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JOHN It. HANCOCK, Publisher. LOVE SONGS. The Cradle Hymn Sung by Chris tian Mothers Long Ago Be-Echoed as a Lullaby to Soothe the More Mature—Sermon liy Rev. Dr. Talroage, I), I>, Last Sunday Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D.D., took as the subject of his discourse: “A Song Concerning My Beloved.” His text was Isaiah v., 1: “Now will I sing to my well beloved asongof my beloved.” Dr. Talmnge said: The most fascinating theme for a heart properly attuned is the Saviour. There is something in the morn ing light to suggest Him, and something in the evening shadow to speak His praise. The flSfcrer breathes Him, the star shines Him, the cascade proclaims Him, all the voices of nature chan* Him. Whatever is grand, bright and beautiful, if you only listen to it, will speak His praise. When I come in the summer time and pluck a flower I think of Him who Is “tho Rose of Sharon and tho Lily of the Valley.” When 1 see in the fields a lamb, I say : ‘ Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world.” When, in very hot weather, I come under a protecting cliff, I say: “Rock of Ages, ilcft for me, Let me hide myself in thee.” Over the old-fashioned pulpits there was a sounding-board. The voice of tho min ister rose to the sounding board, and tbea was struck back aga n upon the ears of the people. And so the ten thousand voices of earth rising up find the Heavens a sounding-board, which strikes back to tho ear of all the nations the praises of Christ The Heavens tell his glory, and the earth shows his handiwork. The Bible thrills with one great story of re demption. Upon a blasted and faded para dise it poured tho light of a glorious res toration. It looked upon Abraham from the ram caught in the thicket.. It spoke in the bleating of the herds driven down to Jerusalem for sacriiice. It put infinite puthos into the speech of uncouth fisher men. It lifted Paul int> the seventh heav en ; and it broke upon tho car of St. John with the brazen trumpets and thedoxology of the elders and the rushing wings of tho seraphim. Instead of waiting until you get s'ck and worn out before you speak the praise of Christ, while your heart is hap piest, and your step is lightest, and your fortunes smile, and your pathway blos soms, and the overarching Heavens drop upon you their beuodiction, speak the praises of Josus. The old Greek orators, when they saw their audiences inattentive and slumber ing, had ono word with which they would rouse them up to the greatest enthusiasm. In the midst of thoir orations they would stop and cry out “Marathon 1” and tho peo ple’s enthusiasm would bo unbounded. My hearers, though you may have been borne down with sin, and though troubles and temptation may have come upon you, and you l'ecl hardly like looking up, me thinks (here is one grand, royal, imperial word that ought to rouse your soul to in finite rejoicing, and that word is “Jesus!” Taking the suggestion of thi text, I shall speak to you of Christ, our song. I re mark, in the first place, that Chr.st ought to be the cradle song. AY’hat our mothers sang to ns when they put us to sleep is singing yet. Wa may have forgotten the words, but they went into the fiber of our soul, and will forever be a part of it. It is not so much what you formally teach your children as what you sing to them. A hymn has wings and can fly every whither. Ono huudred and fifty years after you are dead, and “Old Mortality” has worn out his chisel in recutting your name on the tombstone, your great-grand children will % be singing the song which this afternoon you sing to tho little ones gatherod about your knee. There is a place in Switzerland where, if you dis tinctly utter your voice there come back ten or fifteen distinct echoes, and every Christian song suug by tho mother in the ear of her child shall have ten thousand echoes coming hack from all the gates of Heaven. Oh, if mothers only know the power of this sacred spell how much oTtener the little ones would bo gathered, and all our homes would chime with the Bongs of Jesus! We want some counteracting influence Upon our children. The very moment your child steps into the street he steps into temptation. There are foul-mouthed chil dren who would like to besoil your little ones. It will not do to keep your boys and girls in the house and make them house plants; they must have fresh air aud rec reation. God save your children from the scathing, blasting, damning influence of the streets! I know of no counteracting influence but the power of Christian cul ture and example. Hold before your little ones the pure !i?o of Jesus; let that name be the word that shall exercise ovil from thoir hearts. Give to your instruc tion all tho fascination of music, morning, noon and night; let it he Jesus, the cradle-song. This is important if your children grow up, but perhaps they may not. Their pathway may be short. Jesus may bo wanting that child. Then there will be a soundless step in the dwelling, and tho youthful pulse will begin to flut ter, aud little hands will be lifted for help. You can not help. And a great agony will prnch at your heart, and tho cradle will be empty, and the nursery will bo empty, and the world will he empty, and your soul will be empty. Nu little feet standing on the stairs. No toys scattered on the carpet. No quick following from room to room. No strange and wondering ques tions. No upturned face, with laughing blue eyes, come for a kiss; hut only a grave, and a wreath of white blossoms on the top of It; an l bitter desolation, and a sighing at night-fall, with no one to put to bed, and a wet pillow and a grata fcnd a wr -ath of white blossoms ou^.tie v “thh of it. The Heaveuly Shepherd \\*til take that lamb safely anyhow, whether ydu have been faithful or unfaithful; but would it cot have Imn pleasanterif you could have heard from those lips the praise* of Christ ? J itdver read buj? Ui«ug otoro beautiful than this about a child’s depart'ire. The account said: “She folded her hands, kissed her mother good-bye, sang her hymn, turnod her face to the wall, said her little prayer, and then died.” Oh, if I could gather up in one paragraph the last words of the little ones who have gone out from all these Christian circles, and I could picture the Calm looks and the folded hands and sweet departure, me tkiaks it would be grand and boautifiul as one of Heaven's great doxologios. I next speak of Christ as tho old man’s song. Quick music loses its charm for the aged ear. The school girl asks for a schot t'sche or a gleo, hut her grandmother asks for “Balerma” ortho “Portuguese Hymn.” Fifty years of trouble have tamed the spir it, and tho keys of the music board must have a silent tread. Though the voice may be tremulous, so that grandfather will not trust it in church, still he has the Psalm-book open before him, and he sings with his soul. Ho hums his grandchild asleep with tho same tune he sang forty years ago in the old country meeting house. Some day the choir sings a tune so old that the young people do not know it; but it starts the tears down the cheek of the aged man, for it reminds him of the revival scene in which he participated, of the radiant faces long since went to dust, and the gray-haired minister lean ing over the pulpit and sounding the tidings of great joy. I was ono Thanksgiving Day in my pul pit in Syracuse, N. Y., and Rev. Daniel Waldo, at ninety-eight years of age, stood beside me. Tho choir sang a tune. I said: “I am sorry they sang that new tune; no body seems to know it.” “Blosi you, my son,” said the old man, “I heard that sev enty years ago!” Tnero was a song to-day that touched the life of the aged with holy fire and kin dled a glory on their vision that our younger eyesight, can not see. It was the song of snlvat on—Jesus, who fed them all their lives long; Jesus, who wiped away their tears; Jesus, who stood by them when all else failed; Jesus, in whose namo their marriage was consecrated, and whose res urrection ha 3 poured light upon the graves of their departed. Blessed the Bible in which spectacled old age reads the promise: “I will never leave you, never forsake you!” Blessed the staff on which the worn-out pilgrim totter 3 on to ward the welcome of his R*deeinor! Blessed the hymn books in which the fal tering tongue and failing eyes find Jesus, the old man's soag. I speak to you again of Jesus as the night-song. Job speaks of him who givoth songs in the night. John Welch, the old Scotch minister, used to put a plaid across his bed oil cold nights, and some one asked him why ho put that there. He said: “Oh, sometimes in the night I want to sing tho praise of Jesus and to get down and pray; then I just take that plaid aud wrap it around me to keep myself from the cold.” Songs in the night? Night of troublo has come down upon many of you. Commercial losses put out one star, slanderous abuse put out another star, domestic bereavement has put out a thou sand lights, and gloom has been added to gloom, and chill to chill, and sting to sting, and one midnight has seemed to borrow the fold from another midnight to wrap itself in more unbearable darkness; but Christ has spoken peace to your heart and you can sing: “ Jesus lover of my soul, Let me to Thy bosom fly, While the billows near me roll. While the tempest st'll ishigh. Hide me, oh. my Saviour! hide Till the storm ot iife is past. Safe into the haven guide; Oh, receive my soul at last.” Songs in the night! Songs in tho night! For the sick, who have no one to turn the hot pillow, no ono to put the taper ot the stand, no one to put ice on the temple, or pour out tho soothing anodyne, or utter ono cheorful word—yet songs in the night! For tho poor, who freeze in the winter’s cold, and swelter in the summer’s heat, and munch tho -hard crusts that bleed tho sore gums, and shiver under blankets that can not any longer be patched, and trem ble because rent-day is come and they may be set out on the sidewalk, and looking in to the starved face of the child and seeing famine there and death there, coming home from the bakery, and saying, in the pres ence of the little ramished one: ‘Oh, my God, flour has gone up!” Yet songs in the night! Songs in the night! For the widow who goes to get the back pay of hor husband, slain by the “sharp-shooters,” and knows it is the last help she will have, moving out of a comfortable homo in deso lation, death turning back from the ex hausting cough, aud the pale cheek, and the lusterless eye, and refusing all relief. Yet songs in the night! Kong in tho night! For the soldier in the field hospital, no surgeon to bind up the gun-shot fracture, no water for tho hot lips, no kind hand to brush away the flies from the fresh wound, no one to take the loving farewell, tho groaning of the others poured into liis own groan, the blasphemy of others plowiug up his own spirit, the condensed bitter, ness of dying away from home among strangers. Yet songs in the night! Songs in the night! “Ah !” said ope dying soldier. “Tell my mother that last night there was not one cloud between mv soul and Jesus.” Songs in the night? Songs in the night! The Sabbath day has come. From the altars of ten thousand churches has smoked up the savor of sacrifice. Min isters of the Gospel are now preaching in plain English, in broad Scotch, in flowing Italian, in harsh Choctaw. God’s people have assembled in Hindoo Temple, and Moravian church, and Quaker meeting house, and sailom’ bethel, and King’s chapel, and high-towered cathedral. They sang, aud Lie song floated off amid the spice groves, or struck the ice-bergs, or floated off into the Western pines, or was drowned in the clamor of the great cities. Lumbermen sang it, and factory girls, and the children in the Sabbath-class, and the trained choirs in great, assemblages. Trappers, with the same voice with which they shouted yesterday in the stag-hunt, and mariners, with throats that only a few days ago sounded in the hoarse blast of the noa hurricane, they sang it. OIM thume (or the serwous, Uao burden TRENTON, DADE COUNTY. GA., FRIDAY. MARCH !». 1888. for the song. Josus for tho invocation. Jesus for tho Scripture Icsboii. Jesus for the baptismal font. Jesus for the sacra mental cup. Jesus for the benediction. But the day will go by. It will roll away on swift wheels of light un l lovo. Agnin the churches will be lighted. Tides of people again setting down the streets. Whole families coming up the church aisle. WO must have ono more sermon, two prayers, threo songs and or.e benedic tion. What shall we preach to-night! What shall we read? What shall it be, children? Aged men and women, what shall it be! Young men and maidens, what shall it be! If you dared to break the silence of this auditory there would come up thousands of quick aud jubi lant, voices, crying out: “Let it be Jesus! Jesus!” We sing His birth—the barn that shel tered Him, tho mother that nursed Him, the cattle that fed beside Him, the augels that woke up the shepherds, shaking light over the midnight bills. We sing His min istry—the tears He vv;ped away from the eyes of the orphans; tho lame men that forgot their crutches; the damsel who from the bier hounded out into the sun light, her locks shaking down over her flushed check; the hungry thousand who broke the bread as it blossomed into larger loaves—that miracle by which a boy with five loaves and two fishes be came the sutler for a whole army. We sing His sorrows—His stone-bruised feet, His aching heart, His mountain loneliness, His desert hanger, His storm pelted body, the eternity of anguish t,h%t shot through His last moments, aud the im measurable ocean of torment that heaved up against His cross in one foaming wrath ful, omnipotent surge, the sun dashed out, and the dead, shroud-wrapped, breaking open their sepulchers, and rushing out to see what was the matter. We sing His resurection—the guard that could not keep Him; the sorrow of His disciples; tho clouds piling up ou either side in pil lared splendors as He went through, treading the pathless air, higher aud high er, until He came to the foot of the throne, aDd all Heaven kept jubilee at the return of the Conqueror. I say once more, Christ is the everlasting song. The very best singers sometimes get tired; the strongest throats sometimes get weary, and many who sang very sweetly do not sing now; but I hope by the grace of God we will, after a while, go up and sing the praises of Christ where we will never be weary. You know there are soino songs that, are especially appropriate to the homo circle. They stir the soul, they start the tears, they turn the heart in on itself and keep sounding after the tune has stopped like some cathedral bell, which, long after the tap of the brazen tongue has ceased, keeps throbbing on tho air. Well, it will be a home song in Heaven; ail the sweeter because those who sang with us in the domestic circle ob earth shall join the great harmony. Jerusalem, my happy home, Name ever dear to me; - When shall my labors have an end In joy and peace in thee? On earth we sang harvest songs as the wheat came into the barn, and the bar racks were filled. You know there is no such time on a farm as when they get the crops in; and so in Heaven, it will be a harvest song on the part of those who on earth sowed in tears and reaped in joy. Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates, and let the sheaves come in! Angels shout ail through the Heavens, aud multitudes come down the hills crying: “Harvest home! liar\« it homo !” There is nothing more bewitching to one’s ear than the song of sailors far out at sea, whether in day or night, as they pull away at the ropes—the music is weird and thrilling. Ko the song in Heaven will bo a sailor’s song. They were voyagers once, and thought they could never get to shore, aud before they could get things snug and trim tho cyclone struck them. But now they are safe. Once they went with damaged rigging, guns of distress booming through the storm; hut the pilot came aboard, and he brought them into the harbor. Now they sing of tho breakers past, the light-houses that showed them where to sail, the pilot that took them through the straits, the eternal shore on which they landed. Aye, it will be the children’s song. You know very well that the vast majority of our race die in infancy, and it is estimated that 18,000,000,000 of thi little ones are standing bofore God. When they shall rise up about the throne to sing the mill ions aud the millions of the little ones— ah! that will be music for you! These played in the streets of Babylon and Thebes; these plucked lilies from the foot of Olivet while Christ was preaching about them; these waded in Kiloam; these were victims of Herod’s massacre; these were thrown to crocodiles or into the fire; these came up from Christian homes, and these were foundlings on thocity commons:—chil dren every where, in all that land; chil dren in the towers, children on the seas of glass, children on the battlements. Ah, if you do not like children, do not go there. They are in vast majority, and what a song when they lift it around about the throne! The Christian singers and composers of all ages will he there to join in that song. Thomas Hastings will bo there. Lowell Mason will he there. Bradbury will be there. Beethoven and Mozart will be there. They who sounded the cymbals and the trumpets in the ancient temples will be there. The forty thousand harpers that stood at the ancient dedication will he there. The two hundred singers that as sisted on that day will he there. Patri archs who lived amid threshing-fl )ors, shepherds who watched amid Chaldean hills, prophets who walked with long beards and coarse apparel, pronouncing woe against ancient abominations, will meet the more recent martyrs who went up with leaping cohorts of fire; and some will speak of the Jesus of whom they prophesied, ami others of the Jesus for whom they died. Oh, what a song! It came to John upon Patinos; it came to Calvin in the prison; it dropped to John Kuox in ttie lire, and sometimes that song has come to your ears, perhaps, fori really do think it aometimes brooks over the bat tlements of Heaven. A UD'ißtma woman, the wife of a miuis- ter #f the Gospel was dying sn’, the paraon age pear the old church, where on Satur day flight the choir used to assemble and re hearse for the following Kabbath, and she snidj fHow strangely sweot the choir ro heafiir. to-night; they have been rehears ing thf re for an hour. “No,” said some one around her, “the choir is not rehears ing to-niglit.” “Yes,” she said, “I know they are, I hear them sing; how very sweetly they sing!” Now, it was not a choir of earth that she heard, hut the choir of Heaven. I think that Jes is some time* sets ajar tho door of Heaven, and a passage of that rapture, creels our ears. Th ■ miustrels of Heaven strike such a tre mendous strain, the wails of jasper can not hold it. I wonder will you sing that song! Will I sing it? Not unless our sins are pardoned, and we learn now to sing the praise of Christ, will wc ever sing it there. The flrstgrcat concert that I ever attended was New York when Julicn, in the Crystal Palace, stood before hundreds of singers and hundreds of players upon in struments. Some ot you may remember that occasion; it was the first one of the kind at which I was present, and I shall neverforget.it. I saw that ono man standing, and with the hand and foot wield that great harmony, beating the time. It was to me o verwhelming. But, oh! the grander scene when thov shall come from the East, and from the West, and from the North, and from the South, “a gioat multitude that no man can num ber,”-into the temple of the skies, host beyond host, rank beyond rank, gallery above gallery, and Jesus shall stand be fore the great host to conduct the har mony with his wounded hands and his woiindod foot! Like the voice of many waters, like the voice of mighty thr.nder ings, they shall cry : “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive blessings, and riches, and honor, and glory, and power, world without end. Amen and amen!” Oh, if my ear shall hear no other sweet sounds, may I hear that! If 1 join no other glad assemblage, may I join that. i was reading of the battle of Agincourt, in which Henry V. figured; and it is *aid after tho ba’tle was won, gloriously won, the King wanted to acknowlege the divine . interposition, and he ordered the Chaplain to road the Psalm of David; and when he came to the words, “Not unto us, O! Lord, but unto Thy name he the praise,” the King dismounted and all the cavalry disinouutel, and all the great host, officers and men, threw themselves on their faces. Oh, at the story of tho Sa viour's Jove and the Saviour’s deliverance, shall w“ not prostrate oursetvos before Him novev- hosts of earth and host* of Heaven, falling upon our faces and crying; “Not unto us, not unto us, but unto Thy name be the glory !” THE COZY HOME. A Raven That Gathers to Itself Countless Fragrant Memories. There are all sorta of adjectives which may be called upon to describe the home; it may be grand, stately, hospitable, beauti ful, merry, crowded, ai'\le or elegant, but its crowning grace is round In the little word cozy. If the whole house can not be cozy, there may be some spot Within it, the mother’s room, for instance, or a little nook curtained away from the library, which bears that character. There, those who come In from the world, weary and forlorn, sit down to be cheerel; the baby cuddles close to the mother with head against her knee; tho big boy forgets that he has his maubood to assert in the face of all creat’on. The grl grows confidential and tells her little open secrets which the dear mother has already divined, yet is glad to hear from the daughter's lips. The lovers draw nearer in the twilight, as in sweet hushed, tones they repeat the story which is new as Eden in every experience, and hand in hand Lusband and wife have moments of qu’et blessedness. Sumptuous and splendid, the home may lack the quality of cozlness, and, bare to forlornnc6B. It may possess It, For coziness does not depend on carpets from E stern looms or rugs from the land of the Moslem, on easy chairs or pillowy lounges, on flow ers in the windows or fruit on the table; it is apart from these things; It belongs to the * people who dwell In the home and who giv. s it its tone and atmosphere. In the cozy home there is liberty for the Individual, while the general management is arranged according to law. A cozy bom e must have somebody at Its head, somebody with a head, who is responsible for the comfort and well-l>eing of the family, and who secs that meals are well-served und generous, that the work goes on in an orderly way, and who prevents, needless friction by her own common sense and w'se forethought But in the cozy home there is elasticity, and the nervous invalid or wearied traveler is not compelled to rise at an hour which taxes his strength, simply because it is or dained that an early breakfast is desirable. For many people an early breakfast if. a doubtful good, and in the cozy home there will he provision for those who prefer their toast and tea late, ns well as for those who must go early to business or school. The cozy home gathers to itself a thou sand fragrant memories, around its hearth a thousand dear associations cluster. As years go on, we forget many things, aud names once familiar are seldom on our ljna, but the cozy homes abide in our heart*, and we wish for our children that which our parents gave to us.— Christian Intel i genter. "■ • ♦ Authority in the Home. Whether or not it is good to use the rod as an :*s:s'ant in family government Is «n open question, and each man is lett to an swer i; for himself. The minister used to say when administering baptism: “ Re member to u-e the rod, not as nn instru ment of wrath, but as an ordinance of God, 1 * and to this the parents responded as a part of th* ceremony that, with the rest of it they sincerely believed in. But if not th? rod, there must be i*s equivalent —some thing to enfore authority and teach chil dren the self-denial that is so necessary a part of their training. Many a home is kept in's rable by an exacting “ invalid,’’ who is nothing more than a victim of over-iu dulgence during the period of childhood. There are wives who hang as burdens about tho lives of their husbands, vrfeo might har* be*,!t useful women If only they bad be** taught in youth the beauty and blogslagt «{ utuffiihsimen*. L'nittJ rrosbytm**, * FIFTIETH CONGRESS. First Session. Washington, Feb. i".— Senate —Petitions were presented against any reduction of the tarifT from iron, steel and wool industries. Mr. Sherman reported Ihe bill to amend the acts relating to Chinese immigration. A bill was passed to establish a Commission of Art, to consist of fourteen persons, to select plans for public buildings, monuments, etc. A hill for the compulsory education of Indian children was passed. The dependent pension debate was resumed. Messrs. Plumb, Vest, Teller and Wilson made speeches, and at 5 :30 p. m. the Senate adjourned after a short executive ses sion. >* House.—Mr. Holman reported a bih to se cure to actual setlers the lands adapted to agri culture, and to protect the forests on the pub lic domain. The House then went into com mittee of the whole to consider the bill author izing the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase bonds with the surplus revenue. After an in teresting debate tho bill was passed. A bill was passed relating to postal crimes. Eulogies on the late Seth C. Moflatt, of Michigan, were delivered, and at 5 r.O p. m. the House adjourned. Washington, Maroh I.—Senate.—Credentials of Mr. Wilson, of lowa, and Mr. Walthall, of Mis sissippi, for the term beginning March 4,18 W), were presented and filed. Among the bills intro duced was one to revive the grade of General of the Army. The anti-Chinese resolution was taken up and considered, Mr. Morgan and Mr. Sherman favoring its passage. Mr. Call criti cised it. The resolution was adopted. A reso lution was adopted directing the Secretary of the Treasury to communicate all reports of spe cial agents and other officials in regard to sugar frauds in New York within the past two years. The dependent pension bill was taken up. Mr. Heck speaking. Without reaching any conclu sion ;he Senate at 5 p. m. adjourned until Mon day. House.—Bills were reported for the redemp tion of worn and mutilated fractional coins and to prohibit the coinage of $8 gold pieces. Also a resolution calling on the President for in formation as to what steps have been taken in the direction of treaty stipulations to prevent the continued immigration of Chinese laborers. The joint resolution accepting the invitation of the French Republic for the United States to take part in the Internation al Exhibition of 1889, and another joint resolution authorizing the President to arrange a Conference to be held in Washing ton in 1 SSI) for promoting arbitration and en couraging reciprocal commercial relations be tween the United States and South American Republics were agreed to. The former was amended to authorize the distribution at the Exposition of a stutoment descriptive of Amer can methods of raising and preparing pork for export. Washington, March 8.-Senate.—No ses-., ► iOn. s House.—A letter was presented from the Sec retary of the Treasury showing the probable loss by destruction of U. S. bonds. Mr. Mc- Kinley had printed in the Recor'l a protest by glass-blowers against a reduction of duty on import, window glass as proposed by the Mills tariff lull. A resolution was reported for Fri day night sessions on private pension bills. A bill was reported for the creation of the office of an Assistant Superintendent of the Rail way Service and fifty-four chief clcrkiP The private calendar was taken up. To the omnibus bill providing for the payment of thirty odd claims for supplies used during the war. reported by the Court of Claims under the Bowman act, Mr. Lee, of Virginia, offered an ami ndmont appropriating J20.U00 for the re lief of the P. E. Theological Seminary and High School, of Virginia. After a fight the amend ment was adopted—lo 2to 61. At 5 p. m. the House took a recess until 7:30 p. m., the even ing session being for the consideration of pen sion bills. J Washington, March 3.—Senate—Not in ses sion. House—H. C. Seymour, the new member from Michigan, successor to the late S. C. Mof fet. was sworn in. A resolution was adopted appropriating 15 00) for the Committee on Com merce to expend in investigating t rusts. A bill was passed appropriating 875,000 for the con struction of a revenue cutter for use at Charles ton. S. C. A hill was reported to increase the efficiency of the line of the army. Also, a bill authorizing the issue of fractional silver certifi cates. Also, a hill proposing constitutional amendments to change the time for the com mencement of Iho Presidential term and the meeting of Congress. The Pacific railroad tele graph bill lving the special order, It was de bated and finally passed—year 197, nays 4. At 4:45 p. m. the House adjourned. Washington,March s.—Senate —Memorials and i etitions were presented. Mr. Heck’s cre dentials for tjie Senatorial term commenced March 1. 1889,'were presented. A bill was re ported to regulate % graph tells. The depend ent pension bill was laid aside and the urgent deficiency was taken up and considered until 6:£5 p. m. when the Senate adjourned House.— Orders were entered fixing days lor the consideration of business from the Com mittees on Commerce and Judiciary. Under the call of States bills were introduced. Reso lutions were introduced and referred to inves tigate the C., B. &Q strike, inquiring into the alleged unofficial matter by the War Records Office. Mr Bntterworth introduced a resolution appropriating 8227,0 X) for a Government exhibit at the Cincinnati Exposition. The contested election caso of McDuffie vs. Davidson, of Ala bama, was considered until 5:25 p. m., ’then the House adjourned. Washington. March 6.—Senate—An ad verse report was made on the hill for the re tirement of U. S. legal-tender notes of small denominations,and the issue of coin certificates In lieu of gold and silver certificates. The House bill to authorize the purchase of bpnds by the Secretary of the Treasury was reported favorably. Several proposed amendments to the rules were considered. The House bill to enable the Secretary of the Interior to allow the use of hot water to parties outside of the Government reservation at Hot Springs, Ark., was considered. At 2p. m. the dependent pen sion bill was taken up as unfinished business pending which Mr. Sherman replied to Mr. Beck's allegations concerning his part in the demonetization of silver. Mr. Ingalls thf n look the floor and spoke on the pension bill; Mr. Blackburn followed. It was agreed to continue the discussion to-morrow. House —Mr. Mason was appointed on the Committee of Claims; Mr. Thomas introduced a bill prohibiting the use of the likenesses of ’adies for advertisioar purposes without their consent in the Alabama contested election case , ; Tl&|MUiie vs. Davidson, was taken up aid d« b*gal£tintil sp. m.. when me minority resolution. mnupttag McDuffie elm twl. was rejected—ydas iKB nays 144—ai d the ma jority resolution declaring the sitting member entitled to Ms sc at, was r A pteu without divis ion. The Hen>.e then aijounsed. VOL. V.- NO. 2. RARE MEDICAL CASE. A N< wurk I'hysiriau ( srr h ft Bullet in Ills Brain Nine Year . New Yokk, March 6.—Dr. Trevcniun Haight, a well-known Newark physician, died at the Essex Couuty Insane Asylum in that city on Saturday. Dr. Haight’s case had been carefully watched by his profes sional brethren for a number of years, and it # is doubtful if there is another like it on record. Nine years ago Dr. Haight, in a fit of mental aberration, shot himself in the right temple with a pistol carrying aB2 caliber hall. Tho bail passed through tho head into the other side, where it lodged \vithin an inch of the surface. Tho •late Dr. O. Gorman, ussistod by Dr. P. V. Hewlett, succeeded in removing portion* of the ball, and Dr. Haight apparently en joyed fair health for some time afterward. He entered the employ of a life insurance company of this city as examining physi cian and also pursued the practice of his profession in private circles. About fizo years ago he showed signs of mental im pairment and was compelled to give up work. He entered tho asylum at Newark, where he remained until his death. Dr. Young and Dr. Hewlett made a medical examination, which showed that the ball passed through the temporal region and penetrated tho frontal lobe. The remains of the hall were found encysted and weighed twenty grains. He had also suf fered from a hardening of the motor tract of the spinal cord. The medical gentle men regard the case as orte of groat rar ity, as a,similar wound would not fail to prove fatal in one case out of a hundred. A Fright'ul Storm. New Orleans, March 6.—A special from Opelousas says a storm passed over the southwestern part of this parish on .Sun day afternoon. The dwellings of Chap man Guidoy, Mr. Frevo.st, Valentine La vergins, Mr. Marcote and Louis Bour geois were blown to pieces. Chap max Guidey and his son each had an arm broken. The youngest child of Val entine Lavergius was killed. Three broth ers, who were keeping a store, lost thoir house and their goods were scattered for miles. All the members of the family of Louis Bourgeois were injured. About a dozen dwellings and as many more ou*- buildings were demolishe I, and in every case the inmates wore injure! and. the household effects destroyed. The path of the storm was three hundred yards wide. Wants to be a King. Pa his, March 6- —A telegram from Bt. Petersburg says that Ffluco Ferdinand, of JEvutguriii, is preparing.* mutufeatb, in re ply to Aim t*A pertwr uuitnatnin oTtne mvr ers regarding the Bulgarian question, iti which he wilt proclaim Bulgaria a king dom and call upon the people to crmvu him King. London, March 6.—A Constantinople dispatch says : In accordance with the de mands of Russia the Porto has notified Prince Ferdinand that his position in Bul garia is illegal. Died at*the Age of 117. Portland, Me., March 6.— Mary Lud. kins, a tall, gaunt colored woman one hundred and seventeen years of age, died here to-night. She always said sho could remember distinctly tho visit to this coun try of the Prince who was subsequently William IV. of England, and sboclniimd to have done his laundry work for him when he was in Quebec. Kite was a won -I‘rfully well preserved woman and very active. Boy Killed. Beli.evuk, 0., March 6.—George Toor ney, sixteen years old, who ran a nut ma chine .it the cultivator works, got caugiit in the belting, and was hurled around the shafting, breaking both logs and teariu? his right arm out of the socket. Ho lived but a few moments. Child Burned to Death. Wellsville, 0., March 6. —An cight year-old daughter of J. O. Aliison was burned to death at Georgetown, Pa..above here, lest night, by her clothing taking fire at a grate. Another child of Allison’s was burned Letli in the same manner eighteen nion'tffc ago. Followed Her Father. Boston, Mass., March fi.—Miss Louisa M. AleHlt, the author, died this morning. KII9 had been ill for several weeks and never rallied from the shock cf her father’s death Sunday morning. She was fifty-six years of age. A Big Winter’s Work. Boston, March (i.—The report of logging in New Hampshire shows tho biggest winter’s work ever known in tho lumber :egions. Over three hundred million feat of spruce timber was handled. A Handsome Present. New York, March 6.—Robert Bonner has made another handsome present to his sons jointly. He has given them a square of land on Fifth avenue valued at a mill ion and a quarter of dollars. ■ Desperate Bank Robber. Bradford, Pa., March 6.—George Kim ball, a desperate bank robber, shot tho cashier, grabbed the mouey, made his escape, shot the leader in the pursuit and committed suicide. Mail Robber Arrested. Dennison, Tex., Mare> 6.— T B. Snyder was arrested here, charged with opening theU. S. mail 3. In his possession was found drafts ou New York banks amount ing to f 146,575. ♦ Killed by a Boy. Mortimer, K in., March 6.—John Geary, a farmer restd.ug uear here, was shot and killed by a boy named Pariter in solf defense. The trouble arose over an elope ment. -♦ ♦ Wife and Two Children Perish. Cat LG a, Ont., March 6.— The house Jehu Daley, of this p ace, was burned, and his wife fttid two children perished ia the flames-