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—OF
p11v v: con\ ty,
^fiftgrhlpnds: it no h?H AUftim,
KISSING THE ROD.
Oh, heart of mine, wo shouldn’t
Worry sol
What we’ve missed of calm we couldn’t
Have, you know!
What we’ve met of stormy pain,
And of sorrow’s driving rain,
We can bet ter meet again
If it blow.
Wo have erred in that dark hour
We have known
When our tears fell with the shower,
All alone—
Were not shine and shadow Wont
As tho gracious Master meant?
Let us temper our content
With His own.
For, we know, not every morrow
Can be sad;
–** forgetting all the sorrow
W8 hire had;
Lotus? fold away oiir fears*
And put by our foolish tears
And through all the coming years
Just he glad.
—James Whitcomb Riley.
Mrs. Maberly’s Neighbor,
in' m.vky a. denison.
. “O Paul 1 it’s the loveliest little house
I’ve seen yet. Let us take it.”
“l confess I like that long veranda,”
said Paul, “and those beeches and
nuts ts nn Oil .the ihe enn.ia.vi.. roadside are .... simply superb. ........-i. ” >
“Yes, they are very beautiful, and— _
let me see—two cherry trees, one peach
on pear, and six apple trees, all in" good
condition, in the side and back from" yard,” tiie
said the young wife, rcading .......... H „„„
slip of paper she held in .. her well-gloved „.,.n ,.i.......i
hand—pretty, shapely hands she had.
“And the view is not ------------, half bad, either. -------
t think more of that than of the fruit,
which, like the poach of emerald hue,
can do some harm. Remember, we have
a two-year-old boy who is very ambitious
where climbing is to be considered. I’m
afraid these fruit trees will tempt him too
sorely.”
“How very ridiculous, when I am
around!” was the laughing response.
“Ernest is scarcely ever out of my sight,
ami he is very obedient. Hike this bav
w inflow, it commands such aprettyview;
the parlor just suits me. it is c x a ,,tij
what one needs in a country home. Mv
laee curtains will fit the windows; there
is just room enough for the furniture, I
The can see just where to put everything.
floors are oiled and our rugs will g„
down nicely. The people who live,I
here h£ vc people*who taken im<v\ mrf>af 'hereljiiilTthe thi* '
“The lived
house ” her husband said “and evident
Me, but somethin- utf” haimeued that caused
them to break
Ho did not add that the something
was a foreerv L and helple's that the m m chib had
fled, leaving w Re and
rlren to oet on Cw as best thev [ cotiM flen Whv
should she it? might
her pleasure in living ° in the ptace 1 if she
did.
They went up-stairs, down cellar, and
found all the appointments perfect. Mr
Maberly was in raptures. If they had
built it for themselves, she said, it could
not have be more tc her liking; indeed,
she had planned a house exactly like it,
Tiie veranda went round two sides of
the building, and there were stilt hang
mg from tic: h-ams overhead baskets of
last years plants son, • o! them yet
thrifty. A mi- had been carefully trained
over the lattice work and i thie:< mass o:
foliage rendered ir atm ,hi hntxmiMe for
wind or rain to oet in.
The next h„„-,. on nheri'd.twi.buta
few rods Hive,. bright look in - stone
cottage againsi which ehmr K.ugtoh 'leave- ivr, io
the xun’sh-.-I rav tnrniir the
crimson ami -old
“I wonder who lives there: ’ Mr
Mabcriv a-k- !
“The nam- is Warren,’ -,i,l her hit
band, “I have seen him one or twice,
but have never spoke., t„ him ”
“Warren: it i* e g-,,,-1 name, and
it seems to me I have heard it
in connection with some of mv
friends, but 1 f »r I } 10 ;,u
they arc nice; one has sometime* to
depend upon neighborly offices. They
certainly show good taste. I can
see from here that the garden is benuti
fid, and the baby carriage in the yard is
very pretty and costly. The nurse wears
a cap, too. How trim she look*.....:md
well dressed ! That speaks volumes for
the mistress of the house. Of course none
but nice people would live in a cottage
like that, or,” she added, laughingly,
“this.”
“That goes without saving,” we’better said her
husband, “but hadn’t be
going? The horse is getting impatient.”
“Oh, yes, und the boy will be fretting
for me. poor little fellow! I’m so glad
there's a barn on the premises_don’t yon
think we could afford a cow? I could
make such delicious ice ct-carn.
“We'll see about if,” her husband said,
smiling.
lu less than a week the house was
ready for occupancy, and Mrs. Maberly
W as as things/ happy as the day was long, set
tling Of course it took weeks to,
get everything in place, and then arc
arrangement was often decided upon,
but at last the piano was satisfactorily
disposed of, the furniture md the brie-a
brae set out to the best advantage, and
the little woman felt very proud of her '
house, which really reflected great credit
upon her taste ami ingenuity. As for the
boy he lived out-of-doors. His quarters
in the city had been rather limited, but
here he had, as his father expressed it,
“all creation to roam in.”
Often as Airs. Maberly sat on the vc
randa, the white-capped nurse came by,
drawing the exquisite baby carriage, in
side of which sat a fairy princess, so ,
white and sweet, so wrapped in fine fab
ncs, rich iaces and lovely carriage blank j
ets, that the little woman wondered more j
and more who her neighbor could be. j
One day she met the nurse and child on
the road. She had been to tiie unpre
tending cottage on her left where sho ,
occasionally bought eggs and cream of
the good farmer’s wife who lived there, j
and she stopped as the carriage came to
wasd her
like €0tttttg mtrtiaL
tot, H.
fill babyF’she saiil, placing her basketof
eggs on the gronnd. “What a lovely
child! how old is she?”
“Sixteen months,” said the nurse,with
a broad smile, that someway looked fa
miliar to Mrs. Maberly.
“I don’t know as I ever saw quite as
lovely a baby,” said Mrs. Maberly, smil
ing down upon the child, whose great
blue eyes were fixed upon her face.
1 ‘IIow I wish I dared to kiss it 1 But
babies are so capricious.”
“She’ll let you,” said the girl. “Ma
bel, kiss the lady.”
The cherubic little lips came together
at once in a charming pout that made
them look more than ever like two ripe
cherries.
“You perfect darling!” exclaimed Mrs.
Mabetly, as she received “I'm and returned
the coveted kiss, dead in love
With you. Whose child is it?” she
asked, a* she resumed tor basket and
prepared “AVliy, to move aWay. jt that '
ma'am, is possible you
don’t remember me?” was the Astound
ing form the girl’s answer exclaimed took.
“Remember you!” astonishment, Sirs.
Maberly with unfeigned
and then it slowly dawned upon her that
the face she was looking at was not lin
familiar.
“Yes, I’m.changed; of course,' ’cause
it’s years ago since you u,scd to. come to
! Mis8 Matol’s for to stop in your vacn
tious “ l)on ’ t vo '' remember the old
-
j i plantation nlmitation down down in in Georgy Georgy and tiie old
1 hands? I’m ,>m nld old Hartley’s daughter—
I Abirthv, that used to be laundress, and
* m growed up, you
j tion Old Old dow Martha!—Mabel!—theohl Martha! in Georgia! -Ma! Mrs. Maberly planta
! "
.
j 1 felt dizzy dizzy as she heard the well-remcm
! bered names.
“You see Miss Mabel married a North
j ern gentleman, after all, „ and , came , here
f\"‘ l s ~" next ncx 00
"eignbor! . said Airs. Mabicly in , a , faint
\ olce - Hl ™ fclt dazed ' ‘ l thl “ k 1
, derstand how one might be knocked
down by a feather she said m speak
| mg of tho matter to her husband after
ward
! “Mabel-Oeorgia, , she , kept repeating
I hi.Ts,df “and she is my next neigh
| Jot* tovo taken 1 1 the knn house. ' Tn „‘ t 1 woul ‘ l
1 rho brightness had all died out of her
f**> , 8 «’ w «nted to ask some goes ions,
w ” ul( n0 ‘ a, ow bcrsolf to do so.
1 he nurse s chocolate-colored face unis
™ “ broad grin. How much did she
*«<>" *h« state Of affairs between these
two women who had once been the clos
friend*.
“No. I would never have taken that
house j 1 ' sho said and Mje
over over as
moved an, still in a dazed, startled mood,
that even tho sight of her beautiful boy,
waiting outside the -* far ” m ami„„,”
fa,lcd ,0 change. A cloud seemed to
1 have hen, suddenly thro wn over the gray
ston<) cmiqr. Vines atid flowers aad
^e belongings were as if they had
bees. Mrs. Maberly turned >'-*
face resolutely away and went into her
"
own house.
“Oh, dear—I have found out at last
who our next door neighbor is!” sho ex
claimed, as her husband entered the hall,
where she was awaiting him that even
ll! ”
! “Yon don't seem to he very much ilc
lighted over the discovery,” was his re- '
pty. ’ , t met the gentleman , to-day , , in . a
business, affair. If- is very genial. I 1
j seems bis wife u something of mi «>•
valid, and seldom goes out.
• “I m so glad ■ exclaimed Mrs. Ma
berly, with ho irt-felt emphasis.
“Tint, don't s,mk much for you,
Cbrbtian chanty,” said Mr. Maberly,
'
! -smiling.
“I don’t mean that I’m glad she is
sick, but that she seldom goes out,” said
his w.f
rival will make it encumbent on you
to call on her, won’t it?”
“I'll never call on her,” was the reply,
deliv-re 1 with almost spiteful energy.
“Why. what on earth hw htppened?”
her hi.dnnd aske l, now really puzzled.
“Heretofore you have seemed to wish
for her acjinintance. I’m sure I have
he*rd you wonder why she did not call.”
“Very true, but then I did not know
who she was—now I do,” and she nar
rated her interview with the nurse thst
morning. she used
“80 you see I know her; to be
one of my dearest friends. I think al
one time I almost worshiped her. '*
“And you have spent days at her
house?”
“Indeed I have—one of the loveliest
old plantations in Georgia. In my
vacations, when mamma and papa
were abroad, I always went home with
her. But now I dislike her quite
as much as I loved her then. When
we last parted I told her nothing
would induce me ever to speak to her
again or to treat her with respect. O,
we said very bitter things, both of ns;
but it was she who was the first offender,
f couldn’t forget how she insulted me if
* lived a thousand years. And now I
am sorry yju bought the house.”
“Don’t ; you know you are nursing the
spirit of revenge?” her husband asked,
gravely.
“J know that I could never respect
myself, after what she said to me, if 1
so much as noticed her, and very likely
she feels the same way toward me. What
a pity that we are neighbors!”
“I am sorry to hear all this, as I like
Air. Warren remarkably well, and prom
ise'l that you should call. However, it
can’t be helped. Here we are, and here
we shall stay, so wc must make the best
of it. ”
“Yes, we must,” his wife said, regret
fully, “but I shall never feel again
the interest I once did in our pretty
home.” Mr.!
“To change the subject,” said
Jtaberly, “I bought a cow to-day.”
“«), a real cow for our own!” cried
Ernest, looking up from his toys.
“Yes, a real cow—and wc shall have
real cream,” said his father. “She is I
coining here to-night.”
Mrs. Maberly said nothing. She had
been very anxious for the cow, but her
thoughts were all taken up with the
knowledge Mm hwtjjainefijhat.fl^^,^.
8EBULON, UA m TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1800.
blinds to all the windows that overlooked
% pretty gray stone cottage, thus deny
ing herself a view that, had come to bo
almost a necessity of her beauty-loving
nature.
“They shall never bo opened again,”
she said bitterly. “I want nothing to
do with her or hers.”
The time went on and winter came
with its deep snows and koeu, biting
winds. The blinds were still kept closed
on the south side of the house, and the
next neighbor was seldom mentioned.
One day Mr. Maberly spoke of him on his
return from business.
“It’s a bitter night,” he said, “and I
wouldn’t like to be in Warren’s place.”
“AYliy, what is that?” his wife asked,
with some show of interest.
“His wife’s father is not expected to
live, and Mrs. Warren is not able to go.
There are some business matters to be
attended to, and his presence is needed.
It’s ft Idrtg, cold journey. she It must be
hard fbr the poor wife that cannot see
her dydrig father, I feel very badly for
them both.”
“It herself is—very hard,” Mrs. Maberiy
forced to shy, and once or twice
in the night Hie thought of the lonely
woman, as the snow-flakes were Whirled
against tho the window in .the could heavy riot vtind- help'
beat of storm. Sho
picturing her, wide awake and tearless in
her misery. And yet sho never sug
gested to herself that she ought to call
or betray any interest in, her neighbor’s
“I said I never would speak to her
again,” she said, “and I never will. She
brought it all on herself.”
“Don’t expect me home till the last
train to-night,” Mr. Maberly said, the
next, morning, “There’s a meeting, of
business men that I must attend, so I
j shall be obliged to stay in. Send John
down with e | e | g h about eleven.”
The day proved a pleasant one, and
Mrs. Maberly felt unusually light-hearted
M sh(J aang aull Wl)rked a botrt the house.
It was not till evening that she realized
how loueaome was . Brnesfc ha d
been kept np an hour beyond his time,
an(1 it was not till he pleaded to be sent
to bed that she allowed herself to curry
; him st;lin His were of the
1 |, -,, fe although she tried to prolong
n st,
: the process of undressing, but he was too
sleepy; P ^ and presently, J, as his head
. \ (ouc th „ nl w he ^ in the land nf
| dl . enBls Some thin-prompted the the woman the
, w „ ho went out in hall to open
j I imUie |)lin(]a Rmi i; ft the curtain from
i of the window8 that commanded a
)f hcr ei llbor - 8 house
, „ h .
1
j. All between was one bed of snow
! tma > shrubbery, fences, garden, and the
. wh, te > u “® veu P ace ; t,y n d ‘ totl^ttot: toe 1 *’
| ^ P ,mU> . cottage "> »*», “'very radiance.
,
white surlace ol tlio wmuow were anau
ow. Il.t mg and coining seemingly going
. 40 a,ld * 1,1 \
.
| £ ilra^'i'gh^said^to ftS! toraeff like ’^or it^ wrhans ^
S “C has company • , it looks like it.
Carefully closing the blinds again, she
j went softl ->' down stairs. The parlor
i looked v el T co;, '. v ’ with ! ts rlc 1 red drap '
mftde , more intense in color by the
blazing coal fire, and yet the woman had
a vague feeling of uneasiness. Opening
the floor, she could distinguish voices in
the kitchen. John was talking with tho
I cook, and the sound reassured her some
| Uompanionship what . but, oh, how sho missed the genial
of her husband! Bud
, ,i cn ly there was a peal of the door-bell,
no sharp and sudden that it set all her
, „ ' Htudimr ^,
“I’m so glad John is in!” was \m »- .
ward comment, as she heard hut heavy
lootateps across the hall.
Presently the front door was open,
1 1 «**«“* of J w0 »» n »J 0,ce < «
despair came faintly to her ears. Ib
l' ar!or door u P eaed ’ and Jobn I
1 h< ; «•'»•»"> 1 %>“ hero - w1k ”
tb " r " ap P eared - If e and d ™ WD *“ . lts
Tgony the face of her neighbor . ot the
gray stone house. The room seemed to
| wh»r round her as she looked-what
j could it mean.
“O Anne—O Mrs. Maberlycried the
! woman in a choking voice, her tightly
clasped hands unconsciously extended as
if ia supplication, “something beautiful sent me
here to you. My baby —my
baby is dying!—dying Come before and my eyes,
and I am all alone. help me,
if ever you loved me—come and help me.
You have studied medicine and will
know what to do. I have sent fora
doctor, but he is ten miles off with a pa
! tient—and that horrible croup!” Hsr
voice failed her. There was a noise In
in hcr throat like the coming of hysteria.
Mrs. Maberly had sprung forward and
caught her or she would have fallen,
Into hcr voice crept the old-time tender
ness, into her hands the old caressing
movements.
“Don't worry,” she said, “wait till I
get a shawl—wait till X get my medicine
box, and I believe I can help you. Don’t
give up heart. You were too ill your
self to come out*, you should have sent
forme.” All this time she was going
rapidly about the room, preparing herself
to go.
“Yes, but I remembered—O, I
thought if I came myself in alt my
misery, you would take pity on me!
O, my babyl my baby! My poor old
father is dying, too, and I can’t be with
him! It seems as if I cannot bear it—to
lose my father and my baby, too,” and
she wept bitterly. said
“Don’t give up heart or hope,” ready
Mrs. Maberly. “There, I am all
—I can help you, witli God’s blessing, I
am sure I can. Hush, don’t cry so—jean
on my arm,” and so she tried to comfort
her till the two entered tho gray cottage,
Airs. Maberly wondering all the time
where her resentment had gone.
It was a pitiful sight, the baby in the
arms of her nurse, struggling for breath.
Giving orders in a low voice, forcing her
self to be calm, with thebeautifnl,agon
ized face looking up in her o.wn, Mrs.
Maberly worked quietly and efficiently
with the remedies she had brought, and
which for a lokg time seemed unavail
ing. But, even as the agonized, mother
hid hcr face from what to her were the
t
, hours , ( of steady . ( , v battling . ' ( )j with the
two
dread disease, aqd jpst ns thfl daetdt’3
carriage drove up to the door, the la ■
breathing, bored, respiration the flush gavq, of w$jr zngpish, ,jq easy, was'
gone, and tUc little sufferer slept on Mrs.
Mabtyly’s knee. had such
“It’s mighty lucky doctor, you a
neighbor,” said the speaking to
Mrs. Warren, “she know just what to
do. I couldn’t have treated tho case
better, myself.” her
For answer, Mrs. Warren went on
knees and kissed tho hand under tho head
of her baby—tbcu bowing her own head
beside it, she sobbed and sobbed. AVas
it thankfulness for the service rendered,
or a mute avowal that she had wronged
her old friend?
Air t. Maberly had nows for her husband
when hb returned that night.
“So you really found that you had a
neighbor,” ho said, when slio had fin
ished.
“I think it was she who found the
neighbor,” she said, flushing. “And in
who would not help her worst enemy
such an emergency? Really, nothing
could hitvo happened better, siuoo It had
to happen, and she will always feel as if
I saved the baby.”
After that, oho might have Sebn fre •
querit cro'ssings-o'ver Sometimes td the fcottages, baby al
ternately.' the pretty
carriage, with its beautiful occupant,'
stood for hours in tho front yard of tho
Maberly’s—ami often tho two mothers
sat and on the porch, talking of old times,
finding pleasure in the renewal of
tl;emes that had been so long forbidden
to them.
Under Mrs. Maberly’s directions thq
invalid gathered health and strength, arid
the two familio^ became, iri deed and
word,' the best of good neighbors.— The
lloumcije.
Last Coin Spent * by Ah ,Uatn Lincoln,
has , t ,)r , a ’ c url J . \ °" B .\ ty M f ^® ' v ‘. y !, ’ h *! y of 11111 0 „
>
,nt( ; res t , attach< * l > “ th °X ape ot a ten *
cent picce-~not . a dime,lmt a regular , an
cient ten-center. It r.m» th s way
11 0 evening o lB 11 l* >
t 4he “ig it on whito President
Abraham Lincoln was killed, the 1 rcsi
dc “‘’ be fo re ruachm 8 : tbc
'valked . into . t a drug store , close by and and
bought of the druggist a bottle of smell
«« m ' ls ' pay,, .f hl ™ theT !' f m ‘ 0 “
l o han,, «f *W 21T, st . tU “ e . xa f
cat « the President ‘ walkartout ofthe STl
-
and d ™S a store member ’ ^ arley of the fee UJSn New York
Volunteers, entered the and bought
a c iga r tor ten cents, and handed tho
ft* ^
the druggist said: paid by
s«, Ier0 is ten cents just me
President Lincoln, and here is a five-cent
B t, m -plas t er. placed the ten-coat piece
p pat0 Uaos
in hts Vfest pocket und w. itt on. his way
rejoicing in the flavor of his cigar. The
■>«*» hour and a half brought the news
] to the soldier that the President had
Hcem fatally wounded at tho opera house.
'n J(! soldier thought of the ten-cent
piece immediately, being the last money
th „ p re8i d en t had spent while in life.
H() j t very highly, and in the fall
of 186g h( , mefc wit i, Or. J. B. Mobley
au( j n,ld him about the ten-cent piece ho
Thc doctor laughingly asked
nnlonel Lines what ho would take for
th( , pieoe ’ nnd Colonel Lines remarked,
io kingl v he would take $25 for it,
w i„, r eupon Dr. Mobley pulled P out the
amouni . lln0 „m anil , im l miuutu handed it u. to vo mm. |iim. vmoa Colonel
Lines wanted to back out, but Mob y
insisted, and finally received the piece
from the hands of OoloneL Lines,
It appears the drug store mentioned
was only a few steps from the opera
had a private and - fllrtlier box at - the «“* opera, the President and, con
Keqwmtty, had no ticket to purchase as
J> B wentrn, and Co onel Lines stated it to
be a fact that the druggist said the I res.
dent gave it to him At any rate this is
strong evtdence that thi is^the identical
last tea cent* Abe Lmcoln ever disposed
of during his life. If is da e- > ,
with the Goddess of Liberty, and the
eagle with three arrows in his claws ana
marked 10c .—Atlanta (Jonstilutton.
Life In Ocean Abysses.
Dr Regnard has raised the question as
j- 0 whether a corpse which sinks to a
very g rea fc depth is preserved indef
j n itely or otherwise from putrefaction,
According to his researches, published
j n the archives of the,Biological Society
0 f X’aris, putrefaction does not take
place in decomposable substances sub*
nl jtted to a pressure of 600 or 700
atmospheres. These figures correspond
to ft depth of 6000 Or 7000 meters at sea.
Prom these experiments it must not bo
con eluded, according to Dr. Regnard,
that there is a total absence of putre
faction in the greater depths of the sea.
The curious “abysmal” fishes discovered
in the Challenger and other expeditions
appear to rise after death, so that they
are sometimes found on the surface,
though, as a rule, they go to pieces
us the surrounding pressure diminishes
long before they reach the air. Still,
there is no proof that bathybial or
abysmal micro-organisms do not exist,
and, if so, they could cause decomposi
tjon in the corpses of men as well as in
the dead bodies of abysmal fishes. 1 he
question is of considerable medico-legal,
and yet greater biological interest, and
it is far from settled .—British Medical
Journal.
Work to Do ’
Young Brown (who has just , left , homo
i for the first time)—“I would ike to io
called at three o clock to-morrow morn
ing. ’
Hotel Clerk—“What, do you wish ... to
catch an early train, sir?”
Young Brown—“No, I have a button
to sew on my trousers.
Carefnl of His Health.
Gentleman—“No, I will not give you
a cent. I handed you a quarter last
evening, and saw yon enter a Baloon a
minute afterward.”
Tramp—“You did, sir. MV physicians
1
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
WORK OF,+HE fdFTY-RftS’f
CONGRESS.
PIIOCEEPINOS OF TIIK IIOUSK ANP SENATE
11RIKFKP—PK1.IBERATIONS OVER RAT
TEItS OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OUlS
COMMON COUNTRY.—NOTES.
In the history of the liopse of repre
sentatives, for there wilduess lias, perhaps, equal novef that bfett of
a scene utter to
Saturday citement evening. pandemonium For five reigned hours, ex
and su
preme. A dozen personal encounters
were narrowly averted, and would many times
it looked as though there be a
pitched battle Oi rdiigtt-nft,d~Ltuible fexfcftetinSfrf fltfbt
between the two parties. The
came up during tlio tariff debate, wrioij
Bayne, from of Pennsylvania, had rend
the desk, as part of his remarks, a
letter from James Campbell, of Pitls
burir, president of the AVindow Glass as
sociation, in which ho repeated that By
num and AVilsolt, of AVest Virginia, bail
said that $15 a month was enough for
any laborer, and characterized their da
niul as cowardly and dishonorable,
iiayiiC, in marks, having Mxluidf this letter fed read the responsi- as a part
Of his re
bility for the fttitlemcnt. The tedding of
the fetter Created gteltt eintoinOnts and
protests from thi democrats. Howevef/
as soon ns it the was floor concluded, and ilcnoiVnced Mr. Bynum'
calmly took tho
statement of Campbell as a liar and per
jurer, and as shouldered the gentleman from Penn
sylvania had the remarks, lie
would now say that the same would ap
ply to Mr. Bayne, and added that:
“Campbell’s character is, ns good as the
man who assails me.” At this, (lie whole
republican hill the voice side of was Atr. on (’iiteheon, its, feet to of protest; Michi
gan, demanding tlijd the words it'll. b’o tqkeri
down, were heard above ft Then
when Culcheon offered a resolution to
have Air, Bynum carried before tho bar of
the house and there (insured by tho
speaker for violating the rules of the
house, there was such excitement ns was
never before witnessed in the house.
Every man on both sides was up on bis
feet. Everybody yelled and everybody
shook their fists at somebody else, The
entire bouse simply went wild for fully
fifteen minutes. Mr. t’utclicon’s resolu
tion was adopted, and Mr. Bynum house and was
Carried before the Imr of tho
censured by tho speaker. Quiet was then
restored, and the devoted house Saturday adjourned.
The senate to bills
and joint resolutions on tiie calendar
chiefly connection of a local with and private bill appropriating character.
In the
$100,00(1 fora public Edmunds building expressed at. Nor
wich, Conn., Mr. ap
prehension that tiie senate was not alto
gether economical in the matter of public
buildings, and hoped that the committee
would prepare a statement of Die number
of such bills passed at the present session
and the amount involved, Among the
bills passed establish were the following: light-ships Somite
bill to new with
steam for signals Fenurick off AVintcr Island Quarter Shoal,
Shoal, Md.; at and
Md.; Frying Pan Shoals, N. (!., at,
Martin’s Industry, S. 0., the entire cost of
each not to exceed $70,000; to provide
for the return of second-class mail matter;
appropriating dry dock $200,000 Port Royal for the S. eonstruc- C., the
of a at
whole cost not to exceed $075,000; ap
propriating $100,000 fora bronze S. eques
trian statu-' ol General Ulysses Grant
in the city of AVashington was amended
so as to omit the word “equestrian” $:i00,000, and and
increasing the Tho amount to bill appropriat
then $50,000 passed. for senate public building at
ing a passed. After the
Meridian, Miss., was adjourned.
executive session the senate
When the house went into committee
of the whole (Mr. Grosvonor, of Ohio, in
the chair) on the tariff bill on Monday,
Mr. Wilson, of AVest Virginia, obtained
the floor and made a very charges dispassionate of Mr.
statement, refuting constituent, the Campbell,
L! ijne’s Pittsburg in house
about which the riot the oc
curred Saturday, and which resulted in
the censure of Representative done, Mr. Bynum. Bayne,
When Mr. Wilson was
who presented the, Campbell bad confidence letter, got
up and Utah-* that he ill
the statement male by Mr. Wilson, and
that he felt now that he had made a mis
take in presenting the lettei before in
vestiguting it. This seemed to re-tore
good feeling, und the matter was allowed
tp drop. Air. Turner, of Georgia, came
to the front with a good, practical tariff
speech. He first opposed that the his null-treas- constit
ury scheme, and hoped their farm
uents would never put pro
ducts in the hands of the Republican the fiscal
party, which lias carried on all
uperiitions of the country, and 1ms caused
the present contraction in currency. The
farmers are asking relief, he said, but
instead they should bo asking the Gov
ernment to take its hands off their
pockets. presenting remonstrance against
Iii a
the McKinley bill, in the senate, on Mon
day, Mr. Dawes said that it came from
constituents and neighbors of bis. who
were jobbers and retailers of domestic
und foreign dry goods. The having petition, he
said, origin was a printed with paper, others which a com- he
mon many business just
hud received Their was as
res pcctable as that of the producer and
consumer, but the producers and con
sumers were much the larger class in his
country... .Mr. Hale, from the commit
tee on appropriations, repo-ted back tie
annual naval appropriation bill. The
senate committee has added $4811,050 net
to the hill as it passed the house, making
a total of (83,650,180.... The silver bill
was taken up at 12:40, and stated Mr. that Dolpb
addressed the senate. He he
was not in accord with some of his col
leagues in the west. He thought that in
ternational bimetalism was desirable.
Mr. Teller,in reply to Mr. Dolph,repeated recent free
in substance, portions ot tits
coinage speech. Mr. Mitchell of Oregon,
wished it distinctly understood that he
differed in toto from the sentiments of
his colleague, and called attention to the
fact that both the republican and demo
cratic state conventions in Oregon had
tly pronounced unequivocally brief for
free silver coinage. After a exec
utive session Die senate adjourned. ordered
On Tuesday a conference was
on the District of Columbia into appropriation coinigittee
bill, and the house went
NUMBER 26.
lngtlint iron and steel cottoH-tre* or
hoops for bailing or other purposes, lU-'t
thinner than No. 20 wire gauge, shall bo
admitted free of duty. Mr. Brocken
ridge, of Arkansas, Stewart, of Georgia, argued
Clark and Wheeler, of Alabama,
in fatto of the amendment, lmt it was re
jected—!K? to' 134. fix Mr. Breekeuridge
(Ark.) moved to the duty <m cotton
ties at forty-live her Ceftt advaforem tax,
.Mr. McKenna, of California, offered as
amendment hi tho sugar schedule so eA
tire new schedule, and said that nts
amendment made a reduction on the ex
isting duty on sugar of about thirty-two
per cent. The McKenna amendmentww
also rejected. off Tuesday, Mr. Boat
In the Senate, signed by several
presented firms remonstrances against the great htewase of
Boston Aleiviilley bill
duties proposed in the Mr. In- pit
tilk goods, plushes and velvets.
unlls ini reduced a bill to abolish metal
inonev. and sahl that be did so at the re
iim sl’of tiro Wrirt-tfcfrttos Political Al
liance, of Wadiingtofl, P. C. That al
liance, he sail I, ties'!!-** to tore ilttiWic
l.v announced that, it watt responsible lot
the provisions of the bill, li desire in
which he cordially concurred. Mr. Ston
fnnl introduced n bill for liens on hereafter public
hinds, and said that he would
address the senate on the subject. Tuc
senate then proceeded to consider the bill
reported from the judiciary committee
subjecting imported li-piofs to the pro
visions of the laws of the several states.
The bill i* in these words: “That no
‘ tide shall bf bel-l to be limited or re
- trained in its powet* ttf prohibit, regulate, sale
rout ml or tax the sale, keeping for
or transportation as an articio Of Com
merce, or otherwise, to he delivered with
in its own limits, of ftiiy fermented, dis
tillel, or other intoxicating liquidsor li
quors, by reason of the fact that the toime
have been imported into such state from
beyond its limits; whether there shall or
shall not have beer! excise paid to the thereon United any States. tax, ”
duty, impost of fowfi. frllohrtd Introduced
Mr. Wilson, bill iff iff fM fifst instance, tttid had
the ft addressed
afterwards id reported explanation back.- and advocacy
the senate
of it, Mr. Vest opposed the bilf because
diction it would of sweep the away United the States exclusive trh't inter- juris
state commerce. Mr. Edmunds lemarttCd
upon it ns n very curious and interesting things
circumstance that a condition of
had been reached where, according to the
debate, and according to the judgment
of tiie supreme court, states had no power
to deal with the subject, and congress
bail no power to deal with it. At 4
o’clock the bill was laid aside, and eulo
gies upon In the late Representative Kelley
were order. Remarks in eulogy of the
character and public services of Mr. Kel
ley, were made by Messrs, Cameron, Mor
rill, Reagan, Sherman, Hampton, Haw
ley and Daniel. Air. Hampton drew a
parallel between the character and long
public services of Messrs. Kelley and
Randall, each of whom might be called,
he said, “an honest man, the noblest
work of God,” while each battled for the
triumph of his principles and his party.
At the close of the. eulogies the senate
adjourned. Wednesday, when the house went
On
into committee of the whole (Mr. Gres
vi'iior in the chair) on the tariff bill, Mr.
Baker, of New York, offered an amend
ment providing that all articles of im
portance into the United States, whether
embraced in the free list or otherwise,
shall be subject, to and pay a no less rate
of duty than is or mny be imposed by
the country of export on like articles ex
ported into the United States. Mr, An
derson, of Kansas, and Mr. Biitterworili,
of Ohio, opposed the amendment. Mr.
Wheeler, of Alabama, moments appealed to adont the
house in these closing to
tiie amendment proposed by him tc
gradually reduce duties which are in ex
ctw of fifty per cent. During this brief
discussion the house was in turmoil. De
mands of the chair for order were un
heeded. lu tho midst of the confusion,
the hour of noon arrived, and in accord
anec with the special rule reached adopted, and Mr.
without a vote being committee oil
linker’s amendment, the rose
and reported the billl to the house, Thu
house then proceeded to consider the
amendments agreed to in committee of the
whole. The amendments were all rejected.
The engrossment and third reading Carlisle of
tiie bill having been ordered, amendment: Mr. Re
offered the following
solved, That tiie pending bill be re-coin
milted to tbu committee on ways and
means, with instructions to report the
same back to the house at, the earliest
possible day, so amended by substitute or
otherwise, iis to reduce the revenues of
the government by reducing the burden
of taxation on the people, instead or re
ducing duties by imposing imported prohibitory goods.
rates of taxation upon
Thu resolution was defeated. The bill
was t hen passed offered without by McKinley—yeas an amendment, 104,
save those
nays 142, amid applause on both sides oi
the house. Air. Coleman, of Louisiana,
and Mr. Feathevstone, of Arkansas, were
the only republicans who voted against
the bill on its final passage.
In the senate, on Wednesday, communica tho
vice-president Canady, presented sergeant-at-arms a
tion from Mr.
of the senate, tendering (.banking his resignation vice-presi
of the office and tlio
dent and Reunion for their uniform kiml
ness and courtesy, The resignation is to
take effect June 30th next. Air. Wilson,
of Iowa, made nn effort to have the bill
retaining liquors imported considered, into prohibi- but
tory states taker, up and
lie was forced to yield to the prior claim
of the silver bill, which was then taken
up and on which Air. Stewart of Geor
, made free silver-coinage speech.
gia, a
The silver bill was then laid aside, mid
the bill in relation to liquor again imported taken
into prohibitory After brief arguments, states was pro and con
up. Evnrt-s, Hiscock anil AVilson,
by Messrs.
of Iowa, the bill went over. After
exeeu five session the senate adjourned.
NOTES.
‘1 he secretary of the navy has accepted
the dynamite cruiser “Vesuvius.”
Dr. Norvin Green, Telegraph president of the
AVestern Union company, ap
peared Tuesday before the house commit
tee on postoffices and postroads, proposed and was
questioned telegraph respecting bill the advocated by Post- gov
ernment
master-General W amunakev.
The president transmitted to congress
PRINTED EVERY TOESDMf
-AT
ZEBULON, - - GEORGIA,
—BY—
parry lee,
A BPLENDIP APtERTIB IKO AGENT.
tlio Pan-American conference, The sec
rotary urges that tho recommendations of
j he conference be carried info effect.
The and means committee, oa
Tuesday morning, gave of several short industries' hearings
to representative* have amendments made to
who seek to
the tariff bill before the ftnnl vote is
taken. The fine-cut tobacco inanufiir
Hirers wanted the committee to forbid tho
use of wooden pails and packages for
packing line-cut tobacco, as they were
frequently refilled by retailers with infe
rior grades, to the injury of the choice
brands. The maltsters of New A’ork
state, entered a vigorous protest against
the proposition to increase from ten per
cent to thirty per cent tho duty on barley.
One of the speakers said that tho malting
industry of Oswego and represented the increase a capital of
>f *10,000,000, that
duty would damage that interest to the.
extent sf 98,000,000.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH,
BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER
ESTING NATURE.
PITHY ITEMS FROM ALT. rOINTS IN THE
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER
TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS, VIRES,
FLOODS, ETC.
The graves of confederate soldiers were
decorated with flowers in Danville, Ya.,
Wednesday.
The Alabama Midland railroad—from
Montgomery, Ala., to Bainbridge, AVer! Ga • '
wws opened up for business on lies
day.
The American Medical association con
vened in annual session at Nashville,
Tcfltb, on Tuesday, every state and ter
ritory in Hie United States Anting rep
resented.
The national conference of the stale
boards of health met at the state President capital
In Nashville, Tenn., Monday', the
3. N. McCormick, of Kentucky, in
chair.
The delegates to the Pan-American
Conference sjnent AVednesday in Lexing
ton, Va. They visited the grave of Stone
nail Jackson, and afterwards the mauso
leum of General Lee.
The Montgomery, Ala., Greys will go
to Chicago in August to sttenil the grand of
conclave of Odd Fellows Rutherford, ns a guard
honor to General of Ken
tucky, grand sire.
A conference of representative farmers Caro
from thirty-one counties in South
lina, was held at Columbia on Tuesday. the
It met for the purpose of discussing
political situation in the State.
A Birmingham. Ala., dispatch of AVed
nesday says: F. AA r . Jewell, formerly
manager of the Caldwell hotel, has left
the city, faking the books of the hotel
with him and leaving many creditors be
hind.
The British steamer. Propitious, sailed
from Galveston, Texas, on Saturday, with
30,000 bushels of corn from Kansas,
nils is o„ experimental shipment for
Liverpool, and if prontamv »;n >■* r,.i
lowed by others.
Tlio weekly weather crop bulletin of
the North Carolina experiment station
and the state weather service, issued at
Raleigh on Saturday, says the report of
correspondents show generally a very fa
vorable effect of the weather ou nearly all
crops during Hie week.
Governor McKinney, of Virginia, John on
Tuesday nominated ex-Congressman
T. Harris, commissioner, of Rockingham and county, General V. as
democratic
1). Groner, of Norfolk city, ns republican from
commissioner to the World’s fair
Virginia.
A dispatch of Wednesday, says: A
great scarcity of day labor exists at pres
ent in Chattanooga, Tenn., and contrac
tors are much troubled by it. One com
pany has advanced wages from (1.15 to
(1.85 per day, and the tendency is still
upward.
A dispatch from Raleigh, N. C. says:
A big mortgage has been placed Southern on rec and
md in Burke county by the Central
AVestern Air-Line railroad, to the
Trust company, of New York city, to
secure the issue of $1,500,000 of mort
age bonds, The bonds have been floated
in England.
Fourteen Mormon converts from Chil
ton county, Ala., en route to Utah, pnsicd
through Birmingham Monday. They were
in charge of two elders. At Memphis,
Tenn., this party will be joined two hun
dred converts from Mississippi and Ten
nessee. About thirty more converts . ill
leave Chilton county for Utah in a short
time.
In consequence of the great advance in
cotton, the Columbus, Ga., mill on Mon
day advanced tlio price of twenty-five
inch plaids to five and a quarter cents;
t wenty-seven inch plaids to five and three
quarter cents, The mill officers say that
this advance is necessary in order to keep
the mill going, as they cannot makegoods
at present prices without serious loss.
The one hundred and fifteenth anni
versary of the Mecklenburg declaration
of independence was celebrated at Char
lotte, N. C., on Tuesday. Senator Vance
was orator of the day. In his speech he
said that every aggrieved class seeking
redress should be careful not to let re
dress be turned into revenge. Governor
Fowlc and State Auditor Sandcrlin also
made speeches.
A TRUST FORMING
WITH AN OC.1F.CT OF CONTROLLING THE
TltlCE OF FLOUR.
A dispatch of Monday from St. Louis,
Mo., says: “The millers of Southern and
Eastern Missouri met here to form a trust,
and operate sixteen mills as one, thus con
trolling the price of flour in the south
and southwest.”
Producing Colors by Photography.
An Austrian photographer named A'c
rcus has succeeded in producing a certain
range of colors, running from ruby red to
light orange. Ilehas caught, also, a vivid
French blue. Green, brown, violet, and
the variations of blue have thus far eluded
him. But scientific men who have followed