Bloomington Progress, Volume 15, Number 47, Bloomington, Monroe County, 8 March 1882 — Page 4

THE RA9Y Csabtxs Q. liOKBKB, of New York, claima to have made a discovery by which airsfcim become feasiOle, and ropose to eon-strat-t one of 100 tons, fantished with ample steam-power. In bis argument in the cane of the Standard Oil Company, the Attorney Oeiwral of IHanwytvania said that, t Amnestic oorporafi ; were taxed on their whols capital atock, it woithlilo them great mjnio to admit fortiaa corporations to compete on an equal footing without exacting the sanse tribute. Beside thti Standard had ruined thousands of men by its exactions, and monopolized the oil bamnM, bad compelled four great railroads to carry freight on At own terms, and bad brought the . western part of the Stale to the verge of insurTOIiOO. Tub Standard Coal sad Iron Com pauy, with a capital of rJ5,O0O,0OO, ha been organind in Boston by James G. Blaine and Eugene Hate, of Maine, Or.". Foster and other captttJista of Ohio, and Oliver Ames, of MossaoTiUBetta. It ia ehfefly a conwtkUtion of coal and iron companies in the Eocking valley of Oh o, and represents' SO, 000 tare of minen lands. ...Mrs. Caroline bsrojr Webster, widow of the treat Daniel Webatw, haa just died at her homo, Mar New yorlfciiy, in the 86th year of befog?.' IBS wca. Trm Legislature of Michigan met in extra station Feb. 23 and fitcued to the meaasgo presented by the Chief Executive of the State. Gov. Jerome recommended'the passage of airs granting Htato relit f to the u!terwr fcwH the recent Urea in the Huron retrinral. dntriri, including the entire remission of taxation in the burned section. The proposed Oeneral "'aa law and the raestk of rcpporUounient will also bo considered. Ci-arkkch Hnx, s coosin of the J mies boys, Tho has been convict. 3 in Kama City of oompJk-ity in the rubbery of th Chicago, Bock Island and Paofia express triin at Winston, JIa., m July bat, at whim time Conductor Weatfaii' Was muiderod, fr said to have nude a full -joafraaion, fixing the murder of WesifaU noon J Brae Jamas. Be also alleges that Ed Milkr, one of the train robbers, waa murdered in Southern jfissosri by Jesse. .The Mormon in Utah are becamnur alarmed at the at.rpotTga:Efc agitation, and inuiraKv a wholesale system of preparing petitions tc Congress which will be ahjned by every Mcracon in the Territory A Joint eontaihtoe of ti-e Territorial Ltgtttatara haa been appointed to arrange for n State Convention and organize a State Government Several Hock Inland conduct ora have been discharged for cajnhbnsAt St. Lotus a boile r in the Vulcan Steel works exploded, fata" injuring four men and seriously wuanding several other. The wurfcs wen cowiderahly dtutfed by the xi kirai....At Ki n Caruakt. Ohio, tut boiler of a portable saw-mtil exploded wtth such foreo ib to kill five men jud blow off the tog of another. A woojjchofpkb, bis wife ami five rhiMrea were Luried by a snow-slide hi Bjjt Cottonwood Canon, Tjh.. . .A package of crrewv, amoorilirc to $7,0f. hjhmgioe -c ,h" Lak j Bne and Western railway, haa ban: stolen from the express oOiee at Luna, Ohio. A oosipast with 85,000,000 capital ha b organized at St. Pan' to build a tallroad thenee to Grand Fork, Dakota.. ...At H.Kkberry, Arizona, a deanerado muned 3. O. Wialon, who. had kUled Jotm BeJloet, aa taken frjoi jail bv aftotn mea and haiicit to the beamof a blacksmith ahop....Oifll J. Mnrphv, ex-Din tnet Attorney and a loatkng criminal lawver of San Francixo, was shot in oprn v-ourt byawitseaewtiombaoKae-examined in the urnal ggravating way of lawyer with jtrong Tntneaaea on the olner ride. Three maHLed ran entered the farm-home of Willi im Stud laker, twelve TniJea f: -mi Council SituTa, and robbed mmoX& l'..tened bybu obrtinaev about atmsnderinr '.a money, one of the viliatna chot hhn ihror-$ii the lnnga. Thb ProhiVjitjonists art! to bold at Oactp, in Aug oat aexewkat they ktteod fhaU be the iirgest and most important couveatioa of tb kmd ever astembied :c this eonotry. Ub& Soovaxx, snitex of the nBBanin Gnitean, addreiatd a letter to the UtUt4&tea Benaie, nrotntting aninet the ecrfU j . won of Boaroe Conktng as Anodate JxvAv r.f the Ba prime Conrt She aay he waa rooraGj reapoucbie far the death of President Garfied. Mas. Oii;Tiiu was visited at Oleve-hudbyex-Gr. Vairebild, fete United State Ibniater to B;Mm, who conveyed kindly mneags of ropmthy from the (hteen of Bptin, with which tue bexeavedl lady wa greatly afTteted. Or ape r og the door of a. s f -Xiol -bonse, one mu n.i.tb of Salem, Adaiu o.nnty, Ind., a lew ajornmtago, thecfaildmi dfV ". 'nrred the teacher, afjai Emma Nnmbera, iyiuj: n the flcor with one arm cat off, bet fragiiti"iorr; oat and lying on the boarde bid tu-r- tiu-! her neck pmncd to the floor with a 'M: auife. They ran home and gave tne ahu (. nd withm few nunntei the farmera K.red and began a eearch for the pei-.ilorii of the crime. A hasty examination of her person er-owtd ahat the had been octrased. Tnehendsbad evidently enured the schooilioeaediirmg the night oreart;' he BKirning, and when she arrived be'ure '.be paptlato bnud thj fire they canght her, tioiated her paraes and then, to prevent her from telling any tales, hacked her with an ax and aUbbed her with the knife entfi her arm waa ehnpond and her bowehi ran out on the fli Still fearing that she might tell on trictn riiey eat her tcogiie off, flung & down Qfc the auor and left the knife sticking in brr nrct with the point driven through to the i-isiuu.' bUbs Numbers waa 16 or 17 years eU, ivA m described ait besng a beautiful girl.

' A r.Karriuak and terrible affair is rejHaVt! trsni Bowan'county, S. C. Abarn-nia-ltij Tif "'jioi; on upon tlw pfatntatioa of Ha, ilewj. -out John Held and Peter Joseph gotinlo q'Ui -, aui Held threw an ax at Joseph, the keeu uvkW literally splitting In head in two, Kettering his bruins and knling him instant- . kf Hiki threw hie ox be loat his f "Kioto, and feB from the tenmrig, breaking te neck. Three men were on the grotmd at ! ijraw James Ceoha, BiAard Wiley and Sr4 -iixtfonl engaged in raJateg a heavy J.f . Tiny tecame so nraci excited at the ''geil they had jest witnessed that Cephas it his hold on the log and caused it to fall. t.i4iiwilwBit eanffbt Hrilfv and ernshad

i abdooWD to, hriWding morirf from which

VI tue nve men aa -vain on me onuaoorj tworemaiued alive.

Mokmos: missionaneii have been

H-eacinng in lark oaanty, 8L C, and have made fifty convertf Cinaco Barinra and Cahmo

Sufnentes, both afcxfeioB. were bulged at

Austin, Texas, and young colored man named

John M. Hicks atoned for his cime at Coving

ton, By. A whhb boy near Fayotteville, K. C,

inveigled a colored boy into the wood and riddled him won shot. The body waa found

pufcatfy bo tied in a swamp. Xke yoong mnrderer u highly conn'Wted Bishop Lynch

died at Unarlentoo, aged 60 ;.-:r. rtumtu

Th BepaWican lead ji-s ft Texas held a eonferenea at F(t Worth, a'id resolved to extend their aupport to indenieut candidahM for State and Federal eftVe. Steps will ha taken to hrtag about an anti ftmrboo conven

tion at Aostia m Jniy, ana ei -am. inrocamor' ton wiU be uked to heed the ticket.

It k said that John JfelW will enter

the field for Hayor of New Vors, at the next

esMtion,... A meeting of etttarus of Crittenden county. Ark., waa held at tsUrion to petition

Congress for aid. Many i&uple are said to havsperiabad from altsobite starvation, and Home ire subsisting on theoiioea of aoimals

drown xl m tne overflow.

A CADCT38 rf Demoetatk Bepresenta-

tivte area hatd at Wastohgtni , ut week, to fto-

vide for tho sejectaxi of a o!ressional Com

mittce. Kr. Hoose, who ws uhairmaa of the canons in the last Congress, .iechned to serve Inrther. ani 9b. Boeocrsns waa nnanimonslv

elected. Ic was reaclved that the CongreaaHmal Cootmittee to b af pointed consist of one membtr from each tit Ue and Territory

Diving a uemoetatic )tepren(Mtve, we selection of lite member of iLe comimttte to te

madu by the State defcgatM.e,

Is tlie Uicited States Otrcait Court at

St, Low, Uk ease of the Soothem Expren

Cmpany t . the Iron Moot tain and Southern

railway waa deeukd in favor of toe express

comrnny. 'iiie conrt new time rauroeea conui

be compelled to providt, (tciuties for the ex-

isrea biuificwt at reaaooabl- rates which were not to be fixed ia advanas by the railroad

eumpaniee. Other roadit and . oxpress

companies are anntea or uus ruling The suamiilup luinoiti arrived at Philadeiofais.

- th-iutuerdsy, from Lirerpioi, with SriSJStu-

uau Jewish refugees.

Teb Old Fellows of tlte United Static

re tt haw a day of Utatikvvina; en April K,

tha oxaakn being tite sixt'r-third anniversary

of th.it oi der in that con-itry . . . .The Send Gaiteaa is reported to be itonwe and mnch arv oyedbeaaseUeiMpaptnsbaTeCvaedto

anvthiug abont him.... Gen. Roseemns, now occupying a scat m Ooiigress, tako-i an oarly opportunity to deny aetatument by Mr. HlamuHi his oration that Gen. Garuokl found virions troubles seriously affocling tho value nJ cfilcieiicy of tho Army of the Cumberland. WaSUIIVOTOX. Gasr. D. H. Kdckbr, who was last week appointed Quartermaster Gnncral or tho anov, bat been plarcd on tho retired list with his new r.nik. Gen. llnftu Ingulls has been appointed to the vacanoy. Thb 8cttd comsnittee to audit the Mils connected with President Garlt ld's death recommend 23,000 ror Dr. Bliss, ?lfi,0CO each for Pre, Agnew and Hamilton, 9l0,tKW each for Dre. Bcybnrn and Bovuton. j5,ll0 for Mrs. Edsof, and 3,0:H) for btewanl Onut'ik It isin-gedthat burgeon Goncral Barnes retired as afsjor Gtneral; that lib: aiii;.!aiit. Maj. Woodward, bo pronictodtoLioiilc aut t'ninui-l, and that Mrs. Gal field hi given tho reina nkr of the year's salary. Tho minority will be heard from on tho army riroruorions. The first proof of the now 5-tient postage stamp containing tho riirnotto of t ion. Garfield, and known as the OnrSold htninp, and which is intended as a present to Queou Tictoria from the Ametien Bmk Note Cempinv, bav been received in Wsi iigtoiu It ia an excellent likeness, and is inclosed in a magnificent and coetlv frame of ebony, with nut

ting of sterling silver and bordering of j-uro

cold. It will do transnutiea to vueen i rais through the State Deparimont Tho c-wvl Jury of the District of Columbia has I '.'Un nod twenty-nine star-rooto cases, making thirtv-

Reprkskntativb SritisosB thltika

Congrrss may remain in rcss'on until Augn-t, as the calendars are gorged, and there is w cciiied lack of leadership on the BopulIicni sitln.

Thk Census Burcan lias oomiiletod its

estimate of the populatiou of Utah Territory, classified as Mormons Gentites, Apostates, Joscpbitee and doubtful. Of the Mormons there are 130,283, nearly 49,o0 or whom are more than 21 years old, while 40,000 are less

than 9 yean old. Of tie Uentiles there are onlv 14.15&. of whom a little more than one-

half are more than 51 years old. ThTt- am 6,988 Apostate Mormon, 820 Josephiti- Mormons, and 1.716 persons who are clsspfitd as doubtful. Of the Mormons, nearly ST.OtsO are of foreign birth.

A OABXXOBAX from St. Petersburg an

nounces the departure of Lieut Harbor and Master Schcutze, of the United 8tatC8 navy, n. search of the Jeannette's third boat. Lieuit

Oanenhoirer will soon sail for home.

A Vama dispatch : The news from

BnlgsrtA is by no means reassuring. Tho same tactics vhich were used by Bussia. before the

betrinnmsTof her late war with TurKoy npiioar

to be again resorted to. Volnnteete from llusin and the Slav provinces continue to arrive in Ciugsria, and freely proclaim their anxiety to hasten on to a conflict in which they assert that Unssia will not be stow to take a band.. ..As a proof of friendKh'.p for Aastria tho Snltivn has concentrated several iMittattons of troops to prevent the Albanians from giving aid to tuo Hetzvgovmiau.

Thb. recent elections tor the Hawaiian

Assembly indicate the complete downfall of the old missionary influence i o the Sandwich i lau is.

Victor Theodore J (Mod. tho celt brut-: X

Swiss doctor and medio, writer, is dead.. Germanv and Austria are strengthening thoT fortrasam in sntieiDalion of couunc tron'ole . .

The severity of tho weather has driven thoiin

anas ox iierzeguviui-tiin mu uw hujuluiu rt.i. of Montenegro, where they are being relieved from Bnanisn funds.

By a mine explosion m Styxia, Aus

tria, 150 lives were lost All the fanca on Dnreey isiand, thinj-fonr ;.Q nnmbet, have

sold for tKm-TWTKiont of rent. Tho Land

Lemguc intend to buiW honeee and rapport the tenants on the island.

Th Egyptian Milistrj is said to favor

the maintenance af shivery, and wishes to dismiss the agents appointed to stop the traffic

..In the British House of Commons the elec

tion of Michael Davitt as member for Mt-ath

was declared void, the vote standing 203 to 20.

. . .Ten Mihutsts, one or tnem a woman, wtre

to death at lit. reterstmrg.

DOINGS OF C0NGBESS.

THE SUPSF.HE BENCH.

Taw HemiBUtliwBi f Ceaifcllng t aawa

at Huaiasiaieia avt tfee Rational Capital. A Washington dispatch of Feb. 24 says : Tho

sensation at the capital to-day was tho nomina-

fen of ex-8enator Conkling, of Kew York, to fill the vacancy on the Supreme bench cimeed

by the retirement of Mr. Justice Hunt When the intelligence was first circulated few persons wonld behove It, but wended thsir way to the office of the Secretary of the Senate

for ocular proof, by examination of the mani

fold cony of the Hst of nominations.

Generally, when the Vice President receives the hst from the President's Private Secretary, one or two Senators will take interest enouch

in the document to superintend its removal from the envelope, and to-day formed no exception to this rale. As the first name on tho

net met tne eve ox toe presioung ouicer, ne novated his eyebrows considerably and took a second look as if to reassnre himself that it was not an optical delusion. The news spread like wildfue, and from the conversation of the groups of Senators the spectators in the galler

ies rtgnuy mierrea mat sometmng unusual waa tiansnirimr below on the floor. The sheet of

manifold waa suddenly in great demand, and

the grave Ho ions swarmea sronna tne raoie ot tbe presiding officer with the same eagerness depicted on their faces that a troop of school

ooys wonu cxtumt wnen tne prize roil ia opened for the first time. When it was abo foamed that ex-Senator

Sargent had been selected for the vacant mission at Berlin, instead of, as had

been benevea By nis ironas, tne portiouo or the Interior Department, the astonishment and comment waa increased. It waa the general verdict that, notwithstanding all rumors to the contrary, the President waa capable of keeping his own counsel, and had a shell suddenly exploded in the Senate chamber it could not have created more excitement or confusion.

Advice from Ubea state that Mr. Conkling

declines to say anything upon the question of nmnit the Soereme Court Jnstlceshin. It

is believed to New York by many of the leading lawyers that he will dcline the office. Gentlemen who know something of his business en

gagements say mat ne naa men retaraea upon cases enough to employ him busily for a year.

and upon which an income of at least 8100,-

ouu la assured, bo urgent are tus engagements that he ia reported to hare recently declined to go to St Loom to argue a railroad ease for which the extraordinary fee of t2,000 a day had

Dcsn ouei eu nun.

ADD1TI0SAL SEWS Bjf invitation of the Hoose Military

Oemnrittee, Gens. Sherman and Hancock ap

peared and gave their opinions on tho bill for

the comnulaory retirement of army officers at 62, which they heartily favored. They indorsed the proposition to give increased pay to Captains and Lieutenants who havo served in one

grade for fifieenyears. . . . .Capt James 11. Ehds was before the House Committee on the Improvement of the Mississippi, and told them that overflows would bo prevented bv spending 93,000,raK in dosing the breaks in Urn system of levees. Bibhop Duooas, who was decoyed from Chicago to an insane asylum at St Louis thirteen year ago, when aberration of mind had become apparent, entertains the delusion that Chicago has been swallowed up by tho sea, and that aU his former flock have gone to perdition. The ehurcu in Chicago pays 81,000

per annum for his maintenance. His health is

as vigorous as ever. Gex. SatOBEUFF, in conversation with a Vienna Journalist, expressed his astonishment

that his recent speech should have excited at

tention, inasmuch as mnch stronger expressions are used in Bosnia every day in regard to tho

Panalavist agitation. Hw utterances, he said, were those of a private individual only.

Fivb persons were drowned by a flood'

eaased by the breaking of the levee below Con

cordia, La. Great distress, for want or food and shelter, is being felt by the inhabitants of

tne aanmcrgea country.

A Dekoobat has been elected by

1,020 majority over a Conkling Republican to

succeed the late Senator Wagner in the Hoiiate of New York. 4.4m latter was elected last year ' a cut j a "

Ir too think it is riaht to differ from

the timeri, and make a stand for any trainable point of morals, do it, however rustic, however antiquated, however pe

dantic it may appear : do it. not for in

Bolenee, bat aeriouidy, as a man who wore a soul of his own in his bosom, and did not wait nntil it was breathed

mto him by the breath of fashion.

A XiABT writer finds fault with the manners of the King of Sweden, because his Majesty scratched his royal bead with a fork at dinner. Some people are entirely too faetttiioua. Would the lady have had his Majesty scratch his head with the leg of a chair lSwierville

journal.

The bill to retire Gen. Grant came up in the Senate Feb. 23. Mr. Bayard moved to amend by providing for tho payment of a quarter salary to each ei -President for life, bnt it was rejected. It was agreed that the proposed retirement shall bo additional to the nnmbor authorized bv Jaw. Tho bill then passed, by 35 to 17, David Da via and four Southern Senators voting for th measure. This will give Gen. Grant $12,500 per year for life. Mr. Harris presented a memorial from the cotton exoliatigo of Mouiphia, staling the danger to the rivor front from tho encroachments of the Mississippi. Mr. Georgo introduced a joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to issue rations for tho relief of tho laboring classes in the overflowed region between Hemphis and Vioiisbnrg. An appropriation of 1(0,000 was quickly passed. In the House Mr. Chalmers introduced a bill for tho rolief of sufferers by the overflow of the Mississippi, and an appropriation of f 100,000 was railroaded through. . In committee of tho whole the post-office appropriation was Ukei' up. It was resolved tliat no contractor shall be I released until a bond has been mado by tho subcontractor. A proposition to increase to 1,800,000 tho amount sot aside for postal ciorks was rejected, as was also nn amendment increasing by $300,000 the appropriation for route agents. A resolution offered by Mr. Davis was adopted by tho Senate, on tho 24th, to inquire into tbe expediency of giving to States and Tcrri" tones more aid in organizing their militia. Mr' Bayard introduced a resolution that the Committoo on Foreign Relations inqniro into the charge that persona officially connected vcitb the Government of tho United States have promised intervention in the controversies in South America in connection with guano contracts. A longtby discussion took ; place on tho bill to restore Mark Walker to an army Lieutenancy from which bo was dismissed for drunkenness, it being finally recommitted. Mr. Van Vi'yck spoke en the necessity for an investigation of alleged frnds m tho townshipsurvoy system. The Immediate Dettcionoy ! Appropriation bill was passed. When the j nomination of ex-Senator Conkling as Associate Justice of tho Supreme Conrt was read in ox- I eontivo session, this afternoon, a motion was niatle to take it up for immediate confirmation. Senator Hoar thereupon took Hie floor, and warmlvssid that, while he conceded Conklhigs Eraat abilities, and that no man since Webster ad surpassed him in intellectual force, ho believed Conkling had nsed his powers for bad purposes, and he did not believe him honest 'His ilevation to the Snprcme bench," said Mr. Hoar, with great excitement of manner, and pnunding his desk with emphasis, ''wonld be a disgraco to the judicial ci mine; and he therefore inttrrKucd objection to present ronsidonttion of the nomination, and insisted that it should take the regular oourse of referunca to tho Judwiary Comuiiileo. Senator Ingalls mado a short speech defending Mr. Conkling in a measure, as also (lid Sonstor Teller. Senator Teller said that, whatever might bo said abont Mr. Conkling, no one- could say he was a corrupt man. A single objection being sufficient to prevent immediate consideration, tho nomination was accordingly referred to that committee under the rules, without opportunity for debate or Any reply Mr. Hoar's remarks. The nomination of ex-S;nator Sargent as Minister to Germany was then referred to the Committee on Foreign Halations, under objection to its immediate consideration, which was interposed by Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, understood to be friendly both to him and Conkling, bnt who desired to prevent the appearance of any distinction between tho cases of the two ek-Senators. Th House adopted a resolution that the Committee on Foreign Affairs inquire into the allegation that certain papers connected with the Chili-Peruvian correspondence, which are supposed to show tbe improper connection of one or more Ministers of tbe United States with business transactions for which intervention was expected, have been lost or removed from the files Oi Ihe State Department Bills wore passed to retire William P. Chambliss with the rank of Major, and Carlisle Boyd with the rank of Captain, and to grant arrears of pension to the widow of Maj. Gen. Alexander Hays. In the House of Eoprosontatives, on Feb. 25, Mr. Henderson asked unanimous consent to refer to the Committeo on Military Affairs the

Senate bill retiring Gen. Grant, bnt Mr. Springer objected. A resolution was passed to form a

sorcct committee ot nine to eousiuer uti queutionj relating to woman's rigbli Mr. Stephens reported a bill authorizing the coinage of silver dollars and fractions thereof on the metric system. Mr. Grout reported a bill to establish tho Territory of North Dakota. Whe'j in committee of the whole oh the fostoffice Appropriation bill. Mr. Springer caused the passage of au amendment that all

correspondence on omaiai imsiness snaii oo transmitted- in penalty envelopes. The committee rose and reported the bill to tho House. The amendment authorizing the Postmaster General, in case of the sub-lotting of a mail coutract, to arrange with the sub-contractor, was agreed to. The biil then passed. There

was no session oi tne aeuaie. Mr. Windom reported a resolntiou to tho

Sruato, ou the 28th nit, insb acting the Committee on Foreign Relations to repeat on tbe alleged abstraction of important papers from the ofii e of the Scretaiy of State, as also upoi tho charges that our representatives in France find l'ein had been concerned in contracts with tbote Govurnraents, or whether other officials

naa f-cen so involved, jur. vest mtrouueon

a b:ll for u public building at Hanni

bal, and Ilr. Ingalls presented an act anthorUstng tho . President to appoint Airrcd Pleasouton a brevet Major Generalaud n ace his tumo on tho retired list Tho Post-

o0i"o Appropriation bill was passed, The

uuincse immigration urn was taken up, wnut Mr. Miller was airing hU views fourmcmbern ot tho Cliiucso Lt gatinn appeared in Ihe gallery, bnt retired ae soon as (hoy learned what, snlj.ct waa nrd-r discussion. The nm

in.itio.is of Messrs. Conkling and Sargent wero repotted favorably to tho Senate.

in executive Benson, and went over to the next m i-ntivo tt 8.Kii,, mid. r the rule Mr. Uibsoti introduce 1 a joint roso'ution for a committee f sixteen to uttin 1 the anniversary of the dis- , -very of the mouth or tho Mississippi river. B its were iianod authorizing tho bridging of lh Mississippi at Keitlishnrg, III., and approE listing $100,000 to continue work on the irlor of (iulvo-lon. Thp.o reports were submitted in regard to the Utah contested election, the majority fnv. nng - the rejection of both Campbell mid Cannon. Tbo Houso then went into committee of tho whole on the Military Academy Appropriation lull, which was passed. Mr.' Robinson introduced a bill to organize tho National LtlKir League Railway Company of America, to run from Ni-w York to Council Bluffs, with a capital of 440,000,000. Mr. Test offered a bill in the Senate, on tbe 1st inst, to prohibit the issue of notes by the national banks organized or reorganized after Jniy 1. Tho resolutions for an investigation into the Ohili-Ponivian imbroglio, after being amended to in-ilnde any promise of intervention by officials of the Unhid States, were passed. Sir. Y.iorliisus mado a long speech upon tl.o ncci ssitv of better accommodatjonii for the Congressional library. Tbe Chinese bill was taken up, and Mr. Ifoir spoke" against the measure. Mr. Kellogg introduced a resolution for an appropr ati in sufficient, when combined with local revenue , to give all children hi the States and Terr.tories a good common-school education. Mr. McDJl proeented resolutions of the Iowa Lg.Klaturo asking the amendment of tho patent laws to prevent unjust exactions. In the House, a bill to mike. Denver a port of delivery was passed. Hills wero reported favorably to atop tho coinago of trade dollars and exchange those now out for standard silver pieces ; to adopt e m -ter to measure the quantity and lost the gravity and temperature of distilled and malt liquors ; to provide for organizing, arming and disciplining tho militia ; for the distribution of pure vaccine virus, and for the erection of a public build ng at Detroit The contested Louisiana oleution case of Lanier vs. King was dii-niissed. A resolution was adopted that the Secretary of tho Inter! ir examine and report upon the bill to create a sinking fund ror tbo Sionx City and Pacific road. The Indian Appropriation bill, covering $4,920,203, was perfected and passed. The Old-School Kew Vorkliditors.

The last survivor of tho old school of New York editors is Gen. James Watson Webb, of the old Courier and Enquirer.

Ijie is 80 years of nge. Though burdened

with some of the mnrmities that accompany such advanced years, he is still a hide and handsome old man, with the promise of many peaceful and happy days yet to come. Gen. Webb was in active journalism the contemporary of Bryant, Bennett, Greeley and Baymoud in this city, and of Weed in Albany. All of these, save the hint, are gone, and it seems strange now that flan. Webb sbonld be, with two exceptions, the youngest of them nil. Brvaut was born in 1791, Bennett in 17!)5, Webb in 1802, Greeley in 1811, and Baymond in 1820. The oldest of tho whole list, Mr. Thurlow Weed, still remains in the full exercise of his intellectual faculties, and with more physical vigor than many a man of half his aga. Mr. Weed was liorn in 17'J7 -being thnu five years the senior of Gen. Webb. Tho two veteran Whig journalists r tain the warm friendship of their earlier days, and are almost the only exannplf a left us of Uie school they may be said to have founded. Of ail our noted old Now Yorkers, scarcely one takes precedence of them, save Peter Cooper, who was born six years earlier

than Mr. Weed, and eleven years earlier than Gen. Webb. It is interesting to recall the fact that Gen. Webb negotiated tho secret treaty with the third Naooleon, under which the French troops left Mexico. ATcw York Tribune. IS MKMORIAM.

uiprooMlve Ceremonies at ValtlMfflim in. lienor of tbe Late President tHitrricltl, Washington, Fob. 27. Ilior to 10 o'clock this morning admission to tho Capitol was refused to all save members of ihe two houses of Congress and their employes, but at that hour the doors wore thrown open to persons holding tickets to the memorial services of the late James A. Garfield, and soon the gallories of the Houso wore filled to Iho utmost capacity. A largo majority of the tpectators were ladies, who, ont of respect to tbo occasion, had, for tho mo it pr-rt, discarded bright colors, and somber black was tho prevailing line. Thore weie no signs of monrniug in tho hall. A. full-length portrait of tho late President was hung just back of tho ohairs of the presiding ofti'iers, being itself uudraped, the members of the House early in attendance all being arrayed in black. In tho lobby, back Of tho Speaker's desk, thiri Marine Bend was stationed, and at intervals from 10 o'clock until noon discoursed solemn music. .Among the distinguished guoit first to arrives weie JudgeB&ncrof t Cyrus W. Pield and Admiral Wordun, who took seats directly in front of the Clerk's aeak. Among tho guests who at an oar.y hour occupied seats upon the lloor, were Gen. Solienck and Govs, lloyt of Pennsylvania, Foftor, of Ohio, Hamilton, of Murvlaud. au t Bigolow, of Connecticut At 11 :3ll Gens. Mlu-r-nuti, Sheridan, Hancock, Howard and Motes and Admirals Amnion, Rogers and R.xlgers entared. and were assigned seats to tho loft of the Speaker's desk, anl a few moments later the members ot iho Diplomaiio Corps, in full regalia, were ushered in, headed by the Hawaiian Minister as D -an ot thecorpa Their brilliant costumes only sorvod to throw into stronger rolief tne dark atttro of the members of Congress, who sat immedatuly behind them. The members of tho Supreme Court of the District headod by Marshil Henry, wore the next arrivals. Dr. Bliss was also in attendance. Mrs. Blaine occupied a front seat in the gallery rosorvod for the friends ot "ho President. At precisely 12 o'clock the House was called to order by Speaker Keifi-r, and prayer was offered by the Chaplain. The Speaker then said : "This day lias been dedicated by the action of tbo two houses or Congress to services in commemoration of !lir) life and death of James Abrom Oarilold, Into President of tho United States. This Honso is nov assembled and ready to perform its part." Tho resolutions sotting apart to-day for tlio memorial services were then read by Clerk MoFhtrson. At 12:10 the Senate was announced, nnil all rose as the Senators, headed by the officers of tba-, body, entered and took then- assigned seats. They were followed by the Chief Justico and Assxuate Justices of the Supremo Court, drensed in their robes of office. Again the assembled multit ude arose, ss the Pre iident of the United States and his Cabiuot wer j announced. They wero accompanied by Senator Sherman and Representative McKinley. Chairman of the Committeo of Arrangements. The President took tho front scat on the right of the presiding officer's chair. Tbo orator ot the day, Hon. James G. Blaine, was announced at 12:30, and the ceremonies then opened by a short pn.yer by Chaplain Power, of tho House, after which President Davis said: "This day is dedicated by Congress for the memorial services of tho late Praudent of tbe United States, James A. Garfield I present von Hon. James G. IUaine, who has boon fitly chosen as ihe orator for tins historical occasion." Mr. Blaino then rose, and standing at tho Oleik's desk, immediately in front of tho two presiding officers, proceeded, with great iinpreiwiveness of manner and clearness of tone, to celivor his eulogy from manuscript The oration was quite lengthy and worthy of the occasion. A First Class Liar From Dead wood. Yflien a man has been to Deadwood, he somehow feels called upon to lie about it. There was a man from that region who came on to call upon us one day. He said he was from that city. "Ah," we said, "pretty live town," "Li7el" he exclaimed, "why, it's the

awf idlest place in this country. I once

got hard up there, ana went- ana matte money by betting that three minutes couldn't pass without the sound of a pistol shot." "Indeed!" we said. He saw we were interested. He said: "In the early days of the town the bartenders used to remember whose blood it was in the different spots on the floor. But fights got to be so numerous that folks lost interest in keepin track of it. And besides, the spots got so thick on the floor that you couldn't tell where one left off and another began. When I first wect rut there such things used to make me nervous. I remember one night they wanted to lynch a man, and my doo'rway came handy. I was out, and when I came home and found the fellow swinging there, it kind of startled me!" We tried to look shocked, and being thoroughly wanned np, tbo liar continued: "I recollect seeing 'em hang a mail because he got euchred on a lone hand. He didn't object. He owned up that he deserved it" And so the liar went on until completely exhausted. Then we asked him how many killings a day it averaged there. "Abont forty," he said. "Poor Deadwood!" we murmured. "Poor Deadwood?" said he. "Yes," we replied, "poor Deadwoodl How stupid it must be! How it has gone down since the good old days when we wersthere! The days when we averaged eighty murders, seven lynohings, nine free fights and a cleaning out of the Chinese per dayl Then there was enterprise at Deadwood!" To Cure Shceu-Killiiig; Dogs. The question of how to protect sheep from the caresses of destructive dogs, which has so long agitated the agricultural mind, seems to have heen happily settled by the farmers of Hunterdon and Somerset counties, New Jersey. They tried tho experiment of mixing in a few goats with their sheep, and after the goats and sheep had nffUiated for a few days, they procured some dogs, regular sheep-killers, and started them for the folds. The dogs, regarding the affair as a sort of picnic, went for wool and camo back shorn of their conceit. They seem to run against goats in the most unexpected places, and were struck by the singular nature of the thing and almoiit drove into the ground by the force of tihe remarks made by the goats with their heads, in the heat cf the debate. Mutton, which the dogs hud always regarded as a delicacy, suddenly palled upon the taste and they felt coyed. No doubt the goats, with customary politeness, asked their guests to pass their plates and have some of the mutton, bnt the dogs did not care for mutton. They came out of the field limping on throe legs, and no word of encouragement from the farmer could induce them to go back. They had been broke of sucking eggs. The Flood in the Lower Mississippi. Mcui'ins, March 1. It would require an artist's pen to picture the grandeur of the Mississippi as at its present Cool-tide it swecpi with a mighty power down to tho Golf, while its endless cunt-at everywhere carries upon its bosom tho evidence of its destructive powers. From Cairo to Yicksburg, Miss., thevo is scarcely anything to be set n but a dret ry water waste, extending in many localities fifteen miles into tho in orior from either bank. The damage that has been done to farming interests by the great overflow cannot bo estimated. Thousands of cattle and other stock havo been drowned, and hundreds aro now daily dying of starvation. Tho inhabitants of the bottom lands have been driven from their homes and are now existing tlw best they may on ridges where hastily-built huts afford them ahelser, and- where they would soon starve wero not rood provided. Never before within the history of the country was there so much suffering exporicucod by the people of the Mississippi valley as now, and, what with tho rising waters and tho inotssant rains, the disasters of the future cannot lie foretold. Long Words. There is little use in criticising this tendency of ours to indulge our eense of sublimity with long words. We shall most likely continue to erect edifices in locations aud inaugurate musical seasons until our sense of humor leads us to pre; fer lo build houses in places and beg in courses of concerts. Perhaps patent medicine meu are already doing all that can be done to awaken this sense of humor in us.

FARM NOTES.

Okbi firm in Holland sends eaeh week to English markets from seventy to ninety tons of artificial butter. The present annual yield of flaxseed in the United States is estimated at 2,600,000 bushels, and of the fibre 38,000,0C0 pounds, Enomsh feeders often add ten pounds of linseed oil coke per day to the usual rations of meal, roots and hay, in finishing off well-grown bullocks. It is said that an acre of grass will make 200 pounds of beef ; while an acre of corn, that requires continuous labor, at double the cost, will do but little more. Fras H'ie a warm, dry bed and change of food. When iu confinement and fed largely npou meal a few small lumps oi coal, cinders or charcoal, are eagerly

crunched and aid the work of the stomach. With the soil in good order, old pastures are preferable to those more recently cleared, as they contain finer and more nutritious grasses, which will produce richer milk, better-flavored butter and cheese, as well as fatter stock. The successful farmer will keep every animal in a growing condition, even if he has to buy tho necessary food. The poor farmer permits his animals to struggle through tho winter on as little food as possible, and come out "spring poor." Experimenting with mongrel fowls in these days is very unsatisfactory business at best When there is such an abundance of prime stock to commence with it is just as cheap to breed and feed the best kinds of poultry at the outset as it is to keep poor trash. Farmers should not forget that wrens axe among the most voracious eaters of insects of any of our feathered tribe. It has been claimed that a single pair would carry off to their young abont a thousand insects per day, the greatest part of which were injurious to vegetation. Tbe irrigation of large tracts of land in some of the southern counties of Calfornia has produced malarial diseases to such an alarming extent as to present a serious problem in connection with the further settlement of that region. It is a settled fact that no system of drainage is complete without a comprehensive plan of drainage, Mb. Watts, of South Carolina, reportshaving a female Angora goat that throughout the season gives four quart of milk daily, and of a quality equal in richness with that of any Jersey cow on his farm. He also .says an Angora goat will thrive where a cow will starve, and six goats will subsist well in a pasture which would only afford suflioient nourishment for one cow. American Cultivator. Butter is firm and tenacious, and requires very little working, when churned at the right temperature and time. It is waxy, is easily moulded into any desired shape, and can be drawn out at considerable length without breaking, when it is in the right state. This is what is termed "gilt edgod," and it must be in this condition to possess that rich, nutty flavor, agreeable aroma and that pleasing f olden-yellow color, which imparts so igh a degree of satisfaction in eating, aud which increases the value of the butter in market. Pkof. Arnold says that the best rule for salting butter is to salt to suit tho taste of the consumer. There is no nse in applying any particular amount oi salt for the purpose of preserving butter; because the very lightest salting is always more than sufficient for all the" effect salt can have as a preservative element Generally, one ounce of salt to sixteen ounces of butter, so as to obscure in a measure any faulty taste, is sufficient. If the flavor is very fine it will not be desirable to change it, but on the contrary to give it more prominence; hence, the less salt, say one ounce to twenty of butter, the better. The farmer' who makes sheep husbandry profitable is the man who carefully selects hi3 breeding ewes, annually culls out the old and inferior stock to fatten for tho market, and constantly keeps thoroughbred rams for breeding. II be cannot afford to start with purely bred ewes, he can, by judicious selection, have a flock nearly equal to those composed of thoroughbred owes. T6-be successful it. is necessary to keep the stock young, thus giving the best wool. Liberal feeding will increase the weight of the fleece a pound or two, as compared with indifferent feeding. The English flockni aster has settled two points in British experience, first that mutton is more profitable than wool, and second that among English mutton consumers there is a decided preference for Down or black-faced mutton. Tender, juicy flesh, with a fine grain and a rich flavor, ripe and yet carrying plenty of lean meat, is that which suits th'j English market, A eombinaticn of thee qualities is found to most perfection in some of tho black or gray-fitced breeds or their crosses. This preference on the part of buyers is so marked that the butcher is enabled to give at least two cents per pound more for dark-faced mutton than for any of the white-faced and long-woolled sheep. Lecturers on science or, writers connected with agriculture should avoid scientific terms as muoh aa. possible, or otherwise explain them, A good story UBed to bo told of P. T. Barnum, who, having attended an agricultural lecture, where the speaker was very lavish in his praises of muriate of soda as a fertilizer, went in the morning and ordered several tons to be sent tohis farm, which in due time was delivered. His farmer opened one of the casks with the intention of applying it. and was not a little surprised with its familiar appearance, and, on tasting it, was satisfied that its appearance did not belie it, for it was common salt He started for Mr. Barnum, and accosted him in tho following manner: " Mr. Barnum, what did you say that stuff was that came yesterday?" "Muriate of soda." "Muriate of soda!" said the farmer. "It's nothing but salt." "Nonsense," said Mr. Barnum. " It is muriate of soda." " Mr. Barnum come and see for yourself." He went, and saw and tasted it, and declared it to be the greatest fraud ever perpetrated. He started for the city, and went directly to the dealer from whom it waa bought, and asked what the stuff was they had sent him, Their reply was, "muriate of soda, as ordered." "It is a mistake, for it is nothing but common salt" Then, for the first time he learned that common salt and muriate of soda are one and the same thing. American Cultivator. I have always spoken of the advantages of irrigation in increasing garden or truck crops. To make the profits larger and more sure, use liquid manure. The German proprietor of eight aoies, referred to by Mr. Morris in " Ten Acres Enough," who transformed the neglected farm of a drunkard owner into a garden of immense productiveness and great profit, furnishes an example of an an inexpensive kind of tank, made by sinking a brick cistern in the barnyard, into which the liquid manure from six cows and two horses was conducted, as well as the wash from the pig-pen and barnyard. The manure heap was always under cover, and kept thoroughly saturated by means of a pump in the cistern, which was also used for filling a hogshead placed upon wheels, and use 1 for distributing the fertilizing liquid. The German started with a capital of $3, paid in tabor for four pigs, and from these and the refuse the family made, in a buried hogshead, sufficient liquid manure, applied by means of a wheelbarow, to fertilize his acres, obtain more stock, and grow crops enough in four years to pay $000 for the place, support his family and gather around him many household comforts and farm implements and

appliances. Mr. Morris acting upon the suggestion of the thriving German, built in his own barnyard a tank, into which was conducted the wash from stable, pigpen and yard. Once or twice per week this was pumped up and distributed over the manure heap and over a huge pile of leaven, the whole mass being saturated with liquid manure and never allowed to become dry. In the spring both heaps were found to be reduced to a half-fluid mass. The effects of this manure! wore marked, bringing early vegetables to market ten days sooner than thoso of neighboring gardens, and the fall crops enjoyed a still greater advantage, from the longer contiuunnoe of the manuring. Men. Parley JPoore. HOUSEHOLD HELPS.

IFiem th Detroit Krw rrm " Household." Am-st.ACKL'i lime is an excellent polish

for silver and tin wars.

AxiWats flour your tins after greasinc.

before putting in eake. The cake will

cleave from the pans more readily, To always insure light dumpling, mix and let stand two or three hours before rising ; out into thin strips, roll in flour and boil twenty minutes. Good Cookies Without Eaos. One oup of very thick sour cream, "one of sugar, one teaspoonful of soda, one of baking powder, a little salt and nutmeg; mix with as little flour as poBsiblo and buke iu a quick oven. Garments to lie ironed in cold starch should be immediately dipped into boiling water, and ironed as soon as Starched. You will, in this way, have no trouble with flats stickin g to the cloth. Another good way is to wet the starch with weak, cold suds made from white soap. Ham Sandwiches. Chop the ham fine and Beacon it with salt, pepper and mustard. If the lean meat alone is used a little butter may lie added. Spread between thin slices of bread. Cheese snu.lwitohes are very thin ; the cheese may lie grated or cut in thin slices. Mustard is added or not as pleased. Pet Pound Cake.---Beat one pound of butter and one pound of sugar to a cream, whisk ten eggs to a high froth and add one and a half pounds of flour, one wint-glassful of vanilla; beat all until light aud creamy. Put into a tin pan with buttered paper and bake in a moderate oven one and a half hours. Sea Breeze Cake. Beathalf a pound of butter to a cream. Take six eggs; beat the whites to a stiff froth and the yolks with one half pound powdered sugar and ten ounces of flour. Beat all well together; add a glass of brandy and one-quarter pound of citron cut into thin slices. Bake it in small tins in a quick oven for twenty minutes. Cbeau Biscuits. Delicious little cream biscuits for afternoon tea are made by mixing self-raising flour with cream, which roll into a thin, smooth paste, prick, cnt and boko immediately. They should be kept dry in a close tin box. If the flour is not self-raising, salt it lightly, and mix with it a dessertspoonful of baking powder. Sxowdon Cake. This is a genuine Scotch recipe, and is a great favorite with Scotch-American families. Beat to a cream half a pound of butter, threequarters of a pound of granulated Bugar, the whites of six eggs, half a teacup of

cream, and one pound of Bermuda

arrowroot Add the beaten yokes of two of the eggs and a very little salt Bake in a mold one hour or more. Staffordshire Cake. Beat one

pound of butter to a cream with a tea-

spoonful of orange-flower water: then

add one pound of powdered sugar, ten eggs beaten very light, and one and onequarter pounds of flour ; beat the cake

well together, then add half a pound of

sweet almonds beaten to a paste ; butter some tin molds, line them with white paper ; put in the mixture one and a half inches deep and bake in a quick oven

one hour.

EbtuNon Macakoonb. Pulverize one pound of sweet almonds quite fine with

the whites of four eggs ; add two and a half pounds of sugar and rnb them well together ; put in by degrees ten moie

whites, working them weu as you nut

them in ; put the mixture into a biscuit funnel and lay thorn out on wafer paper in

pieces about the size of a walnut ; put

three or lour pieces ot almonds cut mto thin slips on each, and bake them on a

baking-plate in a slow oven one-half

hour.

Tempest Cake. Beat one pound but

ter to a cream and mix with it the whites

and vollis of eight eggs, beaten separ

ately; have? ready warm by the fire one pound flour one pound sugar; mix them

with a few cloves, nutmeg and cinna

mon, then gradually work the dry in

gredients mto the butter and eggs; when

well beaten add a glass of wine and three-quarters of a pound of dried currants; beat well for one honr and put into a buttered tin and bake in a quick

oven for one hour.

Mashed Potatoes. Pare and boil the potatoes, and after every trace of the water has evaporated, mash them with your pestle, still in the kettle over the

tire : tney are naugnt u not Kept not

Get out every suggestion of a lnmp and as you mash put in a generous quantity

of fresh butter, and, if yon have it.

some cream if not cream, enough milk

to make the potato rich and moist Salt it to taste, and serva fresh and hot riled

up aud smoothed over in a hot dish with-

it little biocK pepper silted on top. Mashed potatoes wliioh has stood cn the stove for a while before serving is poor stuff. If you want the top brown hold over it a salamander or a very hot stove lid don't put the dish into the oven, that only makes tho contents watery. Water. Water is so common that few peisona think of it as the most important factor iu the building up and civilization of the world. The rocks were mud and sand made by water and laid down by it, one kind on top of another. Coal, mode of plants, was covered up by water, so that the totten plants were kept there and changed to coal. Veins of lead, cornier, gold, silver and crystals, were cracks- in Ihe rocks, filled with water that had these precious things dissolved in it And water, as ice ( glaciers), ground up rooks into earth, :n which plants can grow, tho sea and titreams helping to do the work. Water builds plunti, and animals, too. Three-quarters of what they are made of is water. When you pay twenty cents for a peck of potatoes you r.re really paying fifteen of the cento for tho water that is in the potatoes. A boy who weighs eighty pounds, if perfectly dried up, would only weigh twenty Xxmnds. And there can be no potatoes or boy without water. It must dissolve things to make them into new things ; and it carries them where they are wanted to build tho new thi ngs. It sof teiiB food, nnd then as watery blood carries the food to evory part of the body to make new flesh and bones, that we grow and have strength. It carries the plant's food up into the plant Water carries man and goods in boats, and, as steam, drives tho cars. It makes the wheela go in the factories. It is a great worker, and wo could not get along without it. It makes much of the beauty in the world.

Oxe cow's milk" may be worse iiftan tho mixed article, as proven by a caso in which a baby fed on the milk of one cow,' sickened and died of tubercular disease, the cow itself dying two months later of tuberoulosis. Had the milk of that cow been mixed with milk obtained from n dozen others, the child would not have received daily such large doses of the diseased mils, and might have lived. Probably condensed milk is as safe a food as can lie used when there is any doubt as to tho quality of the ordinary :miik served to a family,

PITH AND FOIMT.

A thing that kicks without legs. A

gun.

Ovten thrown together by accident

railway passengers.

Johnny war hit Ire n hi .11 ili nt.hor

day. The bawl immediately eamo out of his mouth;

It takos hint thvnA TUtnnlA in htflAn a

secrat properly, but two of the three must be dead. 4 ' '

The true wav for ft woman In Arivn si

nutl in In i i n 4 1, a Ul n . 1

thumb. Then she'll at lease avoid hit

ting her thumb.

" Wkm," sold an Irish Mronr "if

it nlaze the Coort. if I am wtnuo- inVlu'a

I ha ye another point that is equally eon-'

elusive.

A rouNO lady in Kansas, while chewing cum. was struck with, paralysis in

the jaw and rendered speeuhless. She

immediately had four proposals on the

spot. It is said that sharks will not bite a swimmer who keeps his legs in motion. If you can keep kicking loorrer than a

shark can keep wiuting,, you are all right"

If a bank is blcwn tip by gunpowder, the report is instantaneous. If it be burst by the cashier, the report does not come nntil the examiner gets ready to make it. A Boston girl was heard to say in a fttmaLAa, An Iia, nraw 1, ..... fnnw, 41..

Solliers' Bazar, "I think he looked . ....

use a periect raving ang-ai in nis tuuform J He was awful heavenly !" Ir is hard to tell which is the more ridiculous, the young fool or the old foa. ; but the old fool has this advantage tie will never be a young fcol, whereas the young fool may som day be an old fool. A F-BOPBrjtTOB of a circus in the West has lost several valuable snimils, among them a fine specimen of a species of wild-cat that attracted much attention in his show, Darwin-like, he is now searching for the missing lynx.

Epitaph said to be copied from a

tombstone in tne cemenery ot JUontinartre; "Hero lies Joseph X., who for

twenty years after the death of his wife

lived in the society of his mother-in-

law, and died in the certain hope of a

better world beyond," Nelmb has a 4-year-oLI sister Mary, who complained to mamma that, her "button shoos" were. "hiirtuMr."

" Why, Mattie, yort've put them on the

wrong teet mizzled and ready to cry, she made answer, "Whatli I do, mamma ? They's all the feet I've got"

" Don't you think white gloves make one's hands look awfully big?" asked

Angelina, heading out he): gloved hands. " Is it tho cloves that make them look

so large ?" atiked Mary, quite carelessly. When Angelina got alonci that evening she confidently remarked to herself that somebody or other waa a great hateful thing. Uos'.on Trcowcript. The man-tgers of tho Pennsylvania railroad are engaged in & work of philological reform. Theywfint the people along their line to use the word "station " instead of "depot;" This would be an improvement, but in this, as in all other respects, Atlanta is ahead. We boldly allude to our passenger station as the car-shed." Atlanta Constitution. On a recent dark night a mail was staggering along the sidewalk m St Louis, and in front of liim was a big dog running from side to side, with a lantern in his mouth, lighting the way for his inebriated owner. On meeting another belated person aa foot, the man stopped and did justice to the dog ift this speech: " Yessur, 'slet yer life, 'o'a adorg worth having. He's got more sense 'an I have. Look at 'im. He's carryin' me home." 'Twis Sunday eve, sad the i man boy stood With his ear to the key-bo e pressed, And he saw his sister Bessy'ii head Oa Absalom Thompson's test. Then he ran to his parent stern, and told, ' And tha parent ttcra rspllHl.; " There ain't no bum in a vest; slide out," But the lad refused to slide. " There ain't so harm in tlx vest, I know," Aud tits eyes flashed brUibt that m in; " But inn t it dangerous, datl," he asked, " When Absalom Thompson's in itf A vert sad incident occurred in Hoboken, N. J. A man, whose wife was ' so badly afflicted with tbe esthetic craze' that she had recently given a party to which only those of esthetic tastes were) invited, came home in a state of intoxication, greatly to the ustonishment of his bettor half, who had never seen him in such a condition before. " How dare you appear before me in such a ' condition, sir?" she exclaimed. "It's esthetic," he replied, " What do you mean, sir?" asked the wife. " Yon gave a little blow-out the other evening, didn't you, that you said was a very consummate affair?" "I did," she replied, "but what has that to do with your drunken orgies?" "Well," said the man, "I've been havirg a little toot too." "Did Yon Eber See de BoneFightP' Kew Orleans Democrat - During the summer of 1864, there were several regimen to of negro troops raised in and around Natihville, and very scarce were the able-bodied blacks who did not prefer camp-life and labor to any Other kind in those days. Sam Carter kept the St Cloud hotel, the best public house in the city, and among the waiters was an old darkey, named Sandy, and

his son Sam. lt seems that nam was crazy to join the Union forces, nnd he claimed that, as tho war was or the

good of the colored race, and for the

freedom of tho slave, it was not only uis right, but his duty to joi n the Lincoln army. Andy Johnson, John F. Miller, AlvinC. Gillem, Lovell H. Ptomascau, and a crowd of lesser mn were sitting in front of the Sts. Cloud one evening, and along came the two darkies, wrangling: "Ise done jined de Linkum troops, an' flat's de settlement on t?.e hull fuss," said Sam, triumphantly. "You has?" interrupted Sandy, derisively. "Yes, I has!" "I say, honey, sposcn a big cannon ball cum bustin fru' de air, an' take de top o' dat simple head o' your'n right clean off: wat would yo'aiy? wKar'd yo' bo?" "I takes my ohanees. I understands all 'bout dis fuss, I does. De Yankees am fightin' fer de freedom ob do niggers an' our boys am fightin to kiep us slaves. I heerd a Yanke officer say dis morn in' dat de nigger wns de boueob de contention, sah, au " "Dat'a it, honey, now you's go it all right, sure. De nigger is de bone, an' de two armies is SghtuV ober it, an' it's 3e bizziuess ob -de bona to lay low an' let 'em fight See here, honey, habn't rar many a time seen tw) dogs tighten aber au old bone?" "Yes, sah, I has! yes, iiir." "Well, now, honey, did yo elier see de bone fight?" A Characterist ic of American Idle. In the summer of 1836 a barefooted ooy was on his way to lionesdale, Pa., walking tho tow-path of the Delaware and Hudson canal. Wien four miles :.'rom Port Jervis, and stilt forty miles from his destination, ho was overtaken oy a canal boat . Ho wan asked to jump aboard the boat nnd rido, which he did. On the boat was a Scotch family, just anded in America, who were on their way to the Pennsylvania; coal fields. One of its members was f. hoy the same nge of the young pedestrian, eleven

years. A strong friendship grew up bo-

liween tne two uoys oy tno urn they reached Honcsdfde. Thii Scotch familv went on to Garbondale, the center of tlie Lackawanna coal field. The boy who hud been given the ride : n the boat ob

tained employment ou diecnnul. His Jxiend, the Scotch boy, worked in tho mines for a short timi as mule, boy.

Both he and the former barefoot bow rose in the company's service. The) Scotch boy of forty-six yeses ago ia Thomas Dickson, President of tbe Delaware and Hudson Canal Company. Hut friend, the othe4ioyOe4r1lB' General Manager of the company, and President of ils.Alowjyjuid Susquehanna

HUjroad system. . ;

v Timber Cnltnre. ; " Any Berson whwi the head ci 4a fam

ily, or. if single. 21 years of age. citi-

mu of tho Uniteci States, or who has de-

ciaT"d im luteuuon oi tieoomeig a citizen, may make an entry under the tim-

oer cuiioio or as id w reniuunsHy termed " trfca-cUtim" law. Thu claimant is re-

qujrcd to take out preliminary parsa-a-as in a homestead, and this is dofleTy signing-un application: setting forth tha land selected and making affidavit that the tract applied fer is prairie land, ami in taken for the purpose cnlttvating timlier. The fees reqtiired to lie paid are $10, if tho bact entered be more" than eighty acres, and 5 if an eighty or leas. The comtnisson also required to be paid is $4 at the date of the entry, and a like sum when the claim is ".proved up."

Entries under this law are restricted to 160 acres. 'Die claimant (if he en tered 180 seres, is then required to break- or plow ftVo

seres during the first year, and five

acres more during the second year. Jthis five acres plowed the first year are 'required to be cultivated by raising a'orop ' during tho second yeas, and to : be planted iu timber, seeds, or cuttings during the third . year. The five acres broken during the second year an required to tie cultivated dnring the third year, and to be planted hi timber, seeds or cuttings during the fourth year. . The tracts embraced in entries of a lew quantity than one-quarter section are reauired to be plowed or broken, cultivated and planted in trees, troo-seedc, or tmttingii, during the same periods, and' to the same exteut in proportion to their vtosal areas, as are provided, for in entriea of a quarter section. . . . " No final 'certificate will be riven, or

patent issued, for the land until, the

expiration oi t igui years irom tne aato of entry ; at the expiration of that time, or at any time withm five years thereafter, it must be shown that the claimant lias planted, oad for not Lass ..than eight years haa cultivated wd,prxteote(l the required quantity of trees. The number restored to have been planted -is 2,700 trees to the acre, and at tbe time of proving up th0remush.be growling at ie&st $7,5 living -and thrifty trees to each acre. In -other' words, at the end of the time allowed -tlie settler must have on a 160-aore tract 8,76Atreest or on an 80-aere tract 3,375 tree, and 1,638 trees on a40i Tlie requirements of appertaining toaaeiitryof 120-acre are the same as for an, 80-acre tract aasl a O-acre tract combined. Trees, seeds and cuttings can be obtained in the Territory at reasonable eoet. So residence on the land, nor in fact in the Territory, is required under the timber culture laws. l" Where a hoaieabaad-setUer dies before the consummation of his chum; 'the widow, or. in cane of her deaths tha heirs may continue settlement ox onltiT vation, and obtain title. If both parenta die, leaving infant children, tho homestead may be sold for cash for the benefit of such children; or the children may continue settloment Ot cultivation and receive ttl If trre-

I emptor dies before completing his obim

the title may be perfected by t'ie exeoutor, administrator' or one of the heirs, and the title wilf 'pass to 'th ffeirs! efcieceased clairfiaflt, ,,TJnmfb'tleaiilt ber culttfraUtwe the lanAJttsetjsHoithe "heirs or legal representatives " incase of death of the original claimant. Under the lawa referred to, any par. son coming within their provisions can become the owner of 480 acres of land. Should the settler not feel able to "preempt " he can secure 320 acres under the' homestead aad timber cultural wss Claims taken under these lawn are exempt from taxftlion until patents' are issued, and are not liable for debts, contracted prior to that time.. xfernaoett's Spirit. -T following story is told as au instunt of Carl (Johan) XIV. 's spirit: A Russian man-of-war way seen panning the fort of Waxholm, en route for Stockholm, without having the (customary salute, The orders oi tho fort commandant were distinct that in a nase like thk two warnings were to be given. The first, that of firing a ball in the rear , el the vessel. If this were unheeded, another was to be sent in advance of the bow. In case both warnings were disregarded, a ball was to be sent into the most vulnerable part of the ship. In tbe present instance; both warnings had been -given without a response, and the commandant, a young, lieaxdloss lieutenant, though shading in his, boots, cried Out to the cannonier: "Do yon see the wheel-house?"' "Yes." "Send a ball into it, in Goo'S namot"' This had effect. With crushed wheelhouse tho Russian stopped perforce. A moment later two bents were seen setting out for Stockholm; one with the frightened young commandant in it from Waxholm, and one from the disabled man of war, each lowing with the utmost speed in holies of reaching the. royal presence first. The Sweda arrived just enough in advance to obtain the first audience. He gasped ont Ilia story. "Well," said the King, "she wouldn't salute, aiad yon fired?" "Yes." v "Where did yon hit her?" "Oh, your Majesty, be prnoiousP' -m "Did you hit the wheel-Tiouae?'' "Ye-es." "Good! You're major." The Busstaa was permitted to TObufltl-" its wheel io Sttokhoha jj T TJtaFMAREETS. .

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