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h Stef® z<S m ? V j ; ^2 - ..... — ••- Ry - "- a * •’ G&|dir Orn\or\d yede CI I APTER IX—Continned. If Lea Hedges should accept him, the captain had a hurriedly matured plan, which iu duo season would take him away from his companions and permit him to be near his idol at all time--. He was fortunate in finding Lea alone, and she, having just returned from a ho se-ba k ride, was looking more beautiful than ever, if that were possible. Captain Fox, like all men of strong impulses and great executive ability, came directly to the point, yet he approached the subject of his love in such away as not to shock her by the suddenness of his declaration. I nder such circumstances, since the very first hour when English civilization required that the young lady’s affi ctions were as essential as the c nsent •of the parents, it had been the nearly invariable habit of the fair one to confess surprise, and to vow that the honor done was wholly unexpected. This is alwa s the case where the young lady has made up her mind to sty “no,” and she usually says it in away to plaster the wound she is making. No woman can look with other than sympathy on th- eligible man whose offer of marriage sho refuses. But Lea Hedges, while not rude in her refusal, was certainly brusque. “I must believe what you say, Captain Fox, and I presume I should ieel honored by your offer. I certainly should be unworthy the esteem of any true man if I trifled with his feelings. While treating you with the courtesy due an officer in the service of our gracious lady the Queen, I have done nothing that you could construe into any encouragement of the suit which 1 must decline. ”

“But why—why do you refuse me?” he asked, the sanguine hue of his cheeks tuning to purple. “If you cannot guess I cannot explain,” she replied, with a dignity that -chilled him. “It means that you love some one else.” “Why should it? But that you may te undeceived on that point, let me assure you that you are the first man that ever spoke to mo of love and marriage. You should remember that I have known you but a short time, and that, no matter how favorable the impression you may have made among us so far is, -a common prudence would forbid my pledging what I have not—love —to a man whom I did not know two weeks -ago. ” “You are right, Miss Hedges, and I am to blame,” said the captain, bis old manner coming back. “But you must excuse me in the light of these facts. A letter, just received by a post from the Governor of New York, orders me to that city. It is possible I may be sent to light a pirate, one Captain Kidd, who is now reported destroying our com- । merce in the West Indies. I sail to- ■ morrow night or early next m, ruing, ' and I wanted to take with me one memeiy to sustain me amid the perils and ■dreariness of my cruise—-a tie that would draw me back here.” “ Where you and your officers,” replie i Lea, “wl 1 always find a hearty welcome awaiting you. ” “Thanks for your words; they do not leave me hopeless,” said the captain, his eyes aking on their old expression of reckless vivacity. He adroitly changed the topic, and after talking for nearly an hour, without i •once going back to the subject with whi.h he first started, he left, premising to see her again before he to k his departure.

Although Lea Hedges bore herself so calmly and bravely in the presence of her sailor suitor, she did not retain her fine self-possession and excellent spirits after he left her. She went to her own room, and after ch nging her riding dress she threw herself on the bed, a id, burying her face in her hands, so remained till her mother came to call her to supper. Like the dutiful daughter she was, L a made up her mind to tell her parents of Capt. Fox’s offer that night; and she might have done it at the supner table had not Valentine Dayton and Ellen Condit been there. She did tell them that Captain Fox ■ha i received an order by courier, from the Governor of the province, commanding him to lake his ship to New York. And then Lieut. Dayton told her that Ralph Denham hai received an order from the same authority to report in person, and that he would start to-

anozrow or next day. I “But he does ““ I’’ 1 ’’ I asked Lea, eagerly. . I “No. he leaves us all here replied ' “ V put Ralph will return again?” said Lea, the expression on her beautiful * face telling her anxiety in the answer. “I suppose so,” said \ab ntine, who i was much devoted to his friend and I commander, “for without Capt. Denham । the Sea Hawk is a very ordinary ship, 1 Indeed.” i “And with him?” queried Ellen, who was very fond of her adopted brother. "And with him she is the best ship of her tonnage afloat.” in the midst of the conversation, and much to the delight of the Doctor and Mrs. Hedges, l oth of whom loved Ralph Denham as dearly as they did their nephew, Valentine Dayton, the gentleman under discussion was announced and entered the room. ilah h confirmed the report of his de-

rarture, said he hope I to be back very soon, an I then asked Lea if she would take a walk with him along the shore. It was not unusual for the Captain ’>< ask the same question, to which she nvariably gave an affirmative reply; but as he asked it now’ there was that in his manner which she ha I never noticed befcre t nd, though Ralph Denham was so entirely different a man from Captain Fox, there was something about him at the moment that reminded her of Ihe latter when he was about to make his startling, unexpected proposal. She put on her hat and light cloak,

and, taking his arm, they went down the road and through the woods, where, as a little girl, she had often gathered nuts, while Ralph, then a sturdy boy, sent them to the earth from his giddy perches high up in the trees. She did not hesitate to tell him then that she thought him tie bravest, strongest and handsomest boy in all the world. He would g.ve a groat deal to know what she thought of him now. It was with s methingof a feeling of desperation that he resolved to learn her feelings to-night. Tho courier’s letter ha 1 decided him. He forgot the barrier that sprung up in his mind, every time ho tin ught of offering him elf in the past. Bal; h knew who ho was—rather he did not know who he was,’in regard 1o nam ■ and ] arentage—and though he consoled himself with tho belief that neither could be bad, he realized that in this community, there was a strong, even a bitter, prejtdice against these of illeg timate birth, an 1 that maidens far beneath lea Hedges in the social scale would he-itate before giving him their hands in marriage. Usually, Ralph was the soul of cheerfulness; to-night, he was gloomy, and, in her futile efforts to rally him. Lea herself became taciturn. At length they reached a promontory, that commanded a magnificent view of tho bay, and o? the islands to tho cast, now a cloud of green aa 1 gold, in tho distance. Hero they sat down on the trunk of a lailen tree and, turning to her, lialph asked: “How long have you known me, Lea'” ( “I have known you lialph,” sho re- < plied, “ever since 1 can emend er.” He became silent again, dreading to launch out on tho sea, to whose shore 1 ho had le I her. “Why do you ask that strange question?” She did not look at him. but toyed with the ribbon of tho hat which sho held in her lap. "I was wondering how long two friends —good friends as you an I I are—could be acquainted without knowing exactly what the one thought of the other," ho said.

i "I have never doubted about that ; you i have been to mo a brave brother, In I whom I felt all a slstei’s pride: and I ■ think I have t een to you a sister; you . | h ive often told mo I was, in these very । woods.” And now she began to knot > tho strings as if she had a spite against > them. “I was then a youth and you a little girl. Wo ha e l oth changed. You ar • - no longer a sister to me. Lea.” “Not a sister, lialph?” 1 “No; tho time —the time I have so often thought of, an 1 always with a feeling o’ drea I— has come. Oh, Lea, you must be much more than a sister to me —or —or less." He turned to her an I reaehe 1 out both h:s hands; and, as she did not J make a response, bu -at there tn ni- , bling, with a face as wh.te as a s a.ue, ho called out: I “Forgive me, Lea. I could not help । it. It seemed that my heart woul I I break if I did not tell you of my love I before 1 left. Now I care nit to ndu n, ! but Ido not blame yo i. ".'ere y u in t nth my si-tor. r.n '. one in my position , asked for your hand, 1 could not euj courage him ” i “Oli, Ra'ph, Ralph!” site cried, springling to her feet, and tinging with nor । white arms to his neck. “Do not leave i me so. Ralph, my more than brother! ’ • As ho tolde I her to his breast, an ! • kissel her face, which the setting sun ! seemed to surround with an aureole o. i golden light, Ralph Denham became j aware of another presenee. He looko l up and sew the socwling I dark face ami towering 'orm of the Mi ntnuk ch es before him. Releasing Lea, Ralph strode before the Indian, and in an angry ti ue demanded: “What brings you here?” “Here," -aid the chief, do'antly . glancing around him. “Here I s and on the lands of the Montauk. Wha. brin.s : you here?" I should give my reply if this lady । were not with us,” said lialph. "I shall rei eivo your reply when she

' is not with you,” said Uncas, throwing his long rifle across his -houl lev. ami striding into the forest from which he i had come. CHAPTER X. j ‘-THEY SAILED AWAY IN A GALLANT BARK. " “Wed, with t' e love of su h a girl as Cousin Lea assured,” said Valentin? J i ayton, the morning foTowing the | events narrated in the preceding chapi ter, “the tattle is n ore than half won. i I am sure Uncle Nehemiah Hedges will I come round in time. ” “I do not blame Doctor Hedges for re- । fusing me the hand of his daughter; in l his position I think I might do the j same,” said the captain. “I ask your pardon, llalph, but I don’t । think you would. Genealogies may be right in the old world, but in this land i men don’t win through their grand- | fathers, ” said Val.ntine, with much ■ force.

"You are right, nerhansiju;;, convince her father that there is noth- ' ing in mj T origin for which I, at least, 1 should blush. Howevt r, I am ver .- happy as it is It seems to mo that the fog through which I have been feeling my way and taking soundings for years has lifted, and now all is pl no sailing. ' For the first time in my 1 Ie I feel that i I have rt ached the fullest staiure of a I man—which can only be attained when ihe is confident that he possesses the love of a noble woman.” Cantain Denham looked as he felt; there’ was an expression of i ea e an 1 । strength in tho handsome bionzed face i that was noticeable to his friend. And Valentine Dayton was himself in ia state bordering <n cc-tasy; for hid i not Ellen Condit, with the consent of her parents, pledged him her hand, on their way back from Doctor Hedges’ the night before?

The young offices, during this conversation, were on their way to the Sea Hawk, where the Captain was to ma te his arrangements and issue his orders before turning over the command of the ship to Lieu’enant Hedges. On reaching the dock they found Lieutenant Frenaull cm board, talking earnestly with tho officers of the Sei Hawk. With the offic al manner which sailors and soldiers can so readily assume or lay aside, Frenauld touched his hat, arid, approaching Captain Denham, said: “I am the bearer of a letter, sir, from

I Captain Fox, who desires me to take back your answer.” I Captain Denham was inclined to like , Frenauld, and his dislike of Fox—he । imagined—was caused by tho feeling ' that he was or mi ht become a rival. All fear of this being dissipated by Lea, 1 he felt, as is evir the < ase with generous natures, of going to the other extreme. Frenauld remained back, smoking and : conversing with the officers of the Sea Hawk, who w re gathere I under an awning on the quarter deck. Before opening the left r, Ralph Denham, iollowed by Valentine Dayton, went down ;o the cabin. After glam ing ov< r the note to make sure that he cot 11 communicat ? its contcirs to his s d;<> (iinate, without any 1 reach o e i .uette, he read as follows: On Boakd li. .u. s (mi eh \\ asmreb, I ( F/SAi Uk;:oi, June I’, I€9A f Mr I eah • aptain I eciav: I jiuve Ie m inminvsl y sun i of our fr:c ids aslio o that you :> ie o.dered to New York at once, without your ship. Stransrely enough, tics lujjon brought ino an odur. c innunding tno to New Yura Hay wi li m. s <!p. on or lefroihe I!)th hist The trip by land is long a;d tedious, while 1 expect, in tills weather to make It inddeot tweixe hm.is on the Wanderer go > g ip no s und and tluougi Hurl Gate. ' r 11 11 G.i.e. is it is new being c.n ed w lorinlt mo to s iv lie o is a cabin at your sot vice on board tl o Wanderer, and if you will honor mo with yo r presence on the short cruise, m.■ nTcer, an i relf will endeavor. at leatt in pirt. to -hiwourapp O'iatlon of the knd o>s we have iei eived at your in.nds a d the hands of your friend s since c ming in o the b autifu! biy. and meet tig time no t hispltable people. Hoping so ■ a save: al to reply at »h« Inui Is ol Mr. F onauid. I ollove me with much c-10-m. lore stnccrol z. ypur Jr in le. oled Ont servant. W.I.t.IAM i OX. Commanding 11. M S Cruiser Wanderer. T> Captain Pal di lenham, 11. M S Pro- ' 1 clnl Crul.-er. Sea Ila- k “What do you think of that, Mr. Dayton?” asked the Captain, win n ho hal i nished rending the letter aloud. “I mustsa.’ 1 titink it v< rv handsome. Captain, (f course yo i will not say ‘no’ to such iin offer.' It is a most fortunate think to ha - o a ship like the o anderer to bear one to Now York, inste ul of going through th'wool and over the e::n Is on h oel a k,” replied Lieu enant Day ton. “i von if the offer w re not tempting, I should feel inclined to aec i t. to show my appreciation of Fox’s kindne s." Tlr n you will go on the Mau lerer. Captain? ' es; an 1 I shall at o ce write Fox to t! at el ect; Frenauld i- waiting lor my answer." Captain l enham s it down to a desk, and quirking ] enn ng his reply, sent it up l y Lieuten mt Dayt n. An '. thus it came about that Cat tain Den .am sailed away in th Wanderer. Ila ! the j < wets of darkness deli -r---at-dy planned to ni 1 Capt rn Fox ami Colon-d Grahatu in their ■ irk sch mes, m.ttets could not h ve wori;e I better into their hands.

Colonel Graham was not a demonstrative man; on the ntiarv, be was coo', seif-pos-wssed. su-p: Hous and cynical. Bi t when F< :: :i .".d M n Ralph I enham's letter accepting the o for, Graham sprang from his chair, and in his momentary exultation s. ized his cotn--lan on's hand and crle I with an oath: N. w. wo h.:e h;m, s.r! ue ha o him!" It was reported that Col. Graham v ou’d i eturn to New York on the Wandere:'. bu: the people ex: re-sed no stirpi I-e vh. n < . . i a.le i nw.iy without idm. The night 1 efore the norniLg when the ship sailed awny, < 01. Graham, who still made iiis headquarters at the inn, was taken al mningly 18, and Ir. He Igos, who was called in to attend to the ease, bio 1 him freely. The illness a trick to gbe an excuse for remaining behin 1, but there vas no trick about the doctor's lancet. Bleed ngw s then th m ht :obe apanniea for etory ill, f oni a toothache to Ashiiic cholera, and the do r left his 1 a!;ent .-■■ weak that he eoul I not move

if he would. I* w s de- niediy .’aime:ous to "f<.ol" with doctors in th days, when b'.eeding and blistering killed the w< a;, and tested th.' p > '• r- of the stion mst. S uire Condit nns the only p rson of note in "he town that did not visit the sick m.n, but the people all thought the Squ re eccentric. A i. w days after the W ndorer sailed away, Dinah, the old i ’a k woman, litorally forced her w y into < 01. Graham's room.

The lather star;ling disclosures that the old woman made, ami the rem rkable conduct of the invalid must form the subject of the next chapter. |TO nr. CONTINUED. I He I r. ed i I Cnee I was sent for, savs the Queen of Roumania, to the town to a young m m wh se leg ba 1 been amputated, and who was in inconsolable despair. Not bavin • been p esent at the operaH n, I did not I low wh eh leg had been t -ken off. I sat dew ;on the side of the bed and re::.a ne 1 talking to the poor fellow for a quarter of an hour, ho smiling sweetly at me all the time. When I arose my ladles of honor discovered that I had been sitting on thu stump of the lost leg. I still shudder wMn-r - £.“iOU ,p or fellow! i "I would have borne it ma- y bou:s for the make of iis en ng to your voice,” he replied.—Once a Week. ? I:* t her tex pens’, vr. Roscoe C< nkl ng once defen de 1 a man who was on trial for arson. Conkling, who was rather new at the bar, called upon Charles O’Conor and said: ■'There is Johnson. To be sure, ho was convicted, and the conviction was adira ed. lut I had a great deal of trouble, and I only charged him six hundred dollars, and his friends decline to pay my bill. Don’t you think the charge is reasonable and fair.'” Mr. O’Conor turned in his chairand said: •'Well, Conkling, I have no doubt that you did the best you coul 1. Six hundred dollars is not a large bill. But I have no doubt he could have been convicted for a great deal less money.” Doesn’t I.lke the Music. It is said that the Pope is anxious to bring in o general use a severer and more ecclesiastical style of church music. He is oppose I to the modern • operatic style, and an allocution and an order on the subject will probably soon I be issued. Why Not Build it? M. Chappuis’ proposed electric raT- ' way through the Simplon Pass is esti- ' mated to cost $8,000,0(>o, and it would i greatly reduce the distance between I Italy and Northern Europe.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. AN INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE LESSON. Reflections of an Elevating Characterwbolesome Food for Thought — Study, tog Uie Scriptural Losson Intelligently and Profitably. Timely Admonitions. Tho lesson for Sunday, March 19 may be found in Proverbs xxiii. 15 23* IXTIiODU C TORY. A temperance lesson is certainly a timeiy lesson; and, without doubt,' in the Sunday-school scries, a well-placed lesson. The way to prevent evil is to pre-empt the ground. The difference between a strawberry bed and a raweed patch is that one was s eded for good things and tho other left to grow just what it would. To displace is to conquer, and the way to displace is to preoccupy. The golden text i ays, litera y Be not tilled with wine, but bo tilled witn the Spirit" (same word in Greek rendered by two different words in the English). That is to say, instead of being given over to the spirit from below, give yourself over to the Spirit from above. Be not a w ne-iu-toxicated, but a “Goi-intoxieatod man.” Preoccupy forgqod. L POINTS JN THE LESSON. Djgnot sayj™ l *' Old Testament htfs^fe *^Bferance advocacy. The book^ifZ^® verb 313 J ust thirty-one r j n ^Fxeniperanco addresses. ‘ SiX-ly there is an end, ” or, as wo would? Si ,»y. a hereafter, in the sense of a ro*Aning time. But that reckoning time'* a part of one's future iu this life as well as in the life to come. God gives%wards even here. As some one has well said, we have our “judgment day" hero and now. Thu inebriate asylum is a departm. nt of it; the insane ward of the hospital; the police court. ( n the other hand the goo 1 fruits show the good planting.

As we sow s • shall we reap Hi the tide oI coir.iir year-, Whether it be joy er s riow, v e.ii or wee, Ihen this word iu view still keep, While the days are going by, fte shaii gather in the !.:.r est what wo sow. “The drunkard end the glutton"— these two are class d together in Scripture. They art so associated ’ > a ise they go together uvure, n society. High living is responsible for much of the inebriety of to-day. The women of the W. C. T. U. arerationa an I reasonable in their insistance that the kitchen and the table be guarded. Highly spiced food provokes unnatura api etite. That appetite poes- ut in many evil direrth Let moth-rs be careful what kind of taste, in a lite: a! sense, they cultivate among the young. It will tell in the coming years. The Germans have a motto/man.i Ist was er last: man is what he eat.-. Do you get the thought? “Buy the truth and sell it not.” Whv did the translator put in that intrusive little word also as if “wisdom," and "Instruction,” and "undersianding" were something else than the “-ruth. “ Buy the truth, namely, wisdom, (orre’tion i. e., diseipimv , d -. ernm- nt. These are >-orth a l you pay for them, Thev cost* self-dem..!, self-sacrifice, elf-re’-wit; but be sure o th s, you will coutiqit good expenditure in the readFays. Young man, ho v are you yo'ir capital, your patrimony? die you buying with Tears nil iWfrrtors for to-morrow, i r hope and hiG'fciess. partly r-.i!; d h re, n ore fuh^n th- <■( •nt ty that streteh-s b.yomy "Uh- rc.vre-Io you spend vour money for that which io no: breml.'and your labor for that which sati-timh not?" HINTS AND ILH STIiATI--NS. Now, dear broth' r teachers, do not haggle W whimp w ab >ut this matter of strong drink. De pla n an I outsp sk-u. Ylafe a clean sweep of tim dea-lly tiling. ,Ov: with it from the .-el.er, !rom the kitchen, from the • b;b-ro< m, iiom the Q'^urch. If you say anything about this txtcursed stuff, full of the tires of hell, be clear an I cogent. Say it straight and strong, or, in God’s name, bold your tongue. Jhe Chrlet is being daily wounded here in the bouse o h;s friends, so-called. I; is your lame and halting speech on the d-ink question that is hindering more than anything ejee the c iuse of temferen c or, bet-

teetotalism anything else is an anachronism). Mo era’on, custo m expediency, "post-canteen,” high license, away with them’ Yours to talk clean clear tighter usuess, nothing less. Call things by their right names. Call slavery a theft of men’s bodies, and gambling a theft of men’s purses, and liquor vending a theft of men’s souls. The thicugo Inter Ocean is taking an a ivanced stand and has denounced a certain race track, which, it is said, has gone so far with the gambling mania as to have no “redeeming feature” whatever. But why not take a broader stand? As betwo n the gambling institution with redeeming featu es and that without, give us the odious, open-faced, and I ra cn-face l sort in preference to the other. Your Lixh-license saloon, run with an eye to sofealled decency, is the worst saloon in jits effects. Let things be consistent ■pin themsetves. If anything is J? a - n J Jpd'evils offer themselves for Chicago’s uybralty, one with a neat cloak and other with horns, I choose the p. irned and h( ofed devil every time, fir thpn I know what I am dealing with.” A poor witless youth came up to one of the city ra -e-tracks, and, thinking to become a “plunger,” staked his all on a certain nag. One Thompson pocketed, the next mom* nt, the young fool’s S3OO. He burst into tears and begged of the successful winner enough to get home on. “What is the matter with walking?" was tiie brutal rejoinder. Brutal, but honest. It was the best word he could have spoken io the young simpleton. What has charity to do with gambling, anyway? Next I esson—Quarterly Review. •The dressmakers of the reign ol Louis XV. announced that, among othci costly goods, they had for sale sac friend’s color, doe’s belly, scratches face color, fading flower, dj in| monkey, gladsome widow, lost time, dead-alive, sick Spaniard, mortal sm, common harm, and chimney-swe 'p. . a[ks. Bocher, living at Binet Bints* Sullivan County, Tenn., has jus' Xu birth to triplets for the seeonc Xe Before this she had given lirti to singles twice arJ tw:ns tWice '

SENATEJS ORGANIZED. COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS AT last agreed upon. Bepubllean Asslt-uments Undisturbed by ' th I C to Wrestle Finance Sra ‘ iOH Named by the Ci-ucn. After the adjou.nmont of the Senate -londay the Democratic cau us eommittet held its final meeting in relation mittoV aSign i m ° Ut ° f Senator * to com- । wmk ’ The r aCli D Uy ^“P^d its lojudst Senators,! n-i Z’ of Ka “ sa s» and Kylo, of South Dakota, are classed with ih • Democrats StK Os ia the com! mittee appointments, and each is given iakX anS V ? - Th ° a3si gnment of the majontj as it now stands is as follows' Djurs v,, “’ Commerce—Hansom, chairman; Coke \ mil 1,1,0 of Louisiana, WhiU 3f California. Murphy. iZum 1-101 “'Columbia- Harris, chairman; luulkner, Gibson and Hunt on. Educati-n and Lub- r-Kylo. chairman ; George, Hunton, Lindsay and Murphy. Erolied Bills—Callery, chairman; ColIo examine the several branches of the civil service—l'etTei. chairman ; Gray and \ Has.

Finance—Voorhees, chairman; McPhersor, Harris, \ auce, Ves , an j Jones, of Arkansas. Fisheries—Coke, chairman; Call, Ransom, Gibson and Hill. foreign Delations—Morgai, cbairmani Butler, Gray, Turpieand Daniel. Immigration—Hill. chairman; Vooriees. McPherson, Faulkner and Peffer. Improvement of tho Mississippi and its Tributaries—Bate, chairman; Walthall, Palmer and Petter. Indian Affairs—Jono . of Arkansas, chairman; Morgan, Vilas, Allen and Roach. Interstate Commerce—Butler, chairman; Gorman. Brice. White i f Louidana, Camden an : Lindsay. Irrigation and reclamation of arid lands - White, of California, chairinm; Kyle, i Gibs m. Roach, an I Beckwith. Judiciary— Pugh, chairman; George, I Coke, Vila-. Hill, ami Linds ty. Library—Mills, chairman, ami Voorhees. 1 Manufactures— Gib-on, chairman; Smith and Cattery. Military affairs —it i tnall. chairman; C- ckrell. Bate, Palmer, and Mitchel'^ Naval affairs— McPhorso-, thairman; Butler Blackl-urn. and tamden. Organization, condition, and exjendi- । tures of ttie execut.ve departments — ' Smith, cl aiiman; Cockrell. Hill, Walthall, and Cattery. Pensions- Pilmer, chairman; Brice, Vila-. Camden, and Cass ry Po-tofflc ‘s ami p st r aids — Colquitt, ‘ chairman; Vilas, Irby, Mills, Hunton, and Hili. Privileges and elections—Vance, chair- I n an: Pugh. Gray, Turnie, and Palmer Public buihl.ngs and grounds —Vo;t, • chairman; Daniel. Pasco, Brice, and Gord' n. Public lands— Berry, c: airman: Walthall. Bas •> , X lias. A len, : n I Mart n. Bal roads — Camden, chairman; Berry, ' Go:don, Balmer, Martin, and Beckwith. • Relations with Canula — Murphy, chair- ' m in; Pugh. Co!qu t. Hunton, and Mitchell, i Revision of the laws of the United States — Daniel, chairman; Cal) and Lindsay. Rues— ill ack burn, chairman; Hai ris anl Germa n. Terrlu ries- Faulkner, chairman; H'.ll, Bato. Gordon, BluCkburn and White of I Call torn a Ti ansj ortation routes 11 the seaboard— I Irby, chairman; George, Turpie, Gordon and Hunton. I’fte.lie railway— Brice, cha’ '.'lan; Morgan. Faulkner. V h re of I. -■.i-i uia and Murphy. D;e lan depredat .• ns r :dsa '..■hairm-ir.; ( Faulkner Kyle. White of Louisiana and I Cockri li. Quadro-centennial — Vilas, cha man; I Cedquitt. Vest, Gru - , Daniel, Gibson und i Lindsay. To investigate the geological survey— . Martin, chairman; Jeno; of Arkansas and i Be - k witii. I'o inv. sticate t'e-passes i p .n < l.erokee • innds Roach, eh Irman. and Butler. Ti legmplile Clicks. Thomas Kane wushu ned to death in a dwelling house at Honesdale, Pa. J. F. Bailey a Sons, dealers in iron at Philadelphia, have as-igned.

L. 1.. Doster, a ri h 'umber dealer of Philadelphia, suicided by hanging. The long-standing Chili-Bolivian bo ndary dispute has been settl d. Mbs. Mary Milleb, of Cold Spring, N. A.. has given birth to her third set of triplets. The ponfo n 1 ridge across the Mis--ouri at Sioux City was carried out by the moving ice. The liabilities of Stitt Co., woolen goods, who fail 'd at Philadelj hia, are placed at $1,250,000. The Burlington Bailwaj’ bridge over the Platte River, at Ashland, Neb., was partly carried away by a flood. The body of an unknown boy was seen floating on a cake of ice at Henierson, Mich . but was not recovered. The steamer City of Rochester was dashed against the piers of a bridge at Charlotte, N. Y., and demolished. Haevey Levy, a drunken cook of Leadville, Colo., shot and killed Dan Cameron and fatally wounded Jack Stuart. •Tjnies L. Hamilton, sentenced to 1 lower. ^insr. has been L. J. Hintze, street commissioner oi New York, died from a cold contracted at the Presidenial inauguration in Washington.

Sir John Thompson, premier of Canada, sailed for Faris to attend the international conference on the Behring Sea seal fisheries case. M. Chevalier, of the department of public debt at Cairo, has been chos n to succeed Charles de Lesseps as director of the Suez Canal Company. The booms at Grand Rapids, Mich., under the pressure of a flow, which confined the logs at the Mich gan Barrel Comuany’s works, gave way, an ILQ 'h" [OO feet of logs started for Lake Mich.gan. Tur California Legislature has adopted a joint r. solution for a constitutional amendment to ren.ove the State capital from Sacramento to San Jose. John G. Hartings, of Bort Gibson, Miss..committed suicide at Birmingham, Ala., with a revolver. He was organizer of that district for the Knights of Honor. Fifty members of the congregation of St. Joseph s < hurch at Swedesboro, N. -L, have decided to cast their lot with Father Treacy, the priest ex-communi-cated by order

IF YOU ARE LV QUEST OF rRESH INDIANA NEWS, PERUSE THE FOLLOWING: Important Happenings of the Week— Crimes bu<l Casualties — Suicides——Weddings, l-tc« Tho Legislature. The co-omploye’s bill. j n an amended form, got through 1../J1 Houses Saturday A~ e nppropritition biil includes SS«UW far sqn)?lVf ' H •‘PPropiiation of ■ 110 000 for the i eeble Minded Home passed ^ ut v ' as defeated in the House. J-ne hili Plying new parties watchers at the ?n !he P S°en^ Ug, ‘ H ° US ° bUt WaS bcatca These was afree-aml-easv feeling in Loth Houses Monday. A good deal of joviality I’ 111I 11 ! 11 a n , nn,i ’ e r of resolution ■ were passed be both 1 ranch-s congratulatory complimentary, etc. The report of the Committee on Affairs of the Prison South giving results id the recent investigation’ were read in both Houses, and the majority report, exonerating the prison management, was concurred in. Ihe minority report was spread upon the minutes. fiTb" Senate took up the bill empowering Os h, “T f" lev > a D\ x -m Dm gross receipts of the telegraph, telephone, express and sleeping ear companies. The opening session was marked by a m -s age from tho Governor, in which ho said that this measure, as well as the bill amending certain sections of the new tax Viw, and known as tno Administrative Tax bill, was ••oaretuUy prepared by the State Tax Commissioners" and I ‘T am convinced that their provisions aro ! perfectly fair. I "They arc of the most vital interest to tho : tax-payers of the State, and have been ' drafted in a spirit of absolute fairness to all interests- concerned, and with the greatest regard to the decisions of the Supremo Court, and. I am informed, will add 825.(KXJJWof property io the tax duplicate that is now escaping taxation. I am willing to waive my constitutional right, and will receive and consider the bill even if presented to me on this, the sixth day of March.”

Immediately upon receiving this message the Senate took up eerta'n pending amendments to the first-named biil, and the original bill was changed, making it the duty of the Prosecutors of the various judicial district- in which taxes are due and unpaid to bring suit. The bill passed by a vote of 40 to 4. It was also passed by the House. Both Houses adjo irned sine die. Minor Stnte News. George Givan of More's Hili, is dying from cancer of the lip, caused by excessive smoking. The people about Centerville are making arrangements to fence in the graveyard there because of ghouls. The piano fake men are still working their agency racket in the northern part of the State, and are securing a number of victims. For the second time since Christmas the schools at Chesterfield have been officially closed because of the prevalence of diphtheria. The ladies of two of the most prominent society clubs of Fort Wayne have adopted a series of resolutions against hoopskirts and crinoline. John Brown living near New Ross, has in his possession a pig which has but one eye, one ear, and no tail. It i? a great, curiosity and crowds of people go to see it every day. It is currently believed that the Clover Leaf railroad difficulty at Frankfort can only to adjusted by placing the road in tho hands of a receiver, and this is expected to occur at any day. The Richmond Telegram has changed hands, and is now to be run by a stock company. The incorporators are H. D. Berteh, L. V. Armstrong, S. W. Gillilan, A. D. Hosterman, J. N. Gawer. and E. S. Kelly.

j Doc Anherson of Franklin, was do- । ing some carpenter work at his home. ; He placed a hatchet a'ove his head, but ■ it fell, the blade striking him on the nose and cutting off a large portion of that member. The recent storm destroyed the large frame barn of Willis Reese, southeast of Muncie. A 820 u horse was killed. A great deal of damage was done by the storm in that part of the County. Mr. Reese's loss is over SI,OOO. Eva Rose, the only support of a widowed invalid mother, at Madison, committed suicide by taking poison. The mother is dying from her troubles. A son in Anderson was telegraphed tor to attend the sister’s funeral, but an answer

came that he was also dying. Jacob Price, an old man near Jordan village, concealed §3OO in a tea chest in his cellar. The other night two burglars entered the house and, finding him alone in ted, choued him until he revealed the hiding place of his money, which they secured and escaped. j Willett Fisher of New York, who was injured in the L. E. & W. wreck at Peru last January and has been lying in the hospital at that city since, has brought suit against the railroad company for §IO,OOO damages, alleging defective bridge, track, and trestle approach.

I A strange man called at the hospital in Peru, and asked to see Jack Cavanaugh. the yonng man who was recently assaulted by Miss Sadie Baughman, who ' threw nitric acid in his face. On being refused, the caller stated that if Cavanaugh appeared against the girl he would l kill him within a year. He said ’tis ■ claimed, that Cavanaugh ruined her and must suffer for it. ' Ax_Biazil, while Jasper young was the bullet entered Mf-.’ n ?^„£ evc ^? r eve, tearing it almost from its socket. The bullet penetrated to the region of the brain. Physicians were immediate1 ly summoned and announced the injury fatal. The couple had been married I only a short time. ! Daniel Baines, engineer of the spoke ■ and rim factory of Greensburg, received : an injury from which he died shortly i afterwards. He was blowing off the j mud valve when a piece of pipe flew up I and struck him on the forehead. He started to walk home, and on his way fell on the pavement and soon after died from a blood clot on the brain. He leaves ! a wife, a bride of six months, and three j children by a former marriage. Mrs. A. F. Ramsey, Charley Ramsey, and Homer Siegler narrowly escaped : death by being asphyxiated at Craw- ’ fordsville. Vapor escaped from a natural ’ gas stove. They're still in a critical ' condition. I John Wise, an old resident of Wabash ' County, who, years ago, gained couIsiderable notoriety as a criminal, died from the effects of being kicked in the abdomen by a horse. The horse had fallen in his stall and was lying on his back, when Wise, in assisting him to get : ud, was struck in the bowels by one of the animal's hoofs. Inflammation set in ' and death resulted.