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Swest Josie stood with a thoughtful mem
Before tlie glowing anthracite,.
Breaming s happy waking 4ream .".   .
„. She meant to maSe come true that night.
" I do not thin!*-," she softly said,   .
, '<If I should ask he would refuse;
And, when, the Christmas feast is spread,
Then love onr cause shall win or lose;"
She spacious mansion shone -with light,
* Heart-full of happiness the host;
.-.-   Of all the year fair Christmas night
Held memories that moved him most.
■fixoundthefeastglad faces beam, v    .
Low words and laughter idly drift;   " *t  -
Then rose fair Josie, lite some Queen—
" My father, I -would ask a gift.
" This morning in my mother's hand
c    You laid a bracelet richly rare;
And scarcely you would understand
.  That I for jewels did not gjre.
";Tbis morning gold and love you sent
To many a home where they are scant;
*What I then said I really meant-^
Money ia not the thing I want.
" But if you would Snake Josie gay,
And all her happiness bring back,
Make life qub long fair holiday.
Then giveherfreely—Cousin Jack.1.'
Just for a moment one could see
A shadow fall on* every face;
Then said the father, " I agree;
That man. must surely have some grace
" That Josie loves so tenderly.
I'll fake him on your word, my dear;
Bid Mm come home from over "sea.
And we will make him welcome here."
" Then, Mends, make room, I have a guest
"Who must not pleasant welcome lack,
Of Christmas gifts this is the best-
Come in and bring it—Cousin Jack!"
They met the sun-browned youth with joy,
And Josie took, with grave delight,
The hand of the "brave sailor boy
"Who came to her that ChrTstmas night.
— Ma-per's Weekly.
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'AY, DECEMBER 27,1878.        Single Oopi§s \ Five Gents,
SCASSSS YOUK CKOMBS.
Amidst the freezing sleet and snow,
The timid robin comes;
In pity drive him not away,
But scatter out your crumbs.
And leave your door upon the latch
For whosoever comes;
The poorer they, moi*e welcome givfe, *
And scatter out your crumbs.
AH have to spare, none are too poor,
"When Want with winter comes;
The loaf is never all your own,
Then scatter out the crumbs.
Soon winter falls upon your life,
The day of reckoning comes; -
.Against your sins, by high decree,
Are weighed those scattered crumbs.
—  "Well-a-day! well-a-dayl
Christmas to soon goes away,"
Then your goo ding we do pray,
For the good time will not stay*—.
So gooding pray,
*We cannot stay, •
But must away,
*   For Christmas will not stay.
Well-a-day! well-a-day!'*
THE HEW TEAR'S PABTYo
BY MARY A. DENISON.
"Then -you won't go, Alice?"
'"No, Herbert—I'm so sorry—"but the
baby!" *   o
"O, hang the baby!" and Herbert
fixing out of tlie room, slamming the
door behind Trim; ,,
AHce stood looking at the door, growing whiter and whiter. Then she gave
a heart-breaking cry, fell on her knees
by the cradle, and, hiding her-face in
her hands, sobbed bitterly.
She had looked'forward so long to
going to this Slew Year's party. It was
given by Mrs. Mountjoy, one of the
leaders of society ia Washington, and
all that was eminent in politics,; diplomacy, or literature, as well as "distai-
guished in the fashionable world, was
sure to be there. She had been kept
at home so much since baby had been
bom that she really felt the need of a
little variety and relaxation. But baby
had been threatened with' croup a, week
feefere, -and jheJo^et mother: Mdcnot
%yB^:'ss^^^^^^&^s^ssi^MT'^£^L^^
she admitted, was now better, "but not
fit," she declared, Kto be left, at least
with only the nurse to look after it.
"ffurses are so careless, everybody had
told her, even the best of them." So
ale had not asked Herbert to give it up
also, and had even said there was no
reason he should stay at home; bufc still,
in her heart of hearts, she had hoped he
■would.
"He said 'Hang the baby;' yes. he
did, darling," she murmured., with' indignant emphasis, as she bent over the
little unconscious sleeper.. " It was
your papa who said that, and he has
gone to a brilliant party with such
thoughts of his wife and child! Did
you come, dearest, to estrange us from
each other?"
This awful idea called for bitterer
sighs.
Herbert had said such beautiful
things in her trusting youngo maidenhood. " Never should their lives run
in separate channels, as those of some
married people of their, acquaintance
did"—"never a joy be accepted- that
did not make them one"—''never a
lame"*; should come between them."
And now to feel that this wee'babe,
with its golden curls, this beautiful, little, helpless creature should part them
as never strong hands could!
" She pictured the gay assemblage, and
her Herbert dancing with fair young
girls, smiling on others,,and leaving hex-
to die of heart-break.
Her imagination, always too vivid,
viewed him in the midst of his triumphs, until her misery took almost the
form of madness.
"He didn't wantme to go," she cried;
"he acted as if he didn't, and then "he
pretended to throw all the-blame on
dear, helpless baby."
Suddenly she heard the sound of
carriage-wheels outside; they stopped
at the door; the bell rung, and a
fairy-like figure stood on the threshold
of the room in all the wistfiilness. of expectancy, with dimpling smiles and
laughing eyes,
"Oh, Mabel!" cried Alice, starting to
her feet with a glad cry. "This is, indeed, a surprise. I'm so glad you've
come.   My darling sister!"
Forthwith ensued a scene of rapturous
welcome. Then the baby was exhibited, and one would not have dreamed
that a tear had ever stained the cheek
of the proud mother. Then the visitor's
trunks were ordered to be carried up
stairs.
"But where's Herbert? In the study?"
said Mabel, at last.
All the light went out of her sister's
eyes; her hands fell.
"He—he is out, dear."
" Good! Don't be angry, because I'm
glad, for we can have such a nice little
chat.   Tou didn't expect me?"
"Of course I didn't."
""Welly I didn't think of coming, as
you know, for a month yet. But I
thought it would be so nice to surprise
you. It would open the New Tear
auspiciously, perhaps,"
"Oh, I'm so glad!"
"And then Paul's coming," she said,!
blushing, "next week to stay a month;
he has business^here, and he wanted me
bo badly to be here, too. I declare," she
added, laughing; "111 have to marry
him soon to get rid of him." ***
" Oh, Mabel, don't marry him unless
ytfu're.eertaia you'll be happy!" cried
Alice, hysterically. "Be sure, first, he
won't go to parties and le—eave you
a—lone with ba—by," she sobbed.
"What!   Is Herbert at a pg-rtp*"?"
: "Yes, he is; an<£ when I. told him I
couldn't go, on account of baby, he said,
'Hangba—by!' Yes, you Httle angel,
your father said those awful words—and
then he sla—slammed the door."
"He's a viper!" exclaimed Mabel,
with sudden vehemence. "" A nice way
to treat a wife like you—a baby like
that! But-why* * couldn't yon* leave
baby?"
" Because he was threatened with the
croup last week.'f'
" But he's well enough now—sleeps
deliciously. He'll not wake up all
night, perhaps. And the nurse would
have taken good care of him."
" I should have been thinking of
fire and croup, and all that."
" Oh, nonsense! You ought to have
gone. But HerbertJbad no right to behave as he did, and he must be^ punished^ and Mabel threw her wrajis on
the bed, and took her se&t.by the glowing fire. "Itwon't do to let him get
the upper hand. Ah! I have it. I've
thought of a- splendid plan. A- charming, delightful httle- plot!"- and she
clapped her hands in glee.
"Oh, Mabel, what is it?" and Alice
slid down at her sister's feet, gazing in
her face^with expectant smiles, "What
are yon, goiifg to do? *"   '        '*".,.
"I'm ifot going to do it.   lishaH stay,
here and watch baby.    You are to go to
the party."
"Mabel* impossible." ■. .
"Quite possible. .In" fact,  must  be
done.   You must lei Herbert^see that
you're as" pretty as anybody, and quite
as much admired.   It is decided.   You
are to go to the party and play -a" part.
Let me arrange the programme."
"But, Mabel, P* haven't a dress prepared—or, anything. I gave up going a
week ago, you see, when baby was
threatened with the croup."
"Pshaw! You shall wear one of
mine; one of the most bewitching, bewildering of- dresses, bought 'from my.
last allowance from Uncle Curtis.' Only
to see it will throw you into ecstasies.
Worth never composed anything more
lovely..,, I want to, see it,.o£ you... Oome,
come"; call ydur-maid. -1 -am Jill impatience. We'll shame our bad husband
into good behavior; see if we don't. No
irresplution,*pretty, sister of mine.- I'll
stay at home and fancy myself mistress
here, and count your pictures and vases
•and pretty things, and catalogue them,
so as to make mamma happy with a letter to-morrow. Order John or Jack or
Bill, or whoever your coachman is, to
get the carriage—if that's impossible,
send for'a hack."      * '     .
_ In less than an hour Mabel led her
sister to the great Ereneh mirror, and
laugMqfgly %trqduced her. to the loyeli-
Alice trembled a little when she found
herself actually on her way td Mrs.
Mountj oy's, but her sister's urgent,, will
had conquered,, and her heart was hardened by Herbert's emphatic expression
concerning |he baby. She was reassured/however, by Mrs. Mount] py's !
hearty welcome.
.- "So glad you've come, my dear," she
said.   "You* husband  said  he feared.
* baby' would keep you at home; but I
told  him  it was nonsense.   You, did
right to reconsider the matter."
Herbert, like many handsome society
men,-was,a little spoiled and selfish
without knowing it. He loved Alice devotedly; but he was not unwilling to
receive sweet smiles and honeyed words
"of others; while, with a man's inconsistency, he was not desirous that his
wife should play the part of a married
belle.* '
It was while he was dancing Avith one
of the most noted and beautiful women
of the metropolis, who was more than
willing to listen to his nonsense, that
Herbert, looking iip from .the faceleaning against his shoulder, while the
dreamy waltz music thrilled hearts sensitive to" sadness as to joy, encountered
the sparkling face of his wife, and saw
her arrayed in the freshest and most
graceful costume in the room. She was
nipving* quietly along with an.escort in
uniform.
"Pray don't stumble," said his vis-a-
vis, .petulantly, for from that'moment
the grand repose of his manner was
gone, and the lady 6n his arm might
might have been made of wax, or any
other ductile material, for all he cared
now.
. "How the dickens came she here?"
he muttered to himself, as he ; led his
partner absently to a seat, deaf to all
her pretty words, blind to; her fascinations. "It certainly is Alice—but that
dress—the prettiest thing here! and I
left her quite determined not to come.
£ don't ■ understand it. ODancjng* iwith
that*military pnppy, Guinett, too. She
knows I hate him."
With these amiable thoughts, he laid
himself out to gain the attention of his
wife, -and make her explain. It was
some time before he had the chance, so
he was obliged to content himself with
following her graceful motions, angry
with himself and with her.
"Alice!   Can I believe my eyes ?" he
said, at last, in the pauses of the dance.
.^ "I. should think you might, rather,"
'■m&i the- nonchalant reply. •    -
"Pray how did you come? "
"Pray how * did. you "come ?   I rode.
Did you walk?"
"Well, but-"
"Excuse me. I' jn,engaged four deep,
'glrea&y-;** and' Herbert was" forced* to
move aside, as a pompous acquaintance
claimed her-hand.  *   ,     -i       7-^
"I'd like to knock that fellow down,"
he muttered, angry, ip. earnest.
of Alice, who took everything as a matter of course.
One glance in the beautiful nursery
unsealed his eyes. There by the fire
sat Mabel in all the abandon of a neglige
stoilet^ her luxuriant tresses falling in
glossy freedom over her shoulders, while
the Httle fellow on her lap, clutching at
one long, shining curl, crowed and
laughed as weH as he could for "auntie's" smothering kisses.
A sudden revulsion of feeling came
to the father's heart at sight of this
sweet home picture.
"Aha! I know now who contrived
this plot," he said. "But I am glad to
see you, Mabel, nevertheless."
"Wasn't she the bene of the ball?"
answered Mabel, saucily.
" There's no doubt of-that. At any
rate, I didn't get a chance co dance with
her."
" Of course. Who ever heard in society of dancing with one's wife?" sho
said, sarcastically. " I see that she followed my directions implicitly. You
must learn, sir, that a house divided
against itself cannot stand—that is, if
one half is flirting at a party, and the
other half is at home crying her eyes
gtH*—'\
- ' " Oh, AHce—were you really ? "   '.
"I should think she was. I can assure, you that I myself saw half of the
house dissolved in tears, and so wretched
that—"
"Mabel, hush!" said AHce, imploringly.
"Traitor, do you turn on me?" exclaimed Mabel, with mock displeasure.
" My child," she went on, tossing °the
crowing cherub, " tell your selfish papa
that he also has some obHgations, ahd
that, if you had known you were to be
the bone of Contention in this family,
you'd have stayed in the" garden of angels, where you were wanted."
Herbert was strongly affected by this
audacious outburst, but it had the effect
of leading him to see his duty in a new
Hght. It taught him to reflect; opened
his eyes to his selfishness; and made
him, from that evening, a better and
more considerate husband.
Six months from that time AHce was
dressed for a party. But this time the
party was" given at her own home, and
in* honor -of 'Mabel's marriage. Even
the bride did not look loveHer; for
nothing now ever occurred to mar
AHce's happiness; and happiness, after
all, is the best preservative of beauty.
"Ah! how charming you look!"
whispered Mabel, with an arch look, as
they passed each other in the dance,
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The Eecord of.flie Old Tear,
A *Doiiffl]pBet© €aitoI<Q>g'**'i© ©IT AH Hts
ImmisofftiainiE ISveimUs.'
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' OlM^Jix^EU *
I stop to think—it sees'aa so strange
Another year has pwed away;
For oh! it seems not 1> ng ago
I hailed its first glatLTiBing day.
. But he must die, as alT"inust die, c„
Andleavenonpirlj'.O'tracfrbdiinidjp j   j^ '$ .
Except a name—a use! *s thiflg
Whan death you "wi*.- ;hi*i cords doth bind. ,
How many hopes, ho\" many fears,
In this short spacf-.w'ivfir gone;
How many now are lyl:*"* xpvt   -
Oil whom the New-St'.'.J-'s day did dawn.
How many griefs, hov., taany joys,
Have moved the chft'i^Oful human heart;
While some will with il\a Did Year die,
Now griefs and joys-* ithKow Ypar start.
*      -  .   ** 'Hi. A, OsSOBNE.
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3. Two tons of nitro-glj\ dne exploded at Negan-
nee, Mich.; 1 men Mlled.. **/■**".    *
3. Turkey's request for i   armistico was refused
bj- the Russians.
4. Massacre of 15,000 C "aamen at KaBh^ar reported.
5". Russians captured Sjfrf
the Atlantic coast; several
6. Egypt sent 5,000 troot
8. Ex-(iov. Bullock, of G
9. Call issued for Natioi:
party atToledo, Ohio. Ys<
New York SecuriifrTiisurS;
to ono year in penitentiar*.
ordered to conclude an arr.
10. Turks driven from £
great fire at Honolulu, San
11. Glover investigatioi:
House.
12. A million-dollar fire" <
13. Grand Duke *Nicholsi
14. Thirteen lives lost
little Kate, off Duxhury, '--
15: George H. Pendlefr*"
Ohio.
17. Eour negroes killed 7
Ky.   British Parliament a
18, Gen. SkobelefE occn.
20. Sixty thousand pel [
of the Fenian McCarthy, i:
21. The Russians reachc
,   Severe weather along
• -"*ftters.
j Turkey.
i}a, acquitted,
""nvention of National
resident Wetmbr6,-of
Compiiny, sentenced
'iirMsh commanders
*ce.
"j!l;a pass.   News of a
a islands,
olutions 5assed„the
wtsdon, England.
"*ed the Balkans.
v;reck of schooner
■cted Senator" from
io*b near Lexington,
22. William B. Allison r'
Iowa.   Henry M. Stanley *
23. King Alfonso and th
ried in Madrid. Spain.
2.4. Earls Derby and Cr"
English Ministry. Russ.i
the terms of peace.
25. Turkey accepted th *
26. Louisiana Returniri.'
of great famine in Chinu.
27. English vessels ent':
SS Stanley.Matthews"
Congress.
30. The House voted r.
tax.
'31. Steamer Mptropos*:
-   -     - Ki- -
- iilippopolis.
attended the funeral
"in.   - -i   ■    ■ „
".r.oplel-
' to the Senate from
il London.
"nta, Mercedes mar-
Philadelp/ua, bur'1
I.OfO.'-
Brazil, wrecked off
" Prettier even, and it is saying a great -1J^; fc^^{jp cs
deal, than when I cured your husband  -or- **- ?s
by sending-*yon to that New  Year's
Tnor'SV-'* '"'* ' '*•"'"" '"■"'     -'-
:-waoairj5L=z --£
J*" "
'i reMgnedfrqm the
i%n^~m,':iVLthe Porte
■■■I locked up.  News
Dardanelles.
- I'CJolttfiWi passed
v-'luetion of whisky
*.   Philadelphia for
"\ N. 0.; 100 lives
bunted. • in:. Sew
.■ "-'-"--aas house,in'
17. The Potter investigation ordered by the House
of Representatives.
201 Fenian scare in Canada.
21. Six men lose their lives by a coal-mine explosion in Nova Scotia.
22. Pleasure steamer went over a dam at Gait,
Ont.; nine persons drowned.
24. Tornadoes in Illinois and Iowa; about B0 lives
lost.
31. Collision of German ironclads Koenig Wii
helm and Grosser Kurfurst in English channel; the
Wilhelm sank, carrying down 300 men.
JTOJE.
1. Potter inquiry commenced.
_2. Great storm in Missouri; nearly 100 persons
killed ahd wounded.   Nobeling atttempted to kill
the Emperor of Germany.
3; Pour hundred Russians cut off by Pomaisand
killed.
4. Indian troubles at Camas prairie, Idaho. A,
man named Caldwell, near Americus, Ga., killed his
wife, three children, sister-in-law. and then himself.
Gilbert elevated railroad opened to the public at
New York. International postal treaty signed at
Paris.   Half of Rockviile, S. C, burned.
5., Great loss of life by flood in China.
7. Five negroes lynched at Bayou Sara, La. Explosion in colliery at Haydock, England; 230 lives
lost,
i). Bulgarians hurned nineteen villages, and cor\-
nritted horrible atrocities. Earthquake at Lisbon,
Portugal.
. 10. Sews received of a terrific storm in Canton,
China; lO^eO Chinese killed. SixliYes lost in Georgia by a storm.
14. British fleet withdraw from Constantinople.
.   W.   Congress adjourned.   An Indian raid into
Texas,
22. Great destruction by floods in Peru.
25. Eight with Indians at Curry creek, Oregon;
40 redskins killed.
29. Tunnel caved in at Schwelm, Germany," burying twenty-seven persons.
ifUIx'S. r
S.'Steamer Capital City burned at Memph Tenn.;
two lives lost.
4. Ten persons killed at a picnic by falling trees
near Pittsburgh.
6. Indian fights in the John Day valley and at
Camas prairie, Ore.
7. Big fire at Mahdalay. India; 4,700 houses
burned.
8. Battles with the Indians at Willow Springs and
"Beasley's mills. Ore. England and Turkey concluded agreement for defense of Asia Minor, and Cy.-
prus ceded to England.
13. Large number of deaths from sunstroke in St.
Louis and other places. Treaty of peace signed'ai
Berlin.
18. Col. Forsyth won a substantial victory in Oregon, killing seventeen and capturing 100 redskins.
A train of twenty-two cars fell through a bridge at
aheight of ninety feet, near Monticello,Ind.,killing
several persons.
19. Intense heat and many sunstrokes at the East.
25. British ship Loch Ard lost with forty-seven
lives.
26. Labor riot in Washington. Fourteen children
and three teachers drowned in Ireland.
27. Marquis of Lome appointed Governor General of Canada.
29. Four colored men hanged by a mob at Mon--
roe, La.
AUGUST.
K Nez Per ces Indians surrendered to Gen. Howard.
Another pause, and-another tete-a-
tete. "No satisfaction given. Herbert
had hardly the grace to redeem his dancing engagements.
{•"About the bshy, Alice?"" he asked,
anxiously.
She-put her rosy Hps-to his. ear, and,
in & siibthied voice, exclaimed i::    ~
"Hang the baby!"
Herbert started and changed color.
To be* mire he had" used the" same language. But from her it was too exasperating. How he got through the
evening, he coitld hardly tell. "When
at last they were in the carriage driving
home, theie might have been ' an open
roptijre bfttloiih,e gefe-j'jnj-gecl cgtonegg
Brutality in Colleges.
"Neal Dow, in a recent letter to a New
York paper, tells the story of a weak,
puny lad who, while a "Freshman at college, was dragged., from his bed on a
winter's night, held under the pump
until he was insensible, and then left on
the snow to freeze to death, while the
boys who had been torturing him went
quietly home.
The boy revived, however, in time to
save his life. He had pluck and common-sense. Knowing that it Would be
useless to appeal to the coHege authorities for justice, he had the ruffians arrested, brought before the Criminal
Court, and punished to the full extent
of the law.
Mr. Dow suggests that this is the only
way to put an end to the practice of
"hazing," which is, in fact, nothing but
the brute attacks of reckless boys upon
lads younger and weaker than themselves.
There is no reason why. the sons of
cultured people in coHeges should be
permitted to commit outrages for which
a poorer ruffian would be sent to -jail.
CoHege authorities are often disposed to
shirk the responsibiHty, as in the recent
case at Princeton. This timidity is probably due in weak coHeges to the fear of
driving students away, and so losing a
part of* the revenue.
In the great Polytechdic school at
Bethlehem, Pa.—where the tuition is
free—a case of hazing occurred [last
winter, and the leaders were promptly
expeHed, while their assistants were suspended for a year. This sentence
seemed hard, as two of the latter came
from Russia; but it was inexorably carried otit. There wiH be no more hazing
in that coHege.
On the other hand, here is a case
which occurred in a college in Connecticut about a year ago. Some young
men of the higher classes invited a
sickly boy—a Freshman—to supper.
Very much flattered, he accepted the invitation. After supper, it being near
midnight, they proposed, as a proof of
his eoutage, that he should go alone to
the graveyard and cHmb up on the pedestal of a monument, on top of which
stood a marble figure of Peace.
The boy, being a plucky Httle fellow,
went and cHmbed on the pedestal, when
the figure waved its white arms and uttered a frightful shriek. He staggered,
f eU, struck his head on a stone, and was
taken up insensible, to die the next day.
The truth of the occurrence was carefully concealed from his parents and the
legal authorities.	
The Indian Bureau.
The joint commission appointed at
the last session to inquire into the propriety of transferring the Indian Bureau
from the Interior to the "War Department has finished taking testimony.
It is pretty 1vcH understood that a majority of the commission is favorable to
the proposed change, and that they will
so recommend in their report. If is gen-
eraHy beHeved, however, that whateyer
'this report may be, or whatever may be
the action of Congress in regard to. it,;
the President, being opposed to the
transfer,, wiH veto any biH that passes
both branches of Congress directing
the transfer to be made.. If Congress,
therefore, passes a bill it wiU not become a law unless it is passed over the
President's disapproval by a two-thirds
vote of both the Senate and House.—
Washingtoiv Correspondence.
Mexico is importing co*rjj. fgom tbe
seven persons. *--•>.-
2. All hands lost by tl;?,wreck of brig Overton,
off Ocracoke, N. C. /
3. Armistice between Russia and Turkey signed at
Adrianople. ■*
4. Asylum burned at Tein-Tsin, China; 2,000
lives lost.  Itfadison Wells surrendered himself.
5. The Chicago Academy of Music burned. The
Prefect of St. Petersburg shot by Vera Sassulitch.
7. Anderson, of the Louisiana Returning Board,
found guilty.
8. Tornado at Augusta, Ga.; several persons
lulled. Twenty-six persons poisoned—seven fatally—-by using impure water, at Richford, Vt.
11. Ship British America:and brig Carrie Winslow
collided off Sandy Hook; several lives lost.
13. British fleet entered Hie Sea of Marmora.
14. Daniel Webster's 6l£ house at Marshfield,
Mass., burned, .' ■  «
15. Body of Mrs. Benn Pieman cremated at Washington, Pa.
17. Steamer C< M. Palm* sunk by a collision off
the English coast; fourteen persons drowned.
IS. Heavy rain-storm injCalifornia; eight Chinamen drowned, German irincesses Charlotte and
Elizabeth married at Berlit.
20. Cardinal GioacchinojPecci elected Pope, under the name of Pope Leo OH.
22. National party organized at Toledo, Ohio.
Russians occupied Rustcjuk. Big tidal wave at
Callao, Chili.
23. Rande, the mufdere, sentenced to life imprisonment, at Gales burg HI. Express train on
Texas Centralrobbed.
25. Officers of State Strings Bank at Trenton,
N. J., convicted and senteUed to five years in penitentiary.
*■ 26. The Constitution s'led from Philadelphia
for Paris with America! exhibit at the Exposition.
28. Silver bill vetoed an passed over the veto.
MAJCH.
1. Most of tbe Cuban isurgents laid' down their
arms and were pardoned*
3. Pope Leo crowned, 'eace treaty signed atSan
Stefano.-
4. Tornado in Casey conty, Ky.; seven persons
killed. British Parliamenvoted the military estimates. *'       - *-
5. Hot Springs, Ark., ntrly dostroyed by fire.
7. The business portic of Spartansburg, Pa.,
burned
8. Seventeen persons Med xiy colliery explosion
near Glasgow,'Scotland.
9. News of steamer SpUx being burned at sea;
700 lives lost.
12.* Colliery explosion jar Belton,iEngland; forty
lives lost.       -     ' '  "■*
14.. Thirty-six excursMsts drowned at Brest,
France.
17. Treaty bf peace rated at St. Petersburg.
18. Anderson's* releaserdered by the Louisiana
Supreme Court.
2**!. Boiler explosion atichmond, Va.; five persons killed. -Thessalia villages sacked by the
Turks.     '"'    .-
23. Steamer Magenta Test her steam pipe near
Sing Sing, N. Y.; six perns killed. O'Learywon
the six-day walk at Lond.
24. English training fp Eurydice lost off the
Isle of Wight; 350 livesst.
25. Three Mollie Magies hung at Bloomsburg,
Pa.   A million-dollar filn Philadelphia.
26. Fire in New Yorkiss §500,000.     "   •
27. Colliery explosion North Staffordshire, England; thirty miners led. Osmaa Pasha made
Commander-in-Chief ofirkish forces.
7. Collision on the Panhandle road, hear Steuben-
ville, Ohio; fifteen persoruS.-killed and forty injured.
8. Fight between moonshiners and revenue officers in Blount county, Tenn. Powder magazine
exploded at Fratesi, Russia, hilling fifty-five persons.
0. Wallingford, Ct., devastated by a tornado;
twenty-five people killed.   More fighting in Bognia.
12. Yellow fever became epidemic at Memphis
and Vicksburg. Deficit discovered in Missouri
State treasury. Russian torpedo boat exploded at
Nicolaieff; thirty-four persons killed.
13. Oregon Indian war ended. 'State of siege, established in 1874 in Havana, Cuba, raised.
16. Hoedel beheaded at Berlin for attempted assassination of the Emperor. Revolution in San
Domingo.
17. Angell, Secretary of Pullman Palace Car Com-
ny,-absconded.   One thousand Segs of powder
--.-*>     ■*$ v       *   -,S3*aaa!a»o^jBottajdnesPa., hilling several persons'
-*•   -d  N Y  'drow^*£^'?fc^^
,-,-ii, x. x„ crowning   Austrians defeated. ^Stii^S3f!S'^^3?**- --ts'-^^r^^,
21. Jackson, Miss., attacked by the ^agueT=l^=*^5*«SP^S~"^
dependence of Servia announced.
22. Relief funds being raised in the North for yellow-fever sufferers. Powder mills exploded at Ne-
gaunee. Mich.; several employes killed.
25. More fighting with illicit distillers in Tennessee.
28. Excnrsion train on the  Grand Rapids  and
Secretary of War under President Fillmore, and
Confederate General, New Orleans, 73.'
13. J, F. Tracy, many years President of Rock
Island railroad, Erie, Pa.
16. G. W, Paschal, former Judge of Supreme
Court of Texas, Washington. 65.
25. Angelo Secehi, famous Italian astronomer?
Rome, 59.
'MA1KCH. ■    •
2. Benjamin Franklin Wade, former Senator from
Ohio and acting Vice President, Jefferson, Ohio, 77.
8. Francis Charles Joseph, Prince of Austria and
father of the present Emperor, Vienna, 75. Conn
Sclopsis deSalerano,*the great Italian statesman,
Turin, 79. - *
9. Charles L. Wilson, publisher of the Evening
Journal, Chicago, 59.
12. Hew Ainslie, Scotch poet, Louisville, Ky.; 8P-
Sir William Gibson Craig, former Lord of the British
Treasury. Ricarton, "Scotland, 80.
19. Sir William O'Grady Haly, Commander-in-
Chief of British forces in America, Halifax, Nova
Scotfa. ,
20. Isaap Adams, manufacturer of the Adams
printing press, Sandwich. N. H„ 75.
23. John Allison, Register of United States Treasury, Washington, 65.
APBECm
.2. William Sidney  Clements,. Earl of Leitrim,
ldlled by peasantry, near Berry, Ireland, 72.
6. Giuseppe Berardi, Italian Cardinal, Rome, 68.
11. Prince Napoleon Lucien C: J. *F. -Murat,
pephew of Napoleon I., London, 75.
12. William M. Twegd, formerly chief of the New
York Tammany ring, in Ludlow Street jail, New-
York. 55. ' °  "
22. William Ortoh,. President of Western Union
Telegraph Company, New York, 52.
MAX,
1. JohnMorfissey, former pugilist, gambler and
Congressman from New York; -at his.death State
Senator. Saratoga. N. Y. Jonathan Walker, the subject of Whittier's poem, " Th&Man With the Branded Hand," Muskegon, Mich-, 88.
2. W.S. OlBrien, the "Bonanza" millionaire,San
Rafael, Cal., 46.
4. Count BasileWsM. the richest man in Russia;
liis income was §4,000,000; St. Petersburg, 92..
7. Murray Hoffman, eminent law writer, Flushing, L. I„ 87..
13. Gen. Thomas S. Dakin, Captain of American
rifle team, Brooklyn, N.Y.V47. Ptof. Joseph Henry,
Secretary of Smithsonian Institute, Washington, 81.
25. Duchess of Argyle, mother of the Marquis of
Lome, England, John A. Bolles, Solicitor of the'
Navy Department, Washington.
28, Lord John .Russell, twice Prime Minister of
Great Britain, Richmond, England, 86.
JONE.  :"-■
2. Louis H. Pelonze. brevet Brigadier Genera
United States army, Washington.
5. Count AChilleBaraguayD'Hilliers. Marshal of
France, Paris.   Maj. William MpDonald, Chief Clerk
! of United States Senate, Washington, 65.
8. Pierre Magne, ex-Minister of Finance of France,
Paris.
12. "William Cullen Bryant, America's oldest poet,
New York, S4. Gen. B. L. Bonneville, the oldest
officer on retired list of United Stages army, Fort
Smith, Ark., 85. George V., ex-King of Hanover,
Paris. 59. *  "***■ ;
21. Gen. Fitz Henry Warren, Assistant Postmaster
General under Fillmore. Brimfield, Mask., 62.
25. Sir George Back, English Arctic explorer,Xon-*
-don, 82.
'   26. Mercedes, Queen of Spain, Madrid, 18.  Sidney Breesej Judge of Illinois Supreme Court, and-
fofmerly United States Senator, Pinckneyville, Hi.
"     ■"*"•     ' JUIiTi     s  ■■*   ' .,
S. jDaniel Sturgeon-, for twelve years. United States
Senator- from Pennsylvania, Uniontewhi Pa., SI. j.
' 3. Dr. Jaines.C. 4yer, patent-medicine n^aker an*l
millionaire, Winchendon, Mass., 60..    , - 7 | .•
■' * 8. George S. Appleton, of the AppTeton pnblisli-
ingh.ouse.iu Philadelphia. Riverdale, N. Y,, 57,     r ,
17. Alcardo Alcardi. Italian "statesman; and -poet,
Verona. Italy.. '        ' -      *        '
18. William T. McCoun, formerly Judge of Supreme Court of New York, Oyster Bay, N. Y., 92.
19. George Tibbetts. millionaire, Troy, N. Y., 82.
20. Gen. George F. Shepley, Judge of United
States Circuit Court for Maine, and a General duriug the Rebellion, Portland, Me., 59. John A. Lott,
Judge of New York Court of Appeals, Flatbusb,
IDHSSSS'KIAD <Dii23©r^
. -    Withwoud-rins^Tro,
The wise men ehx/
The stai' in heaves cp**i3c»2fjj.
And \vith delight
Iu peaceful night,
They heard the angels EingiE
Hosannaf hosanno,
Hosanna to-His nasiae 1
By light of star*
3Tiey traveled far *
r-To seek the lowly macge*.';
"A humble bed
Wherein was laid
The wondrous'little strangei'.
Hosamia, hosanna,
Hosanna io His namel
And still is found,
The v/orld around,
Thb old and hallowed story;
. And still is sung.
In every tongue, 5^*"   J,
The angels' song of glory;
Hosanna, hosanna,
Hosanna to His name!
The heavenly star \
Its rays afar
On every land is throwing,   *
"** And shall not cease
Till jjioly peace
Ih all tl/j ■ earth is glowing.
Ho-ymna, hosanna,
Hosanna to His namel
1PITH --AHB POHEPd
-The bridle rein.
-A stove Hd thrown at
A-SIL.
2. Earl of Leitrim imjered in Ireland.
6. Oil explosion at Slagton.Pa.; twelve persons
killed.   "Kaffir rebellion South Africa.
7. Steuben county (N,) insane asylum burned,
near Bath; fifteen inmatperished.
12. Army boa**d- order to take now evidence in
Fitz John Porte'ea'se. "
13. Fifteen seres ofarksville, Term., burned
over; loss, S5(0,000.
15. Circassitns massi£d800 persons at Palatiza,
Greece.   A teWble tomo in Kansas.
17. Three jiurderers jched. at Huntsville, Ala.
Strike of SOJOO cotton-smers in Lancashire, England.   Nai-ve troops st from India to Malta.
18. Gollison betwe'enhite and black miners at
CoalCreekfnd.; severailled.     ,
21. Riot at political ieeting at Quebec. Many
vessels an/156 liyes losm Spanish coast.
* 22. Heay storm in Hois and. Iowa. Hurricane
at Tahiti^andwieh isliis, killed 120 people. The
Spanish Oast visited hi severe storm; 275 lives
ost. \
*23. Si'persona kilH by Indians  in Western
exas. Sathaway, of t Border City mills, Fall
River, jjiss., arrested fiembezzlement.
24. ft-Lin and Deni, of Florida, confessed
fraudsa count of vote that State,
'25. Jot between YouiBritons and Catholics at
Montial, Canada.
28. wenty persons ksd by boiler explosion at
Dubl*, Ireland.
, 29petroit Free Preaffice destroyed by fire.
f -f**-
lj?axis Exposition aened
exgded at MemphirfTenn.
kill
Indiana railroad jumped the track near Lockwood,
Mich.; several killed.
30. Another nitro-glycerine explosion at Negau-
nee, Mich.
31. Miskolcz. Hungary, laid waste by a storm; !
1,000 houses destroyed and 500 people lost their I
lives.   Bankrupt law expired.
SEPTEMBER. ]
I. Excursion train from London to Ramsgate, j
England, wrecked  by a collision; twelve lives lost. I
- Treaty with Japan signed. |
3. Bishop McCoskry, of Michigan, deposed from
the ministry.   An.  excursion  steamer,  the Lady
Alice, returning from Gravesend to London, sunk
by a collision; 700 lives lost.
5. Bosnian insurgents defeated with great loss.
7. Mehemet Ali and twenty of his suit massacred
by the Albanians.
9. Nobeling, the would-be assassin of the German
Emperor, died in prison. 0
II. Coal-mine explosion at Aberearme, Wales; 250
miners lost.
18. Gradual decline of the yellow fever in the
South noted.
14. Great freshets in the West. 0
22. British mission to Afghanistan refused permission to enter Cabul.
25. New Canadian Ministry inaugurated.
OCTOBER.
2. City of Glasgow Bank, of Scotland, failed;
liabilities, $50,000,000.
8. Excursion train on the Old Colonyroadwrecked
near Boston; 21 killed and 150 injured. Elections
in several States.
11. Panic in Colosseum Theater, Liverpool, England; thirty-seven person crushed.
16. Nine persons killed by a panic in a colored
Baptist church at Lynchburg, Va.
20. Railway collision   in Wales; twelve Mlled.
Circassians sacked 1,200 houses in Macedonia. •   '
. ;27. Manhattan Bank, of New Yqrk, robbed.
39. YcHow fever killed in-the South by frost.
.     . NOVEMBER.
1. News received of great famine in Morocco.
3. Great strike in English cotton-spinning district.
5. Elections in thirty States.
7. A. T. Stewart's body stolen from the tomb.
9. Cape May, N. J., visited by a great fire; several
hotels hurned; loss, $500,000.
14. Big flood in Italy; great loss of property.
17. Attempt to assassinate King Humbert, of
Italy^ •
18. Serious loss of life by inundation of the river
Save, atPesth, Austria.
20. War declared by England upon Afghanistan.
21. The Halifax fishery award paid. Twelve men
killed by coal-mine explosion at Sullivan, Ind.
22. Fort AJi Musjid captured by the British
troops.
23. George S. Houston elected Senator from Alabama.        ■ ■ —
24. The new Governor General of Canada, -the
Marquis of Lome, arrived at Halifax. Fifty persons weut down with steamship Pommeraniain
English channel; collision.
27. Fifteen persons jumped off a ferry-boat at
Liverpool and were drowned, owing to panic.
28. Thanksgiving day. English forces entered
Khyber pass, in Afgfianistan.
DECEMBER.
1. Mississippi river steamboat Cotton Valley sunk
by collision near Donaldsonville, La.$ eighteen persons drowned.
2. Congress met.
9. Anchor flour mill, at Minneapolis, Minn.,
burned.
10. Wade Hampton elected Senator from South
Carolina.
18. French steamer Byzantine sunk with 60
pie in tho Mediterranean.
peo-
22. Mrs. Agnes Heneage, known as Princess Salm-
Salm, England.
26. Thomas Kelso, founder of Kelso Orphan
Home, Baltimore, 94. • ,
27. George L, Curry, former Governor of Oregon;
Portland, Ore., 57.
31. William Knox Babington, General in English
East India service, London.
AUGUST.
1. Alessandro Franchi, Cardinal and Pontifical
Secretary of State, Rome, 59. Allen Henry Gardner, Rear Admiral in British navy, Kensington.
(England, 60. -       '
2. Lewis Baker, supposed murderer ef BiUPoole,
j Pails, France.   Sir Hastings Yelverton. Senior Loed
j of ^British admiralty, England, 70.
j    4. George Conroy, Bishop and Papal Ablegate to
Canada, St. Johns, N. P.
11. H. J. Montague, popular actor, San Fran-
j Cisco.
14. John H. Raymond, President of Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, 64, Count Theodore Radetzky,
son of the famous Marshal, and himself a General
in the Austrian army, Gorz, Austria, 63.
18. George Yining Bowers, well-known comedian,
New York.
21. Maria Christina, Queen-dowager of Spain,
■■Havre, France, 72. William Niblo, founder of
Niblo's Garden, New York, 88.
26. Dr. J. W. Waldron, one of ihe best-known
turfmen in the country, Saratoga, N, Y. John A.
Ihglis, President of convention in South Carolina
which passed secession ordinance, Baltimore, Md.
Seth Padelford, former Gpye'rhor of Rhode Island,
Providence, R. I., 71. -   .
SEPTEMB'EB.
2. Henry Bertram. Major General of United States
volunteers, Juneau, Wis. H. H. Haight, formerly
Governor of California, San Francisco.
18. SamuelBard, a prominent Southern politician,
Baton Rouge; La., 58.   .
20. Gen. Henry Raymond, veteran of 1812, Jersev
City, N. J., 87. '       * '
27. August Heinrich Petermann, the eminent
geographer, Gotha, Germany, 56.
OCTOBER.
5. Sir Francis Grant, portrait painter, and President of the British Royal Academy, Melton Mowbray, England, 75. Thomas de Mosquera, ex-President of the United States of Colombia, S. A.,
Coconuco, Col., 80.
8. Gideon J. Pillow, General in the Confederate
army, Arkansas.
10. Thomas Glaberry, Roman Catholic Bishop of
Hartford, Ct, New York, 47.
11. Felix Antoine Dupanloup. noted French prelate, Paris, 76. Abraham Oppenheim, head of the
great banking house at Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 74.
12. Gen. William T. Ward, a veteran of the Mexican war and the Rebellion, Greensburg, Ky., 70.
18. Jefferson Davis, Jr., only son of the Confederate President, of yellow fever, Memphis. David
Laing, patriarch of Scottish literature, Edinburgh.
'Scotland, 86. • -
20. Hiram Paulding, Rear Admiral in tho navy,
and son of one ofthe captors of Maj. Andre, Huntington, L. I., 81.
24. Charles Leopold, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein,
.65,
25, Samuel Mercer. Rear Admiral in British navy,
•Deal, England, 69.
29. Louis Antoine Gamier-Pages, French historian and statesman, Paris, 75. Julius Hayden,
brevet Brigadier General in United'States army, Or-
nge,N. J., 58.
NOVEMBER.
3. Mrs. Frances F. Broderip, only  daughter of
Tom Hood, and a noted authoress, Clevedon, England, 48.
Frederick English, Major General in English
Tug-Uoat WaSher
several- persons
JANUARY.
2. Emile Lambinet. a distinguished French
painter, Paris, aged 70.' Augustin Edwards, Chilian
millionaire, leaving $25,000,000, Limache, Chili, 61.
5. Alfonso Ferraro La Marmora, an Italian General and statesman, Florence, Italy, 73.
8. John O'Neill, the Fenian leader, Omaha, Neb.
Francis Vincent Paspail, French naturalist and
revolutionist, Paris, 84. Charles G. Cousin-
Montaubah, Count de Palikao and General in the
French army, Paris, 81.
P. Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, Rome, 57.
10. Demetrius Bulgaris, Greek statesman,- Athens,
76.
16. Samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfield So
publican, Springfield, Mass., 51.
21. Henri Victor Regnault, the great French chemist, Paris, 67.
22. E. K. Collins, founder of the Collins line of
steamships, New York, 75.
27. George P.Gordon, inventor of
ive flouring millfjestroyed at MinneapoUs,!i^pes"s,NbVfolk"!;'var67""' i",c""''" "*"  the Goraon
. bv exnlosion A fire:  sevP™i n™,  nT,^>" ^ Sir Edward S. Creasy, a distinguished English
historian, London, 65,
and-
by explosion il fire;  several lives
1";JU0,000 in property cjtroyed.'
Senator Don Cameii married to a, niece of
. Sherman.
_*A number of distpries seized at Cincinnati,
impled: jissassinatM of the Emperor of Ger-
iy. •
3. Earthquake in Veiuela; 600 persons killed.
,5. Steamers purchql by the Russian Govern
Ifest lit ?bilaae"tphia ^privateers,
,'EEBRUARY.
1. George Cruikshank, the famous caricaturist
London, 85.
7. .Giovanni-Maria. Mastai-Ferretti, Pope Pius
rs., Rome, 85. "■.**■
tit Gideon Welles, Secretary of Hie Navy under
1-iDcote) Hartford,
ObiM-le-- ?{. Conrad,
army, Cheltenham, England, 62.
6. Jean Jacques Fazy, tlie eminent Swiss statesman, Geneva, 82.
7. O. Phelps Brown, known as *" a retired physician whose sands of life have nearly run out," Say-
brook, Ct., 55.
11. Norman B. Judd, former Congressman and
Minister to Berlin, Chicago, HI., 66.
14. Gabriel Delafosse, famous French mineralogist, Paris. 84.
15. Hippolyte J. Lucas, French poet and dramatist, Paris, 70.
16. William B. Hill, former Secretary of State in
Maryland, Baltimore, 51.
20. Thomas H. Powers, a chemist worth $10,000,-
000, Philadelphia, 65.
24. Dr. J. G. Kohl, German traveler and historian,
Bremen, 70.
27. William Henry Calmer, known as "Rohert
Heller," musician and prestidigitateur, Philadelphia, 48.
29. Louis A. Godey, publisher of Goaey's Zady^s
Booh, Philadelphia, 74. -
30. Lyman Tremain, ex-Congressman from New
York", New York, 59.
DECEMBER.
1. George Henry Lewes, author and husband of
"■ George Eliot," London, 60.
2. J. P. Wilmot, Bishop of the Diocese of Louisiana, New Orleans.
14. Princess Alice, third child of Queen Victoria
and Grand Duchess of Hesse-Darmstadt, Darm
stadt. 35.
19. Bayard Taylor, American author and traveler,
and United States Minister to Germany. Berlin, 53
21. Alpheus S.Williams, Congressman from the
First Michigan district, Washington, 68.
After paying England that five and
a half millions we realize, as never
before, that the mackerel is & 0, Q. IX-
fish.—■Cincirmatt Times, *
Not a bit-
Cast iron-
your wife.
He sat beside the sewer and thought*
of gewercide.
A new--paper at Deadwood is called
the Up-Gruloli Snorter.
" "Where will you put me when I
come to see you at your castle ia. the
air ?5* asked a gentleman of & witty girL
" In a brown study," she replied.
Haie, father Christmas, hail to theel
Honored ever shalt thou be!
AU the sweets that love bestows,
Endless pleasures wait on those
Who, like vassals, brave and true,
Give to Christmas homage due."
" Be polite, sonny," said the board&r
to an impertinent youngster, " be polite, and, when she offers you- a' cup
of tea, don't you take a cup and sauce
5er." ■■■:■.;-■■'
," Absence makes the heart grow
fonder," says an old poet. It may have
been so inthe past, but now-a-'days" presents are a great deal more effectual than
absence.
Another of those things that no fellow can find out is, why a man's wife
thinks he eares nothing for preserves
and other choice dainties when she has
"company" for supper.
"Those are ewers," said gaentle-
man in a crockery store, pointing to a
lot of wash-pitchers: " So, they hain't
mine, neither," replied a bystander;
;'* they belong*to the storekeeper." ■
Probably the best way to get a stop
to this grave-robbery business- would
be", in every case where a* grave is rifled,
td fill the vacancy promptly with a medical student.—Burlington Hawk-Eye.
" Say"* Jim," said one gamin to sa-
<$her, '"do yott, know*what "' pressing
business*' means?" "CourseI do" replied Jim. "Pressing business means
huggin' a girl. What d'ye'take me for,
^riyhow'?" -
**   Quoth blushing Kate ■■while popping com,
■'.-.-. Unto her lover, with a sigh,
.    ""Iwqul^you were a kernel born;
Li77    Nd*W can you guess the reason why? "
', *'«." For thy sweet cornstalk I've "an ear,"    .
h'S i "*;With hiisk-y voice the youth replied;        7
t: - ,','iButl'm toO; green to pop, I fear."
"Saidsaucy-Kate, "You never tried."
Lilia. ask$ lis: "Would a man smoke
: cigars if he couldn't see the smoke?"
Lilia,. would a girl chew gum ii she
couldn't see what she was chewing ? Ask
us. someOiing with s, bay mado— to 'Jt.—
ITIieelkia Lea(7ei\
T^ennco~iiuci-aiu6ioiL-iid\l's .s.—-" *w Cj £_„~l
you not bail him out?" inquired-a bystander 'of a friend. "Bail hi-m out!"
exclaimed the other, "why, you could
not pump him out."
Solitaire diamonds are still in high
favor for .engagement rings. That's
what makes an old married man smile
so often and so pityingly as he gazes at
the young men who come to take his.
seven daughters to the sociable.
Song of the medical student:
If a body find -a, body
In a grassy dell,
'        If a body hook a body
Need a body tell?
I'm the caddy hauls the body
To the picklin' shop,
And all the doc's they envy me
A carving of him'np! - .
—Now York Graphic.
"Mother, what is an angel?" "An
angel? Well, an angel is a child that
flies." "But, mother, why does papa always call my governess an angel*?" .
"Well," explained the mother, after, a
moment's pause, "because she is going
to fly immediately."
A class was being examined recently
in a sea-beaten > town of Sussex. The
subject under discussion was the flood.
■Among the first questions put was,
"How did Noah understand that these
was going to be a flood?" "'Cause,"
shouted- an urchin, "he looked at his
almanac!"
A Justice of the Peace at Hew Hartford married a couple the other day,
and the groom asked him his terms
after the knot was tied. "Well,'* said
the Justice, "the code allows me %%"
"Then," said the young man, "here's a
dollar; that will make you three."—
Cedar Falls Gazette.
Since our proof-reader heard that
Mr. Bancroft gave |50 for the discovery
of an error in a Latin quotation, he has
been estimating the number of like
errors he has corrected in correspondents' manuscript, and now sends in a
bill for $2,764,893.02. But we think we
are equal to the emergency." You should
have seen his countenance fall when we
asked for a bill of particulars.—Boston
Transcript.
Business Before Conj^resso
There is an immense amount of unfinished business before the present
Congress. The calendar of the daily
order of business in the House shows
the amount of legislation pending. Of
business undisposed of at the end of the
last session there are 7 reports of committees, 5 House bills and resolutions
with amendments of the Senate, 116
bills from the Senate on their first and
second reading, 4 concurrent resolutions, 1 motion passed with a motion to
reconsider pending, 91 bills in committee of the whole house on the state
of the Union, and 225 bills on
the private calendar. They© are
also a large number of committee reports to be presented. Of the pending
Senate bills there may be mentioned: Extending the time for the construction of the Northern Pacific railroad; authorizing the Secretary of War
to erect headstones over the graves of
Union soldiers who have been interred
in private village or city cemeteries; to
provide for the appointment of an additional Circuit Judge in the Second and
Seventh judicial circtdts; to aid in the
construction 'of a bridge across the
Mississippi river at Fort Snelling; to
grant additional homestead rights to
settlers within railway, limits; and, ia
relation to %g ^ausgg Pseiiei^liwaf,
w jjs Jju^afcim&t iijij^.-'1.;