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THE HERALD-
rUCLISHED EVEKY THURSDAY
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBKASKA.
Oa Maia Street, between 4th and Cth,
Second Story.
OFFKIAIi IMrEIl OV CASS COUNTY.
Terms, In Advanco:
One copy, one year $2.00
Ono cony, fix months j.oo
Out cvvy, three mouths &0
NEBRASKA
EBAIJD).
JNO. A. MACMURPHY, Editor.
TERMS: $2.00 a Ycxr.
VOLUME XL
PLA1TSMQUT1I, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1875.
THE HERALD.
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Extra cojilfd of llio Hr.nA in for a!o by If. J.
rUrcigliL ut the I""1fll--. mid O. V. Jv'itieuu, cur
lier nf Alaiu nnii VirtU etrut'ta..
HENRY BCECK,
DEALER IS
IULXiiituLXde,
SAFES, CHAIRS,
Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads,
ETC., tTC, ETC.,
Of All Doscrlptions.
METALLIC BURIAL CASES.
"Wooden. Co flint;
of nil ki.CH, ready made, and told cheap for caah.
With mny thank for it patronage, I invif
all lo call and examine my
LARGE BTOCK OF
l'"tii-iil iii-o siikI OollliiM.
jmiiSS
MEDICINES
AT
J. H. BUTTERY'S,
On Main Street, bet. rifth and Sixth.
Wholesale ai.il Kt-tnil Jx-alcr in
Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils,
Varnishes, Patent Medicines,
Toilet Articles, etc., etc.
t tV rKKSCKHTluNJS carefully compounded at
all lionrn, day and night.
:j,VIy
J. . SHANNON'S
Feed, Halo and Livery
Main Street, PhtltsmoMlh, Neb.
I nni prepared to accommodate llio initdic with
iioxises,
Carriages, Bugyies, Wagons,
AND
A No. 1 Hearse,
On Short Notice and Reasonable Terms.
A H AC Iv
Will Hun to the Steamboat Land
ing, Depot, and all parts of
the City, -when Desired.
j.ml-tf
First National Bank
OF riattsmoutli, Nebraska,
SfCCESSOR TO
TooHo, lltiiui:i fc Olnt'lc.
totlS FlTZiR KX.il
K. (1. J'OTK V
A. W. Mi .M ;ni.iN . .
Jon OKotr.KK
Prrxidonl,
yicc-l'riciilcnt.
Caliier.
Assistant Cashier.
Thi Fiauk i now open fur biiHinosn at tlieir new
rim, corner Main and Sixth ftreetc, and arc pre
pared to trmii-acl a vucral
BANKING BUSINESS.
Stocks, Bonds, Gold, Government
and Local Securities
i;out;UT AND SOLD.
Deposits Received and Interest Al
lowed on Time Certificates.
UUAFT3 DHAWN,
Available in any part vt the Unilrd Staled and In
all the Vrincipal Towns and CHk-s of Kuruo.
AGENTS FOR THE
CELEBRATED
INMAN LINE ana ALLAH LINE
of tsTiV3iians;.
Vitsoiih wiphins to bring out their friends from
Europe can
rt'Jil HAK TlcktTS mo V3
VTln'Ollll t() X'lilt trSlllOlltll.
Excelsior Barber Shop.
.r. c. J5QOisrK,
.Main Street, opposite Brooks House.
HAIR-CUTTING,
Shaving and Shampooing.
USI KCIAL ATTENTION UIVKN TO
I'ulliiis: Iiildren's ami Ludicit'
Hair.
O. F. JOHNSON,
Call and See Boone, Gents,
And get a boon In a
OXiX3iV3V & XI -A. "VT 33 .
nll-ly
GO TO TIIK
Tost OHico Book Store,
. J. STKEIGHT, Proprietor,
YOB. VOIU
Books. Statioucry, Pictures, Music,
TOYS, CONFECTIONERY,
Violin Strings,
Newspapers, Novels,
Sonj Books, etc., etc
LiKALEU IN
Drugs, Medicines
-AND
sr sr?I- " tHZf H
11 1 -- , - L'.;.l. ; - "
WALLPAPER.
All Paper Trimmed Free ofCharp
ALSO. DEALER IN
Books, Stationery
AND LATEST PUBLICATIONS.
t'tTrescrlptiwiiH carefully compounded by an
experienced Dnij;iet.flrl
KEMEMI5ER THE TLACK
Cor. Fifth and Main Streets,
PLATTSMOUTH, nki:.
THOS. V. SHRYOCK,
KEALEU IN
Main St., ltd. 5lh ami Clh,
riiATTSMIOUTH, - ISTE13.
ALSO
UNDERTAKER,
And hit on hand a Iari;u stock of
Alclallic IJiii'ial Cases,
Wooden Coffins, Etc.,
Of all sir.es, cheap for cash.
Funerals Attended on Short Notice
FOR YOUR CROCERIES
lO TO
J, V. Weckbacli,
Cor. Third and Main Sta., l'lattf month,
((jiutbinanu's old etanil.)
lie keeps on hand a lare aud well i-clectcd stock
FANCY GROCERIES,
CofTees, Teas, Sugar, Sirup, Boots,
Shoes, Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc.
Also, a lare tlock of
Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes,
Crockery, dueensware,
Etc., Etc., Etc.
In connection with the Grocery is a
BAKERY and CONFECTIONERY.
Illclieit I'rlee Taid for Country rrodure.
A full stock at all time?, aud will not be undersold.
Take notice of the Slu:
" EMPIRE BAKE It V AND GUOCEIiY."
nlyl
TOST OFFICE buildi.m;,
rLATTSMOUTH, NEB.
II. 1 WATIillMM & SON,
Wholesale and Itetail Dealer in
PINE LUMBER,
Lath, Shingles,
SASH, DOORS, ELINDS, ETC.,
On Main St., cor. Fifth,
rLATTSMOUTH, - - - NEIi.
WILLIAM STADELMANN
Ha? ou hand one of the art-et stocks of
CLOTHING
AND
Gents' Furnishing Goods
FOR Sl'IUNG AND SUMMER.
I invitu everybody in want of anything in my
lino to call at my store.
South Side Main, bet. 5th & Glh Sis.,
And convince Ihpmiflvea of the fact. I have as a
Hpeeuiliy in my K- tiil rpiirtinents a xtock of
t ineC lotuini: for Men ami iMjjs, to wlncu worn
yite tho)o who want :;oodi.
I also keep on hand a large and well -selected
stock of
Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Etc.
jarlyl
PHILADELPHIA STORE
SOLOJIOX XATIIAX,
SEALERS IS
Fancy Dry Goods,
Notions, Ladies' FnriiisMuE Goods.
Largest, C'heajcBt, Finest and Best Aborted Stock
in the city.
Wc arc prepared lo fell cheaper than they can
be purcuai"cu trisuwuvre.
GIVE XJS -A. CALL
And examine our Goods.
SIorc n Main St., lctween 4:h and 5th St.,
riuiti.mutn, Meb. i'ir
I'LATTSMOliTII MILLS,
PLATTSMOL'TII NEBRASKA.
Conrao IIeijel, rroprictor.
FLOUR, CORN MEAL, FEED,
Alwajs on hand and for t-ule at lowest ca.-,h price,
The Ili-hcet Prices paid for Wheal and Corn.
Particular attention giyen to cos torn work.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
ComlcDsc J from Tdesrams of Accomjianjiiis Dates.
Tuesday, May 13. Five new national
banks Lave been authorized to commence
business in various places in New England,
and one in Allcclieny City, Ta.... Gov. Wes
ton, of New Hampshire, and four or live
of bis Council Lave decided that the votes
cast for "Natf Head, Republican candi
date for State Senator from the Second Dis
trict, arc to be treated as blanks, claiming
that Lis name is Nathaniel. They also threw
out the vote catt for the Prohibition candi
date for State Senator, declaring Lim ineligi
ble on account of not Laving been a rcbi
dent of tLo State a3 long as the law pre
scribes. This gives the two disputed seats
in the Stale Senate to the Democrats
....A Wilkesbarre (Pa.) dispatch says
the pro.spccts arc exceedingly favora
ble for a speedy resumption of work in the
mines throughout the valley, including those
tit Kingston, where there has been the most
trouble The Governor of Missouri has is
sued a proclamation calling on the people of
the State to observe Thursday, June 0, as a
-day of humiliation, fasting aud prayer, be
cause of the grasshopper visitation in many
sections of the Slate C'opL Bales' com
mand has captured, at the White Uivcr cross
ing, tbe John Gordon Sioux City Black Hills
party.... Gov. Taylor has issued a proc
lamation apioinliiig the '-".Hit iubt. as Deco
ration Day in Wisconsin Gen. and
cx-Vice-President JohH C. Breckinridgo
died at his residence in Lexington.
Ky., on the evening of the 17th, of abscess of
the liver combined with consumption. Dur
ing the war he was struck by a fragment of a
shell, which inllicted an injury that is sup
ported to have aggravated the disease of which
he died. He was a little over lifty years of
re.
Wki nks day, May 19. A Barcelona
dispatch announces the rapture of an im-
portant Carlist Hsition at Montscrrat, with a
Government loss of ninety-three killed and
wounded. The Carlist loss is unknown....
D. W. Munn, Supervisor of Internal Revenue
for several of the Western States, has becu
requested by Secretary Bristow to resign
Vice-President Wilson arrived at Leaven
worth, Kan., on the isth While Mr. and-
Mrs. McPhersoti. living right miles east of
Columbus, Neb., were absent from Lome on
a visit, on the ltith, their house caught fire
and three of their four children were
burned to death It is feared that the
hordes of grasshoppers infesting many
sections of Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska
will later in the season extend their ravages
into Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky It is
reported that the Mexican banditti are again
raiding on the Texas border in the vicinity
of the llio Grande, committing many depre
dations aud outrages.
Thursday, May 20. Twenty-one mem
bers of the Committee of Thirty iu the French
Assembly have resigned ou account of the
failure of a measure advocated by them....
The small-pox is said to have broken out in
the Carlist camps aud to be raging violently
. .AsaB. Matthews, Collector of Internal
Revenue of the Ninth Illinois District, has been
appointed United States Supervisor of Inter
nal Revenue for the district embracing the
States of Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota,
f l. W. Munif, removed.... The arguments
of counsel in the Tilton-iicecher suit were
begun on the 19th, Judge Porter opening on
behalf of the defense Several prosecutions
against persons implicated in the whi.-ky
frauds were tried lefore U. S. Commissioner
Iloyne, of Chicago, ou the 19th. Two gangers,
named Rutishaucr and Watson, were held to
bail in the sum of $.,000 each, and Messrs.
Golson fc Eastman, rectifiers, were each held
in the sunt of f 10,000 Mrs. Lincoln, w idow
of the late President Lincoln, Las been ad
judged insane by a jury in the Cook
County Court at Chicago, and is to
be removed to an insane asylum at
P.atavia, 111 The Chicago Tribune says
the long years of painful brooding over
the dreadful homicide of her husband had
gradually produced the necessity for the ac
tion now taken, wbicL is acquiesced iu by her
relatives and friends.... The funeral of Gen.
John C. Breckinridge took place at Lexing
ton, Ky., on the 19th, and was attended by an
immense throng of people.
Fuiday, May 21. It is reported that
the Carlists, after two days' heavy lightiNg,
Lave occupied Usurbil and Alio, from which
the Alphousist troops retreated with heavy
losses... .Osceola, Pa., was nearly destroyed by
lire on the 'ioth, all the public buildings except
the Catholic and Methodist Churches being
burned, together with about 200 dwellings.
Twelve hundred people are rendered home
less. A large quantity of lumber was de
stroyed. Loss estimated at $2,000,000; in
surance small.... A committee appointed by
the Illinois Humane Society at its re
cent annual meeting to prepare an ap
peal for the organization of societies
for the prevention of cruelty to ani
mals have issued an address to the humane
men and women of the Northwest, calling on
them for concert of action iu thi direction.
The committee state that the Illinois Humane
Society (whose headquarters are at 75 East
Madison street, Chicago, Albert W. Landon,
Secretary) will be glad lo forward to appli
cants such publications as may aid iu the
formation of State or local societies, and it in
vites correspondence upon this important
subject The Wisconsin Republican State
Convention is to meet at Madison on Wednes
day, Julj-7, for the nomination of candidates
for State oflicers.... Hon. Jesse D. Bright,
cx-United States Senator from Indiana.
died at his residence in Baltimore, Md.,
on the HUi, of organic disease of the
heart. He was sixty-three years old An
attempt to remove the public' archives of
West Virginia from Charleston, W. Va., to
heeling, the new capital of the State, was
thwarted on the 201 h by the enforcement of
the injunction issued by Judge Smith. Gov.
Jacobs denied the authority of the court
iu the matter and protested against its in
terference, but decided not to remove the pub
lic property, holding the court responsible for
its safe-keeping, the State oflicers deciding in
the meantime to make their headquarters at
Wheeling.. . .The centcunial of the Mecklen
burg Declaration of Independence was
celebrated at Charlotte, N. C, on the 20th.
There was a large and enthusiastic
gathering of people from that and adjoining
States. The hoisting of the stars and strijcs
in Independence Square was greeted with
enthusiastic cheers, and Hags were displayed
from all the principal buildings and other
places in the city. Many distinguished gen
tlemen were present and delivered addresses.
THE MAKKETS.
Mat 2, ls.C.
NEW YORK.
CVrrros Midilluif upland, lGGbi!c.
luiik a. im:ci c auie j io.o"j,1.:iO. llo'-s
Live, Y.70iiS.o0. Sheep Live (unihoru), f ;.(
T.l.
IjEAPSTt!K!s. Flonr Good to choice, fj..vxa
5.S0; white wheat extra. Sj.NKftii.'JS. Wheat No.
SCblcago, $1.17.l.l'J;No. 2 Northwestern, $1.1S
&.V); No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $l.l'.!JG1.0O
Rye Wert era and State, $1.03 '41. 10. Barley
$l.4it.-15. Corn Mixed Westcm, S-'xiSj'jc.
O.its Mixed Western. 75fi7fc.
I'liov'sioxs. Pork New Jlc, $-!.4;.1.5o.
Ard Prime Steam, V&Wtc. Cheeot? 2,13c.
Worn..-Domestic fleece, 43j.':Sc.
CUICAtJO.
I.ivb Stock. Beevea Choice, fC.15S6.0j;
Sood, $5.SO26-00; medium, $5.40(35.73; butch-
era etock, $4.00(35.23; etpek cattle, $3.2531.73.
JJ, Live, fT.Om&S.lO. Sheep Good to choice
(unshorn), $5.50Cj(j.75.
PitovistoNS. Butter-Choice, flc J??P
Fresh, 13!4&Hc. Pork Mces, $0.7aj-73. Lard
15.05ff415.10.
BKBADsTurrs. Flonr White Winter Extra,
$t3.0047.5O; cprinr extra, $1.7j5.50. Wheat-
Spring, No. 2, Sl.iKi'.tai.OlH. Corn No. 2,6'.i,
iiTOVic. Oats No. 2, 62 sjtfi'i c. Kye No. 2,
$1.05!4ai.06. Barley No. 2, $1.3301.37.
Lcmceiu First Clear, $!S.Urrt50.00; Second
Clear, $ lt.UKTt47.00; Common Boards, $10.0
11.50: Fencing, f 13.0U&l:.t)u; "A" Shingle?,
$L0lKjW.20; Lath, $2.0Ut&2.25.
CINCINNATI.
BuKADHTurrs. Flour .rj.M5.C3. Wheat-
Rod, $1.2udil.:53. Corn 70&77C. Kye $1.21
1.25. Oats 70G7-)c. Barley No. 2, $1.3'xai. 10.
PuovibioNs. Pork $21.50tt21.75. Lard-HV3
1514c.
ST. LOUIS.
I.iVK Stock. Beeves Jfair to choice, $5.5U3
6.:i0. IIos Live, $6.b0(&S.iK.
BuEAnsTurrs. Flour XX Fall, $j.5V5.75.
Wheat No. 2 Red Fall, $1.37t.:J7'4. Corn-
No. 2, U7!V'i.i'Sc. Oats No. 2, 053rfi5i4c. Kye
No. 2, $1.05541.06. Barley-No. 2, $1.231.23.
l'ltoviMONs. Pork Mess, $21.601.73. Lard
l!4&15c.
MILWAUKEE.
BRBAnsTurrn. Flour Spring XX, $l.7ri450n.
Wheat Spring, Mo. 1, $l.w:',(?41.01; No. 2, $1.01
t.OPi. Corn-No. 2, 70i4TO',ic. Oal No. 2,
liDViSjiKJc. Rye No. 1, $1.01(iil.03. Barley No.
2, t l.:j:l.::i.
DETROIT.
BKKADSTurirs. Wheat-Extra, $t.2!Kftl.2U!S.
Corn-No. 1, 7IJ!i(a771ic. Oats-No. 1, 6S','tU9c.
TOLEDO.
BuEAnsTrrrs. Wheat Amber Michigan,
$1.2S(f4l.; No. 2 Bed, $1.27'4'41.',K. Corn
High Mixed, 7Ja75!lc. oaU No. 2, 63USHc.
CLEVELAND.
Bkeadstukk Wheat No. 1 lied, $l."'2'i$
1.-W; No. i.od, $1.27V4&l.'-8- Corn Iliyh
Mixed, 77iiMSc. Oats No. 1, Gfi:i&ti7c.
BUFFALO.
Live Stock. Becvos-$3.00147. 23. Hogs
Live, $7.55(448.35. Sheep Live (xhoru), fl.'JOjJ
&.t2!i.
EAST LIBERTY.
Live Stock. Beeves Best, $r.75t&7.37,s; me
dium, $i;.0tKfl.2.';. Hogs Yorkers, $7.2.Ve"67.;
Philadelphia, $.:rS.S0. Sheep Best (clipped),
$5.C0t43.50; mcdiuui (clipped), $1.25&l.75.
A Sclieme of Plunder.
It is now ten ycar3 since the close of
the rebellion. During that time millions
upon millions of dollars of claims for
property taken and damages sustained
have been presented to the Government
for payment. Some of these have been
just and equitable, and have been paid.
Others there are, no Uoutit, still re
maining unsettled which are also meri
toriousj but the great mass are demands
of a very questionable character, to say
the least, and it is time that these were
debarred by constitutional provision.
We speak ot this matter particularly just
now because there is a constant tenden
cy to concentrate the enormous political
, . . n ... i;,. 1...
aiiu pecuniary liiiiueuce uitu "is oe
hind these claims in an assault on the
public treasury. The recent action of
the State authorities in Missouri is an
illustration of this. Three million of
dollars, it is stated, have been allowed
by the State to claimants, to be paid
when the General Government recog
nizes and provides for the debt. That
this foreshadows a combined attempt to
rob the People of a like amount admits
of no question. Other States will follow
the example ot Missouri, or at least pre
sent, if they have not as yet presented,
like claims; and it can be easily seen
that an amount larger than the national
debt can thus be produced as a demand
against the United States.
What have we to guard against the al
lowance of these demands? Wemake
bold to say that the House of Kepresetit
atives which lnceta iu December can,
without preliminery effort, cast 100 votes
for the repeal of laws now debarring
these claims. That the immense inttu-
... . 1
ence winch, in various ways, can ne
brought Ut bear on the House will se
cure a majority at the proper time" is but
little less probable. There will stand
between the people and national bank
ruptcy in such an event, lirst, the Senate,
which, as at present constructed, of
course would defeat such an attempt,
but w Licit may be changed soon to one
far less conscientious. Second, wc nave
the President, who is inflexibly opposed
to all these schemes of robbery, and who
has already set Lis face like Hint against
a number ol measures wnicn, inougu
seemingly equitable, were but en
tering wedges in this grauu plan.
For the present, then, we are safe;
but in one year from now a contest
opens which will be fought with despera
tion, and which, may result, it tne people
do not exercise the utmost vigilance, in
placing men in the Senate, and a man in
the Presidential chair, who will yield to
the pressure and saddle this enormous
burden upon the country. The tremen
dous stake involved warrants the most
desperate efforts to win, and sooner or
later, unless some constitutional pre
ventive be devised, the question will be
sprung on the floor of Congress wilit ad
vantages which will inevitably carry 11
through. The power of money is illus
trated every day, and when we consider
the fabulous sums wnicn couiu uc oiiereu
in aid of this scheme we may well hesi
tate before choosing the men whom we
depend upon to withstand and defeat the
assault.
The parties directly interested in this
business are not residents of the South
alone. There arc brokers, claim-agents
and lobbyists by the hundreds already
interested in the North.
The pigeon-holes of nearly every ofllce
from the Capitol to Fifteenth street are
crowded with these claims. They Lave
been sent on by the claimants under
promise of a contingent fee which gen
erally amounts to about half the sum
demanded. Nearly every man thus in
terested js an earnest and untiring lob
byist for the repeal of prohibitory stat
utes, and the sum promised to them is so
large that they can employ a dozen each
of subordinates to assist in the work.
We should not be surprised ere long to
see a number of influential newspapers
added to the number of workers, and a
plausible plea manufactured for this fa
tal stroke at the nation's credit.
By a strange combination of circum
stances the centennial year of our his
tory seems fated to become one of peril
as tkcII as ot glory, and it behooves every
citizen to see to it that he does not, by
any mistaken act, contribute to destroy
the fabric bo well begun a hundred years
ago. Inter Ocean.
The Philadelphia L&laer of May 10
says: " The total anthracite production
rctMUlcd for the week ending on the Sth
inst. was o 12,008 tons, and for the year to
the s:tme dale, o,571,120 tons, against o,
255,740 to the same time last vcar, show
ing a decrease of I,081,ol4 tous. The Id-
tuminous production reported for the
week was 53,810 tons, ami for the year
S50.203 tons, against 7'.8,0:0 tons t o cor
responding date last year, an increase of
51.152 tons. The total production of
both kinds of coal for the week was
o'CS.TGS tons, and for the year 4,421,088
tons, against G.054,070 tons to correspond
ing time last year, showing a decrease of
ioUi kinds of 1.0.J2,082 tons. 111c quan
tity of coal sent to market last week
from the Schuvlkill region was rather
under 80.000 tons, against 114,002 in cor
responding week last year, and for the
year so far the production is 827,713 tons
less than to tiie same time la.'year,
showiDg what that region has lost, to the
profit of the other regions still at work
The Lehigh region i up to this time
1,050,508 tong short of its last year's pro
duction."
THE CHILDREN OF THE tSl'lUNU.
BY MKS. S. M. WALSH.
The epring led forth her children three:
"Now, March, my boisterous boy," said she,
" llie earUi lias waited long for me,
Go tell her 1 am coming;
Breathe gently on her frozen breast,
And tell the flowers 1 love the best
To rouse them from their winter rest;
The bees w ill 6oou be humming."
But March, like all the race of loys.
Was fond of bluster and of noise;
He whistled loud, and raised Lis voice
To such uproarious shouting,
Fach 6hy plant cowered in its bed,
(J lad of a shelter for its head:
No bee or bird a wing outspread:
To earth came dread and doubting.
" O April, haste!" cried eager Spring;
"The earth grows weary, come and bring
New life to every waiting thing
To brook, anil lice, and blossom."
But April pouted, frowned and wept;
Her smiles were rare, her chill moods kept
The flowers iu fear, and still they thpt
In earth's warm, kindly bosom.
But sometimes when her mood was gay
She frolicked in a mad-cap w ay,
Anil sent the sutitieams bright and gay
To wake the drowsy flowers,
Wheedled the bee from out Lis cell,
TLen, with a change none could foretell,
Shrouded iu snow the crocus-bell,
And drenched the bee in tliowcis
Spring's kindly arms still held in fold
tier loveliest child; aud when she told
How earth was lying dull and cold,
Waiting so long to greet her.
The bright-eyed May, with tender grace,
Just In-lit her lovely, radiant face.
Kissed the cold earth, and every place
Grew bright with flowers to greet her!
Robins flew homeward, full of song;
Brooks laughed aloud, and dancedaioiig;
Trees clapped their bauds, aud all among
Their leaves the birds were mating;
The rains dropped down in gentle showers,
The bees went buzzing round the-flowers.
Ah, May! at last we claim thee ours,
.More precious for our waiting!
L'iriiilitiii Unitm.
IN AN ELEVATOR.
"Mrs. Jamf.sAi.foi, at home on the
Thursdays of December from two to live
p. 111. Hotel Kellerau, West Hoy Is ton
Street."
It was the last Thursday of December,
and quite a little throng ot lashionahlc
people had assembled at the Hotel Kel
lerau in response to this card. The pre
ceding Thursdays had been wet and
stormy ; this was a nudel winter's day,
crisp with frost and sparkling with sun.
Carriages drew up before the door in
long, double rows; a mob waited on the
sidewalk to watch the ladies going in;
the elevator was on the whig continually,
bearing gorgeous dames aloft to the
third story. It was a busy afternoon for
the porter and the " elevator boy;" but
as that functionary, a youth of some
forty summers, remarked to his confed
erates, " W eddings is weddings, aud it
ain't every day we have a bride iu the
house, 'specially such a stunner as this
one. uorry! am 1 sue a oeauty neiincrr
I'd like to be a-takin'of her up all day!"
patella Ldodgctt had always been
called a beauty. Why, was not so easy
to say, for, as she herself once candidly
remarked : " When you come to look at
me, I'm not so very pretty in fact, no
prettier lhan other people." This was
quite true. Ucauty often consists in a
certain nameiess eliarm ; brightness, un
expectedness, tact and sweetness com
bined, and these l'jslella had. r or the
rest, there were dark hair and eyes, a
clear, brilliant skin, a dimple, a white,
slender hand; but, as I said, she was no
prettier than American girls are apt to
, 1 . . . l .,- ! - 1
oc, only people persisteu in iinuKiiig tier
so. Mie wore tnese unmerited jaureis
gracefully enough ; success did not spoil
her; her lists ot lricmls numbered as
many women as men, which is always a
test to the qualities of a beauty. Hut
never, I'Cople agiecd, had Eslella IJlod
gett been sweeter, more unallectedly
cordial and fascinating than was Estella
Alsop that afternoon as she glided about
her pretty, new rooms, welcoming, greet
ing, making every one leei at uomu.
"How happy sue looks:' observed
Mrs. Dalrymple.
" W ell, who wouufn l be happy, with
the loveliest French trousseau that ever
was and such a nice husband as hers?"
asked Constance Ferris.
Two or three people laughed at the
unconscious warmth of Constance's tone.
" For my part," put in Alice Ordway,
I never could quite see that James Al
sop was so charming. He shuts me right
up; 1 don tget on wall bun at all. J.stei
la used to feel so too and I never under
stood how she came to like him at the
last."
"Ah, you never tried him in an ele
vator," said Mrs. Dalrymple, looking
fun 113'.
"In an elevator I Wliat (i, you mean.'
"Oh, thereby hangs a tale."
" Who is that lady in gray that has
just come in? inquired Constance.
See, rJstella is speaking to her now."
" How pleased Mrs. Alsop looks!"
Estella was looking more than pleased.
She had kissed the lady in gray twice as
they met and now stood holding her
hands and speaking rapidly.
" iou brought your bag, r-rnesl? 1 ou
are going to stay? I've set my heart on
having you christen our .spare room."
"les, the bag is outside. JNevcr
mind it now, or me. We shall have time
fr all that by and by, and you Lave
your other friends to see to."
" Ihey are beginning lo go. 11 s al
most live. Hun into my bedroom, r.r-
ncsl, the one next this, and take oil"
your bonnet."
"The elevator! do tell me what you
mean," persisted Alice Ordway, detain
ing Mrs. Dalrymple.
" Come round for Ave o'clock tea to
morrow and you shall have the full,
true and particular history," promised
that lady. "It is too late for story-telling
now. I must go."
The last guest departed and Estclla
ran back into the drawing-room.
".Now, Ernest, dear old Ernest, I have
you to myself at last. Come and get
settled and make believe you have lived
here always. See, this is your room. Isn't
it cozy?"
" It is charming," looking about the
dainty chamber, with its walls and car
pet of pale gray touched with blue, its
fresh chintzes and gav lutle lire.
never saw anything prettier or more
complete. How do you like living on a
flat. Stella?"
" Oh, very much. I don't know about
Hats in general; but this is delightful,
quiet, convenient and we are so high up
thatwc really have something like a
view. James and I are very proud of
our view. Hut we began wilh pleasant
associations, you know. The l'cytons
used to live here. Such nice people!
And here it was that it all began."
"It?"
"Yes, our il. Dear old stupid, you
know what I mean: our engagement; no,
not our engagement that came later
but our finding each other out ; the pre
liminary emotions, and all that.
"I want to hear about 'all that,'
said Ernestine, as thev returned to the
drawing-room and settled themselves bc-
lorc the nic. "I missed the letter you
wrote at the time of your engagement,
you remember, and really I know almost
nothing, except that here you are.
" So'voUv did. Weir' looking at the
clock " there's a good hour before din
ner, and James will be late to-day, be
cause h? has gone to a faculty meeting.
You know, of course, that he's a pro
fessor, and exclusively wise and learned?"
' ice: I know so much."
" I used, to bu JjvauTully afraid of
him," -went i-u i'stfili;, with a little
laugh. "He isn't a society man at all,
and doesn't know how to get on w ith
young ladies. He used to talk to me
sometimes at parties, but I vas always
still" and silent. He made me feel shy
and ignorant and light minded somehow,
the only man that ever d'nl, and 1 quite
thought that 1 disliked him. In fact, 1
used to say so. Several of the girls felt
the same.
" llie l'cytons lived in these rooms
last winter. Dear me! is it only last
w inter It seems as if it must have becu
years ago, so much has happened since
1'hey were lovely people, gay and kind,
always giving the pleasantest little par
ties. They've gone to Europe now, or I
should want you to know them. Well,
they were going to have a little dinner
on Mrs. Peyton's birthday, the 2d of
December just the Dalrymples andSar
geants; and Mrs. 1'eyton was to ask
gentleman to matcu me; eight or ns
there were to be. Harry Allen was to
be the gentleman. He was a great ally
of mine, and we all agreed that it would
prove quite a pertect liltle altair.
"The very day before I had a note
from Mrs. l'ey ton to say that Harry A 1
leu's stepmother was dead, and she must
get soute one else. Who would 1 Hkt
1 wrote back that it didn't matter much;
Leslie Clark would be nice if he wen
disengaged. Hut though I said so, 1 did
care quite a good deal, lou know it
makes a difference who takes you in at
one of those little dinners. Your even
ing is pleasant or stupid according to
whether the person next to you is nice
or not; so I hoped Leslie t'Jaik Avould be
available; for, though he doesn't amount
to very much, he is always chatty and
pleasant ct fwmmf du vionde.
"Somehow I had a feeling that Ihe
evening was going to be intjHtrOuU! Isn't
it strange how such impressions seize
upon you? 1 never took more pains
with my toilet for any party, and my
dress was lovely, though 1 say it one of
those cream-white Chinese skills made
up over pale yellow; and I had a splen
did great velvet red rose, witlt all fie
smell'of the summer in it, for the wrmnc,
aud a set of brown crystals. I really
looked remarkably nice, and set out in
the highest spirits. So you can imagine
my feelings when, just as I was getting
out of my carriage, another drew up, and
James Alsop stepped out in dress-coat
aud gloves, evidently bound lor tne din
ner. Leslie Clark had proved engaged.
and Mrs. Peyton, casting about for a
substitute, had lighted on James. Sim
hadn't the least idea, of course, that 1
disliked Lim.
" It makes inc laugh to recollect liow
cross 1 felt. And he looked equally dis
satisfied. He conlesses uvw that he was
a good deal put out. My shyness and
avoidance had rebulled him, and he had
made up Lis mind thrt I was 'frivolous,'
and that he would let Hie alone iu future.
" With a vague hope that he might be
bound for the lirst story or the second, I
remarked, ' Good evening, Mr. Alsop.
Arc we both en route for Mrs. Peyton's?'
" ' For Mrs. Peyton's,' he replied, with
a stilt little bow. incu wc 100 k our
place in the elevator as gloomily as
though we were going to a funeral in
stead of a dinner parly. Dear me, Low
funny it was! Ihe man below started
us, and up we went. There wasn't any
'elevator boy' then. That's an improve
ment put iu since our accident."
" An accident! inu you nave one v
"Oh, dear, yes the most ridiculous
possible. Half-way between the second
floor and the third the elevator uluck.
What was the matter exactly I have
never been able to understand, though
James has explained it several limes.
But I think the chain was clogged in
some way and wouiou t woi k eiiner up
or down. When it lirst stopped we
thought it some mistake, and waited pa
tiently, but after a minute James grew
uneasy. He twitched the rope, but all to
110 purpose; then he began to call, hoping
somebody below would bear us.
"We were so near t He. I'eytons' noor
that we could sec the light shining
through the glazed door at top. The
elevator had an open-work root criss
cross, you know, with quite largo bolt s
between the criss crossings, it was not
dark; we could see each other plainly.
By and by we heard bells ringing below
in a distracted way, feet running up the
stairs, and voices; then the door at top
shot back and some one called out:
"'Miss Blodgctt, are you there?'
" Yes,' I said; 'I wish I wasn't.'
"What's the matter wilh the pulleys?'
called out James.
"Oh, Alsop, you too? It isn't the
pulleys, they say; it's something else.
Hut it's sure to be all right in a few min
utes; they've scut for a man lo coiue and
fix it.'
" Was there ever anything so provok-
. . . , , " ... . 1 :
ing since l lie woriu. ueganr cnmieu in
Mrs. Peyton. (I could just dimly see
her profile through the open-work.)
' Don't, catch cold, Kstella. whatever you
do. Keep your cloak tightly around you.
You'll see that she's wrapped up, won t
you, Mr. Alsop? It's such a comfort that
you are there to take care of her.'
"'Arc vou warm enough?' asked
James in a formal voice.
" Yes. indeed ;' and I showed him that
my wrap was lined with fur.
"'That is well,' he said; then: is
always a draught in a shaft like this.'
" Well of course nobody could keep
on being still' under such circumstances
we jrot lo talking. 1 he dinner pTiny
arrived, the Dalrvmples and Sargeaiits.
One by one they came to the glazed door
to look down and pity us, and wnai ie-
tween sympathy and the ludicrous nature
of our fix, they laughed and we laughed
till we were in the merriest ol moons.
All this time confused sounds of scrap
ing aud sawing came from below, but we
remained immovable.
" 'Do go to dinner,' 1 called out, for I
knew Mrs. Peyton's cook must be 011
tenterhooks. " Wc don't care for soup;
do we. Mr. Alsop? We will come in for
the fish
" ' No, neither of us eats soup,' echoed
James. 'Pray begin without us, jurs
Peyton. Well make our appearance
when you get lo something we like.'
"There were all sorts of polite de
tnurs, of course, but at last, they went
away and left us tete-a-i'ic.
" 'This is absurd enough,' said James.
" ' Yes,' I said: ' but, alter all, it might
be worse. It is only to forget thatwc
can' get out. Let's make believe, as the
ch) Jren say, that wc are at a party, and
that this is a cozy little boudoir into
which wc have come on purpose to re
and entertain each other, and it will be
quite nice.'
" I bad no idea vou were such a
philosopher.' said Jumes. I could see
that he was smiling behind his inustar he.
A boudoir be it. bv all means, and we
iri.'l entertain each other.'-
"We did. Whit wc. talked alx-ut I
couldn't pretend to say everything in
heaven and earth, 1 think poetry,
science, religion, gossip. James says
was the pleasantest evening be ever
spent. He savs 1 never looked so pretty
in mv life 1 was only half visible, you
know and that the rose in my dress
kept darting out delicious sudden smells
which atleeled bis bead and cast mm inn
a irlamour. It is all nonsense, of course
but do vou know. Ernest. 1 do really and
trnlv think that he fell a lit lie in love
with me then and there, and 1 with him
"Every little while somebody wotih
leave the. tabic to condolo with US, an-.
n-pott inst. bow far the dinner had pro
grossed. Sow it was the game, now the
Tib.it then the biru:'t O'are. I began to
frrow lmnrrv. and James became ravenous
r "M c.lV!' he called out to .Mrs. Peyton
Jf gome sandwiches were cut very luiiij
and narrow, and judiciously lowered, 1
think w c could entice tiiein 111 tlnou;
this net-work.'
"I suppose, wc did look like chickens
in a coop. Never was anything so ab
surd seen as Jur. 1 cylon and Mr. Dal
rymple dangling morsels of bread and
butter and chicken tied to long strings
toward us, and James ttt(tliem with
the hook of his umbrella. Ihey sent
down fried oysters one by one, wrapped
111 paper, lney sent down macaroons
and lady-biscuit. A good many things
lodged on top of the elevator, but some
t ame in, aud we were glad of them. They
even attempted champagne 111 a Cologne
bottle, but that upset and rained down
on my dress.
'"What a pity!" cried Jaiiio..spongin
me with his handkerchief. 'Your gown
is ruined, 1 fear.'
"Champagne improves everything, I
said, and laughed it oil". 1 really didn't
care. What with t he singularity id' our
adventure and all lite fun we had made,
I was quite enjoying myself, and the
gown seemed of no consequence. Dear
old gown! I have it still. James nays
1 am always to wear it on the anniver
sary of that evening.
"All litis lime 1 was 1I in wonder
that he should be so agreeable. 1 can't
tell you, Ernest, bow nice be was that
night. All his scholarly stillness melted
away; he was easy, merry, friendly, ami
oh, so kind! I found myself talking lo
him about all sorts of trilles, which Hit
day before I sheuld as soon have thought
of confiding to the observatory. I even
told him what I was going to wear lo the
charity ball! Think or that!
"It was ten o'clock before the elevator
stirred. Then it gave a jerk, ami before
wc could speak, down, down it. fell wilh
a dread nil, smashing rapidity. 1 he stupid
people, in trying lo ineinl matters, bad
let the chain slip oil the wheel! Oil!"
drawing a long breath " it makes me
shudder now lo think ol 11. 1 lie sensa
tion was sickening."
" Were you hurt?"
" iNo; never was such a miraculous es
cape. Do you know, in the very middh
of our descent, I recollected having read
somewhere that to rise on your tiptoes
and conic down again on the soles of
your feet at the moment of touching
would break such a fall. And I rose on
mine."
" Wonderful! And were you not hurt?'
"Hardly at all. I Was jarred and
bruised a lit I !c and James a good deal
more, lor 1 liadu I tunc to tell him about
the tiptoes and he was iu'enl on holding
me linn. Our friend; from above rushed
down, expecting to find us in little
pieces, and were beside themselves with
joy when we were drawn out almost un
harmed. AYe all vowed that we should
never venture again into an elevator,
but, bless you! we have all broken the
vow since. Such a house a;; this would
be iininhabilnlile without one."
" I reallv don't think 1 shall." said
Ernestine, looking qiiile pale. "It ter
rifies me to remember that only to-day I
came up in this of yours."
" Oh, ours is the safest in the city now
You know the supersliiion aboiil the
uinon-balls never entering twice at, the
same place. We have had our accident,
ind it is over. Lesides, .Mr. Kellerau
had the apparatus entirely changed, and
they say now that sucii a thing could
not happen."
" So then and there yotir romance bc-
ranV" remarked her friend.
"Then and then'. Of course James
came to see me alterwanl, and kept com
ing, aud 1 had quite got ov er being afraid
of him, and so and so Ah, there
lie is at last, as the door opened.
lames, dear, how late you arc! one
here and be introduced lo my Ernc.t."
A Council Bluffs Komnucc.
Biktms and marriages and deal lis com
prise about the sum total of the living
business anjhow, and all occasion
trouble--marriages causing not the
least. It's so everywhere, and especially
so at Council Bluffs, Iowa, if the. experi-
nce of Helena Stillwater and young
Collins is a common one. Old Jonathan
Stillwater is a great man in the vicinity
of Council Blulls; he has been Justice of
the Peace repeatedly and owns broad
teres, and is widely known under the
popular title of "Old Still." Lena is the
oldest daughter of Siill wider :r, ami
Lena has long loved it young man named
Frank Collins. Ihey concluded to get
married recently, and Frank, feeling
himself to be a respectable ami well in
tent ioned youth, started out to a-k old
Still water's consent to the union, never
anticipating a refusal. Ife found bis
charmer's father in the barn, and ill once
made know n his w ishes. The old gentle
man ;il once returned a ll.it refusal to
Frank's pleadings, and w hen thai young
gentleman announced his intention to
marry Eena anyhow the irate lather
pounded him with a swill-pail. Thus
ended the lirt chapter of the romance
with the stern parent ahead. Ihe sec
ond chapter followed in a day or two
with the lover in the lead. Frank
concluded to utilize the il nioiiiant ic law
to accomplish it roinanlio end. He mag
nified the attack upon him with the
swill-pail ami went before a Justice and
made an iitbdavit. ligfulnd old Jona
than Stillwater was arrested for having
itlcmpted the life of Frank Collins and
the day of trial designated. At the ap
pointed date the court was crowded;
both the Collins and Stillwater families
were influential ones, aud the neighbors
came from miles around to listen to the
trial. Just as the proceedings were
ibout lo open the counsel for the prose
cution rose. Might it please the t oui t.
he had something to communicate. lie
was happy to inform the Court that I he
case was to be settled some wiial out !
the usual way. If th Court would per
form the ceremony there would be then
tnd there a marriage between the pros
ecutor and the defendant's daughter.
The Coin t consealcd; I-cn i and r-rank
stood up and were mule one flesh and
the prosecution was dismissed, prani'
h id used the law adroitly and smoothed
the course of true love with a warrant.
A Broken Ixgtfgcmenl Published.
A l'ii..i:i,!N' correspondent f aSau Fran
cisco paper, writ ing of German betrothals,
s:lvs- " I here is one disadvantage con
nected wilh the German fashion of
making these mailers so openly known
to the public, which win, 1 mmK, lorev
er prevent our changeable American
lovers lroin following their examples.
Sometimes, in the columns of ' Family
1 nli-lli-'enee. in which births, betrothals
and marriages appear, occurs such a
paragraph: 'ror satisiactory reason,
the, lielrothal ot our daughter -M at -j-.u ei i
f ':t li-irim- lot . l it h I ferr Joii.UI.'i Will
iam ScliUMCiuaii ha.t been dissolved by
us.' The name:; ol both parent s in lull
I. - il form fol ow 1 us Paragraph. -I U -'
imagine the hotrorcl so h a cat a I rophc,
111. I ..1. lit li'Tllfll lif ltl I'ic.-L.
Y.mr mi .fortune Pot otdv whispered
here and there, and quietly discussed in
the circles of friends and acquaintances,
but proclaimed thus in pruned oiuk
and white for ;.n uiisympathizing public.
I'm Mire I don'l know bow a German
frauHin ever survives it; but I believe
they do. People don't die any oftcner of
broken Hearts lu re man wun us.
The Bus:;o-Crc k Churih re pre
sentcd in San Franci-.co b- Johamiei,
Bishop of Alaska. Hi c.tir.r' -at'on i
a numerous one, composed largely i
Settlors and fishermen. The dioce-e of
the Bishop extends over a very broad
field.
SENSK AMI N ONSEN SF.
'I'm k Indian remedy for laudi nil' He
move the scalp.
Tin: trial and execution of Vasqucz
cost California 2,722.4J.
Hkhi TONiiii Boston Bocaoly has g;nc
back to bedcords and bedposts.
Tim; Kansas grasshoppers speak very
highly of this spring's early cabbages.
Tin: Jacksonville (Fla.) Union says the
Seminoles of South Florida still hold
slaves.
A bovin New York has been sentenced
to one year's impi uonincnt for stealing
two cents.
A i:iioi;i:u says: "Give me the bond
of a government and I care not who
breaks its laws."
Dki;t is the worst kind of poverty."
Except the poverty which prevents a
man from getting into debt.
Tiik economical man makes that great
stream the mother of rivers, and spclh
it Mrsippi. ltmlmAleirtis'r.
Taim: says: " Four varieties in soci
ety: Lovers, the ambitious, observers and
fools. The finds are the happiest."
Amkkican catsup tickles the palates of
the Japanese. They have tried lo make
something like it of cats, but failed.
M its. Gasmns, of Cartciet County, N.
C, " weighs 010 pounds, and one of her
stockings ludds a bushel of shelled corn."
Tn ky complain of a hick of horses iu
France, but they keep on eating 't in.
They can't expect (he cake and the penny
both.
Ai;oi t (Lis time small boys accumu
late rugs, old copper boilers, broken
bottles and scrap iron with a view to
Fourth of July funds.
Dam Kb Bai :iiki!, of Hydctow n, Craw
ford County, I';i., while out hunting the
other day, caught a young woodchut k
which had three perfectly formed hcad.s
in one body.
Of a thousand dead horses taken lo
the New Yolk oll'al dock during the past
winter, o50 had died from rot and other
diseases of the hoof caused by traveling
in salted slosh.
A Kansas man killed two birds with
one bione. While he was buying a lot
in the cemetery and hiring ids wife's
vrave ilug he proposed marriage to it
w idow who Wits having her husband's
grave sodded.
A Nokkoi.k (Va.) man who had lof t
several sheep by dogs put strychnine in
large quantities upon one of the carcass
es the other day, and next morning found
I hit ly-onc dead dogs in the field, tin;
farthest one being Jess than J 00 yardi
from the dead sheep.
An almost ridiculous use of steam is
found on Duck Uivcr, Tenii., 011 which
placid stream a steamboat, drawing only
twelve inches of water, and Jiaving it
giist-inill 011 board, wundcis up und
down, slopping wherever she is watiluft
lo grind a busnel or two or corn lor the
tanners of the territory.
A Hauvaiiij student, the other day.
concentrated all his force in one might y
kick ill a football. Then there came a
recoil ami, when hi: got through, hi;
collar bone needed splints on it. Another
evidence of the severe strain lo which
the poor youth of the age arc committed
by the modern educational system.
Tun teachers in the public schools at
San Francisco have been using the rod
upon their pupils with so great seventy
that the press have taken up the matter
tnd insist upon reform. One little girl
was so severely beaten recently, for a
trivial ofl'ensc, that.' lie went into hyster
ics and was ill for a week following.
Wiir.N a horse breaks its leg il is no
longer necessary to shoot it "in order (o
save its life," as the Irishman did wilh
his pig that, was hurt by the cars. A
veterinary surgeon or lilrccht, Iong
Island, recently set the broken hind leg
I ahorse so sueeessi ully thai the ani
mal is sound its ever. Il took about six-
weeks to ellect the cure.
At Greenbrier, West Va. ,11 lew days
1 go, ii child was born which was
most singularly deformed. 'The h i t arm
was entirely wanting, there being at the
shoulder not even a rudimentary appear-
ince or development. L pon the right
side there was an aim which extended
only to the elbow, a hand being attached
it right angles to the extremity.
Tins fruit crop of Delaware and New
Jersey, from which States the New York
market is supplied, gives prospect of a
lull yield. The late cold weather,
1 hough delaying the season somewhat,
has not materially iillccled (he fruit
erm, as the vitality of the embryo bud
has not progressed lo such an extent as
to be iillccled by the low temperature.
Tn k Athens (Icorninn says : " Mr. Joel
M. Dean, of this county, informs us that.
upon his plantation and thai of 'I'. G.
Macon there are at this lime at least oOO
beavers. These aquatic industrial are,
a.i usual, 'working like beavers,' and
have btiilt quite a number of dams upon
the streams running through their plan
tations, cutting down trees for their su
perstructures measuring at least from
ciidit to ten inches in diameter."
Hi ck-ntky it cat played the following
prank upon a Syracuse gentleman: The
person had retired to lied and had lain
there some time, when his wife, in 1 1 r
next room, heard a singular noise. She
inferred from the sound that her hus
band w as sleeping soundly ; but the Jioisi
grew more intense, and she concluded to
find out what it might be. She went
into the sleeping apartment, and found
the family cat with its nose thrust into
her husband's mouth, and its paws tight
ly clasped about his throat. It required
considerable exertion to remove the ani
mal, as it clung tightly to its posit ion.
The gentleman was nearly sullocalcd.
and but for the timely nit'-rfertiice ot
his wife would have been killed.
A sr:-si:i;rr.NT slry that gets a little
ahead of the ordinary run of such yarns
comes from Portland. Capt. Oliver, ol
the Bath schooner Winslow Morse, re.
kites that recently, when oil Cape Eliza
beth, about fifteen miles southeast,
while he was at the wheel and . mot her
man stood 011 deck, a great snake ro-.e
out of the water about four feet above
tLc rail, and the body appeared about as
large round as a hogshead. The man on
deck picked up a long pole with a pike
head on the end lying near by and thrust
it into the monster's tdy. The serpent
immediately d'ued and came up on the
other side of the vessel a little distance
oil" and glided aw ay, making but a small
ripple on the water. It appeared about
P.'O feci long. The Captain exhibits the
pike covered with the blMd and sinews
of the inon:Hcr or some other animal.
A si it involving tne disposition of a
large fortune was recently decided at
Wilminrton, Del. Cndcr the laws of
that State the ptop. rty ol a wile who
lies without i.-.sue de-cend i not to b'-r
husband but to tho.e of her own blood.
Ten years ao Harry Stout, a wealthy
Dover lawyer, died, leaving hi;! property
to h'n thice childrtn. Five years ago
hi.; only daughter married lie v. JI. II.
Hall, of Lewes, and it year later i he
died in giving birth to her first child.
The latter, it was cl aimed by the father,
lived tor ii few mini' les after being Imtii,
but this Mrs. Hall's brother's denied. If
the babe breathed for a single second
after birth then its mother's property
descended to her husband. If it was
dead when delivered, however, the
mother dual without is&ue and her prop.
(.rtv descend d to her brothers. After
li-lening to a vast mount r,t testimony
the Court decided that the child drew at
least one breath, and the property was
therefore awarded to the widower.
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