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MT LITTLE LAD AMD L
ST CX.A3K W. BBTAJt I take a little hand in mine. And nft the village stmt; With chirp and chatter aa weaja. In mingled convene sweety And pleasant salutations . From every one we meet; Dear Httle lad and I. I tab the State hand in mine, Tbe!imb a neighboring bin. Tie pluck -wild flowers or to trees' A 1TirfM'tr mountain rill. By which, when weary or aAttres, We pail to drink onr SB, ' Sear little lad and I. I take two little handa in mine, My boy upon my knee ; I Baton to a pleasant votee, Made rich with notes of glee ; I feel a breath against my cheek, A breath cf lite to me, Dear little lad and I.
I take those MtBe handa in. mine; 1 hear aprat-Jtr's tongas ' B-r-teatfafg clilMishtl-oughts ana) aflaga 8o sweetly sird and sung ; ' In harmony with spiri harps, JVthegrrtmlyiric atx-aag;
With those two little hands in miaa, I think of other days ; One generation, fall of years Between onr parting ways. And yet onr soul3 clasp handa aoroai n ehasmin elose embrace; Dear little lad and I. Those little hands, so Tory fair, ti&od keep litem ever, white; -nose little feet, unfettered yes, It ay they e'er walk aright ; ffcatHUle Ufa, so'wreeioas now. Hay it be ever bright. Dear little lad, pray T
mS' JOHNSOir$ WILL J&Wx DsmsttteBto Own TtMfc foomVin: was the junioa partner in tte Siim of -Blumley k Fox, the prfnrfpal tolWtOTB in the somewhat dead-alive old tmtha-diaaiown of Sl-Jmboroneh. He was
aaiaut, well-set-up young man of two or fltMM Inst thirty, with carefully tnnmied Haet wniskers, a silken manner, and an unlimited now of more or less entertaining small talk. Hence it came to pass that he was an exceedingly popular man among Hit. taffies of Slumborongh, both old and yonng, and had his views lain in theehrection of-iaaferimony, he would have had small difficulty in inducing any damsel or widow to share his lot. Bat the handsome solicitor was ambitions; his share in the business did not at present bring htm in mora than a moderate income, and he had long ago determined that when he married he most consider not only beauty but more solid advantages. Heiresses, however, were not plentiful in Shmborough, and so, although Mr. Fox's attentions frequently fluttered a bosom, he was careful not to commit himself too far, and not-even the local gossips cqnld fairly say of him that he had knowingly raised false hopes. There was, indeed, one yonng lady who had marie a deep impression upon the solicitor's heart, but she was a daughter of a country magnate, with whom poor Mr. Fox was not even on visiting terms. He had met her at the annual hunt ball, she had danced twice with him, for Mr. Fox was an excellent walrzer; but her mother-had doubtless warned, her against him, for when next they met, some six weeks afterward, Miss Laqnerton did not recognize him. Miss Laqnerton, however, was lovely and rich, and Mr. Fox was not a man to he easily discouraged. He knew that if he could only afford to cut the office and blossom into . a landed proprietor, he would hare just, as good a chance with her as anybody else, so he watched patiently in the hopes of one daw discovering the road which leads to fortune and success. The fin of Plnmley fc Fox was a-highly respectable and old-fashioned concern, which avoided litigation and kept almost entirely to family business. Plumley was a faMy good lawyer, bnt Fox's legal knowledge was of the most limited character, and he was much too lazy to take the trouble to increase it. So it came to be understood between them that while Plunder did the office work, Fox kept the clients in good hnmoi by calling on them apropos of noth
ing and anrming them with, his jokes and
stories. This business was technically termed "keeping the connection together," and it suited Mr. Fox very well indeed. It was while he was thus keeping the connection together that Mr. Fox made the
acquaintance of a certain rich old widow lady, named Mrs., Johnson, and so well did ha play his cardx that before long Plumley k, F0X5 became Mrs; Johnson's family solicitors and agents and confidential
advisers. The firm made a pretty good
thing out of Mrs. Johnson. In accordance with the usual arrangements, Plumley
transacted the business, and Fox became a constant visitor at her house, and worked
his way into her good graces by his wonder-
fid powers of amusing conversation.
There was yet another accomplishment
which stood onr solicitor in very good stead,
and this was an accurate knowledge of chemistry mid medicine, which he had
picked up as a boy at the office of his uncle,
the-- chemist. The horrible smells young Faw hacf created in his experiments, and
the Bgty stains he had made on his hands,
determined mm to forsake medicine for law, bat he never entirely forgot his early
experience. He could talk fluently about
every known drug and disease, and about
a great many which had not yet been dis
covered. He diagnosed Mrs. Johnson's
symptoms at least as well as MacBotos, the
Scotch doctor, and would even have pre
scribed for her had not the stalwart Scot
angrily threatened to kick him if he did so.
But he retained a very prominent place in
the old lady's affections, and it began to
be whispered about that he had an excellent chance of succeeding to her very
considerable property.
The disposal of Mrs. Johnson's money
was a matter which had long furnished
speculation of unfailing interest to the
town of- Shhnborongh, and filled many a yawning gap in conversation at afternoon teas...- Mrs, Johnson had bat one relative in tp world, Miss Lizzie Roberta, the tttntf" of her late sister. This young ldr. however, it was agreed, had not the
- aHghtest chance of being mentioned in her
aunt's will. A handsome, well-bred girl.
she was left at her parents' death to make
her own way in the world, Inheriting noth
in hot the battle of life and the dislike of Mis. Johnson, who had not seen the child
since it twitted its baby clothes. This
strange antipathy was traceable, as peo nle said, to tinvjs gone by, when Mr. Bob
erts, Lizzie' father, then renowned for his
manly beauty, had been an assiduous wis
Hot at the boneo of. Mrs. Johnson's parents.
She being the oldess daughter, and taking
aft his attention for herself, had felt
keenly as a personal insult when her sister dared to "snatch him away;" and even later on, after having made a much more
brilliant match herself, she could never taoiratais early defeat, Death va had
not buried the grudge, which hod, not unnaturally, passed from mother f o child. How far this saying may have been true or not, one thing is certain, poor Lizzie had not the ghost of a chance of ever seeing a single penny from her aunt's money-box; her claims were clearly quite out of the question. There remained, then, only Miss Nellie Brown, Mis. Johnson's lady companion, and Mr. James Fox. Mr. James Fox knew from his partner, who had cautioned him in a friendly way, that Mrs. Johnson was not going to divide her fortune, but would leave the whole of it to her "truest friend." though she had evidently not made up her mind as to who deserved that title. More than once had Mr. Plumley been summoned to draw up a new will, so slight an nnnoyance as a cold cup of tea having caused her to destroy the one in Miss Nellie's favor. Then two days' neglect on the part of Mr. Fox and a conatant snpply-qf hot tea at the hands of Miss Nellie, again .-reinstated this lady in Mrs. Johnson's good graces. Mr. Fox, therefore, had' good cause for anxiety as to what would be the exact state of affairs when the old Indy-was finally called upon to join the majority. "With such an old woman," he said to himself, "who is ready to make a new will any day and to burn it the next, there is no dependence, one's future hangs upon a whim; a remedy must be found. The safest thing would, of course, be to make love to Miss Nellie; she is rather thirtyish' .and not altogether attractive; still, if she were to get all the money she would be anything but undesirable." So Mr. James Fox set to vork at once to make himself agreeable to Miss Brown, yet without going too-far; for he had by no means forgotten Miss Laqnerton, but he felt it was better to have two strings to his bow. and therefore he determined to do his best to keep Miss Nellie in good humor. This lady, however, was not so easily satisfied as the solicitor expected, for now he
had once begun to paw her attentions, she wanted a decided offer of marriage, and,
not being able to get it, she took refuge
in a stratagem.
This consisted in suddenly making the
discovery that Mrs. Johnson s health was in absolute want of some German waters
in fact, she decided that ii was quite dangerous for her to spend the spring in Eng
land, with all the changes of heat and cold.
The old lady was therefore fully persuaded
to yield to such tender solicitude, and awa'y
the couple went, leaving Mr. James Fox in
rcther awkward dilemma. What was he
to do? If he wrote cool letters to Miss
Nellie she would be offended, and all his
chances would be lost in the event of her inheriting Mrs. Johnson's property; on the
other hand, if he played the part of her lover, he committed .himself and gave her the materials for a breach-of -promise case should the good lady die when his name
only figured in her will, and should he then turn his attention to Miss Laqnerton.
What, then, could he do?
The worthy Fox was battled for a mo
ment, but after deep deliberation he hit upon a great idea which his chemical studies suggested to him. Canceling to
himself, he went to a chemist's shop, pur
chased several drugs and mixed and remixed them until a magnificent black ink
was produced, which had the grand advantage that in about ten days after being commuted to paper it would fade away, without leaving the slightest trace. Em
boldened by the happy result of his experi-
9, he became at once the most tender
and zealous correspondent any woman could wish for. His letters, in fact, over
flowed with promises of everlasting devo-
Miss Nellie beamed with joy, for
she was now convinced how true and unselfish was the attachment of her admirer.
Voder the circumstances is was not sur
prising that the German waters speedily did
Mrs. Johnson so much good that her careful nurse considered the cure could be shortened, and accordingly the couple returned to England much earlier than had been expected.
Whether, however, the waters had really
disagreed with the old lad;-, or something
els..' had upset her, was never quite clear, but soon after their return to England her health and strength began seriously to fail.
She complained bitterly that Miss Nellie
had induced her to undertake an unneces
sary and useless journey, and ever since Bho had neglected her altogether. The end of it was that one day, in the height of her anger, she burnt the then existing will, and
made Mr. James Fox the sole heir to every
thing she possessed. This decision seemed to have exhausted her remaining energy, for she died not many days after.
Mr. Fox, who had been apprised of the
stote of affairs by his partner and friend, almost lost his senses; still his excitement did not prevent him from investing some money in hat-bands and crape, and looking as mournful as if the serrow of the whole
world rested on his shoulders. Miss Nellie, too, melted away in tears, and could only be comforted by her Jamie, as she now called Mr. Fox. But the latter seemed to have turned quite dull with grief. He did not appear to understand her at all, and as day by day she became more demonstra
tive, he grew toss affectionate. The afternoon before the funeral Miss Nellie was
extremely brokea-hearted, and amid her sobs remarked how comfortable and happy she had always been 'with her late friend. To her astonishment Mr. Fox attempted to eemfort her by saying with cool civility: "1 hope you may soon meet again with such a happy hone as yon have had here till now."
On hearing thi Miss Nellie's tears sud
denly dried up, aad, with eyes dilated with
astonishment and anger, she cried: "It is
you. whom I expert to make me this happy
home!"
Mr. Fox, howewr, simply shrugged his
shoulders, saying: "I do not deny that I may haVe once hid such ideas; but of late
I have grown wiser. Everything alters in this world; why, then, should our opinion not do the same? This is what we call
progress.
Upon this he bewed and left Miss Nellie
crying and fainting in an arm-chair.
He did not hear anythir g of her till a tw days later, wlen a gentleman called upon hi w saying that he had been enti tinted with Miss Nellie frown's affairs, and suggesting that perhaps Mr. Fox, before they went any further would prefer making some private arrangement about his breach
of promise of marriage witn his client.
"And what protf of that promise has
Miss Brown exceit her saying so?" asked
Mr. Fox.
"Oh," answered the young man, "1 have
seen a box full of letters from you." "Have you read, them?" continued Mr, Fox, sarcastically. .
"Not vet," replied tin other, "but I have
teen the box."
"Well, you had tetter go and read them
first before you tak any further steps, and if wmoanfiBd a liiude line from me to
Miss Brown I am quite willing to Jpt her hnvo ample damages without ihoir beiug awarded by a court of law." There was something so diabolical about Mr. Fox that the young defender of innocence found it best to retire for the present, leaving his opponent to rnli his hands triumphantly and build castles in the air about the country seat nnd the horses aad carriages ho was going to bny in order to dazzle Miss Laqnerton, whom he felt justified in seriously thinking about now. Miss Nellie had meanwhile lieen informed of the conversation at Mr. Fox's office, and, with an indignant exclamation about "sn -h incredible untruths," she went to fetch her lettor-iiox. There, sure enough, were the letteis, nil in little packets, neatly tied 'ip in blue and pink ribbons; but, strange to say, she conld not see an address, and, oh, heavens! when she undid the packets they contained nothing bnt paper all white paper, without a single word on it. The wily lawyer had evidently deceived her by some demoniacal trick. The shock was so great to the poor lovesick lady that she had scarcely the courage to show herself when the will was to be read; bnt she rallied at last, hoping against, hope that it might still be in her favor, when she conld treat with scorn and contempt her faithless lover and his paltry damages, Mr. Fox, although he considered himself already master of the house and everything in it, felt considerably excited ou tae morning of the day appointed for the reading of the will, and when Mr. Plumley, as chief executor, sat down anil slowly got his spectacles out, his junior partner oamo over so faint and his heart fluttered to such an extent that he faneied nil his hopes and beautiful castles in the air were ci ambling away in a tirearn. Why did not his old friend at once read the document? Why did he make the suspense so unbearably long? Why did he continue to slaro first at the paper in his hand, then at those around him, and then once more at the paper, without uttering a single word? And then, at last, when he did speak, why did he stammer: "I I do not know; I see nothing in fact, it is the same paper, but" Could it be? Yes, sure enough, there was the paper on which the will had been made out, but there was nothing upon it now; it was merely a blank, a white sheot ! "Good heavens! With what ink did yon write out that will?" burst out at last Mr. Fox. "With what ink?" repeated theold gentieman indignantly, "with your ink. Aa I found the inkstand up stairs dry, and the old lady was in such a deadly hurry, I rushed down myself to get some, and seeing your bag in the hall, I took from it the little inkstand which you always cany about." Mr. Fox turned deadly pale, and, without saying another word, vanished, like his
ink, before anybody had found time to ask for an explanation. When the rest of the company had composed themselves again
Mr. Plumley said:
I know that the testatrix had destroyed
all former wills, so thtt there is none at all in existence, and by law, therefore, the
nronpitv will go to the next of kin. I
know, also, that Mrs. Johnson had no relatives whatever except Miss Lizzie Roberts.
She is consequently sole heiress."
A J.V.YUJt IS UAREM.
Let me describe a dinner in the harem
when a guest is present. Their tables
are alwavs circular, and about a foot
and a half in height. They sit like
dolls around them on cushions. The old, inactive and fat, once down, have to be pulled up. They serve bnt one dish at a time, and that in a
large circular salver, brass, or some
times gold. They have no forks, knives or spoons, bnt each dips two Angers of
the right hand into the dish and takes
out u bit, the meat having previously
been cut into small pieces in the
kitchen. If they wish to particularly
distinsniisli a visitor, they select a
dainty piece and place it in her month. It would be an insult to betray any feel
ing bnt delight at such a mark of favor.
A great dish for a feast, and one which
few Christian women have ever tasted,
is that of lamb roasted whole. After
the manner of a nest of Chinese boxes.
eiich smaller than the other, the lamb is stuffed with a whole turkey, the
tnrkev with a chicken, the chicken with
a pigeon, the pigeon with a quail, the
quail with a becafica, the smallest bird
known excewt the humminK bird. It
resembles our reed bird in taste, and
makes onlv just one nionthfnl. The
lamb is roasted over a slow lire, until it
is cooked into shreds and melts into
one, as it were.
The Egyptians have no systematized
way of eating, no set time for meals,
but keep np a continual munching of
sweets, of which they have a great
variety unknown to us, and all sicken-
ingly sweet to a European palate. They
use honey for sugar. In an Egyptian kitchen there is a total absence of what a civilized cook would consider indispensable in the way of cooking utensils and appliances. There iw no dresser
uuon which to arrange the dishes;
there is no sink, no running water, nor
anything like onr cooking stove or range,' but upon one side of the kitchen there is erected a structure of masonry
which resembles a great square shelf
with deep drawers, the openings of
which are on top. This queer object is the Egyptian range. The openings are charcoal furnaces, and, as they are disconnected, a cook can have a dozen
fires or only one, as he desires. I have often lieen astonished at the excellence
and delicacy of a dinner cooked upon
one of these rude ranges. Home
Journal. A SIKQULAK OMISSrOS.
"Pawpaw," said a New Jorsey young lady, "will you look in the dictionary for 'mosquito' and let me know how it
is spelled?"
" 'Tain't here," said the old man after
a search.
"It must be, pawpaw. Have yon
looked carefully?"
"I've been through the S'a five times
an' there aint nothin' that even looks
like 'skeeters.' "
THE NEWS.
Intelligence by Wire from All the World.
FOBJIGN. A coalition for the defense 01 the Hcpub-
hcrn cause has been formed try the different sections of that party hi .Spain, tho Caatolar griup excepted.
Mr. Ohamlxnlin sny be favors home rule
for Ireland upon American lines each State
controlling iiB local affairs, but all to !)
tuxiliarv to the tleneni! Government
An uiiple;imtneti has hen caused by ihc
walling of !en. Appert. the French AmUan-
mlor to Rmwia. Th? Czar, it is said, will re
taliate by ordering the Russian Ambassador at Paris to traimfer his residence to Cannes, or to the frontier line.
Gladstone was repined as having added
to his expropriation scheme a proposition to
establish a Lieutenant Governor at the Dublin
Parliament to represent KugUnd, with certain veto powers, and the Xeav predicts that if his plans failed the coercion fcet would havuto lie again enforced.
The British Government has withdrawn
its troops on the Nile to Assouan.
Within the past year more than twenty
thousand Jews left Russian Poland tor the United States.
A Itnssiau who arrived in Paris to be
treated by M. Pasteur to prevent rabies died in great agony, with all the symptoms of hydrophobia.
-ixindot! dispatches state that a lespeiato
liattle took placo lietweon the French and Hovas in Madagascar, alut the end of Fob-ruu-v, in which the Frotch were Hef fated with
heavy loss.
The Beichstag has rejected the Socialist
niction providing for the establishment of workmgmen's conrts of arbitration The reso
lution asking the Chancellor to introduce a oiu
establishing industrial courts was passed.
At a banquet given by the municipal au
thorities of St. Nazaire M. de Lesseps asserted
that the Panama Canal would be coniploejd m
-A London dispatch states fhataqusrrelhas
taken place between Lord Iiandolph Churchill am. William Henry Smith, and that tho latter
threatens to withdraw fiom the Conservative party unless ho receive an apology from
Clntrchia
TUB TAX ON VARHOTS.
"Mr. Snaggs, does the government
collect a tax on parrots?" asked Mrs.
Snaggs. "No, of course not."
"Then what is this poll-tax l see
mentioned in tho papers ?litt$
burgh OMomm.
PERS03IAL. Mm. Eva . Folger, a dressmaker in Ban
Francisco, who was journeying eastward with
her voung son, killed herself with a pocKot-
knii'e in a hotel at Omaha.
President Cleveland has appointed Gen
eral O. 0. Howard to the Major Generalship
recently made vacant by the retirement of
General John Pope.
Dr. Oliver Wondell Holmes and Mr. dames
Russell Lowell contemplate starting on a European trip next month
Tho body of Florenoe linger, who last
October mysteriously disappeared from her
home in Chicago, was last week found iu the
Chicago ltiver, near Adams street bridge.
Secretary Manning, while walking up the
stair, to his office m the Treasury luuiun;r at Washington, was attacked by vertigo so severe! y as to require the aid of his physician.
Ur. J. H. Kane, who participated in his
brother's Arctio expedition, died last week at Summit, N. J.
-The young Brazilian prince who is about
to visit Ne Orleans will receive all proper
courtesies at the hands of the commamling officer at Jackson Barracks.
Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon, is the first of tb
Republican Senators to dissent from the Ed
munds policy. He believes that the pending lioin uiatious should be promptly acted upon.
;Jx-Justioo Ward Hunt, of tho Supremo
Court, died at Washington, aged 75.
nomination of J. C. Matthews (colored) of Allnuy, N. Y., to bo Recorder of Dueds for the District of Golnmbia.
-The Governor of California has appointed
to the vacant Souatorship G write Hearst, pro prietor of the Examiner, of San Francisco.
The Iowa Senate has passed a bill making
drunkenness a misdemeanor punishable with severe penalties.
GENERAL. In his testimony before tho telephone in-, vestigating committer at Washington, on March ii, ex-Cougreesnian Casey Young, witness, said ho never offered to sell or give a Hhare of Pau-Electric stock to a Senator or member of Congress They (tho company) did not dream that Congress would ever have anything to do with tho telephonethat legislation would ever icsult Mr. Van lienthhysen wroto to witness that ho was going to have a Government suit brought if ho could under the law, whether Mr. Garland belonged to the company or not Ho was going to make Mr. Garland bring suit, he said. If Mr. Garland refused to do it he would go to the President about it Subscquentiy witness took Mr. Van Benthuyeon and his counsel over to introduce thom to the Attorney General. Olio of tho counsel told Mr. Garland what they had come for. Mr. Garland tid that he was interested in a tolephono company and could not talk to them about it. Tho counsel insisted and Mr. Garland said: "Gentlemen I cannot talk to yon ou that subject I am the attorney of a telophone company and cannot talk to yon." Mr. Van Bent htiysen said: H have a right to have tho suit brought If the law requires you to bring suit I will see that it is brought." Mr. Garland replied, "I cannot talk to you," whereupon they retired. The interview lasted about five minutes and took place some timo between July 30 and August 30. Mr. Van Benthuyeon said he would go to the White Houso about it. He did write to the President He said he was not going to have his rights imperiled by Mr. Garland or anybody else. Witness never wrote a letter to or spoke a word to Mr. Garland about the Government's bringing suit The company, ho said, could never get Mr. Garland to do anything. Tho Supreme Court of the I'nited. States has rendered a decision in the Mackin-Gal-lagher cases, appealed from Chicago, that the orbnes charged against tho defendants are "infamous" within the mewing of the Constitution, and the defendants can not beheld to answer in the courts of tho United States other
wise than by a presentment or indictment by a'
grand jury. The effect of tho decision is to send tho caso back to the lower court to be proceeded with by a grand jury indictment instead of bv information.
-Henry Seymour, of Galcsbnrg, Michigan,
placed ties on the railway tra .-k, near the house of an obnoxious neighbor, to direct sus
picion toward him. Within forty hours, by ar
rest and confession, Feymour waa sentenced to
twenty years in the penitentiary.
-The Canadian Court of Appoala has de
cided that the purchase or said of grain on
margins is gambling.
Phil Kumler, District Attorney at Cincin.
nati, acting under orders of Solicitor General
Goode, on the 23d of March tiled in tho Fed
eral Court at Columbus, a suit to test the val
idity of tho Bell telephone patents, citing the
defendants, to enter appearance by May t.
General Hazen, in a statement to the House
Committee on Expenditures in the War Department, claimed that, while tho work of the signal service had trebled, its cost was S300,-
000. par annum less than undt r it predecessor.
FINANCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL -The Troographical Union of Pittsburgh
forced the iWMiwo Leader to pay the scale of
pi-iOss and ask admission for its employes,
after eight years ol independent action.
-The Illinois corn crop of 1885 wits greater
than that of ISX4 by 23,3n5,63G bushels, that for 18S5 amouuuhf to over830,000,0C bushela. Neai Jy all the other crops were decreasihd lis
coin pared with pluvious years. More hogs
and cattle were w.wed, but fewer sheep and less wooL The seeding of winter wheat for the IKHfi crop is fifteen per cent less than for that of l-S.") and r; e ten per cent lees.
-The Missouri Pacific officials at St. Louis,
with the aid of one hundred and twenty-five pc.limon, sent jut a freight train of fifteen
cars on the vltli. Tho performance was
wittessed by a least five thousand peraons,
some of whom killed a pony engine following
tho rain. Tho departure of the train led to a
contlict between the police and the mob, during which several persons were wounded. Attempts to move trains at Atchison and Omuha proved futile, alleged strikers captur
ing the locomotives and putting out the fires.
The Governor of Missouri has called out tho
militia to protect railroad property. Tlie strike of tho switchmen at Kansas City has boon settled. Mr. Jay Gould says it is his intention to sua the Knights for damages, and may also apply for an injunction restraining the Knights of Labor from contribating to tho support of those on the strike. At Washington Cong .-ess proposes to take up the strike question. Besides the bill intro
duced by Mr. Audornon, of Kansas, providing for Government arbitration, three or four
othor members havo put in similar measures,
all of which liavo gone to the House Labor Corimittea The furniture manufacturing firm of Bruschke i. Bicko, of Chicago, having
suffered from a pi ket maintained by strikers, proposes to ask the Circuit Court for an in
junction restraining its former employes from
kee ping up tho nuisance.
POLITICAL.
- The Iowa Sena te passed a joint resolution expressing its regret tliat President Cleveland
vetoed tho Dps Moines Bivor laud bill
-Washington dispatch: "A delegation from
tho recent conforf nee of colored men of Virginia, visited tho White House and read an ad
dress to the Pn aident thanking him for his
expressions in regard to the future of the colored race and expressing the hope that under
a Democratic administration tho bitter contra.
versy between citizens of i common
country would be removed. The Presi
dent in reply said that he was glad to knew that matters partaking of this nature
wore being adjusted by the people themselves.
and that, while he had expressed himself
thoroughly on such points, ho was willing, in
every legitimate way, to extend encourage
ment."
The House Committee on Education has
voted to report in educational bill. Tho House.
Elections Committoo decided to reject tho
cla m of Frank II. Hnrd to the neat for the
Tenth Ohio District
Tho Indiana Congressmen who called at the Executive Mansion to present tho claims of Joi n B. Stoll on the public printing ofllco wro
informed by tho President that ho had no in
tention to make a change in tho office during tho session of Congress, as public business
might tie impeded.
It is thought tho Governor of Florida will
in .ike a temporary appointment to fill Souatoi
Jones' place.. Hio latter has been in Detroit
during a whole session, attending to his love
stftur.
A Washington dispatch says the Senate
Committee on the D.etrbt of Columbia has
detdcled by a. titi vols to rupttt adversely tlio
CASUALTIES. A collision between railroad trains near
Monte Carlo, resulted in the -oes of many Uvea,
some of them being English visitors.
-A building at Worcester, Mass., occupied
by tho L D. Thayer Manufacturing Company and W. F. Bancroft, manufacturer of spinning machinery, was burned, the loss being
STO.000.
The tug John Markel exploded her boilsr
in tho harbor of Boston. Capt fyrus A Nick-r-raon and four men of the crow wore instant y
killed. Nothing was loft of the toat
Fire in a tenement house at Now York
caused the suffocation of Mrs. Maria Booh aud,her infant son.
-vThe City HaU at Fall River, Mass., with aU
the municipal records, was dosuroyod by fire, causing a loss of (190,000. No insurance.
At Watertown, Conn., William McGaffney
and Clarence Cook were killed by lightning. A
farmer was struck and killod near Manistee, Mich, and John Lcitz was killed at Marion, Ind,v
While walking along the tracks of his rail
road near Cady Mills, Wis., S. H. Davis, a wealthy lumberman, had his coat blown agbinst tlie wheels of a passing locomotive. He waa caught under tho wheels and his right arm crushed off close to the shoulder.
Fire at Helena, Ark, destroyed thros val
uable blocks, including the open house. Tho loss aggregates J!300,000, partly covered by in-
surance.
-The boiler works of Mcllvain & Spiegel,
Cincinnati, were totally destroyed by fire. Loss,
75,00a
At Penargvl, Pa., Hernwood Martin lifted
a weight of 600 pounds, but so strained himself
that death resulted in a few hours.
Three men were killed ar.d five others
fatally injured by a fall of rocks and earth in a railway tunnel at Pottsville, Pa.
In attempting to repair a broken eleotrio-
light wire at Philadelphia, Daiu'ol Coyle, aged
25, received a shock and fell dead to the
street.
A fall of rock in the Cleveland Iron Mine,
near Ishpoming, Mich, instantly killed two men.
and now throats of lynching are made agaiusi ' Hutto. Robbers entered the nwidenee at Joliet 11'., of Henry Rochor, Treasurer of t'.ie Ger man Workingmen's Benevolent Society, ant carried off S700 in gold belonging to the Asso elation. For two successive nights tho store o' Jones A- Fisher, in Chestnut street. Phi add plua, was robbed of silks by burglars, the los being ForgertcH in excess of $14,000 have booi committed by tho absconding accountant ol the Bank Natlouaie of Montreal. Ex-Sheriff Hoyt, of Trumbull Comity 01iio,who recently went out of fifth sis short in his account) $7,000, ami has disappeare 1. The safe m Loekard's store, at Canaan, Ind., was blown open ami $10,000 in notoi and StOjOOH in registered Government bonds and $13(1 ic, cash stolon. The postoftice waa also robbed. Indian have set tiro to the prairie bordering on Clark's Furk, in Montana, and the flames have spread rapidly ami now cdvoi miles of country. It is feared that a number of sheep and cattle will bo destroyo 1. At Auburn, Ky., three uogrocs were summarily hanged by a mob of citizens for a ci im inal assault upon the daughter of a prominent citizen. HERE ANDTHERE. Go vERNOK Marm.vduke, of Missouri, issued a proclamation calling upon the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, its officers, agents and employes of every grade to assist in resuming traffic of all kinds in the usual way on all the lines in Missouri, and warning all persons, whether employes or not, against interposing any obstacle whatever in the way of said resumption. He also calls upon all good citizens to assist in carrying out the purpose of this proclamation and pledges the whole power of the state so far as it may be lawfully wielded by its chief executive officer, to sustain said company and its setvants in said resumption, and to restrain and punish all that may oppose it. Several men were arrested at Sedalia, charged with wrecking a freight train Tuesday and injuring four men. The law
and order league has issued an address which demands that the strikers obey the
law and permit the railroad to operate
their road or take the consequences
The spirit of the people is thoroughly
arouseei and they openly endorse Hoxey's course. Tho Knights of Labor there are divided. Gov. Hughes, of Arkansas, h;is
issued a proclr.mation expressing the regret
of all goods citizens at the condition ot hi
fairs precipitated by the strike which has caused a susneusion of freight traffic on
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern iailroads throughout Arkansas. Therefore the railway is required to proceed at once to regularly run trains over the toad, under penalty of being proceeded
against bv law for further failure to no so.
In order that the corporation may freely
and without hindrance discharge its duty to
the public, all persons are notutea to re-
fiain from any interference with trains, tracks, motive power or appliance under the penalty of the law, and sheriffs in counties
penetrated by the railway are charged with the execution of these commands, and all good citizens are expected to preserve order and refrain from acts calculated to lead to any breach of the peace and from all tres
passes on or within the railway a premises.
In response to the Senate resolution the
Postmaster General informed that body that the total number of re morals of
fourth-class postmasters, from March 4,
lKKS, to March 3, 188U, was 8,615, divided
among some of tho states as follows: In
diana. 4); Kentucky, 194; Louisiana. 32;
Maine, 202: Michigan, 341; New York, 1,-
053; Ohio, 878; Pennsylvania, 938.
The Rhode Island Republican State Con
vention has nominated George Penbody, of
Welmore, for Governor. E. Lucius Daring
for Lieutenant Governor, and .Joshua Al
Alderman for Secretary of St.:i. A telegram from Admiral Jonett, commanding the North Atlantic Naval Squadron, gives the following program for the naval drill: The fleet will leave Key West immediately, and arrive txi Pensacola bar and have sea maneuvers until the 5th of April, when they will enter the harbor of Pensacola and continue the naval drill by carrying out the program heretofore ordered by the Secretary of the Navy, to include steam tactics, target exercise with heavy guns, torpedo practice, stripping the vessels for combat in inclosed waters under steam, landing and encamping the naval brigade, and sham battles on hind aud sea, These exercises will require two or more weeks. A contbuu'tion of $300, intended for the "conscience fund," enclosed in a letter postmarked Grafton, West Virginia, was received at the Treasury Department. The writer states that he was in the Commissary Department of the Union Army during the war. He returns the money which he considers belongs to tho United States, "because when I die I want to go to heaver., and I fear the $300 might bar me out." In tho Senate on the 23th inat., Mr, Hoar relorted from tho Library Committoo a bill establishing a commission composed of the Secretary of State, Librarian of Congress and the Socrotary of tho Siui hsonian Institute, to examine and rejiort to Congress as to tho character and voloo ol manuscripts belonginx to Congress. Tho bill was pa'acd. Mr, Frye reported favorably from the Connaitleo on Commerce, a bill to provido for the encouragement of American shipping and promote postal and commercial relations with foreiun countries. Placed on the calendar. The Edmunds resolutions woro placed In tore the Senate, and the discussion lasted until adjournment. The House spent the day in a discussion of the postotBee appropriation bill.
0BIMES AND ORIMDTALa -rill Clay County, Tennessee, the f5-yer-oUl daughter of Joseph Taylor accidentally exploded a revolver, the bnllot killing her father. John W. Lauer, who killed his wife at Omaha recently, was found guilty of manslaughter. H. B, McDowell, of California, son of Gon. McDowell, was convicted of libel, aud given ninety days in jail. A jury at Omaha, Neb., has just found John W. Lauer, who one night hist fall shot and killed his wife, claiming that he mistook her for a burglar, guilty ot manslaughter. In a quarrel ou a farm uoar Lyons, Neb., Henry 0. Steadman was shot dead by John Anderson. Tho murderer wan pursued for twelve miles by neighbors, uyon whom he tired with a repeating ritlo, killing Charles Johnson and fatally wounding his brothor. Anderson then took refuge in a barn, upon which 100 men kept up a desultory firing for several hours. Finally Oio baru was fired. When tho flames began to surround him, Johnson appeared at the door of tho barn as if designing to escape, bnt several bullets strnok his breast aud he foil back into the build
ing. After tho fire had subsided the des
perado was found lying on a pile of oats dead, his body riddled with bulle ts and burned by
the flames. Both arms and tho legs had been consumed, and tho ghastly appearance of too corpse was rendered more horrible by a gaping wound in tho bead. When tho body was secured it was with tho greatest difficulty that
tho crowd could bo restrained from feeding U
to the hogs. With the barn were turnod eight valuable mules, throe hones, and three
cows,
Until recently William Hutto, of Crawford County, Georgia, bad four wives, but he sold
two of them one for a bucket of poas and the other for fjoidO trucks, Tlio fomainiug pair
won QbW vf UMVtfvU umu I'wjftoH
CLEVELAND TAKEN DOWN.
Senator Spivoncr, of Wisconsin, Shows
the Fallacy of the President's Position.
CONGRESSIONAL,
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TVa-Viington cc-legnam. After Mr. Van Wvck bad offered as an amend-
mer.t t- the resolutions concerning the Puskin cam the followlm! : "And i-i all such cases of removal tho matte! of couilrmatioii shall be conhiflerefl in open sonsion of the Sonata," which
nit) or.iorefi printou, tno antcmitntAn Jte Bro .vu. of Cleor; i i, pr.sol aton- an hour or mare nd hnd einpttt d the Senate Ch- mlier and ialieri;n in expressing bin vif:WH on the controversy
witti tlie i'res-ieii. lien tne new Wisconsin
Sen.iur in tlie floor the cloak-r oms were
mo:uitlv vac Uo.l and a proa: umnv Houso ineni-
oo:h flocked over to hoar him. Tho open
ing apeech of Edmunds tin I the saccv reply f Konnn !ll not att.-ae.t more attention nor make a deejicr iinprssion than did the argument of Senator SpOfn3r. In supyort of tho majority renort. he said he would mak no utempt to disguHe the fact, or apolo(.'i e for it, th&t tho fortunes uf the Republican partv wore very tear to him. He would not attempt to deny t mt he wished fiat party might here aid elsewhere reap overyfafr party advantage u hich n: ight he tab en from tho blunders U'l shorhomin , if any avei f iero were, of this administration. He continued : "Knt I true t-ist I do not forgot en l shall not forgo'. Unit I am a Senator of tho United Mates as well a-i a liepublican, and t!iat ae a Bouator my first duty is always to the people, and that I hu. e no right, to take action here t J t-ubsf rvo a arty int nest vhich would be harmful to the nterests of the people. I deny that the Republican majority ot the Senate desires to hamper tho Presidcm-." Feeling his way carefully, he was soon on familiar legal ground in dissecting the constitutional points which Democratic Senators had songl t to rame. Taking r.p tho Tenure-of-OfBce act, action by section, he showed pretty cl arly that the mndiiv argumentation which hod been going on proaecde I from very incomplete ideas of what the act itself was, an l that the power of removal as vell as of npiiointment was in the Prosie'est and Senate acting together, and that what was in bis sole discretion, absolute, waa the power of suspension during a recess ot the Senate. There was a troa-l hint that some of Bourbon orators did not kuow what they were talking about. He said : "One source of much confusion In this debate was a confound ing by the Democratic Senators of suspensions with removals. A suspension did not mean a removal. It was a very different thing. To suspend an officer caused a temporary eessation of his functions ; to remove caused a permanent cessation. To suspend the writ of habeas corpus was one thing ; to obliterate it was another and quite a different thing A suspended officer vas not a removed officer; for if the Senate refused to confirm his successor the suspeudod uiaxi returned to the office. The Supreme Court had so decided. Mr. Spooner read from the decisions of the courts to show this. I
The President had declined to furnish the papers
called for leca ise, rordootn. tney would enaDie the Senate tease the reasons for the suspension ; thev would enable us to see that he had exer
cised the power of suspension wantonly. No power could be Bodan jorous to the republic as the power
snua assercea oy cne rresiaeui mat papers relating to tho n ablio business on tho Dies of tho
Government were his private papers, to be re-, moved from the files, buried in the cellars of the
white House, or carted on to Buffalo If tie chose.
merely because he had used them in exercising his power ol suspension. If this waa so, then it
re8toa wttn aiy (.met Executive io iock ins door upon the House and Senate and defeat alt invosticatio-l.
"Senator Kp.-ioner's treatment of the Prresident's message waa especially happy. Iu
bis handa tho "innocuous desuetude phrase waa verv skill 'ullv turned on Its author. The
terms always provoked a smile, Mr. Spooher said, but there waa nothing to smile at. This
waa a Government of law : and he was sorrv the
Chief Eioe .it ve of the Republic should have used such wotds of any law that stood on the statute-books It waa a daneerous time when
the President of the United States, with an
oath reirtste.-ed in heaven to "take Core
that the laws should be faithfully executed," should send a message to the Senate saying that a statute had fallen into harmless disuse, though the stutute remained on the books. Ii
there ever was a time when there waa need of
respect for law it waa now, when in many States thoughtful men were turning blanched faces to the future. How could tho people be expected to vield cheerful obedienco to tho statutes
when the that citizen of the renubllc himself
charced with their execution was heard assert
ing that a SMitnto could harmlessly fall Into disuse? Bit Mr. Spoonor said the President did not bolide his own statement his acts had been better than bis words, for ho had sent is a large numlror of nominations of men to take the p a -es il otfloers suspended by him under
rne auenorixy ox uie very aos o wiucu reitseucv
naa ocen mane.
BiLLt to esta ilish a national Uvti-atoek high
way, for tho rel luf of heirs at cavalry rocmita
killed by truer-il las at Lawrence, Kansas, ana to authorize tho retirement of Lieutenant Will
iam P. Raudal , of too navy as a neawntui; commander, pa ssed the Scnat i March 19. A bill was introduced to increase to tM,lO0 the appr - Sriation for a nstoHice at Minneapolis. Mr. iiofiner, e.f WiKonsin, contint ed Ida speech in support of the Duskin resolution tea the Sena,Ho maintained thatthetenureKif-oncBctienii-' coiutitut.onal. In duoussfag the civil-ncnrice views of the President he declined that "honest partisanship is honest citizenship. Every maa susiKiuded Iron: office, be said, tad a right to mow why ho v is suspended, aerator Spooner did not suppose tho l'rf sident mci at to submit his fellow citi.uisto serious Injustice, bat the syste m he had adopted in the l latter of sua1 ensiohs inevJly tended to east ah ado on the honor of h neat men. Senator faulabury (Del.) opposed the resolutions The President had suspeitdal, up to the Mine Congress met, only 643 out ofl7,000 offlclals subject to bin control. Notwithstanding tola magnanimity, President Clevlaii4a nominatfoni had been allowed to slumber for rMWtJrrw
mouths without action, uecauie we nfpi i .u. r eh. .1,. ,,l r- ht act tnwnrt deliLerat lV
to devise aome Kciu mo to prevent the reu oval
of their partis nn iricnaa iroin em ice. Saulabury aatfl the Bepublieura 1 awl eonveMd themselves let sn obstruction party, muttering tho due exer lso of executive por. The House of Reprtisentativea pasted a iottectx the Secretary of War to grant an eOTorfUllM-
cbarge to rrancia n. hit, iw ..n. In the Fifty-It ifth IUinois tlifimtey. and wo summarily dfiniiaaed by General Howa for" misbehavor 1 efore the enei-iy. The hill te pension the widowof the late General Hau-coek came up In 1!ie House, and wm strongly op- . . . , , . .... .1.. ftm HM MMA .
posed oy air. j nceoi niii. . T-I . tion of paaairg tho bill the vote stood SJ to 4, Messrs. Price, Zi.ch Taylor. Johuson of Indian, and Winaue otlcg nay. Mr. PrifM then ratted the question of no quorum, but tbe-preytoaa question waa ordered on the bill and it went over. .
THEB was ao sf Ion of too Beiutte fen Mfuen
TO, and the Eoune aevowaitw mj"h" making on tho free-cdr-age MIL
A BESOLtrn w that executive f-esslona rcxer-
ring to nomi aatione, connmi&tiona, or rejec
tions shall hereafter be held w.th open doors,
was introduce i in the Senate by Hr. Logan on March 21 M Kara. Colquitt, of (ieorgi, and Jackson, of T jnnessee, addressed tho Senate t opposition to the Edmunds resolutio a. Mr. Harris pretMEted petitions from the fmiwrato authorities of the city f Memphis and of toe Cotton Excha-ige of the same ct;- prayinj for necessary appropriations for the larotacaaC thehttrborof that city. Among the Mile lutroduced and a tpropriately referred was ope by
Mr. fjocareii, ax tne uuuukb, n Merchants E xhnnge at St Louis, tratliorizing tho construct on of a bridge over tt MiafUa iippl River at St. Louis. Senator Logan oaod to be read In the executive a-.aton of toe
Senate a It iter written u me srweamw General by John H. Otterly last tnrina;, charging Mr. Palmer, the PfMtelaateratCatca. w ith offenalvi partisanship, and suggest n hia immediate re novat The letter was referred the Committee on Civtl-Servifx Reform. A aem-
sation waa nrnduceet In toe nouje or nxvixjw-ur tatives when the Chaplain devoted M opening prsrfer to ao Invccation to GO to rid the laud of gaxoeater, wbetb-sr in cards, dice, c hips, stock, wheat, bucket-ebop, or boards oi trade, and to lend tfi3 poople to know that n ouey-roaklng other than by tho sweat of the face t contrary to Hia laws. The 3tayer was ordered to be tnwtatt in tho" Roroid. The House leu-ned a Wit to give to the widow of General Hancock a, pension of S2.000 per annum. A bill wia :ntrodnced by Mr. Anderson . of Kansas, to create a fsouunlaweei
of arbitration tor lator tKuna. jar. "" -sentcd a resolution requesting the Judiciary Committee ti report what to.ieHttoiieasesv
uu-y to close any pan ox ue fiucogo juvct.
SUSPENDED COLLECTORS.
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Important Action KefraellriB; .Washington special.
The President udmite that he has been making changes for purely political reasons. When the controversy with tho Senate Began, the mugwump organs supporting Mr. Cleveland declared the wMolo objeot of the Senate fight waa to force an admission that there had been one single removii.1 or suspension for. political reasons. They were postciva he would never do this, even indirect;!?, bet, after a aeal of palavering between Secretary Manning and Chairman Morrill of the Finance Committee, a step has been taken which will relieve suspended
Internal Hevonuo collectors rrom any ciona under which thev r.iav have rested. The Presi
dent thronch tho Socretarv of the Treasury,
elves a cc'tificate that the suspended officials
have not boon removed because of any charges affecting their moral or official characters. If this Is not si! admission that they were removed because thoir places were wanted for Democrats the Republican members of the Finance Committee don't: know what such an admission would really be. In most cases the suspended officials iiccopted the suspension aa the natural outcome of a change in parties. For instance, one of the removed To w a rnllactora bad cone to Chicago
to practice law. aad assuredly had no idea of ever resuming his office. But he thought his old neighbors had a right to know whether
be was aie(!iacoi Because nor. a proper person to hold a imblio office or sfmrly because hia position wbb wanted for a Democrat. Tho Republican Senators wore of the same way of thinking, Mid, after numerous interviews between Secretary Manning and Chairman Morrill, the Democratic administration finds itself
of this mind also. Of course, mere la a laDorea effort to show that It hasn't come down a peg, but this vri ' lie judged from the actual proceed, ing rather than from its own assertions. The plan adopted has been for the FInince Committoo to address a letter to Searetarv Manniru- in the case of ev ry individual
Internal Revenue Collector. The Secretary writes a diplomatic replv, protesting that he eaunot give reasons, etc, because the President has diroc ed him, etc. But he takes pleasure in Bt t.inn t vat there is nothing: on Hie in his de
partment reflecting in any way ou the moral or olBcial eha -acter of Johu Smith, late Internal Revenue Collector of blank district. On this aaowing tie Finance Committee has recommeneleet two or three batches of Collectors for
confirmation. Tbore are sou aoou: lony cases, eoncnrnfnff which the Secretary of the Treasury
hna not milled. If there are any chtumfM
against the suspended officials under the forms of the letter it is diffionlt to see how they could bo ithhel l, since a certtflcate of moral and official chart oteroould not bo grouted. The poliev followed in tho Internal revenue eaaes has
been disc issed with respect to its Influence
ou tho other suspended otilolols. Thonoh the revenue officer) do not have any
fixed tenure, tlie dissimilarity is not ao great hat the time policy could not bo followed in tlie great luaiority of suspensions or removals. There is tho caso of Collector Beoberger, wliich Is a type of probably 300 or -400 others. No obltlon ntiiita to bis oonfVrmation. but PhiUnus
Sawyer mints to know whether his friend Jesse BvatiltKng was removed for any cause, or simply to mnko room for Mr. Sceberger. It in i.l thnt the latter information has been
given privately and unofficially, but this it not
euougu. . A Wife's Valne In Cows.
1 asked some of the Kaflirg in the
diamond nvinea why they worked ao
hard, when with their oattle, which is the currfincv of the country, they ooald
live in ease. They told me they want
ed to mtike money to bny more wives.
That pe ople purchase their wives and pay for them in. proportion to tb,e amount of fleBh. An ordinary wife brings ton to fifteen cows, while a more fleshy one brines twenty, and one that
will tip the scalos at 250 pounds readily
brine-a twenty-nve or iniriy cows.
Zulus have f.om one to four wives
proportion to the amount they are able
to uav.
Haisi'ie- young girls for such trade is
considered profitable, lne idea
these JSvln women regardinc; this prac
tice of mirohase is best illustrated fay
an inoid'Snt where an English lady had one of thorn as a servant until she got
married. The mother of the girl call' ed on the ladv and boasted of the num
ber of cows paid for her daughter, and thought it a grand price, and asked the English lady how many her husband paid for her. She told her that the English did not marry that waysell themselves in marriage. The Zulu woman could not comprehend it, and
naked : "Are yon nko a worthless ttog,
that vonr father snves yon away for
nothing;?" IF. B, Christy, in 3fUt
Thb bill (ciiflnuiniT pnblio-land enisriea !
tofOM made in aooorvlartre with th -rulings Cf the Land O flee in force at the titan the v
tries were made, and the biS5 penak-nmg the widow of (i in. Hancock, were imsaod by tne fsMwte on tie 23d of March, keuator Guearga Suke in ct position t the Jidminus rcaota:ms. Tho Logan army Mil lame up in the Senates and Senator Mti-dui-aon supported the in position to inea-Mwe aha tecce to 4),000 enliste 1 men. He read now, teatiiuoay fiven and litters written by Gen. Bchout-kt, 'ope, and ct: tors, to abow the inaieqiucy of oao present force of 23.000. Senator Beck Uiou-'tit that a large i tending army was not necesttuy. He bad seen mough volunteer aoldiere on rounsylvania nve me, Washington, when IVoeidfmt Cleveland v. aa inaugurated, to carry on an Indian war. There were many persons, he said, who waited a large standing army capitalists who : lad designs ujjou the people, fceaater Logan mild tae would not ua tne wot-ddem-auogiaui ill regard to the tugamenta mad in the Sena te . but he would repel any inslBoaV tion that tie i ncrease proposed w aa lor toe purpeso of using the army against the people, ittf erring to Senator Hale, wbo to wpoarng too bill, S .orator Logan said that his fiend from Maine havl ocen encouraged frcan toe start to make war on thia MIL He (Senator Logan) knew where it ciano from, and before aim matter closed ho would have aomethiaj more to say. In the Hon to Mi . Reagan, of Texas, ft the Committee oa Com-ueree, favotxbly remrteatw Senate bill to establish a national livestock highway, and promote commerco in llv atooa; between the Stataa. Mr Anjenou's bill, forth forfeiture of unearned laud grants m the ttjSe of Kansas, ras alio favorably reported to the Houae. Mr. Richardson, of Teuneiiaee On. behalf of the Committee oil Wa Cladrna,. called up, and the House passed the Fourth esTJuly clahna MIL The amount invoavaal iutfc bill is ftBMOO, Mr. Davis, of Maawhttseta, from the some committee, repoi-ted a Mil to prevent the k.tr xluctiou of coutajrkiua and infections dlaeaacs into the United States, and to establish a bureau of public health. Mr. Mockery, of Missouri, toui the Committee on Poetoinoefl. and Poat Ronds, reported back a bill extal the avatent fc the immediate delivery of tetter. Mr. ilcltae, of Ai-kanaaa. faom the 2ommi' on Public Le nds, repotted a bill to irepeal the pre-emption laws. Mr. Forney, of Alt-Ann, from Committee on Militia, repeed a bUltor the ualforai instruction of State miHU. Hb. LooAif excioined in tho Senate, oa
24th Inst., that under the present lawn
there ware but 29,035 effcclive men ta the army, and that under the pror-ofted . increase to 3 1,000 there would probably be emir about 27,0 'tlective men. Mr. Tf-UfJr fjppotted the increase It waa claimed by friends of the hill that t'ue inereese was needod for apef-inc purpose to guard against Indian brouMoa. but ho suw no reason in the Indian quesooe. for au lactase in Hie effectSvo force of tho anuv. Mr, Plivtt favored the -sropoaevtl Increase. " He aid w e had ao army, nmatatanomcr to ;all it the present "skaleton an army. The argument that wo had no immediate need for an amy waa like sjrgwiag at beeaaa tt was not rain ins to-day It would rever nig, Tfw houso pause 1 the Indian appropriation btU, ant then took ii the i ostoffice apptvatton irjeaure. Senab r Mitchell, of Orege.n, addreseedtbe Senate on ho Duskin resolusima. Whin he concurred i the majority repcro In ao far a tt inserted tint It was the duty of the executlvai officers to famish when called upon bythfa Senate papei a r dating to the admULisOawrra of an office, ho would not insist, ho said- that thai nroneutoe cf such papers in the. Beoate waaabsoiutelv Accessary to the discharge by Ota Senate' o',' its eonstltntiemal. duty to. advising saute jnscnt ing to propeail remo-ralafrom office. Bo I eUevcdthe Aorry General plainW in error in rof-ssim to fureiau tit unpen called
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clout to i far rant tlie Senate in reftudne to set on. .a nm.!ii iHam, Mtanad ta. hia -mee. If
coat for tlie resolutions, must be constdercd me rel'- ponnnctory onc'l under dectdea protest, aril he would reserve the right tei exercise Ida own judgment aa to the cfnfirmition of uominatioas. He asMrtedit to be tit duty of the Senate to pertowo its own proper fuuctlom w lether papers wtwe f.irnished or aoa, aud iu the 1 ght of such infoi -nation or evide-see as ltmight have before it, or might be able to obtain. Pri or to toe speoch e Sonator MitehelL Senator Morgan (Ala.) made a matoMaatl argnmerrt it supportof the mtnorlty -rt-gon. Tit House pixKf edlngH were brief said uriimportf-ait.
Washl BfrtouN Rales of Carta!. "Evury action iu company ought to be witli some Mgn of respoot for thoaa present "When you meet with one of greaiet qualitiv than yourself, stop and -retire, especially if it be at a door or any strait pla :e, to give way to him to paas. "They shat are in dignity or in office) have in all places precedency; but whilst tbey are young, tuey ought to respect those that are their equals in birth or other qualities,, though they have no ublic charge. "Bo not hasty to believe flying reports to ihe disparagement of any. "Take all admonitions thank tilly, its what im o or place aoev-M' given; but after a-an I, not being oulpable, take a time or place convenient to let him know it that gave them. "Tliinl: before you speak; pronounce not impeirfectly, nor bring out your word, to) hastily, but orderly and distinctly. "Make no show- of telling frettt !- light in your vituals; feed not with gree.linen; cut your bread with
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