Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1869 — Page 1

TOG RENSSELAER UNION. ■ » 1 ■ --= = - PubHakad Every Thursday by HORACE E. JAMES, | plArfi JOSHUA HEALEY, [ Proprietors. OmCK IN BPTTLER’fI BTTTLBTNQ OPPOSITE THE COURT HOUSE. litml,ilii, §3 t TmFi ia Advance. JOB WORK W ever? kin A OMItU to order In food etfle uo at low rites.

Selected Miscellany.

MEMORY'S IDYL This low brown hoiue, I seo It now; Orsndmotber with her knitting, A holy calm upon her brow, Iu shadsd porch wan Hitting. All down the path the popples flamed, Stiff box made green the border, And small blue violets. half ashamed, drew low iu sweet disorder. 1 had boon reading In the porch, Aloud,ln Revolution; It seemed like Sunday, a»d llko church, With two for congregation. The birds called loud from ash and Hr— I could not bo unheeding : I plucked a sprig of lavender. To keep the plnco in reading. I wandered down by balm and rue, And clumps of China-aster; I thought—well. Jack, I thought of yon, With heart-beatH somewhat faster. I)o you remember how the vino Grew close o’er all the arbor r It was a favorite haunt or mine, A dear, secluded harbor. Ho In I strolled, and there you were, In nil a dreamer's glory! Ah! you remember t Tell It. sir! A)’, dear, you end the story. —lfeartn Olid Home.

Nose Pulling In Massachusetts.

A cuiuous case lias recently been tried in the Courts of Boston. On* the 24th of July, Mr. J. M. Churchill, a lawyer of Boston, entered a train going from that city to Needham, and for some time looked in vain for a seat, the cars being crowded. At length he found two seats turned towards each other occupied by three gentleman. On attempting to take tlio vacant seat, lie was informed that it was reserved. Mr. Churchill appears to have expressed some doubt of the statement in Ids looks and in his tone, if not in his language, and, remarking that when the expected person came he would give way to him, he sat down in the seat. Now', Mr. Churchill, as appeared by the testimony, is father a large man, and he had with him a traveling bag and a toy wagon. The gentleman opposite him, Nir. Daniel S. Curtis, who is a lawyer by profession and alsoa hanker, was doubtless annoyed at what he considered Mr. Churchill’s intrusion, and professes to hare been incommoded by Mr. Churchill’s luggage. Mr, Curtis accordingly remarked that '‘lie wouldn’t have the bag there, at any rate,” whereupon Mr. Churchill put it into the aisle. Mr. Curtis - then said, referring to the toy wagon, which was under Sir. Churchill’s feet, with the tongue up, “if get9 broken it will be your misfortune," or words to that effect. Soon after the gentleman for whom the sent was reserved came along, and Mr. Churchill; in fulfillment of his promise, gave up his seat; bill before he went he took occasion to remark in a low tone of voice to Mr. Curtis, “if you are a gentleman, I hnve never seen one.” Upon that, Mr. Curtis followed Mr. Churchill into the aisle and pulled his nose, and when he w T as told in return, that “nobody but a blackguard would begin a quarrel in the presence of ladies," lie struck Mr. Churchill a violent blow between the eyes and broke his spectacles. The other passengers here interfered and the train proceeded. Mr. Churchill being a lawyer naturally bethought himself of seeking redress in tlie Courts. The case came up in the Municipal Court, and, after a hearing, Mr. Curtis was sentenced by Judge Bacon to two months’ imprisonment. Mr. Curtis’ counsel appealed, and Judge Scudder gave an opinion, confirming thesentence of the Court below. The ground was taken that Mr. Curtis had not shown himself repentant, and that a simple fine was not calculated to prevent the breaking of the law again. The Court remarked : It lias been said that the same punishment affects different individuals in different degrees. It is true that an imprisonment for a short time might be a greater punishment to one individual than a much longer term would be. for another. The degree of punishment would depend upon the position, character and organization of the individual. This is also true when the punishment is by fine. It is the duty of the Court, therefore, so far as possible, to impose such punishment ns will attain the ends sought by the law—cither the restraint or reformation of the individual or an example to others. The punishment should be proportioned to the offense and and should be equal in all cases. The Court can make, no distinction between different ranks in the community. Mr. Curtis testified before tho loiver Court tlmt when lie took hold of Mr. Churchill’s nose ho simply “turned it Iu a moderate and quiet manner,” hut neither of the Judges seemed to consider this circumstance as lit all extenuating his impetuous conduct. Judge Scudder imposed sentence -in —the following -words: TMfWYre it is considered by said Court that the said Curtis, for the offense aforesaid,, be imprisoned in tlie common jail in said county, to he employed and kept at work therein in the same manner ns otliyr persons committed to said jail, for the term of two months.

U. S. Revenue StampS, and How to Use Them.

TnouGH we have for some time been living under the rule of stamps, the question is one of every-day asking: “How much of a stamp does this require?” The following embraces the most general use of stamps as applied to manufacturers and particular classes of business that pay a special tax : All notes and evidences of debt, five cents on each $100; if under SIOO, live cents; if over SIOO, live cents on each SIOO or part thereof. All receipts for any amount, without limit, over S2O, two cents; if under S2O, nothing. Checks of any amount, two cents. All deeds and deeds of trust, fifty- cents on each SSOO in value of the property conveyed or the amount, secured; when deod; of trust is fully stamped the note secured need not be; but they should be Indorsed to show Ihd reason why. Mortgage bonds need not be stamped If stamps arc affixed to the lhoftgnge. All the appraisements, ostates, or five cents on each piece of paper. Affidavits of, every description arc exempt irom stamp duty. Acknowledgments to deeds, etc., are also exompt • Contracts and agreements, live cents foi- each sheet or piece of paper, except for rents or when lor rent, fifty cents for each S2OO of rent or less ; If over S3OO, fifty cents for each additional S2QO, or fraction* part thereof In excess of $300.* Any person int rested can affix and cancel stamps. » *.- Mb. Robeut Mii.i,h, of Rending Pa., lias on his premises a curiosity rarely met with, a duck having the feat of a chicken —the feet being without webs, and the head graced with combs; the other part of the fowl in like an ordinary duck.

THE RENSSELAER UNION.

VOL. I.

A Man Without a Breast-bone.

The following physical phenomena were exhibited beforo the American Science Association in Boston : : Dr. Groux, a native of Hamburg, and at nrosent a practising physician at Brooklyn, N. Y., was born without a sternum or breast-bone. Dr. J. Baxter Uplmm, of Boston, having boen intimately acquainted for many years with Dr. Groux, has devised a number of ingenious experiments by winch, in his case, the action of the heart is made to manifest itself both to the eyes and ears of persons situated at a considerable distance. It. should lie lwrne in mind that the action of the heart in Dr. Groux is perfectly normal and healthy, while the ahsoncc of the sternum renders it possible to make certain studies of the utmost importance, which are impossible in the case of the human being as ordinarily constructed. Dr. Groux’s case lifts been treated of at length in various medical journals in Europe, hut never before bus it been brought in such a striking manner before so large an audience of scientific men. The mechanism of the heart is somewhat analogous to that of a doubleaction pump. In both cases the machinery, however perfectly it may work, makes some noise. l)r. Groux was.able to show three distinct motions nnd sounds occurring successively, and with a certain rhythm, in every boat of the heart. Dr. Groux also exercised the power, rarely bestowed, aiid never used without great danger, of stopping at will, during a short period, the action of his heart. This was done this evening to the satisfaction of several medical men, one of whom was listening with the stethoscope at the chest, nnd two others feeling at the wrists £>r the pulse. For about 20 seconds the action of the vital organ In the frail chest of Dr. Groux completely censed. Some years ago there existed an individual who was wont to experiment with himself in this manner, and who finally perished through being unable to resume the ordinary conditions of human existence. Dr. Uphaju, so far from encouraging liis friend, Dr. Groux, in the repetition of this perilous experiment, has earnestly entreated him never to make the venture again. Some years ago Dr. Groux, having made up his mind to travel in various cities of Europe and America, caused Rufus Choate, the renowned lawyer, to draw up a will making over his body, in the event of ids death, to the surgeons for dissection. Portions of his will, which is a long document composed in Mr. Choate’s happiest vein, were read to the great delight of the audience. The'original draft, in the inimitable handwriting of Mr. Choate himselft'was also exhibited. The experiments and explanations specially relating to Dr. Groux were given with great clearness by that gentle-' man, who is a regularly graduated physician- It is clearly of great advantage to science that this rare malformation occurs in one who is so well qualified to observe the obscure vital nroeesscjntliicbffaffqrds an opportunity ot enjoying.—AircWsr.

Girdled Trees Bearing Fruit.

Otm readers have heard of the great atrocity of girdling 1,500 bearing fruit trees, at Benton Harbor, Michigan, near St. Joseph, by some unknown miscreant enemies of Martin Green. Tim neighbors turned out and bandaged tlie trees with the cloth strips dipped in great heated kettles of wax. A second lesser raid ’of tlie rascally spoilers was similarly met; and now for the sequel. Every tree lived, and lias come out of the trial bending under such a fruitage as has not liecn before seen in Benton Harbor. All Benton Harbor, and the region round nhout, is filled -with the ruarvql, jtyd, an* orchardUt has promulgated a new theory of fruiting trees by girdling them. Whether or not it will be deemed necessary, as in Charles Lamb’s story of the discovery of roasting pigs, to go through the whole process of girdling an orchard over night, and to have the village turn put'and repair damages the next day, remains to he seen. Those wise in fruit matters believe that, though the interception ofthp snn lias eausQd fruit to grow insteadpnyodii thirseason, tie real; trial of the trees will come next year, ’ As* to that, tiine can only show ; meanwhile, the trees are giving a magnificent yield, if it is to be tlieir final one.— Chit<iga Republican. K ,

Sympathy with Sickness, and what Comes of It.

•Such is the false Interest created in-dis-ease that many, in order to secure, the sympathy it. is sure to awaken, will either altect or deliberately incur it. Others again, if not willing to lie sick patients or to bo classed among them, arc at the.same time averse to the reputation of possessing robust health. There, are many flames' ami damsels wp know of who Would regard themselves almost insulted, though in porft'H health, if they wore presumed to be capable of any ordinary act of physical vigor, say ascuadjng a/mountain, walking a mile or two,'or' catiiig a hearty dinner of beef und pudding, be lore .witnesses. In fact there arc some yonng lfidtes wlio'hnve been known to faint ut the sight of roast pig. Such is their delicacy of organization that even the tlionglit of a dinner upon so gross a dish is enough to exhaust their vitality, iy . < Thin waists, cramped feet and hands, whitened faces, sofas, lounges, and small or pervpiW appetites, all-own Hieir ionableness to the fttlstj kick mt thore-hr something loveable in disease or an approach toßi fgttfturaotj bfamoredutgorous or more mistaken notion, fu every one naturally endowed with vigoroli* faculties of body and mind, all derangements of either must lie regarded as acts of disobedience against the law. ol their creation, and. therefore as proofs of offense. It is a moral duty, to preserve tiie integrity of our bodies as it is of our souls; and when we fail to do it, from ncglector perverse act, we cannot be guiltlca|£<?|le«lßijif may grieve at and pi|V 4 |iakncss, but it should not cyoke our ayntptjxriy. It lulSflecli well Tanarkiflsthat with the Increase of sentiiucnlal benevolence there Is* tv diminution of the pr act leal;- and thus it happens that those who are robust of body and strong rtf nerve are ordinarily tiie most tender and helpful to the billeted. They, on the-contrary,' are the least regardful of the sufferings of others, who are themselves dclicttte and oiling, ebd full of morbid "sympathy with, sickness." —. Harper'* Bniar. ' r ‘‘. ' ' ! -;i—.——U.J *;i - A ooMgABATiVK statement of the mor.tality of the cities pf Boston, tltneiniiMi, Shicago and St. Louis, from January I.to uly 1, 1839, based upon official figures, fipows that btery eighty-ninth person died ip Boston; every one hundred and fourth Ih Cincinnati.; every one hundred, end eleventh In Chicago, and every one hundred ttnd tenth in Bt. Louis.

RENSSI£LAE£, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SEPTEMBER 9, 1869.

Weekly News Summary.

„ FOREIGN. The Hayes polar expedition has been heard from at Ivightnt, Greenland. All on board were well. A Paris telegram of the 28th says the alurming rumors recently set afloat concerning the Emperor's health were officially denied. A dispatch from Madrid on the 28th announces the death of Escalante. Polo, a leading Carllst, and his Secretary have been sentenced to death. Andrew White, an American, lias been released by the Cuban authorities, at the request of Consul Plumb. A London telegram ai;>he flflth ult. says “ the reports from Pairo of the Emperor’s health continue Xhrf Independence Beige asserts that the Emperor Napoleon is confined to his bed with a chronic malady, but Ifcat the present attack is not of an alarming character.” The Havana Diario of August 30, in its semi-monthly review of the situation in Cuba, regrets its inability tq. publish flattering notices regarding the suppression of the insurrection, but reiterates the statement that the Spaniards nfe completely in the ascendency in seven jurisdictions in the Eastern and Central departments. The London PM Mall Gazette of the 30th ult. reports that in one large village in Russia, seventeen hundred persons—racmbiuw of a new fanatical sect—burned themselves to death. , The American legation at Parfa contradict the report that a kid been discovered on board the* United States frigate Sabine. The ship laborers of Qttebee were on a strike on the 31st ult., and shipping trade was at a stand still. Havana journals of August 34 £ivc no credence to the reports that the United States Government has made propositions to Spaiu for the separation of Cuba from tlie mother country, and declare that if apy such proposals have been made they can have but one possible result—refusal. A London telegnyn of |he3lSt ult. says tlie prospects for a large harvest in tlie British ttjes. “ Nowhere in Europe has thartt4Mon »uch a falling off in the price of cereals as in England, and unless greater - epeouragemen t is given, it will l>ev found that the foreign Imports \£lll be smaller scale after the subsidence of the effects of the late rise."

Paris newspapers‘of the 31st ult. assert that Burlingame lias received a dispatch .from the Chinese Government, expressing its cordial recognition of the treaties he has concluded with America and different European States, run ~> a'-tyve. A grand fete was given at the Crystal Palace, London, on the night of tlie 30th ult., in honor of the Harvard and Oxford crews, by the London Rowing Club. Tlie Suez Canal is completed. The opening is expected on tne ITt.li of December. The Government oi'gaiiJVatSffndrul on tlie Ist say the reinforcements aliout to sail from S]>ain wiH-Ifci sufficient to extinguish the insurrection in Cuha. Count Valmuzcda has been appointed General-in-Chief of the Spanish forces In Cuba. Ratitieatipns of a convention for laying a telegraph cable between Prance and South America dm ve been exchanged. J off. .Davis writes a Montreal friend that lie will probably continue to reside in G rs at Britain the rest of his life. The Emperor Napoleon presided at tlie Council of tlie Ministry on the Ist. A London telegram of tlieflfd' says: “ Public opinion continues skeptical with reference Xo Napoleon's health. Tlie impression prevails that condition is concealed, and this likely to be weakened tilt the KniperorTiiliftaelf is seen driving in Paris."* 1 ’

A private letter from Madrid, received in Washington on the 2d, states that Gen. Sickles lutd offered the tutted States as a mediator between Spain anil Cuba. Tiie impresstoji among mnny Spanish statesmen was thatGuba would eventually pass from the possession of Spain. The Madrid journals of the ?d are de-spondent-about Cuba, and tfemaiul full official information .about State affairs in the island. ; The-Loudon fbe Mjanitradicts the story of American treaty, and sayyjg**Mlc (jfelay iu ratifying is owing to pHSßrKinfg%«*«ire I<s complete the negotiations with (die European powgrsv ' , The Empress Eugenie has returned to •Paris, having abandoned her Eastern, _ DOMESTIC. i The headq’uarfers of tfic Department of the Missouri will be worth to St. LouU tbe letter past of September. •a. .*-i ••»... , -» A Washlftgttm telegram' say* . three methods are now known- ,by which the lately diaeoveted #«#lmds of ripening the i Qpdd Combination Lock, can be defeated, and General SpinkeranbdunCflkttiht when ccrtAip changes' are made Ifi those now In use, ho wiU ImvoMHiriSßnMnT in tha locks by y htefr tHKublic tJßsure; is se* cured. ■< “ > j m.i>. * . J. Ross Browne, late Minister to China, contradicts the statement contained -in the IlonjsWong 'loTejrhdif, ft at'Chinese Govern filtmt ifftd K i |( ? the Burlingame treaty. lie jays its Reification is only deferred until tho return of the Euj» Treasurer at NetiXoilc has been fifrectrid to epHtjmiethe purchase of bonds and sale*bf gdld during Befitember to the same extent as in August. The miners of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company voted on the 81st to immediately resume work,

OUII COUNTRY AND OTJR UNION.

A Washington special says that at the Cabinet meeting held on tlie 31st, Secretary Fish read a telegram received from Mr. Burlingame, denying the report tliat tlie Chinese. Government had rejected the treaty with the United States. Two men died of hydrophobia in New York city on the 81st. One of them was bitten three months before. Tlie annual gathering of the American Spiritual Association took place in Buffalo on tlie 31st. About two hundred delegates were in attendance. A fire at Cape May on the Slst ult. destroyed about $200,000 worth of property, including the Postofflce, the United States Hotel, McMakin’s new Atlantic Hotel, McConn’s Hotel, American Row, and many intervening stores and cottages. On the night of the 30th ult. the Chicago, Burlington <& Quincy railroad freight house at Quincy, 111., waa destroyed by Are. Twenty loaded freight cars were also burned up.. Tlie loss was estimated at SIOO,OOO. The Kentucky State Sabbath School Convention met in Covington, Ky., on the 31st nit. It was largely attended. On the Ist Dexter trotted a mile in 2:2124. to a road wagon, at the Prospect Park grounds. lie was driven by Mr. Bonner himself. On the evening of the 31st ult. ice formed two inches thick on the telegraph wires at Mount Washington, and the thermometer fell to 28 degrees. A few flakes of snow fell in New York city on tlie Ist. There was a slight frost and thin ice on standing water throughout Dutchess county, N. Y., on the morning of the Ist. The following is the public debt statement as made on tlie Ist instant: Debt bearing Interest in coin.. $2,107,936,300 00 Debt bearing, interest In lmvfn (money 01,780,000 00 Debt bearing no Interest....:. 410,474,293 37 Debt on which Interest has ceased since maturity 4,048,486 64 Total debt, principal 0ut5tanding...52,587,839,080 01 Accrued Interest to date and coupons due not presented for payment 89,814,79080 Total debt, principal and Interest. ■ .$2,026,653,870 31 Amount in the Treasury: Coin $101,214,996 71 Currency 12,144,487 10 Sinking fund in U. S. Rein-interest bonds, and interest collected and accrued thereon 14,020,830 00 Other U. S. coin-inter-est bonds purchased, >. and accrued interest thcreOd 23,311,005 00 Amount of public debt less cash In sinking fond and purchased bonds in Treasury $2,475,002,501 57 Amount of public debt less cash, sinking fund and purchased bonds hi the Treasury on the Ist of August 2,481,566,736 29 Decrease of public debt during the past month $5,004,934 29

Decrease since March 4,1869 $49,500,758 51 Information received in New York city on the 3d leaves no doubt that tlie crop in Central Georgia lms been seriously injured by the drought, which lias caused rust. The propeller Boscohel, bound for Chicago, was totally destroyed by lire, on the morning of the 3d, three miles below St. Clair, on the Canada shore. She had ten passengers, all of whom were saved. The second engineer, George Ely, jumped overl)qard and was drowned, and it is sup pQsed that one of the firemen shared the same fate. An explosion occurred on a vessel at Norfolk, Vn., on the Ist, by which three men were killed and four or five others were dangerously wounded. Receipts from customs for week ending August 27 were $4,510,301. A Washington special of the 2d says the Secretary of Interior and Commissioner of Indian Affairs have co-operated with the Secretary of War, and measures will be taken to prevont ftiture Indian depredations. Orders have been issued transferring additional troops to Montana. Tlie sixtli annual meeting of the Central Conference of the German Methodist Episcopal Church convened in Newport, Ky., on the 2d, Bishop Ames presiding. The conference embraces West Virginia, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana.

PERSONAL. Choy Chew and Sing Man have returned to San Francisco. They express gratification at their receptions in Eastern cities. Pliny Jewell, lather of Gov. Jewell, died at Hartford, Conn., August 28th, aged 72. 1 George Peabody left White Sulphur Springs, Va., on the morning of the 30th ■pit. His cough was almost entirely re licved and healtli much improved. A San Francisco telegram of the 30th ult. says > J. Ross Browne denies that he denounced the Burlingame mission, and disavows all participation in the Charge against Burlingame of fraudulent credentials. President Grant arrived in Washington on the 31st ult. The Cincinnati ‘*commcrcial” excursionists, consisting of tliirty-one gentlemen and dgliteen ladies, started for San Francisco on the 31st ult. v C. P. Drake has been appointed Assessor for the Fifth District of Michigan, ,and R. J. C. Wood, Collector for the Ninth District of Indiana. General Sherman was at Bangor, Me. on the 31st ult Isaac Jenkinson, of Indiana, has been appointed United States Consul at Glasgow, Scotland, vice Major James Haggerty. H. W. Longfellow, the poet, and family arrived at New York from Europe, on the Ist. Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukee, lias been: elected President of the Northwestern Railroad. Secretary Rawlins suffered a relapse on tiie night of the. 2d, and was insensible . for a period bf die hours, in consequence of asphyxia. His physicians became alarmed, and telegraphed Gen. Grant and the ScoreUjy'i relatives that ho could pot

live long. On tlie 3d Ills ease presented more favorable symptoms. President Grant arrived at Saratoga on the evening of the 2d. Senator Fessenden, of Maine, was in Portland dangerously ill, on the 3d, and it was feared he would not live through the night. The President on tlie 2d appointed J. Boyles Postmaster of Louisville Ky., over Speed, suspended. Walter Q. Gresluun has been appointed by the President, Judge of tlie United States Court for Indiana. POLITICAL. Gen. Canby has issued an order altering the time of paying the six months’ interest on the Virginia State debt, under the Stay law, to the 30tli of September. All executions already issued arc, stayed until that time. ~ f The Supreme Court of the State of Nevada has decided that the telegraph is a branch of commerce, and, therefore, under the controkof Congress, in the same manner as other kinds of commercial intercourse among the several States. The New York Democratic State Convention is called to meet at Syracuse on the 22d instant. In the Republican Convention of Wisconsin on the Ist the following nominations were made: For Governor, Gen. Lucius Fairchild ; Lieutenant. Governor, T. C. Pound; Secretary of State, E. A. Spencer; Treasurer, Henry Baetz. Attorney General Hoar lias given his opinion relative to affairs in Virginia, and transmitted the same to Gen. Canby for the latter’s information and guidance. The Attorney General holds that there is no authority of law for administering the test oath to the members elect of the Virginia Legislature. v The National Temperance Convention assembled in Chicago on the Ist A large delegation was present. Hon. James Black of Lancaster, Pa., was chosen President; J. A Spencer, of Ohio, Secretary; Hon. Gerritt Smith Treasurer. The Wisconsin Republican Convention on the 2d completed their nominations: For Attorney General, S. S. Barlow; State Prison Commissioner. Geo. F. Wheeler; School Superintendent, A. J. Craig. The Secretary of the State of Indiana has forwarded to Washington a certificate of the ratification by Indiana of tlie Fifteenth Amendment. The news from the California election on tlie 2d is to tlie effect that “ the Democratic local tickets throughout the State arc generally elected by decided majorities. The next Legislature will be emphatic against the Fifteenth Amendment. San Francisco returns a full Democratic Legislative delegation. The vote of the city was light. The count of straight tickets for Mayor, last night, gave MeCoppin, Democrat, nearly 1,400 majority; hut the count of scattered tickets, at 8 o’clock this evening, shows that Selby, Independent, is about 125 ahead, with a prospect of an increased majority.”

Horrible Case of Starvation.

The Cedar Rapids, lowa, correspondent of the Dubuque Times, under date of August 28, gives the following account of a horrible case of abuse and starvation : We chanced to come in possession of the facts of a most terrible and unprecedented otse of starving a human being alive. The victim of this inhuman cruelty is a lad of about seven or eight years of age, and lives with his parents, in tbs suburbs of the ordinarily quiet and orderly town of Marion. It is asserted by a number of the 'neighbors that they have, at different times, within the last few weeks, visited the house of the i>oor boy for the purpose of ascertaining whether the reports which their children were continually giving were true or not. Asa pretext for these visits, they would take with them some little delicacy for the atllictcd boy, as a means of ascertaining whether the reports which their children were continually urging upon them, were correct. Blit these attempts to get a sight of the poor child were* mostly in vain, as he was kept in an old garret and secured with a chain around his neck. Imagine what his sufferings must have been in this condition during the recent hot weather. fhiftieient evidence, however, was gained in tliis way to warrant an examination into the matter by the officers of the law; and accordingly Sheriff Hay/.lette, with a number of citizens, proceeded to the house to make investigations, and to see that the parents were properly punished unless they would guarantee a more humane course of treatment to their boy in tuture. This visit was made on last Thursday, and, although the chains had been removed, the Doy was found to bo nothing but skin and bones. He confessed—as had been stated by the neighboring children—that he had been starved until be was obliged to eat flies. He was also seen to pick the rags from off his scanty garments and cat them. He had been kept in this way secreted, and, until recently, unknown to even his nearost neighbors, jjfor over six months they have kept him in this condition, and allege, as an excuse for their brutal treatment, that he was subject to fits, and that they were afraid he would get away and annoy his neighbors. But those who saw and talked with him were convinced that the cause of the fits (if the parents’ story is correct) is the consequence of the treatment he receives at their hands. His entire person showed umnlstakableevidences of cruel beating, as well as starvation, until life was almost gone. A few days or weeks of similar treatment would liave put an end to his existence, and the aim Of the parents would doubtless have been accomplished. The Sheriff ordered that the boy was to he well provided for and was to go unchained in the future. For obvious reasons, we suppress the names of the parents in this article. From twenty colleges, under.the charge of the Methodist Church, not less than four hundred sthdents are now taking their diplomas. -Between one-tenth and one-fifth of these design to enter the ministry. At least one hundred Methodists are graduating at other colleges, of whom a Uke proportion will enter the ministry.

NO. 50.

CURRENT ITEMS.

Vanderpilt is called the ancient marryln’er. A Newpoiit head-waiter makes SIOO a day in fees. Prussia lias seven hundred cloisters with six thousand inmates. A cnn.n in Ohio died recently from the effects of a rat-bite on the nose. “One Night in Ten Bar Rooms” is a forthcoming drama by Mark Twain.. Tiiehe are twenty-two American students at the University of France. \ Indianapolis claims to bo the greatest walnut lumber market in the world. TnE Southern Illinois Normal University has been located at Carbondale, Jack son county. Twelve hundred persons were last year summoned before London courts for cruelty to animals. More diamonds liave been discovered at the Cape of Good Hope, one of which is said to be worth £BO,OOO. Wilmington, North Carolina, dressed the lamp posts in mourning on the death of a late popular lamplighter. The Masonic Fraternity of Louisville are about erecting a Widows’ and Orphans’ Home, to cost SIOO,OOO, onground donated. Dn. F. A. Mitchell, one of Mr. Greeley’s school-teachers, who taught him writing, died recently in Manchester, N. 11., at eighty. A lady in Swampscott, Mass., has secured a nail recently made in a New Hampshire blacksmith shop by Robert Collyer.

Jenny Lind has become quite poor. Her husband has squandered most of her money. It is thought that she will open a school for opera-singers in Paris. A man recently died at Parkersburg, West Virginia, of cancer in the face, caused by a piece of wood accidentally striking his lips. TnE Pennsylvania State Fair has, among other premiums, a prize of fifty dollars to the reporter who writes the best and fullest account of the show. A mountain range of iron ore has been discovered in Alaska, The range has an altitude of 2,000 feet, and causes a deviation oi ten degrees in the magentic needle. The Bishop of Wisconsin recently held a confirmation among the Oneida Indians at Green Bay. The service was in the Mohawk language, and seven persons were confirmed. An apothecary’s clerk in Boston, who recently sold laudanum for rhubarb, thereby causing the death of a Mrs. Norton,lias been admitted to bail in $2,000, to answer to the charge of manslaughter, The hull of a buried vessel was found lately eleven feet under ground in digging a sewer in jhe streets of Stockholm. It is supposed to have been there more than three hundred years. Benjamin Brown, of Stapleton, Staten Island, a graduate of Harvand, offers to give $5,000 to the Oxford crew, if they will consent to row the Harvards, on cither the Hudson or Charles river next autumn. The Sisters of Mercy in a Durham (England) convent lately struck and departed from the establishment without leave from their superiors, on account of the insufficient allowance of food. A Cleveland surgeon was sent for hurriedly by a wealthy family the other day, to set a fractured limb, and, making great haste to the house, a pet poodle which had met with an accident was borne in with household lamentations by a domestic.

At a recent meeting of the Ladies’ Sanitary Association of London, at which a number of prominent surgeons and physicians were present taking part in the proceedings, it was decided that there are not at present sufficient data to warrant the present law compelling vaccination. Two noted Saratoga belles got into a dispute on the piazza of the Clarendon the other day about which had the longest trail—each one stoutly claiming to have the longest. It was finally settled by measurement, when the difference was found to lie just half au inch, the longest being 13 feet inches. Dr. Mooeus, a much respected and benevolent physician of Plattsburg, N. Y., died some weeks since. While the funeral was being attended at the Presbyterian Church, of which he was a member, mass was lieing recited in both the Catholic Churches for the repose of his soul. The Irish and French residents, whose poor he had attended without charge, desired this done. A California letter of the 24th of August says: “ Eight car loads of butter anti cheese just arrived, and seventeen mor* expeeted,/row the Eastern State*, for California. * VVny is this thus, and what is the cause of this thus-ness*’ California is sadly behind in dairy farms, yet lias any quantity of land suitable for them. Here is a magnificent opening for those understanding the business.” A resident of Birmingham, Counectitttt, recently accidentally shot himself In the lfimd with a pistol, the ball passing through the bones of the little finger of his left hand. Jle refused to have it amputated, and in a few days mortification set in. The finger, with a portion of the left hand, was then removed, but lock-jaw set in, from the effects of which he died.

The Newark Advertiser tells how a Jerseyman’s life was saved, the other day, by a kick. He was attempting to get upon a moving train, with a' pail of butter in one liana and a basket of eggs in the other,' and was in danger of loslngnis life, when the conductor gave him a vigorous kick, which sent him flying with heels in the air, and scattering his eggs and butter in promiscuous directions, but preserving him from injury. A large body of black ants were seen on the highway between Concord and Lpndon, N. H., a few days since. They were formed ii} two lines, extending entirely across the road to the bank opposite. Persons who saw them estimated their number by the million. A severe battle was fought, which lasted nearly an hour, after which both sides were occupied In burying their dead. Their weapons were their teeth, and they destroyed each other by biting their bodies open in the middle. An eminent writer on finance and economy, M. Eugene Forecade, became ipsane two years ago. His- fronds appliedto have the “care” of his' property, but apparently left the Invalid to take care of liunself. However, a strange lady, a widow, and ah admirer of Forecade’s W* ent, stepped in, and for two years nursed him through his illness. The Court having S renounced him of sound mmd,' the next ay he married his heroic nurse, and they started for Italy to pass their honeymoon. —Paris Letter. ' Ik the hamlet of Nuraey, In Carlow

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County, Ireland, twenty two families, numbering over one hundred and twenty persons, old tenants mostly, holding under middle men, and remarkable for industry, sobriety ana punctuality In the payment of rent, have, upon the death of the person on whose life their leases depended, been turned out of house and home. One morning, two bailiffs, a sheriff and eight policemen, armed with rifles, unroofed the cabins, and drove out the inhabitants to take refuge in ditches, sheds and under temporary structures. Into one old cowhouse, on the land of a neighboring gentleman, there were huddled together fourteen persons of different ages and sexes. This cruelty was practised because the owner had determined that nobody should live on the land. The following statement shows the number of Postoffloes in operation In the States and Territories of the United States on the first of August: Alabama, 487; Alaska, 2; Arizona, 14; Arkansas, 384; California, 471; Colorado, 91; Connecticut, 897; Dakota, 35; Delaware, 86; District of Columbia, 6: Florida, 108; Georgia, 402; Idaho, 20; Illinois, 1,575; Indiana, 1,281; Indian Territory, 27; lowa, 1,081; Kentucky, 885; Kansas, 886; Louisiana, 220; Maine, 807; Maryland, 486; Massachusetts, 075; Michigan, 937; Minnesota, 605; Mississippi, 355; Missouri, 1,111; Montana, 58; Nebraska, 181; Nevada, 48; New Hampshire, 401; New Jersey, 514; New Mexico, 41; New York, 2,602; North Carolina, 725; Ohio, 1,996; Oregon, 144; Pennsylvania, 2,715; Rhode Island, 96; South Carolina, 308; Tennessee, 754; Texas, 499; Utah, 105; Vermont, 450; Virginia, 945; Washington, 69; West Virginia, 561; Wisconsin, 1,021; Wyoming 16. Total, 27,181.

The Comet.

Winnecke’s comet is now visible in the constellation Taurus, by those who possess a telescope, and use it about 3 o’clock in the morning. At that hour, Friday, September 3, it will be in 3 hours minutes of right ascension, and 7 degrees 59 minutes of north declination. This colnct was first observed in 1819, by M. Pons, at Marseilles, and was rediscovered in 1858, by Dr. Winnecke, at Bonn, who computed its elements. Its period is five years six and a half months. Its nearest distance (perihelion) from the sun is. about 70,000,000 miles, and its greatest (aphelion) about 505,006,000 miles; it, therefore, passes some distance outside the orbit of Jupiter. It passes its perihelion this year about the 2d of June, its longitude being,then 279 degrees 51 minutes, while that of the earth was about 263 degrees. Hence the comet was then only a little more than 20,000,000 miles^rom the earth, but was Invisible, owing to the fact that it was nearly between the earth and the sun. The earth has now advanced about 90 degrees in her orbit, and the comet has followed in the same direction, being now nearly on the earth’s path, but before her, and is rapidly passing out towards its aphelion. It is now much nearer to us than at the time of perihelion,. but' there is no danger of a collision, and it is so small that there is little danger of its being seen by the naked eye. The orbit, of the comet is inclined 10 degrees 49 minutes to the plane of the dip tic, and cuts it, ascending into north latitude, in 113i£ degrees of longitude. The motion is direct. —Chicago Trumne,

Tomb of Adam.

The tomb of Adam! How touching it was, here in a land of strangers, far away from home, and friends, and all who cared for me, thus to cover the grave of a blood relation. True, a distant one, but still a relation. The unerring instinct of nature thrilled its recognition. The fountain of my filial affection was stirred to its profoundest depths, and I gave way to tumultuous emotion. I leaned upon a pillar and burst into tears. I deem it no shame to have wept over the grave of my poor dead relative. Let him who would sneer at my emotion close this volume here, for he will find little to his taste in my journeyings through Holy Land. Noble old man—he did not live to seo me—he did not Uve to see his child. And I—l—alas, I did not live to see him. Weighed down by sorrow and disappointment, he died before I was born—six thousand brief summers before I was born. But let us try to bear it with fortitude. Let us trust that he is better off where lie is.— Mark Tirain. m • ©» '' " —There are pear, tree* in a garden in the town of Elliott, Me., from which fruit was taken 140 years ago.

THE MARKETS.

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