Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1877 — Page 2

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CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

Tn rnj now! law advised the Cabinet tfaUan extx* mart rn of Congress wm unavoidr ± *uiii)isOnfl United States Mamhal of the District T*n Medkml OoUege of Pennsylvania reoently Msteral tbe dtgni of ffrwfrw of on m budget for the financial year, 1876-6, in India, shone* deficit of *18,000,000. The dafieit for 1876-7 is placed at *30,400,000. In Joint aeasion, on the 21st, tbe Ohio Ltgulv tore elected Hon. Stanley Matthews United Steles Senator, to eoooeed Hon. John Sherman, Beeastsry of tbe Treasury. Tbe Louisiana Republican State Central Committee—by a rote of 29 to 4—have voted to expell P. B. 8. Pinchbeck from that organisation. A Dumont was then elected President of the ComTee Michigan State Democratio Convention met at Lamm*, on the 16th. Henry F. Serenas sms nominated for Supreme Judge and John Lewis and In — K. Chadwick for University Regents. _______ Pres B. Bwbehet, the “ pal" of Tweed, who was aanwwted with him in the great ring swindlm, and who has been an exile during the last fee years, has retained to attend hie trial, which reset for April 4. _ At the recent election in New Hampshire, the |ainmeod_smnnrimrmt to the Constitution of that Slate, giving Catholics the right to hold high office, the mine at members of other deoominatfom, was defeated. Tbe Colorado Legislature baa adjourned tine die. Among the more important bills passed was one submitting the question of woman suffrage to the votem of the State, to be voted on at the next general election. Tee Ookaado Legislature has abolished the Oiml Jury system, providing in lien thereof that the Jwdge of the County Court and two Justices of the Peaee in a county shall ait as a Court of indictment, to hear tesfinrauv on bdffi TEE Pennsylvania Legislature has elected ex-Hecretaiy-of-War Cameron to tbe United States flwietn. to fill the vacancy canned by the resignation of Simon Cameron, hie father. The vote in Joint convention stood: Cameron, 147; Dill (Dm), 92; eoattering, 8. CHBurnaN Hannon, . lately pardoned from the Columbus (Ohio) Penitentiary, attempted to commit burglary in New York. On being arraigned, on the 19th, he stated that he was ttarring, and that he made the attempt in order that be might get where be could obtain food. Bhrt Washington dispatches state that Secretory Sahara had notified all heads of bureaus in hie Department that there would be no removals of clerks or other employee except for canoe, and no promotions except for merit. There were at present no vacancies to be filled. The forty-third call for tbe redemption of 5-90 heads of 1866, Hay and November, has been i*> sued by tbe Beoretaxy of the United States Treasury. The sail is for *10,000,000, principal and interest to be paid at the Treasury on and after the 16th of Jane next, the interest to oease on that day. _ PoemtxsTis-GiorxiiAi Key has written a letter to Senator Merrimon, in which he states that, in making tbe appointments in his gift, he shall always give Republicans the preference, if suitable men are recommended, whose selection will be satisfactory to tbe people, bnt otherwise he shall appoint Democrats. Besstob Mobton has formally declined the Chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Itarign Relations, preferring to remain at the head of the Committee on Privileges and Elections. Hr. Hamlin has taken the Chairmanship that Hr. Horton declined, and Mr. Ferry, the Chairmanship of the Postal Committee. Tee Secretary of War has issued a circular, informing the aril employes of the War Department that removals will be made for cause only, and promotions ordered upon the sole ground of merit. No political test would be required. Industry and faithfulness in the discharge of duty, good morals and strictly temperate habits would be required and enforced. Joseph L. Lewis, of Hoboken, N. J., who died lately and willed his property, valued at *1,000,000, to the United States, was supposed to be a bachelor. On tbe 19th, however, a rich-ly-dressed woman appeared in the Surrogate’s office, claiming to be his wife, and stating that* she married him a year before. Another woman, claiming to be his niece, has also laid claim to the estate. -4The Compulsory-Education hill which recently passed the Ohio Legislature requires all children of a certain age to attend the public schools for a certain time each year, except when the child is physically incapacitated for study; whoa it has already acquired tbe branches of learning ordinarily taught in public schools; wh«i it is under private instruction; when it is dependent upon its own labor for support, or when its labor is necessary for the support of its parents or relatives. The act goes into effec Sept 1, 1877.

The Grasshopper Question to be Investigated.

Wasmkoton, March 2L The Secretary of tea Interior to-day oommiaaiooed the following penoos aa members of tl» Looak Commionnp: Prof. & V. Riley, of 8t Look, known far hia labor* in economic entomology; Prof. A. & Packard, Jr., of Salem, Maas., editor of the Amerfem Katuralitt, who k to bo Secretary of toe Oomwikwwn, and. Prof. Cyras Thomaa, of Oarbondale, CL, State Kptomnlngkt The Oommkaion will bare ite quarter* bare at Washington, with a Western eSoe in 8t Look. Prof. JUUy propoaea to take the area east of the mountain* and south of the fortieth parallel with Britkh America. Pwf. Thomaa will take the counfayoottoofttw fortieth Britito to aaoertain what agi mi —w» he brought to bear in faciliteting the dertroetioa of the eggs as thwSelda in winch they breed laroeiv: but in all roabahslity the laigok breeding ground k in a-w«~L»_ That oosmtir being difßcnlt toojftee, it k likely that the Commission will

EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

CONOENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. JCDOE Macekt, of Booth Carolina, oslled upon the President, on the 16th, and read to him a telegram from Oov. Hampton, in which the latter mid tbe project of a new election in South Carolina was an insult to the people of that State and to himself. The Governor said he did not care to be reoognised, but only wished the troops to be removed from the State-House. 8.8. Jokes, editor of the Chicago Rtligio-Phi. lotophieal Journal, a well-known paper, advocating the doctrines of the Spiritualists, was murdered in his offioe, in Chioago, on the afternoon of tbs 15th. The murderer was a peripatetic phrenologist, calling himself Prof. Wm. C. Pika. He went to the Central Polioe Station, after the fatal shot had been fired, and surrendered, stating that he had shot deceased because be had won from him tbe affections of his wife. Upon his person was found what purported tube a confession, signed by Mrs. Pike, acknowledging her offense. Tee white Republicans of Louisiana held a meeting at New Orleans, on the 15th, and adopted an address to the citizens of the United States, in which they assert that the Packard Government is the only lawful Government of the State, and is reoognised as such in the greater portion of the State outside of New Orleans, and that it ought to reoeive the support of the General Government Tee caucus of the Republican members of the Ohio Legislature, on the 15th, nominated Hon. Stanley Matthews as candidate for the United States Senate to succeed Hon. John Shaman, ■esigned. The vote stood on tbe third and final ballot: Matthews, 43; W. P. Howland, 99; Alphoneo Taft, 2; Samuel Shellabarger, & A Washington dispatch of the 15th says that Mr. Pinchbeck, in an interview with the President, had stated that Justice to the whites and blacks alike protested against the recognition of the Packard Government. The President replied that he would soon open a clear way to peace in Louisiana and contentment to the people of the State. Official announcement was made from London, on the 16th, that England and Russia had oome to an agreement in respect to Turkey. Tbe Turkish commander has been ordered to withdraw from the Islands of the Drina, the occupation of which recently caused contention withßervia. Washington dispatches of the 14th say that the pressure of applicants for office, at the White House, was unprecedented. The Post-master-General has issued a circular for transmission to every applicant to his Department, to the effect that tbe application would be considered under the rules of the -civil service, when vacancies occurred. There were no vacancies at present.

A Constantinoplh. telegram of the 16th announces the arrest of some of the Sottas who were agitating for the recall of Midhat Pasha. Got. Chakbbblain has lately telegraphed President Hayes that the proposition for a new election in South Carolina was wholly new to hi™. So far sa he knew, no one at the State Capital had ever proposed or considered each a plan. At the late election in New Hampshire, Preeoott (Rep.) wee elected Governor by between 3,600 and 4,000 majority. Jones (Dem.) was elected to Congress bom the First District by a plurality of 44; Briggs (Rep.), from the Second District, by a plurality of about 1,100, and Blair (Rep.), from the Third District, by a plurality of 1,300. ■ _ - - - Tee steamer Oov. Garland was recently burned, at Red Fork, forty miles from the mouth of the Arkansas River. One cabin and three deck passengers and ail the books and cargo were lost. A boiler in a saw-mill, owned by Hunter Bros., located six miles east of Worthington, Ind., exploded on the afternoon of the 16th. Twelve perons were killed, and seven others more or leas injured. Rear-Admiral Sir Edward. Belcher, who commanded the expedition sent out in search of Sir John Franklin, in 1852, died in London on the 17th. A Pera telegram of the 19th says an obstinate six-hours’ fight had taken place between the Turks and insurgent Bosnians, near Bona venture, by which both sides suffered heavily, the former being eventually forced to retire. Tim Turkish Parliament met on the 19th, and was opened by the Sultan in person. The First Secretary read a speech from the throne. Att’y-Oek. Ogden, on the 19th, on behalf of the Nieholls Government, petitioned the Fifth District Court of Louisiana for a writ of ejectment against S. B. Packard and others, claiming to be the Government of that State. It was reported that a large number of colored people were congregating in New Orleans, to join the military force Packard was said to be recruiting with a view to enforce his claims to the Governorship. It was reported from Washington, on the 19th, that Gov. Hampton had given a guarantee to the President that, if the United States troops be removed from South Carolina, he will proceed against Gov. Chamberlain by process of law, and that no violence whatever shall take place.

Late investigations place the aggregate of Turkish troops at 259,000. It was reported, on the 20th, that the Porte had determined not to aocept the international protocol in any form whatever. New Orleans was very quiet at last accounts, and a conflict involving life was not considered likely. The NichoUs police had arrested one of Packard’s recruiting officers, and charged him with treason. In the Oircnit Court at Charleston, 8. CL, on the 20th, Judge Reed rendered a decision in a habeas corpus case, releasing the prisoner on the ground that Chamberlain had no authority as Governor, and that, consequently, the Trial Justice appointed by him, and before whom the prisoner was tried, had no authority to act The Justice expressed the opinion that Hampton was duly and Constitutionally elected, and the lawful Governor of the State. AoooaDnta to late Vienna telegrams, Montenegrin troops were concentrating on the frontier. An Odessa telegram of the 21st announces the loss at sea of an English steamer, with arms and ammunition from New Haven for Constantinople. These was a labor riot at Berlin on the 21st, laborers attar king a number from Posen, who were working on a tramway at lower wages than the Berhnen would accept. The soldiers were called oat and several .persons were badly wounded. At a Cabinet meeting, in Washington on the 21k* it was derided to maintain the state quo in Iswikkim until a Commission shall examine and report upon toe condition of affairs in tote State. It waa also decided to call an extra session of Congress, to meed on the 4th of June. On the 21k, a delegation of the prominent colored men of the country called upon the Prca-

ident to thank him for the appointment of Fred -Douglrws aa Marshal of the District of Columbia. A New Oklßami telegram of the 21st says that State Senator Derna# (colored), who bad been acting with the Nieholls Legislature, had taken his aeat with the Packard Legislature, completing, it was claimed, a quorum in both houses. Both Legislatures bad extended their extra sessions until March 90. On tbe 21st, a man entered the Indiana Na? turns 1 Bank, at Indians polls, carrying a small box in his hand. He placed this on the floor, got upon it, and deliberately reached over the counter to the money-table and took several piles of money, amounting to $26,700. The thief escaped with tbe money.

EXTRA SESSION OF U. S. SENATE.

Thursdat, March 15.—Provisions were made for printing the volume containing the proceeding* of the Electoral Commission and the two booses of Congress relating thereto. Among the nominations confirmed in Executive session wsa that or ex-Srnator Geo. 6. Bontwell as Com mtssloner for preparing and pnblishtng a new edition of the first volume of Revised Statutes. Friday, March 10. —The President sent a message to tbe Semite, stating that he had no farther commnnlestion to make at this session. Accompanying this meesage were a boot 100 nomination-, mostly for minor offices. Heveral nominations were confirmed In Executive session. Saturday, March 17.—After a longdiscnsslon, a revelation was agreed to—B9 to B—anthorlxlng a sub-committee of three of the Com mittee on Privileges and Elections to visit Oregon during tbe .ecess.if they deem It expedient, and «lne into tbe charges against Senator Grover, ist State. After debate. In Executive session, the nomination of Frederick Donglass to he Marshal of the .District of Colombia was confirmed— 80 to If those voting nay clal t>lng that their opposition wa* not because of color, tint of unfitness for the position and because of the opposition of tbe Bar Association of the District. The thanks of the Senate were voted to the VicePresident, who replied briefly, and then declared the Sep&te adjourned sine die.

Anecdotes of Misers.

The true miser loves to look at his gold, in which he finds more beauty than elsewhere exists in the universe; consequently, when Sir William Smith, a wealthy English miser, was at seventy years of age, deprived of his sight, He felt it to be a terrible affliction. Ho was persuaded by Taylor, the celebrated oculist, to be couched; who was, by agreement, to have Bixty guineas if he restored his patient to any degree of sight. Taylor succeeded iu his operation,' and Sir William was enabled to read and write without the aid of spectacles during the rest of his life. But no sooner was his sight restored than the Baronet began to regret that his agreement had been for so large a sum; he felt no joy as others would have felt, but grieved and sighed over the loss of his sixty guineas. His thoughts were now how to cheat the oculist; he pretended that he had only a glimmering, and could see nothing distinctly; for which reason the bandage on his eyes was continued a month longer than the usual time. Taylor was deceived by these misrepresentations, and agreed to compound the bargain, and accept twenty Sineas instead of sixty. Tet Sir Willn was an old bachelor, and had no one to care or provide for. At the time Taylor attended him, he bad a large estate, an immense sum of money in stocks, and SBO,OOO in the house. When theGovemmentdesired to borrow a large sum of money from the immensely wealthy miser, Foscue, he refused the loan on the plea of poverty. Fearing, however, that some of his neighbors, among whom he was very unpopular, would report his immense wealth to the Government, he applied his ingenuity to discover some effectual way of hiding his gold, should they institute a search to ascertain the truth or falsehood of his plea. With great care and secrecy he dug a deep cave in his cellar; to this receptacle for his treasure he descended by a ladder, and to the trap door he attached a spring lock, so that, on shutting, it would fasten of itself. By and by the miser disappeared : inquiries were made; the house searched; woods explored, and the ponds were dragged, but no Foscue could they find; and gossips began to conclude that the miser had fled with his gold to some Eart where, by living incognito , he could e free from the hands of the Government. Some time passed on; the house in which he had lived was sold, and workmen were busily engaged in its repair. In the progress of their work they met with the door of the secret cave, with the key in the lock outside. They drew back .the door, and descended with a light. The first object upon which the lamp reflected was the ghastly body of Foscue, the miser, and scattered about him were heavy bags of gold and ponderous chests of untold treasure; a candlestick lay beside him on the floor. The worshiper of mammon had gone into his cave to pay his devoirs to liis golden god, and became a sacrifice to his devotion.—A. T. Mercantile Journal.

Reraccination.

There is no evidence to show that revaccination, once efficiently performed at or after puberty, need ever be repeated. On the other hand, the frequent repetitioh of revaccination, which has become com mon during alarms of small-pox, is distinctly to be deprecated. Such lepetitions are, as a rule, futile; they are wasteful of vaccine lymph when lymph is most precious; they tend to unsettle the minds of people regarding some of the best established facts as to the preservative power of vaccination, and they are unnecesssn*. The official memorandum of the Local Government Board on revaccination says: •* Revaccination once properly and successfully performed does not appear ever to require repetition.” The nurses and other servants of the London Small-Pox Hospital, when they enter the service, are invariably submitted to vaccination, which in their case is generally rcvaccination, and is never afterward repeated; and so perfect is the protection, that, though the nurses live in the closest and most constant attendance on smallpox patients, and though also the other servants are In various ways exposed to special chances of infection, the resident surgeon of the hospital, during his fbrtvone years of office there, has never known small-pox to affect any of these nurses or servants —London Lancet.

A Romance.

Rochester, Minn., has a romance. The story is that a young Bostonian, named Charlton Stanton, went to Minnesota for hia health in 1870, and at Rochester met, loved and became engaged to Mary Phillips, a worthy girl, unfortunately, however, StantoH was thrown from a sleigh a few months after, and fatally hurt by tire discharge of a revolver in his pocket His mother, then visiting at Chicago, reached him-m season to see him die; and then returned to Boston. The poor girl heard no more tin last summer, when she iZ eeired a letter from Mrs. Stanton, saying made her promise that $5,000, half his estate, should be given to

Miss Phillips; the mother had postponed the fulfillment of her promise, but web not content; her only remaining son had just died, and ahe assured the girl that she should soon have her money. Months phased, till, about Thanksgiving-time, another letter from Mrs. Blanton begged the girl to come to Boston, for she waslll. Miss Phillips went and was taken to a luxurious home, not too soon, however, for Mrs. Stanton died that night- But sho appears not to have forgotten her pledge, for within a few days Miss Phillips ass received, at her home, SB,OOO, the amount doe from her lover’s estate, with the news that Mrs. Stanton had willed her $35,000. —Springfield Republican.

On a Spanish Railroad.

In the express trains one meets with dark-haired, dark-visaged gentlemen, who draw their bats down over their eyes and puff cigarette-smoke continually through their nostrils, who converse little, and who only unbend from their haughty demeanor when some beautiful girl, with her lace mantilla draping her fine neck and shoulders, enters the carriage. But in the slow trains one gets even more knowledge of the Spanish populace than he is desirous of acquiring. The Spaniard when he travels appears to fancy that he has an inalienable right to take with him in the same car in which he rides all his household goods and farm produce. A stout farmer, clad in a blouse, a pair of white corduroys, leathern sandals, and a -broad hat with little tassels around its edges, clambers into a compartment already overcrowded. He lianas his nearest neighbor a cage of chickens, deposits a small bag of flour in a young girl’s lap, pulls his growling dog in after him, sets a basket of eggs on an old woman’s gouty toes, scrambles into a fraction of a seat, smiles, makes a hundred apologies, and lights a cigarette. Two or three muleteers, clad in long striped cloaks, per fume the car with garlic. A soldier, with his gun slung over his back, pokes the muzzle of the dangerous weapon into his neighbor’s eye occasionally. one interlards his or her conversation with interjections, and often with oaths shocking to ears polite. If the journey is long, some clever fellow pulls a guitar out of a hag, thrums its strings, hums a ballad in which the others join, laughing and puffing smoke between the refrains, and now and then keeping time bv clapping thoir bauds and stamping with their feet. At a railway station, at Miranda or Burgos, when the train stops to allow the passeugers to refresh themselves, no one hurries at all. Suppose twenty minutes to be the time allowed; every one seats himself solemnly at the long table in the dining-room, and slowly eats and moderately drinks, smoking between the courses. As the twenty minutes’ period approaches its end, the guard rings a bell loudly and calls the senores to the train. A few persons look around languidly, as if astonished at an unusual noise, but they dd not bestir themselves. On the contrary, they settle into their chairs and address themselves to the dessert. When the train is five minutes behind time, the guard rings again, with no better success. After he has rung a third time, and stalking majestically up and down the platform of the station, has begun to feign closing the doors of the carriages, the travelers rise slowly, wrap their cloaks around them with great care, arranging each fold as if they were about to be presented to the King, and, lignting fresh cigarettes, stroll to the train. They stand talking at the doors until the guard pushes them into the compartments, when they glare out at him as if he was guilty of a great discourtesy. —Edward King , in Lip> pincott'e Magazine.

incident In the life of a Famous Sportsman.

The London Examiner relates the fol. lowing anecdote of the late James Merry, the English sportsman, iron-master, millionaire" and member of Parliament: “ A favorite pastime of our hero, in his early days, was the pitting of a dog against a badger. He and his chum in sport, who became his partner in business, procured a celebrated badger that had never been drawn by any dog. Some Edinburgh sportsmen, however, sent a challenge, and backed their dog against the badger for what in those days was esteemed a heavy amount, the sum of SSOO. “ The owners of the badger accepted the bet, and the fight was to come off at Linlithgow, half way between Glasgow and Edinburgh, on a certain day. To the horror of our sportsman and his chum the badger died, and died on the day just before the day on which the affair was to come off. To one of them the SSOO was a dead loss; but to the other —who knew that there was hope even when the signs of life were gone—there was something yet to be done— as we know well enough there always is to them who have a heart for anv fate. So he took the dead badger, placed him in the well-known box, proceeded to the trysting-place, prepared, if possible, to save if only a portion of the money now forfeited.

“On arriving at Linlithgow, the men of the defunct badger had their hearts relieved by learning that the dog men bad come, but had not brought their dog with them; the warrior, however, would not fail to appear the next day. Ibis was accounted an opportune moment by the companion of our meriy-hearted hero to propose aeompromise. The merry one bade his friend keep his own counsel, or wait to hear what the dog party might say. They dined together, the all-subduing and melting influence of the much-desired Clyneleish brand promoting good-fellow-ship and good-will. “ The dog party began to hint at drawing the bet, rather than trying to draw the badger. A kick under the table from his friend intimated the anxiety he felt to close st once with any terms that might be offered. The kick was responded to by another still more vigorous. Finally, the backers of the dog oflered fifty dollars to cancel the bet. Kicking was again renewed, but our hero remained Ann, like Horatius, who kept the bridge so well, steadfast still in mind. It was at length agreed that the dog party should forfeit three hundred and seventy-five dollars. The bank-notes were handed over, and the momentous questioa was settled. « «I’m thinking we’ve got the better o’ ye this time, Jamie; oor dawg’s got the mange.’ “ ‘ I'm no sae sure about that,’ replied the other; ‘ our badger’s dead!’ ” —The late Rear-Admiral Alden was perhaps the only American naval officer who ever dined with Queen Victoria. One summer, a few years ago, happening tebe passing the Isle of Wight, he noticed the royal standard floating from the tower of Osborne House. He at once sailed up a little nearer the shore, getting his ship •ground, - and saluted the Queen. She soon sent an invitation to the Admiral to dine with her* and he accepted. _

SENSE AND NONSENSE.

Pale-blue gauze is the fashionable material for veils. KHiFE-n.ArriNO continues to be the most fashionable trimming. This thing la getting dangerous. A Canada dog recently bit a woman and died almost immediately afterward. The new rubber foliage for trimming spring bonnets is odorous, not of the foreats, but of gutta percha. Pity ’tis, for ’tis pretty. Anyone who can raise a mustache that will drop down over his mouth can consistently sneer at the man who invented a coffee strainer. A pabaohaphist remarks that the man who denied that neuralgia comes on in foggy weather is convinced now that it was a great mist-ache. Mr. Henry Bebgh has nobly come to the defense of the Spitz dog, whose bite he is sure is not worse than that of a rabid politician, and whose moral tone is a good deal higher.— N. T. Graphic. A female teacher in one of the public schools of Oshkosh, recently, in a fit of Eassion at some misdemeanor of one of her oy pupils, seized him by the ears with such force as to rupture the skin and tissues. A West-Side man had just said to a friend: “ Let’s take another—” when his wife turned the corner, but his duty to his wife was not forgotten. “ View of the political situation,” he added.— Chicago Timet. » Put sway his little poem— Us to publish do not ask it: Fame through us shall never know him— He baa climbed the golden basket. —Gone to meet the communication written on both sides of the paper.— N. Y World. An exasperated politician, who had been called upon to define his position once more than patience could endure, exclaimed: “ Define my position 1 Never I If I define it, the next thing I’ll be called upon to do will be to spell it.” When a poor man dies in Augusta, Ga., he (or his friends) lifts his wearied frame into a $4,000 hearse and he rides off to his silent home in more style than he would be able to put on at his own living'ex. pense if he should live 2,000 years.-‘-Bur-lington Hawk-Eye. Professor of Chemistry: “ Suppose you were called to a patient who had swallowed a heavy dose of oxalic acid, what would you administer 7”, K. (who is preparing for the ministry, and who only takes chemistry because it is obligatory): “ I would administer the sacrament.”

Advertising is a good tiling, but when a prominent grocer carried to a funeral an umbrella on which was painted conspicuously the business of his house, and held it over the preacher’s head while he read his prayers, the bystanders thought he was running the thing into the ground. Puritan Church, Brooklyn, planned to cost $40,000, cost SIOO,OOO. — Graphic. Nothing remarkable about that. When you hear of a church planned to cost SIOO,OOO costing only $40,000, please apprise us of the fact—and give us a portrait of the architect. —Norristown Herald. It is an intense test of a man’s patience to get soap in his eyes while taking a bath, and then be forced to hunt and fish about for the cake of saponaceous material in the batli-tub. Life has few joy 3 which can compensate for tho feeling of weakness which is engendered by the elusive habits of that cake of soap. A Wisconsin man who had been induced by Western papers to go to Florida and start an orange-factory, passed through Atlanta on his way home yesterday. His breeches were harnessed to him by. one suspender, and he stood up to a fro©-lunch counter with the air of a man who knew his rights and dared maintain them. — Atlanta Constitution.

A Bridget, entirely new to the mvste ries of marketing, seeing a pet owl in front of a poulterer’s stand, said to its owner: “ What wad ye be askin’ for that broadfaced goose?” “Goose? That’s an owl,” was the contemptuous reply. “ Owld is it, you’re Bayin’ ! Sure its meself that can bile the bird till it’s tinder.” A bank cashier in WestWaterville, Me., has the windows of his sleeping-room barred with iron rods, and the door is irongrated, and thus he peacefully sleeps. Auother cashier in the same State has telegraph wires so arranged that after he retires for the night, not a door or window of his house can be started without sounding an effective alarm. A use has been discovered for the hitherto purely ornamental polecat. A Nebraska farmer noticed one of the tribe busily eating from the ground in his field, and an examination —made after the pretty creature had retired —showed that it had stripped the ground over which it had passed of the deposit of grasshopper eggs, which were about ready to hatch. Mrs. Lanagan was ailing, and called the doctor to minister to her infirmities. A soothing draught and a blister on the chest was prescribed. Calling the next day, the doctor inquired whether she had applied the blister as directed, and whether it rose. “ Why, thin, doctor, dear, niver a chist had I to put it on, but-I had a little bit of a box, and I put it on that; but sorra a rise it rose; and, faith, doctor, it’s sticking there yet.”

Smifeins always meant to be very polite, and among the conventional rules beaten into him was the one about “ present company excepted.” At a gathering of young Beacon Hillers, the otucr evening, allusion was made to the acknowledged eood looks of Boston girls. “Yas,” said Smifkins, “it is-ah—undoubtedly twew that Bahston ladies are bbotiful,” and he turned smirkingly to his lady listeners, “pwesent company excepted—ah.” A case which should be a warning to street-car companies has been decided in England. It affects the responsibility of railway companies for accidents occurring to passengers through the overcrowding of carriages. In a train running from Gowerstreet station/London, one of the carriages was full, and a passenger in a compartment containing three more than its proper complement had his hand hurt by getting it caught in the door while lie was attempting to stop any one else from coming iu. He sued the railway company for damages, and the jury gave a verdict in his favor. Tkc courts sustained the verdict on appeal. —J. P. Hassler, late Cashier of the Car. lisle Deposit Bank, at Carlisle, Pa., hanged himself, the other afternoon, in the garret of his dwelling, which was attached to the bank. Hassler was elected Cashier in 1865, and held the position until last October, when he was found to be a defaulter. On the 26th of February the bank officers instituted criminal proceedings, and bail was fixed at $15,000, which Hassler was unable to secure. He was found hanging from the same rafter on which the Cashier preceding him, Wm M. Bertram, hanged himself, in 1865. . —Bay windows are safe harbors at night for little smacks.

A Young Man Finds His Mother After Eighteen Years of Separation.

In the ups and downs of this world it not infrequently happens that very near relatives become separated, and thereafter lose all light and track of each other. Every few weeks we see in the newspapers some account of the sudden reunion of such lost ones—a father finds his missing boy, a daughter Is r restored to her parents, and lovers .meet at Strait who had thought each other dead for a score of years. A young St. Louisan, the hero of this sketch, has recently eclipsed a majority of such cases. He has discovered—himself. That ditto say, he went through the trials and tribulations of tops, marbles and tho multiplication table, on through the long years of base ball and Latin lexicon; on through the swift years of incipient uahhood, believing himself to be out person; and now all at once he discovers that he is sofnebody else, that he is not himself at all. At the age of twenty-one years and sundry months he has been born again.. In order to make this truthful sketch as clear as possible it has been divided into three chapters. * CHAPTER I. Borne eighteen years ago there died in Chicago Mr. William McMillan, Grand Lecturer of the Grand Lodge oMllinois Masons, leaving a widow and two young children, a boy of three years and a girl of five. Through the influence of Garden City Lodge No. 141, the boy, Louis Shirley McMillan, was adopted by a Mr. James Clarkson, at Chicago. Boon after, Mr. Clarkson suddenly removed from Chicago, and all efforts on the part of Mrs. McMillan to discover the whereabouts of her son failed. She soon retired with her daughter to the home of her relatives in Peoria, 111., subsequently remarried, moved to Newport, Ky., and again became a widow. CHAPTER n. When Mr. Clarkson removed from Chicago he went to Piqua. Ohio. Here,.with young McMillan, now renamed Louis N. Clarkson, he lived five years. Subsequently he lived four years in Columbus, Ohio, and again in Wheeling, Ya., some seven years, the boy growing to manhood in the firm belief that Mr. Clarkson (then editor of the Wheeling Regitter ) was his father, and that his mother had died when he was a babe. In young Clarkson left home and settle in St. Louis, accepting the position of chief bookkeeper of the ScottisbCam • merci&l Insurance Company (in the Chamber of Commerce building), which position he holds to-day.

CHAPTER HI. —THE DISCOVERT. During his boyhood young Clarkson had several times made inquiries of his fathe. concerning his mother, but was always met with a complete rebuff. Being of a somewhat affectionate disposition, he desired to know the circumstances of the death of the mother he could not remember, her maiden name and the whereabouts of her relatives. The complete refusal, of his father to tell him anything at all made him suspicious. He pondered the matter for many months, and finally, last December, wrote to h{B adopted father,!arid:entreated and demanded particulars, and threatened to use all the money as his command to discover his mother’s relatives. He received then the information that Mr. Clarkson was not. his own father, that his real name was McMillan, bat that Mr. Clarkson had never seen Mrs. McMillan, and knew nothing of her whereabouts, or her maiden name; also that bis real father had been a prominent Chicago Freemason. On this slender cue alone —of McMillan and Masonxy—youpg Clarkson went to Chicago in January and spent many days tiring -to get information of himself in Masonic records, and meeting, of course, with . many rebuffs. The parties to' his adaption seemed to have all died or mewed away, and the records were destroyed in the great fire. One of these partied, Mr. Hurd, he eventually traced to Michigan, and induced him to come down to Chicago and join him in the search for his relatives. Thus accompanied, partly by luck and partly by perseverance, he at length met Mr. Thomas Shirley, the old particular friend of the departed McMillan, and the very man for whom the orphaned boy (Louis Shirley McMillan) had been named. From Mr. Shirley he leartfed that his mother was indeed dead; that his sister had married and gone to California, and that for further particulars he must go to Peoria, 111. He went to Peoria and found numerous relatives; found, shat his mother still lived in Newport, Ky., and that his sister was with her. He hastened to Newport. Before he had a chance to introduce himself to his mother (Mrs. Montfort) she recognized him as her longlost son, from his resemblance to his father. There was of course the greatest mutual joy, and the third chapter closed in the State of Daniel BoOne with colors flying and calcium lights. Mr. Clarkson has since returned to St. Louis, and expects soon to bring his mother and sister (of whom he is very proud) here to live. He has also discovered two own cousins in Bt. Louis —Mrs. Belle Hatcher and Miss Nellie Gregg. Having also found himself, he has resumed his original name, ana is now Louis Shirley McMillan. — St. Louis Republican. ?

THE MARKETS.

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