Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1879 — Page 2

The Rensselaer Union. ftEN''SKLAI», • - INDIANA.

General News Summary.

From Washington. It was reported from W*mhln(fton, on the 98th, IkM, ovine to the great preeeure upon theTmwty Department in thelaeueof the 4-porrest. bund* already anbeertbed for, and tb« redemption of the MO and 1(M0 bonds, UM oMterakw of the refunding certiflcaLw Into bbeds will oaoeaeartly be poetponed until on or after duly I. Oonoummax Idu Cuu, Representative from the Fifth town District, died very sad - danly la Washington, on the afternoon of the 96th. Ho waa taken 111 the night before. Ylasphjrridans attrtbnted bis death to overwork. He wan serving hia aeoond term la Tn United States Snpreme Court, on the 98th, rendered a decision virtually annulling the damn' Test-Oath Act, by holding that a Juror la no mote obliged than a witness to dedara oa oath that ha has been guilty of any crime or Infamous act, In order to test his quaMcatlooa as a Juror; If guilty, It must be proven by other competent testimony. Justice Field delivered a separate concurring opinion, but going further, and claimed that the Teat-Oath Act la dearly unconstitutional. Justice Strong dissented from the opinion of the Court. Tub National House Select Committee on the Game of the Present Depression of Labor hdd a meeting, on tbe 29th nit., at which Ibe members present expressed the opinion that, if enlSdent funds could be obtained for the purpose, H would be.advisable to visit San Francisco for the yqrpoee of taking monyThe public-debt statement, issued on the Ist, shows the following: Total debt (including interest of $97,155,204), $2,475,587,875. Cash in Treasury, $448,467,156. Debt leas cash in Treasury, *9,027,130,218. Increase during April, *19,952. Decrease since June 80, 1878, $8,005,614. Ob the Ist, in the National House of Representatives, a motion to pass the Army Appropriation bill, notwithstanding the veto of the President, tailed by a vote of 120 ayes Id 110 non Iras than the Constitutional majority. Ik a caucus hdd on the 3d, the Democratic members of the National House of RepresentaUve* determined a line of action in regard to the Army Appropriation bill, and agreed upon the exact terms of the measure, to be separately passed In lieu of the sixth section; it bring also agreed that all consideration of the bill should be deferred until this independent political measure should have been acted upon by the President. The title agreed upon for the new bill is “A Bill to Prevent Interference by the Army with Elections,’’ and it provides in substance that Becs. 2002 and 3003, Rev.aed Statutes, shall not be construed as authorising the presence of United States soldiers at the polls, except under orders of the President to repel armed enemies of the United States, or in pursuance of the Constitutional requirement—upon the application of the Legislature of a State (or of the Governor when the Legislature cannot be convened) to repress domestic violence. The East. Attbb being for four days entombed In a Wllkeabarre, Pa., coal mine, the imprisoned men were released, on the moral ftp of the 28th. The business portion of Gotham, N. H., was destroyed by fire on the aftei’hoon of the 28th. _____ At Carbon Hill, Pa., on tbe 29th ult., the house of John L. Keogh was destroyed by Ore, and a son, aged eleven years, and a daughter, of thirteen, were burned to death, and a younger child, aged five, was so badly injured that its recovery was doubtful. Mr. Keogh bad his face and hands terribly burned in bis endeavors to rescue his children. A few days ago, at noon, two men entered the Workingmen’s Savings Bank of Allegheny City, Pa., while tbe Cashier, G. L. Walter, was revolver at Walter and threatened to kill him if he moved. The Cashier grabbed the revolver and succeeded in getting possession of it. Tbe other robfcer, who bad been stationed at the door, then came forward.with a cocked revolver, and the two men jumped over the counter and attempted to seise s package containing *16,000 in bills, but Walter fired at them three times and drove them back over the counter They then.; ran out followed by the plucky Cashier. They succeeded in getting away with about *1,500. Mas. Sanaa B- Hale, editress of Godey't Ladg't Book, died iu Philadelphia, on the evening of the 30th nit She was eighty-four years old, and had been connected with the Lady’* Book as ita editress for fifty years. Fobtt-nihe failures occurred in New York Cite daring April. The liabilities footed up $1,199,863, and the assets, $633,121. Ik the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, on the 2d, a resolution was adopted, by a strict party vote, authorising the appointment of a joint committee to welcome Gen. Grant, upon his atrival in this country, in the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, providing there shall be no expense to the State. Ok the morning of tbe Ist, Charles F. Freemn, of Pocassett, Maas., woke his wife and told her the Loud had directed him to sacrifice his youngest daughter. They got up, and the father procured a butcher-knife and stabbed the little one In the breast. She gave one scream and expired. He told a reporter that be bad been directed by the Lord to kill little Edith, but that she would rise again in three Osya. Freeman and bis wife are Second Adventists, and believed to be insane. The a consenting party to the Wiling, it is funeral services over the remains of Edith Freeman, the victim of her father’s fanatidsiu, took place in the Methodist Church, at Pocasset, Mass., on tbe 4th. The bony »M brought to the church iu a email otsket by Allen P. Daria, a sympathizer with Freeman in his deed. After depositing the re”*r % ritar, Davis announced hls.lntention of addressing the audience, but was prevented from so doing by threats of arrest. After the funeral sermon tbe body was taken to the Tillage cemetery and deposited in a grm, Daria being again prevented from inking an address tn vindication of Freeman. The Adventists were deeply mortified that tarir prophecies that the child would be restored to life In three days had failed of fulfillment Freeman and his wife were coraEwalt the action of the Grand Jury. They exhibited no signs «*wj«pr.eor regret for tbe deed they had The following were the closing quotations 2* ta *** May 3d: Nn. 9 Chicago Spring Wheat, sl.olW@i flsNo. 3 Milwaukee, •LOo@L* Orisf WW* Corn, Westera Mlxect **h@**%c- Pork, Mesa, $9.25010.15. Lard, or » «<** to Choice, $3)95 White Wheat Extra, $4.5505.25. c * tU, < iMawmSS for Good to Extra. Obcep, *4.SO@637><. Doga, $3 45®3 50. irlUtSberir', KT on broqgbl: Beat, $5.2505.40; Medium, $4,800 AflO; Common, $3.8004.00. Hon sold— To*?* $3.0003 05; Philadelphia, $4)000 4.10. Sbeep bronght SB-2505.50—according oqwMtir*

At Baltimore, Md., oa May Bd, Cattia bronght; Beat $4.87X05. MM; Medium SAIIKOtOO. Hogs sold at ss.(Xkrts.so for Good. Bbeap wore quoted at $4.0005.80 for Good. f |[ West and South. Ik the case of Green and Baldwin, of the Olive gang, lately on trial for their lives, at Hastings, Neb., the jury, after being cmt for twenty hours, reported that they could not agrees, and were discharged. One favored a verdict of manslaughter and eleven of acquittal. Gbk. Alfred Sulky, of tbe United Btatee Army, died at Vancouver Barracks, in Oregon, on the 27th. j < Paul Bottok, who several weeks ago undertook to float. In his life-saving armor, down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers from Pittsburgh, Ps., to New Orleans, reached the latter city, on the 27th. He was very much tuned ud considerably fatigued. An immense crowd welcomed him. Judob Cadt, of the 8L Louis Criminal Court, on the 28th, fined about fifty lottery venders from SSOO to *BOO each, for selling lottery tickets of the Missouri State Lottery, and they were commute,l to jail until the tinea should be paid. The aggregate of fines amounted to $35,000. Ox the 28th, W. F. Cassebohm, Assistant City Treasurer of Bra Francisco, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head.’ He left a note to the Coroner, in which he stated that be had lost $20,000 of the city’s money in stock speculations, which he could not replace, and preferred to meet death rather than exposure. ' - AFt kb broke out in the residence of a Mr. Butler, at Grand Rapids, Mich., on tbe 29th ult., while Mrs. B. was absent at a neighbor’s next door, leaving two little girls, one three years and the other eight months old, in the house alone. Tbe fire was discovered too late to save the children, and their bodies were chirred beyond recognition. The mother has since lost her reason. Ikformatiok was received, on the 29th ult., by tbe Colored People’s National Board of Immigration of St Louis, that several thousand negroes were then at different places along the banks of tbe Mississippi River, below Memphis, either ready to start North as soon as transportation could be procured, or preparing to leave their homes for St. Louis and beyoud. It was ssld the steamers refused to take them on board, aud the whites refused*to sell them provisions. Ex-Congressman C. L. Cobb, of North Carolina, died, at Elisabeth City, in that State, on tbe 30th ult. Mbs. Ellen Norris, of Chicago, was severely and probably fatally burned, on the evening of tbe 29tb ult., while attempting to kindle tbe kitchen fire by usiug kerosene. The trial of Thomaa Buford, indicted for murdering Judge Elliott of the Keutucky Court of Appeals, has been post poneduu til the third Monday in May. At Chicago, on the Ist, the Chicago A Pacific Railroad, running from Chicago to BryoD, Ogle County, 111., with a right of construction to Savanna, 111., on the Mississippi River, was sold, under foreclosure, to John H. Wren, for *916,000. The Democratic State Convention of Kentucky met at Louisville, on the Ist, and nominated Dr. L. P. Blackburn, for Governor; J. E. Cantrell, for Lieutenant-Governor; P. W. Harding, for Attorney-General; Fayette Hewitt, for Auditor. In Chicago, on the alternoon of the Ist, Mr. Theodore B, Weber, a member of the wholesale boot aDd shoe firm of Geo. W. Weber & Co., was shot and fatally wounded by Mrs. Amelia Robert, a woman with whom he had for sixteen years been disgracefully connected, and to whom be bad, it is said, paid large sums of money. The supply having been latterly cut off, she shot him in the office of Jussen «fc Anderson, ins attorneys, as above stated. Mr. Waber was the instigator of the receDt prosecution of Henry Greenebaum, the well-known German banker of Chicago.

The other night, near Forsythe, in Taney County, Mo., a posse ot citizens attempted to arrett a gang of horse-thieves, and in the melee which followed two of the former were killed and one seriously wounded. One on the other side was killed and one mortally wounded. The rest of the gang escaped. The announcement is made of the result of the April election in Michigan, by the Board /\ f O * i t mk W OtrlU/ AJIDTISocir, u lOllOffS . \JB Dip Dell (Rep.), for Supreme Justice, 132,313; Shipman (Detn.), 120,270; majority, 6 043. The Republican candidates for Regents were elected by a somewhat smaller majority. A Convention of Representatives of the Btate Boards of Health of Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Tennessee met at Memphis, lenn., on the 30th ult,, for the purpose of consldaringjmd deciding upon concerted measures to prevent the re-introduction and spread of the yellow fever in the United States. An Atchison (Kan.) dispatch of the 2d says over 300 colored refugees from the South had landed there on that day, in a generally destitute condition. Their arrival was entirely unexpected, but their temporary wants had been provided for. In the platform adopted at their recent State Convention, the Kentucky Democracy heartily indorse the posttion of their members in Congress, “in coupling with the Appropriation biUs a demand for the redress of grievances by the repeal of existing laws which tolerate the presence of soldieis at the polls, the continuance of the test-oath at, a condition for jury-service, and the employment of Supervisors and Deputy-Marshals to control elections.’! In the Miles polygamy case at Salt Lake, Utah, on the 3d, Daniel H. Wells, Counsellor to the Twelve Apostles of the Mormon Church, was fined *4OO and sentenced to two days’ imprisonment for contempt, in refuting to answer certain questions relative to polygamous marriages in the Endowment House. In Chicago, on May 3d, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at cash; for May; for June. Cash Com closed at 38J£c for No. 2; 33%c for May; foi J une. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 25.Vc, and seller May. Rye No. 2, 47@48c. Barley No. 2,69370 c for cash. Cash Mess Fork closed at $9.35 @9.40. Lard closed atj [email protected]. Beeves —Extra brought »[email protected]; Choice, 14 50 @4.70; Good, $4>[email protected]; Medium Grades, $3.85@4-15; Butchers’ Stock, [email protected]; Stock Cattle, etc., [email protected]. Hogs—Good to Choice, [email protected]. Sheep—Poor to Choice, *&[email protected]. -c ' Foreign Intelligence. According to London dispatches of the 28th the Emperor of Germany had sent autograph letters to all the European Governments proposing an International alliance of Sovereigns against the Socialists. night of the 28th. in the British House of Commons, a resolution censuring the Government for increasing the National expenditures was defeated by a vote of 230 ayes to 303 noes. Dispatches from India of the 28th announce the utter collapse of the Quartermaster and Commissary Departments of the British forces operating in Afghanistan. The Powers' interested have unanimously agreed upon joint mediation between Turkey and Greece. According to the St Petersburg Golot ot the29th.ult., 12,000 prisoners, with their famHies, would be sent from Novgorod to Siberia during the summer. On the 29th ult.. Prince Alexander, of Batten burg, was unanimously elected to the Bulgarian throne by the AsaemMy jot Notables, with the title of Prince Alexander'!,

Count Schouvaloff has Informed the Powers thst the demolition of the Danublsn fortresses will be finished by tbe 3d of August next The German agriculturists have petitioned their Government to prohibit tbe Importation of American cattle. The earthquake, which occurred at Meareh, In Persia, on the 23d of March, totally destroyed 21 villages and killed 923 persons, 2,000 sheep, 1,125 oxen, 124 horses and 56 camels. ' t, News was received, on the 30th ult, of the destruction by lire of the better portion of the City of Orenlmrg, on the Ural River, in Russia. The loss was enormous. Numerous lives were lost, and more than one-half of the inhabitants were without a place to lay their heads. The fire was of incendiary origin, and is ascribed to Nihilists. Tbe Village of Gretchenko, on tbe Volga, had also been totally destroyed by 11 rc. According to s South Africa dispatch, published on the IXRb ult., Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, was at Zanzibar, organizing a mysterious expedition into the Interior of Africa. 1 The puhllshersof the Paris devolution Francalve have been heavily fined and imprisoned for publishing a letter justifying the Commune. A St. Petersburg dispatch of the Ist says the wife of Prof. Botkin, the Czar’s physician, bad been arrested on the charge of Nihilism. The wife of tbe Chief Military Prosecutor had been similarly accused. The two-year-old stakes at Newmarket, Eng., were won, on tbe Ist, by the American horse Papoose. Gen. Grant reached Hong Kong, China, on the Ist. According to Cape Town dispatches, received on the 2d, there were abundaut indications that peace would speedily be secured. It was stated that Cetewavo himself bad offered to surrender provided lie could secure satisfactory terms. Several foreigners have Wfcn sent out of Switzerland for inciting the Italians to revolution. According to Berlin dispatches of the 2d, Solovicff, who attempted to assassinate the Czar, had declared that, although he was compelled, under threat of death, to lire at the Emperor, he purposely missed him. Mandalay (India) dispatches, received in London on the 2d, say that, despite the peaceful desires of the King of Burmab, the mass of the people favored war with Great Britain. V Up to the 3d, the London and Westminster Bank, of Loudon, had taken, altogether, *35,000,060 of the 4-per-cent, bonds of the United States. Liect. Dcbrovina, arrested at Novgorod, Russia, on suspicion of being a member of tbe Revolutionary Nihilist Committee, was hanged, on the 3d. According to Calcutta telegrams of the 4th, the cholera had made its appearance at Delhi, Rawulpendee, Wrumitzar, and other places in India. Simla dispatches, published on 4he 4th, 6ay that the Afghan troops In Badakshan had been driven out and a new and independent ruler firmly established. The French Radical Republicans of Boideaux have returned Louis Blanqui, a Communist, serving out his time ,Juj New Caledonia, as the'r Deputy in the French Chamber of Deputies. Congressional Proceedings. The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was received in the Senate from the House, on the 28th, and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.... The House Joint resolution to repeal certain clauses in the Sundry Civil Appropriation act of March 3, 1879. was passed.../Mr. Williams introduced a bill, which was referred, to regulate the legal value of metal money (making till gold and silver coins, including trade dollars, equally legal tender for all debts, public and private, to any amounts and of tbeir nominal valne), and to provide for the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver bullion, and to restore coin to circulation. ...The bill providing for the publication of tne Revised Statutes was passed.... Mr. Pendleton introduced a bill to allow beads of Departments to hold seats in the two Houses of Congress, and made a speech in support of the measure, after which the bill was laid on the table to he called up hereafter. House not in session.

In the Senate, on, the 29th nit, a resolution making an appropriation to defray the expenses of the extra session of Congress was under discussion,when the House resolution announcing the death of Representative Clark jwas received. The.-proceedings were at once stopped, and a resolution was passed for the appointment of a committee to accompany the Honae Committee, with the remains, to iowa, and the Senate, as a farther remark of respect, then adjourned. The President’s Veto Message on the Army bill was received in the House, and was laid upon the Speaker’s table and not opened.... The announcement ot the death of Representative Clark, of lowa, was then made, a committee was appointed to accompany the remains to lowa, ana then, as n further token of respect, an adjournment was had for the day. In the Senate, on the 30th ult., the House bill providing for certain expenses of the present session of Congress was amended and passed... .The bill to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States was debated. The President’s Message vetoing the Army Appropriation bill was read in the House, ana was ordered to be entered in the journal and printed... .Bills were passed—extending for two years from October, 1878, the time for the payment of pre-emptors on certain public lands in Minnesota; amending the section of the Revised Statutes prescribing a penalty for conspiracy against the United. States... Bills were reported—to prevent the importation of diseased cattle, and the spread of infectious diseases among domestic animals; amending certain sections of the Revised Statutes relating to coinage and coin and bullion certificates. Consideration was resumed in the Senate, on the Ist, of the bill to prevent the introduction of contagious or infections diseases into the United States, and Mr. Harris, Chairman of the select committee on the subject, explained that the object, and the only object, of the bill was to regulate commerce with foreign Nations, so as to prevent the importation into the United States of contagions or infectious diseases, and to regulate commerce among the several States, so as to prevent the importation of such diseases from one State into another.... A bill was reported to provide for the payment of bounty and back-nay to those who were deprived of the same by frauds with which they had no connection. The House refused—l2o yeas to 110 nays, not the necessary two-thirds in the affirmative—to pass the Army Appropriation bill over the President’s veto. Three Greenbackeiw voted for, an d nine against, the bill—the vote in other respects being a strictly party one.. Adjourned to the ocL ' A bill was introduced and referred in the Senate, on the 2d, amendatory of, and supplementary to, an act to aid in the construction of the Texas Pacific Railroad. It authorizes the oompany to extend its line from its present western terminus to El Paso, there to onite with the Southern Pacific Railroad; lands granted to the former are transferred to and vested in the latter, extending along its portion of the road, and each company is required to complete its road within six years; provision is also made for other railroads to unite with these roods at El Paso, the object being to form complete lines to the Pacific from the Gulf and South Atlantic States... .The bill to prevent the introduction of contagions or infections diseases was farther debated... .Adjourned to the sth. House not in session. u • • , The Senate was not in session, on the 3d.' t~ In the Honse, the bill relating to contestedelection cases was reported back from the Committee on Elections, with a few unimportant amendments.... Consideration was resumed of the bill reported from tbs Coinage Committee, amending toe statutes relating to coinage ana coin ana bullion certificates, and Mr. Warner submitted an amendment, and made an argument in ite support, providing tost gold and silver bullion which shall become the property of the Government by the return of certificates to the Treasury, in payment of does thereto, shall be coined and paid out the same as other money. T i A newly-married lady, who, as In dUty bound, was very fond, of her husband, notwithstanding his extreme ugliness ©f person, once said to a witty fjnend: “ What do yon think? My husband hfrUHffOOt tSn dolilars'for a large baboon on purpose to please me!” “ The dear little man!” cried the other. “ Weil, it is just like him!” sacques—Jilted lovers.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

—Summer complaint —Bucolics.—' Phil. Bulletin. *' —How to prevent pleuro-pneumonia "kill all the oattle. ‘ —Devotional—the “Jap” on knees. —Hackensack Republican. —The five-cent savings banks are running on half dime.— N. Y. Mail. —An advance agent—a money brokor.—Chicago Commercial Advertiser. —A pitcher of water can't hold a candle to a pitcher of a base ball club. —The whole-souled man can easily be distinguished from the half-souled. —lt coflts more to kill an Indian than it would take to build a school-house. — N. O. Picayune. —The significance of the cigar-store Indian is that tobacco is sold at Lo prices.— Boston Transcript. —“ On to Leadville!” is now the cry, and in a few weeks it will be, “ Lemrne a quarter.”—#. Y. Express. —The average Englishman is as fond almost of a “leg o’ mutton,” as he is of “ roast beef an' plum puddin’.” —lt is not what you have in your chest, but what you have in your heart, that makes you rich.— N. Y. Herald. —The celebration of Easter never wearies, although it has been kept ova antjova for centuries.— Phila. Bulletin. —A seven-years’ convict in the Massachusetts State Prison was drawn to serve as a juror in the-. Supreme Court, Boston) the other day. —Truth is stranger than fiction; but then it isn’t half so interesting. And then, nobody likes to be familiar with Hawk- Eye. —“ Raise achild in the way he should so,” and when he gets old enough to raw threes or two pair he will “ raise you.”— Kentucky New Era. —“Give me that bottle, John,” she cried, “You horrid, wicked elf,” but when he took a walk that night, she drank it up herself. — Owego Record. —A paper has been started called the Handkerchief. There is a great deal of blow about it, and the editor nose a thing or two, and is not to be sneezed at.— Meriden Recorder. —A late invention is a boot mads of paper. It will last as long as the leather article, and is said to be equally efficient in raising a crop of corns and bunions.— St. Louis Spirit. —Whitelaw Reid refused the German Mission, and then had his correspondence declining it published, if we hadn’t torn up that letter we received, we’d do the same thing.— Oil City Derrick. —The people of the blue-grass region of Kentucky almost unanimously demand the re-establishment of the whipping-post as an economical and efficacious means of punishing petty criminals. —Pe/baps the funniest object is the man wLo spends the first day in a newspaper office. He tries to appear as if ho had been in a newspaper office all his life, but somehow he doesn’t seem to feel easy. There seem to be too many bones in his shad. — N. Y. Herald. —A schoolmistress, while taking down the names and ages of her pupils and the names of their parents, at the beginning of the term, asked one little fellow, “What’s your father’s name?” “ Oh, you needn’t take down his namtf; he’s too old to go to school to a woman,” was the reply. —A Maine parson who announced from his pulpit that a circus was about to visit the town, and that if any of his flock should attend he would gladly give them a letter of dismission, was somewhat mollified in his wrath when a bright and bold little Sunday-School scholar of eight prdUnted himself at the pulpit at the close of the service with, “ Please, sir, will you give me the ticket to the circus that you promised?”

—At the Police Court: The Judge— What is your age, madam P -Lady— Whatever you please, Your Honor. Judge —Forty-five years. Your business? Lady—Hold on a minute, Your Honor; you’ve made a mistake of ten years in my age. Judge —Well, then, fifty-five years. Lady (furious) —I tell you, sir, fth my oath, I’m only thirtyfive. Judge—Ah! so you have finished 1 by answering my question. —Chicago Times. —“Business is picking up, and no mistake!” began Woollenburglier th 6 other night; “ why, I put a thousand pairs of gloves in stock this morningonly this morning, gents —and, would you believe it, when I locked up this evening there were only five hundred left; yes, sir, only five hundred.” Of course all felt encouraged, and of course all congratulated Woollenburgher warmly. But you should have seen the mob. go for him as he hurriedly shot through the door after remarking, “ The other five hundred were rights, you know.”— Boston Transcript. —The managers of a Washington' hotel have recently made' me experiments which fully establish the fact that there are very few humau souls entirely destitute .of music. Duringthe sessions of Congress they employ a band of music to regale their guests at dinner. They have that a. saving of 15 per cent, can be made in the matter of provisions by simply having the band play nothing but waltzes and lively music. The tendency lo keep up with the band hurries the guests through the bill Of fareso rapidly that m&Dy of them leave the table hungry. The leader of the band was discharged last week for inadvertently playing the Miserere Chorus from “ U Trovatore” and the Dead March from “Saul.” —Baltimore Gazette.

Raisin-Making.

The United States is the greatest raisin-consuming country in the world, and uses annually more raisins than the whole of Europe. This market is mainly supplied from Spain, the raisins known as “ Malagas ” being considered the best. They come from a comparatively narrow strip of country in the south' of Spain, which has hitherto been regarded as surpassing all other regions for raisins of that character. The annual yield’‘of Malaga grapes averages 2,250,000 boxes of twenty pounas each. It sometimes reaches 2,500,000b0xe5; last season about 2,000,000 boxes s were marketed. Of this enormous yield the United States takes fully one-half, on which it pays a duty —as on all other raisins— of 2J cents per pound. The American raisins are made from a white grape, the “ Muscat of Alexandria,” to the -raising of which the soil and climate of a large portion of California are well adapted. The vine begins to bear ‘somewhat in -the sfceeMi yearr&lthoughithe fall heap-. ing capacity is not developed until it is five years old,.- and continue to bear for about half a oentury, and sometimes for seventydive years. In the cultivation of raisin-grapes American grape-

growers have little to learn from Spain, •out in the curing ami packing of the raisins a lack of experienoe is still felt. The raisins are not cured by any artificial process, however, but in a comparatively ' simple manner. The grapes are laid op gravel-beds, and are exposed to the sun for-ten or twelve days m August or September when they are ready for packing, haring turned from white to brown, and gradually changed to the familiar dark color of the raisins of oommerce. The white sugar which is generally found attached to the raisins sold in the market is entirely a natural product of. .the grape, and comes on with age—first Appearing, as a rule, when the raisins are about two years old. —Scientific American.

The Officers of the Senate.

The Democrats would have done better at the beginning of the session if they had boldly taken possession of all offices connected with the Senate, or had announced their intention to do so as fast as they could train their men to fill them, instead of making a profession of moderation which they never had the slightest intention of carrying into practice. They would then have braved public opinion and received their censure all at once. As it is, they find themselves compelled to return again and again to the subject and to undergo the criticism of their opponents on each occasion. When the Secretary, the Sergeant-at-Arms and the Chief Executive Clerk were removed, Mr. Bayard declared, in substance, that the process of decapitation would stop there, and that there was no purpose in his party to make a clean sweep of the subordinate offices. But Mr. Bayard is more successful as a figure-head than as a prophet, and his predictions, -though they sounded very well at the time, have not been verified. If, indeed, he had any expectation that they would be, it was not shared by his Democratic associates, or by those who are familiar with their practices and their necessities. A few days ago another slice was taken by the majority, and on Friday, Mr. Wal- : lace, of Pennsylvania, who, as the sharpest manager his party ever.had in his State, knows the value of patronage in keeping up the motive power of tne Democratic machine,, moved to place the appointment of all subordinates in the hands of the Secretary and the Ser-geant-at-Arms. This proposition strikes at a rule of the Senate which has been respected with entire fidelity for the past quarter of a century. That rule has a double basis. In part, it is founded on the principle that the Senate, either directly or through the action of its presiding officer, should retain control of all appointments of officers required for the transaction of its business. In fact, also, it is founded on the necessity, which is peculiarly urgent in the Senate, that officers whose fidelity and efficiency are essential to the orderly conduct of business should be retained in the places for which they had proved their fitness without regard to changes in the political sentiments of Senators. For neither of these principles do the majority care at present. They realize only that a few modest salaries are within their reach, that they are sorely pressed to seize them and distribute them among their needy followers, and that the only convenient way to accomplish this, without further scandal, is to put the matter in the hands of the Secretary and the Sergeant-at-Arms, who can arrange it without the troublesome interference of the minority.

Mr. Anthony showed without difficulty, in the debate on Friday, that when the present rule was adopted by a Senate overwhelmingly Democratic it received the unanimous approval of the leaders of the party. That was twenty-five years ago, and the geptlemen, who, like Mr. Mason, were able to assign excellent reasons»for the rule, probably had little thought that it would be necessary at any time to repeal it in order to get rid of officers appointed from the then almodt"unformed Republican party. Perhaps, were they in the Senate now, they would hesitate to apply their own reasoning, as those Senators dtf who succeed them. But it is due to their well-established reputation for ability to conclude that if they wished to overturn their own work, they would discover some better excuse for doing so than the stupid and bald plea of partisan necessity. The old Southern leaders would have blushed to declare, as Mr. Sauls'oury did on triday, that they wanted these petty offices for “ their friends;” that they wanted to “divide the patronage,” and could not afford to acknowledge the restraints either of consistency or of sound public policy. They never would have brought themselves to the mortification of voting down a resolution embodying their own views and couched in their own words. But neither the statesmanship nor the 'political capacity of the Saulsburys and Hills oFto-aayisequal to that of the men who, whatever we may, think "of the principles which they maintained, did observe a certain dignity and spUrespect, to which the Democratic leaders of the present are completely strangers.

This incident of the Senate offices has an interest quite exceeding that which arises from the amount of “ patronage” involved or from the importance of tfife functions of the officers. Very likely, after a sufficient series of experiments, the Democrats will find men of their own stripe 1 who will do the work of the Senate well enough. The point which concerns the public is that the. party which for the first time in twenty yean has gained control of both houses of Congress is utterly blind and deaf to any principle of public administration except that rude, wasteful and demoralizing one which decrees the spoils to the victor. It has not the slightest conception of the necessity which intelligent opinion has for the past ten years recognized, with ■ constantly-increasing clearness and, earnestness, that the public business should be left in the hands of competent officers, wherever the fitness of these has been thoroughly tested. The Democrats seem bent on proving that nothing but the cohesive power of public plunder can keep them together- and that they cannot afford u« deal justly and in an enlightened manner, with even me smallest group of p«WBs. lor- with those which decent regards for established rules add traditions flirbid them to touch. If this is what compelled to acknowledge now, we can readily imagine what would be the copsdqusnce if they obtained full possession of the Government. The insatiable and unscrupulous greed of patronage Which forces them to clutch at the few insignificant offices of. Jhe .Senate m woola.mate them tarn upside down every Department of the Government. The results can bo so easily imaginadtha*.it tenot necessary to dwell Ok Y» Times.

The President’s Veto Message.

Those who pwdlo hut that thsiPresidunt’s veto of the Arfiy hill Moukl rest mainly upon the faot that tfee obnoxious legislation was attached to an Appropriation bill, muM bo fflMly disappointed In the message which sets forth the reasons for the President’s disapproval. In this prediction, the wish wiuf father to the thought. It was argued that, if the only serious objection urged by the President should be as to the manner in which the legislation was passed, it would be an oasy matter to separate the political legislation from the Appropriation bill, pass it as a separate measure, and thps Elaoe the President in a position where e would be compelled to sign it in order to be consistent. But the President has not given the Democrats this advantage. His message goes directly to the merits of the political legislation, and his disapproval is based on reasoning which would apply with equal force if the political amendments .were presented in an independent biR. It is true that, incidentally, tho President takes occasion to deprecate the firactice of attaching extraneous legisation to Appropriation bills. The practice was particularly offensive in this ease, because the ciroumstances were suoh as to indicate a purpose of threatening the President if he should use his Constitutional veto power. As the message points but, the passage of needed legislation in the closing hoars of a session, when both Houses of Congress' and the Executive axe praotically agreed upon its expediency, may be facilitated by making such legislation a part of an Appropriation bilT without seriously offending the proprieties, though it is a dangerous precedent. But the present case was very differept. Congress had entered upon a new session. There was no hurry and no exigency. The first duty was to pass the Appropriation bills which had failed in the preceding Congress. There \yas ample time m well as abundant opportunity for the separate consideration of political legislation. Under these Circumstances, and in the light of menacing utterances about starving the Executive into submission, the President was fully warranted in regarding the project as a blow aimed at his Constitutional prerogative, and Such a conviction alone would have demanded his resistance at the very first step. But, while Congress deserves the rebuke the President visits upon it in this regard, the disapproval of the political sections of the bill is fully, intelligently and convincingly explained in the message, without regard to the manner in which they were passed. Notwithstanding the long and exhaustive debate over this measure in Congress, we think the President’s Message will aid many persons to a clear understanding of the jn&rits of the issue. The sections of the 1 Army bill which have called out 'the Presi-' dent’s disapproval are those which ( strike out the authority of all civil as well as military and ijaval officers: to invoke the aid of troops any general or special election to keep the peace at the polls, and (2) provides a severe penalty of fine and imprisonment upon any civil officer who shall undertake to employ the troops to that end. The President considers the restriction of the Civil officers of the Government in two bearirigs* viz.’: (1) As it would affect the right of the United States Government to use the military, forces to-keep the •ipeape at Congressional elections! and (2\ as it would affect the power of the Government tjo protect these Congressionak from fraud and violence. In these

bearings of the proposed restriction the President has been able to consider the whole question of National protection for National .elections as wfcll as if the Legislative Bill (which repeals the vital parts of the National Election law) were actually before hi«K • " ’ The President demonstrates, by> Citation of existing statutes, that:'ail-elec-tions, general and, special,' are ftilly protected from military interference by the present, status of the law. Secs. 2000, 5529, bbWlUM* 'Unit; 0532 fdkbid any officer of the anpy-pr navy to prescribe or 'wttenfbtlte; sresofibe,|n any manner the qualifications fsr voters in any State,"nr to interfere in ahy way with the freedom of any election or the free rights of suffrage in any State, and impose severe penalties by fine and imprisonment for every infraction of this law. . 'the prohibition is very strictly and explicitly’ applied in the various statutes cited, and covers the whole ground of military interference; But, in addition tb> these stfiltftehpthe last Congress attached to the last'Army Appropriation bill a section making it ‘.‘unlawful to employ anyjjart of the Army of (thu United States'as a posse comilatus or otherwise for the purpose of executing the laws, except in such cases and under such circumstances as such, employment of. said force may be exprefesly authorized, by .the Constitution or by act of Coagtess;- the .same section also provided a severe, penalty by fine and imprisonment for t Jie violation jot thib law. The J’residecnt,' in uis message, quotes from the speeches of leading Democrats in : both houses, at the passage of this law, Which shows that'they' (the Democrats) regarded this act as “securing to the people of

this;country the same gi'eat protection against a standing army which cost a struggle of two hundred years for the. Commons of England'to secure for the British people.”'! Having thus shown that the laws, as they now are. afford an absolute guarantee against military ...interference with ejections, and that the Democrats themselves have so construed their, the President is forced to the conclusion that the political sections of the Armv Appropriation bill are especially designed to deprive the civil .authorities of the United States of. a 1 power to keep the peace at Congressional elections, and. this involves a denial of the power to enforce obedience to the existing laws for the supervision of the Congressional elections, and for the protection of the United States Supervisors and Marshals to whom the execution, of those laws 4 confined. It is unnecessary to follow the President's argument.showing the Constitutional right, of the United States Government to protect; the purity of the ballot-box 'at Congressional elections. proper laws. Those Who axe not already convinced that -Such right exists and ought to be exercised, may be enlightened by what he Bays, but intelligent and fair-minded men can ‘ soaroely need anyargamenton th.s phase bf the question. Suffice it to say that the President bases his disapproval of the Army bill upon the jrronnd that the political Sections festroy the power of the civil officers protect® Congressional elections as Psg$ d . ed lam Perhaps the foMomJlf is the .totet significant passage in his message: '-'..V

"Among the moot * valuable eiyw&aieiita to' which X have referred nr* those which protect the islaiioa should btooaw a law, there la u» power rested in any officer of, the Government to protect from violence tbw offiosm of-tht United ? tales enraged in ,th? dischargetheir duties. heir n.htsand dabes under the law will re. mail), but the Notional Government will be DOWerlese to ,en force ite own »tatueew jn>e Mates may employ bbth military and civil tfower to keep the peace and enfcettpStwawMcte station*. It U now proposed to deny -to tint United States even the neoeeeary civil authority to protect the National elections. No Sufficient reason has been given' for*, this <tincrirnmation■ in' favor of Stale and against National authority. II well-founded objections exist ngnmst the present National Station laws, all good cltisens should unite in their amendment. laws providing safeguards of elections should be uapartial, just ana efficient they should. If possible, bo groan'd*to odmplsin. The present Uhrs Bare in practice unquestionably conduced to the prevention of fraud and violence at elections. In sev oral of the btates members of dilterant political parties have applied for safeguards which they furnish, it isthe right and duty of the National Government to enact and enforce laws which will aeenre free and fair Oongremiotial elections. The laws now In force ehoulu not be repealed except in connection with the enactment tit measures which will better accomplish that important end. Believing that Bee. 6of the bill before me will weaken, if it docs not altogether take away, the power of the National Government to protect Federal elections by civil authorities. I am forord to tht; conclusion it ought not to receive my approval.” —Chicago Tribune. *.

HELP VS. PITY. • 1 have seen a blind man liking Along the busy street; I have heard the people talking As they watched hia ahamtiling feet; I have marked th»ir words of pity As they saw him 1 pass along Through the overcrowded city, J Mld the ever-busy throng; * • * And I've seen tbe bright-eyed school-boy ,' Leave hia brothers at their play To help the sightless stranger Across the busy way. Ah! the pity was qot worthless. Though it lent nu kindly hand. Bat that little help outvalued All the pity in the land. 1 have seen the little orphan Left without a mother's oare, I have heard the words of sorrow That the neighbors had to spare; I have known them say, “ The Poor-House , Is just meant for such as she;” And (though very sorry for her) '* Well, she has no claim on me." Arid I’ve seen the toiling widow With children half a score Take the little louely orphan To her hospitable door. There were hfty folks who pitied, , Bnt the one exoellcd the fifty < as the sun excels the shade. 1 have heard the school-boy sighing O’er his lessons home from school, I have seen him vainly trying To master some new rule, I have marked tlie Words of pity " That his brother's lipa supplied. And I’ve seen the dewy teardrop That yet remained undried. Then I'vr seen his mother gently Take his blunder-covered slate. And loving effort help him,' . Make his crooked answers straight. * That pity, though a brother's, . Was forgotten in a day, Bnt that loving help of mother's Will never pass away. I have seen a little two-year-old Stand crying by a brook. And I’ve marked a country maiden Deep buried in a book; .... I.have known bar rise up quickly. Lay the treasured work aside,. Lift tbe little fellow gently . . O'er the water-clear and wide; . And I've seen the meny sunshine - Light up his face at-last. Which if she had only pitied . . , Would have still been overcast. Oh! let, pity lead to action , For the world is full of need; There are many eyes that water. There are, in any .hearts that, bleed. There are wounds that all want binding, ' There are feet that go astray. There are. tears all hot and blinding that, oiq,hands can wipe Away, For the blind man on the causeway,... The orphan-with its fears. The school-boy in his troubles, ~ And the baby in its team, Are all like a thousand others Whom to help, if we but try. We Bhall “ scatter seeds of kindness For the reaping by and by.” 1 Let As ever act as brothers, ' J. Ne’er with pity be content, ■ Always doing good to others - l - il Both in action and intent. Though the pity may be useful. By itself *tis very small; For a little piece of needed help Is better than it all. ■ f' * —Chilli's Own Magazine.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

*—A Boston operator telegraphed to Springffeld for acoommodations for twenty persons, but the dispatch was delivered reading twenty ‘‘prisoners,” and ih dpnsequenbe a dramatic company was met on arrival by a squad of Dejrntv Sheriffs prepared to “take them fn.” ' , —A London policeman lately saw a lad of ten lying, as he. thought, in a fit against the railings of a house. lie proved to be dead. He had complained of being unwella few. days beforehand had not been sent to school. He and other boys had been “playing at PS&ee” for several days, ana had tried to imitate hanging, etc. Unfortunately for , the • boy, his play turned jtato and he successfully'';accomplished what he commenced in fun. This is-the fourth case of boys strangling themselves in England since Peace was hanged, in endeavoring to imitate his hanging.

—Some thieves who manifested remarkable ihgenuity have lately been bUughtin the Crimea. ’ They operated thus:' A thief was locked in an empty trunk by his mates; the trunk was sent to. the jsUlrood depot as the baggage of a passenger and put in the baggagecar; one of bis mates, who claimed the bhggage, took passage in jb&e same train, to the next station; as soon as everything was quiet in the baggagecar the thief in the trunk opened it and crawled outt.he ransacked the rest of the baggage fend put' in Ms own trtink such valuable articles as were available; then he crawled back to the trunk and locked himself in and on reaching the next statipn, his mate took* off' the trunk as his baggage, and they proceeded to secure their plunder. The gang of Russian thieves who .concocted this scheme managed to it-on successfully for some time; nut at last, on the occasion of one adventure, the thief in the trunk tqokin with him such an amount of stolen goods that the trunk burst open at an unfortunate moment. The method of operatipn was discovered and the thieves were brought to the bar. —A horrible wife-murder occurred near Pattonsville, Soott County, Va., the other day. About three weeks before Thomas Bishop married a young girl about 18 years of age. They had lived happily during the brief honeymoon, ana settled down in a snug litHe home prepared by the young husband near Pattonsvjjle. Bishop left home on the morning of the day in question, to go to the village. Not returning at hood, the wife became somwhat uneasy, jjgf tugjjlinner prepared, sat down., at awaited the coming- tA*** At 3 o’clock Bishop came ir w . ltn _ ax on his shoulder. He walked upJo his wife, and without w«ri, struck her over the head with j* 6 weapon, splitting her head m twam, the wound was several tachea extending through tke entire skull I to the shoulder. Bishop was arrested* and. has been adjudged insane by a commishis duty in killing Bis-wife, and.lfjnof, had it, to db over again he would-chot shrink from doing the same thing.