Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1877 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

Wlw" WaiHIHGTON* A Viammoi die patch of the 18th elate* that the land ewa Involving the UUe ot the State of Kaaaaa to over >98,000 acre* of land, BWen tka aggregate of tk« grant of the Btate •»der the act of 1881 admitting Kao*** into the Union, had been decided by the Interior Darartment in favor of Kan***. . A mOumcabui astronomical discovery l* Wffartafi by Prof. Ball, who baa charge of Um great telescope in the Washington Nate—at Obaerv.aory. After two or three Bighta or cloe# obeervation of a email aUr dieeoveted la the aeighborbood of Mara, and which aaemed to be following that planet, be d< mon*tr*ted that it U a satellite of Mara. A aecond smaller body was also discovered, which la thought to be another hums «t the name planet Tan official statement of the receipts of the Government for the fiscal year ending Jane 90, 1877, shows a total of *2*»,00u,000. The expenditures were: Civil, *50.250,000; war, •87,06,000; navy, 815,000.000; Indians and pensions, *33,250,000; intereat on public debt, 807,000,000. Panel dint Hama and bia party reached Waahingto , on the evening of the 24th, ft\>m their New England trip. TUB HAST. It waa reported In New York, on the morning of the Slat, that arrangements had been entered Into by the Western Union and the Atlantic A Pacific Telegraphic Companies, by which the Western Union had obtained the controlling amount of the Atlantic A Pacific stock, the earning* to be pooled in proper ion of seven-eighths to Western Union and one-eighth to Atlantic A Pacific. The New York Daily Wihtett, a religious paper, suspended publication, on the 20th, lor want of adequate pecuniary support. Csmlis A. Minnie (colored) won the West Point appointment in Congressman Miller’s (N. Y.) District, his average being ninety-eight Tax Pennsylvania Democracy met in Btate Convention at Harrisburg, on the 22d, and nominated John Troi-key for Supreme Judge, and Won. P. Schell for Auditor-Gen erat The resolutions adopted declare—that the induction of Mr. Hayes into the Presidency, notwithstanding the election of Mr. Til'ten, waa a high crime against free government which has not been condoned and will not be forgotten; that the application by the federal Administration of the Democratic policy of non-lutcrv. ntton in the internal affaire of the Southern States, and the purpose to reform the civil service which has been proclaimed by the present Administration, arc confessions of the failure of Radicalism, and s just tribute to the Democracy; oppose further Federal or State enacments for the special benefit of capital at the expense of other interests; accept the admonition of Jackson concerning standing armies, as dangerous to free government in time of peace; protest against subsidies, laud gran s, losns of the public credit and appropriations of the people’s money to any corporation as legalised plunder of the taxpaying industries of the country; affirm and adopt the financial resolutions of the 8L Louis platform of last year. Tax Genera! Freight Agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad has notified parties having claims for goods destroyed during the riots la fittstmrgh to pul theii vlniius in o Ihe hands of the attorneys of the Company, and they will be presented to the authorities of Allegheny County without expense to the claimants, the county being responsible for ihe losses. Gold closed iu New York, on Aug 24ih, at 10*X- The following were the closing quotaiiona for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, (New), No. 2, Milwaukee, (OH), 81-98. Oats, Western and State, 26@48c. Corn, Western Mixed, 53 «Me. Pork, Mess, [email protected]. Lard, 88.85. Floor, good to choice, $5.55<g>600; Winter Wheat, [email protected]. Cattle, 9@llXc for good to extra. Bheep, *[email protected]. Hoga, 85.87K«5A0. At East Liberty, Pa., on Ang. 24th, Cattle brought: Beat, 86 [email protected]; Medium, *5.50 @SOO, Common, *[email protected]. Hogs sold —Yorkers, 85.40@550; Philadelphia*, $5.50 @5.60. Sheep brought [email protected]—according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on Aug. 24th, Cattle brought: Beat, *S.B7X@«-25; Medium, *3.50 @4J25. Hogs sold at [email protected] for Good. Sheep cere quoted at [email protected] for Good. . • : *

WEST AND SOUTH. Considerable excitement has been caused in Washington and surrounding Counties, in Nebraska, by the mysterious disappearance of the little daughter of a Mr.ttose. At first it was thought the child moit have been lost on the prairie, but a thorough search failed to give any trace of the little one, and the conclusion was arrived at, on that she fciApjg&d ?<>t: the purpose of obtaining a reward for her return. An Omaha dispatch or the 19th says a man by the name of Holmes had been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the crime. A reward of <I,OOO had been offered for the child’s return. Tn Central Ohio Executive Committee of the Workingmen’s Industrial Union have issued an address setting forth the platform of principles of the Workingmen’s party, and recommending that conventions be held in the several counties to nominate county officcrs, and establish Industrial Union Clubs in every township and voting precinct. N..A- Gbsher, E. B. Weston and a man named Stevens were arrested in Chicago, recently, upon sn picion that they were the gang of forgers who have operated in various parts of the country during the last year in the forging of drafts and checks. By their operations the Third National Bank of New York lost <2,700, and Winslow, Lanier & Co., of the same city, <40,000. They were arrested on reqnisMocof the Governor of New York and taken East, on the 20th. Their plan was to purchase genuine drafts, take out with chemicals all the printed and written matterexcept the bankoffleer’ssignature, and fill in with much larger amounts. Th* National Board of Trade commenced its ninth annual session at Milwaukee on the 21st. Delegates were present from nearly a'l the Boat da throughout the country. Mayor Butler, of Milwaukee, made the welcoming speech, in which he alluded to all the leading topics of the day connected with the commercial interne's of the country. In hU response, Frederick Fraley, of Philadelphia, President of Hie National Board, spoke of the labor question, as follows: He hoped that each man, “considering it in its relation to himself, and thus comparing It to Sts great relations with the great ioterate of the country, will see that as labor la the creator of nil wealth, it should be protected by sound and wi*e laws, sod that, for the settiamest of question* Involving principles oi labor and capital, the beat intelligence of th country should be invited and invoked, and that out of such lnvitftiou may come considerations that will lead to the enactment of law* referring the questions of labor tad capital, where they come in contact, to

Boards ot AlbUration, that may ascertain precisely Hn questions involved,as between the laborer and the capitalist, and suggest remedial measures for their settlement by compromise adapted to equitable considerations” According to a London dispatch of (be 21st, the Rustdans bad over 900 000 troops extended along the line from Pyrge* to Gabrova and thence back to Nlkopolls, and that, at the rate reinforcements were coming in, the Turk* would soon be overpowered by mere force of numbers Tu Russian oflloial report, published In St. Petersburg on the 2l*t, admits that the Russian losses at Plevna were betweeu 8,<«0 and 10,000 men. Of the 200 person* attached to the Red Cross ambulances, forty were killed while gathering the wounded. A Salt Laks (Utah) dispa ten of the 22d states that Gen. Howard had a slight skirmish with the Indians on ihe 20th, In which one man was kilted and seven were wounded. The Indians stole 200 of Howard’s horses. Montana volunteers were returning home disgusted, many of them on foot.

A telegram was received on the 23d announcing the safe arrival of Gen. Sherman at Helena, M. T. Tub National Board of Trade, at its session In Milwaukee, on the 23d, adopted resolutions—asking the President of the United States to consider the expediency of recoramendlug Congress to take the Initiatory steps for securing the adoption of a reciprocity treaty with Canada; that, In the opinion of the National Board of Trade, Congress has omitted to puss the necessary measures to carry into effect the Resumption act, and the Board therefore recommends that Congress should enact a law authorising the funding of legal-tender notes In bonds running forty years, at 4 per cent. Interest per annum, payable quarterly, to an amount not exceeding 810,000,000 per month, until the legal-tender notes shall be at par with coin; that the existing Bankrupt law Is unjust In Its essential features, and providing for a special committee to duviae changea In the law to avoid the alleged unjust provisions, and present the same to Congress. Senator Morton waa restlogcomfortably, on the night of the 23d, and hia physicians expressed the belief that the crisis waa passed, and his gradual recovery waa anticipated. At a meeting in New York City, on the 23d, of the Executive Committee of the Cuban League, an address to the people of the United States waa adopted, together with a resolution that the inhabitants of large cities form Cuban Leagues for the purpose of exercising moral influence upon our own and other civilized Governments in favor of the suppression of the Inhuman war waged against Cuba during the last eight years, and asking the aid of the press to demand Cuba’s recognition as a belligerent. President Hates and party arrived at Maich.stcr, N. H., On the 23d, where they met with an enthusiastic reception. A notorious Texas desperado, named John VVesley Harden, who is said to have committed twenty seven murders, was captured, after a desperate resistance, on board a rain of care at Pensacola, Fla., on the 24th. A companion named Mann waa killed. The Legislature of Texas had offered a large reward fur Harden’s body. The Sau Francisco Examiner of the 24th says it had been informed that an error had been discovered in the return of Kern County tor Kepres- ntative in Congress from the Fourth California District, by which Wigginton would receive au addition of three votes which were previously credited to Pacheco. This will give the seat to the former, as only one majority was claimed for Pacheco betore the error waa discovered. In Chicago, on Aug. 24th, Spring Wheat No. 2, closed at *1.06%@1.07 cash. Cash corn closed at il%c for No 2. Cash oats No. 2 sold at 23Xc; and 23%c seller September. Rye No. 2, 52Xc. Barley No. 2 (New), September delivery, ?2%@TSc. Cash Mesa Pork closed at 812.12 - Lard, *8.12X- Beeves—Extra brought *[email protected]; Choice, [email protected]; Good, *[email protected]; Medium Grades, $3.2A@ 4.25; Butchers’ Stock, [email protected]; Stock Cattle, etc., *[email protected]. Hogs brought [email protected] for Good to Choice. Sheep sold at *2.75®4.50 for Poor to Choice.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. The persons implicated in the murder of the German Consul at Salonica, some months ago, have been released from imprisonment, and the Great Powers, at the instance of Germany, have protested to the Porte concerning the impolicy of the act On the 20th, the Paris Conservative papers united in announcing that there was no choice there except between a roup d’etat and revolution, and that a Republican victory in tbe coming election would not be submitted to. It was believed that France was on the verge of a perilous crisis. London telegrams of the 20th say the Turkish accounts of the late Russian battle in Asia greatly exaggerated the disaster—that the Russian movement was merely a heavy recoonolssncc_in force, and that the army fell back with slight loss after its purpose bad been accomplished.

The Province of Salonica and the coast district from Olympus to the terminus of the'Xhrianop'ie' Riiiroafi *WBr in a state of siege by the Porte. The London Agricultural Gazette ot the 20th, in its review of the crop prospects of Great Britain, predicts a general failure of all crops. The potato crop, which until then had promised to be productive, was very generally threatened with disease. » Frederick Cavill swam across the En-gli-h Channel, starting from Cape Grlznez at 3:49 p. m., on tbe 20th, and reaching Dover at 3:45 a. m., on the 21st. According to Bhumla dispatches of the 22d, the Turks had captured the Village of Schipka, and driven the Rusdans out of the Pass. The Russian eff eial accounts of tbe 21st report that the Turks had assaulted the Russian position at Schipka, and been repulsed. Tbe dispatch from Turkish sources claimed that the capture of Schipka necessitated the abandonment of Umova. London telegrams of tbe 22d say that Great Britain was arranging for the intervention of the Great Powers in the interests of peace. According to f dvices from Russian headquarters, on the 23d, the battle of Bchipka was still progressing. Ten determined attacks upon the fortifications at the Pass had been successfully repulsed, as, also, an attack upon the Russian position at Tirnova. The Turks had also made offensive demonstrations at Selvi and elsewhere along the Russian line. Constantinople telegrams of the 231 say he Russians had been defeated, with great loss, in an engagement at Eski-Djuma. An insurrection has broken out iu Crete. Two ,b»i ties havttbeen fought ttt which seven teen Christians aud thirty-cix Turks have been killed. Thu French man-of-war Comae passed Aden, on the 23d, with cholera on board. Fifty of her crew were dead, and ISO were sick. 4 According to a London dispatch of the 24th, G<eece was rapidly arming, ia order to take advantage of Turkish reverses and endeavor to • bring about the recapture of the Provinces of Thessaly and Epirus. Thu plague having broken opt in Russian Poland, the German frontier has been closed by a strong mllltery guard.

Til Russian authorities at Warsaw have forbidden the ule of arms to the Poles. Tu Town Council of Glasgow, Scotland, baa unanimously resolved to present the freedom of that city to Gen. Grant, on bia approaching visit He returned to London, on the 9tlh, hi* visit to Pari* having been postponed to avoid the possibility of attentions reflecting indirectly oo President MacMaboo.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—Mr. Gould, a Livingston, Me., farmer after picking a lot of potato-bugs from hia vines, ate freely of bread and milk, crumbling up the bread with unwashed hands. It is supposed that some of the poison juice of the bugs got into the bowl, as he died before the morning. —The one white swan upon the Public Garden pond, says the Boston Gazette, has formed an inacperable attachment to one of the velocipede boats that takes the form of a white swan. The swan attends the boat whenever It leaves its moorings, and stays by it during the night, biting most viciously at any one who attempts to drive it away. —The Pottatown (Pa.) ’Lodger remarks that it has beard of an East Coventry township damsel who was aroused from her slumlicrs earlier than usual to milk tho cows on the place, and when becoming thoroughly awakened found she had stripped oue cow but had no milk. The. bucket she supposed she was using proved to be a basket. —A Californian, whose wedding-day was fixed, did not appear at the appointed time and place, but sent a note to the clergyman, saying that he had just received a letter from his wife in New York, and thereby had his mind recalled to the fact that he was married several years before—a circumstance which had entirely escaped his memory. —Dr. Ephraim M. Epstein, a prominent physician and chemist of Cincinnati, made a sad mistake last evening, which resulted in the death of his own son His little son Willie, a bright lad of leas than four years of age, bad been taken ill, and, with the intention of administering quinine, he went to a drugstore and thoughtlessly ordered six grains of morphine, and, although bearing that label, the doctor administered three grains of the powder. The mistake was discovered by his wife. Two physicians were called in, who administered antidotes under which the child rallied for a time and appeared to be out of danger, but a relapse occurred this morning, and the little sufferer died. — Recent Cincinnati telegram . —Yesterday morning, when a box-car which had b*ought a load of coal in cases to the city Bluffs was being unloaded, it was found that some one had occupied it as a passenger-car during the trip, haviDg probably managed to secrete him#elf in it before it was sealed up at the Bluffs. That he had prepared for the trip was shown by the pieces of crackers, cheese, etc., lying around. A piece about sixteen inches in length and ten or twelve in width had been cut from one of the two-inch planks forming the flooring of the car; the passenger, whoever he was, performing the work with his pocketknife. Doubtless it required many an hour to cut through the plank twice; but he probably felt that he had plenty of time. After the plank was cut be bad a convenient little uoor by which he could emerge from and return to his car when the train stopped at night. It is of course a matter of speculation as to when he finished his trip .—/Sacramento RecordUnion. ■ —A young man in this plaice, after fry." ing in vain to get the girl of his choice to smile upon him, as a last resort gave her a $lO gold ring on condition that she “ go with him one week,” he being confident that she would learn to love him. She accepted and kept the pledge. At the end Of the week she did not like him. He then gave a silk dress of the value of $35 if she would tty him a month. During the month he gave her another ring. She tried very hard to love him, but did not succeed, and told him so. The giver was angry. He hurried to a lawyer’s oflSlce, explained his grief, and caused the young woman to be notified to call-imme-diately. The lawyer explained the charge, made some remarks about the jail, and demanded the gold ring and silk dress. The young woman was frightened. She said she would see her sister. The sister inquired about the matter of an officer. The statutes were searched, and the young woman was told to hold on to the preperiv, which she will do.— Nashua (N. H.) Telegraph.

Tight Gloves and Shoes.

A writer in the Bt. Louis Times remonstrates with women, young and old, for injuring their health by wearing tight gloves and shoes. She thus pictures what some women suffer for fashion’s sake: Mistress Fashion has also decreed a tight glove for the hand and a compress for the foot. It prevents the free flow of the blood, causes discomfort and injury No matter if the hand calls for No. or 7, a glove half-size less may be used, and is used in multitudes of cases; it can be pulled, pushed and stretched until fairly adjusted; tbe palm of the hand is folded almost together; the round, fat wrist puffs up, but a stout hairpin will settle that. “ This glove has got to be buttoned if I never get to church,” said a young girl Just taking her first society lesson—a persistency worthy a better service. After both hands are thus imprisoned there is nothing left but to hold them in position, for they will hold nothing else, as they are rendered useless. Ladies sit for hours in this way, the blood Dressed away from the extremities—where? Toward the brain and heart. Said a lady just returned from a walk, “ I am glad to get home and get into a wrapper; my dress hurts and my gloves hurt, and 1 am tired out.” The toot must also suffer in this unequal war. Too small shoes are purchased, with the assurance that they will stretch, the voice of the shopkeeper prevailing over the voice of wisdom. Cola feet, ana painful swellings, and an ungraceful carriage are the results. A lady artist said to me: ” My hand is large. I cannot help it—it is tbe result oi constant practice. No very small or delicate hand can render the themes of the grand old masters of song.” J ust then her servant brought in a jar of fmit, which she could not unloose; but lady fair, with- one twist of the trained band, that had been expressing silent notes into enchanting strains of sound, removed the cover. 0,1 think that a grand hand! A friend tells me of a beautiful lady in this city whose arms were paralyzed from the use of what is called “ Flake White,” a face powder in common use. She left it off, and is well and better looking with out it. This evil is wide-spread, and endangers life; hair dyes produce violent pains in the head, injure the brain, and are sure in time to produce paralysis and death. As if there were not enough suffering in life! It is pitiful. “Gotall kinds of tics here?” said a would-be wit, entering a well-kiiown furnishing store. “ Yes, sir,” replied Ihe shopman. “ Well, I should like a pig sty,” remarked the “All right, sir ; just bend down your hogshead and we will take your measure,” said the ready shopman. —Hair Tonic.-*-Bcald black tea, two ounces with one gallon of boiling water; ■train, and add three ounces of glycerine, and one quart of bay rum. Mix well by ■baking and then add any kind of perfume.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —ln the time of the apostles there wet* no vacation preachers. —Drinking whisky straight will not make your head level. —The wise man makes hia own prejudices ; the fool inherits his. —The moat melancholy season of the year la when we have dog-days and cat night*. > —Better to have loved a short girl than never to have loved a tall. — Cincinnati Enquirer. —Napoleon used to say: “One bad General is better to direct affairs than two good ones.” —Recipe for cheap cake—Buy a watermelon for ten cents, and you will-have a stomach cake thrown in. —Do not be too hard on the locomotiveengineers; they are often more cinder ’gainst than sinning.— Boston Commercial Bulletin. —Any doctor will tell you that the exertion of fanning heats the body more than the rush of air cools it. Now fan, fan away. —What must be the potato-bug’s opinion of Ihe humanity that goes around all day putting poison on the victuals of humble insects.— Turner's Falls Reporter. Ice-water may be drunk freely and without fear of evil effects -if it is carefully boiled about half an hour before putting it on the table.—Rome Sentinel. —A Maine paper would have the publie believe that a woman in that (State went to church without a bonnet on. We all know the “catch”—she wore a hat. —An old negro fishing on a wharf at Galveston was heard talking to the fish he saw swimming around his line in this fashion: “Give me a bite, honey. Do children am a-crying down to my house, and I tell yon it’s fish or nothing in that establishment.” —“ What are you doing—kicking the old clock all to pieces ?" exclaimed the wife. “Blamed if I’m going to have anything around me that ‘strikesl’” yelled the man, as he gave it a final lift into the street. It was excitement and prejudice that did it.— Chicago Journal. —A Scotch witness, somewhat given to prevarication, was severely handled by a cross-examining counsel. “How far is it between the two farms?” said the counsel. “By the road it’s twa mile.” “ Yes; but, on your oath, how far is it as the crow flies?” “ I dinna ken; I never was a crow.”

—A maiden who keeps house for herself in a quiet way called at a country store not many miles from Boston, recently, and bought a quarter of a gross of bunches of friction matches, informing the storekeeper that the lost lot she bought of him were just gone. He had sold it to her just twenty years ago. —“ A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.” The first part of this Scripture verse was B rinted on the backs of all policies in the hiversal Life Insurance Company, and now policy-holders are waiting for th« application of the last clause. —A Main-street man s*ood inside the biinds, the other day, and spent fifteen minutes trying to brush a streak of sunshine off his pants with the clothes-brush before he discovered what it was. He was so mad then that he jawed his wife, whipped three of the chi’dren and sulked all the rest of the day—Bridgeport Standard. —A merchant in a provincial town in Scotland had a habit of saving “ It might hae been waur” to everything that was told him, however sad the story might be. A neighbor, thinking he would knock the wind out of him. one morning said: “Man, I had an awful dream last night.” “ Ay, what did he dream ?” “ I dreamed that I was in hell.” “It might hae been wanr.” “ How could it hae been waur?” “ If it had been a reality.” —A man out on West Hill arose from ltis restless couch the other night, went to the closet, and blindly end foolishly depending entirely on the sense of feeling, attained in about two minutes, the rare distinction of being one of the very few people in America who know what rheumatism liniment tastes like. He had only collared the wrong bottle, but for the next five minutes his wife whs just confident the house was on fire.—Burlington HawkEye. —lt is stated by certain New York architects that there are grave apprehensions as to the safety of the dome of the Capitol at Washington. It seems that this gigantic structure writhes about uneasily in its position on account of the great contr-iction and expansion of the iron of which it is composed. It is said that in hot weather the (tome moves a foot and a half during the twenty-four hours If this is the cose, uneasy will be head o’er which the dome is situated.— Detroit Free Press.

—Be kind to the book agent. He has a father, perhaps, and a mother, who knew him in bis innocent youth. Perhaps even now, in some peaceful New England village, fond hearts are beating for him, and sweet lips breathe love’s dearest prayer for liis welfare. Therefore, lay him down tenderly, fold his hands peacefully oh his breast, and close his eyes gently as you put him to rest under the branches of the weeping-willow, where the birds carol, all through the summer days, their sweetest songs. But. plant him deep—plant him deep . —DesMoines Register. —“ What do we hw<s Fourth of July for?” asked a Broadway boy of his ma. “Fourth of July? Why, Freddy, I’m ashamed of you. We have Fourth of July to celebrate the—husband, I declare I can’t think for the moment, what is it?” “ Whv, don’t you know why we celebrate the Fourth? Who was it discovered America?” “Christopher Columbus!” exclaimed the mother and boy simultaneously. “ Right, and when did lie discover it?” “Why, on the Fourth of July, of course,” replied the mother, “ but I’ve got the worst memory about these historical tacts.” “That’s ft,” said the wise father, encouragingly. “ Columbus discovered America on the Fourth of July, and the Nation celebrates the day in honor of the event. Freddy, I want you to study up. 1 should feel awfully mortified had you asked me such a question before company.”—Camien (N. J.) Putt.

A Strange Story.

The wise man who first originated the remark that troth was stranger than fiction must surely have been enabled by faith to cast his prophetic eye over the columns of the newspaper of the present day. Whether such was his privilege or not, certain it is that scarcely a day passes but we read some one’s life story bearing ample verification of the truth of the adage. We read hastily—blame or pity ia a lazy, indifferent sort of way, ana rush off to the theater, perhaps, to shed showers of tears and have our hearts wrung with anguish over the imaginary woes ot some unfortunate creatnre who never existed except in the brain of fancy. Off the stage we hear of a strange, pitiful story, the scene of which is laid in Elmira, N. Y., of a woman spending ten years of utter wretchedness in expiation ot a sin committed when but a girl of seventeen. The storp is related by a correspondent of the New York Times, and is worth repeating. Uri Gates, the father of the girl, was ten years ago a well-to-do country merchant in one of the Pennsylvania counties bordering on Maryland. The daughter, Eliza, was a handsome and accomplished young lady, while Amzi Turner, a miller by occupation, was, though only twentyfive years old, the leading man of the place, who had loved the merchant’s

pretty daughter before he entered his "Sfr Mr. Gates wib pleased with the prospect of his daughter becoming the wife of the prosperous young miner, but she was not. George Mjlls, a handsome, swarthy young Virginian, a clerk in Gates’ store, was the suitor whom Miss Gates tv vored, and he pressed hia suit with no little warmth and audacity. The father put a stop to the attentions of the clerk, however, and brought such influences to bear on the young and motherless girl that she consented to marry the miller. They were married In September, 1867, and were gone three weeks on their bridal tour. After having been home but a shor time the bride announced her intention of visiting a sick friend, to be absent two or three days, and the day after her former lover, George Mills, also left the village. The affair—for it was at once ascertained that they had been seen together—caused the most intense excitement, and the husband, being respected by the entire community, had the sympathy of every one. No tidings could be obtained of the couple, however, all search proving fruitless. The erring woman’s father died in about three years, leaving a fortune to his son-in-law, with directions that every possible effort should be made to find the lost girl. The deserted husband sealched faithfully for his wife until 1872, but he could find trace neither of her nor of Mills. He believed that If she was living she had left the country. In 1872 he was granted a divorce from her, on the ground of desertion, and soon afterward married again. His second wife died in 1875, leaving two children. Last July a letter was received by the executor of the estate, dated at Litchfield, Minn., which proved to be from the absent Eliza, and in which she claimed that she was not the abandoned creature they had thought her, but that after ten years of suffering she pleaded ter return to her father’s house, if only as a servant. Mr. Turner at once proceeded to the home of his former wife, and learned the sad story of her elopement. It appeared from this that she went to Lafayette, Ind., where she found a lawyer, named Bowditch, who procured her a divorce in a short time, and shortly after she was married to Mills, and went to Central City, Col., to reside. From that time her troubles came thick and fast. Mills began to treat his wife with cruelty, and habitually taunted her with her elopement with him. From Central City they removed to Corinne, Utah, and from there to Salt Lake Citv. To this latter place she at first refused to go, but Mills threatened to kill her unless she went along. At Salt Lake Mills and “ Bill” Olney opened a gambling house. For two years they lived in Salt Lake, the wife being subjected to habitual beatings and'other cruelty. At last Mills joined the Mormons and gave up his gambling place for a time. But he brought two other wives in the house within three days. This was the indignity of all others that the woman who had given up all for him could not brook, and she fled from his house one night in the fall of 1871. She had since supported herself by the most menial services, and was through ill health driven to write to her father. All this Mr. 'l'umer heard, and. pitying aud. still loving her, claimed her once again as his wife. They were remarried, and are again living in the home so ruthlessly invaded ten years ago, apparently as happy as if nothing had occurred to disturb the even tenor of their lives.— Chicago Inter-Ocean.

The Turkish Minister of War.

The Pasha of Bagdad is the despotic ruler of the largest and most important Province in Turkey. He has the command of a large army which is stationed at Bagdad and other towns within hispashalic, which is bounded oa the east and south by the Persian frontier and the Gulf. M*re than once ambitious men holding this position, so remote from the home Government, have been suspected of designs to render themselves independent sovereigns—a design which was successfully accomplished in 1880, by Mohammed Ali, Pasha of Egypt. At the time of my visit to Bagdad, the Governor was the present Turkish Minister of War, Redif Pasha, a successful General and a man of unquestioned energy and ability. Once, while I was in Bagdad, he had an opportunity to show his power as a despotic ruler, and he acted with a nerve and energy worthy of all praise. The Tigris, which had been on the rampage for two months, st last broke through the dikes some ten miles above the city, and the torrent sweeping down with irresistible force, did great damage to the crops, and in a single day turned the broad plain back of the city into an immense lake. The water was only kept from flowing into the city by an embankment outside the walls, which in many places was out of repair. Great fear was felt of such an inundation as occurred in 1831—the year of the plague—when 7,000 houses fell in a single day. Here was an emergency calling for prompt action. The Pasha issued an order closing all the bazar3 and shops, and for four days impressed the whole male population (foreigners excepted) to work on, the dikes. Half the force was sent up the river, and the balance set to work to repair the embankments around the city. I rode out in that direction one morning, and witnessed a lively scene. Several thousand men were at work, and the Pasha himself was on the spot, surrounded by a brilliantly-uniformed staff, superintending'the operations. These energetic measures saved the city. The break in the dike up the river was stopped, and the water gradually subsided. As there are no American Ministers or Consular Agents in this part of the world, before leaving Cairo I had inclosed a letter of introduction to our Minister at Constantinople, with the request that he would forward to me at Bagdad such credentials to the Pasha as might be of service in any excursion I desired to make to Babylon or other places of interest in Mesopotamia. Upon reaching Bagdad I found awaiting me a firman from the Turkish Government, addressed to the Pasha, and commending the American traveler in the strongest terms to his hospitality and protection. Upon my entrance to the audi-ence-room of the Pasha, I found him seated at the further end of the apartment, near a long table covered with papers, and as I entered he rose and advanced toward me, shook bands, and courteously motioned me to a seat beside him. He is a large man, tali and quite portly, perhaps forty-five years old, with a full face, brown beard, ana eyes sharp and piercing. His dress was entirely European, except the fee, without even a button to indicate his rank. His countenance indicates energy and firmness,*, and his manners are courteous and pleasing. Several officers of rank standing"near were presented to me, but no one was seated except the Pasha and myself. As he spoke only Turkish and Arabic, Mr. Btanno, a Levantine in the service of the Government, was summoned to act as interpreter. Our conversation was necessarily slow, but the questions and replies were very readily translated, and I felt quite at my ease. I found the Pasha very intelligent as to the geography and government of foreign countries, and he seemed fully to comprehend that England and America were two distinct and separate countries. He offered me every facility for seeing Bagdad, and said that, as 1 was the only American who had ever visited him, he hoped 1 would receive a favorable impression of the country.—HP-. P. Fogg, in Scribner’t Monthly. A four-yea r-old miss adds another to the list of remarkable juvenile speeches. She was asked where she expected to go when her mamma died, and replied', “ To the funeral, I s’poee.”

The Night After Plevna-A Terrible Scene.

The correspondent of the London Daily News writes from Bucharest, Aug. 2, descriptive of the sad scenes which followed the defeat of the Russians at Plevna: The dusk was fast settling on one of the bloodiest battle-fields of the century—closing in round the batteries whose guns were atill firing, round detached parties of Russian soldiers who were doggedly maintaining the fight against the swarms of Turks who formed a ring around them, firing fiercely into their midst, round the dead and the wounded lying thick on the stubbles, on the grassy slopes, in the hollows among the maize plants and oak copses, round the knots of wounded who had crawled for cover to the leeside of the grain stacks on the fields, and who lay there in the unspeakable agony of waiting for the inevitable doom which they knew too well was to befall them, round the groups of miscreants tramping about the battle-field intent on wreaking that doom on the defenseless wounded, and stopping ever and anon to perpetrate some bar oar ity. Prince Schackoskov and his staff stood on the summit of the ridge above the Village of Radisovo, which was crammed with wounded men. The fate of the battle had hung in the scale for some time, but now all hope of success had gone. There was no reserve among us in the acknowledgment that, the attack had been a failure; all the concern now was to do what was possible toward diminishing the results of that failure. There was no conversation; men’s hearts were too heavy for talk. We sat about on the knoll, gazing down into the pandemonium below'. The General, alone and apart, paced up and dowh a little open space in the oak copse, gloom settled on hie face. All around us the air was heavy with the low moaning of the wounded who, having limped or bees aided thus far out of the fight, had cast themselves down to gain a little relief from the agony of motion. There was not even water for them, for Radisovo is all but a waterless village, and what water trickled in the tiny rill from the fountain behind the village was straggled for eagerly by the parched and fevered wounded who crowded around it, coveting with a longing, the agony of which the reader can never know, a few drops of the precious fluid. I cannot tell when I most respect anefadmire the sim pie, honest Russian soldier—whether when he is plodding along without a murmur verst after verst, under a burden just double in weight that which our soldiers carry, cheering the way as he tramps with a lusty chorus; or when, with cheers that ring with sincerity, and with an alacrity which is genuine, he presses forward into the battle; or wheu he is standing stubbornly confronting his enemy, conscious of being overmatched, yet never dreaming of running away; or when ho is lying wounded but uncomplaining, helping his neighbor in the same plight with some trifling act of teuder kindness, and waiting for what God and the Czar shall send him, with a patient, vmmurmttring calm that is surely true heroism. The darkness closed in around us, and the enemy seemed bent on following the example of the darkness. We had been on this ridge for a long time beyond the range of the enemy’s batteries; but now these were advanced, and we were once more under fire. Through the darkness we could see the flashes of the cannonshots—they must be back now in the position on the knoll below the position where four hours ago the Russian soldiers had charged them with the bayonet, and whence two hours ago the Russian cannon had been firing. A second more, and nearer and nearer came the whistle of the shells, with a swiftly gradual crescendo into a scream as they sped over us and crashed down into the village in the valley behind us; and yet nearer there was the flashing of the musketry fire in the darkness; one could watch the streaks of flame fore-shortened down in the valley' there, and nerves tried by a long day of foodlessuess, excitement, fatigue and exposure to sun, and the chances of the bat-tle-field, quivered under the prolonged tension of endurance, as the throbbing hum of the bullet sped through or over the straggling group. No man dared to say to that stern, lowering Chief, eating his heart there in the bitterness of his disappointment, that it was a bootless tempting of fortune to linger, longer on this exposed spot, nor did any man care to quit for the 6ake of greater safety the companionship which had endured ‘throughout the day. So we lingered on till our senses became dulled, and till some dropped off into slumber, regardless of the scream of the shells and the hum of the bullets. It was a humane object which so long detained the General in a position so exposed. There was no force available to line the height and cover to ever so little extent the wounded lying on and behind it from the Bashi-Bazouks, who, too certainly, were prowling in the vicinity, and ever coming nearer and nearer. An attempt had, indeed, been made to get together a detachment of infantry for this purpose, and a bugler, at the General’s order, persistently sounded the assembly, but the result was merely to gather a handful of stragglers from half a dozen different regiments; and although but a company was wanted, that tiivial strength could not be collected, so the General, his staff and his escort took up for the time a kind of informal fore post duty, and there we waited till the pale, calm moon rose and poured the sheen of her white radiance over the bat-tle-field. While it was yet dark there had been no cessation of the firing,' both artillery and musketry, and now that Heaven was holding a candle to Hades, the fire waxed warmer and brisker.. Up from out of it, with broken tramp, came a detachment,silent, jaded, powder-grimed. There could not have been a company all told; a Lieutenant marched at its head, and it was the remnant, so far as could be gathered, the sole remnant, of one of the finest regiments of the Thirty-second Division, that had crossed the ridge over which its debris was now listlessly trailing itself, three fine battalions strong.

At last the jingle of cavalrv accouterments was heard, and a squadron of dragoons rode on to the heights, and, extending in skirmishing order, relieved the headquarters staff. It was a poor screen to interpose between a victorious and remorseless army and a mass of wounded men; but nothing more was available. The General hacf lost an army, the fragments of an army had lost their General. We turned the heads of our jaded horses, and, silent and depressed, rode down the slope across the valley and up the slope beyond. Our pace was a slow walk, for there were wounded men everywhere, limping along the narrow path in front of us, prostrate on the grass by the side of it, or asleep in the very dust. Occasionally we struck detachments of infantry who had scrambled back out of the fight, and were lying on their arms in utter ignorance of the best direction in which to march. Or it might be a battery of artillery, halted in perplexing dubiety whether if they went on they might march into the bosom of the Turkish Army. I believe there existed some intention that we should go for the night to a village celled Begot. But we got confused as to the road, and bewildered by the crackling spurts of infantry fife that broke all around in the most uncomfortable fashion. - Were the Turks then wholly round us, that we heard, and occasionally felt, fire as it seemed to north, to south, to east and to west? Once such was the confusion that we were fired upon by a detachment of Russian troops, halted In equal bewilderment with ourselves, and expecting an enemy ’ from any or every side. We made halt after halt, but there nevbt was rest for us. A sport of near firing

would stir us, or a Cossaclj would ride in with intelligence that the Bashi-Bazouks were prowling heal- by, and through all this harassment there yet lingered i with the most sanguine of ua the idea that the battle would be resumed next morning, we affording an artillery support to the supposedly fresh troops of Krudcner. Where, I asked myself, la our artillery to take orders for such a purpose ? We did not know where we were ourselves much less where the army was, of which this gropiLg, forlorn, dejected band were the headquarters. Of Krudener’s experiences or whereabouts we knew simply nothing. It was useless to dispatch aides-de-camp or orderlies without being able to rive them a direction in which to ride. All we knew was that there ware wounded men about us, and that we and our horses were dead beaten Nature will assert herself. About one o’clock in the morniDg we turned aside into a field where the barley had been reaped and piled into small stacks. These we tore down, shook some sheaves out as fodder for our horses, and others as beds for ourselves, and. throwing ourselves down, fell into dead slumber. But there was no long rest for us. At three o'clock we were aroused by the tidings that the Bashi-Bazouks were close to us, and the near tiring told of the accuracy of die statement. We huddled a number of wounded into and upon some carta which came up casually, and started them off, whether ip the right direction or not wo had no conception. Ugh, how miserably raw and chill struck the bleak morn just before the dawn I But if the rawness of the air struck to our marrow, hale and sound men as we were, what must have been the sufferings of the poor wounded, weakened by loss of blood, faint in the prostration which follows, so inevitably, tho gun-shot wouud; foodless, without water, lying on the damp grass by the wayside in their blood-clotted clothes! Yet happy were they, pitiable as was their plight, in comparison with their fellows who had littered the battle-field, and had been left behind in Radisovo. The fate of the former we knew from what we had ourselves seen; of the latter, it was told to us by scared messengers that the Bashi-Ba-zouks had, in the dead of night, worked round our left flank, and had fallen upon them and butchered them in their helplessness.

A Tourist.

“ You have a fine city here,” remarked Oscar Deak, as he stood before the desk and rubbed his hands. The Court looked down on. him in silence. “ Such broad streets, such big dogs, such beautiful alleys, such nice hand organs 1 never saw in a town before,” continued the man. That same cold, murderous look from the Court. “I’m almost tempted to spend the remainder of my days here,” said the prisoner. ’’The water agrees with me, the air seems very pure, and 1 find that the Detroit quart of peanuts is bigger than any other in the lana.” Still no word from his Honor. His eyes glistened like the tines of a pitchfork in the hav-field, but he was biding his time. “ I’m much obliged to the boys for helping me in here last night,” coolly continued the man. “I am subject to those attacks of vertigo, and Providence seems to raise up friends for me at the perilous moment. I’ll leave a quarter for the man who lifted me up and begged of me not to die.” While he was feeling for the clinker the Court was calling to mind how the tourist broke two ehairs in a saloon, had a fight with a hackman and hid himself in a lumber pile, and he wrote out on a piece of paper at full length that familiar old saying, “ Twenty dollars or three months,” and held it up to view. The tourist looked at the words. Then he looked at the clock. Then he glanced out upon the green grass in the alley and saw the lambs galloping up and down in playful mood. “Yes—ahem—l'll lend you twenty dollars,” he finally sighed. “ And don’t have any more vertigo in this town,” said the Court. “ Vertigo makes the money go, you observe.” “I believe you think I was drunk,” complained the tourist. “Yum,” replied the Court,bowing profoundly. “ And you don’t make any difference between vertigo and drunkenness t” “ Not a bit.’’ The man walked out doors and headed for the nearest saloon. He was going in on the real tiling, with vertigo counted out. —Detroit Free Press.

Learning to Swim.

Every boy and girl should learn to swim. A writer in the American Agriculturist offers the following suggestions, by obedience to which the art of swimming may be readily acquired: When I was a boy, I learned toswim by means of a swimming-board. This is the safest method possible. If corks are used, they may slip from around the breast down beneath the body, throwing the head below the .surface, and putting the. wearer in danger of drowning. Some country boys get two bladders and then tie them together with a short cord, and use these as supports. They are the most dangerous things possible for a boy to have. The board is perfectly safe, and one may learn to swim in a very short time by using one. It should be over four feet long, over a foot wide, and two inches thick, made of soft white pine or cedar. To use it, a boy wades into the water up to his shoulders, then, taking hold of the end of the board, he pushes it before him—toward the bank, and not into deeper water —springs forward with his feet, and throws himself flat upon the water. This movement carries him along a few feet. He then draws up both his legs at the same time, keeping the knees as far apart as possible, and then strikes out with both feet, not straight backward, but sideways, just as a frog does. The stroke is made slowly, and is repeated again, drawing up the legs slowly and steadily. The board keeps the bend above water. When the leg-stroke has been learned, one hand is taken from the board and the stroke learned, or the chin may be rested on the board, while the stroke is taken with both hands. This is a very good plan, as it compels the swimmer to keep his hands under the water, which he should always do By-and-by, the board may be-pushed ahead, and the young swimmer may swim after it, always keeping it within reach. When a number of boys go toswim, they should always havq two or three of these boards with them for use in case ot any accident.

An engineer on the J eff. Road got a new dress for his wife, last week, by the use of a little strategy over the strike. He was approached by a merchant of Louisville, who had been caught away from home and was anxious to return. The engineer was on his engine, and waiting permission from the strikers to pull out, when the merchant asked permission to get on with him, so as to make the attempt to run the blockade, and proposed to the engineer that if he would help him and succeed in getting him ont of the city, he might bring his wife to his store and get a handsome suit of clothes for her. The engineer told him all right, exchanged his cap for the “ plug” of the merchant, and took him away safe and sound. That engineer's wife will wear one of the nicest suite to be seen on the streete.—lndiampolii Journal. » Or daily newspapers, Hew York State publishes 79; Massachusetts, 28.