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: vjru, i;:ifi:AtJ:iAt Fill DAY, J tTNE 10. 1883 SIFTING OCEAN. SAND. BLUE GROTTO OF CAPRI. IN A GYPSY CAMP. THE i OLD MAN WHO DIG3 EACH FOR GOLO. TH1 on not l.ock of TnMor ftker at Atlantic J City Tutting the Sahor Sand Through Sieve, Miovelful bjr Shovelful Tb Articles Foti nt. "What in tho name of common tens are you doing r Tho long gray haired nnl long whit bearded olil man thus addresiicd straightened npaiinucliM lack bent with the weight . of three score years aid ten would permit. He rapped tho large coarm sieve in bia lean and 'sun burn.! hand against one of the hundred) of pile, that support the bath Chouse and other structure on tho fine, smooth l.oaoh. Out fell pieces of clam stalls flf.'l oyster shell, a riuty nail, and a large handful of conn gravel, which tho old man a inonu-nt before had boon turning over care f ully with hiit fingers and looking at intently throir;h his silver bowed spe tarles. lie lookeTl up at his nuentlonvr. rll.l tl, ..:.! of tolmcco bulging out one of Li checks into tho other, threw down the sieve on the pile of slf ted sand, took the shovel leaning against tho pile, and prepared to thrubt it into the uoie nair run of water that he hud dug 1110 seaward sid of the pile. Then, and r mi men, uni tie deign to reply. ( "Siftlu' sand," came from the lips, and the tobacco juico that trickled gently down on his old iihiny waistcoat the wind blow ing upon hid rugged cout exposed to view. "So I see; but what are you sifting fori" "Little uv everything," was the laconic and unenlightening reply. "Do you find muchf "Wall, no; not so very much. Tbso ere piles has been dug to death. Thar ain't a man in Atlantic City with an hour bangin' on his bands but what comes down here and digs round these ere piles. It's a mighty, lucky feller that finds much of anything nowadays. I've been diggin' here about all tho forenoon, and I ha'n't found a durn thing that's wuth keeping 'ceptin' this ero I non t know what lis. I never seed nfore. It looks like some kind FVhaps you can telL" Ho drew forth with solemn deliberation a calfskin pockctbook, block with dirt and use, ami pulled out a piece of brown paper care fully folded up. He unwrapped it and held out in his trembling hand a small, round " copper colored coin about tho size of a fcilver throe cent piece, only a little thicker. I took it in my fingers and, read on one side: "3 pfennigs." "Oh, that's a small German coin. It isn't worth much, but it's quite interesting." I handed it to one of a group of several ladies that had been attracted to ua Tho coin passed through the dainty gloved fingers of each of the ladies. Their enthusiustic cx rlainutions and endless questions delighted . tho old man. It made his ryes glitter, the saliva to run faster and his tongue more agile. "Is this what you find by digging here?" ".Not all I find. I told you that we find everything, and so we do coins, china dolls, uuils, spectacles, eyeglasses, gold and silver chains, gold rings and brass rings end" one uv a coin. Nothing IJke II Clsewher In the World. An Indeacrlbwbta Scene. The Inhabitants of Capri say that their island is built upon grottoes and supported by natural arches like the structures of men. This is perhaps an exaggeration, but all along the rocky shore there are beautiful grottoes, and in the center oftbo island a do seeut may be made for hundreds of feet into the bowels of the earth in the Urotto of the Stalactite. The sea grottoes we visit l.i making the "giro," or circuit of the island, which is an excursion that brings the traveler into contact with tome of the rarest effect of natural scenery known. Nowhere in the world is there aught resembling the famous Clue grotto of the island of Capri. The entrance to the Blue grotto, situated in the rocky cliif which faces the north at the western extremity of the island, is perLup three feet in height and not more than five in width. When the sea is high it cannot be en tered at alL The marinaro who conducts tho orty through this 'nurture and there must be but three In the toat has all that he can do to effect an entrance without having his frail craft dashed in pieces. The visitors are obliged to lie upon their backs in the bottom of the boat, while the marinaro, taking ad vantage of the wave as it rises, and holding on to the rock, guides her by a dexterous shove into tho cavern. Here for a moment the eyes are dazzled by a strange light, but soon they accommodate themselves to it, and then tho visitor finds himself in a lake of lim pid water, whose blue is that of the sky, and wuose sliced is that of molten silver. The ef fect is indescribable. Objects dipped in the water, the boat and ours are covered with this silvery sheen, while the marinaro, who plunges in for the amusement of visitors, rises clad in a garment of flashing light. The whole extent of the grotto is 100 feet by 175, and the roof of ribbed and groined natural arches shares the blue effulgence of tho water beneath. Besides the Blue grotto of Capri there are along its coasts a series of others, each of which seems to take tho bluo waters of the Mediterranean and convert them into a tint peculiar to itself. The (Jreeu grotto on tho south side of tho island, with its waters of the purest emerald hue, ranks next in beauty to tho Bluo grotto. It can, however, be entered without difficulty through a lofty archway, and tho effect, though grand and beautiful, is not marvelous. There is the White grotto, where tho water seems like milk, and the lied grotto, where the roof is spangled with red crystals in the limestone rock. There is also the Grotto of Ferns, and along tho shoro as well as in tho center of the island are grottoes where in some places the crystal stalactites hang like great pointed columns and In others liko a delicate fringe above tho vis itor's head. Mary 12. Vaudyne in Harper's Magazine. A REPORTER'S ViSIT TO THE "ROM ANY RYE- OF DETROIT. Life of a Band of Strolllns Ilorse Trad ers and Fortune Tellers Tho Quwtn -t . the Camp Women Who Are Shrewd Ilora Traders. The most interesting place in tho Went End ii the camp of a small band of gypsy horso traders, in a piece of woods on Lovers lane. Horses, donkeys, mules, buckbourds, carts and traveling wagons innumerablo stand around, the animals hitched to tho various trees and the vehicles drawn up in a circle arouud smoky looking tents. Chained to wheels and under each rig are hungry canines of different sizes, colors, species and varieties. The snarls, growls and'yvlps Jet forth by them upon the approach of a stranger cannot but remind oue of a small sized kennel show. The occupants of tho camp consists of a smau group or bare footed children, six red petticoated women and the same number of men in gray coats, corduroy pants and wido brimmed hats. With the exception of two old women, who evidently lost their good looks at a very early period, tho females of tho camp are, Indeed, quite prepossessing. They have a tawny skin, long black hair, largo black eyes, well shaped mouths, ruddy lips, teeth of a dazzling whitness, expressive fea tures and are well projwrtioned. One elderly women, known as the "queen" of the camp, was attired in a dress of showy colors, and adorned with dubious trinkets of more or less value. The Crown Princess Minerva was dressed In a flowery patterned cotton, relieved by a gay colored apron. rorn her ears hung large hoop earrings, and her greasy fingers were bedecked with innu merablo more greasy rings. In her arms sho held a dark skinned infant, which sho soothed with a fragment of the ancient gypsy ballad: There runs a swine down yonder hill, As fast as o'er he can, And as he runs, ho crieth still: "Come steal me, gypsy man." A sharp west wind seemed to have no im pression on tho men; nor did the women guard against it more than by flinging shawls over their heads, aud so sit on tho ground around a smoldering camp fire, chattering and showing their teetlu MAY DAY SUPERSTITIONS. strange Heller of Georgia Colored re'o- ! Atlanta trrt feme. "May day seems to be a day for jieculiar superstitions," said one of Atlanta's charm ing young ladies to a reporter. "Last May uay i was passing along Spring street when I noticed a crowd of negroes standing arouud an old well. As some of them were rushing arounu uio yura in an excited maimer, and ono woman hud her apron up to her face, crying, mid a mun was holding a looking glass so as to throw the light into tho well, I iiaiuruny supjosed that some of the ituuicr ous pickaninnies had fcUlPii in. Upon investi gation 1 found that they were only hnving a nine innoiviii run, though they seemed to he enjoying it in a very grim sort of way. They were using tho glass with the firm bo lief that tho imago they saw reflected would ie a likeness of their future wife or husband, as the case might bo. "All seemed to lelieve implicitly that something strange and stijK-rimtui ul was go ing to take place, mid they worked them selves up to a very high state of excitement. Presently an old woman, a regular old crone, exclaimed: 'Look! look! I 'clar fo do Lord I 6ee a 'oman laid out and two men kuceliu" ou each side of do coihn, and hit looks like my Maudy what died last spring.' Tho negroes all seemed uweslruck and proceeded to go into hysterics. A mulatto girl nest took tho glass ai-d after patient waiting on her part and anxious silence from the others she declared sho saw tun lxt. loot-;..- fli.i gemin she ever sot her eyes on, an' he had on a white vest and a blue neckti. .Sho was so entranced that she did not want to give up the glass to the many who now grabbed ior ic ell, a big, burly man got it. Presently a Droua grin illuminated the surrounding .1 I . . uiuitucss oi ins swanny countenance, aud with a loud guffaw he declared that ho saw 'stripes broad, black aud white stripes and them's for that nigger Tom, there, what stoio Uem chickens last night' But when they all exclaimed with ono voice that w hut- tic u oreu umi, u us meaiii ior tho one holding the glass, ho turned ns pale as he knew now, aropjxHl the glass and hurriedly leis me turong who had so adroitly turned the joko on him." Atlanta Constitution. DON'T RiilAD THIS Unl ess you want to know where to get the Ict "Ciibh" J'urgai n in BOOTS ABTB SSSOEi are now oilering Sjtoial Pri COB 111- B irij And tho ino.-it wo pride oursclvet) on i our excellent lino of Ladies' Hand-Turned Shoes At their Present Low Prices. Ladies looking for Mich a Shoe should not fail to call on W- A. EGIK lb C, At this point the old man, who had taken his shovel in hand again wid had set it deep in tho hole, was stopped in his sentence by tho great exertion required to lift up the shovel, held down by the suction of the water and its burden of sand, lie did not rcctumohis sentence. He turned his whole attention and strength to the work before him. He finally got the shovel out of the water and emptied its contents into the sieve. Kojxjtitions of the operation soon filled the Bievc, which he lifted np and began to shake j ith what strength a lojig life of hard work and disappointment had left him. The fine eand fell out and left refuse such as I had be fore noticed. Placing one side of the sieve on tho little pile of sand, he ran bis fingers tlirough it carefully, picking up between his thumb and forefinger any particle that prom ised to be something of value and bringing it closer to his eyes, to make sure that he was not throwing away anything that he should keep. Just as a was about to give up the search and empty the sievo, his fingers snatched quickly at a glittering piece of gold that lay half buried among the Laser mate rials. "And watch charms," exclaimed the old man with glee, holding up a round piece of jewelry, in the center of which was a small comjiass. "Well, that isn't so bad," he ad Jed, stoop ing over to wash the sand off Hi the water. "That oughi to be worth $3, and it isn't every old codger like filri as can make $3 in two hours. If this were IU3T7 jt would bring $5 or f 0, but seeiu' it's been woru and lct, I don't exjwet to get as much for it a'Sl .would if it had como out of the jewelry store bi alT new." - "You're not having such bad luck, after all." so, not tociay. iuc I tell you, young mnu, since this business was taken up by everybody that could handle a shoveL it ain't what it used to be," he said, with a sigh. ' U hen I first cum here and begun digging I had great luck. I didn't JjaV ter do much cf anything else to get a IiTjn'. I've found a good manv pieces of money, silver aud gold," ho continued, taking off his old slouch Lat, which let the wind blow his white locks over his wrinkled forehead. He turned up . tho leather band and drew out a piece of preasy brown paper. He unfolded it as though it wero of priceless value, and laying it out in tho palm cf his hand placed the watch charm in it, and folding it as neatly as his palsied lingers would permit, be drew forth his calfskin pocketbook and put bis ' latest find in with the two pfenning piece. The departure of tho good old time seemed to have made the old digger doubly careful of bis treasures, and he guarded them against loss with a vigilance that increased with their insignificance. K "I've found more gold and silver dollars than any other coin; some of them have been pocket pieces, I suppose. But I've found a good many old eagles and half eilea. Once I found a leather strap filled with ibpamsii gold coins. I think it must have belonged to some Spanish sailor, or somebody elJO who had been shipwrecked. You know we have shipwrecks off tho coast here sometimes. The sand bars hereabouts are dangerous in bad weather, and you can't alters st tee lighthouse over tlxar," be said, pointing to the Absecom light not far away. 'l"ve never licard of th wreck of any Span ish vessel, but I suppose there must have been one, or else this belt full of coins would never come ashore here. It had been iq the water for some time, for the leatbssMwis rotten and would harcSy hang together. There were a good many of them; 1 took Vm over to rhel'delphy and sold em. How much did I gitfur'emf Five hundred dollars. That's a good deal of iZtoncy, and I ort to have bought lire of them ere lots here. I cou!d have bought two of them then for the 500. To day they'd be worth $4, (XXI Cut I didn't buy thum, and I ha'n't got the money now. It's ell gone, and me and ty old woman tLa'n't get but mighty littlo to ht-ep us outeu ibo pour boo. Atlantic City Cor. .N'aw York Sun. rrlcesTaltrfor Magazine Work. Speaking a few evenings ago with tho ed itor of one of tho great New York magazines, I chanced to ask him as to the present rates paid to authors for their work. His answer was not uninteresting. "The present average rata for magazine work is $10 per thousand words. This is now paid to a large number of what is termed average writers that is, writers whose repu tations have yet to be made. Of course, this price does not apply to known and tried writers. Where articles are solicited they always command higher prices. Work of ramous writers commands different prices; some come very high. For example, wo havo paid as high as $1,000 for a single poem. How long was itf Five pages of our maga zine. For a single story as high as (000 has been paid, although usually $100 Is a good price for a good short story. Those which mw tuiuiunou e.sjxx;iaiiy meritorious com mand as high as $20. "But rates fluctuate, and I am frank to confess that a great deal depends upon repu tation. This must, of necessity, be so, for tho public will read a story or poem very often because of the name attached to it, where the same story might go unread in many cases if an unknown name is signed to it. From my experience, women write the best short stories. They are better equipped to meet the demands of the age. Mosi stories sent to the magazines by men em body some attempt at a plot. Kow, almost every conceivable plot has been invented, and it is almost a miracle when anything strikingly original comes to us. Women, on the other hand, are more apt to employ situ ations which admit of a portrayal of subtle shades of feeling. Theso are the successful story writers of tho present day." Willianj J. Bok in 2s'ew York UrapLjo, ' nOW THE TI1IE IS SPENT. Since tho arrival of the band the men have been engaged trading horses, tho women tell ing fortunes to tho people who flock to the camp from all parts of the city an.l even from tho surrounding townships, aud the chUdreu vainly endeavoring to dispose of the dogs, fight or wrestle, sing, danco or whistle for a consideration. Three young chaps had their futures re vealed tho other afternoon during the visit of a reporter. They presented quite an im posing picture, each faultlessly attired, seated on a stump with outstretched palm. Upon the conclusion, ono of the chars at what had been disclosed to lum that he gave a young gypsy half a dollar to turn a handspring. Two more offered to fight each other for a quarter, but the dodo's finances were exhausted. 1 he women aro as well up in horse matters as their husbands, and occasionaUy make a deal which could not be eclipsed even by tho sterner sex. During the progress of a dicker one of them approached an animal a brick manufacturer was anxious to dispose of, whip in hand. After scrutinizing it closely and punching it in the ribs, she suddenly grubbed it by tho throat, shutting off its wind. The animal backed away. The woman adva v.i aud under tho influence of a few smart cracks oim&iiig wnip, it soon began to sneeze and cough as if it had the quick con sumption. The brick manufacturer scowled but the woman laughed and said: "Old man your horse has got the jimjams; we don't want him." Pointing to ono of her animals tied to a tree, sho resumed rapidly: "There is a fine, rangy, big, toppy mare, just in off the grass, neither lame nor lazy, fine mane and uiu, a mgn noouer and a good looker, hook on either side of the pole and a fin fvw See n as it s you and I'm a leetlo hard up for land as in any - ... V o Servants lu German Families. Tn . St. . I 1 ,w iiiu.ujr ib iiuh.es no timerence to a nobleman whether you own a shop or are merely empio3'eu m one. In both cases ou work, and that is sullicient. The effect of this is that tho German shopkeeper and man of middle class does not keep his clerks and servants at half the distance that his American confrere does. An Ameri can shopkeeper lives in a fine houso and walks about hi3 "emporium of fashion" as haugh tily as a czar. If his wife or daughter honor me place at an it is when they want a new dress or a check from papa. In Franco or Germany the same class of shopkeeper lives in mo room over ins shop, and m all proba bility has his wife keep his books and his daughter wait at the counter. At night, when tho houso is put to rights, tho house- mam win come into the family sitting room, ana wnue Knitting listen to her employer read his papers or chat with the family. She is not Kept in a back room in the attic nor thrown entirely on her own resources for amusement. Hence tho Germans and French do not ex perience that difficulty in securing capable domestic help which most American house wives too often encounter. They bring their customs, more or less, to this country; aud in American cities tlie lirst to get good house servants and tho last to loso them are not American but derman and French families. Time was, in New England at any rate when house girls were not called servants and wero not treated as machines out of which was to be gotten all tho work riossible. They used to say "help" in New England! and when the "help" had finished hr duties sho not seldom rolled down her sleeves am' took her seat at the tabla along with the fam ily. That custom is no longer in vogue, ex cept perhaps now and then in the country, or in very smull towns, and as a result it is now as hard to set houso heln in Now other part of tho countrv.- gton Post. The Plattsmo uth Herald Is enjoying a -Boom in both, its AND WESKLY EDITIONS. The 1888 Women as Rome Decorators. The amateur's work in decoration has chiefly found its way to store windows where it seems to plead for purchasers, while it shunned criticism. China painting, figures on silk and satin, and useless articles of finery, for e Jou time were the limit of the resources of women who. cpuld paint and desired to turn their skill to value. Jt was a poor field because overcrowded. ' A new out let has beep opened to them; namely, home decoration, and I hope it may prove sufficient ly iride in range to drive the crude, immature paintings and decorations placed in the art stores aud shops in the chance hope of sale. . r . . , f . Jiany wno iiave eiegant noines nave found the advantage of soma decoration which will last longer than the paper hangers' ai t, and are haviug heir houses brightened with pretty or quaint wotk. Panels, walls and ceilings are being painted, and the nuat work for wliieh women are noted is chiefly desired. I know of feovarsl houses in which the marble stationery washstanas decorated with flowers aud plants, so that when Ci.'eu with water the daprs seem to be reaL Others of the new houses have the panejs of the doors covered with pret ry designs, and I know a young lady who has received an order fo decorasa a screen. The demand for such work is growing, and I think it will i&crejisp. Artist in ulobe-Demotrat. A Plea for the Musquito. Mr. II. Sullivan Thomas, who has been lecturing on the musquito before the Liter ary society of Madras, India, is ungallant enougu to say that t s only the female mus qaito that does the biting. popsiders the musquito a most usef ul pest, seven-eighths of its existence being devoted to $he service of man and only one-eighth to his annoyance. It exists in the larval state twenty-one days. and during that period enjracres in sanitarr work with ardor and thoroughness. Wher ever iLaro is dirty water, wherever there is a filthy drain, there tha musquito larva? are to be found, voraciously devouring thfl contami nating matter. And in clarifying the water of India. which needs the process so badly, the mus quito is performing a public benefaction and atoning to some extent for the bloodthirsty appetite he develops during the three days ue eisis ia iue more iamkmr form. Mr. Thomas tells us be never yet found a case where a bite was inflicted by any other than a female musquito, and though be suggested aa a possible explanation that the male had quicker ears and might be more on his guard against being caucht. this was obvionslv rarlier a concession to the feeing of the femi nize portion of his audience than the expres sion of scientific conviction. Scientific American.. i A Floorwalker's Exociuova Tvntft- "It is very rare that mistakes are mado in arresting women for shoplifting who are not nctually guilty of it; it is altogether too dangerous. The most notable case of this kind which I remember occurred in Brooklyn somo years ago. Tho wife of a Kings county official bought a quantity of goods in tho store of ono of the Brooklyn dry goods firms. An over officious floorwalker thought she had taken something that sho had not paid for and bo directed her to go to the office. She indignantly refused, whereupon the man secured assistance and carried her there, where she was searched by threo female at tendants, but nothing was found on her for which she had not a receipted memorandum. Then she was told she could go. but Dositivelv refused and said: " 'I desire to have my husband sent for, and ie will inquire more particularly into his outrage,' "She wrote a note and directed it to hnr husbap4 ju hig official capacity. A piembcr of the firm, who appreciated the gravity of tho mistake, begged hard that the lady would say no more about the matter, saying that he would indemnify her for the outrage which he acknowledged had been perpetrated, but she was obdurate and refuser. "When the husban'd arrived thq overtures for settlement' were' renewed and again re fused. The floorwalker, the men who assisted him and the women whq made rho search were arrested for assault The matter was gjven the widest publicity in the newspapers, amj fhe result pf it alj was that so strong was the feeling against ftp firm because of it that it had o retire from business. This was a salutary warning which dry goods men have liOt forgotten." New York Press. The Tailor's Swindling Scheme. 4- yonng pnan who read, haw certain board ing house mistresses are said tq practice a system of bunco on ypung men by showing them finely furnished rooms and after the ppntract is niade replacing he gorgecusness with battered household goods, says that cer tain obscure tailors in the crowded districts practice a sort of bunco deceit on transient customers. The swindle is ia trousers order ed and which must be paid for before the customer can have them. Certain particular young men like to try on ordered garments before taking them. When these particular ones start for the dressing room in the tailor's shop the wife or some woman ac quaintance suddenly believes it to be her boundeu duty to rush into tho room,, plank herself down in a chair, and sew. The ease with which a man can be swindled is perfectly manifest on these occasions. A well bred customer is too modest to suggest the woman's retirement, the tailor doesn't vouchsafe the slightest assistance, and the trousers are wrapped up and at home are found to be of execrable quality, a poor fit, and every way a swindle. But that tailor has his money, and what's to be doner In the majority of cases the value of the trousers isn t worth fighting over. New York Sua. A Queer Savings Hank. i uere is a certain young student ct tho lioston School of Technology whose method of regulating his personal expenditures is sc strikingly original as to bo worthy of de scription. Like mauy another youth of salad age, he findj it impossible to refrain fron squandering his money. It simply burns a hole in his pocket No matter bow much he is supplied with, it is all expended infrivol ousness as soon as he trets it. This weak ., of his has given much pain to tho youn gentleman's relatives, and to himself hi been a source of no little embarrassment. So, to get over the difficulty, ho has hie upon the following plan: Upon receiving the check for a fortnight's allowance, intended to cover his livin ex penses, he first liquidates any indebtedness that may be outstanding to his lodging house keeper and. washerwoman and converts tho whole of the balance into 50 cent silver pieces. Then going to his room and closing the door, be takes the coins by handfuls and scatters them broadcast about the floor. A few of those which remain in plain sight ho puts into his pockets. When they are spent he picks up a few more, and so on, as neces sity requires. After a week or so has passed he is compelled to hunt about pretty sharply for the cash, and the last days of tho forf uight find, him grubbing under the wash stand and the bureau, poking henoath the bed and squinting down the rgister in tha hope of discovering a stray half dollar that has eluded previous search. Bn, though occasionally impoverished., hois seldom re dueed to absolute pennilessness. The landlady i looks out for bis money, lest a dishonest charnbej-maid absorb the current two weeks' allowance, and thus his pecuniary affairs ad minister themselves on a thoroughly sys tematic basts. Chicago Tribune. Will be one during which the subjects of national interest and importance will be strongly agitated and the election of a President will take place. Ihe people of Cass County who would like to learn of Political, Commercial and Social Transactions of this year and would keep apace the times should with fok kitiiki: Tin; Daily or Weekly Herald. Now while we have the subject before the people we will venture to speak ot our Era nn IM UVI A Profession for Vouns Men. The profession of veterinary surgeon is an excellent one for young men. It is a proles sion that is not overcrowded, and the young man who has tha nsnpssnrv r-nrvil.nit-; nn7 the requisite amount of push needed in any vocation will almost always find plenty to da Our government is, however, slower than it should be in recognizing the value of this class of professional men. In the regu lar army veterinary surgeons aro classcdas farriers and taken in the ranks as eniisted men. Their pay is from $75 to $100 a month? In private practice the rates of the veteri nary surgeon are. the same as those of tho. medical practitioner. The need of skillful men who know how to treat intelligently th disease of animals is shown by a few statis tics giving the number and value of some of the domestic animals in the United States These statistics were taken four years ago. There were then in the United States lO.StiS, 111 horses, valued at 75d,041,30!j; !,ST1,079 mules, valued at $l-tS,732,:0; 13,125,065 milch cows, valued at $uyu,55,403, and 23,040,077 oxen and other cattle, valued at $oll,54y,lG'J. From 1ST8 to 1SS2 the esti mated loss from pleuro-pneumonia alone was Which is first-class in all respects and from which our job printers are turning out much satisfactory work. PLATTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA. $10,000,000. Xew York Mail and Expresa.
