Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1877 — Page 2

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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. Caleb Cubing, United States Minister «t ItkdcM, hM tod a foiwwult audience with the Kin*. _ Andrew Halliday, a British playwright and awtbcsr of ooneiderahle note, died on the IMh. ■ P. C. Shannon has been reappointed Ohtef-Jaettee es Dakota Terri torj. dhd J. J. Boranan, temtoJaSioa , The United Btatea troops in Alaska have been ordeted to be withdrawn and the Territory turned over to the control of the Treasury Department. Finaei A Sons, of Bristol, England, pn»prietonof the largest eager refinery in the world, have failed, with liabilities aggregating **,500,000. | John P. Hoyt, of Michigan, has been appointed Governor of Ariaona Territory, and Alfred E. Lee, of Ohio, to be Oonwrl-Ooneral at Frankfort, Germany. Alonzo Bell has been appointed Assist-ant-Secretary of the Interior, being promoted {ram the Chief-Clerkship, in accordance with the CSvil-Serviee rales. The Grand Jury of Caroline County, Md., where the Bennett-May duel waa fought, have been instructed to indict all the parties concerned in the affair. The New York papers of the Bth say the only difficulty then in the way of the relearn of Tweed waa hia unwillingness to divulge the names of those who am said to have been bribed by him. Gov. Packard addressed a letter to President Hayea, on the sth, in which he excepts to the instructions issued to ttolxtaiauunaCommuKioneni, in that they exclude or do not direct inquiry upon the three essential questions, namely: Which is the legal government entitled to recognition? which is the legal Judiciary? and does domestic violence and insurrection prevail within the meaning of Sec. 4, Art. 4, of the Constitution of the United States? At a late session of the New England Methodist Conference, resolutions were adopted, that the freedmen of the South should have secured to them the rights and privileges that their changed relation to the country and their increased responsibility demand for them; reoognudng a dearly-defined purpose on the part es the President to so administer the Government aa to secure to nil classes the full and free exercise of all their rights and privileges, and pledging to him, in the exception of this purpose, hearty sympathy and support. The New York Methodist Conference, in session at Readout, on the 9th, adopted resolutions approving the conciliatory policy of President Hayea. John P. Phair, convicted of tlie murder of Mrs. AnuiePretse, was to have been hung at Windsor, VC, on the 6th. The evidence was circumstantial, but deemed conclusive, and all efforts for pardon or reprieve had failed. On the morning of the 6th, the Boston papers published a statement from Phair that, if given time, he could establish an alibi and prove his innocence. This statement attracted the attention of a gentleman, who remembered to have seen Phair at one of the places mentioned, and where he could not have been had he been guilty of the murder. He telegraphed the Governor of Vermont, and, on the strength of the story, a reprieve waa telegraphed, delaying the execution until May 4, that the new aspect of the case may be investigated.

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

An explosion occurred on the sth, in the office of Measim. Jewett, white lead manufacturer*, in New York, by which George W. Jewett, the head of the him, and O. D. Jewett, his nephew, were killed, and Joseph A. Dean seriously injured, (hie aeoount states that a misunderstanding existed between O. D. Jewett and his partners, and that he was about to withdraw from the firm. He came to the office erased with liquor, when angry words pawed, and he pulled a hand-grenade front his pocket and threw it on the floor, an explosion following, with the result above stated. Another aeoount states that young Jewett was insane. It waa believed that Dean would recover. According to a Vienna telegram of. the Cth, Bnaaia te&jifcsstei trifeoPort* a derflSria for a categorical answer aa to the aoceptance of the protocol and disarmament. The Sultan, on the Bth, conferred the Star of the OsaaanH upon Edhem Pasha, the Grand Timer, aa a token of his approval of the policy pursued by him. Gen. Wade Hampton arrived at Columbia, 8. C-, on the 6th, from Washington, and addressed a large oeneowse of people in the afternoon, stating that hia policy aa Governor would be om of peace and harmony, and that be would support President Hayes in carrying out the policy indicated in hia inaugural address. He also reiterated the pledges made to the colored people in hia campaign speeches, and said that in the adminhttntaon of law he should know no > race. A strike among the cotton-spinners in the Lancashire (Ragland) district waa imminent on the Bth. Odessa telegrams of the 7th report that hurried preps ratinsw were making in all ports at the .Black Baa to meet aa apprehended attack by the Turkish iron-clad fleet. The Beading (Pa.) Railroad Company decided, en the 7th, to suspend all engineers on the Germantown A Norristown Branch belonging to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. They woe given two days in which to decide wbathaktiwy would abandon the Brotherhood or the Baibimd Company. A London special of the 9th says intelligence had jmt been received to the effect that the Porte had relented the principal clauses of the protocol, and refused to admit the Bnaoian dootrSte of disarmament ; declined to send an with Montenegro aa she pleased. War was 000aiderod inevitable and imwliunt A Borne (Italy) telegram of the 9th reports the appearance of armed bands of Interfcmrfof ttdHy of the On the morning of the 9th, the Louisiana

Interests of the two Gubernatorial claimants. The Commission stated, among other things, that the moment the members of the Legislature, whose'election was undisputed by either party, should mset together aa one body, it would constitute the State of lonisiana. If this were done, self-government and the withdrawal of the army would follow in twenty-four hours, they thought. - The President la constantly in receipt of letters from persons of both political and from all parts of the country, heartily approving of his policy, according to an Associated Press dispatch of the 9th. The National Reform Association met in Convention at Chicago, on the 10th. The object of the gathering was to take action looking to the maintenance of the Bible in the publlo schools, “Sabbath lawn, the oath and other Christian features of oar Government, and to provide for them an undeniable legal basis by a religions amendment to the Constitution." Bov. Jonathan Edwards was chosen President, and addresses were delivered by him and W. W. Everts, D. D., of Chicago. A Constantinople telegram of the 10th announces the discovery of the evidence of two Runeian inoendiitry agencies in Bulgaria. The Porte had issued a circular, in which stress was laid on the desire of Turkey for peace, but declaring that foreign interference in Turkish affairs would not be submitted to. The Turkish Chamber of Deputies had rejected the demands of Montenegro. Affairs wore regarded as extremely critical. The United States troops were withdrawn from the Columbia (8. C.) Court-House, on the 10th, in accordance with the President's agreement with Wade Hampton. Mr. Chamberlain, also, issued a proclamation finally retiring from the contest for the Governorship of South Carolina. A Bucharest telegram of the 11th says the Turks were very active in that region in forwarding military preparations. Twenty-four Krupp guns had recently arrived, and would be used for the defense of the Danube. Bismarck was, on the 11th, granted leave of absence until August next. The State papers and the Government of South Carolina were formally transferred to, Gov. Hampton at noon on the 11th. A Washington telegram of the 11th ■ays the Treasury Department had instructed the various Sub-Treasurera not to pay out any more legal-tenders of the denomination of $1 and $2The Southern Hotel, the largest hotel in Bt» Louis, was burned on the morning of the 11th. The loss of life is varionsly estimated at from twelve to twenty. The money loss waa in the vicinity of $1,000,000. A Fort Smith (Ark.) dispatch of the 11th says the Heater family, arrested on the charge of being the Kansas Benders, had been released after an examination by Judge Parker. Kansas parties failed to identify them.

How a Spanish Sexton Impersonated the Devil.

A strange story comes from the north of Spain. A moribund landed proprietor, notwithstanding the entreaties of his family and friends, refused to receive the consolations of religion. His family, thinking they had overcome his scruples, sent for the parish priest; but upon his arrival the sick man declined to receive him, and the priest withdrew, declaring that the devil would come in person to carry off so hardened a sinner as soon as be was dead. A few hours afterward the sick man died, and while the family were watching over the body the door of the room was opened with a great noise, and there appeared upon the scene a personage arrayed in red, brandishing a pitchfork, dragging a long tail after him, and smelling veiy strongly of sulphur. His appearance created so much terror that the women present fainted.and the men rushed out of the room by another door. A man servant, hearing the screams, and thinking that thieves had broken into the house, armed himself with a revolver, and made his way to the room from whence they proceeded. For a moment he, too, was terrified by the appearance of “ the devil,” who by this time had got the body in his arms; but, mastering his fears, he fired three barrels of his revolver at him, and the supposed devil, who fell to the ground, proved to be the parish sexton, who, by the orders of the priest, had disguised himself, as he conceived, as Satan. He was quite dead when picked up, and four priests, who are suspected of complicity m this attempt to work upon the superstitious feelings of the family of the*deceased, have been taken into custody.— Pall Mall Gazette.

FACTS AND FIGURES.

The “ big tree,” as it is called, which rfsaw.. ieu, Calaveras County, tained half a million feet of inch Rimher, and was felled by five men working twenty-two and a half days, mak. ing 112# days’ labor. The sixth annual Directory of David R. Gould was issued on the 31st of March. It shows a considerable increase of names, and, computed by the usual rule, makes the population of the city 501.489. It also gives official mortality statistics of all the large cities of the country, which shows Bt. Louis to be the healthiest city, according to population, in the Union, the deaths here last year being only 7,890. —St. Louit Ditpatch. According to some statistics on serf emancipation which have been published in the Goto*, there are still 2,000,000 serfs in Russia, their emancipation not having been effected, either in consequence of the high price of land or their own unwillingness to accept the new state of things. In the Eastern Provinces of the Empire the annual number of the serfs emancipated is rapidly diminishing. From 1861 to 1865 it was over 500,000; from 1865 to 1870, 350,000, and in 1876 it was only 110,810. The “ Yankee” still retains his prominence as an inventor. One patent was granted for every 730 persons in Connecticut, 914 in Rhode Island and 918 in Massachusetts, last year, while oat West the proportion sinks to one in 1,957 for Illinois, and one in 4,498 for Kansas. .Oddly enough, however, there is a wide gap between Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and the three northern New England States, the figures for Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine being one to 2,973,3,000 and 3,522 respectively.—Batton Transcript. t . The wisdom of many peoples, and of all ages, ordains for the - punishment of the time act various degrees of severity, according to the influence of circumstances, or the guilt of the offenders. Urns, homicide may be only killing by misadventure, or wilful murder, or high treason, according as the case may be. It is, therefore, strictly on principle that the act of converting to one’s own use the

money of another’s exhibits, Tn the light of our lofty civilization, various gradations of guilt which, after the manner of criminal statutes, are signified by appropriate name*, the amount of the spoliation being in this case the principal criterion. Thus: Taking $1,000,000 Is called....A ess* of Genius. 100,000 « .... “ Shortage. “ 60.000 *• .... “ Litigation. 86.000 “ .... " Insolvency. KOor " .... ** Irregularity. 5.100 “ .... “ Defalcation. “ 1,000 “■ .... “ Corruption. “ 500 “ “ Kiube in'nt. “ 100 " .... ** DUhoneetj. “ 50 “ .... “ Thievery. “ 85 “ .... “ To'l Dep'ty. “ One Hat » “ .... “ WsronSo’y. — N. J'. Graphic.

How Kid Gloves are Made.

G I.o vies have been in use from very early times, being mentioned by such ancieot writers aa Homer and Zenophen. During the middle ages they were worn by certain officials aa a mark of dignity. But as civilization advanced they gradually became common to all classes of the community. In the early part of this century there was no positive regularity in the cut and shape of kid gloves, all being left to the judgment of the cutter, who had no systematic pattern. In 1834 Zavier Jouvin invented a new method ,of cutting out the kid, doing it with geometrical precision. His system is extremely elaborate, having thirty-two sizes, cutting ten widths to each size, In all making thirl ty-two different numbers. Since then other manufacturers have made numerous improvements in shape, finish and stitchiug, and now the best makes have almost reached perfection, and merit the growing demand, which is such that the price of skins have advanced 50 per cent. In the last fifteen years. The term “ kid,” however, is a mere technicality, as the quantity consumed annually of leather bearing this name is largely in excess of what could be supplied from the skins of all the young goats that are annually slaughtered. lamb and other thin skins being extensively u>ed. One of our Newark stores by actual count has retailed 472 pairs in six days, and a certain New York house retails $300,000 worth annually. The value of those manufactured hi France is estimated at 50,000,000 francs, and there are large quantities made in Italy, Germany and England, and a comparative small amount m this country, at Gloversville and New York City. As the sewing of a single pair of ladies’ kid gloves requires 5,000 stitches, for which the continental manufacturers pay about ten cents, it can readily be seen that this industry cannot be carried on extensively in this country. The seams are sewed with perfect regularity by placing the edges to be united In the jaw'sof a vise which terminate in fine brass teeth like those of a comb, but only one-twelfth of an inch long, the stitches being held by a knot to prevent ripping, which used to be a frequent source of trouble. It is necessary that the animal should be killed young, because as soon as it beginsto feed on herbage its skin is impaired for this purpose. Eggs are very extensively used in preparing the skins—it is estimated that (10,000,000 are annually used in Enfland and France alone. In coloring the ids dye is applied to the outer skin with a brush by hand; if the skins were immersed the inner portion would also receive the dye and stain the hand. Fiance excels all in the variety and richness of her colors, which is attributed to her atmosphere and water—producing 200 different shades. Ladies’ sizes run from 5 % to 8; gents’ from ifjjj to 11; misses’ from 4to 0)4- Gents’ are longer in the fingers and higher in the wrist than those of ladies’ off like number, though they arc alike in width, and the misses’ gloves are narrower. —Newark (A. J.) Advertiser. .....

Torpedo Boats.

The Scientific. American gives an illus. trated description of the torpedo Alarm. It says while foreign nations have bestowed chief attention upon immensely costly experiments on guns and armor, here in the United States the principal aim has been the perfection of the torpedo system. An admirably organized and thoroughly-equipped torpedo school for the navy has for several years been in existence in Newport, R. I. The work which there is done is not published, but many of its results are of great importance. There is also an army torpedo station at Willet’s Point, L. I. We have also constructed qne torpedo vessel, which is probably the most formidable craft afloat (not excepting the Italian iron-clads with their 100-ton guns), and in time of war will form the model for a fleet of like steamers. This vessel is the Alarm, which would be a disagreeable craft for a heavy iron-clad (one like the Vanguard, for instance, which went down like a shot on being slightly rammed) to encounter^ is well provided with defensive means Having sighted an enemy—say at night—her compound engines drive her headlong at him at the rate of fifteen knots per hour. As she nears him the immense electric light on her bow flashes out its glare, blinding her adversary to her own hull—which is already sunk so low that her deck is but three feet above the sea—while displaying his every proportion. The roar of her fiftecn-inch gun, as it hurls its huge shot or shell into the attacked vessel, is followed by the crash of the bow spar torpedo striking the devoted craft-thirteen feet below the water line. Then, perhaps, after a momentary check due to the torpedo recoil, the Alarm plunges forward, driving her immense ram into her adversary’s crushed side. As she swings broadside onto her foe, another torpedo spar shoots out from her side, and another torpedo is exploded under the unguarded boom of the enemy; while the machine guns under the torpedo-boat’s rail keep up a deadly fire of thousands of bullets per minute, sweeping her opponent’s decks. Her length is 172 feet, of which thirty-two feet is snout or ram—her beam iB twenty-seven feet six inches, and she draws eleven feet of water, displacing about 700 tons. She is built of thorough-ly-tested charcoal iron, and on the English bracket-plan system; that is to say, she has really a double-hull, one shell being constructed inside the other. Within the outside shell three longitudinals of great strength run the entire length of the vessel, and are connected with bars running in a horizontal direction by brackets. The different sections can be entered through man-holes, so that a person can pass from stem to stern between the inner and onter vessels. These compartments are all water-tight, so that in the event of a leak, only one section coaid fill. The whole interior of the vessel is also built in compartments which may be hermetically sealed. —Mr. James Gordon Bennett is in Russia, and says the story that he went there to get out of the reach of cowhides is a knout and knout falsehood.— BurUnalen Hawk-Ey*.

SENSE AND NONSENSE

Half the truth is oftentimes as bad a ile as no truth. Cam an honest meal be made off a “boaed” turkey? Tnn new evening dresses are made in the Prlncesse sliajte. Prok. Tick predicts a dry summer, and advises tanners to plow deep. Tiik ssfest way is to eulogize a person you don’t know.— Mark Twain. A County Jaii, out West has a sign over the gate, “ Gcd Bless Our Home.” Wiikn is a candle like a tomb stone? When it is put up for a late husband. Grasshoppers are numerous in Colorado, and threaten general destruction to the crops. A baby, says a recent French writer, is un angel whose wimrs decrease as its legs increase. State of suffering— Ill.— Washington Herald. A fatherly State —Pa.— Norrit* town Herald. The New York Herald speaks of the ‘ ‘ troublesome silver coins.” Must be the Eastern climate. , WiLliamsburgh, N. Y., a town with 4,000 Spitz dogs, is conducting a massacre of those dangerous pets. Complaints of Mormon propagandists in Buncombe County, N. C., are made to the Governor of the State. A late book is entitled “ Half Hours with Insects.” What a lively half-hour one can have with a bee! Can the “ lap of May ” and the “ lap of spring,” alluded to in articles of tills season of the year, be considered as belonging to the lapse of time? One of the conductors on a Boston street railway is a divinity student, who took the position for a few months in order to study human nature. Ninety-nine out of a hundred people make a great mistake when they cut off' a dog’s tail, in throwing away the wrong end. —Hluegrass (.Kg.) Clipper. A Philadelphia paper expresses the opinion that there ought to be a standing advertisement in all the city papers for a new supply of live merchants. " It takes a large amount of affection to make a good Mormon father. Not every heart is large enough to hold the love of sixteen wives and sixty-four children.

One-sixth the population of Mercer County, Pa., have signed the temperance pledge. In the oil region of McKean County the same state of affairs exists. An advertisement in a Boston newspaper is as*follows: “Wanted—A young man in the dry-goods trade; to be partly out-doors and partly behind the counter.” A harpy Chicago maiden affirms that by placing a lover in the rays of a blue glass window he can be made to propose at one sitting. She has tried and proved it herself. California is shipping large quantities of honey to Great Britain, and promises that, if the demand increases, she can supply any required amount of the deli■jacy; A punster was once thrust into a closet with the threat that he would not be released until he made a pun. Almost instaneously he exclaimed, “O-pun the dooil” Cast. Burnaby was asked by his Turcoman guide which an Englishman lores best, his horse or his wife. But the author answered diplomatically: “That depends on the woman.” Those were merry old days when it was accounted the proper thing for a gentleman who took snuff from a young lady’s snuff-,box immediately to exclaim, with a bow-; “ I-kis-s-you.” Copy of an advertisement hung up in a Cheyenne hotel: “Wantid —Passenger on the black hill Dead wod. feare 16 dolors each 50 lbs Bagge. start as soon as We hav passengears anofe.” “ I’ve made the fire all of the week,” shouted Jones: “’Tis false,’’ cried his wife, in most positive • tones; “And, unless yon would witness me fighting a liar. Ton'd better get up and he lighting a Are!" When a London medical journal wants to describe a healthy man, it simply says: “Clean tongue, good appetite, slow pulse, cool skin, clear head, steady hand, good walking power and light, refreshing sleep.”

The Boston papers tell of a love-sick girl who married against her father’s wishes and went home after the first conjugal tiff. ‘‘Kill the prodigal,” exclaimed the old gent, “ the calf has returned.” “Oh! yes,” said an old lady, “the modern cook-stove is a great invention, and when my boy James gets through his studies in practical engineering, so he can come home and run it, I’ll buy oneof ’em; but not afore.” California newspapers allege that, from unexplained causes, that State, and Ban Francisco in particular, furnishes a greater number of cases of paralysis than any other similar region in die country, if not in the world. This was Robert Stephenson’s remark to the man who used to bother him about perpetual motion: “If you will take yourself up by the waistbanu of your breeches and carry yourself round the room, I will consider the matter.” Mb. Carlyle says that young men should be shut up in barrels and kept somewhere out of sight until they have passed their twenty-fifth year, because His about this time that they “ attain to their maximum of detestability.” A novelty from Paris is a crepe lissc tie, embroidered and having scollops at the edge, bordered most effectively with veiy small peacock's feathers, which form a pleasing contrast with the dead white of the rest of the scarf. Come to Detroit if vou would be happy. A man earning a safary of sixty dollars per month pays seventy-two dollars per month for board for himself and wife, and she is allowed ninety dollars to get new clothes for Easter. — Detroit Free Fret*. A man swearing the peace against three of his sons, thus concludes his affidavit: “And the deponent further saith that the only one of liis children who showed him any real filial affection was his youngest son, Larry, for he never struck him when he was down.” —The following anecdote is told in illustration of the proverbial politeness of Spanish robbers: An Englishman was once accosted on a lonely road by a ruffian. “Sir, you have mtreoat on; may I trouble yon for it?” The Englishman drew a pistol, and told the fellow he was mistaken. “Sir,” said the robber, “I perceive that I am. Will you do me the honor to communicate your name, that I may remember it in my prayers”’ . “ii mm • m t —A few minutes before beings shot the Mormon Lee was requested by a photographer to “ please assume a pleasant look.” This world is prone to ask a great deal df a man.

THE ST. LOUIS HORROE.

Tk« Buraias the Soath«rn Hotel —Appalling Midnight Scene* of Horror and P—,lh. , Hr. Loots, April 1L 1 The moot frightful calamity that has ever befallen B't. Louis took place at a very early hour this morning, involving the destruction of (he Southern Hotel by fire, and the loss of a large number qf lives. From the beet information at hand, it seems the fire caught in the store-room in (he basement, and waa first seen coming through the ground floor, just north of the office, and in ten minutes it had ascended the elevators and rotunda, and spread itself over the sixth floor, under the roof. This floor was occupied entirely by em. ployes of the hotel, the largest part of whom were women. The fir© spread rapidly, filling every room and hall with flames and smvke, and the scene was of the most terrible description. Frantic men, women and children ran through the halls, shrieking in the most heart-rending manner, in their wild and desperate efforts to escape. The smoke was so densq in some of the halls that the tinguished, which rendered egress even to those most familiar with the building a matter of great difficulty. « The Fire Department was on the spot promptly, and hundreds of people congregated at the scene, ready and willing to render any aid necessary. The density of the smoke in the halls drove many guests and boarders back into their rooms, and they rushed to the windows as a means of escape. Ladders were raised as soon as possible, and women and children, with only their night-clothes on, were thus taken from the burning building. Some fainted from fright and others sunk exhausted to the ground from nervous prostration. The ladders eenerally were too short to reach to the fifth and sixth stories, but by hoisting some of them on the one-story balcony, on the north side of the building, these floors were reached ana all those at the windows rescued. The Skinner FireEscape was also brought promptly into service, and was the means of saving many lives.

While this work was going on, some frightful scenes occurred. One, man, who had been occupying a window on the Walnut-street front of the hotel, became desperate at the seeming delay in effecting his escape. With nervous hands he tore the sheets from his bed into tied them together, and fastened this improvised rope to the window-sill, and, disregarding the fact that it did not reach more than twenty feet, he let himself down hand over hand. The men below who saw his position turned away their heads to avoid the sickening event that was inevitable. Finally he reached the end of the sheet, and then, for the first time, he seemed to realize his position. He stopped, threw his head back, revealing a ghastly face, and swung slowly to and fro, swayed by the breeze which the roaring flames above created. His limbs swung around convulsively, as though to catch upon something, then he let go, and groans went up from hundreds as he whirled round and round, and finally struck on the stone- flagging with a sickening thud. He was carried to a saloon across the street, and died in a few moments. Two other men jumped from the fourth-story windows, one of whom seemed not to be dangerously hurt, while the other expired in a few moments. A woman in the fifth-story window on the Fifth-street front became panic-stricken and jumped out. She alighted on her feet and was carried to the St. James Hotel still alive. Her husband, who had been standing by her side, then tore up the bedding and let the strip, so made, out of the window. To this firemen attached a rope which the man hauled up, making it fast to the window-sill, and safely descended by it. A man named J. E. Wilson jumped from a fourth-story window and was killed. Andrew Ensmen and Mrs. Scott met their death in the same way. The mortality among the female help of the hotel is feared to be great. There were some two hundred of them, all of whom were lodged in the upper story of the building. The panic among them was terrible, and a number of them jumped from the upper windows on the Elmstreet or rear siae of the house. The loss on the building and contents will be from $750,000 to $1,000,000. _

A later telegram (10:30 p. m. of the 11th) says: Dr. Wiler, Coroner, gives the following list of killed as reported tohim and thinks it comprise* all known to be dead: The Kev. A. R. Adams, of Stock Cross, Berkshire, England. Geo. Frank Gouley, Grand Secretary Masonic Fraternity, this State. Kate Reiley, Kate Doolan and Mary Moran, servants. Henry Hazen, of Auditor’s Department Missouri Pacific Railroad. He wa& formerly from New Castie, Pa., whither his remains will be sent. Mrs. Stewart, wife of W. 8. Stewart, of the firm of Derby & Day, this city, Andrew Eistman, of the firm of Techman & Co., this city. Chas. G. Feenan and Sidmore Hayden. Wm. Felix Minister, said to be a member of the English House of Commons, who was married in this city a few months ago. He was residing at the hotel with his wife, became separated in the confusion, and under the impression that she was killed, he became intensely excited, and evidently lost his mental balance. About six o’clock this afternoon he went to the room of a friend, corner of Fourth and Olive streets, and shot himself. The Coroner held an inquest, but could not decide whether death was caused by suicide or accident. There are various reports regarding the matter, one to the effect that, he knew his wife was saved, and that ue killed himself while laboring under mental derangement.

Queer Fishes.

The waters of South America are inhabited by a great variety of curious fishes. A sportsman throwing his line into any pool or stream in the warm latitudes will be apt to find rising to his bait a succession of queer species which it trill be impossible to name and very difficult to handle. From an Island at the entrance to-the harbor of Cape St. Vincent Sir Rose Lambert Price once had an experience of this sort, which be relates with a mod deal of spirit Ralls of paste made of mashed crab were first thrown into the sea to attract the fish, and the hooks were then baited with the legs of cmbe or with barnacles. Success was immediate, and the strange captures made elicited a continuous fire of ejaculations. “ Nearly all the fish,” writes Sir Rose, “ were of different varieties, and had we been unattended by MAh ‘ darkies,’ I am confident some of have been hurt, if not seriously injured, by the fish in unhooking them, as nearly all were armed with some description of prickle. Many of their prickiee were poisonous, and all of them bit like mad at everything within reach on coming out of the

' briny.’ A handsome red fish, about two pounds in weight, and something like a perch, called by M. ‘the king of the seas,' was the best eating of the lot, and well mef|te(| his .proud appellation, as a finerflaVprt d one I have seldom tasted. A blaik, uglyvlooking thing, about a pound injteightj was called the soap-fish, and was uneatabT&Y but, on being stirred about in a small pool of salt water, soon caused to l&tuer like suds... ~ —— «* “A porcupine-fish »( THodirn hyetrir), weighing about seven muml*, one of. the Plectognathes, was peitiipilhe foot* eunoua one we caught. The men treated this gentleman with the giemeurpUMlMyt'An tion, evidently regarding him as a dangerous brute. A more awkward one to handle it is quite Impossible to conc&ve, as he is entirely covered with small spikes, dispersed over sides, back and abdomen, in such a manner as to prevent effectually anyone touching him. On being hauled up, he came grunting loudly out of the water, and, as he lay on the rocks’, commenced swelling himself out by successive gulps of air, which he inhaled with such noise and vigor that he soon resembled a cross between a distended foot ball and an angry toad. Its skin was so tough that it resisted easily the pike-thrusts which saluted it, and only after several efforts was it dispatched with a sharp, and strong clasp-knife. Its maxillaiy and intermaxillary bones are soldered together so as to render the upper jaw immovable; its entire month appeared plated with some kind of enamel; and M. told hs that, its powers of crushing were so great that, when fresh from the wctgr, one of them could easily erumble any of the lumps of scoria lying about, were a piece placed between its powerful jaws.” A number of large eels were among the victims landed, and these seemed to be the most formidable of all the species caught. “Their jaws,” says Sir Rose, “ shaped something like a duck’s bill, were capable of great expansion, and their teeth were strong, and sharp as razors. One that we had speared turned viciously round and bit a large piece out of his own tail, ana then seizipg a bamboo he had been struck with, severed the tough cane as if it had been a simple carrot. We afterward spiced and pickled our ill-tempered friend, and found him excellent eating; but, though the flesh was perfectly white and delicate, his bones were all deep purple, and strong .as steel. The vertebral bone was marvelously formed for strength, having a kind of extra flange through its entire length, which must have given the brute an amount of power I have never seen developed in any other kind of eel, or in any skeleton of snake or viper. All the small bones terminated in a kind of fang, or fork, which I never observed in any other fish.” —Chicago Tribune.

Indorsed by William H. Vanderbilt.

One of our townsmen, being in New York recently, had occasion to visit one of the city banks. A gentleman entered the banx, and with a nervous air pushed forward to the principal officer’s desk, where he presented a note for a heavy amount and desired to have it discounted., The bank officer took the paper, examined it, and pointing to the name on the back, said: “That name, sir, is not good here; we can’t take that paper.” “Then,” said the other, “I am ruined—ruined!” With a hurried glance at the bystanders, the man was about to withdraw the worth less note, but another gentleman who haa been engaged close by, and who had evidently observed what was going on, quietly put forth his hand, took the rejected paper, scrutinized it, and then having taken a good look at the man who had presented it, lifted a pen from the desk, and deliberately wrote under the previdus indorsement, “William H. Vanderbilt." The action was accompanied by the simple words, “I guess that’ll go.” Then the seventy-five millionaire—for he it was —turned hastily away and went about his own business. Henceforth, for him at least, the name of Vanderbilt will mean something more than railroads, stocks and bonds. —EllenviUe (N. T.) Journal.

Terrapins.

The American group of the Emydidoc, (terrapins) comprises about a dozen species, of which the “ diamond-backed”,is the most highly prized as an article of food. The variety esteemed above all others for its delicacy is principally found in the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays, and in bays and inlets along the coast as far south as North Carolina. The reptiles confine themselves mairily to water not river six or eight feet in depth, and are captured with drag-nets, or vVith a long pair of tongs called n terrapinclams.” In the latter mode of fishing, a man armed with the tongs stands at the bow, while another propels the boat through the clear, still water, on a calm, frosty morning. The terrapins usually lying at the bottom under a thin blanket of mud, or entirely expoeed, and on their hacks or one side, are dexterously seized by the tongs and transferred to the boat. The price of full-sized “ diamondbacks” during the-War was twenty-six dollars per dozen; but, the demand haying diminished, it is now eighteen dollars. If the terrapins measure an inch less than the established size, eighteen are reckoned as a dozen. Young diamond-backs are sold for $1.50 per dozon.

THE MABKETS.

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