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VOLUME XI.
PLATTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1875.
NUMBER 12.
HENRY BGECK,
DEALER IX .
IvULXTlitULXe,
SAFES, CHAIRS,
Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads,
ITC., ETC., ETC.,
Of All Descriptions.
METALLIC BURIAL CASES.
Wooden Coffins
Of all fizee, ready-made, and sold cheap for cash.
Wfth many thanks for past patronage, I invite
all to call and examine my
LARGE STOCK OF
XTm-nitui-o nul CoiHux.
janSM
AND
MEDICINES
AT
J. H. BUTTERY'S,
On Main Street, bet. Fifth and Sixth.
Wholesale ai.d Retail Dealer in
Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils,
Varnishes. Patent Medicines,
Toilet Articles, etc., etc.
JSTTRESCRimoXS carefully compounded at
all hour, day and night. 35-ly
I. W. SHANNON'S
Peed, Sale and Livery
STA.33XjE.
Main Street, Plattsmouth, Neb.
I am prepared to accommodate the pnhlicwith
Carriages, Buggies, Wagons,
AND
A No. f Hearse,
Oa Short Notice and Reasonable Terms.
A II A c rc
Will Run to the Steamboat Land
ing, Depot, and all parts of
the City, when Desired.
janl-tf
First National Bai
Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska,
SUCCESSOR TO
Tootle, Ilnmia fe Clark.
John Fitzgerald
K. t. J)ovkt
A. . McLi'(iHi.iN
John O'Koibke
President.
Vice-I'residen t.
Cashier.
Assistant Cashier.
Th'i! Bank Is now open for bn-iness at their new
room, corner Main and Sixth tureets, and arc pre
pared to transact a general
BANKING BUSINESS.
Stocks, Bonds, Gold, Government
and Local Securities
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
Deposits Received and Interest Al
lowed on Time Certificates.
DRAFTS DRAWN",
Available in any part of the United States and in
ai) the Vrincipal Towns and Cities of Europe.
AGENTS FOR THE
CELEBRATED
MAN LINE and ALLAH LINE
OF STILiJIERS.
Persons wishing to bring out their friends from
Europe can
rritcHAsi tickets rnoM rs
Throiifrli to Ilt t.siitoutli.
Excelsior Barber Shop.
J. C. BOONE,
Main Street, opposite Brooks House.
HAIR-CUTTING,
Shaving and Shampooing
ESPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO
Cutting Children' ami Ladies''
Hair.
Call and See Boone, Gents,
And get a boon in a
C? JLs 3E2 -A. 3Xr JS XX -V. "7" 32
n41-ly
GO TO THE
Post Office Book iStore,
. J. STREIGHT, Proprietor,
FOB TOCK
Book Stationery, Pictures, Music
TOYS, CONFECTIONERY,
Violin Strings,
Newspapers, Novels,
Song Books, etc., etc
All Advertising Mil du quarterly.
117 Transient advertisements must be paldfci
In advance.
Extra copied of tho IIkkald for aals by II. J.
Straight, ml the Pototnro, and O. F. Johnson, coi
ner of Main and k'tfth streets.
O. F. JOHNSON,
DEALER IN
Drugs, Medicines
AND
rarw
mm
WALLPAPER.
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ALSO. DEALER IN
Books, Stationery
MAG.VZINES
AND LATEST PUBLICATIONS.
XZ7 Prescriptions carefully compounded by an
experienced Druggist.
KEMEMBER TOE PLACE
Cor. Fifth and Main Streets,
PLATTSMOUTH, NEB.
ma
THOS. W. SHRYOCK,
1EAI.EB l.X
nj'nr-nit'u.r'e !
Main St., lot. 5th and 6th,
PLATTSMOUTH, - 3STEI3.
ALSO
UNDERTAKER,
And tin on hand a large stock of
ZNIetallio Uurial Oases,
Wooden Coffins, Etc.,
Of all pizef, cheap for cah.
Funerals Attended on Short Notice
II. .1. WATERIUX & SOX,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
PINE LUMBER,
X.atli, Shingles,
SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, ETC.,
On Main St., cor. Fifth,
PLATTSMOUTH, - - - NEB.
FOR YOUR CROCERIES
GO TO
J. V. Weckbach,
Cor. Third and Main Sta., Flat turnout h.
(Guthmanu's old stand.)
He keeps on hand a large and well-selected stock
of
FANCY GROCERIES,
Coffees, Teas. Sugar, Sirup, Boots,
Shoes, Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc.
Also, a large stock of
Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes,
Crockery, Queensware,
Etc., Etc., Etc.
In connection with the Grocery is a
BAKERY and CONFECTIONERY.
Highest Price Paid for Country Produce.
A full stock at all time?, and will not be undersold.
Take notice of the Sign:
' EMPIRE BAKERY AXD GROCERY."
nlyl
WILLIAM STADELMANN
Has on hand one of the largest stocks of
CLOTHING
AND
Gents1 Furnishing Goods
FOR SPRING AND SUMMER.
POST OFFICE BUILDING,
PLATTSMOUTH, NEB,
I invite everybody in want of anything in my
line to call at my Ktore,
South Side Main, bet. 5th & tith Sts.,
And convince themselves of the fact. I have as a
nnecialtv in my Retail Departments a stock of
Fine Clothing for Men and Boys, to which we in
vite thocc who want goods.
I alp o keep on hand a large and well-selectea
stock of
Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Etc.
jarlyl
PHILADELPHIA STORE
SOLOHOX V NATHAN,
SKALER3 IK
Fancy Dry Goods.
Notions, IMes' Fnrnisliini Goofls.
Largest, Cheapest, Finest and Best Assorted Stock
in tue city.
We are prepared to sell cheaper than they can
oc purcuaseu eisewnere.
GIVE TTS -A. CA.X.X.
And examine onr Goods.
restore on Main St. between 4th and 5th Sts..
riattmontn, .Neb. l'itf
PLATTSMOUTH HILLS,
PLATTSMOUTII NEBRASKA.
Coskad IIbisel, Proprietor.
FLOUR, CORN MEAL., FEED.
Always on hand and for sale at lowest cash prices.
The Highest Price paid for Wheat and Corn.
Particular attention given to caalom work.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed from Telemms f Ircomnanjins Pates-
31 on day, June 7. All attempts to ne
otiate with the Indians for the transfer of
the Black Hills country to the Government
have failed, and the Indian delegations have
left Washington for their homes. Before they
left Bed Cloud demanded compensation in
the way of presents, etc., for the interpreters
and other Indians who had accompanied the
regular delegates, which was with one or two
exceptions refused by the Commissioner. A
demand was also made for horses, equipments
and guns, to which Commissioner Smith
replied that he would not give them guns if
he could, and as to horses and saddles he
would give them had he the power to do 6o,
but he had not. An Associated Press dis
patch of the 6th says as the Indians left
Washington much dissatisfied difficulties ar
apprehended between then and whites who
may enter their country for the purpose of
seeking for gold. It is estimated by the agents
that the Sioux can muster from 3,000 to 5,000
warriors, about half armed with rifles and the
remainder with bows and arrows. The Gov
ernment, meantime, will endeavor to prevent
adventurers from going to that country, Btill
having some hope through the medium of
commissions to effect a treaty with the Sioux
....A Pottsvillc (Pa.) dispatch says the mili
tary have made preparations to secure pro
tection to all working miners in the collieries
at Mahanoy City and vicinity, and to insure
a continuance of work.... The Wisconsin
Democratic State Conventiou is to be held at
Milwaukee on the 8th of September.
Tuesday, June 8. M. Staempfli has
been elected President of Switzerland In
formation has been received in Washington
that the Mexican Government has sent two
regiments to watch the Rio Grande border
and prevent raids Gen. Henry W. Barry,
Congressman from Mississippi, died sud
denly in Washington on the 7th Sec
retary Delano has notified the Indian
Bureau that a commission will be sent out to
the Sioux Nation to negotiate with the In
dians for the relinquishment of their hunting
grounds in Nebraska Judge Williams
of the Cook County (III.) Circuit Court,
has sentenced the twenty-two Chicago
Aldermen who canvassed the votes of the
recent city incorporation election, in de
fiance of an injunction issued by the court, to
pay a fine of 100 each for contempt of court.
The six lawyers who advised the disregard
ing of the injunction by the Aldermen were
fined $:W0 each. An appeal was taken to the
Supreme Court President Grant has di
rected that all lands lying contiguous to the
Mississippi River, within twelve miles of its
mouth, be reserved for military purposes,
under the act authorizing Capt. Eads to con
struct jetties for deepening the channel
Henry Greenwall, manager of an opera-house
in Galveston, Tex., who refused two colored
women seats in the parquet of the opera-
house, has been found guilty by a jury of vio
lating the Civil-Rights law and fined $500.
"Wednesday, June 9. A Paris tele
gram to the Loudon Times saya there arc
rumors of a republican movement in Madrid in
consequence of recent military events, which
have proved that the national troops have been
unable to gain any advantage over the CarlisU
. . A banquet was given at Berlin on the even
ing of the 8th in honor of ex-Senator Schurz
...The town of Morshansk, containing 00,-
000 inhabitants, on the right bank of the
river Tsna, in Russia, has been entirely de
stroyed by fire The Supreme Court
of New Hampshire declined to tass
an opinion upon the action of the
Governor and Council in the matter of the
contested Senatorial election cases, holding
that such an opinion could have no fur
ther weight than the criticism of one branch
of the Government upon the action of a co
ordinate branch. The court expresses the
opinion, however, that when the State
Senate adjudged Triest and Proctor duly
elected Senators such action was final
and conclusive as to their rights
The seceding Republican Senators re
turned to their seats on the 8th and the Sen
ate concurred with the nouse in notifying
the Governor that both branches were organ
ized and ready for busiuess A Philadelphia
dispatch announces that in a few days several
different organizations, aggregating 15,000 in
number, will leave that city for the Black
Hills by different routes Judge Nelson, of
the United States District Court in session at
Winona, Minn., has rendered a decision
affirming the constitutionality of the Civil-
Rights law.
Tiiuksday, June 10. It is reported
that Gen. Saballshas defeated the Alphonsists
at Blanes, after two days' fighting, capturing
their guns, 6tores, and 140 prisoners. .. .A
violent storm passed over Paris on the 9th,
causing immense damage. There were many
accidents, and traffic was wholly suspended
in the streets. The damage done in Paris
alone is estimated at 11,000,000 francs
, .A Washington dispatch eays the
officials of the Interior Department do not
regard the late visit of the Indians to Wash
ington as a failure. The object was to dis
cuss the subject with them and prepare
them for some arrangement after a return of
the expedition which had been sent out to de
termine whether there is gold there or not....
Mr. Evarts concluded his argument for the
defense in the Tilton-Beecher trial on the Sth,
and Mr. Beach began his plea in behalf of the
prosecution on the 9th. Mr. Evarts' address
extended through eight days.... The New
Hampshire Legislature, in joint session on
the 9th, elected Person O. Cheney (Rep.)
Governor and Charles II. Powers (Rep.) Rail
road Commissioner The Minnesota Re
publican State Convention is to be held
at St. Paul on the 2Sth of July
The Rev. J. S. Shipman, of Kentucky, has
been elected Episcopal Bishop of Northern
Wisconsin.... Gen. Sheridan has given notice
that all parties who contemplate entering the
Big Horn country will be prevented from do
iDg so by the military authorities until the or
ders under which the latter are acting are re
voked. Friday, June 11. The steamship
Vicksburg, from Quebec for Liverpool, when
in latitude 46:34 north, longitude 47:58 west,
encountered heavy ice and was crushed and
sunk on the 1st, carrying down with her not
less than forty souls, including the Captain.
....A box containing a number of Protestant
books consigned to an American resident of
Spain has been confiscated by the Spanish
Custom-IIouse and the attention of Minister
Cushing has been called to the act The
Prince Bishop of Breslau has been sentenced
to a fine of 2,000 marks or 133 days' imprison
ment for illegally excommunicating a priest
... .The delegates to the National Christian
Association recently in session at Pitts
burgh held a political convention at
which they adopted an anti-secret so
ciety platform and nominated Hon. J
B. Walker, of Illinois, for President and
Donald Kirkpatrick, Esq., of New York,
for ice-President of the Lnited States..
A national convention of the productive and
other industrial classes has been called to
meet at Indianapolis, Ind., on the 18th of
August. The convention ia to be composed
of one delegate from each Congressional dis
trict, to be chosen on the loth of July It is
stated that the Illinois Central and the Chi
cago, Alton A St. Louis Railroads had decided
to pool their earnings between competin
poiLts Prof. Jenncy, of the Government
exploring expedition In the Black Hills region,
has telegraphed to Washington from " In camp
on Beaver Creek, June 9," as follow: "The
greater area of the Black Hills is in Dakota
The formations in the vicinity are of a recent
geological age and not auriferous. We will
cross through the hills and examine the gold
field reported to exist near Harney's Creek'
The Indiana State Temperance Convention
was recently held at Indianapolis, and a long
platform of resolutions was adopted recog
nizing the temperance work as the work of
God; recommending that drinking habits be
made a disqualification in the election or ap
pointment to offices of trust and profit;
agreeing not to vote for anyone known to use
liquor as a beverage; arguing that it is the
duty of the Government to protect the people
from the traffic and denying the right to
license dram-shops, etc., etc.
THE MARKETS.
Jcn 12, 1875.
KKW YORK.
Live Stock. Beef Cattle $11.50313.50. Dogs
Live, $7.37H8.7.50. Sheep Live. $5.006.3V
Bkkadstui'Fs. Flour Good to choice, $5.30
5.50; white wheat extra, $5.50j.25. Wheat No,
2 Chicago, $1.1X&1.11 ; No. 2 Northwestern,
$1.10ai-H; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.13
1.1314. Rye Western and State, 95c3$1.00. Bar
ley $1.2631.30. Corn Mixed Western, 7
Sic. Oats Mixed Western, 71&T3c.
Provisions. Pork New Mess, $19.7019.75.
Lard Prime Steam, 133i313,TiC Cheese 6(3
llXc.
Wool. Domestic fleece, 42363c -CHICAGO.
Lrv Stock. Beeves Choice, $6.256.50;
good, $5.8V3i.l5; medium, $5.5035.76; butch
ers' stock, $4.0035-35 ; stock cattle, $3.50(34.75.
Hos Live, $6.75(37.60. Sheep Good to choice,
$ 1.0U&4.50.
Provisions. Butter Choice, 23323c. Epe
Fresh, 1414;c. Pork Mess, $19.30(3119 35. Lard
$13.30i313.25.
Bkeadstuffs. Flour While Winter Extra,
$6.008.00; sprinp extra, $ 1.6035.15. Wheat
Spring, No. 2, 73'JTJiC. Corn No. 2, 675!
b8c Oats No. 2, 59V4360C. Rye No. 3,
97(39. Barley No. 2, $1.2631.8.
Lombbr. First Clear, $18.00(350.00; Second
Clear, $13.00(347.00; Common Boards, $10 03
11.00; Feneiun, $11.00; "A" Shingles, $2.75
(33.00; Lath, i 1.7541,2.00.
CINCINNATI.
Breadstuff's. Flour $5.3035.40. Wheat
Bed, $1.1831.20. Corn 71&73C. Rye $1.L8
1.10. Oats i6 3b9c. Barley No. 2, $1.20&1..
Provisions. Pom $ 19 90.3i0.00. Lard 123
(313c.
ST. LOUIS.
Lrvx Stock. Beeves Good 10 choice, $5,753
6.50. Hogs Live, $6.25.7.:J5.
BREADSTiirrs. Flour XX Fall, $5.5035.75.
Wheat No. 2 Red Fall, $1.30(31.31. Corn
No. 2, 67V4&68C. Oats No. 2, 60361c. Rye
No. 2, $l.(ti31.1'2. Barley No. 2, $1.20(31-22.
Provisions. Pork Mess, $20.0tk320.23. Lard
12V4G13C.
MILWAUKEE.
Breadstuffs. Flour Spring XX, $4.755.O0.
Wheat-Spring, No. 1, $1.04!431.04X ; No. 2, 9fl',c
-3$1.00. Corn No. 2, 6Z1MtMc Oata No. 2,
59V4'.5,1c. Rye No. 1, 94395c. Barley No.
2, f 1.1431.15.
DETROIT.
Breaostutfo. Wheat .Extra, $1.25(1.25.
Corn No. 1, 69&13C. Oats No. 1, 61361?-ic.
TOLEDO.
Breadstxtffs. Wheat Amber Michigan,
$1.223l.22V4; No. 2 Red, $1.21(31.31 Vt. Corn
lligh Mixed, 72'433c. Oats No. 2, 62362HC.
CLEVELAND.
Breadstuffs. Wheat No. 1 Red, $1.23V4
1.24; No. 2 Red, $1,1841.19. Corn High
Mixed, 743:5c. Oats No. 1, 66!467c.
WRECKED IX THE ICE.
L.os of the Steaniftlilp Virkctburg
Forty Live Perltili.
New York. June 10.
The steamship State of Germania, which
arrived this morning, brought five seamen
of the Dominion Line steamship Vicks
burg, from Montreal tor Liverpool, wlncn
was sunk hv ice on Tuesday. June 1. The
men were picked up June 5 nearly dead
from exposure, but since then have been
rapidly improving, lney tell a leanut
tale of distress. Other boats were
launched with a large number of persons,
but the greater number were seen to per
ish without getting in the boats. ine
Vicksburg went down in the midst of ice,
and the boat was surrounded by icebergs
and a field of ice when picked up. The
other boats have not yet been heard from.
lhe nve men rescued had their leet ana
legs very much swollen, so much so that
their boots had to be cut from their feet.
They are still suffering from their great
exposure to the wet and cold, but are re
covering as fast as could be expected.
1 lie statement ot James Crowlej-, one
of the survivors, is to the effect that there
were on Iwiard a crew of sixty men, eight
saloon passengers live men ana three
ladies and about twenty steerage pas
en;rirs, of whom four were females. On
Sunday evening, May 30, they encountered
large lields of ice, but succeeded in avoid
ing any serious accident until about noon
on the next day, when the ship struck
heavily aft on the port quarter, carrying
away the fans of the propeller, and a
hole was knocked through the plates
on that quarter, through w hich the ship
made a great deal of water. The hole was
stopped up with sails, so that but little
water came in, and then all hands weit
employed in throwing the cargo over
board. On the morning of June 1 an ex
amination showed the after-steerage to be
filled with water, and six feet and a half
of water in the main hold wells. The
fires in the engine-room were soon
drowned out, and the Captain gave orders
to launch the boats with their re
spective crews and told them to mind
that the distance from St. Johns was 120
miles northwest. Crowley says: " I pro
ceeded to launch No. 1, and it was cap
sized in lowering. She was full of water.
O'Brien and I baled her partly out, when
Grogan, Wilkinson and Williams jumped
in. " We could not hang on to the ship
owing to the sea on and the ice about.
O'Brien saw the Captain on the bridge
beckoning the boat back, we having
drifted aliont 150 yards from the ship.
The ship sunk about ten o'clock, floating
boat No. 2 from her chocks with the
chief officer and about thirty people
in her. She got clear and pulled to
the windward. O'Brien, after the ship
went down, saw the Captain and some
persons floating on a bale of hay among
the wreckage. We tried all we could to
pick them up, but, owing to the boat being
half full of water and the ice about, were
not able to do so. We slipped our mast,
kept company with the other boat for
about two hours, and then lost sight of
them to westward. We decided then to
steer south to get clear of the ice. We
hove the boat to, with an oar and a bucket
as a drag, till daylight on Wednesday
morning. We had in the boat about three
gallons of water, forty pounds of raw beef,
fourteen pounds of bread wet with salt
water, and a compass, which did not fall
out when the boat capsized. Again we
put sail on the boat and steered south, the
wind blowing from the northward
and westward all throughout the
scene, and bitterly cold. About four o'clock
in the afternoon we hauled the boat's
head to the northeast till Thursday morn
ing, then tacked to the westward till about
three o'clocfc in the atteruoon, anu again
lav to with the drag till nine o'clock in
the evening, when we took in the drag
and made sail, and stood to the northeast
till Fridav morninsr at davlirtit. we men
tacked to the southwest till mid-day;
tacked a train to northeast till morning,
when about half -past ten o'clock we
sighted your ship. We got out the oars
and pulled away dead to winuwaru un
you picked us up. I think that forty-odd
people, with the Captain, went down with
the ship. We had blankets on our boat
for the three ladies and stewardess, which
were lost when the boat capsized. We
saw no ladies in the chief or second of
ricer'g boat."
31 T OLD LOVE.
A BRIDAL SOLILOQUY.
So Tins is Janet's wedding-day!
Strange that my heart should "feel so gay
And free from sorrow !
For 'twas through her, a year ago,
1 cast me down in bitter woe,
And prayed that I might never know
Another morrow.
Ah, well! each day fresh knowledge brings
And hearts are verj' changeful things.
I loved her wildly once, I trow,
And, foolish, thought I ne'er could go
Through life without her!
And now, although she's just as fair
The same bright eye and winning air
Yet really I don't seem to care
A bit about her!
"Ah, trulj', hearts are changeful things!"
A little voice within me sings.
So here's my old love once again,
Surrounded by her bridal train
Bright, blushing roses!
And as I watch the dimples play
On one soft cheek in that array
No sadd'ning thought this joyous day
In me reposes.
Ah! every day new beauty brings;
Most tr,uly, hearts are changeful things!
So, Janet, I can wish you well;
For you may each glad wedding-bell
Ring gay ly ever!
And as for me to win tlmt face
That's srlowins there with sunnv crrace
To till a bride's not bride-maid's place
Is my endeavor.
" Flow well it is," a soft voice sings,
"That hearts are made such changeful
things!"
JIa r pet's Baza r.
THE Git ASS WIDOW.
BY MARGARET BLONT.
It was a pleasant-looking old kitchen,
that of the red farm-house on the hill
the house just shaded by the encircling
arms of four great maple tree3.
A pleasant kitchen, clean and orderly
and neat, as a kitchen should always be
in the house where a mistress and uot a
servant-maid is the presiding genius of
the scene. The floor was painted yellow
and was clean enough to "cat oil" of," as
the couutry people say. The walls were
papered with a pretty pattern, crimson
roses on a deep buff ground, that gave a
home like, cosy look to the room, a warm
look, moreover, that was decidedly agree
able, now that the cold nights of Novem
ber were just about drawing in.
A great cooking stove stood in one cor
ner of the room, opposite a cupboard.
whose glass doors displayed a goodly
store of delf and china, one set of
which appeared to be very valuable, for
it was evidently of foreign manufacture.
It was a curiosity in its way. lied rose
buds on a translucently white ground,
with the initials "T. fc M." flourished all
over each cup and plate and saucer in
twining tendrils of a true lover's knot.
It had bten the gift of the handsome
voung sailor, Tom Parke, to his wife
Mary on their wedding day; and he had
brought it over from Canton, whera
it was made, through many an
ocean storm, to place it on the
tea-table of their farm-house home upon
that wedding-night. Each piece of
porcelain had its own particular story to
tell, its own peculiar remembrance to
evoke. And therefore Mrs. Parke never
used it now and turned her eyes toward
the glass cupboard that held it as seldom
as she could. The pleasant kitchen was
her own favorite sitting-room, and she
would have moved the Canton china out
of that cupboard into another in the
"square room" if she had only dared.
But some strange feeling, of whicn she
was more than half ashamed, seemed to
stay her hand. It was Tom who had
first placed the cups and saucers there;
Tom who had spent an hour or more on
the morning after their wedding in de
ciding where each particular dish should
stand. They had been taken down and
used now and thea, and washed and
wiped and put carefully back in the
same places during the ten years of her
married life. For five years she had
been what her neighbors called a " grass
widow," and the cups and saucers stood
there vet. It ever she thought seriously
of moving them a handsome, grave face
seemed to rise up suddenly before her,
and a pair of deep blue eyes looked into
her very soul the eyes, the face of
Tom Parke as her lover-husband twenty
years ago! Was it any wonder that the
Canton- china remained there still untouched?
On the night of which I write Mrs
Parke sat alone in her kitchen, listening
to the sighing and " soughing" of the
rising wind among the maple-trees and
the orchard on the garden side. There
was no fire in the great cooking stove,
but on the broad brick hearth a bright
blaze snapped and crackled, much to the
content and pleasure of the old tabby
cat curled up in a heap before it, with
her kitten for a pillow. The firelight
danced and nickered in every nook and
corner of the room, showing the china
behind the glass doors of the cupboard;
the six Windsor chairs and the oaken
dining-table, with its cloth and tray
neatly lolded on the top; it sparkled on
the open work-box that stood on the lit
tle sewing-stand by the widow's side, and
gilded the red peppers hanging in strings
above the chimney-piece.
More than all, it shone fairly and
broadly on the widow herself as she sat
looking thoughtfully into the blaze, and
showed a woman of thirty-nve, lair,
buxom and comely, with deep gray eyes
and soft brown hair, a beaming, good
tempered look, and yet a mouth that
closed somewhat firmly in spite of the
ripe red lips and their fresh color. iNot
a bad-looking dame, by any means, was
Mrs. Parke; and when you remember
that the farm of seventy acres was all her
own, together with the comfortable house
and all its plenishing, you will not be
surprised to hear that if Tom Parke had
but been taken to the spirit world suitors
without end would have applied to take
the land and all things else of value " at
the halves," provided the good-looking
mistress of the house was included in the
bargain.
Everyone said and thought that it was
a great pity Tom Parke could not " step
out" and give his wife a chance to try
her luck again. Did Mrs. Parke think
so too? JSo one knew. JNo one had ever
heard her say.
lorn Parke had been a handsome, care
less sailor when he married her, and he
grew more handsome and more careless
as the days and vears went by. Whose
lault it was none but the married pair
could really say, but the new home was
not long a happy one, and. as no children
came to bind them nearer together, hus
band and wife fell farther and farther
apart, and at last separated by mutual
consent. Tom Parke went to sea once
more, and cruised here, there and every
where, as his fancy led him. Mrs. Parke
stayed quietly on at the farm, and with
the help of her uncle, who lived in the
house with her. managed things so ad
mirably that she grew quite rich. And
five 3'ears went bv without a word or line
from Tom. No one knew certainly that
he was alive. No one could swear that
he was dead. Two more years and his
wife, or widow, might legally suppose
him gone to " Davy Jones' locker," and
marry again if she chose to do so."
Would this be her choice? Even her
old uncle could not tell. Her husband's
nsme was never mentioned by her. No
allusion to him was ever made in any
way in that house, which had once been
his happy home.
And yet, on this night, as the widow
sat alone, her face was grave and sad,
and her soft, gray eyes had an absent,
far-away look in them as they gazed into
the depths of the fire. Tom Parke tad
never liked to sit beside a cooking stove,
and to please him the tire-boards had
always been taken down in the fall of the
year, and the fire lighted on the hearth
in the good, old-fashioned way. And
this had been done again to night for tho
first time that year. Where was he while
the blaze flashed so cheerily? Tossing
high on the angry waves as his good ship
rolled and staggered round Cape Horn?
or down, far down, beneath those waves,
silent and still forever?
"Poor, dear Tom!" said Mrs. Parke,
with a quivering sigh. And tears began
to nil the solt, gray eyes at the thought
A knock came at the outer door.
Her uncle was upstairs asleep in his
own oed. it was nearly ten o clock: a
late hour for any neighbor to be dropping
in to borrow the newspaper or hold a
friendly chat over the blazing fire. But
Mrs. Parke was not one of those silly
women who are afraid of a shadow, and
so sue went at once ana openea tue aoor.
A tall, stalwart man stood there in a
sailor's dress.
Her heart gave a great bound, but
grew quiet again when she heard the
tones of the rough, coarse voice.
" Does Mrs. Parke live here?"
" She does."
"Can I see her?"
" I am Mrs. Parke."
" Then I have a message to give you,
ma'am from my Captain."
" Captain w ho?"
' Capt. Tarkc, ma'am him as was
your husband," was the gruff reply.
Was!
She asked him in as civilly as she
could, and gave him a chair before the
blazing lire. His face was nearly cov
ered by a forest of red hair and whisk
ers, but in her agitation she scarcely
looked at him.
Wag, did you say?" she gasped.
" Has anything happened? Is my hus
band "
" Now, don't you take on like that.
ma am," said the grutt voice, with a touch
of kindness in its tone. " I can't a-bear
to see a woman cry. It just about kills
me."
"Is he dead? Tell me that!" she
cried.
" No."
She drew a long, deep breath and sank
back into her chair, the color coming
back into her lips and cheeks by faint
degrees.
"Dashed it I can make it out, any
way," said the sailor, witn a wondering
look. "The Captain he says to me:
' You go and find her out, Jack, and tell
her so and so from me. But if you hear
as how she's married, or likely to be,
along of my not heaving in sight through
all these years, why then just keep your
tongue in your head and sheer off as fast
as you can before you make any mis
chief for her.' Them was the Captain's
very words, ma'am, and 1 more than half
expected to have to go back and leave
my errand as it was. iiut you look as u
you liked the Captain yet upon my soul
you do!"
"Lake him!" said Mrs. Parke, witn an
indignant glance. "Why shouldn't 1?
What do you mean? Isn't he my own
husband? Who has a better righi to like
him, as you call it, than 1?"
" Kight you are, ma am! ' said the sail
or, exultantly. "And glad enough ami
to have such good news to take back, to
the Captain. You sec, ma'am, he knew
just how handsome and pretty you are,
and he was afraid that you might have a
grudge against him, on account of your
quarreling, when you were both too
young to know any better. And so he
says to me, Jack,' says he, n yoa nnd
she has a kind look or word for me still,
tell her I behaved like a brute to her in
the old days, but if she'll only forgive
me for it, and take me back again, I'll
make it all up to her, on my soul I will.'
and I do believe he will, ma'am, I really
do believe he will. For he would just
give his eves to see you as I am seeing
you now, would the Captain I know he
would! v hat am l to ten nim?"
"Tell him! Why did he send you at
all? Why didn't he come himself!"
cried Mrs. Parke, springing to her feet.
How can I tell you? JNo one ought to
hear what I have to say except him, and
no one shall! where is he? lake me
to him."
" Will you go with me, ma'am? Will
you really?" said the sailor, springing to
his feet in his turn.
" Of course I will."
"When?"
" Now."
" It is late, ma'am, you know, and I'm
a stranger.
" I don't care if it is midnight. And
he is your Captain! I'm not afraid to go
with you. Let me get my bonnet and
shawl.
"Wait one moment, ma'am," said the
man, hesitating, "lie toia me to ten
you all."
"Tell it, then."
" He has been very sick. His health is
poor and he has lost all his strength."
He shall be wen cared lor nere. L.et
us go."
"And an an accident, ma am, on
board ship he lost his arm "
"Oh, my poor lorn!"
" And a leg, ma'am."
The soft, gray eyes were full of tears.
"And and an eye; and he has to
wear a black patch all over the side of
his face where the gunpowder blew him
up, the man went on.
"Tom! Tom! Oh, how you have suf
fered, poor dear!" she was crying.
"And he said I was to tell you all,
ma'am, befoie you came anigh him. The
ship is lost; he hasn't a penny in the
world and he isn't strong enough to
work now."
"Oh, why do you keep me waiting
here?" she cried. " Let me go to him!
Poor, sick, blind, maimed and 1 not to
know! Poor Tom! Dear Tom! Take
me to him at once, if you have any mer
cy in your heart! Come, I am ready
now!"
She ran into the other room and came
out again wearing her bonnet and shawl.
Where was the sailor?
A red wig and whiskers lay on the
floor, in company with a slouched hat
and an old pea-jacket. And on the hearth
stood a handsome, stalwart man, in a
naval uniform, his limbs sound, his face
clear and fair, his blue eyes bright and
beautiful as ever.
"Mary!" cried the old, musical voice
that she remembered so we'll. " Forgive
me for trying you so forgive me all!
Oh. my darling wife, the future shall
atone for the past, if love and truth can
make you happy!
"Tom dear Tom!" was all her an
swer. And then he had her in his arms
and their lips met in a kiss that sealed
the pardon of both!
Mrs. Parke s uncle was somewhat as
tonished when he got up the next morn
ing and saw the new inmate of the
household. And three old bachelors and
four widowers could look forward hope
fully no longer to the " seven years," for
Mrs. Parke was a "grass widow" no
longer, and seemed most provokingly
well satisfied to find these things " thus,"
as poor Artemus Ward used to say. Af.
1 . eekly.
An unlucky mouse pot into a bee
hive not long since, and was not only
stung to death, but. on becoming oaor
iferously unpleasant, was hermetically
sealed in wax by the hign-tonea nymen
opterans.
TnE citv of Providence, R. I., having
looked the matter up finds that by light
ing its 1,930 street-lamps with electricity
it can save f 4ow in lamp-ngnters' serv
ices per annum.
SE.NSE AND 0SEXSE.
A Boston tailor advertises "diagona'
boys' suits."
peveji female clerks have been ap
pointed in the Postolhce in Tsew Orleans,
A lot of 5,000 pineapples was received
recently by the Oneida (N. Y.) Commu
nity for caaning
Every man who can knock a grass
uopper s neaa on and aoesn t do so is
neglecting a plain duty.
The Legislature of British Columbia
has disfrancised the Indian and Chinese
inhabitants of the colony.
Mark Twain denies that his "Gilded
Age" was a failure, lie says it gave a
poor, worthy bookbinder a job.
Fleefle.ssness would be just as dis
agreeable by any other name. Calling
it "insomnia" does not help the matter
one iota.
When a Tennessee dog bites a man the
man can recover one dollar damage?
trom the owner, cux bites per day would
be lair wages.
The Pans Moniteur made the strange
discovery that the Schiller was wrecked
on the scventietn anniversary or the
death of the poet.
Key. Dr. Miner, of Boston, denies that
ministers' boys are the worst in creation.
and cites instances where they have not
gone to the bad.
l.very druggist s clerk should live as
though his next moment would be his
last. Especially if there is a soda fount
ain in one end of the store.
A current item says there are 700,000
women l'atrons ol Husbandry, but, n
that is all, the sex has undergone a rapid
shrinkage in a few hours.
" It's generally the case with bad
boys," philosophically remarks Miss An
thony, " that they look like their mother
and act like their father."
A Kansas constable who couldn't dead
head into a circus arrested the whole
concern for laboring on the Sabbath, and
it cost the manager $ uW.
Just now all the institutes for the fee
ble-minded are overcrowded, and a little
croquet here and there must be tolerated.
Lou in t illc Cou Her -J ou rna I.
An exchange says: "We'll lide two
miles to see two brothers under twelve
years of age go to bed together without
having a dispute about something."
The grasshoppers evidently read the
papers. A paten ol land in ivausas re
ported to be worthless last year has been
entirely shunned by them so far this season.
The St. Louis Republican, which also
called a lawyer a " shyster," has had to
pay for it. The assessed damages, as
set by the jury of twelve, was one (1)
cent!
The compositor who substituted an
m" for a " w," in speaking of a lady
troubled with "swelling of the feet," ac
complished the worst typographical feat
on record.
Kansas teacher " Where docs all of
our grain product go to?" Boy " It goes
into the hopper." " uopper: What
hopper?" " Grasshopper," triumphantly
shouts the lad.
The Austrian Government expresses its
willingness to send representatives to the
Philadelphia Centennial, if President
Grant will guarantee them protection
against the Indians.
IIvDRoriioniA is reported to be raging
terribly in Texas among wolves and all
animals that they bite, larmers are
having to kill their stock. The report
comes from Castroville.
All life is sacred and therefore not to
be lightly taken, i3 a reflection which oc
curs to many humane persons who care
fully extricate the bugs from their straw-
, v c ; I.
UL'rries oeiore caiiujj mcui.
The East is complaining to the Fost-
oftice Department that a great many
boxes of grasshoppers are being sent
through the mails from the Western
cities. They don't want any down
there.
The heaviest snorer we have heard of
is the man whose wife woke him up the
other night during a tempest, saying she
... . . i i r ,
did wish ne wouiu siop snoring ior sue
wanted to hear the thunder. UreetiJUUl
Mass.) Gazette.
A Cincinnati woman tried to reach
the bottom of the stairs ahead of a cask
of vinegar and the surgeon who fixed up
her broken bones said that she might
try for a thousand years and "yet get
beaten every time.
The grocers and fruit-dealers of Bos
ton have agreed to co-operate with the
importers of Malaga raisins in a reiusai
to purchase thescgoods any longer by
the box, and insist upon their being sold
by actual net weight.
On Lake Champlain, in Essex County,
N. Y., large quantities of fish are cap
tured by exploding torpedoes in the
water, stunning the fish so that they rise
to the surface. Four hundred fish were
taken at one blast recently.
Rome, N. Y., has for forty years
carefully guarded a tree under which it
was said that Gen. Washington ate din
ner. It has recently come to light that
Washington was never in Home and the
boys are giving the old tree a bad tussle.
A gentleman of fortune proposes to
effect the removal to England at his own
expense of the fallen obelisk at Alexan
dria, fellow to the so-called Cleopatra's
Needle. The cost of removal will be
about 10,000, and the method of trans
port recommended is a huge raft.
Base-ball has demoralized Hartford.
The careful Clemens has bought a seat
in the errand stand: the clergy have
season tickets ; and, worse than all, one
enthusiastic family has removed the
cushions from its church pews and ap
plied them to alleviating the agony ol a
ten-inning game.
The Itev. J. G. Holland has been ma-
liirninsr reDorters. If this becomes gen
erally known he might as well leave the
platform, for, in the language oi namiei,
they are the abstract ana uriei enron-
icles of the time. After your death you
were better have a bad epitaph than their
ill report while you live."
The Young Men's Christian Associa
tion of Newark, N. J., recently built an
elegant hall, thereby incurring a debt
which thev are unable to liquidate.
Foreclosure of the mortgages on the
building is threatened, to avert which
the business community oi in e warn are
appealed to for aid to save the hall for
the association.
George Lamont Stevens, an honest
farmer of Kennebunk, is in Boston in
search of his wife a " purty good look
ing woman, with a nose not eggsactly a
snub, but sort o' wide, and real plump,
with the puniest arm thar is out." Mrs.
Stevens got tired of living on a farm,
and is supposed to have plunged into
the gayeties of the Hub.
The Connecticut Fish Commissioners
report the introduction of black bass in
Connecticut waters successful. Over
1.3o0,000 young salmon were placed in
the river during the year. Their experi
ments in hatching shad show that the
eesrs of the shad will not hatch in brack
ish or salt water; also that such waters
are fatal to the young fry. '1 he eaten oi
shad last season was unusually large.
Tns total receipts of Yale College last
vpar were H331.3S4.3S. the term bills
amounting to $61,727.12. There were
donations to the building fund of the
theological department of f 81,100.41, to
the law school of $10,000 and to the
chapel fund 7,00. Instruction in me
academical department cost 42,038.88;
the art school cost $10,7"). 70; the Shef
field school, ."i4,UK . itt; the theological
department, 28,371 il; the medical de
partment, 1,549 03; tho law School,
3,483.12; and the philosophical depart
ment, 1,430.
Dolce Far Monte
Anne Bkewrter writes from Rome to
the Philadelphia Uulktin: "The Humans
pur sang are the laziest of human beings.
Their favorite business is to rent an un
furnished apartment on a Urcet frequent
ed by tho fvrcutieri, as they call tho
tourist anil traveling community; they
furnish all the available rooms with
flashy, Solfcrino-colored covered furni
ture, and glass vaes filled with artificial
flowers for ornaments. These they let
out at a high price to travelers and hud
dle themselves into one or two little
back rooms. I know of several families
of truly decent persons who do this. I
have one family in my mind at this mo
ment. The father owns a handsomo
apartment in a fine house on t lie Via
tuattro Fontatie (single floors of a house
can be bought and sold in Home).
Father, mother, two daughters nnd three
sons compose the family of which I
speak. These seven persons sleep,
dress, cook and eat in one room about
twenty-five feet square, and in a kitchen
a little smaller! I said nothing about
bathing, as little o: that is done air one;
the modern Komans; they are as much
afraid of a bath as their ancestors loved
it; indeed, they will coolly tell you that
a bath will cause the fever. The father
has no business; he rents the rooms of
the apartment; one daughter is a dress
maker, working only when she pleases,
however; the other daughter nids her
mother in the very little housekeeping,
for all the laundry work is 'done out'
that is, giveu to a laundry woman. There
is little or no cooking done, ine no
mans live a great deal on tulame, some
thing like bologna sausage, s ilaJs, a cup
of collee, and sometimes afrittu made of
calves brains, and cucumber cut Into
thin slips not a bad dish, if fried
in butter, but they iry it in on.
The sons have some sort of trade,
but none of them work as we understand
work. These people saunter forth in the
afternoon from their cheerless abode.
The women, especially the daughters, arc
dressed "quite line," and the boys arc
also "smart." They remain abroad un
til bedtime. They lounge on the Pincio
until sunset: then thev saunter leisurely
down to the Corso or Ripetta and take a
fresh perch on some piazza. 1 he 1'iazzi
Colonna and vast Piazzi Navona have
band music supplied by the municipali
ty on alternate nights in summer. 1 heso
piazzas are literally jammed. There are
lemonade booths by the great fountain
brims and the people sip lemonade and
eat ciamhelli, a sort of jumble, until bed
time. The next morning, it tby uon t
lie abed until ten o'clock, which they
often do, especially in winter, for they
never have lues, they are upl to Haunter
out to the Aqua Acetosa. '1 his is a min
eral spring of which I have often told
ou you ieacn n oy leuviuj; uiu i
'lamina near the Casino Papa Giulia on
the right. Its waters have been popular
with the Romans ever since the sixteenth
century. They arc considered of great
use in atlccuons oi tue nver, ana are
drank on the snot in the early morning
hour3 by the Romans during the spring
and early summer. You will meet great
strings of mothers and daughters, young
lads and lasses, going in and out upon
the road anv early morning. It is a
drive I am very fond of, and I fancy,
also, that the waters are beneficial. Tho
crowds of idle people 1 meet there amaze
me, for they are of the class that one
supposes must have some constant em
ployment. But these people have no
idea of woik. as a duty. L,ue is 10 oe
lived quietly, not filled with weary oc
cupations. I heir main pursuit is tran
ouil ease; their main thought is to do as
ittle manual labor as possible.
FACTS AM) FIGURES.
Twenty thousand alligator skins arc
tanned annually.
Nebraska people planted ld,ouu,uuu
trees on their prairies lust year.
They are counting on 10,000,000 vis
itors at the Philadelphia Centennial.
Beet-root sugar can be made in Cali
fornia at seven cents a pound, including
every expense.
Only one female was saved out of 103
ladv passengers on board the ill-fated
Schiller, or ol the 383 in all.
The Pension Bureau estimates the
number of survivors of the Mexican war
entitled to pensions at 32,414.
There are about 4,000 public schools
in Japan. In 1874 four new normal
schools were established, making six in
all.
There are 8,000.000 of German-f peak
iDg people in the United States, and they
have 300 newspapers and periodicals in
their own language.
TnE annual report of the City Register
shows that there were 11,717 births, 4,019
marriages and 7,81.j deaths in Boston
during the year 174.
About 500,000,000 were spent in Eu
rope last year to maintain 2,000 000 men
in doing nothing but carrying muskets
and preparing for war.
The production of poultry in the
United States is not less than SOO.fMiO,
000 pounds annually, w orth 0,000,000,
and eggs worth as much more.
Rochester, N. Y., has 10 flouring
milis, which last year manufactured ol8,
000 barrels of flour; bushels of wheat
consumed, 2,331,000; men employed, 171;
runs of stone, 81.
Portland, Me., has saddled itself w ith
a debt of ",,000.000, or 100 per head for
its population of 30,000, to build a rail
road through the White Mountains in
the direction of Chicago.
A good P rcheron stallion can be de
livered in New York for from 1,000 to
1,500 end pay a reasonable prolt to the
importer, wune me same are now rcmus
in Illinois for from 2,000 to 3,000!
Col. Forney' Letter.
Husbands, Help Yonr WItos!
A young man who is praised by his
employer for his faithful efficiency at;his
desk, and admired especially by his
friends for his thouehtful kindness to his
wife, was seen about five o'clock the
other morning washing the windows of
his rented home. A little merriment at
his expense elicited the frank response:
"Nevermind; 1 can't afford to pay a
washerwoman to do it, and perhaps if I
demonstrate my ability to take care of a
house the world w ill let me own one
some time." And so he will, some time,
own a house, and be able to hire it
cleaned, too. This brave independence
in economy is not only worthy of imita
tion by hosts of young men in these close
times, but the example of mutual burden-bearing
in the domestic circle is all
praiseworthy. How many feeble women
are every day tuirging away at heavy
burdens of domestic toil that are trying
their very heart-strings, while their gen
teel husbands are perhaps fingering lace
and silk over a counter, or pushing a pen
in &nelegantcounting-rocm! Husbands,
there ought to be masculine muscle in the
wash-room, cleaning house, sweeping
heavy carpets, and in doing dozens of
heavy ta&ks in the household. Try it
these long mornings, and see how amia
ble and devoted" your wife will be.
Troy I'imes.