Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1879 — Page 2

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

In Ualtefl States Senate Sated Committee appointed la pursuance of foe BUlne rcaolu Sitting )or an Inquiry aa to whether the fl i«MI nil mu! rifhte of oMaena In an; State 4fit the Union had been violated at the recent election*, heM a meeting, on the SOth. Pro* eat-Taßer, «araeran (W), Kirkwood, Bayer J, Baiter and Borland. A reaoloUon reof the President eopiee of docu naota end nmt of wttna«««i upon which he baaed hi* reference to the alleged election trend* mentioned In hi* annual message, wa* loet by a strict party vote—3 to 3. A reeolutten was thee adopted calling on Mr. Blaine to famish specification* upon which the com nrtttee might base Me Inquiry, end carry out the tnetrodlona embraced to the resolution oteed by that gentleman. Two Dwocoanc Members of Congress died hi Waatlngtoo, on tee 21*1. Gen. Aipheua 6. Williams, from the First Michigan District, and Beverly B. Douglas*, from the lint Virginia District Gen. Williams' funeral took place on the morning of the 22J, when hte remain* were taken to the depot to be forwarded to Detroit Tn Secretary of the Treasury, on the 21st issued e circular to Customs officers, authorising them to receive, after Jan. I, United State* note*, as well as gold coin and standard attror dollar*, in payment of duties oh A SPCGUL from Washington, on the 53d, to the Chicago Inter-Ocean, says that for the first time in seventeen years gold had come into general circulation there. The banks paid It out on checks the same as cuitoncy, customers taking it without objection in moat cases. Travelers and those expecting to soon leave the city called for currency In preference to gold- At the Treasury Department creditors* having coin obligations, in many instances, called for legal-tender notes. Some Treasury nltlals predicted tint gold would be a drug la the market in sixty days. Tn Assistant-Treasurers of the United States were instructed, oh the 2ttth, to make no distinction between coin and legal-tenders after the Ist of January. Piter llcMnuKi, a well-known resident of Washington, died In that city, ou the 25tb, ram the effects of a bite Inflicted by soother man with whate he bed an altercation over two mouths befotc. wmmteAwr. lx the United States District Court, at New York City, on the 20th, the jury bellore whom was tried the case at James E. Whalen «*. ' Gen. Sheridan, brought In a verdict for the defendant. The suit was for the recovery of over #400,C00 for the seizure of the Klllona plantation, St. Charles Parish, La., in August 1867, and the ejectment of Whalen, by the military order of Gen. Sheridan, who was then Military Governor. A motion would be made for a new trial. A New Yodk special of a recent date says Manchester papers declared that the New Hampshire Tramp law had proved a great success. A year ago the country towns were at the mercy of a horde of wandering vagrants, who despoiled property, threatened lives and spread terror in households. Now life and property are secure, women and children come and go tn safety, and the old curse is almost entirely removed, without injury to sny deterring poor. Heavy snow-storms prevailed at the East, oe foe 23d and 231. Three feet ou a level had fallen at Buffalo, N. Y., and in other localities. The cold was Intense. Margaret Murphy, of Brooklyn, N. Y., while intoxicated a few evening, ago, lifted a tour-mouths old baby of Mrs. Ewing from its cradle and began dancing it on her knee. Losing hw balance, she fell with the child on a rod-hot stove. The baby was burned to death, and the woman was badly injured. Tux St Louie express bound West on the New York Central Railroad, while stopping at a station five miles east of Buffalo, N. Y., •a the 33d, was ran Into by the Chicago exprom bound West, and two men named A. Gay and Michael Mahoney were killed, and j one named George Vick had a leg broken. Tux Directors of the Mount Sinai (Hebrew) Hospital of New York City, after considering a proffer of SSOO by ex-Judge Henry Hilton, on behalf of Mrs. A. T. Stewart, and discussing communications by mail and telegraph from Israelites of Cincinnati, advising the refusal of the money, unanimously voted, on the 231, that the gift should not lie accepted through Judge Hilton, and the Secretary was authorized to write a letter to that effect. The snow was four feet deep on the level In the ridnitT of Oswego, N. Y- on the 25tb, and all trains on local railroads bad been abandoned. The news from other localities wee that a general blockade of trains exist ed on tiie New York Central and Erie Roads west of Rochester, the snow-drifts being from six to eight feet deep. Ox Christmas night, ex Congressman Owen • Jones, of Penns)lvania, went out to visit a neighbor. He was found lying by the road side and frozen to death three or four hours later. Mr. Jones was a member of the Fortyfifth Congress. Rxv. Leonard Woods, a distinguished New England theologian and author, and formerly President of B mdoin College in Maine, died, on the 16th. GOLD dosed in New York, on l>ec. 26th, at par. The following were the dosing quotations for produce: No. 3 Chicago Spring Wheat, [email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee, 97c® SI.OO. Oats, Western Mixed, 2% Coro, Western Mixed, 46) j @ 47c. Pork, Mess, $7.15(17.50. Lard, $5.75@a»0. Flour, Good to Choice, $4.0504.50; White Wheat Extra, $4.55(2)5.25. Cattle, $7.65(99.50 for Good to Extra. Sheep, $3.70(3)5.75 Hogs, [email protected]. A* East Liberty, Pa., on Dec. 2*th. Cattle brought: Beat, $4.25@4 75; Medium, $3.50® 4.16; Common, $3.00®3.5j. Hogs aoldVorkera, #&Bs®i7s; Philadelphia*, $2.70® 2.8 A Sheep brought [email protected] —according to quality. A» Baltimore, Md., on Dec. 26th, Cattle brought;, Best, Medium, •S.l3X@S.«2*. Hogs sold at for Good. Sheep were quoted at $3.50(94.75 for Good.

Mrnrr Aim south. O* Uie3otb, the 8t Louis bridge wm sold at tuction for •3,000,000, to a gentleman reprotosMny the English bondholders. The Indianapolis Barings Bank nas forced into liquidation, on the SOtli, by the Auditor of State. The usual promise to pay in full is Geoboe W. Dcpkee, Stale Printer in Lou■ isiana, and proprietor of the New Orleans Democrat, was indicted for fraud, on the 30th. He ta charged with having overcharged the State its 000 At ZasasvUe, Ohio, oh Use 31st, Dr. ihrrt, couvicted of grave obbing, was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment and to pay a fine of •MOB, Eaton, his aocouplice, was sentenced Di»PATC**a were received in Hpy Orleans, jH «»»*•, so the effect that a Deputy tTnifed StfitM Manba), who bad been subpmnaing «iiaeeM»ißproweuUo&s for vkMops of the startedtrom Caddo Parish with two colored witnesses named Clerk «4 White, and that when atCsJetJonD Of the f» to put » pr<-

muted n warrant for the arreet of the two man, took pqmemlou of them and started In the direction of Shreveport. On the way a roob took fob {filsonen, and. It Is supposed. At Janesville, Wls., on the 26th, Mrs. Melinda Mack was convicted of the murder of bar husband, a tanner, reaiding near that city, and sentenced to Imprisonment for life. A hired men named Dickerson, indicted with her a* an accomplice In the crime, testified that she did the killing, and that he assisted her to caivy the body of the victim Into the stable, where It waa placed, as found, at the heels of a horse, to give the appearance of having been kicked and trampled to death. Dickerson's trial will follow. Tnn Indian Bureau at Washington received a telegram on the 96th, from Yakima, W. T., to the effect that the Indian Chief Moses snd ten of his principal men had been caf tuml, and that the other Indians were getting on to the reservation aa fast as possible. Not a gun had been fired. This news was regarded with great satisfaction by the Bureau, as Indicating that the recent imminent danger of an Indian war in Washington Territory had been -averted by the action of the agents of the Interior Department and other civil authorities. In Chicago, on Dec. 26th, Spring Wheat Na 2 closed st BS%c cash; 83%c for January; 64’hC for February. Cash Corn closed at for No. 2; 30Jfc for January; 84Jfc for May. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at lV%c, and seller January. Rye No. 2,44 c. Barley No. 2, 9S)£c for cash, SI.OO for January. Cash Mess Pork closed st #6.1507.40. Lard, $5.37>f Peeves —Extra brought #4.50®5.00; Choice, $4.00 Q 4.25; Good, $3.40®3.90; Medium Grades, $3.00(93.40; Butchers’ Stock, [email protected]; Stock Cattle, etc., $9.4502.75. Hogs—Good to Choice, $2-5002.30. Sheep—Poor to Choice, t9jOsH-ltfl. . , - -

FORRIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Accordixo to Constantinople dispatches of the 20th, the steamer Rinaldo, which ran down the Byzantine, succeeded in saving ninety of the latter’s passengers. Twelve Turkish battalions have been scut to Podgoritza to prevent tbe Albanians resisting the annexation of that Province to Montenegro. According to a St. Petersburg dispatch of the 2)tb, numerous riotous demonstrations bad been made in that city and Moscow by students attached to tbe various educational institutions. The Chiefs of Police ordered them to disperse, and, the disorder continuing, squadrons cf soldiers were brought up, and from 140 to 200 of them were arrested and lodged in the Military Prison. The German Tobacco Inquiry Commission has rejected the Government proposition to make the traffic lu tobacco a State monopoly. According to a St. Petersburg dispatch of the 23d, the Government apprehended a Nihilist outbreak and contemplated the closing of all the universities in the Empire as a precautionary measure. The Princess Tbyra, daughter of the King of Denmark, was married to the Duke of Cumberland, hereditary King of Hanover, on the evening of tbe 21st. London telegrams of 22d say the reducUod proposed of 12}£ per cent, in wages at tbe colleries in South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire would 3ffect 100,000 men. A plan to strike tr. >/i<is*e was l>eing considered. On tbe 22d, an express train on the Kostow A Viadikookas Railway, in Russia, ran off an embankment. Twenty person were killed outright and thirty-eight more or less seriously injured. Among the killefl were Gen. Hintz and several officers of the Army of the Caucasus.

The funeral obsequies of the late Bayard' Taylor, United States Minister at Berlin, took place in that city, on the 22d. All Ambassadors, including the Chinese and Japanese, were present, as were also representatives of the Emperor and Crown Prince. Dispatches from London, on the 23d, say the weather was exceptionally severe throughout England and Scotland. AH the railroads in the north of Scotland were blocked with snow, and travel Was entirely suspended. On the Continent, also, the fall of anow was exceptionally heavy and the weather bitter cold. A dispatch was received hr Loudon, on the 23d, from Gen. Browne,: dated December 20, announcing the occupation of Jelalabad. He states that the inhabitants were friendly.

A Qcettah (India) dispatch of the 32dsays the Governor of Candahar had advised the Ameer that he was unable to oppose the march of the British one that city. ' One Mandi7"iriiafsralTzeir~cltlzeirof the United States, has been prohibited from lecturing in Berlin ou the improved prospects of'the Western States of America, on the ground that the tendency of the lecture would be to induce not only Socialists but well-to-do Germans to emigrate. Berlin dispatches of the 24th say the law against Socialism was being urged with re* newed vigor. In Leipsic alone seventeen publications had recently been repressed. The Empress of Germany has sent an auto graph letter of condolence to the widow of Die late Bayard Taylor. Ax Austrc-Italian treaty of commerce has been signed. A Copenhagen (Denmark) hotel-keeper has been arrested for sending letters to the King threatening his assassination. The result of the inquiry into the circumstances attending the loss of the steamer Pomerania is a derision that the Captain and officers did all that was possible to be done to avoid the collision and loss of life. Tns Great Council of Geneva has accepted of the separation of Church and State, and appointed a committee to embody that principle in a law. According to a Kuram (India)' telegram, received lu London on the 26th, an Afghan soldier in the British service had been hanged for firing his gun to warn bis countrymen of the advance on Peiwar Pass. Eighteen others had been sentenced to terms of penal servitude ranging from seven to fourteen years, for desertion.

T«r steamer State of Louisiana, from tilaszow for New York, ran on a rock in Larue Lough, on the Scottish Coast, on-the 31th. It was thought she could not be got off. No lives were lost. SIXEniAJi Pasha, the Turkish General who was sentenced to confinement in a Turkish stronghold for alleged misconduct dtiring the war with Russia, has been pardonctl by Ihe Bnltan. COKUBKCWIOXAL PBOCKKDMCB. In the Senate, on the 20th, the bill introduced by Mr. Beck, to' repeat Sec. 820 of the Revised Statutes, which disqualifies all persons compromised with the Rebellion from serving on Grand or .Petit Juries in United States Courts, was caliec up, and a motion was made and carried to go into Executive session—2s to to 25—ito Vice-President giving his vote in the affirmative. After the Executive session, the hUi was poised.... Adjourned to Jan. 7. -. In the House, bills were paased—removing the political disabilities of certain persons: Benate toil authorising the payment of the State of Tennessee for keeping United States military Pnsoner* ...A communication was received arid referred from Hec,'y Sherman, in answer to a resolution of inquiry, stating that there were ho faalanom on loan accounts standing to the credit of the United States Treasury in any National to*San 1876 to J*«, MS ? Adjourned y “Father,” said an inquisitive bov, “ what is meant by close relations?” “ Close relations, my son," replied the ■lather, * --are relations that never give you a oent.” The boy said the old man, then, was the “ closest” relation he’d got. ■ • ■—■-- ■■■ It must have been after ft Thanks* giving dinner that Macbeth exclaimed, “Hens, horrible ib*4ow, yaps!”—Boston Com. Bulletin. f \

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —He ia a good man. indeed, who does nil the good hekalks of. —Fashion item: This season, at lost, lamps will be trimmed with ehear*.-r-KeoJtuk Constitution. v~>. —The vain man is, after all, the hapSiest. While the rest of us are trying > please others he is perfectly satisfied if he only pleases himself.—.Y. Y. World. —lt was Emerson Who declared that a man ought uot to bo a slave of his yesterdays. Quite true—nor yet of his to-morrows. Lot him rather be master of his to-day.— Graphic. —“ What is light?” asked the diminutive professor, as he looked over his spectacles. '‘Well,” waa the reply, *• a full-grown man who doesn't weigh over a hundred pounds is light.” —When you say that boys will be boys you mean that there is a certain amount of diabolism in human nature which shows itself at a very early age, without Intimating that in later years it wholly vanishes.—.#. Y. Herald. —Snodkins (who is escorting a meek maiden of the Port to her home): Haven't we got most to your house? Meek Maiden of tbe Port: Oh, dear, no, Mr. Snodkins. We passed my house an hour ago.— Harvard Crimson. —A carpenter of Lisdoonvarnn, County Clare, .Ireland, has just met his death in a curious manner. He was riding on a bicycle and was upset. He fell on a chisel and was so badly wounded that he died by the roadside.

—An exchange says: “ Kind words are better than gold.’ 11 Well, they may be for some purposes, but, when you want to choke on a bill collector with a heavy under jaw, gold’s the best. Such men don’t run to sentiment much. —Bridgeport Standard. —“Did you attend the church fair last night?” asked a minister of one of the male members of his congregation. “ Yes, sir.” “ I didn't see you there," said a sharp-eyed deacon; “I saw you by the outer door at closing up time." “ Well, I attended two of’em home.’’ Yonkers Qatelle. —Speaking of the dull times, a wicked Mobile man says that a few weeks ago a stranger arrived there and bought a bale of cotton, and a pleasant rumor was at once started that the cotton buyer had arrived, but it only proved to be a Chicagp man with the ear-ache.— Boston Commercial Bulletin. —A little girl recently saw an old drunken man lying on the doorstep, the perspiration pouring off his face, and a crowd of children preparing to make fun of him. She took her little apron and wiped his face, and looking up so pitifully* to the rest, made this remark: “O don’t hurt him, he is somebody’s grandpa.” —A policeman who had offered his hand to a young womau and had been refused, arrested her and took her to the station-house. “What is the change against this woman,” asked the Lieutenant. “ Resisting an offer, sir,” was the reply. She was discharged, and so was the officer.—Cincinnati Saturday Night. —lt was in a Stumptown SundaySchool a visitor, who was interrogating the children, asked the question: “ Why was Lot’s wife turned into a pillar of salt?” There was a pause, and then a small boy, with a preternatural growth of head, piped out, “I s’pose it was because she was too fresh.” —Newark Sunday Call.

—The Chinese anatomists have found out why the world is so hollow-hearted. At an inquest recently* held on the tod” of An Lin, who died at San Jose suddenly of heart disease, his physician, Dr. Cog Fy, stated that he had treated him for his lungs, and in answer to the question, “ How many lungs has a man?” replied: “Seven.” He also gave the information that there are five holes in the heart of man, and that its principal function is to “ catch air

—The Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company is said to require every* man in its employ to subscribe to the following pledge before entering into the service of the company: “I hereby agree aud promise that while I am in the employ of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company, I will entirely abstaiiifrom thense of intoxicating liquors of every kind, including ale, beer and wine, ana that I will not frequent dram-shops, billiard-saloons, or other places where liquors are sold; that I will refrain from the use of profane, abusive and improper language, and will endeavor to treat everybody with all due respect and courtesy. Failiug to keep these pledges I shall expect to be discharged from the service of the company.” The agricultural and business situation in Tennessee is summed up as follows: The general condition of Tennessee is muen improved. The farmers have made no more money this year than for the past three years, but have a greater abundance of crops. The movement of crops lias been backward, in consequence of low prices. The prospects for increased crops next year are very flattering. There is an apparent improvement in the disposition of the people to invest capital in farming and in business generally. The people are generally better oft' this year than they were two or three years ago. There is an improvement in the local trade consequent on the increased means of producers on account of low prices. Confidence is returning, and all the general business prospects for next year are regarded as encouraging, it not flattering. There is no more money among the people at large than there was last year, or in the two preceding years.

A Fatherly Man.

Griswold street, from Fort to Congress, offers such superior facilities for falling down in the winter that all. newsboys and bootblacks who look upon the bright and cheerful side of life loaf around that section a great deal ih order to be on hand when the climax occurs. Seven of them stood in a row yesterday morning as a fatherly, unwieldy citizen turned the corner of the Moffatt Block. —- “ Select your spot!” they yelled, as he reached the descent, and is about a minute he reached the conclusion that they had gathered/there to see him Some men would have jumped aside into the street, but this fatherly man continued on. He resolved to himself: “Now, these boys are poor, forlorn boys. They seldom have any fun. They are hungry, ragged, and *do not look forward to Christmas. They wish me to fall. If, by falling, I can add to their happiness, it is my auty to do so.” ; Those hoys may never know that that good man fell on purpose to please them. He suddenly made a slip to the left, stretching out hb leg until it) looked to be ten feet long—then a slip to j the right, and as he recovered he stuck 1

his heels toward the South Pole, clawed out like a million angleworms fastened together, o*d the snow where he struck flew sixteen feet. He didn't get up and tell the boys that it was a put-up job to lighten their burdens of care ana sorrow for a moment, but he knows and the reader knows that it was.—Detroit Free Press. "7

Elephant Herds.

Herds of elephants usually consist of from thirty to fifty individuals, but much larger numbers, even one hundred, are by po means uncommon. When large herds are in localities where fodder is not very plentiful, they divide into parties of from ten to twenty; these remain separate, though within two or three miles of each other. But they all take part in auy common movement, such as a march in another tract of forest. The different parties keep themselves informed at all times of each other’s whereabouts, chiefly by their tine sense of smell. I have observed that tame elephants can scent wild ones at a distance of three miles when the wind is favorable. Each herd of elephants is a family in which the animals are nearly allied to each other. Though the different herds do not intermix, escaped tame female elephants, or young males, appear to find no difficulty in obtaining admittance to herds. In a herd of elephants the females with their calves form .the advanced guard, while the tuskers follow leisurely behind, as the unencumbered tusk-' era have no one to see to but themselves. 1 have never known a case of a tusker undertaking to cover the retreat of a herd. A herd is invariably led by a female —never a male—and the females with young ones are at all times dangerous if intruded upon. The necessity for the convenience of the mothers of the herd regulating its movement is evident, as they must accommodate the length and time of their marches, and the localities in which they rest or feed at different hours, to the requirements of their young ones; consequently the guidance of a tusker would not suit them.

Elephants make use cf a great variety of sounds in communicating with each other, and in expressing their wants aud feelings. Some are uttered by the trunk, some by the throat. The conjunctures in which either means of expression is employed cannot be strictly classified—as fear, pleasure, want and other emotions are sometimes indicated by the trunk, sometimes by the throat. An elephant rushing upon an assailant trumpets shrilly with fury; but if enraged by wounds or other causes, and brooding by itself, it expresses its anger by a continued hoarse grumbling from the throat. Fear is similarly expressed by a shrill, brassy trumpet, or by a roar from the lungs; pleasure by a continued low squeaking through the trunk, or an almost inaudible purring sound from the throat. Want—as a calf calling its mother—is chiefly expressed by the throat. A peculiar sound is made use of by elephants to express dislike or apprehension, and at the same time to intimidate, as when the cause of alarm has

not been clearly ascertained, and the animals wish to deter an intruder. It is produced by rapping the end of the trunk smartly on the ground, a current of air, hitherto retained, being sharply emitted through the trunk, as from a valve, at the moment of impact. The sound made resembles that of a large sheet of tin rapidly doubled. While in open country the herds move about a good deal during the day in cloudy, showery weather. On very stormy and inclement days they keep to bamboo cover, which is close and

warm. During breaks, when the sun shines for a few hours, they come out eagerly to warm their huge bodies. They are then fond of standing on the sheet-rock so common in the Mysore country above hill ranges. The young calves and staid mothers, in small groups, half dozing as they bask, form tranquil family pictures at such times. Elephants are partial to rocky places -afraH-seasons; —~■ —~ —■ While marching from one track of forest to another, elephants travel in strict Indian file. They seldom stay more than one or two days at the same halting-place, as the fodder becomes exhausted. They rest during the middle hours of the night, as well as during the day. Some lie down, and they usually dispose themselves in small, distinct squads of animals which seem to have an affection for each other. (Tame elephants frequently display a particular liking for one or other of their fellows.) About three o’clock they rise to feed or march, and by ten o’clock in the day they are again collected, and rest till afternoon; at eleven at night they again rest. In showery cool weather elephants are frequently on the move all day long. When a calf is born, the herd remains with its mother two days; the calf is then capable of marching. Even at this tender age calves are no encumbrance to the nerd’s movement; the youngestclimb and cross rivers, assisted by their * dams. In swimming, veiy young calves are supported by their mothers’ trunks, and held in front of them. When they are a few months old they scramble onto their mother’s shoulders, helping themselves by holding on with their legs, or they swim alone. Young calves sent across rivers in charge of our tame elephants often did this, though they could swim by themselves if necessary. Full-grown elephants swim perhaps better man any other land animals. A batch of seventy-nine that I dispatched from Dacca to Barraokpur, near Calcutta, in November, 1875, had the Ganges and several of its large tidal branches to cross. In the longest swim they were six hours without touching the bottom; after a rest in a sand-bank they completed the swim in three more; hot one was lost. I have heard of more remarkable swims than this.— G. P. Sanderson's “ Thirteen Years Among the Wild Beasts of India."

“Ah, by George!” groaned young Mr. Lethered n pinking wearily into an office-chair, “ ah, by George! my head aches fearfully.” —“Possible?” asked his employer, old 'Mr. Hardfax, with a look of curious interest and sympathy. “Possible? Something must have got into it.” And then for a long time nobody said anything, and the room seemed to grow about fifteen degrees colder.— lfawk- Bye. He was a countryman, and he walked along our busy thoroughfare and read a sign over the door of a manufacturing establishment, “ Cast-Iron Sinks.” It made him mad. He said that any fool ought to knoW that. —Camden (Jv.. J.) Post. “Remember, now,” said abride -at the altar, “we have separated and been remarried four' times, and about once more will, convince me that we can never live bappttytogether.” ' J

The Whipping-Post.

The State laws of Virginia provide that all persona convicted of petit larceny (hall receive a certain number of stripes, proportionate to the offense. To observe and describe the method of inflicting this punishment, a section of the Post was detailed yesterday morning to visit Alexandria, where two negroes had been sentenced by the Mayor to be whipped. The offense for which they were convicted was small, merely the larceny of a cap, and consequently the number of stripes was comparatively light Shortly after nine o’clock the men were released from their oells and brought into the corridor of the station-house. “Now, Henry Carter, step up and put your hands through the grating of this cell door,” said Lieut. John L. Smith, as he drew a newly-purchasod cowhide whip from its wrapping. A well-formed negro, black as the ace of spades, about twenty-one years of age, and naked to the waist, walked up and placed his hands through the grating as dirocted, while the Lieutenant passed the whip to Officer Franks, who generally inflicts this punishment. “ How many, bossP” asked Carter, as his hauds were secijred on the other side. “ Twenty -one,” replied the officer. “ Lay them on light,” pleaded Carter, as he began to sing “ Hallelujah” and “ Glory to God” to keep up his courage. Swish! Down came the cruel whip on the man’s bare back. A long white jonark look livid in contrast to the ebony skin. “ Two!” called the officer, as a deep cut showed where the second blow baa struck. The third, fourth and fifth followed in steady succession, each about one inch below the other. By this time Carter was howling for mercy. The sixth blow fell diagonally across the preceding ones, and the whole body of the wretched negro quivered with agony. Down came the whip again, and Carter writhed like a snake. The eighth, ninth and tenth were given with such force that, at the latter blow, the handle of the whip broke about eight inches from the butt end. Without stopping for a new whip, Officer Franks grasped the instrument further up and kept at his work. Another blow. The whipping was only half done, and yet it seemed an age to the reporter, while Carter’s back was already marked like a ekecker-board. Each successive blow drew from the negro the most piteous yells. His body squirmed against the cell-door, and raised and Towered in his efforts to get free. He turned half-way round, and the relentless whip wound itself around his side, and drew the blood from his breast. He jumped in his agonv, and the cowhide fell across his neck and face. Each blow now seemed to sink, like iron, into the man’s body. The blood began to rush from the lacerated flesh, ana to one unused to this punishment the scene was almost horrible.

“ For God’s sake put something on my back, Captain,” screamed Carter, as the blows fell, sharp and stinging, upon his back, the pain growing with each more and more intense. To add to the scene, if indeed, it needed any addition, the other culprit, Albert Dorsey, who appeared enduring mentally what his companion was suffering physically, commenced to howl as loud as possible. At last, however, the justice of the law was satisfied. The whole operation only took about three minutes, and yet it seemed as if all the pain which could be inflicted in that space of time was laid upon Carter. Although the blows had ceased it was evident that the pain was still felt, and the negro thief will carry the marks of yesterday’s whipping for some time to come.

“ Now, Dorsey, it-is your turn,” said the Lieutenant; and the second negro was placed in the same position as the first. “Give him fifteen,” added AJj\ Smith; and the officer, having cut the air once or twice with his whip, as if to try it, proceeded at once to carry into effect his superior’s orders. On Dorsey’s skin, which was a light brown, the marks showed more plainly, and the blood seemed to'cofne quicker. The same scene was repeated, and, though ho seemed to suffer as much pain as Carter, he appeared to get over it quicker when the whipping was finished. ! “ What do you think, of this business?” asked the Post of Lieut. Smith, after the whipping was over, while the negroes were putting on their clothes. “lam in favor of it. My experience ' shows that it reduces the number of larcenies to a great extent. Not only that, but it saves the expense of courts, it discourages pettifogging lawyers, and it is far more effectual than Jails or Workhouses, which only harden criminals.” . '' ■ “I suppose you have seen many cases of whipping,” inquired this particular fiber of the Post. “ At least five hundred,” was the reply. “ What is the extent of the law?” “Seventy-eight stripes. But to inflict them all at once would kill any man, and so only thirty-nine are given daily, until the sentence is carried out. But this number of lashes is only inflicted when the offense is an aggra vated one. No person is ever givenless than ten or fifteen.”

Meandering over toward Mr. Franks, who had thrown down his whip and was putting on his coat, the Post asked him how he liked his work. “Oh, I am used to it,” he answered, “ and I don’t mind it much. Don’t you think this was a neat job?” Perhaps it was. The reporter did not like to express an opinion, but thought he might as well agree with Mr. Tranks, and rather reluctantly assented. “ There are not many men who know how to handle a whip,” continued the officer, enthusiastically. “Some of them catch hold of it as though it was a stick, and bring it down heavy. Now, i don’t. I just make a simple twist of the wrist (illustrating), and bring the whip down like a spring. That cuts like a knife, and hurts worse than the other way.” > “What kind of a whip do voh like best?” inquiml,the reporter. “ Well, I don’t like that hind,” said the gentleman, pointing to the instrument he had thrown down. “ It„is too stiff, and liable to break. But it don’t make much difference if it is handled right They aU hurt, “ Do the men always squeal?” “ Sometimes they stq.it out with the determination to ndtopen their months, bnt the whip generally takes that out of them, 1 remember one man, though, named Butcher Smith, who tallied off each stripe until he reached thirty-nine, when he said, 'Stop her.’ Then he *Ut pn Ms clothes, lit his pipe, and wemtbulof the door. Another man, named Butler, refused to be tied, and otood with his arms folded while he was whipped. But these are exceptional

cases. The white men stud it better than negroes.” , , “ How shout the women?”' “I never whipped a woman, although such a thing has been done here often. You see the law allows us discretion in the esse of women, ahd they are generally sent to Jail. But we have no such discretion regarding men.” “ What do you think of the punishment P” “ What do I think of it? Well, I would sooner go to Jail for six months than take thirty-nine stripes.” “Do yon always lay the whip on heavyP” “The law says * and well laid on,’ and I always like to obey the law.” The whipping is bad enough always, but when a Magistrate orders a negro to whip a white man, as is sometimes done, the disgrace is far worse than the pain inflicted by the whip.—Washington (D. C.) Post.

Bushmen.

Their speech is a series of clicks, interspersed here and there by a harshsounding and utterly unintelligible guttural. In default of better food, the Bushmen will eat snakes and other reptiles, and they make a kind of bread of dried locusts, pounding them between stones, and kneading into cakes the mealy substance thus produced. Although these diminutive savages present one of the lowest forms of humakity—the South American Brotocudo being, perhaps, yet a degree nearer to the animal type—they are possessed of a good deal of cunning, and even bravery of a certain sort. Thus, they will not only stalk game of the smaller kinds, but even tne lion itself, keeping carefully to leeward, so that their scent shall be unperceived, and, creeping upon their bellies to within a few yards of him, when they will let fly one of their tiny poisoned arrows, and the doom of the king of beasts is sealed In hunting the ostrich, they contrive to get sufficiently near it under cover of a screen made of the skin and feathers of tbo same bird, which they advanco by degrees, moving the head or neck cleverly, in imitation of one of them feeding. The Bushmen are a very revengeful little people, and think nothing of ham-stringing a whole herd of cattle in retaliation for a real or imaginary grievance, and on account of their deadly, although insignificant-looking weapons, the Boors are much afraid <3 them, and shoot them dovyn like dogs when they get the opportunity. And yet it seems a 3 if it ought not to be so absolutely impossible to civilize these strange creatures, who are clearly not devoid of intelligence, their cave dwellings being constantly found adorned with spirited drawings of the animals of the Veldt, traced with some kinds of colored clays and pigments that seem to defy the effects of time.— Spectator.

A Silver Plant.

A few days ago, the express brought to this city a large quantity of silver coin, supposed to be $20,000. It was consigned to the Fourth National Bank, corner of Third and Walnut streets. There would have been nothing strange about this incident if it had not been known that the eo ! n was of an extraordinary kind, and was enveloped in a mysterious historv. It was oi the halfdollar denomination, and every piece bore the date of the American Mint, showing that it was coinad prior to 1834. The strangest feature of all remains, however, to be recited. Not one of the coin has ever been in circulation, and are as bright and. rough as when they dropped from the mint, nearly half a century ago. Where has this money been all these years? It is well known that the $20,000 received in Cincinnati is only part of the whole amount of $75,000 of this coin which has been shipped from Pittsburgh to various points of the country. One theory is that it is a thief s “plant,” just discovered and dug up by some lucky fellow. Another theory puts the matter in a speculatory light. It is known that, shortly after the date of this money’s coinage, under Gen. Jackson’s Administration, sßvef was debased.- Mightit_ not not be, then, that some one invested largely in the debased coin and hoarded it away on a speculation? Whatever the history of the strange money be, it is a curious one. It becomes almost of National importance to know that $75,000 of this ancient silver is being poured into the current of trade.- Cincinnati Enquirer.

What “Bosh” Means.

In a lecture on Jerusalem at the Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church, in Attorney street, last evening, the Rev. Dr. J. P. Newman, ex-pastor to exPresident Grant, traced the history oh that city from the date of the earliest Biblical record until the present time, and told how its appearance when he visited it a few years, ago compared with what he might have expected from his Scriptural reading. He said that many of the old landmarks still remained and some of the old customs are still in vogue. One evening, while strolling about, he met a strange-look-ing procession, headed by a band of unschooled musicians. At the end of the line a group of men were carrying on their shoulders a rude bower, in which a maiden of thirteen, deeply veiled, reclined. “What is this?” he asked of his guide. “It is half of a marriage procession,” was the response, “ and if you come here at midnight you will see the bridegroom.” And sure enough—“Lo, at midnight, the bridegroom eometh’ ’—he came, a youth of fourteen. The-Jjride was waiting for him, still veiled, at his father’s honse. He had never seen her face, the marriage having been arranged by a mutual friend. He raised the veil and exclaimed, “Yes, thank God,” and his friends went home rejoicing. Had he meant “no” he would nave said “Bosh!” and his friends would have frone home sad. The future of Jerusiem thrilled Dr. Newman to think of, for he had no doubt the Jews would become united there as the grandest commonwealth that the world ever haw. Already a Jew—Rothschild—owned the Holy Land.— N. T, World. It was an awful poor rawboned looking beast, and no wonder the other man didn't appear greatly inclined tp trade. " That’s a fine horse,” said the proprietor of the animal, to encourage him, “a royal horse, and”—“Yes” quietly interrupted the other, “ there’s the prints of whales on his back now.” The meeting adjourned. —Bridgeport Standard. . - ■ ..... ■ If a good man dies a natural death he is not likely to.be remembered as a hero. Let him be murdered by Indians and the conditions are changed.— N.. 0. “ 1 am hioparch of all I; sir, weigh,” you can truthfully say if you are not a married men.—Uowanda Enterprise.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—Two resident* of Hillsrille, Vs., recently disputed about a young lady’s Sp— one holding that she was twenty, e other that she was eighteen—and fought about R, one being killed. —AtMurplfy, N. C., the other day, Wesley Thompson and Henry Palmer got into a dispute over a game of drawpoker. Thompson charged his antagonist with cheating. He denied it. and Thompson shot and killed him. —Charles Roble died at Franklin, N. C., a few days ago, and while his body ' lay unburied in the house, Charles Bourman, a step-son of the deceased, without the slightest provocation, shot and killed his step-brother in the adjoining room to that in which the body j of Rome was laid out.

—A oat that kills rattlesnakes is owned by Charles Baker, a Granger, who is reclaiming desert land on the Gila,' opposite Mohawk.’ The cat watches them until they uncoil and start to glide off; then jumps and catches them by the back of the neck, chewing the vertebra) till the snakes are dead, and with his claws tearing loose any coils that may be thrown around his body. He has already killed several. —Arizona Sentinel. " —A curious Connecticut accident: Mrs. Gilbert Graves, of South Killingly, fell down her cellar stairs with a kettle of hot water in her hand, a step giving way, and was badly bruised ami scalded. S. W. Franklyn, a neighbor, heard her cries, and, going to her assistance, tumbled through the break and was seriously hurt internally. Then, to cap the climax, Mrs. Graves’ son, aged eleven, came to the rcsoue, and was soon lamenting with the others on the cellar bottom. —Pat Shannon, a Pittsburgh engineer, was at work at his engine in one of the mills in that city a sow days ago. A belt in the gearing over his head was loose, and while putting ; t on a pulley he was caught by the coat-sleeve. The pulley was making 240 revolutions per minute, and in a twinkling his body was wrapped around the shaft. The heavy beam work above the shafting caught the body and mangled it frightfully. The machinery had to be reversed to get out the head and trunk. The shoes and one foot were thrown 300 feet from where the accident occurred.

—At Paterson, N. J.,the other afternoon, a man and boy attempted to drive a wagon along the Little Falls turnpike, which was submerged by the freshet. They missed the road* and drove into the channel of the river, above Passaic Falls. The wagon-body, with the man and boy, floated off. The swift current bore them toward the rapids and the plunge of seventy feet beyond. Some gentlemen who were on the bridge that spans the river just above the boiling rapids, hastily tore the reins from some horses-standing there and made lines, whieh the man and boy caught as they passed under, and were saved. The wagon-body plunged over the falls. —A few mornings ago, in Grammar School No. 10, in Now York City, containing 1,310 children; a blaze of tire shot up through the heating register in one of the rooms. The teacher, with great presence of mind, closed the register to keep out the blaze, sent hasty word to the Principal, and quieted the children by telling them a story. The bell was instantly struck which called all the pupils into line in each room. A second stroke brought the classes separately marshalled into the main room, and a third stroke started them all into the street, amazed but ignorant, and inclined to be jolly at the prospect of an unexpected holiday. The rooms were cleared without any sign of hurry or confusion within two minutes of the first alarm. The children gave three cheers as they emerged into tne area, and did not guess the cause of their sudden dismissal until, upon reaching the street, they saw the fire-engines unlimbering.

Death of Bayard Taylor.

There will be sorrow, universal afid deep, in two hemispheres, at the announcement which comes this morning of the death of Bayard Taylor, which is reported to have occurred at Berlin, yesterday afternoon, at four o’clock. Perhaps no literary man who ever lived in this country was more widely known than Mr. Taylor. The mature men and women of to-day remember his travels abroad, as related in the New York Tribune years ago, and remember them as a part of their earliest and pleasantest studies. Not a few of the friends he made then have kept up the literary acquaintance through all his subsequent wanderings and successes. Mr. Taylor, whose baptismal name was James Bayard, was born in Chester County, Pa., Jan. 11, 1825. If he had lived a few weeks longer he would therefore have attained the age of fifty-four. In early life he learned the printing business, and in 1844 began a two years’ travel on foot in Europe, which he completed at an outlay of but SSOO. The story of his travels was subsequently published under the title of “ Views Afoot; or, Europe Seen with Staff and Knapsack.” This book reached twenty-one editions, and was warmly commended here and in Europe. ' Updnnis return home, Mr. began the publication of a paper at Phoanixville, Pa., bat quit after an experience of one year. In. 1849 he became one of the editors and a co-pro-prietor of the New York Tribune. In 1851 he left for another tour abroad, and retnrnedln 1858, after accomplishing more than 50,000 miles of travel in Europe, Asia and Africa. In 1856, he made a third tour, which also consumed two years. In 1862 he was appointed Secretary of the American Legation at the Coart of St. Petersburg, and afterward performed the duties of Charge d’Affaires. His works embrace not only accounts of travel, but poetry and fiction, in both of which realms he won great and deserved success. A number of years age he married a German lady Of fine accomplishments, the daughter of Prof. Hansera, the distinguished German astronomer. He resided a great deal abroad, though he spent sufficient time in his own country to becomejcnown in almost every important town as a lecturer, in which field he was very successful. | Last summer he Vas appointed Minister to Berlin, a post exactly suited to his pastes, and he sailed from New York with the warmest wishes of hosts of friends, who gathered to wish him good-by. His death will excite almost as much sorrow In Germany and England urta the United States, for he was a true cosmopolite, and it can be said of him Jdiat bR Sleight of hand—Refusing a marriage proposal.