Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1874 — Page 1

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LATEST NEWS.

Resignation of the Spanish Cabinet. Ending of the Austrian Polar Expedition. Mt. Etna A.gpalii in n State of* ^x’uption. Serious Official Defalcation in Minnesota. Political Conventions in Nebraska, Ohio and Elsewhere. Serious Condition of Affairs in Louisiana. Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc. THE OLD WORLD. Maori d telegrams of the 4th say the Carlists had abandoned the siege of Puyeerda, much to the relief of the Spanish Government. A crisis had occurred in the Spanish Cabinet and Gen. bagasta had been asked to form a new combination. According to a Santander dispatch of (lie (ith the Carlists had fired into two German mcn-of-wur from Guetarari, near San Sebastian. Tlie Germans replied by shelling the town. When the Carlists retreated from Puyeerda they were attacked by a Republican column and suffered a loss of 700 in killed and wounded. According to Carlist advices desperate fighting had been going on since the 3d in Catalonia. The Republican losses had been heavy. According to a London dispatch of the 4th the Austrian Polar expedition had been brought to the Norwegian island of Wardoe by a Russian ■ vessel. The highest point reached was in latitude 80. The adventurers had been shipwrecked and compelled to abandon their vessels. They took to sledges in which they traveled seven mouths, and after passing two winters on the ~~ ice finally succeeded in reaching Wardoe. A Rome (Italy) dispatch of the 31st ult. says that Mount Etna had been in a state of eruption since the 29th ult., and that streams of lava were peuring from three craters. Germany celebrated the anniversary of the battle of Sedan on the 2d. The soldiers guarding Bazaine at the time he escaped from St. Marguerite have been all released, the French Gaveruincnt acquitting them of complicity with Bazaine’s departure. Paris dispatches of the 4th say that the commission appointed to investigate the circumstances attending the escape of Bazaine had reported that the jailer and Bazaine'* Aid-de-Camp, Col. Villette, were implicated. The United States expedition sent to ob'serve the transit of Venus reached Cape Town, Africa, on the 4th of August. THE NEW WORLD. Congressional nomination on the 31st nil.: Republican—Charles Foster, Tenth Ohio District, renominated. Congressional nominations on the Ist: Republican— First lowa District, Geo. W. McCrary (second nomination, which he finally accepts); Second lowa, J. Q. Tufts; Second Wisconsin, L. B. Caswell; Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania, C. B. Curtis. Democratic —Twelfth Ohio, A. T. Walling; Twentythird Pennsylvania, A. G. Cochran. Opposi-tion-r-First Minnesota, Franklin H. Waite. Independent Reform—Twelfth Illinois, J. B. Turner. Congressional nominations on the 2d: Republican—First Wisconsin District, Chas. G. Williams, renominated; Seventh Wisconsin, J. M. Rusk, renominated; Second Kansas, Stephen A. Cobb, renominated; Sixth Illinois, Thomas J. Henderson; Sixteenth Illinois, J. S. Martin, renominated; Fourth Michigan, J. C. Burrows, renominated;' Fifth Michigan, W. B. Williams, renominated; Ninth Michigan, J. A. Hubbell, renominated. Democratic—Fifth Ohio, A. V. Rice; Eleventh Ohio, J. L. Vance; Ninth Kentucky, Hansen Cochran. Congressional nominations on the 3d: RepublieanAA. Simpson, Twelfth Illinois District; Omar D. Conger, Seventh Michigan District, renominated; Gen. Goff, First West Virginia District. Reform —J. W. Wilkins, Fifteenth Illinois District. Democratic—Hon. 'William Hartzell, Eighteenth Illinois District; A. McKayow, Fourth Ohio District; Alexander 11. Stephens, Eighth Georgia District, renominated; William Walsh, Sixth Maryland District; R. P. Bland, Fifth Missouri District, renominated. A State Convention of the liquor-dealers of New York will be held at Albany on“the 30th of September. The Black Hills expedition returned to Fort Lincoln on the evening of the :30th ult. The losses during th&trip were three men by dysentery, one man killed by a comrade, and fifteen horses and mules abandoned. Not a shot was fired at the Indians and but few indications of Indians were.seen. Previous reports of the fertility of the BJack Hills.region au^ the extraordinary quantity and variety of its mineral deposits are fully confirmed. A Shreveport (La.) dispatch of the 30th ult. says that a few days before the white people of Coushatta had, at a public meeting, declared the county offices vacant amid a threatening display of shot-guns and bowic. knives. Six of the officials who remained at their postswcrc thrown into jail and six of their adherents. Subsequently, while being taken to Shreveport, they were overtaken by forty or fifty armed men, who took the prisoners out of thb hands of the guard and killed three of them od theyiqt.Threc escaped, but they were recaptured and are thought to have shared the same fate. Shreveport (La.) dispatches of the Ist confirm the previous reports of t he lnur der of the twelve political prisoners who were being taken from Coushatta to that place. The six kUled were Northern men who filled thej offices of Sheriff, Tax Collectors Register and Deputy-Sheriff. They were formerly Union soldiers and held office under Gov. Kellogg. The men who took them out of the hands of the guard claimed to be Texans, The Governor had called out an extra regiment of the State militia to aid in maintaining order. On the 3d Gov. Kellogg * proclamation offering a reward of *5,000 each for the arrest of the. persons Im-

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plicated in the Coushatta affair. The proda) mation was accompanied by a statement of the circumstances attending the killing,, showing that, in the opinion of the authorities, the murders were the work of the White League. Another account published in the Picayune of the 3d insisted that the outrages were the work of Texan desperadoes, and characterized the statement of Kellogg as false. The Shreveport (La.) Telegram of the 4th denies that that town furnished the parties who committed the recent Coushatta outrage. It says emphatically that Shreveport men were not concerned in the brutality. The Times of the same date publishes a statement of a Mr. Anney, a leading merchant of Coushatta, to the effect that an investigation had there by a citizens’ committec had revealed a plot on the part of armed negroes to murder indiscriminately a large party of men, women and children in attendance at a dance on the evening of the 27th ult.; that after this discovery a party of scouts were fired upon by the negroes and one of the number was dangerously wounded. The subsequent shooting of the prisoners near that place grew out of this affair. A Shreveport (La.) dispatch of the stli says a message had been sent to President Grant, signed by the leading men of that city, denying that any resident of that parish had participated in the Coushatta affair, and asking that a commission of fair-minded men be appointed to visit the State and ascertain the truth. The Democratic and Conservative State Central Committee have issued an address to the country asserting that the recent acts of violence in Louisiana had been iusti--gated-byGov. Kellogg_and his coadjutors, and that the disorders that had occurred had been magnified by the Radical leaders in or. der to “ forge lightning that there may be thunder at the North.” A special from New Orleans of the stli says the man Abney, whose letter denying that the people of Shreveport had been concerned in the Coushatta affair had been published, was a prominent member of the White League, and had previously indulged in threatening remarks. It was feared that twenty-five colored men held by the Coushatta mob had been killed. An attempt was made on the night of the 4th to burn the State House. The private office of the Attorney-General was broken open, the papers, chairs and books piled oil the floor, saturated with oil and set on fire. Owing to haste and a lack of air the fire did not spread to any extent. A Washington telegram of the sth says that the places in Louisiana designated for troops to prevent outrages are New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Alexandria, Monroe, Harrisburg and St.Martinsville. In a recent 'proclamation to the people of Tennessee in reference to the late troubles at Trenton, Gov. Brown uses the following language: “You are now heralded to the world as jail-breakers and murderers, rioters and law-breakers. With a few bloody and horrible exceptions you do not deserve It. But those exceptions are taken by the world as a rule, and the effects upon your reputation, if not counteracted, will prove as disastrous as if the condemnation were deserved.” Tub Postoffiee Department received information on tlie 31st ult. that on the 28th a train on the Alabama & Chattanooga Railroad was stopped near York Station, Ala., by means of a false signal, and that upon halting it was taken possession of by a band of armed men, who shot down the colored mail agent in cold blood and without provocation.. Official dispatches had been received stating that, on the 30th ult., a body of armed white men surrounded a colored church in Lee County, Ala., while services were in progress and fired into the congregation and burned the church. The following is the public debt statement "for Sept. 1: Six per cent, bonds $1,21.3,228,050 Five per cent, bonds. 511,025,200 Total coin bonds $1,721,253,250 Lawful money debt $14,678,000 Matured debt ... ....... 2,578.440 Legal-tender notes 382.076,697 Certificates of deposit 58,690,000 Fractional c urrency 45(797(675 Coin certificates 211,141,200 Interest 29,356,511 Total debt $2,286,571,773 Cosh in Treasury— Coin $71,083,928 Currency 16,619,232 Special deposits held for the redemption of certificates of deposit, as provided by law 56,690.000 Total in Treasury $146,393,160 Debt less casli in Treasury $ 2,140.178,613 Decrease during August.. 1,626.762 Bonds Issued to the Pacific Railway CompanhMi, .interest payable iii lawful money, principal outstanding ..L... $M.«33.512 Interest paid by the United States. 21,325.396 Interest repaid by the transportation of mails, etc 5,388,692 Balance of interest paid by United States 18,936,704 Hon. Marshall Jewell on the Ist took the oath of office and assumed the duties of Postmaster-General. A Washington telegram of the Ist states that a well-executed counterfeit twenty-dollar note of the Merchants’ National Bank, of New York, had been discovered by the Treasury experts in a package of .National Banknotes sent for redemption. The Attorney-General on the Ist left Washington to consult with the President in regard to alleged Southepi outrages. '* A Woman’s National Tempirdnce Convention is to be held at Cleveland, Ohio, in November next—date not yet fixed upon. August Gardner, a .Frenchman, while walking on the railroad track near Henryville, Ind., on the evening of the 30th ult,, whs robbed of his money by a couple of fdbt-pads, and then tied to the rail in such a manner that when the cars came along both legs were cut off above the knees. He died on the morning of the 31st ult. " • The Secretary of the Treasury on the Ist called in for redemption $15,000,000 of 5-20 bonds of the third and fourth series of Feb. .25,1802. The Ohio Republican State Convention met at Columbus on the 2d, and placed in nomination tlie following ticket? For Secretary of State, A. T. Wikoff; Supreme “tadge, long term, Luther Day; short term, W/tV. Johnson; School Commissioner, - Thomas W. "HoWe; Clerk of Supreme Court, Rikjncy Foss; member of the Board of Public Works, Stephefi R. Hosmer—all renominations excepUJohnson, wild is nominated for the unexpired term of Judge JJtone, resigned. The resolutions adopted reaffirm the principles and policy of the Republican party; demand that the equal civil and political rights of all citizens be enforced by appropriate legislation j favor a tariff for revenue, with incidental protection

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to aid and encourage American industry: denounce all forms of open or covert repudiation, and declare it to be the duty of the National Government to adopt measures for gradually restoring our paper money to a specie standard without a shock to the business interests of the country, after which banking should be free; declare in favor of National and State legislation to promote cheap and prompt transportation; condemn the recent alleged outrages and murders of unoffending colored citizens in the South; favor the restraint of intemperance and its causes, to the full extent of the legislative, judicial and police powers of the State. A People’s State Convention was held at Jefferson City, Mo., on the 2d, and nominated William Gentry for Governor and H. W. Headlee for Lieutenant-Governor. Resolutions were adopted—against any further increase of the State debt; declaring against all combinations which tend to increase the cost of transportation beyond a fair remuneration to carriers, and that it is the duty of the legislative branch of tlie Government to subject the railroads to such wise and impartial enactments as will protect the people from extortion without impairing the rights or usefulness of such corporations; opposing any further contraction of the national currency as detrimental to the interests of tlie producing classes. On the 30th ult., according to a Lexington (Mo.) dispatch of the 2d, the James boys and one of the Younger gang stopped and robbed a stage full of passengers near North Lexington, realizing by the outrage about S3OO in chattels and money. They rode away in plain view of hundreds of people who had got wind of the affair aud gathered on the bluffs to witnessit. — —

Resolutions were adopted on the 2d by the Columbia (S. C.) Board of Trade denouncing the attempt of certain parties, and particularly of John J. Patterson, to create a false impression as to the relations which exist between the white and colored people of that State. They brand the statement that there is any danger of rupture as false, and ask the national authorities to cause an investigation to be made into tlie truth of the statements of Patterson and others made at Washington. The Nebraska State Republican Convention, which met at Lincoln on the 2d and 3d, placed in nomination the following ticket: For Governor, Silas Garber; Secretary of State, Bruno Izschuck; Treasurer, J. C. McBride; Attorney-General, Geo. 11. Roberts; for Congressman, L. Crounse; contingent Congressman, Pat. O. Hawes. The State platform expresses a hope to soon see the eirculatirig medium of the country based on a metallic currency; advocates free banking; disavows hostility toward railroads, but demands that they be made subservient to .the public good; favors national regulation of inter-State commerce; opposes a third Presidential term, and favors the election of President, Vice-President and Senators by a direct vote of the people. The State Woman’s Temperance Convention, recently in session at Indianapolis, Ind., adopted resolutions indorsing tlie Baxter law and agreeing not to support any candidate for office not in sympathy with the temperance movement, and not pledged to support that law in the General Assembly. Oct. 8 was fixed upon as a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Mrs. Gov. Wallace, President; Mrs. M. M. Finch, of Indianapolis, Secretary, and Mrs. Reed, of Richmond, Treasurer. Gen. Sheridan on the 3d issued an order forbidding gold-seekers from passing over the Sioux reservation to the Black Hills. In ease of trespass he has directed the arrest of the adventurers and the destruction of their outfit. On tlie night of the Ist snow fell an inch deep in Green River Valley, Wyoming. A Havana dispatch of the 3d says that Doc'kery, who had been condemned to death as.an insurgent spy, had been sent as a State prisoner to Spain. President Grant on the 3d instructed the Secretary of War to co-operate with the Attorney-General in the suppression of outrages in the South. The latter subsequently issued instructions to Southern United States Marshals, calling their attention to tlie acts of Congress for the protection of citizens, and authorizing them to call upon United States troops for the suppression of all disorders. It was recently decided in New York, in a bankruptcy proceeding, that when the assets of a bankrupt fail to reach 50 per cent, of the claims proved against bls estate, he cannot have a discharge unless by consent of a majority in the number and value of the creditors. ’ ' The Republican majority for Governor of Vermont was between 21,000 and 23,000. The. vote in the Second (Poland’s) Congressional District is as follows: Poland (regular Republican), 5,749; Dennison (opposition Republican ) T 7,099; Davenport (Democrat),2,o22; scattering, 931. No choice, as it requires a majority to elect; on the second trial a plurality elects. On the 4th Prof. King, accompanied by representatives of the press, made a balloon ascension from Cleveland, Ohio. Tlie adventurers, after an interesting voyage of neMly 500 miles in twenty-four hours' effected a landing near Smith's Creek, ten miles from Port Huron, Mich.„ * Havana telegrams of the sth say the Spanish residents in Cuba had been greatly indignant over the rumor of the proposed cession of Porto Rico to Germany, and it was onlyafter the receipt of a telegram from Madrid denying its correctness that the excitement was quieted. A convention of Southern Republicans is to be held at Atlanta, Ga., on the 12th of October to consider the needs of the South and the reforms necessary for perfect reconstruction. Mokelumne, Cal., has been wholly destroyed by tire. The proposition to allow the people to vote on the question of repudiation has been rejected by the Arkansas Constitutional Convention. In consequence of the opposition of the* military authorities the proposed expedition to the Black Hills has been abandoned. The committee appointed by the last Minnesota Legislature to Investigate the transactions of CharteS-Mcllrath,. late State Auditor, on hccountof school and swamp lands have unanimously reported a defalcation of $89,559. Steele (Democrat) has been" elected Delegate to Congress from Wyoming by from 500 to 000 majority. ’ On the morning of the 2d a fire at Greenville, Miss., burned seventy-thrpe building* and in fileted a loss of over $‘250,000!,

OTTR. COUNTRY AM) OUR UNION.

September 5, 1874. New York.— Cotton— l7®l7%c. Flour— Good to choice, [email protected]; white wheat extra. $5.80@ 6.40. Wheat— No. 2 Chicago, [email protected]; lowa Spring, [email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee Spring, [email protected]. Hye— Western, 85@94c. Barley—s....@ Corn— Bs®B7c. Oat»— New Western, 51@58c. Pork— New mess, $22.50®22.75. Lard— l4%@l4’ic. Cheese- 10J4@13%c. WoolCommon 'to extra, 43@66c. Beeves— sto.7s@ 12.75. Hogs— Dressed, $8.75®9.50. SheepLive, $3.75®5.75. Chicago.— Beeves— Choice, $6.00®6.25; good, $5.25®5.75; medium, [email protected]; butchers’ stock, [email protected];— stock cattle, $2.50 @3.75. Hogs— Live, good to choice, $6.65 @7.30. Sheep— Good to choice, [email protected]. Buttei— Choice yellow, 28@33e. Eggs— Fresh, 12%@13c. Pork— Mess, new, [email protected]. Lard —l47a@lsc. Cheese— New York Factory, I2^@l3c; Western Factory, 11',4@12c. Flour— White winter extra, [email protected]; spring extra, [email protected]. Wheat — Spring No. 2, 9575@96c. Corn—^o. 2, T-Wy 73Jic. Oats— No. 2,44@44%c. Bye— No. 2,79@80c. Barley— No. 2, 95@96c. Wool— Tub-washed, 45@55c; fleece, washed, 40@48c; fleece, unwashed, 27@35c. Lumber— First-clear, $50.00 @53.00; second-clear, [email protected]; common boards, [email protected]; fencing, [email protected]; “A” shingles, [email protected]; lath, [email protected]. Cincinnati.— Flour— [email protected]. Wheat— Red, [email protected]. Corn— 73@74c. 7?ye-84@85c. Oats -43©48c. Barley— sl.oool,o2. Porit-$23.00@ 23.50. Lard— l4@lsc. St. Louis.— Cattle —Fair to choice, [email protected]. Hogs— Live, [email protected]. Floiir-W Fall, $1.25@ 4.75. Wheat— No. 2 Red Fall, [email protected]. CornSo. 2, 71@72c, - Oats— No. 2, 46@46?4c. Hye-m @Boc. Barley— [email protected]. Pork— Mess, $24.00 @24.25. Lara— l4^@lsc. Milwaukee. — Flour —Spring XX, [email protected]. Wheat— Spring, No. 1, [email protected]; No. 2, 99 @99%c. Corn— No. 2, 7(ig;7lc. Oats— No. 2, 42 @4214c. No. 1, 81@82c. Barley— No. 2, 98@99c. ; Cleveland.— ~Wheat— No. 1 Red, [email protected]; No. 2 Red,51.0901.10. Corn-76@77c. Oate-No. 1, 46@47c. Detroit.— Wheat— Extra, [email protected]!4. Com—--74@75C. Oats— 44@4sc. —Tolktio Amber Michigan, $1.090 1.09*4; No. 2 Red, $1.0801.09. Corn-Mixed,' 73@73^c. 45@46%c. Buffalo.— Beeves—llogs— Live, [email protected]. Sheep— Live, [email protected]. East Liberty.— Beeves— Best, [email protected]; medium, $5.25@6.'K). Hogs— Yorkers, $6.00@ 6.65; Philadelphia, [email protected]. Sheep— Best, [email protected]; good, $4.2504.75.

state fairs and expositions. Chicago Exposition. ...Chicago. ..Sept. 9-Oct. 10 Minnesota St. Paul Sept. 8-12 American Institute New York Sept.9-N0v.14 Northeastern lowa Postville Sept. 9-11 New Jersey Waverly Station. Sept. 14 Northern Ohio. Cleveland Sept. 14-19 Illinois Peoria Sept. 14-19 Kansas City Exposition. Kansas City.. Sept. 14-19 Montana Helena Sept. 14-21 Northern lowa Cleveland.... Sept. 14-18 New York Rochester.... Sept. 14-18 Michigan State & Pomo.East Saginaw Sept. 14-19 California Sacramento.. Sept. 21-26 lowa Keokuk ..Sept. 22-26 Colorado Denver Sept. 22-26 Maine Lewiston.... ..Sept 22-25 Maine Pomological Portland Sept. 22-25 West Virginia Clarksburg . Northern Wisconsin... .Oshkosh.. Sept. 28-Oct. 2 Nebraska Omaha. ...Sept. 29-Oct. 2 Pennsylvania Easton.... Sept. 29-Oct. 2 New Hampshire Manchester.Sop.29-Oct.2 Nova Scotia Halifax Oct. 5-10 St. Louis Fair. St. Louis Oct. 5-10 Maryland Baltimore Oct. 6-10 North Carolina Raleigh Oct. 10-19 Georgia Atlanta Oct. 19-24 Mississippi ..Jackson Oct. 26 Virginia Richmond Oct. 27-31 IIORTICVI.TURAL AND TOMOLOGICAL EXHIBITIONS. California Bay Diet., San Francisco.Aug.lß-Sep.ll Germantown, Pa., Germantown .....Sept. 9-10 Maine Pomological, Portland Sept. 22-25 Maryland Horticultural, Baltimore.... Sept. 9-11 Massachusetts Horticultural, Boston.. Sept. —- Michigan Pomological, East Saginaw. Sept. I’4-19 Newburg Bay Horticultural. Newburg.Sept. 22-21 Pennsylvania, Philhdelnhia Sept. 15-18 Potomac Pomological, Washington... Worcester Horticultural, Worcester. ,Sept.B-Oct.6 POULTRY SHOWS. Bucks County, Pa.. . . ,Doylestown Dec 8-11 Central New’York Utica Jan. 6-13 Connecticut.: Hartford Bec. 15-11 Eastern Pennsylvania.. .Doylestown Dec. B-19 Illinois Peoria Sept. 14-18 lowa Dubuque Doc. 15-18 Lehigh Valley, Pa.. Jan. 5-8 Maine m .. ...Portland Jan. 12 15 Maryland 8a1tim0re....... Jan, 5-8 Massachusetts Boston Jan 2-Feb. 4 Nets England Worcester,Mass.De*. 1-4 Western New York Buffalo Feb. 10-17

A Woman’s Wills and Won’ts.

The two leading features in a woman's karacter are her “ wills" and her “ wonts." When she makes up her mind she will do a thing, yu mite az well undertake to dam Niagara Falls with sawdust az to stop her, and when she wont she iz az balky az a six inule team that wont budge a bit. When a woman makes up her mind that she will hav a 50 dollar bonnet, i would just like to see the husband who could head her off. I wouldn’t give him a cent a yard for his peace ov mind until she gits the bonnet. I admire this trait in the wimmin folks; it shows they mean bizness and kan’t be phoojed with. If it wan’t for this live coal in their natures they would be burnt to ashes in this overbearing world Jn._l£aa_than_Bbt weeks. Tlie “wills” and the “wonts” are just what men admire in their wives after all, and it iz just what makes the world pay them so mutch deference. I hav sed—but i don’t kno whether it iz a falshood or not—that wimmin are controlled bi their wills, and men bi their opinyuns. In conclusion, I say' to all women—dear girls, hang on tite to yure “ wills” and yure “wonts.” Yure own good sense will teach you to cover them with velvet and wreath them in flowers; but dont yu ever swop them oph for ennything else, however flattering a trade yu arc oflered.— Josh Billings, in N. Y. Weekly.

—One of the students at Davidson College, who was too lazy to do anything right, was in the habit of cleaning out his lamp chimney by running his finger down it as far as he could and twisting it around. After he had cleaned it out in this partial manner one day not long ago, a fellow-student took it up and carried it to the residence of one of the professors, with the inquiry: “Why is it UhU-Uhs chimney is .smoked just up to this point and no farther?” 'the learned gentleman entered into an elaborate scientific explanation of why it was, arguing with great lucidness and citing varisus authorities to show the correctness of his reasoning. When he had finished the student said to him: “No, sir, you are wrong.” “ Why is it, then?’’ inquired the professor. “ Because the fellow's finger wasn’t long enough to reach any farther,” replied the student.

—An exchange asks: "How long should a man sleep?” That depends ?f he has a-smart wife lie. should sleep until the fire is started' and the next door neighbor’s boy has gone to the meat market.— Courier-Journal.

Rockville, Conn., Jclaims tq have a man so crooked that, if a broad-ax should fall upon him perpendicularly, it .would cut him asunder seven times.

Tas'truth is said to be always beautiful; but some people are afraid of.it.

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SONG OF THE FLAIL. In the autumn, when the hollows All are filled with flying leaves, And the colonies of swallows Quit the quaintly-stuccoed eaves, And a silver mantle glistens Over all the misty vale, Sits the little wife and listens To the beatiug of the flail, To the pounding of the flail— By her cradle sits aud listens To the flapping of the flail. The bright summer days are over And her cyo no longer secs The red bloom upon the clover, The deep green upon the trees; Hushed the songs of finch and robin, With the whistle of the quail: But she hears the mellow throbbin Of the thunder of the flail. The low thunder of the flail — Through the amber air the throbbing Aud reverberating flail. In the barn the stout young thresher Stooping stands with rolled-up sleeves, Beating out his golden treasure, From the ripped and rustling sheaves: Oh! was ever knight in armorWarrior all in shinitig mail— Half so handsome as her fartner As he plica the flying flail, As he wields the flashing flail?—The bare-throated, brown young farmer, As he swings the sounding flail I All the hopes that saw the sowing, All the sweet desire of gain, All the joy that watched the growing And tlie yellowing of the grain, And the love that went to wco her, Aud the faith that shall not fail — All are speaking softly to her In the pnlseH of the flail, Of the palpitating flailPast and Future whisper to her In the music of tlie Hail. In its crib their babe is sleeping, And the sunshine from the door All the afternoon is creeping Slowly round upou the floor; 1 And the shadows soon will darken, And the daylight soon must pale. When the wife no more shall hearken To the tramping of the flail, To the dancing of the flail— When her heart no more shall hearken To the footfall of the flail. And the babe shall grow and strengthen. Be a maiden, be a wife, While the moving shadows lengthen Round the dial of their life: Theirs the trust of friend and neighbor, And an age serene and hale, When machines shall do the labor Of the strong arm and tlie flail, Of the stoutneart and the flailGreat. machines perform the labor Of the good, old-fashioned flail. But when, blessed among women, Aud when, honored among men. They look round them, can the brimming Of their utmost wishes then Give them happiness complete? Andean case and wealth avail To-make auy music sweeter Than the pounding of the flail? Oh, the sounding of the flail! Never music can be sweeter — Than the beating of the flail! —J. T. Trowbridge, in Harper's Magazine

A VISION OF SNAKES.

I was wandering in a valley, the light of which was peculiar: neither of night nor day, but a green gloom through which one saw objects as through green water. And, as I wandered, 1 saw serpents dangling from the trees, writhing through the grass, burrowing in the ground, floating on the shadowed ponds, or darting with a wavy motion across the scanty patches of sad glimmer made by the rare sunbeams that had filtered through the dense canopying foliage; and, as I glanced down a glade which sloped to a sea lying sullen beneath a sultry, clouded sky, u huge sea-snake raised its horrid head above the leaden waters, I trod on serpents’ eggs, from which, the instant they were crushed, fanged, hissing jaws protruded, and lithe, scaly forms squirmed forth. The dusk was studded with treacherous eyes; the forest was roped with slimy, swelling and collapsing, variegated coils; distinctly even in its stagnant atmosphere could be detected the strange odor of the valley’s sovereign tenants. I saw a plumed warrior steal up to one that slumbered in the grass. He forked it to the ground, slew, cooked and ate it; and put its skin upon his bow to insure the right flight of his arrow. Then he went forth to hunt the deer that at times might be seen gliding through the jungle, as if they feared to rustle its herbage; their beautiful eyes glancing in dread at the hideous eyes fiercely or stonily fixed upon them. He stalked a stag until he was within bow-shot of' the splendid creature that stood at gaze 'with back-thrown, manytined antlers upon a little mound. Just as the hunter put forth his foot to draw the string he heard a hiss and rattleThe snake that he had shun was avenged. One of its fellows had struck the slayer. His dusky face turned pale. Hastily he bound his leg tightly above and below the wound, and, sit t ing down, sucked at it like a child at its mother’s breast. But it seemed as if- he were going to sleep like the babe. He staggered up in alarnf, gashed at his wound with his knife, and then tittered as fast as he was able back to his fire —passing on his way hundreds of the black-marked dealers of death, with their devilish eyes and rattle-tails —coiled up like “ flemished” lines, or stretched out stiff as sticks—sluggishly enjoying the hot, sluggish air. He bored a tirestick into his wound, and on.ee more tottered on. But-liis steps grew feebler and feebler. Again and again he put his flask to his lips. The fire-water that would have maddened him another time had no effect upon him now. Drowsily nodding, he fell to the ground, breathed heavily, and wentoff into the sleep from which there is no waking. But I heard a noise of strumming, thumping and piping on musical instruments, and, following the sound, came to an opening in which stood a village in the midst of bamboos and palms. The inhabitants were dark, but of a different type of countenance from that of the redskmned hunter. I wondered that any people could have fixed their dwellingplace in the midst of such a valley of the shadow of death, but what I saw soon made me marvel more. The music hayjpg^s^ a while, a magician spread a -gayly-embroidered garment upon the ground before a cot-tage-wall, uttered words of incantation, and ordered all snakes within to come forth. They wriggled forth in a swarm, and Were put into bags by the chief magician's attendants. On tbU side and on that of the houses he repeated the charm, and it was everywhere obeyed. Once, however, he smote impatiently upon the ground with his stall, and the under-wizards recommenced their monotonous music, while he lighted a fire. He had missed one stubborn snake, which had refused to obey his will. When the fire ’ had burned up, the snake-charmer again waved his wand and recited still stronger words of magic. Instantly a huge serpent rolled forth from its hiding-place, and, gliding into the fire, was there consumed. The charmers killed some of their prisoners, and laid them onthe ant-hills.

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fortheantsto pick their bones. Some the wizards swallowed; others they placed alive in their bosoms and allowed them to crawl all over their bodies next to the naked skin. They fondled them and put them to their lips; they suffered them to drink out of their capturcrs’ bowl, and struck them smartly on the head if they drank too eagerly. They piped to them and they danced. They made them come and go like dogs. They coiled the biggest round and round their necks, and limbs, and bodies in Laocoon folds. They forced the snakes to bile them, and healed the wounds with a touch and word, and the dwellers in the village wondered more and more, and rejoiced greatly that such potent champions against the fatal foes who beleaguered them had visited their settlement. Suddenly the chief magician seized a hooded snake gliding noiselessly upon the ground. It was one that had not come under the influence of his spells, having just writhed in from the encircling wood. Instantly it rose in wrath, its neck puffed out like a bladder with its savage passion. Out came its forked tongue, its curved fangs fastened on the charmer’s arm, and ere long he was a corpse, the conqueror gliding back into the forest in triumph, and his comrades that had been watching from the trees raised a hiss of exultation, w-hich made the villagers’ blood run cold. When I left the village the under-wiz-ards were raising their dreary funeral wail. In one of the garden-plats in the outskirts an innocent-looking little rabbit, which had come to help itself to the juicy blades and roots, found that it wasitself to be made a meal of. ’ A feeling of semi-coma came over me as 1 looked atthchclplcss little-thing, whichwas looking up as if mesmerized at the terrible serpent, ever coiling closer, that was looking down on it. I shuddered, cold sweat streamed down my face. I felt as if, in this strange land of snakes and magic, my identity were in some way being merged in that of a rabbit. With a violent effort I wrenched myself away and wandered on through the mysterious, oppressive, green gloom. I saw horned asps, vipers branded as if in warning with their initial, puff-adders, caqictsnakes writhing up slim tree-boles in quest of birds’ nests, lithe, thin, mudhued little whipsnakes, light-bellied blacksnakes, crimson bloodsnakes,whiteladies darting like flashes of light, but messengers of deadly darkness, ringed coral-snakes, as lovfly and as lethal, cobras and lance-hcaas. I roamed for miles through regions dominated by monstrous bull-snakes, boas, pythons and anacondas. I trembled as I saw- the parti-colored pests swimming toward me across rivers and lagoons and crushing the first living thing they encountered with an ease which plainly showed what would have been my fate had I been the first at hand. I held my breath as I passed them lying motionless in the degsc underwood, with their white-jawed heiids just peeping from beneath their coils. I approached though lusher jungle a stream which I saw that I must ford—the deer, buffaloes and fiercer beasts had made a track straight down for it, and, unless I turned back, there was no other road for me to travel. Some of the footmarks I saw, some of the cries I heard ahead, were hot reassuring, but in my dread of snakes I had come to hold four-footed marauders cheap. My fears were temporarily dissipated by one of. the most grandly beautiful sights I had ever beheld. I had read of the wonders of tropical vegetation —of its climbing palms, its netting and festooning lianas, with their lovely flowers. Now I saw something of this kind. L’luslered round and drooping from the .trees were long, thick creepers of gorgeous hues, those that dangled gently swaying in the almost breathless air. I stood for a time, rooted to the ground in startled admiratioh. Then 1 walked on to get a nearer view of this magnificent sight. Suddenly one of the creepers, holding on by the upper end, flung out the other —horror of horrors! it was a head —a boa’s head. The constrictor seized a buffalo with its frightful jaws and coiled itself round and round its victim. Crunch, crunch, went every bone in the wild beef; the breath was rapidly squeezed out of him. Then it uncoiled itself, slavered its prey all over, and, opening its mouth to the utmost, prepared to swallow its evening meal. It was horrid to see the creature’s long body swelling and sinking like billows as the buffalo was forced along. Another pounced upon a puma; another upon a jaguar; two or three upon deer; another —horrible—upon a man; another —still more horrible—upon a woman and Iter cliild; — —

Ugh! those “ lovely tropical creepers” —what nightmares had they become, as they lay gorged with food, bloated and torpid! And yet, in spite of the awful deaths of my fellow-creatures—so selfish is human nature—l could not help finding comfort in that stupid content. “ Now,” I said within myself, “ I shall be able to cross the river in safety; yet God knows thill my heart bleeds for those poor creatures, though they were not white. It wits sickening to see i> stout man crunched like a snail in that way. Never shall I forget the woman’s awful scream, and oh, that poor, helpless little babe! Still the beasts of prey are slain, and the hideous snakes are powerless or purposeless to harm me.” I advanced toward the river, gliding dreamily through the still forest, so lately the scene of blood-curdling slaughter, but now once more hushed in enchanted calm. But ■- from the water suddenly arose a boa’s head, far bigger than I had yet seen; but of the water undulated a boa’s body, which seemed as if it would never cease billowing itself on shore. ' I fled in terror, but could not help looking over iny shoulder as I fled. * The big boa, in passing, licked up the other boas as unconcernedly as if they had been mere shrimps, and stiil pursued me. M/ foot slipped, and his curved teeth were in me. Again I felt the cold chilLrun through my frame, as I had done when I beheld the fascinated rabbit - ”" The coils were crunching me. In my agony 1 gave one frantic fling, and—all was over. I had kicked off half my bed-clothes, and twisted the other half tight round my neck, and the night before, after looking atthe cuts in a natural-history book, I had taken a cool, light, yet heavy, summer-supper of cucumber au natural.—The Saturday Journal.

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Noted quacks—Ducks. Debt grows bigger the more you contract it. An era unknown to women —The middle ages. Bread is the staff of life—the want of it —the starve. They have found a worm in Pennsylvania that bores through the . hardest rock. Observe with what tender reverence an undertaker gazes upon a load of watermelons. It makes a big difference when a lady faints away whether you bathe her temples with camphor or molasses. It is getting to be an interesting question how near to. no time at all a horse is going to be able to trot a mile in. A Detroit husband is in trouble for whipping his wife because the baby did not take a first-class prize at a baby show. They say that the Mississippi mosquitoes take out a man’s bones and pick them clean if he objects to ordinary bites. — Boston Globe. A Salt Lake lady being asked what ticket she was going to vote at the late election replied that she intended to vote “ for God and His people.” A girl of sixteen, in Buflalo, has fallen so intensely in love with her own brother, a youth of twenty-three years, that her parents have sent her out of the country to Germany, A Scotch minister, when asked whether he. was dying, answered: “ Really, _fri end, I .care not whether I am or notj for if I die I shall be with Übd~ah<TirT“ live God will be with me.” A Romeo (Mich.) marksman thinks that he has made the most extraordinary shot onrecord. He aimed to bring down a woodchuck and chipmunk at one shot, and brought down a spring calf. It was “darling Gweorge” when a bridal couple left Omaha; it was “dear George” at Chicago; at Detroit it was “ George,” and when they reached Niagara Falls it was “ Say, you!” A woman never looks more humiliated than when, while sitting on the deck of a steamboat, she becomes simultaneously conscious of a cinder on her nose and the absence of her pocket-handkerchief. Vermont, after all, is the best State to get drowned in. They don’t attempt to rescue you until a doctor has gone down in a diving-bell and ascertained that your vital spark has fled. — Brooklyn Argus. She can stand it pretty well once or twice, but when you spill a saucer of raspberry jam; into her lap the third time things get uncomfortable, and she works her countenance as if she wasn’t born to be an angel. A recent writer says that a lady may be known by the tones of her voice. A coarse, unrefined woman never has a smooth, pleasant utterance. The voice can be cultivated so that harshness and roughness will disappear. The trouble is that most people are careless and slovenly about speaking, and fall into bad habits..

One of the rising generation in Vermont, rising four years old, went to a blacksmith to see his father’s horse shod and was watching closely the work of shoeing until the blacksmith began paring the horse’s hoofs, when, thinking this was wrong, the little boy said earnestly: “ My pa don’t want this horse made any smaller.”

The following testimony to the virtues of a patent manure was received by ita owner: “ Dear Sir—The land composing my farm had hitherto been so poor that a Scotchman could not get a living off it, and so stony that we had to slice our potatoes and plant them edgeways; but hearing of your manure I put some on a ten-acre field, surrounded by a rail fence, and in the morning 1 found that the rocks had entirely disappeared, a neat stone wdll encircled the field, and the rails were split into firewood and piled up systematically in my back yard,” / ' The Ezcebrior Magazine, a very choice and entertaining monthly, is published at $3.50 a year. Every effort is being made, ,by securing the services of the most brilliant contributors to periodical literature and the best art critics and essayists, to furnish a highly desirable family paper. A handsomely illustrated fashion and etiquette supplement accompanies it. Subscribers are very easily obtained, and rare inducements in money or prizes arc offered to getters up of clubs. Sample copies twenty-five cents. < mice-Room 59,N0. 157 La Salle street, Chicago, 111. A £ou»rei> man named Charles Crook died a horrible death at Riverhead on Tuesday night last. He was a man oi prodigious size, and in consequence of a great accumulation of fat he had for some t iWb been hardly able to get about. For the two weeks preceding his death he was in a constant, terrible struggle for breath, the air-passage being nearly closed by the increasing fat. and he was at last literally suffocated from this cause. For days and night he was compelled to remain constantly on his hands and knees, and this was the only position in which he could breathe at all, and at the end even this resort failed him. His weight was 31)0 pounds.— New York World. No doubt our young readers would like to sec the performance of a dog in this village. In the family in which the dog lived the old cat had four kittens. The dog became greatly attached to the kittens, and put in most of his time playing with them, and sometimes was a little rough, but not intentionally so. The cat and kittens were sent to a neighbor’s so as to get them away from the dog. In a short time doggy was missing; very soon he returned with a kitten in his mouth. Then he went back for the others and brought them all home. He was very careful not to hurt the kittens, and would roll them over and aver so as to get a good hold on them.—AsAloAuZa (Ohio) Sentinel. * Yesterday forenoon a man named Carter and his wife appeared^at the Folice Court, he having been given by her to understand that she had applied for a warrant for him for refusing to support his family. The Judge began to question him, when the woman interrupted him to say that her husband was a lazy, good-for-nothing loafer. “I’m lazy, am I?” he roared in reply- " Didn’t I earn three shillings last Saturday? Didn\l bring home half a peck of potatoes Monday? Didn’t I get half a pound of butter yesterday? Lazy! Great heavens!: Judge, can you go for to believe I’m lazy? Answer me that.” His Honor said he would take the case into co»sld» ennlon.— Detroit Free Preu,