Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1877 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

FRUHR WASHINGTON. A Washington telegram of the 17th says the War Department had received information that the local difficulties tn El Paso County, Tex., which grew oat of the right and title to certain salt mines, had assumed quite a threatening aspect. The few United States troops and State militia in the county had been surrounded, .and unless soou relieved it was feared they would fare hadly. Official information, received at military headquarters in Chicago on the 17th, shows that the mob at San Elizario, the seat of the troubles, consisted of about 300 citizens of El Paso County; that no Mexicans bad crossed the river to take part in the disturbances, and that the Mexican authorities had given positive orders that none of their citizens should cross. About 300 troops had been ordered from posts in New Mexico .to aid the civil officers in El Paso County. President Hates, on the 19th, signed a pardon for John A. Joyce, of SL Louis, who was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States of taxes On distilled spirits. The pardon is full and unconditional. The National Woman's Suffrage Association is to meet in Washington on the 7th of January. THE EAST. The seventieth birthday of J. G. Whittier, the poet, wascelebrated in Boston, on the 17th. by the publishers of the Aifaatie Monthly. Oliver Wendell Holmes read a poem, “Mark Twain” responded in a characteristic vein, and was followed by Charles Dudley Warner, Henry W. Longfellow, ami others. A coal on. car, on the Erie track at Paterson, N. J., took fire on the 17th; the tank burst, and the flaming liquid ran into and flooded the street, communicating the flames to several houses, some of them half a mile awar. Three oil-cars burst in succession, and several others were destroyed. Many houses were consumed and their inmates rendered homeless. So intense was the heat from the oil flames, which shot up hundreds of feet into the air, that paint was blistered on houses a 'mile distant. The National Reform Convention, to advocate the express acknowledgment of God in the Constitution, met at Rochester, N. Y., on the 18th. Two hundred delegates were present. At a meeting of coal-producers, held in New York, on the 18th, a combination was formed to regulate the produetion of the mines, by designating the quota each company might put U{x>n the market, and establishing a penalty of J? 1.2 5 per ton for all overshipmento. A Board of Control was established, each interest being given the right to manage its own sales and make its own prices. A joint exchange for the sale of coal was, however, provided for. A committee was ap-poinU-d to regulate the quotas of shipment of he different interests. A ten-tkak-old boy, named Willie Hopkins, was abducted from bis home at Braddock’s Fields, near Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 16th, by a man, supposed to be a tramp. He is described as being a pretty boy, with full face, light com]>lexion and hair, and rather stoutly built. His £. fwrily giEat dißtrcffljoreriiiß.losß, lux mother lieing almost insane from grief. Tilt proprietors of the Wilkesbarre (Fa.) Xrm have been sentenced to ten months' imprisonment in the County Jail and fined S7OO each for an alleged libel upon the Sheriff of the county. A like sentence was imposed upon the same defendants for libelling a citizen of Wilkesbarre. ■ —— John Van Hoesen, the alleged ringleader of the railroad rioters at Albany, N. Y., and vicinity, in July last, has been found guilty and sentenced to seven years’ imprisonmentThomas Rooney’s house at West Point, N. Y-, was burned, a few days ago, and two children,aged three and five years, perished. They were-locked -in the house, -the parents being. absent, and were found clasped in each other's arms, lifeless and charred. A boilek in the candy manufactory of Ernest Greenfield, 63 Barclay street, New York, exploded about five o'clock on the afternoon of the 20th, with fearful results. The boiler was under the sidewalk, and when it burst tore away the entire front of the building and scattered the wreck in all directions. Fire immediately followed the explosion, and the walls of the building, five stories in height, soon fell in. There were employed in the factory nearly 200 girls and lx>ys, ranging from eight to twenty years bL age, a large number of whom lost their lives, many others being badly injured. The money loss would reach about $500,000. At Randolph, Mass., a few nights ago, three children of Mrs. Catherine Ryan were suffocated by coal gas, as was also Mary E. Burry, aged fourteen, who wasstopping with them. Mrs. Ryan herself was not expected to live. Gold closed in New Yorki on Dec. 20th, a 102%. The following were the closing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, $1.31%01.32; No. 2 Milwaukee, $1.33X01.34. Oats, Western and State, 85@40c. Corn, Western Mixed, 65065 1 „e. -vPork, Mesa, Good to Choice, $5.7006.00; Winter Wheat, $6.0506.75. Cattle, $9.75011.00 for Good to Extra. Sheep, $4.0005.75. Eags, $4,500 At East Liberty, Pa., on Dee. 20th, Cattle brought: Best, $6.00(86.50; Medium, $4.75 @5.75; Common, $3.2504.25. Hogs sold —Yorkers, $4.1504.25; 4.40. Sheep brought $3.0005.25 —according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on Dec. 20Jh, Cattle brought: Best, $5.0006.00; Medium, $3.00 @3.75. Hogs sold at $5.2506.00 for Good. Sheep were quoted at [email protected] for Good. WEST AND SOUTH. A few days since, an armed mob took possession of the Town of Osceola, Mo., went to the Court-House, and seized and carricd awav all documents relating to tax matters. The trouble arose from the levy of a special tax to pay- judgments for past-due interest on. rail road bonds. The Democratic caucus of the California Legislature, on the 17th, nominated J. F. Farley for United States Senator. The vote on the final ballot was as follows; parley, 42; McDonald, 18; Hager, [lB. On the 18th, the Legislature elected Mr. Farley to the Senate, by a strict party vote. W. F. Endicott, President of the late Cenr tral National Bank pf Chiaeo, is found to be a defaulter and has left for parts unknown. It seems that, like Spencer, he gathered up the cash of the concern and left his notes secured by his bank stock as collateral in lieu thereof. It was believed, on the 18th, that the depositors would receive little and the stockhplderß notbiag. The Springfield (HL) Savings Bank has suspended. The liabilities are stated to be about $175,000 and the promise made to pay lu full. Rev. Mb. Habbis, Rector of St. James Church, in Chicago, has been elected Bishop of the new Episcopal Diocese of Quincy, HL DiSPA times received at Gen. Sheridan's headquarters in Chicago, on the night of the 19th, Dorp Capt. Blair, in command at Fort Bliss, report that tbe Texas Rangers at San Elizario, in El Paso County,Tex., surrendered; «n the morning of the 18th. Judge Howard, agent for the salt 'miljee, Atkinson and Mcßride were shot, and fl»e rest of the Rangers were disarmed and liberated. The mob bed dtepersed. It was composed entire Jy of native-

born ciuzc-is of Texas,.and no help was given them from the Mexican side of the river. The Fort Benton Accord] of the 17th announces the receipt of trustworthy Intelligent that Sitting Bull, with a large Sioux following and the unsubdued Nez Pervez, had crossed the frontier, and were then encamped in the Bear Paw Mountains. On the 19th, Rev. Geo. F. Seymour, brother of Horatio Seymour, of New York, whs unanimously elected Episcopal Bishop of the new Diocese of Springfield. 111. «. Maj. J. B. Jones, commanding the Texas State forces, telegraphed to Representative Mills, In Washington, on the 20tb, that hie Lieutenant at El Paso had informed him that ISO of the mob al San Elizario, to whom the Lieutenant was forced to surrender, and who subsequently killed three of their were Mexican cltizena from Mexico. The recent troubles in El Paso County, Tex., are said to have grown out of a dispute as to the ownership of extensive salt mines in that section, at which the people of the surrounding country have obtained salt from time Immemorial, free of cost. A number of American speculators. Judge Howard among them, ret up a title to the mines. In attempting to maintain this title Judge Howard quarreled with the people in the neighborhood, and at last shot and killed a man who espoused the cause of the resident Mexicans. He then fled the wranfry'T>uFre!eeutTy''returned, and was captured with his adherents, and three of them, including the Judge, were killed, as already announced. - . The next Indiana Democratic State Convention is to be held at IndiamqHilis, on the 20th of February next. The South Carolina Legislature has ratified, by more than a two-thirds vote, the amendment to the State Constitution levying an annua) tax of two mill* upon all taxable property in the State for the support of free schools. In Chicago, on Dec, 20th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at $1.0801.08% cash. Cash com closed at4s%c for No. 2. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 25c; and 25‘. t c seller February. Rye No. 2,56 c. Barley No. 2, 584$es± Cash Mesa Pork closed at $11.75. Lard, $7.72%. Beeves —Extra brought. $5.2505.50; Choice, $4.60(85.00; Good, [email protected]; Medium Grades, $3.5003.85; Butchers’ Stock, $2.3503.10; Stock Cattle, etc., [email protected]. Hogs brought $3.9004.15 for Good to Choice. Sheep sold at $1.0004.50 for Poor to Choice. * FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. According to a Constant inople telegram of the 16th, the Porte had been officially informed that Russia desired to treat with Turkey directly and that mediation would only make the terms of settlement harder. A Pera correspondent of the London Titne* telegraphed, on the 16th, that the Turkish powers of resistance were altogether exhausted and that the Porte would gladly make peace on any reasonable terms. Tnr. Servians, on the 16th, occupied with arttl tery the Heights of Topolinitza and 'Zcanika. THERE was great discontent at Stamboul and other,point* in Turkey, on the 16th, and fears were entertained of violent outbreaks on the part of the populace. The Italian Ministry resigned, on the 16th. The steamer Mexican, which sailed from Port Royal, 8. C., on the 15th of September, for Liverpool, had not been heard from at the latter port up to the 16tli, and it was feared that she had foundered with all on board. iNthc lio;h'of allavim; th:: prevalent'discontent the Porte has decided to grant fuller autonomy to Crete. The Russian losses up to the 13th of December aggregated 77,658 men. Dispatches from St. Petersburg of the 17th state that Germany and Austria had refused Turkey’s request for mediation, and England had notified he Porte that she proposed to observe strict neutrality.- Italy and France had also declined to interfere to bring about an understanding, but promised to co-operate with other Powers more directly interested. The Turks have evacuated and burned Elena, and the Russians have reoccupied the position; -te,. : :-.;EjmuxEmajntoyretatlaus.h>ttingbcen.gireilto the recent Turkish circular asking the mediation of the Great Powers, it is officially explained that Turkey dws not ask for interference as a vanquished State, since she had yet two lines of defense which she believed , could not be broken. The object of the circular was simply to express the willingness of the Porte to treat on the basis of the proposals made at the Constantinople Conference and ■rejected by her before the commencement of hostilities. According to London dispatches, of the 13th, tbc-Brittsh-Cablnct xcas divided upon the question of interference In Eastern affairs. .It was stated that Disraeli favored an immediate declaration of war against Russia. Parliament had been called to meet, on the 17th of January, and would be asked to grant money for increasing the efficiency of the army and navy. ; Prince Milan has occupied Adlie, the Turks having concluded to abandon the position. The main Servian Army has effected a junction with the Russian forces. According to Athens (Greece) telegrams of the 12th, the fall of Plevna had revived the warlike demonstrations of the Greeks, and the Cabinet were deliberating upon the proper .42mrse..to..he.pursued for-redressing grievances she had against Turkey. According to Vienna dispatches «f thy. 12th, the Porte was greatly astounded at the fall of Plevna, as it was hoped to the last that Suleiman Pasha would be able to relieve Osman Pasha. There was some talk o; unfurling the greet, flag of the Prophet, but it was Believed at Vienna that cooler counsels would prevail, and that an attempt would speedily be made to negotiate a peace direct with the Czar, without the Intervention or mediation of any European Power. The Montenegrin insurgents were defeated, on the 19th, by a Turkish column'inarching to the relief of Scutari and Antivari. The Servians have captured Fort'lnramor, nearNisch. A Rome (Italy) telegram of the morning of the 20th announces the.. death of Countess Mirafiore, wife of Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy. A Berlin telegram of the- 19th says it had been sesni-officially announced that, while the German Government desired that thewar between Turkey and Russia should cease, it would neither itself advance any obstacle, nor, so far as she could help, permit any other Power to hinder the extinction of Turkey as a European Power. The Porte has instructed its representative •t Rome to ask lot an explanation of the inGreece. According to Constantinople telegrams of the 20th, the course of England had produced a bad effect in inspiring hopes that the longdelayed assistance of Great Britain was about to be tendered. It was believed that Turkey was less willing t<> negotiate for peace than during the days immediately following the capture of Plevna. V . K St. Petersburg dispatch of the 20th says the calling together of the British Parliament was there considered as equivalent to a declaration of war. FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. In the Senate, on the 15th, a secret rewiqn was held for the purpose of considering the difficulty which had occurred the day before between Measra, Ctmkline and Gordon during the Executive session. After the doors were reopened, a paper was made public, signed bv Messra. Hamlm. Ranuim, Howe and McDonald, to the effect that thefwords uttered during the miaaDtimtandtar alluded to, by Messrs. (A>nk|iiw and Gordon, were mutually felt to be unHw; that the report* of the incident which had'

appeared in the papers were inaccurate and unjust to both gemtleoieu; that upon careful inquiry aa to what was said bv each speaker, and what was understood to be said by the other. It is certain that the first offensive wonts were inspired by sn honour misunderstanding of what had been innocently said by the other mwaker; ail that s*« offensive was the outgrowth of misapprehension. The paper concludes aa follow*: "We, who are the mutual friends of lx>th Senators, are of opinion tluit it is due alike to the Senate and tliaspeakers, that whatever was felt to be unkind or otfenaire, iro the remarks either, should be treated aa if never uttered, and. we are now authorized to state, are mutually and simultaneously withdrawn.". . Adjourned to Jan. 10. In the House, the Democratic hide endeavored to force a vote on the resolution of Mr. Wood for wholesale investigations, but the Republicans intensified dilatory motions, and a motion was finally agreed to to postpone the matter until .Nln. 10 .. A resolution waa adopted authorizing the Committee on Foreign Affairs to sit during the recess in the investigation of the Mexican border troubles.. . .The Senate amendments to the Post-Route bill were concurred in. ... Adjourned to Jan. 10.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. x —A boast of strength is usually a confession of weakness. —“ Alcohol will clean silver.” Yes. alcohol well stuck to will Clean out all the silver you have. —She was Irish, and sweet Seventeen. She said: “ Sooner than liveon charity, I’d beg from door to door.” —The great capital in business consists of decision, civility, secrecy, integrity, economy, health and industry. lowa Stale Register. —A Virginia boy ate a pint of uncooked chestnuts and was notpermitted to die and end his agony until after eighty-four hours. —Habberton accounts for the foolishness of the small boy: “The small boy had a father, and this father was once a small boy himself.” —A New Hampshire girl wrote to a Michigan farmer- to send her a specimen potato-bug. He sent his son, and a happy marriage has resulted. —A son of Mr. Hugh Johnson, of San Antonio, died a day or two ago from the bite of a rabid fox. The animal attacked the boy in the woods. —A Minnesota widower went to church to marry a second wife, but forgot to take from his hat the mourning band that he was wearing for his first wife. —The narrowest-gauged railroad in the country is the New York Elevated Railroad, where only one rail is used, and that only two and three-quarter inches wide. —To the economical, provident and straightforward man wealth naturally comes, and the Bible says such men are good, “for they leave an inheritance.”—lowa Stale Register. —At a trial of a negro for barn burning in Virginia, the foreman of the grand jury was so fascinated t»y Miss Gunn, a beautiful young lady witness, that he indorsed the indictment with the words “ A true Gunn, Thus. Todd, . foreman.” T_ —At Lexington, Mo., lately, there were three men in a wagon drawn by two blind mules. The driver had but one eye and the other two men were totally blind. The amount of responsibility that rested upon the one eye in the wagon can scarcely be estimated. —ln aChinesemailrobber’s room recently discovered by the" San Francisco police a flibiisand 'letters, many containing bank remittances and drafts, as high as $6,000 in value, and payable to bearer; but the thief could not read English, and the money had been as so much waste paper in his estimation. —The police at Utica, N. Y., have discovered that an obstruction placed upon the Central Railroad tracks near that city recently, and which came near wrecking the night oxpress, was placed there by an insane man who thought that God demanded “ that the railroads should be annihilated,” and that he wai 4»mmissioacd to cai’ry.out tli& work. —Levi Swartz, of Mansville, Fa., was shot by a man named Groll, the other day, and died from the effects the following day. Mr. Swartz had zlimbed into a grape-vin e and- was gathering grapes when Mr. Croll came along with his gun. Seeing something move in the vine he supposed it to be a wild turkey or a pheasant, and discharged his piece nt the object. —Sparks from a defective flue set fire to some clothing hanging in an upper room of ahouse in New Hampshire. Some acorns, which had been spread on the floor to dry, were made by the heat to pop so loudly that the family on the lower floor heard the noise, and running up to see what the trouble was, discovered the fire and extinguished it. Thus it is shown that even dried acorns have their uses. —On a railway line, recently, a passenger stopped' the conductor, and asked, “XV hy does not the train run faster?” “It goes fast enough to suit us. If you don’t like the rate of speed, get off and walk,” was the rejoinder. “I would,” replied the passenger, settling back in his seat, “ but my friends wouldn't comes in, anfl'Tubn’t want to be waiting around the station two or three hours.” —A man in Stockton, Cal., was surprised. the other day, to learn, on questioning his twelve-year-old boy, of the alarming prevalence of opiumsmoking among school-boys of tender years. The lad seemed to speak of it as a matter of course, and mentioned the names of a dozen or more boys, from twelve to sixteen years of age, who indulge in the dangerous practice, and made no secret of it among themselves, possibly,.because they did not know the terrihlejevil of it, —A curious case as to the rights of the finder of lost property, whose owner is unknown, is reported from Rhode Island. The plaintiff bought an old safe and offered to sell it to the defendant. The defendant would not buy it, but agreed to take it and sell it if he could, using it himself in the meantime. While it was thus in his possession, he found a roll of bank-bills inside the lining. No one knew to«vhom they belonged. The defendant, therefore, Concluded to keep them. The plaintiff, upon learning of the discovery of the money, demanded the return of the safe just as it was when delivered. The defendant returned it, but without the bank bills, whereupon the plaintiff sued for their value; as money found. The Supreme Cpurt held that thfrfinder was entitled to/i’etain the property as against the party who put the safe into his hands for sale; and the authorities generally maintain the right of the finder, in this class of cases, as against all persons except the real owner. The results of some extremely interesting experiments were recently communicated .to the Vienna Academy of Sciences, by Herr J. Stefan, in relation tothc heat-conducting power of several substances. The, conducting power of copper being taken as a Unit, he found that of iron to be 0.17,ice 0.0057, glass 0.0yi6, water 0.0015, hydrogen'" 0.00039, hard India-rubber O.oiM and air 0.000055.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—Few people realize the danger Involved in turning over in bed. A Massachusetts man broke his leg in that way a few days ago. t —lndians don’t like the Red River country. Some of them hired out to pick cotton. One of the women left her little child at the end of the row, expecting to find it there when she should return, but what must have been the disappointment of the poor mother when she came back and found that her innocent little babe had been devoured by the hogs. The Indians were so shocked by the sad and horrible affair that they all left the place, and say they will never work on the farm again. —On the day of the last fight of the United States troops with Chief Joseph, his little daughter, ten years old, finding that her father was occupied with his rille, ran to the ponies and made an heroic effort to herd them in. The cavalry, however, cut her off, and, seeing that she would be captured if she remained with the animals, she took to the hills. After the fight and the surrender, Joseph’s first question was regarding. his cliild. Every effort was made to find her, but at hist reports no trace of her had l>een found. Chief Joseph believes that she is dead, and is greatly affected by his loss. —April 10, 1876, a woman threw herself into the Ohio River from the Newport ferryboat. A lad sixteen years old, William A. Shober, jumped into the river and made a heroic effort to save her, but without avail, and came near drowning himself. Kilwinning Lodge of Masons, of Cincinnati, recognizing this noble boy's act of heroic humanity, voted him a gold medal, and the other evening at the annual banquet the testimonial was presented to the boy by the late Att’y-Gen. Taft, a member of the Lodge, in an eloquent and appropriate address, il'ho ceremony was largely attended by prominent Masons of Ohio anti otlier citizens. —A revolting accident occurred recently on the Bringier Place, nearly opposite Donaldsonville, La., by xvhich a colored woman, Patience London, lost her life. The woman was leaningover the fireplace in a state of intoxication, when she lost her balance and fell forward into the fire. Being So stupefied with liquor as to render futile any exertion she might have made to save herself, the miserable creature was literally cooked to death, her face and breast being burned in a terrible manner. The only other inmates of the cabin xvere the women’s two children, both too young to comprehend the predicament of their mother or to give an alarm. —There was an accidental shooting case under unusual circumstances at 418 Mcllvahr street, Philadelphia, the other afternoon. Lewis Myers, a barber, had been paying attention to Pauline Streicher, living with her aunt , there, but she had forbidden him the. house because he always came with a loaded revolver. On the afternoon in question he came again, drunk, with Henry Russell, a glass-blower, but she . waa.oiii. -They sent for her, and, on her arrival, Myers took out the revolver again, but Russell, who was a stranger at the house, seized it and took it away. He was seated at the table by the side of the girl, trying to remove the cartridges,when it went off, the ball passing through the girl’s heart. —Miss Mary Ann Collins, about twenty years old, met with a horrible death the other afternoon. She was employed in the scouring-room at the Allegheny Valley Paper-Mills at Hutton Station, a few miles above Pittsburgh. Directly underneath the room is the vat anfo lvKich the rags are thrown flifOUgh a frap-dTror to be scoured; The trap-door was open, but the steam coming up prevented the girl from seeing the exact location of it. She had only been employed a few days injhe room, and so was not familiar witli the location. Another girl called her to help in some work, and in crossing the room Mary Ann walked into the trap and was precipitated into the x'at below, which was filled with water and vitriol heated to the boiling point. She was rescued in about three minutes. When taken out life was extinct; anOefUSF was bleached to the whiteness of snow.

Romance of a Dust-Barrel.

The honor and fortune of a lady once hungupon the result of a law-suit in one of tire New York courts. The most important part of the evidence in her favor was in the contents of three letters. She had put them away in her desk, but when she searched it the letters were not to be found. They had been stolen. The lady’s counsel informed her that unlessthosc letters could he, produced (Iw ease wmddgo against'm r. Tin-inai came on,“and on the morning of the third day the lady did not appear in court. The counsel were annoyed, but went on with the cross-examination of the plaintifl', the lady’s husband. , . .Suddenly the woman rushed into the court-room, and excitedly exclaimed to her counsel, so loud that the Court and jury heard her, “ 1 have found them!” Examining the package she handed to them, the counsel found three old letters, which had been badly torn, but were now skilfully patched together. They were dirty and stained. “If the Court please,” said the counsel, “I now offer in evidence three letters, which’, up to this moment, we could not find.” them,” said the plaintiff’s counsel. They looked at them carefully, and then remarked to the Court: -——— “ We object to the admission of these papers. They purport to be letters written by some person, but they are so patched and pasted that there is no way by which they can be identified as genuine letters.” “We propose, if Your Honor please, to show that they were written by the plaintiff, were lost, and found in a most extraordinary manner,” replied the lady’s counsel. The Court examined the letters, amid* the silence of the audience and the anxiety of the husband; “You may identify them,” at last said the Judge, “and. then offer them in evidence.” The plaintiff was again placed on the stand. “Did you ever see these letters before?” The witness’ hands trembled while he held the letters, and his face grew white. -2 r “Itis possible, ’' was his hesitating reply. —— “Are they in ytfur handwriting?” < "It looks like my writing.” “ Are not the signatures yours?” ‘ * They look like my writing. - - “ Have yon any doubt that they are your signatures?”" Jle hesitated.

“ Answer the question,” said the Court. “1 can't say that I have,” he stammered out. "That is all.” The letters were admitted as evidence anil the woman’s honor was saved. Those letters had been thrown, from a waste-basket into a dust-barrel. A rag-picker," while searching the barrel, was attracted by the signatures. He read a few words. They excited his curiosity. He searched for and found all the pieces, and carefully put them together, for he saw money in them. One day he saw the same name in the papers, and connected with the lawsuit. He sought out the lady, Providence leading him to her rather than to her husband. She paid him a good reward, and instantly hastened to the court-room. The Tetters saved her from ruin. Few of those who saw their exhibition in court knew how she found them. But to-day that rag-picker owns a paying stall in one of the city markets, the result of his finding the pieces of three old letters in a dust-barrel.— Youth's Companion.

Mike.

He used to look into the windows of the periodical stores, and read the titles of the dime novels with delight; he reveled in the wood-prints of “One Eye, the Scourge,” and stood long before the fascinating pictures descriptive of “Snarleyow, the Dog-Fiend” And so looking and dreaming in his own way, he decided that a trapper’s life was the life for him. He had small conceptions of distance, anil thought some huntinggrounds might be found near the terminus of the horse-railway; preparations for the~ work. One flvecent loaf, a jack-knife with two blades, one piece of clothes-line, five feet long, for capturing deer, buffalo, or anything of that sort, and six cents, comprised his outfit. He knew trappers had a tent usually, and a slouched hat-and black moustache; but not being able to manage either, reluctantly left them out. One chilly, gray day, late in November, he wrapped up his possessions, confided his secret to the latest nice boy he knew, who recoiled with horror, and then, his father and mother being out, and his elder sister or brothers scattered or quarreling, Mike set out on his travels. He took a car, and by dextrous jumping oft" and on, managed to save his fare; and when the horses were unloosed at the end of the route, he ran. There were too many houses about there, but lie saw trees in the distance", and went toward them. The street was long, but at last, by climbing up high on the roeks above” the road, lie found the trees. A rough country it was, Mike thought, and it was growing cold, but he walked on. It was lonesome, too, and Mike wished he had brought his next younger brother, but it was too iate now. It began to snow, and soon snowed hard. Mike looked round him, a little frightened. He fell, too, once or twice, for the rocks were steep and slippery. “I wonder where thd deer are?” thought he. He had heard that a whistle would call them, so tried “ Capt. Jinks”' and ;; the ” Mulligan Guarifo.’jTmt both failed of »!»“■■• ject. and it was growing rapidly dark. Just then a caAry, bewildered and evidently hurt, hopped close to him, then flew a little. Mike gave chase. Loaf under his arm, rope in hand, he ran farther and farther. The bird, though evidently weak, went faster than he. It was dark. He lost sight of it, saw it just ahead, dashed forward, and fell. They did not find him for several days. The snow had falleAvery thick forthat time of the year, and it was bitterly cold. On the fourth day a party of gentleman, walking out after dinner "from the"greatr-howse-e«-whose giontgly Mike-had -gone - hunting,-with cigars and light talk, came suddenly upon something half buried in the snow, amid bushes and stones, with high bare shrubs and trees above it—something lying so still that, though they hushed their tones, the loudest laugh would not wake it. The gentlemen lifted the childish figure in the ragged jacket and long trousers extended at the foot of the steep rock, and the dead canary near him. Such an unfinished little life to end so soon! Such an ignorant child to have gone so far on the long journey. His parents mourned and buried him after’their fashion; and that was all, except that onifof the gentlemen, who was an artist, being struck with something picturesque in the circumstances, painted the picture as lie saw it; and people praised it. as an expression of a phase of human life, very much. Finally a lady bought it, and it is seen by those who know mostly of lives like this through art, and they feel its pathos: often their voices tremble as they turn away. The picture shows them a high rough rock and leafless shrubs, and at stone which has fallen upon him, a little boy with long heavy hair lies stretched, the rope and bread close beside him, and near by a dead canary.— Mary (i. Morrison, in Harper's Magazine for January.

A Century of Danish History.

A well-authenticated case of longevity'is reported from Copenhagen. On Wednesday, Nov. 21, there died in that town, at the age of one hundred and two years eleven months eleven days, a Mr. Johan Joseph Ronge, a glass-deal-er and glasscutter by trade, the oldest citizen of Copenhagen. He was born on the 10th of December, 1774, not early enough to have seen Queen Caroline Mathilde before she was carried to Cronborg Castle and sent an exile to Celle, but still at a time when as a boy he could from eye-witnesses hear the report of the public execution of that Queen’s unhappy favorite, the once allpowerful Minister Struensce. He was a youth of over eighteen when Louis XVI. was beheaded, a man of forty at the time of Waterloo and the downfall of Napoleon I. Till he was 100 years old Mr. Ronge managed his business himself, and attended in his shop, though he had 'been compelled some years earlier to give up working at the glass-cutter’s wheel. On the 11)th of December, 1874, he received from the King a decoration, not as a reward for living so long, but as an acknowledgment of an 'active and honorable life of no common extent. Even after haying completed his century, the old man could be seen every day sitting at the same table in one of the most frequented cases of Copenhagen, sipping his tumbler of toddy and glancing at the papers, withered and wrinkled as an over-kept winter apple, but withal, hale and healthy, with his mental powers unimpaired, and perfectly able to help himself, even to walk without a stick. His death, which was sudden at the last, was occasioned, not by any decline of strength,’but by a serere cold.— London Timts,

The Value of Training.

It is a great thing to be a born poet, lawyer, merchant, musician and financier; but training has done as much as Nature to make men great in the various avocations of life. All who are familiar with the biographies of great men and great women know perfectly well that unless Nature had been largely aided and 4uupj>lemented by diligent training, their names might have remained forever unknown. Training may begin with tha'hst Jay of a child’s life. It is certain to continue in one form or another to the last, and doubtless ceases not then, for life here and hereafter is but a school, and we are advanced, as we are prepared, from one class to a higher class. Obedience to law is the first lesson a child should learn. Is it not also the last? We call it the forming of the right habits in him, right habits of sleeping, of washing, of eating; afterward of submitting his will to the will of his nurse or mother; afterward of the use of his limbs, his senses, his power of speech. At this point, culture on the part of the parent tolls perhaps as much as at any other point; for, in proportion as the parent understands and appreciates the force and beauty of language, will she take pains to form in her child the invariable habit of purity of speech in every sense in which the word purity can apply to speech. Cicero says that those among the Romans who became renowned for eloquence, learned the Latin language in its perfection from their mothers’ lips, and never knew how to talk incorrectly. Early in childhood, habits of self-re-liance and self-help may be formed. The child should be taught to amuse itself," to wait upon Itself, and to perform services, according to its strength and ability, for others. It is no kindness to a healthful child to wait upon it continually, when it is aid’ enough to wait upon itself. The very birds know that. Until their younglings can fly, they bring food and put it into their mouths, but no sooner arc they fledged than they are pushed from the nest by the sensible, God-taught parent, and compelled to exercise their own powers in taking care of themselves. It is surprising what mere training will do in developing talent in children There are those who have no aptitude for music, but persistent cultivation of the voice and the ear docs often make very passable musicians of those who seemingly had no talent in that direction. The same is true of drawing and painting. No child in the Boston schools is excused from drawing because he has no liking for the task. Of course, if one loves music, or mathematics, or geography, he will make easy and rapid advancement in those studies; but the fact that he does not like them constitutes no reason why he should not become more or less proficient in them. There is ho training that can take the place of a good home training. Those boys and girls who are so fortunate as to have fathers and mothers capable of instructing them in the performance of whatever accomplishments make home a place to be longed for and enjoyed, are indeed fortunate. Their equipment for life ia complete-. - . - Special trainings are of great value. A lawyer of several years’ standing at the bar in New York, in a recent conversation, remarked: “I studied law in a lawyer’s oflice. My brother here, several years younger than myself, went through the law school, and he has so much the advantage of me in consequence of that training, in the studious habits he has formed, in being brought into immediate contact with the best legal minds, in being held to the highest standards, that this fall I shall enter the law school and take the entire course.” =men,” so*csHett, snbjcctthemselves to the severest training and discipline, and do not avail themselves of collegiate and technical training, simply because the force of circumstances prevents them from doing so. There w as never an hour in their youth when Henry Wilson and Horace Greeley would not have availed themselves of all the facilities offered by academies and e< >ll ege.-, i f 111 e x cell 1d ha ve doll <•s< >. How carefully they trained themselves! Skilled labor is wanted everywhere; in the composing room, in the editorial room, in the shop, at the piano, at the forge, in the kitchen. Skilled labor commands good wages, even in these hard times, but skilled labor comes and can come only by long training.— N. Y. Tribune.

Law a Hundred Years Ago.

The Albany Law Journal finds in Hall’s History of Eastern Vermont some account of the laws which were in force.a hundred years ago: “Burglary was punished by branding with a B in the forehead, ami nailing one of the offender’s ears to a post nfirtWKfflg the second offense there was the like branding, and nailing and cutting oft’ of the other ear; for the third offense the punishment was death, the offender being deemed * incorrigible.’ Counterfeiting was punished by cutting off the right ear, branding with C, and perpetual imprisonment. Perjury was punished by a fine of £SO and imprisonment for six months, but if the offender could not pay the fine he was let off by sitting in the pillory two hours, and having both ears nailed and cut off. Wilful lying, to public prejudice or private injury, or deceiving or abusing the people with false news or reports, was punished by fine, sitting in thestocks and whipping, the punishment being increased with each repetition of the' offense, except that in no case was the number of stripes to exceeibthe number of thirtynine. Theft was punished by compelling threefold restitution, by fine and by a sort of temporary, slavery, the prosecutor being empovVeriiiLto. dis. pose of the offender in service- -to any subject of the State for such time as jje should be assigned to the prosecutor by the Court. * Unseasonable night walking,' that is to say, after nine o’clock, wwprohibited, as was also the convening of persons under the government of parents, guardians or masters after that untimely hour. ‘Tavern haunters’ were punished By posting their names at the door of every tavern, and prohibiting the tavern-keeper from supplying them with anything in the way of strong drink. No clamorous discourse, snouting, hallooing, screaming, running, riding, dancing, jumping, swimming or blowing of horns, was tolerated on the Lora’s Day. Listening outside of the meetipg-house during the time of public worship was not permitted. Secular meetings of any number of persons, in the street or elsewhere, on Saturday or Monday evening, were forbidden, tinder penalty qf fine or stocks. “Mr.- Hall gives several notable instances of popular legal errors prevailfngifi Vermont. One notion was that if the friends of one dying in prison

carried his remains beyond the boundaries of the Jail yard, they were accomplices in an ‘escape,’ and liable to satisfy the judgment by virtue of which he had been confined. Another notion was that if one should bury the body of an imprisoned debtor, he thereby ‘ became administrator in his own wrong, and liable to discharge the debtor’s obligations. In the case of Judge Chandler, who died while confined in Jail for debt, his interment became a serious problem. In this predieament the Jailer discovered that by stretching the chain he could include within the Jail liberties a small.portion of the adjoining burying-ground. A grave was dug, commencing just outside the graveyard fence, and just within the Jail-yard, sloping under the tehee, until a sufficient depth and obliquity was obtained. So Judge Chandler was buried after a Christian fashion, and yet no ‘ escape’ was suffered.”

Mourning Bonnets and Veils.

English crape bonnets are worn at all seasons of the year for the deepest mourning. The best bonnets have two thicknesses of crape laid Over silk. Widows’ bonnets are so covered with the veil that they are made entirely without trimming, or at most they have only a band of the crape laid abound the crown. The widow’scap in front of the bonnet now consists of but one, or perhaps two, small puffs of crimped white tarlatan. If the close bonnet that this requires is objectionable, some folds of black crape are put above the cap to fill it in. Some widows who are still young have their bonnets made in the old-fashioned close shape known as the poke ; others-select the Marie Stuart, and have.the.pointed front lilled in with a widow’s cap. The veil for widows is three yards long, with a hem at each end from three-eighths to half a yard deep. It is thrown over the bonnet, with the front falling just below the waist, and the back hanging very low; or else this is reversed, so that the front falls almost to the foot and the back only to the waist; it is pinned on each side of the bonnet with slide pins that are also covered with crape. This veil is of double-width crape measuring from one yard to forty-two inches, and should not have a fold in the middle, as the best qualities are rolled on a stick. Ladies wearing deep mourning for a parent or any other near relative, except a hus band, have black crape folds for face trimmings and around the crown. The crape veil is then only a yard long and of single width, and is plaited down the left side of the bonnet to the back of the crown, and left to hang behind; a mask veil of Brussels net is worn over jho„ face. With such bonnets some pipings of gros grain are put in the folds, and loops or a bow of gros grain ribbon. Strings of gros grain ribbon arc added to all mournirig bonnets. Quite young ladies wear white tulle ruches for face trimming. Silk bonnets trimmed with feathers and jet are worn in light mourning; these are not trimmed with crape. The silk is plain on the frame, and there are stiff, small, set bows in the baek; a curtain band is piped with silk. Felt bonnets with silk trimmings are- used for—second best. Jforpc r 1 s rjagqr. ■ ’■ 1 ■ ".S

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Mr. P. B. S. Pinchbaek, the Louisiana politician, is the publisher of a weekly newspaper, at New Orleans, called the Louisiana and devoted to the interests of the colored people of the State. —The Publishing Committee of Our Union, official organ of the Women's Temperance Unions, has elected Mrs. Hannah Whitall Smith and Mrs. Mary T. Burt, editors, and Mrs. Amelia Alford, pirblisherrfor the coming year. ~=^ME“TspS^^-Erbrifrian iff Congress, is said to have a wonderful memory. When asked, “Mr. Spofford, is there a book in the library which gives information on such a subject?” he will promptly give the name of the volume and an indication of its contents. —Pauline Rhule, of Richmond, Va., has sued F. Neurath for breach of promise to marry. Defendant broke the engagement because he discovered that plaintiff had bad breath. Counsel for plaintiff produced lady friends who swore that her breath was sweetly aromatic. —William C. Gilman, the forger and swindler, now serving out a sentence in the New York Penitentiary, was a member of the Grand Jury that returned the indictment upon which Robert L. Case, President of the Security Life Insurance Company, was convicted and sentenced. —The Rev. Dr. Dale, who recently lectured to the Yale Theological School, reached England on the 17th of November. At a crowded meeting the next evening he said he should like to speak of.thg gpjieroiis and magnified tality with which the Americans were accustomed to receive their English guests, and that it had been extended to him in a most remarkable manner, for which he should never cease to be grateful; that he knew the Americans were a noble, kindly people before he crossed the Atlantic, but that the inijfression had been greatly deepened by his visit. —Senator Conover, of Florida, gave the following sketch <sf himself to u correspondent a few days ago: “I was born at an old settlement called Cranberry, N. J. My family is of Dutch decent, and usedto be called Cowenhoven. It became Conover by pronunciation a hundred years ago. My father w'as.a farmer in Cranberry Neck. I went to Trenton when a boy, and attended school there and learned the drug business, and then went to school more. In 1862, when the war broke out, I went to the Medical Department of the University of Philadelphia. After getting my degree I was appointed a surgeon in the army, and was sent to the Army of the Cumberland, and also had eharge-qf the Woodward Post Hospital, on Broadway, Cincinnati. In 18(>5 I began to practice medicine in Trenton, and did very well; but 1 saw it would be a long, slow business building up practice. So I had myself reappointed an Army Assistant Surgeon, and wasoffered my choice of location, Florida or Texas. " I did not know anything about either place; but Texas, seemed very far, so I took Florida. In Florida I was posted at Lake City, and when the Reconstruction acts were passed in Congress I was elected to the Constitutional Convention of Florida. I assisted to make the present Constitution of the State, which has since been amended.” —At a country school-house in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, a teacher named YoungT’mished a pupil named Belin for a breach of discipline. The next day the boy struck the teacher with a chair, knocking him down and injnringhim so badly.tliM dtt& U OX’ peeled to follow.