Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1874 — Page 1

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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

'Condensed from Telegrams of Accompanying Dates. Friday, February 27.—A dispatch lias been received at thq British War Office frotu Gen. Wolseley, dated at Coomassie and announcing liis arrival at that place after live days’ hard fighting, and with the loss of 300 men. He expected to sign a treaty of peace with the King of the Ashantecs and return at once to the coast.... The Ohio Prohibition State Convention recently in session at Mount Vernon has placed in nomination the following State ticket for next fall : For Secretary of State, John R. Buchel, of Summit County; Clerk of the Bupreme Court, B. Foster, of Logan; School Commissioner, B. M. Weddell, of Montgomery; member of the Board of Public Works, E. G. Collins, of Hocking: Supreme Judge, G. J. Stewart.... A Detroit dispatch of the 26th says it had been ascertained that all the men afloat on the ice in Saginaw Buy had escaped to the land. Saturday, February 23.—The French Court of Appeals has dismissed the claim of Nauudorff, who styled himself Louis XVII., and declared the man a crafty adventurer. An extensive conflagration is reported as having occurred at Panama on the 15th ult., whereby the largest portion of the business part of the city was, destroyed. The losses are estimated at over a million of dollars, mostly insured in London companies... .The official report of the Secretary of the Wisconsin State Grange announces 398 Granges in the State up to February 20. The State Agent of the Indiana Granges had reports up tu the 27th ult. of the organization of 1,450 Granges in the State, an average of sixteen to each county...'.The Colorado State Grange lias voted to establish a co-operative association iu the Territory for the benefit of the farmers. . ..Christopher Rafferty, thrice convicted and sentenced tddeatlifof llie murdef df a Chicago policeman, was hanged at Waukegan on the 27th ult. Great efforts had been made by the friends of the criminal to induce Governor Beveridge to commute his sentence to imprisonment for life, but they proved unavailing. Rafferty claimed that lie committed the crime while under the influence of whisky. ....The Western Rural (Chicago) of a recent date says: “ A pretended law and collection ~ firm arc sending out letters to victims of G. B. Hodge & Co., saying they will try and collect claims on that concern on receipt of 25 cents ! An- examination shows us that the paper on which the said letters are written are the old letter-sheets of Hodge & Co., with the printed head cut off! Tell your neighbors not to give those scoundrels, any more 25 cents.” Monday, March 2.—The trial in London of the Tichborue claimant on the charge of perjury, which lasted 180 days, has resulted in liis conviction on all the charges, and he has been sentenced to fourteen years’ penal servitude. The jury was only a short timeout. The verdict caused groat excitement in London.... A Madrid dispatch announces that Count Serrano has been declared President of the Republic, and General Zabaia, the Minister of War, is appointed President of the Council of Ministers. General Morionez lias failed to relieve Bilhoa, and it is reported that bis army lias been defeated by the Carlists, with a loss of 3,000 men, killed and wounded. A Bayonne telegram says the Carlist, forces have occupied the city of Tolosa, in Gnipuzcoa, and Andodin, a small town iu Biscay, near San Sebastian.... A terrible accident occurred on tlic Great Western Railway in Canada on the night of the 2-Sth ult. A passenger ear attached to the Sarnia accommodation train took fire when seven miles west of Loudon, the fire being caused, it is supposed, by the falling of a lamp. The lire was not discovered un--til the interior of the saloon was completely filled with flames, which spread through the coach almost instantly. The passengers were compelled to jump from the rear platform and through the windows. The train was stopped as quickly as possible, but before they could be extinguished eight persons were suffocated or burned to death. Several others were injured, some of them seriously....A Cheyenne dispatch of the 28th ult. says Mr. J. 11. Bestcr, the Indian beef contractor, liad arrived from Fort Laramie, and reported that affairs at the Indian agencies were in a critical condition. He says that a great many of the late outrages were committed by the “ good ” Indians at the agencies, and they were not to be depended on. He liad stopped supplying cattle, as he dared not drive them to the agencies. The Indians had killed many of the cattle, and he was anxious for the troops to get there. Tuesday, March 3.— The Carlist Junta at Bayonne have received a dispatch to the effect that Bilhoa has surrendered to Don Carlos, and that tlic Carlists have met the Republican army near Bomorrostro and defeated it, inflicting a loss of 5,000 in killed, wounded and prisoners... .Official dispatches received in London state that over 1,000,000 people are starving to death in the famine-stricken districts of India.... A boiler exploded in Blackburn, England, on the 2d, killing twenty persons and wounding thirty, some of them fatally....A Dry Tortugas dispatch states that a steamer has just made that island from Havana, and re--ports great excitemeut in that city owing to the alleged departure from Baltimore of the steamer Edgar Stuart on a filibustering expedition, and t.hat the Spanish naval officers had determined to sink her, with all onboard, if she was found near the Cuban coast. Wednesday, March 4.—A recent Paris letter says the agents of the Prince Imperial were at work in every village in France as patiently and tenaciously as New World pioneers.. . .Later advices from Nagasaki, Japan, say that the insurgent forces, which, according to previous accounts, were marching upon the city, had been totally defeated by the Government forces....A ' latter recently received, in Washington from New Orleans says Judge Durcfi had forwarded his resignation to a trusted- friend, to be tendered in the event of Hie Judiciary Committee of the House reporting articles of impeachment .... A Washington dispatch says the receipts of the Government from all sources for the quarter ending December 31 w ere $56, 521,596. The-expenditures for the same period were $63,823,387. Thursday, March 5.—A Bayonne dispatch says that Don Carlos has been proclaimed King Of Spain, and that the coronation will take place at 8i1b05.... According to a Madrid telegram the recent, successes of the Carlists have aroused the national spirit of. the people, who are coming to the aid of the Government in its

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efforts to crush the insurrection. Contributions of money and clothing are being received from the provincial authorities.... Chief-Justice Waite took the oath of his high office at Washington on the 4th... .President Grant has appointed the followingnamed gentlemen to be Government Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad : James F. Wilson, Iowa; J. H. Millard, Nebraska; John C. S. Harrison, Indiana ; John A. Tibbets, Connecticut, and Francis B. Brewer, New York—all for one year from March 11, 1874.... A Worcester (Mass.) dispatch says it has been decided to abandon Dio Lewis’ plan of operation against liquor-dealers, and a new and entirely original plan has been adopted. A large committee has been organized, and 4n sub committees of two or three it is proposed to first visit the owners of buildings occupied by liquor-dealers, and by prayer and intercession induce them to sign a builders’ pledge not to let their premises to any one for the sale of liquor. They will also visit dealers at their homes. The movement is to be private, and no street work will be done.... The Maryland State Grange met in secret session at Baltimore on the 4th. Of the fifty two Granges in the State forty-seven were represented.

FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

Thursday, February 26.—8i11s were passed—prescribing the form of oath to be taken by Postofflcc officials before entering upon the discharge of their duties; the Naval Appropriation bill, with amendments.... The bill to provide for the appointment of a commission in regard to alcoholic liquor traffic was debated The Army Appropriation hill was reported from Committee on Appropriations, with amendments,.. .Executive session and adjournment. House.— A bill was passed allowing the use of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the construction of a branch mint at San Francisco... .The bill reviving the franking privilege was taken np, and, after debate, a motion to lay the bill oil the table was defeated—llß to 140— and then the amendment reported by the committee, authorizing the PostmasterGeneral to delay the transmission of documents whenever the welfare of the service shall so require, was rejected by an overwhelming majority. A vote was then taken on a substitute to repeal the law which abolished the franking privilege, which amendment was rejected—yeas 50, nays 19'. The vote was then taken on the passage of the bill, and it was re-jected-yeas 129, nays 181... .The bill to revise the statutes was considered at the evening session. Friday, February 27.— Senate. —Petitions were presented from workingmen in different States against any increase in taxation.... House bills were passed—in relation to import dnties on fruit, being a bill to correct an error in the late Tariff bill; making available certain unexpended balances to construct the new branch mint at San Francisco.... A favorable report was made on the House hill extending the tame for building the Green Bay<fc Lake Michigan Canal.... The bill to provide for the appointment of a Commission in regard to the alcoholic liquor traffic was taken up and an amendment was agreed to appropriating SIO,OOO for the expenses of the Commission .. The House bill in regard to the Centennial Exhibition was taken up, and a substitute was offered providing that the celebration of the 100th anniversary of American independence shall be national in character; that the arrangements shall be left in the hands of the original Commission, and shall be carried out to conform to the provisions of the act of Congress, and that no money shall be appropriated from the National Treasury on account of the celebration. After debate and an execute session the Senate adjourned to the 2d. ITmiM.—b. motion was made, to be subsequently called up, to reconsider the vote of the day before by which the bill reviving the franking privilege was rejected... .Several bills of a private character were passed... .Notice was given of a bill for the free circulation of newspapers.... Adjourned. Saturday, Feb. 28. —Senate not in session In the House a majority report was made from the Committee on Elections in the Georgia contested election ease, t hat Hawes, the sitting member, is not entitled to a seat, and that Sloan, the contestant, is. A minority report was also made, taking an adverse position... .Several reports of committees were made of a private nature, after which speeches were made iu Committee of tho Whole, on various subjects.... Adjourned. —. ' ~ v ~ '~~ ■ '' -7 Monday, March 2.— Senate. —A resolution of the Chicago Merchants’ Exchange against any further issue of paper money was presented and referred, as were also petitions of several thousand business men of Chicago asking for an increase in the volume of the paper currency.... The bill to extend the time for completing-the Wisconsin Central Railway was passed... .Several resolutions of State Legislatures were presented and referred... .Bills were introduced —authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to use, for the benefit of the Great and Little Osage Indians in Kansas, $200,000 per annnm for four years, out. of the proceeds of the sale of their lands; relating to the Central branch of the Union Pacific Railway The hill in regard to the appointment of a Commission to investigate into the alcoholic liquor traffic was taken up and debated, after which the House bill in regard to the Centennial Exhibition was taken np, and an amendment was offered and discussed to “strike out the provision anthorizlng the President, in the name of the United States, to extend a respectful and cordial invitation U) the Governments of other nations to be represented anil take part in the International Exposition, and insert therefor a provision authorizing the President to extend a respectful and cordial invitation to the Governor of each of the United States to be present and take part in the National Exhibition to be held at Philadelphia, etc... .Executive session and adjournment. Home.— Several bills were introduced and referred, among which were the following: To give flexibility to the currency without expansion; to legalize the issne of the reserve of $44,000,000, and to make the same available for times of extraordinary financial pressure; granting the rightof way to the Wisconsin Central and the Wisconsin Vailey Railways; for the admission of Utah into the Union as a State; to enable members of Congress to do public business with their constituents and other departments of the Government, and to limit tho franking privilege to certain newspapers.... Several resolutions of State Legislatures were presented and referred.... A bill was passed extending to unnaturalized enlisted men of the navy and marine corps the same privileges as to obtaining citizenship as nnnatnraitzed enlisted men of the army now have.... A motion to suspend tho rnieqand pass the bill authorizing weekly newspapers 0S be, sent by mall within the c.ounty of their publication ana exchanges between publishers to be transmitted In the mails free of postage was defeated—Bl to 95.. A resolution was adopted advising the heads of departments and the officers of the House that it is the sense of the Honse that In discharging Clerks, officers, and employes from the public service in their several departments they Bhall discharge civilians who have not been in the army or navy, and shall retain disabled soldiers and sailors, and the wives, widows, daughters and sisters or soldiers or sailors, provided they are competent and that two members of one family shall not be employed in the same department. ...The bill to repeal the tax on matches and bank checks was debated in Committee of the Whole... .Adjourned. Tuebday, March 3.— Senate.— A petition was presented and referred of a large number of business men of New York city, asking Congress to put an Immediate stop to any further Issne of greenbacks by the Secretary of the Treasury and to cause the retirement, and at once, of the legaltender reserves Issued... .Bills were reported from committees—favorably, authorizing the Secretary of War to issne a supply of arms to Nebraska; with amendments, to provide for the incorporation and regulation of railroad companies in the Territories of the United States... .The bill in reference to the Centennial Exhibition Was taken up and a motion was made and debated to refer the bill to the Committee on Appropriations.... Adjourned. Home.— Bills were passed—amendatory of the Homestead laws; to prevent the extermination of fur Rearing animals In Alaska--The bill to regol'ate commerce among the several States was taken up,? and Hr. McCrary, who reported the bill from' the Committee on Railroads and Canals, addressed the Honse in explanation and advocacy of the bill. The bill related, he said, exclusively to Inter-State commerce, ahd he asserted it to be the right and duty of Congress to regulate such commerce. Mr. Arthur, memlier of the same committee, spoke against the bfll as being a proposition in' the nature of affT experimental explorer of the

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elasticity of constitutional government.,...Adjourned. Wednesday, March 4.—Senate.—Resolutions were presented and referred from the Wisconsin Legislature, asking Congress to provide for a ship canal around Niagara Falls, and from the Kamas Legislature, asking Congress to take immediate stops for the relief of certain homestead settlers in that State whose rights are jeopardized by railroad companies.... The Liquor Traffic bill was debated, and an amendment was offered providing that all of tho Commissioners to make inquiry should not be in favor of prohibitory legislation or total abstinence....An adverse report was made from the Committee on Indian Affairs on the claims of the citizens of Kansas for losses bv Indian depredations, as set forth in the report of the Commission created Kansas Legislature in 1871 ... The Louisiana Bill was taken up, and Mr. Carpenter spoke in favor o\ the bill providing for a new election in that State. ... .The Centennial bill was further considered.... Adjourned. Home. —A memorial was presented of business men of New York representing an aggregate capital of $470,000,000, against any increaee of irredeemable cnrrency by the Government, and protesting against the action of the Secretary of the Treasury in issuing Treasury notes without authority of law... .The hill to regnlate commerce by railroad among the several States was further discussed.... The hill for revising the statutes was considered at an evening session.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. March 5, 1874. Cotton.—Middling upland. 15#016c. _ Livk Stock.—Beef Cattle—slo.ooolß.oo. Hogs— Dressed, $6.62)407.25. Sheep—Live, $6.0008.00. Brkadstuffs.—Flour—Good to choice, sb.6s@ 6.85; white wheat extra, [email protected]. Wheat—No. 2 Chicago, $1.4801.50; lowa spring, $1.4901.51; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, [email protected]. Rye—Western and State, 98c@$1.00. Barley—[email protected]. Corn—Mixed Western afloat, 79082 c. Oats—New Western, 61063 c. Provisions.—Pork—New Mess, [email protected]. Lard—9@9#c. Wool—Common to extra, 40@70c. ‘CHICAGO. Livk Stock.—Beeves—Choice, $5.4005.70; good, [email protected]; medium, $4.7505.06; butchers stock, $3.5004.50; slock cattle, $1.2504.50 Hogs-Live, $4.8505.50; Dressed, $6.12/,06.25. Sheep—Good to choice, $5.2506.25. Provisions.—Buttery-Choice, 3H@43c. Eggs— Fresh, 15016 c. Pork -New Mess, $14.12140 14.20. Lard—Bl4@B#c. Brkadstuffs. Flour 'White Winter extra, $6.5000.25; spring extra, $5.121406.00. Wheat -Spring, No. 2, $1.1801.1914. Corn-No. 2, 587< @59!4e. Oats—No. 2,42043 c. Rye—No. 2, 850 8514 c. Barley—No. 2, $1.5501.58. Wool.—Tub-washed, 48©58c.; fleece, washed, 36048 c.; fleece, unwashed, 25@34c.; pulled, 35040 c. CINCINNATI. Brkadstuffs.—Flour—[email protected]. Wheat—sl.4o. Corn—s7o6oc. Itye—sl.ol. Oats—44o 50c. Barley—[email protected]. Provisions. -P0rk—514.25014.50. Lard—Bl4o B£c. ST. LOUIS. Live Stock. —Beeves —Fair to choice, $4,500 5.50. Hogs--Ltve, $4.2505.50. Brkadstuffs. —Flour, XX Fall, $6.2506.50. Wheat—No. 2 Red Fall, $1.5501.60. Com—No. 2, 60@b0Kc. Oats—No. 2,45046 c. Rye—No. 2, 92# @9sc. Barley—sl.sool.6o. Provisions.—Pork—Mess, $14.50014.75. Lard--89408140. MILWAUKEE. Brkadstuffs.—Flour —Spring XX, $6.0008.50. Wheat—Spring No. 1, $1.2401.26; No. 2, $1.22140 1.23. ®oro—No. 2, 56©56>4c. Oats—No. 2, 420 4214 c. Bye—No. 1,78079 c. Barley—No. 2, $1.55 01.60. DETROIT. Breadstuffs.— Wheat Extra, [email protected]. Corn—63o66c. Oats—4Bol9c. TOLEDO. Bheadstuffs.—Wheat —Amber Mich,, $1,500 @6se.’ Oats—No. 1,48049 c. CLEVELAND. Bheadstuffs,—Wheal—No,, 1 Red, $1,560 1.57; No. 2 Red, $1.4501.46. Corn—6so6Bc. Oats—4Bo49c. BUFFALO. Live Stock.—Beeves Live, $5.5005.90. Sheep—Live, $4.5005.60. Public Debt Statement. The public debt statement, March 2, it as follows: Six percent, bonds $1,214,663,150 Five per cent, bonds 505,697,550 Total coin bonds $1,720,360,700 Lawful money debt $14,678,000 Matured debt . 9,813,390 Legal tender notes. 382,078,593 Certificates of deposit 50,390,000 Fractional currency 48,640,494 Coin certificates ■ 40,659,800 Interest 28,505,065 Total debt $2,294,586,042 CashinTrcasnry: Coin $85,588,222 Currency 8,727,754 Special deposits held for redemption of certificates of deposit as provided by law 50,390,000 Total in Treasury $138,705,976 Debt, less cash in Treasury $2,154,880,066 Decrease during thamonth... $2,590,047 Bonds issued to Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding $64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid..... 646.235 Interest paid by United States 22,386,691 Interest repaid by transportation of ——— mails, etc..... 5,031,347 Balance of interest paid by United States .7 17,352,814

THE PRAYER MOVEMENT.

Continued Spread of the "Woman's Praying Movement—lts Progress in Ohio, and Its Appearance in the East and the Far West—A Graphic Account of the Work in Richmond, Ind.—The Crnsade Began in Chicago—An Incident of the Movement at Xenia, Ohio. The Temperance Praying Movement grows' apace. From almost every portion of the country reports are received of the progress the ladies arc making in the work of shutting up saloons and converting their keepers. Of course the largest measure of success attends their labors in Ohio, where the movement originated, but even there the novelty of the movement has to a certain extent worn off, and in some localities the ladies have abandoned the gentler weapons of prayer and song and laid hold upon those furnished by the laws, the latter being used only when the former are ineffectual. It is estimated tbat up to the Ist of this month over 1,500 saloons had been closed in Ohio alone, and their death-dealing contents emptied into the public gutters. The machinery of The law has in some cases been invoked to stay the-efforts of the ladies, but so far, up to this writing, no injunction has been granted which has been able to stand the, test of judicial investigation. The case at Hillsboro was decided in favor of the praying women, but an appeal was taken to a higher court, and the matter is yet undetermined. At Oxford ofae Blander berg bad a petition filed for an injunction, but oo the 2Stb ultimo, pending Its consideration, the Jodies assaulted him w'ith godly weapons, and be surrendered, signed the pledge, emptied the contents of his saloon into the street, and abandoned his attempt to obtain on injunction. Tho bells of

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the city wore rung and there was general-re-joicing. c In New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Louisville, Ky., meetings preliminary to a crusade have been held, and it was thought on the Ist that active praying assaults would be made during the first week in March. The following account of the experience of a prayihg band at Richmond, Ind., as detailed by a Chicago correspondent, will prove interesting: With drooping heads and funereal tread we crunched the frozen snow beneath our feet, atfd'thue moved along, wheeling Into a cross'fitreet; and.then, the head of the procession sank to its knees. A moment later and the party had grouped itself upon its knees close to the wall, in front of a disreputable-looking whisky-shop, whose door was locked. A tremulous voice iu prayer rose ’upon the air. The rabble gathered from every direction and soon tire prostrate group wag fringed by a dense mob of jostling hoys, of men and women. The sidewalk opposite became speedily lined; vehicles stopped in the street; and there was formed a semicircle of several hundred around the praying women. “Dear Jesus, may not this man find the door shut against him when he seeks to enter at the last great hour,” was the theme of the first woman’s prayer, and it was taken up by all the others. A couple or three prayers, and then all rose to sing, and then down they sank again on the icy stones, and with upturned faces pleaded with Heaven for forgiveness of the barricaded sinner who furtively peered at them from a fissure in the window. The outlying mob was simply tolerant — nothing more. It did not jeer or scoff; but it retained its bat on its head, it continued to smoke its abominable pipe, it did not omit its conversation, it looked on without conviction, without appreciation, without feeling. In about thirty minutes the procession moved on. Four saloons were visited, and to but one was it given admission. This one was a German saloon, whose owner shook hands with all the ladies as they entered, and then considerately slammed the door in the face of the rabble, which thereafter amused itself by banging the windows and rattling the latch. Ineffectual attempts were made by prayers and earnest personal solicitations to induce the proprietor of this saloon to abandon the traffic, after whieh the ladies returned to the church, where there were a few fervent prayers, a few hymns earnestly given and then an adjournment. The sensationat Xenia, 0., is a little boy of seven years whom the ladies had found in one of the saloons visited and now closed. At the first call the little fellow joined them in importuning his parents to quit selling liquors, and when the ladies noticed this they asked if he would join them in praying to God to lead his parents to quit, and after an affirmative answer lie knelt and intelligently joined in the prayers. Afterward the ladies asked him if he knew the nature of a pledge, and if he would like to' sign it himself. After they became satisfied that he was acting he took the paper and wrote upon it very legibly James P. Foley. After the surrender be was very ambitious to help pour out the beverage, and himßelf discharged the contents of several bottles of liquor. He is a very interesting and precocious child, and is made tho special subject of prayers. His parents almost idolize the boy, and a little child is leading them in a better way. —— 1 '■ m . On the afternoon of the 28th ult. a prayer meeting was held in a saloon in Chicago, located on the corner of Madison and Clinton streets. Three ladies only joined in prayer, and the exercises were interrupted to some extent by a crowd of boisterous and unmannerly roughs. The ladies have promised to thoroughly prosecute their work in that city, but the most hopeful of the temperance reformers are not sanguine of great success. The Indies of Columbus, Ohio, commenced active work in the cause of temperance on the 3d. Prayer-meetings were held at 10 a. m. and at 2 p. m., and about 3 p. m. 200 ladies left the church and n. arched to the American Hotel, headed by the Chief of Police and one patrolman to keep the streets open, leaving the church filled with people to pray for those who went out to work. The bells of three churches were tolled while the procession was moving. They called upon several saloons and hotels, prayed, sang and appealed to their proprietors to abandon the traffic, and then the procession returned to the place of starting, where they were heartily welcomed and congratu-: lated. Letters were read from a prominent saloon-keeper stating that he had stopped selling liquor, and from a brewer, sayiDg he would never lirew another keg of beer. The ladies were greatly encouraged, and would renew the warfare on the following day. The movement was inaugurated also in various other portions of the State. In Indianapolis a Women’s Temperance Union w,s organized and the prayer movement would soon lie started in that city. In Waukegan, 111., the temperance question was the issue in the municipal election. The temperance candidate received 384 votes and the aßti-temperance 391. A majority of the Aldermen were understood to be liquor men.

A Mother Killed by Grief.

The Indianapolis Sentinel gives tlio fotlowing account of an incident which recently occurred in Crawfordsville, Ind.: “The depot had been broken into that noon, and some money and a quantity of tickets stolen from the office, and things generally upset, by a party of boys. Warrants were issued, and among them one for a boy named Mike Me-* Neal. About midnight the McNeal family were called upon by the officer of the law and informed that the boy Mike was wanted, at the same time reading the warrant. Mrs. McNeal was astounded, and said there must be a mistake. None of her boys would be guilty of theft, 6he knew, and it was all a mistake. Her feelings overcame her and she fainted. The officer, however, bearing the warrant had no other course to pursue but to demand the boy. The mother again fainted, and, when she was restored to consciousness, the officers agreed to let the boy remain until they had seen the party by whom the warrant had been sworn out. If ‘Mike’ proved to be the one, they would return to the -house, if not, he would of course not be arrested. The officer found, however, that except in name * Mike’ was not the boy. The real culprit was Mike McNeal, a cousin of the former. The officers returned to gladden, as they supposed, the mother’s heart by telling her the boy was Innocent. To their horror they reached the house and found Mrs. McNeal dead. The shock and grief combined had been so great as to kill her. The affair caused considerable excitement m town.” . -Li . «. V—The city of Philadelphia had 4,1 § drinking places in 1873, and spent for intoxicating drinks $30,000,000 in one year. Chicago had 2,300 liquor saloons, and spent for intoxicating Mtjuors $14,000,000. Newark had 864 unnking saloons, and spent so- strong drinks $4,500,000.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. The rock that topers split on—Quartz. Pour hundred vibrations a minute is as much as a bee’s wing can do. Have no respect for a man who has to feel the public pulse to learn his private duty. The Gothamites drink so little water that the Hudson has had three freshets this season. A Mississippi Postmistress has discharged her husband from a clerkship for non-attendance to duty. Why is a hen sitting on a gate like a penny ? Because its head’s on one side and its tail’s on the other. Thirteen broken arms and legs in Portland attest to the fact that the last was a good winter for sliding down hill. Mrs. Erchenfelder, of Waterloo, Del., is another gasoline victim. Filling a lighted lamp, with the usual result. Our great-grandmammas are turning over in their graves in consequence of the rumors now current that “poke bonnets” will be revived next summer. Blondes are decidedly at a discount this season. Fair-haired maidens are experimenting on kittens at home the efficacy of different black dyes. There is on exhibition in New York a piece of lace five yards long andaquarter of a yard wide, so soft and fine that it can b§ drawn through a finger-ring. Boquets for balls and parties are made of linen and heavily perfumed. Not one person in ten is able to detect at a little distance that they are artificial. A California farmer is killing off his squirrels by scattering lumps of phosphorus in his wheat fields. It is good for the wheat and bad for the squirrels. A Georgia girl aided a noble charity at Macon by allowing 300 men to kiss her at twenty-five cents a head. When she got home and washed off the enamel she felt better. It is vain to put your finger in the water and, pulling it out, look tor a hole: and equally vain to suppose that, however large a space you occupy, the world will miss you when you die. There is no change in the style of wearing the hair. In the spring, however, it is said a style so novel and startling will be introduced that each particular hair on a fashionable woman’s head will stand on end with surprise. A sweet creature called the medusa polyp has recently been installed in an aquarium at one of the Paris gardens, its peculiarity being that it converts, first into alcohol and then into vinegar, any water into which it is placed. Perpetual complaints, says an old writer, are like unto a new cart, which creaks and cries even while it has no burden but its own wheels; whereas that which is long used and well oiled goes silently away with a heavy load. A clergyman with a keen eye to business recently attended a funeral in Howland, Me., and before the corpse had been taken to the grave made out a bill of five dollars for his services and gave it into the hands of a constable for collection. It has been proved from a microscopic examination of a piece of glass which had been exposed to the sand blast, that the effect of the sand on the glass is due more to the force and velocity of the impact than to the hardness of the particles of sand. When a Philadelphia paper states that “ such scenes must long linger lovingly' in the memories of all who saw them, for with youth at the helm and at the prow the gondola of enjoyment swept swiftly along on the azure sea of hope,” it means a public ball. The new feather fans appear to be quite the rage. They are much smaller in size than those used last summer, and not half as awkward-looking. Those of peacock feathers are the handsomest, on gilt or ivory.sticks. The old swans’ down fans in use during the days of our grandmothers are also coming in fashion again. Tub woman of the coming time— Shall man to vote appoint her? Well, yes or no. your bottom dime She’ll do aa she’s a min’ ter. , We know she “ will” or else she ” won’t,” ’Twill be the same as now; And if she does, or if she don’t, God bless her, anyhow. The Mayor of Norfolk, Va., recently received a letter from Atlanta, Ga., in-, quiring the population of the city, and whether the writer would be permitted to run a keno bank. He said that he could give good relerences as to character, and would be willirg to allow the Mayor an interest. As men have movable beads, which they can turn to the right or left, forward or backward, they should not, from mere contrariness, fasten on themselves, as blinkers, prejudice, stupidity, caprice and obstinacy, which prevent their seeing anything but what is straight before them. Even distinguished talents, cultivated between such blinkers, m»y become a mania. There is a man in Idaho yrho recently found the truth of the old saying, “ There’s many a slip,” etc. He was a man against whom no adverse charge could be urged, except having lived single too long to engage in a little game of matrimony wjfh a young and handsome rival. The Stake was a buxom lass of nineteen, and although the hero “put up” broad acres and horned beasis innumerable, and “ went ” a rich quartz mine and a forty-stamp mill “ better," his opponent “ called ” him on a full hand of youth and good looks and took down the “ pot.” Delay is always dangerous. At Portland, Me., recently, a gentleman dropped a glove cn the street; as it was an old one he thought he would leave it, and walked along. In a few moments he felt the cold.nose of a'dog .touch his hand, and looking down saw a large Newfoundland dog looking up in his face. Paying no attention he passed along, but he had not proceeded far when the dog touched him again. A third time this was repeated, when a hackman sang out: “ You have lost something, and the dog wants you to go and get it.” The gentleman retraced his steps, recovered his mitten, and the dog was Satisfied. A remarkable phenomenon was recently witnessed by some of the citizens of Metropolis, Ky. Directly after sunrise a dark bank of clouds lay close to the horizon in the direction of Paducah, ten miles distant, and just above this dark embankment, mirrored in a clear and serene deep blue Sky, the cityjaf Paducah appeared, with all its spires, houses, streets, wharves, etc., clearly visible. The mirage appeared abont forty degrees above the horizon. At the same time the beholder could see three steamboats at the wharf and the Tennessee River. All appeared as natural as life, except that

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everything seemed magnified to twice the natural size. The Pacific, Medical and Surgical Journal says: A striking instance of inherited appetite for alcoholic liquors has been recently brought to our knowledge. A lady, wife of the Mayor of an Atlantic city, was a confirmed inebriate, and in spite of the most assiduous efforts made by her husband and others to restrain and reform her continued to drink until her life fell a sacrifice to the indulgence. Her grandmothers were both intemperate and both died from drunkenness. Several of her brothers were inebriates. She had one child, a daughter, who exhibited in childhood a marked appetite for strong drink and who drank to intoxication whenever she had the opportunity. The child died at the age of six years. During her brief life she was known to have been repeatedly drunk. So Inveterate was her appetite for liquor that she would resort to the most cunning tricks in order to procure it—tricks such as would do predit to the ingenuity of an adult. -I—l

Chinese Children.

When a sbn is born, a “milk-name” is given him in connection with the rejoicings j>f the family. This corresponds with our pet names. Later, the boy receives his regular names. The important ceremony of binding the wrists is observed in connection with the thank offerings to the goddess mother. It varies in details. A common plan is to tie a piece of red cotton loosely round the wrists; another is to fasten some ancient copper coins on the wrists for several days by means of red cotton. In some families this is not finally removed from the infant’s wrists for several months, though it is more usual to take it off after fourteen days. The idea is that the binding of the wrists together Will prevent the baby from being wicked and disobedient, not only in childhood, but also in after life. In allusion to this singular custom, when children are troublesome or naughty, they are asked if their mothers neglected to bind their wrists. When the baby is a month old the head is shaved for the first time, and in the case of a boy this ceremony is performed before the Ancestral Tablets. A feast is also given, to which the relatives and intimate friends are invited, and it is customary for them to bring presents of toys, food, money, etc.; they also frequently club together and send the infant a silver plate, on which they inscribe three characters, meaning Longevity, Honor and Happiness. Shortly after this the parents make their acknowledgments to their various friends for their congratulations, and for the presents which they have sent; this is commonly done by sending a small present of cakes in return. At a subsequent entertainment, which sometimes takes place when the child is four months old, the “happy father,” it is said, “bows down before the goddess (‘ Mother’), and begs that the child may be good-natured and easy to take care of, that it may grow fat, that it may sleep well at night, and that it may not be given to crying,” etc. The maternal grandmother, when a boy is a year old, sends him a present of a cap and a pair of shoes, as well as some other garments, and on this occasion another family feast is held to celebrate the birthday. Our mothers whose children are backward walking will be amused at the following piece of Chinese nursery superstition; “It is the custom in many families, wherAhe child is just beginning to walk alone, for a member of the family to take a large knife—often such as is used in the. kitchen to cut up vegetables—-and, approaching him from behind as he is toddling along, to put it between his legs, or hold it a little way from him, the edge downward, and then to bring it to the ground, as if in the act of cutting something. This is called ‘ cutting the cords of his feet,’ and the motion is repealed two or three times. It is done in order to facilitate his learning to walk, and is supposed to be of great U3e in keeping the child from stumbling aqd falling down.” After the shaving of the head at the end of the first month it is a common practice to allow a patch of hair to grow on top if the child be a boy, and on both sides if a girl; the hair is braided into tight little queues, which stick out and give the children a very comical look in their early years. \\ hen a girl, however, reaches womanhood, she ceases to wear these queues. —AU the Year Bound.

Weddings in Russia.

It is an immemorial custom for the serfs on the estate of the bride’s parents to subscribe and give her a wedding present. In former days this invariably consisted of a complete set of kitchen utensils, but now, we understand, it has changed with the limes, and more frequently takes the shape of a dressingcase or a set of silver fish knives and forks. The wedding peal must be rung by bachelors 'who have never been wounded in their affections, or the marriage will not be a happy one, and none of the ringers should be b.ald, or have a mole on any part of the face. If tho families are wealthy, the bell-ropes are generally covered with gold-leaf, and the ringers wear white sheep-skin gloves. The Russians are a somewhat superstitious people, so that, if three white blackbirds m succession fly across the path of the wedding party on their way to church, they turn back, and the ceremony is postponed. At breakfast, when the bride cuts the cake, she has her eyes bound with a snowwhite fillet, and the first unmarried lady to whom she offers a slice must immediately leave the table, and spend the rest of the day in seclusion, if she desires to dream of her future husband within a reasonable period. , A shower of old furs is thrown after the vehicle in which the bride and bridegroom take their departure, and six young men and women, all under twenty-one, join hands, and follow the drosky at a rapid pace until it reaches the parish boundary, when, they halt, sing an epithalamium, and return to their homes in the evening. No speeches are made at the wedding breakfast, but when the health of the newly-married couple has been proposed by the oldest person present—not being a foreigner, a proctor, or a widower—the whole party rise, grasping in their hands goblets filled to the brim with wine or mead, and sally forth in sleighs to the Neva, where, amidst loud cries of joy and the ringing of little silver bells, they pour the contents of their glasses into its flow : ing waters. Only three other toasts are given, “Russia in Europe,” “ Russia in Asia,” and “ Russia in America.” —A Kansas couple paid their marriage fee in buUer. They belonged to the creme de lit creme. % ’

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A Mew York Mock Auction Dodge.

Is thebe any limit to human credulity t The mock auctions in this city have been so effectually exposed that the rogues were compelled to resort to new dodges. The doage was forthcoming as soon as it was needed. Here is the way they work it: Scene— A small room on Nassan or Ann street. Auctioneer with case of jewelry—crowd of persons, consisting of honesynoocents and confederates. Enter old man, in a dirty suit of clothes, with a woeful face, that looks as tbongh no food had Entered it for a week. “ What do you want I” queries the auctioneer of old poverty. Slowly the wretched old man pulls from his pocket a watch and says he wants it sold. “ How did you get this watch f” demands the auctioneer. “ I am from Wisconsin,” answers the old man, humbly. “ I am here in New York prosecuting a suit for the recovery of some property, and am out of funds and want to raise enough to get home. T have seep better days. Auctioneer—“ Are you aware of the fact that this is a first-class, double-cased, English-lever, chronometer-balance, Jeweled in top and bottom, gold watch, worth at least slso*” Old Man—“l paid $175 for it in Montreal, four years ago, when I could afford such a watch.” Auctioneer—“ Don’t let me sell your watch, old man. Don’t do it. Take it to some pawnbroker and pawn it; any of them will advance you S2OO upon it, and you can send fgr it when you get home. It will be sacrificed here—it will, indeed.” Old Man—“ It don’t matter, All I want is to get home and—die. It doesn't matter to me whether I get what it is worth or not.” — —- “ Veiy good; I will sell it; hut it is a shame. llow much do I hear for this watch ?” A capper starts it at $25, and up it goes to S3O, S4O, SSO or S6O, when it is struck off. The money is paid to the auctioneer, who gives it, less his commission, 10 per cent., to the old man, who thanks iim tearfully, and goes slowly and sadly out. Then the auctioneer closes the sale for the day, that he may get rid of the people, so as to open in an hour with a new lot of victims, in whose presence the aged Wisconsin man and the auctioneer go through the old farce again. It is needless to say that the purchaser of the gold English lever jeweled watch finds iiimself stuck with an oroide bogus ticker that would be dear at three dollars a bushel. In one den on Ann street the thing is played twenty times a day.— Neu> York Letter.

TRUE LOVE. I would that every angry abaft From Trouble’s bitter sheaf Would wing its flight to pierce my heart, To give to thine relief. I would that every ill and woe, And every carting care. Would force their way within my breast. That I for thee might bear. v I’d genial deem the icy chill, ,The biting frost and cold. The stormy tempest, love, if thou Were sheltered n the fold. If my frail bark were tossed about, Of angry waves the sport. Calm as on glassy lake I’d feel, If thon wert safe in port. And if thy choice e’er me should pass, To bless another’s life,— His tmest friend I’d ever be, Becanse thou wert his wife. ; —' —Vlwmberf Journal. MARGE. In the cruel sleet— Little flowers begin their growing Far beneath our feet. Softly taps the spring, and cheerly—- “ Darlings, are you here?” Till they answer: “We are nearly, Nearfy ready, dear.” “ Where is winter, with his snowing? -■ Tell ns, spring.” they say; . u. Then she answers: “He is going. Going on his way. Poor old winter docs not love you— Bnt his time is past: « Soon my birds shall sing above you— Set you free at last 1” -U. U. D., in St. NichcUu.

A Love Story Told by Mr. Beecher.

Tom was a strapping, healthy boy, with a great appetite. He lived up in the mountains among the charcoal-burners until he was nineteen. Then he went down into the valley and hired out to a farmer. Tom was a scullion and a drudge, and at first the farmer hesitated to trust even the hogs to his care. But there was a glimmering of something in him that showed just a little through his uncouthness. After a year or two he became a full farm laborer—a broad-shouldered, deep-chested, powerful fellow, who made himself clumsily useful. Well, about that time the farmer’s daughter came home from school. What a revelation she was to Tom. He never knew until then what it was to worship anything, nor how awkward and coarse he was. He would have given all he had, which wasn’t much, to learn how to get into a room without hitting the door, or what to do with his hands, or how to sit down right. He began to change his clothes for better ones when he came in from the day’s work, and there was about him the dawning of improvement Finally the great day came. He stood trembling before the farmer’s daughter, the hard word was spoken, and she didn’t* repulse him. I think there is nothing in the life of a man which so rouses and stirs him as love. Tom went to the wrestling matches, and what a’vim there was in him. He read, he went to church, he wanted to see how people acted. And when after a good life he grew to be an old man, and talked in a trembling voice to his grandchildren, he used to say, “Oh, what a wife she was to me. Whatever I became she made me.” The world is full of just such instances of blessed influence. Nm» York Sun. —There is nothing so helpfUl to a man, and especially to a farmer, as a thrifty housewife. His wife may be beautiful and loving and accomplished', graceful, >■. cheerful, faithful, still he will find there are many flaws in the domestic economy unless, with her other qualifications, she combines the happy faculty of imparting the glow pf youth to the aged fowl and of so proportioning expound of butter to a barrel of salt as will enable her to realize for the salt in the market twenty-five cents per pound.— Bruntutiektr. Thk privilege of the peerage recently * saved the Earl of Winchester from being sent to prison for debt, at the suit of a London firm.