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CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

APRIL 1S.--The reassembling Of the Senate
after its three days recess was marked by no
change in the situation. The usual routine
motions were gone through with In perfume
tory manner. The speakers of the day were
Messrs. Dawes, salisbury, Burnside and
Beck, but, with the exception of soma sharp
sparring between Dawes and Beck, the ora
torical display was without especial inter-
est. o.
APRIL 19,--As a step toward breaking the
existing deadlock, Senator Blair offered ares
olution declaring that. in the Judgment of the
Senate, the public interests require Congress
10 be convened in public session immediate
ly. Mr.. Blair, in support of his resolution,
urged the duty OF the senate to confirm the
Presidents nominations, now held in abey-
ance and which he believed could only be ac-
cOmplished by the calling OF special session
of Congress. senator Logan made a speech of
some length, in reply to the oft-repeated
with the south at the breaking out of the
rebellion. lie said he was not accustomed 10
refute ISLANDERS, but as the charge thatle had
been In sympathy with the rebellion had
been again started he desired TO review the
history Of his conduct and the breaking out
Of the war. At the breaking ont Of the rebel
Lion he bad lived at Marion, Williamson
County III. People OF that county had been
/ Democrats most of them from the south. on
the 18TH of April, 1861, few Democrats
had got together at Marion and passed
re solutions in favor of secession and rebellion.
! In Nav following some men from williamson
/ County had been organized into a company
| by Thorndyke Brooks, Marylander, and had
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MOrtgaged Himself.

A CHARLOTTE IN. ca special of a recent date
to the Chicago Times says: lone of the most
remarkable deeds of mortgage probably ever
made was put upon record in the Registers
Office here. According to the terms of this
mortgage, Charles Didenover, an intelligent
but impecuuious man, conveys himself and
all right aud title to himsefto another to have
and to hold forever, to secure debt he owes
the mortgage. The deed was duly Witnessed
signed and sealed. Didenoyer Is q married
man, and therefore, under the laws of this
State, before man can convey any real estate
his wife has to give her signature thereto,
acknowledged before q Notary Public or
Magistrate Although it is doubtful whether
the object in this case has the
character of this property, Didenover's wife
valves all of her rights, title and claims to
him in favor of the mortgage, and has signed
q deed of conveyance, and Acknowledged the
same with all due form before Magistrate.
The case is oneof the most remarkable ever
known in this section, and attracts wide
spread interest. Ii a man can mortgage
himself and convert his body into legal col
lateral IL will open up a new class OF security,
which will be hailed with great pleasure by
many an impecunious man. If the legality
or this deed is confirmed by the courts it will
not be a great while before Didenovers ex-
ample will be followed by many hard-pressed
debtors in the old North Stofe"
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LATE NEWS ITEMS.

NEAR Ozier, N. NJ, on the 22d, pas
senger coach jumped the track and rolled
down an embankment, $50 feet. Mrs. G.
Dectodedat, James Lynch, d. G. Brewer, G.
Hall, l.. lsaacs, d. G. Wilson, D. C. Shoeles
and one unknown were killed. George In
man, George r. Page, d. r. Brewer, N.
J. Brewer and several others were wounded.
The residence of S. Ball, Mayor of
Salinas, Cal, was burned the other night.
Mrs. Ball and two children were suftocated.
A DAUGHTER of John Haley lost her
life by the upsetting of boat at Charestown,
w. Va. She was attending funeral at the
time.
JOHN GUYMPHER, Hungarian who
had been asleep for some three weeks at the
Allentown, Pa, Poor house, jumped out Of
a window the moment he awoke, falling %
feet, and will probably die from his injuries.
THIRTY masked horsemen recently
took colored man named Louis Whitaker
from the Jail at Gadsden, Fla, and hanged
him to tree. Whitaker was charged with
numbering white man.
A TwELvE-YEAR-OLD son of H. d.
Root, Of Reading, o., hanged himself with
a halter because his father threatened pun
ishment il he persisted in playing with an
old musket.
B. w. HEXT and John Conner, re-
spectacle citizens Of Miller, Ga, quarreled
about five cents, the latter receiving death
,uo,,nI fror, bis ontoOopicttS rovolvar /.
Adhesion, Mass, on the 23d, James
Tracy was arrested for inflictng wounds up
on Mrs. Elizabeth Pape from which she died
soon after.
THE town of Greenville, Plumas
County, Cal. burned on the 23d.
AT Bartwell, N. c., Henry Hill, col
ored, was hanged for numbering Thomas
Skclton, the Jailer of Hart County. Andrew
Pell, also colored, was hanged on the 22d, at
Monticello, Fla, for the murder of j. H.
Whitaker in December last.
REV. H. THOMAS, of Ozark, Ark, re-
Gently committed suicide by taking lauda-
nun. He had for ten years been afflicted
with blindness, which was gradually grow
ing worse, and which drove him to despair
and death. He leaves widow and eight
| children.
WM. M. GREENLEAF, a grandson of
! the President OF the Franklin Insurance
I Company, was arrested at Denver, Colo,
on a charge of forgery. .
A DISPATCH from Lemberg, Austria,
says a ferryboat crossing the Dneister River
upset and sixty-three persons were drowned,
Another account puts the number at thirty.
A STAGE bound for Ell Paso, Texas,
was stopped and robbed, sixty miles west Of
slu Antonio, recently. The two robbers se-
! cured IS cents.
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Guatemala Volcanoes.

The mountain climbers seem to have
become dissatisfied with the limits of the
Alps. They are scattering over the
globe in search of new peaks to con-
quer. The recent exploits of Mr..
Whymper and his companions among
the giants of the Andes have just been
followed by still more hazardous per-
formance in Guatemala, where some
fearless explorers clambered to the top
of the active volcano, FL Fuego, boldly
penetrating the curtain of deadly vapors
about its summit under protection of
favoring wind. The volcano and its
neighbor, FL Aqua, have a curious his
tory. The City of Guatemala was first
placed near FL Aqua, and in 1541 was
destroyed by an earthquake and inunda-
ton. The inundation was ascribed to
the mountain, and so the CITY, rebuilt
further to the north. This brought it
nearer to FL Fuego, which proved TO be
as formidable an enemy as the other
mountain. 1t shook up the inhabitants
with earthquakes and terrified them with
eruptions of lava, until in despair they
moved their town second time, and,
going still further north, founded the
present Capital City of Guatemala upon
high plain.
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Skipping.

Boys, want to ask YOU how you
think conqueror made out who went
through the country he was trying to
subdue and whenever he found fort
hard to take, left it alone. Don't YOU
think the enemy would buzz Wild there,
like bees in hive, and when he was
well into the heart of the country don't
you fancy they would swarm out and
harass him terribly
Just so, | want you to remember,
will it be with you, if you skip over the
hard places in your lessons and leave
them unlearned; you have left an enc
my in the rear that will not fail TO
harass YOU and mortify you times with
out number.
There was just n little bit of my
Latin | hadn't read" said a vexcd stu.
dent to me- and it was just there the
Professor had to call upon me at exam
ination. There were Just two or three
examples | had passed over, and one
of these | was asked to do on the black
board"
The student who is not thorough is
never well at his ease; he cannot forget
the skipped problems, and tho con-
seriousness of his deficiencies makes him
nervous and anxious.
Never laugh at the slow, plodding
student; the time will surely come when
to tob BE- SS t6oroaghs ih hsb bit It'll f more t6an pays
Resolve, when you take up astudy, that
you will go through with it like sue
cessful conqueror, taking every strong
point. Jt
If the accurate scholars difficulties
closed with his school life it might not
be so great matter for his future ca
reer. But he has chained to himself a
habit that will be like an iron ball at his
heel all the rest of his life. Whatever
he does will be lacking somewhere. He
has learned to shirk what is hard, and
the habit will grow with years.-Morn-
ina Star. ui i
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PITH AND POINT.

1t is wise man who knows which
side his bread is oleomargarined on.-
Boston Transcript.
1t is noticeable that thin women al
ways talk the fastest. A double chin
can not be wagged with celebrity, even
by a woman.-NeW York Commercial
AdUertiSer.
The giraffe has never been known
to utter sound. In this respect it re-
sembles a young lady in street car
when gentleman gives up his seat
Washington Post.
DIR. Holmes complains that "mak-
ing verses is not so easy as sliding down
hill" thus exposing himself to the con-
tempt of the Sweet Singer of Michigan.
Boston Post.
That very popular Polish nobleman,
Hotwiski, is going into retirement in
few weeks. He will be sadly missed in
social circles, and his place will be large
lyfilledby the German Count, Eiscolager.
-BurLingt0n HaOkeVe.
"Shall l read you a pretty story, Ef-
uo9 IloS ~ Sou " mOlo w Nv
"Yes darling" "Then, Mumsey, I'd
rather not. A story with moral to it
is like jam with apowder in it."-Punch.
-" Look here, boy" said stern Gal
weston parent, "you are telling me a
falsehood. | can read it in your face" "
"Why, pa, you know you can't read
worth cent without your spectacles. y
Galveston NeOS.
The Chinese professor at Yale had
one student last year. The student pro-
gressed so favorably that at the end OF
the session he was able to enjoy
reading his first tea chest. Commercial
AdUertiSer. .n
Out in Leadville when one is intro,
duced to a stranger the polite thing is
to ask, "What was your name before
you came here?" The next question,
according to the rules of etiquette, is,
"How did you manage to escapeP"-
oil City Derrick.
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What a Big Man Am L!

Tommy Stiles lived on a farm, and
went to the district school. He was q
bright boy, and always learned his les
sons we'll But he liked best to hear
the older children recite. He was
fond of history. He liked 20 hear of
wars, and the brave deeds of soldiers.
One fine June day Tommy thought he
would play soldier himself, and go to
war He put on an old red vest which
his father wore in the brass band. His
mother made him a paper solder-cap,
with plumes. He had a wooden gun, a
tin sword and small drum.
There was no other boy there to play
with him and so he "made believe he
was the whole army. He was Captain
Thomas, and Tommy the drummer
boy, and Tom the soldier-and all
three were the army. Then Captain
Thomas said, "Forward. marchr' and
waved his sword. Tom shouldered his
gun. Tommy beat the drum but this
was not easy. for Toms gun and Cap
tain Thomas sword wero in the way.
Then the army marched to the field
behind the barn.
Up and down it fled, back and forth,
now quick, now slow. Indeed, now
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VOL. II.-NO. 25.

and then it hoped! Captain Thomas
had to call out to Tom pretty often
to keep step. But there was no
fault to find with Tommy. He
drummed so hard that he scared
the hens and sheep. All went well.
only for one thing. Once Tom ran
so fast that he tumbled down and
bumped the armys nose against a
stone. Then Captain Thomas was
angry, and scolded poor Tom well, |
can tell you. =
At last a grand charge was made.
The army raced after Spot, the calf,
and thumped the drum, and shook the
sword, and threw stones. (This was
firing the gum Poor Spot was put to
flight. He ran off up the hill, with his
heels and tail flying wildly in the air.
Then the army marched back to the
garden fence, and Captain Thomas
made a speech Soldiers said he.
"we have whipped the whole world,
and it has run away. did it with my
sword. Now | must be theAKing."
just then Trix, the gray goose,
stretched her neck through the fence
and bit Tommy on the leg. The Cap
tain, the drummer, and the whole army
raised a loud yell, while Trix Kissed
liercely. Then down went the drum,
and the gun, and the sword. The army
limped off as fast as it could TO the
kitchen. Had you seen Captain Thom-
as, soon after, sobbiug on his mother
lap, you would not have dreamed no
was the little man who had Just
whipped the whole world"
NOtice.-D not boast of what you
have not done. Some old gray goose
may hear you.- our Little Ones.
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Saved by a ROsebush.

AN exploring party, of which W. d. Pretty
man, who resides back of Portland, was
member, were exploring a wild section of
country, about fifteen miles this side of the
Cascades, near Multnomah Falls, few days
ago. The gorges, ravlneS and rugged mount
ain sides were covered deeply with snow,
upon the surface of which was a heavy crust as
smooth as sea of ice and as cold as the charity
of millionaire The party was making slow
progress along the backbone of divide. On
the right-hand side was slope of about l0O
feet to an abrupt cliff, beneath which, about
forty feet below, was chasm filled with i'm
mense rocks. MIR. Prettyman was dressed in
an oilskin coat which WAS closely buttoned
While looking out over the valley beneath,
his feet slipped, and he fell on the right side
of the divide. The oilskin coat acted like
snow-shoe, and away went Mr.. Prettyman,
spinning down the mountain side like a flash.
When within twenty-five feet of the precpice
he grasped a rosebush the only tree or shrpb
within reach, and as il tore through his hand,
lacCrating his fingers, he was brought to a
stop nearly on the brink. 1t was moment
of horror, lest the shrub give way and he be
dashed TO death on the rocks below. His COM
panions made all haste. and, throwing him a
rope, he managed to crawl back to a place of
safety, leaving track of blood on the snow
as it streamed from his torn and lacerated
hands.-POrtldnd (Ore.) Telegram.
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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The vapors of nitrous ether are rec
commended by M. Peyrusson as disin.
fectant and antiseptic. They have neither
a disagreeable nor hurtful smell.
The object-glass for the Lick OBJ
servatory telescope in California is to be
three feet in diameter, and, if success
full, will be the most powerful instru-
ment of the kind ever made. About
three years will be required o.finish the
telescope.
AN instrument, called the margari-
meter, has been invented by two Par
isian chemists for detecting the pres
ence of margarine in butter. It's based
on the different densities of butter and
the greasy substances substituted for it
or mixed with it.
BY means of strictly vegetable
diet, DR.. Hureau de Villeneuve states
that he has succeeded in Kidding him
self OF attacks of equity rheumatism,
with which he had been afflicted for
years, and of which several of his an
cestors had died.
Last year it was said that Professor
Baeyer, of Munich, had produced indi.
60 artificially, but the process did not
admit of the successful production of
indigo blue on manufacturing scale at
reasonable cost. Since that time the
Professor has continued to work on the
problem, and he has so far succeeded
that he has taken out q patent for the
artificial manufacture and application
of indigo blue.
AS the result of his personal obser-
vations, M. Carlet states that the walking
of insects may be represented by three
men in Indian file, the foremost and
hindmost of whom keep step with each
other, while the middle one walks in the
alternate step. The walking of arach-
nids can be represented by four men in
file, the even numbered ones walking in
one step, while the odd numbered ones
walk in the alternate step.
"A very fine preparation for making
steel very hard is composed of wheat
flour, salt and water, using, say two
teaspoonsful of water, one-half tea
spoonful of flour and one of salt; heat
the steel to be hardened enough to coat
it with the paste-by immersing it in
the composition-after which heat it to
cherry red and plunge it in cold, soft
water. Ii properly done, the steel will
come out with beautiful white surface.
1t is said that Stubs files are hardened
in this manner. nj
The oldest medical work extant is q
roll of papyrus obtained by the cele-
brated German archeologist, Ebers, in
Egypt. He was travelling in that coun-
try few years since and learned that a
papyrus roll had been discovered lying
by the side of mummy. After consid-
erable difficulty he became possessed of
it. 1t is about eleven inches wide and
sixty feet long, and is in excellent pre-
servation. 1t was written 1922 years be-
fore the Christian era, when Moses had
Just reached his twenty first year. The
duUIIVI 10 UOiIoYOu W uo uno SfodU uoGIli
who was deified by the Egyptians on ac-
count of the civilization which he brought
them. 1t is the intention of Ebers to
make a complete translation of this
work.
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Our Young Folks.
a WRTGGLER.

a sad little wriggllng boy was Ted;
The very curls wagged ON the top of his head; {;
lie never was quiet from morning till night,
For hopping and jumping was all his delight;
He pranced and danced
. Til he made You quite i'll;
He wriggled and jggled
And ncDef kept still
Well, his arms and his legs came loose one day,
And waved about in a eadful way;
SO to tie on string was all they could do
And then they painted him yellow and bluel
As Jumping Jack, Ted
Could prance his fill
He could wrigge aud jiggle
And neUer keep still!
-Wide AlUdke
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THE United States Courts it seems
have no jurisdiction in the Missouri land
fraud cases, and the accused parties will be
proceeded against by indictments in the
State Criminal Courts. Lindsay has already
been indicted, and some of the others will
probably meet with the same treatment.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-04-30

THE International Monetary Confer
ence convened in Paris on the 10Th. Fifteen
States were represented-Germany, Austria,
Belgium, Denmark, Spain, United States,
France, England, Greece, Italy, Holland,
Portugal, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland
The English and Italian delegates had not
arrived. On motion of Mr.. Evarts, Delegate
Magnin, French Minister of Finances, was
elected President of the Conference.
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THE President has nominated Richard
A. Elmer, of New York, Second Assistant
Postmaster General; w. A. NJ, Grier, of
Pennsylvania, Third Assistant Postmaster
General, vice A. ID. Hazen, appointed
Assistant Attorney General of the Post
Office Department; George B. Everett,
United States Collector of Internal Revenue,
Fifth District of North Carolina.
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NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.

THE importation of American pork
into Turkey is prohibited.
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The President nominated Gen. James
Longstreet, now Minister to Turkey, United
States Marshal for GeOrgia.
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THE effort to displace John Kelly as
head of the New York Tammany organiza-
tion at the recent election failed.
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THE unprecedented rise in the Des-
PLANES River caused the breaking of the
canal and the inundation of the entire dis
trict along Archer and Blue Island Avenues,
Chicago A similar state Of affairs exists in
Joliet and other towns along the canal. The
losses, both to the State and to individuals,
are very serious.
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A BERLIN correspondent says that the
Car will reside at the diminutve chateau of
Gatschinak, guarded by six cOrdOns of SOL
diery. His Majesty is never seen outside the
inner circle. Aniteschoff Palace, the town
mansion, has been intrusted to the guardian
ship of 800 men of the Pavlewsky Guards. A
Nihlist manifesto, announcing the approach
ing death of Alexander Ill, has been re-
ceived by all the Russian Ministers and court
officials.
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The following anecdote is told of
Alexander Ii. A few years before his
death, while visiting Odessa, a cash
tered officer broke through his guards
and, casting himself on his knees, be-
sought the Emperor to grant him justice.
The Emperor answered that he would
consider his case. "No, no." ex-
claimed the man, If you do not see
justice done me at once | am lost.
Then the Gar heard his story, saw that
a cruel wrong had been done. and
promised that the officer should be re-
instated. Even this, however, did not
satisfy the man. ''Tell me here, be-
fore everybody, that am an officer Of
yours, Father, and sign this paper.
Your mere word would not be obeyed
once your back was turned Nicholas
would have bounded at this insinpa-
ton, but Alexander III. tacitly acqui-
esced in it and did what was asked of
him.
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When They Found Her Dead.

Children are the sunshine Of life.
They are the soft wind which thaws
away the snow and ice of sefishness.
They are the atmosphere in which old
age finds hours of youthfulness On
Prospect street lived an old woman
who made herself terror to every
child who passed her door. Her house
was old and grim. The dark curtains
were always down, the doors were sell
dom opened, and no child passed it
without fearing the evil spirit that
seemed to lodge there. The old wom-
an cursed any one who dared peer
through the fence, and if seen abroad
she was carefully avoided.
A few days ago the children saw the
inside of her house for the first time.
The old woman had been found dead,
and men and women had assembled to
respect her cold clay. With them
came the children. They were the
first to forget what she had been, and
the first to shed tears over the close OF
her earthly career. Men and women
were satisfied when the body had been
dressed for the grave, but the children
brought flowers and laid them on her
grizzly hair until she seemed to weara
crown of glory; they placed beauti-
full lily in her bony fingers, n green
vine over her breast, and when the cur
tain was raised and the sunshine
streamed in and fell upon the dead, men
and women said: iA ~"
at is the face of a mother aud a
woman. and we were too harsh with
her Let God remember that she was
all alone and had much to endure.''sal
The work of the children had robbed
death of its look, and melted frozen
hearts, and as they stood around the
bier and sang; IiFa5 1
"Yes, wen gather at the river
That iiows by the throne of God"
Men pressed each others hands anG
whispered: i.
"Would that our hearts would always
be the hearts of children. .n-DetroD
Free Press. .F eaf
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The National Convention of the Land
League opened at Dublin on the2lst. One
thousand delegates were present. Parnell
ing Davitt should be released, and thanking
Irishmen in America for their support.
The opinions expressed by delegates were
strongly adverse to the Land bill, but it
was generally considered the measure should
not be rejected until an effort is made to
amend II,
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THE Secretary of the Interior has re-
ceived q circular issued by the "Freedmen's 5
Oklahoma Association" of st. Louis, j. Mil
ton Turner President, and Hannibal c. Car
ter General Manager. II promises l,G0O
acres of land to every freedman who will 90
and occupy the public lands of Oklahoma.
Secretary Kirkwood has referred the circular
TO the Commissioner OF the General Land
Office, with view to ascertaining the legal
ity of the proposed occupancy OF the Gov
ernmeut reservations in that Territory.