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JOINT ~REsOLUTIONs.


A Joint resolution relating to the Or
g%anization Of the National Board of
Health.
Concerning records Of mixed interna-
tional tribunals on file in the Department
of State.
Accepting from Prof. Edward Fon-
tame, of Louisiana, certain maps and
drawings illustrating plans for river i'm
provements.
To authorize the printing of portrait
Of the late Prof. Joseph Henry, to accom-
pany the memorial volume.
Authorizing the pubic printer to bind
in cloth certain volumes OF sailing dlrec-
tions for the use of the United States Hy-
geographic Office.
To pay Prof. Peter Collier for services
as chemist in the prosecution of eVasions
of duties on sugar.
To repeal certain clauses in the Sundry
Civil Appropriation act, approved March
3, 1879.
Authorizing the completion of the
foundation OF the Washington monu-
ment.
TO print 5000 copies of tho final re-
port of the United States Centennial
Commission upon the international Ex-.
hibition and Centennial celebration of
1876.
Authorizing the appointment Of a
commission to lease a building for a
city ~postofice in the city of Washing
ton, D. G.
Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy
to place vessels and hulks at the dis
posal of Commissioners of Quarantine or
other proper persons at the ports of the
United States.
Fixing the date on which the pay of
the committee clerks. pages and labor
ers of the House of Representatives, who
are paid during the session only. shall
begin for this session.
In relation to the International Ex-
hibitions to be held at Sydney and Mel
bourne. Australia. in 1879 and 1880.
Relating to a bridge across the Detroit
river at or near Detroit, Mich.
Directing a monument TO be erected
to mark the birthplace of George Wash
ington.
TO provide for the purchase of the
stereotype plates Of the final reports of
the Centennial Commission upon the
Centennial Exhibition of 1876.
Donating granite blocks to Mower
Post. Grany Army of the Republic, of
New Orleans, La.
Authorizing a survey of the Missis-
sippi river, near Lake Concordia, La,
and Cowpen Bend. Miss. -
To supply Congress will! Heyls
Omitted States Import Duties"
To pay L. H. Fitzhugh for services
during the Forty-fourth Congress.
To pay employees of the House of Re:
representatives. borne on the annual roll
one months extra pay.
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The Piazza Tragedy.

Algernon's Ethel's papa has a
Newly.painted front piazza
lie has a
Piazza.
When with tobacco Juice twas tainteI,
They had that front piazza painted
That tainted
Piazza painted.
Algernon called around perchance
That night arrayed in goodly pants
That night perchance
In gorgeous pants.
Engaging Ethel in a chat,
On that piazza down he sat
In chat
They sat.
And when an hour or so had pass'd
He tried TO rise, but, oh, stuck tast--
At last
Stuck fast
Fair Ethel shrieked, " 1t is the paint"
And tainted in n deadly faint
This saint
Did faint.
Algcrnon sits there till this day
lie cannot tear himself away
Away?
Nay, nay!
His pants are firm, the paint is dry
He's nothing else to do but die
To die
Oh my
ST. Louis Tim Journal.
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IEorelun News.

Advices from Port au Prince, Hayh, state
that there has been IN uprising by the people,
who fred upon the Senate. Many ofthe Sena-
tors were shot and the rest fed.
The crops in Europe are reported to be in an
unfavorable condition, owing to bad weather,
drought and g%rasshoppers. The London
Times says: w note that buyers mainly
rely on American supplies, as tho reports from
the continent are far from being uniformly
tavornble."
ABelgium paper states q placard was posted
on the wall Of the royal palace at Leeken, sit
uated about three miles distant from Brussels,
threateningt the king of the Belgians with death
if he ratified the bill which was recently passed
by the Belgium Parliament depriving the
clergy of the control of elementary education.
In a hurricane on the River Doubs, in
France, a steamer with ffty-three passengers
was sunk, and all but five persons lost their
lives.
Four hundred Nihilists have been arrested
at Kieff, Russia, and a great store OF weapons
concealed there has been seized.
The man from whom Solovieff obtained the
pistol with which to shoot the Emperor Of
Russia has been sentenced to death as IN &C.
complete.
Reports from Port au Prince, the capital OF
IIayti, say tho place is in flames and all bust
ness suspended. Whole blocks are in ashes
and tho custom house is closed in consequence
Of the revolution.
The hostility of the merchants of Vera Cruz,
Mexico, against the government on account OF
tho passage OF a law iorbidding smuggling has
eliminated in a mutiny OF the garrison there,
and the seizure of the war steamer Libertad
by part of her crew. Nine insurgents were
xilled and several Mexican war steamers went
in pursuit OF the Libertad, which had put to sen.
Two hundred houses have been destroyed
by a fire at Irkutsk, Russia.
At Ottawa, Canada, o boy named Vandette
quarreled with his six-year-old sister and shot
her in the temple with q revolver, death re-
sulting from the wound.
A London dispatch, says that 1900 sheep
from Boston were 6 'Aughtered at Liverpool be-
cause it was found they were infected with the
loot and mouth disease. This discovery, the
dispatch says, will cause the United States to
be scheduled rs an infected country for sheep.
The walls of the tortresses at Widdin, Silis-
tria, Rustchuk and Varna, Bulgaria, have been
destroyed, and the carthworks are left to the
operation Of the weather.
NJ. De Lesseps, engineer Of the projected
canal across the Isthmus of Darien, thinks it
can be built for $50, 900. 900, and that thedihi-
culties will not be so formidable as those at
tending the construction OF the Suez canal.
Ground for this canal is to be o on the
first OF next January.
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L ACTS.

An act to prevent the Introduction of
contagious or infectious diseases into the
United States.
TO authorize the Secretary of the
Treasury to contract for the construction
Of d refrigerating ship for the disinfec-
ton of vessels and cargoes. .
Changing the name of the National
Bank Of Commerce, CINCINNATI, to the
National La Fayette and Bank OF Com
mprcn.
Relating to vinegar factories operated
prior to March l, 1879.
TO authorize the employment of three
additional assistants in the Library OF
Congress.
A bill to provide office rooms for the
National Board of Health and for the
publication of it's reports and papers.
TO provide for the appointment OF q
Mississippi River Commission for the
IMPROVEMENT of said riverfrom the head
of the passes near its mouth to its head
waters.
To authorize the construction of a
railroad bridge across the Wabash river.
Concerning the Legislative ASSEMBLY
of the Territory of Montana:
PrOVldlnG 4 new Plopellel iol WIG
United States ship Alarm.
TO amend section 5,440 Of the Re
vised Statutes.
To correct the reading Of IAN act
making appropriations for the construc-
ton, repair, preservation and completion
of certain works on rivers and harbors,
and for other purposes" %approved March
4, 1879.
Providing for the binding of the in
ternal revenue laws and manual.
To amend section l, page 234, volume
90, of the United States statutes at large.
Forthwith Congress.
An act to provide for the exchange
of subsidiary coins for lawful money of
the United States under certain circum-
stances, and to make such coin a legal.
tender in all sums not exceedingSlo and
for other purposes.
To amend sections l,4l7, l,4le, l,4l9,
l,42O and 1924 of the Revised Statutes OF
the United states, relating to the navy.
To put salts of %quinine and sulphate of
q%uinine on the free list: ,
! -.- &ho ropuyor Nofiona |
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Which should be given to nervous, slender,
and debilitated persons-Invigorate! Soda
tives, opiates, appetizers, are comparatively
useless. The system must be built up with a
genuine tonic in order to the recovery OF vigor
and tranquility by tho nerves. A course, sys.
tematically pursued, of the leading invigorant
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, should be re-
sorted to by those who suffer from weak
nerves and general debility. The stomach,
always more or less dyspeptic in cases Of ner-
vousness and loss of vitality, is toned and reg
ulated by this medicine until the organ acts
with a precision akin to that OF a steady-soine
piece OF mechanism. Complete digestion and
assimilation are, through the influence OF the
Bitters, followed by a gain Of vigor and flesh,
and the disappearance of biliousness and ire.
gularity OF the bowels, where such exist, rs
they usually do. Appetite and sleep are then
rcpninpd
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+ RELATING TO THE DISTRICT OF CO.
LCMBIA.

An act to confer upon the Commits
sioners of the District Of Columbia the
powers, duties and limitations contained
in chapter eight (water s%ervice) of the
Revised Statutes of the United States.
relating to the District Of Columbia. and
for other purposes.
Fixing the rate of interest upon ar
rearages of general taxes, and assess
ments for special improvements, now
due 10 the District of Columbia, and for
a revision of assessments for special i'm
provements, and for other purposes.
Authorizing the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia to issue twenty
wear five per cent. bonds of the District
of Columbia, to redeem certain funded
indebtedness of said district.
Authorizing the Commissioners of the
District If Columbia to extend the area
for the taking up and impounding Of do
nestle animals in the District of Co.
lumbia.
To authorize the renewal of a loan
(therein named) by the joint stock COM
pany of the Young Mems Christian AS
sociation Of Washington.
To relieve the churches of the District
of Columbia and to clear the title of the
trustees to such property.
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BETTER T1MEs.-No better sign Of i'm
provement in the times is needed than
that afforded by the rise in desirable
New York City real estate. The recent
sale of the Douglass property on Fifth
and Madison avenues, opposite the Cen
trail Park, is the latest illustration. This
property, consisting Of thirty-four lots,
was offered two years ago at auction
for less than S4oO, 900. 1t has just been
sold for something less than 5000, 600 by
Messrs. r. G. Dun g. Co.. Of the Mer-
camille Agency, who owned it, and who
make a clear profit of nearly 5000. 600 by
the opefation, receiving in single cash
PAYMENT $500, OOo.-Nem York Tribune.
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Indian DeprcdatIons.

The fair reader shudders when she thinks
of the settlers wife watching, ICON the door OF
her rude hut, the retreating form Of her hus-
band going out to his daily labor-going out
perhaps to return not again, tor before nightfall
Il savage hand may nave laid him low among
the prairie grasses. Or it may be a child, q
bright-eyed daughter, is snatched away in an
unguarded moment, to grace the next war
dance. When we read the heartrendlng details
OF these savage depredations, we are apt to
blame the government for not taking more
strict precautions to insure the settlers pro-
lection. But we daily read OF the depredations
of that arch-tienG, consumption, with scare ely
IL thought OF the terrible inroads it is making IN
human lie. Tens OF thousands Of homes are
annually desolatcd by consumption 10 one by
Indian outrage. Like the Indian. consump-
ton often comes stealthily, and no danger IS
unprecedented until the victim suddenly finds
himself hopelessly e~nsnared, and deaths fatal
arrow ends the scene. DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, a powerful alternative, or
blood purifier and tonic, has restored thousands
of c~onsumptivcs who had tried every other
remedy rec commended to them without OBJ.
tanning any relief, and are willing to testify to
its remedial powers
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It is announced hat the very chan
mel has been discovered through which
the Atlantic once flowed into the desert
OF Sahara. 1t has been filled up by
the action of the waves, but only a few
miles of digging will reopen it.
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PAPER MILL'FOR SALE.

For sale at Lancaster, N. H., o frst-class Mill, now In
operation. The plant comprises ten acres OF land with
full power Of river, with l5foot head. Two-story frame
MIL, 4Ox9O, with anne1es-barn, storchouse, sheds, scales,
&c. The Mil contains one 72inch single cylinder, Rice,
Burton L Fales' machine, complete; four %50spound
beating engines; two tub ~blesches, cutters, calenders,
reels; one 50 horsepower boiler; and all the appliances
for running the mill.
Straw plenty at S.. Wood at 81. Excellent f!eiSh
contracts 90 with the MIL, which ID now on wrapping.
Owners have other business.
The property. which Is valuable, Will be sold at a fa!r
price and at a bargain. All inquiries by mail promptly
answered. Address
HENRY @. KENT, Treasurer
IIyrIsrYr. \, H., 1879,
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ACTS RELATING TO COMMERCE.

An act to change the name Of the ferry
boat James" Fisk, Jr., to Passaic.
To exempt from registry, enrolment
or license vessels not propelled by sail
or internal motive power of their own
Changing the name Of the steam pro-
pelier Nuhpa to Metropolitan.
To provide for the change of name of
the steamboat Alexis.
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WORK OF THE EXTRA SESSION.

A List Of the Measures Passed by Con.
gress and Approved by the President
During the Session Just Closed.
During the last session Of Congress
1871 bills and f~orty-siX joint resolutions
were introduced in the Senate, and 1885
bills and 1l9 joint resolutions were intro
ducedin the House of Representatives:
The following is a complete list of all
the legislative measures which passed
both Of the houses, and which, with the
approval of the President, have become
laws:
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judge Tor ! Ouf.cDe
By sending rhirty-6ve cents, with aga. height,
color OF syes and hair. you will receive by re-
turn mail = correct photograph o! your future
husband or wife, with name aud date Of mar
.lagu. Address ". Fox, o. Drawer 81,
Enl}opu;1la ~ Y
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Bethesda Saniturium at the l." Cole Magnetic
Spring." Havana, N. Y, is now open for pa
tients and those requiring rest and recreation
Brights' Disease of the Kidneys, Rheumatism,
Neuralgia, Paralysis and Debility, from what
ever the cause, and also all blood diseases are
speedily and permanently cured. Send for
circulars to G. D. Clawson, M. D., or F. Fl.
Goldsmith, Havana, N. v,
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ACTS RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY.

An act to amend the act of February
81, 1879, creating the Northern Judicial
District of Texas, and to change the
eastern and western districts of said
State, and to fix the times and places for
holding courts in the said districts.
Changing the time of holding the No..
vembor term of the United States Dis
trict Court for the District of Connecti-
cut.
To prescribe the times for holding the
Circuit Courts of the United States in
the District of Kentucky.
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From Washinqt0n.

The coinage at the mints Of the United
States during the fiscal year ended June 30,
1879, was rs follows: Gold-Double eagles,
s57, 234, $40; eagles, s. ,03l, $40; halt engles.
81, Az, 100; thrce.dollars. SlC9, lS2; quarter
eagles, 81, ICE, 800; dollars, 5000; total gold,
SGT, 1856 9l2. Silver-Dollars, S27, ~, o5o;
ialf dollars. S225; quarter dollars, $li2:oo;
dimes, S45; total, S27, 227, 452.oo. Minor
coinage -Five.cents, Sl,l75; thrce-ccnts,
soS4: cents, sos. 639; total minor coinage.
sol, 79s. Total coinuge-S9 COS. O2l pieces;
value, $50, 3l2, l42. 80.
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Bank, of Conway, Mass, to change its
location and name.
To provide for filling vacancies in the
office of Chief of Engineers, United States
Army.
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CHEN
The Celebrated
"MATCHLEss
Wood Tag Plug
A
lie PIONEER TOBACCO COMPANY,


PIONEER TOBACCO COMPANY,
New York, Boston, and Chicago.
Everybody knows that so long as there Is
proud hesh in o sore or wound it will not
heal. The obstacle is speedily removed and
the flesh reunited by Henry's Carbolic Salve,
the finest embodiment in existence OF that su-
preme purifier, carbolic acid. Its emollient
ingredients modify its pungent acid basis, so
that it never cauterizes, stings or scarifies
the diseased part. Sores and eruptions OF oil
kinds are cured by it. All druggists sell it.
Itcosts but one cent to send o postal card to
tho Mason & Hamlin Organ Co., Boston, New
York or Chicago, who will return. postage
paid, their catalogues and circulars, with much
information about organs. No one should buy
OIL organ without seeing these.
For coughs and throat disorders, use
"Brown's Bronchial Troches," having proved
their efficiency by u test OF many years.
twenty-five cents o box.
The Mendelssohn Piano Co., No. 81 Eas
10Th Street, N. Y, sell Pianos ut Factory
prices. Write for a catalogue.
Chew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco
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GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACTS.

An act making appropriations for the
legislative, executive and judicial ex,,
penses of the government for the hscal
year ending June 80, 1880, and tor other
purposes.
Making appropriations for the sup
port of the army for the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1880, and for other pur-
Making appropriations for the judicial
expenses of the government.
Making appropriations for construct
ing ietties and other works at South
Pass, Mississippi river: 80,
TO provide for certain expenses OF the
present session Of Congress, and for other
purposes:
To authorize the Secretary of War to
use certain moneys appropriated by G net
of Congress, approved March 8, 1873,
"for tile protection of the high sand
.banks on the Chippewa river" in the
completion Of Improvements in and near
the mouth of said Chippewa river.
ACTS RELATING TO THE POSTAL SERVICE.
An act making additional %appropria-
tons for the service of the Postothce De-
partment for the fiscal years ending
June 80, 1879, and June 80, 1880, and for
other purposes.
To establish post routes. 49,.
Supplemental to IAN act to establish
post routes"
To authorize the Secretary of the
Treasury to negotiate for the purchase
ut private sale, or, if necessary, procure
by condemnation, a site for a postotlice
in the city of Baltimore, State of Mary
land.
TO establish additional mail routes in
Florida. =,
TO extend the time of the special
postal service until service a be OBJ
tanned by advertisement.
ACTS RELATING TO THE PUBLIC LANDS.
E An act to provide for the conveyance
of the low grounds in the city Of Wash
ington under the act Of May 81, 1922.
TO authorize the Secretary of War to
release certain lands Cat Plattsburg) to
the people Of the State of New York.
To grant additional rights to home
stead settlers within railroad limits in
the State of Missouri and Arkansas.
TO extend the time for the payment OF
pre-emptors on certain public lands in
the State of Minnesota and Territory Of
Dakota.
Extending the provisions of the act
entitled, IAN act for the relief of GER
tain settlers on the public lands" ap-
proved March 3, 1877, until Oct. l, 1880.
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M4RBIlS

Or. Barker OF the Brighton Hospital for Children eng
says 1t resembles mothers milk 50 closely that infants
m raarcd md ,rsN reared exclusively nnnn IL,
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CINCINNATI SATURDAY EVENING,

and number of native Sisters of Mercy
are constantly laboring with their country
men. Rev. FIR. L. Been, the French priest,
who has been with that tribe for many
years, breaches to them in their native
tongue, and wields a wonderful power
among them.
Bishop Jolivet is Bishop of that entire
diocese, consisting of Natal, the Transvaal
the Orange Free States and the diamond
fields, and covering an immense tract of
country. Once year he traverses the
diocese in his own bullock wagon, six
months being required to complete the
journey. Several young Caffres are now
being educated for the priesthood nnder
his supervision.
Mr.. Caldon gives an intelligent and inter-
esting account of the origin of the Zulu
war, attributing it to the greed of the
British in infringing upon Cetywayo's
lands. That monarch, he says, will never
to the enemy, and, except
through his own imprudence, he will
never be captured. He will find friends
among the Caffres wherever he may flee
who will afford him protection and conceal
him from his foes,
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it would seem, for this lane appeared to
defy the proverb and have no turning.
But that it had one We know, and to it
the little party came at last. A gate led
to some fields belonging to the estate of
the Hazels. Lettice and the nurse pre-
pared to open it.
Good morning, sir" said Lettice,
"this is my way; will strive to do some
thing for the poor woman you recon-
mended to me, and ! will mention your
recommendation to Mrs. Melwyn."
He started as if suddenly awakened
when she spoke; but he only said, "Will
you? Ii will be right and kind. Thank
you, in her name." And, with a grave,
distracted sort of salute, he left her, and
pursued his way.
Catherine was standing rather anxious
ly upon the hall steps, looking round and
wondering what had become of her nurse
and her baby, when nurse, baby and Let
tice returned.
"Dear people," she cried, II am glad
you are come back"
[To BE CONTINUED.
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contents about our streets. They vera
taken up to Spring street and put in the
drvinp-5ut cage.
Rem Hayes and Bill Richardson, colored
boys, were arrested and taken before
,Souire Smith on Thursday upon the insti-
cation of an affidavit taken out by Ed.
Clark from the Fair Grounds, who charges
them with the stealing OF " trom ms pock-
s.ss. { The 'S9"!re dismissed the case, when
Clark went before the Mayor and placed
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IT believe it to be all wrong and even
wicked for clergymen or other public men
to be led into giving testimonials to quack
doctors or vile stuffs called medicines, but
when a really meritorious article made OF
valuable remedies known to all, that all
physicians use and trust in daily, We should
freely commend it. / therefore cheerfully
and heartily commend Hop Bitters for the
good they have done me and my friends,
equal for family use. Twill not be without
them" Rev. -, Washington, ID. G. !.
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IF PERCHANCE

You have got into trouble, procure pack
age of SAMARITAN'S GIFT, and you win
he all right in two or three days. The com
plant when neglected, or when the quack
is visited, and he gives his Balsam Copaiba
often becomes troublesome and serious
complications arise, which prolong the dis
ease for months. Another fallacy is in try
ing to save few cents, dabble in eheap
drugs, which so sicken the stomach, that
almost death would be relief. Samaritan's
Gift will cure every time, and no trouble.
Male packages 81, female s.. Sold BY
ERNST WILFERT, Fourth and Walnut
and by druggists.
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