Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1878 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

7 Os the Slot, the United States Treasury tllsbwraad 7*ooo *B**r dollar*. Shoe ths older of See’T IKmmii Rtoklif A* previous order tor Am general tene ot diver coin for greeobnoka, the dolly fame had been about •00,000. Tbe Treasury held, on the Slet, •MB.ftlß.Bßo tn limited State* bond* to eeenre National Bank circulation; *18,758,400 tn bonds to secara pahUc depodts, aad *8,*78,100 to secure aabecrlpttaoa to I *er cent. loan#. It waa reported from Washington, on the. MM, that the labor agitators there triumphantly claimed to have brought about an order which had been Issued, giving laborers at the Navy Tard a full day's pay for eight horn’ work, and a full day and a quarter for tea hours’ work. Similar orders had been laeyed to apply to workmen on Government buddings In that city, and the rate of pay for laborer* in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing had been raised from a dollar to a dollar and a quarter a day. Judge Snell decided that the meetings and processions held by Cohen and his follower* were riotous and disorderly. Order* had been Issued to tin police, and sure being enforced, to prevent any further meetings or demonstrations of tbe kind. Tu President arrived at Washington, from Ms Western trip, on the 25th, and was toon thereafter In separate conference with mem ben of his Cabinet. Be is said to have expressed himself as taping much pleased with hk reeeptfcx? both public snd private, at the different points along his recent Journey to mad from tbe Northwest. Sec’y Sherman received an anonymous communication from Boston, on the 27th, lnekwtng *1,500, to be placed to tbe credit of the “eoMcfenoe fund” in the United State Treasury.

Tn Republicans of OosuMeUcut held their State Convention at Hartford, on tbe 24th, aad nominated Charles B. Andrews for Gov- . ernor, David Gallet for Lieutenant-Governor, David Torrence for Secretary of State, Tailman Baker for State Treasurer snd Channcey Howard for Comptroller. The platform adopted declares the Government bonds and legal tender notes to be sacred debts, to be paid to the last dollar In tbe standard money es the world; demands that all currency shall be redeemable in coin at the will of the bolder, and that coin mad currency shall be kept at par with the gold standard of the world, and expresses faith tn tbe integrity and patriotism of President Hayes. Tn National Executive Committee of the Union League of America held St Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 24th, at which a resolution was adopted la favor of a currency convertible on demand into coin, and pledging the efforts of the committee to promote the election of thoee candidates only who stand on such a financial platform. President Hayes, who was in the city, was present at tbe meeting for a short time, and was received with great enthusiasm. Tn Democratic Btate Convention of Massachttsetts met at Faneull Hall, in Boston, on tbe 25th, pursuant to the adjournmentordered by the State Executive Committee at Worcester. J. G. Abbott was nominated for Governor by acclamation; W. H. Plunkett for Lieutenant-Governor; H. C. Dewing for Secretary of State; D. N. Skilling for State Treasurer and Receiver; J. R. Fitzgerald for Auditor, and Richard Olney for AttorneyGeneral. After denouncing the Republican party for its alleged disregard of tbe admitted rights of State aad of the people, etc., the resolution* adopted declare that the Democratic party has ever been the truest friend of tbe laboring classes, and demand the enactment and execution of such laws as shall protect tbe rights of labor as well as those of capital; that tbe total amount of currency authorised should be fixed by law and redeemable at any moment In coin, and should be receivable for public dues at its face value, and that all coin of the same denomination shall be as negrty as possible of equal value. Th* New Hampshire State Prohibition Convention is to be held at Nashua, on the 15th of October.

About 600 Mormons arrived it New York, on the 26th. They are mostly Danes, and started at once for the West. Two hat-mancfacturino ttrms of New York City entered Into an agree merit, on the 28th, with the Hatters’ Association to have nothing farther to do with convict labor, and that, In the event of any breach in the agreement on the part of the Arms, they would pay the Association SIO,OOO for each infringement. The various shops on a strike in New Jersey were notified at once of this compact To New York Democracy met in State Convention at Syracuse, on the 35th, and, after some contention over the question of delegates from New York and Kings County, Committees on Credentials and Resolutions were appointed, and an adjournment was had to the next «day. After assembling, on the 9Mb, Erastus Brooks was chosen Permanent Chairman. G. B. Bradley was nominated for Judge of the Court of Appeals, on a platform reaffirming the principles set forth in the platforms of 1874 and 1877, that gold and silver coin, and a paper currency convertible into coin at the will of the holder, should be the only currency of the country, and that steady steps be taken toward specie payments and the honest payment of the public debt; dedaring in favor of a tariff for revenue; no Government partnership with protective monopolies, etc., etc. Tmb New York Republicans met In State Convention, at Saratoga, on tffe 36th, and organised by the selection of Hon. Roscoe Conkling as Permanent Chairman. Hon. George F. Danforth waa nominated for Judge of the Court of Appeals. The platform adopted demands that the pledges in respect ~tQ the payment of the National debt be sacred|Jj observed ; favors specie resumption and making greenbacks 6T equal value with iSHHT declares that all parties are bound to abide by the decision of the Electoral Commission; warns the people to be vigilant in opposing Southern claims ; insists upon free and unintinddatedelections in the South; favors rational Civil-Service reform; arraigns the dominant forces of the Democratic party as constant disturbers of the public tranquillity and the pubUe peace, etc., etc. filOflftd ill Mflff TriflL PH Soni UTih .a ICOJtf. The following were the closing quotations for produce: No. 8 Chicago Spring Wb««t(New),*L<)4J*ol.O4>*;No. 2 Milwaukee (New), t1.05J*01.05)*; Oats, Western, 27@ 33c. Cora, Western. Mixed, 483*@49)*c. Pork, Mess, $9.10. Lard, $6,773*. Flour, Good to Choice, [email protected]. White Wheat Extra, Cattle, $7.36010.50 for Good to Eatn. Sheep, *8.0005.00. Hoga, *4.0004.25. At East Liberty, Pa., on Bept. 27th, Cattle brought: Best, $4.7505.00; Medium. $3.80 04-50; Common. $3.6008.75. Hogs sold— Yorkers, $8.4003.70; Philadelphia*, *3.000 4.90. Sheep brought sß.ooo4.2s—according to quality. .j At Baltimore, Md. on Sept. 37th, Cattle brought; Beat, **B7Xos.lß*; Medium, *58604.25. Hogs sold at *s.<»&6.<K for Good. Sheep were quoted at $8.2504.873* for . Wffit a» sornrm. Tsa Odd Fellows'Bank at Sacramento, CW-, j hue made an assignment ; Tmb Nevada Democratic State Convention . »—te« U>« and adopted a bard-money

platform, advocating tbe removal of all restrtcUona upon the circulation of silver. The following nominations werd made: Governor, L. R. Bradley (preeent incumbent); Lieuten-ant-Governor, j. hi. Adams; Member of Confireea, W. R. F. Deel. A raw daya ago messengers from Bitting Bun reached Port Keogh, asking tor terms for the sarrender of that Chieftain and his follower*. On the 24th, Gen. Sheridan telegraphed to Gen. Mite that the only toms he could offer were thoee of unconditional surrender. Ox the 20th, the Ironclad trcaaure-coach, running between Deadwood and Cheyenne, waa attacked by road-agents and robbed of about *20,000. The only passenger waa killed and two of the messengers badly wounded. Tbs Democratic State Convention of Nebraska was held at Lincoln, on tbe 2ftth, and adopted a soft-money platform, and nominated John D. Howe (glso on the Greenback ticket) for Supreme Judge; Alexander C. Bear for Congress, short term; John W. Davis (on Greenback ticket) for Congress, long term; J. R. Webster for Governor; F. J. Mead for Lieutenant-Governor; Benjamin Parmerton for Secretary of State; E. H. Benton for Auditor; P. H. Cummings for Treasurer; 8. H. Calhoun (on Greenback ticket) for AttorneyGeneral.

Ox the 20th, Thomas Harland, Tilden’s attorney in the income-tax case, was arrested, on hla arrival at Detroit, upon the charge of being privy to the recent larceny 'of certain account-books which were being examined before a United State Commissioner, at Marquette, Mich.' On tbe <’ following day, he was arraigned before a United States Commissioner, at Detroit, and held to bail tn the sum of *IO,OOO, for further examination. In Chicago, on Sept. 27th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at 8834 c cash; 88Jfc for October and 89.14 c for November. Cash Corn closed at 8534 c for No. 2; 8534 c tor October, 86J4c for November. Cash Oats No. 2 fold at 19|ic; 20J4c seller October. Rye No. 2,4634 c. Barley No. 2, (New) *I.OO for cash, *1.12 for October (New.) Cash. Mess Pork closed at *8.25. Lard, *6.40. Beeves—Extra, *[email protected]; Choice, *4.25(1$ 4.60; Good, *8.60(^4.00; Medium Grades, *[email protected]; Butchers’ Stock. *[email protected]; Stock Cattle, etc., Hogs brought *3.4004.10 for Good to Choice. Sheep sold at *2.7534.50 for Poor to Choice. TBI YELLOW TEVIB. The death of Dr. Kibbee, the Inventor of the fever cot, who went to New Orleans to introduce and test his system of cold water treatment of fever patients, wss announced, on the.24th. He submitted to bis own remedy, which failed in his case, although It is said to have resulted successfully with other patients. A Washington dispatch of the 24th says the Secretary of War, having received Information to the effect that the Howard Association of New Orleans had some $266,000 on band, and that they were not In need of funds there to relieve the yellow-fever sufferers, had ordered an Investigation in regard to the matter, and had also suspended his order of the week, before to Issue 40,000 additional rations for the relief of persons suffering from the fever. —' It was reported from Cincinnati, on the evening of the 2dth, that the yellow fever was prevailing, to an alarming extent. In certain portions of Loutsvttle, Ky. This was indignantly denied by a dispatch from the latter city. Tbe report was said to be entirely un-called-for and utterly without foundation.

Ws. Rockwood, President of the Howard Association of Vicksburg, died, In that city, on the 26th. His death-bed scene is said to have been very touching. He died on the field of honor and duty, and many of the public buildings and private dwellings were draped in mourning because of his loss, which Toss was sadly felt by all. _ Thebe were forty-one deaths in Memphis on tbe 26th. The weather was turning cooler. The deaths in New Orleans numbered fortyfour. The Young Men’s Christian Association of the latter city made a statement that the fever had thrown uuder the care of the Association 2,400 cases of the disease and a large number of destitute, and that the contributions had not equaled the demands for help. It was feared that, as a general impression prevailed that New Orleans needed no more money, before the sickness ceased a large number of cases would be left on the hands of the Association without means to carry the patients through to convalescence. The Association still solicited aid from its friends, In money, clothing, bed-elothes, dell* cacioaJot.thealrk.ntc.,. : Seo’y-ot-Wah McCrary stated, on the 26th, that he was advised that the Howard Association had on hand, unexpended, a balance probably sufficient for their wants at New Orleans and Memphis. He thought the Association perfectly reliable, and had ordered no Investigation. At all afflicted points, save New Orleans and Memphis, suffering and want were great, and, be thought, increasing, and even in those cities more help might be required In the near future. The people could scarcely go amiss in sending farther aid. There were twenty deaths repotted at Memphis during the twenty-four hours ending at six o’clock on the afternoon of the 27th. A general feeling prevailed among the physicians there that the worst was over. The deaths>in New Orleans numbered fifty-one; total number of cases to date, 8,862. The situation was again threatening at Baton Rouge.' At-Holly Springs, Miss., entire families, some of them numbering eight or ten members each, were down with the /ever; ten physicians had been stricken down, and four of them h*d ; died; three druggists and two ministers were among tbe dead, and several nurses bad taken the disease. There were seven new cases and five deaths at Hickman, Ky. Fifteen new cases, but no deaths, at Canton, Mias. Four deaths at Chattanooga, Tenn. The fever had exhausted Itself at Grenada; and no-more funds or provisions were needed there.

A dispatch from Vicksburg, on the 27th, says the death rate at Greenville, been horrible in the extreme. Out of a population of 400 people, 219 had died up to the 36th, and there were only fifteen persons in the place who had escaped the fever so far. Mr. Perry’s- family of eleven persons, andthree nurses who were in attendance' upon them, all died within a few days of each other. The death* occurred so rapidly In that town that It was impossible to bury the bodies properly, and they had to be covered with earth in shallow holes. To prevent the citizens of the place from seeking safety in flight, the people In the country blockaded the roads and destroyed the bridges over the streams, put this had jot prevented .tt>® spread of the fever through many portions of the country. VOKKItIH HTBJXHiHCX. According to Calcutta dispatches of the 23d, the Ameer of Afghanistan had positively refused to grant permission for the British Embassy to Cabal to pass through the Kbyber Pass, and that the Emhassy had been compelled to return to Paaliawaun. Thu Russian troops have altogether evacuated tfielr long-occupied position at Ban 8?e----fano, and hive "Been succeeded by Turkish troops. iu* ■■■'■, JLI Constantinople dispatches of the 2lst say that Greek filibusters had passed into Turkey with a view to incite another insurrection in Thessaly and Epirus. According to Bombay (India) dispatches of the 28d, the feeling there over the diacourt esy of the Ameer of Afghanistan was exceedlagly w*rtlke. --"A fwee-ot 12,000 BHn -hi<S' ben gathered on the frontier, and the determination was expressed to compel an apology from'the Ameer or occupy the country. Vienna dispatches of the 33d report the successful advance of the Austrians against

the insurgent positions In Northeastern Bosnia. The rebel position near Benkolres had been captured two days before, after a Rattle lasting six hours The Austrian loss was 400 killed and wounded. The Insurgent loss waa greater. The Towns of Bejellna and Llvas bad also been captured. A NAruts (Italy) dispatch of the 24th says Mount Vesuvius was becoming violent. The base of the cone Was covered with lava, and lav* was streaming down the sides of the mountain. The Russian headquarters have been established at AdrlanOple. The Austrian*, on the 24th, occupied Rogatica. In Bosnia, without opposition. A Bucharest telegram of the 24th announces tiie formation of Insurgent bands In the Dobrudacha, to resist Roumanian occupation. Vienna dispatches of the 26th say information had been received there of the occupation of Zwornlk by the Austriau troops, thus Virtually completing the pacification of Bosnia. Zwomik Is the Bosnian Capital. ~*~ A recent earthquake at Montefalco, In the Province of Umbrlo, In Italy, caused the destruction of 148 dwellings. Eight hundred Turkish troops recently attacked an Insurgent force at Apldla, In Thessaly, but were repulsed with heavy loss. Three cases of blasting-powder exploded at tbe mouth of the Bt. Gothsrd Tunnel, on the 25th, and ten men were Instantly killed and several others badly Injured. a London telegrams of the 26th announce the departure of Lord Loftus for St. Petersburg, with Instructions to demand an explanation of Russia's connection wkßi Afghanistan, snd the withdraws! of tbe Cxsr’s agent from Cahill. According to a Belgrade telegram of the 26tli, 21,000 Bosnians, mostly armed, had crossed the Servian frontier, near Lonnitza. A Raguha dispatch, received in London on the 26th, says 18,COO Albanians were marching toward Montenegro to oppose the cession of territory’ to Montenegro as promised by the Porto. Dr. August Heinrich Pktkrmann, the famous German geographer, died at Gotha, on the 27th, from an apoplectic attack suffered on the preceding day. . . ' Russia has selected Sophia, instead of Tirnova, the ancient Capital, as the Capital of the newly-constructed Bulgarian Provinces.

Memphis—Scenes in that Desolate City.

The Memphis correspondent of the Chicago ZVthtrae writes as follows, under date of Sept 22: Whether one sits in bis honae or wanders about the deserted streets, he sees death in every direction, from which there Is no escape. The epidemic of 1873 was thought to be a visitation of unparalleled magnitude. But those who bore the brunt of that struggle speak of it as a holiday in comparison with tbe epidemic of 1878. There is only grief apparent everywhere to-day; for those who fled the city when the crisis came, as also those who remained, have lost relatives and friends promlscuo; sly. Tbe horn re of the plague have Invaded the cottages of the poor and the palaces of tbe rich in equal proportion. The poor have not been called to bear the burden alone. Rich men escaped contact with the pestilence by flight, but they left an heritage of infamy more to be dreaded than the narrow hole in the ground which contains all that was left of the victims -es disease, —One of the daily pa pers struck a popular chord the other day when It denounced as a curse to Memphis greater than the plague itself those fugitives who have not contributed one dollar in money or one word of sympathy to aid and encourage the men fighting the greatest epidemic in the history of the city. And it Is true. One man, whom I hear of dally, Is absent at an Eastern watering-place, and from the rents of squares of buildings on Main street contributed an Insignificant sum. This, with the promise that when the Howard Fund reached a certain limited amount, he would replenish the exchequer with a further donation.

REPULSIVB SCENES. Latterly the mortality has been proportionately greater among the colored population than with their Caucasian brethren, and In* these cases the repulsive scenes which characterized the epidemic when at Us beignt are duplicated. During the past week a physician, while on his rounds, had bis attention attracted to the Gayoso House by evidences of life within this former celebrated caravansery, and, visiting the premises, found it peopled with nearly a hundred African patients In all stages of disease. Age, sex and condition were commingled together, some In the last stages of dissolution, others manifesting the initiatory symptoms of the disease, and others beyond recovery, without medical attendance or attention, and in a fair way tq resolve the establishment into a charnel nouse. ; He, of course, reported the condition of affairs at once, and measures were taken to remedy the evils, which. It permitted to continue, would with all Its horrors. Another physician was called to visit a family of colored sufferers residing on the outskirts of tbe city. The family was composed of the parents and several children, ranging In age from majority to infancy. They were the poorest of the poor, with nothing to alleviate their disease with which all of them were down. He did what he could for the unfortunate family, who were penned up in a narrow, cloee, unventilated apartment, and while making his investigation, discovered that one of the daughters, about twenty years of age, had been dead for several hours, and was fast being resolved Into a mass of corruption, breeding a nuisance insufferable, and filling the entire neighborhood with the seeds of disease. He was the only person present who was free from the prevailing complaint, and was obliged to canvass the neighborhood through a blinding storm for help to effect a removal of the corpse. After a prolonged and almost fruitless effort, he procured the services of a neighbor, with whose assistance tbe body was rolled up in a sheet, taken to an outho' se and left until the storm ceased, when a rough grave was prepared and the body interred without a priestly benediction.

LACK OF BURIAL FACILITIES. The difficulty experienced in procuring prompt burial has by no mean* been remedied, and funerals are kept waiting for graves to be opened. The coflui is removed from the hearse in many instances to enable Chat mortuary vehicle to till another appointment, and the relatives, often without a clergyman to perform the sail rites of the burial service, are oWtged to wait until the. last resting-place of a departed parent, son, daughter, brother, or sister is prepared. The same rule applies in regard to the services of an undertaker. His engagements are so in advance of his ability to execute them that it ia by no means unusual fqr a body to be kept forty-eight hours before being coffined. Last Thursday a man named McGregor, who possessed some local fame as a Spiritualist and necromancer, died suddenly, and notwithstanding the efforts made In that behalf, lie remained unburied until yesterday, decomposition meanwhile having taken place, and creating a panic if not new case* in tta.vlclliity of his residence. As heretofore stated, the jumpers are buried-by the municipal authorities, and no time, by reason of the exigencies of the case, is wasted in getting them out of sight. Many a mournful drama from real life is enacted among the worthy poor, and if ever a history of the epidemic is written it will be fruitful with touching reminiscences of the dark days that now hang about the Cttr on the Bluff. One came under my observation yesterday, which is a fair type of the kird, and Ita recital to a party of gentleman at the dinner-table of the Peabody brought tears to the eyes of more than one who heard it. A very worthy widow lady, whb had been surrounded by comfort, if not luxury, far better days, had her family reduced by the disease to a little daughter, whose turn came when least expected, and. resulting fatally, left the poor mother alone in the world, the sole survivor of what had until recently been a happy family. Her means were exhausted, and the thought of her daughter's being buried as a pauper was too much for her maternal heart to bear. When the child Was dead, the grief-stricken parent detailed the condition of her affairs to a revel end gentleman, who has been one of (he foremost In his labors for the afflicted, and asked if something could not be done to spare her this additional pang. She responded to the demands of her Father in Heaven, she raid, in giving her last child to God, but If ■ftto JBL,jgjjyjfH by. stnmgprs’ hands and fill an unknown pauper's grave, her mother’s heart would be broken. Tbe good pastor, appreciating the depth of feeling which prompted this last request, appropriated money for the dead child’s burial, and Friday afternoon the Innocent was laid away In tbe shade of a tree at Elmwood.

miscellaneous items. —Who can understand a cornstalk? —Camden Post. —Even the Gulf Stream ia getting into crooked ways. —An obeervant exchange says “ whom the gods love eat cucumbers.” —Natural selection—taking the biggest water-mqlon — Keokuk Constitution. —There’s * big difference between dinner for nothing and nothing for.dinner_ 1 —One small school boy sometimes constitutes a borori of education.—Stillwater Lumberman. * —The new fashionable shade is called “ lees of wine.” It is used in combinations of satin with velvet— Graphic. —’Tis now that the young man of the period scratches his head and wonders if that overcoat will do him this winter. —An English critic says that organization in politics is successful precisely in pr&portion as it is invisible and unfelt. —A woman is never thoroughly interested in a newspaper article until she reaches the place where the balance is torn off. — Puck. —A Massachusetts Swede bragged that he could stay under water half an hour. At last accounts he had been under three days. —There is but one piano onftie Island of Cyprus. No wonder England was anxious to gobble up such a paradise. —Norwich Bulletin. —The Chicago Journal believes that in view of the number of women who are flow putting up fruit for winter use, this may appropriately be called the can-can month.

—A snowy, dimpled cloud tossed into all kinds of fantastic shapes is an enchanting sight. It is delicious; but, at the same time, it can't hold a candle to a plate of fish-balls. — Puck. Love may be blind, as they say; but we notice* that in all the records of the ages, it has never kissed the girl’s mother by mistake, when it reached - —The Boston Transcript tells of a young man who modestly applied for a vacation and made a remark to the effect that he was engaged to be married, and that if nobody objected he would like to be there when the clergyman began. Our venerable friend “ Mrs. Partington” says some persons can bathe with perfect impurity in water as cold as Greenland’s icy mountains and India’s coral strands, but for her own part she prefers to have the water a little torpid.” —The character of Autumn, as he made his appearance in 1878, could not be more compendiously or graphically presented than it is in this odd little sentence from the Philadelphia Evening Star: “Pensive Autumn, in a linen duster. Bersoires on the threshold.” —- Counsel had Been questioning a certain witness named Gunn, and, in elosing, he said to him: “ Mr. Gunn, you can now gooff.” The Judge on the bench, seeing the pun, gravely added: “ Sir, you are discharged.” Of course, an explosion in court immediately ensued.— Philadelphia Bulletin. —“A reader” asks: “How do you teH a ripe watermelon?” We don’t tell it. A ripe watermelon doesn’t want to be told any things *lts inherent goodness prevents it from asking questions. But wlieu a green watermelon comes into your house you want to tell it to “ get out.” And if it doesn’t go, kick it out.— Norristown Herald. —A German at the Police Court rather worried his Honor by saying that his occupation had been that of a cobbler of liquor. The court stared and asked for an explanation, which, with the chuckle that accompanied it, cost the prisoner five dollars more. He said, “I has soled drinks.” He was a bar-tender looking for a place. -Keokuk

Constitution. 4"—. —A young man has been doing a good business in town for a day or two Bast, selling gold-plated collar-buttons. f these be offered “ six for a quarter.” They looked good, and,for aught we know, may be good. Yesterday, a gentleman purchased a quarter’s worth, and, well satisfied with his bargain, asked the young man a few questions. One was: “Now, tell me the truth, how much profit did you make upon those six buttons at a quarterP” “ Well,” replied the young salesman, “ I made just twenty-two cents. There were five men up here on the square, last night, selling various articles. I’ll bet I made more yesterday than all five of them put together. I sold sl9 worth of collar-buttons, and I made sl7 clear profit.”— Hartford Times. —A man with the toothache doesn’t care about anything else. The glories of the world pall on his taste, the wonders of creation seem as naught. The tooth becomes avolcano of belching fury, and thp rest of life hidden in a cloud of its billowing smoke. You can’t borrow anything of a man with the toothache. You can’t instruct and improve him. You tell him the world travels at the rate of a thousand miles a minute, and it doesn’t startle him in the least. He simply groans. You say to him, “My friend, mere are stars so far off that their light has not yet reached this worldP’ but he don’t mind it. He only howls. You tell him that some of the sun-spots are 100,000 miles in diameter, and that one of them would take in Jupiter at one mouthful, but it is nothing to him. He goes on swearing and weeping. Sometimes a man’s tooth aehes so hard, the pain is so agonizing, that several strong men have to hold him down hy main force while some important scientific fact is ’heingcommumcaled to him. —mumfy News. |

Disraeli’s Devoted Wife.

Disraeli’s name is on every tongue just now. But how many know of the" rare devotion of his wife, who, though fifteen years his senior, loved him with a tenderness seldom equalled, cheered, consoled and encouraged him in defeat, and partook of bis joy and exultation in success? It was his habit to prepare his speeches with great care, to study thein elosely, and, just before leaving home for the House of Commons, to read them through for the last time. After this final reading, during which became utterly absorbed with his topic, he never wished to be spoken to, feeling that any iatemiption would disturb and disarrange the current of hifc l thoughts. When the hour for starting came, he would go silently to his carriage, his wife taking a seat by his side, but neither Uttering a syllable. Arrived at the House, she, who, never missed hearing him speak, would go to the gallery set apart for the wives of members, while he would make his way to his place and there-remain unobserved until the time for his speech i arrived. That over, he went directly to the gallery to receive his wife’s congratulation and applause, dearer to him than that of the hundreds of adherents who L'. • ''•

hung upon hia worth). On one ooca ■ton, just as the pair were leaving home, when the footman closed the door of the brougham, the lady's finger was caught and held. The pain was excruciating, but no tokfen of suffering eicaped her. In silent agony she roue to the House, went to her accustomed seat in the gallery and listened to her husband’s speech, and it was not until he oame to her, alter it was over, that he know of the accident We may smile at this over-strained heroism, but we must respect the woman who preferred to suffer rather than risk her husband’s success.— Oar. Boston Transcript.

One of the Latest Snake Stories.

In the Town of Hague, on the banks of Lake George, opposite Hulett’s Landing, has liven for a long time a man and his wife, by the name of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Davis. This couple have occupied a log cabin, w v :oh nas been situated near the water’s edge. The place has been known as the “ Rattlesnake Man’s House,’’ and many visitors have made excursions to the spot to see this singular-looking couple. They have made a living from rattlesnakes, capturing many of the reptiles, and ob», taming the oil, which always commands a high price. At this cabin might always have been seen large numbers of these reptiles. The old man, who ls now about sixty-five years of age, caught them with a long pair of wooden tongs, which he quickly and dexterously grasped them with just below the head. He then either killed them outright or else removed their fangs, and thus rendered them harmless. He possessed power to charm them also, it is said. In fact,,he once informed the writer, who visited his cabin, that “ thar warn’t a varmint that crawled but wot I ken make ’em lay down as quiet as a lamb.”

The old man had about his premises a large number of snakes, which he exhibited to visitors, expecting and receiving many a nickel or dime in return. He never visited a village without carrying several of his odious specimens with him, which he would draw from his pockets and place about his neck, or fondle and handle them as if they were kittens. By these exhibitions he picked up a good many coppers. Many wonderful stories are tola about “old Rube” and his wife, the latter being as much of a curiosity as her husband. We have been told that the very shanty swarmed with rattlesnakes, the occupants not having any fears whatr ever of them. The land on which the shanty stood was lately purchased by Bishop Seymour, *of Illinois. The owner has tried repeatedly to get the Davis family to move off, but the old couple have refused until lately, when the Bishop threatened to eject them by legal process. He finally offered Davis ten dollars to leave peaceably, and the old man, his wife and a boat load of snakes left one day last week for Harbor Island, about a mile south of where the cottage was situated. On Friday the torch was applied to the premises. When the fire began to spread, a terrible sight met the eyes of those present. It was a sight that caused the beholders to flee up trees for safety. Hissing rattlesnakes and squealing rats poured out of the building from all directions. As the hot flames sprang toward the roof, the crackling of the dry boards mingled with the rattle of scores of maddened serpents and unearthly yells of rodents. The very roof seemed to be alive with venomous reptiles, and the bright green and white of their outside covering shone with a glare as the flames lit upon them. One of the men, who was a close eye-witness of the scene, says: “One large snake, about seven feet long, opened its mouth, and out came at least two score of little reptiles, whose little tails shook in the air as if they, too, were frenzied at the destruction the flames made of their home. Several snakes charged madly upon the flames only to Fall back burned to death; while the rats that could get away took to the woods. In one place a projecting log was made the object of attack by three large reptiles. As the trio charged madly upon it, a great sheet of fire, whoso forkod tongues were even more poisonous than those of the snakes, rolled around and seized the reptiles, causing them to cease rattling, as each one dropped over dead. About the ground lay many dead serpents and roasted rats, while some were writhing and seemed to be in fearful agony.”— Whitehall (N. Y.) Times.

An Instance of Indian Daring.

An instance of an Apache Indian will do in the way of cool daring, when the prize is worth the risk, once occurred on a ranch in Arizona. The owner of the ranch was an, American. To guard against the Apaches he had built a block-house, and, adjoining it, a court-yard and corral, surrounded by an adobß wall eight feet high and two feet thick. Jn the corral the herd was nightly secured. He had a contract to feed and guard 400 head of beef cattle belonging to the United States fort, some thirty miles away. More than one attempt had been made by the Apaches to capture the herd, while feeding two or three miles from the blockhouse. But the vigilant herdsmen had driven the cattle at a gallop into the corral, before the Indians could “stampede” them, One night there came a fearful storm. A solitary Apache, unarmed, and with nothing but a blanket to protect him from the cold rain, climbed over the corral wall; crouching ijft the corner, he waited for day. Early in the morning, the storm having passed away, eight herdsmen, mounted and armed, waited at the corral’s gate for the herd to be turned out. The gate was opened. The stock poured out. Suddenly up sprang the Apache; vaulting on the nearest horse, he clutched his mane with one hand, while with the other he waved his red blanket, and yelled like a demon, .in an instant every hoof made a rush, and the stampede began. The hcrse, frightened, darted into the midst of the flying cattle. As in a frenzy they went through the gateway, the Apache clasped his arms around the horse’s neck, and, throwing his body on one side of the maddened animal, disappeared from view. A thousand men ranged in column could not stop that rush of the crazed herd down the val\ley. The herdsmen fired a volley which wounded and lolled some of the cattle. Two bands of Apaches, darting out from opposite sides of the valley, closed up from behind the herd. Four hundred head of cattle were thus captured and run off - by tjhe-daring and cunning of one Apach e.%-'Beaver (Utah) Square Dealer. - - .... —A son of Mr. Richard Henry Dana, second, has just finished a trip on a velocipede from Boston to Brattleboro, Yt., a distance of almost one hundred miles. ■V' ' 1i.... . .

Resointions of the. New York State Republican Convention.

At the recent Mew York State Republican Convention the following platform was unanimously adopted: The Republicans of New York, appealing to twenty jean of slroxqlra mad tnunpks as proof of Repnbliaaa patriotism and fidelity, and meeting the high demands of the hoar in the aame unfaltering apirit which and the Union and established it on a firm foumintion of freedom, to the payment of the public debt and the redemption of the public promlrea according to the apirit and letter of the engagement, and our good name and well .being require that the Nation’s honor euall be kept aa inviolate aa the Nation's life. . * X Under the management of annnsumng Republican administrations, the oountry has advanced to the point of specie resumption, and the highest interests of business no leaa than the plighted faith of the Kepublio demand that there shall be no atop backward and no postponement. Vlith this steady progress we hail the anspicion* signs of reviving trade and industry, and congratulate the people upon this practical evidence that if the good work shall be completed the depression which giew out of the linanoial disorder* foroed upon us by the Wax of the Rebellion will give place to returning oonfidenoe and permanent prosperity, which oan restmlone on the fixed monetary standard of the commercial world, on settled values and full security and certainty for the future. 8. Standing unalterably for Constitutional principles of hard money, we insist that the greenback, instead of being dishonored and depreciated, shall be made as good as honeet coin; that the laborer's dollsr shall mean a real dollar; that the uncertainties which rob toil and paralyze trade shall cease; that our currency shall bj made the best currency by making all porta of it, whether paper or eoin, equivalent, convertible, secure and steady, and all public servants, whether Executive officers. Senators or Representatives, whose acts or votes conduce to this high •object, deserve our approbation. 4. The Electoral Commission was a wise and honorable mode of settling a dangerous dispute. All parties were bound to abide its decision, and any attempt to undo or impair the conclusion it established is unpatriotic and revolutionary. 6. While sinoerely seeking fraternal relations in all just efforts and aspirations, we summon the people to renewed vigilance and unflinching warfare against the vast hordes of claims ana raids on the Treasury which count for suocess on Democratic rule, under the mastery of a solid Booth, and which would fall with special hardship on New York os the chief tax-paying State in the Union. & We demand free and unintimidated elections in the South as in the North, and the full recognition! and observance of the equal rights and liberty of all citizens as ordained by the amended Constitution, and until they shall be secured the work of the Republican party to protect human rights will be unfinished. 7. We renew our declarations for the elevation of the publio servioe on the basis of a secure tenure duringtbe faithful performance of official duties for a fixed term; for a pure, frugal and efficient administration of affairs, and tot unyielding resistance to any further land grants or subsidies to corporations or monopolies; for a grateful recognition of the brave soldiers and sailors of the Republic, and for common schools Apree from sectarian influence and unmenoced by sectarian appropriations. 8. While recognizing with satisfaction that many patriotic Democrats do not share its spirit and impulses, we arraign the dominant forces of the Democratic party os a constant diiiturber of pnblic tranquillity and peace; aaa wanton foe of public security in ito persistent assaults upon tne authority and stability of established Government; as attempting to weaken the Nation by crippling the army in a time of uncertainty and danger; as guilty of false pretenses in claiming for the Democratic House a reduction in the publio expenditures whose fraudulent character is proved by the necessity for heavy Deficiency bills; as dependent on a solid Sonth, and thereby subservient to all its demands; as aggravating the troubles of the country by mischievous agitation throughout the period of i»s supremacy m the House of Representatives; as faithless to the obligations of National honor and the chief support of wild schemes of inflation, repudiation and utter financial disorders which imperil the publio credit and business security. And its further or greater success would be a National calamity. 9. An emergency in the history of the country second only to the great struggle for its existence now confronts us. As then the Republican party was the sole organized political protection against National disruption, and patriotic oitilens of whatever party names rallied under the standard for the defense of the Union, so now the Republican organization is the only efficient bulwark against National repudiation and disgrace, invites all good citizens of whatever previous political ties, to unite with it in preserving the National honor. To ail Republicans this great exigency especially appeals to rise to its high obligations and join heart and hand for the triumph of those vital principles upon which the security and welfare of the Republic depend.

Ben Butler’s Mission.

Ben Butler is now placed in a position where he will play the most important part in the political drapia of the next two months. The success or failure of his bold and unscrupulous tactics will exert an influence beyond the State limits of Massachusetts, and go far toward determining for the country at large the status and aims of its political parties. His own conglomerate politics is typical of the disintegration of various political elements, and the formulation of a new issue, or a bundle of issues, that threatens to *wipe out of existence one of the two great parties that have been pitted against each other for the past thirty years. Butler has claimed to be a Republican ever since the outbreak of the Rehellion, though he had previously been a Democrat of tho most rabid character. He was eleoted to Congress as a Republican in 187(1. During the last session he gradually broke away from the Republican party and affiliated with the Democrats, but carefully refrained from committing h’mself formally to the latter. In the meantime he improved every occasion to pander to the Commpniptic element in his State. He became responsible for Kearney as far as he dared, and boldly proclaimed his approval of fiat money, taxation of the bonds and payment of the Government debt in greenbacks. During all this while he courted the favor of, and earned a recognition of his services from, the Democrats, by his persistent efforts as a member of the Potter Committee to fix the charge of fraud, upon President Hayes and those prominently associated with him in the administration of the Government. Butler’s avowed purpose has been to run for Governor of Massachusetts as the candidate of the Communists, Fiatists and Democrats, with a view to bis later candidature for the Presidency under the same auspices. He has carried out his project to the extent of securing all the nominations for which he has intrigued; and now comes the trial of strength in Massachusetts between the Republican party, representing all the conservative forces of Government and society, and the Nationals, which include what we have heretofore designated Communists, Fiatists and Democrats.

Large numbers of individual Democrats all over the country, as well as in Massachusetts, will repudiate Butler, and seek to defend the Democratic party on the ground that Butler captured the Massachusetts Democratic Convention by fraud and violence. Nevertheless, he captured it, and thus signalized the first victory of fraud and violence, which are the principal weapons of the new party that he seeks to lead. The Democrats of Massachusetts had full warning of Butler’s pun pose. His intention to secure the Democratic nomination, as an appendage to the nomination by the Nationals, has been known for months, and has been encouraged by prominent Democrats of Massachusetts and elsewhere, in aid out of Congress. It was with full notice Of his candidature that the Democrats of Massachusetts elected delegates to the Worcester Convention; and, after j the row and the secession of the anti-Butler faction, he was nominated by acclamation and amid cheers, in a Convention representing seven-eighths of all the oities and towns and about three-fourths of airthe delegates elected. “ "Tim action of the Worcester Convention, then, may be fairly assumed as representing the bfulk of the Democracy of Massachusetts. In spite of the advantage

txken by the Butler men, and not with* standing the row that occurred, his nomination mast be regarded as the deliberate action of the Convention, because it was made by so large a majority, and after the anti-Butler men of the State had been at work for weeks to defeat this very outcome. Have the Massachusetts Democrats swallowed Butler, or has Butler swallowed the Massachusetts Democracy,? We are inclined to accept the latter qp the more accurate statement of the can*. Butler declared his desertion from the Republican party, but refused to join the Democratic party; he sought His nomination primarily at the hands' of the Nationals, and his campaign will be in behalf of the doctrines represented by Kearney, so far as labor is concerned, and by Brick Pomeroy, so far as currency is concerned. The Democrats have accepted him under these conditions, and placed such strong party men as C&leD Cushing and Boyle O’Reilly on the same ticket with him to emphasize Democratic acquiescence in Butlerism. It looks very much as though Butler’s mission is to destroy the Democratic party, and the indications are that he will succeed in doing this, whether he be elected Governor of Massachusetts or not. If elected Governor, it will be mainly by Democratic votes, and it will be necessary for him to secure practically all of them in addition to the Fiat and Communist vote he expects in order to succeed; nevertheless, he will be elected ev&n in that, case as the National candidate, and' the Democratic party as such will have* abandoned the field". If he be defeated, as he may easily be even if he receive the bulk of the Democratic votes (for Hayes’ majority in 1876 was 41,286 in a total vote of 259,619, and Rico’s majority last year 18,070 in a total vote ot 184,454), then the country will still have had formal notice of Democratic affiliation with Bntlerism, and the same odium that will drag it down in Massachusetts will operate similarly elsewhere. If the Democracy of the staid, proper, and conventional State of Massachusetts can stomach Butler and the doctrines he represents, then Democracy in other parts of the country will be credited with the same gastric endurance. Hence the alternative for the Democracy seems to be—disgrace in case of Butler’s defeat, and dissolution

in case of hia victory. The platform adopted at the Worcester Convention is the most inconsequential piece of political literature that has been promulgated during the present campaign. To revert to such names as those of Jefferson, Madison and Jackson in a Convention that nominates Butler; to denounce fraud and corruption in a Convention which had been captured by fraud in the interest, of a gang representing Communism; to call upon all “good citizens” to cooperate with the Democrats under the promise that they should not be held bound to the party, in a Convention in which the party had committed harikari— all this is so illogical that it can only excite contempt. The platform is silent on the subject of currency, and properly so, for the Convention told the wholfe story by nominating Butler. With the result of the Maine election clearly before them, the Democrats of Massachusetts have adopted Butler, with all that his name implies at this time. Evet a partial success in Maine of the doctrines he represents has annihilated the Democratic party of that. State, leaving the contest to the Republicans on the one hand, and on the other hand the Nationals, including Communists, Fiatists and many that formerly called themselves Democrats. Butler’s success in Massachusetts, if it be possible, will probably complete the suicide of the Democratic party; if not possible, his defeat will overwhelm that party with disgrace. The case seems to be made up, in spite of individual protests among the Democrats; and the party, in taking Communism and Fiatism to its bosom, has warned two ser§ents into life that will sting it to eath. —Chicago Tribune.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A woman of Brookfield, Mass., aged eighty, the other day, descended the well on her place, and cleaned out the debris. —At Boniville, N. Y., the other day,' in n game of base-ball, James Barry, of Utica, was struck in the stomach by a foul ball, and died in a few minutes. —A negro child at Montgomery, Ala., haying been bitten by a aog, his mother proceeded at . once to fill the wounds with the hair of the animal. It took the surgeon some time to clean them so as to apply the proper remedies —At Pittsfield, Mass., a railroad man, having paid his fine and costs for drunkenness, pleaded with the court to have his name kept out of the papers, and that so earnestly that when the Justice asked him the name, he had forgotten the name he had given, and was compelled to ask the clerk who he was. —An exception has been discovered to the rule laid down by Josh Billings and other philosophers that “ all good Injuns die young. ’ The Austin (Nev.) Reveille says: During the night of the day on which the flood occurred there were many drunken men on Main street. One of these, in drunken recklessness, took a handful of coin from his pocket and threw it on the ground. An Indian standing by gathered up the pieces and offered them to him, but the whits man refused the money; and said: “ You keep it, Jim, and treat the Indians with it.” “.All righUl!-. replied the Indian, “ me" keep 1 urn; give ’um you back when you sober.” And the next day he hunted the man up and gave him back his money. - A most extraordinary instance of pluck and endurance, combined with a miraculous escape from a horrible death by suffocation or starvation, recently transpired at Grizzly Flat, near lowa HilL Placer County, Cal. An old man, known as “Grizzly” Brown, while at work in his mine, was overwhelmed and burned by a cave of the mine. He was tightly shut in seventyfive yards from daylight, with scarcely a hope that lie would he missed ana search made, as his mine was quite a distance from any human habitation, with not a mouthful of food and only half a bottle*of whisky for drink, ana no person or thing from whioh to look for assistance save his pick and shovel, which, fortunately as it proved for him, were buried with him. He began the almost hopeless task of digging himself out. Fortunately, the earth proved soft and easy to work in, and, finally, after haling been entombed for three days, with nothing to sustain life but the friendly bottle of whisky, he reached the surface nearly exhausted from his long fast, but with strength epiugU ,Remaining to reach a place where ha copld. get food and nourishment— Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle.