Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1875 — Page 2

RENSSELAER UNION. i f._ JIXES * HEAI-KT, Proprietor*. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN. The American rifle team arrived at Belfast, Ireland, on the 6th, and were enthusiastically received by the Inhabitants and municipal authorities. The commission appointed to prepare the draft of a new constitution for Spain have concluded their labors. It was thought on the 6th that it would be adopted without essential modification. A rumor prevailed in Madrid on the 6th that the Alphonsists had captured Cauta Vteg» A pigeon-shooting match between A. H. Bogardus, of Illinois, and the English champion, Geo. Rimmei, took plaee at Hendon, England, on the 7th, and was easily won by the former. The contest for the Mayor and citizens' cup at Belfast, Ireland, on the 7th resulted in the succeshaof the American team. A Madrid dispatch of the ’7th announces the departure of the entire Carliet forces from Valencia and Arragon. The Alphonsists were in close pursuit A dispatch to the London Standard of the Bth reports that an insurrection had broken out against the Turks in Herzegovina. The Ministerial Commission appointed to consider whether Italy shall participate in the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition has decided in the negative on account of the expense necessary. The United States Government has been so informed. The rivers Toques and Orbiquet, ,iu France, have overflowed their banks and inundated the town of Lesieux and its environs. Several lives were lost. A terrific rain and hail storm recently visited Switzerland. The hail-stones were of unusual size, killing and wounding many persons, destroying crops and damaging much valuable property. Leading Norwegian papers predict a commercial crash in Norway in consequence of the stagnation in the timber trade. A Madrid dispatch of the Bth announces that Carlists were continually presenting themselves to the authorities, demanding amnesty. A Madrid dispatch of the 9th announces the defeat of the Carlists at Trevino, with a loss of 460 killed and sixty prisoners. All the foreign Mayors to whom invitations were sent to attend the international banquet at Guildhall, London, have signified their acceptance, with only two exceptions. The damage caused by the flood in the Rhone Valley is estimated at about 1,000,000 francs. „. v . - —_— - - - A Vienna dispatch of the 11th says the insurrection in Herzegovina, along the Dalmatian border, had assumed large proportions. The populace had attacked the Turkish authorities in the frontier towns and raised the Austrian flag. Cortina, Mayor of Matamoras, Mexico, was recently arrested by the Mexican authorities under suspicion of being concerned in the Texas raids. A New Orleans dispatch of the 11th says orders had been given at Matamoras that would interfere- with the traffic in stolen stock. The Mexican Government seemed to be in a sort of panic, said to be caused by communications from Washington, the tenor of which had not yet been made public. Mexican papers say that the removal of Cortina will permit the authorities of Matamoras to execute the laws; that he was the supporter and defender of criminals and the enemy of justice and order.

DOMESTIC. The first celebration of our national birthday ever attempted by the American Indians took place at Atoka, I. T., on the sth. There were at least 8,000 Indians present, and a bountiful dinner was prepared for all in a grove near the town. An educated Indian presided and speeches were made by several white orators. A Washington dispatch of the 7th states that under the act of July IS, 1574, providing for the resumption of specie payments, the Treasury Department had disposed of about $10,000,000 of bonds known as 5 per eents> authorized by the act of July 14,1570, and with the proceeds had purchased about $9,000,000 in silver, for the purpose of retiring ractional currency. In his recent report concerning the Black Hills region Prof. Jenney says that eouutry is admirably adapted for agricultural purposes; that the soil is very rich, the water sufficient and the pine timber heavy and valuable. Mrs. Stringer, of Cincinnati, a few mornings ago fouud the kindling-wood in her cookstove too damp to burn well when a match was applied, so she undertook to hurry up matters by pouring coal-oil from a can into the stove. It is hardly necessary to add that, after five hours of the most acute agony, she died from the effects of her burns. A real-estate lawsuit which promises to rival in magnituie and duration the celebrated suit of Mrs. Gaines in New Orleans is one of the probabilities In Chicago. A strip of land containing about twenty-five acres and worth several millions of dollars, on which stand the Illinois Central depot and a portion of the tracks, is in dispute, having just been originally entered by Willis Drummond, late Commissioner of the General Land Office, at the Land Office in Springfield, although it has been occupied and presumably owned by the railroad company for the last thirty years; Prof. Steiner, with three companions, made a balloon ascension at Milwaukee' oil the evening of the 7th, intending to make an eastward voyage to the Atlantic coast. They took a southwesterly direction, and after being up three hours landed about tweßty-eight mile 3 from Milwaukee without meeting with any accident. The quality of the gas with which the balloon was inflated is said to have been poor, and did not give buoyancy enough for a longer trip. Another attempt was contemplated. The count of the funds in the Treasury vaults at Washington has developed no discrepancy or deficit, with the exception of the $47,000 package stolen some weeks ago. and to which no dew has yet been obtained. The Comptroller of the Currency has called upon the National Banks for a report showing their condition at the close of business June 30. The Comptroller desires to retire all the circulatihg notes of the denomination of five dollars of the following banks, the notes of that denomination having been successfully counterfeited; The First, Third and Traders’National Banks, Chicago; First National Bank of Partem, 111.; First National Bank of Canton, HI. National banks throughout the eOunjry are requested to return all

notes of these banks of the denomination of five dollars to the-Treasury for redemption; and no additional bills of this-denomination will hereafter be issued to these bsuks. Early on the morning of the 9th, as the Vandalla passenger train bound east on the Terre Haute, Vandalia A Indianapolis Railroad stopped at Long Point, a lonely station in Clark County, 111, for water, four men Vtoarded the cars and detached the engine and express car, and two of them jumped on the engine and ordered the engineer to go ahead; on his refusing they shot him through the heart, and then ran the engine out two miles and attempted to rob the Adams Express car. The messenger, Mr. Burke, barricaded the car and successfully resisted their efforts until the fireman, who had leaped from the engine when the engineer was killed, rallied a party and came to Burke’s relief. Many sliot6 were fired into the express car, but without effect. One thousand dollars reward is offered for the murderers. The James brothers are. suspected of being the perpetrators of the outrage. The name of the murdered engineer was Miio Ames, and he lived at Terre Haute. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided to allow such claims 'of State officers for the refunding of the income tax paid upon the. emoluments of their offices as were tiled in due thne, whether those emoluments eonslat of salary or of fees. „ a Mrs. Algernon Sartoris, daughter of President Grant, has a fine boy, born on the nth lit Long Branch. It weighed ten aud a half pounds. The daughter of Patrick Boylan, of West Davenport, lowa, was fatally burned the other evening by the explosion of a can of kerosene, while lighting the kitchen lire with the contents. She was burned to a crisp and lived but a few hours. ris. . rERSONAL. At a largely-attended meeting of Plymouth Society of Brooklyn—composed of pew;-hold-ers in Plymouth Church—ou the evening of the 7th aresolution was unanimously adopted fixing Mr. Beecher’s salary for the ensuing year at SIOO,OOO. It is understood among the congregation that this increase of salary is for this year only, and is intended to help defray the expenses of the recent trial. Mr. Beecher testified before the Grand Jury in the Loeder-Price case on the 7th, denying all-the allegations made by the accused so far as they related to himself, reply to the usual questions Price acknowledged his guilt of perjury and conspiracy, Loeder pleading -not guilty. — ' A St. Louis dispatch of the Bth announces the death, at his residence in that city, of Gen. F. P. Blair, Jr. He was fifty-three years of age. The Executive Committee of the National Grange, in session in Washington on the Bth, agreed, by a vote of three to two, to remove the headquarters of the National Grange from Washington to Louisville, Kv. They also resolved to hold the next meeting of the National Grange at Louisville on the third Wednesday in November next. The headquarters will be removed to Louisville in a few weeks. —— — : —-—— It is 6aid the immediate cause of Gen. Blair's death was an injury received by falling and striking his head against a piece of furniture while walking across the room. He had been out riding and returned feeling, much invigorated; but being seized with diz ziness he fell and became unconscious. He never rallied, and in a few hours quietly passed away in the presence of his family and friends. Mr. F. D. Moulton has recently addressed a letter to the District Attorney of Brooklyn, asking for a speedy trial under the indictment for libeling the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, which has been pending against him (Moulton) for nearly a year. Attorney Britton responded that he could not well attend to the matter at the present time, owing to more urgent cases,-but intinrates-thatTater in the season he will endeavor to have the mat-' ter attended to in the courts. The funeral of Gen. Blair, at St. Louis on the 11th, is said to have been the most imposing attair of the kind ever witnessed in that city.

POLITICAL. The Comptroller of the Currency reports the amount of additional circulation- issued during the month of June, $1,615,525; amount of legal-tender notes deposited during the same period, $5,009,636; additional circulation issued since the passage of the act of June 20, 1874, $11,601,892; amount of circulation destroyed and retired during the same time, s9,o27,o6o—showing an actual increase of bank circulation during the year of only $1,978,820; amount of legal-tender notes deposited for the purpose of retiring circulation since the passage of the same act, $25,523,057, and amount deposited by banks iu liquidation previous to that date, a total of $29,336,732. Deducting from this amount $9,027,066 (amount of circulation permanently retired) will leave $19,709,666 legal-tender notes on deposit July 1 for the purpose of retiring circulation. The-Wisconsin Republican State Convention was held at Madison on the 7th. The Hon. Harrison Ludington, of Milwaukee, was unanimously nominated, by acclamation, for Governor. The other nominations are: For Lieutenant-Governor, H. L. Eaton; Secretary of State, Hans B. Warner; State Treasurer, Maj. Henry Baetz; Attorney-General, John R. Bennett; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Robert Graham. E. W. Keyes was reelected Chairman of the State Central Committee. The platform adopted approves the letter, of President Grant “discouraging the continuance in office of any Chief Magistrate of the nation for a longer period than two terms;” indorses the present Republican National Administration: indorses the policy of arbitration in settling difficulties between nations; favors a tariff for revenue only; advocates the gradual resumption of specie payments; favors legislative control of public corporations, etc. The Opposition,State Convention of Minne- ! sots, held at St. Paul on the 7th, nominated ! D. L. Buell for Governor; E. AY. Durant, j Lieutenant-Governor; Albert Scheffer, Treasj urer; J. AV. Sencerbox, Railway Commissioner: Adolphus Bierman, Secretary of State; | Lafayette Emmett, Chief-Justice; M. Doran, | State Auditor; A. A. McLeod, Clerk Supreme Court. The name Democratic-Republican was adopted, and the resolutions favor a resumption of specie payments and a return to gold and silver as a basis of currency; a tariff for revenue only—none f>r protection; the State control of public corporations, etc. A small industry tor women and ehil- ! dren has sprung up' in Edinburgh, in the making of “fire-lighters” from sawdust. The refuse is collected, molded together into little cakes with clay, or some resinous substance, and, packed in paper boxes,; as hawked about lie streets by the manu-i facturers.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Cut-worms are cutting corn in th« Pitta ity of Corydon. Terre Haute is talking park with a fountain attachment. Hoo cholera is carrying off hogs at a fearful rate in Pike County. Seventeen* attorneys live off the legal quarreling of Harrison County. A band of gypsies are peddling “ fate” in the vicinity of'Bowling Green. A ditch seven miles long is V) be cut in Tipton County at a cost of SO,(XX). , Centennial societies are being organized in several counties of the State. Rushville is infested with thieves who help themselves to gold-headed canes. Cass County claims to be better financially fixed than any other in the State. The apple crop is renarh d from all parta of tiie State to be a complete failure this year. During a heavy storm at Berno a few evenings ago a large show-window in a drug store was blown in and a clerk fatally Injured. In the excavation for the new Terre Haute gas-holder a number of very beautiful shells,- Indian beads, petrifactions, coal and other objects of interest have been unearthed. —, I—_ The detectives of Indianapolis are accused of having released three prisoners arrested for robbery and receiving stolen goods on the payment of S3OO. The affair is to be investigated. The wife of Jesse Artis, a colored man living in Lost Creek Township, Vigo County, had her throat cut a few nights ago while she lay in bed. At last accounts her murderer had not been discovered. Charles Ford was found two miles south of Rome City the other morning, where he had lain since the night of the 20th. having taken a large dose of morphine. The supposed cause is separation from his wife through the influence ot her friends.

Charles Ageno, a clerk in the wholesale confectionery establishment of Heing Bros., at Terre Haute, while swinging in the rear of the house of one of his employers the other evening was thrown twenty feet by the breaking of one of the ropes, anil fatally injured. The following postal changes were made in the State during the week ending June 26, 1875; Established —Beech wood, Crawford County, Airs. Sarah J. Jenkins, Postmistress. Discontinued—Ganby, Putnam County; Fish Creek, Steuben County. Postmasters appointed—Alert, Decatur County, Aliss Jennie Taylor; Slate, Jennings County, Charles N. Taubman. I\UEMER,a negro who committed an outrage on the wife of Mr. William Vaughan, near Carthage, Hancock Co., was lately brought to Greenfield from Rushville for safe keeping. On the morning of the 26th, between one and two o’clock, a mob of about 160 masked men, said to be from Hancock, Shelby and Rush Counties, broke open the jail, and took the negro out and hung him in one of the halls at the fair-ground. The affair created intense excitement at Greenfield! As the Toledo train of the Flint & Pere Alarquette Railroad was approaching Leonard’s Crossing, a few miles north of Highland, a few mornings ago, a man w r as

observed by the engineer standing about twelve feet from the track. Just before the train reached him he ran up to the track, laid his head upon the rail, and before the speed of the train could he checked it had passed over the mad. severing his head entirely from his body. His name was Oliver AV. Armstrong. He was twenty-eight years old, and had previously threatened suicide. In an appealed liquor case at Indianapolis the other day, under the new License law. Judge Perkius held that it was not within the ordinary judgment of the Commis.'iouers to decide whether the applicant was a fit person to be connected with sale of liquors, but that such fitness or unfitness must he judged by sound legal discretion upon charges made and proved. Concerning remonstrance, it must be one by voter or voters, in writing, who must specify with reasonable certainty the grounds of unfitness, and, if they do not in themselves constitute legal unfitness, the Commissioners may strike thorh out or refuse to hear proof of them. If they constitute legal unfitness they must be legally proved, and, if legally proved, license shall be refused.

Some time ago J. R. Buell and Susan R. Gilbert, residents of Indianapolis, took | out a license and in presence of certain witnesses and themselves solemnized a , ceremony of marriage and took each other for husband and wife respectively, so long as the union of love and life shall last. They were subsequently indicted for maintaining an adulterous connection. It j was claimed that the marriage was not le- | gaily solemnized, and that, therefore, the | parties were living 1 in open violation of ' the, law; but Judge Chapman held the marriage, although Irregular, to be valid, since the parties themselves believed it to , be so, and lived together as husband and wife. The Judge, in concluding his decision, said; “I conclude ; that the defendants contracted a valid marriage, such a contract as can only be dissolved by death or decree of a competent court: that their agreement.to dissolve the | contract by their own consent, in case their respective love natures failed to harmonize, is in law void and in morals vicious: that if the parties should 'act under this stipulation for a termination of the marriage contract and thereafter enter into a similar marriage contract and relationship with other parties they would be guilty of bigamy; and that good morals and sound political ethics, as well as the statute law, require that they shall be held firmly to the marriage contract they have assumed, and to all the’ duties and responsibilities the law attaches thereto; and, therefore, that the parties are not guilty as charged n the indictment”

In Genoa.

Charles Warren Stoddard write* to the San Francisco Chronicle: Genoa is a fresh, busy, imposing city, with an invigorating atmosphere pleasantly -suggestive of the salt sea. Her harbor, which is like the bosom of a vast fountain, inclosed with long moles that rise like a rim above the water, is crowded with shipping. The hills slope to the very shore, and there is scarcely a street in the whole city; save the one that skirts the harbor, that is on an even grade. Borne of these long, narrow and crooked streets are sunk deep into the rocky foundations of the town, and one or two of them tunnel under the prongs ot the high lands that shelter and overshadow the place. Genoa has been called a “ City of. Palaces,” and so she is, but then palaces are vCry common in Italy; there is not a citv but numbers a dozen or so, and no one thinks of boasting of them nowadays. AVe had no SAoner left the great station in the edge of the town than we came upon the monument to Columbus. The statue is of white marble. Columbus leans upon an anchor, while Amerieus kneels at his feet; Religion; Geography, Strength and AVisdoin sit at the four corners of the pedestal, looking dusty and tired. So long as Religion. Geography, Strength and Wisdom are confined to monumcntal marble they behave like ladies; but once endow them with life and you may expert a shower of hair-pins shortly after- There are things worth seeing in, Genoa; there is the autograph of Columbus, celebrated'for its association with the “ Innocents Abroad.” The palaces are burdened with gilding; every ceiling is richly frescoed, but the eye- soon grows weary with the superabundant ornamentation—and then it is such a bore to look up at an angle that threatens to dislocate your neck—and as for the frescoes, the figures in them always look as if they were throwing somersaults or standing on their heads. At the cathedral —the exterior of which seems to have been begun after one plan but continued after another, which was ultimately thrown aside and the whole left unfinished —we saw the splendid tomb of John the Baptist,, whose remains were brought from Palestine during the Crusades, At the back of the tomb" hangs a metal chain with which he was bound; but the most interesting relic in Genoa is die vaso catino, out of which our Savior and His disciples are said to have partaken of the paschal lamb, and in which Joseph of Arimathea caught some drops of the blood of the crucified Christ The vessel is of fine glass and wasjaptured by the Genoese at Ctesarea duffing die Crusades. The relics are shown (*th much ceremony, the key being kept by the municipal authorities.

A Fishy Lot.

The fishvomen of Boulogne, says a correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, are a peculiar people, who are to themselves and of themselves apart from the rest of the world save in the business of moneymaking. These women are Amazons in strength and in muscular development. For some reason they have the right to one franc apiece for every article of luggage landed at Boulogne, and dozens of them stand in waiting when the boat arrives, not only to collect their dues, hut to act as porters as well for those who wish trunks, etc., carried to hotels or railway stations. Size or weight seems nevqr to deter them, and such Saratoga trunks as our countrywomen travel with, and such as mark them at once to the European eye as American, trunks heavy enough to demand the sweat of the brow of two or three English porters in lifting, and “tips” all around, are to some of these -women seemingly a mere bagatelle. Old women and young take such trunks upon their backs as if it were but child’s play, and probably wqpder much at the unmitigated horror and surprise with which American women, the most petted and tenderly reared women in the world, look upon this desecration of womanhood into beasts of burden. These womgn are the wives and daughters of fishermen, themselves not fishers, save of shrimps, but venders of fish from door to door and keepers of stalls in the fish market. They live entirely by themselves, in a neighborhood completely apart, and are as separate in habits, interests, social and domestic relations from the rest of the world as if they were a different order of beings. So strong is the feeling of seclusion among them that if a girl ventures to receive the attentions of other than a fisherman she is reprimanded and made to feel the indignation and scorn of all the people among whom she was born. If one marries outside the community, which is so rarely done as scarcely to be known in their history, she is from that time forth ostracized from her people, their contempt is upon her, their hearts are closed against her, and the places which once knew her know her again never more. In the fish market at Boulogne some of these women and girls stand by their stalls for a lifetime, many who now occupy them having followecl grandmother and mother in the same spot.

There is a negro boy at Henderson, Ky„ who, for the hardness of skull, is without a parallel in the State. Last month AVasli Smith (that’s his name) and a companion were out shooting near the railroad, when by some means a disorderly and angry altercation ensued between them, and a struggle soon followed, where-, upon the other negro cocked his gun, and, taking aim at AA’ash's head, discharged a full load of No. 4 hard-shot against this important feature of his constitution. Strange to relate, the shot were hurled back against the aggressive party with such violence as to wound him in several places. Nat so much as even a dent could be detected on any part of Wash’s forehead, although the shot struck him on several places. He was, a week or so after this, passing the base-ball grounds w hen one of the boys offered to give him a cigar providing lie would not object to being struck across the forehead w ith a bat. To this AYash readily assented, and Bill Grayson, who proposed to do the striking, hit him a lick sufficient to fell an ox. ihe negro was hardly staggered by the blow, and now wants to know “ if any pus'on is go; any mo' segars to gib way-.” —Chicago Tribune. * > The ice works of Alacon. Ga., are on the banks of the Qemulgee, the waters of which are so muddy that the fish cannot see to bite. The water is passed through surface condensers and nicely molded in forms of clear and very handsome ice. These machines have a capacity .of making -5,000 pounds a day, and they-are used in many Southern cities, producing ice for the small sum of $6.40 a ton. They met—that,is. she went to the store, And made him turn his department o'er. Till he ' anished behind his goods, and then She pleasantly said she would call again. It is said that the female house-fly never bites.a man. but that isn’t much consolation to a fellow who finds two or three of them in his cup of coffee.

VARIETY AND HUMOR.

—Why are E and A like good people? Because they meet in heaven. —A daring climber at Yale, to celebrate til* recent base-ball victory over Harvard, clfmlied the steeple of the college chapel and attached to the vane a large blue flag over a smaller one of crimson. —AVe like to see a man reasonably quiet and peaceable, but when he stands in one place long enough for the wasps to build a nest in liis hair lie ought to lie kicked into, some sort of resistance.— Brunswicker. —An Irish gentleman of the agricultural persuasion being recommended by a friendly adviser to'heap coals of lire on the head of an aggravating wife, went home and did so. "Her recovery is doubtful, and the prisoner is remanded. —Places for boys to fjnd work are becoming very scarce and the pay for their work very small of late years, on account of the surplus of applicants. There seems to be but one remedy for this—having Fourth of July oflener. —Mrs, Mohair says she doesn’t want to find fault with the indestructible decrees of Providence, but sjie really believes that Old Possibilities lias taken a prejudice against her black and white grenadine dress. She has had to postpone wearing it incomparable times on account of the incolierency of the w T eather. —A singular case of suicide recently occurred in Vernon, N. Y. Moses Beken, an bid and respected citizen of that village, hung himself in consequence of extreme depression of spirits resulting from the persecution of a creditor whom lie was unable to pay and who annoyed and insulted him until his life became insupportable. Moral: Never dun a man.

—The other evening a Vicksburg toper got full and started for home, took a wrong direction, wandered into the outskirts of the city, fell down, and lay beside the fence all night, -He was aroused in the morning by a hog rooting liim over, when, leaping up and hanging to the fence, he took a look at the porker and exclaimed: “ P-perliaps you tli-think I’m a-a corn-com-mon d-drunkard, but you’ve made a bad m-mistake, old fellow!” —One of the morning papers has a list of sixty persons killed, maimed, or injured yesterday in New York and Brooklyn by reckless artillery, premature pistols, impatient sky-rockets and eccentric firecrackers, blue lights, serpents, quillwheels and other explosives. Supposing this list to record half of the actual number of accidents it would imply 4,800 blow-ups of one kind or other in the country at large.— N. Y. Graphic. • —One of our large sheep-growers, says the San Benito (Cal.) Advance, says that the practice of annual shearing will become more general than it lias been in California, as the six months’ clip is too short to fetch a satisfactory price among woolbuyers. The growing demand seems to be for wool of long staple and weight, and advanced figures obtained, besides the ready sale it always commands, will induce many wool-growers to abandon the semi-annual clip. —Mr. Blivens, an old bachelor of Rochester, who is much absorbed in politics, visited the widow Graham the other day, just after reading Grant’s letter, and asked her what she thought of a third term. Now, the widow had been twice married, and in response to the question she made a rush for the astonished Air. Blivens, And, taking him tightly in her arms, exclaimed: “Oh, you deal - , dear man! AVhat a happy woman I am!•” At last accounts Air. B. had locked himself in his wood-house and was endeavoring to explain things to the widow through the key-hole. —While attending church at Portland, Ale., on a recent evening, Aliss Annie Louise Cary went into the choir and assumed the soprano part, which rang quite low in the closing hymn. AVhen the congregation passed out, commenting on the glorious voice of the unknown singer, a lady who prides herself bn her musical taste said iu answer to the question of a friend: “ I think it is one of that street choir. She has a pretty good voice, but it lacks cultivation sadly.” And now the prima donna’s friends are urging her to supply that lack during her forthcoming visit to Europe.— N. Y. Tribune. —A shrewd game was played on the jailer of Cynthiana, Kt., the night of July 1. About midnight he was aroused by a summons, and just before the door was opened he was told by the party who had aroused him that they had a prisoner to be placed in jail, and when lie opened the door to all appearances the prisoner was there, one of the party being bound and tied. Just then they astonished him by saying—the remark being accompanied by the usual appliances in such cases—that, they wanted Goodpasture and Fightmaster, two men convicted for horse-stealing, and proceeded to liberate them. They would not permit any other prisoner to go out, and said their object was to release those two men and no others. It is supposed that, the liberating party was from the mountains, and belong -to a regular hand of horse-thieves. The Sheriff with a posse went after them the next morning, but as yet they have been unsuccessful in capturing them. —The Liverpool Post of June 18 says: “ An extraordinary marriage has been celebrated in the Church of St. Woollos, New*port, between a girl named Elizabeth Jones, of the tender age of thirteen years, and a young man of tw*enty-three years of age. The husband is supposed to be a street preacher from Britouferry, and the child-wife is the daughter of Air* Evan Jones, a storekeeper at the Vernon tin works. On Sunday night last the two met at the Neath Station, and proceeded to Newport, where they were joined by a sister of the young man. The latter had. not before disclosed the purpose which he had in view to his relative, and when she heard of it she uttered an indignant remonstrance, refused to attend the church, and returned to her home. On proceeding to the church the following morning the bridegroom explained the absence of attendants by informing the clergyman that his sister had been suddenly taken unwell. The service was then accomplished, and a little girl thirteen years of age married by a priest of the Church of England. The child-wife afterward returned to her parents, who were much distressed at her absence, and informed them what bail happened.” —Knocking worni-nests from apple trees is a common occupation at present. In impetuously removing a nest from a tree on Spring street yesterday two ot the worms fell outside the nest, and went down the neck of the woman who was watching the operation. She emitted a piercing scream and w ent plunging under the frees, uttering shriek after shriek. The husband, knowing nothing of the cause of the outbreak, very discreetly took to the cellar and crowded back of a cider-vinegar barrel to wait for the disappearance of -what he firmly believed to lie a serious attack of insanity. The unfortunate woman pranced and screamed Until she brought together some sixty-five neighbors of her

own sex, who were determined to afford her immediate relief until they learned what was the matter, when they precipitately retired outside the fence, but showed there was no abatement of their sympathy by asking her, individually and unitedly, why she didn’t} take the dreadful tilings out. At this juncture Air. Rouse, the baker, drove by, and he soon restored peace,,, with the aid of two of the more courageous neighbors. The husband.now unexpectedly appeared from the cellar, and explained Ins course by saying that he had on his best coat and was afraid she would tear it iu her frenzy —Danbury News.

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

—Virginia lias just made an apportionment of public school funds amounting to seventy-five cents for each member of'the school population. —The Harvard examinations for women concluded a few days since. There were eight applicants, three of whom passed last year and applied this year for advanced standing. —The California Shite Teachers’ Association have adopted a resolution in favor of the abolition of the offices of State Superintendent and of County Superintendent, on the ground that they cost more than they are worth. —The income of the Wesleyan Missionary Society in England is much larger than ever before, and decidedly Jarger than any Christian society in -the world. For the present year it amounted to £185,000 sterling, about $925,000. That of the Established Church Alissipnary Society was upward of £175,000. —Rev. AV. James, Presiding Elder in the United Brethren Church iu one of the districts in Kansas, says that in the bounds of his work ope of the preachers, for waut of bread, takes but oue meal a day, and another could not attend his quarterly meeting for, die want of shoes. The question of bread is very serious among them, as the grasshoppers have destroyed, everything. —The* Southern Presbyterian General Assembly, which met at St. Louis, resolved, to purge its records of all reference to politics. The resolution is thus worded: “ That a committee be appointed to review the records of our church courts, and to eliminate therefrom everything which would give it such (i. <?., a secular) tinge; and that we here resolve and declare that we are and intend to be a non-secular and non-po-litical church.” —The contributions to the AVoman’s Board of Alissions in the Presbyterian Church in 1871 were $7,000; in 1872, $27,000; in 1873, $64,000; in 1874, $87,000; in 1875, $96,000; thus showing a steady increase since its Organization amounting to one-fifth of the entire annual receipts of the Foreign Board. The success of the Woman’s Board is not the munificence of a few, hut in gathering up the mites from the many.

—A little fact lias recently brought to light the extreme poverty of many of the country ministers of England. The Christian World , the most widely circulated of the English religious papers, expressed the apprehension that many of them were utterly unable to purchase “even one new book of real value,” and received letters from 260 confirming its statement. It has started a plan for supplying some of the country ministers with ten dollars’ worth of hooks each. —The Xlnites Fratmm , or Church of the. United Brethren, after an existence of 400 years, reveals no decay of vitality. The latest statistics for America show that the number of communicants has doubled since 1855. It lias now 15,308 members. ? Thc whole number of members in all the world is 98,227, to which is to"be added 80,000 persons connected with the State churches of Europe who attend Moravian ministrations. It has always been a part of the plan of the Brethren to form societies within the churches lor Christian edification. 'This body is the only one in Protestantism which is strictly ecumenical, although the leading churches iu the United States are, through their missions, rapidly taking on this character.

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