and to France, £2,400,000.

The Sea Serpent.

New York Star. At 4 o’clock yesterday morning, John McMahon, proprietor of a hotel at Sheepshead Bay, Captain Wm. Van Nostrand, one of the best known fishermen on Long Island, and Mr. Micheal Ryan, of this city, sailed from Sheepshead Bay on a bluefl hing excursion to the waters of Rockaway. On arriving at the fishing grounds the party began to troll for bluefish. At about 5:45 o’clock Mr. Ryan, who was sitting in the stern of the boat, noticed an immense agitation of the” water a short distance to the left, ana called the attention of the party to the occurrence. He had hardly-finished speaking when the head of an enormous serpent appeared above the water. What followed is best described by the three bluefishers themselves. Mr. McMahon tells the following story: “I had no weapon with me but a jack-knife, but I drew this and determined to sell my life dearly. I saw plainly that if the lives of our little party were to be saved I was to be the humble instrument of deliverance to my comrades. Captain Van Nostrand had nothing but a ten-cent corkscrew* and Ryan’s only weapon was a religious tract that bad been handed to him lust before we started for the bay. Well, sir, it was Fa terrible sight. The beast or reptile seemed to be about one hundred and two feet long, and its head was as big as a barrel. It rose out of the water over twenty feet, and then, as quick as lightning, darted clean through the sail of our boat, and landed head first in the water on the other side. One of its scales dropped on the deck, and it was as hard almost as a stove-lid, and of the same s<ze. We sailed straight for home and didn’t see the thing again.” Captain Van Nostrand’s story differs somewhat from Mr. McMahon’s. The Captains version te as follows: “The moment I saw the water a tumbling about I made up my mind it was caused by the serpent I had seen once when I was a boy, forty years ago, off Rockaway. I wasn’t the least bit frightened, and I drew a revolver, determined to kill the serpent, if possible. It had a head on it as nig as an aiderman, and its eyes were as large as saucers. Ryan and McMahon were as white as sheets, and each of them

ou a common ball; u simply bounced oft. The critter gave a snort, and whisked its tail at our boat. Itbo««ht we were gone, sure, but the serpent’s tail missed the boat and fast caught Mr. Ryan on the top of the hat, taking the hair off* closer to the skin than a cltauer machine—so close th** you woui ,u i *to bald-headed. If that tailnau struca an eighth of an tach lower the man Would nave lost the top of hto skoL The serpent disappeared after taking that one crack at us, and we didn’t see him again. McMahon and I were thankful enough to escape, but Ryan kept growltag all the way home about losing hto hiar. He said he wouldn’t mind about being bald-headed in winter,- but it was a tough thing to stand in fly-time.” Mr. Ryan treated hto adventure with apparent indifference. Said he: “The moment I saw the thing I knew what it was. The only woncern I had was for McMahon. I knew he had the heart disease, and I felt alarmed, fearing that the sudden frighthegot would kill him. To reassure Mae. I said: ’Don't be frightened; it’s only a large sized eel.’ I’ll never forget the look he gave me as be replied: ‘Eel? It’s the devil himself!’ and with that he began to read like a madman a religious tract that the fish-bait was wrapped up inJus t then the serpent lifted its head out of the water within a foot of where I was sitting. With that I hauled back and gave him a terrible clip between the eyes with a stout blackthorn I alway cany. The blow staggered him, and he dove under the boat, but came up at the other side, glaring at Mac. like a tiger. Mac. wore a fancy straw hat that was the color ofa green watermelon. ’Overboard with that bat—it’s that which to provokin’ the beast!’ I yelled, and Mac. pulled it off, and scaled it over the water. The next thing we heard was a grating sound; the serpent had bitten one anchor off. Two minutes after it came up under Mac.’shat, and a second later we saw it making for the open sea with the green tile on its bead, and the anchor between Its teeth. I wanted to pursue the serpent, but Mac. and the Captian wouldn’t listen to the proposition, and we sailed home.*’

Ancient and Modern Ideas of Inspiration.

J. E. Lindholm in Bunday Afternoon. The ansients set God and the universe in opposition. They often ascribed the creation of the world to a being less perfect than God. They were unable by a higher synthesis to reconcile their conceptions of Deity with the evil and imperfection which they beheld in themselves and the world around. Polytheism had made Deity an intimateand&fniliar presence that too often shared human frailty and vice. It was the reaction of Semitic Monotheism to send God away almost into the reigon of the unknowable. It enthroned him in far-off and inap{iroachable majesty and holiness. So ealous were the Semites of the idea of God’s unaproachablaness and unsearchableness that, though in the warmth of religious utterance He was said to have appeared, to have revealed himself by some name or otherwise, returning to philosophic accuracy, they would speak of such manifestation as that of some emanating power or lower God, and would sooner lay themselves open to the charge of believing in all sorts of lesser divinities as mediatory powers than in the least to appear to make Supreme Deity capable of any representation whatsoever Has he appeared, or uttered His voice, or named himself Jehovah? And would men hence persume to begin to predicate anything concerning nto nature or mode of existence? He withdraws indescribable and unnamable into Hto absoluteness.

While God thus dwelt apart, alone in the possession of all that Is good, this gross world, its thoughts, works and imaginations were only evil continually,- It was. totaley depraved. It had no self-restorative power. It had no innate ability to will or think anything that is good. Even what might appear as good works were not so in reality, but had without doubt the nature of sin. How then were goodness and truth to appear and shine on the earth? It could only be by an interposition of the far-off God; by lowering the celestial sphere to inspir or “breathe” its holiness into the earthly. This was effected by the communication of an angel or by the gift of a dal mon. In these messengers God was efficaciously and infallibly present. This mechanical Junction of the celestial sphere with the terrestrial was denominated inspiration. The conception of inspiration that inevitably followed was this: They who received these divine messages, i. e., inspired persons, were universally regarded as pure mediums. Undoubtedly. There was and could be no human element in the message. The whole was direct from heaven. The inspired vere possessed. “The word that the Lord hath put in my mouth, that I must speak.” That this logical inference was commonly made we take Philo out of a multitude as witness: “A prophet says nothing of his ownr, but everything which he says is strange and prompted by some one else He is a sounding instrument of God’s voice, being struck and moved to sound in an invisible manner by him.” Again: “When the divine light shines the human light sets ~ . . and this verv frequently happens to the race of prop* hets for the mind that is in us is removed from its place at the arrival of the devine spirit, but is again restored when that spirit departs.”

Since, then, ancient philosophy made the inspired person a pure medium, “a sounding instrument of God’s voice,” every inspired utterance must be infallible. . On this dark background of essential enmity and separation between God and nature much of past theology has been outlined. Some of it had been steeped in this utter gloom. This ancient falshood of man’s total depravity and hostility td God yet hangs its sable pall over the theology of some. But our view of nature and of God’s government thereof is now radically changed. We believe nature to be sacred and God immanent'and transeunt therein, its hypostasis and conscious soul. Religion we no longer look upon as a wave come from some etherial and mystic sea to flood our godless valley with its healing waters. As we have concluded men to be. not children of the devil and of darkness by nature, but the sons ot their divine Creator, we find religion to be a fact deeply rooted in their moral consciousness. The .highest manifestation of the hiding God that can possibly be vouchsafed us, must after all be divinely human. But If so, if the sublimest revelation of God to man must be a revelation of Him in and through*man, then the germs of great truth and high capacity already reside In him by nature. A righteous life, then, te the result of drawing out, by all manner, of education, the God-planted possibilities within him. But how was it attained, according to the ancient mechanical view? It was by first driving out and

jtilj sen/fronts 1 distant Gai, mw be by opus tetic predestination: their inspiriation must be infallible, since it communi* cutes nothing but vhat is from above.

Jeff. Davis’ Quarter Million

New York Eon. Col. 8. Percy Ellto, who lives at 1055 Lafayette avenue, Brooklyn, to the brother of Mrs. Sarah A. Dorsey. who, dying in Beauvoir, Miss., on July 4, left all her property, worth at least $250,000, to Jefftason Davis. Mrs. Dorsey wholly neglected ber natural heirs, who are her brother, Col. Ellis, her sister, Mrs. Ines Peckham, living in Tensas Parish, la, and her nephew, the son of her brother Thomas, who died in the Confederate service. She also left two stepbrothers, the sons of Gen. Chas. G. Dahlgren, who, after her father’s death, married her mother. Mrs! Dorsey was in many respects an exceptional woman, and since the war she had manifested almost a religious devotion to the South, worshiping Jefferson Davis as the hero* of the Lost Cause. Mr. Davis had been an intimate friend of the Elite family since she was a child, and she, as well as her brother, had grown up toadmire him greatly. Mrs. Dorsey was born in February, 1829, on Woodlawn plantation, in Mississippi. Her father died in 1838, leaving his widow, who subsequently beeame Mrs. Dahlgren, sister-in-law of the Rear Admiral of the United States Navy, and four children, Mrs. Dorsey being the eldest. Mrs. Dorsey received a superior education, developing a genius for the languages, and becoming an accomplished performer on the harp. Thrown into the society of her aunts, Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Warfield, both of whom were literary women, she early began to write stories, sketches and poems. On Jaauary 19, 1853, she married Mr. Samuel Worthington Dorsey, son of Justice Dorsey, of Maryland. Mr. Dorsey had been a lawyer,but was a planter in Tensas Parish at the time of their marriage. He was afterward State Senator and a Member of Congress. Mrs. Dorsey was always an enthusiast. After her marriage it was on the subject of religioh, and she maintained a resident chaplain on the plantation, a High Church Episcopalian, whose duty it was to religiously instruct the slaves. Their plantation was devastated by the Federal troops early in the war. It was a beautrful spot, the yard containing 800 varieties of roses. A war correspondent describes it as a “perfect paradise of flowers.” Mrs. Dorsey went to Texas with a company of her slaves. She studied, and read, and wrote with avidity. She began the study of Greek in an ambulance while returning overland on a visit to Natchez She had the vehicle provided with book shelves, and as she rode along through the woods and swamps she pursued the study. The Louisiana plantation to which the family returned at the dose of the war was not suited to Mrs. Dorsey’s health, and her husband purchased a splendid orange grove near Mississippi City. In the center of the grove wra a large house, whose piazzas overlooked the Gulf of Mexico. When Mrs. Dorsey was taken to the place she exclaimed; “Beauvoir!” (“Beautiful to see!”) and that name was bestowed upon theplace. Mr. Dorsey died in 1876. He was childless, and left all of hto large property to hto wife. She devoted herself to literary pursuits after her husbands death, although her works were all published before that event, except “Panola.” She wrote novels entitled “Athalie,” “Agnes Graham” and “Lucia Dare.” The plot of the latter was based upon a family episode in the history of Mrs. Dorsey’s aunt, who was carried a Way by the Indians when a girl.

Beauvoir was famous for many miles for its delicious oranges, its beautiful situation, its accomplished mistress and her generous hospitality. She entertained many friends, but sought chiefly those of talen t as familiar acquaintances. She is said to have engaged Thomas Carlyle, Dean Stanley, Rossetti, Herbert Spencer and many other distinguished men in correspondence. She corresponded with Jefferson Davis when he was in Europe, and on his return she offered him a home at Beauvoir, which he accepted, although he was not accompanied thither by his wife. Mrs. Dorsey had a Horary rich in> Southern history and literature, Erinted and in manuscript, and in her ome Mr. Davis began his history of the late rebellion, upon which he is still at work. Two years ago, before Mr. Davis came to Beauvoir, Mrs. Dorsey visited her brother in Brooklyn,and repeatedly referred to Mr. Davis as a great patriot who had made sacrifices for his native land beyond those of many men deemed greater in history, and she expressed displeasure at the ingratitude of the South for his services, saying that he had never been properly rewarded. She did not then indicate that she proposed to try to pay the debt. Since Mr. Davis went to live at Beauvoir she has shown a greater devotion to him as her hero. Mrs. Ellis, a talented woman, drew for Mrs. Dorsey a crayon portrait of the ex-President of the Confederacy, which Mrs. Dorsey prized so highly that when she went to the St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans, to receive treatment for a malignant cancerous tumor, she took the portrait with her and hung it upon the wall of her room, although it must have been a great inconvenience.

Mr. Ellis was ready surprised when he learned that his sister had given all her property to Jefferson Davis. It had been the express wish of Mr. Dorsey that an Income should be fixed out of the estate for Mr. Elite’ two children, but this was not done. Mr. Ellis can not tell what influence was exetted Fi his sister to cause her to so disof nearly $250,000 worth of properHe has thought highly of Jefferson Davis hitherto, and has believed him incapable of a design of this nature, although knowing that he was most persuasive in his friendships. Mr. E’lis contemplates a contest of the will, and it te probable that one will be began; but not having thus far seen a copy of the document, or had sufficient time to confer with the other natural heirs, he is not yet possessed of sufficient inform mation to' reach a conclusion. He can not think thai, it te. right that his sister’s property should be so bestowed. The estate includes besides much ready money and the Beauvoir plantation, the Elk Ridge plantation and Ellison plantation in Tensas Parish, La., and much uncultivated land in Louisiana and Kansas. Mr. Ellis will probably engage counsel in the case in a few days. He has had ho legal notice that the will has beens offered for probate, and Mr. Davis has not communicated with him or with Gen. Dahlgren, Mrs. Dorsey’s stepfather, now a resident of Brooklyn. The family of Mr. Ellis strongly suspect undue influence. Mr. Elite is now employed as editor of two trade journals, and manager of a Spanish Journal in this city. Prior to

torn from the South some years after Oke dose of the war, on the Union, and as occasional writer for some of the metropolitan journals.

Fond of Human Blood.

New York Mereurv. Ludwig Helreifel, a German tailor, living in Avenue B, between Second and Third streets, has acquired from hto neighbors the singular name of “Blood Sucker.” He not only indulges in animal blood as a ionic beverage. but expresses a preference for human blood, whenever he can get 1L Thto was made by domestic troubles, which ended in a permanent separation between Helreifel and hto wife; abe, on he part, charging him with a dangerous inclination to gratify his unnatural thirst for blood at her expense. Habitual cruelty was, however, the legal plea. Curious to know how much truth there was in the rumors and stories told of Helreifel’s blood-thirsty inclinations, a Mercury reporter sought him out, in order to get from the man himself the truth, if any. Hehriefel to a diminutive, swarthy man. His head is very large, and covered with a shock of bristly, black hair that makes hto head appear out of all proportions to the body. Hair seems to grow eveiywhere upon the man; even upon the tip of hto nose there to a considerable turf of hair. He to not a prepossessing man in appearance, and this propably has had something to do with prejudicing many against him. When asked by the reporter if it was true that he habitually drank human blood, he answered by asking if the reporter was acquainted with hto former wife, Margueretha. On being assured that there was no such acquaintance, be then readily and freely told hto story. “Yes, it to true that I drink Mood,” said Helriefel, “and it to good for me. It to a good medicine. It makes me strong. The Germans eat blood sausage, and they all think it to good. But when I drink mine they say it to bad, and they call me Bloodsucker. Now, what to the difference whether I take the blood before it is made into sausages' afterwards? They make a fuss about nothing. But all the trouble came from that woman, Margueretba. She told all the women that I couldn’t live without drinking the blood of some person. And the women, they told the story to everybody for the truth, but it to not so. She told them that I used to bit her arms in the night, when she was asleep, and then suck the blood. She made me so much trouble.”

“But didn’t you sometimes bite her arms?” Well, yes; I did bite her sometimes, but it was not for the blood, although the blood from a person is better than that from an animal. It is just as much better as good wine is better than some common wine. If you try it once you would see the difference. Human blood is richer, and it has a fine flavor.” { When questioned at to how he came to acquire such a singular appetite, Helreifel said it began in childhood. He was a very small delicate child, and, being the last survivor of six, his parents spared no trouble or expense to raise him. In Germany the poorer classes eat very little meat, while the children get almost none at all. But in Helreifel’s case the doctor pronounced it poverty of the blood, and ordered A solid meat diet for the child. Even this did not have the effect desired, and raw meat, and finally blood still warm from the animal was given to him. Every morning bls mother would take him to a butcher’s, where for four pfenings, German money, a good drink of warm blood was obtained, the mother herself first tasting the blood to see if it was fresh and pure, or, as Heldreifel expressed it, “not humbugged.” In this way he soon acquired an appetite for fresh blood. A cut, or some similar accident, when a boy at school, first gave him a taste of human blood. Perceiving at bnce a difference, and that human blood was superior to animal, Helreifel acquired an actual appetite, a craving for the former. One reason for this preference was, he thought, because human blood was very difficult to obtain.

At parting Helreifel warned the reporter against heeding the slanders of his neighbors. “I like blood because it is good,” he said- “but these foolish women think I am like that bat which sucks the blood from people’s feet at night until they are dead. I am not like that, and they tell lies about me when they call me Bloodsucker. I believe some of them think I would suck the blood from my own veins if I could not get it from another person, and that is humbug. I like a glass of human blood just as poeple like a glass of good wine. It brings a good feeling and makes me fresh and healthy; a good wine does the same thing; there is no difference.

Pluck Rewarded.

Denver Tribane. The Tribune ofyesterday contained a record of the of E. C. Bassick’s mine near Rosita, to New York parties for a sum Which, though not stated, is probably nearly $1,000,000. The following account of how .Bassick got his wealth will be of interest: Barely three years age Bassick was undoubtedly the most poverty-stricken wretch in Rosita. He eked out a precarious living for himself and family by sawing wood and doing odd jobs, but devoted all his spare moments to prospecting. He was poor, .so poor. When a miner struck a good pay streak he remembered Bassick, and hte family got the crumbs and broken fragmen ts from the tables of church festivals and surprise parties. When Bassick wanted a sack of flour or a few pounds of groceries on credit, the storekeepers, individually and collectively, turned up their noses and passed him by on the other side. He was poor, you know, and poverty' te as disagreeable in a belt of silver mines as everywhere else. One day Bassick thought he would take a turn among the foothills north* of Rosita. The ground had been thoroughly prospected before, and ail the moet promising locations were staked, but Bassick podded on, and reaching the top of a small barren butte, he m ecan ically went to work and sunk a hole. He kept sinking for days and days while the boys would stand up on top and jeerathimand wonder what the old fool expected to find there. At the, depth of twenty feet the pick went into a peculiar formation of yellow gravel and sand, something that Bassick bad never seen before, and filling his pockets with specimens, he returned to town and endeavored to procure an assay. The knowing ones gave the stuff a glance, pronounced it worthless and refused to give an assay unless the money was put up in advance. Driven to desperation, Bassick offered one man a half interest in the mine for an assay, and the offer was refused. He carried the specimens around in hte pockets for weeks, and buttonholed and begged and implored his friends to take hold of it and help him out, but they regarded him as crazy and let the fortune go. At last a stranger came into camp and he listened to Bassick’s story. He thought with all the rest that the man was crazy, but in order to humor him an assay was obtained, and to the

ne b kno ’ wood-sawyer attest, and ledhixntoa vast deposit of gold-bearing ore, and in a month from the first discovery, the name of Bassick was uttered with reverence and respect.

A Highly-Colored Picture.

Norristown Herald. A young lady graduate in a neighboring college read an rosay entitled “Employment of Time.*’ Her composition was based on the text, “Time wasted to existence; used, to life.” The next day she purchased eight ounces of sepher of different shades and* commenced working a sky-blue dog with seagreen ears and a pink tail on a piece of yellow canvas. She expects to nave it done by next Christmas. Remarkable Accident to a Horae. York (Pa.) Deify. Several days ago a heavy fall and a great racket was heard In the livery stables of G. W. Zecher. at Lancester. Mr. Zecher and some of hto men ran to the stable to ascertain what was the matter, and were no Utile astonished to find one of the horses belonging to the Adams Express . Company; lying down with one of hto hind feet wedged in hto mouth. It required the united strength of several men, using levers, to pry the horse’s mouth wide enough open to get its foot out, and before they succeeded two of the horse’s teeth were knock out. The poor brute would soon have strangled to death had benot been promptly relieved, and it was nearly half an hour after he was relieved before he could rise to hto feet It is supposed that the horse threw hto foot forward in striking at the flies, and at the same dime threw hto head backwards, biting at them, thus opening hto mouth and “putting his foot in it” The entire hoof was ta the horse’s mouth, the teeth being sunk into the flesh above the hoof almost if not altogether to the bone. The teeth that was loosened by the accident were replaced and driven back into their sockets, but whether they will stay there is not known. The horse was a valuable one, recently purchased by the express company for 825°. _ ‘ '

A New Way to Collect Old Debts. Indianapolis News.

The other day a certain firm of this ' city took down their ledger to draw off several accounts for collection. The lawyer who was to attend to collecting the bills was looking over the ledger as the bookkeeper turned the leaves. “Why don’t you give me that?” he asked, as an account of S2B presented itself. “No use,” said -the bookkeeper; “can’t get anything out of him*” “Give it to me; I’ll try.” The book-keeper said there was an $8 credit on the bill, one of the members of the firm owing the debtor that amount. He then walked to the place haunted by the debtor. “Not doing anything now?” he asked him. “No, nothing. Dead broke.” “Weil, it’s a shame. You're a good business man. Why don’t you get some of your friends to dub together and start you again? It wouldn’t take much—a few hundred dollars. Go and see three or four of ’em and then come and see me.” •• ij J

In the afternoon the debtor called on the attorney, the calcium light of "hope dancing in his eye. “Look here.” said the attorney, not giving the debtor a chance to speak, 1 here’s an old bill against you—left with me for collection—a balance of S2O. No wonder you don’t succeed. I’m ashamed of you.” • Debtor disappeared, returning in a few minutes with the money and paying the bill. Next day hecalled again, and broached the subject of the assistance promised by the attorney, aud said that S3OO, with what he could get from other sources, would enable him to start again. “But I never said I’d loan you money,” said the collector. “I merely asked you to come around and see me after you’d seen your friends. You did and paid me S2O, for which, for my clients, I am very much obliged.”

Sleepy Tom:

When the word “go” was given for the third heat, “Sleepy” suddenly awake to the fact that there was business on hand, and buckled into his work with such will as to leave all his competitors for in the rear. He came in an easy winner, and the pool buyers. who on account of his previous balks, had concluded they had made a mistake, once more took to him very kindly. The fourth heat was a repetition, of the third, with a little “more so.” “Sleepy” Tom went for the lead as a grasshopper goes for a June-bug. Away he flew, faster and fester, as greater and greater became the distance between him and his followers. But for the feet that the drivers of the other horses whipped up desperately at the dose the entire field would have been shutout. “Sleepy” Tom [ls evidently a great horse. * John Splan, the driver of Rarus’ by the way, tells a good story, about this sightless old fellow. He was asked to drive him a race at Columbus. To his surprise he lost the first two heats. “I ou don’t understand him.” said his old driver. “You must talk to him. Now, whenyou come to a turn you must say, “Turn, Tom’, and when you get on the home-stretch you must say, “Go, Tom; they are after us.’ Say that and he’ll win.” Splan said he would try the racket. So, for fear he might fer get the formula, he wrote it out, pinned it on his knee “right side up with care,” so as to have it under his eye as he sat in the sulky, and started on the third beat. It is needless to say be won it. Be the above feet or fiction, this much is certain, that Tom and nis driver are on very intimate terms, and the latter leans forward and talkes to his pet all through the race. —[Chicago Times.

Locomotive Longevity.

The iron horse does not last much longer than the horse of flesh and bones. The ordinary life of a locomotive is 80 years. Borne of the smaller parts require renewal every six months; the boiler tubes last five years and the crank axles six years; tires, boilers and fireboxes from six to seven years; the side frames, axles and other parte thirty years. An important advantage is that a broken part can be repaired and does not condemn the whole locomotive to thejudk-shop, while, when a horse breaks a leg, the whole animal te only worth the flesh, fat and bones, which amount to a very small sum in this country, Where horse-flesh does not find Its way to the butcher’s shambles. —[Scientific American. - - i Joining in the amusements of others is, in our social state, the next thing to sympathy in their distresses, and even the slenderest bond that holds society together should rather be strengthened than snapped. Richard Fuller: He who spends all his life in sport is like one wno wears nothing but fringes, and eats nothing but sauces.