Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1879 — Page 4

INDLANA INKLINGS.

Ft. Wayne capitalists are talking of eataMtahing an immeoae furniture factory in that city. Tn Elkhart starch company recently shipped a ear load of stareh to London, England. ; Thk shipments of hay from Misha waka for the srannn were five hundred tons, and. a hundred tons more would be shipped if the season would permit. 1 A young man named William Dale, was killed by lightning while chopping wood near Indianapolis, on the 9th teat

Lavi Newman, who was shat at Evansville last week, will recover, in ail probability, with a bullet in his brain. Habsy Ecphrat, a cigar maker living in Counersville, baa fallen heir to SIO,OOO by the death |o a wealthy aunt. The employees at the New Albany Bail Mill were agreeably surprised, recently, by a voluntary advance of ten percent, in their wages. John Montgomery, of Washington, Daviess county, dim ted a tree while coon hunting, fell to the ground and waa killed instantly These children of Robert Craig, of Union City, were badly poisoned last week by eating cabbage on which Paris green bad been sprinkled while growing. .

Last week a stray shot from some huntsman’s gun killed a S3OO colt belonging to Elihu W. Shrader, of Rush county. J. J. Miller, a “weather prophet” living in Jay' county, this State, says there are fourteen “tracking snows” to fall jet this winter. The Jail at Peru has been condemned by the grand jury as unhealthy and unfit for occupancy, and the prisoner confined there was removed to the Wabash jail. Charles Sellers living near Orleans, Orange county, cut down a large tree which fell on bis wife. She was ho seriously injured that her life was despaired of.

The people iu the vicinity of Huffman’s Lake in Kosciusko county,have discovered a monster inhabitant of those waters. Perhaps it to the same old devil that used to haunt Lake Manitou in Fulton county. Michael Stapleton, a fugitive from justice who to wanted at Bloomingtou, 111., was arrested at Ft. Wayne the other day. He was identified by a figure of Christ which to marked in In dia ink on one of hto arms. A pull set of signal service instruments nave been received at Purdue University, and observations according to the rules of the service will hereafter be taken by Professor Ingersoll. It to estimated that the tobapco crop .of Brown county will fall for short of an average, perhaps not more than a half crop. There was less put out than usual, and the dry season materially injured it.

John Rowe, a wealthy farmer, living three miles north of Hagerstown, Wayne county, was poisoned by Inhalation of vapor from red oak timber with which he was working. After suffering terrible agony he died. Henry Globe, a colored youth of Rising Sun. while practicing on a horn the other evening, blew so hard that leading educationalists of the State, he ruptured himself. An operation was performed on him, and he died next morning from the effects of it. Mrs. Williams, living near Connersville, was reoently attacked by a ferocious dog, which tore off the lower portion of her ear, and terribly lacerated the side of her face and one arm. So great to the demand for scrap iron at the mills of New Albany that \even the formers in the vicinity turn out to t> u y it for them, and large quantifies are imported direct from England. During the year ending September 1, 1879, 503,892 children were enrolled

in the public schools of Indiana. The ooet of educating them was $3,002,617.64. Among others, there are 635 private schools in the State. The twenty-fifth annual meeting of the Indiana State Teaahers’ Association will be held at Masonic Hall December 29, 30 and 31. Ex-Governor Hendricks will deliver the opening address, and during the session of the Association addresses will be delivered by Farmers in Dear bora and Ohio cou c ties have been marketing directly from the field, and selling at the distillery in Aurora. The corn is not as thoroughly ripened as could be desired, therefore they are rushing it market at thirty-five cents. As one of Mr. Geo. Stockberger’s boys was riding through the streets of Bloominsburg, Fulton county, a few days since, his horse—a very fine mare —stepped en a stick, one end of which flew up and striking her under the flank, just in front of the hind leg, severed a large artery and caused her to bleed to death in ten minutes.

Brown James, of Webster township, Wayne county, went to Rich- * mond, the other day, to procure a marriage license, and got on a drunk. He was arrested with the document on his person, and spent the night in a drunken sleep in the station house, while the company waited at home for his coming. < Tbe guests concluded, about midnight, that his courage had failed him and he had skipped out, and they separated. Next morning Mayor Bennet fined him and sent him home to smooth it oyer with the young woman. "Shoot me, Lon, right in the mouth,” is what Mrs. Buck, of South Berd, said Tuesday morning, to her husband, who held in his hand a revolver belonging to his brother, which he had been examining. Accordingly, Alonso, in a playful way, supposing there was not a cartridge in IV raised

him, he hud discharged a load into his Mn 2aT condition ethical, though hopes are entertained of her recovery. Wabash The county of Wabash hardy escaped an interesting law suit, this week. George Mullen, the trump, so long kept a wit-

ness in the Abbot murder case was the disturbing dement. Mullen having consulted attorneys, concluded to demand damages for his incarceration, but first moved on the Board with a view of a compromise. Ihis was finally agreed upon, and Mullen received “in full of *ll claims,” the munificent sum of $66.00 together with rail-road transportation to Detroit, for his summer’s residence in the county baa tile. Tn Peru Republican gives the following sample of successful farming: “John Cook, of Richland, sold twentyone hogs whom Peerage weight was 409} pounds each. He sold at four cents and received a premium of sls on the lot. Lust year his hogs averaged 425 pounds, but he fed them longer than this year. One field of his corn this year averaged eighty bushels to the acre, and twenty-two acres avraged just seventy bushels per acre. This is good, even for Richland town-

ship. Mrs. Klkcknkr, a patient in the Hcapital for the Insane, from Warsaw; who had been there onlv three days, committed suicide, recently. It seems that the attendant had just left the apartment to get the woman her dinner. She was In the bed at the time, and was apparently very quiet and doing well. When the attendant returned and opened the door, the body fell to the floor with a thud, and upon examination life was found to be extinct. She bad torn her night dress into sheds and made a rope, from whiich she was suspended until the jar of the door opening caused the body to fall. A barn owned by Thomas Peck, near Shoals, was destroyed by fire a few nights since. Seven head of horses, harness, and considerable grain were burned. Loss about $4,000. The same evening a tramp called and requested lodging, but was refused. The opinion is that he took his revenge by setting fire to the barn. ; '

ODDS AND ENDS.

The new hotel In Peru will be ready to open to the public by the first of February. Texas clips 22,000,000 pounds of wool this year. There are sixteen tons of gold in the New York banks. Over 100 millionaires are said to reside in San Francisco. There to practically no production of gold and silver in India. To take out a patent costs about 160, of which about $25 goes to the solicitor. Hard times in Berlin have led to log stealing and dog eating by the hungry poor. The Russian missionaries in Japan have succeeded In converting 4,060 Japanese to their faith. Merchantable sugar to manufactured at Gunnison, Utah, the first ever made in the Territory. A cotton factory at Atlanta recently advertised for 200 hands, but did not receive a single application. Skating is utilized in the army of Norway. A corps of skaters to a part of the regular establishment. Ten thousand sheep which started early last summer from Oregon for Montana, have arrived in good condition. A bottle of flaxseed oil, chalk and vinegar, mixed to the consistency of cream, should be kept in every house for burns, scalds, etc.

Some miners at Silver Reef, U. T , nave been arrested for sinking a shaft in the wagon road at a point where prospects were favorable. A combination of capitalists have opened up an 80,000-acre farm near Jamestown, D. T. Two thousand three hundred acres have been broken. Arthur Sullivan says the Boston woman are the handsomest in the world. Arthur should shelter his eyes with blue glass before coming out West It is said to be far better to be an iggorant man and ride in a carriage than to know heaps of things and have to stand on the hind platform of a street ear

The fashionable young ladies of Philadelphia now want to be photographed in theatrical oostumes, and some of them pay SSO for a Black Crook out-fit. Old, retired clergymen are finding •onsiderablegemployment nowadays in writing cards certifying to the efficacy of quack doctors in curing throat diseases. One of the largest of the dry goods stoqas of Paris was visited in one day recently by 64,921 persons, and the money taken amounted to 1,135,372 trances and 80 centimes.

At Washington they are expecting the Sultan of Turkey will have to recall his diplomatic representatives to this country for want of money to support them. A Chicago paper believes that murderers should be sent to the Insane Asylum aud their lawyers to State Prison. This would make a scarcity of lawyers, anyhow. Db. Glknn, the California wheat grower, is said to have had 45,000 acres in wheat this year; his crop was 800,000 bushels. For working his enormous.ranche he hr four hundred double teams.

The oldest woman in Rhode Island is the widow of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, of revolutionary fame. She celebrated her ninety-sixth birthday recently, and all her faculties are preserved to a wonderful degree. John Bright has presented a pettyon to Parliament three-quarters of a

mile long from 100 000 rrimHHj Methodists in England, aakteg for the I been planted on Fairnie HOI, near Pensacola, Fla., this mmtamm. A neighboring fig orchard contains s^oo It is said that two Presbyterians, two Baptists, two UnivenaUsts and an active Jew recently met and conversed on theology together without quarreling in Boston. The reason they did not quarrel in Boston was because they ware in New York. The Belcher is now the deepest mine on the continent The decline bos reached a perpendicular depth of 8,000 feet and starting from a level of 900 feet makes a dip at an angle that requires 100 feet in order to make 100 feeti n perpendicular depth. An ex-slave of Jeff. Davis, named Montgomery, to county treasure at Vicksburg, Mias., is the fourth planter in the extent of his business in the State, and the Republicans talk of running him for Congress next year. Cyrus Braver, of Waterbary, Vermont was possessed by the idea that be must set fire to a building every Wednesday or die. He bum 3d dwellings on three successive Wednesdays before he was detected.

A lake with an india-rubb r bottom has just been discovered fifteen miles northwest of Reno, Nev. The Gazette of that town describes the soil in the bottom and around the margin f the lake as “of a grayish color, quite tenacious, and with a hard, smooth surface, over which a carriage rolls as smoothly and as noiselssly as over a carpeted floor. When a ball made from the soil to thrown down, it will rebound like rubber. There to talk of making a race course from it” Boston was probably the first city In the world where women engaged in the study of medicine, and at the Medical University there they now have a a lady demonstrator in anatomy, also three other ladies in the faculty; one who lectures sn diseases of women and the other on diseases of children.

It to rather a novel, if not unprecedented, thing for a grandmother to attend the school taught by her young lady grand daughter. Such to the case, however, near Bellefone, Ala., for Mrs. Daniel Martin, having arrived at the age of sixteen, having been married four years, goes to school to her step grand daughter. Muffs made of plush of any color will be more fashionable the coming season than fur articles. Bonnets will likewise be made of plush and the linings of both muffs and bonnet j will be of a different material and color from the color of the plush. Muffs in other material to match costumes will be universally adopted. A woman calliug herself the Queen of Cure is doing an enormus business in the southwest, particularly among the negroes. Bhe rides in a discarded circus chariot, wearing velvet and spangles, and accompanied by a band of music. She has the reputation among the credulous of possessing miraculous powers of healing, and multitudes flock around her wherever she goes. She makes no charge for her services, but sells vast quantities of a liniment, to which she ascribes marvelous curative qualities.

NEWS NOTES.

The Southern cotton crop this year is estimated at 6,250,000 bales. The Louisville reception to General Grant, rivaled that of Chicago. The members of the House of Congress have raised over SSOO for the sufferers in Ireland. The Pope has sent dispatches to the Bishops of Chili and Peru, recommending them to use their influence in favor of peace. The Senate Finance Committee has voted to postpone the consideration of all currency measures until after the holiday recess. General Grant expresses the opinion that the proceeds of all remaining public lands should be devoted to educational purposes. The big pile of gold in the Treasury is an awful temptation to the Brigadiers. They would be glad to spend a few tons of it in mud walls or canals, oi kindred enterprises.

A fight is being made in Cleveland over the taxation of church property. The valuation of such property $4,000,000, and would yield the city a revenr.t of SIOO,OOO ‘A bill has been drawn, to be prepresented to Congress, for the charter of a company to build an inter-oceanic canal, and will be submitted to Gen. Grant in Philadelphi, where the parties interested go to consult him. Count Bismarck favors a reduction of the standing armies by the Great Powers of Europe, as a remedy for the prevailing financial depression and misery among the people. But such a reduction is possible only by joint agreement between the several Powers. The number of foreign immigrants landed at New York during the month of November, was 14,600, being nearly 9,000 more than for the same month last year. The namber landed since Januaiy 1, was 125,000, being nearly 50,000 more than for the corresponding time last year.

Rumors of the proposed abdication of the Czar of Russia again prevail. The present Emperor is regarded as half insane on account of constant ap prehensions as to the safety of his life. Oh Friday of last week the snowbanks in Dakota and Northern Minnesota were from six to a dozen feet high, and at Fargo some of the houses were oovered over. At Manitoba the thermometer was 86° below aero. Th* brandy crop of France for 1879, is an entire failure, but enteiprising dealers are supplying the deficiency with an article made out of beets, own,

wtDoy ptfiiipa for soiproent to too markets ov too world. at the tkms the other day to reported to have been a snrnwss Manv of the ladies walced up to the poßa “like little men,” and deposited their ballots for school trustees, which are the only officers they are as yet permitted to vote for. A from Washington states that the President will tender to Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, a seat on the bench of the United States Supreme Court whenever the resignation of Judge Hunt, of New York, shall create a vacancy. Judge Hunt’s health has been quite feeble for some time past, and his resignation at an early date may be expected. Advices freyn Japan state that M. Fujita, the latgest contractor in the country, M. Nakano, one of the lint merchants, and sixty of their principal friends, have been arrested for having caused to be produced in Germany forged Treasury bonds to the value of about 16,000,000 fiance, which they managed in such.a way that they were put in circulation by the Treasury it-, sell The discovery of this fket produced a crisis unexampled in Yokohama. A terrible panic on the Bourse ensued, and the most scandalous scenes took (dace.

A cablegram reports that the supply of sugars at Loudon £is estimated to be over a quarto of a million tons short of that of last season. The stock of ooffee at the leading European ports is estimated at nineteen thousand tons less than at this tune last year. The figures denote that a boom in sugar and ooffee is among the possibilities. The Pension bill recently passed by the House of Congress appropriates •$32,404,000, an increase over the last appropriation of $8,008,000. The whole number of pensioners now on the rolls to 242,766, a net increase of 18,757 in the last year. Of the whole number of pensioners, 11,721 are surviving soldiers of the war of 1812, and 21.194 are the widows of deceased soldiers of the same war.

The suffering among the poorer classes in France seems to be as great as that among the same classes in Great Britain. This to shown by the fact that Lapere, the Minister of the Interior, has been compelled to apply to the Chambers of Deputies for a grant of five million francs for the relief of the most destitute. The grant was made by an almost undhimous vote, all parties acknowledging its necessity and joining in supporting it. A joint resolution has been introduced in Congress, proposing two amendments to the Constitution, one providing that the general appropriation bills shall contain nothing but the ordinary expenses of the different departments and interest on the public debt, and that all other appropriations shall be made by bills containing only items relating to the subject matter of the bill. The other gives the President the power to veto one or more items in a bill and approve the rest Cable dispatches signify that the Vrtic&n to ready to call quits with the Belgian government on the controversy as to clerical domination of the public schools. The latest instructions to the Papal Nuncio gat Brussels are to the effect that the differences are to be considered at an end it the Belgian Cabinet will consent to so treat the matter. The palpable import of it to that the Vatican to not dtoj>osed to press a conflict which to against the spirit ot the age, and in which, inevitably, the church must be worsted.

Australian forests have been most recklessly wasted through the rivalry of saw-mill owners who have not hesitated to burn large districts, or to cut down, and leave upon the ground to rot, many more trees than their competitors could use while the timber was in good condition. The authorities have been covering the mountain sides with State nurseries, whence trees are transplanted while young to other parts of the country. As a remarkable incident it is stated that American forest trees thrive better there than those indigenous to the soil. The cultivation and protection of timber is regarded as so important in Australia that now a college has been established in which young men will be especially trained in woodcraft, forestry and agricultural chemistry. The medical gentlemen whcm the Government sent last July to Cuba to study yellow fever in all of Its phases have retnrned and reported. They go not enter into the question as to whether there is any hope of ever eradicating the disease from the island, or of so confining it as that other lands shall notsulferby importation. They give positive assurance, however, that unaoclimated persons are liable to contract yellow fever at any season of the year, and in any hamlet, town or city in Cuba. They believe that the germs of the disease are scattered thickly all over the island, and that wherever any considerable new foreign population is concentrated, there the scourge will rage violently.

The case [of Mapstrick vs. Ramge and others, lately decided by the Nebraska Supreme Court, constitutes a noteworthy episode ih the judicial history of labor strikes. Eighteen jour-’ ney tailors were in the employ of the plaintiff, and, conspiring to force him to pay them higher wagee, they simultaneously abandoned their work and returned it to him in an unfinished stata. He was unable to procure the labor necessary to complete the unfinished work according to his contracts with customers, and subsequently brought suit against his late employee. The Court held that he oould maintrin his action, not only for direct damages, bat also for the general injury to the character of his house for punctuality.' * /IVm

AN ELECTRIC SPRING.

The Moat Wonderful Natural Curiosity yet dtoooWrid. Nashville (Tenn.) Banner. The beatutiful Buffalo Valley—the mountaineer’s paradise, and one of the moat romantic spots in Tennessee—lies along the custom baud of that lovely mountain stream, the Caney Fork. Three or four miles from the mouth of this valley stands an old water mill, whose huge iron-bound wheel, it is said, preformed its last revolution somewhere about the year 1818. The mill in its day was no doubt a wonder in that part of the country, for judging by its present appearance, ltmuri have been the most wonderful constructed building of its kind ever erected in that vicinity. It is now the home of rats and owls and the ashes of the jolly <fid miller who long years •go was the life and the light of the P“oe, sleeps peacefully on a neighboring hilL Under this old mill is the most wonderful spring of which the world has ever heard. Among the Inhabitants it Is known as the ‘‘Devil’s Spring.” No one seems to know bow or when It received this unpleasing, importunate appellation. Few people, other than those living in the immediate neighborhood, know of its existance, and they rarely visit it, from the net that it to believed to exert a powerful and evil influence over all who were rash enough to venture sufficiently near its confines to allow a single drop of the bubbling, boiling fluid to fall on them or their garments. Besides the old mill is said to be haunted, and this alone would keep these superstitious, though pious, peoee from ilsking their lives by frequentg the accursed place, much less the fact that the devil keeps the spring underneath it. Notwithstanding the many harrowing tales related by the loss of fortune, reason, and finally death to those who had ventured iu too close proximity to the unhallowed spot, a gen teman recently visited the mill and the spring, the latter, which he thoroughly examined, pronouncing it the most remarkable natural curiosity he had ever seen. The spring is described as boiling up from the center of a solid rock, its shape being very much like that of a bushel measure and about as large. The sides of this basin or hole are perfectly smooth, having the appearanoe of having been polished by the hand of man. Its depth is unknown. The people who reside in the immediate vicinity say it is without a bottom. How this may be we are not prepared to state, but true it is that an iron wedge and 300 feet of cord failed to reach it. The water to of u dark- blue color boils up with great force, so great that it spouts up several Inches above its proper confines. And not only «!oes It boil up with immense force, but it whirls around with tremendous velocity, something after the fashion of a whirlwind.

The gentleman who describes it says that he dipped an ordinary tin dipper into the spring for the purpose of procuring some of the water for a closer examination of its qualities, and that the momeut the dipper touched the water it was wrenched from his grasp as though it had been struck from hto hand by a stroke of lightning, and, indeed. he states that hto arm felt as if it had been suddenly paralyzed. In endeavoring to regain Jthe dipper, which did not sink more than six inches below the surface, but which kept whirling round and round so fast that it was almost impossible to see it, he placed his hand in the water. He says that the sensations he experienced at the instant hto fingers touched the water were singularly strange, causing him to think that thousands of needles had pieroed hto body at one time. But he didn’t succeed in getting the dipper out. He tried time ana again to wrench it from its fastenings, but the greedy waters seemed to loalh to give up their strange captive, to which they clung with more than a vice-like grasp. Giving up all hope of rescuing the dipper with his hands, the gentleman bethought himself of au empty flask which ne carried in his companion. With this he again attempted to lift some water from the spring, and was rewarded with success, not, however, without a considerable effort, for it required hto entire strength to prevent the angry waters from snatching the flask from hto hands. Pouring a single drop of the strange fluid in the palm ot nto left hand, he examined it minutely with a magnifying glass with the most satisfactory results. He

states that the drop of water closely resembles a flake of snow viewed with the same instrument. He examined several other drops, and, strange to say, each presented a marked difference in appearance. The first assumed the shape of a*star, the second that of a crescent, the third a dagger,* the fourth a comet, and so on. Alter concluding Ills examination, the gentleman resolved to further test the qualities of the »vater by tasting i\ Letting a single dr jp fall ou his tongue, he was surprised and delighted to And that it sparkled like the best brand of imported champagne. He then concluded to swallow a portion, which he did with the most delightlul effect. He says the moment the water began descending his throat he enjoyed the most pleasant senations of his life. It seemed, Indeed, as if he were only sipping the nectar of the gods. The draught seemed to divide itself into a million parts the moment it passed his throat, a portion passing with the speed of lightning along every vein of his body. Bo delighted was the effect that he forgot for the time where he was. and uttered peal after peal of the wildest possible laughter. He avers that the sensation of squeezing a pretty girl is no comparison to the ecstatic joy which he derived from one draught of the water. Owing to the peculiar effects which the water has on the human system, the gentleman before leaving christened the spot “the Electric Spring.” He claims that this name is peculiarly ai>propriate.for therein nojdoubt but what the water is heavily charged with elictricity. He will endeavor next summer to form a company for the purpose of merging the place into a summer resort, and it is lielieved that the water will cure any and all Ills that flesh Is heir to.

Wanted to Die Rich.

ostotj Com lei. Lionel Lawson, writes M. Labou chere, whose death took place las week, was a cognate personage in Lon don, aud was a singular instance of the good luck that attends, some persons through life. He was born witheither no fortune or with a very small one and his real name was' Levy. Why and when he altered it to Lawson I never heard, but some five and twenty years ago be had establi bed a prosperous ink manufactory in Paris, and was known to his friends as “Ihkerman Lawson.” At that time the penny London press did not exist. The first attempt In this direction was made by Colonel Sleigh, who brought out a of one sheet, called the Daily Telegraph. It was printed by a printer in a small way of the name of Levy, who was a brother of Lawson.

Ylmi ♦aw tfid um printer toe k ver the paper for jrhat was doe to a fund of which he waa a trustee. In consideration of this advance it was agreed tliat *»• thepoesib.’e K?* 18 ®**** undertaking. Still the Daily Telegraph did not prosper, and was obliged to obteuTfurther funds ty 8 filing a share to a publican called Mo a, who owned a pot-house in the neighborhood of the printing office. The new supply of fiinds was nearly exhausted wnenthe paper duty waa taken off, and then theDajty TelCgtnph entered Into the career which has been so financially successful. Lawson never Interfered with the management of the paper, but left this entirely in the hands of his brother and hte nephew, contenting himself with the bargain by which he received half the annual profits. With these pro flto he bought houses and securities. Whatever he touched turned to gold. If he purchased real estate, it at onoe became more valuable* if he bought he most depreciated of securities they were certain to rise in the market. The amount, of money of which he died possessed must have been something enormous. Although not a genius, he was a shrewd and clever man, and he was a very pleasant companion. I used to know him very well, and although I. never concealed from him my low opinion of the Daily Telegraph as an organ of public opinion, we were always the beet of friends. He cannot be said to have been sordidly stingy, for he never denied himself the beet ol everything, and I really believe that had I told him that £5 would have saved my life he would have given me that sum. But hto mania was to die an exceedingly rich man. I remember that he once came to me to propose that a combination should be entered into between the London papers to orce the First Lord of the Admiralty to take them “out and out,” and not on “sale 4rd return.*’ “But surely, my good friend,” I said, “you make more money already than you know how to spend.” “That” he replied, “to not tue question. There are people who say that if only I live long enough, I shall die the richest commoner in England, but if Smith does not accept the fair risks of trade, he will die richer than me.” I looked at him to see if he were joking, but not at all. H had almost tears in hto eyes at the thought of this possibility. Of death he always had the greatest dread, not from any abstract thought of what might occur to him in another world, but because the grave would bring accumulation to an end. I used sometimes to look at him sadly. Seeing my eyes fixed on him, he would become nervous, and ask me what was the matter? “You are not looking well,” I would say. The blood would at once rush to hto fece. “Look at yourself in a glass,” I would continue, “you are flushed.” When he perceived that this was true, his anxiety would become great, and he would hurry home to put himself in the hands of a physician.

THE PRINCE OF WALES.

Innocent Gossip About England’s Future King. Conway’s London Letter in the Cincinnati C-ommercial. The Prince of Wales has scored several points in the line of popularity this summer, at which one may be the more satisfied because he never aims at popularity. Instead of the rumors of fast flirtation at Trouvllle, or elsewhere, which, in other summers have reached the clubs . and percolated among the people, the gossip this year to all of a healthy, hearty, rustio kind, such as paterfamilias loves to rehearse to his daughter’s as proof that the Prince has sown hto wild oats and that the high character of the throne to safe. The Prince has been picnicking in Devonshire, and yachting and making himself agreeable to humble people. On one occasion while picnicking with artotocratio hosts it is found the cream has been left behind; tea to ready all but that. The Prince espies In a distance another picnicking party, rushes off, and ex. plains to the ladies the melanoholy condition hto party to in. He cries: “We are creamless!” The ladies give him plenty of cream, and knowing to whom they were giving it—for the Prince has a taken way among ladies which would avail him were be only Mr. A Edwards. And now behold the Prince walking o’er moor apd fen, o’er lonely sands by the wild sea waves, bearing a jug full of cream without spilling It! This will remain for some future laureat to plaoe among the Idyls of the— king? or emperor?

The other day the Prince concluded he would like to see the interior of Kent’s Hole, which Is jnst outside Torquay. Popular tradition says tliat the name of the cavern is derived from the circumstance that a dog which went In there once came above the ground in Kent county, about 180 miles away. But the clerioal tradition is that it is a by-way to an unmentionable place where the prince of darkness forges fossil remalus for skepties to fling at Moses. The scientific exploration cavern is under the official superintendence of the geologist Pengeily; and it being necessary that a cave In which human remains are found along with extinct animals, should not be tampered jvith by fanaties, care is taken that parties shall not be admitted to the important part of the cave without Pengelly’s 'permission. Pengeily is nearly always • there, but he happened to be absent when the Prince called. The Prince knew nothing of the regulations; he walked about two miles to the spot; he found there a boy of 16 at the door. As he was entering the boy said, “You can’t go without a candle.’’ “Will you please give me a candle?” asked the Prince. “I am ordered not to give a candle unless Mr. Pengeily tells me, and he is away now.” So spoke the boy, and a fire breathing dragoon could not have been a more effectual guardian ofrthat Hades. The Prinoe asked the boy for a light, lit his cigar, Sve the lad a piece of silver, ana idged back again, no doubt reflecting on Frederick the Great’s definition. “A prinoe is only the first of subjects,” well enough translated in the motto “Ichdien.” Finally, It is pleasant to know tl at the Pnnce of Wales, having sent his sons on a voyage round the world, has gone on his yatch to Copenhagen.

The Indiana State Grange recently held its annual session at Indianapolis.. The reports of the grand officers show the order to be growing and the subordinate granges in a prosperous condition. The Treasurer reported $62,382.62 in the treasury, with all the debts of the order paid. The foliowring' grand officers were elected: Grand Master Aaron Jones, South Bend; Overseer, Nelson Pegg, Randolph county, Leotarer, Harvey D. Scott, Terre Haute; Steward, Senator Moses Poindexter Clarke county.

AGRICULTURAL.

The harvest in Italy fe a fadure this year. Over 50,000 bushels of potatoes have beau brought and shippJdiu Dubuque this foil. ™ ’Hie Maine Farmer estimates that at least 2,UUO acres of sugar bests were raised in that State this year their living by the turpeattn^’inUu^ ** , _ A strong decoction of paibh tree leaves to reported to be a specific for chiekeu cholera; dose, one-half teaspoon fill. > j j * At a recent potato show in England, where nearly L4OG plates were shown, a large number were of American varieties. The winter wheat crops in OsnfraUa. lU., to reported as being in exoeUenl condition, aud without Hemian fly chinch bug or oilier insect pest. Pennsylvania tuts eighty incorporated county agricultural societies thirtv's* representation in its State Board of Agriculture. French formers do not take kindly to scientific agriculture, as the savants understand the term. They cultivate

well and save in eyery posible item of ooe ** Bank upas high as possible around: young frees, both as a.protection agaiust mice and rabbits, and, in case a hard winter kills trees, to keep them alive above the bud. Mr. Bonner paids4o,ooo for Pocahontas, $36,000 for Rams, 33,000 for Dexter, $20,000 for Startle, $16,000 for Edwin Forrest, and $15,000 for Graftou. Total, $160,000. Mr. Soule, of Illinois, has, it to claimed, 200,000 dozen frogs of all ages on au acre and a quarter of land, which he to breeding for Um Chicago and Cincinnati market. TBaymawu, which hatches about 2,000 to the pint, was originally obtained from Lower Canada, and the frogs, which are known as the “gosliu frog,” grow to five and six times *he size of the ordinary frog. Scatter well-rotted oompo6t over the, lawn. Wind thick pasteboard around young trees and daub it over on the outside with gas tar to keep vermfri away. If your orchard or fruit frees stand on low or wetttoh ground backfurrow up to the trees, leaving dead furrows half way between. Give the fruit trees a liberal coat of whitewash to protect the bodies against sudden changes. An Eastern former reoently saw two men attempting to drive a hog by hto house, but the animal was so obstinate that they finally told the: former that, iflhe would for them, they would give him half of the meat. He aooapted the offer with alacrity and not only killed the hog but dressed it, after which the strangers drove away with their half. WheTp. however, he went at nieht to feed his hog he fouod-that tie had killed hto own property, receiving half of it for hto trouble. Over fifty patents have been obobtained for cow-milkere—thirteen In England and forty in America. These machines have been divided into three classes: First, tube-milkers; neooncL sucking} machines; third, mechanical hand-milkers. 'The first are tapers, the second suckers, and the third squeeserq and strippers. {• D. Gilbert, of Elkhart, HI. who exhipited the fat prize ox at the fat cattle show held iu Chicago lari December, gives his mode of feedingyoung animals as follows: “I feed my young cattle just enough to keep them strong through the winter months. After they are two and a half years old. commence feeding corn winter and summer until I send them to market. Attend to them closely and keep them improving from the time they are fed on oorn to the time they leave the form. Generally fed from eight to twelve months ou corn. Intend from this time to feed a year younger, and send one year sooner to market. Think I can get my steers at thirty months old to weigh 1,700 pounds. This course will pay much better than to keep * them until thirty-six to forty-two months, and get au average of 2,000 to 2,100 pounds out of the cattle.” The Cultivator says: “Fall plowing to practiced largely in gardens to work iu manure for the early orops of next year, such as onions, radishes, oabbages, lettuce, etc. Manure plowed under at this season makes the land work mellow and dry very early the following spring—points of very great importance to the early bird who wishes the first worm. In some of the sandy plain lands there will be hollows which* are apt to work wet in spring. It to a good plan, in the fall, to dig a hole in such places about four feet deep, so that the water in spring may rapidiv drain into the subsoil; the holes can be filled 1 in a few momenta in spring and tbeland be ready several days sooner than it otherwise would be.” T

The Pathan.

All The Yea* Round. Fee. mere brutality aud roughness the people of Afghanistan have up rivals in the woMd. Though they may be the most pious of Moslemj they discriminate among the injunctions of the Prophet. To exterminate the Infidel is a duty weloomed with enthusiasm, but the command to bathe is quietly ignored. It may be regarded as an invasion of private life not to be tolerated by any independent Pathan. Accordingly, he does not wash his lace in a month, his body never. His great hmd has never known the comb. His clothing of felt or sheepskin is generations old. No savage half human, is so dirty, none so shameless In .vice. Ij °°king on those ferocious giants, one must shudder to think of their forefathers' part in history. Imagine their {onrush upon the delicate people of India, kke a swooping of fetid vultures In *agine the sack of Delhi by these brutes. I have seen the worst savages of every continent, and I aver that there are none so hideous as the Pathan. In his eye, Urge but his marked featurtran&set mouth, the gentle feelings of humanity not ? trace of expression. The child scowls and strikes; the man has no thought but of plunder and blood.. His laugh is ready enough a hoarse rude guffaw, which shows the biaek fangs through his unkempt beard: but no one ever saw the Affehan peasant smile. : ' l

An Intractable Princess.

Princess Victoria, eldest daughter of Queen Victoria, and now the Crown Princess of Germany, was, wbefe. a child, rather intractable. A certain physician, who was often culled to Windsor, was always familiarly addressed by the child princess as “Brown,” and no teaching, pemnreinn or threat by the Queenoouldindues her to give him any prefix to the pie “Brown.” At Ugth formed that when next she efftadad - she would be sent to bed. Next day be physician came, and area mtCtoa by the little prinawa vritk, morning, Brown; and gtwdwLto %na Brown, for I’m off to qfcfe