Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1876 — Page 2

RENSSELAER, * INDIANA.

General News Summary.

Susa roit Loot* was before the Whitley FVauA* Committee, on the 10th, and proBounced u false In every particular all Inalnnations made by ex-Bollcltor Wilson or othms that he bad been In any manner conneeded with the whisky frauds. He never had any connection, directly or indirectly, with a dletWery, or anyeonnoctlon with dlatUera or rectifiers, and no business with them whatever, ner hod be knowledge of any frauds, except as they were developed la the trials and published In the newapppera. t X>/_ James G. Rill, formerly Assistant-Archi-tect, has been appointed Supervising Architect of the Treasury. A DISPATCH was received in Washington on the ISth from Speaker Kerr, who was at Rock Bridge Alum Spring, in which he says he was ranch worse and hope was growing weaker. Bit Weeds in Washington were much alarmed at his condition, aud it was believed he would not long survive. On. Houses Poster was before the Whisky Brands Committee In Washington on the Nth, and testified In regard to exSolicitor Wilson's evidence, denying many of the latter’s assertions, including that relative to the explanation given by witness to WUeon concerning the “ Sylph” dispatchHe denied positively that be told Wilson “thegreatest favor he could dothjyPreaident was to shield Babcock.” He also stated that the President had intimated to Idm {witness) that nothing whatever had come to his knowledge Implicating Babcock directly or Indirectly, In the “ Black Friday” speculations. ▲ Washington special of the 16th says the new tour and a half per cent, loan for 1100,000,000 will be brought out in a short time. There was great competition for the control of It among foreign and domestic bankers. , As order waa Issued by the Secretary of War on the 16th to Gen. Sherman, directing him that, in pursuance of the preamble and resolution passed by the House of Representatives relative to the enforcement of the right of suffrage under the Fifteenth Amendment, he should hold all the available forces under his command not engaged In the Indian war on the frontier, “ In readiness to be used upon call or requisition of the proper legal authorities for protecting all citizens, without distinction of raee, color or political opinion, in the exercise of 1 the right to vote as guaranteed by the Fifteenth Amendment, and to assist in the enforcement of certain, condign, and effectual punishment upon all persons who shall attempt by force, fraud, terror, Intimidation or otherwise to prevent the free exercise of the right of suffrage as provided by the law of the United States, and have such force so distributed and stationed as to be able to render prompt assistance in the enforcement of law.”

THE EAST. Ben. F. Butler is a candidate for Congress la the Seventh Massachusetts District The total admissions at the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia, from May 10 to Aug. 9—a period of three months—were 2,860,000. The total cash receipts at the gates amounted to $965,800. There was also a large revenue from licenses and other sources, making an aggregate of more than a million dollars received into the treasury. A raw evenings ago, a ten-year old daughter of John Bailey, living near ProviIdence, R. 1., poured kerosene oil from a can upon a fire in the stove. An explosion followed, and the girt waa fytelly burned. The Centennial Commission, on the 11th, decided to admit all persons to the Exposition on the last two Saturdays of esch month, upon payment of a twenty five-cent note, Instead of a fifty-cent note as heretofore. The counsel of Rev. EL W. Beecher have .madetheir answer to Mr. Moulton’s com- ; plaint in his suit for malicious prosecution, denying most of the allegations contained in the complaint, and asserting that Mr. Beecher did not request the District Attorney to enter a not prat, in the indictment .Against Mr. Moulton. The case will be tried in the falL

Kehoe, chief officer of the Molly Maguire Order in Schuylkill County, Pa., and Canning, chief officer in Northumberland Oounty, and six other prominent members of the organization, have been recently found guilty of assault and battery with intent to kill one William Thomas. Gold closed In New York on the 16th at Illjf. The following were the closing quotations for prod nee: No. 9 Chicago Bpring Wheat, 9ie®9sc.; No. 9 Milwaukee, 86 -®SI.OT; Oats, Western Mixed, 31®85c; Corn, Western Mixed, 54@57c; Pork, Mess, $18.40; Lard, 10I*c; Flour, good Ao choice, $4.60®5.15; White Wheat Extra, [email protected]. Cattle, B}4®loc for good to -extra. Sheep, 496 c. * Ax East Liberty, Pa., on the 16th, cattle ’brought; Best, [email protected]; medium, $4.50® •4.35; common, 44.00&4.30. Hogs sold—loiters, $6.90®6.50; Philadelphias, $6.80® 6.75. Sheep brought $L25®5.50, according to quality. WEST AND SOUTH.

G«v. Porte*, of Tennessee, has been nominated for re-election by the Democrats of that State. The regular State Convention of the Republicans of Arkansas adjourned on the 10th, after a two days’ session. A futl State ticket, headed by Joseph JSsooks for Governor, and Presidential Electors were nominated. Returns from the Alabama State election, received at Montgomery on the lltb, give Houston (Dem.) for governor a majority in fifty-four comities of 88,871. Eleven connties to be heard from gave a Democratic majority In 1874 of 3,002. The Senate •lands 27 Democrats, 1 Independent and 4 Republican* The House lias 33 Democrats, 2 Jndependentand 15 Republican* ' _ The parties accused of complicity ia the Hamburg (8. C.j disturbance were before atMfaa, on the 10th, and A special telegram vu received at Helena, M. T., on tfee 11th from Boaeman, to the effect that a Sioux squaw, who had come into Crow Camp, brought news of a tmible battle, in which Gen. Crook bad almost an-

Blhltyted the Stetfr, knY had fte remainder lb sffiNt a posljton as to compel their surrender. This amil waa brought by parties from phe mm Agency, and It mtprt be greatly U nos entirely flUsc. A BismaßCE telegram of tbe 15th says the rumor of the recent fight between Terry aud Sitting Bull had been confirmed by Indian runners from Fort Peck. Terry’s lorn waa reported to have been 800, and Sitting BuH’a TOO. The War Department at Washington had also received similar Intelligence, and to giro mane. credence to the rumor than when the Indian squaw first reported it Bob several days preceding the 15th a strike had barn in existence Alofig the line of the Ohio A Mississippi Railroad In the States of Indiana and Illinois, induced by the failure of the company to pay brnkemen and engineer* the wages already carped and by the report that a still further redaction was to be made. *• At Vincennes and Seymour, in Indiana, sad at Floras, 111., trains were takuu possession of, and no trains except mall-trains were allowed to pass oven the road. At the latter place the Sheriff of Clay County had sue ceeded in arresting the leaders and breaking up the combination, but at Seymour and Vincennes the civil officer* were powerless, and a call was made upon Qov. Hendricks for tToous. That official issued his proclamation warning the malcontents to disperse, and directing troops to be sent to carry his proclamation intq force. On tbe evening of the 15th, several companies bad already started for the scene of tbe trouble, and three companies more were under arms at the State House in Indianapolis awaiting orders to move. It was believed that the strikers would disband cm the appearance of the troops. A Cincinnati dispatch of the 16th states that the boakemen’s strike on the Ohio A Mississippi Railroad was over, and that trains would be running as usual as soon as the engines could be put in readiness. All the strikers had been paid in full and discharged.

Gustavls A. Vinkblnbcro, the Republican nominee for Governor of Missouri, has positively declined the candidacy, and a call was issued on the 16th for a meeting of the State Central Committee, to be held on the 94th, to fill the vacancy thus created in the ticket. The Democratic State Convention of Bouth Carolina has nominated Gen. Wade Hampton for Governor. Ex-Gov. Brooks has withdrawn from the Republican SUte ticket*of Arkansas, find A. W. Bishop, the candidate for Governor on the Opposition Republican ticket, has accepted the same position on. the regular ticket, the opposition ticket being withdrawn from tbe field. In Chicago, on the Idih, Spring wheat, No. 3, closed at S63>4<gß7c. cash. Cash corn closed at 44%c for No. 3. Cash oats Na. 2 sold at 29K®30c; September options were sold at 30c. Rye No. 2, 51@52c. Cash i mean pork closed at $17.40 @17.45. Lard, [email protected]. Good to choice beeves brought [email protected]; medium grades, [email protected]; butchers’ stock, $2.80@ 2.80; stock cattlo, etc., #A40®3.15. Hogs brought [email protected] for good to choice. Sheep sold at [email protected] for good to boice* ' r

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. News was received from Vienna on the 11th to thd effect that the massacre of Christians in Bosnia still continued. The Porte had beqn notified, I>y EnglancV that the excesses which had' went pdiptfrafed in Bul- . garia would not be allowed in Servia. Austria and Russia had decided that the Turta should not be permitted to occupy Belgrade, and would prevent by force, if neeeeeSry, the deposition of Prince Milan. Disraeli, the British Premier, has been elected tp the peerage, with the title of Earl of Beacontleld. The Co-operative Credit Bank, of London, Eng., waa started in 1874, and proved a failure, and its proprietor and manager—Richard Barres Oakley—was adjudged a bankrupt in January last and committed for trial on a charge of fraud. He has Just been convicted and eentenced to five years’ penal servitude. The heat in Spain is reported to have been intense, erceeding any recollection since 1800. Forty field hands died near Seville on the 12th, and the vines in Andalusia were scorching and failing. PanamENT MacMahon, on the 12tli, directed the liberation of 161 Communist prisoners. A dory named the Centennial, which left Gloucester, Mass., several weeks ago, arrived on the coast of Wales on the 13th, having successfully crossed the ocean under the guidance of Mr. Johnson, its sole occupant. Bhe waa capsized once during the voyage. Prince Milan arrived at Belgrade on the 13th. The Servians were reported to be greatly dispirited because at the recent Turkish successes. A nsw circular has been issued by the British Admiralty In relation to fugitive slaves, in which commanders are instructed to entertain no demand fpr the return of fugitives on the ground of alaverrVrnxa telegrams of the 14th say that the crown jewels of Servia had been pawned in that city for a loan of 63,000 florins. A Shanghai (China) telegram Of the 14th announces an attack by the populace upon a French mission chapel at Ning Kooe, daring the celebration of the maas, at which the priest and many of the congregation were killed.

Tex British Parliameqt was prorogued by the Queen on the 15th- She made the customary speech from the throne —by proxy. A severe riot occurred in Belfast, Ire. land, on the 15th, between the Lady-day procession and a crowd of spectators. The disturbance had not ended at last accounts. Several had been severely wounded. According to Belgrade dispatches of the 15th the Turks had occupied the pass of Banja, the Servians retiring without firing a shot. It was reported that England had bCsred to mediate between ServTa Ind Turkey. ■t.up a Zara telegram of the 15th reports that an engagement had been fought on the day, preceding, near Kuci, between the Montenegrins and Turks, in which the former were altogether successful, the Turkish loss was very great Acoormjw to Belgrade telegrams of the th»n declaring that Seryia gad Montenegro would fight together to the last. In the battle near End, the Turks lost over 8,000 On the 16th, a financial panic prevailed throughout Portugal. Several banka at

Oporto a*d elsewhere had been forced %> ■ttSjMMa lF The Livings tone statge, erected In honor Ibf tlrt great African explorer, waa unveiled at RfiTnbrfigb, Scotland, on the l«th. » J

OON6RKUIONAL. In the Senate, on the 10th, the Conference eppoft antes River and Jiajtbor Appropiiu ttoa Mil WM agreed to. the blUsaatfreed apse appropriating $6-000,000. Tbe Room bill to provide copies Of the President's Hamburg message wss taken op; am roomiest deba'e wt>med,te*articipon d In hr Meaere. Sherman, McDonald. Bogy and StovensoS .. In the House, a preamble and resolution were ottered by Mr. Lord, reciting that tbe right of suffrage la tbe several Stales I* subject to the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution, and that the exercise of such riaht should be faithfully maintained and observed by too United States; that It Is asserted that the exercise of said right Is. in some States notwithstanding the efforts of good citizens, restated and controlled by fraud, tatlmidatlon and violence; that all citizens, without distinction of race or color, are entitled to the rights conferred by said amendment; declaring that all attempts by force, frsud, terror, latlmhfation or otherwis -, to prevent a free exerclne of the right of enftoge. should meet with certetn punishment, and that In any case la which violence or murder has been, or may be. committed by one class or race on another, the punishment of tbe criminal or criminals is imperatively demanded. The resolution was adopted—l9o to 8— and the preamb e was then agreed t 0—134 to 34. Majority and minority reports were made from the Committee on Kxpennltares In the Navy Department, and retell’ uona offered by the majority, declaring that by reason of tbe negligence of Secretary Robeson, and his order to pay the ttrm of Tilton. Wheelwright & Co. the rum of $33,013, the Government was defrauded of that amount, and declaring that Isaiah Harcom, Chief of the Bureau of Construction aud Repairs in the Navy Department, is unworthy and Incompetent and should be removed, were adopted. The minority report was to the effect that there was no evidence of collusion between officers of the Government and the firm of Tilton, Wheelwright A Co , to defraud the Government in tbe Anal adjustment of their claim. The Conference report on the River and Harbor Appropriation bill was agreed to. A bill was passed to continue the temporary arrangement for the expenditures of the Government till the 14th. In the Senate, on the 11th, the proposed Constitutional amendment forbidding the appro-

priation of any school fqnds to schools of any religions sects, etc., was amended and ordered to a third reading. The Poet Route bill was amended and passed— 37 to 18— among the amendments agreed to being one appropriating $336,001) for the restoration of the fast mail trams and one to restore the franking privilege to a limited extant; the vote on the latter amendment was yeas SO, nays 16. A message was received from the President inclosing a telegram from Gen. Sheridan and a letter from Gen. Sherman in regard to tbe Indian troubles and the probable necessity of increasing the force operating against the Indians. The amendments of the House to the bill to punish the counterfeiting of trade-mark goods, and to prohibit dealing In such gauds were agreed to. ana the bill wss passed. The report of the Conference Committee on the Indian Appropriation bill was non-concurred in, and the old Senate conferrees were reappointed In the House, the Senate bill continuing in force the statute which authorizes the employment of 1.0(10 Indian scouts was passed. The Conference reports on the Pacific Mall steamship and on the Indian Appropriation bills were agreed to. Tho Conference report on the bill to punish the counterfeiting of trade-mark goods was non-concurred in. A resolution lor final adjournment on the 14th was agreed to. The President’s message relative to Indian affairs and accompanying papers were received and referred. •

The joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting appropriations for sectarian schools was read a third time in the Senate, on the 13th. A Conference Committee wss appointed on the hill to defray the expenses of the District of Columbia until Dec. 1.1876- Bills were passed—House bill to provide for the sale of certain Cherokee scrip lands in Kansas; to prints report of the proceedings of the Belknap Impeachment trial; appropriating SBOO,OOO to pay judgments of the Coart of Claims. Conference reports on the Legislative, Executive and Jodicial, and on the Consnlar and Diplomatic Appropriation bills were made and agreed to. Tbs hill to cany into effect the Hawaiian treaty was debated....ln the House, Conference* reports on the Consnlar and Diplomatic and tha Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bills, and on the hill to regulate tee distribution of artificial limbs to soldiers and sailors, were agreed to. Another conference was ordered on the Indian Appropriation bill. The Senate bill postponing the publication of the Army Register was passed. The political discussion was resumed, and Mr. Lynch made a speech in reply to Mr. Lamar. In the Senate, on the 14th, a resolution Was passed for the appointment of a joint committee, to consist of three mem here of each house, to prepare a suitable government for the District of Colombia. The House bill for the sale of saline lands was amended and passed, as was also the Honse HU to authorize the President to accept the services of volunteers to aid in the Indian war. After a lengthy debate the bill to carry into effect the Hawaiian treaty was passed—3D to 13. The Conference report on the bill to regulate tbe issue of artificial limbs to disabled Union soldiers and sailors was agreed to. Tbe House joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting the appropriation of money for the support of sectarian schools was, after a long debate, rejected by a strict party vote- -39 yeas to 16 nays—less than two-thirds in the affirmative. Mr. Spencer offered a reeolutimi providing for the appointment of a committee of five to inquire into alleged frauds aqthe late election ia Alabama In the House, Henry Watterson, of Kentucky, was sworn in as the successor of the late Mr. Parsons. The Conference report on the Indian Appropriation bill was agreed to. A message was received from the President in regard to the River and Harbor bill, in which he staled that If it had been compulsory to expend the monev therein appropriated he would have vetoed it .but as it was not be would take care that no public money should be expended upon useless works, or upon any that were not clearly National. This message created consideiable sensation, and' was severely criticized and condemned by Messrs. Reagan. Hereford and Randall, and defended by Messrs. Conger and Kasson. and was finally referred to the Committee on Commerce. Remarks on the several appropriations were made by Messrs. Randall and Foster. An evening session was held, at which the bill authorising the President to ac ept the services of 5,000 volunteer cavalry for six months, and appropriating $1,000,000 therefor, was passed—lßl to 41. Considerable political discussion was indalged in, and personal altercations between members occurred, Mr. Cox giving the lie direct to Mr. Kasson with regard to the record of Mr. Tilden. The House was still in session at two a. m. on the 16th.

In the Senate, on the 15th, a large number of House bills granting pensions to various persons were passed, as were also the following: To provide for the expenses of the District of Columbia until Dec. 1, 18T6; to authorize the con enaction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Sioux City, Iowa; relieving the State of Kansas from charges on accoant of ordnance stores furnished to Kansas Terrhory; for the relief of Mrs. Janies K. Polk, widow of ex-President Polk. A Conference Committee was appointed on the bill to authorise the President to accept tire services of volunteers to aid in suppressing Indian hostilities, who subsequently made a report which was agreed to. The amendment of tne House to the Dill to encourage telegraphic communication between America and Asia wa% agreed to, and the Mil was passed. A message was received from the President vetoing the bin to provide for the sale of a portion of the reservation of the confederated Otoe and Missouri bands of Indians and the Sac and Pox Indians in Kansas and Nebraska, and subsequently a second message was received requesting that the bill be returned to him for his signature, as he had, aft r farther examination, become convinced tnat the veto message was premature. It was argued that the President canid not recall a bill after vetoing it. and the bill was passed, by a unanimous vote, over the veto. Messrs. Jones, Bouiwell and bogy were announced as the commissioners on the part of the Senate to inquire into the change which has taken place in the relative value of gold and silver, the causes thereof, etc. 7he House joint resolution for final adjournment was amended so as to fix the hoar for sack adjournment at 7-AO, and passed. The President was formally notified that Congress was ready to adjourn, ana replied that he had no further communications to make. A resolution of thanks to President proUih Perry, for the dignity, justice and impartiality w th which he had presided, was passed, and at 7.80 President Ferry, after a few appropriate remarks, declared the first regular session the Forty-Fourth Congress adjourned*™* <fis....H»e all-night session of the House continued until six o'c ock on the morning of the 15th, bnt no further business was transacted. An opportunity was afforded Messrs. Cox and Kasson to make due apology to the Uonse and each other for the exhibition of any angry passion or the violation of ahy parliamentary decorum of Which either might have been entity. A message was received from the Proa dent announce g that he had signed the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill, bnt stating that constimtionally the House had no right to ard*sr the withdrawal of Consul# or Ministers, which message was, after debate, referred to the Committee on Ap-

propiUtiona. The Senate MU to emaouraffi and promote telegraphic co dm* aai cat ion between America and Aria w.a amended and towed. A resolution exonerating Proctor Knott Chairman «l the Judiciary Committee in regard to hi* refethru- With the Joslah Caldwell telegram, WM passed—Bl to S 3. The Conference report on the bill to Increase tbe cavalry force for .service In the Sioux war was made and agreed to, the House receding from 1U proposition to authorize tbe raising of :,.U0 1 volunteer cavalry and accepting the proposition to lncreaae the regular cavalry force operntlug against the Indians to *,»*• men. Mr. Banka alluded to the critical condition of Speaker Kerr, asd stated ***** be had been handed a telegram from the absent Speaker, to the effect that there waa little hope of hia recovery. Mr. Banks then Off red a resolution expressive of heartfelt sympathy and of hope for the recovery of the Speaker, which resolution we* unanimously ad oped. Tbe bill providing for the sale of a portion of the reservation of the confederated Otoe and Missouri and the Jiac and Fox Indians In Kausaa and Nebraska was passed over the President’s veto. Messrs. Piper, Beebe and Wilson (Iowa) were announced as members of tbe Joint Committee on Chinese Immigration. Tbe resolution for adjournment at 7:30 was agreed to, and at that hoar th« Speaker pro tern ., after the customary thauks, declared Congress adjourned sine dit

President's Measure' Relative to Troops in the Indian Country.

Washington, Aug. 11. The following message was sent by the President to Congress to-dfiy: To the Senate and Haute of Representative*: I transmit herewith a telegram of the sth of August inst. from Lieut-Gen. Sheridan to Gen. Sherman, aletter of thellthof the present month from Gen. Bherman to the Secretary of War, and a letter from the latter of the same date to me, all setting forth the possible needs of the army in consequence of existing hostilities. I would strongly urge upon Congress tbe necessity for making some provision for a contingency which may arise during the vacation for more troops in the Indian country than it is now possible to send. It would seem to me to be much more economical and better to authorize an increase of the present cavalry force by 2,500 privates, but If this is not '(Teemed advisable, then that the President be authorized to call out not exceeding five regiments, 1,000 strong each, of volunteers, to serve for a period not exceeding six months. Should this latter authority be given, I would not order out any volunteers unless, in my opinion, based upon reports from the soene of war, I deemed It fibiolutely necessary, and then only the smallest number considered sufficient 4o meet the emergency. (Signed) U. S. Grant. Exzccnvx Mansion, Aug. 11. The following is Gen. Sheridan’s letter to Gen. Sherman: Chicago, Aug. s. —To Gen. W. ~T7 Sherman, Washington: I have not yet been able to reinforce the garrison at Red Cloud, at Spotted Tail, or at Standing Rock, to count the Indians or to arrest and disarm those coming in. I beg of you to see the Military Committee of the House and urge on it the necessity of increasing the cavalry regiments to 100 to each company. Gen. Crook’s total strength is 1,774, Terry’s 1,873, mid to give this force to them I have stripped every post’ from the line of Manitoba to Texas. We want more mounted men. We have not exceeded the law In enlisting Indian scouts—in fact, have not as many as the law allows us. The whole number in this division is only 114. The Indians with Gen. Crook are not enlisted, or even paid. They are not worth paying. They are with him only to gratify their desire for a fight and their thirst for revenge on the SiouX. (Signed) P. H. Shbridan, Lieutenant-General. A letter of Gen. Sherman to the Secretary of War indorses the recommendations of Gen. Sheridan, and the letter of the Secretary of War recommends the same to the President.

State Fairs and Expositions.

Connecticut State Fair, Hartford, Sept. IS to 15. 8. M. Wellß, Secretary. California State Fair, Sacramento, Sept. 18 to 23. Robert Beck, Secretary. Chicago Industrial Exposition, Chicago, Sept. 6 to Oct. 9. I. P. Reynolds, Secretary. Dee Moines, lowa. Burlington, Sept 19 to 22. E. O. Parsons, Secretary. Illinois State Fair, Ottawa, Sept 1 to 9. S. D. Fisher, Secretary. Indiana State Fair and Exposition, Indianapolis, Sept 25 to Oct. 18. Alex. Heron, Secretary. lowa State Fair, Cedar Rapids, Sept. 11 to 15. John R. Shaffer, Secretary. Massachusetts State Agricultural Society, Boston, no fair. GUas. L. Flint, Secretary. Michigan State Fair, Jackson, September 18 to 22. C. F. Kknball, Secretary. Kansas Agricultural Society, Topeka, no fair. Alfred Gray, Secretary. Kansas City Exposition, Kansas City, Mo., September 18 to 23. D. L. Hall, Secretary. Kentucky State Agricultural Society, ington, no fair. Jas. I Miller, Secretary. Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul, October S to 6. R. C. Judson, Secretary. Nebraska State Fair, Lincoln, September 25 to 29. Dan. H. Wheeler, Sect etary. New Jersey Btate Fair, Wamly, September 18 to 29. P. T. Quinn, Secretary. New York State Fair, Albany, September 11 to 15. T L. Harrison, Secretary. Northern Ohio Fair, Cleveland, September Uto 15. Bam. Briggs, Secretary. Northeastern lowa Fair, Dubuque, September 4to 8. M. 8. Robison, Secretary. Ohio State Fair, Columbus, September 4 to 8. J. H. Klippart, Secretary. Oregon State Fair, Salem, Oct 9to 15. E. M. Waite, Secretary. Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society, Harrisburg, no fair. D. W. Beiler, Secretary. Southern Ohio Fair, Dayton, Sept. 25 to 29. John A. Miller, Secretary. St Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Fair, St Louis, Oct 2to 7. G. O. Kalb, Secretary. St Joseph Agricultural Exposition, St Joseph, Sept. 25 to SO. J. T. Imbrie, Secretary. v West Virginia Central Agricultural Fair, Clarksburg, Sept 19 to 21. George Bastable, Secretary. Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Sept 11 to 16. W. W. /jield, Secretary.

Women’s Work.

If women ask men for work, remarks Miss Emily Faitkfull, they will get what they have always got—that kind men do not want to do themselves. They will get hard work, rough work, coarse work, poorly paid work, hopeless work, all tlie cant about sex notwithstanding. But if they really want to be independent, if they want to make a home for themselves, if they want to help others, let Ilium be neither afraid nor ashamed, but begin with any honest labor for which they are paid, and work up. The difficulty with women is not that they are idle, but that their habits are so desultory and their work so objectless. If the wretched little child’s play which women call “ fancy work” could at once be blotted out of tlieir existence it would be an incalculable blessing. What would be thought of a man or a grown boy who could deliberately sit down day after day and be content to kill time by working ridiculous little pen-wipers, bead napkinrings and the like, which no one dreams of ever using ? He would be considered, and rightly, as either a fool or crazy. If women claim intellectual equality with man, they must be content to be judged by the same standard. As for work the majority have not begun to know what it means. They have of it asr s~ necessity from Which they hoped some time to escape ; or they have thought of it as a degradation which the poor for wise purposes have to endtjre, but which is" not proper for the delicate or refined to come in con act with.— Fat Century for Women.

MSSCE|tANEOUS ITEJWj —A cash customer—The tW tapper. L —A handbill—Yoor account for gloves. —The July or "W waa a fraction hotter than the late lamented month. —Accommodating a friend with a fiftydoll ar note is an ex-X-lent way of getting nd of money. —ls you dislike to say potato-bug, it ia perfectly projier to refer to the insect aa the dcccmlineato. —He who buys far cash bays cheapest; he can belter afford to borrow money than to buy on credit. —People forgive • great man’s faults much more readily than they praise a small man's virtues.' —A woman who makes a practice of borrowing a quart of milk usually makes s pint of returning it. —The first entry on the books of a Nebraska frontier organization road* “ Betalced, That there be no more Injuns.” —American railway faros are ahead of the world for moderateness, and American cor arrangements best the wofld for comfort. —One of the best velocipedists in the world is a Chicago letter-carrier. He does all his traveling on the back of a bycycle “just as easy.” —Massachusetts is paying about threequarters of a million annually for interest on the debt incurred in the construction of the Hoosac tunnel. —The season’s summer suit grows old and rusty. Autuma will soon be along with the coat of many colors. ' Autumn is the Joseph of the year. A Central City (Col.) man keeps an Indian scalp hanging upon the wall over his desk, with a club handy, so that he can occasionally pound the tiling and imagine. it a live “ Injun.” —The Supreme Court of Louisiana seems to he in a state of war with the lower courts. Out of thirty-nine cases appealed, twenty-nine have just been either reversed, amended, or remanded. —A new epidemic has made its appearance on the plantations in Cuba. It is called “Beniber,” and attacks negroes and Chinese, but seldom the whites. The face and feet swell very much, there is severe palpitation of the heart, and death soon ensues from suffocation. —Making love at watering-places and camp-meetings is a delicioqs thing, hut the participants should remember that in real life is found business instead of flirtation, hard knocks instead of soft smiles, work instead of dalliance, and com beef Instetn of jelly cake. —Chicago Journal. —A very mean storekeeper of Eddystone, Ont., recently charged one of his female clerks who had ridden into Cobourg with him, fifty cents for the use of the buggy and fifty cents for lost time, but the young lady had him fined twenty dollars and costa for carrying passengers without a license. —“ Pa,” exclaimed Elnathan Dorkins, Jr., to his respected sire, “ pa, what is the difference ’tween a elephant and a tree ? ” Mr. Dorkings said something about both having trunks, hut was scornfully inter, ruptea by his offspring, who shouted, “Cause the tree leaves in spring, and the elephant leaves when the menagerie leaves.” —The Western Texas papers are still hammering away for a new State of West Texas. The San Antonio Herald claims that the original founders of the Texas Republic stipulated that Texas should be divided into font additional States whenever any section possessed sufficient population for admission, and hints that this time has How arrived. —The authorities took a poor man from Happy Hollow one day this week, and sent him out to the Poor-House. The parting between the poor man and his eleven dogs, which he distributed among his sympathizing relatives, was affecting in the extreme. We believe the man had a few children, too, tyit not enough to make a fuss about. —Burlington (Iowa) Hawkeye. —lt is now reasserted that the Hell Gate explosion will take place early in September. Everything is ready at the scene of operations, except the charges to be placed in the borings. The only work in progress at present is the pumping of the water from the bottom of the shaft and galleries. Between 50,000 and 60,000 pounds of explosives will be required for the blowing down of the roof and the pillars and walls which support it. —The Colorado decemlineata, vulgarly known as the potato hug, has been the innocent cause of a lawsuit in Syracuse, N. Y. A fanner whose potato plants were covered with bugs purchased from a druggist in that city a quantity of Paris green, which he distributed over the plants as far as it would go. Then he patiently awaited the result. A day or two later he found that the bugs had all left the unsprinkled pflants ana had flocked over to those that were covered with Paris green, which they were devouring with eveiy appearance of delight. Then the farmer brought suit against the druggist, who insists that his Paris green was the pure article, and ought to have poisoned the bug if it didn’t. The only way he can account for the failure is by the theory that the bugs have gradually become inured to arsenic and cannot get along without it. The case is not yet concluded.—Detroit Free Press. ' —Senator Jones tells a story, which he probably will he greatly mortified to see m print of his experience with a roulettewheel iff San Francisco. It was twentyeight years ago, and. in those days Mr. Jones was a thrifty soul, nrit above “going into a gambling house to raise a stake,” as he finely expresses it. He had been told by an experienced professional that the sale thing in roulette is always to bet Against the pile, and he faithfully followed his instructions. The consequence was that he came very near being kicked down stairs. The secret of it is that the gambier who manipulates the wheel uses a small wire which raises either color at will, and throws the ball upon the other. When the talk of the money, therefore, is on one color, and a small amounton the other, the dealer will take care to win tile large sum and pay the small one. Senator Jones was thus enabled to win by betting persistently on the gamblera’ side.— Chicago Tribune.

Impure Ice.

The idea that the freezing of water parifles it is very general; but, like many other popular notions, has no good foundation in fact. Of late the attention of many persons has been drawn to the sub-* ject, and some families in Providence have given up the use of ice for drinking. We have seen water from melted ice nrtiristjity whiefr had* bluish, greasy, scum upon it, and an offensive odor when .warned. We have also known of persons, in past years, who were troubled with nausea, depression of spirits, gastric and abdominal pains, which were attributed to the free use of ice water, and

which #easqd when the use of ice waa abandoned. This was in past years, and we have heard nothing similar this year. Whether our ice is different this year from last we do not know. In truth we do not think that any facts, in this city, have been observed with sufficient care and accuracy to justify positive conclusions in relation to the character of the ice we use. In the (Seventh Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts, we find an interesting paper by Dr. A. H. Nichols, of Boston, giving an account of an outbreak of a disease caused by impure ice, at Rye 'Beach; - a-popnlar seaside resort in New Hampshire, at the loginning of the season in 1875. Many of the guests in one of the large hotels were taken sick with nausea, giddiness, loss of appetite, diarrhea, and other symptoms, not general, but In ' some cases severe. Dr. Nichols made a thorough investigation, and traced the trouble beyond all doubt to the ice used at the hotel. This conclusion was confirmed tor an examination of the pond from which the ice was taken, and when the use of the ice was abandoned the sickness immediately ceased. The impurity of the water in this case arose from marsh mud and decomp osin sawdust, the pond being small and shal low and with a sawmill above it. The condition of the water waa such that no one Would have been tempted to use it for drinking purposes. This subject has not so far as we know, been extensively investigated; but the report of the sickness at Rye Beach, with the limited experience of others that has come to our knowledge, seems to us to render it certain: 1. That freezing does not, to any extent, remove the impunties from water. 2. That it is advisable to look after the quality of the ice that is furnished us, and to use ice water for drinking purposes with much caution; and 3. That never, in any case, should ice be furnished to the public for general purposes from any river or pond, the water of which is not perfectly safe for domestic use and for drinking* —Providence (R. I.) Journal.

An Enterprising Boy.

A writer in the Philadelphia Press says; While I was standing in one of the smaller buildings in the Centennial grounds the other day there sauntered into the room a little hoy, poorly but neatly dressed, whose bright face particularly attracted me. I began a conversation with him which I think will interest your readers. “Do you know,” said I, “what picture that is?” “That’s the old liberty bell.” “And that?” pointing to another. “That’s old Independence Hall.” I got him to write his name in the visitors’ book, when he wrote in a neat, childish hand—“ Willie Ferguson, Memphis, Tenn.” As I watched the pen going slowly over the lines, I exclaimed: “What! are you all the way from Tennessee ? How did you come on?” “A man brought me on, but when we got to Pittsbargh he left me, and I came over by myself.” - ’ “Did your papa and mamma come too?” “Sadly he said, “I have no father and mother.” “Had you any money?” “No; I told the conductors I wanted to see the Centennial, and they brought me on.” “Well, what are you doing now and where do you live?” “I live in a big boarding-house on Belmont avenue, over there, and I wash dishes, scour knives and do chores, etc.” “How did you get into the Centennial ?” said I. “Why, I paid my fifty cents like anybody else.” “How are you going to get home ?” “Why, just the way I came on,” with a bright twinkle in his clear blue eye. “And pray how old may you be ?” “Twelve years old, and I came to see the Centennial.” And all this time he stood with one little brown hand on the back of the chair, the other in his pocket, with an immensely broad-brimmed liat stuck right on the back of his curly head. He would have made a picture for an artist. With a few more questions on my part, to which he answered that he liked Machinery Hall best, and hoped to he a watchmaker when he grew to be a man, he bade us good-by ana started off again for his dear Machine * ery Hall.

Cutting Off Chinese Queues.

The China papers continue to notice the alarm -which prevails in many Chinese cities respecting the supposed cutting off of queues by some supernatural agency. The North. China Herald says: The phantasy that has been lately prevalent in the cities of Soocbow, Chinkiang, Yangchow and Nankin, touching the pranks of mischievous sprites, who have taken to cutting off the lieges’ queues, has spread to Shanghai. For several weeks little else has been talked about in the tea shops of this province and city. These sprites are of paper, cut by magicians to resemblethe human figure, and dispatched after certain incantation to create annoyance. On this occasion j they have been directed to cut the queues of numerous persons in large cities. They always presage trouble in. the state, rebellion or some thing of the kind being sure to follow their appearance. They became conspicuous, for example, a few years before the Taeping rebellion, and hence it isthatofficialsarenot a little perturbed by the present panic, seeing that it Is but one of what are, popu larly regarded as portents of a revolution The saw, “ A prosperous government is known by felicitous occurrences; a government about to be overthrown has ominous portents,” is in everybody’s mouth, and tends to effect such an overthrow. When droughts, floods, epidemics, defeats and such calamitous occurrences begin, magic comes to aid in further confusion. As an instance of the excitement which the queue cutting mania iscausing among the Chinese, we may mention that tlmcirculation of the Shenpaa has increased by several hundred since it began. One man relates that he was walking near the North Gate and suddenly he heard a sound as of rushing wind, when lo! his queue was gone Another case related is of a child who went out to play, when in a moment his queue was gone, and he came hfune, crying, to relate his loss. However all this may be, there is no doubt that a number of queues do get cut off, and that great alarm exists in. consequence. What heightens the panic is a saying that a man only lives one hundred days after the catastrophe has happened to him. Thk Burlington Hawk-Bye is inclined to harbor the conviction that, “No man can realize the geological histoiy of creation, the slow, regular development and shaping of things m the slow unfolding centuries and ages, until he has watched a gang of men at work on the streets. ”