Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1879 — Page 4

ODDS AND ENDS.

Cuba* ladies still trim their drew with living fireflies. A halibut weighing 428 pounds was canght the other day at Cape Cod. OBKKMBACKB are at a premium of ooe-foarth of one per cent, in Tomato, Ontario. Herb Kbcpp, the manufoctarer of the cannons known astbeKrappguns, employs more laborers than any other person in the world. / There is a book in circulation in London giving minute descriptions of all mariageable English ladies having An income of £1,206 or over. Bows (Italy) has been startled by a bicycle rsoe between two ladies who both belong to the best society, and are celebrated for their beauty. Gee. Lew Wallace writes that he likes his office of Governor of New Mexfcx), but finds it difficult to keep pesee among the inhabitants. A Texas man has patented a gate for railway crossings which is lowered automatically by passing trains and raised as soon as they have gone by. Savannah has just shipped to Liverpool the largest cargo of rosin ever exported .from this country. It contained 8,650 barrels, worth nearly $40,000. The deepest running stream that is known is the Niagant river, which, just under the lower suspension!) bridge, is 700 feet deep by actual measurement. - Cashier Jumonvillk, of the Canal Bank of New become a defaulter after thirty years of faithful service. His accounts are twenty thousand dollars short. * Worth, the Parisian man milliner, will not make a dress, material supplied by the customer, for less than • S3OO or S4OO, and be has all that he can attend to fit that price. The Princeton authorities have notified the parents of every candidate for the Sophomore class that any* attempt at hazing will be met by prompt and irrevocable dismissal. An Englishman is said to be examining the villages along the Hudson river for a site for a linen mill, which it is proposed to remove from England. The mill is to employ 2,000 men. Three of Miss Hudson’s lovers at Lakey Bend, 111., combined to beat a fourth, and seized him one night as he was going to see her, and threw him into a pond where he drowned. Brigham Young’s grave is entirely neglected, and hardly a spear of grass is growing on it. His seventeen wives and inhumerable children are too busy fighting over his property to look after it

Boarders at the Atlantic City hotels are not permitted to mash mosquitoes on the walls, but must get them down on the floor and choke ’em to death and ring for the porter to draw off the corpse. . _ . Two casks are being built at Cincinnati for the use of the Catawba Wine Company, which will hold 16,000 gallons of wine each. With the exception of the Heidelberg cask, which holds 18,000 gallons, they are the largest in the world. Great attention is being given to the culture of carrier pigeons at the French garrisons, so that they may be used in Lime of siege, and the Minister of War has given fourteen Sevres vases as prizes for the encouragement of their breeding and training. Those whp believe in the theory that Asiatic cholera makes its appearance once in every twelve years, now assert that it may be expected this year in Asia, and that it will then pass to the westward over Europe and Angelica. This year the twelve-year feastof Juggurnaut and Hundwhor takes place, and the cholera, as past experi- - enee shows, has almost invariably followed that festival. James Casev, of New York, was stabbed on Sunday, probably fatally. A Police Captaip asked him who stabbed him. “I know who did it, Captain.” said Mr. Casey, proudly; •*but,l have the grit of the Twentieth * ward and would rather die than squeal.” Have the dime novels any greater hero t£an James Casey? A young elephant was recently brought into the Court of Exchequer, in London. He was accused of frightening a horse, and thereby damaging a young lady contained in the carriage attached thereto, but bis mild and playful behavior in court, where he amused himself by picking hats off the table, convinced everybody that he did not mean to do It, and the case was compromised. The average of mortgages upon the farming lands of France is but 5 per cent. In England it is 58. The United States have but 3,000,000 proprietary agriculturalists. France, with a vastly smaller area, has 6,000,000, 5,000,000 of whom are small farmers. England has but 250,000 land holders, and 12 per cent, only of the people till the soil; the rest are engaged in manufacturing and other pursuits. One million are paupers.

NEWSLETS.

Serious trouble appears to be brewing between Germany and Russia. The grape erop lu France will fall - abort one-half as compared with the crop of last year. A New York brewer is under contract to ship from 500 to 1,000 barrels | month of beer to France. Two million bushels of wheat were received and orwarded at Indianapolis during the month of July. Gladstone recognizes the fact that the United States is a formidable competitor of England for the trade of the • world. A Fort Buford special says Sitting Bull was present and directed the light with Miles on the 17th, and one ofbje toothers was killed.

Oh the rsoeot oncarinn of the golta wilting of Emperor William, the German people contributed over 2,500,000 marks for charitable purposes. The late terrible storm in England was a crowning mfefortnne to the formers, who had already suffered so severely Cram unpropitious weather. The canal tolls in the State of New York, from the opening of navigation to August I'were $811,073—a loss of $06,409 compared with the previous year. The next State elections will be those of California, September 8, and Maine, September 8. In October, Ohio and lowa will hold their elections on the 14th. Another Montreal bank has suspended, with about $700,000 of liabilities, and the signs indicate that there are more banks there hastening to the same end. ..{'✓■ V: John Baker, under indictment for murder, in Guadeloupe county, Texas, professed conversion, and was addressing a camp meeting, when a rifle ball penetrated his brain and he fell dead. A friend of his victim had avenged his murder. It is said that Daviess county, Ky., has twenty-two distilleries and one lady temperance lecturer. That little, lone woman will have to spread herself like the Vermont hen to cover such a vast nest of iniquity, and hatch reform out of it.

an epidemic of the typhoid form, directly traced to the sufferers having eaten of the flesh of a diseased oow, hm» broken out in Kurzenberg, Canton Berne, Switzerland. There are some thirty or forty cases, of which several have already resulted fatally. Photographic counterfeit $5 notes of the Globe National Bank of Boston, letter C. and the Dedham National Bank, of Dedham, Mass., letter B. have made their appearance at San Francisco, and may be expected forthwith, at any point in the country. • A gang of Brazilian counterfeiters were captured in New York last week with their plates, paper presses* and a large amount of bad money in their possession, by agents of the Brazilian government, but It is doubtftil whether they can be held under existing international laws. When Lord Chelmsford,, on his march to Ulundi, began burning the kraals along the road, Cetywayo begged that two might be spared—in vain, however. These were one in which several of his ancestors were buried, and another in which there still lived at a very great age, a widow of Chaka, the founder of the ruling dynasty. J. A. Bentley, Commisiioner of Patents, states that up to the last of June there bad been 45,000 applications for arrears of pensions by those had before been on the rolls, and between 36,000 and 37,000 applications for original grants. Mr. Bentley thinks the pension laws are a denial of justice to honest claimants and an opportunity for dishonest men to pension themselves on the Government The present system is greatly overburdened and adding to the expenses of tbecoantry.

At the convention of the colored men of Indiana, held in Terre Haute last week, resolutions were adopted encouraging emigration of the colored people from the South, and committees were appointed for this State to aid and advise such emigrants to come to Indiana. Mr. Gladstone has sound opinions on many subjects, among which to journalism. In a recent letter to the proprietors of a liberal paper at Deptford, England, he says: 1 congratulate you and I congratulate your borough on tlie establishment of your Jtinrnsl. It haa the air and promise of Cowardice or affectation, be ashamed of the character of a party paper. Party papers, so far as I see, are, generally speaking, the most upright papers and the most respected By their opponents.

Pearl,-hunting has become a regular industry on the Little Miami river, Ohio, and it is getting exciting. Several pearls recently found in th® fisheries there have been sold in New York at high prices, and the work is carried on near Waynesville- with avidity. One resident there has a collection of 1,000. The region where the mussels Ure found abounds in prehistoric and antediluvian formation, and the shells are found in both deep and shallow water. The mussel beds extend for five miles north and south of Waynesville, in the Little Miami. The New York Son gives expression to a rapidly growing public sentiment when it says: “The sooner the youth of this country are compelled by the soope and tendency of our public school system to recognise that only one boy in a hundred can be a lawyer, doctor or clergyman, the better it will be for the American people. To that end it is essential that our methods of training shall cease to foster the silly and abortive preference for so-called gentlemanly pursuits—shall squarely face the fact that manual labor is the sphere in which the great majority of the human race are destined to move,' and that it is mechanical skill and genius which hav transformed the world, and which should command the highest prizes in the race of life.”

An announcement in the Chicago Journal says: "All comrades who, during the war of the rebellion, have been prisoners of war iu any rebel prison, can obtain important information by reporting their postnffloe addresses, company, regiment, date of capture and release to the Executive Officer of the Andersonville Survivors’ Association, room 7, 120 East Randolph street, Chicago, Ills.” The national temperance camp meeting, which is to be held at Bismarck Grove, near Lawrence, this month, promises to be the biggest thing ever held in the State. The tabernacle, which will accommodate 6,000 people, is nearly completed, and

will be a permanent building. Speaken will be present from all parts of the meat in the movement, and the crowd In attendance is expected to be Immense.

INDIANA INKLINS

A Lady in Kosciusko county) recently gave birth to bar fourth pair of twins. Two cornets take part in the instrumental masks of a* Mancie Sundayschool. A grand soldiers’ reunion is to be held at Winchester, on the fourth of October. A IX)vino couple were married, the other day, In Greenfield, while setting in w buggy. Mrs. Henry Lawrence, dropped dead, the other day, while attending to her household duties. Peter HuNTsiNGKR, of Rush county, claims to have threshed 750 bushels of wheat in three hoars. A steer, with horns eight feet apart, from tip to tip, was killed at Auburn, the other day. The champion wheat yield of this season, in Elkhart county, was fiftyfive bushels to the acre. In the month of July, 1878, Schmidt’ brewery, at Indianapolis, sold 2,978 barrels of beer; during the same month, 1879, 4,035 barrels were sold. This would indicate that beer drinking is on the increase. %.

While Wm. Carico was moving a saw mill engine from Linton to his form near Paxton, it was accidentally overturned, foiling partly upon him in such manner that a one-inch bolt was driven into his heart, penetrating his lungs. He was fotally wounded. The latest dodge of the peripatetic swindlers, is to visit farmers and contract for their wheat, ‘for future delivery, at a price away above the market value. This contract is so worded that it can be changed into a promissory note. All the swindler needs is the farmer’s signature. A woman at Greensburg, Decatur county, was not sure that she wished to die, but thought she did, so she put her neck into a noose and stepped off a chair, taking the precaution to hold a sharp knife in her hand. The choking left her no longer in doubt that she still desired to live, and she hastily cut the rope above her head.

Some of the women in the Methodist congregation at Laconia, recently volunteered to clean the church, and on an appointed day gathered for the purpose. Two of teem essayed to direct tee job, and the division of authority brought on a quarrel, which was followed by a fight, in which brooms, mops and pails of water were freely used. An Indianapolis rascal, who claims to be connected with the office in which the question lists* for teachers, to be used at the examinations for license by tbe county school superintendents, are printed, to sending out circulars to teachers, offering to furnish these lists at $5 and $lO each. Ofooursethe Indianapolis chap to a fraud and a swindler. Henry Enfield was at work on a purline at the Studebaker wagon shops, In St Joseph county, fifty feet from the ground, prying with a crowbar. The bar slipped and Mr. Enfield fell backward; but with great presence of mind bent hto knees and caught himself on the purline, hanging there head downward, until some of hto fellow workmen rescued him from bis perilous position.

A BOSTON WOMAN

Who Went Alone to Nevada to Meet and Marry Her Lover. Canon (Nev.) Appeal. On June 28, a gentleman doing business at Benton, California, was married at the Ormsby House tfl a handsome and charmiDg young lady from Boston. A prominent government official who was recently visiting this city was on the train with the young lady and from him the following was gleaned: She was very attractive, possessing a great fund or refined humor and fascinating conversational faculties; everything denoted her to be an admirable young lady. She stated that she came from Boston, and had no hesitancy about informing those who asked respecting her destination, that she expected to meet a gentleman friend at Wadsworth, with whom she would proceed to Carson. Her manners were so captivating that everybody on the train paid her great attention, but one thing seemed to puzzle her fellow passengers, and that was a large bright red rose fastened on to the left side of her hat, which was so far from harmonizing with the remainder of her modest and tasteful attire. When the train readied Wadsworth a gentleman boarded it. He was neatly attired, with one exception, and that was a flaming red silk handkerchief enveloping his neck. The y oung lady from Boston oordiaily greeted the Sntleman, as if they had been life-long ends. The odd coincident features In the attire of both the lady and gentleman set the passengers on the train to conjecturing as to what they signified, and one gentleman who had Deen specially kind and attentiveto the young lady wss taken into her confidence. to whom she revealed the feet that the gentleman with the red handkerchief was to be her husband.

Neither the lady nor gentleman ever met before, in fact, had not even exchanged pictures, but corresponded with each other for a long time, until their apparent intellectual attainments had formed a bond of affection which resulted in their marriage. It was stipulated that the gentleman should meet his affianced at Wadsworth, and, to enable them to recognise each other, the lady was to wear the red rose in her bat, and he to clothe his neck in a similarly colored silk handkerchief. This hit of romance soon made the rounds of the whole train, aid, there being no question as to the high respectability of the couple, they were the recipients of the warmest congratulations and expressions of best wishes from the other ladies and gentlemen on the cars. Mr. B. and Mias G. were united in marriage by the rector of St. Peter’s Episcopal church here. The newiy-nfade couple remained in the city aevefu days, and are now living at Bentoa

A TERRIBLE FALL.

Thirteen is an Unlucky Vnmber by Palling 250 Foet Over a Precipice. New York Han. . David M. Anderson, a young m »" employed in a hardware store at 85 Cliff street in this cite, lay is the residence of Mr. George 8. Cue, in Engleye>terd *y afternoon^sufto considered almost mirarolons that be escaped with his ttfe. Last Friday evening several of the young people of Englewood were invited to attend an open-air tea party at the residence of Mr. Coe, the president of the American Exchange National Bank of this city, who has a beautlfhl home at Englewood. His grounds extends taackto this Palisades, and Included in them Is a narrow defile lined by perpendicular walls of rock, and known as ‘ the gorge.’’ The gentlemen in the party were Mr. Coe’s son and his nephew, SB. and James H. Coe, William , Mr. Shaw and Mr. Anderson, of ths young gentlemen drove up tram the village and tied their horses to trees on the brink of the PalMsdes. The heads of the horses were turned from the river. All the .horses were very close to thegorge, and that of Mr. Stanley’s was so close that the rear wheels of his carriage were onte a few feet from the brink. When the party sat down to refreshments at about ten o’clock, one of the young ladies observed that there were thirteen present, and that because of the superstitiou of ill-luck attached to that number they must be careful. -This remark led to a repetition of the superstitious legends and traditions that are hinged upon the number thirteen. The conversation had followed in that direction for some time when it was observed that Mr. Stanley’s horse was very restless. Several of the young men started to attend to the horse, but just as they reached the point where he was picketed the animal broke loose and backed over the precipice. The young men stopped upon the verge and looked over to see how for the horse had follen. What occurred is best told by one of the party who was a little behind the others: “He had just been singing a song,” he said, “the words of which were about tbe mystic number thirteen, when some one cried out, ‘There goes one of the horses over the gorge.” I jumped up and saw the horse just as he broke from his fostening aud disappeared. For a minqte I was paralyzed. When I did creep hear the gorge I saw flashes of light fly from the rocks for down. These sparks shone through the trees as horses and wagon quickly passed to the roadbed at the river’s bank. Hardly had I time to notice them before I was chilled with a shriek, and looking, saw Anderson foiling with lightning speed down the steep sides. The shrieks of the women and the suppressed groans of the men of the party recalled me. I never experienced such a feeling. I thought that I, too, was going over the cliff. The excitement was so intense that now I wonder that more of us did not foil down.”

The distance to the foot of the gorge Is fifty feet. And from that point the Palisades slope outward very slightly until they reach the river. Those looking over the edge heard the body of their oonpanlon strike with a dull thub and then slide and tumble among .the bushes and over the rocks about *2OO feet further down. As soon as they regained their self-possession, one of the party started for Mr. Coe’s house and another tooked a carriage to go for a physician, while the rest ran along the edge of the bluff a long distance to where a winding road begins to descend the feoe of the cliff Mr. Coe Joined the party of rescuers. They were encouraged in their search by the fact that one of their number had been thoughtful enough to call from the top of the cliff to the fallen man. At first a groan was the only response, but at length they heard the feeble answer, “Help, help.” * ’ It was nearly an hour before the party of rescuers found Anderson. They had to pick their way along dangerous ledges, clinging to bushes and small underbrush for support. They were uncertain of the exact direction to take, and lost time until they got within sound of the wounded man’s moans. His body had been caught in the limbs of a fallen tree that lay across alittlegully. He was suspended by his arms, and his feet only touched the ground. Below him a few rods lay the dead horse and the wreck of the carriage. From the latter a stretcher was improvised, and the apparently dying man was borne on it to a carriage on the roadway. Two hours passed from the time Anderson fell until he was placed in the carriage. He was taken to Mr. Cee’s house, where Dr. Currie, of Englewood, was awaiting his arrival. Neither he nor any of the anxious friends expected to see the young man alive. A careful examination showed that only one bone was broken—the smaller bone of the right forearm. But Anderson’s face and head were in a terrible condition. Parts of his scalp had been torn off, and his face was cut beyond recognition. Intense as his sufferings were be had not feinted, nor did he lose consciousness while his wounds were being dressed. The broken bone was first set, and then Dr. Currie spent several hours in dressing the wounds on the head. The doctor said last night that he did not believe any other living man ever bad so many stitches taken in his head. So far as could be learned, Anderson has suffered no internal injuries. Anderson’s first fell from the overhanging rook was a sheer descent of fifty feet, and he tumbled and slid at least 200 feet farther. The physician thinks Anderson struck on his right side and arm. He is stout, muscular young man. His clothing was torn to piecesuyet the bruises on his body and legs were very slight.

The last previous accident of the kind in the neighborhood happened eight years ago. A young woman fell from the same point that Anderson did. She was Instantly killed, and nearly every bone in her body was broken. Nearly every guest at the tea party was in attendance upon the sufferer yesterday, and Mr. Coe remained home from his business to give his assistance. Last evening Mr. Brown, of the Englewood House, and some ottaera went to Mr. Coe’s house for the purpose of removing young Anderson to his home in the hotel. He is aNew Yorker, bat it has been his custom to spend his summers with his widowed mother In the Englewood House.

Asleep for Twelve Months.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial at Kuightstown sends to that paper the following: . From a gentleman residing in an out township, some twenty-three miles die tent from this city, in a German settlement. we learn the particulars of the following most extraordinary case:

Thereto at present a young woman, quite dead, having "been in that state for nearly twelve months past. She awakens, however, once every twentyfour hours, precisely at 10 o’clock at night, and will convene with tbe fondly end others for about twenty minutes, when she will again relapse into the same comatose state, and remain so until 10 o’clock the following night, at which hour she revives to the minute, throwing out ber aims and folding ber hands together, and rals- & up on her shoulders until the spoors imagine that her bones are cracking. Sto remains In that laborious state for tee space of ten minutes, when she oomes to a perfect possession of her faculties. A singular feature of the case to, the young lady reoollecte well if promises have been made her the previous night, and will be very fretful for a time if the same are not fulfilled, bat, singular to say, ii the things are brought tec makes use of none of than, as she eats and drinks little, or, in foot, nothing at all. She could never be persuaded to attempt eating any food but three times during thirty-two days, and then put the three together she old not eat any more than a child a year old would take. After conversing a few minutes this remarkable young lady will suddenly clasp ber hands together, threw her arms into the same manner as when awakening, and will return into the same somnolent state as before, until 10 o’clock the following night.

A VERITABLE FIRE-BUG.

A Man Who is Like Unto a Warlike Meteor—Snake Stories Double-Discounted. Little Rook Gazette. Information reaches us that the Sharp county “fire man” is still burning. This affkir is indeed very wonderful—wonderful in two respects—wonderful if true and wonderful if not true. Wonderful in the not true sense because people in Sharp county, some of them, believe the story. At night, so the story goes, the man resembles a moving illumination. His nose is as a taper, and his eyes are red lanterns. Several nights ago he appeared to a party of fishermen. Coming up suddenly. accompanied by a glare and fearfully flickering lights that flared with the wind, he awakened the most augmented terror. He did not speak, but stood glaring at tbe men. and when they ran away he followed them. A history of the man, as near as can be obtained, says that several years ago he was a well-to-do farmer. Though a kind-hearted man, he was exceedingly profane and was never at a loss for an oath. A protracted religious meeting was sprung at a school-house in his neighborhood. His wife, a very religious woman, persisted in attending, and nignts, when she came home her husband would hear nothing else but tbe bright way in which some neighbor came through, or how devout brother Perkins had proved himself. The man argued With nis wife, told her that there was no Christ, no God, no Devil. “Look,” said he, “into the Christ matter. The Testament says that at the crucifixion of Jesus the woild grew suddenly dark and the eafth shook. The Grecian and Roman astronomers of those days were learned. Why did they not transmit accounts of such a remarkable phenomenon?” His wife, “simple minded and unread,” did not attempt to answer his argument, but with that characteristic faith of an Olinlheus, continued to nightlysit within the sound of the gospel. The man—Hamlin is his ndtfc, which foot should have been mentioned before—gradually lost bis reason and vowed that if his wife did not quit attending churOh, he would burn down the building. This threat, though made passionately, was more than a passing declaration. One night after his wife had gone, Hamlin took a chunk of fire from the fireplace, and moved off toward the schoolhouse. When he arrived the minister was painting a glorious picture for the good, and giving to the bad a miserable chromo. Hamlin, unobserved, stole to one corner of the house. He blew the firebrand till it blazed. He laid it down and gathered splinters and dry grasses. Then igniting them, he thrust the blazing fogots and masses under one corner of the house. He fed the fire with stick and chips, and when he saw that the fire would “go,” he yelled demoniacally and dashed away through the woods. The congregation was startled by an outcry, but, hearing no repetition, again gave way to the influence of the speaker. Suddenly a. glare. A flame spear had shot through tbe floor. The superstitious congregation crowded together like sheep, and the minister himself frightened, ran from the house followed by his entire flock. The house burned down, and when Mrs. Hamlin went home she found her husband tossing on his bed. He said that he was burning up, and . before water could be lifted to his mouth It became boiling hot. Suddenly he sprang out of bed. Every hair on nis head seemed a blaze of fire. Currents of fire ran from his ears into bis nostrils. With a wild yell, he ran from the house, ami ever since then he has been burning. There are hundreds who will vouch for this improbable story.

Newman Hall.

It has now fallen to the lot of London to furnish a clerical scandal of the broadest interest. Henry Ward Beecher was not better known in this country when his troubles began than is Rev. Newman Hall, L. L. D.. in England. The two belong to the same sect—the Congregatiomuists—and each is the foremost representative of its clergy on his side of the Atlantic. Their cases differ in this: Mr. Beecher’s wife stood by him; Dr. Hall’s is his accuser, while the husband, in his turn, acuses his wife of infidelity. We know " nothing of the merits of the case, and never propose to insult our readers with them, hut the mere fact that Newman Hall is a party to a social scandal is startling. Dr. Hall Is now 64 or 65 years of age. He entered the Congregational ministry nearly forty years ago. It is a quarter of a century since he became pastor of Surrey Chapel, London, and received recognition as the foremest preacher of his denomination in England. He la an author of some note. He is not sensational like Beecher or Talmage, but good. His reputation la quite as much due to his piety as to his brains. He visited this country soon after our war, and was lionised. His object in coming here then was to allay the bitterness of American prejudice against England, growing out of the outrages and other unfriendly features of British policy during our civil war. Perhaps be was not wholly unsuccessful. He landed at New York, and pentrated as far West as SL Louis, being everywhere honored and revered as a noble representative of the British clergy. His fall—for, however this trial may terminate, he can nevermore be the Newman Hall of old—is a lamentable calamity In itself considered. It may not, however,, be in vain, as another warning against the sentimentality so

Hardly a day passim that some clerical scandal to not reported. Itto high time that that noble body of men, the clerHf, should appreciate tbe peril of that Protestant modification ortho confessional—pastoral visitation. A minister Is “a man for a’ that,” and ought not to either practice or tolerate presumption based on the sacrcdnees of hto profession. [Chicago Journal.

NEW YORK.

v ▲ FLURRY IN STOCKS. The week opened with decidedly a buoyant feeling on the Stock Exchange, and, under an active buying movement, tee entire list of speculative shares recorded an advanoe. The Vanderbilt properties and granger shares attracted the chief attention. Lake Shore being especially active and buoyant, and rising over S per cent. The upward movement in this stock and in grangers was stimulated by large orders from the west and from prominent operators at Saratoga WITHDRWN FROM BUSINESS. The Journal of Commerce says the Adriatic Fire Insurance Company, 178 Broadway, has withdrawn from business and renewed all risks in the London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company, of Liverpool, by reason of the present unprofitable state of fire business.

A BOLD HIGHWAY ROBBERY. Bold highway robberies in this city are becoming alarmingly frequent. Thomas F. Farrell and Robt. Buchanan, when about entering their residence on 27th street early this morning, were attacked by four foot-pads. Buchanan was knocked senseless with a sand-bag. hto gold watch and chain taken ana hto pockets rifled by two of them, while the others beat and robbed Farrell. The shouts of Farrell brought a police officer, and one of the robbers, named Frank McKeou, was captured. The others escaped. 81-METALISM. The State Department says that Germany to disposed to regard favorably the proposals of this Government for the further joint consideration of bi-metallic subjects, and hopes that the present efforts will result in a bimetallic congress, in which all the leading States of Europe will participate. AN OUTGROWTH OF THE HULL MURDER. An inquest will be held in a few days over the body of Catherine Davies, aged 35 years, who became deranged from reading of the Hull murder, and on the 20th of July jumped from her bedroom window, imagining there were burglars in the bouse. THE MILLIONAIRE’S BODY.

The Herald says our reporter at Saratoga was yesterday informed by a gentleman high in the confidence of the head of the firm of Stewart A Co., that Stewart’s body has not been returned. The coffin plate and coffin knobs were expressed here some time ago by a party demanding $250,000 for the body, but Judge Hilton would not pay a cent without seeing the remains. Hilton has been Informed by a representative of the body snatchers that the remains of Stewart are in an excellent state of preservation, and the body, even to day, to easily recognizable to any one who had been acquainted with the merchant prince during hto life time; that though there to considerable disfigurement about the eyes and a part of the lower extremities, the fingers and even feet and toes bad, singular to say, l>een kept remarkably intact. Judge Hilton has said nothing lately about the body. Borne months Ego he said: “When any issue to reached I will be the first to give the facts to the press.” ARRIVAL OF IMMIGRANTS. Five hundred immigrants arrived today, mostly for tee West.

Too Many Snake Bites.

Detroit Free Press. During the haying season an honest old Farmer out ou the Gratiot road employed three young men from the city to help eut and store his timothy. None of them liked work half as well as whisky, and a conspiracy was the result. About noon one day one of the trio fell down in the field, shouting and kicking, and the other to ran to the farmer with wild eyes and called out that there companion had been bitten by a rattle snake and must have whisky. The farmer rushed to the house and brought out a quart, and the three harvesters got a big drink all a around on the sly. while the “bitten” one had a lay-off of half a day. The next forenoon a second was bitten, and again the farmer rushed for his bottle. It was a nice little Job for the boys, and on the third day the third put in his claim for a bite and yelled for i the whisky bottle. The fender took the matter very coolly this time, and'after making particular inquiries as to the size of the shake, location of the bite, the sensation, and so forth, he slowly continued: “Day before yesterday James was bitten and drank a quart* of good whisky. Yesterday John was bitten and drank a quart more. To-day you’ve got a bite, and the best thing you c*n ao is to smeH their breaths ana lay in the shade while the res* of us eat dinner!” The man got well in ten minutes, and not another rattlesnake was seen during the season. _

A Human Otter.

Somebody writing from Reedy river, 8. C., to The Charleston News and Courier, t ays: 1 “Reedy river is a poor stream for fish. Perhaps by a whole day’s fishing the angler may be rewarded by one-half a dozen little catfish. We had a visit last week from the Raburn’s creek fishing otter, Wm. Vaughn. He said there was fish in the river, and be had come after them. It was amnalng to see him in the shoals, diving down under the rocks and bringing up the ads; sometimes he would come up witn one in each hand, and occasionally with three fish, one in bis month and one in each hand. After fishing the shooia he tried his hand on suckers and red horse in the deeper water, diving down under the banks and bringing up the fish in his hands. He e&ught about twenty-five suckers, weighing one, two and three pounds each. Vaughn has been known to catch as high as six suckers at one time in his hands. He says, when undo- the water he can rob a sucker on the aide and it will lie still as a pig when yon are scratching its side. I think we had better ship him down to the city and let you him a submarine diver. If he was on the sea coast, where fish are so plentiful, he would show something extraordinary in the fishing line.” At a party on Nelson street, the other evening, the conversation appeared to be dying out, when abillious man suddenly observed to a young lady on his right, “I don’t think they make (dlls as huge as they need to.’’ After that the conversation went on again. A profane upstart—The man who sits down on a bent ton.

AGRICULTURAL

The formers of middle Florida propose turning their attention to sheepraising. v ♦' ' j v ; Apples are foiling badly in many parts of Michigan owing to the hot dry weather. Coleman’s Rural advises against setting out willows for wind breaks, as the trees will appropriate all the substance and mototure for two rods on either side to themselves. . f The formers in the vicinity of Newark, Delaware, are puzzled over an unknown dtoeasease which has attacked their cows. The maylady to accompanied by a swelling of the head. Small quantities of bones may be utilised by burning them a few at a time in the kitchen fire. This will greatly increase tee value of the ashes, and the only expense.* will be that of time in collecting the bones. One thing to produced in abundance these dog days and that to dust, one of the beet deodorizers that can be employed In many places. It should be gathered and stored in boxes or barrels for future use. The production of strawberry runners is largely at the expense of the parent plant and the formation of good crowns is thus prevented for another year’s crop. Henoe, if one wants berries the runners should be pinched off frequently. The practice to commonly recommended of cutting out -the canes Just after they have borne a crop of berries, to give the new canes a full chance to develop themselves. The propriety of this practice to questionable, and it should be fully tested by trying the experimentside by side with cutting out after the leaves are dead or have follen, or early the following spring. A stranger, whose horse succumbe to the heat near Altoona, not wtohiug to Incur tbe trouble or expense of having the dead animal hauled out and buried, purchased a gallon of coal oil, and, after pouring it over the defunct 5 animal, applied a match. In oue hour the cremation was complete—nothing remaining but tbe boofa. The animal’s sot, in addition to the oil, proved sufficient fuel to consume the carcass. We are inclined to think this simple way of cremating dead animals will prove a great sanitary blessing during the warm months. A gentleman of Everett, Mass., has pursued successfully the following manner of raising squashes. He first digs a small hole for each hill, into which he puts a liberal quantity of manure and covers it to the depth of an. inch or two with soil. The u hole to then covered with coal ashes, with which the hole is filled. and the soil on the manure is covered. The seed to planted, or plants set, in the ashes directly over the manure. At each hoeing a fresh supply of afebes is gathered around the plants, which are kept entirely free from grubs, while in hto experience every hill pla'.ted without ashes will be destroyed. Boussingant calculates the value of the urine annually yielded by a oow at SSO. There to no doubt but that the urine to generally undervalued. It to an important matter to save it. Our formers need it as a means of replenishing their pockets. Various methods are adopted for this purpose by eareful formers. The most common practice to the use of dry muck, loam, sand, sawdust and various kinds of muck. Any of these will answer the purpose, if used in proper quantities under suitable conditions. They will not insure against loss through leaky floors, nor in drenching rains, if exposed to them uncovered by tbe side of the barn. , Speaking of making apple trees bear fruit on alternate years or. every year, tbe Rural New Yorker relates this: Many years ago a friend of mine had a dozen apple trees that were bearing heavy crops ofapples every otheryear. He wished fruit every year, so he took a long pole—the trees were large—and gave them a heavy beating on one side, or half of the tree, just as the fruit was about the size of hickory nuts, knocking off all fruit on tbe south side of the trees. Tbe result was, as I saw for several years, that these trees bore heavy crops on the one side one year, and on tbe uextyeaca heavy crop on the other side, so that for many years he had plentyof apples for home use every year. Hto trees stood in a rich soil that was annually cultivated —no grass sod to cover the roots.

A Kentucky Girl In Maine.

It seems that Western Penobscot can boast of a very remarkable girl. She is the daughter of Peter G. Kimball, of the Town of Carmel, and is but fifteen years of age. Two years ago she surprised her fether by cutting a very large quanity of wood in a brief space of time. Inis was published in the newspapers, and she has therefore already achieved some prominence. She has this summer begun working at a Mr. Clayton’s in Hampden, near Stanley Bridge. The other evening she started out after supper and put up for- ! ty-five bunches of nay and milked the cows before sunset. Although so young she is very strong and muscular, and does any farm work she undertakes in a very expeditious manner. The next day, after dinner, she had completed her work around the hoqse Mid entered the field again. She loaded three, loads of bay, stored them away in the barn, pitched a fourth load on the rack and stored that away. She then prepared supper for a party of four, and after serving It went to Whitney’s Coru®r, in Nawburg, Mid obtained a. pair of boots for herself and arrived home on her return before dark. The young fellows do not care to try and compete with her, because she always come out first beet. She is of Kentucky blood, and has lived in Maine but a few years.

Trouble Probably Ahead.

Salt Lake, August 12.—-The Apostle Joseph Smith, in the Salt Lake Tabernacle on Sunday afternoon, delivered a furious speech, which baa greatly added to the popular excitement. He sakl: “We have been turning the other cheek long enough,'rad it IS no# about time to change our policy. We have submitted to the abuse and misrepresentation of that damnable sheet long enough, and now it must be stopped.’’ This was greeted with “Amen” from the whole congreation. The Apostle then “advised his hearers to procure effective fire-arms, rad not delay dofng it’’ In the Fourth ward meeting-house the same evening the speakers recommended their bearers tp secure arms, and to seH their clothing if they bad not money to purchase them. ' The gun-shops were busy yesterday selling fire-arms rad taking old ones to repair. ; f •' ■ W ■-■ The dispatch relating to Secretary Evarts’ letter discouraging Mormon missionary labors in foreign parts caused some consternation. The Deseret News last e/ening said: “No power beneath the sun era stop the work of gathering of the Latter-Day Israel, for the mightier band than that of Emperor or President is engaged in it.” ■■ * ■ ■.