NEWS OF THE WEER
—In the Senate on the 1st, thebody in
executive session rejected the nomina.
tions of Pillsbury and Chase to be Col-
lectors of Internal Revenue at Boston
and Portland respectively.
—The War Department has received
no official information of the reported
refusal of Geronimo, the renegade
Apache chief, to surrender uncon-
ditionally to Gen. Crook. The officials
at the department do not doubt, how-
ever, that the reports are in the main
correct. The latest official informa-
tion received was that General Crook
had gone to the border to meet Gero-
nimo.
—The dryhouse of the Miami Powder
Company, near Xenia, Ohio, blew up
on the 1st, killing Henry Franklin,
Christie McCann and Michael Haney.
of powder, and the shock was felt
throughout Xenie.
~The chess contest between Zuker-
tort and Steinitz was resumed on the
1st in New Orleans, and the game was
won by Steinitz, his antagonist resign-
ing after the forty-second move. The
next game will be played to-morrow.
~The Court of Claims decided on the
1st in the case of the Union Pacific
Railroad Company that, on the author-
ity of several decisions of the Supreme
Court of the United States, the right
of the Government to retain under the
Subsidy acts and the Sinking Fund act
the whole compensati )n due the com-
pany for services applies only to com-
pensation for services upon the 865
miles of aided portions of its road, and
not to the 2175 miles, for the building
of which the United States furnished
no aid, either by bonds or chartered
right,
—The total amount appropriated by
the Consular and Diplomatic Appro-
priation bill is $1,280 415,
$1,919, 715 for the current year.
-—The fiftieth anniversary of the
declaration of the
Texas was celebrated on the 2d through-
out that State. The day was generally
observed as a holiday.
—The President on the 2d nominated
Henry P. Kitfield to be Assistant
Appraiser at Boston, Commodore Wil-
liam T. Truxton to be a Rear Admiral,
to be Consul at St, Thomas,
souri, and Thomas I. Bozier,
Virginia.
—The President on the 2d sent to
Congress a message
Chinese.
graphed to the captain of the Galena,
at Key West, to deliver to the U. 5.
Mexico, which was seized on suspicion
of being engaged in a filipustering
been referred to the Attorney General,
and further proceedings will be directed
oy him,
~The Preside nt bas recognized Joao
Da Silva Ferraode Castello Branco as
Consul and Acting Consul General of
Portugal at New York,
~ Five hundred and forty men re-
ported for work at the McCormick
reaper manufactory In Chicago on the
2d. A large crowd of idle wen gath-
ared around the works, but the pres-
pep of police prevented any hostill-
According to a telegram from
Chattanooga, at least 3000 colored peo-
people have already arranged to remove
from the Southern States to the ex-
treme West during the present season.
About 8000 have already gone. The
reason for the exodus is “high rents
and small margins’ in the South,
~— When several weeks ago, Cashier
Bornemann was restored to his posi-
tion In the sub-treasury at San Fran-
cisco, he refused to become responsible
until the cash was counted. This was
done and a ‘“‘shortage’” of $10,000 dis-
covered. A special agent hasbeen sent
Jom Washington to investigate the
matter,
~The game of the chess contest be-
tween Zukertort and Steinitz, at New
Orleans, was won by Steinitz, his an-
tagonist resigning on the 44th move,
ae next game will be played on the
Sth.
~The Senate on the 26th ult. con-
firmed George H. Paul to be Postmaster
at Milwaukee, and John Hise to be
Surveyor General of Arizona. On the
1st inst. the Senate confirmed Thomas
B. Coone to be Postmaster at Kilbourne
Uity, Wisconsin, On the 3d the Senate
confirmed Livingston W. Bethel to be
U, 8. Attorney for Southern New
York. Among the confirmations made
“from which the injunction of secrecy
was not removed,” was that of Col-
lector Hedden, of New York.
— The President has withdrawn the
nomination of Edmund B. Briggs, of
the District of Columbia (at that gentle-
mau’s request), to be Consul at Santos,
~Local elections were held in por-
tions of New York State on the 2d.
The Democrats carried Elmira, Ithaca
and Utica, while the Republicans made
gains in Erie county.
—A telegram from Bordentown says
that more than 25 acres of Duck Is-
land, ia the Delaware river, was swept
away by the recent freshet. The land
was for many years noted for the excel
lent quality of tobacco grown upon it,
—On the 3d, the Senate Military
Committee by a vote of 6 to 4, Messrs,
Democrats has agreed to report favor-
ably the Fitz John Porter bill, The
bill will be reported &s soon as majority
an 1 minority reports can be prepared,
~The President on the 3d nomina-
ted Brigadier General Alfred Hi. Terry
to be General in place of Winfield
Scott Hancock, deoqused; Joshua T,
Child, of Missouri, Minister to
and William Gordon, of New
Consul at Medellin,
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
SENATE,
In the U. 8S. Senate on the 1st, Mr,
Pugh for the minority of the Judiciary
Committee, submitted their views on
the resolution concerning the appoint-
ment of a new District Attorney for
Southern Alabama, The report was
ordered to be printed, Mr. Hoar, from
the Committee on Privileges and Elec-
tions, reported back, without any re-
commendation, the resolution hereto-
fore offered by Mr. Riddleberger and
the substitute for it offerea by Mr,
Pugh relating to the right of the Senate
toe ask the President for his reasons for
removals or suspensions from office,
The committee was discharged from
consideration of the matter, and the
resolutions were laid on the table, to
be taken up, if desired, when the
report of the Judiciary Commit-
tee shall be taken up. An ex-
ecutive session was held. When
the doors were reopened a message was
received from the President bearing on
the question of the constitutional right
of the Senate to call for papers on file
in the Executive Departments relative
to suspensions from office. The mes-
sage was read, and Mr. Harris moved
that it be printed and laid on the table,
Mr. Edmunds moved that it be referred
to the Judiciary Committee and ordered
printed, and his motion was agreed to.
After another executive session the
Senate adjourned.
In the U. S, Senate on the 24 Mr.
Van Wyck from the Committee on
Pensions, reported with an amendment
the House bill to increase the pensions
of widows and dependent relatives of
deceased soldiers and sailors. The
amendment provides for the mcrease of
the pension of minor children from $2 a
to §4 a month. The bill was placed on
the calendar, The Education bill was
discussed by Messrs, Call, Saulsbury,
Riddleberger, Berry, Ingalls, Hoar,
Hale, Allison and Logan.
debate the Senate adjourned.
In the U. 8, Senate on the 3d the
Presideni’s message on the Chinese
question was referred to the Commit-
tee on Foreign Relations. Mr. Beck
offered a resolution, which was agreed
to, asking the Secretary of the Trea
sury ‘‘how much, if any, the actual
payments and purchases of the prinei-
pal of the public debt since July 1,
1877, Lave been in excess of the require-
The Edueation bill
Messrs,
and others,
were reopened adjourned.
HOUSE
In the House, on the 27th
ately upon assembling uhder a previous
order,
the prediction made by the *‘gold bugs”
that the continued coinage of silver
would have the cifect of driving gold
out of the country, Mr. Lanham, of
an act of the Legislature of New Mex-
ico to prevent the introduction of dis-
eased cattle into the Territory, arguing
that it was unconstitutional in that it in-
terfered with inter State Commerce, Mr.
Weaver, of Nebraska, discussed the sil-
ver question and predicted that the effort
of the money oligarchy, assisted by the
executive officers of the nation, to
double the people’s burdens and cripple
the business of the country by the sus-
pension of silver coinage would prove
unsuccessful, now that the attention of
the people was attracted to the ques
tion. He favored unlimited coinage,
and asserted that if the whole yield of
the mines was coined annually it would
be twenty years before the per capita
circulation of the United States would
be equal to that of France, and this
circulation, he sald, had been made
without taking nto account any in-
After other business the House ad.
journed,
In the House on the 1st Mr, Brumm
of Pa, asked unanimous consent to
have printed a memorial, signed by J.
P., Brigham and others, asking for “the
impeachment of Daniel Manning,
Secretary of the Treasury, for high
crimes and misdemeanors in the execu
tion of the silver law.” Mr. Beach,
of New X ork, ebjected. Mr. Eldredge,
of Michigan, moved to suspend the
rules and pass the Mexican Pension
bill with a proviso excepting from its
provisions persons politically disabled,
In reply to a question, Mr. Morrison
said the bill repealed Section 4716 of
the Revised Statutes, which provides
that no money on account of pensions
shall be paid to any persons who in any
manner engaged in or abetted the re.
belbon, After some debate, Mr,
Grosvenor, of Ohio, moved that the
House adjourn, to give members time
fo examine the bill. The motion was
agreed to, and the House adjourned,
In the House, on the 24, the Con-
sular and Diplomatic Appropriation
bill was reported and referred to the
Cominittee of the Whole, The Speak.
er presented the reply of the Secretary
of the Treasury to the Bland resolution
calling for information concerning the
circulation of the standard silver dollar
and the policy to be pursued as to the
payment of silver, The bill authoriz-
ing the President to appoint a commis.
sion of seven experts, skilled in the mn-
vestigation, production and use of met-
tallic substances and other structural
y 10 execute tests and experi.
ments on iron, steel and other mater.
ials used in the construction of bridges,
buildi and mechanical structures,
and deduce useful rules therefrom, was
taken up and discussed in the morni
hour, The Pension Appropriation bil]
was discussed in Committees of the
Whole. Pend debate the commits
tee rose and the adjourned.
In the House on the 3d ths Presi.
dent's on the Chinese troubles
a , . Hateh, of
Committe on
several States.”” Mr, Weaver, of lowa,
from the Commities on Expenditures
in the Interior Department, reported
buck a resolution directing that come
mittee to investigate the administration
and expenditure of the Pension Bureau
under the present and previous admini-
strations, and ascertalp what foundation
there 18 for the statement in the annual
report of Commissioner Black in refer-
ence to psrtisan management and
extravagance in that bureau during the
term of office of his predecessor. The
bill authorizing tie appointment of
a commission to carry on tests of iron,
steel and other structural materials was
considered in Committee of the Whole,
At the expiration of the morning hour
the committee rose, and the House
again went into committee on the Pen-
sion Appropriation bill. After a dis-
cussion, chiefly of a partisan charactor,
and without action on the bill, the
committee rose. The Army Appropri-
ation bill was reported and referred to
the Committee of the Whole. Adjourn-
ed,
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
A straight line is the shortest in mor-
als as well as geometry.
The greatest truths are the simplest;
80 are the greatest men.
Let not the stream of your life always
be a murmuring stream.
There are always two sides to a story;
hear both, then decide,
Never be offended at the presentation
f a bill; that is business,
The more honesty a man has, the less
he aflects the air of a saint,
warm air necessarily impure,
Hope is the dream of a waking man;
if hope be lost, all seems lost,
An honest man is able to speak for
| himself when a knave is not.
The most voluminous of authors—the
author of his own misfortunes,
The language of women should be
luminous but not voluminous,
A cheerful face is nearly as good for
an invalid as healthy weather,
There are men whose friends are more
| to be pitied than their enemies,
Advice is like castor oll, easy enough
| to give, but hard enough to take,
| they are also consoled by trifles.
Wealth may bring luxuries, but lux
uries do not always bring happiness,
Characters never change; opinions al-
ter; characters are only developed.
He who buys what he does not want
| will soon want what he cannot buy.
An otnee of mother, says the Spanish
proverb, 18 worth a pound of clergy.
Imaginary evils soon become real ones
| by indulging our reflections on them.
Borrowing money is a bad habit; and
borrowing troubles is not much better.
Difficulties between step-mothers and
children are often agaravated by outs:-
| ders,
An open mind, an open hand, and an
open heart should everywhere find an
open door.
The passionate are like men standing
wreng way.
Trust not a woman when she weeps,
for it 1s her nature to weep when she
wants her will.
Nature is a rag merchant who makes
up every shred and art and end into
new creations,
Grand temples are built of small
stones, and great lives are made up of
trifling events,
The ruin of most men dates from
some dle hour. Occupation is an ar-
mor to the soul
Men often preach from the houseto
while the devil 18 crawling in to
basement window,
It is not enough to keep the poor in
mind; give them something to make
them keep you in mind,
If the whole world were put into one
scale, and my mother into the other,
the whole world would kick the beam.
It is only when one is thoroughly
true, that there can be purity and free.
dom. — Falsehood only punishes itself,
Life is a state of embryo, a prepara-
tion for jife. A man is not completely
born until he has passed through death,
Those, though in highest place, who
slight and disoblige their friends, shall
infallibly come to know the value of
them,
I am often sorry for people who lose
half their possible good in the world by
being more alive to deficiencies than to
positive merits,
Life's real heroes and heroines are
those who bear their own burdens
bravely and give a helping band to
those around them.
Hasty words often rankle mm the
wound which injury gives, and soft
words assuage it, for giving cures, and
forgetting takes away the scar.
It Is through madness we hate an
enemy, and think of revenge ourselves;
and it is through indolence we are ap-
peased, and do not revenge ourselves,
The pleasures of the world are de-
ceitful, they promise more than they
give. They trouble us in seeking them
and they make us despair in losing them,
That mind will be the more vigorous
whose physical habitation is kept in the
best repair—that is, taxed sufficiently to
render it healthy, but not over-taxed,
A fine lady 1s a squirrel-headed thing
with small airs and small notions; about
as applicable to the business of life as a
Jai of tweezers In the clearing of a
Warm your body by healthy exer-
cowering ;
Sealed Orders.
Out she swung from her moorings,
And over the harbor bar,
As the moon was slowly rising,
he faded from sight afar—
Aud we traced her gleaming canvas
Ey the twinkling evening star.
None kuew the port she sailed for,
Nor whither her cruise would be;
Her future course was shrouded
In silence and mystery;
She was sailing beneath ‘‘sealed orders’ -
To be opened out at sea.
Some souls, cut off from mooring,
Go drifting into the night,
Darkness before and around them,
With scarce a glimmer of light,
They are acting beneath “sealed orders’’—
And sailing by faith, not sight.
Keeping the line of duty,
Through evil and good report,
They shall ride the storms out safely,
Be the voyage long or short,
For the ship that carries God's orders
Shall anchor at last in port,
“There she is now. Look, quick.”
“Who ?”
““Warner Vance’s wife. Don’t you
know, he married her to spite his father
for breaking up
him and Mrs. Ardenhetm ¥ They say
| fully now, and neglects his wife till
| his own father won't speak to him.”
{ “I think I do remember about it.
{ Mrs. Ardenheim refused Vance be-
| told ber, and he in a fit of anger went
| off to some country place where they
| all had spent a few months once, and
| married a girl that hardly knew ber
| right hand from her lefty and was as
| homely as a. hedge fence into the bar-
| gain, so that is she 7”
| ‘“They say she is ignorant, but I
| don’t call her so very homely, She has
| got one of those faces that expression
changes wonderfully, Look at her
{ now.”
Muriel Vance, leaning upon her hus-
{ the long and crowded saloon. At this
| moment she was looking up at him and
{ smiling at something be was saying.
| He was only telling her that she looked
| better than usual, and he sald it
| coldly, mechanically, his eyes search-
| ing the crowd for quite another face
| than hers, one whose witchery was re-
| sistless for him. But the unforiunatle
| little country girl worshipped her hand-
| some, exquisite husband, and he so
seldom saw her at all, that it was real-
' ly something gained to be noticed ever
‘ so slightly, She was slight and dark.
| She looked like a young, hall-grown
| girl, and was decidedly round-should-
ered; but as the speaker just quoted
| sald, expression altered her wonderfully,
| She would never be handsome, but she
bad fine eye. Her husband presently
disposed her in a convenient window |
seat and made some excuse to leave |
ber. |
Muriel watched him with her
beart in her eyes as be moved away. |
Then as she heard her own name ut-
tered by the pair already mentioned,
they having passed outside, she drew
back a8 much as possible into the
shadow, and listened involuntarily
while her poor little face blanched
slowly, and the happy beart-beats
turned to throbs of pain.
“They say he hates her,” said one
voice,
*I should think he would, though
the fault isn't bers, poor thing.’’ :
“He was a fool. If be had waited, |
he might have married this Mrs, Ard.
enheim. She meant to have him all
the while. Anybody can see how fond
they are of each other. It's disgrace-
ful.”
“If Mrs. Vance Is as ignorant as she
looks, I don’t wonder he hates her, He
is a man of culture. I am sure l don’t
know which I pity most,
“I don't pity him a particle, Any |
man who would marry one woman to
plagne another, or for any reason but
the right one, deserves all Warner
Vance has got, and more too,”
Muriel was too untaught in the
world’s ways to think how odd it would
look for her to go home without speak-
ing to her husband. She sent for the car-
nage, therefore, without saying a word
to him, and when it had taken her
home, ordered it back to wait for him.
Warmer Vance had continued to live
at his father’s after marriage as before,
and his wife, when she entered her
home, went directly to the apartments
of her father and mother-in-law, Very
stately, rather stern oid peope were
they ; but though they had been bitter.
ly displeased by their son's rash mar-
riage, Muriel herself had seemed so
unconscious, 80 gentle and modest, so
deprecating, that with all her imper-
fections, the child--she seemed scarce.
ly more than that—had quite grown
into favor with them. They were a
little startled out of their stateliness
now, when she presented herself with
such changed and haggard looks they
would scarcely have known her.
“She has discovered how Warner
came to marry her,”’ said the old lady
to herself, blankly.
Warner's father stifled a groan. He
guessed what was coming too, They
made no attempt however to evade the
truth. All of Muriel’s questions they
PP
He had some con
| only fifteen then, and as shy and awk-
| ward as a girl could
| means an unheard of thing, according to
| the same doubtful authority, that this
| man should suddenly present himself
after an utter silence of more than a
year, and abruptly and with tragic air
ask her to marry him, But she knew
all now, ‘
The old folks would fain have de.
tained her with them awhile when all
treaties, and awed by a something in
her face they had never seen before,
they let her kiss them both with grave
tenderness and go away.
When Warner Vance came home at
last towards morning, he did not wiss
vestigate the mystery.
ing he was awakened by his father and
body knew.
trace,
permit any one else to read il.
i
Clifford (Pauline). She gent for bin
upon some plea, trifling in itself, bu
the temptation of seeing her once
more, He was shocked to behold her
80 much had she changed in a brief
week, and before the interview ter
minated, he fancied that he detected
the cause of this change in ber inter:
And he
did s0. He told her how unconsciously
he had learned to love her, and why be
woman under these circumstances
Miss Clifford heard with face averted,
but in evident agitation. At last she
she questioned
with irresist
“You love me?"
drooping towards him
| the rest don’t concern anybody, but
{ me,” he sald firmly, and thrust it in
| the breast of his coat.
was alone, he took it out and read it
ery of her eyes to his,
“Yes, Ilove you,” Warner said, re
sisting the impulse to clasp her mn his
arms,
“And she who deserted you so long
ago, stands between us v”’
Warner Vance flushed,
“You do not understand,
and wronged her
I de
cruelly.’
piece of womanly sacrifice,” “My re.
| for Muriel’s self. The
follows
i
going away, so you can marry Mrs,
| Ardenhelm,
undying.”
He was going on but Miss Clifford
drew from the folds of her dress, where
“You did not know that I had beep
| more now,
“Your affectionate,”
“MURIEL.”
1 can do.
i
| away carefully, “I ought to have been
drawn and quartered for
you."
out avail,
| matter, as earnest, perbaps, as though
He looked surprised.
“1 did not.”
“I have run away from my husband,
“Is he living 7’ Warner questioned
“Yes. Why don’t you ask me why I
Warner did not speak. He was
wife,
heim too, and to do him justice, would
not have availed himself of the hiberty
Muriel offered him in her ignorant sim-
plicity if .t had been possible.
was man «uough not to think of shirk-
ing the yoke he had fitted to his own
neck.
Somehow, the first time he saw Mrs,
Ardenheim after Muriel’s flitting, she
seemed not 80 charming altogether as
usual, Perhaps it was the familiarity
must be a source of some relief to him,
sense with Mrs. Ardenhiem, and
found pleasure in it. It didn’t seem
like nonsense when he talked it, but it
did now. Mm Ardenhiem did not
know what to make of him, He
showed neither gratification in her
smiles nor pique at her coldness, and in
the end, he withdrew from her associa-
tion altogether, and she married an old
mariner, who was still enough In her
thrall to look at everything in the past
with her eyes,
When years passed, and brought no
news of Muriel, it was generally sup-
posed that she was dead. There were
various rumors concerning her fate, one
was as authentic perhaps as another.
Warmer Vance meanwhile was &
changed man, He had not loved his
simple young wife, but he had fearfully
jeg him so, her very uncomplainingness,
the mystery which shrouded her strange
“1 will tell you,” she continued. *‘I
went because I thoughi my husband
would be glad to get rid of me, that he
I was
I stayed away
to make myself worthy of him, I was
an ignorant, silly child when he mar.
ried me, I stayed to educate myself
in mind and person. 1 meant to come
back some time, but I meant that when
I did returnto him, my husband should
Jove me, if there was power in
woman's witchery to win him. Now
do you know me, Warner ?”
“Muriel, oh | Muriel !”’
She was sobbing on his bosom with
the words, she was clinging about his
neck, and crying out the palin and
waiting of those brave bul weary years,
any
said gravely—
“1 don’t deserve you darlingf” an
he meant it. But the reconciliatior
was complete, and Muriel was no longe
an unloved wife.
ss AIP AI —————.
Bismarck's Designs.
*
Bismarck has up to this time made
two conquests in the Pacific ocean. He
first seized the Caroline Islands anc
later he took possession of the Mar-
shalls. It is said here that he contem-
plates a third coup d'etat. An ex
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
Hawaiian Government, who is Qn
Washington, says that the Germas
Chancellor intends next to seize the
Sandwich Islands. Secretary Dayard
has considered this matter of sufficient
importance to address a note to King
Kalakaua on the subject. H. A. FP.
from the selfish lethargy into which he
had fallen, In a quiet way, he never
lost hope. His father and mother,
much as they would have liked to see
him married,did not urge such an event,
while there remained the least uncer
tainty concerning the fate of Muriel,
For himself he thought no “woman
heart again, but he was mistaken,
Most reluctantly one season he con-
sented to take part in some private
theatricals, which amusement was just
then very much the rage. The play
selected was “The Lady of Lyons ™
and to him was assigned the part of
Claude Melnotte, It was rather a try-
ing position for any man with the least
claim to a susceptible nature, for the
young lady who played Dauline was a
most bewildering creature, Not strict.
ly beautiful, perhaps, but exceedingly
attractive. Graceful in all her move-
ments, contaglously enthusiastic in all
she undertook, she gave to her part an
eloquence that thrilled Claude more
sensitively at every rendering. Never
his own weakness, Warner
Vance did not think of danger until it
was too late, Rehearsing night after
night with this singularly attractive
girl, each time rendering her Pauline
with more eloquent faithfulness, he
turned always from the thrilling gaze
of those liquid dark eyes in a half in-
toxication, like a man who has taken
just enough wine to make him feel as
if he were walking on air, bp
‘When all was done, the play plaved,
i
country, went to Europe last fall, and
it was stated at the time that the chief
object of his visit was to confer with
Bismark in regard to the future seizure
It was soon after his
that the independence of that country
had been guaranteed by the United
France, and that this country would
prevent any foreign Government tak-
ing control of the islands, It is said
only highway of travel across the Paci-
fic. With the Panama canal or some
other means of ship Cransportation
across the isthmus completed, the isl-
ands would be the most strategic point
of the Pacific ocean. It is also said
that the men most interested in a Gnan-
cial way in the islands are not avers
to the control of the islands passing to
Germany.
ES ——— i ——————
American Hospital in Mexico,
The American Colony In Mexica
celebrated Washington’s Birthday by
laying the corner stone of an American
hospital in the suburbs of that eity,
General Jackson, the United Slates
Minister, delivered an address, and
Joaquin Miller read a poem. Music
was furnished by the military band and
by the American Glee Club. Several
bundred American residents and tour.
ists were present. The hospital is for
Americans falling sick there, and will
enable victims of disease to receive ex.
cellent care. Simon Lara, a native of
New York, son of Spanish parents
gave the necessary land and a» large