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THE HERALD. i'UELISllEI EVERY THURSDAY PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. O TB I I O W On Vine St., One Slock North of Main, Corner of Fifth St. OFFICIAL. PAPKIl OF CASS COIWTY. Terms, in Advance : One copy, one year f 2.00 -One copy, oil month 1.00 One copy, tareo months f-0 NT EBRA SKA HEJRALIA JNO. A. MACMURPHY, Editor. I'ERSKVEItWCE COXQt'ERS." TEEMS: $2.00 a Year. VOLUME XI. PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 187G. NUMBER 12. THE HERALD. ADVEItTIlUlXO IIXTKH. srara. 1 square. . I squares 8 squaw. V column. X column 1 w. S w. 1 8 w. j t m. 1 9 m. , ci m. 1 yr. 1 M ! ft Oil On S 7r,l 4 ' 4 M I (l II Ul, fit F. IHI IO HO 14 - " I 14 N IS M! IS Ml i'l IK' 4l " 1.0 I. 1 column.'lS 00 1" 0(1 -21 (XI -.! On 10 On Ml (Hi Hm U ItT All Advertising hills due quarterly. 2T Transient advertisements must Ut puld fii in advance. Extracop,t'l,r'f tno llEI,A, , tnr ",1 1,y Strrlght. 'h" Fnstntfirr. "'id O. V. Johnson, cor ner of Main and Vlfth streets. HENRY BGECECy DEALKR IX 3J'uLxxiitn.i?e9 SAFES, CHAIRS. Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads, nv. Tf., ETC., Of All Descriptions. METALLIC BURIAL CASES. Wooden Coffins Of H sizes, ready-made, nd sold cheap for cui Wr'iih many thank for patt patronage, I Invito a'l Id rail aiid runiiin mjr lak;j: stock of I-'nr nit m-? iiimI Go 111 -. MEDICINES AT J. H. BUTTERY'S, Main Street, bet. Second and Third Whole-talc aid Retail Dealer Id Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes. Patent Medicines. Toilet Articles, etc. etc. HrrriE.SCRIPTIONS carefully compounded at all hours, day and night. 85-ly II. .1. WlTEttMJX & SON, Wholcral aad Retail Dca! r in PINE LUMBER, SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, ETC., On Main St., cor. Fifth, rL.YTTSMOUTII, - - - NEB. STILL BETTER RATES For Liuribex. WINTER STOCK II. A. WATERMAN Sc SON. WK ".VI 1.1. SELL All Grades of Lumber Cheap. F O R YOUR GROCERIES iO TO J.V.WECKBACH fur. Third and Main Sts., Plattsmouth. tGuthnifnu's old eland.) lie keeps on Land a large and wull-scU-ctcJ stock of Fancy Groceries. - COFFEES, TEAS, Sugar, JSIx-xxtp, ETC, ETC., Also a Large Stock of DRY GOODS Boots and Shoes, CHOC KE11Y, qi' EEXS1VAKE, Ktc, Etc., Eic. In connection with the Grocery is a BAKERY and CONFECTIONERY. Ililn-t I'rire Paid fur Country Produce. A full rtock at all times, and will not be undersold. Take notice of the Sign: "EMPIRE BAKERY AND GROCERY." nlyl WILLIAM STADELMANN IT&3 on hand on of tat largest stocks of CLOTHING AMD Gents' Furnishing Goods FOR STRING ANT) "VHVER. linrii- evcryWy m want of anything in my liue In call at n.j a .ore, Soulii Side Main, bet. 5th 2; Gth Sis., And convince ihrmelTo of lb fact. 1 hare an tnerM'ty 'n my Iii t;l !;. jvrtmcols a nock of Vine rWrhing fur Men anu fijf, i which we In Ti'e th- e trh aitt frni!. I a -.. keep ou hand a large and well-selected tock f Hat3, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Etc. FLATTSMOllTIi MILLS, r-LATTSMOUTH NEBRASKA. Cosbad Heisel, Proprietor. rLOUR, CORN MEAL, FEED. Jw on hand and for sa'.e at lowest cash prlcca. Th- nijheat Trlcea paid for Wheat and Cora. rUcaiut attc&UoB giyca to cuaton woik. O. F. JOHNSON, DEALER IS Drugs, Medicines, ri WALLPAPER. AllFaper TrimmeftFres ofClarie ALSO, DEALER 131 Books, Stationery MAGAZINES AND LATEST PUBLICATIONS. C VPreacrlptione carefully eomponnded hy an experienced Drnryiat. al REMEMBER TUB PLACE Cor. Fifth and Main Streets. rLATTSMOUTII, NEB. FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOPS. . 1 0 1 1 TV WAYMAN, PLATTSMOUTH, NEB., Repairer o! Steam Engines, Boilers, Saw and Grist Mills. GAS AND STEAM FITTINGS, Wrought Iron Pipe, Force and Lift Pipes, Steam Gnngc.H, Safety-Valve Governors and all kinds of Itra.-x Engine Fittings re paired on nhort notice. 3J".xiaa. 3VIn,oli.ixaory Rppulred on Short Notice. Sewing Machines ! NEW, IMPROVED LOCK-STITCH GROVER & BAKER Scwiiij Msicliirie, FOR SALE BY CHARLES VI ALL, With all the Extras and Attachments, such as Needles, Oil, Tuckers, Binders, Etc. Those who contemplate buying a machine will do well to give the tirover & Baker a trial. Sat ifartioii irii irHntccd, and the cheupet-t machine in the market. All orders by mail promptly at tended to. Address im CHARLES .VIALL, Plattsmouth, Neb. First national Bant Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, SUCCESSOR TO Tootle, Ilanna Clark. Jon Fitzokrald President. E. O. Dovr.r Vice-Presideot. A. W. McLai-ciilim. CaKhier. John O Kui use Assistant Cashier. This Bank is now open for btiiness at their new room, corner Mnin and Sixth streets, and are pre pared to transact a general BANKING BUSINESS. Stocks, Bords, 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 al) the Vrinci'pal Towns and Cities of Kurope. AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED INHAHLIMM ALLAN LINE or ?srri:.v3ii:ics. Persons wishing to brinjr out their friends from (Europe can Pl'RcnASB TICKET f ROM TS Tlironrli to IMiittsmoiitli. Excelsior Barber Shop. .T. C. 1JOONE, Main Street, opposite Saunders House. HAIR-CUTTING, Shaving and Shampooing. ESPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO Cutting Children' and Ladies' Hair. Call anrl See Coone, Gents, And get a boon in a cijAisr n -r 23 . n41-ly OO TO THE Post Office Book Store, H. J. STBEIGHT, Froprlator, TO TOCK BooIls. Stationery, Pictures, Music, TOYS. CONFECTIONERY, Violin Strings, Newspapers, Novels, Song Books, etc., etc TOST OFFICE BUILDING, PLATTSXOUT3, XZB, CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. The next Illinois State Fair is to be held at Ottawa, beginning Sept. 4. Lord Lytton has lccn appointed Vice, roy of India, in place of Lord .North-brook. The Spanish Cabinet has issued a de cree convoking the Cortes to consider Cuban affairs. The French Assembly has been pro rogued until JIarch 8, 1S7G, when the new Chambers are to meet The rate for cable dispatches other than commercial intelligence over the Anglo-American line has lcen fixed at twenty-five cents (gold) per word. A VAUt&Al. stalue of Grattan was un veiled in front of the old Parliament House, in Dublin, on the Cth. The cere monies were very largely attended. The National Rifle Association of Great Britain lias accepted an invitation oC the New York team to participate in the match for small-bores during the Cen tennial. Sir Henry Halford has been ap pointed Captain of the English team. .William Murk at and Frederick Meyer were hanged at Pittsburgh, Pa., a few days ago, for the murder, in November, 1874, of a German fanner named Gotts hardt Wahl, who had resisted their at tempt at highway robbery. The two remaining libel suits of Henry C. Bowen against the Brooklyn Earle and its former editors have been discontinued the defense agreeing to pay, without ap peal, the full amount of damages ($1,000) awarded Mr. Bowcn by the jury in the first suit. The Secretary of the united States Treasury has announced that he will not receive checks and drafts in payment of debts due to the Government. This will prevent the JSational Banks irom paying their semi-annual dues than lawful money. in anything else A State Convention of the Independent party of Illinois has been called to meet at Decatur Feb. 10, to nominate candidates for State oflicers and to select delegates to the National Independent Convention called to meet in Indianapolis May 17 1876. A wrestling-match for $4,000 and the championship of the world took place in Detroit, a few days ago, between Maj. Jas II. McLaughlin, of that city, and W. J Benjamin, of Washington, I). C. Mc Lauchlincamc off victorious after an ex citing contest. JosF.ru Bork, City Treasurer of Buf falo, N. Y., is said to be a defaulter to the amount of between $00,000 and $ 100, 000. A dispatch of the 30th ult. says he had lied to "Canada. The city will not suffer, as his bondsmen arc considered ample security for the amount of his de ficiency. TnERE is now in the Prussian War Office 'at Berlin a machine similar to the one used by Thomassen and that pro duced the fearful explosion at Bremer haven. It was offered to the Prussian authorities by a man from New York, in 1870, for the destruction of the French fleet. The offer was declined. The maker appears to have been an associate of Thomassen. It has been recently discovered that some of the prisoners in the Ohio Peni tentiary have been quite extensively en gaged in the manufacture of counterfeit nickels, or five-cent pieces. The counterfeit coin is said to be a good imi tation of the genuine, the main differ ence being in the upper part of the shield, w hich is barred in the genuine and smooth in the spurious. The metal used was amalgam, procured for plating har ness in the harness-shops. Iecent investigations in Liverpool by German detectives have revealed the fact that Thomas, the dynamite fiend, at one time attempted to obtain insurance on a box which he said conLiined $:30,000 in gold, and which he wished to ship from New York to Liverpool. Inspection was demanded, but he refused to open the lox, and the company refused to insure. The suspicion had been raised that he was privj' to the loss of the steamer City ot Boston in January, 1870. The police be lieved his accomplices were yet living in Liverpool, and that they still had posses sion of his appliances. TnE following is the statement of the condition of the public debt Jan. 1 : Six per cent, bonds $l,0i7,!5,4 Five per cent, bonds 6.0.3S4,7oi Total coin bonds $1,688,CO1,1.t0 Lawful money debt H.OOVi.OU) Matured debt 44,712.' 40 Legal-tender notes. 3Tl.h!si,S2 Certificates of deposit 35,17:'i.0(i0 Fractional enrrency 4J.M7.n7a Coin certificates 3i.ift8.3nn Interest .,8.ia Total debt Cash in Treasury Coin . Currency Special deposits held for the re demption of certificates of deposit. Total In Treasury JH2K.116,7!t2 Debt less cash in Treasury $2,ll9.8J,l!tt Increase of debt during December. I.Hl.i.OnS Decrease since June JO, 1875 8.K5ii,?tfi $79,824,418 11 117,314 3.M75.0O0 Bonds Issued to the Pacific Railway Companies, interest parable in lawful money, principal ont- etandine.., $14,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid. . . 1.W8.70"' Interest raid br the United States.. 28,3(R!,807 Interest repaid by the transportation of mails, etc 6,668.927 Balance of interest paid by Vnited btatt 21,533,880 We have often read of terrible en counters, but never witnessed as terrible a scene a3 that which occurred at the head of Main s.treet last night. A father and son, farmers, l:ving some five miles west of the city, were on their way home in their wagon. The son was drunk and the father was not as sober as he might have been. The father wanted the son to get out of the wagon, which the son refused to do. He grabbed him by the car and jerked him over the wag'-n-box. The young man lell to the ground, but the father held his son's ear in his hand. The night was bitter cold ; the blood froze on tho son's face. m Enraged and crazy with liquor, the sonclinched the father and in the conflict just literally 'chawed' his nose off. Covered with blood, -father against son were fighting a deadly struggle, when strangers interfered and parted them. Both of" them refused to be taken care of, and got into their wagon and drove away. Xebraka Prut. The editors of the oil regions are taunt ing each other with poverty. EPITOME OF THE WEEK. CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. Thomas G. Shearman, nn behalf of Plymouth Church, and J. M. Van Cott, for Mrs. Moulion, held a conference on the morning ot the 31st ult. and agreed that ten churches and five ministers should 1e called on each side to form the mutual council to decide on the questions sub mitted by Mrs. Moulton, as to whether the reasons given by the church for drop ping her from its membership as it did arc valid and sufficient, and as to the va lidity and sufficiency of her reasons tor attaining from the services and sacra ments of the church. The mutual coun cil is to convene on Tuesday, the 18th instant. The steamer Salier, on loard of which it was at one time rumored had txt-n placed one of Thomas dynamite infernal machines, arrived safely at New York on the 2d. Serious disagreements lictween the Khedive of Egypt and Mr. Carre, the British Commissioner, were retorted on the 3d. The Ohio Legislature met at Columbus on the 3d. Charles II. Grosvenor, of Athens, was elected Speaker of the House; William Leonard, of Cleveland, Chief Clerk, and William Brown, of Law rence, Sergeant-at-Arms, and subordinates in accordance with the decision of the Republican caucus. In the Senate J. C. Donaldson was elected Chief Clerk, and E. L. Jones, ot Toledo, Chief Sergeant-at- Arms. The Governor's message shows the public funded debt to have been, on the loth of November, $7,949,920.12 $38,285.18 having been redeemed during the year. The local indebtedness of the State for the past year is $25,957,588.21, being an increase over the former year of $4,071,580.85. The irreducible debt is $4,167,008.31. This makes the aggregate debt in Ohio, State, local and trust funds, $38,085,670.64. According to Gov. Kellogg's recent message to the Louisiana Legislature the bonded and floating debt of the State Jan. 1 was $19,061,045.25 a reduction of $5,- 199,805 since the commencement of the Kellogg administration. The debt of the city of New Orleans is $23,000,000. Harrison Lvdington, Republican Governor-elect of Wisconsin, was form ally inaugurated at Madison on the 3d. Archduke Ruuoi.rnE, Prince Imperial of Austria, is to be crowned King of Hun gary in July. Pomeroy's Democrat has been re moved from New York to Chicago, the first number for the latter city having been issued on the 1st inst., by M. M. ("Brick") Pomeroy, editor and propri etor. Ex-Gov. Carpenter, of Iowa, has ac cepted the position of Second Comptroller of the United States Treasur3r. TnE District-Attorney of Brooklyn has entered a noVe prog, in the cases of Loader and Price, under indictment for perjury in connection with the Bcechcr-Tilton scandal, the ground of the motion lieing that the allidavits of these persons were not made to be used in court, but simply to affect public opinion. Sir Anthony Rothschild died in Lon don a few days ago. A wooden ltox containing shot has been found in a warehouse in New York, which was brought over on the steamer Celtic in October by Thomas, the dyna mite fiend, and which he endeavored to have insured at Liverpool as containing $30,000 in gold coin, but declined to have the contents inspected. The amount of United States currency outstanding on the 31st of December was $416,505,437, as follows: Old demand notes, $09,042; legal-tender notes, $371, 827,220; one-year notes of 1863, $01,485; two-year notes of 1863, $46,400; compound-interest notes, $350,620; fractional currency, $44,147,070. A Behlin telegram of the 4th says the German Government had replied favora bly to the American note in relation to intervention in Cuban affairs. A rumor of a difference of opinion be tween President Grant and Secretary Fish relative to Cuban affairs is denied by a Washington dispatch of the 4th. On the contrary they were said to be in perfect accord and the Cabinet was a unit on the course being pursued relative to the Cuban question. The New York Legislature organized on the 4th by electing Senator Robertson President of the Senate and Assemblyman Husted Speaker of the House. Both houses of the Minnesota Legisla ture elected Republican officers on the 4th Chas. A . Johnson leing re-elected Secretary of the Senate and W. R. Kenyon Speaker of the House. By an explosion in a coal mine at Staf fordshire, England, on the 4th, five per sons were killed and several others badly injured. A Vienna dispatch of the 5th says Count Andrassay'3 project for reform in the insurrectionary districts of Turkey had been assented to by France and Italy. It was also reported that the Porte had or dered all his iron clads to prepare for an expedition to the Black Sea and the Al banian ports. Announcement was made on the 5th that Hamilton, Richardson & Whitney, dry-goods jobbers of Boston, had failed, with liabilities placed at $350,000. Two failures were also reported in New York city, one of them being Hunting &Earle, manufacturing jewelers. . The Wisconsin State Grange elected the following officers on the 5th : Master, J. II. Os1orne; Overseer, E. II. Benton; Lecturer, Mrs. H. E. Chamberlain; Stew ard, C. W. Foster. The Ohio State Agricultural Conven tion adopted a resolution on the 5th urc- ing Congress to grant a reasonable subsidy to the Centennial Exhibition. The recent Republican State Conven tion of New Hampshire nominated Per son C. Cheney, of Manchester, for Gov ernor, and William A. Pierce, of Ports mouth, for Railroad Commissioner. Res olutions were adopted favoring specie payments; a revenue tariff with incidental protection and true reconciliation with our Southern brethren ; declaring against third Presidential term ; approving ot the present National Administration ; fa voring the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States declar ing that no money raised by taxation in any State for the support of public schools, or derived from any public fund therefor, shall erer be placed tindcf tile control of ally religious sect ; condemning the action of the Democratic majority in the Na tional House of Representatives in its dealings with maimed Union soldiers for merly in the employ of that body. Spain has created a commission to take charge of Spanish products at tl-.e Phila delphia Exhibition. The Paris Prtnxe of the 0th contains an account of a terrible land-slide in Isle Re union on the 11th of December. Sixty two persins were killed and many in jured. A large number of buildings and plantations were destroyed. JosF.rH Bork, the delaulting Cily Treas urer of Buffalo, returned to that city on the oth and surrendered himself to the authorities, and was held in bail ltonds of $50,000. He promised, if permitted, to assist in administering his estate so as to pay all claims.' Gov. Ames, of Mississippi, in his re cent message to the Legislature calls at tention to the late State election, recites alleged cases of violence growing out of the political canvass, and says such vio lence had the effect to intimidate many voters. He attributes the cause of the al leged intimidation and troubles to the race question and the efforts of the w hites to reassert their old supremacy. He rcc ommer.ds the modification of the funda mental laws of the State so astobiing about a better feeling between the races. The State finances are reiorted as unpre cedentcdly favorable. The recent Louisiana Democratic State Convention adopted a series of resolu tions declaring that "the usurpation of the Government of the Stale of Louisiana through the perversion of the functions of the General Government is an evil which weighs heavily on the people of this Suite, and is a constant menace to the per petuity of representative institutions;" that the Wheeler adjustment had no refer ence whatever to the elections of 1872, and was expressly limited to two contested seats in the Slate Senate and seventeen In the' House; that the memorial cf the peo ple of Louisiana, praying for relief at the hands of Congress, be again presented to that iKvly; favoring a return to specie payment as soon as it can le done without material injury to the inter ests of the country. A memorial to Con gress protesting against the Kellogg Gov ernment and declaring that McEnery and Penn are the official heads of the State Government was also adopted. L. Q. C. Lamar was on the Oth nomi nated for United States Senator by the Democratic caucus of the Mississippi Leg islature. FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Wednesday, Jan. 5. Several petitions and memorials were presented in the Senate. Among the bills introduced was one by Sir. Mor rill, ot Vermont, to fnrther provide for the re" demption of United States legal-tender notes in accordance wilh existing- laws; by Mr. Allison, to divide the State of Iowa into t wo judicial dis tricts; by Mr. Conk linn, to amend the net entitled ' An act to provide national enrrency serttred by pledjre of United States bonds and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof approved June 30, IStit; by Mr. Harvey, to provide for an investigation of Hie Rocky Mountain locusts or so-called crass hoppers. Mr. Morton's Stnte-ri-ihts resolutions and his resolution to authorize the appoint ment of a committee to investigate the circum stances attendiiii; the recent election in Missis sippi were laid over, the hitter until the !lth In the House, at his own request, Mr. Kcwiit was relieved from th'j Committee on Public Rtiild in;;s, and he was placed on the Committee on Koreicn Relations, Mr Ely exchanging. Among the bills introduced were to return to the pen sion rolls the names of persons stricken there from for disloyalty; to insure the success of the International Exhibition al Philadelphia, and to maintain the honor of the nation; to pay soldiers and sailors who arc entitled to bounty lands a dollar per acre for those lands A r solution was offered Instructing the Committee on Naval Af fairs to inquire as to whether any Government funds appropriated for naval purposes had been misapplied for political purposes or bad been used to promote tho success of the Republican party, and, after being modified so as to read any political party, was adopted. Reso lutions were also adopteddeclaring that in all cases of pnblic employment (all other things be ing equal) the soldier shall have preference over the civilian, and that the House is in f;ivor of giv ing liberal pensions to diseased and crippled sol diers, their widows and children, and their de pendent fathers and mothers; that in the distri bution of the patronage of the House of Repre sentatives, and of the Government generally, those elected, and who by law have the appoint ment of subordinates, should onlv regard the letTersonian test: "Is he honest? Is he faithful Is he capable?" Instructing the Committee ou Public Cuildings to inquire into charges of mis management and fraud in the construction of the CuHtom-Hoiisc at Chicago. Thursday, Jan. 6. The Committee on Privileges and Elections made a report in the Senate on the reso'ution in regard to the election of President pro tern, to the effect that they had agreed five to two that the Senate had tho right. to elect a new pro tern. President if a majority of the Senators so desired. A large number of hills were introduced and referred. Mr. Morrill ca'led up tho biil Introduced by him the day be fore to further provide or the redemption of legal-tender notes, and addressed the Sona'e on the question of sjiocie resumption, and moved that, the bill be referred to the Committee on Finance, which was finally done after several Senators had msdc speeches on the subject. The report of the Director of the Mint was presented recommending Indianapolis and St. Louis as desirable sites tor branch mints at the West .... Several hills and resolutions were introduced in the House, among the latter being one declaring against a further conduction of the currency, which wa referred to the Ways and Means Comini'tee. A res olution was adopted for the appointment of a select committee to inqnire into the inroads, robberies and murders along the Mexican border in 'Texas, as was also a resolution for inquiry into the expediency of opening the Black Hills conn ry to settlement by purchase from the In dians. Mr. Blaine offered a substitute to Mr. Randall's Amnesty bill, excepting Jefferson Davis from its provisions, and prescribing an oath to be taken hy parties desiring the removal of their po litical disabilities. A resolution was passed hy a unanimous vote declaring that the representatives of the people in Congress should do no act. which would unnecessarily disturb the fraternal feeling and good-will now exiting in ail parts of the conntry, nor wanton'y revive the biiur memories of the past. House adjourned to the Run. THE MARKETS. Januakt 8, 1S76. NEW YORK. Lrr St.kjk. Beef Cattle I9.5tVt6JS.75. Hons Lire, 7.506 P.00. Sheep Lire, $5 2126 75. BRBaDsTurrs. Flour Good to choice, f V40ii 5.90; wh:te wheat extra, $5.9y&7.73. Wh-at No. 2 Chicago, $1 21il.i; Nc. 2 Milwaukee spring, ft. 23&1.2). Rye Western and State, 8896c. Barley tl.OOtfj 1.10. Corn Mixed West ern, Gi5l6Zc. Oats Mixed Western, 4.Vt("c Provisions. Pork Mess, $20.T5f&21.00. Lard Prime Steam, 12?13c. Cheese 012!4c Wool. Domestic Fleece. 3862c. CHICAGO. Litb 8 TOOK. Beeves Choice, $5.27Si5.00; good, $4.5035.00; medium, 3.0.a4.2"; bntcn trs' stock, Si.i0a3.75; stock cattle, $2.75 8.75. Hogs Live. 6.8dt7 50. Sheep -Good to choice, $4.5'X&5.25. Provisions. Butter Choice, 25002c. Eggs Fresh. 232c Pork Mess, $19. 15i9.20. Lard $12.25ia.27V4. Brbadstc rrs. Flour White Winter Extra f4.757JO; spring txtra, S-005.25. Wheat Spring, Nc. 2, 95H9?,c. Corn No. 2, !(at3'4c. Oats No. 2, SoSjOc. Rye No. 2, f 5V4ti6c. Barley No. 2, 78Vi79c. Lcmber. FiTBt and Second Clear, $40.00(3 42.00; Common Boards, $n.OOVAi; Fencing, I12.0CK&13.00; "A" Shingles, $i.75(&3.00; Lath, $1.7102.00. EAST LIBERTY. Litb Stock Beve Beet, $6 00ff6.:0; me d'um. f 4 750.5.25- Hose Yoriers, t" 3fti7 7J; Philadelphia, 7.9.as.0. Sheep test, f5 37H 5.75; medium, Si.75O5.00. TUE JOY OF INCOMPLETENESS. If all onr lives were one broad g'aro Ol sunlight clear, unclouded; If all or pathi were smooth and fair, Ry ho soft gio.hn enshroud"; If all life's flowers were fully blown Without the sweet nnfolding. And happiness were rudely thrown On hands loo weak for holding Should we not miss the twilight hoilts. The gentle haze and sadness f Should we not long for storms and showers. To break the constant gladness? If none were sick and none were sad, What service roUld We render I think if we were always glad We scarcely could be tender. Did our beloved never neeil Our paiieut administration, K:irth would grow cold, and miss indeed It sweetest consolation: If sorrow never churned our heart. And every i-h were granted. Patience would die and hope depart Life would be disenchanted. And vet in heaven is no night. In heaven is no more sorrow 1 Such iiiiiniagined new delight Fresh grace from pain will borrow. As the poors ed that underground Seeks its true life above it. Not knowing what will there be found When sunbeams kiM and love it So we in daikness upward grow. And look and long for heaven, Hut cannot picture It below Till more of light he given. THE JIE1KESS LOYEICS. "We're going to bike some city lioanl ers," said Farmer Parsons, as he put his packages of sugar and tea into the big basket he had brought to the store in his wagon. ' Wife and I will be down to fetch 'cm to morrow. There is a lady and some children, and a young lady, a gre;it heire.-s. She Is In mourning for the uncle that left the property; so she can't go to A lively place. Quite a young gal and very pretty. Two pounds of raisins, Mr. Jones, and some currants; reckon a pound'll do." News Is news in tho country. The farmer's audience listened intently. The doctor young Dr. Purl whohad'stepped in for letters the store was also the Post office took note of every word, and Mar cus Moreland, who had come to post a letter also, remembered what the old man had said. As he walked away, " Pretty vouii!? irirl. ' lie said to himself. "An heiress gets the reputation of being pretty ; probably she is not half so nice-looking; as Farmer Parsons' own daughters. Heir esses are ant to think too much of them selves."" " An heiress. Well I shall go over to sec Parsocs pretty soon. Io place like the country for a courtship, and a fellow who marries an heiress needn't wait year in and jear out to build up his practice. I wonder how much she is really worth? A great heiress. That oughtn't to mean less than a hundred thousand dollars. I should like a wife with a nice little bank account of that si.e. Young and pretty, too, is a rare chnncc," said the doctor, its he jumped into his gig. The city boarders came next day! The loungers at the store saw them get into the wagona fat young matron and three little girls, a nurse, a baby a young ladv dressed in mourning. The store keeper's w ife noticed the elegant cut of the overskirt which the latter wore and more than one saw the diamond ring flash on her finger; but it was just dark, and the beauty" was not a settled point, for no one could sec her face. Marcus Moreland, w ho was the poor clergyman's son, and had just fought his way through college with a prospect of teaching the male department of the dis trict school that winter as his liest one, while working in his father's garden the next mornftig, was placed in a position to judge on this matter. He heard a little scream, and looking up saw a very pretty young lady and a very pretty little boy Hying in terror from a perfectly harmless, broad-faced, white milch cow, who, in the excess of her con tent, as she stood deep in the water of a pond, chewing the cud, had elevated her nostrils, and turning her slow, brown eyes in the direction of the pedestrians uttered a long moo-o-o. "()h!" screamed the young lady, faintly, "can't you run faster, Tommy? I think she's coming after us." " I leg your pardon ma'am, but mooly won't touch you. She wouldn't hurt any one. She is perfectly harmless. See!" cried Marcus, as he approached the pond side and patted the white head. "Sec we have had her ten years, atd she is the gentlest creature." "I'm quite ashamed of myself, but I'm not used to cows. I thought I'd make her angry, and when you have other peo ple's children wilh you it's such a re sponsibility. Tom, don't touch the gen tleman's llowers. I'm ashamed of you," said the young lady. For city Tom, with a general idea that the country belonged to everybody, was helping himself to roses. Of course, after that, Marcus plucked flowers for Tom and a bouquet for the young lady; and as she walked bewitch ingly up the road, with the flowers against her pretty chin, decided that the heiress certainly was the loveliest thing that his eyes bail ever rested upon. That afternoon Dr. Purl rode over to Mrs. Parsons', made a call, and was intro duced; decided that the heiress was a beauty, conversed with her in a manner calculated to prove that he at lciist was no country bumpkin, made a point of looking at his beautilul watch before he left, and had the satisfaction of feeling that he had made an impression. Meanwhile Marcus Moreland had been thinking alout her more than she guessed, and that evening there was another intro duction. Marcus did not miike big eyes at her, nor try to show his superiority to his neighlKirs, neither had he any gold watch to consult. He was younger than the doc tor by ten years, and very much of a boy still, and the rising moon found May, and her little cousin Tom, and Marcus, . all sitting together on the lower step of the porch, talking of blacklierrying, as three children might. The heiress wore a linen dress and a knot of blue ribbon in her hair. Marcus forgot that she was an heiress. It was only a dear little girl, just the nicest creat ure he ever met, who looked at him frankly with her blue eyes real blue eyes, not blue gray, lie went home in the first stages of love, and sat at the window looking at the moon, and thinking of her nearly all the night. May Dimple was very inexperienced, and very willing to think the lxst of everybody. At eighteen she was mistress of a fine fottune, and, being an orphan, her own mistress altogether. Her heart was yet a white, unwritten sheet, and the first that made love to her was likely to win it. Vague longings for that peculiar tenderness wjnch only a lover can oiler already possessed her soul, and she was just the sort of a little woman to forget her own advantages and feel very grate ful for love and admiration. The doctor was tall and tine-looking, and she caught herself blushing as she lwked into the glass after his departure, and thought what a soft look had come into his eyes as he " hoped they should soon meet to gether again." May had never had anything like a beau in her life. Shut up with an invalid uncle in a great city home that was like a prison seeing no one but the doctor and nurse, and now and then some old gentleman whom her uncle vvas persuad ed to admit on the score of old friend ship she had no idea that Bhe might be a belle. Life was all new to her. Eveu her cousin was a new-found relative who had taken to her w hen the friends gath ered at the old man's funeral. People who had never remembered lit tle May until the news of lier h.eiies4Jiip brought her to notice had been so very kind since. The liberty she rn!"jr'd made the quiet country-house a very hap py place; and now two admirers dawned upon her hori.on at once, and made life " prrlW tly splendid" to May, much as the sitiiiitidil Vould bavo bored many nn exx-rienccd Ik-Hc. Matters naturally assumed this form lis the time passed on. May had two lovers and hardly knew which she liked lest. Marcus did not make hve - he did not dare but looked it. The doctor made love pcleiitlfli'itlly ; he had pumped the farmer, w ho Udle'ved that the young lady's fortune was "something more than com mon." He had even extracted from the married cousin a statement that " Unc le left everything to May." He had three months to work in before the heiress knew her power, and learned, from one gray winter, that lovers follow money thick and fast, and he was a deter mined sort of a fellow where there was anything to get. Marcus) had no plans. His lioy's heart ran away with him that was all. He could not keep away from May's fide, nor forget her when they were apart; and so summer passed and autumn approached, and the city folks were going home, ami the district chool was to be opened, ami Cousin Helen's husband (a hard-driven Wall street man) came flown to sin nd a week before he took his family home, and all this delightful time was at an end. Marcus was to be examined tor his po sition as teacher of the scho.il a mere form with his fine education. The doctor, as a learned gentleman, was one of a com mittee to examine the coming school ma'am for the girls' department. "A pleasanter task," as he said, jest ingly, "if he expected to see anybody there but only old Miss Cynthia Alderny and old Miss Hakcr." May heard a good deal of the Htiiool, especially as Fanner Parsons was another t)f the committee, and she felt an interest In it, too, as Marcus was to teach. It seemed so chid to think of. Cousin Helen's husband went aliout as men usually do, anil heard more in a day than the ladies could in a year. He re turned fine evening with a solemn face and informed his wife in confidence that the talk of the whole place was May's fortune, and that the doctor, who had done nothing but run after rich women since he came to the place, was said to be "after it." "A regular fortune-hunter, my dear," said the husband. " You must use your influence with poor May." May, meanwhile, had been in her favor ite grove, and there had Marcus Moreland betaken himself to say g.nxl-by. Poor Imv, he had had some bitter hours of late. The fact that May's love was theonc thing worth having upon earth had dawned upon him and with it the knowledge that he had no right to offer himself to an heiress. How he hated her money. It stood between them like an awful spell. If she had leen the poorest girl living he could have said all that was in his heart to her not now. So the poor boy uttered a few faltering words and went his way. "It was folly for me to think that he liked me much," said -May, as he left her. " How formal and cold alter all our so ciability," and a little pang nipped her heart, and she smiled more brightly on the doctor when he entered the grove than she had ever smiled lieforc. He made love to her that afternoon after true story-book fashion. On the stage at 's he would have caused tender-hearted ladies to say " How sweet." . It was a pretty little scene rehearsed in private. ilad'May but known it the night before ; and no girl could have failed to under stand his parting words: " To-morrow before you leave I must see you. You will grant me a private in terview, will you not? I have something of intense importance, to myself, at least, to say to you. You will let me see you in the garden? I I " a falter, a look, a snatch at her hand, a touch of his lips ujxin it. Then the curtain should have dropped. He rode away in his gig, and said to him self: " I always was a lucky fellow tothink that Providence should have sent an heiress tosuch a place as this; a pretty one, too!" When May entered the house a surprise awaited her. Cousin Helen took her at once to her Dearoom, ana mere, ueninu closed doors, repeated her husband's in formation. " You know you arc so young and in experienced," said she, "and a fortune hunter is such a dreadtul creature." May's face flushed crimson. "Do you really think noliody could love me for niyseff ?" she asked in a sud den fit of indignation. Then common sense came to her aid. She sat quiet for awhile, and then drew near her cousin and whispered something in her ear. It was a long whisper. "It will prove him," she said aloud; "and you will help me?" Cousin Helen promised, and May re tired to her own room, there to shed a few not unnatural tears. Night passed the morning came. The school-house doors were set open for the first time for months. The committee was to meet at eleven to examine the candi dates for the teachers' positions. Old Farmer Parsons walked over, also Farmer Brown. The doctor was there, and the lawyer, Mr. Triphammer. Miss Cynthia Alderny was seen walking to ward the door with a defiant face. Miss 15aker followed with a scared one. Marcus Moreland took his way in, and just as all settled into their seats a little figure in buff linen, with a blue-ribboned hat on its head, slipped into one id' the doors and sIockI among them. "Miss Dimple!-' said the doctor, ad vancing with a gallant air. " Yes, sir," said May, quietly. " I un derstand you examine candidates to-day. I am fond ot teaching, and when one must do something one seizes every chance, you know. May I be examined ?" "I suppose you are jesting, Miss Dim ple?" said the doctor. NotI," said May. "I suppose you have heard that foolish story alxut me. Two or three hundred dollars maybe a very pleasant little sum to spend on a summer vacation, but it doesn't make one a great heiress, you know." "Folks will talk," said Fanner Par sons, w ith a twinkle in his eye. " A poor gal is as respectable as a rich one, long as she conducts proper. Set you down, Miss Dimple." The doctor retired to his seat, his face pale and rigid. Marcus Moreland, on the contrary, had flushed scarlet. May's two lovers were a strange con trast at that moment. For her own part she was quieter and sadder and more womanly than usual. She went through the examination bravely, under the lire of Miss Cynthia's indignant eyes and amid Miss Baker's de spondent sighs. Then she walked home and waited, as she promised, in the gar den. Would the doctor keep his engage ment? He did. " My dear Miss Dimple," said he, as he advanced gayly, but not quite naturally, "I feared I should scarcely get here in time to bid you good -by. I'm sorry the committee think you too young for the place. They've given it to Miss Cynthia. Really, it would be very dull for you, very. I told you I had something very particular to 6ay to you didn't I? You retnember,Isee; I didn't think you would. I wanted to say that I have really enjoyed your little visit to this place so much. Ladies' society is a treat to a poor old bachelor doctor, who exDectis to be a bach elor all his life, by the way. You know what the society is lu re, Mls Dimple, arid you've quite brightened the siiiuiiit r for ina, I've hud a treat. So that what I wanted to tell you and bid you a last good -by." The man who had made such dcsperub love to her the other day, who had defined hi intentions toward her in a manner that no girl could misunderstand, had slipped calmly and sttuxit lily out of t lie a Hair, mid she could match him iu coolness, girl as she was. They shook hands. "Adieu," said the doctor, wilh the (rue partisan accent, and jumped into his gig, thanking Ib-aven that he had escaped mak ing an oiler to it poor girl. The heiress st xnl by I lie gite where he had left her, thanking I leaven much more devoutly for her ewap. Vet 1 shall not say she was happy. It was not in nature; for she had thought this man her true, earnest lover. The first bitter thought that had ever troubled her young heart tilled it now; her first glimpse of real lil'o was taken. As she stood there hhe began to doubt whether there was such a thing as true love. A tear or two fell ; she wiped Ihein away and through tin- mist lliat veiled her cye4 she saw a bright, indent young face, strangely in contrast w ilh I lie cool, formal, unmoved countenance, wilh its handsome features and practiced smile, that had ju-t iia.ssed frcm before her vi-ion. It wiw the face of Marcus .Moreland, and Ik-Cop she was aware of his intention he hud passed his arm around her waist and kissed her. " If I never may again, I must now," said he. "1 have never dared to tell you while I thought you so rich, but I have loved you since the first day we met. We are both poor; let me tight the battle of life for you. I can do it I will do it. tiod always prospers loves like mine." The twilight shadows Mete creeping over the scene. The distant mountains were losing the faint rose-tips that they had worn. A soft, sweet breeze swept up from the meadows full of the lingriinee of grass and clover. Did these thing, bring the sudden calm and sweetness to May's wounded heart? She stood still, making Marcus no an swer; but she did not repulse him. "Tell me that you like me a little," pleaded the ly. " I do like you, Marcus," said May. "but don't say any more just now; 1 can't tell you whvfbut this is not thetime I T inst say good -b v. now. Marcus. I must ro awav to morrow: but I will write you." jccmcmi'cr, my jove is me or ucaiu -me," said Marcus, and they parted. One day when May felt that she find nothing but scorn for" her foituiie-hunlitir; doctor she did write to Marcus Moreland, and what she said maybe inferred front the fact that tuey are to be married when the next spring comes, and thai the peo ple at the stoic, and doubtless the doc tor also, know that Fanner Parsons' pretty young boarder was really and actually an heiress, and that Fanner Parsons, a shrewd old man with plenty of good sense, knew and approved of th" ruse that tested the heiress' lovers all along. SESE AM) NOASEASt:. Vksi'vii s insists on another interrup tion. Six hundred less marriages in Boston this year than last! Tiieuk were eleven earthquakes in the United States during last year. It is estimated that an outfit tor nu actually fashionable w oman costs $10,000. A Westkkn man says that, figures won't lie unless they happen to be on a gas meter. Wkik. a (Herman, proposts to erect K") "Centennial lodging houses" in Phila delphia. Tiik proposed new Constitution of Texas permits nine jurors in a panel of twelve to return a verdict. Onk of the curiosities now on exhibi tion in Hartford is a two-legged hor.se. He has no fore legs. Tiik Rochester Chrottirte insists that small boys have a constitutional right to skate on the sidewalk. In California the Governor has the. op tion of awarding capital punishmr nt or imprisonment for life. Xmas stands for Christmas and not for cross mas, ns the little folks thought the day after the Christmas dinner. TliK fond father who bought his boys a tin horn and a drum for Christinas has already repented of his nislni.-ns. To Thosk anxious to know what ld mund About is about it may be stated that he is about to visit these shores. TliK Rothschilds could pay our national debt and then bo the riche-t house iu tin: world. Bet you they won't do it. A Cjihist.mas festival in behalf of a Jewish charity i a sweet ami touching novelty lately presented by New York. Tiik reduction of tin; wages of telegraph operators is not particularly th-cli ifying to them. The magnet draws the wrong way. The age of the persons who waste their precious time guessing the years of a noted spinster i dotage. lbirlaxU r Demo crat. Somebody asks in a New York paper: " Who let Tweed go?" but is it not a more important question, who's going to catch him ? Ciiap.lotte Ci phma.v is not a woman ' rights woman; if she were she would weep countless tears over the last syllable of her name. A Nkw Yokk man has discovered a chemical process by whic h worthless to b;icco is transformed into line-looking ami fair-lasting cigars. We arc told of a California woman w ho claims to be VU) years old ; but she ex pects to be oOO and accordingly regards herself as a mere child. How many young nun scattered ail over the country are trying to get a word to rhyme with " Centennial" U a problem that will never be solved. Simon Moiu.an, S!cret.iry of the Weav ers Committee in the lute strike, at Fall River, has applied to the Overseers of the Poor of that city for p-li -f. The poem entitled "Beautiful Snow" has reappeared as original in a Montana paper and credited to a poor but intelli gent young man named Tompkins, who is tending bar. A man living in Bucks County, Pa., going home the other evening, stoojn.-d al a spring by the wayside to di ink. In the morning ho was found dead, w ith his mouth and nose jut under the w ater. When the truly erudite person is asked regarding his health he say, in a spright ly manner: " Urn! inn! Yes, to b: sure. Excuse m a moment. I imist see what Aristotle says about it." IL'JanUr Chron icle. Six attempts have recently been made to set fire to the city of Lvanston, Wy. T. It will be hardly necessary to remind the citizens of that place that eternal vig ilantes is the price of cheap insurance rates. Ladiks should remember that each num ber of kid gloves comes in three shapes, viz.: short-fingered, medium and long fingered. Undressed kid are much cheap er than the dressed, though not so hand some. Lucy Stone writes to the Boston Tran script that Hunker Hill Monument w as un finished till Boston women raised the nionev, and that Fanny Ellsler gave the proceeds of aa exhibition for the cap-btoce.