NEWS OF THE WEEK. —The wife of Congressman Bynum had a terrible experience with a burg- lar at her residence, in Indianapolis, on the 7th, Mr Bynum is absent at Washington, and the family at home includes Mrs, Bynum, two children and a domestic. At half-past two o’- clock a burglar awoke her and told her to search the house for money, and upon giving him $5 he attempted to as- sault her. Alarmed by her screams he fled, and she took refuge in a neighbor’s house. Meanwhile the scoundrel es. caped, -Train wreckers on the 9th set fire to the trestle on the Savannah, Florida and Western Railway. about fifty miles north of Jacksonville. While butning, a traln ran into the trestle and the locomotive and fifteen cars were burned. No lives were lost. All the trestles on the road ase now guarded, In joint session of the Illinois Legis- lature on the 9th Morrison received 11 votes for U. S, Senator, The rest were scattered. A telegram from Spring- fleld, Illinois, says that the Leeper, the defeated Democratic candidate for Rep- resentative in the Thirty-fourth Dis. trict of Illinois, will contest the elec- tion of Weaver, the successful Repub- lican candidate, —General Grant slept fully seven hours on the Uily, and when the four doctors of the staff met in consultation they found the General's condition was, ous spots were unchanged. Ex-Congressment Charles M, Shelley of Alabama, has appointed Fourth Au- ditor of the Treasury, to succeed Char- les Beardsley, resigned. He has quali- fied, apd will enter upon his duties on the 11th. The president on the 11th signed the commissions of William R. McConnell, to be ussoclate justice for Dakota, and A. P. Swineford, to be Governor of Alaska. Maurice Litsch was, on the 11tn, appointed Postmaster of Mahoney ( I. Bricker, whose term has expired. —The National Republican report that the President the office of Register of the to General W. 3. Rosecrans. gives a offered Treasury has 11th, appointed Assistant Botanist of the Agricnltural Department. —General Grant was troubled during Sunday night with considerable pain in his throat, and his sleep was frequent- ly interrupted, but he did some work on his book on the 11th. He took a drive early in the afternoon. —A church congress was opened in Hartford, Connecticut, on the 11th. Prominent clergymen and laymen were present from different parts of the country, including, Reva, Grafton, Boardman, Giles and Newton, of Phila- delphia; Bishop Coxe, of New York: Presidents Smith of Adams of Rochester, was called to order by Governor Har- rison. —The total value of our exports of domestic brea: stuffs during the month of April was $14,078,251, against $12.- 251,178 during April, 1884, The total value of such exports during the ten months which ended on the 30th April was $§135,106,338, against $133 - 083,318 during the correiponding period of last year, —The Hamp wn coal mine at Wilkins- burg, eight miles east of Pittsburg, caught fire on the 11th, and is reported to be burning flercely. A number of miners were in the pit at the time, but expected to be heavy. —Me=tin Buzzard, John David Peters and Henderson Marshall, all living on Welsh mountain, were ar- rested on the 11th and taken to Lancas. ter, Penna. They are charged with having been accessories after the fact to felony, in assisting ‘‘Abe” Buzzard, for whose capture a reward of $1000 is offered. They were committed each in default of $300 bail, —The Supreme Court of Indiana on the 11th, unanimously affirmed the validity of a law requiring saloons to he closed from 11 o'clock at night until 5 o'clock in the morning. ~A valuable tract of Jand in Fulton county, Penna, caught fire on the 11th, from barging brush, and William Hess, a farmer, fought the flames until he fell senseless to the ground. Two of his daughters, Annie and Lizzie, be- coming alarmed at his absence, went out in search of him and found him lying a few feet from the line of ap- proaching flames. They picked him up and hurned to a place of safety, but their clothes having become ignited they were so badly burned that their recovery is doubtinl. Hess is also not expected to recover, ~The ususi performance of casting a few scattering votes for U. 8. Senator was gone through with in joint session of the Illinois Legislature on the 11th, Archbishop Ryan on the 12th, con- firmed 1100 children in the Roman Catholic churches at Shenandoah, Penna—800 at the Irish church, 200 at the German church, and 100 at the Polish church. Several of the colleries in the vicinity were idle, the breaker boys being at church receiving confir- mation, ~reneral Grant rested well on the 11th. He took a drive on the 12th and subsequently suffered much pain, which was attributed to the chilliness of the atmosphere, A conference of leading Democrats of the Illinols Legislature was held mn Colonel Morrison's room at Springtield on the 11th, at which it was unamiously agreed no caueus should be ~The municipal elections in Cuba have resulted in favor of the (lonser. vatives. ~The President has appointed Jos- ge A i: a Cl re sy iad, Judpoctar and the following Collectors of Inter- - % nal Revenue : George L.. Spear, for the District of Vermont, Charles E. Hasbrook for the District of Missouri (6th District), Edmund A. Bigler for the 23d District of Pennsylvania ; Ed- ward C, Wall, for the 1st District of Wisconsin; Hugh Kinnard for the 5th District of New Jersey, —There was a heavy frost In the in- terior of New York State on the 12th and ice formed in many places, White frosts were experienced in the Carolinas and Northern Alabama on the 11th. ~Swarms of grasshoppers have ap- peared in Panola county, Texas, destroy- ing the corn and other grain, ~The count of the money in the Treasury vaults has been finished and the funds found to be correct. ~The statue of Garfield, for the Hall of Statues in the National Capitol, has arrived in Washington from Rome. It will not be unveiled until after the meeting of Congress, ~The luige brewery of M, Brand & Co., in Chicago, was burned on the 13th, to the extent of $250,000 The mill of the Massachusetts Warp and Yarn Company, at Parker Village, Connecticut, was burned on the 13th, Loss $30,000. James Richey’s coflin factory, In Cincinnati, was burned on the 13th. Loss $50,000, —A pay tram dashed nto the rear of a repair train on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad near Savage station, Maryland, early on the 14th, making a wreck which obstructed travel on the road for nearly three hours, —In Pike county, Kentucky, on the 13th, while Merritt Clark was trying to run away with a voung woman named Stratton, he encountered her brother. They tought and Stratton was stabbed and Clark shot, both fatally. and 43 wii hundred members attended { tion of the Illinois i 13th, but no vote States Senator. ~—One ninety-eight joint Legislature on the was cast for United conven- ~The President on the 13th appointed | Ferdinand F. Dufais, of New York, to {be Consul at Havre, Also, Colonel John M. Wilson, of the Engineer Corps, to be Commissioner of Public Buiid- ings and Grounds for the District of Columbia, in place of Colonel A. F. tockwell, whom he will relieve on the ist of June. — The commission of Frederick Doug- las as Recorder of Deeds for the Dis. trict of Columbia expired on the 13th. —The Comptroller of the Currency i on the 13th appointed Robert E. James, {of Easton, to be Bank Examiner for | Eastern Pennsylvania, i ~The twenty-sixth apnual conven- { tion of the Young Men's Christian As- i sociatlons of the United states and Canada opened on the 13th in Atlanta. Major Joseph Hardie, of Selma, was elected permanent President and Geo. | T. Coxhead, of St. Louls, Secretary. ~(reneral Grant was not as well the 13th as the day before, His sleep luring the night had been greatly duced by pain in his throat, and the i: | creased swelling of the the throat was noticeable, —General Sheridan was Injured so | severely by the upsetting of his car- i nage near Santa Monica, California, on the 11th, that he was obliged to re. main there all the next day. No seri ous result, however, is expected. on 4 { =—The Military Order of the Loyal | Legion of the United States has re-el. i ected General Grant as its Commander. { «The forces under General Middle. {ton captured Batouche on the 11th driving Riels men from the position. i The loss of the rebels {8 unknown : | that of the troops is reported five killed } and ten wounded, Pennsylv BENATE. AI As ii ania Legislature. was devoted exclusively to the first reading of a dozen bills, in the Senate, on the 12th, a message was received from the Governor sug- gesting to the Legislature the propriety of withdrawing the Senatorial Appor- tionment bill, now in the Governor's hands. It was laid on the table. In the afternoon session Mr, Lee's amend. ments to the House amendments to the Natural Gas Companies UI were fur. ther considerec. Selheimer voted no. Adjourned, In the Senate, on the 13th, the Sena- torial Apportionment bill was received from the Governor, amended by adding thereto the apportionment of Represen- tative Districts as set forth in the bill on that subject, and ordered to be pre- pared for passage. Mr, Adams asked unanimous consent for the considera- tion out of order of the Philadelphia Water Loan bill. Mr. Reyburn objec- ted. The proposed repeal of the colist- teral inheritance lax after discussion was defeated-—yeas 12, pays Ad- journed, 20, HOUSE, In the House, on the 11th, Mr. Pen- rose offered a resolution providing that the Bullitt bill be read the first time immediately. Agreed to—yeas, 108: nays, 33. The bill was then read at length. The Senate resolution dispen- sing with the session of the 27th of May, in order to enable the Legislature to attend the ceremony of the unveil. ing of the monument to Governor Boyder, was concurred in. On motion of Mr, Brown, a resolution was adopt. ed to the report of the committee to investigate the Connellsville Hospital matter to the Attorney General, with the request that he way take such action in the premises as he deems proper. Adjourned, In the House a large number of bills were considered. Agreeably to the —, met at 8 o'clock at nigh consideration of the Bullitt bill, on second reading. Some amendments were adopted and the House adjourned This being Second Reading day the House, was presented with a calen REVEILLE, The golden gates of morn are wide; On every blade the dews are bright; The azure veil is drawn to hide The awful glories of the night; The roses each to each have told, Another sun will soun be seen; And shall not I my light behold? Make day for me—vome forth, my Queen, The tale the river told all night Has taken now a gladder strain; The flowers, as eager for thy mght, With odors seek thy window-pane; The jasmine tells thee Light has come, And waves across the lattice-screen; And shall thy voice be longer dumb? Make music for my heart, my Queen. In shade as yet, the eastern hill Btands sharp against the vellow sky, The purple woods are sleeping still, And white mists in the village le; But westward slopes are all awake With change and play of softer green; O Love, my summer morning make, "Tis time for day-—shine forth,my Quesn. GE EAT I AN INVESTMENT IN THE BANK OF PROVIDENCE. slopes of the Fairhaven river, murmuring sortly over the peb- silver—ard the purple fields of clover, nodding ready for the scythe, filled the warm air with slumbrous scents, Eliakim To Fairhaven. his instruments to fill his pockets with sordid gain—mere accessions to a ‘good sropl' Alas! is not this world full of Eliakim Fairhavens, in ome shape or another? Miss Comfort Fairbayen sat beside bim knitting and watching the cumber- leserted by their heartless mother, whom she was ‘bringing up by hand.’ ‘Yes,’ she sald, with a mechanical glance in the direction of the beamy West. ‘Who's that a comin’ up the path, 1 wonder?’ ‘One of the new hands, I calculate,’ said Eliakim, screwing up his eyes, ‘I didn’t ‘gree to give ’em their supper and board into the bargain, a night if there him!’ *Tain’t no hayin’' hand,’ sald Miss Comfort, rising and going down the steps to meet a slender child nine years oid, who was leading a pale, bowed- down man, who walked with difficulty, leaning on a crutch. ain’ a little gal along with sympathized with all who were suffer ing or in distress: ‘what ails you? and what do you want here?’ ‘Please, ma'am.” began i sagerly, “if you could give us a night's lodging —poor papa is so sick and tired, and’ ‘No, I can't abruptly broke Eliakim Fairhaven. ‘This ain't no almshouse, nor yet a charity place, If ye can pay your way, well and good; tif ye can’t, the sooner you go about your | business the better!” ‘We have no money,’ timilly began the child, while the man, as if stunned t and bewildered by the heartless fluency of the old farmer's speech, leaned up in i his forehead; ‘But’ ‘Then clear out and be done with it? said Eliakim, resuming his seat, with dogged composure, her brother, ‘If I could just get 'em a bow! of milk, Eliakim, and’ ‘Stuff and nonsense,’ sonorously ejaculated the farmer, ‘I ain't a goin’ bo give in to this sort of thing. Once begin, and you'll never leave off, you soft-headed womenfolk! Slowly and wearily the two travelers turned and plodded their way down the broad, dusty road--the languid foot. steps of the mvalid scarce keeping up with the tripping pace of the child. ‘Oh, papa, papal’ sobbed the little girl, turning her blue, wistful eyes to the white, worn face, how cruel people arel’ He placed his hand upon her curly, uncovered head. ‘it will soon end. It cannot be for long, as far as [ am concerned, poor child. But for you" he stopped, his voice husky with emotion. They had walked what seemed to little Esther Bell a weary way, when there was a rustle among the wild rose bushes that ‘overhung the wall at their side, and a voice called hurriedly to them to stop. ‘It's me,’ said Miss Comfort Fair. baven, reckless of her grammar, ‘El. akim--that's my brother—he's gone over to the class-taeeting at Squire Dundas,’ and I cut down through lots to overtake you. 1 tell you 1 can't somehow get your father's face out of my mind. You're sick, ain't you mister?’ ‘I shall soon be quite well, be answer. ed calmly—and Comfort Fairhaven's mote experienced eye detected the hid. den meaning which the little girl never once suspected. Yes, he would soon be well, but it would be in that country where the inhabitants never = are you going?’ asked kind ge in spite of herself. “We are going to my grandpa,’ sald little Essie. ‘Grandpa was vexed with mamma for marrying paps and going to England, but papa thinks be’ll take care of me now, But I won't stay with him unless papa stays too!’ And she resolutely tightene¢ her grasp upon the thin, fever-burning hand, ‘I suppose you want to get to Lous dale?’ said Miss Comfort. The man nodded. ‘In it far?’ Comfort; ‘but I'll tell ye what—1'1 make Joab get out the wagon, and with a good buffalo robe over the seats, you will ride easy enough. TVey’ll be back afore Eliakim gets through, and while you're a waltin® 1’ll bring down a snack o’bread and meat, and a bottle { of my currant wine. Taint good to | travel on an empty stomach,’ And five minutes later Miss Comfort was carryiog her hospitable intentions into effect, greatly to the delight and appreciation of the hungry child, aside, when comfortable yf drawing the child drove up with the wagon and stout old horse, can use?’ ‘We have only enough for our rail- ance falling, ‘but——! ‘and here's a five-dollar bill I’ve | aside out of my } don't know nothin’ out 4 us I'd red about, to have a new mouse-cold fakim | laid { merino dress this fall, but I guess you need it more’n 1 do; so here ti i mind yon don’t lose it, The child's eyes were brimming as he locked up In Miss Comfort’s honest, featured face, Will vou let me kiss vou just once? ) J hard she whispered, standing on tiptoe to bring her blooming cheek close to the | spinsteér’s wrinkled lips, t Kissing, as Miss Comfort might her scif have remarked, had she had leisure but she could not resist the sweet, | ful entreaty. There, she sad, with » strange moist. ure her Joab's waitin’, Oh! eried little Esther, us she sat on the buffalo-draped seat. { rich and grown upl’ *Why, what "ad you do?’ { honest Joab, I'd buy a dismond necklace and a pink dress for that good lapy! chuckled. ‘I don't in run along, eyes, demanded ori a know Joab as ‘So gee up, old Doli!” ! ‘I know I am prelly old to be lookin’ | arter a situation, sad Miss Comfort { Fairhaven, but [ cant starve, won't beg, so what's there left? { Jocularity. could not rest till he specilated it all away, and now he’s gone and I'm all | alone. So if you know of a good place | as housekeeper, or matron in an asylam, | or general overseer, 1 don't much care where or ? The intelligence-oflicer keeper, with a slight shrug of hos shoulders, broke in on the torrent of Miss Fairhaven's ex. planatory e ogquence, What wages did you ask? Poor Miss Comfort—ths blank word | wages called a rusty glow to her cheek, I ain't particular about that so long as it’s a good home, Here's a place that might perhaps ! suit you--Housekeeper wanted at Mr. Duponceau’s, No. —Fifth Avenue, You might try it, although I bardly think a person of your appearance would suit, I ain't young, I know, sald Miss Comfort, with a sigh, but there's a deal o' tough work Jeft in me yet. Give me the address—I shan't give up and starve without tryin’ for it! Yet, spite of all her philosophy, Miss Jomfort’s heart, like that of the Queen as she sat in the luxurious reception room of the Fifth Avenue mansion, sur- rounded by silken chairs, gilded tables, flashing mirrors and pictures, whose radiant skies might have been painted in liquidized gold, so rare and costly were they. I'm a'most sorry 1 come! thought Miss Comfort. 1 don't fairly believe can give satisfaction here, While the thought was passing through her mind, the door swung open on its silver-plated hinges, and a tall young lady in a blue silk morning robe entered--a young lady with golden brown hair looped after the fashionable style over brow, and deep blue eyes, Miss Comfort rose and dropped a stiff little courtesy, I've called to see ' she began, but to her amazement the rest of her speech was abruptly checked by the young lady's arms being thrown round her neck. ‘Oh, I'm 50 glad to see you,’ she cried out, ecstatically. ‘I thought 1 never should see you again, the old farm, but you had gone away, nobody knew whither!* And she hugged Miss Comfort more ‘Why, demanded the bewildereq , ‘who are you?’ little Essie Bell, that you gave the ve. wild-rose bushes, years ago’ Oh, 0-—0-h! exclaimed Miss Come fort. You don’t mean to say that you are that. And here pearly she stopped, | while she Listened to the story of ‘papa’s death.' and how grandpa had adcpted her; and how she was sur. rounded by ail that luxury could devise, or art invent, And I hate longed to see you again, added Essie, for if 1t had nol been for your Kindness, papa never could have reached his home! And you shall live | with me now, and be my darling old friend! ‘No,” said Miss Comfort, gravely, | shaking her head. ‘I've come to apply | for a situation as housekeeper, and if you won't give it to me, why I must go elsewhere,’ And Essie was obliged to tonsent, ‘But mind,” said she, nodding the golden masses of her crepe hair, *I shal) { ive you what wages I please! Grandpa always entrusts those things to my management!’ 50 Miss Comfort Fairhaven stayed, nominally a housekeeper—really the | trusted and ‘revered head of the estab- lishment, and her declining years were surrounded by a peace and luxury she i never dared to dream of in her loftiest | “ip rations, Miss Comfort Fairhaven had invested I the five-dollar bi bread upon the waters and iy days ®t had relurned to her. Il advantageously, She bad cast hes afler ma Among the Oranges, lives he ithy, The orange tree is hardy and for many years. One somewhere in the Orient, over 2,000 years old, Frost does {kill the only the fruit, commence Lo bear much more said to be not Trees plenti- {ree fully each vear until 3,000 or apges are raised ona sing year. When first picked oranges are put racks remain there until the moisture is dried from the skin. Each orange, before being | boxed, is wrapped in a piece of paper, as an absorbent of | moisture and keeping the moist skins | of the oranges from coming in contact with each other. Many peopls who go { to Florida see oranges on the trees that | line many of the streets in the largest | places, as well as unpicked in | groves, Hence they infer that oranges are 80 cheap as worth the | picking and boxing to That's a { mistake, The oranges so seen are bit- | ter or sour oranges and not such as are sold. They are left for use when wan. ted for orangeade or punch, as well as for ornament to the grounds. Boys don’t **go for" bitter or sour oranges, hence they are alinwed to remain on the trees. In its original state the or- ange was probably bitter or sour, and the delicious flavor of the sweel orange came in by cultivation. It is a common sight to see the ripe orauge, the green orange and masses of orange flowers all on the tree at a time. Theripe orange will remain on the tree for a year or more without picking, and many leave a few be picked more or- single Lree ina le the § $ on VO | the wrapper acting trees not to be sell, | oranges on the tree to wanted, The I unpicked, becomes more dry and bu as orange, by remaining stringy iw fruit begins ii TE flis up becomes hen the next vear's i 10 be perfected the old orange again with juices and ew new 4 ——. a —— Washington and Henton, With an old man, m, talk turns upon | Senator Benton and his life in Wash- ington. Isaid : “Was Benton a fre- quent caller at the White House while Jackson was an occupant P' He re- plied: “1 was there daily for more than a year, and during that time saw | Senator Benton as & visitor not more | frequently than the average Congress man. Benton was a man who did not come to Washington until Congress had convened and who left before its adjournment. He did this to avoid ar- rest. There was not a public man in | Washington who went into debt to the { extent that he did. Ile seemed to buy { everything on credit, and some mer- | chants that I knew finally refused to | trust him, I remeraber one time I was | in a dry goods house buying hose for { my wife. The proprietor was showing me a line of fine goods which he had just received. While I was examining them Benton's daughter entered. The merchant grabbed the hose from my hands and thrust the boxes with the samples under the counter. 1 was in- dignant and started to leave, Before I reached the door the proprietor of the store caught me and began apologining, ‘Yon must excuse me he said, ‘but Miss Benton entered and I did not want her to see the goods at which you were looking. She would certainly have wantea some, and | could not afford to let her have any. thing so costly on credit,’ The Sorrow 1ree, Near Bombay, on the Island of Goa, there is a singular vegetable terined the “sorrowfnl tree,” because it only flou- rishes in the night. At sunset no flow. ers are to be seen, and yet after an hour it is full of them. Thay yield a sweet smell, but the sun no sooner begins to shine upon them than some of them fall off, and thus It continue £00D FOR THOUGHT. oa No one knows the weight of another's burden. Hard work is the best remedy for temptations, Leave no time for the enemy to get an entrance, We do more good by being good than in any other way. By reading you enrich your mind, by conversation you polish it, Next to the originator of a good sen- tence is the first quoter of it, Small and steady gains give compe- tency with tranquility of mind. All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a twin. It is more honest to acknowledge our fauits than to boast of our mers, To persevere is one’s duty and to be silent is the first answer to calumny A great deal of talent is leat two the world for the want of a little courage, To a man, truth is to a woman, trut} knows: bell what he $8 what she EVER, store of pat v g a 1 put it where yo Lay by BUTe & goon ence. D ¥ be 0 it As the rolling 4 heart can un stone gathers no moss, gathers no affec. sO the ing OV No great characters are this world without 5 i denial, satisfied th others to tal Hest leave please, Little misfortune ve it Ive IL. wi minds . To mistake diffic may deter: + sd Or not tics There may be such a thing but there ( can prove it. Hear but one side 3 2 Love is never lost. If not reciprod ted, it will flow back and sof purify the heart. He that will not have Lo look behind wilh some regret, Self-abnegation men generally good women practice, £0 look before him w him-—and pr 15 4. 2u OOADEY is that that A VIIRL O00 nly smells sweet forever: and Hlustons, however innocent, are deadly as the cankerworm, Lay by a good store of patience, but be sure to put it where you can find it 1n case of emergency. The very nature of love is to find its joy in serving others, not for one’s own benefit but for theirs, All nature is a vast symbolism material fact has sheathed within least one spintual truth, When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning, there are nUINErOUS WAYS of escaping from its bonds He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper, Method is like packing things in : box; a good packer will get in half as much again as a bad one, The Spartans, notwithstandiisg their Doric ancestry, prayed the gods to gran them “the beautiful with the go The true grandeur of | moral elevation, and decorated by the intelle In studying character we blind to the shoricomings p friend or the virtues of a bitte: Every it at sustained, « hiened t of man, do not Ix f a warm enemy. No human mind is contented without occupation. No human soul is satis fied without an aim or purpose in life. The object of all ambition should be to be happy at home, If we are not happy there, we cannot be happy else. where. It is in vain to gather virtues with. out humility; for the Spirit of God de lighteth to dwell in the heart of the humble. Kind words produce their own image in men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and comfort the hearer. Good temper, hke a sunny day, sheds a brightness over everything. It is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude, Thought engenders thought. Learp to think, and you will lear: to write: the more you think the better you will express your ideas, Envy is a littleness of soul which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if she does not occupy the whole space, feels itself excluded. The main token of a stroug chamocter is not to make known every change and phase in thought and feeling, but to give the world the finished results. tight babils are like the thread on which we string precious pearis— the thread is perbaps of no great value, but if it be broken, the pearls are lost. Those who without knowing us, think or speak evil of us, do us neo harm; it is not us they attack, but the phantom of their own Imagination. Heart is "hope, ace and home isa heart-place, al man sadly mis. taketh who would exchange Lhe happis ness of home for anything jess than heaven, There 18 no escaping the mill that grinds slowly and small; and who refuse to be living stones in the living temple, must be ground into mortar for it. Beware what you say of others, be. cause you only reveal yourse!l thereby, A man does not think to look behind the door unless he has some Lime stood himself, there it is the habitual thought that into our life. Our confi have not as mueh to do the thoughts