lVaiik CiUTiilh has) the largest, ilnost find most complete stock of Diamonds Oold Watched, L'miiis, Charms, Silver Ware, SpoctftclosFiuidy Holiday (iooJftio nclcct front 'in tho City. It will pay you to call mul sec our diaplay, and our prices areHticli as will sell the gooO.fi Don't fail to call. Everybody Invited. Fit AN K CAltltUTlf. pikftetiiftiil Prill IL,ATTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1887. NUMBER 75. FIRST YEAU CITY" CMKICK tS. . Mayor, Tn: i iir .T, Altriiiy, Iwiuliio-r, , Mdl'rilll, 'ouuull.uea. Is', ward, ' ' 2..1 " 3d " 4lh J I) MMI'NOX : II Smith .1 II W.UKKMAN l U.lN Ci.aiik - A Maimm.k IS Mai iikws V II Mali k .f V Wwkii :n I A W Win ik I l M .ln.NKH '( W.M Wkis It ) M l( M L it rn V V lIT. N IKS ClitlSKL I l M-Cl.l.f.N. PltKS I .1 W J.MIKK N.t.ll Al KoMd rul.Work- MtKi ;i iikh t It II llAWKiWoIITII I W.I HI.NS N.tJll AIKM A.N Tre:isinr. iMiuuy I'a-iurer, - CterU. Ji.la v Cl-rk. C.trK "i Dixit ict Co li ', Sheri.T. lei:ity Sheriff. I A. Cam I'M k i.i. Tll'H. I'Ol.l.'X.K .1. M ItnlllN.HllN - c. Mc:-iikhhn W. C. HllOW ALT Kit J. C. KlK KN1I U li J. VV.dSIANS A. .Maioi.r Al.l.K IlKKS S Mav.naiiii mxk C. Kl'MMItLI. I'KU VI SOIId. Werpiiii Water ri,it tsniouth Kouwooil Attorney. it. f r j -ft. I I i scuooio. fk.diity J u lite. HOARD OF SO Loi.'M F I.TZ. Ch'lil.. A, II. I'i:. A. 11. lI KSO.N', CIVIC SOGIJVriJtS. tiASS I.ODCK No- H. 1 - K. -Meets 'every Tuentlay evening of e:eli w. k. All trai sit-i.l lirotlurs me reicctlu!ly luvl'.cd to alteutl. rpnio MiiMiK X:. si. a. o u. w.-M.-. ts - ever. :i!tcrn:if Friday creiiiuK at K. r I . hail Trt::sic:-t brother art rf-ipeeti ii.ly in vited t lend. F. K. White, Master ..riiii.an ; I;. A, :iite. r iv:i;;in ; F. J Morgan. Ovel-eer ; J. K. lis, Kecorder. (J MVSOVMl NO.Mi Mt!)KItN WOH1ME.N l'nl Vii-ric t Meets sec.cxl and fivirtli Mm d ay evi inn ill li. l - "an "" '" tlTJritUr are retr.iestcil to m-et with u . I. A. Uiew-i-r. Vei.erd.h; Cnsul ; !. '. X ';?. W ifiv vdv'Wer; I), 15. Smiia, Kx 1! mxt-r ; . C, Will l-),Clcr!. 1"i;.xi.sj;)riii i.(Hjcev s, . o. v. w. M ( j Hviv a!t'ru:ite Friday rv.-iiiiiK a! l'a-k-.v I liallat soV-:..ei. All tiaasietil l.ri.lh- fis are ivspeetfully t..it-l 10 attend. '. A. iiir :. M- vv-; s- !r"?. ,: '" : c- Wil.to, .: ; -s .V. N3w utr. . v:i "r. MJ.IIHil POST 43 G. A. R. JIO.STKH. - T ' T.iMSi)N ' 'UliaiKitT. Ii. cIs.'imi s. ...svuivi Vice F. . IV r.i3 7u.ar (irO. Nil. ICS Au-.it7 -T lAlirs li. A.IJ iia it. li. M. ' lllwrof the lay. '.' ' i i nurd . Serj;t Mhi.-r. ..n.irter M.K'cr Nen;t. Mali-u :f Clf AIM Kltlli,. . htS-i. ltr.:;fi.K .... Ai.rii x ' liniiiT 1 t l liai'lain ee;i 14 -uttudAy evening. ctlwain, I 6ll -DEALER IN Watties, Clods, Jewelry -AND SpsciilAr ent Od aiyeaWalcli Repairirg WE WILL HAVE A nex -OF- l-OLIDAY GOODS, ALSO Library - Lamps -OF- F Line x Uaiane Bt sisns aEflPattBins AT THE USUAL Cheap Prices -AT- SMITH & BL ACK'S. a!rner&Son IHMj V-; CE IV S It y- :it the iVdltrwii g tin; tri'.l md fire-teit!il cnmpr.no.-: Anieriea : o u?ra!-S . Imi's. Assets ?1 i"s.m 1 C'omsncrciat Uni-W-Easland. Fir s.ie'.a i t-Pi'i! delptiia, " rranklin-F.i I h p:: hi i. " i& Honto-M wYmk. ;. 14 3.! 17.1 6 7.SV.."' 9 S.17: 2C2 c.cn.7.i 3..7S.75: lS'i.tf'fi 3.-H.9 5 In. -'Nor:!! Air.ei-i fill. Llvt-rpvi.-tboaaoa-t I-he-Eii " Nrta i'.rit -'i " Merc inrile-Ka " Kr 1 Cai i:-Ea?l i-i !. Bprinjao: I 7. M.-S rin55y. I. " T.t'j.l Aisets. ?1 ..ll'.7;4 r zy AljiiEilaiiPdiiit MsAgenc Latest by Telegraph. IWllltOWLI) AND STOLEN. An Arizona Coal Road- Noou.ks, A. T. , Dccenilicr 7. Sur veyors are now in the ii.-Kl running pre liminary lines from IL raio-ilIo toward Mazatian. Tli; work U being ilone for tlis Mctriolitian IevcloiniK'it Company, of San Francisco, w hich proposes to build a railroad connecting those two cities. The projected road will pass through the anthracite coal fields of Sonora and tho agricultural districts of Sinclo. Canvicrad of OigiJin Palestine, TEx.,I)cce.nher 3 The jury iu the case of Detective VS. II. Bpringiield, charged with bigamy by marrying Alice Iloswtll, in Southbury, Copn., in 1875 and a la ly in tiiii ciry arly last spring, after deliberating ten hours, returned a verdict of guilty and nsv.-sdcd the pun ishment .t eighteen months in the penitentiary. It was evidently a com promise verdict, bepau.se of the one weak point in the St 'ts pro.tf, whi h failed to show, except circumstantially, that the first wife was living wh.-n his second marriage took place. Freight Car Thieves Arranged Kmi'okca, Kan., liecLihber 7.' Thir teen aner-ts we're made here today, with more to follow, of boys and young men catted with theft from cars on the S.-.nta IV,' For soma r.eckj past the freight cars on idi; tracks iu the ei'.y have, been relieved of a portion of their contents and no clew could be found of tliL- guilly pruti .s till t;.day, wjicn the police Kenl.-'d the i igt't track and soon had several of t!j p:iiti s in j lil. Th o.e in m:c rated gave oiic by one u iiuj m ..t! rs t-a-K'ct.-a with x i ..er; is no telling when the oflic; rs will ! through v.itii their V-"H'- ut of thriu u.c.e school boys with respecta ble pareius, but some of then arc too old to be classed as such, and tHescLdior have I2.n this i.eaiis of drawing th& younger ones into stealing, judging from, what could be learned frort Yhe boys, tlii'niselvi s. Tliy wld pr-olmbly have a hoLiun'' to- morrow. THS AUDEBARAN SPIRIT. "All ye lio seek tbo golden clime, Co. iiKjui.t v. ith Death his caravan!" ffant; of old the rhythmic clan. The bards whose numliers sub!i-r-. Ah, now, n:etliial:a, sorr'O ruer chimQ Ilust charm jiM ihrough life' little span; I'ucvi more ye'll read thy lofty rhyme, O wise, O true, Aldcbaran! Full well we learn'd, nr-d ong ago, Thy truth thut from t te-rnity 'l:c'. hath endurctl that still shall be, 'ii Aud that alone 'tis even sq! Kterual forces deathlesarciKn; Wro work with them, or work in vain. feamuel Waddington iu The Academy, FERRETS FOR NEW ZEALAND. T110 Little Aniiuals Needed on Account of tbe Rabbit IVst Another Ordr, 3Ir. Cross, tho well knp.vr naturalist of Liverpool who. up iii London looking after the gat ilia that he has just sold to tho "Zoo," paid a call to Northumberland street tho other tlay to report 011 tho animal kingdom, of which he is undispu ted lord. "Tho last now thing " said Mi, Cross, 'is tho sailing of thp ferrets; 130 of th?m have just gone off, and with them 750 pigeons, 10 sacks of biscuits and S75 tins of Nestle's milk. I bought the inilk for them myself." 'But what are the pigeons forf "That I will explain to you. The ferrets are for the rabbits and tho pigeons are for the ferrets. They will eat up the 750 pigeons on their voyage to New Zealand. They will also consume tho biscuits and the milk. Then I have sent sacks upon sacks of hay to make bedding for tho ferrets, and plenty of Indian corn to feed up the pigeons. Jt was quite a fight; f out: big parts and two whole railway trucks wpro taken up with this consignment. Two men accompanied tho ferrets, and very hard work they have looking after both them and the pigeons. But then, as I told them, the further they get from England the fewer pigeons there will bo from day to day." "And what aro the ferrets sailing for?" "They aro a consignment to a large wopj farmer in New Zealand. The rabbit ptt, as you know, has now broken out very bad there. The Australians, I see, aro going to have a rabbit pest conference; but this New ilealand wool merchant thought he had bet ter send to Air. Cross, and Mr. Cross is going to seEd him 150 ferrets. They won't make much headway, you say, against the rabbits. Tut then taey breed s fast, and if none of them ere lost 0:1 tie voyage, in a few months' tiniD my client ought to have six or seven hundred cf them at least. 'Don't spare tho expense,' Le said to me. The rabbits are eat ing up all the pasture on which his sheep eu!3i to bo feedlrg, and unless he can get tl:cri uniler ho will be a mined man. By the Lent mail I r.m going to send tho same cus tomer a consignment cf stoats and weasels. They civ wonderfully tor.gh customers, are rtcr.ts; they will Lleed tho rabbits to death in no time. 'Curiously enough," added Mr. Cross, "at tao very ssme time tiict I received these or ders for means of destroying tho rabbits in 1'ew Zealand I received also a large order for rabbi ti, and I am now hard at work get ting together ?,000 of them as quickly as I caa. They aro coins to British Columbia, here they have not got any rabbits, I am ccrding 2.000 of them 1,500 docs and 600 Lucks. Thi3 is a pretty large business also. They will want a hundred sacks of oats at i ast fcr tho voyage, besides plenty of hay, straw and sawdust." Pall Mall Gazette DOMESTIC TRAINING. COMPARATIVE MERITS OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH GIRLS. Good Ilfroet of the fcoclul Intercourse Thut I'rcvaila ftctuceu the I'eopTe of Tliln Country - anil En; lund I.uglikb Girls' Homo Lire. Tho comparative merits of American and English girls have been of late frequently ois cussed. Advocates of each nationality have mudu inany good points, and victory cannot honctly bo said to have boon won by either. There can bo little doubt that tho lurgcly in creased ami close social intercourse that now prevails between the peoples of this country and of England has had the effect of obliter ntiag many of the strongly marked differ ences of their daughters. Engliuh girls have caught something of tho brightness, tho ease aud tho self relianco which have made certain American ladies who have married Englishmen tako rank as favorites almost, indeeel, as leaders ia Lon- J don society. And even those Englishwomen who have not succeeded in imitating, or hav not sought to imitate, will be generally found Y'illing to admit tho charm of the imported fctylct, American girls, 011 the other hand, have not Iwn slow to borrow ideas from their English cousins. V.ro hnvo only to look at our girls' tailor made gowns, their "com mon sense shoes, their round hats and their ulsters and Newmarket coats, to eco how much they owe in warm and sensible modes of dreta to English fashions. Then, too, English out door games, particularly lawn teunia, have become ve-ry fashionaukj here, and their good oliect i tj n txvii in the im proved heulth, the greater case of movement, and the rounded figures of our girls. TLUMPXESS OF OUH GIRLS. It was only about a 3-ear ago when a for eign visitor to this country remat'4u.aU that one of the thinjrs tl.at most impressed her was tho, plumpness of American' girls. The remark caustd a great deaf of astonishment, for we had been so long accustomed to think tf the American type of beauty as extremely delicate and spintudle t-ii e, had not reeogsdaed the ehangV that had been slowly but surely ei"eeted. Any one whq pp YtUli" Broadway in thy aftenioj'.jjj f,i;4 wl"- " enough ty rF!r'f'!''ln't- tii" - I'rniiuinij fiouuA-- -piJearanc-o of its ocar' ' oi-s of te:i years jio, can ...y fail to indoisjo tho truth of the f oix-igner's o'ofer vat ion, I do i,ot lRUit to f ay that there U on" jU;tm-urilry and valuable retp-ect in v. hieh I Leiieve English girls aro suiwrior to Amcri caa girLi. Tlat rospuc-t is their ability to conduet tlij aTairs of their homes. This, of' course, is not an inherited abilitj", but is tl:e rasult of training mid practice, 1 nm not con sidering the daughters of the farmers, but those of mercantile and professional men. la England, the custom ia to train tho girls to relievo their mothers of many of tho duties of housekeeping. Ainoug families where U;ero are several daughters, it is a common practice to have each in turn take charge of i ho house for a week or a month. I do not assert that such a plan is never followed here, but at tho most it is done with comuarativt iufrequeney. Tho system of living in board ing houses, has in many instances made it im possible to instruct our city bred girls in domestic duties, but happily tho increased facilities for suburban travel have placed it within the power of many heads of families to swrure homes of their own. TWO IMPOP.TANT IlEASONS. Very probably the daughters of wealthy parents aro slow to see why they should un dergo any of the work necessary to tho learn ing of how all the departments of household jconomy should be run. There are, however, two important reasons for acquiring such knowledge. One is the extreme vicissitudes of fortune, characteristic of business life ia this country; and the other is the fact that if tho mistress does not know when work is pi'operly done, her servants, no matter how good at the start, will soon grow careless and forgetf uL In no other country in tho world is there so much trouble with "help" as here. Some of this is duo to the ignorance of serv ants who have had no previous experience; but possibly as much is due to the ignorance of mistresses, who do not possess tho knowl edge that can give instruction or command respect. In England, no matter how wealthy the parents, the custom of giving the daughters domestic training is usually observed. A re cently published "Life of Queen Victoria" Uates that after the estate of Osborne had been bought, "the lower portion of the Swiss cottage was fitted up as a kitchen for the young princesses, with pantry, closets, dairy and larder, all aa complete as possible, and here these juvenile royal highnesses, dressed a la cuisiniere, and with arms white with flour, learned to make cakes and tarts and all sort3 of plain dishes, to cook tho vegetables which they had themselves cultivated, to pre serve fruit and to prepare different sorts of pickles. In fact, they were trained to ba good English housewives." Tho example set by tho queen has permeated all tho higher classes. Tho cooking schools recently started here aro steps in the right dfreetion. But cook ing, though very important, is only a single branch of the domestic duties. Tho other can best be learnt at home, I am glad to hear that the board of education in New York city is considering the advisability of giving instruction in sewing and cooking to tho girls in tho public schools. Julian Mag nus in Tho Epoch. The Kxerclse of Economy. The sole basis of individual and national prosperity and comfort is labor. All through tho process of acquisition and control labor is present, and her companion, economy. Means obtained in any other way than by honest, persevering labor, physical and men tal, never satisfies and rarely abides. Be ginning early ia Ufo with industry and thrift the duty and pleasure of accumulation goes on, and if carefully (securely) invested a provision for tho family and old age will surely be accomplished. In tho exerciso cf economy it is only necessary to habituate tho mind to one principle: Avoid all un necessary expenditure. Tho question should be: Can I do without this or that? Ain J really in need of it? Is it essential to my health, comfort or happiness? If not keep lao money and let the fancied want go. This Is tho rulo of thrift for the young man climb la; the ladder of Ufe.-.-Baoker'i Monthly. CUSTOM SOLICITORS. PULLERS IN" OF THE METROPO LIS APPRECIATIVELY DESCRIBED. Noted Member of the Profenalon and Specimen of Their Persuasive Oratory. Tho Aristocratic "Pure Silk" Vuibrclla Man Milliners on the Sidewalk. Tho "puller in" occupies an humble but important placo in tho economy of the retail business in New York. At least it is pre sumable that his place is important, or there would not bo so many of him. The hurrying crowd may not notice him. There may not be one in the hundreds of thousands who pass him daily who is aware of his existence. His eloquent appeals on the subject of new hats and lino coats may fall on heedless ears. He keeps on with a patient persistence which is almost pathetic. There is a middle aged man with a melan choly face, about tho color of a strawberry, and a voico of doleful pitch, who is "pulling in" for a men's furnishing store on Fulton street. Ho walks up and down a short beat in front of the store and talks incessantly. Nobody listens to what he says as far as yoa can judge. Ho might as well be addressing tho crowd in Greek. If you were to go close enough to him, however, you would hear him saying: "Pure silk, pure silk, only a dollar 'n' a half for a puro silk umbrella." There is an indescribablo touch of pathos about th,a way ho says this, as though the sacrifice of a "puro siik" umbrella for ?1.5Q were too much for human cpnlemphition. Ho is the aristo crat i-f tho "pullers in." New York has many of his prof ession, but none that equals him. The man who stands at the other end, tho profession haunts Baxter stcU "Now, shents. deed yr. vant ter buy a dica bair of bads ydly a dollar ad a ballaf " i'horo arc- no. melancholy notes in his nasal tone. There aro no evidences of p;4,uuii anguish at tho sacrilieo ho is nuking lor- th good of mankind ttt;vka his" fae vlvjrtVtt 1 to about the level of your scarf pin, juid v- feratta Lis "appeal vith r4 $zotr- ' fifelons apd 'bitlWcoait-'" ru .of hundred othw--on with tho half v " . ls profession on tho same walks not up and down with the lordly mien of him who has reaeheel tho high est station. in "puller in" life. He stands in front of his ding shop, attacks every passer by indiscriminately, and with startling vehe mence. His characteristic gesture is made in ono way, and has been made in ono way since tho days of Abraham. Between these two extremes tho "puller in" has many phases. There is t he leather lunged young person, who stands 011 Fourteenth street and advises everybody within three blocks to "git yer writin' paper an' cnve'l'ps cheap up stairs," with a tremendous empha sis on tho "git," dying away into a curious little impotent squeak on the "stairs." There is tho thin, stoop shouldered person, with two fingers on his right hand, who makes this re mark at regular intervals: "Don't have to use a knife to sharpen leadponcils." He is "pulling in" for a stand where a patent pen cil sharpener is sold, though it take,! a good deal of patient investigation and skirmish ing around in the neighborhood to discover the fact. Then tbero is a consumptive look ing man, who stands on a horse block in front of a Park row hat store and implores passersby in a husky whisper to "buy their hats and caps of the manufacturer." There is tho fat man, who points you silently into a cigar store on Canal street. Thero is the youth, prolific of hair and dirty of face, who tries to lure the frugal housewives of Cherry hill into a grocery store full of last week' vegetables. There is the well dressed and in sinuating young man who "pulls in" at tbe clubs and hotels for tho tailor. And there are "the ladies." For tho "pulling in" profession has both rexes and all ages, conditions and voices for its own. It is in tho region of Division street that the woman "puller In" flourishes. Tho sixteen millinery stores on that ancient thoroughfare know her welL She lies in wait in front of each of them for unwary womankind. She is as energetic as her broth ers in tho profession, and far more volub!t Strife runs high, too, between her and her neighbor. A good "puller in" is worth $4 & week in Division street. It is one of the dear est objects of the designing ladies who minis ter to the wants of their sex there to get a sidewalk operator who will bring her busi ness, more especially if she can get the coveted customer away from a hated rival. Two of Division street's fair milliners came to blows the other day about tho possession of tho best "puller in" in tho street. Tho modern Solomon, who presided over the police court in which tho somewhat damaged modistes figured after this interesting event, was equal to tho emergency. Ho proposed that since tho claims of each belligerent seemed about equal, tho peerless manipulator of business who was the sourco of all the trouble chould "pull in" one day fcr one of tho milliners and tho next day for tho other. This settlement was thankfully received by the excited contestants and peaeo reigned onco more in Division Etrcet. Space is lacking for the full description of the fat lady, apparently speechless, who sits all day in an ample arm chair in front of a Park row clothing storo. Her place in the profession of "pulling in" can never be as certained, for no one has ever seen her do anything: but sit still and look solemn. Neither can justice be dono to tho silent and clean shaven man who operates tho patent gate in front of a hardware storo on Barclay street; to the determined race of "pullers in" who burden tho lifo of women visitors to the markets; to tho street car conductors who turn to "pulling in" in tho vicinity of the big dry goods rtores; nor to the man who stands in front of tho sub-cellar shoe store on Beck man street and tries to charm people into his placo with a smil as broad and vacant as a ten aero Jot. "C. F1L" in New York Com mercial Advertiser. The Vv haling Uuainesa. The- catch of Arctio and Okhotsk whal ers during the past season has been one of the heaviest oti record, amounting in nil to 41, COO brrrclsof oil and nearly C00.000 pounds of bone. The low price of oil and bono lias led to great trouble between owners arid sailors. Several whaling vessels have been libelod here for wagee, tho sailors claiming thut they were de frauded. New York Tribune. In 1600 there were in all the United Stata only six cities of over ,000 inhabitants. Iu ISSdtUcre weru 286 and by this time inany 1 uiore. vntT iz v a vt A full line of STREET - JACKETS FROM $2. TO $10. JOS. V. WECKBfCh'S DAYLIGHT STORE. oseph W D Great Sales combined in one, Opening-MOIT3D-A.2" 2vGUSrZITC, NOVEMBER 21. For Ladies', Misses' and Children. "Wo sire determined to close out our Entire Stock of Cloak, with in 30 days our assortment will be found the most complete in tho eity and a3 this sale is especially introduced for rivalry we guarantee to discount any Sample Lot Sale on record 10 per cent. 150 Psis of Blanket Slaughter sale on Ihese Goods to Close. The season has been mild, and to close out quickly", great reductions have been made. TWO HUNDRED COMFORTS Ladies Gents' and Children's UNDERWEAR SALE, Fifty Dozen Pieces. Astonishing vali:es will be offered in this Department for the next Two Weeks. 3E3EC For Holiday gifts, Headquarters long since Establish ed for iiseful presents, embracing fcilk Mufflers, lace and bilk Handkerchief, Toilet Sets, Albums, Tidies, table Scarfs, Hammered Urass "Whisk liroom Cases, Piano and Stand Covers, and fancy Goods. -An Inspection is Re spectfully Solicited. SOLOMON While Front PLATTSUOUTH, t7 irn c ohaiiz mm FKOM $.1 TO o0. Misses, :: Cloaks FROM 2. TO o- t- IN ALL STYLES. Rich Atraciian aiil For t rimming:?. FROM $3. TO CLOAKS, & NATHAN, Dry Goods House. NEBRASKA. Wraos fecracL