V C.-C- HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL. DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum. VOL. XI. R IDG WAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15. 1881. NO. 43. To-Day mid To-Morrow. If there comes some joy to me, Would yon have me stay, With that Joy to sweeten life ? " Yes, Ilcnrt, stay to-day." Well, then, if I havo a dream Of somo coming sorrow, Shall I wait to feel its fear ? "That will do to-morrow." If unto somo loving heart I've a dobt to pay? " Ah 1 that is a mighVdebt ; ray it, Heart, to-day." If I'm forcod from bitter wrongs Cruel words to borrow ? "Then, dear Heart, thoro is no haste ; Keep them till to-morrow. " Duty, Kindness and Success Loso by slow delay ; Duty hath a double right When it claims to-day j Kindness dios if it must wait; Success will not stay Unto thorn comes no to-morrow If they lose to-day. " But for Debt and Doubt and Anger, But for useless Sorrow, Better you should vait a day ; Keep them for to-morrow. And f.s every day's to-day, You may patience borrow, Thus forever to put off Vich a bad to-morrow. '' The Miller's Granddaughter. Tim summer, nftornoon vruued at last; the t!uniiLi7 suu derlituMl toward the hcTiizoi:, and n rcol, Foft brcezp, inex . pvt'S'-ihly ili liphtful after t ho heat of the iluv, I't pan to nv. Since parly d'l'.vn Lizzio Dnpont had bepii toiiiug at lier rui'ilie-, hut now she threw down lur woik, and leaviujr the old mill htood on tbo rndo plank that crossed the rni'I-racc, and looked eager ly over the fields. " "Oh, where can Dossy bo?'' she cried. " That dreadful interest which must bo Rot ready by Saturday has made me forget her. I ought to liave listened to grandpa. I am sure something has happened to her. She never was away so long before. I shall never forgive myself. What what," she cried, sud denly clasping her hands, ' if she should be drowned r" Lizzie Dupont had not always been a resident at the old mill, dependent on her needle for support. She had once been, and that not so long ago, the petted da"ghter of a merchant prince in New York. Hut her father had failed and died soon after of a broken heart, and Lizzie would have starved if it had not been for her maternal grandfather. "Como to me," he had written; "I am old and poor, but we will tliaro our crusts together. If you have grown up to look like your dear mother you will be the apple of my eye." Si Lizzie, ignored by her father's rich relations, had found refuge in this secluded spot. Eefupre and peace, but hardly happi ness. In the days of her prosperity she had become acquainted with a young Englishman, the sou of a titled family, and had pli htel her troth to him. Just before her father's failure Ross Devereaux had sailed for England, in tending within six months to return and claim his bride. Uut, from that day to this Lizzie had never heard a word about him. At first she thought her letters had been miscarried, and in the faith and trust of her voung heart had continued writing. But, at last, and after discov ering the heartlossness of her father's relatives, she began to believe that even Ross might be selfish also. "Iam poor now, and be deserts me," she said. "God help mo I But it is, I suppose, the way of the world." Lately a new trouble had come upon her Her grandfather had been failing all winter, so that a man bad to be hired to work the mill, and this had brought them into debt. Already there was a mortgage on the mill, for the grand father had never been a prosperous man, and now the interest had fallen into arrears for nearly a twelve-month. The holder of the mortgage was a cruel, avaricii us man. He had often threat ened to turn out the little family, if his interest, was not paid; and two weeks before ho had served a written notice, that, if the aireaM were not forthcom ing by the next Saturday, no would be as good as his word. Every day since Lizzie had risen by candle light and worked till bedtime. " If I can only get this embroidciy done for Mis. Wat sen," she said, " by that dreadful day, I may raise part of the money at least, and perhaps then ho will wait for the rost." But, this afternoon, a ue it and greater trouble had come. Dossy, her little pot sister, had been missing all day. The child often spent the mornings playing in the woods, but invariably returned to the uoon-timo meal. On this occasion, however, she did not make her appearance. Lizzie was alarmed, and would have gone to seek her; but the grandfather took it more coolly. "She has stopped at some of the neighbors," ho said, "bhe will be home for supper ; don't fret, dear." Lizzie, thinking of tho coming Satur day, had allowed herself to be persuaded that all was right, and had gone back to her work. But, as the afternoon wore on and no Dossy came, she grew serious ly alarmed. At last, throwing clown her . needle, she came out, as we have seen. "Ob, Dossy, Dossy I" she cried, when she had scratinized the landscape vain ly in every direction, "where are you? .If God will only sparo yon, dear if he will give you back to us alive I will never repine again at anything." But where was Dossy ? Was she really lost? To explain this wo must go back to the afternoon before, and look at Dossy, as she eat in the old-fashioned garden, ewaying to and fro in a prapevine bwing, puzzling over tho troubles of the family, fcihe was watching a bobo link that sang in the heart of a lilao ' bush, and talking to herself the while. "What a nasty, ugly old man that landlord is," she said; "and he made Eoor Lizzie cry so the other day when e was here. He says he'll drive us from oar home. Why, then," with sudden consciousness, "we'll huve no place to live in, and I shall never hear you sing, birdie; nor have my flowers, nor my kittens. Oh, me I Oh, me I" She sobbed a little, then shook off her April toars, and then fell to think ing in earnest. If they only had some money. What if she could get some ? She puckered her brow into a frown. Just then some market carts rolled by, laden with produce, on their way to the neighboring little town. On the front seat of one sat an old woman, with a basket of flowers on her knees. A sud den thought flashed on Dossy, and the puckered little brow cleared np. Why couldn't she sell flowers ? Her gardon was full of them, especially oi pansies, such pansies as were not often seen. Sho jumped from the swing bo quickly that she landed headforemost into the grasses below. But, nothing daunted, sho regained her feet and began picking off the golden-hearted pansies and English daisies by handfnls. She would do it; yes, indeed, she would, and make ever so much money, and they wouldn't have to leave the mill, and grandpa and sissie wouldn't cry any more. Sho fell to work arranging her bouquets for the morrow, her eyes fairly dancing with delight. She put them together quite tastefully, and by tho timo the summer moon stood over tho pines she had a long row set up amid the evergreens, that the dew might keep them fresh. In the morn ing, as soon as breakfast was over, she would set out. Dear, innocent Dossy 1 Sho had not the least doubt that she would succeed, and she slept but little that night in her excitement. Over and over she rose from her little bed and stole on tiptoo to tho window to look down oa her treasure?". Tbo morrow dawned cloudlessly. Breakfast over, Dossy rau down to the garden, crammed her posies into Liz zie's market basket, and taking it on her chubby arm trudged away, fortu nately unnoticed. On the sped, past tho long, long lino of fences, and down into the very heart of the town. Her cheekj were crimson, her breath came in gasps, she almost stumbled with fa tigue, but at last she reached the market-place and stopped in a little corcer where the shadows fell cool, and where an old blind womau vras selling laces. Here, feeling a sense of safety and companionship from the old blind crea ture, she eut down and began with deft hands to arrange her posies in front of her. WEat a picture she made in her white frock, with it thort, puffed sleeves; her eyes ablaze, her amber ringlets blown about by the morning breeze, framed, as it were, by a border of yellow daisies and golden-hearted pin.sies. At the silvery call of her sweet bird-voice, piping: " Who'll buy "..7 pansies V" one and another pedes tviun looked back, a few smiled, and some stopped and purchased. Pres ently a farme, who had just such a lit tle one at home, bought one of her nosegays, ard paid for it wifa half a dolkr. Dossy was in raptures. Then another gentleman came along, this time a comparatively young one, but tall and dark, and with a bronzed face. ' Won't you buv a bunch of pansies, sir, please ?" said little Dossy. The stranger, who had not noticed her before, stopped and looked for the little piping voice. " Please, sir," said Dossy, holding up a posy, " only twenty-live cents." The young man flashed a keen glance at Dossy, and drew near, smiling. " To be sure I will," he said, pleas antly, " if only for the sake of your bright eyes. Twenty-five cents you saiJ, I think," and he drew out his purse. "Yes," said Dossy, apologetically, imagining he thought the price too high. " You see I have to ask a good deal," and she shook her curly head with a grave, important air, " for Liz zie must have the money by Saturday, or we shall be turned out of our pretty home." As she finished she tendered to her auditor the prettiest of her posies, which she had just selected for him out of her store. Tho stranger, all this time, had been looking curiously at her. The color went and came on his face, his lips trembled, and he showed other signs of emotion. " Tell me," ho cried, earnestly, " my dear, what is your name?" Ho drew close to Dossy as he spoke, and seemed to be looking in her face, as if for some half-remembered, half fancied likeness, "Dossy," she answered," Dossy Du pont." His answer wai to catch her in his arms and kiss her again and again, his voice trembling with excitement as he cried, "Dossy! my little pet Dossy, don't you know who I am ?" But Dossy struggled from his em brace, smoothed her curls, and answered haughtily : " I asked you to buy my pansies, sir, and not to kiss me." The stranger broise into a joyous laugh, "and I will buy them," he replied, " every one of them. But don't you really know me, Dossy ? 1 am Roes Devereaux. Why, you have sat on my knee many and many a time." Dossy at this stared at him curiously. Then she uttered a gleeful little shout and sprang into his arms. "Oh, I knowl" she cried. "I re member you. Won't Lizzio be glad? Won't she stop crying now ?" Ross Devereaux's swart cheek crim soned. " Take me to your home," he said, " to your sister. Is sho here ?" " No," answered Dossy, " we live at grandpa's, at the old mill out of town, you know." " Let us go at once then. No need to sell pansies any longer," cried Ross Devereaux, eagerly sotting the child on her feet. Lizzie Dupont stcod as we have said, gazing across the meadows, heart broken about Dossy a prolonged absence. Suddenly two figures appearel, emerg. iug from the woods beyond in the direction of the town. She gave a great cry of joy, for one was certainly Dossy. Bat who was the other ? Who was the tall, handsome man who held Dossy by the hand V Could it be no, it wan impossible not yet At this moment, while she was still uncertain; while her heart leaped into her throat, and then stopped beating, while she felt dizzy, and about to fall, and had to clutch at the railing, Dossy's companion, dropping the child's hand, darted forward, for he had recognized Lizzie, and came hurrying over the meadow, waving his hat. He reached the stile, was over it in a bound, and the next moment was at Lizzie's side. "Thank God I have found you at last 1" he cried, clasping her sinking form. " Poor, timid darling I Did yon think I had deserted you ?" What Lizzie would have replied, if anything, we do not know; but he gave her no chance; hurriedly, as if life and death depended on it, he went on to toll his story. "Not one of your letters overcame to hand," he said. " They were inter cepted, as I discovered at last. I wouldn't mention how, under other cir cumstances, but you, at least, ought to know the whole truth. The fact is, dar ling, thatwhile my parents were eager to welcome you as a daughter, I had a cousin, an ambitious girl, who had al ways lived with us, and who, it seems, wished to marry me, not, of course," he said quickly, " that she loved me, but merely to secure the title and position. Well, to make a long story short, she bribed the postmistress at the Tillage to give her your letters, so that I never heard a word from you, or about you, till, at last, in despair, I came over, be fore I intended, to solve the mystery "Came over?" said Lizzie, faintly, and guiltily, conscious how she had misjudged him. "To be sure," repeated Ross Dever eaux, frankly. "Ah I little skeptic, you doubted me, did yoa?' " Indeed, indeed " begau Lizzie. But he stopped her with a kiss. "Then it was," he went on, " that I heard for the first time of your father's death. But no one could give me any information of your whereabouts, I did not know your relations in New York, but I found out their names, though it was some timo, and one was at New port and another at Saratoga, and a third at Virginia Springs. Before I could do anything came the news of my father's sudden death, and a summons home, for I am, you know, his heir as to both the titles and estates. When I had been at Devereaux hall for a week or so the postmistress came up, tremb ling and penitent, for I was now Sir Ross, and she had discovered by this time that my cousin was not to be Lady Devereaux. Then the vile plot was revealed. Darling, ever since I have been wild to discover you. I hurried up my business and left England at once. But for a long time I was foiled. Your city cousins, on whom I had re lied, could not, tell me where you had gone. All they knew, and they told it with evident confusion, was that your mother's father had sent for you, and that he lived in this State, and in this part of it. So I have visited every square mile of this and four other coun ties, and only lighted on Dossy by accident, to-day. I didn't even kjow your grandfather's name." There was much more to toll, details wittt which we will not tire the reader, eager questions and as eager replies. Lizzie could hardly ciedit her happiness. Dossy danced around, shouting in glee. If you ever visit England, and should ever go in the neighborhood of Dever eaux hall, you will hear everybody talking of the beautiful Lady Dever eaux whom Sir Ross brought home from America. Should you see her you will recognize, as wo did, in the gracious matron the Miller's grand daughter. IfusslMi Style of Dress. Tho Russian costume of the lower classes consists of a black or white cap, with the brim drawn down on the brow and shading the eyes; a long, loose, shapeless dark blue or brown great coat, flowing down to the heels, and heavy top-boots up to the knee. From the folds of the coat you may here and thero catch the right of the red blouse or of tho broad red sash and black velvet breeches which were once popular ; but, as a rule, the black, long gaber dine hides everything ; and, bating tho color or tissue, the same garment, the same medley of international rags.seems equally to suit Russian or Tartar, Mos lem or Christian, Gypsy or Jew. Mer chants and brokers and other middle class idlers who crowd the steps of the exchange wear the jacket and wide awake hat now common to all Europe ; gentlemen of a higher rank are either in the military or civilian uniform, and these also throw over it their heavy rid ing cloaks, regardless of the stifling heat, a Russian apparently never feeling comfortable unless he is swathed , in loose drapery from head to foot. The funny pork pie hats worn by the droski drivers in St. Petersburg or Moscow disappear as we come further east, and here the ivoshtshik buries his head and half his face in his ngly black hanging cap like other men. The Russians are as hirsute a race as any Asiatic. Those of the lower classes, whether out of an cient Muscovitic pride or to spite tho shade of Peter the Great, the great shaver, are bristling with such full, long beards as might excite the envy of their snaggiest Kalmuck or Samojede fellow subjects ; some few have a mane at the back of the head down to the shoulders, but for most of them the hair is clinned in a straight line by the barber, a primi tive artist, who claps an earthen pot on them, over head and ears, when they go to'him for a shearing, and trims round and round whatever protrudes from the pot. Hair and beard are usually un kempt and tangled, a fit frame for the face, where a coating of several weeks' dirt neutralizes the color of the skin. Herr Holtz has concluded, from the comparison of the statistics of thunder storms and the damage ncnaninnA ) them in Germany, Austria and Switzer land, from 1854 to 1880, that while the increase of thunder-storms has been small, the risk from lightning has been very largely augmented. He belives that the change is partly due to the use VI JXUU IM UVUBp-UUJJUWgi FACTS AM) COMMFNTS. President Garfield's memory is to be honored in London by the founding of a home for working girls, to be called "Garfield house." A lady has given $1,200 to a committee for this purpose. The carrier pigeon that is valued at $500 must be a fine bird. Tet there are several such on exhibition at the pigeon and poultry show recently opened at the Crystal palace, London. Some of these birds are said to have found their way from Rome to Antwerp, a distance of about 700 miles, in two or three days, stopping, too, on the way to gather food. They have an original way in Venice of protesting against a bad tenor. A gentleman in the parterre of the Teatro Malibran recently opened his umbrella and held it toward the stage, evidently to keep off the shower of false notes. The auditorium at once became a forest of open umbrellas. The tenor fled, the curtain fell, and art was avenged. The supreme tribunal of Mexico has just given a remarkable decision. They have determined that certain slaves were entitled to their freedom twenty years ago, and that the owners of a mine in which they have been worked for those twenty years must pay them wages for all that time. This decision indicates tho growing liberal sentiment of the people of Mexico. Tho famous big trees of California, 350 to 400 feet high and proportionately thick, are on public land, subject to entry at $1.25 an acre, and may be bought up and destroyed by whoever wishes to mako such use of them. The bark has already been peeled from the butt of one for a showman, who sets it up at fairs as an exhibition, and another has been cut down in order to make a dancing platform of the stump. Some curious verdicts have lately been noticed in the courts of this coun try. Not tho least singular is that re ceutly reported in a Philadelphia court, where a woman seenred a verdict of $9,000 from a street railway line for the loss of a hand by an accident to the car in which she was riding, while a few days before, in the same court, a verdict of only $4,000 was given in favor of a boy who had both legs cut off in an other street-car accident. There is no department of the Fed eral government where, from the nature of the business, there are such opportu nities for frauds as in the pension bureau. There are already 700,000 names rPj-'-stered of pensioners. There are 130,000 other applicants whose cases have not been decided, and new cases are eoni-if in fit. the rate of 100 e day. It would be naturally supposed that as time passes the number of pensioners would be decreased by death, but ' such is not the case. The estimated expend itures in 1882 for pensions is estimated at $88,000,000, and it is supposed that between $10,000,000 and $20,000,000 of this amount will be on fraudulent claims. It is now nearly seventeen yearn since the postal money-order system wont into operation in the United States, and the results prove the system to be a great convenience to the people, while yielding a revenue to the govern ment beyond the cost of doing the Imsi, ness. liariug tho last fiscal year mori than seven millions of money-orders were issued. The foes received for these orders amounted to $917,01)1, against $059,516 as the cost of transmis tiorj, showing a net profit to the govern ment on the business to the amount of $257,575. The amount of monty rent in this way exceeded eight hundred million of dollars. The system has been extended to tho postal service be tween the United States and Severn 1 of the countries of Europe. A little giil ordy fourteen jiars of age, named Margaret Messenger, has been convicted and sentenced to death at tho Cumberland assizes in England, for the murder of a baby whose nurse sho was. The jury found her guilty and also that although, being at the time under tho age of fourteen, she was, prima facie, incapable of crime she was precocious enough to have a crimi nal intent. Thero is on record in Eng land an example of a boy aged eight years being hanged for burning a barn in Berkshire. A boy of ten, convicted of murdeiing his bedfellow, was unan imously pronounced by tho judges as a proper subject of capital punishment, and does not appear to have been re prieved. These cases happened long before the secretary of state was in the habit of interfering in cases 01 murder as he does at present ; and it is proba ble that this young girl may have her punishment commuted to imprisonment for life. A singular occurrence took place at the Alexandra fart races in England re cenuy. a betting man known as "lioppy," because be is lame, attempted to leave the grounds without paying those wno had maae wagers with him His movements being understood, a cry 01 "Welsheri was raised, and several thousand persons quickly assembled. The man was auacsed in a furious man ner, and bis clothes for the most part were torn off. The noise soon attracted a number of policemen, who fought their way through the mob and sur rounded "Hoppy," who, but for the timely assistance rendered, would have been most seriously injured, if not killed. He had conducted his betting transactions from a wagonette, and when he was taken away by the police a considerable crowd remained behind. A call was made for paper, and show' ers of newspapers, race cards, letters, books, etc., came from the multitude in response. In a few seconds the vehicle was almost covered with inflammable articles, and theso being set fire to, the woodwork of the trap, cushions and lining were soon in a blaze, the lookers on cheering lustily. The appearance of the flames brought a strong body of po- uoe to tne spot, auu aiter great aim culty the carnage, well alight, was drawn out of the burning heap of paper. The shafts were broken off to stir np the fire, and the harness was cut into pieces, the horse being allowed to stray away. Mad aim HlosofolT and the Czar. A correspondent in St. Petersburg re cords an amiable action lately performed by the czar. During the last few days the chief military procurator, Filoso foff, and his wifeliave returned to Rus sia and reappeared at court Tho story of their absence is a curious one. Under the regime of Gurko it Was an easy thing for any one man or woman to be ticketed as "politically suspected," and dealt with accordingly. Mme. Filoso foff was a cultivated and generous lady, and she employed her spare moments in frequent gifts to poor and promising students to aid them in their careers. A student of Ecience or literature ' was regarded ipso faoto by the Gurko school of politicians as a doubtful character ; if not already a Nihilist there was no saying how soon be might become one. Madame Filosofoffs gifts to youths of this class brought her into bad repute, and although no proof seems to have been found that she really aided any professed revolutionists under the plea of aiding scient fic or literary aspirants, she was suddenly informed that she must leave Russia and reside abroad. Her husband, the chief military pro curator, was in despair, but his influence and office could not procure a remission of the ha rd sentence, which reduced him to the condition of what the Ger mans call a " straw widower." At a court ball shortly after the exile of his wife, the late Emperor Alexander II. went up to Filosofoff and kindly asked him why he looked so wretched. 'lour majesty knows," he replied, ' that I am a lonely man. I am no longer young, I am constantly ill, and need hardly sav that 1 miss the society of my wife." "I can feel for you, said tho czar, "and I wish that your wife could return to you; but," added he, after a pause, " I find that it is quite impracticable." Early tho next morning, while the procurator was at work in his study, a courier arrived from the czar, with a note in the im perial handwriting. "As your wife cannot return to you," said the docu ment, "you had better go to her. I grant you an extra leave of absence and 2,000 rubles for traveling expenses. Alexander." The present czar struck'a lino across Madam Filosofoffs name in the list of ' ' political suspects," and she and her husband, the compulsory and the voluntary exile, were thus enabled to return home, and, as our police re ports often conclude, " without a stain upon their character." Might Experiences ot a New York Pilot- Bolt. We ran westward all night utder short sail, taking casts of the lead at in tervals. Soon after ten, tho atmosphere ing thick, but not so much so as to prevent us from discerning objects at the distance of a mile, wo discovered a sailin r-sliip ahead, evidently running fcr New York, and probably in need of a pilot. Edging away toward hor, we lit our torch, and had the satisfac tion of seeing her send np a couple of rcckets in response. At the same time she backed her reefed maintopsail and hove tj. Knnmng down on her Ise side, we also hove to verr near to her, ana proceeded to launch the yawl. It was a wild scene as the little boat van ished into the darkness, perhaps never to be seeu again. But her crew carried a lantern with them, and after they had le.'t the pilot on board the ship, we were able to shape our movements by this little glimmer bobbing np anil down like an ignis fatuus in the misty dark. As tho night wore on the fog grew so dense that we brought up our six-pound brass piece from the fore peas, and fired it at shott intervals ; this was done, not, as one might sap pose, to keep vessels from coming into collision with the schooner, but to in form them there was a pilot-boat in the vicinity. But this very fact required redoubled vigilance on our pait, in order that we might not be run down. In tho middle vatch we were startled. rut after firiRg the cannon, by tho an swering whistle of a steamer hoarsely coming down the wind, and close at hand. The excitement of the moment was intense. Again we fired the can non. 1 ho whistle drew nearer, and all at once the colored lights of a steamer loomed o"' of the dripping mist, and her huge bow emerged from the gloom, so near that it actually seemed to over hang our deck, rassinnr close along side, she slowed up the palpitation of her mighty engine a moment to make sure of our position, and then vaguely gnoeci out 01 sight. ventury Moguttne. X Ruse at a ltostuiiraut. It is an awkward thing to be absent- minded. The story is told of a certain Philadelphia gentleman, who discov ered this at his cost. It so happened the other day that the dining-room of the club which he frequents was quite full, when a man who chanced to know his particular laiuiig came in very hungry, xne waiter toia the new' eomer there was no room at present. Spying our absent-minded friend com- lortabiy seated and reading the news paper, a brilliant idea struck the hungry man. "Has Mr. A. dined yet?" he queS' tioned. " No, sir," replied the waiter. " Well, never mind, take him his bill and tell him he has had his dinner." The waiter hesitated a moment, and then appreciating the situation went over to Mr. A. and handed him his bill. " What is this for ?" quoth the poor leiiow. " For your dinner, sir." ' ' My dinner - ah I Have I really had "Yes, sir," rejoined the waiter, in all Innocence. "Dear me. I had an idea I was wait- ins for it. What a enrious mistake?" And with a contemplative smile Mr, A. sauntered out of the room, leaving his table for the use of the genius who bad profited by his absent-mindedness, FORTY.SETEXTII C07TURES8. Senate. At 12 o'clock noon the regular session of Iho Forty-seventh Congress began, ths Presi dent pro tern., Senator Davis, calling the Sen ato to order. After prayer by the chaplain tho president presonted the credentials of William Windom, of Minnesota, and be wu ' sworn in. Then a flood of bills and petitions rolled in. The important bills which failed to become laws at the last session wtre intro duced. Mr. Beck brought forward his bills for the removal ot disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment, for free ships, for tho payment of customs duties in legal-tender notes, and for the retirement of the trade dol lar. Mr. Saunders produced his bill for the establishment of the Territory of Pembina, and Mr. Coke renewed the bill for the alot ment of lands in eoveralty to Indians, which was the subject of a tedious debate last session. Mr. Morrill and Mr. Garland introduced bills for the appointment of a tariff commission, and Mr. Halo revived Mr. Blaine's resolution for the appointment of seven Senators to take into consideration methods of voting and counting the votes cast for President and Vice President. Mr. Frye put In two bills rolating to tho Qoneva award. Mr. Logan renewed his bill for placing General Grant on the retired list of the army, and Mr. Test introduced a bill for the improvement of the Mississippi river. Mr. Ferry introduced a resolution intended to secure protection for innocent users of patented articles against oppressive suits for infringe ment, and this revived a subject which has been debated at length. Mr. Morrell intro duced a bill for the establishment of a national educational fund. Two bills relating to the TJto Indians were presonted, and Messrs. Grover and Miller presented bills on the subject of Chinese emgration. Mr. Sherman intro duced a bill providing for the issuing of 1300, 000,000 worth of three per cent, bonds. Among tho new bills was one from Mr. Windom for the incorporation of the Garfield Memorial hos pital, one from Mr. Lapham for the punish ment of attempts to take the life of the Presi dent of the United States. Many old private claims were brought to life and re ferred. Mr. Sherman introduced a resolution appointing a committee to report " by what token of respect and affection it may bo proper for the Congress of the United States to express the deep sensibility of the nation on the event of the decease of the lato President." At 1:10 p. H. a recess was taken to await the arrival of communications from the President. At 8:35 p. M. the session was resumed. No Ex ecutive communication had been received. Mr. Edmunds offored a resolution continuing the committees as they existed at the close of the last session. To this Mr. Pngh offered an amendment authorizing President Davis to do. cide whether the committees eliall bo equally or otherwise divided betweon the two political parties. Tho resolution wont over. A largo number' of petitions and bills that were introduced were tabled to await the formation of committers. ...Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, introduced a resolution declar ing that, in tho opinion of tho Hcnato, it is in expedient to reduce ths revenue of the govern ment by abolishing all existing Internal revenue taxes, except those imposed upon highuines and distilled spirits. Tabled informally Mr. Beck submitted a resolution that the'eom mittec on the Judiciary bo instructed to exam ine into the provisions of tho Constitution concerning the removal, resignation, iu abilitv or death of tho President and Vicc Proaideut, and the laws passed by Congress to carry theia into effect, and inquire whether ilin provisions of said laws are comtitulionil, proper and adequate in alt respects to thuir purpose and end, or whether any further legis lation is necesnary or proper, and to report thereon by bill or otherwise.... After the leading of the President's message, 011 motion of Mr. Sherman, his resolution to appoint six Senators, ia conjunction with a lilt0! committee to be appointed by the Houso, 'o provido a means of expressing the deep serial bility of the nation upon the decease of the late Pietideiit (linlild, and referring to them that part of the President's message relating th, r to, was taken up and named. . ..On motion of Mr. Edmunds, the standing committees of the Senate were continued, the vote en the rejoln tion being-yeas, 32, nays, 30. A party vole, except that President Davis voted with t'10 majority. M'tws. Hheimni. Peiidle'on, Dawes, i.ap 1011, llayaid an I Morgan were appointed liy li cliuir 011 the joint committee for tho pie- paratinn of a memorial upon the death of the late President Uailicld.... Among the bills introduced was one making the trade dollar a legal tender. U 011 sr. The oiuaniziitiou of tho J'ortv-eoveuth Con- gicss was sttcuded by tho is.ial scenes of bus tle and oxciteinent attho capitol. At 12 o'clock noon Mr. Adaint, clerk ot tho last House of Itourcsentatives. ranned ution his doBk. and began the work of organizing that branch of the Forty-seventh Congress by calling the toll. This was done in the presence of an audieuce wnicn packed every ouo 01 tne galleries ami tlio corridors. After roll-call came the nomi nations for speaker. Tho Republicans nomi nated J. W. Keifer, of Ohio; the Democratic candidate was Samnol J. Randall, and the Greenbackers nominated Nicholas Ford. The ballot was as follows: Whole number of votes cast, 285; necessary to a choice, H3, of which Mr. Keifer received 14J, Air. Haudall, 1TJ, and Mr. Ford 8. The two Readjuster members from Virginia, Messrs. Fulkerson and Paul, voted for General Keifer, and with the Republicans on all other questions relating tothe organization. Those voting for Ford were Brumra. Burroughs, of Missouri; Hazoltine, Jones, of Texas; Ladd, Mosegrove, Murch and Bice, ot Missouri. Mr. neuer was escorted to tne onair dv aiessrs. Hiscock and Randall, and the oath of office was administered by Mr. Kelly, of Pennsylvania, the senior Representative on the floor. After Mr. Keifcr had read an address of thanks the swearing in of new members began. The call ing ot the name of General Wheeler, of Ala- Lama, was tne signal lor an objection to ma taking tne oatn irom Mr. Jones, or Texas. General Wheeler's case was passed tem porarily, and when all the names had been called it was found that objections had also boon offered to trie swearing in or Messrs. Cntte. of Iowa: Kincr. of Louisiana: Chalmers. of Mississippi; Van Voorhis, of New York; Dib ble, of South Carolina, and Moore, ot Tennessee. After some discussion the objections to all the above-named were with' drawn and they were sworn in. The House then proceeded to further organization and elected the following officers, all Republicans t Clerk, Edward Mcpherson, of Pennsylvania; sergcant-at-anns, G. W. Hooker, of Vermont ; doorkeeper, W. P. Brownlow, of Tennessee; postmaster, Henry Sherwood, of Michigan; chaplain. F. D. Powers, of Virginia. Messrs. mscock, urtn and tteagan were appointed a committee to wait upon the President and in form him that Congress was in session, and was ready to receive communication from him. All the Territorial delegates, except the one from Utah, wore sworn in.... After consider able discussion, participated in chiefly by the Speaker, Mr. Randall and Mr. Cox, Mr. Haskell was rccosntzod, and onerea me louowmg; Kmrlr.nl. ThiLt Allan G. C&mnbell. delegate- elect from Utah Territory, is entitled to be sworn in as delegate to this House on a prima facie case. Objections being made to this resolution, and a discussion arwing, the swear ing in of the delegato from Utah wa postponed until the next day, and the members proceeded to draw tor seats. The following committee, to take appropriate action upon the death of President Garfield. was appointed : Messrs. MoKinlev. Pacheco. Belford, Waite, Forney, Dunn, Martin, David son, ot t iorida, Stephens, Cannon, Ortn, Has son, Carlisle, Gibson. Dingley. McLans. Harris. of Massachusetts, Eorr, Dunnel, Hooker, Ford, Valentine, Casaidy, Hall, Hill, of New Jersey, Cox, of New York, Vance. George, O Neifj, Chase, Aiken, Fettibone, Mills, Joyce, Tucker, Wilson.Williams, of Wisconsin, and Anderson. Rosa Bonhenr la failing in health. She has painted ainoe nineteen and ia now fifty-eight years old. No other woman artist ever sold her works for so high a price as she has received. The fop is only a man who thinks 'swell "of himself. Hundreds of Live Lost in a Vienna Theater. The destrnotinnbv flro of the Rinsr theater In Vienna, ono of the leading places of amuse ment in the Austrian capit al, is one of the most heartrending calamities of modern times. The dispatches say: Researches show that the upper nllery must have fallen into the pit, where Iho only remains found are small fragments of bone. Beyond a doubt 900 gallery tickets had been issued. One hundred holders of these re known to have jumped from windows. Competent judges fear that tho loss of life will be found to be fully 700. Under the circum stances, appalling as is the loss of lifo, it is al most to bo wondered at that so many persons escaped. It is estimated that about 2,000 men, women and children wero in tho honse when tho flro broko out, and placing the lost of life at 700, which It is to be hoped is an extravagant esti mate, about 1,300 either managed to make thoir escape, in spite of the panic or tho mis erable ariangcments of the house, and were rescued from the flames by the gallant firemen and soldiers. Of these, about 150 are now lying in the various hospitals of the city, wonndod aad suffering intensely. Some of them are mangled so severely that they have lost all semblance ot hninanity. Many will probably uie: ot tiers will recover, Dm tney win ue maimca and disfitnired for lifo. The fire was started at about 0:43, wbilo the curtain was still down. The house, fortunately, was not filled, many of the holders of boxes and the more desirable seats not having arrived. The audience continued to buzz and seat lteeir, and tne loboy was thronged with ladies and gentlemen indulging iu a final chat before hiking their placos in the boxes, when, suddenly, tho flames attacked the drop curtain, and hurst forth in one largo sheet which swept away tho canvas in an instant. The scene which followed can never be adequately described. A loud shriek of "Firo" went up from 2,000 terrified men and women, and an imme diate movement toward the narrow doors was bet;un from all dtiarters of the bouse. Women Bcrenmed and fainted, men yellod and pushed over tho prostrate forms of tho weaker. trampling tli. iu without mercy in their straggle to gam the p.ii-nKewava. In tho midst of the eoiifitii.iii tho noise of a torriflo explosion was addu I to the shrieks of tho persons impris oned in the building, which had now become a furnace, and the lights in trie nouae were in stantly extinguished. The gas-tank had burst, and the narrow, complicated passages leading from the galleries wero in total dark-, - Tho doorwavs became lammed wi'a the ftfihting throng, and soon it was impossi ble to go forward or retreat. As the gas-tank exploded, the flames pierced the roof of the tneater, and tne neuottcn utng was amaze with light. The interior of the building was now so hot that men and women dropped in their tracks, and lay where thoy fell until suffocation ended their misery. Despair and frenzv seem to have taken possession of the 00- lpnuts of the cutleries. Cut off from all ro- icat by wav of the narrow etaircaso, which was logged bv a mans of humanitv. and having no windows from which to throw themselves, many of tho maddened men and women cast Ihcmsclfos headlong from the fourth gallery to the pit below, where they wero either in atantly killed by tho fall or perished by suffo cation, utners gave themselves up witnont a struggle and calmly awaited certain death in the furnace, which was now at white heat. Tho alarm of tho fire spread rapidly throughout tho city, and in a very short timo the neighborhood 'of the theater was packed with a crowd of eager men, all anxious to ex lend help to the dying priHoners, but wanting the mean . A ligbt snow was falling, and this t.lded to tho feat till character of the scene. Within ten minutes alter the fire had gained ixse8-ion of tne auditorium tho Tumor e lire Lutidu was on tho ground, and the work of piideavoi ing to rescue tbo sufferers began. Iho walls near tne chokeu-up entrances were knocked away, and groat numbers of people were thus set free. The flames from the burn- ng building, however, noon became bo fierce hat the firemen wero obliged to give up this Bcliciiic of deliveranee. Then thev held large ilaiiketx outstretched, and into these the im t iMitii'd nieu jumped from tho windows of the Hint floor above the pit. In this way fifty per cons were rescued without receiving a scratch. I lien the hen', became so intense that it was IiiinnMitiblo to rtm 1 near the burning theater, n 1 the I rave firemen were obliged to givo np the wuik of rescue. All who remained within the w lis ot the theater at this timo were loon e.l, on 1 the shrieks of the victims as they li.wly io,i-t. d to death wero agonizing to the great muliituito who watched tho progress of the tire, liy It o clock, 111 a little more than four bonis, the flames had done their work, and inching remained of the Ring theater but the four walls and the slatutos of the throe muses ami the gildc -1 niigel with his trumpet, which ornamented itu beautiful front. It was many hours more before it was possible to explore tho ruins in search of the bodies. Additional details from Vienna Bay that 58 bodies had been recovered and that the num- ber of missing is 017. On the arrival of the tire brigade after the fire broke out it ill found Impossible to penetrate beyond the first tier of the theater, the rush of suffocating, smoke and air extinguishing tho lamna ana torches. The firemen retired under ' Jio mcntary impression, because their shouts were not answered, that there were no more people in tho theater. Those who escaped on tho first alarm, however, soon undeceived them. An other effort was then made to penotrate the parte of the theater which were not actually blazing. In the narrow passage between tho second and third galleries a mass of corpses was discovered, some so closely interlocked that it was hardly posfiblo to part them. The first man discov ered was got out alive, but all the rest were dead. These were persons who had lost their way in consequence of the turning off of the gas, which, it is now ascertained, was done by some irresponsible person with a view to pre vent an explosion. Some men were found with their hands grasping each other's throats. Sub tenuent investigations showed that in some cases persons finding escape hopeless had com mitted suicide. Jt is stated by survivors uiat women were seen to throw thoir children from the galleries into the oit. At the time of the outbreak of the flames, tho gallery especially allotted to ladies was lull, sunscnptions were immediately owned for the relief of the fami lies of the dead, the emperor beading the list W1IU Z'J.IAAJ uuriuB. The AUorney-Ueneral's Office, The annual report of the attorney-general recommends an increase in the nutnbor of jus tices of the supreme court. There were pend ing July 1,1881, 6,211 criminal prosecutions, viz., 3,104 for violations of the internal revenue laws, 809 for violations of customs laws, 276 for violations of postoflioe laws, 855 for prose cutions under the election laws, 158 for violations of the civil rights acta, 63 under naturalization laws, 83 under intercourse laws, 88 under pen sion laws, 77 for embezzlement and 1,719 mis cellaneous prosecutions. The aggregate amount of Judgments rendered in favor of the United States in civil suite during the last year was $1,233,24173, and the amount actually collected last year on these judgments was $135,362.31, while 170,010.12 waa obtained dur ing the year on judgments rendered in former years for the United States; $139,908.96 was otherwise realized in civil suits. The aggre gate amount of fines, forfeitures and penalties imposed during the year in criminal prosecu tions waa $314,735.37, and the amount of these fines, forfeitures and penalties collected during the year was $62,559.38, while $11,358.85 was realized on fines, forfeitures and penalties im posed in former years. For expenses incurred in 1878 and prior years there were paid during the last fiscal year $ll,auD.w) out 01 tne appropriation made In the several Judicial districts. For expense incurred in 1878 proper there were paid during ' the fiscal year $29,429.13 : for expenses incurred In 1879, $305,603.99; for expenses in 1880, $610,721.10. Of the expenses inourred during the fiscal year ending June 80, 1881, $2,718, 180.47 were paid to United Btates marshals, attorneys, elerka, jurors, witnesses, eto. The appropriation for foes of marshals for 1881 was $660,000. Of this sum there were disbursed $610,731.21, being the amount advanced to them, or paid on adjusted accounts, prior to July 1, 1881, for their fees and expenses. Last words of the gosling: "It's down with me," WU and WUdom, all X
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