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VOLUME X.
PLATTSMOUTH, .NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1874.
NUMBER 30.
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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ville, Ky., has formally withdrawn from the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.