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v-.r-j PASSISft SMILES., Omaha has contributed 13,500 to the Iriah Belief Fund. The Talmage Tabernacle, Brooklyn, is reported to be mortgaged for 143,000. Tub net earning of the Illinois Cen tral Railway in 1879 were K207.763. Thb Cincinnati , Commercial Grant to run for Vice-President. wants The London Timet maintains that the government postal-telegraph system is an-immense failure. .... March 17 is the day fixed for the 'Southern Railroad banquet at Cincin nati. ' ' ' ' - - It Is said that Grant gave the servant at the house in which he stopped while in Havana $500 in money. Rowland E. Trowbridge, of Michi gan, has been ' nominated for Commis sioner of Indian A flairs." Professor Hrxt.EY has pronounced the'sknll of the Central African Soko human. . Tni: legislator of IOiiimana is organiz ing a board of agriculture and immigra tion. A law has just been enacted in Rhode Inland that will prevent pigeon shooting for sport or a test of marksmanship. " - t -1 1 1 , - i .'.'j . The receipt of the State of Wiscon sia last year were $1,812,085, 'and the expenditures $1,G27,146. . That is a pay-as-you-go Ktat. Aw Englishman writes to the London Timet tbst there was not a toUrabstainer among the Episcopal Bishops who at ended the Psin-American Congress. The Emperor of Russia must change his dinner hour. Irregular habits in the present Instance would be conducive to health. ' Conurkb seems to have abandoned all thought of improving the laws for the counting of the vote for President and Vice-President. ' They are getting up a Tay Bridge relief fund in Britain and the latest Scottish journals announca that it has reached the sum of $25,300. It is ordered n.the Postmaster Gen-, era! that all persons recalling mail mat ter under fictitious names shall be iden tified at the postoffite before the mail is delivered to them. - ' . Thb New York Produce Exchange is trying to effect a reduction in freight rates, so as to reduce prices of grain, with a view of creating a better export demand. AsorT one hnndred Mexican veterans met at Columbus. Ohio, recently and adopted a resolution, calling on Congress to pas the bill for the relief of soldiers of the Mexican war. , ; The South Carolina General Assem bly has passed a bill for the settlement of the debt of Columbia The debt is $1,000,000, and thirty-year bonds are to l issued, bearing two, three and four per cent. At a meeting at Syracuse of the State Committee of the National Greenback party, the Chairman, Thomas P. Saund ers, 'wss charged with selling out to the Democrats. Ho will be tried for the al ledgcd offense at Albany, March 23. If Frofcssor Proctor is correct injhis theory, tlK sun is engaged at intervals in Bombarding the planetary system and iff surrounding space with master sey-; era tboUMfind times hotter than the fiery furnace. A contemporary jocosely remarks that, judging from the list of killed and wounded soldiers in the Winter Palace at BVjPptorsburg, there was no notice able negligence in providing a sufficient military force in that quarter.. . Tfcri.Y by the time the Rev. Mr. Cow ley has been subjected to trial upon the twenty-three remaining indictments for eMofty to the- children confined in '.his Fold, tie will be thinner than the most emaciated of the little nuflcrcrs. " A CAHiroK was placed in front of the Governor's reidence in Cheyenne; W y- oming, on February 15tb. TheAmeri 'can flag was displayed thereon; also two placards, reading : "Ihe Governor must .be protected at all hazards." " Women TnUstbe respected rcgarllessof color." -.v. , , It appears from the statistics of last year that the exjort of agricultural im plements from this country has been overdone, bnt the domestic trade i lively nd the demand for - improved methods growing. The present and pros pective" call 'for American cereals is stimulating a great industry. ' Mr. W. W. Corcor ab's desire to add a national portrait gallery and school of ak(tothci"Orrn Jrt Gallery," in "r'ashington, is defeated by Admiral 8. P. Lee's persistent refusal to sell, even at an exorbitant price, the necessary ad jacent lots. . v ) .' ' r. i 4 '; m fhiA has been introduced in the iluwLflpui LczWature providing a fine t.Z0 Jor any person oetectca in accoy fng people out of the State, and. the VicVMrorg : Aro'rf proposes it be UM'nded m as to fine and imprison also, anybody who shall attempt to leave the tttaU or seek to induce others to do so. ' - "... m ; uuu juriua iu uuiq uas oeen a frsowjns; evil in all large counties, but that is to be avoided In the future. All struck juries are hereafter to be selected Jtgr the J udge of the court without con utatioR -with. anybody. The bill mak ing this provision passed the Senate and Is now law," ' " ' " In the Oliiu Legislature, a resolution paused the Lf oute calling on Congress to abolish the duty on white paper.; The Wheeling 'leader ays every' leglshv ture in the" country should do the sanfe thing. Cheap newspapers are almost as important to the public welfare as free education, r if t i. .ft Is hotf 'dWred to construct the Cin tinnati Southern from Chatt:inoM;a to A lie VOLUME VII. place called Boy c Station, a distance of five miles. . Something leas than a mil lion dollars is asked for the purpose. A contemporary suggest that $100,000 is sufficient to build a railroad that dis tance. - If is said that there is a growing feeling in China against an extension of foreign intercourse. The Viceroy Shen, who recently died at Nanking, left a memorial In which he strongly argued for Chinese exclusivcness, and this memorial is now being secretly circulated, and is produc ing a great effect. Thk reason why the rise in the price of paper is so oppressive is that all jour nals of repute hare spent the money saved by the cheapness of the paper either in improving the character of the journal or in decreasing the subscription pnce.vr Naturally they are unwilling, for the purpose of enriching paper makers, to step backward twenty years. Am Illinois school-mistress was unable to chasti e the biggest girl pupil, and called in a young School Trustee to as sist her. . The Trustee found that the of fender was his own sweetheart, but his sense of duty triumphed over his love, and he whipped the girl. Not only did this result in losing him a sweetheart, but her father sued him for damages, and got a verdict for $50. The Detroit Free Pntt wisely ob serves that it is not the newspapers which are alone interested in keeping the price of paper at a moderate figure. The price of cheaper school-books will be affected by the high cost of paper. So will all hand-bills, posters and other job work of the common sort, which naturally affects the interests and purses of the greatest number of people. It is a blow at the poorer classes of the people of - moderate means, and touches the pockets of the masses rather than the wealthy. -A company with an invested capital of $50,000 has been in operation in Maine in the manufacture of beet sugar. The quantity of beets used last year was 9,000 tons. The sum paid for the beets, freightage'and storage was $59,000. The amount realised from the sale of sugar, molasses, pulp and lime waste was $111, 000. ' The total expenses for buildings, machinery, etc., were $108,000, leaving less than $3,000 profit. So no dividends were declared. This, however, is the first year's operations, and better results are looked for in 1880. It is probably the beginning of a profitable industry in the Pine Tree State. The New England manufacturers and merchants who favor the re-enactment of a National bankrupt law have made good progress in creating a sentiment in favor of the movement, and at a meeting held in Boston, it was announced that the business community generally ap prove of it The State' laws differ, and all of them are cumbrous. The need of a National law, purged of the errors of the former one,, seems to be recognized. Leading merchants of New York have petitioned Congressfor the passage of a suitable law. . The movement in the East seems to be general in this matter. ; A LADY makes a suggestion entitled to consideration. She thinks the discus ston of polygamy in the National Con gress would be disgraceful to the coun try. Her remedy is to so direct the tide of immigration (lowing to our shores that in a little while a powerful anti polygamy party ' would be formed in Utah. She would have the expenses of intelligent emigrants paid to Utah; she would place the Mormons in the minor ity; she would establish able Gentile newspapers; and she would, send there eloquent lecturers, not forgetting to in clude among the latter several strong minded sisters. " Have the battle," she says, " fought out in Utahr and then bring Utah into the Union as a State quietly, as if polygamy had never been thought of." " Apropos to the completion of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, the Cin cinnati Gazette takes occasion to say: An intelligent woman, who has been much at the South and much at the North, remarked that she could not see now me two peoples couia come to a fair understanding until they got better acquainted. There is a good deal, in this. . The Southern Railroad will serve to extend the acquaintance. Our neigh bors at Atlanta may jump onto a train in the evening and be here the next morning; spend the day in Cincinnati and return home the next night. . We shall call the Georgia people our neigh bors, ana they may call us, neighbors. We do not mean by this that the; South' ern people will be expected to make short visits. . We want the vista to be many ana long. ' ine , latenstring is out."' w' ' . , , -; "Playing 'Roun'j 'Meng de Psalm." I Atlanta CoortUotkm.V ( ',', A well known Georgian. : whila trav eling in Liberty County recently, met a lama negro preacher in the road and stooped him for a little talk? r i "jiuuer, saia me teniiemsnj x see vou have your Bible in your hand. Do von nraeh to-da V f ' . - -' - ' '- ' . -i. - Yei " Well, what is your text T" . "Well, sab, I ain't tncknd lexe " What! no text? Don't yofi 'prepare " No, sah, not iMT SXlVTS yny, Jiutler, I have never kaown a preacher to deliver a sermon" without writlcg It or thinking it over. " - " Dat's wrong sah. Dat ain't 'cordin' ter de Scriptur. De Bible say,' 'Open yo' mouf en I win fill m.' Z t , " But then there are some mighty big mouths,", . -1 .$J:. -Jl " Yesser, dat's so -dat'3 so, sho. " " Well, you haven't prepared any ser mon, and you haven't taken any text. What do you intend to do to-day V"r " Well, sah, I jea specks terday fer ter play.'roun' 'mong de Psalms." SEWS OF THE WEEK. 40,000 a week is the demand in Ireland to keep itarration away. The Fennrylvanis Greenback Convention will be held at Harrisburj, March 23d. " As Iowa editor, F. H. Bowan, of Dubuque committed suicide by immersing his head in a backet of water. It is said that General Tom Ewing made $100,000 in s recent venture in a Colorado mine. Ret. Cowley, of the Shepperd's Fold has been convicted. He wept bitterly upon the announeement of the verdict. BATXSV114.B, Ark., hat been ' almost totally destroyed by arej SeTeral persons lost their lives by falling walls. ' J . . Tat Municipality ef Saples cave s splendid banquet to Professor Nordenssjold and the members of the Swedish Arctic expedition. 1 The business men of San Francisco are hold ing meetings with a view to providing some means of relief for the unemployed laboring men in that city. James TuoursoK, a Louisville business man, was attacked at mid-day on one of Louis ville's busiest streets and relieved of $2,000. The thieves disappeared in the crowd. G0VEB50B Blacebcbs, of Kentucky, has signed the death warrant of Robert Anderson who murdered his wife at Louisville in April of 1878. The execution takes place April 2. Fiftt miles more of extension will be added to the Texas Pacific Railroad by the 1st of April, the extension continuing from Weather ford westward. A Bcexos Atbes dispatch say -. i ( The alliance between Peru and Bolivia has ceased. An unsuccessful attempt has been made to de-" pose Piero'a as Dictator.", , , . The Merchants Exchange ef St. Louis have sent twelve carloads of flour and corn to New York, intended for reshipment to the distressed in Ireland. At Columbus, Ohio, Wm. Theison, who has been under arrest on several occasions of late, for cruelty to his divorced wife, finally mur dered heron the 19th inst. by shooting her in the mouth. A fabmeb near Amerieus, Ga., hearing a row in the house of a negro tenant, went to see what was the matter. As ho opened the door the negro struck him on the head with an ax, crushing his skull and killing him instantly. The negro fled. If (Si -4 ALU s CgiSE, the leetutes S and' siis sionary has been arrested at Creston, Iowa, for inhumanely treating her adopted daughter of nine years, and held to appear before the Grand Jury in the sum of $1,000. The news from the interior of Russia is to the effect that famine and diphtheria is rapidly di populating that region. In the Caucasus the people are selling their children and com mitting suicide. The working men of San Francisco have organized themselves into visiting committees and are going about among establishments in that city where Chinamen are employed in an effort to secure their discharge. In many cases they are successful. Advices from Rio de Janerio state that from eight to ten persons are dying daily from yel Isw fever. There is also much sickness on ship board, and vessels are constantly removed from the docks and dispersed throughout the harbor. ' Fii'teex thousand people witnessed the exe cution at Murfreesboro, Tenn., of John Hall and Burrell Smith last Friday. These men were convicted of the murder of Major Pugh, in May last. It is asserted that the weather in the ex treme West is so changeable and stormy that travel between Fargo and Bismarck oosts the Northern Pacific Railroad fully $100 a pas senger. Travel west of Fargo has been almost practically abandoned. Rev. Cowlet has been sentenoed to one yoar in the penitentiary and to pay a fine of $250 on one indictment. There are twenty-three indictments for him yet to answer to. Evi dently this grave and good man has s hard looking road to travel. " " -'-'-' - Fona prominent men ef the Miami Indian Nation have gone to Washington to prevail upon the authorities to make their tribe litisens of the United States. They ask that their land be set apart to them in severalty and that they be allowed to draw all the money due them from the Government. ! - Isvitatioxs to citizen soldiers of the United States are out for the centennial celebration to be held at Nashville, Tenn., on the 24th of April. Two thousand dollars in prises are to be given away to the best drilled companies at tending. It is probable that the equestrian statue of General J ackson will be nnveiled on the occasion. Hibak P. Allek, residing near Sandwich, 111., was riddled with bullets by two burglars who bad entered his house for plunder. He had heard. the noise and was sitting up in led when they put is an appearance. Four balls entered his body, any one of three of which would hare proved fatal. His wife escaped by taking refuge in a closet. A special telegram from Paris says the religious journals publish a brief analysis of a doctrinal act which Leo XIII is about to issue to put down the public agitation in favor of divorce. It affirms the divine origin of mar riage, its unity and its indissolubility, and ex presses its profound contempt of the civil cere mony as the work of the enemies of the Cbureh. These are symptoms of Molly Maguireism developing in the West. At Belleville, 111. Harry Lister, a coal mine superintendent, was attacked and left for dead by some unknown person. Robbery was not the object, as noth ing on his person was disturbed.. He and a number of others have recently beon receiving threatening letters having inclosed in them the skull and eross-bones, the insignia of the Melly Maguire organisation. Thb Senate passed a joint resolution, intro duced by General Logan, authorizing the Sec retary of the Navy to furnish a ship to trans port to Ireland any provisions orothor supplies that may be furnished in this eountry. If there is ao ship in.-the navy sapabls of carrying a cargo, the jfeoritary pf thaljavy is authorised to charter one, asd whatever money is neees aary is appropriated by the resolution. Quite a serious accident has occurred on the Bellalre and Southeastern Railroad nine miles southwest of Bellaire, Ohio. A passenger train consisting of two coaches jumped the track while orossing what is known as the " S " trestle and tell a distance of thirty-fire feet to the ground, sadly wrecking .the train and wounding from fifteen to twenty passengers. Ex-Congressman Danferd who was on board the train is said to have been fatally injured. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says there has been an abortive attempt made to kill the Imperial family by exploding a mine in the Winter Palace. Five soldiers were killed and thirty-five wounded. A later dispatch from St. Petersburg reports that the mine was laid under the guard-room of the Winter Palace, which is immediately under , the dining hall. Owing to an accidental delay, the 'Imperial family had sot entered the latter at the usua time. The explosion made a hole in the floor of the adjoining hall ten feet long and six wiJe. SOMERSET, OHIO, TnUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, .. Tax Postmaster-General, has issued orders prohibiting the delivery ol leUeri to the follow ing firms, represented as being engaged in con ducting fraudulent schemes: R. C. Winter smith, No. 8 Mozart Building, Louisville, "Ky. ; SupeivisoT of the Frankfort School Fund Lot tery ; W. Scott Glore, Louisville, Ky., the new agent for the Commonwealth Distribution Co. ; W. V. Wagner,' Marshall', Mich.', who adver tise to send patent reeeipes ; Barak) A Bro., New Orleans, representing the Havana Lottery Company ; and D. H. Herrick, 43 New street, New.Xerk, who solicits money to it vest in railroad and other stocks. .. . Theee months ago a man nam cd James E Dickinson, living near Peteisburg, IU., went to Chicago with load of cattle, which he sold, receiving the money late in the afternoon, and then disappeared. Some time ago his wife re ceived a letter mailed at St. Ann, De La Poca tiere, Quebec, marked ou the envelope : "Mailed by a charitable Canadian," stating that he had been captured by pirates and was bound to a mast. Intelligence has just been received by telegraph from the authorities at Cedar Keys, Florida, saying that a destitute man is there who says be was robbed on vessel and put ashore on the coast, giving his name as James E. Dickenson. This cafe is one of deep mys tery'." '" " ' " , , ' ' "' '.' Hekbt Obpex, . a Boston boarding-house keeper, learned that two of -his lodgers who had roomed together had been missing eight days. u He opened their room and found E. C. Marshall, one of the missing lodgers', .'dead upon the bed, with a revolver in his left hand and a bullet -hole on the right side of the head. .In the room S large lot of burglars' won were iouna ; suo seven, erucioies, ana a number of preoious stones taken from jewelry. I Th.ii. . mw w. ;t.j - - I quarrel over the spoils. The stones are 1 thouffht to be a nortion ef those stolen from H. Norman's residence on Beacon street en the night of the 11th. i . Is referring to the conduct of the Csar of Russia immediately following the terrible ex plosion at the Winter Palace, a correspondent says s Immediately after the explosion he as sembled the Imperial family, and personally assured ;them of - the. safety of the .Empress. Then, in s tone which exhibited more of pas sion than alarm, he exclaimed: "Great God! The fiends have followed me even herel , Sum mon 'the Guards I- Close all the ' exits I" Then, almost instantly subsiding into a eon-' ditioa' of the utmost apparent oalmnees, the family knelt and offered fervent thanksgivings fot their deliverance from the terrible danger. Some fainted, others wept, and 'altogether the scene was one of the 'most thrilling and dra matic ever enacted within the walls of a Royal -Neab Afton, Mo., two tramps entered the fans' house of a Mrs. ' Beverly, and observing that she was alone and unusually attractive, they said "you're our game" and caught her, but she bravely fought them off, and, as she dashed into an adjoining room, they each Shot at per. She bolted the door and barricaded it with a bed, and then jumped but the window and ran, leaving them battering sway with an ax at the door. When they effected an en trance she was two hundred yards sway mak t r -il 1 -mi . . ing for a neighbor's honse. They again shot at her, and were so enraged at her escape that they smashed everything smashable about the house into kindling wood and then departed. People' through the eountry should be pre pared to meet these kind of chaps. A HoaaiBLE wife-murder has jnst been com mitted St Des Moines, Iowa. Some time ago s coal miner, named Osborne, whipped his wife so brutally that she was confined to her bed for month. When she recovered she left him. Meeting her on the street the other day, in company with a little boy, an altercation oc curred between them which resulted in Osborne running to the .middle of the street and getting a stone . weighing ten or twelve pounds with which he began pounding her on the head. She fell to the pavement, when, easting the stone aside, he finished np his brutal work by kicking her a number ef times with his big coarse boots, fier skull was crushed by the stone. and she died almost instantly. He was shortly after arrested, while trying to make his escape, and lodged in jail. A cobeesfokdebt at Pittsburg relates that two attorneys in that city named Connelly and McTighS have produced a new invention for a patent on which they have already made applications-called the telephote-telioon or telop tioon. , The practical utility - of the invention will be apparent when it is stated that the in ventors believe they will be able to transmit instantaneously, from point to point, any writ ten or printed document, as for instance, one entire, side of a newspaper. The reproduction of the image is the resutt'of chemical changes, which are now utilized An the science of pho tography, and are perfectly familiar to all operators in that branch of science and art. It is also claimed that two persons conversing a great distance apart, will be able to distinctly see each, other.. 5' ' . -,' ; A rAETicrrLABLT horrible dooiestic tragedy is reported from Bainbridge, .Penn, Last Mlty Charles tane, with his wife and tbrM children moved b that , aeetioa from Maryland.-'- The wif e was thirty-four and the husband twenty five years . old. Theyv lived' anhapnily together. A few days ago, a neighbor, observ ing that every thing about their hotma lad . 'a death-hike Appearance, mado up his mmd to investigate.; Finding the door ' locked,' he forced it open. . Upon a. bed lay the forms of Lane, his wife and,,b:r infant child which she clasped in her arms, all cold in death. ., Near by was a rude eot noon which was the dead body of the little five-year-old girl and by the aide of jt s little boy two years older, who, on observing the intruder, said, " Hush Hush 1 They are sleeping." The mother pressed the faoe ef the infant against her own, both of .which were flattened by the contact- Decora position had set in on mother and child. Iioai was lying diagonally across the bed with his clothing on. ' The head of the- woman, had a bruised appearance, and the neck broken., The little boy, whose legs and arms are badly frozen from which be may die, says tha t hi pa wanted his ma to take st mo thing that she did not want to. An investigation shows them all to have been poisoned. It is probable that Lsne broke his- wife's neck in the struggle to make her take the poison, or perhaps did it to end her agony In death. 1 It is" evident that she died several days before be took hit own life. The neia-hboi testify that the last they saw of her was on Monday, while they saw him as late as on Thursday, .The onlgr ex planation offered for the boy's escape is said to be that he was a groat favorite of Lane's and that he had not (ha heart to ikill hini.,'j tV, It was thought that the recent extensive raids against the Georgia moonshiners had had the effect of rendering them submissive, but such belief has been put to flight.' Deputy Marshal Bolton made a trip into Milton' County for the purpose of arresting distillers. ' About 4 o'clock they were encountered by a dozen moon-1 shiners, one of them rushing upon the Deputy's assistant and firing in his faoe., The halt grazed the scalp and tho powder singed his bair and whiskers. Bolton now seized the man for whom he had a warrant, and a violent scuffle ensued, the moonshiner finally succumb ing to a blow from the butt end ol a pistol. The other moonshiners now" opened up fire, and the n M - 1 .. - .J I . 1. : f HICUHS Vmtcil IQIUIUUU 11. VU, UlUUUBUlllCr fell at the first fire, and the remainder retreated, carrying the wounded: man with them. : As soon as safe, the officers left the county", carry ing' out one prisoner. In Haralson County, also, Deputy Collector Post, attempted totseize a distillery. When within a few hundred feet cf the distillery, he hearAmen running to the still, and, with much caning, calling to those within to get up and get their guns. Post had but one assistant, and the firing of gans and the yell ing of .the moonshiners, now forced him to leave the eountry. He telegraphs the collector, etat ing that then are ten stills in the vicinity, and asks for a dozen well armed men to assist hire in taking them. In another county, Deputy Collector E. M. Brown also seized two stills, after encountering armed resistance. ' C05GRESSI0XAL PEOCEEDIJfGS. 'n .- .. Summarized from the proceedings of the post week. - i' ; ; i . .-: W , . - 8E5ATS.. , .. '.' .. '. Messrs. Windom. Blaine and Withers were ap pointed a C nferenoe Committee on the disagrer ment of the House to the Senate amendments to the Military Axademv -appropriation bi:l.. Considera tion of the 5 per cent, military land warrant bill wa r named. Jlr. AUison (Bep of la ) quo-ei au thorities contemporary with the passage of the en abling aetsof the Utates intesested, o prove that lan1 warren s at that time were regarded as cash certificated. Location to scrip was held to be a sale. This waebon by the act of Congress giving Mis sissippi s par eenr. on Indian retervatiom m that States Mr. . inlands (Rep. of Vt.) remarked that the debates en the act named showed t'. at that waa a successful begging operation, and not a legal ton strucioB of the enabling ret Mr. Allieoo said he was showing the general intention of the acts, if not their strict legal interpretation. : He held that S per cunt, waa guaranteed to Iowa as a school fund. Eighty-one million dolla-s bad been paid into - the United States Treasury for nub ie lands in the last thirty years by the people in the newer States. ' He belisvf d it no waste of this money to have a small , lt ,pol elt0 the paction i the people, as the enabling acta intended should be. Pendins debate the Senate wtnt into ex-entire sessUn, and moil KMiracd. ... . .. . . Many petitions were presented by 'railroad com- 1 The bill providing for celebrating the one nun- ? reaucuea or . j w siew ru. dredthanniversity of the reeogottion ef American Indept ndenre by a national exhibition at New York la 'J 438 was placed ou the , calendar. Mr. Saulsbury preserttei a majority report of the Com mittee on PrivUegeat and Elections in the Ingalls case. The report finds that bribery and corruption were employed to stcnie Ingalla' election, but that then is no evidence that Ingilla authriilzed such improper acle, or that tbey in fact secured his elec tion. A minority report was presented signed by Mr, Cameron, Mr. Hoar and Mr. Logan expressing the opinion that when the word corruption was em ployed the report should Injustice ;stts what was riroved. Reports ordered printed. Mr. Randolph ntredooed the following amendment to the b. U for the relief of Fits John Porter: Strike out all after the enacting clause aufr Insert: " That the Presi dent is hereby aalhoris'd to nominate, and by and with the advice of the Senate to appoint Fits John Porter as Colonel of Infantry in the Army of the United States, his commission tobeardateJmuary, 1863, with pay and emoluments of rank from that date until he shall be retired aeoordir g to law, or as hereinafter' provided for. bee. 2, That at any time after the granting of such" Coumston It shall be lawful for the President, to. place aaiJ Porter on the retired list of ihe amy, on the pay of a retired Colonel ef Infantry.-" Ordered printed and laid on the table, subject to Mr. Randolph's call. - The joint resolution authorizing the. Secretary cf tho Kavv to employ a r.aval vess. 1 for the purpose of transporting contributions to the famishing poor of Ireland was paesed. Consideration ot the bill authorizing 'the ascertainment of the amount of nubile lands located on military warrants and ihe payment of 6 percent, ot the value thereof to the several 8 rates waa resumed. Mr. Kirkwood, (R-p. of la. I In speaking in favor of the bill, audthat Iowa was nut assinz the 5 per cent, as alms because la good faith ens was entitled to every nt of -the money claimed. .Repudiation ny ine tiovernmem ot this debt was as bad as any other repudiation. Mr. Paddock (Rep. of Neb.) and Mr. Jonea (Dem. of Fla.) spoke in favor of the bill, and Messrs. Fryer and Kernan oppose4 it. Without acti jn the Senate wont into executive scssioa. By a vote of 25 to 13 the motion of Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, to reconsider tbe vote adopting, the resolution for the appointment of a Spicisl Commit-. tee on xnt ar-uceanic janai was taaen up, and Air. lavis explained his reasons for making the mot on, which passed yeas, 29; nays, 23.' Af'er some dis cussion whether the subject should go to the Co Ea rn! rte on Foreign Affairs or a special commit'ee, Mr. McDonald called- f jr- too regular orter, the Five per cent. Trill. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, sub mitted -a resolution directing any heads of the Exe cutive Departments,-who have taot yet done so, to -comply with the statute-requiring, of such ofhc rs to annually report to Congress thenumberof employes m toeir aepanmeni, ana woetner any oi inem can be dispensed wun, or wnerner any cnangos profitably be made. Adopted. . .... ' - . . ' MOW). The 'following bills were Introduced and re ferred: To repeal the duty on medicines; reducing the duty on ires and steel; to return to the pro ducers of cotton the tax-collected by the Govrrc-, ment which has been declared by the United States Supreme Court to have been illegally collected aomittine free of duty machinery for manufactur ing cotton fabrics; requesting the President to open negotiations wire -ecnane- loreian Kovotnmenia relative to- the importation of tobacco intu their dominions; amending the statutes prohibiting tho employment ol convicts in toe manufacture ot suca articles as may De oroognr luto competition witn aaaueo, laoox. r. i The House resumed consideration of the b',11 regu lating the removal of causes from State to Federal lAurts. ana debate ensued. Ine morning bour bar. ing expired, the bill went over without action. The H"ase then went into Commute of the whole,- uamaee in ine enajx, on reviaion ue rates. The Committee on Coinaee reported adversely on tbe petition ef the New K ork Bullion Club praying or specie currency. Air. ex tfetn. oi n. x.t Chairman oi the Committee en Foreign. Affairs, submitted an unanimous report of the committee in regard to the charges made against Mr. Acklen, which. ea demand ot Mr. Acftlen. was read. In substance It found that, Mr. Acklen, not being a member of tbcCouimittee on ForeWin A flairs, ou the 13th vf January, presented a paper purporting to he-a report ot that committee relating to the claims at certain citizens against the government of Vlcarauia,-wnicn paper was printed t nts reonest. n. resolution reooauaiHiBig to in votamtitee on Forel n Allaire tad report in regard to J. a., ack len, witu Instructions to report what action, It any. The bill to facilitate tbe refunding of the National debt waa reported back by the Committee on Wajs ana meana. Mr. Bland, from the Com ml tee on .rlnmrn. Wehthta and Measures, resorted the bill to eataMtah a mint at St. Louts. - Ordered printed and. recom mitted. The bill regulating the removal o' cau es from State to Federal Courts was taken up.. Ihe House went intt Committee on Revision of the Rul-s. While the third clause of the Twenty-first Kute waa uuaer couswerauan, sir. atepnens desired to address the committee tan minutes, but obiection was mau9 on -tue isemeetacte Blue. air., opeer moved that tbe ojmraUtee rise. Agreed to. The yeas and nays were then called en the motion to go into Committee, ot the Whole on the state of the Ueion for tbe p tunity to speak. Union for the purpoie of giving Stephens an oppar j. ne motion prevailed 117 yeas to 114 nays and Mr.- Springer took me cnair. Messrs. Blackburn and Conger at the same time claimed the floor. The latter waa rioogn aed, and eulogised .Stephen as the only living UfpreBenta- iive. oi tne oia-eime jactesonian uemocraey. Mr. Stephens then took the floor and opposed ule 21 as uuuei emocratic. r ,V 'i Chanees'in the City. ; .' '; . . r-. jtScribner's Magfusine. t i To sum np what the city man really' feels iti regard to .the- comiog of his country acquaintance to the ' city 'it would be notjfar from thiV, viz ; ; . j ' First The chances for wealth are as great, practically, in the country as in, the city, and the expenses of living and tbe tiks Of disaster much less. . . : . Becond The competitions of city life and the struggles to get , hold of busi ness and salaried woric are fearful. 1 No man, should come to the. city unless ho knows what ho Is froirrg to 1 do, or - baa money enough in his hands to- take care of himself until he frets a living position or becomes satisfied that he can not get one. Even to-day, with the evidence of fene wed prosperity all around u?, there are probably ten applications on file for every desirable place, and no man living here could help a friend to a place un less he could create one. .-;.. , -.- ;.. Third That .the. social privilege of, the city' may be greater,: while the op-i porturuty for social distinction and. the probabilities of social, consideration are much less than they are in tho conntryj ! Fbfirth That in many respects there, is nothing in the city that can com pern sate for the pure pleasures of country scenery and country life and noighbori hood associations.. ,r;,;, . ,!.,; . , j Fifth Tnst a city man's dream of the) future, particularly if he ever lived in the country, is always of the country and tho soil.1 -He 'longs tot leave ''the) noise and' fight alt behind him and g) back to bid country home to enjoy the money he may have won. 1880. OHIO STATE NEWS. A. Compendium of the Week's Events. Akron is in a fair way to have a Musis Hall which will c:st them S23.O0O. Mt. Vernon sends five hundred dollars to suf fering Ireland. - . A. W. Miller, editor of the Kenton Repuili- can, died on tbe 18th. P. Powell committed suicide by jumping from a train near Bryan. ' Jacob Six was fatally injured by falling slats in a coal mine at Nelsanvilla. ' ; . . ... - Eli Piper fell, from a passenger train new Cardicgton and lias fatally Injured. , . , , . ., , Tho Millers' International Exhibition io be held at Cincinnati will be of four weeks' duration. John Edwards fatally stabbed Ben. Morgan in a druuken row at Warren. All the Ybungstown ooal operators advanced wages 16 per cent, on the 16th. All the iron establishments in Toungstown are running ou full time. At Pomeroy Tom Brown was fatally shot by Bill Hutehlns. , .. ... The jury in the third trial of. ex-Auditor Smith of aug'aize County returned a verdict on the leih of not guilty. - - . . -- H A coal miner named . Adam Rupert, at YousgBtown, wasdashed to death by falling a dis tance of 12ft;et down a shaft. . . .. The jury in the Taylor-McAlexander suit at Bellefontaiue for $19,000 for debanchinj Hatlie Taylor returned a verJict of 13,000 for the plaintiff. Parnell visited Cincinnati lost week and on 'Change three thousand dollars were subscribed for the relief of suffering in Ireland. The track-layers of the Ohio and West Vir gins Railroad at Logan struck the Other day and re fuse 1 to go out because lt waa " too co'd." , . Bachael C. Connel,' ef Cleveland, who fell from a porch at the Akron .Hot 1, sued the proprie tor R. X. Downey, and got a verd ct for SS.uOO. Rev. W. H. J. HcDade, s Cleveland minis ter, has been arrested on a charge preferred by Lucy J. Chamberlain, one of bis fleck. - . Berthold Landan, of Cleveland, Secretary oi the Klscher Bher Barael, has suddenly disappeared with ft 0"0 cf the society's money. The society is a national one. - -- , . ' J '' J Captain Ashley Brown; the missing' Daytdn defaulter, has bees hear! from.' - He returned - tl,. 700 to United States Collector Williams by mail, and morels promised. Brown is probably in Canada. The horribly mutilated Temains of J. M. E iders were picked up by the side of the railroad at Salincville where thjy had been deposited after dragg'ng a half mile or more under the train. - The jary in the Weller-Thompson case, at Majsville, returned a verdict for Weller in the sum of S3.G00. The plaintiff -charred Thompson with estranging his wife's affections. ' : .v. , : - Aandal Vance, of Barnesville, an old and prominent citizen, after living thirty-seven, years with his epuse, seeks a divorce on the grounds oi falee accusation.-; u. " John Dall, a young married man of Dresden fatally shot himself in the eye while trying to ex tricate a revolver that had become entangled in the lining of his coat. - t Suspicion is being aroused that David Hawes, of Urbana, who died recently, was poisoned., jus bowels and stomach have been sent to Columbus to be analyzed. ' The stoVe of Hurd Brothers, at Aurora, (near Cleveland) was entered by burglars a few nights a' nee, the safe blown open and Sl,200 la money and $5,000 in bonds stolen. ... , -f , ,. -, James- Doyle, a man sixty years old, was sentenced the other day at Mt. Gilead by Judge Kinny to five years in the penitentiary for bur glary. . :.' ': '; :;;.- ! :. r.u, 'A r The proposition-is being discussed to run a railroad from Dayton to College Corner, on the In diana line, and tbence to Greensburg. The object is to get a through connection front that point ts Louisville, Evansville and the Indiana coal fields. Collins P. Elsbee, residing near Delaware, an old and wealthy farmer,' waa gored to death by a ferocions bull S few days are. The attack Was made while he was feeding the animal. One of the homes pieroed his heart., Hia neck waa broken also.. -. i-1. f - r ..f. . During the severe wind Storm whioh passed over Cincinnati on Thursday or last week-, tne nat- deneeofB.H. Barer was blown resulting in the death of an Infant child which his wife was at ths time holding in her arms. It was struck by s flying mlBsiie. '"' ' ' ' The examination of ths books of Beitkl'd ' randan, the missing Treasurer ef the Kesoher 8htJ Burael of Cleveland has been concluded and shows a deficit of nearly $20,000. Numerous claims against him have turned up, and tbe onditton. of U finances suggests that he fled to escape ths disgrace of making an assignment. , . , . George N. Fisher has been acting in thi capacity of treasurer at the Vine-Street Opera-house, Cincinnati. ' Fisher, la eompany with a girlwha had been acting aa ticket-seller, suddenly disap. peared, and with them $$,600 In money. They wars arrested in New Orleans. The gtrl was permitted to return home, and Fisher was held to answer to the charge of grand larceny. (;0j; .,u The trial of James Wilson, at Upper Ban. dusky, for the murder of Washington Hite the 81st of last August, came to a c'ose last week, resulting in a verdict of murder in the Brat degree ana i tetoe of the prisoner to be banged on the 18th ef June next. This murder was a peculiarly atrocious one. Wilson followed Hite, who- waa on hia way Dome from town, Tintil he reached a lonely spot, when, by his own onfeEiion, be shot him through the heart Wilson is dui twenty-seven years ora, rather aood looking, but very wicked and profane. Ministers who call upon him are rebuffed' with rursea. He has taken an oath that he will never hno. declaring that he will starve himself to dealB in preference. While santeneed was being pro nounced on him, he amused himself by chewing tobacco and spitting at a mark. OHIO GESERAL ASSEMBLY. Summarized from the proceedings of the past week. local oDllon and other petitions nrestn'.ed. . resolution was adopteil instructing the Committee on Printing -to Inquire Into delays alleged to be made in ths printing of Senate documents. The following bills were intro luced : Dividing Washing ton X ovuship, Starke County, into two election pro ducts; authorizing tbe Commissioners of Belinoat County to distribute among the several townabAp tbeieof certain stocks of the Central Ohio Bsilroad how held bv said roimty. The Senate Mil by Mr. Kelly to empower township trustees to locte voting precincts In any place in the township was reported back sad passed. Mz. Horner offered the followinz 1 ilnt resolution '"WHKRnaa.-A combination has beeu'entered Into and t xlsts anions the naner manufacturers of this country, whereby the price of printing paper Has recently been advauiea some o per eenv without anv iust reason therefor: therefore. " Be It resolved by the Oeneral Asaemhly of the 8ate cf Ohio, That our Senators in Congress be in structed, and our Representaiives reiuested, to vote tn lavor el tne pas-age oi tne mil now penning in Connnss. to r.-moe the duty on paper imported into this country to lie usetl tn printing hooks periodicals and newspapers." Laid on the table and ordered printed. The Senate bill br Mr. Beer au I horising the Village Council of Ashland to Issue bord, was passed. The Senate bill by Mr. Curran authorizing the Commissioners ot Guernsey County to levy an additional lux ol 3,uiu to comp ete court-house waa p taaed. .1 . Mr. Aloore lnlr.iducel a bill reiieallne the la' creatine loan and bulldtna associations Mr. Wll kins offered a resolution rtquiring the A.ttoraey Ueneral to ptoswute Clerk nrlght, of I.ucts County, forHhe sum of 813,717.01, alleged to have l-u obtalunt Ironi tne state Treasury by traudu le it cist bills. Tt whs referrel to the Committee SU Judiciary. Another raaolutlan relative to the dilatoi-iiisi of tlus elate printer in the publication of ItKenre dooumet,t waa offered oalltns on the Bt:iudtug Committee on Judiciary to Investigate ad repert. ' The following bills were passed Agnate hilt to uthorlas tba Commiakloilaea e Brown Ciuntv to cvnatruct certala free turnpike roida; Hoiiutft hill to amend anaot to enable the Cowutitisiotiers of Moatgotuory aud Warreu coiini1e.4 to purchase toll sotds and to convert the sainaiatoireeroaast ',; , t - i v Thefollowiun bill were ptsseJ: Senate hill to add an additional member to the slicouoty ofBdals whofounlilutea h ard tn pasaupuu oourt-boiise i. nrovt'titents: Senate Wl for the relief ef lCroklel Arnold. A bill was Introduced .so- prevent tits use l gill nets on the reels of lke Krl aid to pi event ail net nalilitg arter tne xetn or may cn.e em ne 1 of Maw ta create an atlditional ludicesin 'the Uar'isun-Jef1 uereon Ulstrtct. was paed. nn Mil antnoriaing Ilia (laamltatonara ei Belnaeut Gnnntv tn distribute hotween the aeveral townships thereof certain stocks in the Ohio central Railroad Company now neia oy said county was passed. C k 1! I:' A a,. NUMBER 47. The bill of Mr. Entrekm to authorlxe the Cam mis oners of Ross County to construct a certain free turnpike was pSssed. Mr. E wleston's bill to provide forthe licensing of exhibitions, shown, etc., was, af er some dtscusaion and amendment, passed In the- lollowing fo-m: - fee 1. Be it enacted by theGenerHl Assemb'vof the State of Ohio, that sec'ioa 26G9, chapter 15, division 8, title 12 of an act entitled i An t to revise a"d consolidate the general statuteaof Ohio, parsed. June 20, 1879, he so amended as to read m follow i See. 29.- -The Council of any city or village may provide by ordi nance for licensing all exhibitors of shows, or per formances of any kind not prohibited by law, hawkers, peddlers, auctioneers of horses and other animal oa the highways or public grounds of the corporation, venders of gunpowder and other ex plosives, taverns ana nous-s oi pumic entertain ment, and hucksters in the public streets er mar kets. ai.d. in irrantinsr such a license, may exact and receive sucb sum of mosey ss it may think ex pedient; provided, that la cities and villages tne Council shall confer upon, vest in, and delegate to tbe Mayor of such eitles the authority to grant and issue licenses; provided, further, that nothing herein contained saall be construed to limit the power confined upon cities and villagi s in sec'ion 1692 ot said revised statutes. See. i. Paid original section 2669 is hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect and tie in force f com and alter iu pa. sagV ;- - ' ' ' '"'"' ' 'HOIISK. " ""' .' ' " . A large ncmber of petitions for local option were presented. Mr. Marsh, on leave, offered a resolu tion calling noon the Committee on Tempsrance for the aggregate number of petitions for locil option. Tabled under notice of intention to discuts. Mr. Groom, on leave, offered a re-olution er nting the use of the hall of the House oa Tuesday evening next to a Mr. Treveliick, of Michigan.- to lec ura on the rights of workingmen. Tabled, under notica of intention to disoosa. A lot Ot Senate messages hav iug been worked off, and s . me other routine bus' ness having been d'sposed of, a motion, prevailed to take up the House bill by Mr. Sawyer making an approp.istion to c instruct a culvert under the canal at New Biameo Anglaiss County-end a lon dis cussion ensued, after which the bill was referred to committee ol one Mr. sawyer. A lot of local option petitions were referred to the Committee on Trmreranc Dr. Srott's Hoese bill aking $1,591,491.65 appropriation for the supp'rv of the common schools was easseuV The foil wtng Houe b.lls were introduced : Repeal . ng the act re quiring the affixing of setls to deeds; res'orinito citi unship persms convicted of crime, making em otions of those who are in for -public embezzle ment ; amending the fish law so as to allow fislitn in rivers with dip nets; requ'ring purchasers of promissory notes to notify makers thereof at least one day before making the purchase; disqualifying persons xrom sitting on luriss wno Teceive preaems, oans from, or are treated Dy attorneys in ine case, whose board is paid by them. It also dirouah- fies persons trout sitting en i -rles who make re quests of e-ffictals to be placed tuereon. The b 11 ap plies to Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo andDaytoak,.,;, Vi tf.'-Le'ivi ! !; n:.; i.-.O Tbe following House bills were introlucol: To authorla-i tbe Commiraioners of Franklin County to levy a tax for building new bridge a toss the tjcioto Elver on the National Roai ; to give justices criminal jurisdiction throughout eounties contain ing cities of the first and second class; to amend tne code so as to provide that administrators tnty settle estates without an order from the Probate Coull ; to separate several funds of tbe c ty of Cincinnati ; tix iog the rates of interest on Cincinnati bonds rtt S par cent. ; to reconstruct and regulate the reboot system of Ohio by equalizing the cost of teachers, buildings and text-books, and providing for an examination snd inspection each term. The following hills were passed: To trantfer funds of Mararetta Township, Lrie County; to tran fer funds for poor purpose of Middlebury Township, Cuyahogt County. The House joint res dution to print 1,800 copies of the State School Commissioner's report was adopted. The House bill, ef Dr. Brown, of Butler, teat ow Sheriffs mileage for each wi ness named In a return was read the third time and lost.- Mr. Frame's Houte bill aivina Probate Judges criminal i urisdic- tton in certain caes equal to that of Common P e-s Judges, was pa sea. . ., The House devoted a day to the temperance cause. P. titiosin favor ot a local eptlou liquor law were receive i, bearing .sittnerures as followe'i From Hnron County, 167; Bellefohtalne, Logan County, 714; Tuscarawai. H3; Ashtabula, 360; Lake, 60: Montgomery,- 286; Pike. 186; Delaware, 817; Medina, 19; Muskingum, 141; total, 2 401. Mr. Thorp, of Ashtabula, presented the champion petition of the session. It is over 100 feet long, oon taios the names of 2.000 voters, and of 4,142 citi zens of the county.' It is headed by the name of cne of the best cltlzjns of the county, who three years ago, was considered a nopekas drunkard, nut who has reform d and is now un esteemed temper ance man; and theteare the names ef 100 other citi zens who have been intemperati, but are now in a fair way to remain respectable people. This peti tion also asks that women be so far enfranchired as to have n equal voice ?ith men in enforcing the proposed law. -j m... . i -- in Pearl Divers -and Sharks, t, : ' The pearl divers of the Coromandel Uoast are not unirequently attaccea ey ground-sharks- As a lule a shark , will leave a man with dark skin alone ; but when hungry, it rarely makes .a differ ence between a European and a Hindoo. Knowing this, the divers of whom . 1 speak frequently arm themselves with a stont bamboo, in the shape of a cross, with the extremities made snarp. With this four-pointed dagger they . will dare any shark .to seize them; for, as the monster turns on his bacK and opens nis mouth for the bite, they dexterously thrust the bamboo cross between its laws, Great- care is take for. the strength of tbe bamboo; the consequer ceis that Use shark, on closiner its mouth to obtain the first taste of its anticipated meal, drives the spikes well home between its jaws, Fishermen say that once a shark na$. a sturdy, well-pointed and placed bamboo cross nxed in its oTstenaea mouth, no efforts of the creature can aid it of the wood. Its efforts are described as being often furious aDd comic. The diver, is soon as he has impaled hia enemy, has to get out of tne way as fast as possible, for a blow from the tail of an infuriated shark is no ioke. .As for the comic side of the picture, it must be a ludicrous sieht for little fishes to witness, -to see their dreaded, but now imnotent, arch- foe, wildly tearine about, hither and thither, in the deep, with a cross bar be tween his distended jaws! Tho ow TTind f Schnol- The dioipline of the Quincy schools ot Boston astomsbes tne oiu-iasnioneo teachers.' While it was beme explained by one of the committee, the other day, an oia teacner oDiectea, - out mu ts v. a . 1 1 . x a. a. ? very noisy." " Precisely, madam ; this is a workshop, not a funeral, i ou can t have a .beehive . without a . buzz." "And," continued the critic, "that little bov in the plaid docket whispered to the viitttei .girl, ia- .white.", 'i Quite likely, madam; we can readily find an excuse, for bright-eyedv curly-headed, rosy-ctieefced Jitticboys win wnisper to little eirlsin white." We onse had a tendency In that direction' ourselves. and we do not see any occasion for pound ing him or shaking him, or standing him in the corner,' or putting him in a dark closet, or even appearinsr to notice it all." Teachers make a greal advance in school government when they learn how not to see.,., -V( -; ,m , Bi . She Hade It Warm for the Doctor. ' A good joke was unconsciously sot off recently on a local puysician. in- .ar ranging a patient's broken leg he con nected with it a tackle having a flat-iron as a compensating welcrht, and told the man's wife to let it stay 'there until his return. She-wanted to use the iron next day badly, and ehe used it. While at work she saw the doctor coming, and in her fright replaced the iron glowing hot , on .the' tackle. ' "He'-." came" in, examined the leg and took np the' hot Iron. ' It dropped like lead, and tho man of physic went on an impromptu, can can, equaled only by the vigorous ue he made of his tongue. There was miisic there for half an hour, and he thinks yet thatthat woman put up a job on him.' t-rf.;-r-s i ; .... Vt,.i i : l'i-!io' ml i i i. i.! i i et t Th i better , . man , becomes, , tv.o stronger does tlie hope of " the glory of going on " take hold pf hh nature,, pie instinctive' expectation."' t'tf H:'' beyond the grave strengthens with the increase of virtue in the soul. The man . who lives best most keenly feels that lite is worth living, most resolutely .turul away from the thought of it. extinc tion." 1 - "' i r " Before the war ''courting. T M Dovnsr in the month back teeth.'1 A misfittestg coat is a lie out"of the WWkW.feU.th.Stfii'I ,c!,ii7-w.:i.- - A petrified body indicates that the man is stone dead, j trg,f ? " I think I'll take'something'," as the thief said "when he mixed n the crowd. Thb best place to have a boil in the teakettle. It is easily drawn. ; ,' 1 ? 'A Miss-tjsderstandins tt- when j a young la,dy compreherids, of course. '''iTtrsiBLEto the 'wreck1 it,' as the high wind said to the prairie hut. v,,-; j Where there's a will there's a. way; and where there's a won''t;-ttere'B 8 woman behind it.; . .. -r t r-. , Problem in logic : If God made the country tind man made the town, who ' made New Jersey,?,.., ' ' Death may love a shining mark, but the bald-headed: live about as .long as anybody. . ... . ' BrevitX is the $oul of wit, but it has to be stretched out a good deal "some times to get enough for the-uppers. " Death loves a shining mark," which is perhaps the reason why a dead mack-' eral shines on a moonlight night. ,., A MAN once asked of Echo,' "what shalL I do if my wife drinks liquor?!? and the unfeeling nymph answered r "lickher." - ; ' w ' ' Aw infamous old bachelor being asked if he ever witnessed a public execution' replied, "No,. but1 1 once saw a mar riage.''. ,.fT.,. .-" i-:.-; t " Tennyson" spends.houra on a single line." -And so. - by the way, does the washerwoman. . . And the line of the lat ter is the longest. " "4 If a big head denotes ability,' it is an interesting sight to observe what a show ing' of ability this town puts forth every Monday morning, , . , .. ' '7 ""The 'plethoric jiaste pot of an editor who clips more than he writes, is like his paper--seldom filled with live-' Buatf ter. ITackensack Republican, Experience teachelh. . . , t ., ,- ..- .... """ A witness in court was asked if a party to the suit was V it truthful man. "No;'' he answered, " he'd rather lie. at sixty days than tell .the truth ; for cash.", . . v . - -; t b!Iai ;'i.i-&.'.,: . Science has demonstrated, time and time again that man cannot live by bread alone and that's the reason why so many fellows go on and spend tneif money lor beer.- '-- -'- -.' :-' ''-; -' - ' WiLUAM WATinirs, 'of Madison, rev mained 'a bachelor: until he-waai fifty- seven years ..old,, when ; he married the oier day, The vlocal papers . whooped out the headline",'" Another old land mark gone. ' '" . ' " ' Great men do not consider them selves above everybody else? 'tis those iernorant little runts wno wear etanaup collars and sport canes, and who refuse to nay ineir wasJiing 0111s, mat mm everyone beneath" them, ,..' 4 No othei? incident can call to a man's faM anch an idiotiC; expression of as sumed unconsciousnesses the accidental fall of a bottle Of whiskey from fiis pocket to the sidewalk on a Sunday af ternoon. .IristBl.l Who wouldn't be a sailor? ( All yoB' have to do is yell "aye, aye, sir," at the top of your voice about once in ten min utes. The rest of the time you can look, over- tne snip s sicrn: ana .wawu jw sharks. ', ' ' -.' ' " He saw a carpet hanging out 1 Upon the clothes-line in the rear.-;, iisfisr Of that fine mansion, and be thought,: . ' The folks are out, the cow is clear, ? I'll bag that Brussels if I can." ., . - - t He did, and making no delay, .-- Adown the alley, in the dusk, The carpet-bagger tramped away. Leap-year. She "Are you enMged for the next German?' 5 He( with eager ness)", I'm not." She (with P"7 "Oh. that's too bad! Good evening., gee youlater.' ,.,fI , .. ,, ... t., firi,i. ., "r The bar-keeper, had made ready ior him, and when the man came in who never paid lor his annus' ana canea 101 cacktail, the b.! k. gently placed- 8 rooster's feather in 8 glass of. water and smiled a piratical smile that ,made hia face look like a dried prune., -MiT Man wants but little ear, below, nor wants that, little long. Man. wants put little ear bolosrna, wants that little long. Man wants but little . leer;- wanton but litter hera below; wants but little Leah below; wants, but Little here ';bel6w wants but lit tie ear b'low, etc. ,. "John,' what odor is that?" "Cloves'. love." Biitthat other?"" ""-Allspice; my beloved." "But isn't there another ? "Yes, appl?s, belovedest." ,-Jus one more?" "Raisins, my most belovedest." "Well, John, if you'd only drink just 8 little brandy, now, I think you would make a good mince, pie, , " This being leap-year, a boarder at -an uo-town amateur hotel thought' it fine fun to put a bent, pin on each vacant chair, until one agile feeder leaped up four leet into the air ana came aowu with his great unwashed hand in the only bowl of hash in the house.' 'There - . . , - L ii .1 J ii. was a iamine until Bupper nuio.- - Thb dull-eyed donkey droops hia head, S , . Wrapped in hiniself(i ,, . ; -with patent perspicuitr, ' -: - And meekly lollows where he's led . . , -Thecunnfngelf: '- 11 ' ' But, when his heels begin to shed. J i His latent assiduity .. ....... -. Aaserts itself, '.- t,(,4.;: . JfiubautH X&ubHeam. Vis there any mail for me?" she saitj to ahandsome Ike. "" ' ' '" ' ' '" v" " Certainly," said he. , ;! ' : "Where?" said she. a v -'-f -T " Here." said he, with open arms. ?, N . That's my funeral," sang the maid. Friends are invited to attend without further notice. So much for what the maid made by getting the male mail. "To be plane with you," said the car penter, "I see no shaving in the scheme." "You don't?" ejaculated the cooper, " why, it adze largely to my income." "Is that awl?" added the shoemaker. " No," answered a printer, "if he'll stick to it, he'll form an ide of what i in to rule." "Pshaw," exclaimed the bank cashier, "these are only figures of speech ; we must protest aeainst the thing." " No,;' said the untutored blacksmith, " I've blowed for him,-an' he must anvil accept the job." "That settles it,", said ihe coffee merchant, and the meeting adjourned, o -, : - ;; ; The Fisk ' Estate. ? IKew Turk star.l ; &TZ The ghost of James Fisk, Jr., will not be laid. The perturbed spirit will still haunt accustomed places in unpleasant memories. The latest appearance is not a reasnuing one for hia representatives. It came out in the Surrogate Court on Saturday that the estate, vf tlm "mur dered millionaire" is too small to satisfy claims against it. This, at any rate, is the report of Mr. Willard Bartlett, the auditor in the matter. ' Mrs. Lucy D. Fisk appenrs t be the sufferer, because of a woman's carelessness respecting preservation of vouchers for payments; and among the curious features .of the report-T-eurious as coming from, law yer is the rather startling one, too, that Mr. Bartlett holds that the law does notnulhoriza the executrix to charge the estate with payment to counsel for services in the criminal prosecutioa of Edward Stokes. ; These payments amounted to $7,500,; 2 -. ,t. ,:::.-!. ,. "a Whole Menasrerle in Herself. A correspondent at Strikerville, N." Yi, writes as follows to the Cincinnati Timet: I am aelnninted with ladT J1"8 old, hale and heartyj t who was sever forty miles from loine.-v The stage goes by herj door, every day, and she was uaver in .the stage. She" never saw 8 train of caM and never was in a city or town In her lire. Jf any one know -a person of her age who can say the. we let as hear Xrom him. ., u . 4;a " ' ' ; : ; ; i ; ; I