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P F Y MG MATTER OX EVERY PAGE Oldest Paper in the State vj J . 1 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 l: 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. 1 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. j-.r s r ' r. as Ilayl -r 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 I J.. 2V. iii-riiuii-.i. 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. jj . 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, U5mS V 1. i:J 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. - 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 r ...... . ,. ...,. j "":' """V".""''. .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 -l-r-.. ax - rrru'ervimeiitt orAUlUr tiznftl!unatftni:tbiii: ,-r.i.w. xuii.jo.ttia.niCa.,ro.tUaa,Mliu. 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 i 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 FS3B, ZVBRlf 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 p3 h. r B! E ! I ' Ji TDBE I h aaej LINE OF j j clings, - sgi53gj iUS--vJir''?l ifopTflf llUllUil tiaCsaES kujeoS r- vses &h BOiLOE Isiis'Uiiul IB J III! PERU ADVERTISEMENTS. m EH 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. o m 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 - - " " 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 ini.M.n-iJiii ' il'T""-'" ' "V-IV-- 'II BANKS. s 3 3 ... o P. O S "5 c a i o o i P W P r-i B PI fl H N H Pi 0 H B P 2 E ft s5 & r M Jc a c - "- u sJ o Pi& -j -ir .' C3 b a Z5 es H. W M M S IE4 p. . a V u-r - c a y - '" o t- S3 -2 c; c CC5 d -a .3 R tr D f" . Cti r H - 8 iS & P H & t. & 2. 5 H o &S 0 M -r-o L2. 5 ra "-. i ' -r . fcdL' 5 -v.,-1 tj: -Vi I S I W t it J'rfc s-" 1 2 ST H CD s av. ?L - t i x s. fej -J sJCOZa KMjSWJ n n C at IS3 2 M H L ? W S a: ter e V 'j ? J". Xj. IR,0""2" ON" 33 TT 33 SmM alTT'VClSifn ijfTSKilrr--'a - -. r.r .- .1" -ti - -. Mi '.r m.'- w. vi V- ? li-E Ammunition For sale by TISDEL & RICHARDS. r s q r S. 2. r"M H : FURNITURE STORE; n. c. t Cd SsJ V1 j -- V a fit j Full Stock j p PAKLOB Jl , HUR"NITUREH'N J. 53c.l-Iooiii J-S , ! nJ3 Fat fefefeo 0 a EE CC T" T I I I sSSIlsIalMSII Decking Powder - 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. 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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 VKSZ