Paxton Weekly Record, The (Newspaper) - March 19, 1874, Paxton, Illinois FORD On of IMH OFFICE IN RECORD XT BJ AM rap O W and Ornamental AND HANGER le and Sabr AKD Soala Market 1 C HALE aid ILLINOIS All kfl wilb ft will bo attended lo A RAWLE POLLOCK SAMPLE ATTORNEYS AT AND NOTARIES Wul at ud negotiated A will Attorney Ha which all begin for the of due School or Road thli K ATTORNEY AT Master In over Vint National ILL in Ford bo- mmt McLean O Ko Clark Boom Cor Clark and Washington CHICAGO O FREW ATTORNEY AT At former one door south of ILLINOIS Prompt and faithful attention given to cases la Champaign Livingston and in the Supreme Bad C S aow In hands of the late firm E c Attorney at Law Notary Public Prompt attention given to aD badness Intrusted Especial attention given to the payment of Taxes and of Collections No ILLINOIS B BELFORD Boot and Shoe Market next door to Marble ILLINOIS Work of all done to order Formerly ILL TAX Hotel has recently changed and had aa additional story pot which makes it Oat sf the and ia Central It ahw been renovated and ref and the traveling public will nnd it one ofthe most comfortable In the Bute Good attached THF NATIONAL BANK OF A C President S i Cashier Bay sad Sell Domestic and Foreign Exchange Draw at Sight on All Points In or Western Asia Furnish Letters of Credit and Passage Issues Drafts payable In Gold or Currency Liberal made with Depositors Uatto FaU aad E L LICENSED KELSO PHYSICIANS AND ILL Dr house north of northwest of the Court House E M D PHYSICIAN AND Illinois O B H D PHYSICIAN AND Franklin southwest of M K Calls may be left at my or at Martin A store successfully treated and removed Medial Baths giren r L COOK ATTORNEY AT LAW PUBLIC Having a complete set of 1 am prepared famish examinations of title lo any and all Land In Ford County art Collections Specialty at the Court ILLINOIS H B REED AND PAXTON ILLINOIS Shop at Little's Lumber corner Stale and Market Contracts far or other work and plans and furnished 8 O to Mrs K ABB in ladies Famishing and fancy etc Her will be kept fresh and every effort lo five Ai the old corner of Center and Mar ket VOL 1 EPITOME OF THE WEEK ha Dates March London Daily publishes n long statement by In tlir writer OB lie thr brother tiro Urn time lie snw nnd tint silence on lib bought with jmld lor n nnd Ihr promise of a thousand or nl the of the torn Oou dated February 10 Die King of tho lind sent him ounces of the first ment of tho with a request for Kaee Three of tho elx Kings tributary to had given In their submission to The of The King agreed to pay ounces of gold j o withdraw from tho to keep the road from to the River to ect prohibit human and teep the peace boiler In tho building of N on tho morning of the killing David J and wounding William and wrecking the Building Until the machinery cnn be repaired the city must rely for Its water supply on and from the Mew Hampshire State election occurred on the 10th Returns received ou the morning of the from 147 towns give McCutchins mer It was thought there might be no choice by the association of Michigan men was formed at Lansing on the 10th The owners present represented of capital and acres of Legislature of Minnesota las passed a railway low in many respects similar to one in operation In Dispatches received lu San Francisco on the night of the 10th announce that the snow of the Central Pacific was quite and that trains were passing through east and west on time March British ossea In the war were sixteen killed and three hundred and sixty-eight wounded Gen has been superseded as of Cuba by Gen Senator Charles died in Washington on the afternoon of the at a quarter to hree o'clock He passed away calmly and without a struggle Mr was In his year Congress adjourned out of to the deceased and a feeling vf gloom at the sad event was cast over the country Among his last utterances one to of to whom the dying talesman Take care of my Civil Rights A detailed account of his last hours rill be found Rhode Island State in session at has nominated Henry Howard for Joshua M for Secretary of Sayles for Attorney Clark for General and Charles C Van for Lieutenant ernor The candidates are all present March Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh mndo their entry into Loncton on the ID the midst of a ng An immense crowd the and the throng was so great hat by the breaking of a platform at Charing Cross several persons were killed and tour injured The storm was unprecedented In some parts of the island The donian Railway was blockaded by snow and several trains were buried in drifts In some cases the along the lino were the chimneys only appearing above the waste A heavy has occurred in causing great distress among the poor of that city The funeral of Fillmore took place at Buffalo on the 13th The body lay in and was viewed by an im- mense concourse of people After the ing services at the church the Interment took place in Forest Lawn an Infantry acting a guard of honor Business In the city was almost entirely and bouses generally were draped in Concord dispatch says Ibe returns from the election in that State show that Weston has by from 300 to 500 of an election the people Four Republican and four Democratic Senators are with no choice in four districts From returns already the House 107 Eight towns bear lust year elected and probably have done so this Ohio Constitutional Convention iae by a vote of 48 for to 30 to submit to a separate vote a section allowing woman suffrage Fifty-three votes were re- quired to secure suck submission to a arate next Democratic State Convention of Indiana is to be held on the of July March London Liberal Journals contain highly eulogistic no- tices of the late Charles ho Island House of has passed a resolution submitting to the people amendment to the State tion authorizing woman suffrage The vote stood 44 to are being taken in New York to form a mutual cremation society It is said that a large number of names has been whose owners pledge themselves to give their best aid and Influence for the disposition of own bodies after death In manner The Republican State Central Committee of In- diana has called a State to meet at Indianapolis on the 7th of to nate candidates for State to be voted for at the October election The sixth session of the Wisconsin Legislature closed on the 13th Three hundred and nine Jaws were passed and thirteen Joint resolutions were adopted during the session There was an Increase of 9 per cent In the area sown with winter last fall In the States of Missouri and according to the Information of the National Crop porter In Illinois the Increase is 22 per cent Iowa shows a decrease of 19 per to be attributed to Die severe drought lust summer The condition of the fruit trees is and a One yield is expected March dispatch from Berlin says the German has defeated the Government proposition fix ing the strength of the army on an Ive peace touting ul men Tlic National Liberals propose to fix the minimum strength of the army at The Secretary of the Interior at has asked that troops be font to the Ulc in with instructions to no all unauthorized while will be to go upon the and that those who are now trespassing mutt abandon it Immediately or be forcibly removed The jury in the libel suit against Victoria C and Tennessee have returned a verdict of Judge Sutherland characterizes the verdict us of the most that he had ever An Important case has been decided In the Supreme Court of involving the legality of a marriage between a white man and a negro woman The children of the parties brought unit as helm for a large amount of property left by their deceased and after years of litigation their right to the property has been and the union thus declared legal FORD MARCH 1874 WHOLE NO 469 crowd of French people met ul on tho to vemury of the nf Die Imperial Tlir of him upon attaining majority and suitable nnd in conclusion De- spite the Inspired by the loyalty of nn Irresistible current of public opinion has In favor of the plebiscite 1 nm rendy lo accept Its A London pact of tho says Gen would bring home the remains of Dr Livingstone According to n telegram of tho the steamship from for with 278 pilgrims who were returning from encountered a gale In the One huge washed 117 df the and wna n suspension of business In and all tho public schools were on the on the occasion of tho ob- of the late Senator The funeral ceremonies were very Imposing Vast crowds assembled to witness and do honor to the procession The services at King's Chapel were of tha most solemn and impressive character The remains were burled in Mount Auburn The Michigan House of Representatives on the Kith passed to a third reading the article of the new Constitution putting tho question of woman suffrage to a separate vote by the people The colored people In various of the country hold memorial meetings on the in testimony of their love and Veneration for the life and character of the late Charles Sumner FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS March lion was adopted expressing deep nt the death of nnd providing for Ihc appointment of A of to lend the in of The A Joint resolution of Ihc Illinois ing the passage of a law to prevent unjust in by presented and as were also resolutions of of Wisconsin for Ine ment of communication between the East and West A was reported from the ciary Committee declaring li lo bo Intent and of Ihc acts of 1864 and 1866 that for Ihc of Central branch of Union Pacific lands and bonds were grunted for 100 miles next to the and no nnd the issuance of or extension of said road or of Hannibal Joe In excess of 100 miles next lo he Missouri announced that the health was such that he must ask lo be from further service on he Joint Committee lo investigate the of Columbia and he was Pease was appointed an ad- member of the Committee on Education and House to provide for Issuing and recording commissions to Postmasters pointed by the President was paused The lo equalize the distribution of National Bank cy was taken and Mr Perry delivered a lengthy argument In favor of free banking on Ihc National banking session and adjournment of the Patrons of Husbandry of appealing lo Congress lo secure tho improvement of navigation In t e Mississippi River and its tributaries by ample and the appropriation of public lands to aid private schemes or and ing that the proceeds of snch sales be given to Slates for school were Bills were the apportionment of Wyoming Territory for legislative to prevent the useless slaughter of buffaloes Was bid In Committee of Ilic Whole on the Ex- and Judicial Appropriation March the opening prayer of the Chaplain Mr Sherman announced that one of our number lies nnd perhaps and he therefore moved that the Senate and thereupon In of the probably fatal Illness of Senator Sumner the Senate adjourned without transacting any ness were amend the act of Feb giving pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of tbc war of and to re- store to the those persons whose names were struck therefrom tn of granting thirty lars for an artificial eye to soldiers who have lost an to amend Section 18 of Ihc Pension law of March by providing ID case of the death or remarriage of a having a or the death of a orphan the pension shall revert to tbc dependent or other relative of tbc soldier from the date of such death or Legislative was further considered in Committee of Ihc and the debate wan interrupted at three o'clock by the announcement by the Speaker of the death of Senator ana the House immediately adjourned March The galleries were crowded to-day The chair of the late Senator Sumner was draped In and a large of white flowers was placed on his desk After the opening prayer Anthony being detained from the by formally announced Ihc of Mr after which a series of resolutions adopted relating to the funeral ceremonies to take place in the Senate chamber on the 13th The following Senators were appointed as Lnc com- on the part of the Senate to accompany Senator remains lo Messrs and After remarks by Mr the Senate adjourned a message was received from the Senate formally announcing the death of Mr Mr of feelingly alluded to the and offered o series of lutions relating lo tbc participation of the House in the funeral which were adopted The Speaker then announced the following as a committee lo accompany the body to Messrs Hale of Beck and March the funeral services of the Senator in tho Senate tko Chair announced as the ber to Oil Iho vacancy on the Joint Com- to investigate the management of In District Mr of lo be Chairman of the committee In place of Mr who was excused on account of his ill health Adjourned lo the business whatever was transacted by House March in session Bills were introduced and re- prohibiting the use of public horses and vehicles for private purposes in and forbidding the Government to servants to wear for a In relation I o the preservation of lo give land lo soldiers and sailors In the lute woe paused appropriating to IK expended In the course of the current year In Improving the mouth of the Mississippi River An evening session was held for dis- cussion of the Transportation The Funeral of Senator Simmer The funeral ceremonies over remains of Senator Sumner took place in the Senate ber In Washington on the 13th In were nearly all Die prominent ol including the the Chief Justice and Judges of the the members of the tho bers of Congress und the chiefs of all Hie de- of the of foreign anil a large of private of races It Is estimated thai at persons failed to gain admission even to Hie corridors of Hie BO great was the crowd In attendance At Hit conclusion of the services the were conveyed to the were placed on a special accompanied by a few of the intimate friends of the deceased mid the of both of to attend the were taken to Boston All along the line were many demonstrations of sincere sorrow Crowds flocked to the anxious to obtain a lust look ul the luce of the but all were disappointed At Boston the of Humming were universal Tim city draped with of on the of the train bearing of sincere mourners gathered to pay u the of the led THE dead of SUMNER or Tho following details of the last hours of Senator urc given In the Washington of March Senator Sumner a quiet night under the subcutaneous Injection of morphine This at nine ho was sleeping un- der Hie effects or without material change Johnson find Lincoln were nt Unit hour In consultation nt residence of Ihc Senator in the he had a slight at- the nerves of Ills but when he returned home lie well to entertain friends at at the close of which he made an allusion to the con- dition of his between nine and ten o'clock ho taken so sick nn to require the attendance at a and an hour or thereafter he had n second attack of his old of his nearest personal friends were sent for and remained with him dm Inn night Senator on leaving Mr Sumner's at o'clock took Mr ncr by the hand and you know me f Mr Humner but I sec Once Senator fell into an which encouraged some of his friends to believe that he was somewhat but n consultation of his held about that did not establish any reason for impressions At two o'clock this afternoon Mr win still though at Intervals he would at which times lie was in great lie was perfectly conscious when and knew all his occasionally rallying lo Iho of saying a few words lo them At o'clock this passed calmly and without n struggle During the last two hours of Senator illness his intellect scorned to be much and he was perfectly conscious lo the last This condition was doubtless the result of Ills recovery from the effects of the which had been freely administered to liim this morning His sufferings toward the seemed to be and he several times lam He recognized friends who came into the room One of Insl to whom he spoke was of to he Take care of my Civil Rights Around the bed at Ihc time of death were Hoar Dr Vf L of this Major T Downing nnd James Wormeley Other friends who had been wilh the dying Senator throughout the day hud left just nol anticipating Dial his death would be so soon Senator Schurn nnd the Hon Montgomery the room Just as he breathed his Sumner then too near lution lo recognize them The only relative lhal Senator has is a tlic wife of a physician in Sun nnd to her the saa news was tele- graphed immediately after his death During day the honse was visited by a number of the members of both houses of Congress prominent and hundreds of colored prominent among whom was Fred Douglass The sidewalk In front of Senator residence wan filled with anxious and saddened friends at the time of his and when the sorrowful announcement the grief of especially the colored found vent In heartfelt of grief and weeping Senator age at the time of his death was sixty-three two months and 11 ve days Senator Sumner has been solicitous for his health for several days the earnest part Lc has taken in questions before the ate having given him reason to pay especial regard to and he remarked last night to a some hours before he was attacked with tlie serious spasm which in a few hours culminated in bis that he wanted to talk lo him about his he was afraid he was working too hard Senator ut about Iwo o'clock moved from his seat in the Senate chamber to one beside Senator and inquired of Mr Sargent like had taken a prominent part in to the Centennial whether he had received any anonymous insulting letters on the sub- adding that he had received a number of such und packages of a more offensive both through the mails and by express He seemed considerably annoyed by these and Mr turned con- versation to the resolution of tlic setts Legislature rescinding its censure of Mr and he expressed himself greatly pleased with this action An hour or more afterward Mr called Senator Ferry aside to a scat on a sofa in the Senate and talked with as he had done in regard lo their re- states of ill both resulting from affections of tbc spinal cord He told Mr Ferry that he had suffered so much from his heart the night previous that he had sent for his physician to obtain some relief by an injection of morphine under the skin He asked Mr Ferry his opinion of such mic and from time to time com- of severe pain while they were talking a little before four Mr ncr took his hat and overcoat and went his last words in Ilic Senate chamber having been uttered in this conversation with Mr Ferry The apparent vigor by Mr ncr in his recent speeches on the Centennial excited considerable surprise In view of his long-continued feebleness of health last and many of bis friends expressed their apprehension that he was overdoing his strength in those efforts It is regarded as a remarkable and fortunate coincidence that the of the Massachusetts Legislature rescinding its vote of censure upon Mr ncr should have been ard read in the Senate before he left it on the last day of presence In the chamber as a member of that body Dr Brown of New Senator consulting arrived here this evening He expressed tlie opinion to-night resulted from the rupture of a of the heart After Senator Sumner bad paroxysms his body remained cold and clammy and his pulse very and breathing but with some raining In the chest Soon after death the body of the late ator showed signs of and It be- came evident thai decomposition had set in The work of embalming the body was com- and upon the success of Ibis process somewhat tho lime for the funeral About the lasl words of Ihc deceased tor were addressed lo Judge K K and Tell Emerson I love Mm and revere This sentence wan about ten minutes before his and Just after It caped his lips the paroxysm seized in which lie appeared to suffer and lie passed away n few minutes after There is scarcely a member of Hie who did not call at tbc house either before or after the of the Senator The Massachusetts delegation In Congress evening at the residence of Samuel to make arrangements for the funeral of aria consultation it was agreed thai they attend Ihc funeral as mourners Judge fi K Hour wan selected to present resolutions of the ory of deceased to the of Messrs Hooper und of tlic and Senator weie appointed u on the purl of the to uct with a committee of tlie lu lug for funeral All tlie members of the delegation were present ut Ilic meeting except Senator who is indisposed Tlie feeble of Hie Senator will prevent him from announcing of colleague lo the and slid duly will be assigned lo Senator Anthony Tlie The women's whisky was prosecuted on the Olli and On the former ul there wan great exc and a riol was only prevented by the of tlic authorities On the the in three twenty each and stormed thirteen saloons on Third and Fifth streets A rabble followed them from place lo place nnd the turmoil at times almost ing Jests were handled about out- side with loud talk and rough of Into Invested saloons ami UH fast praying women with loud blasphemy und louder snugs Kven women Joined In the and In one Hung out bits of and of crackers among tlic crusading who meekly bore gulling and persisted lu praying The effect ol these Insulin had to Intensify and make the crusade more determined than ever anco muss were held In Columbus and Cincinnati on the 10th The praying movement out In again on the 10th lust For a few days pre- vious quiet had been made to a ber of saloons In the West and the proprietors Invited lo sign UIR pledge On that day they visited several drinking places and engaged In supplication and sotig Tlic ladles were for the most re- and were allowed to continue their religions services to tho end out Interruption On the evening of the the evangelical churches held which were largely lo consider tlic ance and proper to he taken In relation to tlic praying movement Tho conclusion was reached that it better to wait awhile before vigorously prosecuting ind endeavor drat to work up a temperance sentiment on the 600 women met in the First M E and voted to visit the Council Chamber on the and present a petition asking the authorities not lo rescind present Sunday law or adopt any nance more liberal or less restrictive upon tbc keepers of drinking saloons At the crusade continued on the with no abatement of fervor on part of the and visible The movement began In on 13th A large number of saloons were bul failure of ladies was complete Not a loon surrendered In on the afternoon of the the promised mass meeting of Ihc ladles curred Aboul ladies were and after religious exercises a committee of fifty was appointed to visit the Common Council and present a petition for the closing of saloons on the which contained the names of women After the organization of Council the petition was presented by the Chairwoman of the ladies committee In a and ordered filed The pending allowing the sale of liquor on the wits then nays 14 The Indies and were met at Ihc of the Hall by a crowd of dis- orderly men and who rudely cheered and and prevented them from ing the building Al last a posse of police amc to their and safely piloted the through the obscene rabble The com- of ladies reported lo those who had stayed behind lo pray while they went on their perilous mission as In spite of your the Liquor law is passed by the Common Council We have nothing now to do but lo renew our pledges in the cause Let us all pray to thai Biographical Sketch of the Late tor Mn SUMNER was born in Boston in was educated at Harvard and graduated at that with high when he was only nineteen years old By advice of Mr Justice then a member of tbc Court of the United Mr entered upon the study of the law under the supervision of that eminent jurist At end of three years he was admitted to the bar and soon had s large and profitable practice Subsequently he was appointed reporter of the United States Circuit and during this time published three volumes of Justice Story's which arc known to every lawyer SB He also edited tbc American a quarterly law lectured on constitutional and in- law at Cambridge In 1837 he remaining abroad three years In be returned to Boston and resumed the practice of and in he published with annotations in twenty volumes In 1845 the troubles between Mexico and tbc United States and at that lime Mr took a prominent position in National politics In a speech before the municipal authorities of Boston on tbc grandeur of tions he announced himself an advocate of peace He had been known up to this time as a but bis avowal of peace principles in regard to the war with and bis op- position to the annexation of Texas on the ground of its territory to gradually alienated him from that parly A subsequent address lo tbc Massachusetts Whigs on The Anti-Slavery Duties of the Whig completed that and he became practically an outcast from the party councils On the organization of the party Mr Sumner became an active acd prominent rendering them In canvass In Daniel Webster having resigned his scat in the United Stales Senate to become Secretary of State in Mr Mr entered tlie lists as a candidate The chances to be against after a severe the and crats being nearly equally divided In the a coalition was formed by two and Mr was elected In the Mr Sumner at once resumed a prominent position The successor of and coming with a as a con- lawyer second to much was expected from the new Senator He did not disappoint expectations of his for he at once assumed a leading position among his which he has continued to hold ever since His important speech was an attack upon Fugitive Slave law then which he denounced wilh extreme In after n protruded against the repeal of the Missouri which confined to the region south of nnd ho for two en- tire days on The Crime Against In this he severely denounced the action of some of the Southern members of Congress in con- with the attempt lo introduce into and reviewing the history of slavery in an exhaustive manner Two days while sitting ut his desk in tlic Senate after the adjournment of he was approached from behind by S then a Member of Congress From South and severely beaten the head and shoulders with a heavy cane Mr Sumner suffered greatly from the In- juries In Ihls and for Unco or four years was practically disabled from resuming his public duties lo Ihc day of his death he suffered much and il s alleged that the Injuries thus Inflicted tended to shorten his life Mr was re-elected to Ihn Senate in He was owing lo to resume active duty till tlic close of 1859 Al Ills net upon the recovery of bin was to resume bis assaults upon tlie slave power In an elaborate and eloquent speech on Barbarism of In he poured all tlie Hood of Invective which had been accumulating dm ing bis years of confinement In tho Presidential campaign of he took the stump In favor of tlie election of Abraham Lincoln His appeals were always and tils whole energy wue bent toward the overthrow of the slave power On the outbreak of tho war Mr Sunnier saw a prospect for accomplishing hU the abolition of shivery When the firs I defiance lo the was hurled ul the Incoming Administration by Ihc Mr raised his voice in favor of Ing that with the of the slaves As the notes of preparation for war grew he became more earnest in his and throughout the long and weary months and years of conflict be as means of bringing the war to a the emancipation of the slavcH When at last the measure was adopted as a military be was among the lint to uphold the hands of In the early stages of the war the seizure of the Confederate Commissioners to Ihc Euro- can Messrs Mason ami on board the British steamer provoked much contention Mr Sumner almost only Senator who espoused the cause of Great Britain In her demand for the return of the captives He took the ground that seizure unjustifiable on the principles of International which the United Stales had always maintained The leading events of the life of Mr Sumner since conclusion of the late war arc in the recollection of most and need not be hero recounted THE MARKETS NEW YORK LIVK to white wheat 2 Iowa No 2 Milwaukee spring ern and Cora Western to CHICAGO stock to 14.40 Winter spring Wheat MX 961 Xc Me CINCINNATI 85 Lard ST LOUIS to 5.75 XX 2 Bed Fall MILWAUKEE No No DETROIT Wheat TOLEDO 1.51 No ii 67 CLEVELAND 1 No LOT MAST LIVE The Cause of Mr Death The autopsy of the body of Senator Sumner was made by the physicians on the and is made as left coronary artery in a considerable portion of iti length waa so much ossified that its caliber was di- minished at least one-half The right cor- was slightly and con- enlarged The cavities of the heart were especially the lower third of the left ventricle The walla of this ventricle were generally thinner than especially so at a point about an inch and a half from the over a space two-thirds of an inch in diameter In the vicinity of this were several small clots of some of which had ably formed before death Nothing abnormal was found in the brain or other Dr says no traces of the assault committed by Brooks were discovered in the brain Reported Outrage in Mexico The following telegram was sent by the Press on the morning of the 17th It bears date City of March A fearful outrage was perpetrated by a mob at in the State of last day In the morning a priest delivered an Incendiary in the course of which he advocated extermination of the Protestants This so excited his hearers that an armed mob of 200 persons gathered in the evening and proceeded to the residence of the Kev John a Congregational minister sent out by the Boston Board of Foreign Missions With cries of Long live the priests they broke into the house seizing the smashed his head to a and chopped his body into pieces Thoy sacked the house and carried off everything of value After much delay the riot was suppressed by the local are at present jet mines in full only one of these being of soft jet The average number of men employed in each mine is and thero arc now some 150 miners engaged in this industry Hard jet varies in price from 75 cents to per ing to size and according to the fluctuations of the market When the Prince of Wales life was in danger Whitby was thronged with buyers lor raw and article at any and some were severely billen by his happy recovery 11 is stated that the turn over in rough English hard jet amounts to annually The material is as The jet is first n ml stripped of its be it blue or by menus of a manual chipping with a heavy chisel t ia then sawn up the exact sixes for the object for which it is the saw being guided by an ingenious ar- rangement of wooden waste of properly by war is dreadful The track of our is worse than the track of a tornado Before it are fruitful thriving villages and happy behind il arc devastated forsaken dwellings and smoldering ruins Armies not only what is necessary for own but de- stroy whatever may be of use to the ple whoso country they are ravishing Splendid mirrors and costly pianos arc clashed to pieces wilh the and tho fiery brand ignites lite comfortable or costly mansion and leaves nothing be- hind but a heap of ashes are two men now living in New whoso united ages are over one 11 und red and seventy more than sixty years were doing business together In the tailoring de- of their ut that lime or very soon they bad in their employ four females who are also now living in that city and whose united ages are about three hundred and twenty years MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS A paper to fine every man who adulterates liquor AnK so called because they make him high who drinks canes are the latest playthings for New Yorkers MEN arc always philosophical when they have lost their A man offers to live forty days without food if any one will give him THE kernels pita are said to cure heartburn Eat two or s day till relieved IN Arkansas when a man walks into a house and shoots the proprietor ami others he Is styled TUB moth that holds a motherly tion to has arrived in Georgia in large numbers AN incoherent gentleman living in New York has built a shed over a in his garden to protect it from the weather MBS E CADT STANTON does not in- dorse and calls those of her sex who indulge in it a A MAN at Cheyenne was shot dead be- cause he wouldn't chip in and help buy a gravestone for some man who had been hung A HORTICULTURAL genius of has made cherry branches blossom this winter by thrusting the ends into lemons AN Oswego woman says she cannot pray in the but she will shoot the first man who sells her husband liquor N has entered a protest against one of its clergymen attending a masquerade in the character of JOHN McNAMARA went into a New Haven sat down and began to a song Before the first verse was finished he fell dead A of German logued at the recent poultry show at turnout to be a couple of beer faucets A PROVIDENCE boct dealer has been sent to jail for ninety days for selling a blind man two odd boots of different sizes as a pair A MAN in having chased a has petitioned the ture toi the cow and himself as a cheese factory AN exchange wave on which many a poor fellow has been ried away is the wave of a lace-edged cambric THE largest dry goods houses In Boston have decided to send out no drummers this season What they make in the volume of trade they lose in bad debts THE question of the legal right of a woman to be a Justice of the Peace in Maine is at and the Governor has asked the Supreme Court for a decision THE California State Prison don't pay expenses There are 931 c I whom 631 are engaged in cabinet making for a contractor at forty cents per diem THE agents of the Society for the Pre- have brought a man to trial in Providence for throwing a cat from a and breaking her hip A BLAST in wnich 075 pounds of der were used was recently fired in a quarry at and it was mated that tons of rock were lifted from the earth IT is an honor to womanhood that not a dollar has ever been missing from the department of the Comptroller of the where the women exclusively are employed as clerks IT IB always well to bear all ordinary troubles with but when a man's supply of gas is cut off it can't be done That's a trouble which it is im- possible to make light of stingy husband accounted for all the blame of the lawlessness of his dren in company by saying his wife al ways gave them their own way Poor It's all I have to give was the prompt reply A CLERGYMAN with a keen eye to ness recently attended a funeral in and before the corpse had been taken to the grave made out a of five dollars for his services and gave it into the hands of a constable for collection at two Jerome and Peter each aged about ten haying fallen Jerome stabbed inflicting a mortal and going to his father's shot himself with his er's revolver ONE of the three buildings at Mouth occupied as a manufactory of sewing machines by the Singer Sewing Machine Company was recently burned to the involving a loss of about The fire was evidently the work of an incendiary 8 A of has kept house for thirty and when first married bought a paper of pins and and though he has brought up four children has never bought or had any and has half of the original number now in his possession IT and costs in Milwaukee for a brute in a gallery at a theater to rate the heads of the people below Patrick using the bald head of an old gentleman as the objective was promptly arrested and fined at the Police Court A letter mailed in New York years ago for Liverpool re- cently turned up in the Dead Letter Of- fice The letter was addressed to the care of the United States Consul at and is supposed to have been lately dis- covered among the old papers in the Con- THE people of have gone to work with extraordinary energy to repair the sustained by the late and show a determination to tain their position as the metropolis of itana They appear to be al 3 Such nerve and courage deserve success HATS the South Bend male teacher in one of the country schools south of this while punishing one of his female was very decidedly interrupted by an older sister of the cirl he was whipping She caught up a chair and belabored him with it so forcibly that he took to bis heels and left her master of the A PHILADELPHIA lady lost a thousand dollar diamond out of her engagement though every means of search was the case was finally hopeless But one day the lady happened lo be brushing the dust out of the trimming of her street and behold I there was the lost diamond sparkling in the insecure crevice of a flounce It had gone lo and fro in street and been brushed and shaken nearly every and yet there it lay like an ordinary crumb or A FEW weeks ago two ing themselves as agents of Eastern bargained with a couple of ble farmers in for their and took from them contracts ot sale signed by the farmers and their wives to be completed in eight months In the center of the contract was a good note signed by the payable in eight wilh interest at the rate of 10 per cent By tearing oft the inp and bottom of tlie it became good negotiable and the rascals were enabled and did sell it at a discount to one of the town bankers They were subsequently arrested and held to bail for fraud THE it is after na amiable animal A story of ita benevolence comes from Mass and whit is it is greatly to tbc discredit of unnatural having a fine brood of took an intense dislike lo black driving it away and pecking and chasing it The and noticed and taking compassion upon the poor little outcast coaxed It partly and partly drove it into and then tended and wanned it all day At night it was put under iu mother to only to be driven off again in tlic when the cat would take it in and DOW the chicken is a young and able to lake care of herself WHEN the eyes begin to fail use them as little M possible at and avoid reading fine print or doing any work by which tries them Bat when yon instinctively adjust your book so to get a better when the eyes are easily fatigued and there is a sense of effort to make put the letters in print or to take stitches in spectacles are needed They are the last thing to be bought for cheapness Brazilian glasses are tie because of nature's and cult to be but you should wear manufactured glasses first until the eye becomes accustomed to their use Always note the number of your glasses and the date of first using them if you can tell what you want Glasses should be washed in cold water every wiped dry with a linen fabric and then with never with as il scratches them A MAN drew a note promising to pay He used the printed form and did not close up the blank devoted to and after passing it M negotiable paper somebody inserted and after the one hundred and before the printed word dollars The thus got into the hands of an innocent who pre- sented it to the and the Supreme Court decided that the maker of the note was liable for its because through negligence he did not between the written word and Any testimony that the drawer might offer to establish the fact that he gave the note for must go for as there was nothing on the face of the note to show that it had been Evidence of alteration on the face of the note would have changed the case Let this be a lesson to all drawers of promissory notes No one can be too careful in snch matters Baltimore Newt A Crazy Boy's Freak The usually quiet neighborhood of Decker's a settlement four or five miles back from last week proved the scene of an exciting rence which created a deep sensation throughout the district About nine o'clock on Saturday morning a young man of sixteen years named who had for some time previous exhibited symptoms of suddenly conceived the idea that his friends intended to kill and rushed from his house toward a at a little distance His grand- father and uncle vainly pursued the poor fellow He and with the energy of frenzied despair began climbing a large poplar tree In a few minutes he reached the topmost where he looked down from toe dizzy height of seventy feet upon his baffled pursuers The weather was bitterly cold the fugitive had neither coat nor his clothing being rather scanty at best How to extricate him from his perilous situation quickly became a perplexing question At length his relatives determined to make an effort to bring the demented youth safely to the and a couple of men ascended the tree for that purpose But the frightened boy frustrated this scheme climbing still higher and ing out almost to end of a ing limb that swayed and bent under its unaccustomed burden From this dan gerous elevation he defied all further at- tempts at effecting a threatening to throw himself upon upon if nol let alone By this lime many of the neighbors had none could suggest any plan of relief that might hope for a successful issue Hours passed away without changing the scene or terminating the agonizing suspense of the assembled scores His coat was taken up the tree and left as near the unfortunate boy as possible He finally descended far enough to clutch the put it and again resumed his position on the fragile branch To the horrified spectators it seemed as if the limb must break every Jn which case they shuddered to think or fatal consequences The momenta appeared like hours in while the reckless movements of the cause of all this anxiety continually intensified the fear of a ble a mangled and a stricken household A human life hung by a slender liable to snap without the slightest warning It became painfully evident the boy would perish from cold if not extricated and as the lasl alternative it was decided to fell Ine tree Stout ropes were fastened high up to let it come down ing hands took firm and the saw was briskly plied The monarch of the forest succumbed at amid the wildest demonstrations of insane delight from ils dazed occupant The next minute was pregnant with supreme in- terest as the tree gradually inclined from the perpendicular and its top started ward the solid earth In spite of the ex of the men holding the ropes struck against a huge but ere collision took place the boy gave one frantic sprang upon a limb of the ran to the trunk with the speed and agility of a and ia a few brief seconds had climbed higher than before Here was an unlooked-for night was near at and hope almost died out in each bosom The moon rose clear and bright and the air was crisp and the night bitterly sharp Midnight came on and still the distracted youth remained among the highest branches of the leafless tree Vainly the crowd implored him to come down and receive food and shelter He continued deaf to the laughing with all glee of a maniac at their earnest appeals A happy thought loomed which no time was lost in putting into practice The throng dis- wilh the exception of a small ber of men who secreted themselves be- hind trees and logs to be in readiness ft r whatever emergency might demand assistance Then a young playmate iff the crazy to he had always beet much stood at the foot of the presented dishes ol and begged him to come down and gel something to eat This measure finally lie boy yielded to the and in little while once more stood upon the ground Some of men quietly stepped from their concealment secured and ried him home The poor fellow's hands and face and feel were badly frozen as the result of his fearful exposure for over teen hours during the rigors of the est day and night of the season The joy of the friends at the denouement may be imagined Every attention was paid the poor sufferer lhal affection could and he is progressing though his intellect is yel as clouded as before he underwent the dreadful experience of that eventful which none who in the exciting scene will be likely for many years to Off Derrick Dr of Methodist has been talking temperance on the largest scale Clergymen cost intoxicating The city of New York invests in in seventy-one and in the liquor business are nearly fifty women medicine in New York sod Brook most of them and many having incomes of between and while several reach and one or two over There are three medical colleges and a fourth is now building sisters own and operate a Maine flouring and are nuking moner
