Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1876 — Page 8

Hayes and Wheeler Club

it A meeting of republicans assembled in tbe court house on last Saturday evening, which elected Harvey W.’WobJ, chairman, and William B. Austin, secretary. Mr. S. P. Thompson explained the object and mission of a Hayes and ‘Wheeler club. The names of members were then read, by vrards, tor the purpose of selecting permanent officers for each ward, a president, secretary and treasurer who are to act in tLeir respective capacities for tha various clubs of Marion township, and town of Rensselaer. On motion of Dr. James Ritchey, Hon. U. S. Dwiggins was elected president, M. O. Cisscl, secretary**, and Alfred Thompson, treasurer of the Marion township and llenßSclaer club. Vico presidents and secretaries Were,elected for the several wards ol Rensselaer as follows: ♦' • 9 *« let.—L. 3* Daugherty, vice president, C. I*. Wright, secretary. 2d. —Charles W. Clifton, vice president, John T. Boroughs, sec. 3d.—Lemuel C. Janes, vice president, William B. Austin, secretary. 4th.—A. W. Cleveland, vice president, David C. Warren, seo. sth.—Emmet Kannal, vice president, Wm. 11. Rhoades, secretary. After perfecting the organisation Major jy. §L Calkins, ol La Porte, yejtublican candidate i or representative in congress, was called upon to address the meeting, which he did in a speech that ought to make .democrats ashamed for nominating for the presidency a Tamany-ring man, and for vice president one who denounced volunteering during the war; and which Bhould n/ajte eyery republican breast heave with loyajty to the party that placed in nomination ft. B. Ifayes and W. A. Wheel ty. On motion of S. P. Thompson, the secretary of the evening was .instructed to notify the several officers of their election. After glistening to appropriate remarks from Mr. \aflftWoud, of Keener township, the meeting adjourned to assemble at the call of the president of the Hayes and heeler club.' 11. W. Wood, president. Wm. B. Austin, secretary.'

A Card.

When “times are hard,” people practice economy in differ out directions, and, often in a lifetime, the poor preacher is made *to teel tho tightening of the cords of % aigid economical policy adopted J?y tho .different members of th/a “flock,” and, too often it is tho case when money is scarce, and a good brother or sister considers that it is beyond his or her power to contribute any of that commodity, or that J.he amount to bo contributed must f»e greatly diminished, and they dismiss the matter, without any calculation of the effect such a course >yill have upon him who ministers to their spirtual wants, and without thinking that something might be (lono to make up, partially at least, tho loss ho incurs by such scarcity of the needful. 1 1 is, therefore, both refreshing and cheering to him who toils for the Master, to find one of whom it can be said as of one of old, “she hath done what she coaid.” The above thoughts were caused by the reeeptiQu of a beautiful quilt from the lair hands of Mrs. S. J. Humes, Mrs- A. Warnc, pisses Ella Warne und Jennie Humes, all of Union township, .Jasper couuty. It is said “a thing of beauty jc n joy forever,” and when comfort and durability are combined with beamy, the duration of the pleasure confered would sorely not be transient. The fair donors have the sincere thanks, and well wishes of myself and family, with the assurance that their kindness will * never be forgotten.

The Voracity of Fish.

A correspondent of the Scitnlific American , writing from Rockingham, N. f)., relates the following very fishy rjjory: “In your issae of June 24, yon gi ye os A engrayjug of fish books, etc., found in the stomach of a cod, hy Mr. Frank Rack land. Some of <W southern streams contain voracious fish. An acquaintance of mine caught a catfish in a lake pn the Arkansas River, near Little

Rock, sonic few years since, from the stomach of which was taken the larger part of an ox. liver, twenty-three hen’s eggs, three puppies, and a child’s shoe. Whether the fish had swolowod the child whole, and it had been digested by the juices of the cat-fish's stomach, and the shoe alone remained to tell the child’s sad fate, or whether the child escaped the jaws of the voracious fish, losing only its shoe in the rencontre, tho evidence was not sufficiently clear to determine. But that the above enumerated articles were found in its stomach is undeniable; and I think this is enough to establish the fact that the catfish is also a voracious fish.”

A Mad Dog’s Bite--—How It Feels and How a Mad-Stone Works.

Captain D. J. Bunco, of Meehanicsviile, Cedar comity, writes to the lowa City Press pf his misfortune in being bitten by a mad dog and of his subsequent search for a mad-stone to cure the bite. He savs: 1 was bitten on Saturday, July 1, on the left wrist by a small dog, which I did not at the time think was mad, though I killed it immediately. I had no suspicion till the 4th of July when I felt a sharp pain start from the wound and extend to the back of my neck and to my face. This would last but a moment, and return at intervals, each time getting worse. Having heard much of the virtues of the mad-stone, I at once made inquiries for one, and on 1 Wednesday evening was told that a gentleman named Turner Evans, of lowa City, had one. At 11 o’clock that night I left this place for your city, but owing to the flood in Cedar river did not get through until noon the next day. We learned that some years ago a Mr. Evans bad treated some cases in lowa City, and by searching old newspaper files it was ascertained that his residence then was Paris, Linn county. Telegrams were sent to Marion aud Center Point, and I was finally put on the track to Paris, where I found Messrs. Evans & Co., who have tha madstone. This was on Saturday, eight days after the bite. About 6 o’clock p. m. that day the stone wa.a applied. The first application of the stone proved that tho dog which bit ine was mad, and that my /system wrs becoming impregnated with the virus. The stone hejld on twenty-five minutes the first time, when it was full changed color and tell off. Another scarification was made and it was again .applied seventy three times, bolding in each time from twenty-five minutes to cue hour, until at last repeated efforts showed the remedy had done its work, for it would adhere no more, which is indicated by its failure to stiok, and its change in color from a natural dark brown to a deep green polor. At the first application it was very painful, but grew less so each time until the last. The owners of the stone, Messrs. Evans & Fleming, live near Paris, Linn county, and in the past twenty-five years have saved many persons from the horrible death of hydrophobia, and have in the same time rescued thousands of dollars’ worth of stock from loss by the same cause. Sf any one says there is no virtue in the mad-stone, let him. be referred to me and hundreds of others for proof that there is.

Pen Portraits of Some Noted Women.

Very intellectual women are seldom beautiful. Their features, and particularly their foreheads, are more or less masculine. Hut there are exceptions to alTrules, and Mrs. London was an exception in tfiis one. She was exceedingly feminine and pretty. Mrs. Stanton,likewise, was an exceedingly handsome woman; but Miss Anthony and Mrs. Livermore are both plain. Maria and Jane Porter were women of high brows and irregular features, as was also Miss Sedgwick. Anna Dickens?n has a strong masculine face. lvatc Fields has a goodlooking but by no means a pretty face. Mrs. Stowe is thought positively homely. Mrs. Burleigh, on the contrary, is very fine-looking. Alice and Phoibo Cary were very plain in features, though their sweetness of disposition added greatly to their personal appearance. Margaret Fuller had a splen* did head, hut her features were irregular, and she was anything but handsome—though sometimes in the glow' of conversation she appeared almost. Charlotte Bronte had wonderously beautiful dark brown eyes and a perfectly shaded head. She wss small to diminutiyeness, and was as simple in her manners as a child. Jalia Ward Howe is a fine-looking woman—wearing an aspect of grace and refinement, and of great force of character in her face and carriage. Olive Logan is anything but handsome in person, though gay and attractive in conversation resembles Charlotte Bronte both pi personal appearance and in the sad experience of her youthful life. Neither Mary Booth nor Marian liar land can lay claim to handsome faces, though they

H. B. MILLER.

are splendid foCcimens of cultured women while Mary Cleinmer Ames is just as pleasing in features as her writings are graceful and popular.—Ntv> Haven Register.

Heated Terms—Their Causes and Dangers.

At the timo wc write, seventeen days of exceptionably hot weather have been experienced over tho Northern States. The thermoinctor, despite a brief rainstorm within the paßt twenty-four hours, the first that has visited this region duringthe period above named, stands at 95° in the shade. It has stood at 90° and thereabouts for more than two weeks, and in this city has touched 102°. The most intense heat yet reported, however, has occurred $t New Paltz, near Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where the mercury attained the unprecedented height of 112° in the shade. Of course wise people have advanced innumerable theories relative of the cause of the present heated term. It is a fact just now that the sun spots arc at their minimum, and hence the supposition that we get more heat from our luminary is generally favored. It should be borno in mind that the abnormally hot weather is not omnipresent the world over, and hence to believe that the sun is taking any extraordinary part in its production is to assume that that orb, by some process of selection, lias chosen a very small portion of the globe as the recipient of his scorching attentions. Besides, the fewer the sun spots, the greater the evaporative power of the sun, and hence the greater the production of rajn, which depends on evaporation. Consequently, so far from the absence of sun spots tending to diminish rain, we should look to their non-existence as a reason for expected increased rainfall. It is generally credited, also, that the Gulf Stream is moving nearer our coast, and hence the climate is gradually becoming warmer. This assertion is destitute of foundation in fact; but neither this notion, nor the one preceding, nor that involving spectroscopic observations of the sun and the discovery of imidense masses of burning magnesium, etc., will ever cease to be credited as long as the daily papers find in their repetition such interesting matter to embody in their discussions of that universally interesting topic, the weather. The truth is that hot spells like the present are due to local causes. Direction of tbe wind, barometric pressure of the atmosphere, hygroractric condition of the same, when acting in concert, are amply sufficient to account for increase of temperature over a few degrees; and by resulting the published Weatasr reports and keeping a record of barometer and thermometer for his locality, the observer will soon recognise the espeoiai conditions which underlie the extreme weather in this section of the country. * There are few parts of the world where so extreme a temperature as 112° is ever felt. According to tables given in standard meteorological works, it appears that 100° is exoeded besides in the United States and Canada, in Greece, parts of India, Afgamstan, Persia, Cape Colony, Desert of Sahara, parts of Egypt, Arabia, and the West Indies, and in Central AmericaIn one of these localities, however, is there so wide a thermometric range as from 15° below to 112° above zero, or 127° bah.,as is the case in this and other Northern States. It is this wide variation that causes suffering, for the reason that we never become really acclimated to onr climate, oritmred j to all its vicissitudes. In Common; with all the Anglo-Saxon race, we | possess the energy which is cliarao- j toristio of dwellers in the colder | portions of the globe, aud this energy, intensified by American habits and peculiarities, knows no rest. Business and Übor are carried on with unabated vigor, whether in the freezing eoid of January cr the fierce heat of July. We have no

season devoted to general relaxation, as have nations under the tropics, though our summers may be as hot as theirs, nor are we able to adapt our, habits to our climate, owing to the very uncertainty of the latter. Our woather is in reality a succession of surprises. We never know whoa to expect Buch visitations of heat as we are now undergoing, nor can we certainly count on any period when excessve cold will prevail. Our “probabilities” system gives us an approximate idea of whether to expect rain or shine within twenty-four hours ; but the boldest of weather prophets cannot predict whether the coming winter will be moist, and open, or severely cold. We are subject, therefore, to sudden changes of temperature; and the natural effect of these is found in the succeeding increase in the death rate in populated localities. For the week preceding the time of writing' the number of deaths in'New York city is reported at 838. Showing an increase cf 122 over the previous week. Out of the aboyp total, 541 represent

children under 5 years of ago; and a large percentage of the remainder includes, first, people who have become debilitated by the beat while suffering chronic disease and second, the direct victims of sunstroke and exhaustion. In both cases the long continued prevalence of hot weather has resulted in a weakening of vital power, and this depreciation extends more or less over the whole community; so that when a person, even in full bodily health otherwise is stricken down, his system is in a very poor condition to repel and recover from the shock. In a greater degre is this true of invalids and small children, whose hold upon life is at best but slight. Again, as we have said, sudden climatic changes are to be expected, and hence a hot spell of the present kind may terminate by a sudden fall of the mercury from 100° to 75°. We recently saw a descent of 11° produced in a less number minutes by the springing up of a brisk easterly breeze. Now sudden mutations of temperature, especially downward, exercise a dangerous effect upon a large number of persons, especially the aged and pickly, while even among robust people the unlooked-for change is apt to cause colds, pneumonia, and like maladies. It will he seen, therefore, that to maintain the health, whether in winter or in summer, in a “climate such as ours, constant watchfulness is imperative. Thousand's yearly die, victims to lack of precaution in guarding themselves against the ailments directly due to the vacillations of our most freaky Weather. — Scientific American.

The Child Orator—A Boy Phenomenon.

Master J. Harry Shannon, the infant prodigy, or “child orator,” as he is called in Washington and Baltimore, where he has come to be very well known, is now in New York, and Monday evening be surprised the large audience at Gilmore’s Garden by suddenly mounting the music stand and beginning to declaim the famous speech which the Irish patriot, Robert Emmet, made from the Green street dock in Dublin. Mr. Levy had just finished his cornet solo, and as usual, most of the audience were in good hearing distance, but when a child began thus on a sudden the delivery of a great speech from the soot just vacated by the musician every person in the Hippodrome gathered as near as possible, and for about forty-eight minutes Muster Harry held his audience. Even the bar-tenders and waiters deserted their places and went out and mingled with the audience, for no business could be done so long as the child continued to speak. The surprise had been arranged by Mr. Shook, who is a friend of the gentlemen who has Master Harry in charge. The child is a native of Washington City. Some time ago he suddenly developed the capacity to commit any speeoh or writing to memory at a single hearing. His mother was reading aloud when her child stopped her suddenly and asked permission to recite what she had been reading. He started off and repeated correctly the piece she had read, at the same time making gestures and modulating his voice where it was required, insomuch that his mother found her boy delivering an oration to an audience of one, and marveled greatly. She was frightened and ran to inform some of the neighbors of what had happened. Ever since that time the phenomenon has remained the same, and two or three public exhibitions have been given in Washington, Master Hairy is now only seven years old. He has never received any education, not even learning to read. He manifests no desire to get book learning, apparently satisfied with what he seems to get by inspiration. His brother, who is only three and a half years old, has, it is said developed a talent for music which is still more wonderful than the phenomenal rhetorical powers of the elder brother. In appearance he is a fine, brightlooking lad of full hight, though rather delicate in build, and with an especially fine head and pair of eyes.

The Latest Wonder.

The readers of the Traveller haye been made acquainted with the wonderful inventions of Professor Bell, by which musical and vocal sounds can be and have been sent over the electric wires, but few if any are aware of the wonderful results which are sure to follow these improvements in telegraphy, A few nights ago Professor Bell was in communication with a telegraphic operator in New York, and commenced experimenting with one of his inventions pertaining to .the transmission of musical sounds. He made use of his phonetic organ and played the tune of “America,” and asked the operator in York what he heard. “I hear the tune of ‘America,- ” replied New York; “give us another.”

Professor Bell then played “Auld Lang Syne.” “What do you hear now?” “I hear the tune of Auld Lang Syne, with the full cords, distinctly,” replied New York. Thus the astounding discovery has been made that a man can play upon musical instruments in New York, New Orleans, or London, or Paris, and be heard distinctly in Boston. If this can be done, why can not distinguished performers execute the most artistic and beautiful music in Paris, and an audience assemble in Music Hall, Boston, to listen? Prof. Bell’s other improvement, namely, the transmission of the human voice, has become so far perfected that persons have conversed over 1,000 miles of wire with perfect ease, although as yet the vocal sounds are not loud enough to be heard by more than one or two persons. But if the human-voice clan now be sent’ over the wire, and so distinctly that w hen two or three known parties are telegraphing, the voices of each can be recognized, we may soon have distinguished men delivering speeches in Washington, New York, or London, and audiences assembled in Music Hall or Fanueil Hall to listen. —Boston Traveller. If it is dishonest to pay debts in silver coin what is congress proposing to coin that fifty millions of dollars in silver for? What is it to bo used for? —lndianapolis Sun.

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J. W. DUVALLS LIVES? STABLE AND DAILY HACK LIND. United States mail hacks run daily, except Snndays, between Rensselaer and Francetvilla, making connections at the latter place with trains ou the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad, and conveying passengers, exprossage, and freight each way. Goods or money shipped by Express to any part of the United States. Livery Teams, with Drivers, or-Witkt, furnished upon application. Stock boarded by the day or week. Office and Safe Stable on Front street, above Washington. Rensselaer, Indiana. CASH! CASH! GASH! - FOR CASH OR COUNTRY PRODUCE WXLLEY&SIGLER Will sell their stock of Merchandise as low as the lowest in market. On and after the 15th day of February, 1876, none need ask. us for credit. We Positively Mean Ready Pay. Don’t boy until yon can pay, and then bny and save money. After long experience and carefully studying the best interests of our patrons, aa well as ear own, wo believe that Ready Pay is the Only Legitimate and Fair Mode of Doing Business. Men who pay as they go should not be mad* to make up, by high profits, for bad debts, We are truly under obligations to many persona in laaper county, who have given na thrir patronage and paid promptly. Thaukiug you for the past, we hope all will call and see us still,and we will try and convince you that we are workiug for your interest as well as our own. Any favor in our power will be gladly performed, but WE CANNOT SELL GOODS ON LONG TIME, Country Produce and Bankable Paper (we to be judges of the Paper offered) will be received in exchange for goods. Those indebted to us will call and settle their aocounts, either with cash or note. As heretofore, we shall continue to keep a LARGE STOCK OF DRY OOOIDS consisting of Prints, brown and bleached Muslins, foreign and domestic Ginghams, Cashmeres, Alpacas, Mohairs, Broadcloths, Doeskins, Beavers, Casimeres, Jeans, Cottonades, Dress Trimmings, Laces, Hosiery, Gloves, Cuffs, Collars,Ties, &c. Boots and Shoes a Specialty* Hats and Caps in great variety. Rubber Boots and Shoes for men, women and children. Ready Made Clothing for men and boys. Uuderwear for men and women. A good stock of FAMILY GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS. 21 The POST-OFFICE STORE, Bedford & Jackson’s new building, Rensselaer. Greenbaeks and Silver Coin are as Good "— as Gold in Rensselaer! - -W. ff. IMES Respectfully, announces that he has bought the famous “Old Line Drug Store” so loDg conducted by Messrs. Harding & Willey, and has now an excellent stock of goods in his line, which will be sold at reasonable prices for greenbacks, silver coin, or any other current medium of exchange which is recognized as a legal tender in the United States. He has now and will keep a good assortment of - nunmNnuui M and all the various articles usually found at a house of this kind, including popular brands of 111 TOILET SOIPB, RU.nnHßf.. Tooth Powders, Preparations for Beautifying the Complexion, Hair Dressings, Brushes of every description, Combs, etc. RUBBER PAINTf Lead and Oil Faint mixed ready For nee, Varnishes, and everything used in the painting business. Has a large stock of Sillies, School looks and Miscellaneous Works, PQfts and Ink. Also, a splendid and very large stock of Wall Paper. CaJJ and see me, and give me a share of your custom.

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