Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1875 — Page 2

RENSSELAER UNION. ' - JF- -j JAMES A HEALEY, ProprirUtZ. T~t RENSSELAER, * f INDIANA.

MEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOHBIttN. A London dispatch of the 4th says Moody and Sankey, the Chicago evangelists, were listened to by over 200,000 persons every week. The Moderator of the British Presbyterian Synod, at its session in London on the 4th, expressed his cordial sympathy with them in their religions work. The Berlin North German Gaiette of the 4th denies the truth of the statement In the American papers that a company had been organized to facilitate the return to .Germany of emigrants to the United States. The Paris correspondent of the London TVmas, in a dispatch published on the sth, says that uneasiness prevailed in well-informed circles in France, and that a war between that power and Germany was deemed not improbable. A London dispatch of the sth says that over 3,000 persons had been converted in that city —the result of the labors of Messrs. Moody and Sankey. The importation into Finland or Russian territory of American potatoes has been forbidden. A Bombay dispatch of the 6th announces the appearance of the cholera in the city of Baroda. The Prince Bishop of Breslau has been removed and expelled from Germany for viola tion of the Ecclesiastical laws. The Prussian police have received of late alarming notices of plots against Bismarck and Minister Falk. A special detective staff has been formed for their protection., _ The American Methodist Church at Quickarg, in China, was recently destroyed by a Chinese mob. The Eagle line steamer Schiller, which sailed from New York on th'e 28th ult. for Hamburg, was totally wrecked off the Scilly Islands, about thirty miles from Land’s End, England, on the night of the 7th. The Schiller ran on a ledge of sunken rocks during the prevalence of a dense fog. Three hundred and seventy-nihe persons were known to have been on board, and of these about SOO are supposed to be lost Several prominent citizens of Chicago, Milwaukee, and other portions of the West were on board, and are thought to have perished. The ecclesiastical policy of the Government was approved on the Sth by the Italian Chamber of Deputies—2l9 to 149. In the Prussian Diet on the Btll the bill for the suppression of religious orders was read a second time without amendment and the bill giving the Old Catholics a share of the Catholic Church property passed on third reading—2o2 to 75. Th'e provincial authorities of Germany have been instructed to treat the collection of money for priests who have been subjected to legal penalties as a punishable offense. The’ Belgium Chambers on the Sth adopted a resolution appcoring the recent corresponddeuce of the Government with Germany.

BOMKSTIC. A St. Louis dispatch of the sth reports Indian depredations in Western Kansas, and further raids were apprehended. Government troops had been ordered for the protection of settlers. A Washington dispatch of the 6th announces the payment to Minister Cushing, iu Madrid, by the* Spanish Government, of the balance due on the Virginias indemnity, thus anticipating the payment several months. Dispatches from Pottsville and Wilkesbarre, Pa., on the 6th state..that outrages by striking miners were on the increase, and there? was no prospect of the strike ending for ibme time. The managers of some of the mines were about to abandon the works by withdrawing the pumps and thus allowing the mines to fill with water. The Comptroller of the Currency has issued notices calling upon the National Banks throughout the country to make a report to him of their condition at the close of business on the Ist inst. A xational convention of bankers has been called to assemble at Saratoga Springs, July 20," for business and social purposes. A man named William E. Sturtevant, who some months asro murdered, for the pur pose cf robbery, three persons—two old men, brothers, his great-uncles, and a woman who was keeping house for them—was hanged at Plymouth, Mass., on the 7th. A daring attempt to rob an express car on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne <£ Chicago Railroad was mfiSe early on the morning of the 7th. A recently-discharged railroad conductor by the name of Binkley boarded the eastern-bound express train on that road at Lima, Ohio, and effected an entrance into the Adams Express car by sawing out the panels of»the door. He wore a mask, and on entering the ear fired two shots at the expressmessenger, Geo. 11. Price, wounding him slightly. Price succeeded in securing his pistol in time to shoot the.would-be murderer and robber through the head, killing him instantly. - Another cyclone visited Middle Georgia on the Ist, causing the killing of fifty persons, the wounding of many more, the destruction of a great quantity of live stock and numerous dwelling*. This is the fifth tornado that has visited Shat aection since the 20th of March. The ravages of the cyclone were confined mainly to Harris, Talbot, Henry and Calhoun Counties.

A Washington dispatch of the 9th confirms the statements of the Chicago papers that it is probable the work so far as completed on the new Custom-House building in the latter city will have to be entirely overhauled and the building reconstructed from the foundation, thus entailing an additional expense of at least $1,000,000 and delaying the completion of the structure nt least a year. The Postmaster-General has issued an order carrying into effect, so far as this country is concerned, the treaty for the formation of a general postal union concluded at Berne Oct 8 last The new rates of postage are to be levied on and after the Ist of July next on correspondence to all the treating States except France, which does not participate in the benefits of the treaty till Jan. 1,1876. It is reported that an attdfapt was made by miners op the night of the 7th to burn the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad bridge above Locust Gap. The captive Cheyenne, Arapahoe and Kiowa Indians from the Cheyenne Agency arrived at Fort Leavenworth on the Bth, and were placed in the guard-house, where they will remain until their trial takes place. PEWAOMAL. In the Beecher trial on the morning of the 3d Mrs. Tilton, who wm present, sent a writ-'

ten communication to Judge Neilson, which she requested him to read aloud before the opentag ©T —the —proceedings Thir court? After rending the nflUe the Judg* said the matter would be consid«red. He refused at the time to intimate what ’the note contained, but it was understood to refer to the question of Mrs. Tilton being allowed to testify. Several additional witnesses ware sworn who testified to the effect that Mr. Tilton was not in the company of Mrs. Woodhull in the Communistic procession. Albert Martin, Super-' intendent of the Mission Sunday-school of Dr." Storrs’ church, testified that he was at Mrs. Ovington’s last summer on the day that Bessie Turner, went before the Church Committee and that she (Bessie) was in the back parlor with Gen. Tracy for over* two hours; witness could hear them conversing together but could not understand what was said; he (witness) after tea took Miss Turner around to Mr. Storrs’ in order that she might testify before the committee. Franklin Woodruff was recalled and testified to two interviews with Mr. Tracy, at which he (witness) told Mr. Tracy Mr. Tilton’s charge against Mr. Beecher was for the greater crime alleged, and that Mr. Beecher had advanced SSOO for the r< lief pf Mr. Tilton’s family. Mis. Tilton's letter to Judge Neilson is made public. In it she protests her innocence and claims to have been for five years past the victim of cruel and unfortunate circumstances. She says she would like io tell her whole sad story truthfully and to acknowledge the frequent falsehoods wrung from her through compulsion. She assumes the entire responsibility of tills request, claiming that it was made without the knowledge of friend or counsel of either side. Judge Neilson returned this letter to Mrs. Tilton with a note saying that he must decline to introduce it in the trial proceedings.

Further rebuttal evidence was given on the 4th, Mr. Joseph H. Richards being among the witnesses examined. He testified that he was at Mr. Storrs’ house last summer on a summons to appear before the Investigating Committee, and that Mr. Tracy said to him that he appeared as Mr. Beecher’s counsel, and that if he (witness) testified before the committee he would be asked if his sister (Mrs. T.) had ever confessed to him the alleged against the defendant. Witness replied that he would not answer that question, and Mr. Tracy told him his refusal to do so would be construed as an affirmative apawer. He (witness) then refused to go before the committee. The Republican State Convention of Maine is to be held on the 15th of June. A Logansport (Ind.) telegram of the 4th states that Hon. D. D. Pratt, ex-L'nited States Senator, had accepted the position of Commissioner of Internal Revenue, tendered him by President Grant the day before. Stephen Pearl Andrews testified on the sth that distinguished personages; sugh- as William Orton, Whitelaw Reid, Benjamin F. Butler and others, were in the habit of visiting Mrs. Woodhull’s residence while witness was stopping there in the summer of 1870. Witness often saw Mr. Tilton and Mrs. It. together, but never observed any undue familiarity between them; she sometimes called him Theodore. Witness said lie was iu one sense the author of the scandal article, although Mrs. W. composed the original, witness preparing it for publication; so far as witness knew Mr. Tilton was entirely ignorant of the preparation of the article, and it was a surprise to him when if appeared. Mrs. Martha" A. Bradshaw contradicted a portion of Bessie Turner’s testimony, and Mr. John Wood, a printer, testified with regard to the publication of the Woodhull scandal that it was put in type the last week in October Henry C. Bowen was cabled and testified that he knew the contents Tilton’s note which he took to Mr. Beecher (and which witness says was delivered at the residence of Mr. Freeland), but that Mr. Beecher did not ask him if he did; Mr. Beecher did not say anything to witness about discharging Mr. Tilton from the IWeueiafen t, but witness told him (Mr. Beecher) that he had "canceled Mr. T.’s appointment _as editor. Witness said there Was no connection between the tripartite agreement and the payment to Mr. Tilton of the $7,000; witness was always willing to arbitrate with Mr. T., and did not kjiow that Mr. Beechet had anything to do with such arbitration >4he arbitration was concluded on the 3d of Apm, 1872, and the tripartite covenant was executed on the 7th. Gov. Bagley, of Michigan, has appointed Julia 8. Sutherland Commissioner of Deeds for Michigan at Salt Lake City. In his cross-examination on the 6th MrBowen adhered to his evidence given on the direct examination. John M. Longhi, an employe at Delmonieo’s, testified that there was no restaurant on the upper floor at the time Woodleigh swore hesaw Mrs. Woodhull and Xilton lunching there. In his recent tour through some of the Southern States Vice-President Wilson was entertained by "several prominent ex-Coqfed-erates, amcmg them ex-Vice-President John C. Breckinridge, at whose house in Lexington, Ky., he made a brief visit. President Grant has signed the commission of J. M. G. Parker to be Postmaster Of New Orleans. Owing k> the absence of Messrs. Beach and Shearman, of the counsel, the Beecher trial was adjourned on the 7th to the 10th. Ex-State Treasurer Rankin, of lowa, on trial at Des Moines on the charge of embezzlement. has been acquitted.. * The trial of Sam Bowles, editor of the Springfield (Mass.) jßcptMican, for libeling -Railroad-President Phelps, of Massachusetts, by styling him “robber’’ Phelps, has been, concluded and SIOO damages awarded. The claim was for $200,000. John Sheridan, the father of Lieut.-Gen. Sheridan, died at his residence iu Somerset, Ohio, on the 6th.

Vice-President Wilson was at Nashville, Tenn., on the 7th, and a brilliant entertainment was given in the evening, in his honor, at the residence of Gen. E. W. Cole, at which many of the most distinguished men of the State were present. The Grand J ury of the District of Columbia have refused to find an indictnieut against Mr. Dana, of the New York San, for alleged libel of ex-Gov. Shepherd. The motion for a new trial in the case <rf Early rt. Storey, of the Chicago Taaes, has been denied, the plaintiff agreeing to accept $15,080 in lieu of the $25,000 awarded by the jury. The defense took an appeal. In another libel suit against Mr. Storey for stigmatizing a Chicago lawyer as a “ shyster'’ the jury have returned a verdict of SSOO. The. plaintiff asked for $50,000. John Bender, the Kansas murderer, recently in custody at Florence, Arizona, has again escaped, and is supposed to have reached Mexico. : -——- -<7 —. ■ ■ ■ -

POLITICAL.

TheConnecticot Ix gislature organized on thc Attt by'Mho ciccttan of ttrerDcnrocratte caucus nominees az ©facers. - The Ohio State Democratic ConventioiU>-to be held at .Columbus on the 17th of June. Judge Morrieles, of the United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas, in a recentecharge to the Grand Jury, reviewed the Civil-Rights law, and expressed the opinion that all persona have legal rights to equal privileges in Hotels, public conveyances and other institutions of a public nature, While they dd not thereby acquire any social rights. He views the act in question as dot intended to affect social rights, but civil and legal rights, and he would instruct the drand Jury to find a true bill against any person violating ,its provisions. Ben Hill has been elected to Congress from the Ninth Georgia District, to take the place of Garnett McMillan, deceased. The ■ Kentucky Democratic State Convention completed its nominations on the 7th, The full ticket is composed as follows: For Governor, James B. McCreery; LieutenantGovernor, John C. Underwood; AttorneyGeneral, Thomas E. Moss; Auditor, D. Howard Smith; Treasurer, JtW. Tates.

A Terrible Cyclone in Georgia.

■Columbus, Ga.. May 2. Harris County was visited with the fifth tornado since the 20th_of Al arch on last Saturday. The cyclone was terrible. It swept everything before it, doing an immense deal of damage, tearing down houses, uprooting trees, scattering fences and killing people. ' The storm, as first heard of by us, was blowing things away about Cusseta, Ala. The amount of damage it did there we do not know. Coming eastward, the “ storm king” crossed the Chattabooche at Hale’s Ferry, and,dashing asideeverything that opppsed his course, swept through Harris County, across Pine Mountain, and on, we know not where. Upon entering the county it scattered the dwellings, outhouses, fences and everything else on Henry Williams’ place, wounding several of his people. Going directly east it played havoc with the farm of Henry E. -Morse (better known as Hal. Morse), two miles south oi Whitesville. There is not a house of any kind left on his place. Six negroes were killed by the falling timbers. Mrs. Morse is wounded, it is feared fatally, and several others of the family slightly. After going about one and a half miles farther east, John, Booker’s place was crossed, and all his tenants were scattered to the winds. The report of the nunfber of killed and wounded there is conflicting. The Widow Smith’s, about one mile farther east, was the next place in the path of the tornado. There was no one killed there, but the list of wounded is large and the amount of damage is considerable.

W. G Davis’ house, about three-quar-ters of a mile further, was the next bouse that chanced to be in the track of the wind-storm. His house was blown down, his leg broken, his wife’s leg broken, and three or four children injured. ~ Two miles further, and Judge Spence’s place blocked its passage. After beating against the house for a while it gathered unusual strength and, burling a tenement house from its path, attacked the Baptist Church, which is on his place, and utterly demolished it; in fact, “ one stone was not left on another.” It then tackled his dwelling-house and blew one-half of it away. Four negroes were killed and six or seven wounded by the falling of the building. Scattering fences and ruining crops for about three miles, it struck Alurray & Spence’s mill and it’ did uot leave a timber standing. Jourdan Riley, the negro miller, was killed and three white men w r ere wounded. Going up the creek about one mile, it laid low the house of Pickens Alurray. He and his family were only saved by leaving the house and taking refuge in the peach orchard. Still rushing eastward, it, after skipping over two miles, struck Calvin Teel’s place, leaving net a building standing. Then, crossing’Pine Mountain, it changed its course by turning a little to the south, „and commenced its ravages on Col. James R. Alobley’s place. His gin-house and all his outhouses were blown down, and six negroes wounded. Another tffrnado in Harris and Talbot Counties started near the Chattabooche River in Harris, and went through Talbot. The storm neared the recent tornado, and in one place followed it for five miles. The loss of property is immense. Up to this evening it is ascertained that seventeen lives were lost, among them five whites. About thirtyfive persons were wounded, and a large number of mules and cows killed outright. Fences and houses were blown entirely away, and the crops along the route are entirely destroyed. Portions of houses were blown a distance of fifteen miles. < Mlest Point. Ga., May 3. A very destructive hurricane passed one mile north of West Point at two p. in. yesterday. It demolished all the outhouses on ex-Alayor Reed’s place. A large wagon was picked up and carried across Chattabooche River.

At Collier’s farm in Alabama, three miles from the city, all the outhouses were destroyed and three negroes’killcd. The tornado came from the west and passed on to the east. Another hurricane passed south of here—ten miles—through Berlin, Ala., destroying houses of all kinds on the places of John Booker, where it seriously, it not fatally, wounded the wife of the proprietor and killed all his mules; P. G. Collins, where it wrecked everything but killed no one, and J. J. Benton, where it tore down all the outhouses and killed one negro. _ ■ ’ Kitleuce. Ga., May 2. The following you will find, as near as possible,’ a correct report of the terrible tornado that passed over this place. It crossed the Georgia Railroad at this place at a quarter to'' three o’clock, going in an eastern course. The day passenger train was just leaving the depot as the storm was raging, “it destroyed the house of Dr. J'.-J. Montgomery, but none of his family were killed. All of his outbuildings and fences were blown down. Next in the line was the plantation of Mr. John Stapp.. His small plank dwelling-house was picked up from its pillars, turned half roimd, and set on the ground twenty feel from the original place. Outhouses and fences all down. The next victim was Dr. C. P. Brown, who lived at place in quite a dease forest. The timber was strewn in all shapes and directions, one tree striking the corner of his house. One room, in which the family happened to be, was uninjiired. A very tail tree near the place was clothed in the top with a beautiful dress that Mrs. Brown was just finishing. A tablecloth decked another tree some

fifty feet high. The next place was Mr. Hes Toinblia’s. Two roomsof bis house were left, forest trtes.fruirttees, iag and outhouses are all gone, /rhe next and worst victim was Mr. J. Hill Davis. His house was literally demolished and he was bruised considerably. Mrs. Davis had her jawbone broken, and her little girl ’s not likely to live. All the buildings and fences are gone from his place. The storm next crossed Hardlabor Creek, and in line tore down the htnise of Mr. James Benton completely; family not at home. The next place was that of Mrs. Thomas Stallings, where it blew down both chimneys and tore off the roof of the dwelling and demolished the fencing and all outbuildings. All of this is in a distance of five miles from where it crossed the Georgia Railroad at Dr. J. J. Montgomery’s, going a little north of east. Dr. J. J. Montgomery was a deep sufferer in the terrible tornado, iu the year 1866, that passed through Newbern. His house was completely destroyed in that storm, and he had not recovered from that loss, having an invalid wife and several girls and small children. Mr. J. Hill Davis, the greatest sufferer, is also an invalid, and has a helpless family. The injury in the village of Rutledge was the destruction of the new and beautiful Masonic Academy and Hall, in which Mr. Thomas Burruss had quite a flourishingschool. It was lucky that the storm came on Saturdays- The wind also picked up an unfinished house belonging to Capt. William Vining, and setit off the pillars on the ground some eight or ten feet from where it was built. It also blew down the smoke-stack of Messrs. A. Vining & Brother’s’steam gin, blew their stables away, and destroyed a beautiful grove of oaks, in’the the village, belonging to the Georgia Railroad and Air-. John Smith. Griffin, Ga., May 3. Saturday’s storm was very destructive. From AlcConnel’s, a farmer in Clayton County, two miles from Jonesboro, it swept down Cotton and Indian Creeks, through Clayton and Henry Counties, crossing the road : between AlcDonough and Decatur, destroying every house on a Air. Johnson’s place, then on Hightower’s, and three other plantations, names not known, all torn up. The last heard of the tornado it had passed the Goodwin place in the direction of Covington. In one instance a fence-rail'was driven through a tree, and . rocks were driven into trees like mlnie-balls. One child blown off' has not been found, and Mr. Johnson was injured. Air. R. 11. Hightower, at Stockbridge, has his leg broken; Airs. Livingstone and her three-months-old- baby were blown 100 yards into a gully. The four-mule team of Cowan & Bro.’s saw-mill at Whitesburg was blown helter-skelter, and Cowan was blown seventy-five yards. Cowan had to cut his team loose to get them from the wagon. Air. J". W. Robinson saiv a hail-stone fall as large as his head. It broke into pieces, but he picked up a splinter seven inches long.

The Vice of the Times.

If the beginning of a new century of our national life should be marked by a revival of the early virtues of the people, such as simplicity, frugality and economy, in place of luxury’, extravagance and prodigality, we might reasonably believe that the next hundred years will witness our grovhh in prosperity and power such as the present state of things gives us no right to anticipate. It will hardly be denied that ostentatious display is one of the great vices of our time and country. The haste to be rich and to make a show of what riches can buy are the canker of our social system and will eat out the solid and enduring strength of any people. The facts on which this statement is made are apparent. they are thrust upon our observation as the grand ob» ject of life and we are compelled to see 1 them whether they disgust or delight us. It is in city and country alike. Everywhere the lust of the eye and the pride of life flare themselves in the sight of men. This is so much the fashion of the day that ife has ceased to receive censure, and it rather commands admiration as the thing to be done and desired. The struggle of those w r ho have not the means to make the display is to get them, and the more they get the more they want. This is human nature. It always was so. Perhaps it AltiThys will be so. But it never did mark the upward progress of a people. It is the sign of culmination and decline. It betokens those views of life—luxury, effeminacy, tinsel, glitter, veneering, shams, show, froth, folly, vanity and vice—that cannot coexist without the sterling honesty, simplicity, purity, sobriety and religious principle on which' true greatness and permanent prosperity are built. To draw the line between the right and wrong in this matter is not for us; our fathers, the founders of the Republic, drew it. There is but one of tb« distinguished men of the Revolution to whom extravagance is imputed, and he was Benedict Arnold. His greed was the incentive to his treason.

We know how silly seems the attempt to say a word against the extravagance , of the times, as indicated in the style of living, the equipage, the furniture, the entertainments in which the rich, and those who wish to be considered rich, but are not, indulge. We are laughed at for our pains and regarded as croaking when the world is singing for joy. But the day of reckoning comes, to nations as well as individuals', and then “ whose shall all these things be?” Who, of all those that pride themselves on costly displays, contribute anything of wisdom and power to the Republic? How few of them leave children whose example is of any service to the country? The sons of men who waste their substance in luxurious living amount to nothing. Such families soon run out. Those who endure, perpetuating their names and their influence through successive generations, are the sober, frugal, steady, conservative people, whose highest ambition is to do their duty to God and their country. We shall see these truths ’brought to the front in the discourses which the centennial will produce, and well will it be for the country, and so for the world, if the truth be so sent home to the understanding and conscience of the nation mat we shall have a revival of those domestic and social virtues which indicate solid worth and assure the existence and influence of public virtues which are essential to permanent national life. —AI Y. Observer. —There are nearly 500 Roman Catholic Tentperance Unions now in the United States, and their organ, the Cathode Union, has come out as a semimonthly, with the promise of a weekly issue by and by.

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

—The hew Compulsory Education law of New York will place in the public schools of New York city about 250,000 pupils between the ages of eight and fourteen years. —A “ Purity of AVorship Defense Association” has been formed in the Irish Presbyterian Church. The object of the association is. to counteract the tendency toward the introduction of instrumental music and the singing of hymns other than the Psalms. This it purposes to do by the aid of “special sermons, lectures, addresses at public meetings and the circulation of literature advocating tjie Scriptural doctrines and form of worship as set down in the standards of the Presbyterian Church.” —A very concise statement of the organization of Universalism in the United States is furnished in the Parish Helper. There are 93a parishes in fellowship with the General Convention, presided over by 674 ministers. The communicants are thus distributed: Eastern States, 165 churches, 9,233 members; Aliddle States, 123 churches, 7,087 members; Western States, 297 churches, 12,773 members; Southern States, 32 churches, 1,129 members; Canada, 7 churches and 83 members; making a total of 624 churches and 31,005 members. —Dr. Mitchell, writing from Calcutta, suggests that the “Nameless Sect” in China, which has recently shown a friendly spirit to the Protestant missions, may be a remnant of the widespread Nestorian work. The followers of this sect are very numerous in China, especially in the province of Shantung, and are intensely disliked by the authorities. Their religion is said to have borne from the West; from whence they also expect a deliverance. They do not worship idols and have a religious form resembling the Lord’s Supper. —At the late meeting of the Presbytery of New York, which is the largest in the Northern Presbyterian Church, the following overture to the General Assembly was adopted: “ Believing that the cause and kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ in this land would be greatly promoted by the establishment o’s friendly relations between the two General Assemblies which bear the Presbyterian name, and churches. North and South, which they represent, and believing that the want of success in securing this result on the part of Hie Southern Committee which recently convened in the City of Baltimore ought not to be regarded as conclusive of efforts in this direction, since the difference between the two parties was in reality not extreme or based upon essential distinctions, this presbytery would urge that the assembly, continue to labor for a better understanding between the two churches by the appointment of a new committee, who shall be ready to- meet any committee of the Southern Assembly that may be appointed, or by adopting such means promotive of harmony as its wisdom may dictate.” *

A Happy Ending to a Practical Joke.

A well-to-do farmer of Bobb township, Posey County, a bachelor of fifty-five years, bad successfully resisted all the blandishments of the fair sex and repelled all attempts on his personal liberty until a short time ago. Some graceless youths, w’bo lived in the neighborhood, wrote him a letter in a feminine hand, soliciting a personal interview with him, and to the document signed the name of a widow some fifteen or twenty, years his junior, residing in the same township. The bachelor was old enough to have forgotten if he had ever received any parental warning to “ beware of vidders; Samivel,” and all artless as he was, though not without a dash of wonderment, he called as requested. The interview was, most probably, somewhat awkward at first, as the widow had.never heard of the request, and the bachelor had no doubt of its authenticity. But’ however the interview passed off, it is quite certain that the widow’s charms were not marshaled before unappreciative eyes, and. that in the end the bachelor took advantage of the situation and consummated arrangements which led to their marriage a few days ago. During the solemnization of the ceremony in church some unrepentant boys considered that as his happiness originated with'them they were entitled to their sport, and, catching several young rabbits, put them in the bride’s basket in the buggy. When the party arrived at the gfoom.’s house, and the bride was introduced to her new friends, she had occasion to open the basket, when out popped the rabbits to the astonishment of all, but the rabbits did not cut short the happiness, and all is now as serene as the summer sky. — Evansville (Ind.) Journal.

Poisonous Wall-Paper.

Arsenic is a deadly poison, especially when absorbed by the pores of the skin or inhaled with the breath. Arsenical preparations will poison the atmosphere of a house and slowly work their evil effects. Asa part of coloring matter in certain wall-papers they cover a large surface; they are feebly adhesive to the paper and are slowly rubbed from it by alternations of heat and cold, moisture and dryness, by currents of air, by sweeping and dusting, and, being dislodged, they form part of the impalpable dust always dancing in the air. A ray of sunlight in a room at once defines the presence of minute particles in the air, among which are the arsenical pigments, if the“room is exposed to them. The various surfaces of the air-passages absorb these particles, and palpable injury is done. Among the evils caused are catarrh, bronchitis, neuralgia, dyspepsia, pain in the bonesand joints, headache, debility and a thousand natural ills; chronic disease, “ a sense of goneness,” depression of spirits, may be produced. How far women who “ go into a decline” may be affected is by no means problematical. Travel may benefit such, but a return home to the malign and mysterious influences of the predisposing cause may renew the trouble. All well-informed physicians know how injurious it is to pass much time in museums where anatomical preparations and stuffed animals have been protected by arsenic against moth and worms; and they should warn their patients against anything in the room which may give suspicion of containing arsenic, mercury, or any other poisonous substance subject to slow evaporation. Manufacturers of these papers ought to know how baneful they are; those who sell them ought to know also. Generally speaking, every one knows that the bright green colors are arsenical, and thkt they are poisonous. But they are pretty and striking, and so they are on the walls of houses, in theaters and elsewhere, where beauty and brilliancy of color are desirable. The arsenical green

is not in the ground-work of the cheaper papers; it is too coetly, but it may be in the ornamental part. It is ord'inarily easily detected by the» eye; used as a “ tone,” it is not so easily discovered, and it may escape notice as a part of other shades. So important was this matter considered that the State Chemist of Alichigan procured samples of arsenical paper and had them placed as a warning on exhibition in all the public libraries of (he State. The report cites numerous facts bearing upon this subject. In one case where severe sickness occurred in a family, it was found that the wall-paper had set free into the atmosphere of a bed-room an oupce of arsenic every six months. This was proved by an analysis of the faded wall-paper and of new paper of the same pattern and purchase. Four or five grains to the square foot is not uncommon. In some instances children have been experimented upon, and a short stay in a 'suspected room has soon developed the same symptoms that others had experienced who had occupied the room before. Often a decided malefic influence has been felt after sweeping or dusting. What is the remedy for this? Tear the paper from the walls or cover it with a thin varnish, which will securely fix the dangerous pigment. But first test the paper you buy; the green, arsenical colors are soluble in ammonia, water. If a little ammonia water poured on the paper discharges the green color, or produces such a change in the color indicating tEiFremoVar = oftfie = green, the paper should be rejected, as it. probably contains arsenic. To identify the presence of arsenic in any paper wet the paper with ammonia water, pour off’ this water on a clean piece of g.ass and drop into this a crystal of nitrate of silver or a small piece of lunar caustic. If yeL low precipitate forms around the crystal it indicates the presence of arsenic. The subject is worth consideration everywhere; this poison is ail around us. An intelligent examination of wall-paper may close up avenues and sources of disease now altogether unsuspected.— Manufacturer and Builder.

Buried Alive.

The Jewish World says: “A case of ‘ premature interment’ is reported from AViina (Germany). A Jewish young woman, aged twenty-five, was pronounced by two Jewish doctors to be dead. The friends of the apparently deceased woman desired, for some reason best known to themselves, the funeral to take place on the same day, and having obtained the necessary certificate from the medical attendants showing that the person had died the body wms removed to the Jewish mortuary. While washing the seeming corpse the women engaged in that operation discovered, to their terror, that the body gradually assumed a life-like appearance,, and their dismay rose to its height when it raised itself to a sitting posture. The resuscitated woman begged those around net to bury her alive. The doctors were called in, and at their solicitation she drank some medicine which they offered to her. Teo minutes after the woman died, and was buried within a few hours. Wfe do not know whether the Jewish authorities at Wilna sanctioned this premature interment ; if they did, they are deserving of severe censure. We are surprised also that they persisted in burying the woman on the lay of her death, especially after the occurrence tve have described. It is even now a matter of grave doubt as to whether life woman was buried alive or not, and we hold the Jews of AVilna responsible for this unseemly and indecent behavior. AVhat aggravates the nature of the case is the fact that the husr band of the poor creature was absent from home at the time of her decease.”

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