Telegraph-Forum from Bucyrus, Ohio • 2

2 Ml? lll ORANGE GROVES Cfiautfonl (Sowatjj jfomts her babies and in the sick chamber soothing the lonely hours with melodious sounds and waking in the lonely heart sweet eefloes of the psalms of praise Hre the legend endedr I heard however afterward that the young priest the Augustine friar lived to spread glad tidings through the city but that he was burned in the cathedral square for preaching to men what he had said about church bells Yet in the flames it was said he looked up to the- cathedral tower and sang the words of a psalm of praise while the old bells were chiming till his voice was silenced by death And ever the chimes have taken up his message and chant to those will listen hour by hour Whether therefore ye eat or drink or whatever ye do do all to the glory of Hymn Peace i We sing to thee 0 glorious river Descending all the hills of time To bright field a gladsome giver "We bring the' songs from every clime Sing happy hearts I sing low and tender 1 Sing soft sea sing swoet 0 shore 1 Sing bending Hue! thy scroll ot splendor Bear notes of peace forever more Songs ever blending and ascending Sweet peace we give thee and Blest stream bojrn the mountains Those far-off years whose peaks rise high Child of ocean God the only Gave thee to earth from out the sky We trace thy course through commotion We shudder at the dread What fearful storms have checked thy motion What frightful rocks have barred the way! Yet all triumphant to the ocean Sweet peace thy waters flow to-day silent riversmoothly flowing 1 How bright the blue that blends oer thee Millemal sunlight now is glowing -Across the nearing western sea Blest prince ot peace thy sons and daughters Rejoicing in thygift to them Send far adown the widening waters The echoing song of Bethlehem The song all-glorious and victorious The angel-song of Bethlehem You Will Forget Me A SONG 'tho following beautiful poem is supposed to be an orphan If its author is living he had better claim this child of his brain for there are doubtless plenty of others who will be glad enough to adopt it You will forget me the years aie so tender They bind up the wounds which we think are so deep This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor Fades from the sky ad the sun sinks to sleep The clouds of forgetfulness over and over Will banish the last rosy colors away And fingers of Timrf will weave garlands to cover The scar which you think is a life-mark today You will forget will thauk me for saying The words which you think are so pointed with pain Time loves a new lay and the dirge he is plaving Will change for you soon to a livelier strain I shall pass from your life I shall pa'ss out forever And tho hours we have spent will be sunk 1 in the past You will forget ipe grieJjHlla seldom or never And forgetfulness covers all sorrow at last You will forget me and the one thing you covet Now above all things will soon seem no prize And the heart which is not in your keeping to prove it True or untrue will lose worth in your eyes The une drop to-day which you deem only wanting To make lifo a joy will he fost in Time's stream You will forget me and the ghpst that is haunting Tlie aisles of your heart will pass out with a dream Mrs Gro-ve In the Land of Flowers Something about the Process and Profits of Culture tp Mrs Stowe in the Christian Union gives some figures regarding the cultivation of oranges in Florida by herself concerning which some apoeh-ryphal statements have been made Her orchard or consists of one hundred and fifteen trees occupying an acre and a half of ground and the average crop matured during five years was sixty thousand' This would be an average per tree of five hundred and twenty-one not as large as the statement made to her by a neighbor that he had three trees with five thousand each This same had a statement from two of his friends which he credited that they had each one gathered ten thousand oranges from a single tree How many oranges make a bushel is not stated but judging by large peaches and pears the number would probably average from eighty to one hundred Taking the former figure as an average Mrs crop of sixty thousand woigd make about seven hundred and fifty bushels or about six and a half bushels per tree The proceeds of these crops would be six hundred dollars for the orchard which is not a remarkable return in fruit growing even for colder climates than Florida-Two of these five crops were lost through autumn fxosts but these were the only instances of total or partial losses from frosts since 1835 when an extraordinary destroyed the trees down to the ground They afterwards recovered and made stately trees The orange tree had an insect enemy some'fifteen or twenty years ago a sort of scale insect which operated much as the canker worm does on apple trees but it has disappeared The tree is of wonderful vitality its roots being immense in number filling nearly the en-tire soil about them and generally pushing out the weaker sorts of vegetation Manure intended for flower beds among them is greedily appropriated and flowers in consequence stand a poor chance in such an orchard still it would not seem as if flowers were very essential in such an orchard as the trees themselves when in bloom a bouquet of and budding week week of The of your dying generations But henceforth expect us not to do work which your commonest house-clocks can do as well Let your eight-day clocks your gilded time-pieces call you to woifk and eat and rest We are sacred things set solemnly apart from all secular uses Our business is with Eternity and the Churcb and Heaven Call on us no more to commune with the things of the world and earth and time We are your cathedralbells but we be your household clock-chimes no Then the voice died away on the night air For a few minutes there was silence but soon it was broken by sobs and lamentations and all the people lifted np their voice as one man and wept The house father said Shall wo never more hear your voice callmg us to morning and evening prayer Whenever you told us it was the hour the mother came from her work and the children from their play and together we knelt a unitedIamily and committed eachretbSrto And the mother said voices are blended with every household times Sweet bells will you mingle with our family joys no more In the morning you wakened us to begin au other busy day and the beams and your voices came together to call us to serve God in our lowly calling and both we thought came to us from heaven and both we thought Were meek and lowly and ready to minister to us in our daily lives because both were sent from Him who came among us once not to be administered unto but to minister and both we thought had caught something of the light of the eyes which wept at Bethany and of tlie tones of tho voice which spoke at Cana and at Nain At midday you tcld me it was time to send the dinner to my husband and my elder sons At six your voice was welcome to us all because we knew the step would soon be on the threshold At eight you reminded me it was time to lay the little ones to rest and many a time have you -brought happy and holy thoughts to me in those psalms you sang to me whilst I hushed my sleep and all my every day life seemed to be more linked with sacred things to be-c- me as it were a part of the service of God because it moves to the music of your voices1 And again at mglit your tones were welcome as in the morning when they told us the work was over and wearied we lay down to peaceful rest for through the night we knew your sacred voices would' sound to Heaven above our sleeping city like the voices of the angels who rest not day nor night saying Holy holy holy Sweet bells will you never chime for us And the children said their dear sweet ringing voices Dear chimes do not cease to play for us You wake us' to the happy day you set us lree from school and send us home laughing and dancing for joy you call our fathers home to us at night you sing us to sleep and your voices are blended with our in our happy dreams Sweet chimes: you sang so many years to our fathers and mothers and our grandfathers remember you when they were little children like us I All Sorts of Paragraphs The ship timber of the Saginaw Valley costs about $108 per 1000 cubic feet TjSe Postmaster of Cambridge Mass has held his office for fifty years in succession Indians are fined for drunkenness in -Olympia and made to work it-out on the streets Miniature conservatories are the latest thing in drawing-room furniture They are of glass about the size of a piano andT are? supposed to contain choice plants and flowers But $7000 of the money left by-Lucky Ostrom the maiden miser of Poughkeepsie remains to be divided among the heirs and the lawyers have not been paid It was One of the most interesting and hotly contested lawsuits ever witnessed in the state has just been concluded in Michigan It originated fiom the fact-that two women claimed the same water sight is gorgeous and the fragrance sort of dreamy Propagation is from the seed all like produces like mo budding for accompanied! her unfortunate friend to-varieties is necessary With high the foot of fee Scaffold has just died ritrn i -r 4 tii i i Kwn I -er wa a svt at the age of 102 years tivation is borne in six years after falL i Madame Melgueil- one-of'IJueen Marie ipaids of honor who- i i Coba Pearl was expelled from France in consfquence of Duval son of a wealthy resident of Paris who founded the soup-Louses in Paris shooting himself in her presence The attempt of Duval at self-destruction did not prove successful He is expected to recover Wm Obton after considerable negotiation has re-s' Id to Yhitlaw Reid 50 shares of the 100 constituting the capital stock of the Tribune Association for a large advance on the price at which he purchased it He retains one share ahd will be one of the trustees of the Association The remains of the bodies interred on the site of Trinity Church Boston have al been removed the last casket having been taken from there Sunday morning A vateb main in Lowell Mass burst on Sunday morning flooding the cellars of one or two business houses and cutting off the supply of water! Detboit has purchased another pest-house in view of the spread of small-pox The steamboat Andrew Fletcher belonging to the New York Quarantine Department was burned early Friday morning while lying at th6 Government dock at "quarantine Loss $25 000 1 Near Jackson Michigan Wednesday evening Valentine Smith a brakeman fell from the ton of a freight train between two cars and was killed A train following five minutes fter dragged the body half a mile and cut both legs and one arm off Mabtin Vanderhy a resident of Appleton Wis was thrown from a wagon down an embankment by a runaway team on Thursday and instantly killed A number of distinguished New Yorkers tendered Gov Dix a public dinner prior to his departure for Albany' but tho General was compelled to decline by reason of his approaching departure for the State capital The lease of the Old South Church edifice and the vacant ground around it to the United States government for the use of a Post Office runs for two years and the rent is $23000 per annum The Standing Committee of the Society publicly announce that they will sell the church edifice to the Massachusetts Historical Society at a price to be fixed by three disinterested persons to be kept forever as a historic building Bbainabd Postmaster at Iowa City Iowa charged by his clerks with perjury and theft confesses it but pleads Ignorance of the postal laws He will probably lie indicted Heavy storms are reported in the Rocky Mountains By a snow slnle at Alta Little Cottonwood the buildings of the Emily Mine were carried away aBd two men severely cut and bruised Two others were taken down in the slide and not seriously injured A bethel fair in Cincinnati just closed' netted $58000 Geobge Francis Tbain was arrested in New York on Friday evening and locked up in the station house on a bench warrant to answer the charge of publishing obscene literature Samuel Tcbneb a prominent eitizen of Northern Pennsylvania died at Wilkesbarre on Friday morning Judge William Kellogg an ex-Member of Congress died at Peoria 111 Friday afternoon The Boston Beard of Aldermen refuse to allow Woodhull and Claflin to leeture in that city The feeling at Fort Sully is that the only remedy for the troubles with the Sioux is to occupy the Black Hilts country with miners The Indians all giye accounts of wonderful mines of gold and silver in the hills and as the hostile Indians will not permit irien dy ones or white men go there it is but a stronghold for hostile assassins that should be broken up All demands for the surrender of the Indians guilty of these4outrages are treated with laughter and contempt by the chiefs and warriofs Abmad A consistoby was held at Rome on Monday Twenty-two cardinals were present The Pope delivered an allocution in the course of which he said the Church was still sorely persecuted The purpose to destroy her was shown the acts of the Italian government which compelled the clergy to serve in the army and imposed heavy taxes on church property' Gen Sickles telegraphs from Madrid that both houses of Congress have adopted by decisive majorities the Colonial policy of the Ministry for Porto Rico whic i involves the separation of the civil from the military gov-ernment the extension to Porto Rico of the same provincial form of government which exists in Spain with municipal government and town and local officers The Prussian Cross Gazette publishes the following inajrial rescript addressed to Bismarck relieve you of the presidency of the Council of Ministers You retain the Ministry for Foreign Affairs for the Empire and are empowered to -vote in the State Ministry through the President of the Council Herr Delbruck The Premiership devolves upon Senor Poitevin a member! of the Gade Champe-tre tried by court martial and found guilty of betraying the Mayor and Another inhabitant of Soissons to the Prussians by whom they were shot was executed on Monday at Vincennes A diamond weighing 288 carats has been found ia the African diggings Ahere is much complaint yet ot the manner in which justice is administered at the diamond fields Advices from St Petersburg announce that the Czarowitch is suffering from typhus fever and an affection of the abdomen His recovery is doubtful The prefect at Pau France has issued an order forbidding Spaniards to sojourn in the department of Basses Epyrenees without written permission Advices from Zealand state that the ship City of Newcastle was wrecked in Inlet on the 19th of November and sixteen persons drowned Also that a fire has destroy ed-t he Pacific Insurance building several stores and a magnificent £ile of buildings known as the Post and Telegraph offices and provincial government offices Important discoveries of coal have been made in Gippsland The Spanish government again announces that reforms in Cuba are postponed in consequence of the insurrection in that island The city of Lille in France has been inundated by the recent stormB The steamer Cbarente of the regular line between Hull and Dunkirk was lost while en route to the latter port Fourteen persons were drowned i The ship liagnagore from Quebec for High Bridge became unmanageable and was abandoned Seven persons were washed overboard and perished The London Post denies that Eliza Cook the well-known waiter is dead although a person bearing ihe same name and popularly supposed to be the authoress died in Debt-ford England A London telegram states that an open-air meeting was held in Stockton Sunday in favor of Fenian amnesty at which 12009 persons were present The crowd was very disorderly and there was some fighting during which several persons were injured The English and Welsh who outnumbered the Dish charged on the platform carried off the Irish flags and trampled them the mud Odgcr afl announced to speak but failed to appear Gazette says Bismarck will resign the Presidency of the Prussian Cabinet but will remain Minister of Foreign Affairs Pbince Fbedebick William has arrived at Weisbaden 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oi ders or iuquii ic to JTChVHER Proprietor Forum 1 Rttcyrus Ohio THE NEVYS At Rome James McCboby shot and killed Charles Allen at Visalia California on Tuesday and wai hung by a mob soon after the tragedy The Clifford Hotel corner of 31st street and Broadway was cShaged by fire on Wednesday A man and woman were picked up on the Illinois bridge at Ottawa Monday evening very nearly frozen to death A colored man was frozen to death at Cairo on Monday night SA Mbs Fabbabs a widow occupying a tenement house on Tenth street Cairo was burned to death on Tuesday evening A large wooden manufactory in Pawtucket owned by Aimy Bros was nearly destroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon A vibe in Hiberma Iowa at 1 Tuesday riBftning destroyed the pork packing es-tablishmeht of George Boeck The loss is $28000 insurance $16600 A fibe at Fontana Kansas Monday morning destroyed fourteen houses in the southern part of the town No insurance Robebt Hill a colored cook and John Anderson colored waiter had a set to at the Avenue House Chicago on Wednesday Hill was the aggressor and attempted to take An life with a cleaver He came off second best however his opponent cutting him so badly in the back and headwitli a razor that his life is despaired of Washakatie the celebrated Shoshone chief lately reported dead is alive and well Jim Massey a notorious character murdered a laborer on the Cairo and Fulton Railroad opposite Little Bock at Argcnta Saturday night The laborer had just been paid off Massey is now in jail Piebbe Bebten whose extradition is sought on the allegation that he commiitted murder at Rouen has been discharged from custody in New York proving to be the wrong person The transfer of real estate by Jay Gould to the Erie Company is still progressing and will likely last a whole week Boweby Theatre was damaged by fire Wednesday evening The scenery of the Canterbury Theatre caught fire causing great excitement among the audience who rushed into the street pell mell No lives were lost It is rumorod that the' Hannibal and Central Missouri Hannibal and St Joseph and St Joseph and Denver Railroads will in a short time pass undertho control of the Toledo Wabash and Western Company Dcbing the recent cold snap a well on Muscatine Island sixteen feet deep with five feet of water was covered with ice to the depth of one inch Immediate steps will be taken by the reas ury Department to put into operation the new internal revenue law abolishing the office of assessor and these offices willke dispensed with as fast as their office work can be transferred to the collectors and theirwccounts adjusted John Lynden Btruck Patrick Walsh foreman of the gas works inf Washington Upon the head with a shovel Sunday morning killing him instantly Mbs Chankbau is seriously ill at Salt Lake City and unable to fill het theatrical engagements Geo If Beabdwebe Son's tannnery at Acton one of the largestMii Canada was burned a f6w days ago Loss $30000 Eastman a prominent private banker of Chicago and Vice-President of the City Savings Bank died at his residence on Monday evening from the effects of a dose of arsenic taken on Saturday night Mr Eastman came to Chickgo from Maine shortly after the great fire and commenced business as a hanker on Canal street He was United States Consul to Dublin A- Washington Sensation From the Capitol The sociariife of Washington is agitated by the rumor of a lawsuit brewing wherein a gay dashing widower after winning the affections of a young lady had the day agreed upon and the trousseau purchased suddenly turned up with a wife that he married in an adjoining city Thmortification of the young lady an official by the by was made more painful by the publication that had been given the affair Not only had the day been fixed bnt as we have said the trousseau obtained and the guests incited Her mortification is somewhat modified by learning from' general rumor that the poor girl is sot alone This gay deceiver it seems flung his promises if not his affections about in the most promiscuous manner It has been that the sufferers bold an indignation meeting aud resolutions But the suit for breach of promise is more substantial and generally ends in bringing upon the head of the offender the wrath contempt and indignation of the virtuous community to say nothing of damages that will be as scssed The defendant in these cases has generally two suits one with his wife and the other with the disappointed The wife is generally very much1 disappointed then indignant a storm arises What: this late lover ol hers now her loving husband to be in such a scrape! Trifling with other affections has he not been trifling with hers But the storm dies out and the wife from being an angry enemy becomes ap active ally One can imagine the poor devil of a husband plead ing piteously with his better haff by law and the sanction of the church' and then going exhausted into court to fight that other fair one who cannot be captured Stage Toilets The -Figaro reports a species of self-denying ordinance which the leading actresses of Paris have agreed among each other to observe and that is to study moderation in the future with regard to the expenditure on stage toilets The rage for so-called realism which has produced such disastrous results on our own stage remarks a Manchester paper has also exhibited itself in a less virulent form among our more cultivated neighbors- Bad plays have been accepted for the sake of their good appointments and the pathos of the heroine has been of less account than the texture of her robes The Figaro while disposed to applaud the effort of the fair artists to restore simplicity on the stage is doubtful about their success It does see where the line of permissible expenditure is to be drawn and if it is drawn thinks that competition and feminine rivalry will inevitably cause it to be exceeded About the male public our contemporary is doubtful and as for the women it is certain that they would not submit to the loss of interesting stuoies in the art of toilets which the stage presents The Parisiaii stage has become simply an illustrated edition of the journals of fashion People go there to study new eccentricities and to seek inspiration for the next ball And it thus frequently happens that if actresses dress like regular duchesses duchesses return the compliment by dressing like regular Mountains of Silver A Colorado City letter says': I have just examined specimens of ore from thirteen new leads of silver mines recently discovered within Jeighty miles of this place the assay of which has proved them to be of wonderful richness varying from 210 to 1300 ounces of silver per ton of ore The Little Emma Mine Utah so celebrated yields' on average of only about 110 ounces in silver per ton and that at a great depth from the surface These marvelloys argentine deposits are fouNd at an elevation of about 11-000 feet? above the level of the sea They will not be opened nor their wealth displayed until the melting of the snows The miners in this Territory were unusually successful last summer and are flocking down to the valleys to spend the winter and their money Miners as a rule are as im-piovident as sailors Every spring they go upon a cruise empty han'ded and neither hardship nor misfortune teaches them thrift or frugality Some few in the winter months hunt game and thus save their earnings Oldish Women in France When cabriolets came into fashion under Louis the Fifteenth bon ton required that every woman ot quality should drive her vehicle herself But the fairest hands were not the most skillful and" accidents were fearfully numerous The king sent for and begged him to take measures for the safety of passengers in the' street will do so with all mv he answered do you wish accidents to disappear To be sure I eave me to manage then The next day an ordonance appeared to the effect that no lady nnder 30 years of age could be permitted to drive a cabriolet Two days afterward not a single cab -riolet conducted by a female driver was seen in the streets of Paris Not one Parisienne had the courage to avow by driving a cabriolet that she was 30 years of age William historical picture of achievements contracted for by Congress eight years ago? at the price of $25000 for the Capitol is still unfinished although the artist has drawu $22000 of the sum to be paid He now wants the Congression al Committee to allow him $500 a month for expenses while finishing the picture The Committee have been very liberal with him as he was not to receive the last $7000 till the painting was completed and the present position of affairs as stated by the Washington correspondent of the New York Herald does not reflect credit on the artist It is thought that about 50000000 feet of logs will be gotten out by the lumbermen of Manistee county during the winter THE CATHEDRAL CHIMES ALegendby the Author ot the Schon herg-Cotta Family In a city whose history dates from the ages of silvery bells and stately buildings there stood and stands now for aught I know a cathedral rich in all the endless fancies of Gothic art Inside it was solomu with shade and gorgeous with light which came in through the elaborate tracery of the stained windows many-colored and broken as the sunbeams through-a tropical forest Outside fretted pina-cles and carved bell towers Sprang upward graud yet fairy-like as if stone towers rose as easily and naturally toward heaven as oaks and But the chief glory of this cathedral was its bells They were the pride of the city and the great attraction to1 strangers Their history formed an important part of the civic chronicles A lady ot a royal house had given them as a thank-offering for her safe return from the -Crusades All- her silver-plate and ornaments with spoils of Saracens from the recovered Holy Land had been poured into the mold when they were made so that from their birth all tender and sacred memories had been fused into their very essence and their first tones echoed far-off times and lands A bishop who afterward suffered martyrdom in the hands of African Moslems had blessed them Their first peal had sounded in honor of a great victory They had summoned the people through ages of conflict to defend their liberties They had blended their life with the life of every in family joys and family sorrows at wedding ckristeningand funeral They had made Sundays aul holidays glad with their joyous voices And last but not least by aid of an elaborate mechanism of hammers rope and pulleys they had for contuses celebrated the departure of evervfnour with a chorale and every half-hour with a strain like the versicle of a chant and every quarter of an hour With a sprinkle of sweet sound Imagine then the dismay of the citizens when one Monday morning eight and no sound issued from the cathedral half past eight silence -f nine not a note of Their wonder was increased when the usual peal rung out clear and full as ever for the morning service and by midday the whole city was in commotion It was plain something must be wrong with the machinery of the chimes Immediately the most skillful ipe-chanics of the town clock makers and bell founders with men of sciencerand the whole corporation in a state pro cession mounted the clock tower We will soon set it they said to the agitated crowd as they entered the belfry door The ropes of the machinery were tested all were sound not a flaw in the hammers not a clog in the wheels not a crack inthe silver metel Microscopes were employed conjectures were hazarded experiments of all kinds were tried but not a ray of light was thrown on the perplexity The eleven hands and the wise heads and the will of the authorities were all baffled and the process re -appeared to the assembled multitudes with very crest-fallen looks That afternoon little work was done in the work-shops few lessons were learned in the schools all the routine of household habits were interrupted and when it grew dark the great square was filled with people who were afraid to separate go to bed without the sanction of the cathedral chimes Many foreboded some terrible disaster to the city and some thought the end of the world was come But when it was dark a 6ound very wearied and strange yet with a music like the old familiar tones came from the church-tower as it rose dim and grand against the starry sky It was a voice not humanV'ygt with a strange likeness to a human voice silvery as a stream thrilling as a battle-trumpet familiar to each listener as his own like the blended voices cf a spirit and a bell We have been born-too said the bell-voice We were set here on high for other purposes than men have put us to Is net this a cathedral a sanctuary and a shrine sacred with the dust of martyrs and dedicated to the service of Heaven Were hot we christened like immortals? Were not we consecrated like pnests The touch of holy hands is on us and shall we be debased to secular uses Set apart like sacred ministers in a sacred dwelling shall we be required to mingle in the common circumstances of oar daily life? Raised oh high to be near the heavens we serve shall our saintly voices serve to tell you when you eat and sleep We have borne it too long We will still serve heaven and summon you on Sundays and holidays We will call you to the solemn services of the church We will if necessary sound a triumphant peal on days of national thanksgiving in remembrance of the victory which first woke us into -musio We will even condescend to ring at your weddings because marriage is a sacrament and at your baptism We will toll solemnly when your spirits pass from £arth and when your bodies areBaid in the church-yard we have seen slowly raised with the dust planting the seed at seven three hundred oranges per tree have been produced The nurseries of St John now supply young trees to purchasers three vears of age 1 Proceedings in Congress Senate The House bill amendatory of the postal code with amendments was reported on December 19th and passed The amendments change the rates of postage on seeds authorized to be transmitted from twenty cents for four ounces to one cent for two ounces or fraction of two ounces and provides that all piail matterSaf the third class must be fully prepaid Several bills were re-poi ted from committee adversely Mr Sherman from the Finance Commiitee reported a substitute for the bill prohibiting- the saletot liquors iu tbe District of Columbia and otber territories The bill authorizing the exchange of registered and coupon bonds was discussed and laid over -Mr Ramsey reported a postal telegraph bill The Senate then returned the consideration of the French spoliation bill House -'A resolution was adopted authorizing the Banking Committee to inquire whether unlawful combinations for locking up gold and money exist causing commercial and financial striiijreucy and report legislation to prevent and punish such unlawful combinations Abril to del ray the expenoes of the Mexican Commission was passed The diplomatic appropriation bill appropriating $1832000 was reported and made the special order for Jauuary 7 The consideration of the deficiency bill was then resumed in Committee of the Whole and upon rising the measure was passed Yeas 139 nays 71 The bill to defray the expense of transporting goods to tho Vienna Exposrtin was passed Leave of absence was granted to a great many members Amid much confusion and pressure for adjournment several bills were introduced and referred and the House adjourned Senate A bill on Friday-December 20 extending the time for the completion ot the Winona and St Peter Railroad passed as was also the deficiency appropriation bill No other business ot importance was transacted and the Senate adjourned over the Holidays House Bills were introduced To extend the time for entries for Osage lands in Kansas To secure a more efficient Indian administration in the territories To amend the Constitution in regard to the election of President Vice-President and Senators by the I ILU-AlUBiUUU(l auu UCURIUIO MJ lUO ile The House adjourned over the Holi- peopl days John Brown Raiders On Friday last was buried at Washington Osborn Anderson the last but one of John brave band of twenty-two Of the six who escaped from Ferry Owen Brown son of the leader alone is alive Four of them died as soldiers during the war and these two only lived to see the grand victory which they first taught us might be won It would be hard to find again such a strange party as that which upheld John Brown in his daring expedition Hopeful because they were brave and brave with the surety of right cto their side they came together with the wide difference in character and education and were held together by their love for liberty Tome of them could clai only the refinement of this love while others were fitted for any position of honor that could be given them The survivor Owen Brown is perhaps the greatest of them all Noticeably eccentric with a strange mingling of gentleness and roughness sentiment and coarse practicability which even his intimate friends cannot understand with one of the warmest of hearts and the readiest hand he leads a wandering kind of life seeming to cut himself off from old friends and associations and-yet after a while returning to them or letting them know by some kind message that they are not forgotten He seems literally a man without a home for realizing his restless disposition he has never married or formed any ties that could not easily be shaken off He resembles his father in form and feature and also though in an exaggerated his independence of the opinion and is now nearly 45 years of age Progress of the Indians One of the effects of the present Indian policy upon the Indians is illustrated by the fact cited in the Senate Tuesday that in the last year the value of their individual property has increased from $3 942 000 to $9941000 Evidently respect for their rights of property has induced an approach to thrift among them which of itself will develop a desire for peace The possession of property has a wonderfully conservative influence and with nearly ten millions of individual property the redskins must naturally be less inclined to embark hostilities which would imperil it all than when the poeessions of each consisted of his bow and gun Potatoes are one cigar and a drink of whisky per bushel in Davenport The bequest of Mr Horace Hawes i of San Francisco of $1000000 to- found a college has" been declared in- 1 valid on the ground of the 5 insanity The best dower to advance the mar- riage of a young lady is when she has in her countenance mildness in hei speech wisdom in her behaviour mod- esty and in her life virtue Gounod has given his total profit' from the sale of the song of to Mrs Black now aged and poverty-stricken to celebrate whose beauty Byron wrote the verses A massive granite pedestal and standard surmounted by a board to mark the spot where it shall be lawful i to hold public meetings has been I erected in Hyde Park I The fear of witchcraft is so strong frith the Chinese in California thati when on a journey they will not lodge in a strange bed without first burning over it a strip of yellow paper cabalis-tically inscribed Mb Holloway the patent pill potentate is about to build in England at a cost of nearly £100000 an insane asyluijfi presumably to show his gratitude to the class from whom most cf his fortune was derived Balzic used to say are three' of ns who know French I andHugo and Gautier has just died and Balzic has been long dead Hugo-is approaching dissolution and then the French language will be extinct Some live pigs were recently fonnd in a hollow tree in Kentucky without any apparent opening whereby they could have madman! entrance- That-beats the toads hlasted out of solid rocks The experiment of carrying oysters: from Chesapeake bay to England last- winter vas so successful that three-: large vessels are now on their way this country from European ports to take cargoes" of Baltimore oysters to-London Mb Geobge Smith of the British Museum has recently deciphered some-- cuneiform inscriptions 'giving a very-full account of the deluge with various details not in the Bible Biblical students are looking for their publication with interest as also for a new volume by Colenso on the Moabite stone During the last days preeeding-Chnstmas it is still Jthe custom for Calabrian minstrels to descend from-the mountains to Naples and Borne saluting the shrines of the Virgin Mother with their wild music under the poetieal nation of cheering her until the birth-time of her infant at the approaching Christmas Once upon a time the de Conrcy one of the noblest and most powerful families of France The motto of their- qoat of arms was I ani no king I disdain being a duke I am de i cy The last descendant died a fey'" dayd ago he was one of the municipal street sweepers Among his rags was found his certificate of birth proving him to have been Robert dt Courcy Two lines of steamships will soon! be running between England and Liberia one despatching two and the other three vessels monthly They will carry the British mails and will stop at Madeira Teneriffe and other-places As the United States cannot develop the resources of Western Africa we are glad that English merchants-and capitalists will do so Fntore-American colonists to Liberia may goby way of Liverpool Fob the encouragement of birds' abbnt country houses an nest has been invented and is displayed in fee window of a down town establishment It protects fee female bird while sitting from prey and the wood of which ifrfs oom-j posed being saturated with asphalt re- Eels insects When this article shall ave been fully introduced' birds will be enabled to retire from ine building business altogether Miss Helen Temple who makes tier first appearance in New York at Theatre at the close of Miss engagement as Joan of Are in MrJ John of is one of those fortunate women for whom a play long unacted for want of heroine was kept waiting Like some old composer hugging his work with childish delight Mr Brougham kept' his play locked up in his desk till Miss Temple appeared when he determined upoq giving ns the new play ahd the new player without further delay "5 Dear chimes sing to us And from the sick-chamber which looked into the cathedral square where the windows were darkeued all day and sand was strewn before the door that the din of the passing wheels might just jar less roughly oil the aching head within Tame a low and plaintive voice bells! your com-morest tones are sacred to me You aie my church music the only church music I cau ever hear When I hear you chime the hours on and on the festivals I feel my self among the multitude within your sacred walls and your voice seems to bear their songs of praise to 1 me and I am i more alone but one of the worshippers But at night it is I prize you most All through the hours of darkness so often sleepless to me your voice is the voice of a friend familiar as my yet solemn as the chants of the choir It helps me to measure the hours of pain and say God an hour less of night! and an hour nearer And how often when my suffering is great you have come with the old psalm-tune and every tone has brought its word to me and spoken to me as if direct from God and filled my heart with trust and peace 1 Your least sprinkles of sweet sound are precious to me I fancy they are like the waters of time falling musically from stone to stone on their way to the great sea I feel they are as the echoes of the footsteps of Him who is drawing nearer and nearer to me and they draw my heart nearer to Him' Sweet bells your commonest tones are sacred for what is the world but that which becomes the church when it learns how God has loved it and stnrus from self to Him and what is earth but the floor of Heaven which heavenly feet once trod and what is time but the little fragment of eternity in- which we live on earth Sweet bells make not my sleepless nights lonely and silent but sing to me sing to us all as of old -Make all our life linking every fragment of our life to But still no responsible sound came fromvhe cathedral tower and the people waited on ifi the silence and the darkness At last a young priest an Augustinian friar ventured a bold suggestion: not the devils proud and the angels lowly Did the angel think it beneath him to say to Elijah and Did Gabriel hesitate to descend from the presence of God to bear to an- aged priest the tidings of the birth of a child Did the other angel deem it secular to say to Peter the apostle Gird thyself and bind on thy sandals and cast thy garment about thee before he led him over thd stony streets through the cold night air? And should our cathedral bells scorn to bid us rise and eat or to chime at our or to summon us to and ourselves for every work Brethren proud thought and scorn of daily services and voices' which call onr every-day life common and unclean are not from heaven The bells are possessed by a poud and evil spirit Let ns exorcise The suggestion at first startled the people as daring and irreverent to the church bells but in their despair they agreed to try it A solemn procession of priests and holy men and women mounted the cathedral tower and in ancient formulas with prayer and incense and the music of holy hymns they exorcised the fiend Then at once a tide of pent-up music flowed from the liberated bells 1 They conscientiously rang out at once every hour and half-hour they had omitted and meekly and steadily resumed their wonted chimes and continued them ever afterward like voices of happy and lowly angels calling men to wake and pray to and to pray and rest cheering the workman to his daily labor and welcoming him from it chanting to the mother as she lulled it.