Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1878 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

A Washington dispatch of the 13th stated that the Aral three silver dollars of the new cctnags had been received there, one of them being delivered to the President, one to the Seeretavy e< the Treasury and the other to the Director of the Mint, fen thousand of the new dollars wooM be received from the Philadelphia Mint, on the l«th. A nosnr dtocharßvd employe of the Interior Department in Washington (Dr. B. 8. Reborn) shot himself, on the night of the 13th. Twa total subscriptions, up to the 14th, to the 4-per-eeat. bonds since the date of the Treasury circular of Jan. 16, advertising the loan, was *3,500,000. The Secretary of the Treasury stated, on the 14th. that a report that he bad decided to sell a large number of per cent bonds at par In gold was erroneous. He had made no such decision. Tita Secretary of the Interior has decided that pre-emption tiling is not absolutely required In making a homestead entry, and that It may be entirely dispensed with In making final proof thereon. This ruling, it is said, will save settlers a great deal of inconvenience and expense. THB BAST. Maa. Lydia M. Roosevelt. the first woman who descended the Ohio River in a steamboat, died at Skaneateles. N. Y , a few days ago. Her busband, Nicholas J. Roosevelt, built the Vesuvius, the first steamboat constructed in the West, and In 1810 he and his wife made the trial trip. Tn Village of Spartansburg, Pa., was recently nearly all destroyed by fire, and a clothier, named Wm. Jacobs, and his clerk, N. 8. Goldman, have been arrested and lodged in Jail charged with setting the fire to secure insurance money. A New York dispatch of the 10th says a list of the American exhibitors at Paris showed a total of 577 firms and individuals exhibiting in the departments of science and industry generally. The range of articles was broad. Gen. McCormick had striven to keep out, as far as practicable, all articles of minor value, or which would not reflect creditably upon American progress. The Western States furnished about fifty enhibitors; 242 were from New York, 106 from Pennsylvania, eightyeight from Connecticut, forty-four from Massachusetts, sixteen from Ohio, and fifteen from Illinois. No goods would be received after the 90th of March. The Prohibitory Liquor hill was defeated in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, on the 12th, the vote being US against to 98 for. A Concord (N. H.) telegram of the morning of the 13th says the election in that State bad resulted tn the choice of Prescott (Rep.) for Governor by a majority of between 1.000 and 2,000. The Republicans bad also carried the House, Senate and Council. Tn Acton (Maas.) powder mill blew up, on the 12th, killing two men. The noise of the explosion was plainly heard at a distance of fifteen miles. A large hill south of the works was literally covered with fragments of the building. Ox the evening of the 11th, at Harrisburg, Pa., two children named Wood were fatally, and two others seriously, burned by the explosion of coal oil, with which the eldest, aged eleven, was lighting the fire. Hazing was revived at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., on the night of the 11th. Early in the evening, the Sophomores intruded upon the Freshmen. About two o’clock the next morning, the Freshmen broke into a room occupied by a Sophomore and his brother—a Senior—and both the latter were unmercifully beaten with bottles and disfigured. Two of the assailants were arrested for assault with intent to kill. Thb exchanging of new silver dollars for gold commenced at the Philadelphia Mint, on the 13th. Coinage would continue at the rate of *40,000 a day. Robert Hamilton, ex-Member of Congress from New Jersey, died, on the morning of the 14th, of paralysis. Joseph LaPaige, aKa» Joseph Parish, was hanged at Concord, N. H., on the 15th, for the murder, in October, 1875, of Josie Langmaid, while on her way to school. He confessed to the crime for which he was hanged, and also to the murder of Miss Ball, a school teacher, at ■ ■ ■ ■ 4.. Gold dosed tn New York, on March 15th, at 101. The following were the closing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring, Wheat, *[email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee, *1.23%@1.24. Oats, Western and State, Corn, Western Mixed, 47@51tfe. Port, Mess, *10.25. Lard, »7.35. Flour, Good to Choice, »[email protected]; Winter Wheat, »[email protected]. Cattle, [email protected] for Good to Extra. Sheep, *[email protected]. Hogs, *3.85 @4-00. At East Liberty, Pa., on March 15th, Cattle brought: Beat, *[email protected]; Medium, *4.25@ 4.50; Common, *[email protected]. Hogs sold— Yorkers, *[email protected]; Philadelphia®, *4.40@ 4.55. Sheep brought *3.oo(3s.so—according to quality. - AT Baltimore, Md., on March 15th. Cattle brought: Best, *4.€[email protected]; Medium, Hogs sold at *5.00(36.00 for Good. Sheep were quoted at *4.00(36.25 for Good. WBBT AND SOUTH. A severe snow-storm occurred on the line cf the Union Pacific and other railroads in Nebraska and Wyoming Territory, on the 9th and 10th, blockading trains and suspending travel and trade. The storm at Cheyenne was severer than any experienced the past winter. Hox. Chas. L. Wilson, proprietor of the Chicago Evening Journal, died at San Antonio, Tex., on the 9th. He had been an Invalid for about three years, and had gone to Texas for the benefit of his health. He was fifty-nine years of age. At Harrison, Ohio, on the evening of the Bth, at a Town-Hall meeting, a new gasoline machine, which was being tested by those unskilled in its operation, exploded, instantly killing a member of the Council and a little girt- Two other men were dangerously and several slightly injured. A. postal and baggage car, on the Lake Shore A Michigan Southern Railroad, attached to a western-bound train, took fire on the morning of the 11th, and about 8,000 pounds of m»B matter and a large quantity of baggage were destroyed. The mafl matter conalrded chiefly of newspapers and a quantity of stamped envelopes destined for lowa, Indiana and the Territories. . A special to the Chicago Inter-Ocean of -the 12th from Bismarck, D. T, says a leading) Bloux Chief from Sitting Bull's camp had met and told Scout Howard that they wanted to ' surrender. He said the Indians were literally starving, and they only wanted to save their ' ponies and the surrender would be gladly made. A violent tornado visited Atlanta, G», about deven a. m., on the 10th. The Episcopal Church, which was crowded with worshipers, was leveled to the ground, and eighteen wreona were more or leas injured The City Hall was unroofed and several private buildjimwf sirwriLil Gvs Jobebon, a white man, was hanged at Rome, Ga., on the 15th, for the murder, in 1 wn, it aeploredinan named Alfred McCown. ; ' r ■■ ™ .

for which he suffered death being very atrodomand entirely without provocation. He waa defiant to the last. lx Chicago, on March 15th, Spring Wheat Na 2 cloned at «[email protected]'7X cash. Cash corn cloned at 42’> ( c for Na 9. Cash oats No. 3 sold at 241« q; and 27c seller May. Rye Na 2,55 - Barley No. 2, [email protected]<c. Cash Meas Pork closed at *9.55. Lard, 37.17 - Beeves —Extra, nominal quotations; Choice, 34 25@4 50; Good, 33.75@4 00; Modi um Grades, *[email protected]; Butchers’ Stock, 2.35(33.00; Stock Cattle, etc., *[email protected]. Hogs-Good to Choice, *3.20(33.75. SheepPoor to Choice, *3.00(35.00. VORRIGir n rELLIfIBVCR. A peace demonstration in Hyde Park, London, on the 10th, was broken up by the riotous supporters of the policy of the Government. Gladstone, ex-Premier, lias declined to stand again for the British Parliament. Constantinople telegram of the 11th says the Austrian KteatnerSphlnx was recently burned, near Ca|>e Elia, and that 700 Circassians on board perished. It was stated, from London, on the 10th that Lord Lyons would succeed Lord Derby as British Minister of Foreign Affaire. A Constantinople telegram of the 10th says the Sultan had ratified the treaty recently concluded with Russia. It was reported that the last clause of that instrument contained, in substance, a declaration that neither Turkey nor Russia would recognize the right of any Power to Interfe rewith Its terms except as regards the question of the straits and the settlement of the boundaries of Montenegro. A Vienna dispatch of the 10th says the meeting of the European Congress has been fixed for March 31. According to Athens dispatches of the 10th, the representatives of Great Britain bad promised to represent Grecian demands at the forthcoming European Conference. Paris letters, published in London on the 11th, say that France and England bad United in an Intervention in the financial affaire of Egypt ON the evening of the 11th, at Athens Greece, a grand fete was given to Ex-Presi-dent Grant The ruins of the ancient temples and the Parthenon were illuminated in his honor. According to trustworthy advices from India, the Mohammedans there were greatly excited about the overthrow of the Turkish Power in Europe, and trouble was apprehended unless the Government took speedy antiRussian action. It was believed that 200,000 Moslems would volunteer to serve against Russia if opportunity were given them. Thb Porte has declared itself unable to aid the 250,000 starving refugees around Shumla. It is reported that the Syrians are vigorously agitating the question of annexation to Egypt. A Constantinople telegram of the 12th says the Russians had occupied most of the towns round about Constantinople. Princb Hassan, sou of the Khedive of Egypt, is said to be implicated in the late conspiracy to dethrone the Sultan, and has been summoned to Constantinople. It is also stated that he has declined to surrender the post of Varna, as directed, and proposes to await orders from his father, the Khedive. The Khedive of Egypt has created a Commission, with Col. Gordon at its head, to make thorough examination of Egypt’s financial condition, in order to ascertain the extent of her ability to meet, the demands of her creditors. On the 12th, the sub-corn mil tees of the Hungarian delegation unanimously voted to grant the 60,000,000 florins credit demanded by Count Andrassy, the Austrian Premier, who told the delegation that Austria would never consent to the extension of Bulgaria to the Aegean Bea, or to the Russian occupation of the Province for a longer period than six months. Ox the afternoon of the 12th, a terrible coTliery explosion occurred at Unity Brook Pit, in Kearsley. near Bolton. England. About forty men were working in the mine at the time, and it was thought that every soul had perished. Vp to the inof-ning of the 13th, sixteen dead bodies had been recovered. According to a Vienna special of the 13th, the Roumanian representative had handed a note to Count Andrassy, stating that Roumania would not be bound by the Turco-Rus-sian peace preliminaries. The Armenians had asked Great Britain to obtain from the forthcoming Congress autonomy for Turkish Armenia and an European guaranty for protection. The Sultan has bestowed upon the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, of London, the Grand Conlon of the Order of Mejidie, as a recognition of her -eftortW’lis behalfof - Turirish-refugociL ■■ Corev specials of the 13th say the Turks had devastated eight Christian villages in the District of Delvino, and massacred the male Inhabitants. They had also killed 100 fugitive women and children. The Thessalian insurgents claim the recent defeat of the Turks near Pharsalia, killing or wounding 400. A huge store-room which was being erected at Woolwich, Eng., fell on the 13th, burying hundreds of workmen in the ruins. A large number were Seriously, and some fatally, in jured. According to London dispatches of the 14th, apprehension prevailed that the relations between Russia and England were liecoming unsatisfactory and embarrassing. It was reported that England had concluded to occupy Mitylene, which Russia had declared it would consider coxus belli, and that the latter had moved its forces nearer to Constantinople. The situation was considered full of menace. On the 14th, thirty-six persons were drowned at Brest, France, by the upsetting of a barge. According to an Athens dispatch of the 15th, Russia had rejected the proposal to admit Greece to the Conference. It is semi officially announced from St. Petersburg that Prince Battenburg, the Czarina’S nephew, has been definitely proposed for the throne of Bulgaria; - A Constantinople dispatch of the 15th says North Syria had revolted and reparated itself from the Sultan. The Kurds in Diarbekir had also revolted. Bucharest telegrams of the 15th say the ; feeling of hostility toward Russia was becoming intense on the part of the Roumanians. A Pera dispatch of the 15th says Russian transports were landing large quantities of supplies at Bourgas, on the Black Sea. and taking away all sick and wounded, but no able-bodied soldiers. The. coneljjsltra was extending that the war was hot yet ended. According to London dispatches of the 15th, the hostility toward Russia was visitjy increasing, and hopes of peace were based wholly upon the expectation that' Russia would abate her pretensions .when the Con- ' grate met, and yield to the representations of England. It was believed, however, that ! Austria and Germany would support Russia. . and that, if England would fight, she would • have no other ally than Turkey, who would break her late treaty with Russia the moment 1 she discovered a disposition for war on the part of England. POUTY-FIFTH CpNGHENS The Senate was not in session on the 9th. A bilL was reported, in the House, and referred to the Committee of the Whole, providinc for an appropriation of *1.533,445 for defietenciea for the services of the Government I for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878....’The Capsubir and Diplomatic Appropriation bill ' (*1.006,995, * reduction of M02.4® from the appropriation of last year, and of *177.462 from the ratirnstraof toe State was oonsid-

A resolution was agreed to, in the Senate, on the litb, appointing Gen. Wm. T. Sherman a member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institute, in place of Geo. Bancroft, resigned The bill providing for the appointment of a Commission on the Alcoholic Liquor Traffic, with an amendment that one member lie engaged in the traffic, waa pasard-29 to 19. Among the bills introduced in the House were the following: To issue certificates on the deposit of silver bullion or bars: tt> ish the Court of Claims; to reduce the tax on dis tilled spirits and tobacco; a joint resolution propoeine a Constitutional Amendment pnividii g that Congress shall take measures for the imuing of non-intereat-l>aanhg legal-tender notes to constitute a permanent and stable paper currency. .The Naval Appropriation bill (*14.048,684) was reported and referred to Committee of the Whole. In the Senate, on the 12th, the bill in aid of the James G. Bennett Polar Expedition was passed unanimously... A petition was presented, signed by R. G. Ingersoll, of Illinois, and others, declaring that the statutes passed ostensibly for the suppression of obscene literature are plain violations of the letter and spirit of the fundamental principles of onr Government, and that they are capable of, and are in fact, being used for the purposes of moral and religious persecution. and the petitioners piay that such statutes may be repealed or materially modified, so that they eannot be used, as to abridge f reel lorn of the press or of conscience.... The House bill for the relief of William A. Hammond, late Burgeon-General, sas passed 56 to 1. In the House, the Conaular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was debated at considerable length in Committee of the Whole. Bills were introduced and referred, in the Senate, on the 13th—to provide for and regulate the counting of vote* for President and Vice-President, and the decision of questions arising thereon: to promote the deposits of savings and the refnnding of the National debt.. • • Bills were passed -West Point Appropriation bill, with amendments; House bill to make persons charged with crimes and offens s competent witnesses in United States and Territorial Courts. The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was further considered in Commit tee of the Whole, in the House; several emend ments were agreed to, and the bill and amendments were reported to the House and passed.... The Senate bill to aid the Bennett Polar Expedition waa also passed. A number of Pension bills were pawed in the Senate, on the 14th. Bills were introdaced providing for the payment of ail customs dues, and all cither debts due to the United States, in legal-tender notes at par, ex cept in cases where it is otherwise exprtsdy stipulated on the face of the obligation or contract; to regulate passenger farts and freight traffic on the Denver Pacific and Kansas Pacific Railways; to authorize the construction of a narrow-gauge railroad from Bismarck to the Black Hills . Adjourned to the 18th. A bill was introduced in the Houso regulating the reserve fund of National Banks. . The bill extending to three years the time for the withdrawing of distilled lienors from bond waa debated and amended in Committee ot the Whole, reported fto the House and passed—llß to 116. Tiie Senate was not in session the 15th. In the House, a substitute was reported and referred to the Committee of the Whole for the bill to promote the deposit of savings in the Treasury and the refnnding of the National debt ... The contested-election case of Deanes. Field, from the Third Massachusetts District was considered, the majority report favoring the claims of the former and the minority report those of the latter—the sitting member. After some discussion, the Speaker had read a telegram announcing the death, in Havana, of yellow fever, of the Hon. John E- Leonard. Congressman from the Fifth Louisiana District, and en motion, out of respect to the memory of the deceased, the House adjourned, the session on the 16th to be for private business.

Fall of a Mountain Promontory.

Nearly every resident of Montana has either seen or heard of the famous Bear Tooth Mountain, the most prominent landmark in Northern Montana. It is visible from differentpointsat distances ranging from forty to sixty miles, and is in full view from Helena and the surrounding country. The mountain is distant thirty miles from Helena, and stands like a grim and mighty sentinel at the end of the canyon known as the Gate of the Mountains through which flows the Missouri River. The Bear Tooth was fully described as a wonderful landmark of the early explorers of Lewis and Clarke. In all photographs of the northern country the two tusks, rising black and grim hundreds of feet above the mountain, are the prominent objects. The main tusk remains, looking lonely and isolated in its grandeur. Recently a party’ of hunters who were chasing game several miles north of the Bear Tooth, observed a rumbling sound and a quaking of the earth, and supposing it was an earthquake, and not noticing a repetition of it, they soon forgot the occurrence and continued their cliase until they’ reached the Bear Tooth. Here they were astonished by the disappearance of the rmtiirn tn«k. Tbk wnt a pprrmndmilar mass of rock and earth, fully 500 feet high, 300 feet in circumference at its base, and about one hundred and fifty feet at the top. This immense mass had become dislodged, and coming down with the speed of an avalanche had swept through a forest of large timber for a quarter of a mile, entirely leveling it. The countrj’ around is now covered with a great mass of broken trees and tons upon tons of rocks, many of them as large as an ordinary house.— Montana Independent.

One Cent on the Dollar.

As an illustration of the spirit of the times was the following little family scene, when a bright four-year-old little lady was imitating her elders by playing “making calls.” “Now, mamma, you be Mitheth Dones an’ I’ll be Mitheth Smith, an turn an mate you a tall.” Mamma—“Very well, Mrs. Smith, I’m glad to see you; how do you do, and how are the children?” Totty—“l’m twite well, I tank you, but the children has all dot the hoopin’ toss.” Mamma—“ I’m sorry to hear it. How many children have >ou, Mrs. Smith?” Tolly—“Ob, I has ten, an dey is a gate tyal to me wif my housekeepin’.” Mamma —“ They must be, indeed. But how does your husband, Mr. Smith, do?” Totty—“He’s very well, tank you: but he’s had bad bithnqss and he hath failed.” Mamma—“l’m sb sorry to hear that your husband has failed; "but you haven't lost everything, Mrs. Smith, lor j"Bee'Tou make—eaUs-in-yQHr-.Qwn' carriage.’’ Totty—“ Oh, yes. I teep my tarriage... We has paid one cent on a dollal and doze right on.”, The above is a fact. —Boston Commercial Bulletin.

—The Edenburg (Penn.) Herald relates a story about a commercial drummer from Pittsburgh, who, considerably under the influence of liquor, mistook his route and drove his team upon the trestle-work of the Edenburg, Summit & Clarion Railroad, supposing it to be the wagon load. The trestlebridge is sixty’feet up from the ground, and about the same length, but the horses made the crossing, feeling their way in the darkness, step by step, every foot striking a tie securely,. until the distance was traversed and they stood in safety on (he other side; ana just in the nick of time, too, as the night express came thundering by in five minuted after the team had left the track. .

MISCELLANEOUS TtEMS. —A real Christian respects himself so much that he can't be selfish. —Fond mother: “ What would you do without a mother, TomF’ Tom: “Do as I liked, ma.” —The franking privilege —The privilege of making you pay for my postage.—Bufalo Axpres®. —The New York Ttlegram advises people to marry for love and not for money. That’s the true way, .and it will always keep the poor-houses full, too.—free Press. —There is no sort of company so agreeable as that of women wno have good sense without affectation, and can converse with men without any design of imposing chains and fetters. —ln West Africa they have a proverb about the sure consequence of crime which might be profitably pondered upon by all of us: “He ned from the sword and hid in the scabbard.” —lt is noted as a curious fact that if the conditions of peace preliminaries signed by Russia and Turkey’ are carried out, they will leave the European dominions of the latter very much in the form of a cresc mt. —“I have worked four years for other people. I shall now devote a few years of labor to myself.” Thus remarks W. O. Fuller, Jr., of the Rockland (Me.) Courier, in announcing the suspension of his journal. —Even the untutored savage, who only just overtops the orang, as Mr. Darwin would say, sees the difference between a rich man and a poor man. He says, “ Behind dog it is only dog; but before dog it is Mr. Dog.” —lt is hard to please a man who has fallen into the habit of grumbling. He is discontented until he gets something, then he is discontented because it is not what he expected, and then he is discontented because he is discontented. —When you speak evil of another you must be prepared to have others speak evil of you. There is an old Buddhist proverb which says: “He who indulges in enmity is like one who throws ashes to windward, which come back to the same place and cover him all over.” —A cobbler once said that he could always tell who was wrong in a spirited argument, even when he could not understand what either contestant was saying. He brought his hammer down on his lapstone with a hearty blow and continued: “It’s always the man who gets mad first.” —lt was vouchsafed to the Buffalo Express to make the announcement that “Mrs. Moore, the Sweet Singer of Michigan, has given birth to anew poem. It weighs ten pounds and has hair like portions of a gorgeous sunset. The public will be grieved to learn that it is a mere girl.” —Weather or Not.—Mr. Trammels: “I assure you, Mrs. Jones, I would never go out at all if I could help it, in this dreadful climate—one day hot, the next cold. What miserably wretched weather we have.” Mrs. J. : “We do, indeed, Mr. Trammels; but try and bear up; it’s better than none, you knowJ£= ■ — —Don’t feed the tramps. If they ask for a meal send them to the wood pile md make them earn it. If they won’t do that they are not very hungry. A rigid determination on the part of the people not to feed those who won’t work will cure the tramping business sooner than anything' else.— Dallas (Tex.) Commercial. —King Alfonso spends hours and hours talking with his bride by telephone. A year from this date he will probably hire a lightning-rod man to run his end of the machine while he loafs at -■the club—and she will have her chambermaid instructed to keep the thing going while she reads Daudet’s novms.— Oil City Derrick. —“ Charles, my dear,” said his loving wife, “ I thought you said that the dodo bird was extinct.” “So it is, pet,” he replied. “ Well, but Charley, some one sent in a bill to you to-day, and it says: To one julep, do do. To three smashes, do do. To twenty braces, do do. Charley, please don’t buy any dodos; they must be horrid things.” —Whon you are seriously considering matrimony as a possibility of the near future it iabest toput youroreditors in good humor by asking for their autographs on bills of goods delivered. The man who has a nght to ask you for money may be a dun; but unless you pay him you are undone. It is always better to settle up before you settle down.— N. Y. Herald. —He was saying, “As the peany column of smoke in a winter’s atmosphere rises unbroken heavenward, so my heart rises to thee. As the sunflower follows the cruel sun which gives it life, so my heart, follows thine. As the blue brook runs its unhindered course to the sea, so my soul, in slavery, goes to thee.” Said she: “Henry, now that we are engaged, will your nail-blade cut corns?” — Bennett. —Hiram Cranston late proprietor of the New York Hotel, appointed three executors —his wife ana two others. The latter refused to qualify, and the creditors of the estate have since objected to Mrs. Cranston’s acting as the sole executor. They alleged that her manner of living was extravagant, and in proof of this statement adduced the remarkable fact that she purchased from one New York shoemaker eight or ten pairs of shoes and slippers in less than a year. The property consists of $400,000 worth of real estate, and personal property amounting to $15,000. The matter was compromised, Mrs. Cranston consenting to the appointment of a disinterestedperson as administrator.

A Sham Ghost captured.

Several times during the past month .two young ladies living in the western part of the city have been startled while on their way home from work, just at dusk, by the sudden appearance of a tall figure* enveloped in white and giving utterance to what were intended for soul-harrowing groans as it stalked up the street ahead of them, to suddenly disappear in - the darkness of a vacant lot. The young ladies, hSE being ■ of a particularly timid disposition and not at all superstitious, resolved to captur<> the “ghos having a suspicion that they knew the shadowy party. Tuesday evening they started for home about an hour earlier than usual, accompanied by two other young ladj’ friends. Arriving at the place where the “ghost” usually put in an appearance, two of the girls secreted themselves at the point where he always disappeared, while the other girls went back and w’aited, so that they might appear at the usual hour. Promptly on time, no sooner had they turned the cornerlhan ouf alley ahead of them walked the party in white, who, as before, marched along slowly and with groans. . losteadof following : : j& a respectful

distance the girls tip-toed rapidly to within about ten feet of the "ghost,’' when hearing their hurried steps he looked back over his shoulder and started on a lively run for the hole in the fence. The girls at this point braced themselves for the climax, and when he jumped through he was seized and firmly held until the four girls had him completely at their mercy, stripped of his white sheet and paper hat, and recognized as a youth about eighteen years old, with whom they were all well acquainted. In payment for his silly trick the girls tore the sheet into shreds, tied his hands behind him, tied his paper hat firmly on his head, and with a well-twisted cotton leadingstring about his neck, pulled and drove him a distance of about seven squares, the last half of the parade being through a comparatively public street, where the “ghost” received the full benefit of his “make-up” in the derision he excited among passers-by.— Detroit Free Press. a

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—The Kentucky House of Representatives has voted SIO,OOO to build a monument to Breckinridge. —Measurements of 1,500,000 American white men give 5 feet 7 J inches as the average.— Dr. Foote's Health Monthly. —Peter Royal, of Lee, Me., is 110 years old, has a daughter who is eightyfour, and two sons, one eighty-two and one eighty. —Senator Withers’ son, of Virginia, is the first victim of base-ball this year, having been struck on the head with a bat slung by a player who was in a hurry to make first, receiving serious and probably fatal injuries. —Mr. L. W.» Coe, one of the members of the Connecticut Senate, allowed himself to be elected with the odd proviso that whenever his business demanded his time he should be given leave of absence. He has accordinglywithdrawn from the Senate and will sail for Europe in a few days.— N. Y. Evening Post. —George Ladd, a mathematical prodigy whose performances have for years excited the wonder of the citizens of Brattleboro, Vt., died recently at the Poorhouse in that place. If given, for instance, the number of miles from Brattleboro to Washington or any ot her point, he would immediately and accurately give the number of feet and inches. He had never received even a common school education. —At South Hadley, Mass., the following story is told of Senator Kellogg, of Louisiana, of what happened years ago when he was working at his trade there: He belonged to a militia company, a good many members of which had become very tired of drilling. Various plans were suggested of getting rid of the duty-, and finally the suggestion of Kellogg that everybody chosen to office at the approaching election should decline was thought to be just the thing. But when the time came and almost everybody had refused the Captaincy and Kellogg had been chosen, he very coolly accepted the “ unexpected honor” with thanks. —The little brown cottage in Springfield, 111., in which Mr. Lincoln lived before he went to Washington, still remains almost as he left it, furniture and all. It is related that it had at first but one story, and that Mrs. Lincoln for many years unavailing’y teased her husband to raise the roof, At length she seized an opportunity when he yyas attending court in an adjoining town to employ- workmen and have the half-story added, windows put in, paint put on, all completed—save payment of bills—before his return. Coming up the street, he comprehended the situation at a glance, but, feigning bewilderment, and pretending not to recognize the old place, he walked past as if searching for home, till his wife—who was watching behind the shutters — called after him: “Abrim! Abrim!”

Juvenile Literature.

Prof. Sumner has contributed to Scribner's Monthly a study upon juvenileJiteratnre founded upon the Hash story-papers whiph have a great currency among boys. He concludes that -the hoys- who <read~~these atorietrgffi taught by them that there is irrepressible enmity between fathers and sons; that fathers are monsters of vice and hypocrisy, who keep their sons short of pocket-money for their own vile purposes, and that the oppressed sons should avenge their wrongs by robbing their bloated oppressors. Prof. Sumner makes several citations from .the stories, none of them of a savory kind, and leaves with parents the consideration of the sort of food their sons are browsing. Sure enough, it must be a serious consideration with parents what to do with their young, who are imbibing these amiable sentiments. The sentiments do not seem to come within the province of Mr. Comstock. They are only very false and ridiculous. This will not hinder the human boy from reading them with delight and implicit belief. The capacity of an activeminded boy of fourteen or fifteen for printed matter of all kinds is a thing monstrous and incredible even to himself when he has arrived at riper years. Out of the continents of stuff which he reads he gradually arrives at a principle of selection, and forms his taste. This result can be hastened by putting good books in his way, though they must not be goody books. Nobody, not even a French critic, is quicker to detect a scheme seton foot for his moral improvement, under pretense of amusing him, and to revolt at the same, than the English-reading boy. But he

is as open, or nearly so, to receive good books as bad, and before very long he learns to discriminate between good and bad literature, generally before he begins to make moral distinctions in his reading matter. His sole test of the merit of a book, like that of the purely literary critic, is that it entertains him while he is reading it, and gives him sensations. The more he reads the more fastidious he becomes on this point, and the more he refuses to be amused on easy terms. The citations which Prof. Sumner gives -are marked by great vulgarity, and a boy who had arrived gt any sense of literary values would be more revolted by their obvious literary badness than allured by their more or less concealed immorality. It seems to us, therefore, that the remedy for tho’misohief for which Prof. Sumner complains is to cultivate as highly as possible- the literary tastes of the boys to whom this flash literature ] is supposed to appeal by substituting healthy excitement for morbid, and put-1 ting well-written adventure in their way | instead -of bungled accounts of “ seeing life.” Then let them read freely, subject only to Comstock and the Const!tution of the United States.—*V, Y. w»rw:

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—The tipping over of a car-load of hot cinders into a snow-bank at the Pine Iron Works in Montgomery County, Pa., recently, resulted in a fearful explosion, the shock of which is said to nave shaken houses 100 yards away, and persons standing near by were severely burned and cut by t|je flying cinders. A printer in Wellsville, N. Y., who has been deaf for many years, was placed in a highly-beated room last week, to help him out of a case of the chills. He was seized with sharp pains in the head, and fell down insensible. The whistle of a locomotive woke him next morning, and ho has since been able to hear well, and speech, which had also about left him, has returned. —For some weeks Mr. Pierce, who lives in an old brick house near the canal in Georgetown, has heard a peculiar noise at night, and discovered the gradual loss of chickens. He came to the conclusion that it must be made by rat*. Friday night fie and his wife were awakened by a sharp cry of distress from the crib adjoining their bed, in which their two year ol<l infant was sleeping. Mr. Pierce immediately sprang out and discovered a weasel at his child’s throat, (’etching the animal with his hand he threw it to the floor, killing it at once. A few moments later the little one would certainly have been killed, as a deep gash was already made in its throat. The animal was about eighteen inches long, very slender, with short legs.— Washington (D. C.) Star. —One of the most miraculous escapes from instant death that we have ever heard recorded is related as having occurred last Saturday morning. A man by the name of W. D. Soy had been to consult a physician in regard to his case, as he had been partially deaf for a number of years. Having finished his business, he started for home on foot, taking the railroad track, and had proceeded but a short distance when he saw a train of carj approaching him, and as the cars came near he stepped upon the eastward-bound track, not looking for or hearing that which was approaching from that direction, but had hardly- stepped on the track when he turned to see the engine apparently upon him. He grasped hold of the pilot or head of the engine, heard an unearthly shriek, and awoke to find that he had been dreaming and had his hands in his wife’s hair, and had partlytorn a handful out by the roots. — Elmira (N F.) Gazette. —Ten years ago Michael O’Donnell was a well-to-do market-gardener in a Massachusetts village. One night he heard some one in his garden, and, supposing it to be a thief, fired his revolver at random in the dark for the purpose of frightening away the depredator, and went back to bed. The next morning the body of a girl fifteen years old was found in the garden. O'Donnell was tried, convicted and sentenced to the Penitentiary for life. The other day he was brought before the Governor’s Council as a candidate for pardon. His hair was perfectly white and soft, and there was a fixed expression of terror on his face. He walked like an automaton, and to every question seemed only capable of answering y-es or no. Even when told that, he would be pardoned and allowed to go free again, his expression did not change, and he only repeated the word “yes” in his usual mechanical tone.

A Grand Swim.

One of the most remarkable escapades of modern times is that of Henry Johnston, of Clay County, who made a swim over the Missouri River, from Kansas City to Harlem. It was the reckless and daring event of the age. The Missouri River, opposite this city, is about a half mile in width, and is quite rapid, inasmuch as it whirls rapidly against the rocky bluffs at this point after having rolled restlessly on from the mountain 2,000 miles above. It is one of the worst curves in tho river, and one of the last places which could be selected to ferry the river on horseback. It was about midnight when the stranger rode down to the river bank near the bridge. He was full of whisky and quite loud *iti his exclamations of ferryboat was not running. He rode from the bridge to a point on the river just above the first pier, and plunged into the current of the Missouri River opposite Broadway. It was not dark, for the moon was visible, and the shouts of the reckless horseman as he urged on his horse attracted the police and the night watchmen. The current was so rapid that the horse and rider made little progress across the river until after the crib of the swinging span had been passed. There was nothing to be seen except the head of the horse and the head and shoulders of the reckless rider; those could be seen on the surface of the current as it floated by. The horse and rider disappeared from this sidp long before any notice was received that either had reached the Clay County shore. But “blood will tell,” and the mettle of Johnston’s horse saved its drunken master’s life. About one o’clock Harlem was aroused by cries for help- on the river bank, nearly opposite the school-house. A man and horse were found mired in the mud on tho river hank, and help was wanted. The river bank at that point is a slough of mud just now. and the tired horse and, sobered rider were helpless and waiting for assistance. Horses and ropes were brought, and, with a united effort of the citizens oi Harlem, the reckless horseman and his brave animal were taken from the river. It is the worst case of mental aberration on record. Johnston is at home, under care of his friends, but he will live in history as the man who swam the Missouri River in midwinter on horseback.— Kans as City (Mo.) Times.

Fighting a Flood.

Such a storni as raged in Sacramento on Wednesday and Wednesday night was nover experienced before, and nothing but a change of wind prevented an overflow from the south side. The scene on the R-street levee, yesterday afterndon, was a grand one. The wind whistled and hissed, the waves roared and dashed and leaped upon the soil in glee, as if laughing at the impotence of man’s work when the elementary legions sounded the charge. The foam and spray sprang upon the railroad and rollecf back 'again to join the invading force. The pitiless rain came down in torrents, beating in the faces of those wfib marched out to the rescue. The water leaping on the track, aided by the torrents of rain, had mlde it so Slippery that it was difficult to obtain a foothold, and the 'wind, rushing violently through the open space sonth and coming with such tremendous force, ngade It difficult walking.

In the face of this blinding storm the citizens turned out nobly to the rescue. Bankers, doctors, lawyers, brokers, journalists, the wealthy and the pov-erty-stricken, some in elegant suits and others almost in rags, with one common impulse, worked like beavers in a common cause. The water dashed a*ound and over them, and the rain ceased not. in force, the wind blew in heavy gales, and slush and filth were ankle deep, clothes were ruined, arms tired and stomachs hungry, .but still t.hcy worked on side by side. The sitnation was dangerous for a time. The angrv waves were eating slowly but surely into the earth, as if anxious to tear out the very heart of the levee. Men were ankle deep —some waist deep —(n water, while the storm never ceased and the waves still dashed on. Shovels were plied with astonishing rapidity, and sacks filled almost as soon as found. The wealth and cream of the city shoveled dirt for the poor to carry, or stood in the storm and slush while some poor fellow, almost in rags, filled the sack he held and conveyed it to the weak spot. From one until after seven o’clock they stood at their posts in all the rain and slush and storm, and only left when all was safe and the danger ended.— Sacramento (Cal.) Bee.

Maud Muller.

Maud Muller, as Whittier drew her, was a comely young woman in a briarkirn dress and ragged hat, innocent as to shoes and stockings, who helped her father during the busy havingtime, hired help being scarce and high. This was certainly commendable in Maud; though as she paused in hetwork, and, leaning on the rake-han-dle, glanced to the far-off town, she couldn’t help wishing that Fate had cast her lot different from a meadowlot. and that she was a clerk in a nine-ty-nine cent store, or something like that. She asked herself whether the life of a female book-canvasser was so very hard, and wondered if any lady clerks were wanted in the Postoffice. While she is thus reflecting, the Judge comes riding slowly down the lane. Whittier doesn’t tell us what he is judge of, though we conclude he is a tolerable good judge of rustic beauty, for he drew his bridle (at some church fair) and asked the maid to bring him a draught of w«>ter from a convenient spring, although it was far into the summer at the time. This she did, and blushing deeply as she recollected that her shoes and stockings were “up to the house,” handed the cup to the Judge, who gallantly remarked that “ A sweeter draught, From a fairer hand was never quaffed." Maud courtesied and said that her father considered her a pretty fair “ hand in the hayfield.” The Judge lingered as long as he could, talking about the weather, the Silver bill, the pastern question, chances of his re-election to the bench, etc., etc., to all of which she simply replied, “Yes, sir,” “ te-he,” or something like that, and when he couldn’t make any more excuses for lingering, he rode away. Maud looked after him and sighed as she thought, “ The Judge is just the kind of a man I’d like to tie to. Dress? I reckon not! I’d have a new gown every day, and two on Sun.day. And dad should wear store clothes; and Brother Sam should have a helmet hat” How about the Judge, as he rode away? Was he filled witn »“ vague unrest?” Certainly he was. He wanted to adjourn court sine die, amPalthough a little past the hay-day of his youth, go a-haying with Maud from that time out. But his feelings Mauderated when he thought of his sisters, who were society ladies, and what they and the fashionable world generally would have to say about it. So he kept orrjhis way, and he opened court that afternoon, same as usual, only the lawyers smiled as they caught him humming an old love-song, “swinging in the Lane.” The Judge got elected to the bench again, and then he was elected for life in another way—he married a wealthy but cold-hearted lady who moved (every spring) in the first circles, and who onlyaccepted him because she thought .t would sound well to be spoken of in the society-column of the newspapers as “Mrs. Judge So-aitd-So.” Ana sometimes when the Judge was taking a drink of old rye 7 ail by himself du his study, he wished that Maud could step in with a little of that meadowspring water to mix with it. Maud got married, too. She married the hired man in a check shirt whom the Judge saw mowing in another part of the field. True, she loved the Judge more than she could any mower she ever saw, and would continue to until time should be no mower, but as she couldn’t have him and was fearful that there would be nd mower offers, why she clinched on to the hired man. But Maud wasn’t happy, either, for she couldn’t help thinking how different her life would have been as Mrs. Judge. She thought so much oil the subject that she came finally to.believe that the Judge had really proposed To her and she nad refused him. And when she got into a row with her husband she would throw it up to him. saying: “ fi 1 hadn’t married you nnd got stuck in thia pen, I’d been much better off, for / might a had Ben.” Which was the Judge’s front name. —Cincinnati Saturday Night.

Girls, Be Careful!

Never marry a man who only his love for you to recommend him. It is very fascinating, but it doesnot make the man. If he is not otherwise what he should be, you will never be happy. The most perfect man who did not love you should never be your husband. But though marriage without love is terrible, love onlv will not do. If the man is dishonorable to other men, or mean, or given to any vice, the time will come when you will either loathe him or sink to his level. It is hard to remember, amidst kisses and praises, that there is anything else i n the world to be dene- or-thought of but love-making; but the days of life are many, and the husband must be a guide to’ be trusted—a companion, a friend as Well as a lover. Many a girl has married a man whom she knew to be anything good, because he loved her so.” And the flame has died out on the hearthstone home before long, and beside it she has been sitting with one that she could never hope would lead her heavenward—or who, if she followed him as a Wife should, would guide her steps to perdition. Marriage is a solemn thing - a choice for life; be careful in the choosing.— Belgravia. The Liberian Exodus Association of South Carolina report that 100,000 Colored persons have signified a desire to emigrate to Liberia. — r -—— —- Wins, In the language of'flowers, are He-locks.-'A’- K Herald