Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1875 — Value of Life in Russia. [ARTICLE]

Value of Life in Russia.

Last month the military tribunal of Warsaw tried a case which, in England, would have produced an immense sensation, and which is well worth noticing for the extraordinary state of feeling which it reveals in society. A staff captain, one Karpoff, was indicted for the willful murder of a rural magistrate named Kozinenko. He had gone to the village where the Judge was stationed, placed" himself on the road where the Judge’s carriage must pass, and deliberately shot him without warning, at the risk of killing the secretary by his side instead. The wounded man got out. Karpoff fired again, roiled with his victim into a ditch, and when he saw that life was goiMairofessed “ his heart lighter,” and went tom ve himself up. He was sentenced to Siberia, but the court will intercede with the Emperor, so that Jig will only be confined in a fortress for two years, without degradation or loss of any right. Now, this savage tragedy and absurdly mild punishment are the result ot that antagonism between the military men and the civilians which still characterizes Russian life and Russian military views about dueling. The original cause of quarrel, or rather the pretext, was a miserable question of a chair for a lady at a ball. The two men had hated each other, and the civilian seems to have been in the habit of saying hitter things about war and officers.” Explanations followed the ball scene, and the affair seemed ended, the Judge disclaiming offense. |£arpoff th6n is told that Kozinenko goes about with a dog, which is said to have

frightened him, Karpoff, out of demanding satisfaction at the late interview. This report leads to a scene in a public garden, during which the officer gives the lie direct and receives a blow on the cheek. Of course a duel must follow. It appears that Kozinenko never really refused to fight, but that Karpoff, through the fault of one of the seconds, thought he did. Thesd details are unimportant. The officers sign a round-robin exonerating Karpoff from all stain on his honor, and the evidences show him to have been a studious, quiet-living, promising officer; yet (die believes that his honor required him to murder Kozinenko, and those in command over him evidently thought that he could not act otherwise. Such is the present state of public opinion about dueling in Russia. Among the officers of the guard at the present moment there is an association the members of which have bound themselves not to refuse a challenge, and to my knowledge a very high personage indeed expressed liis approval of this undertaking to fight, and his conviction that it tended to prevent disputes among those who had, signed it.— St. Petersburg Cor. London Standard.

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A Young man who is praised by his employer for his faithful efficiency at his desk, and admired especially by his friends for his thoughtful kindness to his wife, was seen about five o’clock the other morning washing the windows of his rented home. A little merriment at his expense elicited the frank response: “ Never mind; I can’t afford to pay a washerwoman to do it, and perhaps if I demonstrate my ability to take care of a house the world will let me own one some time.” And so he will, some time, own a house, and be able to hire it cleaned, too. This brave independence in economy is not only worthy of imitation by hosts of young men in these close times, but the example of mutual bur-den-bearing in the domestic circle is all praiseworthy. How many feeble women are every day tugging away at heavy burdens of domestic toil that are trying their very heart-strings, while their genteel husbands are perhaps fingering lace and silk over a counter, or pushing a pen in an elegant counting-rocm! Husbands, there ought to be masculine muscle in the wash-room, cleaning house, sweeping heavy carpets, and in doing dozens of heavy tasks in the household. Try it these long mornings, aDd see how amiable and devoted your wife will be.— Troy Times. The Austrian Government expresses its willingness (osend representatives to the Philadelphia Centennial, if President Grant will guarantee them protection -'gainst the Indians. In Great Britain aloud there are reckoned 13,000 fossil specimens of animals and plants that have died out in course of time, against 4,000 living species.