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EPITOME OF THE WEEK. CONGRESSIONAL. SENATE.—House bill to admit free of ~duty articles for exhibition at the Millers’ Convention at Cincinnati was passed on the 20th....The bill to prevent cruelty to animals in transportation was farther debated, and then a motion was made and carried that, in view of the many amendments made to the bill, its importance and the difference of opinjon as to its effect, it be recommitted to the Committee on Commerece, in order that & new biH miggt be reported. ... Bills were introduced by Mr. Paddock to equalize homesteads and for the relief of settlers on school lands in yasmngton Territory.... Messrs. Jacob V. demeyer and George T. Anthony, recusant witnesses in the Ingalls investigation; were dischar%ed from the rule of attichment, the former having given a satisfactory ex‘f)lana,tion, and the %atter having subsequently appeared and testified before the committee. House—Bills and joint resolutions were introduced—by Mr. Culberson (Texas), for the disoontinuance of the National Banking system; by Mr. Eilis, appropriating $500,800 for the suffering people of Ireland; by Mr Lorin%, groposing a Constitutional amendment declaring that the right of suftrn%e shall bé based on citizenship, and that the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on aoc%unt of sex, or for any reason not equally applicable to-all citizens of the United States; gym. Warner (Ohio), groviding for paying nited States bonds maturing in 1880 and 1881. .+..The report of the Com mittee on Rules was further debated in Committee of the Whole. _ SENATE.—The Bayard resolution for the withdrawal of the legal-tender quality of the United States notes was taken up on the 21st, and Mr. Beck made a lengthy speech in oppoeition thereto.... Messrs. Edmunds and Garland were appointed members of the Board of Visitors to the next annual examination of cadets at the West Point Military School. House.—Majority and minority reaortu were made on the billi for the relief of eneral Fitz John Porter—the majority recommending the adoption of a resolution requesting the President to remit the remainder of the unexpired sentenee which disqualifies General Porter from holding any office of trust or profit under the Government of the gnit.ed States....A bill was regortedv from the ommittee on A&)propriationsh or the payment of fees of United States Marshals and Depu:g Marshals for the fiseal year ending June 30, .1880, with a provigo that “*‘no part of the mnoney ($600,000) hereby appropriated is appropriated 1o 1;:,{ any eompensation, fees or expenses of Marshals or Deputy Marshals for services rendered in connection with registration or eleetions under an(ir of the provisions of Title 26, of the Revised Statutes.... A lengthy discussion wasg had in Committee of the Whole on the report of the Committee on Rules. SENATE.—Resolutions were adopted ~on the 22d calling on the Secretary of the Interior for information as to what grants of public lands made by aota of Congress to railroad companies, or to States or Territories in aid of such companies, remain incomplete by reason of the failureof the grantees or beneficiaries to comply with the terms of sugch %rar)ts, ete., and whether any member of tfie oard of Indian. Commissioners had become interested in Indian contracts....The Bayard ‘Finance resolution was further debated.... Adjourned to the 26th. - . Housk.—The Buckner Bank-Reserve bill, requiring National Banks to keep half their reserves in coin, was taken up, and, after debate, an amendment requiring banks to keep their coin reserves in their own vaults was rejected—33 to 79. A vote was then taken on the engrossing and third reading of the bill, which resulted in 79 yeas to 158 nays—the measure being thus defeated.... Mr. Singleton presented ‘a petition of 500 soldiers of Illinois asking for the (Passage of the Weaver bill, and requesting soldiers all over the country to organize and keegarecord, for future reference, of members of Congress who may vote against that bill....The question of the revision of the Rules was further debated in Committee of the Whole. : SENATR.—Not in session on the 23d. House.—The Speaker announced the appointment of a Special Committee on Payments of Bounties, Pensions and Back Pay, as follows: Coffroth, Geddes, Myers, McMilian, Parmer Caswell and Thoma.,s...jThe roceedngs in dommittee of the Whole on tge state of the Union were enlivened b}) & humorous eech by Mr. Horr (Michiga.n&, in reply to like witty and personal remarks by Mr. Cox ew York) the day before.... Adjourned to e 20th. : .

THE OLD WORLD. A RoME telegram of the 20th says the Pope was surprised andl indignant at Cardinal McCloskey’s reception of Parnell in New York. ' i ‘ A BErRLIN dispatch of the 21st says the Schleswig Deputies who, since the annexation of their province to Germany, had refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Emperor William, and who had consequently been debarred from taking their seats in the ~ Reichstag, had intimated their willingness to ~comply with the prescribed formality. THE Spanish Cortes on the 21st passed “the bill for the abolition of slavery in Cuba, by yeas, 230; nays, 10. j ' - CABUL dispatches of the 22d say another rising was impending in Afghanistan. The natives under Mahommed Jans to the nurhber of 40,000 were assembling with the . avowed object of exterminating the British. The situation was thought to be extremely critical. : A CONSTANTINOPLE dispatch of the 22d says the famine in Mosul was 80 severe that the people were selling their children to procure food. - AN Odessa telegram of the 22d says it was belleved that that city had been undermined by the Nihilists, and that its destruction was not far distant. A commission - had been formed to conduct a subterranean investigation. A LoNDON telegram of the 23d says the distress in Ireland was intensifying under the influénce of the cold weather. It was stated that there were in Dublin alone 4,000 unemployed workingmen whoge families were suffering from the lack of food. -~ THE Princess Louise left England for her Canadian home on the 22d. 4 AT a meeting of the Home-Rule League in Dublin on the 23d a resolution was adopted by acclamation thanking the peovle of the United States for their sympathy and noble liberality to the distressed people of Ireland. : - A Rowme dispateh of the 23d says that the Aurora was not the organ of the Vatican, but of the Jesuits, ; KA THE exploring expedition under Stanley has established a Belgian trading station in Congo near Tallula. L A TEHERAN (Bersia) dispatch of the 24th denies the truth of the recent report of the defeat of the Russians by the Turcomans. A CONSTANTINOPLE telegram of the 25th says terrible distress prevailed in Adriapople. Fifteen persons were found dead there In orie day from hunger, = ’ A Pams dispatch of the 25th says that Fournier, a high functionary of the War Department for the last twenty years, upon being -cummoned 1o produce T accounts, . o, THE NEW WORLD. . ' _ON the 20th the Harrisburg (Pa.) Grand Jury agatn found frug bills againgt

Kemble and seéveral prominent politicians and legislators for corrupt solicitations and bribery of members of the.Legislature in the interest of the Pittsburgh Riot Losses bill. The bills first found were quashed for informality. ’ THE Legislature of Maryland has elected Mr. Arthur Gorman (Democrat) to the United Senate Senate, to succeed Mr. Whyte, whose .term expires on the 4th of March, 1881. ' A CHINAMAN who was to have been executed at Portland, Ore., on the 20th, committed suicide the night before by strangling bimself in his cell. , i - AMONG the Executive documents laid before the National House of Representatives on the 21st was a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury stating that the United States Sub-Treasurer at New York had for some time employed the New York Clearing-House to facilitate the transaction of ‘his business. That arrangement with the Clearing-House was entered into in November, 1878, after he had obtained the verbal opinion of the Attorney-General that such an arrangement would not be contrary to law. A TELEGRAM received at the Interior Department in Washington on the 21st states that Walter R. Ir\win; of Illinois, Chief of the Private Land Division of the General Land Office, was found dead in bed at Mobile on the morning of that day.

Ex-PRESIDENT GRANT and party reached Havana, Cuba, on the morning of the 22d. As the steamer entered the port, it was boarded by a representative of the CaptainGeneral and General Arias, the Civil Governor of the Province, who tendered to General Grant the hospitalities of the city and an abode in the palace. The party will leave for Vera Cruz, Mexico, on the I2th of February, but before leaving will visit Hayti and other West India islands. | A WasHINGTON dispatch of the 22d states that the President had withdrawn the nomination of William P. Seymour as Census Supervisor for the Sixth Dist;ict of Indiana. CoMMIsSsIONER HAYT on the 22d concluded his statements, which embodied a general defense of his administration, before the House Committee on Indian Affairs. Lieutenant Cherry, of the Fifth Cavalry, Adjutant of Thornburgh’s command, gave an interesting history of the military movements, but expressed no opinion as to any remote cause of the outbreak. - THE taking of testimony, before the Senate'Committee on Privileges and Elections, in the Spofford-Kellogg case closed on the 22d, and counsel were allowed two weeks from the 26th in which to prepare arguments, to be submitted on printed briefs. ON the 22d the Mississippi Legislature elected J. Z. George, the Democratic caucus nominee, United States Senator, and the Louisiana Legislature elected R. L. Gibson, also the Democratic. candidate, to be Senator from that State from March 4, 1883. Mr. George’s term will begin in March, 1881. THE Maryland Republican State Convention to select delegates to the: Republican National Convention at Chicago will be held at Frederick City, May 6. The Kentucky Convention for the same purpose is to be held at Louisyille on the 14th of April. A WasHINGTON dispatch of the 23d represents Secretary Schurz as saying: ‘A certain degree of secrecy is necessary in the Ute investigation, but Ouray is in no “sense a prisoner. In the opinion of Ouray, as well as myself, several things are to be accomplished by the present negotiations: 1. To have treaty provisions about the surrender of offenders carried out, so that.the participants in the White River murders can be tried. 2. To make such arra\jgement- with the Utes as will avert from them the injuries that are threatened to be inflicted upon them by the border population of Colorado, and which certainly would come if the present boundaries of the reservation were preserved. This gccomplished, the present difficulties will pass over without an fndign war, which will be a great benefit to the country generally. 3. To secure for them full compensation for every piece of land they may cede to the United States, and a safe and advantageous settlement for the future.” :

THE Fusion Legislature of Maine met¥at the usual hour on the 23d. The standing committees were announced in the Senate. The questions for submission to the Supreme Court were taken up in the House, debated and tabled until the 26th. The Republican Senate passed an order for the examination of the accounts of the State Treasurer. The House passed a bill to amend the Constitution by providing that a plurality vote for Governor shall elect. White, the Fusion Treasurer, refused to deliver his office to the Republican Treasurer. At a late hour on the night of the 23d the Republicans at Augueta received intelligence that the Fusionists intended to seize the State-House and burn the residences of their opponents. The Governor and Inspector-General discussed the situation huriedly, and finally called out three companies of militia, to be used as a garrison at the Capitol. . THERE were three severe earthquake shocks in Havana on. the night of the 22d and morning of the 23d. No great damage was done, but the people were greatly frightened, as nothing of the }Jnjd had ever before been experienced in thdt city. Mr. EbpisoN, replying to certain French critics who had expressed a belief that his carbon horse-shoes were not durable, -stated on the 22d that the lsmp in his work-: shop which had burned the greatest length of time showed no perceptible decrease of electrical resistance. He denied that he parted with any of his stock during the late extrayagant boom in prices. » MRgs. WALLACE (Indiana), Lucinda B. Chandler (Pennsylvania), Susan B. Anthony and other delegates to the Women’s Buffrage Association, appeared before a ‘United States Senate Committée on the 23d, and made arguments in favor of a Bixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, providing for the enfranchisement of women. : GENERAL GRANT was banqueted by the Captain-General of Cuba on the night of the 23d. e . , Wx. L. LEEDS, formerly Chief Clerk of the Indian Bureau, was sgain before the Senate Investigating Committee on the 24th, and testified that it was a fact, as claimed by the Cheyennes, that they were starved at the agency, and that, although Commissioner Hayt knew the facts, he did not furnish the i agent with the supplies called for by the treaty. i e '{ FurrHER arguments in favor of a Constitutional amendment to provide for female suffrage were made before the Senate Committee on the 24th, by Mrs. Mcßay, of Iowa; Miss White, of Illinois; Mrs. Stebbins, of Michigan; Mrs. Baxton, of Louisiana; Mrs. Pheebe Cousins, cf Missouri, and Susan B. Anthony, e - At a meeting in New York on the 24th of the directors and leading stockholders of the Union Pacific, Kansas Pacific and Denver Pacific Railroads a conmsolidation was

effected, and the three corporations were combined into one new company, be known as the Union Pacific Railway Company. The capital of the new company is fixed at $50,000,000. The Union Pacific gets 000 shares of $lOO eachy the Kansas Pacific| gets 96,000 shares, and tfie Denver Pacific gets 40,000 shares, SBidney Dillon was elected President of the new company, and Gould is| one of the directors. The consolidated oom?pany owns 2,030 miles of railroad, made up a.r; follows: Union Pacifie, 1,253; Kansas, | 672; Denver Pacific, 106. o CHARLES STEWART PARNELL and|Dillon addressed an immense audience at Buffalo on the evening of the 25th. During his speeeh Mr. Parnell said he believed Ireland had a tight to a nationality, and if it were possible to ‘gain one he believed that every Irishman’s b]§ood should be shed in her defense. e did not know that a peaceful settlement could be obtained, but, if not, the landlords would have to go. : THE military occupied the Maine State House on the 24th, and it was stated that Governor Davis had notified the ¢ntire militia of the State to hold themselves in/readiness for any emergency. An Augustadispatch of the 24th says Governor Davis claimed to have positive evidence that the Fusionists had their plans fully matured for the sgizure of the State House, and that but for the presence of the troops they would have exdcuted them on the night of the 24th. ‘The Arsenal at Bangor was taken forcible possession of on the night of the 24th by Colonel White, under orders from Governor Davis. On the 25th Governor Smith, of the Fusionists, isgued a proclamation stating that his supporters contemplated no violence, and that the placing of troops and artillery in the State House was but another act in the military usurpation under which the ‘State was languishing. He styled himself the legal Govemo;, and expressed a belief that his authority would soon be recognized by all good citizens., The Fusion statement and questions were laid before the Supreme Court on the 25th. ‘ NoTicE has recently been received at' the Sub-Treasury in Chicago of two new counterfeit bills of five-dollar and one-hun-dred-dollar denominations. The five-dollaris a photographic bill of the Pacific National Bank of Boston. It was first discovered in San Francisco. It is of the series of| 1875, Treasury No. E. 171,783, bank No. 3,083{ John Allison, Register, and James Gilfillan, Treasurer. The one-hundred-dollar bill is from an old plate on the National Revere Bank of Boston. The note is worn and torn, but the parer is good and the work is well done THE officers elecled at the recent Convention of the Wisconsin State Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry are: C. D. Parker, W.iM.; George H. Hatch, W. O.; Wilson Hopkins, W. L.; Enoch Wood, W. 8.; R. Williams, W. A. 8.; 8. N. Jones, W. C.; John Cochrane, W. T.; H. E. Huxley, W. Se¢.; R. W. Hume, W. G. K.; Mrs. C. D. Parker, W. Ceres; Mrs. Wilson Hopkins, W. Pomona; Mrs. H. E. Huxley, W. Flora; Mrs. Enoch Wood, L. A. 8. , ‘ THE building occupied by the Qlobe printing office at Cherry Valley, Kan., with sleeping rooms on the upper floors and |a furniture store below, burned a few nightg ago, and E. C. Henderson, foreman, and William McClain, 4 printer of the Globe office, perished in the flames. has

o LATER. L A DuBLIN telegram of the 26th says an Arctic wave prevaiglpd throughout Ir land. The intense cold was causing much suffering, especiailly on the western coast, where much destitution existed. The Duke of Marlborough, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, had declined an invitation of the Lord-Mayor of Dublin to a banquet on the3d of Febqua.ry, on account of the resolutions adopted &t the meeting of the Home-Rule Members of I:larliament, over which the Mayor presided.| The banquet was subsequently abandoned,l and the £5OO it would have cost turned ov&ar to the relief fund. - A ConvENTION has been signed by the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairg and Bir Austen Layard, the British Ambassador, for the suppression of the slave trade in/ Turkey. - : : : IIN Executive session on the 26th the Senate confirmed the nominations ofJames Russell Lowell, John W. Fogter, Lucius [Fairchild and Phillip H. Morgan to be Ministers of the United States to England, Russia, Bpain and Mexico, respectively. In the United States Senate on| the 26th Mr. Morrill, from the Committee on Education and Labor, reported favorably dhe Senate bill incorporating the National Educational Association, to investigate and report upon any educational subject, without |compensation, when called upon by any Dapartment of the Government to do so, and thie bill was placed on the calendar. Among the bills introduced in the House were: One by Mr. Valentine, for the appointment I & Commission to ascertain and report the losses sustained by citizens on account of Indian depredations; one by Mr. Springer, amendatory of the United States Election law, and one by Mr. Manning, providing that the number of Justices of the United States Supreme Court be increased to twenty-one, divided into three divisions, and presided over by a Chief-Justice and two Assistant Chief-Jus-tices, to be appointed by the President from Associate Justices. - ! NoTHING of importance was done in either of the Maine Legislatures on the 26th. The SBupreme Court met at Bangor to decide upon the advisability of considering the Fusion questions. The following was outlined as the Republican programme: After hearing what the Supreme Court would say regarding the Fusionist questions Governor Davis would issue his proclamation commanding the dispersion of the Fusionist Government and Legislature, and if "any.one should thereafter assume administrative or legislative functions, he would cause their immediate arrest. = i A STEAMBOAT called the ‘‘Charmer,” loaded with cotton, was totally destroyed by fite on the Mississippi'River, in Louisiana, on the 26th, and two chambermaids, two cooks, two cabin boys, one fireman and one deck hand perished. =

—An intelli%ent Newark (N. J.) coroner’s jury finds that the recent celluloid explosion in that city was not the result gan accident but of criminal carelessness. The Company’s experts assumed to know all about the materials employed, and carried on experiments in & room filled with employes, for which all hands are sharpl;y arraigned. S ' :

—The *Vietoria Jersey,” a bodice of English 'origin, is woven of pure wool without seam, Igusset or dart, and fits to perfection. It is high and close in.the neck and finished with collar, ?fi; and hip bands of webbing.—AX. . Post. e R

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SENSE AND NONSENSE. WORKING between meals i 3 what wears out the tramp. : | FEELINGS cannot be relied upon as judges of right and wrong. ' Ir is the boss printer who takes an honest boy and makes a devil of him. THE reason why a man steals an umbrella is because he does not like to go out in the rain and borrow one. ITis not easy for a man to regulate his income by hig expenses, and he must try and gauge his expenses by his income. : THE New Haven Register says the Connecticut winter is 'so open that baseball can be played; but it thanks Heaven it is not played. . . FRESH eggs have a lime-like surface while stale eggs are glossy and smooth of shell; but none of this appears in the dish known as scrambled eggs. “NEVER let a cold run,” says a cough medicine advertisement. This is bad advice. Always let a cold run. Let it run so fast that youcan't catch it.

LorTA, the actress, was a witness in a St. Louis lawsuit. *‘What is your age?'’ she was asked. ¢ People might not believe me if I told,” she replied, ‘“for some say I am forty-five.”” That was the only answer she would make. _ THE City of Paris has just opene% seven new central schools of design for Firls ounly. Education in drawing has ately been made compulsory in France, and the means for acquiring it are therefore being extended in every direction. - o A MEMBER of the Providence (R. I.) law firm which has acted as counsel for Mra Spragune in her recent litigation says that he has no knowledge whatever of any movement on Mrs: Sprague’s part toward obtaining a divorce from her -husband. . WHEN General Grant visited Girard College in Philadelphia recently, he asked one of the instructors: ¢Do you allow the boys to use tobacco?”’ %he instructor responded in the negative. ““That’s right,”” said the General; “they're not so apt to take to it after they get out, then.” “ ““You can get a bottle or barrel of oil off any carpet or woolen stuff by applying dry buckwheat plentifully.” V\?e are going into the oil business immediately. When one can get a barrel of oil at the small outlay of a little buckwheat and an eld piece of carpeting, you may count us in.— Euchange. . MRs. ETHERIDGE's boy walked on stilts in front of Gray’s . grocery at Dallas, Tex. This annoyeé’ Gray, and he whipped the boy. Muvs. Etheridge sent her son back, and posted herself, pistol in hand, to protect him in his diversion. Gray got a big club and went out for a combat with the womau. He received a bullet wound in his head, and she was carried home dangerously pounded But the bov still walks on his stilts. A YOUNG man at Lodi, Tenn., not otherwise particular about his dress, developed a strange concern as to neckties. He boufght them by the dozen, spent hour after hour selecting them, and chose the brightest colors. The mania grew upon him, until at length there was no reason to doubt his insanity upon that point. He spent all his time and money in procuring and dis-E-Laying ties of odd kinds, and was ally sent to an asylum.

W. W. CorcoraAN, the well-known Washington millionaire, has once recovered from disease after his doctor and friends had given him up. his pallbearers had been selected, and every arrangement had been made for his funeral. He rallied, to the amazement of everybody, and so steadily got better that within two or three mont%s he was going about on foot and attending personale to his affairs. He is now much stronger than he was before his illness. A WOMAN at Stockton, Cal., who had ‘a drunken husband; was waiting late at ‘night for him to come home. The lamp was in her bedroom and she was in the parlor. Hearing a noise outside, as if a man who was drunk was trying to find the gate, she went out, and sure enough a drunken man was there. She helped him into the parlor, as she had been used to doing, and placed him carefully on the lounge. After a hard struggle -she got his coat and vest off, and then pulled at the boots (as she thought they were), but they would not come off. At length she felt up about the ankles and found that the man had shoes on—something that her husband never wore. Striking a light she saw he was a stranger. A RATHER curious thing happened in New Haven recently. A large black cat managing to get, into the cellar in some mysterious way, and finding it impossible to get out, and feeling rather despondent at the outlook of affairs, resorted to craft. Jumping on the win-dow-sill, with her front paws she kept the wire connected with the front doorbell working, the bell pealing forth incessantly. gl‘he head of the t%mily, becoming alarmed at the steady and incessant ringing, went to the door, found no one, and returned to his armchair to ponder. - The ringing continued, a.ng, thinking, ‘pel:'%aps, that a band of robbers were in the house, he started in search of a policeman, who should search the cellar and arrest the offender,-if offender it should prove. The policeman and the prominent citizen entered the cellar, armed with clubs and pistols and a dark lantern. The flash from the lantern lit on the cat, working away in dead earnest. ‘‘Goodness me! why, what is that?” asked the proprietor. *By hoky poky, ’tis the cat,”” readily responded the officer. The cat in the meanwhile, seeing a way of escape, ran out the door, and order was once more restored in the house. . : . | :

Apache Courtship and Marriage. WHEN an Apache brave concludes to marry either a first or any subsequent wife, the manner of his courtship is the same. He makes no effort to become agreeable to his intended bride—indeed, rarely if ever notices her or speaks to her, except in answer to questions she may Il)xut to him. He pays more attention, however, to - her male relatives, particularly her brothers, if she has any. Finally, if he becomes satisfied that a declaration will not be rejected, then the whole affair is accomplished in a few hours, and generally in this fash-

ion. At night he takes the presents intended for the girl’s parents, who alone. are entitled to receive any, and places them near the lodge in which she lives. If the presents are horses they have their trappings also, and are tied with macate near the lodge; if a cow is to be given, a single straw or a cow’s horn, which signifies the intention, is tied to thelodge. If the presents are accepted, which almost always hap%ens, the girl goes in the morning and builds a new lodge or hut for herself and husband, and puts the straw in it for their bed. If the man is rich: there is .some ceremony about the marriage; if poor, very little or none. When tie parties are of consequence one of the orators of the tribe is employed by the bridegroom to place the presents near the lodge and make a speech to the bride’s family for him. The orator stands at a distance of several yards, and in his best style makes the declaration for his principal. In this he dilates on his client’s qualities—his coure, his skill in hunting, or anything in xav%lich he is distinguished. The orator confines himself strictly to the truth in his speech, and promises that his principal will maintain and defend his bride, but at the same time informs her family that he may at some future time take another wife, and even may become tired of her and send her home —all of which are the necessary incidents of Apache married life. ge also tells them that while she should remain his only wife, he would be faithful to her, and should expect fidelity, obedience and service from her. When he returned from hunting, foray or play, he wanted his food prepared as soon as possible, and he should expect her always to have a store of foodp on hand. On his part he would bring her game and spoils of the’enemy whenever e could. Her relatives make presents to the parents or family of the husband, and this is all that generally is done. Among these Indians it is considered a great indecency for a man to look at his mother-in-law’s face, and still more so to speak to her. If by chance they happen to come close together, one runs in one direction and the other in an opposite one until they are several yards apart.—San Franctsco Post.

A Woman Roasts to Death Her Two Boys. ~ Anotner case OI renglous ranaticism or somnambulism, invo{’l{:ring the (?eath of two children, came to light to-day. At two o’clock on the morning of November 18 last a fire was discovered in the house of Mrs. Beard, at Andover, and her two little boys were found dead in bed in their room in an ell of the house. They lay as though quietly asleep, and evidently had passed away unconscious of the touch of the tlames. The fire in this room was quickly extinguished, and no damage was done to the building. On entering the room of Mrs, Beard, in' the main building, a second fire was found burning at the ‘foot of her bed, and still later another incipient and entirely distinct blaze was found in the closet of her bedroom. The neighbors who . first entered the boys’ room noticed what seemed to be a - strong odor'of kerosene about the bed, anf this also led to suspicion that the fire was not an accident. The town officials made a hasty investigation, and concluded that nothing was wrong, but a month ago another and more searching inquiry was set on foot, and an inquest was held to satisfy popular sentiment. The verdict was rendered to-day. The retug-n of the jury is that the fires were set by some person in a state of somnambulism, or some other unconscious condition of mind, and that person the jury believe to be Mrs. Frances R. Beard. This afternoon Mrs. Beard was arrested and held for trial for arson. She is g widow, thirty-eight years old, has conssiderable property and has always occupied a high social position in the town. She has been a devoted and loving parent and earnest Christian, having for many years been an active member of the Congregational Church. Her grief at her husband’s death apparently unsettled her mind for a time, and she was missing for a day or two, being finally found concealed in a neicr%bor‘s barn. She was sent to the McLean Asylum at Somerville for a few weeks, and apparently .fully recovered; but she was subject to religious hallucinations, and evidently committed the deed in some such madness as that Whichpossessed the Freemans at Pocasset. For several weeks before the fire she appeared depressed in spirits, and her mind was particularly morbid upon religious subjects. At a discussion in the Bible class, on Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac, she remarked that she .considered that ¢‘parents in these times may at any time be called to make a like sacrifice,” and the calm, cool-blooded way in which she said it made her auditors shiver. ; f

But this afflicted mother exhibited the strongest paternal love for her children. Ata church-meeting, long ago, she rose and made a most earnest and eloquent plea for the abolition of fermented wine at the communion-table, asking in behalf of her boys that this temptation might not be set before thexn. So impressed were all present by ner spirit and words that it was instantly voted to substitute water for “wine in the future. Mrs. Beard’s demeanor at the fire was cool and collected. She remarked to one that she went in and threw: rugs on the boys, and that she could hear them ¢ just roa.stin%.” While one genveman was at work at the Ifin’nnp.'s she whispered in his ear that the fire was incendiary, but expressed no suspicion as to who was the guilty party. Since the fire she has not manifested the slightest grief at her affliction. A prominent State officer had a long conversation with her on the subject of the fire, she manifesting the most perfect indifference on ;ge subject. -He finally altered his manner, and, vividly picturing all the awful horrors of the calamity, he expressed his profeundest sgmEathy for her terrible affliction. She istened courteously, and, when he had finished, calmly and kindly thanked him, and remar{ed simpli, “It was an event that naturally awakened human pathy.”—Boston, Mass., (Jan. 21) %atch'fo Chicago Tribune. :

—But few men can handle a hot lamp-chimney and say there is no place like home at the same time, T

. Modern Letter-Writing. LETTER-WRITING has become one of the characteristic occupations of our tinre. We keep up mn’ltip{)ied correéspondences with people whom we know and like in very various degrees, just as we also })ossess photographs of a‘Eeople ~whose lives have cut accidentally across our own, but whom we may never meet again. How different from the more concentrated life of three or four generations ago, when a letter and a portrait were solemn things,both connected only with ' persons really interested in one another! Women especially treat their corresgondence as an affair of state, magnify its idleness into pressing business, make it a pretext almost as universally availa’bfi: as the old-fashioned ‘“‘headache,’ and end by believing themselves as important as cabinet ministers. A man in any public position is generally assailed with letters, many utterly frivolous; editors have protected themselves only by the avowed use of the ‘waste-basket; but even in the quietest ‘walks of private life, the letter-writing which affectionate friends expect from one is frequently a severe amf unavoidable ordeal. Business letters canbe dispatched in five minutes; great interests and im(f)ortazzt transactions can be compressed into half a dozenlines and a few moments of time; but when it comes to the friendly letter which politeness requires you to write, you look hopele::llf round, with the conviction that you will be dubbed heartless unless youdevote at least three-quarters of an hour to detailing the state of your health, your trivial ~occupations, the last book you read, the last local news you heard, the state of the weather, etc. We have forged an ‘additional social chain in thus gradually | makin%lcorrespondence anecessary part of our life.. ‘“Tke mail’” has come to be the turning-point of the day in many households... As usual, the ease and cheapness of communication have been abused, like the invention of printing and every other beneficial institution. In London, where . city mails are deliyered every two hours with unfailing accuracy, the evil has grown even worse than we know of here. During the ‘season,” the number of notes, on cardboard paper, with elaborate monograms, treating of such weighty subjects as a toilet, a drive, an invitation, a begging for some social protege who wants to go to So and So’s ball, an appointment or an excuse for some party of pleasure, is bewildering, and a still greater tax on the time of the recipients than even their customary daily correspondence. However, such people have so much time to *kill”” that they need not quarrel with the facilities which the postoffice gives them of accomplishing their objeet and yet seeming immensely busy; but for ordinary human beings, it is a great pity that fashion should encourage aimless correspondence to the degree usual at present. Let us hope that our cities will not do more in the way of repeated mail deliveries than exist at present, and that when letters open with excuses for previous silence our friends will take the hint.——February Atlantie. = i ;

A Somnambulist’s Deadly Deed. THE unconscious and fatal shooting of Mrs. Helen J.. Ward, of Boston, a few days ago, by her daughter, has ‘been the cause of much comment. But it does not approach in marvelousness ‘the case of the boy Fitts, of this city. Some years ago this boy was stopping with a family, friends of his parents, in New Hampshire. One night he arose in his sleep, got ‘out of the house, the doors of Whi(%l it was thought had been securely fastened, went more than half a mile, on his way crossing a stream which, we believe, he was obliged to bridge with a board that he somewhere found (but of this we are not quite sure), and went to the house of a boy of about his own age, with whom he had ‘been playin% the previous afternoon. In a shed he got an ax, made his way up stairs; and through several rooms, to the bed where his %riend was sleeping, and with the ax inflicted several blows on the head and face of the boy, from which it was supposed he could not recover. The lad escaped from the house, went back over the same road he came, to his home, and was found in his bed in the mox_'ning asleep and unconscious-of what he ha done. The victim of the somnambulist is still ‘alive, but young ¥Fitts died a vear or two after. This strange affair, which is susceptible of eon‘grmation from many sources, entirely eclipses the Ward tragedy, and is an evidence of the unaccountability of people for™ acts committed in their sleep.—Lowell (Mass.) Maxl. .

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