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The trees are three and four years old. and of
choicest varieties, principally fall and winter. The
choicest collection of most improved varieties.
Crab Applet, not before offered for sale, will be
closed out this sprmff. Evergreens, two to four
feet high, raised in our soil and climate, will be re
tailed cheaper than ever before by wholesale.
Also one and two year Forest Trees Ash,
Elm. Iloney Locust.and Coffee Tree Gray Wil
low Cuttings .by the million, very fine ties four
to eight feet.
PUENAS NUKSERIES,
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STAI.T.ION SEASON.
Will make the season of
1S76. commencing March
1st and ending July 1st. at
the stable of A. S. Holll
day, BrownvIUe, Nemaha
County, Nebraska.
PEDIGREE. Hambletonian Chief -was
sired by Hambletonian Prince, he by Ad
ministrator, he by Rysdyk's Hambleton
ian, tbo siro of Dexter, Jay Gould,
Volunteer, and the crandslre of Gold
smith's Maid, and many others noted for
creat speed and endurance. Hambletonian
Prince's dam was sired by Black Rock, he
by Roo Buck ; granddam a very fast mare
by old Sea Gull, he by Duroc, son of Im
ported DIomede. Administrator's dam
was sired by Mamhrino Chief, 2nd dam,
Arabian Tartar, 3rd dam by Duroc Mes
senger, son of Duroc, out of a mare by
Messenger, son of imported Messenger.
Hambletonian Chief's dam was sired by
Green's Bashaw, ho by Vernol's Black
Hawk, he 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, tho dam of Green's Ba
shaw, waB sired by Webber's Tom
Thumb. 2nd dam. the Chas. Kent mare,
(dam of RysdykosHomble!onian)by import
ed Bellfounder. 3rd dam by One Eye, (the
sire of Flora Temple), by Hambletonian.
ith d.im.SIIvertall, by Imported Messenger.
(Sec Hr lice's American Stud JSoot.)
Hambletonian Cliief
Is a dark mahogany bay, 15:24 hands high,
two white feet, star In forehead, with power
ful limbs and muscle, and free open trotting
gait which only needs time to develop lts-j-elf,
being Inherited by him from his illus
trious ancestors.
He will be allowed to servo only a limited
number of mares, at the low price of (Jj4 f
payable at time 6f service; and those iJ)lU
who wish to secure his services are respect
fully requested to make an early application,
stares not proving to be wilts roal can be re
turned free of charce. All accidents at the
owner's risk. Apply to
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Washington, N. J.
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Repairing neatly done. No. 5S 3Tainstreet, Brown
ville.Ncb.
PLOTT'S STAR ORGANS
Are as perfect parlor organs as are manufac
tured. Correspondencesollclted with organ
ists, musicians, and the trade, AddressED
WARDPLOTTS, Washington, N. J.
HOMIWOOp MILLS
Having in my employ Mr.
ilElNxfcY SH7FFEK,
acknowledged to be tho best miller in the
State. I am prepared to furnish GOOD
FLOUR in any quantity. Every sack war
ranted. My Flour is for salo at all tho principal
stores in Brownville.
GEO. HOMEWOOD.
Sheridan Mills. April 1st, 1S75.
FRANZ HEiLBSER,
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WAGON MAKING, Eepairing,
Plows, and all work done In the best
manner and on short notice. Satisfaction guaran
teed. GlvehlinacaU- f3My.
THE BONGS OP OLD.
Tho songs of old! How deep a spell
Lies in the old familiar rhymes,
Once sung by those we loved so well,
In other days, in happier times!
Visions of hope, long passed away,
Come o'er the heart eo lone and cold ;
And memory asks, "Oh ! where are they,
"Who sweetly sung tho songs of old?"
"Where are they? Some In silence sleep
Beneath the mournful yew-tree gloom ;
Others within the boundless deep
Have early found an ocean tomb.
Dim aro the eyes that gently shone,
The once warm heart lies still and cold,
And hushed for aye, forever gone,
Tho voice that sung the songs of old.
Whero aro they? Onsomc foreign strand
For many a weary day they roam ;
Cheerless they tread the stranger's land,
From friends afar, afar from home.
Do they not long to join once more
The Joyous dance, the social throng,
And mingle, as in days of yore.
Their voices in the olden song ?
Fondly the heart still loves to linger
Amid tho ruins of tho past,
Tracing with fancy, airy finger,
Visions too beautiful to last;
Bringing to memory's eye again.
The long lost friends, tho cherished ones
Waking the past with tome sad strain,
Somo well remembered olden song.
MARION'S 2vjoe:w.
McDonald's Trick on the Old Tory.
BY PETER HORRY.
The hero of this story was a re
markably stout, red-haired young
Scotsman, named McDonald, eon of
the McDonald of the famous defeat at
Morris Creek Bridge, North Carolina.
Soon after the defeat of his father, he
came and joined our troops. Led by
curiosity, I could not help, one day,
asking the reason, to which he made,
in Bubstance the following reply:
"Immediately on the misfortune of
my father and his friends at the
Great Bridge, I fell to thinking what
could be the cause; and then it struck
me that it must 'have been owing to
their own monstrous ingratitude.
Here now, said I to mj'self, is a parcel
of people, meaning my poor father
and friends, who fled from the mur
derous swords of the English, after
the massacre of Culloden. Well,
they came to America, with hardly
anything but their poverty and
mournful looks. But amoucr this
friendly people that was enough.
Every eye that saw us had pity ; and
every hand was reached out to assist.
They received us into theirhouses, as
though we had been their unfortunate
brothers. They kindled high their
hospitable fires for us, and Bpread
their feasts, and bid us eat and drink,
and banish our sorrows, for that we
were In a land of friends. And so
indeed wo found it; for, whenever
wo told of tho woeful battle of Cullo
den, and how the English gave no
quarter to our unfortunate country
men, but butchered all they could
overtake, these generous people often
gave us their tears, and said, 'O! that
we had been there to aid you with
our rifles, then should many of these
monsters have bit tho ground.' They
received us into the bosoms of their
peaceful forests, and gave us their
lands, and their beauteous daughters
In marriage, and we became rich.
And yet, after all, soon as the Eng
lish came to America to murder this
innocent people, merely for refusing
to be their slaves, then my father and
friends, forgetting all the Americans
had done for them, went and joined
tho British, to assist them to cut the
throats of their best friends.
"Now, said I to myself, if ever
there was a time for God to stand up
and punish Ingratitude, this was the
time. And God did stand up ; for he
enabled the Americans to defeat my
father and friends most completely.
But, instead of murdering the prison
ers, as the English had done at Cul
loden, they treated us with their us
ual generosity. And now these are
the people I love, and will flght for as
long as I live."
And so he did fight for us, and as
undauntedly, too, as George Wash
ington ever did.
This was young Scotch McDonald.
Now, the ourlous trick he played, is
as follows:
Soon as he heard that Colonel Tarle
ton was encamped at Monk's Corner,
he went the next morning to a weal
thy old Tory of that neighborhood,
and passing himself for a Sergeant of
Col. Tarleton's corps, presented that
officer's compliments, adding that
Colonel Tarleton was just come to
drive the rebels out of the country ;
auk knowing him to be a good friend
of the King, begged he would send
him one of his best horses for a char
ger, and that he should be no looser
by it.
"Send him one of my finest hors
es!" cried the old traitor, with eyes
sparkling with joy. "Yes, Mr. Ser
geant, that I will, by gad ! and would
send him one of my finest daughters,
had ho but said the word. A good
friend of the King, did he call me,
Mr. Sergeant? Yes! God save his
sacred Majesty, a good friend I am,
indeed, and a true one. And faith, I
am glad, too, Mr. Sergeant, tho Col
onel knows it. Send him a charger
to drive the rebels, heh? Yes, egad !
I will send him one, and a proper one,
too, as ever a soldierstraddled. Dick!
Dick! I say, you Dick!"
"Here, massa; here! here Dick!"
"Oh, you plaguey dog! so I must
always split my throat with bawling,
before I can get you to answer, heh?"
"Hi, massa! sure Dick always .an
swers when he hears massa hallo!"
"You do, you villain, do'you ? Well,
BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1876.
then, run, jump, fly, you rascal, fly to
the stable, and bring mo outSelim,
my young Selim! Do you hear?"
you villain, do you hear?"
"Yes, massa, be sure!"
Then, turning to MoDonald, he
went on :
"Well, Mr. Sergeant, you have
made me confounded glad this morn
ing, you may depend. And now sup
pose you take a glass of peach ; of
good old peach, Mr. Sergeant? Do
you think It would do you any
harm?"
"Why, they say It is good of a rainy
morning, sir," replied McDonald.
"Oh, yes, famous of a rainy morn
ing, Mr. Sergeant! a mighty aniifog
matic. It prevents you theacue. Mr.
Sergeant; and clears a man't throat
of the cobwebs, sir."
"God bless your honor!" said Mc
Donald, as he turned off a bumper of
tho high-beaded cordial.
But scarcely had he smacked his
lips before Dick paraded Selim ; a
proud, full-blooded, stately steed, that
stepped as though he disdained the
earth he walked upon.
Here the old fellow, brightening
up, broke out again :
"Aye! there, Mr. Sergeant, there Is
a horse for yon ! Isn't he, my boy?"
"Faith, a noble animal, sir, replied
McDonald.
"Yes, egad ! a noble animal, indeed.
A charger for a King, Mr. Sergeant.
Well, my compliments to Colonel
Tarleton ; tell him I've sent him a
horse, my young Selim, my grand
Turk, do you hear; my son of thun
der! And say to tho Colonel, that I
don't grudge him, either, for egad ! he
is too noble for me, Mr. Sergeant. I
havo no work that's fit for him, sir;
no, damme, sir, if there's any work
in all this country that's good enough
for him, but just that which he Is now
going on, tho driving the d d rebels
out of the land."
And in order to send Selim off in
high style, he ordered Dick to bring
down his elegant new saddle and
holsters, with his silver mounted pis
tols. Then, giving McDonald a hot
breakfast, and lending him his great
coat, as it was raining, he let him go,
with a promise that he would come
next morning and see how Colonel
Tarleton liked young Selim.
Accordingly, next morning he
waited on Colonel Tarleton, and told
his name, with tho smiling counten
ance of oue who expected to bo eaten
up with fondness.
But, alas, to his Infinite mortifica
tion Tarleton heard h'fs name,wiIT
out the least ohange of feature.
After recovering a little from his
embarrassment, he asked Col. Tarle
ton how he liked his charger?
"Charger, sir!" replied Tarleton.
"Yes, sir; the elegant horse I sent
you yesterday ?"
"Tho elegant horse you sent me,
sir
?m
"Yes, sir; and by you Sergeant,
sir, as he called himself."
"An elegant horse! And by my
Sergeant! Why, really, sir, I I I
don't understand j-ou at all!"
The looks and voice of Colonel
Tarleton too sadly convinced tho old
traitor that he had been bit; and that
young Selim was gone! Then,
trembling and pale, he cried out:
"Why, my dear sir, did you not
send a sergeant yesterday, with your
compliments, to me, and request that
I would send you my very best horse
for a charger, which I did?"
"No, sir, never !'' replied Tarleton;
"I never sent a sergeant on any such
errand. Nor till this moment did I
even know that there existed on earth
such a being as you."
To have been outwitted in this
manner by a rebel sergeant to have
lost his peach brandy his hot break
fast his great coat his new saddle
his silver mounted pistols and,
worse than all, his darling horse, his
young, full blooded, bounding Selim
all these keen reflections, like as ma
ny forked lightnings, falling at once
upon tho train and tinder of his pas
sions, blew them up to such a diabol
ical rage, that the old sinner had
liked to have been suffocated on the
spot. He turned black in the face;
he shook throughout; and as soon as
ho could recover breath and power of
speech, he broke out Into a torrent of
curses, enough to raise the hair on
any christian man's head.
Nor was Colonel Tarleton muoh be
hind him, when he came to learn
what a noble horse had slipped thro'
his hands. And a noble horse he
was, indeed! Pull sixteen hands
high ; the eye of a hawk, tho spirit
of the king-eagle ; a chest like a lion,
swifter than a roebuck, and strong as
a buffalo.
I asked McDonald how he could
recouolle It to himself to take the old
paltroou's horse in that way ?
"Why, sir," replied he, "as to that
matter, people will think differently ;
but for my part, I hold that all is fair
in war ; and, besides, sir, if I had not
taken him, Colonel Tarleton, no
doubt, would have got him. And
then, with such a swift, strong charg
er as this, ho might do us as much
harm as I hope to do them."
And he did them harm with a
vengeance ; for he had no more sense
of fear than a hungry tiger. And, as
to his strength, it was such that with
one of Potter's blades, he would make
no more to arive through cap and
skull of a British dragoon, than aboy
would with a case knife, to chip off
tne nead of a carrot. And then he
always kept Selim up so lustily to the
top ot Ms metal. He was so fond of
him, that I verily bolieve he would at
any time have sold tho shirt off his
back to get corn for him. And truly,
Selim was not much his debtor ; for
at the first flash and glimpse of a red
coat, he would paw and champ his
iron bit with rage, and the moment
he heard the word "go," off ho was
among them like a thunderbolt.
And to see how MoDonald would
charge, you would swear the fear of
death was never before his eyes.
Whether it was ten or one against
him, it made no odds to this gallant
Scotchman. He never stopped to
count nosea, but would dash in upon
tho them, and fall to hewing and cut
ting them down like a very fury in
carnate. Poor MoDonald ! The arm of his
strength is now in the dust; and his
large red cheeks have long ago been
food for worms ; but never shall I for
get when first I saw him fight.
'Twas in the daj's when the British
held Georgetown; and Morion had
said to me, '-Go and reconnoitre." I
took only McDonald with me. Be
fore day we reached our place of con
cealmenta thiok dump of pines
near tho road, and in full view of the
enemy's lines. Soon as the bonny
grey-eyed morning began to peep, we
heard tho town all alive, as it were,
with drums and fifes, and about sun
rise, beheld five dragoons turn out,
and with pranoing steeds dash up the
road towards us. I turned my eye
upon McDonald, and saw his face all
kindled up with joy of battle. It was
like that terrible joy which flashes
from the eyes of an ambushed Hon,
when ho beholds the coming forth of
the buffaloes towards his gloomy cave.
"Zounds, McDonald," said I, "there
Is an odds'againstus, five to two."
"By my soul, now, Captain," he
replied, "and Jet 'em come on. Three
are welcome to tho sword of MoDon
ald." Soon as they were comofairlv oppo
site to us, we gave them a blast from
our bugles, and with drawn sabres,
broke in upon them like a tornado.
Their panio was complete ; two we
stopped, overthrown, and weltering
in the road. Tho remaining three
wheeled about, and taking to their
heels, went off as if old Nick had
been bringing up the roar. Then you
might have heard the roar and seen
the dust, which dragoons can raise,
when, with whip and spur, and wild
ly rolling eyes, they bent forward
from the pursuit'of death. My char
ger, being but a heayybrute, was
aoomdistanced. Jiut theyajcpuld not
distahce'th'oswift-footed'Selim. Rap
id tho deadly blast of tho desert, he
pursued their dusty course, still gath
ering upon them at every jump. And
before they could reach the town,
though so near, he brought his furi
ous rider along side of two of them,
whom he cut down. One hundred
yards further, and tho third also
would have been slain, for McDonald,
with his crimson claymore, was with
in a few steps of him, when the guns
of the fort compelled him to retire.
However, though quickly pursued bj'
the enemy, he had the address to bear
off an elegant horse of ono af the
dragoons whom ho had killed.
A Rcuiarlcahlc Wager and its Result.
Somo years ago J. W. Serviss, of
Amsterdam, and David Manny, of
the Manny House, in order to play a
joke on Stephen Arnold of the Arn
old House, both of that place, went to
him aud said that they had bet drinks
on a certain question in dispute, aud
that they desired him to act as refer
ee, tho drinks to be paid for when the
bet was decided. Mr. Arnold accept
ed the terms, and drinks to the am
ount of $2,50 were disposed of. Mr.
Serviss then said that ho had bet
Manny the drinks for the entire par
tT at Arnold's that when the spire of
the new Catholio cathedral fell, it
would fall to the west; while Manny
had bet that it would fall to the east.
Of course tho laugh was upon Arnold.
He looked puzzled for a moment,
then quietly producing a book, he
carefully noted down the terms of the
bet. During the gale of last week the
spire of that cathedral fell. It fell to
tho east. Tidings of the fact reached
Arnold, who drew on his Ulster as if
he had been greased, drove up to his
house as rapidly as possible, produced
tho book in which ho had recorded
tho bet, and almost before Mr, Serviss
had heard of the fall of the spire, he
wa3 presented with a bill for $2,50
worth of drinks, with seven years' in
terest added. Troy Time3.
A Word to the Boys.
Who is respected? It Is the boy
who conducts himself well; who Is
honest , dilligent, and obedient in all
things. It is the boy who is making
an effort to please his master, and to
obey him in whatever he may direct
to be done. It Is the boy who is kind
to other little boys, who respects age,
and who never gets into difficulties
and quarrels with his companions. It
i3 tho boy who leaves no effort untried
to improve himself in knowledge and
wisdom every day ; who is busy and
active in endeavoring to do good acts
towards others. Show mo a boy who
obeys his parents, who is diligent,
who has respect for age, who always
has a friendly disposition, and who
applies himself diligently to get wis
dom, and to do good towards others,
and if he is not respeoted and beloved
by every one, then there is no such
thing as truth in the world. Remem
ber this, little boys, and you will be
respected by others, and you will
grow up and become useful men.
OUR SEW YORK LETTER.
Hott the Poor Litc Bceclicr Jay
Gould Religions The Xartha
"Washington Reception
ForeignPicturcs For
the Girls, Etc.
I Correspondence Nebraska Advertiser.
New York, Maroh C,
1S70.
HOW THE POOR LIVE.
A friend lately had n delinquent
washerwoman, and not finding ex-
ouses as satisfactory a3 shirts, set out
with me to hunt her up, notmoroout
of curiosity to find the clothes, than
to see for ourselves how the poor live.
Her address was a narrow street of a
dozen blocks, in tho heart of down
town, and there was not a decent
building in it. The pavements were
strewn with garbage, and tho houses
stained with slops thrown from the
windows. The woman was In a crazy
old wooden tenement In the rear of
the one fronting on the street, and in
consequence had just as littlo air and
and light as ifc would do to live. We
found her In a room ten by twelve,
with a bed, wash-tub, cook-stove and
boiler In the corners, leavingjust room
to worm one's way between them.
Her grown son and a little girl sat on
the bed ; there was no ohair, and a
string of wet olothes hung above their
heads. For this room and a closet for
the boy to sleep In, she paid eight dol
lars a month rent, her whole means
of living beiug her son's wages as boy
in a grocery store, at four dollars a
week, tho washing from one family,
and a trifle of help from her daugh
ter, who got two dollars and fifty
cents a week as waitressjin an uptown
house. Instead of making way with
the clothes, as we supposed, wo found
her husband had boen slok with fever,
and the doctor had forbidden her to
send any clothes out of cho house.
The air could not get through the
house, the drains were out of order,
and the stench in tho entries was so
sickening that wo were not surprised
to hear that there was diphtheria and
small-pox in the block. The man had
been sent to the hospital to die, and
the house cleaned and disinfected by
tho board of health, butlt could hard
ly be kept clean by mortal hands, and
never healthy. Comfort! These peo
ple never expect that. All they can
hope for Is the barest possible life so
bare and naked that a full meal is
something to be dated from, and the
possession of a dollar a matter to be
remembered. AndwtheieaeUlpNthat
life?
Tho hospital first, Iho'otter's
field afterward.
That's all there is1
about It.
JAY GOULD AND THE TRIBUNE.
That Jay Gould did get a controll
ing influence in the New York Tri
bune, everybody believes, and-that he
is sick of his bargain everybody also
believes. Jay Gould is a tremendous
man, but he is not altogether infallia-
ble. Ho wanted a big paper in his
control that he might manipulato the
stock market, and he took advantage
of the trouble that followed the death
of Greeley to gobble the Tribune, or
enough of Its stock to havo au influ
ence in it, the idea being that he
could havo tuis stoox written up, or
that ono writen down, aud thereby
put money in his purse. But the
thing didn't work. Mr. Reid did not
yield to the behests of the stock-king,
and tho Tribune did not becomo a
mere instrument on his hands. And
now Gould wants to get out. The
speculation did not pay as well as
Wall Street in fact it did not pay at
all, for him. He did not want news
paper stock unless he could use it to
help other stocks, and when the Tri
bune would not do that, his Interest
was at an end. Therefore Reid gets
rid of this stench, and the Tribune,
freed from the odium that attaches to
the very name of Gould, will get
back its place in the hearts of the peo
ple. The Tribune was a great power,
and now that it is to be freed from
the reputation of Gouldism, it will be
again.
RELIGIOUS.
The Moody and Sankey meetings
are no more a success in New York
than they were in Brooklyn. Tho
numbers in attendance are as great as
ever, but the effect produced is noth
ing. Aud the really religious peoplo
of the city those? who were instru
mental in bringing them here, are re
penting of their bargain. Moody Is a
coarse man, though earnest and hon
estand his manner and method re
pel rather than attract. He has
trick of familiarity when he speaks
of the Deity that shocks'the sense of
any devout person, and he has a bul
lying, swaggering way with him that
is anything but pleasant. He is a
very short, crusty and dictatorial in
his dealings with the clergy, lacking
entirely that meekness that Is so im
portant an item in the Christian
make-up. Sankey's singing Is de
lightful for a time, but like every
thing that lacks the principle of true
art, it gets fearfully tiresome in a lit
tle while. It is a lamentable fact that
ninety-nine hundredths of the peo
ple inattendance aro religious people
the sinners stay carefully away and
never go.
The revivals in other part3 of the
city are more successful. Dwyer and
Collier are preaohing in the slums of
Vandam Street with marked success,
for they have gone where tho sinners
are, and forced them to listen to the
gospel. Several of the large churches
seeing that Moody and Sankey must
fail to produce any effect, are arrang
inp for revivals in the regular way In
their own churches, where they can
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work more directly upon the people,
and where families can be successful
ly" used. The winter Is gone, but the
religious elementdoes not despair of
making some headway yet. At all
events they mean to try it.
THE MARTHA. WASHINGTON RECEP
TION. The affair of tho 22d, was, very ap
propriately, tho reception in the con
tinental dress at the Academy of Mu
sic, which not to see was to regret for
the rest of tho century, if one should
live so long. Three hundred ladies
and gentlemen of tho best circles not
only of New York, but of tho Union,
wore tho full dress of tho old time,
and a prety sight it was. Tho hand
some men of the club of clubs in lux
urious court-dress, whito satin knee
breeches with purple nnd maroon vel
vet coats, lace ruffles and buckled
shoes, tho ladies lovelier than ever in
satin petticoats, with brocade over
dresses, their heads elaborately built
up, with powder and plumes, jewels
and flowers. Tho beaux, it Is said,
found the dress so becoming that they
put it off with sigh of regret that they
could not wear knee breeches to show
a haudsome leg, or tho ruffles which
set off a soft aristocratic hand amazing
ly. There were dresses worn at tho
Academy, which figured at Lady
Washington's evening eighty years bo
fore and one fortunate lady, it is said
worn a flounco which was part of tho
matchless lace ordered for Maria Lou
isa, by Napoleon himself, who was a
connoisseur. It was not generally
surmised, however, that tho flounce
in question, was part of thoEmpress'
bed hanging, though it was a re
markably fine piece of Mechlin.
The Academy was densely paoked,
and tho receipts must havo been
most gratifying for tho charity
in aid of which tho reception
was designed, for fashionablo New
York views its gayest festivities with
the sanction of charity. Twenty
thousand tickets were sold at five dol
lars apiece, and tho result was, that
hundreds of holders of tickets on see
ing the crowd, went homo without
trying to enter. It was worth tho
crush to Eeo the minuet danced by
two dozen couples, trained for the oc
casion by a fashionable Fifth Avenue
dancing master. Tho elegant move
ments, the sinkings and posturings,
every turn of which was lovely, were
very unlike the angular rushes-which
pass for dancing nowadays. Then
tbo courtly three hundred filed off,
through a covered way, bullt'across
the Btreet for the evenlncr. to tho tea
'tables In Irving HallwhereTt' was
the thing to regale one's partner with
tea at two dollars a cup, and buy tho
cup and saucer, facsimiles of Martha
Washington's own tea set, for auoth
er dollar.
FOREIGN PICTURES.
To be a successful artist Is to be a
favorite of fortune. Tho art-mania
with our rich collectors, who buy
their pictures by agents, as a specula
tion, is well-nigh as extravagant as
tho tulip mania of tho last century,
when fortunes were offered for a sin
gle bulb. Mr. Stewart lately paid
$76,000 for a painting by a celebrated
French artist, and very kindly pro
poses to throw his gallery open to the
public, ono afternoon a week. For
eign artists are determined not to lose
good prices for want of asking. At
tho exhibition of water colors now
open, tho finest efforts of our best ar
tists, men like Samuel Colman and
Swayno Gifford, rarely venture above
$700, while some wouderfully scrawly
pictures of voluptuous women with
equally voluptuous couch hangings,
in which tho artist had contrived to
make the woman look as luxurious as
the damasks, and tho damasks, some
how, as licentious 33 the woman,
were backed with the prices of,$l,000
apiece. Will cultivated Americans
have the judgment to show these ar
tists that this country Is not the back
door by which they are to discharge
all their artistic rubbish ?
FOR THE GIRLS.
Tho bonnet3 for spring will bo
largely of straw, trimmed with vel
vet, and the shapes curvo protecting
Iy round tho head. The first impor
tations of dress goods are merely last
fall's styles, lighter in shade and fab
ric, to suit tho changes of March.
The long square overskirts open in
the back, trimmed all round with fine
side pleatings, and drawn into easy
folds acros3 the front by pleats at the
side, and held together with largo
bows behind tho seam on tho new
suits. The long polonaise with long
sides caught together in the back, is
the latest and favorite style, very be
coming and economical too. For the
house, nothing is so much In style as
the gored dress with full skirt in the
back, and the least trimming that tho
fabric demands. Pietp.o.
Hott She Would do It.
A hater of tobacco asked an old ne
gro woman, the fumes of whose pipe
were annoying to him, If she thought
she wa3 a christian.
"Yes, brudder, I 'spects I Is."
"Do you believe in tho Bible?"
"Yes, brudder!"
"Do you know that thero 13 a pas
sage In tho Scriptures which says that
nothing unclean shall enter the king
dom of heaven?"
"Yes, I've heard of it."
"Well, Chole, you smoke, and you
cannot enter the kingdom of heaven,
because there is nothing so unclean
as the.breath of a smoker. What do
you say to that?"
"Why, I 'spects to leave my breff
behind when I go dar?"
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OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE C0UXTY..
A Particular Customer;
A short-haired stranger, with a'
week's growth of beard on hl3 face,
slipped into a barber shop on West
Madison street, the other night, and
quietly took a seat in a vacant ohair.
The knight of tho razor appeared,
and, taking him by the nose, said:.
"Will you have a shave?"
"No, I believe, I'll havo a tootfi
pulled."
"But these are not dental roomB,"
said tho astonished artist. "This.is a
barbershop."
"I am aware of that fact. . You
didn't; suppose I thought it was a
pawnshop, did yon?"
"I thought "
"You thought," interrupted the
stranger, "that I sat down here, to
my have back scratched, or my toe--nails
pared?"
"I thought, perhaps "
"You thought, perhaps, I wanteda
seotion of Bologna sausage, some
crackcra and a'hunk of cheese?
"I didn't know "
"You didn't know," cutting tho
barber's sentence short, "but that I
wanted my ears pierced, or tho wild
hairs pulled out of my eyes."
"I thought it likely ,r
"You thought It likely I wanted
the skin rubbed off my head Jand a
ring'put In my'nose."
"No, sir, my tonsorial friend," con
tinued tho stranger, "let mo glvo yoa
a little advice: When a man comes
intoyour shop whose beard is a week
old, and whoso hair is too short to bo
seen'by the;naked eye,and seatahim
self in one of your chairs, tako It for
granted that he wants to bo shaved,
and don't boro him withahalf-a-dozen
nonsensical; questions just for tho
sake of having something to say."
The barber profited by tho advice','
and tho stranger was shaved In silen
ce. Pomcroy's Democrat.
A ffLihcral""Coinmcnt.-
Col. Wm. M. Grosvenor speaks as1
follows inlhi8 new paper, Tlie Publlcf
of the Democratic House:
"Congress Is doing nothing with,
marvellous Industry.$Even tho dul
lest of tho southern'tcarpet-baggers
tako heart as they see tho democratlo'
majority unready or incompetent to
act, and loudly affirm that 'it Is going
to be possible to elect any Republican,
whoever may be nominated, becauso
the Democrats are killiDg themselves
as fast as they can.' Tho most saga
cious Democrats seo that the conduct
of their representatives in congress-Is
damaging the Jparty, biifcdonof-seo
how to help tho matter. Perhaps It
is past help. Parties, like eggs, onco
rotten, are worthless."
It Is said of Lord Norbury that ho
would at any timo rather loso a friend1
than a joke. On onejoccasion ho'be
gan thesenteneeof death In thiswise:
"Prisoner at the bar, you havo been
found guilty by a jury of your coun
trymen of tho crimo laid to your
charge, and I mustsay I agree entire
ly with tho verdict, for I see "scoun
drel" written in your face."
Hero tho prisoner interrupted with
"That's a strong reflection from your
Lordship."
Whereupon tho Judge, keonly ap
preciating tho joke, commuted tho
sentence into transportation for seven,
years.
One of the most wanton and brutal
cases of torture to a live animal over
recorded has occurred In Shrewsbury,
England. A farmer was convicted of
having cut out a hen's "crop" while
she was alive. She was found living
nextmorning with her chosf cut open.
When Interrogated about his motive,
ho said that hc-jhad lost a bag of wheat
and, suspecting a neighbor, had cut
out tho crop of one of his fowls to
obtain proof of tho theft. Ho Wa9
fined fivo shillings.
He came home very late ono nlght
and after fumbling with his latch key
a good while, muttered to himself, as
he at length opened the door, "I
mushnmakeny noish, caush tholo-
man's ashleep.' '.'He divested'hJmself
of his garments with some trouble,
and was congratulating himself on his
success as he was getting Into bed,
when a calm, clear, cold voice sent a
chill down his spinal column : "Why
my dear, you ain't going to sleep in
your hat, are you ?"
Many a good wife and her poorly
clad children wonder why at the end:
of the year they do not receive tho
little comforts promised thsm. The
editor of tho Prrressive Farmer says'
It is a little delay in securing the crops,
a little carelessness in the manner of
storing them, a little wastefulness in
the system of feeding and a little In
difference to the stale of the market.'
That was a shrewd girl, and not de
void of sense either, who remarked,
when other girls were making fun of
her short skirts, and affected to bo
much shocked at the exhibition there
of at a party: "If you'd only pull
your dresses about yourneok, where
they ought to be, they'd be a3 short
as mine !" She was not troubled any
more. Our readers will do well to remem
ber that vinegar, or any other acid
though vinegar Is the most conven
ient and fully as good 13 the only
sure antidote for concentrated lye or
potash. Accidents with thesearticlear'
are frequently occurring, especially
among children, and Immediate ac-f'
tiou is very imperative.
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