Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1877 — Page 2

Wil "V* * m «»t • The Bensselaer Union, RENSSELAER, • • INDIANA.

EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

Condensed Telegraphio News, CVRRRNT PARAGRAPHS. Potato-bugs hare been discovered in Dublin. The export of horses from Germany has been forbidden by Imperial decree. Portugal has consented to act with England In suppressing the slave trade on the Mozambique coast Miss Kate Kelley, of Decatur., 111., ir%B stung in the lips, by a bee, a few days ago, and died eight minutes afterward. Philadelphia, Pa., has been chosen as the next place for the meeting of the PanPresbyterian Council, now in session at Edinburg, Scotland. At Providence. It. 1., on the 10th, tbe one hundredth anniversary of the capture of Gen. Prescott by Col. Barton was commemorated on the scene of the exploit On the 11th, at Council Bluffs, lowa, Kate Wells, seven years old, was fatally burned by the explosion of a can of kerosene oil, with which she was kindling a Arc. It has been recently stated that the loss in valuation of real estate and personal property In the City of Boston, compared with last year, reaches the sum of $60,000,000. On the 9th, Vermont celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the adoption of its first State Constitution. A large number of distinguished citizens from all parts of the Btate were present at Windsor on the occasion. Tbe official canvass of tbe vote in Minnesota, at . tbe special election on the old railroad-bond question, gives the following result: Noes, 59,176; ayes, 17,824. Majority against the proposed plan of scttlcmeut, 41,850. It is stated that the sufferers by the fire in St John, N. 8., have been amply provided for by tbe donations received from other cities, and that the insurance money received for propertv destroyed will go far toward rebuilding the town. The Keeseville (N. Y.) National Bank was entered, a few nights ago, by seven or eight masked burglars, who bound and gagged the watchman, blew open the safe and vault and got away with $15,000 belonging to tbe bank and $60,000 belonging to individuals. Announcement is made of the failure of the Merchants’ Loan and Trust Company, of Paterson, N. J., caused, it is said, by business depression, injudicious purchases of paper and investments in real estate. The stockholders lose about fifty cents on the dollar, but the depositors are safe. The Mexican Government has sent a communication to the United States Government insisting upon a modification of the recent order to Gen. Ord in relation to depredations on the Rio Grande, claiming that it is in contravention with the treaties between the two countries. A Washington special of the 6tb says the order lmd not been modified and would not be.

Capt. Howgate’s proposed Polar expedition promises to Ite a success, so far as pecuniary assistance is concerned, contributions bavins; keen so liberal that h# has been able to procure the vessel necessary, the Florence. A Washington dispatch of the Bth says the vessel will snil from New Loudon on the ‘JOth, under the command of Capt. Tyson, who was navigator of the Polaris, and who has been on several Polar expeditions. A scoundrel, calling himself O. L. Evans, has flooded the West with circular proposing th-t the recipient purchase twelve tickets in the Georgia Lottery, at a cost of slo, and agreeing to so manipulate the numbers drawn from the wheel as to make one of the tickets draw a prize of $10,(HO. The victims have been numerous. The New York police force have called upon the address named in the circular, but Evans could not be found. The Wisconsin State Greenback Convention was held at Portage, on the 4th, and the following State ticket placed in nomination: Governor, E. P. Allis, of Milwaukee; Lieutenant-Governor, E. H. Benton, of Fond du Lac; Secretary of State, J. H. Osborn, of Winnebago; State Treasurer, William Schwartz, of Shet-oygan; superintendent of Public Ins ruc'ion, Geo. M. Steele, of Appleton; Attori ey-Genera!, Henry Hayden, of Wood. The Sparta resolutions were adopted as the platform of the Convention. In reply to a letter from the Postmaster at Mad Lon, Wig., stating that four of the five members of the Republican State Central Committee were Postmasters, and asking if their s gnxtures to a call for a Btate Convention would be considered a violation of the President’s recent order, the Post-master-General stated, on the sth, that although he would prefer each official should interpret the P esidential order for himself, yet he is of opinion that to merely provete for the meeting of the Convention and to call it to order, without attempting to control its organization or future action, would not be ineonsist nt w ith the spirit or purpose of the President’s instructions. The Greenltack State Convention of Icrwa was held at Des Moines, on the 10th. Resolutions weirc adopted demanding the uncondit oual repeal of the Sped -Resumption act f J in. 14, 1875; the abolition of National Banks, and the issue of legal-ten-der pfcp. r money by the Government, and receivable fo> alt dues, public and private; the r monetization of the silver doll .r, making it a full legal tender; that all le al m aus be exhausted to eradicate trie traffic in alcoholic 1 quors, and the abatement of the evil of int mperance, and comme d every honest«flT..r for the furtherance of civilservic- reform The following nominations were made by acclamation: For Gov-rnor, Daniel P Btubbs, of Jefferson County; Lieu tenant-Uovernor, A. H. McCready; Supreme Judge, John Porter; Sup rintendent of Public Instruction, 6. T. Ballard. Mrs. Mary Parish, of Port Lae, N. Y., who has been conspicuous in the temperance

movement In that aectlon, was recently r ruVally assaulted by Edward Hanlon, and beaten until her life waa despaired of. Hanlon called at her house, and after mitk lug some pretense to draw her outside, suddenly knocked her down. She begged for her life, when he told her the names of six men who had hired him to kill her, and rare her fifteen minutes to prepare to die. Her entreaties were vain, and when she offered him one hundred dollars to spare her, Hanlon again struck her down and kicked her in the head, placing his foot across her neck, nc bad nearly suffocated her, when a neighbor curac to the rescue. The names of the men given byHanlon arc those of men against whom she had proceeded for selling liquor without license.

THE TURCO-RUSSIAN WAR.

A Vienna telegram of the 6th says nil representatives of the press bate been ordered to depart immediately from the Russian Army. A St. Petersburg dispatch of the Bth denies the reported repulse at Bicln, and assorts that the town had been occupied byRussian troops. . A dispatch front Krin, Dalmatia, of the Bth, states that 20,000 wounded Turks were at Scutari. On the Bth, tlie Forte published a protest, accusing the Russians of horrible atrocities both In Europe and Asia. An Erxeroum dispatch, published in London on the Bth, states that the Russians had recommenced the bombardment of Kars, and formed an intrenched camp on the eastern side of the city St. Petersburg dispatches of the 7th say that trouble had arisen between Persia and Russia, because the former Power had allowed a Turkish Army to pass over Persian territory to tbe Russian rear and compelled the temporary abandonment of the siege of Kars. An Erzeroum dispatch, received in Constantinople on the 9th, says the Russians had been expelled from the Ottoman territory adjacent to Messonquedik, which plaee had been reoccupied by tbe Turks. The Russians in Bayazid bad been summoned to capitulate on honorable terras, and the Turkish Commander thought they would accept. A Batoum dispatch, published on the 9th, reports that the Turkish fleet had bombarded and burned the Russian Fort of Chevketil. An official telegram, received in St. Petersburg on the 9th, says she Russians occupied Tlrnova on the 7th, and captured the Turkish camp. At a private audience, the Sultan recently stated to Mr. Layard, the British representative, that he would not guarantee protection to Christians if tbe Russians continue to excite rebellion in Bulgaria, and perpetrate atrocities in Asia Minor. A London dispatch of the 10th says it was known that an understanding had been arrived at between Russia, Germany and England, and that each Na'lon had been pros pectively awarded its share of the spoils of the “ Sick Man of Europe ” It was understood that Russia would be satisfied with Armenia and the independence of the Danubian Principalities; that England would receive Egypt and the Island of Cyprus; that Crete would lie transferred to Greece, and the Austrain Baltic Provinces would be handed over to Germany. A Constantinople telegram of the 10th says complete anarchy prevailed beyond the lines of the contending armies. Bulgarian aud Circassian Tartars were murdering each other indiscriminately. - A Turkish monitor at the mouth of the Danube has been captured by the Russians. It was officially announced, on the 10th, that the Russian left wing had been driven across the Asiatic frontier, pursued by Ismail Pasha. Russian accounts acknowledge that the Asiatic campaign had proved a failure and w-ould have to tie renewed. The Turkish fleet has commenced the bombardment of Eupatoria, near Odessa. A Vienna dispatch of the 11th says the Turks had abandoned the line of the Jantra. A- Constantinople telegram of the 11th says tbe Porte was greatly dissatisfied with the Inactivity of Abdul Kerim, in Bulgaria, and had issued peremptory orders for him to make a stand against the Russians. In consequence of the command, the Turkish forces had been c ncentrated on the line between Rasgrad, Sliumla and Eski-Djuma. The River Lorn separated the two armies. A St. Petersburg dispatch of the 11th says the Czar had ordered the withdrawal of Russian troops from Armenia, and that Gen. Melikoff had demanded a court-martial. Servia and Roumania have concluded a treaty with a view to joint operations against the Turks, and Austria, in view- of this fact, has notified Russia that she proposed to occupy Servia.

GENERAL.

An information was filed in the Superior Criminal Court, at New Orleans, on the sth, against Messrs. Wells, Anderson, Kenner and Casanave, charging them with fraudulent conduct in connection with their duty as a Returning Board for Louisiana in the fall of 1876. They were held to bail in the sum of $5,000 each. Gen. Grant reached Brussels, Belgium, on the evening of the 6th. No public or official reception was given him. The President’s order prohibiting Federal officers from participation in the management of political commit'eesand conventions was informally discussed iu tie Cabinet meeting in Washington on the 6th. Without any formal action being taken on the subject, it was agreed that the letter of the Postmaster-General was a correct and judicious statement of the meaning of the order in regard to cases like the one presented fiom Wisconsin, and that, while the order should be firmly maintained aud impartially enforced, there was no occasion to apply it to lowa officeholders who were elected as members of the Convention before it wa& issued, and who p'obanly took their seats before it reached them by mail. San Francisco dispatches of the Bth report that a fight occurred at Cedar Creek, Idaho, on the 2d, between Gl. Whipple's command and forty Indians under Looking Gtass. The latter declined to surrender, and seventeen were killed. The remainder escaped. Gen- Howard moved this camp to Tableland on the 2d. Here sixteen caches weie discovered and a large quantity of provisions and clothing obtained. A great number of Indian horses and some excellent beef were captured. Up to the Bth, the subscription to the 4 per cent, loan received in the United States aggregated $13,223,250.

The Grover Investigating Committee at Portland, Ore., on the 6th and 7th, examined several wlmenses,who gave evidence tending .to show that some mem tiers of the Legislature had been induced by bribery to vote for Grover for Senator. No evidence had yet been heard on behalf of the defense. A Washington special of the Bth declares that President Hayes says he never favored the annexation of Mexico, and did not Csenr It wnwr. A London dispatch of the 9th says there waa much uneasiness In England in regard to the Mohammedan population in India, tbe famine having had tbe effect to render them unsettled. This, in connection with the demands of the Sultan, their spiritual head, it waa feared, would lead to wide-spread outbreaks in favor of Turkey which would assume dimensions dangerous to English interests. A Teheran (Persia) dispatch of the 9th reports the appearance of the plague at Rcsht. There were thirty deaths daily. At Del Norte, the principal town in the Bun Juan mining regions, a fire occurred, on the night of the 6th, which burned over two emire blocks and destroyed property valued at $200,000. A terrible whirlwind struck the Tdwn of Pensaukce, Wis., on the evening of the 7th, destroying nearly every structure In the village, and killing from six to ten persons and wounding twenty. Among the buildings prostrated was the Gardner House, one of the largest hotels in Northern Wisconsin. The width of the tornado did not exceed 1,000 feet, and it was all over in two minutes. The place is a totul wreck. One account of the terrible effects of the storm is as follows: “ The damage wus frightful, and tbe effects of the wind marvelous. It struck-the river and drained the stream, taking the water up iu oue spot, to a height of fifty feet; overturned barges, blew the upper works off the decks of steamers, demolished entirely about fifteen buildings, and duin»ge<l as many more. The storm blew in the north and west wall of the Gardner House, smashed all the furniture and fixtures, and filled the rooms with a confused mas 3of rubbish. A lady and gentleman seated in the office were carried a distance of 150 feet. A large building, with two wings, was pieked up bodily, moved several rods, and set down In the road. A mother and child were carried fifty feet in the air, the clothing stripped from the back of the woman and the infant diverted of everything. A wagon was blown over a three-story hotel. The Iron portion of a sewing machine was thrown through a cow. The station house was lifted on the railroad track aud the railroad bridge moved eight inches, and many Instances of a like character. The loss is variously estimated, but cannot fall short of $150,000.” Information was received at Walla Walla, Ore., on the 9th, that Col. Perry, who was on the way to Gen. Howard with a packtrain and an escort of thirty men, was attacked by Indians on the 4th, and that ten soldiers and two citizens were killed. C'apt Whipple went to his rescue, and the Indians were repulsed, but were iu force around Col. Perry and Capt. Whipple, who had only force enough to act on the defensive. Au official account was received in Washington, on the 9th, of the crossing into Mexican territory, over the Rio Grande, of United States troops, and the capture of stolen horses and the punishment of depredatory Indians, who were driven into the mountains. President Hayes, and others in high official station, are said to have expressed much gratification at the intelligence. The French radical newspaper, Le Peuj>le, was seized, on the 10tli, for accusing the Government with meditating a coup 'Vital. Tbe monument toP. P. Bliss was dedicated, at Rome, Pa., on the 10th, in the presence of n large number of people. Messrs Moody and Sankey participated in the eereinolies. Dr. Pierson, of Detroit, delivered the dedicatory address. A witness named Straight testified before the Grover Investigating Committee, at Portland, Ore., on the loth, to the effect that, from the circumstances of the ease, lie did not believe that any of those who, like himself, changed from Nesmith to Grover for United States Senator, received a cent for so doing. The Constitutional Convention of Georgia assembled, on the 11th, at Atlanta, and chose i has. J. Jenkins President, The President’sr.id, in his address, that it was unnecessary to caution the Convention against doing anything to infringe upon the rights of the colored race. Ok Lite 11th, at the Brookfield coalmine, near Wheatland, Pa., a locomotive burning anthracite coal for the first time, entered the tunnel to the mine, and, after being iu a short time, the men became suddenly affected by the gas aud fell to the ground senseless. The engineer gave the alarm, and a large number of meu rushed in to rescue them. As theypassed in they were overcome by the gas, and also fell insensible. Finally, a gang was organized which, by the exercise of extraordinary precautions, was enabled to bring out thirty-six men, of whom six were either dead before the outside was reached, or died immediately after. The Western session of the National Christian Temperance Camp-Meeting Association began at Lake Bluff, near Chicago, on the 11th, under the leadership of Dr. Reynolds, the “ Red Ribbon” reformer. The intended resignation of Disraeli, the British Premier, was announced iu a London telegram of the 11th. The steamer Fletcher arrived at Bismarck, on the 11th, from Little Big Horn, briuging the remains of Gen. Custer and other officers massacred with him by the Indians, J une 25, 1876. It was stated that they would be fieposited at Fort Lincoln for the present.

Strictly Confidential.

“ My folks are going to the country 'o be grine all summer!” enthusiastically exclaimed a little girl yesterday as she met another on Cass avenue. “ Your pa must bs awfui rich,” replied the second. “Oh, no, lie isn’t, but if you’ll never tell anybody I’ll tell you something.” “ I never will —hope to die if I do.” “Well, then, pa was telling ma that we’d all go out toUrifcle John’s. Ma she’ll work for her board, pa will work in the saw mill. I’ll pick berries and ride horse to plow corn, brother Tom will go round with a lightnipg-rod man, and white you folks are in the awful heat we’ll be putting on airs and fixing over our old clothes for fall. Don’t you tell, now, for ma is saying to everybody that she must have the country air to restore her shaW tered nerves.” —Detroit Free Frets. -r-The music of the future —sixty-da notes. ‘ • -r-The mother of ague—mias-ma.

SENSE AND NONSENSE.

Lack necktie* arc worn by gentlemen. An idle roomer—the discharged hotel clerk. Lisi.k thread gloves without buttons; bnt with long clocked wrists, arc in great demand. “I worm cot live always I n»k not to .Uy: *' Bo he nt« a green (reach And wnn carted awry, -IlntckFy'. Tramp* are very fond of flowers, and may be found peeping into yards Hnd inquiring if the proprietor has anemone for a poor blind cripple. A woman was offered a thousand dollars if she would remain silent for two hours. At the end of fifteen minutes she asked, “ Isn’t the time nearly up f” They tell of an Oregon mule which “ placidly halted for a moment on the mad brink of an awful gorge and then threw himself into the arms of death.” No,” sup said, and the wrinkles in her face smoothed out pleasantly. “ No, I do not remember the last seventee*ycar locusts. I was an infant then.”— Newark Gall. A Connecticut preacher says that a good congregation w ill praise the music, the choir, the ventilation and the civilities of the usher, but as to the sermon, “ Well, I dunno.” A man usually makes as much fuss in steering a lumber stalk of asparagus to his mouth as an’old woman trying to thread a cambric needle with a linen thread.—Turner's Falls Reporter. Thebe was nothing hut a plain slab at the head of the mound, but the simple inscription upon it tells its own sad story: 41 He was umpire in a close game.”—Cincinnati Saturday Night. A very preelse person, remarking upon Shakespeare’s line “The good men do is oft interred with their bones,” carefully observed that this interment can generally take place without crowding the bones. A sagacious Newfoundland clog at Meriden, Conn., instead of rescuing a small boy from a pond, deposited a small boy in the pond. The youth had tried to steal the sagacious Newfoundland’s new muzzle. A terrible warning comes from Austin, Nev. A man who has not performed any manual labor for twelve years was foolishly persuaded to go to work, and the first clay he fell from a scaffolding and waa fatally injured. A little dog took refuge in the private safe of a hank-vault at Virginia City, almost air-tight, on a recent Saturday, to cool his nose by resting it against stacks of coin. He was locked in and not released till Monday morning. He is rallying slowly. The flower-loving citizen, who has spent all his leisure time this season in laying out flower-beds and fostering the same, will have his reward this summer, when his daughter’s beaux will carry off his choicest varieties for button-hole bouquets. —A eicark Call . When a small bov with a prejudice against yellow dogs observes an old oystercan in a condition of inactivity, he at once begins debating the question whether it was created to point a moral or adorn a tail. The clog gets the first news of the decision.— Worcester Press. —After the rising generation have mastered the metric system, it might he well to introduee into the public schools a short course of instruction in base hall scoring. The complicated tables of figures now daily published are about as perplexing to the ‘‘average reader” as the inscriptions on a tea-chest.- — Boston Uerald. Silken purses are in use again, and ladies are knitting them for pastime. They are of dark shaded silks, with heads or without, and are furnished with silvered rings and bead fringes. The silk twist comes iu skeins, sticks and spools of all colors, and the rings and fringes are furnished separately. There are also steel clasps and chains for the half purses that are croteheted of silk in the shape of those made of wire. A man could stand the flies and never lose his temper, if they would only he content to he buried where they fall; but when a fly As big as a grain of coffee falls on its back on a slab of butter, turns over ancl crawls out, and goes limping across the plate, straggling and wading through everything it can find, ancl finally cremates itself in a bath of hot coffee, good gracious but it does make a, Christian" mud,—Burlington Hawk-Eye. A widow in Baltimore put crape on her door. The crape remained there about a week before the landlord made bold to interrupt her grief, ancl when he entered he found nothing there hut the house. Her grief was so intense that she had inadvertently removed all the furniture. The debt of nature which had been •paid was suppositious. The debt for rent remains uncancelled. And yet they say that women are not calculated for business.—Rochester Democrat. “ O wnY was I horn?” said he; “ why did they yank me by the hair out of eternal nothingness into concrete existence, to buffet the storms of this rude world, with no postponement on account of the weather? What, then, is this problem of human destiny with which Science has impotently wrestled for so many centuries?” But she told him, all the same, that there was no base ball for him that afternoon; and, if he didn’t get the kindling split before his father came home, there’d be some wrastling that woulcl make Science open her eyes when she struck that wood-shed. The “ Brewrrs" should to " Malta” go. The " Boobies" all to " Scilly.” The ** Qunkers”-to4he “ Friendly Isles," The *• Furriers” to *• Chili," The little sna ling, carolling '-Babes,” That break our nightly rest. Should be packed or! to'," B«byloa,” To " Lapland" or to " Bn st.” From “ Spithead” cooks go o'er to 44 Greece," Aud while the "Miser" waits His passage to the " Guinea” cored, "spendthrifts"- are iu the,"Straits.” 44 Spinsters" should to the " Needles” go, *• Wine-bibbers” to " Burgundy.” 41 Gourmands' should lunch at ” Sandwich Isles,' 1 " Wags” at the " Bay of Fundy.” "Bachelors' to the " united St tes,” *• Maids’ to the " Isles of Man;” Let " Gardeners” go to " Botany Bay,” And " Shoeblacks” to "Japan.” Thus emigrate—aud misplaced men Will then no lofiger vex ns. And then all who're not provided for <; Had better go to "Te as.” —Philadelphia Press.

Statistics of Tramping.

The other day they caught a boy tramp at Albany, N. l. He pretended to be on his way from Omaha to Portland, Me., where his home was before he went wanderiig. He was exceedingly insinuating. He was a handsome boy of seventeen, and was small of his age and looked like a girl. He had come to “work” Albany and then qiove on to the next t wn. A city official suspected his real character and had him arrested just as he was leaving for Troy. The boy said his name was Frank Taylor. He was sometimes called “ Frank la Belle” because he looked so much like a girl. He had been arrested :' ■■ r . ; > '

two or three time* in hia life on au&picion that he; waa a girl dreaaed in men’s clothes, but never before waa lie suspected of being a swindler and a fraud. He felt very much outraged atsuch treatment. He had two diaries upon him, in which he had recorded the names of places he had 44 worked” and the amounts he had beaten out of them. His notes were interesting as statistics. He had visited cities as far West as St Paul, and as far South as Galveston. He had pretty thoroughly traversed the Western States. Hie cash account showed that from the 7th of iast December to May 9 he took $449 05 above expenses. From May 2 to 9 his receipts were $35.05. His best day’s work was at Galveston, March 15, where lie took $15.50. He remarks that Galves. ton and Houston are the most generous towns he was ever in. He credited the victims with the amounts they gave him, when he could get their names. The boy said in extenuation of his tramping trade that he 44 beat only those who could stand it.” He was sent to the Penitentiary for six months as a vagrant. A tramp ought hot to keep books.— St. Louis Republican.

The Early Use of Torpedoes.

There is a very generally-received hut erroneous notion that the torpedo is quite a recent invention, and that during the present hostilities in the East it has been for the first time employed in actual warfare. That of late years torpedoes have been greatly improved is undoubtedly a fact, but none the less is it true that the advantages to be gained by a judicious employment of submarine weapons of war have long been fully recognized, and, further, that these latter have been already largely used, and that with great effect, both for the defense of harbors, rivers, roadsteads, etc., and also for more actively offensive operations. As long ago a 3 the 15th of August, 1777, a boat was blown to pieces and nearly all its crew killed by the accidental explosion of a torpedo which had been used in an attempt made by the Ameiicans against the English man-of-war Cerebus. In 1805 a brig which had been anchored oft' Deal for the purpose of experiment in submarine explosions was destroyed, in the presence of Mr. Pitt and a large concourse of speetators, by a torpedo containing 170 pounds of powder. Previously, in 1797, a machine lad been designed by which, tcu3ethe inventor’s own words, he proposed “ to impart to carcasses of gun powder a progressive motion under water to a given paint'and" there explode them,” and which, therefore, contained the germ of the present locomotive or fish torpedo. In 1807 another vessel was blown to pieces in New York harbor; and, finally, to come to the employment of torpedoes in actual warfare, we find that no fewer than seven iron-clad vessels and eleven wooden ships of war were totally destroyed duringthe American Civil War by submerged torpedoes. —Pall Mall Gazette.

A Matrimonial Trap.

Late English papers give an account of a new matrimonial confidence game which a Derby man was playing successfully upon susceptible widows. His plan of advertisement in the Manchester papers was: Wanted—A widow lady as housekeeper to a widower, a professional gentleman; a lady of means will be required, ultimately with a view to matrimony. This trick took. It was professional dignity put up against some pieans. A Manchester widow of thirty-five answered the call for a housekeeper ancl ultimate mate. The man interviewed the woman at her home in Manchester. He introduced himself as Dr. Wallace Wilkins, said lie had received his degree of M. D. in America, where also he had consittera ble property. When he saw the woman and site had given him an inventory of her means, lie began to talk marriage right off, and, she agreeing, he went to London to make arrangements for the wedding. In a few days the lady joined him, by arrangement. He told her that lie wished to go to America immediately after the ceremony to look after his property. She consented to this arrangement. He borrowed £SO for the purpose of paying their passage out, £2O to purchase surgicai instruments, and £ls to buy a dress which lie wished to present to his intended bride. The game was up; Wilkins did not return to claim his bride, but he wrote her a note stating that he was sick and had gone off to America to get cured —and he would return, a sound man, in three months to marry her. This was last November. The widow returned to her home in Manchester, a wiser but a poorer Woman. A short time ago she saw another advertisement in the Manchester paper, similar to th'e one that had duped her She followed this one up, but for a different purpose. She took the police into her confidence, ancl soon had the satisfaction of seeing Dr. Walter Wilkins walking between two officers, “ with gyves upor his wrists.” He acknowledged to having defrauded the lady, but excused himself by pleading that he was short of money and had to have it. His pockets were full of letters in answer to his advertisement, indicating that lie made this sort of confidence a regular business. Wilkins is an upholsterer and has a living wife and children. He is evidently one grand rascal, ancl will be prosecuted to the bitter end.— St. Louis Republican.

President Hayes and the Little Old Lady.

They say that President Hayes never forgets a face At Trenton, N. J., the other day, when the Presidential excursion train stopped there for a few moments, a little old lady in black appeared at the door of the President’s car, and though the attendants were for keeping her out, the President, by a word, caused her to be admitted. She walked up to the Chief Executive of the Nation, and, without the slightest embarrassment, took him by the hand, and with the remark, “ President, I want to shake hands with you,” shook it heartily. The President very good-naturedly said: “I believe we’ve seen you before,” and explained to the bystanders that the old lady had ma *e her appearance at the Ohio State Building at the Centennial on the Ohio dav last fall. Having opened the conversation in this off hand way, the strange visitor ran on: “I have brought you a cake, and I want you to take it and eat it; here it in (laying a basket containing a large cabon tire table), and you can keep the basket: and I’ve brought thirteen fans because 1 want every one of you to have one.” She distributed the fans among the laughing spectators, and then in self-justification said: “President. I want you to understand thede presents are the truth; I don't want no office.” This blunt declaration raised a laugh, and the President remarked that"" he was glad to hear it, because she was different from most people who came to see him.— lndianapoU» Jouinal. ■ -*»» —Silver scarf-pius of simple design are the caprice of the moment.

Picnics and Croquet.

There is a pastoral recreation that usually comes into vogue about this time of the year which is knowi' to the vernacular by tne euphonious name of the picnic. It would be more accurate, perhaps, to state that it ordinarily breaks out somewhat earlier in the season, for sporadic cases are known to occur as early as the begins ning of May. The May parties, as some call them, are, however, the mildest type of the malady, which, in the course of time, rapidly assumes a more violent form, until the anniversary of onr NationaMndependence, when it rages with the fury of a malignant epidemic. The youth of the land are always its first victims, whether on account of that unenviable affection for them which is said to exist in Olympian circles and is presumed to be satisfactorily attested by theirdyingvoung; or because of an unfortunate predisposition for diseases that belong peculiarly to the period of adolescence, and among which croup and chicken-pox, as well as picnics, occupy a bad eminence, we shall not undertake to say. But the adult population eventually succumbs to its dreadful ravages and becomes quite as seriously infected by its wild and fatal delirium as the children of smaller growth. The real enjoyment ol the picnic, which is held out in the woods wherever the foliage is thick enough to intercept some of the rays of the solstitial sun, and is at the same time not so thick as to obstruct the growth of the verdure—a condition of things not ieadily found, by-the-way—be-gins with carrying heavy buskots of provender, over fences and across lots, to the destined spot. This performance is really more enjoyable to the unladened portion of the company than it is to the bipedal beasts of burden, who toil and under their weary loads, with red faces and limp collars, provoking an amount of hilarity that is not altogether delightful to themselves, and making ghastly efforts to appear quite as jolly as the rest. At the picnic-ground the time is chiefly occupied by a sober and dignified sport that commonly goes by the name of croquet, or orthodox billiards, which is never permitted to become so exciting as to heat the blood, and is not intricate enough to rack the brain, although, as played by the feminine picnickers, it wonld seem to require the exercise of extraordinary skill aud ingenuity. Indeed, the spectacle of a woman vigorously plying, at one and the same time, a fan, a parasol, a handkerchief and a mallet, while be towingno inconsiderable portion of her versatile mind upon the proper adjustment of her skirts, the maintenance of an unru y hat in a state of just equilibrium on the jop oi her head, and the direction of an animated conversation upon every imaginable topic from the origin of species to the latest and sweetest thing in bonnets, fills one with emotions of awe and wonder that entirely transcend those excited by the feats of Chinese jugglers, whose manual dexterityenables them to keep numerous balls, knives and other articles in the air as long as they please to do so. To expect the fair ones who assume these varied and multitudinous responsibilities to acquit themselves of all with distinguished success would be grossly unreasonable. The plain fact is. some one or more of them is sure to be slighted, and the game, being the least important, most generally receives very perfunctory consideration. For this reason, perhaps, it has been sagely remarked by those best acquainted with the game of croquet, that if, is in point of fact but another form of the more ancient and widely-known game of coquette that has been going on between the sexes since the world began, and this notion they consider verified to some extent by the striking resemblance between the names as they are spelled. Were this hypothesis correct, it is obviously the proper game for the young and marriageable, and when played by others becomes a sad travesty of its original purpose—a sort of Hamlet with Hamlet left out. — Indianapolis Journal.

A Remarkable Case.

It would seem, from tbe circumstances we arc about to relate, that the age of miracles is not yet over, but that cures are yet effected through divine agency as they were in ancient times. A young married lady, living a few- miles from tliis town, named Mrs. Vinnie Case (formerly Miss Sharpe) has for some months b'ien reported as almost gone with consumption. Everything that the best medcal skill could devise has been resorted o, but in vain. Finally, when all hope had fled, when she and all those around her had given up in despair, and there seemed to be but a very few weeks of life remainiug at the most, a distant relative, an aged and devout man of sixty-four years, the most of whose life had been spent in religious work, came here on a visit, and while at the house engaged in earnest prayer with Mrs. Case, laying his hands upon her head and praying for her recovery. Strange as it may seem to the skeptical, her recovery commenced immediately, and she is now a well woman. She was in our office yesterday, and personally gave every evidence of complete recovery. Her face has resumed its healthy appearance; she is able to do a hard day’s work without fatigue, and her st* p is as elastic and vigorous and her lungs apparently as sound as when she was in perfect health. It is certainly a remarkable case. She is earnest in her thanksgiving for - her recovery, ami mves all credit to the Lord for it.— Spring Valley (Minn) Progress.

THE MARKETS.

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