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VOL. 17 NO. 11.
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RELIGIOUS.
nnpti-t Chiirch.-Servic-es everySabbath
VyT morning at 10U o'clock. Sabbath School
u j A M. Rev. T. J. MonoAN. Pastor.
ChrI.r CInitclifKplscopaD-CornerAt-
Ite lantic and Second streets. Divine service
--.day evening at 7', o'clock: SnndaySchool
B. .r'od.K-k, p. m. Seats free. Kcv. J. K. Ron-
j .TS. Itertor.
jo.Prr-bjtcrlan Church. -Services each
& Qabbathatl(fc30a.m.,and7:30p.m. Prayer
,1 m Wednesday evenings. Sabbath School
a-tjclockp-m. J. T.Baikd. Pastor.
U.tho.li-t B. Church. -Services each
I ttWmtb at loriJOa. m., and 7;30 p. m. Sun-
rli'Kilati'ip. in. rrayer -ueeiins xnu.-j
W. II. Si.vroiiTKB, l'asior.
LODGES.
L -.itiiic nnd Lib Conrlavc, No. 03.
f-3 Knights of the Red Cross or Home and
K n,tantine. meets at Masonic Jlall ca the fifth
Moridays- T. A.CiiKir.ir.Sov.
--n, Inh Chapter No.-OrderoJ the Eastern
t W star. Meets In Masonic Hall on the third
-! -.-lays in each month. Mns." Louisa Moor.E, W.
-j Mas Kmma Ki.Aici:.Scc"y.
--aPurnas Council No. 3j It. fc .-. 31.
i-D .stated Communications fourth Monday in
( ,.., ', month. JNO.UI.AKK.T. I. G. M. T. A.
tm . .1 Recorder.
-.M t CnrmelComniniidcryKiiiGhtTcm-t-
l.lnr No. .'.-Meets in Masonic Hallon the
. Monday night in each month. It. W. I'uu-St-
i .! oin. 1 A. Cuekjii, Recorder.
irrnwiivillo Clmplrr No. 4. It. A. M.
tsr v, ruterCoHiinunlctttloiisnrstSrondayniKht
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1 ir'i month.
Lecture Meetings every Monuaj
I J. .US HLAKE,
. n s. -y.
M. E. JI. P- A K. IM
L -n.Nftiialia Valley l,odcc No. J, A. F- &
kj A 31. Jtegnlar CoramunirHtions held on
t r 1 T'VirMlay evenings of each month. IX)dgeot
I .t v, n every Saturday night. John Blake,
V M J C.MiL'KTs, secy.
i:rnv-nvi!Ie Kodcc No. 5, I. O. O. F.
& ; .dar meetings Tuesday evening ol each
J- Mrl- XA,?.u. it. . i--.r-B tx..T.
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CITY OFFICERS.
" C( Itj Council. Meets the First Mondayln
ft! ,.-j, inontlu Mayor. A. P. Cogswell. Al
. n . 11 -r.rtt Ward-James Stevenson and Clias.
! ,iirdl, fcecond Wunl-F. E. Johnsonand I.ew
- II ,: MRMlml. P. Capmbell. Ocrk. J. B. Doc-K-
lnurer. J. W. Middleton. Tolice Judge,
J. 'ull.
irr.li.-w 7T ' L ' ,ls " v'- .'U ,'iy nn w. f 11 1 ill
COUNT-" OFFICIALS.
.Count Co:n:m-MO!irrs-C. Harmes. ir.
Mm!' 'v. A. J. Hitter. County Clerk,
M II.i'ker. District Clerk, W.JI. Hoover.
' '.. plasters. Probate Judge, E. M- McCo
1 -. istirer, (S. V. ISratton. surveyor, C. M.
I'ounty Superlnteneent, S. W. fcOrew.
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r. as
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BUSINESS CARDS.
ATTOKXEY...
Sidney I incli,
A
T-T-riTJ-VT-V ST
(-OCNSIZI.OH AT
LAW.
,....-... . '--..-,, I -. 1.
. . over l'osl Ul.ice. isruwiiviiij, nkw.
13yl
St nil fc Sclilck, t
I TTOHNIS AND COUNSKLORS AT LAW,
A y.a t- consulted in the English and Ger-
r a .uiguages. Office, No. 70 Main street. (up
- .t-. f.rownville. Neb. JIy
V. 'P. Kngrrs,
A .
TTT'NHY AMI nn.M'.l.uu . I J..i .
m kivc dihge:.t atleiition 10 niiy u'5:ii
enintftteri to biscare. Ofilce in Court House
litiR. ItrownvIIlc, Neb.
IIcwcU fc Newman,
T"i:n:Y.s and counselors at law.
'.r nu villi. Neb.
Thum.-xs &, Hroatty,
AT
A
TTOR-VEYR AT LAW AND SOLiriTORS 1
i'icitj.
Office over Statu Jiank, Brown-
..b
V' h '. I. i;i;s. Attorneyat Tjiw and Land Agent,
., ljirice.liitge County, Nebnuika.
PHYSICIANS.
s HOLLADAY, M. D.. Physician, surgeon,
i an-! (li.ioi riei.in. tSniduated in lji. Loeu
t J iu Urou'iivilie Ih-Vi. Olhce, Lett ,t ITeighs
I'-.ji ire. McPherson Ultick. Special attention
FJ to obstetrics and diseases ol Women und
.h.drcj. v-i- l'a
i i -.n:VAKT.M.
V . .!r.m li ville. Neb,
'j J lii.;aiidti'3to7!i
lrjjtirt-.
D.,Vhvsli-ian and Surgeon
OIIU'L. US.ir from 7 to 3a.ni
n. in. Hf'lhce iu H. C. Letts
TIL MATHKWS. Phvsiciaa and Surgeon. Oflice
J-l. n iry Drug More. No. tf- Mam street, Ilroivu
Vh.e. .-b.
SOTAUIES
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YOT RY
PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER.
1 (iilicv. No.
01 Main
tTe'JUr
ry l'tiffrlHi
rownvil'e. Ne!.
EISRIUHT. Notary
"ai:d Conveyancer,
N. 7J Mm street, serond floor, isrownville.
A-iu lortlie 1 .uitatile and American Ton
e L,ii Insurance companies.
DRUfiClSTS.
Lett & Crelll,
JIST. and dealers in Paints. Oils,
1)
Pi-
Wall
Main
l"a it. 'tc. Mcl!ier.son Block, No. f.S
Vim t Bniwuville. Neb.
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FEED STABLE.
Inion House Fcctl &. Trntniiifr Stalile.
B"I!DENO. Proprietor. Horse breakinc and
tr tli.'nx made a : specialty
Horses boarded
fj roa..ii utile terms.
COUNTY SURVEYOR.
C. 31. Unj-tleii,
t'JVNTY SURVEYOR. Post office
address,
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ion. Nemana county, ren.
LAND AGENTS.
P. COCSWKLL. Real Estate and Tax Paying
-V. ent. Oiliee in Uocswell Block, corner First
:iaJ uautic streets. Will Rive prompt attention to
.( tii of Real Iistate and the Payment of Taxes
thro j'-dut the Nemaha Land District. 7tf
)! HARD V. HUOinSS
Real Kstate A cent and
IV Notary Public OHicem northiJast corner
Mc-
t t'rioii s Block, up stairs, BrownvJlle, eb.
AVILLIAM 11. HOOVER, Real Estnte and Tax
l'auiR Asent. Ollict in District Court Room.
." vo prompt attention to the sale of Real Es
it and Payment of Taxes throughout the Nemaha
!-a:. i District.
GRAIN DEALERS.
Geo. G. Start,
J1" Wl DEALER IN GRAIN AND AGRICUL-
jral Implements, and "storase. i-orwardini;
ji-
'intmsMOti Merchant, Asplawall, Neb.
MERCHANDISE.
I? 1 JOHN
ON &. CO., Dealers in General Merch-
i sndise. No,
. Main street. Brownville, Neb.
AVILLIAM T. DEN. Dealer tn General Merchan
' dise aud Forwarding and Commis-sion Mercli-5-
- No X Mam street. Brownville, Neb. Corn
'...!" Plows, Stoves, Furniture. etc, always on
t-nj. Highest market price paid for Hides, Pelts,
I -aiid Countiy Produce.
SADDLERY.
J
H BAUER. Harness. Bridles. Collars, Etc. No.
tl Main street. Brownville. Neb. Menilimr done
ti onJ.r "saUsiaction Ouaranteed.
HRIDGE BUILDING.
C W WUKKI.ER. Bridge Buildernnd Contractor,
v .!,-,, nvitio. Neb. Sole agent for It. W. Smith's
j aitM Trus Bridfic Tbestrongest and best wooden
"r!lC'l!'UVllJ use.
HOTELS.
A MI-R1CAN HOUSE. L D. Robison. Proprietor.
5. 1 nm; siret. letwetn Main and College. Good
tee, auj Livery stable in connection with this
H.ijsc.
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GUN SMITH.
V M. F. CRADDOCK. Ctun Smith A Lock Smith.
1 1 Shop at No. .K. Main street, Brownville,
N.-'iraskA. Onus made to order, andrepairincdone
rr Jinptly cheap rates. 35-ly
BLACKSMITHS.
T W.
A J. C. GIBOX. Blacksmiths and IInr;o
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.oers firs! stroef luifiviiinM.it...,.i.i .,..,!
" i kur. eu. orh. uoue io oroerana satisrac
tlja Kuaranteed.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
. LEX. ROBINSON. Boot and Shoe Maker, No.
..I. ,s Muin street. Brownville.Neb. Has constant
ly "n hand a good assortment of Gent's, Lady's,
M.ses'and Cbildreirs Boots and Shoes. Custom
w.-irk doni with neatness and dispatch. Repairing
none on short notice.
SALOONS.
TO-SEPH HUDDART t CO., Peace and Quiet Sa
' lonn.No.SlMalnstreet.Brownville. Neb. The
ot Vuieiand Liquors kept on hand.
TiLANKS of all kinds, forsaleatthe'-Advertlse
- Counting RoomR.
1 Si A tt,it1 j.rntCTrnt41.'Tlcl"-ifimTHrcr"
;. '. n--ji.
cf tttLt r cx. j oaa 1 crM. tmi. mnn- raoury 1 1
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PERII ADVERTISEMENTS.
Insnrnnce not a Privilege but a Duty.
Continental Insurance Company
or nsw itork.
As-.cJs over $2,000,000
Ijciiscn inii! in Chicnco. ... 1,500,000
Losnes paid In Ronton, .... 500,000
r made a specialty, upon thelnstal
j? dlHl mentor Annual Premium plan,
n- 1 for live years; less than live years,
11 IS no stock plan.
Insure against loss or damage bj Fire and
Lightning buildings and contents, hay. grain
and .Mode! GEO T. HOPE, Pres.
C Vitus I'kck. Sec.
C. J. Barker. General Agent, Omaha.
P. M. MARTIN,
AGENT FOR NEMAHA COUNTY.
BDRuVES Ss MOODEY,
IAVID UAKXE3. S. S. MOODEY.
DEALERS IN
!GENERAL
DRY GOODS- sf . GROCERIES
K
BOOTS,
Queensware,
CLOT
HATS,
LA3IPS of the
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SHOES,
Glassware,
O
CAPS,
Latest Styles,
variety.
in great
FULL
Monl
for
Picture1 tj Frames.
HIGHEST MARKET PRICE
PAID FOR
3- S8. jSl X 3F
For Present or Spring Delivery.
We are constantly filling up with new goods
which we
SEIX LOW SOWN
to suit purchasers.
WE REFI-U TO OUR CUSTOMERS.
S. R. D AIIilT,
DRUGS, jIEDICIXES,
CIlEXICAliS,
FINE TOILET SOAPS,
Fancy Ilnir A Tooth Ilrushcs,
Perfumery,
Toilet Articles,
TKUSSKS, SUOriiDEK PltACES,
(Iras and Garden .fo,
puue vnxES and liquors for
MEDICINAL PURPOSES,
Paints, Oils, Varnishes and Dye StnlTs,
Letter Paper, Pens, Inks, Envelopes,
GLASS, PUTTY,
Carbon Oil Lamps and Chimneys.
Phjsirian's Prescrijilions Carefully Compounded
I
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AND EXCHANGE STABLE
J. .A.. GILMAN
Would respectfully announce to the citizens
of Peru aud vicinity, that lie has opened out
T PEI3ETJ
with a fine array of
Slock, Carriages & Teams
AND
A ?To. 1 Saddle Horses.
0PZ1T AT ALL HOURS, DAY OE EC-Ef
to accommodate the pleasure seeking
public.
IfOc
GALLANTS
to drive teams if desired.
I solicit a liberal share of the public patron
age. Very respectfully yours,
ti
JACK."
THOHxPSOK'S
(l,S
and Transfer Hacks,
RUN DAILY FROM
PERU, NEBRASKA,
to the following points:
NoTiraslia making connection with trains
City, o tlio Midland Pacific R. K,
3rownvillo'"id return daily.
TVatson Sta- making connections with a'l
tion. Mo., trains on theK. C, St. Joe. A
' C. 15. It. It.
PASSENGERS AT LOW RATES.
FREIGHT AND EXPRSS of
All Kinds
transferred on these routes
at reasonable rates,
CSf All orders left with GEO. A BROWN,
Agent, at the P. O. in Peru, Neb., will be
promptly attended to.
"Mose" Thompson.
C W. CrL3ERTSGA
and
CONTRACTS TAKEN.
Material Furnished when Desired,
at terms and rates which defy competition.
Address, or call at Shop, corner Filth and
Park streets, Peru. Neb.
Refers to
I A. II. GILLETT,
M.M. WILES.
Syl
CHARLES gaede
PROPRIETOR.
Guests received at all hours, DAY"
and NIGHT. Connects with
H.vvei:r Stsille
under same management.
-CSCareful attention given to the
wants of guests. We refer to the
traveling public
QssS
WELL;
J. W. EX.ILTS
SOLE 2R01'i:iETOIl.
has the exclusive right
of putting in BORED
WELLS in NEMAHA
COUNTY. Calls by
letter receive prompt
attention. P.irtlesmav
OMNG.
make choice of FINE GALVENIZED
IRON OR CEMENT TUBING. We make
wells through ROCK, as we are provided
with a thousnnd pound horse-power drill.
Drill same size as Auger. Guarantee water
or no pay. Postofilce address, PERU, Neb
( jjoring done in Winterers xrcU as Summer
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PERU ADVERTISEMENTS.
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G. TV". PETEHSONJ
will make to order
BOOTS AND SHOES.
SSPAIRING DONE PROMPTLY.
Call and see Samples.
3STO DPII? INTO SALE.
ALL M'OliK irAIUlAXTED.
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2, J JOHIf BRUA'SDOJf, I
FashionableBGotandShoe
2 1 MAKER.
CUST03I W0IIK AUVAYS OX IIA.D.
fl llepairs executed with neatness.
3 f!AT,L AND EXAMINE MY STOCK- CO
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R. U. SM5TI5,
Justice ofthePeace & Collection
AGENT.
Special attention given to collection of notes
and accounts for non-residents.
Address Box 50, PERU, Nemaha Co., Neb.
DAS. B51IAXT,
Barber and Hair Dresser,
PETERSON'S OLD STAND,
Fifth Street, ... Pent, Neb.
Particular attention given to Ladies' Hair
Dressing. Switches and Curls made to order.
I guarantee good work. Syl
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KINDS OF
EPIZOOTIC POETRY.
The following soliloquy is said to have
been uttered by Mr. Vauderbilt upon con
templating the dead body of his favorite
horse "Mountain Boy," who died a short
time back from the prevalent disease:
Oh, that a Bergli had held the threads of
fate,
Then would my Boy have lived nor left me
desolate.
The gentlest horse that ever ate his feed ;
The noblest roadster or the lightning breed;
Thesturdiestgoer of the Harlem lane;
Swllt without elfort, mighty without strain.
Behold him uow, bis loving ejes are dim,
His glowing form is rigid, and to him
No more the breezy dash, the sparkling
"spirit,"
The pride ol distancing the dust and dirt.
His glossy coat that glittered like a star.
And shone respleudant ioremo.stand afar,
Is dull and lustreless, and those great veins,
'Pi.... ... i .- . i- ...i .i -i. ... ...!'
-mm, uatu iu iiiiic- wueii uiey leiu me reius.
Are pulseless. Can it be my "Boy" is dead,
Heof the mountain and the thunder bred?
Hapless old man, thy countless millions
bear.
Not half the joy I felt in that poor carcass
there ;
Stocks have no delight, railroads no Jov
Compared to what I felt In "MouiiUimlloy."
Cliifilm and Woodhull, whom I used to pet,
Sink Into nothing, and I all forget,
How they once hung around my office door,
And made me hate them halt and half adore.
Wliut maglotiow has "Harlem," 'Central"
too,
And rival Erie that I loved to sue?
Dead is my horse, and these last falling
tears,
Teach me the meaning of my four score
years.
I tog must go, hut where I g'bl pray.
There I may listen to his loving neigh ;
Look In his eyes; caress his Silken inane,
And hold the ribbons over him again.
And should the police there allow the game,
Beat Dexter's time for any sum you name.
SOUTHWESTERN PIONEEttS.
Austin, "Wilkinson, Houston, Jackson
anil Davy Crockett.
"Gath" in Chicago Tribune.
AUSTIN AND WILKINSON.
The fatliee of Ihe Southwest was
Moses Austin, a native of Connecti
cut, who settled a Texas grant with
young men from the Lower Mississ
ippi Valley, and was the successful
competitor over James Wilkinson
and Aaron Burr to anticipate the Anglo-Saxon
occupation of Northern
Mexico.
Wilkinson was an extraordinary
character, and the iirst Governor of
all Louisiana, inclusive of Arkansas,
which he received from the French
in 1S03, as Commissioner. He had
been the founder of the trade between
this region under the French and the
Kentucky towns, even prior to Wash
ington's Administration ; and, after
balking Burr's plans to sieze Texas,
and seeking to get possession of it for
himself, he died at last, after a quar
relsome but vigorous life, near the
city of Mexico, just as he had secured
a giant of land in Texas to compete
with Austin's colony. With youth
upon his side, he might have antici
pated there the career of Houston,
and fuliilled the ambitious dreams of
Burr.
SAM HOUSTON.
Iii the year 1S29 Arkansas Territo
ry was visited by a nobler refugee
than commonly came to its seclusion.
A voluntary exile from the Executive
Mansion of Tennessee, followed by
the fury of a political press, aud that
public full of uncharitable interpreta
tion, which believed the worst, Sam
Houston had resolved that the sun
should forever shine upon his back,
and the East be forgotten in the mis
ery of his spirit. A Governor, elect
ed at the age of 34, by 12,000 mvjority',
he had proved the reverse of the couplet-Art
hath no charity for him
Whom love has satisfied.
lie had married a younger lady,
and. aftex three months of living to
gether, wfey seperated. The reasons
neither ever gave. All rushed for
ward jrvith a rea&on, and that the bas
est ; lmt none guessed the shortest
one that the woman did not love
him.
Like Hester Prynne, implored by
the preacher, in public, to tell the
name of her betrayer, when the
preacher himself was that, it might
be said over Sam Houston : "He
would not speak! Wondrous strength
and generosity of man's heart. He
would not speak !" He resigned his
ofliee, bowed his head, and, in the
splendor of a young career, departed
for the desert. He landed at the
mouth of White river, and ascended
the Arkansas to Little Bock, but not
to tarry and take root again in public
station; for, apprehending this, the
political papers, even there defamed
him. Many years before he had been
adopted into a Cherokee tribe, and he
had come to claim its sympathy and
brotherhood. Four hundred miles by
land and water, he pushed up toward
the falN of the Arkansas, and his
father, Oolooketa, the chief, hasten
ed likewise to approach him. The
young Governor of Tennessee stood
before the savage, and was greeted by
his Indian name:
"Colenneh," said the chief, "you
have become a great chief atnongyi.ur
people. You have suffered there, ami
have turned your thoughts to my
wigwam. I'aai glad of it. It was
done by the Great bpinL"
For a little space. Houston relapsed
into the Indian's own drunken and
maudlin sorrow. His strong nature
poseti iipo
They revived at this capital all the
slanders of Tennessee, but his scars
had healed and would not bleed
anew. At Jast, an Ohio Congressman
slandered Andrew Jackson in his
name, whom Houston revered. Then
there was an affray on the avenue,
and nearly simultaneous breaches of
the Congressman's Dead, aud of the
"privileges of the House." For this
offense they tried the man of
misfortune on the floor, in police
court, and wherever he could be drag
ged ; but he compelled a verdict ot
character at the hands of the verj
cocksDarrow wno uau aetameu mm
ei.uiieu in".
Ml,. ..,. I .!- 1..-1. -e 1T.. .!.:.,..
inen.suaK.i.gu.e uust oi .... -
ion irom ins leei, ne reiurueu u uic
wilds of Arkansas, and read Horace
till the beauty of life and career were
born again, and, with a f res lied spirit,
hesaw his opportunity in Texas. To
that great new State he became deliv
erer and President, and with mag
nanimous patriotism, he led the con
quest to the capital, and the nation
which had cast him off.
ANDKEW JACKSON AS
ENER.
A SOUTHWEST-
It may often puzzle the household
man of the North to know why An -
drew Jackson, with his mixture of
popular and despotic qualities, over-
reviveo again, ana lie uecame uie xu- Te1esseef h
...... i , i 7. .i... r.. iveeutr on
u.ai. uiiitiupiuii at Haui g.un, am. j. t , t hirf
the scourge of the swindling agents whlmsi.aI wi an
;iuti LiniiriM wiiii i ii 1 1 u iti l iiiiriii i iihiii.
alities, over-Kowa"fO" - ' s;
nasty which I'lemonfone boy
ton to Johnra-0Uj jrown hi
pt the affee-jf sroacl."
threw the dignihed dynasty whten
presided from Washington to John
Qumcy Adams, and ke
tions of two-thirds of the country jn
fact and memory. He was the spiiit
of the Southwest. He represented sll
the trans-Allegheny country south ol
the Ulne in hs coatings against rer
Btraint and for development in the
provinces of the Indians and Spanish.
Aaron Burr, an acute politician, with
out Jackson's steadfast and candid
face, had attempted ,to lead this, spir
it, comprehending it, but a greater
politician drew him back, nnd his
own sini&ter natureand vices entomb
ed him alive. Yet, as to mere pur
pose, and in many respects of episode,
Houston's success and Burr's dream
are parts of the same thing, and time
aud candor won at San Jacinto what
got for Mr. Burr only the plaudit of
Mr. barton. Houston, like Burr,
was driven from his high dignities to
pursuit of ambition in the Southwest,
and, as Burr revenged himself in fa
tal duel upo-n Hamilton, Houston re
sented his persecution upon the body
of Congressman Stansbury. Later
opinion inclines to the belief that
Burr's design was no worse than to
cross the Sabine, backed by the rifle
then of the Southwest, wrest Texas
and New Mexico from the Spanish,
and, by the popularity he should ac
quire there, return again toward po
litical dominion at the Democratic
capitol of Washington. And, thirty
years after Burr lied from New Or
leans, pursued by Jefferson's vigilant
office-holders and dragoons, Houston
returned wounded from the battle
field of revolutionized Texas, to be re
ceived at New Orleans with almost
idolatrous music, and proud and ten
der care and affection. Like Burr, he
believed that the annexation of the
regions he had reduced would make
him president; but he was compara
tively unselfish and untrained. And
the mild old man, overawed by the
later great munity for a Southwestern
Empire, died poor and deposed, like
Burr, but unhaunted by any victim
of perfidy ; and it has been said that
he left his bride in Tennessee, and
submitted to slander unparalleled,
because he wotild not force himself
upon a woman whose heart was an
other's. If Texas was won, as some
say, by brutal means, it holds theash
e of a gallant a countryman as the
f5mwrl ivhn fnnl.' nnpiipn r,r flin
Knight who recovered Jerusalem.
PRENTISS AND QUITMAN.
Every man who admires force of
character and gallantry in the objec
tice view, will be affected by the deeds
of these Manifest Destinariuns of the
Southwest. Nor can any fail to ad
mit that they forced the boundaries
of our empire, and fought with the
valor and devotion of the Tartar.
They reasoned solely upon the impe
rial necessities anil mental supremacy
of ihe American, aud many of them
were Northern men, who adopted the
Southern views and habits, and often
excelitNl in them. In Mississippi, S.
S. Prentiss and John A. Quitman,
Northern school-teachers, the one
from Maine and the other from New
York, reached the highest distinct
ions under all the codes which pre
vailed there, and their lives, already
fairly and fully if not critically writ
ten, will puzzle and excite a calmer
posterity than ourselves. Fire-eaters
of opposite parties, they had no mean
emulation tor a fictitious or irrelevant
ancestry, and could nearly say, with
Albert Pike: "My father was a jour
neyman shoemaker, who worked
hard, paid his taxes, and gave all his
children an education." The devo
tion of Quitman to what, was then
called in the Southwest "the Ameri
can idea," cannot be lightly treated
by an age which loves to treat of Mr.
Pre.-eott's, Mr. Helps', or Mr. Park
man's heroes. The spirit of Cortes
might have broken the tomb in envy
to see Quitman lighting his way to
Houstons side iu Texas, or through
the house-walls of Monterey, or car
rying the Belen Gate at the City of
I Mexico ; and, as governor of the cap
tured capital, tie was the embodiment
of feudal vigor ami democratic wis
dom. ' No wonder that till Mississippi
ro-e in his rear and made him also its
Governor. Yet, even there, the ca
prices of popular constituencies, ine
vadible as in the Niuth, hunted him
into retirement for a difference of
opinion, and the successor of Cortes
bowed his head as if his King had
frowned. We are at pre .en t on easy
terms with ourselves in the North,
and rather beiittle the times to which
we refer; but the historv of America
will consider ihe period of our exten-j
sion into Louisiana and Mexico as so
licitously as the period of Emancipa
tion, iii the human diary nothing
but success succeeds, particularly witli
nations, and nobody moralizes till
thev fall. We do not need to be re
minded of litis by the late spectacle
of the highest European civilization
indorsing the the slave-cause, then
nnnermost in man, and the orthodox
Glad-tone's hearty, but
premature
Davis has
recognition: ".lellerson
made a nation !"
DAVID CROCKETT.
In the vear ISoo, the news-budget
from Litfle Bock relates that, among
the hundreds of people, "mostly from
Tennessee, Alabama and North Caro
lina," who were passing through that
place for Texas by the great military
road, crowding the ferry, aud escort
ing large droves of negroes "as many
as three hundred passing over on one
Sunday" were Colonel David Crock
ett and his followers.
Crockett was at this time nearly
fifty. The son of an Irish tavern-
tiie roao irom Virginia to
e grew up nearly ll-
s Dinners nanus.
d peculiarity, ami a
certain nunoonery not wunoui
shrewdness, made him the leader of a
reckless settlement; and, in course of
time, when even such a society re
quired organization, Crockett became
a magistrate, was sent to tne Liegisia
ture and three times to Congress. He
was rash enough to oppose General
Jackson, the idol of the Mississippi
Valley, and this sealed his fate in
Tennessee. Shouldering his rifle and
following his political supporters, he
repaired to Little Bock, and, after a
brief delay, pushed on to Texas. At!
thevcapture of the Alamo, the follow-
mcyear, ne was muruereu oy oruer
f' , nnn ,! ,;c
ashes were
wifvuiivci ."""i .,. ...o
. ejjed into the Ilavo
of comic al
GATH. tnanacs for twenty years.
1'
A gentleman sent to the intelligence
office in St. Joseph to obtain a "young
lady" to look on while his wife did
the work. The fair creature who was
offered for the place after asking some
fifty questions about whether they
had "tubs set," whether the "kitchen
was" down stairs," etc , asked how
in.,iivnv;!., ,.i, ..i,i i,,.ni'nni i
I ' fij" sad tle gentlemen, "I d
J -p-j' we can let you have n
even." "How many chili
lli,,, ..tllllo CI1U IJWUIU 1JC Ulll.
"HI." said the centlemen. "I don't
more
ldren
ft&wanVou ?" said the Iriud-maiden.
yiemon.one boy eight years old, but
A raou f0"'" him if you think he'd be
ifc
Ste
fngf?idower who had never quarrel
e vith his wife said the last day of
er vitn nis wife
jr -marriage was
tjr -marriage was as happy as the first
-BrrAher widower said the la-t day of
lwmarriage was the happiest.
ip S-
A Dandury girl has married a poet,
and carries her own coal.
"Wonderful Horloge.
A German of Cincinnati has invent
ed a clock which, though much small
er than the celebrated one at Stras
burg, is, from its description, much
more complicated. We see, in a glass
case, a three-story, steeple-shaped
clock, four feet wide at the first story
and nine feet high. The movement
is placed in the first 9tory, on four
delicate columns, within .which
swings the pendulum. The second
story consists of two tower-like piec
es, on the doors of which there are
two pictures that represent boyhood
and early manhood.
A tower crowns, as third story, the
ingenious structure. A cock, as n
symbol of watchfulness, stands on
the top, directly over the portal.
When the clock marks the first quar
ter the door of the left piece of xthe
second story opens, and a child issues
from the background, comes forward
to a little bell, gives it one blow, and
then disappears. At the seooud quar
ter n youth appears, strikes the bell
twice, and disappears; at the third
comes a man in his prime; at the
fourth we have a tottering old man,
leaning on a staff, who strikes the
bell four times. Each time the door
closes of itself. When the hours were
full, the door of the right piece of the
second story opens aud Death, as a
skeleton, scythe in hand, appears,
and marks the hour by striking a bell.
But it is at the twelfth hour that we
have the grand spectnele in the rep
resentation of the day of judgment.
Then, when Death has struck three
blows on the little bell, the cock on
the top of the tower suddenly flaps
his wings, and crows in a shrill tone ;
and, after Death hath marked the
twelfth hour with his hammer, he
crows again twice. Immediately
three angels, who stand as guardians
iu a central position, raise their trum
pets with their right hands (in the
left they hold swords) and blow a
blast toward each of the four quarters
of" the earth. At the last blast the
door of the tower opens, and the res
urected children of earth appear,
while the destroying angel sinks out
of sight. Then suddenly Christ de
scends, surrounded by angels. On
his left '.here is an angel who holds
the scales of justice; on his right an
other carries the Book of Life, which
opens to show the alpha and omega
the beginning and the end. Christ
waves his hand, and instantly the
good among the resurected are separ
ated from the wicked, the former go
ing to the right, and the latter to the
left. The Archangel, Michael, sa
lutes the good, while on iheotherside
stands the devil, radiant with fiend
ish delight he can hardly wait for
the final sentence of those which fall
to him, but, in obedience to the com
mand of the central figure, he with
draws. The figure of Christ raises its
hand again, with a threatening mein,
and the accursed sink down to the
realms of his satanic majesty. Then
Christ blesses the chosen few, who
draw near to him. Finally we hear a
cheerful chime of bells, during which
Christ rises, surrounded by his an
gels, until he disappears and the por
tal closes.
A complete drama is here represent
ed without the aid of a human hand.
The movements are calm, steady and
noiseless, with the exception of the
threatening gestures of the figure of
Christ and the movements of Lucifer,
who darts across the scene with light
ning rapidity. Of course the pecul
iar action of these two figures
tentional on the part of the
and adds greatly to the effect.
is m
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An old man's advice to a youug
man is, don't love two girls at once.
Love is a good thing, bnt it is like
butter in warm weather it won't
do to have too much on hand at
once.
How a Tennessee Girl Created a Seu
imtlon. I heard of a young lady the other
day up in Middle Tennessee who, as
rivermen say, has taken another
chute. The story about her did my
soul good, and for the comfort of oth
er half-starved dyspeptics like myself,
whose tardy sustentation is affected
by means of fried chickens, soggy
bifcuits, greasy hash and solo leather
fritters, I'll relate it. For years past,
as a mere matter of form something
handed down from remote antiquity
the officers of the county fair held
iu the neighborhood where this young
lady lived, have been in the habit of
offering a premium to the lady (un
married) cooking the best dinner. It
was a dead letter. Nobody had con
tested for the premium within the
memory of the oldest inhabitant.
This year, however, the young lady
of whom I am speaking determined
to compete for the prize. Her name
I wish I could immortalize it was
Kate Janaway. The fair men set up
a stove for her, stretched a canvass to
shield her from the sun, and about 11
o'clock of the last day she went to
work. The matter had been talked
about by every one in the neighbor
hood, and curiosity was on tip-toe. A
crowd collected around the place
where the stove was set up early in
the morning, and kept increasing,
but when Miss Kate Janaway herself,
a buxsom, handsome girl of nineteen,
daughter of the ex-Mayor of the tow.n,
appeared on the ground, and, putting
on a white apron and rolled up her
sleeves, commenced operations, all
other attractions were nothing. Ev
ery one was anxious to see so novel a
sight. There was a tree near which
soon became black with spectators
who had climbed up to get a better
view. The branches were, finally, so
burdened that one by one theybroke,
precipitating those upon them to the
ground, until one man was left in the
tree. He sat in a lofty fork, with eyes
riveted on the scene below. No
amount of persuasion by those be
neath, envious of his better view,
could induce him to come down
even a bribe of 10 failed. Ho said he
was hound to see or die. Meanwhile
the dinner preparations wenton. The
savory smell of the cooking food
seemed to intoxicate the crowd, which
pressed nearer. It took all the police
force on the grounds to keep order.
The time arrived for the trotting
match, announced as the sport of the
day, but the amphitheater was emp
ty. The judges (with the exception
of one crabbed old widower.) the tim
ers, all were missing, and nothing
could be done. At half-past two the
dinner was announced ready, and
the judges, happy men, seated them
selves at the table the crowd regard
ing them with ill-disguised envy. A
roast of beef, delicately done, was put
steaming hot upon the table, then fol
lowed corn pudding, whose delicate
aroma fell upon the olfactories of the
excited crowd, "like breezes of Araby
blest;" a profusion of vegetables
cooked to perfection followed next.
The judges ute and ate, praising the
flavor of the food and skill of the cook
at every mouthful. But when a des
sert of piping hot apple dumplings
made its appearance the forbearance
of the crowd was at an end. They
broke through the ropes into the ring
with one accord, and the dumplings
disappeared in a trice.
One old fellow, proprietor of a store
and owner of a. saw mill, proposed to
the young lady on the spot, but he
was quickly collared and led off the
ground by two young aspirants, who
made common cause against the aged
suitor, saw-mill and all. That young
lady was the center of attraction in
her town after the cooking feat. She
received twenty-five offers of mar
riage the first week, and her fame
spread through the country round.
An old bachelor fellow down in Grun
dy county, with a farm so big that it
took him all day to ride around it,
and cattle on a hundred hills, heard
of her, and made a pilgrimage all the
way to that town to learn the truth.
He got the girl, too. although some of
the young men of the place sued out
a writ of habeas corpus to prevent her
from being carried out of the count.
They were too late.
This is, I am aware, a rather sad end
for so good a story, but devotion to
the truth compels me to give nothing
bnt the simple, unvarnished reality.
She ought to have married that ft 1
low who set up there in the crotch of
that tree o long, and at such fearful
discomfort. He wanted her. and he
was a poor, billions dyspeptic, whom
her splendid cooking would have soon
restored to usefulness and society, but
he was poor. Ah! Louisville Journal.
Cliarlie Letter to his Sliier.
Dear Sue: The horses is all got
the epigram ic very badly. Us boys
had so much fun the otherday ! Lit
lo Frank's hobby-horse had glue run
nin' out of his nose, so we knew he
had it, and we took him into the bath
room and got some of ma's fine tow
els and rapped his legs up in hot wa
ter, aud burned sulphur matches un
der his throat, and swinged his mane
off. and the paint come oir his legs,
and the glue all come unstuck, aud
Frank can't ride him any more.
Wasn't it jolly? Then the matches
putusinmind of having a Boston
fire, so we coaxed sister Sadie to give
us her box of Swiss houses you brot
her from Crip; and we set 'em up
nnd touched 'em off, and let her rip.
The town went like blazes, and wo
throwed some of sis's dolls iu for dead
bodies, and then saved the arms und
legs for trofys.
But you bet we got scared when the
flames went so high, so we turned on
the hose, and that fool Jim Blain let
the water run all over the floor and
down the kitchen onto the cook's
head, and she thought the pipes had
busted, and run for a man to fix 'em,
so ma caught us in there, and the
boys run home, and I got a thrahin'.
It didn't hurt much, cause I had on
thick clothes. Our Frank is in pants.
He went in last Sunday. I've got a
new girl. I don't like Jennie Bird
any more, or I gues3 she don't like
me any more, cause when I give her
a handful of peanuts she throwed
'em in my face, and I expect Jim
Blain told lies about me. I'd lick
him, only hi.s father keeps a candy
store, and I git all the candy I want
for nothln'.
Your afiectionate brother,
Charles.
P. S. Please bring me a GOAT.
"Well, we've got her boxed np," was
the pathetic exclamation of a grief-
stricken husband in Lenox, Massa-
chusetts, lately as he turned away
from his encofflned wife.
A young lady recently betrothed
says that "C. O. D." (Cash on Deliv
ery) means "Call on Dad."
A loving swam iu Maine .dedicated
J napkin ring "To my almost wife."
AVliatlle Knew About Threshing.
From theTitusYilIe Press.J
A young man from an eastern city,
who has been visiting rural friends in
this vicinity, after seeing a farmer
thresh out a "flooring" of oats tho
other morning, asked and received
permission to swing the flail a few
minutes, upon assuring the agricul
turist that he was "perfectly familiar
with the art of threshing." Expec
torating upon his hands, the young
man went at the oats, but at the first
pass knocked the horn off a new
milch cow that was leisurely ohewing
her cud in a neighboring stall. Tho
second swing caved in the head of
the farmer, who thought he was safo
enough as long as he roosted on top of
the fanning mill in the end of tho
barn, but without discovering " the
havoc lie was makingrthe city artist
kept at his labors. The third blow
fell upon the oats, the fourth killed a
settingiien in a manger near by, and
the fifth pass of the 'deadly weapo$
was the best of all. for it came around
the young man boomerang fashion,
and taking him under the lower jaw,
knocked hiui down, and thus put a
stop to the work of slaughter. Tho
mere fact that the city "thunder" re
turned to consciousness an hour be
fore the farmer did, allowed the for
mer to get several miles out of town,
before his efforts at threshing oats
were discovered by his neighbors.
We have lot our little Hannah In a very
painful manner.
And wo often asked, "How can her harsh
sulTerings be borne?"
When her death was first roported, her aunt
got up and snorted,
With the grief that she supported, for it
made her feel forlorn.
Sho was such a little seraph, that her father,
who was sheriff.
Really doesn't seem to care If he never
smiles In life again.
Sho has gon. we hope, to heaven, at tho
early ae of seven,
(Funeral starts otr at eleven) where she'll
never more have pain.
A little South Kansas bo' ran away
from school, Monday, to go chestnut
ting! During the expedition, he fell
twice out of one tree, to the imminent
danger of breaking his neck, was
licked by one of the 'Other bo5's,
whoso breath he materially lessened
by stumbling against his stomach,
ran a sliver into his knee, and was bit,
ten violently on the neck by a new
kind of bug. When begot home his
father anointed him with the boss
end of a billiard cue, and the next day
at school his teacher escorted him twico
around the room by his poorest ear
He says that chestnuts are so wormy
this year that it don't pay to go after
them.
A pupil in an up-town school, du
ring a definition lesson, was asked to
define an "oblong." The class had
just recited, in concert, that an oblong
was "a straight figure, with two long
and two short sides:" but the pupiU
who had caught the sound rather
than the sense of the definition, inno
cently answered, "An oblong is a
lame nigger, with two long and two
short sides."
A little boy once came running info
his mother's room, and said: "O,
mother! I came so near being drown
ed in the Chiekahominy to-day!"
"How, my son?" exclaimed tho
mother in great alarm, "Why, some
boys asked me to go with them to tho
Chiekahominy bathing, and if I had
gone, I should certainly have been
drowned, for you know I can'tHWini."
"You are the dullest boy I ever
saw," crossly exclaimed a bald headed
old uncle to his nephew. "Well, un
cle," replied the youth, with a glance
at the old gentleman's bald head,
"you can't expect me to understand
things as quick as you do, because you
don't have the trouble of "getting
'em through your hair."
Elder of fourteen : "Where's baby,
Madge?"
Madge: "In the other room, I
think, Emily."
Elder of fourteen : "Go directly,
ami see what she's doing, and tell her
she mustn't!"
Teacher: "And what are the four
quarters of the world ?"
First pupil: "Please, teacher, air,
earth, fire and water."
Second pupil (eagerly) : "No, teach
er; Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. '
The other day a little boy who had
cut his finger, ran to his mother and
cried: "Tie it up, ma; tie it up
quick, for the juice is all running
out!" The same urchin, on one of
the late exec-si ve hot days, appealed
to mother for help, saying, "Ma, do
fix me, for I'm leaking all over."
An indiscreet youth in Cairo has
been fined for viobtly kissing t he
school nyi'ma. She wag so homely
that the judge said tiiere was absolute
ly no excuse for him.
Their is nothing like a good defini
tion, as the tenclu-r thought when
he explained the meaning of "old
maid" as a woman who had been
made a very long time.
A three-yen rs-oM Boston philoso
pher, after a moment's meditation, on
first hearing of the great fire, sagely
remarked, "Well, I think somebody's
been awful careless." Fact.
"Where does this horse car run ?"
said the old gentleman from the coun
try to the boot-black. "Dunno,"said
the imp of the blacking bottle, "the
bosses runs at the nose."
A school-boy having helped a fellow-pupil
in his arithmetic, the teach
er angrily asked. "Why did you work
his lesion V "To lessen his work,"
replied the boy.
Montreal youug ladies play ihe
soothing air of "Home. Sweet Home."
about tiie hour of retiring, when their
sweetheart's show signs of lingering.
In Kansas, a divorce wais granted,
and the lady remarried to "a young
blushingyoulh," in the brief space of.
twelve minutes. " ' '"
o . fc
A gentleman in a Boston horce car
was heard to remark th?t he knew
upwards of fifty native Americans
who had tartars for wives. "
If a woman tell more than the
truth in speaking cf a rival' age, sho
will probably make the thing even by
stating tier own.
The firt exclamation of an Ameri
can belle on entering the Cathedral of
Milan was, "Oh, what a church to
! get married in.
An exchange is talking about "tji
next world's fair," just as if we diifn 'I
have trouble enough with thiswdrld'i
"Fair."' " s
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