Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1879 — Page 4

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General News Summary.

From Washington. In tkcnwof Um widow Maty &.* Ollvri aßaiiMt ex Senator Simon Cameron, for MO, MOdatMKO forbreaob of promlarof marriage, wMch came «p In Um Circuit Court in Waab laßtou, ou Um 17th, Um plaintiff testified that, ta Mr. Cameron proposed man iag< to her, and she accepted. Three letters frow I him were submitted, one o' them closing with Um sentence: “Too will be my wife.” Defendant did not come to the bouse where she Heed, as humid the people there dtJ not like It. She saw him quite often in Washington. Is the caucus of the House Republicans that resulted in the nomination of Mr. Garfield for Speaker, the following resolution was adopted: ffesateed. That it is the sense of this caucus that no teßuhatiou shall be entered upon during this Mssion of Onoanws other than that foi which the searion was specially called. Tux National House of Representatives was organised, on the 18th, by the re-election oi Mr. Randall as Speaker; Mr. Adams as Clerk; Mr. Thompson as Sergean teat-Arms; Mr. Field as Doorkeeper; Mr. Stewart as Postmaster, and Rev. Dr. Harrison as Chaplain Mr. Randall received 144 votes, the exact number required to elect. Tin following is the full text of the President's Message to Congress, sent in on the 19th: Fruow-Cmntxs or the Ren ate and House or RarusßKTanvnß: The failure of the last Connem So make the nquirite appropriations for Tnsialativti and jnawial purposes, for the iiipi asri of the several Executive Departments of the Government, and for the support of the army, has made ft necessary to oallaatsrion of the Forty-sixth Oosutshl Ihe eatimafee of the appropriations needed, which were sent to Congress bv the Secretary < f the Treasury at the opening of laM session, are renewed, and are herewith transmitted to both the Senate and House of Representatives. Regretting the existr enos of the emergency which requires a special arasion of Congress at a tone when it is the grneral Judgment of the country that public w. Ifare will be beat promoted by permanency in our Irgisiatinsi and by peace and rest. 1 commend .here few neoeasary measures to your conndernte Attention. (Signed) Rutherford B. Hayes. Washington. March 19.1879. At a caucus of Democratic Senators, held In Washington, on the 2Cth, Col. Burch, of Tennessee, was nominated for Secretary of the Senate, end R. J. Bright, of Indiana, for Sergeant-atiAnns. A General Court-Mabtial has been ordered for the tral of Col. D. 8- S'anley, of the Twenty-second I ifantry, and Col. Hazen, of the S.xth In.an try. __ Gbn. F. A. Walkeb was, on the 2Otb, nominated by the President to be Superintendent of the forthcoming Census. Ost the 90th, the National Executive Committee of the National Greenback party issued another address to the people o the United States, in which they statethat no dependence te to be placed in the professions of the avowed friends to the cause; that the hope for finan dal relief with n old party lines has been exl tinguisbed, and that they have been, in seversinstano s, misled by nominees of the party and others who obtained its support. It is only possible thn a new organ zat.'on to found a party which shall accom; Hsh the desired end. To succeed,-a-uniform effort must be ira le, and a position bold, aggressive, indepen lent and uncompromising must be taken. Notice was given, op the 20th, that the Uniteo 8 ates Treasury Department wou'd at once redeem the called bonds embraced tn the seventy-eight hto eightiet h calls, incl usive, paying interest to date o' redemption, or it would rede* m at once the bonds included in said calls, with interest to date of maturity, and apply the proceeds to the payment of any * sutsc ipt ion for 4-per-cent. consols. Tub joint Democratic caucus of both houses of Congress met on the 22d, and decided upon the “ modification” of the Election laws by repealing the provisions creating the office of Chief Supervisor, and those relating to the appointment of Deputy Marshals.

The modification further contemplates the appointment of one officer from each party who shall have no authority, but who shall be allowed to inspect and scrutinize th£ votinz lists, challenge voters, etc., and to have only powers of inspection and observation. It was also decided to repeal Sec. 5522, whieh prescibes penalties for interfering with Supervisors, ete. A motion also prevailed to send to the President these measures attached to the various Appropriation bills, as during the last Congress. No decision was reached in respect to general legislation. The East. The distribution of the net proceeds of the late pedestrian -contest in New York Isas follows, according to a dispatch of the 17th : Rowell, <21.500; Ennis, <12.300; Herriman, •8,500; O’Leary, •1,060. Weston, once an American pedestrian of some note, has, it i reported, chai engcd Rowell for the; osse c sion of the belt, the match to occur in London, beginning on the sth of May, and continuing six days. A scientific examination of the “sulphur” which fell in the shower over the Lehigh Valley, Pa., the other day, proves it to be the pollen from a species of pine brought by the wind from the Jersey forests. Surrogate Colvin, of New York City, on the 19th, rendered a decision affirming the vtlidity of will of the late Commodore Vi nderbilt. It was believed that the contestait would appeal. Ox the 19th, two men were Instantly ki led 'Snd four seriously injured by the premature explosion of dynamite in the Pottsville (Pa.) Colliery. Thi Republicans and Democrats of Rhode Island held their State Conventions at Provideoce on the 30th. The former renominated the present State officers, and the latter nominated Thomas W. Logan for Governor; J. D. Bailey for Lieutenant-Governor; Davis 8. Baker, Jr., for Becretary of State; Charles H. Psge for Attorney-GeneraL Bartholomew O’Donnell, eighty years of age, finished an eighty-mile walk in twentysix hours, at Brooklyn, N. Y., a few evenings •COThs following were the closing quotations tor produce in New York, on March S9d: No. 9 Chicago Spring Wheat, •LlO M LO6; No. 2 Milwaukee, <I.OO @ LOA Gate, Western Mixed. 81%@32c Corn, Western Mixed, 44X*45c. Pork Mess, [email protected] Lard, <6 61X06 65 Flour, Good to Choice, [email protected]; White Wheat Extra, »[email protected]. Cattle, 58 [email protected] for Good to Extra. Sheep, 54.75 @ 6 25. Ho**. 14 5004.75. At East Liberty, Pa., on March 23d, Cattle brought: Best, 55.2505.50; Medium, 54.500 5.00; Common, 588004.25. Hogs soldtorkers, M. 9004.00; Philadelphlas, <4.603 ♦ 75. Sheep brought [email protected] to quality. AT IsMmori, MA, on March 29d, Cattle brought; Best, 54.87X@'»75; Medium, •[email protected]. Hogs sold at for Good. Sheep were quoted at <4,[email protected] for Good. ' ,/s.' Went aud South. At a Baptist Church fa B»ltlmore, MA, a few nights ago, M m Louisa Donaldson, while assisting to baptise a lady, suddenly expired, ft was tboqght death was caused by heart A HOOT* near Ponca, D. T., was destroyed by fire • few days ago, and Mrs. Bigley, nfasty years old, waa burned to daath.

A three-cornered shooting affray occurred at Vicksburg, Mita., on the evening of the |Bth, which resulted in the Instant death of CapL W. H. Andrews and W tj L. Greene. *Bd the fatal wounding of UapL W. F. Fitzgerald. The difficulty arose over an election of officers of the Hibernian Society. Rbv. Db. DbKovbn, of Racine, W'a., a distinguished Epiacoital divine, died, on th* 19th, Tom apoplexy of the heart. Dr. DeKoven was once elected Bishop of the Diocese of 1 lit note by the Diocesan convention, but the Standing Committees refused to confirm the choice. A telegram from Santa Anna, Southern California, of the 20th, states that a man whom Dennis Kearney had severely traduced in a speech, alter waiting until the speech was finished, gave the orator an unmerciful beating. The Southern Bank of New Orleans, the oldest bank in the city, failed a few days aid, and was placed in the hands of Receivers. The deficiency Is stated to be 9700.000. The Mechanics' and Traders' Banti-followed suit, and ■s soon as the news got abroad a panic ensued, and a run was precipitated, directed mainly against the Canal, Louisiana State, Germania, Union and People’s Batiks. Oh the 20tb, the Clearing-House, as a measure tending to allay the excitement, adopted a resolution declaiitig that until March 29 no depositor should check out more than 9200 in one day, an<f that all other drafts should be paid in certifli d checks. -The following is a list of banks who** temporary suspension was announced, on the 20th: Germania, Hibernia, Louisiana, Mutual, New Orleans, Stite »ni Vn on National Banks, Bank of LaFayctte, Citizens’ Bank of Louiriana, Citizens’ Savings Bank, Louisiana Savings Barß, Metropolitan Bank, New Orleans Canal and Banking Company, People’s and Workingmen’s Banks.

Is a recent letter to the public, Archbishop Pu'cell, of the Diocese of Cincinnati, narrates the causes which led to bls present pecuniary embarrassment; gives in detail his expenditures on behalf of the Diocese, which he says should have lieen tome by the members of the churches, and dec ares that but ior the generous sympathy of Catholics and I’roustents alike he would have suuK under the weight of h s troubhs. lie makes an appeal to all Catholics and others who feel lor others’ woes to help him out of bis embar-•'ra-smeuts. A not t one hundred Democrats audtlrtrtyfour Reoubl can ■> and Indi pendents have been elected to the Louisiana Slate Constitutional Convention. The Memphis (Tenn.) and Woolen Mills were struck by lightning, ou the morning of the 22J, and entirely destroyed. Lo-s, 49J,00J. By this disaster 15J persons are turown out of employment. A man caught robbing a store at Jamestown, Ky., a lew nights ago, was shot dead by the proprietor, who had been aroused by the noise made by the robber. Fifteen buckshot penetrated the body of the bur K lir. A. Hr ard, the paying teller of the Mechanics’ & Traders’ Bank of New Orleans, committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver, on the morning of the 21st. The money u the vaults of the bank was about being counted by a civil officer, and Huard, being a defaulter in a large amount, it is thought .tie committed self-destruction to avoid the consequences or detection. Information was received in Washington, on the £2d, from Cob Walsh, who is in command ot the mounted police on the Dako a frontier, reporting that Sitting Bull and his wa-riors were showing a very ugly and insubordinate disposition. They bad as yet made no movement toward the boundary line, but serious trouble was apprehended as soon as spring should open. Col. Walsh estimated the strength of Sitting Bull’s band at 7,000, all told, ot whom -2,500 were warriors, well armed and equipped. Gen. Sherman deeded to take active measures, by the forwarding ot troops, etc., to guard against the apprehended raid of the Indians across the frontier, and a pos-ible attack upon Forts Stephenson, Buford and Totten.

A bill has been introduced in the Illinois House of Representatives to annex the City of St Louis to the State rs lll.nois. In Chicago, on March 22d, Spring Wheat N x 2 - closed at 90X@91e cash; 89Xc for April; 94 @ 94Xc fur May. Casti Corn closed at 34,X C for No. 2; 32c for April; for May. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 23%c, and 253*c seller May. Rye Na 2,45 c. Barley No. 2, 74&@75c for cash; 73%@74c for April. Cash Mess Pork closed at [email protected] Lard, 56.47 X Beeves —Extra brought 54.9905,25; Choice, 54.50 @4.91; Good, [email protected]; Medium Grades, <3.75@415; Butchers’ Stock, 52.65(33.91; Stock Cattle, etc., 52.60(33 90. Hogs—Good to Choice, [email protected]. Sheep—Poor to Choice 54.0005.85.

Foreiern Intelligence. 8’ According to London dispatches of the 17th, it was not true that Col. Pearson had defeated the Zulus, at Ekowe, with great slaughter, as nad been previously reported. The Zulus spread the report themselves to prevent the sending of reinforcements. The Orange Free State Government had 1 refused to aid, or permit its citizens to aid, the British against the Zulus. It was reported in Berlin, on the 17th, that the Government contemplated proclaiming a state of siege in Berlin in consequence of the Socialist agitation. The Reichstag took cognizance of the report, and there was great agitation and violent debates. 'Count von" Eulenburg stated that Bismarck and the Emperor had lately received letters threatening assassination, and infernal machines had been discovered in Berlin.

The Village of Vernet, near Vichy, France, containing 100 houses, was wholly destroyed by fire on the 17th. Ox the 18th, the French Minister of Finance pai 1 to the Bank of France 65,000,(00 francs, the last installment of the milliard borrowed during the Franco German War. A bill has been introduced in the French Assembly whose avowed aim is the exclusion of the Jesuits from the right of teaching. A St Petersburg dispatch of the 18th says that Russia bad notified Turkey that she pro posed to leave troops south of the Balkans, until she was guaranteed that the payment of the war indemnity would not be prejudiced by the terms of the projected Turkish loan. ; Wacthiee, the Belgian explorer, died, some time ago, in Central Africa, of dysentery. Dispatches from Vienna of the 19th say many avalanches had recently occurred in the Austrian Tyrol. At Blelbcrg, ten houses had been crushed, forty persons killed, eighteen seriously hurt and fifteen missing. A Havana (Cuba) telegram of the 19th reports (hat during her last trip to the West Indies, the British steamer Bolivar ran down and sank the Hayti en stesmer Michael. Sixty persons on board the latter perished. London telegrams of the 26th say that Schmidt, the Financial Director of Eastern Roumelia, while on a recent'tour through the country, was mobbed b ? the Roumelians, and forced to call upon the Russian troops for protection. This incident has revived the proposition for a mixed .occupation of the country alter-the departure of the Russian forces. The Wigan Rolling Mills, the largest manufacturing concernJn_ Lancashire, has suspended. The Spanish Government has proclaimed a state of siege in the Basque Provinces during the elections. Pinto, the Portuguese explorer, who lately crossed that, he ha* saved, all bls papers, charts and field notes, and a diary of his explorations of the Upper Zambesi with its seventy-two cataracts,

Tub appearance of pleuro-pneumonia in a herd of cattle shipped from Chicago io Liverpod is d< nt din a London dispatch of the 21 at. The rep rt waa instigated, it te said, by Canadian operator*. Oxthe Mat, the German Re.chatag adopted, without debate, a motion to suspend nroce< d Inga against the Socialist Deputy Fritzsche, during the Parliamentary aetslon. The French floating battery Arrogant* re-" ccntiv foundered off Hyeres. Of the 122 person* on board, furty-teven were drowned. Qveknei. Bhoh ,of Havre, failed, on the 21st, for 2,000,(XX) francs. , A Paris telegram of the 22d says the expenses of the International Exposition were 55.000,000 francs and the receipts 30,000,000 frahes. A Case Town (South Africa) dispatch, received on the 22d, says the Molraora tribe had rebelled against the British authority. A I.ATE arrival from Yokohama reports the continued depreciation of the paper currency of the Empire. Japan had threatened to make the Loo Choo Island* a dependency of the Empire. According to Madrid dispatches of the 23d, SenorCastclar and 103 former Deputies of the Cortet had issue 1 a manlfes'o to the Democratic party in Spain, announcing as their program tie a sincere return to the Constitution of 1807; universal suffrage; the inviolability of Spanish territo.y; payment of interest on the public debt; religious and educational liberty; freedom of the press, etc. A telegram from Calcutta, received on the 23d, reports that complete anarchy prevailed in Mandalay.

CoiigreKbional Proceedings. The Forty-sixth Congress assembled in special se sion on the 18. h. At noon the VicePresident called the Senate to order, and, after prayer, the President's Proclamation convening the extra neosion was read .. .The Senatore-elect were then sworn in. at ter which tne credentials of Mr. Bell, of New Hampshire, who was appointed bv the Governor to fill the vacancy, were, submitted. Mr. Wallace moved to lay the credentials on the table for one day. but withdrew the motion temporarily to allow Mr. Itol tins to make a statement of the facts in the cane. The question involved is the right of a Governor to appoint a Senator, the vacancy being caused by neglect of the Legislature, and not because of death or resignation Mr. Rollins cited precedent* with a view to showing that Mr. Bell should he admitted but Mr. Wallace's motion »a» renewed and carried.... Mr. Thurman offered th-- formal resolution to wait upon the President ard House of Kepresentatives. Clerk Adam* called the House to order and read the President’s Proclamation.... Ihe rollcall was then completed. 285 members responding to their names... The Clerk gave Mr. Hull I Dem.l. of Florida, a seat, and allowed the lowa delegation to come in. his position in bothe men being that a Governor's certificate and the seal of the State gave the bolder a p>ima fne'e right to seats... Nominations for Speaker were then made, and Mr. liandall waa re-elected on the first ballot, the vote being: Banda) 11 Dem.), 141; Garfield ißep.i. 125; Wright (Greenback'. 18. and Kelley, 1... Mr. Bandall made a brief address on resuming the Speaker’s chair, and took the oath of office, an<i administered the same to the mem- 1 ben, objection being made to the swearing in of Mr. Hull, of Florida.... The foltowing officers were then re-elected: Clerk, Adams; Sergeant-at-Arms. Thompson: Dixirkeeper. Field; Postmaster. Stewart; Chaplain, Bev. W. P. Harrison. . Seat* were then drawn for, and the House adjourned. A number of bills were introduced in the Senate, on the 19th. among them being the following: To reorganize the army; to remove all political disabilities imposed by the Fourteenth Constitutional Amendment; to repeal the act of July, 1862, requiring the test oath; authorizing the local taxation of legal-tender Treasury notes; joint resolution providing for the enforcement of the Eight-Hour law.. .Mr. Edmunds offered a resolution, which was objected to and laid over, that all bills and joint resolutions except those making appropriations for the support of the army and for the Legislative. Executive and Judicial expenses of the Government, shall be referred to appropriate committees and not be reported until the next (December) session A memorial of a number of the members of the Kansas Legislature was pre-ented and referred, asserting that the election of Sei'Htor Ingalls was secured by bribery and corruption, and a-king toe Senate for a full opportunity to offer proof of tne assertion... The credentials of Mr. Bell as Senator from N' w Hampshire were, <>n motion of Mr. Wallace, referred to th- Judiciary Comm ttee... .The President’s Message was received, read and referred. . _»r

In the House, after considerable discussion of the Florida contested-election case, the resolution that Mr. Hull be sworn in was adop'ed—l4o to 136-and he took the modified oath.... The Committee on Rules was announced as follows: The Speaker and Messrs. Stephens, Blackburn. Garfield and Frye.... The President’s Message was read and referred. After prayer and reading of the journal, on the 20th, the Senate adjourned until the 21st. Jn the House, the petition of citizens of Cincinnati in relation to the election of Meters. Butterworth amt Young was called up and the whole matter was referred to a select committee. with leave to sit during the recess. The same committee was also authorized to inquire into the operation of the Supervisors’ law in Cincinnati at the last election. Messrs. Butterworth and Young declared themselves heartily in favor of this action. A large namber of bills were introduced in the Senate, on the 21st, among which, were the following: To repeal so much of the Revised Statutes as prohibits the appointment to the army of any person engaged in the late Rebellion; providing for the organization of the hlihsissippi River Improvement Commission, the deepening of the channel of the river, and the protection of alluvial lands; aut orizing. the purchase of foreign-built ships by citizens of the United S ates: providing for retiring the tradedol'ar and its lecoina.-e into the standard silver dollar; io equal ze bounties of soldiers, sailors and marines of the late War for the Union.... A joint resolution was submitted, proposing an amendment to the Cons: itntion, giving the President power to except, in his approval of bills, either items of appropriation or special legislation. giving his r< asons to Congress -the items so disapproved to be treated as in the case of a veto.. ■. Mr. Hoar offered a resolution, which was objected to. and vyent over, condemning as unconstitutional and insurrectionary the attempt of one bouse to make the passage of Appropriation bills conditional on the consent of the other house and of the President to provisions they do not approve.... Mr. Edmunds called up his resolution proposing to confine tbe business of the session to the object for which it was called, and it was laid on the table, by a strict party vote—3s to 23 After an Executive session, and the referring of the .President's nominations to appropriate committees, an adjournment was had to the 2lth. A resolution was offered in the House, and referred increasing the membership of tbe Committee on Elections from eleven to nineteen.... Objection was made to the reference of several bills, after which the Honse adjourned to the 25th.

A Runaway Match.

Yesterday morning, about half-past one o'clock, Mr. Stockhoff, proprietor of the Farmers' Home, was ? called to the street by loud and excited Calls. When he got out he found drawn up there an ancient looking hack, drawn by two splendid hordes that were panting and dripping with sweaty On the box was a colored driver, wearing the regulation plug hat and all the habiliments of a stylish coachman. Within were two gentlemen and a lady, who, by their eager countenances, betrayed the fact that “ two hearts were there that beat as one.” They’ alighted and asked in hurried terms whether it was too late to cross the river, for they said that Jeffersonville was.their goal and a life-long partnership, for good or bad, was their object. Their disappointment knew no bounds when they were assured that no ferry cpuld be obtained until morning. • The lady was especially frightened, for, like “ Lord Ullan's daughter,” she felt convinced an angry father was riding hard in their tracks with vengeance Tn Ms eye. The two men wouldnot be convinced, but made a trip to the river, in search of the traditional kind-hearted ferryman. Fact, however, is neveF so accommodating as fiction, and in this age of steamboats, no ferryman could be found to row them over the stormy waters, and they were compelled to return to the hotel They were off in the morning at five o’clock, and returned i*at seven o'clock,,man and wife, safe beyond tbe power of any parents, and with all sails set for the voyage of life. The groom’s name was R. R. Beeler and his bride was Miss Maggie Cromwell; all of Bardstown, which place they left at six o’clock Sunday evening. —Louisville Courier-Journal !’ ,

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —To cure a felon—Haug the scoundrel. —When a man hasn’t a red he goto blue. —"Mischief, thou art a foot!” exclaimed the man of many corns. —Approaching a crisis—Walking toward a restless girl baby.— Fullon Timet. —ls you wish to sleep soundly, go to bed determined to get up early and do a good day’s work. —ls Noah was a consistent Jew what induced him to take Ham into the ark? —Ttoslon 'rranscript. —We are a funny people; we wear socks over bare feet, shoes over socks, and cloth over-shoes. —An umbrella that keeps Lent the. year round is altogether too religious for us.— Meriden Reorder. —When a man begins to flatter you hold on to your pocketbook, for that is his objective point— N. Y. Herald. —New York has a heterogeneous population; but Boston is the home-o’-genius, as it were.— Boston Traveller. —Judge David Davis is the only man in America who isn’t glad to sec the vkarm weather coming on again.— Hawk-Eye. —Although the Princess Louise has been married over two years, she is still very fond of her opera-glass. She loves her Lome yet —A local paper heads a column of personals “M«m and Things,” which is certainly not a very gallant way of referring to the other sex.— Puck. —No man is ever good for anything until he has found two things—first, something to love, and second, something to reverence. — N. Y. Herald. —*• What is the usual definition of conscience?" asked a man of his pastor. “A man’s rule for his neighbor’s conduct is about the way it comes out practically," was the reply.— — —A woman in New York says that when her husband is a little drunk he kicks her, and that when he is very drunk she kicks him; and she adds that she does most of the kicking. —“But you know, pa,” said the farmer’s daughter, when he spoke to her about the addresses of his neighbor’s son—"you know, pa, that ma wants me to marry a man of culture. “So do I. my dear—so do I; and there’s no better culture in the country than agriculture.” —“Come, now, stupid,” said, the schoolmaster, “you don’rTnbw how much two and five make? Now listen. In one pocket I have two dollars and in the other five dollars. Now how many dollars have I got?” “ Let me see them, and I will tell you.” School was dismissed. —The Lenox man who has been wasting his time kissing his horse, and teaching the brute to return the compliment, and who has had his lip torn off in consequence, probably realizes by this time that kissing is a fine art, and not to be appreciated by horses, or dogs, or four-legged pets generally.— Boston Herald. —Religion is sometimes strangely applied. Mrs. Brown said, with great emphasis, that when she looked at the riefi shawls which the Smith girls wore and then at the wretched apologies for shawls which her own girls wore, if it were not for the consolations of religion she really didn’t know what she should do.— N. Y. Herald. —“ I should like to have you raise a club,” said a 7x9 book-canvasser to a daughter of Erin, as he stood on the front step trying to talk her to death on the subject of the “Extinction of the Tribes of the Seventh Century.” “I will,” said Biddy, as she reached around behind the door, “ but bad Im k to your picture if you’re lingering around here when I get it raised.” He didn’t linger.— Elmira Gazette. —I loved Amanda, past all telling. For her my boom dire was swelling. Her pictured sweetness stole my sleep, I know, therefore, my love was deep. On tinted cloudlets, resting soft. She floated near, in fancy oft. led by the gods, on nectar’s still. Oh, buss! To pay no grocer’s bilk We two were wed, and then I found In No. s’s she walked the ground, And if the gods bad fed before, They never fed her any more. —Exchangs.

—Professor—“ You will repeat the lesson on the Battle of Bunker Hill.” Student (after a long and painful silence) —“Please, sir, I can’t.” Professor (with a frown)—“ Why not?” Student (timidly)—“Because I have been deceived.” Professor (astonished) —“ln what way?” Student (humbly) — n I have always been told that history repeats itself; and so I didn’t trouble to study the lesson.”— Rockland Courier. —A son of Maine who went west in early youth and had there attained wealth and honorabieposition, returned recently to visit his old, home. At the village store he saw an old man whom he had known in his younger days. He accosted him, but was not recognized. “So you don’t remember me,” he said; “I am Johnß .” “ You!” exclaimed the old man. “ You don’t mean to tell me you are John R ?” “ I certainly am,” said the visitor, shaking him by the hand, “ and lam very glad to see you again.” “Well,” persisted the old man, “I never did. To think that this is you. They tell me you’ve grown awful rich, John.” John admitted that he had “ saved something!” - “ And they say you’re the President of a railroad, and get a big salary.” Again John had to admit that rumor spoke trjith. “I’m glad on it, John! I’m glad on it, my boy. It beats all what circumstances and cheek will do for a man.”

The Hole in the Top of the Pocket.

If a person loses a little change, a door-key, or a pen-knife, or some other trifles through the bottom of his pocket he feels more annoyed at his own carelessness in not discovering the hole than his loss. Yet there is many a man who suffers the inconvenience and embarrassment of poverty in consequence of an enormous opening in his pocket, and he goes on from day to day, from month to month, and year to year —from boyhood to age—without ever discovering the source of hie misery, or reflecting that the opening might be made smaller. The reason is that the opening is in the top instead of the bottom of the pocket. This hole in the top of the pocket is always open. The draught through it is something enormous. The attraction of gravitation, it is true, cannot operate throngh it, but the frequent insertion of the owner’s hand makes up for the deficiency. Keeping this opening in tbe top of the pocket prudently dosed, or permitting it to be too much and too often extended in one’s youth, makes the disYereucS TriaHer ltffe, Ahdln old age, between dependence and independence, between poverty and wealth.

It becomes every young man to keep a sharp lookout for this bole in the top of the pocket. A thousand insidious attacks upon his substance are made through it. A firm resolution and an established system are absolutely requisite to regulate his outgoes. Many a man who could command an army has never been able to proportion bis own expenses down less than his receipts, but it has very likely shaken his resolution and self-control more severely than all his military exploits. We hear a great deal about.swindlers and thieves and robbers and burglars, but where one man is ruined or injured by these, a thousand are ruined or injured by the too ready and too frequent insertion of their own hand in their own pockets through the opening at the top. We warn the young men that in closing this opening the old adage emphatically applies, “A stitch in time save nine.’’— Baptist Weekly.

Feeding Rattlesnakes.

Poisonous snakes very seldom take food in captivity. Of some species, no specimen has ever been found that would do so. As a rule, they obstinately starve themselves, sometimes living for nine or even twelvemonths without eating, growing gradually weaker, day by day, until they finally die. Crotalus horridus is not that sort of a snake. He is practical, ready in adapting himself to circumstances, and if he is hungry, is so because nothing digestible is at hand to be killed and swallowed. Mr. Bergh objects to snakes being fed with living animals. So when the rattlesnakes' monthly meal-time comes, as it did on Thursday last, he is never an invited guest. An hour was chosen when there were no strangers in the aquarium, and the dinner was served. Manager Butler acted as Superintendent, at a respectful distance. Dr. Dorner plaved head-waiter, and had two able assistant?. A large, fat rat was put in the cage of a rattlesnake about three feet long. The rat manifested a cheerful indifference to the situation, that was no doubt based on the happy delusion that its companion was simply a harmless big worm. It trotted unconcernedly over the outlying sections of snake, peered down among the coils for something to eat, and stared with innocent surprise and curiosity at the upraised loudly-rattling tail. Its nonchalance actually seemed to astonish the snake, and caused him to hesitate about opening hostilities against such a cool customer. That situation was maintained for five minutes. All that time the rattlesnake’s warning notes were sounding, and it lay coiled with its neck curved ready to strike, and its eyes fairly blazing with malignant ferocity. At length it struck at the rat —and missed. The rat seemed to think nothing more of the occurrence than that the worm wanted to change his position and seemed to be in a hurry about it. There was no apparent alarm, but only an excess of curiosity in the mind of the frisky rodent about the quivering, whizzing tail, to satisfy ’himself concerning which he walked deliberately up to it and smelled it. As he did so the snake struck again, and that time caught his victim’s left hind leg. A horrible thing Crotalus horridus was in that moment of pouncing upon his victim. The flat, .broad head was opened into an enormous mouth; in the widely-distended jaws the large, hooked, venomous fangs 'Were erected; the eyes glbwed with fury. Quicxer than sight could follow-the motion the deadly blow was inflicted. One instant the snake was motionless, the next its fangs were fastened in the leg of the struggling, squeaking and now thoroughly-alarmed rat. ana the next it had returned to its former attitude, still threatening, but simply following, with watchful eyes, the movements of its victim, without essaying any further attack. The frightened rat lost instantly the use of the leg that had been struck. On its other three legs it first sprang about as if in wild terror, then dragged itself around the cage more and more slowly; at length it crawled among the coils of the’snake, and there expired. Thirteen minutes elapsed from the time it was bitten until it was dead.

Almost immediately the snake proceeded to the swallowing process. There was no preparatory moistening, coiling upon, and pressing of the body. The snake simply seized the rat’s head in his mouth, and commenced operations. His upper jaw is built in two sections, right and left, and he can move them separately, backward or forward. Hooking the teeth of one section into the rat’s hide, he would slide the other section forward a little and take a fresh hold with its teeth. Then the first that made fast would let go, come to the front, and rig a new purchase. In that way, by alternate advances of the right and left sections of "his upper jaw, he slowly pushed, his dinner down. But it took him twenty niihtltes to dOTfc*-- —— —- - - Several other rats were fed to the rattlesnakes, with little variation of incident, except that their individual characteristics were variously displayed. None was as unconscious of danger and impudently sociable as the first, and none was as plucky as the seventh, which, upon receiving the fatal bite, sprang at the snake to make fight. The poison was too'active in the courageous little fellow’s veins, however. Even as he reached the reptile’s neck his limbs stiffened, his jaws became set, and he rolled over on his back, weakly kicking and gasping for some minutes, and then died. The quickest death was that of the fourth fat, which was bitten in the head, fell immediately, and was seemingly dead in less than a minute. Dr. Domer, who knows almost as much about snakes as if he had made them, explains that, as soon as a rattlesnake has eaten in captivity, the quantity and activity of its poison inci eases, quickly causing the interval between the bite and its fatal result, upon small animals at least, to become very short indeed. But if fed too often, the reptile’s venom loses in activity, so that sometimes several bites are insufficient to kill.— N. Y. Sun. The public lands of Texas, originally 250,000,000 acres in extent, are now reported at 31,000;000 acres. In Texas the public lands belong to the State, and over 200,000,000 acres have been disposed of in various ways. Now it is proposed to sell the remainder and devote the proceeds to the payment of the State debt. —A Maplewood men purchased a bale of pressed hay in the bfty, a few days since, and on opening it a fine specimen of pressed rattlesnake was found neatly coiled up in the center. His snakesnip was about five feet in length and had ten rattles. — Chicago Journal. . It is hard to get ahead of time, but a musician often beats it

That Rebel Yell.

’ t V* 1,1 ■ A few days ago the Washington Republican remarked that “ after a struggle of eighteen years in war and politics the Confederacy has at last captured the Capitol. that remark becomes true. Ihe Congress that meets to-day is under the domination of the Confederates, in both its branches. TheCapltol is theirs, but notthe capital. But an organ of the Southern Democracy, the Okolona (Miss.) Stales, quotes the words of the Republican, and then adds: “ After a utruggle of eighteen yexra in war and poUticn,the ConieUemcy hnx at last captured the Capitol.— WaihioQlOn Rriiublicnn.. " Yeo; thank God! wo have captured the Capitol, and in 188 our man will walk up the White Houae atepa and take bin seat in tho Presidential chair. “ Then will oar glorious triumph be complete. “ Then will we proceed to take your amend, n.enta from the Constitution and trample them in the mire. Then will we break the shackles you have forged for the free sovereign and independent Commonwealths of the Pnion. ” Then will we recognix- the right of secession —a right that is not deid, but sleeping. “ I hen will we decorate the Capitol with the pictures of Davis, and Lee, and tttnart. and all the glorious leaders of a cause that is lout, but living stilL , *• Yes. thank God, we have captured the Capitol, ana from that coigne of vantage we propose to rule the Bepnblic in a way that will make your Iladical laws snd lladical leaders forever odious in America." It may be said that this is the extreme view, and so it is. Not many Democrats, North or South, would publicly talk like that, and not a few could and would sincerely repudiate the treasonable sentiments of the States. It is none the less true that in this declaration may be heard an echo of “the still small voice” of Democracy. The very essence of Its nature is herein revealed, precisely as the Abolitionists before tne war were prophetic of the real drift and inevitable logic of Republicanism. The States is to the Democracy what Garrison’s journal was to the Republican party. The country will not be deaf or indifferent to such a Rebel yell.— It is too deeply significant. The meaning is plain. It shows that in one form or another Abe South hopes and plots to vindicate the Rebellion and establish the principle on which it rested. In proportion as the Democracy gains power does “the Lost Cause” gain recognition and strength. The election of Samuel J. Randall to the Speakership of the House of the Forty-sixth Congress is really a triumph of the reactionary Democracy. It means that the party does not propose to y ield to the demand for f'new blood.” It js true that Blackburn, the defeated, was a Rebel soldier, while Randall is a Northern man ; but the latter could never have made any progress toward the Speaker’s chair had he not been a willing and unscrupulous tool of the Confederates during the two terms he has already served in that position. He is a doughface of the worst type. It is from that class of men the country has most to fear. Top cautious to raise the Rebel yell, they are too cowardly to resist such demands as the Mississippi editor foreshadows.—Chicago Journal.

Bayard on His Knees.

At the time of the dissolution of the Forty-fifth Congress, Senator Bayard, of Delaware, held a higher place in the estimation of the people than any other Democrat in the country. His conservative utterances were in sharp contrast with the radical demagogical speeches of Thurman, of Ohio. He made a conspicuously brave effort to restrain his associates from the revolutionary course upon which they en : tered in regard to the regular Appropriation bills. He was outspoken in his denunciation of the Democratic attempt to compel the repeal of the existing laws for the protection of the purity of the ballot-box on pain of a refusal to furnish the necessary supplies for the conduct of the Government. In standing for the right against the behests of his party he appeared desirous to emulate the example of the Chevalier whose name he bears—that grand character in French history of the fourteeifth century, who in literature is called the Knight “ sans peur et sans reproche." Mr. Bayard’s course was the more honorable in view of the fact .hat his name had been prominently mentioned in connection with the candidacy for the Presidential office. This circumrtance did not cause him to swerve from the strict line of duty. Throughout the whole term of the late session he stood aloof from the ranks of those who were excitedly bidding for the favor of the radical wing or his party. He seemed to have the courage of his convictions, for, as often as Thurman, inspired by an unquenchab’e lust of power, offered his neck to the heel of the Confederate Brigadiers, Bayard was found at the fore vigorously combatting his heresies, exposing i his sophisms, and unmasking his demagogy. But his efforts were vain. The session closed with the Democratic party in the attitude of revolution, and the new Congress assembled yesterday with Democrats in control .of both branches, threatening to pursue the revoluti6nary policy to the bitter end. The Bayard of three hundred and fifty years ago, the Chevalier without fear and without reproach, never counted the cost. He loved justice and honor better than he loved lite, and pursued his course unflinchingly till he met his death standing at the post of duty. But Bayard, of Delaware, after the excitements of a session in which he had acted the grand part of a courageous, and consistent Eatriot, retired to the quiet seclusion of is home, reviewed his course and surveyed the political situation. He counted the cost of continued adherence to the right in opposition to the manifest will of his party associates. It he thought of the Chevalier of the fifteenth century, he did not reason about' honor after the manner of his great namesake, but rather afteT the manner of Sir John “ Whatis that honor? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died on Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible, then? Yea, to the dead.” Doubtless Senator Bayard came easily to the conclusion that he who follows the call of honor, in the Democratic ranks, follows it to his political death. What a change in twp short weeks. Then he characterized the tacking of the repeal of the Supervisors’ law to an Appropriation bill as “ revolutionary!” Now he is not very clear as to whether he will favor the measure if tacked to an Appropriation bill. But he is “decidedly in favor of sweeping away” all the laws under consideration which guard the purity of the ballot-box. For shame, Mr. Bayard! You know that these laws cannot be “swept away” by an act of independent legislation while a Republican President sits in the White House! YoiT know that they can only be repealed, if at all, by tacking repeal clauses to Appropriation Wlte,-and v 'bsrefy*'two-wreefc» ago you properly characterized such

a proposition as revolutionary! You have forgotten Chevalier Bayard's definition of which was to meet death rather than violate an honest conviction; and you remember only FalstafTs definition, which was that honor is insensible—to the dead! You choose to live without honor as the. possible Democratic-candidate for the Presidency, rather than retire from the race bolding proudly- aloft the banner of truth and consistency. Your record in the Fortyfifth Congress and that whiejj you foreshadow for the Forty-sixth will present a striking and sad contrast. But your fall is logical. He who serves the Democratic party serves a hard master. Independence of opinion Is not tolerated within its ranks. It is emphatically true that he who would be a Democratic leader must follow the lowest strata of party opinion, which is invaria ly the dominantelement. With a slight change Dante’s inscription of the entrance to Hell—“AH hope abandon, ve who enter here”—applies to admission to the bull-aozers’ party: “ All honor abandon, ye who enter here.” Senator Bayard has accepted the situation. He craves the Presidency, and he accordingly bows humbly before the decree of the Brigadiers that all protection to the purity of the ballot-box shall be swept away. The spectacle presented by Mr. Bayard is truly a lamentable one. It shows that the worst element in the Democratic party ride it with a high hand, and, worse still, that its best elements bow submissively to this vile dictation.— Chicago Tribune.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—An Alabama negro, for a wager, recently exposed his head to the furious assaults of a trained goat. *His confidence was rewarded by his winning the money, for, after half an hour’s vigorous butting, the goat drew off, utterly discouraged. —A runaway horse attached to a buggy was found ten days afterward in a swamp near Montgomery, Ala., so wedged in among trees that it could not stir. Although it had remained during all that time without food or water, it was sufficiently strong to be driven home without being taken from the buggy. —Sarah Belcher, of Lebanon, Pa., who was the main support of her aged parents, died a very painful death lately. She had been suffering with a fester on one of her fingers, which she picked with a pin, and this so aggravated it that her whole system became poisoned thereby. The arm was black from the elbow down to the hand. —A Hartford dog has died of a broken heart. It was a tine setter and lOved its master. One day last November while they were hunting for muskrats, the young man fell into North Meadow Creek and was drowned. The dog went home, acted strangely, ran back and forth and finally induced a neighbor to go to the creek where the body lay.. From that time the dog’s health declined. It ate little if anything; it drooped; it pined; and finally it died. , —Sallie Easley is an attendant in the Longview. Insane Asylum, iu Cincinnati. She deems it necessary, in the performance of her duties, to strike the patients with her fists. She is now suffering from the consequence of her zealous enforcement of discipline. A demented old woman would not obey an order, and Sallie struck her on the head. The old woman's skull and the blow were hard, while Salih's fist was soft, and her hand was badly sprained. She has the sympathy of all the attendants. — Exchange. —A few mornings since, three children, aged about five, seven and ten years, belonging to John W. Miller, residing six miles north of Troy, Ohio, were taken suddenly sick with vomit- J ing, purging, great thirst and burning distress in the stomach, drinking often and immediately throwing it up, which lasted all day." A doctor was called and discovered that the children had taken poison. The indications were that of arsenic. A close investigation was made without developing any positive source by which the poison had been given, but the supposition is that the children had taken lily white, administered by the domestic in the coffee and milk which they drank. The servant girl, who is suspected of having given the poison to the children, decamped.

The Standing Committees of the Senate.

Following is the complete list of the Standing Committees of the Senate of the Forty-sixth Congress, as appointed on the 19th: ’ • Un Privileges and Elections-Saulsbury (Chairman), H 11 (Ga.), Kernan, Bai ey, Houston, Vance, Cameron (Wis.), Hoar, Ingalls. Foreign Relations—Eaton (Chairman), Johnston, Morgan, Hill (Ga.), Pendleton, Hamlin, Conkling, Kirkwood, Carpenter. Finance—Bayard (Chairman), Kernnn, Wallace, Voothees, Beck, Morrill, Ferry, Jones (Nev.),Allison. Appropriations—Davis (W. Va.) (Chairman), Withers, Deck, Wallace, Eaton, Windom, Allison, Blaine, Booth. Commerce—Gordon (Chairman). Ransom, Randolph, Hereford, Coke, Conkling. McMillan, Jones (Nev.). Chandler. Manufactures—Grover (Chairman), McPherson, Williams, Rollins, Dawes. Agriculture—.lohnslon (Chairman), Davis, (W. Va.), Hampton, S.ater, Paddock, Sharon, Hoar. Military Adairs—Randolph (Chairman),Coc. fell, Maxey, Grover. Hampton, Burnside, Plumb, Cameron (Pa.), Logan. Naval Allaire—McPherson (Chairman), Whyte, Jones (FJa.), Vance, l ariey, Anthony, Blaine, Cameron (Pa.), Chandler. Judiciary—Thurman (Chairman), McDona'l, Bayard, Garland, Lamar, Davis (111.), Edmunds, Conkling, Cur,.enter. • Postonlccs and Postrosds—Maxey (Chairman), Salisbury^L’allev, Houston, Farley, Grover, Ferry, Hamlin, Kir .wood. Public Lauds—McDonald (Chairman), Jones (Fla.), Grover. McPhetson, Walter, Plumb, Paddock, Booth, Hl 1 (Col.) Private Lan l-Claims—Edmunds (Chairman), Allison, Windom, Davis (III.). Jonas. - Indian Affairs—Cook (Chairman), Pend'eton, Walk. r. S.ater, Williams, Allison, Ingalls, Saunders, Logan. Pensions—Withers (Chairman), McPherson, Groome, Call, Farley, Ingalls, Kellogg, Platt. Revolutionary Claims—Anthony (Chairman), Dawes, McMillan, Jones (Fla.),‘Hill (Ga.) Ciaims—Cockrell (Chairman). Hereford, Harris, Groome. Houston, McMillan, Cameron (Wls.), Teller, Hoar. DlstriclofColumbla-Harris (Chairman), Whyte, Withers. Butler, Vance, Ingalls, Roilins, Dawes, McMillan. _ Patents—Kernan (Chairman), Coke, Slater, Call, Booth. Hoar. Platt. Public Buildings and Grounds—Jones (Fla.) (Chairman). Saulsbury, Vest, Dawes, Mor ill. Territi ri s—Gar'aud (Chairman;, Butler, Vest, Slater, B lunders, Kellogg, Logan. Railroads—Rnnsom (Chairman), Lamar, Eaton, Grow r, Williams, Pendleton, Jonas, Dawes, Teller, Saunders, Windom. Mines and Mining—Hereford (Chairman), Gordon, McDonald, Farley, Cameron (Pa.), I’htmb, Hill (Col.) ' Revision of the Laws—Wallace (Chairman), Kernan, Davis (111.), Hoar. McMillan. Education and Labor—Bailey (Chairman), Gordon, Maxey, Randolph, Burnside, Morrill, Bruce, Sharon. • ’ , Civil Service and Retrenchment—Butler (Chairman). Whyte, Beck, Walker, Tellur, Chandler, Rollins. To Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate—Hill (Ga.) (Chairman), Davis (W. Va.). Jones (Nev.) Printing—White (Cbairmrn). Ranson), Anthon A. Library—Voorhees (Chairman), Ransom, Edmunds. „ . , . Rules—Morgan (Chairman), Cockrell, Blaine. Engrossed Bills—Conkling (Chairman) Jones (Nev.). Withers. Enrolled Bills—Vance (Chairman), Call. Rollins. Improvement of the Mississippi Rivdr and its Tributaries—Latnar (Chairman), Cockrell, Harris, Jonas, Blaino, Kellogg. , Transportation Routes to Seaboard—Beck (Ctlsimwww -"Johnstoa, .. VourhcM.... Hampton, Cameron (Wls.), Cameron (Pa.), Windom.