PLAT7SM0UTH. NEBRASKA.
THUUSDAY,
.TTJNE30, I8TU.
OLUIKB'H REISIO.V. .
The Chairman of tbe Committee of
Arrangements for the Reunion of the
Soldiers in Nebraska, to bo held on the
4th of July next, at Lincoln, handed us
the following "Programme" of the cere
monies to be had on that occasion :
PROGRAMME.
Urn'ot Soldiers Reunion in KAraslJa,
Lincoln, Nebraska. July 4th, 1870.
Reception of Sldier at Depot by Stat and
C,.7 Jf!:".- r. I h to Caoital. com-
manded by Gen. e
anded by tfen. ts. A. Strickland and assisted
by the fol
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by the following. auiitant Mar.tuiW : yoi. iiar-
, il j. Geo. ft. feea-
roK. Jim. . . -w --r- . ...u.
L" l.' V.llantin
in. Cant. E- ii. .nurpuy. waj.
CapL W. A. Pollock. C-pt- K. E. Cunuin..
Cailed to order by Praiident of the rgangixa
tion. . . .
Invocation by the Chaplain.
National anthem. ... j
Reading of the Declaration of Independence,
by Col. lavage, of Omaha.
Music. . .
Oration, by Gen. R. R. LiTinnton.
Maic.
Poem by Col. C. 3. Chaise.
Musio.
Election of officer! for ensuing year.
Benediction by the Chaplain.
Adjournment for Refreshment.
Assembling at the Capitol in the evening.
We have no doubt there will be a gala
time, as this will be the first meeting of
the trcop? here since they were mustered
rut of the service of tbe country they
helped to save. We understand the
Railroad will convey thorn at very re
duced rates. low enough to ernille any
of theui to go who want to. Mr. Gilles
pie requests that all State papers will
publi&h the programme for the informa
tion of the boys in bine.
ncaocn iw a riu.vrixa office.
Oan Printer Nhoet Another in Coun
cil jitufra.
About tix o'clock last Monday evening
the Council Bluffs evening Times office
was the scene of a terrible tragedy. The
particulars as related by the Nonpareil,
are as follows : Austin has for some time
been an employee at the Times ofllce a
gi)od printer, but addict ed to d rinking, and
when under the influence of liquor quar
relsome, and insolently overbearing and
insulting in his language. Bell is also a
printer and had been to work in the
Times office in place of Austin, during
the !ay. About fifteen minute- before
eix o'clock Bell was iu the 2?mpireil
office, and said to the compositors that
h.3 had seme difficulty with Austin, and
rhat there might be more of it signifi
cantly adding that if Austin returned to
the attack and gave him sufficient provo
cation, he should "go for him." Bell
returned to the office, and was again met
by Austin, who renewed the war of
words. Opprobioua epithets were
passed, Bell standing upon the sidewalk
and Austin staggering around in the
office near the door. In reply to some
remark addressed to the proprietor by
Austin, Bell called Austin a liar, and the
latter made a rush out of the door to
ward Bell. He missed his aim and stag
gered off the sidewalk. Recovering, he
again started toward Bell, who drew his
revolver and fired, the ball striking Aus
tin over the right eye, passing entirely
through the upper portion of the brain,
and lodging against the cranium in the
back part of the head.
Austin fell upon the sidewalk, where
he remained for some moments in a com
atose state, the blood oozing from the
wound. He wad subsequently taken
into the rear room of Gray's office, where
he revived sufficiently to converse with
pome of his friends. Thence he was ta
kea to the Washington House, and fi
nally to the buildij? adjoining, where he
now i. Here the wound was thoroughly
probed, and the ball found as above
stated, having traversed the skull for
seven inches. Drs. Hart, Scott and
Malcomb, with whom we conversed,
agree in the opinion that his chances of
recovery are as one to a thousand. At
12 o'clock last night his pulse was about
SO, and his breathing not stentorious.
Bell, after the fatal hot, remarked to
the bystanders "I have finished Austin
and myself, too." He then walked over
to the office of Montgomery, Heed &
fair.es, where he was soon after arrested
by officer Jackson, and taken to the coun
ty jail.
luis deplorable affair iniDerilin? the
lives of two men is the direct result of
that never-to-be-sufficiently -deprecated,
and utterly reprehensible practice of
carrying deadly weapons.
'Letter From Ntbre k.
I 'lattsmout v, Neb., June 9, 1870.
Mr. Editor:
1 lattsmouth, the county seat or eapi-
ii- "a:M county s situated on the
Missouri rivrr, tw.j miles south of the
unction or the riattc and Missouri,
meifoy giving it direct water communi
cation with St. Louis, St. Joseph, Kan
Bu.jv.njr, jjeavenMronn, ine vast regions
up the Missouri, and many other im
portant points.
The B. & M. Railroad of Nebraska
parses through the city. Cars are run
ning 25 or 30 miles out. The road will
reach Lincoln, (the capital) 53 miles dis
tant , Ly the first of J uly. We have con
iucuons by railroad and water with all
iio.nts, and are the terminus of five pro
jected railroads. Nebraska City i 4o
miles distant ; Omaha, 24 miles ; Co i
eil Bluffs, 25 utile. Mattsniouth has
every natural advautage; one of the
best fanning countries in the State sur.
rounds the city. There are at lea 3A)0
inhabitants, and fast increasing: live,
go-ahead daily and weekly newspaper,
the D'lil't I'latttmouth JJrrald, 11 D.
Hathaway, editor and proprietor, and a
more competent man for that business
we could not find wast of the Mississippi.
Masonia, I. O. O. F , I. O. G. T., k.
V., and other benevolevo'ent orders are
bly represented. There are two or
three grist and saw mills, good hotel,
ti ve churches, court-house, school-house-,
the majority of which are ably con
ducted; one. Banking House, ( Footle
Hanna & Clark, Bankers, T. W. Evans
Cashier, and Frank Kershaw, Asst.
Cashier.) is also represented.
The State is young, and ha but a
short time been known; nevertheless,
December '69 showed not far from 150,-
0 X) inhabitants wit Liu our limits. Some
1 lea of the rapidity With which the Stare
is being settled may be gathered from a
glance at the statistics of immigration,
cops and trade. In the year 1868, not
le.-s thnn 5,0:JU families cro-sed the river
at various points ; more than l,(MM.(i0
ceres were put under cultivation ; th-u
a:ii.-i of aftii'r.i.'iiual irap!eui&ii were
j to tiu liters unl hurKir"! of thou
J and.- of bushel of wheat and corn were
rainea. In the year I860 more new ter
I ritory was brok-u nj than all that had
been nut in cultivation telori5 that tiate;
not le s than 10,000,000 bushels qt jrratn
were rai.-ed ; thou.-ands of families net
tled here, and an almost fabulous num
ber of agricultural implements were im
ported and sold. Several colonies from
Europe have been located within the
borders of this State, and myriads of
acres bought up by persons who propo-e
to remove to this country at the owning
of another fcason.
We know of several instance where
mechanics have arrived in this State
with scarcely enough uiemstobuya
night'slo Jgin for thein-ielves and fami
lies, and in three or tour years, have
workjd themselves into possession of
real estate, that to-day is worth several
thousand dollars.
Days could be spent showing the ad
vantages of riattmouth and Nebra.-ka,
but let the home-seeker come and sec for
himself. Time will tell. Frank.
We find the above letter iu the Cecil
Whig, published at Klkton, Maryland,
first-class newspaper, and one that
seems to take an interest in publishing
reliable western news. We thank the
writer for his compliments to the Her
ald and its e ditor. If more of our citi
zens would write letters of this character
to energetic publishers of newspapers in
the east, it would soon tell to the ad
vantage of our growing State, as well as
to the advantage of those who are
brought hither in consequence
A TblefGet tausht and GeMaCew-
A couple of suspicious looking char
acters weie noticed hanging arowu the
putiic places of our city on Monday la.-t,
and a close watch was kept over their
Uioveuients. They ha i no dinner any
where, but loaied around loose. In the
af:ernoon one of theui was detected in
the act of stealing a pair of pants. No
officer happened to be o.i hand, and a
posse of men took the tui.'eraoie feilow
down into the woods below the city, and
administered a round number of laches
on his back wi.h a whip. He was then
put aero.-s the river, and advised to keep
scarce in thrs vicinity, which be said he
would do with the utmost saii.-faction.
The whole affair was so quietly con
dm -ted that it attracted no attention, and
nobody except the actors knew anything
of it, by some of whom it was told next
day. Bi'iiicuriile Drnmcrnt.
Cburrli and Kcliool House Robbery
We leai ned a few days since of a se-.
ries of misdeeds so vmainous that they
seem beyond belief iu this age of en
lightenment Wiihin the pac three or
four month-1, some villain without the
fear of Lord or law before his eyes, has
repeatedly broken into the M. E. Church,
at Fairview, aud the school house by
that name in fairview Preempt, and
have stolen books of ail kinds carried
off the children's copy books, ink, pen
holders, and. but last week, the school
house was entered and things scattered
around in wild con'usion, aui books, etc.,
and the wed and water buckets sto.en.
Tbe Church has lost thus about one-
half of a fifty dollar Sunday School Li
brary. What Use the thief could ha.e
for the bulk of what lias beeu stolen is
beyond our power to imagine, and e
doubt if the itio-t hardened would com
mit these crimes if they knew it to beau
offen-e for which the perpetrators, if
discovered, could be put iu penitentiary.
e hope he will be apprehended and
convicted. The public generally is inte
rested in the punishment of so despiea
able a villain lirownville Advertiser.
jool Mature.
There are few of us who have a proper
sense of the duty of cheerfulness. We
are willing to be gay aud happy, and to
let the world know that we are o, when
we have a special reason tor ic ; but it is
hard work wearing a show ot happiness,
when the substance is lac ing, an l it is
but few who are wiiiing to make the sus
tained effort that the task demands, mid
yet it is easy to cultivate a habitual spirit
of cheerfulness that, not only will make
others who come in contact with us happy,
but will pi event ou.-elves troiu bciug
miserable. There is piency of evil lit
tbe world in the shape of pain, bereave
ment, disappointment, lusiucenty and
poverty, to make p-ople wretched, ii'j
they desire to be -o : me geat difficulty
and duty is to be cheerful in sniie of
these adverse agencies. It seemb hard,
but it is possible. W'e owe it to our
selves, and we owe it more to our friends
to cherish genial good nature that lias a
sympathetic eye, a giowing, bright face,
and a warm, responsive heart to greet
the world with. It is oue of the mot
effective of all means of doing good. It
may seem strange, but it.is certainly true,
that some jjersons would rather be un
happy than not at least they would
rather appear to be wreteded than the
contrary. 1 h.y are never so we'd satis
fied as when miserable. They are cold
shadows that shatter the feeble bars of
soul sunshine accorded to us here, into
tremulous aud affrighted fragments, and
throw a di-ma. silence around them wher
ever they go. Kind words and gentle
looks cost nothing ; and yet they are
often more grateful to the poor aud op
pressed than purses of gold.
The Grttve.
It burie- every error, covers every de
fect, extinguishes every resentment.
From its' peaceful bo.-om spring none but
tender recollections, c can look down
upon the grave of an enemy and not, fl-el
a compunctious throe that he should
have warred with the poor handful of
earth that ies mouldering before him?
The best thing a man can take with him
to the grave is character.
The sexton of Trinity Church, New
York, and his assistants, have received
instructions to lock all 'he doors of tht
edifice on Sundays immediately before
the commencement of the sermon, and
to keep them so until the service is en
eluded. The regulation went into effect
last Sunday and produced much dissatis
faction among those who attempted to
leave U-fore the conclusion of tbe seri
ces- The sexton was deaf to their en
treaties and held them prisoner until the
end. Only one succeeded in securing his
release through a middle door by tbieat
eniiig a suit for false imprisonment
I have, savs Stephen Girard, always
considered advertising, liberally and long
to be a great medium of successful busi
ness and prelude to wealth. And have
made it an invariable rule, ton, to adver
tise the dullest time:-, a3 well as the busi
est, long experience having tiught me
that money thus spent is well laidou, as
by keeping my business eoniuiu.diy bu
fore the public, it has secured me many
sales that I otherwise would have lost
Stop telling your iunoecut, confiding,
trembling children about gho ts aud hob
goblins. You are throw iig a sorrow
upon their hearts that will cling there
through life. How nnny mo: hers there
are wn- quiet ttuir child e-i bv paying,
" I h t ug a-ioos w:i! come nil 1 tale .xou
0!T;" "Co in-, old nijfer, come nl--xV.l.
will you huh tain, right, this min-uieif'
.... ChlBrM lbor In Aw jEiurlanrt.
The introduction into an Eastern fac
tory, in the very heart of New England,
of seventy-five Chinese laborers, takes
the country somewhat by surprise. The
treatment New England will accord to
thse men will soon be known. It re
mains to be feen whether th-y are to b
met by the same in.-!ise prejudice that
clogs their footsteps iu t'alit'o-.nia and
shuts them out from all social intercourse
and privilege- The staid and dillivent
Yankee will not hastily place himself in
a hostile attitude before these strangers.
But if he sees in the success of his firt
venture the prelude to a vat influx of
cheap foreign labor, which is to cheapen
that of the American workshop and fac
torj. he will arouse a storm that cannot
be easily allayed. But in this connection
it must be remen)lered that many of the
workmen of the New England lactones
are foreign born.'
When the Union Pacific Railroad was
first completed, the question of Chinese
labor was widely atitated and earnestly
discussed. An intelligent Christian sen
timent everywhere demanded room and
place for the stranger. But it cannot be
defied that there was uneasiness, deep
and profound, among the day laborers
and in the workshops of the country.
There is a problem before the country in
connection with this question of labor,
that ha excited much thoughtful solici
tude among statesmen and political econ
omists. 'I he inquiry is often heard, will
labor in this country soon, if ever, return
to the prices prevalent before the war?
The ready response in the mind cf many
is in the affirmative ; and many o hers
have believed that the resumption of
specie payments will be the prelude to
this result. Vet it is worthy of consid
eration he; her this shadow, gathering
darkness to the fnind of the laborer,
does not receive a deeper shade iu view
of the recent Chinese raid upon Ma
ehusetts the admission d' the coolies
inti a Yankee woikshop? (Jm iha Re
publican. Interesting to It. IU eal-llad.'
In January, 1S65, Mr. T. E. Roberts,
while traveling on the Toledo & Wabash
railroad, was iu a car which was thrown
off the track, and sustained injuries for
which he sued the company for damages.
After hearing all the testimony, in which
it was stated by the defendant that Mr.
Robers was at the time traveling on a
free pass, Judge Brady, of the Supreme
Court, charging the Jury, said that as be
understood the lav iu his State, ( N. Y.)
as laid don by the Court of Appeals,
the defendants in this ca-e would not be
liaule for any ordm.ny acts of negligence
on the part of their agents, provided at
the time of the accident, the plaintiff
was traveling on a free pass, oy the
terms of which it appea.ed that the
company had given notice that they
would not be responsible lor damages.
The J u Ige said that it had not yet been
decided that, with a free pass, .railroad
companies could not be made reso;isibie
iu jases of gross negligence. In this
case he did not think any gross negli
gence had been shown. Carriers of pas
sengers are uoi in-uiel in any event.
The jury, af;er an alienee of two
hours, r nd- icd a verdict for the plain
tiff of $6, (KJO, to wh ehthu Court, on
motion ad Jed an al.owaiice, by way of
costs, of five per cent.
The statement from Washington made
a few days ago that the two colored can
didates for the Military Academy a
West Point had been rejected by the
Board of Examiners one on account of
physical defects, and the other for lack
of educational qualifications is not cor
rect. Howard, the Missisippian, has
passed the physical examination, but will
probably fail in the mental one." Ihe
doctor- have found that Smith, the
South Carolina boy, has a defective, eye
sight. That, however, does not declare
him rejected, for wheie a "plebe" is
found suffering from some ailment which
is not organic, and which may be cured
he is put on ' probation' for a year. In
other words, he remains at the academy
for a whole year, during which time ev
cry effort is made to cure whatever
physical defect he may have. If he
does not improve by the end of twelve
mouths he is then rejected.
A Savannah uian was recently bitten
by a rattlesnake in the right fore arm
about two inches from the wrist Tne
venom of this snake mut have been
strong, as tiia reptile was tweuty-tsvo
years old, according to his ratde. Im
mediately U on being bitten, the man was
taken in hand 1 13 pattie.4 who hadtxpe;'
ence iu the treatment o! snake bites, and
they applied tobacco poultices to the bite,
pht.d bun frcey with culorotbrm and ar
dent spirits. This after the virus had
rapidiy spread up the arm and insensi
bility had intervened. Yet this treai.
nicut saved the man's life.
Orders have been received at the
Springfield (Mass.) Armory tor making
3,iXX cadet ritles, which are designed for
distribution to military schools through
out the country under the conditions of
a recent act 01 Congress.
A very good joke is told of a gentle
man in Cambidge, Md., who is a very
worthy citisn. who had a farm a short
distance out 111 tne countrv, which he
leased to a tenant, the landlord to get
two-fifths of the crops. When the crop
was saved, the tenant saddled 111s horse
aud took the laudl tni's share to him tied
up in a handkerchief, who, upon seeing
the bundle, asked what was (here. "Your
shareol wheat," said the tenant Ljnd
lord My whutf tenant lour sha.e
of the wheat. Landlord Take it baek !
take it back ! And next year, if yououiy
have five grains, bring them in a wagon j
but never come again on ho- scbacu.
There is not a single member of a sin
gle church, male or female, young or
old, rich or poor, but should be engaged
in personal efforts for the conversion of
souls. . Our army inay as rationally leave
the battle to be fought by the officers
alone as the Church leave the conversion
of the world to the ministers of the Gos
pel. Indeed, it is a fundamental error
to consider it a mere n.ini.-terial worlc.
The New York Exjness says : ''The
types are compelled to make many awk
ward mistakes, but none more awkward
th in that which made us say that Olive
Loan had "married her uncle,"when we
had written 'sprained her anicle. ' For
tunately it did no: get out before the pub
c," It is related that the Rev. Dr. Samuel
West, of New Bedford, onw reduced a
refractory choir in the following way: It
having oeen rumored that they would not
sing a note on the next Sabbath, he com
menced morning worship by giving out
the hymn, "Come ye that love the Lord."
After reading it through, he looked up
very eiuphut'u-ully at the choir, and siud :
"You wi:l begin at the second ver-c :
"Let teose retime to iiiir.
110 ever knew our Uvi."
An old bachelor says that we are safe
from ever having a woman for President
becau -e not one of the sex would ever
confess to being over thirty five, which is
the age pix'sciibed by the Constitution
a- the youngest point at which any man
is eligible to tha' office.
Never hold anybody by the button r
by the han-1, in irdr to le h-:od out ;
s'.n-, if-M?oM are 1 mi willing t h-ryMi,
you hnd ' much better hold your tongue
than theui.
i A female society in Iowa prnpo-en to in- I
timidate men to discontinue the haL t -1
waxing moustaches.
The next commencement ff the Uni
versity of Michigan will be its quarter
centennial, and tbe boys are deter
mined to have a big time over it and out
of it.
It is advertised that "an old fashioned
gill" can be had at all the respectable
book stores, price $1.50. Unmarried
men should invest
A lady once said to her "sister, "I won
der, my dear, you have never made a
match. I think you want the brim
stone." To which she replied: "No,
not the brini-tonj only the Spntk."
There are two' eventful periods in the
life of a woman one, when she wonders
whom she will have, and the other when
she wonders who will have her.
In Queen Victoria's crown there are
1,363 brilliant diamonds, 1,273 ro-e d:a
monds, and 147 table diamonds, 1 large
ruby, 19 sapphires, 11 emeralds, 4 small
rubies and 277 pearls a total of 2, 1 86
precious stones.
Rhode Island has inaugurated the
clam bake season of 1870. J
An ex-devil to a country printing office
was questioned as to the duties of a
"printer's devil." He replied: "To
bring in clean water, to carry out dirty
water, to steal wood, lie, anJ numerous
other articles."
A Richmond paper, calling attention
to some improved s. otted pigs bred thre
says: "Our maxim shonid be to en
courage our own people in preference to
all others."
The Postmaster General has arranged
with the Cunnard and Iriinan lin-is to
convey mails hereafter four times weekly.
The Boston Pcsr believes that had An
drew Johnson left hi post for trouting
excursions, he wou'd have been im
peached on the sole giound of the im
morality of anc'ing, and a special com
mittee would have been raised to inter
cept the lines he dropped, to discover if
there was not treason at their ends.
The railway comprnies of the country
are reported to be watching with some
intere-t the experiment of the en p'oy
ment of Chinese labor by the Union Pi
cihe Railroad; and the success of that
company will b the signal for the intro
duction of "John" to the employ of the
railroads all over the country.
At a collection made at a charity fair
held in , a lady offered the plate to
a rich man well known for his stinginess.
"I have nothing," was his curt reply.
"Then take something, sir," she an
swered ; "you know I am begging for
the poor."
C. A. Davis, Berkley, Mass.. makes
nest eggs from real ones as follows :
"A sufficiently large opening is made
to allow the shell to be emptied of its
contents. Master of Pans is thn
mixed with water to the consistency of
cream, and the shells filled with the mix
ture, which hardens in a short time.
The result is a nest egg. perfect in shape
ami color, and still serviceable if the
shell gets broken off."
The theory that the image of the last
object looked upon is retained upon the
retina of the eye of a deal animal has
been recently tested in Germany. The
eyes of thirty different animals killed for
the purpose were subjected for examin
ation, but in no ea-e was there any evi
dence discovered to support the theory.
Rod Cloud remarked to Secretary Cox:
I want to sit as I sit where the sun
sets, but it is evident trom the posture
he immediately assumed that he wanted
to sit where the hen sets.
There is a tide in the affairs of men
which taken at its fl,od leads 011 to for
tune. A Massachusetts man. who for
some months sold a putent medicine, has
just in the nick of time turned under
taker. A Chinaman and a Jew had occasion
to dispute on some matter of trade So
help inir gracious 1" said the Jew, "I
have not seen so great a ra-hkal a-h vnt
vou ih : lo which tha Lhiuaui:n re
joined with such trenchent force a to
close the co loqny : Oh ! you nogood-ee
man! you kill American man s Jo h!
A Texas man, who ha heard that he
is the rightlul heir to any nntnler of
million noun Is and the title of Duke m
Germany, announces that he cares noth
ing about the title, as he would not give
uo the title of an A 1 erican citizen and
the pride- of leing a Txau for ail the
Dukedoms in Germany ; but he is going
after the money.
The question of a pingle capital in
New Hampshire mn-t be settled before
many yean, and if Hartford keeps open
its generous offer of a site and $50-:), 000
for a building, its ambition Ituay j'et be
gratified.
The students of the Agricultural Col
lege ot lipxington, Kv.. have received
from the Secretary of War a new mili
tary outfit
Onoe upon a time, durin? a debate in
the United States House of Representa
tives, on a bill for inTcaing he number
of hospitals, one of theeastern members
arose and observed: "Mr. Speaker
My opinion is that the ginerality of man
kind in gineral, are disposed to take ad
vantage of the g r.erality of mankind, in
gineral." "Sit down, sit down." whis
pered a colleague who sat near him ; j-nu
are coming out at the same hole you
went in at."
At the annual meeting of the State
Di-ptal Society in Bo ton on Thursda - a
doctor explained a cae of his where he
had extracted an ulcerated tooth, denned
it of ul emus matter and restored it to
the jaw. where it is n w in use. a per
fectly sound too'h. The patient was
present and verified the account.
Men, if they ain't too lazy, liv some
times till they are 80. and destroy the
time a good deal as follows : the fut 30
yenrs they spend throwing stuns at a
mark ; the second 30 they spend exam
ining the mark tew see whare the stuns
hit, and the remainder is divided ;n cus
s'ng the 8tun-throwingbizzitiessand nus
sin the rumatiz.
This setting down and folding our arms
and wai in for something to turn u:, iz
ju-t about as rich a speculation sz going
ut inro a 400 acre lot, setting down on a
shrp stone with a pail between our
knees, and waiting for a eow to back up
and be milked. Jsh liiO'uigs.
The Loss of Life, says: "More quar
rels arise between brothers, between Ms
ters, between hired girls, between chool
girls, between clerks in stores, between
apprentices, berween hired men, between
husbands and wives, owing to electrical
changes through which their systems go
by lodging together, night after night,
under the same bed clothes, than by
any other di-turbing cau.-e. There is
nothing that wiil so derange the nervous
system of a pcr?on who is eliminative in
nervous force as to lie all night in bed
with a person who is absorbent in nerv
ou j force. .
J.-d lo. the cnpitnl of Jpsn. i.-. said
to be th lrge-f an ! imst pi.uu ; city
in the world, having a mil ion Jw?!!ing
and five mibions pu?:ion. Many of
its street? are twenty-two. English miles
long.
An "Wgrint gold moun' -set o! f.il-e
, - h w v 1 he prize in a ralUe at a ladies
fair in Toledo.
The British public are beginning to
give up all hope th-it the famous Afri
can explorer, Dr. Livingstone, i. aiuon
the living. It is .. long time since any
tidings have been heard , of him, and
these have been quite vague and un-at
isfactory. Unless detained by long siek
n-ss, or as a prisoner to some savagt
trde, he is probably dead. A British
relief expedition has been started fron
Zanzibar to make a seaieh for him. an--find
him, living or dead. This search
will also settle the important question.
Livingstone in his last letter thought hf
bad solved the point of the highest
sources of the river Nile. The return of
the expedition will be waited for with
great interest.
A book in two par's, entitled "The
Way to Glory aud the Road to destruc
tion, is shortly to be published, the
first part is descriptive of a visit to New
lork, and the second, a trip to Chicago.
We recently heard a strong minded
lady say, that she would risk her hojie o
heaven on the question ot suffrage beirg
granted to woman throughout the United
States in less than three years. Wonder
what the prospects of the inhabitants ot
the other place are .
While a lot of workmen were excavating
a foundation for a freight depot in Sa
vannah, la -t Saturday, they came acro-s
a lot of bones, two one dollar silver
ueces, and five pam b quarters, bear
ing date from 1754 to 1776.
Girls would do well when they are
married to burn up all their o.d love let
ters. A gentleman found a letter a I
dressed to his wife, by some former ad
mirer, alter he had been married to her
two year-, and was so provoked at the
torn, of the letter that he immediately
made apohcitiou tor a divorce.
Daniel Me Farlaiid applied to Jame-
Fisk. Jr., for a free pa-s over the E.ie
road. Fisk was somewhat puzzled to
under-tand what Mr. McFarland s claim
to a free puss were, unless they were to
be found in the developments of the
late mu.der trial, and respectfully de
c.ined to extend the desired gratuity ;
one ot the orheers ot the road suggest
ing, as the interview closed, that assas
sination was a new ground for claiming
tbe honor ot a railroad pass.
fjh'imlerxs Journal gives this illustra
tion of the power ot Ind a rubber to
deaden sound: "We once visited a fac
toiy where rome forty or fifty copper
smiths were at work iu a shop above oti-
heads; but. what was remarkable, scarce
ly a sound of their noisy hammers couit:
be heard. On going up stairs we saw
the explanation. ' .Each leg of even
bench rest d 011 a cu-hion made of In Ik.
rubber cuttings. This completely dead
ened the sound."
There are illegitimate calling". Thas
of a gambler is no better than that of
the "gentlnnian of the road." Tht
gambler is, under the most favorable cir
cuiu: lances, a very suspicious and doubt
ful character. No business man pos .
sessed ot capital, would be willing to go
surity for him. for any considerable sum,
or length of time. A calling, in orde:
to be legitimate, must be useful to soci
ety. And of .-uch. there are enough to
give profitable employment to even
idler in Christendom. True labor builds
up and em iches communitiesand nations.
Idleness and illegitimate avocations im
poverish and degrade.
Thoreau says: "It is a curious fact
that if a man is lost in the woods, an l
continues walking, he will invariably go
round in a circle, con tantly veering to
the left hand. It is because the right
side of every human being (except in the
case of left-handed people) is more de
veloped than the left. Consequently th
muscles on that side are strongest, and
ten ! gradually to throw the body round,
unless the aim is directed to some pa.
ticular point.
Rev. Mr. Deniotest is under trial by
the General Synod of the Reformed
Church, at Newaik, N. J., on a charge
of "preaching dry and uninteresting ser
mons." The Ohio State Penitentiary ha a
prisoner called the '"irrepressible horse
thief," who has spent seventeen years in
prison.
The only prisoner in t'-e Nantucket
jail notifies the authorities thit if they
don't fix up that jail .-o that the sheep
can't get in to bother him. he will be
bloved if he will stay in there.
"I can't speak in public ; never done
such a thing iu all my life," said a chap
the other night at a public meeting, who
had been called upon to hold forth : ''but
if anybody in the crowd wiil speak for
me, 1 11 hold his hat!"
The largest nugget ever found in
Gipp's Land, says the Times, wasdepos
ited in the Hank of Victoria, early in
February. The nugget weighed 43 ozs,
3 dwts., and was pure gold of good qual
ity. The finder was a man named Thorn
ton. who was on a "hatting" tour; and
the locality of the find was Blink Bonny
creek, near Maximilian creek, Freestone.
The discovery was quite accidental, as
Thornton had no expectation of finding
gold wh're the nugget turned up, and
only struck his pick into the ground to
ascertain the nature ot the sod.
The Fond du Lac (Wis.) Common'
tce-i'th describes a welding which it ed
itor attended at O-hkosh. It says :
"Duiingthe ceremony, the bride and
bridegroom took each other about the
waist and swapped gum !"
The attendance at the Ritualist
churches in New York is caid to be on
the decrea-e.
The London Jic-ih Chronicle urges
the concurrence of the Jews in the re
vision of the Bible.
Dr. Cunmiings' favorite description of
the I'ope is "thnt respectable but delu
ded old gentleman."
The lands adjoining the Suez Canal
have been ordered sold by the . Viceroy
of Fg.vpt, to the estimated value ol 4,
OOO.oYk) sterling, the proceeds to be di
vided betwer 11 the Viceroy and the ca
nal company.
In Idaho refinemement is so little
known that young ladies clean their teeth
with corn-cobs.
Twenty one thousand emigrants,
mainiy Irih, left Liveqool during the
month of 3. ay, for America, and nine
tenths thereof going to the port of New
York. .
Ico made by the artificial process in
San Antonio, Texas, sells at two cents a
pound, and to stockholders at a cent and
a half.
An Iri-hman. eating his first green
corn, handed the cob to the waiter, and
asked, "Will ye's plaze put some more
banes on me stick."
The Queen of Prussia had the other
day a stroke of ajHp!exj Her physi
cians have informed her that her days
are numbered.
There are 150 a.ssist-tnt mar-hal em
ployed in taking the cen Usof New York
city.
The Yale "ophs" lately stole all the
freshmen's new "stovepipe" hats.
Two young ladies belonging to influen
tial families iu Hartford, are under aurgi-c-J
trvHtm-nt for cramped and distorted
feet, cnu-ed by wearing the prevailing
tyle of high heeied boots.
The uuide at N'agra Fails f-ays that
women show ino. e nerve and firmnwss
thin Mien iu vi-iting the. "Cave of the
Winds."
GREAT kUSII! LARGE CROWDS ! !
Everybody, and more too, are roinr to
D. SCHNASSE & CO,
- To buy their
'Stirling; ctiaca. Sum mer GOocl
AT
.N 'EW YORK 'STORE-
- The largest and most complete
STOCK OF ORES f GOODS
Are now on exhibition at the New York Store, at greatly reduced prices. We call particular
attention to our new ntylea of
UltESS-tJOODs PRINTS,
LELAINS, i.lNliH MS.
BROWN SHEETING.
HLEAi-HED COTTONS,
BAL-VlORAL-s. CARPETS
CLARK'S EV IHRE'D.
COTTON YA S UOOIS AND SHOES
of all kinds and prices to suit our numerous customers. large stock of
UROP RIES.
HARDWARE.
QI EKNSW ARK,
WOODEN-WARE.
;L',s5'vark,
YANKEE NOTIONS,
HATS Nl) CAPS.
W hnv n rir- -f .t-k f. ih roVbrn'er! GAPDM CITY f5l fPPrP
PL-5W STUBBLE iff BRFAKINJ . PLOWS and all uLu-
OIKTivAJORS. P-S. SEEOERS. Hv ravfs. &.C
i 'lattsmouth. I ebruary, 10th, 1870. tf. D. SCHNASSE & CO.
DEALERS IX
Clothing. Gents'
BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S CLOTHING,
Hats & Caps, Boots 8c Shoes,
BLANKETS, RUBBER GOODS, TRUNKS, VALISES, ETC
Alum Street, Second Du ir East of Court House
Plattsmouth, Neb.
BRANCH HOUSE : Broadway, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
If You
CHOICE
Call
JVtcrc You Can Si ltd Illrom
!2000!bs Shoulders,
I . . OOlbs Sugai Cured Hams,
I8000;bs Sides
Wl ichhewill S I'LL at Reasonable figure. Also on Irnd a
I'ull.nd Wei Selected Stock of lKY (OUD, aid Gi.O
CL'jUIS, Which he oifers to the public
AT COST-
d5"'! hose k nowing themselvt's indebted to me will please
Call and Settle the ame. JOsUIMI MI Kit
pril'.thdaw3m- - Rock Bluffs
B. & EU3. (R
One door west of
PLATTSMOUTH,
II A
ni0LlSilLE
A LARGE
Dry Goods, Groceries, Oothine,
FURNISHING GOODs,
HATS, CAPS, BOOTS, SHOES
and Provisions.
HIGHEST MARKET PRICE PAID
FOll ALL
Kinds of Country Produce.
t3o!i:i JFitzgerald.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, August 5th, 1869.
BUY YOUR
LUMBBB
OF
D. W,. LEWIS CO.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
PINE LUMBER,
LATH,
SHINGLES,
SASH,
DOORS, &C.
Til opposite the Bonner Stnbles. and directly in the rear nf the Court TToue- H repectfu!y
invite all partie propiiiff to bai'-i or consume lumber, to call and examine our stock.
rituB.vitL.kt JLfe li, lb70. tnayl&it
F. D. LEHNHOFF.
TH
Furnis hing Go cds,
Want
BACOW,
On
R, ST
the Herald Office.
- NEBRASKA.
3 AT
MSB EETML
STOCK OF
ORE
U"nnier' Pil remedy h never fitile l r"T
sven in one ca.ie, to euro tin- very wurst en- , '
Biin'l Iteming or llle.i pili-d Ibor e n hr .
Miltcted hiul l immciluit-l rv II on their dr u "
mil irrt VV'.ir er'i" Pile T-me.ty. Iti-'.Ji
prea-ly for the 1'ileM. uuil in nu: lecromniei,.,.. I
to cure any rhT ili-f.i.'e. Ii iu, cur-t n . .,
rue o over thirty year n. u .;n. Tri,.,, ( .. '
Dollar. Kor g.ile by (lrupi.t. i-v-.,j wborc.
Warner' LP Toir.'! U prepare-' r
Hro-ly lor 1'y-nenties n n. I t!i uft. riiiic u
mthituiil CoMivem it t - :i .-iij'it stiinii! . ,i '
oniriiii.l n oplefi'ii'l aipi.ir; it tn-ui;:' '.
.he "toniuch an-1 re.-it'r- ! 'In- ilig'-Mivc "--"
n th-ir heul'Uy rtnte. Vv'i .1.. mm-vo'u an I
peptic peronH h.'il I artier lyMi. ,
iiinic. lor .!! bydr..,.it... riceOnu ix. 1 .1
WnrnerVCoiik'h IJiiIshui W lim ing,
ind ezpeetor itiujr. 1 (;. i xir.i. r.iinary p..V.
possesses in inline Witti ly ruli-iving, an'i ovf
illy euriiifc. ilt; im-t ..liviiui'o om.-oh ,',f
'Jolils, Sore 'Ihrout. Jiiom iiitiM, J 11tlucr17.fi i
arrli. hiiarxciie, .-ttiii..i u.nl l'uniuiiii'tM.u
iluiost incredible. o rui.; in tho rc'ie
;er ain iw etleetn in all ihe ul.ove ese .
tfeetion of the tlirn.it mid Iuiik. that lln u - r
)l uhyfieian nre daily pre -. r i!.inj it, 1 ,'
uIm11 Hy lh it is tlu iuot healing nn l
ertoraliiifc medicine known. Ono lin.-e ijiw'
iQordR reiit-f, and in iii.tt c:iii i ng I .
feels a eure. Sold ly il rttsiri in, in lartr- 1 . .,
Price One liolliir. Ii i yeur own t'i 11 t it .
till cough and uf.cr. The l!a'i..um will -me
' . . ,
w8ic fir ,in0
1IH
The great Hlo..l Purifier un l Delieiou-i I'tH1
Aurmr's main i:w or W ine of I. if. ,,m..
roin any pui.-"'in:i-i 'i.-i.u- nupuritiei' bi 11 1
nepi.red tor thofe vrh-. nqir Mnuiil;e i . 11 1
lepiendid appetizer md ic, and lb lu ,
.hmtf in the world tor puriryi,, the blo.p-l
ibe ii!ot.t iicas 1 nt lii.i iicii-i.. 11 article ., -i ' i,
ere i t. the puolic, far i.perir t .n.ui,
.rhi ky wine, uilier.- ,raii othcranino ii".
aiore he.ii'.hy, an l cheaper. IJoih mnl" 11. ,t ,,"
uale. y utg or old, can take tin1 Win 1,1. ,.
ii is. iu l.i-t. .- life p. -ocrver, ihose .i 'i.i ,-
to enjoy k'.,d lienltli pful a free flu n- I: .. 'j
'pirilK. nill do well to take tli Wi (
Il in di.rerent from anything ever bet'i-re in u :
It it Hold tiy di tieirit" : ui.-'i af ull re-" -v.uilc
00118. Price One iollnr, i'l i; urt Imitlc.
JEiMtiCtift&Ofjtec
Warn' r' F'limeninropuc i- tlie only n,tn V
Known to e.e iliu V lntef. (it will euro 11 i ery
-.; Where i- thetiiuily in which iliim..
portant luedicin-- i- not wanted ? Moiner- i;..:
is the preiiteft iile.-Kir.tc ever itlered you 11 11 i u
hnuid immediately proeuie it. It in u-Iyo . urc
eure for rein tie Irrctrularities. and inay be .i ;
peuded upou in every itthe where the inoi;t: ly
tT-w has leen olisti ncted throi-n cold or dixeH.'e.
l5old by drutrcipt". Price ( ine loli,ir. Or k u: Iiv
mail on reeeipt of One Dollar nnd a Qjurur.
UicB 619 .Slate Street. ChiciiKo, Ills.
J. M. lliM iiMAN, Agent.
pri2wly2amdly l'Utt,moutU, Iib.
Weeping lVatcr iTIilN
Farmerti, go where you can jet the bet Flonr.
tnd the most ot it.
35 POUNDS OF XXX FLCUR
AMD
1-2 roi:.us .f mi4
tiven in exchnee for rood w
We are aIo "loitiK Kris , and, with nor
increased taviliti. (eel a'Htired that we cm jir.
Ike bet and uiont Fluur ol any in the irtutc.
SATISFACTION t"ARANTLLl.
Produce Bought and ScM
BtOBEST MARKET
tleert f'linton
RAILROAD LANDS
FO II 9S.1L.JE :
The Burlington & Mo. Rier
R. R. Co. in Nebraska
.now orrr.K
PRE-EMaoTI0N rights
To their Landn in Ttfinre 6. 7. . J JO. I!,
13it l I . Ea-t of tl.o 0:h Priuciuil
Meri'Uan, in No bra .ska.
On Ten Years Credit!
Only six per cent interest on the valuation i-i
tequired for the firpt jn.'r; the h.une for t'ni
second, and then, on and after the th'.-d yur,
only one-ninth of the principal and de rc.'ifi.iii
interest ! payable Hnnutilly.
i wtNTY HtJi CE.Ml WILL BE DELUCTED
From our Ten Years Credit price, at the oj)tin
01 the buyer, if he pay 11 in full, and ten portent,
int' rent within one -ir from date 01 ,urrh;t
and hin pre-emption " vuicut w ill bv allowed in
Kuitlemeot.
On these Generous Terms
At low prioe. rnnging f'om ! to fc.T. P. 7,
H10 111, st, ii:'.. avera'inir ab'
SIGHT DOLLARS PEK ACKE, a.i per finality
and local udvunliiKen.
Innual productiostM will
piy tor laml. Mldrkin
I, and Anrplt Improve-in-ii
l - .TZiirii ivituiii
the limit of (lie Ten
Inr 4 'red it
O.reied.
Facts to be Considered.
itot acre K. H. La nus at 17 each, 11 1
SH.Toon ii) yearn credit ato percent.,
anl will com. in r.i.-y annual pay
nienta. the total 8uin of. ) 81,822 W
And lo acrec ot School Lan li, at S.
the lowtst price, and frequently
fid at auction for . IU and i'i
d'.IIaru,.oii lu y earn, at lo per cent. )
interest, cosu j $2,2)0 (C
Making a differen'.c in favor of Hail .
road 1 nils ol . C
fVi
fiutfora fair eouiparixon tho average price at
w hieh School La ioln have been nol i, aboul i I
coinp.ir"il wit.h the averno price of our Pvhil
ro"d lands.
Take Jof example tlie averago price of fl0.53
per ace. at which the State School Lands have
oeen sold, af per report ol Slate Auditor u Land
Comuii-ioner of the Slate, tor tl. a fiscal year
ending N' v. .'f'lh, '.. and 1 ') acres ct at liin
price 111 ten year at ten per cent. Interest the
otol rum of. thi.Wj W
Deduct roro thin the t'lial timt of l'VJ
acres of 0. 31. K. R. Linds. at cur
a vtrae Lond Credit prnse of i'ny.i t
per acre, on years crmi it at 0 per
cent. nt ret vit
And the ditferenee on a ouart'.r auc
tion in tavor of r.ail-ojj Lhn in i.
tl. 139 V
Thi? eomparifon is not made to prove tl..v the
School Land have been old too Ijiifb. but '
prove tht the law of this Slate nun J.een riititir '.
by actual and numerous fri at auction, 0n r
the minimum pritf Jixrd, viz : Sovon (loli i' er
acre; and the average valuation of the ii. it M
K. K. Lijnds is ratified by :he fame intoiligcnt
and practical verdict.
Hail road Landa have ato '.her a Ivanl .c-- in
the fact, that a buyer can cho .e out of eiLf n
etion.n in aTown.-hiji.inHtead of b'-ii,j .-ouhoci
to only two School cccioijH.
Our Long or Tea Vt-uo (."relit pric rsrire
from 4 to 3. . 7, H. , 10. Il anJ -; l.il irs
generally, and averago Hio.'&i per aer .
Applieation tor land can fx- made to :
Fl'LLEK. W I LLSIE A 11 A U IL A hla- I '
S. J. HOWELL, at Uecpii. Water. Cs.--. Co..
Ktbr.-ka.
V. C. I'TLEY. at Kursery IMI. Otoe Co.. Neb.
COVKLL. CALIIOLN K tKOXTON. at :'v
traka City, eb.
B.A-. M. II. K.CO.'S LAND OFFICE, at Liu
coin, Neb.
or at It. R. LAND OFFICE in PIattraoiith.
iIX. S.liAKKIS.
Land Comm lf loner B. 1
LOTS KOR SALI5
LOTS FOR SALK
LOTS FOft S Llt
INQUIRE OF , ,
L lilLLIM.S.
Cisterns Built and Reck Vorfc.
Done. -
THEntjderfi(rncd if prepared to takncontrn: t.
for buiblins: Cisterns and furniihiiiK ni"t
ee?ftiry material, also to do any 1111 1 all kind- ot
Kock worn, by contract, and furni-h all tLa'r
ial'for n.iQie.
I have a lew acrcrof choice laml f rrc?: er."'
and ereral fine ints forxale or raainaiie lerto -4dtf
.HSKPJi LEASLtV..
