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ImportaEt Intelligence from All Parts.
The TJ. 8. Seuate.
^ "SBi^^Kellogg's resolution calling' on the
"""heads ot Executive "Departments for the
names, etc., of clerks and other employes in
' their respective departments was taken up on
the llth-, and Mr. Brown oifered an amendment calling: for• additional information as to
whether such clerks or employes are white or
colored* The resolution and amend ment were
laid over for future action. Several nominations were confirmed in executive session, in-
cludm*the following: Michael J. 'Kramer, now
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Paris; Thomas A. M. Morris, of Colorado, to be
a member of the Ute Commission, vice J. B.
Bowman, resigned. The adverse report on the
nomination of Stanley Matthews was considered, and Messes. Bayard, Edmunds and
Edgerton made speeches ag-ainst, and Mr. In-
Kallsin favor of, his appointment. The previous action authorizing-Mx. Hoar to print his
speech on the Chinese question was reeonsid-
ei-ed, and itwas decided that no speeches
shouldbe printed,
Oxthel2thMr„Kellojrg: again called up his
^ resolution for information relative to,the ap-
, pointment of employes In the different "Executive Departments, aad it was, after debate,
referred to the Committee on Printing. The
same disposition was made of a resolution offered by Mr. MeBill, providing that hereafter
the "Official Register of the United States"
shall contain information as to the Congressional District from -which each officer,
cterlc and employe in the United States is appointed, and tbe date ot" his appointment. Mr.
Brown offered art amendment to Mr. MeDill's
resolution asking for further information as
to whether such employes are white or colored^ and the amendment was referred to the
same* committee. A resolution, offered by
Mr^Ho-W, was adopted directing the Committee on Privileges and Elections to inquire and
report at the next session of Congress what
measures are needful to secure the ascertainment and declaration of the result of the
election of President and "Vice-President. The
case of Stanley Matthews wa3 further considered in executive session, and his nomination
for Associate Judge ot" the Supreme Court was
finally confirmed by a, vote of ;& to 23.
Ix executive session on the 13th several
nominations by the President were confirmed,
ttmong thear being that of Don A. Pardee, of
Louisiana, for United States Circuit Judge of
the Fifth Judicial District, vice Judge Woods,
of Georgia, promoted to the Supreme Court.
The Senate adjourned to the ISth.
rv v
V-
jOomestle.
The son of a Broadway stage-driver receht-
. ly found in a dilapidated; trunk which he had
purchased a, cluster diamond brooch lost by
Mrs. William B. Yanderbilt at Saratoga, and
valued at. ©3,000. tThe youngster, in "refcarn-
ing the prize, saicL he did not ask a reward,
but hoped the affair might aid Ms-father ia
, securing an easier job.
The centennial anniversary of the victory
■of the American Revolutionary army over
the British at Gowpens was celebrated on the
llth, on the battle-ground at Spartanburg,
S. U. Governor Hagood, ThomasVVentworth
Higginson,. Senator Wade Hampton and representatives from several of the thirteen
original States made speeches. Oyer twenty
thousand persons were in attendance.
j^^ At a recent piclnc party near Talle.de j a,
^^ Ala., a child seven years old was discovered
dead in the arms of a negro thief, who was
about to throw her body over the falls. The
murderer was promptly hanged. The child
had been killed for the diamond and gold
ornaments she wore.
A tew days ago two South Carolina tele-
* graph,operators exchanged insults' and chal-
Jefitesoyer the wires, and met half  way between Columbia and Charlotte and fought
out the quarrel with fists.
The assessment of St. Louis! for purposes
of taxation for the year 1SSL is:: Eeal estate,
§130,000,000; personal, §"26.000,000. This
is a decrease of §15,000,000 \ as compared
With last year;
- Havtgatios" on tlie Erie and Champlain
Canals was resumed on the 12fch.
JB'OUK eases of sunstroke fwere reported
from New York City on the llth. The thermometer indicated eighty-eight degrees in
the shade.
Charles Gf.ees, the son of a Brooklyn
gentleman, who had been kidnaped, was
recently recovered by a monk connected
with an Allegheny (Pa.) monastery, who
forced: two tramps to surrender him.
The limited express on the Pennsylvania
Ka'lroad i-ee.;nfly made the ninety miles between Philadelphia and Jersey City in ninety-
five minutes-
James R. Tdkxep., a druggist of Nashvi'le,
Tenn., was killed on thellthby the explosion
of a soda fountain.
At its recent session in Chicago the
Catholic Young Men's National Union adopted, among others, resolutions expressing
sympathy with the Irish, people in their struggle for just Land laws, and denouncing the
public school system of the United States.
Bishop ELeane, of Pichmond, Va., was re-
electel President of the "Union; Father Patrick Taafe, of Brooklyn, First General Vice-
President, and a number of Vice-Presidents
and Secretaries were also chosen.
The fifty-seventh anniversary of the
American Sunday-School Union was celebrated in Chicago on the evening of the 12th.
There was a large attendance, and eloquent
addresses were delivered by Rev. Dr. John
Hall, of Xew York, Rev. Dr. "Noble, of Chicago, and Mr. D. E. "Nbyes, of St. Paul.
Axxie Mtbtxe, a young Racine (Wis.)
miss, recently died from the effects of skipping a rope over one hundred times continuously.
James W. Poweee, of Owingsville, Ky.,
who: has, been seriously" ill ""for more than a
year, claims to have been restored to complete health, by prayer.
A keCest incendiary fire at Woonsocket,-
R. I.j destroyed the Quaker meeting-house,
erected in 1739, and for a, century the only
house for public worship in the town.
SECRETAttr Wisdom on the 12th issued a
call for §120,00J,0J0 in five-per-cent. coupon
bonds, on which interest will cease August
12, unless the ho'dera desire their indefinite
continuance at the rate of three and a-hal£
per cent. The Treasury will also riceive
registered '"ve-per-cent's to the amount of
S.i5Cf,000,000 for extension on the same prln-
eip'ev
Two oases of sunstroke occurred in Chi-f
cago on the 12th. One ended fatally, the
other was considered dangerous. Ihermom-
eler eighty-eight degrees in the shade.
The Governor of Minnesota has directed
that applications for pardons must be accompanied by a recommendation from the
Judge and Prosecuting Attorney who tried
the prisoner, as well as by a petition from at
least two-thirds of the jurors who convicted
him.
Ujtder the recent call for bonds the first
of the five-per-cent'b received for continuance at three and one-half per cent, will be
the last to be redeemed by the call, under
eeetion 3 oi the act of 1&70, which requires
that the last number Issued shall be the first
called for redempttoq. ,    < -
The Postmaster-General has given orders
that sample copies of pew publications can-
*"*  "^xiot be maKed in large quantities until submitted to the Department for its ruling.
Saeatc Jawb PhiTjLips. who was confined In
the jail at Mountain Home,  Ark., on suspl-
\ cion of having murdered her husband, re-
'eeatly made her escape by sawing the iron
bars.
A few days ago three children of James
Taliaferro, of Thomas County, Georgia, perished in a burning home while their father
was absent.
A case of varioloid recently made its appearance in Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.,
and the faculty dismissed the students.
Proe. Edward E. Barnard, of Nashville,
Tenn., claims to have discovered a small but
very bright comet.
Is New York City a few days ago a
drunken man named Patrick Quinlan
shot his mother twice with a revolver, because she could not give him money for
drink.   Her wounds were believed to be fatal.
There was received at the loan division
of the Treasury Department in Washington
on the 14tM2S,S29,400 of five-per-cent. bonds
for continuance at three and one-half per
cent., making §50^536,930 received since the
issuance of the Secretary's circular on the
12th.
Ik the recent six. days' pedestrian contest
in Chicago Harrimaa scored 530 miles;
Tracey, 523; Krohne, 533; Struckel, 458;
Eaber, 450, ani Campana, 375.
Alarming reports have recently reached
the frontier posts in regard to the recklessness of the Navajo Indians. They were stealing stock, claiming lands not belonging to
them, and threatening whites who settle out-
s-"de their reservation. A company of infantry had been sent to the reservation from
Fort Win gate, and General Hatch had been
requested to furnish protection for Government surveying parties. The Navajos number
twenty thousand, and the year's allowance of
rations has been exhausted.
The values of the exports of petroleum and
petroleum products from the United States
during March, 1881, were §3,230,116, and during March, 1SS0, §2,378 842; for nine months
ended ^March 31, 1581, §,"*S,643)507; same
period in 1880, §30,612,815.
A toksado pas-ed over Dayton, Ohio, and
vicinity on the evening of the 15th, doing
much damage.
Br the capsizing of a boat in the Licking
Reservoir at Newark. Ohio, on the 15th,
BriceStowe, Mrs. John Lasch and two children were drowned.
At Memphis, Tenu., on the loth the graves
of the Confederate dead were decorated with
flowers.
The steamship City of Rome, recently
launched at Cleveland, is said to be the
largest vessel on the lakes. She Is 1,90S. 10
tons burden, and cost $135,000. ■
The Springfield (111.) liquor saloons were
closed on Sunday, 15tb, by order of the
Mayor.
T. J. B. Lixcoljt, of Boston, a broker in
canned goods and nuts, has failed, his liabilities being estimated as high as §750,000.
At Newcastle, Del., on the 14th three
whites and two negroes were publicly
whipped for petty offenses.
There were four deaths from sunstroke in
New York City on the 14th.
The Director of the United States mint
estimates that the gold coin and builiOn in
this country amounts to §520,000,003, about
half of which is in circulation.
The Italian Ministry resigned on the 14th.
The Chicago Tribune of the 16th contained
a large number of crop reports from different
points in the West, the majority of which
were extremely favorable. At various points
in Illinois the showing "was that prospects
had been wonderfully Improved during the
previous two weeks of fine weather, and the
outlook for wheat and com was in the main
gratifying.
Personal ami Political.
The fifty-fourth annual meeting of the
Home Missionary Society was held i:i New
York on the llth, under the Presidency of
l\ev. Dr.. Theodore D. Woolsey. The receipts of the Society for the past year
amounted to $293,953 and the expead.tures
to §2S4,414. There are 1,032 ministers In the
employ of the Society. Mr. Woolsey was reelected President; Rev. Dr. A. H. Ciapp,
Treasurer; Rev. Dr. Henry M. Storrs and
Rev. Dr. David B. Coe, Corresponding Secretaries.
The Legislature of Michigan has passed
an amendment to the new"Tiquor-Tax bill,
which provides for a §300 tax on spirit retailers and §203 on beer sellers.
' The "Supreme Court of Nevada has declared, unconstitutional the Lottery bill
passed by the last Legislature.
Gekeral Grant and Senator Chaffee
reached New Orleans from Mexico on the
12th. They were Ordered to remain at the
quarantine station for three days, btcause
they sailed from the infected port of Vera
Cruz.
Notwithstanding the adverse report of
its Judiciary Committee, the United States
Senate on the 12th confirmed Stanley Matthews' .nomination-for Associate Jud^e of the
Supreme Court by a vote of 24 to &*3.
The attorney for the Agricul tural' and
Mechanical Society of Western Maryland
on the 13th filed his declaration to the suit
against Rev. Henry Ward Beecher for failure
to d,el'yer a lecture according to agreement^
and claiming §10,000 damages.
- Sir Edward Thorntox, the British Minister at Washington, on the 13th unofficially
informed Secretary Blaine that he had been
offered and had accepted the j osition of
British Ambassador to St. Petersburg, as the,
successor of Lord Dufferiti. v
Chaei.esE. Henrt, of Ohio, was* nominated by the President on the 13th for Marshal of the-District of Columbia, and Fred
Douglass for Recorder of Deeds of the District, vice George A. Sheridan, resigned.
The Republican United States Senators
held another caucus On the 13th. The Western Associated Press reporter states/- that it
had been ascertained that, while no affirmative action had been taken on the proposition, it was generally agreed that Senators
might vote as they individually ehOse on the
question of confirming appointments to office
by the President, but, as a number of Senators Avere absent, another caucus would be
held for more definite action by a vote, if the
absentees desired it.
Both houses of the Illinois Legislature
have voted to adjourn sine die on the 80th of
May. ., -»
Foreign.
The Austrian Consul at Kiefl has warned
the merchants of Austria ot the danger of
business transactions with Southern Russia,
on account of the Russian depredations on
Jewish merchants.
A grand military review took place iu St.
Petergb,urg on the llth, at which the Czar
was received with great enthusiasm, and the
Empress drove down the ranks in an open
carriage;
Several arrests were made in Ireland on
the llth under the Coercion act. Among the
victims were three men who had previously
been arrested for complicity in the shooting
of the boy Farrell, in Dublin, but were discharged.
The Bank of France has decided to issue a
fifty franc note, and will, if required by the
Government, issue twenty and fifteen franc
notes.
General Grant has signed a new contract
with the Mexican   Government embracing
extensions qE the Mexican Soutnern Railroad.
The Marquis of Lome is said to have declared his intention to retire from the Governor-Generalship of Canada after his journey to Manitoba.
A Kieff (Russia) telegram, received on the
12th, announces the burning of the Hebrew
quarter in that city, involving the loss of
30,000,000 rubies. Crowds of refugees were
crossing the Austrian frontier.
On the evening of the llth an Irish bailiff
employed by Lord Dundales, while-returning
from a wake near Dokeen, was shot through
the lungs by parties concealed behind a
hedge*. On the following day John Heftier-
man,, a prominent Cork Land Leaguer, was
arrested under the provisions of the Coercion
act.
Two German" electricians have constructed
an electric railway to run from the Prussian
Capital to Lichterfeld, a distance of six
miles' A public trial was made on the.al3th,
resulting in unqualided success. A simple
tram-carwith an electric battery concealed
between the wheels was propelled over rails
resembling the ordinary ones on railroads,
thirty-nine inches apart, which were connected with an electric battery at the .'sending
station. The greatest speed obtained was
eighteen English miles an hour, but it was
stated that a greater rate of speed could be
attained, if necessary.
In the British Hoiiseof Lords on the 13th
Earl Spencer stated, in reply to a question by
Viscount Middleton, that the increase of outrages in Ireland was partially accounted for
»by tlie increase of ejectments.
W. J. Rose'by, iron and coal merchant of
Lincoln, Eng., failed on the 13th. Liabilities,
§500,000.
Eight hundred Jewish families have
taken refuge at the barracks at Kieif.
General Grant lias appointed an engineer
to make a prel mlnary survey for the Mexican Southern Railroad.
At a consistory-held in Rome, on the 13fch
the Pope announced the appointment of
thirty-eight Bishops,
An immense land-slide has blockaded
Mont Cenis tunnel. ,
On the 13th six additional baronies in
County Tipperary, Ireland, were proclaimed
under the Coercion act.    -
A Paris dispatch of the 13th announces
the. conclusion of a treaty" "bet wee a France
and Tun's, giving the former Power the right
to occupy certain important military positions. The .financial system of Tunis Is to'be
regulated by France, and the Bey guaranteed security of person and dynasty. The
war indemnity is to be levied upon the rebellious tribes.
The -press Of St. Petersburg has been
warned not to comment adversely on the acts
of the Prince of Bulgaria.
Anti-Jewish: disturbances recently occurred iu Warsaw, Poland. In consequence
of the murder of a Chr.stian at Odessa, the
Jews of that city had been ordered to surrender their arms.
A band of Turkish marauders has entered
Bulgaria, and dispatches ot the loth say
they were committing great depredation.
At Yale, in British Columbia, recently several hundred Chinese laborers, on a strike,
wrecked a transportation company's warehouse.
The number of small-pox patients treated
in the London hospitals during the two weeks
ended on the I4th was 1,247, against £'57 during the previous fortnight.
"LATER "BTEWS.
TnE condition of Mrs. President Garfield,
who had been quite ill for several days, was
sucli on the night of the 18th as to cause
great anxiety. Dr. Boynton, her attending
physician; stated that her condition had
changed, for the worse, but entertained
hopes that such change was only asymptom of
the partially remittent character of the fe
ver, and that it would soon be followed by a
corresponding improvement.
The Mark LaneJExprcn of the 16th says
that, the dry, harsh, winds of "the preceding
week had greatly retarded the growth of the
English grain crops. Spring wheat would be
almost a failure, and on the whole the Ex-
pi'es-s says the season was thelatest on record.
The Grand Jury of the Un'ted States District Court aW Philadelphia *: has returned
three bills of indictment against Joseph R.
Black, William R. Cason, Joseph Frank and
Henry Arbuckle for conspiracy to defraud
the United States Government in connection
with the "star-route" contracts.
Considerable astonisbmentwas manifested in the United, States Senate ou the 16th
when the official announcement was made
that Senators Conkling and Piatt had forwarded their resignations to the Governor of
New York. Th e Sen a tors present were s eem-
ingly taken ^completely by - surpr'se at*this
move on the part of the New York Senators.
The Vice-President laid before the United
States Senate on the 16th communications
from Messrs. Conkling and PJatt announcing
that they had forwarded their resignations as
Senators/rom New York to the Governor of
that-State. Mr. Burnside, Chairman of the
Committee on Foreign Relations, reported
back favorably from that committee the resolution declaring the consent of the United
States Government to be a condition precedent to the construction of ship canals or
other ways o'f transportation?of sea-going
yjesseis 'icross tbe isthmus connecting North
apd South America, and also to the rules
and regulation! under- which other nations
shall participate in the use of such canals or
other ways. An executive session was held,
and several nominations were confirmed,
among which were the following:   R'chard
A. EUmer, of New York, Second Assistant
Postmaster-Genefal; J... Henry Wilson, Collector of Customs qf the District of Columbia; Charles E. Henry, United States Marshal for the. District of Columbia; Mc Walter
B. Noyes, Consul afcVenice; Albert Rhoades,
Consul at Rouen. *
The Republican United States Senators
held another caucus on the 16th, at which,
according to the Western Associated Press
report, "a few Senators spoke in favor of
leaving the Robertson case in the hands of
the Commerce Committee- for. some days
longer, in the hope that some way mi^ht yet
be opened up to avoid the controversy concerning it. Several' other members
of the caucus, while agreeing with
the speakers that the nomination of
Judge Robertson was not " a wise
or desirable act on the part of the President,
took the ground, nevertheless,, that, as the
Issue had been made, party interests de-
manded'that it should be met by sustaining
■tlie" Administration. VariouS other advocates of prompt action urged the confirmation of the nomination on its' merits. After
a comparatively short debate on all points
above indicated, it was decided, with four
dissenting votes, that the Committee, so far
as Republican members can now control
their action, shall report- back all pending nominations forthwith, meaning at
to-morrow's session of the Senate." It Is
also stated that the necessity of providing
for the election of a Piesident of the Senate
pro tempore before the cjose of the session
was brought to the afctent'on of the caucus,
"arid, as' the Democrats now constitute a
majority of the body, it was agreed to notify
them that the Republicans will consider Senator Harris, of Tennessee, as an acceptable
choice for the position, and will cheerfully
acquiesce in his election."
Perils  of Somnambulism.
Sadie Lord, of Clinton, Me., a bright littls
lady sixteen years of age, had an adventure
the other night which is narrated in the Augusta Journal. Miss Lord is an active young
body, and sometimes the events of wateinj?
hours so crowd into her dreams that she commits strange freaks of somnambulism. Her
father is dead, and she lives with her mother
and brother on a farm. On the night in question mother and daughter went to bed early
and were soon asleep. The young man came
in soon afterward and retired to hi3 chamber
over his mother's apartment. About 9:30 Mrs.
Lord awoke. She was terrified to find her
daughter gone. The mother listened amoment
and then heard some one moving in an adjoining room. She at once proceeded to the
spot, and found Sadie putting on her clothes
and fast asleep. She called her namo softly,
not wishing to rudely awaken the dreamer.
The moment her mother spoke the girl
grasped a shawl and, half clothed as she was,
ran out doors like a startled deer. Mrs. Lord
tried to follow her, and could discern the outlines of her lithe form hastening toward the
railroad tra-.k. Itwas time for the Pullman
train from Bangor. The mother could hear
the shrill whistle in the di=tanee. What if her
darling should be crushed beneath the cruel
wheels! Shesawihe movinglanteruof one of
the section men, and shouted to him to intercept the fugitive, but he did not hear her.
The train came nearer and nearer. Tho
great, head-light of the locomotive threw
a*/ dazzling path of- light ado»vn the
track. The girl, unconscious of her danger, crossed right in front of the engine and
narrowly escaped from the very jaws of death.
Heaving a great sigh of relief that her darling
was free from imminent peril, the mother returned to the house and called up her son. Ho
hastily dressed and continued the search fully
an hour, When he aroused the neighborhood to
assist him. The church bell was rung and the
entire community turned out. A little after
midnight the wanderer was found. She had
crawled under the barn belonging to Charles
Baker, about one-third of a mile from her
home, and had nestled beside a great ox-cart,
where she was slumbering as peacefully as if
she was in her own comfortable "bed. She was
gently awakened and taken home.
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A Desperate Struggle With a Mad Dog.
The northern section of this city was thrown
in'o the wildest state of excitement by the
terrible attack on a number of persons by an
int'uriatedbull-d-g suffering with hydrophobia.
For some time past Mr. James M. Epply, who
resides on the northern boundary of the city,
has teen the owner of two of these dangerous
beasts, and has kept them confined in the rear
yard attached to his residence. Thi3 afternoon
one of the dogs ferociously attacked the
other, and, while they were engaged in a desperate fight, a colored girl belonging to the
house went to the back door to endeavor to
separate them, but no sooner did she make
her appearance than one of them, frothing
at the mouth, seized her by the left
leg arid tore a great piece of flesh from
the calf of the limb. Stricken with terror and
pain, the girl screamed for help, and Mr. William Thompson, who was passing at the time,
came to her assistance and fired at the animal
thrcugh the fence with his revolver. The ball
missed its mark, and Mr. Thompson then
climbed to the top of the fence to secure a better aim for his next shot. No sooner did the
maddened beast see him than it leaped tor his
throat and, getting a savage hold, together
they fell off the fence into the street. Mr.
Thompson, who is a powerful man, fought
desperately, and finally succeeded in getting
away from the animal, but not until his coat
and' shirt were torn from him and he was
severely bitten in the throat and
breast. The dog then ran madly down Maryland avenue, and his next victim was a child
named Eddie Simm, son of one of our leading
dry-goods merchants. Dashing at the boy, the
dog threw him down and bit and tore the flesh
from a dozen parts of his body. Fainting and
bleeding, the child was picked up and carried
to his father's residence close by. A crowd
had by this time gathered in pursuit of the dog,
but he was not finally disposed of, although
a dozen shots were tired at him, several of
which wounded him, until he had severely bitten a colored boy named Richard Franklin, a
distance of five or six squares from where the
infuriated boast had started on his blood
thirsty flight.— Baltimore {Md.), May 9, Special
to Chicago Tribune.
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Clairvoyance and -Dreams.
Several months ago a charcoal burner at
Indiantown Gap dreamed that at a certain spot
silver ore would be found. The dream was
repeated.-he says, for five successive nights.
He searched for a spot on the mountains like
that which he had seen in his dreams, and
found one. A clairvoyant was then told of the
dreams, and a seance followed at midnight on
the mountain, when the new mpon was apparently over the spot. It is claimed t hat strange
noises were heard on that night- coming from
the earth. A few shovels of earth and gravel
were thrown up, and a rock was taken out
and examined. Veins of a bright, minerallike substance could be traced in the stone,
and when this news was spread through the
region the valley was wild With excitement.
The spot is on tne hillside, only ashort distance
from the hut of old Joe Itaber, who was murdered by the "Blue-eyed Six," to get the $30,-
000 insurance on bis life.
Ten hard-working backwoodsmen who believed the gilt-edged story of the clairvoyant
paid in one. hundred dollars each, organized a
company, and resolved to begin operations at
once for ore. A force of ten men was put to
work on a shaft. After a few days" work, one
of the miners, named KrciSer, was killed by
a heavy bucket falling on his head while
working at the bottom of the shaft. At flrst
it was supposed that the silver would bo
found at a depth of fifty feet; then sixty was
named as the limit, then e'ghty,, and finally
ninety! When the outlook at each limit was
gloomy, the company promptly made another
asse-sment and pushed the work ahead. The
shaft is now over eighty feet deep, and the
day and night shifts of men have been increased to fifteen. They are working under
Thomas Job, an experienced ore minor from
the anthracite coal country. Nothing of any
value has yet been found.—Lebanon (Po.)
Cor.N. Y.'Sun.
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Official Etiquette.
Almost as quaint as the well-known story
Df the Spanish monaroh who wrtg roasted to
death because the official justified by the prescriptions of court etiquette in removing him.
from inconvenient proximity to a roaring fire
did not happen to be within the palace precincts at the time of his Majesty's extreme
needis an account of a recent suicide' in St.
Petersburg. A certain Prince, a handsome
spendthrift, had married a wealthy bourgcoise
for her money,, and this union had "turned out
so unhappily that, a few days ago, ho hanged
himself to a window-frame in his study. One
ef the servants happened to enter the
room almost immediately after he had
cdmpleted this arrangement, beheld him
suspended, and summoned her mistress,
who was dressing for a ball, to the
spot. When the Princess caught sight
of her husband ho was struggling with considerable energy; but not venturing to make or
to authorize any attempt to cut him down, or
otherwise relievo him from his precarious situation, she simply ordered her servants to acquaint the police -with the exact state of affairs.
The I'cotmun told the porter; the porter communicated with the gardevoi on duty in the
street. By the time this official had made the
matter plain to the pribtav, or police Lieutenant, and that functionary had sent for the
police surgeon to accompany him to the scene,
of the catastrophe, some throe hours had
elapsed: and when th/5 executive removed the
Prince from the window-frame that unfortunate nobleman was as indisputably no more as
srood Queen Anne herself.
SCHOOL  AND CHUBCH.
—The recent prosecution of Ritualists
cost the English Government $21,000.
—The Lutheran General Synod will
meet at Altoona, Pa., June 8, for the
thirtieth annual convention.
—The school population of the United
States is 14,596,183. Of this number
9,373,195 were enrolled in 1878. There
were in that year 271,144 teachers.   ■
—The entire circulation of the forty-
five volumes and tracts prepared for
the American Tract Society by Dr.
Plumeris more than 5,000,000 copies.
—Professor John H. Hewitt has resigned the chair in Lake Forest University, Illinois, and accepted the Lawrence Professorship of the Greek language and literature of Dartmouth College.*' *w*a
—The Parliament of Brazil, in the
adoption of an amendment to the Constitution which gives to Protestants and
their religion the same civil and political rights as the Catholics enjoy, marks
a still further advance in the triumph of
the principles of religious liberty.
—Rev. H. Pahtahquahong Chase,
hereditary Chief of the Ojibways, and
President of the Grand Council of Indians, preached recently at the venerable city church of St. Peter's, Cornhill,
London. He wore two medals, one
given to his father by George HI., the
other to himself, byvthe Prince of Wales
in person on behalf of the Queen. Mr.
Chase is sixty,
—In. a fashionable London church
only the private and professional classes
—the gentlemen—are allowed to rent
pews in the nave. All persons connected with trade must rent pews in the
aisles or gallery. However, they are
very strict in drawing the line. A
" tradesman" may be able to buy up
the whole church, but he can't have a
pew in the nave.
—Up to 1870 there was no provisions
for common-school education in England; but now both in England and
Scotland, parents are required by law
to provide elementary education for
their children between the years of five
and thirteen. In 1879 there were 10,-
111 prosecutions in London for not sending children to school acccording to law,
5,b'48 in Liverpool, and 2,556 in Birmingham and the law is felt to be a
valuable assistance. *
—Ralph Waldo Emerson tells his
daughter that it matters little what she
studies, but everything with whom she
studies. Our modern manipulators of
educational appliances have made it appear that the reverse is true. Let the
system and method be perfect and it
matters little who guides these children
to the knowledge fonts. Out of this
policy has come (1) the degradation of
the-teacher, (2) the overburdening of
children with school work, (3) show,
brilliancy at the expense of thoroughness, (4) too much supervision.        *>
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
—Decisions in law suits are rendered
the same as lard is rendered—by trying.
—Loivell Courier.
—One of tlie leading ministers of
Boston jjlays the violin. A sort of fiddle
D. D., so to speak.—Cambridge Iribune.
—" The press is mighty and will prevail," said the susceptible maiden, when
she was hugged by lier stalwart lover.
—New York Neios.
—The new Czar leads a very simple
life. He rises early and breakfasts with
his family,, and then puts on his boiler
iron overcoat and takes a walk in the
backyard.—Boston Globe.
—'" Give us an article on dogs,"
writes a correspondent who is an enthusiast regarding the canine race. A
dog collar is an article on dogs; so are
fleas; which will you have?—Burlington
Hawk-Eye.
—It has been conclusively proved that
if a man walks around the world on a
great circle, his head will go just 37.7
feet further than his feet. So, if you
don't'want to wake up some morning
with your head and feet that far apart;
don' t attempt circumnavigation.—New
Haven Begister.
—It was a Boston girl who asked:
"Why is it that two souls, mated in
the impenetrable mystery of their nativity, float by each other on the ocean
currents of existence without being instinctively drawn together, blendedand
beautified in the assiniulated alembic of
eternal love?" That is an easy one. It
is because butter is forty-five cents a
pound and a good sealskin sacque costs
as high as §500. The necessaries of
life must experience a fall in price before two souls will readily blend in the
assimilated alembic and so forth.—Nor-
ristown Herald.
—Were you ever alone, and did you feel
It was* almost useless even to kneel,
For nothing on earth could still the pain
That had come to your life again and again?
Asks one of our young lady poets in
the ■first stanza of an able effort. We
should smile. The condition you so
faithfully describe will be recognized at
once by every slave to the fried oyster
and the mince pie. The calm restful
feeling that a lobster salad produces is
also sometimes thrown in. "Never be
without a bottle of pain-killer, young
woman. A dose in time sometimes
saves nine.—Chicago Tribune.
How Women Should Dress.
An American authority says: ""No
lady need be ashamed to dress plainly
or cheaply; she can, with the help of the
modern guides to dress, appear like a
lady on veiy little money. She can lay
down three rules for herself: Never to
pretend to anything, never to wear false
jewelry, and, affirmatively, always to be
neat. A young girl with a white muslin
and a fresh flower is dressed for a
queen's ball, Alady of maturer years,
in a well-fitting dark silk, real jewelry
or none and her own hair—all the better
if it is white—is also dressed for a ball.
True womanhood includes all the delicate refinements that overflow iu the
perfect glove, the well-fitting shoe, the
pretty stocking, the neat frills, the becoming bonnet. The American woman,
to do her only justice, is a neat creature
by instinct, and, if she occasionally gives
too much thought to dress, she is still to
be admired and commended for her
daintijae,ss,''
Mozart's Harpsichord.
A dealer in musical instruments in
this city says the New York Sun, owns
a harpsichord which is said to have
been played on by Mozart when he visited London in 1763. Mozart was then
eight years old, and his performances
awakened so much interest that he was
asked to play for the King and Queen.
For this occasion Jacob and Abraham
Kirckman, manufacturers of musical instruments in London, made a harpsichord which was considered superor to
any they had turned out from their
factory." Mozart improvised on it, and
played compositions of his oavii and
pieces by Bach and Handel. TheKirck-
mans kept the instrument at first on account of its fine tone and afterward on
account of Mozart's growing fame.
They embellished the frame in 1776.
There are, however, some musicians
who say that the harpsichord was used
by Mozart when he was in Paris in 1778
and hot when it was bought by a musician, who brought it to this country and
sold it to its present owner.
The instrument, like our grand
pianos, somewhat resembles a horizontal harp in shape, except that the box is
straight. The frame is of mahogany inlaid with yellow wood. The box which
is about six feet long, is not fastened to
legs, but rests on a triangular table,
and it has brass handles. It is very
light, and can readily be moved from
place to place. It is broadest at the
keyboard, which comprises five octaves
from F to F. From thekeyboardit gets
narrower, until at the end it measures
about one foot in breadth.
Each note has three strings, which
are set in vibration by strips of metal,
between bits of cloth acting as dampers
attached to oblong pieces of wood
called jacks. Above the keyboard are
levers, which work by hand, and vary
the volume of tone by allowing one,
two or all the strings of" the note struck
to vibrate.
The instrument, the sound of -which
resembles that of the harp very closely
is still in very good condition. It is entirely unsuited to modern paino works,
but a minuet of Mozart's and one of
Bach's gavottes sounded very nicely on
it. It was used at the Union League
Theater when "Olivia" was given there-
There are very few of these old instruments in this country. One made
by a brother of John Jacob Astorisin
New York; another, owned by Abram
S. Hewitt, is at his country place, and
a third is in Lexington, Mass. In the
Historical Museum of Dresden is a harpsichord made in 1548 which was a wedding gift from Augustus I. to his wife
Anna,daughter of Christian III. of Denmark.
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Railway Raillery.
"Speaking of St. Louis," the man on
the wood-box said, "did you notice the
rich, old saddle color of the river?"
" I did." replied the Jester, "in my
room at the hotel. When a man takes
a drink of water in St. Louis at .this
time of the year, he dreams all night
that he is a sand-bar."
" When in reality," said the man on
the wood-box, "he is only a mud-scow."
" Speaking of pleasant thing.-s," the
cross passenger said, " I see the bronze
railing of Mr. Vanderbilt's house alone
cost §40,000."
" O, yes," the man on the wood-box
said, " but he can't slide down it, now
that he has it. There isn't a hell-boy
in a hotel that doesn't have more fun
on the rail thanMr. Vanderbilt."
" And I see that Mary Anderson," the
fat passenger continued, "travels in a
special palace car, with an upright
piano, a book-case and a hammock."
" Yes," the sad passenger said, " but
she can't sit in the smoker and put her
feet on the stove and spit out of the
window. Of what use is wealth when
it debars us from enjoying the primary
comforts of life?"
"And I," saidthe Jester, "1 have a
suit of new spring clothes. They are
fair to look upon, and they fit like an
umbrella-cover for snugness; they look
like a dream of May, and what is it all
when all is done? It has snowed every
day since I got them, and I carry them
about with me like ballast. I can't
wear them in the snow. Do I want
people to- take me for a crocus?"
" Verily no," said the sad passenger,
"for this we are not supposed to be a
cluster of croakers. Everything seems
to go wrong this spring, The world
turns round so fast."
"And there are spots on the sun,"
the tall, thin passenger said.
" And the moon is gibbous," said the
fat passenger.
"There was a hair-pin in the soup,"
the man on the wood box said.
. "And there's moths in the carpets,"
said the woman who talks bass.
And yet it is a good sort of a world
after all. " It won't alwa3Ts snow," and
everyday's troubles end at bed-time. ~^
Burdette, in Ihe Hawk-Eye.
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A Peculiar Affliction.
Mr. Edwin Cowles, the editor of the
Cleveland Leader, has a peculiar affliction. From boyhood he lias been
troubled with deafness sowewhat ofthe
nature of color blindness. He has never
heard the sound of the bird, and until
he grew to manhood he had always
thought the-music of the bird was a
poetical fiction. " You may fill a room
with canary birds," says^Mr. Cowles,
" and they may all sing at once and I
never would hear a note, but I would
hear the fluttei-ings of their wings. 1
never hear the hissing sound in the human voice, consequently not knowing
of the existence of that sound, I grew
up to manhood without ever making it
in my speech. A portion of the consonants I never hear, yet I can hear all
the vowels. About a quarter of the
sounds in the human voice I never hear,
and I have to watch the motion of the
lips and be governed by the sense of
the remarks in order to understand
what is said to me. I have walked by
the side of a policeman going home at.
night and seen him blow his whistle,
and I never would hear it, although it
could be heard by others half a mile
away; I never heard the upper notes
of a "piano, violin or other musical in-
strnnient, although I would hear all the
lower notes." Mr. Cowles has consulted the most eminent surgeons, physicians and aurists in the country and they
are unanimous in declaring his peculiar
affliction to be without precedent.
A Pennsylvania Coal-Miner"'s ExtrEor?-?
dinary Strength.
The    strongest    man  in  Schuylkill
County, if not in the State, says the
Pottsville   Miners' Journal,   is   James„
Ryan, of St. Clair.   He stands six feet J
one inch in his socks, tips the heani at
296 pounds, measures fifty-eight inches
around the chest, is so well proportioned that his size does not appear remarkable, and is as straight as a rush.
Ryan was born in the County of Cork,
Ireland,  but has lived in this country
since boyhood.   He* is of quiet "dlsposi- »
tion, fortunately, ■ and possessed of tre-^
mendous bodily strength.    His biceps ;
measure twenty-one inches, and the rest
of his limbs in proportion.    He is now
over 60 years of age, • but is still posse's-
sed of extraordinary strength.    He has   .
since his youth worked in the mines,*."'
andhis companions tell wonderful storie3..
of feats of strength performed by him. *
He goes to his work, winter and summer, in his shirt-sleeves.   Years, ago,
before he turned \ over a new leaf arid. „
settled down, he drank five gallons* of
whisky and one-half barrel of porter
every week. This is vouched for by men
who have known him for twenty years.
This aniout of liquor seems large enough
to have killed even a stronger nfan than-
Ryan, but he survived-the strain, and
to-day, in spite of his years and the ill-
treatment his-constitution has received,
is the strongest man in this part of the 3
State.    Some years ago Ryan was in
Pottsville with a friend, when their^at- .,
tention was called to a liffcing-machine
in charge  of   a   traveling v;showman,
who was inviting the passers-by to try;.-
their lifting capacity.    The capacity of
the machine was 1,000 pounds/"'"Ryan _
was asked by his friend if he cOuUT liftr
that amount.     "I can break the machine, man," he replied.   The owner of.
the lift heard the remark, and offered to
give $5 to the man who could lift l,000r
pounds or break the machine-^   Ryan,
braced himself and lifted for■ "all^hajt.-
was in him.     He broke the ma'ehihe, *
and, strange to say, he got the $5.'  * : v"'
He works at Pine Forest Colliery. *'Qne
day not very long ago, as he canie out
of the mine, he noticed a piece of .cast-
iron weighing 1,100 pound's4yjmg on the';
ground.    A friend jokingly asked him.
to lift it.     He lifted it, much to the as-
tonisment of the lookers-on, all of.whoi"a>
knew of his great strength.    As, stated, *
he is peacefully inclined.   Whenever he
sees trouble brewing he gently takes a
belligerent in each hand, and, if they refuse  to 'listen  to reason, bumps pfie
against the other until they cry enough
and agree to a peacful settlement.   "He
was standing on the track one day "with
his back against a trip of loaded cars—
in the mine—when another trip dashed^
around a curve and was upon him before he could jump from the track.   He
braced his back against the stationaryr
trip and received the other with outstretched hands. .He broke the force of
the collision, but feels the strain he r-e-:;
ceived to this day.    An ordinary man
in the situation would have been crushed
to death. He comes from a family noted
for great bodiiy strength.     His mother
is still alive.   Some years ago she carried a barrel of flour from the store of *
Fox Brothers, on Center Street, to her
home in St. Clair.
Tom .Marshall's Oratory.
" Tom Marshall, Richard Menifee and
Frank Hunt vsffere all brilliant men,7"
continued Gov. Magoffin, as the conversation drifted in that direction.    " Hunt,;
came nearer being the equal of Clay
than any man I ever knew.   He was^a
wonderful man.   Marshall .had;a wider-
reputation, perhaps.    He wasawon?-;
derf ul compound.    * They talk about my'"'
astonishing bursts of eloquence,' he said
to me one day,  ' and doubtless imagine
that it is my genius bubbling over.   It
is nothing of the sort.   I'll tell you how
I do it.   I select a subject and study-it
from the ground up.   When I have in as-
tered it fully I write a speech on it.   Then *
I take a walk and come back and revise^ *
and correct.   In a few days I subject ifc>
to another pruning and then recopy it.
Next I add the finishing touches, round
it off with graceful periods and commit
it to memory.   Then I speak it in. the,
fields, in my father's lawn> and; befpxe.i
my mirror, until gestures and "delivery
are perfect.   It sometimes takes me six
weeks or two months to get up a speech. ■?
When I have one prepared, I go ,to
drinking.    I generally "select a ,court%
day, when there is sure to be a crowdl"
I am called on to make a speech, and ^m
permitted to select my own subject. ' I
seize hold of the bannister or railing aifi"
confirm the impression that Lam very;
drunk, and speak my piece.   It aston?-.-,
ishes the people, as I intended it should,.
and  they go away  marveling **at my"
amazing power of oratory.   They call it
genius, and it represents-the -hardgsfc
kind of work.'   This was the wjiy,Mat-c.
shall Would«talk to his intimates/and']^
have no doubt he was telling the truth.*
Yet, with all his vanity and hisiaults,'
he, was a man of unquest'oned ,abilitys
and intellectual power of the highest,
and brightest standard. "^-Kentucky Let'
ter in Chicago Times. ; '*    **> '
An Infant's Half-Million Gone.     I
Eight years ago William H. Taylor, of
Albany,  died, leaving a son four years'
old and an estate, to which the Infant-
was sole heirj estimated to be worth ate
least half a million of dollars,. In an ay^-
gument before Judge Westbrook, at Albany, on a, motion involving the transfer of the proceeds of real-estate .sales*.
it was charged that the income of thiss
on^e princely fortune is not now Suf-~
ficient to support the heir aad pay taxes
and interest charges. "Bad management',
depreciation of values,' an,d various oJ,hi*
er causes have, it is said, contributed tg;
this result.    Judge Westbrook made ani
order forthe paj^ment of certain taxeS,
and judgments, and will at a future day-'
take proof relative to charges preferred.;
by the Hon. Hamilton Harris against|
iW managers of the estate.—jroy (Nf
Y.) Times. ;*':s'£'
—A citizen of German extractioacres
siding in Virginia City, Nev., recently
made preparations to visit the couhtrjf
of his fathers. In order, however, to*
show his patriotism and hislOverfoP4*hisV
his adopted landv ,he- wore a :pAi«^|i
boots in the#sole3of which he had caused
thin layers of earth to be placed. "Wherever he goes he will now say, "I stand
On American soil."
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