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MILAN, - - TENNESSEE.
CUItllENT NEWS.
WASIIINGTOjr.
Mr. Janica O. Wright, of Wicconnln, hM
been appointed Finst AfisiHtant Doorkeeper
of the Iloue of Representatives, vice Dono
van, resigned. Wright is an ex-Union sol
dier. The Senate, by a vote of 17 to 31, rejected
the nomination of JuMin E. Olhurn ax
Consul to Mexico. Colburn is the New
York Time'n Washington correspondent,
and the re anon of hi rejection is Raid to be
that he has cot treated certain Senators at
all time with as much consideration as they
considered to be their due.
A significant publication appears In the
New York World, being an apparently au
thoritative report of several recent Inter
views with Senator Conkling regarding the
President's policy. The Senator openly ex
presses his opinion that tne President's
course is the result of a secret bargain
made between him and Governor N knolls,
prowing out of the Presidential compli
cation, and thinks the facts will all come
out sooner or later, when, he says, M the
whole country will be appalled by the dis
honor of the Administration." The report
makes six columns in the World, and is as
severe l'i its censure of the President as it
well can be.
Senator Conkliug, while not denying that
the alleged "interview" with him published
by the New York World fairly gives the
substance of much that he may have said at
various times, says that be has not had an
interview with any newspaper correspond
ent in several months, and that the person
who furnished it to the press abused his
nospitality by working up into a sensational
newspaper article fragments of confidential
conversation held in the privacy of the home
circle, lie further claims that in some cases
a very different meaning is conveyed by the
language as quoted from the sense in which
it was uttered.
The nomination of Gen. John McXeil, of
Ku Louis, to lie Indian Inspector, was con
firmed by the Senate after a somewhat acri
monious debate, by a vote of 31 to 2(1. The
Democrats generally opposed him, on the
ground of his alleged inhumanity during the
war, in hanging ten guerrillas at Talmyra,
Mo., in retaliation, as was claimed, for the
killing of some of bis own men. Senator
Armstrong was the only Democratic Sena
tor who voted for his confirmation. Several
Republican Senators opposed him, as is un
derstood, for the reason of their dislike
to a certain Cabinet officer who was strongly
pressing Gen. McXeil for the position.
A meeting of the Republican Congres
sional Committee was held on the ISth,
nrarly all the members being present. Rep
resentative Hale wag chosen temporary
Chairman, and Representative Phillips Sec
retary. It was resolved that vacancies from
States not represented In Congress by any
Republicans be not filled at present. Those
States are Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware,
Texas and Georgia. An executive commit
tee was appointed,consistingof Representa
tive Hale, Senator Allison, Representatives
Joyce, Hiscock, Page, Foster, Campbell,
Hubbell.Senator Dorsey and Senator Uruce.
The Department of State has received in
formation from Minister Foster that he has
officially recognized the Diaz Government,
according to the discretionary powers given
hi m previous to his departure from Wash
ington. A private letter says the recogni
tion was received with delight by the citi
zens of Mexico.
WKST AND SOUTHWEST.
A grand soldiers' reunion, under the
auspices of the Grand Army of the Repub
lic, is to be held at Leavenworth, Kansas,
on the 17th and ISth of May.
The Galveston Xetrs has information of
an Indian attack on the mail carrier near
Fort Concho on the l"th. One man was
killed and the mail taken. The same day
another party of Indians captured 13 mules
at Fort Davis. Cavalry are in pursuit. The
Indians are supposed to be from the Fort
Stanton reservation.
Miss Mary Kunkle, a beautiful girl aged
10, whose parents reside near Balbcc, Jay
County, Ind., was assaulted and horribly
maltreated by a tramp while on her way
home from the village on the 15th inst. The
villain fled or he would have been summari
ly hanged by the infuriated neighbors.
A sickening scandal concerning the ven
erable Episcopal Bishop McCoskrey of Mich
igan has found its way Into print, and the
sudden resignation of the Bishop and his
contemplated departure for Europe are an
nounced. His most intimate friends admit
that he has been guilty of certain indiscre
tions, but intimate that his mind is affected.
The lady in the case was a kind of protegee
of the Bi.-hop's, is young and pretty,
and was recently married to a young
man of Detroit- The Bishop is 74 years of
age. A number of highly amorous and sug
gestive letters written by him to the girl
previous to her marriage are the most
troublesome evidence in this sorry affair.
A triple lynching affair occurred at Hunts
ville, Ala., on the 17th. A few days previ
ously George Stiocnbergcr, a well known
and respected citizen, was waylaid and kill
ed by two negroes, Ben. Evans and Eph.
Hall, instigated, as it was proven, by a
worthless white ruffian'named Mike White.
All three were arrested and lodged In Jail.
On the day named a Urge crowd.comprising,
it is said, many of the best citizens of the
county, assembled at the Jail, and forcing
an entrance led out the three victims, who
were speedily swung off from the limb of a
tree. The negroes confessed to the murder,
but White protested his innocence to the
last. Xone of the lynchers were masked,
and thousands stood by and witnessed the
whole proceeding.
Joseph Y. Cain, Clerk of the Circuit and
Common rieas Court of Louisville, Ky., has
been removed on account of his re
fusal or inability to produce the
money of which he was the cus
todian, $23,000. It has also Just been dis
covered that Mr. Cain, while Cashier of the
Louisville Gas Company, from 18!0 to 1S(!S,
embezzled some $!0,000 from that concern.
Why the abstraction of so large a sum of
money, even from the coffers of a gas com
pany, could remain undiscovered for so long
a time, is a mystery not explained.
The Oregon Republicans have nominated
C, C. Beck man for Governor and U. K.
Ilines for Congress. The Convention adopt
ed a hard-money platform and a moderate
endorsement of the Xational Administra
tion. Underwood, Jackson and Sam Bass, for
merly operators on the Union Pacific Road,
have been recognized as members of the
Denton County gang of Texas-Pacific train
roblicrs.
Col. Alexander Phipps, editor of the Mo
berly (Mo.) Monitor, a well known journal
ist, died on the 17th.
At Richmond, Ind., on the 18th, two
brothers named Stevenson shot and fatally
wounded their brother-in-law, Charles
Maule, for the alleged seduction of a young
sister of his wife under peculiarly aggravat
ed circumstances. Maule firmly denied the
charge.
At Troy, Geauga County, O., on the night
of the ISth, L. B. Stroud killed his wife by
plunging a large butcher-knife several times
in ber abdomen, and then cut his own throat
from ear to ear. Stroud was a very bad
character, had abused his wife shamefully,
and was infuriated' because the neighbor
had taken her part and intimated to him
that he had better leave the country or he
would be summarily punished for some of
his misdeeds. Stroud bad recently been in
dicted by the Grand Jury for poisoning
horses and cattle, and burning a barn be
longing to a neighbor.
Two officers from Texas arrested the no
torious T. McKinney and his comrade at
Ozark, Ark., and while passing through the
Indian Territory, en route to Texas, the
prisoners tried to escape, and both were shot
and Instantly killed.
The severest storm ever experienced In
the Black nills commenced on the 10th and
continued for five days. Heavy suow, rain
and hail fell In succession, doing much
damage to mines and rendering the roads
utterly impassable. The Belle Fourche
River, usually fordable, was swollen to a
great depth and was three miles wide.
A severe storm of wind, rain and hall,
passed over Central and Northern Iowa on
the 21st, doing great damage. At Pomeroy,
Storm Lake, Rippey, Wall Lake, and other
places along the line of the Illinois Central
Railroad, many buildings were blown down
and the inmates killed or injured. The
force of the storm was terrific, destroying
fences, uproMfn? tree., overturning corn
cribs, etc Horses and cattle were picked
up and carried a considerable distance. The
track of the storm was half a mile to a mile
and a half wide.
Three negro murderers, Jackson Ed
wards, Alexander Brown and Wesley Tur
ner, were hanged in the town of Fninklin,
Parish of Su Mary, Louisiana, on the Sid,
In the presence of G,0o0 people, mostly col
ored. CapU Fortley, a planter, two brothers
named Moran, and another man, name un
known, were drowned in Bolivar County,
Miss., on the ISth, while employed in re
pairing a levee.
A nephew of Bishop McCroskey, with an
attorney, have arrived at Detroit from New
York City, and demand an investigation of
the great scandal. A Court of Inquiry, con
sisting of Bishops Giiiespie, McLaren, Bedell
and Talbot, has been called.
EAST AM) SOUTHEAST.
John Lyons, a wholesale liquor dealer of
Boston, objected to his daughter keeping
company with a young man named Charles
II. Lauman. On returning from a walk
with the girl on the night of the 17th, Lau
man was taken to task by the father, and an
altercation ensued which resulted in Lyons
being fatally shot by his daughter's lover.
Charlotte Harris, a colored woman who
was recently hanged by a mob in Virginia
for instigating the burning of a barn, is now
shown conclusively to have been innocent of
the charge. '
The International Sunday-school Conven
tion assembled at Atlanta, Ga., on the 17th.
About 400 delegates were present, repre
senting all the States, Indian Territory and
Canadian provinces.
At Trovidencc, It. I., on the ISth, Corpor
al Hassan Sulih, Turkish Arms Inspector,
stabbed his mistress repeatedly with a dirk
and then jumped from a third-story win
dow. Both were seriously injured, but
probably will recover.
Another fatal case of hydrophobic oc
curred in New York City on the is'ih, the
victim being a little boy named Schweitzer.
He was bitten by a Spitz dog.
Robert McEvoy was hanged at Aiken, S.
C., on the 19th, for the murder of Major
James J. Gregg in April, 1S7C.
Sam Stcenburgli, colored, was hanged at
Fonda, X. Y'., on the lilt h, for the murder
of Parker in November last. A few days
before his execution Steenburgh confessed
to having killed 11 men in his lifetime, be
sides having committed numerous minor
crimes.
Bishop McCoskrey has published the fol
lowing card:
NEW YoliK, April 20.1S78 Totbe Associated
Press: I give my ninualille' denial to tlx- ar
ticles which have appeared in ditlerent pa
pers against uie. sam'l A. McCokkickv,
Bishop of Michigan.
Col. W. L. Salisbury, of Columbus, Ga.,
banker, Mayor pro tern., and owner of the
Enquirer-Sun, was fatally shot in the back
while entering a train at Scale, Ala., on the
20th, by Dr. R. M. Palmer. The latter had
sued Salisbury for $i"0,000 damages to char
acter by alleged libelous publications, and
the Jury awarded him one cent. Salisbury
died and Palmer fled.
The first installment of emigrants sent to
Liberia by the Libcrian Exodus Associa
tion, sailed from Charleston on the 21st in
the bark Azor. The colony consisted of
about 2M persons, comprising both old and
young. There were only four white men
on board, three of them being the ship's of
ficers and the other a newspaper correspond
ent. George T. Hathaway, Treasurer of the
Borden City and Saginaw Mills, of Fall Riv
er, Mass., is a defaulter to a large amount.
He is a cousin of Chace, the defaulting
Treasurer of the Union Mills, and is sup
posed to have loaned the latter large sums
in cash and securities.
Hon. AVilliam Orton, President of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, died
suddenly of apoplexy, at his home in Xew
York City, on the 22d, aged 52 years.
Mr. Theodore Tilton denies the report
that Mrs. Tilton's confession was prepared
with his knowledge and that there are or
have been any negotiations between them
looking to a reunion.
GENERAL.
The planet Mercury will pass between the
earth and the sun on Monday, May (!. The
phenomenon, which is called a transit of
Mercury, will begin about 9:21 a. m., and
end at about 4:57 p. in., Chicago time. The
sun and planet will, therefore, be above our
horizon during the whole time of the tran
sit, ana the phenomenon will be visible from
the whole American Continent weather
permitting. It will not be perceivable by
the unaided eye, but a glass of very low
power will suffice to give a distinct view of
the apparent passage of Mercury across the
solar disc.
FOREIGN.
The House of Commons on the 10th ad
journed to the (th of May, and the House of
Lords to the 13th of May.
Intelligence has been received from Santi
ago de Cuba that the time for the surrender
of the insurgents havingexp!red,aetiveopc
rations will commence in the Eastern De
partment against Maceo and a few more
chiefs, who are still under arms.
A great strike of cotton operatives has
begun in England, owing to a deduction of
wages. At Blackburn, Darwin, Burnley,
Lower House, Paddiham, Accrington
Church, Oswaldwhistle, Irishtown, Great
Harwood and Baronden the strike is gene
ral. It is estimated that the strike involves
the stoppage of 200,000 looms and 0,000,000
spindles, and makes idle no less than 120,000
work people.
THE WAR TROUBLES.
A special from Vienna, 10th, says that the
Grand Duke Nicholas returns to St. Peters
burg, and that General Todleben goes to San
Stefano to assume chief command. This is
considered a conciliatory step. The Servian
Government has decided to remain neutral
under all circumstances.
It was made known on the 17th that Eng
land had ordered the immediate transfer
from India to Malta of about 7,000 native
troops, and the movement was considered
one of the most ominous yet taken by the
Government.
The Turkish Cabinet has been entirely re
organized, but tbe changes made, as claim
ed at Constantinople, have no political sig
nificance. Vefyk Effendi is succeeded by
Sadyk Pasha as President of the Council and
Minister of the Interior, and the following
arc ths other new appointees: Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Safvet Pasha; Minister of
AVar, Izzet Pasha; Minister of Marine,
Ibrahim Pasha; Minister of Finance, Kiani
Pasha.
It was reported that England and Russia
had agreed to a simultaneous withdrawal of
fleet and army from the immediate neigh
borhood of Constantinople, but owing to
some disagreement in regard to details, up
to the 22d affairs remained in statu quo.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate, on the 10th, Senator nowe
submitted some remarks regarding his re
cent speech in the Senate criticising the ac
tion ot the I'residcnt ill regard to Louisiana
affairs. He referred to charges pnblielv made,
that his speech was part of a pre-arranged
plan among certain Senators of an attack
upon the I'reideut, and also that he was
actuated by personel resentment on account
of the President ignoring Iris aspirations for a
seat on the Supreme Court bench. The Scn
atordenied that tiny other Senator was im
plicated with him In this matter; he
spoke for himself alone, and he felt fully Jus
titled in what be said upon that occasion.
He spurned the Insinuation that he was ac
tuated by any personal slight, and said that
no Senator present could sav that he had
ever appealed to hiin for aid" In promoting
anv personal aspirations of his own. He
then moved the adoption of the resolution
previously offered l,y him, calling upon the
President for certain Information In regard
to Judge Whtttnkcr of Iuifana. Senator
Davis, of West Virginia, submitted substi
tute for tlia resolution ot Senator
owe, calling upon the Secretary of tbe
Treasury for information as to the balance
due from Collector of Internal Revenue not
In office, what amount has been settled by
compromise, etc. Senator Conklfng said the
two resolution bad nothing on earth to do
with each other. Would it not Iw well to
adopt the resolutions separately? The adop
tion of the substitute would thwart the reso
lution of the Senator from Wisconsin. There
has Oeen some scandal In regard to the New
Orleans Judge named. Senator Eustis
inquired what us the scundal.
rv-uator Cnnkling B1,i,l it was
not necessary for hiin to go into that ques
tion. The allegation luid leeii made that
there was a connection between the Judge
nauied and the entering of nolle proswtiisin
certain cases. That was the allegation,
though he did not believe it, as be hail not
seen evidence to support it. After some
discussion the resolution of Senator Howe
as adopted, and the resolution of Sena
tor Duvis was also adopted as a
separate proposition. Senator Plumb
called up the Senate bill for
the relief of certain settlers on public lands.
Passed. The Semite resumed consideration
of the bill partly couriered yesterday, to in
corporate the National Pacific Railroad Com
pany. Senator Colliding submitted an
amendment providing that the roud should
not have the right of wav through any Indi
an lHnd. Agreed to, and tbe bill passed
1 he House was occupied most of the day-in
discussing the Post-office Appropriution'bill
in Committee of the Whole.
In the Senate, on the 17th, Mr. Ferry,
from the Committee- on Finance, reported
with several important amendments the
House bill to repeal the Specie Resumption
at. Ordered printed and placed on the cal
endar. Mr. Wiudom, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Appropriat ions, submit toil a
concurrent resolution for the adjournment
of both houses nine ttie on the loth of
June. Agreed to unanimously. After
a brief diwussion, by a vote of SS yeas
to 17 nays, Mr. Iturnside's bill to remove all
restrictions now existing in regard to the en
li.Mmrntof colored citizens in any arm of the
I'. S. Army was indefinitely postponed. Mr.
ISrneo presented a petition of citizens of
Mississippi praying for the refunding of the
tnx paid on cotton during the years 115, ls;fi,
m7 and ISfM, and that it be returned to the
Mates in which it was collected if not claim
ed wit hin three years, Referred. Tbo Sen
ate bill extending: to Colorado the provis
ions of the net of July 2, lSi;2, donsting pub
lie lands to the several Mates and Territories
which may provide colleges for the benefit
of agriculture and mechanical arts, passed.
In the House, Mr. I'.ell, from the Com
mittee on Banking and Currency, reported a
bill repealing the net authorizing tbe coinage
of 20-eent silver pieces. Parsed. Mr. Phil
lips, from the same committee, reported a
bill providing for the deposit of savings in
the popular loan, and for the funding
of the national debt in home paper. It pro
vides that any person may deposit money in
any sum not less than 25 cents in any postal
money -order otllcc, and when such deposits
will reach $10, the Postmaster shall issue to
the depositor a postal order on the I'nitcd
states Treasury, which shall issue therefor
;t til bonds which shall be exempt from all
luxation. Kef erred to Committee of the
Whole. Several other bills were
reported from committee and re
f erred to Committee of the Whol. The
Semite resolution providing for adjournment
June 10 was reported in the House, and a de
termined effort was made to force its passage
by the opponents of the Tariff bill, upon the
ground that thut measure could not be dis-
Iiosed of at so early a date. Mr. Wood, who
i as charge of the Tariff bill, moved to refer
t lie adjournment resolution to the Ways and
Means Committee, which would have been
equivalent to its rejection. The House, how;
ever, by a vote of 108 to ISO, refused to so or
der, snd pending discussion of the resolution
the House adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 18th, the Senate bill
supplementary to the net of March 3, 1677, in
relation io the Hot Springs reservation, pass-
; ed. The bill authorizes the President to np
j point three Commissioners, to hold their of
fice for one year, to have the same power us
the Commissioners authorized by the act of
! March 3, lS77,todeterminetlie claims present
ed tindcrthat act, which is continued in force,
mid appropriates the unexpended balance
i t J'.t.Oun to continue the work of the Commis
' sion. The House bill to prevent the spread
1 d contagious diseases, and the Semite bill
authorizing citizens of Colorado, Nevada ami
i I lie Territories to fell and remove timber on
i public land for domestic purposes also pass
j ed. Adjourned to Monday In the House,
the Conference Committee on the bill mak
1 i ig an appropriation for the appointment of
i temporary clerks in the Tieasury
; 1 "epartment and for other purposes reported
that they were unable to agree. Mr. Foster,
, one of the conferees, stated that the points of
: disagreement were the Senate amendments
! appropriating $40,000 for the salaries of Col
lectors of Internal Kevenue, and $20,000 for
i mil w ay postal-clerks. The report of the
committee was agreed to, and a new con
lerenee with the Senate nsked for. The
Speaker then announced that the regular
order was the Senate adjournment reso
! lution, and that the pending question was
i t lie motion to reconsider the vote by which
! the House yesterday refused to refer the
' resolution to the Committee on Ways and
i Means. The House refused to lay the motion
: to reconsider on the table veas 114, nays 12".
Tending turtlier action Mr. Kllis called upthe
resolution in regard to tho death of Kepre
i t-entative Leonard of Ixiuisiana, and several
I members delivered eulogies on the deceased.
The Senate was not in session on the 10th.
i ....In tbe House, the Speaker announced that
: the first business in order was the motion to
reconsider the vote by which the House re
fused last Wednesday to refer the adjonrn
, ment resolution to the Committee on Ways
hikI Means. Agreed to Hi3 to Sii. Mr. Wood
thvn withdrew the motion to refer the reso
lution, and moved to postpoue considera
tion of the proposition until May l'i. The
' motion to postpone was curried yeas 120
nays. 113. a nartv vote, with the exception
i id Mr. Kainey, who voted with the Icmocriits
in the aiiiiiiiiitivc, unu Messrs. i. utter, i.ut
; t rell, Clymer, Wright and Itridges, who voted
: with the Republicans in the negative. Mr.
i u aish, trom the committee on nivalin ren-
: sions. reported back the senate nut mcreas
iug the pension of Gen. James Shields from
5 10 to $50 per month. .Mr. Willis, of Texas,
moved to amend by Increasing the pension
! to $100. Agreed to and the bill was passed.
I An evening session was nein ior too consul
eration ot District of Columbia affairs.
The Senate was not in session on the 20th.
In the House tbe Committee on Ways
mid Means reported a bill amendatory of
the Kevenue bill. It levies a tax of lfi cents
ler pound on tobacco, $.j per thousand on
segars, fl.2oper thousand on cigarettes, and
an income tax of 2 per centum on all sums
ovcr$2,0on. Keferred to Committee ou Ways
iinil Means. The Post-othce Appropriation
bill was further considered in Committee of
the Whole.
In the Senate, on the 22d, Mr. Voorhccs
submitted an amendment to the substitute
for the House bill to repeal the Specie Ke-
snmptlon act, reported by the Committee on
Finance Wednesday last, so as to strike out
that portion naming October 1, 1ST, as tho
time wnen cniteu states notes shall be re
ceiving for imports, and to read "that from
and alter the passage of this act Cnltcd States
noies snail ins receivable in payment lor the
4 per centum bonds now authorized by law
to be issued and tor duties on imports." A
mimer amendment repeals lminedi
alely nil that part of the Spc
cie Resumption act authorizing the
retirement of 80 per centum of the
I nited states notes, instead of on October 1,
1S7S. Ordered printed. Mr. Blaine submitted
a resolution, declaring " that nny radical
change in our tariff laws would, in the judg
ment of the Senattf, be inopportune, would
needlessly derange the business interests
ot the country, ana would seriously retard
that return to prosperity for wliich all
should co-operate; also, that in the judg
ment of the Senate, it should be the fixed
policy of this Government to so maintain
our tariff for revenue as to atTord adequate
protection to American labor." Ordered
printed. Nr. Mitchell called up the Sen
ate bill extending the time to construct
and complete the Northern Pacific Railroad,
and speeches in favor thereof were made by
uiessi s. juiicnen, ii innom ana mmar. j no
senate resolution in reference to the disap
proval of the act of the Territory of Arizona,
in reference to incorporating the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company, was passed
In the House, the speaker announced that
the fir t business in order was the disposition
of the resolntionsof the Maryland Legislature
reopening the Presidential question, and the
first vote being taken on a motion to refer
them to Committee of the Whole, it was de
feated. They were then referred, without
division, to the Judiciary Committee. At tbe
expiration of the morning hour Mr. Butler
called up a motion to suspend the rules and
pass the bill providing for the issue of frac
tional currency, and for the issue of Treas
ury notes ol denominations of SI, 2, $3 and
w. Rejected-yeas 120, nays 124. Mr. Reagan
moved to suspend the rules and pass the
River and Harbor Appropriation bill. The
bill appropriates $7,300,000. Mr. Cox (V Y )
made the point of order that some items in
the bill were against the Constitution ; in
fact, while the Constitution gave Congress
the power to regulate commerce with for
eign nations, and among the several States,
ii. m n-ci uiiriiuni mj anow congress to
appropriate millions for inconsiderable riv
ers and creeks. The Speaker overruled the
point of order on the ground that it was a
question to be determined bv the House it
self, not by the Speaker. After considerable
discussion a motion to suspend the rules and
pass the bill was then agreed to yeas
lt, nays 6S. So the bill was p"as
ed. On the announcement of the
vote, Mr. Cox rose to a privileged question
for the purpose, he said, of presenting a pro
test against the passage of the bill signed by
members of the House. Mr. Reagan desired
the Speaker to rule the paper out, as not em
bracing a question of privilege. The Speaker
decided that the paper should be read, when
Mr. Reagan appealed from the decision of the
Chair, and then Mr. Butler moved that the
House adjourn, which was carried.
Until a few years ago Harriet Pres
cott Spofford had never been out of Xew
England. She has a pale, oval, delicate,
porcelain-like face, bright gray eyes, a
slender, well shaped nose, dark hair,
touched with silver, a graceful head, a
tall, willowy, elegant figure, and a
quick, incisive, radiant utterance, her
sentences falling from her lips very
much as they fall from her pen.
Too Much Decoration.
Ladies who live in the country are
particularly liable to "overdo" their
decoration. They get many a hint of
beanuiul objects that can be made with
little trouble from magazines and pa
pers, and they must needs try their skill
in constructing the pretty knicknacks.
Sometimes a beautiful ornament is thus
made ; but many times the lack of the
needful materials, so easily procured in
tbe city, but so difficult to find in the
country, will a cause a poor imitation
of what was designed to be a "thing of
beauty." We might cite many exam
ples of this enthusiastic pursuit of vari
ous kinds of fancy-work worsted work,
for instance. We shudder to think of
the time spent wasted the eyes
ruined, over ugly pieces of em
broidery ottomans, pillows, slippers,
etc. Just now the mania is for painting
uxn pottery. With able instruction
this enthusiasm might be turned iato
good channels. But what shall be said
of that invention of some mediocre mind
the pasting upon ginger-jars of cheap
and tawdry pictures? When we see our
shelves anil tables covered with these
vases, match-safes, cigar-holders, etc.,
and know that, from regard to the feel
ings of the J'oung artists, these must be
placed in a conspicuous position and fav
orable light, we are in danger of wishing
that all pottery could be buried so
deep in the ground that even the inde
fatigable Schliemann could not unearth
it. A parlor ought not to be littered
with such trifles. Better a few good
and not costly pictures, such as engrav
ings, or Braun's autotypes of celebrated
paintings, in inexpensive frames; or
naments sparingly used, but beautiful
in themselves and from association ;' a
very few thrifty plants, not too delicate,
but those that will give plenty of flow
ers, and will not require all the sun
shine; best of all, good books in plain
cases. Leave space for the new volume
and the magazine upon tho table, and
for the bright evening lamp; space upon
the floor for the children's toys and for
themselves to frolic ; and let not even
the honest dog or the gentle cat be ban
ished lest they break or mar some frail
piece of fancy-work. So shall we be
kept from the worry and care of too
many treasures, and find time for read
ing, for study, for play with the little
ones, and perhaps for practising at
times the almost lost art ot plain sew
ing. STibncr for May.
Latest Words and Opinions.
Elizabeth " I am a miserable, guilty
woman again."
Mr. Beecher " Elizabeth is innocent.
I am innocent."
Elizabeth ' No, I ain't. And you're
another."
Mr. Tilton " She is pure. She may
have been indiscreet; but sho is pure."
Thomas Shearman " She's not to be
trusted."
Benjamin F. Tracy " Elizabeth is to
be pitied. Something radically wrong
about her mental operations."
Henry W. Sage" The confession
bears Tilton's ear-marks."
Intimate Female Friend of Mrs. Til
ton "I do wish, Elizabeth, that you
were forty feet under the sod."
Mr. Fullerton " There is no telling
what Mrs. Tilton will do or will not
do."
Ex-Judge Fortcr " It's all news to
me."
( lliver Johnson (snapping fingers)
She has been lured to do it."
Mr. Evarts " I can not believe it is
true. I object to its truth. It is not a
good subject for discussion. I am de-
lighted at the prospect of legal-tenders
being worth a premium m gold."
Ira B. Wheeler "Mr. Tilton knew
nothing of the matter."
Augustus Storrs Mrs. Morse is a lit
tle oueer light-headed, in fact
and it would be strange if the daugh
ter should noi have something of the
same peculiarity."
Frank Moulton " It will be a death
blow to Mr. Beecher. I don't know
! whether to be surprised or not."
Koger A. l'ryor " I receive it with
considerable confidence. "
Ex-Judge Morris" My God! Anoth
er!"
Elizabeth" I did."
Henry "I didn't. Against this long
and tortuous career I oppose my uni
form and unimpeachable truthfulness.
Molhcr-in-Law (to reporters outside,
savagely)" I don't know any thing
about it. Close the door!" A cw lork
Urnjihie.
What Voices Indicate.
There are light, quick, surface voices
that involuntarily seem to utter the
slang"! won't do to tie to." The man's
words may assure you of his strength of
purpose and reliability, yet nis tone
contradicts his speech.
Then there are low, deep, strong
voices, where the words seem ground
out, as if the man owed humanity a
grudge, and meant to pay it some day
That man's opponents may well trem
ble, and his friends may trust his
strength of purpose and ability to act.
There is the course, boisterous, dicta
torial tone, invariably adopted by vul
gar persons, who have not suilicient cul
tivation to understand their own msig
nilicance.
There is the incredulous tone that is
full of a covert sneer, or a secret " you
ean't-dupe-ine-sir" intonation.
Then there is the whining, beseeching
voice, that says " sycophant" as plain
ly as if it uttered the word. It cajoles
and natters vou : its words say : " I love
you ; I admire you ; you are every thing
that you should be."
Then there is the tender, musical,
compassionate voice, that sometimes
goes with sharp features ( as they indi
cate merely intensity of feeling) and
sometimes with blunt features, but al
ways with genuine benevolence.
If you are full of affectation and pre
tence, your voice proclaims it.
If you are full of honesty, strength
ana purpose, your voice proclaims it,
If you are cold and calm and firm
and consistent, or tickle and foolish and
deceptions, your voice will be equally
truth-telling.
You can not change your voice from
a natural to an unnatural tone without
its being known that you are doing so.
Give it to 'm in Latin.
It is an oft-spoken whim of the cynics
and possibly something more that
the doctors give their prescriptions in
Latin so as to afford their ignorant pa
tients the benefit of a little imagination.
Bolus panificus- sounds a good deal
more important than " bread pill."
Some years ago, in a Rhode Island Leg
islature, a member moved to translate
all the Latin phrases in the statutes, so
that the common people could under
stand them. A Mr. Updike took the
ground that it was no advantage to have
the people understand the laws. He
said thev were not afraid of any thing
they understood. That it was the Latin
words they were afraid of, and pro
ceeded to illustrate his position, as fol
lows : 44 Mr. Speaker, there was a man
in South Kingstown, about twenty years
ago, who was a perfect nuisance, and
nobody knew how to get rid of him.
One day he was hoeing corn, and he
saw the Sheriff coming with a paper,
and asked what it was. Now, if he had
told Mm it was a writ, what would he
have cared? But he told him that it
was a capias satCfaciendim, and the
man dropped his hoe and ran, and has
not been heard of since."
The Rev. Olympia Brown has ac
cepted the pastorate of a Universalist
CJhnrch at Racine, Wis.
ITEMS OFJNTEREST. !
Personal and Literary.
Harrison Ainsworth, the once pop
ular novelist, is still alive, a well-preserved
and dandyish,' though gray, old
man of 72.
Mr. Alfred Tennyson received the
sum of 300 guineas for his poem of
" The Revenge," published in the Nine
teenth Century.
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll has been
invited to deliver the annual address be
fore the Law School of Boston Uni
versity, a Methodist institution.
Rev. Joseph Cook has stirred up tho
ire of the Bostonians, by pitching into
American Congressmen and merchants,
in a recent lecture in Montreal.
Miss Hogarth and Miss Dickens will
publish a collection of Charles Dickens's
letters. The book is intended to be a
supplement to Mr. John Forster's biog
raphy of Dickens.
Mrs. Anna Bowles Bowler, who in
her childhood used to sit on Dr. Sam
Johnson's knee, has just died in Eng
land at the are of 97. She was a lineal
descendent of Oliver Cromwell.
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore and her
husband, the Ilev. D. 1. Livermore, have
gone to Europe and will be absent until
September, passing most of the time in
Fans and Rome.
Joaquin Miller has written another
play of life among tho California min
ers, and sold it to J. C. Williamson, the
actor who has made so much money
with " Struck Oil." The hero is one of
the " forty-niners."
King Humbert, of July, has grant
ed four annual prizes of 5,000 lire each
for the best productions in art, science
and literature. The Academia dei Lin
cci at Rome is charged with the annual
award and distribution of these prizes.
"Grace Greenwood" doesn't look
in the least degreo like a blue-stocking.
She is little and round and lively, and
has crimpy waves of hair pushed back
from her smiling face, a predilection for
light ornaments, dresses on which ruf
fles, fringes and laces marshal their
forces, and a generally bonny appear
ance provocative of good humor.
Scieace and Industry.
The Canadians arc sending fish to
London, packed in ice.
There are over 1,000 molders in
Troy, N. Y., of whom only 400 have
employment.
South Carolina has sent the bale of
cotton which secured tho first prize at
the Centennial to the Paris exposition.
Cream is composed of 2.7 per cent,
ilesh-forming matter, 2G.7 per cent, fat
ty matter, 2.8 per cent, lacttn, 1.8 per
cent, saline matter, and C6 per cent,
water.
Artificial ice is sold in New Orleans
at $10 per ton. Northern ice, which has
always been held at 20 to 82.5 a ton, is
entirely driven from the market.
Hudson, Mich., does a large busi
ness in poultry. During the past win
ter four firms shipped 1,420 barrels,
worth $25,652. The largest house ship
ped 20,000 turkeys and chickens.
Valparaiso advices say the telephone
has been tried on the Trans-Atlantic
Line, between Villa Maria and ltio
Cuarto, a distance of 30 leagues, with
the most complete success. At Valpa
raiso it has been tried between that point
and Vina del Mar with equally satisfact
ory results.
Among wheat-growing States Iowa
stands first, Minnesota second, Illinois
third and Wisconsin fourth. Ohio
raises the most winter wheat and Illi
nois the most corn and oats. Pennsyl
vania the most rye one-fifth of the
whole crop, and Caifornia the most bar
ley. By order of the German Admiralty
a competitive trial of German and Swiss
chronometers took place recently at the
Deutsche Sccwarte at Hamburg. "The
best instrument was furnished by Ilerr
Brocking, and its performance is said
to be superior to that of any chronome
ter examined at Greenwich during the
last three years.
Herr Weber, of Hummel-Iladeck,
Prussia, has made an extremely valua
ble invention for leveling roads. It is
a very simple machine, which for work
ing requires only two horses, a driver
and a laborer, and performs an amount
of work equal to 50 or 60 workmen in
a given time. The machine works
equally well upon gravel or clay soil,
and its cost is only 45 marks (shillings).
The whole machine works much in the
same way as an ordinary carpenter's
plane doe3 upon wood.
School and Church.
Women have carried off eight of
the ten prizes in political economy of
fered recently by the Cobden Club, of
London.
The translation of the Bible into
Japanese has proceeded as far as Second
Corinthians. The work will be finished
in about two years.
Dr. Jeffries, of Boston, who has
been examining the eyes of Harvard
students for the purpose of seeing how
many are color-blind,has found 15 cases
out of 250 students.
The Rev. Yoitsu Honda, a native of
Japan, was recently ordained a minis
ter by Bishop Wiley, of the M. E.
Church, at Hakadodi. Mr. Honda
preaches acceptably in the English
language.
On Thursday, Feb. 7, the Rev.
Philip Rappagliosi, S. J., who for the
past five years has been laboring among
the Flathead and Blackfeet Indians out
West, died in a rude hut in a camp of
half-breeds on Milk River, Montana.
Brother Jasper, of the Zion Church,
of Richmond, who has achieved some
notoriety through his sermons in op
position to the acceptea laws oi astron
omv, has been threatened with excom
munication by his more scientific color
ed brethren.
The sad intelligence has been re
ceived in London that Shergold Smith
and Mr. O'Neill, of the Church Mis
sionary Society's Mission in Central
Africa, have been murdered. The tele
gram makes tho bare announcement,
f.i i : : .1 .:!,
WUUOUlr giving nuy ucuma.
The narrative of the state of religion
in the bounds of the Chicago Presbytery,
presented at the recent session of that
body states that the church debt paying
revival has reached Chicago and vicini
ty, and nine churches report the pay
ment of an aggregate-of $129,200. Ten
churches are still struggling with debts.
During the year the churches received
1,414 members on confession of faith.
Mr. Kimball, the Church debt-lifter,
says that but " one church, of all the
number for which he had labored, had
failed to meet its obligations. This was
one in San Francisco, where dissensions
as to the pastor, the policy of the church,
and other matters had so split np and
divided it that it was impossible to suc
ceed." Mr. Kimball has helped, in a
few months, to raise $1,500,000 for the
payment of church debts.
Haps and Mishaps.
At Philadelphia, Effie Dacostra,
ajfed 21, was fatally burned bv her
clothes taking fire by treading on a match.
llattie Lrreen, aged 26, attempted to
rescue Miss Dacostra, and was also
burned to death.
-JamAS Whnfilnr. whn liirna noir
Rclvidere. Roonn flnnntv. Til
j ,
some strychnine on some bread, intend- i
ing to iaue il to tne barn and poison
mice with? it. bnt nlacpd it. nn a holf in
the sitting-room and forgot it when he
Ttim vuim kjmsu culvi, ills wilts CttUlB 111
the room, havinc in her arm a Hnla A.
year-old niece, and the little girl, spy
ing the bread and butter, asked for it to
eat. Her aunt gave her some, and soon
she went into spasms and was dead in
about half an hour.
Jeff Harvey, son of Mr. T. G. Har
vey, living near Water Valley, in Hick
man County, Ky., went into tho barn
with his half-brother, Willie, to kill
some rats. They had run several rats
between two sills in the house and had
their pocket-knives killing them. In
the excitement Willie slipped, and in
fa'.ling threw up his hand in which he
held his knife and stabbed Harvey it the
left breast, inflicting a wound from
which he died in about 10 minutes.
Shooting casualties: Frank Max
well of Stcubenville, Ohio, went out
duck-shooting, and while dragging his
gun carelessly out of the boat, both bar
rels were discharged, the contents pass
ing through his body, causing instant
death. Thomas George, aged 30, of
Frazersburg, O., went hunting and the
next day his lifeless body was discover
ed in the woods near his home with a
bullet hole in his head and his empty
gun lying near him. Upton Longshore,
aged 12, whose parents live nearLarue,
O., was playing with a loaded gun in
company with a little girl. The latter
pointed the gun at the boy and pulled the
trigger, the charge passing through his
cheek. At Air-line Junction, near Tole
do,0., Paul Iludolph.aged 8, shot and in
stantly killed hisplaymate.OttoBenning,
aged 13, with a pistol. There are con
flicting reports as to whether the shoot
ing was intentional or accidental. At
Mooresville,Ind., a child of Geo. Stein's,
about 9 months old, was accidentally
shot through the bead by its sister, 8
years old, while playing with a loaded
pistol which her father had carelessly
left lying on the table. At Plymouth,
Ind., Edward Schaller was instantly
killed by the discharge of his gun while
hunting. Frank M. Beatty, of Fort
Peek, a scout, was accidentally shot
through the heart by James Leeds. Both
are well-known frontiersmen.
Some recent suicides: Mollie
Carnes, an orphan girl of McConnells
ville. O.. was betraved and deserted bv
her lover and killed herself with strych
nine. John Hassler, aged 60, a well
known resident of Summit County, O.,
hanged himself on account of financial
embarrassments. Wm. II. Dana, a
young physician, committed suicide at
Marion, O., by taking four grains of
morphine, lie was disappointed in
love. Augustus Aull, a traveling sales
man, Frank Straub, a shoemak
er, and Horatio Burgoyne, aged
80, are among recent suicides
in Cincinnati. J. M. Brown, aged 28,
a drummer for an Eastern boot and
shoe house, got on a spree in Chicago
and wound up by taking a dose of chlo
ral from which he died in a short time
A young man nauied Fick fell in love
with the daughter of his employer.a farm
er near Appleton, Wis., and because
the girl's parent's objected to her re
ceiving his addresses, he. killed himself.
Henry Groemer, who resided near
Parker City, Pa., went to the
woods, and stripping the bark
oil' a sappling which hung over a
ravine, twisted it into a rope without
detaching it from the tree, tied the end
about his neck, and mounting a pile of
logs jumped into the gulch. He was
killed. P. Merrill, son of Gylles Mer
rill, of Haverhill, Mass., committed sui
cide by shooting himself through the
heart. The cause was unrequited love.
Geo. P. Amine, employed as a section
boss on one of the western divisions of
the Kansas Pacific Road, committed sui
cide by blowing his brains out with a
carbine. He shut himself up in a sec
tion house and pulled the trigger with
his toes. He is thought to have Deen in
sane from recent sickness.
Foreign Notes.
The exact amount of Countess
Rosebery's estate is said to be $15,000,
000. Her annual income is nearly $1,
100,000. The Prince of Wales created a great
sensation at a fancy dress ball in Paris,
recently, bv appearing as Robinson Cru
soe in his dress of skins and surmount
ed by the traditional umbrella.
When Lady Rosebery reached her
new residence of Dalmeny Park, the old
housekeeper met her at the door and
broke above the 3oung bride's head an
oaten cake, in accordance with the old
custom, welcoming her and wishing her
plenty.
Baron Linden has been sentenced
by a German Court to six months' im
prisonment and two years and a half
detention for high treason and defam
ing Prince Bismarck. The printer of
the pamphlet got off with half that pun
ishment. Miss May Parsons, who married a
German Prince, de Lynard, at Colum
bus, O., a few years ago, is not allowed
intercourse with her parents and rela
tives, though her mother has several
times visited Berlin to see her daughter.
It is alleged it would make a dent in the
etiquette of the court to allow May's
mother to call on her.
Officials will keep an especially
sharp eye on the Koh-i-noor, which,
with the other crown jewels of England,
is to be sent to the Paris Exposition.
The sovereignty of the East depends,
according to Hindoo legends, on the
possession of this magnificent gem.
England may, therefore, be excused for
a little extra nervousness as to the safe
custody of the Koh-i-noor.
London society has a short memory.
Col. Valentine Baker's exploits in the
Turkish service have made him the
hero of the hour, and his adventures on
an English railway have already been
forgotten. He has been unanimously
elected a member of the Marlboro club,
which is under the special patronage of
the Prince of Wales.
Count Stolberg Wernigerode, who
has lately been German Minister at
Vienna, is to replace Bismarck as Vice
President of the Ministry. He is of the
haute noblesse, and has great estates,
both important qualifications for a Ger
man Minister. Disraelis, Jules Simons,
etc., do not find favor as Ministers in
the eyes of German despots. Count
Entenburg, lately Viceroy of Hanover,
becomes Minister of the Interior.
At a ball in Paris, Mrs. Mackey, the
wife of the American bonanza king,
wore a dress of silver brocade, trimmed
with chenille and silver fringe, a dog
collar necklet of large diamonds, and
head-dress studded with diamonds. A
marabout feather, silvered, was fastened
at the side. Another American lady
wore gold brocade, and white faille
striped with gold. The two tunics
crossed in front like a shawl, showing
two points, and were embroidered with
white, jet and gold.
Fourteen English women are study
ing medicine at the Faculty of Paris,
and while Dr. Vulpian, the Dean of the
Faculty, speaks in complimentary terms
of their behavior, Mr. Chaplin Aryton
writes to a London paper that those who
lead a daily, almost hourly, life of com
radeship at hospital, laboratory and
school, acknoweldge with gratitude the
great kindness and gentle courtesy ever
shown to them by the some 6,000 young
frenchmen who are their leliow-stu-
dents.
Odds and Ends.
A straw about eisht inches long and
with no flaw in it makes a very efficient
director of tbe mint. Worcester Press.
Mr. Moffett had little idea, when a
child, that he would live to teach the
American people how to pay their debts
by drinking whisky.
Hotel guest, on retiring : " I want
to get up at 8 o'clock." Facetious night
clerk : Have not got one, sir." Guest :
Not got what?" Clerk: ,4A potato
clock.''
Speaking of mysterious disappear
ances, what has become of the 2,300
American sopranos who have made as
tounding debuts in Italy ?-Cincinnati
Gazette.
There arc but two men in Bay City
who are not candidates for the position
of City Marshal. One U dead and the
other 1 a wooden Indian. Detroit
Evening Kctcs.
A German farmer disputed his tax
bill. He said : " I pays the State tax,
tho county tax, and the school tax ; but,
bytuuderl I pays no total tax. I's got
no total, and never had any." lloston
Trarrlltr.
Before Boston goes entirely crazy
over the female barber, she ought to
pause a little between beans and rumin
ate upon the trouble Samson got into
by letting a woman cut his hair. Cit
cinnali Breakfast Table.
It is easy to believe in hell, purga
tory and all such trifles, but what stag
gers a man is to hear a friend who has
been married about a year apologize for
his sugar-bowl being broken by a care
less servant-girl when there is a strip of
sticking-plaster at least three inches
long on his own forehead.
The Keokuk Northern-line racket
Company have abolished bars from their
boats, and now, at tho river landings,
not more than one-third of the popula
tion go down "to see the boat come in."
It used to require about one-half the
people of a large town to see this ac
complished safely. Hawkey.
While the woman of the period
m akes garden and rakes flower beds and
lettuce beds till her back aches, itisdis
hearteninff to watch great mobs of aban
doned, profligate chickens wandering
aimlessly around in th? distance, look
ing up at the clouds ana aitecting to
talk about the weather, while they pre
tend they don't see any body digging
worms anil scratching places for them.
A teacher in one of tho St. Albans
Sunday-schools was endeavoring to ex
plain to the infant class the theory of
the watchful care and goodness of God.
She used the familiar figure of his fa
therhood and said, "Now, if yon were
playing in the yard and should fall and
hurt yourself, your father would run out
and pick you up." A bright little 7-year
old spoke up and said, "o ne woman i
my father wouldn't he's too lazy."
The truth of the remark is said to have
made it doubly amusing. St. Albans
(I?.) Messenger.
CASTARTOPTHIS?
Stropt.
Oh he wus a sweet, younsr, lithesome man.
And he moved with a tender irriice:
And a smile like the sweep of an angel's wing
Played over his lair young luce.
Antislropt.
" I lirinir." he said, anil the editor bowed,
Kor he loved the sweet young thing,
" I hring," he murmured, " a poet's sontf,
A lay of the balmy spring."
Climax.
Then the editor gathered his cross-cut saw,
And the nail grab, all the same;
The big sledge hummer, the long crow bar.
And the club with the terrible name.
Culastropr.
lie sawed him in two and he flattened him out,
lie tore out each ouivering lung;
lb- pinned him up to the sanctum wall,
So scattered, and yet so young.
RnThngton Ilmrteye.
More Than 50,000 Worth of Gold In
One Solid Chunk.
Thursday afternoon, April 4, says the
Helena (Mont.) Ilerald, all preparations
having been previously made, the larg
est gold bar of which there is any record
was cast at the assay office of Molitor
Isros. in this city, the process of melt
ing, which commenced before mid-day,
consumed several hours, and not until
past 3 o'clock was the accumulated mass
of retort crowded beneath the lid of the
No. 100 crucible and reduced to its mol
ten state. The Messrs. Molitor, super
intending the work, were assisted by F,
Bohm, Messrs. John and Benj. Wil
liams and Mr. L. C. Trent, all of them
practical assayers and experts. The
crucible, fed with 500 or more ounces at
intervals of 30 minutes, received the
last chunk of retort, which speedily
fused and became a part of the golden
liquid.
The momeet finally arrived when the
meked treasure, skimmed of the borax
slag covering its surface, was ready to
pour. The heavy tongs were ad;usted
to the crucible, the pulley-tackle se
curely hitched on, and at the signal
given the seething mass was raised from
the furnace and rested upon the iron ta
ble. The spectators were all manifestly
excited, anil the assayers and assistants
evinced anxiety. At the word the tackle
was unhitched, and four men, with
hands and arms muilled in padded
mits, grasped tongs and leverage,
and tipped the crucible. The liquid
metal poured in a golden rivulet into
the great iron mold, the oil from which
shot up a dense, smothering smoke, fol
lowed by brilliant flame3. In the midst
of the pouring the mold cracked with a
loud report, but the workmen, unmoved
by this accident, held steadily to the
business in hand, and kept np the
"pour." The molten mass was drained
and in the mold lay the red-hot solidify
ing monster bar.
The labor was over the baby born
and congratulations passed among the
rejoicing crowd present. A few minutes
intervened, when the bar was discharg
ed from the mold and lifted into the
cooling tank. Its temperature reduced
to handling touch, it was taken from the
water and a muscular man put to work
scouring. This labor ended, the bar
was lugged to the counter of the front
office, the doors thrown open . and the
public admitted. In the course of a
couple of hours hundreds of eager peo
ple hurried to the office to inspect thi3
extraordinary, golden specimen.
The dotnensions, weight, fineness and
value of the bar are as follows:
Icngth, 20 inches.
Top breadth, 7 inches.
Bottom breadth, 6 inches.
Depth, 3 inches.
Weight, 3,289.96 ounces.
Fine, 760 gold ; 223 silver.
Value, $53,258.30 gold; $977.32 sil
ver. This is understood to be tho largest
gold bar ever cast in Montana or else
where. It exceeds by more than 1,000
ounces the great gold bar cast in Hele
na by S. II. Bohm & Cc. in 1870. The
product comes entirely from the Penob
scot mine, and is the result of 30 full
days' working of one arastra, and les3
than 20 days' working of 5 stamps.
The bar will remain on exhibition at
the banking-house of Hershfield Bros,
for several days, after which it will be
expressed to New York, where it is des
tined to create a sensation ever greater
than we have witnessed in Helena.
Birds Singing; at Midnight.
Two observers at different places in
England rote in Htrduricke's Science
Goip the sin?ing of birds in the mid
night hours of Feo. 15 and of the three
following nights. Blackbirds, thrushes,
and many of the smaller birds joined in
tbe chorus performed at this very un
nsual season. The weather was calm
and mild at the time, and a brilliant
moon was shining. "Between the
hours of 11 and 12 o'clock," writes one,
" 1 was considerably surprised to hear a
thrush singing away merrily. Presently
the songster was joined by others, and
in a short time a regular concert began,
taken part in by at least a dozen thrushes
and blackbirds; whilst the robin, wren,
and other small birds were singing and
chirruping in the hedgerows, just as
you hear them in the early morning in
summer. On the following night, about
the same hour, the concert again com
menced, and was even more lively than
on the preceding night, and continued
until morning."
Maj-Day Customs.
Though May-pole and Morris danc
ing were the most common, there were
other enrions customs in different parts
of Great Britain. In one place, tho
Mayers went out very early to the woods,
ana gathering green boughs, decorated
every door with one. A house contain
ing a tweetheart had a branch of birch,
the door of a scold was disgraced with
alder, and a slatternly person had the
mortification to Dud a branch ol a nut
tree at hers, while the young people
who overslept found their doors closed
by a nail over the latch.
In the Scottish Highland.', in the
eighteenth century, the bov had a cu
rious custom. They would go to tho
moors outside of the town, make a
round table in the sod, by cutting a
trench around it, deep enough for them
to sit down to their grassy table. On
this table they would kindle a tire and
cook a custard of eggs and milk, and
knead a cake of oat-meal, which was
toasted by the fire. After eating the
custard, the cake was cut into as many
parts as there were boys ; one piece was
made black with coal, and then all put
into a cap. Each boy was in turn blind
folded, and made to take a piece, and
the one who selected the black one was
to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favor
they wished to ask for their harvest.
The victim in that day had only to leap
through the fire; but there h little
doubt that the whole thing was a sur
vival from the days when human beings
were really sacrificed.
In the island of Lewis, in the west of
Scotland, there prevails a custom of
sending a man very early on May-day
to cross a certain river, believing that
if a woman crossed it first the salmon
would not come into the stream for a
year.
The Dutch May-pole was still differ
ent, being surrounded by trees stuck in
to flower-pots, and ornamented with
gay-colored flags, and hoops with gar
lands and gilt balls hanging. Another
sort had wooden dolls made to repre
sent the figures .of peasants, nailed
against the pole by their hands and
knees, as though climbing it. There
were also figures of birds and people. In
some parts of Germany it was the firm
belief of the common people that cer
tain ill-disposed beings met on a high
mountain on May-day to dance and
feast, with no good intentions to their
human neighbors. Accordingly on tho
day before, every family was careful to
have a thorn of a certain kind, which
was stuck into the door as a protection.
The Scandinavians, whose first of May
h not very balmy, had of old a curiotM
light betweon Summer and Winter.
Winter or the man representing him
was dressed in skins, armed with lire
forks, and threw snow-balls and pieces
of ice. Summer wm dressed in green
leaves and summer dress. They had a
mock light which was called "Driving
away N inter and welcoming Summer,"
and in the Isle of Man, where Norwegi
ans had rule for many years, this cus
tom lingered until very lately.
But, as the years went on, these merry
ijames died out, and a few years ago
Slay-day was in London simply the fe-t-tival
of chimney-sweeps and milk-maids,
certainly a falling off from the times of
King Henry VIII. The only traces of
the old custom of going a-Maying were
the garlands of the milk-maids aad the
Jack-in-the-green of the sweeps. The
garland (so called) was made of silver
plate, borrowed for the day, and fasten
ed npon a sort of pyramid. Accompa
nying this droll garland were the niu'nU
themselves in gay dress, with ribbon-
and flowers, and attended by musicians
who played for them to dance in the
street. Some times a cow was: dressed
in festive array, with bouquets, and rib
bons ou her horns, neck and tail, and
over her back a net, stuck full of flowers.
Thus highly ornamented, the meek
creature was led through the streets.
The sweeps brought out the Jack-in-the-green,
which was a tall cone made
oi green boughs, decorated with flow
eri, gay streamers and a flag, and car
ried uy a man inside. Each of tht;3o
structures was followed by a band of
sweeps who assumed certain charac
ters, the fashion of which had been
handed down from the palmy times of
May-day.
There were always a lord and lady
who wore ridiculous imitations of fash
ionable dress, and made ludicrous at
tempts to imitate elegant manners. Mad
Moll and her husband were another
pair who flourished in tawdry, gay -colored
rags, and tatters, he brandishing a
sweep's broom and she a ladle. Jim
Crow and a fancifully bedizened ballet
dancer in white muslin, often swelled
the ranks, and the rest of the party rig
ged out in a profusion of gilt paper,
flowers, tinsel and gewgaws, their faces
and legs colored with brick-dust, made
up a comical crowd. But even these
mild remains of the great festival are
almost entirely banished to the rural
d;st riots, and are almost extinct there.
Olive Thome, in St. Xicholas for May.
At Clark's Summit, near Scranton,
Pa., Jeremiah E. Wideman, was at work
in a mill at a circular saw, and he step
ped between a board pile and the saw,
when, by some mishap, the boards at the
top of the pile gave way, and he was
thrown agaim-t the saw, which was re
revolving at lightning speed. He was
caught in the back by the sharp teeth ;
he gave one agonizing look towards his
associates, made a feeble, faltering mo
tion of the hands, and was ripped
through from his head to his bowels in
a few seconds.
The most perfect railroad car in tho
world, costing $35,000, was completed
last autumn by the Pullman Company,
and has since been used in various parts
of the country by tourists able to pay
for its luxuries. It is a French flat in
miniature.
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