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VOLUME XIV.

J GREAT TREASURE, The Strange Mystery Surronnflins Its Disappearance. A STORY OF EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST. ————— • BY FRANK BARRETT. CHAPTER I.

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with a black fell on the back of his hands, a dark beard growing high upon his cheekbones, a great bush of iron-gray hair sticking out all round his head, and a fore-

SiX&h /oIBhUu ' 1 Wt/fl । X< iiil|!|Ki^^ «f “Heavens!” he exclaimed, turning to us, you have the greatest treasure in the world

lock hanging down over his eye. One could see nothing of his features but a long red nose and deep-set, beady black eyes. His fustian jacket was worn to rags at the elbows—and sowas mine, as for that—split in the seams between the shoulders with the constant strain of the laboring arms. Once upon a time his top-boots had been black, but now they were all the same yellowclay color with the trousers that were tucked into them, and just as badly in need of repair. I followed with Van Hoeck. He held my arm, not for support but for guidance, because he was stone blind. He was thirty or thereabout. I believe; but he looked twenty years older than I, who am now about twenty-six. Though lie was Dutch by birth, he looked like an Asiatic, being a small, dark Jew, with all the characteristics of his people; while I. with my fair skin, light hair, and large frame, am pretty true in appearance to my Northern race. He was better dressed than any of us, for though he had accompanied us, ami roughed it so far as board and lodging were concerned, he had taken only a financial part in the enterprise, his blindness naturally debarring him from a laborious part.. His clothes retained something of their original appearance. Albeit he had worn them day after day for eighteen months at least; whereas mine, what with exposure to the sun. the sweat of work, rough usage, and the strange devices employed in repairing them, were scarcely recognizable as Christian clothing. His face gave more sign of strain and fat law than either the Judge’s or mine, which might well be, seeing how great a relief to the mind physical labor is. There was a furrow between his brows, deep lines descending from the inner angles of the eyes, a pinched look about the nostrils and fleshless cheeks, that gave a fearful, strenuous eagerness to the weird expression of his face. And that expression was weird, nay, aven repulsive, though his features were notill-shaped, and it was due chiefly to the peculiarity of his eyes. Most people of dark complexion, like his, have a dark iris to the aye, but his was of steely grav, and was t he more noticeable because there was the iris and nothing else; there was no pupil—nothing but that gray patch upon the yellowish ball of the eye. Ho kept his eyes open when his mind was preoccupied. Often, when he was sitting near me while I worked, I have I changed my position that I might, not see those ghastly eyes wide open to an African sun, jet unconscious of its glare. There was something terrible in his blindness. Our rear was brought up by the “Kid." The name by constant use and familiarity bad long ceased to be slangy to my ear. Poor little Lola! She was the raggedest and most disreputable of the lot, though it was not for that reason that she walked behind us; indeed, had she suspected that to follow implied inferiority she would have marched ahead of her own father. Tluit was her character. The child wore a ragged red flannel petticoat, a camisole that had once been white, and a colored handkerchief tied loosely round her neck. She had a string of colored beads upon her wrist, but neither hat on her head nor shoe on her foot. Iler purple black hair grew low down on her temple, and broke into curl over the ears at the nape of her neck, ami wherever it was uncontrolled; it was matted together in a thick, loose plait that fell down to her waist, and tied at the end with a strip of red flannel, torn from her petticoat. She had the prettiest little hands and feet, a dark olive skin, a large but beautifully shaped mouth, With the finest teeth 1 have ever seen, ami a pair of glorious black eye full of audacit y ami betraying only too faithfully her wild and ungovernable disposition. Properly dressed (and washed), she might have passed for a Spanish princess; in her presentcondition there was no mistaking her for anything but the self-willed little avuge sh«> was. The Kid had given us a deal of troublehad we foreseen how much, I do not think

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Van Hoeck or I wouldhave put in that postscript to the agreement whit h her lather, the Judge, induced us to subscribe. I 1 Im Kid has eyes in her head for to see with, tlm Judge said, in urging her claim upon our future consideration, “end she kin use 'em as well us us in lookin’ for . stones, end likewise, bein' a female, she kin cook our meals for us; she kin wash our ’ shuts, end sho kin sew us up, end keep us nice end tidy." Whether she was capable of helping us in these matters I cannot say; all I know is. that sho didn’t. "What kin you expect?” asked her father, in extenuation; ‘her mother was the darterofa durned greaser, end it ain't the Kid's fault if she’s ' got greaser blood in her." We camo up with the Judge at the dock gates, where he stopped to address a policeman stat ionod there, "Kin you tell me, my friend." he said, “where the best bank'in this town is located ?" I 1 think the policeman's first impression as he regarded us was that we had felonious ■ purpose in asking this question, for he did not reply immediately, and with reluctance . directed us to the High street, and told us 1 to inquire there of some one else. I . ' . CHAPTER 11. We inarched on to the High street, our ; appearance attracting a good deal of attention. and creating some amusement and • ' speculation doubtless. Persons on the op--1 । posite side of the road stopped to look across i । at us, others regarded us askant in passing | and turned round to watch our progress, a ; few children followed us, thinking, maybe, i that we were about to give some kind of : street entertainment. We found a bank and streamed in. a small crowd collecting round the door, as it swung to 1 ehind the Kid, Tim clerks suspended their operations and looked at us tn open- ; mouthed astonishment as we ranged ourselves along I Im counter. i “Is the manager of this concern In?“ asked the Judge—" Hands off!" headded. inuroar. i as the Kid. slipping her lithe hand under the brasswork protecting tho counter, begun to । finger the scales, I The Kid, unmoved, satisfied her curiosity, । tnen, withdrawing her hand, rested her el- । bow on the counter, and dropping her chin in the palm, gazed at the clerks with stolid indifference. "Tim manager is in; what do you want?" asked (he clerk. “Let up, Israel," said the Judge, falling back a step, ami waving his hand significantly toward Van Hoeck.

E landed at Southamp to n, Sep t ember 14, 1885, and a ragged crew we T h e “Judge, ” Joe Brace led the way— a gro a t , g a u nt man, with long, long legs, a stoop 1 n his shoulders. and a swaying in o v e- - o f his body and arms when h e walked as if he had a load on 'h is back and along w ay to go; a man

“Wo wish to negotiate a loan on the security of a largo diamond that we have brought home from the Cape," said Van Hoeck. “Eight hundred and twenty carats, fust water.” added the Judge; “the grandest stone in this almighty universe!" There was a whispered consultation among the clerks, and one went into a private room at the back of the bank, from ; which he presently returned with the man- I ager. "I am the manager; what do you want?” Van Hoeck repeated his statement. “And what security can you give mo that | the diamond is genuine?" asked the mana- , ger, with a pleasant smile, “or that it is i legitimately yours to dispost of?" “You will allow, sir, if any one lied lost a ; stone of this kind ha would have made it | unsafe for us to walk about with it in day- I light,” replied the Judge, "and as for its I bein’ genuine, you kin hev the security of ' your own eyesight.” "I do not profess to be a judge of diamonds, | and I can have nothing to do with it,” said the manager, definitively. We streamed out of that bank as we had streamed into it, and tried another, but with no better result, the manager telling us that transactions of such a kind were altogether beyond the range of his business; and we found a third, but the manager was absent, and by this time, being convinced that the plan we had proposed was impracticable, we put our heads together in counsel at the corner of the street to determine what course we should take. We were disgusted with Southampton, and, had we possessed the means, should have gone on at onee to London, where we might have found some former acquaintance to help us out of our present difficulty. But we had nothing—nothing in the world but the things we stood upright in. and the i great d'amond. For our smaller finds ami . our implements we ha t sold at Natal to i make up enough to pay our steerage home, ' and our spare clothes, our knives -every j available thing—we had bartered away on our passage for food to supplement the miserably insufficient steerage fare. "We kin not pawn the Kid." said the Judge, “end that’s about t he only perkisit as wo could well do without." It was now well upon three o'clock, and I we felt the need of food, having eaten nothing since six, when our last rations were served out to us on the ‘Southern Cross.” Our position was a desperate one. With millions in our possession, we might starve in the street, or have to take refuge in the work-house. It was odd, indeed, and very unpleasant also. At length, being unable to seo any^way out of our difficulty, we made our way to a police-station and laid our case before the Inspector. "Well, my good fellow." said he, having heard us out, "1 don’t seo how I’m to help you. The Mayor is rhe proper person to go to, but he's away yachting. Thu only person I can think of.” he added, utter a moment's reflection, “who might serve you is Sir Edmund Lascelles. He's got a kind of museum, and buys up curiosities, I know; and a kind old gentleman he is, too. Now. if he's at home " Wo asked him hurriedly where Sir Edmund lived, and he replied that it was out Lymington way—Monken Abbey—eight or nine miles, and any one would tell us the way. Well, there wtus nothing better to be done; so we got the Inspector to give us a more definite direction, and then started off in search of the Abbey. The Judge swinging along ahead at a good four miles an hour, the Kid hud to trot to keep up with us; but 1 I gave her my hand, and sho did not comi plain it was not in her nature to show suf- • i faring in the ordinary way. I It must have been about six o'clock when we found the park entrance to Monken Al»bey, and there we were stopped by the lodge-keeper, who refused to let us pass - without permission from Sir Edmund; but t when he heard that we had been sent by

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the Inspector of Police i t Southampton, he sent his wife up to the house to know if the baronet would see us. We sat on a bunk near tl s lodge-gate for 1 close upon tin hour before wo learned our fate; for Sir Edmund was at dinner when the message reached the house, and the 1 servant did not choose to deliver it until he had dined. A servant led us tin High the ’ park to the Abbey, and took us into a beau- ’ tiful hull, wainscoted with dark oak, and I hung with antlers, old armor, and other 1 suitable decorations; and here wo waited until Sir Edmund Lascelles camo to us. Our I spirits rose at the first glimpse of the ham’4 some, portly old gentleman. There was benevolence in the little curls of his soft - white hair, and the promise of kind treatment in the gonial smile with which he greeted us, ■ "Well," said he, cheerfully, "you have something to sell mo, have you?” "Yes.” 1 replied, "if you can buy it; it is a 1 diamond.” 4 "A diamond! Ah. that’s a costly kind of I curiosity, but 1 like Hmm for all that; have ’ you got it with you?" 4 "Yes." said 1; and, turning over my hand, I opened it, showing the leather case strapped to my wrist, which contained the Great Hesper, as we called our diamond. The baronet was thunderstruck by the prodigious size of the stone, for he could see that the leather fitted it closely "You tell mo that this is a diamond?” he 1 exclaimed, lifting the ease us it lay on my hand. "Wo had it tested at Natal," said Van Hoeck. “it is a white diamond, and if not of the first water is certainly of the second; it weighs 820 carats." “IS it possible? Come with me. Eight hundred and twenty carats!" said Sir Edmund. in groat excitement. "Bring a light into llm library at once," he called to one of the servant-.. We went into the libary. where 1 mit the stitches of the ease, took out the Grout Hesper and put it into Sir Edmund's hand, by which time a reading lamp had been brought in. “It is true! it Is trim!" he said, examining it under a powerful light. "A wonderful stone—a pei feet form n prodigy! Gome here. Edith ; look at this!" A young lady who had entered the room drew m ar. It was only by looking at the lancet we had had cut and polished that sho could distinguish that this was a diamond, for it was dull and gray, and looked like a lump of glass that had passed through the

II e. "It is an extraordinary size, is it not. papa?" she asked. "Extraordinary, indeed! The Koh-i-floor Is not a fourth of the size! See what the book says about that; get down Haydn, my dear.” Miss Lascelles fetched the hook, while her father still examined the stone, as an a 1 list might a masterpiece, and presently i read aloud "Its original weight was nearly soo carats, | but it was reduced by tin unskillfulness of . the artist Borghese, a Venetian to 279 । carats; its shape ami size resembled the I pointed half rose cut of a small hen's egg; i the value is scarcely computable, though I two millions sterling have been mentioned | as ajustiflablo price, if calculateil by the j scale employed by the trade. This diamond 1 was remit in 1852, and now weighs 102% carats.” "Good, good!” cried the baronet, "With i skillful cutting, a diamond of such form as i this need not lose 100 carats. Heavens!" ho exidaimed, turning to us, "you have the greatest treasure in the world." • "Give me your hand. Thorne; hold me.” said Van Hoeck in a low voice, and speaking thickly. I tut ned quickly and caught him as ho reeled forward; for he had fainted, either from the want of food, from intense excitement, or both, DfOBB ' ox ir, JKD.I Nature’s Own Bridges. The most remarkable natural bridge in the world, says Holden Dai/x, is the Jisrel Hajar, which opens a gorge not far from the ruins of t<he temple of Adonis, in the province of Le banon, in Stria. It is a Hat piece of limestone I rock, from ten to fifteen feet thick, ! । erh ctly arched on the under side. The gorge is about one hundred and ti ty fe 4 across, and the. bridge is about one hundred feet from the bed of the torrent below. I'he bridge is so broad and level that, a good carriage road might be male over it. This bridge is surpassed in height by the natural bridge in Rockbridge County, Virginia about one hundred and twenty-five miles west of Richmond, and about two miles from the James River. It extends over Cedar creek. The height of the arch is two hundred feet, and the upper surface of the bridge is two hundred and forty feet above the stream. Alni m e. The word almanac is from the Arabic articles al and mana 4), to count a word received by the Huropean nations from the East, dencting|a book or tab'e containing a calendar of the civil divisions of the year, the times of the various astronomical phenomena, and other useful or entertaining information. Till a comparatively recent date this additional matter consisted of astrological predictions and other analogous absurdities. The Alexandrian Gre ks Bad almanacs. The first printed almanac was com pi sed by Regio I\l< nlanus, a p ipil of I'urbach, in 1-175. After that they w< r i composed and printed in 1487, IT>l, and 1524, from which last date they were pretty regularly issued^ ’ A cheap way to lay in coal—sle< pin i the coal bin.

INDIANA HAPPENINGS. EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAYE LATELY OCCURRED. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors Wcildings urn] Deaths Crime, Casualties am] General News Notos* Wanted the Engine Back, 1 Off His Body. A remarkable escape from violent death is reported from Reno, a few miles southwest of Danville. David Irvin, of that place, was in Danville a few days ago, and returned heme in the evening on the train. He was somewhat intoxicated, and after going some distance upthetraek in the direction of his home he sat down on one of the rails, A freight train came in sight, but Irvin did not notice it. The engineer saw the man by the aid of the head'light and sounded the whistle. As the locomotive passed the spot he did not see Irvin, and supposed he had stepped to one side. A few moments later the fireman heard a voice culling from the front of the engine and the train was stopped as soon ns possible. Irvin was found clinging to the cow-catcher, his body I drugging under the engine. Ue yelled' to tin* engineer, "Baek yer hoss off i me, will you? He was so tightly wedged under the cow-catchei that' it was found necessary for two men to hold him by | the nrms w hile the engine was I nicked oil his body. His overcoat was torn off, : i and with the exception of a tew Bruises ! and scratches, be was uninjured. I’llllUt 1 Patents have been issued to Indiana inventors ns follow- Charles Anderson. assignor to South Bend Iron Works, South Bend, sulky plow, John F. Brown, assignor to A. R. Baker, Indianapolis, temporary binder; William W, Camp* Hell, Cambria, fence; Oliver 11. Castle, ■ Indianapolis, steam-engine goxernoi; I Charles E Egan. Columbus, 0., assignor of oue-te'd h to N. W. Halß-y, Tipton, incnndcseeiu electric lamp-socket; Henrv 11. Fisher, New Puri-. wanhing- ; machine; Viola Fitz, llu hmond, crib at I tachment for bed-teads; Vb llx rt E. ■ Fobtch, New \lbanv, stereoscope; \rtemus N Hadley. Indianapolis, shock* forming table ici < oi u-ban < ster-: Em melt Shanks, Huntington, truck; I r< mont Swain, Indianapolis, percent 11< measurement chart: tHen J. Wolf, New • । burg, rail-chair. I€<*|i<n led < hah ol U ht»le<i-ih> I‘oHmthlgA singular ease of w hob - ile poi-on-ing is reported from Kavenstad, Warlick County. In the house of James McGill, n well-known farmer, a package of Bough on Rats 'w. li ft lying on a shelf just abov a pail of thinking Water. By some means ap- ition of the I poison fell 1111$ the bucket.“irom wlnch I the whole family drank. Ihe father, B > years of age. and his son. James, died from the effects of the poison, while the mother and daughter are said to be in a | critical condition and not likely to rc- ! ‘ oVf,r - Minor state Items. I New York capitalists have invested $350,(MM1 at Muncie. — Joseph Rusk, of Liudcu, is 'J years old and w eighs H»3 pounds. Valparaiso has abolished the offices of Street Commissioner and Chief of the Eire Department. - John Storin’, 02 y ears old, and deaf, was instantly killed at Eairland. Shelby County, while walking on the tr ick. A 3-vear-o!d child of Mrs. Fred * j Boyles, at Greensburg, was seriously ' scalded, by the upsetting of a tub of iiot i water. About one thousand persons took ' part in a fox hunt north of Terre Haute, in I’arke County, ie»nitly. Seven foxes were captured. - William Sehradih. 11 years old, put a railroad torpedo in a stove at I.a Porte. | Half of the boy's fuco was torn off. He will probably die. —laeob Brown, who had been closely j identified with almost every interest and improvement in Jackson County since : ! its settlement, died at Seymour. Peter Lavengood, a middle-aged farmer, living twelve miles east of Huntington, was instantly killed by a snag which he was burning down, falling on him. - The daughter of Thomas Gephart, Elnoro, Daviess County, aged 5 years, was fatally burned by her clothing i catching fire from a pile of Burning rub- ; bish. — Mad dogs have made their appeari anee in Decatur County, and the citizens ■ are adopting the shotgun treatment to ( ’ prevent their doing damage to man and I stock. Elkhart county s oldest resident, Jarvis Clark, died at Elkhart, aged Hl years. He was a pioneer, was in business many years ago, and was very prominently known. — Knights of Pythias in the Southern part of the State will have a prize drill at North Vernon, July I. The prizes will be: First, $15ll; second, $100; third, Hug worth $75; fourth, SSO. - The Fnion Grand Army Association of Madison, Delaware, Grunt, Blackford, Randolph, and Jay counties will hold their fourth annual encampment at Marion, July 30, 31, and Aug. 1. -—At Terre Haute, while making a run to a fire. Major Holden, a prominent farmer of Vigo County, was struck by a ladder wagon and received injuries from which it is thought he will die. —Wm. Monroe, an ex-conductor, while boarding a freight, train at Columbus, fell under the wheels and had one leg cut off. He received other injuries that will cause death. His homo is in < olumbus, where he has a wife and two children. —The farmers of Madison County have resolved to boycott trust binding-twine 1 during the coming harvest. Iho I'arm-ei-H’ Club took the initiatory steps by rosolving against trust twine and issuing i a call for a mass-meeting of faimeru to i take further action.

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- —An incendiary fire destroyed the stable and outhouses of Dr. J. W. Rucker, at Shelbyville. - Twenty tramps make their headquarters in a sugar camp, near Muncie, and spend the day in begging money and insulting women. Au effort will be made to capture them by the city authorities. - An old California miner claims to have discovered a rich silver mine two miles east of Spencer. He exhibited samples of ore, which be says will yield SIOO a ton, but refuses to divulge the location of his "find." - A little daughter ofi Mr. and Mrs, Edward Dunbar, of South Bend, found some morphine pills on the floor and ate them. She died shortly in great suffering. Another child is also very ill from the same cause, but may recover. Mrs. Belle Crane, wife of James Crane, a druggist at Clinton, Killed herself by sending a bullet into her temple. Mr. Crane's place of business was several times destroyed by tire, and the financial loss had weighed heavily on his wife’s mind. Danie! Baugh, who lives near Scottsburg, will celebrate his one hundredth birthday April 22. His eyesight is perfect. being able to hunt squirrels with a nth’, and seldom missing his aim. Hie black hair is without a tinge of gray, while his son, so years old, is whitehnired and djiug of old age. The i icinity of Columbus is a great rendezvous for tramps, and on bright dur- loz.en -of the vagrants can be seen •'iini iii- tluiiistlves on the roadways leadih:; to thecity. Nil the fences in the neighborhood are covered with curious chalk marks, which are thongld to be guides to the visiting members of the tramping fraternity. I he Reorganized Church of Jesus Cliri- t of 1 after-Day Saints" is the name of the Mormon organization in the Southern part of the State. In the comities of Perry. Harrison, and Floyd, there arc twel\o licensed ministers, six pi n uts and -ix elders. rhe main difference with the I tali church lies m the anti polxganix belief. I he citizens of Huntington art much innoved bv the nanseiding odor of escaping oil from n break in the Chicago tank line. I'hc stem h permeates every corner of th< houses, and even food is impregnated with it. I’hey also live in fear, because of the danger of the uc- । eumulnted oil taking tire and causing a serious conllagiution. Ihe Commissioners of Randolph : I tUlil v have agreed to appropriate 525,utiii ton ai d a soldiers' monument to be erect, dat the east aide of the public square, M inehester. This amount, in connect ion with a bequest In the late James Mormon, will be silt dent to erect a fitting tribute to the memory of Randolph Countv s heroes. Mis. Lillie B un, daughter of exNndttor Wm. Bam, of Martinsville, was sitting on a stone wall chatting to friends. In alight mg from it, her dress caught on a stone and throwing her violently to the ground, pulled a stone weighing bat pounds down on her. The stone fell three feet. The young lady was seriously injured internally. White Caps took Stanton Hammock from the house of Mrs. Clawpitt, near Sheridan, the other night, tied him to a tree, and gave him twenty-five lashes, after which he was ordered to leave the State within twenty-four hours under penalty of having the dose doubled. He concluded to take the White Caps at , their word and Ihft the following day. H) drophobia has been playing havoc among the cattle in the vicinity of Shoals, and a great many hogs have also died. Ihe farmers are considerably worked up about it, and a great deal of complaint is made on account of the town cuttle and hogs running at large. The town Board w ill provide some way i of stopping the spread of the disease. Jesse W. Griffiths, of Huntington, ! was an eccentric character. He ran a drug store over thirty years, and rarely ■ left the place, except to get his meals. He died in hi*' store, refusing to be moved, and u-mut his person was $4,000 cash, while < her amounts were found concealed m jars and other receptacles. His estate aggregated $50,000, nearly all in cash. A case of alleged faith cure is reported from Fort Wayne. Mrs. Falkner had been ill with consumption for over a year, and was not expected to live. Friends in Columbia City who believed j in curing by faith were induced to visit i her, and she put herself into their hands and ceased taking medicine entirely. Now, it is said, she is being gradually restored to health. — Charles Westbrook, of Evansville, has been stricken with aphasia, or the loss of the use of words. It is a peculiar and unusual disease, and the patient, while knowing the name of the object he wishes to call, cannot recall the word until some one does the same within his hearing, and a moment later it is forgotten again. Frequently it is followed by n loss of speech altogether. —William Mulford, of Dearborn County, lays claim to the first snake story of the season. He says that while plowing he turned over a rock covering, a den of serpents, and in n moment half a hundred snakes, of all sizes and descriptions, were squirming around the legs of the horses mid over the plow. The horses ran away. Afterward Mr. Mulford and,his neighbors killed thirtyseven snakes which failed to make their cHcapc. Horse thieves are at work in Harrison and Crawford Counties. Mr. Hon, । near Corydon, recently lost a stallion valued at SBOO, and other valuable animals have boon stolen from near Leavenworth. -—Two members of a minstrel company, which was stopping over Sunday iitAladison, amused themselves by ilirting with several girls. This incensed the young men of the town to such au , extent that the visiting gallants wore I greeted with a shower of rotten eggs when they appeared on the streets.

WHERE THE I'Ll MS FALL — THE UNITED STATES SENATE IN EXECUTIVE SESSION. The Upper Housa of Congress Trunsucts l.ittle Other Bunluohs than Conllrining or Rejecting I'residenlhtl Appointments —The Chosen. In the executive session oLthelJSenate on the 21« t Inst, a number of Tenitoriul and postal nominations were confirmed, comprising all that had been reported from committee. The list is I however, withheld, the Senate having failed to suspend the operation of the rule which keeps I confirmations secret and delays notification to the President until two additional executive sessions shall have supervened without the entry of a motion to reconsider. The Senate Un executive session on the 23d ; lust, confirmed the following Presidential nominations- Andrew C. Bradley, to be Associate I Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of i Columbia; End D. Giimt, of New York, to lie Minister to| Austria-Hungary ; Frank K. Aikens, ; of Dakota, to bo Assistant Justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota; John B. McFie, of New Mexico, to bo Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico; Henry W. Blake, of Montana, to be Chief Justice of tile Supreme Court of Montana; John 1). Fleming, of Colorado, to be District Attorney for Colorado ; Miles C. Moore, of Washington Territory, to bo Governor of Washington Territory; Oliver ('.White, of Washington Territory, to be Secretary of Washington Territory; Edwin W. Willitts, of Michigan, to be Assistant Secretary of Agriculture; Whitelaw Reid, of New York, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to France; Nathan O. Murphy, of Prescott, A. T., to be Secretary of Arizona, Julius Goldschmidt, of i Wisconsin, to bo Consul General tit Vienna. And the following Postmasters: Edwin O. Shaw, Newaygo, Mich. ; William E. Culver, Las Animas, Cal , John A. Fellows, Pontiac, Ill,; Mrs Lucy Bowers Tipton, Iowa; Wm. T Carpenter, Manning, lown ; Mrs. Sarah Earthman, Griswold, Iowa; Frank T Pyaer, Sheldon, Iowa; James S Bindley, Wans, on, Ohio; Charles S. MeCoy, Cadiz, Ohio , Hciuv R. Snyder, Waring, Ohio ; Edwin McGlaehlin, Steveus Point, Wis.; Adehnar M Adams, Plankinton, Wis. ; Steven A. Pilley, I ro), Ala ; John M Banbury, Britton. D. ; Eil S. Short, (iriggsville, ill.; Wm. R Parka, Petersburg. 11l Vlanson H. Reed, Flora, 111.; Janies S. Reeus, Union City, Ind.; De WittC. Cari. Fowlerville. Mich.; George W. Baker, tthens. Ohio; Dan Korns, New Philadelphia. Onio; John F Welch, Nelsonville, Ohio; G. L. Rico, West Superior, Wis. Tin: Semite w in exocutivo sessiou an hour and u quarter on the 2tith ult., and in that time disposed of all the nominations reported from the committee. The files of the execuMvo calendar were pretty generally cleared of pending conventions and treaties. Most of these were imimpoi taut documents relating to ]H>stai conventions and copyright agree i uent s, which were approved proforma. The arrangement with Mexico relative to the appointment of a boundary eominisMon was eontinued. The extradition treaty with Russia was the subject of the most discussion. the following Presidential uotuinutious were confirmed: Zachariah T. Walrong, to bo United States Xttorney for the Indian Ternitorv riioinas B. Needles, to bo United States Marshal for the Indian Territory; James M. Beliakietord, to be JuJgu of the United States Court of the Indian '1 errltory ; James Tatiuer, to lie Commissioner of Pensions ; Jeremiah Sul- , llvan, to be Collector of Customs tor > Montana mid Washington; David M. Linus, to lie special examiner of drugs etc , at Now Orleans; Seligman Brothers, to Isi special fiscal agents ot the Navy Depart ; mont at London Georgi W. Mcßride, to bo Collector of Customs for Michigan; Charles J Ed- ' wards, to ls» Collector i»f Customs for Minnesota , Chm li’s M Bradshaw, to be Collector lit Puget Sound, W. 1 Also the following postniiistars George D. Breed. Chilton, Wis.; John XL Htgguril, Stoughton, Wis. ; rheodoro Burr, Lancaster. Wis ; James B. Neville, Bloomington, III.; \\ H. Cullimore, Centralia, I ; Allen Chandwii k, Armourdale, Kan. ; James . King, Popekn. Kan ; Ed I . Jones, Hi. Hon, Kun. ; Charles J. Wouser, Tamil, low a. Once a ri amp. Then a Govern xr. Your coiTcsEoinlcßt, xvhile passing up Ih niisylvnum avenue with a bureuii , officer, pnssed u mini uameJ Wilkinson, who was recently turned out of the office of the Coinptroller of the Currency on neconnt of “offensive partiHimship.” Ihe bureitu officer, after passing Wilkinson, turned to me and said: “Yon recognize that man? Yes; well, there was an incident in the early part of his life which connects him in away with one of the most prominent Democrats in Ohio. A good many years ago Wilkinson was moving into a house at Springfield, now one of the most prosperous manufacturing towns in the central part of the Buckeye State. While his goods were being put into the house, and those belonging to the outgoing tenant were being put on a wagon, a seedylooking tramp came up and inquired if he could get something to ent, offering to assist in the work if he. was accommodated. The outgoing tenant referred the t ramp to the incoming tenant, and the latter took the wanderer into the house and gave him a dinner. There was not much attention paid to that tramp, and for years those who saw him on that day lost sight of him. Finally he reappeared, however, entered into the business of the place and began to grow He grew in every sphere of life. He became wealthy and influential. A few years ago he was Governor, and now he has more ]>roperty and money than any man in his section of the State. It is not necessary for me to mention his name. He lives at Springtiidd yet and is a verv rich man. His name is a household word throughout Ohio.” ( nrioiis Discovery. An Ohio poultry-raiser has made a curious discovery. He says that it you go out to feed a thick ot chii'keiis and will cause them to wait they will invuriably, as they crowd about yon, begin u circuit around you from right to left, in front, and continue this revolution as long as you stand there. No amount of interruption or maneuvering can confuse theln or compel them to take the contrary direction at any time. Where It Went. Liquor Dealer 1 thought there was half a barrel of that campaign whisky left ? Clerk There was, but it ate a hole through the barrel and ran into the cellar, ■ Iceland was colonized by Norwe-' gians in 871. Christianity was introduced in the year 1(100, and the people enjoyed a republican form of government and had u tlourishing literature, till Iceland was .subjected by Hakon, King of Norw ay, in 1204. The thousandth luiuiversary of colonization was celebrated in 1874. The Baltic provinces of Ilussia formed a kind of provincial federation from 1800 until 1870, and so on Jun. 20 of that vein - , on the death ot Governor General Hegration, they were incorporated with the Russian Empire. The Scotch made a settlement at Darien, in Hi'Jß-D, but the project was abandoned in 1770, The first attorney general of En- , gland' was W illiam Bonneville, apI pointed in 1277.

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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL EN I EKI AINING DISSERTATION ON SERIOUS SUBJECTS. A rieaimnt, Inkiretina, and Initructiv* Lesaon and Wliere it May He Found-£ Learned a ml concise Review of the name. The lesson for Sunday, March 31, may ba found in Isaiah 35: l-10. INTBODUCTOKY. There uro special reasons why a missionat y lesson, distinctively suen. may bo found just now quite seasonable, for a crisis ot missions is right upon us. But this lesson is evangelistic ns well; it represents the universal longing for redemption. As next UhHst y H A i H m r J ptUro I' ortril y 9 the welcomed hi Ist, so this presents the anticipated, the •is P «nvh V ‘'M St Matthew records Jesus as saying .Many ]nophets and righteous num have desired to seo those things which yo see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which yo hear, and have not heard them." The lesson before us Introduces us to these days of hope and desire. Shull they enable us to appreciate, as we should, the day of grace in which wo live, while at tho same time they stimulate our expectant souls for tho davs ot glor v yet to come? ' J XV. . . LESSON PAfiAOBAPHS. vv hut of it / Much, If God's retributive judgments are fulfilled, then may we expect lus sentences of mercy to reach unto a gracious execution. The mouth of tne Lord hath spoken both, and here almost in the ; same breath. Two Isaiahs forsooth! There may be some grammatical occasion for the theory, but no grounds in the sentiments expressed. If Isaiah spake by the Spirit of God then he could not but utter both wrath tor sin and love for righteousness. The same hand that exalts abases, <ufd the same lips that tremble with tenderness make roeks to quake with the trumpeting of the divine displeasure. Surely there is strong re-enforeenii nt in the exordium of the preceding chapter, which forms, at one and the sumo time, a natural conclusion to Isaiah 84 and a fitting introduction to Isaiah 35: Seek ye out the book of the Lord and read; no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate, for my mouth hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them." And now, following right upon those words of woe, comes one of the sweetest chapters of all the sacred pages. So of old came ihe stern "Woe unto thee, Chorazin; woe unto thee, Bethsaida;” and immediately after the soothing "Como unto me all ye that labor.” \es, and over in Revelation, right upon the dread sentence, "The second woa is past; and behold, the third woe cometh quickly." sound foi th the "great voice in heaven, saying. The kingdoms of this world are become tho kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign foreverand ever.” And now was Jonathan Edwards out and away from the Divine Spirit when ho sought to bring men to repentance'and tho joy of redemption by depicting the sinner in the himds of an angry God? Hear ’ this extract from Lyman Beecher, who had been preaching long at East Hampton for a revival: "For some time there was no effect to anything 1 could do. I could not writ - any sermons that would take hold. Finally 1 resolved I would preach the dootrine of election The church was started at last. They had not f- lt so much for u twellth-mouth. Sinners, too, were stirred up and there was winking and sneering. After meeting you could seo them walking about in knots, swinging their arms, talking and threatening 'they’d never go to that meeting againl' But they did go, and tho next time I gave them another, and then another, and another, eight sermons in sucvossion.” Presently we read. “Tho Lord was there; and the Hood was rolling all around." It was a rolling flood, of salvation and joy. j To such its this our lesson brings us. How j well it pictures tne ineffable blessedness of those days when tho Spirit is present with reviving power and with every moment seems to come a foretaste of heaven! lire wilderness and tho solitary place, the unpeopled waste, leap for joy. for that is the literal meaning ot the word “glad" here. Tho desert manifests its rejoicing with f dances of delight, and its fruitfulness can only be compared with the clustered prodigality of tho rose. Blossoms, joy, singing language seems to fail tho prophet in his enraptured outlook upon tho glory of ths Lord, and tho Hocking imagery, even tho very mixture of figures, is surpassingly eloquent. O when “the excellency ot our God” is upon us who has words to tell its wondrousness? There xvoro met up ill tho State of Maine, our friend across the way tells us, a great houseful to hear tho word preached. Tho “glory of the Lord" was there, and who could speak? Tho pastor said. "Let those who are ready to pray with me for the Holy Ghost come forward.” Four hundred responded. He could not pray; nobody could. For hours all knelt weeping in silent prayer, broken only by an occasional utterance, others coming forward from tho audience. Need wo say that the blossoming of that revival was “as the rose," and its fruitage like unto the “glory of Lebanon?" „ Be strong then, fearful heart. Fear not, Behold the same God who comes with vongeanco to his enemies will come xvith a recompense of salvation to his people. Ho will come and save you.” Indeed, that very salvation was in itself a recompense of vengoanco to tho evil. It God himself, us an examination of the original will show us, who is spoken of as both the retribu* tion and tho reward. Tho cloud that was li<’ht by night unto fleeing Israel was dark’ness and confusion to the pursuing hosts rs i>ypt. It behooves us to get on the right side of tho cloud that the visitation of Wrath mav bo chaageii for us to mercy. Rev. John' Liggins, in his recent work on ihe "Value and Success ot Foreign MisMons." tells of a num who grossly attacked and slandered a devoted missionary of the l'aciile islands. But the same person afterward addressed the servant of God whom he had assailed: . . “These newspaper articles were written bv me. The regrot and shame which has hinee possessed me for having written them w ill lose some of its bitterness since I know that you will rejoice that God, in the infinity of his mercy, has during the past, i year opened to mo also a door of dehveiimce . . . and poured into tho daik । prison-house of a mind previously impene-. t ruble to every good thought, and haidened to all sympathy with every good work, some rays of tho light ot the everlasting gospel which yourself und >oui laborers have toiled to spread abroad in ' Verily, "the eyes of the blind shall be '’* An^igku-au shall be there." '^■lore? In "tho wilderness." in ’the desert, in the "habitation of dragons." It takes the eye of faith to descry a highway amid such sui- । oimdmgH. Look at Marshall Bass in Color O Who but the stout-hearted, farsighted engineer could have pictured a rmidway through such so, 1 ' n ITn 1 T n J ' nesHes? Even now. as we look upon the eniral windings of tho completed work, it seems like a veritable /.ighwag in the air. and wo make the dizzy passage as in a dream. Tho Forum has said, regarding the slums of our great cities, that ones Hist thought upon entering their reeking edness is (he utter impossil lilt)' of < iiytUlm, soonae^"naught but briar and only hero and there was there a John-tne Baptist to lift up the cry for sin ha xtilde i; noss ''Prepare yo tho way o’ 1110 Lor u . ’ ,h " hi s l lX^s/ e, Thor^xvkrAfriea. Dark 'continent trhly. Y^lTstei! ^Thei^ with ten Amerinative proacimrs. 175,0X1 minua,! and 800.000 professed adheroii^, the aniuu I conversions being about 17.000. J e oia who made tho earth makes also the high way unto faith. Next Lesnon—"Tho Triumphal Lntiy, Mark 11: 1-n — -