Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1878 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

GIX. Fikld. Che new-elected iFoorkcciicr of the National Howe of Representative*, took pow—loo of hi* office on the Oth. ' Donovan, AMbtant-Doorkeeper under Polk, had realgned. A Republican caucus waa held in Washing* ton, on the evaotag of the 10th, at which about 110 Representatives in Congress and twenty#** Senators were present. Representative Hals presided. A National Republican Coogreadcnal Committee waa appointed as follows: Maine, Representative Hale; New Hampahira, Senator Rollin*; Representative Crapo; Rhode Island, Senator Bumside; Connecticut, Representative Waite; New York, Representative Hiscock; New Jersey, Representative Slnnlckson; Pennsylvania, Representative Campbell; Virginia, Representative Jorgenson; North Carolina, Representative Rrogden; South Carolina, Representative Rainey; Alabama, Senator Spencer; Mississippi, Senator Brace; Louisiana, Senator Kellogg; Ohto, Representative Foster; Tennessee, Representative Thornburgh; Indiana, Representative Sexton; Illinois Senator Oglesby; Missouri, Representative Pollard; Arkansas, Senator Dorsey; Michigan, Representative Hubbell; Florida, Representative Bisbee; lowa, Senator Allison; Wiscon, Senator Cameron; California, Re pre eentative Page; Minnesota, Representative Dunnell; Oregon, Senator Mitchell; Kansas, Representative Phillips; Nevada. Senator Jones; Nebraska, Senator Paddock; Colorado, Senator Chaffee; New Mexico, Delegate Romero; Washington Territory, Delegate Jacobs; Dakota Territory, Delegate Kidder; Wyoming Territory, Delegate Coriatt. A resolution was offered by Mr. Sargent, and, after debate referred to the above-named com mittee, that the President be requested to rescind his order forbidding the participation by officials In the Executive branch of the Civil Service in meetings, caucus conventions and committees of a political character. The United States Senate, in Executive session, on the 10th, confirmed the nomination of Prof. John W. Hoyt, of Wisconsin, as Governor of Wyoming Territory, by a majority of five. This action was against the unanimous report of the Committee on Territories. Several other nominations were sonfinned at the same session.

THE BAST Osw of the buildings of the Steuben County (N. Y.) Poor-House, near Bath, was burned, on the night of the Sth, and fifteen inmate* perished. The fire was set by one of the insane paupers, who was one of the fifteen who lost their lives in the ruins. There were between sixty and seventy inmates altogether. Ex.-Gov. Moses, of South Carolina, was ar* rested in New York City, on the night of the 7th, by a Deputy Sheriff of Charleston, 8. C., and locked up on a charge of having forged and passed a note for <316. The object in arresting him was said to be to get him back to South Carolina to have him tried for crimes alleged to have been committed when in high official position. The Wellflaet Savings Bank, of Massachusetts, with deposits of $422,163, and the South Boston Savings Bank, with a deposit line of f 1,565,962, suspended on the Bth. A savings bank at Pawtucket, R. 1., also suspended. 8. Axgiek Grace, Treasurer of the Union Mills, of Fall River, Mass., has acknowledged that he Is a defaulter in the sum of $490,000. Av a conference at the Sub-Treasury, in New York City, on tire 11th, between Sec’y Sherman and members of the late Syndicate, a contract waa signed for the sale of $50,000,000 of the 4%-per-cent. Government bonds. At the Pemtgewassctt House, in Plymouth, N. H., on the night of the 10th, John E. Lyon, President of the Boston, Concord A Montreal Railroad, was burned to death. Being ill, he arose during the night, and fell, the lamp in his hand breaking and setting fire to bls cloth tag. Wiluam M. Tweed, the notorious “ Boss” of the New York Ring, several years ago, died in the New York City Jail, at noon, on the 12th, from nervous exhaustion and clogging of the heart. He was fifty-five years old His last words were: “ I have tried to do some good, if I have not had good luck. lam not afraid to die. I believe the guardian angels will protect me.”

A woman, named Mrs. Catharine Keenan, of Brooklyn, N. died in convulsions, on the 12th, from the effects of a bite by a cat about a month before. Physicians expressed themselves satisfied that the case was clearly one of hydrophobia. Gold dosed in New York, on April 12th, at The following were the closing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring, Wheat, <1.37@L27K; Na 2 Milwaukee, »1.28X@L29. Oats, Western and State, 32@34X«- Corn, Western Mixed, 46@53c. fork, Mess, <IO.OO. lard, <7.00. Flour, Good to Choice, <[email protected]; Winter Wheat, i 5.9J@6A0. Cattle, <[email protected] for Good to Extra. Sheep, <[email protected]. Hogs, <3.90 @405 At East Liberty, Pa, on April 12th, Cattle brought: Best, <[email protected]; Medium, <4.50@ 4.75; Common, <&2S@LOO. Hogs sold— Yorkers, <[email protected]; Philadelphia*, |4.00@ 4.20. Sheep brought <[email protected]—according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on April 12th, Cattle brought: Best, <[email protected]; Medium, <[email protected]. Hogs sold at <[email protected] for Good. Sheep were quoted at <[email protected] for Good.

WEST AND SOUTH. Rev. Dr. Geo. F. Sbtmovr, recently elected Bishop of the new Episcopal Diocese of Springfield, 111, has declined to accept the position. Wiixjam Bradt, Sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, was recently assassinated by one of the factions into which the people of that section are said to be divided. United States Marshal Weidermann and three associates have been arrested on the charge of doing the shooting, and taken to Fort Stanton to await trial. A telegram was received at Cincinnati, on the 9th, from* the proprietor of the Lick House, San Francisco, addressed to Mrs. Vance, stating that her husband, ex-Congrowmau Vance, who had recently mysteriously disappeared, was in the latter city, and was insane. The lowa State Greenback National Convention met at DeaMoines on the 10th, abodt one hundred delegates being In attendance. The following nominations were made: For Secretary of State, E.M.Farnsworth; Treasurer, M. L. Devin; Auditor, G V Swearengen• Register of the State Land Office, M. Farrington ; Attorney-General, C. H. Jackson; Judge of the Supreme Court, J. C. Knapp; Clerk of the Supreme Court, Alex. Runyon; Reporter of the Supreme Court, G. W. Rutherford. The platform adopted demands the repeal et the Specfnfteauniptton law, and is in substance the same as that adopted at the National Convention held at Toledo. At Mesquite Station on the Texas Pacific Railroad, near Dallaa,Tex., on the night of the 10th, abend ofmaraudera captured a passenger train and plundered and burned the express and naaH car. The conductor and two of the robbers were shot and rifghtly wounded, hut the robbers got away with their booty. Tub Illinois Demuemttc State Convention was held at Spibigfieid, on the 11th. and nomFor Tre *’ ur, r E b Crankrite; |«|Mh»iaMißOt of Pnb]|c Jtistrqctlon, & M 1

Etter, present incumbent. The platform adopted declares for reduced taxes and expenditure* In National, State, county and municipal government*; for a tariff for revenue only; that United States bonds and Treasury ■otoe should be subject to taxation, the same as other property; that the Resumption set should be immediately and unconditionally repealed; applauds the passage of the Silver bill, and demands the authorisation of sliverbullion certificates and the free coinage of the silver dollar; declares against the furtiter contraction of legal-tender notes, and that they should be received for customs, taxes and public, dues, and reissued as fast as received ; that the National Bank notes shall be retired, and their place supplied by an equal amount of Treasury notes; that the Bankrupt law ought to be Immediately repealed, etc., etc. The recent Oregon Democratic State Convention nominated John IVhitcaker for Congress, N. W. Thayer for Governor, Thomas G. Recins for Secretary of State, A. H. Brown for State Treasurer, and Joseph Emory for Superintendent of Public Instruction. William A. Howard, of Michigan, arrived at Yankton, D.T., on the 11th, and was the next day duly installed as Governor of the Territory. In Chicago, on April 12th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at sl.oß@l.oßX cash. Cash corn closed at 40c for No. 2. Cash oats No. 2 sold at 28c; and 36J*'c seller May. Rye No 8, Me. Barley No. 2, 47>4(94«c. Cash Mem Fork closed at $8.90. Lard, $6 95. Beeves—Extra, brought $5.00(<i5.20; Choice, [email protected]; Good, [email protected]; Medium Grades, $3.70(93.90; Butchers’ Stock, 2.75(93.75; Stock Cattle, etc., $8.25(94.00. Hogs—Good to Choice, [email protected]. SheepPoor to Choice, $3.50(95.75.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. In the British House of Ixirds, on the night of the Bth, the past, present and future policy of England on the Eastern question was discussed by Lord Beaconsfield, Lord Granville, Earl Derby, Earl Carnovan and others. A resolution was passed thanking the Queen for calling out the reserves. In the House of Commons a similar resolution of thanks was offered and discussed by Sir Stafford Northcote, Gladstone, Hardy and others, but no vote was reached, and the debate was adjourned. The full text of Prince GortechakofTs reply to the late circular of Lord Salisbury was published in London on the evening of the 9th. The Russian Premier defends the Ban Stefano Treaty as a just and proper instru ment; declares that Russia's sacrifices in the war with Turkey demanded suitable compensation; justifies the cession of Armenian fortresses as a defensive measure; emphatically denies that British Interests in Europe or Asia are threatened by the treaty ; declares that the only desire of the Crar from the beginning to the end of the war was the welfare and peace of the Christians in Turkey, and hints that some practicable proposition from Great Britain would be acceptable.

fx the British House of Commons the debate on the resolutions of thanks to the Queen for her efforts to maintain the dignity of her Government was concluded, on the night of the 9th, and the resolutions adopted without division. According to a Bucharest dispatch of the 9th, Prince Ghika had been instructed to say to Prince Gortschakoff that the Roumanian Army might be crushed, but could not be disarmed. Prince Charles had made a similar declaration to the Russian Consul. According to Constantinople dispatches of the 10th, tile Grand Duke Nicholas had demanded possession of additional forts on the Upper Bosphorus, and the immediate evacuation of Batoum, on the Black Sea, in accordance with the provisions of the San Stefano Treaty. According to a Bucharest special of the 10th, the Russian'Army had crossed the Danube, for the purpose of occupying Roumania. Lord Leitrim, the Earl lately murdered in Ireland, was buried, in Dublin, on the 10th. A crowd of 300 persons gathered outside the church and hissed, hooted and cheered during the ceremonies. The district in which the late Earl’s estates are situated lias been declared under the Peace Preservation act. According to a Vienna dispatch of the 11th, the Porte had asked the Austrian Government what Austria would do if Russia insisted on enforcing the San Stefano Treaty, and Austria had replied that, while she would not undertake to protect European Interests singlehanded, she knew how to and would protect her own most efficiently.

A telegraph cable has been laid through the Dardanelles to Cartal, thus affording direct communication with the rest of Europe without passing through Russians stations. In the United States Senate, on the 11th, Senator Mitchell presented a cablegram from the United States Consul, at Tientsin, China, to the effect that the famine in China was spreading; cannibalism existed; there was no rain, and that matters will be worse next year, and asking if the bill providing for the return of the Chinese indemnity fund to China would pass Congress. London telegrams of the 12th say that the Porte had issued a circular to its represents, ttves abroad, In which the statement is made that it recognizes the San Stefano Treaty as the result of the late war, and that it proposes faithfully to carry out its provirions. It also pledges itself to inaugurate the reforms indicated in the treaty. The Porte believing that the Greek Consul at Salonica was the instigator of the Hellenic insurrection, has demanded his recall, and threatened to withdraw his exequatur. Greece has refused, and threatened reprisals if the exequatur be withdrawn. Zamocana, Mexican Representative in Washington, received a telegram, on the 13th, from the City of Mexico, announcing the recognition of the Diaz Government by United States Minister Foster. The same dispatch (from the Mexican Secretary of State) informs Zamocana that he had been appointed and confirmed Minister from Mexico to this Government.

FORTY-FIFTH OONGBBSS. The credentials of Geo. H. Pendleton as Senator from Ohio were presented in the,Senate, on the 8th.... A bill was introduced in ielation to temporarily filling vacancies in the Executive Department.... The Railroad Funding bill was further debated, and an amendment was offered by Mr. Blaine. After a lengthy discussion in the House, participated in by Messis. Butler. Bragg, Clymer, etc.. Mr. Butler moved the previous question for the adoption of his resolution, electing Gen. Shields to the office of Doorkeeper, which motion was rejected—llo to 120. Mr. Cox (N. Y.) then took the floor and replied to the remarks made by Mr. Butler, ana was followed by Messrs. Blackburn, etc., after which a resolution was adopted 109 —to proceed to the election of a Doorkeeper. Mr. Clymer then nominated Chas. W. Feld, of Georgia; Mr. Butler nominated Jamre Shields, of Missouri, and Mr. Randolph nominated John H. Trent, of Tennessee. The vote resulted: For Field, 123 (alliDemocrats); Shields, 101 (all but one—Springer Republican; Trent, 8. Mr. Field was then declared duly elected, and waesworn in, taking the. modified ceth. .... A bill was introduced by unanimous consent authorising .the President to appoint James Bhifild* *Bngadier-Genenl of tbe tJiujted States rates were suspended and the bill was gamed— ISto A

Im the Senate, on the 9th, a bill wap reported from the Finance Committee, and placed on the calendar, to repair and put in operation the mint at New Orleans, Mr. Morrill stating that it was the opinion of the committee that this would afford all the necessary additional mint facilities .. A bill was passed to provide a code of army regulations.... Confer aaoe Committees were appointed on the bill anthonz'Pg the Secretary of the Treasury to employ temporary clerks and on the Consular and Dirtmnatic Appropiiation bill ...The Pacific Bathnad Funding hill was again taken up, and an amendment offered by Mr. Blaine was rejected—yeas, 23. nays 34. Mr. Thurman s I I

Treaaory waa adopted. Several other pronowd amendments were withdrawn and the bill waa p*m*d-40 m it. Im the Houe, a concurrent resolution wa* offered and referred reciting at length the present buataem dirtrem throughout the country, and directing the imae of $400,000,000 in United State* notea, to be a legal tender for all debts, public and private, and to be placed in circulation at the earlieat moment. A bill was reported from the Committee on Banking and Currency, providing for the issue of $38)790,810 of Treasury notea for the retirement of National Bank notes, which are to be received in payment of one-third of cnatoma dutiea. . .The Tariff bill was taken up in Committee of the Whole, and Mr. Wood, Chairman of the Way* and Mean* Committee. spoke at great length in explanation and advocacy of the bill. He raid that, notwithstanding the proposed reduced rates, the actual revenue under the bill would be about $140.1110,000 against about $130,000,000 last year. A few bills of a private nature were passed in the Senate, on the 10th... .Ths bill to repeal the Bankrupt act was further debated, and a substitute was offered in the shape of a bill to establish a uniform law on the subject of bankruptcy. Bills were introduced and referred, in the House—authorizing the issuing of Treasury notes, the taking up of greenbacks and National Bank notes, prohibiting a contraction of the currency, and repealing the Internal Revenue law*; making it illegal for any member of either house of Congress to act as general advisory attorney for certain corporations and patentees; a joint resolution proposing a Constitutional amendment providing for only one seeaion of Congress for every two years, after 18H0, unless convened by the President. . .The Pension Appropriation was considered in Committee of Bills were passed in the Senate, on the 11th—to repair and pot in operation the mint at New Orleans; the Deficiency Appropriation bill, with amendment....A bill waa reported from the Committee on Public Lands for the relief of settlers on public lands.... A new Conference Committee was ordered on two of the amendments to the bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to employ temporary clerk*. .... Messrs. Cameron (Win.) and Eustis were appointed additional members of the Committee on Mimusippi Levee*.... Adjourned to the 15th. In the House, the Pension Appropriation bill was considered in Committee of the Whole, and amendments were agreed to, fixing the salaries of Pension Agents at $4,000, and allowing them fees for vouchers and actual cxSnaes for rent, clerk hi re. etc., and providing it after July 18 1878, the office* of Pension Agents shall be filled by wounded nr disabled Union soldiers. The bill as amended was reported to the House and passed. The Senate was not in session on the 12th. A lengthy debate occurred in the House on the bill to reimburse the College of William and Mary, in Virginia, for property do* stroyed during the war.. A bill, reported from th* Military Committee, restoring Geo. A. Armes to his rank in the army waa passed, na was also a bill authorizing the Secretary of War to relinquish portions of the Fort Hartsuft Military Reservation in Nebraska to homestead and preemption settlers. ...The Senate amendments to the General Deficiency and to the Diplomatic Appropriation bilk were non-concurred in.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A Cold Spring, Putnam County, N. Y., man has just dislodged a horse-fly from his tympanum that had been leader of the orchestra there for two. years. —A woman employed as a stitcher in a shop in North Adams, Mass., died a few days since from the effect of lioison contained in the fancy colored eather on which she worked. —A cargo of rags from Egypt was landed recently at New Haven for a paper company at Windsor Locks, and the New r Haven Union says that three employes of the company have died suddenly of a disease contracted while handling the rags. —A man was scared to death in Berryville, Mo. He was passing a graveyard at midnight, w'hen two men sprang from behind a monument and shouted at him. He ran home and went to bed, but was so nervous that he could not sleep, and before morning he died in convulsions. —An absent-minded man in Monroe, Conn., went to church the other morning with his overcoat, as he supposed, on his arm, but the laughing of the people in church directed his attention to the fact that he had taken his everyday pantaloons, and that the suspenders attached to then} were dangling about his legs. —There was a panic at the Metro politan Theater, Sacramento, March 14. A boy, who had concealed himself in the loft to witness the play surreptitiously by peeping through the ventilator, made a mistake and forced his leg through the plastering,Jarge fragments of which fell over the east and lower side of the parquette. The spectators sprang to their feet and began to work their way into the aisles, and toward the doors; but as the whole ceiling did not give way and the small boy was speedily discovered, the panic was soon over and the play went on.

—The other day, as a lady of this city was passing some small boys, one of them opened his hand to display some fine agates to his companions. They looked at them admiringly, and presently one of the boys turning to the fortunate owner said: “I owe you a licking, but give me one of those agates, and I’ll call it square.” The little fellow looked up in the other’s face, hesitated a moment, and then, selecting a marble, silently passed it over, after which all the lads went on with their play as if nothing* unusual had occurred, the little marble-owner seeming to think the bargain a fair one. —Portland Press. —At the Skaneateles, N. Y., papermill, the other day, Miss Sarah Glass was engaged in sweeping about and under machinery which was revolving at a rapid rate, when, by some means unknown, her clothing became entangled in the belting, and for a moment it seemed as if the poor girl was destined to be killed. Her screams attracted the attention of a sister near by, who rushed to the rescue and succeeded in catching her, and by almost herculean strength held the devoted sister in her arms until the belting had almost torn every particle of clothing off from her. Luckily assistance Came and the machinery was stopped, and Miss Glass escaped with some slight bruises, but was badly scared.

In Viennese ball-rooms girls, when they do not belong to the uppermost ana oldest cotiche sociale, are used to being dropped for partners of better family. A young gentleman belonging to the highest set does not think twice about letting go the arm of a young lady of less blue blood with whom he is going to dance should he see an opportunity of waltzing with, say, a daughter of the Liechensteins or Esterhazys. The forsaken one might feel disappointed at losing her cavalier, but not humiliated. Being deserted for a dancer of no better position than her own would be resented as a slight. Irr Viennese society there is no such thing as social equality. There are sets superposed one above the other. It is permissible for those near the apex to dine at the house of those down and afterward to stare in their faces, without saluting them.— Vienna Letter. A bolt of lightning entered a house in Alabama in search of prey the other day, and finding no one but the baby in, the festive fluid threw him under the bed, melted the beads on his neck, and left him so am&zed that he didn’t whimper for two days. Free Press. I

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —Two heads are bettor than one If the second head has notrbeen put on by a bruiser. —The Minnesota Indians have dug up the hatchet again, but they now use it only as lumbermen. —Russia is one of the largest purchasers of the products and manufactures of the United States. —There is a chance now for prophets to predict a cold summer and a total destruction of the peach crop. —Men of many words and few ideas Sar to get along as well as more . and more thoughtful people. —David Miranda, a , Hebrew, has been arrested at Portland, Me., sot opening his place of business on Sum day. —An Englishman committed suicide because his wife was too good for him. The rest of us should bo vaccinated at once.— Danbury News. —A French Court has decided that * husband cannot legally force his wife to steal in order to support him. They are curious people over there. —The dressmaker and dress-wearer ought to be acquainted with the human form and the laws which govern its functions in order to dress with true taste. —lt is said that sliding down hill was the direct cause of over 600 deaths during the last winter. The obvious moral is—always slide up hill.— Worcester Press. —A Rochester (N. Y.) man hung ■ sign in front of his place of business, which reads: “ Twenty-five loafers wanted to stand here." They don’t stand there, —• ———— —■ —: —- —An Alabama Judge has decided that any one who sets a spring gun does so at his own peril, and is to be held responsible for any damage done, even to trespassers. —A man who answered an advertisement, “canvassers wanted,” found that he was wanted to canvas hams. This was in Cincinnati, of course.—Cincinnati Saturday Night. —Tight-lacing is not practiced in this country one-half as much as ten years ago, but a number three shoe has got to go on a number five foot if it shortens every toe an inch.— Detroit Free Press. —The following conversation took place recently in a hotel: “Waiter.” “Yes, sir.” “What’s this?” “It’s bean soup.” “No matter what it has been; the question is, what is it now?” —One may study Nature all his lifetime and yet never bo able to explain why the man who misses one step in going down stairs is certain to miss three or four more before he brings up. —Detroit Free Press. t —Lord Derby refuses to explain why he resigned, and nobody seems to know. We are inclined to think, however, that it was because his pay was stopped. We can imagine no other cause that would impel a Cabinet officer to resign. -Hawk-Eue. —The Utah Legislature has made It a “ misdemeanor” for any one to “ salt a mine,” or give it a false assay, or exhibit a false sample applying to a given assay, or change an assay. This brings the offense within the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace.

—Col. Decter H. Follett, of Boston, not knowing that his revolver was loaded, gave it to his little eight year old boy toplay with and the little fellow playfully shot his father behind the ear with it. It didn’t kill the Colonel. But that is not surprising. We wouldn’t suppose you could kill a man who would give a child a pistol to play with, by shooting him in the head..--Burling-ton Hawk-Eye. —About the time barometers became so cheap as to induce agriculturists to Curchase them a Scotch farmer having een persuaded to become the possessor of the instrument, on one occasion, in spite of a rising barometer, it continued raining. The farmer, losing all patience, carried the instrument to the door, held it up toward the sky, and exclaimed: “In the name o’ guidness, will ye no believe your ain een?” —A man of wealth and prominence at Fort Worth, Tex., recently forged a signature to a bond. A good-hearted doctor and several other friends testified that the man was insane; but the Judge held that, crazy or not crazy, the man must be held to answer for his crooked conduct. If this ruling is to prevail in courts insane men will soon be deprived of all just right to commit crime, and efforts to prove an alibi of the mind will be useless.— N. 0. Picayune. —Mr, Basingbal (city merchant) — “Most convenient! I can converse with Mrs. B. just as if I was in my own drawing-room. I’ll tell her you are here.” (Speaks through the telephone) “Dawdles is here —just come from Paris—looking so well—desires to be,” etc., etc. “ Now you take it and you’ll hear her voice distinctly.” Dawales—“Weally!” (Dawdles takes it.) The voice— “For goodness sake, dea», don’t bring that insufferable noodle home to di nner!” — Pu nch. —Something should be done to stop the manufacture and use of poisonous wall-paper. Formerly suspicion fell on green wall-paper only, and there was a certain reason for this, because* there is really not the slightest excuse for using arsenic in even the brilliant colors of any other shade than green. Paper-stainers, we are told, have found that it is such an unusually profitable practice that now they are not content to use arsenic in green wall-papers only, but are introducing it into even the palest white drawing-room papers, and especially into those which have an enameled ground.— Chicago Journal.

The Boy Who Advised.

The architect who plans high front' steps to a house is in league with certain boys who have a “large and assorted stock” of meanness bom in their natures. Proof of this can be found any day in the week in Detroit, and the latest was gathered in no later than Saturday afternoon. A very nice young man, dressed in the nobbiest style, ana sporting a cane which never cost less than a dollar, walked up the high front steps of a Jefferson avenue mansion and' pulled the bell. It was plain enough even to the driver of a street car that the young mait had an affection for some one in that house, and that he was about to meet his chariner. But, it wasn’t so plain to a stub-nosed boy who was drawing a picture of an Indian warrior on the flagstones with a piece of indigo. He looked up, quit his work, and loafing along to the gate he called out: “ Them air folks don’t want any patent tooth-paste to-day!” The'nobby young man gave a sudden start of surprise, but he instantly realized the vastness of the gulf separating him and that street boy, and he did not reply. “ Owr folks dqp’t want any clotbee-

wringer* to-day, and you want to hear me!'"called the boy. The young man heard Mm. Several pedestrian* also heard him, and aa they looked up the young man wondered why no one answered the bell. “ I’m telling you fellow up there,” said the bov, “that we don't keep no boarding house here! If you want cheap board you must go around the corner and three blocks straight on! Do you propose to pay in advance?” As no one came to the door the young man pulled the bell again. “ I’m telling you that you can’t pass yourself off on us as a grasshopper sufferer!” shouted the boy. “If you want some cold vittlos go around to the side ga|e!” Four pedestrians had halted on the other side of the street, and the young man looked down on the boy and soft* ly said: “Boy, can you catch ten cents?” “We don’t sign no petishuns here for a national monument to the inventor of the dish-prfn!” replied the boy. “ What I’m talking to you is that you want to go around to the cook’s door!” The young man wished a wish containing 413 grains fine that the builder of those high steps had been dead for forty years, but the door didn’t open, and the boy hung right to him calling out: “ Hain’t I been telling you that you can’t get in there! You may be the private watchman on this block, but you can’t go around pulling front doorbells and putting on airs: If I have to argy much longer I’ll call the police!” “ Ive got a half a dollar here, boy!” said the young man, as he turned around. “ Let’s see how it looks!” softly replied the lad. But the half dollar was at home. The young man searched for it in vain, and the disgusted boy turned to the men across the street and called out: “ Isn’t it agin the law for a fellow to be taking a beeswax impression of a front door lock in the daytime?” They started to come over, and the young man hurried down the steps and up the street. He gave the boy just one look. It was a look in which railroad collisions and steamboat blow-ups were equally mixed and then frosted with a Bogardus-kicker. “ Oh! ye kin wink at me and try to buy me off!” growled the boy, “but these principles of honesty were painted all over me when I was a baby, and they can’t bo rubbed out nor bought up for wealth!” Just then a young lady threw open the door and smiled and bowed and got as far as: “ Why, Fwed!” when she discovered he wasn’t there. The footman was out and she had waited to “fix up,” and “Fwed" had gone. She backed in and shut the door, and the mean boy got down to finish his Indian, muttering: “ If he couldn’t raise fifty cents to reward me, how’d he ever manage to git that gal one o’ them corsets with a hundred and ninety bones in it!”— Detroit Free Press. .

Giving Her Census.

When the census-taker rapped at the door of a certain cottage on Crawford street, the other day, and wondered if the woman would set the dog on him or douse him with dish-water, a great disappointment awaited him. She opened the door softly, snuffed the air to see if he smelled of lightning-rods, and then threw it open for him to enter. “Madam, I am making a canvass of the city,” he began. “Ah! Sit down,” she replied, and as he began opening his book she continued: “ There are five of us in the family, and we paid SIOO down on this place. My husband’s name is Peter, his age is forty-two, and he came from a mean family. His father was always having lawsuits about dogs, and his mother was the greatest gossip in Elmira. Have you got that down?” He grunted assent, and she continued: “My name is Alvina Sarah, and I was born in——” “I do not care to know where you was born, madam,” he interrupted. “Well, 1 care!” she exclaimed; “it makes a great deal of difference whether I was born in Africa or Boston, and I want it put down. As I was saying, I was born in Boston in 1838. Put down that I came of a good family.” “Madam, you don’t understand—you ” “Don’t I understand that I came of a good family? I’d like to know of a Boston family which carried their noses higher than the Rogerses! Put down that my father was in the Mexican War.” “ You have three children, madam?” “I haven’t any such thing, sir! Put down that my mother was killed by an explosion in a quarry. Her and father were ” “How many children have you, madam?” “ Have you got mother down?” “ No, madam. You see, lam taking the census of the city.” “ Well,” she said, giving him a dangerous look, “ I had the typhoid fever at the age of fifteen, and for weeks and weeks I nung on the edge of the grave. I bore up as well as I was able, and ” -- .

“ Five in the family—how many children P” he suddenly asked. “ Put down that I bore up!” she commanded. “And that one night when the watchers were asleep I crept'out of bed and took a drink of——” “This is foreign to the subject, madam. How ola are yOur children?” “ Haven’t you put down that I hung on the edge of the grave?” “No, madam.” “ Aren’t you going to?” “ No, madam. You see, lam simply taking the census of Detroit. I desire to ascertain ” “ You can’t ascertain it here, sir!” she snapped. “If my sickness, which cost over S2OO, isn’t good enough to go in the book then you don’t get a line here!” “ Let me ask you ” i«No use asking fdF btiV' b'ho*' , tographs, sir I If you get ’em anywhere and put our pictures in that book we’ll make it hot for you! Good-day,udr—-good-day!” He stood on the step, sighing, and she called through the door: “My grandfather was also bitten to death by an alligator, but I won’t give you any of the particulars! You want to walk!” He passed on, sorrowfully wondering if the next woman’s mother was blown off a bridge or carried down the river on a hay-stack.— Detroit Free Press. ~~Br our ’fashion will continue to wear wrappers with paste ornaments. — Utica Observer. Ladies’ neckties are worn in tied sailor-knots. i

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Mr. Bancroft, the historian, is said to be a lover of hand-organ music, and it is related that to spare Mr*. Ban. croft’s nerves ho ha* the musicians escorted to the back gate, where they, grind while he digs in the garden. Last year there were published, in England, 3,049 new books and 2,046 new editions, and 481 American publications were imported. As usual, theology leads, witn 485 books brought out—fiction with 446, being second. —Senator Lamar sent this sentiment to Augusta, Ga., on St. Patrick’s Day:. “The typical Irishman: His home- the world. His friends—all the peoples. His faith—his own. No clime to him so cold as will not produce a shamrock; no soil so barren as will not produce a shillaleh. Foremost at a fight, a frolic or a funeral, his generous nature finds a blow for the bad, a smile (pr the glad, or a tear for the sad.” —Edison’s phonograph has been on exhibition among the scientists of Paris. When the instrument was placed on the table, and vociferated, “The Phonograph presents its compliments to the Academy of Sciences,’' there was a roar of laughter from the audience, which could with difficulty be persuaded that the sound did not proceed from some concealed ventriloquist. —Mrs. Chataway, the keeper of Shakespeare's house at Stratford-on-Avon, was not pleased with Gen. Grant. She says: “Generally people who come here seem to have some interest in the place. Gen. Grant walked about with his eyes fixed on the floor—what there was on the floor I don’t know. He didn’t look at anything at all, not at the pictures nor the relics, and he didn’t say a word till he was going out of the frontdoor; then he said, ‘Thank you.’ That was the only speech he made here. Mrs. Grant seemed to like it.”

—A new version of the cause of the death of Representative Leonard, of “Louisiana, appears in the New Orleans Times, which says that the Cuban lady with whom he fell in love did not fully reciprocate his attachment, and after reluctantly consenting to imarry him, finally, at the last moment, rejected his suit. The Times intimates that he did not die of yellow fever, but committed suicide. Others think that he was murdered. Judge Leonard was a great favorite among the ladies of Washington. —A Jacksonville (Fla.) letter to the Cincinnati Commercial says: “ Mr. William Astor generally spends about four months of the year in Florida sailing his yacht and amusing himself with the operation (by proxy) of the great Toco! & St. Augustine Railway, fourteen miles in length, all under one management; fare, four dollars the round trip! This road is Mr. Astor’s little joke on the luxury hunters of the North. If New Yorkers are willing to pay four dollars a quart for Florida strawberries in March, he regards it as only fair that they should pay 14 2-7 cents a mile for the privilege of making a-pilgrimage to the most ancient city of the United States by rail. The road was formerly operated with oxen, and the trip generally took from two days to two weeks, so that old-time Florida travelers will appreciate the introduction of steam on the road, even at the increased fare. Mr. Astor also dabbles a little in real estate in Jacksonville, and is at present buildihg a dock, and intends to erect a fine block of business houses on the street fronting the St. John’s.”

The Hearts of the Lowly,

One day, three or four weeks ago, a gamin, who seemed to have no friends in the world, was run overby a vehicle, on Madison avenue, New York, and fatally injured. After he had been in the hospital for a week, a boy about his own size, and looking as friendless and forlorn, called to ask about him and leave anorange. He seemed much embarrassed and would answer no questions. After that he cajne daily, always bringing something, if no more than an apple. Last week, when the nurse told him that Billy had no chance to get well, the strange boy waited around longer than usual, and finally asked if he could go in. He had been invited to many times before, but had always refused. Billy, pale and weak and emaciated, opened his eyes in wonder at the sight of the boy, and before he realized who it was the stranger bent close to his lace and sobbed:

“ Billy, can ye forgive a feller? We was alius fighting, and I was alius too much for ye; but I’m sorry! ’Fore ye die won’t ye tell me ye haven’t any grudge agin me?” The young lad, then almost in the shadow of death, reached up his thin, white arms, clasped them around the other’s neck, and replied: “Don’tcry, Rob. Don’t feel bad. I was ugly and mean, and I was heaving a stone at ye when the wagon hit me. If ye’ll forgive me, I’ll forgive you, and I’ll pray for both of us.” Bob was half an hour late the morning Billy died. When the nurse took him to the shrouded corpse, he kissed the pale face tenderly, and gasped: “ D-did he say anything about—about me?” “ He spoke of you just before he died. Asked if you were here,” replied the nurse. “ And may I go—go to the funeral?” “You may.” And he did. He was the only mourner. His heart was the only one that ached. No tears were shed by others, and they left him sitting by the newmade grave, with heart so big that he could not speak. If under the crust of vice and ignorance there are such springs of pure feeling and true nobility, who shall grow weary of doing good?— N. Y. Independent.

A Parisian Beauty’s Revenge.

An English Marchioness, resident in •the Legitimist faubourg, and avoiding the Napoleonites as “ low,” gave grand .parties.. Toone of these an English 4ady took, uninvited, a pretty Trepch woman, a friend of the Empress. The pretty woman made herself conspicuous by her prettiness and flirtations, but the Marchioness found out who she was, and was disgusted. She Said to her: “lam so conscious of the honor you "have done me that I dare not expect a repetition of. the unexpected- compliment." The pretty woman grew pale, but smiled, and ordered a cavalier 1 to order her carriage. The pretty woman was clever, and finessed a revenge. She bribed the Marchioness’ femme de chambre to give her the list of guests invited for the next soiree. Armed with this, she prepared a circular note, which she dispatched to each of the invited late in the afternoon of the appointed day: “The Marchioness pre-

sent* her compliments to so and so, and regrets that domestic calamity will prevent her,” etc. She then went to a great “ M*d Doctor," representing herself a* the daughter of the Marchioness, and acting with the consent of her Ladyship's family; she represented that her mother, the Marchioness, was afflicted with insanity, and her madness was in the delusion that she was always having great parties. For instance, if monsieur, the doctor, would go to her Ladyship’s hotel that evening, he would find her dressed in great splendor, with the salon illuminated, adorned with flowers, and buffets covered with refreshments. The doctor went, on the understanding that he was to obtain the proper police authority to take the Marchioness to Maison DeSante in the event of the representation made to him being Confirmed by his own observation. He arrived at ten in the evening; he was the first—the only—guest; and, though the Marchioness did not remember his name, she took it for granted that she had invited him, and was profusely civil. His manner puzzled and his questions startled her, and as he grew abrupt as his perception of her lunacy became more clear, she was at last offended and rang for her servants. At the same time he made the proper intimation of his police authority; and the end of the story is, that she was taken off by the doctor in hysterics, and detained as a prisoner in his asylum until the whole truth came out. All Paris was in roars, and the pretty flirt was a heroine forever. Protected by her august friend, she escaped retaliation—a British Marchioness is too grand for wit.

The Opening of the Women’s Hotel in New York City.

The formal opening of A. T. Stewart’s Hotel for Women took place last night, and about 30,000“ persons were present to examine the vast structure. There were no ceremonies of any kind, although Mrs. A. T. Stewart and ex- . Judge Hilton were in attendance for a brief time. The visitors simply flocked into the rooms, examining everything that was to be seen, and tnen retired, or attempted to retire, for the crush was so great that at one time it was equally Impossible to advance or retreat. The building has often been described. The eight-story building is 200 feet square, and covers fourteen lots. The principal eastern facade overlooks Fourth avenue and the stables of the Fourth Avenue Railroad Company. A hundred feet square is devoted to an interior court, provided with a fine fountain and parterres of flowers. Gn the outside, above the store floor, there are 369 windows looking into the street, all being provided with inside blinds. There are 852 windows looking into the court-yard. The first story is painted dark brown, the pillars being colored in imitation of red granite. The upper stories are painted a light drab, with a tint of green, the projections and copings being of a drab a shade darker. A sky-blue ornamental railing surmounts the mansard roof. The entrance is provided with a heavy portico and balcony, and over it the building is carried up an additional story, which produces something of the effect of a tower. The Thirty-second street side of the ground floor will receive the supplies for the hotel, and here also are the public restaurants, where prepared food will be sold at cost prices, but not to be eaten on the premises. There are thiry-eight store-rooms fronting on Fourth avenue and Thirty-second and. Thirty-third streets, which will be rented to different classes of retail merchants. Above the basement and ground floor there are the reception rooms, the dining-saloon, dining room, library and 502 sleeping-rooms. It is expected that the hotel will accommodate from 800 to 1,000 guests. There are two passenger elevators, one in the office and one on the Thirty-third-street side, and two freight elevators on the Thirty-second-street side. It is said the building cost $3,000,000. The library contains 25,000 volumes. N. Y. Evening Post.

Details of the Terrible Catastrophe at Bath, N. Y.

Bath, N. Y., April 8. The building of the Steuben County Poor-House burned Saturday night was a brick thirty by forty feet, two stories high. Nearly all the windows were grated, and there was but one mode of egress from each story. No night watchman was employed about the building, and there was no fire-appa-ratus. The County-House is two miles from Bath, and the Fire Department did not go out. An insane epileptic from Hornellsville, named Ford, who was locked up in a cell on the first floor, set fire to his bed with a match, probably obtained from a fellow-pauper. All the partitions were of pitch pine, and burned like tinder. The cries of Ford roused the other inmates only after the building was filled with blinding smoke. An inmate who had Ford in charge opened Ford’s door, and the flames burst out and ran along the partitions and up the stove-pipe hole, into the second story. Ford could not be seen on account of the flames. He had forced his head between the bars of a window, and, unable to pull it back, was crying for help. The flames poured out or the window around his head and he perished. The upper story was occupied by twentyfive women and children, and the lower story by eighteen men. A majority were idiotic, cripples, or very aged. Five on the first floor and ten on the second were burned. At the first alarm Eli ’Carrington, the keeper, rushed out of the main building with >n employe, and knocked in a door at the foot of the stairs leading from the second story. Eight or ten women were piled up at the foot of the stairs and a cloud of suffocating smoke rolled down. The women were pulled out, and Carrington started up-stairs, but was driven back by the smoke. In five minutes from the time of the alarm the paupers ceased coming out, and in half an hour the root fell in. The first-floor door, leading from the men’s department, was never locked, and no one in the building was locked in a cell except Ford. OnSunday the blackened remains of five bodies were taken from the ruins, and to-day about two-thirds of the debris were dug over, and more remains were found. Altogether they would about fill an ordinary-sized . coffin. Heads, legs and arms were entirely burned off, and in most cases but a very small portion of any body can be found. No blame Attaches to any one, but the county is severely censured for providing such a man-trap for the occupation of its paupers. Before the fire there were 140 paupers in the CountyHouse. < Edward Hudson, aged fifty-six, a paralytic, who crawledoutof the building with his clothes one mass of flames, djed to-day.