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BLVCKRMITII AND HOUSE SIIOER. First
'reel tetwe5n Main and Atlantic, Brownvllle,
e' Workdone to ordcrjand satisfaction guaran-
ed
3TC.1IA1IA CITY ADS.
DEALERS IN
MERCHANDISE
sucn as
G-OODS
RY
CLOTHING,
Groceries, Bools, Shoes,
Hats, Caps anil Xotioiis.
NEM-AJET-A. CITY, NEB.
Hlgcst Market Trice allowed for
COUNTRY
PRODUCE
HIDES, 3TTJXiS,:Ete.
iIJ.;jgT.-JH,tJB5E
J. & E. HUDD ART'S
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MAVA "1 1
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CITY BAKERY.
CDflPERIEQ confections,
UnOlinlLd, Canned Fruits.
FRESH BREAD, CAKES & PIES.
Tresh Oyhtcrs by the Can or DI"h. Will also
keep choice Musical Instruments.
B. STXiOBLE, Proprietor.
iLW.IIOKEL
iRueeis?
AND
BOOK SELLER
has every thing in his line at the
tO WEST PRICES.
Kfortli Side Main St.
PlOTTS'sTiR,
Every Instrument fully warranted,
tor and olllce. Washington, N. J.
poudence solicited.
Fncto-Corrcs-
$275.00 .
Tarlor Organ easily earned by n lady In
Two Weeks
Canvassers Wanted male or, female. Send
10 ceath for sample Magazine and full partic
ulars. .Address ZEB JCRl'MMET'S MAGA
2IXK, Waslilngton, Sew Jersey.
Dealer In
PUBNITUBE I
Undertaking a Specialty.
Keeps a full line of
lETALIO AND WOOD
BURIAL GASES.
G Main Street, BIUfiYXYILLE, XEB.
.PlottJ Star Organs.
Kndforprlcc list nnd list of testimonials.
ftWrw EDWARD PLOTTS, Washing-
J X.OTTS'OTAR ORGANS
jwc celebrated for their purity ot tone ele
"ud cSLaVhWh instruction.
TITUS BRO'S
2JTJRSERY STOCK,
NURSERY STOCK
"DIRT CHEAP!"
Will sell what remains of the Furnas Nurseries
AT PEIOES NONE WILL CALL
IE QUESTION.
The trees are three nnd four years old, and of
choicest-varieties, principally fall and winter. The
choicest collection of moHt improved inrictieM
Crnb Apples, not before offered for sale, will be
closed out this spring. E erereens, two to four
feet high, raised In our soil and climate, will be re
tailed cheaper than ever beforo by wholesale.
Also one and two year Forest Trees Ash,
Elm. Honey Locust, and Coffee Tree Gray Wil
low Cuttings .by the mUlion, very fine tics four
to eight feet.
FURNAS NURSERIES,
Hrotvnvillc, Web.
3lm3
STALLION SEASON.
mm chief i
Will make the season of
1S76, commencing March
1st and ending July 1st, at
the stable of A. S. Holll
tlay, Brownvllle, Kemana
County, Nebraska.
PEDIGREE Ilamlilctonian Chief was
sired by Hatnbletonian Prince, he by Ad
ministrator, lie by Itysdyk's Hambleton
ln, the sire of Dexter, Jay Gould,
oiunieer, ana me granasire oi uoia
smith's Maid, and many others noted for
preat speed and endurance, llambletonlan
Prince's dam was sired by Black Hock, he
7 by Roe Buck; granddam a very fast mare
by old Sea Gull, ho by Duroc, son of Im
ported DIomede. Administrator's dam
was sired by Mambrlno Chief. 2nd dam,
Arabian Tartar, 3rd dam by Duroc Mes
senger, son of Duroc, out of a mare by
Messenger, son uf imported Messenger.
Ilnmbletonian Chief's dam was sired by
Green'tj U.isbaw, ho by Vernol's Black
Hawk, ho by Long Island Black Hawk,
son of Andrew Jackson by Young Ba
shaw, son of imported Arabian Grand
Bashaw. Young Bashaw's dam was by
Bond's First Consul, grand dam by "Mes
senger. Belle, Hie dam of Green's Ba
shaw, was sired by Webber's Tom
Thumb. 2nd dam, the Chas. Kent mare,
(dam of Rysdyke's Hambletonianjby import
ed Bellfnunder. 3rd dam by Ono Eye, the
sire of Flora Temple), by Hambletonian.
4th dam.SIlvertail, by Imported Messenger.
(Sec Jiruce's American StudJJook.)
Hanifcletonian Ciiief
Is a dark mahogany bay. 15:2J hnnds high,
two white feet, star in forehead, with power
ful limbs and muscle, and free open trotting
gait which only needs time to develop its
self, being inherited by him from his Illus
trious ancestors.
He will be allowed to servo only a limited
number of marcs, at the low price of (f'4 f
payable at time of service; and those 4)iU
wiio wish to secure his services are respect
fully requested to makeau early application,
Mares not proving to be with foal can bo re
turned free of charge. All accidents at the
owner's risk. Apply to
ljuly GEOKGE HATCHETT.Supt.
Mhjvjjxfajiama
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MONEY LOANED
On approved security only. Time Drafts discount
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DEPOSITS
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Hundley. Erank E. Johnson, II. 31. Atkinson
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JOHN L. CAKSOX,
A. R. DAVISOX Cashier. President
J.CMcNAUOIlTON.Asst. Cashier.
Rlotts1 Star Organs.
Agents supplied nt figures that defy compe
tition for tlie same cl.s of Instruments.
Try one. Address, EDWARD PLOTTS,
Washington, N.J.
A.. KOBIS03ST,
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DEALER IN
OPTS AND SHOE
CUSTOM WORK
MDE TO ORDEK
Repairing neatly done. No.53Mainstreet,Brown
ville.Neb.
PLOTTS STAR ORGANS
Are as perfect parlor organs as are manufac
tured. Correspondencesollclted with organ
ists, musicians, nnd the trade. Address KD
WAR.DPLOTTS, Washington, X. J.
HOHEWOOD MILLS
Having in my employ Mr.
nmiratY SHLiirirjEis,
acknowledged to bo tho best miller In tho
State. I am prepared to furnish GOOD
FLOUR In any quantity. Every sack war
ranted. My Flonr is for sale at all the principal
stores In Brownvllle.
GEO. HOMEWOOD.
Sheridan Mills. April 1st. 1875.
FRANZ HELMSR,
AGQN &ULAGKSMITH5HOP
ONE DOOR WEST OF COURT HOUSE.
WAGON MAKING, Repairing,
Plows, and all work done In the best
manner and on short notice. Satisfaction Ruaran
iteed. Olvehlmacal!. 31-ly.
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Thc'Ander&oiiville Post-Office.
Written by a JPrisoner belonging to one of the
Connecticut Regiments O. II. Litchfield.
No blanket round his wasted limbs,
Under the rainy aky he slept.
While, pointing his etiveuomed' shafts
Around him. Death, the archer, crept.
He dreamed of hunger, and held ant
His hand to clutch a little bread,
That a white angel with a torch
Seemed bearing, smiling as he sped.
The vision -waked him, nnd he spied
The post-boy, followed by crowd
Of famished prisoners,' who cried
For letters, letters from their friends.
Crawling upon his hands nnd knees,
He hears his own name called and lo !
A letter from his wife he sees.
Gasping for breath, he shrieked aloud,
And lost In nature's last eclipse.
Faltering amid the suppliant crowd.
Caught it, and pressed it to his lips.
A guard who followed, red with wroth,
And nourishing a rusty brand,
Reviled him with a taunting oath,
And snatched the letter from his hand.
"First pay thopostago whining, wretch!"
Despair had made the prisoner brave :
"Then give me back my money, sir;
I am a captive, not a slave.
"You took my money and my clothes
Take my life, too, but let me know
How Mary and the children are,
And I will bless you ero I go."
The very moonlight turouh his hands,
As lie stood supplicating, shone,
And his sharp features shaped themselves
Into a prayer; and such a tone
Of anguish was there In his cry
For wlfa and children, that the guard,
Thinking upon his own, passed by.
And left him swooning on the sward.
Beyond tho "dead line" fell'Iils head ;
The eager sentry knew his mnrk,
And with acrash.the'bnllet sped
Into his brain nnd all was dark.
But when they turned hlsllvld cheek
Up towards the light, the pale lips smiled,
Kissing n picture, fair nnd meek,
That held in cither hand a child.
THE FARMER'S STORT.
"Seen you sit on the fence, sir,
writing in that little book. I thought
perhaps you might be writing poetry.
A good many folks como down hereof
a summer and make poetry ubout the
sheep and the moon. Peggy reads
'em out to me in the paper, and tho
stories, too, sir. Do you write stories?
Yes? Well, that's a gift. Iflhadlt
I think I could make one about what
has happened to me. Peggy says it
couldfbejdone.
"Now!, It's all"plaiu sailing nothing
out of the common ; butlVaan't al
ways a well-to-do old farmer. Once
I was a farmer's boy a hand, with
nothing of my own but a stout heart,
and strong limbs, and good health.
"Many's the night, when the stars
were in tho sky, I used to go out to
the great pasture where the sheep
browsed all day, aud sit and think
thoughts I had no words for, aud
make beautiful pictures for myself in
my mind not fine ones, sir. This is
what I used to eee the oftenest. A
little cottage with a wide fire-place,
such as they had in my day. A dress
er with a row of delf upon it, four
chairs and a table of whito pine.
When I had these I was to niarry
Peggy Grey. Dut when I should
have them, and she her white wedding-gown
and tho house linen,
neither of us knew.
"She put her sixpences into a red
earthen savings bank, and I kept
mine in an old glove. For two years
we had been waiting and hoping and
were not much nearer than at first.
Sometimes I felt down-hearted.
Sometimes her little letters were a
bit sad. And just as I sat in the
meadow I knew she sat before her
kitchen fire in tho house where she
lived at service. Simple folks we
were, but we had hearts, and felt,
perhaps, as deeply as greater folks
might.
"My master, the farmer, was a
close man. He squeezed as muoh
work out of his hands as possible.
But It was a steady place, and he
paid all ho promised; bo I stayed,
never thinking what trouble staying
would bring me to trouble that nev
er would have como but for Mark
Hulker. A good-for-nothing fellow
he was, a disgrace to the rest of us,
and ho cheated the master and left
his work undone. So after hours
master set me at his stint, and, It be
ing indoor work, Ikeptatit all night.
The old man liked that, and set me a
new task every night. All the bet
ter for me, I thought; he would pay
me extra, and what was weariness lo
me if it brought me nearer nay Peg
gy? So X counted the hours' work as
eo many shillings. But when Satur
day night came he gave mo juat my
week's work.
" 'Master,' said I, 'I've worked ov
er hours every night, you forget that.'
"I hire you by the week," he
said. 'Ill give you no more than one
weeks wages. So if you dou't like it
there are plenty of strong lads to be
had if you are growing lazy.' Then
he turned his back on me, and Mark
laughed. That angered me, and
words fell from my lips. We had a
quarrel, master and I, and I called
him a 'niggardly old rascal ;' and
with that he dismissed me from his
service.
" 'At dawn yon go,' he said. You
have worked to-day and have a right
to your bed at night, but at dawn you
go.'
"I marched out of the room with
words I never should have used and
up to my garret, and threw mj'self on
my bed. But I did not stay to be
turned out. At midnight T rose soft
ly, made up a bundle, and climbed
out of a window. I cut my hand
with the glass of a broken pane' and
the blood dropped down upon my
clothes. But I was too angry to feel
the pain, aud I bound up the wound
with a hankerchief. Then 'I trudged
on, meaning to look for work the next
day. So I did, but found none. Then
the thought struck me to make my
way to and see Teggy. It
would be a comfort to me whatever
came. Sol turned my steps in that
direction and kept on till night fell.
Then, faint and weary, I lay down
under some bushes and fell asleep.
"Out of that sleep I was aroused by
a shout and the clutoh of strong
hands. Men stood about-me. One
shouted my name. They held me
fast and bound me.
"I struggled, but it was no use.
Numbers were against my single
strength.
"'What are you? Robbers? 'I've
nothing worth the taking,' I said, at
last; and when standing still I saw
faces I knew about mo those of the
farm hands at my old master's.
" 'You know what we want, Jack
Marlome,' said one. 'If he did speak
an ill word, at least he was a good
man in the main, and you'd worked
for him three years. You might have
answered him as you liked, but to try
to murder him was too horrible. We
didn't think it of you, Jack we
didn't think it.'
" 'Murdered ! Is old master mur
dered? Why lay it to me? I swear I
never hurt him.'
" 'If ho is not quite dead it's none
of your fault,' cried another man.
'Don't perjure yourself look at the
blood on your clothes.
"Tho blood from my hand wa8 in
blots and smears all over my vest. I
felt my heart turn sick when I took
heed of it.
" 'Master will clear me,' I said.
" 'He says it was you,' said one of
the men. 'At least, he nodded "yes"
when we asked him if you did it.'
"'Then old master was not right in
his mind,' I said. 'He'd never bo
against me.'
"After that I heard the whole.
Master had paid the men and dismiss
ed Mark. He had only said : 'All
right; I'm tired" of work,' and had
eaten breakfast there, and left in
sight of all. But I was gone; and
wheu the3' found that master, who
was alwnys np at cock-crow, did not
rise at nine, they opened his door and
found him on-the floor, senseless
they- thought deadaat-firsto-rHeUhad,
been robbed of his pooket-bookv- a,
watch and an old-fashioned pin he
always wore in his neckerchief the
painted head of a lady set around
with what he used to tell us were
pearls an ornament older than his
grandfather.
"They found nothing about me, of
course; but tho quarrel and my cut
hand made the case hard against me.
Tho master, dying, as they thought
him, had been able to speak at odd
times, and said that, to the best of
his belief, I was his assailant. It
was dark, to be sure, but in the strug
gle he felt that the raaa wore a cap,
aud I was the only baud who had
anything but a straw hat. Besides,
he came from the inner passage and
down the stairs, aud did not break in
through the door or windows as a
burglar would have done. Aud I
woe the only missing member of the
household. So I lay in prison with
this awful oharge upon me, until they
Knew wnetuer master would live or
die ; and my greatest grief was for
Peggy.
" 'Keep it from her,' I begged them
'until she must know It.'
"And they were kind and did it,
and her letters, were sent to me in
prison. It was a weary time, and the
one drop of comfort in it came with
those letters. I had had five from
her when at the end of one came
this :
"Dear Jack T never hide any
thing from you, and not to boast of
my conquests, a thing I'd never do,
but just to let you know that I Keep
no secrets to myself, I must tell you
what has happened.
"Our master has hired a man, a
lazy fellow, that I disliked at first
sight, Mark Hulker by name, and
what should he do but take a notion
to me, or protend to do so, trying hia
best to sit up with me after work
hours, and follow me about whereter
I go of a holiday. Then he tries to
make me like him by telling me how
rich he is. Four hundred dollars he
has laid by, he says, and has a gold
watch like a gentleman. The other
Sunday I was dressed for church, and
up ho walks.
" 'Why Peggy,' says he, 'you've no
pin to your collar."
"Said I: 'Icau't afford money for
finery.'
"Thensa3'she: 'Now how lucky
it is that I've one to give you, and he
pulls a pin from his pocket.
"Jack, I couldn't help looking at
it. It was a lady's portrait, with hair
all white though she was so young
like au old women's. He said it wn?
powdered as they did in old times
and a pink dress aud all about tiny
stones and no bigger than a silver
quarter altogether. How he came by
such a thing, goodness" knows! But of
course I wouldn't have it. Says he:
Now do take it, Peggy. I want to
keep company with you, aud now
you know the truth.'
"So says I: I-want neither your
company nor your presents, and
please remember that heareafter.'
"It was rough, I know, but I hato
him so. And I was none too rude,
for he bothers me yet as much as ever.
Though you know Jf he.werer ever so
good and handsome I am always
your own Peggy and think of no one
else.
When I read that you could have
knocked me down with a feather.
The pin was the one that the old
farmer had lost, I knew, and It was
Mark who was the thief, and who
had tried to murder him.
"I sent for the lawyer who was to
take my "side", and had all along be
lieved me innocent. I gave him the
letter.
'"It's old master's pin,' I said.
What shall I do, sir?'
Aud he Baidr "You can do nothing
my poor fellow, but wait and hope. I
have a clew now and I'll follow it.'
"3?bon ho went away, and afterward
I heard what he did. He went down
to the plaoe where Peggy lived, and
took her out of danger of eaves-drop-pars
and told her all that had hap
pened. .The brave girl trembled and
wept, but she spoke out.
" 'He's innocent,' she said. 'I'd not
believe him guilty if an angel told me
ho waa.'
And the lawyersaid.outof his heart,
though she was but a serving lass :
"He's worthy of you, Peggy Gray,
I do believe, and that Is saying a good
rl.1 I
"Then he asked her about tho pin,
and the two had a long talk. It ended
in Peggy bursting into tears, and
promising to do anything and every
thing ho asked if he would but tell
me why 6ho did it.
"He told mo afterward, and"it was
hard work for little Peggy with her
honest heart. Bless her! She turned
herself around and made a different
creatureof herself, and she tiled to
make Mark Hulker think she had.
been coquetting all the while, and,
oh! how she cried when she told me
she let him kiss her and put his arm
around her waiate. But she gained
her end by It. One niehfc mv good
old lawyer and two other men were
shut up in the pantry witlr Peggy's
mnster, and she dressed in her best,
waiting for Mark Hulker.
"That night she had promised Mark
to take his pin, and, if he proved ho
had the money he bragged of, to prom
ise to marry him, and Mark came as
merry as could be, and a little tho
worse for liquor.
" 'Now, lass,' said he, 'a promise is
a promise. There's the money to count
and the watch to look at and the pin
to, wear. Now you'll have me?'
?f 'AjlB7JU3tthen;thQipari,try:'door
topepgd behindihimaaaMjandoame
qpwn on ins Bnouiaer.'-fot,. u
" ' We'll have you, my fine fellow,'
said a voice, and there and then they
arrested him ; for the money aud the
watch and pin were old master'; and
one who knew, his son James, was
here with the detectives.
"He gave up all hope from that min
ute and confessed everything. How
he had made up his mind to rob old
master that evening before, he was
dismissed. How he had seen me
climb out of the window, and so
dressed in clothes like me and made
his plans to throw suspician upon me.
"My Peggy brought me tho good
news first brought it into my cell,
and threw herself, weeping, iuto my
arms, crying out:
'You're free, darling; free and clear,
thank Heaven.'
"f hey did not hang Mark, for mas
ter, after a while, got better and, in
the end, quite well. But they punish
ed him for the robbery and for some
thing lie had done, of the samo kind,
before ever he came to muster's.
"And as for the old man, when he
was well he was so sorry for the charge
he had made against me, though he
honestly believed me yuilty, as I well
knew, that he mude me a present of a
little farm aud stocked it for me.
And the wife gave Peggy her outfit ;
and here we are, as happy as the
sheep in the meadow, yonder, or the
bees iu the hive, hard by. And when
we hear talk of books and plays, Peg
gy says to me :
'Jack, if they only knew our story,
they'd make one of it, I'm verysure,'
and, as they say you're a writer, why,
I tell you, sir."
Mrs. Grant and her Benefactions.
Mrs. Grant is greatly beloved by the
poor of Washington, foritisafact'not
generally known that she and the
President are very benevolent and
and charitable, and have a regular
list of pensioners on their hands. She
is a very kind mother, and tender
hearted, withal. I remember that
when the President was inaugurated,
I saw a young West Point cadet be-
,ing carried to the White House, who
had been suddenly taken ill on the
avenue. "It's Mrs. Grant's orders,"
said a servant, "that he be taken to
Colonel Fred's room." And so he
was taken there, and though he was
ill several days, yet he was carefully
nursed hy Mrs. Grant in per-on until
he had recovered sufficiently to be
sentiUhome. I mention the circum
stance to show that, although sur
rounded by numerous cares, yet she
possesses a true, womanly heart, and
finds time to do a great deal of good.
Why should the bee hive be taken
as a symbol of industry? Not a bee
is to be seen all the winter long, while
the cockroach is up at five o'clock in
the morning,
till midnight.
and never goes to bed
Let'schangethis thing.
Inebriated gentleman who has fall
en down stairs to another who offers
to help him up "Wharzeuse slab
berln' 'round a fella? I alius come
down stairs that way !''
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lynEtc, Etc.
Correspondence Nebraska Advertiser.
New York, Feb. 2S, 1S70.
The week may be summed up thus.
In brief: weather in extremes, amuse
ments Insatiable. Business wedged
in beween times. -With Lentalready
in viow, tho gayeties of the season
whirl faster and faster, aud there is
no end to fun this winter, though it
may not be of tho grandest kind.
Still there i9 muoh social ambition to
air the last refinement in receiving.
People might very truthfully send out
invitations which, would read, "to
meet the new dinner service," or to
exhibit the drawing-rooms, refurnish
ed by Cottier, who Is tho fashionable
high art furnisher, for those who eat,
sleep and drink according to a stand
ard. FASHIONABLE ENTERTAINMENTS.
The young folks, of course, belong
to a musical or dramatic society of
the selectest sort, which gives excuse
for dozens of delightful evenings at
rehearsal in oozy private parlors, and
a gratifying dash at publio applause
in the name of charity, which as of
old beareth a multitude of sins, ama
teur and otherwise. Dickens parties,
where everyone dresses after some
character from the great novelist, are
more elaborate than ever. The char
acters are more deeply studied, and
their dress, manner, and speech are
oarefully taken from the pages of the
"Household,"or the "Globe" editions
of the novels. The more one can
look like ono of Cruikshanks designs
the better.
rosebud tarties.
"But for fun alive, and deepset dis
sipation, go to a rosebud party, to
which all the ladies invited are see
ing their first season in sooiety that
is, if you can get a card for It. No fa
vor dispensed by a kind aud charm
ing hostess is so coveted as an Invita
tion to her rosebud party, for tho com
pliment bears on the faoo of it that
she considers you one of the eligibles
of her acquaintance. Going, you find
the drawing rooms nobody says par
lors an3'more except au old fashioned
fellow like myself, we take so closely
4after the English aungi with fern
smllax.and Spirea, feathering- fronas
mantel cornice, baskets of.half blown.
rosea on every stand, aiid scores of de
butantes in pink and cream-color float
ing about, with'all the mischief they
learned at Mrs. Meares' or Madame
Chegarays' at five hundred dollars a
quarter, fresh in their pretty heads.
These pretty bacchannals, fresh from
up town boarding schools, waltz the
wildest, llirt the deepest and sit cham
pagne the most defiantly of any belles
afloat, unless we except a few of our
pretty married women and do this
with more freedom than they will ev
er find at command again.
pound parties.
This form of amusement is bound
to be caught up at once for the use of
church parties and ladies' charities, it
is so cheap and so diverting at once.
Tt has the patronage of fashion this
winter, for it i3 a favorite form of
spending a social eveuing among
matrons and elderly business men
who aro not above having some
fun of an evening in their good
clothes. So while the young peo
ple are off ic their pink gauze and
dresscoats for a dance say the "Elks"
ball, or that of some select and expen
sive regiment the roonis of the cozy
Madison avenue house are thrown
open to a huudred or so friends with
out any special preparation in the
way of flowers or music, but with a
hot sit down supper to follow in com
fort for everybody. The guests come
well-dressed but not over-dressed, for
the end and aim of a pound party is
to have a good time. Each one is ex
pected to bring with him or her a
package of something or anything to
weigh exactly a pound, done up so
that nobody can tell what is in it.
The fun Is to hold a parlor auction,
with the glibbest speaker as auction
eer, and the parcels are sold to the
highest bidder unopened, for the beu
efit of some charity which the hostess
has at heart.
Fun, It is? You never saw such fun
as when the packages are opened, and
the Wall street man who bid five dol
lars for a tissue paper parcel finds that
It contains a bologna sausage, bought
on the waynp town by a fun loving
matron, or the stiff baohelor bids off a j
gil's powder and .rouge box or a frisky
young married- woman finds a pound
of smoking tobacco in hers. Not very
great or high-toned amusement, like
the informal coteries, upon Park ave
nue, where the elect decide the move
ments of powers and parties in the
Interval of serious flirtingaud compos
ing serene epicrams.
A KETTLEDRUM IN NEW YORK.
Did I hear a quiet old lady (not to
mention a young "one) say that she
would like to know what is meant by
a kettledrum? With all the pleasure
in life. It is an English custom of in-
vitingone's acquaintance toa fashion-1 Church and its pastor were always
able five o'clock tea, to which the la-j magnanimous when there i3 nothing
dies go in their bonnets, to gossip an ! to lose. All tho social arts of the eo
hour with cups of tea in their hands, ciety are brought up to bear on the
served with very thin wafers. It ia ! delegates; they aro keptsunnled with"
essentially a city institution by which
a good many persons who see each
other often are got together, and an
hour Ismadetodo duty fora good
deal of civility. For the country, the
old fashioned tea-drinkingsare iu bet-
j ter taste, and are given with zest by
ladies in suburb an towns, who like
to play at being neighborly in the old
way.
Did I ever mention the friend who
used to call his wife's kettledrums
Beecher parties for he declared their
sole purposo was to get her friends to
gether In their best bonnets, to talk
over the latest of the Beecher scandal?
That was long ago. however. At n
kettledrum to-daj like that to which
my pretty neighbor has gone this af
ternoon, one will meet a dozen mag
azine people, with their best manuers
on and their prettiest things to say,
two dozen handsome rich women who
pet the literary ones, and laugh at
their nice things, ojio or two leading
women afflicted with a desire to be
ma'naging something, and who are
stirring their acquaintance upon the
momentous question of having a wo
men's banner at the Centennial exhi
bition, as if it were the original mat
ter of difference with King George.
They will get what they. want; thero
Isn't one of their friends who would't
give 'them a subscription for a banner
for the moon, to get rid of them.
Beside these, a few young men who
areatlefsuro bacai?e they can't get
anything to do, and a parlor philoso
pher or two will drop;in to be thelemon
in the tea. You know tho fashiona
bles profes3 themselves riinabIo to
drink tea without a slice of lemon iu
it, in the Russiau "manner.
OLD CHINA.
Fine ladies, are gotting as fond of
old china as they wore In Addison's
day. But the difference is, that in
stead of filling their rooms with Chi
nese monsters, and dragon tea cup?,
they have taken to making historical
collections of the various porcelains
an potteries of the world. A plate of
real Majolica, or oup and eaucer of
royal sevres gives one esteem among
connoisseurs, as one who "has the
right feeling for art" in this direction,
but ono who would win renown
among amateurs must have at least
one broken-nosed specimen of all the
wares from the time of Solomon
down. Cabinets, carved and velvet
lined, aro consecrated to these treas
ures where tho royal blue and gold
of true serves and the splendors of
Dresden aro surrounded by gaudy
Hungarian ware, in red, green and
yellow. Hideous Madonnas in Ma
jolica, ugly as the painted plaster
parrots Yankee ueddlera used to carrv
"ronnd,to3fe1uorwltnf.every species.oti.
ol'd English delf'Kuown to tho topi
shelves of kltcheiiclosetsS Allvec
this Increasing pais'UVn, anuentexg
prising speculator 'iTaBen fcourliig
New England villages aud South Car
olina homesteads for treasure? of this
sort, of whoso valuo their owners
never dreamed before. Tho sight
at tho Soinervillo miction rooms
where they were sold this week was
verj- funny. It looked as if all the
property of a country village was
thero for vendue. Sets upon sets of
blue East India china, aud odd pieces
of cracked cream colored wedge-wood
with black tracings, fragments of old
English fea Bets of prettj- chintz pat
terns, scaramouch Holland painted
ware, and English blue dinner servi
ces, rehearsing the history cf Dr.
Syntax on their pictured sides, or
scenes from the war of Independence,
including portraits of George Wash
ington, were mingled in a sort of in
digestion of china. Tho ugliest o.ld
pots and basins were there, with some
really superb Staffordshire and hand
some bits cf Flemish pottery, long
necked, straight-sided pitchers nnd
jars embossed In Indigo blue. I waa
shown a yello wish wedge-wood pitch
er, as caramon looking as the cheap
est kitchen ware of to-day, the mate
of which brought $25.00 at yesterday's
sale. Let me warn all vour readers
who think of selling their grand
father's furniture, or their grand
mother's crockery for old rubbish, to.
be careful what they are about, for
they may be throwing away a small
fortune. If the man 'who had half
a dozen silk Waahlngtons to sell hap
pens to have anv old tea sets or odd
pieces, (the moro forlorn the better,)
he wants to trade, I will be happy to
talk with him.
THE LATEST FROM BROOKLYN",
A New York letter without Beech
er would be like a New England Sun
day without baked beans. From the
appearance of thing In Plymouth
Church, tho present calendar year
will be spent in proving what every
body la convinced of already. But
the Council now convened at the call
of the church itself is headed by Dr.
Leonard Bacon, whose acuteness.
ve51e(j akillfully under a daring frank-
ness, will not hesitate to probe for the
truth in whatever direction It lies.
It Is possible that Plymouth Church
ha counted tooliberalyon Dr. Bacon's
support in tho Council. Already,
shrewd questioning has drawL out
the order of action in Mrs. Moulton'a
case, in which the Ingenuity of Tly
mouth Church mancauvering appears
to better advantage tnan its honesty
by a long sight. It didu't propose to
go on with the Council in spite of its
own protest, till it was sure tlmt Drs.
Storrs and Buddiugton were pretty
certain not to come. PIvmouth
uowers, anu the latest paper to read,
and ready for mailing. A handsome
luuch isspread for them in thechurch
- -
I parlor all the time, and carriages are
at their command. But neither Dr.
Bacon nor the Andover men have
come for a free lunch.
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MB. BOWEN AND MR. JOHNSON.
Mr. Bowan Is choosinghis tlmeand
method of presenting- his proofs so as
to throw their'fulllight on Mr. Beech
er without dragging his victims" into
tho glare.- The satanio hraln-wlflch
makes v,the moves for Plymouth
church soes the only defence possiblo
is to refuse any evidenco from Mr.
Bowen that will not damags other
worse than Mr. Beecher. To-give
names and dates to tho publio as they
demand, would drag more than ono
family of the churqh into disgrace.
Mr,. Beecher's safety lies in the irre
parable naturoof tho Injury he lias
done his victims. Mr. Bowen knows
that the utmost""maliguity ol Ply
mouth will visit him when he speaks,
and this with the stronger considera
tion of humanity to the injured and
tho Innocent, may well give him
pause. Mr. Oliver Johnson, , former
editor of Beecher's paper, does not
show so well since the publication of
a letter of his to Mr. Bowen, pleading
for Mr. Tilton, and speaking emphat
ically of Mr. Beecher's guilt. Mr.
Johnson and Professor Tyler appear
to have "crawfished" badly under the
influence of a position on tho Chris
rrtr Union. And tho charge of black
mailing mado against poor Mr. Loder
is proven true of another man entire
ly, and the Tribune is manly enough
to como out andjdothe poor upholst
erer justice. Thero ia muoh feasting
on toad pie In many quarters.Jno.wa
days, over the latest view of things.
Pietro.
The Value of Education., M
Jako was heard' calling across ttho
fence to his neighbor's son, a colored
youth who goes to school at ,the At
lanta coloreduniyersity : . .. ,
'Look hyar, boy, youjgoeB to school
don't.yer?' - .. j
'Yes, sir,' repliedjtheboyi is .
'Getthr'eddykashun, ain't yer?'
Yos sir. , ,
Laruin' 'rithmotick fand figgerin
on a slate, eh?'
Yes sir.' ? .. , ,- ,
'Well, it'don't take two wholejlaya
to makejan hour, do it?' , .
Why n.0.!' exclaimed.thoboyy,,
'You wasgwine teribring dat. hat
chit back in a hour waren't yer?'?
'Yes, sir.' ,
'An its bin two days seuco -yer bor
rowed it. Now, what good's eddyka
shun gwino,ter do you.tuick skulled
'Diggers when yer go to school a whplo
'year nu' deu can't tell how long it
takes to fotch back a hatchet?'
The boy got mad and slung the hat
chet Cpvar tho. fence and half way
through au.ash barrel. -Attauttv Gon
atitulion. A Mean Man.
'i
qA certain husband in Moline has
proved himself a liar and a sneak
thief in tho eyes of his wlfo. .And ho
heaped this approbrlum upon himself
by astalo old trick, too. If it had
been now, tho novelty would have
furnished somo excuse, but it was
threadbare dilapidated aud diabolical..
Ho had invited an old collego friend"
of his to visit himself and prettj-wife.
Ho talked with'herand walked'with
her. At first tho husband was.de
ligbted,3and then fcbegan;to';feel bad
about-it. Ho couldn't think of any
thing but theloldjjabomliiabletrnp
which Othello didn't stop to set.- 'Ho
gathered his gripsack and saitT ho
was going to Omaha, but got off at
Rock Island and took the return train
for Moline. It arrived in the dead of
night. He crawled off that train like
a thief, Ho let himselfginto the house
with a night key an inhuman inven
tion opposed to the interests of socie
ty. Shortly after.'his collego friend
left the house without his baggage or
even hisstreet clothes. Nobody knows,
juat why he Ieffatlsuch onjhour, and
in such a plight.Jbut it has &etMo!ine
to guessing, which is bad. Some
men wont't allow themselves Jtq be
happy, and that mean jSIolino hus
band isone of them.
To make French paucakes tako two
egger two ounces of butter, two ounces
of sifted sugar, two ounces of flour,
half a pint new milk. Beat tho eggs
thoroughly and put them into a basin
with the butter, which should be beat
en to a cream ; stir in the sugar and
flour, and, when these Ingredientsaro
well mixed, stir in the milk ;. keep
stirring and beating the mixture fora,
few minutes. Serve with a cut lemon!
and sugar, and pile the pancakes on a
dish, with a layer of preserve of mar
malade between each.
1
Mr. Wilcox, a stock farmer residing
a few milea south of Crawfordsville.
Ind., has
lost five head of fafc cattle
recently,
with a new disease. Tho"
cattle become
about the neck
vive the attack
very much swollen
and breast, and sur
but a few hours. No
remedy has been discovered, nor can
'
the lisease be attributed to .any, par
ticular cause. u
t
A Scottish student, supposed to be'
deficient in judgment, was asked by
a professor, iu the course of his.exam
ination, how he would discover a,fool.
"By the questions he would ,cak,"
was the prompt and highly suggestive
reply.
A Texas farmer named Wade vsays.
he caught a rabbit on his Iactho
other day having on its liead'seFen
horns. But before we believe nhigj
story, wo wa,nt to,know hdv many .
"horns" wade had Id his own head,
when he 'ooked at the animal.
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