Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1869 — Page 1

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A Boy on His Travels to the Land of Big Pears.

On Wednesday, a Might' Mokirig fad Of ten years of age called at our office and asked the privilege inf ’looking Mer the exchanges, We gave himpernussion, whcri he drew a chair up to the table, niif his feet on it, took out a badly .charred hriarroot. pipe, fumbled down ipto the holtom of his pocket for smoking tobacco,'borrowed, from us a match, and went to work scanning the papers with the zeal, motions! and grace of a veteran editor, smoking fiercely all the white- Laying <J°wn ; thi< papers, he Inquired at, what time the .next tram left fur the West, remarking that ho' would be; much ob]ig£d by the.information.' We answered his question, and. then asked him one. In reply,ha said he.,was bound for San Francisco. -That ho wap from Scranton, Pa., where he had .last wear driven trade as a newsboy and boot black, and conceived the idea of going' farther west. lie started last June, traveling on foot and dead-heading by rail until he reached Northern Illinois, about harvest time, where ho remained for. nearly a month with a farmer, helping to get oil’ his crop by driving a machim:. Ha ww flush again-, ■' and started'lffl-his tramp, Striking across lowa, partly by rail, but mostly on foot; 1 until he reached this place. The little fej-. low does not belong to the impertinent young America, though he has souuxof its characteristics. There- tend jn, his behavior at all, though he sometimes puts on the airs of oktyr person, in ex- ’ hibiting .Some -of thtir ■> most prominent - vices. _ lie has slept in all manner of places, .sometimes in a cow-shpd,. onjdapqh platforms, in sanes? inf farm, hoasai, arid, wherever be could get shelter. Hespeaksvery highly .Of. .the hqspitalitv of.lowa farmers and-fowa landliirds, but says that he occasionly meets with a curmudgeon who denies him shelter, but ho baa nothing to complain of for tt'is Tri J bifs|rtesfcjto get the place to sleep, and another’s to give it to him. .-lie pays that hu, has,|taice dr twice, been kicked out hr rAifrrmd dfflces, and several times been put off trains, but they were iptfyjempcrary iuconvoi’iioes. Fie hopes by hook or crook to reach California before.winter sets in. He isas liyely as a cricket. Neither drinks nor swears, and at tile end of Sia journey will be u hero.— Couitcß. Bh/ffi Nonpareil.

Horrinle Tragedy.

The Huron County (Mich,) News tells the following story: “ Wc learn ugon xjneditpble authority the following" particulars of a terrible doubk). tragedy, wlkiUt occpfrWVnthe 3lst ult. In one dr flic lla6k town# of Sanilac James or, ■railn.’riconeiAH.Mf'liiiHeelf ffrM wife, and an only cliildjyan infinity , tJmUio day above named, jMr. ihO MM. Mayes were hoepm wqutqes in a Jkld, some, distance from haviilg*Crt Ihl <bhild-‘3t {rmaiiteiaWftS--7 came somewhat startled* at hearing the child ‘begin'd)'ity in an&L&ttfre; mid unusual manner, and anxidusly requested his' wifotogwfathe MilAMind aSouiMn the cause. She replidd that ‘she thought tlio <?W whuld itself to sleep. After listening for a moment or tifo, Ufa S!i>posf®i(>ti a MWjict one, as the sounds gradually ceased, and .the dhild sHnM so fl%y. J jNothfea mme wifii' seriously thought of the matter —it being, an in 9 fynimajjatap-SiT at noon the husband and wile repaired to the hpuse i'«ldfaner. “ But upon entering 'tire’roiWm’which the feaM w<w« lying adwyiiible ’spectacle fifet theif ga#J. In their'anßert&jh monster serpent pf.UmWueh-aceripeeifcs, had thb' bfiefi Atodn crawled *to the I'lThc i»tsbai)d upon sfieholding the Jiftf-’ eous monstet, its fatal act ,npoh, the child, in a frenzy of. extant) meut turned, upofi hlk WhdMhe iiffcF bidden, while in Um field, to come to their child, hfcilf liitlidliiaa Wid of..uptgaiding or Warning, struck? her a fearful blow on thOfhaMt Willi’thw |i</ hcid-nrbfs hand. Shc’sank to the floor and immediately expirii'Jthißt hiiarp edgs |f|ths (y*»havfri£* Sierced her brain. The husband„findiug. Imself wifeless, fiurder, er, rushed from his, home proclaiming his j: , b-....

The Powell Expedition.

Colorado debouches Into lM«»rien plain irf lhc . Trfritory of Aril »n* Several of Colonel PbwellXlettef a describing thead-' ventures hnd discAld-fea op hit&elf and . Kass ss Msmisdirtex teTH- was dispatched, the expedition descended the river abefft foun huhfifed miles, between walls almost vertical, ranrinw. from buhired t (/fifteen iftfrjrttd feetjn heights—the exterior rinmof the canod be-> ing from twenty-five ,T|untlr<xl', to four thousand feet above the bed of ths rivet. More than two hundred wtWghlls and cascades emptying themselves ovrt_the TlUl of tto oonoMato the main riiiw,

THE RENSSELAER UNION.

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.<i-.ii were seen in this dfataneorYresentingal-mosU:<o#tM**HrtofJ»-k>f*liailu«rt> scenery.' Tho-fcAitogiCal tbduiUioh bf-th» crtmtn con-1 sista I principally-.4>fJMkumtw> stone. Granite was found only at three* places, aiwfbWßnitftddmnaiiit. No discov’erieo of precious-metal* wenema*le,.and no dr HIV or Were found In the bed of the river. One section of the* ciusrm was >)u»dr toi consist of verwdlne Mid |tjap|tifblly-Mk||,d- warliM; wtach is at presc^,, -‘l’he cvuntiy Ira versed, is banwi, beyond de£ scription, and is pronounced by ColoneK Rdvrell. »foo€ imSteJUibte -«£ xtfaivatjon, erewby ii ? i S atio«. 43: ljl'X* t ~ s ri i <W>jM*l IfowHl pMnottiuwhhe'S'eported, adventures of the irfitrt'Whhe, Who'‘fur. nishednUiO-data arktebvin Zipping Qrand GaHon.ef thm •CrflAMdty l tr -ißbirtßlete ifltrtfonj i.JJp <MveS» lokt Ih thdwrocdltion.’bnt allthe In--1 except one' set Ivwe 1 .desy-tjiyedi dr capsized; ana the only 'provisions cnifffStTTroi'TWTWTy pnwiasr’ni ’fiOnr, cotnplctely saturated-with water.— Chicago :>.i

An Insane Man Swept Over the Niagara Falls.

On Ffllay 35 years of .age. JstOnpw dr the Cataract House, Fiagjufa.Kaffs,' anil.'fcgiStWedi his name as “Cfart Schurs, New Yorfa’l Saturday tnorning'heleft the hntM without pay - ing his bill, and, taking a carriage, started for bydgp._Hesubse? quently changed has mind andW3st th the ferry!, arid driAsdd to Oanhda. i It ir said -thaL.in going over, be. remarked to tfafc feryy-mem, while looking up at the falls, that he could walk over on the edge of thw falls. *Reaolringrille Canadianaidebfijveirt 1 tbltabkvrodk, and, walking.to tttrtwooa-. work, Which projects into the ritfee-m few .Steps apoyp Saul DaViS’ off his coit.luid it on the timber I ,"gaVe lift' money toa boy who was standing by, ana walkea.iutd the water, whiclP is shallow near the-iwik. About ten feet from the bank, he- art down 1 or. slipped down, and in an instant after : was swept over the precipice. Persons who we/e uiyler the the bodjf 1 On a rock; wh'efe it rbthaiholS Several mipi utes teterQ te The body had not been recovered at last accounts. TNe iohit bf tlio sidcldo ianflltWo pair of, glttefeS’irc'riow in possession of Mr. G. B.‘ LcWis, Clifton,XJWt; ’ “- 11 " The drfcsb and general itppfearnnce df the man \ycre that of A respectable' person, and Jt is not impTobalilc ’ that hfe- - ttiought he was'‘‘Cttri Schurz,” and thattih-eoulij. walk across., the edge of the .cataract. Thia, catastrophe will add a frdsh’dhiMrertothe interesting History of fljd’ falls.— Buffalo

A Tiger Loose.

“■ French* Mowtamc, between Gleij’a, Falt£ anti LaXc. George, wav the segno of a genuine sensation during fljc sojourn of Campbell's circua aud menagerie at that viUftgß a night or TWO -Since- At aMe hour, long after the audience had been disScK dm! the etiftvM down, as the _ iruan left in’ charge 'Was rMtfrnulg from an inspection jiftbq at&bV'M’ l ie oh. served ft targe. aninjtV jl»i|t. .across his path and almost inataaily vanish in . tbp darkness. Suspecting at once that sonia one or more of lhV>Wia escaped fr&tft their bondage, he Jiasls«vfr't& ’WMfe the (■ages were coarlted and discovered that the largest of the two elephants had drawfij the stake MWrtddi hethaui besn fastened and - had- Upset the cage of the - Bengal ffyvttr, breakfrijf the doors and bending (.he batw'4n*‘Mdli«* tnanusr aato allow tho animal to escape. To -run to. the dwaktm the'dbrtihftnt driver aqd summon -all hand's tWaa tub tff klnomeut. dophaht was promptly fettered and a search for tho truant tiger commenced.' ®HKMKg showmen would lead in the search, th e reuhnindtr foUnwisg at a raSpecftfaVdist tnce and jn the greattei-ttßpidation, She 'Mger. Mbs tkAI 36ng in making vWf’mS Whfcreffiiortts, for tho bleating, of, a, .calf, in mingled .intonations- 'of pain nh'dTfcrfrJr, vrtiarfanhifroli/A drw shod wn< 'a’lWc'Mlth WS'WheW "loSj widuiatod. tjjnj his royal highnesM'WWs Mtiatingdits glut-. >4jii.ftf i KM r that the tkr M and was crouched oyer the jtxing 'gn(mal,' greedily, lappipg tjia nlbod wnftn’ Spurted .IrOM a largu^oifnd 1 In itt Aeck. A plan /£ |ooh Mr.'i keeper of thp tiger, at it mjjjtjtetifcf. He pnxjurßd-a.rttpw and making anWosc in the form of a lariat, ho ascended by a Iftdr, dpL from, ths (Outside of Urn shed tq wihdtAv,'frdm 7 wWnee‘ht>*passcd to the ai&Mwtt sa a tiger to Hibk.upMUtdl giving Mr. King an. opportunity to throw the lariat over tJie 1 aninijio ljei|(i| dexterously, I accomplished: Drawing his 1 rope njaduhtthit to a beam, and another rope was’paSsfa to him, with succeeded in)talsoeing the tiger in the' ffiWSWtpftUSft.yTr men'wfio‘were niiAr-'tlfe'Entrance tp the party, and the two iMek" Marta' !at once stretched, ~'«Mb4 -TfSAftyr'.walking in the op>-i ■fjbsltd flirectibHl I’lWhen the tiger would; inako i a rush atone group qf cap»rt.' the otbexs inoukiihaul tighjLon., ,V}gir Iwo and thus prevent him from doing qqy mischief. After much exertion, and sbveral ludicrous stampedes from the bystanders, he was dragged ba£tft<t (if which had, in (Ac JMan'time, been repaired.. When he earner Xn .view of his den’ he bifaßdod in of bilXw* accord ; but the attendants, in their haste to secure him closed the trdft idppr it<?f, suddenly, .and' severed about-a foot off his majestyfs law;. —thus spbflftfg, <tf Aft mngnifleent', attJjfciAiicfe,' But preventing an endrcfiJriimonnt of depredation and les? of life, .peffiapx besides reputing to'thfc ‘prtiprieMCa very vhluahlo Xhimalold trapper, who! treated khe WestSSgWWXw bushes and cacti. ta a thin soil formedxivar thd sand and gravjel, and grass covert Jthe entiro ■ wfabe. And it appears that this enriching. process goes ’on fiuter and/-faster: every year. This is Whyeo tnanji peeplq (have been eston ishe< 1 at n<rt finding *any i ‘S-Sreat- -American Desert,’’ and wnulodd it> wak>oniy a nMUs The truth '>Uat W

Weekly News Summary.

e?- r , ! -“ A MadHtHlijgUell «>t4d»r4®th says it was rumored that NlffldlHhri’ 1 had'toleretained by Spain.* .>. «« m .num 4 H ’Zrfifasii.,xWuiatqiJ. > TiWfed and ‘’ttvMfty , yrti«rts' i Wdre wrefekad -ana .several pr late Buglfafli eoMtj- -t . -u » ’BuaMlfau captAlß Lopez’s strong- ' its - a’iid.flia’t ; list had Th-? above news vtihßßdgreeU rejnteißgud'-.BrUa,.»ted the at an eto''BrienOb and Rio HenryjT. Mteilto.Mnesrgz, r.vUut'i. .jairil.nvff eMppfishrt sptMod.tf&O’ptivbndi.asiembled inLMniblh'Qi,.t|lh' jSssed resolutiojiftdhrgMg llfeiqjtMondiLi'onal pardon of-ibis Keßtana ■ jjogfi fitd -in British 'o-imjAmdea Unsays Prim's Attampt to indaeg . England and has failed., dispatch’ftf the ,20th sfaijesMnt the)Mwn9 ,have j dete lt- ; mined, sobcWMiMfeM&bmit to. rale, to’render..the isla{A„ijntenahJp for the Spaniards, and will destroy ail their crops rather Ilian “hate thdrfi seized by Wo 1 wttAMi' AticP tfsed i to carry on war agsfiftst them. that the Spanish dtepmeing the {♦t’dpTtefy of returning Gen. Sickles’ note hnhnswfcredjt have decided to postpone tiieir reply uiitn..Uid’‘re : ttuta o)T Prlpi;' The London journals are particularly severe on Sickles, and .nay'His,.'first dlJiTOiaatic tapvemaaMwwnreawd-to be»sqrimjsblun-* dwi- ’ i , Vu Several 7(f tstrtbquake w-cre and other points along th’e Peruvian ‘coast, aaeemri nagra that‘fe XfiftTiUiiwn^ rc no me 19th, all •‘WB. Prim arrived»at Madrid on the thejCptfljPH it was tfarkicd-Ttrttse every wffert Io retain Cuba and to The Emperor Napoft»n presided at a ,rounctl of Ministers on the 22d. Inp paVeJVdf publish a ielletd'fr<jiii v 'FA'Uer ilyacinthe, stressed tj tlie'-Father bf his Ai<d4i> at Rome, announeiagJjiat Ite abandons,'lm3 'invent Ittfd' , b^pj][pi“t i l^ , i tO! prifach in the Church ' Bmi ic 'b* fWs. As a reason for thw Tie declares that he c4jjifot v See. •jle protests, foeSHshc Popo and Council, agamjirißboct rinCMtnd practices of the llomfslMhmrißflßbais he says art h ot i* l -Mcordiuro ■ with tho-priucipl<abo£> QhristiJMMl'y) 1 TM Jlarjs, rtsgArd his defcctiori-as-wgraat aoitefteus andpolitical evfehtlUO 3WU341 GKA 'K'.,'

year, it is smcl/wit! I>e’a'fi(ffii/e. Cdqsiflcrttbl cane tttefrplire few hands to tgadser 2 oiLlew crush, The WiMM i hrti i c*¥tiVrtff?, thfi tnftftrhave been destroyed, and—work has stopped. Sugar lifirdluhitsZitii fjKah'ana the lay hands <envT.^p«<itiug > aB IMva»cc 1 Mva»cc m pjiccs. u ’There w*a«meft.lerablc excitement in Ifavana on thjMJh overtbfe rumored war'Wee 1 relntirm* liciween Spain and the , £iite(Ujj®J^^Uiie v .Cuban qttestfon, and A says it was not safe for an -Ameriewn io be in tVe streets alone. ~ domestic. .Ou ljie nigjit ot’t'he’ 18th, a tree across the track of the Sotith' Carolina Bailroad fttCpngareo SwMaip caW<l ,t’M engine and pats. .engine, blew up and set 600 feet of the * nd one fireman .were and fireman WOnnded, <-l I : 0,1 Hed Stockings,, of .Giiicinniß.jMjgFtliffiUnions, of St Louis, thp scorMMMMMba former and 9 for thwhrttev. ’ mMsviva. .. fdlfcgratn of the 18th say?: “ItlS’statetf.tjiMdVis not the intention ot to push.thc sdftlemont the for the present, nor do anything tliat* would be likely to irritate Spain arid provoke war with her. WisrjH 10 along. as tlwy Jutyg -Wn, .doing, lft the luope that the Spanish Government will flbplly accept proposition.” k ■s?W^< ince th <> de , raand made everywhere for Small notcSand currency, tf/e Treasury Department hasinade arrangements, in Jigw .York for famishing 1350,000 a day in fractional currency, beginuimMikAiMi . The new ;one, two and Ujßtlollar nptes wilt be ready to issue 'Opplßwrljjdfcthe engraver will far•nisli ‘ 1 Kecetpilf 6t fractional cqrrcncy for the *weei*-Biding September . 1 18, <691,200; sMjiAieMiX <688,164. The amoun|~of specie held by all the National” banks of the United States on the Bth Inst, amounted to $17,148,141.46. A Washington telegram of- the 20th saysi ...I',li'U'stftted that st^g 1 hope* are entertained by our Government that Spain will eventually accept some proposition that will secure the independeuceofCiiba. No tfeßis-rird Jipprtihonded of a collision With Spain, as no cause of offense lias been or will be offered. Minister Sickles’ causes so much comment, was simply a reminder that if Spain had forLiM»guMMpia4 tteVnina itatUMamsdl’

COUNTRY AND OtTR VIXIOM. nt? lit 'M 1.1 : io! ’’.7/ I . I’T ”•» , . ’ »’ ‘ ' p

•JASPER county; ‘ Indiana, September ao,

.- I . ator between that country and Cuba, our Government was ready to enter uppn qegotiations.” On the morning of the 20th a collision occurred at Athens, Pa., on the Peimsyl--vania & New York Railroad, between an express and, a way train. One person was lulled oqtCght, one other fatally and several seriously injured. On the 20th the heat was intense inNew York city, anil a case of sun stroke is reported. Washington specials of the 31st say the United States Government repudiates Sickles' action as exceeding his instrucand pledges itself to censure him. The National Convention of the Universalist denomination assembled ip Buffalo on the 21st. Reports Were read on Sunday-Schools, the condition of the colleges, and on the state of the Church. The New York Herald of the 22d says the repbftthat SfeVeral hundred thousand dollars had been embezzled from thA Methodist Book Concern is denied by ita managers. , The New York Sun of the 23d contains an emphatic denial of the report that Secretary Fish had recalled General Sfckles, and states that General Sickles has riot in any way exceeded his fostruettons, and Mr. Fish is not dissatisfied with him. The Commissioner of Agriculture at Washington has received from the kansas State Fair, what he pronounces one of the finest collections of fruits 4nd cereals ever received at the department. A mail dog at Morris, Hl., on the 21st bit six persons, and many other dogs, before he was killed. L. J. Gbodenough has published a card denying the charges of fraudulent transactions in purchasing stores for the Methodist Book Concern, and desires the public to await his proof of their falsity. A hunting party at Helena, Ark., were attacked by Indians on the 23d. A man named Hall Was killed, scalped, and terribiy mutilated. Customs receipts for the week ending September 18, $4,270,970. The monthly report of the Agricultural Bureau states that unless the season is very favorable the corn crop will be reduced by 150,000,000 bushels; the cotton and fruit crops, howevei-, are larger. The Cabinet at Washington was in session on the 24th, with all the members present. ' PERSONAL. - George S. Bennett, for twenty-eight years attached to the local staff of the Cincinnati Enquirer, died suddenly on the 18th. Vice-President Colfax and party were in San Francisco on the 20th, and expect-. ed to start for home about October 4. All;tho mwibers of. the Cabinet were in Washington on the 20th. James M. Clark, recently,appointed by President Grant District Judge for the District of Rhode Island, has declined the appointment. Secretary Boutwell, Commissioner lano, and Commissioner Capron have'accepted an invitation to attend the Georgia State Fair, to be held at Macon, November 16.

Horatio Seymour has been selected as a delegate to the New York Democratic State Convention. The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of the United States opened its session in San Francisco, QU the th, R. W f Grand Sire Farnsworth presiding. Thirty Grand Lodges and sixteen Encampments were represented. The address of welcome was delivered by the Grand Master of California and responded to by Grand Sire Farnsworth, Major J. W. Powell, of tho Powell Exploring Expedition, arrived in Chicago on the evening of the 80th. The excursion party of California pioneers, numbering about two hundred persons, reached Chicago on the evening of the 21st. President Grant and family returned to Washington on the morning of the 22d" The trial of James Griffin, engineer of the freight train, charged with criminal neglect in causing the disaster at Mast Hope, on the Erie Railway, was commenced on the 23d, at Milford, Pa., before. Judge Barrett. Several witnesses were examined. Mrs. Luhy Morhead Porter, of Coviftgton, has been appointed Postmistress at Louisville, Ky., riee Speed. Jesse Baylie was, some time ago, designated for the place, but the commission was not issued. The California Pioneers reached New York city on the 24th. POUTICAL. A dispatch from Santa Fe, New Mexico, says the official returns are nearly all in. .Chaves, Republican, is re-elected delegate to by from 2,500-to 8,000 majority. An Augusta, Me., telegram of the 21st says: “ The entire vote of the State is received-, except thirty-seven small towns and plantations. Chamberlain received 50,091! Smith 38,277, and Hicbborn, 4,642. The Senate stands 28 Republicans, 3 Democrats, a Democratic gain of 1; the House, 118 Republicans, 84 Democrats, four districts to hear from. Last year the House stood: Republicans,,l2l; Democrats, 30.” Governor elect Walker was installed as Provisional Govatnorof Virginia, at Richmond on the 21st. The Massachusetts Republican State Convention on the 23d renominated all the present State officers by acclamation, with the exception of State Auditor, the name of Chas. Endicott, of 'Canton, being substituted forthat of.the present incumbent i'j j ♦ ) < » The New York Democratic State Uonveution on the 22d nominated the following ticket. Secretary wf State, Hom*? A. Nebon; Canptroller,‘WiMtam F. AlUoi Al tnmay General, M. B, QUffipWai Tmfr

urac, Wheeler H. Bristol ;,s&te Van Richmond; Canal Commissioner. WW. Wright; State Prison Inspector; F. Laflin, of Ulate*; Judges of the Cdurt of Appeal, John A. Lott, of Kings, and Robert Earl, of Herkhnfer. The regular term of office of the Governor of Virginia will* Vflfter the new Constitution, commence‘oq (he fl tat day of Janqiny next, and cohtique folifyeara. The Grand Lodge of Gdod 'pempfars ;of New York have adopted a platform wiiich. says that Order la hot s-pdltiatl organization, bnt rather an instithtilon to educate the people up to political action in the Temperance question. .;..

CURRENT ITEMS.

Nearly a cart load o£ bats wastakep from a gareet in New Qrlpaps, the other day. ' '•»> The total value of cotton produced this year in Italy is estimated to be abopt £12,000,000. ~j ~ ■ ATRunk passed ever .the Boston & Albany Bailroad, the other day, directed to ‘‘llworth, Karnak” •' A summer visitor at North Oonway, N. H-, claims to hare caught!?,ooo treutduring the last three months. Mr. Kooumanschaap has contracted with the Texas Land Company'for the in- ' trod action-of 5,000 Chinese laborers. A copy- of Bhakspeara’s comedies, toriea.and tragedies, printed in London in the year 1023, recently sold 1 for sl,690. ■ Agassiz told a pompous money-bagger that he too might have been a banker, but for the urgent demands of science, and the banker was silent A Miss Lucy Lee advertises in a Mississippi paper that she “is of good birth and education, andis, wifiipg to marry an editor, believing herself able to support One.’’ , A-N infant died in Westport, Qonn., recently, from the poisOn taken into its stomach by sucking a green veil which the nurse had thrown over its face to keep the flies off. The New York State Homoeopathic Medical Society have inaugurated a moyezment for the erection of a monument to H. B. Gram, M. D:, father of hometopathy in America. . i, , ■ : A child in Hartford fell out of a thirdstory window, and was picked up unhurt from the pavement The next morning it fell from the bed to the floor and broke its neck.. The Charleston Charter’s cotton statement for the. year places the total product at 2,358,369 bales. Its estimate of the rice e/op in South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina and Louisiana, is 81,915 tierces. A thunderstorm and tempest visited Guadalajara, Mexico, on- the 13th ult Immense foil. Over two hun-. dred buildings were Struck by lightping, and five persons were killed Iry the subtle fluid during the storm. A Japanese, step-mother, at Asaka, boiled doWn her husband’s two children in a hot bath. Her punishment was to be slowly boiled in a cauldron of oil, to which each step mother in Asaka contributed a portion. ; 1U ...,, ?.:!■< A New York Jester to a St, Louis paper mentions the pamc of a woman in that city wffo derives $20,000 annually from her medical [fraction, wbieh is to he as respectable ps. her income. ' A wealthy and beautiful young lady in •Brie, Pa., recently married ah uncouth and Crippled Journeyman shoedfoker, Who was already married and possessed of a family of children,!on the supposition that he was wealthy, and an agent of A. T. Stewart.

...—, . . ■ A. T. Stßwart, in recording his deca of the Hempstead Plains property, put stamps to the value of $3,944 on the deekL After the stamps were, canceled, it was discovered that he was only compelled to use $394 in Btanips. Mr. and Mrs. WirAixit ITalb, of *Upton, Mass., celebrated their golden wedding recently, and among the guests were three sisters and two brothers of the bride, who attended the wedding fifty years ago. This must indeed be a Hale and hearty couple. Two hundred dollars’ worth of postage stamps, which it was supposed had been stolen from the Covington Postofllce, have been recovered. One hundred dollars’ worth of postage stamps had been sold to a gentleman, but the clerk, in counting them, made a mistake, and gave hpn S3OO worth. , Hereafter the English Baptist Missionary Society will not Send out any married missionaries? The men who go must prove their fitness in bodily vigor and mental aptitude by, a trial of two years. At the end of that time they may return and marry, or a wife maybe sent cut to tjiem.

An “old miner" at Avondale proposes that hereafter all the miners give one day’s pay every year toward the fund for the benefit of the widows and orphans. "By this means, he says, they can raise SIO,OOO, and for himself he counts the first day> work that he Jias done since the eatastrophe sacred for this purpose.

Nki-nris Carve NTS h, 13 years of age, of Bridgewater, Vt, is a heroine. On the 25'th ult., while playing on the bank of a pond, with three other little girls, one of them fell in. Nellie first directed the two girls with her to rnn for some men, and then waded into the pond up to her chip, but, failing in that Way to get at the drowning g+rl, she procured a long pole, and, after muehi exertion, succeeded, just, as the girl was sinking the third time, in rescuing her. < A younu lady jn Alburn, N. Y., reftised to marry her sweetheart unless he stopped chewing tobacco. He agreed, and the wedding came off in due season. Return, ing from the bridal tour, in the cars, the other day, he pulled a roll of something from Wp pocket. Bhe thought it was tobacco, and therefore clutched it and threw it out of the window. Alas! it was a roll of money, $2,500 in all, and it has not been recovered!

A party of eight persons, consisting of C. T. Chaffee, wife and wife’s sister, and five children, the youngest 12 weeks old, were recently found on the road, near Baltimore, MA, tn a most destitute condition. They were' without money, starving, and almost naked. Chaffee stated that they left home, in Leavenwofth County, Kansas, in February last. Tor where they have friends, and had traveled tlje entire distance on foot, living by charity on the way. They were provided for and a liberal subscription in money Was raised for them, and they resumed their R«»y tp Phlladelphl*,by boat. A y°w tywUU W «•

“ 'NO!'!.'

Relied a dentist’s office it Virginia' 'tiity, Neb., the Other dnyifo >Hav*i het teeth filled. She was seated to the derating chair, apd partings pair of rich and tempting lips, displayed two’ rotes of ivory sliC lSd do teeth Which" required-filling and-none to be extraeftedi She eoukln t tion grew lively by. sighs i M°ne. Again did he search, bqt with no better success. ! He began to get* excited. At' last she rushed from the oftiee and soon returned with a lady of fashion, ‘whose front teeth disclosed the gold. The deaf thing only wanted to be in the fashion. s .., 11 A Mna BoniNsoN,. (living about six miloafrom Indianapolis, recently displayed great herdfsftt th' SAVing’ WF ’ child ’ from drowning. The child was near an open cistern containing over six feet of watef, and refr thi.' The mother,Alone im the house, heard the splash and screams. She went to the cistern ana sa w thd child floating'oh thi' Water, mid then ran fora ladder whidh shefound had beep, misplaced. She again hastened to, the cistern, and finding that' the child' had’ slink, plunged to-the hot tw»t and i hfter twp.,or three unsuccessful attempts at length brought Up the child, apparently l lifeless. Her cries had attracted a neighbor, who took the child and. finally succeeded In rescuing the heroic Woman. Both mother and childwere in a little time fully restored-. , The Cape God Gazette relates the fol-* lowing instance of pluck mW persistence I ‘‘(On the afternoon of the gale, two young men of West Sandwich, named Gibbs, went out in fishing, in a dory. The gale comihgupon them carried away theiFMß arid kpM»tlfefr bOst, they dinging to Um wreck. One of them, Who could swim, diVested himself of liis boots, took an oar, and struck out for the Shore, which was about a mile distant, telling the other, who could not swim, to cling to the wreck, and he wbtald save hiin. Arter reaching the shore, he constructed a lift 1 composed of several rails, which he seenfed With his pants by tearing them into strips for the purpose, launched it and* started to the resepe of his companion, When within a few rods of him! the raft was dashed to pieces. He clung to one of the rails, told his companion to hold.on to the boat, and struck out for the whore. He then constructed Another laupch, wit h boards, which'he secured by tearing his drawers ibid strips,'and afeW nail*. He started for tUd wrecks and when- within-a short distance of the 'boat the raft w4s, again demolished by the waves. He now 1 took to the wiceokj cut the anchor-rOpu, and the wind having'abated, drifted Ashore,, where the boat was righted and hailed but. i They then, divided clothes and'started for home.”.

Paradoxes.

The word oblige is subject to paradoxical, construction. When you oblige a man to' do a thing which he does not want to de-,' you may disoblige him at the same tipje. It has bebn rdtfiarked thkt'-there'is a very great difference between wIrCM the gospel is dispensed, and one Where it is dispensed with. • We have often heard thi- eHry of how the captain of a canal boat cried “ Look out 1 ”to his passengers when they were going uhdfera wMfoi. and howa-Frenehmiftf Ipokoiout accordingly and received a bump on his head; but te has nevei 1 btfen deoafed 1 ' that the Frenchman took any incorrect- orwtysual [signification from the words. It has never been decided whether a house burns up or down. The question whether a man who falls from a-baat and. is rescued from primarily of she water ur the boat. Borne one has noticed that people say 1 hey 1 shbff '• peas when they ttnsheli them; that they, husk corn whtmthey unhuskjt; that they; skin a buffalo when they unskin it; that 4 they scale fishes when they unscalq them,: and thdr gardens Wtweeding when they, are weedy enough already.'

These paradoxes in words are tho foundation of the puzzles in logic which are so common. For instance, the. trite syllogism to the effect that because ho cat has two tails, and because a ca| } has one tai| more than no mt, therefore a cat has three tails, the trotibfe arises in the paradoxical use of the phrase “no oak’’ White iCjs quite true in one sense that no cat has two tails, ft is not true in the sense m winch it is employed, in the syllogism, because a “nocat" being a nonenity has no tail. Similar it is argued that Oxford must, flrosnall antlqoity r ha we been either somewhere or nowhere. Where was it at the t|me of TarquTnius Prisons ? It whi nowhero, thtm it surely must have been somewhere.; Where was it ? Aristotle and Philetus, and I don't know how ihany others, are said to have bothered themselves very’ much with a proposition something like thia If you say of yourself, “I" ’He/’ and in sAytag'So tell the truth, thaUdt is quite, evident, that.you, but it you say “I lie,” and. you tell a lie in saying ’11, then you also veil' the- truth: in- saving it. In either .cases you lie and tell, the truth at the same time.

I have heard somebody make the fafy lowing proposition. Suppose, for example, that a man 35 years old marties'a gin 5 years old. He is seven times as old e.v she. They live together fiveyears and the girl is 10 years old. Then the man is 40 ycaftf old, or only four times ak old as the girl. They live together five years more and she is 15. The **A then',is 45. or only three times qa old. They lite uptil sht is 30 and the man 30. He is then Ohly tqico as old. Nbw, how long will they have to live so make the girl as old as the man ? Although, in thiscase, the girl is catching the matt very fast, the reasoning is similar to that by which jt was long ago argued that a man never could catch a tortoise which Kaffa mile thestart. While |he’ man ranka mQe the tortoise goes one-tenih pfa mile; while the man runs one-hundfotb of a mde, the tort Oise goWone-thousandth of a mile; while the man rims, one-thou-sandth of, a mile, the tortoise goes ope tenth thousandth of a mile, and so on to any extent of which;ths decimal notation is capable—the tortoise always being some infinitesimal fraction of space ahead of the Twill give only one illustration more; of' this character. Roe wishes to.Wdy law with Doe, and offers to pay theteustomary fee when h« shall have won bra first suit at law. To this Doe agrees and Roe beCdrites a student. Doe gets tired of wafting for his fee and determineah) sub'BOc for tho amount. .Poe rqasons; fl If A he Will have to payme by the ■condition of our contract, as Ift will have won bls first lawsuit.” But Boa. also reasons: 1 *’ If ImUMrt SS J£|K Court la

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in my favor, of coursd<k‘lahall>h«« Aave ito/BWh/hfl npMr f [decides against me I shall not have to pay it, a'cccrdm# to tUe toroiswf ourOontMM, for Buit Tire Wnibarilyper Which tlie ehrth,«gMt! *heir principal.fud in too-.diffewiU/SWf of ryf.ordp apd phrase*. I will ’not moralize eXtfetlsiviilyon. thft 'VtojtoritiroV, - tifough I deem illustration more chtertainincr than ' A Hhkutlftl SoN at I 1 l<-JnAwbtf«uiii>d On die nlkhVoif'Eidx v -iiW; a 'baby Of thelftmlnlrte gfmdeh'aUeut' six weeks W, ; wahfound,PP the,front, doorstep of the glass warehouse of Messrs. Wm. FtouK fy FMttburgtonfHto -little be ma4fe'6rfltNf.Th6hffiiir>wa»-soOr>noised sassE cralftr’ei'telh fo/the fafnhfJ' Htoh and poor, old and young, mate .ami female, married and single people, all became interested m the little WAif( aM All were btttallVCriy Ahrithri’ to ttrtd'Wielpabitlon »fifatherrp>mpfter. l im»e,.lptorprt being so great, it was finally determined by the temporary tb pfrt' the little one 'npat tha-highest bidder. This plan will be acted upon, and the terms are caslMlHb' money • to : be a bonus fbr-her benefit, to.be in the bank at cqmpoupd. interest, and to be drkwh when the girl arrives at the age of eighteen-years.-, An interustirtg time was anticipated at the sale-, .and the. beautiftil foundllhg MrnMoubtWffl bring k -fabulous -price.-*-AacZkMfte. - „iitoiix-I& -

A Heart Broken Mother.

In 1864, notice was given that a boatload ofprisotibrt fr§m wouiti bnsßchanged, and tha* they would -United fifatos, each wilA hope of meeting a friend whom “they knew to be confined at Andersonville. Oronourse, among ianhiaiterge ijafljier, could couiu find the inend they alter. W heart he boalvamcup- torthe.whmf there others who fiid jaoL awt r .Ate‘>»g the ruifaed un btasd jthtthoat, addng every 'Hls,‘rilek«hrcfied MWihbutTfoewjas not SRJfc’SflKfeft pants, ihaVlMlniigbt-havaa cleau.ehange, Efinquiring V|fo*SiUtepepl“ Hceibto not qome; he Jias not come.” For a year after she went, regularly to the wharf at sunrise from Trnr ■'dodgings, whioh wobody.could, find, and gazed for an hour down the bay, and murMtoringf go to the Post .Surgeon with the same cap, •shirt ami-lpaiA*; flkd f&cwhy lifer boy did living rft’nrtj Bbdfekwtleco.tliaißUltgeon's iff^rf l fcC;'i»d-a«‘*ah<terMuiawn to ftiSSSSWtS •" wagemr .< ‘ recently ‘ returned Ho'New Haven from South! America. Mftfo ninety-four years old. and has-not, seen his family for over Srt/yeats. * HbW very vigurou*, walks irithoutn cane afid reads y /‘sjiecks.”

THE MARKETS.

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