Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1877 — Page 2

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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

v OWNKNT PARAGRAPHS. The Turin have commenced the eroc--«tan«f across ta* Dtatah* *t EHfefitt. The Ruaataa fleet* in the Atlantic and Paoific teve tee ordered to ooncentnrte in the ;ia2 ; {? y '• Hon. John A. Kasson has been appointod United States Minister to Spain, to succeed &». O*M> Owfe**Tbe Turkish Senate has reversed the deerafaieof tbeCbaiaberof Depatire in respect A Are at Btamboul, one of the suburbs of Oonatantinopk, a few night* ago, destroyed botwosn MO and 800 dwellings. The hotel It Rosemont, Ont, was destroyed by fire on tb* night of the 11th, and two guests were burned to death. Lockhart & Dempster and Glenn, Walker A O*., extensive shipping and commission merchant* of Liverpool, have failed. The Greek Government has ordered the raising of an army of 60,000 men to be in readinoa* for active and immediate Service. Hugh Riddle has been elected to the Presidency of the Chicago, Bock Island 4 Par cifio Bailroad, vice John F. Tracy, resigned. - A cave-in occurred at Blue-Point Graham Mine, Smartteille, Tuba County, Cal., on the 12th, which caused the in«tm>t death of seven men and serious injury to six Abers. ... . w .>£ It is authoritatively stated in Washington that the President made no bargain with, or promusrii anything to, Gov. Chamberlain on condition of his retiring from the Governorship of South Carolina. _____

The Supreme Court of California has ianied a peremptory writ of mandamo* to th* Secretary of State to issue to Pacheoo, th* Republican candidate for Oongre** in the Fourth District, his certificate. • A Savannah (G*.) telegram, of the 14th, announce* the burning of the steamer Leo, from that port for Nanau. Thirteen of the crew eacaped on the life-boat, but eighteen with three paaeenger* were missing. The verdict cf the Coroner’s jury in the Jewett “bomb-shell’’tragedy, New York, i* to the effect that th* elder Jewett lost hi* life by the explosion of a hand-grenade thrown by Orville by shooting. ■_ A decision in favor of Mrs. Gaines, involving million* of dollars’ worth of property in New Orleans, has been rendered by Judge Billing* of that city. The litigation ha* extended over forty years, and it fe stated that this decision end* th* struggle in favor of the plucky little claimant. Maj. Reno, recently tried by court-mar-tial, at St. Paul, on the charge of insulting the wife of a brother officer, has been sentenced to be diamisaed from the service. He has forwarded to th* War Department * request for delayin the presentation of th* case to the President, claiming that he has evidence tending to mitigate his offense. AU fbe Constitutional amendments submitted to the voter* at the recent election in New Hamjahire were carried save the first, to strike ontthe word “Protestant” from the Bill of Right*, and the twelfth, prohibiting removal from office for political cause*. The seventh, abolishing the religious teat as a qualification for office, was adopted by thirteen votes over the necMßary two-tiunda A circular is extensively circulated hrougbout the West announcing the distribution of 14,000,000 worth of real estate and 11,000,000 in gold coin at “ Crosby’s Opera House, Chicago, June 12th, 18T7,” under the direction of the Laraaaie City and Topeka ktteriea—for which 600,000 ticket* are issued at 110 each. The Chicago Journal of the 17th pronounces the chemean unmitigated swindle. William M. Tweed, the old-time “ Boss” of the New York Tammany Ring, has made what purports to be a full confession, and given a complete history of that cabal and the means adopted to accomplish its snds. He ba* ao promised to furnish confirmatory docamentary evidence of the truth of hi* statements. The names of several men prominent in political and judicial circles are mentioned a* the recipients of the Ring’s bounty.

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Fighting between the Turks and Miridites has taken place during the last few days. The first day the former were beaten at Menadi, bnt on the seoood day they captured Muel*,haU a day's journey from Scutari. It wa» reported in Constantinople, on the 13th, that Brians had formed an offensive and defensive alliance with Persia. Nearly 40,000 Persian troops were concentrated on the frontier of Turkey. A Vienna telegram of the tame datentates that instructions had been tent to the Russian Charge <T Affaire* at Constantinople to declare war against the Porte. The bodies of a man and woman were recovered from the Southern. Hotel ruins in St. Louis, on the 13th, and identified as being those of H. J. Clark and wife, of North Adams, Mass The engineer of the hotel states that there was a pile of mattresses and a lot of loose hair in one comer of thestece-room and a box of matches. He did not know anything definite about the origin of the fire, but thought these had a great deal to do with it. A yienna telegram of the 15th says Austria wjiq resolved upon the armed occupation of Bosnia. An international outbreak is said to be Poland and contiguous On’the lSth, it was reported, at Dead-wood.'D-.’T., that 100 of Crazy Home's band had taken to the fieM again. in consequence of the decepiton prabtired by Spotted Tail, who stated that only the pans captured in the Custer fight would hafetahesuatetdeted, when the Govern meat ann® and ponies. On lh£l4ife, GiMr. Hampton requested the Chamberiaio State officials to fam overtbeir offices to their contestants, subject to the aefiten of the Supreme Out This they refused todo,

asserting that they held their office. by dealerstom of the State CSnvhmara; that their oootestants bad Uken lb* caaea to the Supreme Court; tteat n* sQltotolmd no right Is anticipate the judgment of that Court, or in any way pea* upon their title, apd that hi* action was in violation of ma pledges to leave disputed questions to Iffgwl RCttloilMinta Vienna telegrams of the 16th say Austria would not long remain an indifferent spectator to the action of Turkey and Itusria, but would assume the position of defensive neutrality. On the 16th, the Nicholls Senate passed resolutions approving of the President’s determination “to rcatore local self-government to the Southern States by a return to a rigid following of the wise principles of Constitutional government,” and declaring it to be the purpose of the Government of the State of Louisiana, represented by Francis T. Nicholls: To accept in good faith the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution; the rigid enforcement of law and the suppression and punishment of violence and crime; the promotion of kindly relations between the white and colored citizens of the State; the maintenance of an equitable puplioscbool system, and the discountenance of any attempt at persecution from any quarter of individuals for past political conduct. The House caucus eubsrauentlv indoreed the resolution*. A New Orleans telegram of the 16th says the Nicholls Legislature has accepted a proposition made by the Commission that seven members who bad been seated subject to contest should be unsealed, and that, with this exception, the roll should be called as when the Legislature first assembled, and the present organization remain intact. The House would thus include sixtj-two Democrats and fifty-seven Republicans, one Democrat having died. On the 16th, Gov. Packard addressed a letter to the President, declaring that the efforts of the Commission to secure the removal of the obstacles to the acknowledgment of one of the State Governments would fail, and that the reported purpose of the Administration to withdraw the United States troops was a standing menace to the Republicans of the State, “and encourages the Democracy to emulate the arrogant policy of Gen. Hampton in South CaroUna.”

On the 14th, 1,000 Northern hostile Indian* formally surrendered to Gen. Crook, at Spotted Tail Agency, in Nebraska. A Vienna telegram of the 17th says efforts were making by Austria and England to use the eighth article of the Treaty of Paris a* a starting point for fresh negotiations between Turkey and Russia. -- A Berlin special of the 17th says 200,000 Germans in Russia were preparing to emigrate to Brazil and the United States to avoid conscription into the army. The Montenegrin delegates left Constantinople for home on the 17th, the negotiations with Turkey having failed. The Roumanian Government has decided to concentrate 100,000 men to protect the capital from an expected attack by Turkish irregular troop*. | A Constantinople telegram of the 18th say* the Porte had decided to proclaim a state of siege throughout Turkey. Eight Turkish ironclads had arrived at the mouth of the Danube. According to a St. Petersburg telegram «f the 18th, the Russian Government had issued a formal declaration of war. Both houses of the Packard Legislature met in joint caucus on the 18th, and adopted resolutions declining to accept the proposition of eosnpromise forwarded by the President’s Commission, and avowing their determination ,to consent to no trade whatever. The resolutions were handed to the Commissioners, and by them forwarded to the President. A report prevailed at Camp Robinson, Neb., on the 18th, that Crazy Horse, with 2,000 hostile*, was moving toward the Agency with the intention of surrendering. This would leave the country clear of hoetilee, with the exception of Sitting Bull’s Band.

How a Ghost Was Captured.

About a mile from the center of Babylon Village, Long Island, stands a house which has for some time been unoccupied. It -wa* some time ago fitted up for the occupancy of a newly-married couple, but shortly after they moved into it the young bride died, and the building was again left vacant. Within a few weeks past, strange sounds have been heard and flitting lights have been seen in the house; occasionally a pale, wan face would appear at one of the windows in the dead of night, and piteous wails would issue apparently from between the livid lips, and then the “ perturned spirit ” would wander from room to room throughout the house, as if looking for something that could never be found. Babylon enjoyed the sensation of having a “ haunted house.” Some of the young fellows in the neighborhood, however, were not superstitious to the extent of being afraid to make an investigation, and one night last week two or three of them concealed themselves in tha building to await the “ ghost’s ” appearance. About the hour “ when churchyards yawn,” one of the windows opened, and his ghostship entered, in a veiy unghostly manner, and commenced his usual performance, his form being just distinguishable in the darkness. In the middle of one of his most interesting acts, the concealed persons crept softly on all-fcurs to the spot, and suddenly grasped him by the ankles, a proceeding which was followed by a series of terrific shrieks veiy human in their tone, and indicating an agony of fear, and it was some time before the bogus ghost was brought to the point of believing that he had not been seized by a real one The explanation of his proceeding is found in the fact that a certain person was desirous of owning the house, tout the proprietor refused to part with it on the terms offered, and this ’novel method was adopted by the would-be purchaser to depreciate the market value of the property. At present the laugh is against him.—JT. Y. Time,.

The Useful Reindeer.

Lapland nourishes no other domestic animal than the reindeer; but in this creature are to be found many useful qualities. No part of the animal is useless. The Laplanders make use of the hair, the skin, the flesh, the bones, the marrow, the blood and the nerves. The skin serves to protect them from the inclemency of the weather; no other flesh thqn that of the reindeer is eaten ;its bones are of astonishing use, for cross-bows and bows, for pointing their arrows, for making spoons and forornaments. Its tongue and the marrow of its bones are the greatest delicacies. They frequently drink the blood, but they generally preserve it in a bladder, which they expose to the cold and allow to become dense by freezing; when they wish to eat it they cut off with

an ax m much aa they desire. They have no other thread than that which they draw from the nerves and shews of thig Animal; with Ahe flneat they sew their ckAes, and with the coarsest they* «ew-the batik of their hots, sledges and cradle*. The milk of the reindeer is the only beveragri* the Laplanders possess; and because it is extremely fat and thick they mix It with nearly an equal quantity <>i water. Very nutritious cheeses are made /rom, this milk; and the poorer Aliases, who cannot afford to kill a doer for its flesh, live on nothing else than milk and cheese. The cheeses are fat and have a strong smell; but being made and eaten without salt, they are quite tasteless.— Hom and School.

A Man’s Capital.

Every human being possesses more or less capital. No one Is so poor but that he is to a degree a capitalist. He may not be a millionaire; he may not bo th* holder of *a single dollar; he may not count as his own one cent, yet he must be a capitalist to live. The grades of capitalists are as numerous as there arc human beings; but, looking at the several grades -in a general way—by grouping manv into one—let us pry a little into the distinctive peculiarities of each. The millionaire. He is the man whom the world is inclined to envy most He is the man of vast estates; of stocks in stacks; of money in heaps, and of an ipcome which is wearisome only in the counting. Measured in the common balance of human kind, he is the most well-to-do of all creatures. His income—and that is the one desideratum of life, as sized by cold mathematics—alone amounts to 1100,000 per year, counting for convenience at the rate of 10 per cent, rate, as interest on the capital, or only a little less if counted at Bor 6 per cent. The millionaire; has accumulated that which will always yield him his SIOO,OOO or thereabouts per annum, provided, of course, he loses not his capital, a thing which—in his case being of perishable material, estates, stocks, money, etc. —is quite liable to be lost, since material fortune flies away on wings all the swifter for being es gold. There is another millionaire. He is even rarer than the one we have, been contemplating, and he is likewise a more enviable individual. This other millionaire has no estates, perchance, no stocks, no gold; or, having these, puts little trust iu them for his income.. He is the millionaire in mind. He is the man who, by diligence, and study, and good judgment, and the exercise of honor, has risen to so high a position in his profession, or in the estimation of mankind, that his capital—made up of ability, instead of estates; of diligence, instead of stocks; of popular esteem, instead of money—yields him his SIOO,OOO a year in cash quite as easily as the money-ihillion-aire’s capital yields him a similar sum. It is true, as before observed, that millionaires of thia class are few, but among our great lawyers, legists, statesmen, literary personages, and some others, occasionally we find onfe; So all through the stages of society pro found the two kinds of capital—capital in the pocket, and capital in the head. The man whose commercial business, whose profession, whose trade, whose skill in any line yields him SIO,OOO a year, has a capital—either in pocket or head —which may be estimated at about SIOO,OOO. In like manner, the man who can earn half of SIO,OOO, or one-quarter or one-eighth of that amount, has capital stock on hand which will bear an estimate of from $50,000, to $25,000, or tq $12,000 in bulk. ■ The best capital to possess, it must be acknowledged, is the capital of the brain, and poor indeed is he who, having none of the pocket capital, and likewise neither brain capital, must rely upon relative captai, as uoes the child; upon friend capital, as does the really bankrupt person, or upon “ cheek” capital,as does the “deadbeat” and “ tramp.” To increase one’s capital, especially the imperishable capital of the brain, is one of the highest duties man owes to himself, to his family and to society. It is a laying up of treasure which cannot be destroyed so long as life and reason sit enthroned, and it is the burnishing process which reflects the only light by which progress pushes her way on and on. Its reward is constant, and its inierest nsver fails. The possessor of such a capital in full measure is always iu demand, aud this capital of the head is the one kind which will never be a drug iu tlie world’s market. Get all you can of it.— Chicago Journal.

Appeals.

I wonder if young school reacners know how much influence they lose every time they appeal to a higher power. When a person asks another to do for her what she ought to do for herself, people are apt to think her either indolent or inefficient, usually the latter, and children think and decide about these things as readily as those who are older. Before a superior should be called, I would exhaust all the ingenuity I possessed, all the advice of the wiser and more experienced, and all the methods suggested in the professional books and magazines at hand. A teacher who meets, and in a determined way, grapples with every difficulty, is soon recognized as the “ruling power of the realm,” and her wishes will no longer be questioned. As a general rule troublesome cases need not be decided at once. It will be better for all concerned if a little time be taken for thought. Occasionally, an ambitious young girl will carry this principle tod far, ana try to conquer by physical force pupils larger and stronger than herself. Such an endeavor may end in the teacher’s victory, it will be more apt to be concluded by a most disastrous defeat. We are all coming to believe in the “ still small voice” rather than the earthquake or whirlwind. The subtle, persuasive force there is ip self-possession, “ gentle and firm,” comes as often from the weaker as the “ sterner sex.” 1 We once heard of a man—a teacher—who had little faith in the work of woman, who thought, in fact, that women never ought to teach beyond the first few primary His reasons were given as follows: “ Women cannot teach for three reasons; first, tAey have not the height," —here he straightened up his manly form in am impressive manner, for he stood six feet two inches in his, boots. “Second, they have not the etrength”— and he clenched his strong right hand and shook defiance to an imaginary foe. “ And third, they have not the voice.” The deep bass on the last few words made the argument for the time unanswerable, and it only remained’ to be shown by his. practice that his theory was not one of the wisest in the world.— JPdueational Weekly. Something like’epizootic is killing New York horses off, and a still worse disease is attacking the Canadian equines. The saw-horse is the only safe hdrse. '

SENSE AND NONSENSE.

“Aran, shower*”—Certainlyshedoeti Africa produces ths moat undressed black kids Nbw York’s latest aid io mortalitytile hand grenade. Grat stocking* with blue stripes are imported for children. Deceased bad a nature as sensitive as a sore thumb— Omaha obituary. Englishmen are not supposed to be wholly wise until they are fifty-five yean old. Those who come to you to talk about other* are the ones who go to others to talk about you. Arkansas has more newspapers in proSortion to the population than any other tatc in the Union. It will cost money to visit the To Semite Valley this year. There are seven gates to go through. A lady, inclined to flirt, says men are like a cold, easily caught, but very hard to get rid of.— Pittsburgh Ditpatch. Because the Texas pasture grounds are “ a rolling country,” it don’t necessarily follow that Texas cattle are “rolling stock.” . The picnic season commences as soon as children cease to take cold and become sick from natural causes at home. — N. 0. Republican. Lady Visitor —My dear, do you know if your mamma is eugaged? Little girl of the period—Engaged ? Bless you, why, she's married. Tdough the telephone enables us to tell a friend at a distance, it don’t enable us to tell-a-foe-in disguise. — H. Y. Commercial Advertiser. That is a dreary and deserted-looking country burn which has not yet commenced to be embellished for 1877 with the brilliant circus-poster. You can always detect a bachelor by the way he handles a baby; but, to be safe from loss, it is well to use a borrowed baby in making the experiment. The custom of serving dinners to the mourners at funerals still prevails in portions of Lebanon County, Pa. On one occasion lately nearly 500 persons partook. If two-hogsheads make a pipe, how many will make a cigar? — Ex. One hog’s head sometimes makes a clear—smoke in ladies’ company.—A orristowu Herald.

New cucumbers are only seventy-five cents a dozen, and the man who won’t allow his family to have a nice spring case of stomach-ache is too mean to live. — Oil City Derrick. A good pianist, in common time, can enunciate 640 notes in a minute, and 900 in quick time. That’s faster than the most infuriated neighbor can swear.— St. Louie Journal. A boy may have ever so yellow hair and ever so meek a look, and yet he will drum on an old tin pan in the back yard if half of the family are at the point of death.— Detroit Free Preet. The Baltimore Jiewe call upon the public to forget friendship aad party ties, rise to the level of the occasion, and to put a bullet into the first dog that comes withiu shooting distance. Qnce in a while there comes along a boy who wishes in his soul that he were a poor, lone ophan, so he could smoke cigars somewhere else than in a back alley.—Chicago Evening Journal. Dr. Holland says the most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart. It would seem that he has never observed the tender care with which a man handles a meerschaum pipe that is just beginning to have a bilious look around the base of the bowl.— Worcester Press. A young female traveling accordionplayer was observed sitting on a door-step, fast Thursday, eating a raw onion. As the gentle aroma ascended heavenward, and passed a pair of sweet blue orbs over which brown lashes fell in delicate fringes, the accordion-angel was observed to drop a tear. — Whitehall (N. Y.) Times. A fellow never appreciates the tender beauty of a sister’s love half so much as when he makes her get out of the big rocking chair, and let him have the morning paper, while she goes off and leans up against the end of the bureau and feeds her starving intellect on the household receipts at the back of Jaynes’ family almanac. A brother’s love is like pure gold. It’s dreadfully hard to find, and when you find it it’s very apt to be pyrites.— Burlington Hawk-Eye.

At a Southern hotel bar an eager controversy was pending ’twixt various Generals, Majors, etc., when a quiet fellow observed, “I happened to be there, gentlemen, and possibly may be able to refresh your memories.” Thereupon he proceeded to give a succinct account of a smart action. “What migSt have been your rank, sir?” asked the hotel-keeper. “ I was a private.” About to start next day, he demanded his bill. “ Not a cent, sir; not a cent. You’re the very first private I ever met.” There is sold a new kind of ware which takes the place of porcelain, and of which the Chicago Health Commissioner has just given an opinion. The ware is called “granite,” and the Commissioner says of Jt: “I have here a piece of kitchen furniture which you will please notice. It. is a stew-pan. The body of it is iron, covered with a composition called porcelain. Now this porcelain is composed to oneeighth degree of the oxide of lead, which we all know is a poison, and it is only necessary to cook or boil some acid in this pan to cause tiie lead in this composition to become soluble, and, uniting with the article in process of cooking, to make poisonous food. I tell you there is death for a whole family in one such utensil as this,” and he struck the edge thereof with his lead-pencil, and the pieces, like unto bits of colored glass were broken off, and the Commissioner said: “ See?” and the reporter saw and noted it, and the Commissioner then said: “Tins ware is being widely purchased for all conceivable purposes, and it should not be so; why, a eour-apple pie baked in that thing would kill a family,” and the purchases should not continue and the people through ignorance be poisoned and die never knowing why nor wherefore.—St. Louie liepublican.

A Very Sad Story.

On Beacon avenue, Jersey City, resides a family named Morrison. The father had been out of employment for nine months and the family was in a state of utter destitution. On Friday Morrison gladdened the hearts of his wife and two ■children -with the announcement that he was to obtain employment on the Jersey City & Bergen horse-cars on the following Monday. Later in the day he received one dollar for removing a piano, and the sight of that dollar threw the starving creatures into ecstasies. The wife suggested that the first purchase should be a bucket of coal, but Morrison replied that

he would go. out with a b*g and gather coal on the railroad tracks west of the tunnel. While thus engaged, h« was ran over by , a Mal-train on th| DtlawMto, Lackawanna A Western Ifeiltoad at W End, sad bothhis leg* anltafltata tetae cut off. He waa taken to hl* home, where he died in the evening. Officer Short, who had Morrison conveyed home, state* that he never saw such an abode of misery. Night came, and there was no fuel nor light of any kind except the ray* of the moon as th! mangled remains lay stretched On ffWWt. The Wife And her two children, who had not eaten a morsel during thd day, left the house and wandered from one undertaker’* establishment to another, begging some of them to bury her husband. Morrison was a quiet man, of temperate habits, and had been for three yean in the employ of the People’* Gaslight Company, from which he was discharged on account of the depressed state of the times. He was thirty-two years of age. The distracted woman said of him that a more devoted husband never lived.—A - . Y. Herald.

An Alleged Confession by Win. M Tweed.

i New York, April 17. William M. Tweed, from his quarters in Ludlow-Street Jail, sends the AttorneyGeneral a proposition reciting that, in return for the favor of liberty and rest, he will yield up all his property and be a faithful witness on behalf of the people. He says he has suffered much and suffered long in silence, and has borne the burden of what others should have shared. Afflicted with disease, feeble from age and confinement, and ill at ease in mind, he seeks for the rest and relief he so much and so sorely needs. He adds that the only basis upon which he has a right to apply for leniency and pardon is that he will make a complete surrender of his property and full disclosure of his criminal companions. The proposition is a long and exhaustive document, and assumes the nature of a confession, which goes back as fas as 1867, when the Ring first began to assume form. It gives in detail the story of various conferences between the writer, Peter B. Sweeny, Richard Connolly, Henry Genet, A. Oakey Hall and others, by which Tweed was elected to the State Senate, Connolly, Comptroller in 1867, and Hall, Mayor. Jan. 1, 1869, Tweed, according to the story, transferred to State Senator Winslow in person $200,000 to secure the charter of 1870, which gave to the Ring the control of the city through the support of several influential Republican members of the Legislature. It was Tweed’s understanding with. Winslow at the time that the money was to be divided between Woodin, Samuel H. Frost, Augustus R. Elwood, William H. Brand, Norris Winslow, James Wood, Isaiah Blood and George Morgan, all of the Senate, ancLalso with Van Pelton, Williams, Crowley, Merriam and Beaman, for their influence in the Assembly. The confession gives the circumstances of the division of the spoils between himself, Sweeny, Hall, Conudfty and Woodward. It implicates Garvey, Ingersoll, Davidson, Watson and a majority of the Board of Supervisors. Mayor Hall’s proportion was 10 per cent. He shared throughout in all the profits. He was in full collusion with the fraud in its various details, and was fully aware of the fraudulent nature of the contracts presented . for his .signature. A document, purporting to be the record of the proceedings of the Board of Audit of May 5, 1870, by which Mr. Hall on his trial secured acquittal on the ground that he acted only in a ministerial character,. Tweed says was manufactured after the exposure. Hugh Hastings, of the Commercial Advertiser, is mentioned as having received a check for $20,000, and checks for smaller amounts at various times. Mr. Hastings is also credited with the diplomatic achievement of having brought Jay Gould and Tweed together, by, which alliance the Tammany and Erie Kings were operated to their mutual advantage. The confession, also, according to the World, says that all the house-painting and book-cases in Recorder Hackett’s house were paid for by the city. Mr. Tweed gives the name* of five persons who, he promises, if immunity is given them, will swear to the truth of all his statements. He has preserved all checks and kept memoranda of all his transactions, all of which will be placed at the disposal of the State. Of the five persons named, four are E. D. Barber, exCollector James Pierce, Alexander Frear, and William King, Tweed’s former Deputy Commissioner of Public Works. Shortly after the publication of the “secret accounts,” in July, 1871, Tweed says Francis N. Bixby and ex-Sheriff (then State Senator) O’Brien came to him arid offered to secure him against any furtiier investigation of bis bank accounts, his relations with the city, or, indeed, from any further trouble, if he would pay $150,000 toward O’Brien’s claim against the city for $296,000, for unpaid fees. The two represented to him that they had such influence over Mr. Tilden, Judge Barrett, and William C. Barrett as to Immediately quash any further steps in the pending investigation. Tweed says he paid them $20,000 in cash and mortgages, which they afterward collected, for the rest, and he understands they afterward secured the same amount from Connolly upon the same representations. He aays he does not consider O’Brien’s claim has any real merits. Hugh Smith, {sweeny’s particular friend, attended to all transactions with Judge Cardozo, by which judicial action was taken in behalf of the Ring. Tweed says the Navarro claim of sl,ooo,oooagainst the city for water meters is a fraud, He mentions 'Thurlow Weed by name, but does not connect him with any equivocal transaction. He mentions Judge Folger, of the Court of Appeals, and George H. Purser, of New York, as persons to whom he paid money. The confession concludes widia promise that the writer will be a witness for the city in any suit brought by the city for the recovery of moneys from any of the persons mentioned. He does not ask that suits against him be i uashed, but that he be released from con,nement without bail.

Relative to th? above statements, Mr. Hastings says the $20,000 check affair was a purely business transaction, andhe emphatically denies that, nporrariy occSsion’,’ any moneys passed through hrs hahds to Senator Woodin, to secure his vote, or for other purposes. Judge Folger denies that Tweed ever paid him any money. Senator Woodin says the confession 1 “iffabsolutely and unqualifiedly false in every particular in its assertions touching my conduct. I never received any money from William M.‘ Tweed, directly or indirectly, either from him. or from any other person on his behalf.” Other denials are also reported. —A bad hopper-ration—being forced to give up your fields as food for the grasshopper. )

FACTS AND FIGURES

M»s- B. D. Winslow, wife of the Bosfbp forger. i* living at Whitehall, N. Y., where, iu» said, she is supporting herself ity-sewingi Winslow, himself, it is supposed, has left England for Spain, on hia way to South America, r . .... During January, February ana March, making a total in two cities of 105. Of this. number, - thisl* sum WU" “fßtnd through the agency of officers and detectives; thirty returned to their homes and gave explanattapi of thWt ; one, A. Oakey Hau, reappeared in England; eleven were foqnd dead, having committed sulcidfi or been murdefoit, and’thirty are still missing. 1 1 I T The statistic* of railyuad Mfidents in Great Britain, when compared with those in. this country, make a very favorable showing for the former. Prom all caffse* one passenger out of 8,800,000 who’traveled by r rail in Great Britain was killed in 1875, and one out of each 280,000 was wounded. In the United States the Railroad Ornette reports for the past four years an average of 1,100 accidents a year, resulting in 260 deaths and 1,040 cases of injury. The rapid increase of steamers on the chain of the great north era lakes is tha feature of the lake trade during the last three years. The number employed in 1876 is reported to have been 885, their tonnage being 190,867. The number of sailing vessels has fallen off heavily, decreasing from 8,207 in 1872 to t,382; the tonnage, however, not going down in quite the same proportion, but to such an extent that there were 200,000 tons less in the trade last year than in 1872. How large estates are swallowed up in litigation is painfully illustrated in the celebrated Taylor-wilf qontest at New York, which.has dissipated between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000. Some $16,000 was drawn from it before it was foupd that Mr. Taylor had left a will. Then a granddaughter, who had been given $5,000 a year, contested the will, and the lawyers took $50,000 from Mrs. Taylor before the will was admitted to probate. Creditors began to press claims, which took SBOO,OOO more; the receiver took SIB,OOO in fees, a lawyer $14,000 more, and manv others greater and smaller sums, until the receiver has bnt SIIO,OOO, which will not satisfy the claims upon it. Mrs Taylor’s house and elegant furniture have been seized and sold; she is dependent upon the kindness of friends, and a few days ago her clothing was sold to satisfy a aebt incurred during the litigation. A somewhat similar case is that of the estate of Christian Schaefer, a large brewer, who died in 1872, worth $500,000, which, after paying $15,000 to his widow and a few legacies, was to be divided aroong his five daughters. Martin Bchwaner, a son-in-law, whois the executor, paid thesls,000 to Mrs. Schaefer, but, after the five years, the executor’s charge for services and claims of one kind and another leave but $483 to be distributed among the children, and from this he is to deduct a commission and expense of accounting,'

An Alleged Miracle.

About three years ago, Jennie Gris6in ger, a young, lady of this city, was afflicted with disease of the spine, which gradually became worse, until she was obliged to take to her bed. She was attended by physicians, who resorted to every known medical expedient to relieve her except the application to the spine of a red-hot iron. Two of them held it con. consultation recently, at which it was determined to apply this terrible remedy if she would consent to ( go through tne ordeal. They communicated the result of their deliberations to her, but she protested against anv further experiments and said she had made up her mind to trust her case to a supernatural agency for cure—that something had told her she should rise from her long confinement next day. She rose accordingly and sat in a chair. The 1 following day she ■ walked across the room, arid since she has attended church, walking with perfect ease. Owing to the protracted confinement, she is weak, but her spin 6, which was broken in three places, has been restored to its original firmness. The physicians were called in to see het after she left her bed, and expressed their surprise at the marvelous change. Even her lungs, which had been seriously affected, seemed perfectly sound. Miss Grissinger, who resides on Allison’s Hill, attributes her cure to Divine interposition -in answer to prayer. She had. particularly fixed her mind on certain*, passages in the Bible relating to promises. The young lady is daily growing and expects to be restored to perfect health. — Harmburg (Pa.) Patriot. —Affable young man who is smoking his after-supper cigar op the roof of a Broadway stage asks the driver why the check-strap is like conscience, intending, of course, to amuse him with the time-hOn-ored explanation that it ie an inward chfttk, on the outward man. But the charioteer’s answer, “ Because it stretches," showed a more thorough knowledge of the practical'* workings of both elements of the comparison.—H. Y. World. ‘ —lnundation is causing consternation in many parts of the Nation.

THE MARKETS.

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