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New-York tribune., 1875-07-03
THE TOURTS.
JUDGE ROOSEvELTS WILL

AZ
A FRIENDLY SUIT To DETERMINE THE MEANING OF
A CLAUSE.
The late Judge James l. Roosevelt in his
will eftor providing for his widow aud making somo
small legaoie left the bulk Of his estate. amounting to
about 81 100000 by the fifth clause 10 his executors as
trustees 10 diy idc IL into many shares he LEFT chi
dren or isuo OF children and hold such shares for each
child paying each tho income during life, and Oh the
death Of each the principal TO his or he chidfch OF
mono were left to Judge Rooscsclts other cmdren OF
grandcdrcp tho principal Of the property being care
fully aud vigorously tied UP during the lives Of the Tesla
tors children AT The end Of clause he made the fol-
lowing provision:
Iauthorize ana empower my executors, should they
deem il idciois and proper to make advances IN their
di,rrecr each OF my children respectively out 0it9
capital OF his or her sharo from time to TIM ana IN seh
amounts may seem safe aud conducive 10 tho true
Interests Of tho oCnchciary.
Judge Roosevelt LEFT three children and Immediately
after his viii wa proved each OF thr children applied to
the executors for an advance of 100000 out Of the ca
tai Of the each under the quoted clause Tho
trustees conceded that such advance was 'uiccus
and proper and safe and conducive 10 the interest m the
bcnccar, bHi dpubtcd whether IL oane within 'he IN
tent OF the clause; aud. 10 test it, The three chrn of
Judge EoWcvet-Charies V. Frederick, and Marcia ~
E0osey elt With his widow brought frchar sun
aiiot hs executors JaucS 4. and TheOdorc Roosevelt,
an The infant children Of Charles y Roos vclt 10
derrIuiue what the Will means The plaintiffs claim that
the clause IL either 50 selfnadcpS az 10 % Noid o
that Judge Rooscvelt iaVns left them without means
aud without profess ion, large tT'"rtlon oi me cap
itil of their shares should I've given TO thcm absolutely
The trustees insist that, wMie such claim Is
jnst. the iua,n purposo OF the viii was TO give
The children only he income OF the property and leave
the p,ncal intact for their children uni, So some extra
ordinary contingency shGId arise calling for The us "f
portion capital tn, true incIc -ts OF TIE n Il
ciares The ease was nYgucl yesterday before judge
Westbrook supreme Cnrt, Spccia Term, bv George H.
Yesnan ard Edward T. Bartlett for plaintiffs. GeOrl g.
Dewitt Tor the executors and trustees, and the Hon
Charles A. Peabody FOL the infnnt children OF
Charles y Roosevelt judge Westcrcok reserved his de
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CRIMINAL MOTIFS.

Judee Davis, In the Court 81 Oyer and Ierminer'
yesterday ndm,tted 70 bail IN $1,000 Duncan ~ p the
Court Of Appeals.
At the Essex Market Police Court ycsternay
Charles strauss CHARGED Agnes Bentley with having iOo
him ~ siaj at sordcrly bonse In AneusL OH 1ni'u"s
night sho held in 1900 bail
At the Tombs Police Court yesterday Henry
i,rion was held in Al 600 bail having sto' - s oi
gold spetacss of silver spectacirs ~"
fanie flImau ~ NO IS Ernest Lsnti " NJ
10 Wcst broad way Albert schar ~ No ~ Wss m
y werr committed in default OOO bail each for keepns
d1r,eyly houses.
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New-York tribune., 1875-07-03

Attachments were yesterday issued by Judge
ouohue in Supreme Court Chambers. against the prop
esty i'm this county OF Alexander Collie Co. OF Ma
chester England who recently went into bankruptcy IN
swo snits ono bv the Union Bank of Scotland Tor
sT 3i2 H. tho Other by the London and Westninsfcf
Hank for $s1 800 Of.
Judge Blatchford of the United States Dis
trct Court will be here July 13 for tho purpose oi
New-York tribune., 1875-07-03
GEN. scnExcKs FART IN THr LAWRENCE CASE

Mr.. >toHghton, in his argument against try
iD. Charles H. Lawrence for Fugiiug silks. when he
had been eAtradited for forgery claimed that tho BRITISH
Government could not legally surrender bin except upon
Stipulation that he should be- tried oui for the crime
foT which nc orod and that. therefor ii
10 be presumed that Cen Scicnck. Amc iran Minister 10
Great Britain in order Ia secirt the cXtrGdUn OF Law
renee, had assured the British Government tL.lt Law
houd Dc tried for nothing but forgery I'm his
ry to Mr. stcughtou. United stntcs Di.trct-Aiorrcy
Bliss stated that the easiest way to discover GciL
Scbecks action in tle mat er would bc 10 wic to hiia
MI Bios says that thc authcrtes IN Washington nIpcr
10 have acted upon his suggestion for he received yts-
tcfdN. thrugl tC Sct4ctary nf state, the following
cable disr Itch ffUm Cen. -chcnck:
ANY ptocI.sc that agreed That Lawrence If extra
New-York tribune., 1875-07-03

RIsCRAND HOTEL. Highly recommended for American families
RIsnTEI RASTADT near dc Ia PaixNewly arranged TO
New-York tribune., 1875-07-03
WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON COLLEGE

AMI SEf LiSocN tOiAl-'-NfS'
ONION on TWO OLD sCHooIs-AN HLUsTRIoUs
BODY or ALUMNI-ABsESCE or SPEAKER BLAINE
AND sscRRPAEY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Oh A
NEW BUILDING.
IvRon STAFF CORRESPONDENT TRIBrSR.l
WASHINGTON, Penn, june 30.-Washing-
tsa and jefferson College has fully surrnouDted tho
difficulties that grew cut OF the consolidation OF the two
old institutions whose II bears aud gives PROMISE
under the highly favorable conditions surrounding IT,
rapidly growing up 70 the full of tue hopes
OF its frifnds. stately building, four stories IN
hight. suubeuned by two commanding towers. has been
completed during the past year, and was dcdiated TO-
day with Interesting ceremonies. Including the furn
ture It's cost SIS o00a paid for by subscriptions
raised IN this county and In Pittsburgh except $4,000
which remains a debt, which tho Trustees hope 10
wipe cut during tho coming year. An endowment Of
o90o00o strong Pacuty and at the same time
enatses tho institution 70 offer instruction at very low
satsa For Western institution. the College has
venerable age It's parent schools established
A the Lass ccntary. Washington College grew
Out OF ~ academy chartered In 1887, i've years
after the Town OF Washington was laid out.
Jenersop College sprang from CannoIsburg Academy.
Ukish Wss Sveae1 In 1901. Tho two scl,ook were only
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-25
old Beavers Prayer.

In the State of Ohio there resided a
family, consisting of an old man Of the
name of Beaver, and his three sons, all
of whom are hard "pets'', who had
often laughed to scorE the advice and
entreaties of pious though very &C.
centric minister who resided in the
same town. 1t happened one of the
boys was bitten by a rattlesnake, and
was expected to die, when the minister
was sent for in great haste. On his ar.
rival he found the young man very
penitent, and anxious to be prayed
with. The minister, calling on the
family, knelt down and prayed in thi.
wise:
.'Oh, LordI we thank Thee for rattle
snakes. We thank Thee because rat
tlesnake has bit Jim. We pray Thee
send one rattlesnake to bite John senC
one to bite Bill; send one to bite Sam
and Oh, Lord send the biggest kind o
rattlesnake to bite the old man; TO
nothing but rattlesnakes will eve
bring the Beaver family to repentance
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-25
INSECTS AND FLOWERS.

In the ninth of series of valuable
papers, communicated by Hermann
Muller on the fertilization of flowers
by insects, to Nature. he shows that
butterflies effect the cross-fertilizatiOn
of Alpine orchids. 1t seems that from
twelve to fifteen pei cent. of the ORCH
ids of the Lowlands are fertilized by
LepidOptera, while from sixty to
eighty per cent. of Alpine orchids are
fertilized by the same kind of insects.
This corroborates, he says, his view
that the predominant frequency of but
terfiics in the Alpine region must have
influenced the adaptations Of Alpine
fiowers.
Muller has also shown the wonder
full modification brought about i'm the
legs und mouth parts of bees by their
efforts in fertilizing flowers.
LubbOck's charming little book on
british Wild Flowers considered in
re tion to Insects" has just appeared.
I'll, ?says that while from time ilnme.
mortal we have known that flowers are
of great importance to insects, it is only
comparatively late that we have real
lied how important insects are to flow.
ers. For it is not too much to say thai
if, on the one hand, flowers are in many
cases necessary to the existence of in.
sects, insects, on the other hand, are
still more indispensable to the very ex.
istence of fiowers...... There has thus
been an interactiOn of insects upon
flowers and flowers upon insects, re-
sulting in the gradual modification o.
both.'
In another place he adopts the start
ling and probably correct view that t.
bees and Otner insects we owe the
beauty of our gardens, the sweetness OF
our fields. To them flowers are indebt.
ed for their scent and c0lor-nay, fol
their very existence, in his present
form. Not only have the present shape
and outlines, the brilliant colors, the
sweet scent, and the honey of flowers
been gradually developed through the
unconscious selection exercised by in.
sects, but the very arrangement of the
cOlors, tine circular bands and radiating
lines, the form, ssize, and position O,
the petals, the relative situations of the
stamens and pistil, are all arranged
with reference to the visits of insects,
and in such manner as to insure the
grand object which these visits are
destined to effect
Lubbock has also continued his OBJ.
servations on the intelligence of insects.
He confirms his conclusions presented
last year to the Linn@an Society that
bees can distinguish cOlOrs. He then
recounts some experiments on the
sense of smell possessed by bees, on the
power of recognizing their own COM
paniOns, and on the different occupa-
tions of different bees, mentioning OBJ
servatiOns which seem to show that the
bees act as nurses during the first few
weeks of their life, and only subse-
quently take to collecting honey and
pollen. He also records number of
experiments on ants, which seemed to
show that whatever may be the case
with bees, ants do po.sess the power of
communicating detailed facts to one
Editors Scientific Record,
in Harper's Magazine for April.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-25
Killing a Mouse.

a Keokuk lady, while engaged in
the pursuit of her domestic duties, en-
cOuptered mouse in the flour barrel.
Now, most ladies under similar circum-
stancer would have uttered few fem
mime shrieks, and thensought safety in
the garret. But this one possessed
more than the ordinary degree of fem.
mime courage. She summoned the
hired man and told him to get the
shotgun, call the bulldog, and station
himself at Il convenient distance. Then
she climed hall way up stairs, and COM
menced to punch the fiour-barrel Wig.
orousiy with a pole. Presently the
mouse made its appearance. and start
ed across the floor. The dog at once
went in pursuit. The man fred, and
the dog dropped dead. The lady faint
ed and fell down stairs, and the hired
man, thinking that she was killed, and
fearing that he would be arrested for
mnrder, disappeared, and has not been
seen-since. The mouse escaped.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-25

The Pennsylvania Legislature ad-
journed sine die Thursday.
William Murray has been convicted
of murder in the first degree at Pitts
burgh.
Cheyney's vote in New Hampshire
exceeds that of Roberts, Democrat, by
l22.
The discovery of valuable lead
mine in Butler township, M0ntgom-
cry coudty, Ohio, Is announced.
The Republicans of Cincinnati have
nominated John Robinson for Mayor
ami George Lindeman for Police
Judge.
a short horn steer was butchered In
Detroit recently that weighed 4110
pounds alive, and yielded 5000 pounds
of dr.ssod beef Tais is believed to be
the largest animal ever slaughtered on
this continent.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-25
Agricultural LabOrers at Home
and Abroad.

+. In the agitation at present carried on
respecting agricultural laborers, it Is
often quietly assumed that the position
of the class in this country is much
more unfavorable than that of agricul.
tural laborers abroad. Readers of an
article on the subject in the new num-
Der of the Edinburgh Review will see
that this assumption is by no means
| justified by the facts. After giving the
usual details as to the wages of English
laborers, the reviewer points out that
| if they do not consume tobacco and
spirits they are now practically untax-
ed. Moreover, they escape the burden
of military service, 1t is obvious that
enforced absence from home must be
attended by serious Inconvenience.
Even in Switzerland says the re-
viewer, twhera the period Of drill Is
very short, it is nevertheless grievOus-
| ly complained off, Every man pro-
vides his own kit, at a cost of at least
30s., and to meet this and other ex-
penses he has oaly the pay of sd. a day,
exclusive of rations. The loss is some
times so severe that the communes
have to come to the relief of their
members. Another consideration is
that agricultural laborers in England
are employed nearly all the year round.
The French laborer, on the average,
works only 200 days in the year; and
there is AN enforced law of 76 days in
the year in Austria, lis in Russia, and
large number in Spain and Switzer-
land. English labOrers have almost
invariably shorter hours of work than
their fellows abroad. The Russian peas
ant on a well-managed estate works
from A. NJ. to 8 P. NJ, with three
hours rest during the hottest part of
the day. A German or Italian peasant
is more contented than an Englishman
of the same rank with his mode of liv-
ing; but this is because the continental
poor are more frugal in their habits
than those of this country. In proper
tion to the cost of the chief necessaries
of life, wages here are higher than
abroad. OF all agricultural laborers,
those of Belgium seem worst off. The
necessaries of life are as dear as in Eng
land, while there are $4,000 laborers
and farm servants, not owners of land,
who receive only Is. to Is. Sd. a day,
with additional earnings in summer.
If fed by their employers, they live on
rye bread, potatoes, and curds, with
occasionally bit of bacon or salt meat.
In their own cottages they are less lux
uriously provided for, having no con-
tent themselves with little grease,
brown or black bread, and for their
drink chicory without sugar or milk.
The English laborer who realizes these
facts will begin to feel that, after all,
there are compensations for the hard
ships of his lot London Globe.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-25
A HindOO Story.

A tiger, prowling in forest, was at
tracted by a bleating calf. 1t proved
to be baitr and the tiger found him
self trapped in spring cage. There
he lay for two days, when u
Brahmin happened 10 PASS that way.
oh, Brahmin!' piteously cried the
beast, have mercy on me; let me out
of this cage 'Ah, but you will eat me.
Sat you! devour my benefactor? Never
could be guilty of such deed,' re-
sponded the tiger. The Brahmin, be-
ing benevolently inclined, was moved
by these entreaties, and opened the
door of the cage. The tiger walked up
to him, wagged his tail, and said:
Brahmin, prepare to die; sholl now
eat yuu.' 'Oh, how ungratefrl! how
wicked am not your saviour? pro-
tested the trembling priest. True,
said the tiger, very true; but it is the
custom of our race to eat a man when
we get a chance, and cannot afford tO
let you CO. Let us submit the case to
an arbitrator said the Brahmin.
Here comes fox. The fox is wise;
let us abide by his decision.' very
well,' replied the tiger. The fox, as
suming judicial aspect, sat on his
| launches with all the dignity ne
could master, and looking at the
disputants, he said: Good friends,
am somewhat confused at the different
accounts which you give of this matter
my mind is not clear enough to render
equitable judgment, but if you will be
kind enough to act the whole transac
tion before my eyes / shall attain unto
more definite conception of the case
DO you, Mr.. Tiger, show me just how
you approached and entered the cage
and then you, Mr.. Brahmin, show me
how you liberated him, and
shall be able to render proper decis
ion.' They assented, for the fox was
solemn ana oracular. The tiger walk.
ed into the cage, and the spring dool
fell and shut him in. He was prisO
ner. The Judicial expression fader
from the foX's countenance, and turn.
ing to the Brahmin he said: Il advise
you to go home, and abstain, in the
future, from doing favers to rascaliy
tigers. Good morning, Brahmin;
good morning, tiger
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-25
Come here, my wife, and sit by me,
One by one.
BIZ ADELAIDE PROCTOR.

One by one the sands are flowing,
One by one the moments fall;
Some are coming, some are going,
Do not strive TO grasp them all.
One by one thy duties wait thee,
Let thy whole strength 60 to each;
Let no future dreams elate the,
Learn thou first what these can teach.
One by one-bright gifts from Heaven
Joys are sent thee here below;
Take them readily when given,
Ready, too, to let them go.
One by one thy griefs shall meet thee,
Do not fear an armed band;
One will fade as others greet thee;
Shadows passing through the land.
Do not look at life's long sorrow;
See how small each moments pain,
God will help thee for tomorrow,
So each day begin again.
Every hour that fleets 80 slowly
Has its taske to do or bear;
Luminous the crown, and holy,
When each gem is set with care.
Do not linger with regretting,
Or for passing hours despond;
Nor, the daily toll forgetting,
Look too esgerly beyond.
Hours are golden links-God's token
Reaching Heaven; but one by one
Take them, lest the chain be broken
Ere the pilgrimage be done.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-25


There is,a good joke on a school pro-
fessor iR Paris, Ill. In The Summer he
went t6Chicago to attend some sort OF
an educational meeting, and retiring
for the night, he found that the room
was rather close, and had his ro0n-
mate to get up and open the window;
he found the window but could not
raise it, 30 the professor told him to
knock pane out; he did SO, and re-
turned to bed. The professor concluded
that the room was still too close to suit
him, so he got up and kicked out an
other pane of glass, and said, That
feels more comfortable and went to
bed and enjoyed the ventilated room.
On getting up in the morning they dis
covered they had smashed the glass IN
the door OF the bookcase.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-25
Was Obliging.
From the Detroit Free Press.


The other evening q kind-lookins
old man was escorted to room on the
third floor of hotel to pass the night
and it wasn't five minutes before the
bell indicated that he wanted to see &
waiter. A colored boy ran up, stuck
his head into the room, and asked what
was wanted. The old man said he
didn't want anything but the waiter
was hardly down stairs before the bell
rang again.
Did you want suffin'? he inquired as
he reached the room again.
Nothing replied the old man, as
he opened the door.
In about two minutes his bell rang
again, and this time the waiter ex-
claimed:
If you don't want nuffin,' what ar
ye pullin' de bell fur?'
i want to oblige the waiter, replied
the old man.
DE waitah Oblige de waitah?'
Yes; it says here: Please ring the bell
for the waiter and if he wants it rung
Pm tired and sleepy, and shan't pull
it more'n four times more unless
know that some of his family are sickv
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-25
Lost Oecupatiors.

Half century ugo bellows-making
was thriving trade. Every house
had q pair of bellows, and in every
well furnished mansion there was q
pair hung by the side of every fire.
place. But as stoves and CRATES took
the place of open fire-places, and as
coal was substituted for wood, the de-
mapd for bellows diminished, until
the business as separate trade died
out.
The same is true of flint-cutting.
Flints were once necessary, not only
for firearms, but for tinder-boxes, and
a tinder-box was as necessary for eve
ry house as grid-irOn OF a skillet. Ev-
cry one who looks back to childhood
of forty years ago must remember the
cold winter morning when the persis-
tent crack, crack of flint sent up from
the kitchen an odor of igniting finder
and sulphur which pervaded the house.
We have no more idea what became of
the flint producers than of the old man
of sorrowful memL ries, who, three or
four times a week, called at our door
with birthstone matches for sale at a
half penny half dozen lunches. Both
have completely vanished.
Again, the pin-makers are gone,
who, though they have been in their
graves this quarter of century, still
figure in lectures and essays to illus
trate the advantages of division of Ia
Dor. Instead of a pin taking a dozen
or more men to cut, grind. point, head,
polish, and what not, as it use to do
pins are now made by neat little ma.
chimes, at the rate of three thousand pei
minutes, of which machines a single
child attends to half dozen.
Nail-nahing at the forge is another
lost industry. Time was, and that ir
the nineteenth century, when every
nail was made on the anvil. Now
from one hundred TO one thousad nail
per minute are made by machines
The mailer who works at the forge ha
but bad chance to compete with sucl
antagonists, and he would have n,
chance at all were it not that his nail
rare tenfOld tougher than the former
, As it is, the poor men follow an all bu
, hopeless vocation, and are eompello,
: to live in continual hand grips witt
, poverty.
In former days sstraw-bonnet making
was practiced in every middle-clas
| house where there was growing fami
| lies, and straw plating formed the sta
f pie of domestic leisure work. The
bOnnets were bonnets, covering tn
head with margin of foot or two t
, spare and presenting a sort of conicaI
: shell-shaped recess, in which dimplin
smiles and bewitching curls nestled i
comfort. The work has vanished an
will never re-appear, unless the Will
: ligig of fashion should glide again int
q the forsaken track.