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V THE HERALD F1IE 11 K KALI). IT'BLISHED CVEUY THUltivDAY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA OFFICE: On Vine St., Ona Block North of Main, Corner of Fifth Street. LAlUiFST CIKCn-ATIOV OK AX1 l'AI'KItl. tASJ tOlXTV. Termt, in Advance : One erv, oim year $2.00 One enpy, six months l.oo Obc coi, three months 50 A l f. ii TISI T' ti It A TKH, 1 I till .1 v. 1 in.: 1 in. 0 m. 1 yr. S! k. : 1 v. ?. v. lsqr... 1 no $5 V. ?.! i" . I ( $I2 2 !'.. 1'" '.''' - T" ;.'." Ml IOiki li: i: 3 S. 1 1 s . . ,' :! "75 4 u I T." hoi IICI l"11') !"!.. . LI, S IM 10 '0 13(H 'JOM', ?0. . ! , col ..J s, mi Vjini l.'iiKi in mi' u.Tco' jntsi rnc-i 1 CI1 . . . I l.'l IM IS !:, "I II I r 1"' ! (Hi: 4MI lllft ( J 6-A1I Advertising Mils due fjr.arterly. i Transient advertisement must t fai l , fur 111 advance. JNO. A. MACMURPHY, Editor. PEKSEYEKANCE CONQUERS. 99 (TERMS: $2.00 a Year. vr-Kntni eonie- of the !! Kit.v i l f( r 1-y .1. iiiii. at tin' I'uM'illiec evs In ioi,. Main Street. VOLUME XIV. PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, IS79. J XUMBEll 4:3. NEBRASKA f I. - 1 i -a I ( FIRST National Bank OK rLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA, PCccEson to TOOTLE, 1IAWA A. CLAKK ,IVHir FlT7.fi KR A LI K. H'ivkv A. W. Mi l.Ai r.HLIS... . JONII O'ltOCKKK President. . Vice 1'resident. Cashier. ..Assist a t Cashier. Tl.ii Uatik is now open for busines at their orw room. rnicr Mftin and Sixth st rets, and prepared to transact a general BANKING BUSINESS. Stoclrt, Bands, Gold, Government and Local Securities BOUGHT AND SOLD. Dvporfts Received awl Interest Alloio ed on Time Vertijicates. DRAFTS JDEZWJST, AaJkUil in anv part of the tinted States and la all the Prineinal Town and Cities of Kurope. ACCXTS i on TIIK CELE1U'ATKI Iniian Line and Allan Line OF NT KAMI: It. Fwrson wishing to bring out their friends fTOin Eurwpe can PUUCIIAHF. TirKKTS KHOM US Through to I' I a t t m m o u t h . WILLIAM HEROLD, dealer in miY r.ooDS, CLOTHS. BLANKETS, FLANNELS, FURNISHING GOODS. :o: GROCERIES PF ALL KINDS. Iirge stork of BOOTS and SHOES to lie CLOSED OUT AT COST :o: Notions, Quccnsware, and iu fact every thing you can out for In the line of General L4erch;indise. cash r.n eoi: iiiiks and Ft'tts. Ail kinds of ci.iiiitry pu-i!i!te taken in ex change lor gm-ds. sAc-e brothers, s a? o "v is s , 'jE.' ti u titv" bc ma KTO.. Y.1C, i.TC. Cuu Door list of tin- !'nst-n:'.ee. riattsinoutli. Nclr:i-ska. l'ractic.il Workers in SHEET IRON, ZIXC, TJX, II R A ZIER r, d-c, dc I-.rg'' astortiiu-nt of Hard ana Soft COAL STOYES, Wood and Coal Stoves for UEATIMJ Oil COOKING, Always on Hand. evry vaaty of Tin. Sheet Iron, and Zinc AVork. kpt in Stock. MAKING AND REPAIRING, Done on Slioi t Notice. Ctf-EV'EYJ VTHIXii ir.-t HltA TFT) ! .'wSt I's:ki: i.oti" ixnvx. SAGE BRS. LANDsLAND! BEST FARMING LANDS IN NEBRASKA, KOU SALE BY 3. XgZo. 13.. H.- IX KBUANKA. Great Advantages to Buyers IN 1877. Ten Years Credit at C per cent Interest. Six Years Credit at 6 jh r ent Interest, aiul ZOjxr cent Di'-otint. Otrr l.ihrnl IMNronnts Ker "Rh llhertaiFM on r'urrit anil Frelslitw, and lrmiunt tor Improve nicnt. Tanirhlcti and i.ips. cor.taiuir.K full partic ulars w ill l'e mailed free to any part of the world on miliiatiri to LAND COMMISSIONER. B. & M. K. II. Lincoln Nkkuaska. Pliittsmoutii Temper ante Rilliard Hall. THE MONARCH HAROLD & JONES, Props. The above having ojM.ned a strictly TEMPEIIANCE BILLIARD HALL, on Main St., in the STADEL3IJ.XX BC1LDIXQ Invite their friend and p.itrons of the game to come in and m-c them. . Clears, Lemonade and Temperance drinks .j for nale and none ollicrs. O.XE POOL and TWO BILLIARD TABLES. Remember the Plar-e and Call. 2-5tf -A?I3THR STL? i SCIEXSS.- fiit V. a: or VniiKEr.s c!.anc"d tQ n t:t.o--T iiLAi'K bv 1 si-icle npnlictii:n cf this DvK. It l:iipart a Natural CcSur, a-H la-lsntni.eonriy. rii.t is r. II :ra:'i-.- as hpr.r;r wKtcr. SJd y JmifffUU, or cent by rxprcn on reeejMf f 1. 4Cicct 85 21 array frtrcct, New Vvrk. PROFESSIONAL CARDS J.I,. 3lrCKF,A, DENTIST, and Homa pathic l'hyiclan. Of flre corner Mam and r.th st's., over Herold's stor. riatlsinoiith. Neh. S!y T. IS. WILOX, ATTORNEY AT LAAV. I'raetiees in Saun ders and Cass Counties. Ashland, Nebraska. 35mG IC It. LIVIXIiSTOX, 5f. I-, rirvsrciAN & scr;kon. OFFICE HOl'RS, from 10 a. m., to 2 p. ra. Examining Surgeon for U. S. Tension. IK. W. II. NCIIIL.IK.KCIIT, PRACTISINO rilYSICIAN, will attend calls at all hours, iiijrlit. or dav. I'lattHinouth. Ne braska. ORice in Chapman & Snnth's Drug Store. 42ly CiflO. N. KM IT II. ATTORNEY AT LAW and Real Estate Bro ker. Special attention Kiven to Collections and all matters aftectinir the title to real estate, onice on d floor, over l'ost Office. I'lattsmouth, Nebraska. 40l. JAMKS K. .UOItltlSOX. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Will practice in Cass and ailjoiiiinjt Counties ; plves secial attention to collections ami abstracts of title. Ollice with Oeo. rt. Smith, Fitgerald Block, l'lattmouth, Nebraska. lTyl i). ii. hkkm:k a co. LAW OFFICE, lteal Estate. Fire and Life In surance Agents, l'lattsmoutli. Nebraska. t:oI lectors. tax-jiayerf. Have a complete abntract OI lilies, uuy ana sell real ehiaie, iiegoiiiiir loans, &.c. ISyl ii XV. Cld'TTKK. DE3STTIST. I'lnttoiuouth. XrbrasUn. OfTlce on Main Street over Solomon and Na than's Store. 34ly HA 31. M. tllAPJIAX, ATTORNEY AT LAW, 'And Solicitor in Chancery. Office in Fitzger ald Block, 19 t rLATTSMOUTII, NEB. D. M. W1IF.KI.EB, K. I. STOXE. WHEELER Sc STONE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, lMattnmouth Slfbrnska. c ii iri.i:s WAiir.::.. Tonsorial Artist. PLATTHIKU'TH XEUKASKA. f'lace of business on Main St.. between 4th and Mrt streets. Shampooing, Shaving, chil dren's hair cutting, ete. etc. 191y COMMERCIAL HOTEL, LINCOLN. NE15., J. J. I2I1IOFF, - - - Proprietor. Th..- best known and most popular landlord in the State. Always stop at the Commercial. LENHOFF it- BONNS, 3Iorni2i iknv Saloon ! One door east of the Saunders House. We keep the best of Beer, Wines, Liquors & Cigars. ."OHO Constantly on Hand. sauYders house. J.S.GREGORY, - - - Proprietor. Iicai: n Central. Oood Sample Room.. Evi ry attention paid i guests. 4.'l:x3 r!.ATTs.Mi.Til. ----- Net. IIUUKAKD HOUSE, D. WOODAED, - - - Prop. lYoeplng Wafer, Xcl. Good aeconimndati.ins and reasonable charg es. A good livery kept in connection with the house. cyl OCCIDENTAL HOTEL. F K I : MON T, NEI5II A S K A FRANK PARC ELL - - - Prop. Good rooms, good board, and every tiling in apple pie order. Co lu the Occidental when voa visit Fremont. 10' f PLATTSMOUTH MILLS. I'LATTSMOl'TII, NEB. C. IIi:JS::i - Proprietor. ...... f Flour, Corn Jfnal t- Feed Always on hand and for sale at lowest cash prices. The highest prices paid for Wheat and Corn. Particular attention tiven custom work. ZEXD XT ZEsT ID :E23T AND MACIIIXE SHOTS ! I'UTTSMOl'TH, NEB.. Repairer of Steam Engines, Boilers, Saw and Grist Mill Ci AS AM MTKAM FITTIr-J, Trought Iron rie. Force and I-ift ripss.Steam Gauges. Safety-Valve Oovernwrs.and all kinds of Brass Engine Fittings, repaired on short notive. FARM M A C H I N E K J. G- CHAMBERS, Manufacturer of and Dealt r in SADDLES, COLLARS, HALTERS, WHIPS ETC ETC., ETC. REPAIRING Done with Neatness! Dispatch. Tne only place in town where "Tutiey's pat ent self adjustable horse collars are sold." 431116 A. Schlegol & Bro., Manufacturers of PIlsTE CIGARS, And dealers in FANCY SMOKERS ARTICLE'S, SMOKING and CHEWING TOBACCO'S. Special BRANDS and sires of CIGARS made to order, and satisfaction guaranteed. Cigar clippings imM for smoking tobacco. Main St. one dooi west of Saunders House, rLATTSMOUTII, NEB. 101' Excelsior Barber Shop. J. C. BOONE, Main Street, opposite Saunders House. SHAVING AND SIIAMTOOIMG Especial attention given to CUTTING CHILDREN'S AND LA DIAS HAIR. CALL AND SEE BOONE, GENTS, And get a boone in a B. & M. R. R. Time Table. Corrected Friday, October 13, 1873. FOR OMAHA FROM PLATTSMOUTH. leaves 7 rf-o a. in. Arrives H :5 a. m. " 2 :33 p. in. " 3 :o0 p. m. FROM OMAHA FOR PLATTSMOUTH. Leaves 9 -J) a. m. Arrives 11 :'J0 a. ni. " 6 :i p. in. 7 lio p. in. roit the west. Leaves Plattsmouth 10 :2.r a. m. Arrives Lin coln, 1 -Jo p. m. ; Arrives Kearney, y: 05 p. m. Freight leaves 8 :00 a. in. Ar. Lincoln 2 :00 p.m. FROM THE WEST. Leaves Kearnev. 6 :22 a. m. Leaves Lincoln, 12 :15 p. m. Arrives Plattsmouth. 3 :00 p. m Freight leaves Lincoln 11 :30 . in. Arrives Plattsmouth, 5 :0U p. m. GOING EAST. Express, 6:15 a. in. Passenger, (train each day) 3 :50 p. m., except Saturday. Ever third Saturday a train con nects at the usual time. It. V. It. It. Time Table. Taking Effect Monthly. Xov. 4, 18T8. BOL'THWAKD. Arrives Leaves Hastings, 7 1 Ayr 8 -.21 p. m. I ttltio Hill K -5vX n III P" m- f Cowb s 9 :47 n. 111. Red Cloud, 10 :2S p. iu. KOKTHVVAim. Leaves Arrives 1 Cov.les 4 :5I a. 1 Blue Hill. ...5 :M a. Avr 6:2'Ja. m. m. m. Red Cloud, 4 Ma m ) iiasliugs.. .7 :Ji a. m. C. II, & Q. It. It. TIME TAIILK WESTWARD. Express Mail. Leave Chicago " Mendoia . 1 10 l'lam . 10 (Hipm . I 1 25pm i 1 45am " OalesDurs 4 "im 5 35am Builiigton I 740;ni' 8 loam " Ottumwa ; to fiojiin 11 35am " t hariton 1 45am i 2 1 5pm Creston 4 25am. .5 1.5pm Kedtiak 7 inam; 8 Oepm Arr. riatt.smoulh 20ami EASTWARD. Express Mail. Leave Plattsmouth 1 3 f.opm' 5 Suam " Red Oak ! x oopiir 8.55am Creston n :tipm 11 15am " Chariton 12 55a in 2 15pm oitumwa 3 20am r. iHipm Burlini;ton i (i :iam ' 8 4upm ;alesburg ' 8 .Viam 11 i5jm " Mendota 12 15pm! 3 loam Aniv Chicago i 3 .mi 7 Otiam ONLY 27 HOURS TO St. LOUIS bv te new ROUTE hist opened via MONMOUTH. PULL MAN PALACE SLEEPING CARS run fiom Burlington tost. Louis without change. BY LEAVING I'LATTSMOUTH AT .t :50 P. M.. you arrive in Sr. LOUIS the next eveningat 8 :'.'(!. and leaving St. louis at 8 :it) a. in., you ar rive in Plattsmouth s :2i the next morning. Coupon Ticket!" for sale lor all points North, South, East and West. SAMUEL POWELL, D. W. II ITCI ICOCK. Ticket Agent. Cen. Western Puss. Agent. J. M. Bkoitau Aeent, riattsmouth. -. v t; o v t i .'.tr.-r - 3 . . i 3 O i.-MM:iS;i--:i:iji;- CO . x ;i ; ; : : : ; 1 I O fa Cs r! . - c : - - r. c I P U 9. It c I 'l 1 1 1 5 1 1 'j 3 1 y To Hoosiers in Nebraska. Former resident of Indiania now living in the West, desiring to oht.ihi tin: news from their old Iloosier Home. tOiould at once sub scribe lor the bi-i-t of all the ei kly papers. The Northern Iiidianian. GEN. REUB. WILLI AMS. Editor and Prop. Withou; a doubt Tiik N'octjian In!iAm.v is the best weekly paji-.T pTni.isaed winiiti the boijersof l-uliana. Itisalai'e tr:y-column follo-the !.i:g.-sl I i th eou.ity .iii.I e.ieii num ber is tilled to repletion wiili Indiana News. Editorals on every s.iliject. Cii"i-- Urugtuents of History, Selee S'ift cites, and letters fro in its own eoiTepoi-dents in the East and West. The great sizeof THE N'oKfH kkn Imuamas en ables it to furnish Its reader vitha splendid Continued Story, in addition to its large amount of Miscelaneous Reading matter, and it is con ceded by everv one to be the best paper publish ed in the old Honsicr Stale. Inthenrst num ber of the vear 1879, will be commenced a new storv entitled. K0XIE,.A TALE OF THE HARRISON C.VMI'AMJX, By the Rev. Edvard Eggleston. author of "The Iloosicr Schoolmaster." "The Circuit Rider,'' etc.. the plot of which is laid i-i Indiana, and which will far sin pas aaytaie uliished in a western .Iou:-iial. At the begining of the new year Til K I x ni AV IAN will pi mt a i:i:niioth Doiiblo -ai'ct Holiday Number, wl ich will be the I.AKlSKKr TAPKi: EVFlt MMVTK'i IN ASIPIIlrA. This double number w;!l bi- sent to regular ubscrsibcrf the same as its usual is,i:c, but in g!e copies of this Fpecial issue will be eent on receipt often cent". THE TERMS OFTliE INDIANIAN ARE : Three kimit lis (i,n trial) S 50 Six months, 1 00 One year, 2 00 Addrea GEN. REUB. WILLIAMS. Indian ian Buldim:, Wausaw, Ind. 33-tf. C-STou-Wantl PR PRICE lYourWife-C S Tbi I REDUCED "a I Better tliau Ever SJ I'aU of Plain, Practical, Keliabir, iijj . m . . . . 1 1 . . . . m . m m for Wet, Ent, Ponth, Korth. FnreTery Owner 5S "a of 'til-, llomos, Pliccp. Swine, or i Farm, wZ Oardeu,or Village l ot ; ii.revcrr Hoastkecpcr ; tor all Do s mid d;r is; fcjj OVER 700FINE ENCRAVINCS, jj both l'lcnsinsf and Instructive. J All tint above, au J mure, iu the US jAmericanAgricultiirist; a Vol. 33. From Xow up to ISO, post free, 1879 i" I- Onlv $1 Esch. ay to Clubs of Un or more. F a 5 copies. S1.20 esch: 4 copies. $1.55 each. RInirle si g suiwcrlptions. fi,v. Sairle numlx-ra 15 cis. J Ouo siccimcn, iiost-free, 10c. arj SPL.E"fDIO PHEMllMS GIVEY Ja J to tboee sending Clubs of Subscribers. B Issued in English & German at same Price. Try It-Vots'H Like It-It Will PAT. Z" Children I Everybody 5 "Wants It. K Want It k ' Yi ?. r - . v. r 'tr. r. z z f- r. y. y. y. -z 2 : Z. t '"-jrd slLx?srss;:; ' Z-- ".- r Xz. ---- 1 OKAXGK judd I COMPANY, IrubUthert, ai.1 1n V" -v .VV. Don't Stop Mj Taper. Don't stop my." paper, printer, Dont strike my name off yet ; You know the times are stringent, And dollars hard to get ; But tug a little harder. Is what I mean to do. And scrape the dimes togethar. Enough for me and you. I cant afford to drop It ; I find It doesn't pay To do without a paper, However others may : I hate to ask my neighbors To give me theirs on loan : They don't just say, but mean it. Why don't you have your own? You can't tell how we miss It, . If It, by any fate. Should happen not to reach us. Or come a little late ; Then all is in a hubbub. And things go all awry, And, printer, If you're married You know the reason why. I cannot do without It, It Is no use to try. For other people take it. And, printer, so mast I ; I, too, must keep me posted And know what's going on. Or feel and be accounted A fogy simpleton. Then, take It kindly, printer. If pay be somewhat slow. For cash is not so plenty. And wanU not few, you know, But I must have iny papur. Cost what it may to me, I'd rather dock my sugar, And do without my tea. So. printer, don't you stop It, Unless yon want my frown, For here's the year's subscription, . And credit it right down. And send the paper promptly And regularly on. And let it bring us weekly IU welcomed benlsou. Green vrood as It Is. Editor of tiis Herald: Dear Sir: As several different par ties have, attempted to write up the town of Greenwood, and have faile 1 to tell what wo re.'.lly are, and what we most need, I have decided as brief ly as possible to give a true account of the town; not misrepresenting either its size, business men or inhabitants. And we believe a strictly true account of this, our most western town in the county, will hardly fail to be of inter est to your many readers. Greenwood is situated on the B. & M. Railroad, six miles southwest from Ashland, and over thirty miles from our county seat. It contains about one hundred inhabitants, and is sur rounded by as beautiful and product ive farming country as can be found in any part of the county. Its inhab itants are industrious, social and in telligent. The town has two large elevators for grain, two side tracks at the depot, and it is the great meeting point for passenger and freight trains to pars each other. Our little town is a moral town, hav ing no saloon, but quite a number of business houses; also two churches, the Congregational and Christian, and the" erection of another is contem plated. And, now, Mrt. Editor, we will ask you very kindly, to tako a walk with your correspondent while we pass up Main Street, going into town from the east. The first business house we find up m our left is a restaurant and board ing house, kept by James and Cannon. We walk into the store room of the building, which we find well stocked with candies of all sorts, and fancy ar ticles. We then pass into the dining room, which we find as neat as a pin, whore we introduce you to our genial and accommodating landlady, Mrs. J. lines. We then seat ourselves to a sumptuous dinner; after which we hastily examine the rooms connected with the house, which we find neat and comfortable. We then enter the store room again and while Mr. James is offering us a cigar and Mr. Cannon is insisting on our trying his line can dy, Mr. James tells us that he is also engaged in the grain b usiness, and th.tt he has shipped forty cars of grain in the last four weeks, bought for F. E. Lawrence, of Red Oak. After leaving the restaurant we pass up street and enter the drug store kept by K. A. Ryder; which is well stocked with drugs, paints and oils.- We find Mr. Ryder, although a comparatively young man, a shrewd and energetic business man. The post office is also kept in the same building, by oar jovial Postmas ter, Mr. Alden. After calling for our mail we enter the next door upon our left and we find ourselves in a large dry goods and grocery store, belonging to Mrs. Xoels, and kept by her son, E. A. Noels, whom we find very busy opening boxes of new coods and placing them upon the shelves; but, although he is busy, both he and his accommodating clerk, Mr. Sans. Swigley. are ready to give us a hearty hand shako and tell us low low he can now sell goods. So, finding him in a prosperous condition, we le.-tve him the same, and renew our walk up street. The next we find is the hardware store, kept by Iloham Bro's. "We fi:ul a fine lot of stoves, of which they make a specialty, and are tilsrt agents for the Orchard City wagon. The next store upon our left is a res taurant, kept by Moses Chevront. Here we must pause while we take a glass of fresh sweet cider and eat a few of those splendid red apples that we see in the barrels about us ; and while we are looking around, we see a good stock of confectioneries and fan cy groceries. Just beyond this on the same side of the street is the millinery and dress makers shop, kept by Miss Miller and Miss Montgomery. Xow, as you are a married man I gues3 I will not take you in there, unless you want to pur chase a new dress or hat for your wife ; but will tell you about this place. Should we enter we would find lots of hats, ribbons, neek-ties, &c. They keep a full stock of hats on hand, and chal lenge competition in prices. They are well supplied with work, and most of the time keep an assistant. Here, on a street running south, we find a hotel, kept by Mrs. Wilson, whose boarders can be accommodated with rooms or meals. Xow c.03s the street opposite the mil linery shop, where we find a large and commodious store, kept by Foster & Co. It is a dry goods and grocery store, well stocked. Mr. Foster also keeps the lumber yard here. He is a pleasant gentleman, a good business man. and, best of all, a good citizen. The next business house is a fancy grocery, kept by Mr. Grubb. A boot and shoe store is also kept in the same building. . We have two blacksmith shops, kept by Mr. Stiner, and Mr. Kline, Our livery stable is kept by Mr. Hackney, formerly of Wisconsin. Mr. Hackney is a live business' man, and with his intelligent lady, is a handsome addition to our village. Our school building is one of the finest and most commodious school buildings in the county outside of Plattsmouth and Weeping Water. Our school enrolls fifty-eight schol ars and is in charge of Howard Zink. Mr. Frank Stetson, of Farmington, 111., is buying grain here. He is stor ing his corn here, in town, and ship ping his wheat direct to Chicago. Dr. Root is our physician and sur geon, and cures us of all our ills. "We have also a regularly organized reading school, literary society and Good Templar's Lodge; and taking us altogether, we are alive and mean bus iness. Respectfully, Frank Dig by. From Ltulla. Ed. Herald: We have plenty of cjld weather and little snow. Considerable corn out yet iu this vicinity. J. C. Uond has bought and moved on to the Abb. Van C;epp place. George Towle has sold his homestead and bought the Price (Cunningham) farm. Jle moves in the spring. Mr. Piper and brother have just re turned from Filtnore Co., where they have been visi.ing their sister, Mrs. Miss: man. S. W. Or'.on and wife, just returned from a quiet and extended visit at Warren County, X. Y., reports times as hard if not harJer than in Cass. Tay Richard has gone to Vermont, to visit his old home. San ford Pottenger still continues to trade horses. Col. McCarty was his las'., victim. - TJushbury has a debating society; meetings every Tuesday evening, at Pern mitt school house. Squire Zink has traded for a shot gun, and we he;r of him out hunting some of our coldest days. He feels perhaps, like the over-zealous old ladv who went to church on foot one very cold and stormy day. When asked why she came out on such a bad day, replied, "If your heart is. warm frost or snow will do you no harm." We hear not of the dead and wounded, but the destruction of ammunition contin ues. PerieveiaiK e will prevail, anl the squire may shoot a quail. Turkeys are roosting on the lower limbs again. Some, however are among the missing, but accounted for. David and Daniel McCaig have sev eral homesteads in frontier county. John McCaig has gone to Illinois on private busines. I think if the. Heralds for Luella were sent via Weeping "Water we could get them on Saturday, instead of the following Monday. Adirondack. Sicilian Stories. Next to Christ and his apostles, Virgil whom the story tellers of tho middle agrs turned into a powerful magician, holds a front place in the tales of the Si cilian peasants. They have all the well known atories; how ho fared the Appian way to give work to his rest'ess demons; how he set up enchanted statues in half a dozen places; how, -when lie was dying he had himself cut up and put in a barrel which w as hung over a magic lamp, und fioni which he would have come out a little child, but that the Emperor Augus tus was over cautious and would open the barrel before tiie ri-ht time. But, be sides these, there are two stories which I think are pure Sit'iiiaa. Here is on : Virgil once got into trouble with the Em peror, who imprisoned him; but the im prisonment did not hist long, for calling his fellow prisoners around him, he drew a galley on the wall and then told each one of them to pick up a bit of firewood and to sit in a line and begin rowing. Straightway, the prison wall opened; the sticks turned into oars; the galley came out of the wall and iu stately guise sailed through the air and never stopped till it landed tiie party in Apulia, They went into a cottage, where there was nothing to eat. and Virrril s -nt Ids demons out ftir- prging. They made straight for the Em peror s table at Naples and carried olf his plate of choice maccaroni from under Ida very nose. "There's only one man living that could play me such a trick, and that's Virgil," said Augustus. State Items. "We havereceived the Omaha Her ald Almanac for 1S79. Two hundred and eighteen students in attendance at the University. Gov. Furnas fakes Editorial charge of the Nebraska Farmei- for a few months. The Lorgnette, a society journal, ed ited by Frank Rosewater and P. W. Hay nes, Omaha, conies to hand. Polk Ceunty has vote' J bonds for a railroad and is jubilant. The Record crows in every other line and has a beautiful train of cais gliding ever the paper. "We understand that a temperance daily is to bo run at Lincoln during the session of Legislature, probably under the management of Mr. J. B. Finch. The State Treasurer is now rredcem ing warrants with gold. He took to the State House day before yesterday a wooden bucket full of five, ten, and twenty dollar gold pieces. Ex. The Sidney Telegraph advises the girls to begin Xew Years day and leave off gossiping for a whole year. It also says theio is more billing and cooing done in one evening in Sidney than in any other town in the State. Tho Adams county Gazette gives a review of the growth of Hastings the previous year, stating that in six years it has giown to a city of 3,500 inhabi tants and that 300 buildings have been erected during the year just closed. "Dutch Charley," who had been ar rested for participation in the Widdow field murder was taken out of the car at Carbon, Wyoming, and hung to a telegraph pole. He had been identi fied as a participator in a number c f stage robberies. The young man who wagered with himself that he could twice walk around a Sidney block in his bare feet, accomplished the task, but formed the opinion that Sidney ice was colder than that which he had been accustomed to. Sidney Telegraph. "We have received a copy of the cat alogue of Tabor College. Among the graduates of 1STS we no' ice the name of E. II. Ashmun of Weeping "Water, and in the preparatory department Samuel Carlylo, Mary Jenks, Ida Thorn gate of Weeping Water, and Oliver Dovey of Plattsmouth. Caught In The Quicksand. It sometimes happens that a man, trav eler or fisherman, says Victor Hugo, walk ing on the beach at low tide, far from the bank, suddenly notices that for several minutes he has been walking with some difficulty. The strand beneath his feet is like pitch; his soles stick in it; it is sand no longer; it is glue. The beach is perfectly dry, but at ev ery step he takes, as soon as he lifts his foot, the print which it leaves fills with water. The eye, however, has noticed no change; the immense strand is smooth and tranquil; all the sand has the same appearance; nothing distinguishes the surface which is solid from that which is no longer so; the joyous little ciowd of sand-llies continue to leap tumultuously over the wayfarer's feet. The man pur sues his way, goes forward, inclines to the land, endeavors to get nearer the upland. He is not anxious. Anxious about what? Only he feels, somehow, as if the weight of his feet increases with every step he takes. Suddenly he sinks in. lie sinks in two or three inches. Deci dedly he is not on the light road; he stoi to take Iiis bearings; now he looks at his feet. They have disappeared. The sand covers them. lie draws them out of the sand; he will retrace his steps. He turns back; he sinks in deeper. The sand comes up to his ankles; he pulls himself out and throws himself to the left the sand hs'.f leg deep. He throw himself to the right; the sand conies tip to his shins. Then he recognizes with unspeakable terror that he is caught in the quicksand, oud that he lms beneath him the terrible medium in which man can no more walk than the fish can swim. He throws oil his load, if he has one, lightens himself as a ship in distress; it is already too late; the sand is above his knees. He calls, he waves his hat or his handkerchief; the sand gains on him more and more. If the beuch is deserted, if the land is too far off, if there is no help in sight, it is all over. He is condemned to that appalling bu rial, long, infallible, implacable, and im possible to slacken or hasten ; which en dures for hours, which seizes you erect, free, and in full health, and which draws you by the feet; which, at every effort you attempt, at every shout you utter, drags you a little deeper, sinking you slowly in to the earth while j'ou look upon the ho rizon, the sails of the ships upon the sea, the birds flying and 6ingingj the sun shine, and the sky. The victim attempts to sit down, to lie down, to creep; every movement he makes inters him; he straightens up, he sinks in; he fuels that he is being swallowed. He Howls, implores, cries to the clouds, de spairs. Behold him waist deep in the sand. The sand reaches his breast; he is 'now only a bust. He raises his arms, utters f'uriou3 groans, clutches the beach ith his nails, would hold by that straw, leans upon lils elbows to'pull himself out of this soft sheath; sobs frenziedly; the sand rises; the sand reaches his shoulders; the sand reaches his neck; the face alone is visible now. The mouth cries, the sand fills it silence. The eyes still gaze, the sr.::d shuts them night. Now the forcher.d decreases, a little hair ilutters above the sand ; a hand comc3 to tiie surface of tin beach, moves and shakes, disapjiears. It is the earth-drowning niaa. The earth filled with the ocean becomes a trap. Jt presents itself like a plain, and opcus like a wave. "Keep 'way from dat nigger, I tell you," said Uncle Rube to his sable daughter; "keep 'way from him. He's like what tie 'jiostle John lived on in de wild'ness." "How's dat?" she asked. "Low cus' an' wild, honey," replied Uncle liube. llas-ian. "Hassan 1" I had been told to call for Hassan if I wanted anything in the night. I wanted water. My neck and shoulders were on fire; my lips and throat were parched; tho muscles of my arm refused their of fice; in tho stress ot paiti 1 needed somo one who could rui.-c my head and lay tho pitcher at my lip;. What "Hassan" wns like I had no notion, save that I had heard he was a servant of the house who.e dutyit was to lie on th? mat near my door, listen for any sound within the room and instantly jump up. Fnin his name I should have guessed that he was either a Syrian or an Arab; but by aec'dmt, when I was lying down, I had heard him mentioned as a native of the ish.nd one of the fifty or sixty thousnnd swarthy so:is of Islam who have passed from the swry of the padishah into tint of the English qu:en. "Then you have Turkish servants in the houses" I had inquired of my h r'st. "Oh, yes," the major had replied, "every one in (.'yprus gets a Turkish servant it' he can. The Turks are very ch uti and faithful; as they never touch wine or ruki. they arc always sober, they aro so honest you might trust them with your pantry and your purse. The Greeks, when they are native and not foreign, are a guodsrt of ieople; but I like to have a Turk about my house, and, more thnn nil, about my sleepiug-romn and my living-room.'' It was the old story. I have heard the same thing said at Kalsan, Samara, Rtf; toff places in which, unlike Cyprus, Christian races have for generations held the whiphand over their Moslem lot s. "Hassan !" I cried. A figure glided through the open door. My room was dark. Fear of mosquitoes had caused the lamp to be put out. A few stars peeped through the lattice, but the cres cent moon had sunk. "Ferrie mie," 1 be gan, in the debased Cypriote Creek try ing in my pain to recollect the words, and, of course, forgetting them "ferrie mie udor," instead of the local word uero. In a tender voice, almost like the cooing of a Sifter of Mercy, the dark figure stooped and whispered, "l'aria Itnliana." I had not heard the voice before; but something in the tone impressed me deep ly in the man's favor. "Water was brought and carried to my lips by means of a straw; for I was lying on my back, una ble to either turn my neck or raise my head. All tluough the night that fellow waited on me; bringing me, with a sih nl service only to have been expected in a wife or nurse, limes, sugar, straws, water. Light he was too wise a man to introduce. He stood in a corner of tho room, quiet and watchful; only when I wished him to speak, he spoke. His words were soft and full of hope. Everyone, he told me has these mishaps. He had been thrown himself a score of times. Baring his arm he showed me where his wrist had been broken, his elbow crushed, and his shoul der put out. All injuries that man can suffer from mules and ponies he had gone through, but the pain was only for a day; a little rest, a little shade, when plei.ty of good water, and he was on his legs r.gain. Hy lying still and rubbing in some lotion the signor would soon be right. When daylight came, nr.d I could see the. face of this good fellow, I was d. lighted rather than surprised to find in him the man who had been so qu:ck on the rond in running to the well unasked and bringing me that glass of water from the spring. I looked my thanks. He understood me well, though not a word was said. I put my left hnr.d out; he bent his lips to kiss it, but I seized his own and gave him an English shake. A weird and beautiful fire lit up his Oriental cheek. That instant we were friends. In the Haunts of Vice. The Rev.Talmadrro in Ihe course of a sermon delivered a: the Brooklyn Taber nacle, described w-'iat he saw during a visit to the so-caiied palaces of bin ol Gotham. Said the Reverend Divine: "But I have to report that I saw some things that amazed me more than I can tell. I do not want to tell it, lor it will take ain to hearts far away, but I must. I saw young men with the ruddy health of country life stamped upon their cheeks. They had gathered in the harvest grain beneath God's blue sky, with the hned strong hands God had given them. What were they doing here? They heard how gayly a boat dances on the edge of a maelstrom and they were venturing. I saw that young man when he first con sulted evil. I saw that it was his frsl night. A look of defiance was in his face saying, 'I am more powerful than sin ' Th?n I saw the shade of a painful reflec tion passing across his face. I think t. soft voice came out of th:;t tawdry, g:;udy furniture, whispering to 'him above the discordant music. But sin triumphed and he turned to the tempter. I don't feel so keenly sorrowful for young men brought up in the city and accustomed to city life when I sec them thus, but I pity the young man from the country. Oh! young m;in from the far hills, what have your parents done that you should treat them so? "When you were gathering the harvest appb-g down there in the corner of the lot where the little brook murmur by, did you think you would come to this? Do you prefer this brazen, pa'nte.l, grin ning thing to that old wrinkled face which smiles in sympathy with every one of your smiles, and weeps 'when you r.re unhappy? Look at those distort fingeis. What made them so? Working for you, Sir, working for you. Write homo to your poor old gray-haired mother cursing her; curse her while locks; curso the cra dle you were rocked in. What? You wont? But you are doing worse. The. news of your prorligaey will kill hr. Some old gossip will lincl the way to your mother's cottage on an afternoon when the sun is shining bright and all the beau tiful country is smiling for joy. She will enter when your mother is sifting by the window, and presently she will say, 'Do you kr.o'-v your son drinks?' and then your mother will ad to ha-e the door opened; she feels faint. And still into her ear will be poured the s'oryofyocr Iif j here She will go cut and sit tio-.vi. oa the old, worn ttep where you used to piay and cry. By and by the doctor's gig will come up through tho shady, qv.iel lane and he'll stop. He'll conic agnin and again, but she'll get woise instead ol better. And then the village bell will toll, and the farmers will drive up in their old wagons and hitch their horses time tinder tiie maple trees. And they'll ask, 'What did she die of?' And one of the village doctors will si:y 'malaria' and another 'intermittent fever.' Young me.n. the tlied of a broken heart." The murdered Lord Lei trim's will hr.s been proved under $1,000,000 personalty, and he" hasn't left his successor in ti.ii ti tle a single cent. The latter, who inher its o.dy the entailed realty, h".s entered a caveat against the probate of the will, and would, perhaps, like to withdraw the offer of $50,000 for discovering who killed his disagreeable old uncle. The Almost Forpotlen Umploj utonts of Darning and Mending. It is possible that in olden times too much stress was laid on the importance of training git is to mend and darn so cx quisitly that it would be difficult, almost impossible, to discover that there Jm I been any neceity for the labor, saya Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher; but if therij wns any euor in teaching and exacting mch perfect work it vus a fault "that lei.ned to virtue's tide,'' and beyond all comparison better than the wretched "blotching" to be found on the raiment of some of many of the girls of the pres ent day. Laundresses that wah for school j.;irls could make strange revela tion; of neglect of garments and cnrclu'S repairs were not their lips sealed through fear of losing good customers. When a biokcn stitch is allowed to go uncared f r until it 1ms become so large that tho stocking cannot be worn without some re pairs, tuid is then drawn up into an ugly bunch hard enough to blister the feet instead of being nicely darned; or when a tear or rip on dicssor undergarment ?s pulled together with thread coarse enough to injure the fabric, who is to blame ihu mother or the daughter? What instruc tion has ever been given tins young girl about looking out for the beginning of evil in . her wardrobe? Has she been taught to darn or to mend every rent or rip the first possible instant after it was discovered, and to do it neatly? Oh, no! Her music or drawing lessons, her I'rcni h and German ami dancing, are apparently of more importance than such useful work as m 'in ting or darning. If a you.ig lady has wlu.t, in these days, i.s tho rnro skiil of compelling her needle to i:ssist her in carrying out all the reiuisitieii9 which will enable her, with scant materi als, to keep herself neatly and genteelly chid; if she can turn, remodel, piece neat ly, cover the hick of m: fe.ial by some simple and appiopriafe trimming until she makes f.n old, dilapidated garment look t.iiii'.icf fl; u-r i'"v tint II. 1 win l I t I hive cause tho davs of her life to thank the mother who led h r in the way sh 1 t lioultl go; mid whatever changes or vi.-is? itudi s maybe sent she hr.s fir hn.i to fear than those who, in prosperous lays, r.ie only fanciful ornaments of ihcic Tmc, I ut when the evil d .ys come, will, tr.voigh their ignorance, becomo oppres sive burdens upon those who must pro v'idj for their Sc:p;.ort. How to Care Slcejilessness. Thousands sufl' r iioni w ikefulne;s v.lur are othcrw isu in good health. To koiii? of them this becom. s a habit, and too oft en a grow iug one. Some resoitto sopo rific, ""drugs, and this is how the opium crave is often ii iti ited. Others find win.j or tpirits oci-m-ionally effectual, and nro thus ii id need to take alcohol every night, and not a fi.v, it is to be feared, have in this way l"id the foundation i f intemper ance. There have, however, never been wanting pcopie who have lounU a way ot going to sicep without e.-oi t to Midi mea sures. I lie iiie-ter:-ts ;.i one l line were popular, and fiom them a host of people learned that looking at any fixed point steadily would o'.'icn succeed in inducing sleep. In the dark, however, this is not so easy; but this dlficulty wes not felt iu Braidisni, which consisf-d merely in t'os ing the eyes an I trying to think they wire watching attentively the stre.-.in of air entering end leaving the nostrils. D was asserted th it whoever would will to see this stream, as if it were visible, would infallibly f.oon fill asleep. Wc have known the plan succeed, and it n evi dently the same in principle ns fixing tho attention on any single visible object. Another plan has just rem hed us, pro posed by an American physician, Dr. Cooke, who telly, us that in numerous cases of shcple-sness it is only neccrary to breath '.j very slowly and quietly f r a fjw minutes to secure a refreshing sleep, lis thinks thr.t mo: ; t cases depend on hy peremia of the brum, and that in this slow breathing the blood supply is lessened sufficiently to make- nn impression. Cer tainly, w hen the mind is uncontrollably active, and so preventing sleep, we hnvo ascertained l';"i;i patients whose ol . iva tion was worth trusting, that the breath ing was quick and short, r.iid they have found they bica;ne more dlsj osed to deep by breathing slowly. This supports Dr. Cooke's liliieliee. Let at other tliuc-.i his plan rjuite f I. It is f eita.nly worth any one s w hi!" who is occasionally ticcji- hs-; to give it a trial. In itomg so they shouid brea'h.' V I V oHiel. v, rillev it. cp iy, ami at int r'.al ', but in t long trough to cause tli" h . st fe'-iing of uneasiness. In fine, they should iini'ntc a person sleeping, and do it steadily for several, minutes .! ('ic-'i Efmiiur. I'..tte:i:ag Poultry. Three weeks is long enough to f dferc fowls; ami, to make it easier and more profitable to do so, the birds should bo kept grow ing briskly from the start by a liberal allowance of good feed, ph-nty of exercise, und good cniv. A stunted bird or animal wiii not pay to fatten, i:s a rule. While turkeys canuot bear C nitinemerit and will rapidly lose lle-h when confined, as wc have found-out to our cost, chick ens, when properly handled, will f.ittcn more quickly, and will, ton-cpif ntly, pay well to ta'ke up to fatten, for the sim ple fact that e ii'li day the fow l lequires a certain amount of fe'.d merely to sustain the func tions of the body, and the fewer the number of days required to complete the procisi the greater the degree cf profit. A d ikon"d room is the be-1 pli' e for fattening fowl-, the rin to have a deep sand floor. Peed them in the morning, and have water-troughs convenient for them to get their water. Allow them about halt an hour for f i ling, and then darken up the room, excl i'iing all tho light, though :;.'7. r-V.v'4 v Ulla.i :i. At noon give a::'o:it f'-e.i, as beloie. r p' h ing in'th- evening. Do not five lie m any peo-hes, for they can an. 1 will make them selves very comfortable, on the sndy floor. If roosts or r o,:iug benches were sup plied, the etl'"its made in '.rating on thein would deley their fattening m iO i in ly. In fattening jxiu'ti v.the cheapest mid best food is un.l ubt -ii!y corn, in its dif ferent forms. One or two feeds of wholo Corn can b" given, and scald, d coreim comment mu- h, n inudi mad of m: u t-n l oats Tomid tog ther, boiled bean etc. Win re miilc U plentiful and on a farm we usu.dly find p'en'v ofA:i.i-miU. thick nii:k. etc. ! t t.i ' low's have i ich of it . s th'-v will talie, nrd it v. Ill m lt. ri.tlly ha' ten the fattening. Watch your birds, citrefully, i-nd, if you notice any of them 'commencing to vi'-jic- around under this S'.stcm of high fjcd.iig. turn th -ni ..ut in to the vard and let them run until moro are taken up to fatten. Under proper management, the fattening w ill be : cconi plisheJ in about two weeks, find should; not take much longer; for naluu.dy tho fowls cannot endure tho stuffing proc?. very long w ithout showing bad effects, lie kg deprived of exercise and daylight.1 n n