Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1878 — Page 2

Hie Rensselaer Union.

General News Summary.

non WAinmim, Tu Tmnrjr Department In Wmhlnffton received Information on the *W that the Ca Mdlu Qomrnmeut had decided to exact a dal] of IT% pc cent, ml valorem upon all Importation* of United States silver coin thlppod Into that country. Ho*. Gao. C. Gonna*, of California, haa beea chaen Secretary of the Republican Con Xteadoaal Committee. 0* the 83d, the Senate, In KxecuUve acs•lon, reconsidered the vote refuting to confirm J. K. Colburn aa Cotmul-Generel to Mexico, and voted to confirm by a good majority. Gnoaoa F. Bmttu, formerly Member of the National House of Representative* from Louisiana, has been nominated to be Collector of the Port of New (Meana. This Is said to have been a compromise nomination. William, son 6t Mr.' Kvarts, the Secretary of Btate, died at Washington, on the 39th, of consumption. He was twenty-seven years oM. _ THE BAIT. BisHor McOoskket,- under date of New York, April 30, says: “ 1 give my unqualified denial to the articles which have appeared in different papers against me-” Mrs. Banlater, net Richards, whose napie was con nected with the scandal, has declared, with the most tragic Indignation, that there is not a word of truth in the story, and hat sent a dispatch to Mr. MeOoekrey, In New York, demanding bis immediate return to clear himself and her from the vile charge. Ho*. William Oktox, President of ths Western Union Telegraph Company, died at his residence in New York City, on the 23d, of apoplexy.

A Fall River (Mass.) dispatch of the 23d says Geo. T. Hathaway, Treasurer of the Border City and Sagamore Mills, had been proved a defaulter to an amount estimated at from •000,000 to 0700,000. Ills method was similar to that of Chaoe, Treasurer of the Union Mills. The Governor of Rhode Island has called s special session of the Legislature to consider the Insolvent laws of the Btatc, In view of the impending repeal of the National Bankruptcy law. The property and franchises of the Erie Railroad were sold, on the 34th, to ex-Gov. Morgan, of New York, for 16,000,000. President and Mrs. Hates, Accompanied by the Secretaries of the Treasury and Interior and the}r wives, and others, reached Philadelphia, on the 34tli, in response to invitations extended by the Municipal Government and the National Union League of that city, ■they met with a very cordial anil enthusiastic inception during their three days' sojourn in the city. The New York State Prohibition Convention met at Albany, on the 24th, and nominated George H. Danford aa a candidate for Judge of the Court of Appeals. Resolutions were adopted demanding the prohibition of the sale and manufacture of intoxicating liquors; protesting against the proposed Moffett BcllI*unch act; favoring the enfranchisement of of women; opposing the National Banking system; favoring currency expansion, etc., etc. At Catssauqua, Fa., a few days ago, a tightrope i>erformer, while walking backward over a rope, missed his footing and fell Jo the ground, a distance of fifty feet, and was fatab A mas, aged about fifty years, leaped from the new suspension bridge into the rttcr at Niagara Falls, on the 36th. There was an eu* vclope In the pocket of bis coat addressed to Edward M. Great, Waterford, Kaciue Co., Wis. Golu closed In New York, on April 36th, at 100%. The following were the closing quotations for produce; No. 2 Chicago Spring, Wheat, *1.25%0t.26; No. 3 Milwaukee, *1.2701.27%. Oats, Western and Btate, 35,a66c. Corn, Western Mixed, 53@55c. Pork, Mess, ♦IO.OO. Lard. *7.25, Flour, t.oodto Choice, *5.1505.85; Winter Wheat, 15-9J06.50. Cattle, *8.00011.00 for Good to Extra. Sheep, *5.5006.75. Hogs, *3.(10 03.80. At East Liberty, Pa., on April 36th, Cattle brought; Best, *5.0005.25; Medium, *4.600 4.80; Common, *3.5004.50. Hogs sold— Yorkers, *3.6003.75; Philadelphia*, *3.900 4.00. Sheep brought *3.ooos.2s—according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on April 26th, Cattle brought: Best, *5.12%05.62%; Medium, *3.62%04.12%. Hogs sold at *5.0005.50 for Good. Sheep were quoted at *4.0006.00 for Good.

WEST AND SOUTH. Storm Like, lowa, and vicinity were visiled by a tornado, on the evening of the 21st, and many dwellings and other buildings wefe blown down. Bii persons were reported killed and a number of others more or less injured. A DeadwooD (D. T.) dispatch of the 21st says the severest storm ever known In the Hills had been raging since the night of the 16th, the heavy snow, rain and hail doing much damage to the placer mines and shafts in the gulches by flooding. Operations in the quartz mills were almost entirely suspended, and the roads were impassable. A call has been issued by the Republican State Central Committee directing a meeting of the Michigan Btate Republican Convention, at Detroit, on the 13th of June. The International Bunday-Bchool Convention, which, for three days previous, had been in session at Atlanta, Oa., adjourned tme die on the evening of the 19th. Before adjourn • ment, the following were named as the International Lesson Committee for the next sewn years: Rev. John H. Vincent, D. D., New Jersey, Methodist; Rev. John Hall, New York, Presbyterian; B. F. Jacobs, Illinois, Baptist; Rev. Warren Randolph, Indiana, Baptist; Prof. P. G. Gilbert, LL.D., Illinois, Methodist; Rev. Richard Newton, D. D., Pennsylvania, Protestant Episcopal; Rev. B. M. Palmer, Louisiana, Presbyterian; Rev. W. G. E. Cunningham, D. D., Tennessee, M. E. Church*South; Prof. Austin Phelps, D. D., Massachusetts, Congregationallst; ifiv. John A. Broaddus, D. D., Kentucky, Baptist; Prof. L. Raugher, D. D., Pennsylvania, Evangelical Lutheran; Rev. Jaa. A. Warden, New Jersey, Presbyterian; Rev. D. H. McVicar, LL.D., Quebec, Presbyterian; Rev. John Potts, D. D., Ontario, Methodist. :—; -

At Franklin, La., on the 224, three negro men, convicted of as many murders, suffered the extreme penalty of the law. As the drop was sprung, Brown, one of them, fell to the ground, the rope breaking. A new rope being obtained, be way again hung, this time snecesafnlly. News was received at Galveston, Tex., on the 224 that Indian raiders had crossed from Mexico, and were killing the ranchmen and driving off the Mock. Two white boys, named Taylor, bad been carried off and the mail-car-rier murdered within twenty miles of Fort Daria Col. Salisbcet, a prominent citizen of Columbus, Ga, and proprietor of the Columbus /inquirer-Sun, was fatally shot in the back by Dr. B. M Palmer, while entering a railroad ear at Beale, Ala, on the 20th. Aooordwo to a recent issue of the Omaha Bu, it has turned oat that J. W. Daniels, recently bung at Warrensburg, Mo., was judicially murdere4 It having been positively ascertained that he was innocent of fie crime

charged It waa a case of circumstantial evidence purely. At a recent base-ball game In Cleveland, Ohio, Albert Walker, fourteen years old, waa struck in the bead, by the hatter, and fatally injured. - J , O. C. Zellers, Cashier of the National Bank, of Tiffin, Ohio, absconded after banking hours, on the 30th, taking with him *50,000 of the funds of the Institution. t t Severe and destructive wind and rain stonna have recently occurred in many sections of the West, doing great damage to property in some localities sad involving the loss of several lives. , A Jacksonville (Fla.) <lis|*trh of the 2?ld says McLin and Dennis, members of the Florida Returning Board at the last Presidential election, had confessed tbst perjury and fraud had boon resorted to to secure the Electoral vote of that State for Mr. llsycs. It was announced from Detroit, on the 23d, that Bishop McCoskrey, of Michigan, had decided not to go to Europe, as he had intended, but would return to Detroit at once and insist upon an investigation of the chsrges of immorality preferred against him, which charges he denounced aa unqualifiedly false. A State Prohibition Convention has been called to meet at Decatur, 111., on the 6th of June, to nominate candidates for State officers, etc. _ , , The Indiana State Republican Convention lias been called to meet at Indianapolis on the sth of June. Mrs. Peter Keolek, living a few miles be low Oonnrrsville, Iml., recently gave birth to five fine hoys, all of whom, at late accounts, were doing well. In Chicago, on April 36th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at *1.12%01.13 cash. Cash corn closed at 41%c for No. 2. Cash oats No. 2 sold at 26%c; and 26%c seller June. Rye No 2, .V.l%c. Barley No. 2, 47(«47%c. Cash Mess Pork closed at *8.75. luird, *7.00. Beeves—Extra, brought *4.7505.15; Choice, *4.3504.65; Good, *4.0004.25; Medium Grades, *3.7504.00; Butchers’ Stock, 8.0003.90; Btock Cattle, etc., *3.2503.90. Hogs—Good to Choice, *3.2503.50. SheepPoor to Choice, *3.7505.50.

FOREIGN IN TELLIGENCE. It was rumored In Constantinople, on the 23d, that the Turks in the Mussulman district of the Balkans had armed themselves and attacked the Russian troops, whose loss was reported to have been 900 men and thirteen officers. It was also reported that the Bulgarians hail attacked and plundered eight Mussulman villages. A plot has been discovered at Constantinople to depose the Sultan and restore ex-Sultan Murad. According to Constantinople dispatches of the 23d, another Mussulman outbreak had oc curved in Macedonia. The Porte and Grand Duke had organized a mixed commission, to examine into the circumstances attending the late outbreak In the Balkans district. A Manchester (Eng.) dispatch of the 23d says about 90,000 operatives In Lancashire were out on a strike. <3f these, nearly 64,000 were weavers. According to a St. Petersburg dispatch of the 23d, sixty-five officers of the Russian Navy had sailed for the United States. In the event of war with Great Britain, thev would take command of vessels purchased in and crews enlisted from the United States. These vessels would prey upon British commerce.

A Paris dispatch of the 23d says all the European Powers, except England, had declared their readiness to accept the Invitation to the European Congress unreservedly. England alone insisted that all questions relating to the East should be considered as of European, and not merely as of Tureo-Kussian conocrßi Ax Adrianople telegram of the 24th says the typhus fever was decimating the Russian troojis in the vicinity of Adrianople and Rosdusta. According to Constantinople dispatches of the 34th, the 30,000 Irregular Turkish troops hi the Batoumdistrict bad refused to laydown their arms. Announcement was made, on the 24th, that Prince Gortscliakoff, the Russian Premier, was seriously ami dangerously ill. Ills disease was typhus fever. Prince Bismark had also been attacked with erysipelas in the loins. A violent gale prevailed in the Black Sea, on the 34th. A Turkish corvette, with ninety men on board, sank during the height of the storm. There were no survivors. A Vienna telegram of the 25th says that Grand Duke Nicholas had threatened to hold the Porte responsible for the Koumelian ihsurrection. Prince Charles, of Roumania, has refused to accede to the demand of Russia for the dismissal and reconstruction of his Cabinet. The Porte has peremptorily ordered the evacuation of Batoum, on the Black Sea. The Turkish Seeraskierate received intelligence, on the 25th, that the Roumelian insurrection was rapidly spreading. Another battle had been fought, in which about thirty Russian officers had been placed hors du combat.

The Pope issued an encyclical, on the 25th, confirming and renewing the protests of Pope Pius IX. against the encroachments on the civil rights of the Papacy. A London dispatch of the 25th says the Government had rejected the scheme for the simultaneous withdrawal of the British fleet aud the Russian armies, for the reason that British acceptance of this proposition would be a practical admission of the correctness of the limits assigned by Russia to New Bulgaria. The impression prevailed at London, as well as at Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Paris and Constantinople, that war was inevitable, and that nothing short of a miracle could prevent it. According to a St. Petersburg dispatch of the 26th, Russia and Great Britain had agreed upon the propriety of an exchange of views on the present status of the Eastern question before the meeting of the Congress. It was stated that Austria, Germany and Italy also favored this course and had called upon the British Cabinet to state its views. A Constantinople telegram of the 26th says seditious meetings were nightly held in that city, and a general uprising was feared. Ex-Bultan Murad had recovered his health, and was looked upon as the coming ruler. He was closely watched and constantly guarded.

FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. In the Senate, on the 22d, a bill was introduced and referred to repeal that section of the Revised Statutes which provides for a tax on the notes of State Banking Associations... Mr. Blaine submitted resolutions declaring that any radical chango in the present Tariff laws would, in the judgment of the Senate, he inopportune, eta., and that it shonld be the fixed policy of the Government to so maintain our tariff for revenue mJm afford adequate protection to American In the House, the resolutions of the Maryland Legislature reopening the Presidential question were referred to the Judiciary Committee... Bills were intro lueed and referred—repealing the law imposing a tax on the notes of State Banking Associations; prodibiting Members of Congress and other employes of the Government from rr<*iving any compensation for service* Tendered by them in any proceeding, contract or claim in which the United States may be directly or indirectly interested; regulating foreign insurance companies doing business m .the United States ...The billproviding for the issue of fractional currency and for the issne of Treasury notes of the denominations of one, two, three and five dollars, was defeated—--120 to 121 ... A motion was made to suspend the roles and pass the River and Harbor Appropriation bill. Mr. Cox (New York) made V the point of order that some itema in the bill were ■ffunrt Constitution, J b«t the Speaker decided that the point raised was one for the House to determine. After further opposition, and amid much confusion, the motion to suspend the rales and „.P*as. the. bill was agreed to —166 to 66—and so the bill was passed (appropriating $7,900,000,) Mr. Cox (New

YariDtfcen ran to a privileged question for the panam of itnenting a protest against the pn*M«v of the bill, signed by twenty-eight m mbera of the limine. Amid much excitement and cm (union a motion to adjourn finally prevailed —II* to 101. The protect wnt liirned by Menem. Knott. McKrniie. black hum. Springer. Luttrell, Cl> mer, WlilU(Ky.), Finley, Beebe, Jonee (N.H.), Gniliale. Caldwell (IVnn.l. McMahon, Kill*. Cox <N. V,). Hewitt (N. Y.l Fort, Spark*. Turney. Neal. Gardner. Browne, ltobineon (inn.), Candler, Htengrr. liioe (Ohio), Dickey. Hamilton. In thu Senate, on the 23d, the amendment of the House to the hill granting a pension to Gen. James Shields, increesing the amount from fifty dollars to *IOO a month, wse referred. .. The House bill to prohibit the coinage of the twenty-cent silver piece was penned.... The hill to extend the time for the eonntruction and completion of the Northern Pacino lUilrand was further considered, and several amendments were agreed to. after which the bill an amended was isuscd, without division. In the House, thu Speaker ordered the protest against the summary pannage of the River and Harbor bill to be read. Mr. Oonger objected to words referring to alleged combination of members for the spoliation of the Treasury, and Mr. Cox IN. Y.) withdrew that portion of the protest, anil proceeded to address the House, to which objection was made, and after considerable tumult and confusion, the Speaker put the question ss to whether the gentleman from New York should be allowed to proceed, and declared it carried—lo 3to 87. Mr. Conger also objected to words in the protest declaring that " And this encourages similar attempts on the Treasury to gratify local intemtn,'' bat the Speaker ruled that they were not disrespectful to the House. The reading of the protest having been completed, a number of hoars were went in personal,wordy controversies between different mcmliers, after which it was decided that the protest did not present a question of privilege- yeas. 62; naya 180. A motion that, as a matter of courtesy to those who signed the protest, it lie entered on the journal, was then rejected The report of the Conference Committee on the Deficiency bill for temporary clerks in the Treasury Department whs agned to. a compromise having n*en effected. . The Indian Appropriation hill was reported and referred to Committee of the Whole.

The report of the Conference Committee on the House bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to employ temiairary clerks was agreed to, and tho hill was passed, in tho Senate, on tho 24th.... A hill waa also passed to amend the law in relation to the deposits for savings. Bills were passed in tho House —extending the operations of tho Light-Honae Board over the Illinois River for the establishment of lights, buoys, etc.; providing that the hailing place of every vessel of the United States may be tho town where the vessel was built or where the owner resides; Senate Funding bill in regard to the Pacific Railroad Companies—2l3 to 2 the negative votes being oast by Messrs. Butler and Lynde. Tiie amendments to tho Naval Appropriation bill were insisted upon by the Senate, ou the 2Sth, and a Conference Committee was appointed ..A report was submitted from a majority of the Conference Committee on the bill to provide for deficiencies in the appropriations for the sorvire of the Government for current and prior fiscal yean, and. after explanation hy Mr. Blaine and considerable discussion, it was agreed so—36 to 19 ... Adjourned to the 29th. The Senate bill for the repeal of the Bankrupt law elicited a lengthy debate in the House,and an amendment was agreed to explicitly providing for the reiwal of the title sixty-one of tho Revised Statutes, and tho act approved June, 1874, entitled “An act to amend an act to establish a uniform system of Imnkruptcy,” and farther providing that all penal actions or criminal prosecutions arising prior to the papsage of the bln under the arts proposed to he repealed shall continue in full force until dii-posed of. The bill as amended was then passed—26 to 99.... A report waa made from the Committee on Foreign Affair*‘in reference to the Mexican border troubles, together with a bill in relation thereto, requesting the I’resideut to keep on the Texas border not less than 5.000 men to protect American citizens, and authorizing the crossing of the border by United states troops, until such treaty stipulations shall he made with Mexico as may secure an efficient protection to American citizens and property. Senate not in session on the 26th. A bill was passed in the House exempting from enrollment and admeasurement all vessels not propelled .by steam or sail, except veasels’of that character engaged in trade with contiguous foreign territory ... The Poetoffice Appropriation bill was reported from Committee of the Whole, and several amendments were agreed to. one of them providing that the compensation of Postmasters of the fourth class shall be based upon the number of stamps canceled, instead of the number sold at their offices. The bill, as amended, was then passed.

Poor, but Not Proud.

“I’m as poor as free-lunch turtlesoup, but I don’t glory in it,” said a weak-eyed waif of trouble, with a breath like the odor of an old stocking, as he sat down on a bench among the pariahs in Washington Park, the other morning. iL : —. ■ “ Merciful Moses!” exclaimed a sparse-haired mendicant, whose back hadn't carried a new coat for twenty years, “show me the man as does, an’ he kin take my share, cheap!” “ Trouble has follered me like ashadder from the cradle, an’ there never was a time when I was any more free from misfortune than I am of graybaeks at this minute, but I don’t go round with a tin horn an’ a banner, tellin’ the world I’m poor, do I?” The crowd edged up around him and listened, with open mouths. “I say I don’t flaunt my poverty,” he continued. “I’m not proud of it, nor puffed up over it, like some folks is, an’ I don’t crow over them as is better off, nor make brags that I liavo more trials an’ less to eat than any other living soul.” “No more do I,” put in a man with a face that had long been a stranger to water. “I grins an’ bears it.” “ Job’s turkey was a fat bird to the side of me, but what’s the good of my puttin’ on airs 3 It won’t make feathers grow on a station-house plank, will it? An’ kin’ boastin’ about my misery put another bean in my soup or give my stomach any more to do. Nary time, it can’t. Conceit never put a full spoon to anybody’s mouth. Land knows I’ve sot plenty of rope if I wanted to brag, ut that ain’t my natur.” “ Lots more of us can be hit with the same pole,” chimed in a thin man with a tight belt. “Yes, maybe; but if you’ll hold your breath you'll say less,” resumed' the iirst speaker. “There was Lazarus, now; look at him. He was poor enough to be respectable, by long odds. But I discount him, boys, Ido heavy. He had sores that was inticin’ to a hull pack of dogs, but you couldn’t find a scab big enough for a pup to smell of before its eyes were open; an’ then again, you can’t prove he didn’t own the hounds himself! Do I look able to kick my own dog? Well, I should say not! Poverty, boys, is my best holt. It’s the only thing in this world l ever had plenty of; but, as 1 said before, I don’t flaunt it around and glory in it, nor 1 don’t y’arn for any more of it. Poor? Yoj. couldn’t find fat enough abouthie to grease a watch!”—Cincinnati Breakfast Table

t—Joseph Walker, of Mansfield, Pa., a widower of fifty, with four children and property of the value of some $50,000, hanged himself a few days ago. A niece of bis' wife’s, a woman of thirty, had been sent for by him to act as his housekeeper. She claimed that he had promised to marry her, and when he denied that he had any matrimonial intentions made preparations for suing him for breach of promise. The threatened suit and the fears of losing some of his fortune in consequence so weighed upon his mind that he Was tied to end his imagined miseries by suicide. He was a very close, economical man, and he dreaded more than anything else the thought of losing a few dollars. Two fob Assent—A bridal couple

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —Tho hangman's vegetable— I The art o’ choke. —A young lady wante to know where she can procure a real tarnation pink. What make* the Ismb love Mary so?” The children all do ors: Whv, Mary loves the lamb, you know— Who don't love mutton-pic? ~bt. Louis Journal. —lt *is calculated that if all the imtccti of the world were piled in one mast* the heap would he greater than that of all the beasts and birds. —A leading physician of Brooklyn says ho has successfully treatoddiphtheria with alcohol, which is a poison antagonistic to diphtheria. —Olive Logan says that yon can tell an America,!! in Paris by his boots. In very much tho same manner does a chromo agent tell an American in this country.— Norristovm Herald. —A young lady who has many admirers among the limbs of the law, on being asked how she escaped heartwhole, said she supposed it was owing to the fact that “in a multitude oi counsellors there is safety.” —Aristippus said he tool; money of his friends, not so much to use it himself as to teach them how to bestow it Most of us are willing to teach out friends a wholesome lesson by borrowing all they have.— N. Y. Ucrahl. • —England, Russia, or any other Nation desiring to recruit her cavalry in the United States may be sure of s horspitable welcome. There is no danger that such an enterprise would seriously disturb the general equineimity of the country. — Graphic. —Anatripsology wouldn’t look bad at the head of a spring poem, and you would never dream, perhaps, from its length of beam that it referred merely to some sort of tract telling how to scatter the rheumatics with a horsehair towel.— Breakfast Table. —We desire to express our thanks to the young man who kindly sent us a geranium leaf: but we are at a loss to understand his note. Our name isn't Maud and we can’t possibly spahe a lock of our hair. Can there nave been a mistake here?— Boston Post.

—A man who lost his good character some time ago was severely hauled over by some of his. former friends. “ I know it, boys, I know my character’s gone, lostyentirely. And.” he added rather pointedly, “it’s too confounded bad, for it was the only one in the place worth saving.” . —A country paper says that the other evening a number of persons gathered in front of the residence of a newlymarried couple and made the night hideous with incongruous sounds “Were they,” asks the paper, “fool* or apes?” Neither; they were tire panzeeS. - - Chicago Tribune. —“A crown will not cure a headache, nor a golden slipper the gout.” Very true; but a crowned head, when it aches, doesn’t have to keep right on devising ways and means to procure bread and butter, nor docs a gold-shod foot, when it twinges, have to support the weight of a toiling body.—Worcester Press —A toper in the interior of Georgia, having determined upon a reformation if possible, published tho following advertisement: Notice.— Whereas, at particular times I may importune mv friends and others to let me have liquor, which is hurtful to mo and starvation to my devoted wife and children; this is, therefore, to forbid any person selling me liquor, or letting me have any on any account or pretense; for if they do I will positively prosecute them, notwithstanding any promise 1 may make to the contrary at the tune they lot me have it. —A person recently met an American lady whojs distinguished as having been live times a widow and has now again entered tho bonds of matrimony'. Said the friend; “ I think I once had the pleasure of dining with you in New York?” “When?” asked the fair stranger. “In 186-,” he replied. “Yes,” she said, reflectively, “that may have been so; but I had forgotten it. You see,” she added, “it was two or three husbands ago." —A certain Chaplain during the last war appropriated to his use a horse—his own having given out. The act, for some reason or other, displeased the Quartermaster, who was disposed to regard it as stealing. In justification the Chaplain quoted the example of our Savior who appropriated to His own use another man’s mule. “ That’s not a parallel case,” responded the Quartermaster. “In the first place you are not the Lord Jesus Christ. In the second place you are not traveling toward Jerusalem, and in the third place that horse is not an ass. Pleaso dismount.” —The Rev. E. E. Hale has written * letter concerning the loud voices of American women, in which he says: “I remember at the great dining saloon of the Bauer au Lac Hotel in Zurich, both the largest and finest dining-hall I ever 3aw, when 500 people were dining at once at their different tables, I could single out my own country-women in all Saris of the hall, no matter what their istance, by the shrill yell, more or less nasal, with which they summoned the waiters, ordered soup, asked for a napkin, or passed from pastry to ice-cream. Above the general roar of the buzz-buzz-buzz of 500 voices in conversation you could distinguish the war-cry of these eight or ten American women* as you distinguish signal rockets at night above a long and dark line of entrenchments. A casual observer would have no difficulty in telling, at the end of the day, how much pafltry these women ate, or how often their plates were changed.” Ho ascribes these loud voices to the custom of making little girls “ read up” in schools, and thinks that school cnildren should not read any louder than they would naturally talk.

The Queen of Tramps.

Mrs. Mary Merriman is a respectable appearing woman of thirty, is not bad looking, and has every appearance of being upright and of good character. She is, however, without doubt, the queen of female tramps, and can discount the great majority of male tramps. She is not a genuine tramp—not of the regular kind who are a terror to the country, and “work” cities and towns in a systematic manner, having their gates and door-post signs, etc,, for of these she knows nothing, and with this class of people she does not associate, for they are no society to her, but she likes the business. She was born in St. Albans, in this State, and her folks were farmers. She has since lived in Hermon with her brother, Joseph Merriman, who does a good deal of trading in this city. Three years ago this fall she took it into her head to see the country, and out with neither scrip Uor staff, but a gbod pair pf thick shoes. She walked across the country, braving all kinds of weather, and finally brought up in Clinton, lowa, wheir she - took tne back track and returned to this city. Two yearn ago she decided to start out again and this time selected a longer i

tour. She walked through portion* of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Ydrk, Pennsylvania, and on to Washington, where she remained a few days and -‘did the Capital,” and then made a bolt for Savannah, Go., where she remained a short time. Then on she went again, doing the States of Kentucky, Tennessee, lowa, Indiana, and finally got round to Kansas City. Mo. Here she 'stopped awhilo and earned a new tramping outfit. Again she started, this time with the intention of crossing the plains to California, but finally stopped when told by many persons that it would be very unsafe for her to think of attempting it alone. She then started on a return trip, walking from Kansas City to Chicago, thence to Detroit, doing Niagara Falls, and crossing to Canada, thence to New York and through Massachusetts, arriving at her home in Hermon a little more than a week ago. She says she averages twenty-six miles a day. She says when she gets tired and out of clothes she finds no trouble in getting a few days’ work, and in this manner enjoys her life. —Bangor (Me.) Commercial.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A Baltimore woman pinched a school-boy’s arm, and ho is threatened with death from osteosarcoma in consequence. His parents refused to havo his arm amputated, as the surgeons advised. —ln Washington, recently, a weasel attacked a sleeping child of two years of age, making a deep gash in its throat, and would probably have killed it had not the child’s screams aroused the parents. —An Ithaca (N. Y,) man, named Manning, yawned his jaw out of joint, the other day, and held his fly-trap open for a couple of hours till-his family physician could be summoned. The other doctors refused to come to his relief. —The pastor of the Presbyterian Church, at Vernon, N. Y., was asked to resign, but he refused. The sexton was ordered under no circumstances to open the doors, and the minister proceeded to hold services at his residence. —While a negro man down in Georgia, the other day, was carrying a child in his arms along the road, a large eagle swept down upon them and en • deavored to seize the child. A lively battle ensued between the parent and the eagle, the latter getting the better of it until a farmer came to the rescue, and knocked the eagle senseless with an ax. The bird was captured, and, as it has recovered, it is an object of considerable curiosity in the neighborhood.

—The two mail carriers between Little Current and Sault Ste. Marie broke through the ice when about ten miles east of Spanish River recently, and men and dogs had a sharp struggle for life. The men, after getting out of the water, directed their attention toward rescuing the dogs, which were fastened by their harness to the toboggan on which the mail bags were tied, and which was rapidly drowning them. Their efforts to save either dogs or mail would have been useless but for the sagacity of one dog, which, appearing to realize the difficulty, instead of wasting strength in trying to get upon the broken ice, seized the thongs by which they were bound to the toboggan in his teeth and deliberately gnawed them asunder. Both dogs, thus released, swam toward the men, who helped them out, and afterconsiderable trouble they raised the toboggan and mail. They pushed on to Spanish River, where they spent nearly a whole day in drying tho saturated mail bags. -Toronto Globe.

—A young couple came to this city the other day, and calling upon or.c of our most prominent clergymen, notified him of their wish to be joined in the bonds of holy wedlock. The expectant bride was a pretty and intelligentlooking girl of only eighteen summers, and the groom was a resolute-looking young fellow, who had but just arrived at legal age. The clergyman asked, as is customary, whether the to-be-groom had procured a a license, and found that he not only had not, but that ho had only a vague idea of what a license was. He was directed to the City Clerk for information, and meanwhile left his affianced in the parsonage parlors. However, the course of true love was not smoothed out by a visit to the City Clerk, for the young lady not being of age rendered a properly-certified permit from her parents necessary before the license could be granted. The young gentleman was not easily discouraged, for, making a hurried visit to the parsonage, and explaining matters, he hurried back to the depot, took the four o elock train to Hartford, and, after arriving; there, procured a carriage and drove some six or eight miles to the suburb in which his prospective father and mother-in-law resided, got the permit, and was back hero on the 7:28 train. The City Clerk was at his office, the license was procured, and the persevering and happy young man rejoined his girl at the parsonage, where she had awaited his return with a patient confidence that promised well for the future.—Meriden (Conn.) Republican.

An Ex-Old Maid’s Advice to Girls.

But such marriages as mine aye not to be expected or even hoped for. It must be exceedingly rare for a woman of forty years old to meet a man whose age, taste, habits and' position make their marriage a promise of happiness to both. Such a marriage is to be gratefully rejoiced over if it comes, but it is possible to be happy and useful without it. What I mean to impress on tho girls, when I write; tojftihfem, jg that they should make themselves able to stand alone. IJU ! quote' Mhrgafel Fuller’s words on that subject to them.' With self-support possibfe, duljlafcfey years in the paternal home and many unhappy marriages will be prevented, a happy single life will bo made possible, ana a happy marriage will be more probable. Concise directions? If ! gave any they would be like this: 1. Don’t waste any time waiting for “ him.” 2. Don’t spend quite as much as you earn. 3. To prevent narrowness, master some branch of knowledge not connected with your occupation. ' ' _ ... 4. To keep your heart warm, love somebody’s children. If possible connect yourself with their care or education. 5. When married women confide their troubles to you—and strange to say they will do tit much WtenerTbaa. they confide them to eaten owier-t-rfon’t let it give you a dark view of married life or of masculine hnman , nature.— Golden Buie. The first house-fly of the season is a perfect copy of the old insect, full weight and of standard sauciriess.

“Blind” Letters at the New York Post-Office.

The average of misdirected letters sent up to this Department is over 600 a-day; tho day I was thcro last it ran up to about 1,000. Tho most difficult of these go to Mr. Stone, who is called the “blind man,” perhaps because he can decipher an inscription that is utterly illegible to any other man in America. His most difficult cases are the foreign letters. Hero is a letter directed to “ Sandink,” which lie makes out to be Sandy Hook. Sometimes the arrangement of tho name and address is curious. For Mr. thorns* Hrnith Bridie port pont-omco Conn. America is very plain when you once understand that it is “ For Mr. Thomas Smith, Bridgeport, Conn., America.” But when a man says “Hoio,” how is anybody but a blind man to know that he means Ohio? One letter reads, “ Bet Feet Rue de Agua..” Now the blind man knows that “Rue do Agua” is Spanish for Water street, and that there iS a Water street in New Bedford, Mass. “Lysram, Warner C 0.,” he translates into Luzerne, Warren Co.; and “Common County, P. A-. 1 ’ is made into Cameron County, Pa. But who would guess that “Overn C. D. Learey,” in one line, means that it is to go to Auburn, in search of C. D. L. ? One letter is directed to “ Kunstanzer Braucroi, S. 1., Amerikn.” Mr, Stone recollects the fact that Constance’s Brewery is at Stapleton, Staten Island, and the letter is sent there. He reads “Ioel” into lowa, and “tc Pella in Yomah” ho makes to go to Pella, in the same State. Nor does Ohio get off’ with one miss. Here is one letter that wants to go to ‘’Staff! Hioh Zunsounati, Strasse 15, ” —that is, to the State of Ohio, Cincinnati, Street 15. But that is not all This other one wants to reach the same city; but it lias a bad spell of another kind, for its* direction runs “Scitznaty. ” And then “Pizzo Burg Messessip, ” is sent to Vicksburg. Michigan is spelled “ mutting. ” “Glass works Berkshire” is sent to Pittsfield, in Berkshire County. Massachusetts, where there is a glass factory. But tho hardest one I saw was addressed to “John Hermann Schirmen, ” in one lino, with the wonderful word “Staguekaundo ” for the rest. Mr. Stone cut the word in twain, and read it “ Chautauqua County, ” while he translated the whole into “John Hermann, Sherman P. 0., Chautauqua County, N. Y. But there are Sonic Which even a Wind man cannot make out. One letter in rather a good haudwriting is very vaguely addressed to “ Mackay, Esq., Ameriqu*.” ...■■■ Another reads: “ Too much of this. “ From your nlfcotitmatc Hon. “ Anton Heimbuuokb. ” lii this ease the close of the letter has been copied exactly Oy some one who did not understand the language. Instead of too much of this, there is really too little. But here is a case where the top of the letter lias been imperfectly copied,in the same fashion. It reads: “Tuesday Evening, Nord America.” If Tuesday Evening should see this article, he will know that his letter has gone back again to Europe.— Edtoard Eggleston, in Scribner for Mag.

Washington Celebrities on the Road.

Nowhere in the world arc there better pavements for driving within the city limits, and in the country round about are some delightful drives, which are well patronized on pleasant days, and one may meet in the hours between the close of business and dark nearly all the notables of official and social Washington. President Hayes and his wife are seldom prevented from taking their daily drive between four and seven o’clock, and only in the most stormy weather are they missed from the boulevard. The President's horses were a matter of mpeh concern during the first few months of his administration. Rogers bought them of a livery-stable keeper in Alexandria, and, as is usual, was imposed upon. They wore ill-matched, ana were a disgrace to the Nation—a hundred hacks in Washington were drawn by better pairs. Last fali, however, after suffering much ridicule, the President authorized the purchase of another pair, and kri educated horseman procured them for him in Kentucky. They arc handsome, well* matched, easy-traveling grays. President Grant, as almost everybody knows, used to drive a four-in-hand, before a dog-cart, and it was a familiar sight to see him.sitting ou the box, with his habitual cigar, thriving them into the countrv, Grant was averso to making himself conspicuous. He drove for the pleasure of it and not for show, and was never found on the fashionable streets with liis four-in-liand, but alwaystook a back street until he came to the well-traveled country road. Grant’s skill as a horseman is National, and it required an accomplished driver to manage his team. Senator Coukling drives a fine, large black horse, widen* he calls “Donglass,” before a light, narrow, Brewster buggy, and generally - alone. When the Senate adjourns, “Douglass” is generally waiting for his master at the east front of the Capitol, and takes a stretch of six or eight miles before dinner. Senator Burnside drives a handsome pair of bays, large and fast, to a sort of Irish jauntihg-car, and is fond of havr Ing a young lady by his side. Senator Cameron has quite a stud of horses and good taste iu matters of equipage. His favorite “outfit” is a dog-cart, a pair of last bays be has, and hls'daughter by his side. Miss 5 Cameron is an accomplished horsewoman, as is Miss Bayard also. 1 , T-h® l Russian-Minister has. a maroriioth pair of bays, with a grijat," lumbering chariot, on which are .sore ad. foe coats-of-arms of bis owh andmis wife’s' family. He and Mine. Shiskiu are very unassuming people, and put on less style than any of the other foreigners. They are to be seen walking every day, plainly- dressed, and she stops to kiss little children that she meets in the streets. Having kissed them, she runs after her husband and jabbers Russian at Tiim till he smiles and looks back at the child his wife has kissed. ’ They h&ve a family of little ones of their own, and for their use the carriage is mostly devoted. The foreign Ministers all have stylish-turn-outs, and, during Lent especially, are on the drives every pleasant day. Sir Edward Thornton has a' handsome pair of clipped chestnuts, which he drives, before an elegant bardiche, but he generally prefers .walking himself, and is one or the ipost inveterate pedestrians in Washington. His • walkingshoes are a curiosity. The soles are broad and bevelled in the English style, and are fully half an inch thick. The uppers are of goat skin, tied with leathern thongs.

Sec’y Sherman takes his daily drive in an open carriage, drawn by two ordina-ry-looking horses. Every day about four o’clock, if it isn’t too stormy, you can see Mrs- Sherman waiting for her husband, at one of tho entrances to tho Treasury Department, and as ho is very methodical, nis appearance at the door every day is. as regular as tho clock strikes four. Corcoran, the banker and philanthropist, drives a pair of small, jogging bays before a comfortable carriage, swinging very low to the ground, which was made at his order because his rheumatic limbs refuse to enter a high carriage. Senator Morton’s old coupe is missed from the streets. Every day of his lifo in Washington it could ho seen standing cither at the EbbilL House, or at the White House, or tho Capitol, or some one of the Departments, and it carried him faithfully for many years. It was low, the box roacliing. down to within an inch or so of the curbstone, and was made expressly for him. It was scratched and' battered and .worn, and tho horse ho drove before it was one of the forlornest specimens of animal life that was ever seen. Tho harness was old and rusty, and the repairs it had undergone were well advertised. Mr. Morton had a peculiar antipathy for anything pro tentious—it was almost affectation with him, as it was with Lincoln—and no One could ever induce him to get his coupe varnished or trade his old crowbait off for a horse. One day his driver left him and ho engaged a new one. The first time the new man made hiß appearance he wore a livery he had brought from his former service, but Mr. Morton would not enter the carriage until the nogro hail taken off tho rosette from his hat and put on a suit of ordinary clothes. He used to say that livery was a badge of servitude. Fernando Wood drives a mammoth pair of bay horses, with a gold-mounted harness covered all over with his monogram. His carriage is a lumbering evidence of respectability.— Washington Cor. Bvfalo Commercial.

The May-Pole in England.

Great wore the doings in old time around the May-pole, for which the tallest tree was selected. It was drawn to its place by as many as thirty or forty yoke of oxen, their horns decorated with llowers, followed by all the lads and lassies of the village. The pole was wound or painted with gay colors, and trimmed with garlands, bright handkerchiefs, and ribbon streamers from top to bottom*With great ceremonies and shouts of joy it was lifted to its place by ropes and pulleys, and set up firmly in the ground; and then the people joined hands' and danced around it. The whole day was given up to merriment, every one dressed in holiday clothes, doors and windows were adorned with green boughs and flowers, the bells rang, processions of people in grotesque dresses were arranged, and tho famous Morris dancers performed. in this dance the people assumed certain characters. There was always Robin Hood, the great hero of the rustics; Maid Marian, the Queen, with gilt crown on her head; Friar Tuck; a fool, with his fool's-cap and bells: and, above all, the hobby-horse. This animal was made of pasteboard, painted a sort of pink color, and propelled by a man inside, who made him perforin various tricks not common to horses, sueh as threading a needle and holding a ladle in his mouth for pennies. The various characters labored to support their parts. The friar gave solemn advice, the Queen imitated ladylike manners, the fool joked and made fun, and the horse pranced in true horsey style. This Morris dance is supposed to have been brought in early times from Spain, where the Moors danced it. and where it still survives as the “ fandango.” In other places, wreaths were made on hoops, with a gayly dressed doll in the middle of each, and carried about by girls, the little owners singing a ballad which hatl been sung since tho'lSnie of Queen Bess —and expecting a shower of pennies, of course. . All this May-day merriment came to an end when our grim Puritan fathers had. power in England. Dancing around the May-pole looked to them like heathen adoration of an idol. Parliament made a law against it, and all tho May-poles in the island were laid in the dust. The common people had their turn, when, a few years later, under a new King, the proliibitory law was repealed, and a new May-pole, the highest ever in England (134 feet), was sot up in the Strand, London, with great pomp. But the English people were fast outgrowing tho sport, and the customs have been dying out ever since. Now, a very few May-poles iii obscure villages are all that can bo found. —Olive Thome, in St. Nicholas for May.

Work and Have.

Industry and economy are the true specifics of hard times. The mints may coin millions of silver dollars, or the presses print tons of greenbacks, hut they will never bring prosperity unless tnc farmer has something to sell which will command remunerative prices in tho market. There is nothing to compare with industry. Grunting and groaning are of no avail. Labor is our best friend. It brings the comforts of life, ‘health and contentment. Labor was wisely intended as one of our greatest blessings. It makes our food sweet and our slumbers refreshing. It gives strength to the body and vigor to the mind. Heaven, for our highest good and sweetest enjoyment, ordained labor, and enforces it by pur necessities. Thus out wants are blessings in disguise. Had all our necessities been provided for without libor and exertion on our part, tho race, for the want of strength and energy, would long since have perished from the earth. Then let us work for the sake of work —for the good it does to our bodies and minds, as well as for the comforts and refreshments it brings to our appetites and aspirations. Work wisely performed will bring prosperity. It will brighten our skies. It will fill onr baskets and our stores. Work is the all-cure. It is the great panacea. Industry will brirtg bread, and cheerfulness. It saves us from sin and folly andbrings earth’s richest treasures and heaven’s brightest promises.—/otto Stale Register. —There is no difficulty in having a flower garden—a few mpmonts each day will keep it in order, if not too , large;.and even a few square feet of land planted with a good selection of flowers, all of which can be secured at trifling cost, will give flowers every day from early spring until late autumn, and will also be a constant, source of pleasure. Toor, weak man is so.anxious to be deceived that he deceives himself.