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About Nebraska advertiser. (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 28, 1867)
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XII. ,f v r ... ., .ax ... a V 1 1 - X ' - I ' I 1 Ay ly ... 5100 1501 10 00 s. .6 00 5 S 00 i i ii pvu0 Stores. 7lOLLADAY & CO.. ' wboie'.e aLd Retail Petier in PXGS, MEDICINE, PAINT, OIL, P. O Bol'dir.c, Afftin St., - . JJEOWNVILLE. NEBRASKA. WJI. II. McCREERY, Wt!efl nd Rfti1 Dealrr In niS, Books, Wall-japer and Stationery, C -roer Min nj lt Sis , BROWN VILLE. NEtiRASKA.. Nctu0 Depots r X. D 'MARSH. r?" N i:VS ll-POT NO 1 . ?fI!0tL BOOKS, TATIi)NERY, &c., J3EOYY 17 VILLE, ttEBEASKA. BLISS & HACKER, . EXCl 1.SIOII M AYS DEPOT. B ks, Vews MaiKincry' EROWNVILI.E. VE 'RASKA. monfectionancsf J P DHt SER, It rr in Main N't '.t .it"l 2 S S k:io;i; villi, nldbaska. SloucanD (tin Stores JOHN C. DiX-ER. S'1'OYi'.S, TIN WAKE, PUMP&c." Dl lhiMte ycPb ri-oii" B mk, . ' iRcat iHatkt.- KEIS WETTER 5c EARSMAN Dtcher, CITY MEAT MARKET, Miln Cel. Ut '! St., . BHOWII VILLE, KCBB.SKA . 5aob!cni. John ivtmiddi.eion JHrufclurrr anl T-eaier in HARNESS, BRIDLES, COLLARS, Wllpt and Lathes of every dccriiikn. Plastering Hair. Ca-h paid for Ilides. Corner Main and 2d St., Brownville, TJebraska. W.D.MAH1N, Uanofacturcx and Dealer in all hinds of Saddles, Harness, Whips Smith's Patent Trace Buckles, Nixon's Patent Trace Buckles. JVorj Sido Main Street Drn (5ooi)s. Sluccs. G. SI. HENDERSON. Dealer In Fureixn and Pomcftic DRY GOODS AiD (iHOCERlES ilm bet. Ut and 21 Su., ' Brownville, jNeoraska. CAHHLES Bill El EL CEE ; HALL, LUNCH I'vOOM AND IJWUTUKtiCERT STRE, , , .. Main bet li and id St.. B20W.I VILLE, S1C3RA E.A. H.L MATHEW3, PHYSICIAN .& SURGEON, oppich CITY DI.'UCJ 'STORK. lJlioWYiUii:. M.r.UASKt... J.iW BLACKBUIIN IiI.D i'EXsioN K Sl KGKtl.V. Tender- as MefhV. ivw i the citn-n- hiuwuriiic nnd v ori'icE it (ttv iiu r; stcici:. Nigiit oaiU at hi' Jvc- di n e i-outli i J . A tUo icbfimren let and 2 ! .-1 ju-t . A. SHOL1ADAY, M. D. Graduul! in is.'il, Located in UioninIIlc in XS33 . AND OBSTETJb.ICr.AN Dr. U. baa ea hand cuiflete tela .f Auiutat iaf, TrejihiniDjf andObnttricnl it.i'truiutvntK. Odcc: HolLiday & Co's Drnj? Store " Ttco Doors East of Pout OJfice. ; j : ; P.S. Spec'al attention give to Ob?tctricnd the diseaaee of women and children. x-44-ly 0. P..BTEWBTM. D.": Bamth 'Eaat .r corner tf Main nd! Firot Street! RROIV-WILLC, XERUASK.A. " Crrjei Uoirs-rlto 9 Ai M.aad I ta 2 and 61 to FRKSEIH HlHifi G71 .v 6 ii ii ii T.W. Tif-tn O.IJ.Hewett J:S. Church TIPTON. HEWITT & CKUf. . ' itOlVNVILL'E,'TEBnASKA EDWARD xW. THOMAS, .ATTORNEY . AT LAV?;' SOLICITOR IN' CHANCERY, Office corner of Wain and fifft Streeti,, : BROWNVILLE. NEBRASKA! WM-McLENNAN- - ATTOaiTEY IT LAW NKUItASKA CI J C. E.-NY", . AND J, . W,RC!;A1M AGENT, lATTACC CI 1 IVCIIUASIiA. j. su:v j ht-, n. o. cnoss STEVENSON OltlSS IVopriHm, On IiPvee St., fret weeu Main & Atlantic, This lJ..i!o ruivt-ni-nt in ilio ri.eir.i li.at J.aii'lin'r, xii-l the b'l'in-!'-" iirt .f T-wi.. The be' )C'".rani'1 .ti.r.rm. th (Jit v. - S ' pa.ni, wtJ l (Jo .1 SihU and Cjrrdl convenient AMBRICJA.N HOUSE. ; 'ooil Feed aiid Livery : Stable In cntr .-lion with tlie Home. L.., .Dv jtCBlNSON. HKUFItlETOK. Fro'it iStrpe', hfiwi-n .MliiuViid Water, May, 30ih lSGG. 10 36' ly t 9T- " CHARLES HE L L M E rT am ana mm Jh. 13-22.-, Main St t 2 doors below Brow&ville House, ; BOWNYILLE JN. T. Tlas on hand a superior stuck of Uoots nnd Shres jnd the bf?l uat trial unJ sibility .fur. dulog CUSTOM WORK Repairing done with neatness and dispatch woty - Tormo CftSli. fn.nn J. W.. SMITH. ' ; Main St.'5th door tw S T cor 2nd St. BUOWNViLu :. Ni;niy.aKA ST0i:AVj?,L0nyAtiDiiXG Com mis Sion Merchants, and I)cltT in All kinds of Gram for which ihfy pay the hiiihst Market Price in ca?h EROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA I FRAZ HELMER; ait wmiiet, IKIOIVWII.I.C, XERR ASI&A. V. OOIS. MJGGfES, PLOWS CTTLTJ Vll OKS, kr.j KrtiHred h iHi.irt ti.-li e, ai Ii.w rate I'd rrantedlt:iiea!ir4i.'ti-in VlS iu nn A. ItOBlNSON,.,, wsii hi mm Min Rptwepn lt k. Od Street Bi-owuvillo TCo1oxls.fi f.kL t i 1 1 r- in-ilnl til nii'i mii'' "lit- iiiI'k' "hat . on '1 nd ii -i l iidi 1 a 1 r 1 11 ml of tenl' lid LndieV Mifc.' ttd Ch ldrnV ROOTS ANI SIIOI S. tCnH.u v or a iie lib iieilei aud dltalcl'f"i lieimirini durns nn idiorl notioe. 10-S0 tuiin JOHN L CARSON IS , . - v-. - . Ewhange bough land .id n all the prtn-ipal Pitlei. Aso. dealer in Oo.d o l b:lver t Cii, GOYEENHEHT . BONDS. Deposits received, payable at sightl,: r " i Interest paid on time Deposits by especial agreement Taxes paid for nonresidents' " ' " All kind -f I U S. BON DS WANTED , , ?. JOHN L.,.UABSUN.t:, h Layer Kaiaiss, Currant..Cil rnn . t ' t , 9 Broken Yo;vs. .1 Pjtmiiei re iijl Woken; ' Votr n WWeh!wiWinii7 bttiU J j ''(Uttered onlv to bs broken) , - 'Gy forever -'ttiJiM fi:'.. I. ' ' Oft'betrayfd but still believing '. ' TuxtJ again and jttaaia NVaroii ', tA'Tt 'irarn It Tia. ,.1!. ' " From Ibc'crsuTle to Ine eoral : : Fria th itnn ijt of ; youtll-; . AVe arc tau.ht the s'mple mcrl,' ' Still voMabtUbe, monTi troth. '' TVbtn a boy tbj found me rather : ' Loth to do as I wa bid. "I eball bujra lirtL," r aid father. 2i En.kv.-n yewt ! lie never did. Gro w u"c x traV gi n t b e n J on thf d 1, Injnjr la'.lor'j debt I ran j" ' ' lie aj f eartd uboul'aV trothf ul In bi talk as jnt Bwri. Letiue tell yvt bow fie sola m; .... fcLoikj'U, Mr. Wbai'n Vtar-jVame, I hu.il fi.uiuioi jou." he tld tne Eat tko eaaaihjaJ cover came. Trough the meadows, dai?j liden,. Occc it wa xay lot to stray, Talking to lovely maiden ' la a very ypay wiy . Anil 1 itolt a ifee-OB)lne -. Then anotlicr ttfeflfnlot. "Fie !" tLt safd, -I'll tell my mother." ' laic Wir Tt ; the told her not. A Fur Trader's A Jventare at a Wis consin Tavern. i 'The winter of lSo7 x b-? a 1wt f6 mrrt.t-red otie iu ihti'cotnint-rcial world. It was th wjmer lollukving the great panic. Many a poor teiluw, now sirug ghnjj' 'ihruujjU bankruptcy, tlatt-s hi mi fgtluhe Itoui that' tryriifjr period. I was couiifctfd with a heavy Jur house at ihnt nine a rich, rpA-ruu e?iablihuient, that easilf ueatbrre'dlhiaVioriii. and onlv grew the richer upon other people's mis lortunea. ; .It 'wij be- reineinhered ibat fur fckios of evory. kind tuyibled fearful ly in pvic. , -'or', instance, mink ekins ftr which we had b en , pay'n from' $2 50 to $3. -could be pwrcnaecd' readily at 75 ten's; raccoon: skmv lur-' which we Lad t),ee,n giving from SI 25 o 1 50. now could be had m aLundance at 25 cents. H.-he's akin had tall-n from S7 lo.Sl;' otter from SS to S2 &c iThe: part ners of our house conuhed together, and resolved to seiiJ oui careful buyers in ev. ery'directiori, 8hd pick up all the fur. in tlie co6titry, feeling ture that prices were, really-00 the 'hard pan," autl nev er could be forced lower. . ' 'The route marked out for me wh, to first cross, o :Quhujue, ihence, to Prairie du Cnien. ;li.euCrt to JLa Crosse, thence to St. Paul,' and 'thi' great Northwest generally. 'My-.j-iurney to Di(ue was eay enough, namely; b rail all the way. I arrived inJanuary. and rv'mamed unnl heiniddle of FebruaTy'-mnkniij txour Hns into the interior of both Iowa and jhe ace?j.We . .portions of .Wisronsin which, pleaseVemember. lays just across the river a trifle up stream, however I was very succ-ssful. and managed to pick up over S60 000 worth of furs and peltries at very low price1. - The poor people1 Were ' jlad .to -get an pricrt for their k-lui. ouiy diipiilaiinij for ood mo nej. The whole coun-ry was full of 'vvi!d rat currency. '"'-and real genuine money Xssessd a.- wonderful chrm" -I -carried nothiinr else, lit'd lot?? of it. aud of course was. everywhere welcome. I trnveled from Dubuque to Prairie du Chie'w. up-, the: Mrei?jppi nn; the ice. The distance, iSjiiboUt one hundred miles Tn ffjeddinjf . was. ,;plerddv, the hur.e lively', ancr no Jtdrerttire befk worth not iljgJ'AtPrairie'da Chien -I. topped at what was known a - Lowr Town, and put up at the Glob. The hnt-l wa pret ty well filledi'wnh' Eastern men. pnnci jall. collectors and drummers' for New York and Boston firms, either looking up nesv bciness nr. endeavoring to set lie up old arcoun's, -.which .were ver nu m.-ryus verv hopeless. I rfin?in-dau-Prairie U.Chten until about liemddle of Mar h; tha t i? tosny I 'iuili it my heai(juiiriersr quaking nu-m-r u aiid Ion? excurMonjs hit4 Imva on ih- osher M1e of the river (ably repre-re.-enjed at this p-uni by the ihrivmg cny'of MiCareJai )' hd thriughyanous p .irnons of W K Mi-in. iu, which hnite Pniirie !u Cliien is situated ' When the time came for uor'to proceed . to La Croie. the ice f the river wa? too rot ten to. trui.- and, u became necessary to (lerform the journey, l-y siaye, across tlie rouuiry Th diiauoe to be travel ed w'3p n'irirt- unf n hundred mile?. nnd as the frost was ;heu rjom'ng-out of ihe tiroudJ: prtLykMnan,jt beitu; an,early rprmg. our, projfess was quite, slow. The coach, or rmher wngon for our s aVe.wasn hmff more than a lonjj op"n waifou wa- filled with 'passengers, all rneh'i'eijiht of u.. not counMog ihe driv er. Amonir the pas-sergers-- wa a col lector for B.Mon a house, who had met ,with such;ptor hick -jcollectinj. that he had got compleje'iy Vsirapped.'" not hav in ''raised'' ufficiept 10 pay his expen se since leaving B ston. . Oil th sec ond nighi oat he told mf- frankly of his condi'ioh. atid begged a- loan of S10. to seeiiim .through to St. Paul. . We had just arrived at the night station, and af- tcr exaiaiaitg my pocket-book, and liud- if; I ir i il ;JI lid ing ihat I had but 'wo or three dollars loose money. I found-it would be neces sary, to open a pxclure containing S10, 000. sent to me by express t Prairie du Chien. the seals of which I had never yet broken. Not caring to make a display of so much nieney before a crowd of traners I invited my Boston friend to quietly get a lanttern. . and come with me into the stable: He did so. and we proceeded to the head of one of the stalls, and he holding the lantern;.:! commenced open ing my package I had to turn ever a good many bills of large denominations before I found a ten;. but at length I got one and handing it to him. extracted an other for myself, jl then stowed the packajjV o& bill, minus the wrappef. In a money belt, which I carried uext my shirt. I had already finished when I heatd a rustling iuihe hay oveahead.and looking qwickly up lowatd the loft, above th haj rack. I thought I .-aw two eyes, flashing (own through ihe darkness, but wrts not quite sure, i I listened for a mo ment, but everything was still, so 'e passed into the house. My mind was disturbed; I felt unea sy and oppressed ; I . could not eat any supper. I Could not enteras usual into the rollicking jests and Ptone and games with which my fellov pasengeis made Merry their evenih?s . I carried a good Colt revolver. : That day I had emptied evrv chamber, of its cylinder at sundry rabbits which spransr up along our-route. Without 4iefiniiely feeling the necessity of Wdring. I fully reloaded and capp-d it.' VVhei the hour for retiring arrived, the landlord called the hostler a p w erfufly built, heavy'featured Irishman to ihoW me to my ' bed. We ascended a ladder to the loft, and there; on the fl ur. ix double beds ver mao'e down simply straw ticks laid upn the floor, with pillows, sheetf. and comforters up on:ihe"iiK The irishmad assigned me the bed nearest jtie. bidder and reiired, leaving me a. bit of tallow candle about half an inch long.' .. 1 took a hasty survey of the premises. Just across the hatchway, where the lad der led to the rooiu below, was a window iu the gable. It had a muslin curtain over it. but this I hastily tore away. I remarked that the ladder , creaked fear fully as the hostler descended it. Away across the' room, to the .oiler gable end the ted werrt laUi-ii xowsrnot a steep; er.m them as yet . notwithstanding which thfs hostler had assigned me the bed next to the ladder. -He had not left i' ny choire. but merely set my candle down by it and said, "Yer to slape in there, sur. I made up my.tnind that he meant to try to rob me, and the? thought was any thing but pleasaut, be assured. Afief defimtely settling in my mind the best course to pursue, I removed my clothes. and unbujklinr my belt. I raided the un der sheet and laid it neatly beneath it and the pillow. Perhaps the reader wonders why I should have removed it from aroui d my body. First, because a small, sharp knife easily ruts it away while you slep; and secondly. I assure the reader if he or. she will tiy buckling a large leather belt about their, wasts for a nap. hry will soon see . good reasons for taking it off". B-side..-. I felt pretty -'"re that the man was a desperado, and was fenrful he would first cut away the belt if he found i. on tne.- then slab me if 1 stirred and leaping down the ladder, break for t'ie woods with the money, an.! clear es cape, before people could be made 10 com prehend what, was the matter., t laid my plans definitely, aud .wisely, as you will see. I did not fall asleep, you may be sure. All ihe horrible stories I had ever heard related of robberies at couutry taverns ran an incomprehensible, race through my memory. On after another of the guesis were shown up by the hostler, as the evening wore on, until all was silent below stairs. " . It was probably half past eleven o' clock when ihe last passenger was shown up to bed, and for more than an hour I lay tt.ssins in wakeful anxiety. Final ly, iho "oinnolent influence of the dozen sleepers, snoring so heartily around me, and the imperative demands of a lired body overcame me. and I dropped ofT in to a light, uneasy slumber. I woke with a start of apprehension once or twice, atid felt for my money belt, but all was riiin and becoming nifre composed. 1 slept sounder. Suddeniy I was awaken ed with a sensation as if some one had slapped me quite heavily in ihe face I raised up on ny elbow. The moon had rien jurt bich enough to -hine full into th gable window, making ihe room quite lishu .1 looked around; all the beds and their 'occupants ware visible, and 1 kn-w Ly ihe steady sturdy goring ihat all ex cept myself were soundly sleeping. I passed my hand under my pillow. The money belt was there all rs;ht. and 1 be gan 'to latiib: at my nervousness, and was, about to compose myself to sleep again, whep.' hark ! by Ueorge, that ladder creaked! There! it creaked again! I swear, there's a man coming. stealthily up it.H: What I should drtHashed through my mind instantlyf and cocking my re volver. I turned rny back to the laddef and pretended to sleep. Creak ! creak ! and iben a long pause, which seemed a perfect eternity. Creak ! creak I creak ! then another pause Confound ihe man, why dont he com no faster? ' 'My nerves were passing under a fear jful ordeul. I could ecroely reixaia Iiow and calling out, '-Who' there " But I was tustamed Somehow. and remained quiet. , ' : . At length 1 heard a creeping noise a man dragging himself slowly on th floor. The distance between my bed an'd'the haichway was very short-scarcely twice the lengih of a man's body. The creeping soon ceased. All my clothes were carefully drawn from the foil of the bed. Then for a moment" all Was st ilTa's death ! ' The rober was search ing my pockets! ': . ': . : ... Presently I fflt a large hand sliding under my pillow Heavens ! I could hard ly lay still. Had I moved I would have been slabbed instantly ! Now I felt niy money belt sliling from; bene.Vth . my head. Then there was a raiher. hurried move toward the gangway. Creak ! creak ! w-nt the ladder. My lime had come ! Quick as lihtnmg I turned in my bed, took aim at a huge form in the hatchway boldly bu'lined by the moonlight streaming iu through ihe gable, window, and fired I There was a shriek, a strong, swift, downward rush of a heavy body to the fl or below a general jumping up out if beds and cries of alarm. -What's ihe row? ' Who's shot ?" "Anyb ody killed ?" were questidns that rang around on every side. -I explain ed mailers as quickly as I could, and there was a generthdescent of the lad der to see the dead robbeT. By this time th landlord had arrived with a li-jht. The man was not dead. It was the Iri.-h bosiler. He "was silting up, groaning terribly. My money belt, with the mo ney untouched, lay on the fjoof beside him covered with blood. I immediately took . possession of it. It so happened that we had a surgeon in the crowd. We raised the j;oorYeil to his feet, when from his 'right hand dropped a long, vil-airtous-looking bonie knife. He-would have jnurdered me. had it been necessary. On examination 11 was found iny builet had gone clean through his left shoulder, breaking his collar bone, inflicting a pain ful, ihough not dangerous wound.- The surgeon splintered his shoulder, and he was put to bed. ' All the pastengerswprenow thorough ly awake. It was four o'clock in the morning, aud as there was a good moon: ihe driver concluded we had bet go off early. So breakfast was got in a hurry, and. paying; our bills we gladly left so poken.-h a stopping place.' Whatever brcame of ihe Irish hoiler I never after ward learned. A Three Honrs CorabUt With an Elephant. Mr. Hyatt Frost, of Van Amburgh's menagerie, gave us yesterday, says ihe Cincinnati Commercial, the particulars cf atenible fight with Tippi Sahib, the well known elephant, which occurred at Couuersville, Indiana, last Tuesday. The menagerie has gone into winter quarter at that place, and the collossial animal is chained in a small building, where he will be kept until the show sea son opens next year. Tippo -Sahib by the way, is now the largest elephant in America. He is thirty-six years old, and weighs ten thousand pounds. The batil'vvith Tippo resulted from a change in his keepers. ; Fank Nash, his keeper for ten years, was recently supplanted by Charles Johnson, former ly ot Buroum'a museum. The elephant will not accept a new master without a battle, and. Mr. Johnson fully prepared himself for an exciting encounter." The elephant was in particularly bad humor wnh nil mankind. He would allow no body in his quarters, striking at. every intruder with his trunk and tusks most viciously. On Tuesday morninrr last, at ten o' clock, ihe combat opened. The new keeper, with nine assailants, had fully equipped himself with Chains at d cables for tying, and spears and pitchforks for si.bduemg Tippo. .The firsi thing done was to fasten a brickbat to ihe end of the tusk-chain, which latter is fastened to one leg and oce tusk.- By means of this rope, a twenty ton table chain, for merly used 10 subdue ihe famous Hanni bal,, was l:p-nooed around ' the tusk Nexi an excavation three feet deep was made under the sill of the house, and while ihe elephant's attention, was attrac ted to the other side of the room by a pail of wa'er poured into his trough, the cable chain was passed through the ex cavation atid fastened loheavy stakes out side. All this lime. 'ihe enfuriated mon ster struck all around him with terrific ferocity and tugged at his chain xtiih Incredible momentum 1 '-'.-:' The next thing accomplished -was the snarinsr of his hind legs'. Thiswiscon eumated by the . slinging of fresh ropes around those two stately pillars of ele phant fle.sh, bane and muscle, aud final ly by the stealthy strategy of the keep er and another man, these ropes were fastened to stump-'. outside. The. ele-. phant was now sufficiently ptnnioned to allow the order "charge pichforks' to be given. Ten men; armed with these ug ly implements ot offeuse, plunged them inn. the rampaging beast, taking Cafe of course o avoid penetrating his ejei or joints. The tenderest spot in ao eie phant is just behind the fore legs, and that locality was prodded unmercifully. By mean of a hooked spear sunk in his back Ttppo'was brought to his knees, but I he surged up again with such awful ' strensrth that he swent hi inrmenfnrs nfT Mheir feet, and made his chains whi.-tluj like fihJIestrins. After an hour's fiht- j iog, he was brought icwa oa hia 5ida, springing up but for two houts longer he tugged" at his chaines with frenzied, obstinancy.. He. pulled so hard at times that his hind legs were straight out behind him, and three feet off the ground. At the end of three-hours, the giant gave iu by .-.trumpeting," which ii the elephant's way of crying "enUgh." The moment this peculiar cry was heard th battle ceased." 'The keeper made Tippo get up and lie down a number of times, .and he , was as. obedient to. the word of command as a gentle pony. The animal tvas ihen groomed "and rubbed off" wiih whiskey.. He aJlowed all man ner of .liberties without so much as flip ping an'eari 'He was a subjugated tie phant." , ' ' - :--' lC " -T At one stige' of the fight ' the dog "Jack," a companion of the elephant.' thought some'of the typing business foul play. ' He fleiv upon Juiinson's neck,' but was pulled off and dragged out of the room. Jack evidently sympathised with his friend. . . - .. '. 1 The Shiftless flace. ; Gen. Howard states, on the authority of the statistics of Ms Freedmen's Bu reau, ihat despite ihe terrible drouihbf 1566 and the constant failure of crops and discouragement of farm laborers, and despite the damaging rains and the overflow in the Mississippi Valley dur ing the present yar, ihe' coiion crop of 1567 it estimated by high authority at 2 300 000 bales, being nearly two thirds of ihe largest crop ever pioduced ; and ih-i grain is double any ever before rais ed in the Southern States, white there has been a fair yield of rice, sugar and tobacco. This has b en doue chiefly by the negro labor, in defiance of any ad verse circumstances, moral and material, consisting in part of outrages upon and spoliation of freedmen. by the whites, while many of the large lanJed monop olists of the Southern States adopted the retrograde policy of letting the vast plantations lie fallow rather, than employ th5 freedmen under contract at just wa ge?. : ; :; ..- . - ; , D iring the present year these negroes have deposited in ihe savings bank es tablished under the auspices of the Freed men's Bureau, nearly eight milliou dol lars, which deposits are held , to their credit, and bear interest at the rale of six. per ceut per annum, and. are' fully se cured, as they are invested only iu U S.tonc-5. Besides this, they have con tributed a fair proportion of their earn ings to the establishment of private schools and newspapers, the building of churches, and the maintenance of chari itable organizations. In Louisiana alone ihe taxable prop erty of colored persons if assessed at nearly eighteen million cf dollars by the State authorities, yet there as in all the Southern States.ihey are denied the ben efit of the public schools" ihat their taxes contribute to support. And the race which has produced such industrial results as these has been de clared over and over, again to be too thrift less and shiftless to work unless subjected to a system of "compulsory" labor,' within two years af;er thir e mancipation from that system of labors That is already better than the poor whites ot the South hate ever been able 1 to do. - . A French naturalist.-AI. Vulpian. ctlt off the tails of tadpoles, and saw them not only live bui grow for ten days, in difTeriieut to ail theories of nervoui cen- ires, digescve - apparatus, or circulatory systems, uut tne memoer tnat seems 10 ' have the strongest dose cf the " vital principle" is the tail of a rat. this is the very ideal of life, and here, if anywhere, we outihi to locate the sevcf- vitality. The following'experiment. was made by Mr. Bert. He (Iryed a rat's tail under the bell ot an air pump, and iu immedi ate proximity 10 concentrated sulphuric acid, so as gradually 10 deprive it of all moisture. Then he placed it in a hermetically-sealed glass lube for five days. At the end of thm time he subjected it for a number of hours to a temperature cf ninety-eight degrees centigrade in a stove, and subsequently sealed it a second time in hia tube. Fcurdays more having elap-ed. he united this tail by its cut ex treiniiy. to ihe freshly-cut stump of a living, healthy rot,' and quietly awaited the result. His success was as complete as it was marvellous.' It commeoc-d to expand ar;d three months afterwards he dt-monsirated. by a second ampliation and careful injection, that it was furnish ed with proper ve?s!s, and was a living part cf the second rat ! . A young lady recently di?d in Elgin, III., and ai hef funeral, when her rela tives and friends were taking a last look at the loved face, a ynung man to whom she had been engaged, and who had pre sented her with an ensjagement rinr but a short lime before her death, deliber ately bent ' over the corpse and in the presence of all in the church; 'removed the ring from her finger and walked off wiiu it ! r - J. P. Parker, proprietor of the Phrxnix. Foundry, at Ilipley Ohio, was a run, way s'.ave who came to town with fire cents in his pocket. Will yoa lend fv.her your newspaper, sir. he only wants to read it ?" "Yes, my boy. and ask him to lend me his din ner, I only want h eat it." There are 51 weekly Methodist puMi caiiact prhis country,' . ' Tii J.i li.iHl &a e! jt. She thought the' uiaillflj deare'r 1 " Than anr h'd cai jet , i) The a'lks and aiiiot low 'To,l--rkt liW qiiitaunejjj, . And nodded at the bJ.' ' -9t - ',1 : "Show inarca velrtt tibbony' jit'f . Bareoan Jttin turk.' ' BheaidT n-.at to proVvf'2 '. f.! Thea gtv ih i3T f'- - . f . . The clerk vil all obtliaoio, Uo tra!ed"iMi'a3lbtiVi'jr A is fi . J At iing.tn , wiiu ne.-ii4t:on,. She bouit a yri t i.ri '( ; 9 T f . ""'.' Yo tasseB-rl of love, vt cr Hhall swind.l printers hera heloir' liavend radms aoVr-' .-'.- t c .it -i- V i ,J Ql -!.; : The hiaingascj hand replii-V. f ' , MToui.s kuowltJaiivdnj J 7 Dt Ii oq ue h t4tttiipr 1 di S bociii.f tt . Gan nev.'r enter bavea." t a f 'h CTl'J . A cross old bachelor SayVf-TL reasid why wtmeu do 'not'iut thecselres ia tu by tight", Jacirjr is r btcaU36-thiy,-lice around thaxhear 1, and , lLal is so hrj they vauuoi alfct iu' ... . .4 , k . . 9". ' -7". 'Here is an tnTeresling'SfapffitSl prayer of a' man- whova ia'.ilx3 habirof filling the breaks, in : his, geliten wita ihe-kyllable ;'er' . , v . " . . "O, Lord, we pray for car poor "broth er, who lived for nVur iLan fryear on itiii'Lord's aid -er, "and htonrVwi,-iath grav er and the ether all-bw.'er.,',., . MY'ifej I though you 'saiif .y;ou wera going to' have'a gdJ ror'dinti't ?'- "So I did;' and I hav urv'p:tljr werii' - "Where is it '4- ' 'Why. mj dear aia Vyou hero for . m'uhers coulJn'.'s'ee the remt vi till i,,T - ; 1 ' A ehfe4d counlry,Biaa j'ef 1Q the other day, gawky, unccuih ah!'ir!J cent appeirance, buim,' reality',1 'ii;h his e'ye-ieeih cut.1 'Paiaitojj 5p 3dsntiHl S t r e e 1 , ' ih ro ug h 1 h V' Jews q U fti' f g !l was continually; .eccouoter?d -yhh jra poriuuitieb louy. ( . , From almost evVry. store '. some "bns rushed out. ia accordanca with'" an nuying custom of that street, !-toi.8ejze upou and try und for.ee htai ta purth At last oue difty- looLixg.ftUoWj ca,i;ght bun by the arm. acd clamorously urged him to become a-cusiomer. Have you any "shffts, V' ':hjqutfedTihe cuuutryma:!,1 wnh'a very inhoceot igak. A splendid asicxtraecaf, sir Step in. sir. - Every price. -sir and (f vry -t''e' Tte cheapest in .ihe .street, .six.V, , ,t s,Are they cleau? " , . "To be sure, sir. Step rd-"1" ' . "Thtn," resuir.td the P?fcniryr!an, with perfeCl gravity. putoa oui lor you need ii." ; ? . . - j . The rage cf .the hop-t?ere may be imagined, a the , countryman 'turning; upon his heel, quietly ursutd Liiay. . .- -. i t An' amusing debate took place betweSil Mr. W.. a skeptic en religious reciters, aud a Ge.rman, Lutheran, Tlie skep.icJ ridtcul ingthe truth of certain alHgesui ihe bible, and "supposing hw 1 Yntagpmsi about cornered lo'argflmect.'; asked-him if he believed 13ilau'a '.ass .cvj-r. spoka like a man :Th Lutheran was silem for motnentud ihu said: "Me read mit Jde m fjai'Von'lJaaIffrh'leic his "shac ass, nnu sne speaic miqsi Hk'aJ inan. Me never hear a thackass speak lk a man taiiitsel.b'4t.mehear a fjood many men peak shust like a shackaas." A hatd cu?s-tomor thtii tnaD2cs oat of Heman's beautiful sUQzaa i 7.. Men tare their tlx to talk, . To ga, to spm tcn yaraforituhsusc ; And parrot their to m -ck ; ' J Uat taau hast all leasmsa f)r tk Terta:!oj " tongue, O.wauian I , f . . ,u - .. mum . 1 . . ., V We have seen and read, cool proceed ings ere now; bat tbT conduct cf th Vermont agriculturalist was positively iced." ,; He once sold a lead 'of bay ,to his1 neighbor, who contrary tVNs. eipecta' lions, nfier sin;r it jreighed. -stayed ia tee it unloaded. Bat a few forksfuU wer off. when n bouncing rock rolled, from cfT the load then anot her awl third came "bank upon ihe floor. .-'''. - WhatVihis ?'V cried the iuyer, in a loud voice. . .-' Most all herd g'ra taj.' ylarV' re plied the deaf mm. -; t "But ee hre."J ccrnisaJ thelother, poiniinpr to the boulders which lay array ed m judgnietit as;ait)?t the di?hoesi hay man. 'what does nil this mean ? "Shan't cut nigh so much hay thfs year asl did last.' replied ihe dealtr ra herd gras; ,.; ,f; Just as be had .finished th Tat ehcej down thundered a. rousing. ebi'nii of granite, making a deep indentaJkn ia tho barn floor, with one of 'it- shaip dcgleS. ' i "I say. neighbor .N-s. scrcsified1 forth the purchaser of granite, vl vyanAtdfcnnw what the-e are ?" pointing tor tie, bould ers and the big lump of grdn'le. Old N. look a mishty forkfall cf her' grt? gaye it a 'toss- inta th hayloft r ihenl leaning upon his fork, ejected Ms hu go quid of tobacco, and rejlacec!, it '.vi:a a frefh one ; took a view ot the fragment of Vtone wall thai hy before fcim, an I with one of ihe b!a:,dest srhre3Xtehcdi TLem 'erisroc'J.,,. i i r t 1 1 . 1 , 1 f
