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TgjLHERALD. rUBIOSILED EVERY THURSDAY plattsmouthT nebeaska. OPPIOBi Oa Main Street, between 4th and 5th, Second Story. OFFICIAL PAPER OF CASS COUXTT. Terms, in Advance : One copy, one year qo One copy, six months '.".".11". l!oo On copy, three mouths . .50 H A SKA E1A JNO. A. MACMURPHY, Editor. PERSEVERAXCE COXClLEIiS." TEEMS: $2.00 a Year. THE HERALD. ADVEItTISIU RATKS. SPACE. 1 w. 2 w. ! 3 w. 1 in. 3 in. 1 ritiare.. 3 rUtircK 3 square. ( rolunin. ; column. 1 column. 8 m. I 1 yr. 1 Oil t U) 3 00 f 30 f5(X) S00 $H 1 Wi S 00 5 (XI 8 00 2 n )i a 7'.i a ar 10 on i 2 7.-.I A IK)' 4 7.. 8 Hi V4 On 10 0 (HI 10 00 14 00 ),aH 00 8V la oo i r (jo in cm on 40 oo wi t. Ih 00 18 00 -.'J 00 Ul 40 00 M ( U0 OP VOLUME XI. PLATTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1875. NUMBER 12. HENRY BGECK, DEALER IX . IvULXTlitULXe, SAFES, CHAIRS, Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads, ITC., ETC., ETC., Of All Descriptions. METALLIC BURIAL CASES. Wooden Coffins Of all fizee, ready-made, and sold cheap for cash. Wfth many thanks for past patronage, I invite all to call and examine my LARGE STOCK OF XTm-nitui-o nul CoiHux. janSM AND MEDICINES AT J. H. BUTTERY'S, On Main Street, bet. Fifth and Sixth. Wholesale ai.d Retail Dealer in Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes. Patent Medicines, Toilet Articles, etc., etc. JSTTRESCRimoXS carefully compounded at all hour, day and night. 35-ly I. W. SHANNON'S Peed, Sale and Livery STA.33XjE. Main Street, Plattsmouth, Neb. I am prepared to accommodate the pnhlicwith Carriages, Buggies, Wagons, AND A No. f Hearse, Oa Short Notice and Reasonable Terms. A II A c rc Will Run to the Steamboat Land ing, Depot, and all parts of the City, when Desired. janl-tf First National Bai Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, SUCCESSOR TO Tootle, Ilnmia fe Clark. John Fitzgerald K. t. J)ovkt A. . McLi'(iHi.iN John O'Koibke President. Vice-I'residen t. Cashier. Assistant Cashier. Th'i! Bank Is now open for bn-iness at their new room, corner Main and Sixth tureets, and arc 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 ai) the Vrincipal Towns and Cities of Europe. AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED MAN LINE and ALLAH LINE OF STILiJIERS. Persons wishing to bring out their friends from Europe can rritcHAsi tickets rnoM rs Throiifrli to Ilt t.siitoutli. Excelsior Barber Shop. J. C. BOONE, Main Street, opposite Brooks House. HAIR-CUTTING, Shaving and Shampooing ESPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO Cutting Children' ami Ladies'' Hair. Call and See Boone, Gents, And get a boon in a C? JLs 3E2 -A. 3Xr JS XX -V. "7" 32 n41-ly GO TO THE Post Office Book iStore, . J. STREIGHT, Proprietor, FOB TOCK Book Stationery, Pictures, Music TOYS, CONFECTIONERY, Violin Strings, Newspapers, Novels, Song Books, etc., etc All Advertising Mil du quarterly. 117 Transient advertisements must be paldfci In advance. Extra copied of tho IIkkald for aals by II. J. Straight, ml the Pototnro, and O. F. Johnson, coi ner of Main and k'tfth streets. O. F. JOHNSON, DEALER IN Drugs, Medicines AND rarw mm WALLPAPER. AH Paper Trimmafl Free of Clane ALSO. DEALER IN Books, Stationery MAG.VZINES AND LATEST PUBLICATIONS. XZ7 Prescriptions carefully compounded by an experienced Druggist. KEMEMBER TOE PLACE Cor. Fifth and Main Streets, PLATTSMOUTH, NEB. ma THOS. W. SHRYOCK, 1EAI.EB l.X nj'nr-nit'u.r'e ! Main St., lot. 5th and 6th, PLATTSMOUTH, - 3STEI3. ALSO UNDERTAKER, And tin on hand a large stock of ZNIetallio Uurial Oases, Wooden Coffins, Etc., Of all pizef, cheap for cah. Funerals Attended on Short Notice II. .1. WATERIUX & SOX, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in PINE LUMBER, X.atli, Shingles, SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, ETC., On Main St., cor. Fifth, PLATTSMOUTH, - - - NEB. FOR YOUR CROCERIES GO TO J. V. Weckbach, Cor. Third and Main Sta., Flat turnout h. (Guthmanu's old stand.) He keeps on hand a large and well-selected stock of 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 Produce. A full stock at all time?, and will not be undersold. Take notice of the Sign: ' EMPIRE BAKERY AXD GROCERY." nlyl WILLIAM STADELMANN Has on hand one of the largest stocks of CLOTHING AND Gents1 Furnishing Goods FOR SPRING AND SUMMER. POST OFFICE BUILDING, PLATTSMOUTH, NEB, I invite everybody in want of anything in my line to call at my Ktore, South Side Main, bet. 5th & tith Sts., And convince themselves of the fact. I have as a nnecialtv in my Retail Departments a stock of Fine Clothing for Men and Boys, to which we in vite thocc who want goods. I alp o keep on hand a large and well-selectea stock of Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Etc. jarlyl PHILADELPHIA STORE SOLOHOX V NATHAN, SKALER3 IK Fancy Dry Goods. Notions, IMes' Fnrnisliini Goofls. Largest, Cheapest, Finest and Best Assorted Stock in tue city. We are prepared to sell cheaper than they can oc purcuaseu eisewnere. GIVE TTS -A. CA.X.X. And examine onr Goods. restore on Main St. between 4th and 5th Sts.. riattmontn, .Neb. l'itf PLATTSMOUTH HILLS, PLATTSMOUTII NEBRASKA. Coskad IIbisel, Proprietor. FLOUR, CORN MEAL., FEED. Always on hand and for sale at lowest cash prices. The Highest Price paid for Wheat and Corn. Particular attention given to caalom work. EPITOME OF THE WEEK. Condensed from Telemms f Ircomnanjins Pates- 31 on day, June 7. All attempts to ne otiate with the Indians for the transfer of the Black Hills country to the Government have failed, and the Indian delegations have left Washington for their homes. Before they left Bed Cloud demanded compensation in the way of presents, etc., for the interpreters and other Indians who had accompanied the regular delegates, which was with one or two exceptions refused by the Commissioner. A demand was also made for horses, equipments and guns, to which Commissioner Smith replied that he would not give them guns if he could, and as to horses and saddles he would give them had he the power to do 6o, but he had not. An Associated Press dis patch of the 6th says as the Indians left Washington much dissatisfied difficulties ar apprehended between then and whites who may enter their country for the purpose of seeking for gold. It is estimated by the agents that the Sioux can muster from 3,000 to 5,000 warriors, about half armed with rifles and the remainder with bows and arrows. The Gov ernment, meantime, will endeavor to prevent adventurers from going to that country, Btill having some hope through the medium of commissions to effect a treaty with the Sioux ....A Pottsvillc (Pa.) dispatch says the mili tary have made preparations to secure pro tection to all working miners in the collieries at Mahanoy City and vicinity, and to insure a continuance of work.... The Wisconsin Democratic State Conventiou is to be held at Milwaukee on the 8th of September. Tuesday, June 8. M. Staempfli has been elected President of Switzerland In formation has been received in Washington that the Mexican Government has sent two regiments to watch the Rio Grande border and prevent raids Gen. Henry W. Barry, Congressman from Mississippi, died sud denly in Washington on the 7th Sec retary Delano has notified the Indian Bureau that a commission will be sent out to the Sioux Nation to negotiate with the In dians for the relinquishment of their hunting grounds in Nebraska Judge Williams of the Cook County (III.) Circuit Court, has sentenced the twenty-two Chicago Aldermen who canvassed the votes of the recent city incorporation election, in de fiance of an injunction issued by the court, to pay a fine of 100 each for contempt of court. The six lawyers who advised the disregard ing of the injunction by the Aldermen were fined $:W0 each. An appeal was taken to the Supreme Court President Grant has di rected that all lands lying contiguous to the Mississippi River, within twelve miles of its mouth, be reserved for military purposes, under the act authorizing Capt. Eads to con struct jetties for deepening the channel Henry Greenwall, manager of an opera-house in Galveston, Tex., who refused two colored women seats in the parquet of the opera- house, has been found guilty by a jury of vio lating the Civil-Rights law and fined $500. "Wednesday, June 9. A Paris tele gram to the Loudon Times saya there arc rumors of a republican movement in Madrid in consequence of recent military events, which have proved that the national troops have been unable to gain any advantage over the CarlisU . . A banquet was given at Berlin on the even ing of the 8th in honor of ex-Senator Schurz ...The town of Morshansk, containing 00,- 000 inhabitants, on the right bank of the river Tsna, in Russia, has been entirely de stroyed by fire The Supreme Court of New Hampshire declined to tass an opinion upon the action of the Governor and Council in the matter of the contested Senatorial election cases, holding that such an opinion could have no fur ther weight than the criticism of one branch of the Government upon the action of a co ordinate branch. The court expresses the opinion, however, that when the State Senate adjudged Triest and Proctor duly elected Senators such action was final and conclusive as to their rights The seceding Republican Senators re turned to their seats on the 8th and the Sen ate concurred with the nouse in notifying the Governor that both branches were organ ized and ready for busiuess A Philadelphia dispatch announces that in a few days several different organizations, aggregating 15,000 in number, will leave that city for the Black Hills by different routes Judge Nelson, of the United States District Court in session at Winona, Minn., has rendered a decision affirming the constitutionality of the Civil- Rights law. Tiiuksday, June 10. It is reported that Gen. Saballshas defeated the Alphonsists at Blanes, after two days' fighting, capturing their guns, 6tores, and 140 prisoners. .. .A violent storm passed over Paris on the 9th, causing immense damage. There were many accidents, and traffic was wholly suspended in the streets. The damage done in Paris alone is estimated at 11,000,000 francs , .A Washington dispatch eays the officials of the Interior Department do not regard the late visit of the Indians to Wash ington as a failure. The object was to dis cuss the subject with them and prepare them for some arrangement after a return of the expedition which had been sent out to de termine whether there is gold there or not.... Mr. Evarts concluded his argument for the defense in the Tilton-Beecher trial on the Sth, and Mr. Beach began his plea in behalf of the prosecution on the 9th. Mr. Evarts' address extended through eight days.... The New Hampshire Legislature, in joint session on the 9th, elected Person O. Cheney (Rep.) Governor and Charles II. Powers (Rep.) Rail road Commissioner The Minnesota Re publican State Convention is to be held at St. Paul on the 2Sth of July The Rev. J. S. Shipman, of Kentucky, has been elected Episcopal Bishop of Northern Wisconsin.... Gen. Sheridan has given notice that all parties who contemplate entering the Big Horn country will be prevented from do iDg so by the military authorities until the or ders under which the latter are acting are re voked. Friday, June 11. The steamship Vicksburg, from Quebec for Liverpool, when in latitude 46:34 north, longitude 47:58 west, encountered heavy ice and was crushed and sunk on the 1st, carrying down with her not less than forty souls, including the Captain. ....A box containing a number of Protestant books consigned to an American resident of Spain has been confiscated by the Spanish Custom-IIouse and the attention of Minister Cushing has been called to the act The Prince Bishop of Breslau has been sentenced to a fine of 2,000 marks or 133 days' imprison ment for illegally excommunicating a priest ... .The delegates to the National Christian Association recently in session at Pitts burgh held a political convention at which they adopted an anti-secret so ciety platform and nominated Hon. J B. Walker, of Illinois, for President and Donald Kirkpatrick, Esq., of New York, for ice-President of the Lnited States.. A national convention of the productive and other industrial classes has been called to meet at Indianapolis, Ind., on the 18th of August. The convention ia to be composed of one delegate from each Congressional dis trict, to be chosen on the loth of July It is stated that the Illinois Central and the Chi cago, Alton A St. Louis Railroads had decided to pool their earnings between competin poiLts Prof. Jenncy, of the Government exploring expedition In the Black Hills region, has telegraphed to Washington from " In camp on Beaver Creek, June 9," as follow: "The greater area of the Black Hills is in Dakota The formations in the vicinity are of a recent geological age and not auriferous. We will cross through the hills and examine the gold field reported to exist near Harney's Creek' The Indiana State Temperance Convention was recently held at Indianapolis, and a long platform of resolutions was adopted recog nizing the temperance work as the work of God; recommending that drinking habits be made a disqualification in the election or ap pointment to offices of trust and profit; agreeing not to vote for anyone known to use liquor as a beverage; arguing that it is the duty of the Government to protect the people from the traffic and denying the right to license dram-shops, etc., etc. THE MARKETS. Jcn 12, 1875. KKW YORK. Live Stock. Beef Cattle $11.50313.50. Dogs Live, $7.37H8.7.50. Sheep Live. $5.006.3V Bkkadstui'Fs. Flour Good to choice, $5.30 5.50; white wheat extra, $5.50j.25. Wheat No, 2 Chicago, $1.1X&1.11 ; No. 2 Northwestern, $1.10ai-H; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.13 1.1314. Rye Western and State, 95c3$1.00. Bar ley $1.2631.30. Corn Mixed Western, 7 Sic. Oats Mixed Western, 71&T3c. Provisions. Pork New Mess, $19.7019.75. Lard Prime Steam, 133i313,TiC Cheese 6(3 llXc. Wool. Domestic fleece, 42363c -CHICAGO. Lrv Stock. Beeves Choice, $6.256.50; good, $5.8V3i.l5; medium, $5.5035.76; butch ers' stock, $4.0035-35 ; stock cattle, $3.50(34.75. Hos Live, $6.75(37.60. Sheep Good to choice, $ 1.0U&4.50. Provisions. Butter Choice, 23323c. Epe Fresh, 1414;c. Pork Mess, $19.30(3119 35. Lard $13.30i313.25. Bkeadstuffs. Flour While Winter Extra, $6.008.00; sprinp extra, $ 1.6035.15. Wheat Spring, No. 2, 73'JTJiC. Corn No. 2, 675! b8c Oats No. 2, 59V4360C. Rye No. 3, 97(39. Barley No. 2, $1.2631.8. Lombbr. First Clear, $18.00(350.00; Second Clear, $13.00(347.00; Common Boards, $10 03 11.00; Feneiun, $11.00; "A" Shingles, $2.75 (33.00; Lath, i 1.7541,2.00. CINCINNATI. Breadstuff's. Flour $5.3035.40. Wheat Bed, $1.1831.20. Corn 71&73C. Rye $1.L8 1.10. Oats i6 3b9c. Barley No. 2, $1.20&1.. Provisions. Pom $ 19 90.3i0.00. Lard 123 (313c. ST. LOUIS. Lrvx Stock. Beeves Good 10 choice, $5,753 6.50. Hogs Live, $6.25.7.:J5. BREADSTiirrs. Flour XX Fall, $5.5035.75. Wheat No. 2 Red Fall, $1.30(31.31. Corn No. 2, 67V4&68C. Oats No. 2, 60361c. Rye No. 2, $l.(ti31.1'2. Barley No. 2, $1.20(31-22. Provisions. Pork Mess, $20.0tk320.23. Lard 12V4G13C. MILWAUKEE. Breadstuffs. Flour Spring XX, $4.755.O0. Wheat-Spring, No. 1, $1.04!431.04X ; No. 2, 9fl',c -3$1.00. Corn No. 2, 6Z1MtMc Oata No. 2, 59V4'.5,1c. Rye No. 1, 94395c. Barley No. 2, f 1.1431.15. DETROIT. Breaostutfo. Wheat .Extra, $1.25(1.25. Corn No. 1, 69&13C. Oats No. 1, 61361?-ic. TOLEDO. Breadstxtffs. Wheat Amber Michigan, $1.223l.22V4; No. 2 Red, $1.21(31.31 Vt. Corn lligh Mixed, 72'433c. Oats No. 2, 62362HC. CLEVELAND. Breadstuffs. Wheat No. 1 Red, $1.23V4 1.24; No. 2 Red, $1,1841.19. Corn High Mixed, 743:5c. Oats No. 1, 66!467c. WRECKED IX THE ICE. L.os of the Steaniftlilp Virkctburg Forty Live Perltili. New York. June 10. The steamship State of Germania, which arrived this morning, brought five seamen of the Dominion Line steamship Vicks burg, from Montreal tor Liverpool, wlncn was sunk hv ice on Tuesday. June 1. The men were picked up June 5 nearly dead from exposure, but since then have been rapidly improving, lney tell a leanut tale of distress. Other boats were launched with a large number of persons, but the greater number were seen to per ish without getting in the boats. ine Vicksburg went down in the midst of ice, and the boat was surrounded by icebergs and a field of ice when picked up. The other boats have not yet been heard from. lhe nve men rescued had their leet ana legs very much swollen, so much so that their boots had to be cut from their feet. They are still suffering from their great exposure to the wet and cold, but are re covering as fast as could be expected. 1 lie statement ot James Crowlej-, one of the survivors, is to the effect that there were on Iwiard a crew of sixty men, eight saloon passengers live men ana three ladies and about twenty steerage pas en;rirs, of whom four were females. On Sunday evening, May 30, they encountered large lields of ice, but succeeded in avoid ing any serious accident until about noon on the next day, when the ship struck heavily aft on the port quarter, carrying away the fans of the propeller, and a hole was knocked through the plates on that quarter, through w hich the ship made a great deal of water. The hole was stopped up with sails, so that but little water came in, and then all hands weit employed in throwing the cargo over board. On the morning of June 1 an ex amination showed the after-steerage to be filled with water, and six feet and a half of water in the main hold wells. The fires in the engine-room were soon drowned out, and the Captain gave orders to launch the boats with their re spective crews and told them to mind that the distance from St. Johns was 120 miles northwest. Crowley says: " I pro ceeded to launch No. 1, and it was cap sized in lowering. She was full of water. O'Brien and I baled her partly out, when Grogan, Wilkinson and Williams jumped in. " We could not hang on to the ship owing to the sea on and the ice about. O'Brien saw the Captain on the bridge beckoning the boat back, we having drifted aliont 150 yards from the ship. The ship sunk about ten o'clock, floating boat No. 2 from her chocks with the chief officer and about thirty people in her. She got clear and pulled to the windward. O'Brien, after the ship went down, saw the Captain and some persons floating on a bale of hay among the wreckage. We tried all we could to pick them up, but, owing to the boat being half full of water and the ice about, were not able to do so. We slipped our mast, kept company with the other boat for about two hours, and then lost sight of them to westward. We decided then to steer south to get clear of the ice. We hove the boat to, with an oar and a bucket as a drag, till daylight on Wednesday morning. We had in the boat about three gallons of water, forty pounds of raw beef, fourteen pounds of bread wet with salt water, and a compass, which did not fall out when the boat capsized. Again we put sail on the boat and steered south, the wind blowing from the northward and westward all throughout the scene, and bitterly cold. About four o'clock in the afternoon we hauled the boat's head to the northeast till Thursday morn ing, then tacked to the westward till about three o'clocfc in the atteruoon, anu again lav to with the drag till nine o'clock in the evening, when we took in the drag and made sail, and stood to the northeast till Fridav morninsr at davlirtit. we men tacked to the southwest till mid-day; tacked a train to northeast till morning, when about half -past ten o'clock we sighted your ship. We got out the oars and pulled away dead to winuwaru un you picked us up. I think that forty-odd people, with the Captain, went down with the ship. We had blankets on our boat for the three ladies and stewardess, which were lost when the boat capsized. We saw no ladies in the chief or second of ricer'g boat." 31 T OLD LOVE. A BRIDAL SOLILOQUY. So Tins is Janet's wedding-day! Strange that my heart should "feel so gay And free from sorrow ! For 'twas through her, a year ago, 1 cast me down in bitter woe, And prayed that I might never know Another morrow. Ah, well! each day fresh knowledge brings And hearts are verj' changeful things. I loved her wildly once, I trow, And, foolish, thought I ne'er could go Through life without her! And now, although she's just as fair The same bright eye and winning air Yet really I don't seem to care A bit about her! "Ah, trulj', hearts are changeful things!" A little voice within me sings. So here's my old love once again, Surrounded by her bridal train Bright, blushing roses! And as I watch the dimples play On one soft cheek in that array No sadd'ning thought this joyous day In me reposes. Ah! every day new beauty brings; Most tr,uly, hearts are changeful things! So, Janet, I can wish you well; For you may each glad wedding-bell Ring gay ly ever! And as for me to win tlmt face That's srlowins there with sunnv crrace To till a bride's not bride-maid's place Is my endeavor. " Flow well it is," a soft voice sings, "That hearts are made such changeful things!" JIa r pet's Baza r. THE Git ASS WIDOW. BY MARGARET BLONT. It was a pleasant-looking old kitchen, that of the red farm-house on the hill the house just shaded by the encircling arms of four great maple tree3. A pleasant kitchen, clean and orderly and neat, as a kitchen should always be in the house where a mistress and uot a servant-maid is the presiding genius of the scene. The floor was painted yellow and was clean enough to "cat oil" of," as the couutry people say. The walls were papered with a pretty pattern, crimson roses on a deep buff ground, that gave a home like, cosy look to the room, a warm look, moreover, that was decidedly agree able, now that the cold nights of Novem ber were just about drawing in. A great cooking stove stood in one cor ner of the room, opposite a cupboard. whose glass doors displayed a goodly store of delf and china, one set of which appeared to be very valuable, for it was evidently of foreign manufacture. It was a curiosity in its way. lied rose buds on a translucently white ground, with the initials "T. fc M." flourished all over each cup and plate and saucer in twining tendrils of a true lover's knot. It had bten the gift of the handsome voung sailor, Tom Parke, to his wife Mary on their wedding day; and he had brought it over from Canton, whera it was made, through many an ocean storm, to place it on the tea-table of their farm-house home upon that wedding-night. Each piece of porcelain had its own particular story to tell, its own peculiar remembrance to evoke. And therefore Mrs. Parke never used it now and turned her eyes toward the glass cupboard that held it as seldom as she could. The pleasant kitchen was her own favorite sitting-room, and she would have moved the Canton china out of that cupboard into another in the "square room" if she had only dared. But some strange feeling, of whicn she was more than half ashamed, seemed to stay her hand. It was Tom who had first placed the cups and saucers there; Tom who had spent an hour or more on the morning after their wedding in de ciding where each particular dish should stand. They had been taken down and used now and thea, and washed and wiped and put carefully back in the same places during the ten years of her married life. For five years she had been what her neighbors called a " grass widow," and the cups and saucers stood there vet. It ever she thought seriously of moving them a handsome, grave face seemed to rise up suddenly before her, and a pair of deep blue eyes looked into her very soul the eyes, the face of Tom Parke as her lover-husband twenty years ago! Was it any wonder that the Canton- china remained there still untouched? On the night of which I write Mrs Parke sat alone in her kitchen, listening to the sighing and " soughing" of the rising wind among the maple-trees and the orchard on the garden side. There was no fire in the great cooking stove, but on the broad brick hearth a bright blaze snapped and crackled, much to the content and pleasure of the old tabby cat curled up in a heap before it, with her kitten for a pillow. The firelight danced and nickered in every nook and corner of the room, showing the china behind the glass doors of the cupboard; the six Windsor chairs and the oaken dining-table, with its cloth and tray neatly lolded on the top; it sparkled on the open work-box that stood on the lit tle sewing-stand by the widow's side, and gilded the red peppers hanging in strings above the chimney-piece. More than all, it shone fairly and broadly on the widow herself as she sat looking thoughtfully into the blaze, and showed a woman of thirty-nve, lair, buxom and comely, with deep gray eyes and soft brown hair, a beaming, good tempered look, and yet a mouth that closed somewhat firmly in spite of the ripe red lips and their fresh color. iNot a bad-looking dame, by any means, was Mrs. Parke; and when you remember that the farm of seventy acres was all her own, together with the comfortable house and all its plenishing, you will not be surprised to hear that if Tom Parke had but been taken to the spirit world suitors without end would have applied to take the land and all things else of value " at the halves," provided the good-looking mistress of the house was included in the bargain. Everyone said and thought that it was a great pity Tom Parke could not " step out" and give his wife a chance to try her luck again. Did Mrs. Parke think so too? JSo one knew. JNo one had ever heard her say. lorn Parke had been a handsome, care less sailor when he married her, and he grew more handsome and more careless as the days and vears went by. Whose lault it was none but the married pair could really say, but the new home was not long a happy one, and. as no children came to bind them nearer together, hus band and wife fell farther and farther apart, and at last separated by mutual consent. Tom Parke went to sea once more, and cruised here, there and every where, as his fancy led him. Mrs. Parke stayed quietly on at the farm, and with the help of her uncle, who lived in the house with her. managed things so ad mirably that she grew quite rich. And five 3'ears went bv without a word or line from Tom. No one knew certainly that he was alive. No one could swear that he was dead. Two more years and his wife, or widow, might legally suppose him gone to " Davy Jones' locker," and marry again if she chose to do so." Would this be her choice? Even her old uncle could not tell. Her husband's nsme was never mentioned by her. No allusion to him was ever made in any way in that house, which had once been his happy home. And yet, on this night, as the widow sat alone, her face was grave and sad, and her soft, gray eyes had an absent, far-away look in them as they gazed into the depths of the fire. Tom Parke tad never liked to sit beside a cooking stove, and to please him the tire-boards had always been taken down in the fall of the year, and the fire lighted on the hearth in the good, old-fashioned way. And this had been done again to night for tho first time that year. Where was he while the blaze flashed so cheerily? Tossing high on the angry waves as his good ship rolled and staggered round Cape Horn? or down, far down, beneath those waves, silent and still forever? "Poor, dear Tom!" said Mrs. Parke, with a quivering sigh. And tears began to nil the solt, gray eyes at the thought A knock came at the outer door. Her uncle was upstairs asleep in his own oed. it was nearly ten o clock: a late hour for any neighbor to be dropping in to borrow the newspaper or hold a friendly chat over the blazing fire. But Mrs. Parke was not one of those silly women who are afraid of a shadow, and so sue went at once ana openea tue aoor. A tall, stalwart man stood there in a sailor's dress. Her heart gave a great bound, but grew quiet again when she heard the tones of the rough, coarse voice. " Does Mrs. Parke live here?" " She does." "Can I see her?" " I am Mrs. Parke." " Then I have a message to give you, ma'am from my Captain." " Captain w ho?" ' Capt. Tarkc, ma'am him as was your husband," was the gruff reply. Was! She asked him in as civilly as she could, and gave him a chair before the blazing lire. His face was nearly cov ered by a forest of red hair and whisk ers, but in her agitation she scarcely looked at him. Wag, did you say?" she gasped. " Has anything happened? Is my hus band " " Now, don't you take on like that. ma am," said the grutt voice, with a touch of kindness in its tone. " I can't a-bear to see a woman cry. It just about kills me." "Is he dead? Tell me that!" she cried. " No." She drew a long, deep breath and sank back into her chair, the color coming back into her lips and cheeks by faint degrees. "Dashed it I can make it out, any way," said the sailor, witn a wondering look. "The Captain he says to me: ' You go and find her out, Jack, and tell her so and so from me. But if you hear as how she's married, or likely to be, along of my not heaving in sight through all these years, why then just keep your tongue in your head and sheer off as fast as you can before you make any mis chief for her.' Them was the Captain's very words, ma'am, and 1 more than half expected to have to go back and leave my errand as it was. iiut you look as u you liked the Captain yet upon my soul you do!" "Lake him!" said Mrs. Parke, witn an indignant glance. "Why shouldn't 1? What do you mean? Isn't he my own husband? Who has a better righi to like him, as you call it, than 1?" " Kight you are, ma am! ' said the sail or, exultantly. "And glad enough ami to have such good news to take back, to the Captain. You sec, ma'am, he knew just how handsome and pretty you are, and he was afraid that you might have a grudge against him, on account of your quarreling, when you were both too young to know any better. And so he says to me, Jack,' says he, n yoa nnd she has a kind look or word for me still, tell her I behaved like a brute to her in the old days, but if she'll only forgive me for it, and take me back again, I'll make it all up to her, on my soul I will.' and I do believe he will, ma'am, I really do believe he will. For he would just give his eves to see you as I am seeing you now, would the Captain I know he would! v hat am l to ten nim?" "Tell him! Why did he send you at all? Why didn't he come himself!" cried Mrs. Parke, springing to her feet. How can I tell you? JNo one ought to hear what I have to say except him, and no one shall! where is he? lake me to him." " Will you go with me, ma'am? Will you really?" said the sailor, springing to his feet in his turn. " Of course I will." "When?" " Now." " It is late, ma'am, you know, and I'm a stranger. " I don't care if it is midnight. And he is your Captain! I'm not afraid to go with you. Let me get my bonnet and shawl. "Wait one moment, ma'am," said the man, hesitating, "lie toia me to ten you all." "Tell it, then." " He has been very sick. His health is poor and he has lost all his strength." He shall be wen cared lor nere. L.et us go." "And an an accident, ma am, on board ship he lost his arm " "Oh, my poor lorn!" " And a leg, ma'am." The soft, gray eyes were full of tears. "And and an eye; and he has to wear a black patch all over the side of his face where the gunpowder blew him up, the man went on. "Tom! Tom! Oh, how you have suf fered, poor dear!" she was crying. "And he said I was to tell you all, ma'am, befoie you came anigh him. The ship is lost; he hasn't a penny in the world and he isn't strong enough to work now." "Oh, why do you keep me waiting here?" she cried. " Let me go to him! Poor, sick, blind, maimed and 1 not to know! Poor Tom! Dear Tom! Take me to him at once, if you have any mer cy in your heart! Come, I am ready now!" She ran into the other room and came out again wearing her bonnet and shawl. Where was the sailor? A red wig and whiskers lay on the floor, in company with a slouched hat and an old pea-jacket. And on the hearth stood a handsome, stalwart man, in a naval uniform, his limbs sound, his face clear and fair, his blue eyes bright and beautiful as ever. "Mary!" cried the old, musical voice that she remembered so we'll. " Forgive me for trying you so forgive me all! Oh. my darling wife, the future shall atone for the past, if love and truth can make you happy! "Tom dear Tom!" was all her an swer. And then he had her in his arms and their lips met in a kiss that sealed the pardon of both! Mrs. Parke s uncle was somewhat as tonished when he got up the next morn ing and saw the new inmate of the household. And three old bachelors and four widowers could look forward hope fully no longer to the " seven years," for Mrs. Parke was a "grass widow" no longer, and seemed most provokingly well satisfied to find these things " thus," as poor Artemus Ward used to say. Af. 1 . eekly. An unlucky mouse pot into a bee hive not long since, and was not only stung to death, but. on becoming oaor iferously unpleasant, was hermetically sealed in wax by the hign-tonea nymen opterans. TnE citv of Providence, R. I., having looked the matter up finds that by light ing its 1,930 street-lamps with electricity it can save f 4ow in lamp-ngnters' serv ices per annum. SE.NSE AND 0SEXSE. A Boston tailor advertises "diagona' boys' suits." peveji female clerks have been ap pointed in the Postolhce in Tsew Orleans, A lot of 5,000 pineapples was received recently by the Oneida (N. Y.) Commu nity for caaning Every man who can knock a grass uopper s neaa on and aoesn t do so is neglecting a plain duty. The Legislature of British Columbia has disfrancised the Indian and Chinese inhabitants of the colony. Mark Twain denies that his "Gilded Age" was a failure, lie says it gave a poor, worthy bookbinder a job. Fleefle.ssness would be just as dis agreeable by any other name. Calling it "insomnia" does not help the matter one iota. When a Tennessee dog bites a man the man can recover one dollar damage? trom the owner, cux bites per day would be lair wages. The Pans Moniteur made the strange discovery that the Schiller was wrecked on the scventietn anniversary or the death of the poet. Key. Dr. Miner, of Boston, denies that ministers' boys are the worst in creation. and cites instances where they have not gone to the bad. l.very druggist s clerk should live as though his next moment would be his last. Especially if there is a soda fount ain in one end of the store. A current item says there are 700,000 women l'atrons ol Husbandry, but, n that is all, the sex has undergone a rapid shrinkage in a few hours. " It's generally the case with bad boys," philosophically remarks Miss An thony, " that they look like their mother and act like their father." A Kansas constable who couldn't dead head into a circus arrested the whole concern for laboring on the Sabbath, and it cost the manager $ uW. Just now all the institutes for the fee ble-minded are overcrowded, and a little croquet here and there must be tolerated. Lou in t illc Cou Her -J ou rna I. An exchange says: "We'll lide two miles to see two brothers under twelve years of age go to bed together without having a dispute about something." The grasshoppers evidently read the papers. A paten ol land in ivausas re ported to be worthless last year has been entirely shunned by them so far this season. The St. Louis Republican, which also called a lawyer a " shyster," has had to pay for it. The assessed damages, as set by the jury of twelve, was one (1) cent! The compositor who substituted an m" for a " w," in speaking of a lady troubled with "swelling of the feet," ac complished the worst typographical feat on record. Kansas teacher " Where docs all of our grain product go to?" Boy " It goes into the hopper." " uopper: What hopper?" " Grasshopper," triumphantly shouts the lad. The Austrian Government expresses its willingness to send representatives to the Philadelphia Centennial, if President Grant will guarantee them protection against the Indians. IIvDRoriioniA is reported to be raging terribly in Texas among wolves and all animals that they bite, larmers are having to kill their stock. The report comes from Castroville. All life is sacred and therefore not to be lightly taken, i3 a reflection which oc curs to many humane persons who care fully extricate the bugs from their straw- , v c ; I. UL'rries oeiore caiiujj mcui. The East is complaining to the Fost- oftice Department that a great many boxes of grasshoppers are being sent through the mails from the Western cities. They don't want any down there. The heaviest snorer we have heard of is the man whose wife woke him up the other night during a tempest, saying she ... . . i i r , did wish ne wouiu siop snoring ior sue wanted to hear the thunder. UreetiJUUl Mass.) Gazette. A Cincinnati woman tried to reach the bottom of the stairs ahead of a cask of vinegar and the surgeon who fixed up her broken bones said that she might try for a thousand years and "yet get beaten every time. The grocers and fruit-dealers of Bos ton have agreed to co-operate with the importers of Malaga raisins in a reiusai to purchase thescgoods any longer by the box, and insist upon their being sold by actual net weight. On Lake Champlain, in Essex County, N. Y., large quantities of fish are cap tured by exploding torpedoes in the water, stunning the fish so that they rise to the surface. Four hundred fish were taken at one blast recently. Rome, N. Y., has for forty years carefully guarded a tree under which it was said that Gen. Washington ate din ner. It has recently come to light that Washington was never in Home and the boys are giving the old tree a bad tussle. A gentleman of fortune proposes to effect the removal to England at his own expense of the fallen obelisk at Alexan dria, fellow to the so-called Cleopatra's Needle. The cost of removal will be about 10,000, and the method of trans port recommended is a huge raft. Base-ball has demoralized Hartford. The careful Clemens has bought a seat in the errand stand: the clergy have season tickets ; and, worse than all, one enthusiastic family has removed the cushions from its church pews and ap plied them to alleviating the agony ol a ten-inning game. The Itev. J. G. Holland has been ma- liirninsr reDorters. If this becomes gen erally known he might as well leave the platform, for, in the language oi namiei, they are the abstract ana uriei enron- icles of the time. After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live." The Young Men's Christian Associa tion of Newark, N. J., recently built an elegant hall, thereby incurring a debt which thev are unable to liquidate. Foreclosure of the mortgages on the building is threatened, to avert which the business community oi in e warn are appealed to for aid to save the hall for the association. George Lamont Stevens, an honest farmer of Kennebunk, is in Boston in search of his wife a " purty good look ing woman, with a nose not eggsactly a snub, but sort o' wide, and real plump, with the puniest arm thar is out." Mrs. Stevens got tired of living on a farm, and is supposed to have plunged into the gayeties of the Hub. The Connecticut Fish Commissioners report the introduction of black bass in Connecticut waters successful. Over 1.3o0,000 young salmon were placed in the river during the year. Their experi ments in hatching shad show that the eesrs of the shad will not hatch in brack ish or salt water; also that such waters are fatal to the young fry. '1 he eaten oi shad last season was unusually large. Tns total receipts of Yale College last vpar were H331.3S4.3S. the term bills amounting to $61,727.12. There were donations to the building fund of the theological department of f 81,100.41, to the law school of $10,000 and to the chapel fund 7,00. Instruction in me academical department cost 42,038.88; the art school cost $10,7"). 70; the Shef field school, ."i4,UK . itt; the theological department, 28,371 il; the medical de partment, 1,549 03; tho law School, 3,483.12; and the philosophical depart ment, 1,430. Dolce Far Monte Anne Bkewrter writes from Rome to the Philadelphia Uulktin: "The Humans pur sang are the laziest of human beings. Their favorite business is to rent an un furnished apartment on a Urcet frequent ed by tho fvrcutieri, as they call tho tourist anil traveling community; they furnish all the available rooms with flashy, Solfcrino-colored covered furni ture, and glass vaes filled with artificial flowers for ornaments. These they let out at a high price to travelers and hud dle themselves into one or two little back rooms. I know of several families of truly decent persons who do this. I have one family in my mind at this mo ment. The father owns a handsomo apartment in a fine house on t lie Via tuattro Fontatie (single floors of a house can be bought and sold in Home). Father, mother, two daughters nnd three sons compose the family of which I speak. These seven persons sleep, dress, cook and eat in one room about twenty-five feet square, and in a kitchen a little smaller! I said nothing about bathing, as little o: that is done air one; the modern Komans; they are as much afraid of a bath as their ancestors loved it; indeed, they will coolly tell you that a bath will cause the fever. The father has no business; he rents the rooms of the apartment; one daughter is a dress maker, working only when she pleases, however; the other daughter nids her mother in the very little housekeeping, for all the laundry work is 'done out' that is, giveu to a laundry woman. There is little or no cooking done, ine no mans live a great deal on tulame, some thing like bologna sausage, s ilaJs, a cup of collee, and sometimes afrittu made of calves brains, and cucumber cut Into thin slips not a bad dish, if fried in butter, but they iry it in on. The sons have some sort of trade, but none of them work as we understand work. These people saunter forth in the afternoon from their cheerless abode. The women, especially the daughters, arc dressed "quite line," and the boys arc also "smart." They remain abroad un til bedtime. They lounge on the Pincio until sunset: then thev saunter leisurely down to the Corso or Ripetta and take a fresh perch on some piazza. 1 he 1'iazzi Colonna and vast Piazzi Navona have band music supplied by the municipali ty on alternate nights in summer. 1 heso piazzas are literally jammed. There are lemonade booths by the great fountain brims and the people sip lemonade and eat ciamhelli, a sort of jumble, until bed time. The next morning, it tby uon t lie abed until ten o'clock, which they often do, especially in winter, for they never have lues, they are upl to Haunter out to the Aqua Acetosa. '1 his is a min eral spring of which I have often told ou you ieacn n oy leuviuj; uiu i 'lamina near the Casino Papa Giulia on the right. Its waters have been popular with the Romans ever since the sixteenth century. They arc considered of great use in atlccuons oi tue nver, ana are drank on the snot in the early morning hour3 by the Romans during the spring and early summer. You will meet great strings of mothers and daughters, young lads and lasses, going in and out upon the road anv early morning. It is a drive I am very fond of, and I fancy, also, that the waters are beneficial. Tho crowds of idle people 1 meet there amaze me, for they are of the class that one supposes must have some constant em ployment. But these people have no idea of woik. as a duty. L,ue is 10 oe lived quietly, not filled with weary oc cupations. I heir main pursuit is tran ouil ease; their main thought is to do as ittle manual labor as possible. FACTS AM) FIGURES. Twenty thousand alligator skins arc tanned annually. Nebraska people planted ld,ouu,uuu trees on their prairies lust year. They are counting on 10,000,000 vis itors at the Philadelphia Centennial. Beet-root sugar can be made in Cali fornia at seven cents a pound, including every expense. Only one female was saved out of 103 ladv passengers on board the ill-fated Schiller, or ol the 383 in all. The Pension Bureau estimates the number of survivors of the Mexican war entitled to pensions at 32,414. There are about 4,000 public schools in Japan. In 1874 four new normal schools were established, making six in all. There are 8,000.000 of German-f peak iDg people in the United States, and they have 300 newspapers and periodicals in their own language. TnE annual report of the City Register shows that there were 11,717 births, 4,019 marriages and 7,81.j deaths in Boston during the year 174. About 500,000,000 were spent in Eu rope last year to maintain 2,000 000 men in doing nothing but carrying muskets and preparing for war. The production of poultry in the United States is not less than SOO.fMiO, 000 pounds annually, w orth 0,000,000, and eggs worth as much more. Rochester, N. Y., has 10 flouring milis, which last year manufactured ol8, 000 barrels of flour; bushels of wheat consumed, 2,331,000; men employed, 171; runs of stone, 81. Portland, Me., has saddled itself w ith a debt of ",,000.000, or 100 per head for its population of 30,000, to build a rail road through the White Mountains in the direction of Chicago. A good P rcheron stallion can be de livered in New York for from 1,000 to 1,500 end pay a reasonable prolt to the importer, wune me same are now rcmus in Illinois for from 2,000 to 3,000! Col. Forney' Letter. Husbands, Help Yonr WItos! A young man who is praised by his employer for his faithful efficiency at;his desk, and admired especially by his friends for his thouehtful kindness to his wife, was seen about five o'clock the other morning washing the windows of his rented home. A little merriment at his expense elicited the frank response: "Nevermind; 1 can't afford to pay a washerwoman to do it, and perhaps if I demonstrate my ability to take care of a house the world w ill let me own one some time." And so he will, some time, own a house, and be able to hire it cleaned, too. This brave independence in economy is not only worthy of imita tion by hosts of young men in these close times, but the example of mutual burden-bearing in the domestic circle is all praiseworthy. How many feeble women are every day tuirging away at heavy burdens of domestic toil that are trying their very heart-strings, while their gen teel husbands are perhaps fingering lace and silk over a counter, or pushing a pen in &nelegantcounting-rocm! Husbands, there ought to be masculine muscle in the wash-room, cleaning house, sweeping heavy carpets, and in doing dozens of heavy ta&ks in the household. Try it these long mornings, and see how amia ble and devoted" your wife will be. Troy I'imes.