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PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1875.
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DEALER IX
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SAFES, CHAIRS,
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ETC.. ETC., ETC.,
Of All Descriptions.
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all to rail and examine my
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MEDICINES
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Wholesale auU Retail Dealer in
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Varnishes. Patent Medicines.
Toilet Articles, etc., etc.
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John O'Roibke
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Vice-President.
Cashier.
Assistant Cashier.
Thin Bank is now open for business at their new
room, corner Maiu and Sixth street, and are pre
pared to transact a general
BANKING BUSINESS.
Stocks. 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 United States and in
a!' the ?rinc:pal Towus and Cities of Europe.
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NEWS OF T11E WEEK.
of the Jintteiin,
a duel, and the
day
The next
Compiled from Telrsramj of Accompanying Dates.
Monday, Dec. 23.
Ix an affray In the streets of New Orleans
on the 2Gtb, between ex-Gov. Warmoth and
Daniel C. Bycrly, manager of the Bulletin, the
former stabbed the latter with a pocket-knife
and inflicted wounds which proved fatal in
short time. The dilBculty grew out of
newspaper discussion on political affairs
and concerning the rights of the colored
people. Personal charges of an offensive
character were made and Jewett, editor
challenged Warmoth to
lutter promptly accepted.
(2fth) the street fracas
occurred. Bvcrly, who had been character
ized as a liar, etc., ty Warmoth, making the
attack. Warmoth apparently acting in self-
defense.
Tub report of the Election Returning Board
of Louisiana shows the following nttsult for
State Treasurer: Dubuclet, GS,544; Moncure,
68,556; majority for Dubuclet (Republican),
958. The five constitutional amendments
recommended by Kellogg and adopted by his
Legislature are all carried, according to the
count of both parties.
The Carlist have offered to restore the
German brig Gustav upon payment of the
customs duties alleged to be due. Food was
reported to be very scarce at 1'ampalona, and
all known Carlists had been expelled from
the city.
The Grand Duke Nicholas, nephew of the
Emperor of Russia, the one who was asso
ciated with the diamond scandal some months
ago, has been declared insane, and placed
under guardianship.
O. B. Stoct, of Indianapolis, Ind., has been
awarded a verdict of $ 500 against his mother-
in-law lor alienating the affections of his
wife, who procured a divorce from him some
time ago.
A dispatch received on the morning of the
23th reports the burning of the emigrant ship
Cospatrick on the 17th, in latitude 37 N.,
longitude 12 W. It is estimated that 4o lives
were lost.
A Washington dispatch says (Jen. Sheri
dan had been ordered to New Orleans to re
lieve Gen. Emory. -
Tuesday, Dec. 29.
In the investigation in New York on the
28th before the sub-committee of the House
Ways and Means Committee, concerning the
subsidy business of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company, evidence was produced show
ing that Wm. S, King, Postmaster of the
House of Representatives, had, in May last,
drawn from a New York bank $115,000 of the
funds deposited by Irwin, on a check signed
by the latter..
In a dispatch dated New Orleans, Dec. 25,
McEnery says: "The wrong just perpetrated
by the Returning Board against the people of
Louisiana is a more crowning infamy than
the action of the Lynch Returning Board.'
He adds that " resistance to the national au
thority, represented by a large portion ot the
army and naval fleet sustaining the usurpa
tion and stifling the voice of the people, has
never been meditated."
In a circular to Postmasters throughout
the country the rostmaster-Gcneral urges
upon Postmasters the necessity of curtail
ment of all unnecessary expenses in the way
of clerical hire, etc , in order that the antic
ipated deficiency of f 90,000 in this depart
ment of the service for the current fiscal year
may be reduced as much as possible.
According to the report of the State Treas
urer and State Auditor of Minnesota the re
ceipts of the year have been 1,112,812.59, and
the expenditures 1,1,0.'j9.9. Balance in
the Treasury $1S3,151.94, against 21S,3I)S-35
at the end of the year 1S73.
Gerkit Smith died in New York on the
28th, from a combined attack of apoplexy and
paralysis. Mr. Smith was seventy-seven years
old.
Wednesday, Dec. 30.
A report that Gen. Emory has been super
seded by Gen. Terry is not confirmed and is
probably incorrect. Gen. Sheridan left i
Chicago on the evening of the 27th for
New Orleans, under instructions to hold
himself in readiness, in the event of an up
rising against the Kellogg Government, to
assume immediate command tf the Govern
ment forces and carry out instructions confi
dentially sent him.
In the Cabinet meeting in Washington on
the 29th Atty.-Gen. illiams emphatically
reiterated his opinion that there was a neces
sity for the Government to sustain the report
of the Louisiana Election Returning Board
at all hazards, and that its decision is right
in law and in fact.
The general term of the City Court of
Brooklyn, Judges Neilson and Reynolds on
the bench, has given a decision reversing
the order of Judge McCue which required
Mr. Tilton to furnish Mr. Beecher a bill of
particulars in the suit of the former against
the latter.
Br arrangements recently concluded be
tween the United States and Canada, on and
after Jan. 1, 115, or as soon as the neces
sary measures can be perfected, the domestic
mails of each country are to be transmitted
in closed pouches through the territory of the
other, free of extra charge.
A Presbyterian pastor in Washington re
cently committed suicide after being detected
n the purloining of some books-froin a book
store in that city.
The death of Don Espartero, Marshal, and
at one time Regent, cf Spain, is announced.
He was eighty-two years old.
The Mississippi Democratic State Conven
tion has been postponed from Jan. 8 to April
A battle and a Carlist defeat are reported
at Rod a, in Barcelona.
Thursday, Dec. 31.
In the Pacifie Mail investigation in New
York on the 30th the Secretary of the Brook
lyn Trust Company testified that John .
Sshumaker, Congressman for the Second
New York District, bad received in payments
and credit the sum of $275,000 of the amount
disbursed by the agent of the Pacific Mai
Company. Rufus Hatch stated before the
committee that he wished to introduce cer
tain witnesses to show that Irwin's intention
in coming back from Europe was to break up
the Pacific Mail Company.
A partt of Indians, belonirinz to Spotted
Tail's band, have reported a gang of twenty
one miners encamped in the Black Hills.
They were not molested, but the fact of their
intrusion reported to Indian Agent Howard.
The Congressional sub-committee to inves
tigate Louisiana aflairs held its first session
in New Orleans on the 30th. The Vicksbwg
committee reached that place oa the 30th.
Ex.-Gov. Warmoth had a preliminary
examination on the 30th on the charge of
murder for killing D. C. Bverly, in New Or
leans, and was discharged from custody.
The Freemasons in New York gave King
Kalakaua a reception on the night of the 30th.
A large number were present.
Saturday, Jan. 2.
Madrid dispatches of the 31t ulL announce
the collapse of the Spanish Republic and that
Alphonso Lad been proclaimed King of Spain
bylthe army and navy, and that the people
had gladly acquiesced, la the moyetueut.
The King had announced hlg CMnct, and
had telegraphed to the Pope asking hi
blessing and promising like his ancestors
to defend the rights of the Holy See. Gen
Campos had entered Valencia at the head of
the troops that were sent to oppose him
when he pronounced for Alpbonso.
The new Ministry had telegraphed
to Cuba directing the Captain-Gencr
al to proclaim to the army there
the accession of King Alphonso. Dig.
patches of the 1st say that Gen.
Dorregaray had laid down his arms and
that other prominent Carlist leaders were
about to give in their adhesion to King Al
phonso, and the Spanish Ambassador at
Paris had resigned and the Duke de MonU
pensier and the Orleans Princes had congrat
ulated Don Alphonso upon his accession to
the Spanish throne.
Great excitement was caused atYinita,
T., on the 1st by a report that 200 well-armed
Ross, or Piu, Indians, were marching ori that
place with a view of attacking the town
The cause of the disturbance is said to have
grown out of party feeling, the Ross party
net favoring a Territorial government. Nearly
all the white people had left Yinita on the
1st.
While walking on the streets in New Or
leans on the night of the 31st ult. in company
with a friend, Fabius McKay Dunn (colored)
Assistant United States Appraiser, was shot
in the side and almost instantly killed. Con
servatives say the shooting was accidental.
Gen. Moroax L. Smith, of Bioomington,
111., died recently at a hotel in Brooklyn,
N. Y. His remains were taken to Washing
ton, D. C.
A Constantinople dispatch of the 31st ulL
says 25,000 persons had perished from starva
tion in the city of Adana aloue.
The internal revenue receipts for the month
of December were tS,9S4,G30. For the fiscal
year to Dec. 31, $52,273,430.
Samcel J.Tilden was inaugurated as Gov
enior of New York on the 1st, in the presence
of a large concourse of citizens.
The Connecticut Republican State Conven
tion is to be held on the 20th inst.
THE MAHKKT8.
New York. Cotton-HflliHc. flour Good
to choice, $5.0Of&5.60: white winter extra, $.Y6iKr9
H.15. Wheat Ho. Chicago, $l.lltl.l3; No. i
Northwestern. S1.12i1.13 ; o. Milwaukee
Spring, fl.14ai.13l4. Kyt Western. JMffic.
JlarUy 1.4.V(j.l.50. Corn 788c. Oat Mixed
estern, bei,7iic. m-flew mc, $su.37'-i(S
an.30. Lara ISHWiaic. VHe$e I2Vi&15c
Wool Common to extra. 4-'?HSc. Tttrte 10.00
Gcis.oo. lloy ureesea sx&va&xi'h', live,
Stf.7;37.0 . Shtep Live, $5.00o.o0.
Chicago. Beere Choice, $5.750,6.00; cood.
S4.7T.&5.50: mediom, 4. 25444. 75 : butchen'
stock, S7534.a5; stock cattle. $i.o
3.75. Jloqn Live, good to choice, gi.7o
6t.00. Sheep Good to choice, $4.7S?t5.2o.
Mutter Choice Yellow. 3037c. Fan Fresh,
242-c. Pork Mess, new, 18.7S5H9.0O. Lard
$13,005.13.10 Cheese New York Factory,
lW7.15!4c: Western Factory, 14'46l5c.
flour White winter extra. 1.2.C6.50:
sprinjr extra. $4.U)tf4.6. Wheat Spring
No. i. 8!'4,90c. Corn No. 2, new, boc'o
6:A4c. Oatt-'So. 3, 53K&Me. tiyeo. i,
ml,".S9c. BartevTio. . sl.&afitl.324. Wool
Tab-washed, 45f?'.57c; fleece, washed, 4D
4Hc; fleece, unwashed, Z7((j35c. Lumber
Urst-clear, KB.UUftr.'A.iv; aecond-ciear, 4.(iu
S'O.IO; common boards, stl.uu&r.Mu; lenc
ins. .12.00G.i:i.ou; "A" shingles, $:J.00(&3.i!5;
lath, $2.0uai.25.
Cincinnati. Fotr ft5.00r??i.V50. Wheat Red,
Sl.(s&l.l. Corn-New, T0a71c. Rye $!. 9&
i. wir smm-x. ttariey si.Z7xi.27!4. JorK
$18.0oai9.0U. Zarrf li14c.
St. Locis. Cattle Fair to choice, 1.50ii5.25.
Hogs Live, ( 5O3.7.00. flour XX Fall, 4.75fj
4.so. heal No. Red Fall, fl.OSi&1.0KV
Corn No. 2, new, fiSH- )at No. 2, 57s
c. RytJ01P.S&. Barley Ho. 2, S1.30&
1.35 fork Mess, 18.50048.75. Lard Ufc.lic.
MawAi-Kii.-ftoiir-Sprine XX. S5.2.VJV1.50.
Wheat Sprinsr, No. I.MWfcSic; No. 2, SSfj-'c.
Com No. 2, B4u65c. Oat No 2,5HS.5iHc.
Hue'So. 1, 97&96c. Barley "So. 2, $1,284
1.29.
Cleveland. Wheat No. 1 Red, fl.ll'lQl.VJ;
No. 2 Jied, $l.O5Hftl-0S. Com New, 71e,7-Jc.
Oat No. 1, 574'5i8c.
Detroit. Wheat Extra. Sl-lSVCffM-lSS. Corn
V'4ftt70c. Oat 5342j54c. Dretted Hogs
$..75C(i.ai.
Toledo. Wheat Amber Michigan, $1.10ff?.
1.10'i; No. S Ked, $1.08'431 .09. Corn Uigh
Mixed, new, 69"4&,70c. Oat "So. i, 56&56VtC
Buffalo. Beere $4.75f?.6.00. Uog Live,
$ti.207.10. Shtep :Llve, $L75&5.50.
Fast Liberty. Beeves Best, $6.2t6.75;
medium, S-.75a6.00. Hog Yorkers, $S.r07a
6.73; Philadelphia, $7.00a7.10. Sheep Best,
b.OJJ'i.S); medium, $5.0J$.75.
'ew Postal Arrangements with Canada.
Washihoton, Dec. 9.
For the purpose of placing communi
cation by post between the United
States and Dominion of Canada upon the
most liberal and advantageous basis, the
following arrangements have been agreed
upon, to be carried into effect on the 1st
of January, loTo, or as soon thereafter
as the necessary measures can be per
fected for putting them into operation:
firtl Unification of the postal systems of the
two conn tries in respect to correspondence ex
changed between them; each country to forward
aud deliver, free of charge, correspondence of nil
kinds, written and printed, received from the
other, which correspondence mast in all cases he
prepaid at the established domestic rales of the
country of origin.
Second Each conntry will transmit the domes
tic mails of the other in closed pouches through
its territory, free of charge, by its ordinary mail
rontes.
Third No account shall be kept between the
Postoffice Departments of the two countries in
regard to international correspondence of any
kiud exchanged between them; each department
retaiuing for it exclusive use all the postage it
collects on mail matter sent to the other fur de
livery. fourth It is understood to be the desire and
iateution of our respective Postofllce Depart
ments that the provisions of this agreement shall
eiteud to an international money-order exchange
a ' soon as practicable.
fifth The provisions of this agreement, as
far as relates to the rate of letter postage, will be
carried into effect on the 1st of February, 1875.
Sixth All provisions of existing postal con
ventions inconsistent with this arrangement are
hereby abrogated.
Seventh Formal articles, embodying the pro
visions of this agreement, shall be prepared lor
execution as soon as possible.
(Signed) W. H. Gmrrnt,
Deputy Postmaster-General, Canada, actiug for
and subject to the approval of the Postmaster
General of Canada.
Marshall Jewell, Postmaster-General.
Army Statistics.
Washington, Dec. 29.
The Paymaster-General of the array
in his report for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1874, gives the following state
ment of receipts and disbursements:
Balance on hand at the beginning of
the fiscal year (July 1, 1873) $il52.9'.U 81
Received during the fiscal year from
the Treasury 14,241.096 12
Received from soldiers' deposits.... 346.609 5t
Received from other sources. 697,04:i 91
Total... $17,437,741 43
Disbursed to the army $11,785,168 P6
Disbursed to the Military Araderav. 195.9-.i8 47
Disbursed on Treasury certificates.. 1,284,734 11
Total disbursements $13,202,830 44
Surplus funds deposited in the
Treasury 837,794 85
Paymasters' collections deposited in
the Treasury 697,442 30
Balance in hands of Paymasters June
30. 1874, to be accounted for in next
report 8,639,673 84
Total $17,137,741 43
The number of re-enlistments during
the last year has been 1,400 more than
during the previous fiscal year. During
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1S74, there
were 2,000 less desertions than darine the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1873. A little
of this reduction is due to the diminution
of the number of enlisted men, but it is
fair to presume that a large share of it
is owing to the increasing contentment
with the service by the full operation of
the acts of May 15, 1872, for gradual in
crease of pay and for soldiers' deposits.
The Paymaster-Oeneral recommends
to favorable consideration an annuity
scheme lor officers of the army, first
presented by Gen. J. 13. Fry, of the Adjutant-General's
Department. Under it,
officers could, by making certain month
ly deductions from their pay, secHre to
iii:r widows, heirs or nominees a month
ly annuity which will commence on the
death of the officer. It is contemplated
that the operation shall in the end
be a safe one for the Government, and
shall involve no loss to the Treasury. It
contemplates that the War Department
shall have power to prescribe from time
to time the rules and tables to be em
ployed in the execution of the plan.
1 he average annual mortality of
officers of the United States army dur
ing the last fifty years (including deaths
in war) lias been 24.1 per 1,000.
Postofa5 Reorganization.
WASiiixoTev, Dec. 23.
The Postmaster-General will soon send
to all Postmasters of leading cities a cir
cular, of which the lollowing is an ex
tract:
"The increasing deficiency in the
Postoffice Department is assuming such
proportions as to demand a strict and
rigid effort to reduce expenses, with a
view to curtail this great deficiency.
One of the largest items in the annual
xpenditurcs of this department
is the expenses of the Post-
offices. This, upon examination, is
found to ditler very materially in
offices of the same class which are in
fluenced by the same condition of
service. Ihe appropriations lor these
expenditures for the fiscal j-car are 3,
250,000. The expenditures at the present
rate will be J,340,000, leaving a deficit
of 'J0,000. 1 have determined upon an
investigation of all the offices, to be made
by agents of the Postoffice Department
who are thoroughly versed in all the de
tails of Postoffice work and requirement,
with a view of discovering the amount
necessary to be appropriated for the next
ensuing year.
" In connection with this 1 deem it ad
visable to reorganize the clerical force
of all the offices of the higher grade,
systematizing the labor and basing the
compensation of the clerks upon the
quality and amount of the service per
formed and introducing a system ol ap
pointments and promotions tnat will
enable 3'ou to reduce the force and ex
penses to the lowest limit, and increasing
the efficiency of the service to the greatest
extent; wane ai me sauie nine me
pay to individual clerks may be increased
if increase is demanded. This reorgani
zation is absolutely . necessary to carry
out the object proposed, and will receive
the attention of the agents. detailed for
the examination of the offices."
The Postmaster-General suggests to
Postmasters that they forthwith submit
a draft of such a scheme of organization
of their respective offices as they may
think necessary.
THE HOME HEART.
The
in my arms coos for nie
lives but
with
babe that nestled
but in dreams.
The prattler crowned with golden curls
in memory s gleams;
What marvel then that loving fear blends
the pride and jov
That watches on his manhood's verge the bold
and bonny boy?
The happy smile of infancy still wreaths his rosy
lips.
The fearless light of childhood's eves knows
nothing of ecliuse:
But firmer tread and stronger clasp attest the
rolling Years.
While growing, daring thought and will awake
the woman fears.
My son, a wiser hand than
onward way,
A greater power soothe thy night
through the day.
So, in a patient impotence, I
apart.
Only praying, for thy father's sake,
irank home heart!
mine will shape thy
and guide thee
strive to stand
oh, keep the
Keep the pure, unstinted charitv, the- trnst in all
thini;s fair.
The hope that mid each earthlv cloud still feels
the sunshine there.
The faith in goodness, love and truth that, spite
ot lault ana tall,
Looks on the bright world God has made and
owns liis touch on all.
So shall the light foot spring unharmed along the
perilous path.
So shall the brave hand clasp and keep the one
immortal wreath.
By the yearning ot' the lonely life, whose chiefest
Joy thou art.
Oh, darling of our severed lives, keep still the
fresh home heart.
TinUy' Jtagasine.
Russian Etiquette.
As soon as the imperial party were
seated everybody else satdown; it would
have been great rudeness for anybody to
sit while thev were standintr: and if the
Emperor had risen at any time during
the performance it would have been the
etiquette for every other person in the
house t follow his example. This is the
case everywhere, no matter where the
Emperor may be, and the rule of eti
quette includes all the members of the
family. Royal and imperial personages
are no doubt greatly boreu by the con
stant ceremony going on around them,
and most of them would be glad to es
cape at leist a portion of it. The Em
press Catht-ine succeeded in doing so to
some extent when she built the Hermit
age, or small palace which adjoins the
1'aLiit dCLliter. She arranged a series of
frequent reunions, and the rules govern
ing them were conspicuously placed at
the entrance of one of the principal halls,
where they may still be seen. Here are
some of these rules:
1. Let each one who enters here remove his
rank, his hat and. above all. his sword.
2. Leave at the door your dignity, your pride
and everr sentiment that resembles them.
4. Kemain standing or sitting, or promenade, as
you like, witboat recarulng anyone.
The fourth rule did away with the ne
cessity for all to rise when any member
of the imperial family passed through
the hall, and was no doubt a great relief
to all concerned. A gentleman who has-
lived in St. Petersburg for some time,
and has the entree of the court, tells me
that one evening he happened in a little
circle which contained the Grand Duch
ess Marie, sister of the Emperor. Con
versation went on quite rapidly, and the
Grand Duchess was in the best of spirits.
After a time she said, in the most friend
ly way :
4 1 have a favor to ask of all ol you. l
want to join that party on the other side
of the hall, and I don't want to make a
commotion that will break up the con
versation. If you rise when I do they
will, of course, see it; Isow I want all
of you to keep your seats, and I think I
can get there without disturbing them."
Uf course every body obeyed tne in
unction, and paid no apparent attention
to her departure. She succeeded very
fnirlir in lr H"irt no clip rr.ii n a ffrl to
get quite in the niidsf of the party before
she was discovered. She dropped into a
seat with a merry laugh before more than
half the number were able to assume an
upright position.
JNot many years ago an American Jun-
ister when presented to the Emperor
coolly sat down while His Majesty re
mained standing, and furthermore placed
an antiquated and by no means comely
hat on the table between them. They
carried on a brief conversation in this
ay. The Emperor made no sign of
affront at the time, but a remark which
he subsequently dropped showed that he
was not unobservant of such a gross in
fraction of etiquette. Tho. W.Knox, in
Uarer'8 Magazine.
A'ovel Expedient of Besieged Men.
A private letter from an officer at Fort
Sill, Indian Territory, gives the follow
ing account of an ingenious expedient
adopted to aid some soldiers in a strait :
Corporal John Smith, ol the rortietn
Infantry, with four men, was employed
on some detail some twenty-five miles
rom this post. While thus engaged he
was surprised by a body of some hundred
or more mounted Indians, he thinks
either Kiowas or Comanches, from this
reservation. .As their purpose was un
mistakably hostile, he and his men lost
no time in taking to the only available
shelter, an old buffalo wallow, where, in
a very uncomfortable, constrained posi
tion, they managed to protect their bodies
and keep their enemies at a distance lor
the day and night. The next morning,
however, their sufferings for want of food
and water became rather serious, and
something had to be done. Corporal
Smith was equal to the occasion; taking
a piece of his own white shirt, the only
substitute for paper to be had, he wrote
a note describing their situation, secured
it with care to the neck of a small, shaggy
mongrel dog which had followed them
from the fort; then battering up a can
teen he fastened it to the dog's tail and
et him co. Ihe dog. to quote the Cor-;
poral s own expression, 'just humptcd
mraseir. l he Indians, taking it to be a
mere act of bmvado, I presume, made no
attempt to stop him, and within two
hours from the time he started the dog
reached the post. Succor was immedi
ately sent and the brave Corporal and
his comrades brought in, the Indians
making oft at the tirit sieht of the rescue
party, at thp distance of several miles.
A fashion- exchange says: "Light
trouers should be worn only in the
morning ana dark trousers for scmi
dress." " Spo&a'" you have only one
lyeui .-
SliilUS, THE DOG-STAR.
" 0"E star differeth from another star
in glory," and among the six thousand
stars visible to the unassisted eye in the
celestial sphere, or the twenty million
revealed there by telescopic research,
the greatest glory surrounds tne peer
less orb known under the name ot Sinus.
It belongs to a little constellation, Can is
Major, a cluster ot thirty-one stars, pos
sessing otherwise no noticeable feature.
situated south and east of Orion, and
universally known from the unrivaled
luster of its leading brilliant. Sirius is
a superb object in the winter sky, com
ing to the meridian on the 11th of Febru
ary, and surpassing in size and lustrous
light its nearest rivals, Betelguex and
Procyon, with which it forms an equilat
eral triangle, whose angular points of
starry glory sparkle like diamonds of the
nrst water.
For the origin of the name of this
glittering brilliant we must go back to
the early history ot astronomy, among
the people who dwelt in Egypt around
the river Nile. The rise and overflow of
the famous river was to the ancient in
habitants at first a source of annoyance
and distress, on account of the inunda
tion of the land adjacent to its shores.
Tho occurrence was considered as acci
dental until long observation had shown
that it was an annual event, and then its
cause was a source of still greater anxie
ty. Ihe heavens above an the earth
below were carefully studied for a solu
tion of the mystery.
At length patient study was rewarded:
the problem was solved. A few days be
fore the river began to rise a bright star
rose above the morning horizon, just be
fore the sun's appearance. Every year
the mysterious star appeared at the
same season and in the same position,
or at least so near it that the slight
deviation was not recognized br
the unpracticed astronomers of the time.
Every year its appearance was followed
by the rising of the waters. Therefore
those who dwelt near the river lett their
dwellings and sought temporary homes
in more elevated localities, while they
watched the overflow with mingled feel
ings of superstitious fear and bright
hopes of agricultural prosperity. Thus
the star was like a watch-dog, giving
warning of the approach ol the enemy,
aud for this reason it received the name
of Haaut, or Tayaut, signifying dog in
their language. As the star was closely
associated with the sacred river, it was
honored with a second name, Sihor, one
of the names of the Nile; or, according
to other authority, Sins, the Egvptian
word for the rising of the river. This is
the derivation for our name lor the star,
Sirius.
To the Egyptians this star was the
most important one in the heavens, for
it marked the commencement of their
agricultural year. The slightest varia
tion in its color was carefully observed,
and from its greater or lesser brilliancy,
indicating in reality the condition of the
atmosphere, they eagerly gathered omens
of fruitful harvest or desolating famine.
They paid to it divine honors on account
of its influence in producing fertilizing
inundations, and superstitiously believed
that the conjunction of sun and star
caused the excessive heat of the season.
On account of the prevalence of malig
nant disease at this time thev associated
with it a malarious influence. This be
lief prevailed universally in ancient
times, and the superstition still survives
in the modern dog-daj-s.
The star had a peculiar god, called
Typhon, to whom a cruel sacrifice was
made of red-haired victims, usually for
eigners, who were annually seized for
this purpose. Ihe ureeks adopted the
superstition and the Komans followed
their lead, sacrificing yearly a brown
dog to Sirius to render it propitious to
their flocks and herds. The evil agency
continued for forty days, twenty days
before the heliacal rising of the star and
twenty days after the event, lhe.se
were the "Dies caniculares" of classic
times. At that remote period they com
menced on the 4th of August and
lasted till the 14th of September. But
the rising of Sirius varies with
the latitude of the place, and
in the same latitude is percept
ibly changed after a course ot years
by the r recession ot the equinoxes. At
the present time Sirius rises with the
sun about the 12th of August, and the
classical dog-days extend from the 24th
of July to the 1st of September. As
modern dog-days extend from the 3d of
July to the 11th of August it will readily
be seen that they have no reference to
the rising of Sirius.
It was naturally supposed that Sinus,
from its superior size, was nearer to us
than any of its companions, but modern
observation has established the fact that
this is not the case. The stars that we
call fixed are, in reality, moving onward
through space in obedience to laws that
are not yet fully comprehended. The
movement, though apparently imper
ceptible, is, in reality, rapid beyond con
ception. The Milky-Way, to which our
sun belongs, is revolving in avast orbit
around some undiscovered center, and
the motion of our sun may be the cause
of a portion of the measurable motion of
a lew of the stellar suns. iow, the stars
having the greatest proper motion must
be nearest to us, just as a man seems to
walk, faster at a little distance from us
than when he is much farther off. In
the great majority of stars not the
slightest trace of movement can be de
tected by the most careful observation.
As the earth sweeps on in her orbit
round the sun she is, at opposite points
of it, 1S3,000,000 miles nearer to some of
the surrounding stars, and yet this
enormous distance does not change the
position of most of the stars a fraction
of a hair's breadth; therefore, the vast
orbit of the earth is a mere point as seen
irom these distant orbs.
But nine or ten stars have been found to
give evidence of movement proper mo
tion, as it i called and thus afford data
on which their distances can be calcu
lated. Alpha Ccntauria, a southern,
first-magnitude star, has the most rapid
motion, and is considered the nearest to
ond of a degree, and it is separated from
us by the enormous distance of 224,000
times the earth's distance from the sun,
this bemg the unit for starry measure
ments. Therefore, for 20,000.000,000,000
miles a traveler beyond the boundaries
of the solar system, passing through
space with the amazing velocity of light,
184,000 miles a second, would be three
years and six months in reaching the
nearest of the stars. Finite power ut
terly fails to comprehend the dimensions
of a universe fashioned on so vast a scale !
Sirius has also a proper motion, five
times as slow as Alpha Centauris. It is
1,375,000 times the earth's distance from
the sun, which is yi.430,000 miles. It
takes light twenty-two years to traverse
this distance ; so that if this star were
to-day to be blotted from the sky it
would continue to shine there with un
diminished luster for twentv-two vears
Not only has the distance of Sirius,
been determined but its size compared
with our sun has been approximately
measured. The only method for com
putmg the dimensions of a star is to
measure its light. There are twenty
stars of the first magnitude and nineteen
arc much farther from us than
Alpha Centauris, although many
of them are nearly as brilliant.
Therefore we reason that they
must exceed that star in size and mass.
Now, Sirius must far surpass this spark
ling gem of the southern sky, for it is
four times as bright and five times as far
away. Since it is five times as far
away it should shine with one-twenty-fifth
of the light, and, being apparently
four times as bright, it is in reality 100
times as bright. As Alpha is three times
as bright as the sun would be, removed
to the same distance, Sirius must be 300
times as bright as the sun. If we assume
that the intrinsic brightness of the star
s the same as the intrinsic brightness of
the sun, we shall have an immense sun
fourteen times the diameter of our sun,
with a volume exceeding his more than
2,000 times. This gives Sirius a diameter
of more than 12.000.000 miles. .Let us
imagine a blazing sun stretching from the
earth s center, filling the intervening
space between us and the moon, and ex
tending more than 5,500,000 miles beyond,
and we have some taint dawning of a
conception of the incomprehensible di
mensions of this immense globe or nre,
the greatest aggregation of solar matter
measurable thus far by terrestrial instru
ments!
Great changes have taken place in the
color of Sinus since it was first observed
In the early ages of astronomy it was of
a fiery red, after which it gradually faded
to a pure white, and it has now taken on
a bldish or greenish tint, it holds a
leading position in the class of white
stars, which includes the highest condi
tions of development in the astral uni
verse.
Uunous and unaccountable vagaries
have always marked the movements of
this star. It was found that it did not
move in the heavens in a straight line
and with the uniform velocity of the
fixed stars, but varied its motion in such
a way as to indicate powerful disturbing
lnltuences in its vicinity. Here was a
knotty problem that astronomers did not
fail to attack, but no solution was reached
until about half a century since. Uessel,
a German observer, was convinced that
the disturbance was caused by the at
traction of an invisible satellite revolving
around the shining orb. Other observers
calculated the orbit of the attracting
body, independently reaching the same
result, and they even went so far as to
indicate its position at certain times.
At last no doubt remained as to the ex
istence of the disturber, but it continued
to elude the search of the best telescopes.
In 186'i a telescope, with an object glass
of eighteen and a half inches in diame
ter, was completed by the famous opti
cians, .Messrs. Alvan Clark cc oous. nie
new instrument was pointed to Sinus as
a test of its power, and the long-looked-
for companion came immediately into
view, at the distance oi ten seconds
from the primary. The glad tidings
went quickly round our little globe, and
all the great telescopes were pointed to
the bright star. When the exact position
was known, the companion was easily
detected by skillful observers. It took
nearly four years to settle the question
whether the observed satellite was really
the disturbing body. It was found that
its observed position and motion corre
sponded so nearly with those predicted
from theory that no doubt of the iden
tity between the theoretical and visible
satellite remained.
Another modern discovery concerning
Sirius relates to what is technically
called star-drift. Certain 6tars appear
to be drilling from us, others to be drift
ing toward us. On account of the
brightness of Sirius Dr. Huggins se
lected it for a beautiful and delicate ex
periment to determine whether stars
have a proper motion in the direction of
the line of sight from the earth. As
tronomers can determine if a star moves
up or down, to the right or left of a cer
tain mean position, but they cannot de
termine if the star moves backward or
forward. But Dr. Huggins solved the
problem from a spectroscopic applica
tion of the laws of light. Light moves in
waves. If the wave-length of a particu
lar ray from a star varies in length from
the normal wave-length of that ray, then
the star is approaching or receding, ac
cording as the deviation varies. The
spectroscopist has a delicate way of elu
cidating this law. The rainbow-tinted
spectrum of this star is crossed by known
dark lines. If one of these lines is
changed toward the red end of the spec
trum, the observer knows that the star
is swiftly receding; if it changes toward
the violet end, it is swiftly approaching.
After a series of the most careful meas
urements, it was found that Sirius is re
ceding at the rate of twenty-nine and a
half miles a second.
We cannot yet tell whether the earth
is moving from the star or the star from
the earth. Even with this incredible
speed, the passage of a million jears
will make no perceptible diticrencc m
the appearance of the king star of our
universe, and the lifetime of the present
inhabitants of the globe is a period too
insignificant to be thought of when deal
ing with this far-distant star!
The question naturally arises: How
can it be proved that the Mar is in reality
a sun, made up of consiituents like those
of our sun, and giving forth heat and
light under similar conditions? The
revelations of the pectroscope have sat
isfactorily settled this important matter.
Sirius gives a spectrum of great beauty,
although its low altitude renders the ob
servation of the finer lines very difficult.
Its spectrum is composed of ra3-s of the
seven colors, crossed by four dark and
broad lines, and by numerous fine ones.
As its spectrum presents the same gen
eral appearance as the solar spectrum,
it is proved that the star is incandescent,
and that it3 light comes to us through
certain vapors like those forming the
sun's photosphere. The four broad and
dark lines indicate the presence of
hydrogen, and some of the faint ones are
due to sodium, magnesium and iron.
Therefore Sirius is a real sun, consti
tuted in the same way, and containing
elements identical with our sun.
Thus we see that this resplendent star
was an object of wonder and delight, as
well as of superstitious fear, in the
earliest ages of astronomical observation,
and that the patient research and un
wearied perseverance of modern observ
ers have met with a brilliant reward in
the marvelous discoveries that have fol
lowed their efforts. It exceeds a million
time9 the distance of the sun from the
in con-
But its motion is not quite one eec- earth, anl is a gigantic globe, wjth ft tli-1 formity to the laws of their organization.
ameter of 12,000,000 miles and a volume
more than 2,000 times greater than that of
the sun. It gives out heat and light in a
proportion to which that given out by our
lesser luminary dwindles into nothing
ness. It is made up of constituents ex
isting in all the bodies of the solar sys
tem, and it rules over at least one huge
planet of proportions corresponding to
its great principal. Its color, changing
from fiery red to blue-tinted white, gives
evidence of vast commotion around its
huge circumference. It is so faraway
that light, with its amazing velocity.
takes twenty-two years to reach us from
its far-distant confines; and yet so near
that, while running away from us at the
rate of twenty-nine and a half miles a
second, we can see its light, feel its heat.
measure us circumlerence, weigh its
mass, dehne its substance and watch the
movement of its dark satellite.
And yet this glorious leader of the
starry host is but one of twenty million
visible to telescopic sight, many among
the distant glimmerers doubtless its
equal, or far exceeding its inconceivable
mass. It is not given to finite power to
comprehend the dimensions of a universe
created on so grand a scale. But mortal
imagination may seek to picture the
glory of such a sun, the highest tj pe of
starry development, and fancy the
planetary orbs revolving around the
beaming center, manifesting the various
and complicated conditions of physical
existence It may also picture some of
them at least as fitted for the abode of
intelligent beings of an order adapted to
a position so exalted in the economy of
the universe.
We have occasionally, on this planet,
glimpses of vastly higher orders of in
telligence in the existence of a few in
dividuals gifted far above their peers,
whose fame will be borne from genera
tion to generation as long as the world
endures. Why should not the inhabitants
of the worlds revolving around Sirius be
as far above these exceptional specimens
of the human race as a Shakespeare, a
Milton, or a Sir Isaac Newton is above
the most untutored barbarian? E. M.
Converge, in Appletoii1 Journal.
" As Blind as a Bat."
A good many years ago," when we
lived in an old-fashioned country farm
house and used tallow candles nnd whale
oil lamps, we remember certain intrud
ers upon our peace that always came
after dark. During the warm summer
evenings, when the windows and doors
were open and the rooms were very
dimly lighted by one feeble and sputter
ing candle, these crazy-headed interlop
ers would suddenly make their appear
ance. They would fly from corner to
corner and from floor to ceiling with the
greatest rapidity. They fluttered and
quivered and darted about in such an
unsystematic and unpremeditated kind
of a way tlytt we never could place any
dependence upon them. Indeed they
seemed to be perfectly aimless, though
us children stood in considerable fear
lest they should unexpectedly aim at our
faces aud bite us with their terrible
teeth.
We recollect the time when one was at
last taken prisoner in broad daylight,
and what a satisfaction we experienced
when we were enabled to look at and
even to touch the curious and homely
little animal. It had previously been a
mystery, and even after examination it
was somewhat past comprehension.
" As bund as a bat," says many a hoy
or girl who, perhaps, has never seen the
shadow of one or stopped to inquire
whether bats are by nature w ithout eyes
or having eyes are unable to .see through
them. Yet bats not only have eyes
w hich they use at certain tunes, but they
possess a peculiar instinct or capability
by which they can control their move
ments almost equally as well after their
organs of vision have been destroyed.
Certainly the v ha vc been created in such
a wonderful manner that they are worthy
of consideration and even admiration in
spite of their seeming deformity and
ugliness.
Ihe ancients were somewhat puzzled
over these strange creatures and were
undecided as to whether they should be
called birds or quadrupeds. Aristo
tle calls them "birds with shiny
wings. l'liny saj-s tuey are oirus
wliich suckle their young." Another
writer thinks they are 44 most marvelous
beings because they can walk without
paws, fly without w ings, see when there
! If 1. .1 1 .-I . . 1 1 .
is no ngm, anu ueuome Mgmicsa iuu
dawn appears."
Our own nrst impressions w ere mat
they were winged mice.
I hey are similar to birds only in one
respect: They can fly, and they live in
the air, mostly, instead of on the ground.
They appear very awkward when they
attempt to walk, proceeding witn an ir
regular hobble and jump, their limbs not
being formed for walking.
Their forearms are ;rr much elon
gated, tbe finger-bones are still more
lengthened, and over these is extended a
soft, delicate, leathery membrane which
answers the purpose of wings. Ihcse
curious wings are provided wiih a short
thumb which has a crooked nail and w ith
this hook they climb the sides of caverns
or suspend themselves when they wish to
rest. iheir hind leet are small and
weak, each divided into five toes, also
armed with nails. Their most usual
method of alighting is by attaching the
hooks of their posterior extremities to
the projections of caves or old buildings,
where they hang, with their heads dow n
and their wings folded. The mouths ot
these strange animals are very large and
provided with three kinds of teeth
sufficient, probably, to place them among
44 beasts of prey." Their eyes are very
small and possess the faculty of seeing
only in the night. The presence of
light blinds them quite effectually. Their
ears are as large in proportion as their
eyes are small, and in some species their
nostrils are developed to such an extent
as to render thei.- physiognomy perfectly
hideous.
But let no one look with contempt
.. ,i ..1.
upon these disagreeaoie mue auiiuais.
I hev have tlieir own work to penorm.
Their food consists of various kinds of
inspcts which go abroad in swarms dur
ing the hours of darkness; and the un
sightly bat may have been treated as
much for our well-being as many other
creatures far more beautiful and attract
ive. They arc surely marvelous in one
respect. It has been ascertained that
after their eves have neen put out tuey
will continue to go in search of foo 1 as
usual, avoid all obstacles put in their
way, and even pass between threads sus
pended in the air w ithout touching them
with tlieir wings. Their wings are sup
posed to be so peculiarly sensitive as to
perceive the reaction of the air against
the surface of any near object.
When cold weather-approaches oats
retire in great numbers to some oaric
place of security, where they remain in a
torpid state till the return of the warm
season.
A boy once captured a young bat, and,
after keeping it at home several hours,
he started in the evening to carry it to
the museum. Passing near the place
where it was caught the mother-bat
made its appearance, followed the boy
several squares, and finally alighted on
his shoulder and entered captivity also
rather than forsake her oflVpring. This
shows that bats arc capable of aflection
for their young like other quadrupeds.
The idea that these inferior little creat
ures choose the nidit for their appear
ancfMrom desire of concealment is alto
gether too poetical for belief. They,
like all other hemes, only Jive
" Down-Trodden " W hile Leagues In
Louisiana.
The agent of the Associated Press In
New Orleans, with his customary liber
ality to the White League, sent the ad
dress of the seventy member of that
organization to the people of the United
States, in full, and that address was pub
lished yesterday. The insinuating style
of the document, and the pleading and
plaintive tone adopted is well calculated
to deceive and lead the people of the
North to pity these downtrodden
patriots ; but before we have a gush of
sympathy, especially from the Republi
can press of the country, we beg to call
attention to a few facts and queries.
First: Can a citizen of Illinois gain a
residence in Louisiana? If lie can, then
Gov. Kellogg ought to have gained it,
for he has been there for years, and lias
business interests of great magnitude
there. If he can become a citizen we
know of nothing to prevent the people
from running him for and electing him
to the highest office in the State if they
wish to do so. One would think from
the indignation of these people that none
but natural-born Louisianians had any
light to locate in that State, and that all
others were interlopers and ineligible to
office. This not being the case, but only
a delusion of these gentlemen, let us
proceed to the next point.
The committee of White Leaguers de
clare that Kellogg was put over them by
a drunken Lnited States Judge, sus
tained by the United States army. What
are the facts? Kellogg was first "put
over them" by the people, at which they
rebelled. His election was certified by
the Returning Board, composed of men
superior to any of this White League com
mittee both in Judgment, ability and
honesty. The action f the Bqjird was
sustained by the local court, by the
State Supreme Court and by the Lnited
Slates Oiurt. In fact, every tribunal be
fore which the)' have taken their case
from that day to this has decided against
them. Yet they have tho hardihood to
come up before the people ol the North
after attempting to assassinate the Gov
ernor and State officers, and with this
falsehood in their mouths ask for sym
pathy and support.
But they say that they are being plun
dered and their property confiscated by (
exorbitant taxation under Kellogg. Why
do they not submit the proof? Not a
figure is adduced nothing but the bare
assertion. It has been clearly shown, so
clear as to defy contradiction and prove
this statement of the committee a bald
falsehood, that the State Government
under Kellogg has been in all financial
respects a success; that taxation has
been decreased, the public indebtedness
reduced and the reputation of the State
advanced. So much for this part of the
address.
The committee then say that after hav
ing beaten their adversaries in the late
election they are about to be counted out
by the Returning Board. Indeed! Now
the Returning Board is a creature of law.
Fortunately it is composed in this in
stance of some of the very best men to
be found in Louisiana, all of them native-born
Southerners, and all but one,
we believe, natives of Louisiana. They
are sworn to discharge their duties faith
fully, and only ignorance or knavery
presumes to say they will do otherwise.
They will probably throw out the returns
of some parishes where the systematized
plan of intimidation by the White
League kept hundreds of voters from
the polls, and if they did not do so they
would be false to their oaths. The White
League committee need not come before
the people of the North claiming a fair
election. Every reader knows better.
These men declared openly and boldly
before the election that there should not
be a free ballot, and right well they kept
their w ord. Whole parishes were debarred
from voting at all or compelled to vote
the White League ticket, and the perse
cution of those refusing was kept up
after the election until a life in that re
gion to a Republican became the
vet iest torture. This is no secret. Who
denies it? Why, it has been boasted
time and again by tlio press of
that region, and the outrageous appeals
for violence in this regaid taken from
the columns of Southern papers have
been published for months and inontns
in the columns of the Intcr-Owm. Col
ored men are to-day walking the
streets of Shrevcport w ith bits of paper
called by them their 44 insurance," and
containing the certificate of some prom
inent White Leaguer that "the bearer
voted the white man's ticket." These no
torious facts lend a grim sort of humor
to the statement of the committee that
they carried the State by :i,.")0 majority.
But before putting aside this very re
markable appeal, we w ish to notice one
more point in it. The committee tays:
44 In the case of the parish of De Soto,
the Conservatives won by 10,000 major
ity." The original returns, it seems,
were not forthcoming, whereupon the
White League filed duplicates and asked
that these "be counted. This they hay
was refused.
Now, let us look at this case: De Soto
parish has a total population ml 14,77..
This, counting the ordinary proportion
of votes to population, would give S.Oii.j
votes in the parish, assuming that every
adult male voted. But of the total pop
ulation, 10,753 are colore!, which would
give SJ.l-'iO votes to the Republican ticket,
saying that there are no white Republi
cans at all in the parish. Now, will some
one be good enough to tell us how this
immaculate White League committee got
10,000 majority for the 44 white man's
ticket" out of a total of less than J,000
votes and out of a party vote of less
than 1,000?
Let us make this ttill more absurd by
citing the returns for 1872, when, accord
ing to their own count, but 1,875 votes
were cast in the whole parish, and when
for State Treasurer in that year the Re
publicans cast 1,032 votes and the Demo
crats 713! And yet these men appeal fox
sympathy for rympathy, mind you, be
cause an infamous Returning Board re
fuse to give them 10,0t0 majority in a
parUh where heretofore there have been
less than 2,000 votes cast altogether!
There may be a mistake in these figures
as given by telegraph, but to claim a
Democratic majority of any kind in that
parish is the height of absurdity and the
jtuinlter claimed makes very little differ
ence. We put this sublime piece of impu
dence on record in order that when the
poor 44 down-trodden and oppressed"
white people of Louisiana next open fire
on the constituted authoiities of the State
our readers may know what they are
fighting about. nter-Oiean.
Foit full dress Kalakaua wears a fash
ionably cut black broadcloth swallow
tail coal, studless white shirt front, boots
of the box-toe pattern, a parti-colored
ribbon in his button hole, three immense
plain gold rings, a bracelet on his left
wrist, a turn-dow n collar and a black tic.
He also wears a pair of pants. JJotn
Post.
The Milwaukee Sentinel says : " The
bears and wolves in Northern Wisconsin,
which get nothing to eat from November
to May but Indians who happen to die
in the woods from delirium tremens, are
getting so thin that a respectable shadow
will scare one of them to death."
4 '
A MN in Rutland, Vt., eating roasted
chestnuts, put a hot one between hn
teeth and bit. The nut thereupon ex
ploded, and seriously l.urucd and lac-r-ated
hi pioijtji.