Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1877 — Page 2

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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

CWNOT PARAGRAPHS. ' *•> L The Dime Savings Bank at Bethlehem, Ffe.taaaaß.-Axl ", Hon. Caleb Cuahiag recently arrived at New Yaak famMbu Austria haa decided to issue a procla—atiaaof The Louisiana Legislature adjourned eiM die en She aftsmooa of toa 90th. J. D. Defrees has been appointed Pub* tic Printer ta ptabe of A. M. Clapp, Ttmgmrt. The President has appointed John E. King Sa be Collector of Curtonuot New Orleans -——• ♦ The Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention is to be held at HsnWxrg, on the Sth.cf August. _ Ex-Senator William G. (Parson)Brownlew dx-d a few mornings ago at his rwdeooe ia Knoxville, Tenn. Another outbreak of the cattle plague has compelled She slaughter of 124 head in Middlesex, England. The plague has appeared at Reshd, a Fenian town. There were 176 deaths at Bagdad from the 16th to the 23d. Russia, at the request of Austria, has dedared the navigation of the Danube reopened, subject to certain local restriction*. The water-power property on the American aide at N iagara Falla was recently sold at auction to a Buffalo gentleman, for $71,000. An English steamer, while entering the harbor of Kertch, without the necessary precautions, waa lately totally destroyed by a torpedo. The Maine Republican State Committee have recently re-elected Senator Blaine as Chairman, wishing his eighteenth consecutive year in that position. The Bey of Tunis has offered the Sultan 18,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry, provided the Porte pays part of the expenses of their equipment and transportation. The Czar has telegraphed to the Prince «f Montenegro: “lam firmly resolved tins time to realise the reared mierion of Bums and my predecessor. God will aid us.” Great Britain and France, on the 30th ult, issued proclamations directing their subjects to observe the strictest neutrality in the war between Turirey and Russia. Entrance into or departure from the Bosphorus and Dardanelles during the nighttime has been absolutely prohibited by the Porte. AU fights have been extinguished. A large number of persons, mostly flre- - men, were boned beneath the ruins of a burning building at Montreal, Canada, a few mornings ago, and nine of them were crushed burned to death, and several others were injured. Hie suit of the English owners of the Emma Mine against Trenor W. Park and others, to recover the $5,000,000 paid for it, on the ground of misrepresentation and fraud, has been decided in favor of the defendants, after a four months'trial. Up to the 27th of April, the United States Treasury had paid out 630,344,000 in silverocin, of which amount 018,095,000 were in place of fractional currency, and 612,249,000 for currency obligation. The balance on hand amounted to 63,500,000. The Coroner's jury in the case of the Southern Hotel fire, at St Louis, has rendered a verdict that the fire originated in the basement It also censures the lessees of the building for having made no provisions for extinguishing fire; for carelessness in the storage of inflammable materials, and for making no efficient efforts on the night of the fire to awaken their guests and employes. Judge Schaeffer has decided that Ann Elim is not entitled to a decree of divorce from Bagham Young, the alleged marriage being polygamous, and therefore null and void; that during the time plaintiff was with defendant as his polygamous wife she was serving him as a menial servant, and would be entitled to a reasonable compensation far her service, but having received in this instance, in the form of alimony, mote than each service waa shown by the proof to be reasonably worth, she should go hence without further compensation. The eighth annual report of the Board of Indian Oommiationen, just published, oondudea with the following The immediate compliance on the part of the Government with terma of existing treaties with all the Indiana; appropriations for consolidating agencies; a generous appropriation for educational purpoem; discontinuance of tribal retotisns; axtenoMSi of law far protection of life and property; allotments «f land; estahlishment of industrial and agricultural boarding schoote, compelling the attendance of all between seven and eighteen yean of age; issue of supplies to be made to beads of famines; increase of salaries to Indian Agents.

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Got. Hartranft, Commander-in-Chief of the BeimbUe, has iaared a general order deZ ignatingMaySO as Memorial Day. Whatever therefre ns parts «f the Good Amy* the good work, he, in behalf of the surviving oomtadaa of the gallant dead, aab the citisena to take Maps to decorate the graves and secure the proper obeemnoe of the day. The South Carolina Legislature met in special session on the Mb. I* his me—ge to thelußfalahwr, Gov. Hampton erwnaaaed the hope that the membera would forget the wtimority engendered by polittanl strife, and ties superior to “petty oonaidcmtiona of partisanship.- He recommended an earnest eSori to nwfrfirr *lm> VmA vwvWnMrwtw ftfafu ** - unuae toe mm « w mate, revive will and justice fluuong &11 olmsm and pnitjea/

The Porto haa declined to recognize the arrangement by which Rumisn subjects in Turkey were placed under German ptuteJtou. Germany has pretinted. An extensive fire occurred in Constantinople on the 20th. Over 600 bototo were The Roumanian Minister at Foreign Affairs announced to the Roumanian diambsr •t Deputies, on the 29th, the signing of a ooavvntion with Russia, by virtue of which free passage across the country was promised, and also the treatment due to a friendly army. The Csar had bound himself to respect the rights of Rowmania. A similar convention had not been concluded with the Bsrte, beoanse it had perries* untly refused to recognise Boumania or settle ling piadfag I'Wl" ""’ 1 A Vienna telegram of the 20th says Persia had 20,000 men ready to join the Russians. A St. Petersburg telegram of the 29th sayu Russia had 60,000 men on the Danube and 125,000 in the Omwmub. The opposing forces of the Turks aggregated 150,000. Information received at Omaha, on the 29th, indicated that the heavy snow and rain storm of the preceding three days had decteoyed the grasshopper*. Experiments in thawing them out showed no signa es vitality.

Several of the memljers of the St. Louis Whisky Ring, sentenced to pay a fine and to. nominal imprisonment a year ago, but who had never paid the fine, were arrested in that city, on the 28th ult. One paid his fine and was released, but the others gave bail in the sum of 61,500 each. These arrests were riade in pursuance of the recent decision of the Secretary of the Treasury to take measures to collect all unpaid whisky fines. A report prevailed in Vienna, on tne 39th ult, that the Turkish gunboats bad left the Lower Danube, being impelled to this action by the torpedoes and the fear of the Russian heavy artillery. A Vienna dispatch of the 30th ult. says the Porto had given official assurance that it did not intend to cany on the war on Servian territory. It was reported from Columbia, 8. C., on the 30th nit., that the Republican claimants for State offices would consent to the proceedings before the Supreme Court, which would end the contest and seat all the Democratic State officiate. Employes, to the number of 250 (mostly females), of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, in Washington, were disharged on the 00th nit. Battles were fought before Kars on the 29th and 30th ult, in which the Turks are reported to have been worsted. A Berlin special of the Ist says that Russia, at the instance of Austria, had promised to respect the neutrality of Servia.

According to an Associated Press dispatch from Jackson, Miss., on the evening of the 26th ulti, John W. Gully, a prominent citisen of Kemporia, waa assassinated by an unknown party. The murder created great excitement, and every meana waa resorted fd to dis*-* cover the perpetrator. On the 28th, two colored men made affidavit that Benj. Rush, a white man, did the deed.aud that Judge Chisholm, who ran for Congress on the Republican ticket at the last election, hia son, and Gilmer, Rosenbaum and Hopper, prominent white Republicans, knew of and instigated the crime. Chisholm and son were arrested and imprisoned at DeKalb, Mrs. Chiaholm and daughter insisted on sharing their confinement. On the 29th, Chisholm sent for Gilmer, for whom a warrant had been issued. Gilmer came, and on arrival was arrested; but, just as he arrived at the jail, waa set upon;by a mob and killed. The jailor waa then overpowered by the mob, who immediately attacked. Chisholm, mortally wounding him, and killing his son. Miss Chisholm, in defending her father, shot and killed Dr. Rosser, and Mrs. Chisholm severely wounded young Gully, a son of Gully who waa aaaaaainated. Mias Chisholm waa also seriously wounded. Rosenbaum and Hopper were carried to the woods, by the mob, to extort from them the whereabouts of Rush, the alleged sms sain of Gully. It is supposed that Rosenbaum and Hopper were hanged. A horrible state of affairs ia reported to exist throughout that section.

On the afternoon of the Ist, a section ot the roof on the northeast corner of the Naw York Postoffioe building fell in, while workmen were removing the supports which had been placed under it during some repairs. Of the ten persona employed two were killed and one fatally, and others slightly, injured. The public debt statement published on the Ist shows: Total debt, $2,224,658,598; cash in Treasury, 6154,299,806; debt, leas cash in Treasury, $2,070,358,617; decrease during April, $4315,510.

A dispatch from Russian sources, on the 2d, announces that the Turkish garrison, numbering 1,700, had abandoned Bayazid and withdrawn to Atiaday Heights, leaving a large quantity of ammunition, which fell into the hands es the Russians. The Russian farces from Alexandropol had occupied Ziama and Eatkera. The Turkish posts on the Asiatic frontier had mostly surrendered without a blow. The Turkish Commander on the Danube had been empowered by the Porte to close the river to all navigation, or adopt any measure rendered necessary by military exigencies. The Turks were burning the villages opposite Galatz and persecuting the Christians, on the 2d. A diplomatic rapture between Turkey and Rounumia is imminent. In his testimony before an investigating committee at Albany, N. Y., a few days ago. State Senator Woodin most emphatically denied the charges relative to himself made in the alleged confession of Wm. M. Tweed. He asserts that in no possible shape had anything of any value ever peered through hia hands or been received by him, in consideration of any vote or act done by him in the Legislature or out of it far the benefit of William M. Tweed or anybody associated with him; he never received any money from Tweed, Winslows or Hastings. John P. Phair has been reprieved by the Governor of Vermont until April, 1879.

Prerequisites of Success.

Integrity of character and truth in the inner man are prerequisites of success in apy calling, and especially so in that of the merchant. These are attributes which, never fail to command respect and win admiration. Noone fails to appreciate them, and if they “do not pav” in the vulgar sense of the phrase, they bring an amount of satisfaction and peace to the owner that all the wealth of Croesus could not yield. There is no better stock in trade than these principles; no capital goes so far or pays so well, or is so exempt from bankruptcy and loss. When known, they give credit ami confidence, and in the hardest of times will honor your paper in bank. They five you an unlimited capital to do business upon, and everybody will endorse yffljr paper, and the general failh of mankind will be you! guarantee that you will

not fall. Let every young man, upon commencing business, look well to these Indispensable elements of success, and defend them as.be would the apple of his eye. If Inattentive and reckless here, he will Imperil everything. Bankruptcy in character is seldom repaired in an ordinary lifetime. A man may buffer in reputation and recover; not so-the man who suffers in character. Be just and truthful. Let these be the ruling and predominating principles of your life ana the reward will be certain, either in the happiness they bring to your own bosom, or the Success which will attend upon all your business .operations in life, or both.— American Banufaeturer.

Mexican Soldiers’ Wives.

At about Dine o'clock that evening, under the glare of a full moon, the Mexican soldiers started. First and foremost went a dozen pack mules, laden with the necessities of the trip, with the baggage of the officers, a quantity of ammunition, arms, and some spare saddles with accouterments. Next came the troops, about 100 in number, dressed in white with red stripes, cuffs and collars, and with the high cap, long since gone out of use with us. Behind them came the women folks —wives of the soldiers—though they have been forbidden to come, and every soldier ordered not to alight to let his wife ride, as an attack might be expected at any moment. When this order was given there was weepings and wailing and gnashing of teeth, for the Mexican soldier’s wire follows him even to the field of battle, and has often been known to pick up the dead husband’s rifle and fight. Many petitions had been sent to the Commandant to revoke the order, but he steadily refused to do so, and the copsequence was that the women determineefto follow, though it should be on foot, and follow did, some carrying their children in their arms. Not only did they keep up with but often reached the place of destination or of camping before tfle troops, and had fires built in readiness for their coming. Borne of these journeys were thirty, forty and fifty-five miles. I think that a further description of the Mexican soldier’s wife, her character, etc?, will be interesting. Wives, I said, but I am sorry to say that they more often occupy that position without the sanction of the padre than with it, but to the last they are true and faithful, and undergo all manner oi toil and hardships • for those whom they claim as husbands. For instance, when we started jd our trip it was clearly understood and believed by them that they should have to w“alk the entire distance, yet they were not deterred, but started out with a firm resolve to do or die. I well recollect the first night, how my heart ached for some of these women, one in particular, who not only carried her child, a boy of about three years, slung to her back, and a big gourd of water by her side, but was barefooted. I made a special request to Don Jesus that she be permitted to ride a short distance on her husband’s horse. He laughingly replied: “Bhe, with her load, will tire the rest, and out-travel the horses,” which I found to be true.

And still another moved my pity. She was young and beautiful. The older odea gazed on her with a smile, and, as they noticed my look of sympathy, would significantly say, “Her first campaign?’ Bhe was the wife of the “ Primero,” a position equivalent to our Sergeant-Major. At every camping place where there was running water the women washed theii own and husband’s clothing, and when the pack train under escort went ahead they kept with it, and:often upon our arrival the frugal meal would be prepared. —Hew Orleans Times. .

The “Celery Cure.”

The blue-glass mama has scarcely shown signs of subsidence ere another claimant as a cure-all is waiting its turn tor the suffrages of the thousands who indulge in an excess of faith and credulity. No doubt a little industrious advertising will make as many cohverts to its marvelous powers as a health-restorer as' has been done with blue glass, provided those interested are as shrewd as the glaziers. This healthrestorer is—heed it, O incredulous reader! —the delightful vegetable that garnishes our winter*dipner-table under the name of celery. That mpn of good appetites and good digestion delight in this sweet, crisp, and juicy stalk—the tender white heart of the plant being the portion that the true epicure craves, and munches with infinite pleasure—all the world knows; and that would-be wiseacres shake their heads at the inviting dish, and in strange delusion pronounce it’indigestible, all of us have painfully witnessed; but few have supposed, we' imagine, that the much-prized plant has wonderful curative properties. Many readers will be surprised to learn that persons affected by nervousness, even when so seriously afflicted that “ their hands shake like aspen-leaves,” have, by a moderate daily use of the blanched foot-stalks of celery as a salad, become as strong and assteady in the limbs asother people—so a writer on the subject affirms; and not only extreme nervousness has been thus cured, we are gravely told, but palpitation of the heart has been effectually arrested by its use. Now let the gardeners emulate the glaziers, and hire some ingenious news-paper-men to set storieg afloat as to all the wonders of the celery-cure. Nervousness is so wide-spread an affliction in our modern high-pressure civilization that the patients will count by tens of thous anas. Celery as a “ relish” before soup; celery as a salad after meat; celery and cheese as dessert; celery-luncheons; cele-ry-salad as alight late supper; celery plain or dressed for gentlemen whose nerves are ante-breakf*st cocktails; cele-ry-chewing parties by young ladies and gentlemen; celery iu a hundred ways, and oh every possible occasion, is now sure to be the fashion. We hear, indeed, of a druggist, who draws from a sodafountain a hot exttract of celery, mixed with meat-e±tract, and serves the compound to waiting adores, who partake, and part with derves steadied and hearts fortified thereby. When the full wave of the mania rises, there will assuredly be “a corner” in celery. We shall soon hear of enormous consumption, and the struggles of the gardeners to meet the new demand; celery-beds will be widened and extended ; town amateurs will be for converting ■ back-yards into space for thefgrowth of the plant, and breathlessly studying gardener’s hand-books, as to, method and manner of cultivation: so that by the time of the next autumn harvest-season all the world will be either raising'or consuming the delectable plant, or else waiting and yearning for the next curc-ajl.— Appleton*' Journal. t • ' “ —-; : Fen real tercr-floitestyle the bumblebee takes the palm. He is as fat as the letter O, and a* moderate as a seidlitz powder. He wears a black and white velveteen coat and a pair of yellow corduroy t/otisers. He'dresses as b ell as a hotel clerk.—Oil City (Pa.) Call.

SENSE AND NONSENSE.

Mortgage on a church it Satan In the front row of pews.—Drtreat Free Press. A Rhode Idland mule kicked a boy into Massachusetts the other day. A New Jersey girl who was Invited to go fishing said she had plenty of hook* and eyes. A Parliamentary fowl—the hen that made a motion to lay on the table.— Punch. The saddest moment of a boy’s life is when the circus music strikes up and he hasn’t any ticket to go in. ” William,” said Emeline, “what do you see in thosa wild, wild wavesT” “ Sea foam,” curtly answered William. An Irishman was once asked why he wore his stockings Inside out. “ Because there is a hole in the other side,” he replied. “ I am astonished, niy dear young lady, at your sentiments; you make me start.” “ Well, I have been wanting you to start for the last hour.” “ Here, James, take this key, rope ladder and parachute, and show the gentleman up to 1,152. Lunch at two a. m., sir, if you can’t sleep ’’ There isn’t any Centennial this year, but Philadelphia sends out generous invitations for people to come there and spend money seeing where the Centennial was. A somewhat simple woman was asked whether her husband feared God, and replied : “ I guess he does, for he never goes out on Sundays without taking his gun. with him.” A minister who had twice married the same couple—a divorce ensuing between the two marriages—remarked that he didn’t wish to add a repairing department to his business. Sugar is a sign of being ripe—in apples, in pears, in figs, in men. Some men think they are ripe because they are acid; that may do for cranberries, but not for men.— Becker. Some base-ball players are paid larger salaries than ministers of the Gospel, but we have not yet heard of a minister offering to exchange places with a base-ball player. —Harristown Herald. “ I am afraid it’s mixed goods,” said the lady to the clerk. “O, no, madame, impossible,” repliedlhe polite gentleman, “ all our camel's-hair shawls ere made of pure silk direct from the worm.” “ Have you any boned turkey ?’ ’ asked a hungry customer in a Nevada restaurant. The proprietor laid his hand on his revolver, and cried, “No insinerations here, young man. We’re honest hero, and don’t * bone’ nothin’.” American boots are selling in London at fifty cents less a pair than in our own country. But the price will have to fall at least another half dollar before it will pay us togo to London to buy American boots.— Norristown Herald. The report that Tom Thumb haa grown to be a six-footer within the last three months by simply sitting under blue glass proves to be a canard. One can ’ardly believe half the stori es one sees about blue glass, anyhow.— Norristown Herald. A woman last winter entered a store tn Connecticut, and sat down in front of an iron safe to warm her feet. After sitting some twenty or thirty minutes, she remarked tnatshe “never did like them kind of stoves—they don’t throw out scarcely any heat, those gas-burners don’t.” 1 The Massachusetts papers are discussing the question “ May Cousins Marry ?” We should hope so. We don’t see why a cousin hasn’t as good a right to marry as a brother, or an uncle, or a son or sister. They all get used to cousin’ after they marry, anyhow.— Burlington Hawk-Bye. In a fashionable family the word “ style” is often used, and such distinction given to it that the youngest—a child of six or seven— on retiring for the night, was heard to make this addition to “Now I lay sue down to sleep”: “God bless dear papa and mamma, and oh, dear Lord, make us very stylish.’*

The unprincipled scientist who has discovered a new variety of cockroach in Florida probably would not have expended any labor in such research if he had ever been in a newspaper office and seen one of the old standard kind rise up over the top -of a mucilage bottle and inquire if there were any hew discoveries at Mycense.—Norwich Bulletin. ‘ '*• A female from me country called for a Welch rarebit at a Washington-etreet restaurant, and denounced the waiter because there was no part of a rabbit in the dish served. “And no later than yesterday,” said the wearied waiter, “ there was a man in here who growled because there was a hare in the butter; can’t please ’em all, anyway.”— Boston Bulletin. Death from hydrophobia is painful, according to all authorities; but friends of the afflicted at least may have the Consolation of knowing that the dog, under ordinary circumstances, is a noble animal, and the friend of man. Even this comforting reflection is now in some instances to be snatched away; for the cat is developing ability as a maker ot madness, and the cat, everybody knows, is neither a noble animal nor a friend of man, whatever women may think of the subject.— Chicago Tribune.

A young man having a claim of fifty dollars to collect,took it to a lawyer The latter, upon inquiring, no sooner heard that his cnent’s name was George Jones, than She seized him by the hand, fervently shook it, exclaiming: “My dear fellow, how fortunate you are! Why, I know your father well; in fact, he was my firstclient. , I shall take particular pains for you in this matter.” A few daj-s later the young man received a note from the lawyer, informing him that the collection had been made. He called upon him and was handed a roll of bills As he was count-” ing them the lawyer reiterated his remark about the young man’s good fortune in coming to him, who knew his father, etc. The young man, however, looked any* thing but happy, for he found but fifteen dollars in the roll. The lawyer, noticing this, said: “ Why, my dear;fellow, what seems to be troubling you ?” “ Oh, nothing,” the young man replied, “ nothing. I was only thinking how lucky I am that you .didn’t know my grandfather.”—-Re-fornur.

Cats and Caterpillars.

Im the course of a lecture on the relations between plants and insects, delivered before the Society of Arts in London by Sir John Lubbock, the speaker instituted a singular comparison between the cotot- ! ing of caterpillars and cats. “ There are five principal types of coloring among caterpillars,” he remarked f> “those which live inside wood pr leaves, or underground, are generally of a uniform pale line; the small leaf-eating caterpillars are green, like the leaves on which they feed. The other three types may, •iparva licet eomnonere mugnie, be compared with the throe types of coloring

among cate. There are the ground-cats—-such as the Hou or puma—which are brownish or sandcolor, like the open places they frequent So also caterpillars wijlch conceal themselves by day at the roots of their food-plant, tend, as we bare seen, even if originally green, to assume tlit color of the earth. The spotted or eyed cals—such as the leopard—live among trees; and their peculiar coloring renders them less conspicuous by mimtaking spots of light which penetrate through foliage. Lastly there are the jojigle-cats, of which the tiger is the typical species, and which have stripes, rendering them very difficult to see among the brown grass which they frequent. It may, perhaps, be said that this comparison falls, because the stripes of tigers are perpendicular, while those of caterpillars are either longitudinal or oblique. This, however, so far from constituting a real difference, confirms the explanation, because in each case the direction <ff the lines follows those of the foliage. The tiger, that walks horizontally on the ground, has transverse bars; the caterpillar, which clings to the grass in a vertical position, has longitudinal lines, while those which live on large-veined leaves have oblique lines, like the oblique riba of the leaves.”

A Horrible Scene.

At about four o’clock on yesterday morning a great vivid flame poured into the windows of the sleeping town Of ConJers, and awakened the inhabitants. The ail was on fire. The affrighted people hurried to the scene of the fire, and found that the flames had gone beyond their power to check them. There was no fire-engine in the town. The entrance to the Jail was from the second-story, and the steps had burned away. The roof had nearly fallen in, and the flames were licking downward over the solid, impenetrable first story, which made the dungeon. About this time the crowd began to inquire whether or not there were any prisoners confined in the dungeon. It transpired that there were two men locked up by the fire in this fatal cage—bot). negroes. It was apparent at once that nothing less than a miracle could save them from a horrible death. The steps to the entrance were burned away. The doorway and the whole top of .tne house was a mass of flames. The heat was so intense that no one could approach the building. Somehow or other an ax was thrown over into the dungeon, and the negroes began to try and cut theirway out of the stifling den in which they were caged. Only a few moments were left, as the fire was hebegihning to burn through the solid upper floor, when itwould send a shower of blazing logs and embers down on the poor wretches. The dungeon, as is usual with country jails, was made of a layer of huge logs, heavily weather-boarded on each side. The negroes speedily cut through the first weather-boarding, and had pushed several pieces of the outer plank off. They could now be plainly seen by the crowd, who encouraged them with shouts-and advice. It remained for them to cut through two or three of the heavy logs that they might force themselves through. They recommenced their work, and flew at it with desperation. The inexorable flames drew nearer, and the poor Wretches, frantic with panic and fear, shrieked and prayed, and cursed as they tugged like madmen at the stubborn ana unyielding logs. It looked at one time as if they might escape, but the flames suddenly burst downward through the upper floor and swept down the outside of the walls, literally enveloping the fated men in a net of flames. The horrid illumination rendered their parched bodies intensely conspicuous. They capered and sprang up and down, and flung themselves against the walls. The blistering flames’ maddened them, and their efforts to cut through the walls lost all direction or intelligence. They hacked and pulled incoherently at the long bars, and seemed literally crazed. Most of the spectators, unable to look upon the sickening scene longer, turned off and ran beyond the, reach of the piercing screams of the imprisoned men.

But the end was vep r near. The dungeon was now filled with blazing fire, and the very logs that held them prisoners began to burn. One of the negroes seemed to give up the struggle at this point Leaping off the floor, he clutched the bars and wound his arms about them.'and was soon, let us hope, put out of his pain. The other one, holding the ax, continued to struggle in an aimless way, but finally dropped - the ax, and, clutching the burning bars, as his fellow-victim had done, was almost instantly lost in a gust of flame And then the hungry blaze covered the whole dungeon, and the tortured wretches were seen no mere. The origin of the fire was certainly incendiary. It is equally as certain that i’ came from the inside of the building. There was no one living in. the Jail. Of. the negroes, one had been sentenced to the Penitentiary for five years, and the other for twelve months.— Atlanta Constitution.

A Desperate Situation.

This morning the company belonging to Montgomery Queen’s circus passed through the public streets. The last wagon in the caravan consisted of a cage containing a lion and lioness and tiger and their keeper. The tiger crouched stealthily in one corner of the cage, the lioness in another, and between them sat the keeper. During the entire parade the )ion manifested a good deal of uneasiness at the presence of the tiger in the cage, and made several attempts to approach it, but was prevented from doing so by the keeper. When opposite the N evada Block, on Montgomery street, however, the two animals managed to rush upon one another, Then followed one of the most exbiting scenes imaginable. The keeper rushed in between the infuriated animals for the purpose of separating them, and the curious and horror-stricken crowd rushed instinctively toward the cage to render assistance, were it possible. While engaged in separating the beasts, the lion seized the keeper’s thigh and drove his teeth deep into the flesh. The excited CYowd pn the outside then began to raise their vdice? in alarm, but the man whose life was thus placed in: Jeopardy coolly told them to be quiet, and seizing an iron bar he struck the lion on the head several times, finally compelling him to release his hold ana return to his corner. Blood flowed freely from his wounds.— San FraMitco Bulletin. —An enraptured Burlington lover, hearing his sweetheart sfgh dejectedly the other evening, rapturously administered a quartette ofkisses, and exclaimed: “ You’re mine now, in spite of fAtef” “And why?” she asked. “Because,” he said, “four of a kind beats ace high.” But she believes to this day that he played a cold deck on her.— Burlington Hawk-Bye.

FACTS AND FIGURES.

Texas is larger than France by more than 40,000 square mites. Turkey has paid thia country $3,000,000 in cash tor anna during the past year, but every American bitching-post leans toward Itassla. The Modoc Indians, now numbering 54 males and 63 females, are located on a very fertile tract, containing 4,000 acres, in the northeast corner or the Shawnee Reservation, Indian Teiritonr. .... Tmt total subscription farthli frliefaf ' the sufferers by the Brooklyn fire wasabout $40,000.- Abo»t«4l»,Wfatewe bren disbursed, and the remaining $30,000 will last a year. Between 500. and 800 persons' are partially BUPPffgflt Mife. S3AJIQH . Th ? trust for the ex-Emorere Eugenieapdher son is officially aC ®,O«MOQ, ph which thereare mortftagea/to titeLeitent . of $240,000. Her other estates are valued at a like Stffo/ltfeuifiwlrKWuFfee same amount. The personal property of.,< the exiled Bonapartes is variously esti- « mated at from five to fifteen millions. ■ • ■ There is aft Almost eotoWete >qnality in the world’s sexes. In 'Frarice bau . ance is nearly attained, where for evesp', < 1,000 men there are 1,007 ' women? In Sweden, to l.OOfr men ", women, while in Greece, to the same nnmber of males there are but 993 Greek women. In Paraguay there are. only 1,000 men to every 2,080 jvomen, a state of things mainly due to the ravages of the Brazilian war. The Government began the issuing of. postal cards with some misgivings, but the result of what was looked upon by some ‘ as an experiment has been most satisfactory. Beginning in 1878 with 100,000,000 cards, the issue has increased year by year at the rate of about 12,5Q0JX)0 until now when it is estimated that be needed for the year beginning JnPy 1■" next, The instances of atfiiae jp thejife: of the cards have beencoropanUiyely iew,, and in cases oflthiskind thb"uulic3io»' the legal penalties has had a salutary effect on persons who were disposed to make them the vehicles of scurrility and def-1 amation,—JFaMwtefoh ji as? 11 Below is a table of the coal areas and production of the globe: . ~ , . Area in eqwire is IS?4. \ miles. Great Britain.......' 11,900 • 1 • 125,0t0,000 Germany 1,800 .46,658,000. United Btates J92,QdO ' W.OOTJOO. France....;. l.flOO z ' f» i s6o’Wo Belgium 900 14.670.000 Austria. 1,800 12,280,000 Russia 11,000 fo}92(oo6'' Nora Scotia... j;... 118,000 //■ K! 11,052,000 Spain .8,000 ~-580,000 u Other countries 28,000 ; 5,000,000,, T0ta1270,200 , This table shows that, roughly, the total. 1 area of the discovered coal-fields of tfie’ world amount to 270,000 square' miles. Though the hog product which we export is large, yet the main part/is from the, best of the animal. The: shipments* for year ending Jtrne 80, 1876, was of the fol. lowing articles: Bacon and hams, to the value of.. .. $89,664,456 Pork, to the value of. 5,744,022 Lard, to the value 0f... ..J..22,429,485 Lard oil, to the value of.. 149,156 Total export va1ue..567,987,119

Sequel of a Social Sensation.

Months ago Western sooktyrang with the accounts of a grand Wedding. A fait daughter of one of the oldest anu wealthiest families in the Mississippi Valley been united to a foreign nobleman./. The arts of Worth were exhausted aration of the trousseau. Members of the,,, aristocracy from all sections of the country were present, and - never wasdhere mare brill i ant social evenVih *tbte • Mitof k , of anyone present, nobleman was reported'to be enormously • wealthy In his own CMrrtry over vast domains and.jbidnis.jxmdgmefl! M tremble. His exits ana entrances were attended with a flourish of trumpets.« When he walked he Wta attetfded'by.vat- < sals armed to the teeth. Hbwas supposed to own vast castles; the most impregnable* of which he inhabited, and spentth«*searson in making-fierce forays upon ths bear; that abounded in the fastnesses-of. his«na-' tive forests. The wedding succeeded . by a dizzy round of fesljivititS,,4fl<l' socle-" ty was ablaze. The impressive foreigner finally departed with his beautiful Amer-» ican bride, and it was said that would proceed, forthwith to the nativu.r land of the nobleman, and proceed imme—diately to inhabit one'Of iHS-Palfitlai ihs- i ties. A sturdy Hibernian at work yestei* ' day among the hotel ruins, tUrned ovw - some' ru b bish ■ and found a scattered pack 1 1 of letters. Btunft'of the peOple-lutite in; J closure began curiously to-'sXHmittß'' ; tlte“' documents. One of them was:,from,.toe , Russian Capital. .The. datd'.W-kevWxT, months back.. Tt wk£ from the bride of the nobleman, and rep'reSento# w In* j. pretensions Of great ’wealth wera.faLse, 'IL was even,doubted, whether be Xag nobly connected. It was feared,tha f t,,he ysaLan „ arrant imposdor. The writer herself as bemg.in absolute need in money' for the purchase ter was addressed toja yery npKirelaUve. f Thisis ope. xrf/fhe ,s«?fiW >aV to*, gave up-rHSt, fioui*

THE MARKETS.

OATS—Western and State... -.60’0 •« ’ RYE—Western.... ........I KOS ® ,*"Y FORK—Mere...... •>.,..»»* Mj-45 ® LABD—Steam 1030 @ 10.85 CHEESE ,1c ;•§! ’ WOOL—Domestic J M 0. I. J ; u p - flarfhWi- - ju'vltsi BEEVES—Choice. Butchers' Stock.. 8.50 g t.SO 1 Stock Cattle@ hhrrp—Live ,6.25 BUTTER—Choice Yellow.;4B @ .26 EGGS—Freeh ® FLOUR-CboireWutferExt. »-«® @ 9.» GRAIN—WheX-Spr g,N<U 1.54141 &6J J sEfc. fij > £feiKSdEl.->5 PORK... _ —■.'■•’l. K*' @ M-75 IS s £» I,? '< • wvt . wNw '<< » o. m :«** wot i;A *