Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1869 — Page 1

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Selected Miscellany.

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The Carr Rock Horror-confession of John Bowen.

*1 .*•>. ,«.rt rs... >« -« . j v s IknftN is an Eufrlilflnnwh,fay birth* about 04years of age, and itas lived ip this cmWftry'9B-JTSra; He’ ll«s?resNlM ! ntaT Port sfolvft RfiJl ht'lMsft’s ‘Stylfch it ‘ridmberwits'lpfuferly in the etnJim KTtftroad 'but wus &iH tu jilfl tIY thupi on a charge of fursjpff Below is the Confession, hejlajftfraflfe j*"', ** r lit .County. I have read flic Bible and prayed lately, aud hope to get.gpijao'pf tuy slits' pardoned. I nitty not live long aud tiem’i like to die with so raucli oil my conscience. I wish to lighten it. a little. About bcUvofi* summer and fall, three years agfif w tiff Erie railway, between the D.ebiwitTe bridge, at tja tvutiti (llJ r l.brttl going alond £,TH»SESH«S!K«M.» of the road to the edge agaiuat thu.chair; there it lodged. I'didu'l think it would do any damagghbut it did ; it started two JBldfc'Jtffllthc track. Some timy in February, r one vear ago, thcru«m crooitOdtMll Vnt IlfaS* S*rlttb, near the chair. I took,a pioeteof irpitaiul ptishecl the rail out of thechair £tnd raised it up-und-puta spike -under’ it at the bonded place on tluk tie. I shoved it back ilfj.l* tn* chair; but it wouldn't go in withotij SOWthpig .heavy to fofw inn: I left it at 1 that, and 1 along eanunn frtdgdt tridn antl iJipke itJ oft; and the train ran off down, J»i\|u About the 15th,'nr Veftr nf'er last" March (April), at 3 o'clock in the morning, Icanie down tlitj track,. il .left my place early) and had tlMn at Lafkawaxen. I went to sce about a silver mine I had burning oWtthth’c. T dropped a Strtrie odi my ftxft, wliieli hart me.so j walked slnwly dpwn the track untft.l,cinne to" (jarr s Hock, .A freight-train fiftssetl rfte fft'ere,'' going wf-st, I stepped itfith;’ till itpnsaod. I saw (on tjie river sidt-j a rail fcrooked! which was working tip and down as the train passed; I took-a }>ieoeof the«ap of « rtdlami tried to. tix it as well as I. conW,» I slioved the rail out of the chair,* addyilft a bldcik iiiuTer it, to raise it. I put a spike under the quarter lief irt ordefi to make it como straigli( Jo itaplacc’again.; I didn't think I was going,to do tiny damage ai aft. t travoltal tm from lmlf a mile to tltree-quar-ters, dowu the track, then I heard a great noise. I thought it was the stones slipped dowii into the water. Instead of thTTStones,' it was a train govtg;«net» auft tin two or tliree days I lieartnt was the tfain instead of stones,: tXhat Was tfio-, Carr’s Hock’ calauflly'! I left twy- sorry from* that time to t bisi 1 Sihch T- hftVd Lthen here P don’t sleep nights. I was not tlien in the employ of the Erie cotgpanv. Before any of the occurrences » Jtldjltfen diseltarged by the company tpid* sent to jail by the compfofty .tibdoif- a chafptii of.ftirfeeryc' 1 knew wbat I put tjtq sptkc.undgr, thc.ruil if a ItCaVyHram eaMtl uphn that raifAfterwartWtH mtMi btfedktHat rßHfbUttfid tfSftrJ had crmje gust. iLvvpuld have, drove It'doWn., I didn't Tthow'tfonl which way the next train whs Uemiiig; : >

A Race For Life.

CorrcmomloncaofJUorpravdtßnpkls (Mirt.) Ea'dan * * 7 ,<rh!Aiiike^«rt%teilfeiblc niMUffitatlib tfNudttf, let>nto Suy.tliati The -AttioA'tdT t*(<’ r|unaU4tr <is mlfaeib C haimwiia laki (a IHstan'dd' of only tots •mit oGibift fixity tin* chile,) by four miles. If is over this road that immense: quantities of hreT •brmiglil. ; On Tuesday even in a airy t 9 o’clock, a train, consisting olfal f>» cars and two passenger cars, miclßitLthe summit, on its way U<Jle,.’ib* SonA siwuie at on<Wloct«H4di hikt >th«LhriM££ stOpport the lWffi(SvPt(tftdrT and atiot (at’ciim taming twTmOtld !»**# nWJlnitStfrfT paasqadown the road, the engineer snpposing that the brakemen owuhe oil cars would arrest but what was his horror, pn looking back, to see the six e»f*Pß Jtorsutrwf iM i nfttowa [the'grtnA car : 1 tm g iiniffMUß the o: i ouncdiTWAi# IMO% soldi frdn^tfij spixi tides That a rtntn lifetime, A sheet of intcnsely bflgjit floaty QQ fe*t bijjh, was wea owning flown that

THE RENSSELAER UNION.

southern slope, apparently with the speed of a meteor,' and renlly very nearly the speed of a hurricane (80 miles an hour); for pursued and pursuer flew over the course, or rather down it, and around the curves, at the rate of ihoro than 70 mtlfes an hour, ns the engineer declares; and as Qverybody can believe jvlio witnessed the spectacle,. Tire whole .heavens were 1 Hum mated, and the landscape was lit up or£by the noon day light. Onward and downward flew tbo engine, and behind it flew and thundered the Huge "fiery demon. Twice Its prodigious weight was driven against the fugitive; as if instinct with a purpose to drive it from the track. It seemed ns If to the heroic engineer and fireman there .was a perfect environnn-nt. of periL The speed of the i*ohjjftne was. such that it ceased to pump; then again, the Cincinnati express was due at the junction at tl)ia time. The engineer of the oil train whistled “open switch,” and slmkiutr hands with the fireman they bade each other farewell, knowing that their lives.depeafted on the opening of the Lake Shore swftch by their friends below, and this was to imperil the express train coming down tYom the west. With Its l!ting human freight. The engineer on this train saw the fire when it first broke out at the summit, and supposing ho could clear the junction before the flaming terror reached it, he too, put Ills engine to its utmost ’ speed bn a level grade. A mile short of the’ Junction he saw the effort was ft vftln one, for the flying conflagration had rushefl up opt on the Lake Shore track, and was roariug onward ■in the direction of Dunkirk. He checked the headlong rush of his train and brought it to a stand-still. It did not proceed until 3‘dVlbcK In the fnorriing.. The case took in another danger, and it_ was imminent, A heavy froight train was’ coming up the Lake Shore road. All I will say of the escape of this is that it did escape to the si(}o-track, and only escaped by the last minute of possibility. Hunning on to a safe distance ir»m £he depwj, the Anglucer of the oft train tle’tached his fiftgine, and left the six'Cars' to' consume. He sajfajMa situation was fully realized by him, Jl£ .expcctea to lose bis 'life. At every moment he expected the ' engine to leave the track, He saw he was .going at a perilous rate of speed, but there was no help for it. The demon was behind him, and he' declares that It. looked like n demon. With that fondness, or real ‘'affection, for ft is. engine which these men display, he said, “I thought everything of my engine, and was determined to stay by it to the last.’ 1 The fireman made one attempt to escape by jumping from the tender, but the engineer restrained him. Altogether, the occurrence was a remitribtble ohc, nnd in part remarkable for this, no' lives were lost. The brakemftn on the oil cars had gone bttek to the passenger carA when'the oil yars started. It was weir tffejr did. * Unless those rear cars had b#en'iMacho(l and stoppM, tlibir jnma'tes woyld have been burnt tyffeath inevitably. ---<>---

A Man, Tired of Life, Gets Measured for a Coffin. -----

AN incident occurred, yesterday, in the work-shop of Mr. Jacob Gish, undertaker, on Farnam street, which shows that happiness is not always to be found in the cup, and that death is looked fondly forward to as a relief from troubles against which it is hard to bear up. An old gentleman, evidently an Englishman by birth, walked into the ware room and said to Mr. Gish that he desired to purchase a coffin. “What size, sir?" said the burying man, always on the alert for business. “I want the thing for myself,” said the Englishman, “can’t you take my measure?” Mr. Gish now observed that his customer was laboring under the effects of liquor, but in order to humor him, requested the stranger to stretch himself on a board so that he might chalk out his dimensions . The man seemed only too happy to comply, and was soon lying at full length on his back. Putting his hand to his waist-coat pocket, he extracted $20 which he gave to Mr. Gish, as a pledge that he meant business. He said that he had been blacksmitiling at North Platte, but that whisky had got the better of him, and he was tired of life. He then gently implored Mr. Gish to kill him, which Mr. Gish, notwithstanding that such a proeced [sic]ure would make the proposed trival job a sure thing, refused to do. He gave the old fellow back the $20 and advised him to go home, sleep off the whisky, and take a new lease of life. The man left the premises, but before departing said he was determined to die as soon as possible.— <Omaha Herald>. ---<>---

Counterfeit Ton-Dollar Legal-Tender Notes.

TnE statement's which have been generally published of late in reference to the dangerous counterfeit ten-dollar legal-ten-der notes, it was thought, was greatly exaggerated. Urifortunately'thc truth hail not been half <okh- When experienced men are unable to tell, liow eaisly tradesmen and the public generally are liable to be deceived, Gne of the counterfeit, notes was sent by tlie Cashier of tiny National Bank of Cohoes, N. Y. ( to General Spinner, United States Treasurer, the letter stating that after a minute examination and it,was imnogsjblg. to tgll whoOwr it was genujtijW: cmjhtcrfdt. One of that series that had never been in eirouhUipii wju compared- with the one submitted for examination, and after the most rigid scrutiny but one flaw was discovered by which the counterfeit could be distinguished from the genuine. The only remedy Is to' call in ail the notes of that denomination. Persons suspecting the genuineness of those in their possession will invariably find the scroll work directly over the words “American Bank Note Company, New York,” in Tift# left Asiif corner of the note, distinct and sharply defined iu the genuflie notes, while in the couitteilblt "it Is bhirred and unfinished. This seems the only reliable flaw that has been detected.— Washiiuiton Republican. A colokbd <W‘O& hand, employed on the propelier-Bvergreen City,gawe an exhibition of his strength tbi otlu'r day at Detroit. Several men were putting forth their united efforts to lift on eijd. a hogs/ head of sugar, in the Michigan Central fraftht deftot, when lie bade them get out of.the way, and, with no great apparent efforf, grasped the chimes and turned up the hnge weight: Something being said in regard to his strength, Jip then took a keg of nails and held it out at arm’s length, grasping the chimes at cither end. With one hand he seized and moved a dray several fleet, and with both hands carried it completely around. A box of tin, about us much as an ordinary man (an carry, lie held at full length above his head' and shouldered a barrel of flour us easily os a boy oould* small atiok of wood. *, v •••*•# f 1 ' ip

JOHN BOWEN.

VOL. I.

IIENSSELAEIt, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, AUGUST 26, 1869.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

’ / " FOREIGN. In commemoration of the hundredth birthday of the First Napoleon, the Emperor of tho French issued a decree on the (ssh, in which he grants fnll and complete amnesty to press and political offenders, to persons coivioted of evasions of taxes, to deserters from the army and navy, and to sailors in the merchant marine who have abqndoned fheir ships. Marslual Niel is dead, and a cable telegram of the 14th states that his death has So afflicted the Emperor that he was compelled to hastily ldavb Calons camp when the military/sfcswjjfp iu progress. Senor Jose Mmjucl MiWfis lias been commissioned an agent of tho Cuban Government let treat ttlffWe Spanish authorir ties in reference to acknowledging the independence of Cuba. He left New York <aty for Europe, via Cuba, on the 14th. Letters received at Ban Francisco from President' Juarez and the members of his Cabinet, express great satisfaction at the proposed Visit of Mr. Seward and party to the City of, Mexico, and promise him a gfeneroup reception* A felegram Havana on the 14th sitys a plot to poison the bread intended ■for the garrison at Matanzas had been discovered and the parties had been tried and Sentenced. Gen. Jordan says he was not whipped by Vahnazeda in the late action near Holquin; that the Spanish loss in the battle was 17(>killed and wounded and 700 that the fight destroyed the army Of Yalmazeda and gave the Cubans control of the entire Holquin district. Prince Artlrar sailed for Halifax on the A Havana telegram of the 16th says tlie Goypraptr qf Espiritu Santo had. ordered a, conscription, to include all men within'his ; jurisdiction, between the ages of 20and55.’He had also prohibited the sale of groce ries anil provisions for the interior, with a view'to cutting off one source of rebel supplies. Nearly 1,500 men were obtained by conscription in tlie jurisdiction of Trinidad. They are employed in guarding the larger estates in the interior. An immense Orange demonstration was made in Clones, Ireland, on the ICth, in which 30,000 persons participated. Resolutions were adopted denouncing the tlist establishment of tlie Irish Church and the Party Procession act. A serious riot happened in Sheffield, England, on the 16th, caused by locked out miners, now on a strike, sacking the houses of unionists. Tlie police finally succeeded in dispersing the mob, and at midnight the city was quiet Cltftrl.es Moore, Member of Parliament from Tipperary, is dead. The Pope has decided to hold a universal exhibition of Christian art next year. Forged £5 Bank of England notes have made their appearance in London, and tliree of them have been paid into the bank. Cuban advices on the 18th report that the feeling!of discontent and insubordination among the slaves was increasing. They were organizing and arming for the purpose of joining the Cuban army, and several contests had already taken place between them and the Spanish troops, in which the negroes were successful. The Spanish Cortes has been announced to meet on Sept, 15, in consequence of tlie unset tied condition of governmental affairs. Eighty Cubans, lately captured near Puerto Principe, were executed in that city by order of the Spanish officials. DOMESTIC. The Evansville and Cairo packet Cumberland exploded her boilers, near Sltawneetown, 111., at 4 o’clock on the morning of the 14th. Eighteen or twenty lives wore lost. The boat’s books were blown overboard, and the names o( the missing could not be ascertained. The boat is a total loss. A Chinese immigration agent has made contracts with a number of South Carolina planters to furnish them with Chinese laborers by the first of January next.. .. . Tho tailor’s strike in New York city ended on tlie 14th. Thirty firms had signed thp new price list, and forty others had agreed to pay it. ! A train was thrown off the Schuylkill A Susquehanna Railroad track, near Dauphine Narrows, on the 14th, by coming in contact with a rock which had rolled down tlie mountain. TKe engineer and fireman wero killed aud several passengers slightly injured. The National Labor Congress met at Philadelphia on the 16th, Vice-President Lucker in the chair. The day was spent in perfecting an organization, and'listening to eulogies on the life trad character of its late President,. Mr. Wit. H. : Syivis. Susan B. Anthony appeared as a delegate, but was ruled out of the convention. Eight colored delegates, from the States of Pennsylvania and Maryland, were admitted. 'The United States Treasurer received on tlie 16th another co.gwierfeit jJilO grecnJhack'Of the Cwenty-third series, letter C, which, in Its distinctive features, varied materially fYom any other speoimensyet printed. • ThdjjWgraviiig, k quite coarse, and dims dot atlOTpftb fmftatc tho genuineuydate at all closely. The vignette of Lincoln is very iwliflesentiy engraved,and the scroll-work around the medallion poorly imitated. Gloomy reports respecting the, corn,,tobaCfco and other crops from Maryland, Virginia aud Georgia on 16th. In some portions of Myyland rain had not fallon for nine week.<M Gov. Baker, of Indiana, declines to send delegates to the St. Louis Convention (nr tht' removal of the National Capital. He leaves the matter in tlie hands of the peo ply in tlie several Congressional District, who can do as they please about sending delegates.

OUR COUNTRY AND OUR UNION,

On the .10th, the steamboat Havana was burned to the water’s edge at Parlor Grove, about twelve miles below Nashville, where she had just landed a picnic party. No one hurt. Commissioner Delano has decided that revenue stamps cannot, under any ejrcumstancc, be redeemed, A dealer m tobacco applied for the privilege of transferring stamps from a lot of boxes-the contents of which had been rendered; worthless. The request was denied, wdpr thp above decision. . In the National Labor Contention on the 17th, the entire afternoon ’session was consumed in discussing the rights of Miss Anthony to a seat, which was participated in by a very large number of delegates. She was finally admitted by a vote of 55 to 58, several delegates declining to vote. The Commissioner of Customs informs tho Collector at New York .that foes collected under State and municipal law are unconstitutional, and shall hereafter in no instance be collected. The National Educational Convention met at Trenton, N. Jl.'on the 17th. The attendance on the first day was small. The Directors . of the Central Pacific Railroad Company have received information of a conspiracy among some disaffected men, formerly employed on the road, to burn all bridges and stocks of fuel west of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, in one night. The company lias taken measures to frustrate such design* In a prize fight between Tom Allen and Charley Gallagher, on the 17th, eleven rounds were fought and both men were terribly punished, Gallagher [evidently the more severely. It is alleged that Gallagher’s sbeond threw Up the sponge after the eleventh round, which ended the combat, but the referee claims that he did not see the sponge thrown up, and henqe decided the battle a draw. It was a brutal exhibition. In the National Labor Convention on the 18th,-the vote admitting Miss Anthony was reconsidered, and she was finally rejected by a vote of 63 to 27. This action, it appears, was taken because of her not paying ns good prices on her own paper as are paid to female compositors on other papers in New York city, and because of iter generally acting against the Woman’s Union of that city. Tlie confession of John'Bowen, author of the terrible Carr’s Rock disaster, on the Erie Railway, has been recently published. A ten dollar note, of the Allegheny National Bank, Pittsburgh, sent to Washington on the 19th, for examination, lias been pronounced counterfeit by Treasurer Spinner. Customs receipts from August 7 to 14, inclusive, amount to $3,074,441. An Alton, 111., telegram of the 19th says: “ The cattle and horses at Monticello are dying off fast. The cattle seem to have a. strange disease. Their legs first swell, and soon after the body, and death ensues. The horses have what is called ‘mad itch.’”. A Richmond, Va„ telegram of the 20th says the drouth was so bad in that vicinity that the fruit trees were dying. Rain sufficient to thoroughly wet the ground had not fallen for seventy-eight days. r " A German family in Chicago were recently suffering from trichina caused by eating raw ham. Cases not fatal. PERSONAL. The French citizens of San Franct3co on the 15th celebrated the centennial anniversary of the birthday of Napoleon the First in a becoming manner. Senator Trumbull arrived at Helena, Montana, on tlie 13th, and was received by a large crowd of citizens. , Samuel C. Clemens (“Mark Twain”) has purchased the interest of Thomas A Kennett in the Buffalo Express, and has taken a position on the editorial staff Colonel William J. Nagle, formerly of the Irish Brigade, one of the Feniana released some time since from an English prison, was killed by a fall from off his residence in New York city on the 15th. United States Commissioner Osborne,at New York, has discharged Pratt, the alleged Texas rioter, for want of evidence. President Grant and party were in Harrisburg, Pa., on the 17th, the guests of General Cameron. ' A Washington dispatch of the 17th says that the health of George Peabody, who was at White Sulphur Springs, was no better. He was more feeble than when he arrived at the Springs, and those who are most intimate with him state that he was failing very fast. General John A. Dix was arrested on the 17th, at the suit of John Mitchell, the Irish patriot, who charges him with illegal imprisonment. Mitchell, it will bo remembered, was arrested in New York city and imprisoned at Fortress'Monroe by General Dix, in the summer of 1865, and upon this fact he brings suit for $25,000 damages. General Dix gave security of $20 I (KW to answer the charge. The American Association for the Advancement qf Science met at Salem, Mass., on the 18th. About 250 members wero present. General Banks, ex-Senator Ramsey and Senator Fenton were in Paris on the 19th. J. Ross Browne arrived ip Stin Francisco from China, on the 19th. The number of enrolled delegates present at the National Educational Convention at Trenton, N. J., on the 19th, was 15,000. Several distinct meetings were held on the evening of the 19th, among them the National Superintendents’Association, American Normal School Association, and National Teacher’s Association. President Grant and family arrived at Newport} R. 1.,'“0n the morning of the 20th, and proceeded to the supimer villa of Gov-, ernor E. D. Morgan. D, 9. Hngar, of Massachusetts, lm» tyaa

elected President of the National Teacher’s Associatipn. Mr. Colfax and party left San Francisco for Yosemite Falls on the 28th. Political. A Richmond telegram Of the 14th says; “It is stated on good authority that General Ganby will, within ten Rays, issue a proclamation convening the Legislature, applying the iron-clad oath to the members, and when one cannot take the oath his seat will he given to tho candidate Who rooeived tho next highest vote." ' A Washington telegram .of the/17th 1 Says; “ Agentleqian Recently elected to. Ihe Virginia State Senate visited the Secretary of War to-day, and states that fte received satisfactory assurances that ihe lost otrtlt would not .be required of fnetnbqgs.cject to,the Legislatures" - , Delegates to the National Temperance Convention to be held In Chicago were appointed by tile Massachusetts' fftatb Con*' vention, on the ltth.i "r: . to 1 * n' j The Governor ofthe Territory ofWyotqftig, ftas issued op.roclqmationannouncing that an election will be held in said territory on the 3d day of September hext, for the choice of a'Delegate td i&e United States House of Reprqsentativea, and ofnine Members of thp Council, and thirteen members of the House of Representatives of the first ’territorial Legislature. A dispatch from Richmond, Va., bn the 18th says General Canby has decided that twelve months’ residence.in tho State is. nocessary as a qualification to Senators and M cm bers of the House of Delegates. , The Congressional election in Georgia will not take place untif November, 1870,* in accordance with am-act .’passed by the’ late Legislature. In- (ho meantime the Stafe is unrepresented in the national House of Representatives. A committee of the New Yorft Stock Exchange recently called on Commissioner Delano and requested him tb reconsider his recent decision classing them-as bankers, and requiring them to pay that tax. Tlie Commissioner refused to reopen the question, having given it full consideration already. The conviction under the new Massachusetts Prohibitory Liquor law was had in the Superior Court at Boston on the 20th. The. jury were out five hours, and defendant was fined sls and costs.

Decidedly Cool.

A cool swindle took place some time ago, in which the guilty Rarty escaped with little trouble. A certain conductor upon a certain railroad west of the Mississippi river, who had been in the employment of the company for eight or nine years, and who had been considered by the company and public, too, a very faithful and gentlemanly officer, was at length so unfortunate as to be suspected of collecting way-fare for which he did not account. But what was to be done? The company could not well dispense with his services, and it was not certain that he was guilty. Upon consultation, however, the Directors concluded to put detectives upon his track and ascertain whether their suspicions were well founded or not. For months he was closely watched in every movement connected with his position. But be was shrewd, sober, faithful and untiring in his exertions in behalf of the company, and the detectives were Utterly unable to discover the slightest ground for suspicion. The officers of the company, - however, judging from outside circumstances, JttU believed that all was not right. 1 He was receiving but a moderate salary. He lived high, dressed well, and frequently loaned money, and they believed that he was appropriating their money to his own purposes, and informed him so. He received the information andaccusation very coolly, and as coolly inquired of them what amount they supposed he had appropriated. They told him about $25,000. He informed them that he was ready to quit their service at any time if they would give him till honorable discharge; and as they hat) not detected him in any delinquencies toward the company, they could not do otherwise. They refused to do so unless he would refund them the $25,000 which, in their opinion, he had appfbpriated. Finally, he told them if they would, givd hint an honorable discharge and a receipt in full for rtll claims the eohipftny might have against him, he would pay them the amount claimed, unft .leave their service. They acceded to his proposition, and when the papers were duly prepared and placed at his disposal, upon the payment of the money, he went to the safe, in the office of the company, bdU took out his satchel,irom which he drew a package,of bank bjlls and handed it, to. the officers, saying. “ Gentlemen, there is twenty-five thousand dollars, the amount yoti Claim, I now claim my receipt and discharge, which were delivered to him. He continued : “ But, gentlemen, in ttiat same satchel is sixty-five thousand dollars more, and I have rbUrfhousatra 1 dollars in gold deposited in a bank In an Eastern city, and a valuable house and lot in the sarno city, all out of pour (Otnpo.hy. Gentlemen, for your honorable discharge and receipt in full, I am obliged to you, and now bid you good-day. —Or. Chicago Evening Journal. ——— A gentleman from Cheshire informs us of a singular case of somnambulism which occnm-d in that town a few nights ago. A young man living with Mr. William Bald: win arose In Ills sleep, went to the barn with nothing on but his shirt, harnessed a horse and hitched It into a wagon. The horse taken was very small, while the harness that the sleeper used- belonged to a very large hprse standing, in the next stall. This harness was so umeh out of proportion that it could not be used wlthoUtTeadJusting. This the yOung man did, taking up the various straps and rebuckling them until he got It to fit. When all was ready he mounted his team and .started in an easterly direction, probably as he was accustomed to go to Meriden, in the mortiings, with milk. About four miles from home he grossed a bridge, and he thinks it was of the water beneath that gave him the impression that he. whs drowning, which idea so startled him that he awoke. A* he has been subject to th« • -ibyihr freaks of mind, he realiztd tb : sli-utlort at once, and drove to a rela--1 five's near by, where he arrived about J I o’ct-'c’; id tna morning, quite chlHeo i through—aY«* ffatm Rsffisltr,

NO. 48.

CURRENT ITEMS.

A FAshiV of gnrbagc-piekerS In New York rqport SIO,OOO in bank. Gooey, the fashion man,” of Philadelphia, has on income of $39,180. John Gull is the oldest "prisoner In the Ohio. Penitentiary. He haft been there thirty-thjpc years. ~ t . , ~ .Tub sqn Francisco druggists are about to form an association for protecting the profession from abuses; Ass American has received $4,000 in gold from’a' German railroad company, having had his ankle broken by an accident. .- ; TWelve hundred rag-pickers attended the funeral of ajpi;oininent member of thff profession in Paris, and three speeches were made; f t. A Georgia' paper makes mention of having seen a bunch of grapes upon whiph iwflfe at least 2,000 fully developed and perfectly ripe grapes. George Peabody has given $60,000 to the Trustees of^"Washington, Va.,.College; to establish the addi ibnal‘professorship proposed by General Lee. • Hon., Habiuson Rejcd, , Governor of Florida, was recently married at Syracuse, N. Y.,’to Miss Chloe Merrick, for sCvcrtfl years a teacher of freednien in Florida. ThFrE arc thirty-eevfeft firms engaged in the. carriage business in Amesburg and Salisbury,^Mass., and the sales for the last quartet; reached the siyn of $413,313. Upotf, a. restaurant at Amsterdam, near the great Exhibition now in progress there, is a placard which says’: “ Customers are not robbed here as at Paris during tlie Exhibition, of 1867.”

j A woman Ims been arrested in Vienna for decoying young girls into her house and then bleeding them. The blood was used by this female fiend to wash herself with in order to preserve her beauty. It has been definitely ascertained that the total loss by the Crimean strugglo was as follows t .French, army, 95,615; English army, 22,182; Piedmontese, 2,184; Turkish, 35,000; Russian, 630,000—total, 784,991. During the year 1868. the number of letters delivered in Great Britain and Ireland was 808,118,000, or an aviftage pf 26; letters so, each person. There are a million of depositors in the postofflee .savings banks of the United Kingdom. Rev. Dr. Todd, of Pittsfield, Mass., lias been presented with a ring made from one ofthe golden spikes used in laying the last rail of the Union Pacific Railroad. The ring bears these words: “ The Mountain Wedding,” at which, it will be remembered, Dr. Todd was the officiating clergyman. Carlotta’s hatred of the French Emperor is so great that, when she saw his marble bust the other day in one of the corridors of the palace of Lackeu, she rushed toward it, seized it and threw' it to the ground, breaking it into a thousand jiieOes: That bust had been sent by Napoeon HL its a present to Carkrtta’s father, Leopold 1., when the latter notified him of the betrothal of his only daughter to tlie Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria. A mad dog entered the house of General M. M. Trumbull, in Dubtique, and created considerable excitement by snapping at the children. Mr. T.’s mother-in-law succeeded in cornering the brute between the wall and a sewing machine, and with a chair held him there until the children got out of the way. The animal was finally secured by two men, who, instead of killing it, procured a bucket of water and dashed somp- of it down-the dog’s throat until the paroxysms ceased, when they picked it up in their arms and carried it .twray.' •=," —*- At a recent meeting of the Poor-Board of Paddington, England, the Chairman remarked that in a recent visit to the infirmary he wa» accosted by a pauper inmate . who a few years ago possessed a fortune of $250,060 to $300,000, was a blood relative to one of the highest Peers of the real hi and had loet all his property by the failure of Overend Sc Gurney. The rules of ths Work House did not allow the master qjf the guardians to draw apy distinction between paupers, aqd the only thinjj that could be done was to write to the nobles Lord and Inform him of the destitute circumstances of his poor relative.

A young lady of Memphis, Tenn., made a practical illustration of the theory which has been quite, warmly advocated in.the columns of thC Eepolntifm, that ladies should have the same’ privilege as men in mnkihg- love and proposals of marriage. The young won an in question hearing that p, certain young man wanted to get marriedi dressed up in .her tidiest and called tipon him. Though they had never met before, she immediately made kitowh her errand. Being assured that he was iadMdfiesiloilsof a companion, she, without further preliminaries, offered heart aud hapd. The next day they were married; ’ . : ' A correspondent writing from Decorah to tlie Davenport (Iowa) Journal, tells the following horrible story of death : ‘J A little lad, Robert Clark, aged ten years, ran oqt in the field near his fatliqr’s home, in Franklin, In tills county, when he Was bittdn by one of the thrusts of a rattlesnake. die started to run, hut the snake bung to him. In the struggle the little fellow was bitten deren tipies on the leg below tlie ankle —the snake hung to the laSt bite; and the frightened child climbed a fence and kicked the snake off with his other fool, lid then started for homo, and before he reached homo ho had a fit. His.parents tfid everything that could be done to save him. Medical aid was summoned and exhausted. The child died. Ih the last hours of his suffering he would rub his tongue out at his mother, spit at the attondauts, and hiss like a snake, bosidesdiaving awful convulsions and heartrending delirium. An archtoological investigation of the country around Gettysburg'conducted by a learned antiquarian, has proved the truth of a belief song entertained .by residents, that the battle-field of Gettysburg had, in the distant past, been the scene of a bloody struggle between the Indians or some unknown or long extinct race. This fact is attested by the exhnmatlon of the military implements of the combatants, and the remains of the dead in what is known as thp Indian Ffgld, about a mile southwest of Round Top and of the National Cemetery. These relics are fonnd thickly imbedded’ in the soil over the whole area of territoiy which was the scene of tlie battle in 1863. They consist of Stone arrow-heads, battlc-axeS, war clubs, shields, Ac. Some of them have been disinterred from their, tomb of centuries and placed on exhibition in the college for the present, but they will sepa be jftaoftl ip » oas& at the Springs Hoi J. "J

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The Becent Steamboat, Horror on the Ohio River.

,The follow iojppn rt icuUps ©£ 4 by- qx pH> slon of the .steanboat Cumberland, near Bh«lwne4town, on Wie'fiWmittg dWheTfllf are gleaned from tho EvnneYiff*, Joumdl of the lGtl\: The boat was ot her ffotfrfitiirtl'ir)tf, and at Shuwneetown bur tbupijot had jq* rung for heaving the lead, when her larboard holler exploded with (PtijmMernuln, leaving the, boat' a ooniplet*. wde«k, and Wlbng and wounding a largo, number of her &eck-crew, a few pa£*d|?>« And’the mail agent, us is supposed. Kngineor Ku* map, wiio was op watch, hearing .the call fr»r the lead, at once tried tho Waterin'her toilers, and Adding it wtMaehiry.totttrMfal to tbe engine, to be ready to answer, the “slow bell,” whlMi he expected; and had just taken his position by thb engine wtie* the .boiler exploded. .It ‘ is. the, opinion of her engineers tlikt ohly the larboard boiler

; exploded». but alt the hoHersi three- lit number, were blown pviTboard. . Only a small pieeA of the exploded'boiler, and two small pieces of the flues aittfcbhed to the boiler-head, were found. Jim: MA theny, who was at the wheel, was blown Overboard, as was also BrrCsc Tfbtrfcr, sOeond clerk, who was on the Watch when the explosion occurred. Mathenywas but little stunned, and was not' only able to save himself, bat also aided Hunter, whom he found helpless on the water, by clingingto portions of the wreck till rescued by a skiff. , ■, David Person, the mate, v/w< blown, up in the air, and fell’into the hold beffi-atn the furnaces, among thocoalsof tire. After having worked his way out of the hold he discovered that the* boat. Was on fire; and though badly stunned, bruised and bleeding, lie rallied such of -the crew as he could And able for duty, turd, with Jhuiraiti cmled in extinguishing the’fire, which broke out in another-place, ibiit by 4ho timely efforts of the mate anil oneV, as* sifted by AJtx. liewdl, Cujff. Lutytij, others; it was aguip eitingyiahed, and the wreck, aha, fib doubt, nianv lives'sa\‘6d* In tlie meantime the atfCltof was rtistrontj and the J. L. Graham came up and towed the wreck to Shawueotywu,.jwffen.it sunk gradipilly, hnfa” having ljeyp stagkd by the explosion. When the expfesfdff doolP ‘plate, '(‘djft.' Lowtiiand Jim Danrn.rv'aveK- hurled Id the'wreck of Ute texas, :ind had Do burnt their way out, which »|f4ff. twch they succeeded in doing, and. joiffeff’ Uic mate and crew in theiir efforts to'sav'e the boat and assist the Wourided. Capt. botvth was especiallyiactive andeffieienUmscCtit; ing the conjfoft of the wounded;uudtvtu} ' nobljr seconded, in his efforts. by.,Cant,. Howell ahd Mr. Daniel Jacobs, of §)iawncetown, and the people of Sha\VfthctOWl were earnest in their efforts to render assistance and relieve the suffering. . 1 Marion 'Wright, the first clerk," wfcl slightly burned in lys, efforts Uiwt Bruce Hunter’s little boy, who was aslt-ep office, in wliich he was subcessftil, though the boat’s spfe,, in the name rpom; war blown overboard. , , —— George Blreh, the steward, had his ftgllt band ffadly sinaabed and slightly burned, but will soon be all right. * ... Samuel Copeland, the Blair agehClt is supposed, was makiUg.>ap his mail 'fhr Shawpeetpwn, and wa9Hotseen afterward. The officers of the LorCria, will A passed up last night, reported thatisfcpdead bndiefe had been recovered including the body rff the mail‘agent and one or the colored porters. Copeland leaves a Metropolis, IIL We are told that hekatlpnly a few days since taken out a life policy for $2,000. . . ; A young man who lived between Sb*wt ncetown and Equality, 111., a passenger, was terribly mangled and Instantly Ikiltco. His name waanoi ascertained. -. h? -r Nine of the negro, deck crew were at Shawneetown wounded, three Or fotir' seriously. Four or five were "very slightly wounded, but were able to assist iff Mying the wreck. There VCrA twenty deckhands and four firemen on thohoatvof whom pot more .than fourteen.,or Megp are accounted for, and it Is slip posed that four or f\ve wort kißud,’- hut as tbe books were lost in tbe cq»fu4iQ»,-aUeb4-ing tbe disaster, the exact number, or the names, could not be ascertained. . There was but one lady passenger,, and .she escaped without injury. Tjie bfflcers'bf the boat are highly commended foftkeif-e (forts, to save the passengers aiK|thy,ya;ew. Thebe are 676 convents in. Austria, with a population of <},l4Q monks and 4,914 nuns. : ' J '

TIER MARKETS.

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