®
NEWB OF THE WEEA,
—The President on the 19th signed
the bill to increase the pensions of wid-
ows und dependent relatives of deceased
soldiers and sailors,
— A freight train on the Pittsburg
and Lake Erie Railroad ran into a land-
slide near Stoop’s Ferry, Penna,, on
the 20th, was thrown®own an embank-
ment The engine and nine cars were
demolished, William Clymer, conduc-
tor, and Frederick Kirchuer, fireman,
were Killed,
~The heaviest snowstorm at Du
buque for five years visited that place on
the 20th, avd continued untii late on
the 21st. The snow was over two feet
on a level and drifted badly, Limbs of
trees were broken off, telegraph wire
damaged and some weak buildings
were crushed in.
~Join Boyd Thatcher, ex-State Sen-
ator, was nominated for Mayor of
Albany by the Democrats on the 20th,
— Secretary Jayard on the 20th trans-
ferred tothe New York rant Monu-
ment Fund the sum of $600, covering
two contributions—3$500 from the Pres-
Minister
Grant,
Romero, the Mexican
steadfast friend of General
fhe total is now $119,588,
— Propositions submitted by Viee
President Hoxie, of the Missouri Paci-
rovernors of
were on the 20th
t
v the
vy LU
under consideration
representatives of the Knight
1
rin St. 1«
yey i
LR #9
is
rious overflow has been cau
ge in y Missou
adove io
» EOI
08
“Ui
re demoli
were damaged, and cattle were killed,
fall of top rock occured ear
3, in the Pottsville and Mah
iroad turned at
pear Pottsville. Twenty
mostly ltalians, were buried.
them were killed, and about
others injured, three perhaps
ly ¢
in Hl
fatallc
fatally.
Electric Light Company at Lynchb
Virginia, while repairing a ligl
2d, was killed by a shock fron
electric current, He was on a
wenty feet from the ground,
—The President on the 224
ad Winfield, of Virginia!
it San Jose, Costa
1is0 John W, Brophy, to be Postmaster
: Charles B. White-
Jradford, and Emmet WW, Mec-
t Meadville, in this State,
\ ' the
it on the
pole
it Mount (
ead, at I
Arthur, a
—A convention of delegates from all
the Insh societies in New Jersey was
he 22d in Newark to arrange
pore thorough organization of the
ational League throughout the
It was resolved that all \
ollected for the benefit of the League
ass through the hands of Dr, O'Reilly,
f New York. The following perma- |
officers were clected: President,
Atkinson, of Eewark. Secretary,
race J. Kenney, of Newark; Trea-
urer, John Kennedy, of Jersey City.
charter was granted at Harris.
to the New York-
and Western Railroad
build a new from
ink to Newcastle, a distance
miles, The capitalis $10,000 000
+h $1,400,000 has been subscribed,
he eighteenth game of the
*hampionship was played on the 224 as
New Orleans, and was won by Steinitz,
his antagonist resigning on the fortieth |
me The score now stands: tz |
8; Zukertort, 5. According to the orig- |
inal terms of the contract, if the game |
should stacd 0 to 9, the match would
be a draw, In St, Louis the number
to make a draw was reduced by agree-
ment to 8, Steinitz, therefore, claims
that be cannot lose,
—1In the New Jersey House, on the
224d, the Chase bill was passed over the
rovernor’s veto by a vote ot 39 to 15.
~The War Department has received
no information of the reported surren-
der of Geronimo and his followers to
Lieutenant Maus, near San Bernardino,
The report is contradicted by a later
arrival at Tombstone,
~The Secretary of the Treasury on
the 22d, issued the 135th call for the
redemption of bonds. The call is for
ten millions of the Three Per Cents of
882, to mature on the 1st of May.
~On the 23d the Cabinet meeting
considered measures for the more rigid
enforcement of the Chinese Restriction
act, particularly with reference to pre-
yenting the landing of Chinese laborers
on fraudulent certificates, ‘It was
represented that trouble constantly
arses in cases where immigrants claim
to have lost or mislaid their certificates,
and Lring witnesses to prove that they
were in this country at the time of the
passage of the act, and were actually
provided with the certificate prescribed
by law, which entitled such persons to
return to the United States after a
visit to China.” The Cabinet also con-
sidered the steps necessary to protect
the Government's interest in the
Union Pacific Railway,
~The Government papers to test the
validity of the Bell Talephone patents
were filed on the 23d in the U, 8, Court
at Columbus, Ohio. It is understood
that the Qirst question considered in
connection with the case will be that
ofjurisdiction,
~(reneral Crook reports that there is
no truth in the rumored surrender of
Geronimo and his band, The War De-
partment has been advised by the Gen.
eral that he was to start on the 234
from Fort Bowie for San Bernardino
to receive the surrender of Geronimo,
~The Governor of California has
appo.ated George Hearst U, 8, Senator,
to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Senator Miller, He was the Demo-
cratic candidate for U. 8B. Senator
when Leland Stanford was elected by
the Legislature,
~The President on the 23d nomina
ted James W. Rowmeyn, of Detroit, to
be Lunsul at Valparaiso,
ROnNeyYs
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i
—Secretary Manning was reported
somewhat beiter on the 24th, but he
will probably be laid up for several
weeks at least. ITe 1s threatened with
apoplexy.
—Wird Hunt, ex-Associate Justice
of the Superme Court of the United
States, died on the 24th, at his resi-
dence, In Washington, aged 70 years,
He was born in Utica, New York,
graduated at Umion College, studied
law at Litehfield, Connecticut, was
elected a Judge of Appeal in New
York in 1863, and was appointed a
United States in 1871. Ie was retired
about six years ago in consequence of a
paralytic stroke.
— While William R. Baker,
of Houston, Texas, and an Independent
candidate for re-election, was returning
a horseman rode up to him, ana asked
Democratic and Labor candidate.
The assassin
Baker dodging
cession, and rode away.
sed his aim,
— President Cleveland on the 24th
During the re-
ception Lawrence Barrett, the trage-
dian, stood beside him.
In
24th Judge
on the
Hustir
Richmond, Virginia,
Atkins, of the
18
e 26th of April next, to decide, in
the
of
of
on th
cordance with a law passed Ly
Legislatur the question
» Or no for the sale
x yt
e, on
license
~The New York House of Repre-
sentatives on the 24th, by a vote of 72
to 28 passed a blll imposing a tax of 1
rations for the privilege of organiza-
i Officer at Chicag
the 24th reported 1
12, and the
20 to 25 degrees
-eight hours,
the eveni I$
cold wave was
perature would
coming tem-
~The nineteenth game in the chess
It was won by Steanitz, his antagonist
~The debate on the Riel question |
the Dominion House of Commons ent
ed on the 24th, and a vote was tal
on Mr. Landry’s motion censt
Government for havi
which resu'ted
ing sustained by
vote standing 125 to 72.
Ma fon wa
shghtly improved on the X but he
5 not out of dan
all
tha
Lis
irvine
iring
srt i dial
ng executed Riel,
Government De-
in the
a majority of 53, the
"or
~-Secretary nt ndit
The President
ated Mark D. Bal
the Indian
in Montana.
~The Senate med Henry
P. Kitfield to be Assistant Appra
at Boston ; Rale Letcl of Missou
Consul at Rio Grande
Marian A. Hulligan,
Hi 1 Roswell J
tant
Re
COLI
LAs
fornia, Assis
sury.
~The Républican
Rhode Island met on the 25th in
Providence. George Peabody Walter-
more, of Newport, was nominated
Governor, E. Lucius Darling, of Paw-
tucket for Lieutenant Governor, and
Joshua M. Addeman, of Providence
for Secretary of State.
The Democratic
cinnati on the
§
Of
*
City Convention
20th nomin;
hesley: Police Commissic Isaac
3. Matson (three years), Wm. Means
two years), Thos, J. Stephens (one
year); Infirmary Directors, J. H. Grue-
ter and IL. J... Armstro Messrs,
Means and Stephens are ex-Mayors,
~ At Charleston, South Carolina, on
the 25th, in a game of base-ball between
ner
MEers,
Jryan, centre field of the Charleston
Club, broke his knee cap, and Lanser,
catcher for the same club, broke his
Bryan will be disabled for life,
The Philadelphians won the game-—13
to 2.
~The Cabinet meeting of the 25th,
was devoted to a general discussion of
the labor troubles in the W
asin tl I A
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS,
SENATE,
In the U. 8, Senate on the 224, Mr.
Logan submitted a resolution, which
was ordered to be printed and
over, providing for open sessions for
tions hereafter.
ciency bill was referred to a committee
of conference, Mr. Logan's bill to in.
crease the efficiency of the army was
discussed during the morning hour.
Mr. Edmunds’ resolutions then came up
in order and were debated by Messrs,
Colquitt and Jackson. After an exec-
utive session the Senate adjourned.
In the U, 8. Senate on the 234, the
House bill granting a pension of $2000
a year to the widow of General Han-
cock was Teported and immediately
passed, Mr. Logan introduced a bill,
which was referred, repealing the pro-
vision of existing law which declares
that, when a vacancy occurs in the
office of generai or lieutenant general
of the army, such office shall cease.
The Edmunds resolutions were de-
batéd by Messrs, Jackson and George.
Mr. Morgan obtained the floor but
yielded to a motion for an executive
session. The motion was lost. After
arranging that this afternoon a time
should be fixed for taking a vote on the
resolutions the Senate adjourned,
In the U. 8, Senate on the 25th, the
Logan army bill was laid over as unfin-
ished business, and the Edmunds reso-
lutions were considered. They were
debated by Messrs, Voorhees, Evarts
and Call. Mr. Evarts argued that,
“if the President had the right to say
whether the papers called for related to
a subject with which Congress had
a right to deal, he could refuse papers
affecting his own conduct which it
might be important for Congress to
secure,” After an executive session
the Senate adjourned,
In the U, 8, Senate on the 24th
i the bill to increase the efficiency of the
| arfny was discussed. The Edmunds
{ resolution came up at the expiration of
{ the morning hour, and was debated by
{ Messrs, Morgan, Mitchell, Hoar, Gray,
{ Harris, Duatler and Edmunds.
that general debate should close this
{ should then be in eharge of the resolu-
| tions might, at that time, have one
{ .
{ that then a final vote
resolutions,
{ however, as
ba taken on the
| Ing was arrived
posed of before adjournment on
{ 26th, and that in the meantime
obtained the tloor and the Senate
HOUERE
House on
In the the 224 bill
the
widow of General
passed —yeas, 169; nays, 47.
ley, from the Committee
Mr.
on
lands granted in ald of the construc-
| tion of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
Mr, Wheeler, of Alabama, offered a pre-
resolution reciting the post-
ponementgof the consideration of the
Edt the
and
to report a rule
by which the House might by THE
jority vote direct any of its committees
to report back any bill referred te it
Mr. Willis said ti
would be given
10
eC
tee on cation, directing
on Rules
i
ie
3} p
w~Jidl, and
resolute
y introd ud
the 23d, bills
blish a National Live
d promote commerce
live stock between the States; to pre-
vent the introduction of
and infectious dise;
States, and to
Public Health : t
lishing a Bureau of Anim:
to extend the imomediate |
system ; t i
were
py
contagious
into the Unl
Bureau
e act estab-
ted
of
ret
} Tel
soit
bs #
as LO
formation
ployes in their departn
ted to employ substitut
their duties, whether
are employed Or
y whom,
passed the
An
iittee on Labor t
any time (not t
or appropriation
purpose of
appoints
appoint
and
“ we % rey 1a
order was made
ion in strikes
dian Appropriatic was
finally —226 ! The House
went into committee of the
Post-office Approp
Pending debate the comn
the House adjourned.
ARSE]
to then
1
whole on
th
In the House on the 25th, Mr. Van
Eaton from the Committee of Public
Lands, reported a bill “to promote the
introduction of fresh water the
Colorado desert.” Mr. Hill from the
Committee on Territories, reported a
bill for the organization of the Terri-
tory of Oklahoma, Mr,
the Shipping Committee, reported the
Free Ship bill and it was placed on the
Mr. Dingley, of Maine, pre-
calendar,
senting a minority report. A bill was
into
absence to employes of the Govern-
rn
The i Tost fice
An evening ses-
sion was held to express the sorrow of
the House at the death of the late
iepresentative Rankin, of Wisconsin,
: ae mse
SUNBEAMS,
“WAITER, this chicken is very tough.
It’s all I can do to get my teeth through
it.”
“Sorry, sir, but I haven't time
chew it for you now.”
to
A POET asks: “What face is this,
that through time's heavy veil, peers
past the ages—-troubled--sad?”’ We
don’t know, unless mayhap it be the
poker player's who 18 afraid be will
not be able to make lis next “age”
good,
seth iipens
It is well enough to sympathize with
the poor people who in this cold weath-
er have scarcely enough clothing with
which
bins, But while thinking of these
minor hardships we are too apt to for-
get the sufferings of the expatriated
cashier mm Canada, who looks sadly out
upon snow fifteen feet deep, and sighs,
as he rattles his dollars in his pocket,
for his dear native land,
De -—
“Ane TneEne"-—ejaculated Mr, Hen-
peck, as be stepped into the back door
of his residence yesterday noon, His
wife was dishing up the dinner, dropped
ber cooking-fork on the kitchen table
and exclaimed:
‘Joseph, don’t you ever let me hear
you use that expression again, The
idea of saying ‘ah there!’ to a poor wo-
man who is just making a slave of her-
self for your sake.”
"] your pardon,” said Mr, Hens
peck; “I simply wanted to ask, are
thers any potatoes in the house for
breakfast to-morrow?”
.
1 Beyond the Gate,
| Two dimpled hands the barsof fron grasped
| Two blue and wondering eyes the BPAce
! looked through.
i This massive gate a boundry had been ser,
but true.
Nor was she over known to be
{ Sirange were the sights she saw across
way
A Httle child had died some days before
| And as ste watched, amid the
hu shied,
Some carried flowers, some a casket bore,
{ The little watcher at the garden gate
Grew tearful bhers sucu thoughts
wonderings were,
Till sald the nurse: “Come here, dear child,
Weep not.
*Tis God has for
We all must go. gent
her.
“If He should for me' thus
the child-
0
send
“I'll have tell the
walt,
Though God has
sent for me, |]
come
I never go bevond the garden gate
I SH LO RS
ELLA BOWEN’S LUCK.
“It never rains but it pours!”
Ella Bowen quoted the we
*
“yy : weatl oy +
saying in a very rainy-weather sort of
1 handed a lelt Lius-
had just
NORE An
YOice, 4n
aunt
Very fond of
directly from he
vant, An
her
—ty 1
ii, WHO I
Aunt Margaret
153
wants Lo see me!
for years
¥ and
SICK, ANG
wi 4 *
But it
HY ea
sa daw 2 Afar 3 121
isdared Magnolial
It will cost me
rey
y ro, and yet Aune seems Lo
l. She is nin
whict
the month just
during
11 be understood that
a large bank accon
manager and head clerk in
the only one in Creylo
ed. El
teacher
store.
town where he liv
district
pretty face had won Harry's love,
They had married on a nan
income, but by economy had
enough to buy the amall house
called home, and furnished it very pr
{tily. Bat it
school
the
taken all they
gave in these five years,
Just th before this story
moni
opens partners in the firm
had
one a
of the
where Harry was employed had died,
{ and his widow had moved away from
one
been her husband’s share of the busi.
ness, It was a very dasirable opportu.
| nity, as the business was settled and
prosperous, but Harry was not willing
| to sell or mortgage his hardly earned
| reach in any other way,
| be the refrain in all Ella’s musing, and
| five hundred dollars!”
{ the jar of the steamboat machinery, as
| Magnolia.
her last visit there with her mother.
| Her life until then had been a carefully
cherished one, alhtough she had never
{ had possession of money. Her mother
| had taught music in a large city, spend-
| ing her summer vacations in Magnolia,
| and her income had been sufficient to
| give Ella every advantage of education,
and to make her childhood and girlhood
very happy.
She was eighteen when her mother's
death--a very sudden one--threw her
upon her own resources for daily bread,
and after teaching music for a time,
taking her mother’s pupils, she had aoc-
cepted the district school at Oreyton for
the sake of country air, loving the life
in the country better than in the city.
Always busy, she had not been to
Magnolia since her mother died, al
!
|
{
i
i
though etters
changed
pleasant
frequently
with Aunt
to recognize all the landmarks
Margaret, It was
in her childish memories, when
with her
thie pleasant ept part of her ii
mother was
fe
Bit when Anne orened the door
the little cottage home, saying softly:
“Oh, Miss Eila I'm
Yo
everytinnug
dear, glad
ir aunt’
for-
elas was
For old a
bright
ill unto death, with a painful ill-
that
had
sy pretty niece,
thie dear who
loved
unt
s
her
cessant care.
py months
Ella wrote to
required in
nearly worn out
4 1 »
faithful nursing, and
dear, I
Margaret's
and her grand
hem bere. 1 have
eldest of
her income
#8, but even if he
“If you can spare me,
are all dead,
children are none of t
nes on ghe
It ishar
{
+ if
.
Way
t her heart upor
ure, and had no
t away. Y«
stuff to Creylc
give you a hundred 4
sie 1a 3?
With
accepted at once, but, as it
was surprised see Go
face grow black as she said:
Mit WArning
* ws 11
WO rai
“Mr. Leigh said he would see about
that for me. You tell him
want the furniture.”
An expression more forcible
polite escaped Mr. Cooper, as he strode
of the room, the door
can you
than
out slamming
But three days later, Ella began to
In her quiet
country home. occupied by her domestic
duties, she bad taken little interest in
The value of old furni-
had not
occurred to her,
Ella, had resolved to make the legacy
as valuable as possible, understanding
little value to her,
advertisement in the leading papers of
the cities nearest to Magnolia, a circu.
lar letter to some of the prominent
dealers, were as high walls in the little
plans Gerald Cooper had made to buy
his grandmother’s furniture for a trifle,
A sale was announced, and Mr, Leigh
sent an agent to put the cotlage in pro-
per order,
“Such of the clothing as you can use,
pack up,” he told Ella, “and send your
i)
Wii
trunks to the depot, but let al # old
fashioned stuff go for ‘costumes.’
1 :
M ch a sight
as tl
ae collage on ay of the
noha bad never seen su
! sale,
Every tral, brought crowds of fashion-
ably atti
fos
the house and garden were packed, and
the road in fron!
roel 1% & * ire :
ed ladies and gentlemen pro-
til
“i . rord
Wha, ana Lill
amateur collectors,
the
the
crowded, when
auctioneer stepped upon a
porch and opened the sale,
table ou
Ella and Mr, Leigh were at an
ipper
ciosed blinds
er, with a
window, looking through
at the £00
face darkened by frowns, stood leaning
the ready to make Lids for
what he had ealculated top 0B [111
s}
CL
scene, Gerald
on fence,
more easily,
It seemed to Ella that
a dream as the bidding
Cou
gre
mated, d that
| table actually be worth fifty
Wa
dollars for®the carved black u
boar} nal Had she
heard a bid 3
J80 GOLA
& 3
for the i {
the man who gave two
.
a acy
of one hun
ah st Led
igh-post Led
the cottag
tage bedroom?
raliway
nraval ar
OVA ATi
Pi veld
f Lhe kings of Fran
transfer:
i iis sword, and
ell into the hands of
After the
" - h
France, and in 1870, when
us 0
1, however,
#3
Of |
restoration
mvested, the
taken Bordeau
Napoleon I exhib
ny days of his ascendenc
303 precious stones of vario
valued at 18.922 477 francs, 1
of these were afterward
amount mentioned in a dispals
prospective result of the sale~-$40,000,-
{ 000-—is probably a mistake or ex
aggeration,
a 3
as about to be
to
pal
big
an
Pet Witches,
The natives of the Caroline islands
| are firm believers in sorcery, but instead
| of burning their witches they try to
conciliate them in every possible way,
| especially by leaving presents at thei
door In night-time, never doubling that
the wisdom of the brura will enable
her to divine the unknown benefactor.
Witches are propitiated by gifts of
cocon. cakes and honey whenever (he
storm olouds loom on the horizon of the
| setting sun, as well a8 in times of pro
| tracted droughts, for brucns are sup-
| posed to Lave specifics for evils of that
sort. Women credited with proficiency
in such busmess branches of the black
{art are therefore cousidesed desirable
| matches, and do nnt fail to inpress the!r
| admirers with vague hints of magical
| omuivotence.