Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1875 — Page 2

RENSSELAER UNION. • i; JA*ES * HEALEY, Proprietors. RENSSELAER, ' . InMANA.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN. | A London dispatch of the 7th says 15.006 animate in Dorsetsh Ire were suffering from the foot and mouth disease. A St. Petersburg dispatch of the 7th anounces the uefeat of 80,000 Khokand rebels y Gen. Kaufman on the 4th. On the night of the oth the Protestant cemetery vault in Montreal containing the remains of Guibord was guarded by eighteen men, heavily armed. A general feeling of Insecurity still prevailed among residents in the suburbs. Cardinal McCloskeywaa cordially received by His Holiness the Pope on the evening of the Bth. A Loridon telegram of the 9th announces the loss of the steamer Martin Weiner, from Shields, England, Tor Hamburg, with all on board. A Madrid telegram of the 9th states that Gen. Jo veil ar had returned from the field and resumed the Ministry of War. A Vienna dispatch of the 10th says the Pope had instructed the Catholic Bishops in Bosnia and Herzegovina to use their Influence in calming the people and to facilitate the pacification'of those provinces. The Coroner's jury in the case of the persons drowned on the Mistletoe by being run down by the Queen’syacht returned a verdict on the 10th of accidental death, but censured the officers of the royal yacht for tlieir carelessness. A London dispatch of the 11th says the Privy Council had been asked for an executive order to present the holding of fairs or markets throughout Warwickshire on account of the prevalence' of the foot and mouth disease. During the preceding week 8,000 cases had been recorded in Norfolk. Sheep and pigs were affected as well as cat- . tie. A Belgrade dispatch of the 11th says 1,000 Turks had recently encountered sixty Bosnians and killed them all. A crisis oocurred in the Spanish Cabinet on the 11th, and the entire Ministry resigned. The next day Gen. Jovellar formed a new one. The daughter of Prince Bismarck lias been betrothed to the Prussian Count Wendlzuenlarberge.

DOMESTIC. In the case of a colored man in Brooktyn, N. Y-, who applied for a mandamus to compel the Board of Education to admit his son to a school set apart for white children, Judge Gilbert, while reserving his decision, said on the 7th that the system of commonschool education was established for the = public and all persons had access to it. The Board of Education had no power to exclude any. It was reported in San Francisco on the 7th that >an Indian outbreak had occurred in Eastern Nevada and Western Utah. A num ber of settlers and miners had been killed, and women and children were being removed to places of safety. Troops and volunteers were going to the scene. Gov. Beveridge, of Illinois, has addressed a note to the State’s Attorney at Rockford concerning the recent duel in Winnebago County, and expressing the hope that prompt measures will be taken to vindicate the law. Mrs. C. H. Young, of Kansas City, Mo., was fatally burned on the night of the 6th by the explosion of a lighted kerosene lamp which she was carrying from one room to another. Mrs. Lucretia Mott Peer, of Brooklyn, X. Y., testified in the Westervelt trial on the Sth that oft July 6, 1874, she saw in a street-car in Brooklyn a man whom she now recognized as Westervelt, accompanied by a little boy about four years old, who seemed to be afraid of him, and whose features she recognizes in likenesses of Charlie Ross. Capt. John C. Jones, of New York city, committed suicide by jumping into the rapids and going over the American falls at Niagara on the Bth, in sight of several hundred visitors. An explosion occurred in the celluloid factory at Newark, N. J., on the Bth, setting the building on fire and destroying it. Of thirty men in the building at the time some escaped uninjured, but several were either killed outright or fatally injured. The Chicago and Cincinnati Industrial Expositions were opened on the Sth, to continue one month. The fifteenth biennial session of the American Pomologieal Society was begun in Chicago on the Bth. Marshall P. Wilder, of Massachusetts, was re-elected President, and W. C. Flagg, of Illinois, Secretary. A Washington special of the 9th says the Secret Service authorities in that city had information that a company of Italians had gone West with a large amount cf the counterfeit $lO bills of the First National Bank of Philadelphia. These counterfeits are said to be exceedingly dangerous. One of them was recently received at the Treasury cash-room and exchanged by the experts for sinal money. The counterfeit is a perfect imitation on its face, but there are a few defects on its back. A very heavy rainfall occurred at Chicago and in a large section of Illinois, Wisconsin and lowa on the 9th, doing considerable damage in the way of floods. Three accidents occurred ou the Wisconsin Division of the Northwestern Railroad, caused 1 by washouts. At Lawrence a bridge was washed away and a passenger train plunged into the stream at that place and completely wrecked, the engineer, baggageman, newsboy and one passenger being killed and several others injured. Two accidents occurred to freight trains, causing loss of life. A special dispatch from Vicksburg, Miss., on the 9th reported all quiet in Warren, Yazoo and Hinds Counties, where disturbances had occurred. A Washington telegram of the same date says the President had instructed Xbe Adjutant-General of the army to direct the commanding General of the Department of the Sooth to famish assistance to the Governor of Mississippi, to enable him to maintain order and preserve life, in case such assistance became necessary. The prosecution in the Westervelt trial closed its testimony on the 9th. On the 10th Mrs. Westervelt testified that on the 6th f of July, 1874, the day when her husband was, accenting to the evidence of Mrs. Peers, seen In a street ear with Charley Boss, he remained in the home all day. She remembered it distinctly, as It wss her birthday. At Augusta, Ga., bn the 9th, Jake Hicks, colored, was tried for connection with the late fHeged attempted insurrection. After tot testimony was submitted Judge Johnson

charged the jury that there was not sufficient Evidence to convict. A verdict of not guilty was returned and all the prisoners discharged, and the court adjourned. This ended the prosecution, except against the two leaders, who, it wee thought, had left the city. The neebunts given of the recent disturbances in Mississippi ditler somewhat A to the origin of the difficulties and the number of colored people killed. One statement says throe whites were killed and five or six wounded. Five or aix were killed on the barbacue grounds and an unknown number two were killed the next morning, and two or three, others were reported found dead. Another report says thirty negroes were killed and fifty or sixty wounded. A Washington dispatch of the 10th says a telegram had just been received by the Attorney-General, from the Sheriff of Hinds County, Miss., reporting that perfect peace prevailed throughout that countyr"thatpeace officers were not prevented from executing legal process, and that good citizens would aid him in the discharge of his duties, if needed. The Attorney-General expressed the opinion that the difficulties were at an end. F. B. Hancock’s Bank, at Greenville, Ky., was robbed, a few nights ago, of nearly $35,006 in United States bonds, currency and gold coin. One of the severest storms experienced on Lake Michigan for years occurred a* the night of the 9th, and much damage to vessel property and great loss of life are reported. The most sgrious casualty was that which occurred to the propeller Equinox, of the Grand Trunk line. She was loaded with salt, and had in tow the schooner Emma A. Mayes, and when within about ten miles of Point Saublc, and during the severe gale, she sud' denly sank, carrying down with her all on board, including the crew and Capt. Scott’s daughter and niece, and a gentleman and lady whose names have not been ascertained. Twenty-four persons are supposed to have been on board at the time of the accident.

A distiller at St. Joseph, Mo., under prosecution for violation of the Internal Revenue laws, pleaded guilty on the 11th. Mike Scully, a pedestrian of Columbus, Ohio, has recently completed the task of walking 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours. PERSONAL. The Governor-elect of California, Win. Irwin, is a native of Butler .County, Ohio, but, has been a resident of California since 1852, and lias been prominent in the polities of the State since ISfil. Miss Bessie Eaglesfield, a young lady lawstudent, was admitted to practice in the Circuit Court at Terre Haute, lnd.,-on the Sth. The President has appointed Virgil D. Stoekbridge, of Maine, Examiner-in-Cliief of the Patent Office. A largely-attended meeting of the friends of the late W. C. Ralston was held in San Francisco on the night of the Sth, at which reso< lutions favorable,to the character of the deceased, and denouncing the Evening Bulletin and Morning Call for their alleged brutal, and unjustifiable attacks upon his private character, were adopted. r The Red Cloud Investigation Committee commenced its open session in Washington on the 10th. Bishop Hare made a statement in relation to his knowledge of conducting Indian business affairs. Commissioner Smith and Prof. Marsh were present. Hon. Henry T. Blow, of St. Louis, died suddenly of congestion at the United States Hotel at Saratoga, N. Y., on the 13th. The division of Maj. Powell’s exploring party in charge of A. H. Thompson, arrived at Gunnison, Utah, on the 11th, en route for home, having concluded their explorations for the season. * Mrs. Abraham Lincoln arrived at Spring, field, HI., ou the 11th in charge of her son Robert. A telegram says she'was not regarded as being any better, mentally, than when she first went to Batavia. POLIXH.tL. All the State constitutional amendments submitted to the people of New Jersey on the 7th were adopted except the clause repealing the "Five-County act 4 ’ : * Dr. Edward Ransom, Democratic nominee for President bf the North Carolina Constitutional Convention, was elected on the 7th ou the fourteenth ballot, thus securing ,Democratic organization of that body. The New York Republican State Contention was held at Saratoga on the Sth, aud the following ticket was nominated: For Secretary of State, F. W. Seward; Comptroller, F. E. Spinner; Treasurer, Gen. E. A. Merritt; Attorney-General, Geo. L. Danford; State Engineer, O. H. P. Cornell; Canal Com- ■ missioner, Wm. E. Tinsley; State Prison In-I speetor. Rev. Benoui T. Ives. The platform adopted declares against further currency inflation and in favor of the speediest possible return to specie payments; recognizes as conclusive President Grant’s declaration that he is not a candidate for renomination, and ; ig > | declares opposition to the qlection of any j President for a third term; indorses the Ad- ; ministration of President Grant, etc. The Democratic-Reform State Convention of Wisconsin, in session at Milwaukee on the Sth, renominated the present State officers by acclamation and adopted a platform indorsing the reform resolutions adopted in 1873, including the declaration in favor of a souud.currency in coin or its equivalent. — The Maryland Republicans met ;n State Convention at Westminster on the Sth. and

adjourned to meet in Baltimore on the 23d. The Pennsylvania Democracy, in their State Convention at Erie on the 9th. adopted resolutions on the currency question similar to those in the Ohio platform., They demand that the policy of contraction be abandoned and that the volume of money be made and kept equal to the wants of trade; favor the extinction of the National Banks' ana the retirement of their circulation, to be replaced by full lesral-tender issues by the j Government, and the establishment of a sysi tern of free banks of discount and deposit j under State regulation. Judge Cyrus L. Pershing, of Cambria County, was nominated for: Governor on the eleventh ballot, and his nomination was made unanimous. The Farmers' and Mechanics' Conference, recently held in Cincinnati, passed resolutions demanding the repeal of the National Banking law and the issue of paper money directly by the General Government, to be made a legal-tender for all debts, public and private, including duties on imports, and to be interchangeable for registered interest bonds. Anti-monopoly resolutions were also adopted,and one favoring the limiting of the Presi dent of the United States to one term of office. The Republicans of the Third Mississippi District have nominated Finn is H. Little for Congress. - , .' The new California Legislature is made up as follows: Senate—Democrats, 19; Inde pendent Democrats, 5; Independents, 9; Republicans, 7. House—Democrats, 60; Independent Democrat, 1; Independents, 7; Republicans, 1L

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The roof of a coal-mine at Farmersburg fell in the other day. Gov. Hennkicks, has issued a proclamation announcing the publication and circulation of the acta of 1875. A son of John Michel was recently fatally wolinded by falling from a fen it upon a sharp stick, which penetrated his abdomen. Tire surviving soldiers of the Seventy fifth Indiana Regiment will hold their an. nual reunion at Kokomo on the 21st and 23d of November. s John Hendricks, one of the oldest settlers and wealthiest citizens of Clay CopnA y, and the founder of Brazil, died a few days ago at his home in that city. The Commissioners of Clay County have made an order prohibiting the run ning at large of stock in certain localities where the late high waters washed away the fencing. »■ Joseph J enkixs, a miner in the employ of Veatch, Hall <te Co., Brazil, was killed by a blast of powder in the mine of that firm a few days ago. The explosion took place in the room adjoining the one in which Jenkins was at work, and prostrated the partition, mangling and killing him. The tower of the Court-House in Greensburg is 140 feet high. Near the top, growing out of the joints of the stonework, is a maple tree eight feet high, with a trunk two and a half inches in diameter. The tree is supposed to have sprung from a seed dropped by a passing bird. It is a curiosity which attracts much attention. The body of Emma Myers, a beautiful young woman living in Indianapolis, -was found in a cistern at her residence the other evening. She left the house about noon, and it is supposed that while attempting to draw water was seized with dizziness and- fell into the cistern headlong. No gashes or Bears were found upon her person. Smithson College, located at Logansport, opened on the Ist with the following reorganized faculty: R. N. John, President and Professor of Science; Wm. Lee, M. D., Professor of Languages; Leora K,Bowyer, Principal and Teacher of Higher English Branches; Emily W. Peakes, Professor of Mathematics; D. P. Baldwin, Professor of Law and Logic. A wonderful specimen of the human family recently turned up at Richmond. His wonderful development is in both his muscular strength and peculiar construction, by which he is enabled of contractions to shift his heart about, first lowering it to the abdomen on the left side, tben across to the right side of the abdomen, and then upward to his right side opposite its original and natural position. Two of the parties who robbed the Central Bank of Indianapolis of $5,000, in June last, it is believed have been discovered in the persons of Mrs. Marion E. Warren, of Charlestown, Mass., and one C. E: Thompson, alias Stevens. During the past six months they have traveled through the West disposing of forged railway stock certificates. In February last they made a raid on Simon Jones & Co.’s bank, of St. .John, N. 8., robbing it of $30,000: A singular white discoloration, like a sort of brick leprosy, has appeared on the walls of several of the pressed-brick fronts in Indianapolis. It looks like a whitening from lime-wash, or a saline “ effervescence,” as if the wall had sweated a briny moisture and evaporation had left the salt behind. A similar white deposit is seen on the weeds and grass bordering the ponds left by the late flood in the river and Eagle Creek. In several places these are surrounded by a band like white tape, at a distance, or a margin of paper, a foot or two wide, looking much as if the freshet had run lime-water over the vegetation, which it has left visible as it receded. The Woman's Temperance Union of Indiana are circulating throughout the State for signatures the following memorial to Congress, with a view of presenting it when the National Legislature meets in December: To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the United States , in Congress Assembled: Whereas. The Honor traffic is fraught with evil to the property, health, homes, lives and peace of our citizens: and Whereas. Governments are instituted to secure the peace, prosperity and well-being of the citizens; therefore. We, the undersigned, citizens of the State of Indiana. hereby pray your honorable body—1. To appoint a commission to investigate and report the effect of the liquor traffic in the United State* on the health, intelligence, industry, prosperity. crime and pauperism of the individuals; also upon taxation, revenue and the general welfare of the country. i. To prohibit the importation of alcoholic liquors from foreign countries. 8. To prohibit the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors as a beverage in the District of Columbia. in the Territories of the United States, and all places where Congress exercises exclusive legislation. e

4. To require total abstinence from alcoholic liquor* as a beverage on the part of all officials and subordinates in the civil, military and naval service of the United States. And will continue to pray. In response to a letter of inquiry Atty.Gen. Buskirk has prepared the following opinion upon & subject of considerable importance : You stste in your letter that in March last the Board of Commissioners of your county selected a Grand Jury of twelve for the term of your Circuit Court, which will convene before March. IST6. and ! yon ask: "Should a venire issue for the twelve : already chosen by the commissioners, orfor any of I them at all?" *" If tit of those already chosen are ' to serve as the Grand Jury how are they to be se- ! lecte . V In my opinion every Grand Jury which i meets before the regular session of the Board of County Commissioners in March next will properly consist of the twelve persons selected therefor under the present law. The act of March 13.1ST’>. will soon be in force, yet. by its own terms, it will no; be -operative until next March; for at that time will convene the first regu ar session in each year of the Board of Commissioners for each county after the act comes in force, as therein provided for. It is tree that the fourth section of the act of March 13. 1875. repeals all laws and parts of laws in conflict therewith, and the question may arise as to the validity of indict- } Timents lound "by Grand Juries consisting of/ twelve persons after said act conies in ; force, because of the inapt phraseology of the proviso in the third section. But this is a question which does not relate to your duties as a Clerk, aa It is plain, in my opinion, that you are to issue a venire for the twelve persons selected for the Grand Jury under the present law. The question • I lave referred to will nave to be settled by the courts, although I have no fears as to the decision being in favor of the validity of the indictments found by each Grand Juries; yet, if the question should be decided otherwise, the responsibiltiy must rest treon the.: Legislature, and it would not probably affect the views which I have given for : jour guidance, in compliance with your request ; therefor. . - - 1

An Interesting Reminiscence of the War of 1812.

The death of Hr. E. M. Brank, of Greenville, Ky., father of the Rev. Dr. Brank, the pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church of this city, was announced in our paper two weeks ago. Mr. Brank was noted for • his stately proportions, great strength, dauntless courage, and unerring skill with the rifle. At the battle of New Orleans, when he was about twenty-four years' old, he held the commission of Lieutenant in a comRos Kentucky volunteers. As the sh army advanced upon the American defenses, seizing the gun of one of his men named Michael Severs, Mr. Brank mounted the breastwork directly in front of the approaching enemy and, taking deliberate aim at the officers, fired a number of telling shots. This incident was fully authenticated, but the effect of the daring act was not known until many years afterward, when the following graphic account was published: BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS. A British officer who was at the battle of New Orleans mentions an incident of thrilling strangeness, and very descriptive of the Western hunters, many of whom marched to the defense of New Orleans as volunteers under the renowned Andrew Jackson: “We marched,” said the officer, “in a solid column of 12,000 men in a direct line for the American defenses. I belonged to the staff, and, as we advanced, watched through my glass the position and arrangements of our enemy with that intensity an officer only feels when marching into the jaws of death, with the assurance that, while he thus offers himsell as a sacrifice to the demands of his country, every action, be it successful or otherwise, will be judged with most heartless scrutiny. J|lt was a strange sight, that long range ofTotton bales—anew material for breastworks—with the crowd of human beings behind, tlieir heads only visible above the line of defense. We could distinctly see the long rifles lying over the bales, and the battery of Gen. Coffee directly in front, with its great mouth gaping toward us, and the position of Gen. Jackson with iris staff around him. But what attracted our attention most was the figure #f a man standing on the breastworks, dressed in linsey-woolsev, with buckskin leggins and a broad-rimmed felt hat that fell around his face, almost concealing his features. He was standing in oneof those picturesque and graceful attitudes peculiar to those natural men-dwellers in the forest. The body rested on the left leg, aud swayed with a curved line upward • the right arm was extended, the hand grasping the rifle near the muzzle, the butt of which rested near the toe of the right foot, while with his left hand he raised the rim of the hat from his eyes, and seemed gazing from beneath intensely upon our advancing column. The cannon of Gen. Coflee had opened upon us, and tore through our ranks with dreadful slaughter; but we continued to advance, unwavering and cool, as if nothing threatened our progress. ,l The roar of cannon seemed to have no effect upon the figure standing upon the cotton bales, but he seemed fixed and motionless as a statue. At last lie moved, threw back the hat rim over the crown with his left hand, raised the rifle to his shoulder and aimed at our group. Our eyes were riveted upon him. At whom had he leveled liis piece? But the distance was so great that we looked at each other and smiled. We saw the rifle flash, and my right-hand companion, as noble a fellow as ever rode at the head of a regiment, fell from his saddle. The hunter paused for a moment without moving his rifle from his shoulder, then reloaded and resumed his former attitude. Throwing the hat rim over liis eyes aud airain holding it up with the left hand, he fixed his piercing gaze upon us as if hunting out another victim. Once more the liat rim was thrown back, and the gun raised to the shoulder. This time we did not smile, but cast short glances at each other, to see which of us must die; and when the rifle again flashed, another of us dropped to the earth. There was something awful in marching on to certain death. Gen. Coffee’s battery and thousands of musket-balls played among our ranks. We cared not for them; there was a chance of escaping unscathed. Most of usdiad walked upon batteries a hundred times as destructive without quailing; but to know that every time that rifle was leveled toward us and the bullet sprang from its barrel one of us must fall! To see the gleam- I ing sun flash as the iron'came down, and 1 see it rest motionless as ifJWlised upon a I rock, and know when hangup, struck sad j the sparks flew in the full-prmed pan that ; the messenger of death drove unerringly ■ to its goal—to know this and still march ! on was awful. *■

“ I could see nothing but the tall figure standing on the breastwork. He seemed to grow phantom-like, taller and taller, assuming through the smoke the supernatural appearance '.of some giant spirit, j Again did he reload and discharge his ! rifle with the same unerring aim; and it ; was with indescribable pleasure that I bej held, as we neared the American lines, the sulphurous smoke gather around us and shut that spectral hunter from my - gaze. We lost the battle, aud to my mind that Kentucky rifleman contributed more to our defeat than anything else; for while he remained in oilr sight our at- | tention was drawn from our duties, and when at last we became enshrouded in the j smoke, the work was complete— We were i in utter confusion, and unable, in the extremity, to restore order sufficiently to make any successful attack.”— -St. Louis . Presbyterian. ■i ■ - > On the bank of the river in Canada, between tli£. new Suspension? Bridge and Table Rock, is a foot-path which in a j number of places is on the very edge of ‘ the precipice. It has always been a source of wonderment to strangers why some protection was not erected to avoid accidents, and a surprise that lives are not lost. With the exception of the imperishable individual who a month or so ago, while drunk, fell over below the bridge, no accident occurred till yesterday afternoon . After most of the excursionists had proceeded to Table Rock a man by the name of Pryerton, from near Chatham, was standing on the path at a point nearly opposite a little refreshment saloon, when a party of three or four came along. One of them accidentally stumbled against him and knocked* him from the bank. Just at this place, some ten or twelve feet from the top of the bank, a small ledge of rotk projects, upon which he fell. A rope was procured, and the man was rescued from his perilous position. Had he been standing three feet either way from where he was he would have fallen over 100 feet. It was a most thrilling and narrow escape.—Xiagara Falls Register. They are making nqiseless shoes in Massachusetts that are to be felt—when mothers use them.

An Adventure With a Stage-Robber.

Three San Franciscans —Messrs. W. AYon Schmidt and son and Robert J. Tiffany—were the heroes of a rather toman- i tic adventure in the mountains the, other i day. The time was two o’clock Monday j afternoon, the place eighteen miles he- j yond Orcville, at a locality famous, or j rather infamous, for stage-robberies and i lawlessness generally. The gentlemen ! named, in company with fire others, were i proceeding by the Quincy stage toward Oroville, and in course of conversation i Von Schmidt said he had a presentiment ! they would be stopped by a road-agent be- , fore reaching town. He had hardly got through with his uncomfortable remarks when they heard the word “ Stop!” accompanied by the click of a gun-lock. “Whoa!” said the driver, as he brought his horses to their haunches, and then the eipostulation: “ I can’t well stop here” —the stage was slipping "back. “Go on to the rise of the hill.” “ Hold your jaw,” said the first voice, “ and throw off that ! treasure-box, quick!” “ There’s the rob- | ber,” said Von; “I told you we’d meet him.” And a little Spanish woman on ! the front seat cried out: “ Misericordia, ladrones!” and fell in a dead faint'among the straw. Tiffany looked out of the side of the mud-wagon and saw an individual —a pitiful-looking chap, dressed in tattered canvas clothes, with his head incased in a piece of blanket that served the purpose of a mask—covering the driver and two trembling passengers who occupied the boot with a double-barreled shot-gun. “Is that a robber?” said lie; “ why, he’s not ar formidable-looking scoundrel.” It was Tiffany's first experience in road-agents, and he thought to see a Claude Duval or a Paul Clifford on a black horse. Meanwhile Von Schmidt had dropped from the rear of the stage, with a trusty large-sized Colt navy revolver in his hand, and drew a bead on the highwayman. Finding it necessanr fofiefend himself from this unexpected attack, the latter withdrew' liis attention from the driver and covered Von. The driver whipped up his horses and was off' like a shot, leaving Von and the robber to fight it out alone. The stage | drew up about a quarter of a mile from ! the place, when Mr. Tiffany and Mr. Von i Schmidt’s son both jumped out and hastened back to the assistance of the gallant engineer. The latter was armed with a bowie-knife and Mr. Tiffany depended on a fence rail. They had not returned many steps before they met Von coming along with his pistol still in his grasp and keeping a bright lookout for the probable companions of the blanketed thief. “ Where’s the robber?” was the anxious question. “Gone!” was Von’s calm reply; “in full retreat up the canon.” On reaching the stage the Colonel addressed some remarks to the stage-driver, more forcible than polite, for running off and leaving him in the manner he did. “ I would have had ] that fellow in Oroville to-night,” he said, | “if you’d only held your horses.” Bpt ' perhaps it was better for all sides that the shooting was so slow. The treasure-box that contained SIO,OOO was saved and no blood spilled. The Colonel and his party were heroes in Oroville on their arrival, and a special dispatch of thanks was received from Wells-Fargo’s office in this city. The company offer a reward of SSOO for the arrest and conviction of the would-be robber. — San Francisco Chronicle.

Suicides in the United States.

The St. Louis Republican has been investigating the subject of suicides in the United States and comes to the conclusion that not even France —which has had for many I’ears a gloomy pre-eminence in the business of self-destruction—can now pretend to compete with our own country in the number or variety of its self-murder-ers. It says: From an examination of the public journals for July and August it appears that there have been no less than 110 suicides in the United States since July 1. And this number falls far short of the actual figures, as some cases of self-de-struction never reach the newspapers and others have doubtless been published in journals which were pot among those examined in making up the record. All of the cases noticed w r ere authenticated. Of the victims, 85 were males and 25 females. Of the former class 4 were under eighteen and 1 a boy of but thirteen. New York furnished 27 cases; Illinois, 13; Ohio, 12; Missouri, 10; lowa, 6; Louisiana, 5; New Jersey, 5; Massachusetts, 5; California, 4; Indiana, 4; Pennsylvania, 3; Michigan, 2; Connecticut and Wisconsin each 2; and Nevada, Rhode Island, District of Columbia, Kansas, Alabama, Maryland and Nebraska, 1 each. Shooting was most resorted to and had 40 victims. Twenty-six took their lives by poison, 15 htlaged themselves, 9 cut their own throats, 2 jumped out of window’s and 1 starved himself to death. The reasons which led to the suicide were as varied as the modes of death. Thirty-one died and left no sign, 28 were avowedly “tired of life,” 15 were insane, -12 alleged “ domestic troubles,”# whisky, 7 disappointed affection, 4 to escape the punishment of murder, 1 because of a son’s disgrace, 1 because of bad treatment from his children, 1 from religious excitement and 1 to avoid punishment for theft.

The purchasers of horses for the French/ army always endeavor to obtain a first look at the animal when he is tranquil and in the stable; noting if the animal j supports itself equally well on all its legs, 1 and, if one seems to yield, to specially ex- : amine it; attention is then directed to the largeness of the pupil of the eye, which ought to be more dilated when in the stable than when exposed to, full light. After the animal has been led out of the stable the eye ought to be again examined to observe if the pupil has "contracted; if not, the sigflt is feeble; others, to test the power.of vision, feign to strike the forehead with the hand. If the hollow over the.,eyes be profound, and the temple gray, old age is to be concluded; wounds about the temple suggest attacks of staggers, and.-when the end of the nose presents circular scars, it may be concluded the horse has been twitched with a cord to insure his quietness while being shod or having had to submit to some painful operation. Polite stranger (in a hurry, thinking lie had grazed an old gentleman’s ankle) —Beg pardon! Old gentleman—Eh? Polite stranger (louder)—l beg your pardon! Old gentleman (unconscious of any hurt) —Why? Polite stranger —I’m afraid I kicked you! Old gentleman —Eh? Polite stranger (shouting)—l kicked you! Old gentleman (surprised)—Wha’ for? Polite stranger—lt was quite by accident. Old gentleman (not catching it) —Eh! Beg your parti Polite stranger (roaring in his ear) — Accident ! Old gentleman (starting)—Bless my soul! You don’t say so! Where? Where? I hope nobody’s killed (Polite stranger rashes off, and loses his train.)

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