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IRECTORY.
a. II. VAN WYCK. U. M. Henator, Neb. City.
Al.VIN HAUSDKKH. U. H. ttenator. Omaha.
K. K. VALKNTINK.Kepreaentat e. West foist.
.IAMKH W. HAWK,, governor, Lluooln.
K. I KOKEN. Kecretary ol MUte.
J JIIN WAlXNIH.S. Auditor. Lincoln.
I. I. HIUKKKVANT.TrcaiurM, Uucoln.
tV W. J J.SKH. Huot. Public I nt ruction.
A. I.KSS.")AI.I., Ijtnd t'oinnil.ilonar.
ISAAC l'0(VKK.1, Jk.. Attorney liberal.
!. J. NO It KM. Warden, of I'rnilenltary
lK. II. I. MATTHKYYiiON Hpt. Uwioltal lef
the Insane.
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Stiprimm Omurt.
MAXWKM-. Chief Justice, Fremont.
.IF.O. It. I.AKK, Omaha.
AMA8A COHH. I.lucolo.
Jteomtt Judicial tiitlriet.
B. B. POU N I , J uUkc 1 Jucolu.
.1. It. Nl KODK. 1'roHeeutlnir-Att'v.
W. C SIKlWAll KK, Clerk District Court.
riatt.nuiouth.
Citr Tltreolory.
JOSKI'll V. WKCKKACIl. Mayor.
W I I.I.I AM II. CUHHINO. Treasurer.
.1. I. IHI'(N, City Clerk.
WILLh'IT I'OI'I KNtiKK. Follce Judxn.
M. A. HAKTM.AN, City Attorney.
K. K KOhlll.Klt, thief of Folic.
V. KKoKlli.KK. (iverwer ill street .
.'. KKIIN KK, Chief of Fire Dept.
JOttKI'H II. 11A1.I-. Ch'n Board of Health.
lOUKCILMEN.
st. Wanl-.I. M. S bnalbaeher. Win. Harold
2nd ward Jerry Hartmau. J. M. Fattariou.
3rd Ward- Alva Drew, M B, Murphy.
IU Ward C S. Dawson. K. 1. Lubuhofl
SCHOOL. IIOAKIt.
JKSKK It. STRODE.
V. V. I.KON RD,
KD. OKKU.HKI..
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Win. WIN tKKSTKEN.
IMA AC WII.K.S.
. MA US HALL.
County Iiructnt.
W. II. NEWELL. County Ireanurer.
J.W. JKNNIMiS. County Clerk.
.1. W. JOHNSON. County Judge.
It. V. HVEKS. Hherlfl.
C YltlTM AL'ION, Hup't of Puh. Inntrnctios.
H. W. KAIKFIELO, County Surveyor.
l I. U ASS. Coroner.
COUMTT COMUlflSIOMKHli.
JAMES CKAWFOKI). South Itend lrecluet.
BAM'I. rtlCHAKDSON. Alt. Pleaaanl Precinct.
A. H. TODD. PlattHinouth
Parties having buslueria ith the County
Coinmlnaioiiers, will find them m session the
rirht Monday and 1 ueMday ol each month.
o
HO A Kit OK TKAUR.
FICANK CAKItU I'll. ITfftldent.
J. A. CONNOlt. 1 1 K.N H Y H.X'K. Vlcn-I'rel-
deuta.
WM. W. WISE. Secietary.
FKKD. COIMIKK, Ireasurrr.
Keenlar meetloKa of the Board at the Court
llou-ve.theUrttTuexday eveulnuof each month.
AltltlVAL AMI UErAlirCRC OK
I'LATTHMOirTII MAILH.
ARK1VKH.
7.30 p. III. I
.30 a. in. I
B.Of) a. iii. i
5.00 p. in.
il.oo a iu
UK PART.
KAMTKRX.
WKSTKH.N.
NOKTHKKK.
SOVTHItHN.
OMAHA.
WKr.PINU WATKK.
9.00 a. to.
3.00 p. in.
M.oo a. ni.
6.56 p. m.
4.26 p. in
...ni p. ni.
9.00 a. iu
l.;.'0 a ni.
l.Mt p. III.
I R.25 a. m.
4.25 p. ni.
I. x) p. ni.
II. oo a ni.
a.oe a. m
1.00 p. m
KAlTOKYVIl.Llt.
Dec. 17. Itml.
It AT KM CUAKiiEII FOR
OltUKRM.
MO.VEY
Oa onler not exceeding $15 - -Over
15 and not exceeding ?3 -
$:n " $iu -
" fit " fUt
10 cent.
15 cent
20 cent
25 cents
A inle Money tlrder may
include any
amount (rem one cent to fifty
dollars, but
iiuirtt ii. t contain a fractional part of a cent.
II AT KM KOlt I'O.STAOR.
1ft cla.-i i.iatt.r ih-tler") 3 ceut-t per K ounce.
2d " " I PuhlisherV rale.-.) 2 cts per lb.
jit ( I taiKieiit rswipapers and
iMtoka come nil Jer tlili clanK) I rent -r
raeli 2 ounces.
!!'. clas (mer-.-liaiidt-e) 1 cent ier ouuee.
.1. W.MAKsHALt P.M.
B. & M. R. R. Time Table.
Taking E (feet July. 2 1331.
FOK OMAHA FKOM
leaves 3 AS a. m.
PLATTSMOUTH.
Arrives 6 :oo a. m.
5 :45 p. m.
1 i2i p. in.
8 :25 a. m.
K. C. AND ST. JOK,
a.:3."a.in.
:-W p. iu. "
y :4 ru.
9 :39 a. m.
M p. m.
FROM OMAHA FOR PLaTTSMOUTH.
Leaves 8 :15 a. m. Arrirea 9 :S5 a. is.
7 ;00 p. m.
:10 p.
m.
in.
6 ux p. m.
K. C. AND ST. JOK.
8 ;25 a. m.
7:15 p. m. "
7 :35 p.
9 :20 a. m.
8 :53 p. ru.
FOR THE WEST.
Leavea Plattainoutb 9 :00 a. in.
AnlTes Llu-
coin. 11 :45 a. in. ; ilafting.'S 4 iSO p.
. in. ; McC'ook
10 :05 p. n. ! Denver 8 0 a. ni.
Leavea 6 -M p. m ; arrives Lincoln
9ip. m.
FKKIOIIT
leaves at 9 15 a. m. ; Arrives Lincoln 4 :10pm
Leaves at 8 :io p. ni. ; Arrive at Lincoln 2 .-oo
p. m. ; llarlin:i 5 :30 a. in.
Laves at 2 AX) p. in. ; Arrives at Lincoln 6 :30
p. m. ; llartliugs 2 :3o a. in. : McCook 4 :50 a. iu ;
Denver 1 ok) p. m.
FKOM THE
I Leaves Denver at 8 :05 p
WEST.
in. ; Arrive at Me-
Cook 4 o a. ni. ; Hatiiii; to :20 a. in. : Lincoln
3 : p. m. ; riattvuiouth 5 M0 p. m.
I -.ir Lincoln 7 a, m ; arrives PlatUmouth
9. -00 a.m.
rKEIGIIT
Leaves Lincoln at 11 :45 a. in ; Ar.lves 5 -30pm
leaves Haitint't 7 :15 p. in. ; Arrives Lincoln
9 ; lo p. iu. ; I'latt.snioutk 2 -JA a. m.
lave Denver C :J0 a. ni. ; Arrive McCook
5 : i a-in. ; HastiiiK-) : P. m. ; Lincoln 0 ;45 a.
Bx. ; Plattsmouth 1 -J a in.
GOING EAST.
Pase?ger trains u-ate i laitsmouth at 7 00 a.
m.. a oo a. ni.. 5 lo p in. and arrive at Pacific
Junction at 7 25 a. in.. 9 20 a. in, and 5 30 p. in.
k. and sr. JOK.
Leavo at 9 ;20 a. in. and 8 :55 p. m. : Arrive at
Pacific Junction at 9 ::5 a. in. and 9 :15 p. ai.
FROM THE EAST.
Passenger traius leave Pacific Junction at 8 l:
a. ni.,6 :2 p. in.. 10 a. in. and arrive at PlatU
inouth at 8 40 a. in., (top. in. aud 10 30 a. ro. .
K. .'. AND ST. JOK.
LeaTe Pacific Junction at 6 :10 a. in. and 5 :40
p. m. ; Arrive ti :25 a. in. aud 5 p. iu.
" T1MC TADLE
9IiH8ouri I'aciGc Ilailroad.
Express
leavea
Roing
I-OLTII.
7.40 p.m
8.17 "
8.42 "
8.59 "
9.24 -9.37
10.U7 "
6.37 a.m
5.52 pm
EXres
leavea
Boing
MOUTH.
8.00 a.m.
8.37 "
9.00 "
9.15 "
9.40 -953
"
10.21 "
7.07 p.m.
6.22 a.m.
Freight
leaves
going
bOlTH.
OmAba
l'apillion
Springtield
I-oun" ville
Weeping Water.
Avoca
Dunbar
Kaunas City
St. Jjonla;
12.50 a. in.
2.oe p. Ii.
3.05 "
3 :-o
5.00 -5.45
"
6.45 "
t;oing
Nourii.
a 52 a. in
8.38 p.m
Going
N OUT 11.
tiOlUg
NORTH.
St, Loia--
Kaiisaa City....
Dunbar
Avoca.
Weeping Water
Louisville
hprtnKfleld
FaDillion
8.32 p.m.
7.. a.m
5.10 a.m
4.24 p.m.
1.01 p. tn.
2.10 "
2.45 "
3.5l "
t.25 M
6.Z5
7.0S "
5.45
6.03
6.32 "
6.51
7.JO '
00
4.54 "
5.08 "
6.33 "
5.4 "
6.15 -
6.55 "
Omnbn arrivee
The above Is Jefferson City time, which Is 14
minutes faster than Omaha time.
LUNS L'Jl IT 1 OS C Lr 11 H 19.
' A old physician, retired from active prac
tice, having had placed in hia bands by aa
Eat India Missionary the formula of a simple
tegetable remedy for the speedy and perma
nent cure of Consumption, Bronchitis. Citarrh
Asthma, and all Throat and Ln-g affections.
alo a positive and radical cure for General
Debility, aud a'l nervous complaints, after hav
ing thoroughly tested its wonderful carattve
power in thousand of ease, feels it his duty
tn make it known to hia feilows. The recipe,
with full particulars, directions for preparation
and use. and all necessary advice aud Instruc
tion for sttocesaful treatment at your owe
home, will be received by you by return mail.
free of charge, by addressing with stamp or
aiainpea seii-aauresseu envelope iu
4ayl DR. J. C. KAYMOND.
164 Washington St.. Brooklyn. N. Y.
TLlbilK.
J.
F. BAUMEISTER
Furnishes Fresh. Pure Milk
DELIVERED DAILY.
Special call attended to. and Fresh Milk
troca tamo - (taalaaed wbea watted, 42v
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X M, .
f I M n. I I'J U
LTATION FREE.
V - - - consultation
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
SMITH A BKESOW,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Will practice In All
the Ceurta lu the state. Office over First Na
tional Hank. ' Oyl
1'I.ATTBMOUTll - NKHH4SKA.
IU. A. HALIHBUKY,
DB1TTIST.
XnceoverMinltli, Black Co'. Drug Store.
First class dentistry at reasonable price. 231 y
II. JIKADK, Sf. !..
I'HYSICIAN and HUROEON. Ofllce on Mala
Htreet. between Mlxth an 4 Movent li. Mouth aide
unlet oen aay and a lent
COUNTY rilUHK'IAX.
Hnecial attention iclveu to diseases of women
and aniiuren. 21 tt
M. O'OONOHOE
ATTORNEY AT LAW NOTAKY PUBLIC.
Fltzjferald's Block.
I'l.ATT.IMOL'TH, - NKBJtilKA.
Agent for Straiiiihlp lines to and from Europe,
d!2w62ly
R. K. LITnUNTO, M. ..
I'HYHICIAN & HUItUKUM.
OFFICE 1IOUK8. from 10 a. in., to 2 d.
ni.
Kiauilnli.K Murjteou for U. H. I'ension.
IK. M. MIIiLKIt,
PHYSICIAN AND HUKOEON
Can be found by calling at hia office, corner 7th
and Main Streets, in J. It. Waterman's house.
rt-ATTHMVUTIl. NEI1KAHEA.
JAM. M. 3IATIIKIVH
ATTOUNKY AT LAW.
Otuee over Ilaker A At wood's store, south side
ot Malu between 5th aud 6tb streets. 21 tf
J. IS. MTUOIIK. . .
ATTORNEY AT LAW. Will nractlce lu all
the Courts iu the State.
Dixtriet AWtrns.y and ITotarv Public.
WIMi M. tVIHK.
COLLECTIONS H X7CIrt.LTl .
ATTORNEY AT LAW. Real Estate. Fire In
surance aud Collection Agency. OOice Union
block. Plattsinouth. Nebraska. 22m3
II. TIIKRLKR A CO.
LAW OFFICE. Real Imitate. Fire and Life In.
uranee Agents. Plattsniouth, Nebraska. Col
lectors, tax -payers. Have a complete abstract
of titles. Buy and sell real estate, negotiate
plans, &c. - lOyl
JAMES K. HOUUIIsOX,
Notary Public.
ATTORNEY AT LAW. Will nrutin. m I'my
and adjoining Counties ; gives special attention
i coiiecuonn auu aDstracls ol title. Otllce la
nugeraid Block. Plattsinouth. Nebraska.
1TYI
J. V. XEWnCKKY,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
Has his nftlce in the front nart of his residence
on Chicago Avenue, where he may be found tn
readiuexs to attend (9 the duties of tha of
fice. 471L
IK1UKUT It. WIXDIIAX,
Notary Public.
ATT HtXKV AT LAW.
0!ce over Crruth's Jewelry Store.
1 laltsiniMith. - Nebraska.
M. A. HARTSCAN,
Ii A. W Y E It .
FiTZiiKicti.o's Block. lLATrMoOTH Nun
ProniDt mul careful
attention to a general
Law Practice.
A. i. bCLLIT.VX. K. II. W.ini.v-r
SULLIVAN & WOOLEY.
Attorneys and Counselors-
at-Law.
OFFICE In the
Union Block, front rM..s
second story, aout'-).
atl business .
Prompt attention given t
maris
PLATTSMOUTH MILLS.
plattsmo dth neb.
C. HE 18 EL,
Proprietor.
Flour, Corn Meal t Feed
Always on hand and for sale at lowest cash
prices. 1 be bigbest prices paid for Wheat and
vjoru. articular attention given custom work
BOYD & LABSEN,
Contractors and Enilders.
W III give estimates on all kinds of work. Any
oraers ten at me Lumner Yards or rost
OQice will receive prooiot attention
Heavy Truss Framing,
for barns and large buildings a specialty.
For relet enee apply to .1. P. Youn g, J. V,
Wee
in: a or it. a. water man & Son.
d&w
SAGE'S ADDITION
THE-
CITY of PLATTSMOUTH
Valuable outlots for residence pur
poses.
Sage's addition lies south-west of
the city, and all lots are very easy of
access, and high and sightly.
For particulars call on
E. SAGE, Pron'r,
AT
SAGE'S HARDWARE STORE.
Plattsmouth, Neb.
Plattrtinonth Telephone Exchauge.
1 J. P. Young, residence.
2 Bennett & iwij. store.
3 M. B. Murphy & Co., "
4 Bonner Stables.
6 Comity CU rk's office.
6 E. B. Lewis, residence.
7 J. V. Weckbiich. store.
8 Western L'nioa Telegraph ofllee.
9 I). II. Wheeler, residence.
10 I. A. Campbell.
14 K. B. W tndnam,
15 J no. Way man.
16 J.W.Jennings.
17 W. S. Wise, office.
is Morrlssey Bros,, office.
19 W It. Carter, store.
20 G. W. Fairfield, residence.
21 M. B Murphy,
22 H. 11. Wheeler & Co . office.
is J. P. Taylor, residence.
24 First National Bank.
P. E. Kuffner's otnee. '
26 J. P. Young, store.
2 Perkins House.
29 K. W. Hv-rs. residence.
31 Journal office.
32 Fail field's ice office.
M Hkkald Pub. Co. office.
35 J. N. Wi.-ie, residence.
36 S. M. Chapman. "
37 W. D. lone. "
34 A. Nrftuilivan, "
39 II. K. Palmer, "
40 W. II. tch lid knecht, office.
41 Sullivan Si Woo'ey,
4i A. W. McLaughlin, residence.
43 A. Patterson, livery.
44 CM. Holmes. "
45 L. 1. Bennett, residence
46 Geo. Smith, office.
47 L. A. Moore, florist.
49 J, W. Barnes, residence.
60 K. K. Livlngatoo, office,
jrrr I. V. Week iHh. residence.
S3& Chaplain Wright. -
340 W. H. Hchlldknecht M
346 Geo. H. Smith. "
jse tt, K, Livingaton,
115 C. C. Ballard.
The switch board connect Plattsmouth with
Ashlaud. Arlington. Blair. Council BluSa, Fre
mont Lincoln. Omaha Elknorn Station.
PaoUllon, Sprjngfield. LooUyIU Boat nd
A." A. O. J
'
Charges modf rule and within t lie rp:h .yg?
SPECULATION
In Board of Trade and Merchant
Exchanges. .
Th ftwlft a a Hare Jto4 te Bala,
irkHe Ways Are All Clresue4
A (fereful . Speculator CilTee
Ilia Experience of
Twenty Year.
George Alfred Townaend.
I was talking laut night to a conatrtlctor and
superintendent of tolegrahps in an importarJ
part of the country. I bad ventured to remark
that, while the Amercan people had the nam
of beiug natural gamblers and speculators, X
thought that there were less speculators here
proportioned to our population than in any
country.
"No," Maid my telographio friend, "gambling
ia very general, especially in the western and
southern states. Gambling in grain options
and kindred things in Chicago cleans out
nearly every town within a Tory large radius
of that city of its surplus capital. For instance,
there is the littlo erty of Ottawa, Illinois: Some
timo ago there was ftiW.OOO taken out of that
town by the Chicago grain abarpers. After
that was over nobody could do a speculative
business in Ottawa. But as soon as they get a
Hnrplus again gambling rooms will hp opened
in that town, and the same old lonson will bo
repeated. In short, the Americans are such
an intelligent people, and uso the telegraph,
.the newspapers and similar facilities so thor
oughly that they are bound to speculate as
soon ajs they get some money ahead. When
they loso the surplus they sit down awhile and
engage in ro gular labor, and take the losson to
heart; but, being of a sanguine temperament.
they start in again whon the times look rosy.
Thus I am afraid it is going to be for the long
future."
"How do yon get Informed on matters like
that?"
Why, the agents of the Chicago brokers, or
their principals, are approached by mo to ex
tend my telegraphic business. I will say to
snch a man on tho stock board, 'Why don't you
go to Ottawa and open a room and put up a
black-board and lot mo put in a wire for yon.
and I will give you Vhe quotations as fast as
there are sales in Chicago?' 'No Ottawa for
me,' the broker will say; we have beaten that
town all up and Cleaned it out In three or four
years it may do to beat up again, but not now.' "
Said my friend: "There was a town called
Louisiana. Two or three Chicago agents went
down there and opened rooms to spoawAate with
the telegraph black-board, etc., and thoy took
out of tho town not only all the citizens had
loso, but the men in the bank got away with
t 000 of deposits. It made such an excite
ment that the city council rosolved that no
moro exchanges, so-called, should be licensed ;
aud tLe citizens, besidos, organizod a vigilance
committe to shoot aiy man from Chicago who
should come down thero and open an oflice.
Heveral fellows went own and scanned tho
plaw, and found it advantageous to leave. Yet
Louisiana will make money normally again,
aud again be bled by Chicago."
"What do V'Ju think about this dealing in
short ribs, grain, corn, lard, eta, on the option
plan?"
"Why," anRworeil my friend, in a bnrst of
coundence, ""there inn't a man in the United
States binart enough to ileal with those brokers
in Chicago. Everybody tries it, but they all
end the same way. There are, perhaps, 5,(XX)
mcm-bors of the produce exchange in Chicago.
Keats are now quoted at about $4,UHJ apiece.
About SIX) of tho men in that board
are what are called scalpers merely operating
for themselves. Tho regular brokers, those
who are looking out for customers, scour the
whole country up and down, and put their
blackboards and wires into every village which
is thrifty and with capital. Their game is to
get all you have got, and you may as well
make up your mind that they are going to have
it if you commence dealing with them."
"Then they do not get their principal busi
ness right in Chicago?"
"Lord bloss, you, no. New York city sends
to Chicago probably three-fourths of the busi
ness done on that exchange now in a specu
lative way. The Chicago produce broker has
a factor in New York. The shave, or com
mission, is one-quarter of a cent per bushel
on grain, or 925 on every 1,000 bushels. An or
dinary deal is 10,000 bushels, or 0. The
man in the Chicago board takes one-half of
thaUeommission, and gives the New York chap
the other half for sending him the customer.
It would be hard to tell how many of these
half-commission agents are pitched all over
the country. They are generally Chicago men.
as smart, or a little smarter, than the brokers
on the spot They strip the speculative men
of New York of nearly all their money, and
that is one reason why the New York Stock Ex
change does not recuperate, .bver since Jim
"Keene introduced in New York the system of
dealing in options and futures at Chicago, the
New lork btock .Exchange has been depleted
of that speculative werk of which it once had
the monopoly."
Here a New York gentleman, who had been
& ilAftlAr in ovflrvth mt f rr vMrR a.nd hu TvisjtA
his $500,000 remarked: "I have been an oc
casional speculator during the period of about
eigDoen years. Being also a merchant, I have
kept my books in sucn a way as io snow mo
boolcs
net resutt-of my speculation, as I would of any
other part of my business. The average
speculator does not keep his acconuts as close
ss that At times I have made thousands of
dallara, and I wou d have suppojed,but for my
books, that in the long run l was clear, lint re
cent tv, being about to close ray business up
and take a long holiday, I had my speculative
account balanced. When I took out the com
mission paid to the brokers I found that I was
really snort, in otner woras, me prom on my
speculations have been more than absorbed by
the brokers' commissions. Toward the end I
made a large operation in a piece of property.
which I myself made, ana there 1 was ahead
about $30,000. That represent, eighteen years
of Btock speculation, or less than f 1,00 a year
profit I have been a favored speculator, too.
because I hardly ever touched any thing that I
did not help to niake. How much worse do
you suppose those persons have fared who
speculated without being on the inside, and
bad to pay the same commissions that I did?"
I asked this gentleman if ha ever dealt in
grain and produce options.
"Never but once," said ho. -I got 'a point,'
aa they call it, one time from a Chicago man,
to put up $1,000. no told me that I was ahead,
in a few days, and I went off somewhere and
let the account run. When I came -back he
said bo wanted more margin, so I gave him
another $1,000. After a second alsence I re
turned and said I thought I would like to close
that account He presented me with a bill for
$',2S0..E0 losses. I Bmiled, but let Chicago
alone after that"
Here the Chicago man spoke up, saying:
"Are yon aware, Oath, that the stock brokers
down town have to rind a npw set of customers
wry eighteen months? It is true. So disas
trous is stock speculation on tho customer,
with his losses and his commissions include. 1,
that he is stripped and turned bare eve $
eighteen months, and a now man has to bo
found to take his place"
"Now tell mo whether tho brokers them
selves are not also cut up a good deal?"
To this the New York man replied, saying:
"There is a certain proportion of brokers who
are like common sense bar-keepers that never
take a drink, although they hand the bottle to
thousands. Those brokers never speculate
themselves, but make up their minds to live
strictly on their commissions. Men of that
class, if they never deviate and have the tact
to get enough customers around them, oft n
make a fortune and go out of business at a cer
tain time, and never enter 1 again. But, as
the temptation to the bar-keeper is to taste hia
liquors, so tbe temptation to a broker is to
speculate ou ha own account A few men in
the stock exchange here acquire very large
sums of rootiev by buying and selling for
themselves. They save the cummiastons by
being In the business. The tcm.sils.
ions to buy and to sell are $25 on
every one hundred shares. To loop the
up for 300 days in the year tho
aggregate is very great There are other men
in tho stock board hero who may be callad
scalpers, whenever buy or sell for any person
but themselves. They use their Heat in the
stock exchange to go in there and have commis
sion and make rapid turns. Keene. who intro
duced Chicago speculation into New York City,
has not only ceased to be a powerful quantity
in Wall street, but I apprehend that ho will go
out of business, and be a perfect 'has been
Sid I to another gentleman present W
were talking in one of the large hotels or Aev
York in a genial, evening way, my friends fill
ing up tny exhausted hopper with their expori
ence "W'hat of crowd ii this Soney coin-
bjnali H
' '!. in one or see master spirits in ma
terial things) down town now. He ia a preach
er's son, a church member, aud perhaps the
chief philanthropist of our moment lis is not
exactly a stweuiator, like K eerie. He builds
something and then deals in it and sells in it
He has been very anccesafuL He was
the head of the Nickel-Plate railroad,
yet when lie and hia frionda finished that rail
road they were on the very eve of bankruptcy.
Thoy had got togother all the money they
could get from every source. Heney, it ia
said, could not sloop of nights, thinking that
he was going to pot next morning. Finally
the Yanderbilta stepped in aud bought the road,
and not oaly relieved those men, bat gave
them several millions of money for new enter
prises. They are now consolidating a huge
railroad svstem in the southern states, aud
soino say Lave gone in with Could, and design
to load His Missouri Facltle system out toward
the sea-coasts of Georgia and the Carolinas
ssd Norfolk, arid finally to New York over the
Shenandoah Valley railroad I Judge that the
Seuey combination is altogether the strongest
in the southern (states to-day. They are uion
generally of youthful or middle life, possess
ing all their energies, in the first flush of buc
c)hh, and with Gould going to leave the country
for at least a year, he perhaps nnds it very ad
vantageous to make his connections with men
of that sort Gould is probably tired out,
whilo they are rrosn ana on tn5 ju np.
''Explain this svstem " said L
"I can only give you a general understanding
of it" replied mv New York friend. "Gould
has a magnificent railroad tfynteui centering at
St. Lonis and reaching all parts of the west
from Chicago to Omaha, to Galveston and to
El Paso, lie possesses no railroad outlet for
this system to isew lork. lie lias been sup
posod for years to design extending his Wabaah
system from Toledo to the Atlantic But that
would be a very expensive undertaking, aud
other persons have rushed in and built rail
roads and left Gould out. The buying of the
Nickol-l'late railroad by tho Yanderbiu party
loft him in the heart of the went without east
ern connections. But the Henev peorle control
railroads from Maryland atid from "Norfolk to
Oeorgia, (o Macon asid Brunswick, and to
Memphis. Gould also has a railroad to Mem
phis, communicating with his groat western
system. The Henev people want for western
connections; Gould wants for eastern conned
tions. They link in with each other and 11111.0
a very powerful combination, particularly for
vhe carrying of freight"
" Nb ad.
George Alfred Townaend.
In an old country shad would como In with
a fote day. The world has not their equal for
fineness, indescribable freshness like a water
cress, and delicacy.yet with satisfying potoncy
One shad is the measure of tho representative
family. The father's partiality is shown whore
he gives most of the roe From birth to bones
the shad s epic is like a silversprit; noiseless,
translucent, unresisting, like the passage o
the moon through the river and the sea. Mi
grator)', but with childhood memories of lo
cality, fruitful religiously and even iu the
dream of young children and large gentle fam
ilies, they aoein like the spring lambs of tho
water, grazing tho infinite fields of shoon.
What dangors they pass through, going and
returning, tho innocents in tho time of Herod
never had. Provided with nothing to make
battle, with tiny teeth and miniature fins, they
course tho ocean like the silver galloon of old
days beset by pirates but protected by tho
paints. Although the royal guest at feasts and
poor mon's tablos, they are, liko all enduring
nobility, peasant-born. Tho martyred men
haden is their cousin, the herring is their step
brother. To see them caught is like seeing
angels fall; so peacefully po dashingly; and iu
in the bute'ior's shamblo they ariy upou their
delicate armor tho light of skies. '
The "Hhowrr of Mulpltar."
Cor. St Louis GIobo-D'omocrat
Noticing in your iseuo of this morning thu
telegraphic itom from Cairo, III., recounting
the f all of a "fehower of sulphur" ovor Padu
cah, Ky., and having just completed tho ewm
luation of some of :ho "sulphur'' which fell in
a similar shower in northern Texas and Indian
territory a few days ago, I thought it might re
lievo the minds of boiuo of your readers to
learn that tho so-called "sulpliur" is nothing
more or le.-s than thu pollen of numerous
forest trees just now in b!o.;n. How this pol
len is taken up by aeria! currjuts and deposit
ed in showers over large rieetious of country,
frequently remote, 1 leave to some of your
meteorological correspondents to explain,as tho
explanation, though simple enough, is at pres
ent out of my province.
Koyal jlatc!i-31aklns.
Charleston News and Courier.
Queen Victoria, who was a good match
maker and mothei,is said to be interesting her
self just now in the future domestic establish
ment of her grandson, Wales' eldest boy, who
is now nineteen. The girl selected to be the
future queen of England is Princess Clemen
tine of Saxe-Cobourg, daughter of the king of
the Belgians, and niece of tho unfortunate
Charlotte, widow of Maximilian of Mexico.
But the wedding, if fixed upon, can not come
off for two or three years at least, Clementine
bbing but thirteen years old.
A Cieorsla Cotton Planter's Tlcvr.
Georgia Major.
One of the most influential of Georgia
grangers was superintending affairs at his
cotton-press the other day, when he was ac
costed by a neighbor: "I see, colonel, that the
tiriff bill has passed." "Is that so? How
about cotton ties?" "Still :5 per cent ad val
orem." "Well, here, you boys, thar' ! sift an
other shovel o' sand in the middle of that bale.
I can't afford to reform until the tariff does!"
iionKCliold lliat.Hund Itrevltlcr.
Tho Housekeeper.
Never lot tea boil.
For rough hands, use lemon juice.
Strong lye cleans taintad pork barrels.
Tepid milk and water clean oilcloth without
soap.
Have as much fruit always on hand aa yon
ca;: afford.
Torpentino applied to a cut is a preventive
of lockjaw.
A hot shovel held over furniture removes
white spots.
Smoke dried mull in leavea in new clay pipe
for bronchitis.
Sprinkle sassafras bavk among dried fruit to
keep out worms.
Pop corn is a good luuch for Sunday nights
with milk for drink.
A handful of hay in a pailful of water neu
tralizes smell of paint
To make a carpet look fresh, wipe with a
damp cloth after sweeping.
In sewing and winding carpot rags double
them with the right side out.
Clean tea or coffee cups with scouring brick;
makes thorn look good as new.
Remove ink stains on silk, woolen or cotton
by saturating with spirits of turpentine.
Cover plants with newspapers before sweep
ing. Also nut a little ammonia upon them
ouco a week.
Washing pine floor in solution of one pound
of copperas dissolved iu ono gallon strong lye
gives oak colo&
Remove flower pot staiu from window sills
by rubbing with fine wood ashes and rinse
with clean water.
A paste of equal parts of sifted ashes, clay
and salt and a little water, comenta cracks in
stoves and ovens.
Mixture of two parts of glycerine, one part
ammonia pnd little rose water whitens and
tofteus the hands.
. Corn huHks braided mako a serviceable and
handsome mat. The braids to be sewed with
Back needle aud twine.
In teaching a child to sew, five stitches a
day will be enough for tho first few weeks,
but let them be perfect and true.
To euro hoarseness Bake a lemon or sour
orange for twenty minutes in a raoderato oven,
open at one end. dig out and eat eweetouod.
Cabbage is made digestable by first slicing
and then putting in boiling water with a Pinch,
of soda aud some-salt and boiling just fifteen
minutes.
A porcelain lined kettle that will no longer
serve for fruit, is just the thing for corn loaf.
A three or four quart fruit-can answers well
tbe Bame purpose.
A cheap support for vinos before a window
in a prairie country is a bracb of a tree. Dig a
post hole a short distance from the house aud
et your branch. Train your vines into this.
A SECRET.
. fYonth's Companion.
"Kiss me, papa! she always cried
As she let me out or in,
"Yon know the placo where the kisses bide
Under my dimple chin 1
"Your little p'aee, papa, only yours,
And nobody else s tool
If they t'ies to get it, 1 wun out doora
Ana keep it J"u I yr yoa."
WASHINGTON COLUMN.
8ize and Dignity Considered tho H
Boutial Elements.
Tn Miiaft W hich Will niar S35 Feet
and he the Tall en t Mtrurture la
the World.
Washington Letter.
1. he Washington monument Is now 340 feet
high; by not NovemUr it will bo ,) feet
high. The work of laying tho large marblo
blocks will begin again at tho end of the pres
ent month. This year tho marble comes from
the Loo quarries of Massachusetts; last year it
camo from Baltimoro couuty, Maryland. Tho
work of the engineers in oharge will le finished
some timo in tho fall of 1S4, when the monu
mont will be 5T5 feet high This will include
a pyramidoid fifty-five foot high, which is pre
cisely the width of the monument at its base.
H is one of the interesting features of this
monument that it tapers ho gradually ths
whon it sbill have reached its grwU height it
width at tho top will be oaly loi feet less than
at tho bottom.
Now that the column has grown so high, it is
beginning to bo interesting. It is noticeaUle
that not only visitors, but the peoplo wuo live
here, and who have watched the growth of the
haft day aftir day, are beginning to talk about
it with respect Ono no longor hears tho jokes
that wero cracked at its expense when it was a
Biuuuy pne 01 stoues, waitiug lor CoL Casey to
put under it his great buttresses, which have
giveu it iu proper foundations. Then all the
architects of tho country, who had no special
mness ior thai aiiiu work, used to send sug
gestions to iUithcrtord d. Hayes, until tho
walls of Capt .Davis' ollico wero covered with
designs unique ouongh to embellish a chapter
in the history of caricature. The lato Clark Mills
wanted to round otT the column and sot it ou a
platform, on wt.ieh ho could set a group of hie
peculiarly constructed cart horses, niouutod by
some of his human eftigies. Mr. Larkiu
Meado wanted to insert 111 tho sides of the
monument four bronze plaques representing
scenes in Washington's liio. Gen. Meigu
wanted to put on top a sort of campanile or
lantern, which looks liko a cupola with win
dows, being n roof supported by small col
umns. Grtc.iough's statue of Washington was
to bo put i.i-'ido this edifice. Other peopU
wantoato mako the mouumoflt look like a
piece of a church or part of a factory. Almost
every one thought some Jkmd of a decora tior
ecessary.
iortuuatoiy, apt Dans, who has charge of
tho construction is a man of lino tasto and of
largo loartiing on the subject of obelisks. lie
has worke.l ou tho theory ihat size and dignity
aro tho eHsi-iiti.il elements of so laruoa struc
ture. .Therefore ho objects to anything but th
Huverest bUnpiiciiy. lie believes that there
should be nothing'but a graceful massiveness
in tho column; that there should certainly bt
no docoration that would take tho attontiou
from tho size of the shaft and require close ob
servation.' So far only one piece of ornamenta
tion has crept in ; it is the vulture wings and
tho scorpion ovor the doorway, tho Egpptian
symbol of immortality. Ho would have even
this replaced with a straight, plain band. Th
engineers hope that congress will permit them
to finish tho monument with a plain pyram
idioid. It will then be a very imposing inas;
for oven now. when it is more than UOO feel
short of completion, it is very impressive. One
boos it miles away down the Potomac, and it
towers above everything in its neighborhood.
Arlington Heights mako a fiuo background foi
it, and it shows up a.aniMt them splendidly.
The question to bo sottlotl after tho column
shall bo completed is in regard to the finish ol
tho approach. There is now a high earth ter
race about tho base. One plan is to build
about this a supporting wall, making an es
plauado, aud guarding it with a stone balus
trade. In tho center of each of the four sule
is to be a staircase as beautiful as art cau maki
it, aud on tbe . esplanade groups of statues.
The objection to this is its laok of simplicity.
Capt. uavis wants ins ssvero snare to nat
severely from the ground. He does not w.mi
the simple massiveness of the monument
spoiled by gorgeous stairways. His i.leu is
that tho ground should fall away from the
column in undulating slopes, aud that tho ap
proach should be by paths to tho summit
On the slope thero can bo trees and folia,
plants.
It is thought that Capt Davis will be very
lucky if he can secure congressional assent tc
his simple designs. Most congressmen like tc
see something carved on such a thing, even ii
it shall be carved badly.
William Vanderbllt.
George Alfred Townsend.
William Vanderbilt, according to my ad
vices, is only sixty-two years old. He has to a
large extent given up active interest in rail
roads and other property. He made a large in
vestment in government bonds, in order not tc
have his mollow years harrassed with business.
Not exactly a hypocbandriac, he is bo much de
lighted with this life and his large revenue in
it that he gives much of bis time up to doctors,
and annoys his friends by his sensitiveness
about his health. With the health of a bull he
has the nerves of a woman. For some time
past he has had the movement cure, or the
rubbing cure, whatever it may be called, in
volving somebody to come and scrub his mus
cles over and delude him with the ii-i ihr.4.
friction is health. He is also a victim of the
homeopathic people, and bothers his
friends- by taking out of his pocket
papers of number one, number three and
number nino, and swallowing them in the
midst of his ordinary social demonstrations.
He is so far free 'from railroad occupations
now that ho does not go mora than twice in
one month to the New York Central Railroad
station. Indeed, he is out of Ne w York Cen
tral stock. He recently said that he aad his
family altogether hJU not ove 100,000 sharee
of Central. I am told that his son George,
who is just about coming to be 21 years old,
fossesses 20,000 shares of this stock, left him
y his grandfather. Therefore Sir. Vander
bilt has not over 80,000 shares of New York
Central. This at par wouldbe only $8,000,000.
So we may say that he has but $9,000,000 at
present r New York Central stock. I have in
quired what has been 'done with the money
he obtained by selling out his New York Cen
traL Some say that he bought his long line ol
government bonds with it Others say that ht
possesses long lines of 'stock in the Grangei
railroads, in the Mexican railroads, etc
Bartholdl's Statue.
Demorest's Monthly. j
It ia clear that Americans are not dominated
by sentiment A syndicate of French capital
ists have offered to place a gigantio statue at
the entrance to the Now York harbor which
would be one of the wonders of the world.
All they have asked in return is that a pedesta1
should be provided costing about a Quarter ol
a million or dollars, anis mailer nas oeen
before the public for several years; the statue
is finished, but not more than one-third of the
monev tor the foundation has been subscribed.
Yet o'ur descendants will regard this grea;
statue of "Liberty Enlightening the Wold" as
a modern analogue of tho famous colossus of
Rhodes, w hich was considered as one of the
seven wonders of the ancient world. Can it be
that our people have a silont misgiving as to
whether the liberties we enjoy here are of a
kind to.be imitated by the rest of the world?
A Contested Seat.
Inter Ocean.
A young politician explained the tattered
condition of hia trousers to his father by stat
ing that he was sitting under an apDle tree en
joyiug himself when the farmers dog came
nlouz and contested his seat
The Atmosphere in Mexico.
The strangest feature of Monterey, to north
ern eyes is the Clearness of the air, such aa
that which made mft as I stood on tho Mouni
of Olives, think the Dead 8ea within an hour s
walk, though I pund it a day's rida Among
the strange aerial phenomena here I class the
naHe the Silost of It.
Good Cheer.
Here is a hint for the oaref ul housewife who
wishes to make the most of everything. When
your red tablecloth is too much worn In spots
to use any longer on the table, cut the good -part
in the shape of napkins, fringe them oat
for about an inch, 11 inclined 10 rays easny
overcast them, and it may be many along day
before any member of your family will dis
cover that they are not regular "boughtea"
fruit napkins. ,
Zxsnslnc the Yentn. ' -
We speak ob de innocense ob youth, an ye
a boy would rather go to a circus den tergo
ter church, an' somehow in considertin' de
solemness) ob de church an' bow much ia tar
be seed ob da aoow, dinged if I blame bin.
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