NEWS OF THE WEEK A —————————— ~The Democratic cauncaus of the Virginia Legislature on the 9th renom- inated the following heuds of State Departments: Secretary of the Com- monwealth, Henry W. Flournoy; Au- ditor of Public Accounts, Morton Marye Second Auditor, F. C. Ruffin; Regis- trar of the Land Oflice, Andrew J. Wingfield. The only change made was in the office of State Treasurer, for which A. W. Harmon, of Rockbridge county, was nominated in place of Isaac B. Barksdale, the present incum- bent. ~The Baron de Itajuba, recently ap- pointed Minister from Brazil to the United States, on the 9th presented his credentials to the Presiden. —On the 10th the President sent to tht Senate a large number of nomma- tions, among them the following: To be Minister of the United States, George V. N. Lothrop, of Michigan, to Russia; Jabez IL. M. Curry:of Virginia, to Spain; Charles Denby, of Indiana, to China; John B. Stallo, of Ohio, to Italy; Charles D. Jacob, of Kentucky, to the United States of Colombia; John E. Bacon, of South Carolina, to be Charge d’Affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay; Lambert Tree, of Iilinois, to be Minis. ter to Belgium. To be Ministers Res- ident and Consuls General: Boyd Win- chester, of Kentucky, to Switzerland; Frederick H. Winston, of Illinois, to Persia, John E. W, Thompson, of New York City, to Hayti; William A. Seay, of Louisiana, to Bolivia; Moses A. Hopkins, of North Carolina, to Liberia; Walker Fearn, of Louisiana, to Rou- mania, Servia and Greece. Also to be Territorial Governors: Edmund G. Ross, of New Mexico, of New Mexico; C. Meyer Zulick, of Arizona, of Ari- zona; Edward A. Stephenson, of Idaho. of the Territory of Idaho: Alfred P. Swineford, of Michigan, of Alaska; | Samuel Hanser, of Montana, of Mon- | tana, —G, F. Foster, member of Parliment for Kings county, New Brunswick, was on the 10th sworn into the Dominion Cabinet as Minister of Marine and Fisheries, A. W. McLellan taking the Finance porfolio. —Charles P. Daly, Justice of the Court of Common Pleus in New York city, on the 10th sat for the last day on the bench of that Couit, although he) will not tinally retire from work on un- finished business until after the end of the year. Ie has been a Justice of the Court for forty-two years, —Washington has been selected as the place for the erection of the monu- ment to General Grant by the Army of the Republic. ~—Reil’s body was quietly brought to Winnipeg from Regina, and was inter- red besides his father’s grave. ~The cars of a freight train were | detached on the 10th near Lone Cave, | Georgia, by the breaking of a coup-| ling pin, and part of the train crashed | down a steep grade, kiiling the engi- neer and injuring the fireman. The | engine of a freight train on the New | Brunswick Railway, broke through a bridge on tie Oromocto river, and the engineer was killed, the freman es | caping with slight injuries. — The lumber firms of Ottawa, Can- ada, are preparing for operations on a | large scale during the winter. “Great | satisfaction is expressed at the proposi- | tion In President Cleveland's message | to remove the import duty on lumber.” —W. C. Walker, a student at the | Theological Seminary at Meadville, | Penna., cornmitted suicide on the 10th | by shooting himself in his room in the | college building. He was *“*fine looking | and very popular,” but was unable to | keep up in his studies with the rest of | his class: hence the supposed reason for | f i his suicide, ' ~The Mexican Congress has passed the bill authorizing the President to treat with the railroad companies for a modification of their concessions, ~—A caucus of the Republican mem- bers of the U. 8, Senate was held on the 11th. Mr. Sherman resigned his pesition as chairman of the caucus and Mr. Edmunds was unanimously elected to the place. It was decided to retain General Logan in his old place on the Committees on Military Affairs. The policy to be adopted towards President Cleveland s appointments was discussed, but no formal action was taken or pro- posed. The Senators were near unan- imous in the opmion that there should be no general policy of opposition, but that each nomination should be treated upon its merita, “Opinions were ex- pressed and generally assented to that good wen appointed to office becansze they were Democrats should be con- firmed, except in cases where their pre- decessors were removed upon trumped up or unfounded charges brought for the purpose of making pretexts for the creation of vacancies, In such cases it was urged that the nominations should be held over to give the removed offi cials an opportunity for vindication.” —~Comatissioner Black said on the 11th that the amount asked by the Pen. sion Burean for the com'ng fiscal year is less by $1 549 040 than the amount ap- propriated by Congress for use during the current year. ~—While an express train on the Penn gsylvania Railroad was approaching Elizabeth Furnace, Penna , 0 the 11th, two men and’ a boy stepped on the track and were dtruck by the engine. The men were Killed and the boy dan- gerously injured, ~The funeral of William H. Vane derbilt took place on the 1ith New York, Services were held in St. Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal Chureh, and the interment took place in the Moravian Cemetery al New Dorp, Staten Island. Everything was simple and unostentatious. «Two cars of a railroad train left the track and tumbled down an en- bapkment near Caldwell, Ohio, on tle 10th, Six passengers were injured, two of them, children, fatally. ~The Mexican Congress has approy- ed the modifled contract with Captain Eads for a ship railway, and the bill has gone to the President for his - nature, The amendments add 1,700, the payment of 1,250,000 a year for fif- teen years, provided some other nation guarantees $2,500,000 more for the same perlod. FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. SENATE, The Forty-ninth session of the U, 8, Senate begin in Washington on she 7th, It consisted of 76 Senators of whom 42 are Republicans and 34 Democrats. Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, was elected President pro tempore and took the oath of oflice. The credentials of Messrs, Logan and Blair, Senators-elect from [1linois and New Hampshire respective- ly, were presented and those gentlemen were sworn in. Resolutions were adopt - ed directing the Secretary to inform the House of Representatives and the President of the election of the Presi- dent pro tempore. The usual committee was also appointed to wait upon the President. in conjunction with a simi- Jar committee of the House, and inform him that Congress was ready to receive any communication he might be ready to make. A recess was then taken On reassembling, a communication was received from the House announcing its orgamzation, ete. Mr. Voorhees then offered resolutions in regard to the death of Vice-President Hendricks, which were laid on the table to be called up at a future day. The Senate then, in respect to the memory of the Vice- President, adjourned. In the Senate on the 5th the first message of President Cleveland was re- ceived and read, Bills were introduced by Mr. Hoar, to regulate the Presiden- tial succession, to establish a Courc of Appeals, and to establish a uniform system of bankruptey; by Mr, Edmunds, to regulate the Electoral count, and to amend the act mn relation to polygamy in the Territories, Mr. Cameron, of Penna, , offered a resolution, which was read and referred to the Committee on Finance, declaring against the expe. diency of any further reduction of the tariff, Mr. Plumb, by request, intro- duced a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment for the sup- pression of the manufacture and sale of liquor, The Senate at this point ad- journed, In the United States Senate on the oth Mr. Vest offered a resolution, which was agreed to, requesting the President, if not incompatible with the public service, to transmit the corres- pondence with the Governments of Italy and Austria in relation to the appeintment of Minister Keiley, A resolution, offered by Mr. Morrill, was also agreed to, requesting the Presi. dent, if not incompatible with the pub any information or documents received from our Cousul General at Pans, or centres of Europe, In réspect Lo the establishment of such an international gold and silver coinage as would permit of the coinage of both metals at the mints of those countries and our own. Adjourned, In the Un'ted States Senate on the 10th Mr. Edmunds reintroduced his Postal Telegraph bill of the last Con gress, Mr. McPherson presented a joint resolution of the New Jersey Leg- isiature recommending s Congressional inquiry into the fitness of a portion of Alaska for a penal colony. A joint resolution was passed reappointing as Regents of the Smithsonian Institution John McLean, of New Jersey; Asa Gray, of Massachusetts, and Henry Coppee, of Pennsylvania, and also ap Meigs, of Washington, to succeed Gen- eral Sherman, Mr. Dolph introduced a bill to repeal the law of last session providing for the settlement of claims of officers and enlisted men of the army ills were also introduced by Mr, Platt to relieve commercial travelers fiom license taxes ; by Mr. Plomb, to open Oklahoma to settlement and to im- by Mr. Voorhees, to repeal the statute of limitations on the &llowance of pen gion mrears, After an executive ses. sion, the Senat : adjourned until Mon- day 14th, HOUSE In the House, John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, was re-elected Speaker, the tepublicans voting for Thomas D Reed, of Maiue, There are 185 Dent ocrats, 140 Republicans, 1 Greenback Democract and 1 Greenback-Republi- can. Mr. Carlisle, on taking the chair, made a speech acknowledging the hon- or conferred upon him, and calling at- tention to the importance of the ses- sion just beginning The other officers of the House were then elected, as nominatsd by the Democratic caucus. The Clerk was directed to inform the Senate that the House was organized, and a committee was appointed to wait upon the President together with the similar committee of the Senate. After the drawing of seats had been finished, Mr. Holman, of Indiana, announced the death of Vice President Hendricks. and the House then, as a mark of re- spect, adjourned, In the House, on the 8th, the Presi. dent's message was redd, and the Speaker appointed the Committee on Mileage, with Mr, Rogers, of Arkan sas, as chairman, Mr, Hopkins, of 1ili- nols, announced the death of his prede- cessor, Reuben Elwood, aod the House, as a mark of respect, adjourned, In the Honse, on the Oth Mr, Morri- son, of Illinois, offered a resolution for reference, continuing In force the rules f the Forty-eight Congress, with certain modifications, among them one for the distribution of the work of the Committee on Appropriations smong the other standing comsuittees of the House, My. Springer then presented for Immediate action the code of roles prepared by him (which has been alrendy published). Mr. Hammond off a resolution declaring that until the new rules shall be adopted, the House shall be governed Ly the rales of the last House, so far as applicable, and by Jefferson's Manual, After debate, the subject wos referred to the Come mittee on Rules, and the Speaker ap- pointed as the committee Messrs, Ran- 000 acres to the yas land dall Ti House ths journal Satur A Woman's Ne She kad a paccel, small and round, One lovely afternoon iast summer, I offered, as in duty bound, To take it from her, She thanked me with a gracious smile, As sweet as rosy lips could make it; Tt was so small "twas not worth while To let me take it Again I offered, as before, Of that slight burden to relleve her, She'd rather not. “Fray, say no more!” "T'would really grieve her, I ceased to plead; she seemed content: And so along our way we went To wheres she boarded. Bas when upon the stoop she stood, And ere our last adieus were uttered, She eyed me in a roguish mood, And softly muttered, Only sixteen or seventeen day. to the west across the vast and bound- less brown plains. there, a few great black spots in the boundless sea of brown. rents took me, then only a lad, across the plains, wore than thirty years ago, How different now, with the engines ing across at the rate of five hundred miles or more a day ! There are many houses on the plains now, cornfields, and the song of happy har vesters is heard there, But the great black spots that dotted the boundless sea of brown are gone forever. Those dark spots were herds of countless bison, or buffalo—as they were more generally called. sun rose up and blazed with uncommon ing quietly close to our train, and some of the younger boys who had guns and pistols, acd were “dying to Lill a but- falo,"” begged their parents to let them ride out and take a shot, As it was only a natural desire, and seemed ssimple thing to do, a small party of boys was soon ready. The men were obliged to stay with the train and been struck, and the long white line had begun to creep slowly away over the level brown sea toward the negt walter, a little blind stream that stole through the willows fifteen miles away to the west, There were in our train two sonsof a rich and rather important man. And they were now first in the saddle and ready to take the lead. But as they were vain and selfish, and had always had a big opinion of themselves, their father knew they bad not learned much about anything else. There was also in the train & sad-faced, silent boy, bare- footed and all in rags; for Lis parents had died with cholera the day after was left helpless and alone, spoke to any one, And as for the rich man's boys, they would sooner have thought of speaking to their negro cook then to him, to go, and the train of wagons rolled away, the rich man came up to the barefooted boy, and said : “Sea here, *Tatlers,’ go along with my boys and briag back the game,’ “But I have no horse, sir,” replied the sad-faced boy. “Well, take mine,” said the anxious father; “1 will get in the wagon and ride there Lill you get back.” knife,” added the boy. out.” When the barefooted boy had mount. ed the horse, the man buckled his own belt around the lad, and swung his nfle over the bow, How the boy's face lit up ! His young heart was beating l'ke 5 drum with de- the buffalo. finger on # bullet hole near the region of the heart and looked up at the | others. “1 aimed about there 1" ghouted one, ‘And so did 11” eried the other eager. ly + | very significant | boy took out his knife, and, unob- | served, pricked two holes with the point | of it close by the bullet hole, | put his finger there and again looked | up at the boys. | their knees, wild with delight, in an | instant, | They had really helped kill a buffalo! i In fact, they had killed it! ‘For are not two bullets better than one i”? they cried, one. **And cut me off the mane; 1 want it shouted the other. | Without a word, the boy did as he was bid, and then securely fastened the | trophies on behind their saddles, brothers, “And won't he be delighted I’ said | the other, as he clamberéd up to the saddle, and turned his face in every di- rection, looking for the wagons, ‘‘But where are they ¢'’ he cried. At first the brothers laughed a little, | then they grew very sober. one, pointing off. that's the way they went. But 1 wond- | er why we can’t see the wagons 9’ ““We have galloped a long way; and | then they have been going in the other { direction. If you go that way you will be lost. When we started, I noticed that the train was moving toward sun- set, and that the sun was over our left shoulder as we looked after the train, “We must go in this direction, or we shall be lost,” mildly and firmly said the barefooted boy, as he drew his belt tighter, and prepared for work. The other boys only looked disdain- fully at the speaker as he sat on his horse and shading his eyes with his hand, looked away in the direction he wished to go. Then they talked a mo- ment between themselves, and taking out their pocket compasses pretended to look at them very knowingly. Now, many people think a compass will lead them out of almost any place where they are lost. This is a mistake, A compass is only of use when you must have coolness and patience and good seuse to get on with it at all. It can al best only guide you from one ob- ject Lo another, and thus keep you in a straight line, and so prevent you from going around and around and around. But when the plain is one vast level sea, without a single object arising up out of it as a guide, what is a boy todo? it takes a cool head, boy's or man's, to use a compass on the plains, “Come on! that is right.” cried the elder of the two hunters, and they darted away, with “‘Tatters” far in the tear. They rode hard and hot for a fall hour, getting more frightened, and go- ing faster at every jump. high in the heavens, : all in a foam, “I see something at last.’ shouted the elder, as he stood up in his stirrups, ani then settling back in his seat, he jaid on whip and spur, and rode fast and furious straight for a dark object that lay there in the long brown grasses | of the broad unbroken plains. Soon they came up to it. It was the dead buffalo! were lost on the plains. They had been | riding in the fatal circle that means death if you do not break it and escape, Very meek and very penitent felt the | two boys, as “Tatters’’ came riding up Their horse. were thirsty. ! wize, i pitifully for help. | but they could not say a word, “We must ride with the sun on the Lis left shoulder, and that was all. lieve, sooner or later, on the plains, in the valley, or on the moustain, | palace or cottage, when we too can only It our eyes, something shiving in heaven silent and helpless, faint sound beyond them, a fesble, screeching ery that seemed to come out they struggled on. Then suddenly they came through and | out of the tall brown grass into an open plain that looked like a plowed field, Only, all about the outer edge of the { high as a man’s knee. On every one of these little forts stood a soldier-senti- { nel, high on his hind legs and barking { with all his might. The lost hunters had found a dog- | town, the first they had ever seen. Some owls flew lazily over the strange little city, close to the ground; and as | they rode through the town. a rattle. gnake now and then glided into the hole on the top of one of the ten thousand little forts. The prairie dogs, also, as the boys rode close upon them, would { twinkle their heels in the air and disap. pear head first, only to jump up, like a | Jack-in-a-box, in another fort, almost instantly. The party rode through the town and looked beyond. Behind 7 Nothing! To the right? Nothing! To the left ¥ Nothing; nothing but the | great blue sky shut tight down against the boundiees level sea of grass, ‘ " Nothing ! “Water,”’ gasped one of the boys; “I am dying for water.” “Tatters'’ looked him in the face and saw that what he said was true. Ie re- flected a moment and then said: **Wait here for me. Then leaving the others, he rode slowly and quietly around the prairie-dog city with his eyes closely scanning ground. As be again neared the two boys wainting patiently for him, he uttered acry of delight, beckoned them to come. “Look there! Do you see that little ; road there winding along through the thick grass 7 Its adim and small road, not wider than your hand, but it means everything Lo us, the and 1 wt o % urd 4 H] t Ob, 1 am dying of thirst I" § exciaim- ed one of the brothers. “What does it mean !" “It means water, Do you thini great cily Jike that can waler 7 w get on witho road to us follow this trail till Ihiis 18 thelr waler Come! Let find it.” Saying this, we “Tatters’ led off at a lively pace, for the horses, cheered bv the barking dogs, and somewhat rested. were in better sprits now. And then it is safe to say that they, too, saw and understood the meaning of the dim and dusty little road that wound along un- der their feet, “Hurrah ! hurrah! hurrah I” Gal. lant “Tatters’’ turned in his saddle and shook his cap to cheer the poor boys be- lind, as he saw a long line of fresh green willows starting up out of the brown grass and moving in the wind before him. And didn’t the horses dip their noses deep in the water | And didn’t the boys | slide down from their saddies in a hurry and throw themselves beside it! That same morning, two of these young gen- tieman would not have taken water out of the same cup with **Fatters.”” Now they were drinking with the horses. And happy to do it, too. No hapuy! Water was never, never so sweet to them before, The boys all bathed their faces, and the horses began to nibble the grass, as the riders sat on the bank and looked anxiously at the setting sun. Were they lost forever? Each one asked him- self the question. Water was good; but they could not live on walter, vStop here,” mid ““Tatters,”” “‘and hold the horses till 1 come back.” He went down to the edge of the water and sat there watching the clear, swift little stream long and anxiously. At last he sprang up, rolled his rag- 1 pants above his knees, and dashed second, and then with a beaming face | hurried back to the boys, | turned his horse and took the lead. | Eagerly the boys mounted their | horses, and pressed close on after **Tat- away to the West of the great grassy plains; the herd of buffalo sniffed the young hunters, and lifting their shaggy heads, shook them angrily, and then them in hot pursuit, It was a long and exciting chase. “Tatters’’ Bsoun passed the other boys, aad pressing bard on the herd, after nearly an hour of wild and splend- od riding, threw himself from the sad- dle and, taking aim, fired. The brothers came up soon, and dis- mounting as fast as their less practiced limbs would let them also fired at the retreating herd, When the dust and smoke cleared away, a fine fat buffalo lay rolling in the grass before them. Following the example of *Tatters,” they loaded their guns where they stood, as all cautious hunters do, and then went up to the | others followed. i But the horses were broken in heaven poured its full foree of heat up- | in the hot saddles. The horses began | to stumble and stagger as they walked. And yet there was no sight or sound of anything at all, before, behind, or feft or rigtt. Nothing but the weary, dreary, etermal and unbroken sea of brown, . Away to the west the bright blue sky shut down sharp and tight upon the brown and blazing plain. The tops of the long untrodden grass gleamed and shimmered with the heat. Yet not a sign of water could anywhere be dis- cerned, Silence, vastness, volosless as when the world came newly from the hand of God. Noone spoke. Steadily and quietly the young leader of {he party led on. Now and then he would Iift his eyes | close by ?** queried one, As They were once more. But it somehow began to dawn upon them very clearly that they did not know quite everything, even if their father was rich, Soon guns were heard firing for the lost party. And turning a corner in the willowy little river, they saw the tents pitched, the wagons ia corral, and the oxen feeding peacefully beyond, HA fh, a good poem as you would sound a pipking and if it rings well upon the knuckle, be sure there is no flaw in a body without consisteth in FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Usually when the devil pleads antiq- 1 A painted harlot is less dangerous Many appear neighbors, who are only neighbors in appearance, We should not only be of pictures Absence destroys trifling intimacies, Those who sail among the rocks are in danger of splitting their ships, For him who does everything in its proper time, one day 18 worth three, Despise 15o one, for everyone knows fomething which thou knowest not. If dogs don’t have another life and a better one, woe be to two-thirds of the men. The truths that we least wish to hear aretho. > which it is most to our advan. lage Lo Znow, He who finds pleasure in pain in virtue, is a novice one and the other. Vice, and both in the It is one satisfaction, falling to find preferment, to feel that we are at free from all indebted uess, aut The highest perfection of human rea- son 18 to kpow that there is an infinity of truth beyond its reach. As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds so is the mind by excercising 1t with various studies It can be pleasant for power 0 exer- cise power, and for speed to develop speed, as it istorest when rest is need- ed. Some prople are always finding fault with Nature for pulting thorns on roses; 1 always thank her for putting roses on thorns, It won’t do, however, to tell an une dertaker that he should find in his dally duty something to make life cheerful and happy. Men can paint pictures without a palette or a brush. They can work out of their own souls a light for every occupation, Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronge: than common joys. Pain seems to be rather the of nature, to tell a man that he off the track of happiness and him back again, It is better to be the builder own name than to be indebted Ly de- scent for the proudest gifts known 10 books of heraldry. DHS spurring has gone to bring of our What is the d:fference between hope and desire? Desire is a tree in leaf, hope is a tree in flower, and enjoyment is a tree in fruit, Obedisnce, we may remember, is a part of religion, and therefore an ele- went of peace; but love, which includes obedience, is tre whole, No man while unhappy can show forth a true, noble manhood Everything short of cheer is medicinal, and medi cine was not made for daily uses, and competence is 3 Prope?™ object of pursuit, but wezith, and even compe- tence, may be bought at too high a price No soul was ever yet saved, and no good deed was ever done 1o-morrow. Be careful, dear friend, lest to-morrow find you beyond the world of probation! The indispensable elements of happi- ness are food, warmth, sociz! enjoyment and occupation. Woere any of these are wanting, happiness does not ring ils bells. It is not always raining, and life is not always a storm, The whole of famine, pestilence and war taken into account the resuit is a tendency to hap- piness, There are men who no more grasp the trath which they seem to hold than a sparrow grasps the message passing through the electric wire on which it perches. Thorgtts cus i of wtamacge from the lips, which, from the pen, in the silence of vour own leis- ure and study, wouid be born with far more beauty. fle who makes 8 man laugh {wice where he would only laugh once is a greater benefactor than te who makes two blades of grass grow where there was but one before A man can learn to like things that he doesn’t like, and he can leam to dis. like what he really does like. If a man can train himself to love tobaceo, he can amed and plucked When we pray for any virlue we an pray for it; the form of your prayer petition to God is a precept to man. Amusements should bind tozether the whole household, 1am greatly opposed that young man who does what he would be ashamed to do in sight of his sister or sweetheart, y If there is a nigh! thing to be done, ter one, and its our own fault, and not teal foresight consists in reserving If we labor with anx- iety about the future, we destroy that stoength which wiil enable us to meet the future, If we take more in hand and the work is broke up with us, A winged world has struck ineradi- cably in a million hearts, and envenom- ed every hour throughout their hard ulsation. On a winged world hath nog the destiny of nations; on & wing- ed word hath human wisdom been willing to cast the immortal soul, and to live dependent for all its future hap- piness, We close with the trust thal when
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