Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1874 — Page 2

RENSSELAER UNION. JAMES > HEALEY. PrtjHntWfc RENSSELAER, - INDIANA.

THE NEWS.

Count von Arnim Released on Bail. Cotton Mills Burned in En-gland"-Ten Lives Lost. Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. President Grant an the Third-Term Question. Greencastle, Ini, Nearly Destroyed by Fire. Extensive Forest Fires in Ohio and Indiana. Other Interesting News Items. FOREIGN. In a letter in reply to the protest of the Pope SLguinst the persecution of German Bishops, the Emperor William says Germany has done all in her power to live in peace with the church at Rome, but that lie is bound to protect the State against the violent attacks and conspiracies of the clergy. A Madrid dispatch of the 26th says another body of Carlists, numbering 108, had offered to surrender if amnesty were granted. At a recent banquet at Bordeaux the Duke de Caeca, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, made a speech in which he said peace with -other governments must rest upon a basis com- ‘ patible with the interests and dignity—that is, the rights—of France. International treaties had been, and should continue to be, strictly observed by his Government The London Daily Xews of the 27th says that Austria. Russia and England had notified the Sublime Porte of their intention of making commercial treaties with the Turkish principalities, without reference to the Turkish Government. Madrid dispatches of the 27th announce the sailing of reinforcements for Cuba. The preliminary examination of Count von Arnim was concluded on the 27tli by his release on 190,000 thalers bail. A Berlin . dispatch of the 28th says he would not be permitted tb-leave the country. The cotton mills at Over, England, were burned on the 28th, together, with ten operatives. A Madrid dispatch of the 28th says a Spanish gun-boat had on that day tired a volley at a French merchant vessel. ’ John Laird, the. well-known builder of the Confederate steamer Alabama, died in LonMon on the 29th, after a protracted illness. Win. H. Rienhart, the sculptor, died at Home on the 29th. On the 30th ult Kuhlmann, who attempted the assassination of Bismarck and had confessed the crime, was found guilty, and sentenced to imprisonment for fourteen years in the house of correction and ten years' suspension of his civil rights. The Jury deliberated but five minutes. A Dublin dispatch of the 30th says Cardinal Cullen and the entire Catholic Episcopate had issued pastoral letters denouncing the late address of Prof. Tyndall, before the British Association, as a revival of paganism. According to a dispatch to the London Timas of the 30th the Governor of Syria had bpen ordered to suppress all Protestant schools in his province. A Madrid dispatch of the Ist says that.sevleading Carlists had waited on Don Caros at Tolosa, and represented to him that it was useless to continue the war, A detachment of Republican troops stationed at Granollers had mutinied and several of the offenders had been shot. DOMESTIC. . .. . T The United States Supreme Court at Washington on the 26th denied the motion to advance’the Granger cases. This decision will put over the first ease as far as March or April next. ' A lock-out of coopers began in New York city on the 26th owing to the refusal of the journeymen to abandon their trade society. A co-operative shop was determined upon by the workmen. George Reynolds, of Salt Lake City, has been indicted for polygamy under the Congressional law of 1862 and held to bail in $2/kW. This is the first indictment in that city under the act of Congress, the prior indictments being found, under the Territorial law. At its recent session the Missouri State Grange decided to loan money to outside parties to establish an implement manufactory at Booneville, without interest, pledging support -to the same in Hit purcliase of implementa. At Sh Louis a few days ago,"Lizzie Goff, nine years of age, attempted to kindle a fire —tiypoanngcoai oil trom avail uporFburniiig paper. The usual result followed, and she died in six hours. An Omaha dispatch of the 27th says thousands of people in. Southwestern Nebraska were in a starving condition. One info; mast had seen many who for weeks had bad nothing to eat but baked squash- and pumpkin and salt, aud others who had lived on bailed flour and water, one meal a day, for weeks. The dispatch adds that 10.000 people in the State will need aid to keep them from starring or freezing to death during the winter. According to the recent school census of Chicago the population of the city is 395.236. The First National Bank of Salt Lake City 4}p.pended payment on the 28th. It hoped to resume again in a few days. The fourth annual session of the American Beekeepers’ Association is to be held in Pittsburgh, Pa., commencing oa the second Wednesday of November. .Thesuspension of R. W; Burke, petroleum refiner in New York city, was announced on the 29th. Gov. Ladue, of Kentucky, has offered an aggregate reward of $9,000 for the capture of a band of xnatAed ruffians who Recently shot a young colored girl and committed other outrages op negasres in Shelby County. In New Orleans on the afternoon of the 29th a coliijritfU oecurred between Gov. Kel-

logg and Maj. E. A. Burke, of the Naturalir.alion Committee of the Conservatives, whichd Jtvw out of a e<jrresj>ondeiice between- them ■ relating to th» numu erin w bleb life vol ■• - iff" dtizcw who had' been naturalized by t?io Second District Court should be cast, the Governor having instructed tlmUllieU-lic de—posited in separate apart men ts dr boxes. As Gov. Kellogg was riding In his carriage with Judge Atocha, Maj. Burke stopped him, and while engaged ..in drew a whip and attempted to strike the Governor, when the latter tired a pistol at Burke, who retaliated iu kind, firitiigthrecdr four shots. Neither party was wounded. A five al Greencastle, Jud., on the night -of the 38th destroyed thirty buildings in the business p irtion of the town, iufl-ieting a of $658,500, on which .{here was an hisurafi.ee of $122,960. The fire started in a funjiturc factory, and is believed to have been the work of an incendiary. The Milford (N..11.j Five Ont Savings Bank has with liabilities of $500,000, ev\< ted, it is liclioed, l>y it- a-sets. A boiler explosion in. Isaac sawmill at Lancaster, Ind., on the 29th ult. killed two of the proprietor’s spits, Timothy and William, and severely and probably fatally injured another son. A man by the name of George Bed die was also badly injured. The ■ building was tom to atoms, and fragments | thrown in every direction. The boiler yas | blown iht<> — ivTlioustuid pieces, some of it beI ing found half a mile away. Yellow lever is said to be ]>r«»vaili ntr S 8. Ce • 1 Recent severe storms have caused great destruction to property on the lakes. Several vessels have been wrecked. The loss of life has been .comparatively small. Extensive forest tires were prevailing in many sea irons of Southern J ndiana and Ohio on the 30th ult., and some towns were in great danger of being destroyed. The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the Assistant Treasurer at New York to sell $500,000 in gold each Thursday during the month of November. The aggregate Will be I $2,000,000. The following is the?" President's proc amaj tion designating Thursday, Nov. 26, ae a day i of National Thanksgiving: By the President of the Tutted States: We are reminded by the changing seasons that it is time to pause in our daily vocations and offer thanks to Almighty God for the mercies and abundance of tire year wit ieli is drawing To a eliuu.. The blessings of free government continue to lw vonchsnfed to us.. The eart h h as—responded to the labor of the husbandman. The land has been free from pestilence. Internal order is maintained and peace with i other powers has prevailed. | It is fitting that at stated periods we cease from ouraeeustomed pursuits,-and from the turmoil of our daily lives, and unite in thankfulness" for the blessings of the past and for the cultivation of kindly feelings toward each other. Now, therefore, recognizing these considerations, I, U. S. Grant, President of the United States, do recommend to all citizens to assemble in their respective places of worship on Thursday, Hie 26th day us November next, and -express their thanks for the mercy and favor of Almighty God, ami, laying aside all political contentions and secular "occupations, to observe such day as a day of thanksgiving-and praise.-— ‘—~~ ' In witness thereof I herewith set my hand, and cause the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington on the 29th day of October, 1874, and of the independence of the .United States the ninety-eighth. (Signed) U. 8; Gkant. The Coroner's jury, at Detroit, investigating the cause jit the bailer explosion on board the propeller Brooklyn, charge the Captain, the Second Engineer and others with the disaster. They find that the safety-valvc had been tampered with and that the boat was racing at the time. PKBMIN.iL. Gov. Dix addressed a meeting in New York on the night of. the 26th, and in answer to a question said he was opuosed to a third term. The committee appointed by the National Executive Committee of the Union League of America, which met in Baltimore on the 20th, visited the President, Secretary Bristow and the 27th, forthe purpose of presenting the resolutions adopted at that meeting. The Washington Republican of the 28th contains an editorial stating that the .thirdterm question hud been discussed in the Cabinet, and that the President had said he regarded the agitation of the question us due solely to the newspaper men, who had started it for the purpose of creating a sensation. As for his making any statement on the subject, he bad never thought of such a thing, nor had he ever talked on the sxbjeet with anyone. He.did not think it comported with his dignity as President of tlie United States to make a statement on this question in response to the clamors of the newspapers. | The Episcopal General Convention, at its recent session in New York, adopted a canorr against ritualistic practices by a vote of 72 to 5. A private letter has been received at Washington from Doekray, the American who was arrested by the Spanish authorities iu Cuba. ' He gives an account of his sufferings on j shipboard, and states that he has been sentenced to a penal colony in Africa for a term of ten years, but that he hopes to be released before long through the intervention of the j United States Government. A "report that diver Dalrymple, the great | vhe‘at farmer of Minnesota, had failed is pro : i nbuiieed'by "Mr. a Dalrymple himself to be en- ; tirely without foundation. ; Ex-Gov. Enos T. Throop, of New York, , died at Willow Brook on the Ist, - The'base-ball season closed on the 31st ult., jhe Boston club (Red Stockings) still retaining effie championship.' ! The private secretary 'of Count von Arnim was arrested iu St Louis recently. He had with him the letters taken from the German Embassy at Paris, and, according to a St. Lou.s dispatch °f the Ist, had.’.sailed for Europe the day before. The arrest was made in obedience to a request frdm the German Government. - . POLII’KAL. The Democratic and Conservative State Central Committee of Louisiana have addressed i. communication to Gen. Emory protesting against the action of Maj. Louis Mer--1 rill, of the?.*. 3. Cavalry, who, on the*22d, at Shreveport, znade an affidavit for the arrest of a large number of citixecs. The committee claim that the offense charged Ts one strictly cognizable by the civil courts and appertains in no manner to the military service. They characterize his actions as being “unmilitdrj and intimidating, and in conflict with the spirit of our institutions.'' i Several other arrests have occurred in different parte of the State. At the election in Baltimore on the 28th for members of the City Council the Democratic candidates were elected, the majority in the city being about 10,000. ,■

FACTS AND FIGURES.

—’Dio hop crop <>f theyl’uyallup Valley, W. T:, torArprewnv yetiT is pounds. There are 120 acres <if now planting not in full bearing. The estfrii ited yield for next, ■ year is 250,000 ' p.iund-. ‘—The time for the beating of swords : into plowshares is still in the future. ! Last year Christcrploin paid, for the sup- ! port of the war system, $2,000,000,000,J and for missions’, during the same time, j i only $5,000,000. —The deposits in sayings banks of the New . England .Stales- < and New i York alone amount, to over $700,-’ .. 000,000, wbile the wlid e amount, in al 1-. the savings banks of the United States ' ; is over $1.000:000,060, b<?in-g about Onelialf more than the entire amount*m the national banks. —The total taxable values in Maine,: ! exclusive of railroad franchises, are reported at S?;SO,<MMt,OOfI. an snerettse of $7,II(M),0t10 during the piut.year. Of the . large towns showing the principal part .of this increase. Lewiston seems to take the leadheiatively, although the greater size of Portland gives it the first place nominally. I —The Assessors of I’rovidenee, It. I, i have completed their labors, and find that the city's valuation includes $Bl,-MW3m~-rv-d 1 i sonal, making an aggregate valuation of i $123,682,800. Tlie list of individuals ami corporation.- taxed for $56,000 Worth of" property and upward foots up 4<>o. Three are taxed for more than $1,000,000 ; each, and ten . others for $500,000 and ! over. I —Official returns to the Bureau, of 1 Statistics show, that during the three : months ended Sept. 3i). 1874, there arrived at the port of New York 47,654 i emigrants, and 12,748 passengers not emi- ! grants. Of the total number of emigrants 26,164 were males, and 21,490 ■ females. Under fifteen years of age, 11,9113;.fifteen and under forty, 28,831; forty • and over, 6,830. From England,l2,ls3;Ireland, 9,072; Germany, 11,859; Russia, I 4,044; born at sea, 16; died on the voyage, I 26, of whom T 8 were under forty years iof age. These emigrants represented over 340 different occupations.

A King Coming.

We have had a Lord or tw.Q and aGrand Duke as visitors, but not a King for many a day. And—uorr-tt-"Krug" is coming. He is not a monarch of very portentous power. His navies do not sweep the Soutliern seas, nor do his invading hosts spread terror and desolation through continents. He is not the King of the Cannibal islands, but comes very near deserving that lyric appellation, j He is, so to speak, a King of shreds and I patches, but whether he be a one-horse ' or a six-in-hand monarch, a King’s a King I for a’ that. His name is Kalakua, and he reigns in Hawaii. His visit to this continent is purely one of business, for be comes to-negotiate a reeiproertydreaty with the United States. His predecessor was invited over here two years ago, but death cut short his visit and his reign at once. The Honolulu Gazette states that the American Minister received a dispatch from Washiagtoh directing him to invite King Kalakua to the United States ; that the United States steamer Benicia was placed at his disposal, and that he would leave some time in October so as to arrive in Washington about the time that Congress meets. Kalakua is a bachelor, and wil 1 probably have time for pleasure as well as business. Those young ladies who wduld prefer reigning in Hawaii to sweeping carpets and kneading dough in these United States had better commence preparing the caps they are to set at, him forthwith. — Chicago Tribune.

Lamp-Lighting Extraordinary.

The Manchester papers have the following: “Some engineers in Baden have just contrived an ingenious piece of mechanism, which has already been adopted in some of the public buildings and streets of Heidelberg. The object is to provide for the simultaneous lighting of the gas-lights of the town. This has been done both in Paris and by us in the Albert Hall by the use of an electric wire, but the German engineers have invented a method more simple and durable. Their apparatus can be affixed equally to all gas-jets, and It is made to act, nut by any special mechanism, but simply by tjie increased pressure of the gas. which is always laid on from the gasometer when the lamps should be lighted. The one act of turning on the gas at the main ignites it at all the burners fitted with the new apparatus. In achieving this result the designers did not really obtain any very practical ad vantage- over the method oj ignition by electricity. But they pushed the invention still further, and have provided that when the pressure is diminished at the main the gas can either be totally extinguished or let down to a thread. It is chiefly in the lighting of the streets of a town that the invention will be of practical use. DirA'tly the gas is turned on the whole city will be simultaneously illuminated, and when in the early morn ing the pressure is reduced the light may be totally extinguished or gradually diminished.”

Famous Trees.

The African baobab (.Pini-vq,nr tafiti is held by botanists to be the oldest and largest specimen of vegetable growth in the world. Adanson saw.one in the C;ll>erde" TsTanils" within whose trunk, overlaid by 300 close layers of wood, be discovered an inscription carved by ywiyEnglish travelers three centuries before. By the aid and position of this ! inscription he was able to arrive at a corj reel estimate, not only of the length of I time it took the tree-stem to grow er ini crease in size, but the exact age of the | tree itself, which he puts down at 5,150 > ,,Jhe stem ordinarily attains only ten or twelve feet in height, but is thirtyfour feet in diameter; this immense foundation being required to support the foliage which grows upon it. The main branch raises perpendicularly sixty feet, and, from it'shoot other branches extending horizontally fifty or more feet on all sides, and which, being loaded with the most exuberant growth erf leaves, forms a verdant crown of sometimes an hundred and sixty feet in diameter; a single tree giving thus the appearance of a forest. It is called by the natives by a name which signifies±Ja thousand years,” which would seem to be in agreement with the calculations of its age by all herbalists. A group of these baobab trees, crowning the summit of its rocks, gives the name to the Cape Verde Isle, “green cape.” By theeity of Neustadt, in the Kingdom of. Wurtemberg, there stood p linden tree, which was antique in 1229; for it is written “ that the city of Neustadt,

then called Helinbundt, was destroyed in 1*226 and Rebuilt in 1229, u/ar the ffrmt was Fell known that for centuries German* spoke of Neustadt as “ the city near the .Ihidfin.,’ A p6eni of 1408 describes ft as growing near the | -gate, its-brandies propped by sixty-seven f stone pillars. In 16(14 these pillars were , increased to eighty-two and in 1832 to i 106. In 1832 the trunk at the height j of six feet from the ground measured i thirty-seven feet and it was estimated in that year, when ateirible storm rendered ! it well nigh a wreck, to he over 800 years : old. — Phrenological Juuvnalfvr November. |

A Tanned Tanner.

The tricks of Signor Carlo Benedetti; i now exhibiting at the Academy of Music I his skill in swallowing swords, canes and razors, may perhaps recall Some curious ' circumstances in the career of Mr. Her- ! man Heimel, an bld resident in this —zy. Heimel was an Alsatian shoemaker, whorcamdover to this country in 1838 or 1839, and settled in New Orleans. He opened a shoe shop on Royal street, which became in time_quite fashionable. In addition to shoemaking Heimel carried on the business of tanning, on a small scale, on what, was then usually styled Maine, but which has now become perverted into Dmn&inc street. There Heiifiel lived comfortably hut humbly for quite a number of years/ doing a little business in the tanning line, such as converting goat and alligator hides into leather. Tannin, the astringent principle used in tanning, and which is made from bark, sumac, etc., is, it is well "known, a healthy and pleasant drink, as invigorating to the blood and system as chalybeate water. It is not over pleasant "to" smell or taste, but one easily conies to like it after the first few glasses. So it was with Heimel. He had a great fondness for this tannin. It was his sole and only drink. Hethoughtit far preferable to his national beer, and declared that it was possessed of every virtue, and that after getting on a spree with tannin one could go to bed perfectly unharmed, sober, and without a headache. However good tannin may be as a strengthenerand invigorator, too much of it, like too much of everything else, proved not healthy. The tannin corroded and burnt Beimel's throat like alcohol. He soon entirely lost the sense of taste. Everything was to him like dry; tastelesschips/He was a man of great, if not voracious. appetite, and yet his dinner proved to him wholly tasteless. He ate until he felt, satisfied and full. It was a mere physical, not gastronomical, work. Notwithstanding this unpleasant consequence of his habit, Heimel persisted in drinking half a dozen glasses of tannin every day. The drink seemed to , strengthen and invigorate his stomach greatly. He could indulge in the most indigestible cabbages, and could defy and smile at all mbdicines. These had no effect upon him, and he would often take a whole box of "“pills at a dose to show the herculean character of his system. He seemed literally made of iron and could, like an ostrich, swallow small stones, nails, pieces of iron, etc , without any apparent injury. These tricks lie frequently performed for the benefit of his puzzled neighbors and children. It occurred to Heimel that this deformity or anomaly of his organization might become profitable if exhibited; that he might appear as a human prodigy. „ This idea was further developed, and Heimel left the shoemaking business for the stage, appearing as the “ Great American Ostrich.” This was in 1861, at the very beginning of the late war. He soon found his way to Europe and appeared in Vienna and many other European cities, where he excited considerable attention and surprise in swallowing nails, swords, etc., although this feat was always regarded as clever legerdemain rather than as a genuine phenomenon. After several years of show life Heiniel returned to this city with quite a comfortable fortune and established himself at his old tannery, directly opposite the Dumaine street station. His exertions, however, had apparently undermined and broken him down. He was a perfect wreck of his former self. Originally he was a robust, hearty German, somewhat inclined to stoutness. Now he was weak, thin, and emaciated. Physiologists tell us that the human system becomes renovated every seven years. Not only do the blood, the flesh and the sinews become new, but the very bones melt away to give place z to fresh ones. It is this constant renovation that we style life. Heimel by his tannic excesses had cut off this nutrition. His body*, his system, was subject to constant wear and tear without drawing sustenance, nutrition, or power to support this wearing away. His organs had become diseased and hardened, or rather converted, into tough, leathery hide. He turned to an unhealthy; yellow color. His skin* became crisp and tough. A pinch would produce not the least effect, and he could even have a pin inserted into his arm without, sufl'ering. Heimel continued to fall away from day to day, until he became at last a perfect skeleton, paralyzed and weak. His very bones seemed to die away, leaving his arms and legs so supple that they could be bent in any direction and in any manner. He was a perfect piece ot tough, sinewy india-rubber. As a boneless man he would have shocked and astonished the world had sufficient vitality been left him to exhibit-. - -; ——->— — —■ ' His ultimate end is certain. Doctors well know that, consumption—not the vulgitr. ordinary consumption of the lungs, but a general falling away—will carry him off. Kept alive the last six months by artificial life by forcing fresh and reinvigorating blood into his veins, he will hardly seextbis year out. When he dies he will leave quite a competency to his many children. These, it is unnecessary to say, are perfectly healthy and, properly "formed. They inherit in no manner the deformity <sf their father, who by his own strange taste has tanned himself into leather and stopped the course of his life-current.—(Means Picayune. The Lynchburg 3’etcs, in a brief account of the giime’ rattlesnakes and other/er® natures to be found in the Virginia mountains, mentions that in this wild and dismal scope, of country there are many wild hogs, which do not hesitate to attack the traveler, and they are without doubt thh most dangerous denizens of the mountains. They are usually found in herds of from five" to twelve, and the sight of a human being is the only signal for attack that they require. The intruder has then nothing left him but to outrun them or climb a tree apd wait for them to leave. In view of the dreadful mortality from vellow fever at the Pensacola Navy Yard, the Nautical Gaxette suggests the closing of that station from Aug. I’to Nor. 15.

HAPS AND MISHAPS.

—Joseph,Hopp, a Peoria coal-hauler, Whs instantly killed the other day by the tonguhof a w;igun striking him in the brea»t* —A man was struck by lightning in Kansas not long ago and stripped of every particle'of clothing he had on, and yet was nut hurt. J , —George Warren, a leading citizen of Van Buren, Mich., was instantly killed' the- other day by the accidental discharge of his rifle, which he Was takingJrom a closet. —Alex. Carry, of Bucyrus, Ohio, while’ threshing a few days since was caught in the machinery and so badly injured that he died in a few minutes after he was taken out. —John Rothe, a St. Louis carpenter, recently made a misstep, lost his balance and fell from the top of a church steeple in that city, 100 feet, to the side walk. He was literally crushed and died instant —Charley Smith and a playmate were recently shooting at a cat in Lamville. 111., when the ball struck a table, glanced off and lodged in Smith’s head, inflicting a very dangerous, and probably fatal, wound. —A lad was sitting on the top of a step-ladder at Lowell, -Mass.,.the ol.hw iMiiy, when the bottom Whs struck by a, ■ velocipede. The boy was thrown to the ground and sustained injuries that shortly .proved fatal. —Rev. Henry Asbury, of Lincoln County, N. C., was recently standing be* fore a fire rubbing his body with kerosene oil when suddenly the blaze touched his person, and instantly he was clad with flame. Death resulted. —The horses attached to a stage which runs between the Astoria ferry-house and the piano manufactory at Astoria, N. Y., for the accommodation of the employes of the latter, took fright one night recently, dashed through the ferry-house gates and plunged into the East River. The stage contained four men, who, with the horses, were drowned. —John French, a car-examiner, lowered a lantern into the man hole of a huge oil tank at Syracuse, N. ¥., not long ago, with the object of ascertaining how much oil there was in it, it being supposed to be nearly or quite empty, Suddenly a tremendous explosion occurred -and French was —thrown upward and over two trains standing—on- adj aeent tracks. He was terribly injured, but may recover. It is not likely that he will ever be induced to commit such anffmprudent act again.

A Novel Deer Hunt.

A Schroom Lake correspondent of the Keeseville Republican tells the following deer story: “As the steamer Effingham, en route for our usually quiet village, laden with summer tourists and pleasureseekers, was plowing her way through the placid waters of the lake, and when opposite what is known as Eagle Point, one of the engineers, Jesse D. Smith, who, by the way, is always seeing something, suddenly discovered a deer walking very leisurely from the point into a dense thicket a few rods from the shore. This information was at once given to Captain Pet Russel, who, under the.excitement of the moment, gave orders to put on all steam, and the steamer w-as headed difect for Schroom intermediate landings not being noticed. On the arrlvaLat Schroom, the steamer Libbie was fired up and manned by men and dogs. Proceeding to Eagle Point, at a rate of speed that would have shamed the renowned John Gilpin, in due time the point was reached, the dogs put on track, but, strange to relate, the dogs, although of good blood, utterly refused to take any notice of it. We are told that John D. Burwell, of the Ondawa, was so disgusted that he threatened to shoot one of the dogs, which threat would have been doubtless carried out only for Jess Smith, who saved the animal’s life by his timely interference. The engineer, followed by the party, then started in pursuit, occasionally stopping to make sure they were on the right track. Here let me say that among the party, and at this stage of the game who took the lead in the chase, was Mr. Jim Cheney, nephew of the famous panther hunter, John Cheney, of the Adirondacks. We understand Jim made the remark, ‘ Uncle John has been in worse places than this. I have the Cl<eney blood in my veins. Follow!’ After an exciting chase of a mile and a half they came upon what they supposed to be a deer. If possible, imagine the surprise, chagrin and appearance of the engineer, and, in fact, all the party, when, on nearing the beautiful buck, it proved to be a yearling steer belonging to Mr. A. Scott.” : . A clergyman of the Church of England was recently asked to say grace at dinner on board an Atlantic steamship. He arose, evidently embarrassed, and recited the familiar juvenile prayer beginning, “ Now I lay me down to sleep,” etc., to the surprise of some and amusement of many passengers at the table. He afterward explained that when called upon he could not recall one of the many forms of expressing thanks, and uttered the child's prater unconsciously. Clergymen sometimes surprise and amuse us all!—“ WorcaZ,” in N. 1". Mail. —Rosina SuChter returned from a Cincinati ball the other morning with her husband, and before retiring looked into, the kitchen to see if everj’thing was all right, while he went upstairs to bed. Becoming alarmed at her prolonged absence, he went to seek her and found her lying on the ground dead. She had died of heart disease or apoplexy. A poor bld man committed suicide in San Francisco because a*pictorial sheet characterized him as an “old nuisance.” Judgment of Musicians.—-Theodore Thomas, the distinguished founder and ; conductor of the famous “ Thomas’ Or- ’ chestra,” New York, ought to know as i well as any one the opinions entertained I by musicians respectiiig musical instru- | inents. He. declares that they generally i agree with him in regarding thef Mason A Hamlin Cabinet Organs as much the ; best instruments- of this class in the i world. It is not, therefore, surprising ■ that they are now largely exported to . Europe; commanding higher prices there ; than the instruments of their best makers. —Etch. , Every reader of this paper can receive. free, a copy oif the best Agricultural and Family newspaper in this country by addressing Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 78 Duane street, New York. '>- - ■ As economy is the order Of the day, the ’cheapest collar you can wear is the Elm-, wood. All the edges being folded makes it look like linen, and/he peculiar finish is so thoroughly perspiration-proof it will keep clean longer than any other collar.

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