nt ———— 1 rn. omni NEWS OF "HE WELK New Yoik, ou the 14h, ported very eritical on the 14th. alment i= acute meningitis, } B. Munpix, ex-assignee of - Jduhn of Archbishop Purcell, was the csiale aneated in Cine nnati on the 13th ona the estate, He was committed in de- fault of $110,000 bail, an examination into Mannix’ manage esate revealed the fact that a large sum had been lost in purchase of stock which afterward depreciated in price, ~—Disastrous floods are throughout New England, in conse- quence of the heavy rains, The total rainfall at Boston was neatly six inches in two days, and the Old Stony Brook was swelled beyond its bounds, inun- from three to nine feet, Six hundred houses we ¢ damaged to an and other property to an extent about $135.000 more, may mount into the millions, of over $100,000, — Great excitement is reported amo the people on and about the range of the Kansas and New Mex co Mexico and southwestern Colorado, because of the killing and wounding o Mexicau sheep herders by cowboys emn- plo: ed by the cattle company. Govel rewards ranging from $100 to $500 for the capture of the perpetrators of the putrages, The Governor has replied to 8 communication from E. Carlisle, President of the company, that “the conclusively that they were boys for murder their acquittal was brought about by the terrorizing of the court and witnesses by their armed companions. The managers of the company, Lwo brothers named Carlisle, are said to be unnaturalized Engiish- men, and it is believed they will appeal to the British Minister, -~Archiishop Corrigan, New York, has received a private despatch from Rome snvouncing the transfer of Bishop Becker, of Wilmington, Decla- ware, to the vacant see of Savannah, Georgia. ~—In the Senate of New Jersey, on the 15th a special committee ree was appointed to investigate the alleged ale of oleomargarine and other unita- tions of butter in the city of Newark The U. 8, Court of Claims on 16th decided that a naval officer on duty on board a training vessel, which remains in port, is entitled to sea pay. In 1882 the Secretary of the Navy decided that such officers were entitled lo shore pay. ~—J. B, Mannix, ex-assignee of Arch- bishop Purcell's estate, was on the 15th released by Judge Johnston, in Cinecin- nati, on a writ of habeas corpus, the ball in his case being reduced to 000 and bondsmen abtained, ~The total loss by the flood in Bos- ton is pow estimated at $1.000,000 Other losses in Masachusetis are es. timated as follows: At Newton Upper Falls, $20,000 ; Malden, $50,000 ; Taun- fon, £250,000; Braintree, £50,000. In Rhode lsland, losses are reported of $26 000 at Geneva, $80,000 at Belle. fonte, and $70,000 at Woonsocket, i —In the Virginia House of Del of ti 3 - J - missioners’ bill, providing for comnussiouers instead of one, as the law now stands, and making railroads amenable to Circuit Courts on com- plaint of discriminations, was defeated by a vote of 45 to 43. ~—Speaker Carlisle will appoint Mr. Findlay, of Maryland, on the Commit. tee of Banking and Currency to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Mr Curtin. ~James T. Dubois, U. 8, Consul at Leipsic, has resigned, to engage in pri- vate business in this country. ~The President on the 16th nomma- ted William J. Poulson to be Post- master at Flemington, New Jersey. ~ Henry Watterson continued to imt- prove on the 16th, ~The funeral of Horatio Seymour took place on the 16th, in Utica, New York. Services were held in Oud Trinity Church, and the interment took place in Forest Hill Cemetery, Bishop Huntington officiated at the services, assisted by Rev, C. H, Gard- ner and other clergymen, The pall- bearers were Colonel Frederick A. Conkling, of New York; Walter 8, Church, of Albany; George F. Com. stock, of Syracuse; Senator Francis William J. Bacon, of Utica. Busi was suspended in Utica during the funeral, and previous to the tiles the body was viewed by aoa of the deceased states. man's fellow citizens of all creeds and conditions. = After the funeral a me- : eet was held in the Opera House, at which the Mayor Jresided and Governor Hill made an address, ~The fund fer Mrs. Hancock was on the 16th increased to $25,565, George | Bmall, of Baltimore, sent a contribu- | tion of $250, The Grant Monument fund in New York has reached $115,- lus cabinet, on the 16th oousidered -Charles E, Sutton, Republican, was elected Mavor of Wilkesbarre, on the 16th, by 350 majority. nine candidates for Mayor in the tield, the principal rival of Sutton being Gen- eral William H. McCartney, recently defeated as the Republican candidate for District Attorney, ! ~—Through trsins now run between | Boston and Providence on schedule { Lime, but it is uncertain when they will {run to New York. The floods, how- ever, are subsiding throughout the | greater portion of New England. It is estimated that 5000 persons hav | been temporarily thrown out of empl went by the freshet in Lowell, The is great distress among the people the tlooded district mn i auch sickness is expected, ~The President on the 17th | nated James B, Groome to be Collector of Customs and I. | be Naval Officer at Baltimore; Frank L. Phelps Svrveyor at Lacrosse, Wis- of Legation at Constantinople, { —-The Senate on the 17th confirmed { Greorge M. Stearns to be U, S. | ney for Massachusetts, Bridge Messrs, { 17th paseed the Arthur Killy bill by a vote of 11 to 5, Ayes Moon Fish, and Pancoast. Nays—Messrs, Youngblood. The local Option bill | was tavorably reported in the House, | —By an accident on the Ohio Central i Railroad, near Point Pleasant, West Virginia, on the 16th, two passengers, named Searles and Hamphreys, were Killed, and several others were slightly injured. The passenger car stream aud the passengers drenched, —Rear Admiral E i the 18th, and Rear Admiral on the 3d proximo., Their retirement | will promote Commodores William T. { Truxton and William K. Mayo to be | Rear Admirals, and Captain John Irwin to be Commodore, fell nto a Weoie iglish retired on EORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. SENATE In the U. 8. Senate on the 15th } wis passed granting the franking privi tlege to Mrs, Julia DD. Grant. | Mitchell gave notice that on Tuesday vext he would call up the bill for the abrogation of the Treaty permitting the migration of Chinese. ‘The education bill was discussed, pending which >enale went into exe when the doors journed, In the U, Education bill was discussed by Messrs, Jackson, Maxey, Pugh, Blair, and Hawley, and then went over, of Mr. Frye, Monday next, yelock, was appointed for the ¢ of the from the Coma ou Foreign tions expressing the sense of the ~enate to be that no further “Fishery Commissions’ should be appointed or provided for, tor Gorman, of filed Mr. Mahone's on calling ou the Attorney General fo nformation as to district in Virginia was agreed to, in the U. Morrell introduced ucation in the Wi the 3 le the and ad- utive session, were jeopened, NS. Senate, on the 16th the Coke On at ited bv motion } eration him i Aud) ie ys: reso ution rn p Wii 1 he creden Maryland, ais of dens - were read and resoiut " allorney 5 Adjourned, 7th Mr. aid of ed- Hoar in- Senate on the 1 abliim States, Mr, - for the erection of a monument Washington to General Grant, A all was passed providing for the punish- by fine or imprisonment, or both, of trespassers on Indian lands. The bill | for the allotment of lands in severalty the Indians was considered. The Blair Educational bil was discussed, After an executive session Senate adjourned, men to the iIOUSE in the House on the 16th a number | of bills were introduced under the call | of States, among them Mr. Morrison’s {| Henley, of California, to abrogate the | treaties permitting Chinese !mmigra- | tion ; by Mr. Bland for the free coin- | age of silver ; by Mr. Clardy, to estab- | granting a pension of $5000 a year to | the widow of General Hancock ; by Mr, | Breckenridge, for the issue of coin cer- | tideates, and by Mr. Miller for the issue of small bills for circulation, A reso- lution, offered by Mr. Hanbeck, of | Kansas, for the appointment of a special committee of eleven to investi. | gate the charges made in connection | with the telephone litigation was re- ferred, together with an amendment by Mr. Pulitzer, extending the scope of the investigation to the Committees on Rules. the Fitz-John Porter bill was discussed, pending which the House adiourned. In the House on the 16th, Mr, James from the Committee on Coinage, re- ported adversely Mr. Bland’s bill for the free coinage of silver, It was placed on the calendar, Mr, Bland obtaining leave to file a minority report. He said the House would be asked to con- sider the bill at the earliest opportu- nity. Mr. Clardy, from the Commit- tee on Commerce, reported a bill au- thorizing the construction of a bridge across Staten Island Sound, and estab- lishing It asa post road, Mr. Riggs, from He Tot-Omtios Tonite, re ported a compelling all vessels o the United States to carry the mails to and from foreign ports, when offered them by officers of the United States, Mr. Laird, from the Committee on Military, reported the hill authorizing the President to raise two regiments of volunteer cavalry in New Mexico and Arizona, for the s on of Indian hostilities, Mr. Taylor, from the Post office Committee, reported adversely the bill granting pensions to Postal Ser- vice employes who have been in the seryice for twenty years. The Fitz John Porter bill was discussed in Com- rome fhe Ber Ty su i Cuteheon, of Michigan, opposed it, The discussion was continued in an veening session, In the House on the Ew a bill was settlers within railway limits aovered additional without by the any the lands entry patented Pacific tion, The Atlantic and Cirant in Committee of the Whole, was supported by Mesars, Nebraska; Oates, of Laird, of Alabama, of lilinots, Pending debate the com 1itlee rose { determined by his opinion of us. | i } py | unmade ones a good deal oftener, { That laughter costs too much | 18 purchased by the sacrifice of decency, | | life is attainment to a resemblance | the Divine. Make but few explanafons; the char- acter that cannot defend itself is | worth viodicating. Virtue mnaketh men on the earth | mous, in their graves glorious and heaven immortal, Crosses grow anchors; bear as i should’st thy cross, and that cross comes an anchor oo, One truly Christian life will do more to prove the divine origin of Christiani- «y than many Time with all its celerity moves slow ly on to him whose is to watch Its tight Dise believe ft it whoie enjoyment the iv Lh When a man eaks * 2s rw may count pretliys 5t other virtua at | Talents are best matured in i% best { f the worid, solitude, 1 stormy character formed in the billows of No jest can be quiteso bitter as that one winch runs laugl edge of an ugly trath, The weaith of a man of things he that he loves; i8 loved aad blessed not be considered evil, when we long for it in the of our misfortunes or our joys. We know what to do with our i but we do not know what to do our sorrows or with our hardships, Death should an CXCeas joys, with Love mankind with all your ind youn will feel no difficulty in | patience, forbearance and forgiveness, It is Colton who says that “men wi wrangle {or reiigion—-write for it, for it, die for it; anything but—live for it.” BOUSB, using it murmuring or complaining at life and grieving over our hand experi- ence, No matter how purely and grandly we live to-day, there is no denying that we may live more purely, more grandly to-morrow, therefore esteem truth above all other POSSESSIONS, always succeeds in having its own way, The more you attempt to contract it the larger it gets, If a man 18 honest he does not ned to tell of it. Sterling virtue can afford to keep still, bot sly dishonesty has a very busy tongue, A celebrated philosopher used to say: *“The favors of fortune are like a steep rock—only eagles and creepiug things mount to the summit,” | truth they seem to hold than a sparrow | grasps the message through the electric | wire on which it perches, | Men will cheerfully give up their prop- erty, to save the life of the body, and yet, for the sake of property they will | sacrifice the life of their souls, ! Fuller very beau: fully sald that *‘he who spends all his life in pleasure is like one who wears nothing but fringes, and eats nothing but sauces” Every man is born for heaven, and he 18 received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he 1s excluded who does not, Leave your grievances, as Napoleon did his letters, unopened for three weeks and it is astonishing how few of them by that time will require answering, One hour with Christ 13 worth an eternity of all earth's joys, and commus- nion with him is the best, the surest and the most ecstatic foretaste of the bliss of heaven, He who betrays another’s secret be- cause he has quarreled with him, was never worthy of the sacred name of a friend; a breach of Kindness will not justify a breach of trust, Let us take care how we speak of those who have fallen on life's field, Help them up, and not heap scorn up- on them. We did not see the conflict. We did not know the scars, If you were as willing to be as pleas. ant and as anxious to please In your own house as you are in the company of your neighbors, you would have the happiest home In the world, Daty is the little blue sky over every heart and soul —over every life—large enough for a star to look between the clouds, and for the skylark Happiness to rise heavenward through and sing in, ‘When a generons man is compelled to give a refusal, he generally gives it with a worse grace than the ungenerous; first, because it is against his nature; and, secondly, because it 1s out of hws practice, We little know how much in the way of indirect influence we exercise in be ing lights of the world. We do not need to obtrude our t foreibly upon men, Light 1s always when it excercises a silent influence, The wise man makes equity and jus. tice the basis of all lus conduct; the right forms the rule of his behavior; deference and mark his exteri- or, sincerity and fidelity serve him for accomplishments, OE SSP HANA He 20 At the Gate, Ah, love, 1 see your boudoir light Already shiolog lke a star; I Lad #0 much to tell to-night; I wish our walk were twice as far! The eyes that watch in skies above Beero kindly smilin g on us, love, | The latchet of the little gate Lifts half-reluctantly, as though It knew what secret longings wait Deep in my heart some sign to show That bids them tearlessly to rise And seek an answer in your eyes. | And while unconsciously we stand Together here, 4 moment's space, i The gentle pressure of your hand, The shy expression on vour face, Cowes lke Love's messenger in quest Of what so long ago you guessed, | Beneath those leafy vines the dew Has lately kissed, a silver gleam | Of moonlight falling over you Makes you the image of a dream That comes “orever in my sleep As if a memory to keep. | A vision fair who never : peaks; But in the smile I always see | Steal softly o'er the rounded cheeks There seetns a Inessage sent to me Be vou its kind interpreter, And whisper to me, love, of her. I am blind, awake, j For you, it is, when | Of whom I dream; and now i Beloved, tell me I may find It true when slumber’s fetters break, With but her smile take leave of me, And I aball SL EI CE MY COMMODORE. know {ts mystery! | feeling d LE i 8 acidedly of ris; for the out 84 ulky parcel in my hand was the MS, reat things; and here It was back again wit} h a polite note from the editor sug- gesting so many alterations that I had home, It was a blustering March day. wind was impudent to the last degree and played such rude capers with my draperies that 1 could hardly get along. ! As it whisked | my feel slipped a bit of 1ce, 1 on to regain my equilibrium, and was con scious of a sustaining arm abou { shoulders, while a hearty voice said in INy ear: “Steady, my lass!’ I looked up with some asperity, feel | ing wy dignity ruffled by this free and easy address, and saw a big man with a ! handsome beard sweeping chest, and growing nearly to nis eyes, which were dark, and clear, and shin- ing with a rare good hiamor, He was dressed in a suit of dark blue ¥ w * | tons, He wore no overcoat, and looked as | if he never needed one. There was a breezy, hearty look about him that sug- | gested the sea, | My father had been a maflor, 1 | softened a little, bowed, thanked him, and hurried on. I was only a common-place scribbler, and made a modest living for my | mother and myself, | Mother was an invalid, and our lives | were 80 quiet and monotonous that trifling incidents amused us, Accordingly, after discussing the fate of my unlocky MS, I told her of my little encounter, and we named the stranger the “Commodore,” laughed over him a little, and dropped him from our minds, horse.car at the same time with an old | Irish woman who carried a heavy | basket of eggs. | My Commodore sat in one corner, iand rising at once, seated the oid creature as carefully as though she had been a duchess; giving me such a bright smile of recognition that I returned it in spite of myself, “*Age before beauty, little lass '” he said in his big voice, Before I could put on my dignity the car was off the track, bumping over the pavement in a most intolerable fashion. I clutched at a strap, but felt that same steady touch upon my shoulders, while the Commodore said: “You'll need your sea-legs for these breakers:" Was there ever such a ridiculous man ¥ I colored furiously, and then nearly strangled in the wild effort to smother a laugh. But he smiled at me so in- nocently, and seemed so unconscious of giving offense, and so thoroughly at peace with the whole world, that it was utterly impossible to snub him, I left the car at Pearl street, not ex- Coming from church one Sunday evening, in the first of April, I found IE cm we so if you'll steer the ship, little woman, home," What could I do? The wind was dasking the rain about in little, vicious sheets, and my com- an equally fast hold of my hand. **This is pleasant,’ he observed in a moment’s lull of the storm, as he beamed at me over his stalwart shonlder. “I’ve often thought I should like a little woman of my own to sail | with me through fair and stormy weather threatened to turn his umbrella wrong way I shall have to furl my royals,” clination to laugh at hum; but after I coldly as possible: “1 think, Mr, —.% “Try Dexter,” he suggested cheer- fully, “John Dexter." with increasing haigeur. uot trouble you to escort me home,’ I endeavored { but he retained it with gentle force. “Why, it's no trouble to me, my | don’t you see that I like it?" f gir! girl; | “Well, I don't!” I exclaimed desper alely, You have taken a most unwarrantable liberty. dress me as you have, or to claim any | you slipping « my ippen 1f 1 had not known by your | speech and your dress,” prevented mm the ice { that day. here 1 flashed the brass but | & scornful glance at ti tons, “that you were a sailor, 1 should have | requested the protection of an officer. { But my father was a sailor, and I re- { member him as outspoken and frank, ’ | though always a gentleman, 1 ergphasized the last word, and i —— a i | swamping the were lowered, When { reached bunts as 1ast as they i © fae ¥ of | roy little pupils clinging wildly about wit ¥ wilh one Commodore assist. and | my neck, | saw my ting frightened into the boats, He looked the personification of ¢0l- ness, and my own courage rose at the sight of me were others sprung into the sea only to be swallowed up by the hungry waves, | “Try to be brave, my darling,” } | said to little Nellie, as I gave her int her tather’s arms His wife wus beside him with thei other little girl, who cried out; “Save Miss Annie, papal!” Mr. Burton looked back at me. { ‘1 will come back for you, if possibh | Miss Lynde,” he said, women children him, although many around rhirieking wildly, and mauy | | i t Imade no auswer, for the swaying | crowd swept them away from me, ant | the tum was Loo great for my voles i to he heard, For 1: uit alittle le 1 hin Dexter a life wii stood alone, and was beside me, preserver around me | With deft fingers, Wihere’s no room in the boats for us $4 | my girl, he said quietly, “but ta sallor's daugt and «J er, A B4A'L wal “What | 1 could see my commodore flush darkly | red above his magnificent beard. i But he still retained my hand within { his arm as he kept steadily on. | **You can stow that, little woman,” he said gravely. or rude to you, it was, as you say, be- cause I didn't know any better Bu: { alone, I am bound to see you into port now, and in the future if 1 should meet vou I'll try to carry less sail.” He sald no more but { carefully fr the driving storm until we reached my home, | “Good-nmught,”” 1 said, feeling rather hand, brown palm. “Good-might, little woman, and good luck to you,” he said, with grave kind- liness; “‘and remember always that a sailor loves and respects a good woman above every earthly thing, even if he can't talk like a story book,” Then he went swinging away through | the wind and the rain while I ran in to tell mother of my evening's adventure, feeling sure that I should never see him again, and feeling also a little sorry. very next morning, and was about to give him a gracious bow of recognition, when lo! he passed me with head erect, eyes front, and a general air of rigydity oppressive to look upon. Tears of mortification sprung to my eyes; but I winked them away and rated myself soundly for beiug so foolish——a rude, uncultivated sailor, what was he to me, anyway?” My dear mother died in the foliow- ing summer, and left me lonely indeed. A year after her death, feeling the need of rest from writing, I engaged myself as nursery governess to two little girls who were to go abroad with their parents, My expenses were to be paid, and 1 would receive a fair salary; and the change of scene and occupation pro- mised to be delightful to me, My young charges were quite sea-sick for a few days, which kept me a prisoner in the cabin; therefore we were in mid-ocean when I made the discovery that my Commodore was among the “'Columbia’s" passengers, He looked as big and brown as ever A strange feeling which I was power- less to control, swept over me at the sight of him. He was standing a little way from . ole, aware of the intense gaze which I had we Blood prog ithe raging Canmod ors with hb ting a La Walled Was a gpl steady , GArg Ag beard sweeping chest y Qid nol seem | ridiculous to me then; the iff manner, the big hands and the [8 Were forgotten in the | the queer speech, i { brass b conviction that my Con nie all modore was # hero. 3 Aled, as fron went. were in the mly a short time, though I thoroughly ex ' he b iissing ACK great, the doomed and over we 4 It seemed that wy water | irs, bul 4 £ wi { hausted or reached the Fer twenty-four bia's’’ survivors rocky atom of It was worth Dexter, minus « couraging weary, dandling crying frightened children. “Who is that man?’ asked one for lorn mother. ‘‘He is an angel!” This appellation for my Commodore smused me exceedingly; but I kept growing preuder and prouder of hin all the time, We were rescued at last by a home | ward bound vessel, | One evening, when we were nearing New York, I took occasion to thand him for his bravery, and to apologiz for my foolish estimate of him long be fore, He listened to me uneasily for s while, but at last broke oat abruptly: “Stow all that, little woman; it sounds as if you were saying good-by, I wish" Here he sighed pro foundly and tugged at his beard with one brawny band. *‘I wish we might always sail together. If you remember, 1 said something like that to you once before, but you didn’t seem to take to the notion.” “1 did not know you then,”’ I ex- plained, laughing a little, and turning aside my flushing face, With his two great hands upon my shoulders, he turned me to the right about, looking at me with big, honest eyes, *“See here, my girl,” he said gravely, “1 don’t know anything about the fine ways of the world, but I have loved you tender and true since the first day I lad eyes on you. I don’t follow the sea now; 1 have a snug little bit of money laid up, se that I can give my wife a comfortable howe. Will you have me?” Would I not? Was I not the hap- plest woman in the universe when he kissed me? I am his wife now, but I do not allow him to wear blue flannel and brass buttons, ——— A — Learmng 1¢ pieasuraoie, but d is the height of lor. ong Two mic ists, Dr. Nussbaum and Dr. ober ave artificially multi- sh hours the “Column. were huddled upon the land awaiting rescue, something to see John oat, hat and boots, en fainting women babies, queting
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