wo BBA NEWS OF THE WEEK. AT —The Mississippi Legislature has adopted a memorial to Congress in favor of the Eads Slap Railway scheme, — Work was begun on the® 23d in Roach’s ship yard at Chester on an iron steamship Line. 1tis the first vessel started there for more than a year, -— Another cold wave, more severe than its recent predecessor, has ap- peared in the Northwest, accompanied by a snow blizzard, Temperatures are reported far below zero form Manitoba to the Upper Lake Region, the mark. ings ranging from 12 below at Chicago, to minima of 26 below in Iowa, 35 be- low in Minnesota, 40 below in Dakota and 49 below in Manitoba, his acceptance of the vice presidency of a bank in New York, and other reas- ons of a private nature, will make it impossible for him to retain his present office after the 31st inst. —In the Senate of Virginia on the 22d, the Committee on Public Institu- tions, charged with the investigation of the management of the affairs of the Colored Normal Collegiate Institute at Petersburg, submitted a report. The committee charge gross mismanagement and recommend the immediate dis- placement of the members of the of the institution and the appointment of a new board and the reorganization of the whole management. The re- port was adopted. —'The County Poorhounse at Jackson, was burped about 1 o'clock, th th. Five of the inmates, whose ages ranged from 60 to 92 years, per- ished in the flames—three of them were insane, one deaf and one blind, The est of the inmates, about 35 in num- r, were driven out without clothing 1 a temperature of 10° below zero, and some of them will probably die from exposure, One of the William Mills, “the man who first is- sued Sanders’ Spelling Book.!” He was reputed at one time to be worth $250,- 600, —PDorman B. Ealon on the 23d sent to the President a letter offering his resignation as Civil Service Commis- sioner, to take effect on the 9th of March. —James T, Farley. ex-U, 8. Senator from Califorma, died on the 21st, aged 55 years. He was a native of Virginia, but removed with his parents to Call- fornia, where he adopted the profession of the law. He was elected to the State Assembly in 1554, and became Speaker the following year. He was State Senator from 1860 to 1868, —1It is reported from Monterey that General Trevino has been appointed Mexican Minister to Spain, and ex- President Gonzales Mexican Minister to France. -Joseph Rankin, from the Wisconsin, died on the vO. yl Representative in Fifth District of 24th in Wash. =~ nerrpeg - One of the severest storms ever known on the Pacific coast began on the 17th, and reached its height on the 20th, There was an almost continu. ous fall of rain and snow, the storm boundary of Washington Territory to and from the ocean to the Rocky moun tains. The wind at San Francisco reached a maximum velocity of eighty- two miles per hour, Fences, ings were partly demolished, and two women were dangerously, perhaps fat- ally, injured by the fall of a dwelling. the Southern Pacific Railroad. —The State Agricultural Society in zession at. Harrisburg on the 20th elec- ted the following officers; President A. Wilhelm; Vice President, William M, Elbridge McConkey; B. Rutherford. —The State Fruit Treasurer, Growers’ Asso. the 21st, elected the following officers : President, Calvin Cooper, of Bird in idents, Josiah Hoopes, of West Chester; terthwaite, of Jenkintown; Recording Secretary, E. B. Brinton, of Christiana; Treasurer, George B. Thomas, of West Chester. -Judge Harry White on the 21st in charge of forgery preferred by his brother, who 18 contesting his mother’s will, of which the Judge was arrested is served two terms in Congress, was a member of the Pennsylvania State Constitution. —At Youngstown, Ohio on the 21st an explosion of melted metal in mills of Brown, Bonnell & Co. scaltter- ed debris in every direction and hurled iron through the roof. John Wall a blacksmith, was badly burned will probably die. Two other were slightly burned. men - Nine cowboys visited Burlington, Texas, on the 20th, got drunk and amused themselves by “firing into windows and acting like savages.” Finally, a deputy sheriff, with a posse, drove the ruffians from the town after killing four of them, named Wimms, Trimble, and Hartley. The Supreme Court of Missouri on the 26th, rendered a decision which pro- hibits the Circuit Court in St. Lows from trying the contested Mayoral election case there, for four years from last settles the case of seven Republicans who were cgntesting the el seven Democrats to city off April, and ection of Baltimore Corn and Flour the choice of the following : Schriver, Henry A. 1'arr, Fowler, George T. Robert S. Titlow, Charles D. Reid, Joseph DB, Edward C, Heald, Alexander J, Godby, George Frame, John H, Girvin, Democrats who were conte or of two Republicans, and Republicans, who claimed seats ir House of Munici sembly. decides that there is no Court in Mis souri competent, to try a St. Louis con- 2 tested election case, owing to the } $3 th wie ack for th the trial of such cases, ~The New York Assembly on the 26th reconsidered and withdrew from the Senate its resolution passed on the John 8, Gittings. gon's election as Mayor of dismissed on the 27th, on motion of counsel for the petitioner. The Senate on the 27th confirmed a number of nominations of Customs, at Erle, Penna, _-— r FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. SENATE, In the Senate on the tials of I. C. Walthall, elected Sen- in. a bill provide for the settlement of the debt of the Pacific Railroads. of Iowa, submitted an which was ordered to be printed and it protection interests of may be and secunty of necessary for the the of any of the companies the bill, the President may order the same, and that all such pay- the United States shall become subrogated to the rights thereof paramount lens Liectoral Count , and Mr Morgan addressed the “enate on the After an execut adjourned. pertaining to such ivi £8S i * ing lic loss in the death of Vice President Hendricks, After eulogies of the de- ceased by Messrs, Voorhees, Hampton, by Secretary Whitney and Senator Gor- city in the evening. the 25th, confirmed Charles J. Canda to be Assistant Treasurer at New York; John S. McCalmont, of Pennsylvania, Commissioner of Customs, and William M. Kimball Postmaster at Lebanon, Penna. —The President on the 25th nomin- ated William H, Parker, of the District of Columbia, to be Minister and Consul {General to Corea. ~The total collections of interna revenue during the first six months of the fiscal year were $58,549 611, an in- collections during the same period of the last fiscal year. There was an in- crease of $676,673 on spirits, an increase of $989. 565 on tobacco, and an increase of $437,801 on fermented liquors, and a decrease of $74,475 on miscell- aneous items, When the resolution 1s back the House it will be fully discussed, —'The international billiard match for 3000 points and a stake of $5000 between Schaeffer and Vignaux, New York, was begun on the 206th. in was won by Schaeffer, 600 to 274. — An elegant silk album, which cost more than $500, was exehibited in the City Hall, It is a present for Mrs. U. 8. Grant, bury, Hansom and Harrison, the re olutions were adopted and the Senals adjourned. In the U. Senate on the National University bill was taken from the table and referred to the Com- mittee on Education and Labor, A was adopted directing ee on Expenditures of Public S, the 27th 14s Rit Comn tion of that office, on of Dakota was discussed ivocated by Mr. Harrison, of sna. Mr, Batler took $ 2 5 fael 4 o & 4 ¥ * yielded Lo Aamolion og After half ar } a Session, éxeculive HOUSE in the ordered iv 25th wa reading of the House, on that after t shoul 3 i be called for bills and resolutd of Wisconsin and, after such cases, the House the custon in journed. In the House, on the 21st, the Wi dows® Pension bill was discussed dunng nearly tho entire session. Pending its consideration the House adjourned. 26Lh in the House on the Committee, reported a bill, which was the Committee of Lhe death of General Grant. to enable national banks to increase cation and pame; to pension the sur- vivors of the Mexican war, and © abolish certain fees for to American vessels. Pending consid. Keokuk, Iowa, on the 25th, Judge Love remanded a saloon case back to the State Courts, The decision of Judge Brewer in a Kansas case was the basis for this decision, The effect of this decision on the Iowa saloon cases will be that the State Courts will have exclusive jurisdiction, except in cases of brewers and beer gardens in use for lawful purposes and built before the Prohibitory Liquor Law was passed, 1884. —Dr, Weber, Inspector of Diseased Cattle in York County, Penna., on the 25th visited the herd of Samuel G. Hoke, of Spring Grove and found 19 head of cattle suffering from pleuro- pneumonia, The herd from which the cattle were bought came from Balti- more, and the remainder were sold in Adams Connty. The Deputy Attorney General at Harrisburg on the 25th submitted to Judge Simenton a form of decree of the Court’s jud t in the Beech Creek and South Pennsylvania Railroad cases, with the exception of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.’ The matter is in the hands of the Court, and it Is im- possible to speculate on its conclusions, Governor Lloyd, of Maryland, was installed on the 21st in presence of both Houses of the Legislature, He sald in his address that he “‘believed in the appointment of men of capacity and of the same political views as the admins- tration under which they serve.” ~The Senate on the 21st confirmed Lambert Tree to be Minister to Bel. gium; Charles D. Jacob, Minister to Columbia, and Edward H. Strobel, Se- cretary of Legation at Madrid, «The commigsion to provide for the establishment of a Soldiyr’s Home at Erie, Penna,, met on the 26th in flar- risburg and appointed Major W. W. Tyson, of Pittsburg, as commander of the home: Captain Tunnecliff, of Dorey was made quartermaster, and W, W, Thomas engineer. A commitlee con. sisting of the gov General Beath, ar Colonel Vaunder- sointed to superintend = Agnes was appe ; upenin the home on Feb. 224. : » i —A singular phenomenon was noted at Austin, Texas, on the 26th. To- ward four o'clock from out of a clear sky a shower of very fine dust began falling. There was no wind at the time. The shower increased toward nightfall, and continued through half the night. The dust had a peculiar effect on the lungs and throat, causing irritation and hoarseness In some instances. A similar phenomenon was witnessed there eight years ago. ~The Mississippi river is blocked by a solid mass of ice from St. Louis as far north as the mouth of the lllinois river,and as far south as the Genevieve, a distance of sixty-five miles, The ice is 16 or 17 inches in thickness, — A south-bound passenger train on the Illinois Central Railroad was wrecked near Cairo, on the 76th, some villain having removed a rail from the track. The engineer was Killed and a passenger was injured, ~~John C, Kimbrell, his wife and three children were frozen to death in a wagon while driving home during the recent blizzard near Dodge City, Kansas, ~The U, 8, Commissioner at San Francisco on the 26th heard the case of the President and Secretary of the Sam Y up Chinese Company, who were charg ed by Port Collector Hager with being illegally in this country, The commis. sioner decided in favor of the defen dants and they will therafore be allows ed to remain in the United States. Their entrance was originally effected by means of certilicates issued by the Chinese Consul at Yokohama and en- dorsed by the United States Consul at that place. Commissioner Sawyer’s decision twas based on the department | rulings on the subject. i untary retirement of certain officers of the navy the House adjourned. of New York, from the Military Com- mittee, reported a bill to aid fu the erection of a monument to General Grant in New York city, Mr. Peel, of Arkansas, from the Commitles on Indian Affairs; reported a bill granting the right of way through Choctaw and Chickasaw lands to the SL. Louis and San Francisco Railroad, The ll for the voluntary retirement of certain naval officers was discussed, A motion to lay the bill on the table was defeated; pending a motion to recommit it went over. A bill was passed forfeiting cer- tain lands granted to the States of Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana, to aid mn the construction of railroads, Adjourned, A Larrre four-year old girl was put and left, as usual in the dark. A ter rific thunder storm came up and her mother thinking the child would be frightened at the lightning went to her, On entering the child called out with delight: “Mamma, the wind blew the sun up just now; did yon see it!” Fear had no entrance there, “AND 80 Mr. Featherly will lead your daughter to the altar next month, Mrs. Hendricks?’ said the minister, who was making his weekly call. “Ah yes!” replied Mrs. Hendricks with a sigh; “I don’t know what I shall do without Clara.” “Will Mr. Featherly lead Clam to the altar the same as Aunt Jane says that ma leads pa?” inquired “How is that, Bebby?"” asked minister, pleasantly. ‘iy the nose.” Before assuming the responsibilities of life, from which none can or ought to shrink, all persons should have such Propagation in their early education as will guide them in the wise, healthful, economical use of the materials with which they have to deal, and in the di rection ot lives which depend on intelli. igence as well as on affection for their waintenance, We should read books not to quote them, but to strengthen our winds and stimulate thought. : the Distance. On softening days, when a storm was near, At the farm-house have the gray, And eaught in ciear, door 1 stood in the distance, faint but The sound of a train passing warning bell when made, The engine's pufiing of sinoke unseen, Across the miles between, And so sometimes on a moonlees night When th low; s stars shine soft and the wind is {| To my listening soul, in the pallid light, Come the trembling voices of long ago. The tender song of love serene, And the throbbing rhythm of tongue Across the years between, A SRO RR, "THOU ART THE MAN.” passion’s “It's the last straw that camel’s back,’ sald Lucy, bursting into | tears, | The present peeping into dairy, where pans of milk and cream array; June sunbeams the cool, stone-paved were ranged in orderly stone pols stood under the shelve ited churn was already placed justi | housekeeper | secretly envi | and exquisite nealness, “And it umphantiy i “And you tri- jellenden. house never 18n't the dairy alone, remarked Seth may go through the from garret to cellar, and you'll | find a speck of dust. There never wal such a housekeeper as my wife.”’ Mrs. Bellenden was gcarcely three and twenty. been the daughter of a retired delicately reared and young, Wo Ble officer, quite until she married Seth Bellen. den. “It’s very strange,” Lucy had writ- ten to her father. “The farm is beaati- ful, You never saw suct butt por such roses, full of red oid onball trees, and the meadows are id th strawberies jewels on the sunny hillsides, I don’t thunk in ie ever All eggs the Clover, as fe body sketches, or reads, f there is a copy of Tennyson s pelghborhood, of or Mil of many dozen Dore is how egos they * Wolian how many And for wal and A Fear » BAS & New recipe hi ay, in i al Hang Wil 441 vritsla Tribe new they 2 pattern for a its,’ is ¥ All its, CTARLY qui | society. But presently voung Mrs. DBellenden and became on herself caught the i { Yer, model housewife, powerful, and Lucy the whole end thrift, treadmill of lieve that life was domestic money-saving and the ! work. “My thought Hepsy, afl rd crop comes in,"’ “I try,” said Lucy. After that she rose before day break, and worked later into the night than ever. “What { bands, I dear,” said Seth, “if you could get along the maid, that new reaper before the oat is the os Aey? matter with your Seth asked one day. as they used to be.”’ | Lucy colored as she glanced down at | the members in question, “1 suppose it Is from making fires” said she. | And then she took to wearing | kid gloves at her sweeping and dusting | and digging out of the ashes, i “My coat is getting shabby.” Seth | one day remarked, | “Why don’t you buy another one?” | asked his wife, | Seth laughed a short laugh. | “What do you think Mrs. Higgin- | bothaan has done?’’ said he. | ripped up her husband’s old suit and | cut a pattern by it and made a new | one, and entirely saved him ten dol | lars.” “1 could do that!” said Lucy, with sparkling eyes, “I'll try it.” “You could do anything, my dear,” said Mr, Bellenden, admiringly. reward. Company began to come a8 Soon as the bright weather set in. All the affectionate relations of Mr, Bellenden soon discovered that the farm-house wus cool and shady, that Luey’s cooking was excellent, and that the bed-rooms were neatness itself, Some of them were even good enough to invite their relations aus well; and so the house was full from April to De. cember. All the clergymen made it thelr home Pat Brother Bellenden’s when they came to Sylvan Bridge for ecclesiastical con- ventions; all the agents for unheard of articles discovered that they knew somebody who was acquainted with the Bellendens, and brought their car- petbags and valises with that faith in human horpitality which is one of life's best gifts, Mrs. Bellefiden’s fame wont abroad wmong the Dorcases of the neighbor. hood in the matter of butter and cheese; TEER w i | partments of all | dnd the adjoining house-wives took no fhe Lil Bellenden, ‘‘just as i borrow of Mrs. | well as not.’ And one day, when poor Lucy, un- { Uncle Paul was coming to the farm, ‘Another guest!” ! ingly. And then uttered | that heads our gketch, she the proverb | Bellenden. | the most “Don’t fret, Lutie! peaceable old gentleman in | the world, He'll make no more trou- {ble than cricket. John’s thought she couldn’t haye him because | she had no hired girl just now" | “Neither have I I" sald Lucy, | Hously. “And pany.’ “And I am supposed to be it I" observed Lucy. bitterly, “And don’t want oid folks It's too trout added Seth, a fo wi rebe! Sarah Eliza don’t fond Reuben’'s girls staving there, much le, they say, ner night have sal lip to keep back 1, instead he to sleep? The } % - $ fo the front roon the | Akad ll A iss chamber occupies th Pattersons slee the hir . and ” ry ¥ ¥ ¥ 3 ial LE FOO, added the 1 ot little den openin r four weeks, vainly ex- Mrs, Belford to had never i t ttle baby, bad ing from the kitches: pecting Mr. and dee part; and that si vet had & { chance to Invite Ler father to the farm 3 : in pleasant weather. iad ut she was magnanimous and held her peace, “Oh, you can him!” “There's that li the ball where th “Bat it 1=sn't Luey. “You ¢ gether ous of Beifords’ for and, lightly. 1 at the end of Y fa Badd Luna ys 3 3 } Bald 3 Lusi 80M place i IN pleaced y ei 1 ts all easil vi room; an 3 11 mr ¢ ryisal ty vy ws # : we # 3 4K PUL Up 4 musiin curtan he window There “ in the corn are ack a mat- hitewash the cell The cow: 1 ¥ ET oe LYVETVIInRE ies ] np laugaing 1sband rau up t 2 Yiehd sad little ail by Lie steps, laugh, poor, tired-out ghost would stone pavements, and scrub die: I ghost in a dairy before, but unk that it might easly be.” little bed-room was 0 Hie 1p, for all that, as fresh as a rose, and 7s I were (0 never | I shoul i | complexioned old man, with an fashioned cravat tied in many around his neck, and a suit of | blue, with brass buttons, He had the polite way of half a cen- | tury ago, and Lucy thought she should like him very much, if she only had i time to get acquainted with him, But she was churning ten pounds of butter a day, and there was the baby, | and the company, and the young chick- nele Paul arrived, a dried-up, yellow old- folds navy {ing society, which was to meet at her | house that week. She was almost too busy to sleep. But Uncle Paul was watching her | quietly all the time, He came out one day to the barn | where his pnepew was putling a new { handle on a sickle-blade. “Pretty busy times-eh, Uncle Paul?” | asked the farmer, scarcely taking the | leisure to look up. {| man, about the reason I left your Cousin | Elab’s?” breathing on the blade and polishing it | with his silk handkerchief, “Dorothy died-—his wife?" “Oh, yes,” said Seth, fever, wasn’t it?” | “No! bluntly answered Uncle Paul. [It was hard work. That woman, Nephew Seth, did the house-work for eight persons, Eliab didn’t even let her have & woman to help her with the washing and ironing.” “Must have been a regular golug brute,’ said Seth, tightening the handle a little, “All the sewing, too,” added Uncle Paul—‘‘the mending and making. Never went anywhere except to church. Eliab didn't believe in women gadding about.” “Tne old savage,’ sald Seth, “She was fond of reading, but she never got any time for it," said Uncle Paul. “She rose belore sun-up, and never lay down until 11 o'clock. It was hard work that killed that woman, and Eliab coolly declared that it was sheer laziness when she could not drag herself around any longer. And when ghe died he rolled up his eyes and call. ed it a visitation of Providence.” “Why didn’t the neighbors lynch i i LT AL SE a ——— to in- dignation at 1 a st, Uncle Paul took off his glasses, wiped them vigorously, and looked his nephew the the “Why 4 «9 J your’ said he, face don’t the neighbors Beth dropped the sickle and stared. Paul, Are ‘Nephew Beth.” sald Uncle impressively, **thou art the man! you not doing the same thing?” “1 I gasped Seth, i fo ha uA F . Aik fhe work ol a people,” vr “ : Tour w 8 doing Hixtaoer household of sixteen Ba HRN cle Paul, 3 drudging she rising early and lying down late: she offering her } on the shri your farm and its requirements, I has seen ber grow thin and pale even dur- | ing the few days I have been here, | bave carried water and split wood for her, because there was no one to do it. I have seen ber carry up Mrs Belford’ breg Mrs. B and up ife ne daily to her room, because ford preferred to lie in cooking dainty { bed dishes for Hele Patterson, because Helen wouldn't eat he rest liked. what No galley slave » ’ made i hired men arrangements a wy eyey oven engaged servant * Voge vik and a house he telegraphed t« * } BYivan i 1 al once ridoa PLIGRE “she deserves a treat,” he shall spend the s SYR TTY 1 mime] A Miserly Patient & gous $ ur ald * gE Tue siOTy 5 na Os H 8 was yery Ww “@ callnd miserly Hardpay. physician : $ tr att i bt to atlend Montreal ‘ ¢ iate al nig a whom we will 1 call very old man, He found the latter in a frame of mind, and unable to a single word, his jaw havi n The affected member having been reduced, Hardpay asked the doc- ter bow much he charged, “My fee, sir,’’ was the reply, “is $5.” “Five dollars,” said Hardpay, affect- ing astonishment ; *'I'll give you §1 ; not a cent more.” A bright idea struck the doctor; and he pretended to waive the question, as { if disinclined to bandy works about sc anxious articulate iis- § eld MY ng Deen « located. | trifling a matter. | “Ry the way,” he said, “did you ever hear that recovering umbrellas ?" { ceeded to rake from the past this ancient story and all chestnuls he could think of. Mr. Hardpay stood for awhile, without being wisibly affected, but at last yawned and threw his jaw oul of place. This was what the doctor an- ticipated. “Good evening, Mr. Hardpay,” be said, pleasantly, rising as if to take his | leave, Mr. Hardpay vouchsafed no reply, | but gesticulated wildly, pointing to lus { mouth. The doctor pretended for a time to | misunderstand his sigoals of distress taking a seal, story about and pro- ashes of the the other vid he # a { relented (7) and signalled the old man that he would reset his jaw for $10 : cash, { The old man looked at (rst as if re- | solved to allow the jaw to remain where | it was, but soon saw that the doctor | was firm and counted out the required amount. The jaw was then once more put in place, and the doctor took his departure, chuckling at the success of his stratagem. Carvier Pigeons. Carrier pigeons in France ave hence. forth, like horses and mules, to be reg. istered, so as to be subject to nalitary requisitions when necessary. A decree jusued recently orders owners or breed. ers to wake an annual rotary to the Mayor of the nunber of their pigeons amd the journeys to which they have been trained, dleested ” pn an AI —s Eunsilage is good food for being as sur~ulent aud as easily as grass
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