Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1875 — Page 2

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THE NEWS.

Esghwd Recognizes the New King of Spain. The French Cabinet Tender Their Resignations. TerriMe Fire Disaster in Gottenburg, Sweden. Port at Prince, Hayti, Nearly Deatroyed by Fire. Hr fegehtioi for the Admresioa as Piachback Tabled n tht Senate. The President Calls an Extra Session * of the Senate for March &. Election of 0. S. Senators in Minnesota tad West Virginia. Adjcnnunrnt of ahe Notional Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. Interesting New* From All Quarters.

FOREIGN. The French Cabinet recently tendered their resignations in consequence of the opposition in the Assembly to the constitutional bills, which were made a Government measure. The President, finding no French statesman willing to undertake the formation of a new Cabinet during the pendency of these bills, requested the old Cabinet to continue until some one could be found. A telegram from Singapore reports a revolt of Chinese prisoners in the jail there which was not repressed until sixty-seven persons had been killed, including sixteen wardens. Great Britain has recognized the new King of Spain. Archbishop Cullen, of Dublin, in a pastoral letter condemns the mission in Great Britain of Moody and Sankey (revival preachers of Chicago), who, he says, “ promise salvation by foolish sensationalism, without requiring repentance.” The British steamer George Balters, for Gibraltar, is supposed to have foundered at sea and twenty-one persons—her entire crew —to have been drowned. John Mitchel has been returned to the British Parliament from Tipperary without opposition. Dr. Kenealy, the counsel for the Tiehborne claimant, has been elected to Parliament from Btoke-on-Tren* by 2,000 majority. The Cuban insurgents have recently defeated a Spanish column near Man&c&s. The Bpanish loss was 150. The English Parliament on the 18th adopted a resolution declaring John Mitchel, the newly-elected member from Tipperary, ineligible on the ground that he is a convicted felon. A match factory at Gottenburg, Sweden, crowded with working people, took fire on the 19th. The flames spread with such rapidity that the employes m the upper stories were cut off from escape, and many perished in the flames or were killed by jumping from the windows. Fifty-one lives are reported lost. A fire occurred in Port au Prince, Uayti, on the night of the 11th, which swept over two-thirds of the city, involving a loss property valued at $2,000,000, and rendering TOO families homeless. The fire is thought to have originated from the explosion of a barrel of kerosene. A Madrid telegram of the 20th says that .'Spain had agreed to pay $84,000 indemnity for the Virginius affair. The Grrmania newspaper, printed at Berlin, having published the recent encyclical letter «f the Pope to the Prussian Bishops, has been confiscated and the proprietors prosecuted. An explosion occurred in the safety-fuse works at Redraths, Cornwall, England, on the 20th. Five girls were killed. John Mitchel on the 21st issued an address to the.olectors of Tipperary, presenting him • «elf again as a candidate for Parliament. A London dispatch of the morning of the 2Sd says that a fleet of British men-of-war had bombarded and captured Fort Mombaxique, on the island of Mombaz, off the east coast of Africa Two slave-ships were captured, with 300 slaves on board.

'doukstic. A Washington dispatch o( the 15th states that the Secretary of War "had directed that the recent general orderproviding for furnishing supplies to grasshopper sufferers in the West -should be carried out with the utmost dispatch. A Kew York dispatch of the 15th says the Faeifie Mail Directors had approved the action of Bufns Hatch in ordering the institution of suits against those parties alleged to have received subsidy money. About thirty persons will be involved. The Missouri State Woman’s Suffrage Association held a largely-attended meeting in 8t- Louis oo the evening of the 10th. • The Kansas Legislature has passed a bill to loan destitute counties in the State $95,000 for six years, without interest A young laboring man committed suicide In Washington on the 17th by Jumping from the dome of the Capitol. He failed to clear the building and fell on the roof near the entrance to the dome and was Instantly killed. The distance of the fall was oyer 150 feet * A railroad war has broken out between the, Baltimore A Ohio and the Pennsylvania Companies, and os the 17th the former company had made a great reduction in passenger fare between the East and West, the fare Cram Chicago to New York being reduced from twenty-two to fifteen .dollars and to Washington from nineteen to ten dollars. The Illinois State Board of Agriculture has located the State Fair for the next two year* /StOftfiwa.

Miss Doyle, a young lsdydf Indianapolis, was fatally burned on the 18th while pouring eOal-oil over a sluggish lire. At West Jefferson, Ohio, on the 1 7th, a small child of William Strgtton upset a coal-oil lamp. Mrs. 8. picked op the lamp, when It exploded in her hand, throwing a flame of Are over her which consumed her clothes and caused almost instant death. The President issued a proclamation on the 18th convening the Senate in extraordinary session «o the sth of March, to act upon such communications as may be made to it on the part of the Executive. Eighty-three different bills granting pensi on* tp individuals were passed'by the National House of Representatives at the evening session Of thd 18th. Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Mellott, of McCbnnellstiurg, Pa., went away from home on a visit on the 16th, leaving three children locked in the house. On their return a few hours afterward they found the bones of the children in the ruins of the house, which had burned Sown during their absence. A verdict has been given in New York against the New York A New- Haven Rail row d Company for over $15,000 in favor of a passenger who was robbed of that amount. The decision affirmed that a railroad company must protect its patrons. Near Mingo Junction, Ohio, on the morning of the 19th, a train on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad ran over a broken rafl and one baggage-car, two passenger coaches, two sleeping-cars and one special car were thrown over the embankment and burned. The baggage was destroyed, No one was killed, but several persons were injwed, among them J. N. McCullough, First Vico'd’resident of the P., Ft. WAC. Railroad Company, who had three ribs broken and was cut about the head. Recent accounts say there were three feet of snow on the level at Fort Snllv. As trains ■come in from the Northwest dismal tales of accidents and death by storm and cold are brought from all sections. Reports recently received from the gold mines of the Black Hills are of an encouraging nature. An accident occurred on the Chicago, Rock Island A Pacific Railroad on the 20th, near Sheffield, eaused by a broken rail. A passenger coach and a Pullman car werq thrown into a culvert and several persons were injured, one passenger—F. L. Browning, of Annawan, Ill.—being fatally crushed under the sleeping-car, from which he had previously jumped.

PERSONAL. The National Grange adjourned on the 16th, after instructing the Executive Committee to make arrangements for holding the next session at Chicago, providing the expense to the Grange does not exceed the expense o meeting in St. Louis. Among other resolutions adopted was on# indorsing and recommending the resolutions adopted by the Atlanta Agricultural Congress last May, which resolutions ask for the construction by the National Government of a system of waterways so that unrestricted channels of trade shall be opened, and not only brought the entire length of the Mississippi but connecting that great river with the Atlantic Ocean by way of the lakes by the Ohio, Kanawha and James, and by the Tennessee and Savannah Rivers. Hon. M. L. Duulap, the well-known agricultural and horticultural writer over the signature of “ Rural,” died recently at his home in Champaign, lU., aged about sixty years. * In the Beecher trial, on the 16th, Mr. Tilton left the witness-stand temporarily to give place to a woman named Catherine Cary, formerly a nurse in the plaintiff’s family, who had been subpoenaed by the prosecution and, was in waiting to give her evidence. Slur testified to having seen Mr. Beecher go into Mrs. Tilton's bedroom on several occasions, and to having seen the latter sitting on the lap of the former in the back parlor. After this evidence was given Mr. Tilton resumed the witness stand. On the 17th, just at the close of the proceedings for the day, one of the jurors was taken suddenly sick and was sent home iu charge of two court officers. Vyse & Co., straw goods dealers of New York city, have failed, with liabilities reported at #1,000,000.

The examination of Mr. Tilton was concluded on the 18th, and four other witnesses were called to the stand —Geo. A. Bell, cxDeaeon of Plymouth Church; Joseph H. Richards, a brother of Mrs. Tilton; MrBraislier and Mr. Robinson, Mr. Moultou’s business partner,. Mrs. F. D. Moulton was on the witness stand on the 19th. The testimony of these witnesses mainly corroborated and in some respects added to the testimony of Messrs. Moulton aud TUton, whose evidence was a reiteration iu detail of their previously-published statements. The wife of Senator-elect McDonald, of Indiana, died suddenly a few days ago. Thev had been married only a few months. On the 18th a negro was admitted into the seniorelass of the Boys’ High School in New Orleans. Twenty out of twenty-two in the class left the school immediately. No disturbance.

POLITICAL. The Connecticut Democratic State Convention met at Hartford on the 10th, and renominated by acclamation the old ticket, headed by Gov. Charles R. Ingersoll. The resolutions adopted favor hard money and oppose Federal Executive interference in the States of Louisiana and Arkausas and the increase of Federal taxation at a time when the industry of the country is so greatly depressed. The Democratic members of Congress from the South and Southwest have issued an address to the people of the South, which concludes with ah appeal to them “for continued forbearance and hopeful reliance upon the virtue and the sense of justice of the American people for the ultimate vindication of our rights, the protection of our liberties, and the safety of our republican form of government.” Allen T. Caperton (Democrat) was elected United States Senator by the West Virginia Legislature on the 17th. The final vote stood: Caperton, 68; Berkshire, 14. The Minnesota Legislature on the 19th elected S. J. R. McMillan (Republican, and Chief-Justice of the State Supreme Court) to succeed Mr. Ramsey in the United States Senate. The vote was: McMillan, Lochren (Bem.), 8L Congressman William S. King, of Minnesota, has written a lengthy letter to the Legislature of bis State in relation to the joint resolution passed by that body calling on him to appear before the Congressional Committee and explain his connection with the Pacific Mail subsidy business or to resign as Representative. He characterizes the'resolutions as “ very extraordinary in so far as they correctly Illustrate your lack of knowledge of

the common - proprieties.and decencies of offlclal'posltion, your painful disregard of truth In \our official action, and your false anil hy|M« ritleal pretense- of virtuous -' ner g»rd for the honor of the State of .Minnesota." He pronounces false the charge that lie had accepted money as a considerition for his services in behalf of the Subsidy bill, and emphatically asserts, as he says he stated under oath two years ago, that be never accepted uor received a dollar in . consideration of such service, and that not one dollar of the money received by him was ever intended or applied to influence a vote on such bill. — At a caucus held in Washington on the 20th, attended by leading Republicans and the Congressional delegation from Louisiana, it was agreed to leave 'but the question of the election of 1872, and to recognize Kellogg as Governor as long as the Government shall continue, to sustain him as such; the four Conservatives unseated in the Legislature on the 4th Of January to be admitted, and a new organieanon of the Legislaturetolie secured.

CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on the 15th, in the absence of Vice-President Wilson. Mr. Anthonyyof Rhode Island. Was chosen President pro teni.... A report of the Conference Committee on the bill to amend the National Bank act was agreed t 0.... The House Civil-Rights bill was reported from the .1 udiciary Committee without amendment... A bill' wits introduced and referred to secure depositors in the Fneedmen's Savings and Trust Company from ultimate 1055.... The bill to‘provide a government lor the District ot Columbia was taken tip and laid on the table—34 to 23—to take np the resolution for the admission of Pinchback as Senator from Louisiana, which resolution was advocated by Mr. Morton....A message was received from the House announcing the death of Representative Hooper, and it was resoJved to attend the funeral on_the ltith, and an adjournment was had out of respect to the memory of the deceased. In the House, on the 15th, several bills of a private character were introduced and referred, as was. also a bill to. amend the charter of the Freedmen's Bureau and continue the same ... The Terns Indemnity Bond bill was passed, as was also the Senate bill to allow Thomas W. Fitch, Engineer in the navy, to accept the wedding present sent to his wife by Khedive of Egypt ... .Announcement was made of the death of Representative Hooper, of Massachusetts, and a committee Of seven was appointed to superintend the funeral ceremonies in the hall of the Honse on the ltith, and out of respect for the deceased the House then adjourned. In the Senate, on the 16ih, Mr. Sargent continued his argument, begun the day before, on the Pinchback resolution... .The Judiciary Committee matte a report as to the meaning and extent of the so-called “ Press-gag law,’’ expressing an opinion that the said act is not obnoxious to anv crittcisms, and that it confers no power either to bring a person charged with libel into the District of Columbia orpsend him out of it ....The Senators attended the funeral of Mr. Hooper. In the House, on the 16th, several bills of a private character were passed... .The An nual Post-route bill was reported and passed, and the Sundry Civil and River and Harbor Appropriation bills were reported from committees ....A bill was introduced to return to the Government of Japan one-lqjlf oi the indemnity fund paid by the Government under the convention of 1864, and to dispose ot the balance of the fund....A bill was reported from the Committee on Elections proposing an amendment to the Constitution in reference to the election of President and Vice-President, similar in its provisions to the proposed amendment of Senator Morton.. .The funeral services of the late Mr. Hooper took place at two o’clock, the galleries of the House beiug crowded.. In the Senate, on the 17th, a bill was introduced, and referred establishing rules and articles for the government of the army.. The vote by which the bill to grant a site for the Peabody School in St. Augusta, Fla., was passed was rescinded—3l to 25.... The Pinchback resolution was taken up and debated, the discussion extending into the night, the Senate not having adjourned up to 1:15 ou the morniug of the 18th. In the House, on the 17th, the Tariff bill was considered and amended in Committee of the Wh01e.... An evening session was held at which a number of bills w**re reported from the Judiciary Committee and passed... A lengthy debate followed on a bill to establish certain telegraph lines in the several States and Territories as post roads and to regulate the transmission of commercial and other intelligence by telegraph. In the Senate, on the 18th, the session of the day before was continued, and the PTnchbnck resolution was under consideration up to four o'clock p. m., when a motion to lay the resolution on the table was carried—39 t022....The Indian Appropriation bill was then taken np ants several unimportant amendments were agreed to ... .Adjourned after a coutiuuous session oi nearly twenty-nine hours. In the House, on The 18th, the Revenue bill was further considered in Committee of the Whole, and several proposed amendments were disposed 0f.... The bill for the improvement of the Mississippi River was taken up and several amendments were offered and rejected, aud one was adopted to strike out that portion of the bill directing the Secretary ot War to construct the work in case of the "default of Mr. Eads, and the bill was then passed... The hill agreed upon in the Republican caucus, relating to Southern affairs, giving the President power to suspend the habeas corpus in certain cases, etc., was reported from the Select Committee on Alabama Affairs and recommitted... An evening session was held for the consideration of Pension bills only. In the Senate, on the 19th, a resolution of the Legislature of Missouri was presented and referred in favor of establishing a branch mint at St, Lotus... .In a discussion on the House Bounty bill Mr. Sargent said he understood it woffld take SISO.OOO.UOO ' from the Treasury. Mr. Logan said it would not take #A),000 from the Treasury, aud gave notice that he would uress the bill to a vote the following week ..The House bill for the improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi River was referred -.-.-. Several amendments were made to the Indian Appropriation bill. In the House, on the 19th, several bills, memorials, etc., were introduced, the most im-portant-of which yvas a bill from the Pacific Railroad Committee to amend the act incorporating the Texas Pacific Railroad Company, which was ordered printed aud recommitted....A bill was passed authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River near Sioux City. 10wa... .The Army Appropriation bill 1*2T.T01,500) was considered in Committee of .the Whulivreported to the House and passed without discussion.... Mr. Poland, from the Select Committee on Arkansas Affairs, reported a resolution that the report committee be accepted, and that, in the judgment of the House, no interference with the existing Government of that State bv anv department of the Government is advisable. lie gave notice that he would call it up as early as possible the ensuing week. In the Senate, on the 20th, a resolution was agreed to providing for a committee of fice Senators to examine into the several branches of the civil service, during the recess, with a view to the reorganization of the several departments thereof. ...The joint resolution which passed the Honse last winter, relating to civil-service appointments. was passed, and provides that when disabled United States soldiers, their wives, or the widows or orphans of deceased soldiers shall pass the examination at the standard fixed by the rules they shall have precedence for appointment to vacancies ...A bill was introduced and referred to allow pre-emptors to pre-empt an additional amount to aggregate 100 acres of public, ceded or Indian irnst lands.... The Indian Appropriation bill was considered aud several amendments were concurred in.... Messages were received from the Honse announcing the deaths of Messrs. Rice, Hersev. Crocker and Hooper, and after, eulogies and the adptiou *>f the customary resolutions the Senate adjourned ont of respect to their memory. In the Hopse, on the 20th, the Tax bill was discussed in Com mitt** a>f the Whole, and '» motion to strike out section restoring the 10 per cents redaction on manufactured goods was lost—yeas Hi. nays 103 j . A report,was made from the Committee on Public Lands in favor of authorizing the Wisconsio.Jpentral Railroad Company to straighten its line.... The petition of the National Grange and the resolmio'hs of tlje South Carolina Legislature in favorof aid to the Texas Pacific Railroad Company were presented and re-. ferred .. Etflogies were pronounced upon the late deceitscd members, Messrs. Rice, Crocker. Uersey liftTHooper.... Adjourned. . “3lv family is covered by my hat,” is the latest way for an unmarried man to announce his single-blessedness.

FACTS AND FIGURES.

j—No library in the United States contain# over 300,000 volumes. • —Our naval expenses amount to $3,500 for each enlisted man per annum. —The vital statistics of Hartford, Conn., for the year 1874 were: Births 935, deaths 588. —Forty-eight vessels were driven ashore and wrecked on the Atlantic coast last year and the losses were about 13,000,000. —A Boston tea company offers $.500 in gold for the nearest guess at the gross weight of an eight-horae team which draws one of its wagons. —During January 8,890 gallons of free soup were’ furnished at Boston to 10,739 families, comprising 50,365 persons, at an expense to the city of $1,823. —ln a few years two rats become 646,808, and yet the druggists look with suspicion on a man who asks for a dime’s worth of strychnine. —Danbury Neu>». Subscriptions to the loan asked for by the city of Paris amounted to 10,500,000,000 francs, or, in our money, $2,100,000,000. Only 250,000,000 francs was asked for. —This year diligent effort has been made in Kentucky to report every child entitled to the benefits of the school fund, aud the result shows an increase in the school census of over 9,500 pupil children. —Statistics show that if a person should travel on Massachusetts railways 700 miles a day he would, by the doctrine of chance, be seventy years of age before he received any injury by a railway accident. —The divorce business seems to be pretty good in Maine, and is constantly increasing; indeed, some will have it that a divorce can be got in Maine easier than in any other State. Last year 487 bills were granted, of which 238 were for desertion. —lt will take seven tons of locks and keys to supply the 4,000 doors of the Palace Hotel at San Francisco. Each lock is to have a dozen keys, and the contract to supply them has been awarded to a San Francisco mechanic, who is to furnish 3,000 locks aud 48,000 keys for $20,000. —The California wool product for 1874 was little short of 40,000,000 pounds, against 31,000,000 in 1873 and 23,000,000 in 1882. Of this total 36,000,000 was sent out of the State, 32,000,000 by rail, an item of no small magnitude and profit in the traffic of the Pacific Railroad. The exported crop returned $8,120,000, which is less per pound than in the previous year, but still a good price. , —lt has been estimated by some statistical genius that the great American nation smokes 5,168,000 cigars a day. This, at five cents a cigar, (and what sort of a cigar can you expect for five cents?) would amount to over $250,000 a day; so that, if the above was not a mere figure of speech, our nation expends an enormous amount in smoke, and no wonder she requires so much capital to-back her. —Boston Commercial Bulletin . r —Somebody has been at the trouble of calculating the average number of hairs which grow on an average person’s head. It is found that the number varies according to the color of the hair. Light or blonde hair is the most luxuriant, the average of this color being 140,000. When the hair is brown the number is much less, being only 110,000, while black hairs reach only the average amount of 103,000. It might naturally be supposed that a light-haired person, having the most hair, would have the greatest weight to carry, but it is not so. That which is lightest in color is also lightest in weight; and a lady with abundant flaxen locks is as light-headed as one whose tresses are of a raven hue. Hence it follows that the former is of a finer texture.

Cremating an Indian.

Sav3 the Russian River Flag: “ The body-of Pablo, the Indian that was killed last Saturday, was consumed With due Digger ceremony on Sunday, near the rancheria, about a mile east of town, and the performance was witnessed by many whites. From the time the body was received at the wigwam, on Saturday night, till the hour of its burning, Sunday afternoon, it was surrounded by relatives of the deceased, who gave vent to their grief in loud ; lamentations and death songs. Occasionally they would pull out handfuls of their hair and tear their cheeks with their finger-nails. When the time arrived for the cremation the body was wrapped in blankets, lashed to a rail and borne upon the shoulders of two stalwart Indians to the funeral pile. The pyre had a few’ large logs for its main support, and was built about three feet high with dry fagots. The body was then laid upon the heap, together with all the worldly goods of the departed The mourners then took up their position on the windward side, and at a comfortable distance from the fire. Torches were then applied at several places and the flames began their work. Then the relatives set up a loud wailing. Some swayed their bodies to and fro and beat their breasts in transports of grief; some raisedtheir eyes to heaven, uttering weird prayers, while others expressed their woe by gathering tufts of grass aDd throwing them on the burning pile. The sight of the roasting body was sickening. The flesh became charred and blackened, and. as the cords and muscles contracted, the arms, legs and trunk were moved with writhings and contortions as though the form had life and sense of feeling. The Indian had died in a drunken debauch, and when the flames penetrated his body the alcohol ignitgd and burned in a blue flame for several minutes Chief Francisco, who was boss stoker, then replenished the fire, and with a long stick pushed the projecting limbs into the center of the flames, uttering grunts of satisfaction at the successful progress of cremation. The whole operation required about three hours’ time, although not much was left to be’seen of the body after the first hour. When the bmning was over, the remaining ashes were buried, and the Indians solemnly flled away, muttering toe equivalent in their tongue of 4 peace to his ashes.’ ”

Pithy Items by Josh Billings.

. The fear or the rod iz more powerphull than the use ov it. Truth iz simple —so simple that the pboolish often mistake it for weakness. If a man could git rid ov himself solitude would be a good, place for menny ovlhem-to go to. If yu expekt to win with a lie yu have got \p play it quick.* Don’t antisipate trnbbles; if we will only wait until they cum we can dodge haff «v .them and other hafl may dodge us. 1

Thare iz such a thing az being too aktive in bizzness; thare iz a certain kind qv lazy ness that often sukceedt the best. The basest kind ov servitude iz to be obliged to flatter thoze whom we kant help but despize. Diffikultys are like spooks —when yu cum to run them down they don’t amount to mutch. I never hav cum akrost a man yet so modest who didn’t think he waz entitled to all the fame he possesst, and, if ennything, a little more. Thare are but fu people who ever git ritch enuff to enjoy their welth. Common Report (i am not acquainted with the person individually) iz one ov the gratest liars the world haz ev'er produced, and yet Common Report haz been known to tell the truth when it could not be got at in ennv other way. If a man sukeeeds yu lean find hundreds ov people who predikted it, and if he fails, the same ones predikted that, too. Whi iz it that we kan all ov us giv .sutch good advice to others, and follow it so poorly ourself? If yu don’t want to make yure child a liar, don’t learn him to fear yu. Old men are too apt to think that about all they are fit for iz to make munny and save it. It requires more art to tell a thing well than it duz to kreate it. Thare are but phew honest enuff to fiv good luk the share ov kredit that iz ue it in their sukcesses. We are told that “ virtew iz its own reward,” and what a blessed thing it would be if wickedness would always git its pay in the same coin.

Unappreciated Shakespeare.

A few days ago young Gurley, whose father lives on Croghan street; organized a theatrical company and purchased the dime novel play of “ Hamlet.” The company consisted of three boys and a hostler, and Mr. Gurley’s hired girl was to be the “ Ghost” if the troupe could guarantee her fifty cents per night. Young Gurley suddenly bloomed out as a professional, and when his mother asked him to bring in some wood he replied “ Though I am penniless thou canst not degrade me!” “ You trot out after that wood or I’ll have your father trounce you!” she exclaimed; “ The tyrant who lays his hand upon me shall die!” replied the boy, but he got the wood. He was out on the step when a man came along and asked him where Lafayette street was. “ Doomed for a certain time to roam the earth!” replied Gurley, in a hoarse voice, and holding his right arm out straight. “I say, you—where is Lafayette street?" called the man. “Ah! Could the dead but speak—ah!” continued Gurley. The man drove him into the house, and his mother sent him the grocery after potatoes. “ I go, most noble Duchess,” he said, as he took up the basket; “but my good sword shall some day avenge these insults!” He knew that the grocer favored theatricals, and when he got there he said: “ Art thou provided with a store of that vegetable known as the ’tater, most excellent Duke?” “What in thunder do you want?” growled the grocer as he cleaned the cheese-knife on a piece of paper. “ Thy plebeian mind is dull of comprehension!” answered Gurley. “ Don’t try to get off any of your nonsense on me or I’ll crack your empty pate in a minute!” roared the grocer, and “ Hamlet” had to come down from his high horse and ask for a peck of potatoes. “ What made you so long?” asked his mother as he returned. “Thy grave shall be dug in the cypress glade!” he haughtily anwered. When his father came home at neon Mrs. Gurley told him that she believed the boy was going crazy, and related what had occurred. “ I see what ails him,” mused the father; “this explains why he hangs around Johnson’s barn so much.” At „ the dinner table young Gurley spoke of his father as the “ illustrious Count,” and when his mother asked him if he would have some butter gravy he answered: “ The appetite of a warrior cannot be satisfied with such nonsense.” When the meal was over the father went out to his favorite shade-tree, cut a sprout, and the boy was asked to step out into the woodshed and see if the penstock was frozen up. He found the old man there, and he said: “ Why, most noble Lord, I had supposed thee far away!” “ I’m not so far away but what I’m going to make you skip!” growled the father. “ I’ll teach you to fool around with ten-cent tragedies! Gome up here!” For about five minutes the woodshed was full of dancing feet, flying arms and moving bodies, and then the old man took a rest and inquired: “ There, your Highness, dost want any more?” ■ “Oh! no., dad—not a bit more!” wailed theyoung “manager,” and while the father started for down town he went in and sorrowfully informed the hired girl that he must cancel her engagement till the fall season.— Detroit Free Press.

The Boston Journal says that as the Custom-House Inspector boarded the train from Canada, on the Vermont line, a lew days ago, he found a man closely stowed in the front seat with several bottles of liquor. As he was taking one after another from his large pockets and a large army canteen from ever his shoulder, the man drqw the cork frem the canteen and threw it on the floor, then smashed one bottle on the floor, and tried another, which did not break, when he took it up, Dunbar all the time scuffling with him to prevent the sacrifice, and broke it on the hot stove, and in a jiffy the whole end of the car was qn fire. Dunbar immediately pulled the bell-cord and stopped the train, the passengers getting into another car. A few buckets of water extinguished the flames. The smuggler, in the confusion, left for "Canada on foot, and was making good time when last seen. The mercury at the time was thirty-two degrees below zero. The Boston Journal is almost prepared to say that America was discovered by a Bostonian. It compromises by attacking thfi character of Ben Franklin, who is charged with drinking milk-punches. Sk a » ; American silks are slowly hut,, surely gaining ground, and many ladies use them almost altogether, as they wear well and are much cheaper than imported silks.* „•'

Don’t Hack, Hack, Cough, Cough!

Cough is a symptom by which various diseased conditions of file throat, hronehial tubes and lungs manifest themselves. But whether it arises 7 from the irritation produced in the 1 throat and larynx by taking cold, from an attack of Bronchitis, from incipient Consumption, or from various other causes, nothing will allay it more speedily or cure it more permanently than Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It does not matter whether it be a recent attack or a lingering cough, the Discovery is in either ease equally well adapted for its relief and permanent cure. In fact, it will cure a caugh iu one-half the time necessary to cure it with any other medicine, and it does it, not by dry mg it up. but- by removing the cause, subduing the irritatiou and healing the affected parts. No time, should be lost in commencing the use of a proper medicine for the relief of a cough, for, unless this course is pursued, serious and dangerous disease of the lungs is liable to result. Golden Medical Discovery is sold by all dealers in medicines. • ' Dr. Walker’s Vegetable Vinegar Bitters. —Business men, worn by care and sedentary habits, often sutler from constipation of the bowels until the evil consequences of such a condition are realized in extreme debility, nervousness and prostration of the vital energies of the system. And it may be safely asserted that a majority of the female sex are little better than invalids from the same cause; but by using Dr. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters this natural aperient and tonic brings back the vigor and buoyancy of health, happiness and beauty. Pure blood is essential to sound health and long life. No chronic disease, sores, ulcers, skin eruptions, glandulous swellings, discharges from the ear, sore eyes, sores or cankers in the mouth will ever appear if the blood is pure. To secure this take Dr. Walker’s Vegetable Vinegar Bitters. It is the great Blood Purifier and Life-Giving Principle, increasing the power of digestion and exciting the absorbents into healthy action, whereby all impurities of the system are carried oft'. 23 We understand that the whooping-cough is quite prevalent in the towns around us; but that no cases have proved fatal. Some families use nothing but Johnson's Anodyne Liniment. Our Doctor, however, says a little ipecac, to produce vomiting, would be an advantage. There are more than one thousand different kinds of pills in the United States. Some of them are worthless and injurious, others are good and beneficial. Old Dr. Parsons invented the best anti-bilious pill we ever saw or heard of. They are sold under the name of Parsons' Purgative Pills. Mothers who have Delicate Children who are subject to Croup. When your child goes to bed wheezing and coughing you know not before morning Croup may set iu, and before you can get a physician your child may he beyond the reach of help. Allen’s Lung Balsam should be always kept in your house, and be given immediately when the first symptoms appear, which will remove the mucus collected in the throat and save the life of your dear child. For sale by all Medicine Dealers. Premature loss of the hair, which is so common now-a-days, may be entirely prevented by. the use of Burnett's Cocoaine. It has been used in thousands of cases where the hair was coming out in handfuls, and has never failed to arrest its decay, and to promote a healthy and vigorous growth. It is at the same time unrivaled as a dressing for the hair.

Glen Flora.

Glen Flora Mineral Water cares all kinds of Kidney Difficulties, Dyspepsia, Chronic Constipation, Rheumatism, Piles, .general debility, etc. If you are afflicted with any of these diseases send to R. H. Parks, Waukegan, 111., for circular giving testimonials and lull particulars. _ The largest Vinegar Works in the world are in Chicago. E. L. Trussing & Co., Prop’s. The Northwestern Hokse-Nail Co.’s “ Finished” Nail is the best in the world.

Vegetable Pulmonary Balsam Most apE roved, reliable and well-known remedy tor Coughs, olds and Consumption. Get the Genuine. Price fl; small 50c. Cutler Bros. & Co., Boston.

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