Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1877 — Page 2

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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

>■ Micwbci mEwunnc mews. p.i. iwn.n Waut. Doited SutM Navy, on the retired lint, died in Washington n few days ego. He had been in bedlkeeKfcfor a tang time. Man. Kin 8. Oum haa entered mitt u Waabington against the Hon. Sinon Ouneron for breach of promise of marriage a year ago,, laying her damages at $50,000. She la about thirty-five or forty years of age, and is mid to be a* widow from Pennsylvania. She is employed in the Ttatnury Department Mr. Cameron is nearly seventy-eight yean of **«■ D. L. Moodt has published a card to the effect that the contributions for the family of P. P. Bliss have been so liberal that, with the addition to what he left, they are well provided for, and collections should cease. A. Varna dispatch of the 9th says the Chief of the 8t Petenborg Press Bureau had been dismissed by order of the Cssr, because he permitted the newspapers to nee language detrimental to peace and tending to disturb the relations with friendly foreign Governments. It is also staled that Russia had ordered the mobili■jrtim of three more army corpe to operate on the Upper Danube In the event of war with Turkey. Tnn proceedings against Gen. Belknap in the Criminal Court of the District of Oolnmhla, upon an Indictment charging him with bribery, have been dismissed, a nett* prat, having been entered by the DtatriM Attorney, with the approval of tiro President and the Attorney-General. A Greensboro (N. U.) dispatch of the 9th to the Internal Revenue Bureau at Waabington, says that, at a trial of a distiller before the United States Commissioner in Henderson County, on the Bd, twenty armed mounted men attacked the court, fatally wounding the Deputy Marshal and the defendant Other officials escaped. A Belgrade dispatch of the 10th says the Servian Ministry and the Turkish Savoy had agreed on a basis of peace. A London dispatch of the 10th says forty Yarmouth and Lowestoft fishing vessels, with 900 persons on board, were missing, and were believed to have been wrecked. Vessels had been sent out to search for them A London dispatch of the 11th says the British coal-owners had resolved to import cheap labor from China. A Calcutta dispatch of a recent date says a gunpowder explosion had occurred at Adhemabad, by which fifty persons were killed and 100 wounded. Bmi«.Amn»Ai. Thkodobous Ballet, of the United States Navy, died at Washington on the 10th. A Hone Hone dispatch of a late date ■ays the Chinese Government had absolutely refuaed to sanction the farther employment of Chinese Coolies in the Spanish Colonies. This decision had dis forbad the amicable relations existing with Spsia. The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company are reported to have paid the Widow of L. C Crain, of New Haven, Conn., $5,175. Mr. Craip was killed at Ashtabula. Thb Supreme Court of Utah has overruled the exceptions taken to the rulings and sentence of John D. Lee, the Mountain Meadows murderer, and ordered the Second District Court to fix another day for the execution. Counsel have given notice of an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. Reports laid before the Dominion Parliament show that the trade with the United States, during 1876, aggregated $76,000,009, the excess of imports over exports being $19,000,000. Belgrade telegrams of the 19th state that a new insurrection had broken out in Bosnia. The Russian authorities in Poland had distributed printed notices, threatening -with severe punishment ail Pates who should join the Turkish Army. The importation into this country from Germany of neat cattle and hides of neat cattle has been prohibited until further orders, because of the rinderpest prevailing In Germany. Tut Acting Secretary of the Treasury has issued the thirty-ninth call for the redemption of 5-90 bonds of 1865, May and November. The call is for $10,000,000, off which $7,000,000 are coupon and $8,000,000 registered bonds, the principal and interest to be pud at the Treasury on and after the 19th of May next, interest to cease on that day. At Omaha, a few days ago. Caroline Lambert, aged 101 years, while dressing a awe arm with kerosene, spilled some of the oil on her clothes, which she accidentally ignited. She was burned almost ton crisp, and died soon after the acd-deuLi-,-,:.;-ii; The Republican State Convention of Michigan, to nominate one candidate for Justice of the Supreme Court and two for Regents of the University, to be voted for at the State election in April, baa been called to meet at Lansing on the 7th of March. It was stated in London on the 18th that a treaty had bom signed to permit the pamage of Russian troops through "xSSL has hem recently transmitted to the Boston Globe from Salem, Mam., by tire telephone, the Salem reporter’s voice being easily recognised In the office in Boston. This is the first instance of a press report being orally transmitted, nod shows the uses to which this

wonderful invention may in the future be p«*- t : jr T t Pnrrr-rrvE lives were lost by a recent explosion in tin Graisssssac Coal Mine, ? o*•'0 *•' Col. Gordon, the African explorer, hsa been appointed Governor of the Egyptian Province of Soudan. According to letters recently received in London from an English physician with Mukhtar Pasha’s army in Tfsbinje. the Turkish troops were in a dreadful condition on account of the lack of hospital accommodations. From twenty to thirty soldiers were dying daily from dysentery and typhoid fever. A RECENT Washington telegram says a bill had been drafted to meet substantially the recommendations of the President in his recent special message with regard to early specie payments, and. submitted to him, as it probably would be to the Committee of Ways and Means. Its provis ions differed in several respects from the suggestions of the President, but there was reason to believe that he would not seriously object to the changes. The south-bound passenger train on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad was ditched seven miles north of Little Rock, Ark., on the morning of the 14th. The fireman was killed and the engineer badly hurt. The accident was caused by some one tearing up a rail.

FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Friday, Feb. 9.—A bill was introduced Is the Senate, to authorise and equip an expedition to the Arctic Sena, according to plane suggested by Cap?. Mowgato. A bill was passed to encourage and promote telegraphic communication between America and Europe, a line to be constructed with the American end at Baltimore. The amendment* to the For ill cation Appropriation bill were Indited upon, and a Conference Committeewaa ordered....Bill* were paaeed in the Honae -providing for a diatribailon of award* made in convention between the United States and Mexico; the Defldencv Appropriation bill. Majority and minority report* were made, ordered printed and recommitted, from the Special Committee on Louisiana Affairs, the former concluding with a resolution declaring that thn Democratic Electors received a majority or the vote* in Louisiana; that iht pretended canvass sod compilation of the vote for Electors by ihe Board of Betsmlng OBoars was wtth.mt authority of law. fraudulent and void, and that the vote of that State cannot be coanted for Hayes and Wheeler without the confirmation and approval of the illegal and frandnleut action of said Retaming Board. Tne minority report recommends Um adoption of a resolution declaring that the Republican Electors have been elected In Louisiana, and that the election waa examined into, determined, declared and promnlgat d by the proper authorities of said State under all f rms of law and in compliance with the Constitution of the United Stales. Saturday, Feb. 10.—In the Senate, the objections submitted by Mr. Field to the decision of the Electoral Commission in the Florida case were read, and, after debate, an order that tbe Senate do not concnr in snch decision was defeated—yeas. SB: n*'t,44—and a resolnton waa theu adopted ei to 88, a strict party vote—indorsing the Commisston'a decision, notwithstanding the objections made thereto.... In the Mouse, the Senate amendment* to the Indian and tbe Military Academy Appropriation bill- were non-conenrred in. A lengthy dtacaseion occurred on a motion to take a recess pending tbe consideration of the objection t tbe decision of tbe Electoral Commission in tho Florida case, and snch recess was finally decided npon- IBS to tub—until len o'clock on the morning of the 18th. The objection* to the decision Interposed in the Honae are to the effect that the Commission refused to receive competent and material evidence tending to pr ve that the action of the Florida Returning Board was corrupt ana f readnleut, and In disregard of law, and with intent to defeat the will of the people; ihat the Commission refused to recognize the right of the State Courts to review tne action of the Board, and that the decision all evidence tending to prove that all the departments of the State Government had decreed as frandnleut all action of Gov. Stearns sndthe *tate Cauvassersliy which tbe Electors recognised by the Commission had been certified to, etc. Monday, Feb. 19.—A resolution was submitted, in the Senate, providing for the arrest of Conrad C. Jourdan, Cashier of the Third National Bank of New York, he having failed to appear before the Committee on Privilege' and Elections end produce theaoconn s with that bank of Samnel J. Tilden, Wm. T. P-lton and A- 8. Hewitt... .In the House, a resoln'lon was adopted so amending the rales that, pending the count of the Electoral vote, and when the House Is not engaged therein, it shall, on assemb ling eve-y calendar day after recess from the dav preceding, proceed at twelve o'clock with its business as though the legislative day had expired by adjournment—provided that the counting of the Electoral votes sha.l not be interfered with under the resolution. Tuesday, Feb. 18.—The credentials of D. T. Corbin, as Senator-elect from South Carolina, signed by D. H. Chamberlain as Governor, were presented end placed on file in the Senate. An amendment to the rales was agreed to providing that, daring the session of the Electoral Commission, each calendar day, when lesralative bosine-* shall have been tnnsac.ed, snail tie treated as such, and <be journal* of the two houses of Congre-a shall be kept and dated. The resolution providing for the a rest of Mr. Jourdan, Cashier of tbe third National Bank or New York, was agreed to. A Conference .Committee was appointed on the Ind an Appr. priation bill. „. In the House, the Senate bill to encoorage telegraphic communication between the United States and Europe was passed, as was alse the Senate resolution that each calendar day shonld be conatde e<i as a legislative day, and that the journal of the day before should be so dated. The report o( the Committee on the hlection in Florida, declaring that the Tilden Klecots had been elected In that State, was con leered, Mr. Purman taking part in the debate and declaring his belief that the Tilden Electors were traiy elected in bis Bto # (Florida). Mr. Wood burn (Nevada), a member of the Committee, took issue with Mr. Par-man, and declared that the Hayes Electors had been duty elected. Wednesday, Feb. 14.—1 n the Senate, bill* were passed—removing the political disabilities of Joseph K. John-Urn, or Virginia; providing far tbe preparation and publication of a new edition of the Revised S,states ot the Un ted States; appropriates fTft)o to pay the expenses of the Electoral Commission. Tne bill to amend the Pacific Railroad act, so as to create a sinking fund for the liquids ton or Indebtedness due the Government o- the Pacific Railroad Companies was considered and amended .. In t * Home, the Navnl Appropriation bill (*IX4-7.884) was considered in Committee of <b* Whole. The majoti y res -l»tion relative to the Florida election, declaring the T 1 den Electors duly elected in that State was adopted—l4B to 88—a party vote, with the exception of Pnrman, who voted In the affirmative.

' THE ELECTION INVESTIGATIONS. LOUISIANA. The Senate Sub-Committee on Louisiana Affsirs h*d A. B. Lrrlsee, an alleged ineligible Hayes Elector, before them on he 9th: in th* course of his examination the eritneas said that a proposition waa mnda for a consideration to cast his Electoral vote tnrSamnrl J. Tilden: on the 4th of Decern »«r witne«e wa* at the residence of Mis. Ba-iow. in New Orleans; had dined oat, and w.a returning homo, Mn Bartow -nd her daughter being present; one of them gave witness a note, asking him to meet C. W. Johnston at Cassidy's Hotel on important butiness. witness the next d.y met 8. M. Arhnr, a Shreveport hanker, at Cuddy's: witness entered Into a 1 ngthy account of an alleged attempt mode to bribe him to cut nia vo e for t'tldqn, he (witness) pretending to negotiate with the would-be bribers, bnt Inal*, ing npon t Qo,< Uj •a the coostdenUioD, 8180,000 being offered, wit neeart the same tint* reporting progress to Mar-? shall Ptik n. Jndge Cowan, OonnseMortiwDeidoc otic party before >he Louisians Returning Board, testifiedtb the Honae Committee that* *WM affidavit* dated Nov. 18. wore rec ired by m*il from DeSotoParish Nov.Si: aekt-d Abell.tbe Clerkof the board, when those affidavits had been received, and the cleft <epHed Nov. 18; a minute S'r-.'SS I “ nothing; 1 ' witness then rook <he receipt book, and found AKII had rhmged the date of the receipt from the 18th to the 96th: the affidavits were all rcorn to before Wolflary,

the Clerk to the Court In New Orleans. Cap’. C Irvine Uttiy. of Eaitimorc, testified that tW reputation of J. UMa.ld tz aa In truth and vefacitv among cltia ns of Baltimore is Dot good; wUnee* Would net believe hip Under oath; If adoex'a rfmutafion for honesty is not very good Hi her BamuelM. Hhoemaktr, Resident Manager of the A times Express cJtnpsny at Belli more, testified that be knew Maddox by sight; Ms reputation for i ruth and veracity I* bad; witness would not believe Mm under oath. Jobn F. Mulberin, a Clerk of the Louisiana Return ng Board, testified before tbe Hons* Privilege* Committee Oft the 10th that tame *ffi davits were made by Clerk* of tbs to the cotnnttlngroem; don't kpow wither Ihej were used; most any name waa signad to affiikvlts; Dec. 8 witness saw with Littlefield and MnJ. Eaton a slip of paper containing the total of tbe Electoral vote; the majority on these f the Democrats waa about 4,000; saw afterward that a change had been made to tbe figures; saw Littlefield take from a desk a paper and make aome erasures about a quarter of an nofir after conversing with Gov. Welle; about tbe beginning of December changes were made on the at stem *r t of the El* torsi votes by order of Judge Davis; Littlefield told witness be had fixed the Parish of ‘Vernon, bnt he did not say which way or in what manner he had fixed It; saw alterations made bv some Ctorks on consolidated statements from different parishes: witness changed one himself; tbe < :hanxe* were that, if the first Elector had SOS vote* and tbe third Elector 810, the Clerk* were directed to Increase the latter to number of the first; afidavits made np by the Clerks purported to give accounts of violence and intimidation at the polls. E. H. Hardesty, of Baltimore, fortified before the House Privileges Committee, on tbe lStb, that he would not belle vs Mr. Maddox under oath. R. M. Compton. State Treasnrer of Maryland. James A. Buchanan. R. H. Mitchell and William A. Fisher, all of Baltimore, tea tilted to Maddox's good character, and elated that the latter a reputation for truth and veracity was good. James Pelletier, of New Orleans, testified that he was a waiter at the restaurant where on Sunday. Dec. 8 members *nd Clerks of the Returning Board dined, aad that he everheard conversation between Wells, Ander son and Littlefield; he heard Wells say, Inrenly to a question by Littlefield, that ne matter If Tilden had IOO.Odu majo tty In the State, the vo e would be given to Hayes anyhow, and that he (Welts) did no: care what wonld become or tbe State. Z. Chandler, Secretary of the Interior, wad called by the House Committee on the Powers, Privilege*, etc., on the 14th, and produced papers relating to the resignation and application tor reappointment of Orlando H. Brewster, the Louisiana Elector; he said he supposed Brewster's letter of resignation, dated Nov. 4, was received Nov. 18 or IB: did not know whether be received it from the President or not; did not know it was ante-dated, and was not aware Brewster bad testified bimself that he wrote it Nov. 14; it ia tbe practice oi the Department to accept resignations as oi time past if tendered in that mannsr. FLORIDA. In the House Privileges Committee, on the 9th. ex-Gov. Steams, of Florida, was called to the stand, and replied to questions by Jndge Lawrence that he never received or sent any telegram saying that we (meaning tho Republicans) most have Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina, by fair means or son); never received a telegram from any body outside the State requesting him to send couriers for returns which must be made to show s majority for Hayes; witness gave Frank Sberwin no di-patch to anybody in which troops were asked for; the dispatch from W. E. Chandler, '-Bismarck ought to come here at once." was sent to C. D. Willard, Washington, and had reference to railroad matters. The Committee on the Powers, Privileges and Duties of the House examined Gov. Stearns, of Florida, on the 10th; be stated that about Nov. 13 he sent a dispatch to the President to the effect that prominent men of the opposite party had arrived in considerable numbers, and he felt he needed the advice of tbe prominent men of the Republican party; no reply waa received; witness telegraphed Secretary Chandler at New York for troops; the dispatch was more In the nature of information, and was sent In r. ply vo a telegram from the Secretary; Gov. Drew, shortly after nis inauguration, telegraphed to Gen. Rnger for troops. MISSISSIPPI. C. M. Shelton, of Hines County, Miss., testified before the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, on tbe 13tb. to the effi ct that he is Chiinnan of the Democratic Committee; haa no knowledge of duplicate ballot-box keys being furnished Democratic Judges of Election; knew of the exi-tence of armed Republican clubs daring each political campaign since 18.0; thinks the colored people were honestly convinced, previous to the election of 1875, that they would best subserve their own interests by voting with the native white people of Mississippi. OREGON. The Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, on the 14th, examined Alfred fi. Hinman and A. W. Shaw, of Detroit, Mich., who have had business transactions with J. H. N. Patrick, of Omaha. Neb., and who communicated wi'h Mm by telegraph In cipher for some years. The key to tbe cipher nsed by them is “ The Household English Dictionary," and by the aid of thl* key they had made a translation of tbe disnatehes relative to the Oregon Electoral ca»e, which translations show an effort or desire on the part of J. H. N. Patrick. James K. Eellev and o tiers to purchase one of the Republican Electors In the State to act with Cronin to secure a majority of the State Electoral College.

COUNTING THE ELECTORAL VOTES. The Commission reassembled in open session at eleven o'clock on the morning of the Bth. The Presiding Justice announced that proceedings were in order under the decisions of the Commission on tbe previous day. One of the Democratic counsel called a witness and began u question in respect to the quo warranto proceedings in Florida, when Mr. Evarts, of Republican counsel, objected to tho question, as not wi bin the order of the Commission The 6bjec ion was sustained. The Republican* then called F. O. Humphreys, the alleged ineligible Elector. Afier identification, the Democratic counsel presented Humphrevs’ commission as Shipping Commissioner at Pensacola, and the certificate of too Court that no resignation had been filed np to Jan. 84.1877. Mr. Hemphreys testified that he resigned hie office, and that it was accepted on the 6 h of October by the Jndge who conferred it He presented a written acceptance signed by Judge Wood. He had turned over the book* and papers of his office and had no exercised its Inactions since. No farther evidence being otfered. Justice Clifford a inonoced that the whole case wu ready for argument Thn Commission wa* then addressed by Jndge Hoad ley, Mr Green and Mr. Merrick for the Democrats, and Messrs Shellabarger and Evarts for the Republicans, after which th* Commission adjourned. The Electoral Commission were in secret session, on the 9th, from ten a. m. until half past eight p. m. continuously, with the exception or two short recesses. -Almost the entire time w os occupied with the debate, in which every one of the fifteen members or the Commission participated, and 'he discussion, from Ite commencement to its close, is understood ro have been one of extra- rdinary power and ability. At six p. ro.. the debate being ended, Senator Edmunds submitted a resolution declaring, in substai.ee that the f-.ur Republican Electoral votes of Florida should be conuted. Mr. Honton moved as a substitute that the four Democratic Electoral vo.es be counted. This was defeated—ayes. 7; noes, 8. Mr. B intnnds theu withdrew his resolution, and Mr. Garfield offered one declaring that the Kepnblican Electors were dnly appointed and that the votes cast by them for President and VicePresident were the votee provided for by the Constitution of the United States.. This re-olu->ion was adopted by the following vote: Yeas— Bradley, Edmunds, Frelinghuyven. Garfield, Hoar, Miller, Morton and Strong-8. Nave—Abbott, Bayard. Clifford, Field, Uuaton, Pawn* and Thurman—7. Messrs. Edmunds, Bradh-y ana Miller were appointed a eomaaiite* to draft a report of the aecir-ton of ihe Commission, with a brief statement of the reasons therefor, to he transmitted to the iolnt session of the two booses. The Electoral Commission, on the l&h, certified to the Senate its decision in thecae* at Florida, aa follows; “That it is not competent, under the Constitution and law, as it existed at the date of the passage of the act constituting the Commission, togo into evidence aliunde the paper* opened by (fa* President of the Senate in the presence of the two houses to prove that mlnailon and. declare ion ot their appointment by the Board of State Canvassers prior to the tone required for th* pwformance o their duties. Lad oeen appointed Electors, or by counter-proof to show they had not; and 'hat au proceedings of Courts, or acta of tbe Legls stare, or of the Jtiecatiwi of Florida, sabseqaeat to the casting of ths vo’esof Electors on th* prescribed day. *<• iaadmiasUra for any snch nuffose. la respect to the question raised as to the rligtniQty of Humphreys, ihe Commission is of the opinion that without reference to the question ot

the effect of the vote of an Ineligible Elector, the evidence doe* not ehow th*. a of Snipping Commissioner at the > were appointed. Tbe Gemini* U4ta« consequence of the foreground* before stated, Stalther of ortlngto be certll' ott* of the f Florida are the certificates or or by the Constitution of the United Statee, and they ought not to be counted aa such.” In Joint aeeslon, Mr.' Field ia betuilf of th# Democrat*, rabmltiffil formal objection* to th* decision of tbe Commission, and tbe two booses separated, in accordance with the provisions of the act creating tbe Commleeloh, to consider them. The Senate, after debate—by a vote of 44 to 88—resolved that the dado ton of the Commission npon th* Electoral vote* of the State of Florida stand aa the lodgment or the Senate, the objections made therein to the contrary notwithstanding, and th* Secretary was instructed to notify tie Ilou-e thereof. The Honae Wok a recea*until the llth. Tfre House, on the 12th, resumed tho disease tow upon the objections to the decision off the Commission In respect to Florida, and, after a somewhat acrimonious debate, voted not to concur. The Joint session was resumed at 8:85 p. m. The announcement of the decision of each house was made,and the presiding oßcer said: *• The two bosses not concurring to ordering otherwise, the. decision of tbe Coromtesion will stand unreverted" Th* to tors then announced the vote of Florida as cast for Hayes and Wheeler. No objection being made to the certificate from Georgia, its eleven vote* were cast for Tilden and Hendricks. Next followed In succession Illinois with Its twenty-one votes for Hsyee; Indiana, with Its fifteen vote* for Tilden; lowa, with Its eleven votes for Heyee, and Kentucky, wt>h it* twelve votes for Tilden. Then came the certificates from Louisiana, showing eight votes lor Hayes and Wheeler, signed by the Returning Board and duly authenticated by Governor Kellogg. Another certificate was presented, showing eight votes for Tilden and Hendricks, authenticated by McEnery, as Governor, and still another, showing eight votes for Hayes and Wheeler, and authenticated by Deslonde, Secretary or State. A burlesque certificate was also presented, showing that the Electors, all bearing the somewhat uncommon namo of John Smith, had met and cast their votes for Peter Cooper. Objections were made to the Hayes and Wheeler certificates by several Senators and Representatives, and these, together with the several certificates, were referred to the Electoral Commission, and the Senate retired to lie own chamber. The Electoral Commifleion reassembled on the 13th, to consider the objections filed aa to the Electoral vote of Louisiana. Mr. McDonald began the argument on ihe part of the objectors, followed by Mr. Jenks. On the part of the Republicans, arguments were made dv Mr. Hnrlbnt and Senator Howe. At tbe conclusion of Mr. Howe's argument, announcement was msde that Messrs. Carpenter, Trumbull and Campbell would appear for the Democrats, and Messrs. Evarts. Stoughton and Shellabarger for tbe Republicans. After a short recess, ex-Senator Carpenter addressed the Commission, speaking from five o'clock to nearly seven.' Without concluding, he gave way tor an adjournment until the following On the reassembling of the Commission, on the morning of the 14th. Mr. Carpenter returned and concluded his argument In the Louisiana case. Jndge Trumbull, for the Democrats, then offered to lntrodnce evidence of fraud In the Louisiana election, when the question arose as to Its admissibility. An order was finally adopted to give each side two hoars In which to argne that question. Mr. Trumbull then proceeded with his argument. At Its conclusion, Mr. Stoughton addressed tbe Commission in behalf of the Republicans. When Mr. Btoughton had concluded, the Commission adjourned.

FACTS AND FIGURES.

The snow along the line of the New York Central furnished employment to 8,000 people. England has 140 daily papers, 84 of them morning jounals, 19 of which are published at London. Paris has 51 dailies.. Only one person in ten in Rhode Island is engaged in agriculture; fifty-six out of every hundred are engaged in manufacturing. Connecticut gets most ot revenues ite from the savings banks—half a million dollars—and from the mutual life insurance companies $400,000, while from all other sources there is but $350,000. The exports of manufactured cotton from New York to Europe was, last year, 74,456 packages, against 41,007 in 1875, and an average of about 16,000 packages before that. TRx submarine and land telegraph lines now in operation measure a distance of more than 400,000 miles, and employ 1,000,000 miles of wire. At present there are 31,000 telegraph stations, sending, in the aggregate, 80,000,000 messages per annum. Cigars, which in 1863, according to the revenue returns, were reported only t o the extent of 199,288,285, have now become a staple necessity, almost touching the twobillionite figure, the exact number being 1,908,141,857! The following is an official table of production from 1863 to 1876: 1868 190,288,2851870..... 1,143.756,0 8 1864 492,780,700 1871... 1,882,844,357 1865 1198,280,969 1872 1.627,7. 5,972 1866 847,443,894 1878 1,807,084,646 1867 483,806.45611874.. 1,886,697,498 1868 690,385.062 1875 1.967.959,662 1869 991,535,93411876 1,1)06,141,067 There are 40,000,000 people in the country, men, women and children. Of these it is estimated 8,000,000 are men, of whom, probably, 2,000,000 are regular smokers. According to this every man smokes 1,000 cigars a year.— N. Y. Sun.

From the annual report of the Board of Education of Chicago, it appears that the number of pupils enrolled in the public schools during last year was 51,128, being 2,007 more than the enrollment of the preceding year. For the accommodation of this army of infantry, the city provides sittings to the number of 39,950. If the whole force should turn out some .day aqd call for their rations of learning at once, 11,178 would have to receive their allowance in the hallways or the school-yards. The average cost of instruction is a fraction less than nineteen dollars per head of the average attendance. The last school census showed the population of the city to be 407,661. The number of passengers landed at Castle Garden during 1875 was 75,035. Of these 60,308 were aliens, 2,357 were bora in the United States, and 12,376 had previously landed at New York or other ports in'the United States. Of tbe whole number of aliens who arrived, 21,095 were from Germany, 13,314 Ireland, 8,447 England, 2,240 Scotland, 5,636 Russia, 2,618 Italy, 3,693 Sweden, 2,114 Norway, 1,218 Denmark, 2,168 France, 4,210 Austria, 2,721 Bohemia, 496 Hungary, 1,292 Switzerland, 588 Holland, 292 Belgium, 451 Wales, 83 Luxemburg, 465 West Indies, 260 Spain, 136 South America, 106 Central America, 154 Canada, 29 Australia, 31 Africa, 192 China, 33 East Indies, 21 Greece, 43 Mexico, 87 Nova Scotia, 32 Portugal, 24 Turkey, and 36 from various countries.

Quickening the Discriminating Aptitude of Scholars.

Bearing in mind the fact that until a difference is felt between two things intelligence has not yet made the first step, the teacher is bound to consider the circumstances or conditions favorable and unfavorable to the exerche: First, It is not peculiar to discrimination, but is common to every mental function, to lay down, aa a first condition, mental vigor, freshness and wakefulness. In a low state of the mental forces, in languor or drowsiness, differences cannot be felt. Hat the mind should be alive, awake, in full force and exercise is necessary for every kind of mental work. The teacher needs toqtiiekea ibenkntalaleTtnew'by artificial means, when there is a dormancy of mere indolence. He has to

awaken the pupil from the state significantly named indifference, the state where differing Impressions fall to be reeortylzed as distinct. Second, The mind msy he fresh and alive, but it* energies may be taking the wrong direction. There ia a well-known antithesis or opposition between the emotional and the Intellectaal activities, leading to a certain incompatibility of the two. Under emotional excitement, the Intellectual energies are : enfeebled In amount, and enslaved to to the reigning emotion. It ia in the quieter states of mind that discrimination, in common with other intellectual powers, works to advantage.—r Bain, in Popular Science Monthly.

A Young Lady Goes Six Months With out Food, and Still Lives.

The patient in this case is a young lady, of fine form and great beauty of face, whose home Is In the vicinity of Greensbnrg. Her story is of such an extraordinary character as to appear incredible, were it not vouched for by professional gentlemen of unimpeachable veracity. Dr. Oote, of Penn avenne, above Ninth street, was the first physician here whose attention was directed to the case. For obvious reasons the name of the young lady cannot be mentioned. She is, however, described as being about twenty-two years of age, the picture of health, and weighing about 150 pounds. The exceptionable character of this veritable description will be appreciated when it has been said that for three months before the time that an opportunity was presented to describe her she had not eaten a morsel of food. This startling abstinence seemed to have no external effect The girl’s complexion was bright and clear, ana her splendid physique carried with it the irresistible impression that no insidious disease could have a lodgment in that fair tenement But the fair - external was a terrible illusion. She was so weak that it was a work of the most painful character for her to drag her weary limbs after her. Her story wa3 calculated to intensify, rather than to clear away, the mystery of her rare affliction. (She did not have the slightest idea of a probable cause for her Buffering. She was not sick. She had neither pains nor aches. She did not suffer from hunger. She had not the slightest desire to eat. The cessation of appetite had been sudden and absolute. No premonitory symptoms of disease were manifested before the strange ail. ment seized her. It was in July last that she first passed a whole day without eating. The day before her appetite, so far as she could remember, was as usual. She did not eat for a week, and her family became alarmed. All known specifics to provoke an appetite were tried without effect, and so the second week passed. In this early stage of the disease, the yonng lady lost little of her vitality, and this fact seemed to reassure her anxious friends. But when the weeks extended into months, and there was no apparent change in the young girl’s condition except that she daily grew weaker, the most serious apErehensions were aroused. As may well e conceived, things were not permitted to get to this pass without attracting the attention of a physician to the case. Extreme measures were not resorted to until the girl had been a month without et ting. Without intending to cast the slightest reflection upon the skill of the practitioner who up to that date had charge of the case it may be said it was quite beyond his grasp. Experiments, almost without number, were unavailingly resorted to, and, as a sort of forlorn hope, electricity was called into service. While all these experiments were useless for good, they were productive of much suffering to the despairing patient. Finally she refused to longer submit herself to torture, and resigned herself to her fate. A change ot scene was recommended/ and a short trip to the home of a relative at Irwin Station was projected. Thus it was that she came to pass through tnis city. She was on her way home again when her relatives took her to see Dr. Cote. Her experience with physicians bad aroused a feeling of distrust and aversion of the profession, and she was very loath to again put herself under treatment. At that time —it was in September last—she had not eaten anything but a few morsels of candy since the July before. Her case excited the doctor’s greatest interest. He at once made a diagnosis, and, after much persuasion, induced her to agree to remain in the city, under his care, for a few weeks, so that he might, have an opportunity of fairlybeginning the work of restoration. This she agreed to do, and that was the last tbe physician ever saw of her. When he called at the house where she had been stopping, on the following day, the family had gone. Reasoning from the examination that he had time to make, Dr. Cote has arrived at the conclusion that the seat of the girl’s troubles is in her nervous system. The diagnosis was sufficiently thorough to convince him of that, though tbe particular cause of the derangement of the nerves he did not have an opportunity to determine. Her existence for so long a period, despite the suspension of the vital functions of her nature, was of course a matter demanding careful investigation, and the sudden departure of the girl was a source of painful disappointment to the physician. The popular impression that a person, to situated, existed upon his or her fatty tissue, the doctor said, was a mistaken one. Life was preserved by absorption through the cellular tissues. It has transpired that after leaving this city the girl put herself in care of Dr. Martin, of Philadelphia, bnt it is said that there has been little improvement in her condition. Now, here is the most astounding fact in the whole case: Tho girl is still alive, and her appetite has not been restored. Her external appearance has undergone little perceptible change, but Bhe has become so weak as to be confined to her house. —Pittsburgh (Pa.) Telegraph, Jan. 26. “ Well, old fellow, what’s the news?” “ Nothing, only lam about to be married.” ‘‘But why so gloomy about it?” “ Because I want 10,000 francs. The contract is to be signed to-day, and on my aide I have to snow 20,000 francs. I’m 10,000 francs short. You might lend them to me—only till this evening.” “God forbid! But I’ll tell you how to manage it. Of course there is a mantelpiece in the room, with a mirror behind it. Pile your 10,000 francs up there; the glass will repeat them, and at a little distance the illusion Will be perfect.” “I have thought of that; but” “But what?” “The 10,000 francs i have got are the 10,000 in the glass.”— French neteepaver. . " Tue very latest and most ridiculous case of the •“ insanity plea” has occurred in San Francisco, where a member of a gang of professional bondsmen, inflicted and tried for furnishing “s raw bad,” pleaded insanity as a reason ; Or signing aS' *’•••> f'"tl and swearing trat hd was worth $6,000. -

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. BrOmkßa bias arranged to build a grand Museum of Ait at a cost of a million odd. DmW. G. Holland is happy In a literary, aad. literal, income of $90,000 a year. The wife of Mormon Pratt has just come East to attend medical' lectures and fit herself to doctor the other wives. It is estimated that thd aloiu; the, line of the New YorkCentnff MLTttrnished temporary employment tojuMCKfif, than 8,000 people. Sro. Blitz, the great magician, who recently died la Philadelphia, waa the father of the celebrated opera; sin get, Mme. Van Zandt, who Is how In England. Mr. Courtney, the lending .writer'of' the London Timm, haa been courteously notified that he canpot continue far hold that position while lerving as a Member of Parliament. With that keen discrimination which is the glory of the age, the New Orleans Republican remarks that “ The soul of Sergt. Bates is marching on; but his body is sawing wood in Illinois.” The large fall of snow in Texas this winter deprived the herds of their grazing, and largo numbers of cattle died of starvation. The condition was unprecedented in the histoiy of the State. A gigantic serpent, from India, the Python bieittatuß, which was on exhibition in Berlin a tew days, has been sold by its owner to an Englishman for $730. Its length is reported as twenty-two feet, and it swallowed twelve large rabbits at one meal. Rev. Adirondack Murray says: “Now and then you run across a man who is all claws, who scratches you, who bristles at Jou, and the old Adam rises as you see im bristle, and it is really only by stern endurance that you can tolerate doing business with him even at arms’ length. As an evidence (hat the quaiftydf railroad iron in market has deteriorated of late years, it is stated that some'veiy old rails are in use on the Louiaviile, New Albany & Chicago Road, bnt they are proof against the severity of this extraordinary winter. In no instance has one of these old mils broken, while the new on4a snap easily. A female Justice of the Peace of Wyoming Territory was married a few days ago, and previously notified her friends to be present by a printed form as follows: “lam about to marry Mr. J D ,of this county, and he will be qualified and sworn in at my office on WedneS- ‘ day morning next at ten o’clock. You are invited to attend.” An Irishman, to whom some wonderful story was told on the authority of a penny, newspaper, declined to believe it, saying he distrusted all he saw in the “ cheap prints.” “ Why shouldn’t you believe in cheap papers,” he was asked, “as soon as any other?” “Because,” was his ready answer, “ I don’t think they can afford to speak the truth for .the money.” There is something refreshing in the absolute astonishment that visitors to a printing-office sometimes display at the commonest things. “ What is that blacklooking thing standing up in that corner?” is sometimes asked by on unsophisticated observer, and the nearest typo answers: “That is the printing-office towel. Wl always stand it up in that corner.” —' change. There is no need for coughing at every little irritation of the throat. You will be surprised, on making an effort to suppress your cough, to see how little coughing you can get along with. Were q man to stand threatening you with a club or pistol, and offering to blow your brains out at the first cougfy you would find tint the will-power is most efficacious in suppressing these bronchial insurrections. A French surgeon used to say whenever hq entered the wards of the hospital, “ The i first patient who coughs will be deprived of food to-day.” And vqry few then coughed. Dr. Brown-Sequard says that coughing may be prevented by pressing on the nerves of the lips in the neighborhood of the nose, by pressing in the neighborhood of the ear, and by pressing veiy hard on the top of the mouth.—AT. T. Graphic • —“ Velvet sermon covers” me now to be had in this city for the truly Teason a ble sum of five dollars per cover. Whether tho people who offer them for sale mean to provide a cover for a velvet sermon, or a velvet cover for a sermon, is a little dubious; but in either case the article, gracefully carried into the pulpit, lends a certain amount of style to the minister who carries it. It is not generally knGfcn that these elegant sermon covers are used as a cloak for blemfekos in the preacher’s manuscript, which, it seen by his congregation, might provoke criticism. No matter how yellow with age, Or how dog. eared and crumpled by frequent use a manuscript sermon may happen to be, the daintily embroidered velvet covers these defects, and the old sfermon appears to ite hearers as good as new. “ Velvet sermon covers” are gradually taking the place of worsted slippers as presents from admiring maidens to the clergymen of their choice.— N. T Commercial Adjtertiter The Russian Minister is credited With the following story; Whpn the yoijug Alexis was first assigned to duty as midshipman, his vessel was wrecked of the coast of Denmark. The Admiral, commanding, resolved to save the young man, ordered him to take charge of the first;, boat which put off from the doomed ship. The Grand Duke safety thus bought, and declined. ‘‘ My djuty is here,’ ’ he said to the Admiral, “ and I must be the last to leave the ship.” “Do you not understand, sir,” exclaimed the Admiral, “ that you are under my command ? Ana do you dare to refuse obedience to my orders?” “I know my duty,” aasweredthe r midshipman, “ and I will obey any order* you may see fit to give me, except an order to leave the ship, where ray duty now commands me to remaip.” > The Admiral ► gave tip his point, akd W said he Wdulci be, theJast man to leave the ship, and after landing was or- , dered ; under arrfest for djsobetffenfco of orders. The Grqnd Duke submttod with out a murmur. Tha Admiral r sent dispatches to tbe Emperor detailing the affair, and the Emperor wrofe: “I ap- * prove your haying pWded tbe mtUhiptnaos! Alexis, under arrest for disobedience, and I bless my boy for having disobeyed,” !) , t - i ii i ,i i i ""ill■ !tqir —The Christian Monitor addresses it, self to its mother readers thus.: “ Takq your youngest child' when about tfiffec years old. Let him have everything he wants; let him make as much noise as ever he likes; let him eat and drink as much ahd whatever he has a fancy for; gfre strict instructions to his papa, bis big brothefc, sisters, visitors and servants, that he is never to be punished in any way for anything he may do, and never contradicted in anything he may say. By tire time he arrives at the sweet age of seven, your youngest child will be a nice pickle.” L —There is no the futurefar trouble. “ Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.”