Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1871 — Page 1

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Miscellaneous Reading. MODERATION. Bi moderate In all thing., Kxcec.lvs In nouo, In great things and small things Tne king on hU throne, The eohller, the pea.aul, Majr learn. In a word, To moderate the scepter. The spade, and the sword bo moderate In eating, Nor sit at the board Like a miser bent oyer His long-gathered board. Be moderate In drinking. Nor drain deep the howl. For Death’s at the bottom, In wait for your soul. Be moderate in thinking; The hew too long bent Has never the shaft To the mark with force sent. Be moderate In friendship, To all but a few, And, those to your bosom 'Jlaep, trusting and true; It poverty stands at The door, you may teet Dr the touch of his cold hand Your bravest and best. Be moderate In love . While you are ardent and young; But If yonr heart's flame Finds a vent through the tongue, Let it be, like an übsheathed Patriot’s sword, Ever ready to act fn accord with your word. Be moderate In eensnrs, . Nor deem It nnvrise To shat on the faults Of another yottr eyes: Tor If through a glass His shortcomings you view, y» He may look upon yours With a microscope, too. Ba moderate In getting. For over-much wealth Nor pleasure, nor health; But, blest with sufficient, Give soma to the poor— Enough if you just Keep the wolf from the door.

THE CRIMINAL WITNESS.

In the spring j)f 1841 I was called to Jackson, Alabama, to attend court, having keen-engaged to defend a young man who had been accused of robbing the mail. I arrived early in the morning and immediately had a long conference with my client. The stolen mail-bag had been recovered, as well as the letters from which the money had been rifled. These letters were given me for examination, and I returned them to the prosecuting attorney. Having got through my preliminaries about noon, and as the case would not come off before the next day, I went into court in the afternoon to see what was going on. The first case that came up was one of theft, and the prisoner was a young girl not more than seventeen years of age, named Elizabeth Madworth. She was very pretty, and bore that mild, innocent look which we seldom find in a culprit. She had been weeping profusely, but, as she found so many eyes upoj her, she became too frightened to weep more. The complaint against her set forth that she had stolen a hundred dollars from a Mrs. Naseby, and as the case went on I found that Mrs. Naseby, a wealthy widow living in the town, was the girl’s mistress.. The poor girl declared her innocence in the wildest terms, hut circumstances were hard agninst her. A hundred dollars in bank notes had been stolen from her mistress’ room, and she was the only one that had access there. At tlris juncture, when the mistress was upon the witness stand, a' young man came and caught me by tlio arm. He was a fine looking man, and big tears stood in his eyes. “ They tell me you arc a good lawyer,” he whispered, “ 1 am a lawyer,” I answered. “ Then do save her! You certainly can do it, for she is Innocent” “ Is she your sister?” ” No, sir," lie addctL “ but—but—” Here he hesitated. “Has she no counsel?” I asked. “ None that’s good for anything—nobody that’ll do anything for her. O, save her; and I’ll give you all I’ve got. I can’t give you much, hut I can raise you something.” I reflected a moment. I cast my eyes towards the prisoner, and she was at that moment looking at me. She caught my eye, and the volume of entreaties I read in her glance resolved me in a moment. I arose and went to the girl, and asked if she wished me to defend her. She said yes. I then informed the Court that I was ready to enter the case, aad was admitted at once. The loud murmur of satisfaction that ran quickly through the room told me where the sympathies of the people were. I then asked for a moment’s cessation, that I might speak to my client. I went and sat down by her side, and asked her to state candidly the whole case. She told me'she had lived with Mrs. Naseby nearly two years, and had never had any trouble before. About two weeks ago, she said, her mistress lost a hundred dollars. “ She missed it from her drawer,” the girl said to me, “ and asked mo about it. I said I knew nothing about it. That evening, I know Nancy Luther told Mrs. Naseby that she saw me take the money from the drawer—that she watched me through the keyhole. Then they went to my trunk and-found twenty-five dollars of the missing money there. But, sir, I never took it, and somebody must have put it there!” & I then asked her if she suspected any one. “I don’t know,” she said, “who could have done it but Nancy. She has never liked me, because she thought I was better treated than she. She is the cook. I was the chambermaid.’’ She pointed Nancy Luther out to me. She was a stout, bold-faced girl, somewhere about five and tw'enty years old, with a low forehead, small, grey eyes, a pug nose and thick lips. I caught her glance at once, as it rested on the fair r _young prisoner, and the moment I detected the look of hatred which I read there, I was convinced that she was the rogue. “Nancy Luther did you say that girl’s name was ?” I asked, for a new light had broken in upon me. "Yes, sir. I left the court room and went to the prosecuting attorney and asked him for the letters I had handed him—the ones that had been stolen from tho moil bag. He save them to me, and having selected one returned the rest and told liim I would see he had the one I kept before night I then returned to the court foom, and the case went on. a. Mrs. Naseby resumed her testimony. She said she intrusted the room to the prisoner’s care, and that no-.one else had access there save herself. The* she dascribed about missing the money, and closed by telling how she found twentylive dollars of the misging money in the prisoner’s trunk. She could swear it was the identical money ahe had lost, in two tens and one five dollar bank notes.

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“Mrs. Naseby,” said I, “when you first missed the money, had you any reason to believe that the prisoner had token it ?” “No, sir,” she answered. “Had you ever bofore detected her in any dishonesty?” %o, sir.” “ Should you have thought of searching her trunk had not Nancy Luther advised and informed you ?” “ No, sir." Mrs. NasebyJeft tire stand and Nancy Luther took her place. She came up with a bold look, and upon me she cast a defiant look, as if to say, “ Trap me if you can.” She gave her evidence as follows : She said that on the night the money was token she saw tho prisoner going up stairs, and from the sly manner in which she went up she suspected all was not right. So she followed her up. “Eliza beth went to Mrs. Naseby’s room and shut the door after her. I stooptd down and looked through the keyhole, and saw her take the money, and put it in’her pocket. Then she stooped down and picked up the lamp, and as I saw she was coming up I hurried away.” Then she went on, told how she had informed her mistress of this, and how she proposed to search the girl’s trunk. I called Mrs. Naseby to the stand. “ You said that no one, save yourself and the prisoner, had access to your room,” I said. “ Now, could Nancy Luther have entered the room, if she wished?” “Certainly, sir; I meant that no one else had any right there.”

I saw that Mrs. Naseby, though naturally a hard woman, was somewhat moved by, poor Elizabeth’s misery. “ Could your cook have known, by any means in your knowledge, where your_ money was?” : —• ~ “ Yes, sir; for she has often come to my room while I was there, and I have often given her money to buy provisions of market-men who happened to.come along with their wagons.” “ One more question; Have you known bf the prisoner having used any money since this was stolen ?” “ No, sir.” I now called Nancy Luther back, and she began to tremble a little, though her look was as bold and defiant as ever. “ Miss Luther," I said, “ why did you not inform your mistress at once of what you had seen, without waiting for her to ask about the lost money ?’’ « Because I could not at once make up my mind to expose the poor girl,” she answered promptly. hole and saw her take the money ?” “ Yes, sir.” “ Where did sho plsce the lamp when she did so?” ... “ On the bureau.” “ In your testimony you said she stooped down when she picked it up. What do you mean by that ?” The girl hesitated, and finally she said she did not mean anything, only that she picket! up the lamp. “Very well,” said I; “how long have you been with Mrs. Naseby ?” “ Not quite a year, sir.” “ How much does she pay you a week ?” “ A dollar and three-quarters.” “ Have you token up any of your pay since yeu have been there ? ’ “ Yes, sir.” “ How much ?” • “ I don’t know, sir.” “ Why don’t you know ?” “ How should I ? I liare token it at different times, ust as I wanted it, and kept no account ’ “ Now, if you had wished to harm the prisoner, could you have raised twenty-live dollars to put in her trunk?” “ No, sir," she replied, with virtuous indignation. 1 “ Then you have not laid up any money since you have been there ?” “ No, sir, only what Mrs. Naseby may owe me.” “ Then you did not have twenty-five dollars when you came there ?’’ “ No, sir; and what’s more, the money found in the girl’s trunk was the money Mrs. Naseby lost. You might have known that if you’d remember what you asked her.” This was said very sarcastically, and was intended as a crusher upon the idea that she should have put the money in the prisoner’s trunk. However I was not overcome entirely. “ Will you tell me if you belong to this State?” “ I do, Bir.” “In what town?” She hesitated, and for an instant the bold look forsook her. But she finally answered. I next turned to Mrs. Naseby. “ Do you ever take a receipt from your girls when you pay them?” “ Always.” “ Can you send and get one of them for me ?” “She has told you the truth, sir, about the payments,” said Mrs. Naseby. “O, I don’t doubt it,” I replied,- “ but particular proof is the thing for tho court room. So, if you can, I wish you would procure the receipt.” <, She said she would willingly go if the Court said so. The Court did s4y so, and she went. Her dwelling was not far off, and she soon returned and handed me four receipts, which I took andexamined. They were signed in a strange, staggering hand by the witness. “ Now, Nancy Luther,” I said, turning to the witness, and speaking in a quick, startling tone, at the same time looking her sterply in the eye, “please tell the Court and jury, and me, where you got the sev«n-ty-five dollars you sent in your letter %> your sister in Somers?” At this she staitcd as though a volcano burst at her feet. She turned pale as death, and every limb shook violently. I waited until the people could have an opportunity to see her emotion, and then I repeated the question. “ I—never—sent—any,” she gasped “ You did!" I thundered, for I was excited now. “I—l didn’t,” she faintly muttered, grasping the railing by her side for support. “ May It please your Honor and gentlemen of the jury,” I said, as soon as I looked the witness out of countenance, “ I came here to defend a man who was arrested for robbing the mail, and in thy course of my preliminary examinations I had access to the letters which had been torn <Tpcn and robbed of money. When I entered upon this case, and heard the name of this witness pronounced, I went out and got this letter which I now hold, for I remembered having seen one hearing the signature of Nancy Luther, Tills letter was token from the mail bag, and it contained seventy-five dollars, ana by looking at thfc postmark you will observe that it was mailed the day after the hundred dollars were token from Mrs. Naseby’s drawer. I will read it to you if you please.’’ » The Court nodded assent, and I read the

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following, which was without date, save that made by the postmaster upon tho outside. I give it verbatim: “Sistxr Donees: • "I cond-jru hear eeventy-flve dolers which 1 want vu to cepe for mo til I cum hum I cant cepe It cos Im afeerd It will git stole, dont epeek wun word to a liven nolo bout this I dout want nobody to uo Ive got eny mony, vu wont will yu. lam fust rate only that gude for nothin snipe of llz madworth is hear yet—but I hop to git over her now. you ne I rote to yu bout her. glv my luv to all tnqulrtn < eu». this Is from yur sister tlfl doth. “Nanoi Luthib." “Now, your Honor,” I said, as I gave him the lettei 1 , and also the receipts, “you will sec that the letter is directed to Dorcas Luther, Somers, Montgomery county. And you will observe that one hand wrote that letter and signed the receipt, and the jury will also observe. And now I will only add, it is plain to see how the hundred dollars were disposed of. Seventy-five were sent off for safe keeping, while the remaining twenty-five dollars were placed in the prisoner’s trank, for the purpose of covering the real criminal. Of the tone of parts of the letter, you must judge. I now leave my client’s case in your hands.” Tile case was given to the jury immediately following their examination of the letter. They had heard from the witness’ own mouth that she had no money of her own, and without leaving their seats they returned a verdict of “Not guilty.” I will not describe the scene that followed ; but if Nancy Luther had not been immediately arrested for theft, she would have been obliged to seek protection of the officers, or the excited people would have maimed her at least, if they had not done more. The next morning I received •a note handsomely written, in which I was told that the within was but a slight token of the gratitude due me for my efforts in of the poor, defenceless maiden. It was signed “Several Citizens,” and contained one hundred dollars. Shortly afterwards the youth, who first begged me to take up the case, called upon me with all the money he could raise; but I showed that I had already been paid, and refused his hard earnings. Before I left town I was a guest at his wedding—my fair client being the happy bride.

The Scarlet Fever.

This dreadful scourge is reported as prevalent in several places in the State, and some cases are reported here. It seems that the disease is somewhat modified of late years, hut still it often assumes a malignant form, and baffles all skill. At present there are so few cases that alarm would be unwarranted; nevertheless, precaution is now, as ever, justifiable. The disease is propagated by infection and contagion, and appears to be transmitted in proportion to its malignity, that is, the worst cases are the most surely “catching.” The disease is not so readily transmitted in the earlier stages, as it is when convalescence is established. Then the skin comes off in a fine dust, and then contact with the patient is almost certain to infect. It is at this time that children, having been shut up in the house, are most anxious to get out, and their parents having just received their darlings back from a dangerous illness, are most inclined to gratify them. Thus it is that the disease so often assumes the characteristics of an epidemic, and destroys hundreds of children. There is no absolute protection of scarlet fever known to medical science. Caution will do much, and a preparation of belladonna is recommended by almost all physicians as a prophylactic, but wc believe no sound medical authority regards it as invariably effectual. The best thing that can be done is to guard against infection, and to follow the advice of a respectable physician.— Springfield, 111., Register.

How to Prevent Colds.

1. Eat plain, unstimulating food, and avoid rich pies and puddings, rich gravies, fat meats, etc. Especially guard against over-eating. If the bowels are constipated and the other excretory organs overworked and weakened by the effort to throw off the excess of food, the person is far more liable to colds and to other diseases as Well. 2. Avoid hot, stimulating, and alcoholic drinks of every kind. The tendency of alMs to weaken. 3. Always have your sleeping-room well ventilated. More colds are caused by sleeping in hot, close rooms than in any other manner. 4. Take daily outdoor exercise according to your strength. It is better, as a rule, to get out in a storm even, if you are suitably protected, than to remain in all day. 5. Always breathe through the nostrils and not through the mouth, especially when going from a warm atmosphere to a cold one. 6. Dress loosely, so as not to interfere with respiration or the circulation of the blood, and dress so as to keep the extremities, particularly the feet, warm and dry. 7. Rub the entire surface of the body daily with a sponge, towel, or with the hands wet in cool or cold water, wipe dry, and rub briskly with a dry coarse towel until the skin is all in a glow. It can all be done in three minutes. It should be done in a warm room, unless it can be done in a cool room without the least bit of chilliness being produced. The person should feel warmer after the bath than before, otherwise he may know that he has not taken it properly. —Herald of Health. *

All about a Canary.

An incident really deserving the epithet of tragi comic took place lately at Antwerp. Madame, a young married woman, had a canary, which Monsieur, her young husband, had neglected to feed,'a forgetfulness which,-to'the grief and rage of the lady, resulted in the death of the pet. Resolved, however, on retribution, she began, so soon as her first accesaagof grief was spent, upbraiding her lord .and master with bitter reproaches and presently, on his adding fhel to the me, dashed a pot of milk upon tho floor. This was followed, by a general smash of crockery on both’ sides, and at length Madame went so far as to take a very effective shot with a fragment at Monsieur, who presently was bathed in blood. On seeing this the woman rushed from the house shrieking, “I have murdered my husband,” and positively threw herself into the river, but a boatman hauled her out just as the husband came panting to the rescue. Like the fairy stories, it all onds very happily, for the two fools returned home, where tho husband, who lit a big fire to dry her, will now probably recognize the soundness of the advice, “Never quarrel with your wife, as you will only have to make it.up, and pay for the reconciliation." A Lansino, Mich., creditor bet the man who owed him S2O that he would collect the amount of the little bHI inside of two weeks. The money was put up, whereupon the creditor garnisheed the stakes and secured his claim.

OUR COUNTRY AND OUR UNION.

Weekly News Summary.

CONGRESSIONAL. In tho Senate, on the 22d, the joint resolution authorizing the appointment of a Commission in relation to tho llepubljU: of. Dominica was passed—Bl to 9....Th0 credentials of Mr. Jewett, appointed by tho Governor of Missouri to All the temporary vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Drake, were presented, and Mr. Jewett was qualified and took his seat... .'pie House bill relieving tho political disabilities of certain citizens of Virginia was taken up, and the Amnesty bill, reported at the last session from the Select Committee on Disabilities, was moved as an amendment....A message from the House was received, announcing the decease or Hon. Wm. Smyth, the late Representative from lowa. An eulogy was delivered and the customary resolutions were adopted, when the B<nate adjourned until January 4. In tho House, on the 2td, a general debate was had In Committee of the Whole, on the President’s annual message.... Adjourned to the 4th of Janoaiy.

FOREIGN. After a severe engagement on the 20th, the city of Tours surrendered to the Prussians. It was announced at Bordeaux on the 21st that the Prussians had that day evacuated Tours, retreating towards Chateau Renault. A Berlin dispatch, received in London on the 22d, threatens that, unless Paris should soon surrender, a regular attack would be begun. Dispatches from Vienna on the 22d state that the Turkish fleet was under immediate orders for service, and extensive warlike preparations had been made. According to a London telegram of the 22d, the French claimed to have severed Frederick Charles’ communication, and to have captured 2,000 prisoners as the Germans were leaving Tours. They also'report that the army of the Loire had made a successful union, and was 300,000 strong, and ready for the offensive. A Berlin dispatch of the 22d states that the Germans had surprised the French at Langres, in the Department of IlautcMame, and driven them from their positions with heavy loss. Many prisoners and a large quantity of arms and baggage were taken. . The most satisfactory observations were taken of the sun’s eclipse in England on the 23d. The bill ratifying the vote of the Roman people for annexation to Italy has passed the Italian Chamber of Deputies by a vote of 239 to 20. A Versailles dispatch says another great sortie was attempted from Paris on the 22d. Three divisions of French troops issued from the city and commenced a vigorous and well-directed attack upon the German lines, .which gradually fell back before them. The Germans were subsequently reinforced, and the French.-troops were forced back from the position they had gained, and were finally repulsed and compelled to withdraw within the city. A London dispatch of the 25th says : “ The total effective force of the German armies now in France is set down, in round numbers, at 600,000, half of which is now before Paris;'and 100,000 on the sick list. It is estimated that 300,0Qp Germans have been killed or disabled since the beginning of the war.” King William telegraphed the Queen on the 25th that General Manteuffel won a victory on the 23d, pear Amiens, taking 1,000 prisoners and commenced the pursuit of the French in the direction of Arras on the 25th. A dispatch from Susa announces that the Alps were pierced through on the 26th, and that the workmen from both ends of the Mont Cenis tunnel joined in congratulations upon the completion of the great work. A telegraphic dispatch from the commanding general of the Saxon troops before Paris, announces that the bombardment of Fort Avron commenced on the 27th. This fortification is the most advanced of the French outworks east of Paris, and crowns Mont Avron at a considerable elevation, six miles from the city walls. A dispatch from Versailles on the 23d says a scheme for the assassination of the King of Prussia, Von Moltke and Bismark had been discovered there. London dispatches of the 27th give accounts of an alleged outrage recently perpetrated by the Germans upon a number of English subjects. Six English vessels, Which were lying at anchor at Duclair, a small town on the Seine, were fireff on by the troops, and the crews, being unable to offer a formidable or prolonged resistance, were at last compelled to surrender. The Germans tbCP boarded the vessels, and, after securing tho eiS™ by binding them, they proceeded to ransack the ships for valuables and other plunder. After securing everything of any value, the invaders took the vessels into midstream and scuttled them, with a • view of impeding the navigation of the river. The London Shipping Gazette of the 27th declares that the government must instantly demand an explanation and redress from Prussia. The expedition sent to Oran, Africa, to observe the eclipse is reported to have been a failure. The bombardment of Fort Avron continued on the 28th. The French replied with vigor, but their fire was reported to be ineffective. The news of the opening of fire on the fortifications of Paris was received at Berlin with public rejoicings. The weather in Southern France was intensely cold on the 28th'. A Versailles dispatch of the 28th says the French army of the North had concentrated around Arras. The health of the troops was excellent. A Havana dispatch of the 28th states that the rebels were presenting themselves for surrender everywhere, in large riumiiers. Their condition when they reached the town was lamentable in the extreme. DOMESTIC. Gold closed in New York on the 28th at UO The mail-bag known as the “Agents’

Pouch,” <nd made up for Washington, D. C., of the Western mall via Harrisburg,, which arrived at Baltimore on the 21st, was found the following morning in an alley near the Post Office, cut open and robbed of its contents. The number of immigrants arriving at the port of New York from January 1 to December 28, 1870, iff 208,363; to the same date in 1869 the number of arrivals was 255,449. Fifteen hundred pounds of nitro-glyccr-ino exploded at the Hoosac tunnel on the 23d. John Vclsar, the Superintendent, was blown to atoms. According to the annual report of the Directors of tho Northern Penitentiary of Indiana, the institution for the first time is self-sustaining. The excess of recciptsover expenditures was $1,829.36. Tho whole number of convicts is 339; pardoned, 23; discharged from all causes, 132. Most of the convicts are hired out at fifty cents per day. The trial of John Armstrong and Charles Jolly, for the murder of the Lapine family, near Potosi, Mo., about a month ago, closed on the 22d, and after an absence of only three minutes, the jury returned a verdict of murder in the first degree, and the murderers were sentenced to be hanged on Jan. 27. The entire business portion of Brandenburg, Meade county, Ky., was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 22d. Only three business houses are left in the place. Loss estimated at $100,000; insurance, $50,000. — '-A— Specials from Vicksburg on the 22d say nine cabin and thirty deck passengers were lost on the steamer Nick Wall. The exact population of Ohio, according to the corrected returns, is 2,664,681. The Central Pacific Railroad robbere tried at Washoe City, were sentenced to the State Prison, as follows: Chapman, 18 years; Parsons, 20 years; Cockerell,. 22 years; Squires, 23 years 6 months. The Spottswood Hotel at Richmond, Va., was totally destroyed by fire on the night of the 23d, and some six or eight persons perished in the burning building. Complete census returns from the State of Maryland show the population to be 781,054, an increase of 94,000 since 1860. The gain is principally in Baltimore and a few interior towns. Census returns from the principal cities and towns in Virginia are as follows : Richmond, 51,093; Norfolk, 19,254; Petersburg, 18,759; Lynchburg, 16,725; Portsmouth, 10,592; Alexandria, 13,576; Fredericksburg, 4,046; Winchester, 4,450.

PERSONAL. The President was visited on the 22d by many Senators and Representatives, who congratulated him upon the passage of the San Domingo resolution by the Senate. He said, in his reply, that he believed the annexation policy waa prudent, and thought it would gain strength as the facts became known. The Senate, in executive session on the 22d, confirmed the nomination of Robert C. Schcnck, of Ohio, as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Great Britain. A recent assemblage of bee-keepers at Indianapolis, Ind., adopted the name of the North American Bee-Keepers’ Association. Commissioner Wilson, of the General Land office at Washington, received a note on the 23d, informing him that his resignation would be accepted. A letter of Senator-elect Vance, of North Carolina, in reply to certain accusations against him, was published in Washington on the 23d. He declares that he acquiesces in, and will maintain, all the legitimate results of the war, and that he earnestly desires the unity and fraternity of the whole country in prosperity and honor. On the evening of the 27th the magnificent dwelling of General McClellan, in Llewellyn Park, Orange county, New York, was totally destroyed by fire. It was one of the most elegant and noted residences of that vicinity, and waa valued at $50,000. It waa not occupied by Gen. McClellan at the time, but waa in charge of hired men.

POLITICAL. Mr. Gaston’a plurality for Mayor of Boston is shown by the official returns to be exactly 3,000. The Female Suffrage bill has been defeated in the Dakota Territorial Legislature by a vote of sixteen to seven. .An Augusta, Ga., dispatch of the 24th says sufficient returns had been received to show that the State had gone Democratic at the recent c! ect * on - The Democrats had certainly carried fiV? Congressional Districts. The Labor Reform party of New Hampshire held a State Convention in Concord on the 27th, and nominated Samuel P. Copper, of Croyden, for Governor. George Roberts, °of Bochester, was renominated for Railroad Commissioner. The following Congressional nominations were made .- First District, Emory A. Hibbard, of Laconia; Becond, W. H. Gove, of Weare; Third, E. D. Baker, of Claremont. The North Carolina Senate, sitting as a Court of Impeachment, has ordered the answer of Governor Holden to the articles of impeachment to be filed on or before January 23, and that the case will stand for trial on January 80. A. F. Stevens has been renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Third Vermont District. An Atlanta, Ga., dispatch of the 28th says: “Thos. J. Speer, Republican, has been elected in the Fourth District to the Forty-second Congress, by 500 majority. Jefferson T. Long, Republican, has been elected from the same district to the For-ty-first Congress. It is believed that John S. Bagby, Republican, in tho Third Dis-

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trict, and Richard A. Whitney, Republican, in tlio Second -District, are elected. Adam P. Price, Democrat, {selected in the Sixth District by a large majority. Elbert, White, Banks, Madison, Habersham and Franklin counties are largely Democratic.”

CURRENT ITEMS.

The Coal-Ring—The fireside circle. Best Climate fob a Toi*eb—'The Temperate Zone. Hum Monet—The price of a family cradle. The militia of Pennsylvania number 13,000 men. Habbisiiubo, Pa., contains 085 mere females than males. The policies of the Washington are liberal as to travel. Vibginia has half a million members es the Order of Good Templars. A Slow Match—'The marriage of a couple after thirteen years’ courtship. The Mutual Life of Chicago makes all its policies non-forfeitable. A “ Histobt of Tobacco” is announced. It should be illustrated with fine cuts. The city of Boston paid $21,285 during the last year for bathing 1,397,914 men, women and boys. Why do girls kiss each other and men do not! .Because girls have nothing better to kiss and men have. The sagacious A. Ward once said he thought it rather improved a comic paper to print a joke now and then. The man who is too poor to hire his boots blacked, and too much of a gentleman to black them himself, wears dirty boots. In Norfolk the indolents proposed to organize a lazy club, but failed on account of the party being too lazy to sign their names to the constitution. The State Inspector reports 628,979 barrels of salt inspected in Michigan last year—being an increase of nearly 70,000 barrels on the product of the previous year. A lady, aged 61, in England, finding herself on the wrong railroad train, leaped from it when it was running at a speed of forty miles an hour, and escaped without any injury. Dobb, the portrait painter, says that everything should be in character. For instance, search warrants should be printed on “ tracing paper,” and wedding notices on “ fool’s cap.” A man in Essex, Mass., refused to have the pegs of a new pair of shoes he wiis buying for his boy rasped off, because in that case the boy would run all over town, and the shoes wouldn’t last him three weeks. The Superior Court in Cincinnati decides that a wife has a vested right in her husband’s society and companionship, and can maintain an action for damages against any person who tempts him to stay from home. Cincinnati has a divorce case, the parties in which aggregate 130 years in age; and the plaintitt complains of cruel treatment, and that she had to fish for a living while her husband was drinking whisky out of a Britannia teapot. The doctors are not all agreed about the use of the sewing machine being injurious to health. An eminent French authority denies that any evil effects have been experienced by women operating, machines, within the range of his observation, which is extensive. “ Have you ground all the tools right, as I told you?” said a carpenter to a rather queer lad whom he had taken for an apprentice. “ All but a hand saw, sir,” replied the lad; “ I could not get all the gaps out of that.” It was once observed to Lord Chesterfield, in the course of conversation, that man is »the only creature endowed with the power of laughter. “ True,” said the carl, “ and you may add, perhaps, that he is the only creature who deserves to be laughed at.” Kabl, aged five years, has a brother a few weeks old. Nelly,*a little girl of nine years, meeting him, asked if he was not glad to have a little brother to play with. With a shrug of his shoulders, Master Karl replied, “ Play with! He can’t wash his own face.” A Roman father, of Bridgeport, Conn., had his son arrested the other day for robbing him of some small change'* and the penalty adjudged by the court was a fine of sl7 ana costs, which, as the culprit was a minor, came out of the pocket of the plaintiff, whose reverence for the majesty of the law has undergone a trifling modification. • A Philadelphia judge has picked up somewhere the absurd idea that witnesses are not criminals. He rebuked a lawyer for badgering one in a late case, and laid down the astounding proposition that a witness should be treated in the same manner as any gentleman would treat a visitor to his house. The lawyers talk of having him impeached or sent to a lunatic asylum. The other day the front door of the New York Tribune office had to be closed for some purpose. So Mr. Greeley wrote on a piece of paper, “ Entrance on Spruce street,” and sent it down to the man who does the painting of the bulletins, to be copied. The man studied over Greeley's tracks all the forenoon, and finally, in despair, wrote “Editors on a spree!” and posted it up. A little four-year old had been intently V.atbhing tiitf jJKC?!? of eorn-pop^, on a stormy day in the beginning,of winter. Happening to turn to the window, she observed for the first time the falling snow. Amazed and delighted, she ran to her father and exclaimed. “Oh, papa, do look at the funny rain; it’s all popped_out white!’’ Some diamond merchants write to the London Daily News to observe that the public needn’t imagine that it is going to get these stones cheap and good because of the discoveries at the Cape. They declare that there are no good judges there, and that a most exaggerated estimate of the value of the stones is the consequence. A parcel consigned, valued at $2,5tX), was found to be worth less than S4OO. A besident of the St Lawrence county (N. Y.) jail has discovered a new use for soap. Having thoroughly soaked his right arm in soft soap, he was able to thrust It' through bars that would scarcely have admitted an infant’s, and then unlocked the <kx>r, when,*by the connivance of friends oiitslde, he’made good his escape. A fellow stopped at a hotel at Pike’s Peak, and on settling his bill the landlord charged him $7 a day for five days. “Didn’t you make a mistake said the fellow. •‘No,” said the landlord. “You did." retorted the wiryGooking fellow, “you thought you got all the money I had, but

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you were mistaken. I have a puree full la another pocket." Rev. T. K. Bef.cher, of Elmira, said something unpleasant about EL B. Smith, Congressman elect from that district. Smith remarked to him that those statements were conspicuously inexact Beecher exclaimed, “Do you want to get up a quarrel with thtr Beecher family r’ " No. sir,” said Smith, “ but I want to know if you intend to get up a fight with the Smith family ♦” And peace was restored between the two great division* of the human family. “ Young A croon.’’—Yes, Agassiz dott o recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes biaina. So our you are correct, but I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat —at least, not with certainty. If the specimen composition you send us is about your fair usual average, I should judge that perhaps acoupleof whales would be all you would want at present. Not thd largest kind, but simply good middling-dzed whales.— Mark Twain, James Fisk, Jr., -explains what be meant by “gone where the woodbine twincth“ You see I was before that learned and dignified body, the Committee on Banking and Currency, and when Garfield asked me where the money got by Corbin went could not make a vulgar reply and say up a spout, hut observing, while peddling through New England, that every spout of house or cottage had a woodbine twining about it, I said naturally enough, Where the the woodbine twineth. That is all. It seems the Congressional cheesewaxes did not understand my delicacy BBT my delicate allusion.” Phofessob Smith, of Baltimore, in a recent communication on the gutriect oi hydrophobia, says that, as the virus or poison which propagates the fetal malady exists in the saliva of the rabid animal, a mere scratch on the hand or face is more dangerous than if a deep incision had been made by the teeth, as in the latter case the flow of blood would be likely to assist Tn carrying off the poison. The Professor advises that the wound or wounds be instantly washed again and again with soap and water, to prevent the possibility of any poison adhering. Caustic potash should then be applied for about a quarter of a minute, and then be followed by a poultice of bread and milk, the latter to be continued for two days. An important decision was recently rendered by Judge McKenna, one of the Circuit Judges of the United States Supreme Court, in which the New Jersey Mutual Life Insurance Company were defendants. The company had refused to pay a policy of SIO,OOO upon the life of a man who had committed policy being held by the assignee. The decision was adverse to the company. Nearly all the evidence adduced was on the point of insanity, it being attempted to prove that the insured party was not in hiß right mind, and that-’ his death was the result of insanity. The court decided that the man was insane—that the insanity was a disease, and that his death being directly the result of such disease, the holder of the policy was as much entitled to recover the amount of the policy as if the death had occurred from any other kind of disease. The following story is told of the early days of Wyoming Territory: In the barroom of a way-side tavern, where the stage stopped to change horses, and where teamsters tarried to drink, a few rough customers' sat one afternoon beside tbe stove. Enter a mountain ruffian, venomously drunk, who fetched out his revolver and commenced practising with it at various objects behind the bar and on the walls. While this was going on, the cries of an os-teamster to his approaching cattle were heard, and soon the driver appeared within the door. Stalking up to the bar he called for a glass of liquor; but, as he raised it to his dirty lips, the tumbler was shattered by a well-aimed shot from the practising man’s revolver. Without a word the bulllvliacker put his hand behind his back, produced his pistol, levelled it at the ruffian’s head, and remarked, as the body dropped to the floor, “That scoundrel would have hurt somebody pretty soon. He then filled another glass and drank the contents, strode out as deliberately as he had come in, and with a “Woa, haw, there!” started his oxen up the road.

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