Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1874 — Page 1

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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

Condensed from Telegrams of Accompanying Dates. Friday, January 16.—At a meeting in Madrid of Deputies constituting a majority of the late Cortes, a vote of confidence in Senor Castelar was adopted, and be was requested topreparea manifesto to the nation.... The Prohibitionists of Connecticut have nominated a State ticket, with the name of H. D. Smith, of Southiifgton, at its head. Resolutions were adopted condemning the depravity of Democrats and the hypocrisy of the Republicans, and pronouncing the license law a failure... .The Kansas Farmers’ Cooperative Association, recently in session at Topeka, adopted resolutions urging Congress to render great centers of Western trade as accessible to ocean tonnage as New York or Boston; strongly dis-, countenancing any continuance of the practice of voting county denouncing the free pass system, and asking Congress to throw the Indian Territory open to white men. They also resolved that they will act in politics hereafter indepcnenduntly of existing parties. They reiterate the doctrine that railways should be subject to National and State regulation, and call upon Congress to provide for cheap transportation between the States. The Executive Committee of the Association state that there are 131 auxiliary societies in the State, independent of the Granges, which number 1,000.... The Secretary of State of Texas, having refused to recognize the Legislature in session at Austin, and to deliver to them the election returns, that body appointed a committee of • seven to canvass and report as to the result of the State election. This committee made a formal demand upon the Governor that he direct the Secretary to deliver to them the official returns. The Governor replied that he did not think the committee entitled to them, but that if they would help themselves they would meet witH no opposition. The committee repaired to the Secretary’s office, and the returns were pointed out to them, when they took possession, the Secretary protesting in writing against the proceedings. Saturday, January 17.—Ex-State Senator Graham, of New York, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years for having, as President of the Walkill National Bank, appropriated the funds of that institution to his own private use, and having proved a defaulter for a large amount.... Several of the leaders in the attempt to get up a street riot among the workingmen in New York City the other day have been held for trial.... A deputy of the lowa State Grange has recently returned from a visit to the destitute farmers «f Lyon, Osceola and O’Brien Counties. He is reported to have found one thousand families in need of succor, and thinks , that five hundred of them must depend on charity for support till spring;... Thc new Texas Legislature after counting the votes of the late State election, formally declared Richard Coke elected Governor and R. D. Hubbard, Lieutenant Governor, both of whom were thereupon sworn into office. Tne Attorney-General at Washington received a dispatch on the 16th, from the United States Marshal at Austin, saying: “The newly-elected Governor Coke was Inaugurated last night. Armed men are guarding the approaches to the offices and to the Capitol, and other armed men have possession of the legislative halls. A conflict seems inevitable. A message from you may save us from disaster.” The Attor-ney-General replied that he could only appeal to the parties to peaceably adjust their difficulties if possible. “Cannot some one negotiate a settlement? I have no pdwer to interfere with force, nor have you any duty to perform, in respect to the matter, except to use your moral influence”.... Up to adjournment of the lowa House on the 16th, ninety-five ballots for Speaker had been had, still resulting in a tie—forty-nine to forty-nine—two members having paired off. * Monday, January 19.—A threatening article in a recent number of the North German Gazette on the policy of France with regard to the Papal questions excites uneasiness and indignation in Rome and Paris. L' Opinion Nationale says: “Notwithstanding their regent success the Prussians are still ignorant of that nobleness which refrains from insultingthe conquered.” Recent dispatches Indicate that there is no prospect of an adjustment of the difficulty among ’the coal miners of Pennsylvania, and the strike, which has become general, promises to be of long duration. ... A special telegram from Duluth says the Indians at Vermillion Lake are dying of starvation. They have eaten two children and one man. The scarcity of game and the failure of the rice crop are said to have been the cause. They claim the Government failed to send the usual supplies of provisions. Several are coming into the settlement for relief.... The newly-installed Governor of Texas made a formal demand on Governor Davis, on the 16th, for the delivery into his possession of the executive office of the State, together with the papers, archives, and all property pertaining thereto, as well as the office of Secretary of State and its archives, papers and property. This demand was not complied with, Governor Davis claiming to be the legal Governor of the State until the 28th of April next. He proposed, however, to submit the question of recognition of the legitimate State Government to the Executive or Congress of the United States, or to both, to which proposition Governor Coke refused to assent. Governor Davis received a telegram from AttorneyGeneral Williams on the 17th to the effect that “more than four years having expired since your election, he (the President) is of the opinion that your right to the office of Governor, at this time, is at least so doubts ul that he does not feel warranted in furnishing United States troops to aid you in holdingfurther possession of it, and he, therefore declines to comply with your request.” Tuesday, January 20.—The President has nominated Morrison R. Waite, of Ohio, for Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court. Mr. Waite is a resident of Toledo, and is sixty years of age.... The temporary structure erected over the remains of the Union Central Depot at the foot of Lake street, Chicago, has been destroyed by fire. Several passenger coaches were consumed. Loss variously stated at from SIOO,OOO to $400,000. Chicago was also visited at the same time by another destructive fire on State street, near Van Buren, five valuable stores and their contents being burned....A dispatch' from Greensboro, N. C., says the Siamese twins died on the 17th. Chang died at four o’clock, and Eng about two hours

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after..'.. Governor Coke and his associates in office have secured possession of the State offices of Texas, at Austin, without tneeting with much opposition. Wednesday, January 21.—At Paris, recently, United States Minister Washburne, on behalf of the French residents of Philadelphia, presented ex-Presidcnt Thiers with a gold medal. In his speech Mr. Washburne alluded to the friendship of the Unitsd States during her armed revolution, and eulogized the French people who have taken up their residence in the United States. Thiers expressed his thanks to his countrymen in the United States for the manifestations oFtheir confidence in him, and declared that a Republic was the only government possible in France; consequently the bond of friendship between the two nations would be made stronger... .In the Woman’s Suffrage Convention which was recently held in Washington, Vice-President Wilson said: “Twenty years ago I came to the conclusion that my wife, my mother and my sisters were as much entitled to the right of suffrage as myself, and I have not changeomy mind since.”.... Nine workingwomen were recently killed and many others seriously injured by an explosion in a knitting mill at Bennington, Vt The explosion was caused by the accidental ignition of gasoline, which had escaped from a pipe that leaked.... A bill for the compulsory education of the children of the State has been passed by the Illinois House of Representatives. It provides that children between the age of nine and fourteen must be sent to school for three months of the year, and six weeks of this schoolingpnust be continuous.... The Wisconsin Senate has adopted a resolution “requiring all members to at once return their free passes to the railroad companies, and forbidding them from accepting any other- favors of like character. A similar resolution has been adopted by the Kansas Assembly.... Governor William Pinckney Whyte has been elected to the United States Senate by the Maryland Legislature.... The lowa State Temperance Association has adopted resolutions calling for the repeal of the act exempting beer and wine from seizure, and in favor of the total prohibition of the manufacture or sale of liquor. Thursday, January 22.—The German Reichstag has been convoked for the sth of February....A. H. Hoffman, the popular German poet, is dead, aged seventy-five.... President Grant has approved the bill repealing all parts df the Salary act of March, 1873, except such as increase the salaries pt the President and Justices of the Supreme Court. ... .The United States Senate has unanimously confirmed the nomination of Mr. Waite for Chief-Justree, nine Senators not voting. Those absent or not voting were: Alcorn, Ames, Dennis, Dorsey, Hamilton (Md.), Johnston, Sprague, Sumner, Windom. .... The following are the newly-elected officers of the lowa State Temperance Convention: H. Lewis Todhunter, President; Seward Smith, Secretary; Isaac Brandt, Treasurer. A resolution was adopted by the Convention favqrable to woman suffrage... .Two hundred and seventy five subordinate Granges are represented in the Georgia State Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry in session at Atlanta.... The Wisconsin State Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry met at Janesville on the 20th, nearly every Grange in the State being represented. The Order was reported to be in a flourishing condition throughout the State. On the 21st reports of officers were made. Mr. Osborn, State Agent, in his report, takes strong ground in favor of combined action agates t such manufacturing companies as refuse to give direct wholesale terms to grange agencies. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Master, Col. John Cochrane, of Dodge County, re-elected; Overseer, D. Williams, of Walworth County; Lecturer, 8. W. King; Steward, C. Foster; Assistant-Steward, A. J. Sexton; Chaplain, E. F. Dunham; |Treasurer, Jonathan Corry, of Rock County, and H. E. Huxley, of Neenah, Secretary. ’ •

FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

Thursday, January 15.—Senate—Petitions were presented—asking for the appointment of a Commission to investigate the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors:, asking for the right of suffrage for women... .After consideration of the hill to establish post-routes throughout the country, the Finance resolution was taken up, and Mr. Morton addressed the Senate in reply to Mr. Schurz’ speech of the day before, saying that he believed that in order to bring our currency to par we must resort to some other means than contraction... .A resolution was agreed to directing the Supervising Surgeon of the Marine Hospital Service to prepare a brief history of the yellow fever epidemic of 1873 as it prevailed at various points in the United States, with especial reference to details of prevention and hygiene, and transmit the same to the Senate... .Executive session and adjournment. House—h. resolution was reported from the Committee on Elections declaring Wilson and . Martin entitled to seats from the First and Second Congressional Districts of West Virginia, and a minority report was presented by Hazleton, of Wisconsin. Both reports were ordered printed.... A bill was passed providing for. an appeal from the Circuit Courts to the Supreme Court in cases of habeas corpus... .The Naval Appronr ation bill was taken up in Committee of the Whole, and after the rejection of the amendment to punish officers for making outlays in excess of appropriations, except in cases of sudden emergencies in which the President may authorize in writing such expenditures, the bill was reported to the House and passed.... Adjourned. Friday, January 10.— Senate.—Numerous petitions were presented, one asking for the appointment of a Commission to investigate the manufacture of alcoholic liquors....A bill was passed appropriating $2,500 for busts of the late Chief Justices Taney and Chase.for the Supreme Court r00m... .The consideration of the resolution reported by the Finance Committee was resumed, and Mr. Sherman addressed the Senate at length, expressing himself as being opposed to inflation, and in favor of a gradual return to specie payment. ... Adjourned to the 19th. House— A large number of private bills were reported, and most of them were referred to the Comnfittee of the Wh01e.... Leave was asked and refused to introduce a resolution Instructing the Committee on Appropriations to inquire and report how many horses are maintained by the Government in the District of Columbia, the expense and uses, and who use them, and whether they are required for the public service: and, also, carriages and other vehicles owned by the Government. .. .Adjourned, the session on the 17th to be for debate only. Monday, January 10.— Senate —Petitions were presented from citizens of Kansas, asking that measures be taken to issue currency based on real estate securities; in behalf of the Winnebago Indians of Wisconsin.... Among the bills Introduced were—to reimburse Missouri for expenses incurred in arming and equipping troops hi the late war; authorizing the President to appoint five commissioners to collect information as to the effects of the liquor traffic and the practical workings of the prohibitory laws, etc.; authorizing the St. Paul * Sioux City Railway Company to construct a branch road from Sibley, lowa, to Yankton, Dakota.... The Finance resolution was further debated. Messrs. Wright and Logan speaking against the practicability of immediate resumption of specie payments.... Executive session and adjournment. Haute.— A large number of bills were introduced, among them—providing that the heirs of any soldier who was killed or died while in the

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military service daring the late war, whose period of enlistment was for less than one year, or who shall have since died by reason of wounds received of disease contracted, shall be entitled to receive the same bounties as if that soldier had enlisted for three years; to amend the National Banking law sot as to provide for free banking, to give better security to depositors, to prevent usury, give elasticity to the currency, and place the finances on a more secure and substantial basis; to establish a branch mint at Bt. Louie; to provide for an examination and survey of the Minnesota River in the State of Minnesota, and for an estimate of the cost of constructing canal locks and dams on the same.... Resolutions were offered in favor of an increase in the currency with a view to relieve the business stringency, increase the revenue, etc., and instructing the Committee on Banking and Currency to prepare and report to the House without delay a bill for this purpose.... A motion to suspend the rules and adopt the resolutions, was defeated—-yeas 135, nays 98—two.thirds not voting in the affirmative.... A motion to suspend the rules and pass a bill providing that all printed matter, printed by order of the Government and beanng the -Official signature of either House of Congress, shaft pass through the mails free of charge until the Ist of July, 1874, was rejected—yeas 71, nays 163.... Adjourned. Tuesday, January 20. Senate. — Several petitions were presented among which was that of the Nuiloaal Board M Trade in regard-to cheap transportation, which-was referred... .The credentials of A. G. Thurman, re-elected to the Senate from Ohio for six years, from March 4, 1875, were presented....A bill was introduced for the payment of bonds of the Louisville and Portland Canal. ....Consideration of the Finance resolution was resumed, and the Clerk read remarks of Mr. Brownlow, who thought an immediate return to specie payments would be destructive to the business of the country. Mr. Gordon opposed a speedy return to specie payments, and Mr. Chandler thought the only plan was for the Govern meut to say it would resume specie payment on the 15th of January, 1875, atfd to make provision accordingly. ...Amendments were offered to the Post-route bi 11.... Adjourned. House.— A bill was reported from the Committee on Railroads, ordered printed and recommitted, to regulate commerce by railroads among the several States... .A new rule was adopted—l 24 to 101—providing that all motions to suspend the rules, except to go into Committee of the Whole, shall, before being submittd to the House, be seconded by a majority, as in the case of the previous question.... Adjourned. Wednesday, January 21.— -Senate. -Several petitions were presented and referred from women in various parts of the country, asking for legislation conferring upon them the right to vote; also, a memorial of the Indianapolis Woman’s Suffrage Association, protesting against the passage of the law limiting suffrage in the Territories to males... .A bill was passed explanatory of the act of March 2, 1799, to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage.... Consideration was resumed of the resolution reported by the Finance Committee, declaring it to be the duty of Congress to adopt measures to redeem the pledge of public faith, and furnish a currency of uniform value, always redeemable In gold or its equivalent, and Mr. Merrimon advocated the immediate resumption of specie payments... .Executive session anffadjournment. ——T7 ——~ House.— A bill was reported from the Judiciary Committee, and passed, authorizing Legislatures in the several organized Territories, except Utah, at each regular session, to make an assignment of judges to hold courts in districts, and when the Legislature fails to do so, then the judges of each Territory to make an assignment, to continue in force till the close of the next regular session of the Legislature A bill, was reported from the Select Committee on the Centennial Exposition requesting the President to extend, in the name of the United States, a respectful and cordial invitation to the Governments of other nations to be represented and take part in the International Exhibition to be held at Philadelphia under the auspices of the Government of the United States in the year 1876. Considerable discussion followed on the question as to the appropriations likely to be asked of Congress to aid in carrying out the enterprise, when a motion to lay the bul on the table was lost—42 to 206-and the bill was then passed.... The West Virginia contested election case was taken up and discussed, the question being which of the two elections, held on different days and resulting differently, was the legal and valid one... .A recess was taken until 7;30, the evening session to be for the consideration of the bill revising and consolidating the statutes.

A EIRE TRAGEDY.

The Wife and Daughter of Jacob Steiner Perish in the Flames of their Burning Dwelling in New York City —The Father Killed by Leaping from a Second Story Window—The Daughter Refuses to Leave the Side of her Mother and Escape Alone. Just before daybreak on the morning of the 13th of January, a laborer going to his work through Fifty-eighth street, New York, near Central Park, was startled by seeing flames and dense masses of smoke pouring from the rear windows of a brown stone mansion two blocks above, belonging to Jacob Steiner, An alarm was given and the firemen came quickly, when it was discovered thatthe mansion was thoroughly in possession of the flames, and that the only thing that could be done was to stay its progress in other directions. - ■■■ Mr. Steiner, his wife and two daughters had returned late from some place of amusement, and were in deep sleep when the Are broke out. One of the sons was awakened by the stuoke, jumped up and hurried back to his room to dress, supposing that his father, mother and sisters would be able to escape. Mr. Steiner, it seems, was awakened, and leaped from the third-story window into an area in the rear. He struck an iron fence in his descent and was instantly killed. His wife and one of his daughters were cjpsumed to cinders in their apartments. After the fire was extinguished the remains of Mrs. Steiner were found across the bed, one arm over the face as though to shut out the smoke. Her hair and features were utterly burned away. The flesh was baked dry on her jeweled hands and on her arms and bosom it was roasted. Half on the same bed, and half on a chair by its side, reclined the form of her daughter. She was even more terribly burned than her mother. Her head was also clasped by one arm, but the arm was burned almost to a cinder. On the finger bone, from which the flesh had been burned, shone a plain gold engagement ring. With the other hand she had tried to keep out the smoke by crowding a piece of the bedding into her mouth. But the fire had afterward reached her face and bosom and left hardly a semblance of humanity. The origin of the fire was supposed to have been a defective flue. In attempting to assist the inmates of the house to escape, a neighbor had called upon the deceased daughter to reach out to him and let him rescue her—which might have been done at the time—but she said she could not leave her mother to die alone. Mr. Steiner was one of the most energetic business men In Jtew York.' He was born in Bohemia, where he married at an early age. For a few years he transacted business in Jamaica, where, having lost his first wife, he married the lady whose death occurred almost simultaneously with his own. He came to New York in 1839, and in the following year heMnd his foster brother Joseph established themselves as tea merchants in a small way. The brothers remained in partnership until 1809, at which time they separated, and a sharp rivalry sprang up between them, each managing and expanding his own business, until the words “Steiner” and “tea” In New York became almost inseperably connected in the mind of the reader of signs. Their tea-stofes were always painted red, and when one of the brothers opened a new one, the other was sure to follow his example, and to plant himself within provo kingly short radge of his rival, Their custom was to reward a faithful clerk or salesman by

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giving him charge of a Steiner tea-store and making him a partner, and under the Steiner name there are now in that city no fewer than fifty-eight red-fronted tea-stores, all doing a prosperous trade.

CHEAP TRANSPORTATION.

Synopsis of the Report and Resolutions adopted by the Rvernt National Cheap Transportation Convention. The Cheap Transportation Convention, in session in Washington, adjourned sine die on the 17th, the next session to be held at Richmond at a time to be fixed by the Executive Committee, Before adjournment Josiah Quincy was elected President, with a VicePresident from each State, and R. H. Ferguson, Secretary. The majority report of the Committee on Railways was adopted, declaring in substance: that relief must come from legislation, by which our system of railways can be regulated and improved, and by competition, which will completely carry out the reform which legislation must inaugurate; recommending a national law providing for a Bureau of Commerce and Transportation, etc.; that members of the association shall endeavor to obtain the passage of certain laws in their respective States, including a law prohibiting all railway companies from making unjust and excessive discriminations against places which are not competing points, and a law obliging ail railway companies to transport the ears of other companies, or of individuals, for a just and impartial compensation, with the same dispatch as for cars belonging exclusively to said roads ; calling for legislation making it a penal offense for a public officer to accept or use a free pass of any railway company, and prohibiting railway companies from granting passes to other than employes; and declaiming against the granting of subsidies in any form';' recommending that railways and canals be constructed by the National Govern ment, the manner of constructing railways to be by contract to the lowest bidder; that when constructed they should be used for the transportation of Government property, and, when not required for Government use, all citizens are to have the right to place cars and locomotives thereon, and to operate the same, subject to the regulations to be provided by the Government, they paying toll therefor sufficient to maintain the roadway. Resolutions were also adopted—that the convention ask of Congress, aft a means of affording relief to the country, the enlargement of the Erie Canal and lake route; the en-' largement and extension of the Illinois & Michigan Canal to the Mississippi River, at Rock Island, together with the completion of the work on the Illinois River; the improvement of the Mississippi River and the Tennessee River route, the latter being known as the Atlantic & Great Western Canal; the extension of the Chesapeake <fc Ohio Canal from Cumberland, Md., to some point on the Ohio River, and the control of a water line through Virginia. .

THE SIAMESE TWINS.

Particulars of their Death—One Outlives the Other Only Two Hours. New York, January 20. A special from Richmond, Va., makes the announcement of the sudden death of the celebrated Siamese Twins on Saturday morning, the 17th inst., at their residence at Mount Airy, Surrey Couuly, N. C. Chang was par tially paralyzed last fall, since which time he has been fretful, very much debilitated, and strongly addicted to drinking liquor, as a means of alleviating his sufferings. He had been quite feeble for several days, so much so as to confine the brothers to their bed. On Friday night Chang became worse, and, expired suddenly about four o’clock on Saturday morning. Eng became so terribly shocked that he raved wildly for a while. This attack was followed by what seemed to be a deadly stupor, and in two hours, it is supposed, from the death of Chang, Eng breathed his last. The wives and families of the twins are in the deepest grief, and the children, many of whom are deaf mutes, express their sorrow in the most pitiful manner.

NEW YORK.' January 22, 1874. Cotton.—Middling upland, 16><@16?sC. Livb Stock.—Beef Catt1e—[email protected]. HogsLive, [email protected]"H; Dressed, $6.7507.25. Sheep —Live. [email protected]. Bheabstuffs.—Flour—Good to choice, $6,903 7.25; white wheat extra, $7.2507.90. Wheat—No. 2 Chicago, [email protected]; lowa spring, [email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.59©1.61. Rye—Western and State, [email protected]. Barley—[email protected]. Corn —Mixed Western afloat, 90!4@94c. OaUs—New Western, 60@61C. Provisions.—Pork—New, Mess, [email protected]. Lard—9>4@9Hc. Wool.—Common to extra, 40@70c. CHICAGO. Livz Stock.—Beeves- -Choice, [email protected]; good, [email protected]; medium, [email protected]; butchers, stock, [email protected]; stock cattle, [email protected]. Hogs—Live, [email protected]; Dressed, $6.2536.35. Sheep—Good to choice, $4.75©5.35. Provisions.—Butter—Choice, 31©33c. Eggs— Freeh, 19@20c. Pork—New Mess, $14.15© 14.20. Lard—BJ»@9c. Breadstuffs. Flour—White Winter, extra, [email protected]; spring extra, $6.00©7.50. Wheal -Spring, No. 2, $1.21®1.22. Corn—No. 2, 58 ©sß%c. Oats—No. 2, 41@41Jjc. Rye—No. 2, 77@ 79c. Barley—No. 2, [email protected]. Wool.—Tub-washed, 40@52c; fleece, washed 36@46c.; fleece, unwashed. 25@32c.; pulled, 85@40c. CINCINNATI. Breadstuffs.—Flour—s7.2s©7.so. Wheat—sl.sß. Corn—6o263c. Rye—9sc. Oats—4s@soc. Barley—sl.4ool.ss. Provisions. Pork ©9c. ST. LOUIS. Live Stock.—Beeves—Fair to choice, $4,500 5.75. Hog*—Live, [email protected]. Breadbtuffs.—Flour, X X Fall, [email protected]. Wheat—No. 2.Red Ea11.51.62)4@_1.63. Corn-No. 2, 57‘4©58c. Oats-No. 2,43%@44c. Bye—No. 2, 84© 85c. Barley—[email protected]. Provisions.—Pork—Mees, $14.75015.00. Lard—fiHOftKe- MILWAUKEE. Breadstuff*.—Flour—Spring XX, $5.7006.25. Wheat—Spring No. 1, $1.2401.24*; No. 2,1.22© 1.2214. Corn-No. 2, 58@58J4c. Oats-No. 2, 40© 40>4c. Rye—No. 1, 75@76c. Barley—No. 2, $1.52 ©1.53. DETROIT. Breadstvfts. Wheat—Extra, $1.62©1.63. Corn-61@64 1 ,c. Oats—46@47c. TOLEDO. ~~ Breadstuff*.—Wheat—Amber Mich., $1.46@ 1.47; No. 2 Red, $1:4301.44. Corn—Mixed, 63 ©67c. Oats-No. 1.46@47!4c. < ’ CLEVELAND. Breadstuff*.—Wheat—No. 1 Red, $1.57©1.58; No. 2 Red, $1.4«©1.4». Corn-OTOTIC. Oats-48© 50c. BUFFALO. » Live Stock.—Beeves J Live, $5.0036.00. Sbeep-Uve, [email protected].

THE MARKETS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Old Yarns—Darned stockings. A Great Hardship—An iron steamer. A Rooted Sorrow—An aching tooth. Frogs’ legs bring $1.50 a dozen in Boston. To learn the value of money, try to borrow some. Breach of Good Manners—For ruin to stare you in the face. Diseases of the nerves appeared to be unusually prevalent just now. N ervous people are beginning to shudder about their next summer’s ice. Eew York has tried horse flesh and prorftlunces it superior to venison. Let every man or woman who owes money pay it St once, if it is possible. An old definition of salt—the stuff that spoils potatoes if they don’t have any on. The Boston Post records an entire absence of sunstroke for the month of December. —— Bed Oak, lowa, pays a bounty of two cents for every rat’s tail delivered to its Marshal. “Lightning iTug piety” is described as being bright while it lasts, but cold and soon out. Somebody say: “The woman whois indifferent to her looks is no woman.” Find the woman! Deal fairly, leniently, and cheerfully with all persons who owe you or are in pecuniary trouble. A Harvard professor has decided that “higher than Gilderoy’s kite” is anything over a mile high. Darwinian —If the races of men are descended from monkeys, from what have horse races descended ? Bald-headed men take a joke more easily, because they are not at-the trouble of getting it through the hair. Sphinx says “the use of the bass viol in the church of the olden time Was. a. base violation of the Puritan Sabbath.” The latest humor in the way of clubs is that of the Springfield, Mass., dentists, who join for mutial improvement.' One of the neatest toasts ever given: “Woman, the last words on our lips, because it comes from the bottom of our hearts.” Whisky is undoubtedly a good thing in its proper place, but unfortunately nobody has ever found out where its proper place is. A new weekly paper, called The Jim and Eliza Journal, has been started in Mississippi. Jim and Eliza are the editor and wife. A girl at Vienna, Ind., lately swallowed a wasp, which stung her in the throat, and she died from suffocation on account of the swelling. “It is very curious,” said an old gentleman to his friend, “that a watch should be kept perfectly dry when there is a running spring inside.” The lady who lost the $3,200 in bonds at Dubuque, generously thanked the boy who found and returned them, but then times are so hard, you know. At Japa, in Southern California, the miniers pack dirt to water on their shoulders for a mile and a half, wash out the gold, and make fair profits. The Dundee (New York) Record says that you can’t fling a brick in that town without hitting a dashing yoiing widow worth from $5,000 to $15,000. The Dubuque people, after much wrangling, have decided that society has no reason to look down upon a woman because she wears muskrat furs. ni If you are out of debt, thank the Lord; and then go round among your friends, and enemies, too, if you have them, and render them all the assistance in your power. Brigham Young instructs his missionaries to send him no women over thirty years of age. The man must be crazy. Who ever saw a woman over thirty years of age?

A Vermont man mortgaged his farm for SBOO, and invested it all in a lottery, which returned him S3O and a brass watch. Then he wound up his career by lying down in front of a buzz-saw. The one-hundred-year almanac says the year 1874 will be a very unhealthy one. “There will be an open, moist winter, which will give rise to fevers of a low type, and much sickness during the summer months.” Pick up a match in the dark and attempt to strike it, and ten tooneyou have -got the wrong end; take a loose match out of your pocket to pick your teeth with, and twenty to one you get the sulphur end in your mouth. “Well, neighbor, what is the most Christian news this morning?” said a gentleman to a friend. “I have just bought a barrel of flour for a poor woman.” “Just like you! Who is it you have made happy with your charity this time ?” “My wife.” Women can do a great deal for each other if they will only stop fearing what other “people will think,” and take a hearty interest in whatever is going to fit their sisters and themselves to deserve to enjoy the rights God has given them.— L. M. Alcott.

Perhaps this is what Mark Twain tried to say at a dinner in London the other day, and couldn’t: Oh, woman, woman, thon shonld'et have few sin* Of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author Of such a book of follies in a man That it would need the tears of all the angel* To blot the record out? A curious machine, lately invented, is the pulsometer. It is ast earn pump, operating without cylinder,..piston, piston-, rod, stuffing-boxes, glands, cams, eccen-' tries, side valves, cranks or fly-wheels. The steam and water are brought directly in contact in certain chambers, where the alternating vacuum and pressure exerted by the steam is simply utilized to lift and force the water by a species of pulsating action. Some of the Cincinnati saloon men are advertising to “give the entire receipts of their business” For one day as a benefit to the workingmen. Perhaps if these char-itably-inclined people would shut up their shops altogether for a month or two, the working men might stand in less need of benefits. It is a little strange that the thing never struck them in 'hat light. According to Mr. Alexander Delmar, the utmost capacity of a population to consume grain in the form of food is eight to ten bushels per capita per annum. The grain product of the commercial world, however, amounts to eighteen bushels per head, giving an excess of sup-, ply which necessarily makes agriculture unprofitable. Jn 1848 Indian corn was worth sixty-seven currency. “If this,” says Mr. Delujar, “does aoi demonstrate

over-supply, political economy is a valueless science, and observation in matters pertaining to breadstuffs must go for for nothing.” Franklin announced, in his “Poor Richard’s Almanac” for 1758, his invention of the lightning-rod, but it is thought that the ancients, 400 years B. C., were possessed of some knowledge of the effects of rods of iron in averting the lightning. Wrought iron rods are commonly used in the United States on account of their cheapness. They should be at least threequarters of an inch in diameter, and in as long pieces as is practicable, the joints very securely fitted, and the branching terminations in the ground filled around with charcoal, which is a good conductor and prevents rust. The Pores of the Skin.—lt is a curious fact, illustrating the necessity of cleanliness, and of keeping the pores of the skin open, that if a coat of varnish or other substance impervious to moisture be applied to the exterior of the body death will ensue in about six hours. The experiment was once tried on a child at Florence. On the occasion of Pope Leo the Tenth’s accession to the Papal chair it was desired to have a living figure to represent the Golden Age, and so a child was selected and gilded all over with varnish and gold leaf. The child died in a few hours. Old friends are like old boots. We never realize how perfectly they were fitted to us till-they are cast aside, and others, finer and more stylish perhaps, but cramping and pinching in every corner, are substituted. Then we are often forced to hunt up the worn articles from the attic where they have been thrown, and for a little season, at least, rest our weary feet by wearing them. With our friends it is the same; after trying in vain to fit ourselves to the peculiarities of new ones, how often we go back with a sigh of relief to the dear people whose very faults may sometimes have been brought about by serving us. The outrageous treatment of cattle on railroad trains, while being taken to New York from the West, is once more shown up by the Harrisburg (Penn.) Telegraph which says: “Ths fearful cruelty to animals in transit over the Pennsylvania Railroad should be a matter of thorough investigation by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The neglect of proper feeding and care of animals is so glaring and atrocious in its character that the criminality should be exposed and the guilty made to suffer the consequences of their cruelty. It is known that cattle are transported from Chicago to New York without feed or cure, other than a shipper with a sharp-pointed nail in the end of a stick to torture the poor beast when it lies down from exhaustion, and in that languishing condition* sent into market for food for the great human family. Is there any wonder that sickness and epidemics are so prevalent in large cities, when such unwholesome food is given to the people T” Every species of creature goes on multiplying till it reaches the limit at which its mortality from all causes balances its fertility. Diminish its mortality, by removing or mitigating any one of these causes, and inevitably its numbers increase until mortality and fertility are again in equilibrium. However many injurious influences are taken away, the same thing holds, for the reason that the remaining injurious influences grow more intense. Either the pressure on the means of subsistence becomes greater, or some enemy of the species, multiplying in proportion to the abundance of its prey, becomes more destructive; or some disease, encouraged by greater proximity, becomes more prevalent. This general truth, everywhere exemplified among inferior races of beings, holds of the human race. True, it is in this case variously traversed and obscured. By emigration, the limits against which population continually presses are partially evaded; by improvements in production, they are continually removed further away; and, along with increase of knowledge, there comes an avoidance of detrimental agencies. Still, these are but qualifications of an inevitable action and reaction. —Herbert Spencer.

Yankee Notions.

Incited thereto by certain domestic annoyances, classed here under the generic title .of “servant-galism,” the inventive faculties of our American kinsmen have developed many curious and useful household implements. The Scientific American recently gave a de scription and engraving of a “combination corn shelter, bootjack, hammer, hook claw, tack drawer, pot lifter, and wrench,” which, it is suggested in another transatlantic journal, is open to improvement, so as to serve also as a toothpick, corkscrew, pocket pistol, baby rattle and hypodermic syringe. This, however, and every other similar specimen of Yankee ingenuity, except, perhaps, that wonderful pig killing machine into which the unclean animals were driven in herds and taken out at the other end as bacon and sausages, are eclipsed by a baby washer, just patented, and thus described by its inventor: “You simply insert the begrimed and molasses-coated infant in an orifice which can be made any required size by turning for ten minutes a cog wheel with electric attachments. The child glides gently down a highly polished inclined plane; his lips are met at its terminance by an India rubber tube, from which the infant can draw lacteal nourishment of the purest and most invigorating character, secured for the special purpose, at great expense, from a choice breed of Alderney kine, raised on the estate of her Majesty Queen Victoria, in the Isle of Wight. .While in this compartment, which is lined with plate glass the perturbed spirits of the infant are soothed by its frantic efforts to demolish its own image, reflected in the glass, with a nickel-plated combined tooth cutter, nail knife, rattle and tack hammer, which is thrust into the baby’s hand by an automaton monkey* Fatigued by its destructive, efforts the infant tails to sleep, while the organ at-, tachment plays softly the ravishing melody of ‘Put me in my little bed.’ Then it slips into the third compartment. Here the baby is washed. Another small tube administers a dose of soothing syrup, and the infant glides from the machine, its nails pared, its hair combed, if it has any, ready for the habiliments rendered necessary by the fall of our first parents.” Truly, there can be no better labor-savers than Yankee investors.— Iron. —The Detroit letter-carriers delivered last year 4,196,175 letters, and collected , 1,625,830;,p05tal cards delivered 209,149, collected 131,403; papers delivered 1,416,585, collected 171,151. The increase over 1872 in letters delivered -was 579,908, and in papers delivered 257,537.

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NO. 19.

Allen was about to leave put his dogs, for my amusement, through some of their drill, as he caUed it. Tilly were all sleeping around tire kitchen ,fire,; 1 the pups freed from < the girdle, warieM" ing at liberty, when Allen «afd, “Cto MR,* one of you, my children, and let me know J if the day is fitir or wot.’” ly arose, while the rest kept ta&MfocGiff’ and, with erect tail, went out> Iteturning, it placed itself by AlUffa sMe, to that he might, by passing his hand along iU > back, discover whether it was wet.or dry. “Go,” he again said, “and tell the fbbllsh child (one of the pups) who is frolicking outside the house to come id.” Another dog arose, departed, and returned, wagSng his tail, and looking clip to Allen’s ce. “Oh! he won’t come, won’t hOFThen go and bring him in, and, if necessary, by force.” The dog again departed, but this time carried the yelping puprirf his month, and laid it at AJlen’s feet. “Now, my dear children, let us -begone,*’ said Allen, rising as if to proceed on his journey. But at this moment ' %wo terriers began to fight—though it seemed a mimic battle—while an ola, sagacious- ... looking coolie never moved from his comfortable place beside the fire. Tp-un-derstand this scene, though, you mu?t know that Allen had taken offense at the excellent Sheriff of the district, because of his having refused him tomes responsible situation on his property* and ip, avenge himself, had trained his dogs to ,- act the drama which was now in prog, ress. Addressing the apparently sleeping dog, whom he called “the Sheriff, he said: “There you Me, you lazy, dog! enjoying yourself when the laws, are breaking by unseemly dispute and fights.. But what care you, if you get your meat and drink ? Shame upon you, Sheriff! It seems I must teach you your duy. Get up this moment, sir—or I’ll bring this staff down upon your head—and make these wicked dogs keep the peace!” In® an iqstant “the Sheriff” rose, and separa- * ted the combatants. It was thus that, when any one offended Allen past all possibility of forgiveness, he immediately trained one of the dogs to illustrate his character, and taught it lessqns by tyhich in every house he Could turn b is supposed enemy into ridicule.— Good ffordt. *__ • *

If your'horse is in use a low dash board, and yodrhorse will soon get over it. j TO.fclst Keep your horse fat; don't allow any > one to get a lien on him. , ■ When your horse refuses totakft up an oat, consider him as having failed. To make your horse very faSt, tih him - with two halters. t**" Never feed horse chestnuts to chestnut horses, flor horse sorrel to sorrel horses; I you can give cream to a cream home r if i you like and the horse likes it. Itisnot necessary to employ a cream pitcher te ' pitch hay to a cream horse, however. It may answer to stirrup your saddle,' *; but don’t stir up your horse—rat least a stirring horse— in a crowd.- -It might cause a stir. t : *' Look carefully after the Wteo£youf -- 1 horse, or you may soon be looking after the bits of your wagon. ■ ‘ s ’* If you have the proper address, you, may receive acouple of lineafrom ahorse, but on no account “drop a line.” • ' . However well you may be attached to your horse, you most be emrtaih*Wßf f? ' j horse is well attached to your carriage. If a horse is recommended to 'y<WM ; being a horse of good carriage, dosFHn* - fer that he is a good carriage horse: * s ' When you tell a hqrse to “get up,” Iqpk , well to his “get up” Some horiwwhfw* within the buggy, and some get uo with' out the buggy, but like deep Sorrow, ’ ‘leave their traces there.” ' . ; Ahorse is something like a publfq ,oft. - ecr when he is installed, in this thafl ns' begins to “feel his oats" diiectlyf IT . are any oats in the stall. Whatever smll ■ '' you use for your horse in the stsbte; you should always use a head-steH.-wheu you < > drive him. An unbridled hbrpe is, much like an unbridled tongue. . Rearing colts is often very profitable, but rearing horses are not profitable, especially those who rear up tn the rear and' execute flank movements oh the* dashboard with shoe-fly accompaniments. They "foot up" a bill for repairing too harnessing a horse resembW get Sig married, in this, that the bridle comes first; but you don’t feel the brlde’llYeign till you “get into the harness” andfeel the check. Blind bridles are mpst common in both cases, and poor things jn either. You may make a home laugh byWiling your horseunder the ribfi»,b®t |twyl always be in a crowd of donk When you go to church you ought to shed tears of repentance for youreen, if you don’t have any shed (jgr -JroUt horse. -Detroit (frmwarettl ,

A Highland Dog-Trainer.

MY LESSON. BY GARNET B. YBkEMAM. f A wbb bird sang in lhe branches. Over my lattice low, ' , And sang in the hush of twilight, And sang in the morning’* glow. I, sitting inside the lattice. Listened with-eyes upturned; And this is.the song she sang me, And thftthe kiwon I learned: •5 God tarelh-for me; ' . Ob, heart.that complain* . Of sortow* and pains. He careth for thee 1” The wee bird built In the branches ~ .7 t j A nest, where she reared her yonng, And softly she brooded above them. And still for a lullaby rang The song she had caroled in spring-time, 8o freighted with patient trust That He who had eared for the sparrow To His child would be tender and just: “ God careth-for me; Oh, heart that complains Of sorrows and pains. He careth for thee t” The vine o’er the lattice was flaunting Its banners of crimson and gold. And the sumac flamed onion the hillside; Like an army of lancers bold. The wind soughed oft to the rushes, .... That answered with plaintive moan; And the brook babbled on to the pebbles With fretful and querulous tone: That ‘'The world was so drear— Ali its glory had fled With the summer now dead. And the winter was near.” I listened, when, up in the branches. My birdie began to sing The lullaby warbled in summer. The song she hath sung in the spring; Rebuking my faithless murmurs. Rebuking my want of trust, For He who cared for the sparrow To His child been “tehrfer and just.’* And I canght the refrain: “ He careth for thee As He careth for me 1” And I rested again.

Hints to Horsemen.

BY PROF. O. HOWEGREEN.