Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1879 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

From Waablngton. On the 19U», the President vetoed the blit “to prevent military Interference at election*." A statement eras issued from tbe Treasury Department, on the 19th, showing the fund iqt operations of the Government since March 1, 1877. There have been sold, a'lncc that time, fßo3.<M\7oo 4-oer-cent*. for refund--Id£ purposes, and the annual interest raved 1* stated to be 815.038.651. Ok the 13th, to the House of Representatives, a vote was taken on a motion to pass the Military Interference bill, notwithstanding the objections of the President, with the following result: Teas, 127; naye, 97—not the requisite iwo-thlnls. Tke Secretary of the Treasury has Riven notice that the 5-20 replete red and cou|<on bonds embraced in the ninety-fourth, ninetyfifth and ninety-sixth calls will be redeemed at the Treasury Department, on the Ist of. July next, with interest to the date of ma'YSESj. .» ■ . Bec’t McCeakt, in conformity with the derision of Judge Dundy in the Ponca habm* <erpna care, has dlrec ed that Standing Bear and the other Imprisoned Ponca Indians be released. Sec’x Bbkhman stated, oii the Isih, tbit It was nseleas to send dispatches to tbe Department for the ten-dollar refunding certificates, as they would be sent in due proportion to all t he differeut offices authorized to Fell them as soon as they could be printed, and ihe supply would soon reach 82,003,000 a day. Tex report of the Department of Agriculture, issued on the 16th, exhibits the acreage of growing winter wheat at about 4 per cent, greater than last year. The crops of the country, taken as a whole, presented a promise of at least 2 per cent, below the arerage. The rye crop was 4 per cent.- below the average. The condition of sheep throughout the country waa very good.

The East. Counterfeit fives on the National Bank of Pawling, N. T., arc in circulation iu New York City. Jat Goan and the Secretary of the New Jersey Southern Railroad Company, under Ids management, were indicted by a Monmouth County (N. J.) Grand Jury, on the 15th, for alleged fraudulent transactions after the road became insolvent. - On the 16th, the New York Assembly passed a bill reducing the interest rate in that Stale from 7 to 6 per cent. Commissioners Bennett and Flaherty, of the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Board of Public Works, were, on the 16th, found guilij of corruption in office, in placing upon the par-roll of the board tbe names of many men from whom no services were required, for the sake of securing their votes in a pending election. Ex-State-Senator Cornish, of Belvidere, N. J., convicted of conspiracy to defraud the county of 810,000, and J. H. Sweeny, ex-Chlef of Pol-ce of Phillipsburg, N. J., convicted of “rataing” a county bill, were each sentenced, on the 17th, to one year's imprisonment in the Bt*te Prison. The ninth annual Conference of the General Secretaries of the Young Men’s Christian Associations of the United States and Canada was held in Baltimore, on the 17th, for the preliminary discussion of certain questions to be presented for the consideration of the Biennial Convention. Judge Asa Packer, the well-known coal and iron magnate of Pennsylvania, died at Philadelphia, on the 17th, in the seventythird year of his age. 77 The following were the closing quotations for produce in New York, on May 17th: N 0.2 Chicago Spring Wheat, 81.05381.(8}$; N 0.2 Milwaukee, sl.Cs}[email protected]. Oats, Western Mixed, 35@35}$c. Corn, Western Mixed, 45X@46c. Pork, Mess, $9.12j5®10.25. Lard, $6.40@6 45. Flour, Good to Choice, $4.05 <34.N0; White Wheat Extra, $4.55;<25.25. Cattle, [email protected] for Good to Extra. Sheep, [email protected]. Hogs, $3.90@4 00. At East Liberty Pa., on May 17th, Cattle brought: Best, [email protected]; Medium, $4 6)@ 5.08; Common, [email protected]. Hogs sold— Yorkers, [email protected]; Philadelphia, 83.75® 3.85. Sheep brought [email protected] —according to quality. " At Baltimore, Md., on May 17th, Cattle brought; Best, $5.25(35.90; Medium 83.75@ 1.25. Hogs sold at $5.00 a 5.50 for Good. Sheep were quoted at [email protected] for > Good. *

West and South. An* interesting decision has lately been made by Judge Dundy, of the United States District Court at Omaha. Some Ponca Indians, having left their reservation, were captured by the military and taken to Omaha. Here the prisoners sued out a writ of habeas corpus. After a bearing, the Judge held that an Indian is a person and therefore entitled to the writ asked for; that he possesses the inherent right of 'expatriation; that uo rightful authority exists for removing pim by force to the Indian Territory; that the military could only arrest and turn him over ip the civil authorities, and that, not haring done this, he was unlawfully detained and must be set free. A fire in Lexington, Ky., on the 14th, destroyed the Phoenix Hotel and other property to the total value of about $300,000. C>en. Leslie Coombs’ residence was among the buildings horned. AvChicago on the 15th, in a game of billiards between Jacob Schaefer, of Chicago, and George F. Slosson, of New York, for ♦I,OOO and the Brunswick-Balke championship of the world emblem, at the three-ball game, Schaefer made the unprecedented run of 690 points. He won the game In three runs, his average being 333}£. Slosson made only 44 points in the entire game, or an average of M*. Five public executions by hanging and one byabooting occurred on the 16tb—three in North Carolina, one in Missouri, ouc in Louisiana, and one (that by shooting) in Utah. The ropes of two of the culprits at Hillsboro, N. C., were too long, and had to be readjusted after the trap was sprung. At Boonville, Mo., the rope broke, and a second hanging was necessitated. It waa reported from St. Louis, on the 17tb, that the work of receiving and caring for the Southern colored refugees was do longer left to local committees, but was In the hands of men whose names command respect, and who would apt have been brought into the movement unless it were tolerably well understood that the exodus was about to assume new . proportions, and to be carried,on in anew way. Two foundries, capable of accommodating several thousand at. a time, had been rented, and, from the measures taken to provide shelter and food in abundance, it was apparent that a vast crowd of new arrivals was expected. Aw Omaha dispatch of the 17th says it had been ascertained that Frank James, one of the celebrated James Brothers, was encamped in the WMvercountry, nS&ofth e Union] Pacific, with his band of outlaws and many deserters from the army. A military company bad been cent from Fort Steele to arrest SL- itasariaM .* • Iw Chicago, on May 17th, Spring Wheat #O, 1 dosed • 9t%@ V7#c ftp May; for Jane, Cash j

Corn doaed at 85'pc for No. 2; HB*sc for M»v; 35}<c foi June. Cash Oats No: 2 sold at 98c, and 27 %c seller 'June. Rye No. 2, 3'))v@slc. Barley No. 2, 64® (15c for cash. Cash Mesa pork closed at $9 OS’* @9.70. Lard closed at $6.15736.17)5. Beeves —Extra brought $4 [email protected]; Choice, $4 65 @*•B3; Good, $4.40(34.61; Medium Grades,. 14.0034 35; Butchers' Stock, #2.65® 4.10; Stock Cattle, etc., 82.40.33.65. Hogs—Good to Choice, $3.40(33.70. Sheep—Poor to Choice, 3.7505.50.

Foreign Intelligence. A London dispatch of the 12th says a conference of the representatives of the Great Powers had been railed to meet In l’arif, to rectify the frontier betwaan Greece aud Turkey. The announcement was made from St. Pctcisburg, on tbe 19th, of tbe destruction, the day before, by fire, of the City of Erblt, nt the confluence of the Erbtt and Nelya Rivera. Tiie pla:ue nas made its appearance in nineteen villages iu the Caucasus. Rev. Dn. Newman, of England was, on the 12th, appointed a Cardinal. According to Athens (Greece) dispatches of the 13th, the relations of that country with Turkey were becoming critical. There was great irritation in Eplru-, and the Greek lioveminent was making extended military.pßepa» rati oca. —— -t 1 v

On the 13th, Hopkins, Gilkes <fc Co., of Middlesboro, Eng , with a capital of $2,509,000, and Llojd A Co., of tbe same place, both In the Iron trade, went Into bankruptcy. 1 The late communal elections In Spain resulted largely In favor of the Government. Pi:or. GnEisiiACH, tbe distinguished German botanist, died at Gottingen, on the 12th. Gen. Grant party left Ilong Kong, China, for Japan, on the 13th. *

A conference was held at Bnmsby, Eng., on the 14th, at wliloh 130,000 colliers were represented. It was resolved to demand a 10-pt r-ceut. increase of pay, and, if refused, t 6 stop pioduction throughout the country. Tiie cattle plague Jits made its appearance in Bohemia. Tne Town of Halos, In Hungary, has been inundated, and at Kottorl 300 houses were swept away. On tbe night of the 13th, the Town of Poonah, in India, an important military center, was destroyed by fire. Intelligence was rcctived in London, on the 14th, of the burning of the Town of Ural k, on the ist incendiaries. According to a Paris dispatch of the 14th, France had peremptorily declined to aid England to procure a loan for Turkey. There is reported to be dangerous agitation In Albania, and revolution is expected. The African Trading Company, of Rotterdam, an extensive firm, having agencies in London and other places in Europe, failed, for a large amount, on the loth. Berlin dispatches of the 15th say that the Government of the United States had denied tbe truth of the statement, made by a Socialist member of the German Parliament, that German Postofflce authorities had broken open or tampered with American correspondence. The International Congress to discuss the various projects for a ship-canal across the Isthmus of Darieu met iu Paris on the 15th. M. de Lesseps was chosen Pres dent and RearAdmiral Rinmen, of the United States Navy, one of the Vice-Presidents.

THe cattle-plague has broken out In the vicinity of St. Petersburg. The Czar has issued a ukase forbidding Roumanian Jews to enter Russia. Seventy arrests have been made at Orenburg, Russia, on charges of inceudiarism. The Spanish Duke of Medina-Celli was kiled, on the 14'h, while hunting on Ills estate with his wi.e, by the accidental discharge of his gun. Jacob f taemTfli, ex-President of the Swiss Republic, died at Berne, on the 15th. According jo St. Petersburg dispatches of the 16th, the City of Lublin, in Russian Poland, containiiig 1 20,000 inhabitants, had been almost wholly destroyed by fire, presumably started by Nihilist incendiaries. A letter was received in St. Petersburg, on the 16th, from Prof. Nordenskjold, of the Swedish Po’ar Expedition. It was dated Sept. 23, 1873, aud came by way of Eastern Siberia. The professor W'rote that all connected with the expedition were well and confident of fully accomplishing its object. Garibaldi has announced bis intention of hereafter permanently residing in Rome. The Emperor of Austria prorogued the Relehsrath in person, on the 17tb. According to Constantinople dispatches of the 17th, the Porte had abandoned all negotiations for, a new loan, and was considering the project, of refunding and unifying its public debt under the auspices of a French syndicate. A Constantinople dispatch of the 18th says the Sultan had issued an irade sanctioning the Eastern Roumelian Constitution.

A firman of the Porto was recently sent to Pristina and Novi-Bazar, threatening with death those who attack the Austrian troops. Garcia, the famous ramblei, who so often broke the banks at Hamburg and Baden, died, in Paris, on the 18th. At a meeting of tbe colliers representing forty mines in Cousett, Eng'., on the 18 th, it was resolved to resume work on the following day. According to a St. Petersburg dispatch ‘of the 18tb, there were 30,000 prisoners waiting at NoYLOrod to be sent to Siberia as soon as the Volga became navigable. On the 16th and 17tb, another conflagration prevailed at Orenburg, which destroyed the larger portion of the city spared by the pre : vious fire.

Congressional Proceedings. Consideration was resumed in the Senate, on the 11th, of the Legislative bill, and Mr. Windom spoke against the political legislation contained therein, and Mr. Coke replied. In the House, Mr. Cox called attention to a petition. presented on the 10th, and printed in the Jitcord, to the effect that “the longer continuance of the session is fraught with danger to peace and with disaster to the financial, commercial and other interests of the country; that the measures inaugurated by Congress threaten a revolution and to strike down ail the safeguards to a free and unintimidated ballot, and that this unprofitable session shonld be speedily terminated. ’ Mr. Cox said this petition was an insult to Congress and shonld not have been printed; as he objected to it at the time it was presented. After debate, the Bpeaker submitted the question as to whether theJfscord ahould be corrected by the insertion of the objection and the consequent exclusion of the petition, and it was so ordered. Bills were introduced and referred—abolishing the jurors’ test oath; lauthorizing the coinage of a silver dollar aDd fractions thereof of full standard value, following the metric system; making appropriations for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending June 30, IffiO; providing for the issue of legal-tender notes and the retirement of National Bank notes, and the equalization of the tax on State and National Banks, and the equalization of the rights of property and industry': proposing a Constitutional Amendment fixing the Presidential term at six years; amending the law providing for eompensation of the President.. ..The President s Message vetoing the Military In terferemM’ bm was read... .A motion to suspend the nuew and pass the bill making appropriations for the support of the army was defeated—lol to 109 - eight Green backers voting with the Republicans in the affirmative, and one with the Democrats in the negative. • •>■■■•>- The House bill for the exchange of subsidiary coin for legal-tender money was reB9rtMia.ttW.aSfffttfl.,from.the. GomarttaTon

Finance, on the 13th The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was taken up, and. after debate, a motion to strike out the clause directing the Secretary of the Treasury as a special fund for the redemption of fractional currency was defeated-yeas, 25; In’the House, personal explanations were made by tevml members, after which the pro.

vlousqaoation waa demanded <« the MAsaac of the Military interference bill ns*r the 1 resident's veto, and the bill was rejected—yea* 127; nays, 97 -less than the requisite Wro-third* in the sitirimuive. Ten of the Oreenbarkeiu voted With the UrtqiK-rats in tlio affirmative, and three (Messrs Barlow, Forsythe and Bussell) did not vote at all Tbe bill retnfinn to tbe Coinage laws and eoin and bullion et rtitic ip* waa debated, and an amendment was offered tbnt silver buljion whirli may l»e deposit* d for coinage must be the product of the mines of the ' United State*. A hill was passed in the Senate, on the 14th, to amend the Revised Statute* so as to provide that if two or more person* conspire either Pi commit an offense against tbe United Htates, or to defraud the reverue, and one or more of inch iierson* actually commit such grime, all parties P> the conspiracy ..ball, on conviction, be tinod $10,01)0, or imprisoned for a term of not more than two year*, or txith, at the discretion of the Court.... The Legislative. Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was further eon aid crcd. and a general debate rnnued on the Koposed repeal of the Juror*' te*t-qath, etc. r. Beck offered an amendment, which was agreed to, authorizing and directing the Score lury of the Treasury to issue immediately, in payment of arrearage* of pension*. $104)00 01) in legal-tender currency held in the Treasury as a special fund for the redemption of fractional currency, etc. The Hon*e resumed consideration of the bill to amend the law* relating to coinage and to eoin and bullion certificate*, and, after considerable debate, Mr. Warner demanded the previous question, pending which Mr. Killinger moved to lay the bill on Ihe table. The yea* and nay* were ordered on the motion, when a motion to adjourn was made and carried- ILKJ to 07. —— —"

"Xjoint resolution was introduced and referred in the Senate, on the 15tb, authorizing and requesting the President to open correspondence with France with a view of negotiating a treaty of reciprocity and commerce with that Government.. . .The Legislative bill wan again taken up. and. after remark* and explanations by a few Senators, Mr. Thurman took the floor and delivered a lengthy argument in favor of the political legislation contained in the bill. In the House, the motion to lay the pending Silver bill and amendments on the table was Jost—lo9 to 126 and the previous question was then seconded—ll 9to 107. The (irsi section of the bill, providing that gold coins shall be a one-dollar piece (or unit) of 25 8-10 grains, a qnarter eagle (or $2.60), a s3alo -piece, an eagle and double eagle, was agreed to—l(6 to 94. An amendment to the seo ond section making the weight of tne silver dollar'soo instead of 4)2)4 grains was, after debate, rejected-62 to 176 - and the section waa then adopted. The third section providing that any owner of silver bullion may deposit the same at any mint, to lie formed info bars or into standard silver dollars of 412V4 grains, for his benefit, was then taken up, and a motion to insert atter the word '.‘bullion” the words “produced from mines in tne United Stales” waa defeated—lo 6to 130—as was also—ll 4to 115 -a motion to add a proviso that the Secretary of the Treasury may purchase silver bullion for coinage nt its market value, and that all gains and profits arising therefrom shall inure to the United States ...Without further action on the bill, the House adjourned.

A resolution was adopted in the Senate, on the 16th, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to report to the Senate what amount of legal-tender notes have been presented and redeemed in coin since the Ist of January last, and wbat amount of coin he considers himself authorized to retain in the Treasury to maintain specie resumption... .The Legislative bill wbb further debated, remarks being made on the political clauses by Messrs. Eaton, Oonkling, Butler, Voorhees, etc. In the House, a resolution waa adopted providing for the appointment of a standing committee, to wbieh shall be referred all bills, resolutions. petitions, etc., affecting the traffic in alcoholic liquors... .The bill to prevent the spread of contagions diseases among cattle was reported from tiie Committee on Agriculture. and made the special order for the 2 )th. ••. .The Wamet Silver bill was taken up, and an amendment to the third section; authorizing the Secretary or the Treasury to purchase, without limjj, all the silver bullion, tradc-duliars and foreign silver coin that may be offered for solo at Ihe market valncof silver, and that such purchases shall continue as long as tiie 412)4 grains standard silver can be obtained for oDe dollar in legal-tender notes, was, after considerable discussion, rejected—s 9to 155. Other amendments were ottered and ordered printed. In the Senate, on the 17th, a couple of amendments to the Legislative Appropriation bill were agreed to, one of them (recommended by tiie Committee on Finance) appropriating $20,0u0 for the Diplomatic and Consular service, to be expended at the discretion ot the President of the United States-the reason given for the amendment being that there is now a movement in Europe with a view to arrange for a bi-metal-lic standard, and it might be thought advisable to send a representative thither to take part iu the proceedings. In the House, consideration was resumed of the bill to amend the statutes relating to gold and silver coinage and com and bullion certificates, and an amendment confining the privilege of free coinage to silver mined in the United States was finally rejected—B7 to 120 Adjourned to the 20 th.

Longevity.

There is no end of books written by English and French medical men on the preservation of health and attainment of longevity. For the most part, they are not of any practical value. They expatiate on the constituent elements of the body, the chemistry of digestion, the osseous structure, and suchlike matters. They strangely miss the main object in their theme, which is to point out a course of living, with mental and bodily conditions tliat would tend to secure'health and the protraction of existence. Does this arise from want of grasp, or from a fear of treading on popular prejudices? On the topic of health, the world stands in need of a writer with the fearlessness of Luther, the acute reasoning of Pascal, and the incisive humor of Moliere. The latest learned authority on health and long life bores us with lacteals, azotised substances, albumen, lumbar lymphatics, chyle, the thoracic duct and similar jargon. A long list is given of persons who lived to be upward of 100 s'ears of age. What did these centenarians know of fibrin, the mesenteric glands, and Jill the rest of it? Some were paupers, many were hard-work-ing people in common life. Most likely net half a dozen in the whole lot knew anything about, their inside. They lived in a variety of ways. The diet of a woman who lived to be 117 is said to have been buttermilk and greens, of whjch we have some doubt. Some were very temperate, %nd others quite the reverse. One old fellow who reached 194 drank a pint and a half of London gin daily. An Irishman who lived to De 111 drank plentifully of rum and brandy till the last. With exceptions of that kind, to be reckoned wonders in Natnre, temperance and simplicity of diet were the chief characteristics. Old age Bad been attained not by any hard and fast rule, but by a number of circumstances, as seen by general experience. Chambers' Journal.

He Agreed.

A lady who wanted a dozen of eggs fresh from the country was among the farmers’ wagons at the market yesterday, and the sight of a small bundle of grass in one of the vehicles at once aroused all the sentiment in her nature. Snuffing at a handful of it she said to the farmer: ' “The country must be beautiful these spring mornings.” “Yes, so she is,” he slowly replied, “ coming in this morning I saw two wagons stuck/in a mud-nole, a dead horse and mofo’n fifty crows.” “ These sunrises must be beautiful opt there,” she continued. “ Yes, they are. At siinrise this morning me’an Jim were gittin’ a hog out from under the hen-house. Purtiest sunrise I ever saw, but that hog won’t never do no more gdpd in this .world.” “I suppose the grass looks very beautiful,” she said as the last egg was counted. .... . , I s’pose so, but i’ve bin so rushed gettin’ that big ditch finished I haven’t hardly noticed. Ho your folks want to buy any dried pumpkin?”— Detroit Free Press. Nbbvous, ejaculatory wbmen belong to the ordm: of migrations ajiimals.— Steuben]^e Feruld. .

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —Pneumonia is ravaging Leadville. -Eastern trout do not thrive in the waters of California. —The woman who rejects an offer of marriage practices slight of hand. —Nature can beat the circus man all to nothing in the backward-spring act. —The New York Central Railroad lias forbidden tbe sale of anything on tho trains, except books and papers. * —When the office seeks the man it does not fidd him loafing on the street corners.— N. O. Picayune. —Time is life’s tree, from which some gather precious fruit while others lie dupvn under its shadow and perish with Linger. —The New York Mail wisely remarks that every man has two roads to happiness open to him. One is matrimony and the other isn’t. —A Scotchman has built a large manufactory for chloride of potash on the borders of the lake that covers Sodom and Gomorrah. —There is nothing so strange, says a philosophic journalist, but that some one selects it for a pet. Even frogs and land lizards do not escape.

—People who read too much have no time to think. Too much reading, like too much eating, leaved littlb chance for digestion. — N. O. Picayune. —Women are extreme in all points. They are better or worse than men.— Albany Argus. That’s .why men take them for better or worse.— Boston Post. —An exchange nays:- “ The most notorious girl of the period is Em Bezzle.” She generally keeps company with a fellow called I. Mizzle.— Reno Gazette. —The Postoffice Department of Canada aanounccs that periodicals and ipamphlets by mail will be delivered free of customs duty when not for trade purposes. —A pauper in Gill, Mass., got five dollars from the Foormaster “to obtain the necessities of life,’’ as he declared, and used the money in taking to himself a wife. —An English jury lately returned a verdict in the case of a man accused of stealing salmon, to the effect that “he did not steal it, but took it with the intention of making it his own property.!’

—A cynical writer says: “ Take a company of boys chasing butterflies; put long-tailed coats on the boys, and turn the butterflies into sovereigns, and you have a beautiful panorama of the world.” —One of the greatest feats of woman’s endurance is when the female with a diamond ring wipes her mouth 3,000 tithes in 3,000 quarter hours without complaining of the least fatigue.— Philadelphia Chronicle. —An editor has one advantage over a King. When the editor goes out riding in his open barouche drawn by four milk-white steeds he is never shot at by a Socialist. You have probably remarked this yourself. —Norristown Herald. —lt is all very well to blame a person for the naughty things he says, but you would sometimes strike a more overbalance in your estimate of him if you would give him credit for tho naughty things he might have said, but didn’t.— N. Y. Herald. —A Turkish commission on the alphabet has recommended the use of Roman letters for staff military maps, because they allow more names in the same space than the Arabic characters. This is regarded as a step toward Romanizing the Turkish language. —The bird-catchers in France catch swallows on fishhooks suspended by silken threads from poles. When the swallows fly low, as they do in warm weather, or on the approach of rain, the baited hooks are in their path, and the birds, jumping at the bait, are caught. —The new Liquor law in Massachusetts compels bar-room keepers to get the written consent of their landlords, and that provision is causing dealers a great deal of trouble —property-owners generally disliking to put themselves in a dangerous position witl\ reference to the Civil Damage act. — iy. j as (. jj as jj een discovered “How to keep a boy on the farm.” The plan is to kill him and bury him six feet deep in the barn-vard. This rule does not apply in Ohio, however, where body-snatching makes it extremely doubtful where the boy would be a week after burial.— Norristown Herald. —They were engaged in archery, and her attitude was very fine as she let fly the feathered arrow from the twanging bow. “William, are you hit,” she softly murmured. “Shot through the heart,” he answered. “Do William,” she pleaded. “ do William Tell,” and thus it is that history repeats itself.— New London Telegram. —A Spanish paper has published what purports to be a statistical table collected by a Member of the English Parliament, relative to the matrimonial relations of the people in the City of London and the County of Middlesex. It appears from this that there are ‘878,681 married people in the districts named, and they are classed under the following categories: Of wives who have left their husbands there are 1,872; husbands who have fled from their wives, 2,371; married people divorced, 4,720; married people living in perEetual warfare, 191,023; those who ate each other, but dissimulate in public, 162,300; those who live together in perfect indifference, 510,152; those who are apparently happy, 1,102; those who are relatively happy, 135; those who are really happy, 6.

Miss Julia Smith’s “Courtin’.”

The “ courtin’ ” of Miss Julia Smith, of Glastonbury, Conn., began in a literary correspondence. “Last summer,” said the venerable bridegroom at the wedding reoeption, “ when I read that her sister had departed, I wanted to express my sympathy in some way, but knew not now to do it exactly, but finally sent her a volume of my poems, having written on the margin, ‘ With deep sympathies of the author.’ Thereupon she sent me a pamphlet, entitled ‘Abbjr Smith and Her Cows.’ On the c6ver of that pamphlet I saw an advertisement saying that Miss Julia Smith, unaided, had translated the entire Bible, and that it was fox sale at Hartford. I immediately sent for it, and found that it was unlike the usual version, or King James’ Bible, as it is called. I then began reviewing the Bible, and the first thing that frtofiSHT Wt£stirtrtetfSc^— HOW different they were from those in the common version. I then wrote to the translator, and she .replied. Then I wrote again and got another reply; and finally J wrote to her that such a large book the Bible could not be foue over by correspondence, and said would like to visit her Sho then

cordially and frankly irfvited me to come. I came, and we chatted together. I think on the first visit we chatted three hours at one sitting. I did not expect to call again. And at last, when I got ready with iny sachet in my hand to walk down to take the stage, l found a carriage at the door. I asked her who was to, drive? She said, * I must, as you would not know to go.’ From that time I found her acquaintance so pleasant that I asked leave to call again. She thought it not advisable to marry at all; that she had better wend her way through the remainder of her life alone. But at last 1 convinced her that 1 was a man of honor and somewhat of a scholar, and not a tramp; and so she iinally said: • Upon the whole, if, wo can live happier together, I don’t know why wc should not. The houseis large enough for both ofus.’ And so she put the case into my hands, and, by the help of Dr. Scudder, she is my wife.” An enormous cake was presented to the married pair by divers friends, who ornamented it with this genial inscription: “ Goidl wishes and toy to the new married pair, M im J ill in. the brare and A. l’arlcer. Esq.”

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

■—Bishop Ames left $250,000. —Mr. Spofford, the Congressional Librarian, is reported to have said that SmatorThurman reads more foreign books than anyNqther Senator in Wash ington. Joseph R. Hawley, of Hartford, who was a lawyer before he was an editor, has been admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court at Washington. —Ralph Waldo Emerson is a spare liver, but takes care of himself. Of an evening He plays whist. He likes to wander through the streets watching mechanics at work. —Justiceswayne of the United States Supreme Court has hired one of the Cliff cottages at Newport, and President and Mrs. Hayes have promised to visit him during the summer. —There are some words in the English language which drive even scholars to despair. For instance, which is the plural of a tailor’s goose? There were seven tailors, and they had seven —what? —Senator Gordon, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, has made Robert Alston, of Georgia, son of the murdered Robert Alston, the messenger of the comrpittee, with a salary of $1,440. —To some young ladies who asked Pope Leo’s permission to dance during the Carnival he is said to have replied: “ Go, my dears, and enjoy yourselves in an innocent dance, only don’t keep up too late you papas and mammas when they want to get home again.”

—Representative Alexander H. Stephens was so poor when he began the practice of law that he had to live on live dollars a month. This is said to be the secret of his assistance to poor more than fifty of whom i aided in securing a liberal education. —As Horace Greeley was once registering his name at a hotel in Omaha, a huge bed-bug came crawling deliberately down the page on the register. Horace threw down the pen in disgust, and remarked very emphatically: “Well, I have been bled by St. Jo fleas, bitten by Kansas City spiders, interviewed by Fort Scott graybacks, but this is the first time, in all my travels - , that bed-bugs have attempted to find.out the number of my room.” —The death of Gen. Richard Taylor recalls to a charitable correspondent of the Buffalo Courier an illustration of what he calls the simplicity of the General’s distinguished father, President Taylor. As the story goes, Sec’y-of-State Clay waited on the President to bring before him the matter of the search for Sir John Franklin. “Yes,” said President Taylor, “we ought to do something, for this country is much indebted to him for his services in gaining Independence.”— N. Y. Post. —lt is related that after Mr. L. Bradford Prince had received his appointment as Chief Justice of New Mexico, among the first persons whom lie met in Washington, was Miss Slough, the daughter of an ex-Chief Justice of the Territory. She was very entertaining, and gave him much valuable information. On his way to the Territory, Mr. Prince took a seat alongside of a finelooking man, who also proved to be from New Mexico. After a long conversation, Mr. Prince mentioned his meeting with the ex-Chief Justice’s daughter, and asked his companion if Col. Slough was living. “No,” replied the stranger, “ I killed him.” The information was found by Judge Prince to be correct.

How Queen Victoria Receives Her Mail.

Edmund Yates, writing in a London magazine, says: “The train, which we may assume is bound due north, and which contains the royal messenger and his precious freight of mail boxes, has crossed the border, and before it has arrived at Perth day has broken over the tops of the Scotch mountains. Balmoral is reached at last. It is a sweet summer day, and the Queen is seated in the tent oh the lawn, where she frequently breakfasts in the warm weather, and remains for hours by herself or with her ladies. The sorting of the contents of the colossal mail-bags will take upward of an hour, and then Her Majesty will be informed that all is ready. Many letters are left for the Royal hands to open. Thus a foreign Sovereign, or one of the Queen’s children,.or it may even be one of her subjects whom she honors with her friendship, has addressed an epistle to Her Majesty, in the same way that friends, acquaintances and connections write to each other in ordinary life. But even this communication only reaches its proud destination by a slightly circuitous route. The autograph communication of the Czar or Kaiser would first go to the Russian or German Embassy m London, would then be sent to the Foreign Office in Whitehall, and would travel from the Foreign Office to Balmoral in one of the above-mentioned boxes. Ip the same way will be treated the letters of those members of the Royal family who may from time to time be abroad, or for the mtftter of that at home. The Prince of Wales may employ the penny post in writing to an acquaintance. His Royal Highness has resort to the State boxes when he addresses his august mother, and -the-letter - is,. usually: inclosed .uMac cover to the Queen’s Secretary. There is not one paper in these boxes which the Queen will fail to examine. On many she will ask for more information; on some she will give definite opinions whicli cannot be confined within the. limits o| a sheet of notepaper,

Democratic Roasts to be Swallowed.

When this Congress first met, the question was raised and determined by the Confederate Democratic majority as to what they should do. The House held its caucus first, and rosolved to put the riders on the Appropriation bills, particularly the rider just .vetoed on the Army Appropriation Dill, and to keep it there, in the exact words which have been' vetoed. The Senate and House held a joint caucus, March 26, to settle iinally the joint piygramme the party should adopt and adhere to. At that caucus Senator Bayard opposed putting riders on the Appropriation Dills. He favored putting the proposed repeal of Army and Election laws in separate bills. So did Alexander H. Stephens, and a few others oftth’e cooler heads.. The reason they gave was that, if the Appropriation bills were vetoed (as they now have been), it would put the party in a bad fix—the. party would have to back down squarely or by some side dodge, or inaugurate a revolution. Here was a plain warning. The party had the possibility of the veto before it from the beginning; and the caucus resolved to go ahead and defy a veto. At that Caucus Speakor Randall took the floor, and was reported in the Associated Press dispatches of that date as follows:

He did not think it necessary to adopt a reso lution binding everyone present to the tirm and lasting support ot the caucus action, for he was satisfied, from his knowledge of the sentiment of the party, and from the tenor of to-day's interchange of viewß, that there would not be a single dissenting voice or vote in the ranks of the Democracy in Congress against adhering to the action thus marked ont, through whatever contest might oome, until it sho.uld bo crowned with success. This language plainly proves that a veto was then contemplated and defied. The party was to “ adhere to the action marked out through whatever contest might come, until it should be crowned with success.” These were brave words. But now Speaker Randall is one of the very first ones mentioned as not “adhering to the action thus marked out,” but proposing to back down by a dodge. “ The action thus marked out,” was the resolve by the caucus to put the rider on the Army Appropriation bill, in certain words, and stick to it in that exact form, passing it right over again as Often as vetoed, or else adjourning Congress and letting, the Government starve for want of an appropriation, until the President should yield. Then followed speech after speech, during the debate in the House and Senate, in which Democratic leaders swore that they would never back down, come what would. The caucus had resolved that this repeal should go through as a rider on the Army Appropriation bill; and should go through in just that form, and stick there till the President should yield. Muldrow and Chalmers declared the purpose of. the Confederate Democratic majority never to back down before a veto; and then, April 3, Joe Blackburn, the Democratic leader on the floor of the House, made a speech in which he said: land those with whom 1 stand identified are . willing to accept the issue. And more, wc go farther and admit that we are the ones who make the issue, and we are ready for you to accept it Planting ourselveß on this broad ground, we wel-‘ come the controversy. ***** If the gentleman from Ohio (Garfield) is to be excused for, certainly he cannot be justified, for parading before this House the aruatnenlam in terrorem of a veto that is cut and dried to be put npon a bill which has not yet passed, and, if is to be pardoned for warning the House that the Executive branch of the Government will never > ield its assent to this measure in its present form, 1 ask whether I may not be warranted and justified in employing equal candor in assuring that gentleman and his associates that the dominant power in this Congress, the rilling element in this body, is also equally determined that, until its just demands, sanctioned by all laws, human and divine, pfoteoted and hedged around by precedents without number, demanded by the people of this land without regard to section, clamored for not by the South alone, but in Philadelphia as well as in New Orleans, in San Francisco and Boston as. well as in Charleston and Savannah are complied with, this side of the chamber, which has demonstrated its power, never means to yield or surrender unless this Congress shall have died by virtue of its limitation. IWiid applause on Democratic, sidej. A principle cannot be compromised. It may be surrendered, but that can only be done by its advocates giving proof to the world that they are cravens and cowardß, and lack the courage of their own convictions. Wc cannoy yield, and we will not yield. [Applause and sen sa’ion.J The issue is laid down, the gage of battle is delivered. Lift it when you please, and we are willing to appeal to that sovereign arbiter to which the gentleman from Chio so handsomely alluded, the American people, to decide between us. We intend to deny eo the President of this Kepublic the right to exercise such unconstitutional powers. * * * * * 1 do not mean to imitate the gentleman from Ohio; 1 disclaim any authority to state wbat others may do; but Ido mean to say that it is my deliberate conviction that there is not to be found a single man on this side of the House wlio will ever consent to abandon one jot or tittle of the faith that is in him. He could not surrender if he would, and he would not. he begged the other side to brl eve, bo coerced bythreats or intimidated by the party in power. We are planted on our convictions. There we will stand. He who dallies is a dastard, and he who doubts is damned. [Loud applause.] We might quote from many of the Confederate Democratic speeches, but this is enough. In this speech the allusion to a veto was plain, and the declaration was broad and square that, if the President should veto the bill, the Confederate Democratic majority would stick to the vetoed proposition, and never back down—no, never! “Whoever dallies is a dastard, and. he who doubts is damned,” cried Blackburn, amid the “ wild applause” of the Confederate Democratic majority. Very well; the Democratic woods, to-day, are just full of Joe Blackburn’s “dastards” and “damned,” and there are whispers that Joseph himself feels just a little “ damned,” and keeps one “dastard” eye on the forest. These loud boasts serve to showhowmuch dirt the Confederate Democratic party eats in backing down, how many loud brags it swallows—and how ridiculous it appears when it abandons the loudly sounded programme laid down at the beginning of the session. —Detroit Post and Tribune.

The Solid South Check-Mated Again.

The President yesterday vetoed what Was called the Military Interference bill, but which might better have been called a bill to bind the arms of the Executive. In doing this he has but followed the path of duty marked out for him by the Constitution. On Saturday he remarked that ho did not think the time had come when it was faecessary to repeal the laws for the protection of the citizens and the preservation of the Republic, that were passed by the Fathers and signed by Washington. And since sending in the veto to the bill ne has characterized it as “a measure that would tie the hands of the Executive, that would paralyze the arm of Executive power*, and that would prohibit the execution of the law.” A gentleman who talked with the President on Saturday, afterward said: “The Southern people do not know the President. They do not understand him. They have'thought that he was all peace and rcconcifiapoint They are mistaken in himThey do not know that on all issues growing out of the war he is as radical and stalwart as any Republican in Con- j gress, and that he will surrender nothing of the results of that contest, so far j as it is possible for him to#prtvent it. j I tell you tho Southern men do not

understand the President, and to-day his back is full of porcupine quills. Ho will not be coerced,” Tho voto message ho has sent to the House justifies what tho visitor to tho President on Saturday said of him then. The message is strong in all its points and positions. 1 It travels entirely within the scope of the Udhstitution, as it points out at every step—and strengthens and ribs itself with a long chain of precedents on the part of Presidents In Hie past. He traces the origih of the law, which tho bill sought to -repeal, back to the lather of the Republic, and illustrates how frequenfly it ■ has been the power in the hands of tho Executive that enabled “ the Government of tho Union” to maintain its authority and preserve its existence. Ho points but that, it was on this principle and through its power alone that Pm-ident Washington suppressed tho Whisky Rebellion in Pennsylvania in .1794, and that President Jefferson "broke up the Burr Conspiracy in 1806. Reinforcing himself with these precedents of his predecessors, the President plants himself firmly on the rook of tho Constitution, and sends back to

the House originating and passing it, this latest and most dangerous attempt at tho reassertion of the heresy of State rights. Thus the Solid South has been check-mated again, and tho Republic again saved from the further encroachments of that most dangerous element. In performing so promptly and so fearlessly his duty in vetoing this measure tho President has won a new title to the confidence of the country, and the gratitude of its loyal people.— lowa Stale ltcgister.

A Policy of Blunders.

If the Democrats in Ciwigress knew with what contempt their proceedings are regarded by the intelligent opinion of all parties iu the country, they certainly would not prolong, them. The position of the President is evident, and it is both impregnable and patriotic. It was plainly stated in tho veto messages, and it has been shown by all that he has officially said and done. If tho Democratic object be simply to prevent wanton and arbitrary military interference at the polls, it is already secured by existing laws, as the President has proved. But if that object be to prevent the people of the United States from enforcing their own laws, when necessary, everywhere in tho Union, and by all the military, naval and civil power of the country, it is an object which will not bo accomplished with the consent of a Republican Administration. No military interference with elections is now legally possible. Under the law the army can neither influence nor intimidate a single voter. There are and can lie no bayonets at the polls. ‘ The only thing that threatens freedom of elections is Democratic bull-dozing and fraud. What, then, is the significance of the outcry about the army at the polls? What is the meaning of this extraordinary jealousy of the government of the people of the United States? Itis simply, as we have heretofore shown, an attempt to establish the fundamental doctrine of the Rebellion, that the United States cannot enter a State except upon the invitation of the State. This was Jefferson Davis’ contention: “ All that we ask is to be let alone.” No ingenuity of phrase, no buncombe allusions to English precedents which are wholly inapplicable, no affected apprehensions of “bayonets” and “oppression” and “tyranny,” which every sensible American treats with the contempt they merit, can obscure the objectof this Democratic performance. In thetotal lack of any policy or principle with which to appaid to the country for the election next year, with the extinction in overwhelming ridicule, in cipher dispatches and in the proceedings of Congress, of the pretense of “reform,” the Democratic managers, at their wits’ end, have undertaken to raise a wholly feigned and factitious isssue about the army at the polls. Bull-dozers and repeaters and fraudulent voters suddenly and solemnly demand “free elections” against the Republicans, who have secured greater freedom of elections than has been known for half a century. And this fine cry is meant to give immunity to tho fraud and violence at the polls which are now the chief menace of the public peace. With a genius for blundering, which is tho sole surviving characteristic, of Democratic ability, the managers have invited the attention of the country to the facts and the arguments against them; they have given the President an opportunity to expose conclusively their malice and their folly; and they have themselves dissipated the force of their cry by compelling everybody to know that it is utterly baseless. It is plain to tho dullest sense that the result of their policy as originally proposed would be to facilitate cheating and violence, to protect tissue ' ballots and' repeating, under the #lea of freeing the ballotbox from bayonets. It is seething the kid in its mother’s milk; it is Stabbing liberty in the name of liberty; and this is the party which hopes to commend itself to support as especially patriotic and especially jealous of popular rights and liberties. In the pursuit of this scheme tho blunder has developed every moment. The Democrats forced an extra session. They declared, through Messrs. Beck and Thurman and Blackburn, that if they could not accomplish their purpose Constitutionally, they would disorganize tho Government. This threat aroused the country thoroughly, and the veto was sustained by an overwhelming public opinion. Instead of keeping the word given by their leaders, the Democrats decided to yield, and to try to call it victory instead of surrender. The whole proceeding has been, upon tho part of the Democrats, a huge and ridiculous blundor. But it litis h;td tho good effect of showing all patriotic and intelligent citizens the impregnable grounds of the National Election laws, and the vital necessity of theta maintenance. Partywise, the Heihquraiietactics have united the Republican Sartv, and made it more than over the ati'onal organization for tip maintenance of free elections, m popular rights, and of the legitimate National authority over every inch of the Union. — Harper's Weekly.

Chicken cholEba rarely appears fimong a Hock that is provided with clean runs affording some shade in excessively warm weather and plenty of fresh, cool water and green food daily. A regular supply of fresh green food is a preventive of diarrhoea in fowls, XLU.eiSP essential that the place who.ro * and sprinkled with wood or coal ashes occasionally, —lowa Reqisler. “It's only a spring opening, ma, exclaimed that awful boy, as he exhibited his torn trousers after a leap over a picket fence.