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'HE ADVERTISER
Published every Thnrsday by
GAFFRJ3Y & HACKER,
Proprietors.
lfflPCXo. 74 MePhersoB's Block, up Stairs,
BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA.
Terms, in Advance :
ne copy, one year-
,,r copy. s'x months
,necerpy, three monins.
. B JLPIXG MATTER ON EVERYPAQE
BUSINESS OABDS.
ATTORNEYS.
-T. Tr. Broadn
Jmn-nV AST) COUNSELOR AT LAW.
Lattice vcrbJateBanb, DrQ-vnvllU.yeb.
-p.. "W.''(Tlioxnco
TvrvmVEY AT LaV.-OS5cc front room over
i flPoveaeon & Cross's Hardware Store. Brown-
rUIo. 2eb.
Stall & Sclilolc.
TvmiHfEYS AND COUXSELOKS AT LAW,
l be : consulted In the English and Ger
jnaa iimisu""-". v. ' 45-ly
Tii.i Brovnvllle.:seo. ja-i
":,. n n ce. ao.i juuu nuniuu
T.V. T. Rosers,
TTOHVEV ASD OOUKSELOn AT LAW.-
Affacirtiiiii
0UlBYaac" .-tii "TCoH
Hniiiiing. anu' -
TT.-tt &. Sowmani
TT0SSBY8 AT COUNSELORS AT LAW
prnrrnYine.-Tu.
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. Bcatrtce.aage Conniy. Nebraska.
jpHYSIClAirfS.
iiOLLADAV,5L"D.. Physician. Surgeon
a.d Obstetrician. Qraauaioa in ni. lAJca-
ltore.McPhcrsonrniock. Special attention
Dlh??, ohiitetrlcs and diseases of Women, and
M",r io-6m
BliUi-'
Ut "" -
rl MATHEwa, i"nysician nnu oumcuu.
. in Rtr Drug Store. No. 32 Main street, Brown-
Taie. eb. a,
LoTARISSfe COLLECTION AGENTS
J. W. Brnh,
S FTzen?. London Precinct" Special attention
in to tiie collection of notes and accounts for
CrUldenufAddresBoxlCBrownvUle.ma-
fca.Oo., Neb. f
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L.. A. IJcrirmann,
i-TnTAnY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER.
T$ln:.Xt 62 Main street, Bro.vnvllle. Neb.
T7 E. EBP.IGIIT. Notary Wlcand Conveyancer,
I1! n t Main sireei, secu iuu, """""
Elftb Awiiltorthe Equitable and American Ton-
t(ineue'UHUiaubU vmi --
DRUGOISTB.
Lett 2i CrelBhf
rTnr"K3IriT3. and dealers In Paints, Oils. Ws.ll
f D WporTctc. McPherson Block, No. 6S Main
btreet, unwavmc, 'u.
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LA5D AGENTS.
i V COGSWELL., lteai i-jjiaieunu immjms
i A. Axent. Otilca In Cotrswell Block. corner Mrst
r " itele of ml &Ute and tho PHymcnt of Taxes
. llrouBiioot tee emim xiim j" - .
T ICHARD V. iUOHES, Real Estate Agent and
t-: ir-..lT...i.n- nuinoln nnrtliput corner Mc-
Pherjn a 1tc. up stalr3, Broyavlllo. Nf b.
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riLLIAM H. HOOVER. Real Estate and Tax
WUlclve' prompt attention to the iale of Real E--.
Utc and Paymoutof Tfttes throujjhoutthe Nemaha
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GRAIN DEALERS.
Geo. G. Start,
rtASR DEALER IN GRAIN AND AGRICUL
V. t taral Implements, anfi totorage, torwrdlug
en I Commission Merchnut, Aspluwall, Neb.
...MIIWIll.l..ll.,l., ! Pll. '! I """'HI I
SADDLERY.
J II. BAUER, n.iniess, Bridles, Collars, Etc.. No.
. M KaInstrept,BrownvIlIe,Neb. Mending done
tcorflT riiitlsfuctloii Guaranteed.
BRIDGE BUILDING.
Cl W. WIIEELER,BndgeBui!derand Contractor,
J. Bron iivIUe. Neb. Sole agent foV IL W.Smith's
PatentTruw Bridge. The htrongest and best wooden
bridge now lu use.
HOTELS.
AMERICAN HOUSE, L. D. Roblscn. Proprietor.
Front street, between Main and Collego. Good
Feed and Livery Stable In connection with this
House.
GUN SMITH.
WM. F. CRAB DOCK. Gun Smith Lock Smith.
Shop at No. 52; Main street. Brown ville,
Nebraska. Giiusmadetoorder, andrepalrlngdone
rrotnptly t cheap rites. 35-ly
BLACIC3MITISS.
J. V. Gibson,
BLACKSMITH AND HORSE SUOER. First
stroct.bctwcen Main and Atlantic, Hrowcvillc,
Neb.i Work done to order and saUsfactlonuaran-
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BOOTS AND SHOES.
A LEX. ROBINSON, Boot and Shoe Maker, No.
IX. 53 Main street. Brown villo.Neb. Hascontant
Ton hand a Rood assortment orGont's, Tody's,
MUses'and Children's Boots and Shoes. Custom
work done with neatness and dispatch. Repairing
done on short notice.
SALOONS.
JOSEPH HUDDART & CO.. Peace and Quhn Sa
loon. No. "il Main street, BrownvUle, Neb. The
bet WIcesand Liquors kept on haud.
Ii. A. Borgmann & Co.,
ManufsLctorers of Cigars,
and Wholesale Dealers In
Chewing and Smoking Tobaco,
Orders from the country promptly filled,
and satisfactionitmarantoe4.
If o.41 Main St., BROWN YILLE, XEB.
Clocks, Watches, Jewelry
JOSEPH SHUTZ,
No. 59 Main Strt, Brownvillo.
Keeps constantly on hand a large and well
assorted stock of renulne nrtlclos In hlsllne.
ItepalrlnB of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry
uone on suori notice, at reasonable rates.
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
SHEEMAN HOUSE
BILLIARD KATX.
J. G. RTTSSELZ,
Dealer In
WHOLESALE AND BETAIL.
48 Slain Street,
BEOWNVILLE, 3STES.
W. T. MOOEE Sl CO.,
Commission Merchants,
SHIPPERS,
AND DEALERS IN GRAIN AND COAL,
72 Main Street,
BrownvUle. Ncbraslca.
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BODY & BRO.,
(SUCCESB0B8 TO J. L. CaOOKS & CO.,)
BUTCHERS !
RTTH TWO SHOPS.
One opposite Sherman House, on Main street, the
other next door to Bratton'c, on Sixth street.
Good, sweet, fresh meat always on hand, and sat
Kactlon guaranteed to customers. 17-22-iy
FRA2Z HELMERt
v ONE DOOR WEST OF COURT HOUSE.
WAGON MAKING, Repairing,
' PIoww, and all work done In the best
rnncrnd on short notice. Satisfaction Ruaran
eea. Give him acall. 34-ly.
LETTER HEADS,
UQUORS&CIGABS
"mm sin mr
m BILL HEAD
Keatlyprlnted at this ofllcc.
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ESTABLISHED 1858. i
Oldest Paper in the State.
PERU ADVERTISEMENTS.
Insurance not a Privilege Lut a Daty.
Continental Insurance Company
OF EW YQRS.
Asects over 82,000,000
Losses paid In Chicnco. ... 1,500,000
Looses paid In Boston, .... 500,000
T7orrvi mmJe a spoclalty. npon tholnstal
" di 111 ment-or Annual Premium plan,
T iclrc for flve years; less than Ave years,
ilidl5 stock plan.
Insure against loss or damage by Flro and
Lightning buildings and contents, hay. Kraln
and stock. GEO. T. HOPE. Pres.
Craus Peck. Sec
C. J. Barbkr, General Agent, Omaha.
P. M. MARTIN, -
AGENT FOR NEMAHA COUNTY.
J3Xr13S & MOODEY,
DAVID BAItNES. , S. 8. MOODEV.
DEALERS IN
GENEEAL
BOOTS,
SHOES,
Glassware,
Queensware,
CLOT
HATS,
LAMPS of the
In great
caps;
Latest Styles,
variety.
A FULL
Moul
LINE OF
dings.
Sot
Frames.
for
Picture
HIGHEST MARKET PRICE '
PAID FOR '
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For Present or Spring Dllvery.
We are constantly filling up Trith now goods
which we
SELL LOW BOWT
to suit purchasers.
WE BEFER TO OUB CUSTOXEBS.
S. R. BAIL'S",
DRUGS, MEDICINES,
CHEMICALS,
FINE TOILET SOAPS,
Fsney Hair 4 Tooth Brushes,
Perfumery,
Toilet Articles,
TKCSSES, SHOrLDEK BP.AUES,
Grass and Garden Seeds,
PURE WISES AND LIQUORS FOR
MEDICINAL PURPOSES,
Paints, Oils, Yanilshes and Dye Stuffs,
Letter l'sperfPcns, InUa, Envelopes,
GLxVSS, PUTTY,
Carbon Oil Lamps and Chimneys.
rh yslcian's Prescriptions Csrefally Coat pounded
T3.VSK Z.13SS.
II. S. Mail and Transfer Hacks.
MAKE REGULAR TRIPS DAILY FROM
PERU, NEBRASKA,
TO
Nebraska making connection with trains
City, on the Midland Pacific R. R,
3ro"srnvilIo nd return dally, maklngcon
nectlon with the Busses to Phelpi Station,
Mo., on the K. C, St. Jo. & C. II. R. R.
Also with hacks to Arajjo via Nemaha City,
Asplnwnll, Hillsdale and St. Deroln.
FREIGHT AND EXPRSS of fl II JT n Je
transferred on theso routes ikll IVllsUb
at reasonable rales.
S-PasKenger8 comfortably provided for.
Charges moderate.
OFFICE at Dally Rros.'s Drug Store. Peru.
All orderh will receive prompt attention.
M. H. THOMPSON, Prop't.
SCHOOL
We Invite your attention to the superiority of tho
SARD
DESK & SETTEE
ATSSJT
COMBINED.
IT BAB THE FOLDING DESK AND SEAT.
IT IS FREE FROM NOISE.
IT 18 STRONG, BEAUTIFUL, CONVENIENT,
DURABLE.
The aastlngs are one-fourth heavier than those ot
any other desk, and so flan Red as to secure the
greatest pos-slblo strength. Tho wood is selected
cherry, walnut or ash, thoroughly seasoned and
kiln-dried, and handsomely llnished In shellac
JSieseat, arm, and back, are beautifully carved and
Slatted. We guarantee against breakage in fair
usage. It fits the school house for school or church
purposes.
We also manufacture "THE G E 31," as its
name Indicates, an elegant stationary Top Desk.
The "ECONOMIC" ftbsirhitely deflca competi
tion In prices tor furniture WHICH IS GOOD.
We are also making a full line ol Recitation Set
tees. Teacher's Desks. Chairs, and all SCHOOL
FURNITURE. Our list of apparatus includes
Clocks, Bells, Globes, Jlapg, Charts, Slated Paper.
Liquid Slating, Chalk, Philosophical and Chemical
Apparatus, Dictionaries, and everything desirable
lu any grade of schools, all ol which we will sell
for ciish. or on sufficient time to enable a district to
lew and collect a tnr.
Baade's Reading Case Is rapidly superceding the
ordinary readlngTablets. 26.000groups, phrases and
sentences, based upon tne word-method, admirably
adapted to primary lessons in Drawing, Numbers,
Reading, and Grammar. Address our nearest agent.
"" wui can upon you without delay.
National School Furniturs Co.,
U3 aad 115 Stnte Strce,
CHICAGO.
P. iL STARTED. Exclusive Agent for Otoe. Ne
maha. Richardson and Pawnee counties, solicits
correspondence. Wlllvlsltyouwlthsamples. Five
or ten-yoar building bonds negotiated without
charge to patrons. Address
Box 101, Pom, Nebraska.
CHARLES GAEDE
PROPRIETOR.
Guests received at all hours, DAY
and NIGHT. Connects with
Jirvery Sta.tle
figBnil
egs
i under same management.
- Careful attention given to tho
wants of guests. "We refer to the
traveling public.
C. W. CUI.BERTSON,
EKTEB and BUILDE
CONTRACTS. TAKEN.
Material Furnished when Desired,
at terms and rates which defy competition
Address, or call at Shop, corner Fifth and
Park streets, PeruNeb , , .
Refers to jA. H. GTLLETr, .
iterers to -jjr jj;.wiles gyI
DRYGOODS
TUBE!
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LANES ofallklpds, forsaleatthe"AdTertlse
PERU ADVERTISEMENTS.
G-. W. PETERSON
will make to order
BOOTS AND SHOES.
ESPAISr2l& DONE PEOMPTLY.
Call and see Samples.
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ALL WOBK WJ.ERAXTZD.
A I JOEE5T BBUKSBOW,
1 1 Fashionable Bgo! and Shos
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Repairs executed with neatness.
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R. B. SMITH,
Justice of the Peace & Collection
AGENT.
Special attention given to collection of notes
and accounts for non-residents.
Address Box 50, PERU, Nemaha Co., Neb.
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afberShoi3& Restaurant
W. C. CU30IISG.
All work dono In the neatest and latest
style. The choicest brands of Cigars con
stantly on haud. Delicious Confectionary.
Ico Cream In season. Oysters stews on short
notice. Soda Fountain in ful! blast.
Fifth St. opposite Brick' Church,
WELL:
A.W.ELL1S
SOLE PROPRIETOR.
lias the exclusive right
of putting in BORED
WELLS in NEMAHA
BORING.
COUNTY. Calls by
letter receive prompt
attention. Parties may
make choice of PINE, GALVEJIIZCD
IRON OR CEMENT TUBING. Wemako
wells through ROCK, as we are provided
with a thousand pound horse-power drill.
Drill same size as Auger. Guaranteo water
or no pay. PostofJlce addrs, PERU, Nb
Boring (lone in Winter as well ax Stnmner.
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Dealer In
ORE:
Undertaking a Specialty.
Keeps a fall line of
METALIC AND WOOD
BURIAL GASES.
56 Main Street, BROWXYILLE, XEB.
J. BliAKE,
DEMTIST
AH Operations Per-
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BKOWNVILLE, NEBRASKA,
MT FATHER.
ijy johk pAxrt.
Whoiialled me first wlth.TapturouaJoy,
And did not fret and feel annoy
When tho nurse said: Why I she's a boy I
My father.
Who gave that nurse n half a crown,
To let him hold rao awkward clown.
Of course he held roe upside down?
My father.
Who ne'er to cut my hair did try
Jabbing tho scissors In my eye,
And cutting every hair away?
My father.
Who set me In the barber's chair
Instead, and had him cut my hair
Like ray big brother's, good and square?
My father.
Who when I had a little tight
Because Tom tnrA mr twno. vit
And bit me, said I did lust right?
My father.
Who when Tom licked me black and biuo
Did not turn In and lick me, too
Saying. '"TIs my duty so to do T'i .
My father. A
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Who told me pluck and luok must win, ,
And taught mo to "put up a fln."
Till I couIdVtrounco that Tom like sin?
My father.
Who pennies ne'er refused to planki
Nor dropped them in that mimic ''bank"
Where I could only hear them clank?
My father.
Who when I wished to buy a toy
Ne'er thought 'twould give mo much more
Joy,
To send tracts to some heathen boy?
My father. '
Who bought me ponies, guns, and sich.
And gave nlo leave to fprk and pitch.
While he raited up to make' me rich?
My father. .
And who at last, when all was done,
Passed in his checkB, and, noble one.
Left all he had to me his son ?
My father.
N. T. Tribune.
DOT SCHMALL LKGDIiE BABY.
Drne as I leev. most eierv day
I laugh mo wild to saw der vay
My sch mall young baby dry to blay
Dot funny loodlo baby.
Vhen I look of dem leedle toes,
Und Kaw dot funny leedle nose,
Und hear der vay dot rooster crows,
I schmllo like I vas grazy,
Somedimes dore comes a leedle schquall,
Dot's vheu der vlndy vlnd vlll crawl
Highl In his leedle schtomack schinall,
Dot's too bad for der baby.
pot makes bird sing at night so schveet,
Und gorry-barric ho must cat.
Und I must chump shpry on my feet.
To help dot leedlo baby.
Ho bulls my nose und kicks my hair,
Und growls mo ofcr eferyvhere,
Und schiobbers me but vot I care?
Dot vas my schinall young baby.
Around my head dot leedle arm
Vas schquoJu rue no nice and varm
Oh ! may dero neforcome some harm
To 'dot schmall leedle baby.
IVITnOUT ANY COURTING.
Peter Patterson was ill at least he
thought m, and was depressed ; he
had headaches, and so hated the dus
ty street, in which the summer hoal
burnt aud the summerun shone be
fore the green leaves had draped the
Btreeta, und the squares of grass and
wisteria vines and plotted gorauiuma
whioh have come to be so blessedly
popular iu Xew York, lent its sum
ineris freHhnejw.
"Vhut shall I do, doctor he said to
the white-headed old physieiau. You
&ny nothing.ails me, but I can tell
what iri3' feelings are better than you
can. I know I shall be down with
something soon. I rode lu a ear with
a dozen dirty children, the other day
going to tho small-pox hospital, I
Jiavent a doubt very red and nasty
loookiug, all of 'em ; and while I was
buying somothiug in a store the dth
or day, a horrible old woman begged
of mo because her husband was sick
with typhoid fever. No doubt I have
caught both diseases, and its the com
plication that puzzles jou. Couldn't
relish my coitee this morning ; left
my milk toast untouched. Hateful
life, that of u bachelor at a hotel. Oh,
dear me !
Why don't you marry, then? said
the dootor.
They need so much courting, said
Mr. "Patterson. You spend six
months or so, at least, dangling at a
woman's apron strings. You must
go to theater uni opera, if she Is gay,
and to church meeting if she is pious.
At fifty a man likes hiu slippers and
dressing-gown and easy chair of an
evening. If it was just stepping over
to tho clergyman's and getting mar
ried, put a ring on her finger and say
ing or nodding 'yes,' two or three
times, why I wouldn't mind it, you
know.
Ah, well, courting is the fun of it
all, in my opinion, aid the old doc
tor, but every one to his taste. And
my advico to you is to go into the
country.
To another hotol and more mercen
ary waiters? said Mr. Patterson.
No, said the dootor, go to a nice pri
vate home. I know one a motherly
widow lady, who cooks dinuer fit for
a king. River before the house, woods
behind it, orchard to the left, kitchen
garden to the right; no fever and
ague ; no mosquitoes. Heavenly ! I
am going up there to-morrow, and I'll
see if she'll take you.
Very well, said Mr. Patterson, I
think I'd try it.
And you must drink plenty of milk,
and eat plenty of nice home-made
bread, said the doctor.
Yes, I will, said Patterson, overjoy
ed at last at hearing something that
sounded like a prescription And you
would advise milk.
Quart every day, said the doctor.
And if I should be very ill she'll
nurse me?
Mr. Patterson thought the matter
over, and thought better of It every
day, and when the little note inform
ing him that the widow would be
willing to "take him in and do for
him"-reaohed him. he had his trunk
and portmanteau already packed, and
was ready to start that afternoon. As
for the widow, the doctor had prepar
ed her for her boarder's peculiarities
thus :
Nice fellow; solid ; plenty of mon
ey; thinks himBelf ill, bat isn't;
ought to be married ; told him so, but
he bates the idea of courting; marry
him off some day, no doubt: Will you
have me? Yes. Call in clergyman.
Over. Very peculiar old bachelor;
but then old bachelors are peculiar
generally.
The widow was what Yankees call
an amazingly Bmart woman. She had
married at sixteen, and had never
failed to have washing over before
other people were hanging out theirs.
Her bread always rose, her cake was
always good, and her butter was al
ways sweet. At forty-five she had
married off all her daughters, and
-was well-to-do, buxom and happy.
Her son and bis wife boarded with
her, and she added to her plentiful
savings by taking a summer boarder
or two If they happened to offer.
' Fifty and a bachelor, said Mrs.
Muntle, looking in the glass. Well,.
It Beems a pity, bat then when elder
ly gentlemen marry-it Is generally
some hity-tity girl' that leads them a
terrible Ufe and likely It's for the
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"E0L iSDAY, SEPTEMBER lli 1873.
TheC
for thr
looked at the glass again,
w was but a woman after
all.
Mr. Patraon came to the widow's,
and oh-3 the doctor's prescription
faitbfq 5 He ate bread and drank
milk, v ;kdm the orchards like a
so!. "" f and declaimed over the'
etraWLtv y short cake after a fashion
that wo 'd have made his reputation
attH r. Then, too, Mrs. Muntla
did ' imlle at his aohes and pains,
an ist that he must be perpetual
ly u-causeho had a fresh com
plex, and dimples In his cheeks.
8b h savory herb teas and potions,
whieu he produced when he com
plained of being miserable, and she
h&d that blessing to hypochondriacs
a homoopathio box and book in tho
house.
There wese remedies in that box
for every thing ; and It was pleasant
tartud that when there was a crawl
ing sensation in your flesh, or a kind
of uneasy feeling In your legs, there
were dear little globules to beliad just
suited to the symptoms : that to find
yourself very angry about nothing
indicated Pulsatilla, and that even for
Unrequited love there was a medicine.
For two months and more Mr. Pat
terson boarded with Mrs. Muntle, and
happier months he bad never lived
through. Then he went .back to the
city for a few weeks, returned In ur
gent need of more pellets from the
medicine chest, and stayed until the
last piuk chrysanthemum was bloom
ing on its withered branches. He had
grown so fond of bia little room, with
its white curtains and fresh, gfass
bleaohed llnnen, of the country good
things, and of the cosy nursing of
buxom Mrs. Muntlej that he could
scarcely bear the thought of parting
with them altogether.
After all. why could not he buy a
house and try to get Mrs. Muntle to
keep it for him? Perhaps she would.
He would offer her a high-salary, and
she would have plenty "of servants.
dine with him, add be as happy as
possible.
If only he could approaoh his hos
tess ; showing her as he did so that
he considered her his equal, and lady,
and all that, as she certainly waa a
little countryfied, of course, but a
olergyman's daughter and tho widow
of a country doctor.
After much consideration he final'
ly raustored courage for tho effort,
and walked Into the front parlor, sent
the small servant to ask Mrs. Muntle
to stop there a moment if she pleas
ed. Gracious! thought Mrs. Muntle;
what can he want?
Then she blushed brightly, settled
her neck-tie, took off her apron and
walked demurely in.
JJe seated, ma'am, said Mr. Patter
son. Please to sit here. Allow mo
to sit near you. I have something to
say whioh may require some consid
eration. Oh, dear, its coming! said Mrs.
Muntle.
I suDPOse you know I'm a man of
considerable moans, ma'ra; said the
old bachelor, able to buy a nice house,
furnish it well, and live in it comfort
ably. So I've understood, Mr. Patterson,
said the widow.
And of course It is pleasanterto live
that way than in bachelor's lodgings
or at a hotel, said Mr. Patterson.
I should judge it would be, Bald
Mrs. Muntle cautiously.
"You judge rightly, Bald Mr. Pat
terson, but you know a bachelor must
be in the hands of servants if he
keops bouse. A gentleman don't
want that; he wants a lady to super
intend things for him some one of
taste and refinement, and all that.
Common people don't understand his
feelings, and mercenary servants are
a poor dependence.
I know that, said Mrs. Muntle.
You are almost as much alone as I,
nren't you, Mrs. Muntle? said Mr.
Patterson, coaxingly.
The dootor knew him. He's going
to do it just an he said he would if he
ever did, said the lady to herself.
Aloud she saidc
Well, fir, I am pretty free. It is
true. All my children are married.
I know money would be no object
to you, said Mr. Patterson. You
have enough. But if I were to tell
vou that I hated boarding houses, and
wanted a homo, I think you would
have pity on me. I'll buy a beauti
ful house, and you shall have com
plete control over everything; only
to make my strawberry short-cake for
me all my life.
He paused and looked at the lady.
That is delicately put, he thought.
Nor will you hire out for a house
keeper In that I fancy.
I ain't romantic, though, said Mrs.
Muntle; but still, we ain't j-oung,
neither of ue, nnd It gets to be just
that with the most sentimental after
awhile.
Don't refuse me, pleaded Mr. Pat
terron. .
Well, Mr. Pattoreon, I won't, said
Mrs. Muntle. I'm my own mistress,
and though I've never thought of a
second marriage, why I think I'm
warranted in making one. And no
doubt I shall never repent, for I
think you've a fine disposition, and I
understand your ways and tastes.
Mr. Patterson listened. He saw
what he had done; proposed and been
accepted without having any idea
what he was about.
He looked at Mrs. Muntle; she was
very nice and fre3h and comely, and
ten years his junior, at least, if she
was forty. He could not have done a
better thing, and he would bo mar
ried without any troublesome court
ing. So he pnthis arm about Mrs.
Muntle's waiatfbd said :
Thank you.fHy dear, consider my
self very lucky.
Ho wrote to his good doctor In about
a fortnight's time, to tell him that be
had taken both his prescriptions, was
a married man, and intended to bring
his wife home about Christmas.
One of the most gratifying eviden
ces of improvement among the rural
population of this country, at the
present time, is the increasing taste
for flowers and their culture, as a
means of beautifying country homes
and making rural life more attractive,
especially for young people. Every
where among the better alnssof farm
ers ,an observer will find that the
number of dwellings having nice
flower beds and lawns In front has in
creased three fold within tbepastfour
or five years. In towns and cities al
so the taste -for flowers has Increased
quite 88 rapidly, as is, manifested in
the gardens and door yards of the
people or In the windows and balcon
ies if those who4 have no grounds ;
and still more In the increased use of
flowers fo? decorations at parties,
weddings, &c.Tr
It Is said theae never was an hoaeat
red-breast 5 be Is always a robin-
JSASBTr
Hi Kraofcrka la ICew Xaterprlse Ke
Leeatav ra 3111ols aad i Metamor
pbesed lat K7ird-S'latea Farmer.
Bekt Stashes; "
Cwlch Is in the State or DUnoy,)
August 15, 1873.
I hevleft the Corners, temporarily,
at least, fur I hev a field uv labor here
wich s quite az pleasant az that in
my old home. X am up here In the
anti-monopoly business. I am in U
linoy groanin over tho burdens piled
upon ub farmers, aad damin, with nil
the vehemence that's Into me, the
monopolies that is suck in the life-
blood out 07 the honest laborin class
es, and a trying to convince em that
their redemption can only be brought
about abandonln to wunat the infa
mous Bepublikin "party,, wioh la re
sponsible for .everv evil thata, pntoj
iue country, irora raieroaes aown to
the potater bug.
we uev s.c me otasnen a noble co
terie uv sympathisers with the hard
fisted "yeomanry a most gorgeously
sympathisin set as ever I see, and so
efflioted are' we at the troubles wioh
the perdoonera are labrin under, that
we hold meeting perpetooly in the
room back uv the bar uv the Jackson
Hotel to consider em.
TheJeedm spirit among us, aside
from roe, is a veteran sympathiser
with labor, wich his name Is Pettus.
Abslum Pettus was originally a shoe
maker, out early in life developed a
talent for holdin offls. He wuz elect
ed Sheriff ov the county, and the
bench wich, knowd him wunst Imme-
juiy Known mm no more iorever.
There was some diflioulty about some
collekshuuB wich he made, wioh wuz
esteemed of sufficient importance to
firovent his bein re-nominated, and
Ike Nobuohadnezer, ho was turned
out to the thin grass of privit life for
years, wich time was spent principal
ly ornamentin corner groceries and
fibdasin soolety wioh didn't recog
nize him, earnin a livin by collecting
the bills for hia wife's dress makin es
tablishment, to wich, when business
was dull, he added a laundry. Presi
dent Liu kin wuz indoost by the citi
zeuH of the Stashen to appoint him
Colleotar. tho said citizens vainly im
aginin that if he had a good fat thing
he mite possibly pay his d Ms. Ez
everybody he owed signed his appli
cation for the appointment, he had
the Iongeut list ov names that ever
went out of that village He oontin
yood in oils doorln Johnson's admin
istration, hevin come to the conclu
sion that Johnson's pplloy was cor
rect, just after that grate man notified
him that he should chop off the head
of eny offlshul that didn't. But Grant
busted him, eence wich time he hez
bin a consistent Democrat and lover
ov the laborin classes. He hez seen
close times sence. Often hez he bin
without the necessaries of life, for his
wife Is gettin advanced in years, and
can't wash and sew every day. Mr.
Pettus goes into the movement agin
oppressive monopolies and sich with
all his heart, Bole, body and strength.
He bleeves In the nobility of labor.
He holds that labor has not its prop
er rewwei, aud ez for his part he will
enter into & uroosade agin the bloated
monopolists and in behalf uv the
horny handed agricultooriBts uv the
country with all the zeal uv his troo
ly fervid nacher. One uv the most
tetchin sites in nacher is to see Pettus
a leaning on a bar, aud a discoursin
on the grandjure of labor. He eez
that if the farmers, the hard handed
laborin massefs uv his county,' want
a candidate for Auditor who loathes
and hates the oppresshun ov labor, in
whatever form it may come, ho is
their man.
Mr. Samuel Blather is another one
uv the hard-handed who is with us.
He is a Democrat in politics, and al
luz hez bin. He has discovered that
the farmers are groanin under a des
potism. He don't own no farm hl.s
Helf, nor he don't buy nor sell any
prodooae, nor anything else, nor has
he-and partikeler bisniss, but he feels
there Is an incubus wioh ways onto
the labrin man, and, for one, he feels
like puttin his shoulder to the wheel
and histiu It; He expecks to be the
Democratic candidate for County JRe
corder, and If the farmers kuow their
friends if they only kin be brought
to recognize them whose hearts beet
responsive to theirn, and put him on
their ticket, he hez a soft thing uv it.
He kin truly say that he never laid
under a tree, seeln the hard-handed
victim of monopoly a sweatin under
his 111 requitled toll, without feelin
for him, and hlz buzzum heeva as he
thinks of the opportunity he has now
to champion that class. He sez he is
the best man for Recorder in the
county.
Mr. Cephas,BiIlins holds that the
only refuge the farmers hev is in the
buzzom of the Democratic party
that's where they want to go. He
feels in his sole that they are npprest.
He is not jest sure ez he knows wat
ther wrongs is, but he persoomed it
had suthin to do with with monopo
lies or fcuthin uv that sort, but what
ever it wuz he stands ready to de
nounce it. Let us, he sed, organize a
grange to wunst, and when it comes
to the election let us .see if the bloat
ed Republican party shood longer
ride on the backs of honest workmen
the hard-handed agriculturists.
Last week we held a meetin In the
back room, and resolved ourselves in
to a grange, with Pettus, Blather,
Billins znd myself ns the principle of
ficers. Hevin thus got the organiza
shen all safe and in proper hands, we
ishood an address to the formers uv
the county to come in and jine. I
urged em to let the farmers organize
it, but my co-laborors declined. They
sed they preferred to make certain
that theorganlzaphun shood be in the
hands uv'the troo friends of the la
brin olasses. Thoy didn't care to
take any chances.
We hev assumed a costoom in ac
cordance with o'ur new agricultural
deparcher. We wear heavy stogy
boots, bloo over hauls tucked into em,
hickory shirts, and broad-brimmed
chip haps. We each uv 06 carry a
black-Bnake whip, instead uv a cane,
and sprinkle ba3' seed in our hair ev
ery morning. Blather Is so enthooai
astic that he daubs clay on his boots
every morning, and Billins took a
whet stone aud rubbed the inside of
his-hands three days industriously,
to get up a satisfactory callus. We
address each other as Farmer Billins,
Farmer Blather, Farmer Pettus, and
FarrrierNasby, and our conversation
Is principally about agricultoral mat
ters. The other cusses hev more zeel,
however, than dlscreshun In this di
rection. Billins was oaf in the coun
try with us.-and looking wise ez he
passed a field of whe.at, sed that them
wuz the, best lookin winter oats he
hed ever seen, and he wondered
-whether the farmers of that section
planted corn yet in October. He had
found it better to sub-soil it in Sep
tember, so ezto give it a good-start to
preveat winter kilirav
VOL. 17.-BT0. 48.
I woodent hev hed an actooal farm
er heard this Idiocy for a small post
offls. And I hev other troubles with
em. Pettus wuz sgoin out to address
a grange in cow-hide boots, check
shirt and over hauls, ez a simple plain
farmer, an unostentatious son uv toil
with a diamond ring on his little
finger. I hev to wafeh him and mak
him take it off and put it in his vest
pocket afore he begins to speak.
But while this advenohar hez its
drawbaz, it is after all as pleasant as
anything I hev hed. Drinks furnish
ed gratuitous by the Democratic Cen
tral Committee, and bo&td llkewlser
ror ez we her only a Republican ma
jority uv 200 to overcome in the coun
ty, they think the chances warrant
some expenditoor. J eh el stay here
and run this campaign, in the inter
est of labor.
' rraOLEUrV. NASBY,
(Wich wuz Postmaster.
Ul3EHCHA2ITJ6T
She said she would "take off the
Bbams," and going to the bed, where
a gorgeous pair of embroidered pil
lows were set up for show, she took
off the pretty things, leaving a plain
case af pillows underneath. I didn't
object to this, but she proceeded to
take off sham in such a cool and de
liberate manner as to horrify me.
First came down a mountain of
blonde bair which I had secretly wor
shipped, and its long, glossy ourl
which I had envied the privilege of
lying against her neck. These were
deposited on the staad. X sat in si
lence while she chatted sweetly about
the Incidents of the wedding. Next
she lowered the gaa aad undid her
dress in a modest way, putting some
things In the top drawer, and X saw
that she was shrinking fas. She laid
aside herbraceletsr ear-rings, and all
her jewelry. I thought "9he Is near
ly done this disrobing." She poured
out a glass ot Water, and raising her
hand took out a shining row of teeth,
like a.dontlst'saign.jrtl nearly faint?
ed with surprise. I knew she pos
sessed a fine falsetto voice, but I nev
er dreamed that she possessed a false
set o' teeth- But still I made up my
mind to grin 'and bear it Finally
she stopped, and pitying her modes
ty, I turned my face away. She said,
"Tom, I never told you about theaw
ful railroad accident I was In, did I?"
I faintly s"aid, "No, darling; did you
get hurt?" "Oh, awfully! no "one
thought I would live. But after my
limb wasnmpu " "Limb !" shriek
ed I, "what limb? Whero?'' I was
growing delirous. "Why, my left
one," said she ; "but I've got a Ipat
ent 'Palmer' one that is as good as a
real one." I only said toher mother,
as I passed through the hall, "She
couldn't Polm 'er on me
)
. THE.OIIA98 TBKB.
Amohg the anomalies of Australia
is a singular growth of the forest that
deviates as much from a treeasakan
gnroo from the ordinary types of ani
mals, although it la called a tree. The
grass free grows In rocky jlaoes un
favorable for other vegetable produc
tions. Absolute barrenness is appot
where'the plant flourishes beat, ap
parently, though elements must
abound there which are Its appropri
ate nourishment. A ma83 of grass
looking fibres, gradually rise out of
the ground. From day to day Jthere
is an increase of bulk and height very
much resembling an elevated tnfl of
long grass gracefully falling off from
a central shaft. These pendant threads
are leaves. Very soon from the top of
the pile a elender stalk shoots up per
pendicularly from four to ten feet, ter
minating in a spike. That is sought
by natives for spears, being hard and
somewhat elastic. Within the pith is
an artiele of food. In the rude and
savaget condition of the Indigenous
Australians the gra.15 tree furnished a
weapon of extraordinary usefulness
for meeting the circumstances of a
barbarous state of society. Without
it no other equally efficient Instru
ment of defence against enemies,! or
for contending with ferocious ani
mals, is at their command. What
says science in rererenoe to mis pro
vision in favor of savaged?
- - - 11 - . b-- ' it
SOLDIER HABITS.
According to good authority, Mao
Mahon, the soldier President of
France, is a true military republican
in many of his ways, and vastly pop
ular. He lives a retired, unostenta
tious life ; and though he displayed
extraordinary pomp when sent, a few
years ago, on an embassy to Prussia,
his manners are unpretending aud
his dress plain. He seldom appears
in uniform, and the only mark of dis
tinction hefwears is the red ribbon of
the Legion of Honor. His most
marked characteristics aro a love for
children and a fondness for study. He
made a triumphal entry into Milan,
in 1859, with a little girl, who had of
fered him a nosegay, perched upon
his holsters. He is probably as well
versed in military history as Faid
herbe, and is often busy with a child
and map upon his knees. Ei3 favor
ite amusement is riding. In society
he is shy( almost sad, and eeem3 ill at
ease. He likes to saunter about the
boulevard, with hla hands in his
pockets,and a cigar eternally In his
mouth, when he is not on horseback ;
and ho is seen to moat advantage at
home, aarrounded by his family.
SBLFISIIXKSS REBUKE D
8ome, and they are not a few, can
remember old Churchill and hj pe
culiar ways. One day he was riding
on horseback, when he was met by an
old woman, who had not so many of
this world's good things as himself.
Taking out his wallet be handed her
a quarter of a dollar, and rode on.
He had riden only a abort distance,
when he began to soliloquize thus :
"Now wouldn't I have done better to
have kept that money, and bought
myself something?" Wheeling his
horse around he rode back to where
the old lady was standing, and said :
"Give me that money !" She. hand
ed it to hm, wondering what he
meant. Placing it in his wallet and
at the pame time hand. ug her a five
dollar bill, he exclaimed : "There,
self, now I guess you wish you had
kept still."
This earth of ours Is the lowest rank
among heavenly bodies. Were nn as
tronomer of some other planet explor
ing the immensity of the space, the
planet we inhabit, owing to its small
size, might readily elude hi9 Intelli
gent view. The sun is one million
two hundred and twenty-five thous
and times larger; and yet that enor
mous mass Is comparatively only a
speck a mere point, which seems
lost amicT eighteen millions of stars
-which are discoverable by instru
ments, in the milky way. What an
incomprehensible organ the human
brain, to have discovered such as
tounding facts, and demonstrate the
laws which govern universal nature.
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OTFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY.
aLft cfiir Jut t otra.
A string bandThe Vigilance Com-'
mittee.
Twins, like misfortunes, never dome'
singly.
The Chinese laborers Tn flnKa nh
j ject to being paid in paper. They say
u. is too mm.
Why Is a solar eclipse like a womarr
whipping her boy? Because It's
hiding of the sun.
What requires . more philosophy
than taking things as they come 7
Parting with them as they go.
The latest announcement for new
music Is, "Hush, SisWa Dying, witb
Piano Accompaniment."
"Well, work nway" said an Indus'
trlous father. "You know the proph
et says, 'Hoe, every one that ihlrsU
oth.'-"
A man who wanted to be a minis
tor said he believed he had been catt
ed "to labor Ik the Lor4ra- bwn
yard." The little boy with his first cigar
and the truckman with his gentfo
mule both tiled to back her and could
not.
A morning paper speaks of "thelv
ing in the outskirts," whioh may be
interpreted "picking Iadlea' pock
ets." John Brougham says Pocahontas
invented the game of poker. Itla re
membered distinctly that Smith call
ed her on a bluff.
A Boston woman- wanted to elope,
but when her husband gave hermon
ey to go she changed her mind IS
took all the romance away.
Types, continue to cut up an tics r
even in well rexulafed offices'., wer in
fer from seeing John Brown annoum-
cea as a 'unseen preacuer."
No true woman will ask a man Im
mediately after breakfast what he will
have for dinner, or just before dinuer
to put up a clothes line.
An Essex street man bought a crate
of damaged peaches for fifty cents oa
Saturday, and it is said there is not a
man on that street with two perfectly
straight legs.
Many a man who lies down at night
to calm repose little realize thsst be
fore the sun of another day gilds the
horizon he will be sitting on the edge
of the bed chewing sweet-llffg.
A little boy on Wooster street fell
from a stoop on Thursday aud receiv
ed severe bruises. His father wae
sent for, and on arriving at home he
found thirty on women in the house.
It took the mother of the boy five
days to get the various bottfeeof harts
horn and champhor to their rightful
owners.
A blood-thirsty citizen of this place,
who thinks his life is in danger, car
ries a pistol to protect himself. He
came in the office this morning to get
a string to tie the stock and barrel to
gether, as the other fastening was
gone, and took occasion to observe
that he would make the streets run
with blood if people didn't quit fool
ing around him.
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OFFICIAL.
laws of tho United States Passed at ihd
Third Session of the 42d Congress.
CHAP. CCLXXII. An Act to authorize per
;i:taln Postmasters to deposit pUbllo Monoyrf
In national Banks.
JBe it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
reientaiivc of the United States of America, irt
CangreM assembled. That from and after the
.pa&buge of this act It shall be lawful for any
potmater, havlnjc public money belonging
to the government, where tbere are no des
ignated depositaries, treasurers of mints, or
tr"nt?ref or assistant treasurers of the Uni
ted States, within the county, to deposite the
same, at bis own risk nnd in his odclal ca
pacity, la any national bank In the tovrn,
clty, or county where the said postmaster
resides; but no authority or permission 1
or shall be given for the demand or receipt
by tho postmaster, or any other person, of
Interest, directly or indirectly, on any de
posit made as herein described ; and It shall
be the duty of ail postmasters who havo
made any such deposit to report quarterly to
the Postmaster-Ocneral, the namo of tho
bank where such deposits have been made,
and also state the amount which may Btarui
at the time to their credit.
Approved, March 3, 1572.
CHAP. CCLXXIII. An Act to tlx the conV
pensatlon of the Deputy Collector of Cus
tom at Saint Paul.
Re it enacted bit the Senate and House of Rep'
resenlatives of the United Stales of America, itt
Congress tistrmbled. That the compensation
lucfudtng official emoluments of all kinds of
the officer appointed In pursuance of tho sec
ond section of the act entitled "An sot to es
tablish the collection district cf Da Lutb.nnd
to create Saint Paul, In thejcollectlon dlstrlofr
of Minnesota, a port of delivery," approved!
May twenty-third, eighteen hundred and
feventy-two. shall not exceed the snm pf two
thousand dollars per annum: Providedbow
ever. That said officer may be required, tt
addition to his duties as to such deputy col
lector, to perform the duties of on inspector
of tho cu-itoms, without additional compen
sation. Approved", March 3, 1673r
CHAP. CCLXXrV. An Act to amend aff
Act entitled "An Act to enable honorably"
dfecharged Soldiers and Sailors, their Wid
ows and orphan Children, to require home
steads on tho public Lands of the Uaitedl
States," and the Amendments thereto.
Re it enacted by the Smote and House ofRejf-t
rcsentatives of the United States of America, itt
Congress assembled. That section two Of tho
act entitled "An act to amend an aef refcitlnjj
to soldiers and sailors homestead." appro
ved June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two,
be amended so as to read as follows
That any person entitled under the provis
ions of tho foregoing' -ecttontf to enter n
homestead, who may have heretofore enter
ed under the homestead laws a quantity of
land less than ono hundred and sixty acres,
shall bo permitted to enter so much land as,
whon added to the quantity previously en
tered, shall not exceed one hundred and six
ty acres.
Approved, March 3, 1673.
CHAP. CCLXXV. An Act for the Relief of
the Stnte of Connecticut and other States.
JBcil 'enacted by IherSrttte and news of Rep
resentatives of the Ignited Mates if America xrt
Congress assembled. That the Secretary of the
Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed out
of any money appropriated tocontlnno the
settlement of accounts presented under tha
act of Jnly twenty-seventh, eighteen hun
dred nhd sixty-one. to pay to thegovernor cS
Connecticut, or to his dulyanthorlzed agent
any amounts advanced by the said State in
payment or chaplains, extra sur-jeons. or as
sistant fiurreons employed bysnld State Ir
said capacities during tho late war ; the saltf
claims to he settled by the propei accounting:
officers of the treasnrr upon vouches filed r
Provided, That certificates of n-t-snl ea-tiy-ment
ore nlrd with the accoonl-'.
Sec. 2. That when tho vonchers of other
States for payments made to chaplaln-".extra
STrtgvon, or assistant surgeons situated
similarly with those of Connecticut are flletl.
tho Treasury Department shall adjust an?
settle them according to the prxwUioos 0$
the foregolnrr section.
Approved, March 3, ISfEk-
CH P. CCXXVf. An Act to amhorfze tbo.
Interment of honorably discharged Sol
diers, Sailors and.Marlnc-in the nstlonaT
Cemeteries of the United States.
Re it enacted by the Senate and House of Rejz
r'esentatices of the United Slates of Amerlcsvu
Oarcgress assembled. That honorably dtoarg
el Rnldlers nallorx or marines who tered du
ring the late war in thereiJ-ir or volunteer
TOrces. aying snnsrqiiem m cue pn.-ugtj
this act may he burled in reny national cem
etery of the United Stnte-- free' ofcont and
their grave sbali receive the same caro aud
ntiontton as the craves of tho-se already bur-
Jed. The production of the- honorable; dl-
chargeortneoeoeaseu snau oenatnorji.y ioj.
the superintendent of thecenxetsry royenni
the Interment.
jlp-vroveu, 3farch 3, 173.
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