NEWS Or THE WEEK
At Brockton, Massachnsetts, the
Advisory Board ot the Laster’s Union
on the 14th ordered ail the lasters en-
ployed in forty-two shoe factories to
cease work at night, This is the resuit
of a recent manifesto issued by the
manufacturers, by which the rights of
the union to dictate prices, ete,, were
ignored.
~The Secretary of the Treasury on
the 14th appointed John W. O’Brien
to be Weigher inthe New York Cus
tom House, in the place of George DB.
Bacon, suspended, This action in
accordance with the recommendation
of the Collector of the Port,
inated Mr. O’Brien fur the
mer.
A stock train running at a speed of
* thirty tive miles an hour, on the Chi-
eaco and Northwestern Railroad, struck
a “wild? train at Montour, lowa, on
the 14th, and both engiues were de-
moishied, Michael Hogan, eugineer
of the stock train, was killed and his
fireman was severely injured. The
Joss to the railroad company 18 estima-
wed at $60,000,
-A. J. Edgarton, Chief Justice of
Dakota, has resigned, and it is expected
that his successor will be appointed in
a few days,
i3
who nom-
appoint-
Captain Nelson Spaulding, recently
of iladelphia, but now in Boston,
on » 16th receivel from President
Cleveland a bandsome gold medal,
struck in commemoration of the heroie
rescue by the Chelmsford of the master
and crew of the wrecked American
schooner William H.
sen, December 1 1883,
££
The
Le 1 William 1. Blo
surveyor Gen
piace of James F, McCilell
Bevjamin J. Franklin, Missouri,
Covsul at Hankow, China ; William
E. Huger, Louisiana, Consul at
Juse, Costa Rica; and Augustus
Boyd, Cousal at Tuxpan, Mexico,
to Ia
San
M.
Mr.
| Dr. Smith received 19 out of 29 cle lea
votes and 18 out of 38 lay votes, It is
not vet known whether he will ae vpt.
~The agitation over Riel’s execution
has extended to St. Joling, Quebee, For
two nights a crowd has wmmrched
through the streets shouting, hooting,
blowing horns and invoking 1mpreci-
tions on prominent members of the
Cabinet and upcn the English peopl
generally, On Tussday evening no
meeting was held in Market Square to
denounce and hang in efligy Hie l's so
called executioners, A cousiderabl
number of persons assembled and in
flammatory speeches were made. Al
terwards a procession was formed, and
marched through the streets making
great uproar. Bir John Macdonald
Sir Heetor Langevin, Hon, Mr, Chay
lean, Judge Richardson and Mr. Pope
were hanged in efliay,
— The lead of an oil still
works of the Philadelphia
Company, at Swanson and
streets, Phladelghia, was blown
the 18th,
and Alexander
at the
Lubrie
N. Banks, aged 35
Arthur Grueber, aged
Joseph Robinson, aged 35 years,
80 badly burned that death resulted
Several workmen were badly
burned. and Patrick Bovle, it ist
cannot recover, The damage to the
property is estimated by as
the company between $15.0
£20 000,
28 Years,
other
~-Agent Armstrong, of
Agercy in Montana, has ]
the Interior Departme
dians on Tongue ri
ipplied with rat
arvation.
i8th in Diego,
oad 1
was crowded with
Wis ODServed
AIR
business being
f1
5
of Florida, was formerly
that State, and Mr. Franklin,
ted Consul at Hankow,
of Forty-fourth and
ongresses,
Lhe
-The vote of Massachusetts at
recent State Election
for pre-
cinct voting in large towns was
hight. The returns thes far coll
show 50,000 in favor of the amendment
and from 8000 to 10,000 against 5.
very
~The Supreme Court of the Us
States on the 15th rendered a dec
in the Kentucky railroad tax
stirming the judgment of the
Court, which was in favor of
monweaith. The was
taxes levied by the State upon the roads,
CHES,
ower
the Com-
Lue
suit
~The President on the 17th a
i William F. Harrity to be P
Philadelphia, in
yirvia
Huide?
bell Surveyor for Philade
D. Kendr
Philude
Collector of
cK Shipping Commissioner at
and Richard H, Arbuckle
he Port of Erie, Penna.
~—JLouis Riel
west rebellion, was hanged
a0 Qeg'n the Northwest
He met
Sure, am
scaffold. of
caused feeling
Freuch-Canadians in tne Provinee of
Wuebec. In Montreal flags were half-
masted in many parts of the city, and
a procession of about 500 student
paraded the strecis displaying the
color, and cheering for Riel and de-
timing Sir John Macdonald,
— A meeting of the State Board of
Health was held in Harrisburg on the
Lith, A number of reports were sub-
mitted. A resolution was adopted
“prolibiting the removal of the rags
from the steamship Lucy A, Nicholls,
just arrived at Philadeiphia from a
Japanese port, until properly disinfec-
dd.”
A telegram from Bismarck, Dako-
ta, reports that a surveyor from the
Canadian Pacific Railroad, coming on
an east-bound train on the 16th, said
that **with fhe close of work on that
road a vast number of laborers were
discharged, among them being 7000
Chinese, who are now making their
way into the United States.” The cap-
tains of steamships, he said, “take them
down the const by hundreds, and land
them at isolated points, from which
they go overland to the towns,” ”
~Mrs. Rhoda Howara died on the
17th in Bath county, Kentucky, at the
alleged age of 110 years, * She was
wonderfully well preserved and retain-
€d Ler faculties to the last.” She was
three times married, and one of her
husbands, it is said, was in the Revolu-
tionary War, ‘*‘She smoked a pipe
and never took a dose of medicine,’
Arguments in the election man
damus case at Cincinnati were finished
on the 17th, A decision 1s expected in
a few days, which will settle the result
of the election in Hamilton county,
~The Sapreme Court of Ohio on the
17th decided the Penitentiary law pass.
ed by the last Legislature to be consti-
tutional,
+ ~The number of residences destroyed
By the fire in Galveston was 508, and
the total loss is now estimated at $2.
509,000. Of the dwellings destroyed 33
wore residences of members of the Cot-
tor Exchange. The entire busipess
of the town of Hazlehurst,
i88., was burned on the 16th. The
‘Joss is estimated at $100,000,
~While répairing a blast furnace of
the Cambria Company, at Johnstown,
_ Penina,, on the 10th, J. B, Smith was
overcome by gas and fell headlong into
the furnace, No fewer than seventeen
men were rendered insensible while
trying to rescue him, but they were
from jaws of death by
comrades. Finally, the hfeless
the
1
on the 10h
@, in
naue ti
a }
LO Speech upon
Hi
execution
alpony
news his
inLense
+
nod
iE Ten
pre forte
accomp
Walker,
Batchelder, allie s§ed
jor W. W. D. Miller, Cap-
vr and Paul Boemer, of
States army, Dr. F. 3
al i f ©
rected witd
{
i
rain was
s
iviat Creand
»
wis elected «
3 voling
ceived 17 Democratic vote
him 47, or one more than
It is said *‘he
himself to support the Democratic Na-
tional Administration in whatever may
aim.
Wid eos
has rien]
— Digastrous prairie fires are reported
Indian Territory, especially i
the section iying north
Station, The fire appears
started at Wild Horse CO
forty miles north of Red
and burned down to the bottom
in the
to
eek,
lands
thirteen miles west
tion. It is believed that the fire belt is
from forty fo sixty miles wide. The
logs to cattle men is placed as high as
$400,000,
~Governor Pattison on the 19th re.
fused to sign the recommendation of
the Pardon Board for a pardon for
Emil Dorner, of Pittsburg, convicted
and sentenced for fraudulent voting.
He sent the case back for a rehearing.
The body of Louis Riel was on the
19th buried by Father Andre in a vault
under the Church of the Immaculate
Conception in Regina, and a guard was
placed over the remaing. The excite-
ment among the French Canadians 1s
intense,
~Qur Secretary of Stale and the
Mexican Minister at Washington are
about to exchange the ratificatiens of an
additional article to the commercial
treaty between the United States and
Mexico of January 20th, 1883 extend
ing the time to May 20th, 1886, for the
approval of the necessary laws to carry
into effect the operations of that treaty,
~J, Cronley, of Buffalo, on the 19th
resigned the position of Appointment
Clerk of the Post-office Departinent, lo
which he was appointed & month ago,
The change from active newspaper
work to official routine monotguy was
too munch for his endurance,
~By the fall of the wall of a recently
burned building in New York, Mrs,
Mary Kohn, 21 years of age, was
killed on the 19th, and six others were
injured, three of whom are not expected
to recover, The victims were picking
kindling wood in the ruins of the build.
ing while the walls were being braced
up to serve for a new structure,
~In the U. 8. Court at Cleveland,
Ohio, on the 19th, the case of A. 8,
Northway, the alleged embezzling
President of the Jefferson National
Bank, was referred to the Supreme
Court of the United States, This, itis
stated, was made necessary by errors in
the drafting of the indictment.
Carlisle arrived in Wash.
he to take to his bed
once And. refuse al
The Fisherman's Treasares.
A little, fair being sat watchful and still,
In the door of a hut by the sea;
And oft with its large, blue, angel ayes,
Looked seaward expegtantly.
The sunset aslant through the open door
shone soft o'er the white-robed child,
Till it looked like a picture in framework
old,
With its radiant face so mild,
pares;
Their darling keeps watch at the door;
Wee Flossie must call, when the mariner’s
boat
Satls up the sun's path to the shore,
A keel furrows smoothly the shining sea
And now it has reached the lund
How Flossie runs down to the strand!
He is rollworn, soiled and brown,
up,
From the happiest eyes shines down,
Flickers gally on floor and wall;
But the welcoming joy in his wife's sweet
face,
Is the loveliest sight of ail,
Lot the rich have
their gold,
Our fisherman envies
their titles, thelr lands,
then not;
wife and his child in his
ALT fe
His Elen is in his cot,
there
“An
80 you've sold your farm, le-
“Yes, an I must say I'm glad of
} 1 PES fi
Lo far,
I've m
}
cleared six hw
trying
must
this year,
on the wheat,
Ho Way.
" 1
Sel ¥ wie
I'v
ryt
28% 3
hands
il
fies dead and
n't be
longer’n you want to
observesd her
Hatch nl
would g
Beli iv." remonst rat
“What's the
man out wuss'n he |
likeller to
lawver (:reens,
Mrs. Hatch,
makin the poor
yw fs he's any
after the money then
Blawyer ree #8 golm
An it stands to reason "tain’t s
¢ a obieck 1
eV Dithsedl
yhim, Besides | a
fa 4
said, L.know, but
ruler
LWas me, than
King lawyer.
: % and
r biue yara *'l
‘You
Jemima"
fully, *l
cookies an some of tl
Ig h Ave
said the w
WAS A-going
serves you're »
“Wal, I'd mighy well to
Belindy, but Bijah he'll be a lookin fur
}
like
stay,
PIE
He's allus as hungn
beaver at night, an 1 ain't lefl
imself a
bite, Ireckinl better go. You go
Miss Larcom would
didn't,” and afte
conver.
", i 8’ pose 80,
get miffed, if 1
Mrs, Belinda Blossom was a typical
widow, fair, fat, and not quite 40, and
was known as the best housekes per in
where |
With even less personal attractions |
and good qualities than she possessed,
she might have exchanged her widow's
weeds for widal attire long ago, had
she so desired. However, for some
reasons best known to herself, she had
preferred to remain a “lone woman,"
as she called it, so far, Whether she
would remain so much longer was a
question which puzzled herself quite as |
much as it does some other parties,
It was the day of Mrs, Larcom's
Juilting, and supper was almost ready, |
he quilt was already out, and bya |
little preconcerted maneuver on the |
part of the fun-loving girls, it had been |
thrown over the widow's head, when |
taken out of the frame-a piece of mis- |
chief which afforded no little amuse. |
ment, as, according to time-honored |
tradition, whoever the quilt is first |
thrown over, is soon to become a bride,
Mrs, Blossom wore her honors blush-
ingly, and her cheeks were still covered
with crimson when the gentlemen be-
gan to drop in, just before supper,
Lawyer Greene who was among the
first to arrive, was profuse in his atten.
tions to the blooming widow, much to
the discomfiture of his less fortunate
rival, who could only sit in a corner
and cast despairing glances at the object
of his affections,
“Just look at deacom Gibbs,” whis
pered Mahala Williams to Dorcas
Lamb. **He looks like a hen on a hot
ddle, while lawyer Greene is a-court-
the widow,”
Doters tittered out loud, whereupon
the deacon grew red in the face, as if
aware that he was the object of their
mirth,
“Wal, I
Larcom,”
the hostess a short time
reckin I'll be a-goin, Mas
he announced, hing
later, *‘I only
RH SoU AA ER SARE ARH UTHSIAIIS,
Mrs. Hatch, rushing out to the porch
where he stood, looking a little bewil
dered at the unexpected summons,
“I want to ask you to come over the
to-morrow—Thanksgiving
day, you know --and eat dinner with us.
Now don’t say no —there won't be any-
only Belindy an our own
Say you'll come!”
“Wal, 1 dunno, Miss Hatch,” said
“I thank you
but I've been
blue fur a good spell
don't know as I'd be fittin
company to go an eat Toanksgivin din.
kindly fur the invile,
'
‘Sho!
that's all
must coms
nonsense, deacon,
now, an [ shill be
And
Mrs. Hateh ran back into
house before deacon Gibbs could make
departure, she betrayed no consclous-
the fact,
Supper, the great event of the day,
was ready at last, and the guests were
doing ample justice to the
array of viands set before them. Boiled
bam, chicken potple, mashed potatoes
and “tarnips, bot-siaw, apple sauces,
quash-ple, custard-ple,
168 and doughnuts, all were placed
and the Zrients
themseives, which they
the table together,
ted to help
with a will,
he meal was well under way, and
mm had flagged considerably,
1 talk
Opie eating an
s carried
: n
the surprise of
Cuiistance,
‘He was aw
al first:™ they
of give him the m
day was currently
Lawyer Greene had pr
widow Blossom and been rejected
much for the truth of what
say.’
Jemima paid the promised visit
bright and early the nex: morning.
She found her sister looking pale and
dejected.
“How bad is it, Delindy?"* she asked,
“Did you put all your money in the
bank?"
“All—every cent of it,” groaned the |
widow,
“Wal, it is too bad, but never mind;
you don’t have to give up the house
right away, do you?"
“No: not till March.”
“So much the better, then; though, |
of course you conld have a howe with |
us, right away. But there's your cows |
an’ chickens, an’ such things. They'll!
bring a better price afier you've wine
tered "em, an’ you Kin sell ‘em in the
spring, and there'll be sd much gaio-
ed.”
After considerable more conversation
on the sabject, the widow seemed to
brighten up a little, and her sister pre-
ul sweet on the widder
whispered,
¥en YY aes
Wat, “wii i
reporiad
to the
So
they
teshe must
the next
tt
it al
spores]
“Now you'll be sure to coma and eat
a Thanksgiving dinner with us to-mor-
row, won't you, Belinda?’ she urged,
and Belinda promised,
Jemima's footsteps had died away,
and the widow was still sitting, forlorn
and despondent, when her reverie was
disturbed again,
“Morning, Miss—Miss Blossom, "said
a hesitating voice, and there stood Dea
con (hibbe, nervously twisting his hat
in his hands,
The widow placed a chair for her vis
itor, who sat down, looking more ner
vous and emba than ever,
“l1've jest heerd,” he began, * ‘that
the Bluegrass bank has busted, an’
you've lost all your money, and —and |
(Oh, Belindy, won't you have me?
Say you will, an’ you shan’t want far
nothin’! I know 1 ain't rich, but my
farm is a good one, an’ I've got it all in
medder and pastur now, an’ kin raise
right smart o’ stock, an’ yoa shouldn't
iver kaw Lim lost 3 ou: wil
u, «Belindy
Athi washes the bud un
Wan
widow hid ber face in her hands, and
day. But in the pauses, between bast.
ing the turkey and turning the pump-
Kin pies, she made frequent trips to the
door, shading her eyes with her hand
and gazing far down the winding coun
try road,
“1 wonder if nary one of ‘em aint
a-comin’, after all,’ she muttered more
than once in tones of vexation,
The turkey was roasted at las’, the
pies were done, and the table set, when,
on look ng down the road again, she
was rewarded by a discovery.
“That's the deacon’s shay, now,”
she cried, “‘an Belindy not here, Dear
Then she took another look,
“There's somebody with him-—why,
it ain’t Belindy herself! I'm so glad,
yet, 1 jest do be-
lieve; and she ran to opan
door,
“Come in, Belindy! Deacon, walk
after all.’
The deacon smiled complacentiy,
Wal yes, vou see | ain't
Hatch, An
be thankful fur now,
We'd of got here sooner, only we've
Deen Lo a weddin”?
“A wedding!”
her eyes
Bie
¥ nething 0
Mrs,
in wonder,’ “Whose was it?”
demanded,
“Our own, to bs gure.” smiled
ft}
ith a loving glance al Beli
GANgerous, you
around to a
er i
‘hanksgivin
Ner, Jemir
ne us right
is Lt
tha othe
BELVINE
10 & wed
{inne
nstruction than the
the ancient
} enterprise has laced Sleamers,
0 contend against every
device and delay Known the crafiy
Ottoman. A city unrivalled for
tion and fertility of
§ Liave
0
posi-
as the rose, the center of
whole continent, yet sunk in decay and
poverty; where 30,000 Jews contend in
struggle for existence, more
properly for a bare subsistence, with
twice as many more Urientals not less
tha r
wine Or,
than themselves, in a cily where pover-
ty and oppression have sharpened every
A city that might sit en-
ironed as a queen upon the waters,
the dust amid the ruins of a long-for-
gotten former glory, Such is Bagdad
of to-day, the city of Haroun-al-Rashid,
the familiar home of Sinbad the Sailor
- itt
New York's Japanese Bank.
It is, perhaps, known to very few
people that there is a regular Japanese
bank in the city with every facility for
the transaction of a banking business,
the sale of bills of exchangp, and lei-
ters of credit, the purchase of specie,
ete, But such is the case. The gen.
tlemen connected with the bank are all
natives of Japan and men of intelli
gence and refined, with thal courteous
bearing so noticeable in the higher class
of the people of Cliina and Japan. They
are highly educated and several of them
spek English fluently. They have also
adopted the dress and habits of caltiva-
ted Americans,
The bank, which is a branch of a
large banking stitution in Japan, is
mainly supported by transactions with
Japanese merchants in the im-
port or export trade. Its ofMces form
part of the suit of rooms occupied by
the Japanese consal, and that gentle.
man himself exercises a supervision over
its affairs Lo see that everything is eons
ducted in the interest and to credit
of the government whose comnussion he
bea
8.
The head office of the bank is at Yo-
kobioma, J in what is known as the
nami Nakadori Gochome of that
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
Ladies are like violets: the more
modest and retiring they appear the
more you love them,
One of the kindest things heaven has
done for man is denying bia the power
of looking into the future,
Most people succeed, not by doing
many things as well as others, but some
one thing better than others,
As riches and favor forsake a man we
discover him to be a fool; but nodody
could find {4 out 1n his prosperity,
A li tis explained, a little endured,
and a little passed over as a foible, and
lo! the rugged atoms fit like mosaic,
Show me a man who bas no peculiar-
*8, and I will show you a man who is
£ nothing for God in the world,
God has given us Sabbaths and Satur.
4 we may leave business
have a heart cleansing,
The praise of man
pPramseworthiness, i
Fsrit
uu
in the office and
is not a test of our
18 their censure;
either should set pon lesting
ourselves,
There
w
whom
are
a man
terms.—his
three ims with
should always keep on
whe, his stomach and
COM Pay
good
HCE,
The body of
of God
t labor for
§ the sun
of our vraver
11y;: and as we must ask
BOCYED We Dest, we tan
| that we ask,
io all the
+ 18 allows
when
f wv
of vir-
rupis the
ab
nd wantiz he foundation, all
wanting, so in
“£10n rests on the fo
uilding,
ig
man life
regone event
is forgotien
(rod sends he
t grace to bear it; but be
no grace to bear anticipation
with, aud we hittle know 1 arge a
thint
vila
148
HOW
portion of our mental sufferings arise
from anticipation of trials,
Blessings that are won by prayer
should ever be worn with thankfulness,
Prayer and thanksgiving are like the
double motion of the lungs, the air that
issucked in in prayer, 1s breathed forth
again by thanks.
The nimble lie is like the second haud
upon a clock. We see it iy, while the
hour hands of truth seem to stand still,
last; for the clock will not strike till it
has reached the goal
The love of glory, the fear of shame,
the design of making a fortune, the
desire of rendering life easy and agree-
able, and the humor of pulling down
other people, are often the causes of
that valor so celebrated amoug men,
Until we begin to learn that the only
way to serve God in any real sense of
the word is to serve onr neighbor, we
may have knocked at the wicket gate,
but 1 doubt if we have got one foot
across the threshold of the Kingdom,
There are some men who have such
grumbling dispositions that when they
get at the gate of heaven they will try
and pick a quarrel with 5°, Peter, and
when they get inside will ind fault with
the music and pick holes in the wall
It ought to be the great care of every
one of us to fo low the Lord fully. We
must follow him universally, without di-
viding; uprightly, without dissembilng;
eheerfully, without disputing; constant
Iv without declining; and this is follow.
ing Him fully,
There is no greater every-day virtue
than cheerfulness, This quality in
man among men 18 like sunshine to the
day, or gentle renewing moisture to
rehed herbs. The ght of a cheerful
win diffuses itself, and communicates
the happy spirit that nspices it. The
sourest temper must sweeten in the at-
mo: phere of continuous humor.
Truly great men are polite by instinet
to their inferiors. 1t is one element of