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THE II Ell A LI). THE HERALD, PUMJ3HED fiTEBY TIICOSDAY . AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA OFFICE: On Vifi St., One Block North of Miafn, Cornar of Fifib Stret. 2w.!3W. o -PACK. lsqr... sqra.. 8 surs . co 1 . . H ol.. 1 ool . . . 1 w. 1 m. 3 m. 6 ni. ?1 00 t N) 2 ( 5 00 800 15 00 f u on I ?2 so; $5 ool e 75 3 fcil "", 10 Hi 2-6 a on 12 00 l0(ll 4 00 1000 1500 21 no fill V 1IC 12 00 20 0(1 IS (H)i 25 00 2.100! 4000 13 00 . 0y i '4. W Oil ) 00 to 00 ao oo urn (' J7A11 Advertising bills due quarterly. rff-Transient advertisements roust bo pnkf for In advance. JNO. A. MACMURPHY, EditorJ "PERSEVERANCE CONQUERS.9' (TERMS: $2.00 a Year. OFFICIAL PAPF.n OP CVL'XTV. Ttrmi, in A i v rx : Orw wh's. 0,19 yar - lie eopv, six months ...... Om opy, Hire Biontbs ....$2.00 i. 1.00 60 VOLUME XII. PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 187G. ! NUMBER -10. Extra copies f tli TIrralo (or wtlo by J. 1 Young, Postofflee news detmt. and O. V.John tou.ourncr ol Main aud Fifth Htreets. 5 F I EST National Bank OF rLATTSMOUTH. XEBEASKA. 8UCCKSSOK TO . TOOTLE, IIAA'XA A CLARK, jKyJTH FlT7.KRAt.r It Imrrr A. W. JlCl.AUGHLJJf .,. O'liOlRKK President. Vice President. , Cashier. ...Assistant Cashier. Thte Bi:;!i Is now open for business at their new mom. corner Main and Sixth tweets, and t prepud to transact a neueral BANKING BUSINESS. Stock, Bond, Gold, 6vrnmer.t and Lcal Securities BOUGHT A KD BOLD. TKpnits Received end Interest Alloic txl on Time. Certificates. JtvallabJe Mi aur p.-rt o( the Trilled State and lii sM the Principal Tow in aud ClUc of V-urope. ACtTS I'OR TIJE . CELERIIATED Inman Line and Allan Line OF STKASERS. Person wishing to brtn- otit their frends from Europe eati PCRCJTABK TTf Kr.TS MIOM VS Tlirocrh to Platttmoath. TEJE II STAIOF WM. STABELMAXN, Hearty opp. Saunders House, Main St. At the bid stan a I till bold forth, al for tho CenleaisiHl year I offer troods at 7S prices 1776. I menu. If 7011 do not believe It.wi.e aud see. A Larjare Stock of Clothing, MEN'S AND TOYS' If ATM. CAM. UI.OTCN. t'ASWi, TKI XHS. VALISKH, t 'lc, etc., ete.. clr. GomU tU a Vrtat Rtdxteti'm in Price. Fleming & Race, DEAf.EKS IN" GROCERIES, ca rs, JIOOT3. a Hons. AND yOTIOXS. An J FWMtrrfr' rjj;ppn! C'cnrnlly. Our Goods are all New, r.'.l we j.e',1 t!ic-.!i CJII'Ar. THY US ONCE, AND SHE I (ioj) vrnjii'Tva yjti:k. yi:s. Excelsior Barber Shop. J. C. BOONS, Slain Strat, opposite "iundcrs IltjUt. HAIR-COTTIHG, jlinvJn.T anil Sit usiiosl ng. KSPKCIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO t'trttlxis.'fcil3rranntl LatHes iZrAr. CALL AND SEE DOOXE, GENTS, And firt a bonie in a " WILLIAM HEROLD Kcej'ti ono of "die Largest Stocks GROCERIES, IN TOWN. PROPRIETOR W PALACE BILLIARD HALL. M:Iu St.. iHuler First Nat. B.-.nk.) rLATTSJIOl'TII, ... XEil :V CAE I.H BVPI-I.IKD WITH TUK BEST WINES, LIQUORS, BEEB, ETC., ETC. 40J1 H. A. WATERMAN & SON, Wholesale ;uid Ketail Dealers in ine Lumber, SHI2sTGLES, Sash, Doors, Blinds, ETC.. ETC., ETC. Mai street. Comer of. Fiftb. PLATTSMOUTH, - - - - NEB. Still Better Rates for Lumber. a O in iZ o o a a co c o CO o ca c -a o o o IS s ! - So 2 1 x. St! 5 c o 11 f-l 55 X .( S-t Q c o Good fresh milk DELIVERED DAILY ! AT KV EJIY BODY'S UOZIE IX rLATTSMOUTn I P Til K V WANT IT, BY J. F. BEAl'JIEISTEll. PFXD IV YOl'R OKPF1U AXDI WILL TIIY ASD UIVB YOU XJE MILK ti t atf ?rve rorl rt gnlarlv. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. f)C PAXCY (UBim. 11 styles with name CO lOris post paid, J. B. Husted, Nassau, K-n. N. Y. 37t4 AGENTS WAITED POf THE 6TORY OF f HARLEY ROSS Written by his father. A complete account of this most mysterious abduction and exciting search. Willi fac-simile letters and Illustra tions. Outsells all other books. One Agent took 60 orders in on day. Terms liberal. Ad dress. Jon v E. 1'ottkkaCo., Publishers, Thil- adclphia. TRIFLING WITH A COLD IA ALWAYS DANGEROUS. USE W ELLs' CARB0 LIC TABLETS, a sure remedy for COUGHS, and all diseases of the THflOAT, LUXGS, CIIKST A.SJJ MU COUS MEMHIIASH. PUT CP ONLY IN BIXEHOXE3. SOLD BY ALL DRVOGIMTS. C. X. CUHTKNTON. 7 SIxthAvenne, ?f. Y. ATTENTION ALL Creat nsnkropt Ka.If or Jewelry. On receipt of 50 ceiil-s we will snd by mail, postpaid, all of the following pieces of Jewely, viz : 1 pair 0-ld plated Entered Sleeve Bnt toii. otic st (Jold l iont Shirt Studs, 1 Collar Stud. 1 Weddintr Ktnjf. 1 Roll Plate Watch Chain and I Kent's Iwse Coral Scarf Pin. We otter this preat bargain merely to draw atten tion 10 our business, a wc'bavp all kinds of watches and Jewelry at low prices, fceud for catalogue. (-Ql.ES ft CO.. p5 rontigay, JT. I. Cif-j. t-READY FOR AGENTS THE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION DEM'KUIlLl) AND ILLCSTKATKD. A crapliie pen picture of jts history, grand buildings, wondrj-f ul exhibits, euriobities, great day, etc. Profusely illustrated, thoroughly popular and very eheao. iUviuj immensely, 5hiO ajrents wan'tel. Send for full particulars. Ihia will bo the chance of 1 years to coin money fant. Ct-t the onlv reliable history. If uhbard Hltos., Pubs., So. M LaSalle St., Cbicniro. 111. nUIl'TTnU P-e not decr-lred by premature li All ilUfl book. asumii:tt to bo "olhcial" and telling wliat will happen in August aud September. stimulates the secretive organs, thus ptinfying the blood nnd striking at the root of the dis ease. It is the medicinal extract of the plant of that r.r.iue found in lirazil, and is one of the most wonderful tonic and iuvirorators known and is used in their reirular practice by the physicians of that and other countries. It will make the Liver netivo. assist Digestion pirify the Blood, restore 'ii-'or to the debilita ted, and is a certain icii-.edy for all diseases of a Scrofulus nature, and those arising from pover ty .r want of biood. THY IT. t or sale h Irusits. holcsalc bv C. X. Crittfnton-. 7 Sixth Avenue. New York. Platlsmouth Grain Co. Q(ERI)ER &LAZENBT, Dealers in Grain of all kind. CATTLE and IIGG.S ; ATso ITAIin AXD SOFT rOAL ALWAYS OX Xnl UAX1K FRESH MEAT Genie Here Roast Beef. Walk In TuuUoii Chops. fiixa out PORK STEAKS, G3f T. FTSU. FOTrr..SAUSAGE.AXr ALL OTUKIi 3SKATS IX SEASOX AT YOUNG'S Butcher Shop, PLATTS2IOUTH, NEB., LOWER MAIN' ST., - - - SOUTH SIDE. 30in3 To the 'VVorUIns CUs.-W( are now prepared to furnish all clashes with constant employment at home, the whole of the time, or for their spare moments, lhisiness new, lijiht. anl profitable. Persons of either sex easily earn from 0 cents to $" per evening, and a pro poitioiuil sum bv devoting their whole tims to the business. Imvs and ijirls earn nearly a msli as men. That all who see this notice may send their addres. and test the business w l:!A!;e this 1111 parallelled offer ; To such as are not well Ba;i!ied we will send one dollar to pay fur the trouble of writing. Full particulars, samples worth several dollars to commence work on. and a copy of Home and Fireside, one of the !aruet and best flhu-trated publications, all sent free bv mail. H.-ader. if you waut per manent and profitable woik. address llEOKia St i son & Co.. Portlaud, Me. HO FOR THE 231a-slE mils! V PLATTSMOUTH. YVIIOL.F.HAUE F.JQUOU AI CIGAR STUf. -OF- ir-lf 5UIKE'S old stand still kept peu by the above. CIGARS, TOBACCOS, &C, WHOLE SALE ct RETAIL. WK KEEP Good Goods, Buy Largely And invite trado to call and examine, ltf XOUK Better von ca'l oa dot Ben Hempel. HE'S TI12 MAX, KEEPS AN EATING HOUSE. O X LO Y F. K M A I X STK E ET, -PL A TTS2I0 UTH, - - - - NEB. Meals at all Hours. 40-1 1 B. II Ell PEL, Prop. SAGE BROTHERS, Dealera in 9 ETC.. ETC., ETC. One Door East of the Post-Ofiicct Plattsmouth, Nebn-ska. ... :Or Practical Workers lu SHEET inoy, ZINC, TIN, BRA ZlERY,dcX. Large assortment of Hard ana Soft COAL STOYES, Wood and Coal Stoves for HEATING Oil COOKING, Always on Hand. Every variety of Tin. Sheet Iron, arid Zinc Work, kept in Stock. MAKING AND REPAIRING, Done on Short Xotiee. tSTSYETtYTUIXG WAniiAXTED! riticEs 1.0 w now. -a;,,' SAGE BROS. OFFICIAL. DIRRCTOUY. COXGHESSIOXAL. Skvators P. W. Hitchcock. Ornah ; A. S. Paddock. Beatrice. KitPKHSjTATir I. Cronnse, Ft. Calhoun. STATE. Ooyp-rxor Silas Garber, Lincoln. BerRirrABY-Uruno Tzschuck. Lincoln. TmiASi-ttKR J. i. McBride, Lincoln. Auditor J. B. Weston. Lincoln. Attokkky Ukmkkal im. II. Itoberti, Lin coln. ,. ,- Supt. PUBUC Ivstrvctiv J. M. MeKen zle. Liucoiu. LEGISLATIVE. Sksathr.-tH District Sam. M. Chapman, Plattsmouth. . Ukpreskvtativks. nth IisTRir-r Jno. W. Barnes, Plattsmouth ; Jno. ltousc. Greenwood. JUDICIAL. ScPRKMii JcnoKs ;eo. B. Lake. Omaha ; Daniel Gantt, Browuville ; Samuel Maxwell, Fremont. COUXTY. Clwik-C. P. Moore. Plattsmonth. Trkakurkr J.C. Cummins. Phittsmouth. Commissioner E. O. Dover ..Plattsiuouth ; SxEKirr M. H. cutler, nai'-Hnuuui W. H. Arnold, Greenwood ; : li. r. Aaniacy, Louisville. CoRONF.it B. F. Reed, Rock Bluffs. CITY. Mayor Tl. R. Livinpston. Trf.asurkr Win. Winterstela. Clerk W. F. Bennett. Councilman, Ut Ward J. repporberg. w. Neville. Cov vnr.MitN, 2d Ward r. L. Wise, J. v. Weckbaeh. . - CouNfiLMEX, 3d Ward-Wm. U Wells. P Donnelly. . ' T Cou.sciLMEN, 4tU W AR! P. H. Guthman, J. Hetfner. PROFESSIONAL CAKDS It. Tt. YVIX1MIAM. ATTOnXF.Y and Counselor at I-aw. Ileal estate bought and sold. Taxes paid ; and spe cial attention given to collections. Ofiico over Dr. Chapman's Drug Store, Platlsmouth. Z7yl SAM 51 CHAPJUX, ATTORXEY AT LAW and Solicitor in Chan cery. Ollie in Fitzgerald's Block, Flattsmouth, Nebraska. WREELER A BF.XXETT, REAL ESTATE and Tax Paying A?ents. No taries Public, Fire and Life Insurance AsenU, PlattsmoutU, Nebraska. W.D.JKXK1SH. ATTORXEY AT LAW. U. S. Claim Apent and Public Auctioneer. Business promptly attend ed to. Green wood. Neb. K It LiriKVSTOX. PIIYSICIAX & SURGEON, tenders his pro fessional services to the citizens of Cass county. Residence southeast comer Sixth and Oak ts. ; Ofricc on Main street, two doors west cf Sixth, Platlsmouth. Nebraska. c:i:o. S. SMITH. ATTOTtNEY AT LAW and Real Estate Bro ker. Special attention given to Collections and all matters affecting the title to real estate, onice on 2d floor, over Post Office, I'lattsmouth, Nebraska. K CM AH. H.TIIOMPSOX, M. I. HOMEOPATHIC PHY'SrCIAN. Thirty years practice has made the Dr. faniili.tr with nearly all diseases, and their cure. Office : Cor. 5t u & Main St., over Johnfon's Drug Store. tf JOHN' YV II A IS 18 JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, atxi ollocior of debts, collections made from one dollar .to one thousand do lars. Mortgages. Deeds, and oth er instruments drawn, aai all county business usually transacted bufore a Just ice of the Peace. Best of reference given if required. Or.iee on Main street. West of fourt House. 40-yl JOHN W. HA1NLS. Ult. jr. 31. WATEE3AX, Physio Medical Practitioner. iMtitvEle, Ctts Co., Xtb. tiT" Always at the oflice on Saturdays. 40yl d.AiI & CRCESSLITE, ELMV00D, - - NEBRASKA, Dealsrs in Dry Goods & Groccrsies, and all articles generally kept in a country store. Farmers, call and examine before going away from home to buy. ltf. PLATTSMOUTH MILLS. PLATTSMOCTII, XEB. C. HEISEL, Proprietor. Flour, CorifLitl5- & Feed Always on hand and for sale at lowest ensh prices. The highest prices paid for heat ai.l Corn. Particular attention given uslom work. 'GRAND CENTRAL' HOTEL, Large lit and finest Hotel be Inceu C hirajjo and San Krancisco. QEO. THRALL, - - Prop. OMAHA. NEB. I keep eonttantly ou baud Best's Milwaukee Beer. which can be had at no other PLACE IN THE CITY. Also the best of WIXES, LIQUORS, A.XD CIGARS. 33inS I'd. BAienbanu. C. L. MUETZE, CUSTOM BOOT A SHOE MAKFRl I make fine sev.cd . French Calf Boots. Fine French Calf-. Pegged Boots 88.00. Jlepairing clone neatly, and with dispatch. LENIIOFF ct ENGHLERT, Morning Dew Saloon ! Oue door cast of the Saunders nonse. Wc keep the best of Beer, Wines, Liquors & Cigars. 33in9 Constantly on Hand. AnnoCan't be made by every agent every HkUtiU!T,on'1 t':e business furnish, but Vl JJ J ihose willing to work can easily earn a dozen dollars a day right in their own localities. Have no room to explain here. Business pleas ant and honorable. Women, boys and girls do as well as men. We will furnish you a complete outfit free. . T:ie business pays better than any thing else. We will bear expense of starting you. Particulars free. Write and see. Farm ers and mechanics, their sons and daughters, and all classes in need of paying work at home, should write to us and learn all about the work at once. Kum is the time. Don't delav. Ad dress True Co., Augusta, Maiuc. FOR YOUP. Holiday Wines, Liquors, BEER, ETC ETC GO TO Headquarters. Hilts' Ale oh draught or hy the Bottle. Families Supplied by the Dozen. SOU P. B. MURPHY. FOIIJiDR Y MacMue Shop b I JOHN- "W.-Tiv:TJ , . rLATTSMOUTU, EB., Repairer of Steam Engines, Boilers, Saw and Grist Mills, UAH ATV1 (STEAM FITTIXUK, Wrought Iron Pipe. Force and Lift Pipes.Stearrt Ganges. Safety-Valve Governors, and all kinds of Brass Engine Fittings, repaired on short notice. FARM MACHINEK" Repf.ircii on S'ioiI Notire. - THE W0RN-0CT FONT OF TYPE. I'm sitting by my desk, George, Before me on the floor There lies a worn-out font of type. Full twenty thousand score ; And many mouths hare. passed. George Since they were bright and new." And many are the tales they've told Th false, the strange, the true. What talcs of horror they have told. Of tempest and of wreck ; Of murder in the midnight hour. Of war full many a "speck 1" Of ships that. lot. away at sea, . Went down before the blast ; Of stiflpd cries of agony As life's last moments passed. Of earthquakes and of suicides. Of railroads and stocks ill-gotteu, Of bank defaulters, broken banks, And banking systems rotten ; Of boiler "bursting, steamboat suaesc', Of rios, duels fought ; Of robbers Uh their prey escaped. Of thieves, their booty caught. Of flood, and fi.-e, and accident. Those worn-out type have told ; And how the pestilence ha" swept The youthful anil the old : Of marriages. of births, of deaths. of things to please or vex us ; Of one mau's jumping overboard, Another gone to Texas. . . , They've toia us how sweet summer days Have faded from our view How autumn's chilling winds -hu-ve swept The leaf-crowned forest thrmiirh ; . How winter's snow hath come and g.one. Dark reign of storm and strife And bow the smiling epring hath warmed The pale flowers back to life. I can't pretend to mention half My inky Iriends have told. Since shining bright and beautiful They issued from the mould How uuto some they joy have brought. To others grief and tears ; Yet faithfully the record kept Of fast receding years. A Dissertation on the American Citizen of African Descent in Neyr Orleans. From the Chicago Times. New OnLEANS, Xov. 19. Two very famous men just now are Kenner .md Casanove, the colored members of the lleturuing Board. With a view to getting- sight of two such noted characters, I went out to pay my respects to them. In a street close by the State House is a plain, square brick house, with a side entrance leading to the rear of the building. Proceeding along this en trance I reached a set-back of the main building, and found niyself.at the door of a small saloon, with the usual paraphernalia of counter, shelves and bottle3. The whole building, as I sub sequently learned, is a club-house, the resort of negro politicians, and leased and occupied by Kenner. The small saloon contained some half dozen persons of all colors, from ebon black to the lightest brown and purest white. One of thm cama for ward, and the next moment, after the formalities of an introduction, I found myself shaking hands with THE FAMOUS KENXEU. I expected to meet a gigantic negro of the regular typa. Instead, I found myself confronted by a man weighing not mora than 110 pounds. Jle is small to effeminacy, with delicate hands and feet a regular petit maitre in appearance. His complexion is a very light brown; his hair brown, and just the least frizzy at' tin ends, as one often sees in men of Hebrew extrac tion. His head is small, with regular features, light brown eyes, handsome teeth; a small mustache; and an ef feminate chin such is Louis Kenner, a man of about thirty-sight, and ex tensively adveitised as a "bullet-headed nigger." Had I casually met without knowing hiin. I should have treated him a3 a pleasant under-sized French man, of Jewist descent, engaged in running something about the dimen sions of a first-class cigar stand. "Well, Mr. Kenner, as the represen tative of the Chicago Times, I have called around to hav a chat with you." "Very glad to see you, sir. Here, al low me to introduce you to my friends This is Capt. Key, of the police." Capt. Key, of the police, is a giant of some six feet two, with a face oiored as if slightly tanned by exposure, with a stern and not unhandsome face, soft ened by a genial smile. He speaks English with a decided French accent; which fact, together with his appear ande, led me to conclude that he was a Frenchman. "Now," said Kenner, after I had ex changed compliments with Capt. Key, "that man is a nigger." "Who's a nigger?" "Capt. Key's a nigger." I glanced dubiously in Kenuor's face. He was evidently in dead earnest. I looked at Capt. Key, of the police. He smiled a gonial assent. "I suppose," resumed Kenner, "that you imagined us all to be long-heeled, bullet-headed, black-skiuned, sausage lipped niggers, eh V" Thinking truth the better part of valor, I frankly admitted that he had "called the turn" on my impressions. "Yes, that's it. The newspapers don't do us justice. Do I look like a nigger, now T 1 told him not, if I was any judge of the article aud I believed I was. "I have traveled all over the Xorth," he said. "I have gone everywhere, stopped at all the hotels, ridden on all the cars, and never found anybody to suspect that I au a nigger." MORE NIGGERS. Just then an old gentleman, wear ing spectacles, and with a saucy mous tache sprinkled with gray, came up. He was unmistakably a white man. "Here," said Kenner to the old man, "I want to introduce you" turning to me "to a cousin of Capt. Key. He's a nigger, too." I looked at Kenner with grave doubt as to my sanity, or his ve racity. "See here, Mr. Kenner, you're giving me what the boys call a 'stiff where I come from." "Ain't you a nigger?" he asked of the old chap. "I am, he answered with a very cor dial grin. "You see "how it is," said Kenr.er; "We're the kind of niggers you've heard so much about. I'm the nigger saloon keeper; but I've got a large house which I keep for a club room for color ed people, and which has reading and dining parlors, and a3 elegant private rooms as any club house in the city. I was born in Xew Orleans and have liv ed here all my life." SOME MORE NIGGERS. Just then a medium-sized man, about three-quarters African, with a mous tache aad pointed goatee, a bright ol ive complexion, and large dark, lustru ous eyes, made his appearance. "Let me introduce Senator Stain pe, said the affable Kenner. Senator Stampe and the undersigned shook hands with great empressment. The Senator is a mild, inoffensive, ox eyed person gentle, unassuming, med est, . low-voiced, individual. "The d des rascal, the smartest nigger, the shrewdest and most unscrupulous pol itician in all Louisiana!" said a resi dent, of whom I. afterward solicited in formation as to Senator Stampe. Surely my informant must b preju diced against the mild-mannered, low voiced, gentle Senator. But, no! Im possible! Because my informant is a Kepublican. ANOTHER Af RICAX. Arid then there came into the saloon a burly African, with a heavy mous tache and side whiskers,- and wearing a heavy slouched hat. A jolly, loud voiced individual, givn to heavy roars f laughter, who at once took part in the conversation without the formali ty of an introduction. Soon after he passed me a card, bearing the legend, "J. Henri Burch, editor Grand Era, Baton Itou.ue, La." Thereupon Mr. Burch and the under signed "shook;" after which we discuss ed the comparative circulations of the Gra.nl Era and the Chicago Times, lie is much more frank than are many of his journalistic brethren. "To tell the truth," said he, "I do a heap of my editing with a pair of scis sors." NIGQICU STATESMANSHIP. The conversation then became gener al. Capt. Key said that bis ancestoi-8 were Spaniards who came over from St. Domingo in 1809. Senator Stampe did not say where his ancestors came from, but very gently stated that he htd once been a slave. Mr. Kenner went over the political situation. Il was, he said, determined to do his whole duty in counting the votes. There, should be no fraud, uo cheating. There were twelve parishes whose Legisla tive members, all Republicans, had been unseated two years ago, and their places given to the democrats. Xow every one of theso parishes had elected Kepublican representatives. And ti nally would I like to meet Mr. Casa- nove, the other nigger member of the Board? If so, he would be happy to introduce me. I gave a grateful assent. And thereupon Kenner, Cant. Key of the Police, Senator Stampe, J. Henri Burch, the undersigned, and one or two other niggers, went out upon the street, and moved in a solemn proces sion down to the corner. and there halt ed. We halted because there hove in sight across the street threo individu als, the whom somebody said concern ing: "There comes Pinchback!" Y'F.T MORE NIGGERS. Mr. Piuehback approached leisurely. flanked on the one side by a gentleman with a saffron complexion, and on the other bv a broad shouldered voung man, whose color was that of a healthy Englishman, barring the beery red. Mr. Pinchbaek and the undersigned "shook ;" and I was introduced to his companions. The suffron-hued gentle man was Col. Somebody; the young man wttn the Lngusli complexion, eorge Paris Assessor of Orleans Par ish. "All threo niggers," chipped in Mr. Kenner. "Well, I have had a suspicion for some years that some of Gov. Pinch- back s Caucasian ancestors had held dalliance with some member of the great Afrite family ; and I am also will ing to admit that the Col.'s saffron hue will permit either Spanish or African conclusions, but Mr. Paris is certa'nly a dog of another color." No, sir! I tell you, Pari3 13 a nigger. He's what they call a nigger in this country a mullet-headed, long-heeled nigger!" I gave it up. Mr. Pans has a superb complexion, raven hair cut short, a neatly trimmed moustache, pure Cau cassian features wiLh nt the smallest trace of wool on his head, or of an eb on pigment beneath his cuticlo. I was getting bewildered. If then and there Mr. Kenner had introduced me to some body as a full-blooded nigger, I believe I should have confusedly accepted the situation without even a mental pro test. Mr. Pinchback is a tall, fine looking man, with a full, pointed beard, and a complexion a little less pronounced than that of our distinguished fellow citizen, John Jones, Esq. He was dressed ic faultless taste, and, alto gether, presented a very intelligent and distingue appearance. "The Chicago Times, eh?" said the ex-Governor and would-be Senator "That's a Bourbon institution, isn't it?" "A 'Bourbon institution!' Good God, never! Why, sir, there are inlhientia), intelligent men on that paper who froth at the mouth every time they see the word Bourbon in print or hear it spoken. They are men, sir, whom the word Bourbon affects as a red rag does a Spanish bull ; and who never see it without instantly elevat ing their tails, lowering their horns, and charging straight at it, like a thou sand of brick." Mr. Pinchback accepted the explana tion with a gracious smile. We chat ted a few moments, when there drove up and stopped a top-buggy. From out it came a man of about fifty years of age, rather paunchy, with tallowy white complexion, and some traces of kinkiness in the ends of his hair and straggling beard. He seemed very like a man who had originally been a rath er mild form of nigger, and whom somebody had undertaken to make over into a white man, and had given up in disgust after getting the job about seven-eight'is completed. "Mr. Casanove. the Chicago Times." The Chicago Times and Mr. Casanove clasped hands. "You are a very fa mous individual, just now, Mr. Casa nove," remarked the Times. "I may be famous, but I am' more funeste. Xow, if you understood French that would be a joke." I hastened to assure Mr. Casanove that I "tumbled" to his little joke. "You're an undertaker. Funeste fa mous: yes, very good! ha! ha!" Mr. Casanove ha-ha-ed in a moderate chuckle, a sort of low basso in unison with my barytone of appreciation. ONE MORE NIGGER. I was pulling away vigorously at a New Orleans indigenous product,which is sold here under the name and title of a Havana cigar, when there stepped up a pleasant-faced gentlemen, with a sandy mustache and hair and complex ion to match, who begged permission to light his cigarette. "Mr. Times, this is Capt. Davis,'"iaid Kenner. Capt. Davis and the Times shook each other's good right hand. "And he's a nigger, too," continued Mr. Kenner. I had become so tangled in the dig ger business that I was not quite cer tain whether Kenner was telling Davis that I was a nigger, or telling ma that Davis was a nigger. Having a little doubt, I ventured to make an inquiry. "Who's a nigger?" "Capt. Davis is a nigger. What they around here call a sausage-lipped, bullet-headed nigger!" I was so relieved to find that it was not I who was the nigger that I failed to be properly surprised at the fact that Capt. Davis was a nieger; albeit he looked just as much like a nigger, and no more, than Snow den of the Tiems, or Sam. Medill of the Tribune. I was later introduced to two other person who spoke frtely in French and scarcely at all in English. They are gentlemen with brown coir plex ions. straight hair; and, barring the indorsement of Mr. Kenner that they are niggers and which endorsement they very cordially accepted I would, at any other time, have sworn that they are simon-pur Frenchmen in blood, manners, speech and appear ance. Mr. Casanove was rather non-committal as to counting the votes. T was born in this cur," he said, "I have lived here all my life. I think I know -h;:t my people want, and I shall do what I think for their best interest." GOOD-B Y, NIGGERS. Soon after, I shook parting hand with ex-Governor and would-be Sena tor Pinchback ; with J. Henri Burch, editor Gran I Era, Baton Bouge, La.; with Capt. Key, of the police: vritti the spectacled old duffer who is th cousin of Capt. tfey, of the police; with Capt. Davis; with the two suave old Frenchmen; with Casanove, im-1 dertakcr, and J'vneste humorist ; with' the gentle, shepherd-like Senator Stampe; and finally with mine host Kenner. As the last named accompa nied me a few steps,' -and as he wrung my hand at parting, he s:tid: "You havo seen some specimens of what are universally knewn in this section as ignorant, brutal, low-down niggers. I wish you to have the fair ness to slate just what you have sen" I interrupted him to assure him that the Chicago Ti7ies was not under pe cuniary, moral or other obligations to lie for anyone. He resumed: "We are horribly slandered and mis represented. I want the facts to.be known, and I am glad to meet with a newspaper that dues to tell the truth. There are no such papers in this ac tion. Xw, I shall look for what you say in the Times. If you remain any time in the. city and choose to use them, I have elegant private rooms here which are entirely at your ser vice, and I shall be most happy to en tertain you. Good-by!' We. drifted apart. It may seem as if all the foregoing is either an exaggeration or a pure in vention. It is neither. The conversa tions given are nearly verbatim, and the appearance of all these niggers ex actly as I have givan it. If I have uspd the word "nigger" with unneces sary frequency it is simply because the term was so constantly in Kenner's mouth. Kenner is a very inteligent, very shrewd, and as his opponents assert a wholly unscrupulous politician. He is the son of a very wealthy and well-known character in Louisianna, Duncan Kenner, who became the im mediate paternal ancestor of Kenner, Jr.,through the agency of one of those morganatic marriages so common ia in the South before the rebellion. Whether Kenner sr., and Keuner Jr., occupy toward each other the affec tionate, relations usual to parent and child; whether they really respoct'each other as citizens of a great Republic; where mayhap, they are strangers I know not. Kenner. Sr., c:m tell if he would. But as people here are sensi tive and juick on the trigger I would advise those in search of information on this point to apply by mail rather than in person. A letter would only cost the stationery and a postage stamp, while the other method might involve a heavy doctor's bill, or the weightier expenses of a funeral. P. Advised not to try It, Miss Pixley, of South Lee, Mrs., jumped, into a river to drown herself and then pulled herself out by the bough of a tree under which she float ed. She writes an account for the newspapers, saying: "If there is any one who reads this foolish enough to want to die If fore God's chosen time, don't jump into the liver where thre are trees with limbs hanging in the water, for if you do, no matter how determined you are to leave this world you will either have to make up your mind to stay a little longer, or elsa try it again, which latter you will net bo likelv to do. HUSBAND'S MANNERS All men who are married, all hus bands, cotno at one time, sooner or la ter, to a point in their lives where they have to decide whethfr the amenities, and courtesies, and sweetness, which characterized the early days of their affection, shall be. continued, or wheth er it shall be given up, and harsh sen timent and speech, nnd tbought, and feeling, shall pervade the life. To some of us, perhaps, this time has come, and we have not decided rightly and harsh ness has crept into tiKU which had been perfect meiodv, and there has been chronic discord in our family circle. The time comes now to us again, right here, now, at the suggestion of- your pastor, to recall those sweeter days ami reform your conduct, husbands, if you have lapsed from that sweet era. For bearance is the keystone of married life. There can be no discord, there can be nolargedivergencies, from tune fulness, so longas the husband forbears and the wife forbears, Xow, this can not be attained without some labor. Results are approached gradually in character, as they are in making a sand hill. It is grain upon grain, shovelful upon shovelful, and load upon load, that makes the mound to rise. So re sults of charaetr come gradually. An act at this time, a deed yesterday a word this morning, a word to-morrow morning, a cross answer to-day, repeat ed a month hence, and so on, till at la5t yoit find there is a ridge between you and your wife's or husband's affection. --3fr, Murray. A FA3IILY PAPER. The Burlington, (la.) weekly Hawk Eye has no competitor in the north west. It is not made up by merely se lecting the best editorial and general articles of the daily issues, but it is edited with unusual care, as a separate paper, and contains special depart ments, editorial articles, news compil ations and general reading matter that never appear, iu the daily. The agri cultural department taiul young folks' department, puzzle' column, etc., etc., of the weekly Hawk-Eye are edited wiih especial reference to the wants of the various classes of readers, and the young folks are beginning to depend on the Hawk-Eye for their current ju venile literature. The market reports and commercial reviews of the weekly cannot be surpassed for accuracy and clearness, and have become standard in the country commercial circles. Ev ery number of the weekly contains many columns of carefully selected and edited reading matter, its editorial articles covering a wide ratine of dis cussion, touching upon all the leading items and important sketches of the day; humorous sketches, written ex pressly for this journal, which are en dorsed and re-published by all the lead ing news and humorous journals of the country; short stories from the pens of the ablest writers of the day; poetry; art gossip; musical and liter ary notes; chatty, vivaciou.? corres pondence from the national, state and great political capitals; in brief, as a family paper, the publishers are proud to compart the Huwk-Eye with auy of the more pretentious journals publish ed in the great cities, and are confident that it has no rival in the northwest. And its improvement within the past year is only an index of the greater impiovements that are to follow as lapidly and as often as pportunity may present. The Hawk-Eye will never fall behind the times and will keep every nerve strained to maintain a position a little in advance of them. nUDUE'-a OI'I N ION 0 V TUB CF.NTEN JNIAL. BY TnE AUTHOR OF "HELEN'S BABISS." Oh, Toddie, where do you think I have been? I've been to the Centen nial! l'apa woke me up when it was all dark, and we rode in railroad-cars and horse cars before it was light; that's the way men do, Tod, 'an it's lots of fun. My! didn't I do lots of rail road riding before I got to the Centen nial! An' all along the road I saw piles of big sticks laid crosswise ever so nice, so they looked just like the pic ture ia the big Bible of the altar that Abraham put Isaac on, you know, and 1 thought they was altars, an' alter 1 thought about what lots of little boys there must be going to be burned up in that country, and asked papa about it, he said they wasn't altars at all, but only just piles of railroad ties wasn't it too bad? And I crossed the Dela ware at Trenton, too, just like George Washington, but 'twasnt a bit like the pictures in the history book that papa reads out of, and nobody there had on hats a bit like Washington. But I tell you the Centennial was nice; every little while we'd come right up to a place where they sold pop-corn balls, and they made them as easy why, a little thing went down, an' a little thing came up, and there was a pop-corn ball in a second. An' then they made poople pay five cents for 'em! I think 'twas real mean; I work a hundred limes that much for a penny when I keep my clothe.3 clean all day. But, oh, if you only could see the big engine in Machinery Hall! I don't see how the Lord could do more than that engine; it turns all sorts of wheeli and machines, an' don't make a bit of neise about it, and it don't ev erget tired. An tho water my! if we lived in Machinery Hall I guess papa wouldn't eve scold U3 for Itaving the faucets open and wastin water, for there's dozens of great big pipes that don't do anything but spout out water. An' there was a whole lot of locomotives, but they hadn't any rticii in 'em, so you could walk around 'em and look at 'em without anybody siz zin steam out at you. I was awfully disappointed at the Centennial, though; I thought there'd be lots of color there, cos my centen nial garters in all color red an' white, an' blue, an nothin' else but Inja-: lib ber, but the houses was most all just the color of mud-pies, except Aggery cultural Hall, an' the top of that was only green, an' I don't think that's a very pretty color. It was nicer inside the houses, though; there was one of them that papa said had more than twenty-two miles of walks in it; I guess there was, cos we was in it more than an hur, and such funny things! You ought to see a mummyi Tod,I gues.s you wouldn't ever want to die after that, but papa said their spirits wasn't in 'em any more, I shouldn't think they would be if they wanted to look nice. You know mama's opal ring? well, papa lifted me up and showed me the biggest pal in the world, and 'twas nearly as pretty as the inside of our big sea shell. St. Nicholas for January. . "While literature continues, plagiar ism will exist, and pretenders snatch from honest writers their honest dues. A friend of ours, smart enough in his ways, but not quite equal to his posi tion as a minister, for years preseved a very clever system of plagarism, and, through the excellence of thte sermons he delivered, became a favorite with his people. By and by one of his old College mates paid him a visit, spent the Sabbath with liim, and heard him preach. The visitor was surprised at the depth and power of th? sermon, and questioned him, afterward, concer ning it, saying it wtis the best he ever heard. The minister laughed. "You can keep a secret ?" he asked. "Well, then, I'll tell you about it. My wife is a scholar. She selects sermons for me, and translates them into Latin; then I take her translation, without having seen tho original, aud re-translate it into English. The sermon you heard to-day was one of Dr. Clarke's; and I don't believe he could have recognized it if he had heard it himself." And that is the wav fraud flourishes. Winn an Id hotel cock died in Dc troit the other day the reporters stood around with uncovered heads and sol emnly said 1 "Peace be to his hashes." Hart ' Xew Year to all Monday. FOE THE HOUSEHOLD; House Plants. -Sueeais i not a!-' wayn attained in tho cultivation of in-, door plants, not alone in producing bloom, but in even retaining life, and. the reason may be charged to the neg lect of some minor details.' It is not; necessary to have largo pots and larg bodies of soil, as too, often-that will induce growth in roots at thevTxpehsd of bloom and beauty. Then too littld attention is given to tho temperature, during winter months, as a room con taining plants will frequently .ho w f temperature of 80 degress, and as th fire dies out fall to 60 degree, or evea less; this is most disastrous to plant' life. Again, plants are liable to collect dust on their leaves, which excludes the necessary effects to moisture.1 Many people think that an excess oi water used in moistening plants will not occassion harm ; this is a grave er-. ror. As good a plan as any is to cover" the surface of the pots with tea leaves,' or some substance that will retain the moisture, and also assist in equalizing the temperature."" A dish of water seS. in tho plant room will contribute, by", its evaporation, a degree of mosture to the plants. Water that is used drf. moistening plants should be about the same temperature of the room; and the pot3 turned every two or threo, days, so as to present a different side to the sun. A teaspoonful of ammonia to a gallon of water is an invigorator to plant life, and will frequently liv duce profusion of blooim How to Grow TLants from Slips This question is answered in a dis cussion at the American Institue sub stantially as follows: "We must al-4 ways bear in mind that a high temitr aturo is necessary to grow plant from slips. They will seldom strike roots when the thermometer marks below sixty degrees, and that is probably why so many fail. The best material to start cuttings of any kind is in clean ' washed sand. If in tho ground, make a hole an inch or two across and -fill it with sand. Grape propagators red nothing but sand and water at first. 1 When roots start, the cutting are changed to other pots filled with riclt' compost. Xew Year's Calls and Customs By 10 a. m. the hostess is in he, drawing-room waiting to receive her visitors, usually a group of ladies re ceive together, having previously tent cards to their gentlemen- friends an nouncing where they will pass the dayi ar.d during what hours they will re-1 ceive. The parlors are not cloned and lighted by gas, as was formerly tho custom; instead, the windows arc thrown open, and the sunlight btreams in, as this is decidedly a day reception Jardinieres of growing plants are in' the windows, and there are flowers ev ery where. A large card receiver is placed conspicuously in the hall or near" the drawing-room door, and in this tho card of eack visitor is deposited. A table with refreshments is in the din ing room, which in most modern built houses is in the extension connecting with tho parlors, or on the first floor in English-basement houses. The col- lation cousists of the delicacies of the" season, but need not be elaborate; sal--ads, fruit, pickled oysters, chocolate," and coffee are preferred to ices.imd confectionery when gentleman hate many calls to make. The t:p!'i nerves to display line damask, rare porelainr glass-ware and silver, and ornamented with freshly cut flowers... In some din- ing-rooms the windows are closed, and the soft light of wax candles prevails. The candles are decorated with dark Pompeian colors, and sometimes with the monogram of the hostess. The candlesticks are of polished bras in the old stylo revived. Substitute for A Corkscrew. A substitute for a corkscrew may be thus made: Stick two forks vertically itdo a cork on opposite sides, not too near tho edge; run the blade of a knifo through the two and ghe a' twifct. Another way to uncork a bottle is to fill the hoW low at th bottom of the bottle with a handkerchief or towel; grasp the neck with one hand, and "strike firmly and tteadily with the other upon the hand" kerchief. THE CHEAl'NESS OF GOOD THING.' The problem of Cheapness U thus l!sensrt in Seribner for January, by Professor Canoll. Though the ohservatioi.s are calculated for tho longitude of Nf w ork City they vwil probably be found reliable, for other localities. "I have scolded about Broadway pri-' cps," said a pedagogue, "and ransacked side streets and down town lanes and corners for cheap tailors, restaurants, apotheearies, grocers or what nots, but always with much the same result. The gain iu price was generally slight, the loss in quality, style, finish, dura--bility. and bo on, both constant and percept'ble. When I occasionally found an article in eornc by-corner which could fairly be called a bargain, I found I had spent in fussing about it' enough time and energv to earn the' whole pi ice several times over, even -at the very limited money value whiclr my time bears to me" (glancing at a pileef manuscript on his writing desk), "People don't sufficiently consider, in this matter," he went on, "haw great is the value of mere insurance affofded by high-class, and thetefore high priced establishments. If I can find, as prac-' tically I often can, a butcher who gives me the lest of meat uinetoen days outr of twenty, it is worth a heavy percent age more to me to deal sttadily with him at any prices within reason, than to try to bring down my expense aC count by buying of his chear or and less responsible rivals, who give me a good artic le to-day, and then disappoint nifl' to-morrow. Even the Shakors nre breaking:' way from their adhenion to old custom. Many of the men openly favor btardv and the women Bhour a disposition to modify their primne of dress. TL Socialist Bays that tbey are likely soon to pive up most of their odditied, but; not their cardinal principles of celibacy and oommuninm of pr'oporty. ( At a public dinner recently given by the Anthropological Society of Parin, ' paper was circulated, the Binfers of which pledge themselves to t bequeath' . their brains to the society for inapection' and dissection. It is thought tlat an ex-' atninntion of the thinking organs of per-" sone whose habits ami Works are perfect ly known will throw light upon tho lawd of phjsico-mental organization. This v3 thr last time the HerAi J Will ever be printed t tail jfarv r