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VOLUME X.
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1874.
NUMBER 30.
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TOYS, CONFECTIONERY,
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
ConJtnstd from Telczrams of Ac'ompanjins Dates.
post office iutilpim;,
B-tf PLATTSMOUTn. EB.
JIoxdav, Oct. 12. Many Carlists arc
said to be coininsj into Barcelona and Tarra-
-oua and askin; for amncfty.. . .News has been
received in London to the effect that the
Sclileswig-Holstcln question would be re
ferred to the arbitration of the Queen.
....It is said the father of Cliflrley
Ross, the abducted Philadelphia boy
whose whereabouts have net yet been
ascertained, notwithstanding the large
rewards and preat efforts put forth
for his recovery has tiecoine crazed with
jrrief and because of slanderous reports which
have been published concerning himself and
family The Tammany Democrats of New
York city have nominated Win. II. AV'ickham
for Mayor. . . . Late New Orleans advices state
that the supporters of Gov. McEnery have
accepted the proposition of Gov
Kcllo to test the question of the
Louisiana State Government by a can-
vass of the actual returns, and all
parties to abide by the result. These returns
can be prodtu-ed and authenticated at any
time.... A telegram of the ith from the As
sistant United States Attorney at Denison,
Tex., says eleven Ku-Klux prisoners had just
been brought to that place from Montague
iy a Deputy Marshal and his assistants.
Ti Exn.vY, Oct. 13. The recent election
in France for the Councils General resulted a
follows: Republicans, C72: Monarchists, 004;
Bonajiartist-s, 1.V5....A Kayonnc dispatch of
the rith announces the withdrawal of Gen
Dorregaray from the Carlist cause, and that
this withdrawal had made a bad impression
on the soldiers of Don Carlos. A Madrid
dispatch of the same date says that the Car-
lists under Lozanc had been defeated
near Fortuna. The National forces had
possession of the left bank of the River
Ebro....Late advices from the Cape of Good
Hope announce the discovery of another dia
mond field near Phillipstown Daniel W.
Gooch a:id Benjamin F. Butler have been re
nominated for Congress by the Republicans
in the Fifth and Sixth Massachusetts Dis
tricts. ... In a light with the Cheyenne Indians
and their allies on Jute Creek, near the fork of
the Red River, in Texas, on the 27th ult., Gen.
Mackenzie's troops destroj-ed over NX) lodges
and captured 1,424 horses and mules. The
bodies of four Indians were brought in. One
white soldier was slightly wounded.... A dis
patch from Darlington, Indian Territory, Oct.
5, says twenty-four lodges of the Kiowas,
under Satanta, had surrendered to Gen. Neill.
Satanta and Big Tree would be held in close
confinement as hostages until further orders
....President Grant, accompanied by ex-Secretary
Borie, Gov. Harney and others, was
recently on a viit to the Indian Territory,
where they met with a warm and hearty
welcome at the hands of the Cherokee and
other Indian tribes.... New Orleans dis
patches of the 12th report that a fight had
occurred the day before at the old Vacheric
road store, in St. James Parish, between the
Bovce andllogau (Republican) factions. One
party had assembled to ratify a compromise
with the Conservatives, when the latter inter
fered, and the result was a free fight, in
which several persons were wounded but
none killed. A tight was also Said to have
occurred at Point-a-la-IIaehc, between the
Butler and Mahony Republican factions.
One man was severely wounded. Gov. Kel
logg had received dispatches asserting that
intimidation existed at Breux Bridge, St.
Martin's Parish, and that Republicans dare
not come forward to register. Another dis
patch is published, signed Martin Voorhies,
denying that any intimidation existed in that
locality.
"Wednesday, Oct. 14. A special from
Santander in the London rail Mall Gttzrtte of
the 13th says there are indications of the sur
render of the entire Carlist army in the near
future. Two battalions had already surren
dered at Algorta, and the Carlist provincial
authorities at Durango have given public no
tice that those wishing to lay down their arms
may do so.. ..The Turkish town of Akhiolyi,
containing 500 inhabitants, has been
entirely destroyed by fire Henry
L. Pierce in the Fourth and George
r. Hoar in the Ninth Massachusetts Districts
have been renominated for Congress....
The convention of Southern Republicans met
at Chattanooga on the 13th. About 200 dele
gates were present. A letter was read from
the Republican Congressional Committee.
Lewis E. Parsons, of Alabama, was chosen
permanent President. A committee, con
sisting of one from each State, was ap
pointed to prepare an address upon the
condition of atfairs in the Southern States, and
a like committee to gather and collect facts
and statistics in regard to the condition of the
Southern States. Gov. Brooks, of Arkansas,
addressed the convention in the evening.
Thursday, Oct. 15. Atty.-Gen. Will
iams has replied to Gov. Brown, of Tennessee,
on the subject matter of his protest against
further arrests by United States Marshals un,
der the Enforcement act and his request that
the persons already arrested be turned over
to the State courts for trial. He claims that
the President is as much bound to
enforce the act in question as any
other law of the United States, and de
clines to accede to Gov. Brown's request....
In the Chattanooga Convention, on the 14th,
the Committee on Outrages was enlarged and
continued indefinitely, with instructions to
report to Congress every three months. The
resolutions adopted declare that the Repub
lican citizens of the reconstructed Southern
States recognize the equality of all men be
fore the law; demand equal rights for all citi
zens, secured by appropriate State and Fed
eral legislation; indorse the Executive in sus
taining law and order in all parts of
the Union and putting down outrages,
and especially indorse his action in Louis
iana; indorse the Administration for its pros
ecution of the perpetrators of such outrages
in the Federal courts; deprecate drawing race
and color lines; recommend the appointment
of none but honest and capable men to Fed
eral offices, and the removal of all others;
urge appropriations of public lands to pur
poses of education in proportion to the
illiteracy of States; denounce the Asso
ciated Press agents 5n the South for the al
leged partisan mauncr in which they perform
their duties. An address to the people of the
United States was also presented and adopted
....The latest returns from the recent State
elections indicate the following results: In
Indiana the Democrats have elected their
State ticket by from 10,000 to 15,000 majority.
The Congressional delegation stands eight
Democrats to five Republicans, as follows:
Republican Sixth District, Milton S. Robin
son; Eighth, M. C. Hunter; Ninth, T. J. Car
son; Eleventh, James L. Evans; Thirteenth,
J. H. Baker. Democratic First District, B
S. Fuller; Second, J. D. Williams; Third, M
C. Kerr; Fourth, J. D. New; Fifth, AV. S
llolman; Seventh, Franklin Landers; Tenth,
m. S. Raymond; Twelfth, Andrew II. Ham
ilton. The Democrat elect their State ticket
in Ohio by about 18,000 majority, and carry
thirteen of the twenty Congressional dis
tricts. The Congressmen elected are as fol
lows: Democratic First District, Milton
Saylor; Second, II. B. Banning; Third, J. S.
Savage; Fourth, J. A. MacMahon ; Fifth, A-V.
Rice; Sixth, F. II. Hurd; Seventh, L. T. Neal ;
XinMi, E. F. Poppleton; Eleventh, J. L.
Vance; Twelfth, A. T. "Walling; Thirteenth,
M. I. Southard; Fourteenth, J. P. Cowan;
Twentieth, II. B. Tayne. Republican
Eighth, Wm. Lawrenc; Tenth, Chas. Foster;
FifteopthjN.lt. Van Vorhes; Sixteenth, Lo
fchzo Danford; Seventeenth, I D. AVood-
worth; Eighteenth, James Monroe; Nine
teenth, J. A. Garfield. The Republicans have
carried Iowa by about 40,000 majority, and
elected their Congressmen in all the dis
tricts except the Third. This makes the
delegation as follows: Republican First
District, G. W. McCraryj Second, J. Q.
Tufts; Fourth, Jt. 0. Pratt; Fifth, James
AVfiVon; Sixth, E. S. Sampson; Seventh,
J. A. Kasson; Eighth, J. A McDill;
Ninth, Addison Oliver. Anti-Monopoly
Third, L. L. Ainsworth. The Republican
majority in Nebraska ranges from 10,000 to
15,000. Lorenzo Crounse, Republican, Is re
elected to Congress. The three AVest Vir
ginia Congressional districts elect the Demo
cratic candidates, as follows : First, Benjamin
AV'ilson; Second, C. J. Faulkner; Third, F.
Hereford. In Dakota Kidder (Republican)
has about 2,000 majority for Delegate to Con
gress. The Legislature is Republican in
both branches. In Arkansas the Democratic
Ticket is elected aid the new State Constitu
tion adopted by large majorities.
Friday, Oct. 16 A London dispatch
6aj-s England is about to withdraw her repre
sentative from Rome.... A Paris dispatch says
the Italian Government has notified Thiers
that his stay in Italy and his attacks upon the
MacMahon Government are calculated to dis
turb the harmony of its relations with France
. . . .The October returns of the Department of
Agriculture indicate an average condition of
the corn crop of 80" per cent., against 83 per
cent, in September Dr. J.C. Ayer has been
nominated for Congress by the Republicans
of the Seventh Massachusetts District At
a recent meeting in Chicago of the AVestern
Board of Railroad Commissioners a new
freight schedule to the East was adopted, to
go into effect on the 10th of November, in
creasing the rates from Chicago to New
York five cents per hundred weight. It was
also determined to discontinue return passes
to stock-dealers; to pay no commissions to
agents for influence in the control of Eastern
traffic, and to allow no passenger to carry
more than 100 pounds of baggage.... The
statue of Lincoln was unveiled at Spring
field, 111., on the 15th, in the presence of a
vast crowd of people. An oration was de
livcred by Hon. R. J. Oglesby, the President
of the Monument Association, and a poem
read, written by James JudsonlLord. A brief
address was also made by President Grant. . . .
The reunion of the Army of the Tennessee was
held at SpriDgficld on the 14th. Gen. A T.
Sherman was elected President for the ensu
ing year.
Saturday, Oct. 17. A Santander tele
gram says dispatches have been received from
Madrid in relation to negotiations for the sur
render of several Carlist battalions. Spain
has paid to England 40,000 on account of the
A'irginius butchery, Great Britain having made
this payment a condition precedent to the
recognition of Spain.... The commissioners
appointed to examine whether the deficiencies
in the construction of the Union Pacific
Railway have been supplied, and the road
completed as required by law, report that they
have found the road so completed, and have,
therefore, decided that the road, as built, is
a first-class railroad, fully complying with
its charter and with the requirements of the
law, and in accordance with the instructions
of the department furnished to them. This
report will require the approval of the Presi
dent and the formal acceptance of the
road as a completed structure before
the patents will issue for the land-grant
..A late Indianapolis (Ind.) dispatch
says the best estimates place the political
complexion of the State Legislature as fol
lows: Senate Republicans, 24; Democrats,
23; Independents, 3. House Republicans,
37; Democrats, 54; Independents, O. lliesJ
figures may be slightly altered by the official
returns. The Democrats claim fifty-eight
members of the lower house, but this in
cludes some Independents who they
believe will act with them A dis
patch received at the Attorney-Gener
al's office in AVashington on the loth from the
United States Marshal at Montgomery, Ala.,
states that forty-two more arrests of persons
guilty of outrages upon Republicans and of
stopping the United States mails had been
made. ...A party of seven men, en route for the
Black Hills, were attacked by Indians on the
11th at the mouth of the Little Platte, and a
desperate fight ensued, in which one of the
party was killed, one fatally and two slightly
wounded. Ten Indians were killed or
wounded. The whites immediately started
back and reached Yankton on the 15th. The
Indians arc understood toexpress a determina
tion to prevent white men entering the hills
at all hazards. ...Pre6identGrant, Mrs.Grant,
ex-Secretary Borie and daughter, and other
distinguished persons from AA'ashington ar
rived in Chicago on the evening of the 10th.
THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK.
October 16, 1874.
Cotton. Middling upland, lSUitlic
Lite Stock. Bef Cattle $10.75(313.00. noRS
Dresxed, $8.233.8.50; Live, $3.75(S5.oO. Sheep
Live, $1.506.23.
BRKADsTurrs. Floor Good to choice, $5.30
5.00; white wheat extra, $5J06.aL AVhcat No.
2 Chicago, $1.0tX&1.08H; Iowa spring, $1.071.10;
No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.0!&1.11. llyc W ext
ern and State, c$1.02. Barley $1.201.30.
Corn Mixed Western afloat, 9i&VUc. Oats-
New Western, MQHi'Ac.
Provisions. Pork New Mces, f21.2521.a0.
Lard 13SHc. Cheese 12i415c.
Wool. Common to extra, 45b6c.
CHICAGO.
Liv Stock. Beeves -Choice, fo.506.10;
good, $1.25(5.25; medium, f-3.754.25; bntct
ers' stock, $2.503.50; stock cattle, f2.25
3.50. Hogs Live, f6.15SB.75. Sheep Good
to choice, f 4.75(4.25.
Provisions. Batter Choice, 31(3-'58c. Eggs
Fresh, 2022c Cheese New York factory.
14V415V4c; Western, lMfrUc. Pork New
Mess, f 19.5019-75. Lard 14141C.
Brkadrtufps. Flonr AVhite winter extra,
f5.407.25; spring extra, $t.755.50. Wheat
Spring, No. 2, 87875ic. Corn No. 2, 74
75c. Oats No. 2, 4747?ic. Barley No. 2,
$1.0431.06. Rye No. 2, 82483c.
Wool. Tnb-washed, 4557c.; fleece, washed,
4050c.; fleece, unwashed, 2735c.
Lumber. First Clear, $50.0053.00; Second
Clear, $47.00049.50; Common Boards, $10.50
12.00; Fencing, f 10.5012.00; "A" Shingles,
$3.0CK&3.25; Lath, $2.002.25.
CINCINNATI.
BraD8TT7FF9. Floor $5.155.30. Wheat Red,
$1.05. Corn 7071c. Rye 95c Oats 5ia55c.
Barley $1.10&1.:.
Provisions. Pork $22.0022.10. Lard
l:514c.
ST. LOUIS.
LrvK Stock. Beeves Fair to choice, $1.50
6.00. llogs Live, $5.006.25.
Breadstuff. Flour XX Fall, $1.25(4.75.
Wheat No. 2 Red Fall, $l.lll.lli. Corn No.
2, 80C81c. Oats No. 2, 4!l!&50VJc. Rye No. 2,
91&!2c. Barley-$l.llfftl.l7!-i.
Provisions. Pork Mess, $21.7522.C0. Lard
l:jai4c-
MILWAUKEE.
Breadstcffs. Flonr Spring XX, $5.255.50.
Wheat Spring No. 1, 97ri!7;4c; No. 2, 91
91Uc. Corn No. 2, 75i4.77c. Oats No. 2, 4ft
47c. Rye No. 1, 873874c Barley No. 2, $1.09
1.09',4.
DETROIT.
Brbadstuffs. AVheat Extra, $1.1T31.17).
Corn 8X3,81c Oats ltt49c .
TOLEDO.
Breadstuff Wheat Amber -Mich., fl.05
1.06; No. 2 Red, $1.031.04. Corn
Mixed, 7879c Oats 505mc.
CLEVELAND.
Brbadstuffs Wheat No. 1 Red, f l.OSll.09;
No. 2 Red, f 1.031.04. Corn 7982c Oats
5254c.
BUFFALO.
Litr Stock. Beeves f 4.886.55. Hogs
Live, f 5.267.00. 8beep f 4.005.00.
EAST LIBERTY.
Lite Stock. Beeves Best, f 6.0O&6. 40; me
dium, f 5.0K5.75. Hogs Yorkers, f 5.753
6.25; Philadelphia, f7.OJXa7.50. Sheep Best
$1.52.5.00; medium, $4.003.4.25.
A STUPENDOUS FitAUD.
Organization of an Insurance S vrinfllt
on laaxrge Scale A Seventy-five
Dollar Baili for flt Capital of $200,000
Forgery by tb Wholesale.
The Central Fire Insurance Company of
Philadelphia, whose collapse occurred not
many weeks ago, seems to have been a fraud of
stupendous proportions from its inception.
AVc glean the following particulars from
Eastern papers of a recent date:
In order the better to deceive the community
magnificent offices were rented in the busi
ness part of the city, the frescoed walls of
which were adorned with exquisite paintings,
which vied In effect with the splendor of the
furniture and the rich luxuriousncss of the
carpeting of these offices. AVell-dressed men
stood behind the desks, and, to leave nothing
to be desired, the Directors and chief officer
were universally regarded as men of wealth
and large financial credit. The company was
duly organized under charter, in accordance
with the laws of the State of Pennsylvania.
The capital represented $300,000 and the cash-
book showed $200,000 paid in on account,
checks for that amount which were never in
tended to be honored being counted as cash.
Thus successfully launched the company
floated in smooth water, and with every ap
pearance of prosperity, until the State Com
missioner of Insurance paid the concern an
official visit. He found the assets to consist
of $30,000 in mortgages ; 600 shares of
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad stock,
valued at $28,875; 500 6harcs of Lehigh
Valley Railroad stock, valued at $05,000; 500
shares of Delaware, Lackawanna & AVestern
Railroad stock, valued at $20,844; 300 shares
of Central Railroad, New Jersey, valued at
$31,875; 100 shares of United States Railroad
Companies of New Jersey, and 2,000 shares
of Lebanon Paper Company, all of which ap
peared to be the absolute property of the
company. The Commissioner regarded these
securities as genuine, but took numbers of
the certificates of stock, and, to make assur
ance doubly sure, called at the Reading Rail
road office to see if the shares of that stock
corresjHinded with their record. The result
of these inquiries showed that the certificates
of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Com
pany, representing 200 and 300 shares, as
shown on the face of the documents in pos
session of the Central Insurance Company,
had been originally issued for one share each.
It became evident at once that something
was wrong, and upon subjecting the docu
ments to the microscope it was discovered
that the original writing in the certificates
had been erased by the use of chemicals and
that 200 and 800 had been substituted for the
original amount. It immediately became
manifest that all the certificates had been
thus altered. The officer also found that the
stock of the Delaware St Lackawanna Rail
road, which appeared in the name of AV. D.
Halfman, had been issued not to him but to
another party, and representing but one
share each, though examination showed their
value to be increased five hundred fold. Sub
sequent investigation showed that the forgery
was undoubtedly perpetrated by Elbert, the
Managing Director, and very soon that gentle
man turned up missing. Detective agents
were placed upon his track, and by watching
the movements of his relatives he was finally
discovered going to the residence of one of
them in Philadelphia and was arrested
about the middle of last month. He then
made known where he had Injcn hiding
since the exposure, and confessed tl.at the in
surance company and all its pretended stock
was a fraud; that the company Lad been
started on the price ($75) of one Philadelphia
te Reading Railroad share; that the figures
had been erased by the use of chemicals and
made to represent 200 shares, and from this
had been obtained from the Union Banking
Company the $10,000 with which the com
pany was floated, the clerks paid and the of
fices furnished.
Elbert also stated that the President and Di
rectors ol the company were fully cognizant
of and were accomplices in the transaction;
that the man who had done the erasing and
forging was a party whom he had met in
Jersey Cit' and been introduced to by Mr.
Louis trench, of the notorious irauauieni
Palisade Insurance Compan', of Jersey City;
that lie onlv knew this man bv the name ol
Charles Ripley, and was in the habit of ad
dressing him to the care of a saloon in Bridge
street, near Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn. The
officers of the company were thereupon ar
rested and held in $20,000 bail.
After shadowing the Bridge street saloon
for several days, the detectives found Ripley
quietly reading his newspaper and drinking
his wine, and placed him under arrest. He
was immediately recognized by the officers as
none other than "Jack Canter," a notorious
forger and counterfeitsr, who has only been
out of Sing Sing prison two years, and his
last sentence there was for fourteen years,
which he served. He was the party who, in
AV'arden Nelson's time, kept the books of the
firison, and, by the use of chemicals, altered
he sentences of notorious criminals who were
sentenced for long terms, and letting out in
nve or seven years many who hau a term ol
fifteen or twenty years to serve.
Hie detectives had discovered his residence
to be in AVashington street, but one block
from the station. On searching his room
there the officers discovered a lot of counter
feiting tools and implements, the most com
plete that could be imagined. Everything
possible for his ingenious and dangerous trade
was there. Even the experienced officers,
who are not easily astonished at ingenuity of
this sort, were thoroughly amazed at the fin
ished completeness of the set of implements
displayed before them. There was a fine
nickel-plated press, complete, with lever and
stand, rollers, dies, inks, plates, lithograph
stones, and an entire set of the most delicate
line-edged tools.
m m
The Question.
Shall we desert a true friend for a false
one? is the political question to be an
swered at the .November election. Ae
know the record of both parties. The
one has been full of honor, the other as
full of dishonor. The Republican party
has been true to its friends, mjftrnani-
mous to its enemies, and just to the na
tion. It has kept its pledges and re
deemed its promises, and stands to-day a
true friend of the people, trusted because
tried, and honored because it has never
forfeited the generous confidence which
brought it into power. e can saiciy
challenge the world's history for a party
that has equaled it in genuine devotion to
liberty, humanity and civilization. It
has its faults, but they are few and far
between, while its inlluence for good is
more powerful than ever. To sustain
such a party should be the pride of
American citizens ; to allow its defeat
through inactivity or jealousy would be
a crime against the loyal sentiment of
the age. Examine the record of Democ
racy, its present associations, its disre
gard for law, order, common honesty, its
undisguised hatred of everything that
pertains to loyalty, and then ask your
self, is it safe to run even a remote risk
of allowing this enemy of the Republic
to gain control of its Government? Re
public Magazine.
A,Ve get some idea of the vastness of
our country from the statistics furnished
by Mr. Dodge, of the Department of
Agriculture. Less than one-lifth of the
entire area of the United States is
mapped into farms, and only one-fourth
of this farm area is tilled or mowed.
Heavy as our wheat crop is, it occupies
a surface less than the area of South
Carolina. Our national crop, maize,
covers a territory not larger than Vir
ginia, and the potato crop could grow in
less than the area of Delaware. The
country is capable of producing food
for the support of a population almost
w ithout number. There seems to be no
danger of our being overcrowded for
centuries.
A LESSON.
I said, my life is a beautiful thing,
I will crown me with its flowers.
T will idna of Its glory all day long.
For my harp Is young, and sweet, and strong.
And the paftloiiate power in my auntf
Shall thrill all the golden hours.
And over the cand and over the stone.
For ever and ever the waves rolled on.
I said, my life is a terrible thtnr.
All ruined, and lost, and crushed.
I will heap its ashes upon my head.
I will wail for mvjoy and my darling dead.
Till the drearv dirge for the 'days that are fled
Stirs faint throngh the dull, dumb dust.
Andover the sand and over the stone.
For ever and ever the waves rolled on.
I said, I was proud in my hour of mirth.
And mad in my first despair.
Now, I know nor earth, nor iky, nor sea
lias need or helping for one like me.
The doom or the boon comes, lei it be,
For us, we can but bear.
And over the sand and over the stone.
For ever and evw the waves rolled on.
And I thought they sang, "We laugh to the sun;
e snimnier lo moon or star;
We foam to the last of the furious blast;
We rage when the rain falls tierce and fast;
But we do our day's work; and at last
We sweep o'er "the harbor-bar."
And I learnt my lesson mid sand and stone,
As ever and ever the waves rolled on.
The average of ncrnnnnl nrnnertv
per capita in the State of Illinois is as
certained to oe ifiuo.Uo, and oi all prop
erty $436 per capita.
DEAD LETTERS.
A short space of two days and his va
cation would commence, iwo weens:
But two weeks were two years of fun,
two centuries of real enioyment, two
eternities of rest, compared to the con
stant drag, drag in that lonely business
which took up all his day hours in work
and all his night hours in dreams. Two
weeks away from the constant reading of
letters which were written for other eyes
than his! How he ever got into the
Dead-letter Office he couldn't say, and
how he ever staid there without growing
wild to the extent of pulling out all his
hair and ramming pens into his brown
eyes he couldn't for the life of him tell,
lie had staid on two years and was much
honored, in a small way, as a skillful
clerk in the department. He couldn't
tell why again. In fact, his career was a
series of " couldn't-tcll-whys," which,
however, were the cogs of the wheels
which kept his life agoing. Casual Ob
server might have told -why he was con
sidered one of the best clerks in the de
partment, and said Observer would have
remarked that it was because he
There! I've got so far without using a
name, and 1 hoped I'd get clear through
the story without committing myself;
but it's no use. These pronouns are ter
ribly exacting things, and I shall have to
get a name for the " he" belore the last
dash or I shall be unable to proceed any
further. Well, Tom will do, won't it?
Tom's a name, and there are lots of Toms
in AVashington and several lomsmthc
Dead-letter Office. Now, then, we'll take
another start with Tom and the Observer.
I say that the Observer would have re
marked that it (go back a few lines for the
explanation of the " it") was because Tom
had a very tender heart in his possession.
A sad thing to have a tender heart when
you're dealing with persons, they say.
Tom thought it was sadder when dealing
with letters. He would choke fifty times
each day while reading some earnest,
heart-felt epistle which, despite the love
and fidelity a mother s Hand nad ouried
in the lines, had miscarried, nor would
ever reach a dear son's eyes. Or perhaps
it was a father's strong call strong in
tears and strong in love which Mould
never bring back to the home-fold a stray
ing daughter.
The letters Tom read with a heartache,
which spread like neuralgia, and some
how filled his whole body with an untold
pain, were by the thousand a year; but
his interest in the sad cases was never
flagging, and he always made a good
push to have the letters which came
from loving hands for loved ones take
one more chance of reaching their acsti
nation. If Tom's successes had been
each a block of granite the AV ashington
Monument would have been completed
over eleven months ago.
Tom was to have two weeks' vacation
two weeks, commencing in two da-s.
II i wasn't often idle; but this morning
he held one of a batch of letters epis
tolary corpses and sat thinking of any
thing but nis worK. Where snouid nc
go in vacation? There was no mother,
or brother, or sister waiting for him to
come home. There were no kisses of
welcome waiting for him among green
hills or by pleasant, shining waters.
AVhere should he go? lleigho! He
couldn't make up his mind. V ith a
shake, like a cat awaking, he came back
to his work and gazed on the one letter
from many in a pile before him he had
semi-unconsciously taken up. The di
rection of the letter was as follows:
MU Clara F. Dennett,
Ht. Albans,
Vermont.
The postmark bore the name of Provi
dence, II. I., and date of July 20.
On the other side of the envelope
was a pretty monogram of three letters,
F. II. AV., or AV. II. F., or II. AV. F., or
some combination, Tom couldn't decide
which. So he opened the letter and
read:
Clara My heart Is nigh breaking. May I
not come back? I was wholly wron-r: but my
love for you made me unreasonably exacting and
unwilling to yield. Forgive me, for Heaven
sake, and say I may come to you. 1 will wait
one week more in "Providence to hear from you.
Do write. Frank.
No date and no signature. " Just like
a man in love: saiu loin. ine oniy
thing settled is that the first letter of
that monogram is an F, a blue F. That
doesn't amount to anything. I don't
know the second letter I mean which it
is." Somehow he was led to put the let
ter one side instead of throwing it in the
waste receptacle. He thought he'd like
to look at that monogram once more, it
was such a pretty one.
live, six, seven, eight, nine more let
ters read, and nothing in the shape of
business yet. Number ten! Number
ten was in a small, delicate hand, di
rected as follows:
Mr. Frank JT. Wendell,
St. Altxine,
Vermont.
This letter bore date of July 21, and
postmark Fitchburg, Mass.
iom bad quite iorgottcn lor tne mo
ment the other St. Albans letter, but of
a sudden he cried out to himself: " Hul
lo! St. Albans is full of business to-day!"
He then opened and read :
Mr Dear Frank I only hope you have gone
back to St. Albans, for Heaven alone knows how
else this may reach rou. I take my only chance.
ll seems to me, Icrt Tor nappiness. l muc i write,
since my heart will not let mc sit longer and feed
on my own sorrow without breaking. Dear, since
you went away from me on that saa, saa nigni,
not one moment of peace, no day when a song was
pleasant to hear, no day when I could sit silently
glad, has come to me. Only longing for you. I
was promt, and angry that you could not trust
me; and though I could easily have explained I
would not. I, for that short half hour, believed
I could bear everything, since I bore your harh
words (as they then seemed). Now I know I was
wrong. Darling, w ill yon not write to me? Jut
one word to say yon forgive me, and, if you can,
say you still love me? Hhall I never see yon
again? Dear heart, I was never anything bnt
true to yon, and that I can show you if you will
come to in or let me write to you. Will von not
write to me? Just one letter, and I will bless
you each day I live, if God makes me live a thou
sand years.
Always being, I am still, only yours,
Clara F. Dfnnett,
AVallace street, Fitchburg.
P. S. I am with my cousin, passing the sum
mer, and. unless I bear from you, trust I may
never return to St. Albans.
"By Jove!" said Tom, "here are two
which go together. Where's that other
letter? Yes! as I'm a poor, lonely mor
tal, I've got the two in a heap and now I
must deal them a new hand." (Tom was
rather given to playing cards; therefore
his language.) So he put the two aside
and left them In a closer union as letters
than they had been as beings. If Tom
had been a mesmerist or a believer in
mesmerism he would have probably
wondered if the joining of those two let
ters would have any influence on the
day's life of the two writers. As he
wasn t lie didn t ; t. e., wasn t a mesmer
ist or a believer, he didn't wonder; he
only commenced to form a plan for his
vacation. The commencing ended just
half an hour after his day's work was
over.
" I'm going to Providence day after to
morrow, Mrs. Wilkins," said Tom that
evening to his landlady.
" On business, Mr. Tom?" (Of course
she didn't say "Mr. Tom," but it will do
just as well.)
" No'm ; it's my vacation."
"I hope you'll have a nice time."
' My trust is in Providence," said Tom,
a little irreligiously, but he couldn t re
sist the pun. "And I've always wanted
a clam-bake, and they do say there's no
spot on the carta lor a clam bake like
the little back-yard they call Rhode
Island."
Day after to-morrow became to-day
and lorn started.
Ere long Tom has smoked a whole
cigar, and got several miles on his way
toward Providence, it. 1. A quest lie
calls it; an attempt to find out rrank 11
Wendell, and then to re-introducc him to
Clara F. Dennett. He lived with these
two all his journey. Clara had blue eyes
and-fair hair, he was confident; Frank
wore a slight mustache and was rather
thin, he was certain; and so he built up
two imaginary persons, and even found
himself foolishly trying to fit his imagina
tions on to lcllow-travelers.
Providence at last. Hotel a few mo
ments after. Tea after dressing. Plenty
of time, thought lorn; and he didn t go
out that night. There was no harm in a
brief perusal of the city diicctory, how
ever; and so Tom stood at the hotel
counter and monopolized the directory
chained to the marble. " AV-a AV-e
AV-c-n AV-c-n-d AVendell. Here it is,"
said Tom, muttering to himself. There
were a few AVendelis, but no Frank or
Francis II., not even a simple Frank or
Francis.
"Do 30U know a Mr. Frank Wendell?"
queried Tom of the hotel clerk.
No, he didn't, that clerk answered,
after he had got through staring at Tom.
" Who'd be likely to know a youug
fellow about the city?" again asked Tom.
AVell (second long stare), the clerk
thought he (the clerk) would, and he'd
never heard of Frank AVendell or any
other AVendell, except an old fellow who
sometimes came round to buy bottles at
the hotel. That wasn't the one the gen
tleman meant, was it?
Tom thought not.
Tom was manifestly brought up stand
ing. So he went to bed.
Next morning he had another look at
the lerters. The delicately written one
gave him no clue for the present. Cer
tainly the other didn't. Tom put them
both on the mantel-piece and turned to
brush his hair at the mirror (a two-by-onc-and-a-half
bit of looking-glass).
While Tom's auburn locks were being
" fixed" a nice little gust of wind " un
fixed" them; but at last his hair was
dressed. Tom turned to take the letters
and " Confound it, if they haven't
tumbled into the pitcher of water!"
There was such a receptacle on the table
under the mantel-piece. "JNow 1 must
dry them, I suppose. Just my cursed
luck!" lie took them on to dry land, the
shipwrecked letters, and patted them
gently with a towel. The monogram let
ter nad been cut open at one end, out the
water had loosened the flap and it easily
turned back.
" Mean stickum' thev nut on these en
velopes," said Tom; and then he pausid
to read the maker's name. On the edge
of the envelope, in raised letters, was the
following: " V. A. Johnson, 01 lIank
street." "By the blood of all the How
ards!" cried Tom, "I've got it. If my
friend, my dear friend, new-found, John
son doesn't know for whom he made that
monogram, he'd better sell out and go
into the fish trade. Peradventure I call
at 51 Blank street to-day."
1 om did call.
Mr. Johnson was in?
" Yes," said a nice girl who waited on
Tom, and he'd be down in a moment.
Johnson came, and Tom asked him a
question or two. Johnson said, in sub
stance :
" I made that monogram for Mr. AVen
dell some time since, and he was then
living with an uncle I think he told me
at" (consulting an old order-book) " No.
17 So-and-So street. At any rate there s
where the paper was sent."
Tom immediately ordered a monogram
for himself out of pure gratitude. He
then called at No. 17. Mr. Wendell had
been staving there, but had left three
days before for Boston. Servant didn't
know whereabouts in Boston. AVould
inquire of missus. Coming back, servant
said missus thought at the Tremont
House, if he hadn't gone to New York.
"On the way to Fitchburg," scntcn-
tiously said Tom, and took the next train
for Boston.
Mr. AA'endcll was stopping there, said
the clerk of the Tremont House. "Here!
show the gentleman to No. 83."
Is o one in.
Tom waited around an hour, walked
over the burned district and came back.
Mr. AVendell had returned and was in his
room. Tom went to No. 85 and knocked.
" Come in!" and in he went, to find a
young fellow with full beard, tall and
quite stout.
" So much for my fancy," said Tom to
himself. " She'll be fat and a brunette."
" This is Mr. AVendell?" queried Tom.
"Yes, sir," was the reply. "Excuse
my continuing my toilet," said AVendell,
buttoning his shirt collar.
" Mr. Frank AVendell?" asked Tom, to
make certain.
" Yes, sir; Frank AVendell."
Then Tom went to the very bottom of
the matter, and said:
" I come from a friend of yours Miss
Dennett (how AVendell blushed and then
turned pale!); she's also a particular
friend'of mine (though she don't know
it," said Tom, notto voce), " and she would
like very much, if you can spare the
time, to have you call on her. She's liv
ing in Fitchburg, and "
" For God's sake, when does the next
train start?" and Wendell was rushing
down stairs and grabbing a " Dial " rail
road sheet in less than four seconds.
Time enough there was and a little bag
was soon packed. Tom thought he'd go
down to Fitchburg too to see the thing
out; and he and AVendell went down to
gether. They went over to AVallace street
and hit the house after three trials. Tom
would wait in the hall, he thought. Tom
heard one scream, two kisses, a rush and
several other things "too numerous to
mention," and was on the point of crawl
ing out the front-door when the hcavy
hand of AVendell was laid on his shoulder.
" Come in and explain this thing. She
says she never heard of you before!"
" No more has she," said Tom, laugh
ing; and seating himself on the sofa he
explained the whole affair.
I'm not certain, but I believe Clara
kissed him. At all events, a few days
after he went back to AA'ashington a
happy fellow, having made others so
happy.
That was a year ago nearly. Casual
Observer told me a day or two since that
Tom had received cards to the wedding
of F. H. Wendell and Clara F. Dennett,
to come off a week from next Monday,
and also that Tom had been correspond
ing for some time with Miss Emma Den
nett, a sister of Clara's. Furthermore,
Casual said: " Ii you want to hear two
people rave in praise of another fellow,
you should hear Miss Dennett and Mr.
"Wendell talk about Tom." Harper'
JJazar.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A fast friend A telegraph.
Noah was an ark-itect of the first
water.
Thk most steadfast followers of our
fortunes -Our creditors.
The peach season is ended. Can can
it hdriuUuMphia Jlcrald.
Makryino a woman for beauty is like
eating a bird for its sweet singing.
The rich.man's malady the dread of
coming to want is a terrible disease.
An Indianapolis voter has hung out a
sign reading, " Well digen and cclars."
It is an error to imagine that women
talk more than men. They're listened
to more, that s all.
The milkmen of Massachusetts will
hold a State convention. Motions to a
churn arc always in order.
AVh.vt are the most unsociable things
in the world? Milestones. You never
sec two of them together.
AVhf.n a Maryland doctor spells it
" accoufottus," is it any wonder that a
patient dies on liis hands?
Nothino so much destroys our pence
of mind as to hear another express his
intention to give us a piece of his.
To oive a beggar buttered bread at a
time when butter is scarce and high may
a .am. a A.J "
well oc caned the cream ol chanty.
Pekhaps the noblest and subliimst in
vention of the nineteenth century is that
of interviewing. WiUiaiiutjrt Jiegixter.
Mr. Smikkins says he has been mar
ried sixteen years, and all the income
they have had to live on has been iu-come-patibility.
Manufactures arc being introduced
into India witli great rapidity. Many of
these enterprises are run exclusively by
American capital.
SriTTOONS arc now made so rich and
ornamental that it makes one feel rea
sonably well off to sit down and spit in
one of them t. few times.
Virginia is shipping wheat to Brazil In
immense quantities, tiie grain from that
State being free from all danger of sour
ing in crossing the ocean.
Agricultural, labor, to be successful,
must be controlled by intelligence. Brains
are as necessary to success in agriculture
as in any other vocation in life.
An exchange says that at the inunda
tion at Dong Kong the "sea slew 1,000
persons." Who shall say, after this, that
a man can't get slewed on salt water?
J t oy l rex.
To succeed in managing mules we
must thoroughly understand the nature
of the one partic ular mule in hand. There
are as many dmerent dispositions among
mules as among men.
In Troy they throw red-hot pennies to
organ-grinders. This action kills two
birds with one cent. It records a c har
itablo action in the eves of the world, nnd
disables the hand-organ man.
The difference between noted men
ind noted women is said to be that the
men always like to sec themselves in
print and that the women preler to see
themselves in silks and velvets.
It must indeed be dry in Kansas, if it
be true that "the suffering catfish lies
stranded on the blistering bottom of his
late happy home, waving his tail in the
crisp breezes as a signal of distress."
Fi-owers, like rare gems, should have
their settingsof an inconspicuous order,
nnd therefore there is nothing which c an
equal the green grass or which can make
such a perfect contrast to their brilliant
hues.
The city of New York has the onlv
school in the United States for the
practical teaching of veterinary science,
though it is true there arc chairs in some
of our agricultural colleges fo" theo
retical instruction in this branch of
knowledge.
A resident of Erie, Pa , refused to
marry his affianced, who had come over
from German)' for the purpose, because
she had not brought a feather bed with
her. She has now brought suit for
breach of promise against him and
claims $ 1,000 damages.
A Providence lady, returning from an
unprofitable visit to a church,, declared
that " when she saw the shawls of those
Smiths and then thought of the things
her own girls had to wear, if it wasn't
for ihe consolation of religion she did
not know what she should do."
A man who can move his ears like a
mule has arrived at Laramie, AVyoming
Ter., for the purpose of giving an exhi
bition. His name is Follett, and passen
gers who came west in the car with him
say the manner in which he will twist
his cars around to listen to a conversa
tion behind him is wonderful. It is sup
posed that his cars arc provided with an
extra pair of muscles, by means of which
he is enabled to turn them in any direc
tion. Virginiti City Enterprise.
The Herald of Health is of the opinion
that the simple color of one's surround
ings has a marked influence on his
health. It says: " Yellow on the walls
of our rooms has a very depressing effect
on the mind. Violet is worse. A man
would go mad in a little while in a violet
papered or painted room. Black rooms,
or rooms heavily draped in mourning,
produce gloom and foreboding. Never
wear mourning long, unless you wi.sh to
become sad and sorrowful beyond what
nature ever intended."
A Romance of Portsmouth.
T. B. Aldrich, writing of the St avers
House, Portsmouth, says: "One of the
romantic episodes of the place has been
turned to very pretty account by Long
fellow in the last scries of 'The Tales of
a Wayside Inn' the marriage of Gov.
Benning AVcntworth with Martha Hil
ton, a sort of second edition of King
Cophetua and the Beggar Maid. Martha
Hilton was a poor girl, whose bare feet
and ankles and scant drapery when she
was a child, and even after she was in
the bloom of her teens, used to scandal
ize good Dame Stavers, the innkeeper's
wife. Standing one afternoon in the
doorway of the Earl of Halifax, Dante
Stavers took occasion to remonstrate
with the sleek-limbed and lightly-draped
Martha, who chanced to be passing the
tavern, carrying a pail of water, in
which, as the poet neatly says, ' the
shifting sunbeam danced. '"iou Pat!
you Pat!' cried Mrs. Stavers, severely;
4 why do you go looking so? You should
be ashamed to be seen in the street.'
Never mind how I look,' says Miss Mar
tha, with a merry laugh, letting slip a
saucy brown shoulder out of her dress;
4 1 shall ride in my chariot jct, ma'am.'
Fortunate prophecy! Martha went to
live as servant with Gov. AVcntworth at
his mansion at Little Harbor, look
ing out to sea. Seven years passed,
and the 4 thin slip of a girl,' who prom
ised to be no great beauty, had
flowered into the loveliest of women,
with a lip like a cherry and a cheek
like a rose a lady by instinct, one of
Nature's own ladies. The Governor, a
lonely widower, and not too young, fell
in love with his fair handmaid. AV i th
ou t stating his purpose to any one. Gov.
ATentworth invited a number of his
friends (among others the Rev. Arthur
Brown) to dine with him at Little Har
bor on his birthday. After the dinner,
which was a very elaborate one, was at
an end, and the guests were discussing
their tobacco-pipes, Martha Hilton glided
into the room and stood blushing in front
of tin- chimney-place. She was exquis
itely dressed, as you may conce ive, and
wore her hair three stories high. The
guests stared at eac h other, and particu
larly at Iter, and wondered. Then the
Governor, rising from his seat,
"Played slightly with his riillles. theiJ looked
down.
And snld unto the Reverend Ar thur Brown f
'This i my birthday; it sliall likewise be
My wedding day, aud you shnll marry me!
"The rector was dumbfounded, know
ing the humble footing Martha held in
the house, and could think of nothing
cleverer to say than ' To whom, your Ex
cellency?' 4 To this lady,' replied Hie
Governor, taking Martha'llilton by the
hand. The Rev. Arthur Brown hesi
tated. 4 As the Chief-Magistrate of New
Hampshire 1 tmiimaiul you to marry ine!'
cried the firm old Governor. And so it
was done, anil so the pretty kitchen-mahl
became Lady AVcntworth, and did -ride? In
her own chariot after all. She wasn't a
woman if she didn't drive by Stavers'
Hotel."
Marshal Jfazaliio's Escape.
A reporter of the Fiitira has just in
terviewed Bazaine, and has obtained
from that hero a narrative, of his escape
which in the main corresponds itli the
picturesque account published by Mine.
Bazaine. He declare s that his wife and
nephew did row the boat, to the Island
of St. Marguerite and take him off to
the steamer, and that the story of the
rope and the lucifer matches is quite
correct. AVhat is most astonishing is to
find the ex-Marshal coolly relating flits
part whic h Col. Villctle played in tin)
allair the Colonel who before the court
atGrassc had dec lared himself in per
fect ignorance of the ex-Marshal's inten
tions. It was Col. Villctle who arranged
the rope and who tossed it over the par
apet the next morning to prevent the
warders perceiving it, and, in fact,
the aide-de-camp played a prominent
part in the escape. The Commandant
Doincau had not much t do with the
escape, because Bazaine was able to get
on board t he steamer hired to t akc him oil';
but had the party been obliged to land
at Cannes, then Doincau was to be ready
with mules, etc., to aid Bazaine to reach
Italy. It seems lo be ninic; than ' impru
dent on the part of the ex-Marshal to
make these revelations, for both Col.
Villc-ttc ami Doincau are in the hands ol
the Philistines, and the n, as far as the
Colone l is concerned, one regrets to find
lhat he had not the boldness to speak the
truth. The two young English lailics
called " Robe bleuc" and " Robe rose" had
nothing to do willi the escape, but might
have been of service had the cx -Marshal
been obliged to fly by land. The ct-
Marshal was also indiscreet enough to
hand to the re porter some letters written
to him after his escape and congratulat
ing him; also one to M me. Bazaine from
Gen.de Castagny, who said, among other
touching things: "lie alien. pled the;
impossible, and witli the aid of God, who
knew lie was innocent, he succeeded."
M. Louis A'cuillot also appear to have
written to Bazaine. It is rallier amusing
to find how Mine. Bazaine twice outwitted
M. Marchi, the civil Governor. Mm; de
sired to know t he depth of water at the
foot of the terrace, and ho she dropped a
ring into the sea; the gallant M. Marchi
and her nephew descended to look for it,
and the latter was able to see that a boat
could get close in. So as to learn what
length of rope: would be nec essary for
the descent, Mmc. Bazaine got one of her
children to c ry for water in order to
water her garden, and M. Marchi aided
tiie girl to let down her wate ring-pot into
the sea by means of some string. In this
way Mmc. Bazaine ascertained the height
of the terrace. J'all Mall Oazette.
Protecting the Farmer.
If the Democratic-Reform papers were;
reliable: evidence, the people would sup
pose that the farmers were indebted to
that party for all the sympathy anil all
the ell'orts to regulate commerce for the
protection of the farmers. But these
claims are not well louuded are not
truthful. In all matters looking to an
improvement in respect to transporta
tion the Republican patty has take n the
lead, and to it the. people must look for
measures that will afford substantial re
lief. In January, 187.", Hon. John R.
Ilawley, of Connecticut, a leading Repub
lican member of the. Jlotiso, offered, in
Congress, a resolution asking for the
suspension of the rub s and the passage;
of a bill providing for the appointment
of Commissioners to collect information
in re lation to railroads funning lines be
tween elifferent States. Here was an e f
fort in a direction tl.r.t would do an ef
fective service. Most of our large corpo
rations run lines of railway through two
or more States; therefore, Stale laws
cannot give full protection. Take, for
cx-gnplc, the Chicago A: Northwestern
Company, between .Madison and Chicago.
It runs through two State s. The clis
tance is, say, lo miles. The terms of
the Potter law would allow if 4 ). for
passage. As that law cannot affect but
a portion of the distance, the company
charges, since its reduction of rates,
$4.00. This shows the propriety f some
national legislation on the subjec t.
AVhat was the action in the House on
this important ejueslion? It refused lo
suspend the rules, a two-thirds vote be ing
necessary for that purpose;. Of the seventy-five
votes in favor of the measure,
sixty-nine were Republic ans, and only
nix were Democrats, Liberals and Re
formers. Of ninety-eight who opposed
the measure, eighty-two were Democrats,
Liberals and Reformers. Almost a solid
vote of the Democrats opposed this
measure, while the Republicans were
nearly solid in Its favor.
Another case in point is the effort of
Mr. McCrary, a Republican from Iowa,
to procure the passage of a bill in Janu
ary, 1874, to "'regulate; commerce by rail
roads among the several States." The
bill was carefully drawn, and embodied
principles similar to those of the; Poller
Railway law in this State. This bill
passed the House by a vote of 121 to 1 1 -
S'x Democrats, Liberals and Reformers,
only, voted for it, and cr nty-onc vote d
against it. Of the one h'inhfl and tireit-ty-oae
rote in favor of the bill, one. hun
dred and fif tun were given by Repiibie;ui
members. It is presumed this bill w ill
pass the Se nate next winter.
Another test during the last sessson
of Congre ss is found on the introduction
by J. l Smith, a Republican from Ohio,
of a resolution declaring the light find
duty of Congress " so to regulate com
merce among the ht vcral States as lo
protect that portion of our internal com
merce which is among the several States
from all unjust or oppressive tolls, taxa
tions, obstructions or other burdens,
whether imposed by railroad companies
or by combinations thereof, or by other
common carriers when engaged as instru
ments of such portion of the coniniere e
of tiie people."
This resolution was adopted 17J to
04; 158 of those voting for it were Re
publicans and only 14 were Democrats,
Liberals and Reforme rs.
Here are three instances of attempts
made by Republicans to inaugurate re
forms, having in view the "regulating
of commerce to protec t the farmers, and
in every instance the Democrats, with
wonderful unanimity, opposed the meas
ures. It would seem that nothing is
more needed to prove that the farmers
must look to the Republican party for
protection against the encroachments
and extortions of mammoth monopolies. .
Madison (Wis.) Stale Journal.