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VOLUME XI.
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1875.
NUMBER 8.
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SEALER, 1M
JEuixTiituLx-e5
SAFES, CHAIRS,
Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads,
ETC., ETC., ETC.,
Of All Descriptions.
METALLIC BURIAL CASES.
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With many thanks for past patronage, I invite
all to call and examine my
LARGE STOCK OP
Fit rni turn mil CoIIIiim.
janiS
AND
MEDICINES
AT
J. H. BUTTERY'S,
On Main Street, bet. Fifth and Sixth.
Wholesale aud Retail Dealer In
Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils,
Varnishes. Patent Medicines,
Toilet Articles, etc., etc.
rSTTRESCRIITION'S carefully compounded at
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J. W. SHANNON'S
Feed, Sale and Livery
STArtTiE.
Main Street, Plattsmouth, Neb.
I am prepared to accommodate the public with
Carriages, Buggies, Wagons,
AND
A Ho. 1 Hearse,
On Short Notice and Reasonable Terms.
A II A C K
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iag. Depot, and all parts of
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John O Kolrkk....
President.
Vice-I'rettidfDt.
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A 6m.it ant Cashier.
This Bank i- now open for business at their new
room, corner Main and Sixth streets, and arc pre
pared to truusacl a general
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. J. STBXIGHT, Proprietor,
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Cor. Fifth and Main Streets,
PLATTSMOUTH, NEB.
THOS. V. SHRYOCK,
DEALER IN
Main St., bet. 5th and 6th,
PLATTSMOUTH, - NEB.
ALSO
UNDERTAKER,
And has on hand a large stock of
Metallic Iurial Cases,
Wooden Coffins, Etc.,
Of all sizes, cheap for cash.
Funerals Attended on Short Notice
II. .1. WATERMAN & SOX,
Wholesale and Iietail Dealers in
PINE LUMBER,
3Latb, Shingles,
SASH, DOOES, BLINDS. ETC.,
On Main St., cor. Fifth,
PLATTSMOUTH, - - - NEB.
FOR YOUR CROCERIES
GO TO
J. V. Weckbach,
Cor. Third and Main Sts., Plattsmouth.
(Guthmann's old stand.)
lie keep on hand a large and well-selected etock
oi
FANCY GROCERIES,
Coffees, Teas, Sugar, Sirup, Boots,
Shoes, Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc.
Also, a large etock of
Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes,
Crockery, Queensware,
Etc., Etc., Etc.
In connection with the Grocery U a
BAKERY and CONFECTIONERY.
Hlirbest Prii-e Paid For Country Produce.
A full etock at ali times, and will not he undersold.
Take notice of the Sign:
"EMPIRE BAKERY AND GROCERY."
nlyl
WILLIAM STADELMANN
lias on hand one of the largest stocks of
CLOTHING
AND
Gents' Furnishing Goods
FOR SPRING AND SUMMER.
I invite everybody in want of anything in my
lino to call at my store,
South Side Main, bet. 5th & 6th Sts.,
And convince themselves of the fact. I have as a
specialty in my Retail Departments a etock of
Fine Clothing for Men and Boys, to which we in
vite those who want oods.
I aleo keep on hand a large and well-selected
stock of
Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Etc.
jarlyl
PHILADELPHIA STORE
SOL05IOX & XATIIAX,
SEALERS IN
Fancy Dry Goods.
Notions, Ladies' FEmisMnzGoofls.
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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And examine onr Goods.
t3T"Store on Main St, between 4th and 5th Sts.,
Plattsmouth, Neb. ltitf
I'LATTSMOITII MILLS,
FLATTSMOUTn NEBRASKA.
Cosbad Ueisei., Proprietor.
FLOUR, CORN MEAL, FEED.
Always on hand and for sale at lowest cash prices.
The Highest Prices paid for Wheal and Corn.
Particular attention giTen to custom wori.
MoxDAr, May 10. The steamer Schil
ler, of the Eafrle line, which sailed from New
York on the 2Sth ult. for Hamburg, was to
tally wrecked off the Scilly Islands, about
thirty miles from Land's End, England, on
the night of the 7th. The Schiller ran on
a lede of 6unken rocks during the preva
lence of a dense fog. Three hundred and
seventy-nine persons were known to have
been on board, and of these about 300 are
supposed to be lost. Several prominent citi
zens of Chicago, Milwaukee, and other por
tions of the est wre on board, and are
thought to have perished.... The provincial
authorities of Germany have been instructed
to treat the collectiou of money for
priests who have been subjected to
legal penalties as a punishable offense
...."Washington dispatches confirm the
statements of the Chicago papers that it
Is probablj- the work so far as completed on
the new Custom-IIouse building in the latter
city will have to be entirely overhauled and
the building reconstructed from the founda
tion, thus entailing an additional expense of
at least $1,000,000 and delaying the comple
tion of the structure at least a year
The Postmaster-General has issued an order
carrying into effect, so far as this country is
concerned, the treaty for the formation of a
general postal union concluded at Berne
Oct. 9 last. The new rates of postage are to
be leviei on and after the 1st of July nekton
correspondence to all the treating States ex
ccpt France, which does not participate in
the benefits of the treaty till Jan. 1, 1870...,
The Grand Jury of the District of Colum
bia have refused to find an indictment
against Mr. Dana, of the New York Sun, for
alleged libel of ex-Gov. Shepherd The
motion for a new trial in the case of
Early r. Storey, of the Chicago Times, has
been denied, the plaintiff agreeing to accept
15.000 in lieu of the $25,000 awarded by the
jury. 1 he defense took an appeal. In an
other libel suit against Mr. Storey for stigma
tizing a Chicago lawyer as a "shyster" the
jury have returned a verdict of 500. The
plaintiff asked for f 50,000.... John Bender,
the Kansas murderer, recently in custody at
Florence, Arizona, has again escaped, and is
supposed to have reached Mexico.
Tcesdat, May 11. Ninety-one bodies
f the Schiller victims have been recovered.
Only fifteen passengers are known to have been
saved The steamer Cadiz was lost near
Brest. France, while on her trip from Lisbon
to London, recently, and sixteen4" persons
were drowned. . . . A Washington dispatch says
the average condition of the winter wheat
crop in about 300 counties in the val-s
of the OMb and Missouri is 03 per cent., indi
cating only five-eighths of a full crop if no
improvement occurs; in Kentucky the yield
will be 75 per cent.; Ohio, 57; Michigan, 63;
Indiana, Ct; Illinois, C3; Missouri, 59;
Kansas, S7. The condition is better in
Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia,
though below an average Tn the
Beecher trial on the 10th Lewis J.
James, Superintendent of the Ilealth Lift
Company, testified that on the morning of
June 2, 1873, about nine o'clock, he saw Mr.
Beecher on the carriage roadway at the Wall
street ferry, going in the direction of Kemscn
street and Mr. Moulton's residence; witness
remembered the date because it was the an
niversary of his wedding day. Jeremiah P.
Robinson was recalled to testify in regard
to Mrs- Moulton having, in 1873, told
him of the alleged interview between Mr.
Beecher and herself, but the evidence was
ruled out by the Court. Mrs. Sarah Eddy,
whose husband was a book-keeper with
Woodruff fc Robinson, testified that she
called at Mr. Moulton's on the 2d of June,
1S73, and met Mr. Beecher on the steps of Mr.
'Moulton's house, as he was coming down. Mrs.
Moulton was recalled and testified that Mrs.
Eddy called on her on that day, and that 6he
repeated the alleged conversation to her
The Massachusetts House of Representa
tives has appropriated $50,000 to represent
that State at the Philadelphia Centennial
A number of prominent distilleries
at Chicago, St. Louis, Milwaukee and
other points in the West have been seized
by Government detectives on the charge
of gross violation of the Revenue law....
In the case of Ann Eliza w. Brigham Young,
Chief-Justice Lowe on the 10th denied the
motion for an attachment compelling Brig
ham to pay alimony, on the ground that the
alleged marriaee was bigamous or polyga
mous, and therefore illegal.... Red Cloud,
Spotted Tail aud a number of other Sioux
Indian chiefs have left Cheyenne for Wash
ington to treat with the Government for the
sale of the Black Hills.
"Wednesday, May 12. The French
National Assembly has reassembled. .. .Ac
cording to the Philadelphia Pres the severe
frosts and late spring have seriously damaged
the growing wheat crop in Pennsylvania, and
it is probable that not over half a crop will
be gathered, and even that amount depends
upon the continuance of dry weather....
Mrs. Kate McDonald, long a servant in Mr.
Tiltou'a employ, testified on the 11th in
rebuttal of some of the evidence given by
Bessie Turner relating to affairs in Mr. Til-
ton's household. She was followed by Mr.
Tilton himself, who, in detail, denied much of
the testimony given by several of the wit
nesses for the defense, including the defend
ant, Messrs. Johnson, Wilkeson, Tracy, Miss
Bessie Turner, etc. He was not cross-exam-
ned.... William Embry, editor of the
Leavenworth (Kan.) Appeal, on the evening
of the 10th shot and mortally wounded
Col. D. R. Anthony, editor of the Leaven
worth Time. The shooting was the result
of a quarrel of several weeks' dura
tion, which is said to have originated
in some strictures made by Anthony
in his paper upon certain actions of the
Leavenworth Typographical Union, which
Embry hotly repelled in the Appeal, following
it up by damaging accusations against An
thony's official conduct as Postmaster at
Leaven worth.... The Southern Memorial As
sociation has adopted a resolution that ' all
the soldiers of the Federal and Confederate
armies be cordially invited to join the Memo
rial Association In decorating graves at Ar
lington cn the 1st of June."
Titcrsday, May 13. The North Ger
man Gazette, Prince Bismarck's organ, 6ays
that the relations of Germany and France
have at no time since the war been more
friendly ana satisfactory than at present....
The Catholic Bishops of Prussia have decided
to dissolve the rcligous orders which the State
tolerates rather than see them subject to Gov
ernmental supervision.... An Old Catholic
school in Silesia was mobbed on the 12th by
la crowd of women" The Secretary of the
Treasury at Washington was informed on the
12th of additional seizures of distilleries....
Mrs. Woodhull was present in the Brook
lyn City Court on the 12th at the instiga
tion of the defense, who wished the Judge to
instruct her to deliver up certain letters of
Mr. Tilton. To this Mr. Fullerton objected
unless she was put on the stand
by the defense. Judge Neilson refused to
order Mrs. W. to produce the papers, saying
she might do so if she saw fit. After being
allowed a brief explanation in which she
claimed that the letters in her possession con-
the testimony of Mr. Beecher. He was
not cross-examined. Stephen Pearl An
drews was recalled to identify a signa
ture of Col. Blood, and then the prosecution
announced that their 6ide rested the
case. Mr. Freeland was recalled in sur-re-
buttal and contradicted Mr. Bowen's testimo
ny relative to the alleged interview between
Messrs. Beecher and Bowen at his house
Mrs. Ovinarton was also recalled by the de
fense and contradicted the testimony of Mr.
Albert B. Martin and Mr. Tilton relative to
Mr. Tracy's interview with Miss Turner at
the witness' house on the 28th of J uly, 1874
....A farmer named Geo N. Kirkman, living
near Nevada, Iowa, was hanged ty a mob on
the night of the 8th. This outrage is sup
posed to have grown out of a family feud
which had existed for some time, the old
gentleman having had two of his sons-in-law
and several other parties put under bonds
on a charge of a former attempt on his life.
Friday. May 14. The evidence in the
Henry C. Bowen was contradicted, on the
13th, by Messrs. E-rgleston, Claflin and Storrs,
and a portion of it confirmed by his son.
John E. Bowen. A few other witnesses for
both sides were examined, and the counsel
announced the close of the testimony.
The coart adjourned to the 19th
The Toledo Hade publishes an clabo
rate crop report from statements by com
petent parties at 150 points in Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Missouri and Iowa. These state
ments indicate that there has been from
one-quarter to one-third of the wheat crop
winter-killed, but that this has been nearly off
set bv the increased number of acres sowed
and the quantity of spring wheat put in
About one-quarter of last year's crops still
remain in the farmers' bands. The amount of
corn being put in this year greatly exceeds
that of last year A delegate State conven
tion has been called in Iowa of Democrats,
Liberals, Anti-Monopolists and all who are
opposed to the Republicau party, to meet
at Des Moines, June 24, to nominate a
State ticket. The call i3 Bigned by
the Chairmen of the different opposition
organizations in the State At its recent
meeting in Chicago the National Encamp
ment of the Grand Army of the Republic
elected Gov. John F. Hartranft, of Pennsyl
vania. Commanaer-in-Cliier tor tne ensu-
iugyear; J. S. Reynolds, of Chicago, Senior,
and O.J. Buckbee, of Connecticut, Junior
Vice-Commanders-in-Chief; John W. Foye, of
Massachusetts, Sursreon-General The fol
lowing ticket has been nominated by the Re
publicans of Kentucky: For Governor, Gen
John M. Harlan, of Louisville; Lieutenant-
Governor, Robert Boyd; Attorney-General,
W. M. Cassius Goodloe: Register of Land
Reubeu Patrick: Auditor. Dr. Win
Treasurer, P B. Ratcliffe.
Oflice,
Berry;
THE 3IA11KETS.
$21.9O23.0O.
Cheese 93
$0.OO6.15;
Mat 15, 1875.
NEW YORK.
Cotton Middling upland, 1616Hc.
Live Stock. Beef Cattle $10.0013.00. Hog
Live, $7.75&T.8tf . SUieep Live (unshorn), $6.00
6.75.
BBEADSTurrs. Flour Good to choice, $5,693
5.90; white wheat extra, $5.90atj.85. Wheat No.
2Cbicaj?o, $1.1S&1-19!4 ; No. 2 Northwestern, $1.18
&1.3i; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.2iai.21V4 ,
Rve Western and State, $1.021.09. Barley-
$1.35ai-40. Corn Mixed Western, 8888'4c.
Oats Mixed Western. 7577c.
Provisions. Pork New Mess,
Lard Prime Steam, lSSlSiic.
Wool. Domestic fleece, 48&G3c.
CHICAGO.
Lite Stock. eeves Choice,
good, $5.75(3.5.90; medium. $5.405.65; butch
ers' etock, S4.00a5.23: etock cattlef $3.25&4.75.
Ilotrs Live, ".00St8.85. Sheep Good to choice
(unshorn), $5.505;8.50.
Pro-visions. Butter Choice, 28&:3c. Er;-
Fresh, 13!iS14c. Cheese New York Factory,
16',ilTc; Western Factory, 16(&lt!4c. Pork
Mess, $21. 45(.21 .50. Lard $15.33ai5.37i4.
Breadstctfs. Flour White Winter Extra,
$G.O0S7.5O; spring extra, $t.7o5.50. Wheat
Spring, No. 2, $1.02H'5il.03. Corn No. 2, 723i
73V4C. Oats No. 2, ti3!464c. Kye No. 9,
$1.05K&l-0ti. Barley No. 3, $1.85&1.&.
Wool. Tub-washed, 4558c; fleece, washed,
40g;50c; unwashed, 2737c.
Lumber. First Clear, $18.00(50.00; Second
Clear, $44.00(5,47.00; Common Boards, $10.50
11.50: Fencing $12.0013.00; "A" Shingles,
$3.00(33.25; Lath. $2.00(2.25.
CINCINNATI.
BreadstTjFPS. Flour $5.7535.85. Wheat-
Red, $1.2821.35. Corn 78&80c. Rye $1.22
1.25. Oats 70373c. Barley No. 2, $1.3"x31.40.
Provisions. Pork $215X322.00. Lard 15!
15T4C.
Live Stock. Beeves Fair xo choice, $5.M
6.25. Ilogs Live, $6.7533.25.
BBEAUsTurrs. Flour XX Fall, $5.5035.60.
Wheat No. 2 Red Fall, $1.4531.46. Corn-
No. 2, 73HQ.74C. Oats No. 2, 63V464V4c. Rye-
No. 2, $1.0531-06. Barley No. 2, $1.2831 30.
Provisions. Pork Mess, $21.b0321.T5. Lard
lssc.
Bbeadstiti-fs. Flour Spring XX, $4.735.00.
Wheat Spring, No. 1, $1.04(3104H ; No. 2, $1.01
1.01 Corn No. 2, 7Ad.72!,c. Oats o.
613-j1;4c. Rye No. 1, $1.(931-10. Barley No.
2, $1.3U(31-32.
Breadstuff. Wheat Extra, $1.28V4ai.29,
Corn No. 1, 77Q77HC. Oats No.l, 67ab7Jic
TOLEDO.
Brbadstuffs. Wheat Amber Michigan,
tl.29ViQl.29?!: No. 2 Red. 1.2931.29'4. Corn
High Mixed, 7&3:8Uc. Oats No. 2, 67&67?C
CLEVELAND.
Breadstuffs. Wheat No. 1 Red, $1.32V43
1.33; No. 2 Red, $1.27K1.28. Corn Uigh
Mixed, 77i7Sc. Oats No. 1, 66H367c.
BUFFALO.
Livx Stock. Cceves S5.7537-00. Ilogs
Live, $7.6038.25. Sheep Live (shorn), $5.25
5.75.
EAST LIBERTY.
Live Stock. Beeves Best, $6. 7537.20; me
dium, $6.0036.85. Ilogs Yorkers, $7.5037.75:
Philadelphia, $8.5038.75. Sheep Best (clipped),
$5.3535.40; medium (clipped), $4.t035.00
board the Schiller since Tuesday. In
consequence of the fog the engines were
put at half speed and sail reduced at
nine o'clock Friday night. At ten o'clock
the same night the ship struck the ledge
Great panic prevailed. Capt. Thomas is
highly praised for his conduct during
the terrible scenes which followed. Two
boats were filled with men, who refused
to come out. The Captain fired his
revolver over their heads to drive them
out, and then fired at them, but without
enect. Afterward the ship was washed
with her broadside to the sea, and all on
board these boats perished. The tackle
at the stern was released too soon, leav
ing the boats suspended by the bows
Three boats then got away. One, a life
boat, was so badly injured that she sunk,
and eleven of the people on board were
rescued by other boats.
The fog lifted an hour after the steam
er struck, and the lights were plainly
visible. Two of the boats on the steamer
were crushed by the falling of the fun
nel. Rockets and guns were ficfd from
the steamer until the towderbecame
wet.
The deck, which was crowded with peo
ple. wa swept away at two a. m. 1 he
Captain gathered some of the survivors
on the bridge. All were gradually swept
awav bv the flood tide, which took the
doctor and Captain last.
The rigging which remained above
water was crowded with passengers and
crew all night. The mainmast tell at
7:30 a. m., and, being of iron, sunk with
all who had taken refuge on it. The
foremast cave away soon afterward.
lhe lifeboats and wreck stun saved
the lives of some who drifted miles away
One man was rescued after being in the
water ten hours.
Two boats from bt. Agnes arrived a
short time before the masts fell. They
were unable to approach the steamer on
account of the shoals, but- picked up
stracglers in the water.
lhe passengers say Capt. lhomas left
the bridge at three a. m. to assist those
on deck, and when he reached the deck
was swept away by a heavy sea. All
concur in saying that he exercised the
greatest care, and was not abed for five
nights previous to the disaster.
1 he sea began to break over the vessel
half an hour after she struck, and the
tide rose twenty-five feet before day
break. Only one woman was saved. The
survivors who were landed at iresco
escaped in the Schiller's own boats.
A special dispatch irom London on
the 9th to the New York Herald says the
total number of lives lost is 311. Of
these over 100 are women. The special
sa3s : The survivors were taken to-day
from Penzance to Plymouth, whence
they will be sent forward to Hamburg,
where there is the greatest excitement.
It is asserted that life-saving belts were
issued to the women. It is certain that
most of the passengers found none. An
order was given that the first boat should
take the women and children, lhis boat
capsized. Poleman says seven boats
were launched and only two lived. The
others were staved and swamped imme
diately. The cries for help lasted until
three o'clock. The last voice heard was
that of a little child in the cabin. It is
not probable that the boats could have
lived even if they had been successfully
hlled. lho whole number saved is lorty-
four. Thirty bodies have been recovered."
" E VEX TIIIS SHALL rASS A WA F.
Oxce in Persia reigned a King,
Who upon his signet-ring
Graved a maxim true and wise.
Which, if held before his eyes.
Gave him counsel, at a glance,
Fit for every change and chance;
Solemn words, and these are they:
4 Even this shall pass away."
Trains of camels through the sand
Brought him gems from Samarcand;
Fleets of jjiilleys through the seas
Brought him pearls to match with these.
fsut ne countea not as gain
Treasures of the mine or main.
" W hat is wealthy the King would say;
" iveu this shall pass away."
In the revels of his court,
At the zenith of the sport,
When the palms of all his guests
Burned with clapping at bis jests,
He, amid his figs and wine,
Cried: "Oh, loving friends of mine!
Pleasure comes, but not to stay
' Even this shall pass away!' "
Fighting on a furious field,
Ouee a javelin pierced his shield;
Sold'ers with a loud lament.
Bore him bleeding to his tent.
Groaning from his tortured side,
" Pain is hard to bear," he cried;
" But with patience, day bvday,
'Even this shall pass away!'"
Towering in the public square,
Twenty cubits in the air.
Rose his statue rarved in stone.
Then the King, disguised, unknown,
Musing meekly: " What is fame?
Fame Is but a slow decay;
' Even this shall pass away.' "
Struck with palsy, f ere and old,
Waiting at the gates of Gold,
Spake he with his dying breath:
" Life is done; but what is death?"
Then in answer to the King
Fell a sunbeam on his ring.
Showing by a heavenly ray
"Even this shall pass away."
TERRIBLE DISASTER AT SEA.
Tlie Steamer Schiller Wrecked OflTthe
Seillr Inle Over Three Hundred
Live Lot.
New York, May 8.
The Eagle line steamship Schiller,
Capt. Thomas, which sailed from Is ew
York April 28 for Hamburg, by way of
Plymouth and Cherbourg, has beei
wrecked off the Scilly Isles. The steam
er sailed from here with 149 cabin pas
sengers.
1 he Scilly Islands, a group of about
140 islets and rocks, lie off the south
west coast of England, about thirty
miles from Land's End, and in lat
itude 50 north, longitude 6 west of
Greenwich. The larger of the group
are St. Mary's, Tresco, St. Martin's,
Brechar. St. Agnes and Sampson. The
aggregate area is 5,770 acres. The islands
rise abruptly from a deep sea, in a lim
ited circumference of thirty miles, and
consist for the most part of solid, unin
habitable granite. In a few places the
soil is sufficiently fertile to enable the
few people who attempt existence there
to raise small crops of rye, oats, barley,
etc. lhe chief means of subsistence,
however, are fishing and the manufacture
of kelp.
The location has alwaA's been a danger
ous one lor snipping, and many nornoie
wrecks have taken place in the vicinity.
iv large ngnt-house rests on tne mtie
Island St. Agnes, but has often proved
an inefficient protection. One of the
noted disasters which have been caused
by these islands was the sinking of three
party writing them, she delivered np the sT-?,
documents, which were examined by the
counsel but were not used before the Jurv.
Mr Moulton was then recalled by the
prosecution and contradicted much of
London, Mar 9.
The following additional particulars
oi tne disaster nave been received :
A heavy fog prevented observations on
A Mysterious Hand.
Monday our city was unusually excited
by the exhibition in the Courier-Herald
office of a hand of wood which grew out
of a grave near Yorkville, in Gibson
County. It was brought into our office
by Capt. G. S. Andrews, of that county,
who gives us its history. A man nanred
llliam llerron was out walking with
his wife one Sunday evening not long
since, and, in passing an old, neglected
graveyard near the public road, she saw
a gum bush with a bunch of mistletoe
on its top, and requested her husband to
get it for her. He went and cut the top
off the bush, and commenced breaking
off the mistletoe, when to his surprise
and terror he discovered that the wood
underneath presented the perfect form of
a human hand. Capt. Andrews, hearing
of the wonderful discovery, went to the
house of Mr. llerron, who, feeling rather
uncomfortable over the thought that he
cut it from a grave, and perhaps having
some theory as to its supernatural sig
nificance, very willingly let Capt. An
drews have it. There are citizens of this
city to whom both Capt. Andrews and
Mr. llerron are known, and they
are vouched for as truthful men,
but the hand itself i3 proof
enough of the truth of their state
ment concerning its growth on
a bush. The bush from which it was
cut was six feet high, and the hand was
on the top, pointing upward, presenting
the position of the minister s hand when
pronouncing a benediction. It. is about
the size ot a six-year-old child's hand,
with long, slender fingers like those of a
person very much emaciated bv sickness.
The wood has enlarged formations on
each finger and the thumb, representing
and corresponding with the joints of the
human hand. The most remarkable
feature about it is the natural appear
ance of the nails. They had a kind of
liesb. color, and the balance of the hand
where the bark had been entirely re
moved looks ghnstly white. The first
impression it makes upon you is the
same experienced in handling a skele
ton, and a large majority of those who
see it regard it with the same subdued,
half-superstitious awe inspired by the
presence of a corpse. Mr. Andrews says
the grave from which it was cut is sup
posed to be the grave of a very devout
Methodist minister by the name of
Butcher, who was buried there many
years ago. Jackson (JJiss) (jourier-Herald.
Big Words.
A citizen of Baltimore haslx'en hunting
up some big words, and publishes them
in the AmeriCAin for the lenetit of the get-
ter-up of spelling-matches. The first
word offered is said to be the longest word
in the English language, used often in old
plays, and placed in the mouth of Costard,
the clown in " Love's Labor Lost," Act
5, Scene 1: 44 Honorificabilitudinitati-bus."
The next in 44 Pilgrims of the Rhine,"
by Bulwer, 44 Amoronthologosphorus."
l lie next from Kabelais, 44 Antipericat-
ametananaparbeugedamphic - Kibrationes-
toorflecantium."
The next is the name of an officer now
in Jladrid, Don Juan JSepomuceno ue
Burionagonatorecagageazoeoha.
The next is a town in the Isle ol Mull,
44 Drimtaidhvrickhillichattan."
The next, 44Jungfrauenzimmerdurch-
schwi nd suchttoedlun gsgegen verein . ' '
r ltrophenvienediamiue" and 44 l'ol-
yphra&ticontinomimegalondulation" are
two words that recently appeared m the
London Time and Stor.
44 Sankashtachaturthivratotlyapana."
44 Swapanchaksharimanamantcastora."
The names of two productions of San
scrit literature.
44 Lepadotemaclioselaclioguk'okranick'i-
phanodrimupotrimmntokichlepikossupho-phattoperiserrtlsktruonoptegkephlokigklo-
peleiolagoossiraiobaphetraganoptcTUgon."
lhis lat word is the longest in any lan
guage. It may be found in the 44Ekkle
siazousai" of Aristophanes, a very excel
lent comedy, and placed in the mouth o
one of the actors. It consists of 109 let
ters, ami makes seventy-seven syllables,
and must have created some laughter when
spoken. Some actors of the present day
wouiu iiaraiv risK it.
THE GREAT GOLD SECRET.
CHAPTER I.
I'm a gold digger that's about what I
am. louwouidn t take me lor an nn
glishman, would you now? No, nor yet
anyone else that knows me; out 1 am,
though.
How old, about, should you take me
for? Forty-five, eh? Well they all
guess somewhere near that; but I'm just
thirty-seven last month. 1 dare say you
don't believe it; and perhaps wouldn't
believe it either it I
this wrinkling and
done in one week.
when I think over
think that here I
told you that all
turning gray was
Well, it was, and
it all now and
am live after it
all I can hardly believe it myself.
Would you like to hear about it? Well,
sit down and make yourself comfortable,
and IB tell you.
It s nine years ago last Valentine s
Day (I remember all the dates well
enough, I warrant ye) that I was at
'Frisco with a Yankee, name of Seth
Hickman. We'd met down in Denver,
and stood by each other in a row that
happened there, and of course that drew
us together a bit ; and the end of it was
we agreed to go prospecting together
and 44 share and share alike."
Scth was a sharp fellow and knew all
the likeliest spots, and I could do a day's
work with any man in those days,
though I ain't much to brag of now; and
the end of it was we made a pretty good
haul.
When we got to 'Frisco I thought of
nothing but banking some of the stuff
for a rainy day and having a spree with
the rest, and then starting off again; but
Seth didn t seem to see it at all. 1 no
ticed that he looked serious-like, as if
he had something on his mind, for the
first two days after we got into the
town ; and on the second evening, as we
were sitting over our grog, he spoke out:
Jim, old boss, I'm a-gwine to tell
yew something that nary a soul in crea
tion knows about but myself; for if yew
hadn't been some smart with your Der
ringer when them three skunks went for
me down in Denver, they might ha' wrote
4 Gone up' over this child; and no man
ever did Seth Hickman a good turn, nor
a bad turn neither, but what he got co
coanut for you (tit for tat), yew bet yure
life on that!
44 When I was in Arica last year I
went up country a bit with my rine, and
thar I happened on an old Injun critter,
as old as George Washington's nurse,
livin' in a hut all by himself, among the
spurs of the Andes, and I camped in his
hut for the night.
44Wal, the aguardiente (whisky) in my
flask war a leetle tew strong for him, and
he got reg'lar slewed; and when his
tongue got loosened by the licker he kim
outwi sich a yarn as whipped every
thing in Prescott all to fits, lie said that
when the Peruvian chiefs stampeded
from Cuzoo arter Pizarro took it, a lot
on 'm got up among the mountains, car
rying their gold with 'em till they came
out on the plateau of Lake Titica; and
thar, findin' the Spaniards close on their
trail, they chucked all the gold into the
lake and skedaddled nobody knows
where. And he said that if anybody
took the trail from his hut, north and by
east, till they hit the southern end of the
lake, and then looked out for abig, three
cornered rock like a pyramid upside
down, they'd jest got to scoop in the mud
of the lake whar that rock's shadow fell
on it at sunrise, and they'd find nuff gold
to buy up all Wall street. Now we've
got money enough to put that job through,
and if yew feef like tryin' it, I'm in."
I said 44 done" at once and we got our
money together and slipped down the
coast to Arica as last as the Pacific
steamer could carry us. The minute we
got there Seth went off into the hills to
try and get hold of his old Indian for a
guide, while I hunted about for work
men for this was a job that needed
more hands than our own. At last I got
hold of two Spaniards two sturdy fel
lows they were, and honest enough as
Spaniards go and then a Portigee and
two niggers. We weren't long of buy
ing our stores and working tackle, and
by the time Seth came back with his
guide all was ready and away we went.
Seth was much too knowing a bird to
let on what his real game was as long as
we were within hail of the town, for if
you say 44 gold" there oily in a whisper
those blessed Gambusinbs (gold-finders)
will hear it a hundred miles off. So all
that we told our gang was that we were
going prospecting among the lower
ranges, as lots of fellows did every day;
but when we were past the old Indian's
hut and well up among the hills, so that
our chaps couldn't easily turn back if
they wanted, he up and told them the
whole story. They were rather taken
aback, as well they might be, for Lake
Titica's a good many day's journey to
the northeast, among some very awk
ward mountains, and a good 13,000 feet
above the sea if it's an inch. However,
a Spaniard (or any other man, for that
matter) will go pretty nearly anywhere
if he once gets on the scent of gold ; so
our fellows they spoke up stoutlyenouga
and said they were ready to go up to the
lake and down to the bottom of it into
the bargain, after such a haul as that;
and off we set again.
I've seen a good many wonders in my
time, knocking about the world as I've
done; but arything like that climb up
the Andes I never saw yet. Rocks that
seemed to go up into the very sky,
straight as a plumb-line; beds of moss
three or four feet deep, and soft as a vel
vet cushion; trees two hundred feet high,
all one blaze of flowers from top to bot
tom ; leaves big enough to wrap you up
like a blanket; tree-ferns big as a table
cloth, all glittering like the finest silver
lace; humming-birds and monkeys and
parrots, and butterflies as broad as the
palm of your hand; waterfalls sheer
down over great black precipices a thou
sand feet high, and far away behind the
everlasting mountains, piled one above
another till they seemed to go right up
to heaven. Among all these enortnous
things we eight men, big and strong as
we were, seemed of no more account
than a lot of ants crawling on a blade of
grass, and I think I never felt so small
in my life as I did then.
However, I hadn't much leisure to
think about it at the time, Tor ou can't
expect a fellow to have much of nn eye
for scenery when he's hacking his wav
through a great cobweb of brant lies too
thick for the light to get through, with
hi3 boots full of ants and his mouth lull
of gnats, and the damp vapor-bath boat
of the woods melting him tway bit by
bit, fifty prickles going into him at once,
a thorn-bush s alping him from above
and a creeper tripping him up down be
low.
And so we hammered along, till at last
we worked up to the plateau and saw
the great lake spreading awav before us
as far as ever we could see. We weren't
long of making out . the three-cornered
crag, nor the shadow neither, for it was
just at sunrise when we got there, as if
o purpose tor us; and once we d made
it out we hardly waited to take breath
before we were at it tooth and toe-nail.
The first day was a regular blank one
till just toward sundown, and then the
I ortigee screeched out suddenly that
he'd got something heavy. I helped him
to haul up the pan, and there, sure
enough, was a bar of gold over a foot
long, and pretty nigh as thick as my two
fingers here. At that wc all shouted at
once, and went at it harder than over;
and I really think our chaps would have
worked all night, but Seth stopped Vm.
He told em that the gold wouldn t run
away, and that if they put on too much
steam at first they'd just use themselves
up before they were half through, and
that they d better just light the lire and
get dried, and have some supper, aud fix
up some kind of shelter against the dew,
and then start fair next morning. And
so they did.
1 he next day and the next and the next
alter that we kept bringing it up in hand
fuls gold circlets and chains and neck
laces and ingots without end. But on
the fifth day I found the provisions get
ting so low that 1 was rather scared, for
up here there was no game of any sort,
there being no vegetation at that height
for the game to live on. So wc held a
council of war. Our chaps had got the
gold fever so into their blood by this
time that I verily believe they d have
kept digging on till they died of hunger;
but Setti and I, who were a little cooler,
talked them over at last. Wc told 'em
that we'd got enough already to make us
all as rich as Jews; that we must all
starve if we didn't replenish our slock
somehow; that ten to one the 44 find" was
played out (and, indeed, none of us had
taken a gr&in all that morning); and that,
in any case, the lake was always there,
and they could come back and trv again
whenever they liked. So, bit by bit, we
worked 'em round, and all started to go
back together.
Wed hard work of it the first part of
the way, for our loads were pretty heavy,
and stumbling in and out of these great
rocks was no joke, let alone that the five
days' work had taken it out of us more
than we expected. One of the Spaniards
got a bad fall, and not one of us but had
his bruise to show. But at last we got
over the barren bit and found ourselves
fairly down among the woods again; and
then I began to be jolly, thinking this
was the end of it. But it wasn't it was
only the beginning.
CHATTER II.
One afternoon, when we'd got well
down among the lower ranges, we were
just looking about for a place to camp
(for the Spaniard who had got hurt was
beginning to give up), when one of the
niggers said suddenly
44 Senor, man watch us!"
I looked up, and there, sure enough,
was a man (a savage-looking leilow
enough, but evidently no Indian) wntch
ing us from the top of a ridge, a little to
the left. He kept looking after us for a
little while, and then disappeared as if
the earth had swallowed him.
44 Don't like that," says Seth, 44 that
critter's seen that wc carry a heavy
swag, and he's gone to tell some of his
chums, you bet!
44 When one has found a punkin-pie,
He goes and tells the fothers!
44 1 feel like campin' in a strong place
to-night, I do!"
And so we did with a deep canon
(gorge) behind us going t-hecrdown near
ly a hundred feet and a thick clump of
trees in our front that made cover, w hile
beyond it the ground was smooth and
level for a good eighty yards, so that no
living thing could come near us without
being seen and fired at.
Just as we'd lit our fire and were begin
ning to cook we saw first one man an I
then another, till we had counted fifteen
in all, come zigzagging in and out of the
bushes down the face of the opposite
ridge. They halted just at the edge of
the thicket and took a look at the smoke J
of our fire rising above the trees; and
then two of them laid down their rifles
and were coming across the clearing to
us, looking as friendly as they could,
w hen old Seth shoves his head "through
the leaves and says in Spanish:
44 Gentlemen, we're talking over a lit
tle business of our own and wish to be
private, so you'll oblige us by keeping
your own side and we'll keep ours ; for
we have a way of shooting things that
come too near us, and we should be sorry
to lift you by mistake 1"
Back the two beauties went, looking
as silly as a ha'porth of treacle in a two
gallon jug, and Seth rubbed Lis hands
and gave a chuckle.
44 They'd got a bottle in each hand,
them two," says he : 44 they war gwine to
make us slewed and then clean out our
swag; but they don't fool this child, no
how. Naow, ye see, they'll wait till dark
and then go for us with a rush that's
what's the matter with them but 1
guess we'll be 4 not at home' w hen they
call."
lie whispered to me to cut down three
or four of the longest creepers and twist
them into a rope, and I, guessing what
he was up to, did it with a will. In a
few minutes we had a rope that would
have stood anything; and then I hitched
one end around a tree, and let drop the
other down the ravine the rest making
a great shouting and singing meanwhile
by way of a blind. Then the old Indian,
who was as nimble as a cat, slid down to
the bottom, and we lowered our packs
to him one by one.
"That's all right," said Seth; "and
now we'll just take it easy till dark, and
then take passage by this new overland i
route of ourn." "
But one don't tal e it very easy when
there's a gang of bloodthirsty rascals, somebody lifting my head and pouring
address. And then, for a few minutes
it was just flash, flash! bung, bang! like
a lire-work Seth and I keeping Vm in
play while the rest slid down one by
one. And mighty uirly work it was, too,
I can tell you, blazing away in the dark
with nothing to aim at, and hear the bul
lets come rattling about you without
ever seeing who sent them. But the
rope was soon clesr, and then Seth stuck
up the dead nigger against a tree, with
his gun across the fork ot it, that they
might sec the glint of the barrel, and
think we were still on the watch. Then
he slid down and 1 after him.
The first thing wc did was to fake the
gold out of the poor old nigger's pack
and part it among us. The rest or the
things wc threw awav, as we hadhrown
away our tools long before (for our only
chance now was to march as light as
possible), and then we set forward along
the gully. For some time we could hear
the rascals banging away overhead, but
that died away b degrees, and there
was a silence as if the world had Just
been created and no life come into it
yet.
All that night we stumbled along the
bottom of the ravine like men groping
in a tunnel sitting down every now and
then to rest; but when day came we saw
the rocks on each si te getting lower and
lower, and the creat black nit snreadine
out broider and shallower, till at last, a
little after sunrise, wo came out into the
forest again. But just then the other
nigger sat down and put his hand to his
side.
44 No can go farther, senor!"
I ran up to him, and blest if he hadn't
got a big bullet-wot nd in his side from
last night s scrimmage, and the bravo
leilow had actually dragged on all night
without saying a word about it lest he
should keep us back. 1 sat down and
took his head on my knee, and he died
as quietly as a child; and wc covered
him w ith leaves and left him lying there
in the bright morning sunshine, and
went forward on our weary tramp again.
It was harder than ever for us now.
for wc had eight loads among six men,
and already 1 could see one of the Span
iards beginning to stagger and the old
Indian trembling like a leaf. Then a
horrible kind of fear crept over me that
we should keep on dropping that way,
man after man, till there was only one
left, and then but at that thought I
threw up my. arms and gavea sort of
yell like a man starting up from a bad
dream. But Seth punched me in the ribs
with his elbow, and whispered:
44 Sh! don't frighten the resf."
And 1 set my teeth and choked it
down.
It may have been an hour or two after
this I was beginning to lose all count
of time now that Seth, who had got a
little ahead of the rest, suddenly sang
out:
"Hurrah!"
We all looked up.
44 Here's somcthin' civilized at last, by
hoe-cake!" says he. 44 Guess we've struck
the ritiht track w ithout kno win' it. Look
here."
Just in front of us was a gully about
forty feet deep, through which ran a
small stream, and across it lay a bridge
not one of the rope bridge you Bee in
Lower Peru, but good solid wood two
long beams from bank to bank, with
cross-pieces lashed to them, just like the
sleepers on a railway. Then we all
shouted at once and stepped out tocross
it ; but, all in a moment, the poor old In
dian, who was one of the hindmost,
lurched over the edge, and went slap
down into the water, and the gold he
carried just sunk him like a stone.
Whether he'd got hurt in the fight too,
or whether he was just tired and dizzy
like the rest of us, I can't say but down
he went, and we never saw him more.
So now we were cut down to five, and
had lost our guide into the bargain.
44 That's a bad job," says Seth; "but
never mind, boys we must lest steer by
the light of natur' now. Whar thar's a
bridge like that thar oughter be a trail
somewhar."
Sure enough there was a trail, and we
tried to follow it, but we soon lost it
aj. ain, and tramped on all day at hap
hazard trying to steer by the sun.
Toward evening we halted to cat, and
then pushed on again bot-foot, for that
was the last of our provisions.
Just as the moon arose we came upon
a gully with a bridge across it, and there
we all stopped dead and looked at each
other a look I shall never forget. It
was the same bridge that we had crossed
twelve hours before.
That minute's one of the things I never
like to think of. There we were, lost in
a tropical forest, our guide gone, every
man of us as weak as a child and not a
morsel of food left!
44 Well, boys," says old Seth (who was
our main stay throughout), 44 we're in a
kind of fix; thar ain't no denyin it.
Naow, I calc'late this bridge ain't been
long built by the look of it, and so, in
stead o' goin losin' ourselves outer
everybody's way, I guess we'll just stick
here" till some party picks us up it
won't be long, I reckon. That's my
idee; how does it strike yew?"
We all agreed at once; and, indeed, we
were too far gone now for any more
marching. So we sat down there for
three days, bearing it as well as we could,
and trying to shoot game between whiles.
But our eyes were too dim and our
hasds too shaky for that; and the birds
and monkeys scurried past, chattering
and screaming as if in mockery. And at
last we couldn't keep it off any longer,
and it came.
The Spaniards died first, and no won
der, poor fellows! for, though some of
them are as brave men as ever stepped,
they haven't the pith and fiber of an
Englishman. The Portigee held out
longer, for he had the heart of a lion;
but at last he went too, and old Seth and
I were left alone.
44 Seth," says 1, 44 let's bury these poor
fellows while we can ; for if they're left
lying here, and our hunger gets worse,
we might be driven to you know!"
So we wrapped the poor fellows in
their blankets, with a heavy stone to
each, and rolled them over the edge of
the ravine down into the water. We
buried the gold too and marked the spot,
in case anything should turn up to save
us at the last; an J then we lay down
again, as if we had nothing left to do but
to die.
And after that everything seems
blurred and hazy, like an ugly dream.
The trees and the rocks and the sky
seemed to go round and round in a whirl,
and old Seth stood up as tall as a steeple,
and great black things came out of the
bushes and made faces at me; and then I
was sitting under the old tree in the
churchyard at home and heard my old
mother's voice (who's been dead this five
and twenty years) as plain as print, till
all at once there were men's facea and
men's voices all around us and I felt
twice vour strength and armed to the
teeth, every man Jack of 'em. sitting
waiting barely eighty vards off to cut
your throat; and I think I never fcund
any time yet go so slowly as those two
last hours before sundown.
44 Naow," says Seth at last, when the
darkness had 1 airly closed in, 44 1 guess
we'll begin to leave."
But just then, as if this had been a
signal, there came a flash and a bang
from the other side of the clearing, and
half a dozen bullets came peppering in
among the trees. 1 felt something warm
spurt over my hands, and the negro who
stood beside me fell all of a heap. Like
lightning I up piece and let fly, and I
heard somebody give a yelp that sound
ed as if that letter had gone to the right
something into my mouth, and then 1
fainted right off.
We had been picked up by a party
ermine back from the mines and they
carried us down with them to Arica, and
when w e got round again we went back
and dug up the gold and gave a lumping
lot of ii to the wives and children of the
poor fellows that had died for us.
But when I got back after that last
week's work my hair was quite gray as
gray as you see it now. And that's all
the story. Graphic
m m
The Khedive of Egypt wants to bor
row $75,000,000, at 12 per cent, interest,
payable monthly, just to get rid of a
little floating debt he has of about the
same amount.