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le'1'1 A.revehlng In Masonic nau. "'""
ra ...- rH No. 5, 1. O. O. F.-ReKnlar
fi"T,llpnMdfty evening ot each reeK.tn ineir
tn??l2rowm3n,8 store Visiting brothers
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YZm, Division No. 19, hon? oi ieni-
r"r2, Meets even
race- r,c" virtpli's druz store. Main
-..-.... o..arr Kriaav evening in wu
&. Grangers of'our order visiting the city
r-.,-iton in mecfc vi. . .
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i. Tallry liodce No. 4, A. F. dt A. Ji.
Ioeetln third Thursday evening In each
"- ,nif Clinntcr No. 4."lt. A.M. Stated
r''flrsVlJlonday night In each month.
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CarmelCommandcrro..., v. --
Vana Wly Conclave, No. 63, K.K. C. It.
bC,-MeeU t Masonic Hall on the fifth Mon-
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CI V-hnnter No.W.-Orderot the Kaitern Star,
lai Chapter o.j. , -h moBtk.
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nlL and TJaoiP- su8aiay School, at
tl-wa.
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COtrXTV OFFICERS.
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ft-.nrir Jo in II bhook. County Clerk. Wllcon
K'nney. J0 ". f n,OTir w n. Hoover. Sher-
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BUSINESS CARDS.
ATTORNEYS.
D. C. Parker,
AT LAW, LAND
W I TTOIIK'PV
AND TAX
B Paylni; Acent. Howard. Xeb. Will give dilu
ent attention to any legal business entrusted to his
ire. 16m6
E. E. Ebrlglit,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Notary public and Real
a Euate Agent. Oillce lu Court House Bulld-
? Brownvllle Neb.
T. 1. Schick,
R TTORNEY AT LAW. MAY BE CONSULT
;v ed la the Ger-nan language. Ofilce next
lloj
j-wjrxo County Clerk's Oluce. Court House unua-
orownvilie.Nebraska. J-y
J. S. Stull,
I A TTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW.
Cm, 'H?.No.70 Main street,(up italrs.) Brown-
pllle Nb.
18-6y
J. II. Broadv,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW.-
iv. office over Stata Bank. Brownvllle.Xeb.
E. AV. Thomas,
i A TTORNEY AT LAW. Offlce, front room over
itJUe.Neb. .--
W. T. Rogers,
4 TTtEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW.
Will lsffo 1IHiTAnr attaiiHnn tr ntir lotTftl
1 ,,1e,,entru,tedtohlscare. Office In Court Hsuse
; aauaing. Brownvlllo. xh
PHYSICIANS.
i S. UOLLAD.VY. M.D.. Physician. Surgeon
i'Y aud Obstetrician. Graduated In 1851. Loca-
In Brownville 185S. Oillce. Lett Crelgh's
"t Store. McPherson Block. Special attention
PlQ tO Oh.tAtlf n4 HeaaeAO nf WOmPTI Jt Tl rt
I Children. l0-6m
TT I.MATIIEWS. Physician and Surgeon. Office
.: In City Drutr Store. Vo. 32 Main street.Brown-
T'e.Xeb.
I NOTARIES diCOLiIiECTlON AGENTS
L. A. llcrcmnnn.
Votary public and convey
v' Office. No. 41 Main street, Brovsnvl
fANCER.
llle.Xeb.
I.AXD AGENTS.
nLLlAM II. HOOVER, Real Estate and Tax
il. PavincAeent. Offlcp In District Court Room.
till clve prompt attention to the sale of Real Es
yieandPaymeatofTaxesthroughouttheXemaha uad District.
BLACKSMITHS.
J. AV. GlhsoH,
lCtCSUITIT AND nORSE SHOER. First
Xi ',rj:tMwM" Main and Atlantic. Brown vllle,
tS, " orkdone to order and satisfaction guaran-
BEST IN MARKET.
Every Sack WarraniedJ
S0CIAI
lu-u, -y"
HIGGINS'
JLUTnoniZED BY THE U. S. 00TE11SMEST.
THE FIRST NATIONAL
Otf
BROWNVILLE.
Paid-up Capital, $100,000
Authorized " 500,000
IS PREPARED TO TRANSACT A
General Banking Business
BUY AND SELL
COIN -&:0UBEEN0Y DEAFTS
, ' OBalltfaeprtaalpaleiUes ftfeej ''
: . ' i ;
" ' 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 onrdemand, and INTIREST al
lowed on time certificates of deposit.
DIRECTORS. Wm.T. Den, B. M. Bailey, M.A.
Handler. Frank E. Johnson, H. M. Atkinson,
Wm. Frazler.
JOHN L. CARS0X,
A. R. DAVISON. Cashier. President.
J. C. McNAUGUTON, Asst, Cashier.
PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY.
HAVING rented the Photographic Rooms
and apparatus ol J. II. SlirolT, I am
prepared to do all kinds of Photographic
work, LARGE OR SMALL. Photos
COLORED IN OIL,
uz reasonable figures. Rooms over Post
Office. T? D CVlrTC
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BANK RESTAURANT.
WARM MEALS AT ALL HOURS
OYSTERS
SERVED IX AST DESIRED STYLE.
J. G-. RUSSELL,
Nos. 37&30
Slain St.,
BROWNYILLE, NEB
Clocks, Watches, Jewelry
JOSEPH SHUTZ,
No. 59 Main Str-t, Brownvillo.
Keeps constantly on hand a large and well
assorted stock of genuine articles in his line.
Repairing of Clocks. Watches and Jewelry
done on short notice, at reasonable rates.
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
J. BLAKE,
AllOuritliKg V
formed In thebesi
asanner.
Ofpick:
AtresIdenceonMaln
street,
from 1st to 7th of each
At Rock Port, Mo.,
month.
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CUSTOM WORK
3XX23 TO ORDER.
Repairing neatly done. No.58MaInstrect, Brown
vllle. Xeb.
FRANZ HELMER,
ijJAGON &QlAGKSMITHHOP
OXE DOOR WEST OF COURT HOUSE.
WAGON MAKING, Repairing,
Plows, and all work done In the best
manner and on short notice. Satisfaction guaran
teed. Gtvehimaoall. rsi-ly.
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ARD to the PUBLIC WnEREAF;
for the past few years various person
havesoucht by artfully wordpd adver
tisements, to Impress upon the public mind that I
NATHANIEL S. DODGE. M.D., was with them,
or In some way connected wltia them professional
ly, and this being done without my knowledge or
consent, at my name is vlrttutily my trade mark:
therefore, I have been forced to make known In
this public mannertheabove facts, and that I linve
no partner or agent, and to protect myself and the
public have been at the expense of a steel plate en
giavingof mybelt. which may be ordered lrom me
(price 25 cents) at 153 South HalsteadSt, Chicago
HI. My specialty Is the treatment of Chronic Dis
eases, and those peculiar to the female sex. The
poor receive prescriptions free, I do not keep open
olllce.and those wishing to consult me must do so
personally or by letter as above. I hereby caution
all persons against using my name In connection
with any other person or persons, professionally
as such persons using my name will be prosecuted
to the full extent of the law. Should the pubiii.
meet anv such parties using my name, I trust that
they will treat them in the manner that they so
justly deserve. Your obedient servant.
3Um3 JNATU.AiSl.fcUj a. UVUUIZ.
J Xj. lEOir,
Dealer In
FURNITURE !
Undertaking a Specialty.
Keeps a full line of
MET ALIO AND WOOD
BURIAL GASES.
56 Main Street, BR01YXYILLE, XEB.
T ETTER HEADS,
" 9 BILL HEADS
Neatly prlntcdat thlsofflce.
Your GrXTOrer fox
aDA
Shaffer's Flour.
ffKin)JflA Per Day at home.
Terms free. Address
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IilTTLE CHttDRfcN'
BY ALICE CABY.
Blessings, blessfngs on the beds.
Whose white pillows softly bear
Rows of little shining heads,
That have never known a care.
Pity for the heart that bleeds
In the homestead desolate,
Where no little troubling needs
Make the weary working wait.
Safely, safely, to the fold,
Bring them, wheresoe'er they be,
Tboa, Who sald'st of them of old :
"Suffer them to come to me'
, m
From the Indianapolis Herald.
EAELY INDIANA DAYS.
,A JHdlcal MardryDredfnlTgateof
jtaiane'eeBt 3lan Fleilr pmtifx,
el" fa SpmraeA Leref AJ0XaeaiUek
Jn the year 1833 the tbririog city of
LogariBport In this State, was o very
small village, with 150 inhabitants,
and only one man who was well off.
His name was William Watson, he
was a widower of fifty, a K.entuckian
by birth, and kept a general store on
the banks of the Wabaab river, which
was popular With everybody, hot on
ly because "Billy,'' as he was familiar
ly called, was an honest trader.but also
because he had a most attractive
clerk in his only daughter, Sallie, a
pretty brunt tt of nineteen, who was
then the belle of the place.
Sallie Watson had many admirers
among the rough backwoodsmen who
frequented her futher's store, and
some of them had even been bold
enouuh to propose marriage to her,
but she hod plighted her troth to Mar
cus Ames, a young merchant of La
fayette which was then hardly larger
than Logansport.
At 8 o'clock in the evening of a
rainy day, early in July. 1833, some
half a dozen backwoodsmen were as
sembled in Watson's store. Old Bil
ly was absent, and his daughter Sallie
was alone behind the counter.
One of the men, John Bross, a
young farmer, asked Sallie, with a
rather heavy tongue for "more whis
key." "No, Mr. Bross," she said, in a firm
tone, "you have had enough, and had
better go home."
Ho made an angry reply, throwing
a silverhalf dollar ou the table, re
peated his demand.
The girl quietly took no notice of
him, whereupoiffMittering atnngry:-
biu; ua orieu yj-i-ifW ."&-. j
j -rveijp i,?lt oauie,-. J. so.su ux you
for y.ouf darned Impudence,"
She thenjordered him.to.loave the
store. The other men told him to
hold his tongue, go home, and sleep
off his intoxication. He sulkily took
up his rifle and Btaggered out of the
store. About fifte.-n minutes after
ward Sallie Watson had occasion to
step out of the front door. She was
away but a few moments, when the
men in the store heard her utter a ter
rible shriek.
They hurried out and found her
laying near the front gate.
"I am shot I am dying !" grasped
the girl, whose life-blood was welling
from a wound in her left breast.
"Who did it?" inquired the men,
horror Btruck.
"I don't know," she replied fee
bly. They took her up and carried her
into the store. When they laid her
on the counter she was already dead.
The men looked at one another al
most stupefied with horror.
"Call Dr. Horton," ejaculated one.
"Who has done it?" cried another.
"I'll bet that drunken John Bross
has shot her!" said still another.
Dr. Horton, the only physician of
the place, was speedily on the Bpot.
He probed the wound, and extracted
a bullet from it. It was a large rifle
bullet.
This fits Bross' rifle I bet," orled
one of the by-stauders.
John Bross lived at his father'
house, on a farm, about a mile and a
half from Logansport.,
Although it had rained all day, and
the road thither was in a shocking
condition, some of the men started
at once for old Bross' house, in order
to arrest his son, on the urgent sus
picion of being Salle Watson's mur
derer. When they reached the place, John
Bross was not yet there. His parents
and sisters were greatly shocked when
they heard what had occured, and
that their son and brother was sus
pected of being the assassin of the
poor girl. But they declared emphat
icaly that John was incapable of such
a deed, even when provoked under
the Influence of liquor.
The family as well as the unpleas
ant visitors, awaited the young man's
return in a state of Intense Biispense.
At length he came. He- was com
pletely iutoxlcated. His father Bald
to him :
"John, have you done anything to
Sallie Watson ?"
An oath was the answer. Thereup-
on
the young man staggered to his
bed, threw himself on It, and began
at once to snore.
The men examined his rifle. It
was double-barreled ; one of the bar
rels had been discharged. The other
was still loaded. The bullet was ex
tracted. The men compared It with
the bullet that had been taken from
Sallie Watson's death-wound, whioh
they had not shown to old Bross. The
two bullets were alike.
A cry of .despair burst from the lips
of John Bross' father. His wife and
daughter, who had anxiously watch
ed the scene, wero also deeply affect-
edj.
Could there be any doubt of the
young man's guilt? $ut fifteen
minutes before the fatal shot had been
fired, he had threatened he would
"fix" Sallie Watson, and the bullet
that caused he death, was one of his
own, while one of the barrel of his
rifle had been evidently been dis
charged that. very evening.
John Bross was washed in ooid wa
ter, and then taken back to Logans
port, where he was lodged in the old
log-cabin, then serving Us a jail.
When he woke up the next morning
be heard for the first tlmo what he
was charged with.
He indignantly denied that he had
fired at the girl, but deolared his ina-
bllty to account for what he had done
-45.rinjf the time between'hlileparturo
to hit father's 'house:
"Iilon't know-how J. got ilome,,?'
ho sald.-L'but T ampoaItlve fchatJE did"
not shoot the girl."
No one, however, believed him.
The circumstantial evidence against
him was overwhelming for had he
not quarreled with Sallie, who was
known not to have an enemy In the
world ?
Popular indigation rah high against
him. and threats of lynching him
were freely made, 'f-he young prison
er was heart-broken. For hours he
would lie sobbing and groaning on
his couch, and he never tired of pro
testing his innocehoe.
Sallie's betrothed Marcus Ames,
came from Lafayette. He visited
Bross In his prison, and he swore to
him that, if he was not huncr bv the
sheriff, he would shoot., him like a
dog.
A month later John Bross was tried,
convicted, and sentenced to be hung.
His father hastened to Indianapo
lis and begged the Governor, on his
knees, to commute his don's dreadful
sentence, but his supinations were
unavailing ; and, on the 2d of Nov
ember following, John Bross. was
swung off !
To the last he Asserted his inno
cence. iis dying declaration was:
"You murder me;
I did not kill the
girl!"
Time rolled on. Old Bross died
heart-broken. His widow and daugh
ters moved back into Ohio, whence
they had come, as everybody near
Logansport, looked with ill-disguised
hatred upon them.
ghelatherof the murdereu'girl be
came, soured and misanthropic. He
eoldout-hls store, and lived In almost
entire -seclusion iu a small house on
.tueLoutskirts of the towu Oue night
in 1836 a man knocked at his door.
Watson came .out.
"Pierce," he said, recognizing his
visitor, "what brings you here so
late?"
"Something awful," replied Pierce,
in a tone of great excement. "Let us
go In, and I will tell you all."
When they were in the room, Pierce,
who was very pa.e, seized Watson's
arm and said to him, almost in a
whisper:
"Billy, I have just found out that
John Bross was innocently hung!"
"What!" cried Watson, starting
back in dismay. "What did you say,
Pierce?"
"I tell you Bross .was innocent.
I was at the Miskelly Tavern.' There
was Nat Buyliss with James Parke.
The two were very drunk. They 6at
down in the back room and began
talking about something. 'Nat' said
Parke, 'I want you to get me the hun
dred dollars, or I'll blow on you.'
These words made me curious, and I
crept up to the door which was ajar.
They could not see me, and did not
known that I was listening. Bayliss
retorted in anger. D n you,' he said
to Parke, I am sick of your d d
bleeding I have a notion to put a
bullet through your heart, too, you
white-livered skunk. No one ever
insulted me, not even a woman .'
Look out,' rejoined Parke, 'you can't
put a hole through me as easily as
you did through Sallie Watson, and
then put it on an innocent man !'
When I heard this I ran out to you,
and here I am'
Old Watson was profounedly shock
ed, but his mind was at once made
up. He went with Pierce to Miskelly
tavern and found Bayliss and Parke
still there. When Bayliss caught
sight of Watson a deadly pallor over
spread his face. He tried to raise
from his chair, but his feet refused to
support bim. The old Ketuoklan
grasped his arm and said to him in a
terrible voice :
"Nat Bayliss. did you murder my
daughter?"
Bayliss stammered a reply, Parke
tried to escape from the room, but
Pierce preveuied him.
The landlord was called in, and the
two fellows were secured.
Parke, frighteued to death, stated
that Bayliss had coufessed to him that
he had killed SaMie Watson because
she had rejected him as a Buitor.
Old Watson remembered -that Bay
lias had courted his daughter.
Bayliss, however, as poon as he had
recovered from his first terror, declar
ed that he had said so in a jest.
The neighbors speedily heard of the!
affair, and an excited crowd was soon
assembled at the tavern.
Bayliss still persisted in bis denial,
but he was taken to the neighboring
grove, where he was suspended by the
wrists to a tree, and then a .-fire
was built under his feet. The pain
was so atrocious that he offered to
make a full confession.
He said on the night of the murder
he had been laying In wait for Sallie
j Watsoa near her father's front jjate.
John Bross had coftie out, arid leaned
on the fence in a drunken way. His
rifle had dropped from his hauds. At
this moment Sallie had stepped out,
and, quick as lightning, the Idea of
shooting her with Bross' rifle had
flashed on him. He had done so,
pushing the rifle baok Into the drowsy
Bross' hands, aroused him, and start
ed him on his way homo.
Having made this horrible confes
sion, the cowardly assassin was im
mediately hung. The Legislature of
Indiana, at its next session, passed
unanimously a bill deploring the ju
dicial error that had been unwitting
ly committed, and rehabilitating the
memory of poor young Bross.
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T,;When we recollect the abuse whioh
thasbee so JrnauBtrioiMly8howered
upon the Republican party, for Its ad
vocacy of the Civil Rig'hts Blil ; and
examine the laws enacted by nine
Southern States, discriminating
against colored men, we confess our
surprise. The States of North Caro
lina, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, South Carolina, Texas and
Louisiana, all passed laws, which af
fected the legal status of the colored
man ; and actually imposed a death
penalty for crimes committed by the
newly enfranchised race, which were
punishable by fine and Imprisonment
only, if the offenders were white
men. The necessity of amendments
to protect the colored man in his new
ly acquired freedom, was quickly per
ceived by the Republican party, aud
it did not hesitate to facie the' storm of
hate and prejudice which was awak
ened by its manly advocacy of the
principle, that all men should be
equal before the law. The Vagrant
Act of Virginia was so cruel that Gen.
Terry wisely forbade obedience to Its
harsh provisions. True, in several of
the States mentioned, those laws
have been abolished, but it was ow
ing to the action of the National Leg
islature that the'v were abrogated.
wren tne emancipation proclama
tion was issued, and the war happily
ended, the law-abiding oitizens of the
land hoped that no measure would be
adopted by the South which would
in any way affect the status of the
colored man. Vain hope, for no soon
erdid the ex-Confederates obtain the
control of the. Legislatures of the va;
rlouB Statesf.than they passed laws
which practically- reduced, bim to
slavery". 'While no man, is foolish
enouch to attempt io'establish- social
equality, that scarecrow which the
Democracy held in the faces of the
people of the country for fdrty years ;
every loyal citizen is resolved that no
right which has been guaranteed to
any race, snail oe evaded or made
null and void. The condition of the
colored man after the close of the war
was Indeed critical, for lie was ignor
ant or illiterate, and surrounded by
those who had bought and sold him,
and his, for a hundred years; and
who did not fail to treat him with the
scorn and contempt which the pam
pered pride of invidious caste prompt
ed. No man who loved country more
than party, could permit four mil
lions of human beings who had been
declared entitled to all the franchises
of freemen, to be degraded to a sys
tem of serfdom, and render null and
void that act of justice of our martyr
ed President, which struck off their
shackles. We would indeed have
presented a stranire spectacle to the
world, if the loyal caen of the Repub
lic had not shielded them in the ex
ercise of the commonest rjghts of hu
manity, by wise constitutional pro
visions. The appearance of a whole
race, at the doors of Congress, asklnc
to be defended against the open and
insiduous attacks of their former mas
ters, awakened the sympathy of the
Republican party, and in-ured the
passage of acts which effectually
stemmed the tidal wave of the beaten
slave oligarchy. As the nation needs
all of its children intelligent, free
schools were established, and despite
the efforts of the cowardly Ku Klux,
that destroyed school houses and mur
dered the teachers, the colored race
pteadily progressed In intplligeuce.
Every measure introduced in Con
gress, calculated to benefit the late
slave, was vigorously opposed by the
Deu ocracy, for they justly feared
that he would cast his ballot for
friends rather than enemies. If then
the spirit, which prompted the unjust
legislation of most of the Southern
States, succeeds in obtaining control
of Congress, can any man tell what
laws may be enacted? The prompt
ness with whioh the South has elect
ed 86 men, who fought for secession
in time of war, to represent her in
time of peace, does not lessen the
anxiety which every patriot feels at
the attempt to direct the affairs of the
nation. "We are no alarmist, but we
do not propose that the men who
tried to destroy the union of these
States, shall again make laws for Its
guidance, until such time as they have
proven themselves worthy of confi
dence. To place the party in power
which' endangered the life .of the
nation, prolonged the war. and!
saddled m with debt; would bean in
sult to the names of the soldiers who
died in its defense. What nation ev
er exhibited the mistaken magnanim
ity of placing fts bitter, defeated ene
mies in control of the purse and the
sword? What wisdom, or states
manship would be shown in again
presenting an-opportunity to play the
traitor? United to a fraction In the
North which has ever been its servile
tool, who can say what measures
would be introduced to defeat the leg
islation of the past fifteen years? Are
the people of the nortH willing to let
such a party decide its destinies, and
hazard in peace, what they obtained
by a war which cost them countless
Hvfes and treasure?
Will the pastoral pipe of" the Mhirtd
mildly suggest what the course of the
Democracy would then be, relative to
our bonds and currency? Perhaps
some man, blessed with a vivid Im
agination, will kindly portray the ef
fect the election of the chief actors in
our "late onpleasantness" will have
upon pur credit at home and abroad,
and how much patriotism and good
feeilhg will be elicited by philan
thropically neglecting friends, and re
warding foettpButt)MtT polltratfj
weathero&ak; the STew..Yrfc JTdra&fil
has'already begun to ver be for a tb4l
coeliag.wihd from the Granite Stateii
while the "grewl-of the"organi-haw
degenerated to a nasal grunt. The
fact is, the people of the North are al
ready beginning to regret ( and dread
the effects of their not voting last au
tumn, and have resolved that the
hungry legions of thDemocracy. led
by their Buperanuated leaders, shall
again meet a Phillippi, at the next
quadrennial eleetion. Will the Pan's
pipe of the TForW, or the "broken
reed" of the "organ," do to play the
slogan in 1870( or will we have theou
tlcle of the Missouri Republican for a
bagpipe, to collect the remains of the
clan shattered at the last national
Cullodeu? SI. Joe Herald.
NAPOLEOS AXD THE GRENADIER.
The following anecdote of the first
Napoleon was related by an English
man, -who was a considerable time in
the French military Beryice, and'who
vouches for its authenticity :
The evening before the battle of
TJIm, when Napoleon the First, in
company with Marshal Bethier, was
walking incognito through the camp
and listening to the" talk of his soldi
ers, he saw in a group not far off a
grenadier of the Guard, who was
roasting some potatoes in the ashes.
"I should like a roast potato above
all things," said the Emperor to the
Marshal ; "ask tbe owner of them if
he will dell one."
In obedience to tfJe" order, Berthler
advanced to the group and asked to
whom the potatoes beloriged. A gre
nadier sfeppe'dvfo7rajSnQrsald?: ' ,
"l'uey are mine
"Will you sell too ode?" inquired
Berthler.
"I have only five,"
said' the
gre-
naiiier, "and that's hardly
for my supper."
enough
"I will give you two napoleons if
you will sell me one," continued Ber
thler.
"I don't want your gold," Bald the
greuadier; "I shall be killed, per
haps, to-morrow, and I don't want
the enemy to find me with an empty
stomach."
Berthler reported the eoldier's ans
wer to the Emperor, who was stand
ing a little in the background.
"Let's see if I shall be luckier than
you," said the latter, and, going close
to the grenadier, he asked him if he
would sell bim a potato.
"Not by a long shot," answered the
grenadier; "I haven't enough for my
self." "But you hiay set your own price,"
said Napoleon. "Come, I am hun
gry, and haven't eaten to-day."
"I tell you I haven't enough for
myself," repeated the grenadier; "be
side all that, do you think I don't
know you In spite of your disguise?"
"Who am I, then?" inquired Na
poleon.
"Bah!" said tbe greuadier; "The
Little Corporol, as they all call you.
Am I right?"
"Well," said Napoleon, "since you
know me, will you sell me a potato?"
"No!" said the grenadier; "but if
you would have me come and dine
with you when we get back to Paris,
you may sup with me to-night."
"Done!" said Napoleon; "on the
wo'd of a Little Corporal on the
word of an Emperor."
"Well .and good," said the grenad
ier. "Our potatoes ought to be done
by this time ; there are the two larg
est ones ; the rest I'll eat myself."
The Emperor sat down and ate his
potatoes and then returned with Ber
thler to his tent, merely remarking :
"The rogue is a good soldier, I'll
wager."
Two months .afterward Napoleon
the Great was in the midst of a bril
liant court at palace of the Tulleries,
and was just sitting down to dine
when word was brought to him that
a grenadier was without, trying to
force the guard at the door, saying he
had been invited by the Emperor.
"Let him come In,
ty. said his Majes-J
The soldier entered, presented arms
and said to the Emperor :
"Do you remember once having
supped with me off my roast pota
toes?" Oh! Is that you? Yes. yes, Ire
member," said the Emperor; "and so
you have come to dine with me, have
you ? Rustan, lay another cover ou
your taMo for thls-brave fellow."
Again the grenadier presented arms,
and said :
"A grenadier of tbe guards does
not eat with lackeys. Your Majesty
told me I bhould dine with you that
was tbe bargain ; and, trusting to
your word, I have come hither.""
"True, true," said the Emperor;
r'lay a cover here near me. Lay aside
your arms, mon ami, and draw up to
the table."
Dibher over, the-grenadier went at
bis USual pace, took dp His carbine,
ondi turning Id the-EmperdSj present
ed arms.
"A mere private" said ha "ought
' nril to dine at the table of his Emper-
or.
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"Ah! I understand you," said Na
poleon. "I name you Chevalier of
the Legion of honor, and Lieutenant
In my company of Guards."
"Thank you, heartily," returned
the soldier. " Vive V Empercur " he
shouted and theu withdrew.
OUE NEW YORK LETTEK.
A Great Hotel JVhat it Costs and How
it la Run-j6echer Haslaeas.
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Very few people, even "thoBO "who
live In them, have any idea of the
construction, cost, or methods of con
ducting the great hotels of the great
oities. Would it be of any Interest
to your readers t,ri know about these
things? I think so, and shall devote
tbe most of th;Is letter to a statement
of them. I shall take the finest ho
tel In New York for my s'ubjedt,
which is to say the finest hotel in the
United States, except four In Chica
go. To begin with, the hotel must, to
make it what It shddld be, cover an
entire block, or the greater part of it.
This Is necessary to get ventilation
and light. And even the four streets
are not sufficient, for in addition it
has to have a court in the center
-Such a hotel will have from six hun
dred to one thousand rooms In it, the
number depending upon the patron
age desired. If transient custom is
sought, the rooms are smaller, for you
can tuck a single man wny any
where, but if families and permanent
boarders are wanted, the rooms must
be large and airy, and have bath
rdoms, etc., connected with them.
Steam is always used for heating
the balls and public rooms, and all
the rooms must have grates in them.
A boiler that generates 200-horse pow
er is none too large, for in addition to
the heat required"', power is necessary
to run an elevator aHd to do" the work
in the kitchen and laundry.
The means of communication be
tween the rooms and the office is the
telegraph. Wires run from each roemj
to me ouice ana au-ine gneec nas to
do Is to touoh a little knob and a hall
boy will be at his d60r In two min
utes to execute his orders. Some" ho
tels have a code of signals for the most
common wants, so that the order Is
given by telegraph. Thus, one short
pressure means ice-water; two, fire;
three, chamber maid ; one long and
two short, breakfast; and soon.
Now about the cost of all these con
veniences. The breakfast, dinner
and tea service cost $24,000; the
chairs in the dining room a'ono, cost
$4,200; the morroccq lambrequins in
the parlors, cost $3,000, each cornice
and each window in the dining room
cost $100; the mirrors alone in the
dining-room hall, cost $6,000; the
fresco-work in the dining-hall cost
nearly $10,000. &o.
These are a few of the most unim
portant items mere beginners- as it
were to Introduce you to the gorgeous
figures of the things that cost, When
you want to build a hotel In New
York you want $800,000 to pay for the
ground on which it stands, $1,000;000
to put into the building, and nearly
as much moro to furnish It. Think
of the acres of carpets at $2 to $0 per
yard ; think of the thousands of
chairs, bedsteads, sofas; think of the
mountains of mattresses, bed linen
and jtoweling; think of .the great
mass of crockery and gjass-ware, and
the cost of furnishing a great hotel
mounts up tremendously, The de
preciation in value of the furniture of
one of these .establishments amounts
to $75,000 per year, the one item of
broken glasses fooling up $1,500.
A most perfect syblem necessarily
obtains. Tbe steward by long prac
tice knows exactly how much to buy.
and what, and the proportions. The
room olerks inform him in the morn
ing how many people are in the house
and he knows the number of oysters
that number will require, the number
of potatoes, the amount of each kind
of meat and all about it. The head
cook takes his order and the breakfast
Is accordingly prepared. So acourate
is the iaw of averages that very little
is wasted. Out of one hundred peo
ple they know that so many will want
baked potatoes, so many boiled, so
many stewed, and so many fried, and
they are never out of the way. One
bill of fare, taken at random, nnftoun
ces 11 separate divisions or clasaps of
edibles, i. e.. soups, fishes, boiled.
roost, cold dishes, removes, entrees,
game, vegetables, pastry and confec
tionery, fruits and desserts. There
are G9 eeparate articles, embracing 3
soups, 3 kinds of fish, 5 of boiled, oof
roast. 7 varieties of" salad, pate de foie
gras with tuffles. &c, 2 removes. Gen
trees, grouse and widgeon duck, 14
kinds of vegetables, 7 varieties of pas
try, &oi. 11 articles under the head of
dessert. And all this .based upon the
steward's calculation. l!t was all con
sumed and there was just enough.
The wine-cellar of one of tho lead
ing New York hotels holpTs at present
IS brands of champagne, 5 kfcda .of
American wine, 12 varieties of sher
ry, 4 of port, 8 of Burgundy, 16 of
olaret, 14 of hook, -7 of Sauterne, and
3 of Moselle, while -the supplies of
brandy, whisky, rum, ale, cider, li
quors, cordials, &c, would. fit outsev-
eral "sample rooms."
The force necessary to tun One o
these hotels, may be stated as follows :
Four book-keepers, three room. clerks
three package and key c!erke eight
bar-keepers, dno engineer thirteen
firemen, one head cook, 12; i3siet&n(
cooks, 70 waiters, 3-5 chambarnihldsf
45 laundry women, 35 scrub-women
30 hall-men, 13 porters, two carpen
ters, one locksmith, and so on. In.
all 220 men and 150. women are enf
ployed in the houeo, trie pay-roll foot
ing up from $10,000 to $12,000 per
month.
6t course the discipline hi rtgid
Every person must he on duty exaot4
ly on tfme, and every ono of them Is
bound todohisor her dutv 3lleritlv:.
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inese notels amounts in round tunv
bers to $1,000 per day. One hotel hi
New York, uses up $50 per d;v
pumpkin pies alone In the 6eas0n.
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ut poqrae the hotel proprietors
in
good times tttake money, for while
the expenses are enormous, the fs?
celpts are correspondingly large. If
the house is full, tbe receipts ought to
run very close to $4,50.0- pef day &?
board alone, but It does nol stop there?
You pay for your own fires at the rate;
of $1 per fire, and the'n there are tho
Innumerable extras If yoji have a
meal brought to your room it is$l ex-4"
tra, and if you are bibulously Inclined,
it costs to indulge. The whisky you
get nrfitind the corner for ten cents,
you pay twenty-five cents for at the
bar of your hotel, and so on for all
other drink's, and the samo may bo
said of elgar$.
A big source of revenue Is "privlt-f
eges." The man who blacks your
boots pay roundly for the room he oc
cupies, and so does the unibrellastanu
and the barbershop. All th'eoatWnfes
are necessary to the house, but ow'
extras, and the proprletors-don't give
men the privilege of fleecing the rmh?
lie for nothing.
Take It all in off, the hotd proprie
tor has a very soft thing of It. I
should like to owu a large hotel my
self. BEECHERIANA.
The Brpokiyn trial pours out ovef
the Country its regular quantity of
swash each day. but what it is all
bou?!h.eavefi only .kwri.Ati1EejH
beginning Reeeber ws ea, trial for the
seduction of Mrs.' Til ton, a id the al-
lanauon ot that iiy froaa;. Mar jaua?
ftHdBut -Bomeh"owlrithl8S
changeU. It would seem now that
the tables are turned, and that Tilton
is on trial for any number of offenses
They brought the President of a LeO-J
ture Committee from Winsted, Conn.,
to prove that he was too familiar with,
a young lady he had taken with him,
and another man from Bloomingtou,
Md., to swear that be uttered rather
too liberal sentiments in a lecture
there, and they have dragged in al
most everybody to show that some
where he has done almost everything
that is foolish and bad. Now, wha t
all this has to do with the question at
Issue at the beginning of tho-struggle,
Is more than I can see. Suppose Til
ton is a gay Lothario! Suppose the
Winsted accusation is well founded,
and all tho other accusations as well
suppose he 's to-dijy the wickedest
man in New York, or anywhere else-,
what has all that to do with what he
has charged Beecher with? Is Beoohr
er on trial, or Tiltou? That's tho
question
Nothing new against Tilton ha
been developed this week. The court
room lias been crowded as usual, and
the public interest does' not seem- to
diminish, but the trial' lias, for all
that, become fearfully stale, and ev
erybody wishes U well over. Both
Beecher and Tilton show the effects'
of it. Beecher Is feelinjr haggard,
and the younger man shows wear and
care about thefiame. Old Mrs. Beeoh
er bears up under it better than any
of them. She has not gok on "the
ragged edge of despair," quite aa.
much as her husband.
BUSISES3'
is improving ropldly. I took a turn
among the jobbers lo-doy, and found
them much more chirpy than they
were a month ago. The retailers from
ihe country in, in4force", nrnl they are
buying with"consfderable freedom.
The old stocks are consumed, tho
cooii try is bare of goods, the people
have 6afen up and worn out what
they had on hand, and they are com
pelled to luy In fresh supplies. Con
sequently the wheels ere grinding
again, and the merchants rejoice. Ev
erybody anticipates a big: spring trade,
a good summer trade, anil a very large
fall trade.
And I see no reason why theso
cheerful" anticipations should not be
realized. Pietbo.
A Justice of the Peace living in t.n
other county was recently called up
on by a couple from Barton, Vt., who
desired to be married, but, two weeks
after performing the ceremony, be re
membered that the nisrriage was ille
gal, as being made out of the county
where the couple belonged, so he
married them again. Some time af
ter he recollected that he had not
been.qualified for office in their coun
ty, and, taking the naih, he agidrt
performed the cerem.otn$-.
The fresher .eggs arejlhe more time
will be required for boiling. To have
them .soft and tender, drop them in
the water ot a boiling point and let
them stand from five to seven minutes
without boiling.
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