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United States Laws.
THIRD SESSION OF THE FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS
AN ACT to enlarge the jurisdiction of the
probate courts in Idaho Territory.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
probate courts of the Territory of Idaho,
in their respective counties, in addition to
their probate jurisdiction, be, and they are
hereby, authorized to hear and determine
all civil causes wherein the damage or debt
claimed does not exceed the suns of five
hundred dollars, exclusive of interest, and
such criminal cases arising under the laws
of the Territory as do not require the in
tervention of a grand jury : Provided, That
they shall not have jurisdiction in any mat
ter in controversy, when the title, bounda
ry, or right to the peaceable possession of
land may be in dispute, or in chancery or
divorce cases : Andprovided further, That
in all cases an appeal may be taken from
any order, judgment, or decree of said pro
bate courts to the district court.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That
all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with
this act are hereby repealed : Provided,
That this act shall not affect any suit pend
ing in the district courts of said Territory
at the time of its passage
J. G. BLAINE,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
SCHUYLER COLFAX,
Vice-President of the United States and
President of the Senate.
Approved, December 13, 1870.
U. S. GRANT.
[GENERAL NATURE-NO. 2.]
AN ACT granting to the Utah Central
Railroad Company a right of way
through the public lands for the
construction of a railroad
and telegraph.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
right of way through the public lands be,
and the same is hereby, granted to the Utah
Central Railroad Company, a corporation
created under the laws of the legislative '
assembly of the Territory of Utah, its suc
cessors and assigns, for the construction of
a railroad and telegraph from a point at or
near Ogden City, in the Territory of Utah,
to Salt Lake City, in said Territory; and
the right, power, and authority is hereby
given to said corporation to take from the
public lands adjacent to the line of said
road material of earth, stone, timber, and
so forth, for the construction thereof. Said
way is granted to said railroad to the ex
tent of two hundred feet in width on each
side of said railroad where it may pass
through the public domain, including all
necessary ground for station-buildings,
work-shops, depots, machine-shops, switch
es, side-tracks, turn-tables, and water-sta
tions : Provided, That within three months
from the . passage of this act the said Utah-
Central Railroad Company shall file with
the Secretary of the Interior a map to be
approved by him, exhibiting the line of
the railroad of said company. as the same
has been located and constructed : Provi
ded further, That said company shall not
charge the Government higher rates than
they do individuals for like transportation
and telegraphic service. And it shall be
the duty of the Utah Central Railroad
Company to permit any other railroad,
which has been or shall be authorized to be
built by the United States, or by the legis
lature of the Territory of Utah, to form
running connections with its road on fair
and equitable terms.
Sze. 2. And be it further enacted, That
the United States make the grants herein,
and that the said Utah Central Railroad
Company accepts the same, upon the ex
press condition that the said company shall
not exercise the power given by section ten
of chapter sixteen of the laws of the Terri
tory of Utah, approved February nineteenth,
eighteen hundred and sixty-nine ; and upon
the further express condition that if the
said company make any breach of the con
ditions hereof, then in such case, at any
time hereafter, the United States, by its
Congress, may do any and all acts and
things which may be needful and necessary
for the enforcement of such conditions.
Ssc. 3. And be it further enacted, That
said Utah Central Railroad shall be a post
route and a military road, subject to the
use of the United States for postal, milita
ry, naval, and all other Government ser
vice, and also subject to such regulations
as Congress may impose, restricting the
charges for such Government transporta
tion.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That
the acceptance of the terms, conditions, and
impositions of this act, by the said Utah
Central Railroad Company, shall be signi
fied in writing under the corporate seal of
said company, duly executed pursuant to
the direction of its board of directors first
had and obtained, which acceptance shall
be made within three mouths after thepas
sag e of this act, and shall be served on the
Pre, ident of the United States ; and if such
acceptance and service shall not be so made,
this grant shall be void.
SEC..'• And be it further enacted, That
Congress may at any time, having due re
gard for the rights of said Utah Central
Railroad Company, add to, alter, or repeal
this act.
Approved, December 15, 1870.
LEGAL BLANKS,
[GENERAL NATURE — No. 3.]
AN ACT to amend an act entitled "Ai
act to reduce internal taxes, and for
other purposes," approved July
tourteeth, eighteen hundred
and seventy.
PAMPHLETS,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Repre.:entatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That so
much of section twenty-one of the act to
reduce internal taxes, and for other pur
poses, approved July fourteen, eighteen
hundred and seventy, as relates to sugar,
be amended so [that] it will read—
On all sugar not above number seven,
Dutch standard color, one and three-quar
ter cents per pound.
On all sugar above number seven, and
not above number ten, Dutch standard in
color, two cents per pound.
On all sugar above number ten, and not
above number thirteen, Dutch standard in
color, two and one-quarter cents per
pound.
On all sugar above number thirteen,
and not above number sixteen, Dutch
standard in color, two and three-quarter
% cents per pounds.
On all sugar above number sixteen, and
I not above number twenty, Dutch standard
LAWS
OF TUE
UNITED STATES
PASSED AT THE
[PUBLIC—No. I.]
HUNTINGDON, PA.
in color, three and one-quarter cents per
pound.
On all sugar above number twenty,
Dutch standard in color, and on all refined
loaf, lump, crushed, powdered, and granu
lated sugar, four cents per pound , Pro
vided, That the Secretary of the Treasury
shall, by regulation, prescribe and require
that samples from packages of sugar shall
be taken by the proper officers, in such
manner as to ascertain the true quality . of
such sugar; and the weights of sugar im
ported in casks or boxes shall be marked
distinctly by the custom-house weigher, by
scoring the figures indelibly on each
package: And provided further, That all
sirup of sugar, sirup of sugar cane juice,
melada, concentrated melada, or concen
trated molasses, entered under the name
of molasses, shall be forfeited to the
United States.
Approved, December 22, 1870.
[GENERAL NATURE-NO. 4.]
AN ACT in relation to certain territorial
penitentiaries.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
penitentiary which has been, or may here
after be, erected by the United States in
any organized Territory thereof, shall, when
the same is ready for the reception of con
victs, be placed under the care and control
of the marshal of the United States for the
Territory or District in which such peni
tentiary may be situate.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That 111
it is hereby made the duty of the Attorney
General of the United States to prescribe
all needful rules and regulations for the
government of such penitentiary, and the
marshal having charge thereof shall cause
them to be duly and faithfully executed
and obeyed. The reasonable compensation
of such marshal and of his deputies, for
their services under this act and said regu- 1
lations, shall be fixed by the Attorney Gen- I
eral ; and it and the expense incident to the
subsistence and employment of offenders
against the laws of the United States, who
have been or may hereafter be sentenced to
imprisonment in such penitentiary, shall
be chargeable on and payable out of the
fund for defraying the expenses of suits in
which the United States are concerned,
and of prosecutions for offenses committed
against the United States : Provided, That
this act shall not be construed to increase
the maximum compensation now allowed
by law to those officers.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That
any person convicted by a court of compe
tent jurisdiction in a Territory, for a viola
tion of the laws thereof, and sentenced to
imprisonment, may, at the cost of such Ter
ritory, on such terms and conditions as may
be prescribed by such rules and regulations,
be received, subsisted, and employed in
such penitentiary during the term of his
or her imprisonment, in the same manner
as if he or she had been convicted of an
offense against the laws of the United States.
Approved, January 10, 1871.
[GENERAL NATURE-NO. Z.]
AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An
act to authorize the refunding of the
national debt."
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
amount of bonds authorized by the act
approved July fourteen, eighteen hundred
and seventy, entitled "An act to authorize
the refunding of the national debt," to be
issued bearing five per centum interest per
annum, be, and the same is, increased to
five hundred millions of dollars, and the
interest of any portion of the bonds issued
under said act, or this act, may, at the dis
cretion of the Secretary of the Treasury,
be made payable quarter-yearly : Provid
ed, however, That this act shall not be con
strued to authorize any increase of the
total amount of bonds provided for by the
act to which this act is an amendment.
Approved, January 20, 1871.
[GENERAL NATURE-NO. 6.]
AN ACT ceding certain_jurisdiction to
to the State of Ohio.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
jurisdiction over the place purchased for
the location of the "National Asylum for Dis
abled Volunteer Soldiers," under and by
virtue of the act of Congress of March
third, eighteen hundred and six-five, en
titled "An act to incorporate a National
Military and Naval Asylum for the relief
of the totally disabled officers and men of
the volunteer forces of the United States,"
and the act of March twenty-first, eigh
teen hundred and sixty-six, amendatory
thereto, and upon which said asylum is lo
cated, is hereby ceded to the State of Ohio,
and relinquished by the United States.
And the United States shall claim or ex
ercise no jurisdiction over said place after
the passage this act: Provided, That
nothino. ' contained in this act shall be con
struedto impair the powers and rights
heretofore conferred upon the board of
managers of the National Asylum for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, incorporated
under said act, in and over said territory.
Approved, Jan nary 21, 1871.
[RESOLUTION or GENERAL NATURE-NO. I.]
JOINT RESOLUTION to correct an error
in the enrollment of the law in rela-
tion to pay of grand and petit jurors.,
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Re
presentatives of the United States of 3meriea in
Congress assembled, That the third section of
the act approved July fifteenth, eighteen
hundred and seventy, "to provide for the
compensation of grand and petit jurors in
the circuit and district courts of the United
States, and for other purposes," be, and the
same is hereby, repealed; the said section
having been enrolled by mistake.
Approved, December 22, 1870.
[RESOLUTION OP GPNERAL NATUA-NO. 2.]
A RESOLUTION to authorise the res
toration of Benjamin S. Richards to
the active list of the Navy. -
Resolved by the Senate and Rouse of Repre
sentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the President of the
United States be, and he is, authorized, by
and with the advise [advice] and consent
of the Senate, to appoint Ensign Benja
min S. Richards a master on the active
list of the navy, to date from the twenty
sixth day of March, eighteen hundred and
sixty-nine, with the pay of that grade
from that date.
Approved, January 10, 1871.
[RESOLUTION OP GENERAL NATURE—No. 3.]
JOINT RESOLUTION providing for
publishing specifications and drawings
of Patent office.
Be it resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of du United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
publication of the abstracts of specifications
and of the engravings heretofore accompa
nying the annual report of the Commission
er of Patents be discontinued after the
~ FEBRUARY 8, 1871
publication of that portion of the report for
eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, for which
the plates have already been prepared; and
that, in lieu thereof, the Commissioner be
authorized to have printed, for gratuitous
distribution, not to exceed one hundred and
fifty copies of the complete specifications
and drawings of each patent subsequently
issued, together with suitable indexes to
be issued from time to time, one copy to
be placed for free public inspection in each ,
capitol of every State and Territory, one
for the like purpose in the clerk's office of
the district court of each judicial district
of the United States, except when such
offices are located in State or territorial cap
itols, and me in the library of Congress,
which copies shall be taken and received in
all courts as evidence of all matters therein
contained, and shall be certified to under
the hand of the Commissioner and seal of.
the Patent Office, and shall be taken and
received in all courts as evidence, said co
pies not to be taken from said depositories
for, any other purpose than to be used as
evidence; and the Commissioner of Patents
is hereby authorized and directed to have
printed such additional numbers of copies
of specifications and drawings, certified as
hereinbefore provided, at a price not to ex
ceed the contract price for such drawings,
for sale, as may be warranted by the actual
demand for the same ; and the Commission
er is also hereby authorized to furnish a
complete set of such specifications and
drawings to any public library which will
pay for binding the same into volumes to
correspond with those in the Patent Office,
and for the transportation of the same, and
which shall also provide proper custody for
the same, with convenient access for the
public thereto, under such regulations as
the Commissioner shall deem reasonable :
And Provided, also, That all contracts for
making copies of drawings shall be made
under the provisions of chapter one hun
dred and fifty-five, section nine, of act of
Congress approved June twenty-five, eigh
teen hundred and sixty-four, which reads
as follows : "SEe. 9. And be it further en
acted, That all lithographing andengraving,
where the probable total cost of the maps
or plates illustrating or accompanying any
one work exceeds two hundred and fifty
dollars, shall be awarded to the lowest and
best bidder for the interests of the Govern
ment, due regard being paid to the execu
tion of the work, after due advertisement
by the Superintendent of Public Printing,
under the direction of the Joint Committee
on Printing : Provided, That the Joint Com
mittee on Public Printing be authorized to
empower the Superintendent of Public
Printing to make immediate contracts for
engraving, whenever, in their opinion, the
exigencies of the public service will not
justiiy waiting for advertisement and
award."
Approved, January 11, 1871.
[RESOLUTION OP GENERAL NATURE-NO. 4.]
A RESOLUTION authorizing the ap
pointmentof commissioners in relation
to the Republic of Dominica.
Resolved bg the Senate and House of
Represenatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
President of the United States be author
ized to appoint three commissioners, and
also a secretary, the latter to be versed in
the English and Spanish languages, to
proceed to the Island of San Domingo,
and to such other places, if any, as such
commissioners may deem necessary, and
there to inquire into, ascertain, and report
the political state and condition of the re
public of Dominica, the probable number
of inhabitants, and the desire and disposi
tion of the people of the said republic to
become annexed to and to form part of
the people of the United States; the phy
sical, mental, and the moral condition of
the said people, and their general condition
as to materml,:wealth and industrial capac
ity; the resources of the country; its
mineral and agricultural products ; the
products of its waters and forests; the
general character of the soil; the extent
and proportion thereof capable of culti
vation; the cimate and health of the
country; its bays, harbors, and rivers; its
general meteorological character, and the
existence and frequency of remarkable
meteorological phenomena; the debt of
tbegovernment and its obligations, whether
funded, and ascertained, and admitted, or
unadjusted and under discussion ; treaties
or engagements with other powers; extent
of boundaries and territory—what pro
portion is covered by foreign claimants or
by grants or concessions, and generally
what concessions or franchises have been
granted, with the names of the respective
grantees; the terms and conditions on
which the Dominican government may de
sire to be annexed to and become part of
the United States as one of the Territo
ries thereof; such other information with
respect to the said government or its
tar
ritories as to the said commissioners shall
seem desirable or important withreference
to the future incorporation of the said
Dominican republic into the United States
as one of its Territories.
Sze. 2. And be it further resolved, That
the said commissioners shall, as soon as
conveniently may be, report to the Presi
dent of the United States, who shall lay
the report before Congress.
Sac. 3. And be it further rewired, Tliftt
the said commissioners shall serve without
compensation, except the payment of ex
penses; and the compensation of the
secretary shall be determined by the Sec
retary of State, with the approval of the
President: Provided, That nothing in
these resolutions contained shall be held,
understood, or construed as committing
Congress to the policy of annexing the
territory of said republic of Dominica.
Approved, January 12, 1871.
[REBOLFFION OF GENERAL NATORE—No. 5.]
JOINT RESOLUTION for the restora
tion of Captain Dominick Lynch, of
the United States navy, to the
active list from the reserved
list.
Be it resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
the President of the United States of
America be authorized to nominate, and
by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate to appoint, Captain Dominick
Lynch to .the acme list of the navy, as a
captain.
Approved, January 20, 1871.
The Washington correspondent of the
Worcester Spy says that President White,
one of the San Domingo Commissioners, ust
before leaving on the expedition, spent
two hours with Senator Sumner just be
fore kaving for New York He stated to
a friend that he had never seen two men
more zealous, and yet perfectly honest,
than Gen. Grant and Senator Sumner,
one for San Domingo annexation and the
other against it.
Forty millions of capital were repesent
ed in the dining-room of an Atlanta, Geor
gia, hotel, a few days since.
Pura.
"Gran'ma Alias Does,
BY A. H. POE.
I wants to mend my wagon,
And has to have some nails;
Jus' two, free will be plenty,
We're going to haul our rails.
The splendidest cob fences,
We're makin' ever was!
I wis' you'd help us find 'em,
Gran'ma alas does.
My horse's name is Betsey ;
She jumped and broked her head.
I put her in the stable,
And fed her milk and bread,
The stable's in the parlor:
We didn't make no muss,
I wis' you'd let it stay there,
Gran'ma alas does.
I's goin' to the cornfield,
To ride on Charlie's plow;
I spect he'd like to have me;
I wants to go right now.
Oh, won't I gee up awful,
And whoa like Charlie whoas?
I wis' yonwouldn't bosser ;
Gran'ma never does.
I wants some bread and butter;
I's hungry worstest kind ;
But Taddie mustn't have none,
Cause she wouldn't mind.
Put plenty sugar on it;
I tell you what, I knows
It's right to put on sugar;
Gran'ma al'as does.
gilt Morg-Stlia.
LARKEY HUGHES.
A VIRGINIA STAGE COACH INCIDENT.
Fifteen years ago, traveling in the moun
tains of Virginia was not so pleasant as it
is now.
Then the spring were a resort for in
valids, and not, as at the present, for the
fashionables of society, and hence the ne
cessity of increased facilties for transport
ing passengers did not exist.
The lumbering old coach, drawn usually
by six horses, would be driven by one of
those reckless drivers, who, in urging his
team to break neck speed, would be whist
ling some negro melody, while the poor
passengers inside, on the top, or domiciled
on the boot, would be expecting every
moment to be dashed to pieces down some
of those fearful precipices that abound
along the mountain roads across the Al
legheny.
It was a dismal morning in February,
185—that I succeeded in obtaining ac
commodations on top of the—stage,
bound for the springs.
The day had passed pleasantly enough,
but just about dusk signs of a storm were
too plainly visible. It was bad enough to
trusting my bones on the top of the old
coach, if the night were pleasant, but the
idea of riding down the mountain road
that night expecting a storm was fearful.
Feeling as I did, I must confess that I
was rather pleased when, afterriding about
an hour after dusk, as we passed through
a narrow defile the tire of the left hind
wheel came off, and the stage was tumbled.
Fortunately the road was so narrow that
the stage could not be turned over, else
some of us might have been seriously in
jured. As it was the "Old Bess" was
gently turned over on its side, and the
passengers were kind of mixed up a little
without any of them being hurt much.
As there was no chance of getting the
wheel repaired that night, some of us who
were not encumbered with baggage deter
min4d to hunt up some house where we could
get a warm supper and comfortable sleep
for the night; but for fear of missing the
coach in the morning, we could not go far
from the road.
The driver directed us down the road
we wer; on, and about a mile from the
scene of our disaster we came to an inn,
where, according to a shingle nailed to a
tree in front of the house, could be found
"accommodations for man and beast." Not
having any beasts with us, we were satis
fied with the prospect of getting quarters
for ourselves.
We soon succeeded in finishing a very
substantial supper ; and as we sat around
a blazing fire, each one with a cigar in his
mouth, ruminating on the storm without,
and the solid, warm comfort within, it was
proposed to shorten time, each one should
relate some event in his life, either serious
or comic as be best sa* fit.
Besides our own party, consisting of six,
there was an unknown person who had in
truded himself upon us, but of whom we
took no notice until it came to the time of
Larkey Hughes to tell his story.
Larkey was a tall, gaunt, lantern-jawed
specimen, hailing from "down east," who
'had remained cerfectly silent while the
rest of us were telling our stories, his chief
occupation seemed to be trying to discov
er who the stranger was.
Before commencing his story, he went
to the door of the room, and locking ti, put
the key in his coat pocket; and then apolo
gi zing for his strange conduct, brit promis
ing to explain it satisfactorily betbre he
finished his story, he commenced :
"Three years ago, gentlemen, 1 bad oc
casion to travel over these mountains on
business, Ima to jouruoy wavny
from the stage roads. I pursued any
way on horseback, with a small valise
strapped on the back of my sadd:c, in
which I had a good some of money for
those days.
"It was an evening very much like this,
in this month, that 1 stopped at this same
house to escape the storm.
"The landlord was extremely obsequious
in attending to my wants, and after our
smoke after supper, he requested me to
join him in drinking a bot'le of wine.
"Behr -, '
a belated traveler and nothing
loth, I readily consented, and very soon we
, had succeeded in disposing of six bottles
I in place of one.
"As might be expected after taking so
much wine, I became very talkative; and
my host soon knew as much of my business
as I did myself. And of course among
other facts he became aware that my valise
contained a large sum of money.
"My host kindly volunteered to take
care of my baggage, if I would leave it
with him, but although I bad taken too
much wine, still I knew enough to decline
his magnanimous offer. And wishing him
'good night' I took my valise in my hand
and went to my appointed bedroom.
"I had taken enough of the wine to
make me feel very nervous, so that I found
it difficult to compose myself, and my feel
ings were not at all improved by the im
pression I received from my host.
"He was an Italian, and had that fore
boding look of a desperate character ; and
the beauty of his face was not at all im
proved by a long scar afross his temple ;.
the thumb of his right 'hand was gone also,
so that his general appearance was not, to
• say the least, at all prepossessing; he look
• ed as if he would as soon commit a mur
der as smoke a cigar.
"After I had undressed, I placed my
valise and pistol under my pillow. And
then having carefully, as I thought, exam
ined every nook and corner of the room,
to see that there was no danger of intru
sion, I laid myself down, but I could not
sleep, the wine, instead f having a narcot
ic effect, produced the contrary, and the
recollection of my host put my blood to a
fever heat.
"I must have been lying in this troub
led state for several hours, when I was
sure I heard some noise, apparently under
my bed, or under the floor near my bed.
"At first I thought it was the result of
my feverish brain; but after collecting my
scattered senses, and calmly thinking for
a few moments, I felt convinced that I
heard a noise of some kind. And so, ta
king my pistol from under my pillow,
quietly cocked it under the clothes, so as
to make no noise, and then, laying on my
back, with my right arm stretched out to
its full length, and the pistol firmly grasp
ed in my hand, awaited any result.
"The noise now became distinct, and I
could plainly hear some one drawing back
a bolt. I quietly turned my eye toward
the door to see if any move was made
there • but I hardly had turned my head,
when I was sure that I saw the rug in
front of the fire-place move.
"In an instant I saw a trap door, which
had been most curiously concealed by this
rug, cautiously lifted up, and I beheld my
lanlord, my Italian host, with a dark
lantern partially opened.
"I held my breath until be got into the
room, and began to look around, when I
saw by the light of his lantern that he also
had a desperate looking knife in his hand,
and knowing that I would be the object of
his butchery, carefully lifted my hand from
under the covering as his back was partial
ly turned to me, and fired.
"The instant I fired the scoundrel fell.
I jumped up, put on my clothes, and after
taking a quick look at the body, to see
whether I had killed him or not, I took
his lantern and left the house.
"I thought I had killed him as the mark
of my bullet was to be seen on the left
side Of his head ; it had torn off the lower
part of his ear; but when I returned the
nest morning, there were no traces of the
villain."
"Did you ever hear of him since ?" ask
ed one of the party
"No, gentlemen, I never saw him since
until to-night."
As Larkey said this the intruder, whom
we had not noticed till now, jumped up,
and making a bound toward him shrieked :
"You lie I"
We caught him, and after over power
ing him found that the identical scars that
Larkey had mentioned—the sabre scar, the
thumb, and the clipped ear.
We held a council as to what course was
best to pursue, and determined to let Lar
key wreak his own vengence on him in any
manner he saw fit. We then notified him
that he had but a few hours to live, and if
he wanted.to make any confession we
we would take it.
Believing our threats, he confessed to
no less than seven murders, and told us
where to find the skeletons of his victims,
all of whom had been murdered in that
very room.
We followed his directions, and did find
the skeletons.
We turned him over to the authorities,
the next day, with his written confession,
and kept on our journey, the "Old Bess"
having been repaired; and about a month
afterwards I read in the--Chroni
cle a long account of the hanging of An
gelo de Maestro.
tox palm
Pretty Dresses.
For the benefit of young lady readers,
says the New York Evening Mail, we will
make an attempt at describing some of the
prettiest dresses we have seen lately :
A toilet of lavender silk, with a trailing
skirt; a lace flounce was headed with a
full fold of illusion, caught into the dress
at each seam with a natural tea rosebud,
the overskirt of the same material was
in two long points at each side, round,
short, and very bouffant behind; the points
being edged with lace and caughtup, also,
with tea rosebuds. The corsage was low,
and quite plain ; the sleeves short and rose
buds on the shoulders. A spray of the
same flowers was worn in the hair.
A toilet of white tulle made with four
skirts, all being perfectly plain and ex
tremely full, catching up the skirt and
half hidden by the clouds of tulle were the
long tendrils of artificial morning-glory,
purple and pink. With this was worn a
blouse waist, perfectly plain. The hair
was dressed with sprays of the same
flower.
A toilet of soft, white gros-grain silk,
made with a short all-round skirt, and
without trimming. Over this was worn a
court train oi green velvet, caught up in a
full pannier, and very long. The waist
was of the same material, cut into a deep
pointed corsage, edged with white lace; an
gel sleeves, very long and pointed of green
w;th whit.
• .
A twit of Nile green silk, with a long
train trimmed around the bottom with a
full plaited fold of white tulle, caught on
with broad bows of the dress material ; up
the front breadth it was trimmed with
chevrons of satin piping, heading falls of
point lace; the dress was cut decolletts and
with short sleeves, the train being caught
up to the shoulders—a revival of last win
ter's. fashion ; jewelry of diamonds and
emeralds.
A bridal dress of white satin, the side
breadths cut rather short, and the back
breadth forming a very long square train.
This was without trimming, the front
breadth being trimmed with heavy wide
flounces of old lace, headed with beautiful
artificial flowers made of mother of pearl ;
a 'mall pointed overskirt was worn, also
edged with a fall of costly lace ; the whole
waist was completely covered with droop
ing folds of the same beautiful material.
The veil was of old point-lace, fastened
with a wreath of orange blossoms. The
jewelry was of pearls.
A reception toilet of cerise silk with a
very long train, with a heavy flounce of
lace, very old and very soft in color. An
overskirt of the same lace was worn with it,
caught up in front so as to show elaborate
trimming of the front breadth. The
corsage was cut square. Necklace, ear
rings, pendant, and bracelet were all of the
most brilliant diamonds, and a single os
trich feather set in the same precious
stones decorated the hair.
_-...-•••••-....-.---
ABOUT 15,000 pairs of shoe buckles and
rosettes arc made weekly, in Boston, by
the firms engaged in the business, most of
which are sold to the small finding stores
and to the retail trade.
NO. 6.
Vbe Plitt Cult
The greatest man in history was the
poorest.—Emerson.
The reward of a thing well done is to
have it—Emerson.
Truth withheld is sometimes a worse
deception than a direct mistatement.—
Anon.
It is our own vanity that makes the
vanities of others intolerable to us.—
Roclwfoucalt.
In giving alms, let us rather look at the
need of the poor than its claim to our
charity.—Anon.
To bring forward the bad actions of
others to excuse our own, is like washing
ourselves in mud.—Anon.
One hour of love will teach a woman
more of her true relations than all your
ph i losoph izing.—Margaret Fuller.
It is very dangerous for any man to find
any spot on this broad globe that is sweet
er to him than his home.—Beecher.
Do not mistake a tendency for a talent ;
nor conclude that what you dislike to do
is not rightfully demanded of you.—Car
lyle.
One of the finest qualities in a human
being is that nice sense of delicacy which
renders it impossible for him ever to be an
intruder or a bore.—Anon.
It is a good divine that follows his own
instructions. I can easier teach twenty
men what were good to be done, than to
be one of the twenty to follow mine own
teaching.—Shakespeare.
Is Religion Beautiful?
Always! to the child, the maiden, the
mother. Religion shines with a benig
nant beauty of its own, which nothing on
earth can mar. Never yet was the female
character perfect without the steady faith
of piety. Beauty, intellect, w ealth ! they
are like pitfalls, dark in the brightest day,
unless the Divine light, unless religion
throws her soft beam around them, to pu
rify and exalt, making twice glorious that
which seemed all loveliness before.
Religion is very beautiful—in health or
in sickness, in wealth or poverty. We
can never enter the sick chamber of the
good, but soft music seems to float on the
air, and the burden of the song is, "Lo!
peace is here."
Could we look into thousands of fami
lies to-day, where discontent fights sullenly
with life, we should find the chief cause
of unhappiness, want of religion in wo
man.
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And in felon's cells—in places of crime,
misery, destruction, ignorance—we should
behold in all its terrible deformity, irre
ligion in woman.
Oh ! religion ! benignant mystery, high
on thy throne thou sittest, glorious and
exalted. Not above the clouds, for earth
clouds come never between thee and truly
pious souls; not beneath the clouds, for
above these is heaven, opening through a
broad vista of exceeding beauty.—Recor
der.
Think of the Poor.
How much of true religion is with the
poor! Christ seems to have taken them
under his special care. His Gospel was
preached to the poor, and this was one of
the signs that was sent to John the Bap
tist in Prison. With his own blessed
hands he fed the poor by a creative act,
having compassion on them when they
fainted. His miracles, we have reason to
think, were in the large majority of the
instances, wrought upon the poor, and
"the common people heard him gladly."
The Apostles at Jerusalem were always
anxious that Paul should remember the
poor. And when Christ shall sit on His
throne of judgment He will make inquest
concerning all we have done, or failed to
do in regard to the hungry, the • naked,
the stranger, the prisoner and the sick,
and will regard us of having done, or fail
ed to do, all this to himself. There are
powerful motives to make us think of the
poor. When it is well with us we should
remember them. When we hear the
storm beating upon our habitations, and
yet are securely sheltered, warmed, and
fed sitting over our books or among our
children, we should think of the poor.
The Life Stingle.
The world knows no victory to be com
pared with victory over our passions The
struggle of life is between the flesh and
and the spirit, and one or the other finally
gains the ascendancy. Every day and
every hour of the Christians's life is this
contest going on. The apostle Paul, after
having labored long and earnestly in the
Lord's service—after having done more
for the spread of the truth than all the
other apostles still felt that he was a hu
man being, and liable et any time, through
the weakness of the flesh, to lose all. '•I
keep under my body," says he, "and bring
it into subjection, lest alter I have preach
ed the gospel unto others, I myself should
be a castaway." Our pathway. through life
is thickly set with snares for our feet.
The seductions of passion, the allurements
of vice, things to stir up our anger and
arouse our heart's feelings, await us at
every turn of life's devious ways, and
blessed, indeed, is that man or that wo
man that meets them all without harm.
The Young Man's Contribution.
A missionary meeting was held, and a
contribution was called. The boxes were
returned, and the contents counted over
—bank notes, silver shillings and pence.
"There is a card; who put that in ?"
"A young man back in the congrega-
tion."
"What was written on it ?"
"Myself."
This was the young man's offering—
himself He could not give silver and
gold to the mission cause; so hegavehim
self.
Jesus calls for something which is
worth more than money. Have you given
yourself to God and His work. Created
by His power upheld by His Providence,
bought by His blood, called by His Spirit,
and justified by His grace, what have you
to give to Christ? Can you refuse to say
"Myself?"—Christian Intel.
Gon's word is like God's world—varied,
very rich, very beautiful. You never know
when you have exhausted all its secrets.—
The Bible, like nature, has something for
every class of mind. Look at the Bible in
a new light, and straightway you see new
charms.