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LITE HERALD PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY FLATTSMOUTn, NEBRASKA. On Vino St.. One Block North of Main Corner of Fifth St. OFFICIAL PATER OF CASS C'OCNTY. Terms, in Advance: One ropy, one year f 2.00 Jiu ropy, six month 1.00 coy, mice, months........ jjy NEBRASKA SKA JNO. A. MACMUEPHY, Editor. " PCKSGVEK.WCG COXQIERS. TERMS: $2.00 a Year. VOLUME XII. PLATTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 187(J. NUMBER :. THE HERALD. ADVKRTISIA'O IIATKS. BPACK. 1 square.. t squares S squares. V column. H column. Iw.tw.l8w, 1 m. 3 m. 6 m. 1 yr. (l on fl so faoo $i 50 $300 turn (vz 1 6", 11 ii !: a vri 6 au in ' in m 1 0(1 9 7.! 4 (MX 4 7."V H (fi 1:1 20 ' 5 00 8 00 10 00 12 00 20 0(1 vn on 1 8 On il 00 13 (K) 1M 00.1!S 00 Id (! Ml ( 1 columnl'lb 00 18 00 21 00 25 0141) (Ki i 00 loo tif All Advertising bills due quarterly, "fjjy Transient advertisement must be paid fii In advance. Extra copies of the Herald for sale bv II. . I. Rtreight, at the Postottlre, and O. V. Johnson, cor ner of Main and Jfifth streets. HENRY BCECK, Mum IK iui?nituie, SAFES, CHAIRS. Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads, T8L. BTC, TC., Of All Descriptions. METALLIC BURIAL CASES. Wooden Coffins Of U sizes, rrarly.uia.Jc, and aold cheap for caaa. With many thank for pint patronage. I Invite a'! !o call ami cxm;n my lai:.;e sTof.K op Fin iiWui i' flint Colli 11 m. SHANNON'S Livery, Sale antiFeefl STATIIjE, OXnT JVCAIOSr STREET, Ea-t of the riatte Va House. The Oldest Livery Stabls in the Town. Good Teams Always On Hand. Cnn fiil Driver vent with carriages if desired. ':m u'e Kent to 1). pot to meet trains wheneer 01 del f 1. Tho Only HEARSE In Town. Kune. n uMi tided nr.d carriages furnished t fniii'N. Address 4 .'! v J. " SHANNON', PLATTSMOUTII, NEB. II. L m)M & SOX, Vho!eal9 and Retail Dealers In PINE LUMBER, Until, Shingles, SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, ETC., On Slain St., cor. Fifth, PLATTSMOUTII, - - - NEB. STILL BETTER RATES ror Liiiribei?. winter- STOCK H. A. WATERMAN & SON. WE TILL SELL All Grades of Lumber Cheap. J. . WECKBACH, GENERAL DEALER IN DEY GOODS Boots and Shoes, Cutlery, Queensware, and ALL KINDS OF GOODS Needed hy the Farmer or Householder, Corner 3d and Main Sta., PLATTSMOUTII NEBRASKA (Guthman's old stand.) In connection with the Grocery is a (Tin- old snd well known stand of Frank. Guth n j 11 u , wlu re the f ! " Pf4sJ. tk.M.al t mtiii tea f AVill Ahvn.VH XJo Xomicl. i '-The REST PRICES the market will afford aiiy p:nl for Country Produce. Ili'inemb'T the old sin. F.MPIIiE BAKEUY AND GROCERY." ll-"y TUB OXjD CLOTHING STAND W1YI. S TAD ELM ANN, Nearly opp. Saunders House, on Main St. At the o!d place I still hold forth, and for th Centennial ve:ir I offer iroods at '76 prices 1;76, J n.ti.u. If you do not believe it, come and see. A I,Hrso Mock or Clothing:, 7Ien' and Boys'. HATS, CAPS 9 and J-EWEIiBY. Gents Furnishing Goods in every variety. B .otH and Shoe', Canes, Trunks, Valises, Etc My stock of Boots and Shoes. Furs and Jewelry I ani positively closing out. Ills the last year I sl.a.I keep these linen. All Goods at a Great Reduction In Prices. Plattsmootb, Neb.. Jan. 3, 187S. PLlTTSMOIiTIl MILLS, fLATTSMOUTn NEBRASKA. CoKRAi Heisel, Proprietor. FLOUR, CORN MEAL, FEED. Lin ay a aa hand and for sale at lowest caia prlcea. h Hheet Prlcea paid for Wheal and Cora. i'tfUctlar attntloB girea ta cutom wik. O. F. JOHNSON, DEALER VX Drugs, Medicines, WALLPAPER. All Paper Trimmei Free of top ALSO. DEALER Ilf Books, Stationery AND LATEST PUBLICATIONS. frir Preacrlptiona earefally componnded by an experienced DrnfTiat- jfl REMEMBER TIIK PLACE Cor. Fifth and Main Streets, rLATTSMOUTir, NEB. FOUNDRY MACfflNjT SHOPS. PLATTSMOUTII, NEB., Repairer of Steam Engines, Boilers, Saw and Grist ffi's. OAS AND STEAM FITTINGS, Wrought Iron Tipe, Force and Lift Pipes, Steam Gauges, Safety-Valve Governors and all kinds of Brass Engine Fittings re paired on short notice. x- oia. Mftcliinory Repaired on Short Notice. 49-yl Sewing NEW, IMPROVED LOCK-STITCH GROVER & BAKER Sewing ZMacliine, FOR SALE BY CHARLES VI ALL. With all the Extras and Attachments, such as Needles, Oil, Tuckers, Binders, Etc. Thoso who contemplate bnyinc a machine will do well to trive the Grover Buker a trial. Sat isfaction cnarantecd, and the cheapest machine in the market. All orders by mail promptly at tended to. Address 2m9 CHARLES VIALL, Plattsmouth, Web. First National Bant Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, SUCCESSOR TO Tootle, IXiiiimv S& Olnrlc. JOBH FlTZOTRALD K. G. Dnvir A. W. M('I.C(!BI.IN Jons O'Roukkk President. Vice-President. Cashier. . . .Assistant Cashier. This Bank is now open for business at their new room, corner Main and Sixth streets, and are pre pared to transact a general BANKING BUSINESS. Stocks, Boeds, Gold. Government and Local Securities BOUGHT AND SOLD. Deposits Eeceived and Interest Al lowed on Time Certificates. DRAFTS DRAWN, Available In any part of the Uni'ed States and in al) the Vrincipal Tow us and Cities of Europe. AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED MAN LINE ani ALLAN LIKE OF T1LV3I12II. Persons wishing to bring out their friends from (Europe can penm asb tickets rr.o rs Xlii-oiifjli to I'ltittKmoiitli. Excelsior Barber Shop. .T. C. IOOISTK, Main Street, opposite Saunders House. HAIR-CUTTING, Shaving and Shampooing. ESPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO Cuttiiif Children. and Ladies' Hair. Call and See Boone, Gents, And get a boon in a P41-13T GO TO THE Post Office Book 6toro, H. J. STSZIGHT, Proprietor, FOR TOUR Boofa. Stationery, Pictures, Mnsr, TOYS, CONFECTIONERY, Violin Strings, Newspapers. Norels, Song Books etc etc POST OFFICE BUILDING, PLATT8X0UTS. 2?S, CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. The French Senate has unanimously approved the bill raising the state of siege throughout France. Tiik Emperor of Brazil has left Para, on board the steamship Hevelius, en route for the United State.?. Thkhe Mere nearly 12,000,000 postal cards issued by tho Postollicc Department during the mouth of March. Tiik IJight liev. John Johns, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Vir ginia, died recently at Alexandria. A ijeckee has been promulgated in Paris, fixing May 1, 1S73, as the date of opining the Paris Universal Exposition. The nomination of Richard II. Dana, Jr., as Minister to England, has been re jected by the United States Senate in ex ecutive session. Tuk Missouri Democratic State Con vention, to fleet delegates to the National Convention, is to be held at Jefferson City on the olst of May. Both houses of the Massachusetts Legislature have passed the bill to legal ize the marriage of Mr. James Parton and the niece of his former wife, now deceased Messrs. Montgomery Blaik, Jere. S. Black, Ben. F. Butler and Matt. II. Car penter, have In-en retained by ex-Secretary Belknap as his counsel in the impeach ment trial. Gov. Keli.ooo has accepted the resig nation of B. T. Beauregard, the obnoxious colored tax collector at Baton Rouge, La., and appointed Henry B. Bobbin to sue ceed him. The AgrigrntI, a trwxiiUi. vessel, re cently collided with the English steamer Hylton Castle, off the coast of Ionia. The Agrigenti went to the bottom, and twenty nine oi her passengers were drowned. Ex-Congressman J.D. "Ward, recently United States District Attorney at Chi cago, has been indicted by the United States Grand Jury for alleged complicity in the whisky frauds of that city. Ei.izaijkth T. Greenfield, the colored singer, known throughout the country a few years ago, under the name of the "Black Swan," died recently at Philadel phia, at the age of sixty-eight years. Tue National Colored Convention, re- cently held at Nashville, Tenn., adopted resolutions Indorsing the platform of, and reaflirniing the adherence of the colored people to, the National Republican party. The organization of a British rifle team to participate in the Centennial shooting matches at Philadelphia, has been aban doned, in consequence of the separate action of the Scotch and Irish Rifle Asso ciations. EPITOME OF THE WEEK. CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. The debt statement shows a reduction of the public debt during last month of $4,240,b(j(. Cash in the Treasury, coin, $73,750,791; currency, $',96-'i,6'26; special deposits for the redemption of certificates of deposit, $34, 230,000. Debt less cash in Treasury, $2,110,710,430. The substitute for Senator Morton's resolution calling fr an investigation of the election in Mississippi, recently adopt ed hy the United States Senate, provides for the appointment of a committee of five Senators to conduct such investigation. The Independent National Executive Committee recently met in Chicago and adopted a resolution earnestly appealing "to the people of the United States in everj- State to organize and send delegates to the National Independent Convention, to be held at Indianapolis, Ind., May 17, 137(5, as the only hope of securing that just financial legislation and pure govern ment which is indispensable to their welfare." It is stated that, in settling up the af fairs of Patrick Donahue, the proprietor of the Boston Pilot, who recently went into bankruptcy', facts of a most disgrace ful character came to light. It seems that during the past four years he has been the recipient of thousands of dollars placed in his hands for safe-keeping by many Irish Catholics, who regarded him as their best friend. Such money he put into his private business and lost. In accordance with a recent decision of the Cabinet, the Secretary of the United States Treasury has sent to all persons having the charge of Government build ings a circular calling attention to the fact that the appropriation made for fuel, light and water, and miscellaneous items for public buildings, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1376, is nearly exhausted, and ordering that gas and water in such buildings be shut off, and that the labor ers paid from such appropiation lie dis charged, in accordance with the provis ions of the law prohibiting the expendi ture by a Department of the Government of any sum in excess of the appropriation already' granted by Congress. Coptic Weddings. A gentleman who witnessed a Coptic wedding in Cairo says that when the two brides entered the rom they were guided to their places. There was not the slight est sign of recognition Itetween them and their rcsiective bridegrooms, and from the begiming to the end there was no more sign of life in them than if they had been two mummies. There was a great deal of swinging of censors, and the priests, one after the other, read and spelled a ceremony in Coptic, a language that is little understood even by the Copts themselves; but it was not until the ser vice drew to a close that anything whs said to the two couples, when an em broidered scarf of some rich texture was handed to the officiating clergyman, and this he bound round the head of the bridegroom, and then passing it directly from the crown of his head repeated the process of winding it about the head of the bride. After this the priest placed a kind of crown or frontal diadem of gold on the head of each person, which was worn until the conclusion of the ceremony. The priest also received and blessed two rings in each case, for the bridegroom and bride, and then, after what appeared to be an exhortation, the brides were led away by their attendants, and the two bride grooms descended to attend the entertain ment of their guests. The Mexican revolutionists under Diaz captured the city of Matamoras, on the morning of the 2d, without much fighting. It appears that Gen. Toledo, the second in command of the Government troops there, turned traitor, and Gen. La Barra, the Commander-in-Chief, finding his forces demoralized, fled across the river into Texas. Owing to an extensive strike which pre vailed among the Liverpool dock-laborers on the 4th, several of the Atlantic and other steamers were unable to leave "for their places of destination. The sum of $300,000 in silver dimes and quarters was received at the Treasury Department in Washington, from San Francisco, on the 4th, and an additional amount of $100,000 in quarters was ex pected in a day or two. The Connecticut election was held on the 3d, and resulted in the success of the Democratic ticket. The total vote of the State with only the town of Salem to hear from, which last year was 77 Republican to 72 Democratic, is 93,43., against 100, 983 last year. Ingersoll (Dem.) for Gov ernor has 51,071; Robinson (Rep.), 43-, 537; Atwater (Currency Reform), 1 ,980 ; Smith (Pro.), 1,871. Ingersoll's majority, 3,637; plurality, 7,515. The Senate stands 13 Democrats and 3 Republicans, and the House 159 Democrats to 85 Republicans and 2 Independents. A ferry boat which was being drawn across the river Dee, at Aberdeen, Scot kind, was capsized on the 5th, in mid stream, by the violence of the current. About thiriy passengers were drowned. The Rhode Island election was held on the 5th, and the returns received on the morning of the Cth, give Lippitt (Hep.) for Governor, 8,212; Howard, (Pro.) 6, 227; Beach, (Dem.) 3,472 Lippitt lack ing about 1,400 of an election by the peo ple. Addeman (Rep.) for Secretary of State, is elected by about 10,000 majority over Pierce (Dem.) Other candidates on the State ticket run about the same as Governor. The General Assembly will stand Senate, twenty-seven Republicans and nine Democrats; House, sixty-three Republicans and nine Democrats, thus in suring the election of the Republican State ticket by that body. Announcement was made at Philadel phia on the 4th, by Postmaster Fairman that the postoffice of that city would be closed at dark, and all night work and business suspended, under Secretary Bris- tow's recent instructions. Several busi ness firms of the city thereupon offered to defray the expenses of" keeping the office open as usual during the week, which of fer was accepted by the Postmaster. In the suit of Frank Moulton against the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher the demur rer of the defendant was sustained, on the 5th, with leave to the plaintiff to amend his complaint within twenty days, on pay ment of costs, Forn powder magazines on Arsenal Hill, near Salt Lake City, L'tah, exploded on the afternoon of the 5th, with terrible effect. There were three men at work in one of the magazines, and all that could be found of them were small pieces of flesh, the largest of which was a portion of a foot in a loot. A woman and loy in the city were struck by boulders and killed, and quite a number of other per sons were injured. One lady died from fright. An immense amount of glass was broken throughout the ciiy, estimated in value at near $30,000. The partial re mains of two boy s were found near the ruins. They were out hunting, and it is supposed they had fired into one of the magazines and caused the explosion. The motion for a new trial in the case of W. O. Avery, ex-Chief Clerk of the In ternal Revenue Bureau at Washington, convicted of complicity in the whisky frauds at St. Louis, has been overruled in the United States District Court at the latter city. Announcement is made of the failure of F. E. Canda & Co., railroad contractors of Chicago, and doing business in St. Louis under the name of II. R. Payson & Co. Their aggregate liabilities are stated at $722,023. An order has been issued, by instruc tion of the President, directing the re-establishment of the Army Headquarters at Washington, and also providing that in future all orders issued by the War De partment pertaining to military affairs shall be promulgated through the General of the Army. London and Vienna telegrams of the 6th state that affairs in the Turkish prov inces had once more assumed a threaten ing aspect. It was reported that the whole of northwestern Bosnia had broken out in full rebellion, and that Servia was making heavy preparations for war. Atty.-Gen. Pierrepont, A. C. Brad ley, Levi P. Luckey and Gen. Babeock were before Clymer's investigating com mittee on the 6th, and denied the truth of many of the essential parts of Detective Bell's story. A member, of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs asked Gen. Schenck, on the 6th, if the committee should say that he (Schenck) had been engaged in the Emma Mine transactions in good faith, and with no fraudulent intent, whether he Mould still desire a fuller investigation. Gen. Schenck replied that he desired such an investigation for others us well as him self; that he was neither a dupe nor a ras cal; he had invested in the mine, with his eyes open and with a view of bettering his condition; he wished to show that the failure of the mine was owing to misman agement. According to . a Copenhagen dispatch of the 7th, Denmark and Germany were endeavoring to arrive at a satisfactory so lution of the Schleswig-IIolstdn question. TnE New Jersey- House of Repres.nta- tives has defeated the bill to tax church and educational property. In answer to a call for a mass State con vention of those interested in the issue of more greenbacks, a meeting was held at Columbus, Ohio, on the 6th, at which resolutions were adopted appealing to the people of the country to organize aud unite in behalf of the unconditional re peal of the Resumption act, and holding that it is the duty of the Government to furnish the circulating medjum of the country. Burglary is no longer an art which requires darkness for its successful prac tice. A firm of six burglars entered a jewelry store in New York, the other day. m hroaa daylight, and, after knocking the proprietor senseless and tying and gag ging him, proceeded to pack up the stock in bags and escaped without attracting any attention. By the time the alarm was given the burglars were beyond reach. in a. S i Thomas Maguire, of Boston, the well-known New England reporter of the ew lorfc Herald, gets SoO.OOO by the will of a New York man, whose daughter he once saved from drowning at Long Branch. If men would set good examples thev might hatch better habits. At a meeting of the New York and Brooklyn Association of Congregational Ministers, In the latter city on the 7th, the action of the Advisory Council was en dorsed, and resolutions were adopted to publicly invite any one having or pro fessing to have, any evidence against Mr. Beecher, not already investigated before the civil court, to bring such evidence be fore a commission to be appointed for the purpose of hearmg such evidence, the proposed commission to consist of Messrs. R. S. Storrs, W. I. Buddington, L. Smith Hobart, R. S. Stone and N. W. Vergen. Messrs. Storrs, Buddington, H. H. Mc Farland, B. N. Martin, W. M. Taylor and W. II. Ward entered a protest against this action on the ground that an investigation thus organised could result in nothing more than another superficial and un satisfactory inquiry. Resolutions sub milted by Prof. Martin in favor of ecclesiastical doctrines, the opposite of those espoused by Plymouth Church and its Council, were tabled, and Drs. Bud dington, McFarland, Taylor and Storrs then sent to the Moderator a letter, in which they withdrew from the member ship of the New York and Brooklyn As soc i a ion. FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Saturday, April 1. Senate not in ses sion. ...In the Iloiire, the bill to amend the laws concerning commerce and navigation and the regulation of steam vessels wa e'ebated at con siderable length. A resolution was adopted li- recttnz the Committee on Military Atiiurs to in vestigate the chsrires of corrupt and base practices alleged lo have been committed bv llur- are liny n ton, clerk of said committee, while nn officer of the Iuternal ltevenue Bureau in Texas. Monday, April 3. Mr. Morton intro duced a bill in the Seniffe to amend the act to en force the rtht of citizens to vote in the several States, the object of the amendment, being to bring the Enforcement act wilhin the late decis ion of the Supreme Court. A bill was passed amendatorv of Ihe Bankrupt law by provii:iuj: that no voluntary assignment by a debtor of all his property, made in good faith, for the benefit of creditors, and sold according to the law of the Mate w here made, all of itself, in the event or his bein subsequently adjudicated a bankrupt, be a bar to the discharge of said debtor. The motion to reconsider the vote by wr.ich the bill reduc ing the President's salary was pas-rt was lost yeas SI, nays 31 . Announcement was made that the House had adopted the uelkuap tmpe.icn ment articles.. .Several bills were introduced and referred in the House. The artii les of impeach ment against ex-Secretary Belknap were adopted, and Messrs. Lord. Kno t, L.ynde, .vc.Miinon, Jtnks. Lapham and Hoar were appointed as managers of the prosecimon on Vne part ot tlie House, Mr. Lord standing as Chairman of the Board of Managers. Bills were paused auihor iziiiu the sale of the Pawnee reservation in Ne braska; amending the Pension law for the war of 1S13. Tuesday, April 4. In the Senate, Messrs. Boutwell, Cameron, Wise, Oglesby, Bay ard and McDonald were appointed by the chair as the special committee to inquire Into the re cent election in Mississippi. The impeachment managers on the part of the House appeared and presented the articles of impeachment ni:ainst W. W. Belknap, late Secretary of V ar. A mes sage was received from ihe President vetoing a bill for the relief of G. B. Tyler and E. 11. Luckett. assignees of W. T. Cheatham; the hill nrovides for the refunding to such assignees of money paid for two mouths' salary of a storekeeper in a distillery in Ken tucky in IStti-TO A bill was passed in the House providing that no person shall be prose cuted, tried or pnnnhed for any ollense, except agnlnst the internal revenue, unless indicted within three years after such offense has been or may be committed. A report was made that the impeachment articles had been read in the Sen ate, and that that bodv would take action in the matter. When considering the Legislative Ai - propriation bill an amendment was offered and finally rejected to omit the item for the Presi dent's salary, fixing it at 5i5,'0) a year after the 4th of March. 177. until action should be had on the special bill fixing the Presidential salary. Wednesday, April 5. Bills were passed in the Senate, authorizing the sale of the Menomonce rcservationfin Wisconsin, under the cirection of the Interior Department; House bill to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay judgments rendered by tho t 'onrtof Alaba ma Claims; House bill authorizing the sale of the Pawnee reservation. The Senate organized as a Conrt of Impeachment, and an order was agreed to that a summons be issn d to ex-Secretary Belknap, returnable on the 17th of April, to which time the Court adjourned. The bill fixing the sale of postage on third-class mail matter, and for other purposes, was taken up and debated In the House, a resolu tion was adopted directing the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish the ll.itise with an itemized account of the amount expended under the item of $ Ilk .0 0 appropriated for light and fuel for the fiscal year ending June 30, lSTti. A bill was passed regulating the winding np of National Banks. Announcement was marie of the action of the Senate on the impeachment qneslion. The bill to trausfer the Indian Bureau from the Interior to the War Department was debated in Committee of the Whole, as was also, at the evening session, the Legislative Appropriation bill. Thursday, April 6. In the Senate, a favorable report was made from the Committee on Finance on the House bill to provide for the deficiency in the Engraving and Printing Bureau of the Treasury Department. The House hill to amend the Revised Statutes in regard to limita tions in prosecution for crime was amended and passed. The bill fixing the rate of post age on third-class matter was taken up, and amendments were submitted and ordered printed Adjourned to the 10th In the House, the Senate bi'l fixing the Presiden tial salary, after the 4th of March, 1877, at fi"j.0O0 a year, was passed without discussion. The bill to carry into operation the Hawaiian treaty was discussed, and ihe Legislative Appropriation bill was further debated in Committee of the Whole. Frjday, April 8. Senate not in session A number of privat bills were passed in the Honse, and also a bill for the payment 0f certain war claims applying to over !Mi individuals in the loyal States, and aggregating flPJ.OlKl A resolution was adopted instructing the sub com mittee of the Committee on Naval Affairs to pro reed to ibe Philadelphia and League Island Navy Yards to inquire into certain alleged abuses and frauds. Adjourned, the session on the Mh to be lor debate only. It is curious to note the various opin ions which prevail among scientific men in regard to some of the most ordinary natural phenomena. The aurora is a no table case in point. Dos Cartes consid ered it a meteor falling from the upper regions of the atmosphere. Halley at tributed it to the magnetism of the terres trial globe, and Dalton agreed with this opinion. Coates supposed that the aurora was derived from the fermentation of a m itter emanating from the earth. Mari on held it to be a consequence of a con tact between the bright atmosphere of the sun and the atmosphere of our planet. Euler thought the aurora proceeded from the vibrations of the ether among the par ticles of the terrestrial atmosphere. Can ton and Franklin regarded it as a purely electrical phenomenon, and Parrot attrib uted it to tne conflagration of carbureted hydrogen escaping from the earth in con sequence of the putrefaction of vegetable substances, and considered the shooting stars as the initial causes of such confla gration. De la Rive and Oersted con cluded it to be an electro-magnetic phe nomenon, but purely terrestrial. Olm- stead suspected that a certain nebulous body revolved around the sun in a certain time, and that when this body came into the neighborhood of the earth, a part of its gaseous material mixed with our at mosphere, and that this was the origin of the phenomenon of the aurora. A'. V, THE HEX AXD THE HONEY-BEE A t.Aar Hen the story goes - Loquacious, pert and self-conceited, Espied a Bee upon a rose. And thus the busy insect greeted : " Say. what's the use of such as you, (Excuse the freedom of a neighbor!) Who gad about, and never do A single act o 1 useful labor t " I've marked you well for many a day. In garden blooms and meadow-clover; "ow here( now Ihefe, In wanton play; From morn to night an Idle rover. " While I discreetly hide at home; A faithful wife" the best of mothers; About the fields you idly roam. Without the least regard for others. " W hlle I lay ccrgs, or batch them ont. You seek the flowers most sweet and fragrant, And, sipping honey, slrol) about. At best a good for nothing vagrant !" " Say," said the Bee, "you do me Wrong; I'm useful too; perhaps you doubt it, Because though toiling all day long I scorn to mike a fuse about It! " While you. wi.'h every egg that cheer Your daily lask. must stop and hammer The news in other people's e:irs, Till they are deafened with the clamor! " Come now with me. and see my hive, Aud nole how folks may work in quiet; To useful arts much more alive Thau you with all your cackling riot! From Iht (Jit um it of lirltctt. by. I. (. Sase. J0HX EYTOVS LESSON. THeRk had been a breeze at the table; harsh words and angry tohes, but dinner closed in silence. Having said his say, John devoted his energies to the work 1k; fore him, anil his wife, white and still, sat with compressed lips, and eyes whose hard glitter bx!ed no good . It began about anew bonnet; that little thing which seems to have been an evil device for the promotion of strife among families. Pcrhas the result might have been better had she waited till the molli fying influence of fragrant tea and dainty viands had soothed the somewhat ruflled feelings of her lord and master; but fear ful of his displeasure, and nervously anxious to have it over with, she haa failed to notice the frown on his brow. He was not, generally, an unkind hus band, but he held fast the good old fash ioned theory that no woman ever knew enough to spend money wisely; and let her work as long and as hard as she might, site had no claim on the funds of the family. To-day, he had been worried in his business transactions, and that his wife should ask for money seemed doubly vexatious. He liked to see her well dressed, and 1 do not think he really grudged her the little she asked for, as fearfully as if she had been the veriest beggar in the uni verse; but he had got into the habit of fiuding just about so much fault when anything was needed in the house, from a pound of saleratus to a bonnet, and he considered it wise to teach a woman hum bleness of manner, and patient submission " to the powers that be. He had held and maintained his prin ciples so long and well, it was hard to make him understand how it should lc necessary to get another pound of tea, or a barrel of flour, when he had bought both a few months before. It was a standiug mystery to him "what she did with it." and he often wished he could go dow n street " without being asked to buy something." Did she think he was made of money V The years had gone by-, and in her heart these things were hidden. Saying little, perhaps she thought more; they festered there and produced more bitterness than is conducive to the happi ness of home. To-night it had been worse than usual, and whin John Eaton left the house, with an emphatic bang of the door to enforce his words, she rose to clear away the table with tight-shut lips, and eyes that gleamed hard and cold as steel. When her work was done she carefully wrapped up the ill-omened . bonnet and carried it back to the shop, as she had promised to do in case she concluded not to keep it. She wore the old bonnet she had worn so many- winters, with litre and there a lit tle change, such as her deft fingers could make without expense, as site carried bac k the new one without a pang. She felt so hard and cold she could not care for anything, even the dainty bit of mil linery that had tempted "her to brave John's displeasure. Back again at her own door, she found a letter from her old girlhood home, and the mother still living in that little vil lage among the mountains. Her mother was in jKor health, and was longing so for the face of her only daughter. " Can't John spare you for a little while, Nellie, to the mother who has not heard y our voice for so long?" wrote the trembling hand, and Nellie's heart gave a bound at the thought of the dear old home and the mother she had not seen for a year. Mrs. Eaton sat and thought until the anger was all gone from her heart, and she felt only a great sorrow and pity for the girl that had gone out from that old home, as if she had been another than herself, full of glad anticipations and sweet hopes for the days to come. How socn the day had darkened! And must the light go out in utter blackness? Was this the end of it all; only strife and anger to be in the home to which site had gone with such undoubting faith? Could there lie no change except that of hearts growing colder, and tones more un kind as life dragged by? She would try; aye, she would stake her all upon the one chance, and if she sue ceeded she found that love and hope were not quite dead in her heart, lit the thought ot it; if she failed " it could not be much worse," she said bitterly. Then she went out on the street for a few mo moments before she began her prepara tions for a journey. With nervous fin gers she packed her trunk and wrote a little note to John. By that time a team was at the door to carry her to the sta tion. She gave one quick glance at the room that had been hers so long. Hers, when life looked so bright and sunnv, and hers when she had wept away some of the bitterness that came afterward. Here her one "little child was born ; and she had held it in her arms in that very chair, when it drew its last suffering breath, and only the fair white form re mained to the desolate mother. Should she ever, ever see it again ? God only knew, and she went away with a heavy j heart, half repenting trat she was going at all. A little later she was on board a train for the North, bound for the home of her childhood, with hopes and fears Strug gling wildly in her heart. In the evening John Eaton went home. He had talked and worked until his vexation was gone, and was dimly conscious that he might have been a fitde hasty at dinner-time. He determined to be magnanimous, and treat his wife as if nothing had happened, and she had never when she had one lon- net, like Oliver Twist, made that auda cious demand for "more." He found every thing in its usual order, e ven to the slippers, ready tiesiue tne chair lie liKeu best to occupy of an evening. But he did not find his wife. It was an almost un heard of thing, but he thought she would be in soon; so he calmly proceeded to look ovi r the evening paper. When half an hour had passed he concluded she had gone to her room "grouty," to wait till he should seek her there. Determined not to le moved by such a feminine course of action, he continued his reading for a few minutes longer. The absolute stillness of the house af fected him curiously, and by and by he went up-stairs. He. found her note, and with a vague idea ot sometnmg wrong, ne sat down to read it. John: The pitcher went to the well once too often, and I asked you, for money and was refused moet unkindly once too many times. If we cannot live in peace together we had better live apart. I got a letter from mother this afternoon; she is sick and wants me. I hate borrowed money on my watch and am going home on the next train. Now perhaps you can have "sonic peace of your life and not be bothered eternally by a woman, wanting some new fangled thing or other." I trust I can earn enough to buy my clothes and furnish me with food besides; but if I must be dependent on charity grudgingly be stowed, I will go to 1 tie home the public pro vides for the destitute. You said you were a fool to marrv, so I need not fear you will be sorry that I have fone away; for a little while if you wish it, or for always, ax tnu icitl! "Ki.i.sn. Did his meek-eyCil Ellen write that let ter? Was she really gone ? Nonsense! it was some trick of imagination. But when he had read her letter once more, he be gan to realize its truth. For days.- anger, dismay anil sorrow all were in his heart; but the anger held sway at last. How dared she take such a step? Perhaps she expected him to come humbly and beg her to come home, but that he would never do. They were dreary days nnd nights that came and went so slowly, and he found that taking his meals at a restaurant was neither pleasant nor profitable. His house was so empty and desolate he could not stay there, and as he had loved his wife and his home in spite of his fault-finding, it waa hard. When he had read her note, he had said, " Iet it be for always." But by and by he lcgan to wonder if she would be glad to come back, if he should conclude to go for her. Of course he shouldn't go he had no thought of it, but would she come if he did. To all inquiries he answered that his w ife had gone to her mother, who was ill, and it was uncertain w hen she would re turn. Day aud night he jwindered upon it all, until he grew absolutely jealous of the old friends of her childhood, whom he imagined would make her forget him and their home. The days were long enough for many sad thoughts and some regretful ones, albeit they were December days; and he found time to remember a good many unkind things he had said to the sw eet faced little w oman he had prom ised to love and cherish, lie remembered a winter not long belore when lie IiaU fonc down, dow n to the gates of death, le had stexxi face to face with the awful mystery, but Ellen's slender hand had draw n him back. He remembered how, when he was able to sit up one day, and his wife was taking her needed rest, the doctor had told him of her unwearied care and that lo her faithful watching alone, he owed his life. Then he had vowed to himself and his God anew, that he would love and cherish her always. Alas, the vows we make and break. With the closing days of the year, there came into his heart a new tenderness for his wife, and a resolve was born there to try to bring her back and be all he had promised be fore God and man for the days and years to come. Meanwhile in her old home Mrs. Eaton was finding love and work, both needed sorely by the troubled soul. Her mother grew worse and for some weeks was a great invalid Ellen's time was so filled up with the duties of the present she found the weeks less dreary tnan John was finding them. But sometimes the longing to know something of him grew almost irresistible; and it took all her courage to wait, when her mother grew better and ceased to need her care constantly. The days went by till the new year w as at hand, and it seemed as if she could not resist the longing for home and John, for she knew, in spite of his harsh words, that he must miss her sorely. Many a time she called herself hard names for ever coining away as she did. Of course John did not mean half what fie said ! On the last night of the old year siic had gone to theoflice and called for a letter as she had done many times, in vain. She went back slowly with a great aching in her heart, for she had said to herself over and over again, that he would write or come that night. How could he help remembering that the next day waa the anniversary of their marriage? He surely would not let it go by without a word! But in that quiet place there would not be another mail that week, so she went home desolate. How bitterly she repented that she had not forgiven his hasty words and borne it all! She went slowly up the hill, feeling as if everything beautiful was gone, and there was nothing more that life could give her. One, who had come in a little time before, found hope springing up in her face. She went straight to her mother's room. " Back at last, Ellen ? There is company down stairs and I want a fresh cap from the sitting room cupboard," said the old lady ; and she went down again wearily. As she opened the door a gentleman turned from the window. " Oh! John," was all she said, but I am sure he knew she was glad to see him. He took her in his arms, the little wife he had not seen for so long, and there was a glad, happy silence for a little time. Then he did what he had hardly done in his lift; before asked forgiveness of another. I am sure Ellen was as glad to forgive as ever a woman was, and nestled down be side him, utterly forgetful of cap and cup board. I could not stay away another day," he told her, " when I thought of to morrow. It was, Ellen, it was dreadfully hard, for I was too proud to own I was wrong; but the fact is i couldn't help it this time. Are you sure you are glad to see me, .Nellie?" " i can't tell you how glad, John. I do believe I should have started home Mon day if you had not come. But w hy didn't you come ln;fore. or write, John?" " I was too angry with you, Nellie. Don't look so sorry my dear, it was over long ago, and I was angrier at myself than 1 ever shall he with you. I did in tend to come tefore, but business pre vented and I had a fancy you might be more kindly disposed toward nie if I waited till to-night." " As if I needed that, John. The least little bit of a word would have brought me back, and I wasn't two miles away before I wished myself back in my chair at home, waiting lor you, and that hateful letter in the stove, or ali unwritten. I guess if I had waited, you would have come with me to see mother, would you not, John, dear?" "I can't tell, Nellie. I was a great brute then, but I mean, God helping me, to be more what I promised six years ago. Wc will try, both of us, to make our home more what it ought to be, Nellie. And to show you I am in earnest, here is your watch once more;" and he put the chain round her neck, and gave her a real lover's kiss. More than once the mother heard Nel lie's clear ringing laugh, and smiled at the sound of the music she had missed so long. During the hour that followed, as she waited up siairs, and the twilight deepened into night, John said softly: "Aren't you afraid to. trust nie again, Nellie, for fear I shall fall again into my old ways ?" She laughed aiain, then answered so berly. 'l am not Ihe least bit afraid of you now, John. I know you love me. But, dear me, I had utterly forgotten mother's cap." " Mother does not care for her cap. I think she only wanted you to see who whs here. Oh. Nellie, I am glad you didn't tell even her about our trouble." " But you see, John, I couldn't tell any body but God, only if you had never come, people must have known. But oh, John." she added, " I know I should have gone home if mother hail not leen so sick, weeks ago. I did not know how; much I I was afraid I had lost It cared for you, till you forever." " I am glad you didn't cqme, Nellie. was most flitter medicine, but I needed it, and I should not have got my lesson halt learned. Now we will Ik; so good :ind loving wc shall more than make our loss good," he said, smiling down at her as in the dear old days w hen they liit planned for that home which was to be brighter and dearer than ever a home was before. In this very room they had taken the solemn vow to love nnd cherish each other, years ago. To-night, thev repented it before God, with a lK-tter idea of its meaning, and a firm resolve to keep it till death should part them. A few days more and they were back in their own home, doubly dear in that it had so nearly gone from their grasp forever As the years go by, and they are more aud more united, Nellie wonders if khc cy r came so near losing her happinrss, and if John Eaton ever needed his " lesson." Elizabeth )Yool, in Wentern Rural. FACTS AM) FIGURES. Outside of her own home isles. Great Britain wields a scepter over 203,RK),OOt) subjects. From the Girard estate in the coal re gion of Pennsylvania, (1,660,354 tons of coal have been mined. The cost of constructing the Suez Canal was $!)8,800,000. The original es. timate was $40,000,000. TiiEnE are in Austria 822,000 Jew s, but only 2,W)0 in the army; these figures have surprised the Government, and inquiry has been ordered. The Spanish army has 77 Generals, Lieutenant-Generals, and 833 Major-Generals. There arc also 3,000 Brigadier. Generals and several privates. There are now 105 officers in the regu lar army who have, by long and meritori ous service, and by virtue of their intelli gence and bravery, won promotion from the ranks. Twenty thousand four hunimu i and ten people, mostly agricultural la liorers, settled in Canada last year, against 30,373 the previous year. Only y,21l passed through the States. Dr. S. Williams, who has just re turned home from a long residence in China, says that out of the 150,000,000 women in that country not more than a few thousand can read or write. In England last year there died 676 people aged ninety-five years and more, of whom 486 were women. Of these, eighty-nine had attained 100 years or more, ami it is very remarkable that no less than seventy- nine ot this number were females. The largcat soap boiler in the world. probably, may be seen at the corner ot West and asnington streets, New lork. It will hold 1,2K),000 pounds of soap. It was built in 1872, and is constructed of wrought iron. It extends from the ground flKir of the building up through five stories, and is quite a curiosity in its line According to a French statistician, taking the mean of many accounts, a man of fifty years of age has slept 6,000 days, worked 6,500 days, walked H00 days, amused himself 4.000 days, was eating 1,500, was sick 500 days, etc. He has eaten 17,000 pounds of bread, 16,000 pounds of meat, 4,600 pounds of vegeta bles, eggs and fish, and drank 7,000 gallons of liquid, viz., water, coffee, tea, beer, w ine, etc., altogether. This would make a re spectable lake of 300 square feet surface and three feet deep, en which small sieam boats could navigate. And all this makes up the routine of an average man's life. The London Daily A'eir publishes the following synopsis of the annual product of gold and silver from all sources for the last twenty-five years : The quinquennial average product ion of gold from 1H52 to K5 was 29,5)00,0(10 : from 157 to 1S6I, 24,600,000; from 1862 to 1866, 22,lOO,. 000; from 1867 to 1871, 23,600,000 ; and from 1871 to 1875, 20,400.000 ; thus show ing a steady decrease, while the opposite is the case with silver, viz.: 1652-'5(, S, 100,000; 1857-'61, 8,200.000; lS62-'66, !U00,000; 1867-71, 10,600,000; and 1871-'75, 13,900,000. The Xeica attri butes the great fall it. silver, which amounts to tlircejwnce in the rupee, or aln)ut twelve percent, in India, to its in creasing disuse, while the reverse holds good of gold. as- m Ills Revenge. John Prince Johnson had an object in getting drunk. John Prince Johtwm's wife is not more than nine-tenths angel, according to his story, and he wanted re venge on her. The other day she said to him : " Get up and dust and go ont and work and earn some cash and help me pay the rent and buy wood and keep something in the cupboard." That was a nice way for a loving wife to talk to a fat husband with a bald spot on his crown. He wanted to sit around and get his breath for the spring cam paign, but 6he didn't seem to care if he worked himself to death. He looked at her across the stove and replied : " Florinda Jane, I'll make you feel bad for saying them words," and he put on his boots and went out into the cold world. When His Honor asked the prisoner if he had any excuse lor being drunk, John Prince Johnson looked greatly pleased, and replied: "None at all. Fine me five dollars and she'll have to pay it out of her own money !" That was his plan to secure revenge. 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