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Gleanings.

The Knights Templar OF the world Will
hold grand assembly a, Philadelphia on May
80, to assist in the Centennial celebration.
st. Valentines Day, All FOOLS Day May
Day and Christmas Day all occur on Monday
this year.
At the rate Congress is getting on il is
thought an adjournment will not be possible
until about July.
The 'Smith girls" of Glastonbury, Conn,
again refuse to pay their taxes. Taxation
without representation is tyranny" Is their
motto, and they seem determined to live up to
it.
The Utica a. Y Observer mentions as a
fact which has not been used by any OF Poe $
biographers, that the poet was grandson OF
Benedict Arnold, his mother being natural
daughter Of the traitor.
James Stephens, late head centre Of the
Fenian Brotherhood Of the United States, did
in Paris recently. At one time be created
quite sensation in this country.
Several tons of Centennial poetry to rent
cheap. VIII be sold at a bargain, or exchang-
ell for good firs,-class revolutionary Stories
Inter Ocean.
1t is said that Charles Francis Adams is
worth more than S2,500.0 600; and, besides,
Mrs. Adams is very rich by inheritance. This
fortune is being constantly increased by Mr.
Adams prudence.
The Democratic Executive Committee vi !
meet at Washington on February 22d to select
the time and place for tie meeting of tie
Democratic Convention to nominate candidates
for President and Vice President
The Rev. DR.. s. B. Page, District Secretary
of the merican Baptist Home Mission Socie-
ty for Ohio and West Virginia, has had bis
field enlarged by the addition of Indiana and
Michigan.
Mr.. David L. Fleming, editor and proprie-
tor of the Pittsburgh, pa daily Gazette, died
last week of brain fever, after an illness OF
about two weeks The deceased was native
of Chester county. and was about forty years
of age.
A building is to be erected on the centennial
grounds for the exhibition Of files of news
papers. 1t is to have capacity for display
ing eight thousand files CT newspapers and
serve as the headquarters of journalists, and
all the requisites for gigantic reading room.
Geo. Freeman, clerk Of the Bingham House,
Philadelphia, has been arraigned before
L. s. commissioner in that city, charged with
having violated the civil rights act by refusing
to furnish the Rev Fields Cook, colored OF
Alexandria, Va, with u room. Freeman was
held to bail in the sum of 5 ,0C0.
A heated discussion on questions pertaining
to Catholicism took place in the New Jersey
Legislature the other day The republicans
IL .. ~ al. 4. l., tbo
ocrats the Catholic side, by strict party vote.
This is another indication OF the vitality and
latent heat in the issue raised by the Des
MoueS speech aud the annual message Of
! President Grant.
This was the telegram that caused Mr.. Car
| Teton, the baritone of the Kellogg Opera Com
pany, to leave the troupe suddenly at Chica-
20: AT 800 o'clock this morning, linc,
fat, handsome girl, just like yourself; ten-
FOUNDER; no sooner put in the crib than she
commenced to gnrgle ont the Heart bowed
down." mother and child doing we'll"
When the telegraph was invented admirers
Of Shakespeare saw prophecy 10 the words be
! put 10 the mouth OF the sprite, Puck. "l'll
put 4 grille round the earth in forty minutes :"
| If MoDsignor Dupanloup succeeds in having
| gain be made prophet, for he makes the
D!uphin say, Joan la Pucel!e shall be Frances
saint"
Emerson says: 'Ts rule Of manners to
avoid exaggeration. a lady loses as soon A.
she admreS too easily and too much. In man
TO woman, the face and the person lose power
when they are on the strain to express al
| miration. man makes his interiors his SUI
periors by heat Why need you, who are no.
a gossip, talk rs a gossip, aud tell eagerly
wha. the neighbors Of the journals say? State
your opinion without apology.
The eminent fitness OF the colored man
Whippcr to occupy seat on the Judicial bench
of South Carolina is shown 10 q recent speech,
10 which he said that when Moses is saint
in Heaven Chamberlain will be bowling IN
hell ID. H. Chamberlain is unfit for earth, 10
Heaven be could not ascend, aud in hell itself
the devil would spurn him out. lie
his resisted the will Of the people, and The
same spirit which in the time Of Charles
|. will rise now aud behead him"
Mrs Hannah Slower, Of B1wdoinham, Me,
Las a right TO be regarded rs the heroine OF the
Centennial year. She was born on The 4th Of
July, l77G, ut nearly the same hour when the
great bell WAS ringing out the news OF the
Declaration from the old hall in Philadelphia
She is in good health, and hopes to celebrate
the hundreth anniversary Of the Natiou'S birth
day in July next.
The first locomotive engine introduced and
worked in America was run upon the Della
ware and Hudson railroad in 1923. Tie frst
American steam locomotive was built by
Messrs Kremble, in West street, New York.
The first steam propelled cars in America,
running steadily with passen gers aud freight
were on the Charleston aud Hamburg railroad,
now the South Carolina R,iiroad Ross Wi
mans, Of Baltimore, planned the frs; eight
wheeled car ever Guilt for passenger purposes
and called it by the appropriate name Of the
Columbus"
Wm. c. Magee, aged II years, Of George
town, d. c., is dead Mr. Magee was born
in Prince George county, Nd, but had resided
in Georgetown for the last fifty years. lie
was a gentleman of the old school, Of the
strictest integrity, and widely Known and re-
spected. During hls entire life he was great
friend to tue public schools, aud the schools Of
Georgetown probably owe as much. if not |
more to him, for their present prosperity than /
TO any other man who ever identified himself |
with them. He was for twenty-five years a /
trustee Of the Georgetown schools.
Alter six months search, John PlatDer, Of