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i if If I THE HERALD. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. On Main Street, between 4th and 5th. Second Story. , OFFICIAL PAPER OF CASS COUNTT. Terms, in Advance : One copy, one year One copy, tlx month , Onacepy, three months .$3.00 . 1.00 . .80 NEBRASKA ERA D. JN0. A. MACMUEPHY, Editor. PERSETEKAXCE COXQUEUS." TEEMS: $2.00 a Year VOLUME X. PLATTSMOUTH, .NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1874. NUMBER 30. THE HERALD. ADVEUTISI.VO HATES. 1 iiar.. 8 Kiimre. V column. yi column. 1 w. j 9 w. j 8 w. J I m. 1 3 : 6 m. 1 oo $i 60 ra fatso fsoo no $is oo 1 Mil -i !VI a ir ft M) it) 0i 00 S 7r 4 oo' 4 7 H l:l ( 5 ool H oo'io 00 1 O'1') oo -rt 00 8 OO'IS 00 1!S OO IK C.O 85 00.40 Ml 11 00 0 01 85 00 tio m 1 column. IS oo IS 00 ) no Oo 40 Oo Oo 1(H) 00 tW All Advertising Wild dnn qnartcrlr. Transient advcrtWmcDlg must be paid for In advance. Extra coploi of tlio IIkiiai r for mlo by II. 3. Streipht, at Uie IVvtotflcc, and O. F. JoLuboo, cor nr of Mam and Fifth trecta. HENRY BCECK, KEAXEB IN JULmituLre, SAFES, CHAIRS, Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads, KTT.. ETC., ETC., Of All Descriptions. METALLIC BURIAL CASES. Wooden Coffins Of H frizes, ready-made, and sold cheap for cash. ' With many thanks for pant patronage, I invite all to call and examine my . LARGE STOCK OF Iuriiitiii-o jiikI Ooflliiw. . janSS MEDICINES J. H. BUTTERY'S, On Main Street, bet. Fifth and Sixth. Wholesale aid Retail Dealer in Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes.' Patent Medicines. Toilet Ai-ticles, etc., etc. tTRESCRIPTIONS carefully compounded at all hours, day and night. 35-ly I. W. SHANNON'S Feed, Sale and Livery Main Street, Plattsmouth, Neb. I am prepared to accommodate the public with Carriages, Buggies, Wagons, AND A No. I Hearse, On Short Notice and Reasonable Terms. A II A Civ Will Run to the Steamboat Land in, Depot, and all parts of the City, when Desired. janl-tr MHaBSSTBaS Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, SUCCESSOB TO Tootle, Iljiium .Ss Clarlc. Johx FiTJtfiEnALD , President. E. O. Iiovrr ...Vice-President. .Iohn R. Clark Cashier. T. W. Kvans Assistant Cashier. This Bank is now open for business at their new room, corner Main and Sixth streets, and ant pre pared to transact a general BANKING BUSINESS. " Stocks, Bonds, Gold, Government and Local Securities BOUGHT AND SOLD. Deposits Received and Interest Al lowed on Time Certificates. DRAFTS DRAWN, Available in any part of the United States and in al) the Vrincfpal Towns and Cities of Europe. ACENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED INMAH LINE III ALLAN LIKE OF Persona wishing to bring out their friends from Europe can ri KCBAtl TICKETS TROX US Tliroilfjll to 111 1 tfSIllOlltll Excelsior Barber Shop. J. C. BOONE, Slain Street, opposite Brooks House. HAIR-CUTTING, Shaving and Shampooing. ESPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO CtTTIXG CHILDREN'S IIAIIt Call and See Boone, Gents, And get a boon In a C3 X 33 A. X3" SHELVE n41-ly GO TO THE Post Office Book Store, H. J. STBEIGHT, Proprietor, TOR TOUR Boob. Stationery, Pictures, - Music, i" jt . TOYS, CONFECTIONERY, Violin Strings, - -' Newspapers, Novels, Song Books, etc., etc. TOST OFFICE BUILDISti, 6-tf PLATTSitOUTH, NEB. NEWS OFJFIIE WEEK. Compiled from Telegrams of Areompaijio; Dales. Monday, Nov. 23. It was reported from Little Rock on the 21st that the Republican State Central Committee of Arkansas had received several letters from the northwestern part of the ' State offering five companies of old Union soldiers to Got. Smith. John O. Price, editor of the Republi can paper at Little Rock, has published a card denying the authorship of a telegram alleged to have been sent by him to Senator Dorsey at Washington, and claiming that business throughout the State was almost entirely sus pended and that the "White League militia was roaming at large in consequence of the disturbance in governmental affairs. lie says he never sent any such dispatch to Senator Dorsey or any one else. Gsn. Ord, Chairman of the Nebraska Relief and Aid Society, has cautioned the public against giving contributions to unauthorized persons. Contrioutions of aid societies and others should be forwarded directly to Alvin Saunders, Treasurer, and E. B. Chandler, Sec retary, Nebraska Relief aud Aid Society, Omaha. Mrs. Axx a Wi ttexm ter, of Philadelphia, is President of the Women's National Christian Temperance Union, recently organized. Mrs. Frances E. Willard, of Chicago, is Corre sponding Secretary; Mrs. Mary C. Johnson, of Brooklyn, N. Y., Recording Secretary, and Mrs. W. A. Ingham, of Cleveland, Treasurer. Tub Pope has written to Cardinal Cul len, thanking him and the Irish Bishops for their 'condemnation of the address delivered by Tyndall at Belfast, and declaring that nothing is to be so much dc cried as " those spiritual pirates whose trade is to despoil the souls of men." Representatives Wi lshiue and Lowe, of Arkansas, have had an interview with Atty, Gen. Williams, in Washington, and notified him of tteir intention to file an argument with ham in answer to that of Smith, the claimant for the Governorship of Arkansas. - The First Presbyterian Church of Louis ville, Ky., has formally withdrawn from the Presbytery of that city, that body having at its recent session severely reprimanded Dr. Wilson, pastor of such church, and called upon him to resign his pastoral charge. In a trotting match at San Francisco on the 21st "Fullerton" won the three heats in 2:20K, 2:20 and 2:20. Mrs. Rilet, of Trenton, N. J., recently at tempted to light a fire with kerosene oil, when the can exploded and herself and infant child were burned to death. A motion made by one of the Ultramon tane members directing the release of several Democratic Deputies has been defeated in the German Reichstag. Wilbur F. Storey, editor of the Chicago Time, has given bail in the stftn of $1,500 in the charge of libel preferred against him by N. K. Fairbank. At the recent wedding of the daughter of Wm. Sharon, a San Francisco banker, the father presented the bride with $1,000,000 as a wedding present. A brilliant party was given at the White Ilouse a few evenings ago in honor of Mrs. Fred. Grant, who made her debut in Washing ton society. Tuesday, Nov. 24. OxE-TniRTof the residences in Tuscumbia, Ala., were destroyed by a gale on the evening of the 23d, and twelve persons were killed and many others injured. Half of the town of Montevallo, in the same State, is also re ported destroyed, and two persons were killed and twenty wounded. A court-martial has been ordered by Gen. Emory for the trial of Lieut Hodgson, upon charges preferred by Gen. Morrow, who was sent to investigate Hodgson's actions and conduct in North Louisiana. II. B. Strait, Republican," has been de clared elected to Congress from the Second Minnesota District, his majority being 23$ as determined by the State Board of Canvassers. Secretary Delano has requested the War Department to remove any person who may be found trespassing in the Black Hills region, that trouble with the Indians may be avoided. An appeal has been taken by Mr. Beecher's attorneys from the order of the General Term denying the motion for a bill of particulars in the Til ton suit. The Italian Parliament was opened on tha 23d by King Victor Emmanuel in person. W. B. Wickham has been sworn into office as Mayor of New York city. The official vote for Secretary of State of Indiana has been declared, as follows: J. E. NelT, 132,154; W. W. Curry, 104,903; J. C. Stout, 10,233. Gov. Garland, of Arkansas, has issued a proclamation offering $1,000 for the appre hension of Smith and $500 for Wheeler. Supervising-Architect A. B. Mullbtt has resigned, and his resignation has been accepted. Wednesday, Nov. 25. Reports were recentlv current that C. 8. Quiseubury, Treasurer of the Missouri State Grange, had become a defaulter to the amount of $30,000. The facts appear to be as fol lows: At the recent meeting at Kansas City Mr. Quisenbury was called upon for the whole sum in the treasury 30,000 it being wanted to invest in a manufactory. It then came out that Quisenbury had invested the funds of the Grange in various ways, and that they could not be realized at once. He raised $4,000 cash and has since iven to the Executive Board of the Grange deeds of trust on two farms said to be worth $18,000, and executed a bond of per sonal security, which has been accepted by the Board, and has agreed to pay the whole amount by next J uly. It is not believed that" the Grange will lose a dollar. The Indiana State Grange of Patrons of Husbandry met in convention at Indianapolis on the 24th. There are now 1,999 subordinate Granges organized and in working order in the State. The following are the officers of the State Grange for the ensuing year: Hen ley James, Worthy Master, Marion; C. W. Davis, Lecturer, Kentland; Russell Johnson, Steward; r. U. Phillips, Assistant Steward; O. t . liam, Chaplain; G. U. Brown, Treasurer, Rensselaer; M. M. Moody, Secretary. Muncie: Alpheus Tyner, State Purchasing Agent, Indianapolis. Gov. Houston, of Alabama, was inaugurat ed on the 24th. In his address he said he would regard it as one of his highest and most sacred obligations to see that the laws are faithfully executed and the rights of all citizens, without regard to race, color or previous condition, are duly guarded aud protected. He says the citizens of Alabama are loyal to the Government of the United States, and will readily yield cheerful obedience to its authori ty and laws. The official vote in the First and Second Louisiana Congressional Districts has been announced. The following are the majori ties: First Randall Gibson, Denu, 6,718; Second E. J. Ellis, Dent, 4,75a . The Spanish Government has expressed a willingness to pay the United States indem nity in the Ylrginius case on . the same basis as that with which Great Britain was satis fied. Appeals for aid are being made in behalf of the sufiercrs by the recent tornado at Tus cumbia, Ala. Friday, Not. 27. A convention or meeting composed of the leading men of the Independent party of In diana and a number of delegates from other States met at Indianapolis on the 25th. A dec laration of principles was adopted favoring a new political organization and advocating the withdrawal from circulation of all Na tional and State bank notes and the issuing of paper money by the Government directly to the people, such money to be a legal tender for public and private debts, including duties on imports. A National Executive Committee was appointed. In the Indiana State Grange on the 25th a resolution was adopted declaring Mthat the State Grange, in council assembled, has no sympathy with any past, present, or future attempt that may be made by any political party or political aspirant to absorb a little reflected warmth, decency, or support by persistently calling and publishing their meetings at the same time and place of ours, and that a decent respect for our Order re quires that such attempts be suitably rebuked by publishing this resolution." The Indiana Supreme Court has decided that colored children are not entitled to the public school benefits of the State, because the State Constitution provides that only the children of " citizens" are entitled to those benefits, and that colored people, not having been " citizens" when the State Constitution was adopted,the Fourteenth Amendment of the National Constitution, subsequently adopted, does not supersede this provision of the State Constitution. It seems that the hoax published in the New York Herald a few weeks ago, giving a detailed account of the pretended escape from Central Park of a large number of ani mals and the killing and maiming by them of a large number of persons, has caused the death of one man Henry A. Martin, of Flam field, N. J. who became ao excited ever the perusal of the horrible story that he was taken sick and subsequently died. The New York Graphic of a recent date an nounccs that the New York Central and Lake Shore Railronds had in contemplation the formation of a joint company with a view to continuing the two extra tracks (about com pleted between Albany and Buffalo) on to Chicago the two additional tracks to be ex clusively for freight. Deputations from fifty-two chambers of commerce waited upon Lord Derby In London, on the 26th, to present objections to the proposed reciprocity treaty between the United States and Canada. Wesley Underwood, under sentence of death at Palmyra, Mo., for killing Richard Menifee in March, 1871, hanged himself in jail on the night of the 24th. He was to have been executed on the 27th. During the night of the 25th some one en tered the house of Allan Glass, at Freemans burg, Pa., and carried off his infant child, which was In a crib beside the bed occupied by Mrs. Glass. A blight shock of earthquake was felt at Newburyport, Mass., on the 24th. The direc tion of the vibration was from west to east. The friends of Vice-President Wilson say it is probable he will preside over the Senate daring the winter. By a recent fire at Cronstadt, Russia, the dwellings of 10,000 persons were destroyed. Saturday. Not. 28. The jury in the safe-burglary conspiracy case at Washington have reported that they could not acree upon the guilt or innocence of Whitcly and Harrington, but found Will iams not guilty. It is understood tnai on me first ballot the jury stood eight for acquittal and four Tor conviction in Harrington's case, aud In Wbitely's case nine for acquittal and three for conviction. At its recent session the Indiana State Grange made an appropriation of $1,000 for the relief of the Nebraska sufferers, and a com mittee was directed to mature a plan for rais ing additional funds by calling on subordinate Granges for contributions. The Secretary re ported 409 Granges in the State paying dues, with 53,141 members. There is a balance of $14,800.57 in the treasury. The following gentlemen will have seats In Congress this winter by election to fill vacancies: fihin William E. Flnck (Dera.), elected, V Hash J. Jewett (Dm.), resigned. Jftw York Simeon B. Chittenden (Ind.), rc Stewart L. Woodford (Rep.), resigned; and Rich ard Sctaell (Dem.), vies David B. Mellish (Rep.), deceaned. , South Carolina Lewis Caas Carpenter (Rep.). rice Robert B. Elliott (Rep.), resigned. The body of an infant reported to have been stolen from the bedside of its mother In Freemansburg, Pa., on the night of the 26th has been found in the river at that place, and Mrs. Goss, the mother, has been arrested, charged with having thrown the child Into the water. Thb United States 8upreme Court has de cided that the Indians, In their tribal rela tions, have no property righto in fee; also that the timbers and minerals on the reserva tions are a part of the realty, and cannot be sold or leased. At a recent meeting in Indianapolis of the Western Bureau of Railway Commissioners it was decided to advance the rates on all classes of freight from Western points five cento per hundred pounds. Nineteen citizens of Lafourche Parish, La, have been arrested on warranto issued by the United States Commissioners, charging them with the violation of the Enforcement act. The official returns from the Dakota elec tion for Delegate to Congress are as follows: Kidder(Rep.), 4,597; Armstrong (Dem.), 2,189. Kidder's majority, 2,408. The majority against the new Constitution in Michigan at the recent election was 84,762; against woman's suffrage, 95,877. TUB MARKETS. New York. Cotton 1414Sc. Flour Good to choice, $5.05C(C3.75 ; white wheat extra, $5.7566 6.25. WhtatSo. t Chicago. $1.064cl.lW; Iowa spring, $1.06(2,1.09; No. Milwaukee spring. Bye Western. W&Wic- Barley $1.3ttf.1.35. Corn 8W&90C. Oaj-Wt-ern, 67(i67Hc- Pork New mess, $A.505r!1.00. Lard lSVit-lSHc. Cheete 12HJH5c. Wool Domestic fleece, 45wi8c. Beert $10.00ft"6t 0. Hog Dressed. $i.62H(&8.75; live, $6.75(,7.12 Hhetp Live", $4.0U6.00. Chicago. Beeres Choice, $5.006.10; good. $4.75(5t5.25; medium, $4.00fo4.50; butchers' stock, $2.504.25; stock cattle, $2.50&4.00. lion Live, good to choice, $.73a7.2.j. Sheep Good to choice, $4.0U&4.50. Butter Choice yel low, 8(jo?c. Egg Freh, 242fic. Pork Mess, new, $19.3519.40. Lard 1213c. Cheese New York Factorv. 13 16c; Western Factory. 143.15c. Flovr White winter extra, $4.7564650; spring extra, $4.U0t(U.GO. Whea Spring, No. i, 90fc91c. Corn No. i, 81H4tH2e. Oat No. . 2, 55C156C. Bye No. , Wx&Wlc. Barley Xo. S, $I.2HStl 30. Wool Tnb-wasnea, 4o5Tc ; neece, wasnea, 4utj 47c; fleece, unwashed, 5S734c. Lumber First Clear. $50.00aa.00; Second Clear, $16.(3 4H.0D; Common Boards, $ll.iXKg12.)0; Fencing, $ll.UK7ri-.i.uu; -'A" Shingles, 3.0U&1.25; Lain, $2.WK2.25. CiMdxxATi. Flour $5.005.50. ' Wheal Red. $l.j(Ltl.t. Corn New, (5i.7ic. Bye Jl.W 1.U5. Oat 5560c Barley $1.23&1.:. J'ork $.5Waja.0O. Lard 13Vt2.13c. St. Locis. Cattle Fair to choice. J.50??.00. Hog Live, $.5nrrj.7.. Flour XX Kail. $4.25 drA.W. Wheat Ha. 2 Red Fall. $1.0b4pl-OrtH-Corn No. , new, VXP,nbic. Oaf Ho. 2, b7 574c Jfy WWnflOc. Barley $l.a,1.35. Pork Mess, $19.75&20.UU. Lard- IVmUC. Uu-WAirKKM. Flour Spring XX, 5.255?.5.50. Wheat Spring, No. 1, i!t9!4c: No. i M 924C. Corn No. 2, 7474V4c. OattXo. 2, 5fi-rvJc. ' Bye Ho. 1, 94&5c. Barley No. 2, $U2&1.3u. Cleveland. Wheat No. 1 Red. $1.11(11.12; No. 2 Ki-d, $1.0ta 1.05. Corn New, 0vifeC7c. oat o. i, 5t!-i(j.c. Pbtboit. irA-Extra, $1.18S1.1). Corn 81t2c. QaU 54(54!4c. Tolxdo. rFAo Amber ilich., $12.0714; No. 2 Red, $1.06,'1.0fi4. Corn Mixed, new 7U&70!ic. Oat No. 1, 54(854Hc. Buffalo. Beeve $4 2.VT66.00. Hog Live, jo.owii,!. ou. oneep Live, t-i.ou&a.uu. East Libgrtt. Cattle Best, $6.60(?6.75; medium, t5.50tf6.2x Hog orkers. (i.50(('i7..V): Philadelphia. $7.25tf&7.50. Sheep Best, $4.505 3.uo; good, f4.uu4,4.au. Report of the Commissioner of Agrl- culture. Washington, Not. 20. The Hon. Frederick Watts, Commis sioner of Agriculture, in his annual re port says: "There is no incident which so cripples the operations of this depart ment as the want or the punctual pubu cation of its annual report. For the last two years it has not been pmfclished. While Congress, at the last session, ap parently made the etlort to order the publication of the annual reports of 18 and 1873, for the use of Congress, it failed, in the opinion of the Public Printer, to obtain its object. While the Commis sioner does not concur in this opinion, it is due to him to say that to print them involved a doubtful construction of the law, a reponsibility he was unwilling to take, ana theretore the reports for the use of the members of Congress have not been printed. But by the separate pro vision 01 tne act tnere was an appro priation specially lor the printing of the reports of 1872 and 1873. These have been printed and delivered to the de partment for distribution." The Commissioner says he cannot be unmindful of the approaching centennial of the independence of the United States. No such opportunity has ever occurred for sucn an exhibition ot the progress this country has made in its agriculture, horticulture, manufactures, commerce. arts and sciences, its adaptation for war and the benents or peace, whereby the people of other- countries may be im pressed with the capabilities of this na tion, and our own made to feel proud that we have achieved so much. He rec ommends that the Government erect a building for itself, to be exclusively oc cupied by the several departments, a Board having been designated by the President to suggest what part each may take in the Exposition. By action of Congress about four acres of ground, formerly occupied by the canal, ha.ve been added to the depart ment grounds, and are now undergoing preparation to form a part of the abor etum. The collection of exotic, utiliza ble and economic plants is gradually in creasing both in number and value. The orange family is particularly valuable, and the best commercial varieties are propagated and distributed to the great est practicable extent. There. has been no period in the history of this country when farmers' crops have been so exten sively depredated upon as in the past year, and this has brought into active exercise the knowledge and industry of the entomological divisions of the de partment. Ihere is an increasing demand for in formation with regard to insects inju rious to vegetation, and much pains have been taken to investigate the character of insects sent here, to point out their modes of indicting injury, and the means by which their depredations may be averted, and for those who seek to prosecute the study or acquire the knowledge of these insects specimens ot their injuries and nest-architecture have been arranged and exhibited in a room provided for the pur pose. During the past year tne work or the botanical division has been steadily pros ecuted and many contributions added. It is believed that much valuable informa tion of a practical character is both re ceived and communicated. Many grati fying letters of acknowledgment show high appreciation of the work of distribution. The Commissioner shows the valuable services rendered by the several divis ions of his department, and says: "In purchase of seeds the department has ptronized only seed-growers and seed firms proven reliable by experience, whose guarantee of good quality and genuineness cannot be questioned, and by receiving them from first hands has been able to procure them at much lower rates, and, consequently, in greater quantities, and is thus enabled to give more liberally to the many applicants who daily apply for seeds from all parts of the country, and to extend the bene fits of distribution. . One million two hundred and eighty-six thousand pack ages of seeds were distributed during the last fiscal year." An Eighty-Ton Gun. It may not be generally known that the principle upon which all our guns are now made is that discovered by Col. Fraser. Briefly, it consists of a series ot coils welded together in such a way that the grain of the iron is best opposed to the explosive force of the powder, and encircling a Bteel tube, the interior of which is rifled. A long bar of iron say of eight inches square previously pre pared, is slowly drawn from a f urnance to a length of about 300 feet, and wound into a double coil in the form of a cylinder. This is again heated and placed beneath a steam-hammer, where it is welded to gether by tremendous blows, which so effectually do their work that a cylinder capable of bearing the greatest possible strain is formed at a comparatively tri fling expense. Several of these coils be ing made, they are placed in order on a ong steel tube which has been made in Sheffield, and the weapon is finally turned out at an average cost of about 60 a ton, as against nearly 150 at ivrupp s fac tory in Essen. Upon this principle, then, it is resolved to construct an eighty-ton gun, which should be able to pierce twenty inches of iron at a distance of a thousand yards, with a shot of 1,600 pounds in weight, and by the aid of 300 pounds of powder. The length of this magnificent piece of artillery was fixed at twenty-seven feet, its diameter at the trunnion six feet and at the muzzle six teen inches, inside measurement. It was calculated that such a (run would be able to deliver its mischief-working missile at a distance of nearly ten miles, and that it would, . at the same time, be easily placed in the turret of a war-shiD or the embrasure of a battery, and worked quickly and without difficulty. Of course there were many difficulties in the way of the construction of such a weapon. No steam-hammer, such as that which Krupp possesses at Essen, was to be found in England ; no forges were built large enough for such a tremendous " heat ;" no cranes were in position to hoist such a weight. But all these diffi culties were speedily overcome by the skillful officials at Woolwich. The forges were built, a huge steam-hammer of forty tons weight, with double-action arrange ment, and a striking power of nearly 1,000 tons, made, and very soon all was in readiness to begin the construction of the great gun. Curiously enough, His Majesty, the Emperor of Russia, was the first to see one of its coils welded, and since that time the work has been gradu ally going on, till now the steel tube, the breech-piece, one coil and the trunnion are finished ; so that it is certain that by June next the gun will be ready for trial. It will then consist of the following parts: A tough, steel tube inside, weighing nearly sixteen tons and measuring about twenty-four feet in length; a breech piece coil twelve feet in length ; one cen tral, another coil nearer the muzzle, and the trunnion coil. The cascabel through which the fire from the friction-tube is communicated to the cartridge inside the gun is of steel and immensely strong. Jjoiiaon, tkuiy J. ueyraprv. LITTLE WOMAy. Running out to meet me gladly Little woman: Or, with sweet and sunny face bent Smiling on me from the casement Little woman. Could I ever meet it sadly f Kvcr ceaoe to love her nittdly? Love that matches her but badly Little woman. Cosy, all her modeet dwelling Little woman. Fires ever brightly glowing. Flowers ever freshly blowing Little woman ; And a placid smile still telling Of a gentle boeom swelling With a peace all peace excelling Little woman. Just to hear her tender greeting Little woman. Never word unkindly fpoilinsj. Home for huxband gad or toiling Little woman. Just to feel her warm lips meeting, Jiint to hear her fond heart beating It as worth a year's entreating Little woman. Men may grumble at their cares Little woman ; And on women's right loudly railing. Talk of women's wrongs prevailing Little woman. But the best of household fairies I the wife whose golden hair in Drooping o'er her hngband'e chair his Little woman. IN A TRUMPET. A Stry of Xliankaglvlns. BY ISABELLA T. HOPKINS. "I know it," said Miss Pamphylia, an swering a rueful glance from Miss Mehit able's brother; "still it's a great comfort to reflect that she could have the trumpet." Miss Pamphylia certainly had a very peculiar way of looking at human griefs. She would stand still for one moment of dire dismay and then suddenly illuminate with some comforting " reflection" about something that had been, or hadn't been, or could be, after all. It always reminded Miss Mehitable's brother of a cluster of ripe grapes he had noticed one October day when the skies were fitful. For one instant, while a cloud crept over the sun, they hung heavy and dark as the leaden shadow behind them; then, as a quick, strong ray of sunlight pierced the cloud, the red wine that was in them took fire and gleamed and blazed until his very pulses warmed as he looked. lie felt them suddenly warming again in just the same way as Miss Pamphylia uttered the words " she could have the trumpet." What a thing it would make of life if that "could" only began with a "w" instead of a "c"! But as it did not, and there wasn't the least prospect that it ever would, Miss Mehitable's brother patiently took it with the " c," much as lie would have hugged a warm soap-stone, if wandering in the dark among the glaciers of the Alps. Miss Mehitable, meanwhile, peacefully unconscious that either of them had said anything, sat gazing into the glowing hearth of coals with a satisfied little smile on her face and a fresh-folded handkerchief in her lap. She always did have a fresh handkerchief in her lap it was so tidy just where the hands lay; and as for her smile, her very features were as likely to disappear. That was because she found life always so pleasant; indeed it con tained but two regrets for Miss Mehit able, and it would have been foolishness to let such a minority disturb all the rest. One of these regrets wras that Pamphylia did not feel quite inclined to marry Phenix. He had asked her every Thanks giving Day for ten years in succession though never until alter dinner, lor he liked everything hot, and the faintest hope is a warmer sauce than disappoint ment but it was of no use. Miss Pam phylia's inclinations did not quite agree, and the trial was put over till another term, leaving the first part of the even ing a little downish, until Miss Pam phylia regularly brightened with a con soling thought. " After all," she said, " it is a great comfort to reflect that he needn't ask me if he didn't choose." " Don't be a goose, Phenix," Miss Me hitable always said, gently, the next morning, to comtort mm; and though perhaps he had seemed a little like one. pluming himself and pickin'g up his crumbs so many months, only to be slain on this fatal day, still, when Hetty said this he remembered what he really was, and rose from his ashes to !egin another year. liut it seemea sucn a piry aDout spoil ing the evenings, particularly as Miss Pamphylia only came once a year, that she had at last insisted upon a different arrangement. " Don't ask me again until l am ready to say yes, she said, with the firmest air. "And when will that be?" asked Phenix. Miss Pamphylia hesitated a moment, and then looked up with a sudden gleam of mischief in her eyes. " Whenever Hetty asks for the trumpet," 6he said. lhat was coming very near the second of Miss Mehitable's regrets in life, which was simply the miserably indistinct way in which people were allowing themselves to speak the last lew years. It was growing upon them, too, instead of improving, until 6he had really given up expecting to hear anybody unless they came and spoke directly to her. Then, of course, they took care to enun ciate properly, knowing now much she disapproved the modern carelessness, but the moment they turned away it was all forgotten, and even Phenix and Pamphy lia, who were as well brought up as her self, did no better than the rest. One said, " M-m-m-m," and the other an swered, " M-m-m-m," and it was only a miracle that they ever made head or tail of each other's remarks. But Miss Me hitable always preferred her friends should please themselves rather than her; so she sat peacefully by, heard what she could and let the rest go. It was not till the circle of those who attempted proper enunciation had thinned down to the verv strone-winded ones, and 3Iiss Mehitable's replies to even their remarks sometimes fitted about as well as if she had put her own bonnet on Phenix's head by mistake, that one of the bravest of them ventured a suggestion. Would it not be a little strange ir an her friends had lost their voices at once? Might it not be possible that her hearing had lost a trifle of its acuteness? The suggestion was repudiated with only the least perceptible sharpening of ittiss Mehitable s usual gentleness, but when Phenix brought home from the city one day, as a delicate offering, an ear- trumpet, new m design, gracetu: and light, she rose to her feet and flamed into such a blaze of indignation as all the rest of her gentle life could hardly sum up. "An ear-trumpetl Vas6hetobe the scape-goat of everybody's carelessness, and wear this crooked horn as the badge of it? Deaf? How should she be deaf any more than he was, when their birth days were the same? Would he have the great kindness to carry that instru ment into his own room and keep it there, since waste was sinful, until she should ask for it?" . It did not seem to Phenix that Pam phylia could say anything this time, but as he passed between her and Miss Me hitable her face brightened. "Still," she whispered, " it's a comfort to think you've increased the regular sale." The grapes had purpled and been gath ered rive times since then; to-morrow would be Thanksgiving Day once more, iincTthe car-trumpet lay on the piano in Phenix's room, shining and bright as on the hr$t day it had been banished there. "Turkey, of course," said Phenix, as they sat round the fire after tea, letting the lights and shadows give lessons in blind man's buff in advance. "Couldn't there be anything else for a change? mis win be my hfty-nrth in annual reg ularity." "And my fiftieth; a real old maid," laughed Miss Pamphylia, softly. "Nonsense" began Phenix. with glance at her bright brown eyes and chestnut hair; but Miss Mehitable turned gently from the fire. "Oh, yes, dear; they often live to creat age. I remember one allowed to wander in your father's field that was over a hundred ; at least the inscription on its back said so. I suppose it is be cause they are so slow about every thing." " Not turtles turkeys," shouted Phe nix. " Dindont for dinner to-morrow." "But, please, don't speak so loud, brother," said Miss Mehitable. " I like distinctness, that is all. Though I am surprised at your thinking of dandelions, so altogether out of season; and, be sides, cranberry sauce is Latin for roast turkev alwavs." And Miss Mehitable laid her hands on the folded handker chief with a peaceful smile. ' This was what dre w the despairing look from Phenix and sent Miss Pamphylia to take refuge in reflecting that Hetty "could have the trumpet. iot that they cared in the least on their own ac count; it was only the thought of to morrow, when there would be company, They were so proud of Hetty, and couldn't bear to have her make herself ridiculous. Nothing seemed less probable as Miss Mehitable took her seat at the table the next day, faultlessly dressed, and smiling benignantly upon every one, with Cousin John, a clergyman of the Methodist per suasion, on her right hand, and a distin guished professor of elocution on her left. " Pretty strong outposts, and Hetty al ways does look well," thought Phenix, with a sigh of relief, as he took up thu ball she had gracefully set rolling, and croquetted it among his neighbors. It flitted about for a while in a velvety way most soothing to his fears, when sud denly, just as his anxiety began to sub side, there was a crash at Miss Mehita ble's end of the table, reverberating like a clap of thunder. She had set out on a series of reminiscences with Cousin John, who had just returned after a twenty years' absence, and he was in quiring at the extreme of his pulpit tones : " Where is the Judge now?" Miss Mehitable nodded and smiled, as she always did when she felt pretty sure, but not quite, that "O yes" was the right answer. This wouldn't do, for every one had started at the crash and was listening; so Cousin John tried again. " The Judge; where is the 7Mfynow?" " Oh, standing on the very same spot," said Miss Mehitable; " just on the crown of the hill. Very windy on a cold day and a little conspicuous, but local at tachments are strong, you know, and we have worshiped there a great many years." " Ah,M said Cousin John, looking sud denly into his plate, and Phenix told him it would not be New England Thanks giving if he did not send it up for more turkey; and then every one began to say what a terrible thinning there was in the rank and file of the poultry-yards to-day. Miss Mehitable nodded and smiled so ap preciatinjrlv that the Professor wondered how Cousin John managed to get into such trouble. "A terrible sacrifice among the feathered tribes," he said, addressing her. " Oh, very sad!" said Miss Mehitable, with a sudden shadowing of her face. " I'm afraid very few of them will ever come back. And to think the only re turn we can make is to decorate their graves' We did a great many last year, and there will be more than ever I'm afraid when this campaign is over." After this it struck Miss Mehitable that the conversation became very gen eral ; so much so that she really could not catch the opportunity to ak Cousin John as many questions as she would like, or to be particularly polite to the Professor. However, everything seemed going on delightfully, though she noticed the same general carelessness of enunci ation; still, she was used to that, and she would catch Cousin John after they re turned to the parlor. But Cousin John wasn't to be caught ; he was verv busily engaged with soatu one else whenever she passed near him, and, indeed, every one grew very talka tive, and even the candles and tne nre- light seemed to Miss Mehitable gayer than on other nights. "Strange ways hew England people are falling into," said Cousin John s nearest neighbor. " Thanksgiving dinner at ' early candle-light is something equally new and nice." " Is it new or oior - asuea rnenix, ana then came a free discussion of dinner- hours in times past, present and to come. " I wonder what time Abraham dined?" said Miss Pamphylia, suddenly. Cousin John said that was a ttnrative question ; it would be easier to say what lie dined upon ; and some one answerea : " Oh, yes, that was on a Mess-o-pot- amian plain." Miss Mehitable nodded and smiled, but the Professor thought he would make it ; a little more distinct for her. " We are wondering at what time AbraJiam dined," he enunciated, coming very close, on pretext of picking up the handkerchief which had slipped from her lap. " Oh, he dined at four o'clock ; I was intimately acquainted with him," said Miss Mehitable, a glow of pleasant recol lection suffusing her gentle face. But, at the same moment, she caught a very peculiar one on the Professor's; she glanced at Cousin John's. . Was it possi ble the turkey had not agreed with him that he was looking so very red? She looked at Phenix he was white ; Pam phylia was blue, and the rest were all looking the other way. A sudden and dreadful suspicion seized Miss Mehitable. A professor of elocution must enunciate well; if she had misunderstood him whose fault must it be? " Cousin John," 6he said, turning to ward the white necktie that had eluded her so many times that evening, "who did you understand the Professor to speak of ?" "Abraham," replied Cousin John, with truth and distinctness united in tremen dous force. " Did ymt, Pamphylia?" Miss Pamphylia, and, one after an other, Phenix and all the rest, nodded assent. Two round red spots came into Miss Mehitable's cheeks, and she dropped her hands on the handkerchief with a gesture of surrender ...Then she looked up with the unfailing smile. "Then, Phenix, will you have the kindness to bring that instrument you have been keeping in your room for me?" Phenix cast one look at Miss Pam phylia. She stood petrified, and her brown eyes seemed leaping aiier Dim as he left the room. Hetty had asked for the trumpet! But by the time he came teack Miss Pamphylia had vibrated to a " reflec tion," and found her balance again. " Still," she was saying to herself, " it is a great comfort to feel that it will be keepi.g a promise; and I've got on my new black silk, and Phenix is a great deal too good for me that is the only trouble." "Now, Phenix," said Miss Mehitable, inserting the trumpet in her ear, " let me hear something pleasant through this, if you can." He looked once more at Mis3 Pam phylia. Her eves shone this time, and he went across to her with the tread of a conqueror. With his right hand he led her to Miss Mehitable, and with the left he raised the mouth of the trumpet to nis lips. t t M .a . "li you wm give us your blessing and allow Cousin John to perform the ceremony, I believe we are ready," he said. It is strange how much less time it re quires to do things than to get ready for mem. it aid not seem nve minutes to Miss Pamphylia before it was all over, and Phenix was showing the last guest out at the front diwr. Miss Mehitable sat holding the trumpet as if she would never let it go again. " If I had only had sense enough to ask tor it nve years ago!" she said. "But 1 do hope, Pamphylia, you will And it pleasant having a husband at last!" Miss Pamphylia grew suddenly se rious. " I don't know," she murmured, over the edge of the trumpet; but in a mo ment her face cleared and shone into Miss Mehitable's. . " But if I sfiouldn't, it will be a great comfort to me to reflect that I have lived single as long as I have!" she said. JScribnerf8 Monthly. The Rights of Children. I. The child has a right to auk oueiitions and to be fairly answered; not to be snubbed as if he were guilty of an im pertinence, nor ignored as though his de sire for information were of no conse quence, nor misled as if it did not signify whether true or false impressions were made upon his mind. He has a right to be taught everything which he desires to learn, and to be made certain, when any asked-for information is withheld, that it is only deferred till he is older and better prepared to receive it. Answering a child's questions is sow ing the seeds of its future character. The slight impression of to-day may have become a rule of lile twenty years hence. A youth in crossing the fields dropped cherry-stones from his mouth, and in old age retraced his steps by the trees laden with luscious fruit. But many a parent whose heart is lacerated by a child's ingratitude might say The thorns I bleed withal are of the tree I . planted. To answer rightly a child's questions would give scope for the wisdom of all the ancients; and to illustrate needed precept by example would require the exercise of every Christian virtue. 11. I he child has a right to be lei alone. by which I mean he should have the sov ereignty of his person and immunity from invasion, it may be hue sport lor grown people to victimize children as they do; to tumble their hair with a clumsily caressing hand, pinch their cheeks or ears, tweak their noses, or playfully trip them up as they are crossing the room; to catch a timid little girl and toss her to the ceiling, or subject a sensitive, bash ful boy to the ordeal of indiscriminate kissing, liut every such act is an un warranted liberty, and no less an inva sion of personal rights than if practiced upon the highest dignitary of the land. In fact, it is rather more so than less, for the child cannot protect himself, nor even show displeasure without subject ing himself to rebuke. If there is any right that is inalienable, it is that of every human soul to the tenement with which uod lias Invested it; to be sale from so much as the touch of a finger ex cept at its own option. The beauty of all our relations is marred by this coarse familiarity. We need to learn more reverence; to be re minded that every human form, whether of adult or of little child, epibodies a thought of God; to hear anew the voice from the bush, 6aying:"Put thy 6hocs from olf thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground." III. The child has a right to nis indi viduality, to be himself and no other; to maintain against the world the Uivine fact for which he stands. And before this fact father, mother, instructor should stand reverently; seeking rather to understand and interpret its signifi cance than to wrest it from its original purpose. It is not necessarily to be in scribed with the family name, nor writ ten over with family traditions, mature delights in surprise, and will not guaran tee that the children ot her poets shau sing, or that every Quaker baby shall take kindly to drab coler, or have an in herent longing for a scoop-bonnet, or a broad-brimmed hat. In the very naming ot a child his indi viduality should be recognized. He should not be invested with, the cast-ou cognomen of some dead ancestor or his torical celebrity, a name as musty as the grave clothes of the original wearer dolefully redolent of old associations a i i i : : . gnosny inuex linger xorever puiming vj the past. Let it be something fresh: a new name standing for a new fact, the suggestion of a history yet to be written, a prophecy to be fulfilled. The ass was well enough clothed in his own russet, but when he would put on the skin of the lion every attribute became con temptible. Common-place people slip easily through the world, but when we find them heralded by great names we resent the incongruity, and insist upon making them less than they are. George Washington selling peanuts, Julius Ciesar as a boot-black, and Virgil a ven der of old clothes make but a sorry figure. Leave to the dead kings their furple and ermine, to the poets their aurels and to the heroes of the earth sole possession of the names they have ren dered immortal. Let the child have a name that docs not mean too much at the outset, but which he can fill with his individuality, and make by and by to stand for exactly the fact that he is. Swedenborg tells us that in the spiritual world the name of an angel is the epitome of all his experi ences, the expression of his whole being. IV. The child has a right to compan iomhip. Not more surely does the plant turn its leaves to the light than docs the child seek to share with the parent every thought and emotion. If your boy does not talk to you of his projects, of his suc cesses at school and his mishaps on the play-ground; if your little girl has noth ing to say of her experiences during the hours that she is away from you, of the playmates whom she loves, or of the teacher who, to her thinking, is not quite fair; if, in a word, you have not your child's full confidence, be 6re that it is your fault, not his; that you have some how failed in your duty toward him, and you should not rest till you have bridged over the chasm and placed your self beside him as faithful counselor and tciiderest friend. But while giving needed support do not fail to recognize in the clinging, de pendent child of to-day the responsible man or woman of a fete year hen-ce. Leave space between vou for growth. Sepa rate the young life sufficiently from your own to secure to it the conditions moi favorable to its proper development. The obiect to be attained is not the illustration of your theories, not by any means your pleasure or convenience, not even the embodiment of your ideal; but a recognition from the outset of a fact beyond you. a character to be developed according to the laws of its own being; the unfolding from a child of a self-centered, self-directing man or woman; tho securing to a soul the power to make good the faculties of itself. Do not forget that in al'. matter that may with safety be lift to the child, your ojfice t' merely that of cuitt lr, not by any means that of autocrat. Make him feel from the first that your government is only provisional, anil that he is to fit himself as rapidly as possible for tho sovereignty of his own life. Do not burden him with laws, nor hedge him about with orders, nor bind him with promises. Implant nt the centre of his being the desire to do right, and, having done this, be sure that you have provided for every emergency in the best manner that is possible for j'ou. You need not fear to tell him that tho whole of his life is a school for the learning of that one lesson; that you as well as he are often in the wrong; and that you no less than he need daily to kneel and ask God to forgive your mis takes and help you to become better. Not a pope but a parent is the child's need; not an assumed infallibility, but candor and integrity of purpose; not a guide who is never in error, but one who, in spite of errors, can command confi dence. To be always neur enough to give needed support, 'always far enough removed not to invade, and to consider tirst, last, and always the best interests of the child: these are the olhics of n good parent, offices rendered extremely difficult by two 6trong elements of human nature the love of exercising authority and the love of serving one beloved. " Ask no questions, hut do as I bid you," is the language of the first.; " I will do all for you," is tho language of the second. Both utterances arc sel fish, and below the standard of a true paternity. " Do you realize that you be long to me? that but for me you had never been?" said a father to his eon. ' And had I been consulted I would sooner not have been th;in have been the son of such a father," was the bitter but not inappropriate answer. The old barbarism still clings to us We interpret too literally the term "my child," and assume oimernhip where only guardianship was intended. They are not ours, these j'oung immortals; not wax, to be molded to any pattern that may please us; not tablets, to be in scribed with our names, or written over with our pet theories. Images of God, filled with His life, consecrated to His work, destined to an immortality of growth and individual development, wo may not confiscate them to our uses, nor prescribe their sphere, nor fancy that our care of their infancy has mortgaged to our convenience their imer Inc. Paternity imposes duties, it does not merely establish claims. I confess I have little sympathy for parents who complain of the ingratitude of children. If the stream is muddy, it is safe to In fer that the fountain was not pure. All talk about obligation i futile: "With what measure ye mete it shall be meas ured to you again. ir you would navo love, be lovable as well as loving; if loy alty, be loyal; if large-hearted devoted ness, be magnanimous in giving. VictO' ria Magazine. ALL SO UTS. A comparative statement of the gross earnings of sixteen leading railway's in Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Ohio anil Texas for the month of October exhibits a healthful condition of Western trade that was hardly expected. The gross earnings of these sixteen roads for Oc tober, 1H74, were $:j.07,77.'5, against $3, 4S.'1,4TC for October, 187." an increase of $10-1,2U!). I his is a very email increase, it is true, but the fact that there has been any increase at all, in a year sup- poseu io oe peculiarly unsaiisiat-iory m its business results, is the lact that arrests attention. A Boston merchant attended a mes meric entertainment in Beethoven Hall and laughed so immoderately that the operator was annoyed. The merchant was requested to be quiet, but he was unable to stop snickering ana conse quently was ejected. Ik ing wealthy and obstinate, he will test in the courts the question whether a proprietor of a place of amusement can at will exclude per sons who have bought tickets and taken their seats. In the public departments at Wash ington are ladies performing clerical duty who in times past were among the leaders of society. One of the most ac complished among them is the daughter of Maj. Andrew Jac kson Donelson. She was born in the V lule House, receivcu a most accomplished education and mar ried a gentleman every way her equal. Her husband was at one time a Senator and she a queen in society. A man about two-thirds drunk and his back covered with mud stopped a policeman on the street and asked to be locked up. " Why, vou are able to walk home, aren't you?'r asked the officer. " Yes, I could get home all right, but I don't want to, and you wouldn't if you had my wife! Take me down.ole fellow, . and if she comes inquiring 'round just say I've gone to T'ltdo on 'portant busi ness." The telegraph is being introduced in Turner's Falls, Mass. The other day hardly five minutes had elapsed after tho erection of one of the posts before some enterprising genius posted a bill thereon, and soon two street Arabs were attracted to the spot, when the following dialogue ensued : " I say, M ickev, what an invin tion the telegraph is." " Yis, an' here's a dispatch broken out on the post." On the Amoor River they have a queer way of performing capital execu tions. They give the culprit Chinese brandy until he becomes unconscious and then they bury him alive. Before he recovers consciousness he is, of course, smothered by the earth, and so it is a merciful plan. " You've sowed the wind, and now you reap the whirlwind," said the school teacher, as he brought his cane down in a hurry on the back of a rebellious boy. " Yes, and it's a regular hurry-cane, too," sobbed the youngster, between tho whacks. N. T. Commercial A'tcertiioT. The Presbyterian Synod of Virginia contains 191 ministers, 2M churches, 19.V2 church members and 14,8o Sau-bath-school scholars. They contributed last year $20 644 for home and foreign missions, f 108,547 for pastors' salaries, and $140,000 for other objects. A movement has been set on foot in England, of which the Bishop of Man chester is the head, to produce a union w ith the Established Churc h of such dis senting religious bodies a3 hold to the fundamental doctrines of orthodox be lief. . A girl in GeorgVa brought a suit against a recent lover, claiming f 10.000 damages, but she compromised for four bales of cotton and a new parasol. Her lawyer took the cotton for his fee, and she kept the parasol to heal her wounded aflections. An English girl laughs at the idea th vt a woman cannot live comfortably with her mother-in-law, and advertises for Home good-looking young fellow to give her a chance to try the experiment. A Vermont paper wants a recipe for keeping cider. Don't drink it, you ninny.