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THE HERALD Published every Thursday at I'IjATTSHOUTII, XUUKASKA. Office On Main St., Bet. ;4th and 8th. Second Story. OFFICIAL PAPER OF CASH COUNTY. Terms, in Advance One copy, one year $2.00 One copy, six months 1.00 One copy, three months 50 NEBRASKA iu t TT1 m 1 A "1 JJldJft.iiJo - o rn tt if n 4 r i 1 II Xh 11 & IX A Li V. nvi::rnsic; uatiis J. A. MACMDRPHY, Editor. PERSEVERANCE CONQUERS." TERMS : $2.00 a Year. One .iiare, (io liiti-s or i)on Insertion., rl.fi.; Each suhseuviit insertion &- ..... i lo.cssioinu cams, not ex ceding six !iurs..l0.'K I .(MI, '. .40.(10 .20.1 'seohmm per annum i column per aiaimn 'column do One column do All advertising Mils due (iiiarterlv. Transient advertisement mint ho paid to4n advance. 1(X).' Volume 9. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, Thursday, December 18, 1873. Number 38. Exth k Coi-n (.k thu Hkiam for al by IT. .1. Mrclght, nt the Post M'ire, and O. i'. John son, corner of Main and Fu'lh Ms. ATTORNEYS. . H. WIIKKLF.R, J. W. STINCHCOMB. Vi'liceler & SMncliconib, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, 4'J-ly Plattsmoulh, Nebraska. SAM. M. CIIAI'MAX. H. T. MAXWKLL. C'Isnpiiiuii & M;xvell. ATTOHNKYS AT LAW and Solicitors In Chancery. Oiliee in Fitzgerald's Block, Flatts moutli, Nebraska. OKO. 8. SMITH, B. II. WISDnAM, SMITH Si. WIXDZIAM. Successors to Mariuett, Smith, & Starbird, Attorneysat Law d-Real Estate Brokers I'LATTSMOUTH, ... KKB. Special attention (riven to Collections, and all matters affect ing tin: 'title to Real Estate. Office on 2d floor, over the Tost Office. Ofiicial Directory. T. XV. Tijrton, Brownville. 1. W. Hitchcock, Omaha. 44. viuuiiin;, a- k. tiuuuuu CONGRESSIONAL. F. S. Senator. U. S. Senator. , . . Representative. EXECUTIVE. It. W. Furnas, Brownville J. J. Gosper, Lincoln .1. 15. Weston, Beatrice H. A. Ko-nig. Columbus J. It. Webster, Crete Att'y Gen J. M. McKenzie, Lincoln. ..Sup't Pub. Instruc'n Governor. .Sec'y of State. Auditor. Treasurer. PHYSICIANS. Kit. LIVINGSTON. Physician and Surgeon, Tenders his irofessional services to the citizens of Cass county. Residence southeast corner of Oak and Sixth streets ; office on Main treet. one door west of Lyman's Lumber Yard, Plattsmouth, Nebraska. INSURANCE. "WIIEKLKK & BENNETT Heal Estate and ' Taxpaying Agents. Notaries I"nblic. Fire and Life Insurance Agents, Plattsmouth, Xeh. 1MIELPS PA IN E General Insurance A Kent, Represents some of the. most reliable Com panies in the Cnited States. Jan7- tt HOTELS. BROOKS HOUSE, JOHN FITZGERALD, Proprietor. ilain Street, between Fiftli & Sixth. MISCELLANEOUS. IMatlKiuouCi Itlills. CHEISEL. Proprietor. Have recently been repaired and placed in thorough running order, loo.noo Bushels of Wheat wanted imme diately for which the highest market price will he paid. ATtsiriaclS of Tillo. rnnn NCMEKICAL SYSTEM The best in l i-e For descriptive elreul.-ir-;. address. AC K ICS. P.LAC K M R .S: CO.. iJitriuigiou, io it . GREENHOUSE AND PLANTS. REDDING Time and money saved by ordering of rue. I have the largest ami best collection of Plants ver offered for sale in the West. Catalogues free. Sweet Potato. Cabbage. 'ioniato, and oth er Plants for sale in their season. Addiess V. . J. HESSEU. Plattsniouth. Neb. Ar'iits Wanted. roil A BOOK NEEDED BY ALL E"ja.3IlrZE5:S ! The best books published on the Horse and the Cow. Liberal terms. Money made rapialy lv cents selling these books. Send for circu lars. POKTEU & COATES. Publishers, Philadelphia. Pa. ABT GALLERY. f jr-Pliotoirraphs. Anibrotypes and copies from old pielures. plain or colored, cither in ink tvatcror oil. All work neatly executed and war ranted to give satisfaction. V. V. LEONARD. Artist. IO-tX Main St., Flattsmouth, Neb. "NEW DRUG STORE. M'KKriNa v.Tr.it, xr.n. POTTER & GAFFNEY, DE VLF.RS IN DRCOS. MEDICINES. PAINTS, OILS. VARNISH. PEKFCMEIiY, STATIONERY. NOTIONS, cit'ARs. to:;acco. AND tiLASS. rf-Preser! ptions carefully prepared. Itf. L. GOLDING, Dealer In CLOTHING. FCRNISIIING GOODS. HATS, CPS. P.OOTS. SHOES. THI NKS, VALISES. CARPET BAGS, &c. &c, &c, &e. One of the oldest and most Reliable Houses In IMattsmoutli. Main street, between Fourth and Fiftli. S3-REMEMBEH THE PLACE. n8-tf. NEW STYLES. F. L. ELS1ER, Merchant Tailor 1 In receipt of the finest and BEST ASSORTMENT '? VSSIMERES. CLOTHS. VESTINC.S. SCOTCH UtKH'S, IRISH FRI ICSES, &c. In fact the lanrest and lst assortment itf Cloths ever brought to this city, which 1 mil preiared to make up in the latest Myles t all and examine Good.. aprilin. MrsA. D. Whitcomb, DRESS AND CLOAK MAKER. Rooms three doors west of p.rooks House. CUTTING AND FITTING MADE A SPECIALTY. I r- Patterns of all kind constantly ou hand " 2G-iy. " J. V. SHANNON'S FEED, SALE, ct- LIVERY STABLE. Main street, riattsmouth, Neb. I am prepared to accommodate the public with Horses, Carriages. i;,,es,aS.ms. aXo inearse On short notice and reasonable terms A Hack will run to the Steamboat Landing, LHpot and all parts of the city when desired. jaultf. Good resli milk : delivered daily at every body's home in riattsmouth, if they want it. by J F. Beaumeister. Send In jour orders and I will try and give you apd serve you rtijuhsily. 1?-!- Jl'DICIAKV, fleo. It. Tike, Omaha Chief Justice. Daniel Gantt. Nebraska City, Assi l ite TusCs Samuel Maxwell, Platts'th, f Associate Just s. rLATTSMOUTII. R. It. Livingston Mayor. 1'helps I'aine City Clerk. Win. Winterstein City Treasurer. J. W. Haines Police Judge. Miles Morgan Marshal. D. N.Johnson Street Commissioner. ALDERMAN. Fikst Ward. J. Fitzgerald, n. S. Newman. Snxisiii Wari. J. Wayman. O. Nichols. Thiki Wakd. K. C. Cushing.Thos. l'ollock. Fourth Wahu. R. Vivian, L. F. Johnson. II. F. Ellison Dan'l McKinnoii W. L. Hobbs V. W. Wise Jacob Vail cry, i. l laritc I.vnian Jam J. W. Thoimis CASS COUNTY. Probate Judge. County Clerk. Treasurer. Sup't Iub. Instruct'!!. Vry'... nes, ) . . .CouiityfJoiiunissioners. Coroner. Churches. BAPTIST On the corner of Main and Ninth, Rev. T. J. Arnold. Pastor. Services every Sabbath. at 11 a. in. and 7 p. in. Sabbath School at 94 a. in. Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening. CHRISTIAN Service in Congregation Church at 11 a. m. and 6 : 30 p. in. Corner of Locust and fth streets. Cordial invitation extended to all classes to attend. Tj'PISCOPAI-Corner Vine and Third streets. -itiinisier. nervices every .-unuay ai 11 :a. m. and 8 p. in. Sunday school at 3 p. in. CATHOLIC North side of Public Square. Rev. Father Bohal. First Mass every Sabbath at -30 k in.. Second Ma.ss and sermon at ln-30. Veap -rs and Beiieiliction at 7 p. m. Mass at 8 a. iu. every week day. THIRST PRESBYTERIAN North side of Main x street, west of uih. Rev. W. T. Bartle ; Ser vices even. Sabbath at 11 a. m. and7 p.m. Sabbath School at 9-3n a. m. IYayer meeting every Wednesday evening ut 8 o'clock. -West side of fith Rev. C. McKcIviey Pastor. Services every haiiatn. at m a. m., and 7 p. in. Prayer meeting every Thursday evening. Class nieeting every Monday evening, and immediately after close of Sabbath morn ing services. Sabbath School at 2 X), M. li. Reese, Superintcndant. tlONTAG den 24 September hat die Deutsche Ev. Liit.h. Gemeinds in ilireui Schulhatis vor niittags um 11 Vhr (Jotteodienst. Ceberhaiipt tiiKiet derselbe von Jetzt an regelinaessig alle 14 Tage statt. Minister, Kev. L. Hanuawafd. SSibbaih scliool at 1 p. in., Prof. d'Allemand, Superintendent. -TETHODIST EPISCOPAL street sonfti of Mam. Lodges. T O. o. F. R'-gular meetings of riatto Ixidge No. 7. I. O. O. F. every Thursday evening at odd Fellows flail. Transient Brothers are cor diallv invited to visit. K E, CLNNINGIIAM, N. G. CS Vlkx. Schi.i::i:i., Secretary. T O. O. F. I'LATTSMOUTH EXCAMPMKXT No. -1 3. ReL'iihir Convocations the 2il nud 4th Friday's of each month at Odd Fellows' Hall corner. 'lit and Main streets. Transient Patri archs cordially inited to visit. II. J, STREIGITT, C. P. II. Nkwmam, Scribe. . MASONIC ri.ATTSMOUTH LOIXJK NO. 6, A. F. & A. M. Regular meetings at their Hall on the first and third Monday evenings of each month. Transient brethren invited to visit. It. R. LIVINGSTON, W. M. A. d'AM.F.MAxn, Sec. ' AfACOY LOLGE No. 22. A. F. & A. M. Retru--L,J- lar meetings at Macoy Hall, first and third Fridays J. N. WISE, W. M. J. M Ur?Anrsi.F.Y. See. NEBRASKA CHAPTER No 3. It. A. M. Tteg ular Convocations second and fourth Tues day evenings of each month at 7'4 o'clock p. m. R. It. LIVINGSTON. II. P. II. Newman, Sec. T O. G. T. OLIVE BRANCH. No. 2. J. Ph. Young. W. C.T.: D. D. Martindale. W. See. ; T. W. Shryock. Lodge Deputy, meets at Clark & Plummer's Hall every Tuesday eve ning. Travelling Templars rcsjiecttully invited. rpi'RN VEREIN. The Turner Society meets at -- Turners' HhII in Guthmau's liloc'k, on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. A. Von Seh wanenberg. President ; George Kareher. Vice President : 11. Newman, Treas urer; W. Breed. Recording Secretary: Paul Braidseh. Correspondidg Secretary ; tVllliam Hassler. First Tuni Wart ; John Buns, Second Tuni Wart ; Oswald C.utlimau, Warden. Purissima et Optima. Tliis unrivalled Medicine is warranted not to contain a single particle of Mercury, or any in jurious mineral substance, but is PURELY VEGATABLE. For forty years it has proved its great value in all diseases of the Liver. Bowels and Kidneys Thousands of the good and great in all parts of the country vouch for its wonderful and ccii!iar power in purifying the blood, stimulating the torpid liver and bowels, and imparting new life mm vigor to the whole system. Simmons' Liv er Regulator is acknowledged to have no equal as a LIVER MEDICINE, It contains four medical elements, never unit ed in the same happy proportion in any other preparation, viz ; ag -ntle Cathartic, a wonder ful Tonic, an un-ex cpiionable Alterative and a certain Corrective of all impurities of the body. Such signal success has attended its use, that 'it is now regarded as the GREAT UNFAILING SPECIFIC, for Liver Complaint ami the painful offspring thereof. to-wit : Dyspepsia. Constipation, Depression . of Spirits, Sour Stomach, Heart Burn. &c. &e. . lieguiate the Liver and prevent CHILLS AND FEVER. Trepared only by J. H. ZEILIN & CO. Druggists. Macon. Ga. Send for a Circular i and oJ! Arch street. Price 1. by mail 1.25 Philadelphia Pa. J. H. Buttery, riattsmouth. Neb. For Sale by janl-wly MONEY SAVED Buying Your Greenhous3 and Bedding Plants AT THE Picnic Gardens, "T)ONT send East for Plants when you can get just as good for less money nearer home. To my numerous friends and patrans 1 would say that I have the largest and best stock of plants ever uttered for sale in the West, and at reasonable prices. Be sure and send for my Sew Descriptive Catalogue. whieh will bo sent Tree to all who applv for it. Then give me your orders, and I feel confident I l can saiirjv you. AddrvS W.J. HESSER. PinttsmouriiTNe el. "ST. NICHOLAS" -AND- "OUK YOUNG FOLKS The publishers of the St. Nicholas, Scribner'i Illustrated Magazine for Girls and Boys, take pleasure in announcing tnat by an arrangement with Messrs. J. 8. Osgood & Co., their popular .magazine "Our Young Folks" HAS BEEN MERGED IN ST. NICHOLAS. In addition to the striking novelties and great literary and artistic attractions already offered by "St. Nicholas." the best features of uur loung ir oiks will be retained. "SLNieho las nas been enlarged, new contributions have ueen secured ; among them A SERIAL B- ST0RYt J. T. TROWBRIDGE, Late Editor of -'Our Y oung Folks," which be gins in the present number. Other Enunen W nters well known to the readers of "Our i oung i oiks" have been engaged. We are thus enabled to present to the puulic a Magazine for leci iu any ever oeioie jiuunsneu. Three Splendid Serial Stories : "IVftat mvjht hate been Expected," A Story for Boys, By FRANK R. STOCKTON, Author of "Ting-a-ling," "Houuefabout Ram bles." etc. Mr. StocKiuu is oue of the best of our American Writers. The scene of the story is laid in Virginia. The boy-hero has started out with a gun on his shoulder, and we may be sure there will be no end ol tun and ad ventures. 'NIMPO'S TROUBLES," A Story for GUIs, By OLIVETHORN (Mrs. Harriet M. Miller), A great favorite with the cuildren. It is a good strong, wiiolcsoinc story of girl life, and will be mil 01 laierest tor uoin ooys auu gina. -PAST F1HENDS," By J. T. Trowbridge. One of the most popular writers for young folks in America. Iteaders of'"Jack Hazard,', "A Chance for Himself," and "Doing his Best," will understand what a capital treat is in store for them in Mr. Trowbridge's new story. All Vitse Stories will be splendidly llnistrated. "JIMMYJOHN STORIES." By Mrs. Abxiy mohtoh Diaz, Author of "The William Henry Letters," "Wil ltaui Henrvand His Friends." and." Lucy Maria' iwho lias tlie rare and happy gilt of knowing how to delight young peopie; will appear during tue year, mere win also ie isuoiter stones, Papers on Science and History, Natural History Wild Sports and Adventures, Sketches of Travel Fairy I ales. Poems. Puzzles, Charades, Jingles. Fun ami Fancy. Instruction. Entertainment and Delight. Something for all. from Father and Mother to the Babv. The Illustrations will be the best that the Artists of two continents can supply, and will be printed with the greatest care. FOR VERY LITTLE FOLKS. Our pages in big type and easy words for the youngest readers, w hich have been "a hit" from the first, will be continued. The children will be glad to know also, that the department of J A CK-IN-TIIE-P ULPIT Is to be a x'crmanent feature of the magazine. Jack will tell some of the moyt curious things evr heard, and make himself generally enter taining. We have undertaken to make the best maga zine possible, for the little folks, as well as those who are older. Eyery number of Sli Nicholas will contain good reading matter for girls and boys of all ages, besides a good deal of hearty and innocent inn. Christinas comes but once a year, but St. Nicholas, the new magazine Tor girls and boys, comes every month. It has already won the hearts of the young folks, and the little children are crying for St. Nicholas. We Want 100,000 Children and Youth Made Happy, By St. Nicholas at the Holidays. St. Nicholas, as enlarged, contains one-third more matter than Our Young Folks, thus giving a great variety for all. With its great Literary and Pictorial attractions, and its beautiful Printing, it will be found to be the Cheapest Magazine in the World. Subscription Price, 3 a Year. The two back numbers for November and December, '73, will be sent to all subscribers for '74 without ad ditional charge. Four Months for One Dollar ; 25 cts. a Number. For sale, and subscriptions received by all Book-sellers & News Dealers on the above terms. Money may be sent to us In checks payable to our order, or in Post Otiice Money Orders, or in Registered Letters. Money in Letters not Reg istered, at sender's risk. SCRIBNER & CO.. 654 Broadway, New York. PROSPECTUS -OF THE- CHICAGO WEEKLY MAIL. THE EVENING MAIL COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. The Weekly Mail Is published every Thursday at the following subscription mice : 5 1 50 . . 6 2S .. ia oo . . 20 00 at club One Cod v. Six Months One Copy One Y'ear Five Copies, One Y'ear Ten Copies, One Y'ear Twenty Copies, One Year Singh; subscriptions may be added rates after club is formed. Postmasters may retain 15 per cent on all subscriptions. Postage on The Weekly Mail is Twenty Cents a year or Five Cents a quarter, payable at the Post Oftice where received. Every subscriber sending in his name now, with money, will have the paper sent Free the balance of the year 1873. For the Herald. IMPROVISATION. BY "JUNIUS.' Our Intention is" to make The Mail a Live Re publican Newspaper, well worth the money. We shall give special attention to the Markets, giving our readers from week to week informa tion as to prices of all Farm Products, and. in short, a general reliable and full Market Re port. We shall also strive to give you the Political, Financial. Religious, ami Secular news of the day iu a concise and intelligent manner. The Mail has become the especial advocate of the laboring Classes, and from time to time will publish letters from eminent men on the sub ject of Labor Reform ; and, of necessity, will be opposed to all forms of MONOPOLIES, the sub j"ct of which is 4puw interesting all classes of persons. In everjT number will be found one or more Literary Articles, Stories, etc., from the best writers. To single subscribers who will send ns $1.50 we will send The Mail for Oue Year and a codv of a new School Book, just published, and highly endorsed by the best authorities in our State, called. "The Constitution of the United States," bv Geo. S. Williams, A. M. "This Book contains the full text o the United States Constitution, with its amendments : a perfect copy of the new Constitution of Illinois of 1S70. and the School Manual of over 100 pages with Washington's Farewell Address, and the Articles of Confederation. The Appendix contains a summary statement of the formation of the State Governments, and of the admission of the States into the Union, with an exhaustive, index, enabling the reader to refer to the treatment of any subject contain ed in the Constitution. Making in all a book of over 300 pages, on tinted paper, and well bound. Every man and every boy suould have it. Ad dress : WM. TAYLOR, 38-.V6 Busness Manager. 123 Fifth Avenue, Chicago. FOll THE HERALD: Oh 1 that language the emotions of the heart , could express, Or the rapturous feelings portray of a loved ones caress ; Aye ! even the transporting joy from the realms of bliss, Made manifest so plain in the soul-stirring kiss. Oh ! that the spark of love darting swift from the eye, Even more rapid than the winged bir from on high. Could but coin expression its own ; its patient meaning explain, Twere their lovers meetings were an Eden again. 'T would then be but Joy in unalloyed converse so sweet. To hold communion of thought, with affection greet, ' The out-gushing sentiments which crimson the lips. And o'erflows the f ountaiu where Cupid sips. Yes, quaffing loves nectar flowing fresh from the heart, Would ne'er from such happiness fain ever part. Aye, more ! for perfect confidence to eacli other given, His arrows of love, were still deeper driven. WHAT CAN WOMEN DO J BY" MRS. A. M. FREEMAN. Solomon Drawn had five daughters. The oldest of these was twenty-six, the youngest seventeen. In some of the neatnen countries it is considered a misfortune when a girl is born. Solo mon Brown's mind may have been col ored with tins heathenism though he owned a pew in the church, and con tributed conscientiously to the dona tions for he shook his head in solemn disapproval as his family increased, de claring that inrls were, and had been since the world began, a failure. Dear little Mrs. Brown emphatically declared her skepticism as to this broad assertion, saying with some spir it, "that the cirls could not be dis pensed with, and as the great Father had seen fit to create them, it must have been with' the consciousness that they might be pronounced good. Of course they were good. bhe would just ask Mr. Brown, what there was, that might be said truthfully, in dis paragement of their own children ? "If they were boys, L.ucv, savs Brown, footing up a dry goods bill, they would be self-supporting. If, for instance, Matilda had been named Solomon and, you know, that name ha3 fallen to the eldest in our family for generations she, or he rather, might have learned a trade, and would now be able, not onlv to care for him self but to render needful assistance to the family. I am sure, I never blamed Betsey Trotwood, though I didn't un derstand her, that she couldn't forgive David for not being a girl. I have never forgiven one of my girls that they disappointed vie." "Dear me, Solomon, cm sure the girls are doing the best they can. Ma tilda is a very good dress maker ." "Boshr cries Solomon, impatiently, "the country is overrun with dress makers. I tell you all this feathers, fuss and Hummer' is ruining us that is tne people. Don t 3 011 understand every additional girl is an additional burden to some one? How much do you suppose, Lucy, I paid out for ril- bons last year? Only one hundred dollars?" 'But, my husband, there were five of the girls you know, not counting my self, and that makes twenty dollars only, for each. I am sure that isn't ex travagant at all. There's deacon Smart's Sallie paid that much for one ioman sash. Our girls are very handy about turning their things, and fixing them up as good as new. There were only tvvent)r-four yards in the dears' dresses this spring that is in the dress of each while Mrs. Million used thirtyfive, and I must say that our girls' were much the prettiest. 'Aim would have been prettier still if they'd been made out of eight," growled Solomon, desperately footing up the accounts again. 1 igures are obstinate facts. Solo mon, in lacing the sum total or united columns, became an obstinate man. T tell you, Lucy, we can t go in this way, that s certain. Something must be done. Why don't they get mar ried? But that was a useless question, for this was a New England State, and there were several thousand more women than men, and as one man was a'lowed only one wife, it was quite im possible that all could be provide!! with a husband. "Dear me, Solomon," said the little wife, smiling humorously. "You for get that this isn't Utah that there is aotually no one to whom we may seal the darlings ; that you, yourself, would quite disapprove of their going husband-hunting." Now, while Solomon had been talk ing thus coinplainingly and confiden tially, to his wife, his five unappre ciated daughters had been listening from the next room. "The old bear," cried Matilda, the oldest, under her breath. "Poor papa," said Lucy, the youngest, her blue eyes full of tears, "Poor papa, indeed," snapped out the second sister. "I do . believe he be grudges us the bird's allowance which we eat." "Bird's allowance! Josephine. I'm sure there isn't a heartier family of girls in this country than ours. No Canary's portion would do for me of that I'm sure! I do think it a shame, that five great girls, able to work an we are, should depend upon one little, old broken down man, for their sup port. Come now, Tilda, isn't it ridicu lous? Don't you think that we might do something?" "I'm sure," Matilda said, "that I've been trying just the best that I knew how. You know I bought the ma chine, and then then " "Well," Lucy said, laughing, "poor papa had to make the payments on it." "I'm sure I couldn't help that, be cause I had expected to get plenty of sewing to do, and sewing you see "Is a drug in the market No Tilda, and Josephine, and Sarah, and Flora, all of those pretty, traditional ways of a woman turning an honest penny are out of date. I've been thinking this over, and I've made up my mind. Come girls will you stand by me? Have you the courage to lay aside your dainty slippers, to encase your feet in heavy shoes; to let the sun kiss brown freckles on your face, in fact to wear a bloomer?" "A bloomer," the four cried together. "Yes, my dears, for of course the work, that I have laid out for us to do, couldn't be done in trains. I have been thinking that we had better take Jacob Sloan's farm for a year," and Miss Lucy, as she spoke, opened her pocket knife and commenced whittling a bit of stick in true Yankee style. "Jacob "Sloam's farm!" they cried aghast. "Yes, dears, I was over talking to Jacob yesterday, and he's quite delight ed that we should have thought o? making the experiment. He is sure, he says, that it will be a success. Only think, girls, how nice it would be, if we could help the old father now, af ter all of the trouble he has had with us! And what a triumph, too, if we could prove to him, that girls are blessing, at least: if not exactly that still worth being born. What say you ? Will vou put your names to the con tract? Come now, don't be cowardly, nor try to find excuses for shirking a duty. Jacob never had five more able- bodied people than we are.' "But what will the world say ? And then, dear Lucy, j'ou have had an offer you ki?ow. ill Frank Lawler be sat isfied that his future wife should en gage iu an unladylike occupation?" "If he is dissatished that a woman should do what she may do well, I'm very glad to have an opportunity of learning it before I'm Mrs. Frank Law ler, instead of Lucy Brown. If I have girls, you may rest assured that they shall be self-supporting, quite inde pendent of outside help towards gain ing a livelihood. If they have a talent for music above the ordinary posses sion, they may become teachers : if not, they will not spend four hours a day, in useless beating of their white, help less fingers against some ill-used piano keys. If they are greatly gifted with superior intelligence, they may go into the professions, if not, they will learn trades I don't mean milliners and dress-makers, and so on but nice little light trades, like watch-making, and engraving, and drafting, and, indeed, heavier ones, if they have tlie muscle. We all have muscle. There is no ex cuse that we should remain idle. The world is full of work, and I can't un derstand why any honest calling should be unwomanly. Come girls, let us go and sign the contract, which binds us to work old Jacob's farm." "Dear me, Solomon," said the wife Lucy, iu the evening, "you could never guess what those girls have done." "Perhaps purchased each a new silk," growled Solomon, without lifting his eyes from his paper. "No, indeed, not," cried the wife in dignantly. "They've rented Jacob Sloain's farm-eighty acres, and twenty of it in fruit." "What," cried Solomon, the paper falling helplessly at his feet. "You don't surely mean oar girls, not Matil da, and Josephine, and Sarah, and Flo ra, and Lucy ?" "I mean no one else's girls surely," tire wife replied, a little crossly. "They take possession in tlie morning. Jacob Sloam is to hnd everything, and thev are to have one-half. "I'll just tell you, Lucy, what it is. This is the most consummate piece of humbug I ever heard of. It will be a dead failure, and they'll make them selves the laughing stock of the neigh borhood. Farming, indeed? Why Tilda is that afraid of her hands that she never sweeps even, without gloves ; and Flora wraps her head in a towel to dust. I've, seen Josephine do the the spring and Solomon will enter a hundred and sixty acres iu his own name, which in reality will belong to his daughters, as it will be purchased with the profits of their farming Jacob Sloam's land. J AN L All Y MEETING 1S74, STAE BOARD OF AGItlCULTUUI. At the Grand Central, Omaha, Wednes day, January, 7th, 1S7I. breakfast things with the dish rag clinging to a fork, and Sarah wraps her fingers with a bit of cloth, each one separately if she has vegetables to pre pare. Brave farmers they will make!" And Solomon Brown went back to his prper with a scornful chuckle.. Soloman, too, was some or a logy. Women were women, and women they must remain until the end of the chap ter. A great pity, he had often said, that it was so, but nature could not be tortured out of her old, well worn channels by education. Eve, he con sidered as having been a vicious sort of little body, bending poor Adam's nose down close to the grindstone, and there her daughter's had relentlessly held it, through all the long years since, that first tragedy. Solomon believed in progression. lie thought that the sciences might be better understood, that new discoveries were to be made; that the Atlantic would be crossed in a balloon; but Solomon's radicalism didn't include the possibilities of the coining women. She was to be what she had been from the beginning: So he pooh-poohed at Lis daugher's farming, not believing that any good thing she 'l come out of Nazareth. It was an up hill road to those five dainty daughters of Solomon Brown's. But in.one thing they resembled their father." They were obstinate, and when they learned his prediction as to their failure, they were quite detenn ed not to fail. They were up.early and worked late. Their strawberries were a success. They gave employment to quite a num ber of girls in the village in gathering their sm;ill fruits, thus recognizing the true policy, that women must help each other. They kept one hired man, and under his instructions these young la dies learned to turn a ready hand to all kind of farm labor. Old Solomon Brown's "pooh-poohs." grew less emphatic and he began to speak with a sort of shame-faced pride of "Our girls' place." Then when the fame of the.S9 women farmers Lad traveled far, and people came from a distance to inspect personally their success, Solomon began to feel proud in saying, ,"Yes sir, they are my girls." "Your girls are all boys then ?" said one smiling, quoting Itip Van Winkle. "Just as good as boys," said Solomon Brown blushing, at the retraction of old sentiments. But theories must fall before convictions, and well filled wheat, fine t potatoes, good corn, etc., were more convincing to Solomon .of his daughters worth, than volumes favoring the "Subjection of Woman. Solomon Brown's daughters still hold Jacob Slom's farm. Lucy the youngest, is married to Frank Lawler, but instead of her going home to him, as is the manner of the world, he came home to her. Under the homestead laws a woman that isn't at the head of a family that is a widow cannot pre-empt land. If this was not the case, I do believe, that one of Solomon Brown's girls would go west and take up a piece of land. As it Is, they are all going in The regular annual nieeting of the Ne braska State Board of Agriculture will transpire at the Grand Central Hotel in the city of Omaha, on Wednesday, January Tth, 18d4, 2 o'clock p. m. The members of the Board are as follows: MEMBERS WHOSE TKKM OF OFFICE EX PIKE IN 1874. D II Wheeler J W Moore J H Gregg N W Welles M Stocking II Rhodes J W Holt M Dunham II (2 Stiver F A Tisdel F M Diniiinny John Keith IIP Coolidge J as M Woods. MEMBERS WHOSE TEUMS OF OFFICE EX PIKE IN 1875. Judge O P Mason Gov R W Furnas II C Addis m J T Allen W II Ely J D Moore Silas Gaiber J Sterling Morton. Gen J S Brishiu C II Winslow J Vallery G P Eaton -R Daniels G C Barton O II Irish And each member is urged to lie in prompt attendance at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the day above named. Arrangements have been made for ac commodation of the Board, and a room for their meetings at the hotel named, whic'i will probably prove satisfactory to all concerned. Business of supreme importance in regard to the State Fair for the com ing j'ear will be taken under advise ment. Every earnest man who desires to demonstrate, by the exhibition of our soil-products, and our improved breeds of domestic animals, the fact that, in proportion to its age, Nebiiiska, Agriculturally, is the foremost State in the American Union, will, I am quite certain, do all in his power to fa cilitate tlie State Board in making the State Fair a complete success. The January meeting will determine when and where that fair is to be held. It will arrange the premiums lists. It will fix the price of admission to the grounds during the Fair. It will, if fully attended by its members, they having severally given the matter that thought which its importance merits, dictate an agricultural and horticultur al exposition for 1S74 which shall be a glory to our soil and climate and an al lurement to intelligent and indus trious men everywhere, to como here and make unto themselves new and happy homes. The President of each County Socie ty, or delegate therefrom duly author ized, who shall for the time being, be exejjiao members of the State Board of Agriculture, for the purpose of delib erating and consulting as to the wants, prospects and condition of the Agricul tural interests of the State. J. Sterling Morton, President Nebraska State Board of Ag riculture Nebraska City, Nov. 24th, 1873. Attest: Dan'l II. Wheeler, Secretary. Newspapers throughout the State, who have faith in this cause and can ifford to publish tnis notice for the sake of the cause, gratuitosly, are respetfully .'sked to demonstrate "their faith by then work," and publish the same immediately and until January 7th, 1874. J. Sterling Morton, Pres t. LETTER FROM NEBRASKA. I We are sometimes heard from abroad as witness the loiiowing, trom the Lancaster, (Ohio) Gazette : PLATTSMOCTn, NEB., November 18th, 1S73. J Dear Gazette. This fall to this date I am informed is an average for Nebraska, so far as the weather is con cerned, and up to this date it has been one of the most pleasant I ever exie rienced; perhaps fifteen, certainly not to exceed twenty days, have been cold enougn to require lire in tne omces. We had one little skiff of snow that fell on the night of October 23th there v as not an inch of it and by the 27th ult., it was melted and the weather delightful until one day last week it blew up a squall, and nearly, though not quite, covered the ground with snow, that lay, perhaps, fifteen minutes. The churches have been comfortable for the last two Sabbaths without fire. Think of it a fall pass ing away into winter without mud, and drizzly cold rains folio wed by cold, damp, chilly days, and then freezing up your mud; but it is a continuation of dry weather. Last night we had a rain of perhaps ten minutes; but to-day the roads are dusty, and a week's steady rain would not inake muddy roads. This morning was the coldest this fall the thermometer standing at 22 deg. above zero, or ten below freezing but now it is wanning up (noon) and by to-morrow the old settlers here tell mo that they look for the nice, pleasant weather again, which they exiect, with an occasional blow of a day or so as exceptions, to last up to the holi days. Nebraska, after over a.jrear's residence, I pronounce, all things con sidered, tlie finest climate I Uave ever seen. The air is pure and invigorating and all seem to enjoy it. Game is very plenty : quaiis in vast quantities; prairie chickens more plenty than ever known; wild turkeys in large droves and wild geese and ducks ily over our city morning and evening by the hundreds, and it is rare sport to see the hunters shoot them on the wing. Some of them kill as high as five to ten wild geese in a day. The geese will stay until winter sets in in good earnest. A few deer are found in this part of the State, and as you get bacic from the Missouri river deer become very plenty as also antelope, elk and buffalo. Our market is now well supplied with an telope, elk and buffalo meat, the rarest and best selling at 15 cents per lb. This point is one of the main cross ings of the Missouri river into Nebras ka, as there is a good ferry here, and it i3 also the crossing of the Burlington and Missouri river ' railroad; though the road is now leased by the C B. & Q. Co.; and let me say that the road is well managed and is doing a good bus iness. The immigration to this State this fall has been enormous, both by wagon and by railroad. Not a dav that more or less wagons have not passed through here ; some days as high as oil have been counted, and not a passenger train but brings on an average of 2 to a ful car load; and you will remember that this is only one of the many routes into our State. Many of these immi grants are homesteaders with small means, who will go 200 miles west of here, homestead their land, and for a year or two live in sod houses, see hard times, but learn economy, and after two seasons, if they shall have been in dustrious, they will bo independent and own a farm of 1(13 acres of rich, productive land. Another class who have a little more means, say $1,000 and upwards, after their arrival here stop in eastern Nebraska, buy out some one who has a farm pretty well opened up, ami then commence to live at once. The land in eastern Nebraska, and for a distance of 100 to 150 miles back, is the richest I have ever seen, and the result is tlie wheat crop averaged this season 20 bushels to the acre; many fields turning out 40 bushels per acre. If the crop is properly saved, (as wheat only sells for about 18 cents per bushel under Chicago prices), farmers can see at once that wheat-raising must ulti mately be profitable in this State. So, too, with corn; .for, in my judgment, Nebraska will prove to be one of tlie finest corn-growing countries In the world, the soil and the seasons both be ing favorable. And then it makes no difference whether corn is gathered in the fall or not, as there is no wet weather to hurt until the following April ; hence, corn can be fed to either cattle or hogs in the field during the winter. Hay costs only 83.50 to S4.O0 per ton, and during grass season cattle can be pastured for the expense of herding; so that cattle and hog raising are already profitable, and it seems to me this dry climate and soil must make it a fine sheep raising country its well. Already large Hocks of sheep are in different portions of the State, and give evidence of health to the sheep. If I was coming to Nebraska to farm and had :?1,000 in money, I would stop in this (Cass) county, or some one of the river counties and buy 80 acres of prairie land, which can now be had for about from 80 to 88 per acre ; and I would do so because the soil is so rich and deep, and running water is found all over tlie eastern part of the State, as also innumerable springs of pure, clear water. Plattsmouth is one of the best grain markets in the State. The St. Joo & Council Bluffs road crosses the Bur lington and Missouri River. Railroad some three miles east of here; but the bottoms of the Missouri river extend beyond the junction on the Missouri side, and are so low that but for the distance it would be equal to a junc tion on the opposite side of the river; but by some chicanery and special leg islation, the transfer company cliarges 50 cents for every passenger who crosses the Missouri, and 810 for every car, so that the junction might as well be tit a distance of 10 or 15 miles. But time will root out some of these mo nopolies, and in all conscience it is time the rooter was at work. I am so often .asked by letter from that region, which way to come to Ne braska, that I will tell your readers: Go to Columbus or Cincinnati and get a ticket to Indianapolis; thence via Peoria, Ills., Burlington, Iowa, known as the C. B. & Q. route; thence by the B. & M. to Plattsmouth or Omaha, or Lincoln. If your ticket is to Lincoln, you can run up to Council Bluffs and Omaha, and then run down on this side of the river and stop at Plattsmouth. In my next I will give an account of the Republican Valley. J. W. Stinciicomb. WILD HORSES IN MARYLAND. SHERIDAN'S The great poem was written under peculiar circumstances. It was in 1804. I tell the story as they told it to me. There was to be a great war meeting at Pike's Opera-house, in Cincinnati, and James E. M unlock was to speak In the afternoon he called at T. Bu chanan Readc's studio and asked if he couldn't write something for him to read that evening. "What, to-night" exclaimed Read. "Yes, to-night, and I must have it." said Murdock. "But. the devil! I can't think of anything. "What! can't think of anything about Phil. Sheridan and Sherman and Grant? can't ?" "Yes, Murdock, here's the twenty mile ride f little Phil's from Harper's Ferry down to Winchester, telegraphed in the Times and Chronnle this morn ing I'll write about that." Then the poet took a few decoction3 of strong tea, which Mrs. Reado always gives him, .and in an hour out cams tho ride "Sheridan's Ride!" That night Murdock appeared at the Opera house. He tol l the audience how at 4 p. m. he had met a gentlemen who said he couldn't write anything about b'.iciidan. (Then they all stood up a:id shouted for Sheridan, for his famous ride and victory over Early was in every mouth), "What?" said I "can't you sayjsomething about Phil', Sheridan not a word for Winchester?,, "The gentleman," continued Murdock. "commenced writing, and a few mo ments ago Thom.i3 Buchanan Reade handed me this for gallant Phil. Sheri dan." There was a thunder of applause, while the audienco stood on tiptoe some with the very telegram of Sheri dan's exploit in their hand and list ened to tlie patriotic, fiery Murdock as he read : Up from the South st brer.k of day. Bringing; to Winchester fresh dismay. The affrighted air with a shudder bore. Like a herald in haste to tlie chieftain's door, The terrible rumble and rumble and roar. Telling the battle was on once more. And Sheridan twenty miles away, etc. There was a terrible applause, and the whole audience shouted, some with their hats in the air and some with patriotic tears streaming down their cheeks. And then Murdock was called out to read "Sheridan's Ride" again, then again, and, in fact, the famous loem was the begiuning and the end of the evening. The same engine grinds sausage and paper. at Spen cet, Mass. prints tho village Their Oriffian, Habits, and Singular History. The Baltimere American tells us' that there is a colony of wild horse of the pony variety in the salt marsh- es of Chincoteauge, an Island within ten miles of tho eastern coast of Mary land. Theso horses, it seems,' hav a pedigree which makes up in age what it may lack in other qualities; for tradition ascribes their origin to it pair of ponies imported from England by a Virginian of tho F. F. V. sort,v some 20;) years ago, but which left a wreck in disgust and were' washed ashore off Asatcaguo Beach. From these two ponies have descended tho wild horses now careering over the sand hills iu th.it locality. Until within the present century those ponies were not not considered worth claiming or catching, and they were allowed to grazo at their own sweet will. But, a:i the pusture-grouud passed into the ownership of a class of herdsman, it became the fashion to lasso the little wild horses and brand them with marks of ownership. At present the islands is said to con tain about five hundred of these dim inutive horses, who travel in herds', and liear the brands of verious owners. So methirty persons live on the island and laini to own all this wild stock in lots r herds of from ten to 100 head. We quote from the American some interesting dotailes respecting these wild ponies, their habits, and their ex periences : Each herd is governed by a male-- sort of equine autocrat whos author- ity is surpremci. In former times he fought his way up to the position of . patriarch by thrashing all his rivals, -sometimes driving them into the sea, -where they were drowned. All usur pers wers remorselessly expelled from the herd, and if they were not killed they became bold bandits, and hung about the marshes, capturing sucti unwary females :is happened to stray too far from their proprietors. With these they founded new herds, and be came prosperous patriarchs them selves. Tho great day on the island is "pen ning day," although of late it has lost some of its holiday attractions. For merly tho women, as well as the men, congregated at tlie Atlantic Hotel to assist in identifying tho ponies, and the island beauties came because their fathers, and mothers, and brothers, and lovers were there. Tuesday, tho 15th inst.. was "penning day," but only a few of tho old ladies were in atten dance. A jaunty little sloop, crowded with yoitng girls, sailed away from tho wharf just before the penning began. They wore going down to Assateague beach on a picnic excursion. Oua of. the peculiarities of these islanders- is . their singular fondness for scarlet. They make a red line on their boats ami sloops wherever it is possible; they, paint tlie panels of their cottage doors tho same color, and the women greatly delight in a bright red ribbon or s-u.Ii. The ghls who went to the picnic on Tuesday wore white muwlin dresses,, white sun-bonnets, scarlet sacques ancT. red morocco mits, with long gauntlet' cuffs. The oostume is picturesque and pretty when seen on board a trim little sloop skimming over the water. . It may be necessary to explain what "penning" means. The owners of Chincoteague ponies mark them with a brand, generally on the left hip. So' many of them look alike that it would be imiKssible to identify them without, this mark. Tlie colts must bo branded : before thy leave their dams, and August is the proper month. In order to catch tho colts and affix the brand the whole herd must be "penned." On Chincoteague Island,. the. square, in front of the Atlantic Hotel is used for a pen, but on Assateague a large den has been built on the shore of. stout pine logs. Men and boys mount tame ponies and start out to bring in the herds. They gallop to pasture grounds, and, after much yelling, fast riding, and some little swearing, they manage to drive one of the herds down to tlie shore. Nearly all the houses on, Chincotague aro built along the sound, and the yards in front join each other, thus forming a continuous fence. When the herds get started down, the Bhore the riders press close after, yelling and whooping, and there is a. lively chase until the avenue that, leads to the pen is reached. Hero a crowd of men are standing, and they turn the hetui of tho flying column into tlie square. Soino of tho ponies suspect treachery and run into the water, but. the riders dash after them, and soon, tlie whole herd is forced into the pen. The colts stick close to their dams and; in all the rearing and plunging about through the pen they never become separated. A stout man with a long pole in his b ind, and a looped rope at the end of it, posts himself at the. mouth of the pen, and as the onies run past he drops the loop over the head of one of the colts. The little fellow plunges about and shakes his head most furiously, but all to no puriose; tlie men haul him out and throw him on his right side. All this time the branding iron, has been heat--ing at a fire near by, presided, over by sundry urchins who take delight in this part of the performance. The face of tlie iron sometimes lars the initial letters of the owner" name, and, sometimes it i3 a simple monogram, such as a circular or square, to which the owner lays claim. When the colt has been thrown a boy brings an iron from the fire, and it is stamped on the pony's hip. There is no cruelty in the operation, because the ojM'ration only burns through the hair and scarcely scars the skin. I saw a 2-year old colt branded while standing on his feet, and it did not seem to feel the burning. By the time the colts in the herd have been branded, the drivers have, driven another herd down to the share. Tlie first are allowed to run back to their pasture grounds, while the next in order is driven into the ien, and the colts subjected to the marking process. Sometimes the colts escape until they are two and even three years old, and. then they arj much harder, to handle. Mrs. Partington will not allow Ike to play the guitar. She says he had it. on?e when he was a child, and it near ly killed him. Virgiuius was a Roman, and the Virginias was a roamcr.