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1 i THE HERALD PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY PLATTSMOUThT NEBRASKA. On Mala Strt. between 4th and 5th, r Beoond Story. OFFICIAL PAPER OP CASS COU7VTY. Terms, in Advance: One copy, one year $3.00 ' One copy. Biz m on lbs jqq One copy, three months.... jjQ HENRY BCECK, DC1XKB IN In r- xi i t onx e, SAFES, CHAIRS, Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads, XTC., ETC., ETC., Of All Descriptions. METALLIC BURIAL CASES. "Wooden Coffins Of all sizes, ready-made, and sold cheap for cash. With many thanks for past patronage, I J n vita all to call and examine my LARGE STOCK OP Tiii-iiitm-o tintl Ooillnw. jan'23 AND MEDICINES J. H. BUTTERY'S, On Main Street, bet. Fifth and Sixth. Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes. Patent ICedicines, Toilet Articles, etc., etc. tSTTRESCRIPTIONS carefully compounded at .-all hoars, day and night. S5-ly J. 17. SHANNON'S Feed, Salo and Livery Main Street, PJattsrriouth, Neb. I am prepared to, Accommodate the public with Carriages, Buggies, Wagons, AND A No. I Hearse, On Short Notice and Reasonable Terms. A II A C It Will Run to the Steamboat Land tnp, Depot, and all parts of the City, when Desired. anl-tf fist National Bank Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, SUCCESSOR TO Tootle, I In ii mi Olnrlc. John Fitzgerald President. K. O. Dotit Vice-President. John R. Clark Cannier. T. W. Evans Assistant Cashier. This Bank is now open for business at their new room, corner Main and Sixth streets, and are pre pared to transact a general BANKING BUSINESS. Stocky,, Bonds, Gold, Government and Local Securities BOUGHT AND SOLD. Deposits Received and Interest Al lowed on Time Certificates. DRAFTS DRAWN, Available in any part of the Vnited States and in all the Principal Towns and Cities of Europe. AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED MAN LINE ani ALLAN LINE OF STILV3IERS. Persons wishing to bring out their friends from Europe can rrBCHASI TICKETS FROM C8 TIn-oiiyli to IMiit turnout li. NEBHA KA MRA JD. J. A. MACMURPHY, Editor. " perseverance: conquers." TERMS: $2.00 a Year. Excelsior Barber Shop. J. C. BOONE, Main Street, opposite Brooks Honse. HAIR-CUTTING, Shaving and Shampooing. ESPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO CUTTING CHILDREN'S HAIR Call and See Boone, Gents, And get a boon in a n41-ly I GrO TO THE Post Office Book Store, H. J. STREIGHT, Proprietor, for rorit Boois, Stationery, Pictures, " Music, TOYS, CONFECTIONERY, Violin Strings, Newspapers, Novels, Song Books, etc., etc TOST OFFICE BUILDI.NG, 8-tf PLATTSMOUTH, SEB. VOLUME X. EPITOME OF THE WEEK. Condensed from Telegrams of Accompanying Dates. Monday, March SO. The annual race between the boat crews ol Oxford and Cam bridge Universities came off in London on the 2Sth. The Cambridge boat came In four lengths ahead The steamer Maliva, with the remains of Dr. Livingstone, arrived off Suez, Egypt, on the night of the 2)ith....The Frencin Assembly adjourned on the 29th untii May 12 A Madrid dispatch says Marshal Serrano had finally won & victory, ind the Carlists have been driven beyond Stanta Gulinna. The losses in the battle on the 28th were enormous. Rivera was mortally wounded. . . . .The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the Asslstaut Treasurer at New York to sell 11,000,000 in gold each Thursday during the month of April $5,000,000 in all The fifth ballot for United States Senator was taken in the Massachusetts Legislature on the 28th. It resulted as follows: Dawes, S; Hoar, 75; Curtis, 68; Adams, 13; Banks, 7; Whittier, Washburn and Pierce, 1 each. The whole number of votes was 254; neces sary to a choice, 128 The employes in the Eric Railroad machine shops at Sus quehanna Depot, Pa., recently struck for their back pay, two months' or more wages being due them. Much excite ment existed on the 28th, the strikers to the number of 900 having forcibly taken posses sion of trains on the road and refused to al low them to proceed. Ninety or more engines bad been disabled, and freight valued at $2, 000,000 was detained on side-tracks. Mall trains were allowed to pass on without inter ruption. A requisition was mads upon Gov. Ilartranft for State militia to quell the dis turbance. Over 500 troops reached Susque hanna Depot on the 29th, and took possession of the railroad shops. Passenger trains were allowed to move, but the strikers detained the freight trains. A telegram signed by a majority of the leading citizens of the place was sent to the Governor of the State protesting against the introdu of armed troops into the borough to "oft Uscrj in supporting the interests of a corporation against the citizens of the pl&CC) who nothing but their hard-e,TOed WJlge8 dufl to them from said co:poraUoa The ete did not belie-,o there was any such emergency AS called for military in terference, Gov. Uartranft responded that, however much he might as an luuiviuiuu sympathize with the strikers in their misfortune in not receiving their back dues, he would not, fcs Chief Executive of the State, neglect his duties to preserve peace and order and see to the enforcement of the laws. Cvttuin propositions were submitted by the railroad company to the strikers, and were taken under advisement until the 30th. Tuesday, Marcn 31. .Extensive strikes are reported in the coal and iron districts of England. There is almost a panic In domestic stocks in consequence. . . .Henri Rochefort and some of his comrades have escaped from New Caledonia. They put to sea in an open boat, and, after having been three days out, were picked up by a British sail ing vessel and carried to an Aus tralian port .... Dispatches are received from Carlist sources claiming a victory In the recent battle before Bilboa. The Repub lican loss, according to this authority, was 4.000 killed and wounded; Carlist loss 1,000. Latest Madrid dispatches insist that the vic tory was with the Republicans and very neatly reverse the figures. . . .In the future all grain received at New York will be graded by inspectors appointed by tke grain-receivers of the Produce Ex change.... The trial of John D. Sanborn, Lu cien Hanley and Alfred Vanderwerken, under an indictment charging them with conspiring to defraud the Revenue Department of the Government, has been commenced in the United States District Court in Brooklyn. . . . The latest news from Susquehanna Depot is to the effect that the men are being paid off and discharged. The military has entire possession of all the property of the company, and all is apparently quiet.... The ballot in the Massachusetts Legislature for United States Senator on the 30th resulted as fol lows: Whole number of votes cast, 25G; necessary to a choice, 1C9; Dawes re ceived 85; Hoar, 73; Curtis 72; Adams, 15; Banks, 7; Amasa Walker. Pierce, Washburn and Whittier, 1 each The Congregational Council called to considv r the relation proper to be sustained by Congregationalista to ward Plymouth Omrch concluded its labors on t lie 2s h. The report adopted censured the church for its action in dropping Tilton, but at the same time advised other churches to fellowship with the organi zation as formerly. It also contained a word of caution and forbade the recurrence of the offense under penalty of withdrawing from fellowship. The report was adopted by a vote of 87 to 8. Twenty-three refused to vote. The council then adjourned sine die. "Wednesday, April 1. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cologne has been ar rested for violation of the German Ecclesiasti cal laws A Madrid telegram says a heavy fire was kept up by the artillery upon the Car list position on the 31st. Troops to the number of 15,000 had been forwarded to rein force Serrano. The Carlist General Olio had been killed A recent Calcutta telegram says that reports from the districts affected by the ramine show a great improvement in the con dition of affairs.... Secretary of the Treasury Richardson and Commissioner of Internal Rev enue Douglass testified before the Ways and Means Committee in the Sanborn investigation on the Slst ult The former gave it as his positive opinion that the law under which the Sanborn contracts were given should be absolutely and unconditionally repealed. He had never spoken with Sanborn aooui nis contracts. and had never been approached by any other person In San born's behalf. He knew absolutely nothing of the details of the matter. Any papers or documents which he had signed were signed in the ordinary routine of busi ness without giving them special attention. Mr. Douglas stated that he had never been consulted by the Secretary or Solicitor of the Treasury in regart to the law or contract given under it, and knew nothing of the latter unless as they came incidentally to his knowledge in the course of proceedings. He stated that delinquent income taxes, and legacy and succession taxes, and taxes on ranway aiviaenas, etc, which are embraced in the Sanborn contracts, were all being collected through the regular omcers or the Internal Revenue Bureau He was very positive in the belief that there was no difficulty in having all these derelict taxes collected in the regular course of business, and as to ascertaining unpaid legacies and successions of taxes, he exhib ited to the committee a book in which As sessors were required to keep records of all the estates of deceased persons that were liable to taxation. He did not believe in the policy of the law under which the San born contracts were given out. It gave a monopoly to three persons, and thus intensi fied the meanness of the informer and spysys tem. He had never leen consulted about or asked to recommend the passage of such law, although he was under the impression that he had been called upon by Sanbom and that Gen. Butler had recommended him. Still, 6ince having seen Sanborn lately, he did not appear to be the same person whom he had in his mind .... Sanborn, on trial at Brooklyn for ccnspiracy to defraud the revenue, has been acquitted by order of Judge Benedict Coun- eel held, first, that there was no allegation PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1874. in the indictment that Sanborn, Hawley and Vanderwerken conspired with any other persons to defraud the United States; secondly, that no offense is charged un der any law that exists upon the statute book; thirdly, that the contract is not Bet out in the indictment. The Judge held that the contract which Sanborn had obtained did not support the averment in.the indict ment, and, with such conceded, he was of the opinion that the prosecution must fail .... The vote for United States Senator in the Massa chusetts Legislature on the 31st ult. resulted as follows: Whole number of votes cast, 274; necessary to a choice, 138; Dawes, 95; Hoar, 78; Curtis, 70; Adams, 15; Banks, 6; Wash burn, 2; Whittier and Pierce received one vote each.... A reunion of Abolitionists is to be held In Chicago on the th of June. All persons who were active Abolitionists at any time when the cause of the slave needed friends are especially invited to be present." Thursday, April 2. The death of Peter Andrew Hansen, an eminent German astrono mer, is announced.... A Bayonne dispatch asserts that the movement of Marshal Serrano against the Carlists before Bilboa was an in glorious failure. ..The Diario, of Havana, has recently published articles advocat ing the restoration of peace with the insurgents. It was said that these arti cles were inspired by the 8panish party and that their object was to prepare the -people of the island for a manifesto of the prom inent Cubans demanding an accommodation between the so-called loyalists and the In surgents, to be inaugurated by a tem porary cessation of hostilities, and followed bv a formal treaty of peac- The striking workmen at Susqu-' Depot have been paid off by the r" . . j, . , . , .-'road com pany and discharged. A lltTlW n. them have since soug admUtance to tbo shops and were re by the company ....Proceeding m 1q bankruptcy have teen commen by tfae New Tork Banfc Qf Com ferT against the Rhode Island Spragues. , . . uestructive conflagration recently occurred at Millerstown, Pa., consuming sixty-nine buildings and resulting in the death of Beveral persons. The value of property destroyed will reach nearly $300,000.... The Rhode Isl and election for State officers occurred on the 1st. There was no Democratic ticket. Henry Howard was re-elected Governor by a vote of 12,209 to about 1,000 for other candidates. Charles C. Van Zandt was elected Lieutenant-Governor ; Joshua M. Addcrman, Secretary of State ; Willard Sayles, Attorney-General, and Samuel Clark, Treas urer. . . .The United States Supreme Court in a recent case has decided that the directors of a corporation cannot increase the capital stock beyond the amount limited in its charter in other words, cannot " water the stock' ' without the express consent of stockholders. .... A ballot for United States Senator from Massachusetts was taken on the 1st with the following result: Whole number of votes cast, 270; necessary for a choice, 136; Dawes had 95 votes; Hoar, 74; Curtis, 75; Adams, 15; Banks, 6; scattering, 5. Friday, April 3. A London telegram says authentic information has been received that the Republican troops before Bilboa have taken no position held by the Carlists since March 25. A three days' armistice, in which Bilboa is not included, has been agreed upon for the burial of the dead. In the meantime the bombardment of Bilboa continues.... In accordance with the order of the Presi dent requiring the appointment of a Board, to be composed of seven persons, one person to be named by each of the Executive Depart ments which may have articles and materials to be exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition, and also one person to be named in behalf of the Smithsonian Institute, and one In behalf of the Department of Agricul ture, which may have charge and decide upon the articles to be embraced in the collection, the following have been named by the "heads of departments: Treasury, Hon. F. M. Saw yer; War, Col. S. C. Lyford, U. S. A.; Navy, Admiral T. A. Jenkins, U. S. N.; Interior, John Eaton, Esq.; PostofHce, Dr. Chas. F. McDonald; Agriculture, Wm. Saunders, Esq.; Smithsonian Institute, Prof. S. F. Baird. The President has designated Col. S. C. Lyford, U. S. A., Chairman of the Board.... The City Council of Philadelphia has passed by ac clamation the $1,000,000 Centennial Ap propriation bill.... The Michigan State Treasurer's statement for March is as follows: Balance Feb. 28, f 1,163,513.81; receipts for March, $131,502.04; to tal, $1,295,015.85. Payments for March, $32,456.95. Balance, March 31, $1,212,558.90. .While a band of women were recently en gaged in prayer at the back door of Lathrop's saloon, in Warsaw, Ind., a man stepped out of the saloon and struck Mrs. Thomas Woods a fearful blow in the breast, knocking her prostrate upon the ground. She was car ried home unconscious. He was subsequently arrested. FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Monday, March 30. Senate. The me morial of the Governors of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois in relation to the 2 per cent, fund which thev claim is dne those States from the Gen eral Government was reported back from the Committee on Public Landa, with a Dill to set tle the acconnt between them and the United States, which bill was placed on the calen dar The House bill in relation to mineral land, excluding the States of Missouri and Kansas from the operations of the Mining act of May 10, 1872, was reported from committee, with amendment Snndrv resolutions of the Wiscon sin Legislature in regard to the improvement of tne AUstnxsippi Kiverand its triDutanes, ana ror iacreaaed mail facilities in that State and for the improvement of the Wisconsin River, were pre sented and referred.... The bill to provide for the redemption and reissue of United States notes and ror rree Daniting waa iauen np, ana a motion was adopted 2S to 23 to strike out the second section of the bill reported by the committee, which pro vides that on the 1st of January. 1376, United States notes shall be redeemable in coin or interest-bearing bonds. Several proposed amendments were rejected. ..Adjourned. House. Among the bills introduced and referred were appropriating $10,000 to buy Carpenter's painting of the M Shining of the Proc lamation of Emancipation for the construction of the Portland, Dallas & Salt Lake Railway, and for the performance of all Government services free of charge.... The Senate bill providing for the payment of the bonds of the Louinville & Portland Canal Company was reported from the committee. with amendments, and considerable discussion en sued on the bill. ...Adjourned. Tuesday, March 31. Senate. Memo rials were presented and referred, signed bv 7,575 citizens of California, setting forth the evils of the use of intoxicating liquors, and asking for legisla tion to prevent intemnerance and the manufacture of such liquors.... The bill to provide for the re demption and reissue of United States notes and for free banking was taken np and a motion to strike out the fourth section of the bill was agreed to -J9 to 27. Several amendments to the bill were offered and rejected.... Ad jonrned. Hone. The bill providing for the pay ment of bonds of the Louisville Jfc Portland Canal Company was passed after being amended so aa to provide that no money shall be paid under this act until the State of Kentncky shall have ceded the jurisdiction over canal property to the United States A petition of tax-payers of South Carolina, signed by a large number of prominent and influential citizens of that State, waa presented and referred to the Judiciary Committee, reciting the excessive taxation to which the people of that Slate are sub jected, and that the proceeds of such taxation are systematically squandered or stolen instead or be tag devoted to the legitimate Dnmoees of the Gov eminent, and asking Congress to consider their condition and devise some means of relief.... A bill was introduced and referred for the relief of the Commissioners to the ienna Exhibition... Adjourned. "Wednesday, April 1. Senate. The House bill to secure to the Episcopal Board of Mis sions land in the White Earth Indian reservation in Minnesota, for the erection of churches and other buildiags. was passed The joint resolution of he Legislature of Missouri for the improvement of the mouth of the Missouri River was presented.... The bill to tmvide for the redemption and reissue of United Sta'es notes and for free banking waa runner considered, ana several proposed amend menu wert rejected.. . , .Adjourned. House. A counter statement and reply of the Republican Central Committee of South Carolina to the memorial of the tax-payers of the State, presented the day before, was presented and referred. The statement declares that the tax pa era have only themselves to blame in not aid ing in the work of reconstruction, and that the alle gations as to the Increased expenditures of the State Government are incorrect, the items given being wholly inaccurate, untrue, and skill fully selected to deceive. ...A noUy discussion occurred on the Senate bill supplemental to the Mining law of the 10th of May, 1872.... The Cur rency bill watt taken np and debated.... At the evening session the bill for the revision of the laws waa completed and passed . . . . Adjourned. Thursday, April Senate. The Sen ate bill to amend the act to promote the develop ment of the mining reserves of the United States, with House amendments thereto, was referred.... A bill was reported from the Committee on Post offices and Post-roads, to provide for the trans mission of correspondence by telegraph, which bill is the Hubbard Postal Pelegraph minor bill un changed, except In matter of detail The bill to provide for the redemption and reissue of United States notes and for free banking came up, and several amendments were ottered and rejected. A substitute for the third sec tion of the bill as reported by the com mittee was adopted 33 to 19 and provides " That $46,000,000 in notes for circulation, in ad dition to such circu 1st ion now allowed by law, shall be issued to the National Ranking associations now organized and which may be organised here after, and such increased circulation shall be dis tributed among the several States as provided in Section 1 of the act of July 12, 1670.". ...Executive session and adjournment. House. But little businesa was trans acted, the Currency bill being under considera tion, and a lengthy debate ensued thereon, which extended into the evening session. Notice was given of a substitute for the pending bill, which was In part substantially the same, free banking -mre common 10 Doin.....o.ajournea. Fnbllc Debt Statement. The following is the public debt state ment, April 1 1 Six per cent, bonds $i,14.663,lf 0 Five per cent, bends... 509,243,450 Total coin bonds... $1,723,9C6,600 Lawful money debt $l4.67.0OO Matured debt 6.852,tO0 Legal-tender notes 4 . 384,076,837 Certificates of deposit Bl.TiO.OoO Fractional currency 49,1(52,660 Coin certificates , 39,045,000 Interest.... 23,676,661 Total debt , ... ja,295,058,558 Cash in Treasury Coin $36,121,370 Currency 4,&,451 Special deposits held for redemption of certificates of deposit as provid ed by law M, 720.000 Total in Treasury $142,367,830 Debt, less cash in Treasury $2,153,690,728 Decrease during the month $2,189,838 Bonds Issued to Pacific Railway Com panies, Interest payaoie in lawrui monev. nrincinat outstanding. ...... $54,633,512 Interest aCcruedand not yet paid..... 9b9,35S Interest paid by United States 2386,691 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc o,aui,ao7 Balance of interest paid by United States 17,335,323 THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. April 4, 1874. Cotton. Middling upland, 16X17c Lnra Stock. Beef Cattle $10.5O12.50. Hogs Dressed, $7.2537.50. Sheep Live, $7.0039.25. BaaaDSTurrs. Flour Good to choice, $6.55(2 6.75; white wheal extra, $8.75a7.10. Wheat No. 2 Chicago, $1.531.55; Iowa spring, $1.531.56; No. 2 Milwaukee spring. $1.541.58. Rye West ern and State, 98c&$1.03. Barley $1.651.67. Corn Mixed Western afloat, 8&90c. Oats New Western, 6164c. Pbovisioks. Pork New Mess, $16.6016.75. Lard 910c. Wool. Common to extra, 4065c CHICAGO. Lrva Stock. Beeves--Choice, $5.65&6.00; good. $5.255.60; medium, $5.005.25; butchers' stock. $4.005.00; stock cattle, $3.504.75. Hogs Live, $5.3536.00. Sheep Good to choice. $6.0037.00. Provisions. Butter Choice, 3436c. Eggs- Fresh, lH13c. Pork New Mess, $15.65 15.70. Lard $9.3239.33. Bbbadstttits. Flour White Winter extra. $7.009.25; spring extra, $5.256.75. Wheat Spring, No. 3, $1.20X31.23. Corn No. 2, 62 62!ic. Oats No. 2, 423313c Rye No. 2,90 93c. Barley No. 2, $1.5231.53. Wool. Tub-washed, 48353c; fleece, washed. 36348c.; fleece, unwashed, 25332c; palled, 35340c CINCINNATI. BBiAnsTurrs. Flour $6.7037.00. Wheat - $1.40. Corn 64268c Rye $1.04. Oats-50357c. Barley $1.5531.60. Provisions. Pork $16.00316.25. Lard 9J4 394c 01. iMia. Lrv Stock. Beeves Fair to choice, $1,503 6.25. Hogs Live, $4.7535.50. Bradstuvts. Flour XX Fall, $8.0036.25. Wheat No. 2 Red Fall, $1.4531.50. Corn No. 2 69362HC Oats No. 2, 49350c. Rye No. 2, 973 98c. Barley $1.5531.60. Provisions. Pork Mess, $16.00316.25. Lard 939ic ALLL.W AUIUIJI. Brkadstufts. Flour Spring XX, $5.7036.25. Wheat Spring No.l, $1.2931.20; No. 2, $1,233 1.23?i. Corn No. 2, 64385c Oats No. 2, 433 44c Rye No. 1, 8S338KC Barley No. 2, $1.55 31.58. UlllltUll. Brsabstutts. Wheat Extra, $1.623t.62V4. Corn 370c. Oats 50351c TOLEDO. BBiAssTcrrs. Wheat Amber Mich., $1,453 1.45 J. No. 2 Red, $1.4231.43. Corn Mixed, 65 66c Oats No. 1, 52353c CLEVELAND. Brbadstutts. Wheat No. 1 Bed, $1.5531.56; No. 2 Red, $1.4531.46. Corn 70372c Oata 493 51c BUFFALO. Lrva Stock. Beeves $5.2536.00. Hogs Live, $5.2535.90. Sheep Live, $7.0038.00. EAST LIBERTY. Live Stock. Beeves Best, $.807.00; me dium, $6.0036.50. Hogs Yorkers, $5.255.40; Philadelphia, $6.258.50. Sheep Best, $7.00 8.00; medium, $V506.50. A Fifteen-Hours' Walt for Lire. On Sunday afternoon a young man named George Falk swallowed, as he stated, three ounces of laudanum and five grains of morphia, in order to end his life. There was but one way of saving him, and that was to keep him in motion. After relieving him as far as possible, his physician ordered that he be walked until he was out of danger. At half-past two o'clock Sunday afternoon he was put upon his tramp for life, and was forced to walk in the open air as rapidly as he could. His father kept by him for a long time, and a friend or a policeman as sisted. After some hours the father gave out, and finally officers and friends grew tired. At last officers had to be taken from their beats and made to do duty in saving the life of the would-be suicide. When the walk commenced it was with great difficulty that he could be kept going, and so great was his Etupor that at times he would almost fall like a stick. Frequently it was necessary to catch him and move him on. He reeled at times like a drunken man, and then again he would revive considerably. The dreary, monotonous walk was kept up without intermission until half-past six o'clock yesterday morning, when the physician consented that he should be allowed to take rest. The life of the young man was saved, but the struggle for freedom from the effects of the drugs was a severe one. To have Btopped three minutes would have been fatal. Baltimore Gazette. THE MILLERSTOWN TRAGEDY. Over 10O Families Rendered Ilomrlrss Seven Persona Burned Loss S'iSO, OOO. A fire occurred In Millerstown, Pa., recent ly, which, besides the destruction of property, was the cause of the death of several persons. The fire broke out in the Central Hotel. The bar-keeper of the hotel, who was sitting np with a nick friend, was the first to discover the fire; He immediately rushed through the halls to arovue the guests. There were, Including servants, a hundred souls in the house, and directly the corridors became the scene of the wildest dismay. Fortunately there were no lady guests registered, or the story of horror and death might have been Immeasurably more painful to detail. The flames drifted up the wooden walls, and quicker than it takes to tell it spread over the entire s6uthern side and were curling in a thousand tongues from cornice and gable. Men rushed a' most naked into the hall, some not even taking their clothing in their arms, and, anxious only t escape with their lives, tore up and down the corridors, madly seeking some outlet from the pursuing flames. The wildest horror prevailed. Shriek rose upon shriek, in heart-rending accents, all the more impressive because they came from strong men grappling with death, with the odds so terribly against all mere human power. Many on the lower hall had found their way out of the building, and the proprietor of the house, who was sick, had been borne out. For an instant it was hoped that all would escape, but again that hope was dashed by the beseeching cries for help from those who had lingered to dress or, In the excitement of the dreadful moment, were unable to undo the fastenings of their doors. To add to the horror of the situation it was discovered that the flames had crept through the southern sleeping-rooms, and following the draft along the corridor, had cut off the servants' escape from the attic Between prayers and shrieks and groans the scene was now too much for human hearts. Knowing their utter Inability to render aid, many turned away from the sickening 6Cene tiiey found it aa difficult to endure as to re lieve. Some of the girls had courage and presence of mind to turn their drapery over their heads for protection and rush through the sheet of flame, and thus some escaped. Others rushed back to the north side and cast themselves from the wimdows upon the roof of the adjoining building, whence they were rescued. Others sank bewildered in the suffocating smoke, and, like some of the guests on the floor below, yielded without a struggle to the terrible death before them. The climax of horror had not been reached till Nelly McCarty, one of the dining-room girls, appeared at the southern attic window, and proposed to cast herself to the groundj forty feet below. A warning cry arose from the crowd, hut the poor girl would not retreat. Death was behind her, and with a wild cry of despair she cast herself forward and fell, a pitiful mass of broken bones, on the pavement. The fire extended to the adjoining buildings, and before it was extinguished a large portion of the village was laid in ruins. It is esti mated that the loss by the fire exceeded $250,000, and that 100 families were rendered homeless. The estimated loss f life was seven. Raid Mountain. The deposits in the Massachusetts savings bank 9 increased from $184,797, 313.92 in 1872 to $203,062,150.53 in 1873, or more than $18,000,000. The increase In the number of depositor s was about 6 percent The telegraph has incidentally told us that something is the matter with a mountain in North Carolina. Thunder ing sounds nre heard within it . 1 1 d sus picious smoke issues from it, an North Carolina begins to think that she has been entertaining a volcano unawares. The State don't exactly know whether to be proud of it or frightened at it. The pa pers give some particulars of the new wonder that has terrified the bold moun taineers. The mountain drags its rugged front along the southern borders of McDowell County, and is known as Bald Mountain. It has been quiet and peaceful, and exhibited no signs of any Internal struggle from the time when the memory of man goeth not back to the contrary. Some of the pastoral dwellers on its rugged sides never heard of a volcano or dreamed of an earthquake. They heard subterranean artillery, the ground began to shake be neath them and their knees trembled. They reported their experience to others, who went to hear and feel for themselves. These explorers said there was something the matter with the mountain, and ex plained to the simple mountaineers the nature of earth convulsions and volcanic eruptions. Then a wide alarm spread, and the people in the afflicted region say " they are going to leave if it is not stopped." There seems to be no doubt of the fact that the mountain is in terrible throes; there is a rumbling noise and an occasional quaking of the earth. There are also positive indications that the mountain is on fire. One paper states that the subterranean thunder has been distinctly heard at Marion and Old Fort, twenty miles distant, and the general im pression seems to be that Bald Mountain is going to develop into a live, flaming volcano. These disturbances have been going on for two months, and occur every day, and the people in the cottages, ham lets and villages of the vicinity are in a very unsettled state. They boldly talk of emigrating if the authorities do not inter fere in their behalf. Their homes are not pleasant and the distempered mountain is voted worse than any Ku-Klux they have ever had among them. But some good has been accomplished by these convul sions of nature. They have started prayer meetings and are leading a revival; which has been going on for several days at the foot of Bald Mountain. Preachers had always failed to make much impres sion upon those hardy mountain men. They have now been converted without any such spiritual medium. They have gone into solemn worship of their own tree will and accord, and Bald Mountain talks to them in undertones. The moun tain is also moving in the temperance cause. An old blockade whisky distiller has come down from his fastness of Chimney Rock, where he has been mak ing whisky in defiance of the revenue officers for several years. He acknowl edges the " corn," and asks the good peo ple to pray for him. He has abandoned his illicit trade and traffic until he can find some safer place. Bald Mountain has things all its own way now, and if it comes out a first-class volcano, with earthquake accompaniment, it may do a deal of good in its section of the country. St. Louit fiepubliean, March 35. Dead, But ot Barfed. When a friend dies and is buried, there's an end of him. We miss him for a space out of our daily existence ; we mourn for him by degrees that become mercifully less; we cling to the blessed hope that we shall be reunited in some more per fect sphere; but so far as this earth is concerned, there's an end of him. How ever near and dear he was, the time ar rives when he does not form a part of our daily thought; he ceases to be even an abstraction. We go no more with flowers and tears into the quiet cemetery; only the rain and the snow-flakes fall there; we leave it for the fingers of spring to deck the neglected mound. But when our friend vanishes unac countably in the midst of a crowded city, or goes off on a sea-voyage and is never heard of again, his memory has a singu lar tenacity. He may be to all intents and purposes dead to us, but we have not lost him. The ring of the door-bell at night may be his ring; the approaching footsteps may be his footsteps; the un expected letter with foreign postmarks may be from his hands. He haunts us as the dead never can. The woman whose husband died last night may marry again within a luster of months. Do you suppose a week passes by when the woman whose husband dis appeared mysteriously ten years ago does not think of him? There are moments when the opening of a door must startle her. There is no real absence but death. T. B. Aldrich, in Atlantic Monthly. Need One Hurry? Although the sun rises and sets daily with some show of regularity, and the seasons succeed each other in the same order with which they began, each show ing some anticipation of the one that is to come, as well as reminiscence of the one that has just departed, there is never theless a feeling that lurks very generally in the human mind that the world is coming to an end. It has lurked there, certainly in all historic time, and the fables which prehistoric times have told had this moral; it has blazed out now and then into a fire of burning expecta-. tion and dread ; and in every generation there are men and whole classes of socie ty to whom the coming end is the stim ulus of action or the paralyzer of hon est work; Now there is no great, comprehensive, or penetrating impulse moving men and generations, which has not its miniature presentment in the petty ways of life; and the strong hope which made the horizon luminous to the Apostle, and caught up his daily life into the sweep of heroic action, is parodied in the flicker of some phantom future which makes ordinary mortals discontented wilh the present, and turns their daily work into an unseemly push and incontinent hurry. Something is coming be It Saturday, or pay-day, or the annual alance-sheet, or the visit of a relation, or a journey, a marriage, a birthday, an anniversary the end of the world in which we are dwell ing for the time is at hand ; then is to begin something new ; some changed cir cumstances, a fresh day, a new week, a new account, different society, a new start in life, a settlement, a beginning after the end. It is impossible for one to sit down to think at all of what enters into the motive of his life without seeing how very large a share new beginnings have in it; how constantly he looks to the end with refer ence to the beginning that is to come after. The point at issue is not how to eradicate hope, small or great, from one's life, but how to get rid of this perpetual hurry and drive, his galloping to the end of a journey, only to mount a fresh steed and gallop on the next stage; the clatter of the horses' hoofs becoming an accom paniment to all one's thoughts. There is certainly something ignominious in the confession which people are constantly making that they have no time to do this or that needful thing, and that they shall breathe more freely if they can once clear their desk, or finish this job, or wipe out this obligation. One comes to feel that Time has been borrowed from, and that one's notes are perpetually maturing, while one makes a vain effort to cancel them by giving fresh notes. We turn round in a heipless sort of fashion, and berate the age we live in, with its whiz zing locomotives and its clicking tele graphs, as if the punctuality of railroad trains and the instantaneousness of dis patches were not the very friends and ser vants of honest leisure. It would be idle to lay down a set of rules by which one might hope to exor cise this evil demon of haste and unrest, but one would take much pains if he could hope to persuade the unhappy man of hurry that the fault was all his own, and lay in the very spirit with which he set about his work ; that, in short, hurry was an evil spirit, to be exor cised by whatever power is mighty enough to con'rol it It is among men of business that it shows itself most clearly, while it is most oflensive when displayed in the life of men of thought Business and hurry, so far from being necessary partners, are opposed to each other by the most violent contrast It may safely be said that the most successful men of busi ness are the least hurried, for hurry is an open transgression of the law of order, and order is tne foundation-stone of a business house. And there we touch the secret of a leisurely life, one which has free play, without this incessant push from behind. He who orders his life, and refuses to be carried along by the nearest current; who holds his purposes as sacred and does not lightly allow himself to be turned trom them; who has the will to refuse work, in spite of thnt most intolerable complaint, the suspicion of being a shirk it is he who can hope bravely to live a life of leisure. Is it not pitiable to see one who, through his very anxiety to do everything which circumstance seems to lay on his broad back, comes to be the very thrall of cir cumstance, and starts at every shadow which seems to whisper that he is not faithful? He wears his life away to a fretful existence in the vain attempt to leave nothing undone, when it would have been nobler to leave much undone which has been done ill. He disappoints his masters by the excess of his endeavor, yet none is so disappointed as himself, for the solace of having tried to do what one has not done is a mockery. It is doing which brings comfort Along with the spirit of order which leads one to arrange his work so that it shnll not be always at his heels, and the courage which makes him refuse to do what he cannot do well, though he be sus pected of shirking that most hatefatl thing to his soul there is also the ele ment, which indeed i3 but the spirit of order and of courage combined, of resolute reserve of leisure. Forster, in bi3 account of Dickens, has touched upon the fundamental weakness of that sad life, the absence of any " city of the mind " to which he could flee for refuge from the incessant pressure of the actual and real npon him. It is, we hold, a necessity for every man of business to have and gurd jealously some period of each day which shall be consecrated to leisure the leisure of books, or of gentle society, or of nature, or of worship. The last is essential; the others are gratelul aids. In this shelter he has a chance to set his watch by the heavenly bodies, and when he issues forth, into whatever thicket of men or affairs he may plunge, he will at any rate be himself and not the slave of necessity. There is no need of hurry, for hurry is at variance with freedom ; and the need that men have is of freedom. So it comes to pass that in a hurrying age the man of leisure is the man of hope, and the end of the world to him is the opening ot fairer prospect for that which even now lies in his grasp. Eztry Sat urday. TnERE is nothing so tends to shorten the lives of old people and to injure their health as the practice of sitting up late, especially winter evenings. This is espe cially the case when there is a grown-up daughter in the family. We haven't any balmy breezes to speak of in this section so far; but their sure precursors, their gentle messengers, are with us. We refer of course to qualmy sneeaes. Jlochetter Chronide. A factory for the manufacture of . . j j i : a. cuemicais, grape sugar am tiexiriue is w be built in Milwaukee. NUMBER 2. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. On the contrary Riding a mule. A BTORM-BCENTER Old Probabilities. It is an ill wind that blows snow good. For spring costumes, round waists with tight sleeves are the rule. The shape of tbe new bonnet looks as though had been repeatedly kicked. Next to finance the back-hair question most occupies the public mind. Boston rost. A Baltimore man advertises $5 reward if anyone will return him the $2,100 he lost A hopeful spinster finds consolation in the proverb " It's never too late to men(d)." Most of the shadows that cross our path through life are caused by our stand ing in our own light. An Indiana baby ha9 six toes on each foot and can toe the mark with prompt nets and dispatch. When Jones heard that there was a touch of malice in a certain great author's smile he said he took sugar in his. One lead pencil lasts a Dubuque editor three months, but he has to have a new rivet in his Ehears every three weeks. TnE Btage driver who was arrested the other day for bigamy might have pleaded that he only wanted to collect the fairs. An Alabama man has invented a plate which prevents boots from running over at the heels, but can't find a shoemaker who will use them. Air Indianapolis father shot six times at a supposed burglar, and was astonished to hear the fellow ask ; " Whazzer mazzer, fazzer, whazzer doing?" If the various wives of John Irwin, of Virginia, should gather around him there would be a group of six, all married within the last two years. A Cincinnati professor has demon st rated that a man feels just as satisfied after lunching on a raw turnip alone as if he had feasted at a King's table. In a recent trial in Baltimore it was shown that patent medicine men can get almanac certificates of the wonderful vir lues of their medicines for fifty cents per head. Sixteen years ago Tom Kenyon went to Kansas City without a cent, and the other day he signed a check for $16,000. He signed it with another man's name, though. The Green Bat girls, having heard that certain young men would not marry a woman who could not do housework, can now be seen every morning sweeping off the doorsteps. Texas has two new legal holidays, the 2d of March and the 21st of April. The first is the anniversary of Texan inde pendence, and the second that of the bat tle of San Jacinto. Moore's Rural Jieto Yorker speaks of the " Metropolis of the Eden of America," and then explains in a parenthesis that it means Rochester. It is always safest to label pictures. A Cincinnati man who was charged with being a dead-beat and a swindler has obtained seven cents damage. Let this be a warning to men of impulsive natures who want damages. In the Yuba County Hospital, California, interesting experiments have been made with a magnet for the cure of rheumatism and paralysis. A large horseshoe magnet is used, and one case of paralysis has been almost cured and several cases of chronic rheumatism relieved. Those who dread the approach of sum mer, because of its thunder-showers and death-dealing bolts, will take courage, no doubt when they learn that the statistics of death by lightning and by suicide show that a man is six times as likely to kill himself as to be killed by lightning. TnE Portland (Me.) Pmi says that five years ago a gentleman in that city scratched his name on a nickel cent and sent it on its travels. Eighteen months after this cent came into the possession of a Lowell acquaintance, who marked his name upon it Two years later it turned up in Pennsylvania, and came into the hands of a former chum of the Portlander. Recognizing the name, he inscribed his also on the coin. One day this week the man who started tho cent on its travels was making a purchase in a Lowell store, when the identical nickel which left his pocket five years ago was handed to him in change. The flight of riches and the folly of those who lavish money wastefully were never better illustrated than in the case of the late Legrand Lockwood'g splendid mar ble palace at Norwalk, Conn. There are forty acres of fine ornamented grounds, in the center of which is a state ly structure costing $2,000,000. On the premises are three other handsome build ings, porter's lodge, conservatories, sta bles, and so on. The house is replendent with polished marbles, frescoes, inlaid woodwork of the most costly kind; doors which cost $2,000 each; a billiard-room on which $10,000 were expended ; and there are forty-nine rooms thus gorgeous ly decorated, no two of which are alike. It is estimated that between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 of cash were sunk in this monument of extravagance, and yet the entire establishment is now on the market for less than $350,000. THE HERALD. ADVERTISING HATES. srat-B. 1 square.. 2 squares 8 squarea, W column H column. 1 column. 1 w. J S w. j 8 w. 1 1 m. In. In. 1 yr. $100$160$400f25Of5O0$800$iaO0 1 60 8 00 5 no 8 00 2 O-l 2 751 8 25 50 10 00 18 00 8 75 4 00 4 7M 8 tb 18 00 90 00 8 00 10 00 U OO'UO 00 28 00 85 00 18 00; 15 00 18 00 25 00 40 OOI M) 00 lb 00.18 00 2J 00 26 00 40 00 60 00 100 00 Dr. Livingstone's Last Days. London (March 29) Dispatch to New York nerald. TnE followine account is given of Dr. Livingstone's fatal illness and death: He had been ill of chronic dysentery for sev eral months. He was well supplied with stores and medicines, but he had a pre sentiment that the attack would prove fatal. At first he was able to ride on a donkey, but soon had to be carried. Ar riving at Muilala, beyond Lake Bemba, in the Bisa country, he said : " Build me a hut to die in." A hut was built by his followers. On the 1st of May he was con fined to his bed. ana afterward suuert a erreatlv. eroaning night and dav. The third day he said he was very cold, and requested that more grass be put over the hut. Kitumbo. the chief of Bisa. sut flour and beans, and behaved well toward the partv. The fourth day Dr. Living stone was insensible, and died about mid- nitrht. Makauhoua, a servant, was pres ent Dr. Livingstone made his last entry in his diary April 27. He spoke much and sadly of his home and family. When he was hrst seized by the fatal attack he told his followers he intended to exchange everything for ivory to give them, and then push on to Ujiji and Zanzibar and to reach England. The same dav on which he died his fol lowers consulted what to do. TheNassick boys determined to preserve the remains. They were afraid to inform the chief of the death of the Doctor. The Secretary had the body removed to another hut and built a high fence around it to insure privacy. He then removed the internal organs. Dlaced them in a tin box, and buried it inside the fence under a large tree. Jacob Wainwright ;ut an mscrip. tion on the tree there thus : "DOCTOR LIVINGSTONE, Died May 4, 187S." and superscribed it with the name of the head man, Dusa. The body waa preserved in salt, and dried in the sun twelve days. Chief Kitumbo, on being informed of Dr. Livingstone's death, had drums beat and guns fired as a token of respect ftnd allowed the followers to remove the tody, which they placed in a coffin of bark and commenced the journey to Unyamjembe, whieh consumed about six months, send ing in advance a party with information of all that had occurred, addressed to Ljr $3ET" All Advertising bills due quarterly. fST" Transient advertisements mutt be paid for In advance Extra copies of the nxaALn for sale by U. J. Streight, at the Poototflcc, and O. F. Johnson, coi ner ot Main and Fifth streets. ingstone's son. The advance party were met by Mr. Cameron, who sent back bales of cloth and powder. The body arrived at Unyamjembe ten days after the advance Sarty, and rested there for two weeks. Ir. Cameron, Mr. Murphy, and Mr. Dillon also arrived together there, the latter very ill, his sight gone and mind affected. He afterwartl committed suicide at Karekara, and was buried there. At Unyamjembe Dr. Livingstone's remains were placed in another bark case, a smaller one, and done up to represent a bale of goods, so as to deceive the natives, who objected to tho passage of a corpse, and thus carried to Zanzibar. Dr. Livingstone's clothing, papers and instruments accompanied the body. When sick in In d Dr. Livingstone firayed much, and said, "I am going lome." Chumah remains at Zanzibar. Webb, the American Consul at Zanzibar, received letters through Murphy, from Livingstone, for Stanley, and will deliver them personally. The only geographical news is aa fol lows: After Stanley's departure the Doc tor left Unyamjembe, rounded the south end of Tadganyik a, traveled south of Lake Bemba or Bangueoleo, crossed it from the south to the north, and then proceeded along the east side, returning north through the marshes of Muilalala. All his papers are sealed and addressed to the Secretary of State. They are in charge of Arthur Laing, a British merchant at Zan zibar. Murphy and Cameron remain be hind. Onr First Lore. We have some very vivid recollections of the first time we lost our heart We were about seventeen years of age at that time and bad the disease in iU most vio lent form. We used throe quires or fcilt edged note paper, a whole bottle of red ink, and exhausted the English language in our endeavors to indite a satisfactory billet-doux to the fair object of our affec tions, but without success, however. Then we called in person for the purpose of urging our suit but was seized by a fit of bashlulncss immediately after we got there. The first symptom of the disease that we noticed was a very high fever in our face, accompanied by a choking sen sation in our throat, loss of speech, weak ness in the knees and general debility. Then the disease attacked our mental faculties, and we arrived at the conclu sion, after a thorough examination, that our legs closely resembled a couple of crooked sticks stuck in a pair of raw potatoes; and we didn't know what to do with our hands, as we could find noplaco in our immediate vicinity where wo thought they looked right. We could have employed them profitably in assort ing and twisting our mustache, only we didn't wear one at that time, owing to our extreme youth. After we had recovered from the first shock of the meeting and succeeded in convincing Miss Julia that we were having very nice weather, thai being the only topic we could call to mind just at that time, we in formed her that we had an en gagement with a friend that evening and must be going. We had adjusted our fine beaver hat on our head and as sumed control of our cane, and was Just backing up to the door with a winning smile playing over our features, when we came in contact with a chair that was going that same road, and lost our equi librium. When we became cognizant of a change in our position, wo were laying on our back, partially supported by tho chair, and our feet describing circles in the air in the immediate neighborhood of the ceiling. We judge our position at Ihis time was very affecting, as we heard Julia smothering her sobs in her hand kerchief very distinctly. After some minutes of severe exertion on our part we succeeded in regaining our perpen dicular, but was surprised to find that the concussion had driven our head down into our beaver and knocked the bottom, or rather the top, of it entirely out. We attempted to remove it by gently lifting it upward, but the operation was attended by so much pain to our nasal projection that we were constrained to desist Then we gave it a few tender Jerks downward, and by elongating our neck to its fullest extent succeededin getting ur organs of vision far enough above the hat to get the bearings of the door. We went out immediately, without waiting to make the bow we had intended to make, but we presume it was unnecessary, aa we heard the back door close violently a few in stants before we left John Outer, tn D anbury Newt. Reliability. Tt la tlii nnnlitv Kflvn n. writpr in ihft Queen, that we need in our man of busi- rtoc. An iinrclinhlf 1wvfr stockbroker. agent bailiff whatsoever the functions he minus now can we get on wiui iiimr lln in nnr ruin incarnate, as well as his own; and the very fact tJiat he cannot be trusted in his work i condemnation IV,. oil tlio foot IIa TTIAV ItA t Af. oughly honest and yet unreliable. Here- . V .t ... ,..t I TT in is seen tne vaiue 01 iub wuru. uc may be forgetful, indolent, impulsive, impres sionable, unpunctual. Any of these faults, .. . '. i! at- v. I wnicn are not morai sius, unuta mm ui his work as tne carc-iaaer 01 ouriortunes, and disqualifies him for the office because of his unreliability when in it An un reliable physician, too, digs the grave for his own success. To trust ourselves and the lives of our dearest to a man whose punctuality of visits is a fond belief never translated into an actuality, whose sharp ness of perception is a thing that comes and goes with the weather and the state rst tiia Hver. and who lets himself be drawn away from the arduous duties of his profession by any passing iantasy or l to trust ourselves, perhaps. to the best-natured fellow in the world, i but to a man so entirely unre liable as to be almost useless for this work. Of what use to a sick man the lightning quickness of diagnosis at one time, when the dull brain lacks even the ordinary power of a second-rate intellect at another? What we want in our physician is emphatically reliability reliability all through, not in fragments, nor by fits and starts, but a steady-going quality of trustworthiness from end to end, and to the extent to which his natural powers may reach. In fact there is not a function or posi tion in life in which reliability is not the most valuable characteristic. Genius which sends scrimped work as often as noble effort, and the mainstay of an under taking not to be trusted for time or punctuality, energies which are heroic on one occasion, then sink below the meas ure of a child's strength on another, love that burns like the sun to-day, and is dead and cold as a mere heap of ashes to-morrow who cares for such gifts as these? Beautiful as they are when they come, they are intrinsically worthless, because so entirely unreliable; and qualities which have not nail the show and shine of these have twice their value because always to band when wanted, always to be trusted in and relied on when they have work to do and responsibilities to fulfill. Yes, it is a grand quality ; we know none grander. It is the very crown, the gathering in of so many notable virtues which without it are of no account that we might part with many a good gift bestowed by nature upon man rather than with this whicl gives vitality to all this supreme ex cellence of reliability. With it a boor has worth; without it a demigod his dangers and his valuelessness. It meana everything that is solid, everything that is trustworthy, and no one Is so great that he can do without it, no one so humble that he is not ennobled and made of value with It. i) n n