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PLATTSSMOUTII, NEBRASKA, AVEDNLTsDAY, JUNE 5, 1807
NO. i)
Vs.
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l.he puicha.-e and (-ale of Lands aud City prepvr
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tr. Tlo Lewis. Boston, Masnachusetta.
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ti M Slapill. Cincinnati. Khio.
ooil A ilanna, Plattsiuonth. Nebraska,
I. B K.i-h, Three Kiver. Michigan.
Ilou V Fellows, Bloomfleld, Wicocstn.
ll jn T M M;:rquett, Plattfmouth, Nebrai-ka.
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OUTFITTING GOODS
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JTl 6 Wm. BT ADkLMANS CO.
FOI1 SALE
gold two story brick stare building, 22.by 60 feel
wltS uood cellar; f jr furthei particulars iuqu;r of tha
!C'xa aej or SCHObl IlBT0aw
LEGISLATIVE.
Tuesday, May 2S, 1S67.
SENATE.
Doom, from the judiciary committee
submitted a report or a preamble ana
resolutions on the death of Chief Jus
tice Little, expressing the regret of the
citizens of Nebraska at his death, and
tendering the sympathies of his fellow
citizens to the relatires of the deceased
Chief Justice. The rules were sua
pended, and the preamble and resolu
lions unanimously passed.
Doom's resolution that the comrnitle9
on expenditures report a bill for the
payment of the Staie expenses for tha
current year, was adopted.
II. r . lo, a bill proriding for special
terms of the district courts. Read firt
time.
II. i . 2u A loint resolution request-
the Auditor to inquire into the val
idity of pre-emptions of school lands
Read first time.
H. F. 17 A joint resolution to au
thorize the Auditor to make temporary
arrangements for the payment of mile
age and per diem. Read first time.
II. F. 12 A bill to authorize the
Governor to appoint as many commis
iuner of deeds as be may deem ex
pedient. Read first time.
IIOI'SD.
Woolworth announced the death
Wm. A. Little, lata Chief Justice
of
this State, which took place at Aurora,
III., on the HJd inst.
Woolworth submitted the following
resolutions :
Resolved, That this house has learn
ed with profound sorrow of the death,
on the 23J day of May instant, of the
Hon. Wm. A. Little, Chief Justice of
Nebraska.
Resolved, That in this sad evei.t the
ranks of the legal profession have lost
an eloquent, honest and fai.hful advo
cate; the State a public servant capable
and devoted lo her best interest, and
r.il who were, in ar,y of the relations of
life, a?sociated with him, a uarui Leart
eJ, truthful und reliable friend.
Resolved, That out of re?pcct for the
deceased this House do now adjourn.
Pending which, Ly unanimous con
sent, 1'UlIir submitted the f (,11a win;
resolution :
Resolved, That lion. J. M. Wool
worth La requested to deliver an ora
tion upon the character aud public ser
vices of the lamented William A Little,
late thief Justice of the State of Ne
braska; and that the Senate be invited
to meet with the House on baiurday
next, at 2 o'clock p. m., for the purp jtf
of expression of such sentim-oi;i cn lhe
part of the Genera! -issembly as the
occasion deir-""5'
The resolution submitted by" Wool
vort!i was then unanimously adopted.
Also the resolution of Fuller.
Whereupon the House adjourned to
Wednesday, at 10 a. in.
Wednesday, May 29.
SENATE.
Hascall, from the committee on
printing reported S. F. No. 4, without
recommendation, aud S. F. No. 22,
with a recommendation that it pass.
I'resson offered a concurrent resolu
tion that the Uovernor, immediately
after selecting the saline lands, proceed
to select all valuable vacant lands in
the counties of Seward, Lancaster, Bji-
ler, Sautudurs and Johnson, as State
lands.
Freeman, from the select committee
on immigration, made a report suggest
ing an appropriation of 810,000 to be
uted by the Board of Immigration in
furthering immigration into this State.
Doom introduced S F 26. a bill to
provide for the Protection of slock from
contagious diseases.
Sheldon introduced S F 27, a bill to
amend section 1-5 of chapter 4S, enti
tled "Schcols," of the Revised Stat
utes. Majors introduced S F 29. a bill to
locate and establish a State Normal
Schoel.
Majors gave notice of a bill to ap
portion the members of the Senate and
House of Representatives.
HOUSE.
Daily, from the committee cn privi
leges and elections, reported on bill 33
for the apportionment.
Message from the Governor approv
ing the joint resolution requesting Hon.
O. H. Browning, Secretary of the In
terior to withdraw all public lands
from the market.
Dailv oresented bill II II 33 To
apportion the members of the Senate
and House of Representatives.
Crawford moved the rejection of the
bill.
Yeas and nays called.
Yeas Baker. Beebe, Crawford,
Morton, Parmalee, Prenon and Wool
worth 7.
Nays Anderson, Bennett Butler,
Cadman, Clark, Cole, Collins, Crow,
Daily, Dewesse, Duerfeldt, Dunham,
Fuller, Harvey, Haywood, Huklin,
Hoile, Rockwell, Slader. Sroat, Town
send, Tucksr, Untbank, Wallicha,
Wa'dter, Speaker .26 Lost.
II R Joint resolution adopting the
proposed amendment to the Constitu
ticn of the United States.
House resolved itself into committee
of the whole. Wiles in the chair.
After some time, the committee rose
aud reported the resolution tack to the
House without amendment.
The reselution was then ordered en
grossed for third reading to-morrow.
Wednesday, May 29
SENATE.
The concurrent resolution offered by
Mr. Presson in the morning session,
after being so amended as to authorize
the Governor, after selecting the sa
line lands to select all other lands dona
ted to the State, was adopted.
Tuubsday, May 30.
A communication was received from
the Auditor in response to the resolu
tion in relation lo the financial condi-
of the State, that there is now, cash on
hand in the State Treasury,S30,lll 26;
amount still due in taxes of 1S6(5, S64,-
165 31; due from General Govern
ment on militia expense account S17,-
000.
nousE.
Crawford from committee of corpo
rations reported II R 0 and recom
mended its passage.
iles reported on II K 1U witn
amendments to provide for the extra
pay of the President of the Senate,
Speaker cf the House, and reduce the
rtv for copvin? the journal to S100
each, to reduce tha py of enrolling
and encrossiiijr clerks, fergeant-at-
of ...
arms and doorkeepers to S3 a day, and
pages S1.50 per cay each.
OPCMXG THE WOULD.
1 he day is not likely to ever come
when Mr. Seward, liiie Alexander,
-t. i
will weep uecause tnre are no xoreign
countries left for him to acquire; but
there is a fair prospect tlKU there will
soon be no strange lands to Urnpt the
adventurous footsteps of explorers, ad
no distant territory so little known as
tojuitify one in making a book about
it. We have solved nearly all tue
great problems of geography. We
have fouud the North-West passage
and the sources of the Nile. We have
proved that there are no Mountains of
the Moon where the old physicists snil
there were, and no cold wea her in the
tussian Possession, near the North
ole. Our missionaries have tratB-
ed he length and breadth ;
our merchants have for"-u, l,neir wa".
irough the jea!o.-7 cuaraeu gates or
a pan
rr'r.,, Ul iicavcu uua vvim
.ved to flee from his
iin'srB
at
rt king before the armies of outsile
barbarians. Even the sacred pre
cincts of Mecca have been profaned by
the foot of the infidel; and there is now
a newspaper reporter in almost every
part of the hatiub'e globe. Fast steam
ship are making regular trips bttveeu
an Francisco and Yokohama and
Hong Kong. Chiaese laborers are
building our Pacific Railway; Japan
ese acrobats are tumbling and postur
ing in the New York Academy of Mu
sic; and it is only ihe other day that
the journals reported the appearance
in the streets of one of our cities of a
genuine Chinese lady, fmall feet and
all. An embassy from the most se
cluded of Eastern courts to the gay
capitals of Europe aud America, is no
longer a wonder, Ihe brotner ot tne
mysterious lycoon nimseir is to
day gazing at the glories ot the 1'aris
exhibition, and at the same time of
ficial representatives of his Govern
ment are shaking hands wi:h Mr. An
drew Johnson in Washington.
We are forcibly reminded of the
vast progress made during the last
quarter of a century in extending that
free intercommunication which pro
motes the universal brotherhood of
nations by the publication of two curi
ous communications from two of the
most interesting countries of the far
East. The steamer brought us the
other day, two newspapers from Japan,
one printed in the vernacular, and the
other in English. That there should
be an English and American population
large enough to support a newspaper,
is of itself a significant faci. but our in
terest is excited chiefly by the native
periodical. The Ban Kokr Shin Bun
Shi, or "All Countries' News Hearing
Paper" as this journal is calUd, w ith
its fourteen rice-paper pages filled
with news and advertuements, its
showy title page, decorated with the
picture of a steamship. its excellent sum
mary of intelligence from all parts of
the world, and its description and ex
planation of the electric telegaaph, is
proof in itself that the old wall of ex
clusion has been broken down, and the
strangely contrasted civilizations of the
East and West are about to greet each
other.
On the same day ihat we received
this Japanese paper, Mr. Seward gave
to the public a translation of a History
of America written by a distinguished
Chinese scholar find Statesman, to
whom, in recgonilion of the apprecia
tion of the character of Washington
evinced in that curious work, our State
Department has ordered a copy of Gil
bert Stuart's portrait of the Father of
our Country to be transmitted. A. Y.
J'ribune.
rT3"M. W. Campbell, the Sheriff
who hung John Brown, is dead.
of li
Union.
The National Union Committee ep.
peals to the Republicans cf every State
for their assistance and co-operation in
this auspicious crisis cf our country:
We deem it of the highest import
ance that the Republicans of each State
should immediately re organize for the
remaiuing elections of 1867, prepara
tory to the coming Presidential coutest.
Especially should this organization be
immediately effected iu those States
which have never before recognized as
the only just bais of government the
equal and inalienable rights of man.
Not a day should be lost in forming
and strengthening within thosfc States
a public sentiment in consonance with
the principles which underlie the great
political organization to which .we be
long.
J o this end we desire lo prosecu'e a
systematic and thorough canvass of the
Southern Slates, by the most efficient
speakers of both races. We would
second their ellorts by a distribution of
documents, enforcing the principles,
policy and aim of the Republican party.
We would call, in every locality where
it is possible, meetings for discussion,
where those who are with us in prin
ciple may learu to act in unity and en
ergy. inese uieusuica nic ic juncu
to bring out the vote of that large body
of Republican Unionist who now ren
der the Southern States a battle field
of principle. It is the pressing need
of the hour that bold, judicious and able
men, thoroughly imbued with our creed ,
should there explain our principles.
establish our faithfulness to them, and
prove that natural greatness and hu
man freedom depend upon the perma
nent triumph of our cause.
Beyond this it is most essential that
wo
should establish in those states,
Free Thought, Free Speech and a Free
Press. Every part of this Republic
must be open to the discussion of prin
ciples and mtasures. This must be
sustained as a ctrJ nil point in our
creed, at any and every hazard. Ef
tens to intimidate the humble und ig
norant ver on the part of the South
ern planter, must be met with the spirit
of freemen, and the detei minaiion
which a jus: cause sanctions.
2a lnuo al, I lit) It Jf -.1 i;r party
has struggled agaiust the unjust re
proach of being sectiouil in its aims
and character, though its purposes aud
means of affecting them were such as
the fathers of the Republic approved.
It was accused of being governed by
selfish motives, and of desiring to ag
grandize the North at the expense of
the South. I.s adversaries having the
power to silence and crush ail oppjei
tion, denied all discussion and overawed
even freedom of thought in fifteen
Stales of the Union. It i?, therefore,
now an iinperativ duty, we owe to our
party and to ourselevs, to embrace ihe
first opportuniiy of truly representing
to those States how consistently we
have contended for the interests, wel
fare and freedom of the whole Utiion.
The overthrow oC slavery and the
rebellion, and the enfranchisement of
ihe freedinen, rendering this overthrow
secure and final, have happily vindi
cated cur course and organization; but
it is necessary to stamp the conviction
of our loyalty and fidelity to the right,
irrespective of section or race, upon
the reconstructed States. For the first
lima iu many years, ihe enthusiastic
followers of our flag and confessors of
our faith are there taking part in the
popular gatherings, aud in many of the
Southern States we have reason to be
lieve that they form a decided majority.
They are, however, without organiza
tion, and lack the cohesion and disci
pline necessary to success. Three
fourths of the Republicans have never
voted, and have no practical knowledge
of the means whereby the popular will is
expressed. With many of them, the
habit is fixed, of rendering implicit
obedience to able and dextrous politi
cians who are implacably hostile to our
to our principles and detertmined on the
prostration of our cause.
(Jar immediate
action is therefore
imperative
imperilling
WTe cannot delay without
all for which so much has
To Hie Itcpublicans
been sacraliced in the past. Confident j went out, and providentially stepped
in our itrergth in the North, the Wresi . jnt0 a drug store just as ihe hack patsed.
and the Pacific States, we must cot j Then, too, the hackman, just before
forget thai we have a great duty lo reaching the crossing, thought of tome
perform toward the loyal and true meni thiug that he had forgotten, and, turn-
of the South. j
Republicans! our appeal is to you.
to carry on and sustain the work whics
a few loyal and true mea have so nobly j
begun, we cannot ask speakers, in
addition to giving their time and talent
for months' lo this labor, to defray their
own necessary expanses. We cannot
print and distribute documents of the
character required, without a heavy
outlay, we have no means or reliance
except upon the generous spirit cf thai
great party which holds the claims of
Humanity and Freedom above nil price.
The patronage of the Government
brought into power by the statesman
ship, the courage, and
that party, will not aid
work.
We must therefore
and personally to you.
give generously. If
the loyalty of
us in this good
appeal directly
If you are rich,;
poor, send us
whatever you can afford. The gener
out purpose and the noble aim sanctify
; the humblest effort.
act promptly, and let us feel ihat the
sympathy of the Republican party is
with us in our purpose of making this
great land the home of true Repubh
can principles, where distinctions of
race and color are unknown, and
where Liberty, Virtue and Intelligence
form the enduring basis of our great
ness and prosperity.
Address letters and contributions to
Gov. Marcus L. Ward, Chairman and
.Treasurer, Newark. N. J.
Mahccs L. Ward, N. J,
Samuel A. Puhviance, Pa.
William Claflin, Mass.
John B. Clark, N. II.
Horace Greeley, N. Y.
II. II Starkweatuer, Conn.
N. B Smith ers, Dal. '
II W. Hoffman, Md.
Executive Com. of a the National
Union Com.
A'fir York, May 16, 1S67.
ww All the republican journals are
requested to copy and to second this
appeal.
C U. &. St. Joe. It. It
The damage done to ihe Council
Bluffs and St. Joseph Railroad by the
recent freshet is undergoing repair
with all possible speed; and regular
traits will commence running some
time tha present week. A large num
ber of workmen are employed; and the
road is being entirely rebuilt in the
most substantia! manner for a distance
f two or three miles in the vicinity of
Pacific City. Men and teams are also
called for to oommence the grading of
she road from Bartlett lo ihe Missouri
line, and it i understood that the par-
ies having the contract in hand will
jxert every effort to push the work to
ultimate coinpletsou. A new passen
ger coach has been recently received
over the Northwestern for thi road,
which will in every respest comoare
favorably with those found on old es
tablished and well regulated routes.
Another engine wnl also be added at
r.n nr!y day, the same having been
purchased nnd tarted on its destination
f-everal weeks ngo. St. Jot. Herald.
Hangecl Himself in Sport.
The St Johnsburg. (Vt.) Calcdoni
i'n says mat on tne iiL or Aurn. a
ki Salem, Orleans county, t., wau
bad beea in the habit of frighlenii g a
ttle boy, eon of Mr. Chanes Btariweu,
while doing something in the barn, as
dendtd a scaffold where the lower end
rf a rope lay, the ether end beiDg fast-
ned lo an overlayer over the ihrerh-
,- mi til. J
ing lloor. l his rope naa oeen usea
in dressing a beef. He adjusted the
rope to his neck witn a strong slip-
noose (purposing to frighten the child
with the pretei.ee of being about to
hang himself), then descended the
icaffold, in doing which it is upposed
lie mad-) a blunder and fell, which sud
denly tightened the rope arouud his
neck. He began to struggle, which
fully answered his design theliale boy
leaving the barn; but not being of suf
ficient age to comprehend the transac
tion, and having been previously cor
rected for allowing himself to be so
easily frightened by Magee, he said
nothing about It to any one at the time.
About half an hour afterward a little
girl went to the barn to call Magee to
vupper, and found him as above stated,
with the rope so long that he was cn
his hands and knees, his head not be
ing more than two feet from the floor.
He va9 doing whai the little girl term
ed "playing dead,'' which it seems he
did effectually.
Hunting Items
per eays: "Wre took i
A Chicago pa
new reporter on
trial Yesterday. He went out to hunt
items, ind after being away all day
returned wi:h the following, which he
said was the best he could do : 'Yester
day we saw a sight that froze our mus
cles with horror. A hackman driving
down Clark street at a rapid pace,
came very near running over a nurse
and two children. Thsre would have
I hupri nnfi of ih most heart rendering
catastrophies ever recorded, had not
uhe nurse, with wonderful forethought,
left the children at home bufore she
ing about, drove in the opposite direc-
tion. Had it not been tor this wonder
ful occurence of favorable circumstances
a doitng father, a loving mother and
affectionate brothers and fcisters, would
have been plunged into the deepest wee
and most unutterable funeral expenses.
The new reporter will be re'ained.
EST" A correspondent of a Pbiladel
phis paper proposes to light that city
with a light produced from magnesium.
He proposes to divide the city into four
districts, and to send up from each a
balloon which shall be supplied with a
large reflector and a sufficient cable
mads cf magnesium wire. As a single
wire of magnesium one-hundredth of
an inch in diameter gives a brilliancy
equal to seventy four stearine candles,
he thinks the combustion of the four
cables would flood every nook and cor
ner with a light equal to that shed by
the moon.
tei ul: ah gospel.
Some man, who traveled through
Iowa with, both eyes open, and plainly
saw what was written on every bush,
gives the following Solomou-like ad
vice to the young men in the East, in a
communication to ihe Ohio Farmer :
'In closing, we must be allowed to
express ourselves in regard to the
foolishess of young farmers in digging
over azd over ihe old worn out lands of
tne Ji,iist, when so many broad acres
. t w
lie untitled here. To be sure peopl
are not so stylish in ihe more remote
settlements, for we still meet but few
carriages, more being in lumber wagons
or on horseback, 'double, but they look
quite as happy as ihe gay cay profligate
and undoubtedly the western sun shines
on far happier homes. Because they
are fewer, enterprising and intelligent
men will receive more respect in
community; and, if they are ambitious
of the well deserved admiration of their
fellows, ihey can easily obtain it, for
honesty and intelligence are pa-sports
here where they are unrecognized and
unappreciated in an o.der country.
The people are also proud of their
country, aud it ecoma as if nothing
could induce them lo go back LUs-t
the disadvantages being readily yielded
for the great advantages.
COAL.
Sometime since we alluded to the
foimation of a Company for developing
the coal mines supposed to exist in the
vicinity of Boone, on the Northwestern
Railroad. This company commenced
sinking iheir shaft in January last, and
have been working their mines only
about four weeks. The vein is about
four feet thick, and the coal is as good
as can be found in the oountry. Be
tween fifty and sixty thousand pounds
or about two and a half car loads
are taken out daily. Tne company ex
pect soon to quadruple this amount, and
hope to be able to supply Western Iowa
with fuel this winter. We gaiher these
facts from the Boone County Index.
W e trust the most sanguine expscta-
tionsofthe Company may be more
than realized, in which event, we of
the Missouri valley may be enabled to
ceclare oursoves independent of the
extortions of the wood-mongers. A 'on-
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E52rA servant girl in Covington,
Ky., living in the family of a doctor.
filled the pepper-box with horse pow
ders, which the doctor had left lying
around loose. The unsuspecting saw
bones is greatly addicted to pepper, and
used a large quantity of ihe condi
tion powder at his next meal. A friend
says he is now in fine condition, has
rented a stall in a livery stable, and
talks about running for Mayor.
One of our most reliable ex
change says that a young man named
Simon llodgers recently blew out his
brains, after bidding his wife good-bye
with a shot Run.
fJSF" "Who made the world?" asked
a teacher, ot a little boy who had not
been long at school. The boy shook
his head and said nothing. The teach
er threatened to whip him, unless he
answered. The boy feeling compelled
to a confession of some sort, broke
forth; "Well, master, I made it; but
I'll never do it again."
Among ihe court files at Taun
ton, Mass., is the finding of a Coro
ner's jury, drawn up uome forty years
aS by a lawyer, which concludes,
"that the said came lo his death
by the visitation of the aforesaid God."
tks"" A printer who used to set type
in ihe New York Tribunt office, is re
ported to have smiled audibly the other
day when somebody wondered that
Horace Greeley could be willing to let
his name to go down to posterity affixed
to Jeff. Davis' bail bonds. Horace
knows (he says) that posterity can't
read the signature.
fSray Gen. Schofield kas issued an
rderfor the registration of voters in
his department. The Board of regis
tration is to be composed of three while
and three colored men and all the qual
ified electors of the department are to
be registered tha colored on one list
and the white on another.
IvS?" In 1S00, the population of the
United States was 5,305,000. when the
church members were 350,000. In
1SG0, the population was 31,000,000
and over the church memters 5,855,
201.
r3Wm. Stinson, residing in Wine
ville. Iowa, induced another man's wife
to elope with him one day last week.
The inhabitants of the village turned
out and helped the husband in the pur
suit after his fleeing "fraulein." The
hunt was succestful, and the roving
Betsy returned home with the husband
who was big fool enough to want her
lo. While the people of the town were
gone on this search, four prisoners es
caped from the log jail. What general
thunder one little woman can raise!
Sioux City Jour.
SSPThe United States Commission
ers estimate that at least $30,000,000
was paid in 1866 for the transportation
of freight from the Missouri river to
the Western gold fields.
CiyA St. Louis papor says the Rev.
Mr. Hays, of Peoria. Ills., has invent
ed a machine for enabling a steamer
to override sandbars. It consists of a
long lino of plows fastened to a framo
in front of the vessel, and so arranged
that they can be lowered or elevated at
will from the deck cf the steamer.
When the steamer meets a bar the
theory is ihat the plows will force o,
channel for her, and all the water iu
the river running into the break thus
made, will be amply sufficient lo float
her over the obstructions.
J&SS A Woman's Suffrage Associa
tion has been organized in St. Louis,
and some of ihe most prominent ludiea
have been elected officers. Active
measures are being laken in the city
and throughout the State to shape pub
lic opinion so as to effect a revision of
ihe Constitution, conferring the right
of suffrage on women,
USSome graceless chap, evidently
of a profane turn of mind, is responsi
ble for ihis conundrum: "Why can you
not prevent the Mississippi from over
flowing its bank? Because, dam it you
can't."
E2rGeni;iiiy is neither in birth.
manner nor fashion, but in mind. A
gh sense of honor, a determination-
never to lake a mean advanmgo of
another, an aoheisnce to truth, delica
cy and politeness towards those with
whom you have dealings, are essential
and distinguished characteristics of a
gentleman.
The monument to be erected
10 the memory of Gen. Samuel A.
Rice, by ihe members of the 29th and
33J Iowa Infantry, is" completed and
will soon be put up at Oskaloosa.
A Virginia negro, aecordinrr
lo an exchange, on hearing that Con
gress was going lo give lands to the
darkies, said : "Land, de debil! l's
free now and don'l want no land. Fa
gwineto git wurms and go a fishin'."
For Brazil. The Mobi'e papei
are complaining of the prevalent dis
position among the Confederates of
ihat State to emigrate to Brazil They
will not find a slaveholding paradise
even there, for an imperial decree has
been recently issued for gradual eman-
fusVe men artJVo'ugflilt taS
not find a spot where they can buy and
ell and scourge and kill, ad lib., their
fellow-beings, as in the good old days.
Surveys in Dakota, Surveyor
Geuerel Tripp, of Dakota has received
instructions from the General Land
office to extend the U. S. survey along
the Red river of the North and to in-
iudo the settlements in tha Pembina
region near the international boundary.
A lady fait.ted a few days
( Alt .1
since, in the cars. A medical gentle
man present, who went to her reltif,
exclaimed: "Has any gentleman a
flask of whiskey or brandy?" Over
thirty pocket pistols flashed in the air
at once.
SFAfew years ago, there dwelt
an old couple in a dialapidated shanty
in the suburbs of Richmond, with no
one to wait upon them but a grand
daughter about eleven years of age.
One Sunday the old woman went lo
church, leaving the old man and the
child in the shanty Whilst engaged in
her devotions, the little girl ran breath
less into the sanctuary, exclaiming:
"Grandma, O, grandma! the house has
f;i lien in and killed grandpa." The
old dame's only remark waj : "What!
I'll bet fifty dollars my pipe's broke !"
ST" Senator Freelinghuysen, of
New Jersey, made a speech at New
ark, recently, in which he declared that
the Reconstruction Law, in his opinion,
"presents the finality of reconstruc
tion." JgQrJudge Hunter, of Memphis,
while on thn bench, was recently as
saulted by a prisoner. The Judge
gave the scoundrel a threshing in ihe
most approved style, and then commit
ted him on default of bail to keep the
peace.
Er2TThe vestry of the Episcopal
Church in Selma, Alabama, havo re
solved upon rebuilding their church,
and it is to be made "a memorial to the
late Right Rev. Leonidas Polk, D. D."
a5S5"Gen. Stonewall Jackson's col
ored nurse died in Jackson, Madison
County, Tennesee, on the 30th of April,
at the advanced age of 113 years nine
months and 12 day.
2afDr. Chapin said a few days
since that when Isaac Newton "took a
glass," he raised it to his eye and dis
covered the hidden wonders of nature,
but when Isaae Noodle "took a glass,"
he raised it to bis lips and speedily
got drunk.
gQIt is understood that the British
Premier has officially announced that
the Alabama claims will be amicably
settled, which implies, it is presumed,
that they will be paid by the British
Government.
JESyAn exchange says that coaches
over the Smoky Hill route are now ar
riving in Denver only three times a
week, owing lo the fears of Indian
depredations along that route.
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