1 t r t 1h i i f r, r 7 OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. Atatt 7)irrctor. , C. II. YA.N WYCK.IT. M. .Henator, Neb. City. ALVIN 8 A C N l K lUi. V. H. HeiiatoOniah. K, K. VALKNTIXK, Kep-erutat e. West feint. JAM Kf v., DAWK.H, (.overnor, Lincoln., K. I'. K.V. Secretary of State. y I DUN W IXKII.S. A u.l I tor. Lincoln. I. I. Hrrt;lKVA.Vr. Trriuurer, Lincoln. (Y W. I KM. Kj.t. Public In.tructlou. A.ti.HS t). 1. 1., Itinl .'oiunil.loiir-r. ISA' I VKlc.H. Jit., Attorney 0ii. ral. V. J. NOHK-i Warden. f Penitentiary OK. II. 1. MAITIIKWSOV, Supt. HcmmUm. fur the Insane Sm prm Court. UAXWKM., Chief Justice, Fremont. .;KO. It. LAKK, Omaha. A M AHA fOISIt, Lincoln. .Sttroml Jmlicitil 7)ii'riet H. It. I'Ot; l, Jiitl-. Lincoln. J. if. MTKoiK, I'rosi-rutiiiK-Att'y, V. C. SHOW ALTKK. Clerk lllrl.-t Court. riall .i.mmiUi. Cir liirectorv. Jo.sKi-ll V. XVKrKI!ACII.Maji.r. WILLIAM II. I IIIN;. treasurer. J. I. hi M IMlN. City Clerk. ... .. WILLKTT I'OITKNiSKU. I'olice Jutlirf. M. A. llAiU Ki.V.V. City Attorney. t. KliOI.LLKK. Chief of Police. K. K KOMI I.Kit Orers.-rrof MrecM . C. kiKII.N KK. Chief f Fire l.-pt. iiMKl'li II. Ji AM.. Ch'u Koard of Health. roUNCILMKK. lit. Ward .1. M. S hue Lachur, Win. Hero.. in. I want -Jerry ll:ir(lii:tn. J. M. i'atlurjun. 3rd Ward - Al,i ln w, M H. Mur,hy. till War. I C .S. Hawvii. K. I. l-chub-iB. . BcliOol. 1;uakd. JKMKK IS .HKOIK. .1. W. LAICNKS. V. V. Lh'oN Milt, Win. WINlLKhlEKN. hll. tlllr.l SKI.. ISAAC Wll.L.H. 7Wiwr-JNO. W. MAlttHALI.. Court (y yjirrrf-try. W. II. NK VKI. I.. County i reaiiri-r. J V. JKN IXl.-. County Clerk. J. W. .lollN.-o.N. t oiiiity JuUne. K. w. 11 yi:i:s. sii. rlil. :YICt'H Al.liN.Sii.t of l'ul. I iit met Ion. v. r AiiCMKi.ir.Cuiiiity hurvryor. J'. P. iAnS. C'uruiivr. HUMV rOMMlN.SIO.tKKIk JAMES CKAWFOKP. So.itli l.. iid rrrliM t. BAM'L. niCHAKItSON. Alt. IMea-anl Precinct. A. U. TtDI, l'lattsinoiilli Partlfn liavinj ltiHiiici with the County Coinuitrloii-r. w til fln.l tliftn 111 jrx.iloii tilt tliS Moii'.l.V) uA 'i'uHMday o( vm-ii inonlli. MOAItO iiV TUIK. KUAN K Klti; I il. Prrnlilrnt. J. A. CON N Olt, IIK.SKY H.I'JK. V:tr Pr--I- (It'liU . - WM. S, WI.SK. S.u ietary. i MtKl). CmkHKU. Trtusurtr. Ket;nir laeetlnu" of the Iloitr.l at the Court lloiiMe.lliv i'. rt 1 m-siluy evi'iiiiiK of e.n li mouth. liitiVAf. axi ui:iauti:kr PL ITTHMOI TH .11 A U.S. .4 K K I V Kd. k. p. m. 1 j.ZO a. 111. i v.uu a. iu. 1 .'.( . ui. t i.iio a 111 ;W p. III. : . 'v a 111. .. ) p. in. ( .. . 111. DKi'Airrs. 9.ou a. ni. ) :t.oo p. ni. j !.no a. ni. I c.sr p. ru. . in u.i xi a. in ) KJft a. in. 4.25 p. 01. m.oo a. m l.uu p. Ill NII.VKY KA.Hl'KKN. WHTKICN. NOKTIIK.Iiy. hii; i HKBN. OMAHA. WKKTlNti H'ATKIt. . l.uia in. AC'l Oli V V 1LLK. live. 17. 1 Ml. H.ITKK CUAHVKII KOK OK lKKM. u ortlcr not excoedinK S15 - -Over ?15;u.il Hot exret-Jiug - - " .! " i0 " it) cents 15 cents i rent jA cent A iitKl Money Order may include any 4itaou:it fi-m one cent to ttlty dollars, but u,::si not contain a fn-.ction.il part of a cent. HATES KOK FO-rTAtSK. ! cla-H.H in.ttir (letter) 3 oeiiM per V ounce, .il " ( Publish? r r;iiesi i el pi-r lb. ' i't iMii-i:iit New.-papris and bink-come uiiii-r thi-. cl:i) I cent per each - ounces. 4th clas (i:iiThaiidii(0 1 cent per ounce. J. V. Ma lis u a Ll. P.M. B. & M. R. R. Time Table. Tukiny feet July, 2 13-31. KOP. OMAHA KHOM PLAlTSMl t:Tll. Iavf i ;!" a. m. Arrives G :xi a. 111. I p. 1:1. " 5:4p. ill. t.r5 a. 111. " '-' :H.t. I.t. K. ;. AS 1 r I . .K. C a. 1,1. " 0 i3 1 :i. m. i:Up. 111. i:ii;. 1.1 FKO.M ..MAI1A Koi: Pi. ITSAt. l"'i ii. Leaver 8 :!' ;l. m. mvps n :3" .. 11. J :l . " 7 p. 1.1. " 7 ;W p. U. E p. S.i. u. ". asi sr. .nK " h , 1:1. '. :Vi p. 111 ? :lM a ni. t :3'J p. in. f 01: hi k v. ;:sr. Iave. l-::ttsinoilth ! :H a. m. Arrives i.in colli. 11 -Aj -v. in. ; K-tin i p. 111. ; iltriwli It) 6 p. if. ! Deliver 8 -;m a. 1:1, l,aveH C p. 111 ; arrive-. I.iucul.i 9 p. in. lUKKiMf l4iMVe!it: n uT ;u :u. ; Arnv.-s Lin-'ohi I :10pm Iave a: :l:i . : Arrive.-, at l.i:icoln 1 :!H. p. 111. ; Hii'ili-pH h a. m. Leaves at J :.K p. 1:1. ; A:tive at Lineoin C n. in. ; lla-Htint Z u. : M'.-C'iok 4 a. in : Lleuver I :00 p. 1:1. Kl;-t flii. VK..1'. Leaves Denver at 6 p. la. ; Arrive at M; Cook t -V)a. in. ; ll.ti..- ' 1 :Ji a. :.i. : I.iiu jIii 2 :0O p. in. ; Piutlmioutli .'. . in. Leaves Lincoln 7 a. 11: ; arrive PiaUamonth v4va.in. rUKIIiKT leaves Lincoln at 11 A-'n. in ; Ar.ivcs S opm Leaven li.vill:i 7 :4 p. m. ; Arrives Lincoln 9 ;:i0 p. 111. ; Plailsiiiont I. 2 a. m. leaves lenv.T C :0o a. 1:1. ; Arrives McC'ook :i0 a.m. ; llaatiuics K :.'M p. in. ; l.ir.colu 6 ;15 a. in. ; Plattsinouth ! ) a. 1:1. GOING EAST. Pasn;er trains leave Plattsmouth at 7 00 a. o a. ni.,5 10 p iu. and arrive at Pacific J auction at 7 25 a. m.. y 20 a. ui. and 5 30 p. in. K. r. AM ST. .iuk. Leave at 9 ;2u a. ni. a::-l a :' p. 111. : Arrive at Pacific Junction at 'J ;.:" a, 1:1. atd 'J :I5 p. 111. t HO.M THIS KASf. raei ger trains leave Pacific Junction at & 1Z . a. in., 6 :2u 1 . iu., 10 a. in. and arrive at Platt.-t-niouin at 0 40 a. m.. 6 -mi p. in. au.l 10 30 a. ni. k. r. A-D ST. JOK. Leave Pacitle Junction at 6 :10 a. in. and 5 :40 p. ni. ; Arrive 6 :25 a. in. and 5 ji5 p. m. tiju; TAIH.E Missouri l'aclfic Railroad. K pres-s leave 7 40 p in .17 -4i .5a " U.24 S.37 " 10.07 G.3i a. in .l.Bi p.tn Kx ii c.n leave KiiiK SOUTH. Freight leu es Kir.B bOUTH. Q mit ha Papniiou Hprinsneld Louivville Weepiutf Water. Avoca Dunbar Kansas City St. Loaii 8.0T) S..T7 9.00 y.ij a. 4.1 !n.2l 7-7 r 22 .in. 12.-V a. iu. 2.0U p. Ih. 3.00 3 so :,.oo - 5.45 " C.15 " p.m. a.m. " Cuk TToTug HOKTH.' olnt; KOKTII. JCOKTH. R5h.in .IS ft- f 11 St. Lrfnta - Kanai) City Xuubar Avoca Weepinr Water. Loulnvllle. ....... Sprini;fieldL. Paplllioa.. .. '. :' Omaha arrivei 8.32 p.in, 7.57 a.m. 4.14 p. Ill 4 54 " 5.PH " 5.33 " 5.43 " C.15 " C55 " 1.01 2.10 2.4 3.5-i 4. -'5 5.25 -.or. p. 111. 5.4r " 6 I 6 32 ' CJit ' 7.20 " 8.00 The a'aoyrf it Jefforson City time, which Is 14 minute faster than Omaha lime. coxVriiPTio.v era co. An old physician, retired from active prae tlce, having: had placed in hi hands by an Kat India Mi'sionary the formula of a Miuiple vecetaMe remedy for the speedy and rterina nentctUt'oJ L'(i':iMptiou. P.rmcliitis Cttarrli Asthma, an 1 :JI throat ami i.n"K ai.Bii"iiM. a!s4 a riiivo ami-radical -ore f .r oeneral -LK-bility. aiul all urvnus comHaliits. after liar pij thoroiiKbly tested Us wonderful cnialive Imwer l;i tiioiiaud of eaes. lt.-! It his duty o i.iftka il fcii.iwu to hi lil. The reciie. with full p.uticu'ari. illrectioH for prer:iratii aud use. and a'l necessary advies and instruc tloua lr successful treatment at your owu home, will lie received hy you by return mail, free of charge, by ad "rcs-ini? with tamp or rtamped self-addnsed euveiopt l 4l,J OR. J. H.W MO.xlt. ICA Washiufcton St.. I'.rooi.lyn, N. Y. J. F. jB A U Bl E l S'T.EH ' " lu-uUhe. 1 re-b. Ture Milk UUUVEKI'.U l4ILY. 8peuU calls attended to, and Freh Mlllt troa same cow furnUbed whenVanUd. 41y ' . ; ' - - I - i i ..... - - - 1 - ..-.... .... M : , . i rr, ; r PROFS8IOMAL CARDS. SMITHS III'FSOV, ATTOKXKYH AT LAW. Will praeth-H Iu all lliei oiiH. Iu the stile. OIllcc over Flrt Na ttiHiaJ It.tnk. 4y IIA1 IflMKI'l ll - -NKkaAfKA. lll. A. NAIJSHI ItY, DIDISTTIST. )l1tre ovr Smith. P.liick . Co's. Inni; Store. Hisl class deiilislry at n ajiiliablij puce-. 2.lly if. 5ti:.A in:. 31. i. . PHYSICIAN and KI'ICCKON. onice on .fain Hlrert. iM tween Hixth and Soventli, south lde OMI.: open day aud diKht rii xtv 1-If vsk i a v. Hii-i-l.il attention Kiven to ilisc.-i-.i- of uoiui.-n and clilldreu. ;-itf ' M. O'DONOHOE, ATTOKXKY AT LAW, Fll-er.i!.l' P.lock. M.ATTSVIorTlt. - NM-.KASKA. AK' i.l lor M.-anisl.lp lines to and from Km ope. dl2u.V2ly K. It. l,IVI(.KTO. T.I. I., 1-IIVSTCIAN &. Rl'liUKOM. OKHCK HOCHH, from 10 a. m.. to 2 p. Kxaiuiuii is Surp:eou for C. S. Pension. IIt. H. MII.I.KJI. PHYSICIAN AND HIIIUiKO Can be found by calling at bis oflice, conn ana Maiu .street. 111 .1. 11. Waterman'" hoi i-i.att.smwi;tii. n kiiica.sk a. N. r7lh ise. J AH. H. 3l1 11 t:VM ATTOUNKV AT LAW. Dfllee over P.aker X Atwood' store, fcoutli side Of Maiu between Mil and bill streets. 2ltf .1. it. NTitimi:. ATTOKXKY AT LAW. Will pricti;,- in all the Courts iu Hie Slate. DiMrivl Att'iriu'j n.fl yutttij J'ultlir. WILL . U'lHi:. col i. a'ctjo.y.s - .s:c.i i, n . ATTORNEY IT LAW. Ke.il ICatate. Fire In- urani-e and Collect ion Agency. Ollice 1'i.tou block. Plattsmouth, N'i bi.uska. 2'iu3 i. ix. yi3ki-:i.::k a o. LAW FK1CL Iteal Ktate, Fire and Lil;-Insurance Agents, riatt.siuoulh, Nebraska. Col lectors, tax -payer. Have a complete ati-tract of titles. j;uy and ell real estate, ne; itiate plans. &c. isyi JAHI.S K. UOKltlHOX. Notary 1'ublic. ATTORN EYAT LAW. Will pratlce in Cass and adjoiiniit; Counties ; -ive-.s spt-cia: attention to collecli-.ns and abstracts ot title, oilico in KiUKerald Block, Platti-moulh, Nebiak.u I7VJ . ,. t- ' J. C. .VClVCISiUItV, , JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. Has hi oftice iu Uie front part of his reside i-.- on Chicago Avenue, where he may be fou.ol iu reaiiiiu-cs to attend o tlj.: d.ilios of the of fice. 47tf. ItOHKUT tl. VI Villi V I, Notary Public. ATTOIi.NKY AT LAW. Ofllce over Carruth's Jewelry Stoie. Plattsmouth. ... . Nebraska. M. A. HAitriCAtM, KlIZ(iKltU.H' J!l.H'K, Pl.ATISMOUTH NKIi Pnmipt Mid careful atlenlii..! io a general Law Practice. A. N. Sfl.MVAN. K. II. Woi.kv . SULLIVAN & WOOLEY. Attorneys and Counsalors-at-Law OPflCU-In !io Unixii UI ck, font rooms, iceonJ Mcry. so;i'. 1. l'r.ia,l : itei:M n civen to all baslr.eid . iuar2 PAKLOIt HAllJiLUSUUP ;i ijuiet i-lacc fur ;i aii wuik (juai:axti:i:i rn-st cLu. 1 1,, ITj UL S 13Z the placf, up ht;iirs, -juuth sile of Mail; BOONE, Prop'r. PLATrsryiouTri mills. - i'l.A'I i'SMOl'TH. NEP. v. 1: ccs 1:1,, I'ropi It'lor. Flour, Corn Jtai l- Feed Always on hand and for sale at lowest cash prices. The highest prices paid for Wheat aud Corn. Particular attention ivni custom work. SAGE'S ADDITION TO TiiiC CITY or PLATTSMOUTH Valuable outlets for rvskltnet: pur poses. Sage's addition lies south-Wi st of the city, and all lot. ar.- vt-ry t-asy of access, and liiyh and bihlly. For particulars call on E. SAGE, Prop'r, AT SAGE'S II A HI) WARE STORE. Platt3mouth, Xeb. Consumption POSITIVELY CURED. All sufferers from this disease that are anx ious tvle cured should try Dr. K Issuer's Cele brated Cnu-ui-.iption Powder's. These Powd ers are the only preparation kno n that will cure Cousuuipt uu and all diseases of theTbroat and Luus- iudeed, co ptroim is our faith in them, and als j to convince you that they are 110 humbug, v, e will I n ward to every sufferer, by mail, post paid, a Free 'trial Uox We t. n't want your money until you are per fectly satir,ed of their curative powers. If your life is worth saving, don't delay In tivin these l'-.iwd.-rs a trial, as - they will viirely cure you. Price, for L-.rce Itox. $.1.00. or 4 Coxes "for $10. Sent to any pan of the United States or Cana da, by mail, on receipt of price,. Address ASn & KOK BINS. j FultoU St- ISr.ioklyn, X. Y. Dec. 2Rth.l8R2 HtlV. LYOK&HSALY State & Monroe Sis.. Chicago. ill m4 smalJ t. any kUw Uwl BIND CATALOGUE. for IU4. p" di'3 r-k-n'l:0 af Inlnonu. suiu, t npm , mu. iWMJH .U IRrluM iti.lntrfiAll ...a tl- m lor AmaWtu IUuuh uii . C.LWMII.' j(C4s ttoud Umc AT JOE McVEY'S Sample Rooms You will firnl t'if rii'if-st Imporfpd French lirandy, .'iiaii;p;iin. ai,d oi5.tr Fine .Wines, 1'ure Kr-ntucky WliUtieH, sevtrrul of th ieat. and most popular brands of BUTTLE KEER, Fresh lieer always on draught, and Fine Ci- gars.'. 26tf. 9 w r j FA 1 ?. 1 n ROVING AKGONATJTS. Romance hi the Life of (.old Hunters. Zi&Ht Days ' iu iho Old Ifomo Tht Sweetheart Loft Behind. I'renticc Jlulford in San Francisco Chronicle. Thirty-four i-urg aj;o, onoJnno morning in 14S, old III.' 11 LatLaiii caiuo into our "wshIi Iiouhi?," and alx.nt 1I10 lhst K'Msip ho unloaded wm that "Tii !i l.i ii-B about finding; m Californy was true." It was a ""wash day" and "our folk." a:..l omo of tLo neighbors were U-niporarily lojj.i!itj in (Lo wash lioiiiM", while the colored help Hrmsed lier fat black arms iu the suds of the waalitub. TThat was the flr.st n-port I ln-jril from California. Old Kben had Li en a loan of tbo sea; warto.n o captnnsd by a pirate, ai.il v. !.-n b;i bild the tlory, which lie did onco n we k, he i-oncludod by rolling rip his troim'-rs au-1 hhowiri!; tho Lul!etj ucars be had le. -oiled. California tl.on wan but a blotch of ink on the hili.n:i.ii 'a map of 1S-IT. It was aH.sociated only with IikI'-m, tallow nud Daua'H -Two Years li f..ic tb .- ".last." It was thought of prin cipally in connection with long-horned, Havafco cattle, labfc.i and jUexicaim. Vory near this in Cenerul vacancy and invbtcry wai tho en tiro region weit of the Kocky mouutains. What was known a-i the "Jinliaii 'i'erritory" covered an area now occupied by half a iloen prosperous Hlati Texan was ilicti the Mecca of adven ture and peoplo w ho found it advinablo to leavo home s kI.Ihii! v. Tho pbraso in those days, "(ioiio t Ti-xuh," had a lueauing almost equiv alent to "(iono to the Then California took it- place. The report slumbered during the Biimnier iu our villa;;.-, but in the fall it commenced kindling, and by whiter it was ablaze. Tho companies commenced forming. It wae not entirely a tttrango land to some of our people. Many of our whalers had touched at San Fran uiwco and Monterey. Tho North Pacific Was to theiu well known. There had recently been a great break-dowu in tho v.halo fishery. Whal ing ships Tor aalo wore pluutif ul. Three-fourths were bought for the Argonaut.-. Of these Eome became historic in Kau Francisco. ThoNiantic, on whoHe timbers stood a hotel, I recollect see ing when a vory tonall boy coming to our vil lago wharf, when purchaaed in New York for the merchant sei vice. The Cadmus, broken up iu Han I'rancist-o years ago, Lcforc being in tho whaling servieo was a merchant packet, and brought over Lafayette iu IK'JI. We used ere gold was heard in California to descend into her cabin as nhe lay in port aud steal tho ornamental bits of carving as patriotic memcn -toes. What iu lSVi-.V.i was known as 'Jlotteu Itow," consisted of dozens of these old whalers moored in linos together off Kincon point.there waiting to be broken up. Konie went up the Hacrauicnto, and Rome to Stockton, and their lnivMy bones lie there to-day, unknown eave to tho few. By November, 1818, California was the talk of the village. All tho old retired whaling cap tains wanted to go, and most of them d:d go. All the spruce young men of the place wanted to go. Companies were formed aud there was much sorious drawing up of constitutions aud by-laws for their regulation. Iu most ca-ses the avowed object of tho companies, as set forth in these documents, was "Mining and trading with the Indians.'' (Ireat proJit was expectod to be gotten out of tho California Indian. He was expectod to give stores of gold and furs in exchange for gilt watches, brass chains, beads and glass marbles. The companies bought safes, iu which to keep their gold, and also strange and complex gold-washing machines, of which numerous patterns suddenly sprang up, invented by Yankees who never saw and never w ere to see a gold mine. Curious idea were entertained relative to California. The Sacramento river was reported as abounding in alligators. Colored prints represented the adventurer pursued by these reptiles. The goueral opinion was that it was a fearfully hot country and lull of snakes. Of the companies formed in our vicinity, somo had more standing and weight than others and membership in them was eagerly sought for. Au idea prevailed that when this moral weight and respectability was launched on the shores of California it would entail for tune on all belonging to the organization. People with tho lightning glauce and divina tion of golden auiicipation eaw themselves already in the mines hauling over chunks of ore aiid returning homo laden down with them. Five years at most was to be given to rifling California of her treasures, and then that country was to be thrown aside like a used up newspaper and the rich adventurers would spend the remainder of their days iu wealth, peace and prosperity at their eastern homes. No one talked then of going out "to build up the glorious ftato of California." Na one then ever took any pride in the thought that he might bo caUed a "Calif ornian. " So they went ' People who could not go Invested in men wi.3 could go, and paid half the expense of their passago and outfit on condition that they should remit lack half tho gold they dug. This de scription of Argonaut seldom paid any divi dends. I doubt if one ever sent oack a dollar. Eastern shareholders really got their money's worth in gilded hopes, which with them lasted for years. But people never put such brilliant anticipations on the credit side of the account; aud merely because that, at the last, they aro not realized. Surely, if such an investor lias a good time for two years indulging in golden hopes and goes to sleep every night for that period lulled by anrifcrous dreams, he might credit the man who gives rise to thein 5 or 10 per cent, on the capital stock. As the winter of t'4S" waned the companies, one after another, set sail for the land of erold. The Sunday preceding they listened to faro well sermons at church. 1 recollect eeciug a score or two cf the young Argonauts thus preached to. They wore admonished from tho pulpit to behave temperately, virtuously, wisely and piously. How seriously they lis tened! How soberly were they narrow brimmed, straight-up-and-down, "little plug hats of that period piled one atop the other iu front of them. How glistened their hair with the villago barber's hair oil. Uow pronounced the creak of their tight boots as they marched up tho aidle. How brilliant tho hue of their neckties. How patiently and resignedly they listened to tho sad discourse of tho minister, knowing it would be the last they would hear for many months. How eager the glances they cast up to tho church choir, where sat the girls they were to marry on their return. How few returned. How few married the girl of that period's choice. How little weighed the words of tho minister a year afterward in tho hurry-scurry of tho San Francisco life of '40 r.nd '50. AVhat an innocent, unsophisticated, inex perienced lot were those forty odd young Ar gonauts who sat in those pews. Not one of them had dug even a pat-holo. All had a vague sort of inipre.-sion that California was a nutshell of a country aud that they could seo each other there frequently and eveiituallv all return homo at or about the same timo. llow little they realized that one was to go to tho northern and one o the southern mines and ono to romaiu in San Fraheiaco, and the three never to meet again ! W'hat glittering gold mines existed in their brains even during the preaching of that sermon! Holes where the gold was put out bv the shovelful, from which an occasional bowlder or pebble was picked out and flung away. The young Argonaut, church being dis missed, took' his little, shiny ping andi w ent home to the last Sunday tea. And that Sun day night on seeing her home'f rom church for the last time, he was allowed to sit up with her almost as long as he pleased.- Tho light glim mered long from tho old homestead front par lor window. The cold north wind without roared among tho loafls . sycamores and clashed the branches together. " It was a sad, sad pleasure. Tlv old sofa ther fat upon would he sat upon by them no more for yea-s. For years? Forever" in ni.iay case. To-dry, old and gray, gaaat and beat, pomewh -re in tho gulches, "up north" simowhore, hidden awav in an obscure mining camp of the TuoIuuine,S:ani3hiu8 or Mokolumne.up iu Car- ilioo or down in Arizona, still he rsc I'e. t. that r.ight as a dream. And sL-.'V Uh, nat dricd her eyes and married tha star aUhone five years after. A girl can't wait forever. And besides, bad reports af ter a time reaeh'-d home about him. Ho drank. Hj :;a:nbl--d. He found lair f rionds anions tlh-'-jetmritas. And worse thau all ho made no fortn By spring most of the Argonauts had de- ?arted. With them tho flower of the village, 'heir absence made a big social g.ip. and that for many a day. Tho girls they left behind tried for a timo to "live on hope, and afterward "took up" and made the most or the yotuier generation of boys. They remembered that after all they were not widows. Why should their mourning be permanent? T'wero selfish for tho. departed Argonaut to demand it. And who knew how these Args might console ihom selvea on arriving in San Francisco Aftnr many month came the first letter irom run ranctaco, an1 the specimens or gold dust and gold piocea . The gold dust ranio in quills or in vials, mixed with black anL But Urn dust wan not always dug by the moral Argnoaurs, rroni wnom tho in .nt was expected. Jt was often tho gathering of some of the ob- Bcurer members of our coinmuuity. Fortune was democratic hi her fvnrs. l.w 10 itw a -returned caiirornian" wan an object of curiosity and of orue importance if 110 inougiii any money wirn nun. or rather as long as the money he brought with him Listed. But "the war" wiped uh out in thin resooct. Tho California fortune of that timo was a mere pimple compared with the f 01 tunes made by the war. A generation now exist to whom tho whole Argonaut oxodrta is but au indifferent story. No one cai es to hear abut it. It is but as a faintly rftineirihersjd dream. W'hy, tho school histories givo it but a couple of linos and treat it as of no more importance than a day's pleasure excursion. iu the course of two years a few of tho Ar gonauts came strauggliiig back. Ilie first of these arrivals, 1 remeruler, walked up our main street, wearing 0:1 his shoulders a bril liant hued Mexi'-au scrape. It created a sen sation. AH the small boys of the village "tag ged on behind him," a sort of impromptu guard of honor. Tho snrapn was about all he did brin hoaie. He talked a great deal of gold, and brought specimens, but not iu suffi cient ijuantity to pay all outstanding bills. Tho next of the returned was a long, ki"'', yoMow ease of Chagres fever. He brought only (loom. . -Along in lSTi.'1-M nmo a few of tho inoro fortunate who had made "a raise." Two of them returned aud paid up their . creditors in full who had leen by creditors given over. But few came to remain. They "staid around" home a few weeks, turned up their noses at tho finall prices asked for drinks, cigars aud stews, treated even body, grew reHtlHss and wore off again. Bclatives of the not returned beset them with inquiries which they found it diffi cult to answer, because there was an idea pre valent in tho village that a man in California onsht to make money, and why didn't he? Sometimos oil visiting my native village I stand before one of these old-fashioned houses from whose door thirty-four yeara ago there went forth for the last time tho young Argonaut on his way to the ship. There is no more than one such li'oiso in the villago. The door is double, the knockor is Mill upon it,the window panes are small, the front gate is the samo and up to the door the same stone lie upon the walk. But within all aro strangers. The father and mother are past anxious iuquiry of their son. The sisters are married aud live or have died elsewhere. A new generation is all about They never heard of him. The great event of that period, tho sailing of that ship for California, is sometimes recalled by a fow a few rapidly diminishing. His name is all but forgottoii. "Some of them have a dim re membrance. In his time he was an important young man in the village. He sot the fashion iu collars and the newest style of plugs. Oh, fame, how fleeting! What is a generation? A puff. A few old maids recollect him. What a pity, what a shame that we do ail fade as a leaf ! AVhat a sad place ; what a living grave ia this for him to return to ! Where would ho find the most familiar names? In tho cemetery. Who would he feel most like? Like "Itip Van Winkle." Who are these bright and blooming lassos passing by? They are her grown-up children she with whom he sat ud that Sun day night in tho old-fashioned front parlor on f t:. oid-faslnonod sofa. here is she? That is she, that tvtout, middle-aged woman aoross the street. Is she thinking of him? No: she Is thinking whether there shall he cabbage or turnips for dinner. Who is that codgery looking man going up the street? That is the man she didn't wait for and mar rind. Should tho Argonaut return home if he could? No. IiCt him stay where he is aud dream on of her as she was, bright, Kay, lively, bloomin" and possibly romantic. Tie dreain is solid happiness compared with- tho reality. Let him at twilight sit in his cabin door, on Delirium Tremens bar, and dreain on while the sun gilds Iho foothill summits. If he can cannot ho dream s-jberly, let him got a bottle of corn whisky and dream on that. Better even that than' the hard, cold, damp, pray reality. What is the end of it all? Boiies! Bones!! Bones!!! I THE SOUL OF BEN HILL. j Wherein It and What It It Kstate Tho following were tho remarks of U. S. Senator Tngalls, of Kansas, 011 the doath of Ben Hill, the Georgia statesman, and for which Senator Ingalla was severely criticised by a New York minister: Ben Hill has gone to tho undiscovered country. Whether his journey thither was but one step across an imperceptible frontier, or whether an interminable ocean, blank, un fluctuating and voiceless, stretches between these earthly coasts and those invisible shores we do not know. Whether on tho August morning after death he saw a more glorious sunrise with unimaginable splendor above a celestial horizon, or whether ilia apathetic and unconscious ashes still sleep in cold obstruc tion and insensible oblivion we do not kuow. Whether his strong and subtle energies found instant exercise in another forum, whether hi3 dex trous and disciplined faculties are now contending in a higher senate than ours for supremacy, or whether his powers were dissipated and dispersed with Lis parting breath wo do not know. Whether his pas sions, ambitions aud affections will sway, at tract and impel, whether he yet remembers us as wo remember hiin--we do not kuow. These are tho unsolved, tho"iiisolnble problems of mortal life and human destiny, which prompted tho troubled patriarch to ask" that momentous question for which the centuries have given no answer: uIf a man die, shall he live agaiu?" Every man is the centro of a circle whose fatal cir2umfercnce ho can not pass. Within its narrow confines he is potential, beyond it he perishes ; and if immortality is a splendid but delusive dream,'if the incompleteness of every career, even tho longest and most fortunate, bo not supplemented aud perfected after its ter mination here, thon he who dreads to die should fear to live, for life is a tragedy more desolate and inexplicable than death. Diamond Field and Ostrich Farming. At a meeting of tho Sau Francisco Geograph ical society, .Surgeon Major C. J. Sketchley road a very interesting paper entitled "A Trip to the Diamond Fields of South Africa." After describing tho travel by rail for several hun dred miles, then by wagons over sandy deserts, with ehif ting sands filling eyes, nose, mouth, and cars, he sketched Kimberlcy, the centre of the diamond industry. The most important mine, the Kimberley, lies in the centre of the town, being nothing more than a huge hole dug in the ground COO feet deep and from 1,200 to 1,400 yards across. Here thousands of men mostly natives are toiling; digging outjthe clayey soil in which the precious stones are found. The valuo of the diamonds shipped during the year ending August, lt2 amounted to $5,000,000. Oil account of tho isolated posi tion of tho district supplies are expensive, the cost for carting goods being about $175 a ton, while wood goes as high as 900 a load. Sick ness, particularly fever, at certain seasons prevails, some of the physicians in the district enjoying practices valued at 10,000 or 12,000 a year. Dr. Sketchley also explained the mode of ostrich fanning, Baying that about one and a half acres of land were required to keep one pair of birds. From each pair about thirty chickens would be hatched during a year, but by means of the inenbators, which are now ex tensively used, between seventy and eighty chickens could be hatched. Formerly it was customary to kill the birds to secure the feathers, but in the last few years it had been ascertained that the birds could be plucked, and that each one would yield about Si5 worth of feathers yearly. A large amount of money is invested iu the business, and tho exports to England and America are large. The lecturer said he saw uo roaa.in why ostrich farming could not be snc-eisfnlly practiced in Cali fornia. Many of tho birds, he said, lived to a very old age, and as an illustration he men tioned one pair that bail been in the possession of one of the tribes for ora eighty years. It One Don't Stiek the Other May. Georga F. Wilson, of Providence, R. I , made a will leaving SoOO.OOO tohis daughter Alice. After this they quarreled, but ho did not change the wUl until Jau. 13 of this year. Six days later ho died, and the second will was found, which bequeaths stock in the Itumford Chemi cal works, valued at 9 HO, t, to Brown uni versity, and to Dartmouth college stock to the amount of S.VI.OOO. These liequests are left in trust, and at the end of five years the colleges receive the legacies. To Alice, his daughter ho leaves fifty shares of the company's sto.I. in trust, she to receive the income only, tie valu6 being about 2o,000. Tho bulk of tho property he leaves to hia sons, George and tilery, anionntiug to $300,000 each. Alice at once contested the will, alleging that when it was executed her father was not of a sound mind- During the hearing the remarkable fact was sworn to that Mr. Wilson had forbidden the first .will to be destroyed, so that in case the last fail to hold good the former would. If the case goes to a higher court eome.BU.f priuiug developments are expected, lOSSIBIUrrE9. tR If. 8toddard.J ! J No; not as I love bar do I lovo yorj. ' Ixl . --I. I.... U .... For were I falaa to her, could 1 be true (Answer) to you, or any woman? No! j ' I am steadfast, if not good. But I tniy be tJoin good and steadfast, if you lovo me, nweoi 1 , And though to others the terupeiduou tea. To you the spent wave breaking at your reek ELEOTKIC INVENTIONS. Ttto Thousand Applications fur Patent In One Tear. Bcientlflo American. . The Washington correspondent of 1 uo New York Evening 1'ost reports tho imbalance of a roccnt address by Mr. Edward M. Bentlcy, one of tho examiners in the electrical division of the patent office. Speaking of tho work of tho eleotricity division and of the recent marvelous development of electrical inventions, Mr. Bentlcy said that about two thousand applica tions for patents in electricity wore filed iu 1S3U, of which about two-thirds wore granted To show how the subjoct had grown iu im portance within a very few yeara, ho said that in 1877 electricity was a sub-class in a division. Now it is tho largest division in the office aud regarded as the nioet important This astonishing growth is duo chiefly to two causes: First, the invention of tho telephone; aud second, the development of the magneto electric machine. The telophone had opened, directly and indirectly,a wide field of inventions, The minds of many persons throughout the country were turned to this class of invention, and not only were improvements on the tele phone itself attempted, but attention was given to a great many incidental appliances useful iu its successful application The second great stimulus to invention was tho development of tho magneto-electric ma chine. For thirty years tho world bad lieeti awaiting a cheap and convenient source of elec tricity. Immediately following the discov eries of Faraday and others, from ISoO to 1S40, there was a wide spread effort to make practical use of them, aud special activity wan manifested in tho line of electric lighting. Tho arc light was put into practical form, and the foundations of in candescent lighting were laid But no eco nomic source of electricity was at hand, for the galvanic battery consumed too much zinc for profit The priuciplerof the magneto-nia- chiuo had, indeed, been long Known, imt it was left for an Italian. Pacinotti.iu 18tK. toper- feet a machine wherein con tin no in aud con stant, curronts were generated. Tho idea liter ally lay on the shelf however, until 1870, when Gramme reinvented practically tho samo ma chine, and pushed it into notice. Ho was speedily followed by the Siemens brothers, of iseriin, ana oy mr. irusu anu oiuers in mis country. The maimeto-machine. affording a cheap and abundant Bupply of elcctricity.immediately rendorod practical all tne nau-compieieu in ventions of thirty years, and opened the way tomanynow ones. Brush got his patent iu 1877, Weston soon after, and the growth of the electricity division has been steady aud mar velous ever since. The inventions had been, however, rather in the application of known principles than in the discovery of new ones: for during tho fifty years that has elapsed since the investigations of Faraday, little new has been added to the science of electricity. The present activity springs from the applica tion of well known exhibitions of the still un known force. And, moreover, only a few of these features of the science have been as yet made of practical rise. One of tho broadest and most successful pat ents appears to bo tho telephone. The man whose name is perhaps more widely known than any other iu connection with inventions in this branch of invention is Edison. Tho "Wizard "of Menlo Park" is an inventor rather than a so'iontist His most famous achieve ments have been in the improvement iu tele graphy and in the incandescent light The ver satility and fertility of his mind are amazing, and he enjoys the distinction of being the man who has taken out more patents than any one in this country and probably in the world. Wendell FhillipHat Mo uie. Boston Cor. Chicago Advance. A little plain house in a narrow street whose unfashionable vicinity has been chiefly sur rendered to city traffic, a painted doorway, a worn sill admitting to a narrow, dingy hall and carpetless stairway, all these impressions followed rapidly bofore I wa3 admitted to a reception room? Happily, no; Mr Phillips study. "He is in, and will see you shortly." Meauwhile I have opportunity for a back ward glance of memory, for placing my thought aud my iutorest amid the scenes of the last generation. Nothing elso were possible in that room. Tho fur niture, books, ornaments, everything barring the rich but neutral rug on the door, suggests the past A capacious old sofa, with faded plush cushions and afghan, speaks of infinite comfort Two hospitable arm chairs of carved mahogany proclaim their indifference to the upholsterer's art An elaborately carved table occupving the whole centre of the room is piled with "books, manuscripts, papers, reports. Other tables, similarly "laden, are against the walL On the mantle stands a bust of Elizabeth Fry, the tireless English philan thropist. Near by is another bust, that of Theodore Tarker. Across the study is another of earth's great ones. A stern, resolute face that might be taken for one of the Hebrew prophets. Despised, vilified in tho past, the name of John Brown is fast coming to its own. Before Mr. Phillips entered I began to know him. He spoke of ante-bellum days, of the time when he was mobbed in this his native city; of the insolent, even dangerous, recep tion accorded him in Cincinnati during the war. when after speaking an hour amid jeers and hisses and a running salute of eggs aud mis siles, the owner of the hall, fearing for his property, desired Ids withdrawal. He spoke of tne co-workera in those days, nearly ad of whom have passed away before him. Cheer fully, yet with a little pathos: "Well, we old Abolitionists ought to die. It is time for ns to die and give place to younger men." "Are fou writing any reminiscences of those days?" ventured to inquire. "No, I have not the time. It ought to be done. Garrison was the man to do it He ought to have done it He meant to, but he was always given to putting off things. At one time he took a retired study for the purpose, moved his books and papers into it, planning to work at the matter diligent ly, and never entered the room again.". The Ace of Human Freedom Is at Hand. Helen Wilmans. Heretofore the years have been all-conquering ; but they shall conquer ns no more. We are becoming too strong to be longer enslaved by circumstance ; too manly and too womanly to accept parts in the theatre of life assigned us by other actora We no longer accept with servile gratitude such parts as we can get We take our own. Adverse winds are howling about us with chilling deadliness, tut they will not harm ns. There be human bodies like Meranon's statue that give forth their truest and greatest melody under the rush of the mightiest tempest The world is coming to be full of such man and women; full of souls brimmed and over-flowing with the tremnlous anger and long borne injury cul minating at last into desperate revolt, men at the turn of whose hand the continents will be in motion as if the increased whirl of the earth had precipitated chaos; men who are prepared to rush ahead with ail the impetus of a long matured power; men who scorn fear; men panoplied in reckless courage beyond the touch of death; secure from danger as the on- CauRe or Xenralffia. Tho theory of Romberg, that neuralgia is the prayer of the suffering nervefor healthy blood and more of it, ia now generally received by physicians. Kumpieions of Hanks. A worthy old couple at St Column, Franca, died and left their son a few hundred francs. He was suspicious of bauks and thought the safest way to keep the money was to bnry it in the grave of his parents. A body-snatcher, hnntiug for cadavers, found and appropriated the niouey. If the funds had not been there the youug man might have lost the bones of his aucextora, which, under the circumstance-', he resuriectiOiiists left him. He ought tf have followed the exampla of thrifty Hebrew, whose r-aiher lyi:ig. left a will in which he charged his son to put $1,000 in his coffin to be buriod with hint. The young man had great discretion and placed his check for the amount in tee ctu. BIS. FISEDSLAaTaT , or DKS MOIN'KS s OMAHA ONr ACCOUNT OF HIS Immense Practice in WILL MAKE MIS Saturday. May 1 9, 1 803, AND WILL UUMAIN ONE, DAY, AT WIIEItE HE CAN ISE CONslJir EI ON THE , Ear & Eye, Tbroal & Lus, Um Kidneys ' Bladder and Hemale Diseases as Well as All Chronic and Nervous Diseases. DR. FISHBLATT Has discovered the greatest cure in the world for weakness of the back and limbs, invol untary discharge. Impoieiicy, general dehilit v, nei voiisne., languor, confusion of Idea, palpi tation of the heart , liiiilUity, lieiiibiii.g. diiiiiii sN ol .IkIiI or glddliifSN. diseases of the head, throat, nose or skin. :tlTectioin of the liver, luiiji". aloiuuch or bowels these terrible disorders, arising from solitary habilM of youth -and reci wt practices moie fatal to the victim than the songs of Syrens to ll.e maiines of I l ssjs, blight lug tlo-lr ino-t radient hoj.es or anticipations, rendering marriage imposKihle. 1 hose tliat are sullering Irom tin- evil practice, wlileli destroy mrir niriiiai aim puyaic-u system, causing NERVOUS The svinptom. of which are a dull' distressed mind, which unfit them for perjorii.Iiif their lim-iuc-rs and social dulies, makes happy luairiagea ImpoMHlbln, dlalierses the action of the heart depression of spirits, evil foiebodingK, cowardice, leais. dreams. ickiIcks ulghu, dlzzlfceaa, fr getlulliesa, unnatural discharge, pain iu the back and hip, shorl breathing, iiielaucholy, tire easily of company and have prefeieiicc to be alone, feeling an tired in the morning um wheu re tiring, .seminal weaknes. loi-t manhood, while bone deposit III the urine. i;ervouiiii-H, tiembllng conluxioii of thought, watery and weak eyes, dyspepsia, constipation, palette, pain aud weak ness 111 tne limns, etc., sliould coiihuii. me nninc uiau-iy anu oe renioieu 10 pcno. i ni-aun. YOUNG MEN Who have become victims of solitary vice, that dreadful and destructive habit which mutually sweep to an untimely grave thousands id young men ol ex ailed talent and urililaiil Intellect who in i: lit otherwise entrance listening senators with the thunders of their eloquence or waken to ecstacy the living lyic, may tall with confidence. MAHH1AUL. Married perrons or young men contemplating marriage beware of physical weakness. Loaa of procrealive power, iinpotency or uuy other disqualification speedily lelleved. He who places hiinsell under the care ot in 1 -ishhlati may religiously cotdid in his lioi or as a gentleman, and confidently rely upon hi skill a a physician. CJHUAJNAL WtARNLbb Immediately cured and full vigor restored. This distiessing affection, which renders life a bur den and marriage impossl hie. in the penalty Voting men are apt to commit cxeceKe Horn not may ensue. iovs who that Uinlei Xanils iiiik siiiijeci will ueny inai procrciuiou in losi sooner vj t hose lalliiig into improper habits than by the prudent. Kennies being deprived ot the pleas ines of heaill. offsprings, the in utt .seiiou anu destructive cjii.ptoin. ol bolh mind anil body ;.rie. I lie s slein I.ecoiucH uerange.i. I lie pnysicsn lic portc.i-. neivoii irritathliil), ds;cpiu. pal iillal n n ol Uie heart, ludlge.lloli, ConsillU tional d- liiiily. wasting of the frame, cough coiimiimi tiou and denlh. A GUHE WAHKANTEU. l'erons ruined in health by uiilcai Ded pretender who keeps them trifling month after month taking povonoiis and injiiiioiis ciiuipoino:. MjOIiIiI graduated t one of 'he most eminent college in nnii-t i:--lii;i-li ng cures I hat w'le ever Known. Many trounieu Willi ringing in uie ears anu head w hen asleen. ereat rjervoiisne.s. being alarmed at eel lain oiinds. with ireoneiit blushiiigs. attended mini-time wilh deral.geinent ol I lie TAKE PARTICUAK NOTICE. Dr. F. j.ddresse all those who have injured themsi Ive by Improiier Indulgence and solitary habits which ruin both mind and bodv, untitling them for business, sludv, :iet or iiiarriai-ri. These aie some of the n:i. iiif-iouc holy eii.-cts prodiced by the early habits of youth, Viz: Weaknes of the back nntl limbs, pains in I he bead and di nines of bight, loss of muscular flow er, palpitation of the heart, dys:rpia. n I voiih irritability, d.-raii;ccii,eiit of digestive lunct ions, debility, consumption, etc. PRIVATE OFFICE, OVER roXSI'l.'l'ATKJN' KKKE. Charges modi rate and .Medical treatment. 1 hone who reside at a distance and cannot call will recleve prompt allea lion lliroiigh the mail by siiupiyi-eiidiiig their symptoms Willi postage. Ail-.lies Lock liox 3. 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WAGON No . ..to be well made la every partJe nlar and of good material, and that the strength of the samo la nfflcteat for all werk wila fair usage. Should any breakage occur within one year from this date by reaeoo ol defective material or workmanship, repair for the same will be furnished at place of sal, f ree of emerge, er the price of said repairs, as per agent's price list, will b paid la cash by tb purchaeer producing eamplejuf the broken or defective parts an evidence. ' ' .Q Knowing w ean suit yon, w solicit patronage from very sectloa of theTJalted Btalea. eAd for Price and Term, and for a copy of THE KACINK AGRICULTURIST, to k?IU UEOI. COM BaettaMa Y7l Tin: MKDIOALDISI'KNSARYS, Plattsmouth, Nebraska, NEXT VISIT ON THE DEBILITY. paeii by Ilie victim for Improper ludulgenc. being uwaieoi ilie ureaoiui couitequeii. c. mai anil ineni ai power, sranrii. ii im ic- apply linieeo lately. the I'nited stales, has effected aome of the mind, were cured immediately. 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