Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1879 — Page 4

INTERESTING ITEMS.

A Swiss colony has purchased 75,000 MM of Hafaraaka land in onebody. - A good wile sells for four cows in Zoluland. London has a society to encourage he keeping of goats. Chicago slaughters a hog every ten seconds during the year. California has 00,000 acres of vineyards, valued at $80,000,000. Unitkd States capitalists are rapidly gyinfwft eon tret of the Mexican nil ■ ver mines. A man on Upper Lynx creek, Arizona, one day last week picked up a SSO nugget. The expenditure of the London School Board this year is estimated at . $3,000,000. The rinderpest is ravaging Russian Poland, and Germany is taking precautions against it ? ; A New Jersey veteran committed suicide with SSOO arrears of pension in his pocket. A valuable discovery of gj psum has been found in Squak valley, Wastangton Territory. The English politicians believe that Hamilton Fish will return as Minister to the English Court. The wild geese have become a plturue to the farmers in the swampy districts of California.

John Stuart Mill’s stepdaughter,' 1 Miss£Heleu Taylor, is a member of the London school board. Gen. Banks was an actor in his early days, and his daughter, Miss Maud, has adopted the same profession. • * The Holly system of transmitting heat for manufacturing and housewarming is in successful operation at Oubuqe, lowa. In the cotton States negroes are paid from $lO to sl2 a month, with rations of four pounds of bacon and a peck of meal per week. The San Francisco tax gatherers levy on their Gods when the Chinamen refuse to pay, and they are always redeemed. The last Legislature of Texas passed » an act directing the sale of 31,000,000 acres of land in fifty-four counties at fifty cents an acre. Miss Hood’s wealth aud haughty relations did not prevent her from eloping from Granville, N. C., with a blind Hiid moneyless suitor.

There were 1,463,189 more letters and postal cards in the outgoing New York mails in September, 1879, than in the same month of 1878. President G levy killed 63 hares, 215 orace of partrides and nearly 500 quails duriug his recent hunt of five weeks' duration in the French provinces. It is tvfflevM that the Emperor of Russia is going mad in consequence of the Nihilist troubles and the repeated threats that he will be murdered. Miss Ida Tucker, of Pomeroy, Ohio, has been awarded $35 damages for being turned out of the puhlicichool because she would not study drawing. The wolves devoured 3,4Q0 beef cattle, 318 cows and 450^ horses in a single district of Waldai, in the government of Norgorod the*past year. Gen. Eli Warren of Perry county, Georgia, has assisted in prosecuting or defending every murderer who has been tried in that county for fifty years, . The Michigan State Fish Commissioners advertise for proposals for 20,white fish eggs, to be hatched and the young fish turned into the lakes. •

A nineteen year old youth at Spezia put a sole’s head between his teeth to kill it, and the fish slipped down his throat and choked him to death. The scar oil the cheek of the great actress Rachel was made by an angry ►, dog 4gom which she had snatched a bone when a starving child on the street. - / The Emperor and Crown Prince of Germany have not withdcawn from Freemasonry, but simply transferred themselves from the Swedish te the German rite. An English importer offered the Cutler’s Trade Union $250 for a homemade pair of tailors shears equal to a a pair of American ones in bis showcase. The offer was not accepted. A Nihilist in a Polish village saturated a cat with coal oil and set it on fire; the poor animal rushed under a wooden building and from it to others until half the houses in the place' .Were fired. * The Yale Uuiversity Crew are re-

quired to be iu bed by 11 p. m., to ..forego the use of tobacco and all stimulating drinks except ale, and that after supper. No candidate will be recognized foot ball. A lone peach tree marks the spot near Yorktown, Va., where Lord Cornwallis surrendered and handed his V sword to Washington. The four poplars that formerly stood there were cut down during the war for firewood, and a peach stone was planted in their place. Fannie Baker, a colored woman, aged 65, of Blanden County, N. C., has been arrested, and in the course of her examination it was found that she is at the head of a band of forty or fifty of the most respectable colored men In the county, who believe that she is possessed of supernatural powers, and who would not under any circumstances dare to disobey or displease her. The old negress claims to have the keys to bell and heaven. * Iceland is progressing famously under the liberal constitution granted by King Christian five years ago, and will elect its new Parliament, the second, next year. Though taxation is light, there is a growing surplus in the treasury. Compulsory education has been introduced and receives popular support, and convenient roads are building throughout the island. San Francisco is probably the most cosmopolitan city in the United States. An English traveler lately

visiting there writes: “I had my boots by • European, and my bed made by an Asiatic; a Frenchman cooked my dinner, an Englishman showed me my seat, an Irishman changed my plate, a Chinaman washed my table napkin, and a German handed me my bill ” Divorce or no divorce to the social question convulsing France to-day. A father writes to a Paris journal: “Sir, you ask if it is just to re-establish divorce. Can the question be seriously put? I have three daughters. It was myduty to marry off all three. This was not done without trouble, but at last it was done. I am told that divorces will be granted by the Chambers. If this be so, my daughters, who are unhappy in their homes, will get divorces, that is certain; and when they are divorced they will wish to marry again. Behold me compelled to furnish them with three new husbands. I trust that your paper will print this protest of a parent.”

NEWSLETS

There are now; over 340 tons of gold in the United States Treasury. Richard Schell, the New York politician and financier, is dead. The Arkansas river was recently reported to be nearly dry, in the Indian Territory. The Chicago postofflee did more business last year than any other in the country, except New York. The champagne district of France, loses thirty thousand francs this year, by the failure of the vintage. At Cincinnati, last Sunday, a fire in the distillery pens of Gaff & Co , roasted nearly 900 head of live cattle. The Postofflee Department is fast becoming self-sustaining. It came $1,600,000 nearer paying its expenses this year than last. Dr. Glenn, of California, is probably the largest farmer in the world. His wheat crop this year is 65,000 tons, valued at $2,290,000. Oreoon will ask Congress for the modest little sum of $20,000,000, this winter, with which to 'improve the mouth of the Columbia river.

The island of Jamiaca has recentlybeen visited by f extensive storms and floods, in which nearly one hundred persons are reported to have perished. Mr. E. Johnson, a Randolph county farmer, accidentally swallowed his false teeth, the- other day, and at last accounts it was feared he would die. The Pope is said to be preparing an Encyclical letter upon the subject of education and the general ecclesiastical system of the church, throughout the world. An acre of ground in Montana Territory produced 102 bushels of wheat this season. This is officially certified to by the Secretary of the Territorial Agricultural Society. Walter Hastings, ’recently deceased at Boston, left the bulk of his fortune to Harvard College after the death of his wife. The amount is estimated at $500,000. Col. K. G. Shkyock, of Rochester, proposes to lecture on the life and services of Morton in every- tow-nship of Fulton county, for the benefit of the Morton monument fund. According to a recent decision o the Supreme pobrt, a lottery at Vincennes, operating under a charter granted by the Territorial government, is be£ond the reach of the constitution and iws of the State.

Because he could not bear to see the sufferings of the Nihilist prisoners, which he dared not alleviate, Major Lissovitsch; the commander of the Citadel of Charkoflj committed suicide within a -month after assuming the post. TriE London Court of Common Council recently refused, by a majority ofmrre than three to pne, to open the Guildhall Library'on Sunday, which has the effect of intensifying the discussion on the propriety of Sunday openings of such institutions. In some portions of Canada, complaints are rife regaling a new- development of the potato- disease. Farmer*!holding large stocks are compelled to examine them frequently to prevent the infection of solid tubers by rotten ones. The announcement is again made in the cable dispatches that the Vatican has taken under consideration, with a view to acting upon them, the recommendation ofOardmal McCloskey as to the reorganization and increase of the number of bishoprics in the United States.

A Washington special says that The official figures at the Treasury Department at Washington show that during the month of September the excess of exports over imports of merchandise amounted to (20,6&),087, and for the twelve months ending September 30, $256,848,2177. This is exclusive of gold and silver coin and bullion, the imports of which for September exceeded the exports by $27,130,687, and for the year $27,164,821. The President ot the California State -Vitieultural society has reported 60,000 acres covered with vineyards, numbering 45,000,000 vines, and representing, with the lgnd, a capital of $80,000,000. Another complete report is to be made ten years hence. . A building in Kansas City, Mo., in which 107 mostly children, were employed in cracker making, fell, a few dhy» ago, causing the loss of several lives. The victims were either crushed by the falling walls and timbers, or roasted to death by the ruins taking fire. _ The threat of England to resort to warlike measures against Turkey, it.

the Government of the latter refuses to make certain promised Government reforms,is pne of the latest exciting topics in Europecn politics; but Turkey having given assurances of her intention

to inaugurate the reform* in question, ] there Will probably be nothing serious. At the same time Ranh, naturally jfftVMßj of England, is excited. The church also shares in the prosperity attending the business boom, as i» manifest from the fact that the General Missionary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, has appropriated six hundred thousand dollars for general missionary work for the year, being an increase of fifty thousand dollars over the last preceding appropriation. The Army of the Tennessee was Grant’s original army, which he kept until Vicksburg, and then banded it to Logan, thence to Howard, and finally to Logan again. The Army of the Cumberland was Buell’s army, which went te Rosecrans and then to Thomas. Then there was the Army of the Mississippi, which Schofield commanded.

Cablegrams announce that at last the ex-Empress Cariotta, widow of the ill-fated Maximilllan, is recovering her reason. Now, for the first time since the tragedy which left her a maniac, she has lucid intervals, is recovering her memory, and converses intelligibly. The prospect of the complete restoration of her mental faculties is regarded as most favorable. Surprising as it may seem, the agricultural products oi one year amount to nearly as much in value as the products of all our mines since 1849. The estimated yield of the mines during twenty-seven years, 1849-75, was sl,617,000,000. In 1877 the total value of the agricultural production of the leading staples was $1,594,000,000. All honor to the American farmer. The condition of affairs lu Ireland is deplorable indeed. Added to the terrors of famine and general destitution, the tenants who, though both ignorant aud poor, are still willing to pay their rents, are threatened with punishment by bands of agrarians who ride in the night and keep up a sort of Ku-Klux organization. The immediate result of this will be an outbreak, and the poor tenants will be the chief sufferers.

, There is said to be a melancholy prospect for the poor in France, as well as in England and Ireland, the coming winter. The price of bread, already high, was recently raised. It will be recollected there is a tariff on tha introduction of foreign grain into France. The potato crop is also represented as exceptionally bad, while the vintage will be largely deficient, both in quality and quantity, In many vineyards what few damaged grapes there are will not be worth the expense of gathering. From all accounts all the nations of Western, and Southern Europe are more or less afflicted with failure of crops, poor trade, and want of employment for the artizan and laboring "classes J President Dlaz, of Mexico, has caused circulars to be issued, directed to all Government employes throughout the Republic, ordering them to abstain from all participation in the coming political campaign tor the Presidency, under penalty of removal, and has recommended to members of the Cabinet the enforcement of this order in each department Some newspapers violently censure this measure as a restriction of the rights of voters, The Chinese continue to pour into the Hawaiian Islands in such numbers tnat 'the question of how to stop them is growing to be of serious importance. They constitute already over a fifth of the entire population, and are almost all males. They are useful on sugar plantations, but they do fftt assimilate with the native population, whose extinction they threaten at an early day, and whom they will hardly replace satisfactorily as loyal subjects and citizens. The Government is trying to get the needed labor supplies from the South Sea Islands, but the owners of the Hawaiian sugar estates, wfio care only for their own business interests, are perfectly willing to take the cheaper Chinese. Over 2,000 Chinamen arrived at Honolulu in the second half of last year, which, considering the scanty population of the islands, is pretty heavy immigration. Henry Powell was thrown lrom his horse one night, recently, near Rockport, his head striking a tree, killing him instantly.

INDIANA INKLINGS.

The least spicy man in Warsaw is named Pepper. , Fisheksburgh is wondering over a “mysterious disappearance.” Ditching is “all the vogue” among Huntington county farmers. Milk sickness has broken out in .two townships in Wells county, i A cooking club has been organized in Peru, of the high toned variety. Butler is to have a military company, composed entirely of ex-soldiers. A company has been organized to establish another knitting factory in Elkhart. During the reoent drought many -Porter county farmers hauled water several miles. Scarlet fever is epidemic in portions of Shelby, county causing the closing of several schools. Rochester physicians have determined to enforce yearly settlements, either by cash or by note.

The Richmond street railroad has been abandoned, and all traces of it will soon disappear forever. Reports from various parts of the State show that the new com crop will not average A. 1 in quality.. A train of 80 cars, in one section, recently passed over the C. W. A M. railroad, from Warsaw to Goshen. Beil Green, of Fayette county, recently killed an eagle that measured seven and a half feet, from tip to tip. Robert SinclEjEton, of Tipton county, recently sold thirty pigs, seven months old, that averaged33sf pounds.

years James Callaway, a colored citizen of Carlisle, Sußivan county, died, the other day, a the ripe old age of 107 years. Marshal county has a beet that ' beats all beets.. It measures two feet, ten inehes in circumstance, and weighs 19 pounds. ! • The premium list of the Indians Poultry association has been issued,and hi rqpdy for delivery. The list is extensive and liberal. Martin Rider, of Connerevllie, has sold huf interest tn the patent iuvalid bed of his own Invention, to rfh Indianapolis firm for $4,000,

At Kent, Jefferson county, the other night, fifty masked men took Charles Johns, a bad penitentiary bird, from his house to the woods, beat him terribly and then departed. The merchants of Rochester are talking seriously of establishing a wagon line between that place and Denver, to escape the exhorbitant charges of the 1., P. A C., railroad, A young woman over in Blackford county was so anxious to get married that she prevailed upon her brother to gather hickory nuts with which to buy the liceense, her fellow not bfing able S' “putrup” the required amount. Miss Sally Winslow, of Jonesboro, Grant eounty, left a few days ago, for New York, where she sails for Madras, India. She is one of Grant county’s fairest and most cultured daughters, is about twenty-two years old, and goes as a missionary under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church. T. J. Foster, of St. Joseph county, a general agent of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, has received $5,000 from the company for inventing a tension to prevent the wire of a self-binder from running off too rapidly. Mr. Foster was only a couple of days evolving the discovery from his brain.

There is a new swindle on farmers reported from Elkhart county. One fellow takes a picture of a farmer’s home for sl. Cheap enough, and he always gets the order. In a few days after another chap comes with the picture all handsomely framed. He first gets the dollar, but will not deliver it until the frame is paid for, for which a good round price is asked. LaPorte Chronicle: Last week, while digging a hole in which to bury potatoes, Robert B. Armstrong, of Lincoln township, unearthed a skeleton. It was that of a medium-sized man, and was lying face downward at a depth of 2£ feet. A hole was found on the left side of the face, but, with that exception, the skeleton was in an excellent state of preservation. Fred Fisher, a wealthy and prominent farmer of LaPorte county, mysteriously disappeared from home a few days ago. He has since been heard from at Aurora, Illinois, from which point he wrote a letter to his wife informing her that he was going West and would not return. A young lady with whom Eisher had beeii on terms of intimacy for some time is also missing, and it is supposed that she is with him. Peru Republican: Friday afternoon, Samuel Bryson, who lived just northwest of the city, fell from his wagon loaded with wood, in the road just in front of his house. He was attempting to climb down and caught his foot in some way, so that bis side or back struck on the hub of the wagon wheel. Dr. Passage, who was called, thinks the spinal column was dislocated. The old man, who is 70 years of age, lived only two hours. At Peru, the other day, a child, aged about two years, fell from a chair and injured its spine so that on the following day it was attacked with spasms and died. What made the matter armo distressing was the fact that the mother was confined and gave birth to a babe an hour before the dreadful death of her child that was suffering from convulsions.

A clear case of hydrophobia is thought to be developed In one Frank Shields, a young man, of Bloomington, Monroe county. The first indications of his madness were discovered recently. Frank was sitting in the house of his widowed mother, when, all at once, he sprang from his chair through the closed window, taking with him the glass, frame and all. He wandered down in Salt creek township, some ten miles from home, returned, and again made a trip to Saltpreek, the last lime pursued by the Deputy Sheriff and Constable Reeves, but all in vain. He returned home exhausted. During one of his fits he shot a pet pig belonging to his mother, explaining that the pig was mad. He, at another.time, snarled and growled at a mule belonging to John Gilmore, and actually bit him. The Sheriff, accompanied by a few assistants, Went to the home of the young man for the purpose of arresting him in his mad demonstrations, when they found him as gentle and tract Able as a lamb, on account of physical exhaustion.

Sweet Voices.

Burlington Hawkeye. “The sweetest voice I ever heard,” said the Bishop, “was a woman’s. It was soft and low but penetrating, musical and measured in its accents, but not precise. We were on a steamer, and she murmured some common place about the scenery. Ido not remember what she said, but I can never forget the exquisitively tender, musical voice.” “The sweetest voice I ever heard,” replied the Professor, “was a man’s. I had been out fishing nearly all day, and got back to the hotel about three o’clock. The man came out on the frtnt stoop, opened his mouth like a sea cavern, and roared ’din-n-u-r! till it soured the milk in the cellar. I have heard other voices since then, but never—” But the Bishop, with a look of intense disgust all over his face, had ‘already walked away out of hearing,, and was lighting a fresh cigar by himself.

THE MYSTERIOUS HUNTER

It Was In the early part of a distinguished nobleman’s life that he attended a hunting club at their sport, when a stranger of genteel appearance and well mounted Joined in the chase, and was observed to ride with a degree of courage mid address that called forth the utmost astonishment of everyone present. The beast he rode was of amazing power; nothing stopped them; the hounds could never escape them; and the huntsmen, who were left far behind, swore that the man and his horse were fiends from the infernal reigons. When the sport was over, the company invited the extraordinary person to dinner. He accepted the invitation, and astonished the company as much by the powers of his conversation and the elegance of his manners as by his equestrian prowess. He was an orator, a poet, a painter, a musician, a lawyer, and a divine; in short, he was everything, and the magic of his discourse kept drowsy sportsmen awake long after their usual hour.

At length, however, wearied nature could be charmed no more, and the oompany began to steal away by degrees to their repose. On his perceiving the society diminish, he discovered manifest signs of uneasiness. He, therefore, gave new force to his spirits and new charms to his conversation, in order to detain the remaining few gome time longer. This had some little effect; but the period could not be long delayed when he was to be conducted to his chamber. The remains of the company retired also; but they had scarce closed their eyes when the house was alarmed' by the most terrible shrieks that were ever heard; several persons were awakened bj the noise; but, its con tiftuance being short, they concluded it to proceed from a dog who might be accidentally confined in some part of the house; they very soon, therefore, composed themselves to sleep, but were again soon awakened by shrieks and cries of still greater terror than the former.

Alarmed at what they heard, several of them rung their bells, aud when the servants came, they declared that the horrid sounds proceeded from tiie strangers obamber. Some of the gentleman immediately arose to inquire into this extraordinary disturbance; and while they were dressing themselves for that purpose deeper groans of despair and shriller shrieks of agony again astonished and terrified them. After knocking some time at the stranger’s chamber door, he answered them as one awakened from sleep, declared he had heard no noise, and, rather in an angry tone, desired he might not be again disturbed. Upon this they returned to their chambers, and had scarce begun to communicate their sentiments to each other, when their conversation was interrupted by a renewal of yells, screams and shrieks, which, from the horror of them, seemed to issue from the throats of damned and tortured spirits. They immediately followed the sounds, aud traced them to the stranger’s chamber, the door of which they instantly burst open, and found him upon his knees in bed, in the act of scourging himself with the most unrelentiug severity, his body was streaming with blood. On their seizing his hands to stop the strokes, he begged them in the most ringing tone of voice, as an act of mercy, that they would retire, assuring them that the cause of their disturbance was over, and that in the morning he would acquaint them with the reasons of the terrible Cries they had heard, and the melancholy sight they saw.

After a repetition of his entreaties, they retired; and in the morning some of them went to his chamber, but he was not there; and on examining the l>ed, they found it to be one gore of blood. Upon further inquiry, the groom said that as soon as it was light, the gentleman came to the stable, booted and spurred, desired his horse might be immediately saddled, and appeared to be extremely impatient till it was done when he vaulted immediately into his saddle and rode out of the yard at full speed. Servants were immediately sent into every part of the surrounding country, but not a single trace of him could be found. Such a person had not been seen by any one, nor was he ever afterwards heard of. * The circumstances of this strange story were immediately committed to writing, and signed by those who were witnesses to them, that the credibility of any one who should think proper to i\'ate them might be duly supported. Am . ngthe subscribers to the truth of thi history, according to Lord Lyttleton’,* letters, are some of the first names of this century; and it is supposed that this story suggested to Fenwick his poem of the “Goblin Groom.”

IN A NEW HOLE.

Mark Twain Conducts a Republican meeting ot Elmira, New York. Elmira Special to New York Timas. The largest political meeting of the campaign was held in this city by the Republicans last evening. The opera house was densely packed to hear Gen. Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut. General Hawley was introduced by Mark Twain (Bamuel L. Clemens), who said: “I see I am advertised to introduce the speaker of the evening General Hawley, of Connecticut, anc I see it is the report that I am to make a political speech. Now, I must say this is an error, I wasn’t constructed to make stump speeches, and on that head (politics) I have only this to say: First, see that you vote. Second, see that your; neighbor votes. Lastly, see that yourself or neighbor don’t scratch the ticket. General Hawley was pres.dent of the centennial commission. He was » a gallant soldier in the war. He btii been Governor of Connecticut, member of4iongress, and was president of the convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln.”

Gen. Hawley—That nominated Grant. , ’ Twain—He says it was Grant, hut I know better. He was a member of my church at Hartford and the author of “Beautiful Snow.” May be he will deny that. But I am hereto give him a character from his last place. As a pure citizen, I respect him; as a personal friend of years, I have the warmest regard for him: as a neighbor whose vegetable garden joins mine, why—why, I watch him. That’s nothing; we all do that with any neighbor. General Hawley keeps his promises not only in private but in public. He is an“editor who believes what he writes in his own paper. As the author of “Beartiful Snow” he has added a new pang to winter. He is broad-aouled, generous, noble, liberal, alive to his moral and religious reponaibilities. Whenever the conrfbution-box was passed I never knew him to take out a cent

He is a square, true, honest man in politics, and I must say he occupies a mighty lonesome position. He has never shirked a duty or backed down from any position taken in public life. He has been right every time, and stood there. As governor, congressman, as a soldier, at the head of the centennial commission, which increased our trade in every port and pushed American, production in to all the known world, he has conferred honor and credit upon the United States. He is an American of Americans. Would we had more such men! So broad, so bountiful is his character that he never turned a tramp empty handed from his door, but always gave him a letter of introduction te me. His public trusts have been many, and never in the slightest did he prove unfaithful. Pure, honest, incorruptible, that is Joe Hawley. Such a man in politics is like a bottle of perfumery in a glue factory— it may modify the stench if it does not destroy it. And now, in speaking thus highly of the speaker of the evening, I have not said anj more of him than I would say of myself. Ladies and gentleman, this is General Hawley.” Mr. Clemens was frequently interrupted" by applause and laughter. At the close of his remarks, General Hawley stepped forward and, for an hour and a half, spoke on the issues of the day. v--'.

Wanted.

A clergyman who can preach three sermons consecutively without mentioning Galileo. A man who will refrain from calling his friends speech a “happy effort.” A woman who remembers last Sunbut is unable to speak understand! ugly of the trimmings on the bounet of tbe lady in the pew next in front. An editor who never feels pleased to have his go >d things credited or mad when tuey are stolen. A pencil that is always in the first pocket you put your hand into. A mau who has been a fool some time in his life aud knows enough to keep the knowledge of it to himself. A married man who does not think all the girls envy his wife the prize she has captured. A married woman who never said, “No wonder the girls don’t get- married nowadays; they were altogether different from what they were when I was a girl.” An unmarried woman who never had an offer. A man whenever intimated that the economies of the universe were subject to his movements by saying, “I knew if I took an umbrellait wouldn’t rain,” or sqme similar asinine remark. | A pocket-knife that is never in “them other pants.”

A mother who never said she “would rather do it herself,” when she should have taught her child to do that thing A father who never forgets that his duties to his children are as many and as weighty as theirs to him. A child who would not between meals than at meals. A converted brother who does not exaggerate his rsaken wickedness when relating his experiences. A person age or sex immaterial, who does not experience a flush of pride upon being bought what he is uot .anti may neverhope to be. A button on the male garmeuture that never comes off except when the person whose mission in life is to sew buttons’on is near at hand with her utensils. A singer who never complains of a cold when asked to sing. A woman who, when caught in her second best dress, will make no apology foi her dreadful appearance.

The Leviathan of the Turf.

Exchange. Davis, the leviathan, as he needs to be called, is, or rather was, a man unknown to the preseut generation. About a quarter of a eentury ago his enormous “books” on every important race were the .talk of the town. He used to stand at a desk in a publichouse in an alley off Fleet street and to take deposits of money for bets against cards that he issued. On the Derby of 1852 he was said to have taken in this way above £IOO,OOO. His word was his bond, and he was a thoroughly upright and conscientious man. He paid away a colossal sum at one meeting. There was little of the flash sporting man about him, for he was most quiet and unassuming. Twenty-two years ago he met with an accident owing to a race stand giving way, and he was placed under care of a medical gentle- ‘ men, with whom he ever after resided. He soon became paralyzed from his neck downwards, and was confined to his couch. During all these years he declined to see any. of his old friends, although they frequently called on him, and he lived entirely in the society of his wife and of his medical adviser Although originally an uneducated man, he had become a great reader. He died on Saturday, October 4, aged sixty-one, and the evening before as was put to bed he said to his servant: “Thomas, the event comes off tonight.” He left a large fortune and after providing for his wife bequeathed considerable sums to hospitals.

What a Single Bean Can Produce.

The history of a single bean, accidently planted in a garden at Southbridge, Alass., is traced by a newspaper correspondent, who figured out its produce for three years. The bean was planted in a rich, loamy soil, and when gathered in the autumn its yield, as counted, “1,515 perfectly developed beans from a single stalk. Now, if a single bean produces 1,515 beans, and each beau produces 1,515 more, the sum total of the second year’s product would be 2,295,225, equal to 2,195 pounds, 597 quarts, or 2,390 army rations, equal to 18$ bushels. This would l>e the product of the second year. Now, if we plant this product and the yield is the same, we nave a product of 5,268,800,625 beans, equal to 1,371,890 tons, or 42,871,572 bushels, or 548,756,068 soldiers’ rations. The third planting would give the steamship Great Eastern 92 full freights.” Few beans, however, stai t so well as this oue did.

A Berlin correspondent bears from a well-informed quarter in St. Petersburg, that during the recent correspondence between the Czar and Emperor William, the latter assured the Czar in a special private letter, that neither he nor 4iis son would ever make war against Russia, and cordially invited the Czar to visit Berlin on his way to Cannes. The Czar replied that he could not come himself, but the Czarewitch would visit the Emperor.

Recently a train was halted on the 1., P. A C., by what appeared to be the figure of a man lying on the track. The cars passed over it before they could be stopped, when, upon examination, an old suit of clothes, staffed with straw, was found.

AGRICULTURAL.

Twelve years ago Texas sold but 75,000 bales of Last year it footed up 1,000,000 bales. In bad seasons businessmen anxiously look for crop reports. It gives them aTealizing sense that all wealth comes principally from the soil. Mr. Locentzen, Mootieello, lowa, is the inventor of a process by which cream can be canned, and kept sweet ~ and pure for an Indefinite length of time. i It is estimated that the bay crop oi the country, reckoned at only $5 per ton, is worth three times that of cotton, ten times that of wool, and twice that of wheat. The United States buys more and more Canada horses yearly. -In 1875 we imported only 214, valued at $28,955; while last year the number was 6,632, valued at $391,255. It is stated on what is considered excellent authority, that the cabbage worm, which has become so destructive in many places of late vears, can be destroyed by sprinkling lime water over the growing plants. It is stated that Indian corn charred into charcoal will make a valuable condiment for poultry. It will put the hens in good health and cause a general toning up of the system that will be seen in more and better eggs. The Illinois corn crop, a breadth oi almost 9,000,000 acres—nearly a fifth of the product of the United States—is well assured, and at least thirty bushels per acre may be expected, possibly thirty-one, or 275,000,000 bushels. Have a sharp spade Or thin chisel and cut under ground every plant ot burdock, poke weed or other biennial or perennial plant found growing in the fence corners or other places likely to be infested, and you will soon find youi yearly crop of weeds diminished. One of the plainest indications of unsuccessful farming is to see manure going to waste or unemployed. When this is seen there is no need of looking beyond the stable and yards to find out the condition of the farm or to judge of the success of its owner. Indian corn was first grown by Europeans of this country at the James River settlement iu Virginia, in 1806. In 1809 more than forty acres were growu by the'Vfrginia planters. Now the corn crop of the United States is one of the very first importance in agriculture. For a kicking horse fill an old sack with hay and suspend it from the lof t by means of a row?, in such a manner that the horse will be able .to kick it every time it swings against him. Let him kick until he stops of his own accord, and you will have no more trouble with him that way. A Maryland farmer, thinks he has found a “sure cure” for the Canada thistles. It consists in sowing the land infested by them with buckwheat early , in the spring, allowing it to grow till it*’ is in full blossom, turning it under and again reseeding with the same grain. The last, crop is harvested when ripe. The weekly (Toronto) Globe says tbe golden drop wheat is ra’sed there is naturally a spring wheat, but that it can be grown successfully as a winter wheat. That the grain is plump, and as large as tbe best samples of fall wheat; the straw is particularly clean, and has not been troubled with smut or rust. Probably the very best way to protect wheat in the bins from the weevil is to thoroughly fumigate the bins with burning sulphur. This should be done before the grain is #ut into the Nos, and repeated in the course of a m ath or so after the* grain is:stored. Some persons use lime and salt, but there is nothing better than sulphur. John L. Coleraih, farmer near Orwigsburg, Schulkiil county, Pa., found that an old granary which was being torn down was alive with tats. He built a tight board fence four feet high around the granary, and five men and three dogs killed .437 rats in about three hours. About half a dozen escaped. Their holes were not over two feet deep, and the grothul was fifty feet square.

A writer in a French horticultural journal relates this suggestive experienced After sunset I place in the center of my orchard an old barrel, the inside of which I have previously well tarred. At the bottom of this barrel I Elace a lighted lamp. Insects of many inds, attracted by the light, make for the lame, and while circling round it strike against the side of the barrel, where, meeting with the tar, their wings and legs become so clogged that they either stick fast or fall helpless to the bottom. Corns in a horse are different from those on the skin of a human being. They are first produced by blows or bruises, which start jnflamation and formation of matter under the sole, or cause a deposit of homy matter which presses painfully upon the sensitive inner parts of the loot. They are frequent in flat hoofed horses, the frogs of whose feet have been pared away so as to bring the sole to the ground and subject it to continued bruises from stones. The usual mode of shoeing is one that protects the tender spots on the sole from blows in traveling. This is to put a shoe of sole, leather under the iron shoe and stuff under the leather with tow, soaked in glycerine, to keep the sole cool and moist. If the sole is veiy tender the feet should be prepared for shoeing, by keeping them upon a puddle of wet elay for a few days, and by frequent dressing of cold water, and by giving the horse a cooling medicine, as eight to twelve ounces of epsom salts.

Mark Twain’s Hotel.

Having lately opened a hashery, I send you these my rules and regulations: This house will be considereJratrictly intemperent. None but the brave deserve the fare. Persons owing bills for board will be bored for bills. Boarders who do not wish to pay in advance are requested to advance and pay. Boarders are expected to wait on colored cooks for meals. Sheets will be nightly changed once in six months, or more if necessary. Double boarders can have two beds with a room in it,or two rooms with a bed in it, as they choose. Boarders are requested to pnTj off their boots if they can conveniently do so. Beds with or without bugs. An moneys and other valuables are to be

left in the care of the proprietor. This . is to be insisted on, as he will be responsible for no other losses. Insido matter will not be furnished editors under any consideration. Relatives coming on six months’ visits will be welcomed; but when they bring half their household furniture, virture will cease to be forbearance. Single men with their families will not be boarded. Beds with or without board. Dreams will be charged for by tbedozen. Nightmares will be furnished at reasonable rates. Stone walls will be furnished to snoring boarders, and the proprietor will in no wise be responsible to* the broken tin-pan -ums of other ears. ■wq 1 1 .. •.• ' Hogs may be kept from trichinosis, etc., by mixing a Mndtul of good wood ashes with thdkfood twice a week, . \