Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1875 — Page 2

RENSSELAER UNION. JAKES k HEALEY, Proprietor*. RENSSELAER, ’ - INDIANA.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

rOBNGN. * A Barcelona dispatch of the 18th announces the capture of an important Carlist position at Montserrat, with a Government loss of ninety-three killed and wounded. The Carlist low was unknown. ' Twenty-one members of the Oommittec of Thirty in the French Assembly resigned on the 19th on account of the failure of a measure advocated by them. A San Sebastian dispatch of the 19th says the small-pox had broken out In the Carllst camps, and was raging violently. A dispatch from Hendaye, Spaing" on the 20th says the Carlisle, after two days’ heavy fighting, had occupied Usurbil and Ario, from which the Alphonsist troops had retreated with heavy losses. A Dublin dispatch of the 21st says Judge Keogh, before whom Moore’s election petition was heard, had decided that the late John Mitchel was disqualified from holding a seat in Parliament because he was a felon and an alien. A Rome dispatch of the 21st says the Italian Government had ordered the removal of all Bishops who have uot received the royal exequatur indorsing their appointments. The Belgian tribunal at Liege has dismissed the charges against Duchesne of plotting for the assassination wf Prince Bismarck. It was thought in Berlin on the 22d that the finding would not be regarded by Germany as a settlement of the matter. A religious procession passing through the streets of Brussels on the 2Sd was broken up by the populace.

— DOMESTIC. It was reported on the 18th that the Mexican banditti were again raiding on the Texas border in the vicinity of the Rio Grande, committing many depredations and outrages, and capturing cattle and driving them into Mexico. In Chicago, on the 19th, several criminal prosecutions against persons implicated in the whisky frauds were tried before United Btates Commissioner Hoyne. Two gaugers, named Rutisbauer and Watson, were held to bail in the sum of $5,000 each, and Messrs. Golson & Eastman, rectifiers, were each held in the sum of SIO,OOO. Osceola, Pa., was nearly destroyed by fire on the 30th, all the public buildings except the Catholic and Methodist Churches being burned, together with about 300 dwellings. Twelve hundred people are rendered homeless. A large quantity of lumber was destroyed. Loss estimated at $3,000,000; insurance light, A committee appointed by the Illinois Humane Society at its recent annual meeting to prepare an appeal for the organisation of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals have issued an address to the humane men and women of the Northwest, calling on them for concert of action in this direction. The committee state that the Illinois Humane Society (whose headquarters are at 275 East Madison street, Chicago, Albert W. Landon, Secretary) will be glad to forward to applicants such imblicatious as may aid in the formation of State or local societies, and it invites correspondence upon this important subject The centennial of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was celebrated at Charlotte, N. C., on the 30th. There was a large and enthusiastic gathering of people from that and adjoining States. The hoisting of the stars and stripes in Independence Square was greeted with enthusiastic cheers, and flags were displayed from all the principal buildings and other places in the city. Many distinguished gentlemen were present and delivered addresses. — Secretary Cowan and Commissioner Smith had a council with the Sioux Indian delegation in Washington on the 21st; but little was accomplished. Red Cloud and Spotted Tail had expressed a wish to change hotels, as they were stopping at a temperance lrouse, which did not suit them. The Commissioner refused to make the change. Postmaster-Gen. Jewell has ordered the reletting of the mail contracts in which frauds were discovered. Speaking of the grasshopper ravages the Chicago Tribune of the 23d says its “ reports from the sections in the Northwest so terribly desolated last year are generally of a more encouraging character than any which have been received heretofore. Nebraska is especially hopeful of escaping a renewal of the visitation; in Missouri, between prayer and Paris green, there is a feeling of encouragement; in Kansas the farmers have recovered from their alarm and feel reassured; and in Minnesota and lowa the prospects are not considered as gloomy as heretofore.” Thejnews from Osceola, Pa., on the 21st was to the effect that fires were still prevailing in the woods in that neighborhood. About 250 buildings in the town were consumed and SOO families rendered homeless. Relief was greatly needed. Houtxdale, a town of about 900 inhabitants, six miles from Gseeola, is reported entirely destroyed and the woods in that neighborhood on lire.

Seven of the Sioux Indians, including Red Cloud and Spotted Tail, left the hotel quarters assigned them by the Commissioners in .Washington, on the 23d, and went to the Washington House. This step on the part of the Indians is considered a bold one. It was thought in Washington on the 23d that Hie proposed negotiations with the Indian delegates would not be accomplished so easily as the Government bad anticipated. A Tyrone (Pa.) dispatch of the 23d says the destruction and desolation caused by the fire at Osceola and in the woods in that region were very much greater than previously reported. Nine-tenths of the town were burned, leaving scarce enough ashes to mark where the buildings had stood. A disease strongly resembling cerebro-spinal , meningitis has broken out among-., the horses in St. Louis, and proves fata] in’ many cases. PEBHONAL. Asa B. Matthews, Collector of Internal Revenue of the Ninth Illinois District, has been appointed United States Supervisor of Internal Revenue for the district embracing the States of Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, vine D. W. Munn, removed. r , The Sioux Indian delegation was received by President Grant on the I9th. The arguments of counsel in the TlltonBeecher suit were begun on the 19th, Judge Porter opening on behalf of the defense. He was very severe in his denunciations of Messrs. Tilton and Moulton, the former of whom was prekent during the entire day’s proceedings. Mrs. Lincoln, widow of the late President

Lincoln, has been adjudged insane by a jury in the Cook County Court at Chicago, and was, on th» 30th, rei novel! to a private insane asylum at Batavia, flj. The. Chicago Tribune says the long y ears of painful brooding over the dread Ail homicide of her husband bad gradually produced the' necessity for Mia action now taken. That paper also ar»ys; “Aa will be seen from the evidence, V.ra. Lincoln’* mind has been for ten years '„he prey to growing madness, and this fact, now made public, will cast a new light or, many of her past actions, which were harshly criticised hv those .who did not know her, and which, while understood by her personal friends, could not be explained i by them, since to have done have been to hava> exposed her mental condition, which it was then hoped might improve.*’ The funeral of Gen. John C. Breckinridge totk placqjat Lexington, Ky., on the 19tli, j and was attended by an immense throng of people. Hon. Jesse D. Bright, cx-Unlted States Senator from Indiana, died at his residence in Baltimore, Md.,on the 20th, of organic disease of the heart. He was sixty-three years old. Cardinal McCloskey. has been presented with a' $30,000 diamond cross by the young lady pupils of St. Vincent’s Institute, in New York city. The United States Centennial Commission met in Ph il adelpbia on the 21st, and elected the following officers: President, Gen. Joseph R. Hawley-, Connecticut: First" Vice-Presi-dent, Orestes Cleveland, New Jersey; Second Vice-President, Jcfrn D. Creigh, California; Third Vice-President, Robert Sowrv, Iowa; Fourth Vice-President, Thomas H. Caldwell, Tennessee; Fifth Vice-President, John MaXeil, Missouri; Sixth Vice-Pres-ident, YVilliain Gurney, South Carolina; John L. Campbell, Secretary; John L. Shoemaker, Counselor and Commissioner. Executive Committee— Daniel J. Morrell, Pennsylvania; Alfred T. Goshorn, Ohio; N.M. Beckwith, New'Tork; Alexander R. Boteler, West Virginia; Richard G. McCormick, Arizona; John Lynch; Louisiana; Charles P. Kimball, Maine;. Samuel F. Phillips, North Carolina; Frederick L. Matthews, Illinois; William Phipps Blake, Connecticut; James E. Dexter, District of Columbia; J. T. Bernard, Florida; George B. Loring, Massachusetts.

Dftniel O’Leary, the Chicago pedestrian, has accomplished the unprecedented feat, at the skating rink iu Chicago, of walking 500 miles in 153 hours, 2 minutes and 50 seconds, thus beating the time set for the walk by nearly three hours. In the course of this walk he accomplished 50 miles in nine consecutive hours, 300 miles in less than fifty hours, and made a mile in seven minutes and twenty-eight seconds, the shortest time on record. He now claiifls to be the champion pedestrian of the world. Supervisor of Internal Revenue McDonald, of St. Louis, was removed on the 23d and Ferdinand Myers appointed as his successor. POLITICAL. The Wisconsin Republican State Convention has been called to meet at Madison on Wednesday, July 7, for the nomination of candidates for State officers. An attempt to remove the public archives of West Virginia from Charleston, W. Va., to Wheeling, the new capital of the State, was thwarted on the 20th by the enforcement of the injunction issued by Judge Smith. Gov. Jacobs denied the authority of the court in the matter and protested against the interference, but decided not to remove the public property, holding the court responsible for its safe-keeping, the State officers deciding in the meantime to make their headquarters at Wheeling. A State Temperance Mass Convention of women met at St. Louis ou the 30th. Miss Ida Buckingham was chosen President. - The State Constitutional Convention, in session at Jefferson City, was requested to incorporate a clause iu the new Constitution giving the ballot to women. The New York Legislature adjourned sine die on the 23d.

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

—At Amherst just now the average grade of scholarship is 75.4 on the scale of 100. are thirty-eight agricultural colleges in the United States, with 889 professors and 8,917 students. —The Supreme Court of California has decided that there shall be no change of text-books in the public schools of that State. —A petit ion of citizens asking that unsectarian religious exercises be introduced in the schools has been refused by the San Francisco Board of Education. —A committee of the Prussian Diet has prepared a bill declaring "the Old Catllolics entitled to a share of Roman Catholic churches, cemeteries and revenues proportionate to their numbers as compared with other Catholics. —According to the General Minutes, there are 1,060 superannuates and 670 supernumeraries among the traveling preachers in the Methodist Episcopal Church, or one-sixth of the whole num--ber are reported as “not effective.” Some of these ministers are insurance agents, contractors, Colorado miners, literary employes, students, grocery men, speculators and bankers. —The last annual public school report of Maine shows that the increase of attendance in 1874 over that of 1873 was, in the summer schools, 6.218; in the winter schools, 4,939. The wages of teachers have also increased. The aggregate amount of money expended for schools in 1874 was $1,191,712, the excess of money raised above the amount required by law being $37,829. The increase of the permanent school fund was $50,610. The working of the Normal School is said to be excellent.

—An old story regarding Ethan Allen is revived by the Washington ChronicU. Allen had the reputation of being an open unbeliever in Christianity. He published the first formal attack on the Christian religion ever written in America. He inclined to the doctrine of Pytkagoras and believed in the transmigration of souls. His wife was a woman of exemplary piety, and his children, with the exception of one daughter, shared with tne mother in her religious belief. This daughter inclined to the strange opinions of her father. When about to die she sent for him. The rough-spoken man, Whose heart was as tender as a child’s, came to the bsd-side of the dying girl. “ Father, I am about to die," said she: “shall 1 believe in the principles you have taught me, or shall I believe in * what my mother has taught me?" The i father became agitated, his lips quiv- j ered, tears ran down his cheeks, and, bending over his dying he said, j with a voice choked with emotion: “ Be- j lieve what your mother has taught you." i

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Loc. axspoht puts in a claim to 15,000 souls now. ... i-j " . ' G keen-castle is to have a stone-front and three-stories-high opera-house. • There are no houses for rent in Vincennes, and a spirit of general improvemenf prevails. ■ '' A $2,500 horse snagged its foot and died from the injury, a few days ago, in Miami County. The Wabash Mediqil Association will meet in Vincennes June 8. A large attendance is anticipated. The total value of real estate transferred in Steuben County during the month of April was about SIOO,OOO. The Clsy County miner.;’ strike had entered on its thirteenth week on the 16th, and there \yere no signs of yielding. J. llarnes A Son’s mill, at Farmland, Randolph County, was recently destroyed by lire. Loss $5,000; no insurance. The number ot schOol’rhildren in Vigo County has increased 325 during the past year. Jhe total number is now 13.710. A fire started in a Knightsville saloon the other day which was not extinguished uni il SIO,OOO worth of property was burned. —•—-• —- It is estimated that 150 head of sheep have been killed by dogs in Hanover township, Jefferson County, during the past Winter.

J enny llall, of North Manchester, has sued J. H. Shively of the same place for breach of marriage contract. She thinks she has suffered $25,000 worth. The barn of Eli Thorp, at New Pittsburgh, Randolph County, was struck by lightning a few nights since, and consumed, w ith all its contents. The Lebanon Pioneer says; “ The cherry crop is not all killed; there will be a great many cherries yet. Also the late apples are showing signs of life.” An old man lately died in Bloomington, Monroe County, within one month of being 117 years old. A centenar-Vti indeed! He lirst saw light in Guilford County, N. C., in the year 1758. The spring fair of the Middle Fork Union Agricultural Society, composed of Clinton, Howard and Carroll Counties, will be held at Middle Fork, Clinton County, June 18 and 19. Twenty years ago Wm. H. Pierson, of Hendricks County, swallowed a nail, andhas been trying to digest itever since. But a few days since he gave it Up and also gave up the ghost in consequence ot the unfavorable diet. A farm-hand named McCord was recently killed in Jefferson County in a very singular way. He was seated under a large tree eating his dinner, when a large limb broken off by the wind fell upon him and killed him instantly. The State Editorial Association is to meet at the State-House June 10 and 11, with a programme devoted entirely to business and papers of practical interest to editors and publishers. W. S. Lingle, of the Lafayette Courier , is President. All the machinery for the cotton-mill at Evansville has now arrived from the East. It has taken seventy-live cars to transfer all the contrivances used in spinning cotton. The immense factory will be in operation by the middle of June. The Lafayette Courier says: “Eleven entries already for fine cattle at the next Tippecanoe County Fair. Our premiums have attracted attention in Europe, and have been paragraphed in the Standard as an evidence of the growing interest in fine stock in America.”

The Martin County Herald says: “ One night last week a party of masked men went to the house of Isaac Utterback, who resides some three miles north of Harrisonville, broke open the door of his house, took him out to the woods and whipped him severely. No cause is known for this outrage.” Charles Wade, ap Evansville watchmaker, while carrying some watches in a valise from his shop to his residence the other night, was knocked down and robbed before he could use the revolver which he carried on his person for defense. Some thirty watches, valued at S6OO to S7OO, constituted the booty. One of the most important resources of Washington County is her valuable sandbanks, situated in the southeast part of the county, about four miles from the railroad. It is doubtless the best sand for the purposes for which it is used to be found in j the United States, and is said to be the i #nly sand which will make shir glass. I Arrangements are already in progress ! for holding the Acton camp-meeting, lo- ! cated in the bounds of the Indianapolis | District, which is to be held Aug. 10, con- j [ tinuing at least ten days. The camp- j | meeting spirit is wonderfully on the in- j | crease in that region, and there is every ; j prospect of a large attendance.

Ax old citizen of Cloverdale, Upton Shaw, recently lost his life in the following manner: He had a favorite stallion which required new shoes, and, mounting j the horse, he started for the smith-shop to have the necessary work done. On his ; way the horse stepped with his fore feet iuto a hole and threw Mr. Shaw over his head. He died next morning from the effects of the fall. j ®The following postal changes occurred I in the State, during the week ending May 15, 18i5; Established—Granger, Monroe County, Isaac A Chandler, Postmaster. Postmasters appointed—Alquina, Lafayette County, Matthew R. Hull; Crothersville, Jackson County, Edwin W. Wade; Gessie, Vermillion County, William H. Salsgaver ; Graysville, Sullivan County, Stephen V. Brewer; Kewanna. Fulton : | County, Jesse W. Carter; Lawrence, ! i Marion County, A. Johnston; j ! Locke, Elkhart County, Jacob Hentmin- * ger; Orth, Montgomery County, Ira S. : McLaughlin; Pulaski, Pulaski Qounty, Matthew M. Hughes; St. Joseph's Hill, Clark County, Jacob Schaefer; Wolf Lake, Noble County. Charles Y, Barnhart. * ' -M-;-

MECHANICAL AND SCIENTIFIC.

—An unlucky mouse got into a beq» hive not long ‘since, and was not only stunts to death, but, on becoming odoriferously unpleasant, wtis hermetically sealed in wax by the high-toned hymenopterans. —The birds at Hyde Park, London, while destroying the yellow crocuses in the flower-beds, avoid the white ones, 1 and the scientists are pricking up their - ears at some hidden scientific reason for the same. —The French astronomers are using a convenient little celestial cliaft, being a l»ojection of the heavens as though the sky was reflected in a mirror. It is oriented by a contrivance, with the pole star as a guide. And by adjusting an eye-piece any star can be observed, with the aspect of the heavens, time of rising and setting, passing the meridian and other phenomena used in stellar calculations. —ln heating a church the janitor should see that his Fahrenheit is sixtyfive degrees four feet from the floor. At the close of the service, also, the doors and windows should be.open two or three hours, so that the immense volume of impurities and human emanations may be carried off. Otherwise these odors solidify in part and ary on the walls, glass and wood work; and when the temperature again rises they, like bird's of Hl-omen, fly down from their roosts to pollute the air - again.—Springfield (J ltm ) Republican. —Certain philosophers say that our world has long since passed its one hundred millionth birthday, and its end, though remote, is a gloomy one. It is said that the sun is going out, which fact would seem to find corroboration in the coldness of the present spring; and that in regard to the whole universe, if we were to travel forward in time we should come finally to a great central mass, all in one piece, which would send out waves of heat through a perfectly empty ether, and gradually cool itself down. As this mass cooled, it would be deprived of all iife or motion ;_it would be just a mere enormous frozen block in the middle of the ether.

—By the investigations of Mr. Emerson, an English chemist, it appears that the fly is good for something besides milk and molasses pitchers and spiders. Every one is familiar with the usual gymnastics of a musca domestica after alighting, the rubbing of the hind feet together, then hind feet and wings, then the fore feet. By these movements the animalcules, which are in impure air and which adhere to the fly as it circles about a room, are collected together and eaten. Thus it is constantly at work removing the seeds of disease. Leanness in a fly is prima facie evidence of pure air in a house" while corpulency indicates foul wall-piper and bad ventilation. —A series of highly interesting and successful experiments with a new explosive have, it appears, been recently made in Wales, nearly 500 civil engineers and others interested in mining operations being present. Among the special advantages supposed to be possessed "by this new powder, as compared with other kinds now use, and which these experiments seem to have demonstrated, are that its explosive force is exceptionally great, that it throws off only a very small quantity of smoke or injurious gas, and that, together with these qualities, it is at the same time quite as safe for use as any ordinary powder, not being liable to explode by increased temperature, exposure to the sun, percussion or sejf-ignition. —The usual explanation of the warmth of woolen clothing is that, being very porous, it is filled with air, which forms a non-conducting jacket. Dr. Pettenkpfer experimented on the amount of air actually included in various fabrics, witff tne following result: It flannel is taken at 100, other fabrics contain proportionately the following quantities of air: Linen, fifty-eight, silk forty, buckskin fifty-six, tanned leather one, chamois fifty-one. His conclusion is that a current of air passes constantly through our clothing, the strength of which current depends upon the difference of temperature between the internal and external air and the velocity of the surrounding atmosphere. The function of clothing is to regulate the admission of air to the body so that the, nerves shall not perceive the movement.

Arctic Mosquitoes.

In a work recently published in London—“ The Land of the North Wind; or, Travels among the Laplanders and the Samoyeds”—the author, Edward Roe, gives the following account of the Arctic mosquitoes: “ The one bitter drop in our cup of joy was the monstrous but inseparable curse of Arctic summer life—the mosquito. He abounded, flourished, luxuriated, surpassed himself, out-mosquitoed himself, on the Kuloi River. We were at his mercy; our veils, gauntlets, handkerchiefs, flapper, all were a vanity and vexation. To kill was wanton, for to destroy sufficient was impossible. We had foreseen all this, and had even thought of taking, among other things, a woodpecker from horns with us "to : protect our faces while we slept ; but one : woodpecker would have been a solemn 1 mockery; we should have wanted a i fresh woodpecker every five minutes. I ! suppose these were the historical flies sent to punish the disobedient, obstinate | Egyptians; they came forth in order, and after three grievous plagues—the corruption of the waters, the multitude of frogs, and the swarms of lice—had entirely failed. “We are becoming connoisseurs in mosquitoes; we watch them traverse our veils like 4 figures on slides in a magic lantern. There is the yellow, striped, vampire mosquito, witn a triple fang to his proboscis; there is the brown, humpbacked or camel mosquito, with legs of gossamer, who appears to our vindictive eyes td be from two to three inches in length; finally, there is the scorpion mosquiio, very searching and business like. We dislike him greatly, for he wastes no time. We know now that leather is a hollow delusion, and armor-plated gauntlets are alone of avail.

“Sometimes a mosquito comes and kills himself by squeezing between our finger and thumb, sometimes by flying’ against my flapper. There are moments, but so rare and delicious that I almost tremble to describe them, when we find a mosquito who has anchored himself by the proboscis in our gloves—and we watch the expression of baffled hatred in his countenance with which he watches the approach of the avenging finger. Oh, the peaceful, blissful enjoyment of that moment. Sometimes we watch him, in his anxious, hurried efforts to pierce the glove—he knows that time is all he needs—standing upon his fore legs, with

his hind legs flourishing in the air, while he bores away diligently through the thick leather in his wicked thirst for blood. Sometimes in our frenzy we ensnare a mosquito and get up and trample on his head. We ask ourselves in hours past endurance why the law of nature should be reversed, and man, the lord of creation, become the prey of savage creatures. We have formed a grave "if impious resolution: we will take a mosquito by stratagem, pinion him, and, with the help of a burning glass, offer niqi in sacrifice to the midnight sun.”

List of Battles of the Revolution.

While we are in all parts of the country preparing to celebrate the centennial of American independence it will be well to bear in mind the principal battles by which that independence was achieved. The following will be found to comprise all the battles that took place in the fight for freedom. They began April 19,1775. They closed Oct. 19, 1781 —six years and six months. The British sent 134,000 soldiers and sailors to this war. The Colonists met them with 230,000 Continentals and 50,000 militia. The British let loose Indians and equally savage Hessians. The Colonies had for their allies the brave and courteous Frenchmen. The leading battles of the war—those particularly worthy of celebration —are Concord and Lexington, Bunker’s Hill, Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Bennington, Saratoga, Monmouth, King’s Mountain,Cowpen, Eutaw Springs, Yorktown. These are of national interest., Many of the others are especially local. The disposition is to celebrate them all —victories and defeats —to recall the deeds of our ancestors and have a good time generally. Our readers will do well to preserve the following list of Revolutionary battles: Lexinsrton (ftrrt skirmish) April 10. 1775 Ticonderoga ..... i May 10. 1775 Bunker Hill June 17,1775 Montreal (Ethan Allen taken) Sept. 25, 1775 St. John besieged and captured Nov. 3,1775 Great Bridge. Va Dec.o, 1775 ' Quebec (Montgomery killed,) Dec. 31, 1775 Moore's Creek Bridge. Feb. 27.17f6 Boston (British fled) March 17, 1770 Fort Shllivau, Charleston June 28,1770 Long Island Aug. 27,177 T Harlem Plains Sept. 10. 1776 White Plains 0ct..28, 1770 Fort Washington.. Nov. 16, 1770 Trenton Dec. 27. 1770 Princeton Jan. 3,1777 Hubbarton .July 7,1777 Bennington Aug. 10, 1777 Brandywine Sept. 11, 1777 First battle of Bemis Heights, Saratoga.. Sept. 19.1777 Paoii ...... Sept. 20. 1777 Germantown..,.. Oct. 4, 1777 Forts Clinton and Montgomery taken .Oct. 6,1777 Second battle at Bemis Heights, Saratoga Oct. 7,1777 Surrender of Burgoyne Oct. 13,1777 Fort Mercer ." Oct. 22, 1777 Fort Mifflin N ovember, 1777 Monmouth June 28, 1778 Wyoming July 4, 1778 Quaker hill, R. I Aug. 29, 1778 Savannah Dec. 29, 1778 Kettle Creek, Ga Feb. 14, 1779 Brier Creek March 3, 1779 Stony IJerry June 20, 1779 Stony Point July 16. 1779 Haulus’ Hoek -.Aug. 13, 177!) Chemung (Indians) l: .'Aug. 29, 1779 Savannah .Aug. 9, 1779 ' Charleston (surrendered to British)...May 12. 1780 Springfield....... ... ........June 28, IWO Rocky Mount July 20, 1780 Hanging Rock. Ang. 6, 1780 Sanders’ Creek, near Camden .Aug. 16, 1780 King’s Mountain ....Oct. 7, 1780 Fish Dam Ford, Broad River Nov. 18. 1780 Blackstocks .... ............... Nov. 20, 1780 C0wpeu8....... Jan. 17, 1781 Guiboro March 15, 1781 Hockirk’s Hill April 25, 1781 Ninety-six (besieged) May and June, 1781 Augusta (besieged) May and June, 1781 Jamestown July 9, 1781 Eutaw Springs Sept. 8, 1781 Yorktown (Cornwallis’ surrender).. ..Oct. 19, 1781

Fashion Changes.

A Paris correspondent says: Fashion has crept into even the minutest details of a lady’s toilet, and it is decreed that the simple Balbriggan stocking, whose claims to attention were merely its fineness, its durability and its elasticity, is to be replaced by a crowd of new inventions in the hosiery line. The counter devoted to stockings in the large shops here is now as radiant with color as is that which is given up to ribbons and neckties. Striped, embroidered, openworked, blue, pink, yellow, violet, scarlet —every shade, in short, save white. The long line of shelves looks like the avant'garde of a bodiless corps de ballet. It is the mode now to wear a stocking that matches the dress; thus, if the toilet be in two shades, the stocking is striped to correspond. The last style in embroidered stockings is to have a garland winding round and round the leg. Stockings which are half dark and half light should have the foot and ankle of the darker shade. They are usually made in different shades of the same color, but sometimes a contrast is used; thus the lower part may be of peart gray and the upper of peach color. In stripes, scarlet and peach color, violet and lilac, black and pink, and other pretty contrasting shades are %-orn. The open-worked stockings are fine as lace and in, as delicate and dainty patterns. To better display all this luxury of hosiery ladies’ boots are now cut across the front to simulate straps, and slippers are held in place by three straps adorned with buckles or with bows. The pointed American shape is beginning to replace the broad, square toe, up to this time adopted for ladies’ boots by French shoemakers. Handkerchiefs are coming into vogue again as visible portions of a lady’s toilet. The corner is suffered to peep out from the

little siffe-pocket or the escarcella; it may be either of batiste or of foulard, with a colored hem or with colored blocks at the corners, and marked with a sac-simile of the wearer’s signature or else with her arms or monogram. The latest style for full dress is of finest cambric, edged with five rows of narrow Valenciennes, or else richly embroidered and bordered with a single row of wide Valenciennes put on like a flounce: In parasols the latest mode decrees a black silk covering, lined with pink, blue, or straw color to suit the costume; at one side a sipgle spray of flowers is embroidered, which must match the flowers on the wearer's bonnet . White parasols, all purely, spotlessly white, both handle and covering, are sometimes seen. Others are embroidered with stars of brownish steel, whieff new tint is called Sphinx color. These new ornaments glittervery eflectively in the sunshine. In letterpaper the monogram has b<pen replaced by tiny devices stamped on the left-hand corner of the sheet, and eacli having its special signification. Thus, a carrierpigeon means to answer quickly; a swallow, return; a fly, do not count on me; a key, I expect you; an opened envelope, the secret is discpvered j an imp stirring a boiling saucepan, I renounce love, etc. If this style becomes a general one stationers will be forced to sell a card of explanations with each quire of paper. -*• y The man w*ho, with his sweetheart, eats strawberries and creac at this season has the dear things all together.

A Boil on the Nose.

It is a little thing, but it is a source <£ untold misery to its unlucky proprietor. We suppose you have had one* Al- . most everybody has. .- /■ v You feel it coming long before it really puts in a decided appearance. Your nose feels tight and straight, and it ache* in little, needle-like pains, and you’ are painfully conseious of the fact that yoa are the possessor of a nose. Whenever, for any eapse, you begin to "Be more conscious of owning one organ of the body than another,“then be assured there is disease there. A person in perfect health knows no ears, no eyes, no limbs, no feet—they are all concentrated in one comfortable feeling that he is sound in every part. As your nose grows worse you begin to consult a hand-mirror, and set it up against the for a better light. Your nose is like a painting—it requires a full head of light; and indeed it looks as if it had*not only been painted, but varnished. Hourly it loses its fair proportions, and assumes no particular shape. It t twists first to one side, and then to the other; and it bulges out like a broken umbrella, and the space under your eye is puffed and baggy, and the eye itself shows signs of going under. Your wife wants to go to a ball or an opera about that time, but you are too much disfigured to venture, and she is sulky in consequence, and spitefully she wishes she had married a man who wasn’t foreverlastingly having boils. And she adds that she might as well have been Mrs. Job, and done with it. Your small children eye you curiously and tell you confidentially that your nose looks just like old Blazo’s when he’s tight; and they embrace the first opportunity of asking their mother “if she thinks father drinks.”

Everybody you meet asks you if you have been fighting. People in the streetcars stare at you, and whisper about small-pox, and move farther off. §1 School-girls giggle when they meet you, and from small boys you get saluted in this wise • “ Say, nose! where are you going with that man*” How earnestly you watch the rising and swelling of your tormentor! No culturist of roses ever watched the unfolding of some new and rare variety of rosebud with any more solicitude. How long it is coming to a head! Everybody laughs at your uneasiness and tells you to be patient. How slow the time is in passing! Will it never be next week? Why doesn’t the abomination break? Will it leave a scar? What did make it come? Will there be more of them? Why didn’t you appreciate your felicity when you hadn’t any boil? At last, after you have completely given out and have become resigned to a, perpetual boil on your nose, the swelling suddenly collapses, the “core” comes out, “Richard is himself again!” —Kate Thom , in N. Y. Weekly. —ln the Tufts Collegian Mr. Z. L. White endeavors to impress upon students the. necessity of a more careful study than has heretofore been given to the fundamental principles which underlie sound political science. Every graduate should be thoroughly familiar with the theory of our government, and the relation of its different tranches to each other and to the people, and more attention should be given to the political history of the United States. Now the future looks brighter. The Treasury Department acquiesces in the judicial decision that German sausages are exempt from duty under the special provision for Bolcgna sausages, and, therefore, no appeal will be taken to the Supreme Court. —The Educational law passed by the last Texas Legislature fixes the compensation of public schools in that State at ten cents per day for each pupil in actual attendance.

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