Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1869 — Page 1

TUB lENSSEUER DNION.j Pubtithed Every Thurtduy by HORACE E. JAMES, I l JOSHUA HEALEY, f Proprietors.* omc “ ~r,,“ 'T E: Sab«crl»tUa, fj a Year, la Advance. a. __ JOB WORK P. f klnd executes to order In (jood itjle ud at low rauM.

Jpoctrg. THE 80 NO OF THE ANVIL. rt ra.iimno. * Wrrnra tke nllar* amlthy Right merrily! rim*. And nndar the atroke of the hammor ’ w ' ♦ A tnnnfnl tong I slug. Bad glow* tha wlda-monthad furnace, Tha heaving .billows roar—- •' '• Yarn nan haalTkalr hnga laaga panting <- Ontalda tha opaa dear. The amlth la atalwart and ftlghtjHa Ufta hla aladga on high, Than lata It fid I on tha Iron, And tha aparka all roand him fly. With a ready rotee I answer, And cheer him with my'song ; 1 sing ta him while he labors— I slag to him all day long. His arm Is brawny and powerful, Its strepgth fall well I know; He strikes with an earnest purpose, And heavily falls hla blow. The children stand In the doorway, For they love to saa him swing Hla sledge across his shoulder, Whllscheerlly I sing. Mr voice goes ont to the vlllago; Yon can hear It far away, f As I cheer the smith la his labor 1 * Through all the live-long day. ' With every blow from hla hammer An answering note I sound, That over again Is repeated Whenever an echo Is fonnd. Oh, ye who are sorely smitten By the iron hand of fate, Abide yonr time in patience, ’ Ye have not long to wait. Oh, young man, eager and hopeful, Oh, young man, valiant ana strong, When the blows fall fast and thickest Hake answer with a song I —Packai-d't Monthly for May.

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FORTY SHILLINGS AND COSTS. I bad bean fill day trying to get from ATeminater to Ohelchester by a country line, a London line, and a branch line of railway. In the first place, as the country line only ran three trains a day, passenger and goods together, necessitating weary shuntings at every station, we could hardly be said to have made a good start. In the next place, the strategic arrangement whereby the London line managed invariably to start its trains five minutes before the arrival of the “up ’’-country train, making us wait for two hours at Marlbary Junction, to spite the country com pany, scarcely tended to rapid progress. In the third place as ft always happens to be the aim of a traffic-manager to endeavor to drive passengers on to the main line, and to visit with all possible retributive delays the hostile British public when it will travel on a branch, we could not be considered to have made up for the lost time on the branch. In the fourth place, it didn’t help ns forward to be compelled to travel one hundred and twenty-seven miles round about in a parabola, in order to reach Ohelchester, which, at starting, was only fifty-eight mites from Aveminster .In the fifth and last place, we were not got te Ohelchester yet; and it would have -been money in my pocket if I never had. i “Swlnbro’—Swinbro’. Change here lor Marchmont and Nntohley. Change time for a Change, I reflected, nonsidering I had been nine hoars out on a tourney of fifty-eight miles, and was stuLfer off from my destination. Look ingout from my window of a firstnUss compartment, I saw it was a cheerless, drizzling night, and the railway porters were, streaming in the misty air as they harried to and fro past the gleam of the lamps. Remonstrating with the guard re specting our train being an boor Tate, and the time past eteYon it night, he soothed my irritation by telling me gruffly I had no business ou a branch line if 1 wanted to go anywhere; and if I would go to out of-the-way places like Ohelchester, I must be very thankful if the company put themselves to Use expense of taking me there at all, considering branches didn’t pay to work as a rule. A solitary passenger then entered my carriage, or rather was banged Into it by the guard. Another minute, and the guard had banged himself into his van, emitting the growl; “Change here I” Our fiery and restive iron stead, no doubt weary with its headlong career of full twelve miles an hoar, gave a heroic neigh * Of triumph, resembling a feeble crow, iu emulation of past exploits, in days long before it was condemned to transportation on a branch, and dragged us off into the bleak night. My Companion was a tall, thin, middle aged man, with a face lean and withered like a shrivelled apple, concluded below theebin by a stiff satin cravat. In a dress, tight-fitting, and of ancient and faded black, be looked altogether like a man who had run very much- to seed, which perhaps accounted for the luxuriant growth of his arms and legs. Observing nil clothes steaming with the damp air, 1 began to realize it was very chilly. It certainly was. “Quite a change In the weather,” I remarked, “ Very cold to-night, is It not t" “Don’tfeel the cold myself. Perhaps volt Would like to change places with me. There is no draught here/ I replied I should be very pleased to d<f SO, if not to his inconvenience; end accordingly we changed seats. It i tas cold, and no mistake. 1 must have taken a chill, for ITelt the cold creeping over me in a most unaccountable manLooklng at my companion on the opposite seat, on whom the lamp light now shone full, I saw that his face was not so thin, nor his features so withered, as I had * u ßPooed-; and I must have made a mistake as to his age, for ho was by no °,l d “I had previously judged. How cold it was to: be sore I As I contoo look at him, I noticed his aspect Chanc«d momently—that ho was growing 5 thht the wrinkles hi hla face were filling out and smoothing down; and that he was gradually becoming like some one I had seen before. As Yds cheek! grew rouud and ruddy, end his hair chagead from gray to brown, before my tjj/cyai, I became in such a state of nßjrpns agitation, J radewored to cry out, but oonld not. I was paralyzed with the Oblfi, —sold that seemecLAo -make my* limbs rjatd, sod numb my Vitals; for I saw the manrptnigjpefort me was no longer a stranger—no more friend or the sight, anfafl did- So, sew that they 'themon^c^brow, tefeeeif and puckered. And! knew tkft this man, t

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„ —.— ---- this fiend, had stolen my body, and given me his. Maddened with the discovery, I rose to my feet, —Am feet,—which swayed beneath me, and I struck wildly at the vision of myself on.tho other seat. Bat I fonnd my arms light as vapor, for they passed over his body, which went through them, giving me the impression of pain. It was a body of shade that had been givon me for my own body cf flesh and blood, which this wretch had stolen. By some sorcery or other, ws had indeed changed places. “ Sorcerer-demon I" I cried out, only to hear myself speaking with his sharp, cracked voice. When I saw mytdf sitting opposite to me coolly addressing me in my own voice, I could no longer credit my senses, if indeed I had any of them at all left of my own. “ Dare say you think you are speaking loud now,” he said. I answered by calling the guard as loudly as I could halloo. “Ah, you might call a good deal louder than that, if the carriage were full of passengers, and they could no more hear you than they could see you,” he continued, chuckling, and screwing up my features into a hiaeously -knowing grin, such as I could never have made them assume. “ You see, my friend, yours is a body of air, of shadow, insensible, impalpable to all but myself just as It was to all but you when I entered the carriage. You wish, per haps, to know who I am? Well, two years ago to-night, I was a passenger by this very up-mail. There was a collision with a stupid down-goods, you see, and the result was that several passengers were injured. One ul them was—well, itfl'no use mincing matters —killed on the spot. Quite so: it was I. Yes, I am what you call a ghost, though we consider the word rather infra dig. amongst ourselves, and have a better term for it. Now I have told yon what I am, you will like to know what I want? Very good. You shall tee.’’ The ghost in my body then began to feel in my pockets, from which he drew out my meerschaum, loaded it from my pouch, and lighted it with one of my Vesuvians. “ Ah," he proceeded, whiffing the weed rapidly, “ you smoke very good stuff,— Golden Leaf and Returns; not a bad mixture, though I prefer a little Latakia with it myself. Not at all a bad body yours, either,” he went on, eying the form in which he was sitting,—” not at all a bad body; and it fits me to aT, only a little short in the arms. By the Way, I find one of your front teeth a little loose, so don’t say I did that, when you come to yourself again; and your nose is a little long for me, bat I dare say it blows none the worse for that” I shuddered as I saw him take out my handkerchief, add nse it on that cherished organ of mine. “ Yes, I dare sav now you feel the cold a little; I did at'first; but it’s nothing when you are used to it. I find your body very hot,—being heavier than lam ac oustomed to wear -, bnt it won’t be for long. I require it ‘ positively for this night only,’ as you say in your playbills, and will return it uninjured by the time we get to Ohelchester. By. the by, let me beg you to be a little careful how you throw your arms about so much as you did just now, for my body is of a more delicate construction than yours: and, being so thin in substance, I am afraid you will scag it under the armpits. You will observe, ladies and gentlemen,” he went on in lecturer’s style, “ that if I take a lighted Yesuvian and insert it in the cornea of the patient's eye, he will feel no pain.” Saying this, my dreadful companion proceeded to illustrate his remark by making a dive at my shadowy eye with a burning match. 1 felt no pain as the match burned in mv head, certainly. “ You will allow, after all you see, that my shape has its advantages,” the ghost proceeded; “ bnt it also has its disadvantHng«s. Try the pipe now.” I tried to take the pipe; it dropped through my vapory lingers. He placed it in my mouth; ! could not hold it, nor get a whiff from it “Precisely so,” said the ghost. “Now, this is just what has brought me here tonight A great smoker all my life, doing my six pipes a day regularly, I have been defunct these two years—and during all that time I haven't had a smpke I—not a blessed draw t I miss my ’hacco dreadful. There is provision made for smokers, down with us, you will understand; but we are governed by a Board of Directors, whose incapacity quite equals that of most of vour City Boards. There is a stock of bodies kept on purpose for smokers, so that, if you want a pipe, you must go into one of the bodies to enjoy it. But, if you will believe me, the supply is so notoriously insufficient to meet the demand, that there ia no chance whatever for a new ghost to get a smoke. When I entered the Society, all the bodies were out in use, and booked for three years in advance. My name has been down on the books for two years, and there is no likelihood of my getting a body allotted me under an other twelvemonth. Fancy two years without a smoke! Why, sir, the incomrstence of our Board is positively wooden. can only explain the reason why we put up with such gross mismanagement in the other world, because we have become so used to it in this. Opr constitutions, how ever, are being undermined to that extent that the Board has at last been coerced by popular feeling into passing a measure empowering ghosts to render themselves visible to single individuals at wtime in order tbat they may effect an exchange of bodies for short periods, always with the consent of the person in question, for the purpose of Indulging in a habit which the directors' cannot, however, but characterize as pernicious and injurious.’ Under this new act I obtained yonr body.” “ You never had my consent, fiend I” I cried. “ It is vulgar to call names, my friend,” the ghost replied, smoothing my mustache with my fingers; “but you are trifling. Tasked you to change places with me, and you agreed, as you must be well aware. But, aear mo, here we are,at Ohelchester; however, I mutt finish my pipe—think of two years, and not a blessed draw, my friend!” The train was pulling up. My companion leaned out of window, puffing feat and furious. “Plenty of time to change bodies," he said; "it shall be done in an Instant as soon as the train stops.” And he continued leaning out, and whiffing away great clouds of smoke, till-wo came to the platform. He hurriedly knocked out the ashes of the tobacco on the door-rail* as the guard cried: “Change here—change here; all change here, If you pleare.” A sudden glow of warmth seemed to pass over me as I rubbed my eyes, and found, to my great delight* my own smooth hands against my very own nn-

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I was greatly surprised, when I got on the-platform, at being asked for xpy card by a very officious person; still more so, on receiving a magistrate’s summons in the mornthg. The officious person deposed that he was the Secretary of the Anti-tobacco Alliance, and applied for a conviction against the undersigned, under one of the by-laws of the company, for smoking in a railway carriage, the property of the D. E. F. G. Company, contrary to their regulations. He declared to have seen me (only think I) —me leaning out of the carriage as it came into theChelchester Station, smoking a meerschaum pipe! The guard gave evidence that the carriage certainly smelled very strongly of tobacco on arriving at Ohelchester, ana that I was the only first class passenger. A meerschaum pipe, answering the offioioua person’s description, was found on my person. Case was clear. Fined forty shillings and costs. Nay, more: the case of smoking in a railway carriage has been gibbeted at all the stations on the line—where I am hung up as a caution and warning to the British public, in a solemn black frame, with my name and address, and the amount of the penalty enforced, at fall length 1 It would have been useless to attempt to dispnte the case before the magistrates. It is something to have set one’s self right with the public.— Chambers' Journal.

President Grout’s Administration.

Tun appointments thus far made, and the general course pursued by President Grant, have given a distinctive tone and character to his administration, of which we may already speak with confidence, though some time will be required for the development of comprehensive and thorough reforms in all departments of the government First and foremost it is clear that President Grant has no theory tbat it is his duty to distribute the offices, as the rain falls, equally on the just and on the unjust; to J?lace those who support the principles of equal rights to all men, on which he was elected, on the same basis as those who still cling to the lost cause. In nominating General Longstreet, formerly a rebel, but now a Republican, to be Collector of Customs in New Orleans, and the colored Mr. Pinchback, of Loui sian, to a minor office in the same State, as well as in the nomination of colored men for a leading Post Office in South Carolina, for Justice of the Peace at Washington, and for Ministers of Hayti and Liberia, President Grant has shown that he desires to recognize neither color nor past participation in the Rebellion if followed by earnest conversion to the principles of freedom as any bar to office or preferment. This is a broad, sound basis on which to conduct the government in the future, and we are heartily glad that President Grant has so promptly acted upon it There is a possibility of overdoing magnanimity so as to defeat justice; but as yet the President has not exposed himself to that charge. Every appointment thus far made has commended itself to the party that placed General Grant in power, frogi a party point of view. The repeated predictions thrown out before the election, that the Republican party had nominated a mailed sphynx, a political enigma, which would yet prove to be a Democratic President, have all vanished under the first six weeks of Grant’s administration. No retrogade ideas have been urged upon Congress, though the President has not been slow in adding the weight of his name and power to important measures tending toward peace and justice, which had been de, nounced as ultra-radical. The vigor with which be has pushod the Fifteenth (universal suffrage) Amendment to the Constitution will, doubtless, secure its passage a year or two earlier than coaid have been done without his aid. This done, and the Union restored on its basis, the mission of Rsdicallliß, so far as the negro question is concerned, is ended forever. So fer from Grant proving a Democratic or nentral President, he has put his shoulder vigorously to the wheel to consummate the complete triumph of Republican prln tittles. The disciples of Copper-Johnsonism are in as fall flight ont of office' as the rebels were out of Richmond at the news of Five Forks. The same unostentatious signature which signed the acceptance of Lee’s surrender is assigning the Johnsonites to private life and obscurity. They go like the dead. The places that but yesterday knew them now know them no more. In his Cabinet, as in other appointments, many judge that the President has come short of that masterly sagacity and perfect knowledge of men which characterized his military appointments as a Gen craL “ Then," say they, “he did nothing from favor; he refused trading permits to his relatives and special friends as promptly as to all others. Now he appoints many officers on the basis of admitted personal obligation,” though in most cases the fitness of the appointment in itself is not seriously disputed. Then he brought forward no men who were feilnres, ana many who were great successes, while every man whom he branded as a charlatan or humbug proved to be so in the long run. It is not to be expected that he should be equally successful in his civil career. As a soldier he roee step by step from the lowest round to the highest, and learned his way as he traveled over it Asa civilian, he is thrust at once to the topmost round, and before he haa-time to study he most act. We doubt if any civilian has . bad a much better preparation than he for the Presidency, but his preparation is leas thorough than for the chief command of the army. In his Cabinet appointments there was a hitch which very few lawyers would have avojded. In looking for the ablest practical financier in the country, for the Treasury Department, he selected one whom an obscure statute prevented from filling the offioe. Foiled by the technical difficulty, he selected another candidate in deference, it may be said, to the views of Congress, as a whole, though Informally expressed. Mr. BoutwfU commands the confidence thus fer of the country. His parity is without taint. His abilities in Treasury affairs remain to be tested. Strong attache have been made upon Mr. Boris* both on the ground of inexperience and ill-health. A still more severe ground of objection has bees that his only claim to distinction beyond other reepeMkbto mercantile gentlemen is that he was prominent iu presenting General Grant wKh a house in Philadelphia. Should these objections be fraud to impair his the President will, doubtless, apply the rale he has an-, nounced for all cases, and promptly request him to resign. President Qtknt’s course, especially relative to the Temiraof-QflUg law, hwbeen characterized by thejßOnifl tood®&tion |na prudent Judgment * which distinguished him as a commander. He has aimed at

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substantial remits, not to vindicate personal vanity or dignity. The tone of his administration has been progressive yet conciliatory. All men respect his motives, and the country generally is willing to await, in conflaence and hope, the frill resalts of his action. We believe Us civil administration, like his military career, may meet with a Belmont or Shiloh at the first, but it will come to a Vicksburg, Chattanooga and Appomattox in the and.—Chicago Tribune, HWA.

Democracy and Imperialism.

Every ism, however insane, whether religious or political, has its organ, as well as its adherents. No absurd conceit can be presented to the public without meeting with some fevor. The proofh of this are as abundant as sand on the deaert The latest example of thia ia a movement in New York in favor of imperialism. The seventh chnse of the seventh section of the first artide of the National Constitution declares, in defining the power of Congress: “No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States, and no person holding office of profit or trust under them shall, without the consent of Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince or foreign State.” Something over a year ago, we were informed by a prominent member of Congress, that numerously signed petitions had been sent to Congressmen, praying for the repeal of this danse. The main reason assigned was that the pnblic debt presented this issue: Either imperialism or repudiation. No attention was paid to these petitions. The next move of this class of fanatics was to start a newspaper. Several repudiation organs have been 8 tar ted, why should not the opposite; extremists have their organ f We have for some rime been expecting it. And where bnt in New York should such a publication be issued f That city is the headquarters of what may be raffed the. bonded aristocracy. Augnstßelmont is at once the prince of bondSblders, and the Chairman of the National Democratic Executive Committee. In the hollow of one hand he holds the machinery of that party, in the other more “ Governments ” than any other live man. Each hand now has an organ. That of the latter is known oath*lmperialist. This association of the name of Democracy with aristocratic power is no new thing. For a generation the slaveholding aristocracy ruled rids country in that specious name. A system worse than feudalism, worse even than imperialism as fonnd in France, in Russia, or in all history, had absolute oontrol over the so-called Democratic party, and through that party controlled oar national politic* until the crisis of the rebellion put an end to it. The cost in blood and treasure of overthrowing that imperialism was incalculable, yet it was • national blessing, even at the price paid. As a blind, thia organ of Belmont and Company adopts as its motto Louis Napoleon’s famous “The Empire ia peaoe,” and Grant’s still more famous battle cry of the late campaign, “ Let ns have peace." This attempt to couple together the perfidious Emperor and the patriot President is a transparent sham. No one is deceived by the trick. The movement is the frantic death straggle of'the expiring Democracy. That corrupt party practically confesses its utter defeat. Under a republican form of government it can never again practice the imperialism of the past Its only hope Is in some desperate change. We can hardly believe that any person really expects the formal overthrow of this Republic, either by a grand coup d'etat, or by any other means; bnt as the Democrats have nothing to lose, the imperial leaden, with Well street as their royal road to power, hazard nothing In putting forth such sentiments as these : " Let the bondholders look to it. If they would ever again eea a dollar of the mllliona poured with cheerful hoarta and willing haada Into the Treaaurr, when the life of tha nation waa threatened ; if they would aee their Juat claims agatnat this ungrateful Republic liquidated In honeet gold; If they would save the profits of their frugality and tndnatry from oonilaeation by tha ignorant and prejudiced mob, let them no longerhng the delusive fancy tbat the debt of the United States will over be paid until we have a Government that shall be ‘everything for the people, but nothing by the people.’ To them the empire offers the only pledge of security that la worth the paper on which it la written.” While Belmont & Go., as Democrats, beve nothing to lose, they have as bondholders, interests that should not be tampered with, and such atrocious sentiments as the above do them far more hurt than all the sophistry of Pendleton, Brick Pomeroy and that class But as Belmont fraternized with the open friends of repudiation last fell, we were prepared for any suicidal folly, even thia spasm of imperialism.— Chieago Journal.

Corry O'Lanus on the Velocipede.

Managing the velocipede if just u easy u (hating, when yon know now to dolt It takes yon a little time to learn how. All you Hare got to do la to keep the velocipede op and keep it going. Yon can’t do eltHSr of these separately, and have to do them both at ones. Which makes it difficult Became if the velocipede stops it falls down. At the same time if it falls down it will ■top. - The first law of vdocipedestrianlsm is motion. On the beautiful philosophical principle that necessitates the perpetual motion of the planetary bodiea comets, eclipseegffieteors, aurora boreeliaea, and things which are continually going on. Or like a man’s credit, the moment it ■tops running he goes up. ' Only in the case of the velocipede he goes down. First, you must start the velocipede before you mount, then jump on while it is running. If you have had any practice asa circus rider this comes easy enough. All you have to do then uto catch the pedals with your feet, and keep the wheel revolving. Steering In very esay, when you get accustomed to it; all you have to do la to turn the wheel the way you want to go, and you’ll go it You moat not, however, go -upon the principle that one good tom deserves another, because too many turns may wind up with an overturn. Any apeed maybe attained by Increasing the velocity of the velocipede, which isaone by a lively agitation of the driving wheel The more revolutions you make the Aster vou will so. H The next thing after driving and atearIngis to learn to manage the brake. The brake la very useful, and must be looked after. It is neoaaary in order .to keep the ' ■ ■' *••

mad wheel from running fester than the front wheel, and putting the machine ont A painful accident happened recently at Chicago through a neglect of the brake. A man was ranningarace on time,and was going at the rate of three miles a minute. The hind wheel kept gaining on the front wheel and in the attempt to pass it made the velocipede torn e somerset. The rider was thrown ahead, the velocipede went over him. I would advise yon not to bny a velocipede till yon have learned to ride. Yon can get lessons with the nse of a velocipede for twenty dollars a quarter. A robust and daring rider can knock twenty dollars' worth of damage out of a velocipede in a week. To say nothing of personal damage to hie own anatomy, which ia at his own risk. Bnt don’t be discouraged by such trifles as a braised ankle or a dialocated shoulder. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.

Grant’s Felicity of Language.

He exhibits at times a rare felicity of language. His woroa generally come slowly, but they are always to the point, and when analysed his speech often proves eloquent. His dispatches abound in terse, significant expressions, like the response to Buckner: “No terms other than an unconditional and immediate aoirender can be acoepted. I propose to move immediately upon yonr works” “ I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer,” fi historical “Let ns have peace," uttered by the head of the army, became the watchword of a party. His famous letter to Andrew Johnson on the removal of Sheridan is Rive with earnestness: and his remarks to President Linooln, upon receiving command of the armies, are a model of chaste and manly eloquence. “Mr. President, I accept the commission with gratitude for the high honor conferred. WRIT the aid of the noble armies that have fought on so many fields for our common country, It will be my earnest endeavor’ not to disappoint yonr expectations. I feel the. frill weight of the responsibilities now devolving on me; and I know ff they are met. it will be dus to those armies, and above all, to the fevor of that Providenc which leads both nations and men.” Take, again, the short speech he made when he received the nomination for the Presidency: “I shall have no policy of my own to enforce against the will of the people:”—a sentiment full of wisdom and patriotism, and at the same time the severest rebuke of the President who strove so hard to force his policy upon an unwilling people. At Galena, when his election was announced,he proclaimed: “ The responsibilities of the position I feel, bat accept them without fear;” while in hi* inaugural are opinions worthy to become maxims of public and international law. The truth V that few men who call themselves orators have made better or more effective speeches than he who has made so few, who never speaks till he has something to say, bnt upon due occasions always has something to say that is pertinent and forcible.— Atlantic Monthly for May.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Gxoss behaviour—Getting fab Tele best substitute for silver—Gold. The oldest woman’s club—The broomstick. Tan Boston Pott calls a pillow a soothing nap-sack. Fumo^Democrats(»ll the PrincelmIt n thought the wheat crop of Calinia will be nausually large this year. Why is a room frill of married people empty t Because there is not a single person in it A Cincinnati lady on her tax return, “ taxation without regimentation is tyranny.” A Young lady in California broke her neck while resisting the attempt of a young man to kiss her. Thb strongest kind of a hint—A young lady asking a gentleman to see if one of her rings would go on his little finger. Aclwgykan who had been accused of preaching long sermons, excused him self on the ground that the church was a large one. A writes, describing one of the engagements in the late war, gives the following interesting item. “In this battle we lost the brave Captain Smith. A can-non-ball took off his head. His last words were,' Bury me on the spot where I felL’ ” Meyerbeer left several compositions sealed, which, by his will, are never to be opened unices his family has need of farther resources. In spite of his great wealth, he was always haunted by the fear that Us family would some day come to Want. In one of Cooper’s novels occurs the following passage: “He dismounted in front of the house and tied his horse to a large locust” A French author, in translating this passage, renders it thus: “He descended from nls horse in front of the chateau and tied Urn to a large grasshopper. A xan in Brooklyn was thrown from Us wagon recently, and seemingly died. He was laifi In his coffin, and when his friends were about to bury him, he awoke with a shudder, and walked about the room. He said he was conscious of all that was passing but was unable to make a sign of life. Mb* often loee opportunles by want of self confidence. Doubts and fears in the minds of some rise up over every event and they fear to attempt what meet probably will be sneoemftti, through mere timoronsness, while a brave, active man will, with perhape half the ability, carry the enterprise to a prosperous termination. The afternoon New York service nsnal at Christ Church was on a recent Sunday the scene ora novel feature. The organ suddenly stopped In thrfmidat of a hymn, and not another note was heard from it daring the entire exerciMe. Upon inquiry It was ascertained that the organist had taken offense at something done by one of the officiating clergymen daring the service, and abruptly ton the char ah. In Greenfield, N. H., a few days ago, a man add Us son, aged respectively about 70 and 18, were called upon by about thirty men and boys, and treated to a ride upon a rail, a distance of about one and one-half mile, for the offence of abusing the wife and mother. They were made to take tarns; while one rode the other carried one end of the rail, and *m* wpm.

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They were acoompenled In their mar-g by music from fife end drum, tin pew, Ac. Tun Vienna Medical Time* tells the following : “ Last week, at the clinic, in the presence of a daw of students, an operation of the stomach waa performed by Professor Billroth. The operation was gone through with and the stomach was properly sewed up. On the next day the patient died. A poet mortem examination showed in the re-opened stomach a large epongei which had been used in the operation, and which the operators had forgotten to remove.” It may be important for some people to know that, where % widow re-marries before the issue of a pension certificate, the children, if any are living, are alone entitled to the back pension. If a widow re marries during the pendency of her claim for pension, she is entitled to the pension to the date of her re-marriage, unless the soldier left minor children surviving him. Hbhlock, to which Socrates and Fhocion were said to owe their death, is now pronounced by eminent toxicologists, to be no poison at all. Sixty grains of tincture of hemlock were recently administered to a young woman without any apparent effect, ana a person, after a dose of 34 grains of the pure juice of the leaves of hemlock, only experienced a slight muscular numbness, which pasMd off alts an hour. A'bwahm of bees and a bountiful store of wild honey were recently found in a tree by woodchoppers on the west side of the Sierra Nevada mountains. The incident is recorded as the first discovery ot the kind on the Pacific slope. There were no wild bees beyond the Sierras when that portion of the country was first occupied by emigrants from the Atlantic seaboard; but it was soon discovered that bees imported from the States thrived well, and several persona who engaged early in this business acquired large fortunes from the production of honey for the markets. Molded bread, meat, cheese, or any other eatable, is an actual poison, whether inhaled or eaten. One kind of mold causes the fatal ship-fever. The mold in damp cellars causes various grades of typhoid fever, diarrhea, dysentery, etc. Recent chemical researches and microscopic observation seem to show that miasm is nothing more or less than a mold, and that this mold is, in reality, a cloud of living things, each too small to be seen by the naked eye, and are drawn into the lungs, swallowed with the saliva, incorporated with the food eaten, and by being absorbed into the blood, are sufficient to cause all grades of deadly fevers; elevated or dry localities are wholly exempt.—Afechange.

Speech sf Mr. Joab Whittle In Squawk* boro Tows Meeting, on the Subject of Building a School-house.

Mr. Moderator— l want to say a word about this ’ere new school-’ns. Mom everybody has had their say, and now I’d like to have mine. I can’t set, as I have sot for the past tew hoars, and see the people’s money flung away on a new school-’us without saying a word agin it If I understand the matter right, it is proposed to spend tew thousand dollars. And what fur, Mr. Moderator t To set up a high scbool-’us, and teach the boys and girls of Squawkboro a lot of highfalutin stuff that will only make them imperdent and sassy. When I went to school and got my lamin’, all I studied was the three R’s—read in’, ritin' and ’ rithmetic; and that is plenty enough for anybody to lam, and two much for a gal. It is easy enough for men to get up a town meetur and vote away fete thousand at a lick; bat bow long would it take them to am that money themselves? In my opinion, Mr. Moderator, there is too much money locked in public buildings already. Look at the meetln’ ’uses in Squawkboro’! four , and any one on ’em is big enough to hold ail the people that goes to the hull on ’em. How can a town ever get ahead that has so much capital locked up in mootin' ’uses? And every one on ’em callin' the other Bimeet Suppose this vote passes—whar are ye agoin’toputyournewachool-’ua? There’ll be a puzzler for ye! I ’spose Squire Snukes will try his pootiest to nave it built on his five-sere lot; and somehow the people of this town think they must dew jut as the 'squire tells ’em, because he was sent to Gineral Court one term. But I can tell you, Mr. Moderator, that if the school-’us is put on that lot, it will be playin’ a mean thing on the children that live up ovar by Shinner’t Pond, and them that live up by Silas Doozenberry’a They can’t come to school only when the inn shines. And I don’t want the thing built anywhere near my place. I know what it is to live near the school-’us. I don’t want my apples and peaches hooked, or my fences hacked np by boys, to say nothin’ about the winders broken by base balls and sich. Mr. Moderator, we’ve got along all these years without this schopl-’us”; why can’t we get along fifty years more ? Why agitate this peaceful town of Squawkboro’ from one eend to t’other about sd testin' a parcel of boys and gals that know a sight more than their payrents do already ? Tete thousand dollars l My gracious, Mr. Moderator I Jest think of tew thousand dollars all to wonst! Jest think of the town debt now, and then plcter to yourselves what it will be with tew thousand more piled onto it Look forrard a hundred and years, and see our children’s children a groanin’ under the taxes this ’ere schoolw will bring upon ’em. Why, sir, I got our minister to Agger up what tow thousand dollars would be if divided ekally among the inhabitants of Squawkboro, and it come to three and ninepenee apifOt! Yes, Mr. Moderator, three and ninqpence apiece! Why, sir, it is only s year since the town went to the expense of two hundred mid fifty dollars to build a hearts house, and not a livin' person in Squaw kbore’ needed it But there it is built, and elands there unopened week after week, hardly any use for it. As I said before, I cant set still and see the hard-earned money ot the people flnng away on hearse-houses and school houses without gittin’ up and utterin’ my voice agin it Mr. Moderator, I shall vote agin this appropriation, and I hope every liberalminded, whole-souled man will do the same.— Wm. L. Williams, in OUter Optie's Magatino. -~-A correspondent of the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle says that the beet way to renovate old apple trees is to commence with a good pruning, then scrape off all the loose bark and moss; give the tree e longitudinal incision through the bark, wash the whole with a strung solution of eoap and water with lime added, and give a good working out with a digging fork around the roots' as for m they extend. Spread lime and ashes broadcast around the tree.

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Sceantoe, Penn., has four perteffieea. Female barbers ere oomlag into ftefafcm in London. 1 . ;i si jl Tnna is an editor in Paris whe>,hea fought 00 duels. fvm Americans are on the Russian railroad staff jsjssfisysas?* —^ The great German oculist, Yon Grub, has a professional income Of f lQOjlNf a year. >- Tun emigration to Kansas this spring is said to be withoqfcpreoedaatin-the-his-tory of the State. „ . , In Tonltunne county, Cel, there has been laid an iron water pipe, 8,800 bet long and 11 inohes in diameter. A Bridgeport (Conn.) cartridge company has received an order from' Spain for ton millions of cartridges. Juarez, the Mexican President, is 88 years old, bat does not look to he over 40. He has one son and six daughters, The Empress of Austria kissed over 100 babies while journeying through Croatia, and smiled upon their mothers. ’ w ~ lx England clergymen may be trsnaported for fourteen years far marrying people after 18 u. without special lieemse. Texas has now within her borders more than 8.000,000 head of cattle, and can export annually 1,000,000 beeves, A company for the manufacture of artificial limbs has been formed at jPtttsburgh, and every member of theOrtftoizaiion has lost a leg. It is said that the trees pleated by one lowa firmer have raised the vAlue of adjoining lands from five to ten dollars par acre. A New York miller compelled his son, aged 14 years, to make the preliminary arrangements to his suicide, and then deliberately killed himself. j > Teortt-two thousand five hundred and eighty-six emigrants arrived at Mew York, from Jan. Ito April 7. Last year for the same time the number was 29,889. Tee value of Canadian cattle imported into the United States during the first throe months of 1888 was s2Bß,2Bß—nearly double the value of those Imported daring the same period of 1888. t.. . : ; a An English chemist, after a careful analysis of “ golden-hair fluids,” asserts that they are composed of diluted nitric and muriatic adds, with traces, in some instances, of sulphuric add. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided that farmers who have their grain manufhotusd into floor, and then sell the flour in any manner, mkst pay * license to the Government. The Planter'e Banner earn that the planters of Louisiana will make as much again rice in 1889 as they made last year. The crop last year was 821,911,844 sacks. A sack contains 180 pounds.. The oldest house in the United States retaining its original form is to be found in Neponset, Maaa It was built by John Minot about the year 1840, and is still In good repair. The family still hold possession of it. A* Cornwall, Vt, recently, William Hurlbnt starved himself to death. He waa seventy yean of age, a bachelor, and wortheome #3,000; but having, lest f 180 through robbery, he became despondentafraid of coming to poverty. Mrs Beecher Stowe gives np her Florida plantation, as she bought it at a military tax sale, which holds not good, and the former owner makes successful claim—paying Mrs. Stowe the price she paid for the estate. Tee Clinton (La) Democrat that quantity of tea leaves from the Chinese toepiant grown in his garden to more than suffice for the requirement of his household. Ie Maine, daring the pert season jmice have done greet damage. Millions of young fruit trees have been killed, young forest trees injured, and grass rained. In a Dixfleld orchard containing 1,800 grafted frees, only about five hundred con be saved. A |2BO dzakohd ring wm lort from a lady’s frank, broken in banditti r, at the Cleveland depot, a few days sines On going to look for it, she found a party •weeping the floor, who had swept the ring some fifty feet without discovering It One of the Philadelphia papers sold 95,000 copies of the edition containing an account of the suicide of Twitehel! and the hanging of Eaton, and the demand for a morning journal was so great that it was reprinted on the following morning. Ruby valley, in Nevada, is so-celled on account of the immaiue number of rubies found in the sands of the mountain streams flowing through it These gems, though very beautiful and perfect, are too small to be merchantable, the largest only being of the size of a pin-head. Maem.ee, the German astronomer, has measured the heighth ofl,oßß mountains in the moon. Twenty-two of tbaae ere higher than Mount Blanc, which is within a few feet of being three miles high, and stE are above 19,000 feet The highest observed mountain ia the moon is 24,944 feft. Th*> number of bankruptcies in Bugland last year was 9.106, an increase of 201 over the year previous Daring the year dividends woe paid in 1,714, but ia 8,489 there were no dividends. The gross proceeds realized from bankrupt estates bankruptcy courts amountoS*tofiß7Rooß. A »ntE near the Cape ot Good Hops caused by the long continued heat rad drouth,devastatede ttsrt of <»*Wtty4oo os Uea long, end varvingin breadth from 15 to 180 mlk*. Tie me broke out on the 9th of February, when the heat UmEqjhohtt^^yj^B^^erae I: •*"*everprevlooalyknows. Severalperja Portsmouth, N. H, a scientific indiA CURIOUS case was *£???" York courts the other day. I«18»4>John rad Winalfred Ward wtra unhid barter lationship existing between them. Tip wife, after thirty yeeraof ertf .Eppori, has now recovered |BO,OOO from the estate of her husband. •>.i