P acific C hristian M essenger . O «7 SO -$I2OT The 20 00 business until it was ready. 7 00 12 00 4 eo 2 50 H Col... 35 CO 7 00 12 00 20 00 4 OO H Col.. democrats expect to get a quorum of 65 00 20 00 35 0« 12 00 7 08 4« Col... 12 00 20 00 85 00 65 00 120 00 their own members on hand during Notiow in local columns 10 cents per line for the course of the day ; but as Senator each insertion. ’ Yearly advertisements on liberal terms. Conkling remarked, “ when they do, Professional Cards (1 square) $12 per annum. wefthe republicans) will find other means of preventing action on the ar­ Correspondence. my bill until debate is qllowed.” The Our Washington Letter. republicans insist that the only terms upon which they will desist from dila­ (raeM ova xsrnn.AH caRKiar ovdkxt . ) tory tactics is an agreement by the W ashington , June 21,1879. democrats that unlimited debate shall The date of adjournment is still a be allowed. It is understood that subject for speculation. The House Senator Clandler has a red-hot stal­ passed a resolution for final adjourn­ wart speech he wishes to unload, and ment on Tuesday of this week, but that Conkling himself has one, aimed the Senate could not get through by at the administration generally, and that time. There is some hope that Secretary Sherman in particular, for both branches will be through by that what he will claim is its policy of con­ time next week, but much will depend cession to the democrats. upon the fate the appropriation bills Society circles here are somewhat meet when they reach the President. exercised over "a scandal in high life,’ Some of the Democrats favor adjourn­ which involves the beautiful daughter ing without waiting to see whether of a wealthy, and aristocratic family, the bills are signed or vetoed, but it is who has formed an affection for her expected that the President would in father’s coachman, a la ex-Gov. Hub­ thatcase promptly reconvene 'Congress bard’s daughter of Connecticut, and in extra session. and more recently the case in New Aside from the political -debate York. The coachman in this city is there has been little of interest in handsome but illiterate, and the fami­ either branch. The tilt between Sen­ ly of the young lady ranks high for ators Conkling and Lamar during culture, wealth and antecedents. The Thursday nights session has created father, when warned by a friend, dis­ more of a sensation in political circles credited the story, until upon investi­ than any event which has marked the gation be found numerous letters from proceedings of either house since ante the coachman addressed to his way­ bell urn days. The question now is ward ehild. During an interview •* Who has got the best of it?” The about the matter, the young lady’s southern men generally say that under mother fainted. Despite the paternal the code it is in order for Mr. Conkling diligence the twain planned an elope­ io challenge Senator Lamar, as La­ ment whieh was interrupted by the mar applied the first offensive epithet appearance of the father while they to Conkling. The northern men say were cn their way to the minister’s. that if Senator Lamar can quietly The coachman has been discharged rest under the epithets heaped upon and the young lady transfered to her him by Mr. Cackling of a coward, father’s oouatry rdS3er.ee. A young blackguard and liar," that Senator, physician, to whom the girl was en­ Conkling can as well rest under the gaged to be married, has been so af­ mere insinuation that he is a fa seifier; fected by the knowledge of the facts and .that his bravery will in no wise ■that he is nearly crazed, and has, by «Mfter thereby. Those who witnessed the advice of his friends, started on a the exciting scene, say that Mr. Conk­ voyage around the world. For ob­ ling showed exasperating ceolness, and vious reasons the names of the parties that in addition to the words he ut­ are suppressed. tered, bis manner towards Mr. Lamar The National Division of the Sone was even more cutting than his sen­ Temperance, which has been in ses­ tences. Turning his back upon the sion here si nee Tuesday last, closed Senator, and waving hie hand back of its annual meeting at an early hour him, he said in his most provoking this Afternoon. The last session manner “ I will hold no further com­ whieh begun about 10 o’clock and munication with the member from oontiaued until after 10 o’clock, was Mississippi at this time." Inasmuch presided over by Past M. W. Patriarth as Mr. and his friends seem to Stephen B. Ransom, of New Jersey. l>e satisfied with the matter as it now A telegram of welcome to Cincinnati, «lands, it is safe to presume that it where the next meeting is to be held, will end where it is, Mr. Conkling was read during the session, and ex­ does not recognize the code as the cited a warm response. Arrangements proper means of adjusting differences were initiated for forming a national * between gentlemen. If Senator La­ mutual relief association among Sons mar should challenge him, his (Conk­ of Temperance. „ A resolution thank­ ling) friends say that in such event ing the governor of Maryland for car­ his course will neither be cowardly rying out the Laws of the State in nor beneath the dignity of his posi­ reference to the traffic in, intoxicating tion. Outside of political circles prop­ drinks was introduced and referred. A number of business reports were er, the scene has created a good deal read, accepted and ordered in file. of gossip. In front of the Hotels last The session was closed by an address night the kunnels, majahs and judges by Mr. Almy. The session of 1880 are assembled in force discussing the will be held in June, at Cincinnatti. A ugust . several topics of * honah” “the code,” * . 1 NO. 28. ■-■' The conversation led from one Hood, and was entitled “ The Song of thing to another, and was adroitly the Shirt." A THUE STOBT* « It was submitted to the weekly turned upon the subject of temperance “Do let me give you a sandwich by the elder lady, who was a person of meeting of tha editors and principal and a glass of wine, Margaret. The rare culture and refinement. The dis­ contributors, several of whom opposed most delicious little sandwich that cussion between the two grew inter- its publication as unsuitable to the' ever you saw, and the sherry that I eiting, and their fellow-passengers pages of a’comic journal. Mr. Lemon, however, was so firmly impressed with have with me has the real Xeres aro­ soon grouped about them. “ I am glad that I do not belong to its beauty,' that he published it on ma.” Tne speaker was a dainty little wo­ that vulgar class who think it a vir­ December 16, 1843. “ The Song of the Shirt ” trebled man, in a crowded railway car, and tue to abstain from wine," the young­ the sale of the paper and created a er woman was saying with some spir ­ she addressed a young girl opposite profound sensation throughout Great it. “ I reckon wine among the neces? her who had been complaining of fa­ Britain. People of every class were saries of life. I have sons and daugh­ tigue. — moved by it. It was chanted by bal­ They Both belonged to a party who ters growing to manhood and woman­ were going “out west” to attend a hood, yat 1 am not afraid of any rela­ lad Bingers in the streets ‘ of London, wedding, and they had talked the tive of mine yielding to appetite; it is and drew tears from the eyes of princes. Some years after the author’s matter over until the passengers near not in our blood.” Just then a shriek came ringing death the English people erected a them heartily wished they would through the corridor, and the anima­ monument oyer his grave. The rich change the subject. The mention of sherry did change ted speaker waa confronted by a ser­ gave guineas, the laborers apd sewing the subject effectively. The young vant, bringing in his arms the body of women gave shillings and pence. girl called Margaret, refused her aunt’s poor, pretty little Kitty, her long Sculptured on it is the inscription de­ offer of refreshments, but ope of the snowy night-gown saturated with vised by himself: “He sang 'Tha, lady’s little daughters, who shared her with blood. The child was dead. Song of the Shirt’ ” “ The Old Oaken Bucket ” was She had slipped out of the r3bm, had cousin’s seat, piped up at one: “ I would like a glass of sherry, if climed over the balustrade, and bad written fifty or more years ago by a printer named Samuel Woodworth. fallen down two or three stories. you please, mamma.” The silver-haired gentlewoman was He was in the habit of dropping into “ No, Kitty.” replied her mother, She a noted drinking-saloon kept by one “ you had a glass at lunch, and that now a very effective helper, will do until dinner ; we shall have quieted the stricken mother, and sub­ Mallory. One day, after drinking a sequently dressed the beautiul child glass of brandy and water, he smacked dinner at Z.” “ I want a swallow now, mamma.” in her lovely festal garments, and laid his lips and declared that Mallory’s “No Kitty, it will make you stu­ her in the satin-lined casket, among brandy was superior"to any drink he had ever tasted. the flowers intended for the bride. pid” Just before the arrival of the train No,” said Mallory, “you are mis­ . “ Well' mamma, dear, let me have a teaspoonful in the traveling cup. I whish was to take the afflicted party taken. There was a drink which in can then smell of it, and wet my tips back to their home, the poor sorrow­ both our estimations far surpassed with it, and it will last me a good ing mother put hei arms around the this.” " What was that incredulously while; only just a teaspoonful, mam­ neck of the white-haired woman and asked Wood worth. ma. You know It often have a little at said: “ You have been like a mother to “ The fresh spring water we used to home to play with.” “ It is to much of an effort to un­ me in this terrible calamity. I be­ drink from the old oaken bucket that pack the basket, Kitty. Now amuse lieve the Lord sent you to me, and af­ hung in the well, after retnruing from ter all that you have done, it is only the fields on a sultry day.” yourself with your J3t. Nickolat." The child began to cry, and moan, just that I left the chamber last even­ “ Very true,” replied Woodwork, and tease, and she kept it up in spite ing, poor Kitty, in spite of the entreat­ tear-drops glistening in his eyes. ies of her sisters and censin. unpacked of all the efforts made to divert her. Returning to his printing-office, he “ It is of no use to talk to me," she the lunch-basket, and took a sip of seated himself at his desk and begat! would sob; “ I can’t think of any­ sherry, saying she could not go to to write, In half an hour sleep without it. She returned to " The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound thing but the sherry.” bucket, Presently her mother asked, “ Do bed, and Margaret and the other you smell the flowers in the box that children went to sleep; but, as I The moaa-oovered bucket whieh hung in the well ” are carrying to auntie ? A breath of found the flask quite empty, the dear, Was embalmed in an inspiring song fragrance is wafted from them to me child must have got up and drank from it a second time. Her brain was that has become as familiar as a every now and then.” “ No, mamma,” replied the beauti­ turned, of course, and that accounts household word. A Mother’s Lesson. ful little girl, plaintively, “I don’t for what followed.” Is it not sad that a mother, with smell anything but the sherry in the lunch-basket; I smell that all the sons and daughters growing up arouod her, should harbor the princi­ time.” —•— A good many significant looks -were ples this woman did, and need to be interchanged among the passengers, taught such a fearful stroke, that and a number of them speculated as ‘ Wine is a mocker, strong dring is to the probable future of the infant raging, and that whoever is deceived sherry-lover. thereby is not wise."—M rs . A nnie A. The train failed to make connection P sebspon , in the Advocate and Guar­ at Z.; and a good many passengers dian. v^ere compelled to stay at a hotel over Origin of two Popular Poems. night. The party who were en route to at­ Hood’s touching lyric, “ The Song of tend the western wedding were the the Shirt,” was the work of an even­ only ones among the passengers who ing. Its author was prompted to had wine at dinner. Kitty, radiant write it by the condition of thousands and amiable now, was allowed to have of w.orking-women in the city of Lon­ her sherry, and she smelled, and snif­ don. The effect of its production was fed, and tasted, and enjoyed the deep foreseen by two persons, the poet’s amber liquid, and finally drank it off a wife and Mark Lemon, the editor of connoisseur, much to the evident Punch. amusement of her dainty mamma and, “Now mind, Tom—mind my words,” indeed, of the whole party. said bis devoted wife, * this will tell The children Were put to bed im­ wonderfully. It is one of the best mediately after dinner, and the grown things you ever did.” up people returned for a little while Mr. Lemon, looking over his letters to the parlors. one morning, opened an envelope in­ After riding for two or three days closing a poem which the writer said and nights in the same railway car, had been rejected by three Loudon people begin to feel like old neighbors,^ journals. Hu lagged the editor to and Kitty's mamma entered into con­ consign it to the waste-basket if it versation with a beautiful, white-hair­ was not thought suitable for Punch, ed gentle-woman, whose seat in the as the author was “ sick of the sight of it” The poem was signed Tom car had been near her own. Weather Report for June, 1879. <■ During June, 1879, there were two days on which rain fell? and an aggre­ gate of 0.47 in. of water, 14 clear days and 14 cloudy days. The mean temperature for the month was 58 20°, Highest daily­ mean temperature 64°, on the 1st, 13th, and 27th. Lowest daily mean temperature 53°, on the 6th. Mean temperature for the month at 2 o’clock p. M. 69 20*. Highest record of thermometer for the month 78°, at 2 o’clock p. m ., on the 27th. Lowest thermometer 48°, at 7 o’clock a . M., on the 22nd. Solar halo on the 2nd. The prevailing winds for the month were from the North during 19 days, S. W. 7 days, N. W. 4 days. During June, 1878, there was no rain, 20 clear and 10 clondy days. Mean temperature for the month 6217°. Highest daily 72°, on the 5th. Lowest daily 54°, on the 1st. T. P earce . Eola, June 1, 1879. —Prof John Ogdon, of Worthington, o.. in a late address, says : •• Education should oost wore than any other duty or neoeaaity iu life. 1» i. worth more. And jet a man will cheerfully pay from three to five dollars a week for boarding but A fonrth oiit for tuition for bi« ehild. He will pay »50 or «100 for a areaa or a enit of clothes, and grumble at a school tax of S3 per annum.”