Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1875 — Page 2

RENSSELAER UNION. wnw a RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

RkMKIGN. Dvfaff the Hut soar months Moody and Sankey have held 285 meetings in England, which have been attended by 2,170,000 persons. The amount of money expended for building*, printing, etc., was £140,000. The evangelists declined to receive compensation for their sei vices. The cotton mills in Ashton, Stalybridge, Dunkenfleld and Moseley, England, on the 13th gave notice of a lock-out on the 24th, because the workmen in certain departments had refused bo refer disputes in regard to wages to arolttation. A Santander dispatch of the 13th announces the wreck of the Spanish steamer Bayonne on the Biscayan coast. Her crew were saved by Carlist fishermen and the Carlists had threatened to hold them as hostages, to be shot if the Royalists bombard any more coast towns. The Carlists were removing their artillery from Estell*. Moody and Sankey, the evangelists, leave England for the United States on the 4th of August London dispatches of the 15th say that heavy mtns had lately occurred la various parts of England and Wales. An immense dam in Cinderford Valleys Gloucestershire, had buret, flooding the forest of Dean. The river Ogmore, in Wales, had overflowed its banks, Inundating the town of Brigend, drowning several persons and much live stock. At Concarvan a reserve pond for supplving the Mownopthshire Canal had buret its banks, entirely destroying a factory and several dwellings, and drowning thirteen persons. Lambert Brothers <fc Scott, of London, failed on the 15th with $1,000,000 liabilities. It was reported in London on the 15th that an insurrection had broken out near Bhamo, in Burmah. A St- Petersburg letter to the London Standard says the Russian city of Morschansk had been recently destroyed. Over 900 lives were lost and more than 2,000 were seriously burned. It was thought that over 1,000 buildings had been destroyed. The property destroyed Was valued at 5,000,000 roubles. A London dispatch of the 16th says the amount of coin and bullion in the Bank of England was greater than ever before. A Madrid telegram of the 16th says the provinces of Valencia and Castellon were free from Carlist troops. The insurrection was confined to the mountains of Navarre and the Basque and Catalonian provinces. A Berlin dispatch of the 17th says the Government had ordered that declaration o f submission by the Catholic clergymen to the new laws should be kept strictly secret, to secure them from persecution by the Ultramontanes. Lady Franklin, widow of Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer, died on the night of the 18th. Over 12,000 persons met in Hyde Park, London, on the night of the 18th to protest against the grant of £150,000 to the Prince of Wales for his Indian journey. A San Sebastian dispatch of the 18th announces that the Carlists had begun the bombardment of Puigcerda.

DOMESTIC. An extraordinary council of Cabinet officers was held in Washington on the 13th, at which the subject of our relations with Venezuela was considered. The latter Government by a convention signed in 1866 agreed to pay a certain amount as indemnity for injuries sustained by certain American citizens. A portion of the sum was paid, but a balance remains due, which our Government has sought in vain to obtain. The Venezuelan Government has at last expressed a disposition to pay up in full, but claims the privilege of designating the particular parties to whom the money shall be paid. This proposition will be rejected by our Government, and unless the matter is speedily adjusted the United States Minister to Venezuela will probably be withdrawn. The Postoffice Department estimates that the consumption of postal cards for the present fiscal year will be 125,000,000. The estimate is baaed on the consumption of last year and the demand, which exceeded the supply. About 750 Mormons, m route for Utah from Europe, arrived in New York on the 14th. Between-500 and 600 of them are adults, including la number of young women. They are under the charge of seven agents appointed by Brigham Young. The extraordinaryfeat of walking SOO miles in ninety-eight hours and fifteen minutes wa s recently accomplished at Schenectady, N. Y., by W. H. Craft. The last mile was made in nine minutes and/orty-eight seconds. Baltimore is excited over the tnarriage in that city of a scion of English nobility to a colored woman. The Baltimore papers set up the bridegroom as a direct descendant of the Plantageset family of England, and say that, a few years ago, when public indignation was at its height against the Prince of Wales, he would, had the indignation assumed a more tangible form, have been in the direct line for ascending to the British throne. By direction of the President the General of the Army has ordered that, until the result of the labor of the Commissioners to treat with the Indians is known, all parties of citizens who attempt to go to the Black Hills country, on the present Indian reservation, be prevented from going, and that those who are now there be forcibly expelled. Gen. Sheridan ha* instructed Gen. Crook to take the necessary steps to enforce these commands. The July returns to the Department of Agriculture, which are unusually full, show an improvement of the crop during June in all the cotton States except Texas. The National Division of the Sons of Temperance, at Providence, R. L, on the 15th, voted by States on the proposition to authorize colored divisions, and it was rejected. The Suffrage Committee in the Connecticut Legislature reported on the 15th in favor of allowing women to vote in Presidential election*. - ; ' The United States Grand Jury in St Louis on the 15th and 16th presented nearly thirty indictments to the United States District Court as persons connected with the so-called whisky ring. The first sample of new wheat was exhibited on ’Change hi New York city on the 15th. The Roman Catholic clergy of Lawrence, Maes., have issued a card condemning the riot whieh occurred in that city on the 12th, and expressing a hope that the ringleaders may be made to feel the enormity of their V 1 '

Prof. Donaldson, the aeronaut, who has been traveling in company with » Barnum's Hippodrome and making balloon ascensions after the conclusion the afternoon pertormances, made hi* second-trip from Chicago on the 15th, accompanied by Mr. Newton 8. Grlmwood, a reporter of the Chicago Jowwal. After ascending _)nto the air the balloon took a northeasterly course, sailing over the lake in the direction of Muskegon, Mich. About seven o’clock in the evening ft was sighted by a schooner about thirty miles northeast of Chicago, at which time the balloon was skimming the surface of the lake. The schooner followed after it until it was observed to rise suddenly into the air, when the chase was given dp. A very severe gale occurred on the lake about midnight, and, as no further tidings had been received in Chicago from the balloon or its occupants up to th<* morning of the 17th, grave apprehensions were felt for their safety. It was the opinion of experts that the balloon could not possibly have reached the Michigan shore before the storm burst upon it, and that the aeronauts perished in the lake. It is said by some that the balloon was a rotten, patched-up affair. 7 The Typographical Union of Washington has, by a vote of 146 to 46, decided not to comply with the demand of employing printers for a reduction of rites to employes on the 2d of August. ___ - A young married woman, wife of Henry Peden, of Indianapolis, Ind., used kerosene oil to kindle a fire, on the 17th, and was fatally burned.

rKRSONAL. The attachment suit against the property of W. 8. King, of Minnesota, brought by the Pacific Mail Company to secure the repayment of money alleged to have been improperly paid to him to induce the passage of what is known as the Pacific Mail Subsidy bill, was dissolved on the 13th by Judge Young, of Minneapolis. Two of the persons appointed by the. Japanese Government to represent its interests at the Centennial Exposition have arrived in Washington. The great annual University boat-race at Saratoga, N. Y. ( on the 14th was won by the Cornell University boys, Ithaca, N. Y., Columbia coming in second; Harvard, third; Dartmouth, fourth; Wesleyan, fifth; Yale, sixth. Thirteen colleges participated, Bowdoincomingin tenth. The distance was three miles; time of winners 16:53X minutes. This is the second victory this year for Cornell, their Freshmen crew having won in the race the day before. The Kings County (N. Y.) Grand Jury on the 15th presented indictments against Joseph Loeder and John J. Price, who are charged with having sworn falsely against the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and Mrs. Elizabeth R. Tilton. A Beaver (Utah) dispatch of the 14th says John D. Lee had turned State’s evidence, and would be a witness for the prosecution, and make a full statement of all he knows of the Mountain Meadow massacre. It is said he •has taken this course because he believed he was sacrificed to appease the wrath of the Government and shield more guilty parties by perjury, if necessary. The trial had been set for the 19th.

Loeder, indicted for perjury in connection with the Tilton-Beecher case, was arraigned in the Brooklyn court on the 16th, aud pleaded “not guilty.” Price was not arraigned. One of Brigham Young’s wives died on the 17th. Her name was Emmeline. Information was received at Washington on the 18th that the St. Louis United States District Court Grand Jury had indicted Chief Clerk Avery, of the Treasury Department, for complicity with St. Louis distillers in whisky frauds. Geo. N. Jackson, the cashier of Collector of Internal Revenue Buckner, of the Louisville (Ky.) District, died recently from the effects of poiaon. Since his death he has been discovered to be in default in his cash accounts to the extent of about $75,000. No positive tidings from Messrs. Donaldson and Grlmwood, the missing aeronauts, had be?n received in Chicago up to the morning of the 19th. A vessel Captain reports having seen something floating 4n the water which had the appearance of being a life-preserver and a basket, and another Captain thinks he saw the body of a man in the lake off Grand Haven- The report that Donaldson's balloon was a rotten and poor affair is indignantly denied by the managers of the hippodrome with which Donaldson was connected.

The New Treasurer’s Autograph.

Some time ago the Indianapolis correspondent of the Cincinnati Comwrctid furnished that jiaper with what purported to be facsimile of the new United States Treasurer’s autograph, which was extensively copied by Western papers. The Chicago Times of a recent date publishes an altogether different and much bet terlooking signature, which is probably genuine, and which we reproduce with the Times' indorsement, as follows: Now that a new man has taken charge of Uncle Sam’s .money-bags and anew name is to lie atfixed to the Government’s circulating medium, there is a pardonable curiosity in the public mind to know how he writes. To gratify this curiosity the ; Times has procured, and prints below, an exact facsimile of Mr. New’s signature. It is a bold, characteristic “hand,” and will hereafter ornament the greenbacks find national currency precisely thus-.

Trtasurer of the Vnited States.

—A case of haunted house in Philadelphia was recently cured by an adventurous minister, who hearing unearthly sounds in the deserted mansion felt the spirit move him to throw a brick through the front window. The result was a hasty exit of a number of tramps ami saeakthieves who had made the empty house their headquarters. Ghosts are at a discount in that vicinity now. —The claimant to a piece of ground in which a body is buried near Scranton. Pa., has put up the following notice on the grave “ Notis —This corpes is requested to remove immeaditley or j will remove the same.” —Die glorious Southern watermelon assumes an overbearing demeanor toward the Northern cucumber. “U —Trying to run “ Cat” newspapers in lean towns has cost $8,000,000 in this country within a year.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Work on the Government building at Evansville is progressing rapidly. There was a sham battle at the fairgrounds at Cambridge City on the Fourth. Gen. Williams is endeavoring to bring about a reunion of the Twelfth Indiana Regiment Bedbugs have been admitted to the Tippecanoe County bar, the Court-House being infested with them. The next meeting of the Northern Indiana Editorial Association will be held at Plymouth, Thursday, July 15. The bridge over Lick Creek, north of Connersville, and 100 feet of embankment were washed away during a recent storm. It is said that a Spencer County clergyman has retained an attorney to collect old unpaid marriage fees from - delinquent bridegrooms. Henry Elliott, a Knightsville tanker, was killed a few days ago at Watson’s work# while attempting to pass under a descending cage. There is a little blackhopper, not much larger than a flea, that is doing serious damage to the cabbage-plants in the vicinity of Grandview. The young men of Lafayette used to sleep on the porches, but since a burglar rolled one of them to the sidew-alk the sleepers sleep elsewhere. Local editors throughout the State are remarkably vigilant in unearthing rascality, incited by an evident desire to utilize the word “ hoodlum.”— Journal. Eli Shyhawk, a very long young man of Fayette County, recently “sucked” thirteen raw eggs at the railroad depot on a three-cent wager.— New Castle Courier. The stinking catalpa is the inspiration of much flowery. writing about this time throughout the State. catch the aroma (?) at once.— lndianapolis Journal. The Worthington Times says: “If nothing destroys the corn there will be more raised in this vicinity during the present season than has been for many years before.” 2 The prisoners in the county j:jil at Indianapolis were treated to ice-cream and cake on the sth by three ladies. And then they growled because strawberries were not included.

Indiana has thirty daily, three tri-week-ly, three semi-weekly, 295 weekly, twenty, four monthly and two quarterly publications, making a total of 357 newspapers and periodicals. The Odd Fellows of the two districts embracing Kentland, Goodland, Fowler, Rensselaer, Remington, Brook and Morocco will hold a grand picnic at Brook Grove, Aug. 12, 1875. Reub Lamb, of Evansville, robbed a barkeeper’s drawer and was sent to prison for two years. His wife proposes to sue the barkeeper for selling him the whisky that made him commit the crime. President Woodward, of the Indianapolis & St Louis Railroad, has resigned, and the election of Mr. Thomas D. Messier as his successor, to date from the Ist of July, is announced. No cause is assigned for the change. Mrs. Vinie Whitney, of Logansport, quarreled with her husband, and to pre-' vent further family jars made a meal of morphine the other night Medical assistance was promptly rendered and the poor woman was relieved from immediate danger. Milton Wool and wife, and David White, of Richmond, were recently poisoned with arsenic, the drug having been placed in their coffee. On recovering, Mr. Wool accused one of his neighbors of having doctored his favorite beverage, and has sued him to recover SIO,OOO damages. A farmer who had a horse grazing in a field near his house went out to shoot a hawk last week, but before he got within range the rifle was accidentally discharged and he returned to the house. When he went for his horse next day he found him dead, shot by his own hand.— Rockport Re-publican-Journal. Berty G. Stover, who was known as the “ Crawfordsville boy-preacher,” died recently in Denver, Col. He began to fill the pulpit when but fourteen years of age, and up to the time of his death, during a long collegiate course, he preached regularly. He was in his twenty-second year at the time of his death.

A young woman named Eliza Y’ounce, residing about two miles from Hartford City, committed suicide on the 4th by hanging herself to the limb' of a tree within a short distance of her home. She was not found for some time after the cointnittal of the rash act. The cause was unknown. She seemed to be in good health and spirits. John Lengter, living in Richmond, recently went into the woods south of that city to shoot squirrels. While there he it would be a good thing to do to Commit suicide. So he bent down a sapling, tied the trigger to it and then let it go. He had a heavy load of shot in the region of his heart when the body was found. He was formerly in business at Richmond but had recently sold out, and it was supposed that financial and domestic troubles induced the act The Attorney-General has published an opinion concerning the effect of an appeal to the Circuit Court on the part of an applicant for , liquor license from the judgment of the Count}-Commissioners, refusing to grant him such license, in which he says; “ The provision of the law in regard to appeal is painly applicable only where the applicant has been granted a license, and the appeal taken by the remonstrants, and has no bearing upon such a case as you state. Tt is the only provision of this sort in the act, and in the absence of a provision in the statute there is no rule of law upon which sales made in violation of the act by a i»erson whose application was refiised by the Board of County Commissioners could be adjudged lawful on account of an appeal to a Circuit Court, the appeal still pending.”

The Voices of Animals.

Aquatic animals are mute. A world of radiates, mollusk* and Ashes, therefore, would be silent. Insects are about the only Invertebrates capable of producing sounds. Their, organs are usually external, while those of higher animals are internal. Insects of rapid flight generally make the most noise. In some the noise is produced by friction (stridulation); in, others by the passage of air through the spiracles (humming). The buzzing of flies and bees is caused in part by the vibrations of the wings; .but it comes maiffly from the spiracles of the thorax. Snakes and lizzards have no vocal chords and can only hiss. Frogs croak and crocodiles roar by the vibrations of the glottis. The huge tortoise of the Galapagos Islands utters a hoarse, bellowing noise. The vocal apparatus in birds is situated at the lower end of the trachea, where it divides into the two bronchi. It consists mainly of a long drum with a cross bone, having a vertical membrane attached to its upper edge. Five pair of muscles (in the songsters) adjust the length of the windpipe, to the pitch of the glottis. The various notes are produced by differences in the Blast of air, as well as by changes in the tension of the membrane. The range ot notes is commonly within an octave. Birds of the same family have a similar voice. All the parrots have a harsh utterance; geese ami ducks crows, magpies and jayscaw; while the warblers differ in the quality rather than the kind of notes. Some species possess great compass of voice. The bell bird can be heard nearly three miles; and Livingstone said he could distinguish the voices of the ostrich and lion only by knowing that the former roar by day and the latter by night. The vocal organ of mammals, unlike that of birds, is in the upper part of the larynx. It consists of four cartilages, of which the largest (the thyroid) produces the prominence in the human throat known as Adam’s apple, aud two elastic bands called vocal chords, just below the glottis or upper opening of the windpipe. The various tones are determined by the tension of these chords, which is effected by the raising or lowering of the thyroid prominence. The will cannot influence the contraction of the vocalizing muscles, except in the very act of vocalization. The vocal sounds produced by mammals may be distinguished into the ordinary voice, the Cry and the song. The second is the sound made by brutes. The whale, porpoise, armadillo, ant-eater, porcupine and giraffe are generally silent. The bat's voice is probably the shrillest sound audible to human ears. There is little modulation in Unite utterance. The opossum purs, the sloth and kangaroo moan, the hog grunts or squeals, the tapir whistles, the stag bellows and the elephant gives a hoarse, trumpet sound from its trunk and a deep groan from its throat. All sheep have a guttural voice; ali the cows low, from the bison to the musk ox; all the horses and donkeys heigh; all the cats inirtu, from the domestic animal to the lion; all the bears growl, and the canine family (fox, wolf and dog) b<yk, howl and whine. The howling monkeys and gorillas have a large Cavity or sac in the throat for resonance, enabling them to utter a powerful voice; and one of the gibbons has tlie remarkable power of emitting a complete octave of musical notes. The human voice, taking the male and female together, has a range of nearly 7 four octaves. Man’s power of speech 1 , or the utterance of articulate sounds, is due to his intellectual development rather than to any structural difference between him and the apes. Song is produced by the glottis, speech by the mouth. — Scientific American.

The Romance of a Bridal Tour.

A New York letter tells the following: We’ll call him Henry, as that is a popular name. He came down from Troy last week in company with an elderly woman and her daughter. The girl was the Dulcinea of the hero Henry, and their purpose was to get married. The first two days they passed getting together a wedding outfit ; lots of nice underwear, walking-suits, in-door costumes, and a series of bonnets were bought and sent to the East-side hotel where the trio stopped. Sunday was to be the bridal day, and Saturday night Henry went off to invite some friends to see the fun. During the time they had been in the hotel a spruce young clerk had paid divers underhand attentions to the Trojan damsel, and on this Saturday evening he found the brideelect in the parlor and had a long conversation with her. What he and how he said it will never be known. But when Henry came back at nine o’clock the obliging clerk met him with th# information that Dulcinea and her mother had gone.to the Gilmore garden concert and he was to go right up there and find them. The obedient man jumped into a car and headed for Twenty-seventh street. Meantime every newly-bought article was speedily packed into trunks by the bride-elect during that absence, and the hotel clerk and the lady went off on the eleven o’clock boat for New Haven. The returning lover woke the echoes and roused the hotel when he received at the desk a note in which the faithless girl advised him to renew an engagement with some previous flame who resides on Mount Ida, in the classic city of Troy, “because,” said she, “I never knew what love was till I met Mr. ——, and we have gone together." There was tearing of hair and gnashing of teeth in that hotel when the prospective mother-in-law was aroused and told the 'news. ■' ' Dulcinea had been in and out during the hot evening, but had gone to bed at ten, so she supposed. She had considerately brought mamma a seductive brandy punch, in which a bunch of mint was not the only green thing after ma got her nose in. __ !_ Th» two deserted creatures sat and lamented together, and the buxom mother was the first to saggest comfort. “ Cinny was a young, inexperienced thing; girls were nd good, anjyvay.” Henry began to think they were not. As law Mrs. jf c had not been an unpleasant prospect. and the upshot of it was Sunday morning at twelve o’clock there was a wedding, but the bride was Mrs. , not tMiss . The Fort Smith (Ark.) Independent relates the following ’story regarding Col. Boudinot, the eloquent Cherokee: Recently two negroes were put on trial for the theft of a bull in the Choctaw nation. Col. Boudinot was elected as the attorney of the accused, one ot whom was tried, with the understanding that if he was ac- ! pritted he was to be a valuable witness or his comrade. His acquittal was secured by the eloquence of his counsel, when, to the astonishment alike of the Colonel and the court, the witness entered the box and persistently declared that his comrade had stolen the nbull. The utmost efforts of the counsel were unavailing to overthrow the witness’ testimony, and the secoml'hegro was convicted.

VARIETY AND HUMOR.

—Disbursing officers do a paying business. —The stamp of civilization —The postal stamp. —Children should be seen to, not herded. x~Fun. —A shirt on your back is worth two in the bush. —A bee in the hand is worse’n two in the bush. —How to pleas.e a lady—Let her do as she pleases. —lt beats aM how many book agents escape death. —ls you don’t bridle your tongue, saddle be your fate. —lt may be here remarked that astronomy is’ the eye road to heaven. —Lovers will be pleased to learn that August will have two moons. —ln what respect'does a Bishop resemble a fish? Both live in the see! —At a recent spelling-match one man spelled it “gasnip,” ana got beet. —Babies are described as coupons attached to the bonds of matrimony. —A toper is never good enough to eat, but lie may be drunk with impunity. —A man who is in health is not morally entitled to anything which he does not earn. —Ben Franklin said he could tell a nice woman by the way she kneaded her dough. —New Jersey makes vagabonds earn their lodgings by sawing wood and pounding stone. —A Philadelphia woman swore that her husband’s conduct was enough to “irrigate an angel.” —Now the question is: Did tlie dictionary publishers get up that spelling mania last winter? —Why is a woman living up two pairs of stairs a perfect goddess? Because she’s a second Flora. —Lightning-rod men have acquired a new argument: “ Spare the rod and you spoil the chimney.” —Too many sales “on time” have-ne-cessitated the closure of several Connecticut clock manufactories. » —The Rothschilds all declare they never pay for their puffs, and yet one of them smokes cheap sixty-cent cigars. —Wisdom for women: It is better to love a man you can never marry than to marry a man that you can never love. —Palm-leaf fans are becoming more popular than any other at church, as they effectually hide the most elastic yawn. —The State Prison at Philadelphia has stopped cigar-making, being unable to compete with the Connecticut institution. —A Boston man has run for office nineteen times, and as he has never been elected he talks of withdrawing his name. —Louisville had a novel matrimonial sensation a fortnight ago. A Chinee was the he then, and a lady of color the she then. —A furpl of a million has been guaranteed to be expended in proving the continuity of several of the Cottonwood (Col.) mines. —Five thousand men gain an honest livelihood in the West by gathering buffalo bones. Their song is “ gather them in.” —Postmaster-Gen. Jewell is in favor of discontinuing the letter-carrier system in all cities having a population of 100,000 and less. —There is fresh activity in the Pennsyl-. vania oil region. Many of the old wells are still active and nine new ones have been started. —A fashion journal advertises “that there is little change in gentlemen’s trousers this month.” Perhaps they allude to the pockets. —ln Burlington, Vt., three churches recently were struck by lightning and a number of persons, who were at prayer-meet-ings, were knocked down. —The honest man who tells his wife everything that happens is matched by the man who tells his better half many things which do not happen. —The Hartford Times gives notice that it doesn’t want any more specimen potatobugs. It will sift Paris green on tlie head of the next man that brio gs any of ’em. —The Mobile (Ala.) Tribune says that two men recently dug up near the Devil’s Bend, in Mobile Bay, an iron box containing $75,000 in gold, which had been buried there years ago by the pirate Lafitte. —Some of the Amherst College boys spent three hours’ time one dark night hoisting a calf up into one of the recitationxooms, when one of their own number could have walked right up in broad daylight.

Marrying a French “Baron”-A Sad Story.

The death of her father, a shrewd and respected merchant, left Miss R., an only child, to the care of a foolish mother, and placed her fortune —a round million—in the hands of two relatives, men of high position and of scrupulous integrity, w-ho were named trustees under the will. The rents'and profits of the property, which consisted mainly of real estate on Manhattan Island, accumulated during a long minority, and when the young lady, not yet eighteen, was taken to Europe by her mamma, with the avowed object of marrying a title, little doubt was entertained by people accustomed to angle in Continental waters that bait so tempting would draw a very great fish. In fact, nothing but an unparalleled mixture of native stupidity and willful blindness on the mother's part can explain the woeful miscarriage of her silly scheme. She was not taken on the wing, for she remained some time in Paris. She could not lack counsel, if she would ask it, having brought strong letters of introduction to persons the most competent to direct her movements and fix with absolute precision the status of any aspirant for her daughter’s hand. For that matter; a. single novel of Balzac or Edmond About should have revealed to her the difference (broad enough, Heaven knows!) between the genuine and the pseudo noblesse. But easily gulled by flattery and smooth pretenses, and too vain of her own judgment to await inquiry or heed warning, this judicious" parent astonished her friends on this side of the Atlantic by suddenly announcing that the Baron de C, had been accepted as her future son-in-law. And no doubt that brilliant noble would have straightway published the banns, but for an awkward clause in the old merchant's will, whereby the fair inheritance lapsed «a Mo to col lateral relatives if his daughter married without the consent of her trustees. Now, these gentlemen desired to look upon the groom’s features before they gave away the bride—which was well enough, though a confidential note to some intelligent Frenchman would have been a more * -

sagacious < and fruitful measure, 'in due time Mrs. R. and daughter reached New York, attended by the obsequious Baron, and, a solemn presentation taking place, the worthy and conscientious trustees (who, perhaps, did not jxwsess the discernment of the Faubourg St. Gennain) pronounced their new acquaintance a most affable and polished gentleman. An early day having been set for the wedding, and the arriere dan of-kinsfolk convoked by sound of trumpet, a short time before the ceremony the dowager Baroness arrived in person, and with her (superb evidence of ancestral dignity) the magnificent family Ijewels, in charge of a quiet, but keen-looking, individual, who was presented by Mme. De C. as her only brother. Very gracious and yet imposing was that right high and puissant dame, and beautiful the assiduous devotion of that bachelor uncle, particularly when the costly gems gracing the fair neck of his niece seemed to recall to his fond remembrance the historical splendors of his house. The marriageknot securely tied, and the large American connection duly impressed by the brilliant alliance, the happy pair, with the bridegroom’s relatives, returned to la belle France, accompanied by the triumphant Mrs. R., who beheld the dream of her life fulfilled. ’Twas a poor, foolish, wicked little dream, and tlie awakening was abrupt and bitter. The polished Baron had no more the right to entree to theFaubourgSt. Germain than the valet who cleaned his boots. His boasted patent of nobility dated no further back than the Empire, and was probably spurious at that. Moreover, he was a sot and a sharper, debauched and rotten to the core. His venerable mother, ‘when her mask was flung aside, betrayed the coarseness and insolence of the average “ Sairy Gamp,” while those family jewels turned out to have been hired for the occasion, and the assiduous uncle to be tlie wily goldsmith’s confidential clerk, who cheerfully surrendered his avuncular role for the more congenial counter. So far the story reads like, a farce, but the next chapter, if I dared to tell it otherwise than vaguely, would show a tinge of melodrama. It seems our honest gentleman had pocketed but half the spoils after all, and, like most craftsmen of his kidney, believed himself to have been grossly defrauded. Another clause in that pestilent will bequeathed only the life income of the estate to his wife, and gave the fee, if she had no children, to the next heir. Now, the Baron was a husband, but not a father, nor likely to become one. While there is life, however, there is hope, and divers rumors of an expected happy event reached America from time to time, invariably followed by a persistent effort to transfer the estate to the prospective father in the interest of the little stranger. But the grasp of the trustees was firm, and somehow the -heir was never forthcoming. What savage taunts, what brutal menace the poor wife had to bear was never known, for a flAse shame held her dumb. Meanwhile $50,000 a year melted like snow in her husband’s hands, until, crushed beneath an avalanche of debt, his desperation knew no bounds. What schemes seemed too dark or base, what counsel too sinister to the panting wretch who saw the prize still beyond his clutch! At length, after fifteen years, when the husband’s shrunken cheeks and quivering hands told the tale of riot and corruption —a blooming infant was presented by the Baroness to her enraptured lord. The great fact was beyond dispute. The birth had been properly attested by numerous competent witnesses — not a shadow of doubt rested on the maternity of the child. Of course the electric cable flashed the news across the Atlantic, and the trustees had no resource but to make over the estate to the owner of the fee, or rather to the natural guardian. But just as the necessary proceedings were concluded the Baron died — struck down by a trivial disorder which a sound, vigorous man might have laughed away. I have not heard whether the widow has married again (she has hardly had time yet), but sure I am she will ponder well her next experiment.— N. Y. Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.

THE MARKETS.

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