Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1875 — Page 2

RENBSEEAER UNION. JAMES * HEALEY, Proprietor!. RENSSELAER • INDIANA.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN. The great shooting-match between the American and Irish teams occurred near Dublin, Ireland, on the 29th ult. The shooting at 900 yards range was won by the Irish team by a single-point out of 675. The shooting of the 1,000 yards range was won by the Americans by a score of 303 against 299., The entire match was won by the Amerlca#t\am by a score of 967 to 929. » The total damage by the recent floods in France was $24,000,000. Ferdinand, the ex-Emperor. of Austria, died at Prague on the 2SM.h. The successor of Baron Ben born, late Austrian Minister to the United States, was announced on the 30th ult. as Count Hoyosprinxenstein. Decosta, Raalte & Co., of London, failed on the Ist, with $1,200,000 liabilities. The liabilities of Kilburn, Kerhard & Co., whose failure was also announced, are $3,750,000. On the 2d Lady Franklin was reported as slowly improving, with a prospect of ultimate recovery. A report was received in London on the 2d announcing that the Alphonsist Gen. Loma had been worsted by the Carlists, and had lost 1,200 men. The Carlists had evacuated the province of Valencia. A Madrid dispatch of the 2d says that Gen. Jovellar, the Alphonsist leader, had de. seated the united bands of Dorregaray, Cucala and Vellelain, near Villa Franca.

DOMESTIC. The United States Treasury Department was reorganized on the 30th ult., under the Kellogg bilL The salaries of all bureau officers and chiefs and assistant chiefs of divisions have been increased, but the general force of the Treasury will by this bill be reduced to the extent of 884 employes, at a savi ing, it is claimed, of $500,000. Pemberton, who recently [killed Mrs. Bingham, in Boston, for the purpose of securing a small sum cf money, has been- tried, convicted and sentenced to be hung. At Lima, Ohio, on the 30th ult, Mrs. John Courtney attempted to build a fire with coal oil. The usual explosion followed and she was fatally burned. The Bureau of Statistics shows the imports into the United States for eleven months, ending May 81, to have been $490,444,228; and theexports $490,174,599. As compared with the same period last year this has been a falling off of imports of $56,104,289, and of exports of $167,680,031. The following is the statement of the public debt for June: Six per cent, bonds $1,100,865.M0 Five per cent, bonds 607,13’-,.50 Total coin b0nd551,707,998,800 Lawful money debt • 678.000 Matured debt 11385.8*> Legal-tender notes 3..>,M1.t>-. Certificates of deposit 58,415,000 Fractional currency 42,129,424 Coin certificates 21,796,300 Interest 38,647,556 Total debt 52,270,932,087 Cash in TreasuryCoin ...". $79,854,410 Currency- 3,973,951 Special deposits held for the redemption of certificates of deposit, as provided by law .... ... 58,415,000 Total in Treasury $142.248.361 Debt lees cash in Trea5ury52,128,688,726 Decrease during June 1,431.949 Decrease since June 30, 1874,.. 14,399.514 Bonds issued to the Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding $64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid.... 1,938.705 Interest paid by the United States.. 26,264,102 Interest repaid’by the transportation of mails, etc 6,134,311 Balance of interest paid by United States.” 20,129,791 The Inter-State Educational Convention began its session at Chattanooga, Tenn., on the 30th ult, a large delegation of teachers being present from Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky and Illinois. A permanent association was formed, to meet next June in Memphis. Several dismissals have taken place since the Ist insL in the U nited States Treasury Department Treasurer New has issued an order forbidding the clerks in his department leaving their desks during office hours, on pain of dismissal. Albert Brown, a colored man, was hanged at Towanda, Pa., on the Ist for the horrible murder, in August last, of a little five-year-old girl named Cora Greenleaf. The village of Meridian, Jefferson County,. Neb., has been almost entirely destroyed by a tornado, and Alexandria, a small town in the, same county, was also badly damaged by the same storm.

PERSONAL. The commission to count the funds in the Treasurer’s office at Washington consists of Dr. John B. Blake, formerly President of the National Metropolitan Bank; Mr. S. E. Middleton, of the banking firm of Middleton & Co.; A. H. Liepold, of the Freedmen’s Bank Commission; Will H. Harvey, Special Agent of the Treasury, and Messrs. C. H. Brown, John Patton and T. C. Dickenson, chiefs of divisions in the Treasury Department They commenced the work on the night of the 30th ult A Washington dispatch of the 30th ult says Secretary Delano had not abandoned his desire to retire from the Cabinet, but the period at which this might take place was uncertain. Indianapolis (Ind.) dispatches of the Ist state that Robert Dale Owen had become deranged on the subject of Spiritualism, and that he had passed through that city in charge of his son on the way to his old home. The jury in the Tilton-Beecher case sent a note to Judge Neilson on the morning of the 2d to the effect that it was impossible for them to agree. They were subsequently called into court, and in the presence of the Court and counsel for both sides announced that they had not agreed upon a verdict, and expressed their regret that they had found it impossible to do so. The Judge then addressed them briefly, and in the course of his remarks said he would like to learn from them explicitly that the application to take further testimony had not in any way clouded their vision or occupied their thoughts, directly or indirectly. To this Foreman Carpenter responded that he tad questioned many of the jury on this point; and they had not had it in their thoughts at all. The Judge expressed his gratification at this, and then discharged the jury. Mrs. £eecher went to the railing and shook hands with each juryman as he passed

out. Tt is authoritatively announced tha they stood on the final ballet nine to three in favor of acquittal. One juror stated that at one time they stood eleven to one in favor of Mr. Bewcher; agal« nine to three, and still later seven to five; and another juror says at one time the jury stood divided six to six, It Is nttnored that the plaintiff’s counsel will move for a new trial.

POLITICAL. The lowa Republican State Convention met at Des Moines on the Soth ult., afid nominated: For Governor, ex-Gov. Bainuej J. Kirkwood; Lieutenant-Governor, J. G. Newbold; Supreme Judge, Austin Adams; State Superintendent, A. Abernethy. The'platform adopted favors the gradual resumption of specie payment and a tariff for revenue so adjusted as to encourage home industry; declares that Uie Republican party of lowa is opposed to a third term, and demands that all railway and other corporations shall be held in just subjection to the law-making power, etc. * • The California Democratic State Convention, held at San Francisco on the 30th ult., nominated William Irwin for Governor. Resolutions were adopted—condemnatory of the Republican party and Administration; in favor of a tariff for revenue only, and of a currency convertible' into gold and silver at the will of the holder; and declaring it the right and duty of the Legislature to regulate corporations, whether railway, gas, telegraph, water or otherwise, to limit tijeir charges in the interest of the public, and to compel them to serve all citizens without discrimination and at reasonable rates, etc. The California State Temperance and Reform Convention, recently in session in San Francisco, nominated a full State ticket, headed by W. E. Lovett for Governor. The Democratic nominee for LieutenantGovernor of California is James A. Johnson.

MECHANICAL AND SCIENTIFIC.

—An apparatus has recently been devised in France by which plates of glass may be safely and rapidly pierced by means of the electric spark. By the aid of this machine MM, Terquem and Taurein were enabled to pierce half-inch plate-glass at points near to one another without cracking. —Among the recent and novel schemes for securing a quick and comfortable passage across the Straits of Dover is that proposed by Dr. Lacomme. This gentleman’s plan is to lay a line of rails along tire sea bottom, but exposed instead of inclosed in a tunnel. Upon these rails a car’ or train of cars is to run upon the following phin: The engine is to be propelled by compressed air, while the cars are to consist of hermetically-sealed galvanized iron boxes. The air for the passengers will’be admitted in proper proportions by open supply-reservoirs and the whole train will advance through the water instead of on its surface as in the present steamboat.

—Dr. Scoresby gives the following interesting facts With regard to the length and height of ocean waves: The mean height of waves in tlie Atlantic, driven by a westerly gale, is eighteen feet. The greatest recorded height of a wave in the North Atlantic from the trough to the crest is forty-three feet. In northwest gales waves forty feet in height have been measured oil’ the Cape of Good Hope, while those oil’ Cape Horn were thirty-two feet. The velocity of ocean storm-waves in the North Atlantic is about thirty-two miles an hour, and that recorded byCapt. Wilkes for tlie Pacific Ocean twenty-six and onehalf miles. In an Atlantic storm the breadth of the waves, measured from crest to crest, is about 600 feet. —Observations upon the spots on the fluor of the crater Plato, on the moon’s surface, now show that decided changes have taken place—judged by the record of previous investigations—the streaks and colors of the -floor presenting unquestionable evidence in this respect. The shanges in the direction and luminosity of the streaks detected are, it is said, of such a character that they cannot be referred to changes of illumination, but depend, rather, upon some agency connected with tlie condition of the moon itself. The color of the floor has been found to vary as the sun ascends in tlie lunar heavens, being darkest with the greatest solar altitude. —The powers of carbolic acid to arrest fermentation and putrefaction are well known. But its odor is to most persons decidedly offensive, and if taken internally, even in minute doses, it is apt to produce very serious results. According to tlie recent investigations of Prots. Kolbe, Knap and others, salicylic acid possesses the same antiseptic power without the accompanying disadvantages. It is inodorous, of a faintly sweet taste, and can be taken internally, even in relatively large doses, without" injurious effects. It will, therefore, prove of great value in preserving meat, eggs, fruit, preserves, beverages, medicinal preparations, inks, and a great variety of organic matters from moldiness or putrefaction. One part of rhe acid is capable of preserving 26.000 parts of water from being tainted.

The Fete-Dien.

Writing of the Fete-Dieu a Paris correspondent says: The Fete-Dieu might almost Im? called a Feast ot Flowers, so profusely are flowers lavished on altars and church walls. And, putting religion aside, it is a pity that it is no LSger celebrated as it used to be in days of yore, and as it still is in some provincial towns. Then, or rather we will say there, and speak in the present, it is made known some time tn advance through what streets the procession will pass. Then every house in those streets is cleaned from top to bottom. The inhabitants of the several streets and squares through which the processton passes subscribe the necessary funds to build an altar at the entrance of the street or in the square with garlands and arches of evergreens and flowers. Windows and doors are also decked with draperv and flowers, and sometimes the ground is strewn with flowers and green boughs. The banners of the various churches are carried by the noblest ladies in the parish, and their ribbons are held by other young girls of equal rank. In the procession itself the rich and poor are indiscriminately mingled, symmetry of size being alone studied. Al! are dressed alike in white, with flowing veils covering their figures. It would seem also that the provinces are more flavored than Paris by the weather, for, whereas it generally rains here, it is usually fine" weather there. And the festival is a festival for all. In the evening, when the religious celebration is over, there is dancing and merS -making. And little children think of e Feit-Dien for many a> long month afterward, aye, almost until it is time to prepare for another. ■ ’ Fox’s martyrs —Pucks, tur-. keys and geese.

A Destructive Wind-Storm in Detroit.

We take the following account of the recent whirlwind tn Detroit from tire Fre» Prc»» of the 28th ult.: The (destroyer seemed to be a whirlwind which rose apparently near the southwestern limit of the city. It was first seen in that direction in the shape of a dark, smoky-looking spiral mass, shaped like an inverted tunnel of enormous dimensions, and whirling with inconceivable rapidity. Its forward movement was also very rapid in a course north of east, but it did not strike tlie earth until it reached the vicinity of Williams avenue and Ash street. 'There the first evidence of its awful power was seen in upturned sidewalks and demolished outbuildings, but no dwellings seem to have been caught in that immediate neighborhood. The greatest destruction was south of Grand River avenue, from and including Fourteenth street to Eighteenth, between Magnolia and Linden streets. Its track was perhaps 150 feet wide, and within that limit nothing could resist its tremendous force. Houses were taken up high in air, shaken into fragments and, in many instances, scattered over territory a mile in length. Indeed, flying pieces of timber were seen-whirling aloft and flying about fully two miles from the place where the work of demolition began. Where, at one moment, stood a row of substantial houses, the next witnessed a scene of devastation impossible to realize, with scarcely a vestige of the buildings in sight, so utterly were they, swept off,the face of the earth. It is not difficult to conceive that such a remorseless monster carried death and mutilation on its wings. Everywhere were heard the cries of the wounded, whose bleeding and mutilated bodies were pitiful to look upon. Richard Bates, aged eleven years, was caught up and carried into the topmost branches of a tall elrt which stood bn the commons near his mother’s house, at the corner of Fifteenth and Linden streets. His violent contact with the limbs tore the clothing from his person and lie fell dead to the ground, a distance of fully fifty feet. A little babe seven months old, the child of Carl Peca, who lived on Fourteenth street, was found dead in .he street. Its father and mother were both injured and removed to Harper Hospital.

Mrs. Van Dozen, a widow with two children, on Fifteenth street, had gone uptown to visit her father, and when she returned her house was nowhere to be f ound. It had been carried bodily at least 200 feet, torn to atoms and scattered far and wide. The only recognizable portion of the building found was the front door. Frederick Rademacher, Mho lived at 748 Sixteenth street, was sitting at home with his wife and two children, when he suddenly felt himself hurled through the air and saw the walls and timbers of his dwelling flying in every direction. He escaped with a slight scalp-wound, but his wife was more seriously injured. The children ■were also considerably bruised, but their hurts are not dangerous. Mr. and M is. Bates. the parents of the lad whose frightful death has already been recorded, and a younger son were badly Wounded. "■ The house of Martin Schneider, at the corner of Sixteenth and Linden streets, was totally destroyed, but both Mr. and Mrs. Schneider were miraculously saved by a cupboard which protected them from the falling timbers. When they were rescued both were found to be quite unhurt.

Joseph Bully, of 712 Sixteenth street, was standing in a vacant lot adjoining his house when a portion of tlie roof was wrenched off and hurled to the ground, grazing him in its descent and inflicting a bad wound on the side of his head. Two vacant houses on Seventeenth street, near Linden, were demolished, and a third, adjoining, was partially torn down. The names of tlie owners could not be ascertained, but as no person was injured there it is not so inwortant. August Seaman, who lives on Twentythird street; and his wife were visiting a friend on Fifteenth street, and were caught in the track of the destroyer. Seaman has a shocking wound extending from the forehead across the crown to the back of his head, his right arm is shattered, and his collar bone is broken. Mrs. Seaman has a terrible cut under her left eye. Herman Milkie received two fractured arms and severe body bruises. He is conscious, but his condition is extremely critical. Many others were more or less injured; seven were taken to Harper Hospital, but a majority of them were cared for by friends and neighbors in the different parts of the city, so it is not possible, at the present writing, to furnish a complete list of the victims.

Incident upon incident illustrating the peculiar action of this storm-cloud, whirlwind or whatever it was might be related if time and space were at command. Two horses were carried over a barn and flung to the earth dead, and numerous smaller domestic animals were made to perform some most astonishing gyrations. Houses on the outer edges of the track of the storm were punched full of holes by huge timbers that were whirled along end over end; shade and fruit trees were uprooted and carried a long distance; bricks from toppling chimneys rattled down and struck fleeing men and women, and through the roartof the storm came the most appalling shrieks. The house on the corner of Twelfth and Brigham streets was occupied* by Henry Ford, his wife and five children. Wlrile at the supper table a horrible hissing sound caused Mr. Ford to turn his head, when he saw, as he says: “An inky black cloud coming toward his house, the air being filled with the debris of buildings.” Scarcely knowing what he did lie gathered his family about him and started for the back door. He reached the door of the kitchen which opened into a woodshed just in time to see the shed lifted bodily away from the main building and dashed against his back fence, completely demolishing both structures. Standing there in amazement the family were still further affrighted by seeing the roof of their dwelling arise and sail away; followed by a wardrtrbe, articles of clothing and household furniture, until the rooms vere literally bare of everything movable. Strange to say not one of Mr. Ford’s family was injured. Charles Louys, a teamster, lives at No. Twelfth Street, and his bam is just opposite the extreme north end of the path of destruction. He had a piece of stove-pipe stored up-stairs in his barn, one end of which projected through a hole in the side of the barn. In that piece of pipe was discovered, tightly wedged, the bodv of a duck with its head cut otf. The head was found upon the barn floor by the side of die pipe. The surface of the ground beneath the trees where the cloud lifted presented a terrible scene. Sticking into the ground at all angles were pieces of wood, from the size and shape of a shingle to the doors, sections of roofs and walls of houses.

Piled promisctiously were trunks, kettles, stone jars and broken furniture. Curiously intermingled were the mangled bodies of chickens, ducks, geese, pigs and innumerable small wild birds, while weirdly flaunting from the stripped and broken branches a hove, giving terrible life to the desolate picture below, made doubly desolate by the approaching shades of night, were fragments of clothing, bedding and carpeting.

A Night Balloon Voyage.

Mr. Charles Pirie, of the Toronto s«n, who with Mr, Charles, of the Jzxtder, and Mr. Devine, of the -Itfrert/w, went up with Prof. Donaldson in tlie balloon P. T. Barnum from Toronto on Thursday last, gives an interesting account of the voyage and their miraculous escape from the waters of Lake Ontario. They reached an altitude of 2.000 feet, and when twilight set in they were over the center of the lake. Tire professor then announced that they would be compelled to remain out all night, as it would lie impossible to make a landing unless the wind changed. Tlie wind shortly increased and drove the balloon along at the rate of forty miles an hour. More ballast being, thrown out the air-ship ascended until it reached a height of nearly two miles. At this point they could see nothing but each other and the stars. The atmosphere was clear and bitterly cold, and they huddled together in the basket to keep themselves warm. Then they descended and came within a few hundred feet of the water. They sighted Oshawa in tlie distance before it became dark and came within a few hundred feet of land. Then a change of wind drove them far out over the lake. Mr. Pirie continues: “As the evening wore into night a heavy mist rose to the west or in rear of the balloon. It seemed to follow close behind but did not overtake it, the air being quite clear in front. At a later period in the night, .when two of the reporters went almost to sleep, having been singing and endeavoring to pass tlie time as pleasantly as possible under the circumstances, Mr. Devine, who was on the lookout, suddenly called attention to a magnificent burst of light which illuminated the whole sky. He fancied for a moment that the balloon was on fire, but this delusion was quickly dissipated and the cause of the light was discovered to be' a most brilliant meteor, which appeared almost directly overhead, lasting,for an instant and then suddenly darting off in an easterly direction, changed its course and gradually faded away.. The spectacle was a singularly impressive one and will never be forgotten by those who saw it. •’After ...passing Port Hope the movements of the balloon became very erratic, tlie wind blowing from all points of the compass. After drifting about for some time in this purposeless manner the balloon descended to within twenty feet of the waves, which were rolling heavily, the great drag-rope trailing in the lake. As this weight of rope was interfering witli the motion of the balloon the professor’s orders were that it-should be taken into the car. Tins was no easy task, as it was an inch thick and nearly 300 feet long. It having been coiled in the car after very heavy labor, it was found that the weight in the car was more than the bottom could bear, and it was again gradually let out to the extent of fifty feet. The balloon suddenly dipped into the water and rose again, and again dipped. This was, to say the least of it, unpleasant, and, the ballast having all been disposed of, tlie professor ordered the anchor and the drag-line to be thrown overboard, and thus lightened the balloon sprang upward, and the moon rising illumined the whole extent of the lake. “Thelight enabled the party to sight a schooner in the distance, coming toward them from the east in the direct line of the balloon. The party immediately hailed the boat, which replied to the cries, and asked where they were. Naturally they replied ‘ Up in a balloon,’ which had such a humorous sound that those on board the schooner uttered some ejaculations of displeasure and immediately tacked away. This was like the last hope disappearing, and a feeling of dread apprehension fell upon the party. All hope was not, however, abandoned, as it was felt that another vessel might come in sight or the wind drive the balloon ashore. At about one o’clock the car again dipped in the water and dragged at a fearfully rapid rate through the lake. This necessitated the parties on board clinging to tlie ropes and standing on the edge of the basket. The cold was intense and the arms of the reporters became so numbed that holding on was almost mechanical.

“ When all hope had been abandoned the professor from his perch aloft descried a blue light, which was hung at the masthead of a schooner approaching the balloon. As soon as she came within hailing distance the distress of the aerial travelers was made known, and a small boat was put out to the rescue. The balloon appeared to be tilled with a spirit of contrariness, and instead of waiting to be rescued flew before the wind. Two young men in the boat, names were subsequently ascertained to be Henry Loney, aged twenty-one, and Thomas Whallam, aged eighteen, rowed vigorously for an hour and a half, sometimes nearing the balloon and again left far behind. Fortunately a dead calm fell, and the boat was enabled to reach the balloon, and the unmanageable monster was towed to shore near Long Point Lighthouse, in Athol Township. Prince Edward County.”— N. Y. Sun, June 28. A farmer on the road between Charl•ton and Worcester, Mass., having been terribly annoyed by drummers, put up a sign: “No sewing-machines wanted here. Got o!ft?.” It was no use ; the next drummer wanted to seethe machine, “and perhaps he’d hitch up a trade.” So the farmer put up: ‘-‘Got the small-pox here.” That worked well for a little while, but then came along a drummer frightfully pitted with the small-pox, who smilingly said: “ Seein’ you’ve got it bad here they’ve put me on this route.” A gentleman residing near Perry, this county, went to church recently, and before starting was requested very earnestly by his better-half to be sure and remember the text. The text was: “An angel came down from heaven and took a live coal from the altar.” Before he got home the text had slipped his memory? When his wife asked what the text was he answered: “There was.an Indian came down from New Haven and took a live colt by the tail and pulled his head out of the halter.” — Ralls County {Mo.) Record. The constitutionality of the Massachu- , setts Ten-Hour law is to be tested. One of the Lowell manufacturing companies was recently fined for employing a woman more than sixty hours in one week ;■ the claim of the defense that, the woman being over twenty-one years of age, the company had a right, under special contract, to employ her more than sixty hours in a ! week, having been overrule*!. The case will go to the Supreme Court;

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

There are nearly 700 boys in the Reform School. The Knox Gounty Court-House will cost 1500,000. Posey County has $58,000 ahead and don’t want a cent. A reunion of the Eighty-seventh Indiana Volunteers is talked of. There has never been a dance in Spiceland that anybody knows of. , A Harrison County woman has had nineteen children at seven births. The Davids County folks are talking horse, to come oft on the 15th prox. Tub total valuation of the real and personal property in Goshen is $1,687,770. Wheat harvest will not commence in Clinton County before the middle of July, they say. Geologists say coal may be found in Northern Indiana at the depth of 300 to 400 feet. All but twelve of “ the old guards” at the State Prison South have been officially decapitated. The proprietors of the Bucyrus mowing and reaping machine works are talking of removing them to Terre Haute. The change from the Baxter law to the present liquor law puts $3,000 in the school fund of Warrick County. A blind man named Kratz, living at Chili, committed suicide the other afternoon by taking 240 grains of opium. Terry County intends to build two exposition halls, one 24x50 and the other lOx 32 feet, 21,000 feet of board fencing, and eighty stables. /jA child at Graysville, Sullivan County, was fatally injured a few nights ago through carelessness in lighting a fire with non-explosive kerosene. No licenses to sell liquors were granted by the Commissioners of Union County as their late session. There were only two applicationsand both were denied. William Ennis, while walking in the woods near Indianapolis with a young lady, was killed the other afternoon. She claims that in playing with his revolver he accidentally shot himself. Thomas Miller hung himself with a clothes-line at the house of his uncle in Rush County a few days ago. He was twenty-three years old and unmarried. No reason is assigned for tlie rash act, Terre Haute is going to hive a grand Fourth of July celebration on Monday, the stli, at Early’s Grove. Judge Long will read an historical essay and Dan Voorhees and Col. McLean deliver orations.

It is probable that there will not be over half an average crop of wheat in Rush County this year, and unless the season is very favorable henceforth there will not be more than a third of an average crop.— Indianapolis Journal. A new dodge has been devised for advertising reapers and mowers. It is for all the agents to deliver all their sales in one day, give a grand dinner-to the purchasers, and have a procession of the machines sold. Such an affair came off at Frankfort the other day. It was equal to a circus. A few days since a daughter of Rev. Mr. Tanzy, of Graysville, kindled a fire with coal oil, and the old story was repeated. The oil caught fire, exploded the can, and enveloped the young lady in flames. Her clothes were burned off, and jier lower extremities so badly burned that she died. The drunkest person that got on the Vandalia train yesterday was a pretty young woman at Brazil, whose rosy cheeks were aflame with vile potations, and her insane laugh as she reeled to the platform at Staunton made a shudder go through the frame of all who love' purity and virtue.—Terre Haute Express. Jerry Monroe, a colored man, living in Indianapolis, recently brutally murdered his late wife by beating her brains out with an iron wrench. She had been lately divorced from him on the ground of cruelty. Deceased was thirty-three years old and a member of the colored Baptist Church. When visited in jail, two hours after his arrest, and told his wifewas dead, the brute exhibited little emotion, but expressed a belief that he would be hung. The following postal changes were made in Indiana during the week ending June, 19, 1875: Established —Greenfield Mills, 1 LaGrange County, William H. H. Groves,. Postmaster; Soto, Stark County, Isaac R. Bascein, Postmaster. Discontinued—Nelson, Vigo County; Tassinong, Porter County. Postmasters appointed—Dorsey, Blackford County, Harrison R. Harter; Ewing, Jackson County, John Wallace; Hartsville, Bartholomew County, Nicholas S. Holcomb; Haubstadt, Gibson County, Frederick Monroe; Jordanville, Knox County, John Gilmore; Merrillville, Lake County, John P. Merrill; Mount Liberty, Brown County, John Clark; New Haven, Allen County, Joseph Whitaker; Pleasant View, Wabash County, Jonathan R. Wilson; Rexville, Ripley Courity, Thomas S. Vawter; Williainsburgh, Wayne County, Mrs. Lydia Bunnell. Charles Probst, living near Terre Haute, owned two Valuable horses, and a thief caught one of them, pus on a bridle, and rode away. The other horse then began neighing and acting so strangely as to attract Mr. Probst’s attention. Seeing that one horse was missing he went to the field, when the remaining animal began to neigh loudly. Presently Mr. Probst heard an answering neigh from the missing horse far in the distance. Saddling the remaining horse he at once gave chase, the two horses, singularly enough, keeping up that kind of horse language at frequent intervals. He galloped over hills and through gullies in this manner for about two miles, when a turn in the road brought him in sight of the thief and the horse. A last neigh disgusted the thief, and, abandoning his stolen animal, he took to the woods on foot

The Canker-Worm.

[From the Forthcoming Report of the Mtchi<mn State Board of Agricultnre.] . The wingless female moth and the trim male, with his ample wings, both gray or ash. color, the female being a little the darker, come forth from the ground early in the spring: I have often seen the males during warm winter days. Dr. Harris states that these insects during open winters come forth from October to March, but usually commence aboEt the middle of March and continue to issue from their earthen retreats for about three weeks. The female crawls up the trunks of the apple trees and lavs her cluster of eggs, often to tlie number of 100. If the female fails for any reason to gain access to the tree she fastens these egg clusters to any convenient object. I i have often seen them in Cambridge, Mass., I fastened to the pickets or boards offences, i After egg-laying these insects soon die. Just as the leaves begin to burst forth the larva? begin to come forth. The larvae vary very much in color. At first they are very dark, with faint yellowish stripes. When full-groWn they are striped with ash color, black and yellow, and areabout one inch in length. These larvae belong to the loopers, or measuring worms, both names referring to their peculiar method of locomotion. They do not have the usual number •of legs for caterpillars (sixteen), but must be content with only ten. Hence their looping gait. They are also called dropworms, because of the habit of swinging from the tree by a thread when disturbed, or when they desire to go to the ground to pupate. As they are often seen thus suspended it lias been supposed that they frequently swing just for the pleasure of the thing. It may be that some disturbing wind or bird induced this strange maneuver. About the middle of June the larvae are full fed, the tree fully denuded of its foliage, and that, too, at the worst possible time, the growing season, when The “ worms” make for the ground, some creeping down the trunk, others dropping down by a silken thread spun for the pur-" pose. Upon reaching the ground they burrow to the deptli of four or live inches and, in an earthen cocoon; change to pupa?. The chrysalis is of a light brown color, and smaller for male than for female. This destructive insect is not content to injure the apple-tree alone, but is equally ready to attack the elm, and not infrequently attacks cherry, plum and other fruit and forest trees. . , As prevention is better than cnrejwe ought, ofz-cotirse, whenever possible, to keep injurious insects from even g.-tining a foothold; and the wingless condition of this female moth permits us to accomplish this, as she must ascend the tree in order to work injury. Any substance which prevents this will prevent the defoliation. The old method so long practiced in New England is to closely surround the tree with paper bands, say eight inches wide, and besmear the bands with tar or printer’s ink. This gives the trees a forbidding appearance and necessitates renewed application of tlie adhesive substance so frequently as to be sure that we entrap the moth as she attempts to pass up the tree. Dr. Le Baron suggests a neater and, as he says, an effectual remedy. He would place an inch rope closely around the tree, letting it lap a little so as to be sure to entirely surround the tree. Then tack the rope to the tree at each end. Then take a strip of tin, say five inches widq, place it around over the rope, so fhatlhe rope shall be just in the middle of the tin; lap this a little and tack to the rope. It is said that tlie female moths coming up to the rope, and being unable to crawl through under the tin, will crawl around and get on to the tin, but that they-will never get from the tin to the tree again. Upon reaching the top of the tin they pass round and round, not knowing that they can pass down and thus gain their desired end. Like turkeys entrapped in a pen, whose only exit is through a hole beneath the earth’s level, they are balked through sheer stupidity. In this case the moths will doubtless lay esgs around and below the tins. These can be destroyed by using kerosene oil. This,, turned upon the eggs, destroys them. Eggs laid in close proximity to the tree, or wherever seen, can be destroyed in the same way. . > If the moths once gain access to the tree, and the larvae commence their work of despoliation, we can take advantage of their dropping propensity and destroy them. Place a little straw under the tree, not sufficient to injure it when burned. Then jar the tree, and as the larvae swing down by their threads bring them upon straw by sweeping the threads with a pole, then set fire to the straw, and we are rid of the pests. The only tr ouble will be to be sure to make them drop. To be complete this will need cautious pains. During the past year syringing the trees with a solution of Paris green was tried with marked success in Illinois, and is highly recommended by those who tried it. Though the neighbors of people with affected orchards may take satisfaction in the prospect of a speedy leave-taking of this terrible scourge, still those who have orchards attacked will find that persistent effort in the line marked out above will be .the price of their orchards, as two or three years at most will utterly ruin the trees. ’But this price is not very exorbitant, as the labor is not very great, does not last very long, and is most effectual when applied in the least busy season of all the year.— A. J. Cook, Professor in Agricultural College.

A young Trojan went up into Washington County the other day to buy a horse. He found one that suited him and sent him home on trial. After a thorough examination he was found to be unsound, and the young man’s father sent an older son with a telegram to the younger, who remained up north, which read: “Don’t buy the horse; he is fast, but a little unsteady.” The older son, who is rather “tight” in money matters, reading the dispatch at the office hurriedly, found that it contained over ten words, and, intending to avoid the extra tariff, thoughtlessly struck out the first woref* The dispatch was sent, the horse was bought, and the close-fisted Troy man's brother has an bargain that he would like to get rid of for $2-50. — Y.) Republican. . The Scientific American announces that an insect hostile to housewives and slumber has been purged of his pestilential qualities by a simple scientific method, and rendered a delightful and indispensable article of the dressing-table. By soaking nice fat bedbugs in a saturated solution of nitrate of potash and water a perfume, delicate, delicious, penetrating, and like nothing else in the wide world, is obtained. What an impetus this will give to the slaughter of insects of this persuasion. Nitrate of potash is cheap and bedbugs are plentiful. The underpaid clerk on five dollars a week, living at a dingy,. » third-class boarding-house, has in this announcement the wherewithal to accumulate a competency.— Chicago Tribune.