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VOLUME X.
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1874.
NUMBER 10.
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TOST OFFICE BUILDING,
8-tr rLATTSMOCTU, SEB
Monday, May 25. The President of
Iliyti has re-signed. ...Tlic Alcalde of Jacalio,
.Mexico, Las ollieially announced to the Pre
fect of hU district tliat be lias cucd to tie
burned alive one Bonilla nDd hia w ife upon
the charge of la-witching a citizen.... David
B. Mellish, a Representative in Congress
from Near York, who had been removed to
the Government asylum for being insane,
died on the tiad. He hud been confined in the
institution about two weeks, and had required
constant watching, beiug at times very violent
. . . .The Committee of Kelief for the Mill Klvcr
fcufTercrs reports the number needing assist
ance in the various villages affected by the late
disaster to be 140 families, containing 740 per
RoiiB, who lout $217,115. The amount of
money contributed up to the 21th was about
75,000.... About forty crusaders have been
again arrested in Pittsburgh for obstructing
the pavements. Tney were confined in the
police station, and subsequently released on
bail. Great excitement prevails, and it is said
thtt ladies are determined to continue their
work notwithstanding the action of the city
au'horities In the cae of The People twi.
The Chicago it Alton Kailroad Company, in
the Circuit Court of aangnmon County, 111.,
a proposition from the company to let
the people take judgment on certain
conditions was rejected, and on the
conclusion of the trial a verdict for
fIJ.OOO was given ngainst the company....
Several suits have been begun in different
sections of Wisconsin against agents of the
Chicago fe North western and the Milwaukee
fc St. Paul Railroad Companies for collecting
fares in excess of those allowed bylaw....
The Arkansas House of Representatives has,
by a vote of 47 to 9, passed resolutions re
questing Senators Clayton and Dorscy to re
sign, and in case of their neglect asking the
Senate to espel them.
TcEPDAY.May 20. The Italian Cabinet
have tendered their resignations in conse
quence of the fHilure of Parliament to pass
certain finarcial measures introduced by the
Minister of Finance. The King refuses to
accept their resignations, and has directed
thcni to introduce new financial bills.... All
the omnibus-drivers of New York city were
on a strike on the 25th for an advance of
wages, and not a " stage" was to be seen on
Croud way. ... A formal official call has been
issued for the Illinois State Prohibition Con
vention, to be held at Bloomington on the
30th of June, to nominate candidates for
State Treasurer and Superintendent of
Public Instruction, and to transact such
other business as may come before the
convention.... A large part of the business
portion of Forest City, Ark., has been de
stroyed by lire. Loss nearly $70,000. ... Arti
cles of impeachment against State Auditor
Wheeler, Chief-Justice McClure, the Asso
ciate Justices, the Circuit Justices, and all
the prominent officials in the State connected
with the Brooks movement were reported in
the Arkansas House of Representatives on the
STith. The cases of McClure and Wheeler
w ere acted upon immediately, impeachment
being voted by a large majority Independ
ence, Iowa, has been dainagtd $500,000 worth
by fire. Forty-five stores and business houses,
one bank, two minting offices, and two
hotels in 'the heart of the city
were destroyed. The insurance would cover
about half of the loss.... After the an
nouncement of the acquittal of Prof. Swing
y the Chicago Presbytery upon the charge
of heresy, and the notice of appeal by Dr.
Patton, a telegram was received from the
fotrner declaring that he had withdrawn from
the Presbyterian denomination. A meeting
of the Elders of his church was subse
quently held, at which it was decided to con-
inue pastoral relations with the Professor,
the church still remaining in the denomina
tion. On the 25th a formal letter was pre
sented to the Presbytery stating that he
should at a future time ak letters of dismis
sal, assigning as reasons for such request a
ripugnunce to religious controversy and a
der-irc to promote harmony in the church.
"Wednesday, May 27. Caleb dishing,
United States Minister at Madrid, has been
uinqueted by the Opposition Deputies, in-
eluding Figueras and Castelar.... The Attorney-General
of Wisconsin has furnished Got.
Taylor with an elaborate opinion main
lining the constitutionality of the State
aw regulating rail ways.... A call has
been issued by Democratic and Re
form members of the late Michigan Legis-
ature for a mass convention, to be held at
Lansing on the Oth of August, "to take such
steps as may be deemed advisable to secure
the organization of a party on a basis of live
ssues, and for a restoration of purity and
statesmanship to the high places of our State
and National Governments'.... A recent fire
in Central City, Col., destroyed 125 buildings,
mostly of wood, and occupied for mercantile
and other business purposes. The burnt dis
trict covers about eight acres. The total loss
is estimated at about half a million of dollars,
one third covered by insurance.
Thursday, May 23. rrince Nicholas,
who was recently arrested at St. Petersburg,
Kusia, for giving away his mother's dia
monds, is thought to be insaue....Late dis
patches from Calcutta say the famine in India
was increasing. Nearly 3,000,000 people were
dependent upon the Government for food....
The Ris;ht Worthy Grand Lodge of Good
Templars have chosen the following officers
for the currcut year: Right Worthy Grand
Templar, Col. John J. Hickman, of Kentucky;
Right orthy Grand Counselor, Joseph
Molius, of England; Right Worthy Grand
Vice Templar, Mrs. Mattie McClcllan Brown,
of Ohio; Right Worthy Grand Secretary, W.
S. Williams, of Canada; Right Worthy Grand
Treasurer, J K. Van Doom, of Illinois
At the recent meeting in Chicago of the Illi
nois Press Association the following-named
officers were chosen for the ensuing year :
President George II. Scroggs, of the Cham
paign Oazettf. Vice-Presidents D. L. Phil
lips, Springfield Journal; Mrs. Myra Brad-
well, Chicago Legal Xewx; T. E. Woods, Mat-
toon Journal. Recording Secretary Cadet
Taylor, Wenona Imtex. Assistant Recording
Secretary C. N. Whitney, Princeton Herald.
Corresponding Secretary C. P. Richards, Du-
quoin Tribune. Treasurer J. W. Clinton,
Polo Frrs. Executive Committee J. W.
Bailey, Princeton ItcpblUran ; J. B. Brad well,
Chicago Legal Seirt; II. L. Clay, Carrollton
Gazett.
Friday, May 29. A Washington dis
patch says that the Interior Department is
not the only one that has sufficed in the use
made of its printed questions in the civil
service examinations. Investigations made in
other departments reveal a regular system of
sale of these printed questions, and the market
price appears to have been $25 a set. A number
of additional dismissals are soon to take place,
based upon the disclosures made John Ed
gar Thomson, President of the Pennsylvania
Central Railway Company, died at his resi
dence in Philadelphia on the 28th, aged 6ixty
six years The citizens of Oshkosh, Wis.,
on the 28! h issued a call for a convention in
aid of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers improve
ment, to meet at Oskosh on the 24th of June
The State Superintendent of Public Schools
of Tennessee has issued a circular to County
Superintendents, advising that no more
teachers be employed in the State until the
House has acted on the Civil Rights bill..
The Ellsworth monument at Mechanicsville,
I., was unveiled on the 27th, in the pree
eace of a large number of people.
Saturday, May 30. A recent London
dispatch says the British Foreign Office, as
late as the 7th of May, had pressed its de
mand upon the Spanish Government for an
explanation of the Virginius affair and indem
nity to the heirs of British victims. ...Presi
dent Grant has issued a proclamation
extending to Newfoundland the provisions of
the treaty of Washington, and the products
of the fisheries are now admitted freo of duty
....The New York Supreme Court lias ren
dered a decision denying the motion for a
mandamus to compel Chief Justice Davis to
sign the bill of exceptions taken iu the
trial of William M. Tweed Judgment
has been en tired in the Sangamon
County (III.) Circuit Court against
the Chicago it Alton Railway Com
pany in the case of the people of the
State r. the company.... Mayor Wiltz, of
New Orleans, has addresed another urgent
appeal for aid to Mayor Uavemeyer, of Sew
York city, in which he says: " Will New
York come to the rescue of our destitute,
ruined, famishing people? A deadly fim
itie in Louisiana would be a national
disgrace which the wealth and philanthropy of
America must prevent at all hazards"....
Mrs. Charles Hoover, of Toledo, poured kero
sene oil from a can upon the fire to hasten its
burning, when an explosion occurred, fatally
burning the careless woman. Her hus
band, in his endeavors to extinguish
the flames, was also badly burned.... The
hearing in the case cf the women cru
saders arrested in Pittsburgh for obstructing
the street pavements took place in the Com
mon Pleas Court on the 23tb, and the Judge
gave a decision reversing the judgment of the
acting Mayor, and ordered the fines to be re
funded. The ladies were jubilant over their
victory.
THE 31 Ait kbl'IS
NEW YORK.
Mat 30, 1874.
Cotton. Middling upland, 18H18?c.
Liv Stock. Beef Cattle $10.75(313.00 Hogs
Dressed, $7.37J4S7.6214. Sheep Live (clipped).
t4.7j6.75.
BitBADSTurrs. Flour Good to choice, $S.45,J
6.70; white wheat extra, $8.707.10. Wheat No.
2 Chicago, $i.4j1.4X; Iowa spring, $1.4G1.48;
No. t Milwaukee epnng, $1.49(&1.50. Rye West
ern and State, f 1.02&1.12. Barley $1.5o1.60.
Corn Mixed Western afloat, 793iS0c. Oats-
New Western, 59Si0c.
Fbotimons. Pork New Mess, f 1 ".lOai'.oO.
Lard llHllc.
Wool. Common to extra. 4562e.
CHICAGO.
Lira Stock. Beeve- -Choice. $5.806.0.1; good.
$5.40S.70; medium, $5.0tt&5.25; butchers'
stock, $1.005.25; stock cattle, $1.0K&5.3j
Hogs Live, $5 3035.60. Sheep Good to choice
(shorn), $4.255.75.
Provisions.--Butter Choice, 2527c Eggs-
Freeh, lalic. Pork New Mess, $17.05
17.15. Lard $10.5510.70.
Breadstuff. Flour White W inter extra.
$6.7K&1.00; spring extra, $5.256.25. Wheal
Spring, No. 2. $1.161.174. Corn No. 2, 53
50c. Oats No. 2, 4444)ic Barley No. 2,
fl.401.45. Rye No. 2, 8!i90c.
Woou Tub-washed, 4.X&43C; necce, wasnea,
35-2c. ; fleece, unwashed. 23-Gc. ; pulled,
33&37C.
ClJNCliNI A l i.
Briadstutts. Flour $(.00aB.-5. Wheat
$1.27. Corn 653 07c Rye $1.15. Oats &05.c.
Barley $1.50ai55.
Provisions. Pork $ 17.7518.00. Lard 10H
11c.
Lira Stock. Beeves Fair to choice, $4.50
6.00. Hogs live, $4.755.80.
n..nTiirM.-Flour XX Fall. 5.50C.0O.
Wheat No. 2 Red Fall, $1.311.40. Corn No. 2,
555'.tc Oata No. 2, 474Sc Rye No. 2,
Sr?il9Sc Barley $1.50ai.55.
Provisions. Pork Mess, $17.7j18.00. Lard
lOKSHc.
MILWALlUilt.
HREiiurnrm.-Flour SDnng XX, $5.70jy.!l0.
WhcatSpring No. 1, $l.at.24; No. 2, $1.20
1.21. Corn No. 2, 55S560. Oats No. 2, 44"?
44V4c Rye No. 1, wa'J5c. Barley No. 2, $1.50
1.55.
Brsadsttttts. Wheat Extra, $1.531.60.
Corn 6KS65C. Oats 5TX?S51c.
TOLEDO.
Rm insrnTM. Wheat Amber Mich.. $1.35!4(ft
1.3d; No. 2 Red,$1.3.'(ai.3-X. Corn Mixed, ti2
61c. Oats No. 1. WQMc.
CLEVKLAND.
Breadstuff. Wheat No. 1 Red, $1.4031.41 :
No. 2 Red, $1.331.33. Corn 676Sc Oato 54
Q5tic.
BUFFALO.
Lm Stock. Beeves $5.t036.f0. Hoes-
Live. $5.0036.15. Sheep Live (clipped), $4.75
6.25.
EAST LIBERTY.
I.itb STOf-K. Beeves Beet- ri.25(i6.10: me
dium, 5.87V46.12V4. Hogs Yorkers, $5.40$5.60;
Philadelphia, $K.25QB.50. Sheep Best (clipped),
$5.7i6.00; medium, $1.75&5.25.
FOUTY-TinilD COMUiESS.
Saturday, May 23. Senate. The all-
ni"ht session for the consideration of the Civil
Rights bill terminated at 6:15 on the morning of
the 23d. the bill being finally passed by a vote of
29 yeas to 16 nays. The first section of the bill as
passed provides that all citizens and other persons
within the Jurisdiction of the United Slates shall
be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of
the accommodations, advantages, facilities and
privileges of inns, public conveyances on land
or water, theaters and other places of
public amusement, and also of the common
schools and public institutions of learning or be
nevolence supported in whole or in part ny gen
eral taxation, and of cemeteries so upMried;
also the institutions known as agricultural col
leges, endowed by the Coiled States, subject only
to the conditions and limitations established by
law, and applicable alike to citizens of every race
aud color, regardless of any previous condition of
servitude. Severe .penalties are imposed for
the violation of the law, and the District
and Circuit Conns of the United States are
given jurisdiction in cases of it violation, and ac
tions may be presented iu the United States Terri
torial District or Circuit Courts, wherever the de
fendant may be found, without regard to the other
party. It is also provided that no citizen shall be
disqualified for service on any jury because of race,
color or previous condition of servitude. .. .Ad
journed to the 25th.
House. Bills Mere poseed tlortatinir
condemned cannon and cannon balls to various
Posts of the Grand Army of the Republic, for mon
nmental pnrpose; forthesaleof the Rush Valley
Military Reservation in I'lati; for tue sale or the
buildings and ground known as the Detroit
Arsensal, iu Michigan. .. .One of the Senate amend
ments to the Legislative, Executive and Judicial
Appropriation bill was rejected, and others were
discussed at considerable length A bill was re
ported allowing a bounty of $8.331 per month
to soldiers during the late war, and also providing
for tTants of land to them . . . .Adjourned. . .
Monday, May 25. Senate. Bills -were
passed to incorporate the Texas Pacific Railway
Company and to aid in the construction of the
road; Honse bill to revise, consolidate and amend
the laws relating to pensions, approved March
3, 1873, which provides that all persons who have
lost an arm at or above the elbow shall be rated
in second-class and receive a pension of $-24 per
month A joint resolution was introduced pro
posing an amendment to the Constitution provid
ing that, if any State shall fail to maintain a com
mon school system under which all persons
between the ages of five and eighteen years, not
Incapacitated for the same, shall receive free of
charge such elementary education as Congress
may prescribe. Congress shall have the power
to establish therein snch a system and
cause the same to be maintained at the expense of
such State. ...The conference report on the Naval
Appropriation bill was asTei-d to Several
amendments to the Deficiency Appropriation bill
were adopted.... The House resolution was pre
sented announcing the death of Representative
Mellish, and after a few appropriate remarks by
Mr. Coakling the Senate adjourned.
LTovsc. Among the bills introduced
were the following: Providing that the residence
of three years shall be sufficient to entitle an alien,
being a free white person, to become a citizen,
his declaration to be made one year before
his admission; declaring that all corpora
tions doing business in any Stare are
subject to the State courts of that State;
to repeal the law which suspended payment to
loyal masters for slaves drafted and received as
volunteers in the military service; restoring to
the pension roll the pensioners of the Mexican war
who were struck off for disloyalty The Senate
bill to facilitate the execution of and to protect
certain public works of improvement at the
month of the Mississippi was paused .... A
motion to suspend the rules and take
np the substitute for the Senate
Currency bill was lost, as was also a motion to sus
pend the rules and take up the Senate Supple
mentary Civil Rights bill and refer it to the Judi
ciary Committee, with leave to report at any
' time.... Announcement was made of the death of
Mr. Mellish. and appropriate remarks were made,
and resolutions relating to his funeral were adopt
ed . . . .Adjourned.
Tuesday, May 20. Srnile. Bills were
parsed to legalize and establish a pontoon rail
way bridge across the Misisipii River at Prairie
du Oiien, Wis. ; to extend the time fiva years for
he completion of the railway from the St. Croix
River, or the lake between Townships 25 and 31,
to the west end of Lake Superior and to Bayfield,
Win. ; House bill to provide for the protection of
the frontier settlements of Texas againnt Indian
and Mexican depredations ; the Dcficlenry Ap
propriation bill, with several amendments; the
Centennial bill 25 to 17 with a proviso that the
United Stales ha'l not be liahb; directly or in
directly for any expense altcndin? such exposi
tion or by reason of the same . . . .The members of
the Senate attended the funeral of the late Repre
sentative Mellish, in the House of Representa
tives, aud the Senate afterward adjourned.
limine. Speeches were made on the re
port of the Ways and Means Committee on the
S'mborn contracts . Several amendment to the
hill to amend the existing Customs and Internal
Revenue laws were agreed to iu Committee of the
Whole Messrs. Halo of New York. G. F Hoar
and Young wto announced by the Speaker as vis
itors to the West Point Academy.... The funeral
services of Mr. Metli-h were conducted. In the
presence of the members of the Senate, in a solemn
aud impressive manner.... Adjourned.
Wednesday, May 27. Senate. Bills
were passed to prevent hazing at the Naval
Academy : amendatory of the act lo reduce duties
on imports and to reduce internal taxation; the
hill to reviso and consolidate the statutes of the
United States, in force Iec. 1, ls'3; llou-e bill to
extend the time to pre-emptors on the public lands
in Minnesota to make their flual payments... .A
bill was introduced to aid in the improvement of
be Wi-consin and Fox Rivers. ...A resolution was
offered declaring Spencer not entitled to the seat
a- Senator from Alabama, and that it be awarded
to Sykes.... Adjourned.
II(iu. After further debate on the
report of the Committee of Ways aud Means on
the eanhorn contracts, the bill repealing the law
on which such contracts were based was pasced
without objection, with an amendment prohibiting
any Senator. Representative or Delegate in Con
grets from acting as an agent, attorney, proctor,
advocate, solicitor, or counsel for any peron in
connection with a violation of the Customs or
Reveuue laws Among the other bills passed
were the following: Providing that the pay
of a- deceased member shall be given
to his widow or helrs-at-law up to the
date of the election of his successor, whose pay
shall commence from his election; removing the
political nisabilliics of Raphael Sctnmcs, o' Ala
bama: providing that no person shall serve as
juror in Uni'ed States courts who cannot, read and
write the Enirlish lantruaLre: resru'ating Ihe re
moval of causes from Sta'ecourts to United States
Circuit Conns An evening session was held lo
consider the bill to amend the existing Customs
and lnernal Rnvenne laws, and several amend
ments were disposed of.... Adjourned.
Thursday, May 28. Senate The bill
to set apart a certain portion of the Island of Mack
inac, in the Straits ot Mackinac, as a National
park was passed.... "The Alabama contested elec
tion case of Svkes v. Soei'Cer was further consid
ered, and the resolution to award the seat to Sykes
was rejected yeas li, nays o-i ann me
committee was discharged from runner
consideration of Ihe subject; so Speucer
retains the seat The bill to establish the Terri
tory of Pembina and to provide a temporary gov
ernment therefor was taken up. and an amendment
providing that the right to vote or hold office in
the Territory should not be restricted on account
of race, color, or sex was. after considerable dis-
cn-sion, rejected yeas 10. nays 27 and the
bill itseir was then rejected yeas i, nays
21 ...A lengthy written report was made from the
c.immineM on Privileges and Elections on the
question as to the best and most practicable mode
of electimr President and Vice-President, and pro
viding a trihnpal to adjust and decide all contested
questions connected therewith, which report was
ordered printed and placed on the calendar....
Adjourned.
Home. The Senate amendments to the
bill to legalize aud establish a pontoon railway
bridge across the Mississippi River at Prairie dn.
Chien, Wi., were concurred in, with an amend
ment The substitute Tor the Senate amendment
to the Currency bill was rejected yeas 112. nays
117 and the Senate substitute was then rejected
yeas 70, nays 160 and 8 Conference
Committee on the disagreeing voUS was then
ordered 122 to 82 and the Speaker appointed
Messrs. Maynard, Farwell and Clymer as such
nwtimittee. on ihe nart of the House. ...An even
ing session was held to further consider the Tariff
and Internal Revenue bill, and several proposed
amendments were disposed of ....Adjourned.
Fritjay, May 29. SensUt. An adverse
report was made on the bill to extend the time for
proof and payment on pre-emption claims noon
public lands. .. .A motion was inuiie rn;unu.i
the vote by which the bill to establish the Terri
tory of Pembina was rejected I ne House
Finance bill and the resolution ef the House disa
greeing to the Senate amendments, and asking
tor a Committee or Jonicrence, were presented,
and a motion that the Senate insist upon
its amendments and grant tue comerenre
asked by the House ws agreed to
31 lo 24 and Messrs. Morton, Sherman and ler
rimen were appointed as the Senate Cenferenco
Committee. ...Bills were passed to legalize and
establish a pontoon railway bridge across the
Mississippi River at Prairie du Cnicn. Wis. ; ex
Dlainini' the intent and meaning of ttie fourth
section of the act granting bounty landa to certain
officers and soldiers who have been engaged in the
military service of the United States ; to equalize
nensions in certain cases: to increase the pensions
of soldiers who have been totally disabled. ...Ad
journed to the 1st.
House. The bill for the gradual reduc
tion of the army was debated at considerable
lenglhand several proposed amendments were
disosed or, and the bin was passed ii ro nn ...
A bill was passed changing the time of holding the
United States Circuit and District Courts at Bvans
villc, Ind., to the first Mondays of pril and Octo
ber. ...The Senate amendments to the Legislative,
Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill were
taken up, and some of them were non-conenrred
in and a Conference Committee was appointed....
Adjourned to the 1st
A is'ew Swindle.
The Chicago Time of the 23d contains an
exposition of a new swindle attempted to be
played upon farmers aud those of all classes
who are anxious to increase the purchasing
power of their dollars.
One A. W. Locke, who claims to be the
manufacturers' agent for English-made sew
ing machines, from some supposititious ware
house on Dearborn street has sent to Masters
of Granges and others in Iowa an ingeniously-
worded circular, giving certain alleged facts in
relation to sewing machines which would nat
urally attract the attention of buyers with at
tenuated purses. According to that vcr;icioHs
document the cost of manufacturing a first
class sewing-machine does not exceed $10.00,
even in this country, and in England, in con
sequence of the ciieapness of labor, it
is somewhat less. Thereupon Mr. Locke
entered into a calculation: To man
ufacture a "Singer" machine in London
would cost, Fay, $10.00 ; freight across the
ocean to Canada, $2.00; importation into the
United S'ates, $4.00; exprt-ss charges, $2.00;
profit, $4.00; total cost of machine. $22.00. This
was grand. What was the use of paying from
$05.00 to $100.00 for a sewing machine when
by buying of Locke the cost would be only
$22.00 ? It then seemed to occur to our great
philanthropist that at this season of the year
even $22 00 could not be found growing on
every bush by every wayside in Iowa, and so
he offered to take the note of any farmer who
should be recommended by the officer of any
Grange, running three months at 10 per cent.
interest, for all of the purchase money with
the exception of the $4.00 required by the Gov
ernment upon the importation of the ma
chines. The customs officers would not trust,
as he would. In conclusion he advised his
correspondents to remit by mail. Registered
letters were an abomination in his eyes, since
they were a constant temptation to dishonest
clerks, and he preferred to have his money
placed in well-sealed letters and sent in the
ordinary way, with nothing upon them to in
dicate their valuable contents.
Simultaneously with the dispatch of these
circulars Mr. Locke rented a box in the Post
office, and in his boarding-house waited for
the answers. It was not many days before
the box was filled with letters containing re
mittances and letters of inquiry, and Locke
gathered in lots of shekels. But there came
an end to this sort of thing. The Secretary of
a Grange thought the news too good to be
true, and wrote on to inquire about Locke. A
detective was directed to investigate,
and it was soon discovered that Locke
was a myth and the whole thing was a
snare and delusion. Unfortunately, up to
the morning of the 23d the swine'ler
had not been identified, but a boxful of letters
had been retained, which wouia oe returned
to the senders. Of course the fellow did not
intend to redeem the magnificent promises he
made in his circular. He only wanted the
four dollars advanced to pay the duties, and
considered that his "duty" in connection with
the transaction was ended when he trans
ferred the current scrip of the Republic from
the mail-bags to his breeches pocket. The
moral to this story is eo plain that a blind
man can see it.
The Fearful Flood Disaster la Jlassa
cuusetts.
TnE SUDDEN DELUGE.
In an hour and a half from the begin
r-ing the last house had been npset or
torn into bits, tjuick and terrible work!
Williamsburg, Skinnerville, Haydenville,
ijvcus, pieasani nine towns, wim wane
cottages arranged in straight row and
rectangles, and with a wide spread ot
green meadows to the south and west;
little feudal hamlets, -whose people were
almost owned by one man, generally lie
for whom each village was named; busy
little places.with plenty of factories, plenty
of bustling life and hard work; pretty.
clustered villages, clineing each around
8ouio tall chimney, all standing' ou the
broad Hats, with" hills of more and more
gentle slope, down and down the valley,
not hemming them in, but making way
for them from out the bold mountains
above. Such was the valley before the
storm of water, loosed by the neglect .
the great men of the valley, fell upon it
and turned the flats into deserts and the
gentle hills into-the barriers of such a
deluge as Massachusetts haa never seen
before. At Williamsburg the torrent n as
as deep as it was wide, but here it
reached the plain and spread into a Hood.
The flood went straight down the valley.
I; attacked Skinnerville, not with water
merely, but with the bones of Williams
burg, great timbers and tree-boles, and
the stones Which it lifted and whirled
along. It attacked Haydenville with
weapons caught up from both villages
above, and was here a torrent thick with
dead bodies. Here tin re is a sudden b nd
eastward, and a narrowing in the old
stream bed just above the first dam. The
flood, thus for a moment contractted,
raised into a wall in its very front ne
spoils of the bridges, houses, orchards it
had swept away, "it hurried before it a
great boiler, picked up at Skinnerville,
and descended headlong on this third
village. It made a sieve of the brick
factory, tore out another boiler, laid hold
of two great iron sales, and added these
to its weapons; piled house upon
housetop, drove two houses into one,
cut one house into two, splintered others,
turned an island meadow into a desert o
sand, smooth as a billiard table, except
where strewn with tree-trunks and stones,
and carried sixty bodies on towsrd Leeds.
Leeds it 6truck on the northwestern cor
ner and broke for itself a straight path
through till it landed thirty dead in a
twisted mass of rubbish against the hill
below Warner's flats. The loss of life was
terrible, but undoubtedly far less than it
would have been but for Milkman Collins
Graves, who carried the news of the flood
just a breathing space ahead of the Hoot'
from Williamsburg through Skinnerville
to Haydenville.
Is it any wonder that all this ruin
should be a Mecca of sight-seers day after
day? They were mostly in carriages yes
terday, and, as every turnpike bridge in
the valley was gone and the roads were
chaos, long processions a wagon with
coffins at every rod formed on both sides
the fords. Cor. 2f. Y. World.
MARVELOUS ESCAPE.
The marvelous escape of young Dun
ning at Leeds has already been alluded
to, but his story is so interesting that it is
worth giving in detail. When the alarm
was given he was at his work in the
spool-room of the Nonotuck silk works,
and, rushing out of the mill, his first
thought, of course, was tor his family.
He tound that his lather, wile anu three
children had all left the house. He shout
ed to them to run for their lives, at the
same time pointing to them what direc
tion to take. His wife and children
obeyed him and were saved; but his
fattier, an obi man ot seventy-eignt,
thinking that something might be got out
of the house before the flood reached it,
went back. In dashed the son after him,
begging him to leave the doomed build
ing. "While raising one of the windows
the floor gave way beneath their feet, and
his lather disappeared trom his sighL
The young man had just time to clamber
out of the window, and as the house tipped
over crawled up its side to the roof just as
the building broke up, leaving him but a
fragment to cling to for his life, and on
he went sailing down that awful flood in
full sight of wife and children, who, as they
looked on in terror and a.-ony, expected
momentarily to see him sink beneath the
surging mass, in a lew seconds nia Iran
raft was crushed like an eggshell, but his
presence of mind never deserted him. He
jumped for another, and when that was
gone for j et another. He was hastening
down with the current at terrific speed,
and, intent on the fearful task he had in
hand, never once thought of the dams to
ward which he was hastening. I lie first
one is reached in that awful crash and jam.
He is hurled seemingly twenty feet in the
air, to come down and be submerged for
the first time far beneath the waves. As
he came lo the surface again and clasped
another piece of driftwood he realized
with an inteusity unimaginable by those
whose lives have never been imperiled
that another and higher dam was but a
short distance below, and that he had ab
solutely no hope tor life unless he es
caped trom the flood belore tliat point
was reached; but tortuna'ciy tue swollen
mass of water and debris at that moment
sursred toward shore, and seizing an op-
port unity which seemed to be providen
tially presented he clambered across
some broken roots, which served him as
a bridce, and with a leap again had a
foothold on the earth. The feelings of a
man who, like him, had scarcely a hope
of life, on finding himself iscaped from
he laws ot death cannot be .depicted.
Only a cool and intrepid mau could have
passed through that experience, ami pos
sibly Mr. Duuning could not but for his
experiences before as a raftsman iu Can
adian waters, lie bad been swept hall a
mile down the river and was utterly ex
hausted by the intense strain on mino and
body, nerve and muscle, yet as he lay on
the bank for a moment to get his biea'h
he could not suppress a smile al the ap
pearance of a man who escaped from the
flood near the same place by seizing hold
of the limbs ot a large tree on the b-ink.
Fleshy though he was-, this man went up
that tree like a squirrel, and did not stop
until he was at least thirty feet above the
water.
Mr. Dunning describes as the most ap
palling incident of the memorable ride
the heartrending screams and groans of
women and children in houses that wete
swept down wifli him and seemed lo be
beneath him. He says they will ring in
his ears till the latest day of his life.
Cor. N. Y. Herald.
OTHER INCIDENTS.
Among the many thrilling incidents
given in the newspaper accounts of this
fearful occasion are the following:
All along the course of the flood there
were narroV escapes and thrilling inci
dents. Mr. II. II. Tilton, of Williams
burg, was carrying his aged mother.
Widow Sarah II. Snow, to a place of
safety, when the unrelenting waters seized
them; she was carried away, while he
grasped a tree, about fifteen feet high,
standing on a bank, and was saved,
though the waters reached and swayed
him. Messrs. Hannum and Rhtdes, liv
ing in the same house, got across the
street into another dwelling,- the lower
story of which was flooded, but some ap
ple trees broke the force of the wave and
the house stood.
One of the saddest cases connected
with the disaster was the death of Mrs.
Jane Cogan, of- Leeds, and her - two
daughters, Grace and Carrie. Grace Co-
ean was a pupil m the Westneld formal
Sch ol, while her sister Annie was a
teacher in a school at West Farms. They
arrived at home Friday night, intending
to soend Sunday, and the wave came
without warning in the three were seated
at the breakfast table. The only surviv
ing member of the family is an absent
daughter.
A young French child was found safe
asleep In a bed In a wrecked house, in au
tempting to escape from which the re
mainder of the family perished.
Miss Carrie Donney and Mrs. Sarah J.
Ryan and child, who were amonsr those
swept away and lost, had ample time to
save themselves, but were completely
stupefied with terror, and, with a lixed
Stare, stood motionless.
Tim-e men, fearing the boarding-house
in which they were with a number of
others would give way, despite the en
treaties of their associates, climbed an
apple tree near by. The latter fell under
tiieni and they were drowned, while those
at the boariling-houso remained un
harmed. One man ventured upon the
roof of the boarding house, and, though
it crumbled under him, he clung to it and
saved his life.
A cow floated down from Williamsburg
to Florence, and escaped with only a
broken horn.
A sad and affecting case was that of
three French children, none of them oyer
nine years old, who sat among the living
and dead in Mr. Warner's house at Leeds,
and told questioners that they had lost
three sisters, a brother and their mother,
but their father was safe and attending to
some of the dead people. But many who
listened to them knew that the father, as
well as the brother and sisters, was. -unong
the dead yet none had the heart to break
tho terrible news to the children.
One lucky little boy cot a safe ride
down the stream in a small house. The
dwelling was picked up by the flood
somewhere between Leeds and Florence,
and went over the dam right side up, land
ing some distance below on the flats.
There somebody snicd (his novel convey
ance . arid took the boy out safe and
sound.
Mr. Atkinson, a "boss" weaver in
James' woolen mill, received warning and
ran immediately to his house. He was
last seen alive by his family passing bur
riedly by an nrper window. His little
Ixiy had seen ihe water coming wnue at
play, and had warned his mother in time
for her escape to a neighboring; hill. From
this hill tl cy had seen the husband and
father run to the house at full speed, and
hnd tried to attract his attention by their
cries and motions, but in vain. The poor
man had evidently been disappointed at
not finding his family down stairs, and
was making a search tor them tnrougu
t'.ie upper rooms when they saw him pass
the window. While they looked the
house was broken in two and carried
away. He never appeared at the surface.
His "body was found, shockingly bruised
and mangled, a few rods below.
The liberals and Ihe Civil Rights
Dill.
The Tribune Almanac, in classifying
the -members of Congress, sets down
Charles Sumner, Carl Schurz, Fenton of
New York. Tinton of Nebraska and
Hamilton of Texas as" Liberals." Itwill
be remembered that the Civil Rights bill
passed by the Senate last Saturday was
the especial pet of Mr. Sumner, the one
unfinished work of his political career. It
is notable that not one of his immediate
political associates voted for or against
the measure on its passage. Mr. Tipton
alone made a record. He virtually voted
against it, being paired with Lis col
league, Mr. Hitchcock, a friend of the
bill. The dodging of Messrs. Fenton and
Hamilton was not surprising. Fiiey are
wily politicians, and never pretended to
be particularly friendly to Mr. Sumner.
Hut the course of Carl Schurz is quite
different. He has set himself up as the
intimate friend aud successor of Mr. bnm-
ner. lie it was w no stood lortn at, nosion
as his panegyrist pur excellence. Not con
tent with tliat, he declared at a banquet
the dav following that he was the Klisba
of the dead statesman, and promised to
wear his mantle faithfully. ' We iouirht
side by side," he said, " or rather back to
back, "during the three bitterest years tf
Sumner's lit'.-. I feel like a man who,
seeing his comrade fall by his side, holds
his body in one h ind and waves Ins
sword with the other." More to the same
eflectdid the Senator from Missouri say
on that, occasion.
The Civil Rights bill afforded the very-
first opportunity to test the sincerity of
those words. With his dying oreaui Mr.
Sumner implored his friends to stand by
the Civil Rights bill. It was the one un
decided battle field of his life. Does Call
Schurz now feel like a man who, seeing
his comrade fall by his side, holds his
body in one hand and waves his sword
with the other? A stronger cor.frast be
tween words and deeds could hardly be
conceived. Certain it is that never did
the memory of a dead statesman plead
more eloquently than did that of Charles
Sumner for the Civil Rights bill, and the
"sword" of Carl Schurz wa3 sheathed.
InsJ.eal of being the champion of his
lJ'ision pledge he played tne part ot
Judas, Htid forfeited ihe respect of all
w ho hold in reverence the name ot
Charles Sumner. Not only so, but tbo
enemies against whom he promised lo
wave his drawn sword must despise him
as a hypocrite and a sneak.
I he probable exptauauon ot scnurz'
course is not difficult, to divine. He is a
Senator from the Democratic State of
Missouri. His term will expire next year.
He wants to be re-elected, and is afraid
that by voting for a measure of justice to
the negro he would blight his political
prospects. I hat is tne only tneory upon
which his conduct can be explained. lie
utterly lacks the moral courage which
braves danger rather titan merit con
tempt.
I lie vote ot the Senate on tne tJivii
Rights bill was the last. spadHul of dirt
Tipon the " Liberal" coffin. There is now
no distinction between "Liberal' and
Democrat. Mr. Sumner did, indeed, oc
cupy a peculiar position, being a Kepul
lican iu principles, but unfriendly with
the party as an organization. It was
shown on Saturday last that herein he
was absolutely alone. If he could have
lived to see the record of the Senate on
his favorite measure he would have re
joiced exceedingly that the good sense of
the nation prevented thp overthrow oi trie
Republican party in 1872. Chicago Jour
nal. Chess congress.
The Third National Tournament of
Chess Flayers is to be held in Chicago,
lieginning" on July 7, 1874, and terminat
ing on July 20, f'T as soon after as con
venient and possible. The Chicago Chess
Club has undertaken to make all neces
sary arrangements to accommodate those
who may desire to participate. The pro
gramme contemplates a Grand and a
Minor Tournament the former composed
of acknowledged first-class players, re
ceiving no odds from any other player.
The latter will comprise such players a
may choose to enter the lists, and who are
in the habit of receiving the odds of at
least a pawn ami move from first-class
players. Prizes will be given to success
ful competitors in each class. The en
trance fee to the Grand Tournament has
been fixed at $20, and to the Minor Tour,
nament at Each contributor to the
general fund to the amount of $5 will be
entitled to a copy of the book of the Con
gress. A cony of the rules and regula
tions adopted by the committee, and other
information desirable to intending partic
ipants, can be obtained by addressing
Albert W. Giles, Secretary and Treasurer,
114 East Madison street, Chicago, ill.
.MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The Emperor of Russia never laughs.
Some lovers quarrels end with a
smack.
Enoland spends $G 1,0(10,000 a year for
tobat co.
EvKRYTHiNU is beaded now for out
door wear.
Albany is going to manufac ture ice by
machinery.
Alcohol and whiting will clean silver
in any form.
A Tkoy man has shot auother for flirt
ing with his wife.
A fool is never wrong aud a smart
man is always right.
The favorite song among Illinois
rogues is: " We may be JolieL"
We govern our passions; but in gen
eral wc let the passions first have a trial.
Tins year the first colored student will
graduate from the Theological School at
Yale College and also from the Academi
cal Department,
The Washington Star denies the story
that George Altred rammed bis umbrella
down the throat of his antagonist and
then opened it.
The system of driving machinery by
large belts direct from the fly-wheels of
engines is becoming more general in
England every day.
The Delaware peach-growers begin to
predict a total failure of the crop, and you
cau therefore make up your mind that
there will be piles of peaches.
xV foktcne teller has predicted that
Mark Twain will die this year but he
is only going to start a paper, which
is hitting pretty close for a fortune
teller. A hedq,uii.T containing 10,922 pieces
has just been achieved by Mrs. Abtn-r
Coc, of Island Pond, Vt , and tne lady
would like to hear of a more numerous
quilt than that.
A kind word spoken to a husband will
go farther than a broomstick or a 11 r iron,
snys a wouian of experience. Ami the
rule works as well the other way, says a
man who has tried it.
Tuerk has not for many years been a
time when so many churcnes of the sev
eral denominations have reported reviv
als, or when converts have been counted
so numerously as now.
There is a suggestion of the experi
ences to which tourists are liab:e in the
fact that trunks labeled "bug proof art:
conspicuously displayed by furnishers ot
conveniences for travelers.
A curious memento of the late war,
consisting of Federal and Couledtrate
bullets, impacted by coming together in
the air, which was picked up in front of
Petersburg in 18(Jl, has just been present
ed to the ordnance museum.
A Cincinnati reporter says that there
is something grand in the sight of a pair
of runaway horses, but we believe that a
good deal depends on whether a man is
on a fence or trying to climb over the end
board of the wagon. Detroit Free Trent.
II. A. I Jots ford & Co., Hartford, Conn.,
are receiving one refrigerator car loaded
with about 10,000 pounds of beef from
Chicago every week, and have a ready
market for it, their customers finding it as
good as that killed in that region, and, it
is said, a good deal better than the beef j
that is brought from Chicago on the hoof.
The toothless may derive hope from
the fact that at Killin, in Perthshire, an
old man died at the age of ninety-one
years; but five years before his death he
cut six new teeth, which he said were
quite serviceable and "as sharp as lan
cets." A Chinaman shot an American eagle,
near Sacramento, one day recently, and
cooked and ate the deceased monarch of
birds. A few hours later several patriotic
citizens were "loyally" yelling around h
newly-dug trench, and there was a dead
Chinaman at the bottom of it. Surra
merdo Argus.
It is said that rats have so great an
aversion to asphodel that, if it Ihj grown
about the places which they h aunt, or if
the plant be placed in their holes, it will
ellectually banish them. It doei not de
sir.iy or injure the rat, but is an intolera
ble oflone to him. The asphodel is a
bulbous plant belonging to the lily
family.
A little baby lay sleeping in its crib.
Another, not much older, .was looking at
it, and saw a single hair lying across the
baby's lips. He bad heard papa laiiiing
about whiskers, and he thought baby was
about having some too, and he ran in
great haste' to his mother and said:
Turn, mamma, turn twick, uay s tuuin
whisters !"
A decision has been given by referees
against the Maine Central Railroad in
favor of a passengtr, for injuries suffered
at the hands of a drunken fellow-passen
ger. It is helil that not to exclude from
the cars persons so drunk as to be noisy
nd quarrelsome is negligence which will
make the railroad company respunsioic
for d. mages.
London is literally built on a founda
tion of pipes. In some places it wouiu
be difficult to rind room to My auoniei
nine. One g:-.s company supplies two
dis'ricts with nearly 400 miles of pipes.
Then there are the underground tele
graph pipes, and 2,500 miles of drain
pipes, the lead and iron pneumatic iuoes,
the sewers, the water pipes and the under
ground railway.
Rkcknt experiments performed by
Endemann exhibit the fact that, if mea',
be cut in slices and exposed in a room
the air of which is heated to 1 K) degrees,
and is allowed to enter and esoape only
through coiion fil ers, it will become so
dry in three houis' time that it can be
ground. Since the albumen and fiorm
an: !!t coagulated, the meat loses none
of its nutritive properties by this process.
A PfcuuiA man arose the morning after
a snow-storm ar.d found his dog kennel
buried under a drift as high as a church. !
He worked half an hour to dig his dog
out, and then went down and told his
clerks what he had done, and added : " A
merciful man is merciful to his beasts."
Hut after he left home the neighbors saw
his wife and daughter shoveling out
paths through the snow and carry ing in
coal.
Can it be possible that the canines East
and West have a higher order of intelli
gence than those in our immediate vicin
ity Rut it would appear so fr m a nonce
recently issued by the Selectmen of a small
town in Maine, to the effect that any dog
that did not pay his assessment of oue
dollar was to be shot by the town agent,
and from a still more recent number of a
Michigan paper, which innocently won
ders bow many of the ten thousand dogs
in Marquette have paid their license?
N. Y. Express.
A LmlicroQ Reception.
TnE husband of a lady living in the
West Division had occasion recently to
make a short journey into the country.
Upon taking his departure he informed
his wife that, if he failed to reach home
by ten o'clock tliat evening, she need not
expect him nntil the next day. The
hour named passed by, when the timid
little woman prepared to retire. As a
slight precaution against burglars she
placed a large pistol conveniently near
her bed. She then searched the pantry
and found the carving knife, a huge
butcher knite and another weapon, a
cross between a broadsword and a
butcher's cleaver. These preparations
completed, she with her little dauehter
were just about retiring, when hoirors
upon horrors ! steps were heard iu a
lower hall of the domicile. The
mother hastily seized the pistol and
the largest knife, and, bidding the
little d.-unhter take the two remain
ing instruments of death, silently
stole into the most remote corner of
the room to await evenn. The stops
came nearer, momentarily growing morn
distinct, with each ot which the hearts of
the watchers beat, or nil lit r thumped,
time. Presently the door was heard
opening in a stealihy manner, ami tho
steps oi the Intruder bent toward tho
sp.-t where stood the now thoroughly
terrified females. The bed-room door
was gently pressed back, and just as
mother and daughter wi re nboiit to en
danger their limes by prolotiged screams
the husband and father anticipated them
by a loud laugh of astonishment ut the
ludicrous scent'. His mirth was equally
aroused upon making the discovery ihat
the pistol was not loaded! Chicago Jo ur
nul. The I'tui j -Rider's Mission.
There was an excited crowd gathered
about the P"iiy Express station nt Mc
Pliorsoiis. The woMern bound rider had
arrived with a bullet in his leg, and re
ported that ihe Pawnees were oir their
reservation, and vviiv advancing on the
settlement. He had met them between,
the last station ami Mcl'iiersons, and they
had given chase. M. I'lit tsohs could
boast of but seventy-five souls at that
time before the railroad c.-'ine, and thero
were but forty men who were caiible of
defending ihe place. Whatever was to
be dune had to be done quickly, fort
Graf tan was eighty miles iiniihwt st, and
a rider was oisitatt htd in baste. Fort
Kearney was seventy miles southeast., ami
who Woitlil slltiinion aid f "r ri i tinier It
was a dangerous undertaking. The route
lay rigid torougli the hostile country, and
the messenger would bo iihnosl sure lo
meet the Indians. I he pmiv. riders ns a
general thing, were ft arless men, but this
proposition w a so Irioight with dungcr
that th'-v wire loth to undertake it.
Ei Slade was only Ih ic!" cri- d nn
old man, "ther'd be no hesitation while
wimen hu' children were in ilaiu'. rr"
" I'll go!" anl a hi t " lit-4 d, te.-trlcsB-
looking ynting f How sit pjird tortli.
"G I!" said the fid man, pressing-
his Imnd. "Old Jim Johnson s . ho!
Old Jim ,1'hnfn! You hear me!
There's more sense in loci's c.-tzeb.i i hen
Ihe hull lot of you Pick our bos-, boy,
ail' ride for your lite. St- ! there's Nelly
look iu at you. I-or her hike, illy, tl
no one a else. 1 lnny Jive iii-ipiex women
and children; think f i'! Ride your
best, an' w hen you git lo the stutioii yoti
may git a relict, post 'em there, nn' when
you git to llie lolt tell the t'olitliiandaiit to
semi on some eevolry as soon us pon-diile.
r lell Ihe solera, an- we II send Ihe Iteds
toCalitornyl Nelly Johmoti'u yourn as
soon aa y ou git hack. Goo I by, boy, an
God speed ye."
I beie was a spring, a rush ot hoots.
ami the ride -to Kearney hud begun.
Right gallantly the lilile horse t-prang
away at her rider's bidding, and the ees
of sweet Nelly Johnson kept upon them
until horse and rider laded away upon
the horizon.
Love was one incenl i ve for tho pony
rider's mission, and the desire to save
the people of Mcl'iiersons from a bloody
death was the other. Did man ever risk
life in a better cause ? Onward swept
the little horse, her flying he U throwing
up a cloud of dust which hovered in the
air for hundreds of yards behind her.
To the left of them glided the still waters
of the Platte, ami on the riht stretched
the boundless green of the prairie. The
rider sat firm us a rock, his dauntless
face looking straight ahead and wearing
an air which seemed lo say it was ull for
the s:ike ot Nelly John.-.on.
You may talk of the Mamelukes, the
Tartar horsemen, the savage Bedouins,
and all the w ild tiders, but what arc they
to compare with our American pony
riders men who were fearless ami
braved every danger; who ran the risk of
life in every mile they dasijed over; men
who were expected to do fifty mihs at,
top speed in da) light or dark, rain or
shine, hot or cold 1 lint the railroad
has done away with the pony-rider, ami
tve hour no more of such exploits as that
of ihe renowed Jimmy Moore.
Onwurd syvept the brave little horse,
and at last the station came in view. A
minute more and horse and rider were nt
ihe door. No relay w:is there to meet
them. Not a sign of life vas to le seeu,
but there wire hoof-tracks in evity direc
tion, showing that the relief had lied.
Giving the horse a drink, the rider
mounted, and Hgain they were on the way
to Kearney. Further on liny cmiuc upon
a large object in the renter of Ihe trail.
It was the Vetern-b -und stage with the
horses gone, the driver bet A'ceii the fore
wheels with a bullet in his head, the pas
sengers lying about the road, and the
conductor in the boot i.ounded unto
death. One horrified loo k, a pause, and
faster fled ihe horses. Mib: after mile is
leit la hind, station niter station is passed,
and no relief. Will they ever ai to
Kearney ?
On the prairie to the light of tin in ap
pear a ho.-t ol mounted rm n. They Hie
the p' ts of the Peace Commi-Kion on
their annual in-naud. Tutuiug with a
iriiimpiiaot yell they spued to lo ud the
rider oil, Nitiroaei lTuxs the space be
tween ihem, and the gallant hor-e re.
dottiiles lm exertions, in t ie v..n of the
savages lides a tall chief mounted upon a
powtrl'ul horse, his plunits stieannng in
ihe wird as he urge- the noble annual he
bestrides. Young Es-cx can escape it be
lurus back. Uuuno! The swcctlnc; of
Nelly Johnson and the shrinking forms
ol Oclcnseier-s little one ooine beioie hi9
view, and dashing the perspiration from
his brow the pursued d.i-n onward. Rat
tt four miies more and succor is at limi t!
Nearer come the purstteis. Now ride,
young LVseX, for it is tbne-scoie live to
one! S.eed. brave liulu horse; strain
mus'-le aiid iieiv? heart, for your work
will well be' done! Ride, young Essex,
lor everything is at stake! Onward
rushed the hoise, his ho fs beating time
lo the short, quick bicalh. Ihe gap
closes! Twang! A sharp p tin in the
side, and the rider reeled in me saddle,
ihe. whip is raised tor Has first lime, and
fi-iei fl:d the hoise.
Affd dow the creen ramparts and
stocjiad- d gates of Fort Kearney came in
view, The" baffled savngea tuin and set
out' rapidly up -he trail, while the laiut
i.ig ri ier ch cks the fullering steps ot Irs
diug horse. Our last look nt the waviug
sea ol, gieen, mid thev t liter the ga'es
thrown open to receive then..
In the oen'tr of the parade staud a
group of men about a boi.-e and rider.
The horse is don now-, unJ from bis
nostrils gushes he lire-current, and be
side her lies tli rider.
Young EssiAais d hi- head from the
arm which supported it, and said:
Pawnees oil their rest rvaiion. Mc
Phersous station's cleaned out help
quick! My love to to Nelly Johnson
f
And grasping the reins with 6tU!"ening
clutch, the barbed shaft eating out his
soul, he sank upon the pony's neck.
Their brave hearts had ceasid to beat.
li. Y. Graphic
"Dried tongue," was the answer
which a minister, just going out to "ex
change" gave to some one who asked
him "what he had in his car pet-bag
which contained s-.ven sermons.
The St John qnick-ilver mine in
Silano County. CaL, produced in April
102 flasks of quicksilver, yaiued at .,-000.