NEWSOF THE WEEK] —Colonel A, G. Sharpe, Chief Post- office Inspector, has resigned and his resignation has been accepted. James Maynard, present Chief Clerk of the Division Inspectors, will temporarily take Colonel Sharpe’s place. FProfes- sor J. BE. Hilgard, the suspended Sup- erintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, resigned on the Tih and his re- signation was accepted, —T1t 18 officially announced that the President, since the beginning of his term, has made 467 appointments of Postmasters, of which 274 were to vacancies caused by expiration of terms or resignation and 193 in place of sus- pended officers, —The Montezuma Hotel at the Hot Springs, New Mexico, was burned on the 8th. The hotel was owned by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail- road Company. It was opened in April last. The company’s hotel on the same site was burned eighteen months ago. The fire is attributed to Incen- diarism. It broke out in an attic in the servants’ quarters, The loss is es- timated at nearly $250,000, After five months of unremitting labor the President has gone off to the Adirondacks for a holiday, and every one will agree that he has earned it, —Drexel & Co. have acknowledged additional subscriptions to the Grant Memorial Fund amounting to $157, making the total $2677. ~The Southern Exposition at Louis- ville, which opens on the 15th instant, is said by a despatch from Louisville to be *‘in a more advanced state than any great exposition ever was so near its opening. The floor is already covered with the foreign exhibit that came from New Orleans, and new displays from foreign countries are arriving every day.” —The railway station at Wheatland, Dakota, was broken open on the 9th, and mail-bags were stolen, together with valises from the express office de- partment. The pouches were found half a mile west, cut open, and the contents missing. The pouches con- tained a large amount in checks and drafts, and a small amount in money. All the other mail matter was burned, ~The steamer Zelandia arrived at San Francisco on the 10th, with Max- well, the alleged murderer, on board. Maxwell when questioned by reporters, refused to make any statement respeet- ing the crime with which he is charged, saying ‘‘that he had been advised by his counsel before leaving Auckland not to open his mouth except to put food in it.’ He looked cheerful and said “he never felt better in his life,” —An incendiary bre in Frankfort, Kentucky, on the 10th, destroyed a block of buildings. including four stores, | Loss $54,00 ; insurance $40,000, -A train on the Boston and Maine Railroad ran into the rear of a gravel car at Kittery on the 6th. Luke Pal. mer, engineer, was fatally injured by being thrown heavily against the boiler head. —The recent general army order sending officers back to their regiments after four years’ detached duty meets approval in military circles in Wash- ington. An officer said on the 10th that it meant ‘‘the resurrection of the army.” —It has been discovered that James Whelan, recently appointed U, 3. Con- sul at Fort Erie, Canada, took part in the Fenian raid of 1866. The appoint- ment has aroused great indignation at Fort Erie, and petitions are being signed by all the inbalitants of th town praying that he shall not be al lowed to take office, —The Commission appointed to in. vestigate Postmaster Jones, of Indian- apolis, report that he did not violate the Civil Service law, — President Cleveland and Dr, Ward on the 11th, reached Upper Baranac Lake, their destination in the Adiron. dacks. “They had a pleasant, unevent- ful buckboard ride of 47 miles {rom the railroad terminus at Au Sable.” — Assistant Naval Constructors Han- scom, Hoover, Gatewood and Nixon met at the Delaware Iron Works, Chester, Pennsylvania, on the 11th to make an examination and take an inven- tory of the three crusiers, Chicago, Atlanta and Boston, which were being constructed by John Roach. ~The farmers’ Assembly of Virginia began its first convention on the 1ith in Richmond. Forty-two counties were represented by seventy-five delegates, H. L. D. Lewis, of Clarke county, was elected chairman, He sald, on taking his seat, that “the organization would partake of a political nature, as the far mers of the Stale desired representa tion in the next General Assembly.’ County reads and public schools will receive attention. wel oy at the last session appro- priated $100,000 for the transporation of about $40,000,000 1 gold coin from the sub-Treasury at San Francisco to the sub-Treasury at New York. Ow- ing to the high rates asked by the ex- press companies, the Secretary of the Treasury decided to transfer the coin by registered mail, So far about $10, 000,000 have been transported in this way. The money was mailed in $100,- 000 “In view, however, of Rarer Superior Oriminal Court in Boston on the charge of having obtained money from Messrs. Cobb, Ames and other Bostonians by false pretences in repre- senting that he was a Colonel Sinms, of Charleston. ~The people of Bristol, Tennessee, on the 11th voted unanimously to sub- scribe $50,000 towards the building of the South Atlantic Railroad. Theroad will extend from Bristol to Stone Gap, Tennessee, and connect with the Ken tucky system. The line will open a vast mineral and timber country. —The first bale of new cotton was received at Mobile, Alabama on the 12th, from Shubula, Mississippi, Tt was classed as strict middling anfl was sold at 15} cents per pound. One bale of new cotton from Macon, Georgia, and one from South Carolina were re- ceived at Charleston, South Carolina, on the 12th. It was sampled, accepted and classified as strict low middling and middling, respectively. —The colored citizens of Frederick, Maryland, on the 12th celebrated the signing of the Emaucipation Proclamation. About 3000 visitors from Baltimore, Washington, York Harrisburg and neighboring towns par- ticipated, There was a parade and a public meeting, at which addresses were made by Thomas Dent, of Georgia; Milton Urner and Louis E, McComas, of Maryland, and others. ~The National Society of American Florists met on the 12th in Cincinnati. Mayor Smith delivered an address of welcome, Delegates were present from all parts of the United States. —A tornado in Norwood, St. Law- rence county, New York, on the 12th, destroyed several buildings and the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Rail road bridge. A number of persons were killed, among them being John Martin, Mrs, David Fitzgibbons and Mrs. Armstrong. Five hundred ex- cursionists from Plattsburg to Ogdens- burg are detained at the latter city owing to the destruction of the bridge. Details are meagre, as telegraph com- munication is interrupted. —During a fight in a tenement house in Boston on the 12th, between John Cullen and Timothy and John Caffey, the former was stabbed and died mn a few minutes, Party of Pennsylvania met on the 12th in Erie, Forty-two delegates were present, representing 21 counties, Res- olutions in favor of the substitution of greenhacks for National bank currency, and the prevention of discrimination by railroads were adopted. Dr. N. CC. Whitney, of Warren county, was nomi- nated for State Treasurer, and T. FP. Rynder, of Butler county, was chosen Chairman of the State Committee, -The City Council of Quebec held a meeting on the 12th, the first time since the death of General Grant, Resolutions were adopted expressing sympathy with the people of the United States “‘in their loss of one of their most estima ble citizens, one of their greatest Gen- erals, ~ AS an express train was approaching the station at Richileld, New Jersey, on the 13th, it ran into a lager beer wagon, killed the driver and a boy. At Hart- ford, Counecticut, about nine o'clock on the 13th, while some cars were being drawn out of the New York and New England yard to make up a train, the body of a boy named Rizy, a son of Pref. F. X. Rizy, was found beside the track. It 1s supposed that he had gone to #leep under the cars, ~—George Turner, ex-United States District Judge of Virginia, and ex- Chief Justice of Nevada, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head in San Francisco on the 12th. He left a note saying that ill health caused the deed. — Aaron J. Vanderpool on the 13th received from Secretary Whitney an informal letter, in which the Secretary said that the Government ships would be finished in the Rosch yards, by his men, under hissuperintendency, and with suggestions and supervision by Messrs, Loring and Wilson. The latter would meantime complete the inventories and receive the appraisal of Mr, Roach’s assets from the board of five who will make the appraisal, ~The Agricultural State Convention of Georgia, in session at Marietta, has elected L. F. Livingston President for the ensuing year. Resolutions were adopted for a representation of the Georgia Agricultural Society at the American Exposition to be held in London next year. ~The Associated Bessemer Steel Rail Manufacturers met on the 13th at Long Branch, It was unanimoudly agreed *‘to reduce the production ot steel rails 80 a8 not to exceed the de mand, and to enable manufacturers to make rails at remunerative prices next year.” ~The rate of taxation in New York for the current year 1s fixed at $2.40, It was $2.20 last year, -A convention to pominate a sue- cessor to Judge Holland, of the First Judicial Circuit of Maryland, met on the 13th in Ocean City. At last ac- counts 123 ballots had been taken with- out result, The candidates are Judge Holland and George W, Purnell, «Vice President Hendricks arrived in Chicago on the 15th from New York, He was to leave in the evening for Postmaster Waukenha, Wisconsin, General Vilas left Washington on the 15th for the West, for a vacation of three or four weeks, THE PLOWBOY'S SONG, The sun peeps over Punderson Hill Gees, Whitefoot, geel Che fading moon is fading still; Gee, Whitefoot, gee ! I know somebody, tall and fair— Somebody with such golden hair Ti& sunshine follows her everywhere ; Gee, Whitefoot, gee | Come from your shady home on the hill ; Haw, Whitefoot, haw | And tell to me your own sweet will; Haw, Whitefoot, haw | Daisies are nodding in the lanes, Birds are singing their sweet refraingy Telling of all their happy gains Haw, Whitefoot, haw ! Gee, Whitefoot, geo! Out from her curtained window gay, Gee, Whitefoot, gee | Just for me, o'er the hills away, Brushing dew, in the morning grey From off the blooms in early May-- Gee, Whitefoot, gee! HAL’S BABY. the wind blew a gale, in the smoker. Hal had fallen asleep | and I was busily absorbed in my own | reflections. I glanced casually and with | little interest at the scenes through | which I was being rapidly whirled. It | was only when twilight shut out visible | objects and the lowering clouds over- | head grew black, I awakened to the | consciousness that it was night and that | Hal had been sleeping an hour, “Come old fellow,” 1 sald, shaking | him, “wake up!” **Hello!”” he exclaimed, rousing him- self and looking a httle stupid. “Nice sociable chap for a eompanion, | I must gay.” “How long have I been asleep?’ sit- ting upright and looking around him, “ About an hour, I should judge." “Well, between you and me, Will, I | needed it, Ididn’t go to bed at all last night; so much to be done, all at the last moment.” “That's a fine excuse for you to give,” I said dryly. Hal laughed. He | was the best natured chap in the world. A big, strapping fellow, standing six feet high, with merry blue eyes, clear- cut features and fair almost to woman- liness, He was a great swell, too, and 8 universal favorite, “ Abominable night,” he muttered, a little irritably for him, “and confound- edly cold, too. I have had just about balf enough sleep, Will, and if you don't mind it I'll get to bed.” “That suits me.” I replied with you. We crossed the platform and stepped into the other car, A gust of wind and snow whizzed past as we opened the door, which ecalied forth another grumbling imprecation from Hal rela- tive to the weather. Decidedly he was sleepy. There were not many passengers on board, and these the invariable travelers one is sureto encounter, First came a garrulous old gentleman, very | thin with white hair, who occupied | four seats and essayed to read by the uncertain light of the railroad lamp, which was of no more use than those lamps usually are, and quite as orna- mental. Then came the commercial | traveler, who was disposed to take things as he found them, and wore an expression rather bland than otherwise, A portly old lady with a bird cage | and several bandboxes next altracted | my attention. A spinster who sat up- right in a most rigid position, and an insipid Miss of 17 or thereabouts trav- eling in care of the conductor, together with a thick, stout, thick-sel man of | uncertain age and occupation, made up the hist of passengers. No, there was another: I had quite overlooked him. He ceme on the train while we were in the smoker. A tall, dark man of about 40 years, with a pale haggard | face and hollow, sunken eyes. Tis | berth had been made up and he was | seated on one side of it, his head resting on his hand, when Hal and 1 entered | the car. A shrill little volee which echoed through the silent car caused | everyone to turn round in the direction whence it came, : “By all thal’s unlucky,” groaned | Hal. “A baby!" “Not a doubt of it,” I agreed, i “And good lungs it has, too,” he | went on pattishly, “I wish it would be | quiet.” : : But the baby hadn't the slightest | notion of thie, To speak the truth he | had not begun yet. The shrill ery con- tinued growing louder and louder; the passengers commeneed staring hard at the berth and harder at one another. The garrulous old gentleman laid aside his magazine and remarked sarcasti- cally: *“This is pleasant, The portly lady opened her watery eyes as wide as she could and exclaimed: “Dear mel” The spinster wore an air of virtuous triumph and sald nothing. I dare say she congratulated herself upon her lucky escape. The commercial traveler looked wicked, Hal, I am sorry to say, swore, and tumbled into bed in no very enviable frame of mind, “I am came in contact this takes the palm, What do the parents mean by letting 1t scream like that? Why don’t they at- tend properly to their business?’ At this he opened the curtains, looked out, and called to me, said: “Will, the father has it and holding it ppside down,” The tall, dark man was striding up and down carrying, and most clumsily at that, the child who appeared to be abou two years old, and who beat him with hew little fist and struggled to get on the floor, all the time cwying lustily. The dark gentleman was perfeetly un- He paced the car in a mechan- ical way, paying not the shigh test heed either to the baby or to the uncharita- ble remarks he could not fail to over- hear, An hour passed, and still the night was made hideous by those plere- ing screams, “Thunderation!” roared Hal, “will the little beggar never have he's done?” *‘Pitch her out of the window,” sug- gested the stout gentleman, “Do something,’ murmured the com- put in the spinster, complacently. “In the name of Heaven,” exclaimed The Colorado Mining Listriete com — ! i procured by mining in several west of the Rocky mountains, do, which extends southward Union Pacific railroad line, of and the Moequito or other ranges, 1s especially rich 1n ore, Yt has attracted a grant population within the last ty years; but their first rush was secondary ver-lead imma twen- for large FOOD FOR THOUGHT fant 104 £ denisd, Ciave % 10 € A wort! worl dictionary. Hind bi Lwo in the Heaven must be in in heaven. Devotion I ust we before 1 can be Ewes lens i: + Lint endure, He iB nol pon thi i s hath, but he that much desires, Opportunity sooner or lates who work and wish, courage £ PR 10 all Por the noblest man thal live ¢ there gings, It was not until 1870 that orado, Silver is got from lodes or veins in the rock, not from the placers or alluvial deposits. There are now many important silver mining-districts Boulder county, Park, Clear Gilpin, Fremont, Sin Juan and Bum- mit county, the sive: panied sometimes with copper, some- times with lead, being Aim above morality. good Be not simply be good for something. Pride hides our faults from ourselves, Conscience serves us judge of the actions of others. our own especially Ww J heart, and not true honor. Tens trenuine suffering often jests best, for Spanish Mexican word for a rich body of ore; and a great deal of capital has been sunk in ng the machinery, stamping nfills, and intercepting the dark gentleman in done with it.” ping and speaking deliberately, you all, ladies and gentleman,” turn- ing and addressing the heads bobbing beg 10 in my power to prevent it. You,” to Hal, “suggest I give her to her mother. No one spoke a word, and every bead disappeared in his or her curtain in a trice, Hal stood dumbfounded and speaking manfully, said: “I humbly beg your pardon. I ought to be ashamed of myself, and so I am. Go to bed and give the young lady to me,’ “But do you think you could-"’ “1 think so, if I tried.” “Thank you. A little rest will be a great boon.” “Come here, Miss,” sald Hal, holding out his arms, Come along, or 1'll take you anyhow." To his utter amazement the tiny hands were immediately stretched out to him, and with a little sigh the baby nestled against his shoulder, “By all that's mysterious, Will look at this.” Miss baby's arms were tightly around his neck, Miss baby's cheek was pressed against his own. I saw Hal start, and then he clasped the little creature clo- ser and kissed her dimpled hands and face, and held her tenderly in his great SLrong arins, “Will, come and see her," he called, And when 1 crept out and stole a look at the fairy there she lay in all ber baby beauty with a sweet smile curving her rosy lips, and her golden hair falling in tangled curls over her little flushed forehead. “She is pretty,” 1 admitted, “Pretty!” echoed Hal, “Well 1 should think so. Will, you may not believe it. but I'd give a good round sam if she belonged to me; I would, And when he looked up there was such earnestness in his face I knew he meant it, He held her so all night, scarcely breathing less he should disturb ber, and when he parted with ber in the morning there was a teas glistening on baby’s white hand, and I knew it was on the one Hal had kissed last, before Lossip Trades for American Boys, AH i A The trades in our country, of late years, has been almost monopolized by foreigners, The American boy, how- ever, when he does take a trade, goes it seems as if our boys would rather be fourth-rate lawyer or physicians than earn their living by working with their hands. Only the other day I read in a New York newspaper of a young law- yer in a distant city, whom I knew to extract the valuable metal, The town of Leadville near the head of the Arkansas river, 10,000 feet above y, 1878, from a village of 500 eouls, and {ts products of silver is 15,000,000 tons rns of still increasing prosperity; At Denver, the cap- ital of this state, are the Argo Smelting ing company, which forms a vast con 1 \ oy i wr 1s f daily. It is furnished with thirty large anti roasung * operations of calcining g. smelting and melting down, after which 13 “matte of salve hile in a fluid als ¢ " v rom the slag or refuse matter, solution, and ating % Fiation, w is A ton of silver is i ! i isk In Safe Deposit Vaults, Private vaults in the stock exchange t to members. One of the tenants mistakenly opened some- body else’s safe, and only became aware of the blunder when he began to handle which be did not recognize When he reported to the rities yushed up so successfully that it did not get published at the time, and ad. ditional precautionary measures were taken to guard the receptacles of wealth. Nevertheless the subject of risk in safe deposit vaults has been a general topic in Wallstreet, Of course portabilities as jewelry and plate is so great that nobody undertakes to esti- mate it. The president of one establishment guesses that his vaults contain $3,000, The guardianship seems against ordinary burglars thieves, The lessees speak must and safes of repeat their individual passwords to the proper official. Cur nctions must clothe immortality The defects of ti fara £ 106, ue with an loathsome or glorious, the mind, like those of WOrse as we grow old. gIew a 1 with rabie Let not one overload yo you will find it an insuffe burden. Yuanctuality requ exer- tivn, and its influence ig a most salutary ne. Before i essing, earned it. The friend ships of ten confederacies in pleasure, Habits ar we A LaVexl alive Like crystal favors; IES Ti inGue Xf at ul _ «3 you BF aboul as. ng God's InaKe ure thal you have the worid ame of- Vice or leagues of when 1 4 AR r 3 Boers i AERUGEG uk ff ‘tis BIrive wa hy them « thir bea deeds show, You cann Clhiaracier- vi urself one, He ’ » » : wi TeRa ve needs no of life is \ nd thought VE AK vhougut. » ¥ # 3 No iife can be utterly | ial rable that id love In ee I= heightened by the f child. 4 ¥ 05 GI na Awealle 3 PY, tue dwells at the head of a IgLLer ar Hie LF river, oy Towing to which we cannot get but - 4 a ’. aflainst the stream. Great ideas travel tite nolselessly, were shod slowly, and for a as the gods whose feet with wool, True benevolence is to love all men. . with justice, and Kindness with Kindness, a thiek erust truth wii Falsehood may be Lie course me place to break throug! No liberal man of unsteadiness ng changed his opinion. « but of t find a Would idppule a to another for ften deprives a virtue, It i g to stand upright. jties are always mountains till we them, and mere mole hills when we have passed them. nn the world to do 0 constantly that you can do it well, is to mind your own business, Good breeding b particular mark of any professior a general elegance of manners, An oyster, said Hood, is very an lous, for you have to take it o bed before you can tuck it Great men should think of nity and not of Lime. cuse of feeble and + aeel f fut Fax CONSISIS In hav a Bg but NA il of its opporto- Time is the ex- 1 € 4 ad you have plenty of money vou are the best man in the world, If vou have no money, your opinion is worth noth- ing. We see how much a man bas, apd therefore envy him; did we see how 1it- him. . To be ignorant of the lives of the bination being divulged only to tenants, The rules and devices vary somewhat days. The sleeping fox catches no poultry. He that rises late must trot all day, and thall scarcely overtake his business at night. A wit once asked a peasant wha! part merely interloping f{hieves, force are practically impotent, too. pioyes might result in the complete cleaning out of any safe deposit strong- was the reply. The pleasantiest thing in be world are pleasant thoughts, and the greatest art in life is to have as maoy of them as Dissappointment is not in the vocab- ulary of faith. Expectation is not faith, antecedents are carefully examined be- ant officers. Recent thefts by well re- have demonstrated that real character is not discoverable until events divulge it, and there is a genuine agitation vaults, Three to six persons could conspire for the iggest burglary mn the history of crime, Brabmin Ostile in Floriad. i There 1s one species of cattle which can be safely brought to this climate, a that will inter-breed freely with the native cattle and produce Ly the pointed, There is many a man in the world who never commitied but cue act of til he dies, A worldly life has as much restric without the final remuneration that a good life has, The best method of disposing of half the slanders of the age is to pay them no attention. The other half may be lived down, What a pity that wrinkles should uot be all under our heels, instead of on our faces! It would be a much better ar rangement. . To rejoice in others’ prosperity is to give content to your own lot; to miti- another's grief is to alleviate or Sisper your own, Despotisin can no more exist in a na tion until the liberty of the press be de- stroyed than the night can happen be- t babits are like thechanne! which the course in which the river flow, and which grows deeper and
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