SUNBEAM AND SHADOW.
We shrink from little sorrows,
our own weak hearts dismayed,
Hearken to the lasson taught us
"By the Sunbeam and the Shade,
Came a sunbeam bright and golden
To the earth one summer's day;
Bud and bin! awoke rejoicing,
Basking in its living ray.
But where'er the sunbeam traveled,
Over village, hill or dell,
With a sad yet gracious presence
Its attemdant shadows fell,
Youd the people cried: “Oh, Sunbeam,
Pear art thou to old and young:
But we will not have the shadow
O’er thy radiant pathway flung.”
Silently the shadow glided
From the bridge, from roof and stone,
But a glory left the heaven,
For the sunbeam too was gone.
Then they cried; “Come back,oh Sunb eam
Cheer once more our longing sight;
Better "twere to keep the shadow,
Than to lose thy living light.”
And thesun made answer truly:
“Be it known to one and all,
W heresoe'er the sunbeam lighteth
Must the shadow likewise falll"”
SE RA SR
HIRAM JENKINS MISTAKE,
AA” Sp
tween the two farms. Then he delib-
erately unhitched his horse, got into
thewagon and drove off, never casting a
look towards the window wheres the
fair Jenny sat in watehful expectation.
Not until he reached his own door did
he draw a long breath,
“It seems just like a dream,’ said he
to himself as he slowly unbuckled the
harness, “To think of Jenuy Bates
kicking her own father and biting her
little brother, and she looking as though
butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth! It’s
jus: a8 mean, though, 1n the deacon to
lick as tis for her to ki k. The old
hypocrite! Well, I must say I'm might-
ilv deceived in the DBatesses. I s8’pose
Elnathan Rodgers feels cranky enough
now he's got her. I just hope she’ll kick
his head off. Lucky for me I over-
heard what I did.”
tion, Hiram felt all the pangs of disap-
pointment and jealousy. He bad not
only lost his “girl,” but had been cut
in the most mortifying manner by a
man he held in thorough contempt.
He felt that even with what he knew
of Jenny's fauits, if he could gain her
hand he would carry her off in spite of
Hiram Jenkins drove slowly up the
hill road that led to the farm-house of |
Deacon Bates, It was plain even to
the casual observer that the errand he |
was on was of no common importance, |
No man would have arrayed himself so |
gorgeously simply for the purchase of a |
tub of fall butter or a yoke of steers, |
His hair was in & state of distressing |
smoothness, and seemed almost a part |
of the glossy hat which covered it. His |
coat and pantaloons were marvelous in |
their way. and his boots, which had
beenelaboratelyblackened reflected back |
the rays of the setting sun in a man- |
ner perfectly blindiag to the beholder,
And yet,
jority in all these respects to the lilies |
of the field, thare was apparent in his |
actions a singular sort of nervousness
a trepidation almost, which rendered
his appearance at once ridiculous and
awkward. This trepidation was in no |
wise lessened by the sudden vision of a
red-headed urchin watching him from |
the barn-door, and who as the team ap- |
proached, with an ever-widening grin,
sped off in the direction of the farm.
house and disappeared through the
kitchen door. Hiram was conscious a
minute afterwards of being a target
for a half dozen pairs of eyes from the
gitting-room windows, and it required
extraordinary strepgth of mind on his |
part to drive past the house to the shed
where the horses of ail visitors were
hitched. There are few more awkward |
things to do than to get out or in a
carriage when women are watching,
and though Hiram had probably never |
thought of the fact before, he fully ex-
perienced its truth, as, endeavoring to
spring genteelly from the buggy, his
foot slipped on the wheel and he came |
down on hishands and knees in the dirt. |
His remarks as he scrambled £0 his feet |
were confined to one word, but that,
though short, was the most expressive |
one in the Eoglish language.
“I'L have to go round to the bam |
pump and wash my hands before I can |
go in,” be said to himself. “‘I suppose |
they are having their fun out of me in |
the house now. Confound it, I wish I
hadn't started,”
As he passed the door of the horse
barn which was partly open he heard |
the sound of voices, He listened, and |
his heart sank as he recognized the
tones of his rival, Elnathan Rodgers.
“I want her bad,”’ he was saying. |
“She just suits me. You can’t always |
have her, you know, and you'd better |
call the thing settled.” i
“I don’t know about that,’ answered |
the deacon doubtfully. “I’ve always!
sald. come what would, 1 wouldn't part |
with Jenny. But you haag on so, I|
don’t know—-"
“Say it's a bargain, deacon. I've
thought it over a good while, and Jenny !
I must have. I'll treat her well you |
may be sure of that”, i
The deacon hesitated, blew his nose,
and finally said:
“She's got some little tricks that
nobody knows nothing about but me,
and I don't want to impose upon a
peighber,”’
“On, pshaw! that’s only an excuse,
deacon. I’m willing to risk it.”
“She kicked me in the stomach last
winter, and bit little Sammy pot morn
six weeks ago. I can show you the scar
now ’
“Great king!’ thought Hiram, “‘and
here 1 was going to pop the question
this very night. Who would have
thought it!”
“11 take that out of her,” said El
nathan, continuing the conversation.
If she so much as lifts her foot against
me. 11 give her a lickin’ that'll last
& month.”
“Lick!” ejaculated Hiram to himself,
astonished beyond measure, “Lick
Jenny Bates! Well, this goes ahead of
anything I ever heard of And the
old mau doesn't say a wordl What
next?’
A pause ensued, which was at last
broken by the deacon:
“Well, if you must have her, you
must. I expect the old lady’ll want
something to say about it, though. She
thinks as much of Jenny as I do. Won't
come into the house?’’
“Not now. I've got to go down to
the villiage before dark. 1°11 be round
Some time to-morrow.”
notwithstanding his super- |
i
his rival or the deacon either,
A week passed by, and Jenny was
One
day he went to the villiage, and while
office, Elnathan Rodgers drove by with
the deacon’s mare.
“l s'pose now he's got Jenny he
thinks he’s got a right to the whole
to gracious the old mare would put her
feet through the dashboard!”
That might the singing school met at
the Academy. Hiram came late. He
could not, however, help seeing Elna.
the blank leaf of her singing book,
which she read and answered.
night,” thought Hiram.
first time I've missed it for a year. Fe's
All intermission he kept his seat, and
pretended to be very busy looking for
some tune in his singing book that re-
fused to be found. Jenny did not look
at him,
The doxology closed the school at last,
the door, and an eager pushing among
the young men to make sure of their
favorites, Hiram was trying to make
his way through the crowd, when he
found himself at the elbow of Jenny
Bates, and the same moment the hate.
Rodgers was
“Shall I see you home to-night, Miss
Bates?’
**No, sir,” was the prompt answer,
“I shall walk home alone,”
Hiram was totally unprepared for
thie,
“Perhaps it’s one of her fits. * he
*“The deacon said she
had 'em; that nobody knew but him.
self, I'm glad she mittened him,
though.”
The word mitten reminded Hiram
that he bad left both on his seat in the
school-room, and ne stepped back just
as the candles were being put out.
“Here's Jenny Bates singing-book.,”
he heard one boy say to another. *‘She
went off in such a hurry to-night she
forgot it.”
membered what had taken place that
evening, and with eager look sought
out the written messages that had pass.
ed between Jenny and his rival. They
were as follows:
“Tell your father he cheated me
when I bought old Jenny, I thought
something, but she kicks and bites ten
times worse than he ever told me. |
wish now I had spoken for the Jenny
in the house instead of the one in the
And the answer,
“I guess the horse is as good as you
deserve. As for choosing betwixt the
two you mention, you won't he able to
do that this year.—~You have got the
only Jenny you can over get from my
father.”
A light broke in upon Hiram.
“Well of all the infernal fools I aver
heard I am the biggest! A dog would
have had more sense, It's not too late
now, thank heaven,”
The departing crowd started as Hi.
ram with the singing-book in his band
rushed down stairs, two at a time, and
up the road which lead toward Deacon
Bates’s. If he was not too late he was
nearly so, for Jenny was just opening
the gates of the front yard.
“Stop, Jenny!” he exclaimed, pant
ing for breath. ‘Here's your singing:
book. You left it on your seat. I
tried to overtake you.”
“You needn’t have taken the trou.
ble, Mr. Jenkins; I guess no one would
have stolen it,” said Jenny with a great
display of dignity snd making a show
of going into the house,
“Don’t, Jenny! Walt—walt just a
minute. I know I've scted like & fool;
bat just let me explain.”
Jenny hesitated a moment, made an-
other start for the door, then turned
and went back to the gate where the
discomfited Hiram stood waiting.
“Well, she said in as freezing & tone
as she could command.
AMiram Jenkins waited until he saw
oo.
» :
i
Jenny Bates, You know I never would
have acted as I have if I hadn’t thought
I1had a reason for it. 1 thought you
wore going to marry Elnathan Rodg-
ers.”
“What business had you to thinkany
such thing?* asked Jenny, fireing up
“A pretty explanation that isl” ane
again she turned away from the gate
“Stop! let me tell you, Can’t you lis.
ten a minute?” said Hiram in despera-
tion, He felt there was no other way
than to make a clean breast of it, and
plunged into his story at once. Word
for word he related the conversation he
had heard in the horse-barn, aud the
effect it had upon him, He was deep:
ly in earnest, and in closing, humbly
appealed for forgivness. He saw her
tremble and put her hands to her face.
Poor girl, she pitied him! His heart
and longer from being so pe: t up, rang
out upen the night air, almost startling
himout of his boots and walking thedea-
con and his wife from a sound sleeep in
the upper front bed-room.
cap; ed head was thrust ont, with a de-
mand as to what was the matter, Still
Jeuny laughed, while Hiram stood
{ silent by the gate, angry and ashamed,
not knowing whether to advance or go
back. At last Jenny found her voice.
"(xo home, Hiram Jenkins,’ she said;
say your prayers and go to sleep, and
{ If you want to say anything more to
me, come up to-morrow evening after
supper Bat mind, don’t you go to
i listening at any berse-barms on your
way home;** and she went off in another
| peal of laughter.
Hiram did not wait to say good night.
Whether be slept or said his prayers
that night is not recorded, but itsanes-
tablished fact that eight o'clock next
{ evening found him in Deacon Bates's
| parlor, The interview was a long and
| probably an interesting one, and its im-
| mediate result was that before Thanks
| iving the deacon had neither a Jenny
| in the house nor in the stable.
Ly A ———
Utiimming Christmas Cards,
i
| It is pleasant 0 know that the
{ Duchess of St. Albans, although a lady
{of high degree, hus, like the worthy
| wife of John Gilpin, “a frugal mind.”
| We learn that the Duchess of Bt. Al-
| bans is utilizing Christmas cards in a
way that does equal credit to her in.
| genuity and benevolence. “Her Grace
| of cards which have served their origi-
{ nal purpose, her object being to convert
{ them into a permanent decoration for
{the Nottingham Hospital. Contribu
{tions should be sent to Bestwood
| Lodge; unless tie other lady readers,
{ titled or untitled, should feel disposed
| to emulate the example of the Duchess
| by turning their houses into fresh col
| lecting centers for similar charitable
| work,”
This is certainly an admirable idea,
and we hope that Truth will tell us just
how the Duchess arranges her cards,
| We have seen an admirable arrange-
| ment made by an untitled American
lady, which would be suitable for pur.
| poses of hospital decoration, and at the
{same time answer the oft-repeated
question, **What cthall we do with
| Christmas, Faster and New Year
| cards?” The cards were tastefully ar.
i ranged on a background of cardboard,
{tinted or white, cut in the form of a
| panel or frieze, which was covered with
| Rls and framed with a narrow, inex-
{expensive frame of light wood. The
effect is exceedingly pretty, and in this
way the cards are preserved from dust,
and may be used for years as a decora
tion for walls, otherwise bare and
cheerless, Texts of Scripture in iliu-
minated letters are also framed and
hung on hospital walls, These might
be alternated with the frieze or panel
of cards. Such wall decorations add
immensely to the cheerfulness and at.
tractiveness of hospital wards, Witness
the case of the Children’s Hospital, on
Twenty-second street, New York,
where the walls are covered with gay
pictures, giving the wards, at a first
glance, the appearance of large, pleas.
ant play rooms,
Pipes of ¥ soe,
A lady in Detroit, who does not use
tobacco in any form, has a collection of
pipes which would do credit to a eon-
noissenr. There are brier pipes from
Switzerland, meerschaums from Ger.
many, clay, porcelain and bisque pipes
in every style of manufacture, and De
troit pipes bearing names engraved in
the ciay. The quaintest pipes, those
that are make of brown or black clay,
aro designed with the bowls cut in the
shape of a turk’s head or a horse's,
dog's, or sheep's face, and are tied to-
gether in pair by tri-colored narrow
ribbons and suspended to pictureframes
and brackets, Occasienially this lady
gives a **pipe party.” It is
funny *“mvitation” club, but by no
means stupid, Incense is burned in
some of the pipes, The ladles smoke
tea rose leaves, sweet herbs and mildly
flavored cigarettes in their pretty pipes,
cross their little feet and tell jolly stories,
a la their male compatriots, who would
no doubt vote it 8 very tame affwir,
The yellow cob pipes, tied with red aud
ribbons, are favorite patterns
A stitch in ninesaves time,
A pin a gross is a day per year,
When the wit is in, the wine 18 out, —
Every great passion isbut a prolonged
hope.
It’s a wise father that knows his own
It is well to think well; it is divine to
act well,
Ona good example spoils many good
precepus,
Man must become wise by his own
experience,
Thinking is the talking of the soul
with itself,
One vice
many virtues,
There’s many allp 'twixt the cup
and the slip.
Every day has its dog.
have two dogs.
It’s useless to lock the horse atler the
stable is stolen.
All is not lost when anything goes
contrary to you.
There ean be no Christianity where
is more expensive than
Some days
Always leave home with loving words,
for they may be the last,
Best be off with the new
you're on with the old
Those who live in
shouldn't throw glass,
Let us be grateful to writers for what
love before
stone houses
He who Lives but for hims:if lives
put for a little thing.
Sitence is the wit of fools and one of
the virtues of the wise,
Fiction pleases the more in propor-
tion as it resembles truth,
Let us learn upon earth those things
which call us to Heaven.
When love flies in at the window
poverty flies out at the door.
Our ac fons are our own, their con-
sequences belong to heaven.
To count but few thirgs necessary is
the foundation of many virtues,
There is no dungeon so dark and
Do not speak of your happiness to a
less for'unate man than yourself,
You may lay yourself out not for
much rest, but for greal patience,
The little things that make up our
life come every day and every hour.
The readiest and surest way to get
rid of censure is to correct ourselves,
The main strength and force of & law
consists in the penalty annexed to it.
There is but one way to heaven,—the
way of self-sacrifice and unselfish ser-
vice,
Wrongs entrenched in bad legislation
can never be converted into vested
rights,
As to trouble, who expects to find
cherries wit hoat stones, or roses with-
out thorns?
Bat little evil would be done in the
worid if evil never could be done in the
name of good,
In judging of others, a man often
erreth: but in examimng himself,
always fruitfally.
When the heart is not occupied by
good thoughts, bad ones are ever ready
to insinuate themselves,
Worthy books are not companions,
they are solitudes; we lose ourselves in
them, and ali our cares,
Gold ean buy pearly everything In
this world except that which a man
wants most — viz, happiness,
The bread of life is love; the salt of
life is work: the sweetness of life,
poetry; the water of life, faith.
Hypocrites are wicked. They hide
their defects with so much care that
their hearts are poisoned by them.
Independence and self-respect are es-
sential to happiness, and these are never
to be attained together without work.
Any man may do a casual act of
good nature, buta continuation of them
shows it is a part of their temperament.
Every day is a little life, and our
whole life is but a day repeated. There-
fore, live every day as if it would be
the last.
It is little troubles that wéar the
heart out. It is easier to throw a
bvomb-shell a mile thin a feather—even
with artillery.
There ean be no good character
without 8 conscience, But, to be of the
best effect, it must be enlightened as
well as sincere,
Whatever the world may say, there
are some mortal sorrows, and our lives
ebb away Jess through our blood than
throagh our tears,
Health is one thing needful, there.
fore no pains, expense, self-denial, or
restraint which we submit to for the
sake of it is too much.
Pride and malice are the causes of
censoriousness, We must seek a rem-
edy for these evils in the practice of
humility and charity.
The one wvrudence in life is concen
tration; the one evil is dissipation; and
it makes no difference whether our dis.
sipations are coarse or fine.
When you measure aught give full
measure and weight with a just bal
ance. One hour of equity is better
than seventy years of devotion.
It is much easier to find a score of
men wise enough to discover the truth
than to find one intrepid enough, 10 the
face of oppostion, to stand up for it.
Reflection is an angel who every day
bears reports to heaven of our doings
here, and when the books are opened
we must answer for the records kept.
The action of man is a representative
type of has thought and will; and a
work of charity is a representati
| NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Speaker Carlisle's condition was
much improved on the 11th, and his
physician thinks he will soon be able to
£0 out,
~James Harrady, colored, was fro-
zen to death at Clifton, Delaware
county, on the 10th, while driving from
Philadelphia to has home in Media,
~The house of Hiram Atkins, at
Concord, Ohio, was burned on the 10th
snd onthe 11th Atkins and two chil-
dren were found burned to death,
“Atkins was an old and helpless invalid
and his young wife left with a man
represented as her brother a few hours
after the fire.”’
—The houses of Congress met on the
11th in joint convention and counted
the Electoral! votes, Wnen the count
was finished Mr. Edmunds, the presid.
ing officer, announced that Cleveland
and Hendricks had received **a ma.
jority of the votes of the whole number
of Electors appointed as they appear iu
the certificates read bythe tellers,’* and
“50 appear to have been elected’ Presi.
dentand Viee President.
~The boiler in McDaniel & Wright's
flour mill at Franklin, Indiana, explod-
ed, on the 12th, wrecking the building
and killing James High, the engineer.
Snow began falling at Montgomery,
Alabama, at So'clock. on the 12th, and
continued at one o'clock in the after-
nocn, The ground is frozen hard, and
the depth of the snow greater than has
ben known in that Jatitude for many
years, Heavy snow is also reported at
Tuscaloosa and Talladega,
~Sharp earthquakes were experienced
on the 7th in the Mexican State of
Oaxaca, At Niltepec houses were
rocked to and fro, and one was thrown
down,
has suspended Principal Barnes, of one
of the high schools, for two weeks, for
flogging a pupil. An order
passed to hereafter abolish
punishment 1n schools,
A train on the Illinois Central
Railroad dashed into some emply cars
at Chicago, on the 11th, owing to the
carelessness of a switchnan., About
$8000 damage was done Lo rolling stock,
and a number of passengers were badly
shaken up.
~The American Protective Tarif
Association wet on the 12th In New
York, Henry 1.. Eckert, of Reading,
presiding.
was also
COl poral
—The first annual session of the New
York State Woman Suffrage Associa
tion was held on the 12th, in New York
city, Addresses were make by Mis
Lillie Blake, Mrs. Caroline Rodgers,
ex-Governor Hoyt of Whyoming
abeth Cady Stauton, Hamilton, Wilcox
and Mrs, Parnell.
All the coal mines in Illinois,
diana and Ohio are reported
suspended operations, owing to
failure of the milroads, which
crippled by the snow blockade, to
dle the stock.
Speaker Carlisle is threatened with
an attack of acute rheumatism, and
will probably be confined to his house
for several days,
—A freight train on the Washington,
Ohio and Western Railroad was wreck-
ed near Guilford Station, Virginia, ou
the 12th, by the breaking of a rail
Clarence Washington, the conductor,
was killed.
In-
have
the
are
han-
10
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Pennsylvania Legislature.
SENATE.
In the Senate on the 0th, thers ware
but few members present, and the only
business transacted was the first read-
ing of twenty bills,
In the Senate on the 10th,
bill to provide for renewing and extend.-
ing charters of provident institutions,
savings institutions and savings banks
came up on final passage. After a dis-
cussion between Messrs, Aull and
Humes as to whether the pending bill
did in fact leave it discretionary with
the Governor to issue or extend a char-
ter to an institution of questionable
character, the further consideration of
the bill was postponed, upon the re-
quest of Mr. Aull, to permit an amend-
ment. On motion of Mr. Reyburn
the Senate bill supplyining the deficien-
cy in the appropriation act of 1883 for
the payment of salaries of Orphans’
Court Judges, and the one for the pay-
ment of the salaries of the President
Judges of the Forty-sixth and Forty-
seventh Judicial Districts, were taken
up and read the third time. The Sen-
ate adjourned.
In the Senate on the 11th the Wife
Beater’s bill was amended on second
reading to confine the punishment to
cases of wife beating, the explanation
of this being that it would prevent
women other than wives from practic-
ing blackmail. The bill to provide for
renewing and extending the charters of
saving banks, ete. came up on final
passage, but the title being amended,
was laid over without action. Bills on
the second reading occupied the re
mainder of the day. The Senate ad-
journed.
In the Senate, on the 12th, the Sen-
ate Bill for the maintenance, industri.
al education and training of the intelli.
gent children of Pennsylvania was
called up on second reading by Mr,
Cooper, of Delaware, who moved to
amend the first section by substituting
in place of the requirement for an or-
ganization In conjunction with the
soldiers’ orphan schools, a provision
that the new schools shall be organized
in “such soldiers’ orphans’ schools as
can be spared for the purpose, from
time to time, as the soldiers’ orphan
children decrease in numbers, or as they
become consolidated mn the
soldiers’ orpuan schools,” Mr,
offered an amendment to the first
tion, that “he Act shall not
with the of charitable and
House, on the 10th, the House
*
In the
;
as studies In the public schools, came
up on second reading, Mr, Faunce, of
Philadelphia, called attention to the
importance of the bill as one which ab-
ruptly introduced a radical change in
the public school studies, and which
would, in lus judgment, necessitate
new book contracts, He moved that
the further consideration of the bill be
postponed for ihe present. Mr. Dono-
hue, of Philadelphia, seconded the mo-
tion, which was agreed to-—yeas #5
nays 72. During the roll call the hour
of adjournment arrived, but the eall
was completed and the result announced,
The House adjourned,
In the House on the 11th, the folilow-
ing resolutions were introduced: resol-
ved if the Senate concur that our Sena-
tors be instructed and our Representa-
tives requested to use their earliest and
utmost efforts to pass the bill placing
General U, 8, Grant on the retired list,
The resolution was withdrawn for the
present,
The House bill to regulate the prac-
tice of pharmacy and sale of poisons,
and to prevent adulterations in drugs
and medical preparations prepared by
the State Pharmaceutical Association,
was considered on second reading. Mr,
Neely submitted an amendment, which
was adopted, striking out the provision
requiring a licensed druggist to have
ten years' experience in the retail drug
business and making it five years, Mr.
Hoffa offered an amendment that
physicians who held genuine diplomas
be allowed to sell drugs. agreed 10.
Mr. Chritzman offered an amendment
prohibiting the recompounding of
scriptions by pharmacists except
direction of physicians,
consideration of the
House adjourned.
In the House on the 12th Mr. Schnat-
terly, of Fayette, called up the bill for
the appointment of a committee to re-
| vise the mining and ventil laws,
160,
the
pre-
by
Pending the
amendment the
{and it was passed finally—yeas
nays 1. The consideration of
amendment to the State Pharmacy bull
prohibiting druggists from recom pound-
ing vrescniptions, except by direction of
a physician, was resumed, and there
was every indication of a protracted
discussion, when the friends of the b Hl
hed further action postponed, The Vet-
erinary and Surgery bill wus defeated
for the session by the voting down of
a motion to reconsider, The bill pro-
posing to repeal the act of 1881 requir
ing security for costs in the lower and
upper courts in all writs of error and
appeal to the Supreme Court occuped
the attention of the House until ad-
journment,
FORTY-EIGHTH GONGRESS—
SEECORD BSESEBION,
BENATE.
In the U., 8 Senate, on the 10th,
“Anti” Siiver Coinage bill came up In
order, but was posponed until the 11th,
and the Pension Appropriation bill was
considered, and passed substantially as
reported by the Senate Committee. All
the legislative measures found the
bill as it came from the House relating
to the compensation of pension attor-
neys etc. were stronck out, the Senate
having already passed a special bill con-
taining those provisions, The bill now
| goes back to the House. The House
| bill repealing the Preemption and
Timber Culture laws was considered,
pending which the Senate adjourned.
In the U. 8, Senate, on the 11th, the
Army Appropriation bill was reported.
The bill to repeal the Preemption and
Timber Culture laws was considered.
After an executive session the Seuale
| adjourned.
In the U. 8, Senate, on the 12th, the
Chair announced as the Senate come
mittee to arrange for the comw:g nag-
| guration Messrs, Sherman, Hawley and
tanson. The bill repealing the Pre-
emp ton and Timber-Culture laws and
the Army Appropriation bill was passed
with amendments, which send them
back to the House, The Texas Laud
Grant Fortfeiture bill was taken up,
pending which the Senate went Into
executive session, and, a few minutes
later, adjourned.
HOUSE
In the House, on the 10th, after the
reading of the journal, Mr. Kelley, of
Penna,, moved an amendment to that
document in the portion referring to a
scene between Mr. White, of Kentucky,
and the Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms dur-
ing Monday’s session. Mr. Reusgan
moved to lay Mr. Kelley's motion on
the table. Agreed to, yeas 160, nays 94.
Mr. Keifer, of Onio, moved that a
committee of ive members be appointed
by the Speaker to examine and report
on the fact with relation to the proceed-
ings on Monday. After along debate,
Mr. Reagan moved to lay Mr. Keifer's
motion on the table, which was agreed
to--154 to 32. The Speaker anounced
the appointment of Messrs. Clay. of
Kentucky, and Keifer, of Olio, as tel-
Jers for the House during the counting
of the Electoral vote. A Senate bill
was passed appropriating $150,000 for
the erection off a public building at
Agusta, Mane. The Post-office appro-
priation bill was considered, pending
which the Hons adjourned.
In the Houre, on the 11th, a bill was
reported regulating the compensation « £
U. 8, Marshals other officials, Th 8
18 the bill which was inovrpmated mn
the last Sundry Civil bill, but which
was stricken therefrom in the Senate,
the
in the House, on the 12th, Nathan F,
elected tavive from
Island. to succeed Jonathan
and wassworn in. Mr,
Kentucky, moved *‘that at
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