Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1879 — Page 2

The Rensselaer Union. —»— MCNNULAKB, • * INDIANA.

General News Summary.

nt«M wjuuuncproa. Av th* Cabinet meeting in Washington, on "the 7th, .all the sombert were present except P. M.-Oen. Key. It it said all present expromt gratification at the success so far attending the resumption of specie payment, and saw no reason why it should not be main* tained auccesafully. Bec’y Sherman called attenWoato the fact that the Treasury then held Urge amounts of gold, silver and greenthan there was any lmme- ( Ar Washington, on the morning of the Bth, Hob. Julian Hartridge, Democratic RepreMutative from the First Georgia District, died of pneumonia. Ox the 9th, Charles Thompson, Principal Chief of tire Cherokee Nation, and several delegates from that tribe, and also from the Creeks and Chickasaws, called on President Hayes. Chief Thompson and P. Porter, of the Creeks, made brief speeches, stating that their people were in a prosperous condition and ware opposed to the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department. In bis reply, the President said the points presented by the delegations were being considered by the Government, and that, so far as he was concerned, he would do all be could to have the views and wiahaa of the Indians carried out. Above all, he would see that the treaties with the Indians should be faithfully observed by the Government. Sec’y Schurs, Commissioner Hayt and Inspector Hammond were present during the interview. Ox the 10th, the Potter Committee, on moths of Mr. McMahon, adopted a resolution ordering an investigation of the “ cipher telegrama,” and requesting the House to grant an additional appropriation for expenses. Hox. Gustav Schleicher, Representative in Congress from the Sixth Texas District, died at Washington on the night of the 10th. His disease was originally malarial fever, which was followed by erysipelas and then paralysis. This makes the seventh death among Congressmen during the present Congress, and the fourth since the present session began. Ox the 10th, the Judiciary Committee Of the National House of Representatives resolved to appoint a sub-commlitee to investigate the charges against Judge Blodgett, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, with permission, if found necessary, to go to Chicago to take testimony. Proctor Knott was made Chairman of the sub-committee. Tn Secretary of the Treasury, on the 11th, issued another call for bonds to the amount of •10,000,000—98,000,000 coupon and H,000,000 registered—interest to cease on the 11th of April next.

warn mast. Tn Pennsylvania Legislature assembled, at Harrisburg, oo the 7th, and' perfected its bqgaoiintioa by the choice of Thomas B. Cochran as Clerk of the Senate, and H. M. Long (both Republic ins) as Speaker of the House. lx Joint convention, on the 9th, the Connecticut Legislature elected the Republican State ticket voted for at the late election. In his inaugural message, Gov. Andrews favors allowing women property-holders to vote on questions affecting property. Special telegrams from Camden, N. J. giving an account of the hanging there, on the lOtn, of Benjamin Hunter, for the murder of John M. Armstrong, report the execution to haye been a fearfully bungled affair. The victim died a most horrible death. One account says: “Surrounded by men drinking whisky from flasks, and smoking the vilest tobacco, he was actually strangled to death by two Deputy Sheriffs, who seized the rope (the weight having proved insufficient to suspend the body), and swayed the body back and forth as if taking delight in their work. The place was turned into a holiday picnic, and there was no solemnity about the scene.” Tax following were the closing quotations for produce in New York, on Jan. 11th: No. i Chicago Spring Wheat, [email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee, [email protected] Oats, Western Mixed, 30@31J<c- Corn, Western Mixed, 46@47)<c. Pork, Mesa, •[email protected]. Lard, fib. 12 HFlour, Good to Choice, »3.95@ 4.50; White Wheat Extra, [email protected]. Cattle, fi9.so@ 10.00 for Good to Extra. Sheep, fi4.so@ 5.50. Hogs, •3.50@:170. At East Liberty, Pa., on Jan. 11th, Cattle brought: Best, •4.50@4 75; Medium, 53.87 @4.30; Common, [email protected]. Hogs sold— Yorkers, [email protected]; Philadelphia, 93.00@ 3.10. Sheep brought [email protected]—according,, to quality. ... At Baltimore, Md., on Jan. Uth, Cattle brought: Best, 94-37J<@5.25; Medium, •[email protected]. Hogs sold at »[email protected] for Good. Sheep were quoted at [email protected] for Good.

WMMT AMD SOUTH. Ths Louisiana Legislature organized, on the 6th. J. C. Moncure was elected Speaker of the House. The Senate re-elected the old officers. The Legislature of Tennessee, on the 6th, elected John R.‘ Neal Speakercf the Sanate, and H. P. Fowlkes Speaker of the House. The Nevada Legislature effected a permanent organization, on the 6th, by electing the ReputAican caucus nominees in both houses. The State Legislature, of Minnesota, was organized, on the 7th, by the election of the Republican caucus nominees for officers of the House. In the Senate the Republican caucus nominee for Secretary and his assista»J_wcre elected, but the Democrats and Greenbackers united and elected the other officers. The Nebraska Legislature was organized, on the 7th, by the election of C. H. Matthewson for Speaker of the House, and Sherwood Blair as Secretary of the Senate. The Wisconsin Legislature met at noon, on the Bth. The organization of the Senate was effected by the election of Senator. Price as President pro tan., and Charles E. Brass as Secretary. In the House, D. M- KjeHy waselected Speaker, and John Eldred, Chief Clerk. The Republican caucus nominees for the minor offices in both houses were elected. On the 9th, the Legislature of Illinois perfected its organization. In the Senate, Mr. Hamilton was elected President pro tem., and J- H- Paddock, Secretary. In the House, CoL William A James was elected Speaker, and W. B. Taylor, Clerk. The Republican caucus nominees for the minor offices In both houses were elected. ■. The Legislature of Missouri was organized, on the 9th, by the election of the Democratic caucus nominees, the Republicans voting .with the Democrats. A MAX named Clark Hubbard, bls wife and two children, «■ rarie west from Sherman, Tex., were frozen to death near Pilot Point, !■ that State, a few nights ago. J The Legislature of Indiana was organized, the 9% by the election of D. D. Dale as Secretary of the Senate, and H. 8. Cauthorne, Speaker, and W. Dixon, Clerk, ot the House. Dtmixo the night of the 9th, the Cheyennes imprisoned at Camp Robinson, Neb., "rh*aWsa,'aEßt’'ShW' the guard, and made their escape into the surrounding darkness. immediately followed in and thirty-live were recap- "*• as many more more or kniZf ot ““ I<Jr *^i were misdng zwcuauq KWWOBOded,

Two Indian Chiefs—White Owl and Quit-Ti-Trumpa—were hanged at Pendleton, Ore., pn the 10th. They were dressed in full Indian costume, and preserved, throughout, the stoicism of their race, both dying with the deathchant cm their lipa Jambs McMaxVs, of Davenport, lowa, while handling a revolver, supposed to be empty, on tjie morning of the 12th, shot and killed his sister Mary, sixteen years of age. Ix Chicago, on Jsu. 11th, Spring Wheat No. 2 dosed at 83@83><c cash; for February; 84X C f° r March. Cash Coni doee.l at 99« c for No. 2; &)Xc for February; 34>fc for May. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at lOJic, and 90c seller February. Rye NcmA 43Xc- Barley No. 2, 96X@97c for c*sfis9Bc for February. Cash Mess Pork dosed at >7.75® 7.80. Lard, »5.70. Beeves —Extra brought [email protected]; Choice, 94.20 @4.40; Good, [email protected]; Medium Grades, •[email protected]; Butchers' Stock, »[email protected]; Stock Cattle, etc., [email protected]. Hogs—Good to Choice, [email protected]. Sheep Poor to Choice, [email protected].

fokkihm nmuiuxoi. According to Vienna dispatches of the 6th, Russia had promised to evacuate Bulgaria and Roumelia on the Ist of April. The French Government has given notice that it will abrogate all commercial treaties on the Ist of January,-1880. The Pope is said to be considering the project of calling a n4w Ecumenitgd Council. According to London telegrams of the 6th the distress throughout the country was idly increasing. At Manchester, on the 33; there were 8,000 applications from heads of families, representidg 13,500 persons, to the Relief Committee, and, on the sth, 4,000 fresh applications. During the week, 1,200 families had been relieved at Wolverhampton, and many at Sheffield. According to London telegrams of the 7tb, the miners In South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire, to the number of 6,000, had struck for better pay. The wire-workers at Warrington had also struck against a proposed reduction in wages. On the evening of the 7lh, the King of Holland was married, with great pomp and ceremony, to the Princess Emma, of WaldeckPyrmont. The Russian authorities have proclaimed a strict quarantine in the District of Astracbanbecause of the prevailing plague. There had been 400 deaths in the district up to Jan. 4. The golden wedding of the Emperor and Empress of Germany occurs on the 11th of June. On the Bth, they gave notice that they did" not desire personal gifts on that occasion, but they would be gratified if the money sueh gifts would cost be devoted to charitable purposes. There is a lively agitation throughout Germany upon the tariff question, Bismarck having become an avowed protectionist. The Kharkoff Veterinary School and the Kiel! University, in Russia, have been closed in consequence of the riotous demonstrations of the students. The Consett Iron Works Company, the largest makers of shiji-plates in England, employing 6,000 hands and owning, nine collieries, has been forced to suspend operations in consequence of the prevailing business depression.

St. Petersburg dispatches of the 9th say the plague had reached the Government of Earatofln. At Naratzln 173 deaths had occurred, and the mortality was estimated at 10 per cent of the population. A tremendous snow storm prevailed throughout France, on the 9th. Telegraphic communication was interrupted, and trains were blockaded, all tidings of some of them being lost. . • On the 9th, the Pope published an encydfca letter calling upon all Bishops to combat So cialism, Communism and Internationalism by vigorously preaching the principles of the Church. Dox Espartero, Duke of Vittoria, the celebrated Spanish statesman, died at Madrid, on the 9th. Another great snow-storm prevailed throughout Scotland, on the 9th and 10th, destroying telegraphic communication and seriously interrupting railroad travel. In Ireland it assumed the proportions of a hurricane and did great damage to shipping and buildings. Ex-President Grant reached Paris on the evening of the 10th. ..The Sub-Committee of the French Chamber of Deputies on the acts of the Broglie-Four-tou Ministry, on the 16th of May last, have’ decided upon impeachment. The new French Cable Company proposes to lay two cables, one from Cape Brest to Cape Cod, and the other from Land’s End to Nova Scotia, both by way of St Pierre. According to Berlin telegrams of tl|e 10th, the negotiations relative to the preventions of collisions at sea had resulted in the formulation of a code of regulations which had received the ascent of a majority of the Powers interested, and which would shortly be incorporated into international law, by convention. According to Calcutta dispatches of the 12th, inform'ation had been received of the occupation of Candahar by Gen. Stewart -It was also stated that lYacoob Khan had been officially informed of the terms on which peace could be secured, and that they were neither burdensome nor humiliating. The library of the Birmingham and Midland Institute, at Birmingham, Eng., containing. Kl/.’eiU'oJatsss, of - w-irieh 8,000 related td Shakespeare, was burned, on the 11th. A tremendous gale occurred on the Biscayan Coast on the lltb. Many small vessels were destroyed and over seventy lives were lost. / V

COXURESHIOXAL rROCEEDIXGS. A large number of petitions were presented in the Senate, on the 7th, many from women asking that effect be given to the AntiPolygamy law of 1862, and others protesting against the so-called - Patent Law” bill, and against the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department.... Bills were introduced—for the interchange of subsidiary silver coin and United States notes; to authorise the taxation of outstanding legal tenders; to authorize local taxation of United States notes.. . . Mr. Edmunds offered a resolution declaring that, in the judgthe Senate, the Thirteenth Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution have been legally ratified, and are as valid as the other parts or the Confutation;- that-it is the right , and of Congress to en--foree ’ Such amendments by appropriate legislation; and the duty of the Executive Department to faithfully and impartially execute sucq laws, and the duty of Congress to appropriatemoney to that end; and instructing the Judiciary Committee to. report a bill for the protection of the rights of citizens and the punishment of inf notions thereof. The resolution was laid on the table, at the request of Mr. Edmunds, to be called up hereafter. In the House, bills were introduced—to include newspapers, periodicals and proof-sheets in mail matter of the third class; for the admission of Dakota as a State; extending the tune to pre-empton on public lands who have •gP 6 ™*prairie.fires.... A resolution reciting the charges of gross misconduct and corruption awunzt J“ d ee Blodgett, Of the District Court Tor Northern Hhnoia. and instructing the Judi. ciary Committee to inquire'into Judge Blodgett’s official conduct, was adopted The death of Messrs. Douglas, of Virginia, and Williams, of Michigan, were announced, and the House, in respect to their memory, adjourned. In the Senate, on the Bth, Mr. Grover, rising to a personal explanation, denied the charges made against him relative to the misappropriation of the public funds of Oregon while Governor of that State ...The business of the Senate was interrupted by a message from the House, announcing the death of Representative Hartridge. A committee of three Senators was appointed to accompany the body of the deceased to Georgia, and the Senate then ad- - —— In the House, official notice of the death of Representative Hartridge was taken, and a committee of .seven was Appointed to accompany the remains to Georgia.... The House then adjourned. A large number of petitions were presented in the Senate, on the 9th. many of them being in favor of the bill granting arrears -of pensions.... The Indian Appropriation bill

was reported back from eommittee, with amendment* ... A resolution to accept an invitation from the House to attend the funeral of the late Representative Hartridge wae adopted. ' I In Ute House, a resolution was adopted that the funeral aervioes of the late Mr. Wrtridge should be held at three p. n,.. and inviting Benatorn to Attend . No legislative business was tnussnoted.... A large attendance wns present during the funeral ceremonies. A bill wu introduced and referred in the Senate, on the lOt h. to provide for an additional bounty to soldiers of the War of the Rebellion.... The Indian Appropriation bill was amended and passed ~. Adjourned to the 13th. In the House, in Coqunittee of the Whole an exciting debate occurred on the William and Mary College bill, and when reported to the House the bill was rejected—yeas, 67; nays, 197 a number of Northern Democrats voting against, and a few Republicans for, the measure. The bill appropriated ♦66,0.0 as H reimbursement for the destruction during the war of the William and Mary College in Virginia, and had been pending in Congress for a number of years. The Senate was not in session on the 11th. After the leading of the journal in the House, the death of Representative Schleicher, of Texas, was announced, and a committee of seven was appointed to accompany the remains of the deceased to Han Antonio. The House then adjourned, as a further mark of respect. ►.

THE TELLER IXVESTIG ATION AT MKW ORI.EAMH. The United States Senate Teller Investigating Committee mot, in New Orleans, on the 7th, all the members being present. J. Ernest Breda, of Natchitoches, was sworn, and testified that he served during the war in the Second Louisiana Regiment; had been a Republican since 1H71; had been a stump-speaker, but did not take part in the Inst campaign, having been driven Away fmm home on the 22d of September. After ’the adjournment of a Republican meeting held cn the 2d of September, witness and his brother started homo on horseback; bad gone about TOO yiirds, when at the corner of a street a body of armed cavalrymen opposed their passage; pistols were drawn, and strong language used; witness and his ■brother took to the woods, and remained there until the next day, when he was informed by his uneie, a former Mayor, that his (witness 1 ) house was to be attacked, and his uncle wished him to s-irr- nder; this witness refused to do, and he wns told that If he and his brother would leave the place within two hours the house and property would be respected; they left, and remained in the woods until the 25th of October, and hearing that they were to be hunted with bloodhounds, they , left tot Shreveport -onthe 31 at of October. Witness stated that there was no lawlessness among the negroes—they hardly dared strike back, but were murdered like sheep’; they were ground down, and could not even sell their crops under their own names. Witness said there are 1,700 white and 4.000 colored voters in the parish, and there are more white men who vote the Republican ticket than blacks who vote the Democratic ticket; the Democratic majority In the recent election, as given in the official Journal, was 2,900- No prosecutions against fraudulent voters were being carried on in the State Courts. Dr. Breda was sworn, and corroborated the testimony of the previous witness. V. A. Barron testified that he was Sheriff of Natchitoches up to 1876: he gave an account of the meeting of the 21st of September, and testified as to the proceedings c-f-tlie band of armed men who obstructed the streets. Witness left town and took to the woods; was subsequently told to leave the place; the reason given him was that the Democrats wished all the Republican ■leaders to get out of the way; he was told he could return after the election. 1. G. Lewis (colored), of Natchitoches. Testified,' After the adjournment of the meeting of Sept. 21, his house was broken into by a party of men armed with rifles and revolvers; he hid In some thick weeds in the back yard; the party threatened to kill him if they could And hint. Raford Blount (colored), of Natchitoches, stated that he was a man of property in the parish, and was driven away on account of his influence with the colored race, an influence he had always ex ereised against the Democratic party; he said the lawlessness iu hie parish was due.jsolsly_tapnlfeticians, aa respectable pecq 1 • -were not in favor

Messrs. J. D. McGill, Lucien Bland and J. M. McGill, residents of Tensas Parish, testified that tbey-believed the negroes were Intimidated to such an extent ae to prevent the election of the Independent ticket; they also believed that frauds were committed by stuffingthe ballot-boxes. Witnesses were candidates on the Independent ticket. J. N. Mitchell, of Tensas Parish, testified, on the Bth, concerning armed bands from other parishes and from Mississippij-he heard a great many things, but knows the reports were ex aggerated; he said, In fact, If you iiftjuire rigidly into many stories you will find not a word of truth In them; armed hands did some things which witness could not approve; they threatened Bland and Douglass with an attack; witness heard the leader of the military, Capt. Cain, say, “ The white man shall rule;” there was hostility between the negro and white manFleming Branch (colored) testified that he wae at Fairfax s house Oct. 12, when Peck’s pnrtv came; was in the room with Fairfax when rushed in and fired twice at Fairfax, who rushed out of the back door; another negro named Senator, standing there, -was shot down; Peck knelt upon him and fired five shots into him; Mr; Goldman shot witness through the right arm; Peck was shot and killed by some one in liis own party; Fairfax did not fire a shot; witness and a number of colored people took refuge In the bushes because they were frightened; Fairfax was an upright mau and a Republican, and witness supposed he was attacked on account of his politics. Daniel Kennedy was sworn, and his testimony corresponded with that of Branch; he said that on the Tuesday following the attack on Fairfax, the killing of negroes began; witness was acquainted with many of the persons who were killed, and named~ltveT—tr was rumored thaireFghtywere' killed; witness had never heard that anybody was called to account for the shooting at Fairfax's house. Viola Wallace and Rebecca Ross (both colored) ugave testimony similar to that of Branch and KenGed Ralston (a planter) testified that he ran for the Legislature on an Independent ticket in Tensas; the candidates on the Independent ticket were all Democrats; witness stated that the outrages iu the parish had a bad effect upon the laborers, and many of them had left the parish; he bad but little personal knowledge of outrages. E. C. Ruth (colored); of Tensas, stated that he was a Justice of the Peace. Two hundred colored men in his ward were forced to Join the Democratic Club, and then received certificates entitling them to protection. K. J. Walker (colored), of Tensas, stated that from fear of personal trouble he published a card in a parish paper advising the negroes to support the regular Democratic ticket.

On the 9th, William D. Robinson, of Tensas, testified that he Was a Democrat, but was election; saw no outrages committed; saw a body of fifteen armed men at the polls on election day, under Hardbaro, Deputy Sheriff; thinks intimidation frightened the negroes so much they staved awav from the polls, and that if the negroes had voted they would have had a majority of 1,000. J? R. Loscey. of Tensas, stated that he was one of the posse, tit Sheriff-Register summoned to disperse the negroes, whom, it was ware massing at Boss’ place, for the purpose of attacking Waterproof; Register had about forty armed men; on the way they heard that the negroes had massed,’ and that firing had commenced between them and the advanced guard of two men; order was then given to advance and fire; the firing was down in the direction of where the negroes were supposed to be massed; the negroes were in their quarters, aud when one volley was fired they dispersed; two or three negroes were wounded; don’t think any were killed. Frank Watson (colored) testified that he lived eight miles from Waterproof, and was told by a Democratic frieud that the place was getting too hot for him: that he had better clear out; he ran away, having left his partly-gathered crop to take care of itself. That day there were fifty or sixty armed men from Ouachita in Waterproof; saw them put • a rope around a negro boy's neck because he would not answer a question they asked him; witness hid for nine days in the woods, and then went to Plaquemine; did not think it would be safe for him to return. ———- Other colored witnesses testified to a general Intimidation of negroes in Caddo Parish, and that ~th';. l . L i:.U ! :2WW.».vgc.JJlted.iiK*.r-totOffelcvtlGif'<lay'’ after the voting was over.

Ben Williams and William Harper, of Caddo, testified, on the 10th. corroborating the testimony of previous witnesses as to violence and intimidation in the parish, and placing the polls at out-of-the-way places without due notice, thus preventing colored men from voting. A. H. Leonard. District Attorney, testified that prior to the election he was told by prominent Democrats that they meant to carry the election: that when asked how they wpuld do it. in view of the fact that the negro voters were greatly in the majority, they repju d that the negroes would vote the Democratic ticket; later a fixed determination on the part of the Democrats to carry the election became evident, and intimidation was resorted to; witness then ave an account of the meeting at Spring Ridge, w here a joint discussion had been agreed upon, but he said the Republican speakers were interrupted and insulted by the. Democrats with profane and abusive language, aud the Republican leaders had toleavc the meeting, as their lives were in danger had they resented the insults heaped upon them: witness'was afterward told that they (the Republicans) were to be killed if they held another meeting; he then detailed various acts of violence, .threat and fraud. H. C. Rogers, L. Templeman, G. A. Slmplemati and J. Shepherd, of Caddo, were sworn, and their testimony was. in substance, a deiiial of the statements or previous witnesses of intimidation by Democratt; they, asserted that where there were any troubles, the negroes wdre the aggressors. When a farmer finds fowls one year behindhand—that is, living this) year on, what he will raise next —he should at ohee Call a halt anft begin a new system of living. Live within his means and establish a sinking fund*— that is, save a little each year to reduce the suspended debt. ““lowa Slate Register. - ' ...

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —Absolutely false—A set of artificial teeth. - —Suitable dower for a widow—A widower. te —A model buy-word—Cash.— Qlat~ gow TivMt. —A little English grape seems to produce a good deal of Afghan whine. —What this country has never seen, and never will, is a hen that can lay a wager. —There is a man in the moon, and a man and woman in the honeymoon.— Newport Local. ; . - . —"Time's inaudible and noiseless foot" is shod in a boot made on the last of the year.— Boston Transcript. —-In Boston they always say, “ Have you bean to dinner?’’ The pronunciation has a mystic meaning.— N. Y. Graphic. —lt does not follow that the clergy would make good railroad men because they are well versed in the act of coupling. —An Irishman tells of a fight in which there was only one whole nose left in the whole crowd, "and that belonged to the tearkettle.” —Bound to fight it out on that line—tfie two cats with their tails tied together and flung across a (Mothes line. —Daniclsonville Sentinel. youth who can eat a fifty-cent dinner every day on a two-dollar per week salary is the fellow who succeeds in life and sends his sons to college. —A little boy who was asked if he could tell the length of a whale, said the whales he caught at home seemed more than an hour long, sometimes. —ls there a scientific man in the country who can tell, after a sock gets a hole in it, what haeomes of the material that once took the place of the aperture? —Says an exchange: “Even small boys carry arms in this town.” Awful, ain’t it? Even the little Howers carry pistils in this wicked city.— Keokuk Constitution. —This beautiful thought is from Allyn: The fine and noble way to kill a foe Is not to kill him. You With kindness may So change him that he shall cease to be so; Then he s slain.

—“ Every man is the architect of his own fortune,” and sometimes he doesn't get as much for the plans as he had to pay for the paper he draws them on.— Burlington Hawk-Eye. —ln the midst of a quarrel—" I don’t know what keeps me from breaking your head!” “Well I know what keeps me from breaking .yours. I’m a member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals!” —“ Tom,” said a man to his friend, the other day, .*,*l think It is highly dangerous to keep the bills of small banks on hand nowadays.” “Tim,” answered the other, “I find it more difficult than dangerous.” —A very useful and significant Christmas gift was a broom presented to a young bride with these lines: This trifling gift accept of me; Its use I would commend; In sunshine use the brushy, part. In storms the other end. —Sam recently got married, told his wife that she might retain all the change which dropped on the floor out of his pockets. What was his astonishment, on Monday morning, to find no money in his pants. He has since ascertained that his wife hangs his pants upside down.

—Strange ideas of honesty prevail. It is surely wrong for a fruiterer to put all the big peaches on the top of the basket, but it is as surely right to build the front of the house of fine free stone and the back.of common brick. A certain amount of sham is necessary to human happiness.— N. Y. Herald. —A teacher asked one of her class what was the first line of the piece of poetry which described Daniel’s feelings on being cast into the lion’s den. The youngster was posed. The teacher said: “Come; come,” sharply. Thereat the boy exclaimed, hurriedly: " I know, miss; it was ‘ Good-bye, sweetheart, good-bye.”’ —French duelists are frequently obliged to cross the frontier into Bel gium for the satisfaction of their honor, as the Bois ;de Boulogne has become rather too well known for such encounters, and zealous officials are apt to stop a pair of suspicious -looking carriages. An ingenious fencing-master, however, suggests an easy expedient for evading the law. He recommends duelists to hire a bride in full wedding costume, with two respectable elderly gentlemen, send the trio in front in a carriage, and let the two vehicles containifig thb pFinCipaisafidlßeif follow close behind. Not a soul will then interfere with the affair, as wedding parties may be daily seen by dozens taking an airing in the Bois. —A singular case of destitution has come to light Maas, A few days ago a medicine-peddler and his wife, giving evidences of respectability, went to the town and engaged a room with a good family. The man went out every day peddling his medicine from house to house ..without success, and at night would return bringing a few apples in his bag, and would remark to his landlady incidentally that his wife was very fond of baked apples, and would ask the landlady to bake them in her oven. Finally the woman was taken dangerously ill, and on investigation it was found that the man and his wife were wholly without means of support, and that a few baked apples had been their only daily diet sinse their advent to the place. Although a,ctuallyin,a staryingcpridition,. they were too proud to allow it to be known. They were suitably cared for.

Authors and Diseases.

It has been said that Taylor’s disease was hardly understood by the physicians, aud it is not even now clear whether it was dropsy or disease of the kidneys. This leads t<) a brief reference to authorS aifd diseases, and by looking at the history of the former we shall find that they generally enjoy good health and live to the average of human life. Shakespeare died of a fever, arid his life terminated on his fifty-second birthday. Tradition says that the disease was brought on by a drinking bout, on the Occasion of a visit from Ben Jonson. “They had a merrie meeting and drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of afeavour there contracted.” Such, at least, is the record. Pope died of a general decline, being then fifty-six. It is surprising how so weak a frame endured even to this age, for he speaks of his life as a “long disease.” Goldsmith died of fever aggravated by a severe local ailment. Johnson Was old and was a sufierer ftom dropsy. Addison was intemperate in his latter days, Mid this brought on a dropsy. Milton, though not an old wan, died like one worn out with the trials and tofts of life. He is the first author who is mentioned as

smoking a pipe, which he found a solace during the weary hours of blindness and old age. Fielding died in middle life, of a decline; produced by fast llVing. Gibbons’ disease was hernia, pf long standing and aggravated character, terminating in dropsy. Byron died of fever, Shelley and Falconer were lost at sea. Southey died of paralysis of mind and body, and so did Scott Wordsworth lived to see fourscore, and died on the 23d of April, the day and month which marked both the birth and death of Shakespeare. Irving died of disease of the heart, having for the last year of his life been a great sufferer. Keats, Kirk White and Pollock died of consumption, and each early in life— Burns was broken down by poverty, toil and strong drink, and died at middle age. Coleridge had a very strong constitution, which enabled him to enaure the effect of opium, and he lived to the approach of old age. Tom Moore died like Scott, in a state of mental and bodily prostration. Chatterton and Hugh Miller committed suicide. Edward Everett died of a severe cold. Bryant was prostrated after making a speech, and never recovered. Our poets have generally attained long life, as illustrated by the instances of Bryant, Charles Sprague and Halleck, to whom will yet be added Longfellow and Whittier.— N. Y. Cor. Troy (N. Y.) Times.

How Sanscript Recalled Recollections of Fifty Years Ago.

The .boys were coasting down Syca-more-street Hill, last evening, when John Sanscript and his wife came along. They had been up on Baltimore street visiting, and were on their way home. •‘Just see them boys,” said John, as he braced up. at the intersection of Mulberry street. “It really reminds me of the days when I was a lad. Do you know, Jane, that I used to coast down hill on a sled that way?” “Did you, John?” “Why, yes; but that’s fifty years ago!” Sanscript scratched his head contemplatively, and then muttered, sotto vocet “Durn my grand-daddy’s buttons, If 1 don’t try it!” - “ Try what, dear?” anxiously asked Mrs. S. “ I’m going to coast just once, to revive recollections of fifty years ago.” “Now, John, if I were you ” “But you are not me, so don’t interfere. Here, sonny (to a lad just puffed up the hill with his sled); here, sonny, lUI give you a quarter to let me slide down Ou your sled once.” The bargain was eagerly nailed and clinched. “Bekeerful, oldman,” urged the boy, as Sanscript squatted rather awkwardly on the sled; “be keerful, I say, and don’t let her flunk one way or ’tother till she brings up, or you’llgit mashed.” “Never mind, younker,” assured John; “I’ve been here afore—some years afore, but” But what will never be known, for just then the sled, of its own accord, started down hill, and even John himself has not since been able to recall what he was about to observe. The surprise at the sled’s unexpected movement was general. “ Look out,” yelled the boy. “Oh, John,” screamed Mrs. San-

script; “ Whoa, there!” yelled John. But the sled wouldn’t whoa. It seemed to have set off down that hill to beat its best time. John had chance only to clutch hold of both sides and hold his breath for fear the wind would blow off the top of his head. The only thought he had time to foster was that the boy must have greased the sled’s runners as a practical joke. And if this was coasting, he had never coasted, if his recollection served him right. Two-thirds the way down the. hill the sled struck an ice hummock, and immediately his course was changed to a parabolic curve. Whack! bang! crash! clink! The bringing up was awfully Sudden and uncertain. Sanscript and the sled disappeared as abruptly as a shootingstar. The latter lay shivered to atoms against a lamp-post, and Sanscript lay shivering in the grocery cellar opposite. When the off-runner of the sled collided with the lamp-post and stopped the vehicle, Sanscript rose like a cir-cus-leaper and went right on turning twenty somersaults to the second. He went through the grocery window as the circus-leaper goes through a paper hoop. All the gingerbread horses and candy apples and other Christmas luxuries were disarranged, of course. Sanscript’s body struck a Western Reserve cheese on the counter, scattering the skippers in consternation. The old skipper bounded five feet at an obtuse angle, touching again for a second at the top step of the cellar stairs in the rear of the store, and then, continuing like a diver into the Plutonic depths below, he went feet foremost through the head of a hogshead, filled with something soft. At first he was uncertain whether the contents were Orleans molasses or melted glucose. Before he had time to investigate, the grocer and the two policemen came down. The unhappy old boy was lifted but of his sweet pickle and hauled off to the station-house on a charge of malicious destruction of property. The grocer appeared soon after, and compromised by John paying the following bill: Window sash■■■■■■fW 00 Crushed cheese- 12 00 Hogshead molasses , 7c Chnstmas goods 1 1° Totall7l 86 ZThentheboycamoinwithabill of $5 for his sled, to say nothing of the loss of a suit of clothes, a surgeon’s bill for plastering sundry skinned surfaces, and the bill of a hackman who conveyed the fainting wife home. In the cooler moments of afterthought, Sanscript reckoned it up and discovered that it had cost him $109.78 to recall recollections of fifty years ago, and required but one minute and five seconds of old Father Time ,in which to do the recollecting.— Cincinnati Enquirer. i An extremely rare fish, a singular specimen of the spineous shark, never before seem in American waters, has been found at Providence, Mass. It Is about eight feet long, with a thick body, a skin comparatively smooth, large numbers of short, bony thorns protruding from all parts, ana but one row of teeth on each jaw, while its nose is flat and round. This shark is seen on the east coast of Europe and Africa and in the Mediterranean Sea, but rarely. A Pennsylvania girl waited a whole year before bringing suit for damages against a man who Kissed her without warning, and the crushing verdict of one cent damages took ner breath “JOne touch of Nature,” observed tha inebriate, as the ground rose andetruck j him, — Danielson Ville Sentinel. - ’

“Hurling Back.”

During the debate in the Senate over the Blaine resolutions, Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, remarked that for seven years he had sat in the Senate and heard his people abused; but his duty was to bear iL Reading this in the telegraphic dispatches, the Okolona (Miss.) Stales went off in the following style: ( The Southern Senators and Congrewunen mnat adopt another policy -a policy in line not only with our political principle*, but one that is likewine in line with the first principle* of the pride, ■elf-respect and manhood of their constituents. They moat hurl back the lien and slander* of our fierce, vindictive foe* in the council hall* of qur common country i they mu«t impeach the infninou* party in fraudulent power of the- high crime* and misdemeanor* that blot ita history with blood and Rhame a history so hellish that the devil himnelf and all hi* damned shrink back appalled at its infernal horrors, They must do this—they must do it agirramively, relentlessly, persistently, in season and out of Beason, until the Yankee traitors, and falsi hers, and lickspittles es loyalty have had enough of their own mode of warfare. Jesso. If you wantto see “ the Yankee traitors, and falsifiers, and lickspittles of loyalty” tremble in their boots, then every time they speak of Southern election outrages, and proceed to prove their charges, the Southern Congressmen must “hurl back” such accusations, even if they can’t prove them, and everybody only laughs at the “hurling back” farce. It is well known that all “Yankees” are easily scared by resounding rhetoric, even if there is no' sense in it and no facts behind it. When these “Yankee traitors,” etc., “invaded” the South, and marched victoriously all over it, though they couldn’t be “hurled back” by bullets or bayonets, perhaps if Southern orators had only “hurled back” some toplofty Southern eloquence at ’em they would have fled in dismay. By all means, let the Southern Congressmen attempt to talk the North to death. They can do it if anybody can ; and really it now seems to be the only “policy in line with the first principles of pride, selfrespect, and manhood of their constituents.” This “hurling back” seems to bn based on the principles of the the Southern cadet who, being asked by his West Point instructor what he would do if he were shut up in a casemate and a live bombshell entered, replied that he would "spit on it.” The astonished military instructor wanted to know what good spitting on it would do. “Why,” replied the fire-eater, “it would show my contempt fpr the cursed thing!”— Detript Post and Tribune.

A Warning to the Sonth.

The documents relating to the outrages in Louisiana during the recent campaign, which will be submitted to Congress by the President, tell a story of cruelty, torture and death inflicted upon Republican negroes which for fiendish partisan malice rival the worst scenes of cruelty that characterized the days when the negroes were chattels, subject to the horrors of the lash, the branding-iron and the bloodhound. These documents will show .that, because the Republicans in Tensas Parish insisted upon holding a Congressional Convention, armed gangs of ruffians rode through the parish, and, under pretense of fearing a negro insurrection, shot down defenseless men right and left, drove away many others, and produced such a state of terrorism and demoralization that the few negroes who did vote voted the Democratic ticket. They will show that in West Feliciana Parish prominent negro politicians were tied to trees and whipped to make them drop politics; and that gangs of armed men appeared at thg jmjlls and compelled the negroes to* vote the Democratic ticket; and that near Shreveport and in Borsier Parish hundreds of negroes were killed or run off; and that when fiegro voters appeared at the polls they were driven on with clubs and guns. It will be shown upon the affidavit of Deputy-Marshal Shearman that Judge Ludeling, candidate, would have losthis life but for the vigilant protection of his friends ;th at numerous murders were commit ted in Monroe, and that his own life was repeatedly threatened while he was making the vain attempt to secure fitnesses, so that the guilty -parties might be prosecuted. It will be shown upon the affidavit of U. S. Dist.-Atty. Leonard that in Caddo Parish the Democrats took forcible possession of the polls, drove away Republicans, killed seventy-five negroes, and drove great numbers from their homes; that in Natchitoches Parish all the leading Republicans were driven off; that in numerous other parishes a Democratic majority was secured by the same means; and that in New Orleans fraud was substituted for violence. The aggregate of testimony will show that such a condition of terrorism existed all over the State, brought about by whippings, hangings, threats and murders, that neither whites nor negroes dared to vote the Republican "iwSSf.’ These horrible outrages were perpetrated by the White League of bulldozers, reinforced, where it was necessary, by ruffians from Arkansas and Mississippi, during the campaign and on election day, and since that time this same League has been engaged in thwarting the efforts of the United States authorities to institute an investigation. The officers who were hunting the witnesses have been driven off, several of the witnesses have been hurried off out of sight, and two of them, White and Clark, on their way to New Orleans to testify, under subpoena of the United States Court, were murdered in the most brutal and cowardly manner.

It is a cheering indication of a growIng unfinaffilty in Northern' stmtftnent that some of the Democratic papers are no longer disposed to gloss over and palliate these outrages for the sake of partisan advantages. Among these papers, the Peoria Democrat, which cannot be convicted of ever having had any sympathy for Republicanism, indignantly denounces these outrages, especially the murder of witnesses, and says: The sooner Blaine and his whole committee, and the Federal Army, too, get after the perpetrators, the better for the peace of the country. If these Southern devils think that the Northern Democracy are going to back them up in all and any sort of diabolism they may perpetrate, they are very mnch mistaken. They have cursed the Northern Democracy long enough and often enough by their inhumsu barbarism; and, if they want any further support from Northern Democrats, they must act like civilized white men, and not like demoniac' savages. The country has bad exactly enough of that sort of conduct, and no more will be tolerated. Let us hear no more about the bloody shirt or Southern outrages in a single Northern Democratic paper. These Southern devils have made their bed; let ■ them 1 lie ia fbswjww— ■ Many more Democrats are feeling and expressing their indignation in a strain similar to the above. However much the arraying of one section against the other is to be deprecated, it is°as inevitable as fate that if the parties guilty of these inhuman, outrages and wanton violations of law are «ot promptly punished, and that if the South does not furnish satisfactory assurances that they shall not occur again, a Solid North will be

arrayed against the Solid South as compactly as it was in the War of the Rebellion, and that it will continue solid until these savages are stamped out and the rights of every man in the South are secured. The North will demand something more than the mere promises of men like GoV. Nicholls that the people of hie State shall have protection in all their rights. Having broken his pledges, they will not again trust him. He was cognizant of the infamous work of the White League, but paid no attention to the report* that were continually brought to him. So far from investigating or punishing the authors of these outrages, he has shown no disposition to aid the officers of the United States Courts in their efforts to bring them to justice. If he had kept his promises, if he had performed his duty promptly and fearlessly, these horrible events would never hafe occurred. *lt waswithihhis knowledge that these White League bands were organized, and be knew full well from past experiences what their purposes were. Instead of speaking the word that might have dispersed them,-he was silent. No remonstrance came from him when day after day the tidings came of intimidation, violence and murder. And now, when the election is over and these outrages haye ceased because there is no further occasion for them, the State having been made solidly Democratic, this violator of his pledges to the President, made upon condition of the withdrawal of the troops, lifts not a finger to aid in the prosecution of the wretches, but sits calmly by while witnesses summoned under the subpoenas of the Courts are kidnaped and murdered, and not a word of remonstrance comes from him. If this horrible state of things is to continue, if there is to be no enforcement of the law in Louisiana, if the Governor of that- State, either from partisan malignity or from cowardice, refuses to protect the Republicans in their rights, then the troops might as well be placed back there again and assert the Government’s authority. We can assure the South that the North is rapidly coming to that conviction, and that it need not be surprised to see Democrats as well as Republicans arrayed against it, and demanding in a manner it will not fail to understand that these savages be restrained and punished.— Chicago Tribune.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—The physieians who attended the late Representative Williams say that his illness was entirely owing to the poisoned condition of the atmosphere of the House of Representatives, wh’ch he breathed constantly during the day, and to the malaria to which he was exposed at night, his private room being upon the south side of an avenue directly over the water sewers of the city. —lt is related that Prof. Simon Newcomb, of the Naval Observatory at Washington, attended a wedding recently with a friend. After the ceremony he advanced with the others to pay his respects to the bride and groom. Approaching, he solemnly shook hands with each, but said not a word. As he turned away, his friend, surprised, said, “ Why didn’t you say something to the brider’ The solemn professor, who is nothing if not scientific, answered: “ Why, I didn’t think that I had any new /acts to impart.” —Mr. Spruille Braden, the young man who recently refused to renounce his allegiance to the United States, and thereby forfeited his position as Midshipman in the Roval British Navy, is in Washington. He passed the British examination for promotion to Midshipman at the head of the class, but, before entering upon the duties of Midshipman, he was required to swear allegiance to Great Britain, and this he refused to do. Seo’y Thompson has given him a clerkship in the Navy Department for the present, and a bill will soon be introduced in Congress to authorize the President to appoint him either a Midshipman or Ensign in the American Navy. —The late Bayard Tsylor, in a letter recently printed in the Wilmington (Del.) ' Commercial, thus refers to his name: “ I was named by my parents simply ‘Bayard,’ after James A. Bayard, the grandfather of your Senator. As a boy of sixteen or seventeen, I sometimes attached ‘J.’ (never James) to my name, foolishly thinking it would look better. When my first volume of poems'came out, Rufus Griswold, my first literary friend, put ‘James Bayard Taylor’ on the title-page, and the small private edition was printed before I could correct it. The matter was an annoyance to me then, and has been ever since. I felt bound to retain the ‘ J.’,’ however, until I was twenty-one, and became legally responsible for my signature. Then I dropped it instantly, and have never since used anything "else than my’’original '[and only true name.”

—There is a quarrel between Gens. Stanley and Hazen which, it is said, is likely to attract much attention. When Gen. Hazen was selected as the representative of the army to observe the military operations during the late Turco-Russian War, Gen. Stanley tried to prevent his appointment, and filed charges against him with the Secretary of War, alleging offenses committed during a long series of years. These charges did not prevent Gen. Hazen’s appointment, ana Gen. Stanley wrote to him, saying: “ I now give you fair warning that I am fully informed upon your disgraceful conduct at Shiloh and your shameful e<it from your command at Fort Buford, and, when the proper occasion offers; will use the information to stop your career Of ’ imposture.” The charges with this letter were, it is alleged by Gen. Hazen’s friends, sent broadcast through Europe, and especially to every prominent military officer with whom ne would naturally come in contact. Upon his return to this country, he took legal advice, and has decided to ask for a trial of himself under the charges. It is understood that the President will grant the request. — -N. Y. Evening Post. A poor man of Chicopee, Mass., recently lost his pig, and his sympathizing neighbors promptly raised $lO and presented it to him, when in bounced his wife and, wanting them to understand that she was not going to be made an object of charity, compelled him to return the money. The face of a lovely woman is perhaps the sweetest thing on the whole mundane sphere.— Breakfast Table. It is until you begin to see that her nose Js toO long, her chin set on sideways and her eyes out of line.— Detroit Free Press. ' ! • ' 2.. V There are no,titles in America, yet we have a great many bogus Sir Tifficates. — Cincinnati Saturday Night. , A bouquet is a good scenter-piea for the dining-table. ■ '