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PLATTSMOUTH; NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1874.
NUMBER 39.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Compiled frsm Telfgrams of Aeteropinjing Dates.
Saturday, Dec. 12.
Tub trial of the suit of Tilton against
Beecher has been postponed until the first
Monday itl January. Judge McCu has de
rided that the plaintiff shall be limitt'd as to
his proofs of specific acts of the alleged crlhio
of the defendant to those named by
him In his bill of particulars, but shall
not be prohibited from introducing testimony
relating td declarations, documents, confts
ious,etc:,iti whifch alleged confessions no par
ticular time or place shall have been re
ferred to.
A Washington dispatch says the Adminis
tration approves of the course of Gov.
Ames, of Mississippi, in endeavoring to sup
press the disorders existing in that State
without calling for the assistance of the Fed
eral Government.
The trial of Jesse Pomeroy, the boy-murderer,
has been concluded in Boston, the jury
bringing in a verdict of murder in the lirst
degree, with a recommendation that he tie
imprisoned for life.
In the trial of Count von Ami in at Berlin
the fact has beeu developed that his secretary
was instructed by Bismarck to act as a spy
upon his conduct.
An earthquake shock was distinctly felt in
the Upper part of New York city, along the
Hudson River, and in Connecticut on the
night of the 10th.
Miss Jclia A. Gakretson has been elected
State Lecturer of the Grange in Iowa, in place
of Mr. Wilkinson resigned.
Monday, Dec. 14.
A 1.AUGE number of citizens bf Vicksburg
have issued an address, givliig a statement of
the troubles there, in which they charge a
vast amount of official corruption, and defend
the action of the citizens In the recent war
fare, claiming that they were obliged to take
up arms in sell-defense. They say that " our
people; in the trying circumstances in which
they have been placed nligh well have done
more, and could not have dorie less for the
protection of themselves, their families and
their property."
The attorneys for Tilton have appealed from
an order of Judge McCue granting a bill of
particulars in the Tilton-Beecher case. The
appeal is to the General Term, and is on the
ground that the Brooklyn City Court shall not
limit the proscution ou the trial to proof of
any particular day.
The constitution of the Iowa State Grange
has been so amended as to reduce future
membership to 100 delegates, and to provide
for districting the State in proportion to the
number of subordinate Granges.
John Neville, aged eight years, residing
with his parents in West lloboken, N. J., was
kidnaped on the evening of the lOtb, while
playing with a companion.
The insurrection in the Argentine Republic
is over, and the Government has issued a
proclamation granting amnesty to all politi
cal offenders.
The Southern Claims Commission has fa
vorably passed upon about 1,000 claims, and
a total amount awarded of about $750,000.
Kino Kalakaua reached Washington on
the 12th, and his arrival was the occasion of
considerable informal display.
Tuesday, Dec. 15.
The President of the Louisiana Election
Returning Board announced before that body
ou the 14th that he had been informed that
armed White Leaguers were stationed in an
adjacent building, ready at any moment to
disturb the proceedings of the Board, and on
his motion an adjournment Mas had for the
day.
The five children of John Datterich, rang
ing in age rrom 6ix to sixteen years, were
drowned on the 13th while amusing them
selves with a sled on a pond near their par-
ents' residence at Preaknees, N. J.
A.N effort was made in New Orleans on the
14th to introduce five or 6ix colored girls as
pupils into the girls' upper high school, which
resulted in the withdrawal of over fifty of the
graduating class.
The new JirfnMic newspaper, New York
city, has suspended publication.
Wednesday, Dec. 16.
A little before midnight on the 14th a fire
broke out in Pljmpton street, Boston, which
was not subdued until several large ware
houses and their contents were burned.
About four o'clock on the morn in 2 of the
15th three other alarms were sounded in the
mmediaie neighborhood, in Wareham street,
where sparks from the previous fire had
lodged unperceived by the firemen. Owing
to the combustible nature of the building in
w hich this last tire started the flames spread
in all directions, and in a short time Wareham
street was almost entirely devastated, every
thing being swept away that lay in the path
of the fire between the point of starting and
the wharf, except a large piano factory. The
loss from both fires is variously estimated
from $t500,000 to $750,000.
Two men, named Mosher and Douglass,
were shot ou the 13th at Bay Ridge, on Long
Island, while committing a burglary. Mosher
was instantly killed. Before he died Douglass
made a statement that Mosher was concerned
in the abduction of little Charlie Ross. The
two burglars have 6ince beeu identified, and
there seems no doubt that they knew of the
wherealjouts of the stolen child, who was be
lieved to be in the vicinity of New York city.
A fakti of disguised men broke into the
jail at Des Moines, Iowa, on the morning of
the loth and dragged from his bed Charles
Howard, sentenced to imprisonment for life
for the murder of John JohD6on, and hanged
him to a street lamp-post.
The nomination of Marshall Jewell as Post-muater-General
has beeu confirmed by the
Senate.
King Kalakaua was formally presented
to President Grant on the 15th.
Chaklestown, Mass., suffered a loss of
150,000 by tire on the 15th.
POST OFFICE BUILDI,
PLAT rSMOUTE, NEB.
Thursday, Dec. 17.
The German Commission for the Centen
nial Exhibition at Philadelphia has already
been appointed. Dr. Jacobi is made Presi
dent.
A violent storm has been raging in the
Bay of Biscay for eight days, and still con
tinues, causing great destruction to life and
vessel property.
The Ilouse Ways and Means Committee
are investigating the affairs of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company.
The President and Cabinet Ministers re
turned the visit of King Kalakaua on the ICth.
Mayok Cobb, of Boston, has been re-elected
by 18,000 majority.
A large silk factory at Hartford, Conn.,
was destroyed ny tir on tb ''"tli. Lees
t-JOO.OOO.
A report from Iudian Agtut Liihuiu,
dated Nov. 25, frem the Cheyenne River
Agency, states that he was in pursuit of white
men going to the Black Hills.
Friday, Dec. 18.'
A Philadelphia dispatch says a genj
tleman attending the spiritual seance of
Mr. Holmes and his wife, at which the noted
spirit Katie King was wont to appear, had
traced the supposed Katie to a boarding
house, and, after long-continued effort, per
suaded her to confess the deception she had
been practicing and to produce the gauzy
dresses she wore at the manifesta
tions. The production of a letter
with large quantities of jewelry, etc.,
that had been presented to Katie at 6cances
induced Robert Dale Owen and Dr. Childs,
two leading Spiritualists of that city, to pub
lish and repudiate the swindle.
TttE Mississippi Legislature met at Jackson
0rtthe 17th. In his message Gov. Ames
claims that the recent Vicksburg troubles
were brought about by violent white men for
political purposes and says: "At this mo
ment the 8tate and county authorities arc
successfully resisted, and the free action of
officials Is impossible." He closes by request
ing the Legislature to take steps to arrest
the Insurrection in Warren County and pre
vent similar occurrenc es:
A srECiAL to the London Morning ruxt
says Bismarck, weary of the opposition be
had encountered in the Reichstag, had ten
dered his resignation as Chancellor of the
Empire, which the Emperor refused to re
ceive, lie artcrward comerrca witn ine
leaders of the Ultramontane party regarding
the future conduct of affairs in the Reichstag,
and an understanding was secured.
Wm. M. Tweed was before the New York
Oyer and Terminer Court on a writ of tmbeun
evrput on the 17th. His case was finally post
poned to the '2"Jd, and he was returned to
prison. d
The Hon. John B. Rice, of Chicago, Mem-
ber of Congress from the First Illinois Dis
trict, died at Norfolk, Va., on the 17th, aged
sixty-five.
Li ect.-Com. Ccshino died at Washington
on the 17th, in the insane asylum, of which
he had teen an inmate about two weeks.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate, on the 14th, a petition
Of thte colored men of Indiana was presented,
tJroteStlng against the recent decision of the Su
preme Court of the State on the tjtieBtion of edu
cational richt. and asking that the proper law
officer of the Government be directed to appeal
the case to the Supreme Court of toe L uiteu
States A conference committee was or
dered on the bill, postponed from last
session, to amend the Customs and In
ternal Kevenne laws and for other purposes A
bill was reported and passed providing that set
tlers who left their lands ou account of the
ravages of grasshoppers shall not be deprived of
their rights to such lands, and authorizing the
Commissioner of the Oeneral Laud Oflie.e to
modify the Homestead law in their favor. The
provisions of the bill are also made applicable
to settlers who may be compelled to leave
their land for the same cause next year. . .Messrs.
Cameron and McCreery were appointed ns the
Senate committee ou the rereptiou of King
Kalakaua A djnurned.
Ia the Ilouse, on the 14th, several bills
were introduced, among them the following: For
free banking and to retire legal-tender notes ; re
ducing letter postage to one cent; for the relief
of the Southern States by compromise and the
settlement of their debts; to repeal the law re
quiring prepayment of newspaper postage; to
aid in the construction of a iiarrow-gau;e rail
road from tide-water to St. Loins and Chicago;
making appropriations for lighthouses in Michi
gan; lor Iree oanklng and tne resumption oi
specie payments A resolution for the appoint
ment of a select committee to inquire whether
any official or other persons have sought to ob
struct the administration of law in the District
of Columbia, especially in the case of the so-
called " safe-hurglnrv conspiracy," was lost for
want of a two-tuirda aflirnu.tive vote the
vote being: Yeas 139. navs h7 A resolution
was adopted, after considerable debate, for the
appointment of a select committee of live to pro
oeed to Vicksburg and investigate aud report all
the facts relative to the recent troubles in Missis-
ippi, especially in arreu County Messrs
Orth. E. K. Hoar and Cox were appointed as the
House committee ou the reception of Kins Kala
kaua Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 15th, a bill was
introduced an, referred, limiting the time in
which applications for bounty laud shall be re
ceived, and disposing of suspended cases after a
certain date A joint resolution was submitted
and referred for an amendment to the Constitu
tion providing that the President and V ice-Presi
dent shall be elected by a direct vote of the peo
ple, and each hold his otlice lor six years; mat
the President shall be ineligible for re-election
A favorable renort was made on the bill to
provide for the relief of persons suffering from
the ravages of grasshoppers Adjourned.
In the House, on the 15th, the follow
ing bills were introduced: For a narrow-gauge
road from Lake Erie to the Missouri River; reg
ulating the prosecution of libel in the District of
Columbia; to authorize the Secretary of the
Interior to settle and pay certain accounts
between the United States and various States
arising from the appropriation of certain public
lands in such States for permanent Indian
reservations, etc The following select com
mittees were announced by the Speaker: To
visit Vicksburir Cornier, HurlbuL Williams
(Wis.). Speer. and O'Brien. On Louisiana and
the Southern States ti. F. Hoar, Wheeler (N.
Y-), Fryc, Foster (Ohio), Phelps (N. J.), Robin
son (111.), and Potter The Legislative Appro
priation bill was considered in Committee of the
Whole Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 16th, a bill was
passed for the relief of the Allegheny River Rail
road Company Bills were introduced extend
ing the provisions of the act entitled "An act to
settle certain accounts between the United States
and the State of Mississippi, aud other States."
approved March 3, 1S57, to the States admitted
into the Union since that date; to aid the Wash
ington, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad Company
to construct a narrow-gauge railway from tide
water to the cities of St. Louis and Chicago A
communication was received from W. L. McMil
lan, claiming to be Senator from Louisiana, and
asking speedy action in his case Mr. Pease was
announced as a meniDeroi tne committee on
Claims, ritv Boreman, resigned Executive ses
sion and adjournment.
In the House, on the 16th, a supple
mentary Civil-Rights bill was reported from
the Judiciary Committee, ordered printed and
recommitted The Legislative Appropriation
bill was further considered in Committee f the
Whole, and several amendments were disposed
of the question of the restoration of the frank
ing privilege coming up incidentally on a motion
to strike out the items for the purchase of official
postage stamps for the Money Department, which
motion was rejected yeas 71, nays 77 Ad
journed.
In the Senate, on the 17th bills were
passed appropriating $30,000 for the special dis
tribution of seeds; to enable the Supreme Court
of the District of Columbia to proceed with its
jury business The bill to provide for a better
government or the District oi coinmoia was
nndcr consideration, ana consiaeraoie dis
cussion ensned on an amendment ottered
by Mr. Morton that the proposed Board of Com
missioners (to consist of three members) should
be elected by the qualified voters of the District
instead of beiug appointed by the President, as
contemplated in the bill Adjourned.
In the House, on the 17th, bills were
introduced to establish the "judicial din
trict of Oklohama in the Indian Ter
ritory; making provision for the pay
ment of the sinking fund The Legislative
Appropriation bill was further considered in
Committee of the Whole, considerable discussion
being bad on a proposition to increase the clerical
force of the Bureau of Education, which propo
sition was rejected, as was also a motion to strike
out the entire appropriation for said bureau
Adjourned.
THE n.VUKETS,
New York. CoKon 141415.1 lgc. Flour Good
to choice. $. OJtTno.fiO; white wheat extra. $5.75fS
.-.. Wheat .No. -2 Chicago. $1.0551.10; No. 2
Northwestern. $1.0wr.l.u ; No. i Milwaukee
spring. $1.12HQ.1.14. A"y Western, 95fiijc. Bar
Uy 1.4.V1 .50. Corn Ss!ttc. Oat West
ern, 674ti9c. Port New mess, f 'J0.0OiV9i.03.
Lard 13ftil3c. Cheese 13S5,15ic. Wool
Domestic fleece, 43tfiH5c. Beerrs Jlo.OOtfrltf.uo.
Hogs Dressed. $ .Kt'iS.b'J'i ; live. $i.7ja,7.S0.
Sfiephire, $5.00a5.50.
Chicago. Bftrrs Choice, $5.5036.00: good.
Jl.as&A.OO; medium. f 3.75(5,4.25; butchers
stock, $2.50(&:J.5U; stock cattle, $J.5orrj.50.
Hogs Live, good to choice, $.t.Vf,7.15. Sheep
Good to choice, Jl4.'J&2J5.tlO. Butter Choice yel
low, 31Sfcl7c. Etl Fresh. 24225c. Pork
Mess, new, 19.35S.l 9. 40. Lard -$ lS.W".l'i-9"-Cheese
New York Factory. 14Vi(15c; Western
Factory, lH'Jc. flour White winter extra.
$4.25(((6.50; spring extra, $4.Oir?.4.75. Wheal
Spring, No. 2, e?Vf tc. Com No. 2,
755,75(0. fMU No. 2, KJ.(T ,Pic. liue'So.
2, 44g.5c. Barley yo. 2. 1.2j71.23. Wool
Tub-wahed, 45j7c; fleece, washed, 4&
47c; fleece, unwashed, 272i-14c. Lumber
Firt Clear, t50.aKa.T2.0l): Second Clear. ftlti.ODtf!
1 '-.; 1 oiiimon Hoards. SU.Ulifrai2.nU; Fencing,
-1! .ti 13.110; "A" Shingles, 3.UU3.25; Lath,
-- -?t2.25.
Cimcikn ati. Flour $5.onr2i.50. Wheat Red.
Sl.ia&l.H. Corn New, 70V73c. Jive fl.ll
1.12. Oats 5Kyi62c. Barley $1.27&1.7U. Pork
$19.50(3.19.75. Lard 13Q.13V4C.
St. Locis. Cattle Fair to choice. S.-,0&5.37li.
Hog Live, $t.V57.40. flour XX Fall. $4.70
6.4.S0. Wheat Ho. 2 Red Fall. 1.0t&1.0si.
Corn No. 2, new, 6o(3fi7c. Oats No. 2, ti7(
57Hc. -Jtye No. 1, $1.00(3X01. Barley $1.30
&1.32!J. Pork Mess, $19.50ai9.75. Lard- 12V
0,13c.
Milwaukee. .Ftotr Spring XX, $5.255.50.
Wheat Spring, No. 1, 92H(g,92Jc; No. 2, 88V
tf-SjC Corn No. 2, 69470c. Oats-No. 2,
52.524c. Bye Ho. 1, 96abi4c. Barley No. 2,
$1.27(8X27.
Clktkland. Wheat No. 1 Red.$l .104(1 .11 '4 ;
No. Red, $1.05H1.06. Com New, 72273c.
Oals'So. 1, 57H&5tc.
Detroit. Wheat Extra. $1.15V1.15'i. Corn
74,iH,73c. Uats !SltVi(iC51C.
ToLEoo. H'Aar Amber Mich..$l.O9i4fr.l.09V4 ;
No. 2 Ked. $1.07W(tl .OS. Corn High Mixed,
new, 72!'3,73c. Oats No. 1, SoVi'c.
Btfkaix). Beeves $4.3o5.75. ITogn Live,
Sti.5or.iX50. Sheep Live, $5.00(&5.25.
East I.ibertt Cattle Best. $tj.0Wrfi.35;
medium, t.7.Vrvon. Hogs Yorkers. $ti.5O,.0;
Philadelphia. . f 7.r?r,7.5l. Sheep Best, fl.75&
5.00; medium, $l.WJto4.75.
LvHch'Law at Des Moines.
Associated Press dispatches of the 15th
give the following account of the recent
Ij'nching at Des Moines, Iowa, of the
niUrderer, Charles Howard:
Monday afternoon, in the District
Court of Des Moines, Charles Howard
was sentenced for life in the State Peni
tentiary for the murder of John Johnson
in this tit in June last. This morning
at three o'clock some C00 Vigilant.s, with
their faces blackened, surrounded the
jail, overpowered and bound the jailer
hand and foot, and took his keys,
and then overpowered in the same
manner the Deputy Sheriff and the
special guard of live men who had been
detailed by the Court to guard the pris
oner; unlocked the doors and made their
way to Howard's cell, where he was in
bed with his wife, the latter now being
under indictment for complicity in the
murder. The woman, seeing them com
ing, threw her arms about the neck of
her. husband, but was soon thrown off,
and a rope put about Howard's neck.
He was immediately jerked out of bed,
six or eight Vigilants leading him with
the rope. At the door some twenty
more took hold of the rope and he was
dragged, with no clothing on but an
undershirt through the hall, down the
steps and out through the Court-House
yard, the jail being in the basement of
the Court-House, and hung to a lamp
post at one of the gates. The whole
thing did not occupy fifteen minutes.
They stood near the body about five
minutes, when they departed. The
night being very dark they were
soon out of sight. When the policemen
reached the body life was extinct. It is
supposed the lynching was done by three
anti-horse-thief societies in this county,
aided by accomplices in the city, but
nothing definite has been decided yet.
The excitement which has led to this
foul outrage has been growing for some
time, several mysterious murders having
been committed here recently seven in
the space of four years.
The trial of Howard was protracted
and exciting, the jury being out for
nearly four days, finally compromising
on a verdict of murder in the second de
gree. It was feared Howard would be
ynched last Friday night, the jury not
then having agreed, and it being gener
ally thought they would agree to dis
agree. But precautions were taken to
prevent it then, and on Saturday morn
!ng a verdict was returned. Monday af
ternoon he was sentenced, and Judge Max
well imposed upon him the extreme rigor
of the law, imprisonment for life. Every
body here in the city seemed satisfied
and the lynching fell upon the city to its
surprise aDd horror. But .Howard's be
havior during the reading of the sen
tence, laughing in the face of the Judge
and receiving his doom with firmness,
and his attempt to smuggle a revolver
into the court room for the pur
pose, as avowed afterward, of shoot
ing the Judge as he was deliv
ering the sentence; his boast that he
would escape the Penitentiary before six
months and return and kill all who had
appeared against him in the trial, and
the appeal of his case to the Supreme
Court all these reached the ears of the
Vigilants last night, and the result was
as stated above. The whole proceeding
is most bitterly felt by the citizens here,
and the perpetrators are denounced in
most unmeasured terms.
How James Lick, of California 3Iade
His Great Fortune.
James Lick is a native of Fredericks
burg, Pa., who learned the trade of
piano-making in Philadelphia in the
early years of this century. Having a
taste for adventure, which was with him
not incompatible with great industry
and thrift, he went to South America,
where he passed several years engaged
in anjr business which offered, sometimes
making pianos, sometimes dealing in
furs, but always getting ahead. When
the Mexican war threw California into
our hands, and the rumored discoveries
of gold excited such interest among
Americans on the Pacific coast, Mr. Lick
resolved to seek his fortune in El Dorado.
His business in Peru was relentlessly
sacrificed, and he started for San Fran
cisco Bay with $o0,000 in cash, the avails
of property worth twice that sum. There
were very few of the early emigrants
who had any such sum of money, and
still fewer who had such a head-piece
as was carried on the square shoulders
oi the Pennsylvania piano-maker. He
bought a lot and a large adobe house on
the northeast corner of Montgomery and
Jackson streets, to keep his safe full of
doubloons in, and then began to look
about him. He saw that a great town
was sure to grow up on those sand-bills,
and he lost no time in selecting and
buying the most eligible positions in the
future city. This was in 1848, when
there was only a straggling village
there, and the prices which Mr. Lick paid
were usually above the market
of the time. He wanted only ohoice lots
and secure titles. He kept his own coun
sel, and for years afterward, when the
vigorous young city was spreading out
on every hand, there were many vacant
lots and blocks occupying the best situa
tions whose ownership was a mystery to
every one except the quiet speculator.
New York Tribune.
Rather Bloody.
The romance of Italian brigandage
has received a fresh illustration in atrial
recently in progress at Naples, where
eight brigands were accused of many as
sassinations, of extortions with violence,
of cutting off ears, noses and olher
parts charges sufficient, one would
think, to sink them tolerably low in the
bottomless pit. Capt. Aliano was the
chiet of this gang of cut-throats, and
Maria Parente, a young and attractive
girl, the one attracting most attention.
During the trial the prisoners were in
closed in a cage with iron bars, so great
was the apprehension their, presence
awakened. Aliano and his band formed
a portion of that of the once celebrated
Capucino, and his appearance in court
was well calculated to strike a panic into
many ot the witnesses who had suffered
from his brutalities, for his dress was
that which he wore on his lawless expe
ditions, and he only wanted the pistols
and the dagger in his red girdle and the
double-barreled gun thrown over his
shoulder to make the character com
plete. As showing of what brutalities
the band were capable it is charged
against them that on one occasion they
attacked sixteen men whom they found
together in the mountains and murdered
them all in cold blood. One of them
being asked for his money said he had
none, but would sell everything to pro
cure it. This did not satisfy the tigers,
who knocked him down with an ax, fired
two revolvers at him, and as he was
still palpitating struck off his head. An
other, trying to escape, was fired at and
brought back to the spot where the
others had been murdered; there he was
pierced by their daggers and shot. Fran
cesco Volta alone was 6pared and ordered
to return to Marsico-Nuovo and report
how his companions had been punished.
MY SANTA CLAUS.
BT JOHN W. (DDT.
When I was a bov, with what perfect joy
I used to hear dear mother say,
" We must keep out of sight, Santa Claus comes
to-nSiht.
And to-morrow will e Christmas Day!"
And I thought the old sprite, when he came in at
night.
Had to crawl down the chimney wide;
And that all little boys who wanted his toys
Must hang np their stockings inside.
Well, one night I slept where the stockings were
kept.
All ready for Saint Nick to fill;
Then 1 crept Into bed and covered my head,
Determined for once to keep still.
The place for the fire was wider and higher
Than places are made nowadays.
And the lire felt good when the great logs o
wood
Were wrapped in a bright ruddy blaze f
That night the fire was buried deep
. Underneath the ashes
Its flushing eyes were fast asleep
Under dull gray lashes.
So long I waited there to hear
Those reindeer hoofs a drumming,
That I began at last to fear
The good Saint was not coming. "
But suddenly I thought I heard
Footsteps coming near me
I never moved nor said a word.
Fearful he might hear me!
The sound Increased and louder was.
That first was but a rustling.
Till I felt sure that Santa Claus
Was in the chimney bustling!
I knew he'd find the stockings there.
But feared he'd till the wrong ones.
For I had borrowed sister's pair.
She wore such very long ones.
And so I thought to take a peep
While Santa Claus was near me.
For when he thought 1 was asleep
I knew he would not hear mc.
No doubt yon think his merry looks
Yon'd recognize instanter;
You've see him in the picture-books
With reindeer on a canter!
That I should know him anywhere
I felt profoundly certain.
So cautiously, while he was there,
I folded back the curtain.
And then I looked for Santa Clans,
Nor dreamed I'd see another
Now, who do you suppose it was!
Why, bless you, 'twas it mother.
She came and knelt down by my bed
When that sweet work was over
" God make him kind and good." she said;
O'er him good angels hover."
I never told her that I knew
She was my Christmas giver.
For soon she" went, as so must you.
Across the Silent River.
And them a little heart was left
Without her love to shield it.
Of almost everything bereft
That happiness could yield it.
And many, many times I've thought
Of all the thousand others
Whose little hearts have vainly sought
To find love like a mother's.
And I have thought of what she said
That night when she was kneeling
Beside my little trundle-bed.
Her tender love revealing;
Then I have vowed I would be true.
To all be kind aud tender;
And so I hope at last with you
A good account to render.
To be a rich old Santa Claus,
To all it is not given.
But we must all be good, because
'Tis that will make our heaven T
A TALE OF CHRISTMAS.
BY 8. ANNIE FROST.
It was Christmas Eve and one of the
loveliest of winter evenings. The streets
were dry and clear, the moon shed her
soft radiance over all objects and the
stars twinkled and winked joyously at
each other. In the great city of C-
the air rang with sounds of holiday mer
riment. Houses were brilliantly illumi
nated and gorgeously-decked trees were
surrounded by wide-eyed groups of little
ones. Stores were crowded with the
representatives of Kriss-Kringle, where
the patron saint of the day was supposed
to cling to the good, old-fashioned custom
of stocking-filling. Smiles lighted faces
that were grave or sad on other days
and happiness greeted the yearly festival
in many scenes.
There was one house, however, where
no lights illuminated the windows, where
no Christmas-tree was waiting for chil
dren's greeting, where only tears and
sobs fell upon the ear of any listener.
Not for poverty. The house was large
and handsome and within every room
bore token of the wealth of its possessor.
But the grim destroyer who stays not
for poverty or riches, who comes now
stealthily, now triumphantly to high and
low, had placed his chill hand upon the
heir of the stately home and a little
coffin had only a fortnight before passed
out of the wide door, leaving bitter grief
and desolation behind.
He was the only child of a widowed
mother; the sunny-haired, blue-eyed boy
of four years, who had sickened and
died, though all that love and riches
could compass was given for his recov
ery. And when he was gone the world
darkened for the pale, mourning mother,
who shut herself up alone to wetp, re
fusing all comfort.
While the tide of merriment swept
along the streets of the gay city Mrs.
Hillson, in her heavy mourning garments,
sought the room of her lost boy and there
sobbed and prayed for death to bring her
to her loved ones. She was young, not
thirty, and very lovely in spite of the
traces of grief upon her pale face, and
as she knelt by her boy's little bed to
weep and pray the light falling upon her
seemed to illuminate some saintly face
and form.
The room where she knelt was a large
one opening from her own and had been
fitted up expressly for the petted young
heir. The furniture of delicate coloring
and soft satin-wood was all small to suit
the little figure of the boy. Running
across one end was a shelf full of toys
such as boys love : drums, horses, whips,
and manv more. A small book-case
held gayly-colored books of nursery
literature, tales of fairies and giants,
Mother Goose melodies and stories
of good boys and girls. A little table
and chair were standing near the win
dow, as if waiting for the young occu
pant to come and draw childish pictures
upon the slate in the drawer, or make
wonderful combinations of paste and pa
per. Everything was there to make child
hood happy. The carpet was strewn
with lovely flowers, pictures of children
hung upon the walls, statuettes of chil
dren stood uppn the mantel-piece and on
brackets. The small wardrobe in the
corner held dainty suits of fine clothing:
the fur-trimmed coat and cap the boy
had worn when he last walked beside his
fond proud mother, the tiny tasseled
cane,th shining boots. In the bureau
were piles of dainty linen, little socks,
pretty pocket-handkerchiefs, the gay lit
tle neck-ties that were worn with such a
jaunty air.
Only one dark spot was in the room,
and it had been its brightest sunshine
the kneeling mother. She had wept her
self quiet, and was resting her white,
beautiful face upon her boy's pillow,
when the door opened softly, and a lady,
nearly her own age, and closely resem
bling her, came in softly.
" Is this well, Sybil?" she asked, kiss
ing the fair, sad face on the pillow.
Wearily the mourner rose, and tried to
smile a greeting for her only sister, whom
she loved very fondly.
" He was my all, Elsie," she answered;
" you have three, and I had but that
one. Let me weep, for I am very deso
late." " Darling, I know it," was the reply,
" but we shall lose you, too, if you shut
yourself up here to mourn constantly. I
have come for you to take our Christmas
drive. I am alone, and George will stay
with the children. You will come?"
" I cannot! I cannot!"
" Our poor folks will expect us, and it
will comfort you to think you went"
" Oh, Elsie, I cannot. I will give you
the money, but it will kill me to go. Do
you not remember last year we took
Freddie? I can see him now as be gave
my contribution to one and another, his
face flushing with pleasure as he said,
Mamma and Freddie wish you a Merry
Christmas!'"
"I remember, dear. Try to think he
will be with us to-night. Come with me!
If the trial is too much for you I will
bring yoc home, and go again alone ; but
make the effort, Sybil, for my sake."
It required much urging and many
tender, loving arguments to conquer
Sybil's morbid desire to remain alone in
Freddie's room, and even after she had
submitted to have her cloak and bonnet
on she lingered there.
Opening a clofcet, she said :
" Here is the sled that was to be
for Christmas, Elsie, and the pair
of rubber boots to tramp in - the
snow, like a man! You - shall
take them home for Willie when you
come back. I have not forgotten your
little ones, though I could not promise
to join you to-morrow. All their gilts
are in my room."
Elsie thanked her with a loving kiss,
and then led her to the carriage, which
was piled with packages and baskets. It
had been for many years the habit of
the sisters to distribute personally a por
tion of their large wealth amongst tne
poor of their native city, giving money,
food, clothing and orders for fuel, and
giving what was as highly prized, gentle
sympathy and kindly counsel. Since
by oil had last been amongst these humble
friends she had lost husband and child,
and many a rough hand trembled, many
a tear dimmed the eyes of those to whom
she spoke, as they proflered words of
sympathy and comfort.
1 et, as her sister haa hopea, it was do
ing her good to leave her home and feel
that there was work for her bands to ao.
She realized fully, as she passed from
one poor home to hnother, that her gen
erous gifts were increased fourfold in
value by the fact that in her own sorrow
she had remembered the wants of her
fellow-creatures. Many a hearty "God
bless and comfort you, ma'am," though
it was answered with trembling Hp and
tearful eyes, yet left its healing influence
upon her heart. Elsie spared her too
much talking by a few whispered words
to those who would have torn her heart
by references to her grief, and she did
not claim the promise to return if the ef
fort overtaxed her strength.
It was after nine o'clock, and the car
riage was lighted of most of its load,
when Elsie said :
"There is one new family to visit,
Sybil, and then we will go home."
"Who are they?"
" A poor woman living on the out
skirts of the town, who has been doing
some sewing for me. Her house is a tidy
one, but she rented one floor to a widow,
who is dying in consumption, if not al
ready dead. It was her kindness to the
suffering lodger, in the face of her own
poverty, that drew me to the woman.
Sewing hard to support an aged mother
and four little ones of her own, she has
forgiven this still poorer sister the rent,
put food into her mouth, and nursed
faithfully at her dying bed. I have
comforts here for both, and some toys,
fruits and candies to make Christmas for
the children."
" What is her name? "
" Maloney! But her lodger I think has
seen brighter days. She speaks like a
person of refinement and education, and
told me her husband had been a wood
engraver. This is the hous, and we are
expected."
Entering the 6mall lower room, the
ladies found an Irish woman, poorly
clad, who was evidently watching for
them. She spoke at once to Elsie:
" You are too late, ma'am. She's
gone."
" Dead!"
" She died at four o'clock, as easy as a
baby going to sleep. I'd have sent you
word if you hadn't said you would be
here this evening."
She led the way to an upper chamber,
where it was evident there had been
many comforts added to the poor sur
roundings to soothe the dying bed.
Everything was decent and in order: the
wasted form upon the bed clothed in
clean white garments, the hands folded
and the fair hair smooth. But Sybil gave
a quick, gasping cry, and would have
fallen but for her sister's arm. For
across the dead figure, asleep as if in the
utter exhaustion of weeping, was a golden-haired
boy, who seemed her own lost
darling restored to her.
The long, fair curls shaded a face beau
tiful as a cherub's, and the poor clothes
covered a noble little form. He was
four years old, and alone in the bleak
world. All that had been his of love and
tenderness lay dead under his extended
arms.
" Dear, dear!" said the kind Irish
woman, 44 if the poor boy ain't up here
again. It's three times the night I've
put the poor crathur to bed with me own
childer, and he slips up here again when
1 think he's slaping. Oh, ladies, if yees
could have heard the prayer he made
this Christmas night!"
44 What was his prayer?" asked Elsie.
44 He heard the childer all talking of
Kriss-Kringle, ma'am, and see their
stockings all hanging fornist the fire
place, and he knelt down and sez he :
44 4 O God! please send Kriss-Kringle to
give me a warm room and some clothes,
and make dear mamma alive again.' "
44 What will become of him?" asked
Elsie.
44 Indade, ma'am, I'm afraid it's the
almshouse! I'll thry a spell, but I've
more mouths to feed than I've food to
give already. I'm fearful it will be the
almshouse at last."
44 1 do not think so," whispered Elsie,
and they both looked toward the bed.
Sybil was bending over the boy, softly
unclosing the baby fingers from their
clasp on the dead mother's hand. She
had lifted her heavy black veil, and in
her sweet face was a look of heavenly
mother love as she gently loosened that
hold. Then, still so softly that the weary
child slept on all unconscious of her
tender touch, she folded the round limbs,
so cold in their ragged night garments,
in her own heavy shawl, and lifted the
boy to her own mother breast.
44 Twill care for the child, Mrs. Ma
loney," she said, in a sweet, low voice.
44 God has surely sent us to each other
this Christmas night."
Still sleeping heavily, the golden
haired child was carried to the
luxurious room of the dead son of
his benefactress, clothed in a dainty
night-dress, and put in the little snowy
bed. When the pillow was pressed once
more by a child sleeper, and Sybil had
folded the soft covers over him, she knelt
where she had bent a few hours before
over the vacant bed and prayed God to
aid her to fill a mother's place to the lit
tle one she had taken under her roof that
night. Tears fell as she prayed, but in
her heart was a new peace, a new hope,
and Elsie softly crept away, sure that the
cure she had hoped to effect was already
proving a blessing.
Many times in the night Sybil came to
the bedside of the orphan boy. Upon
the little table she spread Christmas toys
and books. From the wardrobe and bu
reau she prepared warm, pretty gar
ments, and already her heart was plan"
ning for a future she had thought must
be spent in tears.
When the sun streamed in at the win
dow she rose and dressed herself, and
went again to Freddie's room, bitting
upright in the bed, with flushed face and
large, wide-open blue eyes, the child was
trying to realize his new surroundings.
Sybil had learned his name ; so she said,
in a sweet winning voice,
"Charlie!"
"Oh," he cried, with a long, deep
breath, 44 did Kriss-Kringle bring me here
to stay?"
44 Should you like to stay, and be my
little boy?"
44 Won't he bring my own mamma?"
Charlie asked, with a quivering lip.
44 No, darling, God has taken mamma
to heaven, and He has taken my little
boy there too. I am all alone, Charlie,
with no little boy to love, unless you will
let me be your mamma!"
The child pondered a moment with a
great gravity upon his sweet baby face.
44 Are they angels," he asked 44 mamma
and your little boy?"
44 Yes, dear!"
44 It Is very nice here, but will you kiss
me and love me as my own mamma didv
if I stay?"
For answer Sybil took him in her arms
and pressed warm, loving kisses upon the
trembling lips, till the boy clasped her
close and said :
44 1 will stay and love you dearly, mam
ma." Godey'a Lady't Book.
On Skates.
" You see," said my friend Reglet, as
he cut a 44 pigeon's-wing" on the glassy
surface at the rink, went off on one foot
and came circling around on the other
44 you see, it is an exercise which brings
all the muscles into play and must be
healthy. In fact Dio Lewis says it is
better than riding on horseback."
It looked so easy and so nice that I
winked at the boy who had skates to
lend and he came over.
44 That's right, old boy!" called Reglet,
as he sailed around with a handsome girl
on each arm and a lovely blonde hanging
to his coat-tails 44 I'll bet a hundred dol
lars you'll learn all the flourishes within
an hour."
I was highly gratified at this expres
sion of confidence in my ability and I
kept hurrying up the boy as he fastened
on the skates. The impudent sauce-box
said I'd better strap a pillow on the back
of my head before I Btarted out, but I
passed the insinuation by in silent con
tempt. 44 Now then," said Reglet, circling up
with a dozen French flourishes, 44 the
main thing is to have confidence in your
self. Strike right out, like a pioneer
Jetting away from a troop of wolves, and
'11 bet a hundred to one you'll make a
6kater."
I struck out. I struck in several other
directions besides out. One foot went
to the left, the other to the right, and I
whirled around and sat down. The
blonde young lady came up and said that
I had made a capital hit and the other
two said that I was certain to combine
grace with muscular effort when I got
fairly started.
I didn't feel much like starting'out
again, but I had to do it. Reglet helped
me up, said that he could already see an
improvement in my health, and he
warned me to Bhove my feet as 1 saw
him do. I obeyed. The left foot shot
out, leaving"the right some rods in the
rear, and in trying to even up the race a
little sometliing struck the ice. It was
myself. The back of my head struck
first, and there were five distinct 6hocks
before the whole of my body got down.
Reglet sailed up and said he never saw
that beaten, and the blonde declared her
belief that I was an old skater, and was
just playing off on them. The rink
danced round and round as I sat up, and
the small boy who was grinning at me
appeared to my vision like eight or nine
small boys and eight or nine grins.
"Come, old boy, this exercise will
brighten your cheek until your own wife
won't know you," called Reglet, offering
to help me up.
I wanted to go home and sit down be
hind the coal stove and ponder and re
flect, butj, he dragged me to my feet and
the blende wanted to know if I wouldn't
please give them 44 the Prince of Wales
flourish." I glanced at her and tried., to
smile, and they all edged off to give me
a fflir show.
"Come, dart right off!" yelled Reglet,
and I carefully started my feet out on an
exploring voyage. They hadn't traveled
over six inches before they got ahead of
my body. I reached out for something
to support me, clawed around, and the
back of my head dug a hole in the ice. I
thought the roof of the rink had fallen
in, and that twenty-eight tons of boards
and shingles had struck me in a heap,
but I was deceived.
44 You struck an air-bubble or you'd
have made a splendid show," said Reg
let as he pulled at me.
The blonde said that I had come
within a hair's breadth of cutting one of
the grandest flourishes known on ice,
and they wanted me to try once more. I
told 'em 1 had got to go to a funeral and
that I would be back in half an hour,
but it was no use.
44 See how easy it is," exclaimed Reg
let as he pushed out and swung one leg
around.
I pushed out and swung one leg. I
couldn't pull it back. I tried to and I
yelled to Reglet that I'd give him fifty
dollars to grab me. He was too late. I
clawed and waved and tottered and fell,
and when I came to my senses again
Reglet said that if I would go through
the same performance every day lor two
months he'd warrant me that I could eat
a hundred hot biscuit per day and never
have a touch of the dyspepsia.
I am in bed yet, and a friend has writ
ten this from dictation. The doctor
says that two ribs on the left side are
fractured, the collar bone is. broken, the
bones of one elbow smashed and the
spinal column is three inches out of true,
but he is laboring away in hopes of
mending me up by spring. M. Quad, in
Fireside Friend.
History of the Apple.
The apple, which is valued above all
other fruits ofNorthern climates, is the
descendant of the wild crab-tree, which
is found very generally in the temperate
zone of both hemispheres. It is men
tioned in the Bible, by Herodotus, and
by Pliny, the latter ot whom enumerates
twenty varieties that were cultivated in
his time. It was in extensive uss by the
Romans, and was probably introduced
by them into England. After the estab
lishment of Christianity we find that the
monks planted large orchards, and ren
dered the fruit common throughout the
island. It was brought to New England
by the early 6ettlers,and orchards were
set out by the colonists and the Indians
in all the original States. The apple is
now one of the most widely-diffused of
fruit-trees, but it succeeds best in cooler
parts of the temperate zone. It occurs
in Arabia, Persia, the West Indies, and
on the Mediterranean; but in these
countries the fruit is small and inferior.
It reaches its greatest perfection in the
United States, where more than a million
of acres are occupied with orchards. The
value of the crop in 1870 was over $47,
000,000. Large quantities of apples are
exported from this country to England,
China and the East Indies.
There are more than 200 plants in one
of the school-houses in Springfield,
Mass. Scarcely a window in the build
ing but has its rows of plants, pictures
adorn the walls, and all the appliances
for making the rooms pleasant and a so
journ in them profitable abound.
ALL SORTS.
The Alia California wants science
made useful, and thinks it would be
much better if Tyndall and his erudite
coadjutors would come down from their
attics above the clouds and turn to the
investigation of questions of immediate
value and interest to humanity. If one
of the seven ships loaded "with coal
which have lately been lost by what is
called spontaneous combustion could
have been saved, and her officer" and
crew delivered from the fate of Cupt.
Foster, of the ship Centaur, and his crew,
it would be a greater glory to the name
of Tyndall than all his theories, true or
false, to which he devotes so much tiuie
and wonderful ability.
The Lockport Journal says : "A gen
tleman from Genesee County told uh the
other day how he managed to sell Bald
win apples for flO per barrel. Here is
the secret: Take a slip of paper and cut
children's names; thi n place the papers
around the apples when they begin to
color, and in a week or two Mamie,
Jamie, Johnnie or Susie appears on the
apple in large red letters. These picked
and barreled by themselves bring fancy
prices for the New York Chris) mas mar
ket." Every man, says the Boston Tran
script, likes honesty in one way or an
other. This man likes to see it in an
other, enjoying the sight of it as that of
a costly luxury w hich he cannot afford
to indulge in; while that man, wiser and
truer, having lost all else, hugH it as his
only priceless fortune, and gloats over it
as his 6ecret and sufficing treasure.
A conductor on a New York street
car fell desperately in love with one of
his fair passengers the other day. He
sought out her home, arrayed himself in
his store clothes and got a mutual friend
to introduce him; but sad to relate, upon
hearing her name Belle Punch he im
mediately lay down and "fclippcd hia
grip." Yonkers Gazette.
While a Maine clergyman was preach
ing a sermon on.44 Thieves" all the whips
in the carriages at the rear of the church
were stolen. He has concluded not to
preach his proposed sermon on 44 Mur
derers," being apprehensive that during
the delivery half his congregation might
be murdered. Norritoini, Herald.
A widow about thirty-five years of
age, with her daughter, aged about
eighteen years, make a comfortable liv
ing by lamp-lighting and extinguishing
in St. Louis. They have the public gas
lamps on half a dozen streets to attend
to, and they handle the ladders as though
they were experts.
The causes of suicide are said to be
hereditary influence, education, love
troubles, literature, domestic troubles,
intoxication, financial losses and embar
rassments, occupation, habitation, imita
tion, race, nationality, and atmospheric
influences. Now tell us what isn't a
cause!
Young ladies who really like pickles
shouldn't be dissuaded from indulging in
them by the silly superstition that they
arc bad for the complexion. A colored
lady in South Brooklyn certifies that pIic
has eaten them all her life without ex
periencing the least injury. llrooklyn
Argun.
The proprietor of a Boston toy shop
has received the following note from a
conscience-stricken boy: "Gentlemen,!
return to you the money for a top i took
from your store i am sorry for what i
have done and ask your forgiveness.
Yours. A boy w ho will try to do bet
ter." What a glorious world this would be
if all the inhabitants could say, M ith
Shakespeare's shepherd: 41 Sir, 1 am a
true laborer ; I earn what I wear; owe
no man hate; envy no man's happiness;
gla of other men's good ; content with
my flock."
A woman who aspires to be the pre
siding genius of her own household must
never be in doubt. When her husband
is going on lively at the other end of the
breakfast table it won't do for her to
hesitate between the cofi'ee-urn and the
slop bowl.
An improvident Danbury youth en
tertains a high appreciation for the State
prison, which he regards as 44 the only
place where a fellow is not dunned for
his board and washing every Saturday
night."
Perhaps too much cannot be said
against corrupt juries, but t hey don't do
all the mischief that is done in courts.
Twelve honest asses ofttn accomplish
as much harm and injustice as twelve
rogues.
California brags about its 100 ex
tinct volcanoes, but what are 100 silent
volcanoes compared to the voice of a
Detroit woman, crying: 44 Shut that
d-o-o-r-ah!" Free Frens.
A Milwaukee woman's bonnet costs,
upon an average, about fifteen dollars,
but she has the bill made out for thirty
or forty dollars in order to (-how it to the
woman next door.
A poor young man remarks that the
only advice he gets from capitalists is to
44 live within his income," whereas the
difficulty he experiences is to lrve with
out an income.
A simple and effective emetic the
materials being usually at hand con
sists of half a glass of warm water, a
heaping teaspoonl'ul of salt and another
of mustard.
A Uniontown (N. J.) woman, by the
free use of carbolic acid, removed a lithe
freckles from her face. The doctor
thinks a new skin will set in in about
nine weeks.
The weather-wise say that the first
three days of December forecast the
succeeding winter season. If that be
the case we are to have a very moderate
winter.
It is said that bleeding a partially
blind horse at the nose will restore him
to sight ; so much for the horse. To open
a man's eyes you must bleed him in the
pocket.
Baltimore hoists the flag for the
meanest man. He steals wreaths off the
graves in the cemetery and sells them.
Market reports represent eggs as
"strong." Sit down on two or three,
and test the truth of the statement.
The season is opening lively for
ditched trains. Nobody to blame.
Those whom the people dislike live
to a good old age.
A Dreadful Accident.
Yesterday two young ladies were
hastening to the depot, carrying a heavy
valise between them, each of them cling
ing to one of the handles. It was nearly
train time and the females were in a con
siderable hurry. Just opposite the post
office they met a well-dressed but exces
sively bashful young man going with
equal haste in an opposite direction.
The young ladies made sudden dashes
to pass around him, each on an opposite
side, and with the violent jerk the valise
was torn open and parted amidships and
the next moment that young man had
plunged knee-deep in a pile of feminine
apparel and knick-knacks, the entire as
sortment being a dreadful mystery to him.
With more blushes than one would sup
pose there were in the world be offered
to assist in repairing damages, and he
6ays in five minutes he picked up more
things that he didn't know the names of
than he can count in a month. The pile
was twice as high as the valise it came
out of and the whole thing bad to be
tied up with a rope before it would hold
together. Burlington llawk-Eye.
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