Bloomington Progress, Volume 16, Number 7, Bloomington, Monroe County, 31 May 1882 — Page 4

Th Capitol at Albany, N. T., has already absorlwd 913,000,000, snd an additional appropriation of f 1,800.800 has ben madeIt is charged that every Senator and AssflmMyman of the State hu political friends at wort cn the jol An explosion of anlphnroocnrred in tho Buck Ridge colliery, near Shamokin, Pa., cnnsiig the instant doathof James Lawrence, Frank Osman and David Groan, and fatally wounding Frederick Hoffman. A postal card w addressed to President Arthur and deposited in toe Hew York postoffioe, in which the President was notified that it ho did not recall Minister Lowell from En;;lr.nd and ask for the unconditional surrender of all American citizens held in British dwtgoona without trial, bo would be inaiMi sated. Moans Tatloe, the well-known New York capitalist, is dead. He toavst a widow, two cons and three d&nghtei-s, and aa estate estinuted at between $10,000,000 and 950,000,000. He was 76 yean of age.

Tna steamer American Eagle exploded a toiler near Sandusky, while racing with the steamer Jy Cooke. Three of the crew received fatal injuries, and six pewying-era were terionsly scaldud....Aparty headed by Alexander Bamsay.cr St Paul, and Cot. Richard Chute, of Minneapolis, has gone out with erril engineers to traces railway route through Soctheastem Hinnesoca and Northeastern Iowa and across

the ftUesisgippi to the Illinois ooal region. "Polk " Waxis, one of the Missouri tang- of desperadoes, a convict in the Iowa State penitentiary at Sort Madison, who recently murdered a- prison-guard white matdne his escape from that institution, has been tried and ooirrictcd of murder in the first degree and sentenced to hfe-inmrisoninent. One of his fcllow-convicta, implicated in the murder, met with a like fate, and another was convicted of murder in the second degree. Tits lake steamer MamtouHn, of the Great Northern Transit Company's Bne, was destroyed by Ore in North Georgian bay. Bar crew and passengers got off in boats, one of wMct upset, and two persons were drowned. . . . Flames broke out on Chestnut street. Leadvitte, and destroyed the Windsor Hotel, Academy of Hnsic, and a dry goods house called the Palace of Ftsbion, causing s lose of 8200,000 Gen. Pope telegraphs the War Department that the Hescateroannist be fed or thty will starve. As the Indian Bureau cannot giro them provisions, the army mutt feed them or surround them with enough troops to force a quiet starvation. Small-pox has bees introdnoed along the Missouri and Yellowstone by hnmjgranta, Then) are six cases at Miles City, tenatCHendrve and several at Bismarck The crop reports printed by the daily press are, with scarcely any except n, of a favorable tenor. In Minnesota and Dakota the spring-wheat prospects are of the very best, the cold weather having retarded the growth of the stalk, but at the same tune adding to the stock of vitality in the root, which is considered of decided advantage to the crop. From other wheat-growing districts the reports are favorable, and the com outlook is ako good. Thk Supreme Court of ICsaonri pronounced fonstitutional thetewmaldnggamhHng a felony, and issued a peremptory writ of manrlamns on the Judge of the Criminal Court of St. Ixjuis to. try the indicied players. . . .The Mora loos held an election hut week to adopt the cwtitotion framed for the State of Utah, the (nnitilcs remaining away from the polls. Arizona advices report that the hostile Apaches are Seeing back to American soil, having teen driven north bythe Mexican, who receive $300 bounty for eaoh scalp.

JTaAKiiT 15,000 persons gathered at Charlotte, N. a, on the 20th or May. to celehratii the 107th snnrrersary of the declaration of independence by residents of Mo -klenburg county. Senators 'Vance, Bayard, Ransom, Butler and Hampton were on the platform A Dallas (Texas) dispatch says that Frank James and. several of his most devoted confederate are now in Texas, with headquarters at Dallas ai d .a point of rendezvous not many miles from the city. Eightmarabers of Pinkerton's detective force are bow located in North Texat for the especial purpose of capturing Frank and Ins friendH. Am. the fine monuments in fits Jewish Cemiitery at Colmnbii, S. &, have been toppled over and broken by unknown vandals The crop reports from Missouri. Arkansas and Texas are very encouraging. In Texas and Arkansas, where the wheat harvest is in progress, the yield is excellent. A party of about 100 masked men took two desperadoes from the jail at Bolton, Texas, and hanged them to a live-oak tree.

Pmcbebmst Akthub attended the run-

oes at Waahington last week. .He is the

first President since Euekanaii to attend a horse rase during his incumbency. IV letter to a Washington payer Giittean drswa a parallel between hheoorng execution and the erncutxion of Christ, asserting that, in the one case as in the other, the wrath st God will descend upon the nation. Tt assassin wants unconditional pardon or nothing, and if he gem the pardon proposes to lecture under the an spices of some religious body or bnroau. Tub Grand Jury has returned new prewntmenta against Geo. Thomas 8. Brady, John Dorney, Stephen W. Dorsey, Hontf ort G. BerdeU, Henry ML Turner, J. B. Minor, X JC. Peck and Harvey M. Yaile, charging them with conspiring to defraud the United States m conrHclioa with awards in the star-rottte contract Ths Postmaster General Ion seat a letter to the House of Bepresentauvos reoommeiKling that postage on second-class matter (newspapers and magazines) be abolished. He state that fourth-class nutter (merchandise) is carried at a loss to the Government, and if the troveroment is to be taxed for the transport! tion of either class it should be for the second class. Tax official -rrespondence relating to American " snerectg" imprisoned in Ireland was I; etit to the House of Reuresentatxvcs. Minister Lowell says 10 was offdred each prisoner to induce him to leave the jail and the country ai the same time. BobkbtB. Hot, ex-Aseiatant Secretary of State, appeared before the House Committee on Foreign Affaira, and was exsonined toachinf matters connected with the Chilian-Peruvian investigation. Witness arranged an interview between Count De Montferrand, the representative of she Credit Industrie, and Secretary Blame, at which witness was present. The Count unfolded the plans of his company, which embraced a proteetrate by the United States, Mr. Blaine said he could do nothiBg and promise nothing. Tire 1900,000 left by Mr. Lewis, of Sow York, to reduce the publir debt, has been pbuMdatthe disposal of die Government.... A Ml i in the Senate and House Committees on Purt&fflcea and Post-roads providing for a private cn an ne-card that will replace the open postal now m use. rwtneu. Nnrxry delegates attended the Greenback State Convention at Harrittrorg. Thomas A. Arme-.roug was nominated for Governor, TiV. Pouderly for lieutenant Governor, and Bobert S. Tomlinouf or Conessraaa-at Large. ....The Indiana Democratic Convention will be h-ild at ImlunapolU on the 2d of August. Is is denied emphatically that there wassny truth or color of probability in the story that Mr. Blaine intended to take the stamp ia Penusylvanta against the Cameron ticket, or that the ex-Seoretary has any idea of gomg to Congress again. Tan Xational Committee of tin; Greenback-Labor party met at Ht. Lotus. Jckss Harper, of Illineiii, was elected Chairman, West Virginia was thu only State withcut a representative. Aa address to the eople was prepared and promulgated.

Ik Bottthern Illinois the prospect is good for a largor yield of winter wheat than for several years past. Corn is doing fairly, thorgh a good deal of replanting has been necessary, and riie fruit crop promises about half a yield. In Nebraska the outlook for small gram is very flattering, sad the potato ;.'?M nics fair to be much greater than ever before. Btntmro: Thirteen honnee in the Tillage of Chamois, Mo.; lose, (20,000. Oleascn's knitting mill, Seneca PalU, N. Y.; loss, ,- 000. Several business h:s in Olymjiis, Washington Territory ; bsa, 75,000. Holt'H woolen mill, at Swarthmora. Pa.; loss, $40, C00: tbe fail at Westminster, M(L, and the old CTr.i: buildiog at Was'oingtOD, D. OT. . .The Allaii steamer Progress was provisioned at Montreal and sent to the relief of the Peruvian, which was disabled in the Gulf of St. Lawrette by i. While the Progress was off Riviere do Loup flames broke our, and so rapid was their progress that three of the crew were burned to deati, and the steamer was dcntroyed. '.'be kwweweedtloe.OOO,

W. W. Rsa was executed at Pultwki, Twin , for tbe murder of J. T. Good rum. In the early morning he took a dose of mor)hine to escape the gauows, but his existence was prolonged. When the drop fell the knot supped up over bis face, tearing off bis beard and sending the blood streaming down his neck. Tbe same horrible lock attended the second attempt, and caused the spectators to disjerse. The third effort to hang the sufferer wat sneeessfnl. New York city also had a hanging, the victim being a negro named Leightoti Five of the bent brick blocks in Waxahrchie, Texas, valued at 9100,000, were swept sway by fire Thm National Rifle Association has issued an addreeH to the ra&Ua of the Slates, asking that they bring to the front their choicest shots tor the international contest at Creedmoor. M. TsLisssHPS states that a conlxaot has been signed by a Ban Fraucisco firm to excavate the Atlantic end of the Panama vana!, and he hopes to finish the enterprise by 1888. The ship Western Boll'), from Greontx k f or Quebec, collided with an iceberg in the At antio ocean, and was soak. Tbe Captain and thirteenAjf the ship's crew perished. LiATFR actuants of the burning of the lake prepeBes Mamtnulin, in Georgian bay, prove the disaster to have bn a dreadful hotocitust It is said that twenty to twenty-five

rwnanen m uie names or wore

Fm men -who attempted the destruction of a bridge on the Mexican National railroad were shot as soon aa caught. Snow and ice on the morning of the

33d of May ware the meteorological phencmena wrS a S7 wide extent of country in the temperate sons. Frost and snow were general throughout Iowa, Wisconsin and Northern Iltinoia. In many places garden vego ablea and rrmta suffered sevorely, but serious injury appears to have been the exception ratuei than the rule, while wheat, com and other rains escaped damage aHogother. wsHsiom By aa explosion of gunpowder at Copenhagen, Denmark, six "persons were lulled and many wounded A Dublin dispatch sayi: The fear of being arretted ia connootioc with ihe murderers of Lord Frederick Caveidish and Under Sticretary Burke is now so general in In 1 ind that peasantry traveling outstle of their districts apply to the ponce for passport. Many emigrant-i leaving the South of Ir aland for America resort to the same course. In the Spanish Chamber of Deputies the Minister of Justice announced that tho Government will next session introduce a bill establishing t ial by jury and a liberal penal code The British House of Commons, on May 19t pa'od the 'Repression bill to second reading by 383 io 45. Mr. Gladstone denied that the bill was the fruit of English resentment, and announced that the Government could not consent to the essential iinpaiimont of either the Repression or Arrears bills. Mr. Parncll expressed the hope tbat with the passage of the Arrears bill and other amendments to the Land act the league agitation might be ended, Ijf a speech to a meeting of Irishmen at Manchester, England, Michael Davit": disclaimed all sympathy with the recent mui dew, and declared that there could be no allianie between English Whigs and Irishmen m.til landlordism in Ireland was abolished. Divitt's plan for restoring peace and good order and suppressing crime in Ireland is for Gladstone to remove landlordism, military and police, i weep away Dublin Castle, and show toward Ir aland the" same confidence in its capacity for selfgovernment that ia shown toward Canada.... The Mansioa-Honse Jewish relief fund now amounts to 72,000. The fund committe i dispatch tiOO refugees to America weekly at b cost of .5,600. The present Czar of Bnssia has been in office over a year, but has not yet been formally crowned, the event of his coronation having been deferred from time to tune, owing to fears of Nihilistic interference. It it announced that the coronation, which wait appointed to take place in August, has (.gain been postponed for one year longer, a deep conspiracy -having been discovered against the lives of the Czar and his guest . . .

The insurrection in Dalmatia is at an end, the Crivoseiana having crossed the frontier of Montenegro and surrendered their arms to the troops Cardinal HcCabe, of Ireland, who has opposed the Land League, continues to re

ceive threatening letters, and his house III the city of Dublin is guarded by the poUoe.... Ger

many ana tne vaaean are raptor neanig a satisfactory settlement.

Affaibs in Egypt are still in a critical

condition, and the prospect is that the (amplications will increase rather than dimiiiish. Antria and Bnssia are reported to have agreed upon a concert of action, and it is supposed that both will strenuously object to the French plan of allowing the Ottoman Government to throw an army into Egypt in support of tbe Khedive. Arabi Bey still maintains his defiant attitude toward the English and French Consuls and seeai- to be prepared to fight it out on that line The British Parliament, foi tbe first time in several years, did not adjourn on account of the Derby. It will not be considered a p'eceden. however.

HE MUST BTAH&

Tlxi Serpreawfi Cawrt f tlu IMatrtct Ite-

iiiiun GaxiSeeua a Hew Trial, In the District Supreme Court at Washing

ton, Kay 2 Justice James announced tho decision of the court is bane upon the exceptiins in the Guiteau case, denying a new trial lind

fSrming the judgment below. Justice Hagner, in a separate opinion, discussed the bear

ings of tbe old Mary rand law, and held that

even under the Maryland act of 1785 the in

dictment would have been good in this Dis

trict, and Justice Cartter stated that the opinions given were the unanimous opinions of the court. The court holds that jurisdiction ia complete where a fatal blow ia struck, without regard to the locality of actual demise ; lliat tbe bullet fired at the President by Guiteau on the 3d day of July, in this city, was the satise of his death, and that the trial could only hive been held in Washington ; that the death of tbe President in New Jersey, except as affected by local statutes, could not change jurisdictkn. The assassin had not been in New Jersey, had committed no offense against New Jersey lava, and the mere fact of the victim being removed to Etberon to prolong his Hfe or save it, if peaBible, could not be made to affect the character of the crime. The intelligence of the decision of the eon rt was conveyed to Guiteau a few minutes after its announcement in court, and was received by him with stolid irjdiffcrenee. He said to t ie guard who gave him the intelligence that lie had not anticipated anything else. " My dependence is now placed in President Arthur," he sakL " I made him what he is, and he cannot afford to go back on me." The assassin has permitted his beard to grew and his face hi covered with stubble, whinh causes him to present a very nnattractive a

few weeks ago, and he did not know any one its yet capable of filling the vacancy. Gen. Crocker says tbat Guiteau is afraid to trait himself with a strange barber for fear that another attempt will be made on his life. His sole anxiety, said the General, seems to be tbivt he shall te properly protected from would-le avengers. The rnle in regard to viritors will be strictly enforced hereafter ; no one hut his guards and counsel will be permitted to see him. Speaking of the arrangements for his execution, Warden Crocker said that the preliminarit s could be arranged at short notice, tho only articles to be prepared taring a rope sod tho adjustment of a spring attachment to tbe scaffold. This gloomy instrument of death is in a direct line with the ccD. occupied by tho condemned, being ia the upper end of tbe north corridor, while bis oell is in the first corridor. The nre-Per-Cent, Bill. The bill which Teeently passed the Senate of tbe Cnited States, known as the "Five-per-oom Land Act," provides tbat lands entered by military scrip or bounty land warrants in ti e States of Ohio, Indiana, JJUnoia, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nibraska, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabamn, Mississippi, Florida, Oregon, Nevada and Colorado, including Virginia military and United States military land warrants located in Ohio, shall be construed to come within the provision of the law for payment to Statas of 6 per cent, of the proceeds of pabne lands disposed of within their borders; lands to be estbnated at the rate of Si. 25 per acre, and payments to be made in sash. It is aho provided that monsy remaining on the books of tbe treasury to the credit of any public-land States under the act Of 1836, which distributed the treasury surplus, shall not be charged as an offset agsinst any part of tbe amount coming to t ae State under this bill. The bill prohibits States from paying any part of the money received by them to agents yr attorneys for services in procuring the passage of tbe act or in connection with the claims of a State, unless ano'.i pajmeua are authorized by State laws pawed after the date of this sot. "Am now," shonts an xe cited exchange, " where shall we look for independence?" Oh, friend and brother, searching and long-suffering fellow-sufferer, look in the kitchen, look iq tUo kitchen I e-Wn7w gowkey,

D0I5G8 OF COHQRKSa. Mr. Cameron made a favorable report to tbe senate, May 16, on a bill appropriating 9100,000 for a public building at La Croseo. The Senate resolved to postpone for aniudofinito poHod tho bill to extend tbe patent of tho Spoudolow steam grain-shovoL A House bill cns passed authorising tho receipt of gold com in exchange for bars, A bill was passed for rolunding $22,231 to Hiram Johnson and forty-six others, it being the surplus of a military assessment loviod upon thorn. The li-por-cflnt. bill was taken up and amendments were offered by Messrs. Raulshury, Vance and Morgan, the latter proposing that pitymonl bo mode in cash instead of bonds. Messrs. Conger, Allison and MoDill also spoko on tho measure which wont over. Tho Houiie passed an act providing that any fornur citizen of the United Hiatus who has been naturalized in Groat Britain may publicly declare his renunciation and resume his privileges as an American citizen by signing an huitruinont to that effect. A bill was pa&sed to raako Non-port Nowsapcrtof entry. The National Bank Charter bill was token tip. Mr, Bucknor's ainondmont, to limit the extension to ten years, was lost by 9'i to 116. Mr. Springer offered a proposition that all charters shall expire twenty vears from next January unless Congress shall' provide lor an earlier period. Mr. Cannon offerod an additional section, which was adopted, providing that bants with a capital or 150.MM or less shall not be required to deosit with the Treasurer bonds ut excess of 910,000 as security for their notes. Ho then moved to reconsider and to lay that motion on the table, wbich was agreed to by 111 to 96. air. Bandall offerod an amendment, which was adopted, tbat in the reorganization of any bank stockholders shall be entitled to preference in the allotment of shares. Mr. Holman proposed that banks obtaining tho benefit of this act shall p.iy the cost of preparing plates for iiow notes, which was agreed to. For tho benefit of associations which do not reorpnn re, Mr. Crapo carried an amendment that their franchises bo Oxteudod long enongb to liquidate. Mr. Crapo moved tbat any withdrawal of circulation mutt be preceded by ninety days' notice. Mr. Culberson proposed that no bank bo allowed lo surrender mora than one-tent b of its circulation in any ono year, which was lost by &S to 116. The Speaker laid before the House papers rcls. ivo lo the impripouunnt of Thomas wields and Ctinrl s Webber in Meiiro. The Senate passed the 6-per-oont. Land but on the 19th lust, by a vote of 23 to 17. House bills for public buildings at Louisville, HanniImI, Detroit, Council Bluffs, La Crosse and Galveston, involving an expenditure of $1,975,000, also wont through triumphantly. Tho Garfield Memorial Hospital was incorporated. An act was passed to authorize tbe Texas and St. Louis railway to build bridges in Arkansas. Tbe H(tuso resumed consideration of tho bill to oxtend the charters or national banks. An amendment offered by Mr. Crapo as an hide nendeiit section was adapted, providing that bank! desiring to withdraw circulating notes must give ninety days' notice to the Secretary of the Treasury, and that not more than 96,000,000 of legal tenders shall be deposited for this purpose during anv month. By a vote of 109 to 82, Mr.

Crapo secured the insertion of another section, providing that the circulation issued to any bank shall not exceed the par value of bonds deposited, or be greater than 90 per cent of the paid-up capital An amendment by Mir. Bnckner to increase the reserve fund was rejected. After a score of other amendments had been defeated. Mr. MureU moved to lay the bill on the table, which was lost by j6 to KM. Following is the vote on the final passage of

the Mil : leas AJarlon, xMrr, xtayne, iicacn, Belmont, Bingham, Bliss. Briggs, Buck, Burrows (Mich.). Batterworth. Calking, Campbell.

Candler, Cannon, Carpenter, Caswell, Ciuse,

Harden bergh, Hams fJUass.), Harris (Si. HaakalL Heihnan, Henderson, Hisoock, Hotrw. ,...11 rr... ). cr ...... ll..t.i.... TmaU

Jadwin, Kclley, Eiots, Lewis, Lord, Lynch, Bioe (Ohio), Bice (Mass.), Bicb, Richardson

. x.j, rucnarason (s, v.), iutatua, ttoDcson, iliinsou nttus.). Bobinson fOhioi. Itots.

Bussell. Evan. Shelley. ShultK. Skin

ner. Smith (Pa.), Smith (III.), Smith (K. Y.), Covington, Crapo, Cullen, Davis (111.), Dawes, Deering, Demotte, Deuster, Dibble, Dingley, DnnneTl, D wight, Ermen trout, Eilis, Evina,

far well I lowai, r lower, uarruon, siason, jho-

i-ui v, JIU.VWU, a&wwuum, buouudj, nun) Miller, Moore, Moray, Mutcbler, New, Noroross, 0NetL Orth, Parker, Payson, Peeller, rierce, Bpaalding, Spoonej, Stonn, Strait, Thomas, Thompson (Iowa), Tillman, Townsend (Ohio), Tyler, Updegraff (Ohio), Updegrail (Iowa), Urner, Van Aernam, Watt, Ward, Watson, Webber, West, George, Godsbalk, Grout, Guenther, Hall, Hammond (N, Y-), Peltibone, Phelps, Pound, Prescott, Kannty, Ray, White, Williams (Wis.), WUletts, W. A Wood (N. Y.), Young 125. tfat Aiken, Anderson, Atkins, Beltzhoover, Bland, Blount, Bramni, ISmrows (Mo.), Calell, Caldwell, Finley, Ford, Forney, Geddes, Guuter, Hammond (Ga.), Hasseltine, Hatch, Hoge, Holman, Morrison, Muldrow, Mnrch, Bandall, Reagan, Rico, (Mo.), Shakelford, Shconton, Singleton (I1L), Singleton (Miss.), Cassidv, CJardy, Clarke, Clements, Cobb, Colerick. Converse. Cook. Cravens. Cnlbertaon.

Cutta, Davis (Mo.), Dunn, House, Jones (Tex.), Jones (Ark.), Kenna, Knott, Ladd, Leftvre,

auisu, matson, jucrienzie, jucjuuan, Money, Sprits, Springer, Stockslager, Thompson (Ey.),

lurner (us,;, mrner (rv.j, vance, Warner, Wei bom, Whitthorne. Williams (Ala.). Wilson

67. The measure was passed by 126 to 67. A joint resolution was passed appropriating $16,000,000 to supply pension defloinncins.

The House at its session on Saturday, May

80, agreed to tbe Senate amendment to the bill to authorize the receipt of United 8tatos gold com for bars. Mr. Calkins called up the contested election case of Mackey vs. O'Connor, from South Carolina. Mr. Bandall raised a question as to consideration, and on the d.vtsiou the Democrats refused to vote, the result being 118 to 1, lacking 27 of a quorum. A call of the House was ordered, and 211 were found to be present. The doors were closed, and the Sergeant-at-Arms -was ordered to bring absent members to the bar. A second vote on tbe question of consideration resulted in 119 yeas to 3 nays. Mr. Hiscock roported the General Deficiency bill, appropriating 96,428,317. Alter another fruitless call of the House, Mr. Calkius moved an adjournment, which was carried. The Senate was not in session.

In tbe Senate, May 22, Mr. Piatt opposed the

House bill increasing the pension of CoL D, X Thomas 920 per month in excess of his grade, and it was indefinitely postponed, Mr. Miller Introduced a joint resolution to authorize the President to declare martial law in Alaska. The Geneva Award bill was taken up, on which Mr. Hoar addressed the Senate.

Mr. Garland moved a substitute for tbe payniont of the insurance people. A

conrnunication from the Secretary of War asked a special appropriation of $25,000 to dispatoti a relief vessel to Lady Faanklin bay. The President sent tho following nominations to the Senate ; Louis Dupont Lyme, of Pennsylvania, Contml at Fnnchal ; Jobn W. Stone, of Michigan, Attorney of tbe United States for the Western district of Mioiiigan ; Fred Bo-

sencmns. Postmaster at Tocuinseh. Micb. In tin House Mr. Calkins called up tho South Carolina contested-election case Mr. Bandall moved an adjournment, which was lost by 82 to 112. He then raised a question of consideration, the vote showing no quorum. A call of the House disclosed the prefenco of 223 members. Tho doors weie closed, and too Ser-feant-at- Arms was ordered to arrest absentees, lo soon captured ono offender, who made a speech. After another useless vote on consideration and a second call of the House, an adjournment was effected. By a vote of 38 to 12 Ihe Geneva Award bill was passed by the Senate, without amendment, on Hay 23. Mr. Logan reported a provisioc to be inserted in tho Army Appropriation bill to esial lwh an army and navy hospital at Ho; Springs, Ark. Mr. I'ugh moved to reconsider the final vote on tbe Five-Fcr-Cent Land bill, liiclt prevailed. Mr. Groomo objected to the consideration of tbe bill for tbe admission or Dakota, and it was laid aside. Tho Houui resumed its struggle on the South Carolina contest! d election. The first vote on consideration showed seventeen lei-s than a quorum in at endanco, and the second revealed two more absentees. The bill for the teller of the officers and crew of the Monitor, which destroyed tbe rebel ironclad Morrhnan, involving about 9200,000, was passed by the Senate, at its sepnion on May 24. Mr. Logau put throu;;h tho House joint re olution sp; ropriating 910.000,000 to supply the deficiency m army pensions. In tbe House, Mr, Calkins caused to bo rend extracts Irom a letter written by Mr. Howitt, alleging tbat tho Elections Committee refused to investigate the charges of forgery in tho South Cit olina contested-election cuso. Mr. Calkins said the committee had never failed to iaquire into Ihe truth of any ohargo made bolore it, and Mr. Atherton denied the fetter statement. Nearly every momber was on bis foot, many peaking at once. Mr. Hewitt Asked t.n investigation of tho obargn of forgi ry, after which tie promised not to participate iu filibustering. A motion by Mr. Randall that tho House adjourn to Friday thowed that there was no quorum. A call of the House disclosed a quorum. Mr. Walker, of Pennsylvania, fell to the floor in a fainting fit. After filibiwtaring bad gone on for throe hours, Mr. Calkins advised members to bring live days' rations with them, and moved lo adjourn, wbich was carried.

A Quick JHurriagre. A Georgia couple presented themselves to a county Justice of the Peace, intimating that they desired to lie married as soon as possible, as the girl's parents w: re' opposed and would soon be present to stop proceedings. The Justice looked at the coupler, and, turning to tho peraoDs with him 8t, said;

" Hold on, boys, till I hitch this team." Then, to the anxious pair: "John, you want to marry MolUe?" "Yes, sir, quick 1" was the reply. "Mol&, you want to marry John y" " That's what I am here for, and the sooner the better." The Judge then asked all parties present to rise. "Now, John, ketoh hold of Mollie'ti hand; Mollie, ketch hold of John's hand. Now you are hitched, and in- the powor gin by the State of Georgy and the United States, and by the goodness of God, I pronounce you man and wife; and what this court has joined let. nothing bust asunder; if so, let him be marantha. Go forth, multiply, bring forth andreplenish npon tho faith of the earth. Amen I" NATIOXAL BANKS.

TheBlllPaMed b-ilie Lower lloute of Coiigreoa for the Resewal of '1 her Chnriern. The " bill to enable national-banking associations to extend their corporate existence," lis it rassed tho lower house of Congress, providos that any national-banking association may, at any time within two years noxt previous to the date of expiration of its corporate existence under the prtVcnt law, and with the approval of the Comptroller of the Currency, extend its period of succession, by amending its articles of association, for not more than twenty years from the expiration of the period of succession named in said articles of association, and shall have succession for such extended period unless sooner dissolved by act of the shareholders owning two-thirds of its stock, or unless its franchise becomes forfeited by some violation of law. Such amendment of articlea of association must be authorized by the consent in writing of shareholders owning not less than two-thirdB of the capital stock. Section 3 refers to the duty of tho Comptroller of the Currency in the premises, providing for special examination into tho affairs (if each association should be deem it neoi ssary. Section 4 has reference to jurisdiction of suits by or against, national-banking associations, placing such suits on the same footing in respect to jurisdiction as suits by or against private banks. Section 5 provides that when any nationalbanking association has amended its articles of association as provided in this act, and ths Comptroller has granted his certificate of approval, any shareholder not assenting to such amendment may give notice in writing to ths Directors, within thirty days from the date of the certificate of approval, of his desire to withdraw from said association, in vrhioh case he shall be entitled to withdraw the value of the shares so held by him. Section 6 is as follows: "That circulating notes of any association so extending the period of its succession which shall be issued to it prior to such extension shall be redeemed at tho treasury of the United States, as provided hi sections of the act of June 20, 1874, entitled 'An act fixing tbe amount of national-bank currency, and for other purposes,' and such notes, when redeemed, shall be forwarded to the Comptroller of the Currency and destroyed, as now provided bylaw. And when tlio amount of such notes shall be reduced to 5 percent of the capital stock of the bank issuing t he same, the association extended shall deposit lawful money with the Treasurer of the Uiiited States sufficient to redeem all its outstanding circulation as provided in sections 6.222, 8,224 and 5,225 of tho Bevised Statutes; and any gain that may arise from failure to present such circulating notes for redemption shall inuro to the benefit of tbe United States, and from time to lime as such notes are redeemed or lawful money deposited U.erofor, as provided by law, new circulating nobs shall be issued, bearing such devices, to be approved by the Comptroller of the Currency, as (hall make them readily distinguishable from circulating notes heretofore issued ; provided, however, that each banking association which shall obtain the benefit of this act shall pay tie cost of preparing the plate or plates for such new circulating notes as shall be issued by it, and all other costs incident to the substitution of such new circulating notes for old, in addition to the tax now imposed on banking aasocutiong by law." Section 7 has reference to such banks as do not desire to extend their charters, and extends the franchise of such associations for the sole purpose of liquidating their affairs until soot affairs are finally closed. Section 8 is in the following words : " Tliat a national bank now organized or hereafter organized, having a capital of 9150,000 or less, shall not be required to keep on deposit with the Treasurer of the United Staten United States bonds in excess of 910,000 as security for their circulating notes; r.nd stwh of those banks having on deposit bonds in excess of that amount are authorized to reduce their circulation by deposit of lawful money as provided by law." Section 10 provides tbat any national-lank, ing association now organized or hereafter organized, desiring to withdraw its circulating notes npon deposit of lawful money with tbe Treasurer of the United States ns provided in section A of -the act of June 20, 1874, entitled "An act fixing the amount of United States notes, providing for redistribution of nationalbank currency, and for other purposes," shall be required to give ninety days notice to the Secretiiry of the Treasury of its intention to deposit lawful money and withdraw its circulating notes : ProcSdal, That not more than 96,000,1100 lawful money shall bo deposited during any calendar mouth for this purpose ; and proviiletl fwrther, that the provisions of this section I'lmll not apply to bonds eilled for redemption by the Secretary cf the Treasury, but when Loads are called for redemption banks holding suoh called bonds shall surrender them th rty days after maturity of their call. Sectionll provides that, on deposit of the bonds, the association making the same shall be entitled to receive irom the Comptroller of the Currensy circulating notes equal in amount to 90 cereent. of the current market value, not

exceeding par, of United States bonds so trans-

lerrea ana aeuverca, ana repeals bwihu 9,111 and 6,176 of the Bevised Statutes. The concluding section reserves the right of Congress at any time to repeal this act and acts f which it is amendntory.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The convention of the Independent BepubUosuH of Pennsylvania convened at Philadelphia, and Senator Mitchell was called to the chair. When tins name of Charles S. Wolfe was read as a delegate, the convention rose to its feot and for.jcd him to exhibit himself. Maj. Moirick refused to be a. candidate for Governor, and ncminated Judge Daniel Agnew. Dr. Doane named State Senator John, Stewart, who received 139 vows to (!2 for Agnew. Levi B. Duff, of Allegheny, was. nominated for Lioutonaut Governor j Georgo Jtinkln, of Philadelphia, for Snprome Court Judge aud, William MoMiohael for Congreas-nmn-al-laige. Gbs. MiVNCWM, State agent for the distribution if supplies on tho Arkansas side of tbe Mississippi river during the lats overflew, writes to the Governor ol' Aritauia that the focond overflow was nearly at: disastrous as tbe first. Ho bays mora than three-fourths of the tillable bottom-lands ol Phillips comity are now under wator, with no Erpspect of being out before tho last of June, lis information is liihl Desha is in about the same condition, also a portion of Lro, Monroe and Crit tendon counties. The suff eiing among tho laborers iu these counties will bo greater than ever known. They are nearly all negroes, with nothing, and no means of oiifniiimg the absolute necessities of life. No merchant or planter will advance for them, as all hopes of making a crop are gone. Gon. Mangum fears if the Government doe ut feed them until they get work many will thu-ve. A NttMDEB of Mexicans with their families encamped near Igo's ranch in Southern Arizona. Some Amoriean laborers camped there, being drank, attempted to force tbe Mexicans to give up their women. This was resisted, and an affray followed in which seven Mexicans were killed and several wounded. A number of Americans were wounded, and it is expected -that three of them will din. .... Ono hundred years ago i.inety-aix Moravian Chrintim Indians wera barbarously butchered at Gnadenhutten, Oblo, by a party of white settlers, and on the 24th of May that quaint old Moravian town was thronged by thousands of visitori, from all ports of the country, att aiding tbe anniversary of this eveut which iwdms 0110 of the darkest and bloodiest piges iu tho annals of the whole country. There was a procession and speech-making, Gov. Foster being one of tho orators. Among tho interesting guests were three Indians viz., St'me Fish and wife and Jacob, of the Delawars tribe. They are lineal descendant or one of the murdered families, and camo from Now Fairfield, Canada Tho County Commiiisloncrs at Denver have arranged to ship eastward 100 slovenly and roholliouu Italians who wore brought there to work on railway extensions. The Benate Committee on Finance called Comptroller Knox before it to give his views on the necessity for extending nutioiiiilbank charters. He sii id that tnenty-lhrco institutions whose charters expired during Uuv had already gone into liquidation, audi most of them woru retirgiuiisciu with tho sainu stockholders atid titles. Judge Field hid decided that the prolongation of a national hanli would rnqnlre special legislation. The hunk hold 8Gl,000,'k)0 in United States bonds. These, tho Comptroller said, could remain on deposit as security for circulation shov 1J the House bill bucomo a law; if new bankii are tc be organized, a large portion must bo withdrawn. Of 6195,000 surplus which now strengthens tbe system, ho said tho greater amount must be div.dod among sliarenolden should the banks bo. forced into liquidation,

An explosion in Kohinoor colliery, at Sbonandoah, Pa., killei Martin and James Mnll (father and son), Owen Gallagher, Jamos McDonald, John P. Stiftt, Hanmel Hugo, and fatally injured John Lec and a Pjlander named Hatty LUeutynowicz. 'Clio bodies of the victims were shockingly mangled. BecmijATIONs ngr.sed njion by the Russian authorities provldo that Jews henceforth wil bo prohibited irom settling outside of towns and villages, except whore Jewish settlements already exist. The Jews are prohibited from tridiug 011 Sundays and Christian holidays. All contracts of purchase or tenancy with Jews are provisionally suqxmded A lively tilt occurred in the British House of Commons between Gladstote and Dillon. Tho l'rcrnior spoke with great warmth, and accused Dillon of indorsing outages in Ireland by 1'efiis.ng to aid the Coverumout in passing the Bovression bill. Dillon ro .orled that he had always denounced the outrages, and asserted that evictions only incited to tbe commission of crime. O'Do.inell, Borno Ruler, in denouncing tho Repression bill, said the Irish ought nover to rest until tbe admin stvative affairs of thoir country wore disenthralled from British Interference,

Oucerly Shaped Heads. (New York Evening Ft. Dr. Spitzka testified at the Guiteau trial that one indication of the prisoner's ill-balanced mind was. the irregular shape of his Load, one side being larger than the ottir-r. A Philadelphia hatter tbereupou Mint to the Ledger of iJiat city his book of diagrams, giing the shapes of Ui heads of many will-knowa Philadelpli'diM who hud never been suspected of ativ nioiitiil obliquity, but who, according to Dr. SoitzUa's theory, had better be looked after. The Ledger, comment iu;r on the halter's notebook, says: "Sometimes tho unbalancid bulge ia in front, sotui'tiuies in the buck but no two sill's are alie. Here is a lnad that looks Hie a mtssnapen Hint arrow-head: here is n monstrous 1 rotuberance behind the ear: here is ono that is an nobby as a potatue all around, this must; be a murderer's skull, and th .3 nu idiot's. Unfortunately for the theory, they nro the hatter's best customers ail of them highly respectable fanily men, and some ot them distinguished in public and privuto lift- for their ability, :intelligence and worth. A number of them are dead, and their accounts made up for this world, so that they aio beyond the reach of outbreaks of disposition. The seeming murderer was a prominent Judge, the idiot was a Governor of distinction, the nobby potato all gone hi one side, was a genial enterprising merchant. A Vice-President's head diagram which is in the collection would lead any court, were the Spiteka tesi: applied, to send the owner to an insane hospital. The veteran batter Knox, who has had forty years experience in fitting hats to to the heads of New York's best citizens, said that, in his opinion, remarkable men needed reionrkable hats, and that a head perfectly alike in shape and size on both sides was a curiosity. The number of a hat indicates nothing, but its circumference, and gives 110 clow to its shape; so that for all men whose heads depart materially from the standard shape, special blocks have to be made. The smallest man's hat sold is what ia called a 5 7-8 hat, having acircumforenoe of eighteen and threefourths inches, and the largest hat that Sir. Knox was ever called upon to make was a hat numbered 8 1-2, with circumference of nearly twenty-six inohes, made for a Pennsylvania Qualer. Out of forty or fifty of Mr. Knox's cards sho-v the head diagrams of customers whose heads would not til into ready-made hats, not one could be found which, if divided by a central line, wo aid show each sido to match the other. Some of the heads were nearly round; others were so long and narrow as to resemble the outline of a shoe sole more than what would be imppnsed to be the outline of a human head. Some heads present on the one sido a bulge, while on the other side there is a depression; others run to a point in front, and look like the section of a spinning-top. Edifoni prurtieularly seem to have heads -whie'i by no stretch of flattery could be called regular. Mr. Greeley's head diagram looks as if it might have been composed o' parts of boveral different heads. Gen. Butler's head is almost square, and twenty-inches in circumference. Mr. Robert Bonner's head is far from regular. Mr. Evarte has a long head, one side beiog larger than the other.' Henry Clay oncl Webster lwth had heads so peculiarly shaped that they were obliged to have hats made to order. In tho course of forty years' business, making hats for ali classes of men, Mr. Knox hud never noticed that either the size or the shape of a man's head had any tiling to do with his mental capacity or ability to pay his bills. He hid heard that the inequality in the sides of a man's head was due to the habit whicl persons have ot sleeping always on one aide, bat the peculiar knobs or bumps observable in many heads could not be accounted for upon that theory, although sleeping upon one side rright have an effect npon the relative size of the sides of tie head.

Cutting Up With the Patriarchs. A St, Paul gentleman named Bryant has contributed an article to an Eastern magazine in which he locks boras with the Bible on the qnestion of ages of Adam, Methnslafa., Noah and a lot of those early pioneers, and cuts down then ages to a mere bagatelle. At one fell swoop he lops 791 jeara off Adun, 845 oft' Methuselah and dismantleti Noah, whose age the Bible gives 350 year, to mere youth of 159. With all due respect to Mr. Bryant we mus t insist that he keen Ids hands off of these ancient people. There must bo no going behind tho returns. The Bible says xplicitfy, "And all the days that Adam lived vere 930 years, and hti died."This plain, unvarnihed statement has stood the test of more than 4,0W) years, has peen accept jd all over the world by Jew tttul Gentile at thesolemn trutb.only 'o bo culled in .iuet,tion at this lute day by a man iu St. Paul. It must lie another case of tlonr gas. We cannot; look at in any other light. The idea that Moses would go deliberately to work trad raise the figures on these old patriarchs, seven os eight bundled years, when no possible motive could exist for bis doing so, in all politics. Moses thou.jht just as much of his reputation, and wasevery bit as oaroful in matting his figures, as our Agricultural Commissioner is in making out his annua, report. He would not be likely to place s cudgel iu the hands of his political opponen ts, with which to knock liiro i a the head at the very next campaign, by stuffing iu a lot of tissue ballot years em suoh old settlers and respectable mtuseus as Adam, Methusidah and Noah. Bob Ingersoll has tried to prove tb at Moses mitde mistakes, but though Bob succeeded in proving the innocenoe of Brady and the other Star Route men, he never has knocked any large amount of stuffing out of this dead man, that baa been dead several thousand years. At least, in the opinion of most people the dead Moaes is several lengths aluadof the live Ingersol, and will come under the string first. The most intelligent men of all ages have been the Bible students, and when one considers how newspapers vary in thoir statements of facts, and how oven evidence in a court of justice will sometimes point both ways, it in moat astonishing how few tail leathern have been pulled out of that old Book by the smart Alecks who have taken clatter at it during 41,000 years. If statement that we make shall stand the racket as well for 4,000 years, wa shall be perfectly sausflrxL A Gazelle, er "Sich." "Before I was married," Baid Wiggs, with a mournful wg of the hoad, "I used to think I'd like to bo a great poet." "And what would you like to bo now?" "Anything," be answered solemnly, "that, could run fMtr than a md woitttta,"

FACTS FOB THE CURIOUS. Tas SomtiiOWeb Helianthus is a native of Peru and Mexico, where it is said to grow to the height of twenty feet or more. It was need 111 the at oient days by the Peruvians, who worshiped the sun, the god of the day, the virgins who otSoiated in the temple of the sun being crowned with helianthuses made of pure gold, and also wearing thrtim on their b.reasts and carrying them in their hands, which, reflecting the rays of the luminaify by tho brilliancy of the taetal, created a grand and imposing effect Tbe Spaniard!), who had leen tiaazed and dauzled at tho display of gold, were still more astonished when in May they b&w the fields of the New World covered with these bright flowers, which they inioginiid at first sight wera compelled of the precious metal. Tan Ant's Antics. The ant is ravenously fond of being eaten. Before the picnic table can be spread he will be mixing himself freely with flne sugar, ha will be in the cells of the bread, ho will be bathing in the milk, and he will bd lost in the molting butter. Whatever we are to eat, he will be a part of it. He seems bound to get at the inside fctn of human nature. But he is equally eagei for the outside. One division will go down a man's neck and other divisions countermarch up his arms and aakles. One reason why, in spite of reason and fatigue, picnic parties always have a dunce on the lawn the moment the lunch is over is to shake out the ante from then? clothes. Nobody ever really assigns this reason, but they all feel it, and feel the ants, too ; hence their antics. What is a Obyptoobapr ? Hure ia an easy specimen; can you retid it? "Efbs mjuumf gpmlt xibn ep zpv uijol ?g nz dszquphsbpi 7" Not at first sight, dare isay. But When I tell you to take, in the place of the letters I have written, those which immediately precede them in the alphabet, it is easy enough to decipher die sentence thus: "Dear little folks, what do you think of my cryptograph ? Cryptograph means to write iu secret characters, and is derived from two Greek words, kruptot, hidden, and grayhein, to write. Now, if yon wish to write letters to one another in this style, you must settle s key to your cr yptography -beforehand. Thus, supposing you agree to use letters three spaces behind these you intend, then k woulci stand for n, a for d ; anil vou would write April thus : Xmofi. But when once you understand the system, you can invent any number of koys on your own account. Of course you understand that the letter one space Before a must be z, two spaces y, and so on, A Miohtt ItrvBB. There is a river on the coast; ia the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows its banks, and its bottoms are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gnli of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic sens. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the vorld no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand tithes greater. Its waters are of as indigo blue. They are so distinctly marked that their line of junction with the common sea water may be traced by tie eye. Often one half of the vessel may ba seen floating in the Gulf Stream water while the cUier half is in the common witter of the sea; so sharp is the line, and such ia the wont of affinity between those waters, and such, too, the reluctance, no to speak, on the part of those of thei Gulf Stream to mingle with the commGn water of the sea. Ax a Loss fob a Wobd. Many persons in perfeet health are often at a loss for a word, but in tho diseases ofxrtd age this is very comnren ; although it often happens that the first lettani of words are recollected. A furmar, 50 years old, had a stroke of paralysis, resulting in a painful hesitation of speech, which, however, was confined only to nouns and proper names. He could, moreover, recollect the first letter of every word he wanted to use, but could not recall the worditself. So he toade a list of the words he was most in the habit of using, and put them down on a paper in alphabetical form, including the names of his family, his servants and acquaintances. This he kept conveniently in his pocket If he wished to ask anything about a cow, he would turn to tho letter 0, and, finding the word "cow," would keep his finger upon it until be had finished his sentence and introduced the word. So long as .lie had his eyes fixed upon the written letters he could pronounoe the word "cow" at the proper place, but the moment he shut his book it passed out of hti. memory and could not be recalled, allhcugh he still recollected the initial and could get at the word by turning to his book. Although he could not recollect his own name or those of his aoquiiintanises, he never was at a loss for the initial of the word he wished to use. Embalming. The origin of the practice of embalming is lost in antiquity, and of thti many suggestions offered as to the mot.,ve for it, the most plausible one, and the one still active, is the desire to preserve from the natural processes of destruction the forms of those specially worthy of honor. Whether or not any views of the imniortality of the soul, or of the resurrection of the body, may have originally led to this practice we cannot pretend to discuss here. It is a custom singularly at variance with the operation of natural laws, brt quite aa obviously in harmony with the- natural desires of the bereaved. It has c ccited but small attention in this of recent years, though so great a man as William Hunter made strenuous efforts t perfeot a system of embalming. At the present day the Italians ore the great proficients in the art, which is mainly practiced by the professors in anatomy, who endeavor to keep then; particular mode a profound secret, and let mystjry screen from- view tit a compotiition of the ingredients mied. Ono element commonly emt loyed is a salt of zinc, or arsenic The objects to be aimed at , in addition to the prim, one of the delay or entire prevention of decomposition, are tho maintenance of the natural contour and color, and the smallest possible disturbance of tho corpse. The Italian professors embalm without evisceration, injecting their flails into the aorta, and by their preparations they are able to preserve the features quite utktltered, or rather with all the wrinkles and furrows of age and disease obliterated; the hotly assumes a pure, white color, and is then practically iudcstruetiblo. The Italian still practise in some cases a process of petrifaction, by which corpses become so hard that they can be submittiid to the sculptors chisel and preserved as articles of fttrnittuo and verlxu Maternal Affcctiou. Tho .axoavations among the ruina of Pompeii continue to develop streets, houses, temples, statues and huaian remains. This city was destroye-? by an eruption of Vesuvius seventy-uiiie years lifter Christ. A shower of purnniice stones fast fell, then ashes, and then boiling water, which made & compact mass, ti'lling the streets, and at length covering the entire spot where : stood. Not lout; since a woman and child, the latter a boy about 10 yars of ago, were unearthed about ten feet above tie pavement of a street. She is supposed to have benn the mother of the boy, who is oumatttod as from siokuess, and made au effort to escipe with him through a window of her house. Her hsn is grasp the- legs of the boy, ond in the not she and he were sujiFocated and buried benetith the Vbsuvian mass of atones and ashes. Jewels were found on her showing her to lie aliovo the ordinary class. On the arm around the lad ore two bracelets, and on her Jiamla two gold

rings, one set with an emerald, graven wth a Lorn of plenty in honor of mythological Ceres, and the other on awetbyst, on which is graven the head of tho winded Mercury. Tho discovery exhibits the maternal instinct strong in death, for the hold npon the sick boy is firm and motherlike. This is the most beautiful and touching of all the discoveries of tho once gay city of Pompeii. GEMS Ol1 THOUGHT.

Who can answer where any road leads to? It is ever wrong to say a good man dies. A mam's good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. Hit surely is most 'in want of another's patience who has none of his own. Ik tbs great inconstancy and crowd ol events, nothing is certain except the pust It is no good reason for a man's religion tbat He was born and brought up in it. Evbbt man is bound to tolerate the act of which he has himself given the example. Education begins the gentleman; but wading, good company and reflection must finish him. . A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry; but mouey answeroth all things. A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never m iking a mistake, as by never repeating it . PovrsBTT is the only load that is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in supporting it. The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn; not knowledge but power. TBaiF!r of time will repay you in after life with a usury of profit beyond your most sajiguine dreams. Olad-ilone. Tkk unwritten only still belongs to thne: Take heed and ponder well what tliat shall be. JC W. Lonytlio. . Unjust criticism and false accusation are, in the long run, more injurious to the press than to its viotims. Garfield. Bsaa through sorrow, wrong and rati, In thy heart the de-w ot youth, On thy lips ihe smile ot truth. M. W. Usctlov. A. woman is the most inconsistent compound of obstinacy and self-sacrifice that I am acquainted with. JRichter. One wit like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a ist and flavor to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage. It is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversion toward society, in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast. Depotism can no more exist iu a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before tho sun is set. Though there's folks nowadays know wlwtt happened before they was born better nor they know their own business, Qeurge Eliot. Books are among man's truest consolers. In the hour of affliction, trouble or sorrow, he can turn to them with confidence and trust. Every idea, from the moment of its emergence, begins to gather material force, and after a little while makes itself known. JSmerton. Hovah calculation cannot limit the influence ol! one atom of wholesome knowledge, patiently acquired, modestly possessed and faithfnlly used. Wisdom is the rig-lit use or exorcise of knowledge ; and differs from knowledge' aa tbe nse of which is made of a power or faculty ilifl'ers from the power or faculty itself. It ia amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer, indicate the temperament. HeUeraea and American Girls. , London Times. A man otJling himself Count Gnstava Bink appeared in Montreal some time since, took rooms in a fashionable hotel, and was soon welcomed in the best jooi!y. He became engaged to a beautiful roung lady,, the daughter of an influenial citizen, who, it is said, was dasrded or his description of his estates, palaces tiid the bri liant position which fee would sveher in Paris. "Count" Gustave, however, was detected in stealing a watch, a week before the time set for the marriage, and turned nit to be a professional thief well-known to the police of New York. This young tidy was fortunate in bung resetted before marriage. Hardly year passes that does not record the ruin of some wealthy Amerian girl iu our cities, who is tricked into Slurrying a sharp adventurer who has personated a foreign nobleman. In a well-kuown ease in Philadelphia, a few years ago, the "count" was the j'ood-lookin.j son of a mulatto barber, who gained some money by gambling, which he spent in clothes and jewelry. He took rooms at the most expensive hotel in the name of a member of the French embassy. He was received and crossed by fashionable society, and finally married the daughter of a banker, within half a dozen squares of the alley where his father plied his trade and his mother kept a laundry. The weddad pair started for Europe, but in New York he forged a check for $110,000 on Ids father-in-law, was arrested, tried, and is now serving out his term in the penitentiary. American girls, in time, will learn caution and self-respect from suoh lessons. They out to knovr that the prejudice of caste, is so strong in Europe tliat no nobleman will coiaevto this country Ut look for a wife among the daughters of our tradesmen, lawyers and doctors, unless he wants her dower to build up hia shattered fortunes. The "count," eveu if real, who proposes marriage, is almost inevitably mercenary and vulgar, even tlough the blood of the Howards Tuna in hw veins. Do not held yourselves cheaply, girls. Marry no man," foreign or native, whose antecedents are not known, not only to you, but to your fatfaor. You will lose nothing by your precaution. If "your suitor Js-a true, honorable men he will bo glad to show yon his past life, and he will value his wife all the more because she did not utand ready to drop into his arms. The Way to Look at, is. In all labor there is poetry, if we can but find it, cwtitainittg its deepest meaning and its truest realities. One mechanic sees nothing beyond his tools and their daily use; another beholds the civilization or refinement which his work is dmly spreading. One merchant measures his business only by the yearly account of profit and loss; another sees it in extent of commerce, the employment given to labor, triumph of honest principle. One physician looks at his profession only (is a ladder for his own. advancement and popularity; another beholds suffering assuaged, diseases overcome, sanitsjfy habits enforced, healthful tiving secured, happinoas increased. One woman sees in her house only on area of hard work and physical comfort; another sees exquisite picture of possible happiness, h,nor, development and viine which may be cherished with it, and may issue from it to bless society and strengthen the nation. It is only a ttese higher truths of labor bocome "vividly pictured in the imagination thai labor itself can rise to its true position. Its poetry is its best reality, and ennobles all its prose of hard work or dry details. It is now claimed that the first time

tha expression "Eureka" was used was when Socrates sat down on ft tack for w) ioh ho had been looking,

SCIENTIK(3 MISCEIXAVY. , Tin Librarian of the Alesaandiina Library at Bonis, Professor Delfues, claims to have nvidence tint a gijeit., Egyptian obelisk is buried in theviciiiity of tho Piazzi di Ban Luigi di Franoeai, near tho side entrance to the Senate. Tub element enesium has been sect ted in an isolated condition by German chemist, Herr Hetterberg. - It is foind to be a silver-white metal, resembling

sodium ana pote um in general oe-

itavtor. tjsesuiui naa nunerto rewfteoj ;i ail efforts to separate it from its cnnbination with oxygen. AocoBDisa to P. L. Bolster, P. It 8 the term lipotype, which is oomparatitely new to science, is employed to indicate animals which we should naturally expect to meet but do not find in certain parts of the earth. For instance, Australian linotypes are monkeys, "ultures and woodpeckers. W. H. PBSBoit, F. B. &, states that the explosion of 11 cannon can oe heard to a, distance ot twenty- to twenty-:!v miles; and instances are known where the boartbnent of a town has been heard

ac a aunanoe or .too miiea. 11 is vary well known, be U links, that tL." roar of the guns st Wahnloo was heard on Vfts English ooHBt, more than 100 miles ft OK the battle-field. Tub sand of the Sahara Desert ia sometimes heatoc. to s temperature ot, 200 degrees Fahrenheit by the vertical rays of the sun. Thie gives rise fax scorching wind the dreaded simoon which is rendered still more terribli by the burning parti ales of sand, it .carries along. In 1813, Burkhart recorded U2 degrees in the tlade during the pre valence of this pec tuentisl blast. Teds story is told of the famous German scientist, Ale xander Vou Humtoldfc, that, being engaged inaexperimenta with Gay Lussac in Paris and needing a anmber of glass tubes on which a heavy duty was imposed, lie instructed the mantvfaotnrers to seat the ends of tha itaUea and label them "German air." The air of Germany was not on the list of dutrpaying articles, and the tubes duly passed the custom oifioera without sir demand. Tan ground m the Jura mountains is in a state of movement, as is shown bj some curious observations pointed out by M. Girardoi Villages that wre invisible to each other at the beginning of the century, or even thirty or forty yean ago, are nowvuole. First the races appeared, acid then the upper part of tha walls. Such is the case with the villages of Diicier and Marigny, near Lake CIaIain. Important changes have been noted even within ten 3 earn. The ventilation of the, . great Alpin tunnels under Mont Cents and tlie St. Gothard so as to free them quickly ttont the smoke of trains has been a wort; of much difficulty. It has been proposed to create a current of air by the kisepmg of large fires at one end, but the exponas has been f jund uxcesiive, A FresoA engineer, M. Prossel, suggests thtat tfa same object ms.y be attained1 by cooling the air at some point in the tunnel by water, which would give the difference in density of the atmosphere nee ess try tocouse a draft. Goat mountain aireama are numerous iit the Alps, and could bs readily applied to the purpose. A Thief in tho lima sf the Begcaey.

AU the Tear Boerad. In the early port of his career louladler usually conducted his operations tingle-handed; he nevertheless ooeasionitlly availed himself of ihe aid of an ucoomplice, as in the following ir stance - Strolling into a theatre one evening, he remarked among the spectators well-known mifquis, evidently more bent on diaplayiag his airs and graces than on listening to the actors, and: ev-wy now and then indulging in a phioh of frnufffroma magnificent gold box set around with bril iants. The opportunity was too tempting to be withstood, d Poulailler, who had already recomiixed a confederate standing at one of ths side entrances ot the pit, contrived to exchange a few words with him, after which he quietly edged his way tliroigh

tne crown aa pineu ouani aauniair ly behind the Maxquis. Presently, addressing tbe latter in a low tone, ha inquired if he might take ihe liberty of requesting him to turn his nice a title' to the right "Why so?" asked the ab)nishedueau. "I ought not to betmy secrets, Monsieur," was the reply; "Irat you will not pea haps be offended when I toll you that a friend of mine one of our most talented painters who is now standing near the pit door on our lift, has been commiinioned byaeertain h 4t of the court to sketch your Txirtrait, and has just made a nign to me sigcifyng the attitude most favorable for tho parpose." The Marquis looked ia the direction indicated, and perceivitig sa in- ."'.: 3 1 .w:.nMl mv.A nA4AtMfr lift

IUVIUUW WtVU UVM - - Ids hand, whose eyes wereinteuU ffbiad on him, never for an instant doubled the story, but, charmed with the homage thus paid to his faseinatmgtntlerior, negligently pocketed hia snuff-box, tsal

assumed wnat no consioerea 10 oe as irresistible pose. "WiU tha. do?" said, he. "Admirably," replied hisnenrhbor. "Seep as you are for a tew mumtra longer, and the likeness will bepeM-fect Five minutes elwtad, and tbe Msrqiw,

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