Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1879 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

From Washington. Twb returns to the Department of AgrlcnlUire show that the general average oondk Uoa of corn on the let of August was ninetythroe, the same m in July, acainat ninety aix in August ot last year. Kentucky, Ohio •nd Indiana report the average somewhat Wov that of last year, While Illinois reports a very high condition. The States west of the Mississippi all report extraordinary growth and most favorable prospects. lowa reporta IM; Missouri, 115; Kansas, 114;'Na- . breaks, I 1& Toe condition of the potato crop was ninety-seven, against eight,y-elght in July. A telegram from Washington on the 26th says Colonel Brownlow, in maklnr a statement of a con very ilion he had with George W. Childs in regard to the nomination of General Grant, represented Mr. Childs as saying that another term as. President could add no glory to Grant’s fame, and his Influence tor good, with his countrymen of all parties, would be far greater out of office than in it. As the General’s friend he (Childs) was earnestly opposed to his candidacy, and he was satisfied it was distasteful to the ex-Pres-ident to again be made a candidate for office. Tun United States Attorney General lias given an opinion to the effect that arreara of pensions, under the late law, go to tfiFinmates of the homes for disabled volunteers, and not to the homes, as claimed by the managers. Tub Secretary of War has reviewed the proceedings and findings of the court-martial of January 16,1864, by which Surgeon-General Hammond was dismissed from the service, and recommends that the findings and sentence be annulled and set aside, and that the name of William A. Hammond be placed on the retired list of the army as Surgeon-Gen-eral, without back, present or future pay, or allowance of any kind whatsoever. The recommendation of the Secretary has been approved by the President The Internal Revenue Bureau made announcement on the 29th ult. that the whisky product of the country for the fiscal year ended June*3o,lß79, was 71,892,617 gallons, against 56,108,053 gallons in 1878. According to a Washington dispatch of the 84th ult. the excess of exports over imports during the last fiscal year was *263,572,089. IX xixo the week ending on the 30th ult. 65,895 standard silver dollars were paid out by the Treasury Department in Washington, being ten per cent of the amount of all checks presented at the counter. The greater portion was given tn payment of salaries. Of the amount 723,753 was returned and silver certificates taken therefor. It was announced on the 3Jth ult that President Hayes and family would leave Washington on the Bth for Cincinnati, op their way to their home in Fremont. The President would return early in October. The East.. Ax explosion iu a powder mill near Tamaqua, Fa.. on the 25th, instantly killed James Niefert, the only man about the building at the time, and fatally injured two young girls Who were passing in the vicinity. The building, which was of stone, was completely demolished. Ox the 27th the Republicans of the First District of Oneida County selected Senator Roscoe Conkling as one of the delegates to the New York State Republican Convention. A conference was held in Boston on the 27th between General Butler and his supporters, and it was decided to form a party to be known as the Independent party of Massachusetts, and officers were chosen to manage the new movement. Robert Bonner has purchased Rarus, the celebrated speeder, for about *40,000, and withdrawn him from the race-course. The New York Greenback State Convention was held at Utica on the 28th and29tb 'ult. After some boisterous proceedings a permanent organisation was effected on the second day, by the election of Commodore William Voorhees as Chairman, he receiving ninetysix votes to eighty for Graham and nineteen for George E. Williams. Harris Lewis was nominated for Governor and John Wieling for Lieutenant-Governor, both by aedamation; P. K McCann for Secretary of State; John A. Shannon for Comptroller; Julian Winnie for Treasurer, and George Wright for Attorney-General. The resolutions adopted demand that all National Bankcurrency lie withdrawn, and that all money of whatever kind shall be issued by tbe General Government and be a full legal tender; that no more interest-bearing obligations be issued by the Government; that Postal-Sa vi ngs ban ks be established; that the volume of money to ' be issued, by the Government equal fifty dollars per capita, or sufficient to meet all the requirements of trade; that public lauds shall be held for actual settlers; etc., etc. The coinage at the mint in Philadelphia during August aggregated 1,894,220 pieces, valued at »2 223,497. Of this amount *1,876,055 was silver. A bronze statte of General Custer was unveiled at West Point, N. Y., on the3oth ult, with Impressive ceremonies, in the presence of a large concourse of people. Mbs. Kate Chase Spragle effected her escape from the home of her husband, at Canonchet, R. L, with her three daughters, on the evening of the 3)th ult The immediate provocation for her flight was, it is stated, an ebullition of passion on the part of Governor Sprague, during which he attempted to throw her from a second-story window. The following were the closing quotations for produce In New York, bn August 30th: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat No. 2 Milwaukee. f1.03ai.03X- Oats, Western Mixed, 27X031C. Corn, Western Mixed. 42X0i6c. Pork, Mess, *8.60 a 8.65. Lard, *5.82X05.85. Flour, Good to Choice, (4.5006.25; White Wheat Extra. *4.7505.25. Cattie, *6.75010.00 for Common to Extra. Sbeep, U.K 05.3). Hogs, *[email protected]. AT East Liberty, Pa., on August 30 th, Cattle brought: Best *[email protected]; Fair to Good, *[email protected]; Common, *3.0903.30. Hogs sold —Yorkers, *3.5503.65; Philadelphia, *3.7576 3.85. Sheep brought *3.00®L50-according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on August 30th. Cattle brought: Best *5,0005.25; Medium, •8.250L87X. Hogs sold at *4.75(05.50 for Good. Sheep were quoted at *3.0004.50 for Good. West and South. Secretary Schurz and party, ai route on a visit to the Indian Agencies, arrived at Yankton, D. T., on the 25th. News of Indian outrages perpetrated by a band of Sioux one hundred and fifty miles above that place was received at Tankton on the same day. A Bax Francisco telegram of the 25th report a decided change, for the better in Kalloch’s condition, and his physicians were of the opinion that there was a strong probability of bis recovery from the wounds inflicted vby De Young. The latter had been before the Police Court, and. waving examination, wia held without bail to answer the charge of •asault wltb murderous Intent Theexcite-ment-in the city had greatly subsided, and everything was comparatively quiet The Democrats of Louisiana will bold their State Cosventlon at Baton Rouge on the first Monday Ot October. The Republican Con*tNew Orleans on the 20tb on the afternoon of the Wfi»Ml*pqetahly appearing man entered the

Capital City Bank, at Columbus, Ohio, and talked with tbe President about the purchase of certain bonds. The cut rance ot a stranger diatiacted the attention of the bank officer for a moment, and after further conversation both left. The Pcesldeni, on looking into lbe vault at this moment, discovered that the ‘banWiad been robbed of *4,880 in currency, **?00B In Columbus City bonds and *II,OOO tn four per cent United States bonds. The bank offers a reward of *2.000 for the arrest and conviction of the thieves. • Mm. Chisholm and General Woodford, her counsel, arrived at Cincinnati on the 28th, and left the next day for Mlsslestppl to attend the trial of the parties accused of the murder of Judge Chisholm tn Kemper County. The Chicago t'ommerrial llullstin ot August 28 publishes advices from three hundred and eight counties in the Northwest regarding apring wheat, _ The increase in acreage is 12.26 per cent.; average yield per acre, 12.92 bushels, against If?4J bushels last year. ‘The aggregate yield Is placed at 137,849,616 bushels, against 108,744,374 bushels In 1878. The quality is generally reported as being better than last year. lx Chicago, pn Au rust 30th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at Sfl.TiSO'Kc cash; 86086Xc for September; 86S,0b6Xc for October., Cash Corn closed at 82 J \,'o32Xc for No. 2; 32X@52Xc for September; 33X 033%e for October. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 21X@2IXc; 21X@21%c seller September,22X®>-'2X C forOc'.ober. Rye No. 2, 48Xc. Barley No. 3,40041 c. Cash Mess Pork closed at *7.9508.00. Lard, cash, *5.47X05.50. Beeves—Extra brought *4.900 5.35; Choice, *4.5004 75; Good, *4IOO 4.35; Medium Grades, *8.2503 90; Butchers’ Stock, *2.500X00. Stock Cattle, etc., *2.30 03.00. Hogs—Good to Choice, *3.1503.75. Sheep—Poor to Choice, 2.5004.25.

The Yellow Fever. Tiirhe were thirty-four new cases (twenty of them whites) and eight deaths (seven whites) reported in Memphis on the 25th. A dozen of the cases were in Chelsea and North The Teutonic, Relief Association, represelillng the German Societies of the city, have appealed to their countrymen throughout the United States for help. All remittances should be sent to A. Goldschmitt, President, or John P. Eicliberg, Secretary. Mux. Hood, wife of General J. B. Hood, died in New Orleans on the Ssth, one account giving it as acastfof yellow fever, the character of the disease being developed only a short time before her death. The Mayor and President of the CountyBoard of Health denied on the 25th thatthere was any yellow fever at Starkville, Miss.' Pensacola, Fla., quarantined against freight and passengers from New Orleans on the 25th. There were twenty-nine new cases (thirteen colored) reported to the Memphis Board of Health on the Stith. The deaths numbered seven (one colored). A St. Loris dispatch says two mild cases of yellow fever were sent to the quarantine hospital of that city on the 26th—one of them being from Memphis, and the Other a steward of a river steamer. . ‘ An no r n< ■ eme n t has been made by- the Spanish Government that all vessels hereafter arriving at ports of that country from the Southern States of North America must undergo quarantine. There were twenty-two new cases (twelve colored) reported in Memphis on the 27tb. The deaths numbered seven, four being whites. It was stated at Nashville that the Governor was about issuing a proclamation urging the people of the State to contribute aid to suffering Memphis. * There were only five new cases reported in Memphis on the 28th. The deaths numbered ten, three of them being colored. A case of yellow fever was reported at Bartlett, Tenn., on the 28th, the sick person being a negro whose infection could be traced to Memphis. Or six cases of yellow fever on board a bark from Havana at the New Orleans quarantine station three died on the 28th. A young lady in the city was reported sick with the fever. She was attacked by the disease on the 25th. Iler little brother died of yellow fever on the 31st of July. Twenty-two new cases (sixteen colored) and eleven deaths were reported in Memphis on the 29th ult., showing that the fever in that city was again on the increase.

The number of new cases reported in Memphis on the both ult, was twentyone of them being whites; deaths, ten. Tbe number of frew cases during the week was 171—eighty-seven whites and eighty-four colored. Total cases to date, 84§. Deaths during the week, fifty-one; total to date, 228. Twenty new cases (thirteen colored) were reported on the 31st ult.; deaths, five. On the 30<h the Howard Association reported 208 nurses on duty in 193 families-182 white and sixty-one colored. It was stated on the 31st ult. that a man named Julian Bedford was down., with the fever at Bailey Station, Tenn. His son died of the disease about two weeks before. One new case was reported in New Orleans on the 31st ult. General J. B. Hood, the noted Confederate General, died on the morning of the 30th, and his daughter Lydia otf .the night following. Another child of th* family was very sick. Qi arantine regulations having been instituted by Houston, Tex., against, the city ot Galveston, the Governor of the State issued a proclamation on the 29th ult. ordering the restriction removed, and on the 30th a train left the latter city for the purpose of testing whether the former place would insist on enforcing the quarantine: On board the train were a United States and several deputies and other officials. The train was stopped at the county line by the Houston Health Ofliger, who wks promptly arrested, as was also the Health Officer at Websterville. Both were released on bonds. When the train arrived at the city limits of Houston ifavas halted by the whole police force of the city. The United States Marsha), having deputized about one hundred persons on the train, arrested the •police. On entering the city the ' United States officers were themselves arrested by the city authorities anti taken before the Bunds of fifty dollars each were demanded f< r their appearance in court on the morning of tbe Ist, which the prisoners refused to give. Lnited States District Attorney Homan, who wts of the party, said, they had acted under authority of the United States Government and by order of Governor Roberts, of Texas, He showed dispatches from the Governor to the conductor of the train, telling him to take the train through at all hazards.

Foreign Intelligence. According to Vienna dispatches of the 25th the relations between Russia, and Austria were becoming less cordial every day. Friendly intercourse between the Russian Ambassador and the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs had entirely ceased. Intelligence from Cabul on the 25th was to the effect that the cholera was rapidly spreading. The number of deaths in the British regiments lately returned from Herat already numbered 365. The American sailors at the port of pool have petitioned the Consul General to appoint an American shipping master at that port. They declare that they are swindled on every hand, and subjected to exorbitant charges. A Constantinople telegram of the 25th says decided symptoms of revolt had appeared in Armenia. At the request of the British Minister the Governor of Erzeronm had been removed. Mb. Scott, a well-known British agricultural authority, has written a letter to the London Timet, in which be declares that the loss to the British farmers this year on whea will reach *125,060,000, and that an importation of 17,000,000 quarters will lie necessary. He estimates the loss on potatoes at *75,000,-

COO, and that on peaae, beans and rye |t *25,000,000. There l< already almoat a famine among the tenant farntara in the west of Ireland. The arrival In England of Lord Chelmsford, late Commander of tile British forees In South Africa, was announced oh the 26th. lie received quite an ovation when he reached Plymouth. At a meeting of the workingmen and artisans of Sheffield, Eng., held on the evening of the 26tb, reaolutioni were adopted favoring wholesale emigration to tbe United States. Thomas Tandy, a large landed proprietor of Athboy, County Meath, Ireland, was shot dead on the 26th, just at the door of his own residence,. Accordixo to Berlin telegrams ot the 27th a treaty had Just |wen negotiated between and Germany, which secures to the people*of the latter power the right to observe all religious ceremonies and also free access to the interior of Japan. On ttje morning of the 27th Sir Rowland Hill, the author of the British Penny-Postage system, d.ed at his residence near London. He was eighty-four years old. A Rome (Italy) dispatch of the 27th says that when the last encyclical was published giving to tbe Jesuits the alternative of revolt or submission, the Chief of the order tent to the Pope a memorial In which he announced his willingness to make entire submission to Jlis Holiness. • Tub Japan mall steamer reached San Francisco on thC 27th, and reports the cholera ns very virulent In that Empire. Up to the date of sailing there had .been 45,000 cases and 25,000 deaths. General Grant would leeve for home on tbe next steamer. On the 28th sixty Yorkshire (England) farmers sailed from Liverpool for New York. It was stated that tlwy would locate in Texas. The Forte Informed the Ambassadors of foreign powers on the 2X;h that it accepted the frontier between Greece and Turkey Indicated In tbe protocals of the Berlin Congress. Two hi ndred and FORTY Influential Roumclian Turks have been arrested in the Rhodope Mountains, charged with entering into a conspiracy to attack the city of Philippopolis. A Liverpool (Btigland) dispatch of the 29th ult. announces the failure of W, 8. 8. Caine, Iron merchants, for *750,000. The failure was caused by losses in the American trade. According to the official report of the late Irkutsk lire, over 1,200 houses were burned, and sixty persons lost their Jives. A letter from Tangier, Morocco, pul>lithcd on the 29th ult., says the brother of the Emperor had been killed by poison. The Berlin Government has offered to pay £75,000,000 for the franchises and property of the various Prussian railways. The Portuguese Consul at Pernambuco was recently murdered. The Austrian Commission to arrange for the occupation Of Novi Bazar crossed the frontier on the 30th ult. Di ring a recent journey in Switzerland, from Marligny to' Chamounix, the carriage was overturned and Mrs. Wright, of New York, was throw n into a dee p gorge Mid ins tan tly killed. The London Standardot the 31st ult. says the Vatican had been warned from Germany that Prince Bismarck had no serious intention to concede any of the Remands of the Church, and that his movements in that direction were prompted by a desire to gain some advantage over his political opponents. Two Socialists were hun< at Nikolaicff on the 30th ult. The foreign Ministers have made collective representations to the Turkish Government respecting the recent numerous robb ries and murders in Constantinople, and the generally bad police system In vogue. They declare that they will hold the Porte reponsible for all outrages upon the persons and property of foreigners.

THE SAN FRANCISCO SHOOTING AFFAIR.

Great Excitement Over tbe Shooting of the Workingmen’* Candidate for Mayor by a •* Chronicle ” Editor— The Cauaea which Led to the A*> •atilt. The bitter political and personal warfare being waged over the local canvass in San Francisco culminated on the 23d in the attempted killing of the Workingmen’s candidate for Mayor Rev. I. S. Kalloch —by Charles De Young, one of the proprietors and editors of the Chronicle of that city. One account of the affair is as follows, given in a dispatch from San Francisco: About one o’clock Charles De Young drove to Metropolitan Temple in a coupe. At the time Kalloch was about stepping into carriage with Carl Browne, De Young sent an American District messenger boy to him to say a gentleman wished to speak with him. As Kalloch approached the coupe De Young tired, hitting him in the breast just above the heart. Kalloch staggered and turned to escape. De Young tired again, hitting him in the hip or thigh. It would appear that trouble had been anticipated, as quite a number of w orkingmen were in the vicinity of the temple. They at once made a rush for the coupe, seized the horses’, heads and attempted to get De Young out. He kept them at bay for a moment with bis pistol. Meantime an ollleer arrived oil the scene. The crowd seized the coupe and overturned it. As it went over De Young got out. He and the officer were at once attacked, the officer knocked down and trampled, on, and De Young beaten about the head and face, though not very seriously. The officer, De Young and the driver of the coupe struggled through the crowd amid cries of “ Hang him I” “ Kill him 1” At the corner of Fifth and Market streets two more officers made their appearance, and, with their assistance, De Young was taken to the Baldwin Hotel, and, escaping by an entrance, got into a carriage and drove rapidly to the nolice station, the Crowd following. De Young was at once taken to one of the tank cells, while the crowd, numbering thousands, surrounded the prison and evinced a desire to make an attack. Meanwhile the police rapidly assembled. Ropes were stretched across the streets lead ing to the prison, and every preparation made to resist an attack. The Chief of Police at once called General McComb in consultation, and Attorney General Hamilton, who was present, telegraphed to Governor Irwin for orders. No answer has yet been received, as tbe Governor’s exact whereabouts are not knbwn. General McCJomb at once assumed responsibility, and ordered th? military to assemble at their armories, where they are now awaiting orders. News of the tragedy spread like wildfire through the city, and the streets were soon crowded with excited Strong guards were placed over thio Chronicle business and printing offices tcWprevent their being sacked. M. H. De Young, who was at the Chronicle office at the time of the shooting, at once sought the City Prison, where he is now in company with Charles. For some time it was uncertain what had been done with the brothers, many believingthey had been removed to Fort Alcatraz for greater safety, but they are still at the prison, and, at the request of a committee of workingmen, beaded by ClituS Barbour, their candidate for Congress, they were allowed to select twelve men, who were sworn in as special officers to stay about the prison, and see that the De Youngs were not taken away. Tbe circumstances leading to the shooting of Kalloch by Charles De Young are as follows: After Kalloch was nominated by the workingmen for Mayor, Charles De Young, in a speech at tbe State Convention of ‘‘Honorable Bilks, announced that he would compel Kallocb’s withdrawal from the contest; that unless he withdrew he would rake up his record in the coltimus of the Chroiude. j Kalloch sent back word for him to go ahead, that be could tell worse things'about the De Youngs than they could bring ajratast him. Wednesday last the Chronicle came out with a long article reviewing Kallocb’s career in Boston and Kansas, dwelling particularly on his reported immoralities, and also ventilating his political and business record. Thursday and Friday the Chronicle contained similar and more elaborate articles, and dragged in Kalloch*s father, now dead, recounting sundry immoralities on his part. Kalloch had advertised a mass meeting at Metropolitan Temple last night, at which ft iyas given ottt he would read an article put-

If'hed * ome five year* ago by B. F. Naphtalv, in a I Ulv | apur called the Sun. Tilts article wa- an attack upon the peraonal and family n-.iohlof the DeYoungs of the most pronoutictd character, and led to an attempt on their part to kill Naphtaly, which failed. Tbe De Youngs S'.ut Kalloch word that if ke read that article they would shoot him on sight. Last night an imuionao audience gathered st Metroi olltan Temple, and the street outside was i ft, ‘ke<l with a crowd numlierlng thousands. Kalloch addressed the Indoor meeting, scoring the De Youngs mercilessly and reflecting on their personal record and family antecedents In the most direct manner. After adjourning the meeting In tiie hall ha went- outside, mounted a stand and spoke briefly. After reviewing the attacks ot the Chronult upon himself,,he said: “In maligning the reputation of mv father, who has filled an honorable grave for many years, these Journalistic vipers have rendered the most vicious retaliation on my part necessary and Justifiable. These diegraceful records make such an attack possible.” Ke then applied the most stinging epithet to tbe De Youncs, reflecting seriously upon the character of their mother. He said he bad the Sun article in his pocket; (cries of “Read it, read it!"|; but he did not wish to expend sll his'ammunition at once. It would be published Immediately In full in the Workingmen’s paper, the opm and next Tuesday evening he would take it up and comment upon it. Charles De Young evidently considered the proceedings of the evening equal provocation to the actual reading of the article, and acted accordingly.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —Never do anything to distract the attention of a man who is managing a garden hose.— Boston Post. —A man seeing the sign, “Hands off,” innocently asked if they had gone on a picnic.— N. Y. Herald. —We like a man with lots of temper. It is the man who gets out of temper that we don’t like. Boston Post. ' f —Everything at Niagara Falls has been fenced in, with the exception of the roar of the falls and the hackmen. —You often hear of “ kissing a girl for her mother,” but you never hear of “ kissing the mother lor her daughter.” —When a young man goes riding on a crowded train of cars he should take his good manners with him.— Picayune. —Every person has two educations—one which he receives from others and one, more important, which he gives himself. —The greatest evils in life have had their rise from something which was thought of too little importance to Jbe* attended to. —Now we’ve got a good one. Kerosene oil will fuddle as whisky. Anyhow, it makes a locomotive’s head light.— Santa Fe Sentinel. —The Pittsburg Commercial strangely asserts that “ jt is a mistake to suppose that it is good policy for any community to crush a vigorous man.” —ls you would do as you would like to be done by, never ask a man twice for borrowed money. Set it down to profit and loss and profit by the loss.— N. O. Picayune. —Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slo v and tedious, while that of examples is summary and effectual. —N. Y. Herald. —The papers have much to say about intelligent cuts. The only intelligent cat is me one that knows enough to go to sleep at night, and that cat has been dead these ten years.— BuJJ'alo Express. —“ How are you off for funds today?” asked a collector of an impecunious though classical debtor. “lam semper ute/n—always the same, emphatically ‘without change!’ ”>—Baltimore Every Saturday. —Another did n’ t-know-it-was-loaded pistol went off the other day at St. Paul. This is worthy of notice, because the pistol was the only one of the kind on record which didn’t kill somebody.— Louisville Courier-Journal. —“ Contentment is better than riches,” and yet there are a number of people who would like to be discontented for a day or two just for the sake of beingifich. if that is what the proverb slinger means by his assertion.— Picayune. —The small boy mourneth as the holiday season draweth nigh its termination. But there is one consolation for him. He should paste in his hat the item that a schoolmaster in San Francisco dropped dead while punishing a pupil, it is an exceeding dark cloud that has no silver lining.— Detroit Free Press. —*• lhe greatest bird tn foight,” says Pat “ Barring the agle, is the duck. He has a foin large bill to peck. Ar J plenty of real Irish pluck.

‘ And, thin, do ye mind the fut he has? Full as broad over as a cup; Show me tbe fowl np.>u two legs That s able fcr to thrip him up!” —A little four-year-old girl, goin» to church with her mother for the first time the other Sunday 7, sav the lonerhandled contribution boxes passed. With great wonder in her face, and to the great amusement of all about her, 1 she broke out in jthe loudly-whispered exclamation, Mamma, mamma, what makes them pass those corn-pop-pers round for?” —Small girl, very harshly, to a doll in a toy carriage, dolly having tumbled from the seat: “ Sit right up, you horrid old thing. Don’t you dare to do that again, or I’ll whip you.” Seeing a passer, who had approached unobserved, she modified her voice and continued in dulcet tones: “Now, sit up straight, darling, and be careful not to fall and hurt yourself.” —This is the way swindling horsejockeys operate in Philadelphia: They have a stable ostensibly for the purchase and sale of horses. When a countryman enters to look at the stock a practically valueless horse is ottered to him for $l5O. A bystahder offers S2OO, but the dealer angrily says that he will not sell to this man at any price, having had a previous quarrel with him. The bystander draws the countryman aside, and says: “Buy the horse for $l5O, and I’ll take him off your hands at $200.” This seems to otter a chance to make ss€ without a risk, but the victim, after paying $l5O for the beast, does not see any more of the promised purchaser with the S2OO. t . —The Rev. Daniel Isaac wa£ an eccentric itinerant preacher. He once alighted at an inn to stay all night. On asking for a bed he was told he could not have one, as there was to be a ball that night and all of the beds were engaged. “At what time does the ball break up?” inquired Mr. Isaac. “ About three in the morning, sir.” “ Well, then, can I have a bed untl that time?” •tYes, certainly; but if th* 1 bed is asked for you will have to move.” “ Very well,” replied Mr. Isaac. 'About three in the morning he was awakened by a loud knocking at the chamber door. “W'hat do you want?” he asked. “ How many of you are there?” inquired a voice. “ There’s me and Daniel and Mr. Isaac and an old Methodist preacher,” was the reply. “Then, by Jupiter, there’s plenty of you!” and the applicant passed on, leaving Mr. Isaac to finish his night’s slumber.The oysters are coming back, after having been away.for a spell.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIBENTS.

—James Uy an, of St. Lawrence County, N. Y., was awakened a few nights ago by the cries of his little girl, aged six, who slept near him. He wept to her and fonnd her face, lips and tongue so swollen that she could not speak, and she was in terrible agony. Calling his wire, they made an examination, and discovered a large thousand-legged worm lying along between the lower lip and the gum, having probably crawled in as the child slept with open mouth. A dbctot was called, but spasms soon set in so violently that for several hours it wasi thought she would die; but the doctor remained by her through the night, and the next day she was thought to be out of danger, though her face was still hideously swollen.

—Two years ago the son of a wellknown American in Bridgeport married secretly, at the age of eighteen; an Irish girl of about the same age. To please her husband the wife renounced the Roman Catholic faith and "became a Protestant. Immediately after the marriage she went to Brooklyn, while the young man remained at home, where he has continued to live ever since, his parents, meanwhile, being entirely ignorant that he had been married. A few days ago the wife died and the body was sent irom Brooklyn to the parents of her husband. The arrival of the body required an explanation on the part' of the husband, and this explanation was the first knowledge the parents had of the marriage.— Hartford (Conn.) Courant. —A boy in the service of Thomqg Fawcett, of Gate, England, lately accompanied his master in shooting all day upon the moors, and on returning in the evening his master told him to make the best of his way home. The boy proceeded on foot, but being much fatigued, sat down and fell asleep. How long he remained in that situation was uncertain, as, when found, he was in his own bed asleep, and a neighbor passing on the roads, early next morning, found his clothes scattered in various directions, nearly half a mile off. The account he gave was that he dreamed he had been at a neighbor’s house, ate a good supper, after which he supposed he went to bed there. It appears be actually walked three miles, though in a profound sleep the whole of the time, during which he stripped qff his clothes and walked home naked, passed the gate and went up-stairs to bed, being the whole of the time asleep. —A wonderful amount of nerve has been displayed by a little twelve-year-old girl residing near the. corner of Wabash avenue and Twenty-third street. Last Wednesday she and another little girl of the same age, while playing in the barn, discovered an old-fashioned hay-cutter. With childish curiosity they “ wanted to see the wheels go round.” One began to work the crank and the other to feed the machine with hay. But, unfortunately, the little fingers followed the hay in too far, and two of the middle digits were chopped off. The injured child, with remarkable courage and presence of mind, quickly wrapped her injured hand in a handkerchief, and, giving no alarm, started for the doctor’s. She found Dr. Hall at his office in Twenty-third street, and was at once cared for. The two missing fingers were found in the hay and replaced with the hope they would grow together again. Throughout the ordeal the little one heroically bore all, refusing to take chloroform. Her mother is East, and will not know of her daughter’s pluck till she returns. — Chicago Inter-Ocean. —Much excitement has been created at Scottville, Va., by the discovery of a poisoning plot which has turned out exactly the way the would-be poisoner did not want it to end. The facts in the case are these: A young farmer had been separated from his wife for some time. He visited her recently, and while he was there his mother-in-law persuaded her daughter to get him out of the way by poisoning him, and gave her a dose to give him in his coffee the first favorable opportunity. The daughter placed a cup of coffee on the table and invited him to drink it. He thanked her and went to the table to do so. She left the room. He took a spoonful, and, not liking the tastq, he took the coffee-pot, which was at the fireplace, poured some coffee in a small bucket which he had with him and then emptied the contents of the proffered cup into the coffee-pot. He then left. His wife’s mother then stepped in and asked her daughter for something to eat. She was told that the coffee was in the pot at the fire. She drank freely of it, was taken sick and died. Her son-in-law has been exonerated from all blame in the matter.

Locks of Hair from the Heads of the Presidents.

In the Patent-Office at Washington there are many objects of interest connected with the Government and those who administered its affairs in times gone by. While examining those objects of curiosity nothing struck us so forcibly as the samples of small locks of hair taken from the heads of different Chief Magistrates, from Washington down to President Pierce, secured in a frame covered with glass. Here, is, in fact, a part and parcel of what constituted the living bodies of those illustrious individuals whose names are as familiar as household words, but who now live only in history and the remembrance of the past. The hair of Washington is nearly a pure white, fine and smooth in its appearance. ’ That of John Adams is nearly the same in color, though perhaps a little coarser. The hair of Jefferson is of a different character, being a mixture of'white and auburn, or a sandy brown, and rather coarse. In his youth Mr. Jefferson’s hair was remarkable for its bright color. The hair of Madison is coarse and of a mixed white and dark. The hair of Monroe is of a handsome dark auburn, smooth, and free from any mixture. He is the only ex-Presi-dent, excepting Pierce, whose hair has undergone no change in color. - ? The hair of John, Quincy Adams is somewhat peculiar, being coarse and of a yellowish grav in color. The hair of General Jackson is almost perfectly white, but coarse in its character, as might be supposed by those who have examined the portraits of the old hero. < v The hair of Van Buren is white and smooth in appearance. - . The hair of (reneral Harrison is a fine white ’with, a slight mixture of black. • ■ ' The hair of John Tyler is a mixture* of white and brown. The hair of James K. Polk is almost a pure white. / 1 .. “ \

The hair of General Taylor la white, with a slight mixture of brown. The halrbf Millard Fillmore .is, on the other band, brown with a slight mixture of white. The hair of Franklin Pier*ce is a dark brown, of which he had a plentiful crop. It is somewhat remarkable, that since Pierce’s time no one has thought of preserving the hair of his successors. There are vacancies in the case; but there .is no hair either of Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson or Grant fqr the inspection of futurity.— N. Y. 'telegram.

Shall the Nation Surrender?

It would seem that if the slumbering sense of National honor and justice was ever to be awakened in the people of this Nation it would have rcsponoedto the ghastly roster of political assassinations in the South long ago. It seemed as though the horrible Chisholm massacre would certainly bring forth good results in the direction of a remedy for this plague to our body politic. But another coid-blooded butchery from the same State again starts ’the National pulse to throbbing, and the strong feeding manifested, not only in the press but among the people, gives grounds for the hope that a vigorous discussion of this question will ensue and result in some relief. We believe that the Na 4 tional Government has the power under this Constitution to grapple this evil and choke it off'. It needs a Congress with a strong purpose to uphold the National laws and protect the lives of citizens. It needs an Executive with a dear and strong conviction of his duty and an unfaltering pur- . pose to do it at whatever cost. The time has long since come for a grave and earnest study of the utmost limits of National power and the determination to proceed as far as possible in this matter. It has been asserted,, and proven by history, b£ the Constitution, by the opinions of the men who made the Constitution, and even by the fathers of Democracy, that the United States is a Nation with supreme control over the rights, persons and property of its citizens. This fact alone implies the power to protect such citizens in the lawful exercise of such rights,-#Nay, more; Jt, carries with it the duty to guarantee such protection. This protection Is also guaranteed in Article 4, Section 4, of the Constitution, which says: “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government.” This promise it has not fulfilled to the people of at least six of the Southern States. The Governments,of North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Louisiana are oligarchies of the most despotic and cruel types ever known. There is nothing but the hollow pretense of a republican government in those States. There has not been an honest expression of the public opinion in those States for years, and in those years the Government has been derelict in its duty in not trying more vigorously to fulfill its obligations to its citizens. The election of a State Legislature has a National significance and is in one sense a National election. When a State elects a State Legislature it elects a United States Senator. This was demonstrated in this State last year, when the canvass was largely made’ for Mr. Voorhees for the Senate. This being the case, the National Government is vitally injured by the frauds in the election of State Legislatures, aud has the right to take measures for its own protection. These powers are implied in the section of the Constitution quoted, and are necessary to the maintenance of a republican form of government. The time has come for the loyal people of this Nation to consider how far a State may go in violation of the natural rights of citizens without hindrance. If we, as a Nation, admit that a State Government may rob citizens of their rights, property," lives and liberties, in defiance of the National Constitution, this Government is a foul mockery and a curse. It is to be despised and contemned of men, and the sooner we throw off its control the better. Better a State Government which can protect the rights of citizens when it wants to, and can enforce its laws, than a puerile pretense at authority for which we pay taxes only to be told that it is powerless to protect us. v Such is the position in which the Government stands in relation to the Republican citizens of the Southern States, and it must either do something toward punishing their oppressors and establishing .a republican form of government once more in those States,in accordance with its Constitutional obligations, or be disgraced in the eyes of the world. The National Government cannot goon in this fashion much longer and retain the respect of its citizens. A .government which cannot protect its citizens in its own borders and enforce its own laws is simply an/

expensive nuisance, only to be tolerated when relief is impossible. The time has come for the National Government to assert itself or Better thirty-eight real governments than one sham government. Let us know what we are to expect, and let us be one thing or the other. Are we paying for something we cannot get? If so, it is time to stop it. We believe that Con gress can find the power under the Constitution-to make laws under which authorities can arrest and punish these assassins of the South, \ and compel order in Mississippi. 'ilt mighjt require a considerable stretch of National authority, but the time has come to stretch that power to its utmost limit. The case is now beyond the reach of all ordinary measures, and something extraordinary and vigorous must be done. Whatever Congress does in this direction will be hailed as an effort at protecting American citizenship, and we believe will be supported by as brave and determined a host as "assembled in 1861. Let this matter be forced to an issue, and set tied once and forever, that either the Southern States or the Nation rtiles supreme, and can protect citizens in their lives and .liberties. Of course, no justice can be expected of the present Democratic Congress, which is particeps crirqinis in these Southern murders and political assassinations. Therefore, the first thing for every loyal manto do is to put a ballot in the box in favor of a Congressman with intelligence, courage and loyalty, who will help to make the necessary laws to stop this butchery. Let the North unite to make a Congress with a National spirit. Then let that Congress take such action as will forever insure free and fair elections, free speech, liberty of opifojon, and safety of person and property in every school district in the country.— Indianapolis Journal. 7 ■ "! Some .men, never' see a joke. It caroms on their intellect.— N. Y. Mail,

The Philosophy of the Yazoo Mob.

Then Is no doubt about it—we have got to tight the old battle over again! It is a characteristic of American people that they never make preparations to cross a stream until they arrive on its banks. Confronted with the grim necessity of constructing a bridge, they often have to retrace their steps to procure the requisite timber. While the Northern people have been- struggling to save the remnant of their imperiled fortunes, the Southern people have been strengthening their political position. They have secured control of Congress by violence and fraud; they propose to 'secure the Presidency in 1880 by the same means. The Yazoo mob and the Yazoo assassination are essential features‘of the Democratic conspiracy to usurp all the powers of the General Government. It so happens that the affair of Yazoo is too plain to admit of misconstruction. The mob cannot be successfully charged to unreasoning passion. ‘ The three hundred respectable (?) citizens of Yazoo County constituting the mob were all Democrats. They assembled immediately after a consultation held between Mr. E. Barksdale, Chairman of the State Democratic Committee, editor of the Jackson Clarion, and a prominent candidate for the United States Senate, Congressman Singleton, and the regular Democratic leaders of Yazoo County. The Democratic State ExecuIt tertn an and the Demoessman represented to the leaders of Yazoo County Id never do to allow an party to be formed in Yawst be nipped in the bud; izoo and all Mississippi solid.” - The armed mob, ctcd by the Democratic ity, drew up in front of e. It was as cool as an siege to a weak position, ion directed to kill Dixon, orce his retirement from for the shrievalty. Rather ate Dixon the mob nego- •, and by threatening death I its purpose. The second i tragic. Dixon announces of his candidacy. There y for the raising of a mob. atic State authority had m immunity upon condi--ctireme'nt. The original death held good: it only remained th inflict the punishment. James H. I irksdaley a candidate for Chancery C ark on the regulai - Democratic ticket and a nephew of E.Barksdale, Chairu an of the Democratic State Committee, iras selected as the executioner to infl ct the death penalty upon the contuma ious Dixon, who had the temerity to c I'er himself as a candidate for office ainst the regular Democratic organisation.., t • The assassfti chose a shot-gun as his weapon, lay in wait for his victim like a thug, and slot him in the back. We have been thus particular in recalling each successive step of this appalling tragedy in ordkr to show that the act of shooting was the logical sequence of and flowed directly from the consultation of a month! ago between the elder Barksdale, Congressman Singleton and the.regular Demwraticleaders of Yazoo County. Both th® mob which intimi-. dated and threatened and the assassins who killed were tlife authorized agents of the Democratieyparty council; the council decreed, and( the agents carried the decrees into effect to the bloody letter. And all this dccurred in a free country; in the language of the Fourth of July orator,ln the freest country on the Globe!” Citizens of the North, What are you going tp do about it? Are you going to wait mtieh longer on the banks of the stream staring up and down for a ferryman? On will you build a bridge and move across it? How long will you permit the Democratic par.ty of Mississippi, fielding a§, Jt does all the legitimate powers of the State Government, to resort; to k mob violence and assassination as, 9. means of enforcing despotic partisapdecrees? The Nation guarantees a republican. Government to each of t|ie States. Is that a republican Government which permits a political party to usurp all its powers? Is that a Republican Government which voluntarily surrenders its functions to the rule of mobs and assassins? Is that a Republican Government which, although preserving the form, scorns the sul istance of republicanism, and perpetuates itself by acts bf despotism as pronounced as those of the Czar of Russia? Mississippi is, in fact, without adGovernment. Its pretended Government neither protects innocent citizens in the enjoyment of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, nor punishes the Criminals who defy its .laws. The Democratic party of Mississippi usurped the control of its Government by terrorism, assassination and fradd, and it retains control by refusing to execute the laws of the jState, by conniving at mob violence, and consenting to murder. Eb ng before the breaking out of ' the 'Rebellion of 1861 Mr. Lincoln declared solemnly that the Union could not continue to exist half slave and half free. The event justified Mr. Lincoln’s prescience. It is equally evident now that *t6o"couhlr f cUn" never be at rest, and that the Union can never be regarded as safe from the peril of disruption so long as the political events of a dozen States continue to be the sport of mobs and assassins. It is a political axiom that the oppression of one citizen is a menace to the rights of all citizens. We do not propose to deduce frbm this axiom the conclusion that Southern mob violence is destined to spread all over the! North. But we do insist that, if a stop is not put to the Southern method of carrying elections, an effort will be made to carry elections at the North by similar means. And with the Democratic party in power at Washington, those means will preyail in a dozen cities at least. Citizens of the North, this is the sort of stream we are approaching—-a stream whose op- , posite bank will be lined by Democrats with guns in their bands. Then there will be a fight—a civil war to’ deter-' mine whether suffrage is an inanenab|e right or a mere privilege dependent upon the will of the strongestmnob. If the existing mob-rule at the-Sotroh continues much longer, it must be put down by the Government of the United States, or it will eventuate war! The prospect is very disagreeable, but it noneihe less looms up before us. It may, lifee the cloud, be no bigger than a man’s hand, but, like the cloudy it gathers volumd and strength dally; soon it will assume the importance of a tempest black and portentous, threatening to. overwhelm and desolate the whole land.— Chicago Tribune. —A large amount of the A. & W. Sprague estate, including the mansion near Narrangansett Pier recently brqjjght into Conspicuous ijotice, is adby the United States Marshal to be sold at unction, to satisfy a judgment inr behalf of the National Bank of Commerce, New York. - »