THE HERALD.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA.
OPFIOHl
On Main Street, between 4th and 6th,
Second Story.
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One copy, one year $2. 00
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Qu copy, three months. so
HENRY BCECK,
DEALER IX
IxixiTitxTxe.
SAFES, CHAIRS,
Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads,
ETC.. ETC., ETC.,
Of All Descriptions.
METALLIC BURIAL CASES.
"Wooden Coflins
Of all sizes, ready-made, and Bold cheap for cash.
With many thanks for past patronage, I invite
all to call and examine my
LARGE STOCK OP
Jm-iiil ui-o ml OoflliiK.
Jnn23
AND
MEDICINES
AT
J. H. BUTTERY'S,
On Main Street, bet. Fifth and Sixth.
Wholesale aud Retail Dealer In
Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils,
Varnishes. Patent Medicines,
Toilet Articles, etc., etc.
tlTTRESCRIPTIONS carefully compounded at
all honr, day and night. 35-ly
J. V. SHANNON'S
Feed, Sale and Livery
STABLE.
Main Street, Plattsmouth, 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 Iv
Will Run to the Steamboat Land
ing, Depot, and all parts of
the City, when Desired.
janl-tf
First. National Bank
Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska,
SUCCESSOR TO
Tootlo, Ilanna Ss Clai-lc.
John FiTZdEitALD
E. t. Iiovet
A. W. M1-L.4ruu1.iN...
John O'KoCKKE
President.
. . . Vice-President,
Cashier.
.Assistant Cashier.
This Bank is now open for business at their new
room, comer Main ami Sixth street, and are pre
pared to transact a general
BANKING BUSINESS.
Stocks, Bonds, Gold, Government
and Local Securities
BOUGHT AMD SOLD.
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Excelsior Barber Shop.
.T. C. IJOOZNTK,
.Main Street, opposite Brooks House.
HAIR-CUTTING,
Shaving and Shampooing
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Cutting Children' and Ladles'
Hair.
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. J. STBEIOHT, Proprietor,
fob tour
Boots. Stationery, Pictures, Music,
TOYS, CONFECTIONERY,
Violin Strings,
Newspapers, Novels,
Song Books, etc., etc
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VOLUME XL
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1875.
NUMBER
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AND
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ALSO, DEALER IN
Books, Stationery
AND LATEST PUBLICATIONS.
tTTrescrlptions carefully compounded by am
experienced Droggist-gJ
ItEMKMBER THE FLACE,
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PLATTSMOUTH, NED.
THOS. W. SHRYOCK,
DEALER IX
ILTmituire !
Main St., bet. 5th and 6th,
PLATTSMOUTH, - NEB.
ALSO
UNDERTAKER,
And has on hand a large Block of
Metallic; XJurial Cases,
Wooden Coffins, Etc.,
Of all sizes, cheap for cash.
Funerals Attended on Short Notice
II. A. UTFERMAX & SON,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers la
PINE LUMBER,
Lath, Shingles,
SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, ETC.,
On Main St., cor. Fifth,
PLATTSMOUTH, - - NEB.
FOR YOUR CROCERIES
OO TO
J. V. Weckbach,
Cor. Third and Main Sts , Tlattsmonth.
(Gnthmann's old stand.)
lie keeps on baud a large and well-selected stock
in
FANCY GROCERIES,
Coffees. Teas, Sugar, Sirup, Boots,
Shoes, Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc.
Also, a large stock of
Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes,
Crockery, Queensware,
Etc., Etc., Etc.
In connection with the Grocery is a
BAKERY and CONFECTIONERY.
Highest Price Paid for Country Frodure.
A full stock at all time?, and will not be undersold.
Take notice of the Sign :
"EMPIRE BAKERY AND GROCERY."
nlyl
WILLIAM STADELMANN
Has on hand one of the largest stocks of
CLOTHING
AND
Gents' Furnishing Goods
FOR SPRING AND SUMMER.
I invite ererrbody in want of anything In my
line to call at my store,
South Side Main, bet. 5th & 6th Sts.,
And convince themselves of the fact. I hare as a
specialty in my Retail Departments a stock of
i ' : in...!.: .... 4 A vt,;nu .
vite those who want goods.
I also keep on band a large and well-selected
stock of
Eats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Etc.
jarlyl
PHILADELPHIA STORE
SOLOnOX & XATHAX,
DEALERS IX
Fancy Dry Goods.
Notions, Ladies' MsMng Goods.
Largest, Cheapest, Finest and Best Assorted Stock
in me city.
We are prepared to sell cheaper than they can
be purchased eiewnere.
GIVE XJS A CAX.Xi
And examine oar Goods.
restore on Main St., between 4th and 5th Sts.,
riattsmoutu, fteo. 1MI
PLATTSMOUTH MILLS,
FLATTSMOCTH NEBRASKA,
Conrad Beisel, Proprietor.
FLOUR, CORN MEAL, FEED.
Always on hand and for sale at lowest cash price
The Highest Prices paid for Wheat and Corn.
Particular attention given to custom work.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Compiled from Telegrami of Accompanying Datei.
Monday, April 5
About 12:30 on the morning of the 4th
the Chicago express train collided with the
Pacific express train on the Chicago, Burling,
ton & Quincy Railroad, near Tyrone, Iowa,
Both engines and several cars were demol
ished. ILL. Miller, conductor; C. M. Pickle,
fireman, and W. A. Gardner, express messen
ger, were instantly killed, and several other
train employes were injured, some fatally.
Several passengers were reported slightly
wounded. The accident is said to have
been caused by the telegraph operator at
Tyrone neglecting his instructions to hold
the Chicago-bound train until the other train
had passed that point.
Owing to the illness of Henry M.Cleveland
formerly manager of the Christian Union, it,
was necessary that his testimony in the
Becchcr trial should be taken at his residence,
and his evidence was begun on the 2d. It is
reported that he testified that Mr. Beechcr
was in the office of the Union on the 2d of
June, 1S73, between eleven and twelve o'clock
of that day. That is the date on which Mrs.
Moulton, in her testimony, alleges Mr.
Beccher was at her house for three or four
hours, and talked of suicide, and when she
advised him to confess to "Plymouth Church.
Ex-State Senator Robert McKenna, of
Tennessee, was recently tried for marrying
the grand-daughter of his former wife, and
sentenced to the Penitentiary" for fire years.
He has been pardoned by the Governor.
It is stated that the Senatorial excursion to
Mexico has broken up, several of the party
having decided at New Orleans to go no
further, while a few will proceed to Vera
Cruz by the regular mail steamer and
as private travelers. Advices from
Washington, fear of the yellow fever,
and the illness of Mrs. Morton are among the
causes alleged for a change of programme.
A Madrid dispatch of the 3d says that the
Carlist Gen. Saballa had had an interview
with Gen. Campas at Olot, under a flag of
truce, with a view of seeking terms for the
transfer of his allegiance from Don Carlos to
King Alphonso. It was reported that ISO
Carlist officers had already given in their ad
hesion to the latter, and that the Carlist army
had been largely thinned by desertions.
A telegram from Washington on the 4th
says the Mexican Government will soon have
brought to its attention by the Department of
State the enormity of the offense rocenCly
committed by invading Mexicans on the Tex
as border, with such demands for reparation
as will satisfy our national honor.
Tuesday, April 6.
Mr. Beechek's direct examination was con
tinued on the 5th. He reiterated his emphatic
denial of being the author of the letter of
contrition, or of its expressions as reported
by Mr. Moulton. He also denied the several
asseverations of both Messrs. Til ten and
Moulton that he had ever confessed even a
minor offense in connection with Mrs. Tilton.
In regard to the celebrated interview sworn
to by Mr. Tilton as having occurred between
the witness and Mr. and Mrs. Tilton, at which
the paternity of one of Mr. Tilton's children
was in question, Mr. Beechcr denied that any
such interview ever occurred, and pronounced
the story a " monstrous and absolute falsehood."
The returns from the Connecticut State
election indicate that Chas. R. iDgersoll
(Dem.) is re-elected Governor by about
7,000 majority. The Congressmen elected
arc: First District, Geo. M. Landers, Dem.;
Second, James Phelps, Dem.; Third, II. H.
Starkweather, Rep.; Fourth, Wm. II. Bar
num, Dem. State Legislature Democratic.
President Grant is reported as having
stated, in relation to the recent reported out
rages of bands of Mexicans in Texas, that
he i could see no reason for apprehension of
war between the two countries, but of course
no one could tell what might be in the future
Nothing, however, would be done by this
Government to provoke such a result.
A Yankton (D. T.) dispatch of the 4th an
nounces the arrival there of two men, named
Owens, direct from the Black Hills, bringing
with them several nuggets and particles of
gold which they took out with an ax. Becom
ing satisfied that gold existed in paying
quantities they left four of their number and
returned for provisions and tools.
Petitions from mothers, including hun
dreds of prominent ladies, have been presented
to the Governor and Council of Massachusetts,
asking that the sentence of Pomeroy, the
boy-fiend, be executed, as a safeguard to
children.
"Wilson, McLat & Co., metal merchants,
London, England, have suspended, owing, it
is said, to difficulties arising from their Amer
ican contracts for rails. Their liabilities are
estimated at f 1,000,000. j
A twelve-tear-old boy, son of Jacob
Wclkcr, of St. Paris, Ohio, was recently fa
tally burned by the explosion of a coal-oil
can while he was attempting to hurry up a
fire by pouring oil upon it.
The recent election in Cincinnati resulted
in the success of the Democratic mu
nicipal ticket by majorities ranging from
1,000 to 6,000, Johnson, for Mayor, receiving
the heaviest vote.
According to a Detroit dispatch the Re
publican State ticket in Michigan for Supreme
Court Judge and Regents of the State Uni
versity has been elected by from 10,000 to 15,-
000 majority.
The case of George Q. Cannon, for polyga
my, has been appealed by the prosecution to
the Territorial Supreme Court, and bonds of
$5,000 given for his appearance.
The trial of John D. Lee and others at
Beaver, Utah, charged with participation in
the Mountain Meadow massacre, has been
postponed.
A recent telegram from Key West, Fla.
says there had been four cases of yellow fever
there, but the disease had entirely disappeared.
Gen. Sheri dan was at New Orleans on
the 5th, probably (says a telegram o that
date) on account of the Mexico-Texas border
troubles.
Wednesday, April 7.
In his testimony on the 6th and 7th Mr Beech-
er continued his denials of the evidence of
Messrs. Tilton and Moulton, and gave his ex
planation of the letters which had passed be
tween himself and Mrs. Tilton, denying that
they had any hidden meaning which would
warrant the construction put upon them by
the prosecution, and claiming that they re
lated chiefly to Mrs. Tilton's domestic troubles
and the defendant's sympathy for her as her
pastor and friend.
A Rome correspondent of the- Paris Journal
de Ikbats writes to that paper that the Pope
will take up his residence in the United States
if it should become impossible for him to re
main in Rome, and it was with a view to such
possible emergency that Archbishop McClos
key was elevated to the Cardinalate.
Uncscallt cold weather, with a light fall
of snow, was experienced throughotit the
central portion of California on the 5th.
Fears were entertained for the safety of the
fruit crop.
James W. Ingersoll, tried in connection
with the Tweed case, and sentenced in 1S73
to five years' imprisonment for forgery in the
second degree, has been pardoned by Gov
Tilden.
Edward G. Rtan has been elected Chief
Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
without opposition.
Thursday. April 8.
The Rhode Island State election was held
on the 7tb. There were three candidates for
Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, and the
vote was so divided between them that no
choice resulted. The remainder of the Re
publican ticket for State officers is elected by
between 11,000 and 12,000. The candidates
for Governor were Henry Lippitt, regular
Republican; Rowland Hazard, independent
Republican and Prohibitionist, and Charles
R. Cutler, Democrat. The choiec for Gov
ernor will depend upon the complexion of
the Assembly, and will be between Hazard
and Lippitt.
Washington dispatches are reporting the
discovery of numerous frauds upon the Post
office Department in connection with mail
route bids. It seems that some of the clerks
of the department have been in the habit of
informing professional contractors of the low.
est bids after the time for receiving propos
als had expired, and then, by means of conr
terfcitsof official stamps, of substituting later
bids. It is claimed that the department has
lost nothing by these transactions, the substi
tuted bids being in all cases lower than those
regularly made.
A lot cf giant powder stored in a frame
building in San Francisco exploded on the
7th, blowing up a number of adjoining
buildings and causing the complete destruc
tion of a bonded warehouse in the vicinity,
the walls of which were crushed in and the
ruins set on fire. 8everal lives are reported
lost.
The municipal election in St. Louis on the
6th resulted in the election of the Democratic
candidate (Barrett) for Mayor by a plurality
of about 700. The balance of the Democratic
ticket was also elected, the majorities rang
ing from 657 to 5,7y8.
Further strikes in the Pennsylvania mining
regions are reported. So serious are the dis
turbances in some sections that troops have
been called on to assist in putting down any
further outbreaks that may take place.
The bill to enable unmarried women to
vote for members of Parliament has been re
fused a second reading in the British House
of Commons, by a vote of 152 to 1S7. The
Premier voted with the minority.
P. T. Barncm, the great showman, was
elected Mayor of Bridgeport on the 5th. John
Robinson, the well-known circus man, was
defeated on the same day for the same office
in Cincinnati.
A new suit under a recent act of the New
York Legislature has been begun against
William M. Tweed, to recover back 6,193,057
which was paid out under the Board of Audit
of 1870.
The Court of Claims at Washington has de
cided that the power vested in the President
to pardon crimes does not authorize him to
restore forfeited or confiscated propert-.
A New York dispatch announces a general
reduction in passenger rates from the East to
Western points.
Friday, April 0.
In his direct examination on the 8th Mr.
Beechcr continued his explicit denials
of all the statements of the prosecu
tion involving any criminality on his
part. With regard to Mrs. Moulton, he
says he was a frequent visitor at her
house, where he always met with a cordial
and lady-like reception from Mrs. Moulton.
He asserted that he was not at her house
on the 2d or 3d of June, 1872, nor did he
ever make a confession to Mrs. Moul
ton of criminal conduct such as charged
in her testimony. Witness testified
that at one of the interviews between
him and Mr. Moulton, at the house of the
latter, in Jauuary, 1S71, when Mr. Tilton was
threatening to publish a card relating to the
scandal, Mrs. Moulton said to him (witness)
that she did not believe the stories they were
telling about him, and that she believed he
was a good man. To this remark witness re
sponded that he was a good man, she might
be sure of that
A destructive tornado passed over Edin
burgh, 111., on the evening of the 8lh. One
church and five dwellings were blown down.
Some twenty young ladies and gentleman
and children were in the church at the
time the Tvind struck it, and all of
them were more or less injured, many of
them quite seriously. On the same evening a
similar visitation was experienced near
Little Rock, Ark, by which trees were up
rooted and seven houses destroyed. A Mrs.
Jones was killed and her two daughters se
riously injured.
The officers in charge of the approaching
session in Chicago of the Army of the Repub
lic have unanimously agreed to a resolution
extending an invitation to "all the sur
viving soldiers and sailors of the late war
throughout the country who regard the nag
of the United States as the emblem of undi
vided and indivisible nationality" to meet
with them on that occasion. The reunion
occurs on the 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th of
May.
Announcement has been made by the uer-
man Government of its intention to prose
cute the German subscribers to the Carlist
fund, on the ground that they were fomenting
a rebellion with a friendly power.
Official announcement has been made in
New York to Archbishop McCloskey that the
Pope has been pleased to confer on him the
title and elevate him to the rank of a Cardinal.
All of the professors of the Madrid (Spain)
University who protested against the recent
reactionary educational laws have been ar
rested and expatriated.
The lock-out of iron-workers at Pittsburgh,
Pa., which has continued since last fall, has
virtually ended in favor of the workingmen.
Alarming rumors portending war against
Germany arc said to prevail in Berlin, Vienna,
Paris and Rome.
Saturday, April 10.
On the morning of the 9th a band of strikj
ers attacked a company of militia nearllazle
ton, Pa., and a few shots were fired and
slight wounds inflicted. A vote by ballot has
been taken in the several mines of the Dela
ware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Com
pany of Scranton, to decide the question of a
strike! and resulted In favor of work by a
vote of 1,512 to 319.
All of the property in New York known to
have been in the possession of Wm. M.Tweed
at the time of his exposure, and which he
passed into the bands of other parties, has
been attached in the interest of the new
f 6,000,000 uit brought against him.
A Leavenworth (Kan.) special says news
has been received there that 2,000 of the cap
tured Indians under guard at the Cheyenne
Agency have made their escape. The troops
attempted to retake them but were repulsed,
and the Indians got away.
It is said the French Government has sent
instructions to ita Consols to summon for the
last time French subjects abroad who are lia
able to military service to have their names
registered at the Consulates. 1
Owing to the illness of Lawyer Beach, of
the prosecution, the Beecher trial was ad
journed on the morning of the 9th to the 12th.
Patrick O'Shea was hanged at St. Louis
on the 9th for the murder of his wife in that
city a little over a year ago.
A Madrid dispatch says Gen. Elio, a Carlist
General of distinction, has given in his adhe
sion to King Alphonso.
TIIK AIAUUF.TS.
New York. Cotton 1617c. flour Good
to choice, $5.1535.45: white winter extra, $5.50
t.uo. nntat ro. ss ctucaiw, ji.isti.an: So.
Northwestern, gl.HKftl.sil; No. -Milwaukee
hpnug, $1..K&1.&L Iiy Western. 'JOcfitSl.00.
IlarUy $ 1 .3u?il Corn tH&tWc. Out
Mixed Western, T&ftTte. Pork "Sow mens, $---i.40
n ool Domestic fleece, WKftBOc. lieevts $11.00
13.50. Uogt Live, $3.50t..5. Sheej Live
C'hicaoo. Ueerf Choice. $5.856.25; pood.
$3.5(Kl6.'i.T5 ; medium, SY(H)G&5.M; butehent
stock, $:i.75&5.00; stoek cattle, $:J.25fr4
4.75. jogr Live, irood to choice, S7.2 XttB ho ;
Sntep Good to choice, 5.2oCfi 5. JJut-
ttr C'noice yellow. s&jtftSlc. Eon Freeh
17(TrHc. Por Mess, new, $00aaj.l0. Lard
jiD.4tl5.DO. uneent jew lorn factory,
iv-4'fi.lnc: Western ractory, I7rl7'ic
Flour White winter extra, $t.5(kf5tt.75;
No. 2, 9(fo!Hi4c. Corn No. a, 7i14fo
74C. (tats No. i 59&ith-.2'4c. Jyeyo. i.
fl.04GJl.05. L'art'V'So. a. $1.10ai.lJ. Wool
Tub-washed, 45fo53c; fleece, washed, 4iK3
52c; fleece, unwashed, 2r!i57c. Lumber
First-clear, $52.00&55.O0; eecond-eiear, $4(5.00
&30.uo; common Doartis, sii.oocia.oo; lenc
in", S13.OtK3.13.5u; "A" shingles, $3.U02;5.-5;
Cincinnati. Flour $5.mti5-10. Wheat Red,
Sl.iaal.lti. Cornnxa-fic. A'y Sl.iaa
1.13. J'60aWc. nrtWS1.2jf.l.a5. 1'urk
fii.iWi.w. Lara 154j,15l,4c.
St. Louis. Cattle Fair to choice. S5.50Wi.0.
Ilogs Live, $6.2j(f!.0l. flour XX Fall, U.."r4
4.!K). Wheat No. 2 Red Fall, $l.;Mil.21'i.
Corn No. 2. 73.7r;75c. Oat$ No. 2. ti &
oc. Jlye i.(-3rgi.05. JSarleyo. 2, Sl.iUi
1.23. Pork Mess, $J.00QA!.25. Lard
14VC.
Milwaukee. 7oir Spring XX, $4-X"-20-Wheat
Sprint:, No. 1. S1.044M.G5: No. 2, 973
974c. Corn No. 2, 75"47tic. Oats No. 2, r.8
58'4c HueHo. 1, S1.00&1.07. JlarleyXo.
2,$1.07l.l.
Cleveland. Wheal No. 1 Rod. 1.17'4!al.lS:
No. 2 Red, $1-13'4?M.14. Corn High Mixed, 74&
toe. vats o. 1, KKb4c.
Detroit. Wheat Extra. SI. 20(31. 20! i. Corn
7475c. Oats t465c.
Toledo. Wheat Amber Michiean. &iA3Gh
1.13U: No. 2 Red. Sl.l:tfbl.l34. Corn lli''h
Mixed, 734a74c. OaUTsa. 2, 61!42c.
Buffalo. Jieeves S5.55r'.0.75. Hons Live.
$7.508.M). Shttp Live, $5.50(7.00.
East Liberty. Beeves Best, $6.23ft6.75;
medium, Sj.50."5.75. lloqn Yorkers, $7..r)0M
T.75; Philadelphia, $9.10a9.30. sheep Beat,
S0.7oij7.2j; medium, $?.75(ab.5U.
Adventures or a Nine-Year-Old.
Ilenry Young is a nine-year-old. of
Minneapolis, Minn. lie is opposed to
restraint and full of mischief, like the
common run of boys, lie lives at home
"with his father and mother and performs
little daily duties about the house be
tween school hours, such as carrying in
a supply of wood for the night and run
ning errands, lie lias been known to
leave his work unfinished and jump on
the runners of passing sleighs, stealing a
short ride and trudging in the snow back
home. Little Henry Young had not car
ried in his wood one evening lately, and
it was getting dark. His parents were at
first angry at Henry's neglect of his du
ties, but tne boy could not be found and
then they became alarmed. He could
not be heard of and the night was cold
and sleighing was good. In fact the
country was a waste of snow. Ilenry
did not come home that night and his
tracks were not in town. The Youngs
gave up their boy for lost and were in
deep affliction.
lhe next evening a school-master was
about leaving his school-house at White
Bear, fifteen miles from Minneapolis,
when he saw a small boy, M ho appeared
to be very tired, trudging throuch the
snow toward hiin. The boy had a story
to tell, and he soon told it. He was lost
to begin with. His name was Henry
Young, and he lived at Minneapolis. lie
wanted to go home, but did not know the
way. He had jumped on a passing sleigh
the evening before for a short ride.
When he wanted to jump oil and go
back the man would not let him, but
pulled hi in into the sleigh and made him
ride, lhe man said he should have
enough sleigh-riding. He pleaded to
be allowed to go home before it got
dark, but the farmer said lie wanted
boy and was going to take him.
They went over two bridges and
out into the country, and rode a long
way. V hen it was dark he moved again
to get out of the sleigh, and, as the man
did not hold him back as before, he
umped out and the sleigh went on. He
did not know where he was, but walked
on to keep warm. So he had walked
over the waste of snow through the night,
and without seeing anybody till now.
The simple story moved even a school
master to pity a boy. It was a sensation
he had nrobablv never felt before, and
he took Henry Young home with him.
The next day he placed the boy in
charge of a section-man on the railroad.
The man flagged a passing train and put
the boy aboad, with instructions to de
liver him at Minneapolis. The train-boys,
learning his story, gave him oranges and
tilled his pockets with candy, and
made a little hero of him. At length he
saw something familiar and knew he
was at Minneapolis and near home, ihen
he was delighted. A policeman took
him to his father's, which his appearance
transformed from a house of mourning
into a habitation of joy. The boy was
almost crazy with delight. He said,
smiling and choking and with happy
tears trickling: "I've brought this orange
to you, papa ; 1 saved it for you brought
it lor all of you. I'll never po away
again; no, sir, never go out of the house
I'll bring in my wood, then I'll come
in the house and stay and take oil my
coat and read a book. I won't be lost
any more." Will he keep his word?
Probably till the next sleighing time
comes. His badly-blistered feet did not
keep him awake tnat night. St. Louis
IleprMican.
A lilrd and a Fish.
Last summer, when I was spending
some weeks at a delightful resting-place
in the mountains of Pennsylvania, the
hotel-keeper, a very intelligent and ob
serving man, pointing to a large cherry
tree in front of his house, said: "In
that tree, in the early part of the season,
was a robins' nest in which three young
birds were in due time hatched out, to
the manifest joy of the old ones, by
whom they were regularly fed for sev
eral days. The male bird was then shot
by a young man who was gunning in the
neighborhood, and they were left to the
sole but faithful care of the mother
bird; but, in a day or two, she was also
killed, and the little ones were left as help
less orphans. The very next day a wren,
seeming to understand, and taking com
passion on their forlorn state, installed
herself as mother, and regularly fed the
young robins by day and brooded over
them at night, till they, were strong
enough to leave the nest; when, encour
aging or teaching them to fly, she still
cared for them till they could take care
of themselves, and then left them."
The other story, the truth of which is
vouched for by a minister well known in
Boston, is about a trout which was kept
in a large basin at the San Francises
water works. It was the custom of visit
ors to feed the fish with bits of bread and
meat, which it would readily take from
their fingers. One of the clerks of the
establishment, with less humanity than
love of fun, one day attached a hook to a
piece of meat, with which he caught the
trout and pulled it out of the water, but
at once threw it back again. But from
that day forward the trout would never
take anything from the hand of that
clerk, though it would readily feed from
the hands of any other person while the
clerk stood by. Whether it recognized
the offender by sight, or in some way, by
hearing or smell, knew its tormentor, it
is impossible to tell; but, though it
would come to the surface wheu anything
was held out to it for food, the moment
it perceived that it was offered by the
clerk it would decline touching it and
turn away. Was this instinct, or reason,
or what? Cor. JV. Y. Obterver.
Democratic First-Fruits.
The first national result of the Demo
cratic reaction of last year was the elec
tion of Mr. Laton, of Connecticut, to the
Senate of the United States. He was the
representative of the real sentiment and
tendency of his party, and in a speech
made soon after his election he fore
shadowed the course in regard to the
amendments w hich Mr. George Ticknor
v urtis elaborated in his letter to the
Manhattan Club t,fter the New York
election. Mr. Eaton has now made a
speech in the Senate. It is a grave mis
fortune for a mere politician, ol whatever
local reputation, to be transferred to
that arena. If he speaks, the whole
country hears, and, despite the express
ivc silence or the zealous praise of his
party organs, he is measured bvthe pub
lie judgment as surely as a new buy at
school by his comrades. Mr. .baton s
speech shows conclusively that he is a
bitter, narrow, unintelligent partisan,
and nothing more. He was a " Copper
head" during the war, and he has all the
spirit and tone of his class. Wholly un
important in himself, he is nevertheless
the representative of a party that aims
to control the Government. He is the
chosen leader of those who are now ap
pealing to the people of Connecticut to
restore the Democratic party to power,
and his views must be accepted as those
of his associates and followers.
The substance of his speech was a
declaration, reiterated and repeated, that
the States of the Union are sovereign. It
is a rather useless discussion, since the
war of four years has decided that they
are not so. Mr. Eaton said his assertion
that the States were "sovereign and in
dependent" was not heresy when Madi
son lived. He is mistaken. Mr. Madi
son said in the convention of 1787, "The
States never possessed the essential
rights of sovereignty; these were always
vested in Congress." He went on to say
that their voting, as States, even in the
Congress of the old Confederation, was
no evidence of sovereignty. A sovereign
power which cannot declare war or make
peace with other sovereign powers, or
coin money or conclude treaties, or
which, having delegated those powers at
its sovereign will, cannot at that will re
sume them, is a very absurd sovereign
power. If it can resume them, Jefferson
Davis and his confederates were correct
in asserting that secession was the right
of a sovereign State. When Mr. An
thony held up Mr. Eaton on the points
of this very simple dilemma, his writhing
was pitiful. He attempted to explain
that the States were sovereign except
when they were not sovereign, and the
Senate very properly laughed, and 31 r.
Eaton said he did not feel well. That
was precisely what Davis and his men
said after a desperate attempt to put Mr.
Eaton's doctrines into practice.
1 his is the " former Democracy. 1 he
party succeeds in electing a Senator
from New England, and he begins by
professing his allegiance to the Virginia
and Kentucky resolutions ami the dog
mas by which secession and rebellion
were defeated, lie succeeds in proving
to the intelligent people of this country
that the Democratic party is the same
old party whose dangerous fallacies
coster exposed lorty years ago, ana
which still pertinaciously clings to the
opinions upon which it defended slavery,
and which logically justified nullification
and secession. A'hilc it sends to tin
Capitol from this part of the country
Senators who, like Mr. Eaton, proclaim
these principles, it sends from Missour
and Georgia Senators who, like Messrs.
Cockrell and Gordon, maintained them in
he field. Are such men more likely to
administer the Government according to
the principles established by lhe war
than those who sustained the war and
won the victory?
Mr. Eaton succeeds Gov. Bucking
ham, who was one of the most devoted
aud patriotic of the war Governors
Docs any intelligent American not utter'
ly blinded by partisan fury suppose that
it would have been better for Connecti
cut and the country if Mr. Eaton had
been Governor instead of Mr. Bucking
ham? Why should it be imagined that
a Tory of the Revolution would have
been a safer guardian of the government
founded upon the principles of the
Revolution than a Son of Liberty? For
what reason should Mr. Eaton and
Gens. Gordon and Cockrell, enemies of
the principles and objects of the war,
hostile to the amendments and the settle
ments, asserting that the States arc
' sovereign and independent," be pre
ferred in the control of lhe Government
to those who deny the sovereignty of the
States, who hold to the national suprem
acy ot the Union, and who believe that
the amendments are just and should be
enforced? Harper's Weekly.
Forests and
Inland Xavlgation.
Both ancient and modern history, as
well as philosophy, unite in ascribing
the depletion and the disappearance ot
streams to the deforesting of the regions
of which they are the arteries. Our own
country is not an exception. Streams
which the early records of the United
States show to have been suincient to
float not only barges with several tons of
produce, but vessels of war even, will
not now float a skiff at the same seasons
of the year. A very little examination
will show that in its bearing on the great
question of inland navigation, we have,
as a nation, many millions of dollars an
nually involved in it. This interest is
increasing in magnitude no less rapidly
than is our material growth.
The famous engineer Brunei used to
say that "God made rivers on purpose to
feed canals." Official experiments car
ried on in this State during the last year
or two have demonstrated that by the use
of steam on our canals freight can be
transported between the seaboard and th
great lakes in half the time previously
required to move it by horse-power.
We know too that eight pounds of
traction are required to move a ton of
freight on a level by rail; while less than
one-fourth that traction is required to
move a ton afloat in still water. A fair
average price of moving freight by rail
is $3(Tper ton per 1,000 miles. Most of
our farmers' boys have enough arith
metic at command to enable them by use
of the above factors and of the census
reports, indicating the amount of grain
and other products of farms, mines and
factories we have to transport, to show
that wc have an amount here involved
annually exceeding the interest on the
public debt. There is no doubt that the
great body of our freight can and should
be floated instead ef rolled, leaving the
railways still plenty of work in carrying
passengers, express and mails.
No more silvaculture than is needed
for timber, for fuel and manufacturing
and kindred purposes or than win
"pay" as such will so restore and pre
serve these streams as to make them
available for the grandest system of
inland navigation the world ever
saw. England has so elaborate a
system that, between usingthe channels
of scarce a score of streams few of
which are large enough to be called
rivers in America together with canal
connection3, the aggregate length of her
inland lines is more than ten times ner
territorial length. To secure a system
similarly continuous in this country we
should require in some cases to construct
" black-water" courses, but that in turn
would nearly or quite pay for itself in
adding- to well-distributed hydraulic
power for manufacturing purposes. Over
a large majority of such line3 river boats
would run which would travel at full
treble the speed of steam canal-boats
aud so be available for passenger travel
Less than fifty years will sec not alone
the Mississippi, the lakes and the Atlan
tic connected by ship canals and the
Chesapeake and Ohio united. It will
witness the headwaters between the
Missouri and the Columbia, and also
many of the minor streams tributary to
these aud to others of the major arteries,
so improved by means of combined forest
and navigation engineering that the
farmers, miners and manufacturers of
the next century will have their freights
moved at rates fabulously low compared
to those now paid. In cases where "sum
mit levels" could not be " locked" over
the transit could be made us has been
done over the Allegheny Mountains, by
section boats mounted on ran cars.
W e presume it is not necessary to
review ground gone over in previous
papers to show that the forest care and
culture must in the very nature of the
case have the effect of restoring and of
saving the beautiful streams of our
country. That it will have such an effect
no truly scientific man will question for
a riouicnt. Water enough falls every
3ear to keep our streams alive and
strong; but we want the millions of tons
of forest leaves and moss and the mill
ions of acres of foil loosened by the
roots of forest trees to act as the huge
sponge to hold it back from the sudden
plunge into the streams incident to de
forested regions. We want the cooling
influence of the vast banks of green
forest leaves to more frequently contract
the water-laden air, so as to give us
many minor rain-falls in place of less
and less frequent aud more and more
violent rains, always and necessarily
resulting from wholesale slaughter of
our forest friends. Geo. Jfnu l'oicell, be
fore the American Institute, New York (Jity.
The Wonders Discovered )y the Micro
scope.
A " magnifying glass" used to be re
garded as a mere toy to please and amuse
children and youth, and with little, if
any, farther practical purpose. Uut this
time has passed, and the microscope is
now firmly established as one of the most
efficient lnstrumentalitifs in anything
like liberal culture. In fact the flood of
light which it throws upon physical
science is probably greater than all that
we derive from other sources. In the
departments of botany, geology, miner
alogy, chemistry, the practice of medi
cine, this instrument is now altogether
indispensable. It reveals secrets which
but lor its aid would remain forever hid
den from human observation. A a
means of instruction the field of knowl
edge which it opens before us cannot be
bounded or described; and fortius rea
son it is especially adapted to enlarge
the ideas of children and youth, inspire
thought and develop a spirit of inquiry.
Two or three dollars will buy a micro
scope sufficient for the purposes of ordi
nary observation, so that it is within the
reach of all. But if the purchaser's
purse and tastes incline him to some
thing more expensive he can gratify
his ambition all through a scale of
prices which runs up to $1,700 or
fi,000. We can imagine that it would
be very gratifying to possess so high a
priced instrument as the last named.
with all of the little accessories needed
for perfect work; but it is quite as grati
fying to know that for general and ordi
nary purposes a little, 6imple instrument
costing from '2.50 to $23 will answer
quite as well. Only professional micro-
scopists or wealthy amateurs need to in
dulge in the luxury of a $1,000 instru
ment. One of these cheap instruments
should find a place in every intelligent
household, where parents are anxious
that their children shall neglect no attain
able means for culture and improvement.
With a little instruction and there are
books not costing over fifty cents to one
dollar from which it may be obtained
boys and girls will readily learn to work
with one of the sinip.er forms ol this in
strument. Anyone can prepare objects
for inspection, and they are everywhere.
In the summer time every drop of stag
nant ditch water teams with life. The
wing, eye, or foot of a fly is a subject for
a world of study. A human hair as
sumes the proportions of a crowbar; the
horns of a caterpillar become as large as
a walking-canc, and armed with barbs
like a fish-hook; in fact, there is no cud
to the great variety of objects, and they
exist ail around us.
But our purpose at this time was more
particularly to speak of a few of the
revelations of the microscope, some of
which are quite recent. 51 r. Nobcrt, of
Pomerania, has ruled a scries of lines on
glass which have attracted much atten
tion lrom their exquisite fineness. 1 here
are nineteen of these bands of lines, the
coarsest of which arc separated bv the
11,000th part of an English inch. "The
finest band has 112,000 separate lines to
the inch! This extreme fineness is quite
incomprehensible if we try to think
about or understand it, and yet we be
lieve that they have been resolved by
Ur. J. J. Woodward, ot tne Army nieui
cal Museum at Washington. To do this
of course the highest magnifying power
is required, as well as great experience
and care in the working of the instru
ment. Another instance seems to border
upon the marvelous. It is called
" Webb's Test." It is simply the writing
on glass of the " Lord's Prayer," but it is
so extremely fine and small that it is esti
mated that the Bible, in characters of
like fci.e, could be written eight times in
the space of one square inch: and there
would be still room to write the Lord's
Prayer 2,000 or 3,000 times in the surplus
room. How the writing is done,
and how Xobert's lines are ruled, are se
crets with the gentlemen who have pro
duced them, but the microscope brings
out the fact beyond dispute, and the
method of measurement is easy enough
to an expert. It is a well-known fact
that chalk is an aggregation of micro
scopic shells. The old cretaceous seas
were fairly alive with these little ani
malssoft and gelatinous, and inclosed
in beautiful shelly cases. They were
constantly dying and sinking to the bot
tom, where in time they hardened into
the substance known as chalk. They
were so extremely small that millions of
their shells are contained w ithin a piece
of chalk one-half inch square. I he mi
croscope brinir3 them out in such plain
view that they have been classified in
genera and species. A species of rock is
found near Richmond, Va., which is
made up of the siliceous shells or am
malcul.c which lived millions of years
ago. Take a cubic inch of this rock and
" there's millions in it" of these siliceous
shells. They are so hard, were so per
fectlv formed and remain so indes'ructi
ble that white heat has no effect in de
stroying them. Under a magnifying
power by no means the highest these
shells become very beautiful and inter
est inc obiects. AN c occasionally read of
the " red snow" w hich is found in high
northern latitudes, h or a long time this
redness was supposed to be due to
the presence of animalculari, but
more recent investigation proves that
the coloring matter is a minute veg
etable. Animal substances were found
associated with it, and hence for a long
time it was dctmed to be animal matter;
but the miscrope has settled the ques
tion. It is . fully proven that the low
animal, as well as vegetable, organisms
are constantly floating in the air as far
north as man has yet set foot, and the
probability is that they exist everywhere
on the globe. Quite an interesting fact
has been recently stated in regard to
snowflakcs. They settle upon the earth
noiselessly, and to all appearance a mass
f pure white crystals, but they are tho
"scavengers of the atmosphere." They
absorb iu their porous substance the
particles of dust which are constantly
floating in the air, a study of which has
revealed facts of much interest. In a
drop of water obtained from a single
flake of snow under a magnifying pow
er of 500 diameters were found " pieces
of coal, fragments cf cloth, grains of
starch, sandy matter," together with a
promiscuous lot of other trash, not a parti
cle of which "exceeded in diameter .000.1
of an inch!" These investigations showed
the presence of little nuggets of iron
impalpable dust, which ono miht
breathe with impunity but which, un
der high magnifying power, gave
evidence of having been in a statti
of fusion, " very probably due to
some mass of meteoric iron rendered
incandescent and melted by friction
with our atmosphere." In the great
rctic snow-lulds dust has been collect
ed which contains not only iron, but
nickel, carbon, phosphorus, cobalt, etc.
A German investigator lias arranged
upon a glass slUlc, 1x3 inches in size, a
collection of diatoms a class of siliceous
animalcules, which arc believed to be of
vegetable origin which is for sale by
most of the dealers in microscopic wares.
It comprises about 5()0 individuals, show
ing specimens of 302 species and seven
teen genera. The price of this little
piece of glass an inch wide and three
inches long, with its 500 little specimens,
is only the trifle of forty dollars ; but if
the reader thinks that this is too much,
let him try and produce one for himself.
I hesc statements might be multiplied
almost indefinitely, but they are sufll-
cient to show that we are surrounded by
wonders, of which we could have no con
ception whatever without the aid or tho
microscope. "The very dust on
which wo tread was ence alive," and if
we examine it as closely as we may to
day we shall find that much of it is liv
ing yet, and that, liv ing or dead, it is
wonderful and beautiful beyond descrip
tion. Chicago Inter-Ocean.
ALL SORTS.
The banishment of lepers is rigor
ously carried out in the Sandwich Isl
ands. 1 here was a recent omcial searcu
for persons infested with the incurable
malady, many having been secreted by
their relatives. Hundreds were found
and put into a vessel for transportation
to the leper village, to be kept there un
til they die. Their families gathered on
the beach and expressed their grief in
oud lamentations. A talented half-
breed, called Bill Ragsdale.has long held
a high place in the iegard of Sandwich
Islanders. He is an orator of great nat
ural power, a leader of the district of
Hilo and a man of notoriously bad
morals. He discovered that he was
leprous, although the indications w ere so
alight that he had escaped oflicial notice,
and at once gave himself up to the au
thorities. A procession of native; sing
ing and carrying flowers escorted him to
the vessel which was to take him and
the others to their living graves. He
made a speech to the assembly, urging
submission to tha measures for eradicat
ing leprosy by banishment, and express
ing his hatred of missionaries.
The Russians arc discussing the con
struction of a canal to join together tho
Caspian and Black Seas. The Caspian is
a salt lake from -K)0 to 450 feet depth of
water, which is considerably below the
evel ofthat of the Black, owing to the
copious evaporation under tne nercc
summer heat. 1 he canal is proposed to
be 750 miles long, thus constituting it a
fir larger and costlier enterprise than
the Suez Canal. Russia actually has a
coasting fleet of 800 vessels of 08,010
tonnage on the Caspian, and is ita exclu
sive mistress with the exception ol a
few Persian skills.
Paris is pluming itself on a new
fancy in ladies' dress, which is a species
of tackle by which, when a lady w ishts
to dance, the train of her dress is drawn
up to possible 'lmcnsions. Ibis tackle
is made so as to be ornamented with
flowers of ribbons, and to become a great
addition to the toilet generally.
The much-mooted Tiber Canal, to
drain the Campagna hnd relieve Rome
from all future fears of inundations, is
designed to be 150 yards w i 1 ten fert
deep and twenty five miles long; and it
these proportions are carried out in
reality the Eternal City will become
virtually a Rcaport.
Pierre Denisart, of Pans, is being
transformed into an elephant. His nose
has begun growing nt the rate of an inch
in ten days, and will in twenty months
touch the ground. How fortunate that
it was not originally "tip tilted iikc tne
petal of a flower," with an upward tendency!
A Missourian who comes home after
an absence of a week and finds that his
wiTc has been knitting a tidy instead of
splitting wood has a right to tell her that
her folks always did navo me name oi
being the laziest people in the State.
Letroit Free Pre.
Alfonso was very cool under the
baptism of fire, and looked straight into
me jaws oi ueaiii wiiii iuu uittvtijf
which princes are taught to assume.
Several men were killed or wounded
very near the position which he occu
pied. How on earth a woman can keep
her gab going while holding a back
comb and six hairpins in her mouth has
always been a mystery and always will
be. Detroit Free Press.
"See," said a sorrowing wife, " how
peacefully the dog and cat are." " Yes,"
said the petulant husband, "but just
tie them together and see how the fur
will fly."
When you are given a word to spell,
go through it at one jump. Don't go
feeling along like a cautious boy over a
patch of thin ice, or dow n you w ill go
for sure.
Turkish tailors are never reproached
for misfits. They have only to cut out
two bags, hitch 'cm together and the cus
tomer has a first-class pair of pants.
An English traveler imagined that
most of the American boys were always
tired out, as he heard so many of them
saying: " Give us a rest."
Dio Lewis says he wants to warn the
people against eating finger, but if any
one wants to make a uinncr of ginger its
nobody's business.
Either the fashion of parting tho
hair in the middle or the specimen of
young man who so balances himself is
dying out.
As A. T. Stewart grows older, the
question of what he w ill do with his
$40,000,000 becomes more and more in
teresting. A Milwaukee baby, born on the
coldest day of the season, has been christ
ened Zero. That baby amounts to noth
ing. A person who w ears a diamond ring
always apptars more willing than others
to point out anything to a stranger.
Nevada is overrun w ith men seeking
woik at the mines, but unable to obtain
it, as their services arc not needed.
The children in Florida say they
live on sweet potatoes In the summer,
and on strangers in the winter.
That's honest. When a Calmuck
has a marriageable daughter he flies a
flag from the top of his house.
Two hundred American newspapers
suspended publication during February.