Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1869 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER INION. JCwry lHwiday by HORACE E. JAMES, ) JOSHUA HEALEY, [Proprietors. OPPOSITE SBbwriMlaw to • la AOWtadlß. JOB •■a*Mk4 I Jrt»?* n, * d t o '**** l “ « oodlrt > l *

Selected Miscellany. THE SONG OF THE PRINTER. Pick and click Goe» the type In the stick. As the printer stand* nt his case ; Ills eyes glance quick, nnd his Angers pick • The type at a rapid pace; And one by one as tile letters go, Words are piled up steady and slow Steady and slow— But still they grow. And words of firn they soon will glow; Wonderful words that without a sound Trnverse the earth to the utmost bound; Words that shall make And the fettors"of Sw oppressed shall break, Words that can crumble army’s might. Or treble its strength in a righteous tight. Yet the types they look but leaden and dumb. As he puts thorn In place with finger and thumb; But the printer smiles. And hie work beguiles By chanting a song as the letters lie piles, With pick and click, Like the world's chronometer, tick, tick! tick 1 O, where is the man with such simple tools Can govern the world like I ? With a printing press, and iron stick, And a Tittle leaden die. With a paper of white, and Ink of black, 1 support the Right, and the Wrong attack. Say, where is he, or who may he be. That can rival the printer’s power? To no monarchs that live, the wall doth he give,— Their sway lasts only an hour; While the printer still grows, and God only knows When his might shall cease to tower I

AT LAST.

A STORY FOB BOYS. Mrs. Stowe in the Hearth and Home concludes her “ Four Scenes itt the Lite of n Country Boy,” who went to the city, with the following scene and moral : At last! at last I There arc precipices at the end of the rapids, in such courses as ” our boy ” has been running, more dreadful than Niagara. Better, far better the short agony of that wild race down the roaring rapids, and that one dizzy plunge, that finishes all, than those worse plunges that destroy all that a young man has to hope for in life, yet leave him living. There are dreadful hours when men live only because they cannot die. What weeks of bewildering wretchedness this poor fellow has been through wi l h since we saw his haggard, eager face at the gaming table! Since then he has been desperately striving to regain his foothold, but striving, alas! in that false, treacherous Way that the devil opens to those he would betray. He is hopelessly involved, and the tempting whisper is ever at his ear : “ Win, and pay back!" One fortunate throw may redeem all. lie hears among the lobby members of the gambling house of those who have won dazzling piles of money after hard runs of jll-luck. He is a teller in a bank, and tempting opportunities offer every day to take the money that will give him one more chance. Not to steal— no indeed—but to borrow. Bid the devil ever ask a well-brought-up youth to steal! Not he ! Simply to borrow enough to turn his luck with, and he will put it all back before the time for settling accounts. Borrowing of the bank, he calls it; and he curses with hard words the false friends that will not help him. Nobody cares for him, he thinks, and he must care for himself; and so, from time to time, he keeps on borrowing, lie could not stand this kind of life were it not for his daily drinks of brandy. That makes things look brighter and more hopcftil, and dulls his senses to the roar of the coming cataract. —But the time of settlement of bank accounts is coming, and still his luck does not turn Pray to God?—he dare not; and the devil only laughs at his cries, lie thinks of the agony of detection, of the shame and disgrace impending. What shall he do ? The whisper comes: “ Forye a cheque." Why not ? He can imitate writing cleverly, was alwaysa skillful penman. He will do iL He does it; and here, to-day the artist shows him standing, pule, agonized, detected, before the board, who are met to examine the accounts of the bank. There stands the same boy that left his country homo, so well-meaning, so beloved, and so happy. Behind him stands the de tective and the handcuffs, at the door the prison van, while the President of the board holds tipjUie forged cheque. Where are the respectable friends who first helped hikh to wear off his country greenness at select little suppers ? They were perfectly shocked at such revelations of depravity. Who would have thought of his turning out such a scamp ? “Whitt a mess he has made of it! The fellow was a fool—a weak-headed fool I” •• Yes, he was weak-headed and-weak-hearted, and he tried to walk where Ihe strongest heads often turn; and you beguiled him to walk there. You laughed before him at the idea of total abstinence. You boasted before him of your manly powers of touching and tasting everything and never getting upset. You untied his boat, and helped him puddle into the rapids, and then stood safe on tho shore to see him go down. You never did anything to hurt yourself 1 No, and you never will. But how many will be lost by being lieguiled to do what you cando safely, and they cannot do at all! Come now, boys, let us settle 6no or two things as absolute certainties when you start in life ; He who never drinks, never will be drunk. That’s so—isn’t it? He who sometimes drinks, may be. He who never goes into a gambling saloon never will gamble, and he who never gambles never loses; but He who goes to observe and he who gambles will surely lose. In all these things is it not best not to beyin ; and would not our country boy have done better to have started with a firm positive No I instead of the treacherous “ We’ll set?” He h<u seen, and seen a great deal too much ; and, in nine cases out of ten, that sort of seeing ends jn this way. Be.warc of innocent beginnings in wrong ways, and remember the old text we started with: “ There is a way tliat seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof arc the ways of death." .

A Horrible Heath.

Last week, says the Nashville Press and Tunes, Mr. 8. W. McClelland left hlshoine in Cartbage to visit a neighboring town He rode along for two or three miles ten* comfortably. On the road he overtook a Miss Blivins to Whom he was engaged to be married. She was also mounted and gaily dressed, and had a scarlet ribbon for ti sash. The horse of Mr. McClelland seemed to become frightened at the' sight of the dazzling colors and became restive.’ The rider, however, managed him pretty well, and continued to jog on by the side of Miss Blivins until that thoughtless

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young lady gave him a slight tap of her switch, when he shirted off like a streak. Rhe spurred up her little mare after the enraged horse, but was speedily left behind. The horse rushed madly on, and in crossing a broken pgrt, of the road, two miles from Lebanon, fn Wilson county, he threw ilia rider violently to the ground. The rider’s foot caught in the stirrup, and he was dragged-along the rough road at the rate of twelve miles an hour, at the heels of the inftiriated horse. His bones were nearly all broken, and he was gashed and-ipiingled up in a most frightful manner. The hOrse didn’t stop till he ran into the square, at, Lebanon, when he felt down exhausted tuid died in a few minutes. The mangled remains of the.rider were gathered up, put in a box and sent home to his friends.

A Queer Story—Garrison and Vanderbilt.

There is in New York a steamboat man by the name of Garrison. When Vanderbilt began running his steamers to San Francisco, he engaged Garrison at ten thousand a year to attend to his business at San Francisco. The contract was fqr ten thousand a year for ten years, and was in writing. A little time after the Commodore sold out his interest to the Pacific Mail Company,and Garrison was lpft to himself. The latter threatened, and finally sued Vanderbilt, but to no effect. At length, being weary of Vanderbilt’s delays, and being a man famous for his herculean powers, he called upon the Commodore at his little office in Fourth street, near Broadway. On entering, he turned the key and placed it in his pocket. Turning to Vanderbilt, he said: “Commodore, you are at my mercy. You or-1 will never leave this office until you have settled with me.” Upon this he drew out an imposing looking revolver, and sat down opposite the Commodore. / . Vanderbilt is not easily terrified. Addressing Garrison, he said: “Captain, keep cool, you are joking. Even if I wished, 1 could not pay your demands here at this time.’’ Garrison was undaunted by this, but. exclaimed : “ Commodore, it is useless for you to talk so. This account must be settled. You or I will be dead, but I will not leave this office till you have paid me.” "How can I?” said Vanderbilt, now beginning to feel the discomfort of his position. “ Well,” said Garrison, “in that safe thereyou “have enough to pay ine. This account must be settled, or you or I die, that is all.” The Commodore looked sternly at Garrison for a moment, then turned to lift" safe, drew out some stocks and bonds, and said: “ Garrison, you are game. Here are stocks and bonds. Take your dues and leave." Garrison selected SIOO,OOO of the pre cious certificates, pocketed them, and walked off. Ever since that time he and Vanderbilt have been good friends. Garrison is still here among New York shipping men, many of whom have known him in even more serious roles than we have described.— St. Paul Dispatch.

The Experience of a Kentuckian in the Far West.

Three of the passengers who arrived by the mailboat from Cincinnati yesterday attracted no little attention. They were a very tall man and twochildren. The man, besides being the tallest among the passengers, was dressed in a manner well calculated to draw curious eyes to his reallv well-proportioned figure. Randomjestl-. mates put him at not less tlfan feet high, and he wore an odd-looking cap, which sported a fully developed squirrel tail, giving him an effect not unlike that of the trappers who figure in the wild Indian romances of the weekly papers of New York. His vest and trowscrs were of well-worn buckskin, and his coat was an old black garment that had seen its best days. He carried in his arms a child not more than two years of age, and by bis side was a sweet faced girl. His appearance leading some of his more inquisitive observers to question him, he tola a most heart-rending story of the last few months of his life. He had emigrated with his wife and child from one of the interior Counties of this State to the Territory of Montana, where he settled upon a piece of land, building himself a cabin home, and preparing to spend the remainder of his days in that far-away region. There he lived a long time unmolested, and there another child was born unto the little family from Kentucky. Their neighbors were few and lived long distances from them, but they nevertheless felt little apprehension, o£ the dangers incident to their new life. One day the father left to go on a hunt, taking the little girl to a neighbor’s and leaving the wife and the baby at home. When he returned a few days afterward h<‘ found his wife dead upon the cabin floor, near the cradle of her infant child. Her head had been crushed in by some heavy weapon, and the scalping-knife had done its work. The infant in the cradle was alive and had not been molested. Everything valuable, including two or three rifles, had been taken away, and a partially burned corner showed that the Indians had attempted to fire the building, but that the flames had sunk and died away beforethey could consume any great portion of the cabin or reach the helpless child in the cradle. | 1 After giving all proper attention to the remains of his wife, the Kentuckian, taking with him his two children, set out to return to his native State, He walked with them 20 miles before reaching a point at which he could secure a conveyance'. He was inquiring his way to the Nashville depot on his arrival in Louisville yesterday, and is believed to have left here by an afternoon train. A gentleman who heard his story was alxnil to offer him pecuniary assistance, but this he abruptly declined, stating that he had quite sufficient to take him to his relatives, with whom he wished to leave his children, that he might return to the West and avenge his murdered wife. He passed along Fourth street on his way toward the depot, and many wondering eyes followed him as he jostled along the crowded way in his singular garb, with his twU children clinging to him as if they feared they knew not what might yet come of it Courier- Journal, Auffuntll. ' . —Jtfiss Mary C. Putnam, daughter of the New York publisher, is a student of medicine,, not at Havre, as has been erroneously staled, but at the Ecole de Medicine, in Paris; being the first jutd, with one exception, the only woman ever admitted to the privileges of that famous institution. Miss Garratt, of London, was the.second. —Mr. Toueey left <20,000 to Trinity College*, Hartford.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, AUGUST 19, 1869.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN. Snow fell in the neighborhood of Montreal on the Oth inst. Two hundred and twenty-five recruits from Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky joined the Cuban insurgents on the 28th ult. They took with them arms, ammunition, and a large supply of camp equipage. According to recent reports, the crops in' Canada, in point of yield, have never before been equaled. Reinforcements of 20,000 men will be sent from Spain to Cuba In September. The Spanish Cortes will assemble in October, when the first business will be the election of a King. A Madrid telegram of the 9th states that nine Carlists, who had been taken prisoners at Martialegro, were shot on the spot by order of the officer commanding the government troops. The act caused great sensation in Madrid. Several parties of Carlists, led by priests, had been defeated and dispersed. The race between the Harvard and Oxford crews will come off on Wednesday, Aug. 25. Gen. Prim was in Paris on the 11th. Before leaving Madrid he left orders that all rebels captured with arms in their hands should be shot on the spot. A Montreal evening paper of the 11th says it has positive information that preparations are progressing for a Fenian raid, the 15th of September next, from the directions of Malone and Buffalo. The British Parliament was prorogued on the 11th, by Royal Commission. The Queen’s message congratulates Parliament on the passage of the Irish Church bill, their labors on the subject of bankruptcy and imprisonment for debt, and the provisions of the Endowed School bill. She trusts the measures for the purchase and management of the telegraphs by the State may prove a worthy sequel to the system of cheap postage. The London Times of the 12th publishes a letter from Madrid, whereof the following is an extract: “ Spain cannot be in a worse state. A change must come, unless the rulers are prepared for revolution. The treasury is empty, and it is impossible to collect taxes, and there is popular discontent everywhere. Prim and his colleagues have no easy times ahead.” A Havana telegram of the 13th says; “ Count Valmazeda captured near Remancaugua, a rebel convoy, General Jordan commanding, which was moving toward Holquin. The rebels took a flight after a short fight, and their commander escaped. This is considered a most important capture of war. The authorities at Santo Espiritu report that a rebel plot to poison the bread used by the inhabitants on a certain day, has been discovered, and a number of suspected parties have been arrested.” The English Parliament will reassemble* on the 28th of October. Advices from Rio,Janeiro to the 16th ult. are to the effect that Minister McMahon had left the headquarters of Lopez, aUd was within the Brazilian lines. The rebellion m Uruguay had ended, and the leaders of the insurrection had been captured and were awaiting trial. DOMESTIC. An oil cloth factory, at Columbusville, L. 1., was burned on the night of the 6th, involving a loss of about $300,000. The silver communion service, the vestments of the church, a large Bible and other articles about the altar, were stolen from St. Paul’s church, Leavenworth, on the night of the 6th. The weather was generally favorable at the various points of observation on the line of the eclipse on the 7th. A dispatch received in St. Louisbn the 9th from Irondale, Mo., states that Col. Bowen, in command of a force sent to capture Hildebrand, the desperado of Southeast Missouri, and Sheriff Murphy, of St. Francois county, were tired upon by Hildebrand and some of his friends, and , Bowen wounded, and his horse shot from under him. The posse were still in pursuit The Internal Revenue Department has decided that base-ball clubs are subject to taxation. In future they will be compelled to take out a ten dollar per annum license for their exhibitions, and pay a tax of per cent, on their gross receipts. Treasurers of clubs will be required to make monthly returns. Amount of fractional currency received from the printing division of the Treasury for week ending August 7th,. $113,600; shipments, $213,824; bank currency is sued, $105,340; amount outstanding, $299,746,751. On the morning of tire 10th a fearftil accident occurred at the coal mines of Henry Foltz, near Massillon, Ohio While a number of the miners were descending a shaft seventy-five feet deep, the ropes holding the carriage gave way, and Ihe men were precipitated to the bottom, a distance of forty feet. Legs and arms were broken and internal injuries received, mid four or five could survive but a few hours. The people of St. Louis have called a National Convention to settle the question of removing the National Capital to some point in the Mississippi Valley, to meet in Bt. Louis on October 20, and be composed of delegates from all the States and Territories. A war between the Erie and the Albany • & Susquehanna Railroad Companies was in progress on the 10th. Fisk,of the Erie, was arrested in Albany on the afternoon of that day, on a charge of conspiracy against the interests of the Susquehanna road, and he gave bail to appear at the next term of the Court of Sessions. It was stated that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company had offered Ramsey, of tho Albany & Susquehanna Railroad, its support in the shape of $1,000,900, to fight James Fisk, Jr., and

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his Erie confreres. A fight occurred at the tunnel, near Harpersville, between the forces of the different roads, the Erie mep attacking and driving their opponents through the tunnel. A locomotive was taken through, and came into collision with another at tire other end. The Ramsey men then attacked the Erie men and drove them back. Each party held possession of one end of the tunnel on the 10th. In the skirmish several persons were badly hurt. Governor Hoffman had been appealed to, and had threatened, if the interruption to public travel continued, and a riot was imminent, that he would declare the district affected to be in a state of insurrection, and would call out the militia of the State, if necessary, to quell the disturbance. Mr. Lemus, the Cuban Envoy at Washington, argues that the insurgents are now entitled to claim belligerent rights, even if they do not at present possess a sea port, for they have virtual control of the interior of the island; have established a perfect form of republican government; have maintained themselves as an independent Power for nearly a year, and are continuing to gain strength every day. The Susquehanna railroad war has resulted in the entire control of the road being assigned over by Robert H. Pruyn, Charles Courier and James Fisk, Jr., the contending claimants, to Gov. Hoffman, who would appoint suitable person, to run and operate the road until the whole matter has reached a final decision in the courts. The American Express Company’s car on the New York Central railroad was robbed on the morning of the 11th, between Fonda and Albany, by three men who entered the car at the former place, gagged and bound the messenger and baggageman, opened the safe, and robbed it of an amount estimated at $140,000. The men in the car made a good resistance, and were badly bruised about the face and hands. The robbers stated that there were eight persons in their party. The National Irish Immigration Convention, which was to have met in St. Louis ;on Sept. 1, has been postponed to Oct. 6, at the same place. The official statement of receipts and expenditures of the United States for the quarter ending June 30,1869, shows: Receipts, $159,800,041.17; expenditures, $115,299,731.90. The Secretary of State has ordered Marshal Barlow to transfer the custody of the Spanish gunboats to the commander of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The railroad depots in New York city are crowded with freight for the West. Most of the lines are taking it for eighteen cents per 100 pounds to Chicago, and proportional rates to other points, and a further reduction in rates is threatened. A dispatch from Memphis on the 13th says the cotton prospects there were less favorable. It is calculated that the yield in that vicinity will not bo larger than the crop of last year. A telegram from Santa Fe, received on the 13th, reports that Governor Mitchell had issued a proclamation declaring all Navajo and Gila Apache Indians outlaws whenever found outside the limits of their reservations, and authorizing citizens to kill every such depredator. Cincinnati has resolved to send a “ commercial party ”to San Francisco. They will leave Cincinnati September 1 and go by way of St Louis. The first bale of cotton of the new Alabama crop was received at Montgomery on the 12th. It was classed as strict middling, and sold at 58c. The trot for the SIO,OOO purse, over the Buffalo Driving Park, was won by Goldsmith Maid in three straight heats, and is the closest and best time said to have ever been made in three successive heats, viz.: 2:19%, 2:l9J£ and 2:19%. United States Commissioner Shields has decided that lottery ticket venders, selling as agents or dealers of other parties, are, under the law, dealers, and as such must pay the special tax. The official statement shows that the imports for the year ending June 30, gold value, were: $437,026.54; increase from the previous year, $65,000,000. Exports, mixed values, chiefly currency, $413,869, 182; decrease, $40,000,000. Re-exports, gold values, $25,130,167; increase, $2,500,000. PERSONAL. Vice-President Colfax and party reached Virginia City, Nev., on the 9th, and were received with a salute of 100 guns. Walter Brown, the champion oarsman of America, has sailed for Liverpool, to row a match for the championship of England. The Society of California Pioneers have purchased a cane valued at SI,OOO, for presentation to Hon. W. H. Seward on his return from Alaska. Mr. Ignacei Mariscal, the new Mexican Minister, was introduced to the President by the Secretary of State, on the lltli, and delivered his credentials. The Supreme Council of the Templars of Honor, recently in session in Cincinnati, adjourned on the 13th. The next meeting will be held at New Albany, Ind., on the second Wednesday in August, 1870. Vice-President Colfax and party arrived in Sacramento on the evening of the 12th, and met withan enthusiastic reception. The party reached San Francisco bn the 13th. Hon. Emerson Etheridge, in a letter in the Memphis Avalanche, positively declines tq allow his name to go before the State Senate as a candidate for the Speaker of that body. 1 Governor Hoffman has appointed General James McQuade as Superintendent of the Albany A Susquehanna Railroad. McQuade took possession of the road on the 12th. : Mike McCoole, the pugilist, was attack-

ed in Buffalo, on the 11th, by a Chicago rough named Ed. Burns, and badly cut and beaten with brass knuckles. Vincent Collyer has received a commission from the Secretary of the Interior, and left on the 12th to visit the Indians of Alaska. On his return he will see those of the Northwest. POLITICAL. , General Rosecrans has declined the nomination for Governor of Ohio. The following is his dispatch to Hon. A. G. Thurman, from San Francisco: “After the war I resigned a very desirable posi tion in the army and left my State, to secure at least the possibility of fulfilling the duties deemed sacred to my creditors, and I find those duties forbid me the honor of leading the Democracy of Ohio in the pending canvass for Governor.” An order issued by General Canby at Richmond, August 3, revokes the previous order of General Stoneman exempting from taking the test oath Commissioners in Chancery, and removes all such officers who cannot take the oath. This order was regarded at Washington as an assurance that, unless prevented by the interposition of higher authority, he will enforce the requirement for the test oath on the recently elected members of the Legislature. The Kentucky Legislature is composed of ninety-two Democrats and eight Republicans, in the lower House, and in the Senate, thirty-six Democrats and two Republicans. Governor Senter met with an enthusiastic reception at Nashville on the 10th. A Montgomery, Ala., dispatch of the 10th says: “Full returns from the Third Congressional District give Heflin (Republican) 260 majority over Parkinson. The delegation will stand as follows: Buck from the First District, Buckley from the Second, Heflin from the. Third and Hayes from the Fourth—all Republicans. Dix and Sherman, Democrats, from the Fifth and Sixth Districts. This is a Democratic gain of two, the delegation in the Fortieth Congress being all Republicans.” At a Cabinet meeting on the 10th, all the members were present except Secretary Boutwell and Attorney General Hoar. The principal business was the disposal of routine matters from the several Departments, but, just previous to the adjourn ment, the Cuban-Spanish question was brought up. It was generally believed in Washington that it was agreed to detain the Spanish gunboats seized in New York until some definite news is received from Spain.

At the Connecticut State Temperance Convention, held at Hartford on the 11th, to appoint delegates to the National Temperance Convention, a resolution was adopted, nineteen to fifteen, that, in the opinion of the convention, the interest of the temperance cause would be advanced by the formation of an independent political temperance party. Resolutions were also adopted pledging the convention not to vote for legislators or executive unless they will favor and sustain prohibitory legislation. A Washington telegram of the 11th says: “ General Grant has not, either in conversation or by letter, requested Judge Dent to withdraw from the Mississippi canvass, and in view of the complications, it is reiterated that Judge Dent will canvass Mississippi in the interest of the Conservative Republican candidates, whether himself or another leads the ticket. Meantime the Judge continues a candidate before the convention.”

A Nashville dispatch of the 11th says : “ Senter’s majority is 62,000, with nineteen counties to hear from. The State Senate, composed of twenty-five members, stands twenty-one Conservatives to four Conservative Republicans. The House of Representatives, composed of eighty-four members, stands sixty-seven Conservatives, nine Radicals, and six Conservative Republicans, with two districts to hear from.” Montana has voted, by a majority of 600, to remove the capital of the Territory to Helena. The members of the Democratic State Central Committee of Ohio have filled the vacancy caused by the declination of Gen. Rosecrans as a candidate for Governor, by unanimously nominating George -B. Pendleton, who has accepted. The California general election for County officers and Members of the Legislature comes off September 1; that for Judges of the Supreme Court October 20. A Jackson, Miss., telegram of the 12th says: “ Jndgc Jeffards, of the Supreme Court; A. Warner, Secretary of State; Judge Speer, of the Criminal Court of Warren county, with a large number of minor officers, were to-day removed by General Ames. The persons above named are prominent in the Conservative movement in this State.”

Another Dodge.

Somebody from New York, signing himself as Secretary of the Merchant's Union Law Company, has been sending circulars to the lawyers in this vicinity and throughout the country, asking them for the location of their bustnesa, residence, date of admission to? the bar, and other items, which he states he desires for the purpose of using them in the new law register and official directory for 1870, and further stating that the book is to, contain such information in regard to every lawyer in the United States. Upon receiving this information he sends another circular* with the following preface: “If you do not remix the required subscription of ten' dollars toward defraying the expenses of publication, and for a copy of the work, the following particulars must necessarily be omitted therefrom.” The particulars referred to are thosefpreviously requested to be sent. — New Haven Courier. —The Rev. E. D. G. Prime, one of the editors of the New York Oteereer, started 2il on a journey round the world, going by way of San Francisco, Japan, China, India, the Holy Land and Europe, lib intends to do all this within a year.

NO. 47.

CURRENT ITEMS.

The new Vienna Opera House, cost three million dollars. ' • 1 ‘ Springfield, the capital of Illinois, has now a population of 22,000. eE Canadian salmon fisheries hare • been known to be so productive as have proved this year. Frederick Douglass, Jr., was married in Cambridge, Mass., a few days ago, to Miss Virginia L. M. Hewlett, or that place. Major Houghton, a distinguished di-, minutive at Newport, is 20 years old, 31 inches high, and weighs 40 pounds; ■ A bon of Garibaldi recently graduated from the Episcopal Seminary in Poston. He intends to go back as a missionary in Italy. . ' .... The Crown Princess of Prussia is praised for having with her ewn hands nursed a poor old woman, the victim of a late fire in Berlin. Nineteen millions of dollars is the sum of money to which a young milliner in Fort Edward, N. Y., is reported to liave fallen heir. Prussia alone, of all foreign Governments with which we have relations, owns a house in Washington for the use of its legation. ’ • After reaching a depth of feet, the County Court has ordered the final stoppage of boring the artesian well at the St. Louis Insane Asylum. Lord Clarendon has instructed the British fleet in Chinese waters to cooperate with the American fleet in running a telegraphic cable along the coast of China. A French company has offered to construct a telegraph line from Lisbon and Gibraltar to England and America, on a twenty years’ concession, without a subsidy. A London girl bought a chignon which contained the taints of a leprous disease, which entered her system so that she shortly afterwards died in great agony. The few sparrows imported to the New York parks in 1866 have increased to several thousands, and are of great service in clearing the trees of catterpillars and other vermin. A Bridgeport, Conn., oysterman recently had a strange haul. He fished up one hundred knives and twenty-five pairs of scissors. What caused the strange deposit is not known. The contract for the consolidation of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern with the Buffalo & Erie Railroad Company, has been ratified almost unanimously, by a vote of the stockholders of both roads. The tariff on messages through the Atlantic cable was recently reduced to the following rates: Thirty shillings sterling, or $7.50 gold, for ten words; three shillings sterling, or 75 cents gold, for each extra word. Press messages half of the above rates. A young girl of Norwichtown, Conn., named Louisa Dowdall, found a spotted adder coiled upon the floor at the root of her bed on arising a few mornings since. Instead of shrieking and fainting away, she coolly went down stairs, got an axe, and killed the reptile. There were granted one hundred and two cases of divorce in Cincinnati last year, and one hundred and nineteen were left undecided. Of the whole number ofapplications, fifty-four were made by husbands and one hundred and sixty-seven by wives.

Mucilage of remarkably adhesive properties is taken from the leaves of New Zealand flax. It is to be largely used in England for the manufacture of “ safety envelopes.” When two pieces of paper are united by means of this gum, no steaming nor soaking will separate them. ' • ■ ■ . Philadelphia is to try to have a bigger musical jubilee than Boston. It Is proposed to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, on the Fourth of July, 1876, by a gigantic music festival, in a building especially erected in Fairmount park, capable of accommodating 100,000 spectators and 12,000 performers. An immense block of granite has recently been quarried at Monson, Mass. It is 3.50 feet long, 11 feet wide and 4 feet thick, containing 15,400 cubic feet, and weighing 1,283 K tons. To cut it from the rocks, 1,I<>4 holes were drilled on a line parallel with the front edge. This ponderous, piece of granite will be cut and sent "to Albany, to be used in the construction of the new Capitol buildings: • French and English engineese haye pronounced against the proposed tunnel under the Straits of Dover. They all agree that the work is quite feasible, but they add that the cost of it would be £lO, 000,000, which puts it quite out of the question, unless the governments of France and England should, in the interest of international amity, think it right to proceed with the work regardless of expense. One day recently two railroad accidents occurred in New England—the first to a Connecticut River and the second to a Rutland train. In one case a jammed brakemam hanging by the knob of a car door, sald'to the brother-brakeman who came to his assistance: “ Dick, if any one else is hurt worse than I am, help him first." In the other case, the first words of a Severely injured engineer were: “ Are any of the passengers hurt t”. The London Time* of August 10th, in an article on the relations of Spain and Cuba, says that if it can be proved that the separation of the colony from the mother country is an unavoidable and not remote contingency, it seems the height of madness to carry on hostilities fraught with ruin to either side. Were Spain ouH of the colony without compensation, It says, thanksgiving for the happy riddance might well be sung throughout the Peninsula. Henry Harkness, his wife and three small children, while out walking recently, iu the vicinity of Wheatland, Pa., saw in the fields what they supposed to, be mushrooms. They gathered them plentifully, took them home and ate them for supper. They proved to be what is called. “ toadstools? The two youngest children, ane about 5 and the other • years pf age, died two days afterward. The remainder of the family were in a very critical condition, with but slight hopes of their recovery. A Vermont court has before it adivorce case of quite an interesting character. Thd parties were married a few weeks ago, in the town of Colchester, it is said, much against the wishes of the lady’s friends; and the wife now makes application for separation, on the ground that she did not realize what she was doing, and believes that she was induced to consent to the manriage by reason of love potions or drugs administered to her for that object by her present husband. The wife is ijpid to be intelligent and prepossessing.

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Thu Saginaw has the blowing: “ A boy, about nine or ten ijrears •< whose mother died a number of yean ago, conceived the Mea ■ChSt’ sfre dp* still living. Laboring uhdt# this hnprM*l<m, he Visited was reached, sM bf&dttpdn flfecase. The portly decomposed of. his dHurion, start W returned home. The open gratae, Wcltflie'W W neglected to flft; attracted sttentfon shortly after, and by investigation the foets'of we' case became known .• dust rial Exhibition in Chat citydn BeptStt .Afiiwly coßatrurted buildingcovering a ground area,or 70,000 feet, has been erected ahd fitted up at nfe tatjSraG having three’ fouMahM throwing water fifty feet high. The main awve is- surrounded by two series of galleries, the lower one affording seats for 1,500 perrons, - and the upper furnishing space, for .2,000 protnenaders, Exhibitors have been incited from China, Japan, the Sandwich Islands, British Columbia, Mexico, Chili and Peru. A curious accident reounUy occurred in New York, Nine days previous, white workmen were constructing the iron front of an«w building, at Na 49. Walker street, a cat crawled into the hollow part of the - iron gi rd erwhiefr forms the base of the front, The werfcpien kwJ the cat but'paid no attention to its cries, ajjd the work proceeded. The fact was reported to the Society ftx the Prevention of. Cruel*. ty to Animals, and the builders were ordered to release the cat. The front had been erected as far as the -fourth dtory by this time, and the matter began .-to wear a serious, as well M expensive aspect. Theft was no alternative, but to comply with the order, and men were at once set to. work . to release the animal. Itwks found Accessary to remove* small parteC the - side wall into which the girder was inserted, and then chisels and sledgehammers were brought into requisition, and a dote sufflciently large. made, to enable the cat to crawl through. The cat, which was very thin and<weak,as the‘ result of Its tong confinement, sepmed greatly pleased, judging by its actions, in esdiping from a Hvingtofob. i’ - Of the sixty-fIVB Senators in the Fortieth Congress, ten were natives of New York, seven of Massachusetts, seven of Ohio, sik of New Hampshire and. five of Vermont Pennsylvania and Connecticut furnished 'eachfodr; New Jersey and Kentucky, each three; Maine Md Rhode Island, Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia, each two; Indiaria/ITlhioiS, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and; Ireland, each. one. Of two hundred and eleven members of the House, their birth places were as follows: > . i New Y0rk..,,.........4&N0rth Carolina .4 PennaylVanis ... ..SrSouth - Carolina * Vermont...'.’/’?? ContieCllßuU... ...... <Afekx>tl<iA .**4- > Tamieeaee.. 8! Delaware....... 1 Illinois.,.*. ...a*.... 1 Kantodiy.. 'iWaaace........ J--VirWni. MCanada 1 New Hampshire. 4| ,

Fight Between a Baboon and a Ship’s Crew.

„ An English steamer, which arrived at Liverpool from Africa a short time since, had on board, three, giant chacmas ,or baboons, two crocodiles, several monkeys, and other specimens of the natural history of the country. The babooqs were y?ry ferocious and possessed of great strength. For their safe custody, a strong den with iron bars was provided and placed near the forecastle, so that they could constantly be under the eye of the crew. All an instant the largechaqna had Wrenched several bars off, and the next instant was on the fore-castle, armed with thd bars with which he had been confined. Here his majesty paused for a moment, and in a dignified manner surveyed his captors. A rope having been got, a noede was formed and cast over his head, and he struggled hard to extricate himself, but without avail. He thenanacfiOdune of the teamen, whom he seized hy.Uie arm, and, notwithstanding that several of the men belabored hiin with: Wekpona, the brute would not relinquish hia ho|d until be had torn the flesh from aboyq'the elbow to near the wrist, and had b&n fetacfered insensible, when he was carried lo hi* den.

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