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BROWNTILLE, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1874.
VOL. 18.-N0. 43.
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DOST SLA2I THE GATS.
efollotvlns bit of sound advice, with
. "above title, Is evidently from one; -who
Mlml practical experience In the matter,
-d sunlit to be taken seriously to heart by
i&fcTyouux men who are addicted to the
vsiat tSis young lady so earnestly desires
jorroctod:
"Now, Harry, pray don't laugh at me;
l$u: when you go so late,
j wish yo'j would be careful, dear,
To never slam the gate;
Tor Bessie listens every night,
And $o doe teasing KrIc;
To tell me next day, what o'clock
They heard you slam the gate.
Twas nearly ten last uiijht, you know.
But now 'tis very late
(We've talked about so many thins;;
O, do not slam the gate !
-' r, all the neighbors heaving It
-Will say our future fate
We've been discussing; to I beg
.You will not slam theatl5:
For. though It Is all very true.
1 wish that they would wait.
To canvass our affairs, until
Vell pray don't slam the gate I
" At least, not now, but by-and-by,
' "When In "our home" I wait
your coming, I shall always like
To hear you slam the gate I
For whether you go out or In,
At early hours, or late,
ja whole world will not tease me then
About that horrid gate!
kLLIXOIS LETTER.
Elisor AivertUer:
Itwid you greeting from a portion
of Illinois which is to-day enveloped
in- white. The earth hits a pure
white covering, the air is full of snow
flakes, and it is a true representation
tfa winter's day, though Easter ha3
arrived, and eggs are beiug devoured
sfter the most approved style, and
young lambs caper around in a man
ner peculiarly their own.
I arrived here the last week in
March, ami found the weather, and
things in general, about the same as
hi Nebraska: always excepting two
important items, the Texas cattle,
&nd the m illions of pigs which over
run the firms in Nebraska, and
which can not by 'any average i teilect,
k brought down to a comparison with
th few hundreds kept in the farm
yards here.
Spring is proverbially fickle, and
eiorni and frost come in regular suc
es3ian.8B if to frighten away the
traraith: though the weather waa
very pleasant during my jeurney.
The usual incidents, pitiful or com
ical, were endured, or enjoyed, as the
casemlght be, but after being two
dsys and nights on the road, there
Eteraed to be a slight necessity for
reit. At lea&t I found it so, and on ar
riving in Chicago, feit as though I
had come frsm the sunset regions.
In toy humble opinion, Nebraska
papers need a slight rebuke, and as
no one else seems inclined to ptint
wi w?ereiu they are defective, I feel
it a duty to express my own thoughts
on the subject. I do not wish to cen
tre, far from it; only to appeul
tbrnagh your columns, to a travel
loving public, to know if it is not our
right to expect you wiil keep us post-td,-Ks
to the condition of the roads
over which we must travel.
Who likes to start out in good
spirits, and after .riding a short dis
. tame, have their F.fdor suddenly
gseneheJ, by a polite request to "get
oitf and walk; only a haif mile or
io.' Then you find you axe surround
wJ by water, not exactly an island
however, for there is that narrow
-trace, extending still farther into
what appears to be a lake.
Imagiuo yourself stepping carefully
tlongon the ties, the water boiling
upundr your feet and your head
growing dizzy, and if you don't feel
slightly aggrieved! you are more char
itable than I.
Uut the waiting train reached, and
ggage transferred, it wa easy to
forget past trouble, and look ahead
hopefully, but there waa the same
watery prospect for mi!e3, and if one
may judge of others' feelings by their
own, there was certainly a feellug of
relief when the water was passed,
anil the solid earth made its appear
ance. From Nebraska City to Chicago, is
ot "around the world." but it is far
eno"gh to be tiresome, and make one
Ead to escape from the cars, fcr a
time.
April 9th. Some faint efforts have
"ea mtde to sow wheat, but being
governed by the weather, they are
spasmodic, and cease almost as soon
5 undertaken.
it is very cold with high winds
frtn the northeast, but of course
Grangers can wait and keep their
faith unshaken, resting on the assur
arce that seed-time and harvest shall
hgJven. C. C. H.
A CALL TO THK FAE3IERS OF IX
UIANA. m On the Dth inst. the following vtas
issued at Indianapolis cailing a con
vention of the farmers of the State:
Relieving the people honest and ca
pable of self-government, that the old
Political organizations are corrupt;
that there is n trust to be placed
n the promises of either of the so
j-dled great political parties; that
here are no questions that ought to
divide the people of Indiana; that
the pnst dead issues sshonld be buried
"ith the pat, and that we should ad
dress ourselves to the living questions
f the day. we therefore invite the
fanners and industrial classes gener
ally of Indiana to meet with us on
Wednesday, the 10th day of June, iu
loe city of Indianapolis, to devise
a.vs and means to bring about
ach reforms as will emancipate our
wte from the intolerable burdens
heaped upon us by the misrule of
corrupt party politics. "Come let us
tke counsel together."
OUS NEW TOEK LETTEB.
Black-Mailing lio9 It 1b Cane and
TVno are Ute Victims Temperance
Currency Business The Builder'
and Tradex' Unions Distress.
Correspondence Nebraska Advertiser.
New Yosk, April 20, 1874.
BLACK-MAILING.
In a great city, it is safe to say, that
nearly one-half the population have
no good reason for living. The num
ber of rurasellera, gamblers, thieves,
confidence men, and people who steal
a living, would, If put together, make
an army large enough to have crush
ed the rebellion. I now speak of the
male ulcere on the body politic there
are at least 30,000 women in the city
who live by equally disreputable
means.
The meanest and most despicable
of all the scoundrels who Infest the
city, next to the politicians, are the
PROFESSIONAL BLACK-MAI LKHS,
and a few paragraphs devoted to them
may be of interest to your readers.
The black-mailer is a man, or woman,
who possesses some knowledge of an
other person which will not bear open
day-light, and then extorts money as
the price of silence. For instance,
the professional black-mailer goes
night after night to a fashionable
gambling house, and watches closely
the players. They are admirable
judges of human nature, indeed this
istheiirrt qualification of the busi
ness. He fixes upon some nervous
player who is lesing heavily , and
notes to a dollar his losses. When
tho player finally quits and leaves the
house, lie does not know that he is
being followed, and that the street
and number of his residence Is taken,
nor does he know that n watchful eye
follows him next morning to the
bank or offltie where he is employed,
and that by noon of that day every
fact in his history is in the possession
of a cool, calculating, merciless
scoundrel, who by knowing what he
is, ha3 a hold on hihi that will ruin
him. We will assume that the vic
tim observed in the gambling house
is the cashier of a bank. From the
moment the black-mailer spotted him
he is not out "of his sight for an in
stant. His losses are carefully noted,
his goings to and fro are observed and
noted, and every incident that at all
compromises him is set down with
circumstance. For, be it known, he
who gambles has other vices in fact
the most of the raw men at gambling
tables are those who have squander
ed money not th!3r on uulawful
pleasures, and they fly to gaming
with a hope of ge:ting even by a
stroke of luck.
When the black-mailer has got
"points." enough on his man that is
when he has facts concerning him,
which if made knowu to Ills employ
ers or family, would ruin him he
moves on him. He takes him aside
and tells him boldly what he knows
of him, and fixes the sum at which
his silence can be a-sured. The vic
tim puts on a bold front and defies
him. Mr. Black-mailer expects this,
and it doe3 not move him. He pulli
"out of his breast-pocket a little book,
and he reads to him that on such night
he lost $2,000 at John Charberlin's ;
on such another night $1,000 ; on an
other night he was at an assignation
house In 22d street, with a woman
closely veiled, but whose name is So-and-So,
that moreover he pays the
board of Miss So-and-So, St such a
street find number; in short the black
mailer reads to his victim a complete
history of his secret life, so methodi
cally arranged as to make denial use
less. And after this no denial is made.
He wilts and gladly pays the price de
manded. But it dees not end here. Having
once paid he belongs soul ami body to
his tormentor. The threats of expo
sure, so efficacious the first time are
equally so the second. He comes
again rfud again, until the dupe be
comes desperate and flies the country.
Frequently they do not wait for the
commission cf a crime. They select
a timid, nervous man and threaten to
accuse him of crime if he does not
con.e down handsomely, and in many
cases they succeed, the victim sub
milting to be bled rather thari to' be
accused. One of these gentlemen rriet
his match the other day. A black
mailer, a graduate of the State FYison,
accused a clerk of stealing from his
employer, and propos d to "hush the
thing'' for $200. The Intended victim
gave a seeming asseut, but privately
made arrangements with the police
and had his black-mailer arrested with
the money in his hand. It was fortu
nate that the clerk had pluck. Had
ho yielded to the first demand for
money, he would have idled himself
compelled, iu time, to pay over to bis
accuser every dollar that he could save
or steal.
WOMEN
make the best game for these fellows.
If a married woman indulges in what
to her seems an "innocent flirtation,"
and happens to fall into the hands of
one of these men, it costs her dear.
So valuable is her reputation thjit
rather than have it called in question
she will do anything. She pays the
scoundrel money, silver ware, jewel
ry, anything, ss the price of silence,
for they imagine a thousand evils
where none could possibly occur.
Next to worn err,
CLERGYMEN
are the favorite victims of black-nlaii-crs,
for their position is so peculiar and
uncertain. In their cases, the services
of some fair but abandoned woman
are brought into requisition. Some
years ago a distinguished preacher in
a Broadway church resigned his
charge and left the city broken-hearted,
because he -had permitted himself
to be plundered byr a band of men and
women who had combined to place
hini id a false position. His friends
felt that he was innocent, and yet
they advised him to go, because his
weakness had put him under suspi
cion. He had been sent for to console
a dying woman, and he went, and
was ushered into her room, and left
alone with her, and was then surpris
ed by a confederate, who claimed to
be the woman's husband. The house
was a regular trap, the woman a prds
titute, and the two were hlack-mail-ers,
but it waa enough. He was weak
enough td pay once, add then it was
all over with him. Paying was an
evidence of guilt, and, innocent of
guilt as a child, be was compelled to
resign his charge and leave the city.
But it did not end with this. His per
secutors followed him to his new
home, and extortedmore money, for
every step he took to relieve himself,
onljr put him more securely in their
hands. He was compelled, finally, to
leave the ministry. But they do not
always succeed so well. Not long ago
another clergyman approached in the
same way, laid a very neat trap, and
had his accusers brought to shame.
He thus saved himself a life-long
trouble.
The only way Is to defy them, and
utterly refuse to pay. That ends it.
They have no reason to divulge what
they know; in fact, when their se
cret is made common property, it
ceases to have any value to them.
They always leave such people alone.
THE TEMPERANCE REFORM
has finally struck Triuity Church !
This religious corporation, owning
real estate to the amount of millions,
has for years leased a considerable
portion of its property to rum-mills,
some of them of the lowestand" vilest
order. But the Temperance revival
has struck the slumbering consciences
of the trustees, and they have de
termined t.. close out theliquorshops,
rebuild the buildings, adapjng them
to other business. It h well. Trini
ty should have doneiis long ago.
The women of the West have accom
plished this much by their movement
at all events.
the currency; question
The city is hot on the question of
currency, and the feeling is increas
ing every day. The rich old houses
who have oceans of capital in reserve,
who are doing business on their own
money and the retired rich men, are
gnashing their teeth at the bare tho't
of inflation, and these classes control
the cuntrolable press. But there is an
immense number of business men
who really 'desire it and will do all in
them to bring it about, viz: those who
are doing business on limited capital
and are compelled to Seek accommo
dations. These men want more
money, for they want a revival of
trade. They want business to pick
up in the west, not only that the goods
now in their warehouses may be
bought, but that they may be able to
collect for what they sold last winter.
The cry for Inflatidri is uotall from
the west, it has its advocates here in
New York city, and they are loud
mouthed. BUSINESS
is anything but brisfe in the city, and
everything points to a dull spring and
a duller summer. The western farm
er holds tight to the money he has,
the western merchant cannot pay for
what he bought last fall, and is only
buying just what he must buy, and
consequently the jobber and importer
here languish and Bigh for the good
old times. The
BUILDERS
are doing absolutely nothing. There
have been no plans of any expensive
buildings since the year came in in
fact, only about three hundred build
ings of all styles have been commenc
ed since Jan. 1st. One-third of the
carpenters in the city are idle, and the
blacksmiths, plasterers and other ar
tisans are still worse off. The work
men have
THEMSELVES TO BLAME
for a great part of their trouble. They
have struck for higher wages, and for
shorter time of labor, and so on, till
the contractors hare got to the poiut
of not knowing where they are. They
dare not uudertake a building, except
at a price sufficient to cover these
chances, and tho?e who would build
are not sure of enough rent to justify
the increased, iu the present state of
trade. There are usually over 1.000
plasterers at jobbing work this season
of the year; this year there are less
than 200, and the same rule holds
good iu all the trades this spring. -The
working men have over-reached
themselves. They have got trace so
hampered and tied up with "regula
tions" as to make the contractors real
ly their servants. The societies rule,
and their rules bears terribly against
the employoras to kill his business,
unless he can compel the property
owner to give him a largely increased
price, which he will not do. The en
forcement of the society system is a
direct encourageotent cf idleness.
When society rules aid" earriea out,
the diligent workman receives no
more cash than the man who studies
how little he shall do and still escape
discharge. Byr society rule no man
can be discharged for incompetency,
provided lie does work enough to
reach the society standard, which is
much lower than the amount of work
which an active workman can fairly
do. One of the regulations of the
plasterers' society is that employers
shall be obliged to pay men for the
time they are on strike. In several
societies there are express rules to
discourage diligence. In the plas
terers' union, meri have been fined
heavily beoause they have been com
plained of by their fellows for ob
structing them. The stone-cutters
have fixed a limit for a day's work,
which no journeymen can exceed
without a fine. The derrickrneh have
laid down rules which require a cer
tain number of men to each derrick,
often a larger dumber than is neces
sary, and which restrain men from
undue haste in working. Among hod
carriers and bricklayers there are rog
ulations intended to prevent the tod
rapid accomplishment of a piece of
work. It Is forbidden to use wheel
barrows to carry bricks from the pile
to the foot of the ladder. Hod carriers
are not allowed to use both hands in
filling hods, and are forbidden to put
more than fifteen bricks in one load.
It may often be noticed that in laying
bricks hlen delay and loiter in their
task, because they may not venture
to finish their part before the corres
ponding part is finished by their fel
lows, who, if they were out-stripped
would have the light to complain to
their union. Until these rules are
modified, the master builders do not
care to take contracts, and bdllding
must languish. It may be better la
ter in the season, bub it is fearfully
dull now and there is much suffering
amoug laborers. Pietro.
-
ITfixllS BY RAIL.
Editor Nebraska Advertiser;
It occurs to me while I seat myself
in a farm house near Eldora, in Iowa,
that the promise I gave you on leav-
ing Brownville for "Items by Rail,"
wil be soon over due. I left Brown
ville in the fade of a cold northeast
wind, which on Tuesday, the day af
ter, veered to the north, making in
doors, by a good fire, a luxury. My
route was over the Chicago & North
western, and I found the ground fair
ly covered with show from Council
Bluffs to the De3 Moines river. This
distance reaches to the center of Io
wa, and the road thus far runs thro'
an uncultivated wilderness of prairie.
Small towns are conveniently located
at points called county seats, around
which, dotted here and there, are the
only farm houses in view from the
passing cars. What this country
would amount to without the railroad
is a matter' of trifling computation.
The land is good, rich aud productive,
but Without, the market which' the
road affords, tho few settlers now on
the ground would be reduced to the
handful whose sole means of subsist
ence is the revenue which flows an
nually into the county by non-resident
tax-payers. The first eighty
miles east of the Des Moines river
presents a more civilized appearance
the snow is gone. The unoccupied
land now becomes as infrequent as
the farm houses were west of that
river. The farmer hi? well fed team
and patent drill dots every hill side
aud valley. The ground here is much
dryer than . in Nemaha county. It
freezes at night. By noon the thaw
ing is sufficiently deep to give room
for the drill, and during the after
noon every moment is economized
for incessanL lobor of man nnd beast,
until the shades of night render it
difficult for the driver to keep his
drill close to its recent track across
the field. This is the climate and the
soil for small grain, so but littie
ground will be left for corn. We are
now in the home of the Granges.
Here the organization first opened its
buds to popular favor. It has its pe
riodicals its "organs" in the county
towrts.
Politics are shaded into various
cliques. I hear of "Straight Repub
licans," "Anti-MonoiiS," (Demo
crats,) and "Cut Worms," (Grang
ers,) aud it is a difficult problem, at
this early stage of development, to
tell where one leaves off and the oth
er begins. I shall leave its solution
for further deliberation, and in the
mean time study its various plans,
and give your readers the result of
my further observaUons.
Farmers are greatly encouraged by
present prices and are entering upon
Bpring work with an energy and zeal
which they have not felt for several
years' past. I notice one source of ac
tive, "middle transactions.'.' the tide
of which has not ruffled the surface
of trade and commerce in Nebraska
to any appreciable extent, so far as I
know. Th'ere nrs several "middle
men" engaged in buying up good
draft horses for the Eastern and
Southern markets. Prices are rullug
between $150 and $200 per head for
from "fair to middling," aud no pro
test 13 heard as to the "labor of love"
in which these middle men are en
gaged. My next will be from Mason City,
whither I wend my way on Monday
next. Jarvis S. Church.
Eldora, Iowa, April llfi, 1S71.
Parton, the historian, speaking of
the debt of Englaud, says: "When
George the Third came to the throne
in 1760, the national debt of Englaud
was 130.000.000, The American war
raised it to 260,000,000. The insen
sate warfare against, the French revo
lution made it 570,000,000, and by
the time Napoleon was safely landed
in St. Helena the debt amounted to
the iuconceivablesum of S65,000,000.
It may be safely asserted that every
guinea of this debt wasunneceesary."
GHAPtSS OR THdRXS.
"Wo xausl not hope to be movers,
And to gather tho rlpogold ears,
Until ve have first been sowers.
And wator'd the furrows with tearsl
It Is not just as we take It
This mystical world of ours ;
Life's field will yield, as we make It;
A harvest of thorns or flowers !
g OS-
BUM-SELLING AND PRATER.
3IEETINGS.
Editor Nebraska Advertiser.
Were a brief and concise definition
asked for the cause of evil the word
intemperance would express it. This
includes intemperance in its most ex
tended sense, not merely rum-driuk-ing.
Happiness depends upon a
healthy atitlbh of all the faculties of
the riiind ; and a temperate use of all
the means calculated to gratify those
faculties. Misery is the result of un
cultured, ungoverned indulgence of
appetites and passions goodin them
selves, but rendered evil by intemper
ate action. People should keep them
selves under a severe discipline, and
"be temperate in all things" if they
would be healthy and happy.
There Is not a blessing given to
man but can be rendered an evil by
intemperate use. The golden grain
so necessary to man's physical life;
from it has been extraotcd a subtle es
sence, which, when received into the
human system, maddens the soul,
debauches the body, and spreads des
olation and ruin all around this fair
earth ; causing drunkenness In men,
a disease the most horrible and ma
lignant of any flesh is heir to. The
cry has gone- out all over the land,
"What shall we do to bo saved,"
from this frightful malady? Many
remedies have been tried, aud with
partial success, for this pestilence is
spread far and wide, its victims are
couuted by the thousands. "Oh !"
exclaim some, "remove the cause and
the effect will cease." If drunkeu-
j ness ia a disease, where shall the at
tack be aade, on the patient or on
the cause? An answer to cover the
whole question would be, "the attack
must be on both patient and cause."
The error concealed iu the above
question Is in the argument not being
comprehensive enough. It is all cor
rect enough that if a cause is stopped
the effect will cease. But what is to
be done with the already produced ef
fectc? What dogs a physician do
when called to treat any disease?
Does he make an attack on the pa
tient or on the cause?
Could there be an agency brought
to bear powerful enough to stop all
rum-selling and rum-drinking this
hour, yet the effects of drunkenness
in the past would reach out into many
generations, to some extent, wither
ing, blighting, dwarfing, crippling
and corrupting both body and soul ;
ailmoreyet,it will reach out and
effect the .spirit iu tlie life in the here
after. The truth is this question of
drunkenness makes it appeal to phy
sician and healer, reformer and bene
factor. To effect a cure an attack
mUsd be made upon both patient and
cause. Heal the patient of the dis
ease he has already contracted, and
stop the cause that he gets not sick
again.
Among the many ways used to" cure
drunkenness the "prayer meeting"
remedy is the last. But, comes the
question, will it effect a cure? A suf
ficient answeF to thies question may be
given by asking, has any remedy yet
proved a thorough cure? Reports
say that some good results have fol
lowed the prayer meeting treatment;
but will it be permanent? Perhaps
not. It ha? not the elements of per
menancy in it. It has not the life
giving energies of the gently falling
rain. It is a .torm, and storms are
useful in their way. There may be
much of fanaticism in this hurricane
of prayer meetings. Yet fanaticism
has got its work to do in reriroving
evils This storm of prayer meetings
would not have swept over the land
if there had not been impurities in
the moral atmosphere to have caused
it.
Prayer is a mighty power, and liaS
a wonderful influence in the affairs of
men. Better for the evil-doer that a
"mill-stone was around his neck, and
he cast in the depths of the sea,"
than to have the prayers of tho in
jured reach the Holy One, who exe
cuteth judgment in the earth. Those
harangues, called prayer, which in
carefully studied speech inform the
Almighty of things, which, one
would infer, Ho was ignorant of, and
instruct Him h'ow to govern, con
demn and justify men ; not such
empty words, but aspirations which,
as Hving things, go out from the
depths of the soul, and reach up to
the great Soul of the universe, and
brings surely back a response a bles
sing or a curse as the case demands.
"But if God is everywhere present,
beholding th evil and the good, why
could not these crusading women re
main in the retirement of their homes
and pray for the rum-seller and
drunkard ?" The samo question can
be asked in the case of a revival
meeting, when sinners of any kind
are prayed for. Why cannot the
preacher go home and pray for them?
There are many kinds of invoca
tion to the Beity. When ths soul
wants to be' elevated, purified, glori
fied and drink from the fountain of
spiritual life, it must go and be alone
with God. But when certain things
are desired to be effected concerning
i our fellow beings, then there is a ne-
cessity of "essembling together." In
the history of all manner of worship,
in all ages, "the circle" is the univer
salforrs; or condition j that is unit
ing magnetic forces to accomplish
certain results. "Where two or three
agree touching one thing, it shall be
granted." It would be well if people
studied the philosophy , of prayer
more, and prayed more. It would be
better not to use taunt and jeer tow
ard these women and their prayer
meetings. Let them do good iu their
way, and let us do good in- our way,
and friends of temperance, in the
name of suffering humanity, let Us
all assist toward removing the curse
of drunkenness.
Jennette Harding.
London, Keb.
joins sour items.
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Articles of" Incorporation of tlie City
Telegraph Co., Jclir:sor, Nelj.
Art. 1st. It is hereby certified that
we, J. B. Johnson, A. J. Wright, j.
M. Boreland and others, whose names
are hereunto subscribed, do hereby
associate ourselves and successors a
body corporate, with succession for 99"
years trom date hereof, subject to re
newal or extension, as the case may
bo,ip'rovided by law, by the name of
"The City Telegraph Company, of
Johnson, Neb.," aud with all the
rights, privileges, franchises and
powers conferred on or anywise per
taining to such associate body.
Art. 2nd. This association shall be
located in the city of Johnson, Ne
maha county, Nebraska.
Art. 3rd. The objedts of this asso
ciation shall be to establish' audnain-
tain telegraphic communication be
tween such points as may hereafter
be-determined upon by the company.
Art. 4th. The capital stock of this
association shall be ten dollars which
may hereafter b'e increased to fifty
thousand ; each share to have the par
value of 25 cents.
Art. 5th. The stockholders of this
company shall be residents of Nema
ha county.
Art. 6th. The officers of this asso
ciation shall consist of a President,
Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer,
Assistant Treasurer, Superintendent,
General Agent, Division Agent, En
gineer, and Board of Directors, to be
elected by the stockholders as herein
after mentioned.
Art. 7th. No person shall be eligi
ble to any office in the association un
less he shall be (h'G bona fide owner
of one share of the capital stock.
Art. Sth. The officers and direc
tors of this association shall be elect
ed by tlie stock-holders by ballot once
in three months.
Art. 9th. These articles may be
amended, at any regular meeting, by
a two-third vote of the stockholders
present.
Art. 10th. Eoch stockholder shall
be entitled to one vote for each share
held by him. In testimony whereof
the undersigned have set their names
this 25th day of January, 1S74.
J. B. Johnson, A. P. Wilson, J.
M. Borland. J. P. Miller, A. J.
Wright, Adam Wagoner, O. J. Math
ews, L. Frazler.
At a meeting of the stockholders of
the City Telegraph Company, of
Johnson, Neb., held at Hageman's
Hall January 20th, A. J. Wright
was chosen President, pro tern, and
J. B. Johnson, Secretary.
Moved that there be an appropria
tion of six dollars out of the treasury
for the purchase of two instruments
for the use of the company, and that
the treasurer be hereby authorized to
expend the same at his discretion.
Carried.
Moved that the treasurer be author
ized to purchase, o'n best term's, poles.
Wires, insulators, &c, necessary for
the construction of a line from the
company's office, corner of Main St.
and Nebraska Avenue, to the corner
of First street and Nebraska Avenue.
Carried.
Moved that the following be the es
tablished rate or tariff of the compa
ny on messages, until further notice:
1 to 5 words, 5c; 5 to 10 words, 10c;
10 to 20 words, 15c ; 20 to 30 words,
25c.
The members present then proceed
ed to ballot for officers for the quarter
ending AprM 30th, 184, with the fol
lowing result :
A. J. Wright, President; J. P.
Miller, Vice-President; J. B. John
son, Secretary ; J. M. Borland, Treas
urer; Perry Buckles, Ass't Treasurer;
A. P. Wilson, Superintendent; Ad
am Wagoner, General Agent; O. J.
Mathews. Engineer; J. P. Prices,
Div. Agent ; L. Frazler and Simon
Miller, Directors.
Notice is hereby given that an as
sessment of ten per cent, on the capi
tal stock of the City Telegraph Com
pany will be levied on the 15th day of
April, 1874. All stockholders are
hereby notified that in case said as
sessment is not paid by May 1st, 1874.
said stockholders will forfeit their
shares.
By order Board Directors.
P. S- A dividend will probsbly be
declared about the 10th of May, 2900.
Pleasant days can be spent in (he
orchard, taking awcy all dead branch
es, scraping off old rough bark where
vermin can hide, and cutting off the
stubs of dead limbs an covering with
grafting wai to keep from further
decay. Limbs or branches, broken
down by wind or ice, should be care
fully removed, and the woifnded parts
cut smooth before applying wax.
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"Howdy, Aunt Maria?" said a
Georgia lady to an ol d colored lady.
'I ain't yer aunt, misses," loftily re
plied the aged female, "and I ain't
yer uncle ; I'se yer ekal !"
A SHOT FOR A SLSFE.
Where the Kentucky river cuts its
way through the mountains, having
upon either bank bold, riigged cliffs,
that lift their sumnlits'five hundred
and a thousand feet, as the caso may
be, above the stream, there lived in
early times a settler by the name of
Rufus Brauson, who, with his wife
and little child, a charming young
girl of some eight or nine years of ago
docupied the rude cabin at the- base
of the preclpicen little back from the
river.
Although greatly exposed to danger
the Indians at that time being very
plentiful throughout the region, lie
managed to live quietly for several
years.
The Indians frequently visited the
rude home of the hunter, and, being
always welcomed and provided with
such food as was in the larder, they
maintained a frieudly attitude. Espec
ially were they fond of the child,
Maggie, and more than one fierce
warrior liad been sitting on the grass
iu front o'f tlie cabin, listening to the
childish prattle of the little one, or
else engaged in making her some toy
or plaything from willow twigs or
pliant bark.
In this manner, several yearg had
been passed, and Rufus Brauson came
to feel as secure as though he were
within the walls of a frontier fort.
One evening Branson and his wife
were seated near the doorway, when
suddenly a slfadov? fell across the
threshold, and the next momenta tall
6avage, whose reeling step and blood
shot oyes told him he was intoxicat
ed, appeared, and, staggering to the
log steps, threw himself upon them.
His first demand was for firewater,
which was, of course, refused, on the
ground that there was none in the
house. The Indian became cross and
ugly, and declared with terrible oaths
that if the liquor was not produced he
would murder the whole household.
Branson was a brave determined rrian,
and although lie dreaded the necessi
ty, yet he saw he would be compelled
to prompt step3 to prevent theaavago
from executing his threat.
Waiting until the warriorhad made
a demonstration, which he soon did
by attempting todrav? his tomahawk,
Branson sprung at him, knocked him
down with his fist, and then quietly,
disarmed and bound him where he
lay. After a few moments of furious
raving, ho rolled over and fell into a
drunken sleep. He did not awaken
until the next morning, but before he
did so the settler had quietly removed
his bonds and restored the weapons,
which he laid by 'the sleeper's side.
The savage, on awakening, rose slow
to his feet, felt his wrists, as though
the thongs had left a feeling there,
took up his weapons, and, without
speaking a word, left aud disappeared
in the timber near by.
"What do you think of that?" ask
ed the wife, turning to her husband
with a frightened look.
"Pshaw! Don't trouble your head
about the drunken brute !" answered
the settler; but as he turned away
and stepped into the yard he mutter
ed :'
"Like it? Well not much. The
fellow must bo watched. I waa in
hopes that he wouid not remember,
but that lump where my fi3t landed
w3 enough, if iipthiug else, to recall
the ciroumstances."
The summer passed and they saw
their drunken guest no more. He
failed to make his appearehce. But
as the leaves began to fall, the settler
one day while returning from hunt
ing on the hills, and passing through
a dense piece of timber not far from
the house, caught sight of figurelurk
ing in the bushe's", which quickly dis
appeared when lie advanced to where
it wa3. The figure was that of an In
diau warrior, and Branson would
have sworn that it was the Indian
warrior whom he had knocked down
and bound the previous spring. The
news was not in any way comforting,
aud hence be did not tell his wife of
the discovery.
It will only alarm her, he thought,
and without perhaps any good result.
He simply told hei he had discovered
bear tracks near by nnd that f-he and
the child must stay within or close to
the house during Ills absence.
Several davs aiterwurd Rufus Bran
son heard his dogsin thetimber down
by the river, and, knowing they nev
er opened without good cause, he
caught up his rifle aud hastened to
where the dogs were barking. They
had struck a fresli bear trail, and u-
he arrived in J-ight hey fairly lifted
it, going off in a straight line down
the river.
The cbase led him several miles,
ahd when he at last gotashut that
finished bruin's career, he found that
it was three or four o'clock in the af
ternoon. Swinging his meat toa sap
ling, out of reach of cat or wolf, he
started for home to get his horre aud
rsturn and fetch it that very night.
Taking a near cat, he reached the
cabin from the Western side where
the timber grew up heavy to withii. a
few yards of the building, and conse
quently he could not see the clearing I
or what might be transpiring there,
until he had passed through the
wood.
TIiub it was that, when within a
short distance of his home, he heard
a wild piercing shriek ; but he could ; At a temperance meeting in Brook?
only guess that something terrible ' lyn, prayers were offered for a Sab
must be Taking place beyond the bath school' superintendent and for
screen of bushes and leaves. Utter- j the chairman of a church building
ing a loud shout that his presence i committee, both of whom were found
might sooner be known, Branson ; to be selling aud drinking iutoxicat
sprang forward like a- wounded buck, ing liquors.
a great fear in his heart ; for he htd
only too clearly recognized in that
scream the agonized voice of his wife."
It took but a moment for him to
clear the intervening timber and un
dergrowth and as he dashed out into
the clearing, holding his rifle ready
for instant use, he comprehended in
one swift glance all that had taken
place, and what was further to fear,.
Near tho end of the cabin facing
the cliff, of which I have spoken,
stood the mother, her face as pallid as
death, her arms outstretched, her
eyes fixed upon tho .. precipitous
heights up which the figure of tKo
Indian was struggling.
"My child ! my child !" was all the
woman said, and Branson saw that"
the bundle in tho Indian's arms was
the form of their only child. Maggie.
Firm of heart; and with nerves as
steady as the rocks around, thefatlier,
for a moment quailed and cowered
under what his quick sense's told him
the deadly peril of the little onei'
But he was quick to recover.
The Indian was drawing away ;
step by step ie was increasing the
distance, and as he occasionally glaDC
ed backward and downward, the par
ents saw iu his hideously painted
countenance tho full purpose that ac
tuated the abduction.
"God aid me!" Branson muttered,
as he raised his rifle, glanced through
the sights, and touched the trigger.
The Indian started violently at tht)
shot. He wa3 hit, but not badly, amf
with a yell of devilish triumph ho
passed upward.
"Too low by a couple of inches."
said a low, calm voice at the settler'
elbow.
Brauson started as though he hlnf
self had been shot. Where was this
man from? Who waa ho? Neither
had seen him approach. But therd
was no time ror explanations. The
stranger, a man ratiicr below than
above ordinary height, whoso fine,
athletic form was fully displayed by
iiis closely fitting buckskin garments,
stepped quickly forward a few paces,
and firmly planted his laft foot in ad
vance, threw up an unusually long
rifle, as though preparing to fire.
"For God's sake, stranger, be care
ful of my child!" cried Branson,
while the agonized mother uttered air
audible prayer.
"It's ourouly chance. I know that
Indian," was the quick reply, and
the sharp click! click! of the ham
mer, as it was drawn back, told that
tlie critical moment had come.
By this time the Indian had nearly
reached thesuiumit of thesteep. That
lis was wounded now became evident
as uiona broad edge of rock ho paus
ed for a moment. This opportunity
was seized by the unknown. Altho
the savage had takan the precaution'
to hold the child .up iu front of him
as a shield, covering nearly the whole
of his brawny chest, but. leaving his
head uncovered, the stranger did not
hesitate to make the tbot.
For one second, as it gained its po
sition, the rifle wavered aud then Inw
stantly became Immovable as though
held in a vice. With clasped hands
aud staring oyes the parents watched5
the statue-like foim upon whieli bo
much depended.
Suddenly a sharp report rang out J
tho white smoke drifted away, and as
the vision became clearer, they eaw
the savage lone his hold upon tho
child, reel wildly an instant and then
pitch forward upon tho rocks. It
may be imagined that the father vraar
not long in reaching the place where
his child lay, and in a few moment
more the little one was in itfe mother's
arms.
"Tell us who you are, that we may
know what name to mingle with our
prayers," exclaimed the mother, as
the stranger prepared to depart.
"My name is Daniel" Boono," he
said, and was gone.
, a.
Brucetown, Ky., has furnished a
remarkable negro girl. Her powers
of memory are said to bo truly won
derful. About two weeks ago her
employer read an article from a paper
and twenty-four hours after she re
peated his reading word for word.
She wa? then tested, and it was fouud
that she could repeat thirty or forty
lines from a book, after hearing i"
read once over.
A company lias been organized in
New York for the purpose of acquir
ing and operating the concession
granted by the Spanish Government,
giving the right to recover a vest
amount of treasure,' about $40,000,000,
known to have been sunk in the fleet
of the Spanish gsllions in the harbor
of Nige, Spain, in 1702.
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A Bay St. Louid, Miss., dispatch'
saya a duel was fought near Mont
gomery station, recently, between
Arlstodes Beinvenue and T. B. Phil
lips, with double-barrelled shot-guns,
I loaded th a single ball, at forty pa-
Beinvenue was killed the first
fir- ehot through the brain. Phil-
ijl3 wa3 Rot uurt-
The lowest point within the Yel
lowstone National Park is said to be
the month of Gardiner's River, on it
southern boundary line. This is 5,-
400 feet above the level of tSe sea.
Yellowstone Lake is 7,800" feet above
tSe sea level.
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