The Pacific Bee from Sacramento, California • 1

BEE n'4JHHh SACRAMENTO SATURDAY FEBRUARY 9 1878 VOL I NO 23 HE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE Jamaica BI cDrSD ITKDiUH would have been almost a kindness Larry to have been permitted to share the same fate Before two years died of a broken heart Owen house was not burned but after his son's transportation nothing could induce him to live it He therefore sold his furniture and such of his stock as the cruelty and violence of the Mollies spared and went to end his days among relatives in the County Galway Dora aud Martin were married and after some time emigrated and spent the remainder of their days in comfort and happiness clouded only by the memory of how much pleasauter it would have been if they could have settled down in the old farm-house dear to them both to be a comfort to their father and mother in their cld age and at last to sleep beside them in Glenmadda churchyard The Btock of one of the wealthiest gentlemen in the County Roscommon now graze where Owen Kearney's house once stood Not a trace of his family remains in the Green Isle Their tragioal history is almost forgotten but amoug the gossips and old women the softie's dream is still remembered Journal SENATE Wednesday Feb 6 Senate met at 11 Lieutenant Governor Johnson in the Chair 1IEHOBIAL8 Howe presented a memorial from the offioers of the Home for Aged and Infirm Women of San Francisoo asking an appropriation for the same Referred to the Committee on Hospitals A memorial and petition was received from the Magdalen Asylum of San Fran-ciaco asking an appropriation of $15-000 for that inatitution Referred to San Francisco delegation REPORTS or COMMITTEES Searles from Committee on Corporations reported amendment to bill prohibiting Savings Bauks from loaning money exeept on real estate Also bill to amend the Civil Code permitting corporations withoutcapital stock invest in other securities than now allowed by law McGarvey from Jndiciary Committee reported without recommendation the bill relating to reporter of Supreme Court decisions and adversely on bill re- vention which was referred to the joint special committee on that subject Mace introduced a petition from citizens of Fresno county asking fora repeal of the law recently enacted extending the term for advertising the delinquent tax-bill in certain counties Tobin presented tbe annual report of the managers of the Home fer Aged and Infirm Females in Ban Francisco On motion of Coffee Senate enbstitate for Senate bills Nos 90 173 and 175 an Act supplementary to an Act providing for the completion of tbe new City Hall -in San Francisco was taken np under suspension of the rules and passed On motion of Waters Assembly Bill 207 an Act to prevent the tresspassing of animals on private grounds in San Bernardino county was taken np under suspension of the rules and after being amended so as to apply to several other counties -among them Sacramento county wag passed Up to the hour of recess the Honsa was considering Assembly Bill No 237 -a trespass law for the oounty of Los Angeles After recess the trespass bill was passed and water bill Taken np under special order The Baa Francisco delegation seem divided ia opinion regarding the merits of this bill and the announcement that ths bill was under consideration was a signal for those most interested in the measure to ventilate their views Mr Anderson in a speech criticising the bill referred to some press comments on the influence of the lobby against it and seemed a lib-tie sensitive about newspaper opinions Tbe gentleman is still speaking on the question at the close of this report Short Stories by Ram Davit A stock broker took his neighbor's wife out to the Cliff house said neighbor being out of town To avoid complications with the driver they conversed in French When they were about to dismiss the Jehu he demanded $100 for his services Why the devil do yon make such an exorbitant charge Je parle Bill settled on the spot I know an island which the eon 8ut8 in mree to shine upon As if it were for ils green isle Alone he keeps his fondest smile! Long his beams delaying flood It- rennteot solitude uutam dell and palmy wood nd the coral sands around Toat hear the blue chiming sound It is watered inland one The tropic r4us pour down upon Oft the westward fl atiug cloud To some crest is bowed the tangled vapors seek To escape from peak to peak Yield themselves and break or glide Through deep forests uadescri Moaning lost pathway wide In thi land of woods and streams Ceaseless Summer paints her dreams IVhite bewil ired torrents fall Dazzled by her mornin beams an outciy musical1 Tr the rliges plainward all fch-ts of pearl arising there Mark their courses in the air tiunlit magically fair Here the pilgrim may behold the bended cocoa waves Wren rt eve and mom a breeze Blows to and from the Oarib seas How the lush banana leaves Prom their braided trunk unfold How the mingo wears its cold And the sceptr aloe's bloom Glorifies it for the tomb When the day has endd quite Splendor fills the drooping skies All is beauty naught Is night Then the Grosses twain arise 'Southward far above the deep And the moon their light outvies Hark! the wakened lute and song That to this fond clime All is rnu-L naught is sleep Isle of plenty Isle of lovel In the low encircling plain Laboring Afric loaded wain Bearing sweets ani spicks move On the hs py bights above Love his seat has cbooeen well Dreamful ease and silence dwell Life is all entranced and time Pastes like a tinkling rhyme Ah on those cool hights to dwell Yielded to the apell! There from seme lowwhispering mouth To learn the secret of the South Or to watch dark eyes that close When their sleep the noondays bring List the palm leaves murmuring! And the wini tha ccmefl nd goes Smells of every flowe that blows Or from ocean to descry Green plantations sloping nigh Starry peaks of sapphire hewn Whose strong footholds bi Men lid Furlong deep beneath the sea! Long the mariners wisfully Lsndward gaze and say aright Under sun or nnier moon Earth has no more be uteous sight!" A poet once came to Old to collect for some of his verses Did you write that exclaimed the publisher First thing ever contributed let me see throwing $30 on the counter and shaking up $40 more iu the drawer I enough money on hand to properly remunerate you Call again in about an hour always pay good prices for such efforts The poet rushed off squandered $8 for drinks on Clay' street and came back nt the appointed time Ah yes you are our new poet a dollar for you you live on Poet faints on the front steps THE DREAM CHAPTER I In the fertile valley of the river Suck just where some years ago such consternation waa created by a portion of the Bog of Allen showing an inclination to settle for good there stood many a farmhouse of rather a better class than any of those in the immediate neighborhood or indeed in any of the adjacent villages The house stood a little off the high road from Castlerea to Loughlinn and few people who passed failed to observe its well-t do comfortable appearance aud (steading) Its occupier Owen Kearney was a very hard-working sober man who not only minded his own business but let his affairs alone He was never in arrears with his rent had his turf cut tv year in advance and got his crops down first and in earliest so that it was not without some reason that people said he was the most comfortable farmer in the village of Glenmadda Added to being the most industrious Owen Kearney vas (what few tenant farmers in the west of Ireland were thirty years ago) something of a speculator He did not tie his savings up in an old stocking and hide it in the thatch of the barn or cow-house as the majority of the neighbors who had any savings usually did but despite the repeated warning of 'vnauu More Morris the philosopher and wiseacre of the village invested in new and improved farming implements and in horses of which he was not unjustly consider the best judge in the County Roscommon Ab he did all his business when he was perfectly sober he seldom had any cause to complain of his bargain aud the luck instead of spending in the publio-house he made a rule of giving to the priest for the poor of the parish Not being in the habit of gossiping either about his own or his affairs no one could form any correct idea of how rich Owen Kearney really wasbut it was generally known that he kept his at the bank as on fair aud market days he went into that building with his pockets well filled and came out with them empty and mounting his cob rode home quietly long before the fun or the faction fights commenced Not so however the younger of his two sons Larry a wild restless lad of seventeen on whom neither the precept nor example of his father and brother seemed to have the least influence Martin the elder was steady and thoughtful like his father but Larry with his boisterous laugh and ready joke dancing blue eyes and flaxen iir never spent a minute in thinking duiing his life While he worked which was not often he was as good as two his father used to say and "when he took his divarsion he was the divil at Martin used to add good-naturedly Innumerable were the scrapes Larry got into and miraculous were the methods by which he managed to extricate himself There was not a wake wedding or christening for mile round that he was not to be found at No merrygathering or fair was complete without vim aud it was almost a proverb that Larry Kearney was the last to sit down wherever there was a dance and the first to shake a shillelnh wherever there was a shindy Of course he was his favorite such boys invariably are She shut her eyes to his faults supplied him with money without any questions and being a very religious woman or what in that part of Ireland is termed a voteen she atoned for all his short-comings There was another member of Owen Kearney's family as full of fun and mischief in her way as Larry this was Dora Costello the orphan niece Little Dora everybody called her because when she lost her own father and mother and went to live with her uncle and aunt she was a little toddling thing of three years old At the time this story tells of she was a fine girl of seventeen tall finely formed and as graceful as a willow A fine specimen of an Irish peasaut girl was Dora Costello with her red aud white complexion merry changeable hazel eyes and rich reddish auburn hair There was not a daughter with-mauy a mile could scuch or spin as LEGISLATIVE NOTES The lobby in tbe corridors of tbe A a sembly Chamber for the past few days has presented a most disgraceful appear- ance The members were persistently but-ton-holed by the opponents of water bill and nnuBual attempts were made to influence votes against the rights of the people Woods from Virginia City Nevada leads this unscrupulous crowd and is assisted by all the political tramps and ward politicians that could be procured from San Francisco for money Governor Irwin has issued a proclamation revoking tbe one made February 2d providing for a special election in Santa Clara county to fill the vacancy occasioned by tbe death of Senator Angney The new proclamation fixes the 19th as the date for holding said election instead of the 13th and provides for the election of an Assemblyman also to succeed Upton who died on last Tuesday night AN ASSEMBLYMAN ILL Assemblyman Mayfield of Napa county has been troubled some time with an injured foot and a report was prevalent this morning that be had died either iast night or early this morning at Napa City from that cause mortification or erysipelas having sot in ThiB report however was denied soon aftr translation of the laws At 12 the joint committee on the translation of the laws into Spanish met in the Seoretary of office and opened the bids offered That of Adelma Godoy at 16 cents per folio including indexing reading proof-sheets etc waa accepted The lady is the wife of Jose Godoy who had the contract last session at the same prioeper folio lating to duties of Constables in Alameda county Substitute for Senate Bill No An act to confirm letters patent of the State of California to Montgomery was taken up and a lengthy dis suasion followed between Senators Lewis McGarvey Lambert Fowler and others During the debate a message was received from tbe Assembly announcing the passage of Assembly Bill No 358 conferring additional powers upon the Supervisors of Alameda county to construct oounty buildiugs in Alameda and improvement of parks in Oakland On motion of Beazell tbe rales were suspended and bill passed BACRAMETO LEVEE BILL The Assembly message also announeed the passage of the Sacramento Levee bill which was on motion of Curtis referred to the Sacramento delegation It gives to the Board of City Trustees and Levee Commissioners power to go outside of the city limits and expend money belonging to the city of Sacramento on certain levees Tbe debate on the Montgomery land bill was resumed and continued until half paBt one all substitutes and amendments being defeated The bill on motion of Lewis was considered engrossed and passed without a negative vote BILLS By Murphy An Act fo increase the appropriation to the hospital alms house iu San Francisco Referred to delegation LEVEE BILL PASSED Johnson's Levee Bill passed the Senate and has gone to tbe Governor By Brown of An act to authorize the payment of wages due workmen for work done on tbe Folsom Branch Prison Referred to Committee on Claims On motion of Evans the Senate ad-ourned out of respect to the memory of AsBemblymau Upton till Friday atl Friday Feb 8 The Senate met at 1 pursuant to adjournment on Wednesday Lieut Governor Johnson in the chair Reading of the Journal was dispensed with Mr Satterwhite asked th't Senate jointresolution No 27 be made tbe special order for Thursday at 1 So ordered Mr Evans asked that Senate concurrent resolution No 12 be made the special order lor to-morrow at 12 Request granted THE SILVER QUESTION Assembly resolution No 21 offered by Satterwhite as a substitute for Senate joint resolution No 6 (both relating to the remonetization of silver) by Curtis wag taken up under special order and debated at gome length when Pierson offered a substitute which embodied principles opposed to the remonetization of silver aud in favor of tbe Resumption Act Mr spoke at length in favor of his substitute and is still upon his argument at the close of this report Old Broad-horns Bradley Governor of Nevada rivals Chesterfield in putting things politely A Bage-brush politician one day attempted to give him advice about signing a bill whereupon Bradley remarked: Say-y-y Cap if you ever git to be Governor of this yeah State aud I attempt to run your business you just tell me to go to the devil will you A able Mile Michael Reese was once taking a fif-teen-cent dinner at the Miners' Restaurant when he called loudly to the waiter: Do you consider this good beef Certainly cattle came all the way from Texas If they been good beef they couldn't have stood the trip" Sam Jones (brother of the man who Congressionaltzed the fastening together of two short bits) was asked by another Comstocker if a membership iu the Wushoe Club possessed any special advantages You bet A man comes to me with letters of introduction from 'Frisco If he proves a bore I take him up to the and lose Argonaut About twelve o'clock on the night that Martin left his home Owen Kearney and his wife were startled out of their sleep by the softie rushing into their room screaming wildly that he had dream what was it Barney?" asked Mrs Kearney kindly bo frightened now but tell Arrah he sobbed dreamed I siw Martin two men with their faces blackened rode up to him on the plains of Boyle an sho him Oh wirra wirra one of them was Poor Mrs Kearney fell to wringing her hands and sobbing wildly at the extraordinary dream of the poor fool while her husband rushed to his room in the hope of finding Larry l-ut his bed was empty as was that to Luke the servant Full of terrible forebodings the farmer began to question Barney more particularly as to his dream but he could only repeat that two men fired at Martin on the plains of Boyle one of them was Larry the other was Luke this he maintained with a persistency which it was almost impossible to doubt No one thought of returning to bed and while they were consulting as to what was best to be done the softie again uttered a wild shriek and rolled over on the floor as a bullet entered the kitchen window and lodged in the opposite wall followed by another which whizzed past Owen bead Lord have mercy upon us he exclaimed crossing himself devoutly Where will it And he held his wife who was almost insensible from the fright close in his arms At that instant a bright light illumina ted the whole kiteben and in a moment the truth flashed across his brain his steading was iu flames Not daring to open his door to look out he tried to thiuk what was best to be done for perhaps the house over his head wae blazing too or would be in a few moments Casting a hasty glance round he lifted his wife in his arms meaning to carry her to the front of the house aud out of sight of the flames when a violent knocking at the door startled him and he recognized his voice demanding admittance Hastily unbarring it he saw her accompanied by a party of soldiers who when they found that no lives had been takeff set to work bravely to protect the property whieh was yet untouched by the fire But there was little left for them to do The cattle bad been hamstrung the horses stolen and a lighted brand placed in every Btack of oats and the thatch of every outhouse The work of devastation had been done only too well takeD uncle them that set the haggard sail Dora as soon as she was able to speak "I brought the soldiers to the house she added of the villains said he bad finished off Owen Kearney Thank God it is not and she threw herself into his arms Yes I heard him" said one of the soldiers sent him to safer lodgings than we took him from It seems Mr Kearney that your niece was returning from a visit to a when she heard two men whispering in the lane at the end of the meadow As they were in front and she didn't like their looks she kept behind and heard them say that there were two gone to Boyle to look out for the Volunteer and that they were going do for old Kearney and his wife the cattle and fire the Like a sensible girl she turned round quietly and ran as quick as she could towards Castlerea By good luck she met us half way and though we were going ou another errand we turned buck nt once with her and netted the rascals who did this pretty piece of business I sent six men on towards Boyle to see if they could learn anything of the villians Dat followed your son" added the sergeant Wbere'B Larry said Dora after she had tried ineffectually to con-solo her aunt he all I have now Kearney said pressing her to his breast "Martin is gone and Larry is gone Well well God is Dora Miss cried Barney Athleague fuiutly here a Iu the general confusion every one had quite forgotten the poor softie who lay on the floor quite insensible "What is it Burney? Are ye inquired Dora bending over him much only my back is bad and I lift my legs Tell your uncle Owen Kearney that Martin dead He's lyin' on the settle in a shebeen with his hand on his side calling Dora I see sure I see him and Larry Luke is took the sogers is bringing them to Roscommon Oh wirra wirra!" Shure the poor creature is frightened to death's said Owen Kearney trying to induce Barney to get up and drink a little water but the mug full out of the hands in dismay and horror for he found the poor softie was bathed in blood He's shot he exolaimed and one of the soldiers drew near and examined the WOUDd a bullet in his back" the man said and he'll never eat another bit of this world's bread' Aud may God forget the man that forgot he was an Foor Barney never spoke again Nothing could have saved his life But his dream was literally true At the very moment he awoke screaming Martin Kearney was fired at by his brother Larry and his father's servant at the hour he mentioned were the murderers taken and Martin himself was taken into a shebeen as he said and laid upon a settle in the kitchen where he called untiringly for his cousin Dora Such was the dream and such sad stories as the above related are a part and parcel of every Irish rebellion Martin Kearney did not die and Larry pleaded guilty deoluring that he was forced to attempt his brother's lifo both by solemn oath of obedience and by lot at the same time confessing all he knew of the strength of the Mollies assuring his judges that he joined them in ignorance and now thought of thum only with horror aud rogret Therefore iu consideration of his youth repentance and valuable Information he gave with regard to the rebels his life was spared and ho was instead sentonoed to twenty-one yearB penal servitude while his companion Luke Murphy was hanged It to he in his any chance treated badly He knew business (for curiosity was one of his virtues or vices) and with the special advantage that people thought he knew nothing at all All sorts of matters were discussed freely round the hearth in his presence he meantime staring into the fire sucking his fingers or roiling on the floor with the dog no more heeded than that animal yet all the while drinking in the conversation and with a sort of crooked wisdom treasuring it up Animal tastes and instincts were generally the most marked in the softie as a rule he was greedy selfish and uncleanly in his habits violent in his antipathies yet with a capacity for attaching himself with a strong dog-like fidelity and affection to a friend Such was Barney Athleague perhaps a trifle better and more intelligent than the generality of his class and there was no place in the village where he spent so much of his time or was so well treated as at Owen first because they were naturally kindly people and next Mrs religious feelings made her especially good to the poor and friendless and tuere was no person in the whole world whom the softie cared so much about as Dora Wherever she went Barney was not far behind He was always ready to do anything in the world she asked him no matter how wearisome or hazardous When she was a child he climbed the highest trees to get her nests tumbled like a spaniel into the river to get her lillies and walked miles and miles to recover a pet kid of hers which had gone astray As she grew older he carried her cans when she went milking fed her poultry and in short waited on her and followed her about like a lapdog It was great fun for the who used to assemble in the kitchen of a evening to tell stories and gossip to see Barney fly into a furious passion if any one he did not like touched Dora or even put his hand upon her dress One of the persons the poor softie most cordially detested was Larry Kearney perhaps bf cause the young man was too fond of teasing him or else too much given to sitting beside Dora How or whatever the cause the poor foot hated him but with a prudence which one would hardly have expected in a softie he kept his opiuions to himself and watched his enemy like a lynx Not once or twice he saw the young man descend from the loft where he slept with Luke the after the family were sound asleep and opening the door steal noiselessly from the house and after much consideration Barney at last made up bis mind to follow him aud learn his destination nothing doubting but it was the village public-house or shebeen or the forge which was often the haunt for the idlers to play cards and get tipsy in But Larry took the very opposite direction from what the softie imagined Crossing two or three fields skirted a plantation of ash on the other side of which was a rath or forth said to be haunted and the resort of go The place was very generally avoided aft nightfall and courage was beginning to fail him when Larry was joined by three or four other young men which revived his spirits and nerved him to follow silently and cautiously as a cat Ou rounding the hill he saw there were between thirty and forty persons assehibled in a field aud after a few minutes one of them advanced to meet Larry The softie on seeing the mau approach concealed himself behind the ferns and brambles all his curiosity aroused and strained his ears to catch the conversation but the men spoke so indistinctly that he could not distinguish a word till after a little while they drew nearer to his cover Look here one said drawing something which gleamed in the moonlight from a cave or hollow of the hill within arm's length of Barney's crouching form me boy there's two-score piks-haads lying snug enough in Good captain" Larry replied with his merry luugh two score ready to handle i'es but we want the cap-tuin said as he replaced the weapon in the cave and quiekley drew the thick grass ferns aud blackberry bushes over it Did you speak a word to Martin Larry laughed again Sorra word captain if herself was to go an' ax him he join he said bedad maybe he might he added merrily and the men moved away Ha ha Barney snid to himse'f as he crept from his hiding place and made his way back to the farmhouse where Larry goes Molly Molly ask Miss Dora to-morrow and with this flection he crept into his bed and fell asleep chapter II I think like to join the Volunteers" said Martin Kearney one day about a month after the above event country is in a bad way time for them that love peace and quietness to spake for you Martin if I was younger do the same Owen Kearney said looking up from the newspaper in which he was reading an account of the arrest of several of the rebels known in 184- as the from their having first met in the house of a woman of that name bad for the poor boys that went with the "Will you join me Martin asked But be shook his bead as he replied somewhat hastily: I faith the never did anything to me1' I'm not going to do anything to answered Martin quickly I think right (or us to snow that we're houeHt Roscommon boyB an' ha nothing to do with villuins who go round the country at night frightening women and children and murderin' poor innocent cattle not to mention shooting thoir next door neighbor from behind the hedge witlr-out any reason I know liever be a sheep-Btealer than a Molly Maguire to show I have no dealings with them go to-morrow to Boyle list in the Larry used every argument to prevent his brothor going to Boylo as he Baid but without any avail and early the next morning Martin started to do what numbers of the better class of sons In the vicinity of the small towns had already done a King Left-Handed Mother Victor fondness for yeomen has been proverbial Of late years he had lived with a morganatic wife the Countess Mirafiore to whom hs was greatly attached and who bore him three children The gossips tell a very pretty story abont this career Rosa Vercellana they say was a sutler's daughter aud a vivandiere during the campaign of 1848 She was beautiful and had many admirers and she was also in spite of her short frocks and canteen a young woman of exemplary character The Duke of Savoy saw her loved her and hovered around her canteen He lost sight of her bnt after the death of his wife sought her out and made her his companion It was not until 1873 that he was finally married to her in spite of the protestations of Prince Humbert The Countess of Mirnfiore (the title was created by the King) died only a few months ago and it is thought that that event hastened his death It was a peculiarity of his that he selected his female companions from the most unin-tellectnal circles Village girls seem to ASSEMBLY Professor Bernstein an eminent naturalist in Berlin Germany gives the following graphic description of one German geographical cubic mile (one mile equals 10126 yards) to illustrate the size of our earth which contains only 2662 such: a fcox one mile each way long wide and and let us try to fill it up Berlin is handy we take the city as if it were a toy and throw it into our box We go to Potsdam pick np all the villages on our way also and put all in The bottom is not covered yet We will take Paris with all her columns towers and churches which helps little so we must take London also Vienna must go in too and not to disturb the peacq St Petersburg follows next All this stuff lies at the bottom We begin now to take up all the cities towns villages forts farms everything that human hands have built in Europe and all the ships floating on the sea It helps nothing! We must go to old and new worlds throw in the pyramids of Egypt and the railroads and factories of America and everything else made by man in Asia Africa Australia and America lo! our box is not half full yet! We will shake up the things a little to make them even and aswe are bound to fill the box let us see whether we cannot do it with the people and lay them in 1 ke herrings One row will require 12000 and 4000 rows make make one laer of 48000000 just enough for North Americans To make them feel more comfortable we will put between each layer a bed of straw And leaves say thirty feej thick which will take all the straw and leaves in the world Upon the Americans we will lay 3000000 of Australians and 45000000 of Asiatics another layer There aeabont 800-000000 more Asiatics thus we proceed until all the rest of mankind are in 1400000000 in about thirty layers The box is now about half full and it would require About fifteen times that number ofjteople to fill it What shall we do? Animals of course are still left Take the whole auimal creation yet it is not full and all this is only one geographic cubic mile of which the earth contains 2662 Wednesday Feb 6 Assembly convened at 11 o'clock Immediately after the reading of the Journal was concluded Mr Johnson asked that the Levee bill introduced by him yesterday be taken up under suBpen- sion of the rnles and passed Granted and bill passed and sent at once to the I have been his special weakness and it Senate without engrossment has been often said that it was difficult death of assemblyman cpton out whether it was for the sake Mr Anderson then announced tbe death I of footing gaum or of pursuing these girls that the King so frequently absented himself from Court The fact is all the more s'riking as Victor Emanuel was naturally one of the proudest aud haughtiest sovereigns living and at the same time one of the best educated having been brought up by the Jesuits and having spent in reading a considerable portion of the long years daring which he remained heir apparent Boston Post of Mr Upton and pronounced an eloquent and touching eulogium Mr Barstow also paid a fitting tribnte to the memory of the deceased On motion the obair appointed the following special committee to attend tbs funeral obsequies: Hanna McComas Pace Dinniene and Backus On motion it was decided that when the House adjourn it be out of respect to the memory of the deceased Swift's Water Bill was made special order for Friday the 8th at 1:30 Mr Couroy introduced a bill relating to registration of voters Referred to Judiciary Committee The San Francisco Delegation reported Samples from a Hossou Punster The hen is a solvent fowl she generally has something ova The exhibition of ancient armor in the window back the bill to increase the police force I of a Washington street jewelry store is of San Francisco which was passed under said to be the best show of old mail Tiie Fiab Torelo It is at Fiume on the Adriatic that Mr Whitehead the well-known inven tor of the fish torpedo has his princi pal fuctory Scores of skilled laborers wotk there night and day at the manufacture of these terrible engines of destruction and under his immediate supervision ana continual experimenting this deadly weapon (which in the opin ion of many scientific men will in time totally supersede naval artillery) daily undergoing modifications and improvements which render it as nearly iife-like in its attributes as it is in ftp pcarance when seen in motion under water So much does a fish torpedo resem ble a porpoise or dolpbiu when Belf-propelled through the water at a little depth below the surface that on one occasion when Mr Whitehead first began experimenting with them at Fiume a native sportsman who happened to be on the beach probably on tbe lookout for wild fowl fired at one which was being tried at long range but iu a direction parallel with the shore At another time Mr Whitehead lost a torpedo which after a lapse of more than year he recovered through some accidental cast of nets and whieh proved a great haul to them eventually when they took it to original owner although they were at first disappointed to find that tbe fish was a metal one Some of the lookers on who had seen the haul at a distance reported the capture of an enormous monster to the town folk The price of one of these fish torpedoes as supplied to the British Government is about £500 Her Majesty' store-ship Wye was very recently at Flume tukiDg in an installment of quantity for the supplying of which Mr Whitehead is under contract with the Government When first the inventor experimented with hie fish torpedo the maximum speed attained by was nine knots the present ones go through the water for a given distance at the rate of sixteen to eighteen and eomo are now in course of construction by order of aud for the use of the Russian Government which will travel at the unequalled speed of twenty-four knots These latter will be of large dimensions but the given distance at iximurn rate of speed will also be greater and the explosive matter contained in increased quantity Each torpedo is testod before delivery ooutse only as regards its propelling capacities its accuracy of adjustment eto aud not its explosive capabilities wbioh are naturally tnkon for granted The Fiume torpedo factory is at pres-eutt providing both Turkey and Russia with these dangerous weapons The Turks receive theirs from the sen and the Russians London Times suspension of the rnles and sent to the Senate On motion the House adjourned to Friday at 11 A out of respect to the memory of Mr Upton matter this side of the dead-letter office Oysters are sold for twelve and a half cents apiece in Austin Nevada We suppose that means they are ate for a dollar It is said that Victoria hag asked the Czar to much flax of an evening nor one who could better milk a cow or make a roll of butter Bright intelligent and good-tempered with a tongue as ready as her fingers and a sense of humor as rich her brogue Dora was a general favorite and as a natural consequence had numerous admirers Being by na-lure somewhat of a coquette she managed to play them off one against an' other with an ease and grace which a London belle might have envied keep' iug good friends with all and giving none the slightest preference But when it came to a question of marriage it waB a different thing altogether Dora declared she was very happy with her uncle and aunt and unceremoniously refused all the eligible young men in her own and the next village declaring of each in turn that she would as soon marry Burney Long ago in almost every Irish vil-ge there was to be found hanging about the farm-houses Home poor half witted creature called in one plaoe an onsha in others an omadhaun and in the County Roscommon a softie They were boys without any knowledge of who their parents had been cast as children on the charity of some village fr "in which they usually took their names as Johnnie Loughlinn and Barney Athleague How Barney came to make his way to Glenmadda no one knew but one day when about ten years old he was seen llowing a hunt Stumbling over a loose stone he sprained his ankle and so was thrown on the protection of the villagers A glance at the motley appearance aud vacant face wat sufficient to show what he was and as in most parts of Ireland as in Germany there exists among the peasantry a sort of superstitious regard for silly people poor Barney found food and shelter now from one now from another as in-deed the softies invariably did in return for which they ran on errands and looked after the pigs and poultry and wore always at hand in an emergency At a rule the softie looked a great deal bigger fool than he really was He contrived to live and be fed clothed and lodged without working lie made himself at home every where was generally treated very well and never by i Friday Feb 8 Assembly met pursuant to adjournment tbe Speaker in the Chair Roll called quorum present Prayer by the Rev Mr Rankin Leave of absence was I five per cent ad' valorem and fifty cents granted to various members The Jour-1 per pound Is it not fortunate that spare Turkey Vie should have come in with her spare before the Czar had made his strike What is the woolen merchant's duty to his country? Thir- brighter wood engravers stnkiug to carry huts nal of Wednesday waa read and approved Johnson rose to a question of privilege In relation to a claimed misrepresentation of a Chronicle reportor in reation to the action of the employes of the Co constituents of his and as such he considered the misrepresentation I Boston Commercial Bulletin as a personal matter the furnace fire always burns when it is coaled? Hewers of and drawers of wood aud marine painters Tbe cigar makers say they intend their point without any whiffs or A Freak of Destiny The Stevens Castle which was lately the scene of a brilliant entertainment on the occasion of the debut in society of a daughter of the house occupies a site on the North river at Hoboken that makes it one of the most conspicuous places iu the untry It may not be generally known that it was built and owned iu Revolutionary times by a certain Captain Dodd nor that there is a curious story of personal possession connected with it The captain was a British subject and when the American arms were victorious the property was confiscated It passed if I am not mistaken into the possession of a man named Osborne thence into that of the lute Edward Stevens Mr StevenB became a widower and needing a governess for his children one was recommended to him by a friend in the person of a Miss Dodd who was no more nor less than a grand-daughter of the Tory who originally owned the place Mr Stevens made this young lady his wife upon an attachment growing up' between them and so comes it so curious is destiny that his one of the richest women in the world her possessions rivalling to a certain extent that of the Baroness now presides in the halls reared by her ancestor and taken from him only to be roturnod to a new Washington Capital A railway director in London recently lost his pocket book in which was written his address and wuich contained among other things some bank notes and his along the railway line with which he was connected A week or so afterward he received the following letter: found your purse You no doubt are well off I am hard up so I must faiu keep the money but I return the pass which is useless to me My thanks believe me are Rngsia has couotuueu tu accept the proposed conference at Vienna though she would prefer some other place Anderson introduced a memorial and the annual report of tbe Magdalon Asylum On motion of Anderson the Speaker was authorized to fill all vacauoiea on committees caused by the death of the late Assemblyman Upton of Santa Claia Dare presented a petition of taxpayers of Solano county against the passage of Assembly Rill No 327 to regulate the rate of charges upon telegraph lines Ludgate presented a petition from citizens of Amador oounty asking for the enactment of a law to compel owners of goats to hord them on their own lands Tobin presented curtain resolutions adopted at Dashaway Hall Sau Frau-cisoo relating to a Constitutional Con- The Japanese Minister aud his wife gave an elegaut reception at Washington on the 4th.