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VOLUME XI.
PLATTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1875.
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PLATTSMOUTII. - - - NEB.
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J. V. Weckbach,
Cor. Third and Main Sts , Plattsmouth.
(Guthmann's old stand.)
He keeps on hand a large and well selected stock
of
FANCY GROCERIES,
Coffees, Teas, Sugar, Sirup, Boots,
Shoes. Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc.
Also, a large stock of
Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes,
Crockery, Queensware,
Etc., Etc., Etc.
In connection with the Grocery is a
BAKERY and CONFECTIONERY.
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A fall stock at alt times, and will not be undersold.
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"EMPIRE BAKERY AND GROCERY."
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WILLIAM STADELMANN
Has on hand one of the largest stocks of
CLOTHING
AND
Gents' Furnishing Goods
FOR SPRING AND SUMMER.
I invite ererybody in want of anything in my
line to call at my store.
South Side Main, bet. 5th & 6th Sts.,
And convince thcmseWes of the fact. I hare aa a
specialty in my Retail Departments a stock of
Fine Clothing for Men and Boys, to which we in
rite those who want rood.
I alo keep on hand a large and well-selected
stock of
Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Etc.
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PHILADELPHIA STORE
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Notions, Ladies' YmMiig Goods.
Largest, Cheapest, Finest and Best Assorted Stock
in the city.
We are prepared to sell cheaper than they can
be purchased elsewhere.
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tStore on Main St, between 4th and 5th Sts.,
PLATTSMOUTII MILLS,
PLATTSMOtTTH NEBRASKA.
Coxkad H us zl, Proprietor.
FLOUR, CORN MEAL, FEED,
Always on hand and for sale at lowest cash prices,
The Highest Prices paid for Wheat and Corn.
F articular attention given to custom work.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Campiled from Telegrams of Accompanying Dates.
Monday, April 12.
As official dispatch from Cheyenne Agency
to Gen. Pope gives tho particulars of the
revolt at that agency on April 6. 'While the
guards were attempting to iron one of the
Stone Calf Indians the prisoner broke away.
The guards fired and hit him. This pro
voked several shots from the camp of
the hostile Cheycnues, causing great
consterna'ion. The hostile Indians, men,
women and children, to the number of 2,000
fled to the Sand Hills. The friendly Indians
stood true. Capt. Rafierty, in command of
sixty cavalrymen, was gent in pursuit of
the fugitives. lie was reinforced by
Gen. Neill with three companies. Ow
ing to the depth of the sand, the
troops had to dismount and charge on foot.
The Indians held their position in
the hills until night and then retreated under
cover of darkness. The troops were repulsed
three times, with a loss of six mortally and
ten 6lightly wounded. Gen. Pope at once
started all the available troops from Ilayee,
Dodge and North Fork cantonments to inter
cept the fugitive Indians, who are mostly
unarmed.
Toe vote in Connecticut at the recent elec
tion was as follows: For Governor Ingersoll
(Dem.), 53,7S5; Greene (Rep.), 44,301; Smith
(Pro.), 2,809; scattering, 114. Total, 101,009
Ingersoll's plurality, 9,484; majority, 6,G61.
For Congressmen Democratic candidates,
51,093; Republican, 47,311; Prohibition, 1,909.
Total, 100,313. The vote for Governor in
Rhode Island was as follows: Hazard (Ind.
Rep.), 8,717; Lippitt (Reg. Rep.), 8,341; Cutler
(Dem.), 5,169.
IIox. Beit. Wade has written a letter de
clining to be a candidate for the Governor
ship of Ohio. He gives three reasons: First
His voice is so used up that he is not able to
make a speech. Second lie has recorded an
oath that he will never take the stump for,
or in favor of, an office for which he is a
candidate, and this oath alone would bar
him. Third He cannot well afford to take
the position.
Paul Boytos started from Dovcr, En
gland, on the morning of the 10th to cross
to France in his life-preserving dress and ar
rived at Bologne in the evening. He was
oblieed to leave the water about five miles
from France on account of the darkness and
the boisterous weather.
It is reported from Estella that the Carlists
have shot eight Alphonsist prisoners in re
prisal for Carlists recently assassinated near
Taflalaque.
Richard Gibbs, of New York, has been ap
pointed by the President Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary to Peru.
Tuesday, April 13.
The explosion of a boiler in the gingham
mills at South Adams, Mass., on the 12th
killed three men and fatally injured two oth
ers. At Clinton, Mass., on the same day, a
grocery 6tore was destroyed by fire and a Mrs.
Dinsmore and her father, who occupied rooms
over the store, were burned to death. The
residence of P. P. Clifford, at New Haven
Conp., was also burned on the 12th, and Mrs
Clifford, who was 6ick and unable to leave her
room, perished in the flames.
Is his direct examination on the 12th Mr.
Beecher denied in detail each and every state
ment contained in Mrs. Moulton's testimony
that referred to any admission or confession
on his part of the crime with which he is
charged. He said he never had any conver
sation with that witness in which the alleged
crime was the subject of discussion; 6he
never advised him to make a confession to the
church, and he never made a threat to her of
suicide.
Several warrants have been issued for the
arrest of clerks in the Postoffice Department
at AVashington implicated in the recently-discovered
frauds in that department. J. J.
Hinds, the contractor implicated, has given
bail. Two clerks who confessed their partici
pation in the frauds are held as witnesses
against persons who persist in denying their
guilt.
A Salt Lake dispatch states that the trial
of John D. Lee and W. H. Dame for connec
tion with the Mountain Meadow massacre
will not take place the present term of court.
They have been arraigned and pleaded not
guilty, their counsel asking for immediate
trial, but the prosecution was not readj.
Mr. W. IT. Harper, the Chief Grain In
spector of Chicago, has been suspended from
office by the Governor of Illinois because of
certain alleged discrepancies in his fiscal ac
counts. He has, by advice of his bondsmen
and lawyer, refused to yield up his books and
assets.
Treasurer Spixxer has recently received
an autograph letter from the President ac
cepting his resignation as Treasurer of the
United States and expressing for him the
warmest sentiments of regard, personally, and
a high appreciation of Lis probity, patriotism
and official integrity.
The United State9 District Court, at De
troit, has sentenced DaDlel Pratt, convicted
of writing obscene matter on postal cards, to
the State Prison for two and a half years.
The Bessemer steamer constructed to over
come the motion of the sea has made a
satisfactory trial trip from Gravesend to
Calais.
At the recent annual Mormon Church Con
ference at Salt Lake Brigham Young was re
elected prophet, seer, revelator and Pre6i
dent.
TnE Humane Society of Boulogne has
voted its gold medal to Paul Boy ton.
Women are now eligible to appointment 86
Notaries-Public in Illinois.
Wednesday, April 14.
A Yorxo man named Fred Brandenburgh,
aged aboht eighteen years, wa recently
found dying from starvation and exhaustion
under a pile of lumber in San Francisco. He
stated before Lis death that he had crawled
under the lumber nine days previously. Other
lumber was piled around, stopping his egress
Mr. Beecher's direct examination was
concluded on the 13th, the witness making a
broad and emphatic denial of ever having
committed, or proposed to commit, the crime
charged against him. Mr. Fullertoc then be
gan the cross-examination.
A TOtrxo girl named Katie Hess, living
about eight miles north of Kirby, Ohio, a few
evenings ago poured kerosene oil on the
cook-stove fire. The usual results followed,
and she was burned to death and the house
and its contents were entirely consumed.
Recext South American advices report that
the Jesuit College at Buenos Ayres has been
burned by a mob headed by a Spanish priest.
Several of the priests were wounded and three
have died.
The condition of affairs in the mining re
gions of Pennsylvania is said to be improving.
The strike is thought to be about over.
The National Industrial Congress met in
Indianapolis on the 13th, twenty-eight dele
gates being in attendance.
Commaxder Lebot Fitch, of the United
States navy, died at his residence in Logans
port, Ind., on the 13th.
It is reported that the cholera has made its
appearance at Oude, India
Thursday, April 15.
The Industrial Congress in session at In
dianapolis has adopted a declaration of prin
ciples, and has also unanimously passed reso
lutions condemning the lock-out of the men
employed in the mining regions of Penn
sylvania, 44 by a combination of six monster
coal-mining and carrying corporations,
because unwilling to accept a reduc
tion of 30 or 40 per cent, of their wages, for
which reduction there is no real justifica
tion ,w and requesting all organized bodies of
workingmen throughout the country to for
ward to the treasurer of the congress as gen
erous financial assistance as their circum
stances will permit, to be applied to the relief
of victims of the alleged conspiracy on the
part of said companies.
The Louisiana Legislature met at noon on
the 14th, and a New Orleans dispatch of that
date says it was t he most orderly for many
years. The Conservative members were sworn
in. A resolution was adopted in the House
referring the claims of those who are included
in the award to the Committee on Elections.
Both parties seemed to accept the award
without opposition. Gov. Kellogg's message
was long and elaborate.
A dispatch from Wilkesbarre, Pa., says the
miners of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Com
pany, of whom 10,000 are idle, are fully de
termined not to resume work unless their
demand for an advance of 10 per cent, is
granted. o outrages have been committed
by these men. Business is badly prostrated
throughout the valley on account of the long
continued strike.
The Postmaster-General, it is said, has dis
charged all the clerks in the Postoffice De
partment implicated in the recent mail con
tract frauds.
It Is reported in Vienna that the Turks
have murdered 270 Christians in Roumelia
and Bulgaria during the last three months.
Tub Carlists have recently surprised Port
Aspe, near Santander, and carried off 200
prisoners and four pieces of artillery.
Friday, April 16.
The Louisiana House of Representatives
has, by a vote of 89 to 15, accepted the Con
gressional award according to the terms of
the Wheeler compromise as a basis of settle
ment, and the members unseated by the award
have withdrawn. A resolution has been
adopted 89 (45 Democrats and 44 Repub
licans) to IS (13 Democrats and 5 Republi
cans) declaring that, without approving, the
Legislature will not disturb the Kellogg
State Government, nor seek to impeach the
Governor for any past official acts, but will
yield him support in enforcing the laws and
maintaining the peace of the State.
There was a lengthy debate in the British
House of Commons on the loth over a peti
tion praying for the dismissal from the bench
of those Jijflges who sat in the Tichborne
trials, on the ground of partiality and cor
ruption, and for the impeachment of the
Speaker of the nouse of Commons for similar
reasons. On motion of the Premier the peti
tion was rejected.
The Postoffice Department in Washington
is iu receipt of information that parties who
had secured contracts for a large number of
mail routes in the Western States were sys
tematically offering to sublet them, thereby
assuming in effect the position of mail-route
brokers.
The President and Mrs. Grant have left
AVashington to attend the centennial celebra
tion of the battle of Lexington on the 19th.
Owixo to the illness of Mr. Fullcrton the
Beecher trial was, on the morning of the
loth, postponed until the 19th.
The 100th anniversary of the Peifhsylvania
Society for the Abolition of Slavery w as held
in Philadelphia on the 14th.
A foot axd a half of snow fell throughout
New England on the 11th, obstructing the
-iilroaJs.
The Illinois Legislature has adjourned i'n
die.
Saturday, April 17.
Ax Omaha dispatch states that owing to
high water travel has been entirely suspended
on the Union Pacific Railroad between Lara
mie City, Wyoming, and Ogden, Utah. The
water is six feet deep in many places. It is
impossible to predict when travel will be re
sumed as the canons are still full of snow.
The Union Pacific officials advise travelers
for Utah and California not to start until no
tice of the blockade being broken is given.
A party of three persons ascended from
Faris in the bulloon Zenith, on the ICth, for
the purpose cf making scientific observa
tions. The bailoon attained the extraordi
nary height of over 26,000 feet. Two of the
aeronauts were suffocated to death, and when
the balloon reached the ground the third was
almost insensible and so severely affected that
his recovery was considered doubtful.
A second attempt in Providence, R. I., to
elect a Senator and nine Representatives in
the General Assembly has resulted iu a
choice of the regular Republican ticket,
supported by the liquor interest, by 350 ma
jority. This probably secures the election of
Henry Lippitt for Governor and the repeal of
the Prohibition ary and State Constabulary
law.
A fire at Charlotte, N. C, destroyed about
8,000 bales of cotton, the depots of the North
Carolina and Charlotte, Columbia it Augusta
Railroad Companies, and a number of private
residences. Loss $250,000; about two-thirds
insured.
It is stated that Capt. Mix's company, who
were sent after the mining party at Harney's
Peak, have secured the whole of them six
teen men, one woman and a boy and will
soon return with them to Fort Laramie.
The Louisiana House of Representatives
reorganized on the ICth by electing Estelle
(Compromise Conservative) Speaker. The
ballot stood sixty-six for Estelle to thirty -five
for Wiltz.
Madrid advices state that the Carlists
have seized a number of women and children
in the province of Soria, and threatened to
shoot them unless they were raasomed.
THE (1AKKKTB.
New York. Cotton- 16K17c. Flour Good
to choice, $3.50a5-fO: white winter extra, 5.90i&
6.50. H heat No. 2 Chicago, S1.21&1.34: No. i
Northwestern. $l.iiai.4; No. i Milwaukee
Spring, S1.S4&1.2K. Bye Wcxtern. Wc&Sl.OO.
Harlt9l.Xa,.. Corn tmii'JSc. Out
Mixed Western. 7347c. Pork New mess, $22.20
Ct-ii.23. Lard I.SI&loc. Chttte 104l!c
Wool Domestic fleece, 4&60c. IStevtB $11.00
(J13.00. Hog Live, $ isheep Live,
Si.aife8.C0.
Chicago. Beer Choice. f;5.856.25; frood,
$5.505.75; medinm, $5.00&3.Mj; butchers'
stock, $3.753io.25; stock cattle. $3.504
4.75. Ifog Ltve, pood to choice, $8.0l fe. - 00;
fihetp Good to choice, $5.755J5 75. But
trr C'nouo yellow, SKftSJc. Eqj Freeh,
lnflc. Pork Mess, $21.40 21.50. Lard
$lVlV3.15.a0. CAwf-5ew York Factory,
17'4ai8c: Western Factory, 17fiU7Hc
Flour White winter extra, 5.(Xd7.t)0 ;
spring extra, $4.tHS5.25. VThtat Spring
No. s!, $1.14 ((J I.Obii. Corn Ho. , 7i
7Hc. Oat No. . 59lV4c. ltye No. 2,
$l.(g,1.10. Bartty No. , $1.0831.15. Wool
Tnb-washed, 4.V558c; fleece, washed,
5-Jc; fleece, nnwashed, 27"j-T7c. Lumber
First-clear, $52.00'i5.00; sccond-ciear. $4ti.00
&50.00; common boards, fll.oa&li.OO; fenc
ioz, $13.0K18.W; "A" shingles, $3.(XXa3.23 ;
lath, $2.XX&2-J3.
Ciwcinwati. Flour $5.105.S0. Wheat Red.
Sl.lJffjjl.li. Cort-liiaToc. Rye
1.13. Oat 65a70c. Barley S1.25&1-S5- Port
$21.75222.00. Lard 15f,&15Kc
St Louis. Cattle Fair to choice.$S.63(.15.
IIog Live, fi.7otfj8.50. Flour XX Fall. $5.00(53
5.U'i. Wheat "So. 2 Red Fall. $1.5t74i&l.i.
Com No. 2. 7:ia.76c. Oats No. 2, tvi&
i.5c. Bye 1.5&1.. Barley No. 2, $1.85
1.9). Pork Mess, $21.7oii.OO. Lard U Wt3
Milwaukee. Flour Spring XX, $4.fl0rti5.2O.
Whfat Spring, No. 1, $l.OT5-1.06'4 ; No. 2, $1.P23
r02'4C. Corn No. 2, 74'75c. Oats No. 2, 5H'4
c. Rye No. 1, $1.0W&1.10. Barley "So.
2, $1.091.10.
Cleveland. Wheat No. 1 Red, $1.2031.21;
No. 2 Red, 1.151.1. Corn-High Mixed, 77
78c Oalt No. 1, 68at)9c.
Detroit. Wheat Extra, $1.241.24. Corn
o. i, 7b77c. oauo. l, ttt.v&tibc.
Toledo. Wheat Amber Michigan. $1.19V44
l.au; jno. iteu. Sl.lWriWl.iM. corn liin
Mixed, 73780. OaU No. 2. frlaG4l4C.
Buffalo. Beeves $X50&R.M. Hogs Live,
53.33(0.8. va. sntep Live, stt.uuQ7.:.
East Libebtt. Beeve Best, 6.25(??.R.75:
medinm, $5.40(05.50. Hoqg Yorkers, $8.00ia
8.50; Philadelphia, $9.44X29.00. Shee2 Bust,
$6.507.10; medium. $5.50j.25.
Kidnaping a Boy. "
New York. April 9,
The New York Witness, of this even
ing, tells a remarkable etory of the ad
ventures of a lad who was kidnaped.
locked tip in a dark room, imprisoned
with a savage dog, and left in a wood at
Tremont, about twelve miles above this
city, all night. The story is most ex
traordinary in many respects. It may,
indeed, appear too strange to be true ;
yet there seems to be no good reason for
doubting the authenticity of the particu
lars related. The boy's name was George
Durban), and his mother resides in
Broome and gains her living by selling
papers, lie was, it appear., on his way
to St. John's School, in Varrick street,
last Tuesday morning, when he was ac
costed by a man who had dropped some
thing at the entrance of an alley in South
Fifth avenue. The man professed him
self unable to stoop, and asked the lad to
pick the article up. On his proceeding
to comply with the request anolher man
came up from behind and, suddenly
snatching the boy by the collar, with one
hand over his mouth to prevent him from
giving any alarm, carried him into a
rear house, locked him in an almost
empty room on the first floor and placed
a dog in the room to keep watch over
him. After a time a large packing-case
was procured, into which the poor,
frightened lad was placed, and afterward
the dog was thrown in, the two being
nailed up together, and later in the day
conveyed in a cart from South Fifth
avenue to a wood beyond Harlem, where
the child was taken from the box, placed
in a hole in the ground (which had been
previously prepared), covered over with
a large flagstone and left there from
about six o'clock on Tuesday evening
until some time after daybreak the fol
lowing morning, being then released on
his captors ascertaining that the boy had
no rich friends who would be likely to
pay for his ransom in the event of de
tention. Stealing a Ball Dog.
One of the New York papers states
that somebody the other day stole a very
valuable bull dog from the Central Park
menagerie in that city, and 1 have felt
ever since as if I would like to get ac
quainted with the thief. A man who is
capable of stealing a bull dog has talent
that is sufficiently remarkable to entitle
him to thoughtful consideration. I sup
pose for a small inducement such a man
as that would pick up a couple ol Bengal
tigers and a hyena and walk off with
them, and if I owned a good wild-cat I
would not like to leave him alone with
it. I think this man must be related to
a boy in Pottsville, Pa. It is stated in
one of the Pottsville papers that " a boy
of thirteen ran away with a circus from
this place last week." And this, it
seems to me, rather lays over the oper
ation ot the embezzler of the bull clog.
He is a boy of thirteen, who disdains
stealing a single animal, but actually
confiscates an entire circus and decamps
with it. Destiny points to a career in
Congress for this boy. When I think of
the manner in which he would put
through a salary grab I feel as if the
country was entitled to his services at
Washington. He might prove to be in
valuable if he should take a notion to
steal the Washington Monument, or to
elope with the Patent Office just before
the annual avalanche of reports descend
upon the country. Max Adder.
A 'ovel Wedding Ceremeny.
A Syracuse paper saj's : " Fifty years
Lgo the first day of the coming month a
very strange scene was enacted on the
big hill at the rear of the University
campus. Syracuse was then in its larva
state. The native forest trees studded
the landscape. One bright Sunday
morning a young woman and a young
man wended their way to that hill be
fore daybreak for a very romantic pur
pose. They stood facing the east and
then fell on their knees." When the sun
was fully up they arose, saluted each
other with a kiss, and clasping left hands
raised their right hands to heaven, and
thus wedded themselves: 4 In the pres
ence of God and the light-giving sun, we
pledge to each other our love, our lives,
our steadfast fidelity, so long as we shall
inhabit the much-nourishing earth.' They
saluted each other again with a kiss, and
then returned to town and breakfasted
at Cook's coffee-house. After breakfast
they took passage on the canal-boat De
Witt Clinton for the western part of the
State, and were never heard from there
after. Tradition says that they buried
somewhere on this hill a box containing
their names, why they preferred such a
method of marrying, and whither they
intended going. This box was found
twenty" years afterward, but the writings
were obliterated beyond legibility."
How We Look to the Han In the Moon.
Bchns wished that we could
Sec onrsel's as ithers see ns;
and a writer in the British Quarterly un
dertakes to realize that by a lawful li
cense of fancy, lie transports himself
to the moon and supposes it to be night
there. HU description is a beautiful
one:
44 Night sets in. Gratefully it comes
after the sun has gathered up his smiling
beams and gone to his rest. All at once
we are plunged into comparative obscu
rity, for again there is no twilight to stay
the steps of departing day. At one side
comes the dark. But, looking up to the
sky, we behold a vast orb which pours
down a milder and more beneficent splen
dor than the great lord ot the system.
It is such a moon as we terrestrials can
not boast, for it is not less than thirteen
times as large and luminous as our own.
44 There it hangs In the firmament, with
out apparent change of place, as if
4 fixed in its everlasting seat. But not
without change of surface. For this
great globe is a painted panorama, and,
turning around majestically on its axis,
presents its oceans and continents in
grand succession. As Europe and Africa,
locking the Mediterranean in its em,
brace, roll away to the right, the stormy
Atlantic offers its waters to view, and
then the two Americas, with their huge
forests and vast prairies, pass under in
spection. "Then the grand basin of the Pacific,
lit up with island fires, meets the gazer's
eye, and, as this ice glides over the
6cene, the eastern rim of Asia and the
upper portion of Australia? sail into
sight. The Indian Ocean, and afterward
the Arabian Sea, spread themselves out
in their subdued splendor, and thus, in
o ur and twenty hours, 4 the great rotun
dity we tread' turns it3 pictured counte
nance to the moon, and grandly repays
the listening lunarians by lepeating, to
the best of its ability, the story of its
birth."
The fact that the moon is not hab
itable by human beings such as dwell on
this earth does not forbid one to give it
eyes for the sake of drawing a compara
tive picture like the above. An imagina
tion stimulated by the study of astrono
my becomes familiar with the finest and
noblest poetic fitgures. Youth' Companion.
ALL SORTS.
A man named Thompson, living
few miles out of Fresno, Cal., is said to
have lost a set of false teeth very myste
riously in looo, and given them up as
stolen. About three years ago, as a local
paper tells the story, he caught a severe
cold and since then has been troubled
with a painful cough, accompanied by
irequent, nemorrhage, and it was leared
tnat he was a victim of consumption
His physicians having pronounced his
case mcuraole ne traveled for some time
and finally settled down to die. A few
months since, however, in one of his vi
olent fits of coughing, he ejected from
ins throat several pieces of a bony sub
stance. The next day some more were
thrown out, and then came a piece of
shiny metal. His medical advisers were
again summoned, and with their assist
ance he succeeded in relieving himself
of the remaining fragments of his set of
teeth, which it now appears he drew into
his windpipe during sleep nearly a
decade ago and has carried about within
him ever since.
Lucy Hooper, writing from Paris to
the Philadelphia Press, tells of a joke
that occurred there. A prominent fami
ly had dined on veal, when a note was
received, reading: "JIme. X I have
just learned that the meat which was
serveu to you for dinner to day was not
veal, but how can 1 write it? a piece
of the little nephew of the butcher. He
assassinated the poor little boy, and to
conceal his crime cut him in fragments
and sold the pieces to his customers. I
dare not return to the house." Mmc. X.
went into hysterics; M. X. was taken
deathly sick, and the four children
screamed in terror. The police were
called, the butcher arrested, the case in
vestigated, and it was found to be a
scandalous hoax an incipient 1st of
April affair.
Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, is report
ed to have met with a serious pecuniary
disaster recently. He went security for
a brother in a Southern city, who failed,
leaving him responsible for a sum ex
ceeding $50,000. The Senator assigned
all his property at Atchison for the pay
ment of the debt, pledging his salary as
united states senator lor one year in ad
vance, and is still held for '2o,000. His
little property was accumulated by the
industrious labor 61 twenty years in
Kansas, and he is said to feel his reduc
tion to poverty deeply.
A novel proposition for the suppres
sion of crime has just been make by the
Surveyor-General of British Prisons.
This gentleman believes in the exist
ence of a criminal age, which he,
guided by census statistics, finds to ex
tend over the period of life between
twenty-five and thirty-five, and accord
ingly he suggests that persons whose
careers display marked criminal tenden
cies shall be either locked up or kept
under supervision until they reach the
age of thirty-nine.
The modern Damon and Pvlhias arc
living at South Abingdon, JIuss. They
arc the two oldest living graduates of
Brown University, it is said, and are
both over ninety years old. They were
born in the town, are members of the
same church, were partners in practicing
law, served together as Representatives
in the Legislature, and are connected by
family ties. They are both in good
health.
John Boarke, of Danby, Vt., eloped
with a girl only twelve years old. Her
father caught them just aficr the mar
riage, and the three talked the matter
over calmly. The upshot was a tripar
tite covenant that the bride should go
home and live four years, when the hus
band rnaj' go and get her.
About one hundred years ago fag
ging prevailed at. Harvard L Diversity,
seniors selecting freshmen for menial
services, and there is a tradition of one
of the latter throwing indignantly at his
tormentor the Doots he was ordered to
clean.
Fleas are among the annoyances
here. They are all over 3ou before jou
know it and leave an itching little spot
where they bite. I feel one now inside
my boot on my leg, but he won't be there
when 1 go for him. Pioruta Letter.
The Boston papers are a novelty in
journalism. They compliment each other
with loving friendliness. The Traveller
the otaer day called attention to an ar
ticle in the Advertiser which it thought
everybody .ought to read."
And now those indefatigable Califor
nians are going into the cultivation ot the
sumac tree, the product of which is used
for tanning, and, when prepared, brings
from $70 to $130 per ton.
Success is said by a Western sage to
greatly depend upon the possession of
three qualities grit, grip and gump
tion.
Those Germans who went back to
Fatherland because of the hard times
here find nothing to do at home.
A Spelling Match In Burlington.
The Burlington (Iowa) Uawk-Eye fur
nishes the following base ball report of
a spelling match recently held in that
city:
Gen. A. C. Dodge and the Rev. Jona
than Turner acted as judges and Dr.
Stone gave out the words. Mr. Turner
read the rules. Gen. Dodge hoped that
decorum and good order would prevail,
and Dr. Stone called the class to its feet,
the umpire called "play," and the doctor
sent a slow ball, " abasement," to Dr.
Beardsley, the South Hill Captain, who
took it beautifully. The words for the
next yard or two rhymed with 44 abase
ment," and the class got along swim
mingly until the tune changed, and the
pitcher sent a low grounder to Miss
Acfllk, of North Oak School," way-lay,"
and she went out. Y? Because she
spelled it with only one y walay. First
tally claimed and allowed for South Hill,
which smiled all around its eight rows
of seats, while its friends outside the
bounds took odds and offered fivejto any
thing on the Lexicons, with no takers.
This was the only out in the first innings.
Play went on merrily, md it was de
lightful to gues3 what people were think
ing of by the way they spelled. County
Superintendent Snyder, a North Hill
Dictionary, was told to spell 44 speed '
and he spelled 41 feed," and when Dalhoff
spelled " beef " instead of "seed" there
wasn't a dry eye in the wigwam. Dr.
Stone shied 44 lubber" at McCollough, a
South Hill Encyclopedia, who spelled
44 lover," but was allowed to. stand, on
the ground that the two words were
synonyms. This decision was reached
solely because the majority of- the spell
ers were old married men. Very appro
priately the word " curfew" closed the
first round, and the pitcher wafted
44 money" at Dr. Beardsley, and it was
wrth a year's subscription to hear the
doctor close with it triumphantly. Dr.
Salter was put out on 44 badage," but the
D. D. claimed a foul and was reinstated
when it wts discovered that the 31. D.
meant to Bay 44 badge." The orthograph
ical Esculapius then sent a hot one to
Foster, one of the Dictionaries, and
put bim out on "bleyme." Another
tally for the Encyclopedias, who doubled
their bet3, but immediately began to
hedge when Burdette went down on
44 seize," putting the i where the e should
be. He was dragged out by the police,
but his evil example demoralized the
Encyclopedias, and a lady sat down be
cause she would spell it "lactery."
Another South Hiller sat down in great
44 embarrassment " because she spelt it
with one r, and fhe choir rose and sang
"Tbou R't so near and yet sofe R.'
Hummel, of South Hill, made such start
ling 41 disclosures " by putting in an extra
c that he had to step down and out.
Miss Derby, of North Hill, "abbreviated'
it by one b, and she joined the innumcr'
able caravan. Granger, of rorth Hill,
was set out on 44 perillous," but one of
the authorities justified the extra 1, and
he stood up again. William Ellery spelled
it 44 sanguin," but afterward added an
e, and explained that he misunderstood
the word, thinking that "sangwtw," and
not " sanguni," was given out, an ex
planation which could not fail to be sat
isfactory, and William stood up. The
"myrmidons" got after H. B. Scott, and
laid him out because he gave that one i'd
word two i's. Music " Y am i so faint
and weary."
A North Ililler got mad at his " dia
phragm" and left the 4'g" out of it, and
the medical man who was giving out the
words was so horrified at this anatomical
mutilation that he put Lim down. Mrs.
Hedge, of South Hill, started 41 serous"
otl with a 44 c," but the umpire couldn't
c it, and called "out." A South Hill
lady left corroborate one r short, and sat
down amid ejaculations of 44 11 rible!"
Bodeman, of North Hill, 41 declinaled"
with two e s, a two ec-sy way of spelling
it to be good; Isrnsser.of bouth Iliil. was
44 resuscitated" into his scat lor want of
a c. Music "My bark is on the c."
Frank Parsons, of North Hill, went down
austerely because he put the ee's too
close together. Dick Stockton was
f-ectually knocked down by a new breed
of 44 builalo" w ith onlv one. Music
F I were a butttrtly."
Manning, of North Hill, was rapped
down because he tried to 44 enwrap" him
self in orthographical glory without any
w. Jlusic " uii, rap the nag around
me, boys." Robert Allen, of South Hill,
spelled "scxtile" all right, but as he put
the 44 e" in an appendix he was sent
down. John Fleming spelt 44 synony
mous" all right so far as it went, but he
only got three syllables in. Mr. McCol
lough's 44 inflammation" lacked ODe 44 in"
of being a case. Music 44 Honor is an
Mty bubble." Phil M. Crapo, of North
1 1 ill, made a 44 heterogeneous" mess of it
by spelling it "ious," but he made a
second dive at it by substituting an 44 e,"
and after some discussion he was allowed
to stavin.with the understand inn that he
should ante the next time before he
showed his hand. 3Iiss Sadie Turner, of
South Hill, put a 44 c" in 44 parasite," and
Charley Martin 44 telescoped" himself
with two " o's." Miss O'Brien, of North
Hill, examined her 44 horoscope," but it
was 'r-rid, had two 44 r's" in, and she
joined the ones who had gone before. E.
G. Wright was floored with a 44 holly
hock," in which he inserted an 44 i.".
About this time it wa3 beginning to
feel near midnight. It was eleven o'clock
and the audience began to scatter, and
some of the best spellers on the Sou'li
Hill side went home. In considerable
confusion the congregation rose to its
feet and began to make suggestions, but
nothing definite could be arrived at. Dr.
Stone couldn't make himselt hard, and
in a general hubbub and squabble the
meeting dispersed and the contest will
be finished at some future day, the time
of the concluding match to be announced
hereafter. When the last word was
given last evening fourteen South Hill
ers had been slaiD, and twelve North
Hillers had been laid low by words that
no sensible man would spell as they are
in the book.
The Death of Trof. Walker.
The death of Prof. Walker, of Brook
lyn, who, with a different motive, drank
like Socrates a fatal draught of hemlock,
has already been mentioned by tele
graph, but it is a case so curious that it
will bear amplification. Suffering from
spasmodic contortions of the muscles of
the face Prof .Walker had sought the art of
many celebrated medical practitioners,
but without relief. A scientist himself,
he entered thoroughly into the investiga
tion of his own case, and finally, other
remedies failing, determined to try that
of Prof. John Harley, of St. Thomas'
Hospital, London, the" use of conium, or
fluid extract of hemlock. Under the
advice of a local physician he procured
a vial of this poison. His instructions
were to take fifty drops at a do?e. The
immediate result of such a dose was
fully explained to him. Reaching home
he took the medicine, and, for the pur
pose of having a correct statement of
his symptoms, asked his w ife to note
them as he detected them, she to follow
exactly his dictation. These memoranda
were the result:
"At ten minutes past four p. m., fifty
minims Squibb's extract of conium.
Twenty minutes to five p. m.," effects
very decided dizziness and relaxations
of the muscles and limbs; fifty minims
more then taksn, and immediately diffi
culty of walking and want of power to
control movements; lorccd to he down,
but no mitigation of spasm ; limbs weak,
unable to hold up the head, speech
thickening some, pain and heavings
in top and back of the head,
pulse fifty-six. Fifteen minutes past
five p. m. took fifty drops; some
nausea, some tremor at base of clavicle
and in muscles across the chest; no dim
inution of spasms about the eyes, more
of photophobia (dislike of light). Twen-tj'-five
minutes past five p. m., drowsi
ness, inclined to sleep. Twenty minutes
to six p. m., eyes difficult to open and
speech difficult; difficulty in the throat,
prostration nearly complete; diplopia
(double-sightedncss) vastly increased.
Ten minutes past six p" m., nausea,
twitchings on right side, unable to articu
late, eyes closed, fullness almost to suf
focation in the throa4, pulse about sixty,
in fact six water! water! water!"
On this frenzied appeal his wife hur
riedly left him to procure some coflee.
Returning in all haste she found him
dead from paralvsis of the spinal mar
row. Prof. Walker was about sixty-five
years old, and had led an eventful life.
He was a journalist at one time and the
intimate friend of President Johnson.
He served in the Union army during the
war of the rebellion, and in attempting
to capture a Confederate spy w as stabbed
almost fatally in the abdomen. He was
poisoned at the National Hotel, Wash
ington, in 1857, and had various other
'scapes by flood and field. His final taking-oil
was as sad as it was curious.
Chicago Tinm.
Is an account of the last hours of Vas
quez the San Francisco Chonicle says:
44 About half-past eight he again asked
Sheriff Adams if he could see his coffin.
In compliance with his wish a profusely
ornamented casket was brought into his
cell. Without a tremor Yasquez gazed
upon the ghastly affair and deliberately
began measuring it by spans. He seemed
to take a childish delight in the silver
screw-heads, and remarked as he took a
cigar between his teeth that it was 4 away
up.' At his request the coffin-lid was
removed. He pressed the cushions and
made a critical examination of the trim
mings. 4 1 can sleep there forever very
well,' he said, and the casket was carried
out. Upon being complimented on his
Derve Yasquez shrugged his shoulders
and cried shrilly, What would you
have? If I am the other way it will do
me no good.'"
He was an old man of eighty, and he
said that he'd figured and calculated and
pondered, and had come to the conclu
sion that the man w ho drives the band
wazon around town had a perfect right
to look down in contempt on bankers and
mill-owners.
The Source of Solar Heat.
Prof. S. P. Lanoley, whose distin
guished services in the department ot
solar physics have been recognized at
home and abroad, recently delivered a
lecture on the 44 Sources of Solar Heat,"
before the Stevens Institute of Tech
nology, at Hoboken, from which we con
dense as follows:
44 Wc hear so often nowadays," said tho
speaker, 44 of the perfected achievements
of science that we may'overlook the fact
that results which seem clear, when es
tablished, are usually reached through
the hard lessons of wearying failure. Wo
so commonly, hearing only of the final
buccss, forget that there is no known rule
to guide the search for it, that I may
bring before you something of new inter
est if I ask you to look with me at a
problem which, though it U of the high
est importance, scienc e has only partly
solved, and with many of whoso diffi
culties her students are still struggling.
This problem is that of the source and
probable duration of the heat of the nun
and of the degree of its temperature."
After this brief but suggestive preface
Prof. Langley entered at oncu upon tho
consideration of the subject to which it
refers. As the address wa essentially a
popular one, the speaker adopted such
methods of illustration as should bo
readily comprehended by the audience.
The sun is a globe 108 times Hie diame
ter of the earth, and about 1,250,000 1 inn s
its volume. From this globe there is
now pouring upon the cartli that nearly
measureless radiation which is sufficient
to sustain all life on its surface, from
that of the date-palm in the scorching
glare of Sahara's waste to that of the
sea weed at the bottom of the deepest
ocean cave, and yet the heat and light in
terrupted by this earth are but a minute
fraction of the whole amount given forth
from the sun. With a view, if possible,
to give some conceivable idea as to the
whole amount of this heat, the following
illustration was given :
44 Let us imagine that all the ice in tho
world could be collected and stored upon
a plain till it formed a pile thirty-five
miles in diameter, and high enough to
contain the ice from the arctic and ant
arctic poles and all the supplies of the
temperate zones. Let this be supposed
to be shielded from all warmth until the
ice-product of the world thus piled thcro
winter after winter lntd formed a column
thirty-five miles in diameter and reach
ing out in space to the lunar orbit, so as
to form a bridge to the moon. Now let
the bent which the sun is constantly send
ing out be turned wholly upon it. It is
the subject of a simple proof that to first
melt it all and then boil the oceans of
water it might be melted Into, and finally
to dissipate the whole in vapor, would
occupy the sun's ordinary radiations not
quite one second."
Again:
44 lhe coal beds of Pennsylvania would
probably supply the entire world's con
sumption for centuries; but I rind that.
if the source of the sun h heat (whatever
it i ) were withdrawn, and it w ere possi
ble to transport these coal-beds there and
burn them fast enough to keep up the
present rate of emission and no more,
they would last considerably less than
one-thousandth part of a hecond."
From these illustrations of the amount
of the sun's beat the lecturer advanced
to the considerations of the several theo
ries propounded, w ith u view to solve tho
great problem as to its true nature and
source.
The first of these theories is that the
sun is, as it were, on lnc, and that the
heat wc experience is that given forth
by combustions of matter on its burfacc.
This theory is regarded as untenable, for
the reason that, were the process one of
simple combustion, the matter consti
tuting the sun w oqld have been con
sumed long since, supposing that there
was present sufficient oxygen to keep up
the combustion, which is not the case.
A second and certainly curious story ad
vanced by 44 an eminent natural philoso
pher is to the effect that the heat is the
result of certain vital forces that are
still active on the sun's surface, and tho
action of which may be kindred to that
which produces the light of the firc-lly
or the heat of the b.dy. Passing from
these two theories to the third, the
speaker presents what may be regarded
as certainly the only reasonable explana
tion of the problem. The body of the
sun is in an incandescent state ; that is,
it is w hite hot, but not in a condition of
actual combustion. Assuming this,
it is possible to conceive of its
great heat-radiating power with
out an actual exhaustion of tho
matter of which It is composed. The
question then arises: Whence proceeds
the heat by which the vast mass is kept
hot? It is in the answer to thi-t question
that Prof. Langley defines his views,
which indorse those originally presented
by llelinholtz. The sun's heat is, ac
cording to this view, strictly " a mode of
motion," itself renewed to a finite but al
most inconceivable extent by the shrink
ing of its mass; that is, the heat given
oil bv the sun is due to the matter of
that body settling toward the center; or,
in other words, the contraction of the
sun's mass, as it tends to cool, keep the
temperature nearly constant at the ex
pense of the volume. This, then, may be
accepted as the most reasonable theory
regarding the heat of the sun ; and, re
ceiving as it has the indorsement of one
so eminent - as Prof. Langley, may bo
accepted as authoritative. It "is yet pos
sible, however, that continued obscrva
ti(9 may bring to light facts that will
callfor a more satisfactory theory. Till
then the reader may be safe in accept
ing this view as best standing 44 the test
o( external computation." AppUlon's
Journal.
Forrest's Last Appearance.
A writer on the late Edwin Forrest
says: 44 His last engagement was in Bos
ton. He had had an attack of pneumonia
which affected one of his lungs. Mr.
Oakes, his life-long friend, implored him
not to go on the stage again. He was ill
all the afternoon so hoarse that he could
scarcely speak. The play was 4 Riche
lieu.' All the entreaties of his physi
cians and friends could not keep him
from the theater. Too feeble to walk, he
was led to the dressing-room and arrayed
himself for the part. The physician had
given Mr. Oakes a small vial of whisky,
telling him that if Forrest showed signs
of suffering to administer it to him.
When Forrest beard this he said : 4 If I
die on the stage 1 will die, but they sha'n't
find any rum in me.' A chair was put
behind the scenes, and when he was
called he was led to it by Mr. Oakes.
When his cue came he was raised to his
feet. 4 Steady me,' he said, 4 steady me,
and let me go on.' Tottering on the
stage, the sound of the applause of tho
multitude seemed to put new life iDto
him, and he went through his part accu
rately, and so to the end of the play.
When he finished he was led, half-fainting,
to his hotel, and he never appeared
upon the stage any more. The next
night the play was 4Virginius;' but hia
physicians and friends absolutely for
bade his playing the part. He struggled
until the last moment, resolved be would
not be governed by either menus or
physicians. Finally the doctor said, 4 If
upon the stage you win uic.
for a moment, burst into tears like a
child, and submitted himself to be put
to bed. This was the Globe Theater,
Boston, and he never acted again."
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