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Sfetected Miscellany. =-' 'iiM.'W ..- 'ivi— From the Wlaconoln State Journal. MATUTINAL ROBINS. “ Hall, Robin Kedbreaat I—welcome vernal wonder! Thou aearlet-throated uaher of the morn--" So warble. Aldrich, blindly atruggltng under J A contract .till to wind hi. rhythmic born ; But when he might search all the realms of nature, How could he praise thl. dissipated creature t Ah I wliat a night I’ve had I At cloven o'clock, ('Tla .uurlse now,) I sought my grateful bed; In two hours, robins, in a countless flock, Began their caiathumplan serenade, Aud nave kept up, from one o'clock to six, A clattdr like a million luqptliji 1 I ha««m*ha*a single widk of sleep Hir|t» tliSMMmarauders waked among the branches. With opthsiad tlblssrieh, as IX bohndto keep Thefiot nlth so many wild Canttnches. The Jolly gabblers- >«W and order scorning, 'Twas ohrloaclkky go home Uirmpming. Squeak I squeak 1, chirp I chirp I—aud shriek and scream repeating, Each voice resounding loud enough to crack It; And Still, assembled In protracted meeting, The revelers keep up their infernal racket. “ O, robin redbreast I 0 thon vernal wonder—” 1 wish ’twould split your gaudy throat asunder! O, robin—aptly named, for you're a robber. And now, your bogus notes in compensation, The drowsy maple issues like Mlcawher; The poplar quivers with articulation. As if ’twere gifted with a tongue like Lotto's, And every leaf had got an epiglottis I Poor Dryden, rich in eulogistic words. Lived ou the bounty of the flattered king Bo Aldrich, pqpt-laureate of birds, Lauds any fledgeling that is said to sing; Thus, as the greenhorn falls a prey to sharpies, Are cits delighted with these feathered harpies t Ah I ho* my head aches I still the red-throats ripple With shrill robuina. Inviting every missile ; They're drunk upon the atmospheric tipple And sing In chorus like a varnished whistle— Monotonous music—and without a flaw,— . As when a sawyer flics a saw-mill saw 1 Do you. dear lady, tell me to my face That Pm a brute, and this a cruel creed ? I deprecate your wrath,—ln proper place 1 like these birdies very much indeed— On toast, you know; yes, thank you, Mrs. Kelly, With green peas, and a little currant jell^

A Little Hero.

In the city of Hartford, Connecticut, live* the hero of the true history I am about to relate—but no longer “little,” as the perilous adventure, which made him for a time famous in his native town, happened several years ago. Our hero was then a bright, active boy of foiirtocn—the son of a mechanic. In the sittp* winter of 18—, the father worked in a factory; about a mile and a half from his lipme, and eyery day the boy jearried him hit dinner aeross a wide piece of meadow land. One keen, frosty day, he found the snow on this meadow nearly two feet deep, and no traces of the little’foot-path remaining. Yet he rah on as mst as possible, pliipgmg through drifts—and keeping himself JWjm by vigorous exercise apd Dfave, qjieenul thoughts. ' _', ‘ When in the midst of the meadow, fully half a mile frgm i*py house, he found himself going down, down, down! He had fallen into a well! He sank down into the dark ice water, but rose immediately to the surface. There he grasped hold of a plank, which had fallen into the well as lie went down. One end of this rested on the' bottom of- the well, the other rose about four feet above the surface of the water. • The poor lad shouted for help until he was hoarse and almost speechless, but all in vain, as it was impossible to make himself heard at such a distance from any house. So at last he concluded that if he was saved at all he U)USt sava himself, and began at fined, ha he Waifcettmg extremely cold In the water. So he went to wotk. First, he drew himself up the plank, and braced hlmsdl' against the top ofit SrWfcpm off hiscsat,ana faking out nis poclcet lune, cut off his boots, that be might work to gasaws JAtta tiers against the other, lie worked his way up, by the most fearful exertion, about half the distance to the top. Here he was obliged to pause, take breath, and gather up his energies for the work yet before him. Far harder was it than all he had yet gone through, for the side of the well being from that point completely covered with ice, he must cut with his knife grasping places for his fingers, slowly ana carefully all the way up. It was almost a boneless attempt, but it was all that hh could do. Ann here the little hero lifted up his heart to Hod, and prayed fervently for help, fearing he could never get out alone. Doubtless the Lord heard his voice, calling from the deeps, and pitied him. He wrought no miracle to save him, but breathed into his heart a yet larger measure of calmness and courage, strengthening him to work out his own deliverance, it is in tikis way that God oftenest answers our prayers, when we call upon him in time of trouble. , After this the little hero cut his wav upward, inch 'by inch. His wet stockings fra7.fi to the ice and kept his feet from slipping, but bis shirt was quite worn from his shoulders ore he reached the top. He did reach it at last—crawled out into the snow, and Jay down for a moment to rest, panting out his breath in little white clouds on the clear, frosty air. I ft* had been two hdurs and a half in the well! ’ His clothes soon froze to his body, but he no longer suffered with the cold, as full of ana thankfulness, he ran to the factory, where his good father was waking aud wondering. The poor man was obliged to go without his dinner that day, but you may be sure he cared little alxiut that, while listening, with terns in his eyes, to the thrilling story his son had to relate to him, He Epist have been very proud of the boy-itirit day, as he wrapped him up in his. own warm overcoat, anil took him home to “ mother.” Ana how that mother must have wept and smiled over the lad, and kissed him, and thanked God for him!—Gr<K* Greenttood.

A Queer Revenue Case.

A lot of Chicago whisky, in transit to St. Paul, reached Duaieith the other day, v, by the Illinois Central. While being handled at Dunlelth, one of the barrels “ eared," and the whisky commenced to. run out. In order to nave the liquor, the men drew it out into another barrel. Now the question Is, what to do with it ?. The railroad company is responsible to the owner ftjr the safe delivery of the whisky to the parties to whom it Is consigned ft St.'Paul. They m,ust deliver it or nay for it. The new barrel ft not stamped, anAff tha company were to iprward It, It wquld »K> subject to seizure and confiscation, and, the company to a fins. Besides, oo SmSi woutdi receive it, for the Packet Company would be liable to a fine for carrying It furthermore, the party to whom it it con*

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signed would not accept it, as the act would subject him to a heavy fine and imprisonment for having unstamped liquor m his possession. The railroad company cannot procure a stamp for the barrel, as the revenue law provides that stamps shall be sold only to parties who can show a wholesale dealers license; and such u license would cost SIOO, just about the value of the barrel of whisky. The company has no right to sell the whisky while it is not stamped, nor has anybody a right to buy it. Both parties would be subject to fine and imprisonment. Mr. Beck, the railroad agent at Dunleith. wrote to Assessor Smith, of this'city, for instructions; but the latter could see no way to help him out. Perhaps some one would suggest that the coqqiany had better let its thirsty laborers over there help themselves to it. Yes, but before it was half drank up the company would stand a chance of getting fined for having un stamped whisky in its possession.— Galena (IU.) Gazette.

The Death of Henry Keep.

1 From the Western Railroad Gazette. The announcement of the death on Friday of last week of Henry Keep, the President of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company, was received with surprise and regret here in Chicago, where it was not generally known that he hod been ill. But the sorrow for his loss is much more marked in New York where he is so much better known. It is about a year ago when the struggles and successes of Mr. Keep’s early life were firstmade known to the bublic in the columns of the Railroad Gazette. Otr readers will remember how he, an orphan from infancy, became a public charge, was bound out to a hard master at the age of 12, found his home unendurable and ran away at 17, earned his firstwages as a teamster at $7 a month, soon discovered and used his talent for finance, and while yet a very young man established and conducted bapkmg institutions. He soon became wealthy, and about 1854 came to New York, where his operations in railroad stocks, and his success in the financial management of railroads soon made him famous and a millionaire. We give below a history of his railroad experience, as given in the financial columns of the New York

Express. The announcement of the death of Mr. Henry Keep was received with regret on 1 the street to-day, although it was not entirely unexpected, as he lias been rapidly failing of late. At the first call of the Stock Exchange the fiag on the building wits displayed at half-mast and business was suspended. Mr. & ,V.JW[hite delivered an eulogy on Mr. Mr/ Reap/ and a Committee, consisting of 8. V. White, Rufus Hatch pad R. S. Muntoe, was appointed to drift suitable resolutions, and, tit?, 'Board. adjourned until Monday; out or respect 'td hi! memory. The career oft Mr. Keep in • Wall street has been an eventful one, and ho has displayed great sagacity in,managing Ufa different railways at times Under his cohtrol, and his stock operations, which were carried to a successful termination by boldness and persistency, have been on a remarkable scale of magnitude. His connection with the railroads of the country ufay be said to have eoianiei*eed in 1850, when he took hold of the Michigan Soutliern, the stock of which compapy was sell: ing at 5' cents on the dollar. * He carried the roud through all its financial difficulties, brought the stock at one time up to 122, and finally made it a regular 8 per cent stock. In 1861 he took hold of thsCleveland & Toledo road, then «Befling at i,6ccnts on the dollar, and also brought this company out of its trouble. The road,, under Mr. Kioplseontrul, paid all Ufa way 1 from .JB, to 46, ,per, <*mt dj-vkledds, -4nd tlie stock, at one period, touched 106. sci 1861 Mr. Keep obtained control of tlte Nqw York Central; after a severe anti animated contest, and was made Presided of the Company. Mr. Keep put the road in splendid condition and then resigned, after which Mr. Vanderbilt came lnjo possession and lias retained control ever since. In 1867 Mr. Keep, after another trying contest, obtained control of the Cfiicago & Northwestern Company, anil here was the great achievement of his life. The common stock was selling at 40 and the preferred at 65. To bring this road out of its difficulties and obscurity, and inhke it a regular dividend paying concern, was the great aim and ambitipn of Mr. Keep’s latter days. He accomplished his ‘work well, having made the road a 10 per cent, dividend paying concern on both classes of stock. The earnings at the commencement' of Mr. Keep's management were $10,000,000 per amnun, and Tor the present year they arc estimated at $15,000,000. The stock has been as high as 100 for the common and 107 for the preferred. Mr. Keep thought so well of the road that he has left $2,000,000 of the stock to his family to be held us a permanent investment.- : The Chicago & Alton road at one time was ruh under the advice of management of Mr. Keep, and tills stock has risen from 19 to 170, and paid about 300 per cent, in cash and stock dividends. As an operator ill Wall street, he has fought some great liattles, and, we believe, almost invariably came off ,vic-, torious. In 1863 Mr. Addison Jerome : then one of the shining fights of the stock market, got up a bull clique in Michigan Southern, and a sharp “ corner ” was engineered on Mr. Keep and his friends, who were sliort of the stock. The day finally arrived for the “corner" to culminate and enrich the bull clique, but by the issue of new sjOok in some way, we believe by the conversion of bonds, the “corner” was broken, which brought rain and disaster to all the “bulls” of Wall street. Again in 1866 there was another “ corner ” in Michigan Southern, but this timo Mr. Keep was on the bull side, and squeezed the “ bears " badly, there Ixiing at fine time a difference of 15 per cent, between cash anil regular, stock. This is still fresh in the minds of Wall street speculators who suffered on this occasion, especially Mr. Daniel Drew, Who got an injunction against the Stock Exchange to prevent the buying in under the rule of the stock which* liu was short of. Mr, Keep, in his day, represented, by his railway investments and speculations, more miles of road than any other man in the United States. Wall Street for some years past has had three railway kings. 'I hese were formerly Daniel Drew, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Henry Keep, Latterly Mr. Drew lost all his influence, and Mr, Jay Gould took his place, mftfeiftg the trio Vanderbilt, Keep and Gould, M*. Keep has now passed from this lint, And the field is left hr Vanderbilt and Gould.. Who is to fill Mr. Keep’s place? Wftll street awaits the coming, man.

~ The heat in the ijast Indies during the ipresewt SUnkncT k reported tobe very mfand the natives, and many villages haVe been entirely depopulated.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, AUGUST 12, 1869.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOKBMIN. Letters from Havana received on the 81st ult., represent the Captain General as being greatly displeased with the course which affairs were taking in the interior, and also|that he apprehended some opposition to the departure of Espinar, on the part of the volunteers. The reports from the interior were generally favorable for the revolution, and one Spanish officer gives it as his opinion that 100,000 more troops from Spain will be required to conquer the island. The cholora was making ieprful havoc at Nuevitas, two hundred of tlie troops there dying daily of that disease. The military authorities in Canada seem to be preparing for another invasion of that country from the United States. Gen. Sickles, Minister to Spain, presented his credentials to Marshal Serrano, on the 31st ult., and said that the United States more than ever appreciated the |amity between the two countries, to which Serrano replied that the Government would endeavor to increase the amity so happily existing. The small pox has broken out in Valparaiso, and the yellow fever at Rio Janeiro. A Havana te.egram of the 31st ult. says that on the 28th 5,000 negro insurgents attacked Puerto Principe, making a general raid through the city. Spanish troops to the number of 4,000 men attacked them. A severe struggle ensued, in which the ground was contested inch by inch, the insurgents retiring in perfect order, having achieved the object for which they made the raid. They captured and destroyed provisions valued at $50,000, and made good their retreat. An immense Fenian demonstration was made at Limerick, Ireland, on the Ist. Twenty thousand people marched in procession, and at the meeting held afterward, a letter to Gladstone demanding the release of the Fenians then in prison was read and adopted. The proceedings were most enthusiastic, but the tone of the speeches was moderate, and there was no disturbance of the peace. A Madrid telegram of the there had been several encounters between the Government troops and Carlist insurgents, ; in all of .which the latter had been beaten. 1 A numfeer of insurgents were killed and wounded, and many taken prisoners. Gefle, in Sweden, was destroyed by fire July 10. Seven hundred tenements were burned. A terrible accident occurred on the 2il ingt. in the coal mines in the mountain district, near Dresden. Over 300 persons were killed.

A dispatch from Madrid on the 4th denies the report that Spain has opened negotiations with the United States for the independence of Cuba. La France newspaper, August 4th, reports that Queen Isabella is disposed to abdicate the throne of Spain in favor of tlie Prince of Asturias. At an efifly hour onlfie morefiiig of the 6tb, during the session of the English Parliament, great excitement was caused by a loud explosion in the building. Search was instituted, and a tin case which had contained powder picked up on a terrace near by.. Not much damage was done. There were no arrests, and the whole affair was involved in mystery. The Irish Bishops, in conference at Dublin, have resolved that a general synod, composed of the laity as well as clergy, shall assemble at an early day. They will also convene provincial synods to consider the local changes necessary to be made under the present circumstances of the Church. ‘ -■ The three cardinal points conceded by Napoleon in the Senatus Consultum are : First, that the Legislature will have the power to elect its own officers and govern itself; second, that it will have a right to initiate laws; third, that it will have power to control France.

DOMESTIC. Fractional currency issued during the week ending July 31st, $190,000; amount shipped, $103,628; amount destroyed, $:143,819. National currency issued, $219,640. Total circulation, $299,782,810. The following is the telegraphic summary of the public debt statement, issued on the 2d: Debt basting- interant In coin $8,107,931,300.00 Debt bearing interest in lawful money 64,810,009.00 Debt bearing no intercut 488,878,860.18 Debt on which Interest haa ceased since maturity... 4,790,056.64 • $9,001,401,815.76 Accrued interest to date and coupons due not pretented for pavmout . 33,718,528.81 Total debt principal and intere5t..58,635,188,738.57 Amount in he Treasury Coin belonglug to gov- a* eminent $66,406,770.98 Coin for which certiflontos of duposils are outstanding 38,785,840.00 Currency 83,381,6M.89 Sinking fluid in U. S. coin-interest bonds, and Interest collected and accrued thereon 11,938,147.07 Other U. 8. coin-inter-est bonds purchased, and accrued Interest thereon 15,110,590.00 Amount of public debt lea* cash In sinking fund and purchased bonds In Treasury $8,481,566,736.89 Amount of public debt less cash y , and sinking bind In the Treasury . on the Ist of July. 3,489,008,480.58 Decrease of public debt during the past month... $7,435,744.8# Decrease since March 1,1869 $43,896,583.78 The reduction would have been larger had hot th« government advanced to the Pacific Railroad during the month interest on their bonds to the amount of $1,630,861, and paid on the last day of the month an unusually large number of drafts, to ths amount of more than two and a half millions of dollars. Rumors of another Fenian invasion oi Canada were current in New York on the Slat ult., founded on the quantity of

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arms, &c., about jhe .headquarters in that city. The French cable will be ready to commence business on the 15th Inst, with a reduction from the present rates of about twenty percent. The Secretary of the Treasury has instructed the Assistant Treasurer at New York to buy $2,000,000 of 5-20 s each week during August. This is in addition to the purcliases for the sinking fund .heretofore made on alternate weeks. A game of base-ball played in Chicago on the 81st ult., between the Forest City Club of Rockford, and the Red Stockings, of Cincinnati, resulted in a score of 53 for the latter to 32 for the former. Weston walked at Huntington, Ind., on the 81st ult., his feat being to walk fifty miles in ten hours, and a half a mile backwards, for $250. He came in five minutes ahead of the allotted time. A reward of $15,000 fa now offered for the capture of Sam. Hildebrand, the Mis souri outlaw. Superintendent Clapp, of the Government printing office, lias appointed two colored apprentices to learn the printing trade in that office. Secretary Boutwell has concluded to have a new issue of all denominations oi greenbacks, from one to the thousand dok lar notes. The plates are now being engraved from entirely new designs, at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. No likeness of any living man will be placed on any note.

The New York Sun of the 3d positively asserts that the Administration has opened negotiations with the present Government of Spain for the independence of Cuba, and that two bulky telegrams have been received at Washington from Gen. Sickles on the subject. The London Times of the 3d confirms the /SmtT rye port. The Secretary of tfie Treasury directs that no claims or applications hereafter made for refunding of taxes will be entitled to consideration by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, unless the same shall lie filed with the Commissioner within two years from the date of the payment of taxes; or in case of claims already accrued, within two years from tliis date. . A Washington^sratefeaf the 3d states that, the 111 |iiiliiiTmiililWis|Ki the Dominican Government and States, for the purchase of the Bay of Somalia, halve come to a successful conclusion.

A Washington telegram of the 4th says, “New developments are being made daily concerning the spurious ten dollar greenback. Two specimens received to-day bear witness that there are new issues, for all the defects previously referred to have been removed, and the general appearance of the notes so exactly corresponds with the genuine that it almost defies detection by professional experts.” The number of immigrants arrived at tlie port of New York this year t up to the 4th Inst., ia 168,064, an increase of 34,000 compared with the corresponding period ot last year. «•, .X T m Tlie Board of Health of MiW’ York city on the 4th seized several lqfa ojf kerosepe considered dangerous./two "more aeei dents, one fatal, from exploding Kerosene lamps, occurred the nigbtprerfeus. The Cuban Junta at New York, on the 4th, forwarded to the President and Secretary Fish a protest against the proposed purchase of Cuba from Spain. They allege that two-thirds of the island is owned by native Cubans^ The United States bonded warehouse on Lombard street wharf, Philadelphia, consisting of eight stores and containing 40,000 barrels of whisky and other property, valued at $10,006,000, was totally destroyed by fire on the night of the 4th Four children were killed by falling walls, and there were rumors of other fatal casualties.

There were 165 exhibitors personally present at tlie Exposition of Textile Fabrics at Cincinnati, distributed as follows: Ohio, 54; Illinois, 16; South Carolina, 3; Alabama, 6; Georgia, 14; Missouri, 1; Tennessee, 7; Indiana, 17; Kentucky, 15; lowa, 2; Mississippi, 2; Michigan, 1; Wisconsin, 2; New Jersey, 1; Rhode Island, 1; Massachusetts, 2; Pennsylvania, 11; New Yi>rk, 5. —- Receipts at the land office at Denver, Col., for July, were $530,798. A Washington telegram of the 6th says .- " Reports from the Indian country are all favorable for peace, and Commissioner Porter secs no reason to fear disturbance anywhere this’ fall" A memorial to Congress for the abolition of duties on coal is being extensively signed in New York.

PEBSuKAL. The Secretary of the Treasury left Washton on the Ist, for Croton, Mass., to be absent two weeks. Henry Keep, Esq., President of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company, died in New York city on the 30th ult. , Griffin, the engineer, who is charged with the blame of having caused the recent terrible disaster on the Erie Railroad, at Mast Hope, lias been admitted to bail in the sum of $6,000. The late Henry Keep left to hi* wife and daughter $8,000,000 worth of stock of the Northwestern Railroad, with in-s st ructions not to sell it, as it would pay better than any investment. President Grant and a large party proceeded, on invitation, on the 2d, to the residence of Robert Campbell, President of the Bricksbury Land Improvement Company, at Bricksbury, N. J., where the President was accorded $ hearty welcome by the citizens, and aftef"partaking of a collation, was presented with fifty acres of land.. I I The injunction issued again** further proceedings in the Bishop_ White house

versus Rev. Mr. Choney ecclesiastical trial, lias been sustained by Judge Jameson, of the Chicago Superior Court. The Committee of Ways and Means, ap pointed by Congress to inspect the Pacific States anij Territories, arrived in Chicago on their return trip, oft the 3d. President Grant, Secretary Fish anil Gen. Porter visited West Point on the 6th. Mr. Marißcal, the new Mexican Minis ter, and Mr. Palacio, the Mexican Commissioner, arrived iu New York city on the 6th, from Havana. Hon. Schuyler Colfax, Governor Bross and party, left Omaha for further West on the sth. The examination of the steamer Dubuque rioters closed at Rock Island, on the sth. Ten of them were held on the charge of murder. Three asked for a further hearing, and one was discharged, there not being sufficient testimony as to his taking an active part in the melee. Geh. Rosecrans, cx-United States Minister to Mexico, arrived in San Francisco on the 3d, and was serenaded by the Young Men’s Democratic Club.

POLITICAL. The Democratic State Convention of Massachusetts will meet in Worcester on the 24th inst. The Supreme Court of Louisiana has rendered two adverse decisions to the pjower exercised by the Governor of that Slate in removing State officers. The majority for the Virginia Constitution is 197,044, and the vote for it comprises the entire vote of all parties except about four per cent. The majority against the disfranchising clause is 39,957, and that against the test oath clause 40,992. A Louisvifie, Ky., telegram of the 2d says: “ Jas. W. Tate, Democratic candidate for State Treasurer, has a majority over his' Radical opponent, E. Rumsay Wing, in this city, of 5,059, Tate’s majority in the State is overwhelming, and will probably average 40,000 to 45,000. Returns from various sections of the State indicate the election of a large number of Democratic Legislative candidates. There will probably be but fifteen or twenty Republicans elected to the Legislature.” A Mobile dispatch of the 3d says: The .vote in this city for Congressman fa as follows: Mann, Conservative, 4,108; Ruck, Radical, 2,848. Mann’s majority, Prosequer, Democratic, is elected to the Legislature. Montgomery gives Buckley, Radical, for Congress, 8,082, and Worthy, Democrat, 1,015. Buckley’s majority 2.067.

The Republicans of Montana have nominated James Tufts for Delegate to Congress. He was Speaker of the first Legislature in Idaho, and has been acting Governor of Montana since Green Clay Smith resigned the place. Mr. Tuits fa a native >f New Hampshire. The Richmond Enquirer professes to iiave foil returns oi the members chosen 0 the Virginia Legislature. Its figures are 1 ifitfa: Wfiite Conservatives, 95; colored Conservatives, fi'; total vtfmc'Rftfiicafa, B 4; ttolored- Radicals; 18 ;’ t <Jta!, 48. Oite Mat itontestetL ‘ ‘ ! 1 The Vermont Council of Centers ‘re- • cjmundnd that the Constitutional ConvCE- ’ .ton, to atsemble ip February next, incorporate in the State Constitution an irticle permitting women to vote, and one providing for biennial sessions of the Legislature. j A Montgomery, Ala., dispatch of the 4tli says: “ Enough returns have been received to indicate the certain election of Parkinson, Democrat, by several hundred majority in the Third District. Bucklsy, Radical, is elected in this district.” . The National Union Republican party of Mississippi have called a nominating convention to assemble at Jackson on the Bth of September. According to the returns received on the morning of the 6th, from the Tennessee election, Sentcr has carried Western and Middle Tennessee by a sweeping majority, and probably the State by 40,000. The Conservatives will probably have a majority in both branches of the Legislature. D. C. Slaughter, Emerson Etheridge, Edmund Cooper and Bailie Peyton are elected to the State Senate. At Corimie, Utah, on the Bd, J. H. Rcadie, proprietor of the Daily Reporter, was elected to the Council, and Demis J. Loobey to the House of Representatives of the Utah Legislature, over Bishop Snow, of Ogden, and Wright, polygamists. This is the first defeat of Mormons at the ballot in that territory. A special dispatch from Helena, Montana, states that Hon. James M. Cavanaugh has been re-elected Delegate to Congress by a majority of 2,000.

Wonderful Longevity.

J. C. Burchett, Esq., Sheriff of Clinton county, Ky., a perfectly reliable gentleman, well known to some of our citizens, sends us tiie following particulate in »i*egard to a remarkable ease of longevity: Albany, Ky., July 23, 1809. A few days ago, In company with Mr. ■John Irvine, one of the oldest citizens of tbis county, I visited a very good negro woman who resides on his farm. Her name is Lucy Thurman. Indubitable family records prove that she is now one hundred and nineteen years old, she having Iteen born in Hanover county, Va., in 175# Born the slave of Thomas Hooper, she became at his death the property, of his daughter, who married John Thurman. The latter lived many years in Cumberland county, Kentucky, and died there. In 1812 Mr John Irvine purchased Lucy, her thirteenth and last child being then two years old. ;he converses about incidents which came under her observation daring the Revolutionary war, ami remembers the battle of Yorktown with special distinctness. While it wds progressing she was plowing i in a field within hearing of the guns, and I seeing bodies of troops passing and repasslng tor many days. Some or them, she says, entered the field and took

away the horse she was working in her plow. She is at present able to walk about, and looks fleshy and healthy, though her hair is very white. Until about a year ago she could thread a:needle and sew without spectacles, but her eyesight has since been failing. Her children are scattered, and she does not know how many are living. Mr. Irvine, who purchased her in 1812, is satisfied that she is 119 years old. —Louisville Courier-Journal.

CURRENT ITEMS.

The Chinese Emperor, aged 15, is soon to be married. Cleveland has a White-Stocking Club of croquet girls. There are seventy-five elementary schools in Sierra Leone. Mrs. Stonewall Jackson has lately received a bequest of SIO,OOO. A glover down East has hung up a mgn, “Ten thousand hands wanted imihediately.” A lady at Newport has a ring cut out of a solid diamond, and said to be the only qnc in the country. At the Kansas State Agricultural College, at Manhattan, there were 121 students enrolled last year. Mr. John Bigelow, for many years connected with the New York Evening Post , and latterly Minister to France, Is now chief editor of the New York Times. Major General Wool prepared a speeeli.of welcome for the 7th regiment, at Troy, N. Y., recently. He was too feeble to read it, and had it read by another. Avery Lester, of Ledyard, Conn., seventy-eight of age, and infirm, has read the Bible through seventy-four times sin£c his confinement to the house. The New York World pronounces the notion that oysters are not good to eat in the summer months a perverse whim. The deep-sea oyster is said to be the best in July. A recent cyclone at Calcutta did an awful piece of work in blowing off the roof of the hospital and killing several patients, blowing down trees and houses and playing the mischief with the crops. There are 669 Young Men’s Christian Associations in the United States. Many of these own, and more of them are erecting buildings for their special use. The actual membership of all classes will reach ( about'9o,oo6. ' - - In New York, the other day, a brute undertook to make a horse draw a load of iron, weighing about a ton. The driver cursed and cudgeled. The horse pulled and struggled; until finally, with one desppajeHyap, tjjhe re\l in the A Little girl, eight years of‘age, dred at Pittsburgh a few days! ago,, fmfti lockjaw, tbe result, it is alleged, of an operation performed at a dentist’s office, in extracting a tooth. It is claimed that the operation was performed in such a rough manner as to cause lockjaw.

A London letter states that “ the Prince iff Wales lately visited the Earlsworth idiot Asylum, made a speech, laid the corner-stone of a new building, and Gien received four hundred scarlet leathern purses, each containing a cheek for one hundred guineas, handed to him by a procession of four hundred young Indies." The Board of Trade of St. Louis has appointed a committee of twelve to ipfae by subscription $120,000 to build an iron seagoing propeller to inaugurate direct trade 'between St. Loins artd foreign Tdrts. The vessel will-be of 1,000 tons capacity, aid ■ Will not Usavr aver six feet wheh UghL ~, Rev. . Dni John Toma • of* Pfafafirfd,' Massachusetts, recently returned from tjvo months' trip to California. Dfoung bis absence he traveled about 1,000 miles each Week, and on his Way home stopped at Salt Lake' Ctty&nd preached ih the Tabernacle to 7,000 Mormons. The famous “ haunted house ” in Watertown, Mass., of whiefi a highly sensational account, with illustrations, was given in a magazine a year or more ago, has been transformed into a quiet, pleasant home, a gentleman who was not afraid of “ ghosts” having purchased it at a bargain and improved its surroundings.

Thebe is a mechanic in Jefferson county, Miss., who with $390, in 1867, purchased sixty-two acres of land, made last year enough out of it to pay for his place, and made a good living out of his crop besides. This year he rents it for one-tbird of the gross crop, and his tenants have nearly thirty acres in cotton, and ten to twelve in corn. The Opinion Nationals publishes that France employs 502,812 public functionaries, whose united salaries amount to $68,288,555. The Emperor'and the Imperial family enjoy an income of $5,300,000. The Senate costs $1,020,000, the ministers take about $200,000, the prefects fully SBOO,OOO, the Generals and officers of the staff some $1,600,000, etc. In a recent debate in the Spanish Cortes, a very active and intelligent workingman, M. Alaina, deputy for Barcelona, took an important part, his speech attracting great attention and being much applauded. This was the first time that a Spanish Parliament has seen a workingman debating, cm terms of equality, public affairs with a Spanish grandee and a Minister of Finance.

Ida Lewis, tlie Lime Rock heroine, don’t like her pictures. She says “that picture in Harper’s is awftil, I cannot bear to look at. it.” She and her sister, who fa very handsome and bashful aud afraid of the water, are to marry brothers, and Ida’s wedding, which was to have been this month, naJ been postponed for a year. A humane society in London has voted Ida a gold medal.

Johnstown, Pa., has a musical curiosity in the person of Eddie Hohmann, who is six and a half years old, and can play skillftilly by note several airs on the violin. When six years old he could play Yankee Doodle from the notes. What renders his musical precocity all the more remarkable is the fact that he has not yet mastered the alphabet. Thews are said to be in our country a total of six millions two hundred thousand dhe hundred thousand Quakers. If we reckon three persons to each church member, which la a low estimate, there will be about nineteen millions of our population directly and indirectly connected with the Evangelical chnrchee. The Roman Catholic population is reckoned at five millions. Delirium tremens is generally supposed to be confined almost exclusively to excessive consumers of ardent spirits. Cases are not wanting, however, to show that light wines and tobacco, when used immoderately, will occasion th* disease.’’ In ». Louis, Michael Wigand, aged 38, died of apoplexy, after suffering from the usual

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symptoms of delirium tremens, and ak‘- is supposed to have been the direct cause' of his death. Chicago and China “ shook, hands ” on •Change to-day. At 12 o’clock Presklent Richards introduced to the members of the Board and numerous visitors i who were present, Messrs. Sing Man and Choy Chew, representatives of large commercial houses in China and San Francisco. Short speeches were made, and the reception was extremely cordial, boding well for our relations with those who follow these avtnt couriers.—Chicago Journal, 4th. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, tne oldest qf all missionary organizations, recently celebrated its one hundred and Sixty-eighth anniversary, in the city of London. It supports wholly or in part four hundred and seventy-seven clergymen, and abqut eight hundred lay teachers and students, in training for the work of the church in foreign parts. The Archbishop of Canterbury; presided at the meeting, and delivered a very appropriate address. •' ! ' The other day a number of eggs were taken from tbe henhouse of one of our citizens and transferred to a bowl In the pantry*—weather 102 in the shade. Several days after, one of the family was surprised on going idto the patitry to discover the head of a little chicken peeping ant of >ne of the eggs, having picked hi? way into the world! The egg turned out to have been a nest egg, ana the little chicken, which is still living, owes its existence to tbe strange combination of many hens and the hot weather.— NorfsQc Derg Book. i The Court Journal notes a rich Httlc bit of Scandal on the tapis m the Faubourg St. Germain. Count has the misfortune to be blessed with a prodigal son, who has been going so fast that the father cut off all supplies. In a fit of revenge the young liopenil spent his last louis in a corduroy jacket and blue trowsers, and set up as a commissionaire in front of tbe Count’s mansion. In order to attract consumers, he had tbe family arms engraven on his crochet. The little comedy has been going on for some time, and neither father nor son appear inclined to give in. To bring matters to a crisis, the son has just announced his intention of marrying a young fruit-seller in the neighborhood.

The *rfokefo years, are this season visiting other sections Enterprise, tfubUshed ati ViifeSffia, .Nevada, on the Owyhee Hvor.i miles nottii he had an opportunity: of seeing two- ar ihreepruiieepf or wickets of which we have heard 1 so much through the Utah papers. He say* that they came in three or four divisions, each a mile in length by half a mile iff width. Tlicy stopped at nothing; arfe Bnd water were aU the same to them- On reaching Owyhee they swam the river., They went out upon such willows as stretched across the streams as far 4s they reached, when they jumped in and struck out for the opposite shore. Millions of these sftranjge itaiocts thus crossed the river, Which at the Each army, by some Instinct, tn|v«e*f In a southern direction—. Jibe whole, face of there being with to-ObundshWJchißHß Went after something <#rpnger. .CHBjng by all vegetable food,they attacked naddles, bridles, and Such article* Mmfcst to (the hi a very short space 6f time it would bealmost totally devoured. Although our friends were able in a few hours to catch as many as three hundred trout, after the cricket army passed over the river not a fish would bite for four days. They Were all completely gorged with crickets. — Deseret News.

Sam Weller’s Opinion.—There are numberless Jokes upon the »Wor* of vetodpede*Ooe of the latent cornea from Bngtond. sad to aa fellows: Jarrey to Jehu (at first eight ofMejcto—“Vv if 'ere ton’ta cove aa 'ae been condemned to transportation on a bitinerarjr treadmill” Jetra—"Nojmy old ’oneyeomb: it's only tbalapwt fashion in donkey carta, and the donkey aa ran away with itself, that’s all”

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