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GREENSBORO. GEORGIA.
Sr. Lincoln and the Rebel Chiefe.
Following are two anecdotes of Lin
coln illustrative of Lis spirit of forbear
ance toward the principal actois in the
great rebellion. One day, about the
close of the war, word was brought that
Jake Thompson was at Portland, Me.,
abont to sail for England. Mr. Lincoln
was washing his hands at the time, when
Secretary Stanton urged him to take
immediate action to secure his arrest.
“W-e-1-1,” said the President, “if
Jake Thompson is satisfied with the
issue of the war, I am. B-e-t-t-e-r let
him s-l-i-d-e. ”
“Such men shonld be punished to the
fnll extent of the law, ” said Mr. Stan
ton. “Why, if we don’t pnnish the
leaders of the rebellion, what shall wa
Bay to their followers ?"
“B-e-t-t-d-f let him slide, Stanton,*
said the President, laying aside his
towel.
Mr. Stanton went out, evidently an
novod, and Mr. Lincoln, turning to
Admiral Dalilgren, who was present,
said: “Dahl., that is rflke of the things I
don’t intend to allow. When the war is
over I want it to stop, Vnd loU*tth sides
go to work and lieal the\wonnds, which,
Heaven knows, are bad enough; but
jogging and pulling at them is not the
best way to heal sores. ”
A similar story is told of Mr. Lincoln
relative to the attempted escape of Jeff
Davis. An officer approached him for
the purpose of learning his wishes. As
Boon as Mr. Lincoln divined the officer’s
purpose he proceeded to toll him a story,
which runs about as follows:
“I remember, ” said tho President, “a
noted temperance lecturer who lived in
Sangamon county, 111., and was very
earnest in the cause. He was proceed
ing afoot on a hot and (lusty day to de
liver a temperance discourse in a neigh
boring town. Being exceedingly thirsty,
be stopped at a tavern on tlio roadside
and called for a glass of soda water.
The tavern-keeper know him, and, loan
ing over the bar, he said to him in a
whisper: ‘ This is a very hot day, and
you look very much used up. Shall I
put a stick in it ?’ ‘ If,’ said the lecturer
in a confidential lone, ‘ a stick oould bo
put in it unbeknown to me, lam not
prepared to say that, anybody would
Buffer by it.’ Now,” said Lincoln, “I
cannot foil any ono to be a party to
Jeff Davis’ escape; but, if ho should
contrive to quit the country uubeknown
to mo, I am not prepared to say hut that
We would bo able to get along very
comfortably without him.”
Tho officer needed no further in
formation touching tho wishes of the
executive head of the Government, at
all events, and ho left the White House
entirely satisfied.
Driving a Nall.
Did yon ever observe the difference be
tween n man and n woman driving a
nail ? This is how they do it. A mail
goes to work systematically. Ho must
have a hammer, oven if every one on tho
premises hns to stop work to find it.
Then lie mnst liavo tho step-ladder, if
there is ono in the house; if not, ho calls
loudly for a strong chair, perhaps two.
••Better bring the kitchen chairs,” says
he, regardless of tho fact that they may
have to lie carried up four flights f
stairs. After that ho wondors round
hunting up a board or an empty soap
box, which, when found, takes him an
age to balance exactly.
One would suppose that ho was ready
to drive that nail now; but no; ho
Bounds, and sounds, nml sounds, to find
the beam. Having found it, lio looks
carefully at tho nail, to lie sure that ho
has it tho right way, proffering at the
same time that threadbare bit of infor
mation that a nail must always ho driven
in a particular way or it will lieud.
Having at last got it exactly right, ho
balanocß himself, gives tho beam a pre
liminary knock, looks at the nail once
more, sets it exact to a fraction, gives
another tap, and sends it in with a
flourish, after which ho steps down with
a lord-of-creation air, and asks, as he
straightens his collar, “Is that all ?”
When a woman wants to drive a nail
Blie looks round for n hammer; if it can
not be found at once, sho says, “Oh,
pshaw! I ean’t wait. Sarah, give mo a
flat-iron.” She then sets a footstool on
a cane or Rpriug-bottomed chair, puts
Webster’s Dictionary or some other
heavy book on the stool, climbs up with
a kind of an at-sen-iu-a-storm motion,
balancing herself with her knee, shoul
der, or elbow, whichever serves best.
Bhe then makes up her mind where the
beam ought to be, sots her nail there,
and pounds away with the flat-iron. If
the beam is there, all right; if not, ten
to one she will drive tire nail through
the lath iu spite of its bouncing propen
sities. or get it tightly wedged in the
plaster between the bricks; then she
gives it a little jerk, to be sure it is tight,
and jumps down, exclaiming, with an
amonnt of satisfaction uo man ever did
or could know, “There, that’s done !”
Carving a Turkey.
“What is that stuff on your shirt
bosom that looks like soap grease?”
said the grocery mau to the bad boy, as
he came into the grocery. The boy
looked at his shirt front, put his fingers
on the stuff and smelled of his fingers,
and then said, “O, that is nothing but a
little of the turkey dressing and gravy.
You see after pa and 1 got back from
the rollerskating rink yesterday, pa
was all broke up and he couldn't carvo
the turkey, and 1 had to do it, and pa
eat in a stuffed chair with his head tied
up, and a pillow amongst his legs, and
he kept complaining that I didn't do it
right. Gol darn a turkey anyway. I
should think they would make a turkey
flat on the back, so he would lay on a
greasy platter without skating all
around the table. It looks easy to see
pa carve a turkey, but when I speared
into the bo-on>. of that turkey and be
gan to saw on it, the turkey rolled
around as though it was on castors, and
it was all 1 c mid do to keep it out of
ma’s lap. H i 1 rasseled with it till I
got off enough white meat for pa and
in a, and enough dark meat for me, and
I dug out the dr.- .but most of it
flew into my shirt bosom, 'cause the
string that tied up the place where the
dressing was conce ded about the per
son of the turkey, broke prematurely,
and one of the oyster- hit pa in the eye
and he said I was asawkward as a ere s
cyed girl trying to kiss a man with a
hair lip. If I ever get to be the head
of a family I shall carve turkeys with a
corn sheller.” — I'ccL'd Sun.
Somebody sent the bookkeeper a
present, marked: “A pair o' moccasins
for the adder."
editorial notes.
JMadlaobh, wbo has made himself famous
by refusing to taks the oath as a member of the
Britiah Parliament, baa been re-elected.
In 1880 Tenneesee ranked fourteenth in the
list of iron-producing states, Alabama fifteenth,
and Virginia sixteenth. In three years these
three states made a rapid gain, and in 1883,
Tennessee stood ninth, Alabama sixth, and
Virginia aeventh.
In this country are only two establishment!
at which cannon can be made. One is at South
Boston, Massachusetts, and the other at West
Point, New York. The Boston works, which
hsve lain idle for six years, are said to be fit to
compete with foreign foundries.
Between 1695 and 1730 it was customary to
put over the title of periodicals a cross with the
initial letters of the cardinal points of the com
press—N. E. W. 8., indicating intelligence
from all quarters, and the name newspaper
came to be applied to such periodicals.
The oil business has ail grown up within the
past twenty-four years. In 1860 seventy barrels
of oil glutted the market. Now the world uses
about 80,000 barrels a day. The amount of oil
produced seems to be steadily increasing.
Probably the oil supply will never entirely give
out, but it is beginning to be very evident that
units* new oil fields are speedily discovered the
price of oil will go to a high jfigure.
Be*. Fajuuoiit, the widowo/ Admiral Farra
go t, receives in pension money 05,000 a year.
There arc 29 oases where the widows of Gen
erals receive 050 a month, and 20 widows of
naval officers are bo rewarded also. Some of
the widows receive as high as 0100 a month,
while others are given 030 only. The rate al
lowed by the general law is 030, and the 100
cases where pensioners aro paid more are cov
ered by special legislation.
According to the census of 1880, the total
number of persons of both sexes reported as
pursuing gainful vocations was 17,392,099, dis
tributed among four great classes of occupa
tions, as follows:
Male. Female.
Agriculture 7,075,983 594,510
Professional and personal
servic s 2,712,942 1,301,295
Trade and transportatian. 1,760,892 59,304
Manufacturing, mechani
cal an I mining 3,206,124 031,988
A professional ventriloquist recently ad
mitted to a reporter that ventriloquism was
nothing but a humbug. It is generally thought
that tho ventriloquist tlirowshis voice in order
to make it appear to come from different direc
tions, This is all an illusion. The only thing
requisite is to deceive the car. It is well
known that the organ is singularly inaccurate
in determining the dircotion from which a
sound proceeds. The ventriloquist takes ad
vantage of this and by a little Jnggorly pro
duces tho illusion. He gives to his veico such
Intonations as convey to tho audience tho im
pression of sounds heard from some particular
point at a greater distance. He directs at the
tamo time the attention of his hearers to tho
poiut from which tho sound is to como, and
thus controls their imagination.
The different kinds of dye woods used in this
country are logwood and fustic, from the West
Indies; lima, from tho shores of the Pacific,
and the bar and cam woods from Africa. The
woods mentioned, with the exception of fustic,
which is yellow, aro red, but of various shades.
The sapponia wood, which is a delicato pink,
oemcß from the East Indies. Tho Costs of the
woods in tho rough are, according to tho Provi
dence Journal, as follows : Logwood, from S2O
to $25 a ton ; tho red woods, from $lO to S7O a
ton, and tho cam wood about $l5O a ton. Tho
latter wood comes from the interior of Africa,
oostß considerable for transportation and is
becoming searoc. Cam wood is usod mostly
by woolen manufacturers in making their dyeß.
Tlie wood is drawn to tho markets in Africa by
slaves, and very frequently staples and chains
are found attached to tho logs whon they ar
rive in tliis city, and poisonous insectß of that
clime aro often fonnd in the hollows of tho
wood, which aro speedily killed.
Mr. 8. It. Cockiuli., senior vioo-president of
tho Cotton Planters’ association, has made a
number of interesting suggestions to Dircotor
General Burke, of tho New Orleans exposition.
Mr. Cockrill wantß a premium of 300 baleß of
cotton offered for a cotton picker with iron
Augers, so constructed that human fingers oan
he dispensed with. Undor the new system, of
the 6,000,000 negroes in the south, one-half will
go to work in tho cotton mills and the other
half will plant, clear lands and sow grass.
This progressive cotton man concludes by say
ing that tho basis of a great south iB “a cotton
bank in tho cotton belt; cotton mills amid cot
ton fields ; cotton planters’ motto ‘Tho cotton
picker opens tho way for the mills." The
cranky part of Mr. CockrilTs letters is his sug
tion that half of tho negro population should
be employed in tho cotton mills. This is not
likely to ooiue to pass for some time.
The late William Cullen Bryant made a strong
plea a score of years ago for tho preservation
of our forests. The poet called the attention
of his readers and of the government to the
atal results which follow the stripping of a
country of its forests. In all woodlands nature
has provided for retaining the moisture of
rains. Tho earth under tho trees is oovered
with a thick carpeting of fallen leaves, whioh
prevent the water from passing immediately
into the streams and hurrying to the sea. Part
of the moisture thus confined makes its way
slowly tho veins of the earth, rises in
springs and runs off in rivulets; part is gradu
ally drawn up by tho rootlets of the trees, and
given off to tho air from tho leaves to form the
vapors which are afterwards condensed into
showers. Thus forests undoubtedly protoot a
country against dronth, and keep its streams
constantly flowing and its well constantly full.
Cnt down the trees and tho moisture of the
showers passes rapidly off from tho surface and
hastens to lakes and ocean.
The great Fnosphato industries of South
Carolina are looming np wonderfully. In elude
phosphates the business in February last at
tained unprecedented proportions, the ship
ments exceeding 46,000 tons. The quantity of
fertilizers manufactured in 1871 was 22,589
tone, which increased the next year to 37,759
tons, and in 1873 to 66,298. The next year there
was a slight falling off, and the previous figure
was not exceeded until 1879, when the product
reached 60,000 tons. The product since then
has been as follows: 18S0, 80,000 tons; 1881,
102.525 tons ; 1882, 102,490 tons ; ISS3, 132,464
tons. For ISS4 Maj. Willis estimates the pro
duct at- 136,000 tons. Die product of the mines
from June 1, 1876, to May 31, 1877, was 163,220
tons. The next year- it was 120,323 tons, which
was not exceeded until 18S0-81, when it reached
832.077 tons, ISS2-S3, it was 855,883 tons. From
June 1,1883, to January SI, 1884, it was3o9,Sßß
tons. New fields are being opened and worked,
and the factories iu every instance have been
well ke pt np and are now iu first-class order.
“Father,” said a bright lad, “I think
I’ll become a minister when I grow up.”
“What puts that idea in your head, my
bov?” asked the astonished parent.
"Because, dad, I notice that mu always
kills a chicken whenever the minister
eats here.”
A WEEK’S NEWS.
Sastwra sal XidAU States.
The International and Eastern Telegraph
company, with a capital of *5,000,000, waa
Incorporated in Albany, N. Y.
Considerable Interest was aroused by
the registration of a ten-million-dollar mort
gage fn the offices of forty different town
clerks in a direct line across the Htate o€
Connecticut by the Bankers’ and Merchants
Telegraph company.
Municipal election* in Pennsylvania rV
wilted in the success of the Republican can
didate for mayor in Philadelphia, Harris
burg, Pittsburg, Allentown, Lancaster and
Allegheny City, and of the Democratic can
didate in Williamsport, Chester and Reran
ton. Reading elected twenty-eight Demos
crate and twenty-three Republican* to the
common council.
Five cases of suicide and several sudden
deaths were reported the other day in New
York city.
Last year’s coal product, as reported by
the mine inspector of the Pennsylvania mid
dle district, WAS as follows: Lehigh Valley Coal
company, 64,776,015 tons; Lehigh and Wilkes
barre company, 176.116,735 tons; Delaware
and Hudson, 135,781,055 tons; Susquehanna,
111,932.096; Wyoming Valley companies,
*5,549,600 tons; miscellaneous companies.
284,466,060 tons. The number of persons ac
tually employed in mining coal was 172833.
These figures show an excess of more than
(90,000 tons and more than 3,000 employes
over the previous year.
By an explosion of fire damp in a mla* near
tJniontown, Penn, nineteen miners were
killed, and others had a narrow escape from
suffocation
I After being twice buried and twice disin
terred, and after 11,000 miles of strange wan
derings, the bodies of the ten heroes of the lost
Jeannette have once more reached the land
from which they went forth to death.
The steamship Frisia arrived at New York
with the remains of Lieutenant Commander
George W. DeLong; Jordfne J. Collins,
meteorologist of the expedition; Dr. James
M. Ambler, surgeon: Walter Lea, George
Washington Boyd, Henry Hansen Knaactc,
Carl Augustus Gortz, Adolf Dressier ana
Nel.se Ivorson, seamen, and Ah Bam, oook.
The remains of Collins were sent to Cork,
Ireland, those of Boyd to Alexandria, Va.,
and those of Dr. Ambler to Philadelphia.
The remains of the others were buried at
Woodlawn cemetery, near New York.
Sai.mi Morse, who gained const lerable >
toriety in New York some time ago by stren
uous but unavailing attempts to produce tha
I’assion Play, which depicts the death of
Christ, committed suicide ih the metropolis
by drowning. Mayor Edson refused to give
Mr. Morse a license to peoduce the Passion
P ay, and a large numlier of suits for unpaid
salaries, brought by performers whom the de
ceased had engaged, were pending. At the
time of his death a melodrama written by
Morse was lieing played at one of the New
York theatres-
South and West.
Peuiikn Hast and wife (colored), residing
thn e miles from Crockett, Texas, wont to
church at night, and left six children at home
asleep, with the door looked. At 10 o'clock
the house was discovered to be on fire, and
it burned so quickly that it was impossible
to ra- e it or the children, every one of whom
was burned to death. The eldest was a boy
thirteen years old.
A freight train left the track near New
Philadelphia. Ohio, on account of a mis
placed switch, and a second section follow
ing run nto itit rear, demolishing twenty
tw > ears and two engines, and killing four
persons.
Heavy snowstorms have prevailed in Da
kota and Southern Minnesota, and the rail
roads have been blockaded.
A cyclone which struck Amberson’s,
Ain., demolished nearly evory house in
town. Fourteen persons were reported killed.
The South lias been visited by a tornado
which destroyed thousands of houses and
killed hundreds of people in Georgia, Ala
bnu a. North and South Carolina, Louisiana
and Mississippi.
The hronkiiig of a dam on the Los Angeles
river produced the most disastrous flood ever
experience lin California. The lower i-art
of Los Angeles was completely inundated,
and forty buildings were swept away. Hun
dreds of families were obliged to abandon
their homes and seek shelter on tlie
hills. The loss amounts to $150,000. From
I.os Angeles to Mojave, a dislance of 100
miles, hardly a mile of the Southern Pacific
tiack remains in place, and east to San
Gorgonio, eighty miles, the devastation is
equally great. Tlie California Southern road
from Colton to San Diego is also washed
out. Travel in all directions is suspended.
It will probably bo two months before com
munication can be properly established. Re
ports received from towns iu the Southern
portion of the San Joaquin valley announced
the heaviest floods ever known.
Two colored men in jail at lebanon, Ky.,
for assaulting a woman, were taken out by
a furious mob and banged.
B. F. Barnes, a prominent citizen of
Booclie, Wis,, killed his wife ami cut his own
throat. Protracted illness in the family is
assigned as the cause.
Washington.
A resolution' introduced by Representa
tive Ochiltree in the House of Representa
tives on the recent death of Herr
Lasker, tho German statesman, who died
suddenly iu Mew York, has been returned to
our government by Prince Bismarck, with
the statement that it cannot be received.
Various opinions have been expressed con
cerning Bismarck’s action. Following_is the
resolution in full as passed by the House:
“ Resolved, That this House has heard with
dee]) regret of tho death of tho eminent Ger
man statesman, Edward I-asker. That his
oss is not alone to be mourned by the people
of his native land, whore his firm
and constant exposition of and devotion
to free and liberal ideas have mate
ria'ly advanced the social, political and
economic conditi > n of those people, but by
tho lovers of liberty throughout the world
That a copy of this resolution be forwarded
to the family of the deceased, as well as to
the minister of the United States resident at
the capital of the German empire, to lie by
him communicated through the legitimate
channel to the presiding officer of the legis
lative body, of which he was a member.”
The demand for $1 and $2 notes is on the
increase, while the supply is practically ex
hausted, and the issue of these notes has
been suspended until Congress appropriates
money to print an additional supply.
The medioal examination of Captain W.
A. Kirkland, who had been selected to com
mand the Greely relief expedition, showed
that his physical eo dition was not quite
sound enough to warra it his being assigned
charge of the expedition, and therefore Sec
retary Chandler selected Commander W. S.
Schley instead.
The secretary of war received numerous
tilegrams showing most satisfactory prog
r ss in the work of relief to the flood suf
ferers along the Ohio river and its tribu
taries.
The President nominated C. S. Palmer, of
Vermont, to be associate justice of the su
preme court of Dakota; Max Weber, of
New York, to be consul of the United States
at Nantes; H. B. Trist, of the District of
Columbia, to be consul of the United States
at Mozambique.
Senator Dawes has been authorized by
the Senate committee on Indian affairs to
favorably report a biU providing for the
punishment of trespassers on Indian lands
by imprisonment for one year or SSOO tine,
or both. This is specially intended to keep
Payne and his followers out of the Oklahama
lands.
Senator Plumb has reported to the Sen
ate an original bill from the committee on
agriculture, making the department of ag
riculture an executive department, whose
chief officer shall be the secretary of agricul
ture.
The Senate has passed a bill making an
annual appropriation to provide arms for
the militia. The bill appropriates SOOO,OOO.
The House has passed a joint resolution
appropriating $150,000 to be expended among
the Indians for educational purposes.
Secretary Folqkr has issued the 130th
call for bonds. The call is for the redemp
tion of $10,000,000 in bonds of the three per
cent, loan o£JSB3.
The agricultural appropriation bill, as
completed by the House committee on agri
culture, appropriates $430,500—an increase
of about $24, (00 over the last appropriation.
The bill makes an appropi iatiou of $3,000 for
the propagation of the tea plank
At a meeting of the Democratic National
committee in the Arlington hotel, Washing
ton, held for the purpose of naming the
time and place to hold tljg. national coqyert;
Hen fer (be nomination of canmaatee
for President gmd Vice-President, every
State waa represented either by a mem
ber of the committee or a proxy.
W. H. Barnum, of Connecticut,presided,and
Frederic O. Prince, of Massachusetts, was
secretary. A motion was adopted that the
Democrats of each organized Territory and
of the District of Columbia be invited to
send two delegates to the national conven
tion. Upon the third ballot Chicago was se
lected as the place to bold the national con
vention, Mia: city receiving twenty-one
votes to seventeen for St. Louis. The date
for tha Convention is July 8. After issuing
'the call for the convention the committee
adjomrned to kneeC next in Chicago on
Foreign,
A dispatch from Berlin asserts that
naturalized German-American citizens who
return to Germany are again being rigorously
subjected to military duty. It says, too, that
the German foreign office ignores United
States Minister Sargent, and conducts all
negotiations directly with Washington.
The London Times, in an article on the
Lasker incident, implies that dislike of the
country which deprives Germany of thou
sands of conscripts is the basis of Bismarck’s
action, and that Mr. Rargent's resignation
would strain the relations of Germany and
the Unted States.
AftXß holding out for weeks against the
attacks of El nahdi’s forces the town of
Tokar surrendered to El Mahdi’s rebels be
fore It could be relieved by General Gra
ham’s expedition. The news was brought to
BuaUm by five soldiers who had escaped
from Tokar. It was stated that only the
soldiers at 7 okar who had families haasur
rendefatiMbd the others attempted to
reach reception of the nesvs
In ensued and a
special cabinet/*meeting was called. El
Mahdi appointed his brother, Ali Yussuf,
governor of Barfour, and ordered him to
levy 7,000 men, aud march to Kordofan to
reinforce the main body of El Mahdi’s
troops.
General Gordon announced that after
restoring order in Khartoum he would pro
ceed to Kordofan, to interview the False
Prophet.
Osman Diqma. the leader of the rebels in
the vicinity of aijakim is exciting his follow
ers by quoting the Koran, saying that El
Mahdi, the False Prophet, is divinely inspired,
and requires little food and clothing.
Nine sailors belonging to the British bark
Ada Barton, from St. John, N. 8., abandoned
at sea in a waterlogged condition, were
drowned.
Bismarck’s action in returning the Lasker
resolutions of sympathy to the American
Congress has excited much discussion among
the papers of Germany, the government or-
Sans praising and the opposition press con
suming the German chancellor’s course.
Mr. Sargent, the American representative at
Berlin, is also bitterly attacked and vehe
mently defended by German papers for the
part which he has taken in the matter.
Notwithstanding irrepressible Mr. Brad
laugh’s re-electlou to the British house of
commons, and his willingness to take the pre
scribed oath of office, the motion denying
him his seat was reaffirmed by a vote of 280
to *67
AN OLD SOLDIER'S STORY.
Tho low school-house stood in a green Wabash
wood,
Lookin’ out on long levels of com like a sea—
A little log-house, hard benches, and we.
Big bare-footed boys, and rough 'uns, we stood
In line with the gals, anil tried to get ’head
At spellin’ each day when the lessons was
said.
But one, Bally Dean, tall, bony and green
As green corn in the milk, stood fast at tho
foot—
Stood day after (lny, as if he’d been pu*
A soldior ou guard there, did poor BslljTdean
And stupid ! God made him so stupid I
doubt—
But lupiesa God who made ns knows what
HJFi about.
He’d a long way to walk. But ho wouldn’t
once talk
Of that, nor the chores for his mother who
lay
A shakin’ at home. Still, day after day
He stood at the foot till the class ’gau to mock!
Then to nißßter he plead, “Oh, I’d like to go
head,”
Now it wasn’t so much, but tho way it was
said.
Then the war struck the land! Why, that
barefooted band
It just nailed np that door; and the very next
day, _
With master for Cap’en, went marchin’
away ;
And Bally tho bntt of the whole Wabash band!
But he boro with it all, yet onoe firmly said,
“When I get back home, I’m agoin’ np
head!’’
Oh, that school-house that stood in the wild
Wabash wood!
Die rank weeds wore growin* like ghosts
through the floor.
Tlie squirrels hulled nuts on the sill of the
door.
And the gals stood in groups scrapin’ lint
where they stood.
And we boys! How we sighed ; how we sick
ened and died
For the days that had been, for a place at
their side.
Then ono fever-crazed and his better sense
dazed
And dulled with lieart-ickness all duty for
got ;
Deserted, was taken, condemned to be shot!
And Bally Dean, guardin’ his comrade half
crazed,
Slow paced up and down while ho slept where
ho lay
In the tent waitin’ death at the first flush of
day.
And Bally Dean thonght of the boy to be shot,
Of the fair girl he loved in the woods far
away;
Of the true-lu'e •Bint grew like a red rose of
May;
And he stopped. where he stood, and he
thonght and he thought.
Then a sudden star fell, shootin’ on over
head,
And he knew that his mother beckoned on to
the dead.
And he said what have I? Though I live
though I die,
Who shall care for me now? Then the dull
muffled ,\-um
Struck his ear, and he knew that the master
had come
With the squad. And he passed in the tent
with a sigh,
And the doomed lad crept forth, and the
drowsy sqnad led
With low trailin’ guns to the march of the
dead.
Then with face turned away tow’rd a dim
Etre&k of day,
And his voice fall of tears the poor bowed
master sail.
As he fell on his knees and uncovered his
head:
“Come, boys, it is school time, let us all pray.”
And we prayed. And the lad by the coffin
alone
Was tearless, was silent, was still as a stone.
“In line,” master said, and he stood at the
head;
But he couldn’t speak now. So he drew out
his sword
And dropped the point low for the last fata
word.
Then the rifles rang out, and a soldier fell
dead!
The master sprang forward. “Great
Heaven 1” he said,
“It is Bally, poor Ballv, and he's g-one up
head!”
Joaquin Miller,
SUMARY OF CONGRESS
Senate.
Mr. Morrill.fromthecj nmittee on finance,
reported a iversely the bill authorizing the
payment of customs duties in legal t aider
[ notes, but asked that in deference to the
wi-h of another Senat -r, it be placed ou the
, calendar. It was so p!a -ed. Mr. Mot-ril
also reported adversely th bll providing
for the retirement of small legal tender
notes: a’so, adversely, the bill authorising
the secretary of the treasury to make final
adjustment of claims of foreign steamship
companies arising from the illegal action of
tonnage dues. The last two bill, were in
definitely postponed Mr. Blair introduced
a bill to amend the pension laws The Sen
ate further considered the bill to provide for
the issu" of circulation to national bank..
The Senate passed the bill making it a
felony, puni-hab’.e by three yea-s’ imprison
ment and SI,OOO fine, to falsely personate
government officers or employes with intent
J defraud Most of the day was spent in
debate on Mr. Morgan’s amendment permit
ting national banks to deposit bonds of the
Separate States as security for circulation,
and finally Mr. Morgan withdrew it, having
introduce 1 the same proposition as an origi
nal bill On motion of Mr. Sherman a
joint resolution was passed appropriating
*IO,OOO to enable the committee on privileges
|pd elections to carry on its investigation*.
Mr. Hale, from the committee on naval
affairs, reported unfavorably and moved the
indeflnte postponement of the joint resolu
tion introduced by Mr, McPherson, limiting
the amount of money to be expended
by the President on the Greely relief
expedition to *500,030. Mr. Voor
bees offered a resolution directing
the secretary of the interior to withhold ap
proval of selections of lands made by the
Northern Pacific Railroad company within
certain indemnity limits The Senate con
sidered the McPherson banking bill and Mr.
Bayard delivered an address in its support.
Mr. Sawyer called up the bill recently
reported from the committee on post
offices and post roads, making all public
roads and highways post routes, and after
some amendment it was passed.... A resolu
tion was agreed to directing the committee on
finance to consider the expediency of provid
ing by gefleral legislation for the change of
names of national banks, and to report by
bill or otherwise at the present session
Mr. Logan introduced a bill to provide t hat
jorsons honorably discharged from the mili
tary or naval service of the United States
shall be preferred for appointment to civil
offices, provided they are found to possess
the necessary business capacity.
The Senate spent most of a day again dis
cussing Mr. McPherson’s National Bank
Note bill and the proposed amendments to
it. Mr. Plumb argued against the bill. He
said the national debt should be paid off as
soon as possible, and what was wanted was
something to take the place of the bank di -
lation as it was withdrawn from time to
time. He offered an amendment pro
viding for the issuing of treasury notes to
take the place of the circulation of the banks
as it Is surrendered. Mr. Sherman’s amend
ment, providing that if any of the bonds de
posited bore Interest higher than three per
cent, additional notes should be issued equal
to one-half the interest in excess of the three
percent, accruing before maturity, was voted
down. 42 nays to 7 yeas.
Ilona*.
Mr. Dorsheimer moved to suspend the
rules and make the bill granting copyright
to citizens of foreign countries a special order
for February 27. Mr. Dsuster said the effect
of the bill would lie to make books dear and
to tax our people for the benefit of foreign
authors. It would also throw out of employ
ment men who were engaged in mak
ing reprints of foreign authors. Mr.
Chaco believed iu internationa' copy
right, but was opposed to the bill in its
present shape. Mr. Kelley wished to have
the bill fixed for a later date in order to heal
authors, publishers and bookmakers. Mr.
Dorsbeimer’s motion was lost The bill foi
the retirement of the trade dollar was made
a special ordsr for March 11. Mr. Town
shend said he was opposed to the bilk The
trade dollar had circulated at par until tha
bankers repudiated it, and the merchants re
fused to receive it. It immediately depre
ciated to eighty cents on the dollar, and
went into the ban is of jobbers in New York,
who now wish to have it exchanged at par.
*....A bill was passed relieving from the
charge of desertion soldiers who served
througli the war, but who, l>*ing absent from
their command when it was mustered out,
did not receive an honorable discharge
A bill was passed fixing the postage on tran
sient newspapers ftt one cent for four ounces.
... The House voted to hold night sessions on
Fridays to consider pension bills.
The House B(>ent all night In a filibustering
session. From 5 o'clock at night until 9
o’clock in the morning there was a deadlock,
owing to the fact that tho Republicans de
clined to vote on a motion to fix a day for
the consideration of the bill to pe ;~i >n Mexi
can veterans, and the survivors of some In
dian wars. At about 3 o’clock A. M., an ex
citing disoussion was brought about by a mo
tion, made by Mr. lamb, of Indiana, to fine
Mr. Brumm, of Pennsylvania, five dollars for
leaving the House after the contest of tlie
evening hail begun. An angry debate fol
lowed, principally participat and in by Messrs.
Hiscock, Morrison, Tucker, Reed and Hunt.
At one time Mr. Hiscock was standing full in
front of the B,maker's desk, where he was sur
rounded by an excited crowd of adherenti
and opponents, and the services ot the ser
geant-at-arms had to be called into re juisi
tion in order to secure some degree of order
Finally, Mr. Brumm explained that he hud
been misunderstood as saying that he hail no
left the House until the filibustering wai
begun. He had left before that time. Mr
Lamb then withdrew his motion, and Mr.
Brumm was excused. At 8: 15 a quorum hav
ing been obtained a motion to make thn bill
the special order for the 21st was carried by
175 yeas to 35 nays, and the House then ad
journed.
I A communication was received from the
President, transmitting a statement from
the secretary of state to the effect that tha
British government had Ipresented tha
steamship Alert to the United States for use
bn the Greely relief expedition. The read
ing of Secretary Frelinghuysen's statement,
at the request of Mr. Randall, disclosed that
in the search for vessels suitable for the ex
pedition now preparing for Greely’s relief,
attention had been directed to the Alert,
and that Minister Lowell had been instructed
to inquire whether she could be spared by
the British government; that Minister 1 .ow
ed was told the British government had not
forgotten the action of the United States in
the matter of the Resolute, a British vessel
which had been abandoned in tha
Arctic regions, discovered and brought
to this country by American sea
men, purchased from them by the Amer
ican government, repaired and then returned
to Great Britain; that the British govern
ment, in recognition of this courtesy, had
now given the Alert to the United States un
conditionally, with all her equipment; that
in response to this “graceful and opportune
act of courtesy on the part of her majesty’s
government,” Secretary Frel.nghuysen had
telegraphed to Minister Lowell that this
evidence of sympathy “receives the highest
appreciation of the Pre-ident, as it will that
of the people of the United States,” etc.
Mr. ItandfcU asked unanimous consent that
the communication be spread upon tha
journal of the House, and tnat it be referred
to the committee on foreign affairs with the
object of having a more formal and appro
priate recognition of the act of the British
government. Mr. Finnerty objected, and Mr.
Randall then put his request in the form of
a motion, which was agreed to, Messrs. Fin
nerty, ot Illinois, and Robinson, of New
York,voting in the negative.. ..The military
academy appropriation bill, and the post
route bill, with' Senate amendments, were
passed.
The Senate bill for the construction of a
building for the library of Congress was
taken from the Speaker’s table and referred
to the committee on the library The
House resumed consideration o? the con
tested election case of Chalmers against
Manning. A debate ensued, but no action
was taken.
Tha House resumed, the debate on the
Mississippi contested election case of Chal
mers against Manning. The monotony of
the proceedings was broken by Mr. Curtin,
who took Mi-. Manning by 'the arm. led
him to the bar of the House, and demanded
that he be sworn as a member. Mr. Cal
kins raised a point of order, but the speaker
said there was no necessity for deciding
such a question, as the chair would not
undertake to administer the oath of office
to a person claiming to be a member elect,
when the House itself was considering his
right to the seat. The minority resolution,
declaring Manning’s credentials to be per
fect. was rejected. 140 to 103. The majority
resolution, discharging the committee on
elections from consideration of the prima
facie case, and leaving the seat vacant until
the case was decided on its merits, was then
adopted, t- . -
ONE-ARMED MEN.
How a Station Agrnt Prevented a I>lona
trons Collision.
“A one-armed man for emergencies
every time,” exclaimed an old railroad
official in the heat of an argument on
the prevention of collisions and other
accidents. “I never knew one to fail in
time of danger. The loss of an arm
seems to increase their wits, and I can
name several instances of their display
of nerve and invention when other men
were of no use. Do you remember
Ross Marchman ? No ? Well, I’ll tell
yon the kind of fellow he was, when he
worked under me on the Piedmont Air-
Line road.
“There is, not far from the South
Carolina line, a small town called
Sewanee. It is several hours’ ride from
Atlanta, Georgia, and contains abont
800 people. The telegraph operator at
the depot is station agent, express agent,
ticket agent, trackman and porter. In
fact, he runs the whole business, and
his is a responsible position. He often
works all day and all night, and it is a
strain to keep np with the work in the
busy season. Ross Marchman was tele
graph operator and-so-forth at Sewanee.
He was abont twenty-two years old, and
had lost his right arm. How in the
world he ever managed to perform his
multiplicity of duties is a mystery, but
he was never found wanting in any of
the qualifications necessary to a suc
cessful accomplishment of every task.
We all had confidence in Marchman.
One night in November, 1882, he was
sitting half asleep over his key, worn out
with fatigue, when he was aroused by
hearing himself called by the train-dis
patcher. He answered aud the following
order came over the wires : ‘Side-track
No. 12, north-bound, Sewanee, la. m.
Hoid for extra No. 3, south-bound, 1-04
a. m.’ There was nothing unusual in
the order. Marchman *0 K’d’ it and
made the necessary preparations for flag
ging down No.* 12, which, being a
through-freight, did not stop at way
stations unless signalled to do so.
“The night was dark and stormy, and
the wind blew in gusts, driving the rain
into every crack and crevice. The track
from the north past the station had a
heavy down-grade, and it was the cus
tom for engineers to blow a long blast
on the whistle, When their trains crossed
the summit, some half a mile away. No.
12 was on time, and when Marchman
heard the blast he took his lantern and
went out on the track. The headlight
rose over the summit like a fall moon
climbing the hills, and flashed down the
rails. The rain came down in torrents,
the wind whistled past thecomers of the
station with an ominous sound, the train
came thundering on. Marchman raised
his lantern and swung it across the track,
but before the signal could be given a
fitful gust of wind pat out the light.
The train was not two hundred yards off
and had not Slackened its speed.* There
was no time to get another lamp. It
was a moment of horror to the poor op
erator. No. 3, with its freight of pas
sengers, was coming just beyond the
town—the two trains would meet—col
lision—destruction—death—all passed
before his mind like a flash of lightning.
He felt the quivering of the ties beneath
his feet as he stood in the full glare of
the light now fearfully close. Suddenly
his hand sought his pocket; there was a
flash, a sharp report of a pistol, and a
bullet went crashing through the head
light. The lamp was extinguished, and
as the engine passed him, Marchman
threw his pistol into the cab window.
“Well, the train was stopped, and the
conductor coming forward to see what
was wrong, reached Marchman just in
time to receive his orders, when the lat
ter, overcome with the terrible strain,
fell to the ground. The train was run
into a siding, and No. 3 dashed by at
the rate of abont forty miles an hour.
Not a passenger dreamed of what had
happened.
“Of course,” continued the official,
“we remembered Marchman in a sub
stantial way. That one arm, though,
was the making of him.”
An Officer’s Doties.
A cavalry officer who attends properly
to his duty has something to do. He
has first much of the usual routine of
the infantry officer to look after. Such
as setting np recruits, foot drill, guard
duty, target practice, recitation in tac
tics, proper care of arms, clothing,
equipments, barracks and bedding, the
personal cleanliness of the men, as well
as their health, proper cooking of ra
tions, guard duty, target practice, com
pany returns ana accounts. Now comes
the duty peculiar to cavalry—drilling
the men on horseback, care and practice
of three weapons, sabre, carbine and re
volver, looking after the completeness of
each horse equipment, consisting of
saddle, bridle, watering bridle, lariat
and picket pin, side lines, nose bag,
halter and saddle blanket. He must see
that the saddle blankets are kept clean,
that the men know how to fold them,
and what is of great importance, that
they can belt their horses properly;
also to study the horse’s mouth so as to
properly bit them, and in riding see that
the trooper’s weight is properly distrib
uted on the saddle so that no muscle of
the animal is unduly exhausted. He
must be conversant with the proper
grooming, feeding and watering horses,
and also see at a glance if the horse is
properly Bhod; whether the shoe is too
long or too short, and whether the hoof
has been pared too much or too little.
His extra dnties not common to the in
fantry officer are two stable calls, stable
guari and head guard to look after and
at many posts to pack train, to drill,
pack saddles and rations for eight or
twelve days to look after. The cavalry
officer must be theoretically, at least,
blacksmith, groom, doctor, cook, veter
inary surgeon, gunsmith, saddler, har
ness' maker, Burgeon, and lawyer, when
he sits in court martial.
A Duped Tradesman.
In London, lately, two well-dressed
tneu entered the shop of a fashionable
tradesman and asked to see the chief of
the establishment, whom they privately
informed that they were detectives from
Scotland Yard. The men said that from
information received they knew that two
“swell women” would drive np tQ the
shop in a brougham and order drapery
to a large amonnt, paying for the same
with a forged check for £SO, bearing the
name of a well-known nobleman. It
would, however, be necessary, in order
to properly convict the women, to allow
them to carry the goods off with them,
and take the change of the check. But
in order that they should not escape, the
detectives were to have a hansom with a
fast horse, to follow the brougham and
take the ladies into custody. The officers
took their stand behind the counter; the
“ladies” came, ordered the goods, and
tendered the check. They received the
change and goods, and drove off. The
detectives immediately followed in their
hansom' with the “fast horse.” The
tradesman is still waiting for the goods,
TOE JOKER'S BUDGET.
WHIT WE FIMt TO SMILE OVER IS
the HOioitois papers.
THE SONG.
A Tribune attache yesterday heard A
skilled vocalist sing “Wait Till
Clouds Roll By.” She rendered it:
“Walt tah the claw raw bw, Jawy;
Wait tah the claw raw baw;
Jawv. ma aw traw law wah,
Wah tah the claw raw baw.”
And then she smiled* so sweetly and
broadly over the well-merited applause
that the corners of her mouth held a so
ciable on the back of her neck.—l?fs
march Tribune.
BEATS
“Father,” said the youngest sporting
member of the family, “there ain’t
nothin’ can beat Maud 8., is they?”
“Oh, ves,” replied Mr. Wigglesworth.
“What?”
“A tramp,” replied Mr. Wiggles
worth, with a light and airy touch of
humor. ‘‘A tramp beats everything and
evervbody.”
“f know one thing he don’t beat ?” re
marked Mrs. Wigglesworth.
“What’s that?” queried her husband
in mild sruprise.
“A carpet,” returned Mrs. Wiggles
worth ; “you can’t ever get a tramp to
beat a carpet.”
A Vbvgoods clerk.
“Yes, papa,” said Beryl, “I am in love
—nay, more than that, 1 have plighted
my troth.”
“How much did you get on it ?” asked
the banker.
“Yon misunderstand me,” replied
BeryL “I have pledged myself to be
come the bride of the only man I can
ever love—Arthur Ainsleigh.”
“What!” almost shouted the banker,
“that drygoods clerk?”
“Yes,” was the reply, in clear, reso
nant tones. “I love him, and, despite
your sneers, I shall marry him. It is no
crime for a man to be a dry goods clerk.”
“No,” said Mr. Setback, thoughtfully,
“but it ought to be.”— Chicago Times,
NOTHING BUT A CLUB WILL DO IT.
A big clock hangs above the head of
the ticket agent at the 125th street sta
tion of the Third avenue elevated road.
A placard on the pendulum says: “Yes,
sir! lam right.”
A passenger gazed at it yesterday and
started to inquire “What is—— ?”
But the agent cut him short and
yelled:
“That’s there to keep people from
asking if that’s the right time. Ques
tions used to average from 100 to 500 a
day. Now twice as many ask what the
placard’s for, Rud the thing’s worse than
ever. Keeps me talking nearly all day.”
—New York Hun.
plantation philosophy.
De wise man an’ de fool doan quarrel,
but two fools or two wise men kain’t get
along so well.
De man what marries a ’oman ’case
she’s got more sense den he has is neber
allowed ter lose sight o’ da fack.
De chile dat too soon shows signs o’
smartness doan turn out ter be de smart
est man. De fust cotton dat opens is
neber de ties’.
Eben ’mong de animals ’pearances
makes a difference, fur ef de blackbird
hail bright feathers in his wing we’d
think dat his song was much sweeter.
De gigglin’ girl generally turns out ter
be de woman what doan laflf much, an’
lemme tell yer, marridge an’ a lot o’
ehiilun will take de chuckle outen de mos’
o’ ’em. . .
De fox is not only smart, but he is de
mos’ perticular o’ all de animals. He is
mighty playful, but he nebbergetso fur
los’ in de persuit o’ his pleasure dat he
noglecks his business; an’ as soon as he
stops playin’ he is so mighty cunnin’ dat
ver would tink dat he nebber .paid any
’tention ter frolick. De coon has also
got some fun iu him, but it is a sort o’
dull an’ oberled kine o’ sport, fur he
nebber plays till arter he eats an’ arter
he gets thro’, w’v he’s dun eat so much
dat he doan feel much like caperin’
’ronu\ —Arkansas Traveler.
AN EDUCATED GENTLEMAN.
“Dis is de fouf ansvers’y o’ my mar
riage,” said an old negro.
“How many times is yer been mar
ried ?” asked an acquaintance.
“Ef dis is de fouf anavers’y, o’ co’se
I’se been married fo’ times. I’se heard
de white fokes say dat it doan do uo
good ter edyeate de nigger, an’ now I
b’leves it. Heah yer is dun gone ter
school an” got a good edycation an’ doan
nn’erstan’ ’rithmetic yet I’se ashamed
o’ yer, sab.”
“Uncle*Beii,” replied the acquain
tance, “I 1 neber went ter school much
an’ I kain’t talk zackly proper, but
blame ef I ain’t got mo’ sense ’bout sich
matters dan yerse’f has. De annavers’y
o’ a marriage doan mean how often a
man’s been married.” .
“What do it mean den?”
“Why, it means how long. Anavers’y
means year, an’ is tuck from de Latin.
Ann means married, an’ vers’y means
year, an’ da bof when put togedder
means married year.”
“Wall, chile, yer mnst ’sense me.
’Fore de Lawd I didn’t know yer had so
much ’ligh’enment. When yer sets up
a school, dinged ef 1 doan sen’ my chil
lun ter yer, for I’se larned mo’ from yer
in fifteen minits den I eber knowed befo’.
I ken stan’ mos’ anything, hut when a
man draws out de En’lish an’ de Latin
on me, I’se bleeged ter gin np den an’
dar. I thanks yer fur de inflimation. ”
Arkansaw Traveler.
11l a Lighthouse.
Capt Clark Cole, keeper of the light
house on Presque Isle, got through the
floating ice and landed in Erie, Pa., the
other day. As to life in the lighthouse
he said to a newspaper reporter: “To a
politician the place would be banish
ment, but to a Christian it is a paradise.
There is nothing to do during the pres
ent months when the lamps are not
lighted but to eat drink and be merry on
the rations and literature supplied by a
thoughtful government. Twice in a
year a Government vessel heaves in
sight and anchors in the roadstead op
posite the beacon. A uniformed official
inspects the lighthouse, and a purser
leaves 200 pounds of salt pork, 100
pounds of salt beef, 2 barrels of flour, 2
barrels of potatoes, 10 gallons of beans,
50 pounds of sugar, 24 pounds of coffee,
40 pounds of rice, and 4 gallons of vine
gar.” This is the government ration,
and upon this the keeper is supposed to
exist until the government remembers
him again. There is a library case
which the nation fills with literature se
lected with an eye to the spiritual as
well as the earthly welfare of the keep
er. “Fox’s Book of Martyrs,” “Jona
than Wild,” and “Apocalypse,” a Bible
Concordance with a complete set of
hymn books, the “Adventures of Cap
tain Kidd, the Pirate,” Byron’s “Cor
sair,” Ingersoll’s lectures, the census re
ports, and a number of scientific work§j
are among the