SB ujiiinuiji.,..iiffii mrB-aaBB bmihm in i iiB emW? m w . - ,,-,, - .,, imiun t dMdi I'rtTWiTi m tHb" adverser. BROTHER & HACKER, THE ADYERTISEI?. U. W. FAIREROT1IKE. T. C ItACTwEJI. FAIRBROTIIER St HACILER, Publishers Proprietors. A m publish rs and Proprietors. Med """' - - pnblislied Every Thursday Morning PU ?t kkGWNVILLE. NEBRASKA. .VT BKOWNY TCKV I ADVANCE -3a 00 .. 1 00 50 'sC;- V Months.. tkrf,n roonUis...-,- C -' V- reut from the office untllpuld for. t" r"' l. n u 1 1H.VG MATTER OX EVERY PAGE fit ....ill I.I-'-1- i.ii.i.Ki-wr SOCIAI. DIRECTORY. LODGES. i ndcr No. t " P. Meets every rt,fIior l-nas'- . )n MRSOnjc nail. Visitlnsr ,rT-i K invited. J. C aiCAUOnTON-, a - ' '. 1 : .irSSOK. K. R. S. Bra -aBAV.y-. villp Division -o. : o"" u AI 8r'"'l,l,V"s Friday evening In Odd '--- i over Nlckells druc stor"e. Main - . vki, -Ssofoiir order visltlnB the city "' , wit with us. B. M. Bajxey. W. . T KOf. " i v . . . -t? .- . "I- 1: ""gs third Thursday evening in each ... ., . Vn -R..A.3I.-staiea '"'..rst Monday ntihl A earn month. A- S. E. 31. .n I """'fourth Monday In each month. No. :. u. j ir rr iiton .t f r-if-i "------? .. irnintlin MlIIrTl ! --"- .1 Monday in each mon "".7-r-i c'3 ntSic PhU on th-fifth Mon- '-"",. ,Vn : Order ot the Eastern btar. jtdaUf!rit".-rfh7d Monday in eaoh month. ciiuncnES. JS . r rhurrh. Servfcsee Sabbath ctiooM.1 l 7.M . m. sun lay fechool at w-r Meeng Thursday evenlnR. , ,, TiMt is. Pastor. J - . r-i..if.li Servks&P each Sabbath i. - 1 , n ' "DtMli otuwu.-.-- i n '. -SUMMM itAiiU, Pastor. ITV OFFICKRS. i -.ip4 the First Monday la each t.trronn'-V h- A. TilS. Al lermen-JIrst . . ii..i.i....c.Aniul Want f . n W. A. JwdklBB: Third V.ard- 1 r.ar.ck Farker. Marshal. " t -.j iwwVor- Treaiwrer. J Blake. J 1 j .- i OUNTY OFFICERS Arrival nntl Departure or Malls. Nort'.rrn r-dly.by iuUroad-Arrlvcs 11 a. m .,-ltc-i luily.by JiaJlroad-ArrivesiSOp.m. ,oril.cravia Peru, Daily-Arrives 12 m: De- Cathcrn- N'e.naha City. Dally-ArrlvesS : : ,-, v aaTcmsh to Beatrice-Dally: -2 Arrives at 5 p.m. , rJ7..rn Via Table Itock eekly Ar- , ' 1 Saturday at C p. m. Departs ' tr.day at 7a.m. ' .iijfrom 7a.m..to7m'.m. Sun ..." L m. W. A. rOLOCK, P. 31. ".... T,. Tlolaim SORlI-W MKiy-AP o eSSES! TI5IE SCKSDULES. MBLAiTO PAOIFIG EAILWA' SCHEDUIS Ko. 1. TAKlUFfcCT SUNDAY, FEB. 1st. 1S75. wi-t.. u:n. j K-VHTWABD. STATIONS. r,-. s.l r;o. i. so.: AKKIVS. x a r.X. r.M. 7.15 C.38 CIO LeS.13 4.W 3.5.1 8.2-. 250 . Brownvllle...' I. I"ra ..itry t.MIersv!He .Nebraska City,' ....Summit .... IelawBre lmibr. . 2.89 !. 1.15 ' 12 a iLiiw JA12.1S W.iK) U.-H 11J3 ..Arlington.. . .Syracuse. Unadltla.. 12 I2.na r.Tff Wmyw . ..tyennifU 1.S0 l.io 12.XH 12A1S I.12.ti9 VTiMwyTS n.:- .stale PrisoH I 1M ......Lincoln I1-''i r".) '1 J AW.10 ..TA'ooiliwn. ' ' SJ--J3 ..Malcolm -- . i;?ranatowfBM. "" . Seward 8 vJ A.M. A. M. ' ) . f n 3hive Is that of Utwoln, leing , - - or than that of Chicago. r.i n-i : niv. xcept Sunday. - I"lar tatteiw trlmillnl.v on MS J. K. CO NVERBK, S'Jt- Unrltiigtou &, 3Tlnouri Klver Railroad In relrn!lta. MAIN LINK. iCi- I ..Plattsmouth J 2.-05 p.m.arrlve Lincoln 11:16 a.m. leave p.m. -rriv . .Kearney June-1 &N5a.m leavo omailv i;ra:cc. p. va. loave I ...Plattsmouth-1 12:15 -tn. arrive 4 m. arrive I OimImi I KfcWa.m. leave B12ATKICK llRAXCH. V i 1? v.e t OwH I T:45 a.m. arrive ,Ai.. arrive I Beatrice. I 6:45 a.m. leave Chlcn: ro &, North Western Railway. :. nril Bluff's arrive and depart as follows T RR1VK I OOINOKAST IFPAKT ' TV5U1 j i.' i T..ri- .li'.J'.p.m. I Day Kxprw t:)a.m. SV- Lxprei- .. a:15a.m. I Xififit Express. 4:05 .m. I E.. Freight lOAia.in. W. II. STEXNETT.Gen.Pas.Agt. ggEmsury-jJcv. Ji wwss BUSINESS CARDS. ATTORNEYS. II. C. Parker, A tt(pkni:y at law. land and tax P.it mg Aetit. Howard, Ieb. Will Rive tiUlI atteniion toany leKal business entrusted to his 16m6 ii. iZ. BlirlIit, UNI.Y AT LAW. Notary public and Real ' Vi:. OiHcem Court Ilouse Build v.iville Xeb. Ti' nj T. L. Suliick, AT LAW.-MAY BE CONSULT TTn:xrY t- el u j lie ;er:nun lansuage. Omce next antv( lerk'sOllice. Court House Build- .vu iilo. Nebraska. lS4y T. S. Stull, .TTORNTY AND COUNSBIX)R AT LAW. No.; Main street, (up .lairs,) Brown- if N- is-uy .T. II. Droaily, ;ey and counselor at law. over State Bank. BrowiivilU-.Neb. V TT E. W. Tlsoinns, TT nvr.Y AT LAW. Omce, front room over V (- 'i,..n A Cro.-4S's Hardware Store, Brown- '.X. f). XV. T. Rogers, AND COUNSELOR TTiiTSXry AT LAW. diligent attention to any local Ois K , !,' -ntrvsved to hH care. Office in Court Reuse 'S Br-wnvilie.Xeb. vanpwvii0 PHYSICIANS. s 'I'H.I.vday. M.D.. Physician. Surseon ;-:' i-l "bnotrichHi. (iradiialert iu 1851. Loca li.u Urownville 1855. Olfice. Lett & Creich's i''J5,5 re MrPhersou Block. Special attention i) Obstetrics ami diseases of Women and L. MATHEWS. Phvslclan and Surgeon. OlKce tiT "l.t'l,y Drag siore.'No. 32 Main itreet.Browp- . N.-l.. NOTARIES & COLLECTION AGENTS I.. A. Bertjnianii, VOTVr.Y rUBLIO AND CONVE - ' Offl.-v, No. 41 Main street, Brown EYANCER.- nvllle. Neb. L.ANIJ AGENTS. W"ILLIAM II. HOOVER, Real Estate and Tax ' Paying Ajrent. Oftice In Ditrict Court Room. ' 4ive prompt attention to the sale of Real Es- ind Piymeotof Taxesthroughoutthe Nemaha -an 3 Iiistrift BL.ACICS3IITIIS. .T. XV. Gibson, )LVPKSMITII AND RORSE i . v ro"' -"' t vren Main and Allan tto W rK ilJlle to order.and satis S1IOER. First tlantlc. Urownville, jric dime to order.and satisfaction guarau- MIQGIEI T BEST IN MARKET. t .,. t n.lcp Vn. .", I. O. O. F. Regular ,rnvill'- 'j,0,eev. ingot each veek.ln their ' "3 Vr,wmanstore VisltiiiK brothers vrnvited.2A.a.GATii3.X.U. James ( " :' rfr A. ii. tiilmore. Surveyor. J. "-'.-' A Supenntedent. D. W. Pierson. T IR, IT very Sack Warranted ! u ESTABLISHED 1856. l Oldest Paper in the State. J u.iL3m. ja AUTHORIZED RY TnE U. S. G0VERX3IEXT. THE FIRST NATIONAL OF BROWNVILLE. J?aid-U2 Capital, $100,000 Authorized " 500,000 IS PREPARED TO TRANSACT A General Banking Business BUY AND.SELL COIN & CUKKENCY DEAFTS on all the principal cities of the United States and Snrope. MONEY LOANED On approved security only. Time Drafts discount ed, and special accommodations granted to deposit ors. Dealers In GOVERNMENT BONDS, STATE, COUNTY & CITY SECURITIES DEPOSITS Received payable on demand, and INTEREST al lowed on time certificates of deposit. DIRECTORS. Wm T.Den, B. M. Bailey, 51. A. JIandley. Frank E. Johnson, R. M. Atkinson, Wm. Frazier. JOHN L. CARSOX, A. R. DAVISON. Cashier. President. J. C. McNAUGRTON, Asst. Cashier. BOWNVIIII! GOOD NEWS FOR THE PEOPLE OF Richardson, Johnson, Nemaha, AKD OTOE COUNTIES, AND WESTERN MISSOURI I SHIGAG-0 LUMBER C0. OF CHICAGO, liave established A FIRST-CLASS LUMBER YARD AT BROWNVILLE! And will constantly keep on hand a full and complete Stock of all kinds of Dry Pine Lumber, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Lime, Cement, Plas ter and Hair, Cedar Posts, Enam el Paint and Suilrling Paper, which they will sell as low as any point in the West, at the old stand of John E. Bell. Give us a call be fore making any Purchases, and see how it is yourselves, and ex amine our Grades and Qualities, as &! &rrsiv?w tm T Gmj J? bA LOW PRlOEf Is Our Main Sold. Try us once and judge for yourselves. Yours respectfully, CHICAGO LUMBER Co. HAVING rented the Photographic Rooms and apparatus of J. R. Shroil", I am prepared to do all kinds of Photographic work, LARUE OR SMALL. Photos COLORED IN OIL, Rooms over Post reasonable lictiree. Office. F. R, SYKES. Mm:! BANK RESTAURANT. WARM MEALS AT ALL HOURS OYSTERS SERVED IX AXY DESIRED STYLE. J. G. RUSSELL, Nos. 37 fc 39 Jilulu St.. BEOWJYILLE,NEB Clocks, Watches, Jewelry JOSEPH SHTJTZ, Ho. 59 Main Strt, Brownvillo. fTSL Keeps constantly on hand a large and well 9 assorted stock or genuine articles In his line. RepalrinK of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry done on short notice, at reasonable rates. ALL WORK WARRANTED. J. BLAKE, .V110 Derations Per 1iS furmed in the best manner. Office: IWs" !! At residence on Main street, from 1st to 7th of each At Rock Port, Mo. month. .A.. ZEOIBISOZEST, A a r,l &M i-- -IT3 .S it4aKi sr-sr-t f& Yvk.U ii .w wy.j rr "- rewrs rr-iasosrTSittr. D&LER IN DOTS AND SHOE CUSTOM WORK 5xte: n:o o:rx:ii::k.. Repairing neatly done. No. 5S Malnstreet, Brown vlIle.Neb. PEANZ HEI.2EER, loon &lacksmithShop ONE DOOR WEST OF COURT ROUSE. WAGON MAKING, Repairing, riows, and all work done In the bent manner and on short notice. Satisfaction guaran teed. Give him a coll. J-iy. PiOTOGHlPH GALLERY. o-zt&'r- L is i I (I i . fwrm- y '"?xVs T-0 Ul tS 1 II IBII" w. 3gP BLESS THE BABIES. BY ELLA AVnEELEIt. Bless the lltte babies! Ah, they make the home I KeeplDg husbands evenings, "When ho used to roam. Boon compalons miss him Cards have lost their charms There he sits contented, Baby In his arms. Bless the little babies I Ah, they strip the heart Of all false allurements By their native art. Once the belle a mother, Fashion, fol-de-roj. Selfish whims that spoiled her, Vanish, one and all. Bless the little babies ! Bridging many a breach 'Twlxt wife and husband, Binding each.to each. Husband stops his growling, ' "Warmed by baby's smiles, "Wife forgets her grievance, - "Watching baby's wiles. Bless the little babies! Shame upon the wives, Ruled by self and fashion, Living barren lives. Out upon the practice I Murder, nothing less Of tne scores of women God had ineut to bless. Bless the little babies ! Blessing, few or many ; Pity on the household Never counting any. It is like a garden Where there are no flowers, Oil, the pretty blossoms ! Filling happy bowers. DAYTON'S HOUSEKEEPEfi. "Wanted. A housekeeper. No one but an elderly person, competent, and of the highest respectability, need appty. Call between the hours of three and four, Thursday, April 6th, No. Michigan Avenue." Kate Franklin read thia iu the pa per which lay on the counter In the little grocery while waiting to have an ounce or two of tea done up, and a roll of baker's bread. She repeated the number of the house over to herself, as she received the change from the grocer. She prepared the tea after she re turned to the littlo bare attio, and ate her scanty meal mechanically. She forgot how unflatisfied her appetite" still was, in her busy thought. A stranger in a strange place. Suc cessively she had tried to iind a situa tion as teacher, copyist, in a store, sewing. Sho had failed in the first three, and was etarving on the last. She would apply for that place, but she would -need references. Only quo person iho knew in the whole great city, of sufficient Influence Mrs. Davenport, the rich, haughty step sister who had ill-treated her gentle mother while she lived, and hated Kate herself. Perhaps, thought Kate, she would permit her to refer to her, because she was glad to have her desceud to menial employment. Kate was competent for the situa tion, for during her mother's long 111 nefcs, and her father's absence, she had entire charge of their large family and splendid house. But an "elderly woman." Now Kate was not an elderly woman, be ing ouly twenty ; but she remember ed, with a sort of pleasure, that in private theatricals, in happier days, she had imitated the voice, and as sumed the character of an old woman with great success. Sho knew how to stain tho skin, to give and old wrinkl ed annearance. and she had. in tho bottom of a box some false grej' hair and n muslin cap worn on ono of these occasions. She did not need to look so very old only to present a mature and matronly appearance. Mr. Ed wan! Dai'ton waited at home after his dinner to see tho respondents to hisadvertisemen'. He was a hand some man, not3et thirty, with a gay, frank, good-natured countenance. Ho leaned hack in a nonchalant wa', with his feet on another chair. "There ought to be a Mrs. Dayton to manage these housekeeping mat ters. Well, there is time enough." Two applicants wero seen and dis missed in Mr. Dayton's gentlemanly way. A third was ushured in. Mr. Day ton instinctively laid aside his cigar, and placed a ohair for his visitor. The lady-likeness and propriety of her manner pleaspd him at once. "Fallen fortunes," he commented to himself. She answered his questions readily but in a few words. "A silent woman a good thing," was his inward remark. "I think you will suit me. Mrs., what mai' I understand your name?" "Franklin." 'Mrs. Franklin, you will be requir ed to go out of town about seven mile, to my country house, Oak Grove in the town of Embury, on the Grand Central Railroad. Tho salary I pro pose to, pay is six hundred dollars per annum. Do my terms suit you '?" She answered, quietly that they did. "Then it is all settled. By the way Isupposeyou have references though that is a mere matter of form?" "The name of Daveuport was given. "Davenport? Robert Davenport? I know them. All right. If con en ient, you will please go to-morrow, Mrs. Franklin, or the next day. I shall not como till the middle of next week, and brobably bring a friend or two with me. Have the chambers in the wings prepared, if you please. The housekeeper there now will not leave until Satuiday. .She will show 3 you rounq,' y BBOWNYILLE, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 18. 1875. "Is Mrs. , is your wife there, or to go soon ?" He laughed. "Mrs. Edward Dayton ? No, she is not there, and I do not know of her going at present." Adding more ser iously, "I have not the pleasure, Mra. Franklin, of having a wife," with a slight stress on 'pleasure.' " A vivid color came into the brown cheeks of the housekeeper, and her manner showed evident embarrass ment. "I thought I believe I oaunot " and stopped. He did not notice it. His mind had already turned to other things. He rose. "It's all settled", I believe. By the way," his eye falling on the rusty black dress, "you may like an ad vance, as an evidence of the bargain. It is quite customary, I bolieve, to do so." The housekeeper's band closed on the fifty dollars that hd gave her; and the words she would havd said, were left unuttered. She moved to the door. He opened it for her, courte ously. "Good-morning, madam." "Good-morning," she replied. "I cannot starve. I must go. lean keep up my disguise," sho murmur ed. Mr. Dayton, acoompanied by a friend, arrived at his country house the ensuing week. Everything with in and about tho house was in perfect order. If tho new housekeeper had rnado a few mistakes at first, they wereeoou rectified. Every room that she had touohed allowed a magical change. Her predecessor had been one of the kind who believed in the suulight never entering a room for fear of fad ing the carpets. Mr. Dayton felt the change with out knowing the reason of it. He looked around him with a satisfied air. It was not possible to find fault with the variety and quality of tho food placed before them, nor the manner of it's being served ; and the table ap pointments were perfect; and Dayton congratulated himself upon having secured such a jewel of a housekeeper. The weeks passed, and a holiday came. Mr. Dayton had gone to town the day previous, to remaiu the rest of the week. The housekeeper had given permission to the servants to go also. She felt a welcome relief to have the house and the day to her self. She locked the doors carefully after the last servant. She would make the most of her day. She would have no dinner, only a lunch. She had almost forgotten her real character in that which she had as sumed ; but to-day sho could be her self without fear of intrusion or dis covery. She laid aside her cap and grey dresses, washed the stain from her skin, and arranged horluxurious hair in becoming curls and donned a pret ty, fresh muslin, which fitted well the slight, graceful figure. This done, she entered the parlor and stood be fore the mirror, as attractive a figure as one would often see. "Truly, I have forgotten my own looks! lam Kate Franklin, after all !" she laughed. Removed from .the long restraint, her spirits rebounded. She felt gay, light-hearted and likecommittinguny foolishness. "Miss Franklin," she said, in tho mincing, affected tones ofan exquisite, "it would be inexpressible pleasure to hear the music of that long silent voice." "It would be a great pity to deprive you of it then," she answered, in her natural voice, "ond myself, also," she addded , and going to the piano she opened it and played a few pieces with exquisite taste and skill, and then she sang song after song, in a sweet, clear, cultivated voice. She ohose at first tho brilliant and triumphant, then the sad plaintive succeeded. There were tears in her eyes when she rose. But to-duy her moods were capri cious. "Mrs. Franklin, who is playing on the piano?" she asked, in an excel lent imitation of Mr. Dayton' voice. "It Is only I, sir, dusting the keys. They need dusting so often," she re plied, in Mrs. Frauklin's natural tones ; and she dusted them vigorous ly with her pocket-handkerchief. "Ah, me," she said. "Now what other foolish thing shall I do to prove to myself that I am not an elderly housekeeper, but a young girl, who by virtue of her age should he gay, by right of birth, wealthy, and of con sideration, visited ami visiting, as Mr. Dayton's lady visits and is visited. He is noble, good and handsome." she said, with a sigh. "Sho will be happj'. How gracefully she danced here at tho party the other evening, when the old house-keeper was per mitted to look on. She looks good and amiable, too. Mr. Dayton danc ed with her three times. I wonder if I have forgotten how to dance?" and humming an air, sho floated gracefully about the room. She stopped, breathless, her cheeks brilliant from the exercise, her splen did hair disarranged. "I believe I feel like stiff old Mrs. Franklin, with whom dancing does not agree." "One more song by that heavenly voice, Miss Franklin, and I shall go away dreaming I have heard angels sing," in the ludicrously affected voice she had before imitated. "Ah," she laughed, yet half sadly, "the compliments poor old house- - TP.. . J I I iiJrfT keeper Franklin receives, I hope will not spoil her, and turn her silly old head. She sat down again at the" piano, andsang"Home,SveetHome;" then pla3'ed one of Beethoven's grandest and mostsolemen pieces. She rose and closed the piano. "The carnival is ended. Kate Franklin disappears from the scene, and Madame Franklin enters." Neither Mr. Dayton nor the serv ants would have suspected, from the placid and dignified deportment of the housekeer, when they returned at evening, of what strange freaks she had been guilty. The houskeeper, as usual, when Mr. Daytou was alone, sat at his table. It had commenced to rain violently, and the weather had grown suddenly cold. Mr. Dayton, as he had done occas ionally, invited her to the library, where a cheerful firo burned In the grate. He read the letters and the papers which he had brought with him from town, while she knitted. An hour or so passed in silence ; in deed, tho housekeeper seldom spoke except when asked a question. At length Mr. Dayton looked up at her, and said abruptly, "Yours must be a lonely life, mad am. If it is not a painful subject, may I ask how longsinceyoulostyour husband ?" Two hands suspended their employ ment, two eyes looked up at him with an alarmed expression. In his seri ous, sympathetic countenance there was nothing to frighten or embarrass, but the red grew deeper on her brown cheek. "It Is a painful subject," she eaid at last, falteringly. "If you will please excuse me." One morning he was speaking of the great loss to children in being de prived of their parents. "I never knew a mother," he eaid. "She died before my earliest recollec tion. I believe that, man as I am, if I had a mother, I should go to her with all my griefs, as a little child would. I have some times thought of asking you to act as mother in the quiet evenings, when I have longed to confide in some one. My mother would have been about your ago, I think," Again there was a vivid color in the cheek of the housekeeper, pucIi as is rarely seen in the aged, but it was un accompanied by a quiver of the mouth and ended in a cough, but both mouth und cheek, were quiokly covered with a handkerchief, and quite a violent fit of noughingsucceeded. Mr. Dayton, however, did not seem to notice, though he had given her one curious glance, instantly with drawn, and ho continued ; "For instance, respecting matrimo ny, whose advice is of so much im portance as a mother's ? Who is ao quick to see through character, and make a good selection ? Had you a son, whom, about here, would 3-011 se lect for a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Franklin?" "I am not acquainted with any of the 3'oung ladies, Mr. Da3'ton, she an swered, faintl3', after a pause, during which beseemed to wait for an ans wer. "True, but you have seen them all, and are, I should judge, a good dis cerner of character, from observation. Whom would 3'ou select, from those 3'ou have seen ?" ho persisted. She reddened and paled. "I have heard the Misses Grandison highly spoken of.The!r appearance would seem to prove the truth. I doubt not that you ngreo with me," she returned quietl3T. It was now his turn to color, which ho did, slightly. "I do agree with you," he answer ed, emphatlcall3'. It was late in September. Mr. Day ton and the houst-keeper'were both in tho parlor. He had been unusually grave all da3r. It seemed to the house keeper that his manner was changed toward her. "I have a few questions to ask, if 3011 will permit me, Mrs. Franjdin?" She felt, instiuctivel3, alarm at his tone. "Certainlj'," with an effort. There was an ominous pause. "I have been told," he said, "that Miss Kate Franklin, a young lady, by disguising herself palmed herself off upon me for several months as an el derly lady. Is there any truth in the storv'?" looking searchingly at her. She started to her feet, then trembl ing, sank back into a chair. "Yes, it is true," sho murmured, faltering. "I confess I fail to see for what ob ject. My heart you could hardly ex pect to gain iu that character.'' "Your heart!" she repeated scorn fully. "I had no such laudable am bition ; I had never seen or heard of 3'outilll saw 3'our advertisement. Would you like to know for what purpose I took upon me a disguise so repugnant? You shall. Tosaven self from starvation. I had eaten but one meal a daj for a week when I ap plied to 3-ou, and was suffering with hunger then. My money was all gone, except a few pennies, with which to buy a roll of bread for the next day's meal, and I had no prospects of more, for I had been refused further sewing. But why should you find fault?" her pride rising. "What matter if I were Miss or Mra. Franklin, old or young, if I fulfilled, the duties I undertook? Have I not taken good caro of your house? Have I not made you com- fortable? If I have not, deduct from this quarter's salary, which 3rou paid this morning, whatever you like." "I have no fault to find, except for placing yourself aud me in an awk ward position, were this to become known." Waves of color mounted to the poor housekeeper's temples. "I thought I meant that no one should know, lea3tof all you besides I thought when I engaged to come, that you were married. Oh, what shall I do !" and she burst into a pas sion of tears. Mr. Da3'ton's manner changed. "Kate! Kate! I did not mean to distress 3'ou. Nobody knows but me nobody shall know." and he sooth ed her tender-. "Kate, lookup; I love you with my whole heart. I want you to bo my little housekeeper my wife, always. Kate", what do 3'ou say ?" taking her iu his arms and la3TIng his cheek against hers. "My own Kate, is it not?" She murmured something between her sobs, that she must go away this minute. "Nonsense, darling! Haven't 3Tou been here for months? What differ ence can a da3 longer make? You are safe with me, Katie. Oh, because I know 3ou are Miss Franklin, will you give me this inexpressible pleasure from that long silent voice? Oh, Ka tie, 3'ou bewitched me that da3 ! lam afrnid you "will bewitch me alwa3"8. But, Katie, let's take off these trcp plngs," untying the cap and remov ing the grey hair, and with this no tion down fell the wealth of brown tresses. "Oh, Mr. Da3'ton, 3ou wero not surely, 37ou were not at homo that da3T?" looking up, covered with con fusion. "Yesj Mr. Dayton was in the II brar3'," with an accent on his namo which Kate understood. "O, Edward! and j'ou teased me with all those foolish questions when 3ou knew.'' "Yes, my Kate, WI13' not?" "But you looked so innocent." Ho laughed.' "I shall soon, I hope, have some body, if not a mother, to confide in; and Kate, it is my duty ond pleasure to give 3'ou a husband, so t-hat in the future you cau answer without so much pain, when he is inquired af ter," "You are too generous." "I can afford to bo generous," he said earnest', "when I have the pre cious gift of 3Tour love. Kate, blest forever be the day that I first engaged my housekeeper." QUE 2TEW YOEK LETTEE. One Class of Thieve A Pretty Oper ationA Theatrical Incident The Scamlul Business. Correspondence Nebraska Advertiser. New York, March 13, 1875. ONH CLASS OF THIEVES. The ingenuity empIo3'ed by tho thieves of this cit3 is something-miraculous. Wero the same talent and energ3 espended upon legitimate pur suits, it would make every ono of them independent' rioh and of some use to the world. It is one of the m3'steries of human nature wh3T n man capable of putting up a scheme equal In poiut of va3tness with the best of Tom Scott's railroad plans, and involving infinite' more labor, should devote himself to the making of small sums illegally, and taking all chance3 that such operations car ry- With thesmall ones it Is tho same as with tho large ones. The favorite dodge this winter is peddling. A wo man appears at an area door with a satchel of small goods, pins, needles, or what not. B3' hook or crook sho gets up stairs into the main hall, and then her object is accomplished. Sho tries hard to sell, for she wants all the time possible. Nothing escapes her e3e. She takes tho measure of the hall so accurately that she could walk blindfolded to an3' given spot. She takes in the position of the doors, the kind of fastenings inside, and if left a moment to herself she gets on im pression in wax of the ke3' holes. The position of bolts or other fastenings are observed in short, she comes away with an accurate photograph in her mind of just as much of that house as her e3ea have beheld. All this may bo for tho purpose of plun der to the amount of a twenty-five dollar overcoat, or it ma3 bo for a general raid upon the house. If the house contains valuables enough to. make it worth while, this information is imparted to professional burglars, who, with tho information thus ob tained, are enabled to get" into the house iu twenty minutes. If not so promising a house, there aro at least overcoats, umbrellas and overshoes In the hall to be captured, and sneak thieves make use of tho knowledge. In the latter case the time and talent of the woman and of the thief who operates w'ith her are employed for days and days on the mere chance of pluuder to the amount of $2-5 to $50, which, from the very circumstances of the case must be sold for one-fourth its value. The parlies Interested do not make fair da3's' wages at their bu siness. There is no clas3 so poorty paid as the thief, and 3'et once in they never get out. There i3 a fascination In it that holds them forever. Send ono to Sing Sing make him labor hard for five j-eara, and discharge him, and in a week he is back at hiB old trade, knowing the chances he takes of detection and thecertain pen alty that will follow. It i3 an excit VOL. 19 NO. 38. ing life, and once embraced is seldom relinquished. A NICE OPERATION. There are a great manj" waj's of making money besides stealing it, but the way a Mr. Nelson, of Brooklyn, got capital to go into business is about the neatest for an honest one. Mr. Nel3on went to Mr. Herring and pur chased a block of lots for $45,000. When the deed was being mado he requested that the price paid should bo stated at $100,000, and as there could be no objection to it, it was so done. The papers were perfected nnd placed in the hands of a third party till Mr. Nelson should pay tho $45, 000. Then Mr. Nelson went to a big life insurance company and said ho wanted to borrow seventy thousand dollars on a blook of lota in Brooklyn whioh he had purchased of Mr. Her ring. The insurance company inves tigated the case and found that the deed represented a consideration of $100,000. They had the property ap praised, and wore willing to take a loan of $70,000 on It, and instructed their lawyers to draw up tho papers. A mortgage of the property was as signed to the compau3r. Mr. Nelson received $70,000. He paid Mr. Her ring $45,000 aud had, $25,000 to use in his buainess, which he needed. Mr. Nelson ought to be immediately made Seqretary of the Treasur3. He would pay off the National debt in three years. AN INCIDENT AT A THEATRE. A most painful Incident occurred at one of the principal theatres of tho city tho other night. A young and very beautiful girl ia the ballet corps, who, during the run of a spectacular piece bad personated an angel, died suddenty in tho theatre in her stage dress. She was nrra3'ed in all the spangles and gauzo of a stage-arigel, and when struck with death was about to take her place iu the scene. The excitement was intense, as may be supposed, behind tho scenes. There were two hundred people in piece, and in five minutes the entire company was assembled around the inanimate form of the girl. Tho wo men cried and wrung their hands, and tho men, "albeit unused to the melting mood," could not restrain their emotions. But the piece had to go on all tho same. Another angel'd dress was improvised and put upon another girl, the bell rang, up went the curtain, crash went tho orchestra, and on went the piece, tho audience never dreaming that the smiling fa ces before thorn were wet with tears, find that in a dressing-room la3 a corpse. The girl died of absolute starvation. Her salary was the regu lar one of $6 per week, on which sho had to support five persons. She was beautiful and could have sold herself for a high prico ; high enough to have had all tho comforts of life and even its luxuries, but she preferred hunger and oold to shame and sin, and so died. Sho hod been sick for weeks, but had not had a pl'sician, for she could not pa3r fot the services of ono. BEECnER-TILTON. There has nothing new been devel oped In tho case whioh calls for spe cial comment. The populace has thus far been horribly disappointed be cause Beecher has not been put upon the stand. Tho appetite grows on what it feeds on. After such high seasoned dishes as Tilton, Moulton and Mra. Moulton, the Ovingtons were flat and insipid. The spic3r Beecher was reouired to keen up the Btrain. Tho Chairman of thoLecture Committee at Winsted, Connecticut, swore that tho j'ounjf lad3' In Tiltou's room, who was described b3' Tilton as "a mere school girl of 17," was n ma ture girl of 27 or 30, and that the con dition of dress in which he found them was not altogether so proper as it might have been, though what that ha3 to do with the question as to Beecher's guilt with Mrs. Tilton, I am unable to see. Posslbty the idea is that if it can be established that Tilton stra3'ed into by and forbidden paths, his wife and pastor had a per fect right to do the'sarne. A prominent member of Beecher's church told mo that the trial had af fected Beecher's Church seriously that over one-half of the old Btand bys had gone out, and that tho im mense attendance counted for noth iug, as it was mado up largely by straugers who went from sheer curi ositj' to see tho man. There is some truth in this, but how much lam un able to sa3. I know personally very many families who have been regular in their attendance at tho church for yeas, who have withdrawn under the belief that whether all that ia charged is true or not, enough is true to make him an unfit man to keep his place in such a church. And 3-et the pews sold higher than ever. Probably the new-comers in Brooktyn were those who made the investments. There are sevent3'-five witnesses 3-et to ba examined, so the trial will probably last a 3'ear. The testimony thus far makes a closely printed octavo vol ume of 600 pages. BUSINESS continues dull, generally speaking, though somo branches show an im provement. The merchants are, how eve!, hopeful, and the feeling that a good spring trade must be had ia gen eral. The weather is terrible. Pietro. A Binghamton man took a twenty dollar sneeze the other da. He blow a new set of false teeth out upon the sidewalk, breaking them to pieces. ADVERTISING 11 AT Eft. One Inch. one ywr, , ,,,. , .., Two Inches, one year .. iib do- . 15 CO' Each succeeding inch, per year 5 Ofl Legal advertisements at Ical rates One square. (lorUnes-ofNonparejl,or less) first nsertlon, Jl.OO;. each subsequentlnsertlon. 50c j63",'AH transientladvertlsementsmnat be paid' for In advance. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THEtiOUST?- SHARP BOYS. The Harrfsburg fpenn.) Tetegraph says: "Tho small bo3 (or a number of him) of Ridge avenue has been In the habit cf coasting down Heir street, from the Ridge to Pennsylvaff ia avenuo. Tho residents of Her' street didn't like that it made tho" street too 103 and slippery, and so' they threatened the boj-a with an ini aginar3 ordinance forbidding coast ing : but the bo3'S had 'em b3' saying they used tho middle of tho street to' do their ooasting, and the defied tho old 'uns. Then a policeman was sta tioned to stopthem on the oro3sing f but he was in so much danger of hav ing his legs knocked from under him, and ho was compelled to keep so con tinual a dodging, that he gavo ft up in disgust. Than a man wUh a hrill iant idea spread coal-ashea in tho mlddlo of tho street, but the Bmall boys had him where the wanted ; the j threatened him with prosecu tion for throwing ashes in the middlo of the street, and tho man had tcf sweep tho ashes up and carry them, away. Then a policeman was sta tioned at tho bottom of tho hill to Rr-r rest tho small bo3'a as they earner down, but they eluded him and tor mented him so that he used strong language and the boj-s had him ; the3f promised to report him for using" profane language, and ho thought it oe3t not to linger about tho vloinity. Boy-like, as soon as the excitemeni of opposition was gono they qulfr coasting." SCRIPTURE ON GU-ASHHOPPERS The plaguo of grasshoppers that ov erran the far West last fall seems tcr have been foretold in the book of Joel, In tho following words: A fire devoureth before them, and? after them a flame burnetii ; the land is OB tho garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolato wilder- ne3s ; yea, and nothing shall escape them. Tho appearance of them is as hors-' es, and a3 horsemen shall the3r run. Like tho noise of chariots on tho" tops of mountains shall they leap f like tho noise of a flamo of firo that devoureth tho stubble ; as a strong; people set in battle nrfay Before their face tho people shall be much pained ; nil faces shall gather blaokness. They shall run liko' might men ; they shall climb thef wall like men of war, and they shall march every ono on his way, and the shall not break their ranks. And I will restore to you tho years that the locust hath eaten, tho cank er worm, and the caterpillar, and tho palmer worm, my great army which I sent among 3'ou. COFFEE MADE OF OI.D jflllUTS. Wo called attention not long sinco' to a recent triumph of soienco moro curious than tempting, viz: The man ufacture of nice table-jelly out of old boots. But scieucestopsrat nothing, and now matches its last exploit with another. Tho Scientific American sa3s : Some time ago Dr. Vander We3'do of this city, (New York,) regaled some friends not merely with boot jelly, but with shirt-coffeo, ond tho repast was pronounced by all partak ers excellent. Ths shirt-coffeo waa sweetened with cuff and collar sugar, both coffee aud sugar being produced in tho same wa3. The linen (of course after washing) wa9 treated with nitric acid, which, acting on tho lignite contained in tho fiber, produc ed glucose, or grape sugar. This, roasted, made an excellent -imitation of cofiVe, which an addition of un-' roosted glucose readily sweetened. The toad takes off "his dotted coat and pantaloons after they get old and dirty, and eat? them with a relish. This "old boot and shirt business" 1 looks very much as though the chem ists intend that men shall not bo out done in economy even by toads. A FRENCH REPORT OF THE SCAN DAL. This is tho way a Frenchman ro ported the Brooklyn scandal : "One Grand Ecclesiastical Scandal Greol Excitement in Now York aud Brooklyn, three Clergymen in Moosh Troubell Mons. Moulting Tiltong, and Beecharo havo Ono Grand Controversee. Mons. Moul ting, is zo pastorr7of ze Pleemoz Church, of New York, discovered by Columbus, Ohio, in 1402. Mons. Moul-' ting is accused of taking ze improparo liberie wizze wife of Theodore Beech-fare, who i3 Mrs. Harriot Beechara Stowe, ze mozare of Undo Tom. zo blind pianist. Mons. Beechnre also is accuse of ze impropare liberteo wiz Mrs. Tiltong, daughtare of Susane B. Anlhon,zezIsts;reof Mark Anthony, who was mako love wiz Cleopatra, Mons. Tiltong havo cauze ze separa shong of Mons. Beechareand his vife. She resided in ze city of Brooklyn, while he has moved into Elizabeth, New Jereee. Ze congregation of zo' Pleemoz Rock shurch will not permit Mou3. Moultong to preesh never from zat poolpet. Ze greatest excitement? preveil." Our French friend appears to understand this matter as clearly al though he bad a statement to make. The Methodists are the leading de nomination in Illinois, having a membership of all sorts of about 99, 000. The Baptists are next, with probably 65,0.00 ; then come the Disci ples, followed by the Presbyterians and Congregationalists, quite a dis tance behind. 1 it: &; t m f l M m & r ' m M -7' fev