~The Prohibitionists of Worcester, Massachusetts, on the 1st nominated a full city ticket, headed by Edward D, Conant for Mayor. Henry F. French, ex Second As- sistant Secretary of the Treasury, died in Concord, New Ilampshire, on the 28th ult., aged 72 vears. ~The steamer State of Maine on the 1st took to Portland, Maine, the crew of the schooner Isabella Thompson, dis. masted In a gale on Thatcher's Island, and likely to become a total wreck, —ieneral Crook telegraphs to Adju- tant General Drum, from Arizona, that the hostile Indians are Killing all the White Mountain Indians they can find scattered over the reservation. *‘It seems probable that up to this time they have killed eleven women, four ¢hildren and five men and boys.”” The Indians on the reservation have been aroused, and several parties of scouts and troops are hunting the renegades, —The Governor of Washington Ter- ritory, iu his report to the Secretary of the Interior, gives the population of the Territory as 129,438, an increase of 86,930 in two years. - The assessed ‘value of property is $50,484 437, and thereare yet 23,000,000 acres of the public lands unsurveyed, of which 16,- 000,000 are good agricultural and tim- ber land. By the Territorial census of 1885 there were 3276 Chinese resi. dents in the Territory. ~The cylinder heal of a 650-horse power Corliss engine in the Worcester Bteel Works, at Worcester, Massachu- setts, blew out on the lst, killing George Ryder and injuring several others, —Under instructions from the Sec- retary cf the Treasury, the Collector to the Port of Baltimore will, after the 15th inst., dispense with the services of fourteen eraployes whose salaries ag- gregate $17.85. Ile will ulso reduce the salaries of others $2460, making the total reduction of the cost of the Cus- tom House $19,835. The reduced force, it is said, will be amply sullicient to perform all the duties, -~The President on the 1st appointed John W, Causey to be Collector of In- ternal Revenue for Delaware, and John C. Thompson, of Kentucky, tobe Sur- vevor General of Wyoming. --A, W. Fletcher, of Pennsylvania, has been appointed Chief Clerk of the Bureau of Equipment in the Navy De- partwent, vice S. Henriques, reduced te a fourth class clerkship, furnace of the ILeesport Iron Company, at Leesport, Berks Coubty, Yenna., which has idle for the past ten months, resumed on the Ist, giving employment to a large n of hands. Several other idle f in that locality are preparing to go int ue 3 ween —The was put Richmond, rein court. The hig miire property was accepted, but Court for action —A telegram from Ottawa says has been di I a large portion of the phosphates Canada to England and Germany reshipped to the United States as Drit- ish and German phosphates, It is un- derstood that the American Consul at this place in his next report will point out the absurdity of forcing Canadian phosphates to make two trips across the Atlantic before entering the Uni- ted States.” —Commodore Charles Lowden, re tired is reported to be dying at his home in Talbot county, Maryland. Ie is 80 years of age. ~The conference of Methodist Epis- copal Presiding Elders opened in New York on the 1st and will continue two days, Fifty Elders were present from the following conferences; Wilmington, Philadelphia, Central Pennsylvania, Wyoming, New York, Central New York, Northern New York, New Eng- Lind, New England Southern, Newark, Genesee and Troy. Dishop Thomas Bowman, of St. Louis, presided, and spoke upon the duties of elders, ~The final obsequies of Vice Presi. dent Hendricks took placgon the lst in Indianapolis. After services at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church—Bisbop Knicker- bocker and three other clergymen offi- ciating. and Bev. Dr. Jenckes preach- ing the sermon-—-the remains were interred in Crown Hill Cemetery. The funeral procession comprised a large number of prominent oflicials and eciti- zens, and a number of civic and mili tary organizations, ~The Supreme Court of Ohio, at Columbus, on the 1st. rendered a de- cision in the Deggett habeas corpus case from Cincinnati, discharging the defendant and holding the Cincinnati and Cleveland election registry jaw to be unconstitutional, The decision of the Court was unanimous, «By o premature blast at the iron Ore Mines, near Olympia, Kentucky, on the lst, eight men were injured, three of them fatally, One of the victims bad both eves blown out, Two freight trains, running at high speed on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road, collided on the 24 in Workman's Cut, half a mile east of Washington, Peuna, There is a curve in the cut, which prevented whe engineer of either train from seeing the other until it was too late. Frank Sayder, brakeman, of Piedmont, West gia, was scalded to death, All the other bands on both trains were injured, Jawes Morris, of Washingion, and J. O. Heyuolds, of Jamestown, dangerously, ~The Ottawa Citizen asserts that the newly formed National party of- fered one of the Domunion Ministers a sum equal to his salary if he would resign his seat in the Cabinet.” ~A cable dispatch was received at Harvard College on the 2d announcing the disco of & faint comet at Paris, It wasn right ascension Oh. 39m, 58.5s,; declination north 21 degrees, 2 minutes, 25 seconds; daily motion In right as- eonsion 2 minutes, 28 seconds; declina~ tion south, J minutes, The comet was seen at Harvard Observatory on the nade for the It was not the srted to soavoroel that SCOvVeres, Lil — ~The State Board of Charities met on the 2d in Harrisburg, Pa., and elec- ted Mahlon H. Dickinson, of Ihila- delphia, President, aad Cadwalader Biddle, Treasurer, The latter as Sec ratary, presented a report for the last three months, saying that all the pris- ons and public institutions were visited and found to be in a satisfsctory condi tion, ~The Legislature of Virginia met mn the 2d in Richmond, and both Houses yrganized by the election of Democratic officers, The House adopted a res- olution thar the vete east for Governor State election were counted on the 34, —13ills have been introduced in the Mexican Congress authoring the expen- diture, jointly by the City of Mexico and the Pederal Government, of $400, 000 yearly for the drainage of the Val- ley of Mexico, and mcreasing the duty on foreign beer in the interest of de- mestic brewers, ~The public debt statement for No- vember shows an increase of $4,857, 198, —All the Cabinet members who went to Indianapolis to attend the Vice Pre- sident’s funeral returned to Washing. ton on the 2d. ~The Farmers® Natioual Congress wet on the 2d, in Indianapolis. Sixty delegates were present, including some of the wealthiest farmers and planters In the United States. —The President on the 2d, appoint- ed Albert A. Wilson, of Washington, to be Marshal of the District of Columbia, in place of Colonel Clayton McMichael, whose resignation, offered the day after President Cleveland's in- auguration, has been accepted by the President. —The resignation of General Coster, Pension Agent at New York, has been accepted with the understanding that he will remain in office until the December pension payments are made, —Several ladies have recently been robbed of their reticules ou the streets »f Chicago m broad daylight, The rob- beries have been committed by two well dressed men, who are supposed to be coachmen, ~The committee in charge of the af- fairs of the National Base Ball League has decided to limit the number of clubs in the League to six, viz, the Chicago, St. Lows, Detroit, Philadel. phia, New York and Boston. The franchises of both the Buffalo and the Providence teams are now in the hands of the League, and no others will be @sued. The schedule for the season will consist of 100 games ‘“‘each club laying twenty games with the others, ind the programme will ba so arranged hat the fifty games played in each League city will be played in engage ments of two weeks’ duration at inter vals of two weeks.” —More than three hundred employes f the Pennsylyania Agricultural Works at York, Penna., struck on the 1 against a reduction of ten to fifteen ser cent. in their wages. Last night, owever, they decided to accept the reduction, and they returned to work, — Five men were burned, three dan- gerously, by the explosion of a cask of gasoline oil in Chicago on the 2d, One of the men, a street lamp lighter, was filling torches with the oil when the explosion occurred, Nelson Bloss, a young man of Iobbie, near Hazleton, Penna,, was mortally wounded by the accidental discharge ot his gun while put hunting on the 24. He died in four hours. —The Virginia Legislature, soon after meeting on the 3d went into joint session and counted the vote cast al the last election for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. The count showed the fol- towing result: Total vole cast for Governor, 289.071, of which Fitzhugh Lee (Dem. ) received 152,644; John S. Wise (Rep.,) 136,510; scattering, 17. Total vole for Lieutenant Governor, 284.003, of which John E. Massey (Dem. ) received 140,170; H. C. Wood {Rep.,} 134,701 ; scaltering, 33. The vote for Lieutenant Governor in Scott county was not received. Lee and Massey were then declared Governor and Lieutenant Governor for the term of four years, ~The President's Message and other matters to be submitted to Congress were considered on the 3d in Cabinet meeting. ~The President on t'e 3d appointed John A. Sullivan to be Collector of In- ternal Revenue for the Second District of New York; J. Bomar Harris, United States Attorney for Southern Mississip- pi; Lafayette Dawson, of Missouri, United States District Judge for Alas- ka; William G. Langford, Associate Justice for Washington Territory; and Charles R. Pollard, of Indiana, Asso- ciate Justice for Montana, In the Supreme Court of Ohio, at Columbus on the 3d a petition in error to the Cireuit Court of Hamilton county in the Senatorial contest, was filed, and a motion to take up the case out of its order was argued. — Mayor Grace, of New York, on the 34, began suit for libel against the New York World, claming $50,000 damages, Mr. Pulitzer was arrested in the after. noon and released on $5000 ball, ~A Victoria (Columbia) Chinaman, worth $200,000, is to marry a white girl, with the consent of her parents, - Washington fashion allows ladies to use perfume about their persons con cealed in satchets, ete, but forbids them to saturate their handkerchiefs with it, -=A scientific journal in England es- timates that it would take a capital ot $5,000,000,000 to successfully divert the vast power of Niagara Falls to use- ful purposes, «Easter of next falls on St, Mark's Day, April 25, its latest possible date, The last time this cocurred was in 1736 (old style), and it will not so fall again until 1943, ~— Female conductors are employed now on the Valparaiso (Chili) street cars. In Santiago female conductors are stated to bave been a success for some time past, he . i A Spring Note. Listen) her great hesrt is beating, Once again you hear It warm strong; Through her veins of blue the waters, Seaward ¢rawn; full-flooded, bound along. and | und incomprehensible power of com- pelliog another being, by mere foree of bbing him while so asleep of his thought, of his soul, Tongues are in the brooks and voices In the winds are set like fairy fintes; Trees and vines and herbs are quickened, Life has long been striving at the Tools, In the branches climbs the lifeblood, Thrilling them to their remolest Ups Nectar in the cells is waiting Hebe's cup and royal June's Hip Now upon our monntain altars Earlier comes and longer burns the flame; | Sweet-voiced strangers throng the valleys, Putting all the poots’ song to shame, Far and wide o'er stream and woodland Flings the shower its crystal treasures rare, 1ris robes in light descending On her jowelled Indder in the alr, i Roll the silver constellations Through an ocean-world of milder bine; i In the night rwerial spirits i ill the new-made flower-cup wit i dew Mother Barth, 1 may not ask thee All the mystery 1 seek to know, Listening upon thy boss To the force that lives and works below, tut with this bright dome above me, These sweet sounds of life returning here, Weil 1 know thy heart beaes ever, Though mine foebler beats from year to { year. RIL ER “A MADMAN.” Whenever I hear anybody say: “You know Jacques Parent died mad in an | insane asylum,” a patnfal shudder, a creeping of fear and anguish passes | through all my bones; sud I see again before me the figure of that tall strange man, mad perhaps long before I knew him-—an alarmizg person, a really fear. | ful maniac, He was a man about forty years old, | tall, lanky, slightly stooped, with the | eves of one troubled by hallucination black eyes, so black in fact that the pupil could not be distinguished—mo- bile eyes, wandering. sickly, haunted, What a singularly annoying person he | was — bringing with him, spreading | around Lim an atmosphere of uneasi- ness, a vague distress of sul and body, such an incomprehensible feeling of nervousness as inclines peoplo to believe in supernatural influences, He had one very unpleasant crank-— a mania for keeping his hands concealed, He was scarcely ever seen to let Lis hands wander listlessly—as we all do— upon surrounding objects, tables, fur. niture. Never did he touch anything in his vicinity ir that familiar way which pearly all men have. Never did he let them.be seen uncovered- those long, bony hands of his, slender and slightly nervous, He always kepl them either buried in his pockets, or hidden behind his coat-tails, or con- conled under his armpits when he folded his arms, One might have sup- posed he wos afraid that those hands might, in spite of him, do something wrong—might perpetrate some ludi- erous or shameful act if he allowed them to remain masters of their own movements, When he was obliged to make use of them for the ordinary rpecesaitios life, he did so only by sudden jerks, by swift movements of his arms, ss though wishing to prevent them from having time to sot of their own accord, to re- fuse to do hus bidding, to do something else instead. When at table he would handle his glass, his knife or his fork so quickly that nobody ever had an oppor- tunity to observe what he was going to do before it had already been done. Now I was able one evening to obtain the explanation of his astounding ais. ease of mind. : fie used in those days 10 pay me visits trom time fo time at my country residence; and on the evening in ques- tion he seemed unusually nervous, A storm was rimng in the sky, black and stifling, after a long day of atro- cious beat. No breath of air moved the | leaves, A sort of hot-bath vapor passed | aorose our faces, made us pant for air, I was feeling very uveasy; very much | agitated, and I wished to go to bed. When he saw me rise to leave the room Jaogues Parent seized me by the | arm with a grip of terror, “Oh, no!” he said; “stay a little while | with me!” : I looked at him in surprise, and mur- mured: “It's only because this storm is mak- | ing me very nervous, “And me!” Ohl remain here, I beg | of you—I do not want to be left alone,” | His looks were wild, I asked him: | “What is the matter with you? Are you losing your senses?” : And he stammered in reply: *Yos, now and then, on such even- ings as this—electrioal evenings—I am Si am—I am sfraid—I am afraid of myself, no, you do not understand me. It is because I am gifted with a might —n0, 8 power—no, with a force. In short I cannot tell you what it is; but I | find in myself a magnetic action, so extraordinary that I am afraid-—yes, terrified at myself, as I have just told | "” of i And heoconcealed his madly quivering hands under the lapel of his jacket, Theh 1 myself begaa suddenly to feel the trembling of fear—a fear, vague mighty and horrible, I felt un awful desire to get away, to ran away, to es | cape the sensation of feeling dering eye passing over me, then tarn | frora me and circle about the ceiling, secking some dark corner of the room to fix itself upon, as if ho wanted to hide his awful gaze as weil as his awful hands, “1 stammered out: “Why, you never told me this before.” He went on: “Do 1 ever tell anybody? Liston! This evening I cannot seoret, and I would rather you know everything, Besides, you might be able to suocor me,” 0 in? But “Do you know what No. Nobody knows what it is established; its ized; the doc its existenco is f manifestations are tors themselves practioe it; one of the XA mana beink—has the trighttal & -the soul, which fs the the public! Is it not atrocious, wicked, infamous? “Why how ean this be done? Does anybody know? Why, what can any- All is mystery. with other objects save our miserable that they have scarcely power enough discern what is rouud about it. All is mystery. 'Thiok of musie, for exam- ple; that divine art—that art which music? Nothing. “You do not understand me! Listen! ite vibrations are Now each of us has in his or her ear a fine smail skin which receives into sound. Bee! art—precise as algebra and yet vague of skin, Did tion, no ears? No! are surrounded Very well, then! we by many other because we lack which could reveal them to us, “Perhaps maguetism belongs to this class of things. We can only have a presentiment of this power—we can only neighborhood we ean faint glimpse of this new secret of na- ture—becanse the natural instrument of revelation does not exist within us, “As for myself —as for myself, I am possessed of a frightful power, I feel as though there were within me another weing, another life imprisoned in me, nother being who 1s ever striving to act against my will, who agitates me, gnaws me, exhausts me, What is 11? What is he? 1 do not know, but there ars two of us iu this miserable body of mine: and it or the other oue, who often proves the stronger; as he is this eveniog. “I need only look at people in to stupely them as thoroughly as though I drugged them with heavy doses ol opium, i have only to extend my hands in order to produces things—things horrible If you oould only ould only merely ex men; but to animsls and even inagimate objects! “All this tortures and terrifies me, I often think of tearing out my eyes cutting off my hands, “Bat I am going to show yon--J wsnt vou fo know everythiog! Here! I will show you the power I speak of — not over human creatures, that ean be seen anywhere—but over—over ame. mals, Call Muze!” He walked to and fro with great rapid strides, like one in a hallucina- tion; and he stretched out his hande, whieh bad been kept hidden fn his bosom. They seemed to me as terrible as though he had suddenly produced two naked swords, And I obeyed i# he, orQer even bim mechanically, terror, and nevertheless devoured by an impetuous curiosity to sce, the door and whistied to my dog, who war lying down in the hallway, with I heard the hurried patter of her she appeared at the doorway, all joy- ously, wagging her tail, Then I ordered her to lie down in an arm-chair; she leaped upon it, and into her eyes. At once she became uneasy; she commenced to qmver, turning her head first to one side, then to the other, im order to avoid the fixed gaze of the man, seeming to be seizad with an ever growing fear, Then sud- Her whole body paipita- barkings. Jacques seemed now like one insane, The sweat streamed from his forehead, | Ho thundered out: “Bite him!-—bite | your master!” She made two or three | terrible struggles, one wonld have { sworn she was trying to resist, striving against an irresistible force, He re. peated: “*Bite him!” Then rising up, { my own dog approached me, and I re- | coiled; 1 retreated to the wall, tremb- ! ling with fright, my foot raised to kick her, to repalse her, | But Jacques again ordered: ‘Come | back herc-—at once!” Bhe returned to { him, Then with his two great hands, though removing invisible hands which | tied 1t, | Mirza opened { all!” he said. her eyes, | her—and I pushed the door open im- | mediately to let her go out. | forth very slowly, trembling all over, | descended the stairs, But Jacques again approached me. | jects obey mel” | mental leaves of books, { quiver, and slide of its own accord, | waiting for it, into the grasp of the fin- | gers ready to close upon it, 1 screamed with terror. | calmed me, Jacques continued: way. That is why I hide my hands. What is this? loadstone powder? know~but it 1s horrible, know why it is borrible? | everything about me, And 1 spend whole days in moving things this way from place to place—never tiring of exerting this abominable power of mine, {as if to find out whether I am losing it | or not.” He had again buried his two large hands io bis pocket; and he stared into the night, A slight noise, a faint shud- dering seemed to pass through the trees, It was the rala commencing to fall, I muttered: **1t is frightful!” He repeated: “It is hornbie!” Then a great tremor rushed through the foliage like a gust of wind, It was the heavy shower descending—a thick and torrential rain. Jacques began to breathe in the ong, i lifted his chest. “Leave me,” he said; ‘‘the rain will give we calm. I wish now to be alone,’ air, which with owerful aspirations mss cots ss AI fot In the Woods. » gunners named, respec. and wer from Brookiyn \ Caleb and arr. Johnson m Hoboken, N. J., , N. Y. onan up train and started out untains for a day’s hunt- to return home by an being rather immediate vicimty, they farther away, evidently withl leulating the distance they trhvel- ed, until they found themselves in a very wild region which they say they believe was ‘never before traversed by man.” Here they succeeded in bring- ing down a few birds and a couple of squirrels by dusk, and then made a start on their return to the station. They went in the direction they suppo- sed to be east, but which proved to be 3 rmsd Awad Crane came they found that their way was a very uncertain one. They continued to grope through the trees and over rocks until nearly midnight, when they were so fatigued that they could proceed no further. The moon, although partially to enable them to see how they were situated. They gathered up leaves and They took turns sleeping an hour at a time until | broad day hight, when they were sur- They re- turned to their homes with little game i APA —— she tries to sscape, to run away. Bat he simply placed his hand upou the skull of the animal; and under the howls that may be heard by night throngh the great silence of the country, I felt myself numbed, dizzy as one feels when on the deck of a rocking ship. I saw the furniture bending, the walls moving, 1 gasped out: “Enough of this, Jacques, enough!” But he did not listen to me. He con- tinued to gaze at Mirza in a frightful continuous manner, She closed her eyes at last and let ber head drop as if sinking to sleep. He turned toward oe. * It is done,” he said, “Now wateh,” And throwing his handkerchief to the further end of the apartment, he shouted: “Ietoh it” The svimal rose, stagering, stumbling as if blind, mov- img her feet as paralytios move their limbs, and found her way to the hand- cerohief, which made a white spot at the edge of the wall, Several times she tried to seize 1t in her mouth; but she mapped in the air close beside it, as i she eonld not seize it Finally she caught it in her jaws, and returned with the same unsteady, somnambulistic t. op was somethin He comm head he cried: “A hare—siok him! sick him!”, Aud the animal still on her wide, seemed to run, tossed her limba like dogs and i % During the hot days of June a Con- for the fire she entered a small close garret room used for storage. She opened a window and instantly a bag of carpet hanging there burst into a flame, e rags had been there all winter. The fire was promptly smother ed; and when the bag was opened it was found that only balis of cotton rags were burned. Whather the rags had been dyed is not stated. Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim. It seems probable that the electric light will works, where also electricity may be employed the light permits the matching of colors as in daylight, and in the daytime the current may be employed for electro- chemical purposes, It is claimed that the sugar best in California does not exhaust the FOOD FOR THOUGHT. —— 1 would rather ¢herish afiection tnan indulge grief, but everyone must follow their mood, The noblest gift of God ever bestowed upon man wes the liberty 10 work out his own salvation, Heligion 1s good for nothing one day in the week, unless it is also good all the seven days, it is in men as in souls, where wome times there is a vein of gold which owners know not of, If our religion 18 not bound to change it bound to propagate it, A holy lifes the grandest of sermons arguinents, the Mystery, such as is given of beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it, There are some who wrile, Lald think so much about virtue, havo no time to practice it. The excesses of our youth are drafls upon our old age, payable with interest, {rod arid an they vidi V Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run he that sets all teligion is the most gentleroanly thing in tne world, said Coleridge. It alone wil] gentilize if unmixed with True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before Lhe world. A man protesting Cant. against error is In uniting himself in truth, Indolence is a sort of suicide: for the mah is efficiently destroyed, though the There is no beautifer of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to We would be ashamed of our very best actions if the world were witness to the motives which produce them, The greater part of men have no opin- ion, still fewer an opinion of their own, well reflected and founded upon Good qualities are the substaotial riches of the mind; but it is good breed- ing that shows them off o advanlage. reason. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best: and he whose heart beats the quickest lives the longest. know that are, He that studies booksalone will how things ought to be; and he studies men will know how tl Hurry an prentices ding d cunning gre the two of dispatel neither of them ever learn tis trade, not i we oughtio nd who bell Noth ng is nothing more great and noble sou read t ness to fo Rather Ivan De Ang wn 4 ve tl aniy. 3 anda take pains with than to improve your knowledgs ought to be the great stud) The true greatness of man heart: it must be elevated LY to great things, and by daring ourselves worthy of them. Politeness, that cementer of ine and soother of enmities, is no much required, and so Treque raged as in family circles; in nea dear connections it is continual doned and the result is, thal beauties of life are destroyed, and w them much of the happiness. Manners are the shadows of virtues, the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow-creatures love and respect. If we strive lo become, then, what we strive to appear, manneis may often be rendered useful guides to the performance of our duties. As daylight can be seen through very small holes, so little things will widicate a person’scharacter. Indeed, character consists in little acts, habitually and honorably performed ; daily life being the quarry from which we build it up and rough-hew the habits that form it. If you cannot speak well of your neighbors, do not speak of them at all A cross neighbor may be made kind by kind treatment. The true way to be happy is to make others happy. To be good is a luxury. If you are not betier and wiser at the end of the day, thal day is lost. When you speak evil of another, you must be prepared to have others speak evil of you. There is an old Buddhist proverb which says, ‘*He who indulges in enmity is like one who throws ashes to windward, which come back to the same place and cover him all over,” Without steadiness of character in sof cial life, there can be no true fellowship. Accomplishments may please, beauly may charm, fluency and may attract; but to win confidence and respect, to be trusted and relied upon, the roan or woman must bs stable in character, self poised, true to promises, punctual, uniting firmness to geniality and steadfastness to good nature. Select your object in life, and then make it your first and constant aim to attain it. Thisisthe only true principle of success Ti Sepazitnent of Init the great on by men who attain anything like eminence. youl part in early life, and then pursue it with unshaken resolution and firmness, Philosophy fais of its noblest object; if it does not lead us to God; and, what- of :
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