Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1876 — Page 7

A Sensational Death.

FkkDkrice. As Jeffhkya’ name will be misspelled in all the newspapers of the land, and known to all reading people for a few moments of a single day, and it waa for this he died. He was as druzy as a March hare; there is no doubt about that; but there was a singular method in his madness. He was evidently actuated by an insane desire to create a sensation by ids death—something he could probably never have achieved in life—and he set about it with a deliberation and a minuteness, of preparation which are not infrequently the accessories of mental derangement. Most suicides since the days of the old Grecian and Roman phllosoShers have been traceable to some great isappointment, to deep-set despondency, or a crazed condition of pain or sorrow; but here was a young man who was apparently prosperous, whose habits appear to have been good, who has had no unfortunate love affair, who had money enough to travel and pay his bills at fl?stcliss hotels, who seems to have possessed more than the average intelligence, and to have enjoyed an average education, and who says himself in the letter he left behind that “no one has ever passed four montlis of such genuine happiness as the last four montlis has been to me.” He was very solicitous to impress upon those who should read the letter he left that death had no terrors for him, that there was no particular reason for his committing suicide, and that he only sought for the greater blessings which are to be found (poasiUyjJ* the next life. The real reason was left for inference, and this is pretty clear from the following extract from the letter he left: “ When night comes on I shall draw a piece of wire across the bath-tub lengthwise, its use to be soon explained. The wire will be properly adjusted, the pistol loaded, and with the razor conveniently hung on strings where I can readily reach them. The poisons will then be carefully fixed and mixed. The rope, understand, is to come where it will suspend my body, when attached, exactly over the middle of the tank. Directly over this rope, and on the wire before mentioned, I shall attach cotton or something else which will burn well when alcohol is poured on it. The noose will have been made in the cord, and above my head on the rope shall be placed a like torch, which, when ignited, will burn the cord and let me dowm. I will then pack everything but the clothes which I am to wear, and then, being all ready, I’ll fill the tank with as hot water as I can get. Then mount the tub, with a foot on each side of it, carefully pour the liquor over my pants-legs and coat and shirt; will allow a rope of some soft material to fall from the torch above down my back; will then light the prepared torch on the wire which I then will be standing over; will raise myself upon tiptoe and fix the rope about my neck. It shall be well soaped, so that, when my feet leave the sides of the tank and my full weight comes upon it, it will draw up pretty tight. One thing I had almost forgotten to mention: lam going to put a mirror before me to see if I will be frightened. L think it is more likely that I shall laugh, but as I want to enjoy it all I’ll put the glass up anyhow. Next I reaffli for the tumbler of poisons, conveniently near, and swallow its contents entire, probably shall for more.’ Well, at tliis point I shall hurry up, for deadly acids work destruction quickly. I next grasp my pretty little dirk and send it with all my force into my breast as near to a blackened spot showing where the heart is as possible. The razor and pistol are all ready, and suspended by cords, it must be remembered. So after plunging the dagger in I do not want to withdraw it, but take the razor in my left hand, and as firmly as I am able under the circumstances to do, while I grasp and cock my little silver-mounted pistol; this I place to my head and pull the trigger as I draw the keen-bladed razor across my neck. My feet must slip from tjigir places-by tliis time, anti my legs will come into contact with the wire and the fire upon it, which will of course immediately set my clothing alight. I intend the flame shall run up the rope I shall allow to hang down my back to the place where the other torch will have been prepared. Tliis must sever the strands of rope, and I can but fall into the water below to cook and drown.” This programme was deliberately carried out to the letter, except that the dagger was not used, the pistol and razor having done.their work too effectually to permit of it. The death was also a partial failure, inasmuch as the preparations for cremation miscarried; but the suicide evidently anticipated something of the kind, for he left directions behind to consign his body to a Buffalo doctor. Still the partial failure shows that there are disappoint meats in death as well as life, and Jeffrey’s soul, if still marching on like John Brown’s, must be considerably harrowed up by the reflection. Nevertheless, he is ■entitled :to the satisfaction of knowing that he achieved, on the whole, a remarkablysuccessful and superlatively sensational death. Chicago should hasten to Site him credit for tins much, because he ose this city as tiler scene of hts takingoff in pure deference to its superior merits, ana to encourage us in our progress. He says in his posthumous publication: “There is an emulation and generous rivalry between St. Louis and Chicago whieh I’like, and Chicago being my favorite I shall help her in my humble way, and knock the spots off St. Lobis iffcelebrating the Centennial Fourth.” And he did. We boldly and confidently challenge St. Louis to point to a parallel in the way or suicide at any time during the recently departed century. Now, having given Jeffreys proper recognition for an exceptional degree of success in the death-struggle, which every man ought to have, we are tempted to ask; “Where is this tiling going to stop?” This poor fool, who courted death to make a sensation, was evidently prompted to it by the Lafayette idiot, who was only less ingenious in the invention of an amateur guillotine. If the Utter inspired emulation, the Chicago suicide will excite a ! very general rivalry, and we may expect to hear men embarking for the river Styx in all sorts of barbarous and fantastic styles. Isn’t there some way to put a stop to it? At one time, when there was a mania funong young women in France for. committing suicide, it was checked "by the public exposure of the naked bodies of. those who killed themselves; but no poet mortem indignity Can deter men who butcher and mutilate their own bodies by the means they adopt for severing ties which could be done with “ a bare bodkin. rr Our objection to a further continuation of these practices is not so much the loss of the suicides themselves, since the world.can very well spare men, but the danger that these novel experiments, looking at once to death and cremation, may possibly lead to the taking off of other people who are not yet ready and anxious to go. But perhaps the hopelessness of exceeding the sensationalism of this latest death will deter other young

men ambitious in the same direction .mid Jeffreys may be dismissed with tlie epitaph Shakspeare wrote for him; 1 Nothing In hl* Ute Became him like the leaving it; he died A* one that had been studied 1» hie death. To throw eway the dearest thin* he owned, Aa’t were a carelee* trifle. —CAtcapo Tribune.

The Boy, the Beetle and the Dog.

The minister gave out his text and droned along monotonously through an argument which was so proey that t>any a head by and by began to nod—and yet it was an argument that dealt in limitless fire and brimstone, and thinned the predestined elect down to a company so small as to be hardly worth the saving. Tom counted the pages of the sermon; after church he always knew how many pages there had been, but he seldom knew anything else about the discourse. However, this time he was really interested for a little while. The minister made a grand and moving picture of the assembling together of the world’s hosts at the Millennium, when the lion and the lamb should Jie down together and a little child should lead them. But the pathos, the lesson, the moral of the great spectacle were lost upon the boy; he only thought of the conspicuousness of tlie principal character before the on-looking nations; his face lit up with the thought, and he said to himself that he wished he could be that child, if it was a tame lion. Now he lapsed into suffering again ns the dry argument was resumed. Presently he bethought himself of a treasure he had, and got it out. It was a large black beetle with formidable jaws—a “ pinch-bug” he called it. It was in a percussion-cap box. Tlie first thing the .beetle did was to take him by the finger. A natural fillip followed, the beetle went floundering into the aisle and lit on its back, and the hurt finger went into the boy’s mouth. The beetle lay there working its helpless legs, unable to turn over. Tom eyed it, and longed for it, but it was safe out of his reach. Other people, uninterested in tlie sermon, found relief in tlie beetle, and they eyed it too. Presently a vagrant poodle dog came idling along, sad at heart, lazy with the summer softness and die quiet, weary of captivity, sighing for change. He spied the beetle; die drooping tail lifted and wagged. He surveyed the prize; walked around it; smelt of it from a safe distance; walked artftmd it again; grew bolder, and took a closer smell; then lifted his lip, and made a gingerly snatch at it, just missing it; made another and another; began to enjoy the diversion; subsided to .. his stomach with the beetle, between his paws, and continued lite experiments; grew weary ,at lastejutd (hen abHis head nodded, and little by little his chin descended awFtouched the enemy, who seized it. There was a sharp yefp, a flirt of the poodle’s head, and the beetle fell a couple of yards awuy, and lit on its back once more. The neighboring spectators shook with a gentle inward joy, several faces went behind fans and handkerchiefs, and Tom was entirely happy. The dog looked and probably felt so; but there was resentment in his heart, too, and a craving for revenge. Bo he went to the beetle and began a wary attack on it again; jumping at it from every point of a circle, lighting with his forepaws within an inch of the creature, making even closer snatches at it with his teeth, and jerking his head till his ears flapped again. But he grew tired once more, after a while; tried to amuse himself with a fly, but found no relief; followed an ant around, with his nose close to tlie floor, and quickly wearied of that; yawned, sighed, forgot tlie beetle entirely, and sat down on it!* Themthere wSfe- a*’wild yelp of agony, and the Boodle wanfrMhingup the aisle; the and so did the dog; he crossed the house in front of the altar; he flew down the otheraisle; he crossed before the doors; he clamored up the homestretch; an-jmsii grew with hls progress,' fill tfl was a woolly comet, moving in ffs orbit with the gleam and the speed of light. At last the frantic sufferer sheered from its course and sprang into its master’s lap; he flung it out of the window, and the voice of dis-, tress quickly thinned away and died in the distance. . . - Tom Sawyer went home quite cheerful,.thinking to himself that there was some satisfaction about divine service when there was a bit >of variety in it. He had but one marring thought; he was Ailling that the dog should play witli Ins pinch-bug, butne did not think it was upright to cany it off— Murk Twain, in “Tom Sawyer."

What it is to be Pianist to a Sultan.

La Liberte announces among its musical items the arrival in Paris of one Donizetti, professor of piano music to the late Sultan Abdul Aziz, through whose death the musician has lost his situation. Donizetti, who, it appears, is a nephew of the author of “ Favorita,” describes his experience thus: “You are sumnMßad at eight o’clock in the morning to play for three hours. You must be in full, uniform ; you wait for seven hours in an el</ gant gallery where you are forbidden io Sit down. FrOm time to. time* they come to tell you what is going on a His Majesty’s apartments. * His highness is going to tp’i&B.’ The moment you hear this you ihuSt 1 prostrate yourself. 1 His highness is going to the hath.’ Again you prostrate yourself. ‘ His highness is dressing.’ You prostrate yourself lower than ever. And So the intelligence continues, until you are wearied beyond endurance, and the Sultan is finally ready. Then an immense grand piano is brought in without its legs, for the floor of the gallery is a precious mosaic of the Jarest woods, ana must not bear the weight of a piano even. The immense instrument is placed on the backs of five wretched Turks suitably placed on their hands and knees. ‘ But,’ say you, ‘ I cannot play on a five Turk piano.’ Supposing you complain tliat the instrunwM® not level, they eare fully place a cuthibp* finder .the knees of the smallest you >to prpceed, Without SuspectingWe sentifiient of humanity that has occasioned the delay. The Sultan appears, and after all manner of prostrations, you ask for a chair. There is none; no one ever sits in the presence of the Sultan. You protest you cannot play unless you sit, ana tho Sultan filially orders a chair'tone produced: You play .for an hour or so, and, after the Sultaifhas watched the effect on his followers until he is weary, he rudely thrusts you aside and takes your place. The eunuchs and the rest awake and applaud his discords with rapturous exclamations, and after he has amused himself thus until he is satisfied of the superiority of his music Over yours, you are dismissed. And this it is to be a pianist'to a Sultan.” Twb new Chicago City Directory, Just published, contains 153,335 names, which, according to the usual method of estimating population, would give Chicago a ppp. ulation of 536,678, an increase Over fest year of 25,172. •

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—A good sponge cake is made thus: Three eggs well beaten, ppe cup sugar B’ered, one teMPPon soda or Mieratus ved in a very little.b9diWlT rate ?> one cupful of good sifted flour, one teaspoon cream tartar; bake immediately In a quick oven. Beal, six c<« twa. iflinufcs, add three cups sugar ana beat onq minute, two cups flow and boat two minutes,,one cup cola water and beat five minutqs. Observe the time exactly, and bake In deep pans. This makes two gqod-siped loaves. A good steady heat is required to havq it nice, and not too hot an pven. —An excellent tapioca pudding is thus made: Put three taolespoqps of tapioca to soak over night in lukewarm water; in the morning, pour on tliis. one quart of milk, and set it on the’ stove till it coipes to a boil, add a pinch of salt and four or five tablespoons of white sugar, the yolks of three eggs, which, when you pour in, cools it; let it come to a boil again, or until it thickens, stirring all tlie time, then pour it in your pudding-dish; then beat the whites of the three eggs to a froth, add four tablespoons of powdered sugar, and spread over the top; put it in tlie oven and bake a light brown. —The knives of mowing and reaping machines operate with a crushing stroke. Hence it is of great importance that the cutting edges should be kept sharp. When the cutting edges have become dull the grass and straw must be severed by bruising, a process requiring three or four times as much force of the team as if the cutting edges of the same knives were sharp. When grass is fine and thick at the bottom the mower will run hard unless the knives are kept as sharp as the edges can be made with a fine gritted grindstone. Our own practice is to keep a fine file with the machine, so that the cutting edge of any knife may be sharpened in case it meets with some obstruction which has dulled it. It will pay generously, by way of saving;.: horse flesh and muscle, to keep the knives sharp. Beside tliis, when the knives ai - e kept sharp, the grass will be mowed-more neatly than it can be done with dull cutters. More than tliis, when the knives are dull, the wear and tear of the machine will be greatly increased. Do not fail to keep the knives sharp, even when it seems necessary to grind the cutting edges three or four times daily.— N. Y. Herald. —A horse with heaves or inflammation of the lungs requires a very different treatment from one with colic or worms. Let him be turned out to pasture fortyeight hours, and he will breathe clear and easy, showing no sign of the heaves. A dainty horse is not liable to heaves, but a hearty eater is, and not from tlie amount of food that he eats, but Owing to tlie hoggish way in which he eats,it. There are two pipes leading to the stomach and lungs. Where they meet there is a throt-tle-valve. A horse in eatjng coarse food stretches his throttle. Then by a hard drive, and warming the horse, he takei cold in this wwipd and if becomes a running sore. By turning liinpi to grass, the juice cleanses and washes the wound. The grass being cool in effect takes the inflammation from the disease, the swelling is gone and the * horse breathes free and easy as ever. Then by feeding with coarse and dry hay, it irritates and creates inflammation, and causes the animal to breath hard again. Take balsam of fir and balsam of copavia,- equal parts, add enough calcined mugnesia to make into balls the size of a yelk <of an egg. Give a ball qight and morning for ten or fifteen days, in- the grain; wet with smartweed tea, not very strong. For two weeks after giving the medicine, cut the hay and wet the feed that the horse eate. A little brown sugar in the feed for a few days.— Pomeroy's Democrat.

Rolling the Soil After Planting.

When the soil is heavy and not dry, seeds will germinate and. cpme up as quickly if tlie ground is not. rolled as if the surface were tramped or pressed down on ithe seeds. Every tiller of the soil must exercise himself to understand the vast difference tlie’re is between a light, sandy loam soil and a heavy soil. Concerning the subject of rolling the soil. after seed is planted, Peter Henderson yrites: About the 15th of' May I a large patch in the open ground* with celery seed, and another with cabbage seed. The soil was in fine order, and the beds afte&jßOwing were raked —the celery with a' (fine steel rake, the cabbage ‘with a large •wooden rake—which covered the seed of each to the regular depth. The weather wras •dry, with indications of its continuing««, and after sowing I had both the cabbage and 1 celeiy'beds .rolled heavily, leaving, however, a strip of each Unrolled, so that I could clearly show to some of my young men what the result of this omission would be if dry weather continued. Had a heavy rain fallen within ja day or two after sowing it would; have; compacted the soil, excluding the air from the seed—in fact, producing the effect of rolling it. But w« had no rain for three or four weeks, and a burning hot atmosphere, passing through the shallow, loose fiavei. - 4ng of tlie heeds, shriveled and dried them hjxjso that it was impossible thqy-jcould ■ever germinate. This little experiment resulted exactly as any qne having expelienee in seed-sowing knew it must. Our crons of celery and cabbage plants were as fine as need be on the rolled bed, while not one seed in a thousand of tlie celery , and not one in a hundred of *the cabbage, started in the strips left loojip. The season for sowing turnip seed ik at hand, and the same care is more likely to be necessary now than in May, for July and AuSist are always hot, and often dry months. fence it is imperative that seeds be closely covered, so that the dry, hot. air may be, as far as practicable, kept frdm them. In the sowing of caulifiower, cabbage or lettuce in September, the sam« precaution should be used; 1 But in small beds if a roller is hot at handkfter raking tlie beds, the soil should be firmly patted with the back of a spade. 'Thifl will not only'produce quicker and more certain germination, but it will leave the sttrfade of the bed smooth so that the plants will come up straighter than if the beds wetee left rough.— N. Y. Herald.

Washington’s Appearance.

I once heard my father, in a private conversation with Washington Allston, give his candid opinion of Gen. Washington’s appearance. He said that his figure was by no means good; that his shoulders were nigh and nartow and his hands and feet remarkably large. He had “ Aldermanic proportions,” and tliis defect was increased by the form of the vest of that day. But, with all these drawbacks,'his appearance was singularly fine. I have heard my mother say that the first tinie she saw him, he enterea the hall door, as she passed from the entry to the parlor, and that she thought him the most superblooking person she had even seen. He was then dressed in black velvet, with white face ruffles, etc., exactly as Stuart’s (picture represented him.— Jane Stuart in Scribner for July.

Thk rei»ort of tlie Commissioner of 'FWhWfrs of Canada fbr ttrefyear endingDecember, 1875, has been recently pub llshed by tlie Dominion authorities. According to Mr. Whitchsr, the product of the fidieriqg generally was less than in 1874, this being especially true of the salmon and lobster. The total value of the production for 1875 was 810,347,886; tlie value of tlie exports during tlie fiscal year was <134,753. Notwithstanding, this decrease, the Commissioner expresses himself as satisfied, with, (he result, the fishing population having enjoyed prosperity, wiili a goqd prospect of increased yields in the future. According to the report, the Dominion Government has now in operation seven establishments for the artificial propagation of fish. In addition to those at Newcastle, Gaspe, Restigouche and Miramichi, three others have been erected, at Sandwich, on the Detroit River, at Tadousac, on the Saguenay, and at Bedford, on the Sackville River, not far from Halifax. The total number of young fish distributed from the hatching of 1874 was 1,700,000, and a much larger number is hoped for hereafter. Key West, Fla., receives annually for her cigars about <2,500,000.

Schenck'S Sea Weed Tonie.

In the atmosphere experienced here during the summer months the lethargy produced by the heat takes away the desire for wholesome food, and frequent perspirations reduce bodily energy, particularly those suffering from the effects of debilitating dy eases. In order to keep a natural healthful activity of the system we must resort to artificial means. For this purpose Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic is very effectual. A few doses will create an appetite and give fresh vigor to the enervated body. For dyspepsia it is Invaluable. Many eminent physicians have doubted whether dyspepsia can be permanently cured by the drugs which are generally employed for that purpose. The Sea Weed Tonic, in its nature, is totally different from such drugs. It contains no corrosive minerals or acids; in fact, it assists the tegular operations of nature and supplies her deficiencies. The Tonic in its nature so much resembles the gastric Juice that it is almost identical with that fluid. The gastric juice is the natural solvent which, in a healthy condition of the body, causes ths food to be digested; and, when this juice is not excreted in sufficient quantities, indigestion, with all its distressing symptoms, fellows. The Sea Weed Tonic performs the duty of the gastric juice when the latter is deficient. Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic sold bv all Druggists.

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The Catechism THE LOCOMOTIVE, Is rm elementary treatise on-the Locomotlre, written In the form of questions and anawers. The book contains 609 page’ and 250 engTavlngA Including 16 fuH(Mge Platea of different styles of locomotives. The principles of operating and details ot construction are so clearly explained aa to enable any intelligent person to thoroughly Understand them. Tlie book is written without the nsf of technical terms or abstruse mathematical calculations, and Is Intended far all classes of readers. No popular treatise on the locomotive In the English language gives so clear, simple and complete a description of the construction and working of the locomotive engine, and no work of any kind, however expensive. gives so full an account of modern American practice Tn locomotive construction, and of the latest scientific discoveries which hsve application to the operation of the locomotive, especially those relating to combustion, heat, etc., all of which the author has endeavored to inake piain to those who have not even the rudlmeuto of a scientific education. Address THE RAILROAD GAZETTE, 7» Jackson Street. C Wcaso. ORGAN FOR SALE A£A BA RS Al Ns 10-Stop New Cabinet Organ. Manufacturer’s Price IW. ... Will be Seld for S2OO Caffh. Address J. McCUIUBY, THE "FARM” COLIMN. —... ■ Steoatebutone ceet to send ad> dress by postal esurd to either advertiser In this column, with request for fhrther information concerning the property aedvertised. FARMS FOR SALE. QAA IN PROSPEROUS NORTH TEXAS, the great O W Stock and Wheat region. Information and de. scription ofTexaa free. E 8. Graham, Louisville, KyFARM OF SOO ACRES FOR SALE, OR LEASE; on the Iron Mt. R. R., At Horine StStlon, ttaanes from St. Louis, Mo. 125 acres tn cultivation, balance well timbered. Twp good houses, orchard and other Improvements on the treat. For terms and particulars address Mbs. E. M. Hobixk, Swtarteid, lib OAA FARMS FOR SALE to Eastern -Mawtend. Wn. 8. Kiqgblt, Greensborough, Md. A NUMBER OF SELECTED FARMS In the center of Kansas, near railroads, schools, mills and •thriving towns. Soli best, large crop*, plenty water. Adsptco t/> stock FAiiinff. Apply to street. Room 4, Boston, Mass. A- T A BARGAIN—Good Prairie Farm. 169 acres, 3 miles from New 'Anbern, Minn. Well fenced; good house, cost S1J00; barn and granary. E. B. HaaucY, Henderson, Minn. I' MPROVED FARM, 340 items, township 115, ranged section 32, Bcott County. Minn. 55 acres Under fence; 25 acres timber; 25 of meadow; 30 acres under cultivation; Good IM story boose. A. J. Boboland, on peemtoes, or A. G. Anbbbson, Carver, Minn. IAI I ACRES PRAIRIE LAND 3 miles from ?ell--IV’ ’ vllle, Texas, at less In currency than was gold In gold ithree years since, W, E. Lvhn,- Bellville. Tex. 1 At 1 ACRES, EflowndU “UMCraeT Farm. 3 wells, lU’ ’ aood house, small barn,22s bearing fruit trees, t» acres In plow-land. Address Db. M. H. Hasxixb, Amboy, tU. AQD ACRE* Choice Farming tend. Description TOU oe application. J. W. Alloibb, Fremont Centee. Minh. ,T ‘ M ' (go tz PER ACRE for 400 acres 8 miles N. W. of ML 'IPZiOAyr, Lows; mostly under Improvement; good house, 3 stock walls, orchard (bearing), hedges, fences. Thos, Shbv, Mt Ayr, lowa Ttoß GRAIN OR DAIRY—3OO acres near Sycamore? r Cheese and butter thetdry IX miles distant AddremP. O. Box 33, Sycamore, !!!. on ACRES near Charlevoix. 40 rods from Pine Lake. OV lake Shore road passes through one end; town roan through the other: timber, maple. 3500. H. L, CLirvoxn. Charlevoix. Mich. LANDS FOR SALE. 1 At I ATU I ACRES In Neosho Valley. Southern 1* ‘ " Kansas, contiguous to schools and churches. S 3 to 36 per acre. Address Lock Drawer a?, AuroraUll- , GzLQ ACRES Farming and Grazing Lands In Jasper County, Ind/PBANK W. Babcocb, Bensellaer, tad. LAND FOR EXCHANCE. 1 lift ACRES TIMBER LAND in toe Grand TravIDO erne region. Scad for particulars to G. J. Stbbatob, Garrettsville, Ohio. ■» KANSAS FARM tor Exchange for a New England farm. Addreas Room 4,3 M Washtogton-st Boston. FAItNIS WANTED. Y7ARM WANTED, in thia county. Persons having T such for sale address JohNW. JoxBS, Room 20, Lakeside Building, Chicago. !»• A SMALL FARM, near a thriving town, either In A Illinois, Missouri or lowa. Gilbbbt Moboak, Louisville, Ky. PARTIES HAVING FARMS, Improved,

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