Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1878 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

HMI WAHRINGTON. Tn United Stales Treasury - Department Am discoatin&ed the payment of standard Mlvertollan for Treasury notes at the New York Buh-Treaaury. for the reason that the silver thus Issued, instead of going into general circulation, ia returned to It in the payment of custosa dues, the Importer thus saving the gold premium. For similar reasons the amount of silver issued at Baltimore for Treasury notes is limited to $5 at a single payAt the Cabinet meeting In Washington, on the 21st, fce’y Sherman submitted a financial statement showing a deficiency in the fiscal year no far of 111,000,000 leas than in the corresponding time of last year; also, showing a decrease in expenditures of $8,000,000. The National Democratic Committee has paaaed • resolution, Indorsing the action of the National House of Representatives In respect to the investigation of the alleged frauds in the late Presidential election. TEZ EANT. Messes. Bsukr end Bkntlet having declined the nominations of the Pennsylvania Nationals for Lieutenant-Governor and Supreme Judge, respectively, the Executive Committee have substituted in their stead Daniel M. Stock for Lieutenant-Governor and Judge Daniel Agnew for Supreme Judge. The fifty-fourth anniversary of the American Sunday-School Union was celebrated at the Academy of Music, in Philadelphia, on the evening of the 31st Addresses were made by distinguished divines. The report read showed that, during the year, 1,147 new schools had been established, and 3,355 other schools visited and aided. These bad an aggregate of 23,066 teachers and 201,000 scholars. Over 100,380 Bibles and Testaments had been distributed, and 2,820,103 scholars placed under Bible instruction, by the Union, during the last fifty-four years of its service. The past year was stated to have been one of the most successful of any. P. Milton Speer, of Huntingdon, has been chosen Chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic State Central Committee. The Democrats of Pennsylvania, in State Convention at Pittsburgh, on the 23d, nominated: For Governor, Andrew H. Dill; Supreme Judge, H. P. Ross; Lieutenant-Gov-ernor, John Ertig; Secretary of Internal Affairs, J. Simpson. The resolutions declare that the Republican party, its measures and its men, are responsible for the financial distress, misery and want that now exist; that its present bold upon the Federal |>ower was secured by fraud, perjury and forgery; ag'iiust a further contraction of the volume of United States legal-tenders; that “thorough investigation into the Electoral frauds of 1876 should be made; fraud should lie exposed, truth vindicated and criminals punished; but oppose any attack upon the Presidential title as dangerous to our institutions and fruitless in its results.’’ The Vermont Republican State Convention was held at Burlington, on the 23d. Col. Redfield Proctor was nominated for Governor: E. P. Colton, for Lieutenant-Governor, and John A. Page (present incumbent), forgtate Treasurer. Resolutions were adopted—approving of the motives and general course of President Hayes’ administration, and rejoicing in the belief that, though differences as to policy may exist, both the Executive and the Republicans in Congress are disposed to suffer no divisions, observing that excellent precept, “In essentials, unity; in non-essen-tials, liberty, in all things, charity;” condemning as “unfair, uncalled-for and revolutionary, the measure of the Democratic House of Representatives to investigate a part only of the facts pertaining to the Presidential election;” recognizing the patriotic action and devotion of those in the Bouth who now stand firm for the Union and perpetuity of good government. Gold dosed in New York, on May 24th, at 100J<. The following were the closing quotations for produce: No. 2.Chicago Spring, Wheat, »1.16@L18; No. 2 Milwaukee, »[email protected]. Oats Western and State, 31@31Xe- Corn, Western Mixed, 53X@Mc. Pork, Mess, $8.75. Lard, $6.75. Flour, Good to Choice, [email protected]; Winter Wheat, [email protected]. Cattle, for Good to Extra. Sheep, $3.75 @ 5.75. Hogs, $3.25@ 3.50. At East Liberty, Pa., on May 24th, Cattle brought: Best, Medium, $4.50(3 4.75; Common, Hogs sold— Yorkers, $3.15@325; Philadelphias, $3.40@ 3.65. Sheep brought [email protected]—according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on May 24th, Cattle brought; Best, [email protected]; Medium, Good. Sheep were quoted at [email protected] for Good.

WEST AMD KOtTH. At Cincinnati, on the 18th, the American Social Science Association met in annua] convention under the presidency of Hon. Rufus King. The session was largely attended. Prof. Pierce, of Harvard College, delivered the opening address. Great excitement prevailed, ofi the 20th, throughout the western portion of North Carolina, particularly along the ridge of Bald Mountain. It seems that, on the 18th, rumbling sounds were heard in the bowels of the mountain similar to those which so disturbed the scientists two years ago. Next day the range began to yield, and, on the 20th, the mountain was rent in twain, leaving a chasm 300 feet long and twenty feet wide, and apparently bottomless. Judge Righter, of the Sixth Judicial Court at New Orleans, has recently refused a mandamus to compel the School Board to admit colored children to schools designated for whites. The State Convention of the National Greenback Labor party of Indiana met at Indianapolis, on the 22d, and nominated: For Secretary of State, Henry James; Auditor, Jacob g. EisA-, Treasurer, R. P. Main; Attor-ney-General, David Moss; Superintendent of Public Instruction, John Young. The platform declares for the abolition of all bank issues, the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver, and the issuing by the Government of full legal-tender paper money, receivable for all dues, public and private; opposition to any measure looking to the resumption of specie payment; denounces the red flag Communism, which asks for the equal distribution of property, as well as the communism M National Banks, bond Syndicates and consolidated railroad corporations, which have al--ready, by corrupt means, secured, and are enforcing, an unequal division of property, etc., etc. : -«**7*» Ah exhibition was given in Chicago, on the 28d and 23d, of the phonograph, the newly-in-vented machine by Mr. Edison for the repro duetton of spoken sounds. The exhibition was reasonably satisfactory. Judge Love, of the United States District Caurt, sitting at DesMolnes, lowa, has deaded that the blanket mortgage, held by the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company as security for oertato advances made to B. F. Allen, lannll and void. Mma Amwie Carle, a young BL Ix>uis ladv, made use pt kerosene, the other night, to lEAke the fire burn more briskly. The can exploded and Miss Carle was fatally burned. The Coroner’s jury has returned a verdict to the Minneapolis mill-disaster ease, in sub4mm |hat the explosion was caused by th«

generation of mill-dnat, to which was communicated fire by a spark caused by one of the mills In the Washburn structure running empty. The open purifiers were condemned, as likely to cause other explosions. AT five o'clock, on the afternoon of the 23d, the Town of Mineral Point, in lowa County, Wta, was visited by-a tornado which left death and destruction tn its wake. The storm struck the towu In Its business center, demolishing a atone brewery, the First Ward School building, the Globe and Wisconsin Hotels and a large nurnber.of business structures and prtj rate residences. Several persons were killed and a large numt>er hurt. Similar disasters, though not as serious, arc reported from other sections of the country. Bishop McCoskkt reached Detroit, Mich., on the 23d, and announced that he had withdrawn his resignation and would resume hie duties as Bishop of Michigan. He said little concerning the scandal with which his name was recently coupled, but intimated his Intention to seek redress at the hands of the law.

A large numlter of tha manufacturers of Chicago and vicinity met in Chicago, on the 23d, and perfected a Manufacturers’ Association for the Northwest. Resolutions were adopted—calling upon managers of railways leading to the South, West and Northwest to consider their schedules of freight rates and classification with a view to correct some of the evils existing in the matter of freight rates between the East and points west of Chicago; declaring tbe identity of the interests of labor and capital; «<l'oeating aid to transportation lines and railways under-proper restrictions; favoring the repeal of the Bankrupt law; deprecating tbe passage of the Tariff bill pending in Congress, etc., etc. In Chicago, on May 24th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at $1.06>f(®1.07 cash. Cash Coni closed at 88J4C for No. 2. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 24c; and 23J£c seller June. Rye No. 2. Barley No. 2, @ 48c. Cash Mess Pork closed at $7.80. Lard. $6.47X- Beeves— Extra brought $5.20(<h5.f10; Choice, $4.75 (34.90; Good, $4.30(>H.70; Medium Grades, $4.00(34.25; Butchers’ Stock, «[email protected]; Stock Cattle, etc., [email protected]. Hogs—Good to Choice, $3.05(33.15. Sheep—Poor to Choice, $2.75(35.25.

FOREIGN IXTELLIGEXCE. A Calcutta dispatch of the 19th says the Indian Government had ordered the immediate construction of coast defenses. Madras, Bombay, Rangoon and Calcutta were among the points to be strengthened A London telegram of the 19th says that, in proportion as the news from St. Petersburg became peaceful, that from Constantinople became warlike. Tbe Turks were hard at work strengthening their lines and getting guns in position. A DISPATCH from Syria, published in London on tlie 19th, says the Sherif of Mecca had issued an appeal to the faithful, in Arabia and throughout Asia Minor, declaring the Kalif In danger and calling upon them to fly; to the rescue. Diking a theatrical performance in Ahmedneugger, India, on tbe night of the 18th, the building caught fire and forty persons were burned to death. London telegrams of the 20th say that the Government had instructed Lord Loftus, the British Ambassador at St. Petersburg, to demand of the Russian Foreign Office a categorical explanation of the reported armament of privateers in the United States, and also to explain the mission of tbe Cimbria to American waters. Prince Milan, of Servia, lias pardoned the Topols conspirators. London telegrams of the 21st say that Lord Salisbury, the British Minister of Foreign Affair«, had refused to receive a deputation liearing a memorial favoring peace and signed by more than 200,000 Englishmen, on the ground that, at the present juncture, discussions relating to peace would lie prejudicial to the public good. On the 20tb, a baud of refugees surrounded the residenceof ex-Sultan Murad, in Constantinople, and demanded that he be declared the Sultan. The troops fired on them, killing twenty-one and wounding seventeen.

A Pera dispatch of the 21st says the Turkish delegates sent to pacify the Mussulman insurgents had returned, and reported that they were unable to induce them to abandon the in surrection. They recommended that the Russians be allowed to suppress it. Great excitement prevailed along the Canadian border, on the 21st, over a re|>ort that the Fenians were concentrating along the line in Vermont with a view to invade the Dominion. A warm welcome was promised the invaders. Ax explosion occurred in a coal mine at Halifax, N. 8., on the 21st, and six men were suffocated. Several others narrowly escaped destruction. Count Schouvaloff, the Russian Ambassador to the Court of St. James, reached London on the evening the 22d, bearing propositions from the Czar, which were thought to indicate peace. According to a Constantinople special of the 22d, the Russians had defeated the MussulJ man insurgents near the headwaters of the River Arda, killing many and taking a large number of prisoners. A Cattaro (Montenegro) telegram of the 22d says that a conflict between the Turks and Montenegrins impended. ~ The pleasure steamer Empress of India, with a party of about eighteen persons on board, became unmanageable and capsized over a dam on Grand River, at Galt, Ont., on the night of the 22d. Of the passengers and crew, eight were drowned. A fire occurred in the quarter occupied by the Porte, at Constantinople, on the evening of the 22d, which destroyed the buildings occupied by the Minister of Justice and the Council of State. Other structures were more or less damaged.

The Mussulman insurgents are prosecuting a guerrilla war against the Russians in the vicinity of Batoum and Artvin. Berlin papers say the British Government has lately ordered over 200 electric lights to be made in that city for the use of the British fleet. A Rome special of the 24th says that Austria, fearing, in the event of war, a possible attempt by Italy to seize Trent and the surrounding country, had doubled the garrison there, and quartered 45,000 troops in the Austrian Tyrol. According to a Constantinople telegram of the 24th, it had been discovered that the late fire in the Government building was incendiary tn its origin. About 11,500,000 deposited there was burned up.

FORTY-FIFTH COXGREKH. Senate not in session, on the 18th. In the House, Mr. Stephens asked to be put on record, stating that had he been present when the vote wss taken on what is known as the Potter resolution, on the 17th. and had he not been paired with Mr. Harris, he would have voted against the r< Bo -tion as it stood... A resolution was reportel from the (Committee on Election* declaring that there had been no fair, free and peaceable election in the First Congreaaionai District of South Carolina, and that neither Rainey (the sitting member) nor Richardson (contestant) was entitled to the seat.... Conference Committees were appointed on the Indian and Pension Appropriation bills, and a new committee was also ordered and named on the Military Academy bill. ■■ .The Army Appropriation bill was considered in Committee of the Wh01e.... Tie Speaker stated that be would be absent during the early pert of the ensuing week, and a resolution was‘adopted appointing Mr. Sayler Speaker P’O trm... It was arranged that there should be evening sessions for business purposes during all of the following week. Bills were introduced in the Senate, on the 30th, to reorganize the Court of Claims, and to extend its jurisdiction to take all claims from before Congress and the Departments for adjudication; to regulate immigration A bill was passed to amend the 103 d Article of War. so as toprovide that no person shall be tried or punisbed by court-martial for any offense oon>mitted more than two yearß. or, in caae of desertion ,

throe years, liefore the arraignment of such person' for such ofienoe. . Mr. Mom 11. Cluurtnan of the Finance Committee, spoke in opposition to tbe bill to repeal tbe Itenumption net The Hoose bill to place the name of (ten. Bhieldsun the retired list of the Army, with the rank of Brigaiiicr-Geni'rnl. was taken up. and an amendment was offered by Mr. Hargent and adopted - 9fi to 2H to also place the name of Gen. Giant on tbe retires! list, with full rank and pay . . Conference OointniUmw were appointed on the Indian and Pension Appropriation bills. Bills were introduced injhc House—revealing the law imposing a tax of 1 percent, on State lauikn; to protect international and domestic commerce; for taking the Tenth and subseqnent eeaauaes: requirinu all appointments in the Civil Service to be distributed equally Hinonir the Congressional Districts..- Tbe Spenker pro tem. announced the apixiintment of the committee under the Potter resolution to inquire into alleged frauds In the late. Presidential election na follows: Potter. Morri«on. Hunton. Stenger, McMahon, Qobh (Ind.). Blackbnm, Cox (Ohio.). Butler, Reed (Me.) and Hiacock.

In the Senate, on the 21st, Mr. Ferry stated that he was instructed by a majority,of the Finance Committee to report back without amendment the House bill forbidding the further retirement of United States legal-tender notes and to recommend its passage.... Several other bills were reported from committees and placed on the calendar, among which was the House bill for the relief of settlen on public lands under the Pre-emption 1aw.... A new Con ferenoe Committee was appointed on the Military Academy Appropriation hi 11... .The amendment to the bill to place the name of Gen. Shields on the retired lint, providing for the addition of the name of Gen. Grant, was reported and passed 32 to 28. An amendment to strike out all after the enacting clause and insert a provision authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to place the name of Gen. Shields on the pension list at the rate of SIOO a month was, after a lengthy debate, to 33. The question lieing then on the passage of ths bill, it was rejected- yean, 33; nays. 34—and a motion to reconsider the vote was made. Thf. Army Appropriation bill was considered in Committee of the Whole of the House, and a general debate ensued involving the labor question and the policy of a reduction of the army and its use as a police force to protect laborers throughout the country in their right to work in opismition to the power and demands of strikers. A bill was passed in the Sehate, on the 22d, for the relief of settlers on the public lands under the Pre-emption law, giving to such settlers who had been on public land two or three years the benefit of that time upon changing their claim, so as to be under the Homestead law. ... .Mr. Lainar spoko in favor of the Texas Pacific Railroad bill-. The Conference report on the Indian Appropriation bill was agreed to.

Mk. Harrison offered, as a question of privilege, a resolution, in the House, extending the Potter investigation to Oregon and Mouth Carolina, and declaring that it ia not the intention of the Houae, through such investigation, to annul, or attempt to annul, the deciaion of the Presidential question as made by the Forty-fourth Congress; but several members declined to vote, the result being 71 to 50, and, the point of no quorum lieing raised, Mr. Harrison withdrew the resolution. Mr. Wilson then offered a resolution, which was adopted without division, extending the power of the Investijmting Committee to any State where there maybe any well-grounded allegation of fraud. ... A report was submitted from the Committee on Expenditures, setting forth ten articles of impeachment against O. B. Bradford, late Vice-consul-General at Shanghai, China, on charges of embezzlement, etc. . . .The Army Appropriation bill was further considered in Committee of the Whole... A bill was reported on the subject of counting the Electoral vote... The Conference report on the Indian Appropriation bill was agreed to A bill was passed for the publication of an official advertiser, which shall contain all public advertisements, etc. The Legislative, Judicial and Execu tive Appropriation bill was reported in the Senate, with several amendments, on the23d... A resolution was adopted, authorizing the Select Committee to continue the investigation of tbe finance reports, books, etc., of the Tressury Department ...A bill was paused, authorizing the Secretary of War to have headstones erected over the gravea of Union soldiers interred in private cemeteries.

In the House, the Army Appropriation bill was further considered in Committee of the Whole, and an amendment was agreed to—--115 to 107 to fix the strength of the army at 25,000 instead of 20,000 men, the following Democrats voting with the Republicans in favor of the amendment: Cutler, Patterson, Williams (MicliJ, Robertson (La.), Wigginton and all the Texas members, except neagap. Other amendments were also agreed to, increasing the item for the pay of the army from $8,390,000 to 9.090.000, and the number of cavalry regiments from fifteen to eighteen, to correspond with the increase of the force. An amendment was also adopted making the limitation of cavalry companies 125. instead of 100 privates, as originally provided in the bill. A bill was reported -in the Senate, on the 24th. to amend the law relating to Presidential elections and regulating the counting of votes for President and Vice-President, and the decision of questions relative thereto.. - The bill to provide for the free entry of articles imported for exhibition by societies established for the encouragement of the arts and sciences, was passed. . .Several amendments were agreed to to the bill providing for a permanent form of goys, eriiment for the District of Columbia. Bills were passed in the Houseproviding that persons who were deprived of their pensions from March, 1865, to June, 1866, by reason of tbeir being in the Civil Service, shall be paid tbeir pensions for that time: repealing the law which provides that no claim for a i>ension, not prosecuted to a successful issue within five years from the date of filing the same, shall be admitted without record of the evidence from the War and Navy Department; increasing to seventy-two dollars a month pensions paid to soldiers or sailors who have lost both arms, both legs or the sight of I with eyes; granting a pension of $37.50 a month to every pensioner who has had a leg amputated at the hip joint; making it unlawful for any attorney or claim agent to demand or receive for his services in a pension case a greater sum than ten dollars.... Several proposed amendments to the Army Appropriation bill were disposed of in Committee of the Whole.

The Potter Resolution.

The following is the full text of what is known as the Potter resolution, recently adopted by the National House of Representatives: Whereas, The State of Maryland has, by its Legislature, formally declared that due effect was not given to the Electoral vote cast by that State, on the 6th day of December, 1876, by reason of fraudulent returns in the Electoral votes from the States of Florida and Louisiana: and, Whereas. An affidavit by Samuel B. McLin, Chairman of ihe Board of State Canvassers of the State of Florida, on the election held in that State in November. 1876, for Electors of President and Vice-President, has been made public, alleging false and fraudulent returns for votes for such election in that State, whereby the choice of the people of that State was annulled and reversed, and that the action of the Board of State Canvassers in making such returns was influenced by the conduct and promises of the Hon. Edward F. Noyes, now Minister to the Government of France: and. Whereas, It is alleged that a conspiracy existed in the State of Louisiana whereby the Republican vote in all the precincts of the Parish of East Feliciana and in some precincts of West Feliciana at the general election in November, 1876, was purposely withheld from the polls to afford a pretext for the exclusion by the Returning Boara of that State of the vote cast in those precincts for Electors of President and Vice-Presi-dent. and that James E. Anddhsun, the Supervisor of Registration at East Feliciana, and D. A. Weber. Supervisor of Registration in the Parish of West Feliciana, in that State, in furtherance of that conspiracy, falsely protested that the election in such precincts had not been fair and free, and that the State Returning Board thereupon falsely and fraudulently excluded the votes of the said precincts, and by means thereof, and of other false and fraudulent action by the said Returning Board, the choice of the people of that State was annulled and reversed, and that such action of said Weber and Anderson was induced or encouraged by the assurances of the Hen. John Sherman, Secretary of the Treaauryof the United Stales; and. Whereas, The gravity of these charges, the nature of the evidence upon which they arc reSirted to be based and the official dignity and potion of the persons nanu’il in connection with the said frauds, make it proper that the same should be inquired into to the end that the honor of the Nation may bo vindicate! and the truth as to such election made known: therefore, be it I'esolvtd, That a sele< t committee consisting of eleven members of this House be appointed to inquire into the aforesaid allegation as to the conduct of the persons in office aforesaid in respect of the said election, and into the alleged false and fraudulent canvass and return of votes by State, county, parish and precinct officers in the said States of Louisiana and Florida, and into all the facts which in the judgment of said committee are connected with or pertinent thereto, and that said committee, for the pm pose of executing this resolution, shall have power to send for persons and papers, to administer oaths and to take t< stimony. and in their discretion to detail sub-com-mittees with like full authority of said committee in every particular, and with power to sit in Florida and Louisiana, which sub-committees shall be committees of thia Bouse, and the Chairman thereof shall be auUiorized to administer oaths; that the said committee and sub-commit-tec may employ stenographers and be attended each by a Deputy Bergeant-at-Arms, and may sit during the sessions of this House and during the vacation, and that said committee proceed in this inquiry and have leave to report at anytime. General D. Bility has killed thousands; but Genera] A. Bility never hurt anybody, r

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —Vail of tears—Crape. —Meat for repentance Trichina pork. —A put-up-job—Hpistlng your umbrella. —A spring-bed maker—The gardener. —A good school-book, like a dress shirt-bosom, should be well studded. —A very old proverb has it that a happy mind is a continual free lunch. —Not a case of small-pox has been reported in Boston for eleven months. —Jennie June says that putty coloi is very fashionable. It’s very putty.— Boston Post. M —The Western man who predicts destruction of crops by grasshoppers is late this year. —The human heart is like a buckwheat cake. Once cold it can nevei be itself again.— Picayune. —Take pains to keep trashy books away from your children, send them to school, and resolutely keep them in doors o’ nights. —A freight-car was recently broken open on the Boston & Albany Road and a case of soap taken. Probably a case of car-steal soap. —“What’s honor?” asks Faistaff. That’s easy. Any woman who sits behind another woman in church can tell what’s on her in two minutes. —Very much depends upon style. A blacksmith back of town has a sign which informs the public of “Fashionable Horse Shoeing.”— N. 0. Picayune. —An Ohio man has invented a churn that meets a want long felt. It is attached to a rocking chair, and the operator can read dime novels while rocking cream to butter. —ln his Good-Friday sermon Cardinal Manning defined “society” as a conspiracy of fools, fashion, custom, mutual flattery, eating, drinking and refined hardness of heart. —A West Hill man made his doctor awful nyui. the other morning by telling him thabhe felt “ terrible well.” That is no way to speak to an anxious physician.— Burlington Hawk-Eye. —Several years ago a young man in New Orleans put a sum of money in a savings bank, and forgot all about it until recently, when, after reckoning up the interest, it was found that —the bank had failed.

—“ Sales by candle” was the method of sale during the seventeenth century. A wax candle about an inch in length was set on the edge of a knife, and he that bid most before the candle was out was the buyer. —“Have our city authorities any nostrils?” askA a correspondent, who complains of a nuisance. “Well, we suppose they have. ‘ You know the old adage that ‘ Corporations have nose holes.’ ” — N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. —A Vermont girl fell out of arockingchair and received injuries that killed her in two hours. Moral—Young girls should not sit in a rocking-chair unless there is a strong young man in it to hold them in.— Burlington Hawk-Eye. —An English writer says: “White hair is so becoming to the face that many women are never pretty till they are old—the long reign of hair-powder which lasted through a century is an immortal tribute to the beauty of old age.” —The ruling passion cropped out in a New Orleans barber, who, while shaving the face of a dead man, gave the corpse the whole his.tory of the Silver bill, the rise andfall of gold, and the attitude of the foreign bondholders. —New Orleans Picayune. —Mrs. Carruthers’ house was infested by rats. Somebody told Mrs. Carruthers that if site would catch a rat and soak it in benzine, touch a match to it and let it go, all the rats would be driven from the house. Mrs. Carruthers acted on the suggestion; the rats disappeared, so did the house, and Mr. Carruthers was obliged to retain a lawyer to recover his tire insurance. —After all, man is a generous being. Not long ago one died in Massachusetts who had been married only a year, and received a fortune of $50,000 from his wife. And what did he do when he found death staring him in the face? Not enrich his relatives, as he might have done; he willed it all back to her again, on the simple condition that she would not marry again. The noble man!— li 'oman's Words.

—One of the most successful counquantity of notes on a certain bank with the name of the place, President or Cashier misspelled. Upon discovery the bank sends a warning through the country, pointing out the error. Then the counterfeiters make a second issue with the name or names spelled correctly and circulate them boldly, knowing that merchants and storekeepers will look only for the indicated “ catch.” —lt is a mournful fact that a man never knows when to quit cutting a corn. He endures untold physical aiscomfort getting himself into the Tight position, and then he never lets up until the massacre is complete. There is always the temptation, never resisted, to take off just one more slice, and when at last, the final nervous movement digs out a piece of the sensitive flesh as big as a small porter-house steak, the man howls and tells his wife she’ll cripple him fociife some of these days with her infernal foolishness, and goes growling to bed, leaving his poor wife to wonder what under the sun she had to do with it. What a single man does for somebody to blame, nobody knows. We guess they never cut their corns.— Burlington Hawk-Eye.

The “National Game.”

lor the next few months the American people will be frequently and forci bly reminded of the so-called “National game.” Until the middle or latter part of June Congress will receive a share of but after that there will be no reason why the public mind should not be wholly devoted to baseball. The forty or fifty young men who compose the “ league clubs” should feel highly flattered at this state of things, and it is to be hoped will feel a due sense of responsibility as National representatives. It is quite true that in some respects they fall very short of representing the National intelligence, but in the matter of pitching, batting, catching, fielding, etc., they are undoubtedly pre-eminent, and will probably be the bright, particular models whom the youth of the land will spend their summer vacation in trying to imitate. There will be some broken limbs, a large' number of disjointed fingers, and not a few fractured skulls, but these are insignificant compared with making progress in the National game. Base-ball, like other manias, is exclusive in its nature. Aspiring to be recognized as the National game it discourages all other

ball gamut as irregular and illegitimate. Occupying the whole field, it leaves no room for others. In former years there was a variety of these, and if they were not played with as much science or jockeying as base-ball is played with now, they st least furnished jolly good sport to the youth of the last generation. Elder readers will easily recall some of these. There was the simple game of "two old cat,” in which the ball passed back and forth Itctwcen two pitchers and two strikers, the pitchers being also catchers. There was not much room for fine fielding or jockeying in this game, and we never heard of any pool-selling in connection with it; bnt it was an honest, enjoyable old game for all that. “Three old cat” was the same game played on a triangle, the ball passing round and round, and all hands alternating at the bat, as they caught in or got caught out. Then there was “ bull pen,” in which there was no batting except on the body. The ball passed from hand to hand until it got hot, and then some fellow was " soaked” with it in a way he despised. “Runaround,” or.it was sometimes called, base-ball, was the nucleus of the present game of that name. There were no regular “ nines,” but sides had to be chosen. This, after the leaders were selected, was generally done by one of them tossing up a stick or ballclub, which the other caught, and then each one placed his doubled hand over that of the other, alternately, until the one who caught the end of the stick had first choice. If he could catch it by a very small end, but tight enough to throw it over his head, that was enough. The pitchers and catchers were selected by common consent or acclamation, and in that, as in other matters, universal suffrage did not always put the best men in office. Sometimes a lazy fellow who wanted to play, but did not like to run after balls, would set up a claim as pitcher, which would be recognized without much questioning. The playing was not very scientific, but it furnished good sport. The game could be learned without a teacher, there were no big salaries paid, no leagues, no admission fees, no poolselling, but it was a brave old game, notwithstanding. There were other games of hand-ball, not to speak of foot-ball and hookey, or more popularly “shinny.” These filled an important place in the sports of former years, but they are rooted out and displaced now by “ the National game,” with its complicated rules, its fearful and wonderful vocabulary, its high-salaried players, who make enough during the summer months to enjoy a whole winter of obscurity and idleness, its professional umpires, captains, managers, etc. All this goes to prove that times change, and that we are a progressive people. The youth of the last generation thought they enjoyed their simple games, but they didn’t. The right way for people to play ball is to hire a few muscular chaps to play for them, and then bet on the result.— lndianapolis Journal.

Pleasing the Children.

Some little girls, the youngest class of a private school in an adjoining city, following the custom of their elders, determined, a few days ago, to hold a fair for the benefit of some orphans. The matter had been fully and properly canvassed, price of admission (five cents) agreed upon, fancy-work commenced, contributions solicited, lotteries arranged, and all seemed to be working nicely after the manner of grown folks. The question where the fair was to be held was the only one unsettled, and this for a while bid fair to be an obstacle that would block the wheels of progress and turn into an utter failure an enterprise that had been commenced with such high hopes of abundant success. At whose house shall the fair be held? There was sickness at one, company at another; one’s mother was too busy and another’s thought it would be too much trouble. At last a little tot, the tiniest of the class, said, “ I think you can have it at our house. My mother says nothing is too much trouble when it pleases her children. I know she will be glad to have you come.” Thus spoke the child of a wise woman. We want no further evidence of her wisdom than the testimony of her child, given! in that simple, artless way. We wish we knew her, that we might do her reverence in person as we do now in spirit. Brighter than any jewels in Victoria’s crown shines her motherhood. For her example in the treatment and home education of her children she deserves the thanks of the world. But do we not see, in the effect of the teaching of this mother in a more lowly station, the same wise treatment that produces the same effect on her children and all around her? Is there a mother of any one of those little school girls who will not feel a reproof when she hears her child say, “Marie’s mother says nothing is too much trouble to do for her children.” If there is, we are sorry for her, and for her children and her children’s children.

Home influence is in this country too often unappreciated. Parents are too much occupied with the labor of accumulating worldly wealth to attend to the home instruction of their children. They are entirely willing to give all the money necessary to pay for instructions in school or college, but cannot spend the time to give them personal attention. The education of children should begin with their earliest infancy. Lessons of obedience, respect, confidence and love should be taught long before school days commence, and be taught in a spirit of confidence and love. When your child believes in you and knows that you are willing to do every possible’thing you consider for his good; when he trusts you because there has never been occasion for doubt, you have laid a foundation for an education that will be excellent, even though that child never sees the inside of a schoolhouse. What greater confidence can be expressed than that by the child who said, “It is true, for my mother says so, and when she says a thing is so, it ts whether it is so or not.” Not very correctly put, perhaps—but we all know what it means—that if mother saysa thing is so it will prove to be so, no matter now improbable it may look at present. This topic furnishes a good opportunity to introduce an argument in favor of the education of women, but we will not improve it further than to say that, in our opinion, if liberal education can be given only to a part of the family, the girls should have ■ it. The influence of an educated mother in a household can scarcely be overrated. She is with the children every hour of their infancy, just when the twig that shall grow to be the. tree is susceptible of being bent. And words spoken in a aer spirit, at a proper time, are i sown that will bear rich fruit in after years.— Rural New Yorker.

An Office-Seeker’s Blunder.

A good stoiy is told of Mr. Scranton, of Madison, the ex-Preaidcnt of the old Shore Line Railroad. In a train that was on the way to New London, a short time ago, Gov. Hubbard was a passenger. His Excellency sat quietly reading a newspaper. In a seat on the other side of the car, and at the rear of the Governor, sat our old friend Clark, of Chester, and Mr. S. 11. Scranton, of M.ulisbn. The former, who had just been using his handkerchief, said to Mr. Scranton, with a slight flirt of the handkerchief in the intended direction, •“ That's Gov. Hubbard.” “Is it, indeed?” said Scranton: “I’ve been waiting to see him, and get acquainted with him; and I’ 11 speak to him.” Whereupon Mr. 8. quietly went three seats ahead and addressed Railroad Commissioner Arnold, of Haddan:: “ Good morning, Gov. Hubbard: I’ve been waiting to make your acquaintance;.! am S. 11. Scranton, of Madison.”

Mr. Arnold stared, but bowed; and his new friend proceeded: “ The fact is, Governor, I’m about as much of a Democrat as a Republican; I vote to suit myself. I’ve been thinking, Governor, that I would like an appointment on the Railroad Commission, and if you can fill the next vacancy with my appointment I would feel much gratified.” Mr. Arnold bowed again. "The fact is. Governor,” his new acquaintance proceeded, “the truth is, the present Commission don’t practically amount to much, especially Arnold. He ain’t worth a row of pins. He just goes over the road, takes up a tie, here and there, glances al the bridge timbers, perhaps, and is ofi again. What does such an examination amount to? Now if I get his place I’ll promise you there shall be real service rendered. I’m a practical railroad man.” Mr. Arnold, being now fully convinced of the real situation, blandly bowed again—a sort of bow of encouragement —and said he’d think it over; and Mr. Scranton went back, well pleased at the prospect. It is said the story would never have got out but for the fun-enjoying Clark— Hartford (Conn.) Times.

A Modern Application of Damon and Pythias.

A Gratiot avenue saloon-keeper was sorting out the lead nickels from his till yesterday morning, preparatory to the honest labors of a rainy day*, when a smiling stranger came in and said: “ Old fellow, I’ve got a bet of ten dollars on your head?’’ The saloonist felt all over the top of his head, found no bet there, and looked for a further explanation from the stranger whose coat at the elbows seemed bound to secure ventilation. “The case is this,” continued the man, “ 1 bet my friend B that you are a well-read man. To prove it, I have come to ask you if you know what Damon did when there was every reason to doubt that Pythias would return. While I am sipping my lager you can jog your memory a little.’” He pushed a glass across the counter, but the saloonkeeper seemed to be hunting for something down among the kegs. “It’s only a trifle —small wagqy—but the principle is what I want to establish,” remarked the man, as he anxiously shoved the glass around. “I expect so,” came from down among the kegs. “ Damon and Pythias were chums, you know. When Damon wiped off his chin, Pythias pulled down his vest, and vice versa. While I am drinking you can ponder over my original query!” “ Shust so,” replied a voice, as the kegs were rolled about “ If Damon had the headache,” continued the man, trying to work the pump projecting above the bar, “ Pythias had a sore eye as an offset. If Pythias said he would take sugar in his, Damon sweetened up with New Orleans molasses. All this you know, of course, but what did Damon do when Pythias did not return?” “Ischall now show you what he did?” replied the saloonist, as he rose up with a metallic spiggot in his hand. “ Vhen dot Piddeus did not hurry up Damon vhalks aroundt der bar shust so, und !” The stranger got out, and holding the door from the outside he looked through the glass and said: “lam now convinced that you never read a line of Shakespeare! While Damon was searching under the bar, Pythias drew and drank three glasses of beer!” The saloonist smiled, laid away his spiggot, and as he good-naturedly pulled open the door he called to the stranger at the curb-stone: “ Vhen Piddeus vhas drawing dot peer, Damon vhas moofing der pump into der schlop keg!” A tremor passed over the vag. He turned pale, showed his teeth, and as he started for the wood-yard opposite he replied: “ Hanged if he didn’t—Pythias wants rest!”— Detroit Free Press.

The Old Story of a Loaded Pistol and a Tragedy.

A most deplorable accidentoccurred, Monday morning, at the residence of Mr. Charles Cottrell, an engineer, living at No. 818 Exchange street, in this city. Preparations were in progress for removal to another house, but at the time of the tragedy Mr. Cottrell was down town. Mrs. Cottrell was making a call at the house of a neighbor, and the only inmates of the house were Mrs. Elizabeth Dowler, who was awidowed sister of Mrs. Cottrell, and Charlie and Gracie Cottrell, aged respectively .six and four years. The children were in k|rs. Dowler’s room, which was on the second floor; and. knowing that his aunt was about to take up her carpet, Charlie thought to take a hand in the work. He went to the wardrobe, climbed up on a chair, and began to search for a tack hammer in a drawer where miscellaneous household _ conveniences were kept. He failed to find what he wanted, but he did find a four-barreled Sharp's pistol, which at once engrossed his attention. After handling it for awhile, he cocked it just as Mrs. Dowler appeared at the door of the room. The lad, thoughtlessly and without any conception of the great danger of the act, pointed the pistol at her, with the remark, “ Look out, Aunt Lib, I’m going to shoot you.” As he said this, he pulled die trigger,, and there was a report, accompanied by the scream of the lady as she fell to the floor. Little Gracie began to cry, and Charlie,, comprehending that something terrible had happened, ran to the prostrate lady and begged her to get up and stop acting that way, as it frightened his sister so

much. Blood was now flowing upon the carpet, and the children, losing ail presence of mind, stood there without making an effort to summon assistance. After recovering from the first shock, Mrs. Dowler managed to arise, and staggering to the floor, went down stairs by aid of the railing and opened the front door, bleeding profusely at each step. She saw Miss Van Dillen, who (lives next door, and had iust strength to call out that Charlie had shot her with a revolver, when she again fell to the floor. In a few moments Mrs. Cottrell and several neighbors were gathered around her, and she was carried to her bed. Dr. O’Gallagher was summoned without delay, and finding that the bullet had entered the right breast and penetrated the cavity in the direction of the heart, he pronounced the case hopeless. Dr. Barker was called in, and the two physicians did what they could to alleviate the sufferings of the lady. She stated to them the details of the shooting as above given, and the little boy, who was greatly grieved by the result of his thoughtlessness, made alike statement. At half-past nine o’clock, just an hour after the shooting, the patient died. She was perfectly consciours to the last, and requested that she be buried by the side of her husband. The Coroner was notified, and, an examination being made, a verdict of death by accidental shooting was rendered.—St. Louis Republican.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A man named Henry Miller, of Astoria, Ore., was joking with some friends in an undertaker s shop, and pointing to a coffin, said, “ I want that one,” and wrote his name upon it. A few days later he was buried in the same coffin. —John Dubert was found dead in his red at Constable Hook, N. J., recently, his death being caused by congestion of the brain, superinduced by excessive drinking. An intimate friend testified that in the twenty-seven years of their acquaintance he had never seen Dubert sober. —The selection of a May Queen in Waco, Tex., was attended with considerable strife and excitement. Miss Jones received 8,194 votes, and Miss Pace, the next highestcandidate, 4,812. The ballots cost ten cents each, and everybody could cast as many as desired by paying proportionately. The gain to a public charity by this plan was $1,200. There were several incidental fights, growing out of heated advocacy of the rival aspirants. —A convicted thief in New Mexico aroused the inmates of the jail by loud cries. He was found lying on the floor of his cell, professedly unable to move. He said that he had fallen from the bed and injured his spine. During the ensuing month he pretended to be in constant and terrible pain; and on his being carried to Court for sentence, the sympathetic Judge imposed the lightest possible penalty. Afterward it was discovered that the thief had not been hurt at all.

—A parrot created a sensation in a baggage-car on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad the other day. The cage was inclosed in paper and set on a coffin and was soon forgotten. As the conductor and other trainmen were passing through the car they heard a sepulchral voice issuing apparentlv from the coffin, crying, “ Lemme out! 1 ’ They were startled and frightened, and thought they had a sure case of a ghost, till polly was discovered whining tor liberty. —There is now on trial in our courts a man possessed of a good trade, and capable of earning a decent living in any city of town in the country. Under the influence of liquor, a few weeks since, he attempted to knife a man to him unknown, and he will now pay for a few glasses of vile whisky by spending more or less time in the Penitentiary. Thursday’s evening train brought to Denver another less fortunate victim. He, too, had been imbibing vile whisky, and, while under its influence, drove’the lock of a gun through the prain of an antagonist, from the effects of which he died! Here are two men—a would-be murderer and a murderer —whose proper pleasin court would be “Drunk, Your Honor.” — Rocky Mountain News. —Bryant Foley, a young Watertown man, who was suffering from a broken leg, in some way got the impression that he had taken poison in the form of carbolic acid, used as a wash for his limb, and died of fright. He was apparently well at four p. m. Sunday, and at seven p. m. he was dead. He ate an orange on Saturday, and thought it tasted of the acid, which caused him to faint, but he was quieted in a little while. The physicians say in their report to the Coroner: “We find, from a thorough examination and careful investigation, that his death was caused by syncope or fainting; that we carefully examined the stomach and found no traces of poison of any kind; the coats of the stomach and intestines free from inflammation; from the appearance of the heart, it was evident from the absence of blood in its walls and their collapsed condition, that he died of syncope or faintness; the condition of his limb warranted the belief that his leg would be returned to usefulness, as all of the parts surrounding the fracture-were in a healthy condition, and reparation of the bone,already commenced and favorably prospering,*’ The jury reported that it could not ascertain the cause of death. — Utica Herald.

Fashions in Gentlemen’s Clothes.

There is but little change to be noticed in full-dress suits this season. For promenade suits the “Albert frock” will be largely worn. It is made from dark blue and black diagonals or black and colored cloths and kerseys. Made from the same materials are the “ English walking coat” and the “cutaway.” That last-mentioned is cut to fit the form closely, and will be worn more generally by young men. The vests are cut from the same material, with or without collars, and buttoning up high. The tendency of all goods for trouserings is stripes, even though they are faintly defined in some cases. The suit known as the “ Alfonso” is bidding for popular favor. It is made from imported and domestic ca&simeres and cheviots, and is cut in tta form of a straight sack, cut round at the bottom of the skirt in front, with a short collar and plain wide sleeves. The vest is cut long, without collar, and the trouseys with wide seam and rather large-in the legs, but shaped gracefully. The Ldhdon sack “Regent”, and “Conservative,” With some unimportant changes in its outlines, will still be much worn.— N. Y. Post. Boston h<H? 2.227 places licensed to sell liquor.