Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1875 — Page 2

RENSSELAER UNION. _ J[r - ■Jp ■ ' JIBES * HEALEY, Profdtton. RENSSELAER, y -INDIANA.

THE NEWS.

Loss at Sea of the British Steamer Hong-Kong. Fighting at Bilbao Between the Carlists and AlphonsisLs. The House Civil-Rights Bill Passed in the Senate. The "Ciucui Force Bill” Passed by the House. Six Tersoss Killed *sd Several Uoauded by Falling Walls in New lork City. The Beecher Trial —Opening of the Defense. Reports of the Louisiana and Alabama Committees. The Louisiana Conservatives Adopt the W heeler Compromise. State Ticket Nominated by the Ohio ProbibltloniatK. Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc.

FOREIGN. A Rome (Italy) dispatch of the 22d says tha at the next consistory four ecclesiastical provinces will be created in North America. Sir Charles Lyell, the eminent English geologist,died on the 22d, aged seventy-eight. The French Assembly, on the 24th, finally passed the bill for the organization of the Senate by a vote of 448 ayes to 341 noes. The steamship Hong Kong, from London for Japan, recently foundered off the island of Abdel Cura, in the Indian Ocean. Twenty-four persons were drowned and nineteen saved. Bilbao, Spain, was attacked by seven battalions of Carlists on the 26th, and three forts were taken and retaken three times. After desperate fighting the Carlists were finally repulsed, and were subsequently attacked by the Alphonsists, who were repulsed in turn. *■ DOMESTIC. During the intense cold weather of a few days ago three children named O'Brien, ranging in age from eight to eleven years, were forced by their parents, who are basket-mak-ers, residing in Exeter, N. Y., to start on their Usual peddling tour. On the following morning the bodies of the children were found on tlie road between Exeter and a neighboring town, frozen to death, the oldest with his arms around the neck of the youngest The extensive glue factory of Wahl Bros., in Chicago, covering nearly eight acres of ground, was recently destroyed by tire, involving a loss of over $350,000, on which there was an insurance of $86,500. At Veedersburg, Ind., on the night of the 20th, Mr. Henry Eister and wife left their three little children —two girls and a boyalone in their house, and during their absence the building was burned down and the little ones perished in the flames. The parents had previously, during the winter, lost one child by suffocation, and this recent sad affliction completes the destruction of their little family.

In New York city, on the evening of the 34th, while the congregation <4 St. Andrew’s Church, on Duane street, were assembled in the building, the unsupported walls of an adjoining structure, burned a few days before, were blown down by high winds, and fell upon and crushed through the church roof, falling upon the east gallery principally, which was crowded with people. Six persons were killed and twenty-five seriously injured. Gordon Claude, a cadet at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md, has been dismissed for refusing to fence with a colored midshipman. He was first told to resign, but refused to do so. He was then told to consult with his parents, and his father refused to advise him to do what he said he would not do himself, but left the matter entirely to his soij’s own judgment, who was thereupon expelled from the institution. , - A telegram has been received at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., announcing that Stone Calf had surrendered himself and the whole Cheyenne tribe—-about 1,600 in number—and two white captives to Gen. Pope. It was reported on the 27th ult. that old man Bender had been captured alive in Florence, Arizona, and that the Kansas State authorities had sent a requisition for his delivery to the proper tribunal. PERSONAL. Some statistics of the search for Charlie Ross, the stolen boy, have been recently published. Luis said, concerning the efforts to recover the lost child, that searching for him had already expended more than $20,000. Commissioners have searched from ocean to ocean; 700,000 circulars have been issued; printing and photographing have cost $8,000; a corps of clerks have been employed in correspondence; 200 bands of gypsies have been searched; 600 Charlie Rosses hare been reported, and fully 500,000 persons have been engaged in the search. Ernest Ortwein, the confessed murderer of the Hamnett family, near Pittsburgh, Pa., last April, was hanged in that city on the 23d. In the Tilton re. Beecher suit on the 23d, after the close of Mrs. Moulton’s testimony and the re-examination of Mrs. Kate Carey, the prosecution announced the close of, the ease on their part, and the court adjourned, the defense to open on the 24th. In her evidence Mr& Moulton claimed that Mr. Beecher had made a full confession to her • in 1871 of the crime charged against him, and that Mrs. TUton had also made # similar confession—Mr. Beecher taking upon

hitnsclf all the blame, and Mrs. Tilton insisting that the fault. «m here. On the cross-ex - Sfcnnatton Mrs. Moulton IKtotWt to iirfvlug dn one Occasion, When Mr. Beecher spoke of his (treat auflering and talked ot Committing suicide, with tear* streaming down his cheeks, placed her hand on his shoulder and kissed him on the forehead, and said if ever there was a good man she lft“ lieved he was one. On another occasion, when Mr. Beecher was on bis way to prayer-meeting, she had, in the presence of her husband, thrown her arms around Mr. Beecher’s neck and asked Mr. Moulton to save this good man. On the cross-examination on the 23d» Mrs. Carey admitted that she had been discharged from one place for intoxication. A Salt Lake (Utah) telegram of the 26th states that Judge McKean had decided that Ann Eliza Young should receive $3,000 attorneys’ fees and SSOO per month alimony pending her trial against Brigham Young, the alimony to date from the tiling of the complaint, about t w en ty mon tire ago.

It was announced from Washington on the 26th ult. that the attorney of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company had left for Minnesota to attach the property of Wm. 8. King,-in-order to recover the amount received-by him in connection with the subsidy. - In his opening address to the jury in ILBeecher trial Gen. Tracy.arraigns.Mr.Tilton, Mr.-and Mrs. Moulton and H. C. Bowen as conspirators, uniting together to eompitss the downfall of the defendant, though he savs Mr. Bowen early abandoned -the eon spiracy, after having arranged all the details of the plot. He claims that the original complaint against Mr, Beecher was not for adultery, but that the letters and con versations of the defendant have been misinterpreted to mean the greater when a lesser supposed offense was implied'. Mr. Tracey was very.severe kilns remarks upon the characters of both Tilton and -Moulton, and scouted the idea of Kate Carey’s testimony being worthy of any credence. He was very eulogistic in his comments upon the life, character and services of Mr. Beecher. On the 26th Mr. Bowen published a card emphatically denying the charge of conspiracy so far as it related to himself, pronouncing the accusation a malignant falsification from end. destitute of even a. particle of truth, “as sajil Tracy” (we quote > from Mr. Bowen’s card) “can learn if he will call me to the witness stand, in which event he will find out that I do not believe in the doctrine said to be taught by him,—* that lying is justifiable under certain circumstances.’” political.. Messrs. Zach ar ie, Burke and Leonard, representing the Conservative party in Louisiana, had an interview with President Grant on the 22d. The President said he could no be a party to any agreement, as his duty was to execute the law and not to enter into any negotiation or compromise, but he would be rejoiced if the opposing parties in Louisiana could come to some understanding by which the present contentions in that State could be settled. He further said he would consult with the. other parties to the contest in Louisiana. It being suggested to him that some intimation from Washington would probably be necessary to influence the action of the Republicans in Louisiana, after some consideration the President referred the committee to Mr. Wheeler. The committee then called on Mr. Wheeler, who stated that he would do all in his power by acts, influence and advice to settle the Louisiana question on the basis Of bis propositions. A proposition was then submitted to Mr. Wheeler by the committee, which he rejected, he still adhering to his original propositions. Thejnajoritjireport-OfThe_Select Committee on Alabama Affairs, made to the House on the 23d, sets forth that the elections in that State had been carried by the Democrats by fraud and intimidation; that outrages upon the negro voters had been of frequent occurrence, and that the charges of corruption and plundering against the Republican oliiciuls were unfounded and unworthy of belief. The report (signed by Messrs. Coburn, Albright and Cannon) closes with a recommendation, in favor of the passage of the Force bill. The minority, of the committee, Messrs. Luttrell and Buckner, made a report disagreeing with the views of the majority. Gen. Joseph R. Hawley has been renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the First Connecticvit-District. ——- ——- A New Orleans dispatch of the .24th says the Conservative caucus had, after an exciting debate, accepted the Wheeler proposition for a compromise by a majority of one vote. The Ohio State Prohibition Convention met at Columbus on the 24th and nominated a State ticket as follows: For Governor, JayOdell, of Cleveland; Lieutenant-Governor, H. A. Thompson, of Franklin; Attorney-General, S. Adams, of Cleveland; State Auditor, Belmont Locke, of Lawrence. County; State Treasurer, E. H. Young, of Champaign; Supreme Judge, D. C. Montgomery, of Knox; Member Board of Public Works, J. R. Buehol, of Akron.

The Democratic Senators and Representatives of the Alabama Legislature, without j exception, have signed a protest against the ; memorial presented in the United States Senate on the 23d. It is said several Repub-iean-njembers-of the Legislature detiy travtag signed any such memorial. At New Orleans, on the 25th, Speaker Wiltz entered a protest in the Conservative caucus against the Conservative members ! returning to the hall of the House, ” from ' ■which they were driven by hostile bayonets, ; until they can do so without stultification [ or any concessions whatever.” About thirty i members afterward signed the protest •A dispatch of the 26th Says , Mr. Zacharie; of the Conservative Committee, hud presented to Representative Wheeler a letter of acceptance of the Conservative caucus of Louisiana. It was understood that the whole Congressional Committee would remain till after the adjournment of Congress, and then canvass the returns, ■which'would be forwarded to Washington for their inspection, and determine the result, which would be carried to New Orleans by Mr. Wheeler and put into effect under his personal supervision at the extra session of the Louisiana Legislature. The time at which this session will take place had not yet been determined. The North Carolina House of Representatives have, by a vote of 46 to 31, expelled J. Wm. Thomas, member from Warren County, for expressing his non-belief in the existence of a God; It tie said the new United States Senator from Wisconsin, Hon. Angus Cameron, has authorized the statement that he will act with the Republican side of the Senate. The Nebraska Legislature adjourned s>»€ die on the •26th ult. " , • Thp Virginia Assembly has chosen State Senator H., Y. Thomas Lieutenant-Governor to till the unexpired term of R. E. “ Withers, elected United ttaies Senator.

COAVK FSMQNAL. in tjw. Senate, on the 224, « large nuAj b«i of memorials' w A*t r«ceiv«ifand referred . fee Thu Indian. the ilijStaiy, th* Military Academy ,i*d tlm Femion Appropriation Wils were cotUifered. mneirtied and passed The P.ostpftjce Ap-pr-priatlnn bill wna taken w« and severirt nmenament» v>ere ngieed to. Among the amendments adopted was <>uu providing that the roi'ijirf»ujn<il lltcard and all public documents pyinred by Congress for distribution shall pass free through the mails under regulations to be prescribed by the Poatiuaster-tieneral. Amendments were proposed and rejected, providing tor the restoration of the franking privilege, and allowing garden seeds sent by ihq Agricultural Department nad the’agricultural report* to para through the mails free. . • ' in the House, on the 2,2 d, among the bills introduced and referred was one providing for a meeting ot the Fourty-fourth Congress on the 4th of March next, and of each succeeding Congress on the 4th of March, the day on which Congressional terms begin.... Bills were passed— River and Harbor Appropriation bill; regulating -the selection of grand and petit jurors in the District of Columbia (the object of -which bill is to indict William S. King for per jury): supplementary to the acts tn relation to immigration-; for the payment of the awards -übottr §7sO.ttiX') of the Southern Claims Coinin'' sfoti: fora reorganization of the Quartermaster's Depart meet . A motion to suspend the rules to set apart the evening of the 2ftli for the consideration oi the Texas Pacific Railway bill was re-fwle«U-y«.117. nays 12s. This was regarded as a 'virtual’ ,lei.iiit ot th- bill ...An evening session was held f. .Ft tie consideration of the Tax.bill for the Distiicf of Columbia. „In the Sen.i to. on the 2.3 d, the House -bill to-e-pnelze tin- bounties of soldiers was reported i .o'; li ,tn the Committee on Military Affairs, twit its pi . Sei.l •coiisi'i-.-ation was objected to.. .The Postoftice, Appropriation bld was further considered and the action of the House r pealing th- . outract of 1372 for an additional subsidy was concurred in, and the; bill was passed... The Army AppropHation bill was amended and passed. .. A memorial was presented and referred from the Republican members of the Alabama Legislature, claiming that the change made by the Alabama Legislature in the pen al-code of the State made a system of involuntary servitude for African citizens; that 93.000 Republican voters were disfrau-' cUised by political legislation, etc., and asking Congress to empower the President to suspend the writ of hab-.dn (orpin in certain contingencies. in order to preserve the public peace in the Southern States.... Adverse reports were made on bills to establish branch mints in certain Western cities, and a resolution was adopted requesting the President to institute inquiries as to the proper place forthe establishment of a branch mint at some point in the Western States or in the Mississippi Valley, taking in account all questions of economy and facilities for distribu non. and report upon the same at the commence mint of the next session of Congress. In the House, on the 23d, majority and minority reports were made from the Special Committee on Louisiana Affairs, and ordered printed... .The Ta bill was passed—l 23 to 113 It llxes thctax on distilled~spiriuat ninety cenfsl and.does not apply to stock on hand or in bond : tobacco is'increased four cents; cigars from four to five cents; cigarettes fixed at seventy-live cents ad valorem; sugars of all kinds, and all syrups., are increased twenty-five cents. The present tax on matches is continued. The bill does not increase the tax on brandies, liquors and champagnes 10 per cent., but the tariff deduction is restored.

In the Senate, on the 24th, petitions were presented and referred, signed by 48.883 farmers of the Northwest, asking an appropria tion for the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers ... .State resolutions were presented in favor of the improvement of other navigable waters.... House bills were passed—authorizing the promulgation of general regulations for the government of the army ;, for the admission of Colorado as a State, with amendments—yeas 43, nays 13; for-the-aduHesien—of-New Mexico as a State, with several amendments—yeas3l, nays 11. In the House, on the 24th, a bill was pa-sed to ai<t in tlie improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers.. . .Majority and minority reports were made in the . Louisiana contested election case of Sheridan and PincJiback, the iiuijority report declaring that Pinchback is not and Sheridan is emitted to the seat, and the minority contending that Sheridan is not entitled to the seat.,..A report was also made in the Arkansas case of Gans and midges that the former is not and the latter (the sitting member) is entitled to the seat.... The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill ($2.j,28v.915) was considered in Committee of the Whole, aud during'the discussion of the bill some exciting remarks were indulged in respecting affairs in Alabama. Au evening session was decided on to further consider the bill, but motions were made to take up other business and filibustering was resorted to and the session was prolonged till after, midnight by motions to adjourn, etc., •aueffort being made to takeup the caucus Force bill. 'Hie Democratsi refused to'vote on one motion for the yeas and nays and the record indi. cated no quorum present.. Gn being appealed to the Speaker said it was the duty of all members present to vote, but he knew of no way ip compel them to do 50.... At 2:*40 a. m. the House was still in session. In the Senate, on the 25th, the bill to provide for and regulate the counting of votes for President and Vice-President came up and was amended in Committee of the Whole, one of the amendmentsagreed to being to the effect that only such returns from a State shall be counted' as the two houses, acting separately, shall decide to be true aud valid retftrns. The bill as amended was finally passed—2B to fit)... .The Civil-Rights bill was taken up. and it was decided that debate on the bill should go on until two o’clock on the afternoon of the 27th, and that a vote on the bill should betaken on that day. In the House, on the 25th, after a twenty-nine- hours’ session, during which the Democrat?, by motions to adjourn, calling for the nays, and jryfusing toijote on the call—thus making it appear on tb||&ecord that there was no quorum present—succeeded in preventing the taking up of the caifcus Force bill giving the President, power to suspend the writ of AuGus corpus in certain cases, etc., a motion was finally adopted—yeas 170. nays 89— to take up the bill, and some amendments were offered.... Adjourned.

In the Senate, on the 26th, an adverse report was made on the bill to secure from ultimate loss depositors in the Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company, and the bill was indefinitely postponed... .The Civil-Rights bill was taken tip ana debated, the discussion extending •to'the evening session. In the House, on the 26th, the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was considered in Committee of the Whole.. ..The bill to provide against the invasion of States, and "to prevent subversion ot their authority, and to maintain security of elections," known as the caucus Force bill, was debated at the evening session. In the Senate, on the 27th, Messrs. Allison. Boutwell. Conkling. Merrimon and Eaton were appointed as the committee under the resolution to examine the several branches of the civil sei vice ,/ duruig the recess ... .Th" resolution requesting the President to institute inquiries as to the proper place for a branch mint ; n the Western States, and report nt the commencemijpt of the next, session of Congress, passed... .The Civil-Rights bill was then taken up; and Mr. Carpenter spoke against its passage. The bril was reported to the Senate and passed without amendment—3B to 26--the yeas and nays being as follows: —Alcorn. Allison. Anthonv, Boreman, Boutwell, Cameron, Chandler, Clayton. Conkling. Conover. Cragin, Edmunds. Ferry ■ (Mich.i. Flanagan, Frelinghuyseu. Harvey, Howe, i Ingalls. Jones. Logan. Mitchell. Morrill (Vt.), ; Morton. Oglesby. Pa’terson, Pease. Pratt, Ram- > sey. Koberjson. Sargent. Scott. Sherman. Spencer, ; Stewart, Washburn. West. Windom. Wright—3B. 1 .V igs— Bayard. Bogy. Carpenter. Cooper, Davis, ■ Dennis. Eaton. Ferry (Coun.i. Goldthwaite. Gordon. Hagar. Hamilton (Tex.>, Hamilton tMd.V, i Kelly. Lewis. McCreery, Merrimon. Norwood. I Ransom, Saulsbury. Schnrz. Sprague. Stevenson, i Siockton. Thurman. Tipton—26. At the evening i session the Annual Post-route bill was taken up i and passed, and the conference report on the bill to reduce and.fix the Adjutant-General's Dvpart- '■ ment of the army was agreed to.

j In the House, on the 27th, a report , was submitted from the Ways and Means Committee in regard to thg Pacific Mail investigation, with resolutions to the effect that a. dopy of the evidence as to the corrupt Use of money’ to procure the passage of the Subsidy bill be laid be- [ fore the House at the first session of.the Forty- | fourth Congress, to the end that iurthvr inquiries i may be made and proper action, taken in the I cases of Representatives Wm. S. Kingjgnd Scbn- | maker; and to censnre and deprive ot hi ’ ti-at in the gallery any reporter or correspondent who I received any portion of the corruption fund.... i The majority and minority reports from the Select . Committee on 'Mississippi Allans were presented. ! ...; Consideration of the Force bill was then re* I sumed. and, an m amendip.eiu was agreed to— I ItM to 100— limiting the tecHtbry in which the i thirteenth section (the one .providing for the suspehsionlbf the wnt of corj.toi) js to be applicable to, Alabama. Arkansas, £ on , Uiana and Mississippi, and limiting it.* term to two years and from thence to the , unot the then JWXI session of Congress. A motion to strike out

the thirteenth section was defeated-ayeas ISI, n«yr thirty-five Repiblicaua voting ay«. A liW. iuu ttk sir>e out tl» sectAuua . pxuaMUg against tM invasion of a State by “two ortnore per-jijs.’* and punishing regfstratioq officers. wji“ at State officers, for violation of dnty*A>as det.ute.l-syeaa T2O, nave I’2—thirtyeight Republ.'in;# voting ave. The bill as amended was fluafl- passed—veas 135, nays 114—thirty-three Republicans voting against the bill.

Spring Costumes.

The first indications of spring styles are found in suits of plaid and striped wool goods, and in the new lace-figured per-ale costumes. There is nothing yet very new in the manner of making these. Most of the early imported dresses have a basque and tablier, with sometimes a jacket; the skirt is, as usual, trimmed witu Bounces, both pleated and shirred, headed by puffs. Great variety, however, is given to costumes by employing two materials, one of plaid and the other striped in the colors ot the plaid, and the object seems to be to have no two dresses exactly alike. Thus in one costume the sleeves, skirt and flounces are striped, with a basque and apron of plaids, while perhaps the dress hanging beside it entirely reverses this plan, and a third costume is a mixture of both the others. The apron promises to supersede the regular over-skirt, and it is also the objective* point- for trimming, having tiiple bands laid on to imitate or outline these aprons, or else there are two deep-point-ed Uptons trimmed separately; at the back are straight, wide breadths, hanging in sash-lovps or else plain, ami these are sufficiently ample to dispense with puffs, rutiles, or other elaborate trimming on the back of the' under skirt. There is no,doubt that we are to have a quadrille season, not cf high-colored tartans, but of dark brown plaid and soft gray tints_weif .blended. These are in broken, , irregular plaids, even crossbars, pin-head checks, large blocks, and every possible arrangement of squares. They arc usually shades of some quiet color, but the newest axe “ illuminated,” as dealers say, by lines and bars of vivid scarlet, blue or ecru. Something of the illuminated lines appears in the trimmings, as pipings, facings and lining of bows, collar and sash ends. Debegewill be the popular material in these designs, and a large percentage of the importations is of brown shades. Wha.t are known as the Madras colors also appear in these plaids—odd, quaint tions, showing brighter colors than have been worn on the street for many years, yet softened to good taste by association with quiet colors. Blue upon blue is also well thought of in plaid wool stuffs for young lad tes, and shawls of the same plaid are imported to match the suits. Black and white checks will be popular, especially for bordering plain> solid colors.

A stylish model for making such suits is'as tollows: Striped skirt of walking length, showing alternate stripes of brown and ecru, both over an inch wide, trimmed with a deep kilt flounce arranged to bring the dark stripe on top of each pleat. A deeply-pointed double apron of plaids of these two shades is cut to make the plaids bias, and is edged -with brown or ecru lace; the long sashends behind are also .bias plaid, with a Byron collar and lace border; the sleeves are striped, with plaid cults edged with lace. With this is worn a*brown chip nat, trimmed with a plaid scarf and ecru feather. The novelty in soft-finished French percales is a lace-like design of white on a color —blue, brown, ecru, gray or black. This lace figure is in open webs, and in star and compass patterns like those found in Hamburg work and English embroidery. Sometimes the design is in stripes, again it covers the entire ground, and in many cases it forms side bands near the selvedge for trimming the tablier, sash and cuirass. A French design for making such suits employs a blue percale with white star lace-pat-tern all over it, with trimming of solid blue pleatings alternating with gathered rutiles of the lace-figured percale. The skirt has a solid blue pleating around the bottom, then a gathered rutile of figured percale, and the arrangement is repeated again, trimming the skirt up to the knee. The short, round apron over skirt is figured and has solid blue pleating on the edge. The figured basque is round, reaches wellover the hips, is piped with blue on the edge, has postiln n pleats behind and two bias bands of plain blue extend up each front and back, making four length wise bands of trimming. The coat sleeve has a blue pleating turned toward the wrist and another toward the elbow, separated by a band of the lace figures. Pleated white linen rufl in the neck and sleeves. White chip hat with flaring brim piped with blue; blue gros grain band and loops; dark wing and blue ostrich tips. A chestnut brown percale, as soft and smooth as foulard, is dotted with white stars and trimmed with side bands stamped in white guipure de-ign. A deep-pleated flounce on the skirt is edged and headed by the guipure band. Tne deep, round apron is drawn up in wrinkles high on the tournure and trimmed with three bands to represent three aprons; Jhe back breadths hang separately and straight, and are shorter in the middle than on the pointed sides. The basque is deep in front and rounded upward on the sides to match the apron and hangs in pointed pleats behind. Square collar and cufl’s bordered with a band.

Small checks and plain or striped grounds form the foundation of many percale suits that are trimmed with flounces bordered ...with plaids of the shades used in the dress. These are in quaint grayish-blue with dark brown with ecru, pink with gray, ppune with blue, etc. The material seds for thirty-five cents a yard. A simple, stylish suit of mottled blue-gray ground, with Diaid border of blue, black and while, has a deep-gathered flounce of the mottled percale, edged with two bias plaid bands; lapping on this is a narrow rurtle laid in side pleats and headed and edged with plaid. The apron, of medium depth, bordered with plaid, has no back breadths, but founds upon the bustle, where there are many loops. Simple cuirass basque, bordered with plaid. Coat sleeves, with a wide plaid band around the wrist and two narrower rows above it. The twilled plaid silks introduced by exclusive modistes last summer arc now j largely imported for sea-side costumes. ' The prettiest patterns are lavender grounds barred with ruby, ecru with navy blue or pink with dark brown plaids. The checks and plaids of black grenadines have-grown to great size, the most fashionable being in squares of two inches, though the pin?bead canvas meshes of year will remain popular. These elitcks tire placed in stripctraJ eri nating wi h gros gram stripes, moire,,<>r [ brocaded stripes. * erluys» the richest I of all are the veiVet plaid grenadines,

having large bars of black velvet passing each way on thq sheer grenadine ground. Ladies are timid about purehasihg the>e, as the velvet bar is very heavy on the thin support of grenadine, but merchants deciare them to be durable. These fabrics wifi be made up in over-dresses to wear with black velvet skirts This fashion found great favor at the sea-side last summer even at midsummer, as the dampness has no effect on grenadine, and the velvet skirts did not seem out of taste or too heavy amidst the cool seabreezes. Pekin grenadines—that is, striped — are shown in blue upon blue, or black upon ecru or white, or any stylish color in cameo shading, Thq price is $2.50 a yard. Ecru grenadines barred with black velvet are very elegant and also costly, being $5 or $0 a yard. Very rich white grenadines have "large blocks-oP white satin, and are $7. Broche grenadines with raised figures in stripes are the same price. Pretty pink and white, or else blue or green bars on white, are $2 50 a yard.

The colored velvet grenadines are the novelty of the These are striped or barred, and have pale-blue grenadine grounds with dark-blue velvet bars or else stripes. Cream-colored grounds witlvblack velvet stripes are very handsome. Bayadere stripes of black velvet on black or blue grenadines are stylish and cost $6. The cool, fresh looking linen lawns are the lowest priced, most durable and tasteful of all cheap fabrics. These cost from twenty-five cents to forty cents a yard. The designs are waved stripes of coral, blue*or black. There are also many plaids in color, and the usual dots, dashes, stars and lozenges. Pin-head checks cut to form bias bands will be much , used for trimming goods of solid color. This will be. especially popular for blue and white summer silks, brown and white, and black with white. When the dress is made of these small checks large blocks are used for borders. Brown and white check silks, trimmed ; with larger checks, will make pretty traveling-dresses for brides. New square shawls for early spring days have plain centers with light band for borders and are reversible. Thus a light-gray shawl with dark-gray border on one side xvill have the other center of dark-gray with light border. The fringe is richly tasseled. — Harper's Bazar.

FACTS AND FIGURES.

—California has $140,000,000 banking capital. —The total permanent school fund of lowa is $3,204,272.83. —Albany has 25,000 does, and therefore claims 80,000 inhabitants. —Pennsylvania still produces $40,000,000 worth of lumber annually. —Spain’s debt, according to the latest official statistics, is $2,000,000,000. —San Francisco has 470 Browns, 266 Jones and 845 Smiths. Now what is the population of the city? —Next to the Mont Cenis tunnel the ■Hoosac is the longest in the world, being only 320 feet less than five miles in —Over 800,000 bales of cotton are consumed annually in New England factories, but only 150,000 bales are bought and sold in Boston. —The population of Brattleboro’, Vt., during the past year has decreased thirtyone, while the number of families has increased forty-two. —A statistical Bohemian has calculated that pencils enough have been consumed thus far in the Beecher trial to start a respectable lead mine. —Lake Harkness Js tt body of. water recently discovered in Plumas County, Cal., b>- Prof. Harkness 7,330 feet above the level of the sea. The outlet is into Warner Valley, over a declivity of some 2,000 feet.

Reed & Sons’ Organs.

If you wish to buy a first-class organ with the latest improvements, the sweetest quality of tone and the newest style of case, send to Reed’s Temple of Music, Chicago. The American Organs, advertised in another column, have the guaranty which comes from twenty-five years of successful experiment, and from the well-known high character of the manufacturers. They now offer entirely hew styles, unsurpassed in quality and beauty. The official report to the Austrian Government respecting musical instruments at the Vienna Exposition declares the Mason A Hamlin Cabinet Organs to be “ the most distinguished and praiseworthy instruments” of their class; praising in detail their power and resonance of tone, variety of combination and solo effects; fine power of expression; smooth, even and sympathetic tones, and thorough workmanship. They were awarded the first and highest medal. Other American organs in competition were declared to be far less meritorious, the tones and workmanship being both inferior. In comparison, it was said: ‘‘Judged leniently, they do not rise above a* respectable mediocrity.” This was undoubtedly the most extensive, thorough and competent comparison of such instruments ever made. A Boston merchant, who, some twentyfive vears ago, sold 200 dozen woolen hose'to a trader who shortly thereafter failed, was agreeablv surprised the other div at receiving $1 §OO in gold to liquidate “ that old-iime debt.” To THE Suffering.—An old retired physician, who is candid enough to tell the tiuth about progress, has declared that the recent discovery by Dr. Walker, of California, of his herb remedy, Vinegar Bitters, is one of the most important in medicine. He has tested them thoroughly, in his own family, among his friends, and upon himtelf; and he is driven to the conclusion that they 7 possess rare and unexcelled curative prop rlics: He says of them: “They contain no dangerous drug. Tney never reduce the patient —never render one liable to take cold —never interfere with [ the every-day business of life—never ■ make their continuous use a condition of j cure, and are adapted to eyen the most i delicate organizations. They act as i kindly on the tender infant, The deli ate I female or infirm old age as on the vigor- [ ous and athletic system; exercising | healthful effects upon every blood-vessel i—on the brain, nerves and lymphatics—loEthe' Blood, Bile; Gastric Juice, etc., ei riehinn impoverished fluids and imparting vigor to mind and body.” 24 Tub NokthwesteKS Hokse-Najl Co.’s “ Finished” Null is Hie best in the world.

A Few Words to Feeble and Delicate Women.

By R. V. PIERCE, M. D., of the Wokld’s Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y. > Knowing that you are subject to a great amount of suffering that delicacy on-your part has a strong tendency to prolong, and the longer it is neglected 'the more you haveto endure and the more difficult of cure your case becomes, I, as a physician, who is daily consulted by scores of your sex, desire to'Say to you that I am constantly meeting with those who have been treated for their ailments for months without being benefited in the least, until they have become perfectly discouraged and have almost made up their minds never to take another dose of medicine nor be tortured by any further treatment. They had rather die and have their sufferings ended than to live and suffer as they have. They say they are worn out by suffering and are only made worse by treatment. Of anything more discouraging we certainly cannot conceive, and were there no more successful mode of treating such difficulties than that the principles of which teach the reducing, and depleting of the vital forces of the system, when the indications dictate a treatment directly the reverse of the one adopted for theip, their cases would be deplorable indeed. But, lady sufferers, there is a better aud far more successful plan of treatment for you—one more in harmony with the laws and requirements of your system. A harsh, irritating, caustic treatment and strong medicines will never cure you. If you would use rational means, such as common sense should dictate to-every intelligent lady, take such medicines as embody the very best invigorating tonics and nervines, compounded with special reference to your delicate system. Such a happy combination you will find in my Favorite Prescription, which has received the loudest praise from thousands of your sex. Those languid, tiresome sensations causing you to feel scarcely able to be on your feet or ascend a flight, of stairs; that continual drain that is sapping from your systems all your former elasticity and driving the bloom from your cheeks; tiiat continual strain upon your vital forces that renders you irritable and fretful, may all be Overcome and subdued by a persevering use of that marvelous . remedy. Irregularities aud obstructions to the proper workings of your systems are relieved by this mild and safe means, while periodical pains, the existence of which is a sure indication of serious disease that should not be neglected, readily yield to it, and if its use is kept up for a reasonable length of time the special cause of these pains is permanently removed. Further light on these subjects may be obtained from iny pamphlet on diseases peculiar to your sex, sent on receipt of two stamps. My Favorite Preeerijition is sold by druggists. Electricity is Life.—All nervous disorders, chronic diseasesof the chest, head, liver, stomach, kidneysand blood, aches and pains-, nervous and general debility, etc., quickly cured after drugs fail by wearing Volta’s Electro Belts and Bauds. Valuable book free, by Volta Belt Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. Glen'Flora Water is indorsed as the best mineral water in the world. Cures Dyspepsia and all Kidney Complaints. Address R. H. Parks, Waukegan, 111., for circulars. There are probably a hundred or more persons in this and neighboring towns who daily suffer from the distressing efleets of kidney troubles who do not know that Johnson's Anodyne Liniment is almost a certain cure. In severe cases great relief may be obtained, if not a perfect cure. We notice that the agricultural papers all over the country recommend the use of Sheridan's C<.ii:alrn Condition Poicders.-~Ej:--cAanfffcTl— -■■■ ~ Farmers and others in this section have long known and appreciated the advantage of these powders over all others. Allen’s Lung Balsam causes the lungs to throw OS' the matter that is collected over the air-cells and makes the patient breathe more, freely and purifies the blood, gives strength to the body and toile to the digestive organs, heals the irritated parts and gives life and health to the system. Asthma is soon relieved by its use. For sale by dealers in Family Medicines generally. Prussing’s White Wine Vinegar excels all others in purity, strength and flavor. Try it. Burnett’s Cocoaine is the best and cheapest hair dressing in the world.

THE MARKETS.

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