Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1877 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

VMM WASHINGTON. Tst Comptroller of the Currency b*« ttM upon the National Banks for Infornation as to the amounts of all the taxes paid by them to State, county, city, town or other municipal authorities for last year; and alao as to the amount of personal taxes assessed upon the stock of the banks. A Washington dispatch of the 18th s»ys the •< negate of silver coin issued to that date was 834 236,0(0; fractional currency redoemed, 821,980,000, leaving 819,622,0u0 currency still outstanding. It was announced in the Cabinet meeting in Washington, on the 14th, that the Governor of Texas would demand of the Mexican authorities the culprits who crossed over from the Mexican side and committed the outrages at Rio Grande Qty, on ihe 12th. rhe Cabinet approved of snch action by the Governor. Tn Commission appointed by the Government, to treat with Canada for the return of Sitting Bull a d his band of Indians, is composed of Gen. Terry and Mr. John McNeil, aBU L<>uls merchant Capt Corbin will act as Clerk of the Commission.

THE BAST. A meeting of workingmtn was held in Philadelphia on the 11th, at which a resolution was adopted recommending the organisation of the workingmen for political purposes, to be called the Protective party, and having for its objects: First, the mutual protection of labor; second, the direct representation of the working classes in municipal and State Legislatures and Congress; third, the repeal of all oppressive laws against labor; fourth, the enactment of just laws for the protection of labor. A committee was appointed to draft plans for such organisation. Ths Greenback party of New Jersey, on the 14th, nominated Gen. Thus. D. Hoxey for Governor, and passed resolutions demanding the immediate repeal of the Resumption act, attributing to it the contraction of the currency and the general distress of the country, and warning workingmen that it 1» part of a conspiracy of the money power to pauperize and then disfranchise labor; denouncing the demonetization of silver, and demanding 'he repeal of the law effecting such demonetization. Ths Democratic State Convention of Maine was held at Portland, on the 14th, and Joseph H. Williams, of Augusta, was nominated for Governor. Eesolu io..s were adopted—reaffirming the platform and principles of the St. Louis Convention; charac: terizing as a monstrous fraud the reversal of the election of Samuel J. Til'en for President, ■ and asking sn amendment to the Constitution which will makes like result In the future impossible; declaring that the restoration to the common rights of citizenship of the people ofthr e Southern States, long kept subject to mlllta»y occupaU-n, is a Just acknowledgment of the wisdom of Democratic principles, and that the Democratic party opposes only what is wrong in the administration of the Government .The State Convention of the Independent Greenback psity of Pennsylvania has been called to meet at Williamsport on the 19th of September. Two children of F. M. Lavalley, of Flushing, N. Y., were burned to death on the 14th, by the explosion of a can of kerosene oil. The new Central Coal Company of Cumberland, Md., one of the heaviest shippers, resumed work on the 15lh,at fifh-fivec nts, the rates demanded by the strikers. Ano her company would soon do Ilk* wise at the same rate. A Wilkesbarre (Pa.) special of the 15th reports that the strikers in that section were engaged in forcibly stopping the numping in several of the mines. A strike had been resolved on by the miners in the Hazleton (Pa.) region.

The New Yoik Prohibitionist* have nominal* d a State ticket and resolved that it is the duty of all to extirpate the crime of Belling intoxicating drinks. The New York State Central Committee has issued a call for a State Independent Convention to be held on the 25th of September. The call demand* the immediate consideration of the platform adopted at Indianapolis in May, 1876; denounces the Resump, tion act and asks it* repeal; stigmatizes the issue of the 4% per cent, bonds as a barefaced robbery of lhe people to the extent of *lB,000,000. It also calls for laws to sustain labor and control railroad and other monopolies. The Centennial celebration at Bennington, VL, on the 15to and 16th, in commemoration of the Revolu ion ary Battle of Bennington, was largely attend'd, many distinguished! personages being present, among whom were President,Hayes end member* of his Cabinet, Poems by Wm. C. Bryant and Mrs. Julia C. R.Door were read on the 16th. and slort speeches were made by President Hayes, Sec’y Evarts and others. The procession of the day, numbering 8,000 people, passed in review before President Hayes, Mrs Hayes and the Cabinet, the President, in his remarks, congratulating Vermont upon her grand and successful Centennial celebration, and referring to the evident interest taken in her 100th anniversary of two prom-

inent events in her history by the visiting officials of sister States, the military and the thousand* present. Sec’y McCrary introduced Mrs. Hayes a* President Haye*’ Molly Stark. Great enthusiasm was kindled by these expressions. The crowd in attendance npen the celebration is estimated at 50,000 in number. The operatives in several Pennsylvania collieri* * struck, on the 16th, while the employes in three of lhe largest collieries in Maryland had n solved to resume work, having secured the rate of pay demanded by them. Gold closed in New York, on Aug 17'h, J at 105%. The following were the closing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, October —No. 2, Milwau kee, September t Oats, Western and Siate, 25@48c. Corn, Western Mixed, 56 @s9c. Pork, Mess, <[email protected]. Lard, 88.95. Flour, good to choke, *[email protected]; WMter Wheat,B6.os@6Ao. Cattle, 8%@12%c for good to extra. Sheep, 84.0006.00. Hogs, *5.75®587.

At E»st Liberty, Pa., on Aug. 17th, Cattle brought: Beat, 85 [email protected]; Medium, HAO @5.25, Common, [email protected]. Hog is sold —Yorkers, *s.B<>@s.«); Phil-dslphiae, 85.25 At Baltimore, Mi, on Aug. 17th, Cattle brought: Best, M08@«AO; Medium, 88.75 @A2S. Hogs Bold at [email protected] for Good. Sheep rere quoted at [email protected] for Good. Axusa-MXUTUIO of workingmen, held in Cincinnati, on the 11th, nomine ed the following State ticket: For Governor, L. H. Bond, of Clncinnstl; Lieutenant-Governor, Freak Skadd, of Cleveland; State Treasurer, L. A. Blue; Clerk of Supreme Court, Fredfftak Aospeiger; Board of Public Works

Peter McGoery; School Commissioner, Peter H. Clark. The platform adopted pledges the party In Ohio to labor uncess Inglyfor toe recognition of equal righto and duties, and the abolition of all class rule; d. msndatoc payment of wages weekly, with suitable penalties for failure to do so on the part of employers; eight hours for a day's work; employers to be liable for all accldcnta to employes; the employment of children under fourteen years of age to be prohibited In Industrial establishments; all conspiracy 'aw. to be abolished; the use of convict labor by private employer* to be prohibited; gratuitous Instruction in all educational institutions; patent and all other law* or privilege* to individuals or companir* to the detriment of labor to be repealed; the tariff and other acts for indirect taxation to be repeal'd, and direct taxation on property and income* to be substituted therefor; railroad*, teleg-apha and all mean* of transportation to be under Government control, for the purpose of abolishing the wages rys. tem, and all Industrial enterprises to be 1 placed under the control of Government as fast a* practicable, and operated by free cooperative unlous for the good of the whole people. A courier arrived at Deer Lodge, on the 11th, from Big Hole, Montana, bringing account* of a desperate fight between Gen. Gibbon's command and the Nez Perces, on the Big Hole River, on the 9th, in which the former lost twenty-five killed, among whom a*e Capt. Logan and Lieut*. Bradley and Bostwick. The wounded numbered fortyfive, including Gen. Gibbon, Capt. Williams and Lieut*. Coolidge, Woodruff and English, the latter seriously. The Indians suffered severely, forty of their dead being counted on about one-half the battlefield. Gen. Terry, at St. Paul, received a dispatch from Gen. Gibbon, dated the 11th, stating that be surprised the Nez Perces camp and got possession of it after a bard fight, in which both sides lost heavily. Other dispatches say that Gib' on’s command numbered 182 men, Including seventeen officers and thirty-two citizens, and the Ii dians over 1,000, and describe the battle as having been one of the fiercest on record, the Indian* losing heavily. While on his return from Oregon, Senator Morton was taken quite seriously ill. He passed through Indianapolis, on the 13th, on hi* way to bis home in Richmond, accompanied by bis family and physician, the latter having been summoned to meet him at Peoria, 111. The Senator’s left arm was paralyzed, but the physician thought only temporarily. For the present he would be permi ted to ste no one except his family. Fifteen men from Mexico entered the Town of Rio Grande, Tex., on the morning of the 13th, broke open the jail, shot Judge Cox and the Jailer, and released two notorious outlaws. The civil authorities called upon the military for assistance, and the Mexicans were pursued but not overtaken, they recroesing the river into Mexico seven-ty-seven miles below Rio Grande. The returns received up to the 18th from the recent election in West Virginia iudicaed that Charleston had been chosen as the permanent scat of the State Government By the terms of the law submitting the question to the people, the capital wHI remain at Wheeling until May, 1885. A dispatch, dated the 11th, was received from Gen. Howard, on the 13th, stating that he had reached Gen. Gibbon's command on the Big Hole, and found- 'lie s-ldiers in the best of spirit*. Gen. Gibbon’s wound was not serious. The Indians suffered great looses in the fight of the 9th. Gcu. Howard would continue the pursuit of the Indians who had all left) as soon as his command came up. The Chicago Tribune of the 14th says Gen. Sheridan regarded the result of Gen. Gibbon’s battle as one of the most important victories of the war. Col. John A. Joyce, who was sentenced to the Penitentiary at Jefferson Cl'y, Mo., for complicity in the whis-ky conspiracy, w.s, on the 13th, released from confinement. The case came up on writ of habeas corpus, Joyce’s plea being the illegality of his cumulative sentence. The Court held that he had served the lime he owed the Government, and that be was entitled-to his dis charge, but required him to furnish bonds in the sum of 41,000 to answer any order which the higher Court, to which the case has been appealed, might make. President Hayes’ old regiment, the Twenty-third Ohio, will hold its annual reunion at Fremont, on the 14th of September. The President, Gens. Sherman, Sheridan and other distinguished persons will be in attendance. Raleigh T. Daniel, the Attorney-Gen-eral of Virginia, and Democratic candidate for re-* lection, died at Richmond, on the 16th, after two days’ illness, of hemorrhage of the bowels. He was seventy-two years old. Gen. Gibbon, accompanied by Lieut. Jacobs, arrived at Deer Lodge, Mont., on the 15th, where he met with an enthusiastic reception by the citizens. He was feeling well, but was a little stiff from his wound. A Virginia City (Mont.) dispatch of the 16th says all the Chinamen on Horse Prairie had been massacred by the Nez Perces Indians. The Bannock tri eof Indians are reported friendly and willing to fight against the hostilcs, the Nez Perces being their natural enemies. A Fort Clark (Tex.) special of the 16th says that on the 14th Mexican cattle-thieves drove 150 head of cattle across the Rio Grande. The National Educational Association, at its recent session in Louisville, Ky., appointed a committee to memorialize Congress on behalf of a National Educational Bureau and Museum. W. B. Hibby, indicted for subornation of perjury in the recent Grover investigation at Portland, Ore., has been held to appear for trial in the sum of 42,500, and, in default thereof, was in jail on the 16th. The annual reunion of the Army of the Tennessee occurs at St Paul on the sth and 6th of September next. Extraordinary preparations are making for the entertainment of the visitors. President Hayes and his Cabinet have been invited and are expected to be present On the night of the 16th, the steamer City of Madison, en route from Chicago to Lud ington, Mich., took fire off Racine, and burned tor the water’s edge. The crew escaped in a yawl-boat Prof. Watson, of the Michigan University Observatory at Ann Arbor, reports the discovery by him, on the night of the Bth, of a hitherto unknown planet It was in the constellation of Capricorn. An accurate observation of the stranger was not obtained until the night of the 16th, when it was discovered to be moving west and north, and was shining like a star of the tenth magnitude.

In Chicago, on Aug. 17th, Spring Wheat No. 2, closed at [email protected] cash. Cash corn sold at 23c; and 22%c seller September. Rye No. 2,53 c. Barley No. 2 (New), September delivery, Cash Mess Pork closed at 812.50 Lard, 88.42 - Beeves—Extra brought 85.0506.00; Chpice, [email protected]'; Good, [email protected]; Medium Grades, 83.50® 4.004 BmitchOTß*, Stock - tattle, etc., 82.75@8A0. Hogs brought [email protected] for Good to Choice. Sheep sold at [email protected] for Poor to Choice. FOHKIfiN INTBLUCKNCA. CotrsTAxrnroPLi dispatches of the 12th say a civil war of extanninatfon had been be-

gun in the Province of Eske-Ssghra. All male Christian native* had been ordered' to be put to death, aince every Bulgarian waa looked upon a* a apy or an open enemy. The Turkish troops In the Caucasus have been withdrawn and ordered to Adrianople and Varna. The Russians have evacuated the Kaln-Boghaz Paas of the Balkans. Thi cholera has made its appearance. In the Russian camps on the Danube and in the Dobrudscha. Intelligence was received at New York, on the llth, of the loss of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company’s steamer Eten, ou Valparaiso, on the 25th of July. Of the crew slxt'-three were saved, but nearly 100 of the passengers were drowned. Among the lost was the commander of the vessel. Recent report* of the famine in India represent that the stricken area contains 18,000,000 sufferers, dependent for food upon the activity and exertion* of those who transport grain to thecountry; that the Madras Presidency was powerless to satisfy their want*, and that all aid that could be secured was necessary to the salvation of life. Over 500,000 people bad perished, and more had been found dead on a single morning than died during the Whole Bengal famine. Passenger trains bad been partly discontinued on the roads to enable relief trains to get through, and a frantic appeal for assistance has been sent to the principal cities of England, Scotland, Ireland and India. The Queen prorogued the British Parlia ment, on the 14th, until Oct 30. The German Government has addressed remonstrances to the Port against the atrocities committed in Bulgaria, and Intimated the absolute necessity of better discipline. Constantinople telegrams of the 14th say that every Russian had been driven from that portion of Tuikey south of lhe Balkans. Intelligence was received In London, on the 14th, of the recent discovery of a conspiracy against the Ameer of Cabool. Four officials had already been executed. According to St. Petersburg dispatches of the 15th, Russia had declared that she would not be bound by the pledges made when war was first declared, but would dictate peace on her own terms when the Turks have been finally subjugated. The Russians have completed a second bridge across the Danube at Pvrgos, and large numbers of troops hare already passed over. The death of Wm. Longman, the wellknown English publisher, is announced. The British Privy Council has forbidden the landing of leaves oi stalks of potatoes grown in the United States, Canada or Germany. A Republican conspiracy has been discovered and frustrated at Madrid. Numerous arrests were made"there and throughout the province*. According to London dispatches of the 16th, the Russians had virtually raised the siege of Rustcbuk. They had officially acknowledged the loss of 14,459 men, killed and wounded, up to Aug. 9. Prince Nikita bad also raised the siege of the Citadel of Nicsics, because of the entry of a Turkish force into Montenegro. The whole of Bulgaria, south of Timova, had been substantially abandoned by the Russians. The Sultan has issued an Imperial decree, calling to arms all hitherto exempted. Despite the energetic attempts of the Government to stamp it out, the Colorado beetle has spread over a field of twenty-five acres at Langenr-icbenbacb, in Germany. According to Bucharest telegrams of the 17th, the fever epidemic in the Russian Army was rapidly increasing. The troops were ’also suffering for the want of suitable food. The Servian Cabinet has resigned on account of differences in respect of the foreign policy of the Government.

Sad Plight and Happy Relief of a Suffering Family.

Last week, during the excitement of the big strike, a sad scene occurred at the State Line Depot. One of the morning trains brought in a family from New York City, consisting of a man, woman and three children. • They were literally starving. Three weeks ago they left their home on Pearl street to come west to this city. They bought their tickets and then had a few dollars left, enough, as they thought, to render them comfortable after their arrival here, until the husband, John Carr, could find employment. Mrs. Carr has been for years a cripple and also in poor health. This was one of the causes that prompted the removal west Soon after leaving the city the oldest boy, a little over five years of age, was taken dangerously ill, and the party was obliged to leave the train to give it the care and attention it required. For three weeks they tarried along the route, and at length found their last penny exhausted and nothing remaining but their tickets to this place. They entered the cars and on Friday landed at the State Line Depot. The husband at once inquired for work, and was directed by the depot master to the grading force at the new depot, where work had that morning been resumed. Kissing his wife and children he hastened away. The wife and children settled down upon the platform against the depot building, amid their small packages and bundles, to await the return of the husband and father. Soon the little ones began to sway to and fro and moan and cry most piteously. One of the officers inquired of the little girl, the oldest child, about seven years of age, what she was crying about. “ Off, we are all so hungry,” ana then the moan ing began again by all the little ones, sadder and more heart-touching than ever. The officer took the child and led her away to a baker’s on Twelfth street, and purchased some cakes, which she began to eat most ravenously. The others almost choked when they began to eat, and the poor sick child took one or two bites of cake and fell over in a spasm. It was then that the poor woman told her sad story to those who gathered around and questioned her. They had not tasted a morsel of food for three days, and were literally starving in the midst of plenty. In an instant Depot-Master Freidenburg’s hand went down into his pocket, and, laying in its broad palm a silver half-dollar, he started a subscription. Men out of work, strikers whose last dime lay in their pockets, brought it forth and added it to the contribution; travelers and citizens, both men and women, all made their sympathy manifest, and $lO found its way into the woman’s hands, who could only weep her thanks—her heart was too full for words. Then a physician came and prescribed for the sick child. Henry brought forward from the depot lunch stand a most bountiful repast, and the starving ones were given a feast of welcome to the New Chicago. The poor woman was bewildered, she could not understand it all. “ You couldn’t set a penny in New York,” said she, “ to saveyou from starving.” Then a team was brought up, and the woman and children were taken to the old Citv Hall, Where they remained until Saturday night. In the meantime, the husband worked all that long Friday afternoon without food, to earn a few cents to feed, as he thought, his starving family. And how his heart must have rejoiced and his famished body gained strength when he found his wife and little ones had been so kindly cared for and placed beyond the reach of hunger and want, and his sick child well provided for.— Hantat City (Mo.) Journal. Business at Niagara Falls is suspended at the bridge, is falling off at the Falls, and is less hack-tive - all around there.— Bouton Foot. .

, MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —Deep color* have superseded the pale •hade* so long fashionable. —Experience, like flannel, to be useful, must be worn as an under-garment. —Russian inns are said to be very poor, but a Russian knout is worse.— Oom Bulletin. —The railroad strikers have seen that! t te not the way to make board cheaper to burn flour and hams.— Bolton Advertiser. —Old Ag* I* not * frl*nd I wish to meet; An<l if i*oni* day to *cs me he mould come, I’d lock the door*. he walked up the street. Aud cry, “ Most honored air. I'm not at home!” —Apples are big enough now to keep a ten-year-old boy and both his parents and the nearest druggist up all night.—Pitt*tnirgh Telegraph. —Nothing like the English language. For instance, they arc drafting men in India to bury the draught horses which have died from the drouth.— Detroit Free Press. —The stage-coach drivers in the White Mountains, despairing of managing their leading horses with the whip, carry along a load of small stones, which they throw at the proper time with salutary effect. —A recently-married Irishman received a dispatch the other day, the Boston Transcript says, from an old “ swateheart,” inviting him to come over, and he replied by telegraph: “ I am married and to me greef.” —There is complaint that innocent people occasionally get killed when the troops fire on a mob, but perhaps innocent people are better off in Heaven than they are on the outskirts of a mob.—Philadelphia Chronicle. —The hot weather brings out new displays of the general spirit of economy and retrenchment, and every boy who appears in public with scolloped hair proclaims that another woman has joined the strike against the barbers. —A peculiar way of discharging printers exists in Dayton, Ohio, offices. Each compositor has a nail to bang his coat on, and when the foreman concludes to dispense witli the services of one of the hands, he takes a hammer and drives the nail in to the head. —Concerning the word “lady” a woman writes as follows: “If I belonged to the medical persuasion and an editor called me a lady doctor, I would prescribe for that literary light gratuitously, and administer a dose which would purify him of his ‘ vulgar gentility.’ ” —Ross’ goose laid eggs in Hott’s dooryard, in Cincinnati, and Hott’s goose hatched from them one gosling. Who owned the gosling? The question was angrily disputed by Ross and Hott, and they have gone to law about it. The gosling has grown into a goose and worth a dollar at most. The litigation has al ready cost f2OO. —The noble conduct of the Philadelphia troops at Pittsburgh has been the means of calling forth the inventive genius of the country. A Pennsylvania party proposes to get out a patent for a double reversible suit, the outside consisting of the regulation uniform and the inside of civilian’s dress or petticoats, according to the taste of the wearer. In case of meeting the enemy, this suit can be turned inside out, and thus worn would render the wearer perfectly safe.—Exehanae. —The Communists of Chicago on their rounds met a waffle wagon. The waffle man had found business dull until they met by chance, the usual way. The waffler had material enough, he thought, to revictual the waffle-loving public of Chicago for the forenoon. The Communists communed with that waffle-wagon for just about ten minutes, and then the waffles, oh! where were they? The wafflerender is engaged in reckoning up so many waffles at five cents each, and a lawsuit hangs over the City of Chicago. —Mr. Lester said that when he was a boy ten or twelve years of age, he was one day standing in Market Square with his grandfather, when four Irishmen came up, one of whom asked the distance to Pawtucket. He was told by the old gentleman that it was about four miles. “ Well, faith,” said Pat, in a mock tone of encouragement to his three tired companions, “ that’s not bad nt all—only a mile apiece for us.” “Whom do you. want to see in Pawtucket?” inquired Mr. Lester, senior. “Be jabers,” was the Suick reply, “ I want to see meself there ic most of anybody I"—Providence Journal. —Mr. Alden, the humorist or the New York Times, has discovered that the busy bee is a very objectionable insect: “ The bee’s willingness to do unnecessary work is an insult to intelligent human beings. Scientific persons are fond of telling us of the bee’s tremendous geometrical knowledge, and parade in proof thereof the fact that it builds hexagonal cells, thereby packing the greatest number of cells with the smallest possible amount of wax, within a given space. They fail, however, to notice that there is no law requiring bees to build their preposterously little cells. If they were really intelligent insects, and knew the comparative value of wax and honey, they would build cells holding a pound of honey each, and thus enable a human being to eat honey without, at the same lime, filling up the interior 01 his person with wax. This simple plan has never yet occurred to the bees —lt is a mistake for girls to imagine that the only big brothers who are worth speaking of, or to, are the big brothers of other girls. Nothing is so beautiful, so pleasant and so profitable as an affectionate big brother. There is one young lady on Laflin street who rejoices in the possession of such a relative, and has found him to be worth his weight in greenbacks of a large denomination. In winter time she lights the gas, turns it up to its full brilliancy, puts his hat on the windowsill, places a rocking-chair between the light and the window, places him in the rocking-chair, and places herself on his knee, and sits there by the hour, telling him the most fearful lies as to what his girl (who is also her dearest friend) has lold her about him. while lhe girls of the neighborhood grit their teeth, regardless of the filling, and wonder what chucklehead that plastered old Thing has l>ccn de. hiding into believing that lie is her first and only love. — Chicago Tribune.

A Tramp’s View of Idleness.

He came msmwiy and laboriously, as if five tons of weariness were weighing down hit spirits. He dropped heavily into a chair, sighed several four-foot sighs, and then bombarded us with the following conundrum: “ What is idleness ? What does it coi> sistof?” “Don’t know. Never experienced it. ” “ Now, some people would call doing nothing idleness, wouldn’t they T” “ I suppose they would.” j “' r es; .and that’s where some people make a mistake. There is no such thing as idleness. No man is ever wholly idle; if his body isn’t busy his brain is. I know that if a man sits around and shows a dls l inclination to work, folks will call him a tramp and a ‘cucumber of the ground,’ as Shakspeare says; but it don’t make any difference. .It isn’t so, and I can produce plenty of proof to sustain the position I take in the matter. Now, for instance, who ever heard of Napoleon getting up at five o’clock in the morning and starting outto the field with a hoe ever his shoulder, or chasing a side-hill plow around a field fourteen hours a day? Did Napoleon ever do that?” - “Never heard that he did.” “ No, sir ; he labored with his intellect, and when he had any real work to per form, thousands of men were ready to do < ' ■ . .... ..

bis bidding. That’s the sort of a man Napoleon was. He never sawed a cord of wood or did a hard day’s work in his life; and yet he was never arrested for vagrancy. and no interfering policeman ever came nosing around and told him to move along or the hand of the law would snatch him to the jug. “ Then look at Diogenes! What sort of a man was be ? On the unbalanced ledger of history do we find on the credit side any entry of this kind: "tDlogen**. Cr. *• B> one day'e work ~. sl.oo’ “ Nothing of the sort. Diogenes was a man who took the world easy. The* only tiling he ever did that we have any record of was .roaming around the streets of Syracuse with an old tin lantern in his hand. He pretended to be looking for an honest man. More likely be was mapping out a free-lunch route. So much for Diogenes. “Now turn over another page and glance at the portrait of Sir Isaac Newton. Wasn’t he a thoroughbred tramp ? All he did was to sit out in his garden under an apple-tree, smoke his old clay pipe, and build castles ia the air. One day an apple fell off the tree and struck Sir Isaac square in the eye. The circumstance made him famous. Why ? Because he was a genuine, philosophical tramp, and took things coolly. When the apple hit him he didn’t get mad and throw three cornered Greek words around through the atmosphere, or anything of that sort. He simply picked the apple up, looked it over carefully for worm-holes, and slipped it in his pocket to eat after supper. Then he began to wonder why the apnle didn’t go up instead of falling down to the ground. You see, before that he had never paid any attention to the matter, and he didn’t know whether it was the usual and correct thing for fruit to fly oil at a tangent from the earth when it became detached from the tree, or to come down, like Col. Crockett’s coon. He determined to investigate. So he hired a small boy to climb the tree and shake, and he watched till every apple fell to the ground. None of them flew up. Sir Isaac was satisfied. He had made a great discovery. The next day he cut out a basswood model of an apple-tree with a half grown pippin just in the act of starting on a voyage to the earth, and sent it on to Washington and had his discovery patented. This made Sir Isaac a noted man. When a little thing like that lifts a man up and plants him on the pinnacle of fame isn’t it an encouragement tor us all to sit around and wait to be hit by something? If 1 wanted to, I could go and work for a railroad at thirty-five cents a day, and board myself, but I won’t do it. I’ll hang around and wait for an opportunity. My intellect will have a chance to show itself some time; and if you hear of anybody waking up and startling the world within the next fifteen or twenty years, you’ll know it’s me. Ta, ta.” And the weary man arose and slowly glided forth—never, we hope, to return. — Puck.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—While dancing at a Cape May hop, the orher night, a young lady, like a horse, threw a shoe, and a near-sighted old gentleman picked it up and put it in his pocket, under the impression that it was his memorandum-book. —A Nevada miner fell into a shaft that was 200 feet deep, but after going down about forty feet, he struck on a platform. He says that while falling, and expecting to be instantly killed at the bottom, he thought as much in the few seconds as he could think ordinarily in an hour. —A few days ago, a young man named Tuttle and a couple of small boys went into the Helds in the north part of Goshen, Conn., after berries. A shower coming up, they took refuge in a collier’s cabin. While there they found an old ax, and while fooling with it, struck the post in the center that held up the roof. Being decayed, it snapped off with the blow, and the roof fell upon them and killed young Tuttle. —During the strike in Albany, while Coroner Fitzhenry, of that city, who is a member of the Burgesses Corps, was guarding the western end of the upper railroad bridge, a man attempted to pass the guard. The Coroner commanded the intruder to halt. “ Who will stop me from over this bridge ?” asked the man., “ I will,” said the Coroner. “Would you stop the likes of me, who voted for you for Coroner?” The Coroner replied: “ 1 am put here to shoot, and I get thirty dollars for a corpse. If you don’t leave I’ll put a bullet through you.” The constituent withdrew. —An unusual mishap occurred shortly after noon yesterday on Tenth street, near the Michigan Central tracks. A carpenter was passing on the sidewalk, carrying a long stick of 4x4 stuff balanced on his shoulder, when suddenly a boy named Naughton darted out from between two houses, to escape some playmate, his head coming directly in front of the beam the carpenter was carrying. It was impossible for tne latter to stop the momentum of the timber or vary the direction, and it struck the boy’s head with almost the force of a battering-ram, catting open his scalp and throwing him senseless upon a soluble, stone pavement.— Detroit Tribune.

—A case of rare interest to the medical profession, says the Hartford Cour ant, is that of a young daughter of William G. Corbin, of Union. On the 3d of last September she swallowed a shawl-pin, which was received in the left lung. For six weeks she experienced no trouble, but at the expiration of that time she had inflammation of the lungs. She was attended by the local physicians, and, at length. Dr. Storrs, of this city, was sent for, this being in midwinter. He advised the parents, who were, of course, very much alarmed, to trust to the chance of the pin being coughed up, rather than have an incision made for the removal of it. This course was pursued. The child recovered her usual condition of health, nearly, and in May coughed up a portion of the pin, it having rusted in two. On the 25th of July the rest of the pin, the head part, was likewise gotten rid of, and the chila is as well as ever, apparently. She had lived for elven months with a shawl-pin, over two inches long, in one of her lungs.

—A flour dealer in this city played it rather fine on the strikers. His stock of flour having become neatly exhausted, and, being unable to replenish it from the mill at Monroeville, he hit upon a novel plan for obtaining a supply. A carload of flour belonging to him had been lying at Monroeville for a few days, the railroad company being unable to deliver it in this city. He procured the key to the Baltimore & Ohio Company's switch at Monroeville, opened the switch, and by hitching a team of mules to a car loaded with flour he pulled it out on the main track, and then started the mules with the car toward this city. He had provided himself with planks, which he placed on the ties across the cattle-guards and bridges, and the sure-footed mules were enabled, by walking on the plants, to get safely over the bridges and guards. Thus the car-load of flour was pulled as far as the switch at Perkins, where the “engineer” side-tracked his novel train in order to allow the regular evening passenger train to pass. The long-earea “ locomotives” were detached from the car of flour, and were allowed to rest during the night. They were hitched to the cer again next morning, and the flour brought here.— San&utky tfihio) Rsgieter.- : It didn’t suffice for Mr. Johnson to remark, at four o’clock the other morning, after Stumbling up-stairs to Mrs. Johnson and bed, “Y’ sefe, m’ dear, it co couldn’t be helped. It was the strike. I’m one o’ the delayed males.”

The Unhappiness of Childhood.

There Is a common way of talking of the period of childhood as if it were one of perpetual happiness. Grown-up people are so far removed from their early days, that, in many cases, they seem to forget what they endured as children. They think of themselves as having been happy, strong, free from care, lighthearted—at least, in contrast with the various conditions oi life and thought in which they now find themselves, it seems as if they had been so; and they speak of happy childhood as if entire happiness were the normal condition of human beings in the early stages of their existence. It is probable that there are some persons who can look back upon an uninterruptedly happy childhood, ana, wnen that is the case, they have memories to be stqxgd up which are, indeed, priceless in value. But it is true, in far more cases than the popular reckoning allows, that childhood is a period in which there is very little of positive happiness, and very much of actual suffering and unhappiness. Not only are there the small griefs incident to the discipline necessary for childhood—the petty disappointments which seem so keen, the small selfdenials which appear so great, the restraints as to the exercise of will which the necessary rule of home or school imposes—but there are far keener sufferings than these. There are the * cases ot children whose whole life is one of suffering, of actual or impending illness, who may, perhaps, by constant care, grow up to be men and women in tolerable health, but who never can look back on a time when, in their childhood, they were strong and well.

People are apt to think that such children as these have their compensations in extra care and love given to them; but let any one who has had experience of such a childhood look back to it, and say if the unhappiness of illness did not render life very sad. There is, above all, the unhappiness of mismanaged and misunderstood children. There are children of peculiar temperaments, whose whole lives are rendered a burden to them by the fact that the persons set over them—either parents, guardians or teachers—have been destitute of sympathy for them, and have not thought it worth while to try what a change in the plan of managing them would do. Harriet Martineau and the young Brontes seem to have been children misunderstood; and though their strong natures struggled through into brighter lives, yet there are hundreds, nay, thousannds, of children, set down as sullen, dogged, obstinate, and treated with harshness, who live lives of dull wretchedness because they do not know what is wrong with them, and no one takes pains enough to try to set things straight for them and make them happier. Again, there are clever children weighed down by utterly unintellectual surroundings, forbidden to read because reading is “ a waste of time,” kept to more mechanical work, and never allowed to indulge fully their love of study. At one period of herchildho<id Mrs. Somerville seems to have suffered a good deal from this. Of course, nothing could be more unwise than to allow all the wnims and fancies of children to have their way unrepressed. Such a course of action would merely add the misery of undisciplined will to the others which children sutler. But that childhood is often a time of great, eyen of morbid, unhappiness, is a statement that no reflecting persons, especially those who have had much to do with children, can deny. We have been led to the consideration of this subject by the recent sad occurrence of the suicide of a young boy—one of the pupils of a great public school. He complained of having been badly treated by a boy older than himself; he ran away twice from school; he had been punished and flogged for hi^misbehavior, and the poor child found refuge from what seemed to him an unavoidable accumulation of miseries in death by hanging. He was said to have been obstinate; it was also declared that no terrorism could have been exercised over hjm without the knowledge of the superior authorities of the school. But the fact remains, that to the poor lad life had become so miserable that he could endure it no longer. The jury gave a verdict of “ temporary insanity,” but what a revelation of unhappy childhood does this bring before us! Cases of the commission of suicide by children are, after all, not very uncommon. How sad must have been the condition of these poor sufferers! Childhood to them was all unhappiness. The lessons for parents, and for all who have to do with children, are obvious. Children are as different in their natures and temperaments as grown-up people are, and they are infinitely more sensitive, making them easier both to manage and to mismanage. Children cannot be governed by any stern, unvarying rule; they must be treated according to the differences in their characters. Above all, children who appear morose, obstinate, unhappy, should not be made more so by punishment—they are wretched enough already. To alleviate, not to increase, the unhappiness of chijdhood should be the aim of all who have the welfare of children at heart.— London Queen.

An Imprisoned Briton.

Is it a crime to permit yourself to be robbed? It would appear so, from the experience of William Kirby, an English emigrant, who, with his wife and three children, recently arrived in New York. Before he had been three hours in the land of liberty, a sharper “ borrowed” five dollars of him —“just for a few minutes,” as he said, and then fled. Two days afterward, while waiting for the train which was to convey him to Detroit, a sleek, sanctimonious-looking strangei, accosted him in the Erie Depot, learned the emigrant’s destination, and said that he, too, was on his way to Detroit. How fortunate! They would be companions on the long journey. As the train would not starffor half an hour, the sanctimonious stranger, who said he was a minister of the Gospel, invited the emigrant to take a walk with him—he wished to get a few parcels of merchandise which he had purchased. The emigrant and the minister sauntered off together, and w ere soon met by a man wdio informed the minister that the parcels had just been left in the depot, and that the charges upon them were sl7. Tne minister hurriedly examined his pockets, but could And no coin or bill less than a S2O gold Ciece. He asked the emigrant to Tend im sl7 until they returned to the depot, and gave him the S2O coin as security. The good-natured emigrant gave the minister sl7, and pocketed the coin. The honest clergyman paid his bill on tjie parcels, and the man hastened The minister and the emigrant strolled on a block farther, when suddenly the minister ran into the side door of a saloon, without waiting to say good-by to the amazed era. grant. The Engl ishin an’s SuSpTcions were instantly aroused, and he hurried around the corner just in time to see the clergyman bouncing out of the other door. The emigrant collared the divine and held him until a policeman arrived. At the stat jon-honse a chargeuf passing counterfeit money was made against the self, styled clergyman, and he was held in $1,500 bail. The unfortunate emigrant has been Confined in the House of Detention for Witnesses, where be will remain until the trial takes place, some time next month. In the meantime, the emigrant's to do the best they can without their natural protector, and very likely their passage tickets will be forfeited, because not used in time. Well may the imprisoned Briton exclaim “My heyes 1 what a blawsted country! Honly three days 'ere, and robbed

twice; and ’ere Hi bam, caged like a han* imal, while my peer family are friendless in a strange land. Ia it a crime to be robbed?”—2V. Y. Weekly.

Knowledge is Power.

In one of our exchanges we find the following condensed sermon: Artemus Martin, of Erie. Pa., on whom the degree of A. M. was conferred by Yale College at the last comniencem nt, ia a market gardener, who sella vegetables in the streets of Erie twice a week. He is a regular contributor to foreign and American edm atlonal publications, and has a mathematical library of several hundred volumes. He Is self-educated. How far its moral may be apparent to the general reader cannot, of course, be estimated; but, to our mind, it contains a history as well as a sermon The market gardener or vegetable peddler, combined with the occupation of writer upon educational subjects of foreign and American magazines, would, at first blush, seem to be somewhat incongruous; yet a little further consideration of the matter will show, at once, the entire consistency of it. In the light of the explanation, “He is self-educated,” we can easily see how the two occupations can be combined so gradually that the interference of the one with the other shall not exist. Here is a market gardener with an ambition above a cabbage and a will above the trifling obstacles that are thrown in the path of the knowledge-seeker. We say trifling obstacles advisedly, and not without a full knowledge of its enormous import to weak-minded and lazy people. Beginning as a market gardener, Mr. Martin has occupied those leisure hours which the majority of our young men use for amusement, in storing bis mind with the special knowledge by which he is now enabled to make his contribution to educational literature. His time being fully occupied in this pursuit of knowledge, the little expenses, which fritter away the small change of the ordinary young men of the day, did not exist, and the money was ready at all times with which to make such additions to his mathematical library as have now amounted to several hundred volumes. Constantly learning to economize bis time, he has used his original business of market gardening simply for his support, and the real work of his life has been his pleasure. After advancing in the knowledge of his specialty, he was undoubtedly seized with the very natural desire to give the world at large any benefit to be derived from it, hence his contributions to the educational literature of the day. This brings him to the notice of learned men, who recog. nize his ability and confer upon him the Yale degree of Master of Arts—a reward far greater to such a man than all the wealth of the Indies. Such an honor, however,- has not puffed up his conceit nor caused him to look with contempt ujion the day of small tilings; has not caused him to change his original opinion, that the occupation of market gardener and that of professor of mathematics tare perfectly consistent with each other ‘and equally honorable. For the condensed sermon says, he “ sells vegetables in the streets of Erie twice a week.”

What Mr. Martin has done, each young farmer and mechanic in this country can do, if he only thinks so. Begin with a will, and make up your mind to occupy your leisure hours in some sludy suited to vour tastes, and one-half the battie is won. Perhaps you will say, “ I have no leisure.” If that thought were to occur to you, dismiss it at once, for you are deceiving yourself. One half hour each day would be 156 hours each year and 1.500 bouts in ten years—during which time an immense amount ot learning can be acquired ution any subject and wonderful progress be made in any art or science by a person who has decided to learn. Beside this, increased interest will induce increased hours of study. The objection may be raised that no liooks are handy or procurable for the purpose, by reason of the distance from public libraries. Here, too, you would be deceiving yourself. Two or three dollars will purchase for you the primary works for the beginning of almost any study you may choose to engage in, and the money saved from frivolous amusements while you are engaged in your studies, will «oon amount to more than enough to purchase all the books you can read with care and profit. In addition to this, there is hardly a community in which some owner of a library cannot be found who would take pleasure in encouraging, by the loan of books and in every other way, the honest efforts of any young man to acquire knowledge upon a particular subject As an example, we will suppose a young farmer desires to take up the study of botany, which bears a very close relation to his every-day occupation. The elementary works, of which there are many, can be procured at a very small cost, and by dropping a postal card to your weekly newspaper office, you can get the information as to what books to purchase and their price, upon the arrival of which you can start at once upon your studies and make practical observations and demonstrations of the science every day right on your own farm. Many young farmers learn by seeing before them the results of natural laws in vegetation; but bow few of them know those laws and the application of them to ether and more profitable results which they have not yet seen?

We are fully aware of the prejudice (and it is pure prejudice) against what is called “book-farming;” but there is no earthly reason why a man who knows the laws of Nature and the reasons for certain results, should not have quite as much practical knowledge of farming matters as the boor who produces his crops exactly as his father did, without a desire to know more. Nor need a young man take his half hour of study from his labor. It should be a pleasure, and should be taken from bis leisure. The advanced knowledge of agriculture to-day is due to the labors of men like Mr. Martin; and we will venture to assert, without knowing more of him than is contained in the foregoing sermon, that he is a happier and better man while peddling his vegetables through the streets of Erie, than the wealthiest, sleekest and fattest uneducated farmer in this country. He has resources of happiness in his knowledge and his studies which prevent all loneliness—which make his life a round of interesting pleasures. Our advice isnot “ Young man, go West,” but young man, get knowledge.— Rural New Yorker. “Yes, we have our trials and tribulations, same as other people,” answered one of the stall-keepers at the Central Market when interviewed the other day. “ I for one study human nature, but never interfere with it. Ten minutes ago a handsome and stylish lady got out of her carriage over there, sailed down to my stand, and with all the dignity of a queen she asked: ‘ Mr. Beans, have you any t real nice < huckleberries ?’•> . I replied: ' ‘ Madam, rhave the best lot of huckleberries in market,’.and I sold her two quarts. Five minutes later another lady came along and called out: ‘Mr. Beans, have you any cheap whortleberries?.’ I replied, * Madam, I have the cheapest whortleberries in the world,’ ami she took four quarts. It’s all the same tome, sfr;., whether they put the * buckle* or the.’ ‘ whortle ’to ’em—my business is to please the public.”— Detroit free Preet. There are 720 Browns in the city. Of these, twenty-eight answer when Charles is called, eleven when Frank is asked for, twelve when George is wanted, twentyfive when there is a demand for James, only forty when some one is looking for John, ten when Joseph is desired, and twenty-three when William is wished for. —OAfoapo Tribune.