Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1877 — Page 2

- INDIANA.

Gemeral News Summary.

Tmi Secretary of the United State* Treasury baa recently stated th*t the new 4 per . eaat. bonda having been leaned In exchange ftreyolci coin, «they cannot be redeemed by anything but gold coin or its hill equivalent. Tn public debt statement for July shows tb.S t Mowing: Coin bond* ou'slandinr, sl,. VM.ni.WM; total debt, $fi,2»,6U,127; cash In Traaeury, $171,271,809; debt lee* cash In the Treasury, $2,059,839,318; decrease during Tnb receipts for internal revenue during J«ly wee $8,764,574. The estimated receipts ret, it to stated, reduced at least $1,000,000 in consequence of the recent strikes. Custom receipts during the same month, $lO,Tn total number of United States bonds held a* security for the circulating note* of National Banks to s3W^» : l(iO. T»n Secretary of the Treasury, on the 4th, issued the fifty-fourth call for the redemp. ttonof $10,000,000 of five-twenty bond* of 1885—57,000,000 coupon and $3,000,000 registered bond*. THK MAST. Tnn Pittsburgh Commcrrial-Oaaettt says th* damage done to railroad and other property in that city, during the recent riots, would reach from $8,000,000 to $10,000,000 in amount, which win have to be paid for by the county. Several suits have already been commenced. Another Pittsburgh paper say* the amount, divided up among the tax-pay-era, will give slls for each taxable person in the county.

Freight-trains were running on all Unroads out of Pittsburgh on the 80th uIL, and met with little or no opposition. Ox the 31st ult., 100 men were discharged from the West Albany (N. Y.) shops for participating In the recent disturbances in that locality. Av Newport, R. 1., a few mornings ago, Mrs. Denpto MacMahon undertook to hurry up the fire by using kerosene oil, when the can burst and the foolish woman was fearfully and totally burned. Tn National Bank of Lock Haven, Pa., failed on the 30th ult The suspension is stated to be only temporary. President Vaxbubixt, of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, has issued a circular stating that of the 12,000 employes of that Company less than 500 engaged in the recent s rlke, and no Injury was done to property. In recognition of their fealty, he directs that SIOO,OOO be divided ratably, according to their position* on the pay-roll, among all the employes engaged in operating the road. He also says no msn who, in time of trial, embarrasses the Company, can remain In or re-enter Its service, and adds that par will be increased the momet.t business justifies IL At Wilkesbarre, Pa., on the Ist, a crowd of between 8,000 and 7,000 assembled at the Lehigh Valtey Depot to see the mail train south come in, and when the cars arrived a Constable and a United States detective standing on the platform next the engine were assailed with stones, and the man running the engine was driven from his place, and the strikers mounted the engine, cut it loose and ran it off. Further troubles occurred at Bc>anton,ou the Ist, wed a com—pany of volunteers fired into ai d dispersed a large mob, killing four and wounding several others. All places of business in the town were closed and additional volunteer companies were being organized, as further serious troubles were feared. The remain* of the late Gen. Custer arrived at Poughkeepsie, N. Y„ on the 2d, and were deposited in a vault, where they wil remain until fall, and will then be taken to West Point .. ■. . _ A large number of State troop* were in the Wyoming (Pa.) coal regions on the 2d, under the command of Gov. Hartranft They were arresting striker* and rioters by the wholesale. The laboring population still maintained their determination to prevent the resumption of work, and further outrages are reported. Wbilb passing through Exchange place, in New York, on the morning of the 2d, Jay Gould was accosted by Maj. A. Setover, a friend of Jim Keene, the Californian. Words were exchanged, when Setover struck Gould cne er two blows on the side of the head, aa£ then threw him down an area-way, a distance of eight feet Gould was only slightly injured, and was able to walk to his office. The trouble is said to have originated from Gould having betrayed a combination to put up the price of Lake Shore stocks, in which Keene and Setover were interested wi:h him. Setover nays Gould tried to make him sell stocks when he (Gould) was buying, and in doing so tried to overreach him. Carr. Howgatb’s schooner Florence sailed from New London,Conn., on the 2d, for the Arctic Ocean, under command of CapL Tyson. The Florence is to establish Capt Howgate'* Polar colony at a point on the coast on the north side of Cumberland, and there to atore the supplies upon which the main exploring expedition, which will sail in July, 1878, under Capt. H. W. Howgate, is to subsist ._<L.. t / Frank Walworth, who was sentenced to imprisonment for life for the murder of his father, a few years ago, in New York City, has been pardoned. It is stated that the weak menial condition of the young man was tiie principal reason for the granting of the pardon. Dispatches of the 3d, from the Pennsylvania coal regions, state that the Lacks wanna & Bloomsburg Road had got trains through by guarding them with troops. Obstructions were put on the track, and the wires were cut at night. An attempt had been made to burn the Lehigh Railroad freight depot at Hazleton. At Pittsburgh, on the 3d, seven men were engaged in lining a furnace on a scaffold I supported by ropes. These caught fire and the platform was precipitated into the burntec furnace below. Two men were taken out dead, and the five others were rescued I seriously and probably fatally burned. Ox the 3d, at his residence near New York I City, Hon. Wm. B. Ogden, Chicago's first Mayor, died at Bright’* disease of the kidneys. He was seventy-two years old. Gou> etosed in New York, on Aug. 3d, at 106%. The following were the dosing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, No. 2, Milwaukee, September, $1.83. Oats, Western and State, 27«93e. Corn, Western Mixed, s»@6lc. Port, Mesa, SM-25©1A30. Lard; 8930. Flour, good to choice, $6.20@6 35; White Wheat Extra, Cattie, H@l2%cj for good to extra. Sheep, [email protected]. At East Liberty, Pa., on Aug. 3d. Cattle brought: Best, [email protected]; Medium, $5.25 ©6.00; Common, [email protected]. Hog* sold —Totters, $5.30©5.40; Philadelphia*, $5.20 To inquiry latte the causes which Jed io the death of ten persons in the riot at Balti fIM ©Mb, When the Sixth Regiment

fired into the mob, began In that city, on the i 30th ult The testimony showed that several aoldtera were knocked down before any shooting took place by them, and that they fired without orders from the Colonel. ftxvnuL of the miner* in the Cumberland (Md.) district struck for an increase of wages, on the 30th ult. A general strike was threatened. Tub cremation of the body of the late Dr. Chas. F. Winslow, took place at Salt Lake City, on the evening of the Slat ult. A great concourse of people was present The affair was a complete success, the burning being completed in two hours and thirty-five minutes. Trains were running on all the roads leading from St Louis, on the 81st ult, and the men were working as usual. Troubles were still being experienced at some point* on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne A Chicago, Baltimore A Ohio, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis, and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. All the other road* centering in Chicago were operating as usual and doing a large business. Quits a number of the leader* in the recent disturbances at Columbus, Ohio, were arraigned and tried on the 81*t ult, and assessed heavy fine* or sent to jail on tong sentences. The military had been recalled to that city, and train* would at once com- -4 mence running on all the roads there. Ox the 81st ult., the First National Bank of Georgetown, Col., clost-d Its doors, its liabilities reaching SIOO,OOO. The cause was the personal financial embarrassment of it* President. Eight of the rioters engaged in stopping train* on the Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Railroad, in Illinois, were tried before Judge Drummond, of the United States Circuit Court, at Chicago, on the 81st ult. The names of the prisoners are James Mack, James Ennis, Geo. Hamilton, Monroe Jeffries, Julius Gelhausen, Nicholas Hoffman, Philip Kerber and Julius Schurer. The charge against them was for contempt of Court in obstructing the passage of train* on a road in the hands of a receiver appointed by the Judge of the Court They were adjudged guilty, and sentenced to pay a fine of fifty dollars each, and to be imprisoned in the County Jail—Mack, the leader, for four months, and the others for two months each, the imprisonment to be continued until the fines are paid. v

W. H. N. Stiles, who testified positively and pointedly against Senator Grover, of Oregon, before the Congressional Investigating Committee at Portland, has been indicted for perjury by the United States Grand Jury,and was, on the Ist, committed in default of bonds for $2,500. Indictment* were also found against two other witnesses for perjury before the same committee. Tub Ohio Re iu bl lean State Convention was held at Cleveland on the Ist. The following ticket was nominated: For Governor, W. H. West; Lieutenant-Governor, Ferd. Vog-lcr; Supreme Judge, W. H. Johnson; Attorney-General, Geo. K. Nash; Clerk of Sup eme Court, Dwight C. Rowell; School Commissioner, J. T. Lukens; Board of Public Works,! A. W. Luckey. The platform adopted reaffirms the resolutions of the last Republican Na tonal Convention; expresses unfaltering confidence in President Hayes as a statesman, patriot and Republican, and cordially approves*‘bis eff >rt* for the pacification of the country acd th* establishment of its civil service upon a basis of purity and efficie»cy;” declares the unalterable jßirpose of the Republican party to main'aln and enforce the Constitutional amendments; favor* both silver and gold as money, both to be K legal-tender, and demands the remonetisation of silver; opposes any further grants of public lands or subsidies to railroads; approves the action of the National and State authorities in their efforts, during the late to enforce the supremacy of the law, but declares sympathy with the condition of the honest and industrious laborers who are williug to work but remain unemployed, or whose wages are inadequate to their necessities, and recommends the es’ablishmeut of a National Bureau of Industry, and that Congress Shall exercise such authority as shall be necessary to adequately protect the interests of labor and capital alike, and call for statutory arbitration to adjust differences and controversies between employers and employes. The Wisconsin Republican State Convention has been called to meet at Madison op the 11th of September. The Baltimore & Ohio Road has given SSO to each of the men who led in breaking up the strike, and took the trains through on that road.

The Georgia Constitutional Convention has decided to elect Judges of the Supreme and Superior Courts by joint ballot of the Legislature. The election will occur In 1880. The Democratic nominations In Mississippi are: For Governor, John M. Stone (present incumbent); Lieutenant Governor, W. H Sims; Treasurer, W. L. Hemingway; Auditor, 8. L. Gwinn; Attorney-General, T. C. Catching; Superintendent of Public Education, J. Argyl Smith. The resolutions adopted by the Convention declare—fidelity to the Constitution of the United States; in favor of home rule and the preservation of State Governments, with all their reserved and guaranteed right* unimpaired; against military interference with the freedom of elections and with the civil and political rights of citizens of the United Sta es; in favor of protection and equal rights of all classes; against discrimination on account of race, color or previous condition of servi ude or birthplace; in favor of the maintenance of the State system of etc., etc. The Coroner’s verdict in the case of the persons killed in the riot in Baltimore is to the effect that, the soldiers being demoralized, a great deal of unnecessary firing was done, but that the responsibility for the killing rest* entirely with the rioters who attacked the soldiers.

Ox Lake Michigan, on the night of the 2d, at* point between Racine and Milwaukee, the propeller Favorite ran into and sank the schooner Grace A. Uhannon. All on board were rescued except Alexander Graham, son of the owner of the schooner. In the trial of railrood rioters for contempt of Court, at Indianapolis, on the 3d, Judge Drummond, of the United States Circuit Court, held Sayres, Secretary of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, to recognizance for good behavior for one year, and sentenced fifteen others to three months’ imprisonment each. ' A cigxr-box factory was burned in Cincinnati on the 3d, and six of the inmates of the building perished in the flames. In Chicago, on Aug. 3d, Spring Wheat No. 2, closed at $1.18%@1.19 cash. Cash corn dosed at 47%c for No. 2. Cash oats No. 2 sold at 26%c; and 25%c seller September. Rye No. 2,55j<c. Barley No. 2 (New), Septemberddtvery, Cash Me * Pork closed at $13.50. Lard, $8.90. Beeves—Extra brought [email protected]; Choice, [email protected]; Good, $4.50©5.15; Medium Grades. $4.00@ 4.50; Butchers’ Stock, [email protected]; Stock Cattie, etc., [email protected]. Hogs brought $5.00©5.35 for Good to Choice. Sheep sold at [email protected] for Poor to Choice.

roatEiGN nrrBULi«BN<M. In an engagement near Rustchuk, on the 29th nit, the Turks met with a disastrous defeat, losing 8,000 men, thirty boraea and ten standards. AxsoKprr, the chief of the Moscow Slave phil* Society, has been temporarily exiled

from Russia, in consequence of the revolutionary tendencies of that organisation. Accordi no to a Tirnova dispatch of the 81st ult., the two Turkish armies had effected a junction near that place, and an engagement was then proceeding, with reported Russian defeat and retreat Ox the 81st ult, off OltrnlUa, the Russian batteries sunk a Turkish steamer. At i Ministerial council held In Vienna, on the 81st, the mobilisation of the Austrian Army was formally decided upon, to be echeloned on the frontiers of Dalmatia, Slavonia and Croatia. AocohDiNO to London dispatches of the morning of the 2d, the Turkish Army bad defeated the Russians near Plevtia, after a battle lasting two days. The latter were said to have lost 8,000 killed and 16,000 wounded. The Turkish loss was comparatively small, a* they fought from behind Intrenchmcnt*. Reinforcements had been forwarded from the Danube, and it wss expected that the fight would be renewed. Accordino to London telegram* of the 2d, all England was wild over the belief that the Russians had been decisively defeated on both flanks, and that the campaign had substantially ended for this season in favor of the Turk*. A Tirnova telegram of the same date says the Russian Grand Duke had already left for Plevna, and that reinforcements would be hurried forward with the design of speedily retrieving the great disaster. Two Turkish monitors bad been captured at Nikopolls. A Varna dispatch of the 3d say* Gen. Zimmerman had suspended all operations in the Dobrudsha since the Plevna defeat According to an Erzeroum telegram of the 3d, the Russian Army In front of Kara bad been largely reinforced, and offensive movements resumed. Ox the Bd, the Greek Minister at Constantinople demanded of the Porte redress and indemnity for the recent massacres of Greeks at Kavarna, as well a* satisfactory guarantees for the security of Christians. War with Turkey was considered probable.

The Battle of Plevna.

London, Aug. 2. The Daily Newt correspondent, telegraphing from Bulgareni, fifteen miles from Plevna, gives a detailed account of the fighting of Monday. The Turkish force was estimated at 50,000. They occupied a series of positions which are naturally strong and also artificially fortified in every available spot, forming a horseshoe in front of Plevna, with both flanks resting on the River Vid. The Rus • sian force consisted of the Ninth Army Corps, under Gen. Krudener, the Thirteenth Division and Thirtieth Brigade of the Second Division, under Prince Bchackesky, with three brigades of cavalry and 160 guns. It was arranged that Gen. Krudener should attack the Turkish center at Grivica and the northern flank of the intrenched position over the Rahova, while Schackesky attacked Radizevo and Gen. Skabeleff held in check the strong Turkish force at Looca, which was the extremity of the Turkish line. Gen. Krudener began the battle about halfpast nine o’clock. After a long bombardment he succeeded in silencing the Turkish cannon at Grivica, but could not expel the infantry from the earthworks. He spent the whole afternoon unavailingly endeavoring to force the northern flank of the Turkish position, desisting after dark without having gained anything material, and having himself suffered considerable loss. Prince SchackeskyAbout neon carried Radizevo, and, planting four oatteries on the ridge beyona, bombarded the nearest Turkish position, which was an earthwork armed with cannon in front of an intrenched village. After an hour’s cannonade be silenced the Turkish guns, and his infantry, after a long and bloody contest, carried the earthwork and the village. The tecond Turkish position, consisting of a series of intrenched vineyards strongly held, was then attacked and ultimately carried, but with a terrible effort and very severe loss, owing to the heavy Turkish artillery fire. The Russians, moreover, were unable to utilize the captured position. About four o’clock the reserve brigade was brought up and an attack made on the positions immediately covering Plevna. The attack continued till nearly sunset. The Turkish infantry was in great force in a continuous line under the shelter of the trenches. Despite the most stubborn efforts no impression could be made upon that line. Two companies of Russian infantry did work round to the right of the Turkish trenches and entered the town of Plevna, but it was impossible to hold it. The Russian batteries pushed boldly forward into the position first taken to attempt to keep down the Turkish cannonade which was crashing into the infantry in the open field, but they were compelled soon to evacuate the hazardous spot At sundown the Turks made a continuous forward movement and reoccupied their second position. The Russian infantry made a succession of desperate stands and died like heroes. The Turks gradually retook everything they had lost. The fighting lasted long after nightfall. With darkness the Basni-Bazouks took possession of the battle-field and slew all the wounded. The Russians held the heights above Radizevo, but the BashiBazouks worked around to their rear and fell on the wounded collected in the Village of Radizevo. A retreat was compelled in the direction of Bulgareni, and the contingencies resulting from this untoward battle are of ominous significance.

Down the Andes by Hand-Car.

At Anchi, 12,000 feet above the Pacific, the hand car is loaded with its freight of six adventurous sight-seers, closely braced together. It is of the ordinary construction and appearance, and does not offer any temptations to a pleasure excursion down the precipitous and tortuous gorge of the Rimae, except that it affords an unobstructed view of the shifting grandeur and terrors of the route. As we descended in our rough vehicle, at the rate of sixty miles an hour; flying across aerial viaducts, or dashing through sepulchral tunnels; threatened, now, to be crushed between converging mountain-walls, or precipitated from pendulous terraces—the foaming Rimae emulating the maddening speed; now glancing back to take a last look at the glistening pinnacles of the receding Andes; or, straining eagerly forward, to catch the first glimpse of the royal city of the plain and the shining ocean —the magnificence of the scenery and the magnitude of Mr. Meiggs’ achievement break upon us with fresh force, and not for any peril of the way would we forego the exhilaration and novelty of the trip. Far otherwise was it with one of the party —a stately Commodore. He, who could face unflinchingly a whole broadside of murderous missiles, sprang from the car after ten miles over the -wildest part of the route, declaring that nothing would tempt him to repeat such a fool-hardy ex'periment. For the rest of us, tire excitement and exhilaration of this mode of travel became so attractive, that we often went up to Anchi for the sole purpose of making the down trip.— Scribner for Auguet. _ Nothing so thoroughly pleases a man who has learned that a collection is to be taken in his church on Supday morning, and who has consequently been unable to be present on account of a severe p«in 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.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. • —Polled potatoes cannot be raised in hotbeds. —Dion Boucicault says it is dangerous to make love to a woman through an inkbottle. —A fashionable medical journal says the summer style of vaccination is cardinal red, cut bias and gored. —A scientific person hasdtscovervd that a burn, like beauty, is only skin deep ; that heat gives no pain after the skin ir passed. —A proud and dtoroted wife, whose husband had got s Job on a cellar excavation, explained his absence by saying he hail gone to Wheeling. —Maximilian has l»ecn dead leu years. —Chicago Journal. Pooh! that's nothing. Adam has been dead about six thousand years.— Norrittown Herald. —A. Texas Court has decided that the old law against the intermarriage of the races is obsolete, the Judge holding that the law was simply intended for the support of slavery, and ceased to exist when the reason for it no longer existed. —The vocal powers of the cat have been preposterously neglected. If any animal can be taught to speak and sing, it is the cat. There is a resmblance which is almost startling between dot- humana and eoxfelina. —Baltimore Bulletin. —A promising young prima donna who sung at a Chicago concert, the other evening, was introduced to the audience by a Mr. Chew. Now if the young lady had any regard for herself or her hearers, she would never have made her appearance on the stage with a Chew to back her. —lt is greatly to the credit of the French people that their rage for equality has never caused them to run into personal extravagance. A French peasant doesnot try to dress like a lady, but is content with apparel suitable to her purse and plight. In this country the maid must have silk dresses, because her mistress does. —lt was very muddy weather when President Hayes visited Rhode Island, and when he went away he carried away about three-fourths of the State on his boots, and had to sit down in Connecticut and let his feet hang over the lineL while the despoiled inhabitants scraped off their estates. The Islanders don’t want him to come back again.— Burlington Hawk-Eye. —A rich manufacturer placed over the entrance to his factory, the motto, “ Ora et Labora.” A journeyman weaver, in search of work, approached the head book-keeper, us he was crossing the yard, and asked, “Are you Mr. Ora, sir?” “No," replied the latter, pointing to a window where his employer sat smoking an Havana. “ There is Or«. lam Labora.”

—Scene at a seaside hotel: Lean, lank stranger—“ Why, look here, you charge me in my bill for a counterpane, $6.50. Why, the mosquitoes ate up that counterpane, and why should I be charged with it?” Hotel-keeper “Of course you should. If you had been nice and fat the mosquitoes would have tackled you and let my counterpane alonel”— Philadelphia Bulletin. —There are irregular tides in the great lakes. On the 10th of July there was a sudden fall of one foot in the level of Lake Ontario, the cause of which is unknown. These tides occur at all hours of the day, and have been known to occasion accidents to boats in shallow water, the sudden receding of the water leaving the boat on locks where a few moments before there had been an abundance of water. "—Ab editorial friend ’in I<ew Hampshire sends this to Harper''» Magasine: Some time ago an aged man who had just lost his wife came into our sanctum, and, with tears standing in his eyes, eulogized the memory of the deceased, and asked us to record the death in our next issue. “And,” said he, “while you are about it, make an item about one of my Brahma hens laying an egg measuring seven and a quarter by eight and three-quarter inches in circumference.” Thus suddenly our thoughts of sympathy were directed to the sterner realities of life. —The German-American Matrimonial Help Society is a Philadelphia concern which promises to give eveiy member SSOO on marrying; but the member finds that in initiation fee, monthly dues and assessments that he is compelled to pay much more than he gets. The assessments, too, are in many cases made on the possible fictitious marriages of members in distant parts of the country. The company has sent out gorgeously lithographed circulars, referring to nineteen Philadelphia merchants and clergymen as indorsers of the scheme; but every one of them has, in a published statement, repudiated it.

—A sad, sad tale comes tons from New York. The fourteen Italian pallone players who arrived in that city last June, to introduce the game in this country, are pecuniarily embarrassed, and haven’t enough money to pay their board, much less to pay their passage home. Now suppose fourteen American base-ball players were to go to Italy to introduce our national game in that country, and were to run out of funds—do you suppose the people of that sunny clime would permit them to remain there to starve ? As much as it pains us to say it, we fear they wouldn’t. They would probably kill ’em before their money was exhausted—as they would be ftilly justified in doing.— Norrietown (Pa.) Herald. —They had been married about three months. The boy from the store appeared with a note from her husband. She clutched the precious missive with an eager hand, tremblingly opened it and read: “ Dxsb Wivb: Send me a p>ckct-handkerchlef. “J JUN.” She went slowly to the drawer to get the desired article, and while looking for it she came acioss the following note, dated two weeks after the wedding; “ Sunlight or Mr Soul: You will have to send me a handkerchief. Your Irewitchlng eyes co turned my bead this morning that I forgot io take one with me. for which I shall kiss the sweet face of my own a thou-an<l time-wln ii ! come home. Iu two hours and twenty minutes It will be twelve O'clock, and then I can come to my benniUiil rose. I long to fly to yon. A thousand kisses 1 send thee, my fairy wife. Yours, tenderly, John.” She sighed, gave the boy the handkerchief, and sighed again.— Danbury Newt.

Six Lives Lost by Fire in Cincinnati.

A Cincinnati special of the 3d gives the following account of the recent disastrous conflagration in that city, by which six persons met with horrible deaths: A most disastrous fire, resulting in the death of six persons and severe injuries to several others, and a heavy loss of property, occurred in this city this morning. The victims were most of them young persons, three of the number girls, ranging in age from sixteen to twenty years. Two Were boys ot eighteen and twenty, just verging upon manhood, and one of them, at least, perhaps both, gave their lives in their endeavor to save those of their associates, the young girls and women ol the factory in which they were employed. 'rhe fire was in the cigar-box factory of Pelstrung & Co., corner of Eighth and Broadway. They employ, perhaps, thirty hands. The factory had just opened for the day, and a portion of the girls had ascended to their rooms on the third and fourth floors, when the engineer in the basement saw the fire in the adjoining room. How it originated is unknown. The flames spread with wonderful rapidity, owing to the fact that the building, was filled with the light, dry lumber for the boxes and the shavings and sawdust made in the work, and in a short time reached the upper floors. The ascent of the flames

was unfortunately by the stairway, thus cutting off the only avenue of escape. The unfortunate girls in the fourth story ran first Io one window, then to another, calling for aid. Two of them, more courageous than the rest, plunged down the staircare through the smoko and flame, and falling exhausted at the foot, were rescued. The others ran frantically from one window to another, shouting, begging for aid, until, overcome by the heat ana smoke, they fell back, and disappearing, perished in the flames. On thff*'ground outside a crowd was gathering, ana one young man of twenty, Frank Stordeur, forced his way into the building for the purpose of rescuing some of the girls. He wss never again seen alive. On the second floor, Henry Maaz, a boy of perhaps eighteen, was at work, and when the fire broke out, instead of saving himself, ran at once to the upper floors to warn his fellow-employes, ana ( .n tills act ot heroism lost his life. His body is still beneath the ruins. The Fire Department, of which Cincinnati is so proud, responded promptly, and did all in their power, yet was unable to save either the people in the building or the building itself. In fact, so sudden was the growth of the flame that, though the first company was on the ground before the alarm had ceased, the victimshad disappeared from the windows and the flames were bunking through the opening in every direction’on their arrival. The four who lost their lives in the building are horribly mutilated. In most cases trunks only remain, the legs and arms being either burned entirely off, or so nearly so that their removal, except in pieces, was impossible. The remains were only identified by pieces of their clothing, bits of jewelry, etc. After the fire had subsided, the bodies of the four victims were found in the cellar, immediately beneath the stairway, burned to a crisp, almost beyond recognition. The names of the victims are as follows: Josephine Bey, aged seventeen; Mary Nurre, aged twenty; Minnie Kubbe, aged sixteen; Frank Stordeur, aged twenty; Henry Maaz, aged sixteen; John Clanzenburg, aged forty-two. The people killed were mostly members of families in very moderate circumstances, and in some cases were the sole support of widowed mothers and helpless relatives.

The Russian Soldier.

So many stories are told in England of want of care for the Russian soldiers’ health and food, that it may be well to say, once for all, that the men of all arms look well and strong, with plenty of flesh on their bones, though little fat. They are in excellent working condition, and carry weights which would break down any but strong constitutions, including biscuits for three days, which form part -of the kit, packed in the knapsack, and bread, which they manage to carry in a bag on their shoulders. The Russian private in a marching regiment carries no less than seventy-two pounds English. In his own country he received daily three pounds of bread and seven and one-half copecks for all else; but in Roumania his copecks would not buy him the meat he wanted, so the Government gives him half a pound of meat and two and one-half copecks, instead of the full money he received before. He has also served out to him a small ration of spirits to counteract the deadly damps of the river. His greatcoat is lung and heavy; he carries it in the shape of a horse-collar round his leftshoulder.- Round the coat is wrapped one man’s share of the tent, a square piece of canvas furnished with eyelet-holes and a string. Four of such pieces .are bound .♦ngetunr, sad fonn a 'Sort of rough gypsy tent, the ends of which are carried by two other men; the seventh carries the sticks which form upright and ridgepoles. The seven men carry the tent under which they can sleep; but it is small, hot and stuffy by day, while a -heavy shower of rain penetrates easily through the eyelet-holes, the ill-closed apertures, and even through the canvas itself. Were it not that one sees the Russian soldier carrying his enormous load every day with seeming ease, arriving in good condition at the'end of his long march, and frequently singing to Deguile the way and refresh the jaded nerves, we might at once condemn the practice of so loading the infantry, which ought to arrive as fresh as possible in presence of the enemy. The kit contains much the same articles as those of the English private, but one pair of long boots is carried outside and wrapped round with a strap under the flap of the knapsack, so that the feet of the boots are visible on either side. The men in a camp which I visited yesterday said that the food supplied to them is very satisfactory in every respect. Their "average height was equal or superior to that of au English marching regiment, and their muscular development particularly good. They are not well set up, and do not show thatcurious flat-backed stiff position so dear to the drill-sergeant. On the contrary, there are big, humpy muscles on their shoulder-blades, and the Cossacks especially are splendidly made for strength. It may be usefuj for England to know that those who represent the Russian soldier of to-day as a half starved, ill-treated creature, who has to be primed to fight are grievously mistaken.—Ciurgevo Cor. London Times.

Pitcher-Plants.

It is known to botanists that the tubular leaves of the Pitcher-Plants (Saraceniae), whichbelong to the class of so-called insectiverous plants, exude at their mouth a sweet secietion, for the apparent purpose of inviting the visits of insects. It has been asserted by some writers that this secretion possesses intoxicating qualities, causing the insects which partake of it to become thereby easier victims -of the death by drowning which awaits their fall into the liquid held in the interior of the cup-like leaves. Dr. J. H. Mellichamp, of Bluffton, N. C., communicates to the American Naturali»t the proceedings of a series of experiments which seem to prove that the secretion has no stupefying or intoxicating property. Dr. Mellichamp procured, on three separate days, a number of fresh leaves of the Saracenia variolar it, which were secreting freely ;t lit them open, and laid them on a newspaper—thus exposing the honeyed substance, “ which was very abundant and glistening, sweet to the taste and viscid to the touch.” Many housefles were immediately attracted, and their movements watched for the space of an hour. During that time some of the flies fed for at least ten minutes, but not one evinced any signs of being unpleasantly affected. All flew away in evident possession of unimpaired faculties. As the result of these repeated experiments, Dr. Mellichamp concludes that the secretion is entirely harmless. Two* bottles containing liquid taken from the cups of the Saracenia have been sent by Dr. Mellichamp to the Botanical Laboratory at Cambridge, for analysis. The experiments thus far tried confirm the following observations of Dr. Mellichamp: “Pourout a tcaspoonful or two of the fluid in ta ounce measure, or a small wine-glass. Throw in a fly, so that his wings will be wet or slimed. He will in a few minutes cease to struggle, and will appear as if dead. Take him out after awhile, and let him dry, and in about half an hour he will revive.” This experiment shows that the liquid secreted in the leaves of the Saracenia in some way stupefies the insects immersed in it, paralyzing their efforts for escape. The fluid taken from still unopened leaves was turbid, tasteless, and slightly acid in reaction.— Chicago Tribune. Lawyers should sleep well. Itisim* material on which side they lie

PESONAL AND LITERABY.

—Mr. Smalley says that General and Mrs. Grant ware treated with every courtesy at Windsor Castle by Queen Victoria. The Queen personally received them, and highly enjoyed their visit. —The remains of Marquette, the French missionary, who died in 1675 on his way back from Illinois to Mackinaw, have been recently discovered at Pointe St. Ignace, on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. —Mr. Benjamin Lotting, tne historian, has chosen for his residence a quiet and retired spot in Dutchess County, N. Y., sixteen miles east of Fishkill and the Hudson River. He was visited there, recently, by a reporter of the New York Evening Post, who has written an interesting story of the visit. Mr. Lossing’s house was built in 1811, and has been remodeled to suit his taste and convenience. His library contains nearly 6,000 volumes, and is placed in a fire proof building. It is rich in historical matter, selected principally with reference to use. Lotting began life as a journalist. —Gen. Grant was originally expected to go to Paris from London, but the Memorial Politique, of Paris, explains that he resolved, on the aavicq. of Mr. Washburne, to defer his visit there till after his tour in Northern Europe and Switzerland. It was feared that, “in existing circumstances there would be endeavors to give to some of the demonstrations of wmeh he might be the object a character other than that of disinterested deference for an illustrious citizen who has held the Chief Magistracy of his country and is one of its military glories.” In other words, there was a fear that ex-Pres-ident Grant would be “played off” against President MacMahon. —Amos Fish, who died in Albany recently, leaving property worth $50,000, once described his manner of life to a friend thus: “I buy a shank of beef from the butcher, which costs me ten cents. My wife makes enough soup from this to do us one meal; then the meat cut from it afterward makes two more meals, or one day’s food for ten cents. I split the bone and get the marrow for cooking purposes, ana my wife finds sufficient fuel in the bone itself to do considerable cooking. Then in an iron box I save the ashes, which I use for manuring a few plants that bring me six cents each.” Yet when extra taxes were put upon his property he very rarely, if ever, demanded more rent from tenants than what they had been paying. He married a widow, who had two children and a little money. He offered to borrow the money and to allow her seven per centum. His wife acceptea the proposition, and he was in charge of the property for a long time. One day he forced a settlement with her, bringing in a bill for her own and the children’s board, and leaving lier in debt to him.— N. Y. Evening Post.

A Brave Conductor—An Incident of the Strike in Pennsylvania.

Conductor Frescoln, in a long conversation with a reporter' of the Pottsville Miners’ Journal, gives a detailed account of the trouble he had in getting his train through from Philadelphia to Pottsville on Monday evening. On leaving Philadelphia, he said he had intimations of probable trouble on the road. At Birdsboro he received a dispatch from Mr. Eltz, at Reading, warning him to run slowly on nearing Reading for fear ot obstructions. Below Eckert’s furnace his train had to cross over to the down track, as the up track was obstructed by coal trains which had been stopped during the day. Coming up into the city, Engineer Savacool saw that there was an immense mob gathered along and on the track. Nearing Penn street, the track was seen to be solidly packed with people, He took the only course possible for him—he opened his throttle wide, put the whistle on, and dashed right at the mob. They saw he meant business, and got out of the way. The train passed Penn street at the rate of forty-five miles an hour. Just before reaching that point a car-load of coal lying on the track, where it had been dumped by the rioters, had to be passed. It is a wonder the train did not jump the track; but, fortunately, the engine threw the coal in every direction and passed on. While going through the crowd the train had to ruu the gauntlet of a shower of stones. One of these entered the parlor car, but without doing any damage. Several stones struck the fireman, William Blackburn, of Schuylkill Haven. One o f these, as large as a man’s fist, he saw com ing, and grabbed for it. The stone struck bis hand and ribs at the same time. He was badly but not seriously hurt, and came up on the train to his home—not, however, doing duty from Reading up. James Fish, of Reading, volunteered to fire for Cassidy, and performed that duty satisfactorily. When the crowd separated and let the train pass, it sped on to the depot, where everything was very quiet. Thapassengers, especially the ladies, wera In a panic. Conductor Frescoln here took charge ot several ladies to escort them into the waiting-room. He had not gone far when he became aware that the mob had followed the train from Penn street. Their first act was to attack Engineer Savacool, whom they dragged from his caboose, knocked down and beat very badly—perhaps dangerously. One scoundrel struck him with a large stone. He saved bis life by making a desperate effort and getting on his feet. He ran, bleeding and bruised, into the depot, about fifty of the mob in hot pursuit. The doors of the vestibule were closed on the pursuers, and the engineer was saved. The crowd then rushed back to the train,some of them dashing into the cars and ordering the passengers out. They said they were going to upset the cars and set them on fire. Here it was that women fainted and children screamed, A party of the rioters mounted the engine and tender, and one of their number, who knew very little about an engine, started to back the train, with the intention o f running it into the coal cars on the up track to wreck it. Fortunately, the amateur engineer put on the air-brakes, and stopped the train. He did not know how to hft them, and so the train escaped that danger. About this time half a dozen police, supposed to be members of the coal and iron police, appeared, armed with Winchester rifles, and charged the mob from the platform. They aid not dare to fire for fear of hitting some of the passengers. They were urged to stand firm and keep the mob back, but were unable to do so, the rioters surging back and regaining their lost ground. Conductor Frescoln was at this time in a desperate position. He took up a position on the platform of the mail-car, and was sirrounded by the mob, some of whom began to say, “ He’s the fellow who urged the police to fire on us,” etc. Mr. Frescoln said they were mistaken in their man, but thev insisted that they had the right man. Things were looking very squally, when a man named Graeff, a pe'rsonal friend of Mr. Frescoln, came up and said he didn’t think Fretcoin was the man; that he was friendly to the men, and Was only on the train in the discharge of his duty. Mr. Frescoln then had a talk with Graeff, who was formerly a Philadelphia & Reading Railroad engineer. He told Graeff that he and the mob were stopping the United States mail, a serious offense*. Graeff said that he had not suspected that fact, and told the conductor that he could cut the mail car off and proceed with that. This did not satisfy Mr. Frescoln, to whom we take the liberty of saying, great credit is due for coolness, bravery and persistence in the discharge of his duty. He asked whylt was that the mob wanted to stop passengers. Their detention could not harm the company, as they had already paid fortheir tickets. There were ladies and

children there who wanted to get Io their homes. The representations had the desired effect, and Graeff said the train might go. The question of an engineer then arose. Baid Mr. Frescoln, " ou’ve killed my engineer and you’ll kul any other.” Graeff said he would guarantee the safety of an engineer if could be obtained. The man desired was found in the person of Peter Cassidy, of Mount Carlton, who had taken a coal-train down and been prevented from going further. He expressed himself as ready to bring the train up. and did so, leaving Reading at 6:40 o'clock.

Education as it May Affect Labor.

The proportion of people who are contented with their daily avocations is, we think, small as compared with those who are not. The difficulty of procuring other employment; a distrust of their ability to make themselves useful therein, or a languid clinging to the bird in the hand rather than a pursuit of the bird in the bush, prevents many from abandoning their present occupation, which they may detest, for another which they fancy would prove more agreeable. There are others who, from a species of diffidence which seems always to deter them from turning passing opportunities to any personal advantage, plod on from year to year in pursuits very distasteful, and for which they are by nature quite unsuited. There is still another class, whose conceit is far more prominent than their merits; who, in their own estimation, are never appreciated; who receive but cruel, neglectful treatment on all sides; who whine at the deg'adation of the drudgery to which they seem to gravitate, and who are choked with regrets that misfortunes have placed in other fields the masterly efforts of which they affect to believe themselves capable. There is yet another class —the Rolling Stone—the Jack of-all-trades. Happy and useful while there are odd jobs to be done, the doing ot which reflects credit upon their ingenuity—miserable and useless when, having tinkered the tea-kettle, repaired the pumps and the plow, there is naught remaining but the steady, hard work of the farm. There are other" classes, which need not be particularized, that, as a convict expiates in prison his crime against the law, can find in labor only the detestable means of procuring their bread and clothes.

Since man is so constituted that he must labor a considerable share of his time in order to enjoy leisure, it is a pity that he cannot so interest himself in such labor as to render it also a source of enjoyment. What we call pleasure is, aficr all, only the privilege of selecting our labor and of discontinuing it when we choose. As soon, therefore, as a person is assured that his occupation is not suited to his tastes or capacities, let him hasten to change it at almost any present sacrifice. The first and earliest sacrifice will be found, in the end, to be the least. We need not ever hope to pursue business as an amusement—and amusement pursued as a business, is fatal to every manly impulse. But we need not, therefore, conclude that the vigorous employ-"' ment of our hands or brains is inimical to enjoyment. Our first concern should be to perform vigorously the task which is before us, and in order to accomplish this, we must be interested in the work. This faculty of interesting ourselves in the work before us depends, in a great measure, -upon early education. ■ Children can well comprehend why they should go to school or study hard for a few hours at home. They know that nobody else can study or acquire education for them. If reluctant to learn their daily lessons, they should sternly be obliged to do so. They should be taught alike, that from this there is no possible escape—and that beyond it, nothing is required of them. The rest of tne day is theirs, and they should be permitted, in all innocent ways, to pass it as they list—to frolic and to play, the prerogative and necessity of youth,"whether in the lower or higher animal creation. But through fear of creating habits of laxiness, parents too often exact labor of their children after study hours, and thus, while yearning for play and needed recreation ; while yearning for absolute freedom which children hold so dear, they are tied to tasks in which they can feel no interest—which are sometimes beyond their feeble powers ot endurance," and which are the more repugnant in that they consume the precious hours of their liberty. This is the way to make Jack a dull lad, and to establish the very habits that it was intended to avoid—for a boy who works reluctantly is only happy when that work is finished, and he is thus tempted to slight and skim it over, that he may the sooner be released. In this way not only are habits of laziness created, but of negligence and of a deep-seated dislike of work which often clings through life and form the several classes to which, in the beginning, we have referred. The education of children, if properly conductea, is not, in after life, valuable alone as a reservoir of Isolated facts, but as a nucleus of mental power, ever inciting to original investigations and conclusions, rendering the humblest labor not destitute of an interest which the undisciplined, uncultivated mind that plods on like a horse or an ox, with little other aspiration than that of eating and sleeping, can but imperfectly experience.-— hural New Yorker.

Read this, Young Ladies.

We heard a very pretty incident the other day, which we cannot help relating. A young lady from the South, it seems, was wooed and won by a youthful physician living in California. When the engagement was made the doctor was rich, having been very successful at San Francisco. It had not existed six months, however, when, by an unfortunate investment, he lost his entire “ heap.” This event camo upon him, it should be added, just as he was about to claim his bride. What does he dot Why, like an honorable and chivalrous young fellow as he is, he sits down and writes the lady every particular of the unhappy turn which has taken place in his fortunes, assuring her that if the fact produced any change in her feelings toward him, she is released from every promise she has made him. And what does the dear, good girl! Why, she takes a lump of pure gold, which her lover has sent her in his prosperity as a keepsake, and, having it manufactured into a ring, forwards it to him with the following Bible inscription engraved in distinct characters on the outside: “Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest will I go, and whither thou lodgest will I lodge; thy people will be my people and thy Goa my God; where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part me and thee.” The lover idolized his sweetheart more than ever when he received this precious evidence of her devotion to him both in storm and sunshine. We may add that fortune soon again smiled upon the young physician, ana that he subsequently returned to the North to wed the sweet girl he loved and who lovedhlm with such undying affection. Reader,, this is all true. Young ladies who read the Bible as closely as the heroine of this incident seems to have done, are pretty sure to make good sweethearts and better wives. —Pittsburgh Commercial. The City of Boston owes $43,657,883, its debt having increased to that amount -from $8,500,600 in the past seventeen years. During all that time there has been no reduction until last year, when the sum of $842,677 was paid off.