Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1879 — Page 2

The Rensselaer Union. HENsreUUm. • • • INDIANA.

General News Summary.

From WMhlng-ton. Tbh Judiciary OomniUae of the National Houce of 'Representative. have prepared a report, flndlng that the charges against H. W. Blodgett, Judge Of the United State* Court for the Northern District of Illinois, are not sustained, hut that the inquiry was warranted under the drcumetences. To Forty-fifth Centre** adjourned tine die at noon, <m the 4th. F. F. Dutras, Chairman of the National Committee of the National party, isauod an address to the people of the country, on the 4th, ta Which he declares that the separation fro* the old parti* had inspired the Nationals with renewed confidence and courageHe advises thorough party organization, and say* with it party success in 1880 can be assured. e To Secretary of the Treasury, on the 4th. issued another call for the redemption of 5-20 bonds, principal and interest to be paid on and after June 4. The call is for *7,000,000 coupon and *8,000,000 n<istered—a total of *lO 000,000. The Secretary has also Issued a circular giving notice that when the outstanding 5-30 6-per-cenL bonds are covered by subscriptions to 4-per-cenL consols the latter will be withdrawn from sale upon the terms proposed by the Department circular oi Jan. 21. 1870. Subsequent sales of 4 per cents will probably be made upon less favorable terms to the purchasers.

Thu President's Proclamation convening Congress in extra session, is as follows: ‘ n,e adjournment of the For-ty-fifth Congress without making the u«ual and necsaaary appropriation* for the Legislative. Executive and Jndical expenses of the Government fur the fiscal vear ending June 30.1880. and with- «.«* «» ®oal and neoesMuy appro: naUonsfiarthe support of the army for the same fiscal year, present* an extraordinary occasion, requiring the Preudent to exercise the power vested in him by the Constitution to convene the booses of Congress m anticipation of the day fixed by law for their next meeting: dep tof ijSted States, do, by vitro?of'the power to thia end vested mme by the UonstituUoQ - °? s ” a !Sl botl ? boos* to assemble at their respective Chambers at twelve o'clock noon Tuesday, the 18th day of March, then and there to consider sad determine such measures as. in their wisdom, their duty, and the welfare of the propte may seem to demand. In witness whereof, 1 nave hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of tbs United States to be fixed. —-. . . . R. B. Hayes. Bythe President: William M. Evarts. Secretary of State. The Cabinet, at Washington, decided, on the 7th, to appoint the following members of the National Board of Health: SurgeonGen. Woodworth, of the Marine Hospital Service, to represent the Treasury Department; Medical Director Francis M. Gunnell, of the Navy; Solicitor-Gen. Phillips, Department of Justice, and Assistant-Surgeon John S. Billings, of the War Department The Pension Office in Washington received, up to the close or business on the Bth, 80,000 applications under the A rrears-of-Pensions act. They were being Died and sorted, but no action will be taken on any until the 25th of this month, when the work of adjudication will begin, and certificates will be issued to successful pensioners. Applications were coming in at the rate of 400 daily, and it was estimated that a total of 50.030 would be received, of which about 3J,030.w0n1d probably be acted upon favorably. The first notice a pensioner will have of the allowance of his claim will be the receipt of a certificate, which entitles him to the money, and which he can then get if it is in the Treasury and not otherwise appropriated. Ox the Bth. the Secretary of the Treasury issued a circular announcing the issue of certificates of deposit of the denomination of ♦lO each in aid of the refunding of the public debt These certificates will be soli for lawful money at par and accrued interest to date of purchase, and will bear date April 1,1879. Purchasers are allowed a commission of oneeight of 1 per cent on all purchases from *I,OOO to *IOO,OOO.

The East. Ox the 3d, at the' municipal election In Portland, Me., the* Democrats and Greenbackera united and elected their candidate for Mayor by forty-six majority. An explosion of sulphuric ecid, in Lower Laush Creek Colliery, near Pottsville, Pa , on the sth, killed three men, and severely burned three others. The Dime Savings Bank, at York, Pa., suspended, on the 6th. It was thought it would pay seventy-five or eighty cents on the dollar. The New York Tribune of the 7th contains special dispatches from Washington, giving an exposure of an alleged awinaling scheme, by which many persons had been Induced to subscribe money for a mythical memorial to Bayard Taylor. John J. Astor and Peter Cooper, whose names appear among the subscribers, deny having signed the paper, or authorized the use of their names in that connection. The appearance of their names on the paper had induced leading citizens in Washington and other cities to contribute to the enterprise. - - -i. - Elihu Burkitt, the learned blacksmith, died, on the night of the 6th, at . hift.Ji(® § „in. New Britain, Conn. He was sixty-eight years of age. A Newport, R. 1., telegram of the 9th states that Gen. W. <T. Sherman and wife had Jcft ttttt Seriously ill, the former with pneumonia, and the latter with consumption. A few days ago, the body of a murdered woman was found packed in a trunk in the river, at Lynn, Mass. The body was subsequently Identified as Sarah Gibson. Miss Gibson, who was in Boston, put in an appearance, in person, and denied that the corpse was hers. Two women from Boston then identified the remains as those of Miss Fanny McConologue, who was supposed to have gone West. Miss McConologue was subsequently heard from in SauFrancisco, and of course the corpse could not be hers, and the mystery remains as great as ever. The following were the closing quotations for produce tn New York, on March Bth: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, »1.06%@ LO7; N 0.2 Milwaukee, #LO6%@LO7. Oats, Western Mired, Corn, Western Mixed, Pork, Mess, [email protected]. Lard, *6.75. Flour, Good to Choice, #[email protected]; White Wheat Extra, #[email protected]. Cattle, *7.75@ 10.00 for Good to Extra. Sheep, *5.000 6.00. Hoge, *4.3004.40.

At East Liberty, Pa., on March Bth, Cattle brought: Best, *5.0305.25; Medium, *4.53 04.75; Common, *3.5004.25. Hogs .soldYorkers, fi3.75a4.05; Phlladelphias, #4.50® 4.75. Sheep brought #3.2sos.4o—according to quality. At Baltimore, MA. on Match Bth, Cattie brought: Best, *4.75(315.75; Medium, *“;«8.Ka4.25. Hogs sold at #5.5006:00 for Good. Sheep were quoted at #4.5005.75 for Good. West and South. Judge Whitaker, of ike Superior District Court of Louisiana, has ruled that the decision of the Supreme Court, In the Anderson case is binding, also, in tne case of Wells, CaaaaftW ajMi Kenner, members of the old Bagurutai* .Board, and has discharged the accUMd*Mi arrest, under the recently-found indictment. ’ At a nuuMHwetlng In Hollister, Cat, flags were hoisted at half-mast, on the reception of Intellteepce that the Chinese bill had been vetoed, and President Hayes had been burned in

A riHB broke out in Reno, Nev., on the morulog of the 2d, which entirely consumed the business portion of the town, the flam* ceasing to spread because there waa nothing left for them to feed upon. Every public building was destroyed, including churches, banks, hotels and the Postoflkse, the only structures remaining being the Masonic Hall and John Lareome’s house. Five persons are known to have perished in the flames, and many other* were seriously burned and otherwise tnjqrijd. Loes, *1,000,000; insurance, *150,000. Thh workingmen of Ban Francisco, to the number of 7,000, met on the Band Lots', on the afternoon of "the 2d, to consider the Chinese question. The President was soundly denounced.by the speaker*, and resolutions adopted lo.the effect that the bill .vetoed by him was a piece of political clap-trap, which the worklugmen would have accepted for what it was worth, and asked for more, but they did not consider the veto of sufficient importance to mourn over or strike a blow for it. A few nights ago, at St?* Louis, Lizzie Dowd used kerosene oil to feed the emlwrs of a reluctant kitchen tire. The usual explosion followed, and the 1 careless woman was fatally burned. On the same evening, while Mary Ann Jordan was reading by the kitchen table, the lamp standing thereon exploded and the poor creature was fatally burned. , ■>. The California Constitutional Convention adjourned sine die sn the afternoon of the 3d. A premature explosion of nttro-glycerfne at Dutch Gap, In the James River, near Richmond, Va., on the sth, killed M. C. Hagerty, a Government contractor on the works, Aid one other man, and severely injured five or six other persons.

In pursuance of a call issued by M. M. (“Brick”) Pomeroy, a National Greenback Convention met in Chicago, on the 4tii, and held a two-days’session. Ralph E-Hoyt, of Michigan, was chosen permanent President, and R. W. Dunstan, of Illinois, Secretary. Mr. Pomeroy addressed the Convention on the evening of the first day’s session, and cave a detailed account of bis work as Chairman of the Committee on Organization, In organizing Greenback Clubs, which now number 6,217 throughout the country. The platform adopted declares, among other things, that the Greenback dollar must be a legal tender tn all cases, —and ixr paid out and received as absolute money; the General Government alone to Issue money; that all United States bonds be immediately called in and paid in Greenback paper money, such money never to be converted into bonds; that all National Bank issues shall be at once withdrawn; that the trade dollar shall be recoined and all other silver money remonetized; that the Internal Revenue laws shall be abolished; in favor of a graduated income tax; the election of Postmasters by the people; the prohibition of the importation of Chinese or other servile labor; the establishment of a Labor Bureau of Statistics in every State; the abolishing of all class legislation; public lands to be disposed of only to actual settlers; eight hours to constitute a legal day’s work; demanding the passage of such laws as will fully, fairly and justly protect the rights of the people and of transportation companies; recognizing the . mutual dependence of labor and capital, and deprecating all attempts’ti/ antagonize them; that labor is the basis of all human wealth, happiness and progress, and must, have equal protection by law, that usury must be abolished by National laws; the homestead of a family, to the value of *2.000, never to be liable to sale for debtvno man to be eligible to the office of President or Vice-President for two consecutive terms. A National Executive Committee was appointed, composed as follows: Ohio, Hugh Preyer, Chairman; Nebraska, W. H. Dcch; Indiana, Dr. Winslow; Texas, B. J. Chambers; Colorado, Joseph Wolff; Kansas, J. O. McKee; Illinois. M. M. Pomeroy; Vermont, C’.- E. Grill; Mississippi, H. Nelson, Jr.; Wisconsin, D. W. C. Priest; Rhode Island, J. C. Vat let te; Pennsylvania, W. C. Plumer; Michigan, RalptT E. Hoyt; New York, John Cameron; Missouri, J. M. Landon; lowa, C. 11. Jackson.

The Wieconisn Legislature adjourned nine die, on the sth.. The Republican State Convention of Michigan was held at Lansing, on the 6th. Resol utioqs were adopted opposing any radical change in our present financial system, and congratulating the country on “the successful resumption of specie payments and the signs of returning prosperity in all branches "Of business; 5 ’ invitingGre eo-operatfon of all men "who are in favor of financial honesty and a safe and sound basis for the business of the country.’’ James V. Campbell was nominated for Judge of the Supreme Court, and E-O. Grosvenor and James M. Shearer for Regents of the University. AlFew weeks ago, E. L. Smith, Manager of the 'Western Union Telegraph Company at Topeka. K an., was put under arrest by: the. State House of Representatives for refusing to give to au Investigating Committee'of that body the telegrams sent from and received at his office in regard to the late’Senatorial election in the Legislature. He was set at liberty, on the 7th, by a unanimous vote of the House. • Mr. Smith had been under arrest for a number of weeks, and persisted to the last in hie refusal to yield to the demands of the committee, claiming that to com; ly with such demands would be a violation on his part of a sacred trust. "■~L ■ . Thebe was great excitement on the Chicago Board of Trade, on the 7th, caused by a fall of five cents per bushel in the price of April wheat.. The origin of the decline was the sale of over 3,000,000 bushels held by Keene and the New York clique. Later in the day it waS said that Keene’s agent had broken the market' on forged orders from New Y’ork. It was stated in the queuing Uiat the Telegraph Compa'tiy had offered a regard of *25,000 for the discovery of the man who sent ths order.

At its recent session in Chicago, the Na- 4 tional Butter aud Egg Convention re-elected. J. F. Joyce, of New York, President for trie ensuing year, andß. M. Littler, of Davenport, lowa, Secretary and Treasurer. Among the Vice-Presidents chdsen are George E. Gooch, Illinois; A. J.*W. Pierce, Wisconsin; J.,R. Budd, Indiana; H. T. Sherman, lowa, and T. G- Bottsfoi-d, Kentucky. A resoultion was adopted favoring the total abolition of the tax on dairy salt. I ■: Ox the 6th, in the "Illinois House of Representatives, an immense petition, said to be 900 feet long and to contain 110,000 signatures, was presented, asking for local option, and also that women of legal age be allowed to vote on the question of license. This is the “ Home-Protection'’ petition, and the signatures were secured by the ladies of the Illinois Women’s Temperance Union. A Chicago jury have found John Lamb guilty of the murder of Officer Race,, last October, and fixed the penalty at death by hanging. '■ THEAttorney-General of ‘South’ "Carolina has notified ex-Senator Patterson, of that State, that all indictments found against him have been cancelled. Godchaux Bros.! A Co., bankers of Sap Francisco, failed lately, owing over #1,000,000. Their assets aggregate #475,000. A flood In the region round about Humboldt Bay, Cal., the other day, was very destructive of railroad and telegraph lines, fences, outbuildings and dwelling^,,.i aons lost theft lives, several others were injured, and a great deal of stock was drowned. Columbus, Ohio, is greatly excited over the subject of incendiary fires, of which not less than eight were started simultaneously, on the morning of theßth. Over 300 armed men were sworn in as patrolft. IM Chiqago, on March Bth. Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at fash;

i«*fc for April. Cash Corn closed at 33Xc (or No. 2; t 33>,c for April; 57c tor May. Cash Qate No. 2 sold at 23)<c; seller April; 26><c for May. Hye,. No. 2, 46X®- Barley No.’ 2, 77(gS0c for cash; 77®80c for March. Cash Mei* Fork dosed at Lard, *6.45. Beeves —Extra brought-*4 75 roh.OO; Cljolce, *4.40 (§4.60; Good, *4,<XX<*4.3); Medium Grades, »8.75(«HV0; Butcher*’ Stock, *2.6503.65; Stock Cattie, etc., *[email protected]. Hogs—Gfaxl. to Choice, *3.090*4.25. Sheep—Prwr to Choice, *3.250*5.25 1

Forcijjn Intelligence. A Madliid dispatch,of the 8d announces the resignation of the Spanish Cabinet in a body. Titg residence of ex-Emprees Carlotta, widow of the late Emperor of Mexico, the Royal Castle of Tervuercn, in Belgium, was burned on the 3d. - ‘ A genuine case of the plague lately ap« peered at St. Petersburg. M; Heek, late President of the Swiss Confederation, died, bn the 3d. ON the morning of the 3d, John Drouillard'a house at Sandwich, Ont., was destroyed by lire, and ids two children, aged respectively •fifteen and five years,were burned to death. Drotilllard himself was badly injured while attempting to rescue the children. DeMahcehe, the French Minister of the Interior, resigned on the 4th. The Russian Government has appointed a Medical Commission to investigate the alarming prevalence of diphtheria in Southern Russia. At Kleff, Russia, the police lately discovered a secret printlng office, containing presses and material ami a large number of forged documents, with counterfeit .seals of the various departments. On entering the department, the officers were received with a storm of bullets, and one was killed and two mortally wounded. According to London dispatches of the 5: h, the situation in South Africa was considered most critical, and fears of an immediate invasion of the Capb Colonies On the sth, an explosion occurred in DeepDrop Colliery, in England, w hich caused the death of nineteen persons. A Constantinople dispatch of the sth says intelligence had been received that 500 Greeks had crossed into Thessaly, and burned the Village of Ktenlikienter. Signor Fanfani, an eminent Italian lexicographer, is dead. According to Vienna telegrams of the 6th, the Czar had discovered an extensive con spiracy to forcibly liberate the imprisoned Nihilists. The Czarowitch also had been charged with subversive political tendencies and been forbidden to quit the palace.

A Tashkend (Central Asia) dispatch, received in St. Petersburg on the 6th, says that immediately after the death of Shere All a bloody tight broke out among the followers of the various pretenders to—the Afghan throne, and that the partisans of Yakdob Khan were victorious. The latter was at Herat. In the German Parliament, on the 7th, the bill introduced by Count Bismarck authorizing the discipline of members for Socialistic utterances, was rejected by a large Only the extreme and some of the moderate Conservatives voted for it. It was an acknowleged ignominious defeat for the Government. Henri Lacay, a banker, and President of the Tallies (France) Chamber of Commerce, has absconded with a large sum belonging to depositors and others. —■——~~— The French Legislative Committee of Inquiry has voted to impeach the DeßroglieFourtou Cabinet of the 16th of May. A motion favoring woman suffrage was defeated in the British House of Commons, on the 7th, by a vote of 103 to 217. PasSamente, the would-be assassin of King Humbert, of Italy, has been found guilty and condemned to death. Gn the s£h,.the cages in the Victoria (England) Coal-Pit collided. One person was precipitated to the bottom of the shaft and eight others were killed. According to a Tirnova dispatch of the Sth, the inhabitants of Djuma, in Macedonia, were emigrating en masse -before the advance of Turkish troops. According to Cape Town (South Africa) dispatches, received via Madeira on the 9tli, the Zulus had been defeated, with heavy loss, at Ekowe, by Col. Pearson’s command. It was believed that aTlfeafs'oTasuceeTsfilTTn-" vaslon of Natal had vanished. A Tashkend dispatch of the 9th states that intelligence had been received there that tranquillity had been re-es’ablislied at Cabul, and that Yakoob Khan had been proclaimed Ameer of Afghanistan.

Congressional Proceedings. Considerable discussion was had in the Senate, on the 3d, on the proposed amendment to Mr. Shields’ amendment to the Arrears-of-l’ensions bill, declaring that no pension should be paid under the act to Jefferaua Davis, after which the amendment was agreed to—23 to 22. The Shields amendment including soldiers and sailors of the Mexican War in the provisions of the bill was then rejected—2o to 22 after which the bill was avain passed-44 to 3. .... A new Conference Committee was appointed on the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bi 11... .Conference reports were agreed to on the River and Harbor, Fortification, Deficiency and Sundry-Givil Appropriation bills. • ...The.Tellez Comnuttciq wfts autlMtfjxedJp sit during the recess, to continue the inquiry into the alleged violation of the Constitutional rights of citizens during the late elections ... The Home amendments to the bill providing for the taking of the Tenthand subsequent Censuses were agreed to, and the bill was passed.... Bill’s were also passed: House bill for the’relief of soldiers and sailors becoming totally blind in the service of their country; making appropriations for the payment of claims reported by the Southern Claims Commission; House bill to f>romo»e the education of the blind. . . The seect committee, appointed at the instance of Mr. Mattbewsi made a report fully exonerating that Senator from gll charges or suspicions of complicity with any. real or supposed frauds in the election in Louisiana, and that his statements were true, and he iiad been guiltv of no corrupt conduct in any of the matters referred to in the testimony; but the committee say they cannot but regard the Senator's ‘‘action in respect to Janies E. Anderson's effort to obtain an appointment tooflice. under the circumstances, aS wrong and injurious to the public interest.’’ Bills were passed in the House relating to homestead settlements on.public lands within railroad limits.... Conference reports on the Fortijication, Bn«dry-Civil, River and Harbor, Deficiency and Postoffice Appropriation bills were agreed t 0.... The Senate amendments to the PostRoute bill were concurred in... .Seventeen articles of impeachment against George F. Seward were presented in the majority report of the Committee on Expenditures in the Slate Department. A minority report was also made, when considerable debate ensued, after which the minority report to refer the., whole subject to the Judiciary Committee was voted down—l2o to 98.

After a lengthy debate, the Senate refused, on the 4th. to recede from the amendments to the Legislative, Executive and Judicial and to the Army Appropriation bills, and they failed to pass ..In the absence of the VicePresident. Senator Ferry was chosen President pro vtm....K number of pension and private bills were passed, as was also the House bill to prevent the introduction of infectious or contagious diseases into the United States and to establish a National Board of Health. . . . At noon, Mr. Ferry, as President pro tern’., declared the Forty-fifth Congressadjourned sine die. A number of private bills were passed in the House....A motion to suspend the rules and concur in the Senate amendments to the Ar-reare-of-Pensions bill was agreed t0....Mr. Hewitt reported that the Conference Committees had been unable to agree on the Army Appropriation bill, and stated that an agreement could be reached on alj,the questions in oontrO versy except as to the presence of troops at the p 0115.... After a lengthy debate..the House returned to yield ite position on legislative and the Army bills, and they ttohsequenUy failed to pass. :. . The Senate bill for the appointment of James Shields as a Brigadier General on the retired list was passed—ll 3to 56 ...Aresolution was v adopted that the charges against Judge Blodgett, of the Northern District of Illinois, be laid on the table, and that the House take no action thereon. ... A supplementary Conference report on the Poetoffice Appropriation bilk with a provision for double postal cards, was agreed t 0.... The vote, ordering the previous question on the Seward ’impeachprerrt resohitawwas. reoaeeid,, ered . . .Thecommittee appointed to investigate | the charge contained jn a> letter of Special Agent I

William* againct Hpeaker Randall made a report t> the effect that < vrn statement of wrong made in the letter was without even the *emblanoe of truth.,..A retolutibn of thank* to Bpealtar Randallyias iinanimoualy adbptcd.and. alter a stormy atul exciting seen* 1 , and thadelivery of strong political siMo-chea on both sides, the House wu declared adjourned fine dU.

MISCELLANFOI’S fI’EMS. is full of impecunious American. t —The plow is believed to be the oldest landmark.— Utica Observer. —Every house must be thoroughly coaled before it can be made warm. —Rising to explain wears a man's character out in the course of time. —“ When 1 was a child 1 spake as a child,” and often got spanked for doing it. —The Town Treasurer of Bennebunkport, Me., gels $25 a year, and gives bonds for $12,000. —6ne man may be Casting a reflection when he say s he sees villainy in the eyes of another man. —The man who thinks everybody else a fool, can keep on good terms with himself.— -N. 0. Picayune. —Spring poetry is a strangely hardy plant. When it gets fairly up, the’ weather never sets it back an inch. ■ —Although women are now allowed to practice law in all the courts of Ohio, not one is permitted to act as a Notary Public. —lt is npt until the flower has fallen off that the fruit begins to ripen. So in life, it is when the romance is past that the practical usefulness begins. —A Baltimore pedestrian has been very ill of nervous prostration produced by a trying contest in which he was defeated, lie will be a wreck during the remainder of his life. —An editor says, “It is just as easy fora child to fall into a tub of cold water as into a tub of hot water, and yet we never read of a child’s falling into a tub of cold water.”

—A photographic picture has been taken at midnight of the room in the mill at Willimantic, Conn., in which, the electric light is used, and it is said to be clear and distinct — —“Two mouths with but a single stew, two spoons that dip as one,” as the young man remarked to his dearly beloved, after giving his economical order of “One stew, two spoons.” —The late husband, when he finds that somebody has stolen the keyhole out of his door, and diffidently rings the bell, knows exactly who “The Coming Woman” is.— Somerville Journal. —The farmer should sow his Ps, keep his Us warm, hive his Bs, kill off the Js, remember what he Cs, take care of the Vs, pay all he Os, teach his boys not to Ts, anil take his Es.—2Y. Y.'lndependent. —An epitaph can easily be made to suggest the domestic history of many years. For instance : Sacred to the memory of Anthony Brake, Who died for peace and quietness* sake ; His wife was constantly scolding and scoffin’, So he sought for repose in a twelve dcliar coffin. —A minister who was speaking quite loud saw a woman leaving the church with a crying babe, and thereupon exclaimed : “Your baby don’t disturb me, madam.” “That isn’t it, sir,” she replied; “you disturb the baby.” Of course, every effect must have a cause. —Practical Y ankee: ‘ ‘ Well, yes, sir. I give in to you. Shakespeare was a genius. But he didn’t kinder seem to put it to a practical use. Never benefited civilization with a washing-ma-chine, nor a patent turnip-peeler, nor anything of that sort. ‘Still, he was a smart man.” —A writer in a Boston paper complains of the freedom: of conversation in the street-cars city, and quotes the remark of a young lady, who said: “W’ell, I haven’t heard enough about that engagement yet. I declare, I must go into town and ride in a Beacon-street car.” —The women of Massachusetts are competent to take a philosophic view of the most perplexed problems. Whenone of them was informed that there were more women than men in the State, she at once replied that the fact was in accordance, with the scientific doctrine of the “survival of the fittest.”— New York Herald.

—A certain resident of North Adams, Mass., recently buried his wife, a woman of unusual size, and a few days after the sad event a neighbor attempted a little in the consolatory line by remarking: “ Well, Mr. , you have met with a heavy loss.” “Yes,” replied the- mourner, with a sigh, “she weighed ’most four hundred pound!” —Events will work contrariwise sometimes, in spite of our best efforts. Just think of the feelings of a man who, seeing two persons drowning, springs to their relief, grasps one of them at the risk of his own life and succeeds in saving him, only to find in his vest pocket when he searches him a little unsettled bill against himself.— Exchange. —“ How much do you ask for that goose?” inquired a-customer of a market woman. “ Seven shillings for the two,” replied the woman. “ But I want only one,” said the customer. “I can’t Help it,” answered the woman; “I ain’t a-goin 1 to sell one without the othe?. To my certain knowledge them ’erg geese have been together for more’n thirteen years, aud I aint agoin’ to be so unfeelin’ as to separate ’em now.” —The wife of a small farmer in Perthshire, some time ago, went to a chemist’s in the “ Fair City” with two prescriptions—one for her husband and the other for her cow: Finding strehad not money enough to pay for both, the chemist asked her which she would take. “ Gie me that for the coo,” said the wife; “the worm will do well enough for him, puir body. Gin he were to dee. I c<?uld sune get another man, but I’m not sae sure if 1 would sune get another coo.” ' w I .. . . •'

—Some people moving a house at Lewiston, N. Y., got it just upon the railroad track at dark, and concluded to leave it there until morning. A train which came along in the night was stopped just in time to avoid an accident, and the conductor therefore got out a rope and experimented a Httie in house-moving vyith a locomotive. When the owners of the house canip back in the WS.* 11 © they found it laid comfortably on one Bide in a ditch. . —4 man in Overton County, Tenn., stole a hogX few days ago, killed it, tied it around his neck in shot-pouch fashion, and started home. After going some distance he became weary, placed the hog on a stump, without removing the rope from around his neck, and fell asleepi • The hog slipped over the opposite side of the stump; and the poor wretch was strangled to deftth. work. ■ |

MUTUAL DUTIES. In the letter* written to the Witness I hate read im> much about *' eniilinv” at one'* husband a«d meetinu him with a ‘eniile,** that, notwithstanding I felt indignant at. tint that nothing wan said about the lUuMnii'i duty in regard to making home pleaeant. I hare become bo milch intereatod in the theme that I bare become >n»pired M it were, and have iieen able to produce the following, which I hope will be duly committed to memory by every wife who is m fortunate as to be able to read it. Will not some one please get. it to music? . “MEET YOUH HUSBAND WITH A BMILE.” Though the babies do cry and the children do fret. Though your boiler should leak and the fire burn low. Though your husband your wood has neglected to get And although yon must ferret ft ont of the snow. Yet wear a sweet smile when he enters the room, And haste for his slippers and soft dressinggown; 'Tis your duty, O woman, to drive away gloom. And th<r lord of the household should ne'er see a frown. When you've scorned your floor till your cheeks are aglow, And you iron- ovhanstion are ready to fall. If your hnsb uid co les home tracking in mud and snow, Throws 1 is tiat and his coat on the floor in the ' hall. Do not lose your temper, but hang them again Ou the rack, as you always do; then do not stop To think that your scrubbing was labor in vain, But smilingly go for the brooip and the mop; And while he his newspaper leisurely reads. Hast, O wife, to the kitchen, if servant you’ve none; liemember the kind cane a fond husband needs, And sec t hat his victuals are properly done. But. if in your efforts to please you should fail— If the beef is too rare and the pudding’s not done, Don’t speak of the wood (there’s reproach in the tale),; Tho’ he chides you, look pleasant and smile on and on. It is all for your good—a wife needs no praise. But a straightforward course of strict training instead; For compliments, now, would your self-esteem raise: You had your share of them ere you were wed. Should praise be indulged in, soon out of her sphere Every wife in the country would certainly be, And forget twas her duty to love and to fear And tremble and smile upon His Majesty. —Jda Reade, in R. F. Witness.

A LITTLE CANDLE.

Cora sat on the steps of the back porch. It was a rainy, muddy day, and she could not go to the zoological gardeiis, where her Aunt Louisa had promised to take her. She had been late in coming dpwn to breakfast, too, and had been sent back in disgrace to wash her hands again. Lotty had said she would dress her doll; but Lotty was cross. There was no chance of any fun anywhere. Neither was there a crack in the dreary horizon to let a glimmer of light through, dr to give Cora a chance to hope that the sky would clear. She grumbled angrily at Horace, at the nurse, and even at pussy; but what difference do the moods of such a very little girl make in the great world? If Cora could have had an opinion on the subject (which she had not), she would have said that her ill-temper could not possibly injure anybody or anything, unless it was her wretched kitten. Horace stopped on the step above her, and stood swinging his sachel. It was a dismal day for Horace, too. He did not know his Latin, and was pretty sure of a long score of demerits. He, too, felt like venting his ill-humor on something or somebody. Cora’s red hair looked temptingly bright. If he should give it a tug as he passed, and shout, “Carrot!” how she would rage! But then he caught sight of her unhappy little face, and felt a twinge of pity at his own heart. “ Halloo, little sister!” he cried; ‘‘take a walk with Horace?” Now that meant a journey to the baker’s at the corner, and a plum tait. Cora had taken “ walks” before with her big brother when he was in funds, so she now trotted along at his side, chattering and laughing, and presently came dancing back, her mouth purple with plum juice. She was so happy that she must give poor Lotty—who had had no tart—some pleasure. “ I’ll lend you my fairy-book to read after school, if you’ll bring it back safe. Now you’ll take good care of it, ‘ word and-honor ?’ ” •* ~

“Why, you darling child, of course I will!” and Lotty kissed her and flew up-stairs for the long-coveted treasure. What a splendid time she would have that afternoon with Prue Ridgely readingjt! On the front steps Lotty met Ann, the cook, coming from the milk-cart. “Oh, Ann,” she cried, good-natured-ly, “ I’ll write that letter to Ireland for you this evening! I forgot it last week. Have the pen and paper all ready and we’ll give your old mother a big budget of news.” Ann went down into the kitchen laughing. She hail been cross for a week, brooding over Lbtty’s forgotten promise. “ She’s a good-hearted child, afther all,” she muttered. “It’s a shame fur me to sloight me cookin’. They’re a noice family. I’ll take more pains wid the steak of the owld jontleman this momin’.” The “owld jontleman”. was Lotty’s uncle, Jacob Ferris, who lived with her father. He was very rich, very dyspeptic and very full of whims. His digestive organs were in such a condition that a greasy, heavy dish would send him down street nauseated, wretched and intolerably cross. His breakfast- was always carried to his room after the rest of the “family had scattered for the day. “Well, well, what’s this?” he growled, as the servant brought up the tray. “ Chops swimming in fat, I puppose! That Ann is becoming unendurable! _ Ah!” as the-tray was set before him. “ Why, this steak is deliciously cooked! and the cakes are light as cakes could be made! Well; well, well, miracles will never cease!”

The old gentleman enjoyed his breakfast at his leisure, slipped a shining silver piece under the plate for Ann, and then, with a clear head and uncomplaining stomach, he walked smilingly down town. Now in one of the little Streets through which he passed lived Godfrey Pratt, his assistant book-keeper. Pratt’s salary was seven hundred a year, little enough to support his wife and two babies. Th® house in which they lived was a tiny little place, very poor and very neat. The two Rabies, whose happy little faces used to peep out of the parlor windows ab|OUt the time when papa came home, Were always prettily and comfortably clothed; but by the time clothes and food had been paid for, Godfrey had hardly a dollar left. 1 The little tots were not at the window to-d ay. Three weeks ago they had been attacked by low, malarial fever, and while their mother was nursing them, she also sank under the same disease. Poor Godfrey spent every moment th at he could spare with them. The day before, the chief book-keeper had sent for him. “How-are the siek Godfray ?-” he asked.

“ No better,” was the sad reply. “ I’m sorry for that. The truth is” —hesitating—“ Mr. Ferris has policed your frequent absence, and wished me to tell you that you must be more at-' tentive to business.” Godfrey’s thin face grew a shade paler. “Why, Mr. Whipple, my wife and children have been near to death! My ( work has not suffered; I have not written a |ine the less, or allowed my books”-- “ I know all that, Mr. Pratt; but the old gentleman is cranky at times, though, as we all know, he is not an unkind man at heart. He likes to see all the men at their places, and the business of the house goiifg on like clock-work. 1 was afraid to mention the lest the very name of malaria) fever would frighten him, and he would not allow you in the counting-room; so I thought I’d give you a hint, that you may not be absent again.” He was passing on, but Godfrey detained him. “ Stop a moment, Mr. Whipple, if you please. The doctor told me this morning that my wife and the children must have change of air, and that they must have it at once. He told me to take them to Atlantic City. It will, take every dollar I have to do it, and—and I must go with them. There is nobody to take them but me. I came out this morning determined to ask for a furlough of a week.” He spoke with desperate haste, and stood looking at Whipple with an anxious, half-frightened expression when he had ended. Mr. Whipple took off his glasses uncertainly. He was much disturbed. “Upon my word, Godfrey, I don’t know what to' say. You can’t desert your family, and yet—Mr. Ferris is very irritable just now. If I ask for a furlough for you, lam afraid he will give you leave to stay away altogether.” “That would be starvation,” said ’’Godfrey;"'’ ,r ‘ r-i 1 ’ “It is hard. We all have hard places in our lives to climb over, but you know who can help us.” With this the men had parted. When Mr. Whipple reached the office the next morning, he found Godfrey waiting at his desk.

Watching all night, and the terrible nervous strain had left his face ghastly and haggard. “Well, Mr. Pratt, what have you decided to do?” “ I shall ask for the furlough. They must go, and they cannot go alone. I can be back in two days.” Mr. Whipple shook his head. “ Mr. Ferris is so very—peculiar—I am afraid it will insure your discharge.” . “ All the same, I must ask it,” said Godfrey, desperately. “ There he is, then, going into his office. Follow him quietly.” Pratt tapped at the walnut door, and was admitted. Uncle Jacob was glancing over the morning’s paper. “ Well, sir?” he said, without looking up. Godfrey plunged into the middle of his story. His desperation made him use the strongest words, and the first which came. Mr. Ferris moved tmeasily once or twice, but the serene calm induced by his delicious steak and light cakes was not easily disturbed. When the man had ended, Mr. Ferris looked up. “You want a fur Why, Pratt, what’s the matter with you?” and he rose-quickly from his chair. “ It’s—it’s nothing, sir,” said Godfrey, faintly, staggering to the wall. “I’ve been up all night, and” “Did you eat a hearty breakfast? Nothing like a bit of juicy beef to tone a man up.” “Juicy beef!” laughed Pratt, bitterly. “Do you mean that you could not afford it? Are you hungry?” My wife’s illness and the children’s have been costly,” stammered Pratt. “Here—go out—send Whipple to me,” blustered Uncle Jacob. Whipple was called in for a ten minutes’ conference. When Pratt was summoned again Mr. Ferris had not yet recovered from Els heat. “You have your furlough, sir, for three weeks; salary continued, of course. Come back with some flesh on yoUr bones. I’m a hard employer, I know, but I don’t propose to kill my men. Your salary is raised to twelve hundred from to-day, sir. Now go—be off to your wife!” ■ So Godfrey and Mrs. Godfrey and the babies grew strong and happy in the salt air, and came back to begin a new and brighter life. Uncle Jacob went about for days with the blessed consciousness of having done a good deed, and done it well. Lotty was happy in wandering all that afternoon through fairyland. Ann wrote her letter, and there was joy and thanksgiving |n a little Irish cabin far across theseaj . But Horace.went ...to school and forfot all about the little gust of illumor which he had conquered, and his trifling kindness to his baby-sister ; for how could he know how far that little candle had shone into a naughty world?— Youths' Companion.

Curious Modes of Sending Secret Information.

A curious list might be made of the strange methods employed in transmitting many important historical messages. The intelligence which enabled Cyrus to overthrow the Median Monarchy was conveyed in the body of a hare sent him as a present. The instigator of the lonian revolt against Persia sent his agent a trusty slave with verbal orders to shave his head, when the necessary instructions appeared traced on the skin beneath. During Mohammed’s wars letters of this kind were frequently plaited in the long hair of female slaves. The mediaeval fashion of writing in ink which only became visible when held to the fire is well known; but Cardinal Richelieu surpassed even this by his device of a dispatch whose alternate lines made an entirely different sense that of the letter as a whole. One Of the French Chiefs of the Fronde War concealed an important letter in a roasted crab. Warren Hastings, when tyjpckaded in Benares by Cheyte Bingh, apprised the English Army of his situation by dispatches written upon rolled-up slips pf parchment, which his messengers carried in their ears, instead of the quills usually worn there. The letter which recalled Gen. Kaufmann to the relief of Samarcand, when besieged by theßokhariotes in June, 1868, was stitched up in the sandal of a loyal native, it is eVen stated—-though the story certainly savors of a Munchausenism—that a French spy, in 1870, carried a photographic dispatch through the Germ an lines in the hollow of one of his false teeth!— N. Y. Times. “ I study two pleas," remarked the Judge..his decision.—Oweyo Record.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—John W. Young, son of Brigham Young, has just taken his fifth wife. —Miss Mary Jane Wadlelgh, of Sutton, Mass., has 100 pet eats, and when one of them dies she has it buried and its grave marked by a neat monument. —The widow es Senator Bon Wadu has been gradually failing in health since the death of her husband, and is now very Ilf. She is more than-seyen-ty years old. —Senator Call, of Florida, is a grandson of Col. John Lee, of Virginia, a Revolutionary soldier, and a member of the same family to which Gen. Robert E. Lee belonged. —Mr. Mackey, the “Bonanza King lives at Virginia City, Ney., eight months of the year, and is in his mines, where the temperature is from 80 to 100 deg., almost every day. —Mr. Sidney Bartlett, the Nestor of the Boston bar, although in his eightr ieth year has recently argued an* causes before She Supreme Court of the United States in Washington. —C. T. Gidiney, of Troy, N. Y., a poor man, more than sixty years old, announces that he has discovered the ratio between the diameter and circumference of a circle, and that it is worked out by laws immutable. —Mr. Swift Johnson, a young American, has gained a scholarship at Trinity College, Dublin, and now the question arises whether, being an alien, he can hold it. The case is to be argued by counsel before the university authorities. —Mrs. Desire Gregory, of Danbury, Conn., said to be the oldest person in Fairfield County, died the other day. She celebrated the hundredth anniversary of her birthday last May, and up to within a few days of her death had been remarkably active. —According to Bell's Life, Weston has not conscientiously carried out his agreement to walk two thousand miles in England. He has been detected in “ stealing rides,” it is said,'Yind Sir John Astley refuses to abide by the terms of his wager in consequence. —There are now six female lawyers in the United States, and all are having a fair practice. They are Mrs. Lockwood, of Washington; Mrs. Bradwell, of Chicago; Miss Phoebe Cozzens, of St. Louis; Mrs. Foster, of Iowa; Mrs. Goodell, of Wisconsin; and Mrs. Foltz, of San Francisco. = —At a Washington dinner, the other day, when somebody repeated one of the jokes that he had read on the long sentences of the Secretary of State,. Mr. Evarts good-humoredly replied, “Oh, nonsense; I don’t object to that sort of thing at all. People who expect to injure me by calling attention to my long forget that the only persons really opposed to long sentences in this country are the criminal classes, who deserve them.” —The Albany Argus gives some sad intelligence about the poet J. G. Saxe. It says that reverses have overtaken him of lateyears, and painful illnesshasbefallen him and members of his family. He denies himself to his dearest friends. His gloom is absolute and beyond relief. The tax Which good livers pay on their constitution has been paid by Mr. Saxe, but it was hoped that his health would come back under a system to which he subjected himself. That hope appears to be fallaciqus.

Careful Mr. Striker.

In case you want to send a box or parcel to the. house the twenty-five cent express wagons are very handy things, but your directions may not always be understood. Mr. Striker had had his parcelcarted all over town, then left at a police station, and once when he sent a wagon after a stove needing repairs the man brought back a two-inch auger and a set of harness. W hen he sent him back with them the driver missed the house entirely and left the articles .at a school-house. Therefore. when Mr. Striker wanted to send up a parcel yesterday forenoon, he approached an expressman, and began; “ Sir, my name is Striker?” “Yes, sir.” “I spell itS—t —r-—i—k—e—r.” “ Yes, so do I.” “I live at 49681ank street.” “Yes, I know.” “My house is a brick, three trees in the front yard, iron fence, bay window, stone dog in the yard, and name on the door-plate.” “ Yes, sir, I can go right there, sir.” “1 want this bundle taken up,” said Mr. Striker. 1 “ Yes, sir.” “Remember the place, 496 Blank street,” cautioned Mr. Striker. “Ah! but couldn’t 1 drive right to the house in the darkest night of the year?” was the indignant answer, as the man drove off. After driving one block he turned around and put the whip to his horse until he overtook Mr. Striker, when lie called out: Was it- 820 you told me, ’cause I was thinking of my sick wife, and the number flew out of my mind?” “496, you idiot!” yelled Striker, as he wheeled around. “Here i| is on this card.” . “Yes, sir, and I can find it like'a book.” In about an hour the man appeared at the door, and inquired for Mr. Stroker, and Mr. Striker indignantly demanded if tlut parcel had been delivered. “Ah! you are the man I was looking for! I couldn’t find your house, Mr. Stroker.” “Stroker! you human hyena—my name’s Striker!” . “Is it? Then I made a mistake. Striker—Striker—l’ll remember it if it kills me. Excuse me, sir, but I never got confused before, and- I’m all right now.” . The man rattled away at a furious pace, and Mr. Striker saw no more of him until reaching home. The chap was waiting for him three doors below, and at once began: “Mr. Stooks, they say you don t live here, and they won’t take the parcel.” “Stooks! Why, I’ll kill you! My name is Striker!” “Is it? Well, that beats me.” —Tryjp3^n v tmy'house,ofconTse.My house is 496. Didn’t 1 give you the number on a card?” “Why, yes, of course. Dear me, but how confused I am! No wonder I thought your name.was Slpcum instead Sirwil"—Detroit Free Press. - It ft unfair to. make sport of the weakness of the other gex—i. e-. the tongue. The last quotation in the way of abuse is from Tennyson: “Men may come and men may go, but she runs on forever.”— N. K Herald. During 1877, 5,877 persons eifiigrated from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and. nearly all camejo the United States.