Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1877 — Page 2

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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

CU9IKt.nl r^KAlinArno. KxPrwklcnt Grant and wife returned to Washington o*l the svenlng of the »d. ■ aa - - ftt tut Ohio Bttte Republican Convention will h* bsid a* Clsvakuad, hag. 1. Capt. Geo. Barker, the oldest FreeMaeo* in the United States, died at Hudson. N. A occurred, aarty on the nomine of the 23d, at Oban. ArHon. Geo. Schneider, of Chicago, has been appointed United State* Minister Resident to the Republic of Bwitseriand. The boiler of a Hoar mill at Alexandria, Egypt, a*ph»ted ou the 23d, killing sixteen pernone and injuring many otbara. By a rote of 22 to 0, the New York Senate recently peeved a bill prohibiting betting on elections, pool-celling st more. tec. The King of Abjmlnia has released the American Gen. Mitchell. At last account* he lad reached Mnstownh in a pitiable condition. The Massachusetts Home of Repre■entaMves bee rejected the Prohibitory Liquor bill paaed by the Senate, by a vote of 117 to 106. . | A Calcutta telegram of the 28d announces a serious outbreak of obolera in Aky&b. TwentyAre,per cent, of the European population had died. .= ‘ V. ,«... D thing the eighteen months ending March last, 84,278,810 pounds of fresh beef were shipped to Borope from this country. Ha value was #8,036,488. The National Exchange Bank, of Minneapolis, Mina., suspended recently, owing, it is said, to the financial embarrassment of H. Mil* ler, of Troy, the President of the institution. Gen. Wm. E. Lathrop, Commander of the Masonic Grand Commandery of the United States, a Mason for sixty yearn, died at Rochester, N. 1., on the 23d, aged eighty-three years. The New York Assembly has lately paaed a bill providing far electing Electors-* tLsuge an the State ticket, and other Elector* on the tickets in the several Congressional Districts. The Porte has asked Bervia for a permit fox Turkish troops to traverse Servian territory in aider to eras the Danube. The Servian Government replied that it would observe strict neutrality unless the Turks violated or crossed the froSier. ‘^ Late intelligence received at the Treas* uny Department is to the effect that the counterfeiting of silver coin is rapidly increasing. Reports front the Black .Rills state that attempts had beta made to circulate counterfeit M coins there, and that several arrest* had been mads. The Postmaster-General has directed that hereafter appointments of Poetoffioe dorks, route agents, mail-route memeugma or local agents, shall be made only for six months, and that at the expiration of this period no reappointment will be made unless the appointee pMB B fffttirfnrtrry *TiTi^ ni f** nw

At Boston, on the 2lst, Dudley Kimble (•fed four and a half yean) and Stephen Cox (aged seven), sons of prominent business men, qnanded at play. The younger, saying, “I will fix you," went borne, took his father’s revolver, and abut the elder through the temple, in dieting injuries from which he died two houn after. . , An explosion at Poutypridd, Wales, on the 11th at April, imprisoned nine men behind a cohunn of coal forty yards thick. Conttnwoaa eparariooa for their reeone Msolted in the opening of commonication with them on the 19th. Five were alive, hot four had wan* tiered to other ports of the mine and, it is beltaeaJ -j IIcVPQ, pCiInUvCU From reports published in the Chicago ItUrr-Ottmti «n the Slvt, from 459 oouodes in tlliswt Indiana. Ohio, lowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee and Maryland, it appears that wheat is unusually promising. Peaches are likely to prove a partial failure. Apples promise finely, and the smaller fruits premiss sheet an average crop. The Louisiana Commissioners’ report was given ont fay the President, on the 35th, and is dated New Orleans, April 31. It givesan account of the position of affaire on the arrival of rim Commission at New Orleans, and states that the Commiwionere found it to be very difficult to ssoertsin the precise extent to which the respective Governments wore acknowledged in the various parishes outside of New Orleans, but it was safe to say that the changes which had taken place in the parishes after the on g&nlzation of the two Governments on the 9th of January, 1877, were in favor of the Nicbuhs Government. The legal question upon which the right of the respective Governments depended is then di seame d in the report, and it is stated that there was no judicial tribunal, acknowledge to be authoritative by both partire, fay which tire legal title could be solved. The onty hope of a practical solution was by a union of so many members of Urn rival Cegidsturesgs would make a Legislature with a Constitutional quorum in both Senate and House of whom title to their sente was valid under either Wribdifllrel * ’"** &a<aij;w ‘ of ttember* to constitute a qoomm of Betombeof hrtfog benefit to that State, approved by the patriotic people of all sections.”

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

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1 On the flat, In the Nicholls Legislates*, a number of the Packard Ben*toe and UM*»bsa as the House took seats. Seven Democratic members who bad been seated subject to contest, yielded their seat* to, and introduced, the Republican member* who claimed the rate on the sere of the return*. Among the latter was ex-Gov. Wnnateh, who made a short nd* drum. A Vienna telegram of the 28d says Aus trla would eras the frontier If ServU showed any teudency to Join Russia. C<\ A detachment of Russian troops reached Bucharest on the morning of the add. An Egyptian army oorpe, under command of P4ne* Hassan, Egyptian Minister of Wm, wsa emharking tor Constantinople, on the 23d, to partteipato in tbs KnssUn war. In an interview with a New York JTeruld reporter, on the evening of the 22d, Senator Blaine pronounced ea false, and without th* slightest foundation in truth, tbs statement, mads by a Baa Francisco paper, that be had prepared, and intended to introduce, into Oongrem, at its next session, resolutions expressing doubts of Mr. Hayes' election, and proposing a new consideration of the question by a tribunal to oousist of tb* Chief-Justice* of all the States. Mr. Wains further said that he bad no expression to make relative to the change of political affairs in LouUnaa. The Ow of Russia, oa the 24th, promulgated a manifesto to the Bosnian army and people, in which, after reciting the causes of offense on the part of Turkey end the efforts made by Russia in the interests of peace and humanity, a formal declaration of war was made, and the order issued for the passage of the armies across the frontier. Simultaneously with this manifesto, Prince Qortschakoff issued s circular to the Powers, setting forth the reasons inducing his Government to precipitate hostilities. The Turkish CAuri/c d' Affaircn at St. Petersburg was also furnished hi* passports. The first Russian detachment, consisting of 17,000 men, crossed the Pruth into Koumania, the Grand Duke Nicholas in command. He issued a proclamation to the inhabitants announcing the passage. Itoumania. having received no preliminary notification, has declared it yields to force, and has directed its troops to Tall back to avoid a conflict. The immediate object of the advance into itoumania is said to be to protect the railway bridge at Barbaschi, where the first collision is expected.

At noon, on the 24th, the Federal troops stationed at the Orleans Hotel, in New Orleans, retired to Jackson Barracks, three miles oatside the city. The Louisiana Commission reached Washington on the 34th, and made report to the President and Cabinet of the result of their mission to New Orleans. Ia joint session, on the 24th, the Louisiana Legislature elected Judge H. M. BpoSord (Democratic caucus nominee) United States Senator, the vote steading: Spofford, 140; Wilts, 1; blank, 13. On the 25th, Safvet Pasha, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, issued a "circular dispatch to the Powers iu reply to the Russian manifesto. Is it he protests against the declaration of war, and points ont the efforts made by Turkey to improve the condition of her Christian subjects and satisfy the demands of Europe. Ia the absence, therefore, of provocation, Safvet Pasha declares that the Porte cannot understand the motive of Russia's attack, and consequently appeal to the Treaty of Baris and the mediation of the guaranteeing Powers. A Berlin telegram of the 25th says the Powfre would not attempt to mediate between Turkey and Russia until after one or two serious engagement* had been fought on the Danube. Up to the morning of the 25th, 50,000 Bumiana had occupied Roumanian territory. An Imperial order haa been issued declaring Gw provinces of Bessarabia, Kenan, Taurida and Crimea in a state of siege. The Russians have crossed the frontier of Asiatic Turkey at Alexandropol, on the route to Kars. Galatx and Braila were occupied by the Russians on the 35th, thus securing an .important railway bridge. A Moscow telegram of the 25th says that after the Csar's manifesto had been promulgated, the municipality voted funds to provide 1,000 beds for the wounded and 1,000,000 rubles for arididuraal hospital appliances. Oh the morning of die 25th, Gov. Packard issued a lengthy address to the people of Louisiana, and, with his adherents, .left the State-House. At noon the Legislature adjourned from Odd Fellows' Hall to the St. Louis Hotel, and proceeded with its business. Gov. Packard’s address concludes with thanks to those who have so gallantly stood by him in the long contest just ended, and counseling peace, patience, fortitude, and expresses a firm trust that eventually right and justice will prevail.

FACTS AND FIGURES.

Nearly 125,000 bushels of red clover seed are exported from this continent to Europe every year. The population of Maine has decreased 16,000 since the census of 1870. The falling off is largely due to emigration to the West. North Carolina has fifty-four mountains over 6,000 feet high. The highest is the Black Dome, or Mitchell’s High Peak, whose altitude is 6,707 feet. In the course of a recent lecture in Paris, regarding the uses of birds, an es“mate was formed of the damage to crops by the robberv of a nest containing five eggs. During the first month each voung bird eats an average of about fifty-eight flies or other insects in a day. The aggregate, multiplied by thirty, for the month, makes 7,500 insects to every nest. Every insect eats daily from blossoms and leaves an amount equaling its weight until it reaches maturity. It was calculated that in thirty days each insect would damage thirty blossoms, and thereby destroy thirty fruits, and that 7,500 insects would kill 225,000 fruits. Ah eminent cotton firm, in an annual report of the cotton trade during 1875-76, gives the following as the number of spindles in Europe and America, and the average annual consumption of cotton :

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United States..... 9,600,000 63 600,000,000 Grant Britain 39.000, 1*397,000,000 Gannanj ... Basria and Poland. 2,600,000 ® Switzerland 1,850,0009® Spain 1,750,000146 Itely 800,000)66 Sweden and Norway 300,000166 Holland 280,000)60 Total spindles .l6B,o6o.Pooh... 2,006,000/MQ Or upward of 6,000,000 bale* of the average weight of aa America? bale.

Cox** SET to general expectation, the number of fullurm in the United Bute* for the Aral thiee months of the present year show a alight inureaae over those of the corresponding quarter of 1876, though the amount of liabilities is somewhat ieaa. The quarterly circular of R. Q. Dun A Co. furnishes the following comparisons:

—.t. ■ - Finl Quarter. Years. Jfp. <f .1 mount of Average failure*. HaMUtle*. liabilitle*. 1875,.........1 1,888 1878 2,806 64,644,166 28,038 1877 | 2,869 64,688,074 10,040

How the Next Pope Will Be Elected.

The time for the meeting of another Conclave is drawing near, and it will hardly be out of place if we give a few notices of what usually takes place upon the Holy See becoming vacant. The chief rule during the vacancy belongs to the Cardinal Camerlingo. He repairs to the chamber where the dead pontiff lies; he strikes him on the forehead thrice with a slender hammer, and calls him three times by his original name (as, for instance, Giovanni Mastail”). Receiving no reply, he takes off the “ring of the fisherman” and breaks it. Nine days are allowed for assembling the Conelave. It can no longer be held in the Quirinal; the next, therefor*, will be convened in the Vatican. The doors And windows of the room set apart for it will bo walled up, one or two panes of glass only being left at the top to afford a little light. A dozen Conclaves might be held in the spacious palace where the Pope resides, and cells for the Cardinals can easily be constructed in the long galleries. They will be made of ordinary fir planks, and covered on the outside with violet-colored serge, if the inhabitant was created Cardinal by the Pope just deceased, and green by some previous pontiff The Cardinals may not visit each other by night, and emissaries are {daced as sentinels to prevent this ifreguarity. However, Deßrosses says, they often manage y to do it. Uu the first day of the Conclave then eminences hear mass and sing the “ Veni Creator” before proceeding to business. Many a last word is said before the bell rings and the master of the ceremonies pronounces An ” Extra OmneS,” and the last door is shut and walled up. Nobody is then permitted to leave the Conclave. But by this time the evening has arrived and the Cardinals retire to rest. At eight o'clock the next morning a bell is rung at the door of each cell, and at nine, clad in cassock, band, rochet, cape and croccia, with their scarlet berrette, they proceed to the chapel, hear mass and communicate. Many minute ceremonies are observed which may here be passed over. Then they return to their calls to breakfast, and afterward proceed to their first scrutiny. The midday meal follows. The dinners of their eminences are brought to the “rota,” or turn-table opening, at which they are to be passed into the Conclave with much care and in a solemn manner. Each CAHlinal has A “dapifer,” or feastcarrier, who discharges that function for his imprisoned master. During the introduction of the viands great care is taken that no communications respecting the business of the Conclave shall take place between those immured and the oatside world. Mr. Adolphus Trollope, who is no friend to the Catholic Church, says in reference t<J Conclaves: “Given the necessity of having a Pope, it wonld probably be impossible to devise a better means of getting one than that which the church has gradually perfected.” There have been but five Conclaves held this century; the first which elected Chiaramonti, Pope Pius VII., in 1800; the second, to which we owe Della Genga, Leo XU., in 1823; the third, which choose Saverio, Pius ViiL, in 1820; the fourth, which convened in 1831, whose choice fell on Capellan, Gregory XVI.; and the fifth, which elected Alastai of Sinigaglia as Pius IX., in 1846. Two of these Pontiffs have reigned an unusually long time, Pius VI. having been on the Papal throne nearly twehty-tirree years and a half, and the present occupant of the Bee of Rome being tire only Pope in all the 202 successors of St. Peter who has overpassed a quarter of a century. — Westminster Gazette,

There are no fishes in the Great Salt Lake. The only living thing beneath its waters is a worm about a quarter of an inch long. This worm showß up beautifully under the lens of a microscope. When a storm arises, the worms are driven ashore by the thousands and devoured by the black gulls. We found a pure stream pouring into the lake. It was filled with dhubs and shiners. The fish became frightened, and were driven down the brook into the briny lake. The instant they touched Jts Jpkters they came to the surface, belly upward, and died without a gasp. The water is remarkably buoyant. Eggs and potatoes float on it like corks. Mr. Hood and myself stripped and went in swimming. I dived into the lake from a long pier, which had been built for a small steamboat that formerly plied upon the waters. The sensation was novel. The water was so salty that my eyes and ears began to smart, but so buoyant, that I found no difficulty in floating, even when the air was exhausted In my lungs. As I struck out for the beach I felt as light as a feather. In spite of ail that I could 'do my head would fly out of the water. The lightness of the water and surging of the waves forced my feet from under me. A person who could not swim might be easily drowned in fire feet of water. His head* would go down like a lump of lead, while his feet would fly up like a pair ot ducks. The Water is as clear as Seneca Lake—so clear that the bottom could be seen at the depth of twenty feet. When we reached the shore and crawled out upon the sand in file light of the sun, our bodies were thickly covered with salt We were compelled to go to the small stream from which we had driven the chubs and shiners, and wash off in fresh water before we could put on our clothes. Our hair was filled with grains of salt that could not be washed out. The Mormons occasionally visit the Iske in droves for the purpose of bathing. Many say their health is improved by leaving the salt upon their bodies and dressing without wiping themselves.—AT. V ——— tL . J • \W~rQJrfwwG*

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Annual estimated : cotunntption.

A warren in Bcribner has an article on the subject, V How to Keep the Boys on the Pam.” He evidently means well, bat he doesn’t touch the point. To keep the boys on the farm, the farm should be well paved, and lighted with gas, and have a band-stand, and billiard-tables, and its own bar and race-coarse. We hope oar farmers are just as anxious as they appear to keep their boys on the farm, but they don't seem to take any definite actio*. —ikmburf Hew.

The Dead Sea of America.

SENSE AND NONSENSE.

The time* may be hard, but the posters advertise longer circuses than ever. No person should have any time to spare from minding his own business. The whale la the sulkiest of all fishes. He is the worst pouter in the business,— Burlington Hawk-Eye. The foolish man will ask a woman if her baby is not a trifle crow-eyed, but the wise man will take the cate to Syracuse and make his inquiries by postal card.— Rome Sentinel. It is a strange law in the order of nature that just as a man gets fully developed, experienced and fit to live with, he begins to drop into painful old age and the funeral processions that tend to the tomb. A Rev. Mr. Spelter is the name of an Arkansas preacher, and there isn't a vacant pewter be had in his church. — N. T. Commercial. The church must have spelter title clear when she solder pews.— Boston Commercial Bulletin. At Alycenas, a frog Jumped out of one of the unearthed stone coffins, and Dr. Schliemann is said to have immediately soliloquized: “To think that my eyes have looked upon a living contemporary of Agamemnon, Hector and Hecuba, and the rest of them!” When Judge Davis quitted the Supreme bench, It tilted up at his end and' banged down at the other, like a tetcr board when the boy falls off, and the amazed Justices were nearly jostled out of their dignity and of their breath.— Burlington Hawk-Eye. A young man in Marblehead, Masß., returning home from a courting expedition at half-past one in the morning, discovered a fire in a club-house and got it extinguished. This is one of the benefits of that fine old New England custom of going home early in the morning. “ Hu bat sailed high in air, it did, The hat which plessed his vanity; Sucb things we see when April winds Do persecute humanity. And she, poor girl, embraced a post With tenderness quite curious. Such deeds take place when clouds of dust Are blowing fast and furious.” A lady correspondent of the J-oumnl concluded her letter as follows: “‘But 1 have already wearied you,” etc. The villainous type-setter made it read: “ But ] have already married you.” This is only one of the thousand little annoyances that a newspaper man has to suffer. —Lowell Journal. The skeletons that are disclosed in the courts are exceptional and anything but 'rue presentations of the holy estate ox matrimony. Set it down as a fact, young man, that ten married couples are happy to ODe that is unhappy, and that the sooner you take your s.weelheart to the altar the better it will be for you.— N. f. Daily.

Once get mince pie Inside a man’s (esophagus and human discretion is at an end. The best of men are troubled in the gastric region by mince pie, and every wife who tolerates this dangerous fomenter of dyspepsia and conjugal authority riionld be made to feel the heavy hand of the law. —Chicago Timet . Publishing marriage engagements is becoming almost a custom in this cify, though we believe thus far confined to Hebrews. The average American is not anxious to adopt the notion, for he knows that there is many a slip between the pledge and the ring, and “ sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”—iV. T. Evening Mail. The Courier Journal catches its breath and reports the following conversation: “ Now, my young friends, can you tell me who Leonidas was?” “ Yes, sir; yes, sir; he was a member of the Legislature.” ‘‘.And what makes you think he was a member of the Legislature, my children ?” “ Because sir, he held a pass with Spartan firmness.” We have always fully believed that women are angels minus only the wingsespecially the well-dressed ones. But sad questionings arise in our breasts, which will not down at our bidding, when below the fine dress, through a large rent in the boot, the bare angelic heel and the soiled tatters of a ragged stocking are seen peering out to find the best place to step on a muddy crossing; —Boston Advertiser. The Louisville Courier-Journal gets off the following shameless paragraph: “ A Boston man who went to Quebec and started a small grocer}- has astonished the Canadians with the following advertisement of his tea, coffee, etc.: ‘The peculiar delicacies of the far off Ind, and the finely-flavored and humanizing leaf of the still - further Cathay; the more exciting though not less delicious berry of Brazil, and the spices, sugars and luscious fruits of the Antilles; the sugared condiments and the blood-enrichiug wines of the Mediterranean, and the salt-cured and brainrenewing fish of our own stormy gulf.’ ”

Mr. Joseph Sprouls, near Mendota, has a very large black perch in his spring, and which he has had in there for five years. He can go to the water’s edge, pick it up, rub it, feed it and play with it, all of which it seems to enjoy as would a dog, horse or other animal. We tried it, and it was as playful with us as with Mr. Sprouls. He caught it live years ago out of the North Fork of Holstou with a hook, and put it in his spring, and has kept it there safely and made a special pet of it ever since. It is about twenty inches long, and four to six wide. —Abingdon Virginian. Mount Holyoke Seminary has of late been presented with a large and varied collection of statuary for adorning the new Williston art gallery, the gift of a wellknown and benevolent citizen of Gr.anby, who is at times erratic, to put it mildly, but who has often extended welcome aid to the institution. He had been requested by the principal to remember the vacant niches for statuary in the gallery at such a time as should seem to him most fitting,! and promised to do so, but disdained the suggestion that he should furnish the money onty and let those of more experience in such matters make the selection. Shortly after, an Italian image-vender called at his door and found him in a most generous mood, for the Itinerant merchant sold his entire stock, and was ordered to deliver it at the ' Seminary. The “ Statuary” arrived in good order, and the faculty have since been trying with all their might to keep the matter quiet.

War Declared.

At last the Casar has promulgated h« declaration of war, and ordered his armies to cross the Turkish frontier, and they have crossed. He has kept his word. In his Moscow speech, he declared that if the Porte continued to refuse the demands for reform, and the other Powers declined to act, the time would come when Russia would act independently. That time has come, and, the blessing of God upon our valiant armies, ' he now draws the sword. The manifesto contains nothing new. The object of the war is chiefly defined to be the amelioration of the condition of the oppressed Christian population in Turkey. The

cause of the war is the refusal offthoPtorie to listen to the demands of Europe by refusing to sign the protocol. The necessity of the war is to vindicate the dignity and honor of Russia. It is now morally certain hat the war cannot be localized as between Russia and Turkey. Already several smaller Powers are involved, and it is only a question of time how soon some of the larger Powers will be, Itoumania is already dragged into it, and must speedily take sides. On her eastern boundary is the immense. Russian army—the advanced guard of which is already approaching her Capital—and on her western boundaif a large Turkish army preparing to dispute the Russian progress, and the Great Powers have notified her to remain neutral or she will lose their protection. Meanwhile the Porte has called the attention of Prince Charles to the provisions of his treaty with Turkey, and invites him to arrange with the Turkish commander to prevent the passage of the Russians through his territory. In his quandary, the Prince is preparing to consult the Powers, but the Russians are already In his territory. Their cavalry are in his Capital. The Roumanian people have welcomed them. The Prefects of their villages have even crossed into Russian territory to congratulate the Czar, and a delegation of the Government recently waited upon him at Kischeneff. The sympathies of the people are with the Russians, and, when once the war breaks out upon their soil, the very instinct of self-preservation must compel them to gravitate to the stronger side. Already the Roumanian forces along the north bank of the Danube are between the Turks nnd the Russians, falling back as the latter advance, and, although acting as a corps of observation, they are really of great service to the Russians in enabling them to mass their forces and get in readiness for their movement as soon as the roads are in condition. Servia, also, is already drawn into a critical position. Although she has but just finished her campaign and concluded a treaty of peace with Turkey, the Porte has intimated to her that she must take up arms again, this time upon the side of Turkey, and that the Turkish forces will occupy Gladova, on the Servian bank of the Danube, and directly opposite the terminus of a railroad running east and west through Roumania—a step, by the way, that shows the Turks expect the Russians to cross at that point, notwithstanding their demonstration near the mouth of the Danube. Meanwhile, the Russian Pan-Sclavist emissaries are already laboring with the Prince Milan to secure his co-operation Whether Bervia will throw off her newlyrestored allegiance to Turkey or will ally herself with Turkey against Russia remains to be seen, but, whatever course she may pursue, she is not likely to prove a very dangerous foe to anyone. Montenegro has resumed her hostilities against the Turks, and these invincible mountaineers tyill prove a serious thorn in their side. Crete is rising in insurrection against Turkish authority. Egypt, of course, has espoused the cause of Turkey, and furnished her contingent of troops, and Persia is reported to here a secret understanding with Russia. Of the Great Powers, Austria is the most likely to be involved. The slightest tendency to insurrection in Bervia, or the first intimation of territorial acquisition on the part of Russia, will compel Austria.to occupy Bosnia and Herzegovina, and thus array herself against the Turks. England can cnly be involved in the remote contingency that Russia manifests designs against Constantinople, and Germany in a still more remote contingency. The onlv Powers that are certain not to be drawn into the war are Italy and France. —Chicago Tribune , April 25.

A Barkeeper’s Triumph Over a DeadBeat.

A sad-eykd old man, meanly clad and wearing a cardinal nose, cut very full at the tip, called in at a West-Side saloon early yesterday morning, and told the barkeeper to hand him down the ten-cent whisky. The barkeeper had his suspicions of the man’s general appearance, but there was no guilty tremor in his voice or abashed dropping of the eye at the critical moment, so he guessed he could risk it. The old man filled the tumbler brim-full and took it off. “ Well, you’ve got nerve!” sarcastically replied the barkeeper, as he replaced the bottle; “ten cents.” The old man, with an air of confidence, felt in his left vest-pocket —vainly. “ Made a mistake,” he said to himself, cheeifully, and he tried the other one with equal lack of success. “ Hurry up, mister man I” exclaimed the barkeeper, as the old man, with a visible elongation of countenance, felt in his watchpocket, turned it inside out, and recovered the end of a match, some fluff and two newspaper scraps. " I’ve got a dime somewhere here, but where in thunder tinuing his fruitless researches into the domestic economy of his clothing, while all the while his face kept getting longer and longer. “ See here,” finally said the exasperated barkeeper, ‘‘that’s too thin; it’s played out; it’s n. g.; fork dver that ten cents in about a quarter of a minute, or else I’ll- —” “ You’ll what ? anxiously queried the customer; “not kick me out ? You surely wouldn’t raise your foot against a poor old man like me, save in the way of kindness?” “No,” replied the slinger of gin, “ but I’ll call in an officer and have you arrested Cor obtaining whisky under false pretenses, and that’s from two to seven years at Joliet. Now hand out that dime.” “Don’t call a policeman, don’t,” pleaded the old man, piteously, bursting into teats and sitting down on an empty beer-keg to pull on his boot; “I’ve got some money in my sock,” and he extricated thence a creased ten-dollaj bill. “ Here are the savings of a lifetime,” he said; “I wanted to save up enough money to take me home to Elmiiy, N. Y., but taKe it, take it.” “You hoary-headed old scoundrel,” said the barkeeper; “you wanted to beat the bouse with a regular Black Hills and SubTreasury in your boot, did you? Pretended yon hadn’t any nioney! Yah! I’m & mind to kick you out anyhow; Here!" and he laid the’ old man’s change on the counter ; “ take ydiir money and get out of this.” “ You vriU y«t own that you are mistaken in me,” plaintively whimpered the old mam. “WTO you git, or won’t yout” ytUed the barkeeper, catching up a bong-starter, and the old man, in mortal terror, shuffled out. When the boss came in about three hours later, the discovery was made that the bill was bad, and subsequent inquiries showed that the old man had rung in dght.othen on the vigilant barkeepers of the same ward the same morning. —Chicago Jrib une. *•>■< :< < —An Irish waiter, speaking of a lady’s black eyes, says; i “ They are mourning for the murders they have committed.” It is estimated that 100,000 buffaloes have been killed ih Colorado the past season for their hides alone.

Che Czar’s Manifeste.

Tba Czar of Russia has issued the following manifesto and declaration of war with Turke y: Our faithful and beloved subjects know the etesng bri*e*e> ■ we-have constantly felt rathe destinies of the oppressed Christian population of Turkey. Our desire to ameliorate nud e*suage their lot has been shared by the whole RuMiian Nation, which now shows itself ready In Knar frawh mmamJAaumm In alUwiflis; (il& POtkitiUll of the Christismsin the Balkan PeninsufitPSe blood and property of our faithful subject* have the benefits of peace. This solicitude never failed to actuate us during the deplorable eventa which occurred in Herzegovina, Bosnia &ad Bulgaria. Our object, before all, was to effect an amelioration in the position of Christians in the east by rae}a* *£ |«citic negotiation i, and, in concert with the great European Powers, our allies and friends, for two years we have made * incessant efforts to indhee the Porte toeffeet snoh reforms as would protect the Christians in Bosnia, Herzegovina and Bulgaria from any arbitrary measure of the Ideal authorities. The accomplishment of these reforms eras absolutely stipulated by anterior engagements coutriictod Stlie Porte toward the whole of Europe. Our orta, supported by the diplomatic representations made in eOmmon with other governments, have not, however, attained their object. The Porte has remained unshaken in its formal refusal of any effective guarantee for the security of its Christian subjects, and has rejected the conclusion of the Constantinople Conference. Wishing to essay every possible means of reconciliation in order to persuade the Porte, we proposed to the other Cabinets to draw up a special protocol comprising the most essential conditions of the Constantinople Conference, and to invito the Turkish Government to adhere to this international act. which stilted the extreme limits of our peaceful demands, but our expectation was not fulfilled. The Porte did not defer to this unanimous wish of Christian Europe, and did not adhere to the. conclusions of the protoooL Having exhausted pacific efforts, we are compelled, by the haughty obstinacy of the Porte, to proceed to - more decisive acts, feeling that our equity and our own dignity enjoin it. By her refusal, Turkey places oa under the necessity of having recourse to arms. Profoundly convinced of the justice of our cause, and humbly committing ourselves to the grace and help of the Most High, we make known to our faithful subjects that the moment, foreseen when we pronounced the words to which all Russia responded with complete unanimity, has now arrived. We expressed the intention to .sot independently when we deemed it necessary, and when Rnssia's honor should demand it. in now invoking the Messing of God upon our valiant armies, we give them the order to cross the Turkish frontier. Alexander. Given at Kischeneff. this 12th day of April (old style), in the year of grace 1877, ana in the twenty-third year of our reign.

Blinds or Awnings.

Fob at least nine months of the year jn the latitude of any part of New England the sun should be considered a most welcome visitor in every home, and its presence should be studiously courted. If we have anything in the living rooms oi the house liable to injury from its effects, the sooner such, articles are abolished the better. If in rare caseß of illness the light of day must be excluded, let it be done by some temporary contrivance which may be dispensed with along with nurse ana doctor and as cheerfully. Of course temporary screens are at times needed for windows in order to secure a certain amount of privacy, although much of this seclusion is the result of a questionable change inhabits of living; but let these consist of one simple set of rolling shades of some color pleasant to the eye, and let the material be as transparent as is consistent with their intended use. For protection against the fierce heat of the few tropical days of our climate, Italian awnings to exposed windows are a good contrivance to exclude the sun while allowing free passage to the air. These may be removed in winter. j The custom which prevails with some housekeepers of . closing doors and windows in the*early morning of a hot day in order to secure coolness is most pernicious. The atmosphere thus obtained has the chill and impurity of the cellar, and is not fit for human life. If people must live4n-doorß, the nearer their habitations approach the character of green-houses the better. The oldfashioned, roofed piazza is fast giving place, except in houses for summer use only, to the uncovered terrace. This ter can be sheltered by Italian awnings from the rays of the noonday sun or from the eveniing dews, or it can be provided with a light wooden framework to support a canvas cover that can he easily rolled back, like the awning over, a cky shop front. On the score of expense these useful devices are much more economical than the universal blinds. The first cost of the latter, with the additional outlays for periodical painting and repair* ing, will far exceed that of their substitutes. It seems rather absurd for h sensible people to spend so much money ih making and glazing windows only to spend a great - deal more in devices for obstructing them. — Boston Journal Of Chemittry A gentleman who lives in Nashville has had the chills and fever every day for four years, aufihg which time he haa taken 1,800 grains of '<£rinine, 1,000 grains arsenic, 500 grains cinchonldia 500 grains of Peruvian bark and a good deal of nitric acid, withont hftVing any effect Upon him. . , \ f About 3,0©0j000 fans were shipped frota Japan In 1875, almost all of' Which came to this country. ' " '* 11

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