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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL. XLYlOOrafnaa. ' •gaj -The-bill incorporating the cusnedontoeSff ...The Genera Award bill was farther oonstdered sad debated. Hones.— An exciting personal oootrorwaj occur led, #rowin# out of a chart* aade tqr Mr. GarSeid that Mr. tWnsheud had. •he day before. Id a deceptive manner, secured the of a bi.i maktne several reduottoas in duties to the Comm ittee ea Revts on 2* ton L * w » tastoad of that on Ways and the rates requiring that ail bills Jrtat ns to revenue shallbe referred to the latter oommttcee. Mr. GarteM moved »o as to reter to* bUI to the Committee on Ways ,&***•* entertain In# the y>ct »Us moved to lay it on the tatafcawfeioh was atrro*.] to—llß to UT. Mr. jn<wred to reconsider, and lu thatjmocten oa the table; rejected—lit to lflL Mr. TowuMeod th«n desired to withdraw his *® f«oo«wd*r, but there twin# an obJJJj® ■V* opeaher ruled that the motion was s!?* *® w ■ poasession of the gentleman from imnoia fTowasa-’nd.) but was under the 0001 -ral of the House, and Iff objection ▼V* made the motion to rtbmsider CduM not be withdrawn. Mr. Townshend appealed from this decision, and, on motion 2J MrGarftekl, the appeal was tabled—US to 48. The motion to reconsider was finally affreed to— tst to lll—after which a war of words ensued, MV. Townshend Indian an tly retouting tb-? charge of deception oa bis pert: he said be proposed to hold Mr. GaiUeld personally responsible for tbe chanrs of deception. and that if he meant to insinuate that he fTowjuheodi had intern ion ally deceived the House, be (Garfield) was #uiity of a willful, dell bonus falsehood. After a dispute las tin# most of the afternoon an adjournment was taken without dlspoaln# of the subject. Sax ate.—The Genera Award bill w*a further debated on the 24th. Hocse.— The entire session, which lasted until midnight, wsadevoted ton discus* aioh relative to the disposition to be made of Mr. Townshend * bid reducing the duties on certain articles, the Minting resolution being one offered by Mr. McLane, declaring that in the opinion of the House the reference of the bill to the Committee on tbe Revision of the laws was incorrect under the rules, and that such committee should be discharged from its further oon»idciatt°n. and the bill be referred torae Committee on Ways and Mean* By ullDustarioa proceedings tbe opponents of the resolution succeeded in preventing a decisive rate Doing taken theieeo under a motion for the previous question. Senate.— Mr. Cameron (Pa.) introduced a Joint resolution on the SU providing for a commission to consider and report what legisAtion is needed for tbe better regulation of commerce among the States, the commission to consist of three Senators, three Representatives and three citizens to be appointed by the President, who shall ait during the tec ess, and inquire Into the conditions that will most favorably affect transportation of commerce among the States, carried by land afld water.mutes aecuring thereby to tbe people the required facilities at the lowest rates, the greatest certainty and economy in time, and that will prevent unjust discrimination, and to report their recommendat o is tq the next Congress... .The bills incorpo.ating the National Educ4tion.il Association ana tq provide for tss ling patent, for public lands claimed under the Pre-emption and Hone stsad laws were passed Adjourned to the Hocse.—After a lengthy controversy over the McLane resolution relative to the reference of Mr. Townshend'* bill reducing the duties on certain articles the journals of the 2M, 23d and lull were approved, and the resolution discharging the Committee on the Revision of the Laws from the further consideration of Mr. TuwjuhendTs bill wa, agreed to —112 to 108 —and the bill was then referred to the Way* and Means Committee—l 42 to to—tb i-ty-fuur Democrats and Green backers voting with the majority. Senate.—Not in session on the 29th. House.—The morning hour was consumed in the consideration of private bill*, and a long debate took place upon the question whether a two-thirds vote was requisite under the rules to lay aside private business and proceed to tbe consideration of public bill* Without deciding the point, the House went Into Committee of the Whole on the private calendar.

From Washington, > The Senate, in executive session on the 23d, rejected the President’s Dominations for Census Supervisor* in the First, Becoud sad Eleventh Ohio District* Washington dispatches of the 24th say that the Interior Depariment bad been informed that large numbers of Sitting Bull’s band had recently applied at Fort Peck for ration* and offered to surrender their arm* and pbulea These surrender* Secretary Sehurz stated, wouid have to be made to the military posts. The Secretary said be had every reason to believe that the remainder of the Ute Indians eogtged In the Meeker massacre wouid be brought in without delay. One of the Indiana captured by Jack, and then in Washington, had been Identified by Mrs. Meeker as haring acted in a friendly manner toward the ladies during captivity. Ouray and the other Ute chiefs left for Colorado on the evening of the 24th. * The President has nominated A. Newton Petti* of Pennsylvani* to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico; James B. Angell, President of tile' Michigan University, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister. Plenipotentiary of the United States to Chin* vice George F. Seward, recalled; and John F.’ Swift, of CalL forni* and William- H. Trescot t, of South Carolina, to be Commissioners to Chins to negotiate a treaty. On the 24th General Halbert E. Paine, Commissioner of Patent* tendered his resignation.

The East. The Pennsylvania State Greenback Convection met at Harrisburg on the 23d and elected delegates to tha National Convention to be held in Chicago on the 9th of Jane. The delegates were instructed to vote lor Hen* drick B. Wright for President The resolutions adopted regard nationality, currency reform, aud rights of labor as one and inseparable; declare that the United States shall issue all currency, gold and silver and paper, all to be free legal tender for all purposes, public and private, and that there shall be no banks of issue. State or National; extend party sympathy and active co-operation to the- workingarea of California in their efforts to combat the evils of Chinese cheap labor, and declare •that fail restitution should be made to soldiers for depreciation of the money in which they were paid. • A New York dispatch of the 2S<i says the total arrival there of immigrants so far during the month reached 12, TO, more than doable the number for the same time last year, between 3,000 and 4,000 more were known to be on the way. A majority of the newcomers are Germane. Archbishop Wood, of Philadelphia, has issued a circular condemning secret societies as dangerous to civil society and injurious to the interests of religion. * . * Thes persecutor of Rev. Dr. Dix, of New York, was discovered and arrested in Baltimore on the 84th. His name is Eagens Fairfax Williamson; bis age, forty, and his place of residence, Pittsburgh. He said he did not know what prompted him to send the letters, po*tal-c*rds, etc., as his victim never injured him in any manner. Oh the 34th the first coal charted of the season Sras made at Buffalo, at seventyfive cents per ton to Chicago. * There were heavy snow steams throughout the Eastern States on the night of the 34th. A pew days ago the family of Edward Westlake, six persona, residing la Brooklyn, N.'Y., were poisoned by tn infusion of jimsoo weed, drank by mistake fortes. All had recovered except one on the 34th. Oh the 34th Dr. Cable, a prominent Pittsburgh (Fa.) physician, fatally poisoned his tea-year-old son ,bv giving him a teaapoonfnl of morphine by mistake for some'croup remedy. The New York State Convention at the National Greenback-Labor party met at AJbmiy on the 34th.* Patrick K. Ford, George

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O. Jons* Jamas Wright sad Samuel Lovell ware chosen a# delegates at large to the Chicago CoDveartton. Resolutions were adopted substantially Ukc those adopted by the Pennsylvania Convent i m. According to a Nfew York telegram of the »th Edison claimed he had sseertalaed the cause of the cracking of soma of tbe globes containing the incandescent carl bond, aad had found means of removing It This, he said, would obviate the neceeeity of anneal lag the globe* and keep their coat at twenty-tve cents apiece. Ox the 25th Rev. Dr. Dix had an interview with “ Gentleman Jo" William son, la the coarse of which the latter expressed great contrition and protested his innocence of an intention to levy blackmail. Mr. Gay lsr, of the post-office, believed the culprit eras "guided in his work by some Insane impulse." Dr. Dix thought he should be brought to punishment for the sake of example Went atnd Sooth. Nearly all the* passenger con due tors of the Haanibal A 8* Joseph Railroad received notices of dismimsi on the 23d. The reasons were not given. Recently a North Carolina wedding party was broken up by the arrest of the bridegroom for burglary—a capital offense in that State. The State Convention of the National Greenback party of Tennessee has been called to meet at Nashville, May 22, to choose delegate* to tbe Chicago Convention. The steamer City of Mexico, with Generals Grant and Bherldan on board, reached Galveston, Texa* at noon on tha 23d, after a stormy passage from Vera Crus. The distinguished party was enthnslsstlcally received by a large concourse of people. Navigation on the Illinois & Michigan Canal was resumed for the season on the 23d. The Minnesota State Democratic . Convention to choose delegates to the Cincinnati Convention will meet in 8* Paul on the 20th of May.' John B. Gribler was lately sentenced to sixty days’ imprisonment in tbe CbJcyigo Jail for having attempted to bribe a Juror in’ a civil case before one of the city courts. A private detective named Patten, who is said to have been tbe go-between and to have paid the money, was arrested at Warn ego, Kansas, on the 28d. On the 24th Judge Moran, of the Cook County (I1L) Circuit Court, rendered a decision substantially bolding that persons not freeholders are debarred from serving on Juries in Illinol* He said tbe common law provided that, a freehold qualification was . necessary for Juror* and aa there was no provision of any State law repealing this principle, bat, on the contrary, the statute required that “ a juror should be free from all legal exception,’’ be held that non-freehold-ers were not competent to serve. The Illinois Supreme Court, in the ease of tbe City of Chicago against the sureties of David A. Gag* lately defaulting City Treasurer, has lately decided that the fact that the bondsmen signed in blank, leaving certain blanks to be filled, did not invalidate tbe bond. Tbe Court held that the sureties signed tbe paper knowing it to be a bond, and that the contingent circumstances were such that they most have known that Gage was to act as Treasurer. They made themselves responsible for the faithful performance of his duties as such official, and in reality each one constituted Gage his ageut to complete the bond A special to the Denver Tribune, dated March 23, says Indiaus had lately attacked a party of six men near Baata Barbara, N. M., killing them all. . A yew days ago a barn and a smaller building At Winfield, Kan., were carried away by a cyclone, and neither had been found, not even a fragment, after ten hours’ search. On the 25th the Texas Republican Btate Convention met at Austin, and elected delegates to the National Convention. A majority are said to favor the nomination of General Grant.* The delegates were instructed to vote as a unit in the convention.

On the evening of the 25th a subcommittee of the Anti-Third-Term Committee of the National Republicans of St. Louis met in that city abd issued a call for a National Mass Convention to be held in St. Louis on the Sth of May for the purpose of “ giving expression to the will of the American people against the principle of a third term, Insneurating a movement with a view to fixing a limit to Executive tenure by Constitutional Amendment, and taking such other action as the delegates may deem expedient.” Oh the 26th, at Richmond, Va., Judge G. L. Christian,of the Hustings Court, ordered two colored men to be summoned on the Venire for the next term of his court. This will be the first time colored peonle ever had representation on the juries of any courts in that State, outside the Federal Courts. The Illinois Supreme Court has lately decided that the usual practice by budding associations of loaning money at more than legkl rates of interest is usurious. Count de Lesseps. the French builder of the Suez Canal, arrived In Chicago from Ban Francisco on the 36th. He was banqueted in the evening by the Civil Engineers’ Club Of the Northwest. Ex-President Grant reached San Antonio, Tex., on the 26th, where he received an enthusiastic reception. The Secretary of the San I rancisco Vigilance Committee published a card on the 26th denying that negotlatione were gotng on or that communications were bring had between that organization and the Sand Lotte ra.

* Forelsm intelligence, A St. Petersburg telegram of the 23d says all the prisons In Russia were full, ami new ones would be built to accommodate the Nihilists yet to be arrested. A Quebec (Canada) telegram of the 23d says that an epidemic of small-pox had broken out among the horses in that city, and that one of the street railway companies had been forced to suspend operations in consequence. A Cap* Town (South Africa) dispatch received in London on the 23d, says another great diamond robbery had been committed in the Post-office there. Diamonds valued at >5 0,000 had been abstracted from the Postmaster's safe, besides a great number of banker’s draft*. On the 23d Walter, a London forger, who had previously distinguished himself in betting frauds, was sentenced to twenty years’ penal servitude. On the 34th the British Parliament was prorogued and announcement made of the issue of writs for a general election. In the Queen’s speech, which was read by the Lord High Chancellor, she said her foreign relations were favorable to the maintenance of peace in Europe, and the expressed confidence In the speedy settlement of affairs in Afghanistan. Referring to the measures for the relief of the distress in Ireland, she said she hoped they would be accepted by her Irish subjects as proof of tha ready sympathy of ParhameaC _ According to a Constantinople dispatch of the 84th the, Tnrfciah Government had refused to pay for Gosinje the sum demanded by Montenegro. Another dispatch of the same date says the sum paid to the Greek brigands for the ransom of Colonel Synge was 100,000, instead of <30,000 as before reported. The greater pert of the business portion of the City of Ramans, Ban Domingo,

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was recently destroyed by fire. At the height of the conflagration a party of pillagers quarreled over their booty, and several off than ware killed. Tbe value off the property destroyed was 81,600,000. Montreal (Canada) dispatches of toe 26th say French Canadians war* leaving tost city at ton rate of sixty or seventy a day for Michigan or Colorado, while a tew were destined for California. A large number off mechanics were being engaged to go to Colorado and other placpfifo prepare lumber, ete, for new railways. ‘ On the afternoon of the 25th a discharged «■ ploys entered toe room of Horn George Brown, editor of tbe Toronto OUbt, end attempted to aseaaalnate bun. After on* shot, toe ball striking the old gentleman la •he thigh, the would-be murderer was seised, disarmed and conveyed to prison. According to a St. Petersbuig special off the fifith the Csar had, on the night pterion* shot and mortally wounded his confidential servant, who entered his bed room during toe night, thinking the Csar had called him. - • It is stated that the Emperor of Russia has presented Prince Alexander, of Bulgari* with a war steamer, 40,000 rifle* and several Krupp cannon. Russian newspaper* have been instructed to refrain from publishing anything concerning the expedition against the Turcomtni. On the 25th the ex-Empress Eugenie embarked at Southampton for Bonth Africa; to visit the locality where the Prince Imperial waa killed. Prince Leopold, the youngest son of Queen Victor!* U announced to sail for Canada on the 20th of AprlL He will afterward make a tour of the Western States and eltiea A recent mutiny of miners at a place called Anguero, In Mexico, resulted in tbe killing of two Americans and one Canadian. According to a St. Petersburg dispatch of the 26th defalcation* bad been discovered in the overland custom-house in that city, aggregating 8925,000. A London dispatch of the 26th says China bad decided to undertake war with Russia rather than accept the result of tbs late negotiation*

LATER A London dispatch of the 28th says that, when Mr. Parnell undertook to speak at Enniscorthy, Ireland, a few days before, he waa greeted with a shower of odorous egg* and waa compelled to abandon the platform. A Washington telegram of the 27th says Edgar M. Marble, law officer of the Interior Department, would be appointed Com. mlssioner of Patent* and J. G. McCammon would succeed him as law officer. It was reported on the 28th that the presence of two United States war vessel* engaged In soundings and survey* at the Isthmus of Panam* waa causing considerable excitement and ID-feeling in Colombia. These operations having been conducted without reference to the authorities on shore, the native Secretary of State had addressed a letter to the American Consul, asking an explanation. That official was In ignorance, however, and referred tbe matter to the Government at Washington. The United States Senate was not in session on the 27th. Several resolutions of inquiry were adopted in the House, and a number of bills were received and referred. The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bUI waa debated in Committee of the Whole, Messrs. Blackburn and Townshend (HL) strongly advocating the abolition of tbe whole diplomatic service, and Messrs. Robeson, Orth and Monroe earnestly defending such service. According to the St. Louis directory, recently published, the population of that city numbers 510,000 persona The United States ship Constellation sailed from New York for Ireland on tha 27th, loaded with donations of supplies for the suffering people of that country. The cargo consisted of over 8,000 barrels of provision* including a large quantity of potatoes, sod many boxes of clothing, and was made up by contributions from every part of the country. The Pennsylvania Board of Pardons has refused to recommend the pardon of Kemble and his associates in the Legislative bribery case. John McAtfee, who, as Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives in 1861, cast tbe deciding vote which prevented the State from going oat of the Union, died on the 27th, at'Quincy, DL, where he had resided since 1867.. In a speech at the Sand Lots in S&n Francisco on the 28th, Denis Kearney declared that the agitation would not cease until the Chinese weke driven from the Btate. Tbe speech is said to have been a comparatively mild one as regards pointed personalities and profanity. At a large me sting held in tbe evening Mayor Kalloch expressed the desire that the Sand-Lotters should cease their profane and threatening tpeeche* and added that the people were tired of Kearney and bis agitation.

Arrest of “Gentleman Jo.”

Baltixobi, Md„ March Si. This afternoon James Gayler, Genral Superintendent of the city delivery in the New York Post-offloe, with the aid of a detective, arrested Eugene Fairfax Williamson, in. this city, on the charge of having been the originator of the late annoyance to the Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix and others of New York, by writing anonymous letters and sending persons to their houses and places of business. When arrested Williamson confessed that he was the author of the letters and postal cards. He states that he arrived in New York about the middle of February and remained there about a week, during which the first annoying letters were written. He again went to New York on the 14th of March, and remained a week, when he wrote and mailed offensive letters and cards. On both occasions he stopped at the Windsor Hotel, and registered his proper name and residence, Pittsburgh. He says he doee not know what prompted him, as neither Dr. Dix nor any others annoyed ever injured him. When he found, on his second visit to New York, the injury he had done on the first visit, he felt badly about it, abd wrote the letter from the Fifth Avenue Hotel to Dr. Dix, which he afterward sent to the New York Tribune, hoping it would prevent people from calling at Dr. Dix’g house. He says he did not intend to extort money from Dr. Dix or any other person, ana did rot answer the personal in the Herald in reply to one of his letters. The accused was taken on to New York to-night, hav-. ing expressed his willingness to go without a formal requisition. Williamson is' a single man, age about forty, and says he is a native of Baltimore. Here arrived here Friday night last, and went to a private residence where he was acquainted, and was found there when arrested. He was traced from the Windsor Hotel by detectives by following his baggage, and many places were visited where baggage had been left before trank Was found and his stopping place discovered.

ALL SORTS.

Cremation la popular in Italy. The United States Government paya salaries to 98,00 G persons. The sales of the Hayden book havff' of late fallen off and altogether been modi lees than waa expected. Diphtheria is prevailing very widely In Maine. The doctor* an calling for private funerals to prevent the spread of the (Betas*. The Rhode Island House of Representatives bha pawed a bill repealing the law prohibiting the intermarriage of blacks and white* which has been a dead letter for a long time. ' Edwin Fain, a brother of tho Nevada millionaire, James G. Fair, has arrived in this country from Ireland, where he was a renter, paying an annual rent on eight acres of land of $5.50 per acre. The lumber operations in Maine this winter are proving very sucoewfuL There will be about fifty-five millions wood scale or sixty-five millions boom scale come out of the west branch of the Penobsoot this summer. Nine stowaways were found on one Liverpool steamer bound for Boston the other day, and dispatches say the rush of emigration among people able to scrape together enough to pay their passage is very great. A young negro, seven feet high, has recently been posing in Hartfora as a Zulu chief. A theological student addressed him In the Zola language, but oould not make himself understood. This would seem to “give away” either the theological student or the Zulu chief. At the New York Art Students* League recently a Chinaman had been induced to pose in his native costume as a model for tbe portrait class, but suddenly he oaught sight of a skeleton hanging near by, and thinking himself in a dissecting-room, and unable to understand any explanations, the Celestial rushed about in terror until a student ojjened the door, when he quickly vanThe increase of crime in Sonth Carolina is attributed by the News and Courier, Charleston, to whisky and the habit of carrying concealed weapons. A passionate impulse, a crook of the finger, and—death It is killing in haste, and repenting at leisure. When he who has a weapon in his pocket is excited by whisky, arousing the savage instincts which are found in every breast, his control over himself is gone. There has been much talk in England about the “large case” made up by the counsel for the Tichborne claimant, but, as usual, America comes promptly forward to excel the effete monarchies of Europe. The “ case’* in the Tichborne affair comprises. 1,824 folios, 5,888 lines and 95,688 words, which is indeed a very small affair, oompared with the “case** of the Snyaer will case of Pittstown, N. Y., whioh consists of 3,407 folios. 25,160 lines and over 840,000 words, exclusive of the index. A bill has been introdnoed in the Legislature of California, the object of which is “to prevent the playing of cards for drinks in the back rooms of saloons, where young men and-men of families N congregate every' Saturday evening, ana with the money they should take home for the support of their families, play cards for the drinks until the early hours of the morning draw on, when they stagger out in a maudlin condition, to meet their families who are at home in a half-starved condition.” A church organist at Aratoff, near Kieff (Russia), lately confessed on his death-bed to the murder, twenty years ago, of a farmer. He committed the crime with the priest’s pistol, which he stole, and then placed in the sacristy, confessed to the priest, so as to preclude the latter from giving evidence against him without infringing the obligation of secrecy, and then went and denounced the priest as the culprit. The priest, who vainly protested nis innocence, was sentenced to hard labor for life, and, on his liberation being applied for, on the strength of the organist’s death-bed confession, the reply was that he had died a few months ago. A remarkable ease was reported in New York recently. A man was found staggering about the streets, and was “ run in” at the Charles street station. He said he was suffering untold agony in his stomach, but was, as usual, about to be committed as “ drunk,” when the surgeon arrived, and suggested an examination. He was found to be apparently ail right, when the surgeon attempted to brush away a thread from his stomach, but found it would not brush. On further examination the thread was found to be attached to a needle which had disappeared inside, putting the man in terrible pain, but now tne needle got there neither the man nor anyone else knows.

A late telegram from Canton, Ga., details the killing of a young man named Johnson, by another named Taylor. Deceased and young Ellington had a fight, which resulted in the latter being badly used np. Old Ellington afterward came np with Johnson and bantered him for a fight, saving that as his son oould not whip Johnson he would do it himself. Johnson, when approached by Ellington, palled oat a pistol and fired at his adversary three times, inflicting painful scalp wounds. After the shooting a Sheriff and Deputy, named Taylor, attempted to arrest Johnson, who resisted, and while making an effort to draw a pistol the Sheriff ordered Taylor to fire upon Johnson. This Taylor did, killing him the first shot There is much grumbling in Canada at the unprecedented severity of the etiquette which has oome in vogue since the arrival of the Prinoess Louise, and which is apparently a pale oopy of the rigid oode which regulates the court io England. Nobody who has lately been in Canada expresses the least surprise at the aoddent to the Princess and Lord Lome, as their rash daring was a S neral theme of "gossip last winter, and eymay think themselves lucky to have got off so easily. -—* w * * The first American patent for an invention was issued to Samuel Hopkins, of New York, July 81, 1790, and was for an improved method of winking pearl ash and potash. It is written in a plain, round, old-fashioned hand, is signed by George •Washington, and certified by “ Ed" Randolph, Attorney General, as being conformable to the act of Congress to promote the useful arts, audits delivery to the grantee is certified by Thomas Jefferson, with the seal of the United States. A Cathquo priest in New Tork contribute* five hundred dollars to the Government conscience fond in behalf at a parishioner.

The Village Gossip.

Gossip has earns to be*an ugly word, with an uglier meaning; bat what is more detestable than a person who is given to meddling with other peoples’ oottoerna so much as to deserve the aameP You know her, of course, for die infests every community. She will tramp over a village, and in one day will leave tbe bosses and the reputations of the occupants as barren as a held swept by a hail storm. No sooner does she enter by the back door than her shrill voice startles you with: “Good morning, Mrs. Smith; didn’t see you at church yesterday; thought msy-be the baby was sick. I’ve been up to see Mrs. Jones; her boy has a cold she thinks, but / know he is getting the scarlet fever. She’s all mod oat. taking care of that trifling husband. She says he has pneumonia, bat everybody knows what ails him. Martha Jackson was there, helping to nurse the baby; but we know Who she’ll take care of. By-the-way, did von hear that her beau had jilted her? Good thing for her, I guess, for they do say he is poor as Job’s turkey. She looks downhearted and forlorn enough. How do you like the new minister’s wises I don’t think she’ll do. She was oat in Another bonnet, yesterday. That makes two. His salary can’t support that; and she’s no housekeeper; her olothes wam’t on the line when I passed at twelve o’clock. My butter-woman says she takes four pounds of butter a week; and that is too extravagant for anything. What ails your eyes? They are too red. Got something in oneP Shouldn’t wonder if cream would help it.” Her eyebrows are elevated in adonbtfol way; and as she passed out through the kitchen, she takes in the contents of the table and stove at a glance, to report to the next neighbor: “Just been in to see 'Mrs. Smith; she looks dreadful; been having an awful fuss about something. Was crying when 1 went in; her •yes were fearfully red. Guess they don’t get along any better than they should. Smith complains of hard times; and I don’t wonder, when I saw the piles of cakes and pies in her. kitchen; and the swill buoket had a good meal in it. I expect what they say about his going to ruin so fast is true. That’s what he got for marrying a city girl. Heard you had company, Saturday, mid think Mrs. Smith is a little miffed, because she wam’t invited. 1 must hurry, for I am going up to Deacon Robinson’s. They are in a peck of trouble. Their son wants to marry the milliner’s daughter, and their daughter is coming home with her child; I expect to stay, for they do say he ill-treats her. She always was too ‘high strung.’ ” Mr. Brown comes home to dinner, and after dining with the family, the gossip leaves to detail to the next family how the Browns had nothing for dinner, and “ they do say they never pay for a thing, not even the pew rent I wonder who can be writing to Sarah Brown? Some say it is that horrid gambler, who was here last summer. She was making over that old blown silk ’for the fourth time, to my knowledge.” Before she reaches home that night, Mr. Jones is dving of strong drink; his boy is beyond hope with scarlet fever; the Smiths are on the verge of a divorce; the new minister is a bankrupt; Deacon Robinson’s son has ploped with the milliner’s daughter; Brown’s family are on the road to the poor-house; and Sarah -is to marry the city gambler. This is what tbe gossip is in oar town; and there is a Very striking family likeness between them all. > She is also foremost in all church societies, and a self-invited guest wherever she can squeeze in. When yon find her among your acquaintances, the sooner you “cut” her the better. Bar the doors against her, and when she has no visiting places, she will be forced to stay at home and do the hardest thing she ever undertook to do constantly,— mind her own business. —Bessie Albert, in Farm and Home. .

The Queen’s Drawing-Room.

Fashion and the upper ten have been greatly flattered. Her Majesty held a drawing-room on Friday. She is only going to “ receive” once more this year, it is said. Blood and mammon, therefore, crowded Buckingham Palace, and will do so again, to fall off a little when the Prince of Wales takes up the running for his royal mother. Her Majesty, according to a semi-official modiste, wore a dress and train of black poult de soie and terry velvet,'embroidered in black silk, and a long white tulle veil, surmounted by a coronet of diamonds. She also wore a necklace, brooches and ear-rings of large opals and diamonds; the ribbon ana star of the Order of the Garter, the Orders of Victoria and Albert, the Crown of India, Louise of Prussia, St. Catherine of Russia, St. Isabella of Portugal, etc., and the Saxe-Cobmg and Gothe family order. The Princess of Wales appeared in a dress of prane-colored velvet with pearl embroidery, train of Brussels lace, and no end of pearls and diamonds. She looked thin, I thought, and by no means strong in health. I saw her arrive. The Duchess of Connaught was resplendent in white satin, trimmed with auchesse lace and white roses. She wore a tiara of diamonds and a profusion of pearls. If the imperial stone is really to be manufactured wholesale by the chemist, will these royal ladies replace it in their crowns and coronets? Will it be set aside, being no longer worth a large sum of money? Do they prize it for its beauty? In the daytime there are other stones that eclipse it, undoubtedly. It is at night, when it radiates the glare of lamps, that it is supreme in its beauty and oolor. The dresses at the drawing-room were richer and more magnificent than ever. Gold brocade was in high fashion. The modiste aforesaid awards the palm to the dress worn by the Countess of Clarendon, of which the coloring was Pompadour; it consisted of a close train and Directoire coat bodice of Louis XV. brocade, lined with pale bine anin, and bordered with point d’Alenoon, over a petticoat of ivory satin dnehesse. with gathered front, trimmed with flounces of point d’Alenoon and lisse studded with pale shaded roses to match the brocade of the train, which was ivory and pale pink; tiara of diamonds and diamond ornaments. Lady Julia Womb well wore a dress of old gold-colored broche, trimmed with satin of the same oolor and old point lace; a train of dark green and gold broche velvet, trimmed with old point lace and bouquets of gold mulberries and foliage frosted with gold. Some of the elderly ladies in the enforced low-necked dresses of the oourt looked cold and miserable. The Queen will here everything done as it was done in the Prinoe Consort's time, and no amount of criticism or appeal will induce hsr to modify the low-neaked drees of presentation.

Bat this is no reason why tho Princess Louise should enforce the same siMy regulations upon Canada So firm is the Queen in maintaining her reminiocences of Prince Albert’s day that she discards a new railway on .one pf her royal journeys aad travels one hour longer than necessary because It was the track aim used when her husband was alive. —London Cbr. N. T. Time*.

How Some Eccentric Young Ladies Dress.

The girls of the tune are shrewd and quick to seise an idea, and jpst now there Is a danger that Borne of them will over do the Quaker or oonventoal stylo. Having caught the effectiveness of reserved styles of dress from novelists’ descriptions or pictures, they try it on with a persistency whioh destroys the charm and freshness of the oostume altogether. Well read girls havs heard of demure little beauties in gray, loosing “dove-like and deUekras?’ tOl they are erased to poee tor the picture themselves, and silver gray ana drab suits appear among the brillianoe of legitimate fashions in a phenomenal and suggestive way. Sometimes the character is very prettily done, as in the case of one feminine exquisite who is remarked wherever she appears on Fifth avenue or at the galleries in brilliant pale-gray silk dress made shorter than her stature requires, she being of modest size, with skirt in full plaits from the waist, in the old fashioned way, and her shoulders covered with a coachman’s .cape to match. A delicious ruffle of soft mechlln and laoe tie at the throat, a funny little gray chip cottage bonnet, that looked as if she had worn her little sister’s bonnet by mistake, trimmed With clustering violets and adorable white lisse tie* enhances the. quaintness of a face which seemed that of an overgrown child with spft drooping hair, fresh, downy complexion, big gray eyes, too light for beauty, and a general powderiness and responsibility uke that of a devoted young matron who has lately taken the world on her conscience. Her toilet is dainty, from the gray cloth boot to the fresh gray kid glove and comical gown, too dainty for a world that ndes in horse cars and goes oat when tbe dust blows, and allows the children at the dinner table.

Just as the Jockey Clab affects the square cut frock coat, big gloves, stout walking cane and the genteel hob-nailed style of our full favored British oousin, there is a class of young women whose standard is modeled on the dowdiest most uncompromising of English habit* Going np Fifth avenue early mornings, one’s vision is drawn to a fast walking young woman, in a light gray cloth gown, of the short, kilted description, rendered rather more ungraceful by being tied by the sash about the hips, the skirt swung clear of a stout pair of broad shoes, and surmounted by a school boy’s jacket, with ugly side forms and short skirts, like the ugliest of cheviot business suits, the vrai English coat, worn with a hat which looks like that of a servant man’s out of livery. The style eannot be caHed adorable. It savors too much of the feminine medical student, or the girl of the atelier, who poses in our imaginations, with her hands in her pockets and mahl stick sticking over her shoulder, with a luncheon of bread and cheese and beer in the back ground.— N. Y. Mail,

Effects of “Cramming” Pupils.

Mb. Eliot, the School Superintendent of Boston, complains in his last report of the bad effects of the “cramming” of pupils, of whioh Prof. Huxley once said that it made conceited young people and foolish old ones. A less patent but hardly leas grievous mistake which is commonly made in our Sublic schools is the thoughtless way i which young girls are directed to “speak up” during recitation, whereby it comes to pass that their vocal organs arp strained and their voices made' nigh and shrill instead of sweet and low as the wind of the Western 1 ] sea when northeasters are not on the rampage. Everybody has noticed the prevalence of a disagreeable shrillness in the voices of American women, and though the physiologists attribute the tendency to the influences of our climate, it is undoubtedly aggravated by: the unnatural tension of the vocal or-! gans of children at school. Attention has of late been called to the alarming! prevalence of shortsightedness in GerauH ny, and oculists who have reported upon l it say that it is caused by the straining* of the eyes of young children and youths in study. To remedy the defect they have proposed not only the shortening and division of study hours, but the taking of special pains to secure a proper disposition of pupils in reference to the direction from which light falls upon their books. Myopia is not the peculiar danger of American children as it is with the Germans; it is the quality of the larynx, and not of the eye, that is most imperiled, and in building our schools care should be taken that their acoustic arrangement shall be such as to require the least possible elevation of the pupil's voices. —N. Y. World. .

A Novel Ball.

Dr. Stephan, the chief of the German Postal and Telegraph Department, gave a novel ball in Vienna lately. All the servants were, dressed in the costume of postilions. <ln the course of the festivities a post-wagon, fully equipped, with harness and driver, was driven into the dancing saloon. The guests danced around a telegraph-pole adorned with maay-oolorsa ribbons. Envelopes containing bon-bons- were distributed among them from letterboxes exactly like those upon the Berlin street-corners. Werner Siemens, the inventor, who is called the German Edison, provided for the ocoasion a novel electrical light-house. The dancers were given keys to the door of the towers, some of whioh had the magic quality of causing the lump to send forth a brilliant flame. Tie couples possessing the right keys waltsed in the glow of the sudden illumination, but those who oould not made the tower respond were obliged to retire from the floor amid the amusement of the spectators. At one o'clock a fanfare of postilions’ horns gave the signal for supper.— N. Y. Tribune. Mb. Arthu'h Sullivan is a manysided man. In addition to his brilliant musical gifts, and the reputation he has so rapidly won as a composer, he has written a drama, “ Glenveih,” which is soon to be presented at the * Adelphi Theater, London. Mr; Sullivan possesses fine literaiy abilities, and, curiously enough, has invented a patent railway brake which is said to be very in-. genious and practical. Thk Parisian authorities estimate the

NUMBER 29.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Lomax fa received in England with marked cordiality.' The Queen has shown great friendliness of manner. He has received numerous calls and invitations from the best people, and is the lion-of the evening at several great houses. ' j\ '{'Hi number of new works issued in Germany in 1879 amounted to 14,179, as against 13,912 in the previous year. The greatest increase is shown j n the depanneats of jurisprudence, politics and statistics; the decline is most visible in all departments of belles lettres. Charlotte Bronte’s story, “ The Professor,” was completed before “ Jane Eyre” was commenced, and was declined by vyrieus publishers. It was not published until after the author’s death; but “Jane Eyre” was at onoe accepted' and published by Messrs. Smith A Elder (1847). Mrs. Outran*!* probably the most prolific of living writers. Within the last three years she has published five or six works—several of them being threevolume novels—in addition to editing the “ Foreign Classics for English Readers.” She is now writing a new novel with Scotch scenes ana characters.

Mb. Whitley Stokes has printed at Calcutta for private circulation a volume of “Indian Fairy Tales” containing thirty stories, the greater part of which were told in Hindustani by native servants to his daughter, and afterward written down in English by that and excellently annotated late Mrs. Stokes. Bibliophiles will be interested to learn that the well-known microscopic edition of Dante fa to have a companion in the “ Rime” of Petrarch. Each page will be fifty-five millimeters long ana thirty-five broad (a little over two inches by one and a half), and the whole volume will contain 667 pages, with thirty-six illustrations ana two ’portraits. Macaulay has pointed out that the first English author who really made a good paying business of literature was Richardson, for the good reason that he published his own works. A statement has lately been made that Swift “had no pecuniary interest in his writings;” but a correspondent of the Athenastem points out that in a letter to Mr. Puitney, in 1735, he says: “ I never got a farthing by anything I writ, except one about eight years ago, and that was by Mr. Pope’s prudent management for me.” About eight years ago corresponds with the date of publication of “Gulliver,’* for which one thousand dollars is alleged to have been paid. Probably it has earned for the booksellers by this time one hundred thousand dollars.

HUMOROUS.

A lady playfully struck a reporter of one of the city, dailies on the oheek the other day, and she now carries her arm in a sling. The reporter wasn’t hurt. A Dakota girl has married a Chinaman. He had some difficulty in explaining the state of his heart, but she finally got his cue. —Boston Transcript. One of the sweetest moments in this beautiful world to some people is when they can beat down the price of a tencent artice to nine cents. — Oil City Derrick. Those who deny that two feet make a yard have only to examine some of the feet elevated in the smoking-rooms of our hotels to be convinced of their error. A man who offered for five dollars to Eut any one on the track of a paying i vestment, seated an applicant between the rails of the Boston & Albany Railroad. —Boston Post. “Before I give yon an answer,” said Aramantha to her lover, who had just proposed for her hand, “T have a secret to impart.” “What is it, dearest F’ he asked, pressing his arm around her yielding waist. She blushed and stammered, “My teeth are false.” “No matter,” he cried, heroically, “ Pll marry you in spite of your teeth i” The Cleveland Voice makes the following soleful remarks: The Cipodes Monomeri, mentioned by Plato, were a race of beings whose distinctive characteristic was the possession of one foot of such huge dimensions that when it rained the fortunate C. M. could lie upon his back, and by raising his elephantine pedal above him, find himself securely roofed from the storm. This may partially account for the Chicago woman’s—but we leave that sort of thing to St. Louis.” A young gentleman somewhat numerous in social circles took his sister, a wee miss, to see a family the other day in which he is a regular caller. Hie little girl made herself quite at home and exhibited great fondness for one of the young ladies, hugging her heartily. “How very affectionate she is,” said the lady of the house. “ Yes; just like herbrother,” responded the young lady, unthinkingly. Paterfamilias looked tip sternly over his spectacles, the young gentleman blushed, and there was consternation in the family circle. — N. Y. World.

The Liberty Cap.

The “Liberty Cap” takes its origin from the ancient Phrygian cap, which may be seen in all the representations of the Trojans in Flexman’s illustrations to Homer. In ancient Greece and Borne slaves were not allowed to have the head covered, and part of the ceremony of freeing a slave was placing this cap on his head, which thus became the symbol of liberty and was so regarded during the Roman Republic. A cap on a pole was used by Saturninus as a token of liberty to aU slaves who might join him, and Marius raised the same symbol to induce the slaves to take arm* with him against Seylia. After the death of Cesar the conspirators marched out in a body .with a cap borne before them on a spear, and it is said that a medal struck on the occasion and bearing this device is still in existence. In Dr. Zinkeisen’s “History of the Jacobin Club” we are told that the “Liberty Cap” or “Bonnet Rouge’’ was introduced by the Girondists ana that it owed ite favorable reception principally to an article by Briseot, which appeared in the Patriate Francois and in which he declared that the “mournful uniform of hats” had been introduced “by priests and despots” sail proved from history that “all great nations—the Greeks, the Romans and Gauls—had held the eap in peculiar honor.” It is also said that the “Bonnet Rouge” was habitually worn by the galley slaves and was adopted as the symbol of freedom after the release of the Swim regiments of Chateau Vieux, and it is very likely that this circumstance gave the first impulse to the fashion, But it soon became identified with th« “liberty Cap” of antiquity.—# Y. Worlds “Notes and Queries,"

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A Lessen in Navigation.

Dp one more block, and we come upon the ships—white ships, black ships, iron ships, wooden snipe, big, little and medium ships, ships of all sorts. They aH go under the general name of shipe, and it fa well - they do,, for not one New Yorker in a dozen, knows the difference between a bark; and a pleasure yacht, though he goes! down the bay every day is the summer. Here is a good-natured-looking sailor, leaning against a post in a nice sunny place; he will give us some information about the shins. “ That thereP” says the sailor, in » tone that seems to pity our ignorance, and gividg his trousers a tremendous hitch, “that ain’t no ship; that’s a brig. Don’t you know the difference atween a ship and a brig? Why, bless you, a ship—but I can’t talk too much; my throat troubles me. This here dry airparches it up, like, and; I—” There are so many establishments in the neighborhood for the moistening of parched throats that this difficulty is soon remedied, and the sailor invites ns to take a seat on the bottom of an upturned yawl, where we will be sheltered from the wind, while he explains the mystery of brigs and barks. “ It’s a shame,” says he, “ that you landsmen don’t know more about ships. Now, we sailors know a church from a hotel—most of us—and why shouldn’t you know more about our housesP Pll tell you. That there wessel there's a ship, an’ Pll tell you why: because she has three masts and square sails. That’s what makes her a ship. If she was only as big as this here yawl, and that’s not very big, and had three masts and square sails, she’d still be shiprigged. The first mast, up by the bowsprit, is the fore-mast, the middle one is the main-mast, and the last is the mizzen-mast. Each of these here masts is subdivided, as the school-masters say, into three parte: the lower mast, the top-mast, and the to'-gallant mast. Now you know more about navigation than old Captain Skittle did, wlfen he run the Three Sisters on a rock.

“Do you see this weasel Just behind ns? She’s a bark, and that s one of the firs test things for you to learn, if you're going to be a sailor, how to tell a bark from a ship; ’cause if you was on watch, and you reported a ship on the lee bow, and she turned out to be a bark, the Cap’on would give you salt in your grog for a fortnight. A bark has three masts like a ship, but the mizzen-mast is schooner rigged, instead of having square sails. A brig has only two masts, both square rigged, and a brigantine is the same as a brig, only .square rigged in front and schooner rigged behind, as a landsman would say . , Now you know it all, and con take aship; • across the ocean without a compass.” j The lesson in navigation finished, the ! sailor’s throat was in such a parched! condition that it took three inward ap-j plications of rum, well seasoned with! molasses, to get it in working order, again. Then ne explained how a pilot-! boat might always be distinguished byj the big number painted on its sail; and, a ferry-boat by its pilot-house at each! end.—A. Y. Times.

The Boatmen of Shanghai.

The floating population of China ls f immense; ana one is struck With this at| every port. To build and repair their' vessels is a branch of industry I have never seen- described, but it must be enormous. Millious,probably,of families live in them /md never go on shore. There is no craft so small, not even the; sampan” that attends a foreign Bhip.j but has room for its idols or gods, before which the owner burns his “ joss paper.” I will digress here a little to tell of the-boatmen of Shanghai. They' are mostly from the distant seaports ofj Ningpo and Swatow, being of a hardier race and better sailors than the men of! this,province. By some mysterious: telegraphy they know when a ship is' coming, and several lie waiting fora! job at the “ red buoy” outside Woosung. Each one has the name b# the 1 ship he served last painted in a con-; spicuous place aft. The one I engaged had Halloween ” and his name,! “ Sam,” underneath. Sam is a cogno-* men all Chinese boatmen glory in. ; His sampan, which is exactly like all) the rest, is about sixteen feet long* and! about the shape of a half peach stone. A couple of guards run around it. as to: one of onr little stem-wheel steamers,, projecting aft over the stem’and .bending up at the extremities like the bom; of a crescent. What this is for I cannot make out. The forward half is decked over, and under this deck Sam keeps lots of things. The midship section abaft this is not decked, but has a platform, and is roofed over, the roof of bamboo and matting arched from side to side. Under this roof is the seat of honor. On the floor is a rug, and overhead are frescoes taken from Harper's Weekly , the Illustrated London Hews or Illustrated Zeitung, or an illuminated calendar, many of the pictures upside down; all begged from the different ships Sam has attended. Over this roof is its exact counterpart made to slide, and when we are seated Sam will gently slide the whole thing over if it rains, snows or the wind is raw and cold, and give ns a wrap to cover our limbs with! Under this at night Sam arranges himself for sleep somehow or other, and, when religions, worships his *' lares and penates.” Abaft the seat and roof, raised a little, is the standing place for Sam, or poop deck, where he propels the boat. He unships this deck when hungry, and there are, underneath his fire-place, kettle and other domestic utensils, and there he oooks his rice and fish. I must not forget to tell how they propel their boats. It is by sculling. They have a' gigantic oar whkfe they poise on a pin on the stem (nobody but a Chinaman can do it), and by of a cord attached to the oar and the boat, they scull, or “eulo,” as they call it, at a very rapid rate. Vessels of a larger size are scnlled this way, by means of beams projecting from the sides, to the end of which an oar is attached. The tides at Shanghai run very swift, and the winter winds are furious and piercing; but these fellows scull right along against wind and tide. When an moored together at some wharf for the night, they form a large community 4 and discuss the events of the day or gamble half the night. There is nothing done within many miles of Shanghai but they know it before any cue else.— Cor. Boston Journal. In the Cates murder trial at Ridge Spring, S. C., the other day, a' young colored man said: “I jes tell you, white folks got no business gwine to black folks’ parties, case dames is not got much sense no how, and when dey gits a quart of mean whisky dey jes as leave kill dey selves as any other pussoo?’^ During a period of nearly two centuries the first bom of the House of Austria has been a girl—a curious fact.