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DEVOTED TO POLITICS, MORALITY, MDUCATION AND T9 THE GENERAL INTURUT OF THE COUNTRY.
By D. F. BRADLEY & 00 PICKENTHURSDAY, MAY 11, 1882. VOL. XI. NO. 4.
1~ ~m!~a~a~vu P800to
simcude 0660.
hais oslled the attention
to t1e trpuble in Arizona.
To Ar'appebranoes we sUd sadly
n4e of a new and moro effective
r#dlaan poliqy,
&-8uonwraar ow STATa BrJAne holds
that ti United States. in reponsible for
the Chili-IPOu war.
Poozi.CArTAn HowGATU I He is still
lost. Marshal Henry had better increase
that 500 reward to$600.
Tun English aesthete will be enter.
taned by Mr. Beecher at his Peekskill
home in June. Two of anything make
a pair.
Tu English Government gives Prinoe
Leopold $50,000 a year to support his
new wife-a splendid salary for the work
he does.
THE Prince of Wales wrote in the au
graph album of the historian, Banorof t,
"Not ' Ours,' but yours truly, Albert
Edward."
A Nnw YoRn company is making ar
rangements for heavy importations of
ice from Norway the present year, to
supply the demand.
IT is reported the outlook through the
State of Kentuoky taken as a whole, is
very promising, and crops bid fair to
fully make up for the disastrous season
of 188L
it TnA lack of good faith on the part of
Indian Agents may have had something
to do with the recent outbreak. Such
things have been heard of in the past.
AND now we have it that Miss Nellie
Arthur has large brown eyes and short
- brown hair, and that she is as chubby as
a cherub-altogether, a very delicious
morsel.
Tim Government hangs three Indian
murderers, whereupon the Indians, in re
taliation, murder a hundred innocent
whites. This is " Indian Policy'' with a
vengeance.
* A DInrL has passed the Rhode Island
Senate providing that no license to sell
inboxicating liquors shall be granted in
those towns where, at the anuual town
meeting in April, the people shall vote
to grant no licenses.
MoB law is becoming almost too com..
mon a thing in Indiana. If matters
keep on as 'they have been going the
past few weeks, it will not be long before
the judiciary in the Stats will be entirely
,dispensed with in criminal matters.
THE National Forestry Convention at
Cincinnati has excited considerable inter
est on the subject of tree planting. We
shall expect within the next few years to
see the country dotted with young groyes.
Land can be put to no better puspose.
THE proprietor of a restaurant at Fre
mont, Ohio, who found an onyx pin, set
.with diamonds, and failed to return it to
the young lady who had lost it, was
bound over to Court in the sum of $500,
on the charge of larcany.
THE~ trial of the Malley boys for the
murder o~f Jennie Cramer is now in pro
gress at New Haven, Conn. Miss
Blanche Douglass, also implicated in the
murder, is said to be an intensely in
terested listener to the testimony as it
is adduced'
A CINCINNA'rI Woman visited a small
* pox patient, despite the protosts of her
husband, " just to see what the disease
looked like." She caught the contagion
ndconveyed it to her husband and only
ohild. Both parents died and the child
survived. Her curiosity was doubtless
gratified.
THEs President's son Allen appears to
have fallen desperately in love with Miss
* Ntaude Crowley, the pretty daughter of
the Representative from Lookport, and
is said to haunt the Crowley parlors at
the Arlington, morning, noon, and even
ing, bringing daily to his inamorata a
lavish bouquet from the Whit. House
conservatories.
Tirs statement comes that Jews in
Russia are marrying at the rate
of 150 couples a day in anticipation
* that by so doing farms will be given them
in America. To begin with, Jews, as a
class, would not farm under any ciroum
* stances, ,and furthermore, America is
not giving farms to her own people,
muoh less foreigners.
- HoN. WIrL CuUMBAo, of Greensbnrg,
End., gives it as his. opinion that the
mob who hanged Garrett at Greensburg
-were Kentuckians, hailing from the
former home of the murdered man
Walton. He bases his opinion on the
public feeling at St. Paul, the home of
Walton and Garrett,where ho says, there
was no disposition to do injury to
Garrett sinbe his acquittal as as acces
the feasibility of protecting American
subjects in Ireland, and the advisability
of going to war with Russia in behlalf of
the perecuted Jews in that country, it
.will do well to give a moment's thouight
* to~ the unPrid.e. fronieruuman of olur
own land. If ft can't protect subjects at
home, t wore worse than folly to talk of
amouritag freedom and happinoss for the
peso*e i ori anda.
~asoutessaUorebkeMaa am
Tn5 rnassauA at wahnlrn M~ &1,a ~
served. A great deal of money is Ox
pended on more than worthless displays
which it.would be humanity to use h
the protection of those who are in con
stant peril of their lives.
Susm Gwn, says a contemporary, hai
her pick from among the young men o
Lexington, Ky., for she was handsom4
and rich; but she preferred a gambler o:
the flashiest kind. He was known t<
her for a month as a stook broker, and
at the end of that brief courtship sh
married him. They stopped at a Louis
ville hotel on their bridal tour. Ht
brought her a lemonade in her room,
and she found it bitter. He had put ax
opiate in it. When she was unconsciou
he stole her purse and $2,500 worth ol
diamonds, and deserted her.
ONE Methodist clergyman in Cleve,
land said that the newspapers of to-day
are a powerful ally of Christianity.
Another said that editors would not dar(
talk as they write. A third said thai
he knew a reporter who became a Chris.
tian and found he could not continue it
the business. Doubtless all spoke the
truth. As to the reporter, probably he
had never taught himself to write truth.
fully, and was therefore a disgrace to the
profession. The other two statement4
are accounted for upon the presumption
that one of the clergymen in question
took a respectable paper, while the other
was a patron of one of the few disrepu
table sheets that are published in the
country.
Mns. TABOR, the wife of the Lieuten
*nt-Governor of Colorado, has filed a
petition in court asking that the fine
house in which she lives, said toebe
worth $150,000, shall be set apart as her
exclusive property, and that $50,000 a
year be granted her for living expenses.
Her husband is worth, or is said to be,
from $7,000,000 to $8,000,000. She ac
cnses him of infidelity, while he repre
sents himself as willing to give her a
divorce, the house and $3,000,000 if she
will sue for a separation, which she re.
fuses to do. " The case," it is alleged,
"will hardly go to trial as it would cre
ate a fearful scandal, in which the best
people would be involved." If such
people are "the best" in Colorado, what
must the worst be ?"
IT MAT be interesting to our lady
readers to know how Princess Helena,
of Waldeck, was dressed at her marriage
a few days ago to Prince Leopold, the
last son of the Queen of England. The
wedding dress was given to the Princess
by her sister, Queen of Holland, and
was made in Paris.' The petticoat was
of the richest white satin, with several
small openings near the bottom, showing
a thick wreath of orange blossoms and
myrtle underneath it, trimmed with two
robings of the costliest point d'Alencon
lace coming down either side, turned
with square corners toward a white satin
train, in the draperies of whAch it disap
pears. The train is of immense lengta,
and literally sown with flakes of silver,
white large bouquets of fleur de lie in re
lief, embroidered in silver all down the
center of it. It was edged with shell
like fluting. of satin, intermingled with
point d'Alencon. The dress has short
sleeves, trimmed to match, with point
d'Alencon and wreaths of myrtle and
orange blossoms.
Junou BELFORD, Representative ia,
Congress from Colorado, has had an in
terview with the President in regard to
the persecution of Jews in Russia. The
Judge showed that the atrocities prac
ticed on Jews in Russia has taken the
form of destruction of property by
plunder and fire, ijury to person, mur
dorous assaults, outrages on mothers,
wives, and daughters, and deliberate
murder. As nearly as the results of
these' atrocities can be ascertained
and stated in figures, it appears over
two hunered women have been violated,
sixty men wore killed, seventy wounded,
twenty thousand rendered homeless, and
about $75,000,000 worth of property
stolen and wreaked. Judge Belford
reminded the President that intervention
in such a cau&se ha~d been practiced by
oivilized nations the past two centuries
He cited a number of cases where inten
vention had occurred in late wars,
among them being that of Russia on
behalf of persecuted Christians in
Turkey. The intervention of Russia in
behalf of Greek Christians in Turkish
Dominions was an avowed justification
for undertaking the Crimean war, and
again In 1877 the intervention of Russia
In behalf of Christian subjects of the
Sultan was the single pretext for the
Russo-Turkish war. In reply to Judgo
Beolfordl, the Presidenit said he felt deeply
interested'in the case of the persecuted
Hebrews, and was determined to do
everything that could be done -with
propriety to induce the Russian Govern.
nent to extend the fullest pressetion be
t~his class of its subjects. He had within
the past few days addressed a communi.
sation to our representative ab 8,
Petersburg, directing him to invite the
attention of the Czar to these reported
strocities, to express the abhorrence that
was felt in this country in relation to
theifr perpetration, and entreating himt
htoraise his authority to prevent their
n TLhe President further said
detm~ined American He
yreelding in Russia
prtc~o
THE FACTS AT LAST.
fOW TIE C0NFEDERATZ SPROg
DISTRIBJUTBD.
An Authentic Account by Gen. Dibrell, Who was
in Command of the Davis Eseort and
Money Train.
[Washington Post.]
[Gen. G. G. Dibrell-now a member
of Congress from Tennessee-contributes
the following authentic and circumstan.
tial account of the disposition of the
Confederate specie about which so much
has been said since the publication of
Gen. Joe Johnston's first statement.,
ED. PosT.]
On the 12th day of April, 1865, I re
ceived a few miles btlow Raleigh, N. C.,
an order from Maj. Gen. Wheeler to
proceed at once with my cavalry com
mand, composed of a part of my own
Tennessee brigade, commanded by Col.
W. S. McLemore, and the Kentucky
brigade, commanded by Col. W. C. P.
Breckinridge, and Wiggin's Arkansas
Battery, to Greensboro N. C., and there
report to Gen. John C. reckinrid ge, the
Secretary of War, and President Davis.
We had that day at Butler's bridge, be
low Raleigh, learned certainly of the
disaster of Gen- Lee's Army. in obedi
ence to that order we passed through
Raleigh and marched fifteen or twenty
miles that night. The next night we
camped above Hillsboro, and the next
reached Greensboro about 12 o'clock at
night, and reported in person with Col.
Breckinridge, first to Gen. Breckinridge,
and then to Mr. Davis. We left Greens
boro the next evening, moving south.
At Lexington' we awaited dispatches
from Gens. Breckinridge and Jos. E.
Johnston in regard to the surrender or
terms of surrender proposed by Gen.
Sherman, and then moved on to Char
lotte. N. C., where we were joined by
the commands of Gens. J. C. Vaughn
and Basil W. Duke, which had come
across from western-aVirginia. After
wards we were joined by Gen. Fergu
son's brigade. At Charlotte, Gen. Breck
inridge, who was a Major General in the
Confederate States Army, assumed com
mand of all the troops along in person
and- gave orders. Up to. this time my
command of Tennesseans and Kentuck
ians had done all of thiguard. picket
and scouting duty, and continued to do
so until eurrendered. On leaving Char
lotte we marched on through South
Carolina, encountering large numbers of
Gen. Lee's soldiers who had been pa
roled and were on their way to their
At Abbeville, S. C,, on the 2d of May,
after having gone into camp, Col. Bragg
sent for me and showed me the terms of
surrender agreed upon by Gens. Sher,
man and Johnston, which included all
of-Gen. Johnston's army. That night a
conference of officers was held at the
residence of the Hon. Mr. Burt, in Ab
beville, at which were present Mr. Da
vis, Gens. Breckinridge, Bragg, Vaughn
Duke, Ferguson, Col. Breckinridge and
myself, After a full and free discussion
of the situation, the condition of the
troops, etc., it was agreed that we would
move at 11 o'clock that night across the
Savannah river into Georgia, near
Washington, and there surrender such
of the cavalry as did not wish to go to
the trans-Mississippi department. it
was also agreed there that the troops
should the next day be paid a part of
the specie on hand. When orders were
issued to move, I was requested to fur
nish transportation for the specie, and
the quartermaster furnished four wagons.
r'he specie'train was placed immediate
ly under the control of Gen. Duke, who
delivered it safely the next day to Gen.
Breckinridge at his headquarters, where
it was divided as heretofore- published.
In the conference of officers held the
night previous, Mr. Davis inquired par
ticularly as to the condition of each com
mand, whether they could be relied up
on in an emergency. I remember stat
in g for my command, commanded by
Col s. McLemore and Breckinrigde, and
the artillery commanded by Capt. Wig
gins, that they had remained true and
mntact, were under good discipline, and:
never refused to do duty either as scouts,
picket, or guards and were as ready to
march to battle as they had al ways been.
Each officer was asked in turn in regard
to his command and my statements
were corroborated by Col. Breckinridge
when he was interrogated.
Mr. Davis had had the company of
Capt. Given Campbell, of the First
Kentucky cavalry, as an escort, and he
decided to leav~e next day with his es
cort, staff, and a few others. On going
into camp near Washington, Ga., on the
3d of May, the specie train ivas parked
at Gen lBre cki nridge's headquarters,
and that intended for the troops was
turned over to Maj. E. C. White, chief
quartermaster of my command, he being
the ranking quartermaster present, who,
after counting the money turned over
to him, and receiving the pay rolls5 of
each command present, paid out and
furnished me a statement of the amount,
which I had misplaced, but Col. WV. C.
P. Bareckinridge having retained a copy
furnished it to me. which is as follows,
to wit:
To amount received of Confed
erate States government... $108,322 90
By amount paid Capt. Briggs, A.
Q. M ., Dibrell 's brigade.....29,77 00
By amount paid Maj. W. J. Brad
ley, Q. M., Breckinridge's
brigade--------.-----......... ,842 S$
By amonnt paid Capt. ClayPrice
A. Q. M., Fergusoni's brrig
ade-----..... ................. 25,477 98
By amount paid C~p t. J. D.
Floutt, A. Q. M., Vaughan 's
brigade .....,..............12,781 A0
By amount paid Maj. D. HI.Fle w
ellen, A. Q. M., Duke's bri ;
adeo............. -.-....... 17,192 00
By amount paid Capt. W. F, Bel
A. Q. 4f., Ninth Kentucky
Regiment ........,... 100
By amount paid Gen. ..: 10.0
Breckinridge and twenty
four men...---.--------.--...00
By amount paid thirty-one en
gineer troops with Gen.B--- 813 75
By amouat paid ahirty-six Won
at various commndjper ot
........... Bro.rde9
By amount paid Gen. Dibrell
and thirteen officers at di
vision headquarters........... 341 25
By amount paid twenty - six
scouts,Dibrell's division... .. on 50
By amound paid t-venty-six
courriers, Dibrell't division 082 50
By amount paid Wiggin"s bat
tery, elghfy-four men ......... 2,205 00
By amount paid quartermnasters
department, Dibrell's divis
ion, twenty-two men ......... 877 50
By amount pa'd C. S. depart.
ment, Dibrell's divis'on
four een men.....................' I . 9 5
Balance ----------....................... 66 84
$108,322 90
After this money was paid out upon
pay rolls made out by the officers pres
ent, our command went into camp to
await a Provost Marshall to whom we
could surrender. Some of our men went
on and were paroled at Augusta, and
in all our march from Greensboro to
Washington, Ga., the two brigades above
were *ell organized, well armed and
equippea and splendidly mounted, and
were, all in all, equal to any command
in either army in every respect. They
had done as much hard fighting, hard
marching and suffered as much hardship
as any troops in the army, and when
the last days of the Confederacy came
they surrendered in good faith like true
and gallant soldiers, and, I have no
doubt, have respected their paroles to
this day.
I am induced to speak thus of my
command on thi- march, because several
parties writing upon this subject have
characterized the cavalry along with
Mr. Davis as irregular cavalry, and have
stated that they clamored for a division
of the specie. This. so far as the gallant
Kentucky and Tennessee .brigades and
Wiggin's Arkansas battery is concerned
is untrue. They were regular cavalry
and artiliery under good discipline and
remained true to the very last. The
division or payment to them of the
small amount received was unsolicited
upon their part; was in accordance to
an agreement made by the officers with
Gen. Breckinridge the previous night
without their knowledge oriprocurenent,
There was no halting or speech making
until the Savannah river Was crossed
and a general halt ordered.
Capt. Lot Abraham, of the Fourth
Iowa Cavalry, was sent from Augusta to
parole us. The paroles were all made
out on the 9th of May, when Capt.
-Abraham notified me lie had been in
structed by Gen. Upton to take all the
horses from the private soldiers. I de
clined to surrender to him, and told him
I would march back to North Carolina
and surrender to Gen. Sherman ; that
all of our horses were private property,
nd under the terms of Gen. Johnston's
surrender all private property was to be
respected.
At his suzgestion, Gen. Vaughn, Capt.
Coffin and McKenney went with him to
Augusta and telegraphed the situation
to Gen. Wilson, who telegraphed back to
allow the soldiers to keep their horses,
all of which wore the private property
of the soldiers.
.On the 11th of May we were all pa
roled and stated for our homes in a body1.
Near Cleveland, Tecnn.,- we were met by
a request from the provost marshal at
Cleveland to come by that place. We
did so and were immediately surround
ed by an infantry guard, andl a vigorous
search of the person and baggrage of ev
ery soldier instituted, until stopped by
Col. Smith, of the One Hundred and
Fifty fourth Illinois Regiment, an ex
ceedingly gallant and clever gentleman,
but we were sent under guard to Chat
tanooga, where Gen. Juda was corn
mandmng, but a certain provost marshal
named St. Sargent took all the horses
from the soldiers, allowing the officers
to retatn theirs, claiming to act under
erders from Gen. Thomas, which proved
to be false. The soldiers thus dismount
ed contrary to the express terms of the
surrender and the instructions of Gen.
Wilson, left immediately for their
homes, some by rail andl the balance on
foot. Gen. Williams having joined us,
proceeded immediately to Nashville and
got an order for the return of our horses
taken from Bireckinridge's br'gade, and
Col. McLemore got our order for his,
and they both sent back and got most
of their horses, but before the order was
received and the others sent for, the
Tennessee brigado had lost 250 head of
valuable horses. The quartermaster had
turned them in a dry lot without food
or water. Many had died and a num
ber were too poor toltravel and were left
by the wayside. The loss of 250 head
of horses wvas a serious loss to the gal
lant soldiers, who had just returned to
their desolated homes, penniless and
with nothing with which to start a crop.
The following is a copy of the last
official order issued by me, which was
furnished me recently by Lient. John
A. Lewis, Adjutant of the Ninth Ken
tucky cavalry, vir,:
1 EAstyAETRJn CAVAtav DivisION, May
5, 1865.--Comiuanding officers will irame
diately make known to their commands that
the~y are exp ected to onet themselves as
soldiers an gl entlemen. All who are un
willing to do this ire respectfully requested
to send up furloughs for approval and will
leave their command. No depredations will
be allowed, either now or upon the march,
or after they are paroled. All soldiers guilty
of offences will he turned over to the civil
authorities. SOldliers who Cannot refrain
from shooting in and around camps are re
quested to take furloughs and go where
their shooting will not endanger the lives of
their comrades, or violate the rnies of good
ord' r and discipline. Read this to all your
men.
G..0. DinaBLL, Brigadier General.
Offieial: 3. M. INN., A. A. Gen. and C.
Every officer and soldier who saw this
command, admired its good dliscipline
and soldierly bearing, and all who saw
them in battle admired their gallantry.
Ooinmanded by such officers as Breckin
ridge and McLeme-. and a splendid
corps of regimental and line ofileers, they
could not bothe rise than under od
discipline and brave and gallant sol irs
and when tiiey in good fai th laid down
their arms and accepted a parole, as true
brave and good a set of men as ever
breathed the breath of life, beamne
good oibizens. Justice to their m.tAry
demtands that I should say this and der
f'eud them against the charge of being
Iirgular cavalry or clanmorous tor anf.
Fooling X. Thiers.
Spies do not always render services
proportionate to the pay they draw, and
their employers are no doubt often sorely
rexed by the blunders they oommit
through overzeal. In 1872, when the
Count de Chambord had gone to hold a
sort of oourt at Antwerp, and was gon
erally thought to be on the eve of getting
restored to the French throne, M. Thiers
sent spies to watch his movements. One
of these was so ubiquitous that he ended
byattraeting the attention of two of the
Bourbon Prinoe's supporters, who were
young noblemen fond of fun. These
gentlemen, keeping their eyes on the
spy, found that he was in the habit of
spending his evenings in a certain cafe
on the Grande Place. Repairing to this
establishment they seated themselves
near to their man, and began talking
about the Count de Chambord's doings
in whispers just loud enough for the fel
low to hear. The spy, of course, pricked
up his ears, and soon he must have been
convinced that he was discovering most
valuable secrets. The young men re
lated marvelous stories about the Prince's
plans, the number of adherents he was
gathering in France, and spoke of a grand
coup d'etat which was being prepared
for him by a number of etatesmon and
Generals who hoped to take the country
by surprise. In great excitement the
spy flashed the news to Versailles, and
M. Thiers, who had no wish to seo the
Count do Chambord restored, communi
cated them to his private organ, Le Bien
Public. That credulous newspaper be
came remarkable during the next few
days for publishing the most extraordin
ary news from Antwerp. Every day the
spy had something new to relate out of
what he picked up at his cafe, till at
length one of his hoaxers having let fall
a letter as if by accident, the spy dis
covered (as he fancied) an elaborate plot
for kidnapping M. Thiers. The letter
stated in effect, that the Count do Cham
bord, Laving resolved to seize upon the
throne, was going to have M. Thiers ap
prehended in the middle of the night by
a certain General, whose name was men
tioned, and that meanwhile another Gen
eral would arrest M. Gambetta. M.
Thiers was a fussy little man who had a
great belief in plots, and on receipts of
the tidings which apprised him that his
liberty was in danger he must have
experi-moed a moment's consternation;
but before he could take any steps to
prepare for the coup d'etaf, the Union, a
Legitimist paper, published a chaffing
letter from Antwerp, in which the hoax
played upon the spy was related in de
tail. M. Thiers and the editor of the
Le Bien Public (which always pre
tended to have no official connections)
then looked very foolish. As for the spy,
it may be doubted whether, on his re
turn to Paris, he was received with smil
ing thanks.-Cornhsill Magazine.
How Some Poets Worked.
How Dryden worked I can not find
recorded ; doubtless at any time and all
times, whenever the need of money
pressed him. Pope always required his
writing desk to be set upon his bed be
fore he rose. Gray, the author of the
" Elegy," was, perhaps, *of all writers
the most curiously minute in his method.
It is said that he perfected each line sep
arately, amending and rewriting it over
and over again, and never commenced
another until the first had wholly satis
fied his fastidious taste. Byron sat down
to write without any premeditation ; his
ideas flowed with his ink, and one line
suggested the next. But after the poem
was completed, and during its passage
through the p ress, he was continually
altering, interlining, and adding. The
first copy of " The Giaour" consisited of
only 400 lines ; to each now edition were
added new pssages, until it swelled to
nearly 1,400 lines.
Durmn, the printing of " The Bride of
Abydos he added 200 lines, and many
of the original were altered again and
again. One of the most constantly la
borious writers of whom we have any
account was Southey. In one of his lot
toe he says : "Imagine me in this]
great study of mine (at Gesta Hall, Kes
wick), from breakfast till dinner, from
dinner till tea, and from tea till supper,
in my old black coat, with corduroys
alternated with the long worsted panta
loons and gaiters in one, and the green
shade, and sitting at my desk, and have
my picture and my history. * * * Mfy
aotions are as regular as those of St.1
Dustan's quarter bags. Three page. of
history after breakfast ; then to tran
scribe and copy for press, or to make my
selections and biographics, or what else
suits my humor till dinner time ; from
dinner till tea I read, write letters, see
the newspapers, and very often induge
in a siesta. After tea I go to poetry,
and correct, and rewrite, and copy till I
am tired, and then tnrn to anything till
supper-and this is my life, which, if it
be not a merry one, is yet as happy as
heart could wish."-ArgIosy.
Bringing D~rowned. Bees to Life.
A lady in Providence relates the fol
lowing story: Her father once brouzght
home a molasses hogshead to be used as
a water tank. On washing daty her
mother said:
"Let's throw the suas in it to soak the
molasses from the bottom."
The instant she had done a.o she ex
claimed:
"Oh, I have drowned hundreds of our
neighbor's bees."
TLhe hogshead was black with bees that
were busily appropriating the sweet from
what they must have considered an enor
mous blossom. The good lady made
haste 'with her skinumer to skim the bees
from the to p of the wate1 and spread
them on a board in the sunshine, but
they seemed drowned and nearly dond,
and she was very sorry. The bees that .
were around the hogshead had flown
away at the dash of the water, but in a-,
few minutes they returned, accompanied (
by scores of others. Then began a cu
rious work. They immediately went to
work on the unfortunate bees, turning
them over and working on them con
stantly with their heads, feet and anten
qThe result of their busy labor was
aone after anothergve signs of life
stretohing the limbs and win , orawledi
about and dried itself in e son, and3
flew away. The lady said there were a
half-pint at drst, and that there remaine
ounly about a dozen he) esoases beyond
the umanOo e4orbs botr.
Daties of Cabinet Offlers.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
charge of the national finances. He di
gests and prepares plans for the improve
ment and management of the revenue
and support of the publio credit. Ht
superintends the collection of the revenue
and prescribes the forms of keeping ani
rendering all public accounts, and mak
ing returns; grants all warrants foi
money to be issued from the Treasury
in pursuance of appropriations by law
makes reports, and givo information t<
either branch of congress, as may be ro
quired, respecting all matters referred t<
him by the Senate or House of Repre.
sentatives, and generally performs all
such services relative to the finances as
he is directed to perform; controls thE
erection of public buildings, the coinage
and printing of money, the collection oJ
commercial statistics, the marine os.
pitals, the revenue-cutter service, the
life-saving service. Under his superin.
tendence the Light-house Board dis.
charges. the duties relative to the con,
struction, illumination, inspection, and
superintendence of light-houses, light.
vessels, beacons, buoys, sea-marks, ani
their appendages; makes provision foi
the payment of the public debt unde
enactments of Congress, and publishem
statements concerning it, and submits t<
Congress at the commencement of eacl
session estimates of the probable receipth
and of the required expenditures for th<
ensuing fiscal year. The Secretary o
War porforms such duties as the Presi
dent, who is the Commander-in-chief
may enjoin upon him, concerning th
military service, and has the superinten
dence of the purchase of army supplies
transportation, etc. The Secretary o0
the Navy has the general superinten
donce of construction, manning, arma
ment, equipment, and employment o
vessels of war. The Secretary of the
Interior is charged with the supervisior
of public business relating to patents foi
inventions; pensions and bounty lands;
the public lands including mines; the
Indians; the census, when directed by
law; the custody and distribution of pub
lic documents, and certain hospitals ani
eleemosynary institutions in the Distric
of Columbia; he also exercises certait
powers and duties in relation to the Ter
ritories. The Postmaster General has the
direction and management of the Post
office Department; lie appoints all officeri
and employes of the department, excep
the three Assistant Postmasters General
who are appointed by the President, bj
and with the consent of the Senate; ap
points all postmasters whose compensa
tion does not exceed $1,000; makes pos
tal treaties with foreign governments, by
and with the consent of the President
awards and executes contracts, and di
rects the management of the domcatii
and foreign mail service. The Attorne,
General is the head of the Departmei
of justice and the chief law officer of th4
government; he represents the UnitA
States in matters involving legal ques
tions; he gives his advice and opinion or
questions of law wvhen they are require
by the President, or by the heads of thi
other executive departments, on ques
tions of law arising upon01 the administra
tion of their respective departments; hE
exercises a general superintendence andJ
direction over United States attorneyi
and marshals in all judicial districts ir
the States and Territories; and he pro.
vides spccial counsel for the United
States whenever required by any depart.
nment of the governmnenit. Recently we
gave a statement of the duties of the
Secretary of State. In regard to ques
tions of policy and matters of importance,
they consult the President, and are of
ten consulted by him.-Ciceago Inter
Ocean. -__________
Discoveries at Pompeii.
A wvoman with a child has been dis
covered at Pompeii ini a narrow street
twelve feet above the level of the an
eient pavement. It is well-known that
the catastropho of 76 A. D. commenced
with a thick shower of small pumice
stones, by which the streets of Pompeii
were covered up to the roofs of the
xouses. Stones wore succeeded by ashes,
which became solid owing to the action
>f successive showers of boiling water;
md these ashes now form the top layer'
>f the materials which cover the ruins
>f Pompeii. Most of the unhappy be
ngs who remained in the houses after
hxe eruption first reached the town made
~heir escape through the windows, but
bhe greater p art of these fugitives could
[1ave taken but few steps, and must have
been quidkly suftocated by the poisonous
rumes. With one arm the woman whose
skeleton has now been found was clasp
ing the legs of the child, whose body
shows contraction in the arms and legs,
and a general emaciation, which lead us
to suppose that the obild must have beeni
very ill. It was a little b~oy about ten
y ears of age. Doubtless the woman wasi
the meotheir of the child. Somo jewel8
found on the female skeleton indicate a
personx of condition ; two bracelets of
gold encircled the arm which held the
boy, and on the hand were two gol1
rings, the one set with an emerald on
which is engraved a horn of plenty, and
the other with an amethyst bearing a
head of Mercury.
A Sold ier's Daughter.
Indianapolis has had a romance in
eal life that is a wide departure from
~he ordiniary line. During the war a lit
le girl, the daughter of an Indiana
olier who fell in battle, was placed in
Soldiers' Orphans Home. *Theore she
>ecame the friend and confidant of the
laughter of the superintendent, but in
lhe course of time was transferred to an
>ther institution and lost trace of her
riend and also of her mother. When
~bout seventeen years of age she went to
ive with a family, who gave her a pleas
~nt home. Among the members of the
amnily was a young man of good address,
v'ho fnll in love with the hL1 and the
~nd was her disgrace. Imavmng her home
he fond her way to the Home for
?riendless Women in Indianapolis, and,
vas transferred to the City Hospital,
vhere her babe was born. Some weeks
ater, a; lady visitor to the hospital
iprung toward the girl, now an invalid,
with a cry of recognition. She was thq
>1d frionca and con~dant of the Soldiers%,
Elome, and through her efforts the
1irl's mother was foutnd and mother and
agtrunited. Then oame the 1o~r,
mrd they were married. A few h
ofm!iagedeO UB3
A,
beal
invitato
onciur.
1ngtn ABy4. 2
Do' ibros
rels. The 4
found th an
hold 678,900 .
WHEREI *v
gegation better
Does it not mal e
stand and deliver -
"Tan muses kiss
says a recent poet
Then we are thankful thA -
courting any of the mu
We don't wish to hMye our
burned off.
"You justo ttose showX
ing attention to ' aok
picnic." "Did you sa to he
no; I didn't proceed to that.
but I patted her poodle dOg o
when she wasn't looking."-Aus -
ings. .
"DEAR, dearl" e0claimed Mr
"I have just been over to S6
Poor child! She- is dying of
"Why, how you talk!" cried Mrs
spun; then, adding, as she ino
from her visitor: "Mercy! 'Tain
in', is it!"
"GENTLEMEN of the jury,"
blundering counsel, in a suit abou a l
of hogs, "there were just thirty-s in
tho drove. Please remember the feat.-.
thirty-six hogs; just three times as maT
as in that jury box, gentlemen." Tha
counsel didn't gain his case.
THE lecturer began: "There If
tune lying in wait-" Up jumped
bullet-headed fellow in the no
corner to remark: "Well I negsyou
'bout right, there, mister. ' here's
Jones, the butcher. Three years .go
he wasn't wrth a dollar. He's got a
fortin now. Got it, as you say, by ly
iu in weight." The bullet-headed man
said no more, but the lecturer wAs ill at
ease during the entire eveniug.-Boston
Transcript.
SIT was bright eyed and rosy cheeked
in fact, very pretty. She arranged two
car seats so that she might have abund.
ant room. Then she opened her bo6k
satchel atnd began to take notes of her ;
morning lesson. How charming to see
the young femaale mind develop, thought
we. She took notes just three miputes,
and then, oh, horrors ! she unfolded a
fl elh story paper and read slush for half
an hour. Her beauty faded so rapidly
that when she left the car we thought 3
she was the plainest person we evert
saw.
"GooDn morningFogg" said Brown,
briskly. " How did you lik'e theoa
last night ?" Oh so-so," answered F , ;
moodily; "nothing striking about i
excepting the drum-sticks." " Come,
come," returned Brown, " be -serious. 1
Didn't you think that bravura p as
pizzicato and appogiatura embol
mients were lovely!'" " Guess I didnt
see it," replied Fogg as before ; " there
was only feathers and e ghings e
..v o d f b o u t , m a n
lBroid. "That girl's hat, of cus
Wasu't you?" "Good morning," said
Brwas he turned the corner.
The Actor Versus the Play.
It is certainly the idea of all draat1
. representation that the p lay itself is the
one important thin g. The actors are b
rights only cunning and adopt lay fig.
ures, that surround themselves with thej
scones, and endure their acting with the
passions of one play after another. I
this is done with much power and art, it
is so much the more creditable to the ~
actors and delightful to the audieno.s'e
If it is done but poorly, then still the
play has its own vitahity and its .QW6
claims to respect. In the same way it
may even be pleasant to read from1 a toranA
addirty volume, if the words them.,
selves are fine. This, without doubt is
the natural and reasonable way of oa ..
sidering plays and play actors, ~~ :
merly at was the universal one. It g
the fine new play then that drew t
crowd-not the line new acti-ess.
But all this is changed now. Th~ +
glorifying of one actor to the degree of
making a ",star" of him i the 'opersonal '
magnetism"' element ; and the attention>
given to the matter of dr goods, ha,~<
all tended to make most 4amatlo shown
nothing more than the exhibition of theg
gifta of one actor or actress. The ohai'zn'
of that one person is the thing relied on.
The plays of such are fitted to them on
the same principle that their clothes are
- to set 'off their natural graces.
WVhether the play itself is a fine uterary
work is a matter of small consequ~o~.
The result of tis sort of things 'b
been that themaumber of plays poua1
given has become constantly sae'~
and smaller. It has come to be known<
that certain dramas are boat of m;an
adapted to the display of pleasing .eloog \
tion, personal beauty, and tune dresses,
These, then, are the ones to be ohoss
and they are given over and over in
same season, while hundreds of be
ones are ignored and forgotten.
things are at present, a person who
sires a familiar acquaintance with th
broad range of literature which has -
pu nthe form of dramas, must eoon~
hmefwith reading the volanest
which these things are printed. H.anv
however, if he choose, h ave the -e~ti
of witnessing " Camille" proly -
and splendidly dressed a denthzpa
one winter.
The Old Songs. 7
In the oldi songs there was intada
display of workmanship of a
kind, and occasionally the k
writer rose above the respete
while in a literary sense .li neW
are for the most p art contem~
the texture of those now -Ie*
was occsionally coarse, 16 -
free from all unwholese
fun in them was the rongh
slapping, rib-punching
period. Robust, and4 ue
umor, but-nqu
"John Jones,"' "The
Ck Lg," -~vwm