Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1875 — Page 2

RENSSELAER UNION, JAISS * HKAIJET, Proprtetot*. RENSSELAER, ’ . INDIANA.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

1 FOKEIKK. A dispatch from Bag-weirs de Euehon, pub- j listed In the London Time* of the 7th, report# that the inhabitants of Arran Valley had inaugurated a gornral rising against the Garllsts on acocant Of the cxacttoUs of the soldiery, and that the latter kad been o*mpelled to take refuge In the mountains. Brown, Kerens ft. Williamson, heavy sugarrefiners of Glasgow, Scotland, failed for a large amount on the 7th. Ft was stated that several other eedaVdshmerits were involved. Owing to popular outcry the British Admlralty on the 7th suspended the circular of July 31, directing the surrender of 'fugitive slaves found on British vessels. The "Gardes. House,*’ belonging to Henry Allers Hankey, locator 1 , near Wo tminster, England, valued with its contents at over $2,50(1890, -was tota% destroyed by fire on the night of the 7th. The EooJeriastical*Court has 'deposed the Bishop of Berlin. The QubWne Forts had deenstJ, according to a OonShmtinopte dispatch of the 7th, that dortng 'five yearsdrom Jan. J, 1876, the interest on end the sedemption of the public debt will be paid one-half ir. cash and the otter half in 5 per cent, bonds. J. special publidaed in the' London Mom•inf Standard of the 9th statnf that the Servian ®tf.puti*3 had mdt on the Cay previous and rejected the motion for war by a vote of 62 <o 21. Two'Canadian: prope Hers—the St Audley -and the BristrK —were burned to the water’s ■edge at HamiP on, on Lake Ontario, on the night of the Hi. Aerordingdo a Brussels dispatch of the 9th -diploaiatic relations between Venezuela and Holland • had been interrupted by the abrupt departin'oof the Minister of the former power trow the Hague because of a failure to agree in certain pe nding negotiations. A Loudon telegram -of the 9th says the -cholera hod broken out in the province of Mysore/* Inlia. _ . ■Hr. 'Forbes, Lord Bishop of Brechin, in fiteothmd. died on the Mh.

DOMESTIC. A horrf ole outrage «nd murder was comiznitttu at Pembroke, X. ,H., on the 4th. The mutilated body of a young lady named Josie Longjtnafi was found'bn the evening of that day in a piece of woods half a mile from the road over which she had started in the morning to go to school. The head was misaing, having been entirely severed from the bodr. “ Anterican Girl"- ‘dropped dead ’on the track while trotting a race at Elmira, N, Y., on thc3d. She was valued at $30,000. The Comptroller. off the Currency has called upon'National BanksYor a report exhibiting their ooadit ion at 4JSc close of business on Friday, the l6t of Oalobcr. The United Btates Assistant Treasurer at New York has been directed to sell $1,000,Oooia.gvld o n each®.ursday of the present month-S4,C 00,000 in all. Mary horses ia Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis ai d ot her Western localities were suffering, from s ymptoaac of the epizootic on the Tth, and the > disease seemed to be spreading. Serious dit '.turbine es occurred at Friar’s To»t,ffKUs., ■< »n the' -sth and 6th. It seems that-at a Ck raserertive convention on the night oftthe 2t 1 Senator Alcorn severely criticised the offiei ii canfiuct of Brown (colored), Sheriff of the t jounty. and the next day Brown used savere lai tguade :n reply, when Alcorn threatened to s hoot him. Brown then summoned numnah er off negroes, who prepared to come to kis as eistaur;. On the sth all the women and chi idee* cere sent from Friar’s Point, and the p face »r.s attacked by a force of 506 negroes, Who were repulsed by white rforcee under Gen u GhaLners. In the skirmish •eight negroes . indione white man were wounded.

A Columbus ( Ohio' dispatch of the Tth aays the hog dise ise was playing sad havoc dn that section. . Six thousand hogs had already died in I .'raniiin County so far this month. Friar's Point spt >ciaidispatches of the 7th -state that Gen. Chi ibserc was driving the colored forces, under Pease (colored) and was determined to capl ure i.im if possible. In the skirmishes whit 4t toed place on the sth a white man Wae fata By wounded and three negross were h illed ; uid one wounded, probably totally. Senator Aiocrn on the Tth sent 1 a telegram to htty.-Gcu. \l’ierrepont stating that there wasuo question of politics in these disturbances; the whites were to a man for defense, and the negroes s*l o had been misled were fast being reoonc iled. He stated that his-name had been moi‘ ridiculously aseociatedcn the patter. George W.l*enarerton, these urderer of Mrs. Bingham, at iJasff Boston, is .March last, was hanged at Bos too. on the Bth. A Memphis diqpatch of the Bth says the Tmar’s Pont War was considered at an end. A Helena apechvl <f same dagJ states that Bhetiff Brown w.w at that place and had said he would net return to FriarVßflnt, and that the negroes there threatened to kill him if he did. Chalmers W£s still seeking to effect his capture.

United States SkjiMtor Pease and UnitedStates Atty. iWells, of Mississippi, and the Attornep-Genecil of that State ,-called on Atty.iGen. Pierpepont.U. Washington, on the 4r.ii, and Assured him that if there wj.s no in•fcoference by the General Government in K&seissippi the result woCd be tbe-iedemp-tfem of the State t om serious fcifficul--1 tec now enisling. Jsiin By an, of Beston, died on the Oti. from th e affects <tf injjirias received in a prizefight the'ity befee-e with Michael Carney. The latt tried. A named JSumpe Pemterton, under arresh. fior horse-steaiiig, was lynched at Forest Ci 111.,-early on the morning- of the 6th. The > Chicago Journalol the 9th says that private information and press .dispatches frejm var Veus parts of the West indicated that although here and there some of the corn was dama, ted by flood or frost, yet the aggregate crop will be “literally stupendous.” Advices fron i tha South also indicated that the cotton vWop will be better than the Asesage. _ ' .PERSONAL. True bills have teen found by the Grand Jury of the District of Columbia against Benjamin B. Hallei '-k, William H. Ottman and T. W. Brown foi ‘ having been concerned in the $47,000 robbe.T of the United States Treasury. The New York Supreme Court on the 6th confirmed the decision of the lower court

denying the motion to vacate the order of arrest on the $6,000,t)00 suit against William M. Tweed aad ordering $3,000,000 bail. The Catholic ,Total Abstinence Union of AUertca was in session iu Cincinnati on the oth an d 7th. Very Rev, Patrick Byrne, of New .lebsey, was chosen President and James O’Brien, of New Tevk city, Secretary for the ensuing year. President Grant and party returned to Denver Sn the 7th from Southern Colorado. A New York dispatch of the Bth announces that Messrs. Moody and Bankey will begin their revival on the 31st of the present mouth in the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Rink, which has the capacity for accommodating from 7,000 to 8,000 persons. The services will be on the same general plan as that pursued In Great Britain. m John Siney, President of the Miners’ Na?“ tional Union, and Ningo Parks, a prominent and active member of the same were recently tried at Clearfield, Pa., on the charge of riot and conspiracy. The former was acquitted and the tatter convicted and sentenced to hard lhtor for one year and fined ohe dollar and costs of about $1,500. The American Board-of Foreign Missions, which met in Chicago-on the sth, adjourned on the Bth after a very interesting session. The principal officers elected for the ensuing year are: President, Per. Mark Hopkins; VicePresident, Hon. Wm.E. Dodge; Corresponding Secretaries, Rev. Selah B. Treat and Nathaniel G. Clark; Recording Secretary, Rev. John O. Means;Treasurer, Langdon S. Ward; Auditors, Hon. Thomas 11. Russell. Hon. Avery Plumer and. Elbridge Terry. Westervelt, convicted of being implicated In the abduction of Charlie Ross, has been sentenced to sewn years’solitary confinement in the Penitentiary. The member? of the firm of Duncan, Sherman & Co., the bankrupt bankers of New York city, west- arrested on the Bth, on complaint of John A. Roebling’s Sons, on - a charge of fraud. They were released on bail of $5,000 each. Mr. Duncan has withdrawn his offer to pay his creditors 33 per cent, in notes. ' ■ ' • ' • ' * ■ —i ' - Another sat has been instituted against Wm. M. Tweed to recover the sum of $983,640 alleged te have been fraudulently paid on warrants certified by him.

POLITICAL. At Jthe town elections in Connecticut on the 4th tbe larger places generally voted for liquor license and the smaller towns were about equally divided on the question. Hartford geve 1,100 and East Hartford 2 majority for license and Danbury voted no license. The Labor-Reformers of Massachusetts have nominated Wendell Phillips for GoVernor; Wn. Mr Bartlett, Lieutenant-Gov-ernor; Israel W. Andrews, Secretary of State; S. B. Coffin, Treasurer; John F. Fitzgerald, Stole Auditor, and H. B. McLaughlin, Attorney-General. Resolutions were adopted —favoring a reduction in the hours of labor and a system of factory inspection; condemning the action of the manufacturers- of Fall River; favoring the greenback currency and the retirement of National Bank currency. "it a Prohibition meeting held in Boston on the 6th John J. Baker was nominated as a candidate‘or Governor. No other nomina; tlons were made. At the recent election in Connecticut it was voted to change the time of the State election from the spring to the fall of the year and to mahe the Governor’s term of office two yeare. The U.--S. Supreme Court has decided, in the appealed St. Louis Minor case, that the new amendments to the National Constitution de not, confer the right of suffrage upon anyone, and that the Constitutions and laws of the several - -States which confine that right to men alone arc not necessarily void.

The United States Supreme Court on the Woman-Suffrage Question.

In the Supreme Court of the United States .at Washington, Oct. 4, in the case of Virginia L Minor and Francis Minor, her husband, p laintiffs in error, vs. Reese Happeisett, in error to the Superior Court of the State of Missouri, Chief Justice Waite.dcliverd the opinion of the court ,U> the effect tliat the Fourteenth Amendment of.the Constitution does not confer upon women the right to vote. The court affirms, ic the decision that women have always been considered citizens under the Constitution and entitled to all the privileges aftU immunities of citizenship, but iu the admission of this general point the court decides that suffrage is not one of the privileges and immunities of the citizen, and titat it is nowhere made so in express terms, and even further than this, that suffrage was not coextensive with the citizenship*of the States at the time of its adoption. Applying these general facts to the constitutional amendments, the court shows that the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment never contemplated that it conferred the right of suffrage even upon the colored, persons because it invested them with citizenship, and, taking this view:, iieyEarned the Fifteenth Amendment tc prevent any State denying them the right of, f uffrage because of race, color, or previous-condition of servitude. Upon this point thocourt said:

•“The Fourteenth. Amendment had.already previdedthat no State should make or enforce gny.iaw which should abriflge the privileges en immnsuties of citizens of the United States. If suffrage was one of these privileges u r immunities why amend the Constitution r‘o prevent its being denied on account of race, etc.? Nothing is more evident- tjmn that tie greater must include the less, axd if all wfee.,jalready protected whygohirougli vith the form of amending Uie Constitution to protect a part?*’ ' i

The deciska clcsts with tie following statement: “ Certainly if the .courts can consider any question settled .this ir one. For nearly ninety years the people .have acted upon the idea that the Constitution, when it conferred citizenship, did not.necessarily confer the right .‘of suffrage. If uniform practice long continued can settle the construction of so important aa instrument as the Constitution of the United States confessedly k, most .certainjr it lias been done here. Our province is to decide what the law? is, not t« declare what it should be. We have givet this cate the careful consideration its importance demands. If th e law is wrong it ought to be but the power for Jhat is not -with us. Th* arguments addressed to us bearing' upon such a vi«v of the subject may perhaps be sufficient to induce those having tLte power to make the alteration, but Uiey ought not to be' permitted to influence o.'ir Judgment in determining the present rights of the parties litigating befoVa-us. ' So argument as to women’s nrei oMuftraiTecan be considered. We c®»orily act upon her rights as they exist-..lwismpt for us to look at the is at an end lfcwe find it is within the power of a Start* to withhold.’ * .

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A HOT at ‘the Pike County Pair wat made aick by drinking festive lemonade, and died the next day. Ex-Secretary of State Axthon was stric ken with paralysis on the 28th. Onehalf of his body is helpless. He will recover, but will be permanently injured. Some time ago, at Richmond, a white woman married a negro, and her white children by a former marriage were removed to the Home of the Friendless by the authorities. She 6ued for a writ ol hahfca corpus, and Judge Kibbe allowed her to take the youngest children from the , Home. About fifty gentlemen met in Indianapolis a few days ago and organized a State society', the object of which is to secure legislation that will foster the improvement of county roads and protsde means whereby money raised for road purposes will be expended to the best insults. Hon J. J. Irwin, of Columbusjwas elected President; Alfred Moore, of J Huntington Secretary, and Fielding Beeler, of Marion, Treasurer. Another meeting will beheld Oct. 14 in Indianapolis.

Thk Attorney-General has rendered another opinion on the Fee and Salary act. He says: “ In addition to the" fees prescribed in Hie Fee and Salary act of 1875 in behalf o< Sheriffs for the taking of in sane persons to the hospital for the insane I hold that such assistants as are appoint ed by Circuit Clerks, under Sec. 81— (Ist G. and H., page 385)—are entitled to eight cents mileage. Sec. 31 and the Fee and Salary act are to be con stated in sari materia. See Dumm vs The State, 4th Indiana, page 280.” The following opinion, having special reference to the Fee and Salary bill passed by the last Legislature, was recently delivered by the Attorney-General in response to a communication from the Auditor<of the State, and will particularly in terest County Commissioners and officers. The construction put on the act by the Attorney-General will t-e carried out by the officers unless the Supreme Court rules to the contrary. The written opinion reads as follows:

Hon. E. Bindkrson. Auditor of State—l hare the honor to acknowledge the receipt of yout communication of the 17th inst.. in which you request my opinion as to the construction of the acta of the regular session of 1875, p. 31, and of Sec. to of the Fee and Salary act, approved March 12,1875. The bill on paga 31 aforesaid was passed by the House and Senate, respectively, during the regular session of the Legislature, but it was not presented to the Governor for his signature until the 15th day of March. 1875, the regular session having finally adjourned or the 7th previous, and a special session having convened on the Bth, which was still in session on the 15th aforesaid. The Gor- „ ernor did not sign the hill, his private secretary ■writing upon it the following note: “ This bill was delivered to the Governor on Monday, March 15, 1675. and not before.” No further action was taken upon the bill, either by the House or Senate. In my opinion., the bill nevet became a law. The Constitution of Indiana provides that no bill shall be presented to the Governor within two dayanext previous to the final adjournment of the General Assembly; also, if any bill shall not be returned .by the Governor within three days, Sundays excepted. after it shall have been presented to him, it shall be n law without his signature, unless the general adjournment shall prevent its return, jn which case it shall be a law unless the Governor, within five days next after such adjournment, shall file such bill, with his objections thereto, in the office of the Secretary of State. Although my opinion upon this subject Is advisory only, I eannot undertake a discussion of the questions involved within the space of any opinion, hut I respectfully refer to the following cases, viz.: Tarlton re. Peggs, 18 Ind., -24; Van Dorn rt. Bodley. 38 Ind., 422; Kvans, etc.. »«. Brown, 30 Ind., 514; Colleman vs. Dobbins. 8 Ind., 156; Cooley's Cons. Lim.. 153: et seq. It follows from my views upon the bill above that Sec. 50 of the Fee and Salary act of 1875 is not a law, and my reasons are so plain ah to require no interpretation. I will add that, in my opinion, the act approved Dec. 6, 1872, act* of 1872, page 31, does not affect the question. Respectfully, C. A. Buskirk, Attorney-General of Indiana. Sec. to, above referred to, provides as follows; In ne case shall money be paid out of any county treasury for any printed blanks for the use of any county officer except printed heads and rulings in receipts given by Treasurers and other receipts given by Auditors, for which no fee is allowed by law. nor shall any Board of County Commissioners make any allowance to any county officer for any printed blanks used by such officers except for the use of the county; nor shall auy Board of County Commissioners make any order for the payment of any money out of the county treasury for stationery for the use of any county officer except for the use of the couuty.

At the recent session of the Southeastern M. E. Conference, recently held at Inclikflapolis, Bishop Janes made the fol. lowing appointments to the various charges .for the following year: Indianapolis District, F. C. Holliday, Presiding -Elder. Roberts Park. Gilbert De La Matyr; Fletcher Place, G. L. Curtiss;'Grace, Samson Tiucher; Trinity, J. H. Bayli«s; Third Street, A. A. Johnson; Massachusetts Avenue, B. F. Morgan: Pattisou, Frost Craft: Woodlawn, S. C. Noble; Southside, John W. Sullivan; Brightwood. to be supplied by Levi Wright; Sugar Grove and Northwood, to be supplied; Shelbyville. It. Roberts; Waldron. J. W. Dashiell; St. Paul, Landy Havens; Caßtletqn.i v T. W. Jones; Lawrence, F. S. Turk; Frankliu. E. L. Doiph; Southport. J. B. Sparks; Acton, E. T. Spencer; Sugar Creek, James McCaw; Greenwood, A. 11, Rest; Fairland. M. Black. Pattison McN utt, professor in Indiana Asbury University and member of Sugar Grove and Northwood Quarterly Conference. Conuersville District, J. S. Tevis, Presiding Elder. ConnersTille. John !£. Pye; Connersviiie Mission. John Machlin: Milton. M. H. Mullin; Carthage. George Cochran: Burlington. G. E. Neville; Morristown. Wm. Nichols; Rushviile. T. B. McClain; Glenwood, Jesse Miller; Laurel. W. S. Jordan: Brookville, A. N. Malott; New Trenton, Sans.el T. Hoeffer; Mt. Carmel. E. A. Campbell; Fairfield. Alonzo Murphy: Metamora, G. L. Alder; Liberty and College Corner, J. W. Mel lender; Liberty Mission. F. M. Sisson; Abington. G. S. Conner; .Clarksburg. J. D. Pierce; Guilford. A. M. Lowdeu: Bellevue. W- H. Wydman; Andersonville. to be supplied by S. R. Steward. R. F. Bru-ington.-Chaplain of Soldiers' and Orphans' Hume and member of Carthage Quarterly Conference. Moorels Bill District,’ £. G. Wood, Presiding Elder.

Moore's Hill, William Harrison; Aurora. R. -R. Baldwin; Rising Sun. J. F. McClain: Hartford, C. W. Lee: Xawrciicebunr. S. S McMahan; Manchester. T S. Hunt: Wilmington, J. S. Barnes; Mt. Sterling, Isaac Turner; Veray. R. D. Black; Mooredeld. K. L. tennear-; New Pennington. to be supplied by-Charlel "Mapea; Delaware. Peter De Clark; Versailles aud Osgood, Asbury Wilkinson; Cross Plains, supplied by J. B. Br.uer; Butlerville. J. W. Mendall; tlillsboro, William Evans; Patriot, D. A Robert squ. t F. A Hester. President: ,T. C. >. John. J. A. Maxwell, professors Moore's HiF College aud members Moore's Hill quarterly Conference. Madison and Jeffersonville* District, J. G. Chaffee. Presidin': Elder. Jeffersonville—XVal! Street. W. W. .Snyder: Port Fulton, to be supplied: Charleston. F S. Woodcock: Utica. W. M. Grubb*. Madison—Trinity Church. Charles Tinsley; Wesley ChapeL Jatnea S. Reager; Seymour. E. It. Wood; North Vernon. T. C. Crawford: Kent. W R. Lathrop; Henrvville. \V. H. Burton; Paris. B. W. Cooper; Canaaa. Z. A. Wade: New Washington. J. S. Alley: Vienna. J. W. Allen: Woo-ter. Henry Morrow; Sellers Van:, supplied by M. Y. Bovard; Vernon. E. B. Caidwell; Crothersville. supplied by —rrrr. —, Hew Providence. to be supplied. Green-burg and Colnmbns District. T. H. Lynch. Presiding Elder: P. 0.. Indianapolis. Columbus. Joseph Cotton; Taylorsville. J. C. White; Edinburg. F. S. Potts; Greons'ourg. First Church. L. G. Atkinson; Greensbnrg. Centenary, G. P. Jenkins: Milford, G. W. Winchester; Marietta. J. G. Hood: Hope. J. P. Pell; Meriora. Alexander Jamison; Browustown. W. S. Falkeuhurg; Georgetown. George Young; Houston. T. A. Bright; Jones vilie. Sidney Tinker; Elizabethtown. D. M. Reeves; Hartsvilie. D. C. Benjamin: Westport, T. S. Brooks; Milroy. Harvey Harris; J. B. Lathrop, Superintendent: Trafalgar. A M. Thornton. ft S. Winchester, agent of Preachers' Aid Society and member of First Church quarterly ConferISC* 9t Ureeniburg.

"Pull-Backs” Still the Paris Style.

A* • There was a rumor from Paris a short time agd that the days of the “tie-hacks” w ere numbered and an era of crinoline was about to dawn again. But later advices say that the tapes are tightened, the elastic bands drawn more closely and the only crinoline admissible is the narrow tournure, made quite long po as to throw the fullness of the skirt back and give the demi-train the properly-flowing appearance. As a fitting finish to this absurdity of dress the skills are made so long in front that the foot is hidden; ittouches the ground at the sides and sweeps it at the back. The skirts are gored to their utmost at the front and sides and pulled back until they are entirely straight across the hips.. The trimming consists qsually of a deep-pleated flounce with a narrow ruffle pleated on the edge in fine knifepleats, which, however, are not as full as those of last year. For the over-dresses the square apron has almost entirely superseded the apron with round corners, it is made very deep and clinging, but the plainness is relieved by having it double, triple, and, when the figure willadmit it, even quadruple. The apron is slashed at the sides and left open so as to pull back over the long, full drapery, which is arranged so as to form a puff and take the place! of the loojis and ends of last year. The effect at the front and sides is the same but the back is fuller and the drapery more flowing. The bodies are still made in the cuirass or plain basque shape and the sleeves more closelyfitting than ever, with an oval-shaped top, which gives them the appearance of a gentleman’s coat-sleeve. There are three seams in the back of the bodies, the “ French seam,” directly in the back, and the side seams are carried up higher than usual. The basque is deeper in front than at the back and buttons down the entire length from the throat. It is cut very high in the neck and finished with a Byron collar. Little square pockets are placed on the side of the basque. A eufl is used to finish the sleeve, as nearly as possible the shape of the collar. Selftrimming, moss-trimming and fringes will be used for the adornment of overdresses and basques.— N. T. Graphic.

Ida Lewis Interviewed.

Ida Lewis, the heroine of Lime Rock, has been interviewed. She was found in a plain Yankee kitchen, bright tins hanging On the walls, a dinner cooking on the stove, and a diminutive black kitten purring* on the hearth; while in one corner of the room a young woman of two or three and twenty stood over a washtub, with rolied-up sleeves, and arms plunged in the suds, who was at once recognized as the famous Ida latwis. —As the first glance there is nothing about her which would seem to indicate a heroine, hut before long a close observer sees what her real character is by watching her animated play of feature, firm mouth, and steady eye. She is not afraid of visitors, having become accustomed to them since she first achieved notoriety. Talking of her exploits in saving people from drowning, she said: “ After ali, I have done no more than most American girls would have done if, like me, they had lived all their lives in a light-house and known that by taking a little trouble many valuable livescould be saved, if, like me, they had strong arms, a clear head, and a willing heartland were accustomed to manage a life-boat in a heavy sea. I succeeded in saving two drowning soldiers in my boat about six weeks ago. I had more trouble than usual doing it, because both of them were a little drunk. At first I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to do it, but by dint of calling to them, and reminding them that it was their last chance for life, I succeeded in finally hauling them ashore. I hope the men had a lesson, and didn’t try sailing again after a ‘ spell.’ Yes, people are very kind to me —too kind, I sometimes think, for certainly I have done no more than many other women about whose good works very little is said. Let me show you some of the presents I have lately received.” So saying, Ida produced a number of articles supposed to appeal to the feminine heart—silks, scarfs, hose, gloves, bonnets, dresses and evenjewelry.

Early Mention of Petroleum.

A full century ago the existence of oil springs in Western Pennsylvania was a published and well-established fact. In the Massachusetts Magazine , published in 1789, we find the following in relation to them; “ In the northern part of Pennsylvania there is a creek called Oil Creek, which empties into the Allegheny River. It issues trom a spring, on the top of which floats an oil, similar to that called Barbadoes tar, and from which one may gather several gallons a day. The troops sent to guard the Western posts halted at the same spring, collected some of the oil and bathed their joints with it. This gave them great relief from the rheumatism, with which they were afflicted. The water, of which the troops drank freely, operated as a gentle purge.” There is still earlier evidence of the existence of the oil springs than this. It is found in an old book, published in 1772, entitled “ Travelers in North Amer-. ica,” by Peter Kahm. On a map in this volume the exact location ofthe oil springs is given.". We take this from an exchange; but it is still far behind. As early as 1629, almost a century and a half before KahAi’s book appeared, a French missionary, Joseph de la Roche d’Allion, who crossed the Niagara River into what is now New York State, wrote a letter, in which he mentions the oil springs, and gives the Indian name of the place, which he explained to mean “ There is plenty there.” His letter wasprinted inSagard’s “ Ristoure du Canada,” in 1632, and subsequently in Le Cherq. —National Oil Journal.

Mr. Hardy, of Portlandville, who was in the Quartermaster’s Department at Sioux City in 1862, tells a story of wonderful endurance of a cow belonging to Mr. Hagy. The cow had been missing for eight days when found at the bottom erf a well forty feet deep. When discovered she was standing on her feet, with head bent around to her rump, and evidently had been in that position for eight days without food or water. The funny part of the story is that when drawn out iihe continued for several days to walk in a circle and could not be made to walk in a titraigkt line, and it was only by letting her' move off in a constantly-enlarging circ.V, until it took in the farm-yard of the ownc-T, that she could be driven to her home from the place where she became so set in tier way. — Sioux City{lova) Journal f- No YOAtSG lady is so honest that she will refuse to hook a dress. 7A mas wh.o is alwayß in a stew generally goes to po<t

Weddings and Funerals.

No matter bow strai'efie 1 the stances of a family which lias the slightest pretensions to respectability may be, , there are, two occasions op which it -.nust be extravagant, and that is when one of its number marries or dies. Au ostentatious wedding is considered quite as ind ispensable as an ostentatious funeral. To get married or to get buried iu wliat is called a “ proper and becoming manner,” either rite must he of a sort calculated to impress neighbors. There' is, of course, more excuse for a pretentious wedding than for a pretentious funeral. The former is a natural occasion for rejoicing; and in many classes of society holiday making of any .sort is invariably attended by a show of finery. Prudent people, it is true, might say that the bride ought to wear a dress which will be of use to her afterward, and that the bridegroom ought not to plunge into expenses which may seriously hamper his whole future. But then people are not always disposed to 'listen to the dictates* of prudence. Marriages are comparatively rare things in the history of most households. The most humble sometime* have a wish to dazzle the eyes of their friends, and to prove to them that, like Tony Lumpkin, in Goldsmith’s comedy, when he proposes to go to the “ Roratorio,” he knows what is “ genteel as well as they.”

But if people will spend the money which they can ill afford on a splendid wedding, there is at least, as we say, some excuse for it. Whether as much can be urged in behalf of our cumbrous and costly funerals will probably be asserted by few sensible men. A modern funeral is as hideous a masquerade as could well be devised, and yet the old, bizarre, barbaric custom is obstinately kept up. The friends and relatives of the deceased person, however much they may have been, at other times, in favor of economy and simplicity in such matters, have not the moral courage to act on their convictions. They fear that people may imagine that 3ome slight is being put on the departed. At such a moment they cannot consent to count the cost. The tall, black feathers on top of the hearse are quite aaexpensive as they are ugly; but then, they say, others have them —and why not we ? In many cases the first violent shock of grief makes folks strangely sensitive to outward opinion. They would have all the world to know how deeply the deceased was beloved. To haggle about expense at a time like this would seem to them to be a sort of sacrilege. They cannot inquire into the undertaker’s charges; on the contrary, they generally expect him to have everything done well and becomingly, so that the last tribute of respect shall not be wanting. Naturally, the undertaker has his traditions regarding what is well and becoming; and* as a matter of course, he has his little profits opt of the loan of the hearse and the huge feathers. With an indifferent acquiescence' the family are glad to find him taking the whole affair into his hands and wash their own of the gloomy business. At other times they might be more prudent, but at this particular time they blindly surrender themselves and their purses. Proposals to reform this state of affairs have more than once been mooted both in America and in England. In the latter country, where the ostentation is still greater, the necessity of simplicity and less expense appears now to be generally recognized and a society has recently been formed in the fashionable circles of London to dispense with many of the customary “ trappings of woe.” With us, too, a decided stand has latterly been taken in some parts against this funeral frippery, and in Chicago a number ol clergymen had the question of reform under consideration already some months ago. But entirely independent of the financial objections to the present system of burials, the prevailing dismal black, the hue of blank despair and wretchedness, speaks no less strongly in favor of its abolishment. No more striking contrast can be conceived than that presented between the simple, picturesque and beautiful customs obtaining in several continental countries at the present day and those connected with the English and American burial of the dead. At the latter the emblems of Christian faith and hope are chiefly conspicuous only by their absence; there are no flowers, no music, nothing bright, cheerful and beautiful, in order to testify the belief of the mourners that the deceased had reached a happier sphere. Such a, funeral, as it passes along the street, seems to darken the whole heavens. Very little pity or piety is evoked by the procession, which recalls the somber and mock-heroic mysteries of the Castle of Otranto. Very different, indeed, would be the appearance of a white and gold bier, such as one sees in many European cities, with the coffin almost bidden by flowers, the last gift of loving friends. —Chicago Times.

An Old Man’s Fight With a Bear.

Samuel Ames, aged seventy-five years, met with quite an adventure while on a visit to his nephew, near Northville, Fulton Co., a few days since. He went into the near the house, and was almost immediately confronted by a monstrous black bear which had been hidden in the brakes and underbrush. Mr. Ames sprang over a fence near by and the bear after him. The animal attacked him with his paws and, as Mr. Ames had no weapon to defend himself, he seized the bear by the long hair each side of the head, and held the brute at arms’ length. The bear kept his fore paws “ padclling” rapidly, and tore off all the old gentleman’s clothing on the front side to the skin, scratching him considerably. The animal forced him to his knees once or twice, acting very savagely, and would doubtless have maimed and, perhaps, killed him, had he not obtained a piece of rail, which he used with such good, effect as to drive bruin away. It was thought to be a female with cubs, and that she made the attack in order to give her young a chance to escape. The old gentleman showed good pluck, at least, and escaped with slight bruises and scratches. The bear was taller than Mr. Ames.when she stood erect on her hind feet.— llont* {N. F.) Cor. Utica Herald.

A boy at Swampscott, Mass., put out to sea in a dory, during a high gale, the other day, and was earned off by the wind after 'losing one of his oars. A yacht put out to his assistance, and, after barely escaping shipwreck, ran by him, and the Captain hauled him aboard, after he had been five hours drifting and become quite exhausted and speechless. The family of the boy are getting up a testimonial for thej Captain, and the Humane Society is preparing medals for the crew who risked their lives in the rescue. She looked out of the window the lowering skies and flying leaves, and remarked, with a little'shiver of delight: “ Time to think about that winter bonnet and new f\irs”—Bocfo*ter Democrat.

Horrible Butchery of a Young Girl in New Hampshire.

Concord, N. 11.,. Oct. 5. The terrible outrage at Pembroke, reported last evening, lias aroused intense excitement all over the State, and hundreds are thronging the trains in their curiosity to visit the scene. The discoveries of to-day have, however, been few. Miss Josie Longmaid, eighteen years old, daughter of James T. Longmaid, who resides a mile and a half trom the Pembroke Academy, left home for the academy at eight o’clock yesterday morning. The road is a lonely one, and in that distancethere are but six houses. She was seen to pass the house of Mr. Amos Hoyt, a fourth of a mile from her home, but after that she was not seen alive, nor did she reach the academy. She was not missed till evening, for her younger brother supposed that she had remained at home. Her lather at once aroused the neighbors, and a systematic search was begun on both sides of the road, Shortly after eight o’clock Mr. Cope, one of the party, came upon her headless body in a dense undergrowth of birch, about three rods trom the road, a mile from home. The father was the third or fourth man to see it, and, as his eyes fell upon the sickening sight, he exclaimed: “ Oh my God!” and threw himself beside the bloody corpse, alternately kneeling beside it and embracing it. The ground and leaves for quite a space were completely saturated with blood, as was the butt of the tree. The clothing of the

girl was torn into shreds, and her underclothing torn and saturated with blood. Her dress and chemise were stripped to her breast, and three bones of the right hand were broken, as if the hand had been struck when vainly attempting to ward off a blow. The head was cut off cleanly as if cut by a large, sharp knife. The spinal column was severed between the first and second vertebras. It was the unanimous opinion of the physicians that decapitation was performed or begun before the girl was dead, because of the evidence of her having bled freely. The body was otherwise horribly mutilated. Two rings, one of plain gold and one rubber, and a gold-enameled breastpin and ear-rings were not to be found on the body. The body was taken home, placed in the same position as when found, the right let? doubled under the left, the right arm.laid across the breast, and left one under the back. At dawn search was begun by a large party for the missing head, books ana water-proof cloak. About eight o’clock Horace Ayer found the head partly rolled up in the water-proof, about seventy-five rods northwest of where the body was found, in the same piece of woods. It was partially uncovered, resting on tile water-proof, which was carefully thrown over it, but not quite concealing it. There was a wound on each side,- some inches long, and a cut on the top. Oh the right cheek there was a well-defined imprint of a hoot-lieel, medium size. There was also a cut on her cheek, just IVont of the left ear, that was probably made by some sharp instrument. A tew minutes later the books wore found, and near by a heavy oak stick considerably stained with blood. At about ten o’clock Deputy-Sheriff Hildreth took one William Drew, of Pembroke, into custody on suspicion. Drew is a young man, twenty-two years of age, of dissolute habits, and lives about a half mile back of the woods where the murder was committed. He is married to a woman fully as dissolute. It was thought advisable to lock him up, Though there is as yet no direct proof pointing to him as the assassin, Officer Hildreth was obliged to draw his pistol on the crowd when he locked Drew up at Suncook. A negro named Charles Woods has also been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the crime.

Gypsy Superstition.

The reader who is familiar with the religious observances of India is probably aware of the extraordinary regard in which the cup is held by many sects. In Germany, as Mr. Liebach declares, drinking cups are kept by the gypsies with superstitious regard, the utmost care being taken that they never fall to the ground. “ Should this happen, the cup is never used again. By touching the ground it becomes sacred, and should no more be used. When a gypsy cares for nothing else, he keeps his drinking cup under every circumstance.” In England there are many persons who could not be induced to drink from a white cup or bowl, the reason alleged being the very frivolous and insufficient one "that it reminded them of a blood basin. It is almost needless to say that this could never have been the origin of the antipathy. No such consideration deters English peasants from using white crockery drinking vessels. In Germany, among the gypsies, if a woman has trodden on any object, or if the skirt of her dress lias swept over or touched it, it is either destroyed, or, if of value, is disposed of, or never used again. The same foolish custom still prevails among the old gypsy families in England and elsewhere throughout the world; if the object be a crockery plate or cup, it is at once broken. For this reason, even more than for convenience, real gypsies are accustomed to liang every- cooking utensil, and all that appertains to the table, high up in their wagons. It is almost needless to point out how closely these ideas agree with those of many Hindoos.

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