Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1879 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

Tu TtwliViit baa, by executive order, ro•torad to the public domain 8,1159,350 acres ot Uod 0* the northeastern bank of the Ml»■oort Rtrer, eorreapoodtnjc In teneral outline* to thn area withdrawn by executive orders of Jan«ary 11 a»d May 8, 1878, now reyoked. Kmd aacUoha or territory immediately adjoint** the Orand River, Cheyenne and Indian ftoffi AffMdM are Kill withheld. A WaanraoTost dispatch of the 18th say* the President had dcddad to attend the Indiana State Pair at Indiana polls in October. A nonossn counterfeit of the one dollar bills of the NaUpaal Ragle Bank of Boston. lisas., am* discovered In the National Uvak Redemption Agency In Washington on the MR. ThespWrions note Is much darker In appearance than the gaanlne, bdt U well caknlated to deceive. Tttn crop returns to the Department of Agriculinre Dor this month np to the 15th ahow a alight decHoe from the condlUon In July. The average for the while country was ninety -one per eMt, a loss of two per cent, fdaoe July. The condition of spring wheat was eighty-two per cent, against seven ty-Sve In 1878; In the West and Northwest there was a general decline, censed by draught, rust and chinch bugs; the condition or the whole country was seven per cent, bett«r than last year. Ir was reported on the 15th that Wm. H. Cashier of the Citizens’ National of Washington, was a defaulter to the amount of 960,000, be having used the funds Of the bank tor speculative purposes. He IssaM to have made a full confession. Universal sorrow prevails In Washington over the death of Nellie Grant Sartoris, who left a great many warm friends In that city. Her death was sudden, and private dispatches say she only lived about sixty hours after tbe birth of her child.

The East. Tut New Tprk Tammany Committee on Organisation on the 11th adopted resolutions declaring that under uo circumstances would the Democracy of that city vote for Lucius Robiason as candidate for Governor. Imkiorants to the number of 103,2*5 arrived at the port of' New York during tbe year ending on the Slat of July; previous year, 74,199. A uksoostr* occurred at tbe residence of ex-Senator Sprague at Narraeansett Pier, R. L, the other day between that gentleman and Roacoe Cockling, Senator from New York, in which the former brought a shot-gun to bear and threatened to use it unless the latter left hts boose. Mr. Conkllng left at once, and It is stated d«t Mrs. Sprague also left her husband’s home. The trouble arose from the reported attentions of tbe distinguished New York Senator to Mrs. Sprague. This Is the version of the affair as published In the New York paters of the 11th. Another version is to the effect that the trouble was not between Senator Conkllng and ex-Senator Sprague at all, but between tbe latter and a German music teacher, and that Mr. Sprague ordered the professor to leave his house because he objected to his methods of teaching, and that when Mr. Conkllng interceded for the teacher Mr. Sprague resented tbe Interference. Walter Paine, Treasurer of the Linen Mills at fall River, Mass., is reported to be a defaulter la the sum of about SIOO,OOO. W. H. Kemble, a distinguished Pennsylvania politician, was held to bail on the 13th to answer to the charges of perjury and attempted bribery of members of the Pennsylvania Legislature.

The Mawachusetts Prohibitionists will hold their State Convention on the 34th of September. New York dispatches of the 13th state Hut negotiations were pending between >• Jndce Hilton and the parties In possession of the body of the late A. T. Stewart, for the mtorn of the stolen remains. The report •hat the body had been recovered was untrue. The price demanded by the robbers was (290,000, and no questions asked. Tmmoxt Tuple in Boston was destroyed by fire on the night of the 14th. The loss on the building, which was owned by the American Bible Society, was estimated at over •100,(0). Several firemen were injured by falling walls, but "none, it was thought, were dangerously hurt. The parties interested In the SpragneConkUng difficulty maintained a profound silence up to the 14th, with the exception of Professor Linck, the German teacher, who published a long statement in which he declared that the trouble originated with him, and that Senator Conkling had no part in it exce|A as a peacemaker. On the evening of the 14th - Mrs. Sprague published her Tendon of the affair, which substantially corroborates tbe allegations .of Professor Linck. She says Sen ail or Conkling came to Rhode Island as counsel for Governor Sprague and on his express invitation, to effect some sort of arrangement with the trustee of the Sprague estate by which money could be obtained for the support of herself and children. Mrs. Sprague further saya no hostile words passed between her hnsban! and Mr. Conkling at her house. A TELEGRAM from Providence. R. L, on the 15th saya Mrs. Sprague remained at Caaoochet the night before. Mr. Sprague had declared that he would have the children at all h»E»rds, and had forbidden the servants to obey any oPhis wife’s orders without consulting him. \ Ahyockcemext was made on the 14th of tbe death, at Burlington, N. J., of Bishop Odenbeimer, of the Episcopal Church. He was sixty-two years old. il oil tank at Parker’s Landing, Pa., was struck by lightning on the 14th, and the contents (18,000 barrels of oil) were entirely cod tamed by fire. In the evening of that day the heat communicated to an adjoining tank became so great that tbe 80,000 barrels of oil contained therein suddenly buret Into flames ami were also consumed. Several men on the top of the tank at the time of the explosion were severely injured. A call has been issued for tbe New York Democratic State Convention to meet at Syracuse on the 10th of September. By e collision between an excursion and a freight train on the Narrow Gauge Railroad between Philadelphia and Atlantic City on the 14th a conductor, two brakemcn, a news agent and a deaf mote were killed. " Ti; The New York Sun of the 17th contains a lengthy account of an interview with Mrs. Sprague, who is reported as saying that she had sent for the reporter for the purpose of giving expression to her side of tbe case. She denies that she indulged in recriminations at a recent meeting which occurred between her husband and herself. She aays her husband is morbidly jealous, but has not had from her the slightest canto for it; that his jealousy of Senator Conkling began more than a year

ago, and Out she know of her husband having more recently written a letter to » friend in which be declared, Ma purpose of killing both Senator Conkling and Professor Unelc; that she “considered visiting bar house for tbe purpose of giving Mr. Sprague ipoit wbea

whole affair to Mr. Sprague's hatred ot Mr. Ltnek. Mrs. Sprague denies all the reports about sending notes to Senator Conkllng on the night of the altercation, In the Senate Chamber, with Senator Lamar, arnl denies Kith's; any cause for public gossip. Tun (showing were the closing quotations for produce In New York, on August lttth: No. 3 Chicago Spring Wheat, SI.OO®I.OOX ; N 0.3 Milwaukee. 51.00411.00 X. Oats, Western Mixed, 30®32Xv- Corn, Western Mixed, 44#47c. Porlc, Mess, 18 90 40.00. Lard, tO.OOffO.O2X. Flour, Good to Choice, _44.Wff6.95; White Wheat Extra. $4.75 45.35. Cattle, 47.Wff10.25 for Common to Extra. Sheep, $8 2 iff 5.85. Hosts, s4.o9ff«. 50. * At East Liberty, Pa., on August 16th, Cattle brought: Best, f5.50®525; Fkir to Good, $4.10ff4.i1); Common, 83.00ff3.3i). Hogs sold —Yorker*, $8.60ff5.75; Philadelphia, 14.003 4.10. Sheep brought $3.00ff4.75 according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on August 16th, Cattic brought: Best, SSOO ff 5.25; Medium, 83.25ff4.13X' Bogs sold at $4.7535.50 for Good. Sheep were quoted at $3.0X44.50 for Good.

West and Bonth. A Btatb Convention of the lowa (Irceubackers was held at Marshal I tow non the 12lb. A State Central Committee was appointed, with George H. Wilson as Chairman, and resolutions were adopted Indorsing the Chicago platform of March 4, 1879. Announcement Is made that llic National Liberal League will meet in Cincinnati on the 13th of September, for the purpose, among other things, of considering the propriety of taking political action at the coming Presidential election. The Democrat* of Wisconsin will bold their State Convention at Watertown on the 9th of September, for the nomination of State officers. The tweifticth annual meeting of the Chicago District Camp Meeting (on the grounds at Desplalncs, on the Chicago it Northwestern Railroad) will continue from the 19th to be 29th of August, under the Superintcndency of the Presiding Elder, W. C. Willing, D.D. The various railroads leading Into Chicago will sell tickets from many points at excursion rates to parties desirous of attending the meetings. A number of colored mtn of the better class Irom different points In Mississippi arrived at East St. Louis on the 13th, tn route for Kant as on a prospecting t rip. Advices from General Miles, under date of Port Peck, August 11, received at St. Paul on the Htb, repoita the capture by Lieutenant Whittier, with a detachment of the Fifth Infantry, of Bbort Bull’s band of Sioux from the Spotted-Tall or Rose-Bud Agency. The band contained tifty-seven Indians and about one hundred ponies, and were on their way to join Bitting Bull’s camp. The capture was made near Poplar Creek, where the Indians were attempting to cross the Missouri River. The National Archery Tournament, which was held in Chicago on the 12th, 13th and 14th, was a highly successful affair, and was participated in by clubs from various portions of the country. Will F. Thompson, of Craw- , fordsvlite, Ind., won the championship of the United States, making the best score in all the cou tests. Mrs. Spalding Brown, of Hastings, Mich., won the ladles’ championship. Several valuable prises were awarded for the best shooting in the different contest*. 1» Chicago, on August 16th, Spring Wheat No. 2 do*ed atß4Xffß*Xc cash; for September; 84%®84X C f° r October. Cash Corn closed *t 38X@*iX c for No. 2; S4X@34Xc for September; 34}j ®34%c for October. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 23X@23Xct seller September; 24 X c for October. Rye No. 2, 49c. Barley No. 3, 39®49c. Cash MessPork closed at Lard, cash, $5.70ff572X- Beeves—Extra brought 44.90jT 5.30; Choice, *[email protected]; Good, $4 25® 4.50; Medium Grades, 43.75®4 10; Butchers’ Stock, $2.50ff3.25. Stock Cattle, etc., $2.40 ®B.OO. Hogs—Good to Choice, [email protected]. Sheep—Poor to Choice, 2.50(44.50.

Tlic Yellow Fever. The health officers of Louisville, Ky., were notified on the 11th of a case of yellow fever in that city, and the victim, a young physician who had recently traveled through the infected district, was taken to the yellowfever hospital. _ : The Common Council of New Orleans adopted a resolution on the 12fh declaring that there was then no case of yellow fever in that city. " The nuipber of new cases reported to the Memphis Board of Health for the twenty-four hours ending at six p. m. on the 12th was twenty-two. The deaths numbered seven, five within and two outside the city limits. Over 815,T500 In donations had been received to data by the Committee of Safety. The National Board of Health at Washington reieived advices from Tampico, Mexico, on the 12th, to the effect that the people of the latter place were dying off like flies, the yellow fever prevailing there worec than in New Orleans last year. It was emphatically denied on the 13th that any cases of yellow fever existed at Corinth, Miss. The Mayor of that city and the President of the Board of Health telegraphed as follows: “ Not a case of fever of any kind in Corinth.” Fohty new cases and ten deaths were officially recorded in Memphis on the 14th. Of the new cases thirty were colored, This report does not include the cases that were being treated by physicians aDd nurses and by tbe Howards outside the corporation line, of which at least a dozen were developed on the 14th. A special dispatch of that date says the fever whs spreading rapidly. The authorities were feeding about 3,000 people in the various camps, and there was not a single case of fever reported at any of them. At a meeting of public health officers (members of the National and State Boards of Health, eta) held for consultation at tbe hospital quarantine boat below Cairo on the 15tb, it was decided to continue perfecting the system of isolation of Memphis, under the rules of the National Board, and to use every possible. means to induce the colored people tq. move into camp, and thus deprive the fever of material to work on.

A fatal case of yellow fever was reported at Bailey Station, Term., (twenty-five miles east of Memphis), on the 17th. A sailor from Havana died of yellow fever in the quarantine, hospital at Baltimore on the lfith. Forty-six deaths from yellow fever occurred in Memphis during the week ending on the 16th. The new cases reported during the same time numbered 183—112 of which were colored. There were twenty-one new cases reported on the 16th (fourteen colored) and seven deaths (six white). On the 17th toe new cases numbered twenty-five (twelve white and thirteen colored) and four deaths (all white). Comptroller Porter, of the Treasury Department at Washington, stated on tbe 16th that tbe National Board of Health was of tbe opinion that contributions for the support of the people Hi Memphis in camp were absolutely necessary to prevent the spread of the yellow fever into other States. A requisition upon the 8500,000 appropriated by Congress would be honored. A St. Louis dispatch of the 17th says two new cases of yellow fever bad been sent to quarantine near that city—one of tbe patients being (font Greenville, Miss., and the other * resident of St Louis who had recently been 48, Hemphia. ~- Foreign Intelligence. It was reported from St Petersburg on the llth that the Russian Government had elaborated a plan for the confiscation and secularisation of a great number of convents *nd

monasteries belonging to the Greek Church in Russia. - _ - •, ' Late Kusiian advices rc(K>i? increasing coolnuea between that country and Germany. To prepare lor possible contingencies, four first-class fortresses have liefy ordered to be constructed near the. German lifie. Great damage to crops has been caused, to Cheshire aiul Lancashire, England, by the recent overflow of the. River Mersey. The disaster caused the loss of se v'4ra l-Hvca. ON the night of the 11th a serious rlcA otecurrcd at Belfart, Ireland, brought onNiy a Catholic procession. To suppress It troops were called out, and many persona were Injured. At Alexandria, Egypt, one Mirzam, a broker ind naturalised American, recently shot dead Ilahnn Pasha, a confidential agent of the cx-Khedlvc. Mirznm surrendered himself and was locked up to await the return ot the United Stgica Consul-General, who hasbeen ordered by the hbme Government to try him for murder. It was reported from Vienna on the 12th that Count Andra sy, the Austrian Premier, had tendered his resignation, and that I he Emperor had accepted it. On the 12th the Dresden police made a descent on the houses of leading Socialists and captured a large quantity of forbidden literature. ' * A Constantinople telegram of the 12th announces the outbreak of Asiatic cholera in that city. It was thought tbe cases were sporadic only, and to prevent the spread of the disease a military cordon had been placed around the hospitals. A caulk dispatch of the 13th announces a collision between the steamer Corsica, from New York, apd the steamer Scmtrainidc, from Boston, the result being I lie sinking of the latter vessel. Her crew was rescued. Her cargo belonged to Chicago parties. A recent hurricane in Denmark destroyed over one hundred farm houses, killed fifty persons and caused incalculable damage to growing crops. y Russia Is reported to have formed au offensive and defensive alliance with Persia. Twenty soldiers of the garri.son'at Scrajtevo perished in the recent lire at that point. Acooumso to a Vienna telegram of the 13th there had been remarkable underground commotion at Wieliczka, in the center of the salt-mine region, in Galicia. A row of bouses had been split in twain, and the inhabitants had fled in a panic, fearing an earthquake.

Two fatal cases of cholera in Loudon were reported on the 13th. The American filly Saratoga won the plate at the Kiinncyiuede races on the 13th. • The British House of Commons on the 14th committed Charles E. Grissell to Newgate Prison, for evading tli eg peak er ’ swarruii t. for his arrest He had been char ted with attempting to bribe members, and when the warrant for Ills arrest, was issued he fled to France. He returned on the 14th, and wag imprisoned as stated. A new Austrian Cabinet has been constructed, with Count Tjbafe-as Premier. .( Henry M. Stanley, the African reached Sierra iJeone on the 34th of .Inly, and started at once flor the River Congo. —The British Parliament was prorogued on the 15th by royal -speech from the -throne, read by Lord Biac-ohslleld. The Queen congratulated the ipembers of Parliament upon the good resultsfoMfiie session, and upon the satisfactory condition of affairs at home and abroad. \ Two distinguished English agriculturists, Messrs. Pell and ReaH T t)2ve been named as a Commission to visit tli* United States to collect evidence for the/ Royal Commission on i Agricultural Distress in Great Britain. Nellie Grant Sartoris, daughter of exProsldcnt Grant, died at her home In England tin the 15: li. Seuious riots occurred at Lurgan, Ireland, on the 15th, during the progress of a Home Rule procession. Stones wore hurled at the police, who retaliated by firing on tlic mob, killing two and wounding others. Lord Lurgan’s lodges an l a house belonging to a Protestant w ere subsequently gutted. A Boston physician named Moseley was recently killed w hile descending the Matter- - horn, in Switzerland. On the 15th the trouble among tlic shiplaborers of Quebec culminated in a terrible free fight between the French and Irish members of the Ship-Laborers Benevolent Society. Of tlic former about 3,010 were opposed by a somewhat smaller number of the latter. After terrific fighting, during which five persons were killed and more wounded, the French -party were driven back. Subsequently a great many hardware stores were sacked, and all the guns and ammunition found confiscated “By one or the other of the contendfiig Tactions. During the evening each /party held meetings and adopted resolutionajto wipe out the other. The Mayor declining to act, the other magistrates called out the military, but they were few and were practically powerless. At midnight the city was substantially in the hands of the mol) and there were serious forebodings of what would occur on the morrow. A dispatch was published In the New York Herald on the 15th, announcing the arrival of the Arctic steamer Jeannette at the port of Illuluck, in the Island of Onalaska, on the 2d of August. She would sail for St. Michaels on the 6th of August.

A St. I’etershurg dispatch of the 16th announces the blowing trp of the Government powder-magazine near that city. Several soldiers and workmen in the vicinity worn killed. The magazine was undermined anil blown up presumably by Nihilists. _ Toe i toting between, the Catholics and Protestants at Lurgan, Ireland, was resumed on the 16th and continued on the 17th. There was also rioting at Gilford. In the efforts to suppress the disturbances, twcDty policemen were more or less injured. The Ameer of Afghanistan has lately replied to a letter from General Kaufmann, the Russian Commander in Asia, informing him that all future correspondence must be conducted through the Indian Government. Many persons were killed and a great many buildings destroyed by a recent water-spout near Pays deGex, In Switzerland. The Turkish Government has dismissed Aleko Pasha from the Governor-Generalship of Rumelia. The Emperor of Germany has pardoned Admiral Batch, commander of the flag-ship' Koenig Wilhelm, who was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for running down the Grosser Kurfuerst r’ The anticipated riotous demonstrations at Quebec did not occur on the 16th, although there were many hand-to-hand individual fights and several persons were more or less hurt. The city was quiet on the 17th.

THE CINCINNATI CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION.

Thomas Shay testified on the 9th that the body of Harris' affi lavit was in his (witseas') writing; be never saw Harris before he took the affidavit; followed him to where he lived to find oat something about him; be came to witness' office with Jim White and Mike Farrell; James Eagan was brought to the ©flic a by Torn McDermott sind Pat Malloy; witness took John Oook's affidavit in the Court-House: no man was paid for making affidavits; gave Eagan money for the loss of his time; J. 8. Harris dictated the facts in his affidavit and witness wrote them; when witness did not know a man personally be relied on the men who brought him; Francis told witness he was at the SI Is on official bnsihess; also told witness after : election, in Major Blackburn’s office, thnt he got his man in on election day. and made 8283; Major Blackburn has since said that he had no recollection of such a conversation: witness did not knpw what became of John Scott's affidavit; didjjot forge his name; he signed the affidavit himself; witness' office and residence had been robbed tsrq or throe times since tbe affidavit were made. ._. v —. ~-_L Jamra L-. Baffin wassworn,sod testified to the good character of Golcher; witness said be g*Ve Pickett fifty dollars to work for Batterwortb; gave Rim the same amount in 1876 to help Bay-Tbe-letters that had been reported by the witnesOee were-received. Among them was a letter from District-Attorney Richards to John F. Follett and other memorialists. The committee then

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —Wrestlers work when they Bouton Post. —The lovo of a fly for a baldheaded wad paaseth understanding. % —An Irishman speaks a popular truth when he calls the heated term a “hated” term. —A little boy, proud of his new, jacket, informed his sinter that he wa* A six-button kid. —A man with but little brain can make and hear a great deal of noise without being affected by it. —Among n late list of songs that have had the greatest run, no mention is made of the Songs of Solomon.—Picayune. —lt is a noticeable fact that every man who has seen the seaserpont states that its head is the size of a beer cask. —Boston Post. —“Tobacco is a vile thing for the health, and 1 have given it up entirely.” “Bah! since when?” “ Since .. . next Monday.”— Paris Figaro. —A man may believe a great many things when ho is running for oillce; but he will not insist upon anything but his salary after he is elected. —The law which sends a boy of twelve to prison for bad conduct should send his father along with him for bad government —Detroit Free Press. —The pleasantest way of being hung, ■ays the Christian Register, is in a hammock. The whole body is then hung at once. This assertion is as positive as though the writer had tried both ways. —Remember, you cannot be suspioious of others - without making others suspicious of you, and you cannot spend time in talking against the honesty of others without exciting the feeling thas you yourself will bear watching.— N. Y. Herald. —S'* Julius, why didn’t you oblong your stay at the springs?” “ Kase, Mr. Snow, dey too much.” “How so, Julius?” “Why, de landlord charged dis colured individual wid stealing do spoons.*’ \ —lt destroys half the pleasure oil ft summer resort to hear a man cat soup at the dinner table with a noise like the last few gallons of water being sucked out of a bath tub by the waste pip e.—Wheeling Sunday Leader. —“ Restaurant,” said Bayard Taylor one day, with a twinkle of the eye, “is derived from res ‘ a thing’ and laurus ‘ a bull’—a bully thing.” “ The name Smith,” he observed on another occasion, “is obviously a contraction of Sun-mj’th—Sumytii, Smyth, Smith.” —A paper collar will last, a menlber of the Legislature who speaks eight minutes and a half; one who thinks, thirteen minutes; and those who do not think, a week. There are said to be several members who have not fonnd it necessary—or convenient —to change collars since the session opertt-.h —Thomasville ( Oa.) Times. —Harry, the square-built three-year* tf]d of Major Joe H. Stewart, went I j d,tho house and yard yesterday — {•• j “ had given him a line and hook “j.fyro.ed on all the water-cooks, tin**'was flooded and the yard and walk-j overflowed. He was discovered, calm-*ttd serene, fishing from the doorsteps. His paternal ancestor discovered him, with; “ What do you mean, sir?” The answer was: “ How could afellow fish without water?” — Austin {Tex.) Statesman. —When we were a boy we used frequently to be told how fondly the father of his country loved the truth, but not till a day or two ago did we hear that he also loved cards, and used to play for money. Strange that we were never told this in our early years. It would have been so inspiring, when going home with a pocketful of marbles, won at taw or drop, to think that we were emulating the example of the good George and might one day, like nim, -occupy the Presidential chair. — Boston Transcript. —“ What might be your business?” inquired an inquisitive Yankee of Jim Keene, the boss speculator, as they were riding along together in the cars. “I’m an honest old fatfmer, 1 am,” reSlied Keene. “ Well, now, I’d never ave picked you out for a farmer,” rejoined the Yankee; “you don’t begin to look it.” “ It’s true, all the same,” Keene went on; “appearances are often deceptive, my friend. Doubtless, fromiriy dress and white hands you would take me for a resident of some oity, but I give you my word that I’ve made my living of" late by raising wheat” The Yankee neglected to ask him how high he had raised it.

—The editor of the London Truth, after observing that probably not one in twenty of the persons who indulge in boating or. a holiday can swim, proceeds to tell his readers how to acquire this accomplishment. “Nothing,” he says, “is more easy. When the air ft out of a body its owner sinks; when the air is in the Dody its owner floats. Let anyone slowly draw in his breath as he draws back his legs and pushes forward his arms, retain it while he is preparing for the stroke which is to propel him, and slowly allow it to go through his lips as his arms are passed back from before his head to his sides and his legs are stretched out. The action of the stroke should not be quite horizontal, but should bo made on a Slight incline downward. The real reason why people take weeks to learn how tp swim is because swimming professors either do not know, or do not choose —to teach,—the philosophy of breathing, so as to render the body buoyant. I would engage to make any one a tolerable swimmer in an hour, unless he be a congenital idiot.”

A Scene of Unseemly Levity in the Lime-Kiln Club.

Just as the honored President of the Lime-Kiln Club was about to leave his house on Indiana street to proceed to Paradise Hall and open the meeting, as usual, Mrs. Gardner climbed the line fence to borrow a “ drawing of lard” of a neighbor. In some way, unexplained as yet, her feet becama entangled in the boards, and she threw down twenty-eight feet of brought up among the weeds with a sprained ankle. The President was, therefore, detained at home fifteen minutes beyond the hour for opening the meeting. There were nearly eighty members on hand, and a spirit of deviltry seemed to grasp ‘right hold of even the old gray-heads. Trustee Pullback, who is in his sixty-seventh year, danced a regular breakdown in the middle of the floor; the Hon. John Paradox onfl'ed hats with the Rev. Penstock; Waydown Be bee threw a dipper of water over the sacred -person of Deacon Hastings, and Samuel Shin and Eider T6dts fell over a bench and jarred the hall to its foundations while engaged in a back-hold wrestle. In the midst of this jubilee Brother Gardner walked ib. one iff the back

end of the hall Just then threw a hardboiled egg at tho honored pate of Judge Goslin, and it struck the President fair between the eyes. He got up after a minute, brushed tho dust off his olothes, and proceeded to his chair, and when the triangle sounded the hall was asstill as death. -t-- “ (icin'icn. I beg to inquiar’ if dis am de nineteenth century, or if we hav returned to do barbaric aigoP”. •softly inquired the President as he felt of the bump created by the egg. There ( was no answer. Here and there an old member could be seen rolling up cotton blossoms behind his eyeballs; but not a whisper brbke the stillness. “ I doan’ know who frowed dat egg, nor who begun dis scene of levity,” resumed the President; “ but I nhbber want to see any mo’ of it. I didn't intend to pass ae collekshun hat aroun’ at dis meetin', bein' as de Treasurer am a long ways ahead, but de collector will at once pass aroun'. Let me add dat de pussun who raised dis bump between my eyes musn’t toss less dan half a dollar into de hat.” Quickened conscience made the collection foot up over ten dollars, and there wasn’t a coin smaller than a dime in the hat. —Detroit Free Press.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—The old homestead of Abraham Lincoln at Sangamon, 111., is out of repair, and is used as a refuge by tramps. —Complaint is made that General Israel Putnam’s grave in Brooklyn, Conn., is sadly neglected. Relic hunters knock oIT pieces of the old slab and carry them away. —Chief-Justice Chase’s grave, at Oak Hill, near Washington, is marked simply by a block of gray granite, bearing only the record of his birth and death following his name. —Captain Eadi, of jetties fame, is described as a small and rather fragilelooking man. A peouliar pallor of his skin and a very quiet manner make him seem even smaller than he is, but he has a very thoughtful and determined face. He looks like a man who hus the utmost confidence in himself and who knows how to wait. —Representative Thomas Ewing’s home at Lancaster, Ohio, is a plain brick mansion, pleasantly situated on high ground. The General’s eldest son, William, who is twenty-three years old, is principal of an aoademy in an adjoining township. The General has four other children, two boys and two girls. —Thomas Smith, of Ipswich, Mass., is eighty-six years old. He does his own farming, haying included. He lives in an old-fashioned manner, nev.or had a stove in his house, and cooks by an open fireplace. He has never used spectacles and can read fine print by candle-light. He never rode in the cars, preferring to ride behind his old mare, which, he says, is fast enough for him.

—A member of a railway surveying party in Washington Territory visited the famous Indian Chief Moses, and writes of him: Moses is the only Indian Chief I have ever seen (and I have seem dozens of them) that is not a fraud. He lias brains. He is a gentleman in his manners. He has a large property in caitle and horses; and when he travels he has two servants with him to saddle his horse, to cook for him and to spread his blankets. He enjoys the unbonded confidence and respect of the most civilized and courageous Indians on the Continent. Born a warrior and chief, he had intelligence enough not to risk a useless war with whites if he could avert it. He dreaded war on account of its waste and the certain destruc-** tion of what he loved which it involved. He told me he would never again fight the whites ufiless the Indian agents tried to force him onto a reservation. “Then,” with a quick blazing of his eyes, “then I will fight. I had rather die than go. My people had rather die than go. ’

The Epidemic in Memphis.

The Memphis Board of Health made the following official announcement on the 10th relative to the yellow fever in that city: The Board of Health beine: Informed that there is a disposition manifested on the part of some absentees from Memphis to return sooner than it would be advisable, and, as this disposition may be Increased, it deems best to submit the following statement In regard to the prevalence and spread of yellow fever in the city. Thouah the death rate from yellow fever up to August 2, the date of the last reguiar weekly report, exceeded the deaths from all other causes by a few, but being less than that of the week previous the Board of Health was encouraged to believe that It would not exceed this number for any week during the prevalence of the disease, and as no practical good. It was thought, would result from the formal announcement of the epidemic, It declined to make such announcement. At that time, August 2, It prevailed mostly In the neighborhood where the first cases occurred In Jnly, In the southern portion of the city, in the Fifth and in a portion of the Seventh and Tenth Wards, and in the northeastern portion of the city,' in the Eighth Ward, and could not be considered epidemic beyond those limits. During the last ten days it has extended beyond these limits, where it was hoped to be confined, and cases have been reported. Deaths have occurred In so man; different localities of the city that it Is now impossible to sa; what portion is not Infected. Therefore the Board of Health makes formal declaration of a general epidemic. ,The death-rate Is small In proportion to the number of cases reported, and there are good reasons to hope that It will not exceed, If it again' reaches, the present week's mortality during the prevalence of the disease. These reasons are: Some escape In every epidemic, not being liable to disease, from what cause we do not know. Many of those who remain are protected by previous attack, and it is reasonable to assume that many who contract the disease will recover; that a large proportion of our population who are liable to diseases have left the city, and the work of depopulation is still in progress, which should be, no doubt will be, continued, unless free subsistence is supplied in the city, which would not only have the effect to prevent some from getting into camps, where snch provision is made, but would induce others to come into the city, and thereby become the means of spreading the disease to localities now free from infection. Therefore, in view of these facta, we are induced to believe, although the disease is liable to be here until /root, the rate of mortality will not exceed, if It equals, its present number for any one week in the future. Every practicable means of disinfection' and local sanitation calculated to arrest the disease has been, and is now being, practiced. In this work the Board of Health has the active cooperation of both the National and L,ate Boards of Health, through their respective representatives, Dr. R W. Mitchell, of the former, and the Hon. John Johnson, of the latter. Following Is the number of deaths fromveilow fever since its appearance, as reported to this office: For the week ending July 12, 3; for the week ending July 19, 6;' for the week ending July 26, 34; for the weekending August 2, 25; for the week ending August 9,29. Total number of deaths to date, 97. As Is customary, ths Roafd of Health will announce officially through the papers when it Is thought safe lor absentees to return. <J. B. Thornton, M. D* President of the BoarJ of Health. asa . —iiigßri i,i ei ■ ,

All the toes and bucksaws found in the ruins of Pompeii are of light make, as if constructed for women’s use. Those old ancients knew their little busing. —Exchange.

Encouraging the Exodus.

The Mississippi Democrats, having docided to suppress lndependcntism in that State, are proceeding .to use against it tho methods that proved so eueotive in overcoming Republican majorities. Tho Democratic papers in Yazoo rCqunty defend the mob that compelled the withdrawal of Captain Dixon from tho Independent ticket, and papers outside the county excuse the acts of the bull-dozing party. The party that in Congress last winter made so much noise about free elections stands pledged, in Mississippi, to the defenso of a plan that allows only Democrats to vote. This illustrates the difference between Democratic profession and Democratic practice, and shows at a glance the logical results of their system. Much has been said about the wrongs of Captain Dixon and the Independents associated with him, but litUe is said even by Mr. Dixon himself about the colored men who have been for several years practically disfranchised. R. A. Flanagan, Dixon’s friend, sifter declaring that fifty ppr cent, of the white people in the county are Independents, says, artlessly: “It is true that the negroes are almost unanimous for the Independents, and why? Becauso it is the only chance they have had, since 1875, to vote.” What a confession this is for an old Democrat to make. But it lets in a flood of light on the situation.

The Independents would have us believe that they are really no more friendly to the colored people than are the Democrats, but that the votes of the negroes come naturally to them, as in such an alliance is the colored man’s only chance to vote. No sooner is this alliance (unfavorable as it is to the colored people) formed than' the while men who invite, ever so gingerly, such an alliance are subjected to the treatment meted out to Republicans some years ago. This is the spirit manifested all over the South. The party that espouses the cause of the colored man, or that invites or accepts his support in opposition to the Democratic ticket, is marked for persecution. The Democrats decline to consider the colored men as free agents in politics. They must submit to be driven like slaves, and vote as directed, or not vote at all. When the Republican party stood by the colored men, they voted, as was their simple right, under the Constitution. But finally the Republican leaders in the South were thinned out by murder and banishment, until they could no longer resist the current of outrage and persecution. Then the negroes were informed that the Democrats were their natural allies, and their best friends, and it was proclaimed that the South, having rid itself of carpet-baggers and agitators, would be peaceful and prosperous. The new system was tried, and the colored people, seeing in it no hope for themselves, resolved to emigrate to States where their rights would be respected. They were told that their fears were groundless; that the South was not hostile to them, but to the men who had advised and directed them, and that in the new division of parties that must come eventually they would be allowed to vote as they pleased. There was a new division on local issues in Mississippi. Leading Democrats headed an Independent movement and accepted the support of the colored voters. No sooner was this done than the Independent leaders were threatened, ambushed, and finally captured by the rifle clubs, and compelled to withdraw from the movement in opposition to the Democrats. The old threadbare Stories were told against them, and they were asked to answer the same cooked-up charges made for effect against the Republicans in 1875. The end is that in Yazoo County there is only one party, and that one which the colored people cannot support. To put it in another way, their only possible ally, the Independent party, has been Jbulldozed out of existence, and they are at the mercy of the Democrats, with no voice in elections, and no power to secure reforms. If this state of affairs continues there is but one course open to the colored people of Mississippi. They must emigrate. If every party that befriends them, or tolerates their existence as voters, is to be suppressed, and they are not allowed to act for themselves, they can never hope to better their situation, and the quicker they leave such a State the better. The Mississippians have done their utmost to give new impetus to the negro exodus, and if the colored people come Northward by thousands, the Mississippians have themselves to blame. Their rifle clubs may bulldoze Independents, and patrol the banks of the Mississippi, but they cannot prevent free men from leaving the State.— Chicago Inter-Ocean.

More Southern Democratic Sentiment.

The latest charge against the Sooth is that the school-children in that part of the Union are tattght to speak of the United States as “ they," instead or using the word N-a-t-i-o-n.—Ex-change. Strange to say, the most treasonable of all documents in this respect is the Constitution itself, and the treasonable part is that very part which defines treason. The Third Section of the Third Article says thus: ... . „ “ treason against the United Stages shall consist only in levying war npon them, or in adhering to their enemies.”—etc. But then, what better could be expected from an instrument whioh never uses the term “ Nation” or “ National."— Pan Christian (Miss.) Sea-Shore Gaulle. The Constitution of the United States is a secession document, and was drawn up by secessionists of the old school. They knew precisely what they were doing, and they did it well. They weighed the several articles, sections and clauses of the charter, line by line, word by word, and syllable by syllable; for they wanted their posterity to possess the right to revolt against tyranny, without running the risk of being hung for treason. Take the Constitution, sun it in the bright, translucent light of the heroic days in which it was draughted, and von can read the right of secession in and between the lines as plainly as you can see the sunbeams throngh the crystal atmosphere of this August morning. Bat why squander logic on the talwart lepers ? Willfully blind, Maliciously deaf, Besotted with hate, Blazing with wrath, Cowering with dread at the bare possibility of losing the white, flaky, palatabie bread and pie, and the sweet, fresh, appetizing trout and salmon of office, they would not listen to the truth, though it were spoken by a-glo-rified Saint commissioned from the throne of Cod, ■ - It is of no use to reason with' the Radicals. It is no use to make war on them with squirt-guns charged with cologne.

We have borne and fojreborne with their treasons, and murders, and robberies, and perjuries, until the whole Republic has become debauched and demoralized. What have wo made by putting on kid-gloves and treating these traitors ginjrorly?——_——. —— What? • Has one of.them relented? Has one of them reformed? - No. On the contrary, their ranks have become more and more solidified, and their plans and purposes more and more remorseless, qjprrupt and oppressive. Their pioneers are blazing away for Grant and a strong Government; The plowing over of State-lines; The suffocation of popular liberty! The day for argument has passed. Tho day for action has come. Our party must form State-Sover-eignty Clubs in every city, town, village, hamlet and precinct in every latitude and longitude in our States-Union; and these Clubs must have a common understanding, a common purpose, and stand ready to respond when tbb tocsin sminds. If S Nation is proclaimed, that Nation must die the death; the life must be shot or sabered out of the qhief movers in its creation, and the rank and file of its supporters must be disfranchised. The Radical party is the minority party in this Republic. Taking the whole States-Union into consideration, it has been the minority party since old Abe Linkhnrn sneaked into Washington, disguised in a Scotch cap and cloak, and disgraced the Whitd House forever by tracking the Sangamon mud over its carpets and polluting the atmosphere with his lewd, profane, yahoo presence. This being the case, they must be checked in their revolutionary career. Their next usurpation must be resisted in a way that will teach them there is still a God—a just, Almighty God—in Israel. %.

Protests will not serve. What do these devils care for protests, or logic, or facts? They must bo checked in their mad, unholy career bv tho Avenging Arm and the Red Right Hand. Speak and write, but speak and write as did tho Henrys and the Paines in the days of 1776, when the masses were aroused and electrified, not by the major and minor propositions and conclusions of perfect syllogisms, but by tongues of fire and pens of flame denouncing the despotism of King and Parliament. The Radicals have an idea that the Democratic is a cowardly party. Why? Because it submitted quietly to the Presidential juggle of 1J876-’7. They bank heavily ou this Delief, It has made them still more defiant and demoniac. They are simply laying up wrath against the Day of Wrath. The deluge will come. They will not be permitted to transfer another solitary right of a State to the General Government. Not one It will be prevented; but, in order to prevent it by one swift, sharp stroke, we must organize into State-Sover-eignty Leagues and Legions, and be ready to fall upon them like a thunderbolt. Yes —the Radical party has made its last of the States Snd tho People. The Sherpians, the Blaines, the Chandlers, and all that mouthing mob of windy word-grinders may call this Confederacy a “Nation” until their throats crack open; but they will never be permitted to make it a Nation in point of fa«t. Their pestilent carcasses will hang in chains and feed the vultures if they dare to subvert the rights set forth in the Constitution by the old Continental Secessionists.

Unite, Democrats! and proclaim this States-Union dissoluble at pleasure. Unite, and swear that the amendments shall be disrooted from the Constitution. Unite, sprawl upon and triturate the last result of the war under the soles of your feet. ' { Unite, and slam-to forever the doors of the free schools. "Unite, and vow that white men and white men only shall, vote, hold office, and sit on juries. Unite, and tell the Grants, the Shermans, the Garfields, and the vulgar varletry who train under their flag, that you stand to-day where you stood in 1861, and are willing to fight the old fight over again with ballots or musketballs. Prepare! Spot your traitors! Strip the straps from the shoulders of your dastard, bastard Democrats. Place the old guard in charge of the guns, and open the campaign for the restoration of the old Planter Republic of Thomas Jefferson, John C. Calhoun and Jefferson Davis. —Okolona (Miss.) Southern States.

The West Unequaled in Story-Telling.

It is no use for an Eastern man to try to tell a big story when there is a Western man about, Causeur has tried it and got beaten, beaten clean out of sight. He thought he could spin a yarn that would test any pne’s credulity, but he always found that a Western man could go him one better. “ When I was a joung man,” said Col. 8., “we lived in Illinois. The farm had been well wooded, and the stumps were pretty thick. But we put the corn in among them, and managed to raise a lair crop. The next season I did my share of the plowing. We had a ‘ sulky’ plow, and I sat in the seat and managed the horses, fttnr as handsome bays as ever a man drew rein over. One day I found a stump right in my way. 1 hated to back out, so I just said a word to the team, and, if you’ll believe it, they just walked that plow right through that stump as though it had been cheese.” Not a sou l , expressed surprise. But Major S.,

who had been a quiet listener, remarked. auietly, “ It’s curious, but I had a similar experience myself once. My mother always made our clothes in those days, as well as the cloth they were made of. The old lady was awful proud of her homespun —said it was the strongest cloth in the State. One day I hadjust plowed through a whiteoak stump in the way you speak of, Colonel. But it was a little too quick for me. It came together before I was out of -the tvay, .and nipped my trousers. 1 felt.mean, I can tell you, but I put the string on the ponies, and, if you’ll believe' it* they just snaked that stump out* roots and all* Something Trimscript. _ _ The ideal pionio for a small boy is one with plenty of lemonade and sandwiches mid no lectures.