Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1875 — Page 2

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[?] OF THE WEEK.

WP m WEMGR. The town of Morahusk, on the right bank of the river Tsna, In Ruaala, has been entirely destroyed by fire. It bad a population of 90,000. It was reported In London on the 9th that Gen. Saballs had defeated the Alphonsists at Blancs, after two days’ capturing their guns, stores, and 140 prisoners. A violent atom passed over Paris on the 9th, causing immense damage. There were many accidents, and traffic was wholly suspended In the streets. The damage done in Paris alone Is estimated at 11,1300,000 francs. The Sultan Of' Zanzibar has reached London on a visit ho <J«en Victoria. The steamer Vicksburg left Quebec on the 37th of Hay. On the Ist. o[ June, in latitude 46:34 north v longitude 47:58 west, she was crushed by heavy k* and went down, carrying with her not less than forty f ouls, including the Captain. A London dispute* of theOOth says the mortality in the Fiji Islands 'from measles had Pee® frightful. K box containing a number of Protestant books consigned Vo an American resident of Spain has been confiscated by the Spanish Oxstom-Housc and the attention of Minister Cushing has been cti’.e/f to tbe act The Prinoe Bishop of Broslau has been sentenced to a fine of 2,000 marks or 133 days imprisonment for illegally ex-communicat-ing a priest. Tbe Imperial Char.ccP.or of Germany law Issued an order prohibiting tha circulation of the Cathriic (•fazetu , of Baltimore, for twe years within the bound aries of the Empire. A railroad accident occurred near Bath England, on the 11th, rrhlch caused the dealt! of several persons and serious Injuries tc many others. A Panama dispatch gives details of a fear ful earthquake which occurred in Nes Granada on the 18th ult Large portions a the cities Of San Cayetana, Gramalata Arboleda, Cucola and San Cristobel were de strayed, and several thousand persons were reported killed. The section of country affecSedby this earthquake embraces the coffee growing portion of the Republic, and the lose to its prod ust ve industry U said to bo almost irreparable.

DOMESTIC. dispatch of the 9th says the officials of 4he Interior Department did not regard the-results of the late visit of the Indians to 'Washington as a failure The department had ao thought of effecting a treaty reatteg to ths Black Hills with the Indians whSe in 1 Washington, knowing they had no power to do so. The object was to discuss tie subject with them and prepare them for some arrangement after a return of the ex pedition which had been Bent out to determine whether there is gold there or nc& Hopes were still entertained by the department that the hunting-grounds in Nebraska* will yet be relinquished by'the Indians. A WBl esbarre (Pa.) dispatch of the Bt.h says there was then no prospect whatever of the m iacre of the Wyoming region resuming work. A Wjqr- sixteen years old was recently hanged at Carrollton, Ga., for the murder In Octcher last of a man who had befriended him -by giving him food, shelter and employ■men'i." The crime was committed for the 6ake -of phonier. Gum Sheridan has publicly announced that all parties who contemplate entering the Big Horn country will be prevented from doing so by the .military authorities until the orders under which the latter are acting are revoked. The Chicago papers of the 10th announce that- Uie Illinois Central and the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railroads had decided to pool their earnings between competing points. Prof. Jenney, of the Government exploring expedition in the Black Hills region, has telegraphed to Washington from Vln camp on Beaver Creek, June 9,” as follows: “The greater ares of the Black Hills is in Dakota. The formations in the vicinity are of a. recent geological age and not auriferous. We will .-cross through the hills and examine the gold -.field reported to exist near Harney’s Creek.” The. Agricultural Department at Washingrton has statistics carefully collected by rej -sponsible persons in the following States, giv»iag the number of live hogs in these-States in January last as follows: 1ndiana,5,670,-*€00;-Illinois, 2,034,000; lowa, 5,595,000; Missouri, .3,082,600; Ohio, 1,754,400; Kentucky, 1,706,000; Wisconsin, 587,800. Total, -SOO. It is estimated that returns from other -States will make the hog crop for the year over. 18J3G0,000. The Chicago Times of the 11th states that the Supervising Architect of the Treasury and the engineers appointed to examine the walk of the new Custom-House building in Xh&Wity had condemned the entire structure and entered its demolition. They find the foundations insecure, the stone of which the walls are constructed worthless, and the masonry botched in many respects. A gang of twelve cattle-thieves was overtaken J>y a company of State troops near Brownsville, Tex., on the 18 th, and, showing fight, their whale number were killed. During, the engagetnentone of the soldiers was fatally < shot. The iron safe of the United States man-of-war Cumberland, which was run into *t l and sunk in Hampton Roads by the Confederate nun Virginia, in K 63, has recently been recoveaed by a diver who had been searching for it only two days. Other divers had been seeking the lost treasure for ten yea re The safe contained between $60,000 and SIOO,OOO in gold, and was four* 1 in seventy-eight feet of water.

r«SMNAL. A Philadelphia dispatch of the Sth announces that in a few days Several different organizations, aggregating 15,000 in number, <would leave that city for the Black Hills by sJifferent routes. The President has appoiated Got. Ax tell, of Utah Territory, to be Governor of New Mexico, vioe Giddings, deceased, and Geo. W. Eoury Governor of Utah, vice Ax tell. Me. Kvarts concluded hie argument for the* defense in the Tiltoa-Beaeher trial on the Bth, and Mr. Beach began lies plea in behalf of the proseention on the 9th. Mr. 1 address extended through eight day*. V, The Rer. i. S. Shipman, of Kentucky, has been eleeted Episcopal Bishop of Northern Wisconsin. A Washington dispatch of the 11th an. pounces that the headquarters of the Nation.

al Grange of Patrons of Husbandry would probably be removed to Louisville, Ky., in a abort time, The members of the well-known dry goods house of *. B. ClaMn & Co., New York, have been indi&tod for baling in smuggled silk goodt, knowlngthem to such, and have given bail in the sum of $20,090 each.. The following officers were elected by the International Typographical Union at its recent session in Boston: President, Walter H. Bell, of Philadelphia; First Vice-President, Janies Harper, of Montreal; Second VicePresident, C. F. Bhcldon, of Kansas City; Secretary and Treasurer, Wm. A. Hutchinson* of Chicago; Corresponding Secretary, W. 8. Pride, of Wilmington, Del. A libel suit against the Pittsburgh Daily Pott, brought by W. D. Moore, late Chairman or the Democratic County Committee, has terminated in a verdict for the plaintiff for SIO,OOO damages. The Pott had denounced Moore as an impostor, etc.

1 POLITICAL* The Supreme Court ol New Hampshire de-, dined to pass an opinion upon the action of the Governor and CorftTdl in the matter of the contested .Senator*s.l election c.ases, holding that such an ophrion could have no fur thcr weight than the criticism of one branch of the Govcrnmotf upon the action of a coordinate branch. The court expresses the opinion, liowy.-vr, that when the State Senate adjudged Pi lest and Proctor duly elected Senators such action was final and conclusive as to their rights. The seceding Republican Senators returned to their seats on the Btli and the Senate concurred with the House in notifying the Governor that both branches were organised and ready for business. Judge Nelson, of the United States District Court in session at Winona, Minn., has rent dered a decision affirming the constitutionality of the Civil-Rights law. A Hires meeting of the citizens of Columbia, S. C., held on the 7th, adopted resolueq nesting the Mayor and Aldermen of the efty to resign. An investigation had demonstrated that the municipal debt, amounting to $676,724, had been mainly contracted by fraudulent practices on the part of the municipal government The New Hampshire Legislature,‘in joinsession on the 9th, elected -Verson O. Cheney (Rep.) Governor and Charles H. Powers (Rep.) Railroad Commissioner. The Minnesota Republican State Convention is to be held on the 28th of July. Gov. Davis says he is not a candidate for renomination, and hi* name will not be. presented to the convention. The editor of the Galveston (Tex.) Nev>s having been cited by Judge Morrill,of thelinited States District Court, to answer for certain comments upon the Judge’s decision in the case of the theatrical manager fined for violation of the Civil-Rights law, the Judge dismissed the case on the 9th on the ground that there was no intent on the part of the defendant to obstruct justice, and that publishers have unrestricted liberty to apply an epithet to the Judge of the court without being in contempt for so doing. The Supreme Court of Ohio has decided that the property of benevolent societies, including the Masonic and similar organizations, heretofore exempt, is subject to taxation. The National Christian Association recently held a convention at Pittsburgh and adopted an anti-secret society- platform and nominated Hon. J. B. Walker, of Illinois, for President and Donald Kirkpatrick, Esq., of New York, for Vice-Resident of the United States.

Gov. Cheney, of New Hampshire, was inaugurated on the 10th. A national convention of the productive and other industrial classes has been called to meet at Indianapolis, Ind., on the 18th of August. The convention is to be composed of one delegate from each Congressional district, to be chosen on-the 15th of July. The Maryland Democratic State Convention to nominate candidates for Governor, Comptroller and Treasurenhas been called to meet in Baltimore on the 21st of July. The Indiana State Temperance Convention was recently held at Indianapolis, and a long platform of resolutions was adopted—recognising the temperance work as the work of God; recommending that drinking habits be made a disqualification in the election or appointment to offices of trust and profit; agreeing not to vote for anyone known to use liquor as a beverage; arguing that it is the duty of the Government to protect the people from the traffic and denying the right to license dram-shops, ete„ etc. The California Republican State Convention met at San Francisco on the 11th and nominated Hon. T. G. Phelps for Governor, Joseph M. Cavis for Lieutenant-Governor, O. H. Hallett for Secretary of State, Win. Beckman for Treasurer. The Administration of President Grant received the indorsement of the convention, and his third-term letter was declared to be explicit as to the final settlement of the third-term agitation. Olean, NT. Y., has a clothes-pin manufactory, of which the Olean Times says: “ Monday of this week they turned out at this factory fifty-five bushels of pins. They measure 600 to the bushel, making a otal of 33,600 clothes-pins in ten hours: Mr. Latimer ran6oo pins through the lathe in five minutes, and he didn’t.consider it much of a day for making clothes-pins either. Some may wonder where all these clothes-pins go and where sold. They are as salable as flour. Every pin made at this factory is shipped to one firm in New York. They are worth between One and two cents a dozen at wholesale, and retail throughout the . country at five events a dozen.* 1 Among the passengers on the train at Harrisburg was a lady who .carried a large basket. The conductor decided that the baggage was entirely too cumbersome to be allowed in the car, .and politely informed her that she would be obliged to remove it to the baggage-car. As he was about seizing the basket the lady showed him a picture, the eight of which had a magical effect in producing a change in his feelings. Before him were a pair of twins a few inouthe old, who seemed to be supremely happy in their basket-bed. v«

—To Solder German Silver. Pour out *ome spirits of salts into an earthen-ware or other dish, and put a piece of zinc in it. Then scrape the parts clean that are to be soldered, and paint over with the spirits of salts. Next put a piece of pewter Bolder on the joint and apply the blow-pipe to it. Melt five parts of German silver and four parts of zinc,into thin cakes, then powder it for solder. FoB ingenious cruelty the Frenchman who hanged himself in the preisence of his paralyzed wife, and compelled her to witness, without the power of preventing, his violent death, deserves the palm.

INDIANA STATE NEW S .

Looansport has a populatio no s 15 qqq. Thk wheat prospect In C County is reported to be good. A oolosy of ataond-e- h&| alighted in Indianapol* t 800 cholera of a v | o | en t and fatal type has broken out in vicinity of Martins . villc. More corn h M p i an ted in Randolph County this season than ever before. Ah ins woman at Edwardsport recently ’ giudjtd g fi re burned herself to death , .EvrcASTLE is said by the local press to h ave tost from $30,000 to $50,000 in the late wheat decline. Hugh Mcllaruy, of Shawnee Mound, “has recently donated SIO,OOO to the Central Tennessee College. Dit. llknry A. Stone, of Goshen, has been appointed physician and surgeon of the Northern State Prison. The Indianapolis glove factory, which began operations a few weeks since, gives employment to forty girls. John Hasbrooke, son of Dr. Wm. Hasbrooke, was drowned at Owens’ Mills a few days ago while bathing. Lafayette has organized a lecture association for the next season, with a capital of $3,000, made up of 500 shares. It is claimed that there is more actual work in railroad building now in progress in Indiana than in any other State. The Loogootee Times is the name of a new paper recently started at Loogootee. It is an eight-page, six-column sheet. The steam flouring mill of Hall & Culliver, at Rushville, was burned the other night, involving a loss of nearly SIO,OOO. The very highest point in the State is situated about eight miles east of Elkhart, on the range of hills west of Bristol. It is reported that Indianapolis grain dealers and commission merchants lost $150,000 by the recent decline of wheat and corn. Mary Anderson, while fishing the other day at Morristown, slipped from the log on which she was standing and drowned. Peter Smith was recently run over and instantly killed by a construction train at E‘agle Creek, on the Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad. A masked burglar recently broke into George Gregg’s residence at Connersville and got away with S3O in currency and $20,000 in notes. Rev. Mr. Carnahan, of Dayton, on a recent Sabbath delivered his farewell sermon, thus dosing a pastoral relation of over forty-five years.

Andy Randle was killed at Kokomo the other evening by the caving of a ditch in which he was digging. He was covered to a depth of eight feet. An honest German, of Harveysburg, when caught lately in the act of distilling, explained that he was just making a little for his sick wife—just twenty gallons. At a special election held on the Ist at Terre Haute, for Councilmen, one Demo* crat and one Republican were elected, leaving a tie in the Council as before. Mrs. Lander was introduced and commended to the Terre Haute public by the Journal as “a rising young actress.” Mrs-. L. is old enough to be that young man’B grandmother. Editor Phillips, of the Kokomo Tribune, was injured in a railroad accident during the late excursion of the Indiana Editorial Association. His wounds have resulted in paralysis. The potato-bugs are‘said to be making great havoc in the Olive Branch neighborhood. They put in an appearance as soon as the vines came up. Hog cholera is also quite troublesome. Forty-one miles in forty-two minutes was made by a train on the Toledo, Wabash & Western Railroad one day ■ lately between Lafayette and Logansport. The object was to make up lost time. Abraham Mayer, of Lafayette, recent ly opened one of the hollow woocTen pillars supporting his porch, and found within more than 400 dead birds in all stages of decomposition. The birds had made an entrance through a small hole at the top of the pillar and been unable to escape. A son of W. D. Malone, of Princeton, eleven years of age, swallowed a chinchbug about a year ago, taking it into his lungs, by mistake. It lived two weeks, and caused the formation of an abscess in the left lung. The boy is thought not likely to recover.

The Winchester Journal says: “Abraham Monroe, residing near Olive Branch, came to this country in 1832, anil, has since that time killed 967 deer. Of these, 965 were killed in this county, and the other two in Adams County last fall. Mr. M. avows his determination to make the number an even 1,000.”. On the evening of the 2d a terrible wind and rain storm passed about six miles north of Goshen, which caused a great deal of damage. Trees were torn up by the roots, fences blown down and several barns unroofed. Mr. E. poster, living near Middlebury, estimates his loss at about (1,090, Other losses range from $lO6 tte|soo. The following postal changes were made in Indiana daring the week ending May 29, 1875: Name changed—Granger, Monroe County, to South Granger. Postmasters appointed—Dyer, Lake County F. Densberger; Glen Dale, Daviess County. Alexander T. Conley; Jackson Station, Tipton County, E. G Elliott; Jordanville, Knox County, Florence Reel; Rono, Perry County, Anthony Little; Slash, Grant County, Sylvester Agnus; Slate, Jennings County, Charles Taulmsn; Springport, Henry County, Charles M. Orr; Williamsburg, Wayne County, Mrs. Emily John son; Wynn, Franklin Gouty, Thomas Hicks; Zinsburg, Madison County, Sarah E. Hammond. *

The New York Flower Market.

About three years ago several flower Kdeners applied to the Department of blic Parks for''permission to use the sidewalks and gutters bordering upon the open squaw opposite Clinton Market for the exposure and sale of their products. The permission was granted. The market was placed in charge of the Superintendent of Markets, and a fee was imposed upon each tradesman taking hi 9 stand along the square in the morning. At first the number of dealers was small, but it lias increased each year, until now it has become so great as to merit some attention, and is also becoming a source of revenue to the city. The flower merchants are very early risers, each man being in his position by three a. m. The season is now at its height, and on Saturday morning, May 22, at three o’clock there were more than a hundred wagons in line on the marketplace, and the dealers and their assistants, numbering several hundreds, were busily arranging their pots and baskets to the best advantage, wfiiile there were a crowd of men, women and children present as purchasers.' The air was laden with the mingled perfume ot many flowers, and as tins light grew stronger a* pretty and animated scene was discovered. Along tlie outer edge of the walk stood the taller plants, standard roses, towering ivy vines trained upon trellises, and lilies bending with blossoms. Then there were heliotropes of huge size and lesser roses, thrifty and strong. Inside of this line were baskets of verbenas in variety, and ivies, pansies, dwarf roses, coleuses and innumerable border plants, forming a parterre of pleasing appearance. By four o’clock there had l>een a perceptible reduction of the stock in the hands of the dealers, much of which had been transferred to early buyers, and women were trudging off with loaded baskets on their heads or hanging upon their arms. The prices are so low as to astonish purchasers at the flower stands and conservatories. Heliotropes of three feet in height, with tree-like trunks and heads full of rich blossoms, which the dealers assured inquirers would blossom all through the season, w ere sold at fifty cents each. Mos 3 roses of healthy appearance, and with the promises of early bloom, were sold for from seventy-five cents to a dollar and a quarter. Baskets of verbenas, containing a great variety of colors, were sold f6r fifty cents and a dollar, some of them being more densely packed and richer in variety than others. Small baskets of coleus, containing a large variety of plants, were sold at sevepty-five cents, and close bargainers would get lower prices. Fine white lilies, standing high and strong in their pots, were sold for fifty cents each. Ivy vines, full of lusty shoots, prettily twined upon rustic frames, were sold readily at half a dozen for a dollar. A few of the choicer roses and smaller plants of which there was a scarcitybrought higher prices. Baskets of assorted flowers, containing verbenas,, a coleus or two, heliotrope, and a few ornamental shrubs, were sold at fifty cents. — N. T. Evening Post.

Mrs. Lincoln and Her Friends.

A Chicago correspondent of the New York Tribune relates the following in relation to Mrs. Lincoln’s Course subsequent to the verdict of the court adjudging her insane: There was no strategy, used in taking Mrs. Lincoln to the Bellevue Insane Asylum at Batavia, 111.; neither was any force required to bring her before the Chicago ury which declared her to be insane last Wednesday. When her son, Robert T. Lincoln, first decided to place her under proper control, he applied To several relatives to assist .him, but all declined from sensitiveness. Judge Davis, an old-time and intimate friend of President Lincoln and his family, also shrank from the delicate task. Finally the Hon. Leonard Swett, who had known the unfortunate lady well in bright days, resolved to undertake it. When lie called upon. Mrs. Lincoln he plainly told lier she was insane, thinking it tlie better course to tell the truth, treat her like a lady, gently yet firmly, and rely upon her better instincts prompting her to acquiesce in the arrangements of her friends. After tire trial Mrs. Lincoln was deeply offended with Robert as well as Mr. Swett. She said there was a breach between herself and son which would never be closed. In conversation with Mr. Swett on Thursday, however, she appeared to be more reconciled to her fate. Her manner betokened that she freely forgave both Robert and Mr. Swett, and she even clung to the latter as a protector. But before this was brought about, and when speaking of her insanity to Mr. Swett, she said: “It may be so; and what if it is so, what wonder is it? Haven’t I had enough cause to derange any woman’s brain ? Did I not see my husband assassinated before my eyes ? Have I not been homeless for years, and have I not buried all mv children with the exception of Robert? Do you wonder that lam deranged ?” Mr. Swett replied: “It is only wonder, my dear madam, that your brain has stood it so long. I sympathize with you deeply, but we all believe it to be the best that you should be placed in some safe position, where you will receive proper care and treatment. I Want you to see it in that light yourself, and become reconciled to the wishes of your friends, who wish you nothing but good. I want you to teel that we are your friends.” She said: “ You are no friend of mine if you want to put me in an insane asylum.”

How Water Is Injured by Organic Matter.

In a recent work entitled “Scientific Conversations,” by M. Forville, of Paris, the reason why organic matter becomes a dangerous constituent of water is thus set forth: How does organic matter become dangerous? We must not believe that it constitutes, as superficially said, a tonic element The phenomenon is more complex. The organic matter in suspension or in solution creates in the water a peculiar medium suitable for the development of exceedingly small beings of the genus Vibrio. It is no longer mere water —it is a world of microscopic animals and plants which are born, live and increase with bewildering rapidity. The infusoria find in the water calcarious, magnesian and ammoniacal salts, and their maintenance is thus secure. Drink a drop of this liquid and you swallow millions of minute beings. But there are vibrios and vibrios. "There are those which are capable of setting up putrefaction in our tissues. These are our enemies. Let water he placed in contact with organic remains capable of nourishing these malignant vibrios, and it at once becomes more dangerous than any poison.—Pcpuiur ScUneoMonthly. , Ohio naturalized^,Bs4 persons last year.

Great Calamity at Sea—Loss of Forty Lives.

N*w York, Jane 10. The steamship State of Germania, which arrived this morning, brought five seamen of the Dominion Line steamship Vicksburg, frqm Montreal sos-Liverpool, which was sunk by ice on Tuesday, June 1. The men were picked up June 5 nearly dead from exposure, but since then have been rapidly improving. They tell a fearful tale of distress. Other boats were launched with a large number of persons, but the greater numlk-r were seen to perish without getting in the boats. The Vicksburg went down in the midst of ite, and the boat was surrounded by icebergs and a field of ice when picked up. The other boats have not yet been heard from. The five men rescued had their feet and legs very much swollen, so much so that their boots had to be cut from their feet. They are still ‘suffering from their great exposure to the wet and cold, but are recovering as fast as could be expected, r The statement of James Crowley, one of the survivors, is to the effect that there were on board a crew of sixty men, eight saloon passengers—five men and three ladies—and about twenty steerage passengers, of whom four were females. On Sunday evening. May 30, they encountered large fields of ice, but succeeded in avoiding any serious accident until about noon on the next day, when the ship struck heavily aft on the port quarter, carrying away the fans of the propeller, and a hole was knocked through the plates on that quarter, through which the ship made a great deal of water.' The hole was stopped up with sails, so that but little water came in, and .then all hands were employed in throwing the cargo overboard. On the morning of June lan examination showed the after-steerage to be filled with water, and six feet and a half of water in the main hold wells. The fires in the engine-room were soon drowned out, and the Captain gave orders to launch the boats with their respective crews and told them to mind that the distance from St, Johns was 120 miles northwest. Crowley says: “I proceeded to launch No. 1, and it was capsized in lowering. She was full of water. O’Brien and I baled her partly out, when Grogan, Wilkinson and Williams jumped in. We could not hang on to the ship owing to the sea on and the ice about. O’Brien saw the Captain on the bridge beckoning the boat back, we having drifted about 150 yards from the ship. The ship sunk about ten o’clock, floating boat No. 2 from her chocks with the chief officer and about thirty people in her. She got clear and pulled to the windward. O’Brien, after the ship went down, saw the Captain and some persons floating on a bale of hay among the wreckage. We tried all we could to pickthemup, hut, owingto the boat being half full of water and the ice about, were not able to do so. We slipped our mast, kept company with the other boat for about two hours, and then lost sight of them to westward. We decided then to steer south to get clear of the ice. We hove the boat to, with an oar and a bucket as a drag, till daylight on Wednesday morning. We had in the boat about three fourteen pounds oMiread wet with salt water, and a compass, which did not fall out when the boat capsized. Again we put sail on the boat and steered south, the wind blowing from the northward and westward all throughout the scene, and bitterly cold. About four o’clock in the afternoon we hauled the boat’s head to the northeast till Thursday morning, then tacked to the westward till about three o’clock in the afternoon, and lay to with the drag till nine o’clock in the evening, when we took in the drag and made sail, and stood to the northeast till Friday morning at daylight. We then tacked to the southwest till mid-day; tacked again to northeast till morning, when about half-past ten o’clock we sighted your ship. We got out the oars and pulled away dead to windward till you picked us up. I think that forty-odd people, with the Captain, went down with the ship. We had blankets on our boat for the three ladies and stewardess, which were lost when the boat capsized. We saw no ladies in tbe chief or second of* fleer’s boat.”

Carious Will Cases Before the English Coarts.

The will of an eccentric old gentleman who lived at Norton, and died leaving £IOO,OOO, was contested by his nearest bf kin, as not made in a sound mind. He left the whole sum to charities and not a penny to his relatives. This elderly Mr. Holme seems to have been a veritable Timon He evidently detested his species with all the warmth of his crusty old heart. He was wont to visit the cheerful Cockney sea-side resort at Ramsgate, and his Ramsgate landlady was put upon the stand to prove his habits. Her tale was a hint for a novelist in search of a “ character.” She said that he invariably called children “ devil’s cubs.” “ If,” went on the landlady, “he saw a stout old lady passing the house, he would call me to the window and say she was a fat old hag, and that she had come there to thievfe and rob people. If he saw a packet coming into the harbor he would point it out and say he wished it would sink with all on board. If he saw sailors sitting on the rails he would wish that the fellows would fall in and' he drowned. He said he would like the whole of Ramsgate to be swallowed up in the sea. He expressed a desire that all the trains might be smashed, since they brought nobody to the place but thieves ana vagabonds. As to cooking, he would never take anything from my hands or those of my servants. He had a terrible antipathy to women. He called them ‘ scum.’ He spoke of his sister as a woman he did not know. He used to throw meat out of the window to Bluff, the dog, and say that he would rather S've it to Bluff than to any Christian. e often discoursed on religion, and one of the articles of his creed was that * poor people would never go to heaven.’ ” Mr. Holme’s London landlady gave similar evidence. She said that he would call women “ fagots,” and wish he could see them whipped; and the landlady was so much scandalized by his actions that she doubled his rent; but “he took no notice of it,” and went on hating mankind and “paying like a gentleman.” While he vented his detestation on his relatives he left his half a million dollars to charities, but tied up in such a way that it was scarcely profitable for the societies to accept his bequests. Another carious will case was heard about the same time as that of Mr. Holme at Westminster. A widow Darned Burdett died, leaving a will with some remarkable provisions. Sjhe had had an only son who had become a cripple and had died several years before his mother. By her testament she left a house and grounds in a certain Tillage to three per-

sons, one of whom was her lawyer, tinder these “conditions: The house was to be kept locked, barred and bolted for twenty years after her death. The doors and windows were to be bricked up on the outside and the furniture was to be left in exactly the position it was when; she. died. The casements were to be closed by zinc or iron doors, covered with planking tightly screwed down and sealed by the executors. Access was only be had to the house by a solitary back-door, leading to the kitchen. Then the house was to be rented free to any “ respectable married couple” who would consent to occupy it under these conditions. The old lad}- added a codicil, wherein she ordered that, immediately upon her death, her pony, pigeons, poultry and dogs were to be shot. The will was disputed on the ground of imbebility and of undue influence upon her by her lawyer, who was one of the legatees. The principal evidence relied upon to break it was the fact that, like Lady Tichborne, she had for years refused to believe that her poor, crippled son was dead. At last her conviction became so strong that she sought and obtained permission to have the body exhumed. She gazed upon the strange features which defray had so sadly altered, and was fain to admit that he was indeed no more. The jury, however, disagreed, being unable to tell whether Mrs. Burdett was mad or only eccentric. Yet her delusion respecting her son was oue that is not uncommon. Such exhumations are not rare. Lord Lytton/ ih''his will, directed that he should be left uninterred long enough to dissipate all possible doubt of his decease. And as for making a tomb for beings still instinct with life of her country-house, it was an oddity not more strange than some people have been guilty of many a time and oft. A story is told of a rich and irascible uncle, whose nephew and heir had set his heart upon a young lady of whom the old gentleman emphatically disapproved. Ha called his nephew to him, and, without mincing his words, declared that if he did not marry some other woman within a year he would cut him off with less than a shilling. The young rascal cast about for a way to secure at once his fortune and his sweetheart, and at last discovered one. He married an old lady of ninety-three whom he found in the workhouse. In no long time he became a widower and a millionaire, and lost no time in leading his lady-love to the altar. A case, the converse of this, occurred about a year ago. A young man of twen-ty-three, a surgeon, happened to be the favorite nephew of a wealthy and widowed aunt. It was his first care to in no wise compromise his “ great expectations.” But he happened to be traveling from the Cape of Good Hope to England,, and on shipboard saw and loved a comely widow with three children. On arriving on his native soil he informed his aunt of the state of affairs and introduced her to the lady in the weeds. The aunt, unhappily, at cnce conceived a great aversion to the widow. She cajoled and threatened the surgeon and at last declared that if he married her he should not have a penny of her fortune. The nephew was not so deeply in love as to be reconciled to such a loss, and at last made a contract with the adamantine aunt to the effect that he would not marry the widow on the condition that his aunt would allow him £3OO a year during her life. The widow, on hearing this, brought a suit for breach of promise, and got a verdict for £6OO. Thus two years of the surgeon’s pension went by the hoard. No sooner had the two years elapsed than the aunt became obstreperous and refused to pay the £3OO any longer. The mercenary youth thus lost both his income and his widow. Fired with indignation and despair he’ sued his aunt for the pension and produced the written contract; and the court decided that as long as he had kept his part of it the aunt must fulfill hers.' She is probably paying the pension to this day; and it may be guessed that the surgeon is tolerably consoled for the Joss of his widow. —AppletonP Journal.

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