Nebraska herald. (Plattsmouth, N.T. [Neb.]) 1865-1882, January 04, 1872, Image 1
THE NEBRASKA HERRD tS POBLTSHSD WMELT T HATHAWAY & SEYBOLT. e. D HATHA VAT no. L. BYTBOLV . J"Ofi corner BTio and Second streeU, so an nary. TERMS : Weekly. tZASO per unan if paid in auvance. $2JQ if not paid in advance. From Sniurday'a Dau'u, Bfc.30. THE NEW YEAR. Before another issue of the Herald, the old year will have passed away and the new will have been ushered in. We have uo sicKly sentimentality to expose to our readers, but desire to pay in a few word) that the Herald wishes you all a "happy new year," and trusts that each reader may start the year 1872 with new resolves to accomplish greater good than in the year past ; that they may discard all of the bad that it is possible for them to do, and determine that whatever of influence they may have in the commu nity shall bo directed towards making those with whom they associate, better, wiser and happier. Let each one carry out that noble utterance of the lamented Lincoln, to "do the right as Qod gives U3 to see the right," and those who may survirc the year 1872 will feel that they are better in consequence, and that the year has been well spent. With the outgoing of the old year, let the foibles of our friends be forgotten, and the mantle of charity be cast about their more grievous faults. Let their good and may their lives and ours be made brighter by oft recurrence to them. With a purpose to carry out these re solves as fully as may be, the Herald again withes all its readers and patrons "a happt New Year." Mr. Balcombe says that we were a elf-apjxinted member of the Omaha Bridge Committee. Mr. Balcombe lied, and he knew he lied, when making that statement, an l we denounce- him as a conscious liar for that reason. Omaha Herald. Buell of the Rulo Register was in dicted by a grand jury of his countrymen for the promiscuous use of language like the above ; and it was said by a promi nent democrat of that locality that he should bo punished for violating the lawa of decency as well as the laws of the State, and be made to understand the difference between a free press and a li centious press. STATE TE.f FEBAJTCE COSVEXTIOX. In accordance with a strongly ex pressed desire on the part of many of the most earnest friends of Temperance in Nebraska, a State Temperance Mass Convention is hereby called, to assemble in Lincoln, January 16th, 1872, at 1 P. M. The object of the Convention will be : First To effect the organization of a State Teniperar.co Society, which shall embrace, as far ao practicable, the entire Temperance clement in the State. Second To discuss such measures and mature such plans as shall promise more efficiently to develop, direct and advance the general interests of Tem perance in all parts of the State. All persons friendly to such Conven tion, and to the object thus stated, are earnestly invited to attend. No crcden tials will be required. All newspapers in the State arc re spectfully invited to publish this notice. J. M. Thurston, G. W. C. T., I. O. O. T. W. P. HO BERTS, G. W. S., I. O. G. T. H. A. Guild, G. W. P., S. of T. M. T. Anderson, G. S., S. of T. INVESTIGATE! Investigations are good things, and would mildly suggest to the people of Omaha that it might not be amiss for them to do a little of that kind of work. It Ecems that Dr. Miller has been largely instrumental in getting $250,000 of Douglas county bonds turned over to the Uv P. K. I?. Co. by making the tax payers believe that a "contract" had been entered into with said company se curing the entire benefits of the transfer in consequence. It now transpires that there is no such contract, and that the company refused to make any such con tract. Peihapa an investigation would show how much of the hog Dr. Miller was to get. " Thank God, It's Rainino." The following incident, at the park in the northern y art of Chicago, on the night of the terrible fire, is related by an eye witness : It was toward morning, when hope had been dismissed and despair had en tered the weary hearts of the watchers, when" a gentleman felt a rain d op on his hand. He thought at first it was a tear from his wife, who was leaning on his .-arm, her head forced down and her soul given to sorrowful thoughts. But anoth er and another drop in quick succession and a pattering in the leaves over his head assured him that it was raining. He was on the point of uttering a re mark to that effect, when a hundred voices, it seemed, cried out, " Thank God, it's raining !" A pale, careworn lady, who was trying to soothe the sor rows of a woman who had lost her two children, looked up and said, " No it's noc raining ; the angels are weeping for us ; their tears are falling on our ruined homes." The recent cruel order of Valmezada, intended as a complete squelcher of the revolutionry movement in Cuba we app rehend, will force our Goveroient to take a more positive stand on the Cuban question at once. Coupledjwith the bar barities of the Spanish volunteers, this orders renders all further complacency Dy our Government criminal. Lost Strayed from the undersigned, two pigs about six months old. Any in formation about them will be thankfully recived by A. L. Berg, at the second house on south side of the R. R. shop. An enterprsing dentist in a neighbor ingcity advertises -."Get your sweetheart a new set of teeth as a Christmas present A gentleman who recently married gave his bride as a present o her wedding-day, instead of the traditionary dia mond ear-rings, a sewing machine. N H "Mr?ATIXa THE ADJUSTMENT." This what Dr. Miller charges Mr. Balcombt with "a deliberate purpose to defeat t Union Pacific adjustment" The question 0f interest, admitting this to be a fact, -md be, what is the ad justment? If b what Mr. Balcombe shows it to be, bnd Dr. Miller has not ventured even an insinuation of a denial) is not Mr. Balcome virtually saving $250,000 to the people of Douglas coun ty by "defeating the aljustment." It may prove disastrous to the financial schemes of Dr. Miller, yet we doubt if the people of Omaha will particularly sympathise with him in his less when they consider that "what is his loss is their gain." B. XX. LAK SALES. The sales of Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Land in Nebraska dur ing the month of December 1871, were 6,154 67-100 acres, at an average price of $7.62 per acre, amounting to $46,; 900.24. The total sales to date are 180,-349,39-100 acres, amounting to $1,546,- 636.10, making an average of $8.57 per tun iur louu naies. iuo wujyijr uo yet about 1,462,000 acres choice farm ands for sale on ten years credit at 6 pr. ct interest, or at prices pr. cc ess for cash or bonds of the company, or one-third down with balance on one and two years' credit at 10 pr. ct. til paid. TRANSFER AM D TERMINI. In speaking of the reputed action of the Exetutive Committee of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, in the mat ter of the "transfer," the Chicago Rail road Gazette has this to say : "This is supposed to Bet tie finally the question of the terminus.- But with this, one may think, the connecting rail roads may have something to do. All of these which exchange any apprecia ble amount of freight, with the Lnion Pacific have their termini in Council Bluffs, and they can carry freight and passengers no further west. They have, we understand, no share in the bridge now in progress between Council Bluffs and Omaha, which is wholly controlled hy the Union Pacific. If they can agree with that company, they may, it is true. ran their trains over its bridge into Omaha; but that depends upon their pleasure. It they sco fit to nave their termini in Council Bluffs, nothing that the Union Pacific can do can pre vent them ; and if they fix their ter mini in Council Bluffs while the Union Pacific has its in Omaha, if the latter wants their traffic nothing would seem to remain for it but the operation of its railroad over the bridge as an independ -ent line, by doing which "termini" such as they are can be made sumcient- !y numerous to please all-parties. The above idea of the Gazette in ro- gard to tho termini of the Iowa rail roads is substantially correct, and per haps entirely so with all except the B. & M. This road having purchased the O. & S. W. R. R.r which connects Omaha and Plattsmouth, have it in their power to make their northern branch terminus on that side of the river which suits them best ; and we can very readily understand how it would be to their advantage, as well as to the ad vantage of Omaha and the U. P. R. R. to have that terminus in Omaha, reach ed via Plattsmouth and the S. W. line. As wc said in a former article, this gives Omaha all the advantage of the transfer of freights and passengers between the U. P. and its principal connecting line, regardless of all Boston "adjustments" or the obstinacy (if we may so term it) of any other railroad interest. The B. & M. will have the main line of transfer at this placo in any event, and they can certainly transfer a3 cheap here with their own appliances as they can hire the privilege over, the U. P. bridge. This is a better thing for Omaha than the Boston adjustment, a better thing for all concerod except Council Bluffs and the Northwestern and Rock Islandroads, and relieves tho U. P. Company from tin cross fire which they find themselves subjected to. Silent Influence. We are touching our fellow-beings on all sides. They are effected for good or for evil by what we are, by what we say and do, even by what we think and feel. May-uowers in the parlor breathe their fragrance through the atmosphere. We are each of us as silently saturating the atmosphere about us with a subtle aro ma ot our character. In the family cir cle, besides and beyond all the teaching, the daily lite -ot eacn parent and child mysteriously modifies the life of every person in the household. The same process on a wider scale is going on through the community. No man liveth to himself and no man dieth to himself. Others are built up and straightened by our unconscious deeds; and others may be wrenched out ot their places and thrown down by our unconscious influ ence lhe Isongregationalist. av- There wa3 zn Irishman. He was mar ried. He posesscd an infinite hatred to dogs. One night he was rendered sleep- ess for three lonsr. weary consecutive hours by the mournful howl of a neigh boring hound bavins: at the moon, at disease, or death. It was in January and the night was very cold, else this Irishman had sooner rot ud and dislo cated the throat of that dog. At last he jumped and frantically rushed out on his mission of destruction. The snow was three feet deep. He did not return soon enough to satisfy the affectionate calculations of his wife, and 6he went out to see what was the matter. There she found her husban.4 in his night shirt, his teeth chattering, his knees knocking audibly together, and his whole body nearly paralyzed with cold, holding the struggling dog by the tail in the 6now. "Holy Moses! Pat," cried she "what are you doing?" "Hish-h-h !" 6aid he "don't ye see? I'm trying to fraze the d d baste 1" Correspondence from Fairbury, in Jef ferson county, to the St. Joseph Gazette, under date of December 10th, reports the Indiaas, who were on a hunt, re turned on account of deep snows in the valleys of the Solomon and Republican rivers. OL. 7, PLATTSMOUTH NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4 1S72. NO- 40 MA Senator Tipton's Slew Departure. Although strongly in favor of a civil service retorm on a proper basis, we can not help but notice bow quickly a poll tician will change his base and adopt an other line of policy, when he looses his power to control patronage. A fair il lustration and a candid acknowledgement of this principle is found in the Speech of Hon. T. W. Tipton in the U. S- Sen ate on the 14th inst. From his remarkablo but characterist ic speech, it seems that the Hon. Sena tor of the black cloth persuasion was not a bit horrified at the decapitation of his old friends when it was necessary to re- Elenish his own "larder," and that he imself applied the fatal axe to their de voted necks to gratify his sanctimonious avarice, and probably invoked a blessing from the throne of grace upon their de parted (political) spirits. But now, how changed. When his friend and maker (politically,) justly seeks, and has the power to reward his adherents, this hero of two political slaughters beseeches his colleague on his right to permit him "to close his eyes and bandage his ears," that ho may not hear and see a tragedy so repulsive to his saintly vision. Lin coin County Advertiser. Fond mother "Come here, my son, and band nje,.thaJsJ:xpD. It hurts me Young hopeful "No, it don't hurt you half as much as it does me ; if it did you wouldn't do it so often, too; now. RILRNCE BE1UXS. The Omaha Herald maintains a "mas terly silence" on the U. P. transfer busi ness since Mr. Balcombe' s plain state ment of the facts. Dr. Miller seems to succumb to the superior power of the man whom he recklessly abused only a day previous, and has not even dared to reply. Perhaps he thought Mr. Bal combe dared net tell a truth that did not sustain the falsehoods promulgated in regard to the transfer matter, but he missed his mark that time. The Her ald Dr. should have said something, even if it was only to make mouths at his crucifier and eay "your another." Did Not Read tbe Papers. One of the painful results of not read ing the newspapers is reported in Sara toga county. It appears that at a recent fire property was destroyed on which there was an insurance of $5,500. The owner tripped lightly into the office where his policy was drawn, and produc ing the document, said he guessed he would take the money. The agent looked at it, expectorated a quantity of tobacco juice on the caller s nigh boot, and then exclaimed, V hy don't you read the papers? in thunder I gave no- -. . . tice a fortnight since in the public press that the company went down flat busted when Chicago went up. Had you read the papers, you could have re newed your policy in a company that hadn't exploded, and been so much in. As it is you are so much out-" We trust those men who follow this man's example will take warning. atie of Tbe Rocking- Chair . A good rocking chair is almost an in strument of music. It has a special note for various functens. When grand ma sits knitting and swaying with the f gentlest motion, the rockers keep up a ow, eontented purr, a sort of drowsy crack that is given forth by no other one. When the old nervous gentleman gets in, with a sharp, jerking crack, as if a seri es of small torpedoes wero going off. Then when Aunt Sally, who is very fat and heavy, sits down, a long and mel ancholy whine issues from the chair. But when on'y the children are in it, the old rocking chair goes whicketty-whaok, whicketty-whack, in the most gleesome manner. These sociable chairs never come from modern builders. The moment a cabin et maker has once touched a French chair his usefulness is over. Comfort forsakes his fingers. The old-fashioned workman who made the old-fashioned rocking chairs with strong joints, but every one with a tongue in it, are these not nat ure's workmen? Do they not keep up in their chairs the forest sounds? This very creak that I now hear is like the weary swinging ot a bough pleading with the wind to let it alone and suffer it to fall asleep. This sharp crackling; I have heard before, when frost had screwed up every branch and twig to its utmost tension. We learn from the American CJiemht that an arsenic spring is reported to have been discovered in Nevada. One gallon of the water, according to the accounts received, contains sufficient arsenio to poison six men The Germans, in locating the new boundary line between the Fatherland and France, have drawn it so as to ac quire for themselves all the most valua ble ot the Trench iron mines, and coal fields withan annua yield of 1 80,000 tons. A fashionable bustle said to be of an improved pattern, was dropped on Broadway in front of Austin Darrau?h's "banking house," yesterday. This thing f dropping female pear on the streets should be discouraged. Women wearing such truck shotild get strong suspenders, and the necessary girding materials to hold them fast as the "Rock of Gibralter" and spare our innocent youth tho trouble of inquiring into such mysterious things when they pick them up off the street. Nonpareil. Sugar from corn has been produced ly a Davenport man. The Gazette says it is a sugar that will be in demand by con fectioners, wine makers and brewers, but will not be popular for table use until af ter further ex perimenting . It is claimed that with corn at forty cents per bushel, this sugar can be delivered to purchasers at the factory for three and one-half cents per pound. White corn is better than yellow in this business because there i3 no color to be removed. It would not answer to introduce the Koran in this country, it eives the women such an easy way of divorce Under the Mohammedan law an aggriev ed woman has only to place her slipper upside down before the -cadi, and a divorce is granted without further inqui ry, as it is taken for granted that she would not seek such redress without the most pressing cause. In America, alas! what an array of reversed slippers would greet cur learned "cadis" every court day. In case the grand duke cannot visit the oil regions, the Titusville Herald proposes to send on a tank of crude .oil and sprinkle the contents around him, so that he can get an idea of how those regions smell. J TELEGRAPHIC. ITALY. Rome, December 23. A royal decree has been issued carry ing into effect the commercial treaty re cently concluded between Italy and the United States. x London, December 23. A bulletin from Sandringbam states that tho Prince bad a good night, and that his strength is slowly returning. Tho Archbishop of Canterbury has or dered a discontinuance of special prayers for tbe recovery of the Prince. MISSOURI. St Louis, December 28. Further accounts from ScdaUa confirm the previous accounts of the kitting of negroes in Saline county. It is f-aid negroes are panic stricken, iw?! tnf forts are being made to suppress the facts in the case. cuicioo Chicago, December 29. The reported sale of the Chicago Re publican to J. Young Scammun and others is confirmed. It is stated that the name will be changed to the Chicago Star, and that it will be a straight out Administration organ liAliE. Salt Lake, January 2 There have been tremendous storms in the mining districts of Big and Little Cottonwood. Whole settlements are buried iu the snow. More lives are lost, and thero has been innumerable hair-breadth' es capes. The snow is from ten to fifty feet deep. V Operations in most of the mines have been suspended. The weather continues to be a succes sion of snow, hail and rain storms. . The snow blockade on the railroad is causing much distress by the increase of the price of necessities. Coat is from $10 to $20 per ton. The Gentile papers are urging a citi zens meeting in opposition to the admis sion of Utah. The Masonic festival of St. John was the grandest success of anything of the kind in Utah. James K. May, formerly Secretary of State of Oregon, wai arrested here on Sunday, on a requisition from tho Gov ernor of that State, on a charge of de falcation, and taken back to Oregon for triaL B.igham Young was arrested this morning at his residence in ahia city by the United States marshal, on charge of murder. Application for his release on bail will be heard at 2 p. ni. by Judge McKean. Brighain Young in custody of the United States marshal, and accompanied by Geo. A. Smith, Daniel H. Wells, H. B. Clawson and other high church dig nitaries, appeared before Chief Justice McKean this afternoon under indictment for murder. The court room was crowd ed to suffocation and much anxiety was evinced on the part of tbe Mormons, but not the least show of disorder or dis respect to the Court. Hon. D. H. Hempstead and Thomas Fitch for pris oner, and United States Attorney Bates for the prosecution. Hempstead moved that the prsioner be admitted to bail on the ground that he was an old man seventy-one years of age in feeble health and bad come four hundred miles to meet this and all other chargt s, and his phy sician certified that imprisonment would imperil his life. Bates offered no opposition to bail,-but suggested if bail be taken it be fixed at five hundred thousand dollars. Judge McKean, in his decision, said the gov ernment of the United States has uo jail in this city. In holding prisoners ar rested on process issued from the United States courts the marshal is require! to exercise the discretion which law risks in him. Sometimes such prisoners are kept at Camp Douglas, but the com mander of that post is not obliged to re ceive them. The prisoner is reported to be the owner of several houses in the city. If be chooses'to put under control ot the marshal some suitable building or portion of a building in which to be de tained, it wili be for the marshal to de cide whether to accept it. It is optional wun tno prisoner to make such oner, in any want the marshal will look to it that every comfort of the prisoner be pro vided for, remembering he is an old man. 1 decline to admit the defendant to bail. On leaving the court Brizham tendered his residence on South Temple street, wnicn was aeeoptcd, and isneham is now a prisoner in his own house. Brig ham seemed perfectly cool and uncon cerned. New York, December 3S. ed members to the Senate and Legisla ture met at the filth avenue hotel to nifyVlf".. fltllP TJTnc riOOvFillvT cnanf an -BB " x"iv.,a.ai jy ruu u discussing the events of the coming leg- loKiiure. it was siatea mat trov. Ai vord would be appointed Speaker of the House ; also that Gen. Sickles is going to AiDany 10 take preliminary steps to apcurn his nnminnfinn fri iha TT S. San. -' - au hw u - uu w uw w v- fa ate in place of Conkling. ino .ne uauway company to-day de clared a dividend of 3 per cent, on pre ferred stock, payable the 1st of February next Rufus Ripley, a gold dark in the Bank ojf New York, committed suicide to-day in the wash room of the bank by shooting himself with a revolver. No cause assigned. New York, December 28. The whereabouts of Tweed is said to be constantly known to the Sheriff. Ho never left the city and had no such in tention. He has been at the office of Eublie works this morning, whare he ad an interview with several friends. Justice Scott says he saw him this morn ing in a comfortable place in the city. The justification of bondsmen continued to-day, and B. P. Fairchild and C. G. H Cornell accepted. The Sheriff s attaches xpress the belief that the sureties will be entirely settled by to-morrow. It is stated each signer of the bail bond is responsible for the whole amount, a fact wnicn qoudiioss caused tne withdrawal of Terence, Farley, and others. The Central savings bank on sixth av enue and forty-second street, suspended its officers for a few days, it is said, for a few davs only, lhe bank has been organ ized only four months, and having twelve thousand dollars deposited in the Ocean Bank has been unable to honor all checks. The aggregate deposits are not large, though the depositors are numer ous. Seventy two cases of smal!-pox are re ported in Brooklyn du ing the week. Jas. H. Hackelt, a veteran actor, died last night aged 72. New York, December 30. Tweed has surrendered to the Sheriff and Richard M. Tweed accepted as su rety in plnce of Mr. Farley. G. W. Van Nort has been appointed Commissioner of public works, by the Mayor, who has received Tweed's final resignation. Quite an excitement was created by these events. Tweed after the necessary re quirements at the Sheriff's office were complied with, went to his office in the Department of Public Works and intro duced his successor, Van Nort, to the mtiVwees. XMew i ur, To-day the old board of alderman as sembled at the city hall to wind up their affairs of the old year and reorganize, The newly elected or reform board of aldermen came together to take possess ion of tbe city chamber. The old board, who were entitled to possession up to 12 noon, opened its session, and after trans acting a routine of business received the report of the special committee to inves tigate city and county accounts. The report states that the committee have come to the conclusion that the facts brought to their knowledge and stated in the report of tbe citizens' committtee demand that the mayor shall be im peached by the common council. The mayor being vested with supervision of an tne departments receiving periodical statements of accounts, and having au thority to call for all information re quired, and beiug responsible for the proper management of the departments, Fie should be held to answer for frauds committed, and the committee recom mend that he be impeached for niali feasance in office for not properly dis- charging the duties incumbent on him. In the absence of any rule by the com mon pleas defining tne mode of impeach-; ment, the committee recommend that a resolution of impeachment be passed and counsel designated to p osecate the same in accordance with a rule that may be adopted by the court of crmmonp pleas. The board of aldermen then passed resolutions of impeachment setting forth tn extenso the charges of malfeasance and misfeasance against the mayor and ap- Eointing Charlss O'Connor and John lartley to prepare articles of impeach ment and prosecute the same before the proper tribunal: At one minute to twelve "noon" al derman Coman declared the board ad journed sine, die, and at twelve the clerk read the call lor thu re-assembling oi the board for the ensuing year. A loud knocking was heard at the door of the chamber and tho sergeant at arms opened it cautiously; admittance was demanded in a commanding tone by Henry L. Clinton, a lawyer, leading the new boaid. Mr. Clinton said he had a writ from Judge Brady to serve on the old board ordering them to vacate cham bers for the reform board. The clamor at the door caused member3 to rush to the assistance of the sergeant at arms, among them Jimmy Irvinger, assemble mar, lately tried in the federal courts for assaulting a United States deputy marshal!. He threw off his overcoat and rushed as he said to "put a head" on the clerk. The door was slammed in the faces of the reformers, the clerk read the call to the end and Coman was then re-elected president for the ensuing year. The clerk was rc-appointed and board adjourned. The dcor was then opened and before the old board got out, the new board rushed in and with them a small boy who actively served the old board, to their great disgust, with copies of the writs issued by Judge Brady. The mayor on arriving at the city hall commenced writing a document re-organizing the old board, when being in formed by Col. Jordan that they had impeached him he left the document un finished and issued another declaring the officers of aldermen and assistant alder men vacant and appointing thereto the newly elected aldermen and assistant al dermen; he also issued sn address to the court of common pleas objecting to their taking any action on the resolution of impeachment passed by the old board of aldermen on' the ground that when that resolution was passed the court of common pleas had not prescribed any mode of pressure iu regard to impeach ment. Ex-comptroller Connolly was brought from Ludlow street jail to-day on a writ of habetis corpus before Judge Barnard and released on one thousand dollars bail in each of the fifteen indictments against him. Securities were given and he went to his home. The new board organized at 1:40 p. m. with Vance as chairman, all members present except Coman and Plunkett, who also belong to the old board. At the request of the board mayor Hall pre sided and administered the oath of office. The board then resolved itself into a board of supervision, Mayor Hall presiding. Washington, January 2. Debt statement Debt bearing inter est in coin principal $1,853,856,700, interest $43,785,257; debt bearing inter est in lawful money, principal, $43,703, 000, interest $329,460; debt on which interest has ceased since maturity, prin cipal $1,739,937, interest $290,213; delt bearing no interest $434,410,378, un claimed interest $137 84; total debt $2,326,110,016, interest $44,422,715, total $2,731,312,731; cash in treasury, coin $111,432,826: currency $15,861, 494; total $127,295,320; debt less cash in treasury Jan. 1st, 1872 $2,243,838, 411: Dec 1st, 1871, $2,148,251,467; de crease of debt during the past month $4,412,956: decrease of debt since March 1st, 1871, $76,870,435; decrease of debt from March 1st, 1869, to March 1st, 187!; $204,754,413. The national banks of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, and Wachita and - Emperaia, Kansas, with capitals of fifty thousand dollars each, was to-day authorized to commence business. MATL.B Tne Wharton Caae. Annapolis, Dember 23. Witness testified to having seen Gon. Ketchum take medicine of his own while at Mrs. Wharton's. Had asked him if he would not have a spoon. He re plied he didn't want a spoon he crener ally drank out of a vial what he thought was a dose. Witness didn't know what the medicine was. Witness told Mar shal Frey in his office in Baltimore that ien. ivetenum was not taken use iur. Van Ness, but he kind of slept. Mies Nellie Wharton, daughter of the prisoner, was called, and testified that she left home on a visit to Hartford county, on Thursday previous to Gen. Ketchum's illness, and arrived it home about an hour and a halt before he died. She testified to taking from home with her a phial of paregoric, which she left at the house she visited ; that all medi cines in her mother's house were kept in the wash stand in her mother's room ; that she went to it constantly. The phial found in General K's bed was here shown to witness, who said she had never seen it before the day Gen. K died: was positive she had never seen any such phial in the house ; she was ab sent from home for the purpose of mak ing farewell visits previous to her de partare for Europe, which had been ter at that timelojuwMwlfci.shc J bonds of her own and under her control; on the afternoon of Ketchum's death Mr. Hutton gave her bis pocket-book, watck, keys, etc., which she locked up and kept until Mr. Charles Ketcbum came over on the 4th of July, and then gave them to mother, who gave them to Charles Ketchum. Witness stated in reply to a question by Steel, that a tele gram sent by her to Mrs. Chubb, asking her to come to Baltimore, was in reply to a telegram reeeived by witness from Mrs. Clubb the day previous. Miss Nettie Mayer, of Baltimore, was called. She was an acquaintance of the Wharton family; s.aid she saw General Ketchum there frequently ; he told wit ness that he was in the babit of taking medicine from a bottle without measure ment i Court adjourned. o ' Chicago, January 2. Flour dull and nothing doing; prices nominally unchanged. Wheat in active demand, firm and higher; No. 2 selling early at 1 20 cash, and advanced steady to 1 21; closing firm with seller Janua ry same as cash; seller last half closed at 1 22; seller Eebruary 1 23J; No 1 in. light demand at 1 23; No 3 at 1 10. Corn i active, firm and higher; No. 2 selling at 40(40j cash , closing ttrong at4040; seller January 6me as cash : seller Fcbuary 41 41 j : May46$ (a47; rejected 38: No. 2 40. Oats active, in demand and higher; No. 2 31 i ; cloeing at 32 J cash ; 322(33 Feb uary ; rejected 2SK 29. Rye in good demand, firm and higher at 631(63. Barley quiet; No. 2, 6061 ; No. 3 dull at 48. Hogs fairly active but easier; a few sold early at 4 90, but most sales at 5 00, closing steady. Cattle receipts 1,200; market dull and Jc lower, with few.buyers : fair steers averaging eleven to twelve cwt., sold at 4 304 65; choice steers averaging ten cwt., sold at 4 25. Hogs receipts 12,000; market dull and weak 10(a) 15c lower on common grades; 5 10c lower on best; ranging at 4 004 50: most sales at 4 154 25. The first Prince of Wails Jeremiah. A little boy was recently presented with a toy trumpet, to which be became greatly attached. One night, when he was about to be put in his "little bed," and was ready to say his prayers, he handed it to his grandmother, saying, 'Here, gran'ma, you blow while I pray." The differenre between the Baltimore and the Philadelphia girl is that the latter is always wanting something to eat and the former something to love. The Philadclphienne carries her young man to dinner with her and sees that he is well foddered. The Baltimorienne carries him off for a stroll and looks into his eyes. A cross old bachelor boarding at one of our hotels, says that some of the new oonnets appearing on the heads of our young ladies are a kind of a cross between a peck measure and an inverted teapol, with a hole in the bottom to make room for the head and a corn-cob sticking out through the crown. What a ridiculous and slanderous idea. The ladies indignantly deny the allegation, and scorn the all egator. An inmate of the State Insane Asylum who is said to have been respectfnlly con nected recently are about one-third of the blanket that covered him in bed. which caused his death. It would have been bad enough, had not his connection been respectable connections foundering himself one a second-hand bed-blanket horrible. A Philadelpia reporter states that the afghan presented to the Grand Duke at a church fair in that city "is the work of an old lady whom it took six vears to finish. Our very much married contrib utior remarks that if he thought that afghan, or any other affhan, capable of tiuismnT nn olrl lady ot hio aoquamtanoe (his motherin-law to-wit) in six years, he would cheerfully barter all his worldly possessions for it "Bridget, what have you done with the cream? Those chilbren cannot drink skim-milk for breakfast. "Shure, marm, and it isn't meself that would be after givin' the 6cum toyees. 1 tuk that off, and give it to tne cats." Cinciunatians are rejoiced to learn that by a newly suggested process of distilla tion an ordinary barrel of garbage can be made to yield four gallons of proof spirits. It will also furnish three pounds o? soap, but that they don't care about so much. Maine professes to be delighted with her Swedish colony. Although less than two years in the state, the industrious and thirfty Scandinavians have cleared a large section of unbroken wilderness of a heavy growth of timber, prepared the recent forest lands for cultivation, seeded them, and produced crops ot cereals at the rate of forty-two bushels to the acre. Efforts are made to push the schema on a larger scale. A story is told of a man in Connecticut who fell from the roof of a five-story building to the sidewalk; but. as he struck on the thick soles of his rubber shoes he bounced back within a quarter of an inch of the roof, and so continued to bounce, the distance decreasing by only a quarter of an inch at each journy. He subsisted on hash enclosed in rubber balls, whieh he managed to catch on the bound, and at the end of a month was stopped and restored to his family. O my menus talk aoout my going down into the valley of the shadow of death I am now in it, vnd when they think me just going iuto it, I shall be coming out if A ' ir "f 'id i ot it in a perfect day. lulder Bennett, It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross was in our composition. The wife is the sun of the social system. Unless she attracts there is nothing to keep heavy bodies like husbands from flying off into space. Plantation Bitters. S. T. 1860-X. This wonderful vegetable restorative is the sheet-anchor of the feeble and de bilitated. As a tonic and cordial for the aged and languid it has no equal among stomachics. As a remedy for the ner vous we&kness to which women are es pecially subject, it is superseding every other stimulant. In all clisiates, tropi cal, temperate or frigid, it acts as a specific in every species of disorder which undermines the bodily strength and breaks down the snimal spirits. Dec. 26. dJtw lyr. LYON'S KATHAIRON. fr Preserving and Beautifying tne naman nair tw rmm . M (writing Gray. A well-preferred II cad of Hair, in a person of middle ace. at once bespeaks refinement, ele gance, health and peauty. It may truly be called Woman' Crowning Glory. !while men are not insensible to its advantages and charmst Few things are more ditguRting than thin, frizzly, harsh, untamed Hair, with head ard coat covered with Dandruff. Visit a barber and you feel and look like a new man. This is whatLYOX'S KATHAIRON will do all the time. The charm which lies in well placed lli'r, Glosjy Curls, Luxuriant Tresses, and a Clean Head, is noticeable and irresi. t tble. Sold by all Druggists and Country Store. Jan. 2d. d&w lw every 3w SHOTGUN BEST IN THE WORLD. tT itaw a mm a mm SEND (SB A CIRCULAR Sew York Offioe, 27 BEEKMAH St To Idtrbtiskbs. All persons who contem plate making contracts with newspapersfor tbe insertion of Advertisements should send to Qeo. J. owe!l 0o, for a Circular, or inclose 25 cents for their Ob hundred Page Pamphlet, containing Lista of 3.000 Newspapers and estimates, showing the cost of advertising, also many useful bints to ad vertisers, and some account of the experience of men who are known as successful advertis ers. This firm are proprietors ot the Americas Newspaper Advertising Agency. and are possessed of uncqualed facilities for securing the insertion of advertisements in all Newspapers nd Periodicals at lowest rates. THE MIDLAND ROUTE, VIA Toledo Peoria! Warsaw railway. 'for all routes east. ON and after SUNDAY, December 3d. 1871. trains will leave Burlington as follows : 6 m f K" AM Mail and cxpreps. Daily -mJm& ccpt Sunday i'anengers by the train take supper tit Lopansport and connec at Bradford Junction with Pullman Palace Day and Sleeping car?, runninc throush to Colum bus, Pittsburg, Philadelphia and New York without ehange. Time from Burlington to New York by this train, 48 hours, 9Of P- M- Night excrof?. daily except JV Sunday, with Pullman Palace Day and teieepingears through from BurliuKtou to Coiambns, connecting at that poi t with Pullman Palace cars for Principal Points East, making but one change between Burlington and PITTSBURG, BALTIMORE, WAS 11 ING TON, PHILADELPHIA, AND NEW YORK. Timo from Burlington w York by this train, 45 hours. Columbia's Passengers SAVE 22 KVHLES, By purchasing tickets via The Midland Route. Piuuentrcrs leaving New York city at 6:00 d. m, arrive in Burlington at 4:32 p. m. of the second day. This is also the best route for the shimnent of Througu Freight, time being quicker than by any other line. . WM. E. MAIN, H. O. TOWNSEXD. Gen. Freight Ag'L Gen. Pass A Ticket A g't. JO-NATHAN TlfnXEK, W. . DORWIN. Apent. Burlington. Ass't Supt.. Warsaw. W.II.CKUUKU, Vice-President & Genl tfop't. devlo dJtw tt NEW STOEE Weeping Water, Nebraska. JAM. CLIKE & CO 8CCCIS8IHB TO 1I0RT0N it JENKS. DBALIaS IX General Merchandise, BtTC AS DRY GOODS. GROCEIES. HARD WAR!?, QUEENSWARE. HATS, CAPS BOOTS. SHOES, NOTIONS. Ac, We are Agents for Wiilcox & 6ibtJ Sewing Machlna GETTING MABEIED. Essays for Young Men, on great social evil and abuses, which interfere with marriage with sure means of relief for the Erring and Un fortunate, diseased and debiliated. bent free, ia sealed envelopes. Address, HOWARD ASSOCIATION. Ae. 2 Ntart Str-t, fAHaWaaaiaw TUK DAILY plattsmouth herald ta rcBXiaHBD at HATHAWAr & SEYBOLTl m. d. hatiivat. mmo. a arraOLT- OCice eonfar Mala and Sooo ad" strait i re ad story" TERMS: DaUyiHtfOO per annum. r fl.OI permoatk. Jfor Suit ; F R SALE OR RENT. The brccertv beloncina to D. Maranett wilt h4 sold or rented on reasonable terms. The house contains 6 rooms. There it also a large cister with flitter, a cellar, a stable, and other conven ience. Apply to T. M. MAKUUETT. sepltf. mi professional arte. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON -tenors kl . professional service to the eitiseos of C asatoouri ty. Residencosoutbe it corner of Oak and SixtS streets; office on Main street, one door wee of Lyman r Lumber Yard Plattsmouth. Net. Marquett. Smith & Starbird Attobkiti At Law, .Practice in all the courts of the StaU" Special attention given to collections and sasjs tersof Probate Office over the Tost Offljo Plattsmouth. 2TV a. MAXWELL. ' BAM. U. CHAPM AS? MAXWELL &. ChAPMA", ATTORNEYS AT LAW and Solicitor Chancery. Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Offlea Fitagerald's Block. laprL. O. H.WHEELXR. L. . BlSVVtY ii. ii vriiEfiiv tt, co., Real Estate and Tax Paying Agents, FotarU Pablio, Fire and Life Insurance Agents, Plattaf month. Nebraska. ie24tf . vt3JL m Yf M a-sn gTaiT" ' ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Special attentlo given to probate business and land title eaaaaC IBua iu the alaaonie Block, Maia Street. Plattemonth. Nebraska. rfiXTox nrioai., CARPENTERS A JOINERS. Are prepared to do work in good style, on short notiee. aaa a oheap aa the cheapest. Shop, eomer of main and Fouilti streeta. ng31dtf. J. VT. RAvYLlffS. 91. D.. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, late a Bur-' (eon-in-Cbief of the Army of the Potomac. Plattsmouth. Nebraska. Office at O. . John' son's Drugstore Main street, opposite Clark M Plummers. Private residence ooraerof Rockan PLATTSMOUTH MILLS, C. II EISKL, Proprietor. Having recently bI repaired and placed in thorough running orde 100,000 Bufhels of Wheat wanted immediate T which the highest market price will be pa L. TttJC ki:k, CARPENTER AND JOINER, will do a "" :k in his line on short notice and in the hes e. Contracts for building made on reasona' i jterB Shop one block south of Platte Vaj use. n. E. PALMIER, General Insurance agont. and Notary Pablio,' Life, Fire and Marine Insuranco. at reason able rates in the moM substantial Companies iiy the United Slates. Office front room over Pob Office with T. M. Marquett. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, April 5th. dAw. BROOKS HOUSE. JOHN FITZGERALD Proprietor Main Street, Between 5th and 6th. St NATIONAL HOTEL' CORNER MAIN AND THIRD ST BREED & FALLAN - - Proprietor Just opened to the public, for both day an J week boarders. Tables set with the best tbe market affords. Accomodation mwndto aaaa at Jtbeci ty. ' de4fldwwtf PLATTE VALLEY HOUSE, E. II. SCIIUTT. Proprietor, Corner Main and Fourth Streets. PlatUmenthx decUMawtf. Phelns Paine G E N tR AL s NSURr C AO't PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. Represents some of tho most reliable Compaa iea in ihe United States. Office with Barnes A Pollock in Fitrgeraldr Block . LianTdAwU' iii. jtiAitviar. Would respectfully inform the citizens 9 Piattsmooth an-1 vicinity that h-eha opened Dispensary, at Omahii, Nebraska, where pat tients can get reliable trcntnteatfor alt dlseasa Particular attention paid to A U Dtat of the Lung. s'hnia. Bronchitis, Consumption, Eruption Gravel. Paralysis, Loss of Voice, Wakelulntss Fever, Soros, Rheumatism, Goitre . Neuralgia, Tu-mors, Dia rrhoea, Dropsy, Ca tarrh, Cold Feet and Hands, Bil . liousness, Diseased Kidneys, Krysiiielus. Ner- vous Depression. Dynpepxi, Cos tiveness. Liver Complaint. Hem in a Weeknesses, all Private diseases, Falling oi tbef Womb und all Female comploitits. Heart Dis ease. Swollen Joints. Couans, Gout, White' Swellings, 8t Vitus Dance A-o. Tbe Doctor is permanently located and will pay particular attention, Obttetriral Sxtrgtry, and all rvppressions and Irregularities, and all other dMuies eu4mr ta women. Pot on wbo have been unde; treatment of otlior physician and have not been cured, are invited to call aa I cur all rrivate diseases no matter of bow long standing, and cures Uudrmntted or SO PA T. Call and see tbe Doctor without del nr. ff ia charges are moderate and coniultations free. .411 eoinmunicatitsns strictly conhdeatial. Dis pensary and confiiilutvoT room No, 240 F irnam tftreet, corner Fourtecnm. Office hours from a m.. to 6 p m. P. O. Box No. 1.073 jy3wLy JOSEPH 8CHLATKB ESTABLISHED IX 1861. DEALER a. ! IVATCIIES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY SILVER AND PLATED WARB. GOLD PENS SPCTACXES, VIOLIN STRINGS AND t m FANCY GOODS. Watche. Clocks and Jewelry repaired neatly nd with dispatch. . 5-Removed to opposite Platte Valley noaM 'iStr t. nor. lOwtt. J. W. SHANNON'S FEED, SALE AND LIVERY STABLE. MAIN STREET,. Plattsmouth, Nebraska. I am prepared to accommodate the publio with Horses, Carriages, Bugpies and a No. 1 llearae on short notice and reasonable terms. A Hack will run.toitbestcam boat landing, and to all part oftbe city when desired. January 1. 1871 dAwtf. Dissolution. The firm of A. II. A G. Buck is this day din? solved by mutual consent. The grocery business will be continued hy George Buck. Jr-. to whom all accounts dua tb firm must be paid. All accounts unsettled after January 1st. 1872, will be placed in the hands of J. J. Adacaa. Esq.. for settlement, t - aco Bucb, J. Plattsmouth, (3 so. , 1572 dec-. 2fd5 9