Rensselaer Union, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1879 — Page 4

The Rensselaer Union. RENBBELAEK, s • INDIANA.

General News Summary.

From WMhinfton. Several complaint* hare recently been ! made to the Treasury Department In Waeb-1 ingtou of tbe scarcity of note* of small denominations st tbe West. A telegram of tbe 1 24th says tbe United States Treasurer will furnish new notes of soefa denominations as may be desired in return for bankers’ drafts in New York, and will transmit them as tbe applicants may Indicate, but without risk or expense to tbe Government. A Washington telegram of tbe 27th says information bad been received there of the arrest in New York of a man named George Brown, who was said to be implicated in frauds on the Pension Bureau amounting to thousands of dollars. It was stated that for a number of rears he had had possession of pension certificates upon which he had regularly collected money in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, by procuring persons to (icrsonate the pensioners. The East. At a Convention of Free Thinkers recently held at Chautauqua, N. Y., the platform adopted by the Liberal Leaguers at Cincinnati was unanimously indorsed. •'A State Convention of Prohibitionists was held at Altoona, t*a., on the 23d. George E- Turner, Chairman of the Convention,stated that he had interrogated the Republican, Democratic and Greenback-Labor candidates, but they had so far declined to place themselves on record on the questions addressed to them, hence the Prohibitionists were impelled to take separate political action. Resolutions were then adopted, and William L. Richardson was nominated by acclamation for State Treasurer. Diking the first twelve weeks of the current fiscal year, embracing the period from July 1 to September 20, the imports of specie at New York exceeded the exports by *25,306,314. ... A State Convention of the Prohibition party of Massachusetts was held at Boston on the 24th. Rev. D. C. Eddy was nominated for Governor; T. K. Earl for Lieutenant-Gov-ernor; Charles Almy for Secretary of Btatc; D. N. Skillings for Treasurer; J. H. Ormc for Auditor, and 8. M. Fairfield for AttorneyGeneral. The, usual prohibitory resolutions were adopted, and in addition one invoking the co-operation of women In the work of the P»rty. and favoring the ballot for her sex. A New York dispatch says the Bank of Commerce on the 26th made its last pavment to the Treasury on account of the United States four-per-cent bonds, and the First National Bank made its last payment on the same account on the 27th. The latter was said to be the final settlement of all transactions lu l njtcd States four-per-eenta on domestic accounts. The New York grain dealers on the 27th adopted a resolution changing the time of buying and selling graiu by the cental from October 1 to January 1. -a The so-called great international pedestrian contest for the Astleybelt ended on the night of the 27tb. Tbe official score of the nine contestants who remained on the track to the close of the walk is as follows: Rowell, 538 miles; Merritt, 515; Hazael, Hart, 482*{; Guy on, 471; Weston, 455; Ennis, 450}*; Krofane, 450Jtf; Taylor, 250)*. Tde Providence (R. I.) Club, haring won fifty-three games up to the 27th, have secured the base-ball championship for the ensuing year. Boston was second; Chicago, third; Buffalo, fourth; Cincinnati, fifth; Cleveland, sixth; Troy, seveuth; Syracuse, eighth. The following were the closing quoUtlons for produce in New York, on September 27th: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, *1.1901.20; No. 2 Milwaukee, *1.1901.20. Oats, Western Mixed, 36)*@5B}*c. Com, Western Mixed, s*tfs3j)*c. Pork, Mess, *9.20(90.25. Lard, . *»»- 45(016.47}*. Flour, Good to Choice, *5.35 (''»?.■:»; White Wheat Extra, *5.10(95.50. (. attie, *6.75(910.00 for Common to Extra. Sheep, *3.50(95.10. Hogs, *3.75(94.10. At East Liberty, Pa., on September 27th, Cattle brought: Best, *5.00(96.25; Fair to Good, *4.25(94.75; Common, *3.00(93.30. Hogs sold—Yorkers, *3.80(93.90; Philadelphias, *4.00(94.05. Sheep brought *3.00(94.25 —according to quality. At Baltimore, MtL, on September 27th, Cat- ■ Bcßt> S - Medium, *fr Ho K» *° ld *4.50(95.50 for Good. Sheep were quoted at *3.00(94.25 for Good. %

West <qul Sontli. The boiler of the steam tug Charles W. Parker exploded in the lake near Chicago on the morning of the 22d. Robert Leary (Cantain), William Burton (steward), John Callaghan (engineer) and John P. Rogers (fireman) were blown into the lake and killed. The only other person on board the boat at the time of the accident was Henry McGuire (deck-hand), who was blown a distance of half a block and was picked up by another tug in a terribly mangled condition, but it was thought he might possibly survive the Injuries he received. Cou.kei. emigrants of all ages to the numvr,of,*bo! t one hundred and fifty, from mlh h t i arrlTcd ,n 8t on the Hght of the U3d, on their way to Kansas. Tlu-y claimed to be bona fide emigrants, able to pay their way aud to take up land when they should reaeh their destination u A r, L 7 1 r ,II , C ’ Ky ’* tcw ago, Gus liurkle died, after great suffering, from eatTwn J" ~,ißUke for mushrooms. Two or his brothers were lying in acriUeal condition from the same cause Tun Colorado State Democratic Convention met on the 23d and nominated George Q. Richmond for Supreme Judge. A platform was adopted denouncing Hayes’ vetoes; condemning the purpose of the Republicans to nominate General Grant for the Presidency: denouncing the crime by which the country was cheated out of its President and ViJPresident: declaring the demonetization of rilrer , breach of tnwt; favori the unlimited coinage of silver; etc-, etc. * The Presidential party attended the State Rcosho, Kansas, on the 25th. A large Tnd (Vn ™ in atte l d The President Sbc ™“ '“*■ brt »«r St,lc s “ ITr *e' i«ort.tlon i f lowa met in annual Convention at Des Jloines on the 25th. Mrs. M. C. Callanan, of l>cs Moines, was chosen President of the f ( rj nUon - Report * °* the different socier* rCad ’ and were generally of a favorable character. The resolutions adopted declare against taxation and laws without rerro««UU„n: and property wherein the hut band in the event of the wife’s death, has l c disposal of all the.property, whereas the wife has only a portion; in favor of petitioning the coming Legislature for the ballot; in

the 25th the Minnesota State Democrat“l 8t - P ‘ ul "<* nominated Edward Rice for Governor; E. P. Bamum for F - A - Borer f ° r ® ecre_ A ‘ tor Treasurer; P. ;. l ß * bc^ ck -Attorney-General; William CohnUe for Railroad Commissioner. The piatfonm favors cold and silver, and paper redeemable m gold and silver; the unlimited coinagh of silver and its monetization free ;.™'* P *“« >•*•“ *-nl c ~ form in Clvi]-Service; the abolition of all sumptuary laws; free ballots and honest eoonts; etc., etc.

Tn entire bofiatM portico of Carroll, lowa, waa destroyed by fire on the morning o i the 25th—over thirty business bouses, six lawyers' and doctors’ oAeea, a church, tank, hotel, livery stable, fifteen shops and dwelling houses, four saloons and other buildings being bonked. Loss estimated at *BOO,OOO. Gnnu Grant was at Oakland, CaL, on the 25th, where a hearty and enthusiastic greeting was extended to him by the dty authorities and dtiaens generally. In the afternoon the ex-President and party attended a camp-fire of the Federal and Confederate soldiers of Alameda County. Tables were spread covered with tin plates, cops, knives and forks, and supplied with hard-tack, pork and beans, coffee and tobacco. When General Grant had been introduced to the surrounding throng he addressed them as follows: Gentlemen of the Two Armies and Navies: I am very proud of the welcome you have given me to-day. lam particularly nappy to see good-will and cordiality existing between the soldiers of the two armies, and I have an abiding faith that this good feeling will always exist. Thus united, we have nothing to fear from any Nation in the world. lam satisfied, from my travels tn foreign lands, that no country will wish to meet us as a united people. Thor will be perfectly willing to do us justice without an appeal to arms, and as that is all that Americans want, I am confident that our country has a long career of peace and prosperity before her. Mr. awn Mbs. Frzdrrick Long, living about thirteen miles northeast of Grand Rapids, Mich., put their three children to bed early on the evening of the 24th and went to a prayer-meeting. Soon after they left a neighbor discovered the house to be on fire, and tbe neighbors around soor. arrived on the scene. One of them broke tn the front door, but wss unable to enter the building because of tbe Intense heat. He succeeded, however, in getting out one of the children, but the other two—little boys seven and two years old, respectively—perished in the fire.

Dennis Keabnet called at the Palace Hotel lu San Francisco on the 25th and sent up his card to General Grant, but the latter declined to receive him. General Grant and wife, accompanied by the Mayor of San Francisco and other city officials, and several eminent gentlemen and ladies, made a visit to San Jose on the 26th, where they were met and heartily welcomed by the Mayor and City Council of San Jose and a vast throng of people. The City of Deadwood, D T., was almost entirely destroyed by fire on the 36th. About one hundred and twenty-five business buildings and a large number of residences were consumed, and two thousand people were rendered homeless. The loss was estimated at from *1,500,000 to *2,000,000. The work of rebuilding would begin at once, and buildings of a more substantial character than those destroyed would be erected. On tbe 27th a large bowlder of white quartz rock from near the Wilderness, In Virginia, was placed to mark the spot where Stonewall Jackson received his death wound. A simple inscription will be put on the stone. j Pkesioent Hates was tendered a reception at the Capitol building in Topeka, Kan., on the 27th, by the Governor and State officers. A large number of ladles and gentlemen were presented to the President and General Sherman, after which short speeches were made by the two distinguished guests. Wentworth Rawlins, a young New Yorker, left New York City in July last on a pleasure trip to the West on a bicycle. He arrived at Chicago on fte 27th of September, haring made the entire distance on the two-wheeled velocipede. He was received and banqueted by the Chicago Bicyele Club. In Chicago, September 27th, Spring Wheat, No. 2,closed at *[email protected])* cash; *1.05X<3 1.05J* for October; tl.oß@loß}* for November. Cash Corn closed at 37(g37)*c for No. 2; 37@37)*c for October; 36)0987 for November. Cash Oats, No. 2, sold at 25%@ 25}*c; 26}*@26}*c seller October; 27)*@27)*c for November. Rye, No. 2,60 c. Barley, No. 2,79080 c. Cash Mess Pork closed at *9.70 @9.75. Lard, cash, *6.12)406.15. Beeves —Extra brought *4.9005.25; Choice, *4.45 @4.75; Good, *[email protected]; Medium Grades, *3.0003.75; Butchers’ Stock, *2.4002.75. Stock Cattle, etc., *2.2502.90. Hogs—Good to Choice, *3.0003.50. Sheep—Boor to Choice, *2.5004.50.

The Yellow Fever. TJhere were sixteen new cases and six deaths reported in Memphis on the 22d. At a meeting of merchants and citizens held at the Cotton Exchange a series of resolutions was adopted protesting against the strict quarantine regulations of the National and State Boards of Health, causing an almost entire suspension of business, and especially urging the State Board to repeal order Number 6 forbidding seed cotton being brought to the city for sale and to be ginned, and declaring that past experience had unmistakably shown that no contagion had ever been carried through the medium of seed cotton to any .portion of the world, not even to operatives who had worked up the cotton, though thousands of bales had been ginned in Memphis and other cities during the prevalence of yellowfever epidemics in past years. Dr. J. D. Plunkett, of the State Board of Health, was hung in effigy on the night of the 21st, but this action is said to have been generally condemned. A notice was served on the State, and local officials on the 22d, by the Sheriff, and by N. W. Bpecrs, Jr., of an intention to apply for an injunction to restrain them from any further interference with the entry of cotton into the City of Memphis. One new case of yellow fever, imported from Morgan City, was reported to the New Orleans Board of Health on the 23d. Ten new cases and four deaths were reported in Memphis on the 24th. Dr. Plunkett, President of the State Board of Health, telegraphed to Mr. Johnson, Superintendent of Quarantine at Memphis, that he had been advised by counsel that the election of Galloway as Special Judge of the Circuit Court was utterly void, and an injunction issued by him wa§ also void. Mr. Johnson was, therefore, instructed to continue to enforce Rule No. 6 precisely as if the injunction. (Issued by Galloway on the morning of the 24th) had not been granted. There were seven new cases (four white) and five deaths reported in Memphis on the 25th. Five cases of fever were reported to have developed among the negroes on President’s Island, five miles south of the city. Six new cases and six deaths in Memphis on the 26th. Four cases of fever were reported at Oak Grove, ten miles south of Bailey Station, Tenn., and two deaths had recently occurred. The new cases reported in Memphis during the week ending on the 27th numbered sixty-three—forty-one whites and twenty-two colored; total deaths, thirty-one—twenty-six of whom were whites. Total number of cases to date, 1,279;- deaths, 382. Thirteen new cases (ten colored) and six deaths were reported on the 2Sth. It was reported on the 27th that one new case had occurred at Concordia since last report, but no additional yellow-fever deaths had been reported. Foreign intelligence. It was announced on the 22d that Sir Garnet Wolseley had signed a treaty of peace with the Zulu chiefs. Cctewayo had been taken to Cape Town. An incendiary fire recently nearly destroyed the city of Kieff, in Southern Russia. The city was fired in eight places. The loss was enormous and many lives were destroyed. According to a Vienna dispatch of the 22d the visit of Prince Bismarck to Count Andrassy, the Austrian Premier, which occurred on the 21st, had resulted In the settlement of all misunderstanding between the two powers, and the formation of an offensive and defensive alliance against Panslavism. Official intelligence was received on the 23d that the Russian advance column in Cen-

tnl Asia tad :beea defeated by the Tekke Turcomans, with a lorn of 700 killed, and that It had been forced to tall tack on Bearma. > On the evening of the 28d the French Committee having In charge the proposed FrenchAmerican commercial treaty gave a banquet to Fernando Wood, of New York, at Paris. United States Minister Noyes and ConmlGeaeral Fairchild, among othera, were present. According to a London dispatch of tbe 34th the bicycle riders of France and England had decided to make a professional visit to tbe United States. The champions of both countries would accompany them. ' Folk fires, presumably started by Nihilists, have recently oceurted at Astrakhan. The losses were great. One steamboat with twelve barges on the Volga, all laden with naphtha, and one railroad train, similarly laden, were burned. London telegrams of the 25th aay that 800 of the tenants on Lord Normanby’s estate, tn Ireland, had refused to pay any more rents, and had threatened the agent, who offered to make reasonable deductions, with personal violence. The affair had created intense excitement throughout Tipperary. Stanley, the African explorer, left Sierra Leone on the 28d for the River Congo, with the steamer Albion. According to Cairo (Egypt) dispatches of the 25th, General Gordon had had a parley with the leader of the Abyssinian forces, which had resulted In their withdrawal from the Egyptian frontier. General Gordon had left to visit the Abyssinian King. Thx Catholic Bishops of Belgium have instructed their clergy to refuse absolution to parents whose children frequent public schools, and to teachers and pupils in normal schools. A Berlin dispatch of the 26th says the rinderpest had broken out at Koenigs berg, in Russia. It was also extending its ravages In Eastern Poland.

Accohding to a Belgrade telegram of the 26th an affray had occurred on the Danube near Tekia, in Servia, between Servian customs officers and a party of Austrian smugglers, In which ten of the latter were killed. The Russian official Messenger of the 26th reports that during August there were 2,987 fires in Russia, involving a loss of 20,000,000 roubles. A Liverpool dispatch of the 28th says that, in consequence of the prevalence of the foot and mouth disease In a cargo of sheep lately landed at that point, the Privy Council had issued an order placing American sheep in the same category with American cattle. Notices of a ten per cent, reduction In wages were posted on the 2Stb in nearly all the earthenware and china factories in Staffordshire. The men are reported to be determined to resist the reduction, which will affect 80,000 workmen. A St. Petersburg dispatch of the 28th says the march of the Russian expedition to Mcrv had been countermanded. It was believed that Herat would be menaced. Accobdino to a Constantinople telegram of the 28th an understanding between Greece and Turkey had become impossible, and both Powers were actively engaged In warlike preparations. A dispatch was received from the Viceroy of India on the 28th announcing the arrival at Kushi of Yakoob Khan, the Ameer of Afghanistan, with an imposing retinue. He reports that the gates of Cabul were closed, and that a condition of anarchy prevailed. The British force was within two days’ march of Cabul. The Government of the Dominion of Canada has prohibited the importation of American cattle.

The Destruction of Deadwood.

Deadwood. D. T., September 28. Fire broke out in the Star bakery, on Sherman street, at 2:20 this morning, and following that thoroughfare, swept everything before it on Lee, Main, Gold, Wall, Patton and William streets, and some residence* on Centennial avenue. Fanned by a light breeze, and nothing to contend with, except a very inefficient Fire Department, everything was at the mercy of the flames. Less than half a score of pronounced fireproof warehouses withstood the severe test. The buildings being mostly of wood and poorly constructed, they burned like so much chaff. The fire spread with such wonderful rapidity that any attempt at saving anything would have been useless. All along its course terrific explosions of gunpowder, petroleum, liquor, etc., were of frequent occurrence. Buildings were blown into atoms. The hook and ladder apparatus and hose carriage were the first things to burn, leaving nothing but a few feet of worthless hose with which to battle against the devouring elements. The new waterworks were tried for the first time yesterday, and this morning they were put to their full capacity, with little success in subduing the flames, on account of the scarcity of water. The hill sides were almost a solid sheet of flame, and water from the bowlder ditch could not be hod, otherwise considerable property would probably, have been saved, as tbe ditch ran almost directly over the worst spot. The wildest excitement prevailed on account of the fearful force of the flames, and people thought of but little beside saving their own lives, hundreds escaping with only their night-clothes. Every team within miles of the city was called into service to help save what could be got out. There are probably about 2,000 people who are homeless, and many destitute. About one hundred and twenty-five' buildings, beside fifty or sixty dwelling houses, were destroyed, and, while it is utterly impossible to get any definite figures regarding loss, well-posted business men place it at from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000.

The fire is still burning, but all its material is exhausted, and there is no danger of its spreading, unless an unfavorable change in the wind occurs. Several of the firms whose fire-proofs were saved have posted notices that they wifi open up for business in them on Saturday. - Lumber is being hauled rapidly, and building will commence, as soon as the debris can be cleared away, in a far more substantial, way than before. Most of the merchants who have lost their wooden stores will erect brick ones in their stead. Labor is in great demand, and everything presents a lively appearance. All saloons are closed by order of the Sheriff, and the city presents an unusually quiet appearance. A citizens' committee of safety, numbering seven, has been appointed at a public meeting, who will assist the Sheriff in preserving the peace. Evil-doers, if caught, will be speedily dealt with. A proposition to organize a vigilance committee, one hundred strong, was voted down, emphatically. Numerous kind offers of assistance have been made by Eastern merchants, but will hardly be accepted, as the merchants bear their losses with the best possible grace, and are not inclined to place themselves under any obligations, at the same time appreciating the willing offers made by Eastern houses in all branches of trade. There are men in this world so poor that they can’t even afford to keep a clean conscience. — N. 7. Herald.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —Freeh air fa the best and cheapest sort of medicine. —Mardi Gras comes on the 10th of February next year. —When the “wine goes round freely'* the head generally imitates the example. —“Excuse these steers," is about all a Texas drover can say for ft cattle stampede. —A bird deprived of food dies on the third day, while a serpent can live three months. —The Jersey City Journal gravely remarks that Eve was the mostbeautiful woman of her time. —Now is the time to put np your stove-pipe and get your fall soot.—Boston Commercial Bulletin. —The sun is 320,000 times larger than the earth, and yet H persists in striking so small a thing as a man. —A Wyoming man won ten dollars in a wager by eating twenty pigs’ feet. This was a pig’s feat, indeed.— llatebEye. —“My pleasure is two-fold,” said a heartless young man who was courting two girls at once. Two fooled, he meant. —Cincinnati Saturday Night. —Tempora mutantur- -Formerly they were foolish virgins, who had no oil; now they are the foolish virgins who are too free with the kerosene.— Puck. —A gentleman who was asked for his marriage certificate quietly took his hat off ana pointed to a bald spot. The evidence was conclusive.— N. Y. World. —“ Do you keep any Hamburg edging?" asked a timid miss. “ Not if we can sell it," was the pert reply of the clerk. He kept some that day.— N. Y. Post. —A Baptist church in Vicksburg, Miss., was recently destroyed by fire, and the Jewish Temple has been offered to the congregation free of rent and unconditionally until they rebuild. —“Samuel Spriggs, the only place in town where you can get eleven pounds of sugar for a dollar, five dollars,” was the way a well-to-do grocer signed a subscription list toward the erection of a new church. —Lawyer Dembitz, of St. Louis, is invariably polite. A long and terrific roll of thunder stopped him in an address to a jury, and on resuming he said: “Gentlemen, pray excuse this interruption.” —A Troy burglar lost his liberty and his plunder by. stopping to kiss the sleeping mistress of the house‘he had rans:icked. He says the next time he will be content with the booty and let the beauty alone. —Norristotcn Herald. —When the girl who has encouraged a young man for about two years suddenly turns around and tells him that she can never be more than a sister to him, he can for the first time see the freckles on her nose.— Detroit Free Press. —“A philosopher” wr'.tes to a foreign journal that “ tooth-brushes and soap, reverence for women and children, and the fear of God, self-respect and sweet speech and gentle manners are all items in one and the same slow stage of human development " —On the river: “What’s the matter, Alfred? You look uneasy.” “Well, my wife, who is fond of swimming, dived off the boat some time ago, and has not yet come to the surface; lam afraid that something must have happened to her.” “How long has she been under?” “About two hours.”— French Newspaper. —John L. Colerain, a farmer, near Orwigsburg, Schuylkill County, Pa., found that an old granary which was being torn down was alive with rats. He built a tight board fence about four feet high around the granary, and five men and three dogs killed four hundred and thirty-seven rats in about three hours. About half a dozen escaped. Their holes were not over two feet deep, and the ground was fifty feet square.

—lt was out West, in one of those local courts where a friendly, talkative way marks the intercourse between judges, juries, counsel and clients. A man of the law, after developing considerable eloquence and perspiration in behalf of a prisoner, perorated by saying: “ Gentlemen, after what I have stated to you, is this man guilt}-? Can he be guilty? Is he guilty? Greatly to his disgust, the foreman of the jury, after a copious expectoration, replied: “ You just wait a little, old hoss, and we’ll tell you.” As the poker-player would say: “Foreman had tne age, and counselor passed out.”— Harper's Magazine for October. —Those who have begun to fear that the “wonderful girl” would not put in her annual appearance this season can take heart of grace. She has been heard from, not m the West, as usual, but in Maine. She is but fifteen years of age. Two years ago she surprised her father by cutting an incredibly large quantity of wood in an incredibly short space of time; but her achievments the present summer have outdone all former ones. Being at work on a farm in the village where the Honorable Hannibal Hamlin formerly resided, this iifteen-yehr-old maiden went out after supper a few evenings since, put up forty-five bundles of hay and milked twentythree cows before sunset. The next day, after washing the dinner dishes and putting the house to rights, she went into the field, loaded three loads of hay, stowed them away in the barn and then stowed away a fourth load, which somebody else loaded. Then she prepared supper for a family of four, served it, washed up the dishes, walked two miles’ to get a pair of shoes and got back before oark.— Detroit Free Press.

Forms of Lightning.

Different forms of lightning are thus described by the Christian Union: A flash of lightning is a very large spark of electncity; just the same thing that one sees given by an electrical machine in a lecture on natural philosophy, the only difference being that the best machines will not give a spark more than a yard long, while some flashes of lightning have been estimated to be several miles in length. According to their appearance, various names have been given to these sparks in the sky, though in reality all the several kinds are one and the same thing. On a warm summer evening, one often sees the clouds on the horizon lit up with brilliant glows of lightning unaccompanied any sound of thunder. To this appearance the name of “heat lightning” has been given, and the warm weather is often assigned as its cause. In point of fact, the heat lightning is only that of a thunder-shower so far off that, while the observer can see the flash, no sound of thunder reaches him, and the intervening clouds veil and reflect the flash till it becomes a glow instead of the sharp streak usually seen, '

Where the flash, starting from one point, branches oat and divides into several parts, it has reoeived the name of “ forked lightning.” This is usuallyseen when the discharge is near the observer. Single flashes bearing a zigzag or crinkled aspect are denominated “chain or zigzag lightning,” probably from their resemblance to a chain thrown loosely on the ground. Again, when several discharges occur from about the same place at the same time, and are screened by rain or clouds, so as to fight up the heavens with a broad, bright glow, the title of “sheet lightning” is applied. These four comprise all the common forms. There is, however, one rare manifestation, called “ ball lightning.” In this phenomenon, a small globe or ball of apparent fire very slowly rolls along the ground, and after a time suddenly explodes, scattering destruction around. There are but few instances of this on record, and no very satisfactory explanation has ever accounted for this curious appearance.

NORTHERN DEMOCRATS.

The Okolona Han Free* His Hind as to the Copperheads Who Now Claim to Be “ Union Men** The Democratic party of Northland, barring its fools and knaves, was a unit in favor of recognizing the rights of the South. Its members formed themselves into leagues known as the Knights of the Golden Circle, and contended, with grand phenomenal fidelity, for Free speech, Free press, And the recognition of the young Republic of the South. ' They left nothing unspoken, nothing unwritten, and nothing undone, to Hamper, Embarrass, Demoralize. Annoy, Confuse and Defeat the General Government in its Beelzebub business of coercion. They helped us as far as lay in their power; They hoped and prayed that we would succeed in shooting the Red, White and Blue into rags and tatters. Their sympathy was a stimulus to the Confederate Chivalry from • the commencement to the close of the struggle between the States. A speech from Vallandigham was like a blast from the bugle-horn of Rhoderic Dhu. An editorial in the Cincinnati Enquirer was worth a thousand men. Their denunciation of Lincoln and his devils sent a thrill and throb of hope through hearts that had begun to falter in the fight. We have not forgotten that they were our friends in the times that tried our souls, and that is why we are solid in their support to-day. We cannot, will not, forget their services in our behalf in 1861-5. Ingratitude is not a part of the Southern nature. While we thus do meet and fitting homage to the Democratic party of Northland, we want the branding-irons and the whip of scorpions brought forth to mark and lash the slinking scoundrels who have turned traitor to the party-faith and still affect an affection for the party-flag. These runagates—these slimy, sneaking, shameless runagates —seem to forget that men have memories and that History has a babit of impaling facts on her immortal page. Turning to the files of Democratic papers oi the Northern and Western States, we discover that these men were the loudest and the lustiest in favor of bidding the South good-by and godspeed; That they gnashed their teeth and stamped the ground in wrath whenever Linkhorn issued one of his infamous calls for recruits, and swore that they would resist conscription to the bitter end; That they cursed him to the conclusion of time and eternity, because he emancipated • our bond-servants, and thereby, at one prepotent blow, destroyed the labor system of the South, demoralized the social, moral and business welfare of the world for indefinite ages, and brought an unhappy race to ruin, misery, want and ultimate extinction. And yet these fellows say that they have been Union men, first, last and all the time! And to hear them talk you would think they had conceived and drafted the devil-spewed Amendments! O the parvitude of their perfidy! And how small, how mean, how pitiful they must feel when their present position is contrasted with the proud plane on which they stood in the battledays of 1861-’5! If there was one atom of manhood in their moral make-up, they would slink off to some dark corner and die of very shame. “ Union men,” forsooth! If they were Union men, why didn’t they drop into line with the party that fought for the Union, instead of allying themselves with the friends and upholders of State-Sovereignty ? “Union men”! Yet they denounced the Union soldiers as “Lincoln dogs.” “ Union men”! Yet they voted for Alex Long & Co., who wanted to let the Union slide. “ Union men!”

Yet they tried to discourage the Union soldiers by declaring the war a failure as late as 1864. If they meant the Union of Washington, Jefferson and Buchanan— The State-Sovereignty, White Man’s Union of old, we would consider them worthy of the crown and palm of partyfellowship; But no! They want us to distinctly understand that they don’t take any stock or bonds in the old Union; That they believe in this new Union; This Centralized Union; This white, black and speckled suffrage Union of to-day; Inis Union of Force, And hate, And blood, And pollution; This Union of Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Sherman, et al. These traitors snuggle up to the Amendments, and hug 7 Kiss and fondle them by the hour! Yet there wouldn’t be a negro voter in America to-day if it had been left to their say-so. O how they did try to fight down black suffrage! How they strained and struggled against it, till their veins swelled to the size of whip-cords, and their vocabulary was exhausted of its last epithet!

And how much dfrtthefhfcte chewed and swallowed since the New Departure! Dirt!!! Why, they have consumed pecks, mountains, planets oi dirt; and they are stQl in the business at the oldstana. And now, gentlemen, them are the men who have swaggered to the front and asserted that the Okolona Stales is in Republican pay! Because we will not preach the ReSublican heresies of Consolidation and Tegro Suffrage, they say that we are in Republican pay! Because we teach the Democratic truth of Secession as Jefferson taught it; Because we teach the Democratic truth that this is a White Man’s Government, as the party-platform taught it, they say that the States is not a Democratic paper! O the inconsistency—the naked, nasty inconsistency—of these cringing cravenhearts! But, high Heaven be praised! the heart and soul of the old Democratic party are still clean and white; Its masses will keep step with shoul-der-touch to the trumpet-blast and drum-beat of the Fathers; And they will restore the Republic to its ante-bellum status at whatever cost and hazard!— Okolona (Miss.) Southern States.

Facts for Northern Men.

The Democratic party have control of the legislative branch of this Government, with all its enormous powers and privileges. What is the Democratic party, and what are its aims? In the first place, it is controlled by, and largely composed of, persons lately in arms against the Government. These persons are not “reconstructed” and honorable men who accept the results of the war, but scheming, plotting, dangerous persons, who proclaim their continued adhesion to State Sovereignty, defy the amendments to the Constitution, and boldly trample upon the laws. The proportion which the so-called Union Democratic sentiment of the North bears to this Mexican element will be seen by the relative strength of the two classes in Congress. The Senate has forty Democratic members, twelve of whom are from the North and twenty-eight from the South. The House has one hundred and fiftyfive Democratic members, fifty-five from the North and Qne hundred from the South. In both houses the ex-Con-federates control «very important com-mittee,-and the whole legislative machinery of the country is therefore in the hands of those not only disloyal to the Union, but full of hatred of the North and her institutions. We call particular attention to a few interesting facts regarding this dangerous predominance of the unrefined, unprogressive and semi-barbaric element of the South in our politics. In the States having a majority of Democratic members in Congress there are 8,722,388 persons who eannot read; in the States having a Republican majority there are, of this class, but 697,238. In the Democratic States abovenamed the wealth, according to the last census, was $9,114,681,561; in the Republican this counts Ohio as Democratic, which, of course, is unjust, as at the last election she cast 10,000 more Republican than Democratic votes. , These Democratic States paid to iflie Government in customs revenue mst year $7,487,094; the Republican States paid $116,212,819. From 1866 to 1878 the Government was compelled to collect from the peo{ile over two thousand millions of dolars as internal revenue. Of this amount the late rebel States paid a trifle over two hundred millions, while the rest of the country paid over eighteen hundred millions. The single State of Illinois paid $lO,000,000 more than the whole Confederacy combined, while New York paid nearly twice as much. The Inter-Ocean calls attention to these facts now to show the supreme folly of intrusting to the impecunious and unprincipled banditti of tne South the vast interests of this great section, rich in wealth, intelligence, arts, manufactures, and all that goes to make a people grand, prosperous and powerful. We have wealth, but the men with shot-guns control it. We have industrious artisans, brilliant inventors, gallant soldiers, eminent literateurs, out the disciples of the bowie-knife estimate the value of their services and determine the extent to which they shall be encouraged. They exercise this control not through superior bravery, not as the prerogative of valor, not because they are conquerors in battle, but seemingly because they are themselves the conquered and the vanquished, and because Northern men are prone to trifle with danger until it confronts them as an immediate peril which threatens their very existence. If these people were one with us; if they accepted the war as final; if they were ready to leave the fight behind them and take hold honorably for the upbuilding of the whole countiy, there would be no complaint. But they do none of these. They tear down what we have built at so much cost, deny the dearest privileges of citizenship to those upon whom the Constitution eonfers such privileges, and seek in all possible ways to destroy and neutralize a victory which the North dearly bought and which it has a right to enjoy. This being the case can, thoughtful men longer refrain from putting tne stamp of their disapproval on the party which fosters Mid encourages such a spirit? They must do that, or a more serious duty will soon confront them. There is no escaping the responsibility. The truth of the declaration made by the InterOcean weeks ago grows plainer every day: “The Democratic party must be voted down or whipped down.”—Chicago Inter-Ocean.

The Fact Admitted.

Ex-Senator Barnum, Chairman of the Democratic National Executive Committee, has virtually confessed to the celebrated mule dispatch sent to this State on the day of the October election in 1876. At the meeting of the Democratic National and Congressional Committees held in Washington last week, there was an urgent demand from Ewing for money to prosecute the Ohio campaign. This demand was made through Mr. McKinney, Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of Ohio. The discussion which it caused was long and not very harmonious, finally it was agreed that the money must come from New York, mid that Tilden ought to head the list and come down handsomely. At this ex-Senator Barnum, one of Tilden’s managers now as in 1876, said: “Gentlemen, the truth about this business is just this: You Southern and Western Democrats wbo are clamoring for greenbacks and denouncing the Eastern Democrats as being

Bilied with Wail street art bloated bondholders and remonelMß capitalists, always come at last to New York ana Kastern men to help you out of the mire. It Is tteoldrtorynTbe only Western State carried by the Democrats inUTI was won at fee eleventh hour by the sinews of war from the Bast.” The Western State referred to is Indiana, and the statement that it “was won at the eleventh hour by the sinews of war from the East' 1 is a confession that it was carried forTilden by the corrupt use of money. Hie celebrated mule dispatch sent by Abram S. Hewitt to ex-Senator Bamum, in this city, on the day of the October election, in 1876, was as follows: “Naw Yob*, Oct. 10,1878. “W. H. Bamum, care of William Henderson, Bank of Commerce, Indianapolis: u Dispatch received. You may buy seven more mules. A bran 8. Hewitt.” At that time Mr. Bamum was acting as Tilden'B corruption agent in this city. It has been repeatedly charged and never denied that the above authority to “ buy seven more mules” was authority to draw for $7,000 more, and now Mr. Bamum virtually confesses it by saying that “ the only Western State carried by the Democrats in 1876 was won at the eleventh hour by the sinews of war from the East.” At the time the above dispatch was sent, and for some weeks before, there was a large j number of Tilden corruptionists in different parts of this State, and a horde of ballot-box stuffers and repeaters brought here from the large cities of the East and West. W. H. Bamum was Tilden’s manager, and the head of the rascally movement to carry this State by corrupt means. It was to him that the mule dispatch was sent, and now, after three years, he inadvertently admits that the State was carried by corrupt means. We have always believed and maintained that Indiana was not fairly carried by the Democrats in 1876, and this admission of Barnum is conclusive proof that it was not. — Indianapolis Journal.

A REMARKABLE RESCUE.

A Hu Burled Alive In a Well la Meaened by Hip Friends After Forty Honrs* Confinement Under Ground* Last Friday at noon a well being dug at the fair-grounds caved in at the bottom after it had reached a depth of one hundred and sixteen feet, burying William Selves, a workman, under about thirteen feet of sand, measuring from his head while he was in a nearly upright position. The well had reached the depth of one hundred feet when a stratum of loose, white sand was reached, which made curbing necessary. An upright curbing in sections four feet long was used. While putting in the fourth section the caving of the well took place, first crushing in the lower section not yet finished, and pinning Selves in solid sand and nearly to his armpits. It was instantly followed by the three sections above, which were crushed in to the center, leaving a vacuum there. On seeing it start, Selves had instinctively raised a section of the curbing over his head, bending backwards, face up, with the arm supporting the piece of curbing, stretched above his head. In this position the sand settled about him, completely binding him, except his head and one arm, 'which he could move at that time. The. section of curbing which he had raised above his head created a vacuum, which for a short time communicated with tbo vacuum through the center of the well made by the coming together of the barrel-like curbing. As soon as possible a gas-pipe for the purpose of pumping air to him was inserted through the opening—Selves, who then hail one arm at liberty, placing it as near his mouth as,the boards over him would permit. Soon after this was accomplished, the sand settled solidly above him, leaving only the vacuum under the board,’ which soon filled so close as to imprison ,tlie arpi that had been at liberty, and to also render his head immovable. In this situation, plainly depicted by himself in sepulchral tones through the air.tube, and perfectly audible at the top of the well, William Selves, then six hours without food, and cramped and chilled by the cold sand, said he would hold on to life if there were brave hearts enough above him to undertake his release, knowing full well the danger to those who might attempt it in a lmriy. The task was to remove from thirteen to eighteen leet of sand from the bottom oi a well one hundred and sixteet feet deep, by putting in new curbing while taking out the sand and debris of the old curbing, and to do it all so carefully as not to fill the little vaeuufn above his face. Coupled with this task was the appalling danger to the workmen of a fresh caving of the well, now more imminent than the first, for above the ominous vacuum made by the caving of the sand hung the hundred feet of clay wall with no support but its own adhesion, its natural foundation of sand being gone. The bore through the clay, being but twenty-seven inches in diameter, could not, for lack of both time and space, be curbed. In the face of these discouragements, there were brave hearts • enough found to work night and day, never slacking except for a short time on Saturday morning, when for a time further attempts seemed suicide by reason of the caving in of a small portion of the clay wall! But soon new precautions were devised, and the almost hopeless work went on to its practical conclusions at one o’clock this (Sunday) morning, when a friendly hand raised the plank and brushed the sand from the now nearly unconscious face. He had retained his mind perfectly np to within a few moments before, when the tenderly cautious hands above him, in spite of their care, had so disturbed the sand as

to cover his face and to interrupt the supply of air from the tube. He returned to perfect consciousness in a few moments, and, his hands released, the work went rapidly on, he himself helping materially after his arms were released. At 3:30 o’clock, nearly forty hours after his incarceration, William Selves stepped firmly from the month of his living grave, and was received in the arms of his young wife amid the glad shouts of the throng who had so long shared his suspense. His exertions in assisting to free himself had given him the use of his limbs again, and, when he reached the surface, about all he seemed to need was nourishment, which he had not had since the Friday morning before, nearly two days. —NcilU oille ( Wis .) Republican. A lazy man, having a wife named Hope whose custom it was to pull off her husband’s boots every evening, was wont to exclaim on such occasions: “ How truly it is said that ‘ Hope is the yanker of the sole.’” —Yonkers Gazette. —Perhaps the fences need looking after and renovating, for if pasture is getting short, breaeny stock will be trying the strength of the inclosure that surrounds the corn. — Clarkson.