Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1869 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER UNION. I‘ubHtked Every Thursday by HORACE E. JANEB» » JOSHUA HEALEY, f Proprietors. OFPICB IN BPITLKR’9 ROTMJING OPPOBITB TUB COffBT HOUBB ■ likHilHlta, 13 a Vwr. in Advance. JOB WORK Of mn ktad et*AUd to Order in coed etyle u« «lew ratio.

Selected Miscellany. TIIE OTHER DAY. The nhndows of eomu hundred jeers Kalla on a mansion quaint and gray, Whore I, with mingled liopos and fttara, Whispered awact secrets In the ears Of one whom now I see through Unira, Only tho other day. Oh. Margaret! my Margaret I' A> oft In rhyme I used to say, Olrl with tho eyoa of violet! llow lu the otne-wood walk. we met, . When early flowers with dew Wore wet •Twas but the other day. Whon eunaet skies were amethyst, We to the woodlands found our way, At ovoour elders played at whist. And wo, of course, were never mused When we Btolo out, and talked and kissed, Ouly the other day. I went across tho salt sea foam— We corresponded while away t Paris 1 saw, Vienne, Itoms, Thu Brldgo of Sighs, Bt. Peter’s dome. Aud then, with hungry hoart, came home . By steam tho other day. My Madge was married to an Earl I A gouty one I’m glad to aay 1 ller tresaee have tho eelf-snino curl; Through rosebud lips 1 see tho pearl; But oh! she’s not (he little girl I wooed the other day.

A Lire Man’s Estate Administered Upon.

One of the New York papers gives the following account of an administration upon a man’s estate before his decease: Twenty years ago a man living in this city made a deposit of money irt a savings bank here. He then went away. For fifteen years he was not heard from. About five years ago another man applied to the surrogate for letters of administration upon . the estate of the man who had depostted the money in the bank. He represented that the depositor was dead, and lie was appointed administrator upon the depositor's estate. He then went to the bank and demanded tho money. Although ho did not present the bank book which is furnished to depositors, the officers were satisfied that all was right, and paid over the money to him. The absent depositor recently returned to New York. He went to the bank, showed his bank book to tho officers, and asked for his money. The compound interest had made the amount about twenty-six hundred dollars. The officers recognized the man as the one who had placed the money in their keeping, and admitted the authenticity of his bank-book, and that, if jt had not been soy the administration on his property, he would be entitled to his money. They informed him that they paid it to his administrator, and referred him to that person, whose name he had never before even heard, for the missing sum. The teller wrote upon tain bankbook, “Wo rotor you to your own administrator.” The depositor has thus far been unable to find the man who took his money. It is understood that ho has commenced proceedings against the bank. The caac will raise some novel and very interesting questions of law. It would seem that there is little difficulty in New York in taking out letters of administration upon the estates of living persons, judging from the facts of this ease.

The Latest Dodge.

A ATSUT ingenious trick, by which n gang of swindlers are making money by mutilating national bank-notes of the denomination of five dollars,'has recently come to our notice. The dodge consists of making ten bills out of nine, and is so managed that there is but one pasiing to each manufactured note. The nine whole hills arc taken, and from the right of tho first onetenth is sliced off; from the right of the second two-tenths; from the right of the third three-tenths, and so on to number nine, from ivhich nine-tenthsarc taken from the right, or what amounts to the same thing, onc-tenth from the left. Number one is passed as it is, with a tenth gone from the right; the one-tenth taken from number oue is pasted to tho residue of number two, from which two tenths had been taken; these tAvo-tenths arc made to answer the place of the three-tenths taken from number three, and so on through. Thus nine five dollar notes arc completed, leaving the original number nine, with a tenth gone from the left, ns a tenth noto. It will be seen that but a tenth is gono from each hill, and in a different place on every one, and a little ingenious pasting makes the loss impreccptiole to ordinary observers It is certain that large numbers of these mutilated bills have beep circulated in this city, aud our readers will do well to look out for them. The rogues wfio have carried out the fraud were cunning in selecting the denomination 'they dip. Larger bills would have been more closely scrutinized, and smaller ones Avould not: lmvo been so remunerative. A similar thing Avas done by parties in Williamsvillc, several years ago, Avith fifty dollar’ notes of the International Bank of this city,; but that cheat was not so cleverly managed as this, and was soon detected. Tli*. department will not redeem a bill which bears evidence on its lace that it’ has been tampered with, and we advise our friends to scrutinize their five dollar notc| ehiaely. — Exchange.

Sad Episode in an Actor’s Lift.

When the company came to St. l*aul a few weeks ago, tlie wife and children of Mr. Slieldon remained behind to pay a visit .to some friends, expecting to meet the husband and father in a short time, - in i this State. The time had elapsed and Mr. Sheldon was anxiously looking for Ihetr' arrival every day, longing once more to clasp his darling to his. heart. Day aftbr? day passed and they did not come. On Thursday evening hist, Just as tho curtain was about to rise for the play of “ Under the. Gaslight.” at the Opera House, in Minneapolis, in which, it will be remembered, Mr. Bheldoi) bikes a prominent anil comical character, one of the ushers of the evening came to the grpen room and stated that a lady was at the door requesting to see Mr. Sheldon. Repairing to the door,' what was his delight to meet his expected an(l his little boy. Carried away by; his Joy at their arrival, he did not at first* notice the sod and mournful appearance of Ins Wire, nor est once remark that his pet and favorite child waa not with her. The first greeting over, lie noticed her absence and at once inquired where she was. The answer was one calculated to wring every fibre of his loving, fatherly heart. She had been dead and buried a week, and this was his first intimation that the had been (flefc. Staggering back as from the effects of anpvertfnolming bjow, he heard the bell ring for the Cartain to rise and listened like one in. a dream to the call for his appearance upon tho stage to act *thc part of a happy-go-lucky character so frequently met with In the streets of New yorlf city. Stunned by hi# heavy affitp-

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tion, his heart filled with a sorrow which only a bereaved parent can feel, and, leaving his weeping wife and child, he hastened before the foot-lights, and commenced his part. Did any of the large audience assembled know of the fearful struggle in that father’s heart that night ? What mockery of woe was here presented, and how stranger than fiction are sometimes the realities of life. How he managed to perform his part that evening he dm not know. : He succeeded in finishing his performance, when lio learned the saa Earticulars of.liis bereavement, and bow o received the mournful tidings in such an unexpected manner. His wire was on the eve of departing to join her husband, when the little girl was taken sifdfhmly and alarmingly ill, and died in a few days. Remote from a line of telegraph, and not knowing exactly where to direct to her husband, the short - Illness and sudden death of the child all took place within so few days, that the sorrowing mother and wife hastened to carry the sad tidings to the husband and father in person, with the above result.—St. Paul Pioneer.

The Theft of a Diamond Ring.

A valuable diamond ring had been stolen from a jeweler’s in Quincy, Illinois, whither it had been sent for some work to be done upon it. The jeweler was in great distress—could hear nothing of the ring—was scarcely able to pay for it—was miserable. Ransack his mind, as he did, over and over again, he could fix the theft but upon one person, a married lady who was his neighbor, his wife’s friend, spotless in reputation—a Christian. He snid nothing, however, and, after several months hail passed away, the lady’s husband moved to Kansas City, bringing with him his wife and two children. He followed in a week, sought out D——, gave him a full description of the ring, and departed as suddenly as he had come. Lying constantly on guard behind the impenetrable mask of his observation, D kept watch and ward over the doomed woman, waiting for the magnificent diamond to Hash out before his eyes its light of unmistakable recognition. One day be saw it on her right hand, and knew it in a moment. That evening, satisfying himself that her husband was absent, D called upon the lady and found her alone. The ring was nowhere to be seen. Instinctively feeling the approach of danger, she had again disposed of it. • , “I came, Madam,” said D , very politely, “to speak to you upon a little matter of business.” “Ah ! sir,” she replied, “ then, perhaps you will call again when my husband is at home.” “ Unfortunately, madam, my.reasons far seeing you were of such a nature that I had rather your husband would not be at home. What have you done with the ring you wore this morning at church ?" a a Not a muscle moved in the woman’s matchless sac for its wonderful calmness and repose. “ A ring 1” she replied in the most nonchalant voice in the world, “what ring, and whht do you mean, sir V” - “I mean a diamond ring, madam—a ring lost by Mr. , of Quincy, Illinois; a ring which I saw in your possession this morning; a ring, to recover which I now Rave a warrant for your arrest.” The word arrest paralyzed her. A few broken vows of repentance, a few stormy tears of grief, and shame, and agony, and the lady produced the ring) imploring D , with all a'woman’s pleading, that lie would spare her for her children's sake, lie promised a full compliance, and to this day has kept his word, utterly refusing to give even the initials of the woman’s name. The family not long ago moved to Southern Kansas, and to this fact alone avc arc indebted for even tTie outline o{ this true and romantic story.— Kansas Oily 2 imes.

A Conductor Fatally Earned.

A A’EBT painful accident teceutly occurred on the Boston tt Albnfiy Railroad at Newton, near Boston. Tito Victim was a conductor on a freight train. It appears that in the freight train that left Boston at 7 o’clock in the evening were some “ compromise ” cars, upon which. Avere two tanks, each used for the transportation of petroleum,in built. The tanks had boon empited at East lios|pn, and were on their way to Erie to be replenished. They arc large and cylindrical in form. In Rm cen- • tre of' oacliViftthcm iaarLorifite, Avldch Is ‘bridged by * plank, upon which conductors and brakemen can pass from one car •to another. It seems that Mr. Bamuol Preston, when near Newton Centro, about' seven miles from Boston, had occasion to pass over one of the oil cars. He had his •lantern in his hand, and las soon as he reached the first tank the fire of his lantern ignited the aAsos Which Were generated by the residue of the pertoleum, and an explosion immediately took place. The top of the tank was |)|ow* off and She interior at once became a livid sheet .of fire. lutQtbis Uic uirftKftniate n*m instantly fell, and although , he made the most strenuous exertions to extricate himself, in which lie-iyas finally, successful, it ' Avas not until he had been Tearfully burned. In his agony he ran ip to field close by. One of the employes about the depot saw him and hastily got a blanket, and by *ing caused. .He w«» frightfully burned, but did-nqt iqse his except Tor a 4i}w moments. 1 In renwivihg bis | clnthing the skin from his and legs came off in shreds.. His arms and hands were. Radiy blistered, and he was ■considerably bufned'W the' body as well. ■ln spite of his sufferings he did not lose iconsciousness, but was aWe in some degree -to relate how the accident ocentred: After intense suffering, death came to his tho next morning. . j t —Some statistics nws«d£lng the number )ot deaths from, yiiilaqce hr ifyjr have just becnrllliM I>y tfte-Tfrrhrt VFbvernment. In 1867, 2,026 Jifunjctdcß.were commuted, or 10.84 for ivery lOfi.OOffiinhamtants. In 12.02; Great Britain, 1.05; and Belgium, 0.16. Tho greatest number of homicides occurred in Southern Italy, therq being, 19.84 for every 100.000 lnhftbltafitS;' Whllt)' in Northern Italy the average waS 3,70 for every 100,000 inhabitants, Oampared with 1808,'there was a decrease itr IS6T’ ift* the total unmber of violent deaths to the extent of 481. Of the 2,620 homicides committed during 1867, 264 arc described as involuntary, 2,259 as voluntary, and 103 as (nfimtlcidcs. Gs the last named there was a diminution of 84 in 1867 com pared with 1866. j ■. L • .t | . ' * —A California gambler bet hi*, artificial teeth on the result of a game aid Idit, '

RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SEPTEMBER 16, 1869.

Weekly News Summary.

FOREIGN. Mr, Burlingame has received a dispatch from Prlnde Rung, expressing the entire satisfaction of the Chinese Government with the treaty between that countfy and the United States, -apd announcing fits early ratification. Advices received in Havana from Port au Prince to the 29th ult. state that an engagement before Aux i Cayes tbok'pl&co on the 22d, when Salnave was defeated and dangerously wounded. The news further states that Salnave had issued a proclamation declaring his abandonment of (he cause for which he ho# so long struggled. The rebels were meeting with success everywhere. The French Senate on the Cth adopted the Senatus Conspltum, by a vote jof 134 to 3. Madrid dispatches on the 7th State that the last Carlist band known to be on Spanish soil had been defeated by the national troops, hear Gerona. Tho Paris Journal Offieiel of the 7th says the Emperor Napoleon attended to public affairs daily, and at no time had his condition been such as to cause the least anxiety. , The-cotton crop in the interior of Egypt is reported as excellent in qualify and quantity. The Boston Peace Jubilee is to-be reproduced at the Crystal Palace, Lpndon. The Emperor Napoleon arrived in Paris on the evening of the 10th, and afterward returned to St. Cloud. He was in improved health. DOMESTIC. Receipts of fractional currency-for week ending September 4, $271,000; shipments, $109.000; redeemed and destroyed, $294,200. National bank circulation outstanding, $399,737,600. A destructive conflagration occurred at Goldsboro, N. C., on the night of the 4th, by which tho Wayne House, Masonie Hall, lumber yards, and ten warehouses- were destroyed. Loss $135,000. The offices of the Messenger and Poet newspaper? were also destroyed. They will cation soon. -t Ex-Secretary Seward’s speech at Sitka has been published. He gives a complete review of tba tesources and productions of the new Territory, expresses sanguine hopes of the future prosperity of Alaska, and says the people need a ’Territorial Government. The jury in the case of McCoy, & Co., distillers, of Omaha, have brought in a verdict confiscating all the property, owned by the firm, amounting to nearly $30,000, for defrauding the Government. A fire in Richmond, Va.,on the-night of the 6th destroyed property to the value of $300,000. rt ' l ’ The news, on the 6th from along the Arkansas and White rivers says the cotton crops arc splendid, and the balls are opening finely. From along the' Mississippi for two hundred- miles below Memphis, the drought has cut Off thd crop onethird. The yijuss bolls were si bedding off, and only the lower or bottom! ball Will mature. A fire broke out on the morning of the 6th, at a coal shaft near Plymouth, Pa., which burned the out buildings and hoisting apparatus, thereby cutting off the escape of over 200 miners at work below. It took all day to clear away the burned debris which fell into the shaft, and at 10 o’clock at night two men descended, who perished while endeavoring to open a gangway door. Two other miners, who descended afterward, were driven back by sulphurous fumes, and it was feared the 200 men shut up in the mine had perished. James J. Brooks, a United States detective officer at Philadelphia, was shot through the lungs on the 6th, in revenge, it was supposed, for his successful efforts in detecting revenue frauds. The Treasury Department at Washington has decided to offer a reward of $5,000 for the apprehension of the murderer. The news on the 7th from the coal mine disaster near Plymouth, Pa., is to the effect that thousands of miners, women and children covered the hills and grounds in the vicinity, and subscriptions were being raised for the relief of the widows and orphans, who number over 600. Several exploring parties descended to the bottom of the shaft, and penetrated quite a distance along one of the passages, but the gas and damp drove them back. As the gas was so strong, no attempt could be made to reach the main door or penetrate the mine until the outer gangway was cleared of gas. There was no ground to hope that a single one of the 202 men in the mine was alive. The New England Agricultural Fair opened, at Portland, Me., on,tha 7th, with large contribution* from Now England and Canada. The Mississippi Valley Commercial 1 Convention, In suasion at Keokuk, on the ,Bth, made a permanent' by 'electing Gen. VKade^ere/of' Dubuque, President) and a;lon^ito dent* and Secretaries. Sitttfdmgeorauffttees on Use MilMßippi Rltak and ftairibu-t tariffs, on of tin* National Capital, anilo* immigration were appointed. Resolutions iq fltvor of refJxoying the^atlonafClftiwai to some point in the Mississippi Valley were tabled. Ti i • Th j’ Allen tow* (Pa.) Tr»n "Works were IburaniLo» the TSh, invofcriag.a Jow-oL 1300,000, % *15,000 wages every nuanlh,/Mad by .then destruction one thousand men are thrown out of employment. On the 8th the bodies of the victims of the Avondale mine disaster, near Plymouth, Pa., were discovered, piled up together in the east side of the plane. The bodies were removed as rapidly as pos-

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sible, and up to 7:15 p. m. sixty had been raiscd. Relief subscriptions were received as follows: $5,000 from New York Board of Brokers, $2,500 from Asa Packer, and $500 from Governor Geary. The Cincinnati Old School Presbytery, at tho meeting which closed on the 6tli, ratified unanimously the plan of the General Assembly on the subject of reunion. No public business of any kind was transacted in Washington on tho Bth. The news oi the death of Senator Fesssnden added to the gloom occasioned by that of Secretary Rawlins. A Helena telegram reports that the coach Which started on the 4th for Corinne was stopped about midnight, on the evening of the 6th, fifty aniles north of Corinne, by robbers, who quietly secured the driver and obtained possession of about tfiijfy thousand dollars’ worth of gold bars. They afterwards caused the passengers to give up their arms and about two thousand dollars in currency.The coadh Avas then allowed to proceed. The twenty-eighth annual session of the lowa Universalist Convention assembled in Des Moines on the Bth. In the Mississippi Valley Commercial Convention on the 9th the resolutions in favor of the removal of the National Capital were taken up and passed. One hundred and eight dead bodies had been taken out of the Avondale mine on the 9th, and it was thought this comprised all who had perished in the disaster. A terrific storm visited the New England coast, from Providence to Portland, on the afternoon and. night of the Bth, doing immense damage to property and causing a large loss of life. Everywhere church steeples and elevated structures were blOAvn down or otherwise injured, and, the loss of crafts' at sea is known- to have been general and sevem The Boston Coliseum was partially destroyed. The damage to shrubbery, fruit trees and crops is immense in all directions. Receipts of customs for week ending September 4, $4,242,763. A locomotive on the Erie Railroad, near Port Jarvis, exploded its boiler on the evening of the 9th, killing the engineer, fireman, flagman, and brakeman. The engine was biown to pieces. PERSONAL. Ex-Governor Worth died at Raleigh, N. C., on the night of the sth. President Grant’s family arrived in New York on the 6th, and would remain there until Ills return from Washington. The resignation of Senator Grimes, of lowa, to take effect December 15, has been received by Governor Merrill. Secretary John A Rawlins died at Washington at four o’clock and twelve minutes 6n the afternoon of the 6th. President Grant did not reach Washington until nearly five p. m. He was much affected while gazing upon tho lifeless form of his friend, and expressed deep regret that owing to- the non-delivery of tele grams at Saratoga, lie tfas prevented from sooner starting for Washington. The final interviews between Mr. Rawlins and many of his friends were very affecting. President Grant lias appointed Gen. Sherman to act as Secretary of War until the A T acant Secretaryship is filled. The telegraph states .that it is not the intention of the President to make an appointment as successor to the late Secretary Rawlins for some time to come —probably not until the assembling of Congress, and Gen. Sherman proposes to act in that capacity, and draw his salary as General, leaving the sajqry offjecretery of Was tq lie appropriate by tfongress to the AVidow of the late Secretary. The body of Secretary Rawlins was lying in state at the War Department on the 7th. National flags were displayed at halfmast over all the Departments and elsewhere throughout Washington. The interment was announced to take place on tlw morpjiig oifUjp 9th'„ Palmer, of Illinois,telegraphod to W asliington proposing to inter the remains in Oak Ridge Cemetery, at Springfield, where Abraham Lincoln is buried. The parents of the deceased Secretary desired his remains to be brought home to Galena. At a meeting of New, York qtizens on the 7th a proposition to ' huso ’530,000 for Mrs. Rawlins was carried nem con., and $15,000 subscribed on the spot. General Grant giy.es SI,OOO pf Vice-Pf esMcnt COlfaJx afrit party reached Portland, Oregon, on the oth. Governor Seward was at Salem, Oregon. A received aft Detroit on the 7th, from M T - FoWell, of the Pfrwell Expo dit ion, announces his safe arrival at Fort George, Utah, and says thu«pedition has bee* sucoMsSL»/ 4 t. Senator Fessenden died at Portland, Me., atj 6:30 6* ftlte tntrfjilng of the 8(h. He was sensible until Wiflyln an heur of his death hail passed » comfortable night until 3 o'clock. The New York fund'fbT’the benefit ol thjß irttof md etuldre* afzjOeAßawllns amounted lo $24,3d0 Cnthc wth. The Stock Exchange gqve SS,OO<V V. /; f Tlier ceremonies OF commencing workon the Lincoln Monument at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, 111,, came off on the 9tb. Hon. John Bell, of Tennessee, died on the 10th, at his residence at Cmnherland Iron Works, near Nashville. He died froarSUfibqMioiij bcfcgftfoo tb throw off the accumulated sputum hi the lungs. _ The Seward-party; left Portland, Oregon, for San Francisco, otitic 10th, Eben RhoAdes, pf, died suddenly at pan Francisco on. the 10th. Charles H. WrigW, City Editor of'the Chicago Jltoe*, iu«|djfc^lj <si tbe.lOth, of diseaseof the heart i - , ’ The funeral ceremonies of Gen. Rawlias, atWaahtngten w tth, *ere of a.

most imposing character. There was a total suspension of business. Tho widow and fumily arrived in time to take a final look before the body was committed to the tomb. A plaster cast of the face of the corpse was taken at the cemetery on tho 10th. James M. Clark has been appointed Judge of tho District Court of Rhode Island. Mrs. G. neral Rawlins, accompanted by her parents and her three children, left Washington for New York on the 10th. She was in very feeble health. Gen. Sherman lias been commissioned Secretary of War pro temjm-e. President Grant arrived in New York on the morning of the 10th. Tho New York subscriptions for Mrs. Rawlins exceeded $37,000 on the 10th. POLITICAL. Mayor McCoppin and other Democratic candidates in San Francisco have appeared before the Board of Supervisors, and demanded a recount of the votes, claiming fraud made in the count by the Commissioners. At the election in Wyoming Territory on the 2d, Stephen F. Nuckolls, Democrat, was elected delegate to Congress, over W. W. Corlctt, Republican. A Burlington, Vt., dispatch of the Bth says: General Washburne and the Republican State ticket are elected by from 19,000 to 20,000 majority. Tho Senate is unanimously Republican. We have returns 0f46 Republicans and four Democrats elected to the House.” The Wisconsin Democratic State Convention met at Milwaukee on the Bth and nominated: C. D. Robinson, of .Green Bay, for Governor; G. L. Park, of Stevens Point, Lieutenant Governor; A. G. Cook, of Columbus, State Secretary; John Black, of Milwaukee, State Treasurer; S. W. Penney, of Madison, Attorney General; Carl Burdeau, of Waukesha, State Prison Commissioner; Peter J. Gannon,.of Cedaraburg, Superintendent of Public Instruction. A Montpelier dispatch of the Bth says the New Vermont House of Representatives will be composed of 200 Republicans to 30 Democrats. The National Union Convention of Mississippi, which met at Jackson on the Bth, nominated Judge Lewis Dent lor Governor; Judge Jefferds for Lieutenant Governor; J. L. Wafford for Congress, in the First District; Judge William Kellogg in the Third; Judge Joseph W. Field ih the Fourth. An election for city officers, in Wilmington, Del, on the 7th, resulted in the re-election of Valentine, Republican, for Mayor. The Republicans also elected a majority in the City Council. * Chaves, Republican, has been elected Delegate to Congress from New Mexico. Gov. Wells, of Virginia, sent his resignation to Gen. Canby on the reception, of Attorney-General Hoar’s opinion on the test-oath question.

General Canby issued a proclamation on the 9th announcing the result of the election in Virginia. Albert C. Walker Avill be installed as Provisional Governor on the 21st inst., and John V. Lomis as Provisional Lieutenant Governor on the sth of October. The Legislature will be called together October 5. The adoption of the expurgated constitution is announced. The following Wells’ Congressmen are proclaimed elect: Ayer, Platt and Porter ; and the following Walker Congressmen : Seagcr, at large, Booker, Ridgeway, McKenzie, Millner and Gibson. The National Union Convention of Mississippi completed its State ticket on the 9th, as follows: Thomas Sinclair, colored, for Secretary of State; A. W. Wills, Auditor; James McElroy, Treasurer; It. H. Lowry, Attorney General; Thomas J. Gathright, Superintendent of Education, and L. D. Brown, for Congress in the Fifth District. The Republican State Convention of Minnesota on the 9th nominated Judge Horace Austin, of St. Peter, for Governor, and C. S. Ripley, of Chatfield, for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The Virginia Republican State Central Committee has called a State Convention to meet on the 24th of November. Samuel Scott, of Dayton, has been selected as the Temperance candidate for Governor of Ohio, in place of J. E. Ingersoll, declined.

Pneumatic Propulsion.

Albert Brisbane claims to have mad# a discovery in the matter of pneumatic propulsion, whereby snbstapces enclosed in fur-tight globes, exactly fitting aerial cylinders, wfll be transmitted at the minimum rate of 200 miles an hour. The gentleman professes by liis globular device to have secured an almost total reduction of friction. The distance between Newark and Jersey City is to be the first pneumatically .connected in this manner. If it should‘succeed, of course the multiplication of the method would indefinitely ensue, and the city would be the entrepot for freight, whether mails, grain, or other sealed articles from a regioh extending hundreds of miles in any direction. Packages reaching the metropolis or going from ft, at the rate of say 200 miles an hour, would revolutionise the existing laws and modes of interstate commerce. The due effect of the principle, too, would bring Denton and London, Paris and Calcutta, Constantinople and Capetown within fabulously short trading distance, time being the .measure. Unless individuals could be passed by the same power (not a‘ few scientific men prophesy they will be, and believe' they can and should), and at the same rate, then the success of this scheme will cause passenger travel to be ridieulousiy slow alongside pneumatic freight Mr. Brisbane need only demonstrate his principled practice to secure Us universal adoption, and all will watch the progress of his experiment with great in- --■ The product of a single grape vine of the Bcuppernonr variety,. Jacksonville, Fla., sold for *lO3. | 'il '•!> . . •

CURRENT ITEMS.

Ida Lkwih In to lmrc a homestead. Robe Sadneau, a Hungarian girl, has murdered 40 Austrian officers. It is said that Victoria can run a sewing machine as well as an Empire. Geo. Peabody lins gone to Salem, Mass. His health is very much improved. Mariiiaor of first cousins will be illegal in New Hampshire on Christmas and thereafter. More deaths by drowning from surfbathing have been reported this year than during any previous one. It is libelous in England to call a' man 11 no gentleman,” with intent to bring him into contempt. . The University of Deseret, in SaltL&e City, contains 223 students, of whom 120 arc males and 103 females. It is said by a California paper that General Ilosecrans will make five millions out of his mining speculations. Rev. Olympia Brown has commenced her labors as settled pastor of the Univcrsalist Church at Bridgeport, Conn. Tub water power of Niagara Falls is said to be sufficient to perform all the manual labor of the State of New York. The Revenue Bureau publishes an estimate that there are 70,000,000 gallons of whisky in the bonded warehouses of the country. The Mount Cenis tunnel will be com pleted, it is now confidently asserted, in 1872, when trains will pass through the Alps direct from Paris to Turin. Many of the fashionable churches in New York have been newly frescoed and fitted up during the summer vacation, and all of them opened on Sunday, September 5. Ben Perley Poore lately gave his daughter, aged fifteen, a birthday party,at which were 200 guests. They danced in the barn, which was carpeted for the occasion. The State of lowa, according to a census recently taken by the Town Assessors, contains a population of 1,011,952, being an increase of 109,909 in two years. A few days ago the lightning struck the truck of the New York and New Haven Railroad, about three hundred yards in the rear of a train, and the shock was distinctly felt by the passengers. TnE average time required for a finger nail to attain its full length (from the root to the commencement of the free edge), is about four and a half calendar months. The toe nails grow much more slowly.!

The production of beet-root sugar in Europe last year was as follows: 220,000 tons in France, 165,000 tons in Germany, 97,500 in Russia, 92,500 in Austria, 32,500 in Belgium, 15,000 in Poland and Sweden, and 7,500 tons in Holland. Archrishop Purcell, of Ohio, is the oldest prelate in the Catholic church, having served since 1832, and now being over 70 years of age, although still hale and active in mind and body. In his time he has consecrated more than 40 bishops. The Passagassawaugees are a set of cruel desperadoes who ,under the pretense of being a base-ball club, are driving the compositors of Main into early but hospitable graves. It is fiendishly proposed to drown them in the Chinquassabamtock. Judge Jere S. Black, of Pennsylvania, has sued the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company for injuries snstained on their road some months ago. The refusal of the company to pay the Judge’s physicians $6, 000 is the reason for the present suit. A young physician in Mcklenburg, Germany, claims to have discovered a specific remedy for consumption. He has communicated his discovery to the Berlin Academy of Sciences, whose report on the same is eagerly looked for by the medical fraternity. , A Frenchman, near Chalons, recently died of hydrophobia from the bite of a dog received six months before. He voluntarily wont into a close room, from which he warned his friends, and received the con-, solations of religion through a hole in the window. A Mrs. Will reached New York a short time ago, in pursuit of lier runaway husband, having followed him from England to Australia, Shanghai aud Cape of Good Hope, and learned that he had lust left New York for China. Where there’s a Will there’s a way. She started immediately for China. A Cretin recently murdered three small children at Murzsteg, Germany. The children had teased him for some daj’s past One morning when he found them alone, he cut their throats. When the unfortunate mother of the little ones returned home and found them weltering in their bl*od she went mad.

A German lady who has recently resided in Troy, and is 81 years of age, set out alone, a few days ago, on the long journey to fatherland. On theday before, she visited her friends, walking at least ten iuiles/and paid a visit to the grave of her husband. It is understood that she is to be married during the passage over to a gentleman about twenty years her junior. Two boys in Springfield, Mass., neither of them over 12 years old, resolved to commence life on their own account, and on a recent Thursday took their guns and a small wagon and struck out. One of the boys left a note for his parents to the effect that “We shan’t drink, and can take care of our selves all right; don’t worry about us.” On the following Saturday night, their courage and provisions having given out, they returned home, stating that they had passed the time in the woods. A story is told in a Paris paper of a new method for recovering one's debts. The other day a crowd gathered in the vicinity of the Odeon round a girl with a wooden leg whom a gentleman at an adjoining window was apostrophizing with loud cries and gesticulations. It turned out that the girl was a washerwoman, who had gone to the gentleman to ask for payment of her bill, and finding that the money was not forthcoming, she had seized her customer's wooden leg, which was lying in the corner, and had walked off, declaring that she would not return it till she was paid. Startling screams were heard issuing from one of the hot sulphur b& thing-rooms at Sharon Springs, N. Y., the Other morning. The attendants burst the door im expecting to find somebody cooking from accidental inability to turn Off the hot water. But no; for amid the artistically curling vapors of the bath, stood a victim of enameling, gazing distractedly at a mirror, which showed her fece and bust gradually turning black under the combined Influences of sulphur and enamel, By the

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next conveyance a lady left the Springs, wearing a very thick veiL Among the vessels lost in the cyclone that swept over the Bay of Bengal In 1867, were the steamer Thunder ana the ship Morayshire. Search was made for them, hut no trace was discovered, and it was taken far granted that both had gone down at sea. Tho other day a party of fishermen, driven for shelter into an ont-of-the-way creek some four miles inland, stumbled upon the hull of a ship, which proved to be the Morayshire, and further in found a larger steamer with masts and fnnnels still standing, which answered* to the description of the Thunder. -The steamer had £163,000 on board, which is doubtless yet in her bullion hold. Painful speculations are, of course, called up as to the fate of her crew and passengers. What that fate was, may never be discovered. It is conjectured that they could not have lived long, even if they had survived the cyclone, as the place is malarious in the extreme, and infested with tigers. What is, perliaps, the strangest, is, that. these vessels have been lying two years within a few miles of the mouth of the Hoogly.

ABOUT five o’clock on Thursday evening a couple of farmers, named Fred Campbell and Edward Schlick, were engaged in hauling wood, and while crossing the creek, which empties into the river at a point near the stone quarry, they discovered, in the bed of the creek, some fifteen or twenty yards from the river bank, a box partially imbedded in the mud, the creek being almost dry. The sight of the article fully aroused their curiosity, and they immediately set to work to dig it out, a task soon accomplished. The box was pine, about thirteen inches deep, fourteen inches wide and three and a half feet long, and bound at each end with iron hoops. One if the top boards being partially misplaced, they found no trouble in ascertaining the contents, which, to their horror, proved to be the remains of a man, literally chopped to pieces. The head was severed from the body and packed in one corner of the box; both legs had been chopped from the body, and afterward hackled off at the knee and ankle joints; the arms had been taken off at the shoulder, and packed closely alongside the body, while the other dissevered members had been placed in position with a hellish ingenuity that makes the blood chill to think upon. The head had also been sawed and chopped across the front portion of the skull and from the forehead toward the back part of the head, .the top of which had been lifted off. On the chest was placed a fine linen shirt supposed to be of German manufacture. The flesh of the face was entirely decomposed, thus preventing a recognition of the features. The lid of the box was directed in plain black letters to “D. B. Sargent, Omaha, Neb.” Nothing else was found which would in any way throw light upon the mystery. The box is supposed to have been either bought or stolen from the store of Mr. Sargent, on Thirteenth street, for the purpose for which it was used. The Coroner’s jury yesterday rendered a verdict that the man came to his death at the hands of some person or persons unknown. The body is supposed to be that of a man aged about twenty-four years, and had probably been dead three or four months. There are many conjectures rife concerning the terrible affair, but none of sufficient probability to deserve belief. In the hope that it will not be long before “murder will out,” we give the sickening details, and leave the conjecturing to others.—<Omaha Republican>.

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