Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1877 — Page 2

The Rensselaer Union. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

EPITOME OF THE WEEK;

Condensed Telegraphic News. CV*BE!<T PARAGRAPHS. The total aneaaed value of property in lowa for 1877 la $394.243,140—a decrease of <1,180,000 since 1875. The Senate of the University of London baa decided to admit women to decrees in other departments as well as that of medicine. The elections in Servia have resulted in the election of the Government candidates Its majority in the Skuptschlna is stated to be 108. The German Government has direcied all American ships in German harbors to he carefully inspected, to see that their cargoes contain no specimens of the Colorado beetle. Four men were killed and eight injured oy the explosion of a boiler in Keefer’s orc mills, at Millerstown, Lehigh County, Pa., on the 14th. Several horses and mill* s were killed, and the engine house, boilers, etc., utterly wrecked. The subscription to the new Government 4 per cent loan amounted to $68,000,000 up the evening of the 16th, of which $63,000,00' were through the Syndicate, and 85,000,000 through the Treasurer and Assist-ant-Treasurers of the United States. A recent Washington dispatch states, on high official authority that, before taking any fun her steps toward a recognition of the Dias Government in Mexico, the United States Government will await the promised reparation for the actual invasion and conflict by Mexican troops upon the soil of the United States. The fifty-first call for the redemption of 5-20 bonds of 1865, and consols of same year, was issued by the Treasury Department on the 16th. It is for $10,000,000, of which 87,000,000 are coupon and $3,000,000 registered bonds, principal and interest to be paid at the Treasury on and after the 16th of October next, interest to cease on that day. President Hayes has, it is said, decided that those members of the Republican National Committee who are Federal office, holders do not come under the new rule that Government officials shall not take an active part in partisan campaign operations, for the reason that they will have nothing to do, as committeemen, for three years to come. The State elections to be held this year are as follows- Alabama, Aug. 6, Legislative; Kentucky, Aug. 0, Legislative and County; California. Sept. 5, Legislative; Vermont, Sept 5, full ticket; Maine, Sept. 10, full ticket; Colorado, Oct. 2, Legislative; lowa, Oct 2, full ticket; Ohio, Oct 2, full ticket; Louisiana,Nov.6, Legislative; Massachusetts, Nov. 6, full ticket; Minnesota, Nov. 6, full ticket; Mississippi, Nov. 6, Legislative; Nevada, Nov. 6, full ticket; New Jersey, Nov. 6, Legislative and County; New York, Nov. 6, Legislative and State; Pennsylvania, Nov. 6, Legislative; South Carolina, Nov. 6, Legislative; Tennessee, Nov. 6, full ticket; Texas, Nov. 6, full ticket; Virginia. Nov. 6, full ticket; Wisconsin, Nov. 6, full ticket

THE TCRCO-RISSIAN WAR. A London telegram of the 12th says the bombardment of Rustchuk was recommenced two days before, and that au assault was made on that day, which was repulsed with great loss. The Russian cavuhy were at Schipka Pass, in the Balkans, on the 12th. The military and civil commandants of Sistova, Timova and Osman-Bazar have been summoned to Constantinople, for trial by court-marpal. An Eraeroum dispatch, published on the 13th, says the attempt of the Ru-sians under Gen. Tergukasoff to relieve the besieged garrison at Bayazid had failed, notwithstanding those within the citadel made a determined sortie. The relieving troops were forced to retreat after suffering heavy losses, and were again defeated in an engagement near Mt. Ararat A dispatch from Russian sources says the garrison had been relieved and the Turks beaten back. A Pera dispatch of the 15th announces that the Russian advance guard of Cossacks had reached Jeni-Sadargh, a railway station beyond the Balkans, halfway between Jamboli and Adrianople. According to advices from Ragusa of the 15th, the Montenegrins had resumed hostilities. The Turks were reported to have been defeated at Kolashir, with great loss. A London telegram ot the 16th says the passage of the Balkans and the extraordinary advance of the Russians in the direction of Adrianople had unsettled all Europe, and indications were ominous for a- European war. The passage through the Tivarditska Defile of the Kalkan Range had been confirmed both by dispatches from Constantinople and St. Petersburg. A Constantinople dispatch of the 16th says all available troops had been sent to Adrianople, to oppose the anticipated Russian advance to the Bosphorus. The Mohammedan civil population were panic stricken and were abandoning the country. It was reported that the Russians had been defeated north of Timova. The Russians have established a military tribunal atTelvi, to try Mussulmen accused of complicity in the Bulgarian massacres. Several have already been executed. The capture of biikopolis, with 6,000 men, forty caftion and two monitors was reported on the 16th. A war correspondent telegraphed to a London paper, on the 17th, that Russia, after blockadin g the fortresses of the quadrilateral, would have 100,000 men available,fo r crossing the Balkans. Already 22,000 men are south of th*- Balkans. The Sultan, on the 17th, directed the immediate formation of ten battalions of auxil aries, composed of the Mussulman .and non-Mussulman inhabitants of < onstantinople for the reinforcement of the army in The Russians have occupied Kustendjt. A Peeth (Hungary) dispatch of the 18th says the passage of the Balkans by the

Russian* had produced great consternation at that point, and the Hungarian Journals demanded the immediate action of AustroHungary against Russia. Twenty-throe members of loading Kurdish families Inhabiting Russian territory had been banged by the Russian Gen. Mdikoff, according to an Eraeroum diapatcb of the 18th. ■— T" ~ v - - GBNRRAL. Ex-President Grant and party reached Frankfort-on-the-Main, on the 12th. and were received by the American Consul-General and a reception committee. At a meeting, on the 12th, of white and black citizen* of the region In South Carolina known as the scene of the Ellenton riot last fall, with a view to the restoration of peace and harmony, resolutions were unanimously adopted looking to a cessation of race trouble and to a dropping of pending prosecutions in the State and Federal Courts. In a letter to CapL Howgate, the originator of a plan to establish a colony for Arctic exp oration, the Secretary of the Navy declines to detail a civil officer to accompany the expedition, on the ground that he does not consider himself authorized to do so, and for the same reason he regrets that he cannot comply with the request for a loan of Instruments belonging to the navy for use on the expedition. At the Cabinet meeting, on tlie 13th, it was decided to call upon the Governor of Washington Territory for volunteers to assist in the suppression of the Indian troubles in the Northwest. Nine companies at Atlanta had been ordered to Idaho.

Poindexter Edmondson was hanged at Bloomfield, Mo., on the 13fh, for the murder of Wm. Shaw last October. On his trial his mother and two sisters sworn that he was in bed and asleep at the time of the homicide, but the jury gave no credence to the story and convicted him. Subsequently an idiotic brother died and the family swore that, on his death-bed, he had confessed that he himself murdered Shaw. On this testimony a reprieve was granted, but the deathbed statement could not be substantiated to the satisfaction of the authorities, and he was hung as above stated. He died protesting his innocence. The Galveston News of the 13th has a special from Brownsville, in which it is stated that Gen. Canales and Gen. Devin had had a conference, at which they had no difficulty in coming to an agreement in relation to suppressing raids. They were of opinion that they could render the passage of troops' from one side to the other unnecessary, by discharging their respective duties. Gen. Canales thought the publication of an order of such importance as that of the Secretary War to Gen. Ord, without notice to Mexico, was disrespectful to the Diaz Government, but he waived that, and would co-operate with our authorities in any measures necessary to insure peace and to secure the pres ervation of order on both banks of the Rio Grande. Application was made, on the 14th, by the Insurance Commiselnner'of Connecticut for the appointment of a receiver for the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company. A San Francisco dispatch of the 14th announces that Chief Joseph and his band had, four days before, surprised and murdered a party of thirty-one Chinamen who were coming down the Clearwater in canoes one of the parry escaping. An official telegram was received from Gen. Howard, on the 14th, which .states that, on the preceding day, he had encountered and defeated the Indians, 300 strong, near the mouth of the Cottonwood. The Indian loss was thirteen killed and several wounded. The losses of the troops were Capt. Bancroft, Lieut. Williams and eleven enlisted men killed and twenty-four others wounded. At Montreal, Can., on the 14th, resolutions were passed by the Irish Catholic and National Societies condemning the killingof Hackett, on the 12th, and earnestly appealing to their co-religionists to abstain from any acts calculated to disturb the peace cr offend the Orangemen on the occasion of the funeral on the 16th. A large number of Orangemen of Montreal and other Canadian towns turned out at the funeral of Hackett, in that city, on the 16th. There was no serious disturbance further than that some boys were tired upon by a crowd of roughs and two of their number were seriously wounded. The North SL Louis Savings Association and the Bank of St. Louis suspended on the 16th. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company are having trouble with their striking engineers and firemen, consequent upon a reduction of wages. The strikers have committed various lawless acts and, on the 16th, the military was called out to suppress a riot at Martinsburg, West Va. On the following day a company of militia undertook to move a train west from Martinsburg, but 400 strikers, armed with every conceivable weapon, rushed upon the train and beg n to uncouple the cars. They were ordered back, but replied with jeers and threats, and finally fired on the soldiers, wounding one. The officer in command then ordered his men to fire, and one of the rioters was killed and several wounded. On the evening of the 11th, about seventy trains, consisting of 200 freight cars, were held by the strikers. The cattle on the east-bound trains had been turned into the stock-yards or adjacent pastures. What- was reported by the attending physician to be a clear case of cholera occurred in New York, on the 17th. The attending physician pronounced it genuine Asiatic cholera, but the Sanitary Insp< ctor was of a different opinion. The patient, a man aged forty-nine, died aud a Coroner's inquest would be held. Safvet Pasha, the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affaire, has resigned. Aarifi Pasha, once Foreign Minister and Ambassador to Vienna, succeeds him. On the 18th, the President received a dispatch from Gov. Matthews, of West Virginia, requesting United States troops to put down the striking mob on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. An order was immediately issued for troops to be sent, and 300 were disp itched under Gen. French. The Pres dent also issued his proclatnation reciting the condition of affairs in tmft s ction, and Commanding the rioters to disperse. Samuel J. Tilden, late Democratic candidate for the Presidency, sailed for Europe, on the 18th, on the steamer Scj thia. A Sta’e Temperance Convention has been called to meet at Grinnell, lowa, on the 22d of August. —An eel is not as slippery as a politician ; bat it can Ike on water longer.

SENSE AND NONSENSE.

Judge and Jcwiy—Hilton and Seligman. . Just the place for old maids —The I love Man. Blackktraw bonnets arc still the most fashionable. Extract from a letter in a recent lirciich-of promise case: “My ownest own.” Take care how vou eat, what you eat, and bow much. The hot we..tlic+ Is getting every man ready for a cholera victim. Hoop her up. Reports from thirty towns in the United States state that the barrel crop is heading finely.— Et ie Dispitch. “ I didn’t say I understood her. I wouldn’t have the presumption to say that of any woman,” says Dolly Varden’s father, in Barnaby Budge. Ottomans neatly covered with Brussels carpet are sold in New York for half-a-dollar—about as low down in price as they are apt to get on this footstool. “Is that your offspring, madam?" asked a Missouri Judge of a woman who had hold of a snub-nosed boy’s hand. “ No, sir," she replied, “ this is my oluest boy." The difficulty, boys, is to get the first hundred dollars in the savings-bank— Ex. And tlie next great difficulty’ is to get it out—of New York savings banks.— tit. Louis Timet. A New England philosopher says he can’t find out whete the air leaves off and the earth begins. Let him fail backward from a feuce and he’ll soon find out. — Detroit Free Press. “Johnny, have you learned anything during the week?” asked a father of a five-year-old pupil. “Yeth’m.” “Well, what is it?" “Never to lead a small trump when you hold both bowers.” In Pennsylvania a Sheriff is paid fifteen dollars for hanging a man, but times are so dull this summer that it takes a mighty smart Sheriff to make more than $l5O a week.—Durtinffton Hawk-Eye. Straws swim upon the surface, but pearls lie at the bottom. Showy parts strike every common eye, but solid ones are only to be discovered by the most accurate observers of the human head and human heart. Deaf and dumb people enjoy practicing on the cornet. They get all Lite advantage of blowing, and the pleasure of a distorted face under full pressure, without being obliged to hear the music.— JYew Orleans Picayune. Another day has come and gone, leaving us all older and wiser, but as yet no communications have been received indicating that anyone has discovered a man who can drink out of a spring without getting the end of his nose wet. — Fulton Times. The Mayor of Chattanooga having recently advertised for three new dog-catch-ers to perambulate that city, 750 applications were put. in on one day, compelling the functionary to hang up on his uoorthe traditional card, “No vacancies in this department.”

Animals may think, but sometimes they do not think very fast. A-eow-got into a J innes street garden Friday, and it took her half an hour to make up her mind where to go out. A man and dog were flooding her mind with information all the time, too. — Rome (N. Y.) Sentinel. A little Greeley (Col.) girl who was picking pease had gathered eight gallons during one forenoon. She says of a girl thirteen years old: “She cried for half an hour because I had picked a gallon more than she, and while she was crying I picket* another gallon.” Such is life. • . Of the many amusing blunders of printers and proof readers, one of the most striking occurs in a volume of Laws of Vermont for 1876. Aet No. 25 amends Section 78—instead of 28, which was probably intended—so that hereafter no person is to be allowed to run a locomotive through a saw-mill. Nothing so thoroughly pleases a man who has learned that a collection is to be taken in his church on Sunday morning, and who has consequently been unable to be present on account of a severe pain in his back, as to attend the evening service and hear the clergyman announce that “as many who desired to give were not present at the morning collection, it will now be repeated.”— Norwich Bulletin. A Presbyterian minister recently delivered. a lecture on “ Congregational Psalmody,” in which he referred to the incongruities that occur in present divisions of repetition lines, For instance: “ Love Thee better than before,” was divided, “Love Thee bet-; “We’ll catch the fleeting hour ” A’as sung, “We’ll catch the flee-;” “My poor polluted heart” became “my poor pol-;” “And take Thy pilgrim home,” “And take Thy pil-;” “ And in the pious He delights” became “And in the pi-;” and “ Send down salvation from oo high” became “ Send down sal-.” A soprano in one case sang, “ Oh, for a man,” and the chorus responded, “ Oh, for a mansion in tlie skies.” In one case the soprano modestly sang, “ Teach me to kiss,” while the bass rendered it quite prosaic by sing ng, “Teach me to kiss the rod.”— Chicago Tribune. The Troy N‘>rthern Budget the responSible nairat r of this anecdote: “On Friday a Germa i, somewhat intoxicated, boarded the Hudson River train at Kinderhook for the purpose of coming to this city. He threw his satchel down in the corner of the car, took a seat, and was soon in the arms of Morpheus. On awaking be alleged that he had left his baggage at Kinderhook, and asked the boy employed oa the train what he should do to recover it. The latter, who had seen the German place his ■satchel in the corner, replied, ‘ You give me thirty cents and I’ll telegraph to Kinderhook to have the depot master forward it telegraph to Greenbush. It will reach the r e before we do.” The German paid the thirty cents, gave a minute description of tlu‘ mis-dng property, and the boj departed, taking the satchel into another car. On reaching Greenbush the boy returned with tlie bag, and placing it in the German’ hands, said, “ There’s the first satchel I ever see come by te egraph.’ ‘Ah,’ replied the German, ‘dot delegraff is vun great dings; lure dake anoder quarter, mein pov ’ And the boy did."

The Russian Defeat in Asia.

There is now no doubt that the Russians in Asia have been defeated, and that their campaign is over for this season. The season in that desolate region is so short that there can be little hope that the Russians will reorganize their armies so that they can act upon the offensive. In about ten weeks Armenia will be impassa ble tor armies, and there is no prospect that Russia, with all her resources, can so reconstruct her shattered forces in that briet period as to commence the campaign de novo. The disasters to the Russians commenced on the 21st of June, in the defiles of DelibabW, where the Russians

were forced from their intrenched positions with great loss, and were compelled to retire to Zewin, where a second attack was made on the 25th, resulting in acrushing defeat of Melikoff, ending in a Russian rout and a heavy lose in killed and wounded. After this battle, Mukhtar Pasha took advantage of hia position and attacked the Russian center, drivisg it back in disorder. In the meantime, Bayazld was recaptured by a Turkish column which came up from Van, and, as there was danger that this column, making its way up the Euphrates Valley, might attack the Russians in the rear while the force from Delibaba struck them in front, an attempt was made by the besieging force at Kars to create a diversion, but without success. The Turks, seeing their opportunity, immediately assumed the offensive with extraordinary vigor, and by their strategic movements compelled the Russians to raise the siege of Kars and withdraw from Batoum. The latter army is now doubled up in confusion, and on the full retreat toward the frontier, harassed on its march by a hostile population. There are several reasons sufficient to account for the sudden turn of the tide of saccess. Down to the fatal battles of Delibaba and Zewin there was every reason to suppose that the Russians would be in Eraeroum before the summer was over. They had met with important successes. Capturing Ardahan and Bayazid, and investing Kars and. Batoum, their victorious columns, flushed with success and profiting by Mukhtar Pasha’s errors, spread themselves out on a very extended line from Batoum to Van, and commenced their march toward Erzeroum. Not being within co-operating distance of each other, a blow at any one point was liable to prove disastrous. That blow came at Delibaba and was repeated at Zewin. The center having been smashed and forced back, the left and right must fall back also to avoid being cut off in detail, as there was no communication between them. Mukhtar Pasha has certainly retrieved himself, and shown in the operations of the past three weeks a degree of military talent that his past record did not give him credit for. Another tiling is plainly evident, namely, that the Russians strangely underestimated the Turkish strength as well as the Turkish fighting quality, and counted upon a victory with such assurance that they did not keep up the normal strength of their forces, while the Turks, on the other hand, have constantly made good their losses with fresh troops. It was staled at the outset that the Russians had 125,00 C men in their Asiatic army, aud the Turks only about 60,000; but it is incredible that the Russians should have been so completely shattered by a force of less than half their strength. There must have been a fatal mistake made in underrating the numbers of the Turks. There are other minor causes of defeat, such as the insurrection in the Caucasus, the hostility of the people, the Incursions of the Kurds and other tribes, the mountainous character of the country, the difficulty of keeping up the line of communication and the transportation of supplies, but these were contingencies known to the Russians. The radical error seems to have been in the estimate of the Turkish forces and their fighting qualities. The interest in the W’ar during the remainder of the season will center in the Bulgarian operations. Thus far, the campaign has favored the Russians, but it must be remembered no battleshave yet been fought. The-Turks, after making some resistance to the passage of the river at Sistova, have slowly and sullenly fallen dack upon the line of the quadrilateral, allowing the Russians to penetrate Bulgaria as far as Tirnova, its old capital, and hold a slice of the central part in their possession. It is not to be expected, however, tliat the main army of the Russians can get by the quadrilateral without a bloody battle, or that they can force the Balkan Passes, or s’orm the fortresses, without meeting a desperate resistance. It must be remembered, also, that, every day’s march into the interior takes them away from their base of supplies, and that under the most favorable auspices their progress must be very slow. It has taken them three months to get from the Pruth to the Danube with the aid of the Roumanian Railroad. Now they have commenced to advance in a country without railroads, where all their supplies must be hauled in carts over the worst roads in the world, with four of the strongest fortresses in Eastern Europe, and an almost impassable mountain wall, in front of them. If they have made the same mistake in Europe that they have made in Asia, a like disaster inevitably awaits them. The Russians may, and probably will, be successful in the end, but it will not be an easy triumph. His success, in Asia will inspire the Turk with fresh confidence and courage, while the Russian defeat has made their task in Europe still more difficult.— Chicago Tribune, July 13.

Philosophical Sayings by Josh Billings.

The wise men and the philosophers are the only ones who can always afford to kick up their heels and have fun; gravity was designed for the fools, and is their strongest hold. To work is not only a duty, but a great privilege; next below a wooden god in point of insignificance ranks a lazy man. Any fool can be sorry for a thing a minute after it is done, but to be sorry a minute before it is done is the correct style. There arc but few folks so wise as those who know they are fools, aud act accordingly. I don’t think it would be a speculation for any man to live his life over again; if he had done well, he probably wouldn’t improve upon it, if bad, he might do worse. One great reason why there is so little happiness is because there is so little innocence The virtuous live three distinct lives—the one they look back upon, tlie one they now enjoy, and the one that is waiting for them. The hardest man to beat is the one who will get drunk with you at your expense, but won’t do any business with you until he gets sober. It takes a lifetime to become perfect in any one thing; I have known men who excelled all others in one thing, but I never knew one who excelled ail others in two. Words have now more than ideas have. It is true that these laurels will fade on a man’s tomb-stone; but so long as they don’t fade on his head, who seems to cure? ” I believe that there is nothing on this earth that has been hung so high that capacity and perseverance can’t reach it. What makes a heap of trouble in this world is, there are so many people who spend their income before they get it The man who overrates himself is pretty sure to underrate others, and thus make two blunders instead of one. I don’t know that a man’s conscience is

infallible; but it cornea the nearest to it of anything human. If we examine c’osely the lsws of God we shall find that they are as much designed for our temporal good as they are for His glory.— N. r. Weekly.

Her Sanguine Temperament.

The other evening a policeman was in* formed that a resident of Lafayette street east was killing his wife. This is not an unusual thing tor a husband to do during these days of pull-backs, tie-backs, gelbacks, back-ups and long trails, but still the policeman made a rush for the house. As he reached the steps the wife had just finished washing her bloody nose, and she greeted him wbn the cheerful query : “ Hello! Did you hear of the racket!" “ I heard that you were being murdered,” he replied." “Oh I pshaw! It was merely a lively little set-to between the old man and myself. We have lots of ’em. I don’t always come out second-best, as I did this time, but it’s all right. ‘“lf a bod. meet a body Coming thro’ the rye I’ ” “ I should think it would be awful to live this way,” remarked A officer, as he glanced around at the D®iy proofs of poverty. “Oh, go long!” she smiled. “We can’t all be dukes and dukesses, and there’s no use trying. I’ve got six children around the house, and it’s my duty to carry a lively heart. Fact is, I’m of a sanguine temperament, and I always look on the bright side anyhow.” “ Weren’t you set out of a house on Croghan street for non-payment of rent?” asked the officer, looking at her more closely. “ Same woman—same family,” she laughed. “1 had more fun over that than you could carry on a< freight train. Three of the children were sick, the old man out of work, the dog lost, the cat under the weather with cramps, and none of us knew what to do. However, “ * The sun may be shining to-morrow, Although it is cloudy to day,’ and I sat down on the old cook-stove and laughed till 1 cried.” “ I think I saw you at the Poormaster’s office,” he observed. “ Arid that was another good joke on Snyder,” she grinned. “Yes, I went around there and asked for Mocha coflee, granulated sugar, seedless raisins, Wor cestershire sauce, pastry flour and A 1 coal, and you ought to have seen the old man go down in his boots! I got some taters and meat and wood, and some of the folks were put out to hear me singing—- “ The wolf of starvation she winked at me, By-by-tra-la! But I married a Duke with fortune? Fe -so -fu mI" “ Do you fight with your husband very often?” he asked. “Well, tliat depends. He’s of bilious temperament, and yqu cah’t bet on him. Some days he’ll come in as meek as a lamb, and smile sweetly as I kick his hat off. Again he’ll come rushing in, bang the children around, kick over chairs and dare me to move an ear. Them’s glorious old times, them is! You just ought to see maternal afiection and mop-handle muscle combine and go for that old autocrat of the shovel and wheelbarrow! I don’thhve any backing, and I don’t want any. These sanguine temperaments never go in except to win.” “ You have been arrested for disturbing the peace, haven’t you?” “ The same, I have, and were you down there? I walked out before the desk in Lady Audley style, you know, wiped a tear from my pearly eye, and the way I flung law, domestic happiness, muscular development, mother’s love, conjugal affection aud Western enterprise at His Honor made his hair stand up. He told me to go, and I laughed all the way home. My husband sat here, wiping away crocodile tears and telling the children I’d been sent to Saratoga for my health, when 1 bounced in and had him hollering for mercy in less' than two minutes. “ -So we won’t go home till morning— Tib daylight doth appear.’ ” “ Well, I guess you’ll get along,” said the officer as he went down the steps. “ Don’t you bet 1 won’t!” she replied, standing in the door. “We haven’t a stick of wood, and nothing to eat but a loaf of bread, while the rent is two months overdue; but lam of a' sanguine temperament, you know. If we don’t strike a streak of luck to night we’ll have a dry old meal and another fight in the morning, but luck has got to come some day. Destiny is destiny, aud this old calico dress has got to do me till snow flies, but ‘•‘There’s many a hard-up fam-i-lee — There’s nvny who want for b.ead; But I’m a sandy, sanguine, cheerful wife, Who’ll never"give up till dead.’ “ If you hear a tussle in nere this evening, don’t interfere. I’ve got a handful of snuff all ready for the old man’s eyes, and it’ll nearly kill me to see him feeling around for a club with one hand and digging his eyes with the other. Well, tra-la.” — Detroit Free Press.

The Tidal Wave—A Night of Horror.

It was Wednesday evening, May 9, 1877. The day had beeii excessively close and foggy. The night was dark; lights were lit in the public and private places, and the streets were remarkably quiet. At 9:30, without noise of warning, the first perceptible shock of an earthquake was noticed, coming from the north and traveling southward. Gradually the force increased, with an oscillating movement of the earth, and, during the three minutes the first shock lasted, the reene was appalling. The bells rang out mournful notes of themselves; the umbers of the buildings crashed against each other with a horrible grinding sound; walls tumbled down, and, with the horrible din, men and women rushed forth from their habitations, screaming with terror, and occasionally a loud prayer for mercy would be heard. It was scarcely possible to keep on one s feet. The mind was bewiluered. and the darkness added to the awful effects of the surroundings. Other small shocks followed, but gradually the people began to recover their senses, and, with pallid, ghastly countenances, began to busv themselves in discovering their losses And the whereabouts of their friends, when suddenly flames broke forth from the ruins and shot high in the sky, illuminating the whole city. The alarm of fire was given, and men hurried to tne spot to prevent a spread of the conflagration. While thus engaged, the sea, which had been turbulent, was noticed to recede from the shore, and the cries of “ tidal wave!" resounded from ail quarters. Then a perfect panic took place. Over 6,*>00 men, women and children rushed screaming up the hillsides; mothers became separated from their children, husbands from wives, and even the lover forgot his betrothed in thuuabls of self preservation. Boon was heard, in the distance, mutterings of the mighty deep, which swelled into terrific, thundering, rolling sounds, and as the

wave nulled on ft gathered force with resistance. until it reached forty feet high. Dashing headlong upon the beach it rose and swept the city, tearing all before it In retracing its nath it carried with It dwellings, merchandise and all obstructions in its course. Twice was thia repeated—the iasf time with lest er force; and for many days after the sea rose and fell in, less proportions. When morning broke wljat a acene presented Itself, of devastation. That which the earthquake and fire had not destroyed, "haff succumbed to the tidal wave. The beach was stfe WD. with broken timbers of but {(lings • launches and boats had disappeared, goods were floatabout, fuswiaions W ,httir away, and the water-distilleries were useIdte. . .i Famine and thirst staredkthe people in the face, and what had" been ahappy .population twelve hours since Were reduced ♦o misery, want and suffering: Fortunately the Chill men-as-war hastened to the scene and supplied the place with water and provisions; andothdrsteamers,thanks to the prompt action of the Government of Chili, came in time to prevent farther disasters. This was but cne of the many heartrending scenes which occurred on the coast, from tlie effects of the eruption Of the volcano San Pedro.— Valparaiso (Chili) Cor. San Francisco Morning Call.

Fashionable Suicide.

Mistress Fashion has also decreed a tight glove for the hand and a compress for the foot. It prevents the free flow of the blood, causes discomfort and injury. No matter if the hand calls for No. 6| or 7, a glove half a size less may be used, and is used in multitudes of cases; it can be pulled, pushed and stretched until fairly adjusted; the palm of the hand is folded almost together; the round, fat wrist puffs up, but a stout hair-pin will settle that. “ This glove has got to be buttoned, if I never get to church,’’ said a young girl just taking her first society lessons—a persistency worthy a better service. After both hands are thus imprisoned, tiiefe is nothing left but to hold them in position, for they will hold nothing else, as they are rendered useless. Ladies ait for hours in this way, the blood pressed away from the extremities—where ? toward the brain and heart. Said a lady just returned from a walk: “lam so" glad to get home and get into a wrapper; my dress hurts, and my gloves hurt, and I am tired out.” The foot must also suffer in this unequal war. Too small shoes are purchased, with the assurance that they will stretch, the voice of the shop-keeper prevailing over the voice of wisdom. Cold feet, and painful swellings, and an ungraceful carriage are the result. A lady artist said to me:My hand is large; I cannot help it—it is the result of constant pracflce. No very small or delicate hand can render the themes of the grand old masters of song.” Just then her servant brought in a jar of fruit which she could not unloose, but our lady fair, with one twist of the trained that had been expressing silent notes into enchanting strains of sound, removed the cover. Oh, I think that a grand hand! A friend tells me of a beautiful lady in this city whose arms were paralyzed from the use of what is called “ Flake White,” a face powder in common use. She left it off, and is well and better-looking without it. Thia evil is widespread, and endangers life; hair dyes produce violent pains in the head, injure the brain, and are sure in time to produce paralysis and death. As if there were not enough suffering in life. It is pitiful.— St. Louis Times.

Chill Cure!—Safe and Sure.—Dr. Wilhoft’s Tonic is curative and protective. It will cure Chills and protect from further attacks. Its reputation is established. Its comjJosition.is simple and scientific. 'lt contains no poison. It acts promptly and its effects are permanent. It is cheap, because it saves doctors’ bills. It is harmless, speedy in action and delightful in its effects. Try it and prove all that’s said. G. K. Finlay & Co., Proprietors, New Orleans. For sale by all Druggists. I have sold Hatch’s Universal Cough Syrup for five years. It has by fat the best sale of anv cough remedy I keep. Thh sale has steadily increased from its first introduction. Having seen li so thoroughly tested, I feel safe in recommending it to my customers. M F Sherman, So. Sodus, Wayne Co., N.Y. P. S.—l have customers who say they cannot live without It. I will refer any who may inquire io the parties direct. M. P. 8. For sale by J. Block! & Co\, Chicago, 111.

The History of Civilization

Miirht be written in the gradual processes of improvement wr ught out in. articles of food. Every progressive st p is a public blessing. To no one article is more due than to Dooley's Yeast Fowder. This, with proper care, insures the most delicious and digestible bread, biscuits, pastry, etc.

Mothers, Mothers, MotherS.

Don’t fail to procure Mbs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for all diseases of teething in children. It relieves the child from pain, cures wind colic, regulates the bowels, and, by giving relief and health to the child, gives rest to the mother. . ■ r A Life-Saving Medicine. plea«ant to the taste, gentle in its effect, yet positive and reliable, Sanford’s Jamaica Ginger is as important a household remedy as one would desire during the heats of summer or the chills of winter. Try it once. Kingsford’s Oswego Pure Starch has become a household word for a household necessity. It is so j»erfect as to admit of no improvement It is pure. Hofmann’s Hop Pili b for Fever and Ague. They cure at once and are a preventive.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. July 18, 1877. LIVE STOCK—Cattle. $9.25 Sheep 4.25 & 8.25 Hoge 5.75 @ 5.91 FLOUR—Good to Chulce 6.80 @ 8.95 WHEAT—No. 2 Chicago CORN—Western Mixed .81 OATS—Western and State 34 ©. .59 PORK-Mese M.« @ 14-5’ LARD—Steam ....j... 9.80 © 985 CHEESE® WOOL—Domestic.® ,s * CHICAGO. BEEVES-Kxtra....*. $6 f 0 ® Choice Good 5.75 Budiers’ Stock..;. f 3.50 Stock Cattle 3- 1 ® @ 3. >0 HOGS—Live—Good to choice.. 4.90 & 5.10 bliEEP—L’ve 3 W ® BUTTER—Choice Yellowls @ .18 FLuUß—Choice Winter Extra., fl.ft) @ 9.25 No. 2 14K8 145 Rye. No. 2 .«3X@ .64 Ba>ley, o, 2 (New).. 80 @ 85 PORK 1 3 - 1 ® ® 43.15 ?ARD ® 900 LUMBER—Ist and 2d Clear.... 375 @ 34.00 Com on Boards.... 950 © 1100 fenci 9.5 © ll.ttO “A” Shingles 2J» © 2.50 Lath 1.40 © 1.60 EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE—Feet $5.59 © $6.00 Medium* 4.50 © 5.00 HOGB-*-Yorke.s 5.15 © ..25 Philadelphlas. s.a> © M 0 BHEKP—Best ..;v..- 4.7 © 5.25 Medium 3.50 © 4.50