Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1874 — Page 1

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LATEST NEWS.

End of the Governmental Crisis in France. Gov. Taylor's Address to the People of Wisconsin. Terrible Calamity In Western ’ Massachusetts. «Serious Reservoir Accident in Northern Wisconsin. Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc. THE OLD WORLD. On the 19th the Carlists attacked an entrenching party near Bilboa, but were driven off with the loss of fifty prisoners. Madrid dispatches of the 22d announce the capture of Vittoria by the national troops under Concha. A Carlist raid was being made in the vicinity of Santander, the insurgents to the number of 1,500 being within five leagues of the town. A disastrous fire occurred in Galata, a Jewish suburb of Constantinople, on the night of the 18th. One hundred houses were burned. Count Shouvaloff, the Russian Minister, has notified all Polish exiles that they can return to their native country. Two or three known assassins are excepted. The Hawaiian Legislature convened on the 30th of April. The King delivered an address from the throne advocating a commercial treaty with the United States, but opposing any cession of territory. Tns German Reichstag was prorogued on the 21st inst. The French Cabinet was reconstructed on the evening of the 23d, as follows: Minister of War, Gen. De Cissey; Foreign Affairs, Cazes; Interior, Fourlon; Finance, Magnc; Public Works, Caillaux; Commerce, Grivart; Public Instruction, Cumont; Justice, Tullhand; Marine, Montaignac. Kingston telegrams of the 23d announce Uie resignation of the President of Hayti. The Alcalde of the Mexican town of Jacabo recently reported that he had burned alive a man and his wife on the charge of bewitching one of his neighbors. The United States Minister to Bolivia, Gen. Croxton, recently died at La Paz. THE NEW WORLD. , Brooks left Little Rock on the 19th, accompanied by a small squad of cavalry, and took the road to Fort Smith. The barricades were removed from Wie streets, and affairs wore resuming their antebellum appearance. The Attorney - General had resigned, and a successor had been appointed. On the 23d the House of Representatives, by a vote of 47 to 9, passed resolutions requesting Senators Clayton and Dorsey to resign, and, in case of their neglect, asking thd Senate to expel thetn. Ur to the night of the 18th 110 bodies of the victims of the great disaster in Massachusetts had been recovered A committee of the Massachusetts Legislature visited the scene on the 20th and discovered that the flood was wholly due to the faulty construction of the dam. One of the proprietors of the reservoir, living in Williamsburg, had been threatened with personal violence by the friends of those who were killed, and a company of soldiers and policemen had been detailed to protect him. A dispatch of the 21st says that the destitute and homeless people in the Mill River Valley number 1,200, and that at least SIOO,OOO are required for present and immediate necessities. ■ The sum contributed up to the night of the 23d was $75,000. The headquarters of the army are to be removed from Washington to St. Louis in October n?xt. A caucus of the Republican Senators was held in Washington on the 18th, and a resolution adopted favoring the sine die adjournment of Congress on the 22d of June. According to a Washington special of the 18th, the President has requested of Judge Richardson his resignation as Secretary of the Treasury. Gardner’s dam, on the upper Wolf "River, in Northern Wisconsin, gave way a few nights ago while nine persons were trying to raise the gate to relieve the pressure in the bulkhead. Four men were killed, and the others received many bruises. The Illinois State Prohibition Convention will meet in Bloomington on the 30th of June. > An enthusiastic mass meeting of workingmen was held in Chicago on the evening of the 18th, and resolutions were adopted requesting Congress not to repeal the EightHour law. According to an Associated Press telegram of the 19th President Grant believes that the graves of the Union and Confederate dead should be dedicated alike.The Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank pt Rochester, N. Y.,has suspended. Hon. W. W. Eaton was elected United States Senator from Connecticut by the Legislature es that State on the 19th. On the 18th mass meetings of workingmen were held in most, of the Eastern cities, opposing the repeal of z the Eight-Hour law. A CniJftoo paper of a recent date published a report making serious charges against the management of the insane hospital at Oshkosh, Wis. ladies engaged in crusading in Cincinnati wire arrested on the 18th for creating a disturbance upon the public streets. On the 20th they were tried, and dismissed with a Warning not to repeat the offense. There was considerable excitement in Washington on the 20th in consequence of the discovery that copies of the questions prepared for civil-service examinations had been surreptitiously issued and distributed. An h investigation had been started to ascertain the persons guilty of dissemmiuating thia kind of literature. Gen. Dyer, of the United Btates Army, died on the 20th, » An indictment was recently found against Gov. Moses, of South Carolina, for illegally , converting public money, to private uses. A warrant was issued for his arrest on the 20th, but he refused to allow it to be served, and threatened to call out the militia if theat-

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tempt to serve it was not abandoned. It was thought he would stand his trial. The Chicago & Alton Railroad Company has applied to have transferred all suits brought against that corporation in the State courts to the United States courts. Judge Zane, of the Sangamon Circuit Court, on the 21st, decided that the application was improper, and refused to make the transfer. On the 23d, one of the cases being called for trial, the company offered to let the people take judgment on certain conditions. These were refused, and the case being tried a verdict was rendered against the road for $3,000. Miss Nellie Grant, daughter of the President, was married to Mr. A. C. F. Sartoris, a wealthy Englishman on the 21st. The wedding was comparatively a private affair, less than 200 guests being in attendance. A large number of beautiful and costly gifts were made. The happy couple left soon after the ceremony for New York, to take passage on the Baltic for England. A crusading party of forty ladies were recently arrested in Pittsburgh, Pa., upon the charge of obstructing the sidewalk. The Mayor discharged them at- the hearing, but warned them that he would not let them off so lightly if the offense was repeated. On the 23d they were rearrested, confined in the police station and subsequently released on bail. It was said that the ladies were determined to continue their crusading work despite the action of the police authorities. Gov. Taylor, of Wisconsin, on the 21st issued a lengthy address to the people of Wisconsin, in which he reiterates his determination to enforce the Railway laws of that State. After calling attention to the fact that ample time and opportunity had been given the companies interested to arrange their business so as to comply with the requirements of the new law, and that two of the most pewerful railroads in the State had conspired together to defeat the operation of the law and had obtained the opinion of hired counsel that it was unconstitutional, etc., the Governor says the law must be enforced with a vigor duly proportionate to the power and defiance of the offenders. He concludes by calling upon and enjoining every citizen of the State to observe with scrupulous care. the requirements of the law when dealing with railroad companies, and to pay as a traveler no higher fare, and as a shipper or receiver of freight no higher rates, than the law,prescribes, and that, if in any exigency or necessity he should suffer any sum in excess of legal rates to be extorted from him by any agent of any such company, he notify, with all convenient dispatch, the District Attorney of his county of such violation of law. The Governor further says that, In the possible contingency of a sufficient resistance to the local authorities to require the interference of the Executive, the guarantees contained in his proclamation of May 1 can be relied on with the utmost confidence. According to late dispatches from the Texan frontier a reign of terror prevailed along the Rio Grande. Indians and Mexicans were engaged in perpetrating atrocities, and the aid of the army had been invoked. A new swindle was exposed in Chicago on the 23d. One “A. W. Locke," who pretended to be an agent for English-made sewing machines, had been flooding the country offering to furnish first-class machines, made in England, for twenty two dollars and wait three months for his pay, only stipulating that four dollars, the amount required to pay the customs duties, should be paid in advance. He gave excellent references and a large number sent In their dollars. Suspicion being aroused, an investigation was had, and the swindle stood confessed. Locke was proved to be a myth and his project a delusion. On the 23d Hon. David B. Mcllish, r New York Congressman, died in the Washington Insane Asylum. THE MARKETS. Mat 25, 1674. New York.— Cotton— lß%@lß%c. Flour— Good u> choice, [email protected]; white wheat extra, $6.70© 7.10. Wa/-No. 2 Chicago, $1.4701.48; lowa Spring, $1.4801.49; No. 2 Milwaukee Spring, $1.5101.52. Rue— Western, $1.09©1.12. Barley—--51.5001.55. Carn— B4oß6c. Oats— New Western, 62063% c. Pont—New mess, $18.00018.12%. Lard— ll%®ll%C. Wool—Domestic Fleece, 400 62c. Beer>[email protected]. Hoge— Dressed, $7.62% ©7.7b. sheep— Live (clipped), [email protected]. Chicago.— Beeves — Choice, $5.7506.00; good, $5.2535.70; medium, $5.0005.25; butchera’ stock, $3.7505.00; stock cattle, $3.5005.00. Hogs— Live, $5.45©6.#0. SheepGood to choice (shorn),. $4.2535.75. Butter— Choice yellow, 28@30c. Eggs Fresh, 12%@ 13c. Pork— Mess, new, [email protected]. Lard—9.00; spring extra, [email protected]. WAsal—Spring No. 2, $1.2001.20%. Com—No. 2, 69,%360xc. Oats —No. 2,45046 c. Bye— No. 2, $1.00351.01. Barley —No. 2, $1.65. Wool— Tub-washed, 48855 c; fleece, washed, 36848 c; fleece, unwashed, 25332 c; pulled, 35840 c. Cincinnati.— Flour— $6.2506.50. Wheat— sl.37 ©1.38, Corn— 7oo7sc. Jty«-$1.15@1,16. oars—s 4 ©sßc. Parley—[email protected]. Pont-$17.75818.00. Lard- 11>4©1I%C; St. Louis.— Cattle —Fair to choice, $4.5076,00. Hogs— Live, [email protected]. Flour—XX Fall, $5.50© 6.00. Wheat— No. 2 Red Fall, $1.4901.50. ComNo. 2, 64K06&C. Oats— No. 2, 52%©53c. Rye—sl.OOosl.O2. Barley— $1.5001.55. Pork— Mess, $18.00318.12%. Lard—lo% 011 c. r, MilwavXbb.— Flour— Spring XX, [email protected]. Wheat— Spring, No. 1, $1.2891.28%; No. 2, $1.24 01.24%. Cbm—No. 2. 60061 c. Cals—No. 2, 46347 c. Rye— No. 1,. 98099 c. Barley— No. 2, $1.5801.60. Cleveland.— Wheat— No. 1 Red. $1.5501.66; No. 2 Red, $1.4431.44%. C0m— 76877c. Oals-No. 1,56058 c. Detroit. — TTAea/—Extra, $1.6201.63. Com—--71072c. OaU-54054%c. Toledo.—WAeal—Amber Mich., $1.4401.44%; No. 2 Red, $1.43%©1.44’*. Cbm—Mixed, 70©71%c. 0at5— 65055% c. Buffalo.— Beeves— $5.2606.25. Boos Live, $5.55©6.20. SAeep—Live (clipped), $5.2506 20. East Libbbtt.— Cattle Best, $6.4006.70; medium, $5.75©6,00. Hogs— Yorkers, $5.40© 5.70; Philadelphia, $6.4006.60. SAeep-(cllpped) -Best, $6.0006.25; good, $5.5006.25. CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on the 18th, a resolution was submitted and ordered printed providing for a sine die adjournment on the 22d of June.... A bill was passed to relieve ships and vessels from compulsory pilot fees in certain cases.... The Legislative Appropriation bill was taken up and several amendments were disposed 0f.... Adjourned. In the House, on the 18th, among the bills introduced were the following: For the inprovement of the month of the Mississippi; to provide for minority representation tn boards of directors of stock companies; for the creation of a court for the adjudication and disposition of the Geneva award; to secure an anti-monopoly ocean cable communication between Europe, America and Asia; for the establishment of ocean mail steamship service in American-bdlit iron vessels between the United States and England ...Bills were passed authorizing the President to furnish rations and clothing to ths starving and destitute people on the Tombigbee, Warrior and Alabama Rivera; allowing the stamping of documents and papers heretofore unsigned and issued and subject to stamp duty.... The House Currency bill, with the Senate substitute therefor, was taken from the Speaker’s table and referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, with leave to report at any time.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 19th, the resolu-

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tion providing for the adjournment of Congress on the 22d of June was agreed to.,..The House bill for the benefit of occupying claimants on pnbllc lands was passed.... The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was taken up, and several amendments were agreed to, and the bill as amended was passed.... The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was reported, with amendments ....Adjourned. In the House, on the 19th, some of the Senate amendments to the Naval Appropriation bill were non-concnrred In, and a Conference Committee was appointed .. .A bill to amend the customs laws and to repeal the system of moieties to informers in customs and revenue cases was debated at considerable length, and finally passed .... A majority report was made in the Louisiana contested election case to the effect that neither of the claimants, Pinchback or Sheridan, had presented evidence to establish his right to the seat as Representatlve-at-Large. but that they should have the right to take further testimony, and a minority report was also made that Pinchback was not, and that Sheridan was, elected. ...An evening session was held tor general debate. In the Senate, on the 20th, an adverse report was made on the bill to provide for a settlement of the claims of loyal persons against the United States accruing during the rebellion, and for other purposes... .The hill to enable the Secretary of the Interior to make a final settlement with the Pottawatomie Indians of Michigan and Indiana under the treaty stipulations existing with them was passed.... The Civil Rights bill was taken up and debated.... Adjourned. In the House, on the 20th, the Senate resolution for final adjournment, on the 22d of June was agreed t 0—143 to 49.... The Pension Appropriation bill (about $80,000,000) was reported from the Appropriation Committee.... The Postoffice Appropriation bill was considered and amended in Committee of the Whole.. .Adjourned. IN the Senate, on the 21st, two hills were reported for the improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi.... A bill was introduced to establish the compensation of certain customs officers, etc.... The Civil Rights hill was further debated ... .Adjourned. In the House, on the 21st, a petition was presented and referred from the Women’s Christian Temperance Union of Indianapolis, requesting Congress to amend the oath of oflfee so that all officers under the Government shall be required to abstain from the use of intoxicating drinks as a beverage during their terms of office....An amendment to the Postofflce Appropriation bill was agreed t 0—134 to 71—to let the annual and monthly reports of the Agricultural Department pass through the mails free, and the bill was passed, as was also the Pension Appropriation bi 11.... The bill to repeal the law under which the Sanborn contracts were made was discussed.... The bill for the admission of New Mexico as a State was debated and passed—l6o to 54.... A report on the Senate substitute for the Currency biH was made from the Committee on Banking and Currency.... Adjourned. . ■ In the Senate, on the 22d, a memoria of the National Agricultural Congress, which was recently in session in Georgia, was presented, asking that one-half of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands be used toward the support of agricultural colleges, education and 1ab0r.... A favorable report was made on the House bill to extend the time for filing claims for additional bounty under the act of July 28, 1866.... The House bill authorizing the President to Issue army rations and clothing to destitute people on the Totnblgbee, Rio Grande and Alabama Rivers was passed.... The Civil Rights bill was further debated, the session lasting all night, no vote being reached up to two o’clock on the morning of the 23d. In the House, on the 22d, a bill was reported and passed making appropriations for the payment of claims which have been reported as allowed by the Commissioners of Claims under the act of March 3, 1871.... Several private bills were disposed of in Committee of the Wh01e.... Adjourned. ; -- 7 - The all-night session of the Senate for the consideration of the Civil Rights bill terminated at 6:15 on the morning of the 23d, the bill being finally passed by a vote of 29 yeas to 16 nays. The first section of the bill as passed provides that all citizens and other persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodaUons, advantages, facilities and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters and other places of public amusement, and also of the common schools and public institutions of learning or benevolence supported in whole or in part by general taxation, and of cemeteries so supported; also the institutions known as agricultural colleges, endowed by the United States, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, and applicable alike to citizens of every race and color, regardless of any previous condition of servitude. Severe penalties are imposed for the violation of the law, and the District and Circuit Courts of the United States are given jurisdiction in cases of its violation, and actions may be presented in the United States Territorial District or Circuit Courts, wherever the defendant may be found, without regard to the other party. It is also provided that no citizen shall be disqualified for service on any jury because of race, color or previous condition of servitude... .Adjourned to the 25th. In the House, on the 23d, hills were passed—donating condemned cannon and cannonballs to various Posts of the Grand Army of the Republic, for monumental purposes; for the sale of the Rush Valley Military Reservation in Utah; for the sale of the buildings and ground known as the Detroit Arsenal, in Michigan.... One of the Senate amendments to the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was rejected, and others were discussed at considerable length.... A bill was reported allowing a bounty of $8.33% per month to soldiers during the late war, and also providing for grants of land to them.... Adjourned.

Condition of the Growing Crops in Several Western States.

Indianapolis, Ind., May 16. The National Crop lieporter published to-day estimates, deduced irom reports of its correspondents, in relation to the comparative area of spring wheat and oats this season in several Western States, the lateness of the season having prevented the closing of the usual spring sowings by May 1. The State of Minnesota is not included in the estimates. For the States of Illinois, lowa, Kansas, Missouri and Wisconsin the average area sown this spring to wheat is placed at 7 or 8-10 per cent, greater than in the spring of 1873; the increase is 4 6-10 in Illinois, 12 1-10, lowa, 6 1-10 in Kansas, 7 4-10 in Missouri, and 3 5-10 in Wisconsin. The acreage seeded in oats this spring, in comparison with the area sown last spring, is increased in the States named as tollows: Indiana, 2 6-10 per cent; lowa, 9 8-10 per cent; Kansas *8 8-10 per cent.; Ohio, 8 5-10 per cent; Wisconsin,. 30 10 per cent. In Illinois there is an estimated falling off in the area of 11-10 per cent., and in Missouri 1 2-10 per cent. The average for the seven States is an increase of 5 2-10 per sent. At the figures given the increased area is about 255,000 acres of oats and 427,000 acres of wheat for the States named. Returns in relation to the comparative condition of Bwlne in the West, May 1, indicated a much higher condition than at the beginning of the previous month. The average condition, May 1, in the States of Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin and Ohio was 87 3-10 per cent., a full average condition' being 100. No especial change in the prospects of the. fruit crop is noted, the outlook being still more favorable. —About eleven o’clock one night a policeman met a negro carrying a trunk along the street, and, thinking he had discovered an item, he • collared the negro and told him to drop that trunk and explain. “ I kin do it, sah," replied the stranger as he put the trunk down. “De family what was boarding me has been axing for money, and as dey was gwyne out to-night I thought I’d git into some family whar dey respected de panic.” He was allowed to go on,

OUR COUNTRY AND OUR UNION.

The Massachusetts Flood.

THE TORRENT DESCRIBED BY AN EYE WlT- ——, _ NESS. Eably on Saturday morning I went out from the house of a friend I had been staying with to meet another near the dam. About half-way up to it I met a man running rapidly toward the village and shouting and waving his hands like a lunatic. I thought he was one and ran toward him, when he called to me to keep to the hills, as the dam was giving way. I asked which way to go, and he said there might be time to alarm the people dawn at Spellman’s bo that they could get away before the flood should come. Then I started in that direction, but keeping out of the track of the river. I knew what an enormous body of water there was in the reservoir, and that if really the wall were giving away and should presently burst nothing could save the people below, but I still half doubted the man’s sanity. Still, lives might be saved, even if what he said was true, for I thought the wall strong enough to withstand for a little while the pressure of the water behind it. I was so excited that I hardly knew what I thought, but surely I kept out of the direct road of the torrent. Just as I was running up a hillside to get a better view of affairs I heard a heavy rumbling roar behind, such as I can liken to nothing, for I never heard anything at all resembling it—a booming zizz, long continued, or something of the sort—a sound of awful power, intending destruction to everything, and then I looked up toward the dam and saw a great, black mass of water moving on, a solid wall, and the spray all above it like hair bristling. I was so terrified that I almost fell, and had to catch at a tree to save myself. But I was near the village, and could see Spellman’s factory and the men standing about the door. The water swept down below and past me with a rush, not whirling, as one might think it would, but going as straight in its course as an arrow. The noise was deafening. You would see—l saw it all in a second—a tree or a house standing, and then the half sight of its bending or toppling over, and then it would disappear, whirling in and out of the flood. Spellman’s factory seemed, though, to be lifted right off its foundations, and sailed down on the top of the swollen river that now looked like a long, black, slippery serpent wriggling down the valley with frightful velocity. 1 followed along as swiftly as possible, and It seemed as though the whole village ran away from me. But it was engulfed and swept away. I saw a tall chimney standing alone and a man hanging head downward from a big hole in it, and I saw other bodies that had been pushed flat against things too strong to give way and remained there crushed all of a heap, and dead, of course. It may seem improbable, but I could swear I heard the shouts and screams of men and women above the roar of the torrent, but it made all sorts of noises and sounds and there was a wind with it—l thought created by it—for before a tree would be struck its branches would move away from the waters as if with a wind or from a presentiment of what was coming. Afterward I heard some people say that there had seemed something the matter with the morning before the dreadful disaster, as if it had been foreshadowed in their feelings or in the air itself. But it is impossible to tell accurately of what I heard and saw, for what I saw was as if in a flash of lightning, where everything was a picture. L. P. Larkins. A MARVELOUS ESCAPE. The marvelous escape of young Dunning at Leeds has already been alluded to, but his story is so interesting that it is worth giving in detail. When the alarm was given he was at his work in the spool room of the Nonotuck silk works, and, rushing out of the mill, his first thought, of course, was for his family. He found that his father, wife and three had all left the house. He shouted to them to run for their lives, at the same time pointing to them what direction to take. His wife and children obeyed him and were saved; but his father, an old man of seventy-eight, thinking that something might be got eut of the house before the flood reached it, went back. In dashed the son after him, begging him to leave the doomed building. While raising one of the windows the floor gave way beneath their feet, and. his father disappeared from his sight. The young man had just time to clamber out of the window and as the house tipped over crawled up its side to the roof just as the building broke up, leaving him but a fragment to cling to for his life, and on he went sailing down that awful flood id full sight of wife and children, who, as they.looked on in terror and agony, expected momentarilly to see him sink beneath the surging mas. In a few seconds his frail raft was crushed like ah eggshell, but his presence of mind never deserted him. He jumped for another, and when that was gone for yet another. He was hastening down with the current at terrific speed, and, intent on the fearful task he had in hand, never once thought of the dams toward which he was hastening. The first one is reached in the awful crash and jam. He is hurled seemingly twenty feet in the air, to come down and be . submerged for the first time far beneath the waves. As he came to the surface again and clasped another piece of driftwood he realized .with an intensity unimaginable by those whose lives have never been imperiled that another and higher dam was but a short distance below, and that he had absolutely no hope for life unless he escaped from the flood before that point was reached; but fortunately the swollen mass of water and debris at that moment surged toward shore, and seizing an opportunity which seemed to be providentially presented he clambored across some broken roots, which served him as a bridge, and with a leap again had a foothold on the earth. The feelings of a man who, like him, had scarcely a hope of life, on finding himself escaped from the jaws of death cannot be depicted. Only a cool and intrepid man could have passed through that experience, and possibly. Mr. Dunning could not but for his experiences before as a raftsman in Canadian waters. He had been swept half a mile down the river and was utterly exhausted by the intense strain on mina and body, nerve and muscle, yet as he lay on the bank for a moment to get his breath he could not suppress a smile at the appearance of a man who escaped from the flood near the same place by seizing bold of the limbs of a large tree on the bank. Fleshy though he was, this man went up that tree like a squirrel, and did not stop until he was at least thirty feet above the water.

Mr. Dunning describes as the most appalling incident of the memorable ride the heartrending screams and groans of women and children in houses that were swept down with him and seemed to be beneath him. He says they will ring in his ears till the latest day Of his life.— Cor. N. Y. Herald. OTHER INCIDENTS. Among the many thrilling incidents given in the newspaper accounts of this fearful occasion are the following: All along the course of the flood there were narrow escapes and thrilling incidents. Mr. H. H. Tilton, of Williamsburg, was carrying his aged mother, Widow Sarah H. Snow, to a place of safety, when the unrelenting waters seized them; she was carried away, while he Sd a tree, about fifteen feet high, ig on a bank, and wag saved, though the waters reached and swayed him. Messrs. Hannum and Rhodes, living in the same house, got across the street into another dwelling, the lower story of which was flooded, but some apple trees broke the force of the wave and the house stood. Jeremiah Ward thought to save his sister-in-law, Mrs. Knight, and died with her. A daughter of Spencer Bartlett started to flee with her parents to the hill, but the incoming waters tossed them away, and she was compelled to remain in the house, and so escaped. A young French child was found safe asleep in a bed in a wrecked house, in attempting to escape from which the remainder of the family perished. Miss Carrie Bonney and Mrs. Sarah J. Ryan and child, who were among those swept away and lost, had ample time to save themselves, but were completely stupefied with terror, and, with a fixed stare, stobd motionless. Three men—J. M. Stephenson and two new hands whose names are not known—fearing the boarding house in which they were with a number of others would give way, despite the entreaties of their associates, left it and climbed an apple tree near by. The latter fell under them and they were drowned, while those at the boarding-house remained unharmed. One man ventured upon the roof of the board-ing-house, and, though it crumbled under him, he clung to it and saved his life. John Atkins, foreman of the weaving room, died in saving the lives of his wife and two children. A cow floated down from Williamsburg to Florence, and escaped with only a broken horn. A sad and affecting case was that of. three French children, none of them over nine years old, who sat among the living and dead in Mr. Warner’s house at Leeds, and told questioners that they had lost three sisters, a brother and their mother, but their father was safe and attending to gome of the dead people. But many who listened to them knew that the father, as well as the brother and sisters, was among the dead, yet none had the heart to break the terrible news to the children. One lucky little boy got a safe ride down the stream in a small house. The dwelling was picked up by the flood I somewhere between Leeds and Florence, and went over the dam right side up, landing some distance below on the flats. There somebody spied this novel conveyance, and took the boy out, safe and sound.

Regularity,

Very few persons understand how greatly health ana happiness in this world depend upon the regularity of daily habits—the constant recurrence of those events which we are apt to refer to as tiresome and monotonous. During the early and later periods of life this “even tenor” is essential to our well-being; and though we may feel-like kicking the traces when at the summit of power and activity, and sometimes fly off at tangents, or get rid of our superfluous energies in odd and eccentric ways, yet we usually come back, or at least try to comeback, to our moorings, and gladly accept the treadmill path of daily duty, which, if it brings no ecstatic pleasure, leaves no remorse. To infancy, absolute regularity in habits of food, sleep, clothing and cleanliness cure many ills and lay the foundation of a useful and honored life. This is the task of the intelligent mother, and to no person less competent should it be delegated. Feed a child with healthful food, cooked in precisely the same way, at exactly recurring intervals; put it to sleep with faithful minuteness in regard to time; have its clothes uniformly protective and comfortable, not too cool, and not exhaustive from warmth; give it fresh air, either in well-ventilated rooms or outdoors every day; bathe it at night in tepid, in the morning in cold water, and the child will grow thriving and healthy and happy; But there must be no cessation by even so much as the failure to scald a cup or a saucepan in the routine; there must he no careless use sometimes of warm, sometimes of cold water, or, again, the omission of the bath altogether. The food must be prepared in the same way, with the same nicety of proportion, or evil results will, as they do, most surely follow. Only faithful intelligence can work itself out by such exact processes, though we all enjoy more than we think, being subjected to them. Everyone can understand how disagreeable it would be not to be able to make sure of one’s dinner; to be deprived of bed and sleep; to lose the enjoyment of abundance of good water, a daily bath and a daily paper; but upon the recurrence of how many more and much smaller minutta do we depend for onr daily comfort? We like certain kinds of bread at every meal, we want meat always cooked in certain favorite ways, and we expect to find it so as naturally as wo expect the sun to shine. We get used to seeing certain things in certain places, and we would not miss them upon any account. A tree, a bush, a picture or a chair which occupies the same place for years Acquiree a value to our consciousness which only the habit of seeing it can give it The world seems very large in growth and full of many and varied interests, but it contracts as we grow older and the objects of value to us narrow themselves down to those which we know to be real and which form our lives. Naturally, as these grow fewer in number they grow dearer, and the more we dislike to miss them from sight and sense. No fives are so happy as those that are so well ordered that there is little to resign, and to Vhich, therefore, every year brings added interest and added enjoyment in the regular discharge of individual and social duty.— N. Y,. Graphic. r Square-toed shoes will he popular again.

CURRENT ITEMS.

To please a woman let her do as she pleases. Diamonds are cheaper now than ever before. A small gold hand holding a pearl is new in ear-rings. Expensive marriage ceremonies , are pronounced snobbish. What three letters denote strength and activity?” N. R. G. (energy.) Necessity knows no law, but law knows a good deal of necessity. THE spanking period is appropriately called the palmy days of childhood. An anti-cremation philosopher living near Lake Erie thinks the dead should be drowned. Leisure is sweet to those who have earned it, but burdensome to those who get it for nothing. Advertisements printed in Chjnese characters are beginning to appear in the California papers. Mafle-sugar is so plenty m Vermont this season that the girls are 20 per cent, sweeter than usual. A lady lecturer believes that women ought to retain their own names when they get married. Bhe has retained hers thus far. Invisible purple gloves are worn by ladies in mourning in preference to the dead black gloves that are so apt to crack. Quiz believes in cremation, for the benefit of the soap trade. He knows lots of people whose ashes would make splendid lye. The business of swallowing needles, long monopolized by human beings, recently commended itself to a Vermont heifer, which ate a glove needle and died. The last smart old man lives in Augusta County, Va. He is ninety-one years of age, and made his own coffin the other day. The adventurous fellow who attempted to steal a red-hot stove must take a back seat, since William A. Meyers, of Pleasantville, Pa., is on trial for stealing nitroglycerine. Mr. Jno. 8. Jones, of Stafford, N. H., says that the fire in his house has not gone out for forty-five years. Mr. Jones uses an open fire-place and covers the fire at night. It is an old saying that every pound of sugar made from the maple in the spring robs the farmer of a bushel of wheat. That is, good sugar-making weather is bad for the wheat crop. Love your neighbor as yourself—borrow his plow, hoe, or horses whenever you can; but if he wants to borrow yours, tell him that you are very sorry, but you were just going to use it yourself. The newest ear-rings in Paris are of bone. They are cut in the form of manypointed stars tipped with different colors. A small star fastens in the lobe of the ear, and a larger one hangs underneath. They are very odd and very pretty. And now it is Mrs. Betsey Hobbs, of Clinton, Me., eighty-two years old, who, “ during the past eighteen months, with the assistance of her daughter, has made between 900 and 1,000 pairs pf pants, besides doing the work necessarily falling u£on a farmer’s wife.” There is an elm eighty-four years old and about six feet in diameter at Franklin, N. H., and the man near whose house it stands says that when he was a boy he pulled it up, which made his father so mad that he walloped him with it and then set it out again. The public have got so accustomed to hearing these disagreeable weather stories that they won’t mind somebody’s recalling that sixteen inches of snow fell at Middlebury, N. H., May 15,1834, and it snowed all day at Brandon on the 11th of June, 1842, the whole fall being five or six inches. A Connecticut teacher, who has seen the thing tried, says that the best plan for promoting good order, tidiness and ease in conversation among the pupils in a school is to place one of each sex at the same desk, allowing them to assist each other at their lessons and to select new Sartners at the end of each month if they esire it A man recently visiting one of the cemeteries in Portland, Me., overheard a thrice-made widow, not yet old or homely, who was standing beside three mounds, remark to a gentleman, who was known' to have been attentive to the widow in her youth: “ Joe, you might have been in that row had you possessed a little more Courage.” A blustering stranger dropped in at a Broughton street store yesterday, and, after asking for a number of articles not in the stock, finally inquired of the proprietor if he had a goose-yoke. The merchant returned a negative reply, but informed the stranger if he would wait long enough to have his neck measured he would accommodate him. The stranger simmered.— Savannah Nm. The sphygmiograph is the hard name of a new medico-scientific instrument. Its presence is to mark and register the pulsations of the wrist It is a very delicate and intricate piece of mechanism, propelled by clock-work, and by the tracking of a pencil on a piece of paper the force of the heart-beats is recorded. It is chiefly useful in showing the effect of different medicines on the nervous system. The meanest man in Newport, R. 1., so far as heard from, is a landlord who tried to drown out one of his tenants who was sick with consumption. The tenant fell four months in arrears, but his friends made up the money, whereupon the landlord demanded an increase of the rent, and, on their refusal to pay, went into the story above the sick man and dbluged the floor with water, which ran down into the sick man’s room. Mbs. William Dinsmore, of Sutton, Vt, has spent several years’ labor on a quilt, which now contains 2,834 pieces, each of which differs in color and figure from every other, and some of which show the various fashions from Queen Elizabeth’s time down to the present day. Nearly every State in the Union and some of the Territories, the British Provinces, Mexico and most of the South American States are represented in the quilt, while the flags of many countries are pictured, and one square of the quilt was made in Brigham Young’s family. The Springfield BepuMican collects some tough May weather stories from the Massachusetts papers. Chairman of the Selectmen Hall, of Tyringham, was called upon oh the 10th to help the Becket town Fathers clear two miles of road, more impassible from snow than at any

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time during the winter, while lumbermen in Peru were hauling logs on sleds on the 9th. At Otis one of the common schools is said to have been unable to commence on the 11th because the children couldn’t get over the snow-drifts. Mt. Washington reported the snow “ hub-deep” in many places on the mountain road on the 9th, and travelers had to turn into the fields in spots, while ten-foot snow-drifts were in order on the 11th. A Queer Mistake.—The Oswego Times says: “ A prominent ‘moneyed man’ in this city who had invested quite largely in the bonds of a neighboring town cut off the April coupons of his bonds of a certain denomination and placed them with a bank in this city. The bank, of course, sent them to New York for payment In a few days the bank officers were surprised by the return of the coupons with word that they ‘would be paid when due.’ On examining them it was found that they were payable in 1887. The same mistake, of course, occurs in all the bonds of that denomination of that issue. The printer made a mistake by the use of wrong figures, and that is how a certain rich man must ‘hold on* for a while before he gets his April interest.”

Mr. Webster, Broughty Ferry, near Dundee, has received a letter from his son, who was second mate of the Clyde ship Arracan, burned at sea on her voyage from Shields to Bombay with coals. The Arracan left Shields on the 11th of September last. On the 14th of February her cargo ignited. On the 20th she was on fire from stem to stern and the crew were compelled to abandon her. They left in three boats. The first, under the command of the Captain, was picked up by the City of Poonah, and the men were landed at Aden; the gig, commanded by the chief officer, made the land at Cochin; but the pinnace, under the charge of the second mate, Mr. Webster, provisioned for only seventeen days, drifted about in the Indian Ocean for thirty-three days until fallen in with by the City of Manchester and landed at Calcutta. When picked up the poor fellows were 600 miles from the nearest land and were in a sad condition. Mr. Webster, in his statement, sajs: “ In addition to myself there were three men and a boy on board on the 10th of March. The men cast lots as to who should be killed, and the lot fell upon the boy. I would not allow them to kill him, and threatened to shoot the first man who should lay a hand upon him. Things went on in this way for two days, when one of the men tried to sink the boat, and said he would have the boy’s life in twelve hours. I presented my gun at him, and had no sooner done so than a bird flew over the boat. I fired and killed it It was instantly secured and devoured—feathers, bones and all. We subsisted after this on barnacles, which adhered to the sides and bottom of the boat, and on sea blubber, which was ravenously laid hold of as it floated past Delirious with hunger, one of the men, named Layford, asked to be killed. Another, named Davies, struck him on the head with a belaying pin. The blood was caught in a tin ana eagerly drank between the two. I threw the tin overboard. The same day these two men fought and bit one another, then shook hands and laughed and kissed each other like madmen. At last” (says Mr. Webster) “we were, through the mercy of God, picked up by Captain Hardin, of the City of Manchester, by whom we were very kindly treated, and brought to Calcutta.” The surgeon of the steamer which rescued the men says they were in a wretched condition. They could not stand on thejr feet, their eyes started from their sockets, and they were perfect skeletons. Altogether they presented the most painful sight he ever beheld. The most cautious treatment had to be employed in bringing about their recovery.— Manchester (Eng.) Guardian.

The Salut Public, of Lyons, says Dr. Buisson claims to have discovered a remedy for this terrible disease, and to have applied It with complete success in many cases. In attending a female patient in the last stage of canine madness the doctor imprudently wiped his hands with a handkerchief impregnated with her saliva. There happened to be a slight abrasion on the index finger of the left hand, and, confident in his own curative system, the doctor merely washed the part with water. He was fully aware, however, of the imprudence he had committed, and gives the following account of the matter afterward: “ Believing that the malady would not declare itself until the fortieth day, and having various patients to visit, I put off from day to day the application of my remedy—that is to say, vapor baths. The ninth day, being in my cabinet, I felt all at once a pain in my eyes. My body felt so light that I felt as if I could jump to a prodigious height, or if thrown out of a window I could sustain myself in the air. My hair was so sensitive that I appeared to be able to count each separately without looking at it Saliva kept continually forming in my mouth. Any movement of sir caused great pain to me, and I was obliged to avoid the sight of brilliant objects. I had a continual desire to run and bite- not humanheings, but animals and all that was near me. 1 drank with difficulty, and I remarked that the sight of water distressed me more than the pain in my throat I believe that by shutting the eyes anyone suffering from hydrophobia can always drink. 'The fits came on every five minutes, and I then felt the pain start from the index finger and run up the nerves to the shoulder. In this state, thinking that my course was preservative, not curative, I took a vapor bath, not with the intention of cure, but of suffocating myself. When the bath was at the heat of 53 centrigrade (933.5 Fahrenheit) all the symptoms disappeared as if by magic, ana since then I have never felt anything more of them. I have attended more than eighty persons bitten by mad animals, and nave not lost a single one.” When a person is bitten by a mad dog he must for seven successive days take a vapor bath—“ ali Rucu," as it is called—of 57 to 68 degrees. This is the preventive remedy. A vapor bath may be quickly made by putting three or four red-hot bricks in a bucket or tub of water, and let the patient ait over it On a cane-bottomed or Willow chair, enveloped in a large blanket, for fifteen or twenty minutes. When the disease is declared it only requires one vapor bath, rapidly increased to 37 centrigrade, then slowly to 53, and the patient must strictly confine himself to his chamber until the cure is complete.

A Terrible Story.

A Cure for Hydrophobia.