Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1876 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

THE GENERAL ELECTION. The complete official returns in low* give Wayc* 171,327; Tilde*, 111,099; Cooper, 9,001. Hayes over Tilden 59,298. The official canvas* in Wisconsin given the following totals: Whole number of vote*, 958,088; of which Hayes received 110,087; Tilden, 128,926; Peter Cooper »nd scattering, 2,045. Hayes' majority over Tilden U 6,141. ABL Louis dispatch of the 93d ssys the State Soard of Canvasser* have completed the tabulation of returns for Presidentlsl Electors, and find that, of a total vote of 390,583, the Tilden Elector* received 209,678, the Haye* Elector* 144,898, and the Cooper Electors 3,498; Tilden’s majority over Hayes, 68,989; over Hayas and Cooper, 54,791. Aldrich, Democratic contesting Presidential Elector, on the 93d served upon the Governor of Vermont a protest against the issuing of a certificate to Sollace, Postmaster at Bridportat the time of the election. The official vote of New Hampshire is: Hayes, Tilden, 88,449; scattering, 74. Hayes over Tilden, 3,073. The returns at the office of the Secretary of State of California give a majority of one vote to Pacheco, the Republican candidate for Congress in the Fourth District. The total vote in Kentucky was 258,860. Of these Tilden had 160,445, and Hayes 98,415. Tilden’s majority 62.C30. Tilden’s official majority in New York State is 32,989. In Georgia, 85,185. In the former State Peter Cooper hadl, 987 and G. C. Smith 2,359. Jacobs, the Republican candidate for Delegate to Congress from Washington Territory, has a majority of about 800. The Territorial Council Is composed of six Republi cans and three Democrats, and the lower house of eighteen Republicans and twelve Democrats. • There were present before the Louisiana Returning Board on the 95th, for the Republicans, Messis. Stoughton, Van Allen, Wilcox, Kelly and Harker, and for the Democrats, Messrs. Palmer, Trumbull, G. B. Smith, Bigler and Julian. After some other proceedings, the votes in the contested parishes of De Soto, Ouachita, Lincoln, East and West Feliciana, Richland, Caddo and Sabine were announced from consolidated statements, the totals being 5,787 for Haye* and 10,755 for Tilden. The votes of these parishes were not counted, there being contests fixed for a hearing the following week. The following account of the subsequent proceedings before the Board is given by the Associated Press:

“When the returns from the parishes marked contested were opened, the Demo'cratic counsel were allowed to be present. The returns from De Soto Parish were brought in and contained in one package sealed with wax. When the seals were broken by members of the Board there weraJound inside the consolidated votes of the Commissioners, statements, and tallysheets. Attached to the returns were a large number of protests and affidavits. The Secretary of the Board said* the package had been received on the 18th Inst, and was entered in his receiptbook, and the returns, he said, had come by mail. In the course of inspection it was discovered that one of the protests of the Supervisor charging general intimidation, was dated Nov. 25, and sworn to in this city before the Commissioner of the Circuit Court When called upon to explain how a protest dated on the 25th lost, to-day, could get into a sealed registered package •received by mail on the 18th inst , the Secretary said he had received two packages. “He was detected by one of the Democratic counsel present in the act of making another entry on his book of two packages received. “After some delay another package was produced, and found to contain a consolidated statement of votes and Commissioners’ returns, but no protests or affidavits. “ The members of the Board were unable to explain the matter, and Senator Sherman, of the Republican Visiting Committee, remarked that there was no use to disguise the fact that the returns had been opened and protests inserted after the package of returns had been received.” ' The South Carolina State Supreme Court on the 25th, entered a judgment of f 1,500 fine each and commitment of all the Board of Canvassers to jail until released by order of the Court United States District-Attorney Corbin, counsel for the State Board of Canvassers, disclaimed any intention of Contempt, and asked and was granted until the 27th to satisfy the Court The Court declined to issue an order giving certificates to members of the Legislature from Edgefield and Leurens Counties, refused by the Board, but stated that such members could obtain a copy of the record from the Clerk of the Court, which would be equivalent to a certificate. The five members of the Board of Canvassers who had been constructively arrested, reported at the jail in the evening, and were confined therein. Their names are: E. L. Cardoza, Treasurer; T. C. Dunn, Comptroller; Gen. William Stone, Attorney-Gen-eral; H. E. Payne, Secretary of State, and H. W. Purvis, ex-Adjutant and Inspector-Gen-eral. It is stated that the Secretary of State claims that the Board had not disobeyed any order of the Court, and that the law was on their side. LZ

Secretary of War Cameron received the following order from the President on the 26th: Sm: D.H. Chamberlain u now Governor of the State of South Carolina beyond any controversy, and remaina so until the new Governor be duly and legally inaugurated under the Constitution. The Government has been called HP°?. ,X ? ‘‘ d s?* tn . e ■ a ‘J«y “ d “»*»' forces of the United State* to maintain a republican form »f Government in the State against resistance too formidable io be overcome by the State authorities. You are directed, therefore, to sustain Gov Chamberlain tn his authority against domestic violence until otherwise directed? The Secretary of War telegraphed the above order to Gen. Koger, at Columbia, 8. C-, and instructed him to advise with the Governor and dispose his troops in such manner as may be deemed best in order to carry out the spirit of the order. A Greenboro (N. C.) special to the New York Timet of the 27th, says the returns show that the vote for Hayes and Settle in North Carolina would reach and probably exceed 108,000. Tilden’s majority would reyh 14,000, and Vance would ran some 4,000 or 5,000 behind him. The Democrats were very much excited by the discovery of the fact that one of Tilden’s electors—William B. Glenn-is inelligible. Heiaone of the commissioners appointed < by the Southern Claims Commission to take Tbd following is the result of the official count of the Vvtes for President in Michigan:

Hayes, 106,584; Ttjdcn, 141,095; Cooper, V. 009. Hayes over Tilden, 95,439. The Board of Stole Canvassers of South Carolina were brought before the United State* Circuit Court at Columbia, on application for writs of rwyws.on the 27th. Time was given until ten o’clock on the 29th to make a return to the application for the writs, pending which the Board was placed in charge of the United State* Marshal. A request, signed by counsel in the ease, was sent to Chief-Justice Waite, stating that a conflict of jurisdiction had arisen, and that the i**ues were grave, and asking him to preside in the case. He responded that the business of the Supreme Court required hi* presence in Waahlngton. The official return* give Hayes 2,787 majority in California. * Tilden's majority in New Jersey, sccording to the official count, is 11,945. The total vote in Kansas for President was: Hayes, 78,832; Tilden, 87.902; Temperance, 110; American Alliance, 12. A special to the New York Herald of the 28th says Col. Thomas B. Keogh, the Chairman of the Republican State Committee, had filed a protest with Gov. Broden against an announcement of the vote of North Carolina for Presidential Electors. He enumerated twenty-three counties to which be objected or. the ground of illegal returns. He claimed that the throwing out of these counties would, with the omission of eight counties not heard from, give the State to Hayes. The Florida Board of Canvassers reconvened at ten on morning of the 28th. As the opening of the sealed packages whs proceeded with the Republicans gave notice that they would contest the vote in nineteen counties, and the Democrats gave notice of contest in nine counties. The result of the Electoral vote as read from the face of the returns show Republican majorities of 7,460 and Democratic majorities of 7,418. Dade County was not yet in. The Democrat* claimed twenty-three omitted votes in Clay County, which appeared on the face of the return from that county, but were not added up in the general result because it was not in evidence that the inspectors and clerk were sworn. The Democrats had a certified copy of the returns from Baker County, which gave them a majority of ninety-four, btria new return was read by the Board, which, bythrqwing out several Democratic precincts, gave forty-one Republican majority. At the evening session Mr. Pasco, for the Democrats, demanded to know if the Board had not received another return from Baker County than the one which had been read, He charged that the returns from that county had been suppressed, and others substituted therefor. The Secretary subsequently read the returns, which the Associated Press report says were signed by the Clerk and Justice and properly attested, and which gave a Democratic majority of ninety-five. It appears that two returns, one 1 signed as above and 1 another signed by the Judge and Sheriff and Justice, were sent up. With the first return admitted the Tildeu Electors would have 115 majority. With both returns, held subject to future decision, the Democrats had two Electors by five majority, one by three majority, and the Republicans have one Elector by one majority. - ’

A special dispatch to the Cincinnati Ga. zette explains as follows the question relative to the De Soto returns before the Louisiana Board: “ The returns were receipted for by the Clerk of the Board as having been made on the 18tn lust. Sealed and in the same package was contained the affidavit of the Supervisor of the parish, made in Orleans Parish, charging fraud and intimidation. The question naturally arose how an affidavit of the 25th iust. got into a package, which was sealed with wax, and received on the 18th, seven days before. The clerk promptly explained that he had received a package purporting to be the returns from De Soto on the 18th insL The package was brought before the Board aud opened, and was found to contain the returns of the Supervisor, but not accompanied by the additional affidavits. The package which had been opened was received yesterday, having been mailed to the Board on that day, and as having been retained by the Supervisors for the purpose of attaching the affidavit The results as given by the return of the 18th tallied exactly with the result in the second return, ana showed no tampering with the returns, and all the Republican delegation are satisfied that there is nothing wrong in the transaction.’’

After some preliminary proceedings on the 28th, the Parish of Ouachita was taken up, and four negro witnesses were introduced, in behalf of the Republicans, and were examined by the Board. Their testimony was as to alleged intimidation and outrages. One of the witnesses, named Eliza Pinkston, told a fearful tale of cruelty. She recited that her husband and one child had been murdered and a little girl seven years old was taken from the house at the same time and had not been seen since. The witness herself had been a victim of extreme cruelty, and was unable to walk without help into the Senate Chamber. Ben James, another of the witnesses, had been also terribly wounded. The Democrats would introduce rebutting testimony on the 29th. One of the parties mentioned as engaged in the murder of Henry Pinkston was arrested in New Orleans on the 28th, after the testimony of Eliza Pinkston. His name is Tom Lyon. A Columbia (S. C.) telegram of the 28th says that,at ten o’clock a. m., a company of United States troops were marched into the State House, guards being placed at the doors to prevent unauthorized persons from entering. At twelve M., the hour for the assembling of the Legislature, the Democrats formed in a body and marched to the State House, headed by the Edgefield delegation. They were refused admission, and Mr. Shepherd, of the Edgefield delegation, read a vigorous protest. Afterward the Democrats withdrew to the Richland Rifle Club hall, and held a caucus to which no outsider was admitted. The Republicans organized by the election of ex-Congressman. E. A. M. Mackey as Speaker, when they proceeded to swear in the members. A. O. Jones (colored) was elected Clerk. They subsequently adjourned to meet at noon on the 29th. In the Senate, Swells (colored) was elected President pro tern., and a committee appointed to wait upon the Governor and inform him that the General Assembly was organized and ready to receive any communication he might make. The regular standing committees were appointed. The Democrats appointed on the committee to wait on Gov. Chamberlaln declined to act During the evening the Democrats organized a Legislature by the election of W. H. Wallace as Speaker and J. S. Lloan as Clerk. Judge Cooke, of the Eighth Clrenhj swore In the Officers and members. Sixty-four Democrats were sworn fa, and two Republicans who withdrew from

the State-House Legislature. The Supreme Court had not yet decided the question of counting the electoral vote. FROM WASHINGTON. The report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenua contain the following recapitulation of internal revenue receipts for the several State* and Territories during the last fiscal year: Alabama, 896,968.61; Arisons, 811,97636; Arkansas, 868,880.26; California, 88,034,04416; Colorado, 872,668.57: Connecticut, 8656,448; Dakota, 812,156.36; Delaware, 8417,227.56; District of Columbia, 8114,579.90; Florida, 8176,85183; Georgia, 8=152,588.80; Idaho, 816,993 82; Illinois, t 823,699,187.27; Indiana, 85,567,090.29; lo*a, 81,211,771.97; Kansas, 8149,889.63; Kentucky, 87,653,938.31; Louisiana, 8528,083.78; Maine, 890,655.97; Maryland, 82,570,264.62; Massachusetts, 12,748,941.48; Michigan, 82,065,297.04; Minnesota, 8247,922.73; Mississippi, 888, 448.02; Missouri, 82,972,693.49; Montana, 820,982.80; Nebraska, 8502,395.59; Nevada, 868,231.87; New Hampshire, 8260,04689; New Jersey, 88,771,069.06; New Mexico, 822,146.60; New York, 814,158,374.88; North Carolina, 81,670,308.05; Ohio, 816,568,290.26; Oregon, 848,446.76; Pennsylvania, 85,969,917.33; Rhode Island, 8221,932.25; South Carolina, 8105,565.57; Tennessee, 8591,882.39; Texas, 8241,153.48; Utah, 833,381.86; Vermont, 847,050.80; Virginia, 87,818,617.08; Washington Territory, 820,389.63; West Virginia, 8430,596.93; Wisconsin, 88,307,537.81; Wyoming. 815,063.37. Total, 8110,001,13860. A Washington Associated Press dispatch of the 24th says the total number of troops ordered to Washington up to that date was between 800 and 900. This Included eight companies, or batteries already there, and four companies of infantry which Lad received orders to come East from Fort Sill. The latter were sent from New York city to the West last spring to participate in the summer campaign against the hostile Indians.

THE EAST. The United States steamer Franklin, with Wm. M. Tweed on board, arrived at New York on the 23d. During the afternoon he was transferred to the custody of Sheriff Connor, and shortly after lodged in Ludlow Street Jail. The “ Boss” evaded all attempts at an interview, and only received his son. Extraordinary precautions have been taken to prevent bis escape, and directions have been issued that he shall be treated tho same as any other prisoner. The New York Tribune of the 25th says Gov. Hendricks, in his interview with Gov. Tilden, said that public sentiment in the Western States in regard to the election was so strong that he was impelled to come East to ascertain the condition of public feeling there. He expressed his “ admiration at the conduct of Southern Democrats who, without the least manifestation of turbulence, had appealed everywhere to the courts,” and was glad both in the West and on his journey Eastward, to notice the disposition of all parties to have matters amicably and lawfully settled. Gov. Tilden is said to have fully concurred with all of Gov. Hendrick’s remarks. The statue of Daniel Webster, donated to New York City by Gordon W. Burnham, was Unveiled on the 25th, with appropriate ceremonies, in the presence of a large number of spectators. A scandalous breach-of-promise case which, for two weeks previous, had been on trial before Judge Donahue, in one of the New York city courts, and in which a wealthy Spaniard named Del Valle was the defendant, was concluded on the 25th, by a verdict of fifty dollars for Miss Henriques, the plaintiff.

Hon. J. Milton Turner (colored) United States Minister to Liberia, having been refused accommodation at the Astor House, ’New York City, has commenced an action under the’provisions of the Civil-Rights bill, to recover 85,000. On the 28th, the Governor of Rhode Island called an extra session of the General Assembly, to meet Dec. 1, to elect a Presi dential Elector in place of George H. Corliss, adjudged by the Supreme Court ineligible. Gold closed in New York on the 28th, at 1.08%. The following were the closing quotations for produce: No 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, (New) [email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee, (New) [email protected]; Oats, Western Mixed and State,B3@4Bc; Corn, Western Mixed, 55@58c; Pork, Mess, 816.87%; Lard, 10%c; Flour, good to choice, |[email protected]; White Wheat Extra, [email protected]. Cattle, 8%@10%c for good to extra. Hogs, live, [email protected]. Sheep, 4%@6%c. At East Liberty, Pa., on the 27th, cattle brought: Beat, [email protected]; medium, 84.50 @4.75; common, [email protected]. Hogs sold— Yorkers, [email protected]; Philadelphias, 85.70@ 5.80. Sheep brought [email protected]' according to quality.

WEST AND SOUTH. The Chicago Times of a recent date says a pretty definite idea of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry may be obtained from the following figures: The Grange has some twenty State purchasing agencies at least, three of which do an annual business of $200,000. During the past year it has had in active operation five Grange Banking Associations, one of which (at San Francisco) has a capital of $5,000,000, of which $500,000 was paid in; five steamboats dr packet lines; thirty manufacturing associations, whose capital ranges from $200,000 to $500,000; fifty associations fcr shipping goods and shipping purposes; thirty-two grain elevators; sixteen grist-mills, one of which produces 100 barrels of flour per day: twenty-two warehouses for storing goods; three tanneries and six smitheries. These are distinctly Grange enterprises, started with capital contributed by members of the Order, managed by them, and producing for their benefit. In addition there have been established 160 Grange stores to furnish members with supplies at wholesale prices, plus freight and hauling—the customers whofare stockholders dividing the profits. The Order has dedicated 144 hally, built or bought to sMe as places of meeting, one of which cost SIO,OOO. A dispatch received in New York on the 24th from Raleigh, N. C., says Dr. A. J. Glover, Supervisor of Elections at Swan Quarter, Hyde County, N. C.,was drowned on the night of Nov. 6, with Republican tickets for that county in his possession. The body was found some days after, nearly upright in the water, with his eoat drawn over his head and other evidences’ of violence. The election ticket* were never found. Several wooden buildings on West Madison street, near the river, in Chicago, were destroyed by fire on the morning of the 27th. Among them was a restaurant and lodging house, in which four inmates—James Allen, Agnes Healy, Emma Bradley and George

Bovad— were burned to death. Allen lost his life while trying to >ave Agnes. He leaves a wife and five children tn Boston, Mas*. Agnes Healy was a»ervant-girl, aged sixteen years. Emma Bradley was twentythree years old, and had been married only three months, her husband being an industrious young carpenter. George Bovad was a clerk in the restaurant, and was twenty-six years of age.. Rev. J. W. Williamson, D. D. t the distinguished Universalist aqthor and and one of the fathers of Odd Fellowship in America, died at Cincinnati on the 26th. He was seventy yean old. Com. Paul Bhirliy, of the United States Navy, died at Columbus, Ohio, on the 25th. An Old Fort Reno dispatch of the 26th, via Fort Fettevnan, Wy., Nov. 27, says Gen. McKenzie with ten companies of cavalry had just struck a large body of Sioux. Companies I and M, Fourth Cavalry, had been nearly annihilated. Lieut. McKinney was killed. They were sending mules from the infantry camp to bring in the dead and wounded. The fight was progressing at last accounts. In Chicago, on the 28th, spring wheat No. 2, closed at 81.12%@1.12%c cash. Cash corn closed at 43%c for No. 2; cash oats No. 2 sold at 32‘4@82%c; December options sold at 32%c; Barley, No. 2, 65@65Mc; Rye, No. 2, 66(®(56%c. Cash mess pork (New) closed at [email protected]; Lard, 89.70@ 9.72 ML Good to choice beeves brought 84.25 @5.00; medium grades, 83.50(34.00; butchers’ stock [email protected]; stock cattle, etc., 82.80 @3.30. Hogs brought 15.50(35.80 for good to choice. Sheep sold at [email protected] for good to choice. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Alfred Allott, an extensive iron-master and coal mine proprietor, of Sheffield, England, has failed. His liabilities aggregateover 81,000,000. On the 24th, the Servian Minister of War issued an order entirely reorganizing the Servian army. It is divided into an active army and a reserve army. The former is composed of four corps. According to a Hamburg dispatch of the 24th, the Russian Government had contracted with a German firm for the immediate delivery of 3,soo‘torpedoes. According to London telegrams of the 25th, great distress prevailed in the iron mining and producing districts of Great Britain. Many of the furnaces had been shut down, thousands of workmen discharged, and the wages of those retained Very largely reduced. The same condition, and depression prevailed also in Germany and Belgium. James Whiteside, Lord Chief-Justice of the Court of Queen’p Bench in Ireland, died on the 26th. The Czar of Russia on the 25th issued an imperial ukase providing that, after Jan. 1, 1877, all customs duties shall be paid in gold, and that common carriers be relieved from responsibility when interfered with by circumstances beyond their control. In St. Petersburg and Moscow alone the subscriptions to the National loan exceeded the 100,900,000 rubles asked for. On the 27th, throughout Europe, speculations and rumors in respect to the Eastern question were abundant and contradictory. England and Russia were reported to be thoroughly in accord, and to have fully arranged the future programme, which was said to be an eminently peaceful one. On the other hand, it was reported that Russia was continuing her war preparations on a gigantic scale, and that a conflict with Turkey was deemed inevitable. A London dispatch of the 27th says Capt. Allan Young, who commanded the Pandora in her late trip to the Arctic regions, will, next spring, again attempt the Northwest passage in that vessel. On the 28th the French Chamber of Deputies rejected a bill to increase the stipends paid to the priests which was supported by the Government. A ministerial crisis was threatened. An Athens dispatch of the 28th says a ministerial crisis existed in Greece.

A Bloody Business.

A vivid picture of frontier Texas life and death comes from Corsicana. Six men start in a wagon to go from Fort Griffin to Sau Antonio. Two of the men own the wagon. The other four are passengers. A~days journey from Fort Concho the party encamp. Two of the passengers persuade the owners of the team to go out hunting with, them, and they go, leaving the other two men in charge of the camp. The two passengers who went bunting come back without the owners of the wagon, and tell the camp watchers that they have killed tlie owners in order to have the wagon all to themselves. The two innocent men take their choice of being killed on the spot or keeping quiet and sharing the proceeds. They acquiesce in the latter alternative and the four drive on to Concho. Here one of the innocent men interviews the sheriff, and the two murderers, snuffing danger in the air, hastily gear up and rapidly drive off. The sheriff summons a posse of six men, and gallops in pursuit. The sheriff’s force overtakes the wagon at Kickapoo Springs and captures one of the two murderers before he can use his arms. The other runs to a thicket of hackberry bushes where he lies down flat on the ground and opens fire upon the Sheri tl and his posse. The Sheriff and his men fire upon the hackberry grove from the open prairie and fight the ruffian in this way from ten in the morning until three in the afternoon. One of the Sheriff’s party is shot, and he turns upon the prisoner, shoots and kills him in his tracks, and then lies down and dies. The man in the hackberry grove finally ceases firing and then the sheriff and several wounded men move upon the thicket They find the murderer pierced by several balls, and dead. Five or six dead men in all: no work for the courts, and no owners for the horses and wagon. — St. Louie Republican.

—During ■ the progress of a fire in Quebec, not very long ago, two boys, who were watching it from a cliff, lost their balance and fell over. One of them was caught in a small tree, and clung there till he was rescued. He need not have had all that trouble, however, for the other one, who tumbled the whole distance to the bottom, about 200 feet, was picked up uninjured. Probably neither one of them will get near the edge of high cliffs very soon again. Mr. David Crockett, who resides seven miles southwest of Mexico, Mo., while clearing rubbish out of his killed sixty rats. After clearing the crib of shocks and rats, he commenced to haul corn from a number of pens in his field, and while sb doirig killed 270 more rats, and then wound up by captaring eleven more in the open field.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.— Fielding. —We must be as courteous to a man as to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. —ls in conversation you think a person wrong, rather hint a difference of opinion than offer a contradiction. —Life is a stormy and dangerous voyage. The vessel we start in—our cradle—is childhood’s first rock.— Punch. New Tears day the people of India are to have their happiness completed by the formal announcement of their English Empress. —Don’t l<x>k too hard, except for some, thing agreeable. We can find all the disagreeable tilings in the world between our hats and boots.— Hunt. ~New York city claims to eat seventy million eggs per year. No wonder the hens feel as if they were being ground into the dust by tyrants’ heel. —Doctor—Only winged again! You won’t get much of a bag to-day, Charlie. Charlie (nettled) —Impossible to kill every time. I don’t load with prescriptions. —lndolence is a distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of a human frame. —A pet cat jumped upon a power press in a Troy printing office to see how die old thing worked, and the next few papers thrown off were full of the sad history of the feline race. —The plan of endowing the conductors and brakemen of railroads with police powers, so that they may arrest and hold evil-doers is rapidly gaining favor throughout the country. —Jennie June thinks a knowledge of cooking is what the poor need most. We don't like to dispute with a lady, but it seems to us something to cook might be fully as necessary, though we may be wrong.-:- Exchange. —A woman, hearing a great deal about u preserving autumn leaves,” concluded to put. up a few jars of them. She told a neighbor recently that she didn’t think they would ever be fit to eat, and tli*t she might just as well have thrown her sugar away. —The Alert and Discovery, on their return to England, brought with them samples of wheat planted by the crew of the Polaris upon a previous Arctic expedition upon the remote Northern soil. The grain best suited to those icy regions is rye. —A bickering pair of Quakers were lately heard in Jugh controversy, the husband exclaiming: “I am determined to have one quiet week with thee!" “But how wilt thou be able to get it?” said the taunting spouse. “ I will keep thee a week after thou ait dead,” was the Quaker’s rejoinder. —lt is a touching comment upon the hollowness of humau declarations, to see the man who is groaning because he sees the country going to the bow-wows on account of the dishonor and corruption of its political leaders, innocently stand on tlie scales while he weighs a load of coal for a customer — Burlington Hawk-Eye. —Nothing makes a young gian so happy as to get arotiuo '.o the postoffice after it is closed and see a letter in his box; to have his heart whisper that it is from her; to drcam sweet and tender fancies, hallowed with love’s sacredness all night, and to come down in the morning and find it a bill for $7.50 for his last year’s business suit. —He could remember the names of all the letters of the alphabet except B, and to impress that upon his memory Jennie told him to think of the bee. Next time he was asked to name the letters he remembered the first, but the second stumped him again: he hesitated a moment, then with a smile said: “ Oh! I know; that’s the stinger!” —A young Danbury boy proposed to his father that lie go fishing, but his father had other business for him that day. “Father,” said the young man, “do you know what Solomon Said about boys going fishing?” “Solomon didn’t say anything about it,” replied the parent. “Yes, he did. He said, if you spare the rod you spoil the child.” “I won’t spare it,” said the old gentleman, promptly. And he didn’t, but the son thinks he got hold of the wrong rod.— Danbury Newt. —The editor of the Pioche (Nev.) Record thus consoles himself in his poverty: What fools men are to worry because they ure not as well off as “that fellow across the street.” The richest man in town will be as .forgotten fifty years from now as the mason that,, built the Rocky Mountains. In 1861 we attended the funeral of a millionaire. In 1871 we visited the grave and saw four bob-tailed pigs rooting at the sods of the grassy mound that covered all that was left of old pomposity. And that was the end—a neglectea grave, with four stub-tailed porkers rooting up the sub-soil. —A down-town merchant, who recently returned from the Centennial, slates that he was struck by the familiar appearance of many of the so-called Oriental goods sold at the Turkish and Moorish bazaars and other places, and when he examined them—particularly the things sold as from Jerusalem and Palestine—he recognized them. On his return, he called at the office in Maiden Lane where the same goods are sold by sample, and ascertained that the place of manufacture was near Worcester, Mass., for one kind and at Pawtucket, R. 1., for the rest. It was imparted to him as a trade secret that these articles are made expressly for the Centennial sales, and the demand lias been so great that the workmen employed on these things have been forced to work over,hours to supply them. The whole stock of some of this Oriental traveler is made up of articles received from this city, and the sales have been so successful that large profits have been received from the venture, which recalls the joke current a couple of years ago when old lace was tlie rage for women. 'Hie joke ran that the demand for ancient lace was so great that several factories were compelled to run day and night to supply it. The Centennial sales are almost over, and, after that —well, Oriental goods will be cheaper. — N. Y. Cor. Chicago Tribune.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The dwelling in which W. C. Ralston lived on Pine street, San Francisco, has been leased and will be used as a private family hotel. —Henry L. SoMace, the Brieport (Vt.) postmaster whose position on the Republican electoral ticket has given rise to so much discussion, is a brother-in-law of John G. Saxe, the poet. —Mr. R. W. Emerson’s daughter, Miss Ellen Emerson, will some time write her father’s biography. Thia young lady « miid by Mrs. Mary Clemmer to be the incarnation of common sense.”

—Walt Whitman satisfies the importunate autograph-hunters by Informing them that his photograph, with signature attached, can be obtained on Herv’ing one dollar to the Matron of the Orphans’ Home at Camden, N. J. 'Hie proceeds are entirely for the benefit of the orphans. —Senator Norwood, of Georgia, is forty-six years old, and the son of a tanner. When elected to the United States Senate he did not know thirty membeteo* the Legislature that elected him. He is known as “ Tanyard Tom,” and can beat any man in Georgia telling a joke.-—W Y. Herald. —A former mathematical pforesswr in Dartmouth certainly understoodtiiormigjily his business of calculation, for when lie went abroad, his admirers relate, be estimated his expenses so accurately that he took ju*t enough money to pay ail hfe bills, and walked into his own home when he returned with exactly one cent >n his pocket. v —Dr. Max Henry Stein, who has just died in Brooklyn, provided by will that his body should be burned by a cremation society, if ary should be found convenient at the time of his death. The World thinks his amiable purpose will not be carried out, since he has not left sufficient money to pay the stoker. “It is understood that amusement of this description is stricter at the corpse’s expense.” —The romance of the life of John Howard Payne, which has been a favorite theme with newspaper writers for a number of years, is- increased by a story for which the St. Louis Republican makes itself responsible. “It is not perhaps generally known” says that journal, “ that Payne was madly in love with Miss Maria Mayo, of Richmond, Va., afterward Mrs. Winfield Scott. Miss Mayo was a famous belle, and as remarkable for her wit as for her beauty. Poof Payne was not; the only one who laid his Heart at Jicr. feet ana had to take it up again; but he probably suffered more from his disappointment than the rest of the rejected lovers. When all hope of winning the fair prize was abandoned he went abroad, never to return, and there is no doubt that the corroding sorrow hastened him to the grave he found in a foreign land. The tradition in Richmond is that Scott addressed Miss Mayo when he was only a Captaih in the army, and received a prompt disMlssal. He repeated the experiment when a Major, but with no better success. The third time he proposed he wore th&,epaulettes of a general, and then was accepted. A friend of the lady asked her w'liy she changed her mind. The reply was, ‘ln my estimation there is. a vast diflerfebce between Captain or even Major Scott ana General Scott.’ ”

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