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McKINNEY, COLLIN COI
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POETRY.
THE UNATTAINABLE.
nv nuo aaxwaian*.
It chanced that;aa I wandered on my way,
With thoughts tbftt tended onto fknolet qnalnt,
A contemplativa us had paused to think.
He stood reflective (Mini tar «way.
As who should say:
This slumbrous summer noon Is nowise flt
Ana gtttiir to
Such peaoe of mind as lazy asssa know.
Quite lostJneonton^MUondeep was he,
Onei ear didsomewhatdrop. aa with the weight
Of portly fly, which gravely hung thereby.
In seeming comfort ana oontentmant great |
Was otherwhere tbsnsmt afly should be.
"O asa," I Mid, "whatperftot net is thine,
As debits on the pace by 1
He offeredno reply,
But with his hind-loot oaEnly brushed that fly.
it hours are few
"Osas," I said, "the
Thy Journey I
Dost thou not dread what yet may come to pass?
. Uethinks perchance thine utter nonohaiance
Hay be because, in truth, thou art an ass,"
Thus I, in brlefi
He naught, but used his tongue forhandkerohlef
"O ass," Isald, "oanst thou not teaoh to me
' Serenity,
And fldl enjoyment of the passing hour?
Without or vain regret, or ceaseless, weary
lfQ(,
Toward what future ills may darkly lower?''
He turned his head,
Full-solemn wink-ed he, but no word said.
Nor have I ever learned the potent plan,
From sea or man,
Of how to rest content with present good:
Without forebodings vain, or retrospective
pain,
To mar the most complacent ptaceiUlmood:
Nor Is It true,
That any folk but asses reach thereto.
—Graphic.
Tom's
goodly num
and we
MISCELLANY.
NELLY'S WEDDING.
BY Wit. H. MAHER.
I declare, I could no more realize that
our Nelly was about to be married, than I
could account for the white hairs that Kit-
ty points out to me in my hair and whiskers.
I do not know where the years have gone.
Kitty and I very often speak of these years,
but not as if they had passed away from
us; they are more like old (Mends who are
Just as dear as when we first knew them;
ust as securely nestled among the good
things In our hearts.
Yes, God has been very good to us. This
thought is never out of our mind. He has
guided our lives with so loving a hand
that the years have passed away and left
no sign.
Not that they were all sunshine or
laughter. Nay, there were many days ol
weeping, and there Is a tremor, even now,
in Kitty's voice, whenever she speaks of
two little hearts that were taken to heaven
before they had reached their tenth year.
^TgÜfiS? God WW. tru-
ly and heartily, for the sadness that came
to us, just as truly and heartily as I thank
Him for all our happiness.
Death has no terrors for us when It will
but take us from our children on earth to
our children in heaven, and if we had not
known what it was to suffer we could not
have understood how to sympathize with
others who mourned.
And yet, as I said before, I could not re-
alize that all these years had passed over
me, and that our Nelly, our darling, was
old enough to leave us.
To be sure I saw that Tom Baron was a
very constant visitor at our house, but he
played and sang a great deal more with
Grace than he did with her older sister,
Nelly, and he always had some question to
ask me, and was sure to find occasion to
have a chat with Kitty; so tliat I had no
reason to think the boy bad any idea ol
marrying, and especlauy of marrying our
Nelly.
Kftty saw it all and supposed that 1 did;
but then Kitty is much quicker to see to
the bottom of things than 1 am.
I was quite taken aback when Tom told
me he wanted to marry Nelly.
"Mirry Nelly t" said I, "why, bless us,
Tom, you are only a couple or children!"
Tom laughed, as he answered, "I am
twenty-four, and Nelly is twenty."
" I Know/' said I; " but then what is
twenty f why the girl is but a child yet."
"We are old enough to love each other,"
said he, and with a quick dignity that made
me respect the boy more.
"You havo spoken to Nelly then?" I
asked.
" Yes, sir, I have told Nelly that Move
her."
"And what did she say?"
" She consented to become my wile it
you and her mother consented."
" But she didn't say that she loved you I
Come now, she didn't say that she loved
you. did she?"
" There was no need of saying it. I saw
it In her fhoe."
Just then Kitty came in the room, and I
must say I felt relieved to see her.
" What do you suppose T6m has been
telling me?" I asked her.
" From the puzzled look in your foce I
should Imagine it was something strange."
" Why," said I, dashing into the sub-
ject, "the boy wants to marry Nelly 1"
She didn't look at all surprisccf, as 1
Imagined she would.
"well," said she, in her tenderest way,
" we haven't any fliult to find with Tom,
have we?"
"Fault!" said I, mora puzzled than ever
at the cool way she took It. "But they are
a couple of children yet I"
" Just two such children as you and I
were, Dick. We can certainly trust our
Nelly with Tom, fiither, and lamgi«Hand
thankful that she has won so go oda man's
love." She stooped over as she said the
words and kissed Tom, and I know she
had taken him into her heart of hearts
where she held me and the children.
Of course there was no use of my saying
anything more except to give him frtherly
counsel, and then to call Nelly In and kiss
them both.
As she came Into the room I acknowl-
edged to myself that she was a woman,
ana I had no fears but that she would be a
1 wife; for a better or more loving
jhter never lived.
It seemed to me Tom was very impatient
to be married, but whenever I said this to
Kitty, she laughed and recalled some ol
the speeches I had made In our young days.
Nelly was not so constantly sewing but
that she and I had long walks and talks
together, and the dear child was so like
her mother, I could fancy I was young
and chatting again with Kitty. And Tom
and I were often together too. I found
him as full of hope and ambition as he
could well be, but with a thoroughly good
heart, and a destra to be happy ana com-
fortable rather than rich and stvlish.
At last the day came when we wero to
give our Nelly into the hands of another.
It was a lovely day In June, and I hope It
was a foreshadowing mt what their lives
should be.
It seemed to me too solemn an occasion
for theatrical show or flourish. They
CBttFOha Ol
is boondby God's ordi-
nance; vows that reach era beyond the
grave, should only be given under the roof
of God's house.
There were no bridesmaids or grooms-
men. Nelly, dressed In a simple white
dress and with a few orange flowers in her
hair, walked up the aisle on Tom's arm,
and there, In the solemn quietness of the
church, with the voice or God's senpnt
sounding In their hearts, they were made
one.
I knew I had not lost my daughter,
knew that her love was mine that day, to-
morrow, forever: just as it was when she
sat on my knee; but still, perhaps I am
growing childish, I could not keep back
the tears.
"Notorylng, Dick!" said Kitty; and
her own volee was not too steady.
"Yes," said L "but I don't know
. I am certain we have not lost our
"That we haven't," saidKitty; "die will
Uwaysbe our ohild."
our fitmily made's
ier around the table,
over our dinner as
_ But the hour for
parting came; Tom and Nelly were oblig-
ed to hurry to catch the train that was to
carry them to a quiet place by the sea-side,
where they were to spend—not all, please
God—but the first two weeks of the hon-
eymoon.
Such pleasant letters as came to us from
them both in those days I Nearly every
day Grace brought me one and called all
the family around that they might listen
to what Nelly said.
When they came home they found Tom's
fitther and myself had not been idle. We
had bought them a handsome, cosy little
cottager and furnished ei
could go into It at once.
Imetthi
arranged beforehand,
own house.
We must get out here a moment," I
said, and they both stepped out of the car-
at once, though with somewhat won-
" faces.
we go In?" Tom asked.
"Yes, for a moment," and we walked to
the door. Kitty and our children and
Tom's people were all standing in the hall
to receive them, and such shouting and
kissing and explaining I never heard be-
fore.
I took Tom and Nelly one side when
ley had greeted every one; my heart was
too fiill for & speech before them all.
"This is your house, children," I said,
"and it is for you to make it a home. I
pray God that you may find in it all the
peace and happiness you desire, and that
your children may be as great a joy to you
as you have been to us."
Kitty placed Nelly at the head of the ta-
ble. "It is your table and your house,"
saidKitty, ''and your place is here al-
ways ;" and we sat down to the first meal
in our children's house.
That is the house on your left as you go
down the road. There is Nelly now ph
ing with a little boy in the yard. That
roung Dick, and he and I are capital
Hends and companions. And we nave
not lost our daughter; no, she is our Nel-
f as she always was, and I think
bo our
when we are gal
of God.—Hcmrtk and Home.
Item at the depot and, as we had
3, drove them to their
w
NEWS SUMMARY.
rnssiii a* NuncAL
The Tennessee State Orange or Patrons of
Husbandry mst at Qallatln oa the 18th. About
fore hundred granges were represented.
The Kansas State Orange of Patrons of
Husbandry, in session at Topeka on the 18th,
adopted a resolution requesting the State Leg-
islature to pass a prohibitory liquor law, and
declaring that no person who retells liquor
shall be admitted to the order. Hon. M. E.
Hudson, of Bourbon county, was elected
Master of the State Orange.
A meeting was held at Topeka, Kansas, on
the~90th, under the auspices of the State*
Farmers' Co-operative Society, for the pur-
pose of taking steps toward the formation of
a new party. Among those participating were
Hons. John Boberson, Isaac Sharp Senator
Branson and Col. York. A committee re-
ported resolutions, declaration of principles,
etc., the substence of which was thedenua-
a tariff for revenue and fovoring a new party.
On the executive committed one from each
judicial district was appointed to call a State
Convention to perfect the organisation of the
new party.
The Louisiana Senate has passed a joint res-
olution limiting the city debt and prohibiting
the issuanoe of warrants or certificates, except
against cash in treasury; also, the b^ll, drawn
up under the auspices of the Chamber of Com-
merce and urged by Governor Kellogg, re-
ducing city expenses to half a million a year.
The Kansas Senate has passed a joint reso-
lution to submit the question of female suf-
frage to a vote of the people of the State.
A Washington dispatch of the 91st says
there are rumors in that city that Mr. Sehenck
will return from the London mission at his
own request, and will be succeeded by Mr.
Fish, Secretary of State. Mr. Bancroft is
also said to have expressed a desire to retire
from Berlin, and that the Bev. Mr. Thompson,
now in that city, is urged upon the Presi-
dent for his successor as minister to Berlin.
The death is announced ofex-8fnator Wig-
foil of Texas.
The Missouri State Grange adjourned on
the 24th, leaving the time and place of the
next meeting to be designated by the Execu-
tive Committee.
Chin Larpln, Chinese Commissioner of
Education, was recently Introduced by Secre-
tary Fish to the President and Cabinet. Chin
Larpin expressed the hope that the inter-
course between the United States and China
would grow more general, and existing
friendly feeling never be Interrupted.
The Iowa Anti-Monopoly Convention met
at Des Moines on the 36th, for the purpose of
perfecting a State organisation. Sixty-four
counties were represented by four hundred
aud sixty-four delegates. A platform was
adopted—declaring that a tariff on Impor-
tations Is justifiable for revenue purposes
only, and demanding free iron, steel, salt, and
lumber and woolen fabrics; that all corpora-
tions should be subject to legislative control ;
opposing all grants of lands to railroads or oth-
iwns, and I thlnfc er corporations; that the "pretended repeal
around tvio throne wnuitiMfiñKDtWmImWwBMunwrtnc
rs
of
stfss in
the
the
«eld of ice
and several
weUjmp-
provlsións.
several mliee
wind shift-
toe toward
report from
Plucky Pottle.
Miss Frank Pottle Is a school teachcr In
Fryeburg, Me. Her avoirdupois is ninety
pounds. She is small, but desperate-
weak, but determined. In the pursuit of
her honorable but trying calling, she had
cause to animadvert in severe terms upon
the conduct of one her scholars, who, not
being fülly impressed with a sense of re-
iect due her position, replied in terms
latwereat once objurgatory, discourte-
ous and insulting. Whereupon, the lean
but undaunted little teacher "wentfor
him," and soon placed him hort du combat.
The result was, that the pugnacious Pottle
was brought up before a Justice of the
Peace for whipping a scholar. The Jus-
tice looked first at the prisoner and then at
the complainant, who happened to be a
strapping, lubberly boy, sixteen years of
age, and almost double her size. He was
impressed with the fragile build of the Pot-
tle, the pugilistic, who se delicate hands,
slim waist, and meagre muscles did not ap-
pear to be a match lor the hulking cub
ir. The Justice, after
a moment's reflection, quoted scripture to
the following effect: " When the strong
oppresseth the weak, then do the people
§nash their teeth and cry aloud against the
espoller; but when the weak turneth from
her path, taketh the strong by the scurf ol
the neck and waistband or the pantaloons,
and hurleth him to the earth, then do the
people marvel, and they are amazed
much." He then inquired Into the merits
of the case, and finding that the punish
ment had been well deserved, he expressed
admlratiOn for the plucky Pottle, and (fis-
her from custody. This is as it
should be. Whenever weak and down-
trodden woman proves that she Is neither
weak nor down-trodden, she deserves and
should receive every encouragement. As
for the Judge, he is the very prince of
umpires.
Pussies.
There are two things that puzzle me.
One Is the amount of misplaced virtue In
the world: that Is to say, tho Immense
quantity or downright goodness scattered
around among the commonest sort, of
people; among people about whom there
are no social safeguards whatever, and
who would be quite up to the moral stand-
ard of their neighbors they gave a loose
rein to all manner of passion. I tell you,
when a man has been surrounded with
1 mre influences—I do not mean with aus-
erity or fimatidsm, from which he would
be likely to suffer reaction—when a
who has been breathing no atmospl
but that of moderation and decorum looks
baek upon Us own life, and trembles at his
hundred hair-breadth 'scapes from utter
ruin, of one kind or another, he cannot
rpussle is how the ordinary
tie to bear up against the enor-
utterlyH
saints out of the calendar who declared I
himself competent to commit any crime
under the sun of which he had ever heard,
and what it to Oat keeps the average sin-
ThewirfuriiMM
human Is able tol
moua weight of suffering imposed upon
trim—not simply the misery of which the
papers tell under startling head-lines, or
In little paragraphs that travel the rounds
of the press, and startle you now and then
with their grim and gruesome humor-
not simply the distress which Is the sub-
ject of charity reports, and governmental
statistics—not simply the obvious exam-
ples of quiet endurance, the heroic men
and women whose lives are one long self-
sacrifice—not simply these, but the abso-
lute discomfort and pain, physical, moral,
an «esthetic, that Is borne by almost every
human being in the world, with such no-
bility of endurance that the croaker and
complalner Is so much the exception that
he Is pointed at with scorn, ana shunnedl
by his fellows as an anomaly and a nula-
anee.—SeriWs for March.
ices performed by many members of Con-
gress, and the failure to apply It to, A Presi-
dent,is a gross fraud upon the pSbiic, and
nothing short of an unqualified repeal will
satisfy the just demands of the people."
Tho Boston Orange has declared them-
selves independent of the National Grange,
and invite other organizations to unite with
them.
Ex-President Baez has been Interviewed in
Washington, and denies the reports that he
and his family have been banished from San
Domingo. On the contrary, he says that the
Acting President, Gonzales, Is his friend, and
that there is a perfect understanding between
them. He flirther states that all concessions
are respected,and that the right of the Samana
Bay Company, as well as those of other for-
eigners, are quite secure.
COKHBBCB AID IIDCRTIT.
Gold closed in New Tork, on the 36th, at
113 8-4.
The National Crop Reporter of the 31st
published estimates in relation to the percent-
age of hay and Irish potato crops of 1878 in
producers' bands on February 1, In the States
of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Ohio
and Wisconsin. The following Is an extract
of the main features presented: The States
named produced last year over 0,000,000 tons
of hay, of which there was on hand, February
1, a little over 48 per cent., or about 4/100,000
tons. Illinois retains the lightest percentage
—a trifle less than 46, and Wisconsin the
heaviest—nearly 63 per cent. Of Irish
potatoes, the States sbove mentioned
produced in 1878 some 38,600,000 bush-
els. The amount on hand now approxi-
mates 10,000,000 bushels, or about 41 per
cent. The relative proportion on hand in the
several States varies considerably, running as
low ss 38 per cent, in Minnesota, and reach-
ing 661-3 per cent, in Kansas. The average
prices of wheat and potatoes in some of the
States, relatively considered, are somewhst
anomalous. In Illinois potatoes average Ave
cents per bushel higher than wheat, in Iowa
seven- cents higher, and In Kansas ten cents
higher. Prospects for fruit in Southern Illi-
nois and Southwest Missouri are flattering.
Twelve mills and about two thousand ope-
ratives in Kensington, Philadelphia, are
idle, owing to the strike for an advance of fif-
teen percent, on the present rate of wsges.
Fallowing is the comparative cotton state-
ment for the week ending Feb. 31:
from all ports M,M
Total exporta from Sept. 1
to date from all porta.... l.SlS.SM
Stock now on hand at all
Ü. • ports a ,
The freight brakemen on the Erie Railway
struck for back pay due on the 33d. The
movement of trains over the rosd wis almost
entirely suspended.
The Secretary of War asks appropriations
for Improvement of the mouth of the Missis-
sippi for the next flscal year, and for Improve-
ment of the banks of the Rio Grande at Fort
Brown, 910,000.
onus AIBCASVA1TIIS.
Mrs. Elisabeth Brownlee, wife of A. W.
Brownlee, a wealthy former living near Dav-
enport, Iowa,wss brutally murdered by some
man unknown, In her house, on the.evening
of the 18th. She was shot twice with a
double-barreled shotgun, ancf died Instantly.
Her youngest child, four years old, was also
fatally shot. No clue to the murderers, and
their objects are unknown, although It Is
thought they were intent on robbery.
A locomotive ran off an embankment sev-
enty-flve feet high on the Jefferson Branch of
the Erie Ball way, on the 23d, Instantly kill-
ing Conductor John R. Harding, Engineer
Cramer, Fireman Daniel Cramer, and Brake-
man Thomas Baiter.
1871.
108,717
3,890,03
ss,
1,097,818
867,463
of (116 ITImhimm sir StAflbsd Nofthooto'
first Lord of Admiralty, Geoige Ward Hunt;
flnrofiFjr of state (br Hobm DtpAftHMrtí
Bichaid Ash to* Cross; Secretary of Stats for
Foreign Department, Earl Derby; Secretary
of State for Colonial Department, Earl of
Carnarvon; Secretary of State for War, On-
thomo Hardy; Secretary of State for India,
MSrquis of Salisbury; lord High Chancellor,
Lord Calms; lord of Privy Seal, Bart of
Malmesbury; Lord President of Council,
Duke of Blehmon&t Lord Manners is up-
potato pftitmotfti OHjinl
A Paris telegram of the aid says that ths
Alsatian deputies have Withdrawn from the
Beiehstag and returned to fitraahurg.
By arrival at New York m the Slat, ol a
steamship from Bio do Janeiro, the news is
reoeived that Asiatic cholera is rsging at Bue-
nos Aytes with intensity, claiming from
thirty to forty victims per day. The total
Qf deaths imoumto tlNM Our to
hundred and seven.
A dispatch from Bay
that at about nine
that day a large
extent, broke off from the
Bay at the point east of "
mouth of the river,
east shore. Upon
were not lass than
teams and sleighs. The
piled with shanttes,
When last asen they hed
northeast, and a strong
Ing to the westward, ~
the east shore of the bay,
fl uti ■ bi rtin
BvDOJfRulg inf
had suds a landing there,
from different points say
Two man are
drowned. The lee Is solid,
twelve to twenty lnohss In thickness, sad not
easily broken up.
^Wilmington (B. C.) iHroafrli of tie Md
t Steve Lowery, the Jpp surfng of
jgmpd "
Instantly uned W l
of Bobeson county, by three oltlaens. He wss
tuning his banjo preparatory to playing for
some wagoners, when three shots were 11 red
at him, taking effect in his head, killing him
instantly.
■ISCILLAnOCS.
A special from Xenla, Ohio, 19th, says:
" Xenla Is In a blaae of excitement. The
most notorious oT saloon-keepers, Phillips,
who kept a place known as 'The Shades
of Death,' made an unconditional surrender
at 6 o'clock this afternoon. The women roll-
ed out his barrels of whisky and wine and
poured the contents into the gutter. Bottles
were thrown into the street. Thebeilsofthe
city rang out the news, end soon great
crowds rushed to the spot 'Praise God
from whom all blessings flow' was sung
till it could be heard a mile. The word was
sent to the State Grangers' Convent on
then insession in the City Hall, and eight
hundred formers welcomed the news with
cheer alter cheer. The men on the spot
unanimously passed a resolution to sustain
Phillips in any honorable business in which
he might engage. Excitement Is greater than
at any time since Sumter was fired on. Sever-
al hundred women, divided Into separate
bands, are now on the streets every day, and
say they will persevere until the last dram-
shop Is closed. ¿aten—Three more saloons
have just surrendered. A great praise-meet-
ing is being held to-night."
The Georgia Senate has voted—fourteen to
twelve—to abolish the death penalty in that
State.
An Omaha dispatch of tin 33d says that no
further trouble from the Indans on the fron-
tier is apprehended, the Indians who commit-
ted the recent depredations laving gone north
to the Tongue Blver.
The Iowa Senate has pasad a bill donating
960,000 for the relief of desftute homestead-
ers, to be distributed by thré commissioners,
who give bonds in #40,000 tach.
The Ohio House, op. jhf "MU, reftiaed to ^kk the English lost some 800 men and two
tfc the ww aims, besides many wounded. There were
as to the resMt of the battls,
the EnglishMbrees wore In a
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Now links I Society.
Mre. Stockton i
Stockton, a
reps :
held at Cetnmbus, Ohio, m ths
sentativea from various pMena of the
being prsesnt. Dto Lswt pSeslilad, and Tan
Pelt, the converted salo a-keepervmade an
address. Resolutions ere passed ex-
pressive of an assurant that the liquor
traffic can be removed from the State
and 'Nation; relying Ion Divine assistance
through falthfUl and prsistent praying;
and recommending to all« igagedin the work
to " avoid all envy, hatre I, malice, and all
uncharitableness and bifterness of speech
and denunciation of mit engaged in the
liquor traffic, but to cultivate their acquaint-
ance and kindly feelings, and by all honorable
and practicable means to assist them in
changing from a business injurious to society,
to some other,! remunerative to themselves
and beneficial to the community." The asso-
ciation adopted the name of the Woman's
Temperance Association of Ohio.
In New Tork City the leaders of the tem-
perance movement discourage all praying
in or in front of liquor saloons, which they
fear would lead to riotous demonstrations,
but lnstesd,wlll quietly circulate a pledge
against the use, sale or manufeeture of any
Intoxicating drink, taking this especially to
saloon-keepers and men who lease their
buildings for the sale of liquors.
At Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, on the
night of the 33d, the mercury stood 31 deg.
below sero, being the coldest of tho season.
It wss feared that the troops moving north
from that point would suffer severely.
A dispatch from Portland, Oregon, says
that the horse and cattle disease has broken
out in that State and is spreading extensively.
It is quite fetal.
The women's temperance movement has
been inaugurated in Washington, D. C., Day-
ton, O., Rock Island, III., Manhattan, Ks.,
Jefferson, Ind., Memphis, Tenn., and other
places.
The Philadelphia Medical Time states
that the autopsy of the Siamese Twins dis-
closed the foot that the livers, which were
supposed to be joined only by blood vessels,
were really one body of parenchymatous tis-
sue, being continuous between thom,«o that
when they were removed from the bodies and
placed on a table they formed one mass. The
so-called tract of portal continuity is there-
fore liver tissue. It will be remembered that
Chang was said to be possessed of one more
pouch thsn Eng. When the liver wss re-
moved, however, sn upper hepsilo pouch
was found also proceeding from Eng, so that
the band contained four pouches of peritone-
um besides liver tissue. These disclosures
show that any attempt during life to sepsrate
the twins would in all probability have
proved fetal.
The President has sddressed a messsge to
Congress, favoring Congressional legislation
in aid of the Centennial Exposition.
Capt. Morton, of the steamship More Css-
tie, from Havsna, reports thst In sn engage-
ment about February 1, a column of Spanish
troops, 1,300 strong, were utterly defeated by
the insurgente, incurring a loss in killed and
wounded and prisons of M0 men. Intelli-
gence that Capt. Morton regarded ea trust-
worthy represented the Spaniards wonted in
every engagement.
Three railway accidents were reported In
Englsnd on the 30th. The most serious one
happened to the Scotch mail train, which ran
Into a baggage train near Preston. Fifteen
persons were Injured, two of whom died.
The care were demolished.
A Paris telegram says that tin Duke De
Brogile, Minister of tho Interior, Ws sent a
circular to the prefects directing them to keep
watch upon citlxens who leave for Chiseihurat
on the occasion of the Prince Imperial be-
°°F'oHowÍ4jíb¡ an official list of the members
or the new English Csbinet i First Lord of
the Treasury, BeqiemlaDisraeUi Chancellor
of the Republic had also fled tho city for a
healthier residence on the island of Oan |
pachay. This act of President Bsrmlsnto
was unfavorably commented on by the press,
A Madrid dispatch or the 39d says: Severe
fighting has been going on In Biscay for' sev-
eral days. General Dorenaaay, with 36,000
Insurgents, holds the heights above Somero*-
tro. The Bepublieans have taken the
height. Their losses are heavy. The wo
ed are ¿oming into Santander. The fleet left
that port to attack Portugalite, which was to
have been simultaneously attacked by land
forces. The fleet entered the river on Friday,
and found that Portugalite had been
doned by the Carlista. The Carlista have ta-
ken the'town oT Vinaria, in Valencia.
News has been received or the surrender
of Coomsssie, the capital of Ash an tee, and
that the king and family are prisoners.
A Paris telegram of the 38d ssys that the
citizens of Strasbourg demand of l^shop
Baess the resignation of his seat In the
stag, because he has acknowledged the validi-
ty of the treaty of Frankfort. M. Gueber and
six other delegates to the Beiehstag, from
Alsace and Lorraine, have published a mani-
festo repudiating his acknowledgment or the
treaty.
General Gonzales has been installed Presi-
dent or San Domingo, and all members or the
family of ex-President Baez have been ban-
ished from the country.
Jim Mace writes from England to say that
he will accept the challenge of Tom Aliento
fight for from f1,000 to #6,000, If Allen will
put up a forfeit to prove that he means busi-
ness.
Advices from Laguayra state that the
severest earthquake shock that has been felt
there since 1813, occurred on the 0th. Con-
siderable injury was done to persons and
property.
It Is reported that a great battle was fought
on the 81st or January between the English
army and the Ashantoes at Acroomboo, In
OOHGBESSION1L.
Fkh. 10.—Senate.—Consideration or the
bill to equalise the distribution of the eumncy
waa resumed, the question being the amendment
of Mr. Cameron to the Instructions to the com-
mittee proposed by Mr. Merrimon. Mr. Camer-
on's smendmi nt repeals all acts or Congress
whloh limit, or may be construed to limit or re-
tírala, the entire amount of national banknotes
for circulation, and provides that hereafter asso-
ciations organised, or that may be organIsed.fOr
carry lag on a business of banking, shall be bee
to establiah and organise national banks
with circulation at any place within
ths several States and Territorios of
the United States
conditions, and
1 States upon -the terms
and subject to all restriction
provided by law, except llml
limitation
hereby
Mi noes, 81. Mr. Gordon then submlttsd a sub-
stitute for Mr. Merrimon's smendment, instruct-
ing the committee to report as soon as practicable
a bill for free banking, and providing for the
convertibility of United Statea treasury notss Into
low Interest bonds or gold coin at ths option ol
the Uovernment, and bonds convertible into
tressurynotes_sttheoptlpnoftaei hoMor.^Ho-
_ á bill to
provide for the election of the two repressntaUves
— nutess ths iMldslwe .
" ths time finen
necessity fer
... ire of the
redistrtet the State, one house be-
Demoetatlc ¡and the other Republican.
Passed... .The bill for the distribution or nubile
documents, ete, then earns up, but without
rssehlng a vote the House adjourned.
Fkh. 10.—Senate*-*The consideration of
the finance bill being resumed, the question then
recurred on the motion to reconsider the vote by
which the substitute oi Mr. Cooper was adopted
yesterday, and it wae reconsidered—ayes 811
noes 18—Mr. Cooper's amendment beisg thereby
rejected. Ibe question reeunTng on
Mr. Merrlnum's amendment, It _ wss
adopted—ayes S8| noee ss. Mr. Merrl-
dment a# adopted Instructs
to report ss soon as practicable a
for an laereaae of national bank
thereof
Bdmenl
to report so as to pro-
ride free banking under the present national bank
law, waa rejected without discussion The
Sonets then went lato sxeeutlve session
and soon afterward adjourned to Monday.
Moms.—After seats tisaehelag spent In commit-
tee of the whole, on the private calendar, the
House took a recess, to give opportunity for tho
introduction of the Chlef-Justiee Jo me
hereof the House individual
was performed by the
prooeeded to the e—
ascted with the DU
ed without accomplishing anything,
Fu. sii—House.—Mr. Shanks from the
Committee on Indian AKhire reported a bill eon-
flrmiaf and ratifying the sgreement by Fells
Brunot with the eastern band of the Shoshone
Indiana for ths purchase by the Called States of
one-third ofthelhoshoae reeervatioa for *.'8,000,
payable In cattle at the rate of M.00S a year.
Issfe'iirsssere «¡¡Hrsc a
Fan. S3.—Senate.—Met and s4)ourned over
oa account of Its being Wesklngten's
Fxn. 34.—¿Tenate.—After some unimpor-
tant buslssss waa disposed of, the Currency Mil
mon'smms
I the committee ■ .
bill providing for an laereaae <
circulation, so that the Whole
shall not exoeed 840",000,coon
Instructing thete|
r. HB VH WW
■making privl-
Fan. K.—Senate.—A Mil to provide for
Ihs appointment of a oouualsslou on the surest
of ths sleoholie liquor traflc wss tekae ap. Mr.
eurreney biU wss tasn mumedTthe pending mo-
6V601Dfi
andals11
Une or yellow,
shoulder across the b
caught at the waist
bell; while a silver St. ,
breast. Tamborines and bcantifal
were among the favors of the ladies.
other and moat becoming fitvor for
arms was a band of blade velvet for
wrist and one for the upper part of
arm, united by a strapextendlngalong the
arm. atndded with small aleigb-bellsT Miss
Edith Fish and Mr. John Davis led the
German; Misa Grant and Mr. Stockton
were the next couple, and Miss OMfldd
rtnar the third.
magnificent. It
train of the sb
and herpartner the third. Mrs.Stooktpn'a
toilet wss magnificent. It waa
the court traut of the shade known as
i a rich silk,
" frozen moonlight," and the
"glacier"Une. To the oi
must be explained that "froaon
is grayish white; " *
erly called "mor
ing the faint gray
"glacier blue" is
Is a choloe tint.
diamonds were worn. . _
Of the refreshment tabla was a punch hot
out of a solid block of lee olear i
ltd.—Washington Star, 17th.
sen 1
Dickens's
Troubles.
his my
The late l
ally known.
In the third
Dickens,
novelist
family troubles: ""Poor Catherine and I
are not made for each other, and there Is
no help for It. It Is not only that aha
makes me uneasy and unhappy, but that I
make her an, ana—much more so. She Is
exaotly what yon know, in tho way of be-
ing amiable and complying; but we are
strangely ill-assorted for the bond there is
her avoidance of this destiny would have
been at least equally good for tu bptb. I
am often cut to tne heart
what a pity it is, for her own
utOVMa wMflir
voice choked snth
peg oat?"
Josa Bnxnraa
head; and It is ral
SSÍÍS h.
miSm Hihi
úíuSvndl
es be Buna
It for one
rsraent will not go with mine. It
red not so much when we had only
ourselves to consider, but reasons have
been growing since which make it all but
>mlng, ever sinoe the i
you remember when Mary wss born;
I know too well that you cannot, and no
one can, help me. Why I have written I
hardly know, but It is a miserable sort of
comfort that you should be clearly aware
how matters
Hova
Children.
H. H., In her " Bits of Talk," is Impress-
ed with th*5 children of Nova Scotia, who
and Middle States. There
such
lubtedly something to do with this, the
r being moist, snd the mercury randy
ilng wove 80* or folllng bdow 10 .
tere are no public schools fit Nova Scotia,
late of the children
e United StatesJI.
conclusion that It
ools at all than to
sickly one among them;
cheeks, such merry eyes,
i; broad shonlderw
sturdy, and their fhoes won a
dou!
air
jrtflnc JPP .. H
There are no public schools
and in contrasting the state of
with a similar class in the Ui "
H. comes to the broad cot
Is better to have no schools
have such publlcsdiools as are now kill
ing off our children. In
more than two-fifths of all the ,
before they are twelve years old. In
Scotia tho proportion Is less than one-thin).
In Massachusetts the mortality from
eases of the brain and nervous system
eleven per eent.; in Nova Scotia it is oi
eight per cent. So It seems that to
rosy, ruddy, calm children we musti
ganlse our schools, and tnkingNova"
For an example, no child should be
school nnder seven years of
school more than six hours a
hour's intermission, and no
sons out of school allowed.
Ifsst thi isn
Jfjv
•wLIH
pent and I
Htisnott
the settlors,!
Hew to Isilau^e the Age of Horses. |
The question of striving at a horse's
sfter he has passed his ninth year baa'
a long-mooted one, but Uttle frith *
placed In any of the laws laid dow o
subject. It wlllbereoolleetedthats
time since a correspondent of the
gave as an InftlUble test that alta
ninth year a wrinkle appeared on
per corner of the lower Ld of the i
that each year thereafter an a ,
wrinkle appears; so that a hone wtth
four wrinkles would be thirteen yean old.
This, though a new wrinkle to n |
many, Is pronounced a fkilure. Am
pondent in the Cleveland Herald Is out
_ f soother test
study we'
the bottom of ths
there U a little
Inches from ths
^ aT. ... _
i ball forms about
I
would remain at«
twelve, etc.—3
Tut Hudson hss a dam at Troy
which the water goes down an InoUnaofl
thirty feet. Abont the dam lee Is out for |
the city's use. Six men were at ' 1
of newly half,
rorof"the-
shore. Over they went.
drowned nor seriously I
not badly broken In the
er on the indine ran very smot
snd tbey wero reslljr resonad.
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