Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1875 — Page 2

RENSSELAER UNION. JIVES ft HEALEY, Proprietor*. BKNSSELAER, - INDIANA.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREir.lt. The Supreme Court of Germany on the 30th indorsed the verdict of the Kammergericht iu the case of Count von Arnim. Prof, Wheatstone, the distinguished English scientist and electrician, died at Paris on the «>th. , 1 ‘ A recent St Petersburg dispatch reports the burning of 300 dwellings, a synagogue and five schools in Widsy, Russian Poland. Several persons perished and more than S,OOO persons were rendered homeless. - - The London Morning Echo of the 23d gives additional particulars of the flood. It says the valley of the River Don had formed a lake half a mile wide and fifteen miles long; that many collieries and iron works had been flooded and thousands of operatives thrown out of employment. At Darlington the flood was particularly severe, the gas-works, among other establishments, being drowned out At Ruthcrham, iu Yorkshire, over 1,000 people were out of work. A Paris dispatch of the 21st says the work of sinking a shaft 100 meters deep will shortly be begun near Calais, preliminary to the cutting of the English Channel tunnel. The King of Bavaria, on the 21st, Issued a royal decree adjourning the Bavarian Diet until further notice. The King refused to accept the resignation of his Ministers. Several Important failures occurred In London and Manchester, England, on the 22d. The London Times of the 23d says London merchants had been able to Import American caScoes at a profit. On the 21st and 23d a severe gale passed over the Scottish coast. Up to the morniug of the 23d five vessels had been reported lost with all on board within a distance of forty miles. A Madrid telegram of the 22d announces the arrival at Santander of the New York murderer, Bharkey. According to rumors which prevailed in Bedin on the 24th Bismarck was about to tender his resignation, of the Chancellorship of the German Empire in consequence of the precarious condition of his health. Madrid dispatches of the 24th say that the Government had refused permission to the Republicans to hold electoral meeting*. Senor Marfori, formerly Minister of the Colonies, had been arrested and would be expatriated.

DOMESTIC. The report of the special commission appointed to Investigate the charges made by Prof. Marsh of mismanagement and fraud at the lied Cloud Agency was made public on the 18th. The commission found no fraud in connection with the beef contracts, but discovered that the Government and Indians had been swindled by flour and pork contractors. The charges of incompetency against Agent Seville are sustained and the appointment of a new man in his stead is recommended. Ex-Secretary Delano and Commissioner Smith are exonerated from any complicity in the frauds, though the latter is alleged to have been neglectful in some instances. Several changes are recommended in the management of Indian affairs. The receipts of the Postoffice Department for the fiscal year ending June 30,1875, were $37,561,502.68; expenditures, $33,011,309.45; leaving a deficiency balance of $6,049,806.77. At Canon City, Col., a few nights ago, a twelve-year-old girl named Carrie Buckingham, who was visiting her sister, Mrs. Evans, undertook to start a fire with coal-oil. The can exploded, her dress caught fire, and in a moment the flames communicated to Mrs. Evans and her infant, one year old. The three were fatally burned. * According to a Washington special of the 19th the receipts from internal revenue for the three months ending Sept. 80 had shown an increase of $1,780,356 over those of the corresponding quarter iast year. —Ar Mrs. Genty, of Oil City, Pa., left her home in the charge of thrte children on the 19th. During her absence the children undertook to kindle a fire by the use of kerosene-" oil, when the usual result followed, and a little boy was fatally burned. One of the two girls escaped from the house uninjured, but the third child, a little girl about four years old, shut herself up in a closet and was burned to death, the house being destroyed by fire. The other day the Sheriff of Portage County, Wife., was killed by two brothers named Amos and Isaac Courtwright, whom he was attempting to eject from a building. On the morning of the 19th a party of masked men, numbering forty, went to the jail at Stevens Point, seized the turnkey, beat down the door of the jail, took out the Courtwrights and hung them to a pine tree overhanging the road.

Prof. James C. Watson, of the Michigan University, has recently, discovered a new planet It shines like a star of the tenth magnitude. A colored man named Isaac' McAfee has been recently convicted and sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment for having about a year ago caused a terrible accident on the Selma (Ala.) & Dalton Railroad by placing obstructions on the track. Two white men are to be tried for the same offense. What is called a Centennial excursion arrived in Philadelphia on the evening of the 20th. There were delegations from Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Toledo, Cleveland and Buffalo to the number of 125. They met with an enthusiastic welcome by the Philadelphians.' Excursionists g were also in that city from 8t Louis, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Reuben Benton, while playing croquet at Titusville, Pa., on the 30th, was accidentally struck in the head with a mallet, and so badly injured that he died in a few hours. A large mass meeting was held in New York city on the 20th to advocate the continuance of the reading ctf the Bible in the public school*. The property bequeathed by the will of the late Isaac M. Singer, the sewing-machine man, At Denver, CoL, on the 21st, a policeman discovered in-the cellar of a small tenementhouse recently vacated by some Italian musicians the dead, bodies of an old man and three boys, all Italians, who had been murdered, the throats of all having bean cut. The watch factory at Freeport, IJL, was destroyed by fire on the night of the 21st. Loss $150,000. The fire was the work of an incendiary. The Postoffice Department has decided to order railway postal-car service between the cities of Pittsburgh and St Louis, 't&t the Pap Jlandle & Vandalia route, passing through

Indianapolis, and the service will be begun as soon as the department esn make the necessary arrangements. , Frits Kaiier, twenty-one years of age, jumped from the tower of the Chicago. Water Works on the afternoon of the22d, and fell a distance of nearly 200 feet and was dashed to pieces on the turrets at the base. He was deranged and had recently been an inmate of an insane asylum. ■ • Dun, Barlow & Co.’s New York Mercantile Agency has issued a statement of business failures in the I'niitcd States during this year up to the Ist of October, which shows a total of failures during nine months of 5,334; liabilities, *131,172,503. The greatest number occurred in the last three mouths, involving liabilities estimated at $54,328,237. Henry Brown (colored) waa hanged at St. Louis on the 22d for the brutal murder in Maylast of a farmer named Philip Pfarr. Dr. Lindermap. 'Director of the Mint, estimates the gold and silver production of the country next year at $100,000,000. / The Commissioner of Pensions has con - eluded his annual report. The Invalid armyroll is 105,478, at an annual cost of $10,961,218. The roll of army widdWs is 104,885, at a total annual rate of $12,835,579. The survivors of the war of 1812 number 16,875, at an annual rate of $1,524,000. The widows of the war of 1812 number 5,163, at a total annua) rate of $495,648. The invalid roll is 1,036, at a total annual rate of $182,613. It is estimated that by December next there w'll be 12,500 applications for Increase of pension under the new law. In a recent letter to the New York Herald Dr. Isaac I. Hayes, the well-known Arctic explorer, expresses his belief in the existence of an open Polar sea, and regrets that the Pandora did not winter there and renew the search for the records of Sir John Franklin’s expedition in the spring. He reiterates his belief that in the vicinity of the pole there is an open navigable sea in the summer;that it may be reached by ship or boat by way of Smith’s Sound, and that the north pole is within the reach of any nation that will think it worth while to spend money enough to get to it. A few nights ago Mr. and Mrs. Murray, married only a few weeks, were burned to death during a tire in the house of Susan Bradley, at Cheshire, Conn. The town of Vermillion, near Sandusky, Ohio, was almost wholly destroyed by lire on th«22<U Eleven business blocks In the heart. of the town were burned. Loss estimated at $75,000; insurance light. Two men were arrested, charged with setting the place on fire Mrs. D. L. Murden, of New Orleans, was burned to death on the 22d by the explosion of a coal-oil lamp, and her husband was severely burned iu attempting to extinguish the flames. Prof. Atchinson, the aeronaut, attempted a balloon ascension at the recent Elkhorn (Ky.) Fair, but when several hundred feet high the balloon took fire and was burned, and he was precipitated to the earth and 60 badly injured that his recovery was considered doubtful. The Charlottesville (Va.) National Bank suspended on the 23d. Several business firms in that section closely connected with the bank were also forced to suspend.

PERSONAL. O’Leary, the Chicago pedestrian, recently walked 100 miles in the unprecedented time of eighteen hours and fifty-eight seconds. The President has appointed ex-Senator Zachariuh Chtndler, of Michigan, as Secretary of the 'lnterior, vice Delano, resigned. Mr. Chandler took the customary oath and entered on the duties of the position on the 19th. A reunion of Union and Confederate soldiers was recently held at Elizabeth, N. J. Fourteen"veteran companies participated. Frederick Hudson, for many years managing editor of the New York Herald , died at Concord, Mass., on the 21st, from injuries received the day before by being struck by a locomotive while riding across a railroad track in a buggy. Gen.JSol Meredith, of Indiana, died at his home in Cambridge City, on the 21st, of a cancer in his stomach. The District-Attorney of Brooklyn has entered a nolle prosequi In all the libel suite growing out of the Beecher-Tilton scandal. Messrs. Moody and Sankey began their revival labors in the Brooklyn (N. Y.) rink at S:3O o’clock on the morning of Sunday, the 24th. The building was densely packed. An afternoon service was also held, to which at least 5,000 people were unable to gain admittance. Two churches in the immediate neighborhood were thrown open to the crowds and services held therein, Mr. Sankey visiting and singing in both of them. Announcement was made that services would be held every evening during the week except Saturday. The trial of Col. John A. Joyce for conspiracy to defraud the Government revenues was concluded in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri on the 23d, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty on all four counts of the indictment.

POLITICAL. The vote polled in Cincinnati nt the Into election was the largest ever cast in that city, being 39,530. The vote in the county was about 47,000. At the election in California on the 20th Prof. Carr, the Republican candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction, was elected. All the Judges but one in office in San Francisco, both Democratic and Republican, were re-elected. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has decided the action of the Wood County canvassers in throwing out the vote of the town of Lincoln at the election last year to be illegal. The decision was made „on a contest over the county offices, but the counting of the votes of Lincoln will elect Alexander S. McDill (Rep.) to Congress instead 1 of George W. Cate. The certificate of election had been given to the latter. A fine of S2OO was imposed on the leading canvasser who threw out the votes. \ A Cincinnati dispatch of the 22d says official returns from seventy-six counties in Ohio, arid what were deemed authentic returns from the remaining twelve, show Hayes’ majority to be 9,549. * A Des Moines (Iowa) telegram of the 22d says Gov. Kirkwood’s majority then stood at 31,356, with Lyon and PaSo Alto Counties to hear from, which would increase it about 200 g Atty.-Gen. Pierrepont received a letter from Gov. Ames, of Mississippi, on the 23d, in which the latter states that all the threatened troubles in his State had subsided. He had disbanded the militia on the assurance of his j •political opponents that there should be a ! fair election, and peace prevailed over the en- j lire Stale, with no prospect of further out-! boeaks. 'X, ' The election registration in New York city j ‘this year aggregated 144,934, agaifist 146,218 \ last year. '

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The potato crop is simply enormous all over the State. Cambtudok City talks of sending aco!onv to Tennessee. . i There are .rumors of another strike in tlie Brazil bo'al region. * It snowed briskly at Logans port for two hours on the lllli. Axn now they say a small insect is injuring the growing wheat. Tiikoat diseases are quite prevalent Just now throughout the State. The receipts of the Bartholomew County Fair amounted to over $5,000. Dr. Lambert, .of Goshen, is making a collection of North American birds, slutted.' A fatal disease is carry i ng'off h unci reels of hogs in the western and southern portions of Madison County. The old Western brewery, near Evansville, was -burned the other night, involving a loss of about SB,OOO. The report of the State Prison South for the quarter ending Sept. 30 shows receipts $26,285.05, and expenditures $20,158.83. The inmates of the State Prison South now number 492, with fair prospects of increasing to an even half thousand in a few days. Starting a fire with coal-oil at Lawreneeburg was the cause of it. Her name was Mary, Kertegen. It is hoped her burns are not fatal. Some Spencer County farmers think the acreage of wheat sown in that county this fall will he from 50 to 75 per cent less than usual, owing to the drought The Indianapolis Journal was sold on the 13th to Judge E. B. Martindale and W. R. Holloway. E. W. Halford takes the position of managing editor. The children of the Soldiers Orphans’ Home, at Knightsville, to the number of about fifty are suffering from an aggravated form of the whooping-cough. Tinkler’s grain-elevator at Wea Station, seven miles south of Lafayette, was burned the olher morning. The fire had incendiary origin. Loss about $30,000. The soldiers’ reunion at Indianapolis on tho 14th and 15th was a magnificent success. It was estimated that fully 50,000 veterans were in the city on the 15th. Noble County gets the red ribbon, on pumpkins. > The largest measured seven feet two inches in circumference. They also produced a beet thirty by thirteen inches.

The officers of the Monroe County Fair, sifter paying expenses, found that they would be enabled to pay thirty-three and one-third cents on the dollar of the preinlviius awarded. “ The saw and planing mill at Hicks ville, a few miles east of Auburn, was set on fire by tramps a few mornings ago and totally consumed The loss was about $17,000, on which there was no insurance. The prisoners in the Vigo County jail were discovered the other day in an attempt to escape by sawing loose the iron clamp which held a large stone in its place. Many tools with which they had been working were recovered. Deeds have been filed for record conveying $500,000 worth of real estate to Willard College, at Evansville—the donation of its founder, Willard Carpenter—and the project is now entirely in the hands of the trustees. Work will be commenced next spring. The claims of the parties who figured in the Deaf and Dumb Institute investigation rfre being allowed by the State Auditor, the Board having complied with the instructions of the State officers concerning the same. The proportion of the expenses paid by the State is $2,500. While A. N. Custer was pitching off the stack to a threshing-machine in Clay Township the other day he slid off and struck a pitchfork leaning against the stack. One tine pierced his right side, passing entirely through his lungs. The injury was thought to be fatal. A new phase of the old conflict between the judiciary and the management of the House of Refuge has arisen. Supt. Ainworth refuses to receive John Day into that institution, who is sent there under special instructions of Judge Buskirk, of the Indianapolis Criminal Court, because the offender is over sixteen years of age. -The matter is to be carried -to- the-Strpreme-Court for final adjudication. Ox the evening of the 7th the Indianapolis Banking Company received a telegram from the manager cf the Bank of British North America, located in New York city, directing the arrest oHhy person presenting a circular letter of credit numbered higher than 151. Next day a wekfcdressed stranger answering to the name of Henry Saunders presented a letter numbered 169 at the bank counter and asked for $3,000. He was locked up. The following postal changes were made in Indiana during the week end ing Oct. 9, 1875: Established—Benham s Store- Kipley County, Aaron H. Neburgger, Postmaster; Given, Clinton County, ; Frederick Roush, Postmaster; Hanover | Center, Lake County, Frank Massoth, ■ Postmaster; Waterford Mills, Elkhart County, Henry Snyder, Postmaster. Postmasters appointed—Bloomingport, Randolph County, Joseph T. Lanun; Otwell, Pike. County, Benjamin E. Dillon. Geo. Negley committed suicide at his residence in Evansville a tew days ago. Negley lived alone, .having had trouble with his family, and was well off. When tound 'his body was upright in bed, with revolver in hand, one chamber having been discharged in his mouth. On the tablenear the bed, was a loaded rifle pointing directly toward him. He had drawn the ramrod and fixed it that a slight touch would discharge the gun in case the revolver failed, and close by his side was s huge butcher-knife; but the revolver did it* work. . .•- , •.l; > .-W

The Lion.

A foreign .correspondent of the Ronton Advertiser spiels to,Him journal “ the experience of an old African' soldier who speaks of nothing he has not himself seen and who modestly' withholds only such episodes as would place him in a conspicuous position. The narrator is as; brave as a liou and has thought no more ot hunting this royal game than Sir George Cummings himself.” In a letter to a friend the soldier says: ' “.You wish me to initiate you into the secrets of the true Arab lion hunt, which you mu.-t l>egin by knowing that it little resembles the fantastic tales told, by certain European travelers and dilated upon by newspapers and novel-writers until there is no possibility of separating truth from ficlionmr drawing to any satisfactory degree a conclusion regarding the lion anil panther, which are in fact our only dangerous African carnivorous animals. Lions are quite numerous in certain parts of the province of Constantine, rare in those'of Algiers and Oran. Panthers, on the contrary, are seldom seen in the last two provinces, but are numerous in Alfiers. The habits of these two carnivora iftcr essentially. As a general rule, neither the one nor the other attacks man. It sometimes happens, however, that a panther, surprised while eating, springs furiously upon the man whose imprudent foot has troubled the silence of his repast, and in this case there is nothing to hope, as before the bravest man can have got possession of his arms he is a bruised and broken mass. The panther tears and mutilates the body even after all life has fled, but does not devour it. In general he kills for the pleasure of killing, and even when attacking a flock or herd he vents his savage fury on many before deciding to eat one. “The lion, on the contrary, springs upon his victim and at once devours it, or, dragging it to a preferred dining-spot, quietly makes his repast, nor thinks of troubling the rest of the flock until renewed appetite leads him to satisfy hunger in the same way. If, during the repast, he sees a man approach, and is not ravenous, he gets’up and walks away slowly, one may say solemnly —or sometimes, not even.deign ing this, he raises his majestic head, looks at the intruder, and by a lialf-friendly growl warns him that he will not stand being troubled when at dinner. A pedestrian finding himself in this position does well to withdraw slowly, for should he become frightened and run the lion is quite capable of feeling a desire to overtake him, and in that ease will; even in that case, if the man lias presence of mind sufficient to understand the danger and do the only thing remaining to be done, he may still escape safe and sound. For the lion seems oftenest actuated by a half-playful, friendly sentiment, and so lie does not lose his respect for man —seldom troubles him. Oftentimes lie joins and passes the pedestrian, and when at a good distance crouches across his path, watching him approach. If the man has the unfortunate idea of turning to run away he is lost; but if lie comes on quietly, neither faster nor slower than his usual pace, looking his enemy steadily in the face and showing no signs of fear, he has even- chance to escape. The lion will

growl, wag his tail in rather a terrifying way, but allowing the man to pass before him, get up, and, as though admitting to himself that he had honestly lost his game, go quietly back to his lair. “A lion rarely attacks women, and I once witnessed a scene which will go further than the longest explanation toward illustrating this. It was a hot, sultry day in J uly. The sirocco inade the atmosphere dense with sand and glare; the very earth seemed on fire. I was returning from an expedition on the frontiers of Tunis, and, as I had some matters to settle with tribes in the environs of la Calk, I left my troops to return to Constantine, and, followed only by two spahis, turned my steps toward la Calle. Having started just before day, we arrived at about four o’clock in tlie afternoon at the lord of the little river de la Mafcag. Our horses, as well as we ourselves, were sadly in want of food and drink, and we stopped to refresh ourselves at a little inn kept by a European, and situated on a low mound two or three hundred yards from the ford. Whilst waiting for my frugal repast I unbuckled my sword, laid by my pistols, and,, stretched out comfortably in the shade, idlywatched a band of Arab women washing clothes in the river. All at once I was startled by cries proceeding from the opposite side of a sand-heap bordering the river, and half a dozen women came rushing into the midst of their peaceable companions, dragging them into the shallow water, and behind them a magnificent lion, his tail proudly in air and liis great brown eyes looking caressingly from one to the other. Paying no attention to their retreat into the river, he followed them there, rubbing himself up against them, not seeming to mind in the least their cries or terrified gesticulations, and when he had had enough of it he took a long drink of the running water, and, turning, majestically walked away into the mountains from whence he had come. This lion was a stranger in that part ot the country, and when on the following day I went in search of him he had disappeared.” ————-

The Law of the Rail.

Some one, who has takerr-the trouble to post himself on the law governing railroad passenger travel, says that extra charges for failure to buy tickets are universally sustained by the courts, but there must be a full opportunity to buy afforded by. the ticket-seller. Passengers must show tickets when asked for. As to stopping off, there is only one decision, which is that a passenger cannot stop off and resume his journey without the previous assent of £he company. As to the obligation of the road to furnish a seat to a passenger, a decision says: “A passenger who exhibits his ticket need not surrender it until he has been furnished with a seat.” A railroad is not liable for things stolen out of a passenger’s seat, there being no previous delivery' to the company’s servants ; for the same reason the company is not liable for baggage in the passenger’s own care. Passengers who neglecrtolook after their own baggage on arrival at their destination cannot Ttcover it. if it is lost without fault of the carrier. Baggage left in station-houses fob the passenger’s convenience, after it has reached its destination, xonics under a new class of rights and duties, the bag-gage-umster assuming the position ot a gratuitous bailee, who only becomes liable in cases of gross negligence. The obligation of jaie railroad as a carrier ceases when it has delivered it to its owner at the , place of destination, or when he has had reasonable opportunity of receiving and removing it. It will interest sportsmen to know that they may recover for the valud of dogs when they,intrust them to baggage-masters for hire because of their exclusion from tlm passenger cars.—Scie/i----iyic American, j -

“AT EVENING TIME IT SHALL BE' LIGHT The morning dark and dreary, The clouds all leaden gray, So pitiless and rainy, A dark and cheerless day; - But lot at time of evening What glory fills the skyl The sun in gold is setting, And all the shadows fly. So with us, in the morning And noontime of our life, There often is the darkening Of sorrows many, rife; But lo! at time of evening The clouds all disappear, The sure and steady shining Of light serene and clear. So let us never falter, But live in cheerful hope; pFor us the blessed Master Will golden treasures ope— With them will crown our evening, And, when we come to die, His gracious light, consoling, • Shull fill our sunset sky. ■—-V. Y. Observer.

Something Else There.

A pair of little feet clambering up the steps of a shady piazza; a pair of little hauds bearing a small, well-filled basket; a sweet child’s face, rosy and earnest. The basket was rested for a moment upon the upper step, and a pair of soft, grave eyes peered through the half-closed blinds of the nearest window'. The hall-door was open and a lady came from the room to welcome the diminutive messenger. “Good morning. Dewy; pretty well loaded, aren’t you F Shall I take it?” And she extended her hand for the basket. The little fellow gave it to her, also the kiss for which she had bent smilingly. “Aunt Ria, it’s for Uncle Fred; but my mother says you can have some of it,” he said, as he pattered after her into the pleasant sitting-room. “Did she ?” laughingly responded the lady. “Yes, ma’am; I asked her. And she said I must tell her if Uncle Fred is any better. Is he?” he queried, speaking low and trying to edge himself up on the lounge. “ Come m here and see, Dewy,” came in Uncle Fred’s own voice from the bedroom adjoining. Dewy quickly slipped from his perch and almost ran across the room. “ Oh, Uncle Fred, you am better! ’Cause yesterday you didn’t speak to me; you had your eyes shut.” i , - ■ “Yes, Dewy, I nqi better, but I must not kiss you yet, pet. Just let me hold your hands. Now, Aunt Ria, let us see what’s in the big basket the little man tugged all the way up the hill.” Aunt Ria took out a dressed chicken, some fruit, and,a jar of cream. “ Something else there,” said Dewy. Aunt Ria shook the napkin and glanced again into the basket. “ I don’t see anything else. What was it, dear?” “ Something you can’t take out,” returned Dewy, very gravely. Uncle Fred laughed quite heartily for a sick man at what he considered his small nephew’s joke. “ I suppose you mean the bottom of die basket, Dewy,” he said. “ No, Uncle Fred, I don’t,” replied the child with decision. “It was something my mother put in there. It was a prayer.”

“It was what?” asked both relatives at once. “A prayer. I saw my mother put it in. You can’t take it out, hut God can.” “ What a strange notion,” said Aunt Ria. “ Well, I guess it’s so,” murmured Uncle Fred. “Course it’s so,” repeated Dewy. “ I saw my mother from the window. ’Fore she put on the napkin she looked up so” —turning his sweet lace upward—- “ and said something low, and I know it was a prayer. That’s the way she does lots of times, and she puts a prayer in my crib every night.” - Dewy’s mother had told him to return immediately; so, after taking “just one peep” at his baby cousin, who lay asleep in another room, he departed. His active, earnest footsteps were still sounding upon the stone walk when his Uncle Fred remarked: “That putting in a prayer, as Dewy calls it, is just like Madge, although I never gave it a thought before. I really believe she never does the least thiitg without praying over it. She is a good creature, if there ever was one; yet, when we youngsters were all at home together, we boys used to tease her unmercifully sometimes about her religion. Grandmother used to say,” he added, after a brief silence, “ that Madge was the extreme good or bad luck to others, and once she startled us all by declaring that whoever was ill among the neighbors either died immediately or began to convalesce as soon as Madge had insisted in attending them, though it were only for a night. 1 noticed that thing particularly, and it did seem so; but.l believe now that nothing more supernatural than her prayers was at the bottom of it.” The invalid remained in deep thought and with closed eyes so long that his wife thought him sleeping; but suddenly he looked up, his brow troubled, his lips working nervously. “ Maria,” he said, “ I have never vet dropped a prayer into our baby’s cradle. I am. a miserable, ungrateful wretch; and if I ever get to heaven it will be because a sister’s prayers have kept me within the reach of mercy. I think her prayers must have saved my life once before; your care and her prayers will raise me from this illness; hut now I believe it time that I began to call upon the Lord for myself. Dewy lias given me a key,” he resumed, after a brief interval, “ that unlocks Madge’s whole life, and I view her character now in its true light rilsed to regard her as absurdly conscientious, but now I know that she is a child of God.” The key which Dewy in childish simplicity an J trust gave so earnestly to his uncle” that bright summer morning has brought to the eyes of the latter more than one beautiful revelation. God did take the mute petition from that little basket, and he changed it into anthems of praise. The praying sister soon clasped the brother’s hand in hers and pointed out the path that led to the precious cross. The heart of tlie sister and wife was also won by Calvary's simple story, so old and yet so new—so wonderful. “ Something else there,” they frequently say to each"other, “ or, if there is not, there ought to be;” and Dewy’s remark, once so perplexing, has dlded‘them more than any other uninspired word toperform cheerfully the duties expected of those who humbly l follow Christ.—Christian at IF ark. A lawyer who consumes three hours in arguing a question of law relating to the ownership of a barrel- of' apples is ini dignant at his minister for exceeding twenty-five minutes in unfolding one of tlie great .principles of morality, on whose observance the tolerable existence of society depends. — Ch rial in n Register. The Golden Age, started by Theodore Tilton, has suspended. v -

MECHANICAL AND SCIENTIFIC.

—The danajbrs of steam is the subject jpf a warning article in the Mmemtan Engineer. It seems that it 1 3 lialdeAo become superheated without any in&ffcfition from the pressure gauge whenever water gets low enough in boilers to expose the steam to heating surfaces. Superheated steam will in turn communicate its heat to the metal, and iguition may be produced wherever felt, wood, or other inflammable substance comes in contact with any portion of the boiler. —Prof. Dana is still pursuing his studies on the glacial period in New England. In the last number of the American Journal of Science he savs that glacial scratches, southeastward in direction, on Mt. Everett, in the southwestern corner of Massachusetts, at a height of 2,600 feet above the sea, afford evidence that the ice which covered New England in the glacial period overtopped this mountain and had an elevation in that region mot much under 3,000 feet.' Similar facts in the White Mountains place the height there at not less than 5,800 feet.

—A writer in the Engineer, after a careful study of the various results arrived at by the most eminent experimenters with iron in ascertaining its capabilities of resistance, concludes that ordinary iron should comply with the following conditions, namely: Rod, bar and rivet iron should sustain an ultinS?tto~densile strain. of twenty-four tons per square inch, elongate 15 per cent, before breaking, and be reduced in sectional area about 15 per cent.; plates with the fiber, an ultimate tensile strain of twenty tons, elongate 6 per cent, and be relaxed in sectional area about 15 per cent.; and, across the fiber, eighteen tons, elongate 3 ]ser cent, and be reduced In sectional area about 5 per cent. These requirements are not at all excessive, but are by no means generally fulfilled. —lt is known that, shortly after the discovery of coralline, one of the new aniline dyes, attention was called to certain cases of alleged poisoning resulting from persons wearing stockings and other garments which had been colored by it, and a strong prejudice was thus naturally created in the public mind against the use of the article. This led to various investigations on the part of chemists and others to determine the facts in the case, and among others one by Prof. Tabourin, of Lyons, France, who, after collecting from numerous sources every possible kind of information bearing on the subject, embodies them in a valuable report. In this he declares that pure coralline, as usually furnished in commerce, is a substance entirely harmless, and that its employment iu dyeing and painting is perfectly safe, provided that it be fixed upon textile liber and upon tissues by the aid of substances destitute ot poisonous properties.—N. Y. Sun.

Back from the Polar Regions.

Hiw York, Oct. 17. A London special to the New York Herald gives .some interesting details of the cruise of the Pandora to the Arctic regions for the purpose of receiving dispatches from the British expedition. The steamer crossed the much-dreaded Melville Bay without encountering ice. They were disappointed in not finding Capt. Nares’ dispatches at Carey Island, and so they steered on to Lancaster Sound. There they encountered gigantic floes and navigated with much difficulty. On reaching Barron Straits they were enveloped in an impenetrable fog. Beechy Island was reached Aug. 25, and a strange discovery was made. They found the yacht Mary, which had been drawn upon the beach by Capt. Ross in 1850, still standing with hei masts upright. Traces of bears were also found. The headboards over tlie graves of Sir John Franklin’s men were still standing upright, and in good preservation. The Pandora then sailed for Peel’s Strait, and was beset on the voyage by vast fields of ice. She passed the farthest point reached by McClintock’s expedition, and reached King William’s Land, thus navigating a sea never sailed over , by any other vessel before except, perhaps, Franklin’s. She then steamed down the west coast of Prince of Wales’ Land. Here delightful weather, soft, refreshing atmosphere and open expanses of water, with warm-air currents, were enjoyed. Officers were intensely excited and expected important results; many believed they would discover traces of Franklin’s expedition and some were hopeful that Sir John Franklin’s papers would be found, and they would eventually make Behring’s Straits, but in this they were disappointed. They encountered solid ice-fields atJßouquette Island, which effectually blocked the vessel’s further progress. They stayed there until Sept. 7, and then set out on their return voyage. This was full of difficulties and many exciting scenes and narrow escapes were experienced. At last they reached Carey Island in safety, where they found the long-looked for dispatches from Capt. Nares tor the British Admiralty. These were brought home to England. A distracted Staten Islander who has lain awake all night fqr several weeks past proposes to offer a prize ot SSOO for the best treatise on “ How to make ouf-door life attractive to mosquitoes.” _ The population of Minnesota, according to the census just taken, the population of Ramsey County being estimated at 38,000, is 603,856. This is an increase of about 164,000 since 1870.

THE MARKETS.

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