Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1875 — Page 2

RENSSELAER UNION. ITORACK E. JAKES, Proprietor. ■ i RENSSELAER, - INDIANA.

HEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOKEI6N. The estimated damage done in London and its immediate neighborhood by high tides on the 15th is over *5,000,000. Joseph Ralph on, diamond merchant, o f Paris, failed on the 16th with liabilities estimated at $18,000,000. Guibord’s remains were ■quietly and peaceably buried in the Roman Catholic cemetery at Montreal on the forenoon of the 16th. The precautions taken by the municipal authorities insured peace. The coffin was imbedded in cement and was placed upon that of his deceased wife. ' V A Hood aye dispatch of the 17 th says Don Carlos had recently written to King Alphonzo offering to agree to a truc-e should the Cuban difficulties oause war between Spain and the United States. A Berlin dispatch of the 17th denies that the Orown Prince of Germany proposes to visit the United States. A special Berlin telegram of the 18th states that the Prussian Government had decided to proceed before the Ecclesiastical Court against the Bishop of Treves and the Archbishop of Cologne, with a view to their deposition. A Rangoon dispatch of the 16th says a conspiracy to seize the arsenal and bum Rangoon had just been discovered, and a great in any Burmese had been arrested. A Madrid telegram of the 18th says a royal order had been issued forbidding the receipt of communications from Don Carlos except the announcement of the unconditional surrender of himself and his partisans. A Berlin telegram of the 19th gives the number of German exhibitors at the Philadelphia'Centennial at 1,140. Cardinal Pietro di Silvestri died in Rome on the 19th. He was elevated to the Cardinalate in 1858. London dispatches of the 19th say the Ministry had telegraphed to the Prince of Wales advising his immediate return from India, in consequence of the unsatisfactory attitude of the native Princes.

DOMESTIC. Secretary Bristow has given notice that 5-20 coupon and registered bonds of 1564 and 1864-’OS to tlie amount of $17,785,350 will be paid on and after Feb. 15, 1876, and that interest will cease at that date. The United States Grand Jury at Brownsville, Tex., have found eighty indictments against Mexican banditti charged with the * perpetration of thefts and outrages on the Texas border. The jury say that 100,000 head of stolen cattle are annually driven to Mexico—by Mexican marauders, and that American ranchers along tlie border in Texas have been ordered by the raiders to leave their homes on pain of death. Eighteen Mormons living at Franklin, Idaho, have been indicted for polygamy. Shocks of earthquake were-felt at San Francisco and at points in Southern California and* in Arizona on the night of the 15th. No damage reported. A recent Washington dispatch states that Secretary Bristow had closed a contract with the syndicate for taking the whole of the remainder of the $500,000,000 5 per cents. The Secretary will take no action in regard to disposing of the-4 or 4J£ per cents, until Congress meets. Commissiotier Smith has resigned his charge of the Indian Bureau, and Secretary Chandler has appointed-George Jerome, ex•CoUeetor of Customs at Detroit, as his successor. The report of the commission appointed to negotiate with the Sioux Nation for the Black Hill 6 region has been forwarded to the Secretary of the Interior. It is a lengthy document, .giving a full history of the efforts made to lease or purchase the gold region. The failure was caused by the preposterous demands of the Indians, instigated by white Some excitement existed in -Washington on the 17th over rumors of serious complications with some foreign power, supposed to be Bpain. -Orders were issued for the sailing of three iron-clads, but subsequently revoked, the latest news of that date being that the imptending troubles had been satisfactorily adjusted. The seeond.anjual convention of the National Women’s Temperance Union met in Cincinnati on the 17th. The iPresident (Mrs. Wittensayer, of Philadelphia) stated in her annual address that during the past fear forty-five State-Conventions were held. Mrs. ■Willard, Corresponding Secretary, reported twenty-three State auxiliaries organized and great advancement in every department of the work. Two • hundred delegates, representing nineteen States, were in the convention. A Washington dispatch of the 18th says the Spanish Minister there had been officially advi4:d from Madrid that his Government has conceded that in future American citizens on trial before courts-martial in Cuba shall have the privilege of selecting counsel for defense. The treaty j the opinion of the Spanish Government, was not sufficiently definite to meet cases of courts-martial in the event of a war or insurrection in the island, but the present arrangement settles the question in accordance with the desire’ expressed in a friendly note addressed by Secretary Fish to the Spanish Government, and disposes of the exaggerated reports on In his annual report Postmaster-Gen. Jewell states that the total cost of inland mail transportation for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1875, was $15,353,369, there being an increase I of 8,776 miles in the length of routes as com. pared with 1874, but a decrease of S4S,6SS in the cost of maintaining the service. On the; 18th, at Pine House, Ga., a train oi empty freight care ran into the passenger train going west on the Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Railroad and the engine telescoped the ladies' passenger-car, throwing it and the smoking-car from the track. Of a number of passengers on board the cars a boy, one year old, was steamed to death and several other persons were injured, some quite seriously. A young Bwedish girl named Caroline Kiang, of Indianapolis, Ind., was fatally burned on the morning of the ISth by the explosion of a coal-oil lamp. A Denver (Col.) dispatch of the 18th announces the capture of the last of the seven men who murdered the four Italians in that city a few weeks ago. Two rectifiers of Milwaukee, 'Wis., were on the ISth found guilty of whisky revenue frauds.

A Galveston (Tex.) dispatch of the l#th states that a raiding band of Mexicans had the day before crossed the river from the American side with a large herd of stolen cattle. A demand was made upon the Mexican authorities for the return of the cattle and the arrest of the robbers, which being unheeded, Col. McNally, of the Texas State militia, crossed the Rio Grande and attacked the reinforced raiders. He killed four of them, and at last accounts was still in the enemy’s country. The United States troops were concentrating at Brownsville, but would not cross. . ' Snow was reported to be three and a half feet deep at Evanston, Wy. T., on the 19tU and more falling. On the evening of the 19th Prof. Martino’s dancing hnll in West Chicago was burned. The burning of the supports caused the roof to fall and eight firemen were precipitated into the burning mass. All were recovered more or less otherwise Injured—some of th:m fatally, it was feared. It was stated in naval circles in Washington on the 19th that the repair and preparation of Government vessels had no more reference to Spanish affairs than to those of any other country. Orders had been given to the commandant at the Philadelphia Navy-Yard to hurry along the completion and equipment of the new sloops-of-war lying in the Delaware, and to put a number of monitors iu readiness for service.

PERSONAL. A report that Treasurer New contemplated resigning his official position has been emphatically denied by recent Washington dispatches. The jury in the celebrated Ward will case, on trial at Detroit, failed to agree and have been discharged. It has been ascertained that eight were in favor of breaking the will and that four believed the will and first codicil should be sustained. All but one of the jurors agreed that Capt. Ward was competent to execute a will. Vice-President Wilson was not as well on the 16th as on the previous day, having overexerted himself reading letters and newspapers. His physician reported him as resting comfortably in the evening, and had excluded all visitors from his room. The New York Court of Appeals on the 16th dismissed the appeals in both of the Tweed cases. This refuses him a reduction of bail and bill of particulars. The mouument to Edgar Allan Poe, at Baltimore,»was dedicated on the 17th, with imposing ceremonies. The remains of the poet had been removed from their former resting place to a new lot in the northwestern corner of the cemetery, where the monument now marks the grave. The National Grange of the -Patrons of Husbandry met in LQuisville, Ky., on the 17th with full delegations from nearly all the States and,, Territories. The address of welcome was delivered by Worthy Master M. D. Davis, of Kentucky, and was responded to by Worthy Master Dudley W. A, Adams, of lowa, Master of the National Grange. Worthy, Lecturer T. A. Thompson made a report on his labors for the year. It is stated from Washington that $3,000 stolen from the Treasury Department since Mr. New became Treasurer lias been paid byMr. New himself out of his private resource s and that he has not assessed the employes to malce the amount good. Among the suspensions announced in New York city on the 17th was that of Mark M. Pomeroy, better known as “ Brick” Pomeroy, proprietor of the Democrat of that city. His liabilities were estimated at §140,000, with no assets. The libel suit of Henry C. Bowen against the Brooklyn Eagle for SIOO,OOO came up in the Brooklyn City Court on the 17th and was put over for the term. At Salt Lake City, on the White rendered a decision releasing Brigham Young from imprisonment on a writ of habeas corpus, and ordered the Marshal to pay the expenses of the process, $434. The Marshal had received notice of suit for false imprisonment. Much excitement was caused in St. Louis on the 18th by the developments being made in the trial of ex-Supervisor McDonald for conspiracy to defraud the Government revenues in whisky transactions. The evidence produced against the accused was very strong and tended to implicate prominent parties not previously suspected. The Attorney-General of the United States has expressed the opinion that Ann Eliza, when 6he married Brigham Young, violated the United States statute, and cannot avail herself of her own wrong, and consequently has no legal claim for'alimony. Mr. Moody, delivered his, farewell discourse in Brooklyn on the evening of the 19th to a crowded audience. An inquiry meeting held afterward was also crowded. After services numbers of people flocked around the evangelists, and with tears in their eyes bade them adieu and God-speed. The services in Brooklyn will be continued under the auspices of the local clergy. Messrs. Moody and Sankey went to Philadelphia on the 20th to begin their labors in that city. C. G. Megrue, one of the leading witnesses in the whisky-fraud trials at St. Louis, in his evidence in the McDonald case swore that something like $400,000 a year was collected and distributed among the members of the “ ring” for four years, and teat ODe of the “ ring” received $50,000. Tbi6 same Megrue published a card on the 19th saying that neither Gen. Babcock, Orville Grant, Col. Casey, Commissioner Douglass, Col. Holt, Col. Luckey nor any other officials or citizens of Washington, with the exception of William O. Avery, had to his knowledge, either directly or indirectly, been connected in any way with the “ ring.” * ,

POLITICAL. The official majority of Pillsbury (Rep.) for Governor of Minnesota is 11,899. Pfaender, for State Treasurer, has 3,919 majority. The American Woman Suffrage Association met in Sew York on the evening of the 17th. A large and intelligent audience were present Bishop Gilbert Haven presided and made the opening address. The Executive Committee of the Union League of America, recently in session at 3rew York, have called a meeting of that body for Dec. Philadelphia. The official returns of the election in Wiscousin give the following results: For Governor, Ludington has a majority over Taylor of Sol; for •, Lieutenant-Gover-nor, Parker’s majority over Eaton iB 1,011; Secretary of State, Doyle Over War; ner. &21; Treasurer, Kuehn over Baetz,* 2,804; Attorney-General, Sloan over Bennett 1,811. There were fiOO scattering votes, mainly cast for Prohibition candidates. A Montgomery (Ala.) dispatch of the 18th says the majority for the ratification of the new Constitution of that State would not be less than 50,000. Only four counties gave majorities against it

The Indianapolis Sun of the 20th contain a declaration and appeal t<r Congress, signed by over 8.000 voters of that city, demanding, In view of the continued Repression of busi* nese, the numerous fail urea consequent thereon, etc., the repeal of the Resumption act, the permanent retirement of all National Bank notes and the substitution therefor of Gov-* eminent legal-tenders, and the refunding of at least a portion of the present national bonded debt into bonds bearing a lower rate of Interest, s#y 3.65 per cent. per annum, interconvertible with national legal-tender paper money at the pleasure of the holders. A call is also, made for a mass-meeting to be held in Indianapolis on the Ist of December in furtherance of these demands. Full official returns from all the counties of New York State show a majority for Bigelow, the Democratic candidate for Secretary of State, over Seward, Republican, of 14,812. The Temperance £smdidatc received 9,882 votes. The total vote of the State was 7ti0,574,

MECHANICAL AND SCIENTIFIC.

—ln the opinion of Mr. William- L. Watts, who is engaged in making 'some explorations among the glaciers of Iceland, these are increasing .year by year, and he thinks that at no distant period the whole island will be covered with ice, as is the case with Greenland. —A snake has at last been found in Ireland, and much excited speculation is indulged as to how the reptile came upon the island. A gardener in Baltinglass, Wicklow County, discovered tire snake on liis premises and killed it. It measured live feet in length, was black on the back and yellow underneath. It appears on investigation that a . gentleman brought two snakes from India to Ballinrodun, both of which escaped six or seven years ago. One of these was destroyed by a pig but the other was never found. It is considered probable that the snake recently killed at Baltinglass is identical with the one which escaped from its custodian at Builinrodan. —According to a statement in a Mexican paper it appears that the highest point in the world where railroads are now iu operation is at Apizaco, on the Vera Cruz A Mexico Railway, the precise height of which above the level of the sea is 7,478 feet. The next highest is ou the great Central Pacific line, in the Nevada range, which is 7,111 feet above the level of the sea. The third is at Arequipa, an important citv in Peru, some 7,000 feet above the sea level; and, under the Peruvian railway system, the Work is to be continued until it reaches double that altitude, namely, at the ancient capital of Cuzco. —An improved method of laying underground telegraph lines is due to the ingenuity of Holtzman, of Amsterdam, Holland. His plan consists, substantially, in providing a cast-iron trough, which is filled with a peculiar bituminous insulating compound, which is proved to be very ellectual. The gutter rests in the bottom of a ditch iu the earth. The compound is put in while warm and semi-liquid. The telegraph Wires, insulated with guttapercha, are tlipn submerged, separately, in the compound in the trough, and the latter is then closed by a cover and the ditch filled with earth. The compound soon cools and solidities, and holds the wires in perfect insulation, unaffected by moisture, temperature or decay. A telegraph line of some forty miles in length, near Amsterdam, on the above plan, has proved an entire success, and, although laid in bad, swampy soil, no breaks have occurred. —Foreign journals describe a process used by the ,1 apanese in the production of a metal leaf used for decorative purposes. Thirty or forty thin plates of gold, silver, copper and various alloys are laid the one over the other, in a given order, and soldered together at .the edges, so that a stout plate of metal is formed of the whole. Punches of various shapes—conical, pyramidal, and with triangular, square or pentagonal sides—are now used to make a pattern of perforated figures, which exhibit on their iuner sides concentric circles, triangles and other forms corresponding to the punches used. The plate so prepared is hammered and rolled till it becomes very thin, the holes disappear and thd figures have spread out, preserving, however, their .parallelism. A number of broken, straight and curved lines are thus produced, which, as in a Damascus blade, are free of each other, though consistent in themselves in the same metal, their effect being further enriched by the use of acids to modify the colors. It will be easily understood , tjijit thin plates prepared in this way, having an extremely flexible nature, admitting relief, with stamped or engraved designs, and capable of receiving the most varied colors and forms, will have many uses in decorative art.

An Innocent Man’s Imprisonment.

A man was pardoned from the Charlestown State Prison, Friday, after serving almost eight years on a life sentence for a crime which be never committed. This was Moses B. Wheeler, -convicted of arson in February, 1866, on the testimony of his sister and'her husband, who said they saw him fire a house in Brighton occupied by a widow, and against his own oath and the testimony of the widow herself, who declared that Wheeler saved her house from burning, tlie actual damage the building sustained being thirty dollars. Two years after Wheeler’s entrance upon bis life-imprisonment the sister who had condemned him to it died of smallpox. On the day before her death she confessed to another sister, in an agony of remorse, that she had perjured herself at thi)4-trial at the bidding of others, and for the purpose of getting"her brother out of file wayq Before a legal deposition could be'obtained the lumiiui was too far gone to give it. The motive for this unnatural conduct was at the outset explained byWheeler to be that he was charged, by a brother who died in battle by his side' to see that their mother had his property, which, when he returned home, he found claimed by his sister on the strength of a forged letter purporting to be from the dead brother. Be the motive what it may, she and her husband had actually put him out of the way by perjury. Wheeler has made incessant efforts since to have his sentence revoked and at last Succeeds.— SpringfieiH (Mass.) Republican. —The, Board of Missions of the M. E. Church recently met in New Y»rk and made the following appropriations: Erie, $1,000; Florida, $3,800; Georgia, $7,500; Houston, $500; Mississippi. $7,000; Nebraska, $6,500; Nevada, £3,500; New York, $2,000; New- York. East, $2,000; North Carolina, $7,000; North Indiana, $500; Pittsburgh, $1,200; Kentucky, $6,500; Lexington, $2,500; Maine. $1,400; Michigan, $2.000; Louisiana, $8,000; Minnesota, $500; Northwest lowa, $5,000: Ohio. 1,000: Oregon. $2,500; Rock River, $1,200; Rocky Mountains, $10,000; S. Carolina $7,500; Southeastern Division of Indiana, e SSOO.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

M atthew Turner, a well-known citizen of I Turtle C'reek Township, in Vigo County, died on the 9th of milk sickness. Tnos. Conner, a notorious tramp, fell Into Rogues' Run, at Indianapoiis, on the Cth, and was killed. He was drunk. The store of Dr. Trees, at Manilla, was entered by burglars the other night. They blew open the safe and secured SSOO in currencj* Geo. W. Ccnnv, of Indianapolis, while hunting near the Insane Asylum on the 7th, accidentally and totally shot himself while climbing a fence. John Norton was struqk on the head the other eveniher, at Terre Haute, with a billiarJ-ouc. He died on the 11th. Elijah Otter back, liis assailant, lias been arrested. The woolen mills at Auburn were burned on the evening of the 6th. The fire is supposed to have been the result of spontaneous combustion. Loss about |15,000. ;/_ A Mrs. Shea lias turned up in Indianapolis who claims to have been born in Ireland in 17G9. She is now in her 107th year, is hale and hearty and bids fair to live a dozen years yet. Ox the night of the 10th Mrs. Jennie Berry, the divorced wife of Cal Wagner, the minstrel, attempted to commit suicide, in her rooms at Indianapolis, by taking aconite. A physician and a stomach-pump saved her. -, v .- The Chairmen of the' several committees having in charge the late soldiers’ reunion in Indianapolis met on the 9tli, and found on hand, after settlement, a surplus of $1,134.76, which they transferred to the monument fund. A five-year-oi.o son of Samuel Simjnons, residing at Sliarpsville, was instantly killed the other afternoon while climbing on a log wagon. His head was caught between the wheels and bolster and crushed to a shapeless mass. A sixteex-yeak-old boy, named Dixon Smith, recently shot J. M. Myers, a brakeman on the Indiana, Peru & Chicago Railroad, _wlio entered his father’s premises at Tipton to steal turnips. He lias been held to bail in SSOO to answer. James Scott, Justice of the Peace at Huntington, on the Bth administered a terrible cow-hiding to William Kocher, a leading lawyer of that place. The cause oftlie whipping was not known. Sam Winters, of the Democrat, attempted to interfere unjLycceived several smart cuts for liis pains. Two mex' named Trapp and Riddle, living a short distance east of Hartford City, had a difficulty on the 10th about a farm the former had rented the latter. Trapp had sold liis farm and tried to induce Riddle to give up possession. Riddle became very angry at Trapp’s persistency, and seizing a heavy club struck him a fearful blow on the bead, instantly killing him. The Governor on the Uth appointed the following gentlemen to represent the State at the Railroad Convention to be held at St. Louis on Nov. 23: Hon. Leonidas Sexton, E. S. Alvord, Chas. Viele, Hon. C. M. Alien, Jesse J. Drown, Hon. J. R. Cravens, B. F.. Cl ay pool, M. L. Bundy, John Cavin, D- W. Voorliees, Judge S. C. Wilson, Dr. M. G. Sherman, C. B. Knowlton, Hon. Ochweig Bird, Dr. a. W. McConnell. In the Supreme Court, on the Btli, an opinion was filed which disposes of the Lafayette intra-municipal jangle. The question presented was as to the power of a City Judge to exercise jurisdiction in a suit for violation of a city ordinance. The court holds that the law under which the offioe of City Judge was sought to be created was inoperative. There is no provision in the act declaring that when a City Judge has been provided for and elected lie shall have and exercise the same jurisdiction conferred upon the Mayor by the act of March 14, 1867, or that he shall have any jurisdiction whatever. The court fails to find, from Anything contained in the act now .in force, that the City Judge, when elected, is to supersede the Mayor In his official duties, for the plain reason that there is no language of the act wljich attempts to express such an intention, as the City Judge does not supersede the Mayor, and the Mayor is required to hold court daily and is given exclusive jurisdiction. In cases involving infractions of city ordinances it i 9 held that the City Judge has no'jurisdiction. As tins implies the creation of a judicial officer without any cases to try, it must be attributed to oversight on the part of the Legislature in failing to define his jurisdiction. Hon. J. 11. Smart, Superintendent of Public Instruction, has prepared a summary of the annual reports of the County Superintendents for the year ending Sept. 7, from which the following figures are taken: Number of white children admitted into the schooi s-during the yrarr*9s,v 110; colored, 6,651; males, 267,463; females, 241,911- number of school districts, 9.191; colored schools taught during the year, 132; white teachers employed, 13.047; colored teachers, 80; average compensation of nfale teachers per day in townships, $2.03; females in townships. $1.80; males in towns, $3.25 ; females in towns, $1.96; males in cities, $4.71; females in eitie9, $2.28; total revenue received for tuition, $4,797,127.45; amount expended since September. 1874, $2,830,747.15; ou band, $1,966,380.34; received on account of special fund, $2,354,395.45; expended since Sept. 1, 1874. $1,699,457.44; od hand, $654,932.97; school-houses in the State, 9,307; total estimated value of school property, $10,880,337.58; total estimated special school tax, $1,618,078.77; amount paid to trustees for managing educational matters, $72,983.21; number of school-houses erected during the year, 383; value of school-houses erected j,5'641,544; private schools, 949; teachers in private schools, 960; number of pupils admitted during the year, 18,956.

The Pursuit and Arrest of the Denver Assassins.

Our readers have been furnished with an adeount of the murde® of the four Italian musicians at Denver, Col., and have also been informed of the arrest of the murderers and the confession of two of I them. The story of the pursuit and arj rest of the ringleaders in that horrible ! crime reads more like a story of romance than sober reality; and we give it below ! in full, as we find it in the Denver Trib- | une of Nov. 10. On the 30th of October, ! Officer W. Frank Smith, accompanied by an assistant who could also act as an inI terpreter (James Lewis, an Italian), start- ■ ! ed in pursuit of those of the fugitives who i had not yet been captured, to-wit —Galiotti, the ringleader of the band and man- ! ager of the butchery, John Arratta, and a | Mexican named Henry Fernandez. Says j the Tribune: These three men arrived in the city last evening in charge of Officer Smith and liis assistant. Filemeno Gallotti has the most villainous physiognomy we ever looked upon. It will be remembered that he confessed to Compagne that he had killed seven men during bis lifetime. He appears to be about twenty-eight or thirty years of age. He doggedly refuses to talk about the horrible crime for which he lias been arrested, and says it will be time euough for him to talk when it comes into court. , John Anjatta is about eighteen or nineteen years of age. He says that he helped to do the killing, and, had he not done so, Gallotti would have killed him. During the stabbing lie was accidentally se'verely cut in the hand by one of the knives. The wound is not healed yet, and probably will not before his worthless body swings from the scaffold. He says that Gallotti intended to kill Mr. Capelli, and bad arranged to assassinate him on a certain night when he was to cross Blake street Cherry Creek bridge, but fortunately tlie intended victim did not come as they had expected. He says further that it was the intention of Gallotti and himself and companion to kill and rob hereafter whenever opportunity offered for plunder. Henry Fernandez was not present at the assassinatiofis, but was an •accomplice, knew they were to occur, was posted immediately after the bloody deeds bad been committed ami received a portion of the plunder. The details of the pursuit and capture of these criminals form a most interesting and thrilling narrative. For twenty-one days and nights Officer Smith has traced these villains —scarcely sleeping, exposed to hot sun and cold rains and chilling snow, through canons, over plains, wandering through the by-ways and the slums of cities. " • Officer Smith drove directly from Pueblo to Fort Garland. Arriving there lieconfided his mission so Maj. Horace Jewett, the commanding officer Of the fort, who. with Maj. Caraher, entered heartily into the plan lie detailed for the capture oftlie fugitives, and gave him valuable aid and* assistance,. Here Officer Smith procured soldiers’ uniforms, borrowed a pair of Government mules branded U. S., and set out on the journey to Culabra, under pretense that they were soldiers in search of deserters. Arriving at Culabra, where he had hoped to find the fleeing (yiminals, lie found that they had gone still further southward. Postmaster Day and Sheriff Bartlett, of that place, gave him important information. He learnhd that the human hyenas had made their headquarters, while in town, at the house of a Frenchman. Making inquiry respecting them, the Frenchman said they had gone on foot fourteen miles down Culabra Creek. The officers subsequently learned that the frogeater had lied, and that he had taken them himself on horseback <jown the roadtoward Taos. Officer Smith then sent back to the fort at once for horses. At the same time he was joined by a man named Thaw, who knew him, and was formerly a policeman in this city. Tliaw insisted upon accompanying Smith, and an arrangement was made to travel under a new guise. Smith exchanged his soldier’s uniform for a gentleman’s brand-new business suit. He suddenly conceived an inclination to go into the sheep trade. He would be the capitalist and Thaw should be his partner. He put on his most stunning gold' chain and jewelry and looked very like one of tlie sheep-kings of New Mexico. His assistant, Lewis, should go into the sheep business, too. But he was to be less fortunate. He was to mount a mule and ride along the road in search of his partners, who were Italians, and who had gone before him several) days before. Being an Italian the plan -worked well, and of everyone he would meet he would inquire whether they had seen anything of his partners. His inquiries were rewarded by learning that three men answering the description he gave of his partners had been seen going down the road a few days before. Of course,at a convenient opportunity, he would convey this intelligence to the officers, who were ahead of him in the buggy, and who pretended to be going down to Albuquerque, sevensy-five miles below Santa Fe, to buy some fine sheep. At Sera de WataloopCe they stayed all niglit. Lewis spread it all over that Smith and Thaw were two rich men interested in sheep-growing, and scores of the inhabitants flocked to see them, Lewis in the meantime losing no opportunity to make inquiries for his lost Italian partners. Here they learned that without doubt the men whom they were after bad gone to Taos, and before daylight they were on the road thitner, and driving rapidly reached there in tlie afternoon.

The officers went at once to the hotel. Smith talked sheep loudly, aud, in less time than it would take to tell it, he had more men about him who had sheep to sell than was exactly agreeable. He in the. meantime had guardedly drawn out of those in the room that there were only thirty-five Americans in that county, while the rest oftlie inhabitants were all Mexicans. He found that the Sheriff’ and all the county officers were also Mexicans. All this lime be had kept watch tor the arrival of Lewis, who was some distance behind. At last he saw him through the window coming on his mule, wearing a most abject and discouraged mien. He turned at once to Thaw and remarked: “Here comes that foreigner looking for his partners.” The remark was made sufficiently loud for the purpose of attracting attention, and as he rode up the crowd went to the door. Lewis, who could talk Spanish* at ouee commenced making 1 Inquiry for his Italian partners, when some one in the crowd exclaimed that he knew three men answering the description he gave and that they were then in town. Of course no time was to be lost. Smith found opportunity to whisper to Lewis to not say a word and wait his return while ltowent out to see a gentleman named Miller, to whom lfe had a letter of introduction. - We should state, however, that Officer Smith had already selected from the crowd an American,, who proved to be a Dr. Kittridge, whom, although- an entire

stranger, he took into his confidence and received valuable assistance from him. The two went over to the store of Miller & Clothier, but Miller was not in, and Smith gave the letter to Clothier. Clothier told him that Filemeno had borrowed ja gun of him that morning, and he had left him fire S2O gold-pieces to sell. The Sheriff was soon found , but would do nothing to aid the officers to arrest tlie criminals, as tliev did not have the necessary papers. A little capital persuasion, lowever, induced him to entefThto an arrangement for their capture and delivery on Colorado soil. Smith sent for Thaw and Lewis, find they concealed themselves in a back-rpom. Filemeno was sent for on tlie pretext that Clothier wanted more gold to sell. He came at once, and was told by Clothier to step into the back room. Smith, who bad watched liis movements from behind the counter, immediately followed him as he entered the room. When be entered, Lewis grasped him by the right baud in ecstacy of delight at meeting him. But that grasp was a vise of iron. As he did so, Smith seized him by tlie left hand and stuck the muzzle of his cocked navy revolver into his face. Filemeno saw at once that he was hunted to bay, and cried lustily, in Italian, not to slioot. He bad a revolver, which was taken away, and a pair of handcuffs were at onOe placed on his wrists. This capture had hardly been effected when Dr. Kittridge exclaimed“ Here comes another of them!” As the fellow entered lie was at once seized, but he proved to be an Italian resident of Taos who knew the criminals, and Smith told him if he would get tlie other two he would let him go. The boy was very much scared, and went out at once and brought in John Arratta, whom tlie officers immediately arrested. ■ It was ascertained that Henry Fernandez had left town that morning and had gone back in the direction of lied River. Upon learning liis description the officers recollected that they bad passed him that afternoon, muffled to the,chin. Officer Smith determined to start at once for Colorado Territory. He took liis two prisoners to the hotel, and stood guard over them while a blacksmith forged irons with which to shackle them. This blacksmith was more considerate than the one with whom Mr. Smith dealt at Trinidad, when he had the other murderers shackled. He only charged eight dollars for his Shackles while the one at Trinidad charged twenty dollars. By three o’clock the prisoners were ironed, and the officers started toward Denver before daylight. They reached Red River that 'niglit. Here Officer Smith learned that Fernandez was in the neighborhood, and a little more capital persuasion induced the Sheriff to go to tlie house where he was sleeping and secure him. The officers now. liad tlie three fugitives for whom they had started in pursuit. They traveled rapidly to Fort Garland, and from thereto Pueblo. After anything but a pleasant journey they finally reached the railway, where the prisoners were put on board the train and brought directly to this city, where they are now securely lodged in jail.

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

—The oldest communion service in Connecticut is that of tlie First Congregational Cliurcli at New London. Two of The cups are dated 1099, and two were presented by Gurdon Saltonstall iu 1725. —A basis tof union lias been agreed son by the Commissioners of the ithodist and Methodist Protestant Churches, and will be submitted to tlie General Conferences of tlie respective bodies for approval. Tlie Commissioners recommend that a convention of both churches be held in Baltimore in May, 1877, to formally consummate tlie union. —lt is the opinion off tlie Boston Globe that the ill-health of school-girls is to be attributed not so much to overwork imposed by teachers as to improper food and dress and tlie ambition of their parents to have them thoroughly educated and accomplished- by the time they are eighteen. —At a meeting of the Connecticut State Teachers’ Association, lately, the Superintendent of the Waterbury schools advocated the study of language lessons in place of the system of grammar in use, and tlie abandonment of a great deal of the minutiae which is now taught in geography classes, and which he thought should be reserved for the higher grades, the time thus gained to be devoted to the proposed language lesson, which will teach all to acquire a taste for good reading and a good style of composition. —Tlie statistics of the Methodist Episcopal Church show the following summary : Annual conferences, 81; itinerant preachers, 10,923; local preachers, 12,881; members in full connection, 1,384,152; members on probation, 196,407; cliurcli edifices, 15,633; value of same, $71,353,234; parsonages, 5,017; value of same, $8,731,628; Sunday-schools, 19,287; Sun-day-school officers and teachers, 207,182; Sunday-school scholars, 1,406,168. Tlie benevolent contributions for tlie year were $1,052,710—a decrease on last year of nearly $40,000. The missionary funds collected iliow an aggregate of $603,640 —a falling off of about SB,OOO. The Church-Extension Board reports $01,326 a decrease of $22,000. Tlie churches have increased at the rate of two per secular day during the year.

THE MARKETS.

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