Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1875 — Page 2

RENSSELAER UNION. JIBES * HEII.ET, Pwprlffon. RENSSELAER, ’ . INDIANA.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOHRIGN. Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, the eminent English archmologist, died on the 2d. The ship Catherine Griffith was wrecked on the Scilly Islands on the 2d. Eight of her crew were lost. A scow capsized at St. Famllie, Canada, on the Sist during a severe snow-storm, and seventeen persons were drowned. A special telegram from Berlin of the 3d says the Northern powers had requested Austria to rabmit a proposition to the Sublime Porte, embodying the guarantees to be demanded and the control to be exercised to Insure the performance of the Sultan’s promise of reform to the Insurgents in his vassal Stides. It was believed in Berlin and Vienna that Turkey would be unable to suppress the rebellion, and that Austria would intervene with an army in the spring. A Berlin telegram published in London on the morning of the 4th announces the destruction of the arsenal at Realsberg. Over 40,000 rifles hsd been burned, which, with other property destroyed, made a total lass of about $5,000,000. J. J. Ron&ldeon <& Sons, West India merchants of London, failed on the 3d for $350,000. Minister Schenck has .written a letter to the London Txmts exposing the systematic sale of fictitious American university degrees. An official dispatch published in Madrid on the Sd states that the last of the Carlisle in Catalonia, numbering six commanders and 660 men, had surrendered, and that the province was entirely pacificated. The El Cnmista of the 3d stated that Gen. Saballs, having returned to Soain, had been arrested hx Don Carlos and would be courtmartialed'for not preventing the late disasters la Catalonia. A Berlin special of the 4th says Prussia had asked Austria to prevent Bishop Foerster, while residing in the Austrian portion of his diocese, from exercising any episcopal function touching the Prussian portion. The French Assembly met on the 4th. Duke D’Audiffat Pasquier was on the sth eJeetedPresidenrof the French Assembly by a combination of the Left with a portion of the Right. The act was regarded in Paris as an anti-Bonapartist demonstration. A Madrid dispatch of the sth says a note had been received from the Vatican insisting upon the execution of the concordat with the Holy Sec; refusing to recognize the royal placet; attributing the civil war to religious toleration, and demanding that the Bishop of Ujgel shall be tried by ecclesiastical judges and not by an ordinary tribunal. By the decision of the umpire of the American and Spanish Claims Commission for the settlement of claims of citizens of the United Stales against Spain for wrong and injuries committed against persons and property on the island of Cuba since the commencement of the present insurrection, Joaquin G. Deangertea, whose property was embargoed' in 1869 and restored to him in 1873-4, is awarded $748,180, with Interest; Pedro 8. Isioliera gets $3,000 and interest for siiteen days’ imprisonment The London stock market was greatly depressed on the 6th in consequence of the publication of the fact that Austria had garrisoned the frontier forts and was making ready to take a hand in the Turkish troubles. It was reported on the 7th that 30,000 Servian militia had assembled on the frontier and that Servia had sent an agent to Paris and London to negotiate a loan. The iron-dad Serapis, with the Prince of Wales on board, reached Bombay on the 7th.

DOMESTIC. ‘ : The follow Lag is the statement of the condition of the public debt Oct 31: Six per cent bonds 11,043.892,550 Five per Cent bonds 657,282,750 Total coin bonds $1,700,575,300 Lawful money debt 14,000,000 Matured debt 22,865.180 Legal-tender notes 873,805.951 Certificates of deposit 50,880,000 Fractional currency 40.681,629 Coin certificates 15,645,100 Interest ~ 34,844,100 Cash in TreasuryCoin $73,783,439 Currency 9,736,671 Special deposits held for the redemption of certificates of deposit 50.880,000 Total in Treasury $134.400,110 Debt lees cash in Treasury $2,118,397,160 Decrease of debt during October... 4,069,015 Decrease since June 80,1875 Ift, *91.514 Bonds Issued to Pacific Bailway Companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding. $61,623,512 Interest, accrued and not yet paid... 1.292,470 Interest paid by Canted States.. 28,202.307 Interest repaid bv transportation of mails, etc 6,422,701 Balance of interest paid by United States 21,780,106 A resent special from Virginia City, Nev., says building was going on rapidly and the burnt district was dotted with shanties. Work was plenty and wages high. Relief was coming in freely, and the people had recovered their spirits.

Attj.-Gen. Pierrepont is said to be of the opinion that Brigham Young cannot be compelled to pay the alimony to Ann Elisa, for refusing to pay which he has been imprisoned. The poict is whether in marrying Brigham, fully aware of the existence of numerous other wives, Ann did not tacitly consent to an illegal marriage. A Washington dispatch of the 3d says that on that and the previous day the Freedman’s Bank was crowded with resident colored persons drawing their portions of the dividend of 20 per cent Depositors residing at a distance are required to forward their books or other* evidence of indebtedness through some responsible bank or by mat or expressThe Secretary of the Treasury has addressed a circular to the Collectors of Customs announcing that no further importations of neat-cat Ue or hides will be allowed for the present fmm England, is consequence of the prevalenc e of the foot sod mouth disease in that country. *

The annual report of the Postmaster-Gen-eral will shivw that daring the past year 3,640,797 lette, ■» ■*€« received at the Dead-Let-ter Office in Washington, at which numbe r 210,377 were f oreign. These dead letters coo J tained $3,546,9 V 3.44 in money, drafts, etc.—ail of which except about $375,000 was returned to the senders. The foreign letters were returned unopened. i’ A duel occurred in New York city on the 2d between two Polish Jews named Joseph Goldman and Moses Piskall, who were partnerafin the jewelry brtslness. Goldman was shot over the right temple and, right cheek.

and instantly killed. Piskail was shot ovc the light eye and mortally wounded. A fire at Sherman, Tex., on the Ist, destroyed sixty-five business places, the posti office, every printing office in the town, and some thirty families homeless. Loss estimated at over $300,000; lusurauce small. A dUtiuctshock of earthquake was.fcltat Atlanta and other sections of Georgia on the night of the 2d. A man named Jackson, of Jeffersbn County, 111., while getting out of bed the other morning before daylight, accidentally stepped upon the body of his daughter (who was sleeping on an improvised bed on the floor), crushing in her chd#t and killing her instantly. She was fifteen years old. The father weighs over 200 pounds. J David Robinson, living near Kokomo, Ind., on the night of the 3d shot two of his children with a revolver, and then cut their throats from ear to ear. His wife and, one son escaped by running, he firing two shots at them, wounding the son. His friends claim he was temporarily insane. His dead body was found the next morning fourteen miles south of Kokomo. It is supposed he jumped or fell from a freight train on which he was making his escape. The United States Grand Jury in Chicago on the sth reported a large number of indictments against persons alleged to be guilty of violations of the Revenue laws. Three of the four counts in the indictment against H. B. Claflin & Co., of New York, for complicity in silk-smuggling frauds have been sustained by Judge Benedict. The Atchison (Kan.) Daily Champion of the sth has returns from 89 of the 103 Representative districts in Kansas, showing the election of flfty-eight regular Republicans, eight Independent Republicans, eleven Democrats and twelve elected on People’S and Reform tickets. This indicates a less number of Opposition Representatives than last year. The only State Senatorial vacancy is filled by the election of a Republican, an<l of the three District Judges to be chosen the Republicans had elected two. A Bt. Louis special of the 4th says the Grand Jury In the United Btates Court at Bt. Louis had indicted Wm. McKee, one of the proprietors of the Globe-Democrat, and Constantine Maguire, late Revenue Collector, for conspiracy to defraud the Government of its revenue in connection with the whisky tax. Twenty-one million onehundred and thirtyeight thousand postal cards were issued by the Postofflce Department during the month of October, being 5,000,000 more than during any previous month. The First Comptroller of the Treasury haa disallowed the claim of the State of Nebraska for $53,938, being 5 per cent, on the value, at $1.25 per acre, of the estimated quantity of Indian reservations in that State.

PERSONAL. The Boston Base-Ball Club retain the championship, having won forty-eight and lost seven games during the past year. Other clubs take rank iu the order named, as follows: Athletic, St. Louis, Hartford, Philadelphia, Chicago, Mutual. The total number of games played during the season by these clubs was 185. Secretary Chandler has appointed A. P. Gaylord, of Saginaw City, Mich., as Assistant Attorney-General for the Interior Department. Secretary Robeson’s friends claim that the election of a Republican Legislature hi New Jersey will send him to" the United States Senate. At a business meeting of Brooklyn Plymouth Church on the evening of the 4th the names of Deacon West and Mrs. Frank D. Moulton were dropped from the-roll of membership on the ground of continued absence from the services of the church. Mrs, Moulton was present at the meeting, accompanied by her counsel, Roger A. Pryor, who read a protest signed by Mrs. M-, in which she reiterated her charges against Mr. Beecher, which she said she knew to be true by confessions made to her by Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton. It was reported in Brooklyn on the sth that the New York and Brooklyn Association of Congregational Ministers had appointed a committee of its members to carefully examine into the charges against Mr. Beecher and report whether the association ought to retain him in its membership. One hundred guns were fired by the Republicans in Washington on the evening of the 6th over the victories claimed by them at the elections on the 2d. The President was serenaded at the Executive Mansion, and responded in a brief speechThe President on the 6th appointed John A. Raymond Postmaster at Vicksburg, Miss., in place of Henry R. Pease, suspended under the Tenure-of-Offlce act.. The following-named gentlemen compose the committee appointed by the Congregational Association of Ministers to investigate the charges against' Mr. Beecher: Rev. Wm. Taylor, of the Broadway Tabernacle, New York; Rev. Dr. William Ives Budington, of theCliDton Avenue Church, Brooklyn; Rev. Profs. Parsons and Martin, of the New York Theological Seminary, and Rev. Charles H. Everest, of the Church of the Puritans, Brooklyn- Plymouth Church has referred to a committee the charge made by Mrs. Moulton against Mr. Beecher. Thousands of persons attended the Moody and Sankey services, held at the Brooklyn Rink, on the 7th, some 3,000 people being unable to gain admission.

POLITICAL. The official canvass of the votes cast at the late election in Nebraska shows that the new jority. The coupon leaving to the people the power of locating the State capital has 7,500 majority, and the coupon giving 1 the people the power of expressing their preference for United States Senator 16,800 majority. The Democrats elect two District Judges and one District Attorney. Ail the rest of the officers elected are Republicans. Rioe (Rep.) is elected Governor of Massachusetts by a majority of about 5,000 over Gaston (Dem.). About 7,000 votes were polled for the Prohibition candidate. Crapo (Rep.) is elected to Congress in the First District. * Carroll (Dem.) is elected Governor of Maryland by about 15,000 majority. Legislature Democratic. 0. A Portland (Ore.) dispatch of Ue 2d says later election returns materially reduce the majority for Lane (Dem.) for Congress. A dispatch from Salem says returns indicated the election of Warren (Rep.) by a small majority. The recent election in Chicago and Cook County was a very exciting one and resulted in the choice of L. C. Huck (Rep.) as County Treasurer over A. C. Hesing (Opp.) by between 3,000 so a 4,000 majority. Local and personal matters entered largely into the canvass and a third add independent (Dem.) candidate was in the field and received over 7,000 votes. The Republicans do not claim

the victory as a partisan one, Ip the city over 55,000 votes were polled. Returns received up to the morning of the 4th from the Pennsylvania election indicated that Hartrarift (Rep.) for Governor would have aboijt 17,000 majority. j The new Legislature of New Jersey is composed as follows: Seuute- -Republicans, 12; Democrats, 9. House—Republicans, 37; Democrats, 23. The Tammany ticket was defeated at the recent election in New York city. Recorder Hackett was elected by over 6,000 majority, and Morrissey was elected State Senator by about 2,000 majority. The news received up to the morning of the 4th rendered it probable that the Democratic State ticket, was elected. The Albanv Evening Journal puts the Democratic majority in the State at between 8,000 and 9,000. The Legislature is Republican—Senate by 12 and House by 16 majority. The Arkansas General Assembly convened on the 2d and the Governor’s message was read. "-* ■ The official count of the recent election in lowa gives Kirkwood 31,745 majority for Governor. A Jackson (Miss.) dispatch of the 3d says the Democrats had carried that State, electing their entire ticket in nearly every county. They would have about thirty majority in the House and six or eight in the Senate The Democrats also elected the entire Con gressional delegation with the possible exception of the Bixth District, and returns indicated success' in it. All was peace, and no disturbance was reported anywhere. A St. Paul dispatch of the 4th says Pillsbury (Rep.) for GoVernor of Minnesota would have about 12,000 majority. Pfaender (Rep.) for Treasurer ran behind his ticket, but was probably elected. Legislature Republican. Returns received by the Albany Argus of the sth give Bigelow (Dem.) for Secretary of State of Nqw York 16,798 majority, with a prospect of a further increase. The Congressmen elected on the 2d are: First Massachusetts District, Wm. W. Crapo (Rep.); First Mississippi, Louis Q. C. Lamar (Dem.), re-elected; Second, G. Wiley Welles (Rep.); Third, H. D. Money (Dem.); Fourth, O. R. Singleton (Dem.); Fifth, C. E. Hooker (Dem.); Sixth, Roderick Beal, (Dem.); Thirtythird New York, Nelson I. Norton (Rep.); Oregon, Henry Warren (Rep.). The official count of the election returns in Colorado.shows that the Territorial Legislature will he compOßed as foliowsrUouncil— Republicans, 4; Democrats, 9. House—Republicans, 16; Democrats, 10. According to a Milwaukee telegram of the 7th Ludington’s (Rep.) majority for Governor of Wisconsin would be about 1,000. Kuehn (Dem.), for State Treasurer, was probably elected. The Republicans had a majority of seven in the State Senate and one in the House.

Boiler Explosion—Terrible Destruction to Life.

The boiler of the engine Centralia, of the Easton & Amboy Railroad, exploded on the morning of the Ist at the Raritan siding near South Somerville, N. J. The following particulars- are given in the New York papers of the 2d: The engineer, the foreman of the laborgang and three other men were killed, and thirty-three laborers were scalded, some of them fatally. The cause of the explosion is said to have been the wornout condition of the boiler and the lack of water kept in it. The engine left Boundbrook about seven a. m. with a construction train, consisting of a caboose and number of empty gravel-cars, for the purpose of assisting in the repair of the road. The engine was attached to the rear of the train and directly in front of it was the caboose and another containing about forty-eight laborers. When the train reached the siding, about two and a half miles west of Boundbrook, it was run upon a side-track in order to allow the eastern-bound passengCr-train to , pass. While standing here the boiler of the engine, without any warning, exploded, wrecking the locomotive, shivering the caboose to atoms and pouring steam and boiling water into the car in front of it. The laborers occupying the caboose, unconscious of danger, were talking and laughing together, and when the shock came were scattered like leaves before a hurricane. Some of them were blown through the roof and sides and by the force of the explosion were lifted twenty or thirty feet into the air. But eight men escaped uninjured. Many were severely wounded by flying fragments of the cars and engine and two or three were fatally scalded. Five were killed almost outright. The boiler was carried high in the air and landed about 100 feet from the scene of the disaster. Col. Palmer H. Thompson, foreman of the labor-gang, was burned about the body and injured internally. He died about four p. m. He was commander of a Pennsylvania regiment of militia during the late war, and leaves a wife and one child. When the physician came to attend him he said: “ Attend to others first; lam not hurt as badly as they are.” Before dying he described bow the force of the explosion had thrown him through the roof of the caboose, and thirty feet high. While falling he thoftght of clutching the telegraph-wires, which he saw many feet below him, to break his fall, but, thinking it would be useless, refrained. He alighted on a tie, which broke* in one of his ribs and burst in one of his lungs, which produced a fatal internal hemorrhage. ■ • Boundbrook was the scene of intense excitement, as the explosion, though it occurred two and a half miles from there, was distinctly heard. Wood-choppers working several miles distant heard the reverberations and hurried to the scene. Many stories were afloat as to the cause of the accident, but, in the excitement that prevailed, It was impossible to ascertain where the blame rests. The crop of sorghum in the South, Southwest and West this season is greater than ever before known. The season seems to have particularly favored it, and the quality of the sirup is said to be unusually line. There is a good demand for It as fast as it is manufactured, and the prices obtained are remunerative and satisfactory. In this section the raising of sorghum and the making of molasses from it has much fallen off; indeed we do not know of a single instance in this neighborhood where the business is prosecuted. In Bucks and Chester Counties there is still a fair quantity manufactured, hut it is not on the increase. —GermatUmcn (Pa.) Telegraph. „ ——- ■**'• » —Since October, 1845, the American Suhddv-School Union, by the personal labors of its missionaries, organised 10,084 Sunday-schools in the States and Territories west of Ohio and north of the Ohio River, and in those west of the Mississippi River, besides distributing religious literature to the value of $208,381.70. In this work they reached 1,266,954 children and youth. « -

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Cot. Polk, Auditor of Wabash County, died a lew days ago. , Tiif. tobacco crop of Orange County this year is the largest ever raised there. W. B. Young’s ptaning-mill, at Tipton, waajftirned a few nights ago. Loss about $5,000. The Indiana Baptist State Convention will meet at Evansville on the 2d to 4tli of November nest. An incendiary fire on the morning of the 23d destroyed Haas’ Ctpera-House, at Wabash. Loss $12,500. A vast deposit of superior marble has been found on the farm of Stephen Kirkpatrick, of Cass County. William Russel, living with his uncle near Rushville, committed suicide the other night by hanging himself. A remarkable religious awakening is manifesting itself in Randolph County-, particularly in the vicinity of Winchester, Grave charges have been preferred against the Superintendent of the Vanderburg County Asylum by the County Physician. The Centennial Committee report, already, about 400 applications for space at the Exhibition by Indiana merchants and manufacturers. Valparaiso suffered from a $12,500 fire on the morning of the 24th. Lepell’s brick furniture store was one of the structures burned. At Sweitzer, the other day, Lewis Molt, in getting oft - a moving train, fell between the station platform and the cars and had his back broken. Maggie Benton was [fatally burned at Connersville a few days ago while playing with other children around a fire lighted in the front yard. , William Howard, a freight brakeman on the Cincinnati Railroad, fell from the train, near Lawrenceburg, on the ,29th ult., and w-as instantly killed. John Haslet, sixty years old, was instantly killed at Dover on the 30th ult., while assisting to raise a heavy timber, upon the frame of a wagon. Luther R. Martin, of Indianapolis, a well-known real estate broker, was thrown from his bugy the other evening and fatally injured. He died next morning. Mrs. Hacker, of Marco, gave her two children, the other day, what she supposed to be quinine. It proved to be strychnine and both,died in an hour. A little three-year-old boy, son of H. C. Short, living near Rushville, was burned to death a few morning ago in consequence of his clothing taking fire from a hot stove. Two small children of James Franklin were alone in his house at Marco, a few days ago, when the clothes of the eldest caught fire from the kitchen-stove and she was burned to death. Jas. Mclntosh was fatally injured while at work in Tucker’s mill, at Logansport, the other day, by being struck in the stomach by a heavy piece of wood thrown from a shaping-machine. A four-year-old son of John Spoon, of Moluroeviile. "while -riding with his father on a load of corn, the other day, fell oft and the wagon passed over his bowels. He lived thirty minutes. James Martin, a farm-laborer, twenty years old, came to Terre Haute on the 31st ult. to see his mother, and got into an altercation with John Scader, his sister’s husband, by whom he was fatally stabbed. Samuel Fanning stabbed his brother-in-law, John Clark, at North Manchester, seven times, the other day, and fatally wounded him. The trouble arose from Clark attempting to correct Fanning’s child. During a drunken row at Indianapolis on the evening of the 23d Thomas Meskell was stabbed in the leg by a rowdy named W 11. Howard. An artery was severed and Meskell bled to death in five minutes. On the 4th, at Walton, George Harris, while gathering nuts, fell from the top of a large tree, his head striking on a snag, which drove itself through his skull, inflicting wounds from which he died five hours after. Frank Martin, of Cambridge City, while hickory-nutting the other day-, climbed a tree to shake down the shellbarks. A limb broke, precipitating him to die ground, twenty-five feet below, and (j injuring him internally and fatally. At Cambridge, during the terrific storm of the 29th, a bridge on the Pan Handle Railroad tottered and fell just as a Ireigbt train was passing. The engine and four cars went into the creek, and the fireman and one of the brakemen were killed.

As John Gilmer, of Washington township, Wayne County, was passing behind a young horse in his stable a few days ago he stepped upon a rotten plank which broke under his weight. His foot caught in the hole and while endeavoring to extricate himself the ljorse kicked him, breaking his skull and jaw. The following postal changes were made in Indiana during the week ending Oct. 23, 1875: Postmasters appointed— Alto, Howard County, William A.. Quick; Ashland, Hemy County, A. V. Lamb; Collamer, Whitley CoujoJy, J. C. Grafton; English, Crawford County, Thomas Hanley; Ross, Lake County, Christopher W. Lander; Springport, Henry County, Hand, ford Benedict; Sweetser’s, Grant County, Emerson Jester; Titusville, Ripley County, Owen M. Breeden. There was a speck of war in Lake County the other day. As the engineers of the proposed line of the I. & S. Railway were about to run their line over the farm of J. H. Beadle he met them with a jrifle and a revolver, and swore he would shoot the first man that stepped on his land. The.,chief engineer ordered his men forward and Mr. Beadle raised his ride, evidently intending to use it. At this juncture the Sheriff wrested the gun from the excited gentleman and the work was allowed to proceed.

Arab Horses.

Reared tinder an open shed, and early habituated to the sight of man, to the sound and glitter of weapons and to all the accessories of human life, the colt grows up free from vice or timidity, and even acquires a degree of intelligence that surprises a stranger. Barley and dates are the chief stall provender; but the grass of the pasture-grounds, in the selection of which much cure is taken, is the ordinary nourishment of an Arab lior.-e. Of water the allowance is always kept purposely scant. A good Nejdee will canter four-and-twenty hours in summer-time and eight-and-forty in winter without once requiring a drink. Raw meat, dried, is occasionally given in small quantities when extra exertion is required; lucerne grass is employed for lowering the tone. The color that most frequently occurs is gray; then comes chestnut; then white and sorrel; mottled gray and t>lack are now and then to be found; dark bay never. Colts are ridden early—too early, indeed —in their third, or even second year, and are soon broken into a steady walk or canter and to the ambling pace which is a special favorite with Arab riders; racing, an Arab amusement from time immemorial, and the game of “ jerzed,” a kind of tournament, or mock fight with blunt palm sticks, highly popular throughout the peninsula, complete the trainfng as to wind and pace. Saddles are seldom used in Nejd, and stirrups never; hut both are occasionally employed in Hijaz and Yemen. So it is, also, with bits, the place of which is taken in Nejd by halter-ropes, the real guidance of the animal being almost wholly effected by the pressure of the rider’s leg and knee. Shoes, too, are of rare occurrence, nor are they needed in the light sand-mixed soil of the central provinces; on the other hand the hoofs artPoften rubbed with grease, to counteract the drying effects of the heated ground. Of all niceties of grooming, docking and clipping excepted, the Arabs are masters; and their natural kindness to animals—a quality which they share with most Orientals —together with the care every reasonable man bestows on a valuable article of property, insures to an Arab horse good treatment at the hands of its owner. But Arao horses do not commonly enter tents, nor play with women and children, nor, in a general wav, do they share the family meals, nor are they habitually kissed and cried over, as the imagination or credulity of some narrator has suggested. An Arab flying for life has, indeed, been known to give the only morsel of bread about him to his horse rather than eat it himself—an act in which self-preservation had as huge a share as affection. Lastly, the standing prohibition of horse-selling from Nejd has really nothing more romantic in it than narrowminded application ot the principles of protective monopoly; in other cases, reluctance to conclude a bargain simply indicates that the offer made was insufficient. —Encyclopedia Britannia.

Extravagance In Boston.

A correspondent of the Chicago Journal writes: I don’t know how it is in Chicago, but here in Boston personal expenses, especially among certain classes, are equal to anything witnessed during the most profitable times of the late war. The dressmakers and milliners are coining money; coin is the word, and the leading dry-goods stores were never selling more expensive goods than now. It is enough to make a man of moderate means go crazy to see how recklessly the women buy silks and things, and I know that rkeh men see visions of bankruptcy as they are called upon to settle the bills of their wives and daughters. The fashionable modistes are absolutely overrun with work; cheap clolkesare almost unknown; a black silk dress now costs fully the retail price of fifteen barrels of flour, with all the necessary trimmings, and women whose husbands earn no more than $1,24)0 a year are wearing such dresses, but have to starve their table at home to do it. And then the bonnets or hat's. Every fashionable milliner calculates to double her money on the material she puts into a hat, besides charging a round sum for the work. So that when a customer wants to purchase a decent sort of a hat she has to pay at least $25 for it. Shop-girls, seliool-girls and seamstresses there are who wear such expensive hats, and where they get the money to pay for them is a mystery to many people. Jordan, Marsh & Co., Chandler & Co., Hfty, Spalding & Wales, Hovey & Co. and other leading dry-goods dealers say they have sold more fine goods this season than ever before, and that their sales this year will be a third larger than last year. It is an anomaly in the economy of hade that the duller the times the more extravagance in personal habits, particularly in dress. This extravagance seems to pervade the middling class more than any other class. No doubt the enterprising dealers have much to d® with this species of extravagance, on account of the character of their advertisements, which also shows that they who by trade would thrive must advertise.

Antiquity of Gunpowder.

With regard to the uncertainty as to the exact date at which gunpowder was utilized in war, Grose, who favors it with great antiquity, quotes the following ancient testimony iu “ Grey’s Gunnery,” printed in 1731: “In the ‘Life of Appollonius Tyanoeus,’ written by Philostratus about 1,500 years ago, there is the following passage concerning the people of India called Oxydra: 1 These truly wise men dwelt between the Rivers Hyphasis and Ganges; their country Alexander the Great never entered, deterred, sot by fear of the inhabitants, but, as I sup- - pose, by religious considerations; for, had he passed the Hyphasis, he might doubtless have made himself master of the country all round them; but their cities he could never have taken, though he had led 1,000 as brave as Achilles or 1,000 such as Ajax to the assault; for they come not out into the field to fight those who attack them, but these holy men, beloved by the gods, overthrow their enemies with tempests and thunderbolts shot from their walls. It is said that the Egyptian Hercules and Bacchus, when they overrun India, invaded this people also; and, having prepared warlike engines, attempted to conquer them; they made no show of resistance, but upon their enemies’ near approach to their cities they were repulsed with storms of lightning and thunderbolts, hurled upon them from above.’ Jn a book entitled ‘ The Gunner,’ printed in London in 1664, it is observed that Uffano states that * the invention and use, as well of ordnance as of gunpowder, was in the eighty-fifth year of our Lord made known and practiced in the great and ingenious Kingdom of China; and that in the maretyme provinces thereof there yet remain certain peaces of ordnance, both of iron and brasse, with the memory of their yeares of founding engraved upon them, and tiie arrnes of King Vitney, who, he saitli, was the inventor.’ ”

RELIGIOUS A ND EDUCATIONAL.

—Rev. Dr. Storrs, of Brooklyn, has acaccepted a call from the Old Brick Church in New York. * -J The annual expenditure for each scholar attending the Ohio public schools is at present $14.13. —The Protestant missionaries in Mexico are discussing the question of forming an undenominational union. —There are two Normal Schools in the Argentine Republic and the establishment of a third one, for women, in Buenos Ayres, is proposed. —St. John’s Church, Wheeling, W. Va., which was erected in 1868 —being built of stone, with a slate roof, a Johnson organ costing $2,000, two memorial-windows, a stone wall and an iron fence, at a total cost*,of $25,000 —has been sold for debt for the sura of SIO,IOO. —An interesting discussion - in regard to the education of girls has recently been in progress through the columns of the New York Tribune. The prevailing opinion seems to be that many, if not most, of the lamentable failures in the education of girls are the legitimate and inevitable results of paternal, and especially maternal, influence and training. —The venerable Bishop Smith, President of the Protestant Episcopal House of Bishops, has written a letter expressing a hope of an ultimate organic union of the orthodox churches. Among the greatest obstacles at present to such union he recognizes the Episcopal doctrine of the divine right of the Episcopacy, and the Baptist doctrine of adult immersion. —At the late Illinois yearly meeting of Friends an aged Quaker, eighty-seven years bid, living fourteen miles distant, missed but one meeting, riding back and forth the twenty-eight miles in a carriage, sitting the long sessions, and at the close of the last meeting, of five and a half hours’ continuance, declared that he was feeling better than at the opening. —T. S. Hall, of Meriden, Conn., caused f. scene at the Methodist church on a recent Sunday. When the Rev. Mr. Bagnell had finished his sermon, in which he claimed that there is an intermediate state between death and the final disposition of the soul for eternity, Hall arose and asked: “ I want to know if this is Methodist doctrine ; if it is I want to withdraw.” The minister said it was and the two had a warm discussion in the presence of the astonished congregation. — Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup, for the Cure of Consumption, Coughs and Colds. Tha great virtue of this medicine is that it ripens tho matter and throws it out of the system, purifies the blood, and thus effects a cure. Schenck’s Sea Weed Tonic, for the Cure of Dyspepsia, Indigestion, etc. The Tonic produces a healthy action of the stomach, creating an appetite, forming chyle, and curing the most obstinate cases of indigestion. Schenck’s Mandrake Pills, for the Cure of Liver Complaint, etc. These pills are alterative and produce a healthv action on the liver without the least danger, as they are free from calomel, and yJBt more efficacious in restoring a healthy action of the liver. These remedies are a certain cure for Consumption, as the Pulmonic Syrup ripeus the matter and purities the blood. The Mandrake Pills act upon the liver, create a healthy bile, and remove all diseases of the liver, often a cause of Consumption. The Sea Weed Tonic gives tone and strength to the stomach, makes a good digestion, and enables the organs to form good blood; and thus creates a healthy circulation of healthy blood. The combined action of these medicines, as thus explained, will cure every case of Consumption, if taken in time, and the use of the medicines persevered In. Dr. Schenck is professionally at his principal office, corner Sixth and Arch Sts., Philadelphia, every Monday, where all letters for advice must be addressed.

“All Run Down.”

This is an expression that we hear from doctors when they are in doubt about _the nature of the disease of their patients. The country seems to he filled with such cases, and they are trying first one remedy and theD another, hoping in vain to find relief. They generally have the following symptoms: A general depression of spirits, with evil forebodings, a whirling sensation in the head when rising up suddenly, foul breath, with a bad taste in the mouth, especially in the morning, pain in the sides and back, urine scanty and high colored, frequently voided with difficulty, frequent headaches, a distressed feelipg at the pit of the stomach, food affording no nourishment. The patient feels tired au the while, and sleep affords but little rest. After a time a dry, hacking cough sets in, followed after a time with expectoration, hands and feet cold and clammy at times, a general wasting of the body. In such cases we need a remedy that will act upon the liver.ikidneys, stomach and bjood at the same time, and when we use such a remedy it affords relief. The best article for this purpose is the Shaker Extract of Roots, sold by A. J. White, 819 Pearl street, N. T. Agents wanted. A case of chronic rheumatism of unusual severity, cured by Johnson's Anodyne Liniment, is noticed by one of our exchanges. A large bunch came out upon the breast of the sufferer, and appeared like part of the breast-bone. Used internally and externally., The sweetest word In our language is health. At the first Indication or disease, use well-known and approved remedies. For dyspepsia or indigestion, use Parsons' Purgative Pills. For coughs, colds, sore or lame stomach, use Johnsons Anodyne Liniment. W hex you go to Chicago stop at the “ Barnes House,” corner or Randolph and Canal streets. The fare Is excellent and everything in the house is new. Only $1.50 to $2.00 per dav for transient. Burnett’s Cocoaine is the best and cheapest Hair Dressing in the world. The Tubular Lamp is a wonderful thing. Read the advertisement, sure.

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