Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1878 — Page 2

The Rensselaer Union. RKNBBELAER, . V INDIANA. i*slivL • • JBWwcflMt

General News Summary.

Hon. JOHN Allison, RefiUter <a tbe United Matas Treasury, died Terr euddenly. In Washington, oaths morntuK of the Wd, of apoplexy. He waa slxty-alx yeera old, aria former fr a Member of Oougwea from PeouiylTanla, aud waa appointed Register of the Treasury la 18*9. by Pre-Meat Grant. Tan ruaf—nter flrnnral baa given nutruc tkma that any nutter la print which may be traneoftted through the mails within tndoeure may also he transmitted at the same rate if printed upon the wrapper or envelope. This includes business cards, directions for returning, and any printed matter on the outside of the snapper or envelope. Postmasters, however, are Instructed not to regard requests for the return of such matter unless stamps to repay return postage are deposited. Tax Secretary of the United States Treasury, on the 35th, announced aa Government Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad: C. P. Adams, Jr., of Massachusetts; Ralph P. Rockland, of Ohio; G. W. Sraythe, of Iowa; DanMChadwick, of Connecticut; C. C. Housel. of Nebraska. President Hates, on the 30th, appointed ex-Congrewman Schofield, of Pennsylvania, aa Register of thcTreaaury, rice Allison, deceased. he Senate Finance Committee had agreed to report favorably the nomination of R. M. Revnolds, of Slfbama, to be First Auditor of the Treaaury. ,

Till UR A Nsw Tow dispatch of the 25th Mates that bo more goods would be received at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for shipment to the Paris Exposition. Twelve hundred tons awaited transportation. TlTti-V, McHugh and Hester, the three Mollie Maguires convicted, some months ago, of the murder of Alexander Rae, were hanged at fUoomsburg, on the 35th. Ths Massachusetts Legislature has lately passed enact—and the Governor having signed the same it is now a law—giving to the Board of Commissioners of Barings Banks the right, whenever it judges “that the security and welfare of the depositors require it,” to limit the amount and time of payment to them. The law la to continue in force for three years. Ax extensive conflagration occurred in the City of Philadelphia, on the evening of the 25th, which resulted in the destruction of twenty-live business structures in the heart of the city, and caused a lose of about a million dollars. Several firemen were badly injured by falling walls. A riw broke out on Canal street. In New York City, on the morning of the 26th, w hich destroyed 1500,000 of property before it could be extinguished. Is the auit of the United States against Samuel J. Tilden for 1150,000 delinquent income taxes. Judge Blatchford, Judge of the United States District Court for New York, decided, ou the 26tb, that defendant must submit to a jury trial on eleven of the twelve counts of the indictment. Tu Pennsylvania Republican State Convention is to be held at Harrisburg ou the Xsth of May.

The Sixpenny Savings Bank of New York City suspended, on the 27th. Liabilities, about 11,700,000; assets, about *1,600,000. It is said counterfeits of the new silver dollar are already afloat at the East, and they are said to be almost a perfect sac smile of the genuine, only a little lighter in weight. The Chicago Tribune of the 27th says the first counterfeit of the new coin brought to the official notice of the Government is very poor, as far as the color of the metal is concerned, but In other respects it is a good Imitation of the geußiue. At St. Albans, Vt., on the 27th, G. T. Storm of Bath, Me., walked 106 miles in tweuty bourn, three minutes and fifty-two seconds. Tux remains of the late John E. Leonard, Member of Congress from Louisiana, who died recently in Havana, Cuba, arrived at New York on the 21th. Thomas P. Fishex, a “Mollie Maguire,” waa hanged in the Mauch Chunk (Pa.) Jail, on the 26th, for being concerned in the murder of Morgan Powell, a mine boss, at Summit Hill, Pa., on the evening of the 2d of March, 1878. A Philadelphia special to the New York Tmm of the 80th ult says J. B. Knight, Secretary of the Frankliiplnstltute, and a wellknown Scientific engineer, had just investigated the Keely motor, and in a long report denounced it as a f rand and humbug, giving specifications, among them that the so-called vapor was simply compressed air, and that probably no more pressure than 500 pounds to the square inch could be procured. Keely was said to be angry at these revelations, and the stock-holders, who had spent *1,000,000, were astonished. Gold closed in New York, on March 29tli, at 101 Jg. The following were the dosing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring, Wheat, *L26J4*1.26; No. 3 Milwaukee, |L26%@1.27. Oats, Western and State, 38@08c. Own, Western Mixed, 47*55c. Pork, Mess, *10.25. Lard, *7.4734., Flour, Good to Choice, *5.05*5.85; Winter Wheat, *s.«o®BJio. Cattle, *[email protected] for Good to Extra. Sheep, *5.00*6.25. Hogs, *4.00 @4-25. AT East Liberty, Pa., on March 29th, Cattle brought: Beat, *[email protected]; Medium, *4.25* 4.50; Common, *3.50*4.00. Hogs sold— Yorkers, *890*4.10; Philadelphia* *3.60* 3.75. Sheep brought *B.oo*s.T^according to quality. At Baltimore. Md., on March 29th, Cattle brought: Best, 65.(0*5.50; Medium, *8 3734*4.00. Hogs sold at *5.26*6.00 for Good. Sheep were quoted at *4.00*6.25 for Good.

WBST AND BOOTH. A mas, named John Wallace, who committed a horrible triple murder at Littleton, W. ' *•> ou 19th, was taken possession of bv a mob of about twenty-five men. on the night of the23d, and, a rope being placed about his neck, was dragged out of town to the distance of about a mile and there hung to a tree. He had confessed to the crime. Two of his victims were a Mm. Geo. Wallace (his eister-in-Uw) and a school girl of fourteen, named Miss Church. jAt Cleveland, Ohio, on the evening of the 3Stb, Geo. Weineman, aged sixty-four, shot and killed his son and then blew out his own hndns, dying instantly. The parties had had business quarrels. . A Th* lowa Legislature adjourned tine die on the 98th. Among the bills paased was one restoring capital punishment in the State, which passed the Senate on the last day of the session. The Illinois State Convention of the new Nattonalparty met at Springfield on Ae 27th. Joseph Gillespie, of Madison, was chosen permanent President. Gen. E. JJ. Bates, of Chicago, was nominated for Btate Treasurer, and Prank B. Hall, of Kane County, for Superintendent of Public Instruction. The Toledo platform was endorsed, the resolutions adopted declaring it to be the exclusive function of the General Government to coin and create money and regulate its value; that the coinage of rfiver should be placed on the same footing as that of gold; that the public land* should be donated to actual set tiers in limited quantities; that the Govern- < mem should, by general enactment, encourage the development of opr agricultural, mineral,

mechanical, manufacturing and commercial reaourcea; In favor of reducing the number of hours of daily toil; demanding the immediate issue of a full legal-tender paper currency by the Government to the full limit at least of *400,000,000 legal-tender United States Treasury notes, etc., etc. At Kastrille, Va., on the 38th ult., Sidney Pitta and A. P. Thomas fought a duel with pistols, to settle a dispute. Two rounds were fired, the men standing only six feet apart. Pitta waa killed and Thomas received a ball in the bead from which he would probably die. A Cincinnati dispatch of the 29th ult, say# the friends of ex-Congreesmsn Vsuoe, who mysteriously disappeared, s few days before, had abandoned the ides of foal play, and intimated that his disappearance was voluntary, and caused by financial trouble*. In Chicago, on March 39th, Spring Wheat No. 2 dosed at *1.13*1.1834 cash. Cash corn dosed at 4234 c for No. 2. Cash oats No. 1 sold at 24J4c; and 2734 c seller May. Rye No. 2,58 e. Barley No. 2, 45J4*46c. Cash Mesa Pork dosed at *9.50. Lard, *7.25. Beeves—Extra, brought *5.00*6.50; Choice, *4.60*4.86; Good, *4.00*4.40; Medl urn Grades, *3.70*8.90; Butchers’ Stock, 3.75*8.75; Stock Cattle, etc., *3.25*3.75 Hogs—Good to Choice, *3.25*3.90. SheepPoor to Choice, *3.50*5.50.

FORBION IMTELLIUENCK. A heavy snow-storm prevailed throughout England, on the 34th. During the accompanying gale, the naval training-ahlp Eurydlce capsized off the Isle of Wight, and of the 306 persona on board 304 perished. The great international walking-match In London, closed on the evening of the 23d. O’Leary, a resident of Chicago, wan the win * ner, having walked 520 miles in six days and beaten his beat record by five hours. A Beixjrade dispatch of the 25th says Servia had definitively resolved to reoccupy the territory captured from the Turks in Old Servla. The Russian Government, on the 26th, called out 200,000 of the landwebr. On the 36th, the Grand Duke Nicholas, accompanied by twelve Russian General*,a ceremonious visit to the Sultan of Turkey. The latter received him with great cordiality. Diplomatic relations between Turkey and Russia have been renewed, and Qen. Nelidoff has been appointed Charge d' Affaire* at Constantinople. The Russian Government, on tbe 27th, formally replied to the inquiries of the British Government, declaring that it firmly adhered to its former opinion in respect to the submission, in Its entirety, of the treaty with Turkey to the Congress. The London Timet And Telegraph of the 27th declare that ail hope of the meeting of the Congress must be abandoned, and that war between Great Britain and Russia seemed inevitable. A Berlin telegram of the same date says Germany, in view of the difference between the two Powers, had decided to issue no invitations for a Congress. Osman Pasha, the hero of Plevna, has been appointed Commander-In-Chief of the Turkish Armies. Geobok Bannister, a grain merchant, at Retford, Eng., failed, on tbe 27th, with liabilities aggregating *1,500,000. On the 27th, an explosion occurred in the Opedall Colliery in North Staffordshire, Eng. There were thirty-five men in the pit, and it was believed that all had perished. Up to the morning of the 28th, five bodies had been recovered. The recent report of the death of the Em- ] peror of Morocco is denied. Cardinal di Pietro has been appointed Pontifical Camerlengo. On the afternoon of the 28th, immediately after the assembling of the British House of Lords, Lord Derby announced that hie resignation hud been accepted and that he held the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs only until bis successor could be selected. He said the Cabinet had arrived at certain conclusions of a grave and important character in which he could not concur. Lord Beaconsfield, the Premier, said Her Majesty had been advised to call ont the reserves, numbering about 40,000 men, and that the proclamation would soon be submitted to Parliament. A Papal Consistory was held at the Vatican in Rome, on the 28th, and the Scottish Hierarchy definitively established. Right Rev. John Strain, D. D., was appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of St. Andrew’s, at Edinburg; Charles Eyre, Archbishop of Glasgow; MacDonald, Bishop of Aberdeen; MacLachlau, Bishop of Galloway; MacDonald, Bishop of Argyle, and Rigg, Bishop of Dunkeld. For the United States, Father Chatard was appointed Bishop of Vincennes, Ind., and Father Reeve, Bishop of Richmond, Va. A Constantinople dispatch of the 28th says Safvet Pasha had requested England to withdraw her fleet, as Turkey and Russia were friends and allies.

Tub Russians have Issued a proclamation Inviting the Mussulmans to return to their homes in Bulgaria, and warning the Bulgarians that they must preserve tranquillity. Edward P. Weston, now In England, has challenged O’Leary, the victor In the late International pedestrian contest, to walk with him six days for the 6um of $2,500. Ok the 29th ult., the British Minister at Constantinople notified the Turkish Government that the British fleet would not leave the Sea of Marmora so long as the Russians remained in the environs of Constantinople. Gen. Ignatleff, the Russian Envoy, also notified the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs that the Russians would not leave the environs of Constantinople so long as the British fleet re-muiru-d in the Bea of Marmora. A Rome (Italy) dispatch of the 29th ult. says the Pope was desirous of establishing diplomatic relations with Great Britain, and had taken steps to that end. A St. Petersburg telegram of the 29th ult. says that, Russian diplomacy having isolated England, Russia, in conjunction with the rest of Europe, would at once proceed to abjust pending differences without British aid. Russian papers of the 29th ult! state that many advantageousoffers for letters of marque, in ea6e of an Anglo-Russian war, had been received from the United States and elsewhere; but that, up to that time, fibne had been accepted. . v It was semi-officially announced by the London papers, on the morning of the 30th ult, that Lord Salisbury would Succeed Lord -Derby in the British Cabinet.

FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. An amendment was submitted in the Senate, on the 25th, to the House bill to repeal the Specie-Resumption act, providing that an and after July 1,1878, United States legal-tender .notes shall be receivable for all debts and does, both public and private, etc.... A bill was introduced and referred to protect the waters of all lakes, rivers and streams upon public lands from ■ale. and to dedicate the same to the common use ofthe inhabitants. . ..Mr.. Howe called up bis reemutoag farinfoanatibn wliiin whithhederonijoed the course ofthe Admih miration in its dealings with the South, and also the Cml-flerviee policy as carried out under See’v Schorr. A number of bills were introduced and referred, in tbe House, among them—to reorganise the army; to aid the education and advancement of the colored people ; to regulate the value of subsidiary silver coin; for a branch mint at Oomrilßlnfis; joint resolution dsclarmg it ujexpedient. at this tune to change or modify the tariff A motion, to suspend the rides aid pass the toll to authorise toe ooinage of sold and silver on the same terms, and to permit the deposit thereof for the name purposes was rejected^*)to 102, not twoGiiidsTmtjSeaffirmatire ... A motion to suspend the rules and pare the bill to soimmd the operation. SinkingFund act, for five yeais, was also rejected—l» to U»—not two-third* pi ti»e affirmative.

In the Senate, on the 26th, the bill to repoal the Bankropt law waa reported back from the Judiciary Committee, without recommendation .On motion.of Mr. Blaine, the correspondenoe between the American and British Government* in reward to the appointment of Delfoaee on the Halifax CommiMton waa taken from the table and referred to the Committee on Foreign Aflikin. In the House, the legislative. Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill waa reported from the Committee on Appropriation*, and the Tariff bill from the Committee on Way* and Mesas, and the latter waa, by a vote of 187 to 114, made the special order for April 4, after tbe morning hour. The Mamachnaett* contested election case of Dean r«. Field saa further discnmrd.. Conrnrront resolution* were adopted for prinliDß 9U0.0U0 oopie* of the report of the Onmmuaionerof Agriculture and 5.110 copie* of the report of the Fonwtry Commission. A nili. was introduced in the Senate, on the 37th, granting pensions to Indian* who were in the service of the United Hot tee in the War of 1812, a* *OOO6I, guide* or warrior*.... The House bill making appropriation* for the Consular and Diplomatic Service of the Government for the year ending June SO, 1H79, wu nmended and passed The l’acilic Railroad Sinking Fond bill waa further debated. A bill to prevent the introduction of oontagioua disease* into the United States vuu pained in the House, its provision* not diet orbing the (juarantine regulations of any State, but State officials are made agents of tbe National Quarantine System . In the Massachusetts contestedelection case of Deap vt. Field, the minority resolution, declaring Field entitled to the neat, was defeated—l3o to 126—Mr. Butler voting with the Democrats, in the negative, and the followingnamed Democrats with the Republicans, in the affirmative: Hartridse, Herbert, Jones (Ala.), Potter. Rea, Stenger. Walsh. WilFiams (Del.) and Cutler. No vote was reached on (he maJ-j ity resolution. A number of bills granting pensions were passed in the Senate, on the 28th.... A bill was also passed providing for the sale of a portion of the reservation of the Confederated Otoe and Missouri and Sac and Fox (of Missoori) Tribes of Indians in tbe States of Kansas and Nebraska.. The Pacific Railroad Sinking-Fund bill was further debated.... Adjourned to the Ist. In the House, the contested-election case in the Third Massachusetts District was disposed of by the adoption—l 24 to 123—0 f the majority resolution, declaring Dean (Dem.) entitled to the seat. Mr. Bntler voted in the affirmative with the Democrat*, and Messrs. Cutler, Hartridge, Herbert, Henry. Potter. Rea, Stenger, Walah and Williams (DeL>-Democrats—voted with the Republicans in the negative. Mr. Dean was then sworn in.... Bill* were introduced—to allow American registry to foreign-bnilt vessels; to establish a Board of Pacific Railroad Commissioners. The Senate was not in session on the 29th ult. A bill was reported and referred in the House, appropriating *90.000 for deficiencies in the miscellaneous fundfof the House. A bill was reported and passed appropriating *420,000 for the payment of claims reported allowed by the Commissioners of Claims.. .. A bill was introduced and referred topromote the general nse of the metric system.... Bills on the private calendar were considered in Committee of the Wh01e.... Adjourned to the Ist.

A Bookkeeper in Distress.

We met “Old Mose” the other day, and noticed that there was a dark cloud hovering over his despondent brow. “What is the matter, uncle?” we asked. He shook his head as if he had nothing left to live for, and said: -“Tse in a peck of trouble. De Lord knows where dis heah is gwine to end. I’se done gib it up.” “ What is the trouble about?” After several sighs that seemed to come up from the bottom of his boots, he explained that he was the Secretary Of the local colored Lodge of Freemasons; that he was the custodian of the books; that for keeping the books he was paid by the lodge ten dollars a month; that every Saturday night, after the lodge was over, he carried the books home and turned them over to the “ ole ’oomam, Aunt Dinah,” for safe keeping, and she stowed them away in her trunk, “ along wid her ’tishal flowers, and fedders, and finery and sich.” He also stated that he had forgotten to mention tb Aunt Dinah that he was receiving ten dollars a month for keeping the books, and he had uniformly forgotten to turn over to her the aforesaid ten dollars, but had squandered the same for his own little personal expenses; that some unknown demon had informed Dinah that Old Mose was getting ten dollars for keeping the books, and consequently when he remarked the other evening that it being time for him to go to the lodge, and upon requesting her to hand him out the books, instead of doing bo she sat down on the trunk and positively refused to turn over the documents until he paid over the ten dollars. When he told her the ten dollars were his’n for keeping the books, she retorted: “Who’s been keepin’ dem ar books? Hasn’t I been keepin’ de books in de trunk all de time? Han’ out dem funds wats cornin’ to me for keepin’ de books.” “ What did you tell her, Mose?” “ I tole her I wanted dem books to keep de minits in, dat she didn’t know how to keep de books, but she ’lowed she was gwine to show me she knowed how to keep de books, and, shuah’s you’s bawn, she is a keepin’ ’em. De lodge has pinted a committee to investigate my accounts, and dar she is squattin’ on de trunk holdin’ out her han’ for de ten dollars l’se done spent. Doesn't yer know somebody who wants ten dollars wuss of whitewashin’ done in advance?” The best part of the foregoing is that it is based on actual facts. —San Antonio {Tex.) Express.

Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners.

The Board of Indian Commissioners have made their ninth annual report, covering their operations for the year 1877, and present some very interesting statistical matter, showing considerable agricultural, industrial and educational development among the Nation’s wards. Of the 278,(XX) Indians now in the United States, not including those in Alaska, the peace policy has induced 112,903 to doff their furs and blankets and don citizen’s dress.' They now occupy 22,199 houses, and have 330 schools with 437 teachers, attended bv 11,515 scholars, against 111 schools, 134 teachers, and’4,7lß scholars in 1868. In many other respects they show a great advance during the past ten years. There are 40,39 V of them who can read, whereas none of them oould in 1869; and 28,000 of them attend church. Industrially, also, ! they make a very good showing. They j are cultivating 292,550 acres of land, j and, not including the five civilized j tribes,. 34,682 of them are engaged in ; tilling the ground. They have raised j during the past year 688,278 bushels of j wheat, 4,656,692 bushels of corn, 349,- j 247 bushels of oats and barley, 556,975"! bushels of vegetables. 148,473 tons of I hay, and they own 210,286 hordes and mules, 217,888 cattle, 121,338 swine antT 587,444 sheep. The Commissioners urge, as a strong argument whv the management of Indian affairs sliould not be intrusted to the War Department, that supplies contracted for and furnished to military posts have cost from 38 to 78 per cent, more than at the neighboring Indian Agencies.. The i Commissioners make a very strong ap- ! peal, upon the strength of the practi- 1 cal results of the peace policy, to have - it continued permanently

MISCELLANEOUS ITEM. —Gold it down; so am feathers. —Repudiation is forgiving one's self his debts. [ , —People who are all the time catting up: Butchers. —A sign of spring: “To Let."— Utica Observer. —A cigar lighter —The box from which you took one. — Good thing come slow, and he who thinks most enjoys most. —Abou Ben Adhem’s name waa probably set solid, as the poet said “ lead all the rest.” —The corset is an Italian invention, and was introduced into France by Catherine de Medici. —Selling Sunday morning papers has to stop when the clock strikes ten in Hartford, Connecticut. —This is a world of second-hand goods. Everv pretty girl lias beon some other fellow’s sweetheart. —Tramps have opened the season by commencing to snatch luncheons from little girls on their way to school. —“ Died from misfortune in having medical attendance,” was the verdict of a Rhode Island Coroner’s Jury. —Time at last sets all things even with the exception, perhaps, of a hen that is not ready.— Oil Oily Derrick. —Old Winter must feel out of sorts, wherever he is. He didn’t have time to linger in the lap of Spring this season. —Sow mortgages in about your house.. ' A summer cottage covered with mortgages has a very striking effect. —The marriage ceremony between Gen. Jackson and his wife was performed three times in three different States. —ls you have a hot .house try and raise a light spring overcoat. This, however, needs great care. Few succeed.— Graphic. —“Ayer & Son” advertise extensively; a transposition of the firm name would make quite a change in affairs.— Port Chester Journal. —When Butler indulges in hard hits there’s very little honey in his speech but very many impressions of B’s whacks.— Yonkers Gazelle. —When a young man wants to make his appearance into society with eclat, he wants to come out in eclat hammer coat.— Burlington Hawk-Eye. —Octave Feuillet says: “Providence has so ordained it that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man—his own mother and the mother of his children. Beside those two legitimate kinds of love, there is nothing between the two creatures except vain excitement, painful and idle delusion." —The evening before his wedding Edward went to make confession to the priest of his parish. The confession ended. “Pardon, father,” said Edward; “it seems tome you have forgotten to set me a penance.” “Didn’t you tell me that you were going to get married?” “ Yes, father/’ " Very well, then ” —One of the meanest miners on record lives in Buckland, Mass. Although he is supposed to be the wealthiest man in town, ne sent his boy to school the past winter so poorly clad that the • teacher was obliged to keep a needle and thread and take him out of the schoolroom and sew his rags together in order to cover his nakedness. —They have begun to post circusbills on the gravestones out in the wilds of the West. Should the custom become general, and reach out its arms to embrace the civilized world, it will find men, if death has not changed their disposition, mean enough to got up and demand a complimentary ticket sot the privilege.— Fulton (N. Y.) Times. —“ Sound,” said the schoolmaster, “is what you hear. For instance, you cannot feel a sound.” “Oh yes, you can,” said a smart boy. “John Wilson,” retorted the pedagogue, “ how do you make that out? What sound can you feel?” “ A sound threshing,” quickly replied the smart boy. “ Correct,” saia the schoolmaster. “ Come up.” And the smart boy felt and smarted. —Who wants to kiss a girl if he knows she’s got to let him and he knows he’s got to do it, and everybody’s looking on to see fair play? No, sir, that takes all the life out of it. The way to do It is to catch her off hand and tear the gathers out of her and pull her ribbons to pieces and knock her back hair down, and hear her say “Oh!” all to yourself, and then go away to a quiet place and think it over. —N Y. Graphic. —A stranger who applied at a house in the vicinity of Quebec for some slight favor, the other day, waa met by an old gentleman eighty-five years of age, who hesitated for a moment and then said: “I’ll go and ask father.” Presently he returned with his father, Paul Leonard, who is asserted to be 107 years old. The latter owns all the property and looks after it, and gives his son orders as to what he is to do, and the son obeys as a dutiful child should. —Two negroes were \n the woods splitting rails, when the question of what was the best thing in the world to eat came up. A stake of “fo’ bits” was deposited on a neighboring stump, to be taken by the one guessing at the most palatable dish. After throwing “ heads and tails” for first guess, the winner exclaimed, “ Possum and sweet pertater!” “Sh-h-oo!” ejaculated the other, “ take de money! takede money! I didn’t tink you’d guess tho bery best fus’ ting.”

Why a School Was Taught in the Open Air.

The lot on West Mission street, on which was recently erected a one-class school-house, was yesterday the scene ■M a curious spectacle. This lot is in dispute, and is claimed by P. Donahue ana also by the Board of Education. I The case was recently tried in the Ninej teenth District Court and resulted in a j verdict in favor of Donahue. The \ school-house was occupied for the first ; time about three weeks ago, and no attempt whatever was made to prevent j the scholars from assembling there un- , til yesterday morning. Mr. Donahue, ; feeling elated over his victory in the j court, determined that no further dispensation of knowledge! should take place again within its walls. He was on hand early Yesterday morning with his cohorts, and when the teachers and scholars met there as usual they were informed that admission to the schoolhouse was impossible. The teachers, after a brief consultation among themselves, concluded that school would be held though the heavens fell. Then, marshaling their pupils, they marched them to within a short distance of theimpregnable • school-house and seated .them all upon the sidewalk, under a

friendly shelter of a high board fence. The village Hampdens, to the number of thirty or thereabouts, were then Sven the lesson of the day, and despite e airy condition of their improvised school-room and the curious glances of the many passers-by, they settled down to their work, oblivious of all surroundings. This condition of affairs continued up to the recess hour, when the scholars were dismissed for their midday pastimes. At one o'clock thA uiuHtlinM tinlfln fmt tlia 1 unllml wnrnnnr uußio inc nciiwi wh vwttuti them together again, when they moved from the scene of their morning exercises to the porch of an unoccupied house adjacent to the disputed schoolroom. They continued there for a short time; until an officer approached with a warrant for the arrest of the bold Donahue, when a flank movement was executed by them and they once more took possession of the schoolhouse, and there they remained until dismissed for the day. The schoolhouse is now in possession of the representatives of the School Department, and unless to-day Donahue nnds some other means to circumvent the present holders the scholars will meet there. Several police officers were on hand during the day and prevented by their presence any breach of tho peace.— San Francisco Chronicle.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A child was fatally poisoned in New York, a few days ago, by a Sairey Gamp who administered the wrong medicine. —A young* woman in Fond du Lac, Wis., declined to accompany to the altar the man she had promised to marry, because his pantaloons were not quite respectable. A quarrel ensued over the unmentionables, and the marriage was postponed. Both parties regret the occurrence now, as they cannot have the ceremony performed until after Lent. —A negro man living near liashi, Ala., was recently shot in a singular manner. He was acting as a wizard, and imagined that by certain evolutions, gesticulations or articulations he eould surround his body with a magic armor that would be impregnable to shot or ball. Two young negro men and a white man tired a few shots at him without injury, when one of the negroes fired at him again and shot him down. He died in about a week. —The Seneca Falls '(N.'Y.) Courier says: “ About six weeks since, L. C. Boardman, of this place, was engaged by D. V. Benedict, of Buffalo, to disinter his wife, who was buried in the Canoga Cemetery four years ago this month, and forward it to Buffalo for reinterment. The coffin came apart in the operation, and the corpse was found to be as natural as when buried, and as hard and heavy as stone. The clothing had rotted and lay infolds upon the form, which was as white as marble. The deceased was a sister-in-law of Mr. Boardman, and he says the features were perfectly natural and full as when in life. The body had turned to stone, weighed 400 pounds. This is a genuine case of petrifaction, and no mistake.” —The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press says:— ** At Port Rent, the other day, one of the children of Horatio Burroughs broke through tho ice. An older brother attempted the rescue, and he also broke in. The cries of the children brought the mother to the scene, and she also was precipitated through the ice. An aunt living in the family went to the assistance of the three struggling unfortunates, and in attempting to assist the mother in her predicament was pulled into the water. The cries of the four people brought the father to the scene, and in his excited state he neglected taking the proper precautions, and was soon floundering in the water with the rest. About this time further assistance arrived, and by means of ropes and filanks the entire family were rescued rom their perilous situation.”

A Martyr to Perpetual Motion.

The Journal of Commerce, apropos of an inquiry made by a correspondent, relates a curious story for the truth of which it vouches. Thg correspondent had asked whether any Government had ever offered a reward to the sue* cessful diseoverer of practical perpetual motion; and whether the idea of perpetual motion is not contrary to natural laws? Our venerable contemporary replies that no such offer has been made; but that the idea of perpetual motion is in itself quite in accordance with natural laws, the planetary world furnishing a visible illustration of it. It then says that thirty years ago a machine, moved only by gravitation, was exhibited in its office and seen by many. It ran in connection with a pendulum that regulated its motion, which was very slow but incessant. The editor had it under lock and key and still it moved. It was then exhibited at a fair in New Jersey and there “ A professor from Princeton College and one or two other very learned and benevolent persons were indignant that the people should be so imposed upon, and, making the necessary affidavit, had the inventor, then an old man nearly fourscore, arrested for swindling, as he had taken money at the door from a few visitors. The man, the machine and the avengers of the law were brought into the court. Upon their representation that the cylinder could not revolve unless there was a spring concealed in it, an axe was brought and, in spite of the tremulous remonstrances of the inventor, it was split into a dojfen' pieces. As in a former celebrated trial (described in John viii: 10), the accusers withdrew in silence, self convicted. There was no spring in it; it had gone around of itself, but it was ruined, and so was the owner!” 'X But no practical good could have come frdm the invention, as it barely overcame its own friction and could furnish no useful power.— N. Y. Graphic.

There were 148 suicides in New York City in 1877, By far the larger number of persons who took their lives .were in the prime of manhood or womanhood, between the ages of twenty and forty. Only two persons under twenty welcomed self-destruction; the period between thirty and forty Was the most prolific of suicides. The nativity of the suicides was as follows: United States, 44; England, 6; Ireland, 17; Scotland, 1; France, 2; Austria, 2; Germany, 59! There is no preponderance in the German-born population of New York that will wholly account for these astonishing figures. It will be seen that the German suicides were thrice as many as the Irish, and nearly as many as the American and Irish combined. An exchange 'asks: “ Can we drink with impunity?” Certainly yoq can. if Impunity Invites yon —Exchange:

Coining Honey at the Hint.

Silver is sent from the Assay Office to the Philadelphia Mint pure, or 999 line, which is about as pure as silver can be. It is sent in large bars, and when received at the mint is melted and alloyed with copper. Coin silver is 900 fine. After being melted and alloyed tho metal is cast into ingots, which are simply bars of a convenient size for handling. The metal is then assayed, todatermine whether it is exactly of the standard fineness. Assaying is doqe by what is known as the dry or humid prpeoss. Samples for assay are taken while the silver Is in a fused condition, and two assays are made of every specimen. The silver ingots then go to •ho coiner. They aro first rolled into strips, and as the rolling process is apt to make the metal brittle, it is annealed to sqften it. Silver is annealed simply by heating in an open wood fire, and then being allowed to cool gradually. The silver dollar strips aro passed through the rolls nine or ten times before the first annealing, and four or five times afterward. Then the process of annealing is repeated. After the last annealing the strips are run through cutters, which divide them into drafts of the proper thickness for the coins; and these, in their turn, arc run through a steam punching machine which cuts planchets the proper size for the coin. From 160 to 240 are cut in a minute. As the metal gets greasy during this process, the planchets are then dipped into a bath of diluted sulphuric acid, which is too weak to act upon the surface, but effectively removes all foreign matter. The planchets are then adjusted; that is to say, they are carefully weighed, and all that are lacking in weight are cast aside; sueh pieces are called “lights,” and the “heavier.” are the pieces which weigh too much; and aro filed off. The adjusting is done by women. It is a process which requires much delicacy, and scales are used which arc sensitive to one-sixty-fourth of a grain. After the annealing is finished, the next operation is the milling, which is done with a curioußsortof machine. Theedgesof the coin are thrown up and grooved by this process. After another cleaning with sulphuric acid the coins are read}- for the die. The stamping is done on a screw-press, and both Sides of the coin are stamped at the same time. The dies are cylindrical blocks of steel upon which are carved the designs to be transferred by pressure to the coins. Art of a high order, as well as fine mechanism, is conspicuous in this part of the coining process. The designer, in the case of the new silver dollar, Mr. Morgan, first draws his design on paper, from which is made a model in wax, of which a plaster cast is taken, and from this cast an electrotype is taken, upon which careful revision is made with the graver. This electrotype, like the model and cast which preceded it, is three or four times larger than the impression which appears on the dollar. The design is transferred to a steel die by using Hill’s reducing machine, constructed on the principle of the pantagraph. One arm of this instrument, with a blunt point, follows the lines on the electrotype, while the other arm, to which is attached a strong and rapidly-revolving drill, reproduces the same lines, on a smaller scale, upon a steel block. By means of a press this impression is transferred to another block, in intaglio, and thence upon another block, which is the parent die. After each transfer the lines are carefully improved with a graver. Steel of the same quality as that of which the parent die is made is used for the coining dies. They are annealed, and trued on both ends. . Two or three blows in the screw-press, which is worked with a large wheel, secures a perfect impression, and both the obverse and reverse of a 6oin are struck at once. Machinery places the planchets between the dies, and afterward drops the completed coin in a box. Two or three pieces of each coin, are reserved for the annual Government assay. The processes of melting, refining and assaying gold and silver are carried on in the Assay Office, in .this city, on_ quite as large a scale as at the Philadelphia Mint. Not only Government work is done here, but large deposits are made daily of gold ami silver bullion by private individuals. Gold is always found alloyed with silver, and it

is never found with any other alloy. To separate the silver from the gold, the bullion is boiled in sulphuric acid, which removes the alloy; the gold is then reboiled and reduced to a coarse powder resembling clay. Its purity then is 998 or 999. The silver, mixed with copper, is run into vats on a lower floor, and is purified and granulated, when it resembles pipe-clay. The granulated gold and silver are pressed into large cheeses in a hydraulic-press. A cheese of gold, twelve inches in diameter and three inches thick, is worth $20,000; a silver cheese of the same size is worth S9OO. The sulphuric acid, after it is used, produces a sediment of blue vitriol, which is much prettier than either the gold or the silver seen in the Assay Office. The v ittriol and the weak acid are both sold for as much money as the original acid costs. The substitution of sulphuric acid for nitric has caused a saving to the New York Assay Office alone of SIOO,OOO a year. Depositors receive their gold and silver separately at standard purity, 900. Pure metal is also sent to the Asjgay Office from the various refineries to be alloyed. From United States refineries silver is generally sent in large bars or cakes; and a small amount of Mexican metal is received in thin, irregularly-shaped pieces called disks. The fumes from the vats and furnaces in the Assay Offico are condensed and sold as weak acid. Only r a small amount of the gas escapes into the atmosphere, and, although it is slightly offensive, it is not injurious. On the contray, this gas is an excellent disinfectant, and acts upon dead matter rather than living. The same precautions are taken to prevent loss in the Assay Office as in the great mints/ The ashes, the sweepings from the floor, the crucibles, and all the instruments which come in oontact with the precious metals are washed and ground in a machine constructed for the purpose, and the stray particles of silver and gold are gathered together. — N. Y.'Times.

Hunting Wild Horses.

The wild horse can run away from a man; but this protection fails at times. The horse-catchers—or “ vaqueros,” as they are called —are famous riders, and to see them captures wild mustang is better than to go to a circus. The vaquero puts a Spanish saddle on a tame horse and starts out to see what her can find. In front,, oh the high pommel of the saddle, he hangs in large coils a leather rope, about a hundred feet long, and called a lasso. It is made of strips of raw-hide, braided by hand inter a araooth, hard and very

pretty rope. One end ia secured to the saddle, and the other end has a slipknot making a sliding noose. The vaquero has not long to wait, for there are droves of horses cantering or walking about over the swells and hollows of the prairie, with here and there a smaller group looking on, or watching a battle between two horses who wish to be captains of their bands or companies. Presently, there Is a strange sound of tramping hoofs, like the sound of a squadron of cavalry, except that it has a grand, wild rush and swing such as no cavalry ever had, and a cloud of dark heads rises over a swell in the land. The leader sees the vaquero, and he halts suddenly, and the others pull up in a confused crowd, and toss their heads, and sniff the air, as if they scented danger near. The leader does not like the looks of things, and turns and slowly canters away, followed by all tho rest, tramping in confusion through the yellow grass and wild barley. Presently they become frightened, and away they fly in a dusty throng. Tho vaquero’s horse seems to think his chance has come, and he pricks up his ears, and is eager for the glorious fun of a dash after the mustangs. Away they go pell-mell, in a panic, and the tamo horse galloping swiftly after them. Down they tumble—some knocked over in the confusion, snorting and flinging great flecks of foam from their dilated nostrils, trampling over each other in mad haste, each foi himself, and the American horse sweeping after them. Now the vaquero stands up in his saddle, and the lasso swings round and round in a circle over his head. Swish! It sings through the air with a whirring sound, and opens out in great rings, while the loop spreads wider and wider, and at last drops plump over tde head of a mustang. The vaquero’s horse pulls up with a sudden halt, and sinks back on bis haunches, and braces his f&re feet out in front. Ah! How the dust flies! Tho mustang is fast, held by the slip-knot, and ho rears up and plunges in wild and frantic terror. The rope strains terribly, but the vaquero watches his chances, and takes in the rope every time it slackens. It is of no use! The poor mustang is hard and fast. Perhaps another rider comes up and flings another lasso over his head. Then they ride round him, and the mustang is twisted and tangled in the ropes till he can hardlv move. He falls, and rolls, and kicks furiously, and all in vain. Panting, exhausted and conquered, he at last submits to his fate. His free days are over, and he seems to know it. A few more struggles, and he recognizes that man is his master, and, perhaps, in one or two days he submits to a bit in his mouth, and becomes a tame horse for the rest of his life. If, by any chance, he escapes before he is broken in, and runs away to join his wild companions, he seems never to forget that terrible lasso, and if he sees the vaquero again, he will stand, trembling and frightened, too much terrified to even run away.— Charles Barnard , in St. Nicholas for April.

In Search of the Picturesque.

Whittier’s poem of the “The Waterfall,” in the Atlantic Monthly, requiring so much search for the waterfall, reminds me of an anecdote related by Judge ,of Maine. He was once on a circuit at Portland, and having a few days to spare before the term of court closed, occupied the time in looking up the objects of interest in the vicinity. He had heard of a romantic cascade in the neighborhood, and was inquiring its locality of the hotel clerk, when a freen-looking countryman, standing y, volunteered the information in this wise: “ Say, I can tell the Judge all about that ’ere cascade, for I live close by it.” The Judge turned to him, and, expressing his thanks, desired to be informed how lie might reach the place. “ Easiest thing in the world, Judge,” replied the man; “ it ain’t a great way out on the Saco turnpike. You go on -Ava’all I guess about four mile, till you come to a cross-road, and then you turn off to the left: you keep along, sav a half, mile, till you come to a pastur’ lane, where there’s a pair o’ bars. If vou let ’em down, mind you put ’em up, ’cause the owner is mighty portickler about his cattle. You keep along, say forty rods, till you come to another pair o’ bars—mind and put them up, too —then you foller up that road till it comes to a hill; you kind o’ circle round that till yon come to another sort o’ crooked path that crosses a road; take the right hand, turn and go down the holler; foller up the hill till you come to a path that leads you round the mounting; that brings you into the main road that leads you right up to old Illsley’s barn.”

“How shall I ever know Ulsley’s barn, if I ever arrive there?” asked the Judge. “How’ll you know Illsley’s barn? Why, it’s right opposite his house.” “But how will I know Illsley’s house?” 4 “His house? Of course you’ll see Ulsley round there.” * “ But how shall I know it is Ulsley ?” “ Sure, Judge, you can’t make a mistake about Ulsley; you’ll know him by his yaller nankin trousers.” “ Nankin trousers! Does he always wear nankin trousers?” “In course he does, Judge. Why, you see, the way on’t was this: There was a man down here to Portland that owed Ulsley considerable, and couldn’t pay. So Ulsley levied on him, and attached six cases b’ yaller nankin he had in his store, and them he took for debt and carr’d ’em home. Well, Miss Ulsley, sho was so plaguev mad that aha, told the old man that lie’d got to wear out the stuff in trousers —that was about seven years ago—and Ulsley he’s ben a-wearing nankin trousers ever sence; orte pair in summer, two pair in fall and spring, and about a half a dozen pair in winter. Judge, you’d laugh till you split if you only see old Ulsley in them trousers! Miss Ulsley, she ain’t much of a tailoress, and she makes ’em narrer at the bottom and-puckered up where they go round him, so that he looks jest like a demijohn, bott6m-up. Seems to me as es I should t>ust every time I see him!” “Well, well,” exclaimed the Judge, with some impatience, “if ever I find Ilisley, what then? JJo.w about the cascade?” _ 1 - , “Cascade, Judge?” replied his informant. “ You are the partiejilarost man I ever* see. I should think old Ulsley curiosity enough for one day, anyway, and arter you’ve seen him you’ll forget all about the oascade!”— Harper's Magazine. —President Lincoln’s widow is said to be living quietly in a little French village, declining to return to this country lest she should again be immured in aii asylum. The place to knoqk spots out of ‘ ~ v -