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THE HERALD. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBKASKA. OFFIOBi Oa Main Street, between 4th and 6th, Second Story. OFFICIAL PAPER OF CASS COUNTY. Terms, in Advance : One copy, one year $2.00 One copy, six months i'no On capy, three months !!!!!!! iso NE KA ERA JNO. A. MACMURPHY, Editor. PERSEVEn.VXCE COXQUERS.' TERMS: $2.00 a Year. VOLUME XI. PLATTSMOUTTI, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1875. NUMBER li. THE HERALD. ADVERTISING RATES. SPACE. Iv.iiw.i3w. I in. 3 m. fn. 1 yr. 1 square.. 3 ccjiuiren. column. column. 1 column. f 1 (K) $ 1 ttl f i 00 f i AO f 5 00 f 8 00 f IS I rn) a o 4 a 7.- 3 ar.i tt i 10 (mi i ( in) a 7.-.! 4 00 " H ,(l 13 00 80 ' 5 nri 8 00 10 no' is oo-ao 00 as 00 8" 8 o 12 (x 15 o in no! as 00 40 mf m ( i: on in 011 aj 00 a: no to 00 m 00 ino "Q 15T AH Advertising hills doe quarterly, f? Transient advertisements mutt be paldfd iu advance. Extra copies of the IIkkald for sala by II. J. Strchrht, at the Poxtntfloe, and O. F. Johiuton, cor ner of Main and Fifth streets. HEIMRY BCECK, DEALER IX SAFES, CHAIRS, Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads, ITC., ETC., ETC., Of All Descriptions. METALLIC BURIAL CASES. Wooden Coflins Of all sizes, ready-made, and sold cheap for cash. With many thanks for patt patronage, I invit all to call and examine my LARGE STOCK OF Furniture ul Oof Hum. jan28 AND MEDICINES AT J. H. BUTTERY'S, On Main Street, bet. Fifth and Sixth. M'holesale aid Retail Dealer in Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes. Patent Medicines. Toilet Articles, etc., etc. O. F. JOHNSON, tTRESCRIPTIONS carefully compounded at all hours, day and night. 35-1 y J. 17. SHANNON'S Feed, Sale and Livery STiV23ZjI3. Main Street, Plattsmouth, Neb. I am prepared to accommodate the puhHc with Carriages, Buggies, Wagons, AND A No. I Hearse, On Short Notice and Reasonable Terms. iV II A C K Will Hun to the Steamboat Land in. Depot, and all parts of the City, when Desired. janl-tf First National Bant Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, SCCCESSOR TO Tootle, Iliiimii So Clarlc. John Fitzobbald E. i. Do VET A. W. McLait.ui.in. ... John O'Kocbke President. Vice-President. Cannier. ... .Assistant Cashier. ; This Bank Is now open for bueiness at their new Kwm. corner Main and Sixth streets, and are pre pared to transact a general BANKING BUSINESS. Stocks, Bonds, Gold, Government and Local Securities BOUGHT AND SOLD. Deposits Received and Interest Al lowed on Time Certificates. DRAFTS DRAWN, Available in any part of the United States and in all the ?rincipal Towns and Cities of Europe. AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED MAN LINE ani ALLAH LINE OTP STELUIERS. Persons wishing to bring out their friends from Europe can rCBCHASB TICKETS FROM VS Through to Plattsmouth. Excelsior Barber Shop. .J. C. 33001STE, Main Street, opposite Brooks House. HAIR-CUTTING, Shaving and Shampooing. ESPECL.X.L ATTENTION GIVEN TO Cuttiiisr Children's and Ladies' Hair. Call and See Boone, Gents, And get a boon In a O Xj 33 -A. 3NT JS II -V. "VT n41-ly GO TO THE Post Office Book (Store, . J. STEIIGHT, Proprietor, Ton Torn Bools. Stationery, Pictures, Music TOYS. CONFECTIONERY, Violin Strings, Newspapers, Novels, Song Books, etc., etc DEALER IX Drugs, Medicines -AND WALLPAPER. AllPaper Trimmecl Free of Charce ALSO. DEALER IN Books, Stationery AND LATEST PUBLICATIONS. CS"Prescript!on3 carefully compounded by an experienced Druggist.J REMEMBEK THE PLACE Cor. Fifth and Main Streets, PLATTSMOUTH, NEB. THOS. V. SHRYOCK, DEALER IN Main St., Let. 5th and Gth, PLATTSMOUTH, - NEB. ALSO UNDERTAKER, And has on hand a large stock of Metallic I3urial Cases, Wooden Coffins, Etc., Of -all sizes, cheap for cah. Funerals Attended on Short Notice II. J. W1TEIUIM & SOX, Wholesale and Retail Dealers In PINE LUMBER, Lath, Shingles, SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, ETC., On Main St., cor. Fifth, PLATTSMOUTH, - - - NEB. FOR YOUR GROCERIES GO TO J. V. Weckbach, Cor. Third and Main Sts., riatUmouth. (Guthinann's old etand.) He keeps on hand a large and well-eelected stock 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. II ichest Price Taid for Country Produce. A full stock at all times, and will not be undersold. Take notice of the Sign : "EMPIRE BAKER V AND GROCERY." nlyl WILLIAM STADELMANN Has on band one of the largest stocks of CLOTHING AJJD Gents' Furnishing Goods FOR SPRING AND SUMMER. I Invite everybody in want of anything la my line to call at my store. South Side Main, bet. 5th & 6th Sts., And convince themselves of the facK I have as a specialty in my Retail Departments a stock of I LUC V lipiuiiii; iui .iicu .nu iwj nuibu vc iu vite those who want coods. I also keep on hand a large and well-selected lock or Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Etc. jarlyl PHILADELPHIA STORE SOLOJIOX & XATIIAX, DEALERS IN Fancy Dry Goods, Notions, Ladies' Furnishing Goofis. Largest, Cheapest, Finest and Best Assorted Stock in the city. We are prepared to 11 cheaper than they can oe purcnasea eiewnere. GIVE TJS A CALL And examine our Goods. H7Store on Main St., between 4th and 5th Sts., riaifemonth, eb. lbti TOST OFFICE BUILDIXi, PLATTSMOUTH, NEB. PLATTSMOliTII MILLS, PLATTSMOUTn NEBRASKA Conrad IIeiski, Proprietor. FLOUR, CORN MEAL, FEED. Always on hand and for sale at lowest cash prices, The Highest Prices paid for Wheal and Corn. Particular attention given to custom work. CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. From advance sheets of the new Chica go City Directory it appears that there is in that citj- a population of about 4:58,000. The number of names is 140,133. The Rochester (N. Y.) Board of Edu cation, by a vote of twelve to four, have ordered the discontinuance of religious exercises in the public schools of that city. Tire telescope lately constructed for Dearborn Observatory, Chicago, has been placed in position and is ready for use. This is the third largest instrument in the world and is said to be one of the best. TnE final trial of Count von Arnim, for abstracting public documents from the archives of the Paris Legation, was con cluded before the Kammergericht, at Ber lin, on the 24th, and resulted in a verdict ofguiltyanda sentence of nine months' imprisonment. The severe wind and rain storm which prevailed on the night of the 2:Jd de stroyed fifty houses and three miles of fences and sidewalks in Deeorali, Iowa. Other sections of the West suffered more or less severely. Information has been received from Washington that a new and dangerous counterfeit five-dollar note on the First National Bank of Canton, 111., is being extensively circulated in some portions of the Wct. It resembles the counterfeit fives on the Traders' National Bank of Chicago, and has evidently been altered fiom that plate. Information has been received at the Treasury Department that the West is be ing flooded with new and dangerous coun terfeit fifty-cent scrip of the series of 1S73. The number and letter are slightly wider and heavier than on the genuine one, while in the lower left-hand corner the figures 1801 look more like 180 with a short, perpendicular dash. The imitation is an excellent one and well calculated to leceive. AccoRDrNo to late advices from the Wilkesbarre (Pa.) coal region the min ing troubles had been settled by the un conditional surrender of the workmen, and all the collieries expected to recom mence operations on the 23d. The Presi dent of the leading coal company had an nounced that the Miners' Union should no longer dictate who should be cmploj-ed or discharged, and that men should not be forced to join the union in order to enter the mines. In a speech a few days ago, in the Cin cinnati Chamber of Commerce, P. M. Gen. Jewell said he lxdieved it entirely possible to conduct li is department of the Govern ment and run it in the interest of itself, promoting celerity, security and accuracj n its ramifications, and doing away with some of the red-tape which has heretofore incumbered it. lie was not aware of the extent of this mighty country until he came to look at it. lie finds it entirely impossible to do our postal business ex- clusiTtly in postolliccs located in cities. Therefore it is being largely done on wheels. In the valley of the Mississippi there are 1,200 clerks engaged in distribut ing letters and papers as the cars are in motion, and they distribute more than 40,000,000 of letters per month. The Indian Bureau at Washington, on the 23d, received a dispatch from Prof. Jenney, of the Black Hills expedition, dated near Harney's Peak, June 17. The professor says : " I have discovered gold in small quantities on the north bend of Castle Creek in terraces or bars of quartz gravel. About fifteen miners have located a camp on the creek above here and have commenced working. Gold is found from Castle Creek southwardly to French Creek, at this point, and the deposits are almost wholly in Dakota. The region has not been fully explored, but the yield of gold thus far has been quite small, and reports of the richness of the gravel bars are greatly exaggerated. On French Creek the deposits are very unfavorably situated. The water supply is small and failing and the grade is too little to admit of tailings being carried off by the stream. The prospect at present is not such as to war rant extended explorations in mining." An Ancient Deed. Among the documents copied by the photozinocgraphic system of Gen. James, the Director-General ot the Ordnance Survey, is a charter or deed of grant made by Edgar, King of England, to one of his Thanes, in the year 5J74. A fac-simile of it, with a translation appended, is pub lished, and it has an interest which law yers as well as arclneologists will readily appreciate, lhe property granted consists of three hides of land at Nymetl, in Devon shire, now forming the site of three vil lages called Nymet, near Credition. The body of the charter is in Latin, but the de scription of the boundaries of the property is in Angio-axon, and the indorsement of the parchment contains a medley of the two languages. lhe deed is not loner. but it contains some decidedly stronsr lan guage, expressed generally in the learned tongue. lhe indorsement, lor instance, after stating the identity of the land with that which the reverend priest Brightric gave for the relief of his soul to a monas tery in Crydiaton, expresses a sort of prayer that 44 anj-one who shall take it away or diminish it may be stricken with a perpetual curse, and perish ever lastingly with the devil" unless he make atonement. The interior of the deed contains no recitals in our sense of the word, but after a pious ejacu lation, analogous to that with which old wills begin, it mentions the advisability of making deeds of gift in writing, " lest the succession of posterity Te swallowed in the whirlwind of rapine and the clouds of ignorance." The rest of the document is not very essentially different from a modern deed, and perhaps in the idea of some readers will bear comparison with it. A very vehement blessing is invoked upon those who, "moved by a benevolent and sincere disposition, shall trouble them selves in amplifying the said grant," and then, after the date, follow the whole arrav of 4 witnesses." First, 44 1, Edgar, King, have confirmed the said grant ;" Ethel- frith, Queen, has consented. Then Dun- stan. Archbishop, has corroljorated it. Oswald, Archbishop of York, and twelve other Bishops, none of whose sees are men tioned ; twelve AblKts, also descriled by their Christian names alone; four Dukes and ten Ministers all severally strengthen it." The parchment is almost an exact square, measuringbout twelve or thir teen inches along eac h ofitssidc. London Globe. Blackberries were in the San Fran Cisco market the last of May. EPITOME OF THE WEEK. CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. In the French Assembly on the 21st a grant of f 120,000 to promote the worthy representation of France at the United States Centennial was voted without op position. It was announced in London on the 21st that the Carlists had entered Castile, and that they were everywhere well received. Messrs. Moody and San key, the Chi cago revivalists, have been forbidden to hold religious services at Eton College, England. The failures of J. 11. Randall & Sons, of London, and Wm. Marshall, of Man chester, England, were reported on the 21st, with aggregate liabilities of $1,400,000. The Maine Democratic State Conven tion met at Augusta on the 22d and nomi nated Gen. Charles W. Roberts for Gov ernor. The platform declares in favor of one term for the President, with a yearly salary of $23,000, and advocates a sound currency in coin or its equivalent. On the 22d the New Hampshire Legis lature elected Benjamin F. Prescott Sec retary of State, and also chose the Repub lican nominees for State Treasurer, Printer and Commissary General. 44 Boss" Tweed was at liberty in New York city on the 22d, but was taken be fore the Court of Oyer and Terminer and held to bail in the sum of $3,000 to an swer an indictment found against him in 1873, and of $1,000 on the Grand Jury in dictment of May last. He was subse quently taken in custody on the civil suit and conveyed to Ludlow Street Jail, to re main until bail in the sum of $3,000,000 should be furnished. The New York Prohibition State Con vention was held at Syracuse on the 23d. Strong prohibition resolutions were adopted, and the following nominations were made : For Secretary of State, G. D. Dusenbery; Comptroller, Anson A. Hop kins; Treasurer, Stephen B. Aj-ers; State Engineer and Surveyor, George A. Dud ley; Canal Commissioner, Ira D. Bell; State Prison Inspector, John B. Gibb; Attorney-General, Ed. T. Marsh. Mr. Beach's argument in behalf of the plaintiff in the Tilton-Beecher suit was concluded on the 23d. Mr.Tilton's coun sel then presented to the court affidavits concerning additional evidence which they desired admitted, and asked for a reopen ing of the case to that end. Judge Neil- son took the matter under advisement. Judge Blodgett, of the United States District Court, Chicago, decided that the alleged illicit distillers must surrender their books to the Government officials, and in accordance with this decision the United Slates Marshal on the 23d took possession of all books belonging to the establishments recently seized in Chicago. The California Independent State Con vention, held at Sacramento on the 23d, adopted a lengthy platform, a large por tion of which is devoted to the transpor tation question. A full State ticket was nominated, headed by Gen. Bidwell for Governor and the prasent acting Governor (Pacheco) for Lieutenant-Governor. The river Garonne, in France, over flowed its banks on the 24th, and several persons were drowned. A Washington dispatch of the 24th says the report of the commission to examine into the condition of the Chicago Custom llouse had been made public, and is to the ellect that the foundations are unsafe and the stone of a poor quality. Secretary Bristow indorses the report, and has de cided to stop work on the building until the meeting of Congress. Judge Neilson announced, on the morning of the 24th, that, under the cir cumstances, he was compelled, on an ex amination of the affidavits, to deny the ap plication for reopening the Tilton-Beecher case, and, in accordance with Mr. Beach's request, the papers were filed with the Clerk of the court. The Judge then pro ceeded to deliver his charge to the jury, which was concluded a little after noon, and at one o'clock the jury retired for de liberation. They had not decided upon a verdict up to ten p. m. The Opposition State Convention of Iowa was held at Des Moines on the 24th. The following nominations were made : Hon. Shephard Lefller for Governor; Capt. E. B. Woodward for Lieutenant-Governor; W. J. Knight for Judge of the Supreme Court; A. R. Wright for Superintendent of Public Instruction. The platform adopted declares against a third term and favors a reduction of the Pres. ident's salary and the resumption of specie payment as soon as the same can be done without injury to the business in terests of the country, and in the mean time favors a sufficient supply of national currency for business pui-poses, and op- lKses the present National Banking law. A motion that the party organization be known as Democratic was laid on the table. THE MARKETS. Junk 26, 1873. NEW YORK. Live Stock. Beef Cattle $11.5013.50. TIors Live, $7.37Jia7.50. Sheep Live, t4.0J3.'5. Bbbadstcws. Flour Good to choice, S5.30Q 5.65; white wheat extra, S5.7ixati.40. Wheat No. 2 Chicago, $l.llVi1.13: No. 2 Northwestern, $l.ll;j1.12; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.15(3 1.18. Rye Western and State, 90cS$l.OO. Bar ley $1.25(1.30. Corn Mixed Western, 83 83c. Oats Mixed Western, 622,03c Provisions. Pork New Mess, $19.90(220.00. Lard Prime Steam, 13313!Jc. Cheese 5 lic. Wool. Domestic fleece, 4263c CHICAGO. Lro Stock. Beeves Choice, $G.2o6.40; good, $5.8oi.l5: medium. $5.505.75; butch ers' stock, $4.0O5.85; stock cattle, $150 4-75. Does Live, $7.157.30. Sheep Good to choice, $1.00 4. 50. Provisions. Butter Choice, 20325c Ers Fresh, 14!415c. Pork Mess, $18.9019 .03. Lard $li.9-.13.00. Brbadstutts. Flour White Winter Extra, $6.007.23; spring extra, $4.254.87H- Wheat Spring, No. 2, 97,975c Corn No. is, 664 67c Oats No. 2, 60:451c Rye No. , 89&90C. Barley No. 2, $1.201.25. Lvxbir. First Clear, $18.0050.00; Second Clear, $ t3.0O47.00 ; Common Boards, $10.00 11.00; Feccing, $11.00; "A" Shingles, $2.75 3.00: Lath, $1.752.00. CINCINNATI. BRKADSTtrrra. Flour $5.40 5.50. Wheat- Red, $1.1931.25. Corn-JJ770s. Rye $1.C8 1.10. Oats 5S0c. Barley No. 2, $1.2031.25. PaoviBiONS.-z-Pork $18.60319.00. Lard 12 13!.c. ST. LOUIS. Lira Stock. Beeves Good to choice, $5.75 6.60. Hoes Live, $6.257.10. BsxADSTum. Flour XX Fall, $5.005.50 Wheat No. 8 Red Fall, $1.2831.284. Corn- No. 2," 63&63HC. OaU No. 2, 5V354C. Rye No. 2, $1.031.03. Barley No. 2, $1.201.22. Provisions.--Pork Mess, $19.4019.lO. Lard 1213c. MILWAUKEE. Bbeadstccts. Flour Spring XX, $4.75 2 5.00. Wheat Spring, No. 1, $1.P31.034 : No. i, 94c a$1.00. Corn No. 2, 624&63C Oats No. 2, 4944C Rye No. 1, 943.95c Barley No. 2, $1.1431.30. DETROIT. BRKADSTurrs. Wheat Extra, $1.2631.304. Corn No. 1, 6-67c. Oa No.l, 534334c. TOLEDO. BRKADSTurrs. Wheat Amber Michigan, $1.21431.22; No. 2 Red, $1.2141"-J- Corn High Mixed, 704Tlc. Oats No. 2, 524E3c CLEVELAND. Brbadstutts. Wheat No. 1 Red, $1,224 1.23; No. 2 Red, $1.174-13. Corn High Mixed, '.J 27 3c. Oat No. 1,59360c. BUFFALO. Live Stock. Beeves $5.7537.03. nogs Live, $7.0037.374. Sheep Live, $1.5035.00. EAST LIBERTY. Lite Stock. Beeves Best, $6.7537.00; me dinm, $fi.008.25. Hogs Yorkers, S"-207.50; Philadelphia, $7.407.60. Sheep Best, $4.75 5.00; medium, $1.004.50. FACTS AD FIGURES. Last year we imported from Great Britain about 2,000,000 yards less linen and 7,000,000 -ards less cotton than we did two years ago. Over twenty tons of violets are annual ly used by the perfumers of Cannes and Ndce, and 190 tons of orange blossoms in Nice alone. The Salt Lake Mining Gazette estimates the gold and silver production of the States and Territories during the past twenty-six years at $1,050,830,485. A foreign company, with a capital of $20,000,000 has been organized for the purpose of investing in Louisiana land and of pursuing agriculture as a science. The assessment of personal property in San Francisco foots up a total of $148, 637,785, which is an increase over last year's assessment of $43,047,195. The value of the real estate in the same city is estimated at $102,000,000. Few people have an idea of the money expended throughout the country for the erection of pubiic buildings. An abstract prepared for the use of the Committee on Appropriations will show in part these vast expenditures. It must be remem bered that the items following are but a part of the aggregate : For Boston post office and sub-treasury, purchase of addi tional land and extension of buildings, $30,000; estimate for 187G, $750,000; custom-house, court-house and postoffice for Chicago, act of 21st December, 1871, limits the cost of building and site to $4,000, 000; total amount appropriated, $3,550, 000 ; custom-house, Charleston, S. C., total amount appropriated; $498,855.40; esti mate for 1870, $151,833.91 ; custom-house and postoffice, Cincinnati, total amount ap propriated, $2,050,000; estimate tor 1870, $750,000 ; court-house and postoffice, Co lumbus, S. C, total amount appropri ated, $381,899.75; court-house and post office, Raleigh, N. C, total appropria tion, $250,000; custom-house, Hartford, Conn., total amount appropriated, $250, 000 ; court-house and postoffice, New York city, total amount appropriated, $3,140, 090.14; expended for site, $500,000, for building, $7,012,120.29. leaving balance in the Treasury of $028,503.85; custom house. New Orleans, total amount appro priated, $811,000; estimate for 187(5, $200, 000; court-house and postoffice, Omaha, total appropriation, $371,500; court-house and postoffice, Philadelphia, total amount appropriated, $2,250,000; estimate for 1870, $750,000; custom-house, Portland, Oregon, total appropriation, $350,500; es timate for 1870, $40,000; branch mint, San Francisco, total appropriation, $1,835,842.82; new appraisers' stores, same city, $232,091.72; hospital building, $50,000; custom-house, St. Louis, total amount appropriated, $2,550,000; estimate for 1876, $750,000; court-house and post office, Trenton, N. J., total appropria tion, $350,000. United States Itecord and Gazette. How a Pair of California Lovers Cir cumvented the Law On Tuesday last the officers stationed at Fort Point were attracted by the pres ence of a small crowd of people who had collected at the wharf near the Presidio. When they came to the wharf they discovered that the immortal pas sion was the cause of the assemblage, and that two young and ardent beings, who believed that 44 love is life's end," were determined to be knotted together with the matrimonial rope in spite of cruel laws and unfeeling officials. The maiden fair beyond compare was under age, with auburn hair. Her lover made application at the City Hall for a marriage license How old is the lady?" asked the po lite clerk. ' It's none of your " the applicant was about to remark, but he changed his mind, and answered : " Jus! sixteen years old." 44 Ah!" returned tne cierK, "a most ae- liciously charming age. And do her parents yet proudly gaze upon this their beauteous ottspnngr 44 Which?" grimly growled the lover. "Are her father and mother living? I mean," said the clerk. 44 Oh! you bet! Healthy!" 44 Then," replied the clerk, sinking his ascinating smile and resuming the more serious air 01 an omciai -men you can't h i( a license ; 6he is not of age andcanuo. be married except with the consent of her parents." "Cant have a license?" slowly re marked the anxious lover. "No, sir; it's against the law to grant one under such circumstances " The young man turned and walked from the office ; but as he reached the door he wheeled about and, shaking a handful of gold at the clerk, cried : 44 Say, I'll bet you a hundred we get married before to-morrow night." 44 Never gamble," responded the clerk, with dignity, and then: 44 Good morn ing, sir." True to his purpose the would be Ben edict formed his plan. He secured a surf-boat and four brawny-armed oars men, and the point of meeting was des ignated as the Presidio wharf. There it was that the defenders of our soil and flag discovered the girl of sixteen, the determined youth who had run away with her, the 6urf-boat, the four brawny-armefl oarsmen and a parson. The wedding party tumbled on board, the oars were shipped and the boat bore away the blushing bride and her prom ised husband, amid the cheers of the army. Half an hour after those on the shore saw the boat under Angel Island, the men resting on their oars. Two fig ures rose from the stern-sheets, one tall and manly, the other slight. Then, in a rather uncertain way. another figure ele vated itself from the aft thwart, and, pro ducing something which looked like a prayer-book, faced the couple. After a few moments of some ceremonial, during which the two bowed their beads as if in affirmative response to some question, the tall and manly form threw his arms about the slight one, only sixteen years old, and appeared to give the wedding- kiss. The crew cheered, the parson with the uncertain legs toppled over into the bottom of the boat, and the ceremony was over. The boat did not return to the Presidio, but went off in the direction of the Alameda shore. The bachelor officers on .the wharf watched the re treating barge until it was nearly out of sight, and then with sighs turned back to their quarters. aanr ranascoCall. TOD AT AND T0-M0RH0W. Don't tell me of to-morrow, Give me the man who'll say. That when a gxxd deed's to he done 44 Let's do the deed to-day." We may all command the present. If we act and never wait; But repentance is the phantom Of a part that comes too late. Don't tell me of to-morrow. There is much to do to-day That can never be accomplished If we throw the hours away. Every moment has its duty. Who the future can foretell? Then why put olf till to-morrow What to-day can do as well f Don't tell me of to-morrow, If we look upon the past How much that we have left to do We cannot da at last; To-day it is the only time For all on this frail earth; It takes an age to form a life, A moment gives it birth. IN A RESTAURANT. Twas In a restaurant we met I still recall the glance 6hc gave And how enthralled I was, as if That glance had made my soul her slave. How quick she turned and deeply blushed As if she would avoid my eye; And hung her head and went to work Upon a plate of chicken-pie. How more and more confused she grew It was my duty sad to note, m Until with such uispateh she ate, A chicken-bone stuck in her throat. How then she started, chok'd and gagg'd, I never, never can forget, And dropped her teeth I think they were At least a lifty-dollar set. So paled my hopes as pales the light That fancy lends her fairy 6cenes She grabbed her ivories up and lied, And I resumed my pork and beans. Brooklyn Argus. MY MOTHER-IN-LAW. 44 Take my advice," said Uncle Israel to me, when I told him that pretty Susie Hot had consented to be my wife 44 take my advice, and get as far away from your mother-in-law as possible. I speak from experience. Making it up ana aown, 1 ve had a lair share of matrimonial happiness, but the majority of the differences of opinion letween your aunt and mj-self I attribute entirely to the innuence and in terference of my mother-in-law. By the wnv- who is Mrs. Hovt? I don't remem ber hearing you speak of her." 44 She ceased to be .airs, noyt wnen Susie M as five years old, and became Mrs. Gardiner. Hoyt, as far as I can learn, left her nothing but Susie. Gardiner left her a lawsuit." 44 Oh, a widow again?" 44 Yes; and, Uncle Israel, she is not one bit like the traditional mother-in-law. She is a little morsel of a blue-eyed woman, as gentle and sweet as Susie herself." 44 They all are. Butter would scarcely melt in the mouth of Mrs. Bond before I married her daughter Julia, and well, you have heard her discourse." I had. Cold chills of apprehension crept over me as I imagined Mrs. Gardiner assailing me in like fashion. Upon the strength of my uncle's mother-in-law I went at once and secured a house at the very extremity of the city suburbs a gem of a cottage with a whole city between its white gate and my mother-in-law elect's residence. I saw her gentle lips quiver when I told her where we were to live, and there was a pitiful tone in her low voice when the said : 44 It is very far from here;" but she made no other remonstrance, and I hard ened my heart and furnished it. Directly opposite was a handsome residence, with wide grounds, a lovely country mansion within easy distance of my business, for which I longed, but waited for fortune's wheel to give a turn in my favor to pur chase it. After we were married and settled in our cozy little cottage Susie and I would often sit upon the porch ana taiK aoout the happiness of living in the house I coveted and which was for sale, though rented and occupied. Sometimes Mrs. Gardiner would come over to spend the day, and Susie would tell her of her castles in the air, when my cotton specula tion made us rich. I was doing a small business at that time in a wholesale leather store, being junior partner; but I had invested every spare dollar 1 could command in joining a company to buy some thousand acres of cotton in Louisiana, growing. We felt certain of realizing an immense fortune when our cotton was ready to pick and put into the market, and every letter from our agents in the South gave us new hope. So we furnished the new house, in imagi nation, and looked forward to owning it one day. But in all this time 1 could not truly find any reason to regret my connection with my mother-in-law. It is true she often advised me, hurting my married dignity somewhat by taking the ground that she who had been my Susie's constant com panion for nineteen years understood her disposition and peculiarities better than I, . . . , , 1 ? -1. who worshiped tne grounu upon wuicii she trod," etc. But honestly I could never say her advice was not good, and Susie was quite willing to admit I under stood her perfectly. ... . . So nearly a year glided by and my biuc- eyed mother-in-law was just as lovable and centle as betore the marriage. -iy heart smote me sometimes when she spoke of the loneliness of her home with out Susie, but I thought of Uncle Israoi and was firm. It was in the fall of 1867 when appalling news reach the company of cotton speculators, and we looked each other blankly in the face. Instead of the bales of cotton we had expected coming to be coined into gold, we received news that our agents had employed inex perienced hands, had irritated the seed- men, who would have Dcen giau to get me work, and so mismanaged the whole affair that our cotton was worthless. There was no one to go but myself, and my home affairs held me. Susie was not well and I did not wish to leave her, yet there might be something saved if a competent agent went to Louisiana. While I hesitated and lamented, Mrs. Gardiner came to the rescue. 44 You must go," she said, 44 and leave Susie in my care. I will stay here with her, and you can return as quickly as possible. Hannah will come, too." Hannah was a family servant who had been Susie's child nurse. I engaged a nurse recommended by Mrs. Gardiner, and with a heavy heart set my face south ward. It is not necessary to enter into the details of my business worries. For a month I was detained, trying to get some return of the money we had invested, and failing utterly. Then, heartsick, I started for home. In the great cities the yellow fever raced, and I avoided them "in my route ; but on my way from New Orleans to Memphis, at a little place called Yaughen Station, I was taken ill. Put off the train, bag and baggage, I was driven to a wretched little tavern, and left to die or recover as I saw fit. I have a distinct memory of a doctor feeling my pulse, of a dreary certainty ot nltn anu discomfort all around me, and of burning thirst. Then followed asronizins dreams of delirium, with pain in every limb, racking headache, loneliness, madness. I was fever racked, with horrible fancies nvtv Tin wm1 nnart bv medical stu dents, now beset bv wild beasts rending me limb from limb, now in a sea of fire, now in a desert, craving water I could hear tinrlinr from a near fountain and could not reach it. Then in my delirium came some angel, me, and Susie cried sent me tender mes who cooled my lips, put water to my head, let air in upon my stifling agonies. I could not make mv ton-rue utter the words in my mind; it would babble of everything else, but chiefly of Susie and the fear Susie would come to take the horrible fever. And in my home there M as enacting a scene i have heard described so olten 1 can put it here as if I had seen and heard all. Susie hvy white and m eak in her mvii room.M'ith our first-born in her arms, not two davs old, when a telegram came to her. The doctor at Yaughan Station had found my address in my note-book and telegraphed my condition. 44 Oh!" sobbed Susie, "lie Mill die there all alone and will never know, mother, what you have done for him." 44 He shall not die alone," Mrs. Gar diner said, resolutely. 44 He shall have a good nurse and- a loving one as fast as steam can carry her. Eh, Hannah?" 44 Yes'm," said Hannah. 44 You make jour mind easy, ma'am. I'll do my duty." '"There is no train till night. Can Me pack a trunk of invalid comforts, Hannah Mine, jellies, clean linen, bed-clot lies and fruits?" " Yes'm," said Hannah again. So while I tossed and burned these two raced about the city gathering up com forts for me, till tlie trunk stood packed and ready, when the carriage came to bring my nurse to over her baby and sages. From some abyss of horror some hor rible rock of delirious agony, I have a faint memory of being recalled to a dim consciousness of realities by a Iom-, sweet voice saying : " Drink this!" Something cool and pleasantly bitter Mas put to my parched lips, and over every sense crept a torpor, a gentle sooth ing to slumber, till all consciousness died in a deep, profound sleep. 1 do not know how long 1 slept, but I awoke m ith every sense clear and the fever fancies all gone. I looked about me. 1 Mas perfectly conscious that I had lost my reason In a bare, desolate room, mIhtc the sun streamed in through dirty windows, and the barest necessities of life around me Mere of the lioorest description. I looked at the windows, shaded by dark-green pa per and soft muslin curtains ; at the floor, scrubbed and sweet-smelling; at the bed- linen, white, clean and cool; at a little table beside me, with snowy cloth, upon Mhich lay great M'hite grapes, luscious oranges, tamarinds in goblets ot Mater. Then I feebly turned my head to see, standing beside me with anxious tender ness in her soft blue eyes, my mother-in- law. "You must not talk," she said, very gently, her soft, little hand falling upon my lorehead line a snownuko, nut try to keep very quiet. All is m c-11 at home. I hear lrom Susie every day. Mie is get ting well fast and j our son is in splendid health." 'My son!" Nom' I have given j-ou a pleasant thought to dream upon, trj' to sleep again. But first take a drink of beef tea. It should taste of home, for I brought the condensed beef in cans lrom jour Lncle Israels store. He sent the grapes and oranges and a lot of good things j-ou shall have by and by." "liut jou," 1 said wondering still, 44 are jou not afraid of the fever?" " I have taken all prudent precautions," M as the repty, " and my fear was not so strong as my love for mjr son." ' 1 hank you. mother, ' l m hispered, and I saw through mv om ii misty e es her lips quiver as I called her bjr that name for the hrst time. Can I ever tell how she nursed me back to health, humoring all my sick fancies, j'et guarding against all hurtful in diligences? All the cheery letters Susie Mrote she read to me and answered for me till my own M'cak lingers could guide a pencil. In her thoughtful affection she had packed in the M ondei ful trunk light reading to lK'guiie the hours of convalescence. When I could sit up, she exerted her ingenuity to keep me from feeling lonesome, and Mould talk u n wea ried ly' of that wonderful two-days' babj-, M ith ej-es blue as a patch of summer skies and a mouth like a clear rosebud. Su sie's letters Mere a great comfort, and an 8Mering them, giving humorous accounts of our wretched accommodations, occupied manjr hours. liut the day came at last wnen tne doc tor said I might start for home m lthotit fear of carrying the contagion with me. Carefully wc destroyed every article that could endanger our dear ones, and started for Memphis with the pleasing certainty that, no accident befalling, we could trav el by easy stages and reach home before mv boy compieieu uie secouu mourn 01 his little life. The unwearied tenderness that had brought me back from the jaMS of death removed all discomforts from my journey and arranged for all needful rest. It M as early morning when we reached the city and drove, across to our country like home. But the carriage, instead of stopping before the cottage gate, turned in the gatCM-ay of the opposite house, driving up the wide, shaded avenue to where, upon the porch, Susie was Mailing with our oy in her arms. I could not ask questions then. It M as enough to fold my treasure in my arms in utter thankfulness. But when Susie led the May to the Mide drawing-room, furnished exactly as we had so often planned, I cried out in amaze ment. My mother-in-law, leading me to 9 sofa, made me sit down, saying: "ioumust let me explain. 1 wanted tr nninaro a Til fAyiU n t, fclimriSft lor VOIlf home-coming, and Susie h:is arranged ev ery tiling for me. You M ill accept this house from your loving mother, m ill you not? i have won my lawsuit. e m-u-r talked much about it, Susie nor I, because I scarcely hoped to gain it. My husband left me $'200,000, but his relatives disputed the will. After nearly three years' litiga tion the case has been decided in my favor. But Susie is my own child and all I have is hers, j-uo so must let me give you the house you like so much for your home and hers." ' 44 1 M ill on one condition." 44 What is that?" " That vou come and share it with us. There is no longer the width of a great city betM-een j-ou and j-our children, for j-ou must never say again, mother, that Susie is your only child." 44 But j ou do not like a mother-in-law?" " I have had many foolish likes and dis likes in my life," I replied, "but never one so utterly unfounded and idiotic as that one Mhose basis existed only in mj' imagination. Do not punish me by re fusing to come to us." Susie's blue eyes pleaded more elo quently than my tongue, and the baby struck in M ith a most coaxing 41 coo," so Mrs. Gardiner consented.' Whether she rver repented I cannot say. but I know that from that day to this we have had a united, happy home, l do Know mat my OM-n mother, had she lived after my babj-- hood, could never have given me Marnier affections than ni- m ife's mother bestoMs upon me. I do know that there is no name more loved and reverenced in my home than that of Mrs. Gariliner, in anj canacitv. whether as Susie's mother, the children's grandma, or My Mother-in Lw. Rural Neu Yorker. The Prog reus ice fanner insists that in no M ay can j ou as well impress upon a horse the fact of complete subjection to the will of the master as by riding him. A mistake of the tjpes in a Boston oaDer caused an announcement to reaa 44 Thirteen Illinois railroads are in the bands of deceivers." SEXSE AXI S0.SE.SE. Legal Forgers Blacksmiths. Three States take decennial censuses this year Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York. Prof. II. R. Pai.meu's Musical Insti tute at Dunkirk, N. Y., begins July 19, and holds four M-ccks. During the year ending April 1, 1875, there were exported from France to foreign countries 15,318,315 bottles of cham pagne. France licrself consumes 3,000,- 000 bottles. There is a trulj' model husband in Glasgow, Kj He never allows his wife to elo more than halt the work. She puts up all the canned fruit in the summer, and he puts it all down in the winter. " Mothers," says Rev. Dr. Hall, 44 an; the great primary educators." True. ho, like a mother, can point the May through the slippcr-j' paths of youth? A etc 1 ork Commercial jxucertiMr. The ncM stockings for ladies and chil dren are ribbed. Thej'" are of French cotton, all shades, and have the appear ance of silk. I heseare the latest and most tylish of anj' hosiery that have come in the market. Ik vour son, or father, or brother went to California last m inter to escape the rig ors of this climate, and didn't take $1,000 along, vou should direct j'our letters in care of "some poorhouse if you want them to go direct. An old writer on manners says : 44 When a woman Mould impress the beholders fa vorably, let her carry lierselt Mith lier ( bin drawn on as by a bridle. It giveth an air of decorum and statclincss becomi ng to her womanhood." A New York paper says a trip to Eu rope has become so cheap as to be plele- lan, and people ot superior clay are ie- lnning to hesitate about the propriety 01 going there. They can fall back with con- iulcnce upon IS 1 a gam rails. A gentleman in addressing Lalj X, M ho has just remarried in Paris for the third lime, said reproachfully: "You do not come to London anj' longer." "Oh, jes, she replied, 111 a most natural man ner, " 1 alwaj-s pass my wiuownooei there." When a Brooklyn woman can't find a vacant seat in the ladies' saloon of a fer-rj'-boat she manages to be accommodated bj- standing up in front of some sitting gentleman, Mho doesn't seem to sec her, and accidentally sprinkling him Mith hartshorn. 44 Do voir enjoy going to church now?" asked a lady of Mrs. Partington. 44 La me, I do," said Mrs. Partington. 44 Noth ing eloes me so much good as to get up early on Sundajr morning and go to church and hear a populous minister dispense with the Gospel." Ancient Egypt Mas afflicted with ten plagues, among them being locusts and frogs. In this respect it looks as if his torj' Mas about to repeat itself, selecting Missouri for the purpose. First came grasshopper-locusts, and now 44 millions of toads" have come. What next ? It was Ugly Johnson of Arkansas, m ho made that nove l remark : " I feel that I've got to kill somclxidy to-night," and the Coroner Mho sat on Ugly Johnson next day remarked that it was 44 a slng'lar M ay of Providence that presentiments of blood should be so true, but so mighty in tlclinite regard in' the man." Egypt seems to be steadily recruiting er civil service from American talent. The Khedive has just tendered to Pj-of. D. F. Boyd, of the Louisiana State Unive rsity-, the position of President of the Govern ment military college. It is announced that the appointment m ill probably be ac cepted by Prof. Boyd. One of the most beautiful wraps for this season is called tlie Isabeau basque. It is something on the style of a dolman. though nearly tight-tilting, has larger hanging sleeves, and is made of lace and cashmere, richlj' trimmed with lace in sertion and jet. A lull ot lace is around the neck, Mhich makes it very becoming. She lived in New Orleans, and the tombstone says she M'as seventeen. Sho had a can of coal-oil in her hands, and she heard her little sister crying out in the yard. She innocently set the can on the stove and she started br wic door, uui 1110 can and its contents got there lx-fore her. and then the httle sister had something to crj' for, indeed. The latest new veiling is the white clot ted erepc. It is said to le very dressy and becoming. It is used for visiting purposes. For every -day wear tlie long grenadine veil is worn. The middle of the veil is passed smoothly over the face. the ends are crossed behind the head and then brought to the front and tied under the chin. Cream color is the ctdor most worn. The superiority of the M-ood of the Florida cedar over all other kinds of cedar is mc-11 knoMn, and tlie demand for it in Bavaria. Mhere immense quantities of lead jencils arc made, has induced some manufacturers to take up the question of the acclimatization of the tree in that country-. Seeds have been sown in the ,A . , 1 ... " ULil ..Inn... roj'ai ioresi, and auoui o,nt juhs have been- grown on one private estate. The cultivation of the tree has teen at tempted also in other parts of Germanjr. A ctkious suit is just now progressing in San Francisco. It appears that in No vcmber, 1872, Jamr-s C. King shot and killed Arthur F. O'Neil, in Brooklyn, N. . He Mas found guilty, and sentenced the Penitentiary for life. Prior to his imprisonment King had married the daughter of a wealthy merchant in San Francisco, who left H his estates to her consequent upon her lie-coming a widow. The question now is Mhethcr sue is en titled under the m ill to e-ome in possession of the property. The laws of cw York provide that "a person sentenced to inn prisonment for life shall be deemed civilly dead," and that 44 no pardon granted any person Mho shall be sentenced to impris onment for life shall le deemed to restore such pe rson to the rights of any previous marriage." The question, therefore, lie fore the court is w hether Mrs. Kingcan be n widow in California while Mr. King, her husband, remains in the flesh in Sing Sing. An Arithmetical Curiosity. The London Athena nm contains the follow ing curious arrangement of figures: 16 10 ! 11 13 8 j 6 ! 7 I 1 Tj15j It j 1 It M ill be seen that the sum of each line, each column anil each diagonal is 34. The four corner figures 34. The corner figures of any square of four figures (of Mhich there are four in the larger square) 34. The four figures of the central square 34. The four figures of each cor ner of the whole square 34; making al together twenty different Mays in Mhich 34 may be reckoned. The other sums of 34 may be obtained by taking the figure which stands next to the corner figure, going round from left to right, thus, 3, 8, 14, 9 34. Then take the figures Mhich stand to the left of the corner figures, go ing the other Maj round, 2, 5, 15, 12 34. In 1874 only" about 74,000 emigrants left lire-men and Hamburg, against i:'.2, MH) in 1873 and 154,000 in 172. The financial panic of 1873 and the subsequent dullness of business throughout our coun try explain the cause. Crystal Springs, Miss., will ship 50,' 000 boxes of peaches North during the season.