Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1879 — Page 4

ODDS AND ENDS.

. BrauxCK 1m m grandfather Postal cards, bow almost universal started tat Austria tat IMS. * V “Pat as joo go” Is a good motto, but the theaters make yon pay as you corns tat. t . jm The manufacture ot cork solas to an Industry that has groOm to large dimentious in Williamsport, Pa. - . A Texas paperstates thatone-fourth of tbeeotton gins in that State are destroyed by lire every year. Aky mao pays too much for his S htotle when he has to wet it fifteen or twenty timee a day. Weks one ruffian has bitten off the lobe of another's ear, who mates him give bonds to keep the pleoe? A Boston firm is shipping hammers at Buffalo, to tbs Sandwich Islands and New Zealand. Nearly all the negroes in and near Darlington, 8. C., now own horses and cows, and many of them own land.,.*?- -* * •w

. AcmviTT prevails in the real estate market in New York. Arise of sev-euty-flveper oent is reported since March. j^JEffj2 AJEiJ| The Pope will begin the publication of an official church paper on the first of January. It will be edited and printed at the Vatican. The DeeMoines, lowa, City Marshal spoiled his chances for re-election by slaying four hundred and fifty-three •heckles* poodles in one day. German carp are to be introduced into Western waters. They thrive in sluggish waters, and often attain the weight of ten ponnds in two years.» English manufacturing towns are rapidly filling up with foreign workmen who are eager to accent the wages at which the native workmen struck. During the progress of the excava.ions on the site of ancient Pergamos, over two hundred pieces of sculpture t dunging to the best period of Greek art, have been found. The greyhound is short lived. At the age of two years he is full grown, and at his fifth or sixth year he is worth little for the sport of coursing. He runs himself out in three years. Bananas as a material for the manufacture of alcohol are proposed. It is paid that their great cheapness in countries where they are grown am their richness ip sugar eminently fits them for jthis purpose. Germany finds much more pleasure in a cat race than in pushing horses ground the track. Tl>e cats are carried away from home, dumped out of a bag, and the first feline borne takes the pot. Briqukites, or compressed fuel of •mall or waste coal, are now manufactured "ear one of the English mines ataeo».ofls a ton. They are an excellent fuel, and have long been used

Li: r ra^„t. A large box shipped on a railroad at Cleveland was found to contain a live man, a flask of whisky, some sandwiches aud a kit of burglar’s tools. It is supposed thnt he intended to rob the express car. If you want to get rid of your wif dont use arsenic. The Rev. Hayden bas wished a thousand times that he had never heard of the stuff, and had brained hto victim in an honest, •traightforward manner. Mrs. Grant sajb that the General nee lost all his money in a potato speculation. He paid $750 for 150 bushels of potatoes, planted them, expecting to make a large profit, but when they were ripe, potatoes were too •heap to pay for the digging. Enough cloth is made every year from old rags, with a prepor admixture of wool, to supply all the adult population of Great Britain with a new suit, all the children with a dress aud all the women a jacket ' The late Mrs. Angelina Grimke iVeld l§ft a paper in which she said: “I have purposely selected my old clothes to be buried in, that my good ones may be given to the poor, that they may do them good after I am gone.” v

The future Queen Christina of Spain to a wise and kindly young lady. Bhe haa begged, her betrothed to , sonomize as for as possible in the expenses of their wedding festivities, and to give the money to the sufferers by the late floods in Spain. The Newland oik to forty-seven feet rix inches in girth. The Cowthorp, now more than 100 years in process of decay, has a girth of sixty feet. Both are in England. Many of the * fine , in England are, without doubt from 800 to 1,000 years old. The »knll of Lady Jane Grey's fether, Henry Grey,{Duke of Suffolk, was dug up in the yard of the Church of the Holy Trinity, in the Minories, London, a few days ago. Grey was beheaded bv Bloody Mary for participation in Sir Thomas Wyatt’s rebellion in 155^ It to calculated by a Swiss hotelkeeper that in the season which has just terminated 900,000 foreigners have traveled in Switzerland, each visitor staying on an average between three and four days in the country. The av erage daily * expenditure of each amounted, it to further calculated, to jive dollars.

Thb Mississippi, despite- its great seas, to a fickle stream. Many a thriving town established upon its nonVn has been deserted by its creators and left for inland, and now it begins to look as though Helena, Ark., was about to share a similar fate, by the receding of the liver and its cutting away a new channel. A philakthbopi c physician who has interested himself in the subject of employment for women writes: “All women who have opened their hearts to me agree in affirming that they would, by preference, serve the male sex, .inasmuch as women are, they assart, usually hard and unsym-

pathetic in their relations with members of their own sisterhood.” Italy is ■, preparing to extend the suffrage to every etttsen above twentyone years of age who eau read and write ignor Salvatore Morelli, a mem -e f the Italian Parliament, baa proposed that women who fulfills the legal qualifications ffifraired of Hectors shall be admitted to the suffrage. Petitions In its favor are receiving the signatures of a large number of women. Gen. Scbnvck said to the wife of a British Gabinent officer, who assured him that "England made Ameriea all that she is:" "Pardon me, mad erne, you remind me of an answer of the (Ado lad laid* teens, who, attending Sunday-school for the first time, was asked by the teacher, ‘Who made you?’ ‘Made me?* ‘Yes.’ ‘Why, God made me about eo long (holding his hands about ten inches apart), but I growed thereat.’ »

Tuesday Judge Berkshire sentenced Mrs. Amende Lamps hi re, of North Vernon, to the Female Reformatory at Indianapolis for breaking into WilHani Shiddell’s house and rolling him of money, notes and valuables to the amounfbf SIO,OOO. After the sentence she delivered the Judge a lecture, protesting her innocence and professing great piety. She Was firmly of the opinion that “the sentence of a Court nor the discipline could prevail against tbs Christian religion <i>r effect aoglit that would injure a Christian.

NEWS NOTES.

Ijp at Fort Garry Manitoba, Friday morning, the thermometer marked four degrees below sero. An epidemic of malarial fever Is reported id the northwestern provinces of India, attended by a frightful death rate. During October over 85,000,000 postal cards wer sent from the factory—the largest month’s business ever done. ' Gen. Jefferson C. Davis died at Chicago, last Sunday evening, of pneumonia. Gen. Davis was a native of Indiana. It is reported in Montreal, Canada, that she Imperial government is establishing a reserve of 10,000 men in Cafiada, composed of militia of the ominion, for active service at home or abroad, if required. The net earnings of the Pennsylvania Railroad during the past ten months show an increase of more than half a million dollars, as compared with the figures for thtf corresponding period the year before. The long pending disruption between the Jesuit order in England and Cardinal Manning, will be inquired into by the Pope. Several prominent Jeusits and Cardinal Manning are now in Rome preparing for the trial.

A dispatch from Rome, announces that the Propaganda has approved of the proposition of Cardinal McCloskey for the establishmentof three bishoprics in this country under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of New York. It to rumored that the syndicate which have bought the New York Central stock from Vanderbilt, have made a bid for all the Pennsylvania rail read stock owned by the city of Philadelphia, about 60.000 shares of the par value of $3,000,000. Dakota Territory contains 150,932 square miles. The States of Illinois, lowa and Wisconsin contain each only about 55,000 square miles. Kossuth, by the bill recently adopted by the Chamber of Deputies, has lost his right aaan Hungarian oitizsn. The bill makes such provision against any native of the country who shall voluntarily reside out of the country continuously for ten years. Kossuth has been away thirty. The government engineer has surveyed districts bordering on Shannon river, Ireland, with a view to the commencement by the government of a scheme for their drainage, which is to' cost £20,000. The prospect of employment for laborers in those districts is regarded with great satisfaction. The Auditor of State’s report for the past year shows net receipts during the year, $3,187,221.37; deduct cash disbursements, $3,127,685.91, leaves excess of leceipta over expenditures of $59,395.46; add balance of cash in the Treasury October I, 1878, $524,356.46, makes cash balance chargeable to the Treasury October 1,1879, of $383,751.92. The total State debt to $3,998,178.34. Thomas O’Brien, an ex-policeman of St Louis, was found dead in hto room in that eity the other day, where the body must have lain nearly two weeks. It was one of the most hideous ? - sights of the year. The man had wasted away to foe veriest skeleton, probably as a result of starvation incident to an inability to go for food. The report that Princess Louisa Caroline, otherwise Mrs. Lofne, is meditating an entrance into the communion of the Roman Catholic Church is emphatically denied at Ottawa. The Church Record, of London, states that English Catholics have been making great efforts to induce Louisa to the step, but she does not appear convertible.

Ahmt officers at Washington are said to believe that a severe Indian war is impending, letters which have been received from the West give color to the belief, for whatever may have been announced officially, there is nb doubt that the feeling Is to thin effect A government officer who has lived among the savages, is credited with saying that there will be more Indian fightiDg during the next year than sinos the Seminole war. According to the annual report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the amount of internal revenue faxes collected during the past year

amounts to »1M49,62L JJfce ©ortot pcreanL During the past three yean there has been %117 illicit stills seized, 6,383 persons arrested for illicit stilling, and twenty-seven officers and employes killed and forty-eight wounded while enforcing the internal revenue laws. The Cutaom House returns show the exeas of exports over imports for the month of October, tp have been forty million* | B value, Which represents the movement of merchandise and 'commercial commodities. The figures showing the movenient if coin and bullion present a different showing. They disclose that since the first of July the imports of these exceeded the exports about sixty-five milliens.

It is estimated that the ordinary expenses of the government for Jhe fiscal year of 1880-81, will be $136,347,129. This of course includes the cost of the ocnoas, which will be not for from $3,000,000. With that item excepted, the estimate is considerably below the actual expenditure es the year 1877-78. In no other year since the war has a smaller sum than that which will be asked for been sufficient to operate the governmental machinery. There is expected to bealargerthan usual deficit in postal revenue, but to more than balance this the estimate of Congressional expenses anticipates a saving of $3,000,000, as there is nothing which demands a long session. ■> J * Thb Catholic Archbishop of New England has issued an order to the priests in his jurisdiction for the establishment of church schools, to which Catholic parents are ordered to send their children, on pain of denunciation by the chureh. In commenting on this fact, the Chicago Journal concisely expresses the feeling of all liberal non-Catholics in this land when it say&i “We do not understand the occasion of the growing hostility to our fTee public schools sn the part of the Oatholie priesthood of New England or elsewhere. Our public-school system has no sectarianism in it, and we do not see why either priest or parent should seek a quarrel with a system, the only aim and object of which is to educate the rising generation.” It is said that an] attempt will fire made at the next meeting of the Dominion Parliament to remodel the banking system of and fashion it somewhat after our national bank law. The Canadian Minister of Finance and a member of the Dominion Parliament, have been studying our system. It is, in fact, reported that they have expressed themselves fully satisfied that is is an improvement on their own. At present Canada issues a species of>greei-back currency, which is redeemable iu specie on demand. There is, however, but little of it.* The private banks furnish nearly all the paper money in use, but their issues are simply based on specie and not Government bonds.

The Government of Prussia is moving in the matter of aoquiring all the railways es the country, and doubtless will consummate the scheme in a short time. The plan proposed by the Miuistry is that the present stock of all the corporate railways shall be converted into 4J Government consols. It to also proposed that the Government construct nine new railway lines at a cost of about $16,000,000. The great point made by the Government is that in case of war the roads would be absolutely necessary to the preservation of the Government, and that, consequently, it to more desirable that they should be in the hands of the Government rather than of individuals. Once the Prussian roads are bought by the Government, it to only a question of time when all the others in the Empire will also be purchased. So much of this year’s wheat of the United.. Kingdom has been threshed that the gatherers of statistics have at last reduced the yield to definite figures} The quantity proves to be less than' was produced in any other year since 1816. The average crop, as ascertained by a calculation covering many years, to 29$ bushels per acre,, making a total annual average for the kingdom of 9Q V 227,200 bushels. This year the production was only 18 bushels per acre, on an average, making a total of 54,768,000 bushels. From this must be subtracted 6,846,000 bushels, necessary to be reserved for the seed of next year’s crop. This woul amount to but 7$ per ceDt. of an average yield but it equals 12$ per cent of the present production, and reduces the|quantity available for consumption to 47,200,000 bushels. Again, most of the wheat to shrunken and light, and a bushel, even by weight, will not make the average quantity or quality of flour. From these figures it Is estimated that the people of Great Britain will consume before next harvest 144,000,000 bushels of Wheat from foreign countries. An important question of national polity, which will arise at an early day, will be whether it to desirable to have any more States of vast territorial extent. Dakota comprises an area but little lees than that of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. Its population, which was in 1870 about 14,000, is increasing at sueh a rate that it to thought that by next summer it will be at least 180,000. Six railways are In process of eonstruction through Dakota, and without receiving the grant of a single eet es public land.

INDIANA INKLINGS.

The young ladles of Wabash, have organised a Cooking Club. Hom. D. R. Beans, gave a Thanksgiven dinner to the oolored population of Peru, Nov. 27,1878. The Pullman Palace Car Company will shortly erect a spacious factory at Indianapolis, employing 600 men A thrke months old child of J. P. Johnson, of Ligonier, has won eternal fame for itself by "shooting "two double teeth. i

POTTER, the wheelbarrow tramp, peered through New Albany a few days ago on tie return to New York from San Fraoetoco. . A little girt of Richmond got A grain of roasted ooffee lodged In her windpipe and died. The operation of tracheotomy' was resorted to without sucoeos. - * - •, _. v -- A shrewd thief Baade a big raise in Decatur last we££y stealing seventyfive head of sheep and selling them to a stock dealer. The thief made good his escape before the theft was discovered.

•‘A well known married lady, of this vicinity,” says the Laporte Argos, ‘ celebrated her twentieth wedding anniversary one day last week by Wilting her first letter to her husband, who to now away from home. - Dr. Lindlby, of Brookville, has been sued for $5,000 damages by Simon Allen, the latter claiming that he was damaged in the above amount in oonsequence of Undley’s carelessness in setting a broken arm for him. Emma Welson, daughter of Dr. J. F. Wilson, a dentist at Charlestown, Clark oounty, went out on Monday evening after some wood and has not aiuoe been heard of. She had previously been reproved by her father for walking home from school with a young man.

Miami County Sentinel: The Hon. Wm. Zehiing’s boys have threshed 85,000 bushels of wheat during the past season., They kept an account of the number of aofes from which the wheat was cut, and find the average yield te he over twenty-six bushels per sere. Mr. Zehring says the average yield of corn, in the same section of oountry, will not be much more. A very light orop having been raised. The citisens of Paoli, this State, are vigorously protesting against the opening of a saloon la that place. The town has had no saloon for many , years, and ths party at present applying for license to fill the “soiling void” will encounter an to likely to defeat bis application. Rochestob Sentinel: A s->apped-dler did a thriving business here for a few days. He took in the greenies by putting a $5 bill in a package and selling another package thatjdid not con tain the bill, for $3. He caught several suckers, as any sharper can who comes to Rochester. Rochester is a smart town, but like all others it has its greenies.

St. Joseph county, particularly South Beud, is greatly agitated over a scandal which has just come to light at the county poor house. A young German woman confined there, who has been hoplessly Insane since girlhood, and is kept locked in a oed, has been found enciente. All citizens, but especially the Germans are very indiguant over the affoir, and are determined to have the perpetrator of the awful crime severely punished, if he can be found, j * Four months ago a stranger persuaded Samuel Lillie, a former of Sullivan county, to sign an apparent agreement, 'whereby he became responsible for some washing machines left in hto care, and of which he was to assume the agency. Facts since coming to light proved it to be a note for SIBO, which the unfortunate farmer was compelled to pay. The stranger also persuaded another well known farmer to sign a similar note for a similar amount, but the former having since become insolvent, payment cannot be enforced. Wabash Plain Dealer: Perry Warren, the shoemaker at Lake ton, while erazy drunk last Friday night aweek, drove hto wife and children out of the house, and fiendishly bit hto little baby’s hand until it still bt&rs the $m arks of its savage treatment. The wife has taken her children and returned to her father’s. Warren has not yet been punished, but It to hoped that the Grand (Jury will investigate his conduct. If half as bad as reported to us he deserves to be quartered, and the good people of Pleasant Township ought to rise in their might and treat him to a cold bath in Eel river.

The Goshen correspondent of the Chicago Times telegraphs that paper that at the wedding ot Mr. George Kapp, of Goshen, to Elisabeth Sarbaugh, at Leesburg, on the evening of the 28th, a blood-curdling tradgedy was enacted, which has caused a great sensation there and at Leesburg. The wedding was quite a society event,and more than one thousand persons, including many of the best people of Goshen, Warsaw, and Leesburg witnessed the eeranony and were congratulating the happy couple, when Mr.Jaoob Lichter, of Goshen a nephew of the bride, who had gone outside, got into an altercation with a party of roughs who were hanging about the house, during Liohter was knocked down and assailed by a barber with a razor, a baker with a butch-er-knife, and another man, who puremeled him fearfully with hfes fists. Charley Merrls, a baker in Stephens’ restaurant, plunged* a butcher-knife twice into Lichter’s Body, once in the region of the heart and again in the shoulder. Lichter’s clothes were almost torn eff him. He tumbled into the Louse, shrieking with agony, and crowded his way through the room

among the horrified guests, who were completely paralyzed by the spectacle. He called loudly for his sister, saying that he was killed. At each step the blood spurted from the ugly wounds and over the clothe* of the guests. The Injured man dropped upon a bed apparently dying, A perfect panic prevailed, and the sister of the wounded man fainted. The chances for the recovery of the wounded man are only one in ten. Morris has fled. It to said that Licht»r proveked the assalut, and that Morris stabbed him hi selfdefense. 1 i

DEATH.

« —r* ecatscv They feel the world spin past tßam in Ail nttmaos of; and what I bear and feel, The rattle la my throat could 111 reveal, Though It wave moeie to your earn ae to Mlile own. * • * Press doses—closer—l have * b ? ut ■“ritrown bwm powerless to hold me here with you;— Istte awwr-I waver end —I mi—•turusl what api unite! Where am I dropMtgfiO ACy breath borate Into dost—l can not cry—--I whirl—l reel and veer op overhead, flat .Meed eitelnt- -againit—the God blan me! lam dead! —lndianapolis Journal.

IN MALE ATTIRE.

A Woman Who Flayed a Man’s Part for Forty} Years, and wasJCarried as a Man. Melbourne Evening New*. Extraordinary discloses have been made regarding the female lunatic discovered in male attire. It appears * that the woman, who for the past twenty J ears has passed as a man under the name or Edward De Lacy Evans, has married three different women. The secret of her disguised sex has never been even suspected, although she worked continuously as a miner for many years, and had been following this occupation where she was an ordinary “wages man,” breaking quartz aud doing her work with the best of the other workmen at several mines. She might possibly have carried on the fraud unsuspected to the end of her days, but that for the foot that a few weeks ago she began to show symptoms of insanity, which gradually became more pronounced. Some fifteen months ago the woman between whom and the supposed man the form of marriage haa been gone through gave birth to a child. This is straage, as the statement undoubtedly is that this woman, passing as Evan’s wife, stoutly maintained that she never knew the secret •f her presumed husband’s sex. Since the child’s birth Evans has lapsed into an absent-minded and lethargic condition, and seemed to have lost all heart for work. On July the 22d Evans was admitted to the hospital as a lunatic. The hospital records of the occur•nce ran as follows: “Edward de Lacy Evans, male, married, admitted July 22, native of Kilkenny, Ireland; religion, Church of England. Danger•us to others, demented.” On the day •f admission the attendants, as usual, proceeded to give “him” a bath. Evans struggled violently aud fiually got away from the place. “He” was recaptured and brought back next day. “He remained in hospital six weeks, during which a warder slept in the room every night without discovering the secret. Says she was born at Paris, others say she is a ■ative of Jersey, while the hospital record gives Kilkenny as her birthplace. She speaks with an Irish accent, and claimed to be a nephew of the late General Sir Charles De Lacy Evans. Dr. Poland, resident surgeon at the Bendigo hospital, haviug examiued Evans, states that she herself has had •ne or more children, It is rumored that Evans was married several years ago in Melbourne, but regarding tbis •rldenoe is not complete. One of the nurses at present at Bendigo hospital says she can almost positively identify Evans as a passenger who came out in the ship Ocean Monarch twenty years ago. Tne girl, for this interesting character was then of girlish appearance, went under the name Ellen Germanic. ▲ singular feature of the story is that the nurse in question states that the girl had with her on the ship a box bearing the name ‘‘Edward Die Lacy.” The girl on arrival in Victoria went up eountry, and the next the nurse heard was that she had sent for the box and had married a fellow-passenger. The second marriage was celebrated eighteen years since, but no record of the event has been fouud, The wife’s name was Sarah Moore, who singularly enough had two children, both of whom died. She breathed not a word about the imposition; The third marriage between Evans and “his” present wife was clebrated at Ballarat on the 18tlf of September, 1868, by the Rev! W. Henderson at the Presbyterian Church. On the latter occasion Evans put her age down at twenty-eight. Accepting this as correct she is now about thirty-nine. The certificate shows that the bridegroom’s father was Edward J. De Lacy Evans, police magistrate, and that “his” mother’s name was Ann Dora Vauhan, a Welsh woman. The maiden name of Evan’s present wife was Julia Marquand. She states, that she was twenty-five years •f age when the marriage ceremony was preformed, and first became acquainted with Evans throug her sister having been a friend of “bis” former wile. Evans proposed marriage, but ▼aughan’s parents opposed the match. Evans, however, induced her to go to Ballarat with “him.” The marriage took place there. For a fortnight after they were married they lived separately, she residing at an hotel: subsequently they lived together. In appearance the man personator to feminine as regards the formation of features, but carries a decidedly masculine expression, though her nice is devoid or hair as an infant’s. She is rather short of stature, regarded as a man, being about lve feet four inches or five feet live inches Her hair since her confinement to the hospital has grown almost to her shoulders. Some time ago she met with an accident in the mine in which she was working, aud thereby sustained a severe wound on her head. The doctor who attended her never had the slightest suspicion es her sex. The same gentleman was afterwards oalled in to attend Evans while she was suffering from a dangerous attack of fever, but then again the imposition escaped detection. Miss Marquand, the young lady with whom one marriage was celebrated, says that Evans represented to her that “he” had two children by his former wife in France, and that these had been sent to Ireland. Two gentleman visited her soon after the case was made known in Sandhurst. To them she said in reply te interrogations. ‘‘Oh, it’s all over now; you may as well finish me at once.”

A Sensational Trial.

Mrs. Mary C. Marx, late of New York, died at the age of 75 years, leaving a nansome estate. This she bequeathed te a young Cathelie priest who at various times had various names. He is known now as Rev. Aloysius J. D. Bradley. Her surviving sister to contesting the will, and as is usual in such cases the weakness and the follies of the deceased are being brought to light Bradley came from England, bringing with him proper credentials as a minister of the

1875 he happend to become an assistant TlJekuli She invited him to her house, and thmeafter she virtually supported him, and, dying, bequeathed him all her

Bradley was at that time a somewhat eccentric character. He opened a littie chapei at 1,285 Broadway, which he called the “Oratory of St. Sacrament.” To this plaee Mtoa Marx went to live in of housekeeper, in order to be near the object of her devotion. The prodding genius of the "Oratory of St. Sacrament” moved his nr rod emblems to a house on Weet 43d street, which he designated "The Orphanage,” and there Miss Marx followed him? They had one orokaa in the house, who was subsisted by Miss Mary for twelve months. About this time Bishop Potter began to inquire into Bradley’s performance, and nis License to preach wm revoked. On Friday, JanuSylO, 1872, Mtoa Mary noted iu her diary that Bradley had told her on that day of his intention to join the Roman Catholic church. Two weeks afterward Mias Marx was herself received into the Catholio church, aud five month later she and Bradley went to Europe together and remained abroad six years. She paid all the expenses of Bradley s education in an English college at Rome and in other institutions, and traveled exclusively with him on the Continent. During this period, her sister in New York remitted her upward of $20,000, all of which she lavished on Bradley. He apprised Miss Marx of his ordination as a priest, iu this tender note:

"My Dearest Aunt Betsy—Everything went off delightfully. I was sick with joy and the consolation Christ gave me. The whole congregation came up and kissed my hands. We had a champagne dinner afterward; nothing could have been nioer or more consoling.” In the Spring of 1878 Miss Marx returned to New York, and on May 22d of that year made the will which is aow being contested. She died oa July 4th, 1878, of paralysis of the heart. To her surviving sister she bequeathed SI,OOO a year during life,andsl,oooto Rev. Edward McGlynn, and all the remainder of her eetaß to the "Rev. Aloysius J. D. Bradley, of Liverpool, England.” Her personal property she gives to him absolutely, and he to to have the use of certain real estate dure ing his life, and at hto death it is to go to the Little Sisters of the Poor. The ground on which the will is contested is that the Rev. Aloysius J. D. Bradley exercised undue influence over Miss Marx as confessor and spiritual adviser; flattered her vanity and encouraged her love tor alcoholic stimulants.

Infinitesimally Small Man.

New York Herald. The last lecture of the course with whioh Professor Procter to instructing aud delighting astonished thousands was uprn the vastnees of time. Ths subject is one upon which many men think they know something. The time during which the ash barrels of certain city districts remain unemptied is often pronounced vast, and that in which thousands of creditors of defunct saving banks have waited for dividends to vaster, but neither approaches in duration the time consumed by the eartbin getting ready for business. We are told that for a trifle of a hundred million years the world has been dependent upon tne sun for its light and heat, but that previously it had speut more than three hundred million years in cooling down to a degree which justified it in accepting assistance from its nearest warm-hearted neighbor. Three hundred million years to quite a respectable amount of time to eonsume in reducing heat; it to almost as many years as. at his present rateof cooling down Mr.Tilc’en will need in which to l eoover from the blazing indignation induced by the result of the last Presidential campaign. After such vast periods the duration of man, the boasttul “lord of creation,” to 9imply nothing, and man the individual is many thousands of times less, while his assumption that the globe has beeu glowing, wastiug, steaming and cooling for countless cycles and eeousmerely to afford a temporary resting place for a lot of two-footed mites to arrogant to a degree which even a Custom House inspector over a pile of trunks never attained to. Man’s insignificance is further shown by hto manifest inability to prevent the earth one day becoming the mere dingy cinder that the lecturer assures us it must finally be. The earth being a mere speck in the solar system, and the system itself a wee, lonesome cluster of stars whirling on the outer edge of a stystem infinitely greater, it behooves man to be moaest. It matters not whether ha finds the root of hto genealogical tree in Adam or in protoplasm, for the gardener of Eden, with hto nine hundred and thirty years of life, died a mere baby if hto age to to be oompared with that of the still immature of the earth, while protoplasm Itself was, we are told, a mere accidental outcast from -matter. The more Prof. Proctor tells ua the more infinitely small man appears.

The Cholera in Japan.

TheParisTemps give some particulars of ravages of cholera in Japan. The epidemic appeared last April in the district of Enime, where the tombs of sokliers who fell victims to it in 1877 had been opened, partly for religious rites and partly for the more becoming interment of men hastily buried during the war. In a week forty-five out of sixty-five cases proved fatal. It extended to other points, and at Osaka it to not uncommon to sea persons fall down in the streets, struck by it. In July it was reported at Tokio, the capital, and also at Yokohama, and in some western towns the epidemic assumed formidable proportions. Up to August 17 the total was 76,698, of which 41,916 had proved fatal, 9,789 had recovered, and the remainder woe still unde* treatment. Up to the end of September the number had reached 100.000. The Government bad exerted itself to the utmost by establishing hospitals, forbidding the sale of unripe fruit (which the Japanese accustomed ts eat), and quarantine regulations. These last were disregarded by foreign vessels, and the result is that the chplera has extended everywhere, so that there are no longer qnaratines or lazzrrettos, for no purpose would b served by them. Dr. William F. Sherrod, prison physician, who sued the Seymour Times for SIO,OOO for liebel, has instructed his attorney, Chas. L. Jewett, to withdraw the complaint. Dr. Monroe, editor of the Times, charged that Dr. Sherrod was cruel to the patients under his care, and reflected upon him in Other ways. Tbs Times agrees to pay all costs in the ease and to retract the libelous statement as to Dr. Sherrod's conduct as a gentleman and a phytosian.

AGRICULTURAL.

Of me S‘ od J ß worUl » great deal of money on the form as elsewhere. sHrSSSS* U P tom the flower bed this foil can be hung up in Vaem that are to remain outside all deep ones, should ~* ve to® sod removed from them, as crackihem* will swell and Plant plenty of hardy bulbs this foil —hyacinths, crocuses, tulips, aarcissus, etc., and they will reward you next oolorf Wlth togranoe, and bright In gathering late potatoes all that are dug should be put away safely before night At this season it will not be safe to leave this tender tuber exposed over night, as a slight frost mayjspoii niftny. % i ! Very few forms keep account of theii orops, though they are commencing tt wake up to the importauee of such transactions. If we do look into such matters it is not strange that forming does not pay. Chrysanthemums can be flowered la a cold pit. On the approach of oold weather, remove them to the pit where they will bloom freely until early vkter. They bear considerable frost without injury., A slow milker makes a cow impartient, which causes her to hold up her milk. The “strip pigs” are the richest part, and if a cow is milked quiety, os well as quickly, there will be more, as well as richer milk.

The Science of health says: "If formers would avoid suddenly cooling the body after great exertions, if they would be careful not to go with wet clothing aud wet feet,and if they would not overeat when in that exhausted condition, and bathe daily, using much friction, they would have little or no rheumatism.” We have kept many hundred bushel of apples simply by picking them earenilly in the fall and burying them n shallow pits in ths open ground, covering over with straw, and four or six inches of earth over that, in about the same manner as we preserve turnips from frost through the winter. Manure applied broadcast to meadows early in autumn or later, if it has not been done sooner, Increases the luxuriance of the growth before winterand gives the grass an early and luxuriant start iu spring. Manure, which was too coarse or fibrous early in the season, has rotted enough, it piled, iu heaps, to spread well. : ' 1 In cases where iusects of any kind infest trees a good drenching or water, with one pound of potash to eight gallons of water, two or three times a week will kill the last one. The same amount of copperas dissolved in eight gallons of water aud applied in the same way will dispel all insects and has a tendency to make the tree hardy. Harness that has been soaked with water will dry hard, unless it to dressed while damp with some kind of nondrying oil. First wipe off the harness with a sponge, and then wipe with a cloth kept for this, purpose, you can apply the oil or dressing thoroughly. A coating of waterproof dressing given now will be useful, hut the harness should be thoroughly washed aud made prefectly clean. French mode of killing poultry: Open the beak of the fowl, and with a sharp-pointed, narrow-bladed knife make an incision at the back of the roof es the mouth, which will divide the vertebrae, and cause instant death, after which the fowls are hung up by the legs. They will bleed perfectly, with no disfigurement: picked while warm, and. if desired, scalded. In this way the skin presents a more natural appearance than when scalded.

A Famous Female Swinder.

Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette. Vernon, Ind., October 17.—The case of Amanda Lamphere, alias Old Bloomer, perhaps the meat notorious woman in Indiana, who Las been on trial in the Circuit Court for nine days past on a Grand Jury indictment charging her with burglary and grand larceny, for stealing some watches, jewelry, and a considerable amount of money, gold coin and bills, irom William Liddell, a wealthy and prominent citizen and businessman of North Vernon, about eleven months ago,, terminated to-day, the jury bringing in a verdict of guilty, and assessing a - fine of 1 cent and six years imprisonment in the penal department of the Female Reformatory Prison. A motion was at once made for a new trial, but there is scarcely a probability of its being granted. This woman has for years been a terror to a good part of the community in which she resided, she having a wide reputation for blackmailing large sums of money from numerous citizens whom rite by some means had managed to inveigle into her power. By this means, it is alleged, she was continually enabled to sap them like a leech, and by these means, and divers others that were no less dark and damning, she always appeared "flush.” In her younger days she was regarded as beautiful, and continually wore tne most gaudy apparel, that of the “Bloomer” costume, from which she took her name. Latterly she has grown more haggard in her appearance, being some CO to <6O years of age, but Kt shows indistinct traces of former aufy. She satin the court room and listened to the verdict as stoical as an Indian chief or a wooden cigar stand, not betraying the least emotion. Her son, a young man of perhaps 25 years, stuck to her with unswerving fidelity, while her daughter, a young lady,who now resides in the family of Mr. Bidden, testified squarely and without hesitancy against her mother. The verdict gives universal satisfaction,and more than one poor sinner whom this woman had in her dutches wili heave a sigh of relief when they know that she is safe within the prison walls). Benny Foster and George Tate, the two modern Jack Sheppards, whose wholesale thieving exploits some two months since were detailed in the Gazette, were brought into court this morning and pleaded guilty to the indictment against them, and threw themselves on the mercy of the court. Foster is lSyears old, and was sentenced to the House of Refuge until he attains his majority. Tate is 19, and his sentence was field in reserve. The court signified its willingness to send him to the House of Refuge, but his age precluded. He will have to go to the penitentiary. Both have widowed mothera, Tate's mother having gone insane over the sad fate of her son.' Ok Tuesday, while Mr. Roberts, a butcher of Syracuse, Kosciusko county* was getting ready to shoot a bog in mi alley in that village, the gun was • discharged accidentally, and the ball struck Mr. Bilderbeck, who just then crossed the alley, killing him en •pot.