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VOLUME XI.
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1875.
NUMBER 17.
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JaTiirxiituLi?e5
SAFES, CHAIRS,
Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads,
ETC., ETC., ETC.,
Of All Descriptions.
METALLIC BURIAL CASES.
Woodcn Coffins
Of all eizes, ready-made, and sold cheap for cash.
With many thanks for part patronage, I Invite
all to call and examine my
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MEDICINES
AT
J. H. BUTTERY'S,
On Main Street, bet. Fifth and Sixth.
Wholesale aul Retail Dealer in
Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils,
Varnishes, Patent Medicines,
Toilet Articles, etc., etc.
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Carriages, Buggies, Wagons,
AND
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On Short Notice and Reasonable Terms.
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PLATTSMOUTH, NEB.
THOS. Y. SHRYOCK,
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A HACK
Will Run to the Steamboat Land
ingr. Depot, and all parts of
the City,
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when Desired.
First National Bank
Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska,
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Main St., bet. 5th and 6tli,
PLATTSMOUTH, - NEB.
ALSO
UNDERTAKER,
And has on hand a large stock of
Metallic Tiuvial Cases,
Wooden Coffins, Etc.,
Of all sizes, cheap for cash.
Funerals Attended on Short Notice
II. 1. WJTERMAX & SOX,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
PINE LUMBER,
Xatli, Shingles,
SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, ETC.,
On Main St., cor. Fifth,
PLATTSMOUTH, - - - NEB.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Mooov and Sankey, the Chicago evan
gelists, will leave Europe for the United
States on the 4th of August next
CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
AccoRDiyo to a recent estimate of the
Postofnee Department the consumption of
postal cards during the current fiscal year
will be 12",000,000.
Two Commissioners from Japan to look
after the interests of that Government at
the Centennial Exposition have already
reached Washington.
to the Agricultural
are unusually full.
The July returns
Department, which
show a decided improvement in the cotton
crop during June in all the States except
Texas.
A recent London dispatch states that
during the four mouths just passed
Messrs. Moody and Sankey had held 28.1
meetings in tngianct, which had been at
tended by 2,170,000 persons. The amount
of money expended for buildings, print
ing, etc., was 140,000. The revivalists
declined to receive compensation for their
sen-ices.
Baltimore is excited over the marriage
in that city of a scion of English nobility
to a colored woman. The Baltimore
papers say the bridegroom is a direct de
scendant of the Plantagenct family of En
gland, and that, a few years ago, when
public indignation was at its height
against the Prince of Wales, he would, had
the indignation assumed a more tangible
form, have been in the direct line for as
cending to the British throne.
Frank D. Moulton has sent a note to
the District Attorney of Brooklyn, asking
for a speedy trial under the indictment for
libeling the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
which has lieen pending against him
(Moulton) for nearly a year. Attorney
Britton responded that he could not well
attend to the matter at the present time,
owing to more urgent cases, but intimates
that later in the season he will endeavor
to have the matter attended to in the
courts.
At a Cabinet meeting in Washington a
tew days ago the subject of our relations
with Venezuela was considered. The lat
ter Government by a convention signed
in 18i!f) agreed to pay a certain
amount as indemnity for injuries
sustained by certain American citizens.
A portion of the sum was paid, but a
balance remains due, which our Gov
ernment has sought in vain to obtain. The
Venezuelan Government has at last ex
pressed a disposition to pay up in full, but
claims the privilege of designating the par
ticular parties to whom the money shall be
paid. This proposition will be rejected by
our Government, and unless the matter is
speedily adjusted the United States Minis
ter to Venezuela will probably be withdrawn.
StTCESSOR TO
Tootle, Iliiinifi C In l-l t.
FOR YOUR GROCERIES
CO TO
John Fitjioerai-d
K. C. Hover
A. W. M F.Ai ini.iN..
John O Roiukk
, PrecidenL
. . . Yice-rre ident.
Cashier.
.Aspwtant Ca.-hier.
This Batik is now open for business at their new
room, corner Main and Sixth streets, and are pre
pared to transact a general
BANKING BUSINESS.
Stocks, Bonds, Gold, Government
and Local Securities
BOVGIIT AND SOLD.
Deposits Received and Interest Al
lowed on Time Certificates.
DRAFTS DRAWN,
Available in any part of the United State and
all the Vrincipal Town and Cilice of Europe.
in
ACENTS FOR THE
CELEBRATED
INMAN LINE ani ALLAN LINE
OF JSTXLV3XlIf.
out their friend from
Ferons wishing
Europe can
to hrin?
rrncnAF tickets tkom rs
X'lut tsmoii 1 1i.
Tlii'oiifj-li to
Excelsior Barber Shop.
J. C. IBOOISTK,
Main Street, opposite Saunders House.
HAIR-CUTTING,
Shaving and Shampooing.
ESPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO
C'nttiiis Children's mitl Ladies'
Hair.
J. V. Weckbach,
Cor. Third and Maiu SU , riattsraouth.
(Outhmann's old stand.)
lie keeps on hand a large and well-selected stock
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.
IlichrH Prire Paid for t'ountrjr Prndnre.
A full stock at all times, and will not be undersold.
Take notice of the Sln:
"EMPIRE BAKERY AND GROCERY."
nlyl
WILLIAM STADELMANN
nas on hand one of the largest stocks of
CLOTHING
AND
Gents' Furnishing Goods
FOR STRING AND SUMMER.
I invite everybody in want of anythinc
line to call at my store.
in my
Call and See Boone, Gents,
And pet a boon in a
n41-ly
South Side Main, let. 5th & Gth Sts.,
And convince themselves of the fact. I have as a
specialty in my Retail Depart mcut a Mock of
Fine Clothing for Men and Boys, to which we in
vite those who want noods.
I also keep on hand a large and wcll-sclectcd
stock of
Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Etc,
jarlyl
A Train of Cars Saved by a Hoy.
Last Tuesday the Cincinnati day express,
going cast, left Connersville on time, and
wits iiytnjr on its way at the rate of twenty-live
miles an hour. When approaching
a" bridge over a river a few miles from
Connersville the engineer noticed a small
lxy in the middle of the track motioning
wildly with hisarins. The heavy rains for
several days ln-fore had caused the man at
the throttle no little anxiety, and in a mo
ment it flashed over his mind the bridge,
but a very short distance ahead, was at
least damaged bv the freshet. "With oni
hand he reached for the whistle, and
the other he reversed the enirine.
train employes heard no ordinary sto
signal in the keen, short whistle, an
moment conductor, tiasrsaore-man a
the train enmloves were helninur thevesu
lar brakeman wind the chains that were
perhaps the only hopes of saving the
lives of all on board. The train was
stopped within but a few steps of where
the bridge once rested on the abutment.
The structure had been washed entirely
away, and had it not been for the boy the
entire train would have gone into the river,
as the bridge was just at the end of a
curve, and so hidden by trees that its dis
appearance would not have been noticed
until too late. As soon as the passengers
had gotten over the shoc k the full realization
of their danger had caused a search
was made for the loy. lie was
found sitting down oil" to one side of the
track, shaking as if he had a chill, so bad
ly was he frightened. Every one on the
train Mocked around the brave little fellow,
who said he was eleven years old, and al
most crushed him in their joyful anxiety to
even touch hU body. lie innocently said he
did not ln-p;in shaking until he sat down,
thereby showingthat not until lie had seen
the train stop in safety did his nerves give
way. lie said his name was Davis and
that he lived near by, iointing to a farm
house. He was on his way home from a
neighbor's when he discovered that the
bridge had been washed away since pass
ing an hour previous, lie rcmemlcred
the down passenger-train, and, knowing it
was alxmt time it came along, hurried up
the track to give warning. He had only
arrived at the stot where he was noticed
by the engineer when the train came along.
One of the passengers, an elderly Quaker
lady, gave him live dollars, which lie was
reluctant to accept, although the conductor
informed her that the officers of the road
would reward the boy. The Following
day .Superintendent "Williams arrived at
the scene, and hunting out the hero gave
him what money he had about him, some
twenty dollars, with the promise that
vhenever he wanted anything at all he
should apply to him. Indianapolis IStn-
tincl, J uly 6.
A Xew Field for Travelers.
PHILADELPHIA STORE
SOLOMON V XAT1IAX,
GO TO THE
Post Office Book iStore,
. J. STKEIGHT, Proprietor,
. ros rocs
Bools. Stationery, Pictures, Music,
TOYS, CONFECTIONERY,
Violin Strings,
Newspapers, Novels,
Song Books, etc., etc
POST OFFICE BUILDING,
PLATTSMOUTH, NEB.
IlIM.r.K? IN
Fancy Dry Goods,
Notions, Ladies' FnmisMni Goois.
Largest, Cheapest, Finest and Best Assorted Stock
In the city.
We ar prepared to sell cheaper than they can
ot pnrcnaeea eieewnere.
GIVE TJS CA.X.X.
And examine onr Goods.
tSPStore on Main St., between 4th and 5th Sts.,
riatir'monin, ieo. l'xr
PLATTSMOUTII NEBRASKA.
Conrad Heisel, Proprietor.
FLOUR, CORN MEAL, FEED.
Always on hand and for sale at lowest cah prices,
Tk H'-gteet Price paid for Wt&at and Cora.
Particular aUtuttea given to catc -woric.
The lovers of the marvelous should
hasten to make a trip to New Guinea, in
the East Indies. In the first place it is al
most terra incognita, and therefore a com
paratively virgin field for exploration;
and, secondly, its productions are of so
wonderful a character that hyperbole and
exaggeration can only faintly do justice to
the subject. Munchausen was a prodig
ious liar, but if he had visited New Guinea
his resources in the art in which he ex
celled would have failed in the presence of
realities more incredible than his most in
genious fabrications. A book on this re
markable region, by Capt. Lawson, de
scribes, among other things, butterflies
whose expanded wings measure a foot
across, scorpions and spiders thirteen
inches long, apes over live feet high,
snakes forty feet long, trees &17 feet high,
and, to crown all, a cataract 900 feet wide,
with a fall of 17'J feet, and a mountain
overtopping by more than 3,000 feet the
giant Mount Everset in the Himalayas,
hitherto the highest known mountain in
the world. Intelligencer.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey held their
farewell meeting in Lonilon on the night
of the 12th. A number of Earls and
Members of Tarliament and 700 clergy-men
were present.
. According to a Madrid telegram of the
12th military combinations had bees, made
which would force the Carlists to take
refuge in France or accept battle under
circumstances certain to result in disaster.
A sekious riot occurred at Lawrence,
Mass., on the evening of the 12th. A
number of Orangemen had returned from
a picnic celebration of the battle of the
Iioyne, and were passing through the city,
when they were hooted at and assailed by
a crowd of several hundred Irishmen.
The Orangemen, among whom were
several women and children, sought
protection at the police station and
the Mayor was sent for, who,
with a squad of police, undertook to cpuell
the disturbance and escort the assailed
party to their homes. The police were
themselves assaulted by the mob, and in
self-defense fired oil" their revolvers into
the crowd and thus compelled the mob to
disperse. Several persons on both sides
Mere wounded, some of them seriously.
A lock-out is threatened in the cotton
mills in Ashton, Stalybridge, Dunkenfield
and Mossley, England, because the work
men in certain departments have refused
to refer disputes in regard to wages to
arbitration.
A DispATcn of the 13th sa3's the Spanish
steamer Bayonne had been wrecked on the
Uiscaj'in coast. Her crew were saved by
Carlist fishermen and the Carlists had
threatened to hold them as hostages, to be
shot if the Koyalists bombarded any more
coast towns. The Carlists were removing
their artillery from Estella.
Several of the people and temporary
residents of Peek skill, N. Y., serenaded
the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher at his farm
on the evening of the 12th. In resjonse
Mr. B. sjK)ke for nearly an hour. He ex
pressed his intention of going on with his
work, lie said the expenses of the trial
had lieen to him over $75,000, and had not
Plymouth Church come to his aid he would
have been financially ruined.
The attachment suit against the prop
erty oi'W. S. King, ot Minnesota, brought
by the Pacific Mail Company to secure
the repayment of money alleged to have
been improperly paid to him to induce
the passage of what is known as the
Pacific Mail Subsidy bill, was dissolved
on the 13th by Judge Young, of Minneapolis.
The great annual University boat-race
came off on Saratoga Lake, Y., on the
14th, and was won by the Cornell Univer
sity boys, of Ithaca, Columbia coming in
second, Harvard third, Dartmouth fourth,
Wesleyan fifth, Yale sixth. Thirteen col.
lege participated, Bowdoin coming in
tenth. The distance was three miles;
time of winners G :y'lx minutes. This is
the second victory this year for Cornell,
their Freshmen crew having won in the
race the day before.
A delegation of 750 Mormons arrived
at New York on the 14th from Europe, en
route for Utah, under the charge of agents
appointed by Brigham Young. Between
500 and 000 of them are adults, many of
them 3-oung women.
Instructions have been issued, under
orders of the President, that, until the re
sult of the labor of the Commissioners to
treat with the Indians is known, all parties
of citizens whoTfiTcmpt to go to the Black
Hills country, on the present Indian reser
vation, be prevented from going, and that
those who are now there be forciblj' ex
pelled. Gen. Sheridan has ordered Gen.
Crook to take the necessary steps to en
force these instructions.
Dispatches from London on the loth
state that heavy rains had occurred in
various portions of England and "Wales,
causing destructive floods. lhe river
Ogmore, in Wales, had overflowed its
banks, inundating the town of Brigend,
drowning several persons and much live
stock. At Concarvan a reserve pond for
supplying the Monmouthshire Canal had
but t its hanks, entirely destroying a
factory and several dwellings, and drown
ing thirteen persons.
Announcement was made on the 15th
of the failure of Lamliert Brothers & Scott,
of London, with $ 1,000,000 liabilities.
The Jlussian city of Morschansk was
recently destroyed. Over 200 lives were
lost and more than 2,000 were seriously
burned. It was thought that over 1,000
buildings had been destroyed..
The Suffrage Committee in the Con
necticut Legislature have reported in favor
of allowing women to vote in Presidential
elections.
Tite National Division of the Sons of
Temperance, recently in session at Provi
dence, II. I., voted by States on the propo
sition to authorize colored divisions, and
it was rejected.
Indictments were presented by the
Kings County (N. Y.) Grand Jury on the
15th against Joseph Loeder and John J
Price, charged with having sworn falsely
against the Iiev. Henry Ward Beecher
and Mrs. Elizabeth R. Tilton.
A dispatch from Beaver, Utah, on the
14th says John D. Lee had turned State's
evidence, and would be a witness for the
prosecution, and make a full statement ol
all he knows of the Mountain Meadow-
massacre. It is said he has taken this
course because he believed he was sacri
ficed to appease the wrath of the Govern
ment and shield more guilty parties by
penury, if necessary. The trial had been
set for the l'Jth.
Pbotibiohs. Batter Choice, 21X325C. Eggf
Fresh, 14Uc. Pork Mess, $19.0519.10.
Lard $12.90(311.95.
BBKADHTcm. Flour White Winter Extra,
5.30iaT.23; spring extra. $4.85a5.37,4. Wheat
8prinjt, No. 2, $l.liHai l:L Corn Iio. 2, 6S'a
6SV4c. Oats No. 2, 4TH31SC. Rye No. 2, $1.01
1.0J. Barley No. 2, $1.17&1.90.
Lciiie. First Clear, $15.00 46.00; Second
Clear, t43.0(X&4j.OO; Common Boards, $10.0?
11.00; Fencing; $10.00311.00; "A" Shingles,
$2.5032 8); Lath. $1.75(3.00.
CINCINNATI.
Bmadsttttts. Floor $5.iva5.33. Wheat
Red, $1.2501-31. Corn 69371c Pye $1.10
1.15. Oats 5?iab0c.
Provisions. Pork $19.75'3.00. Lard 12
ST. LOUIS.
Lira Stock. Beeves Fair to choice, $5,653
6.33. Hogs Live, $ii.60a7.25.
Bba.dhtdffs. Flour XX Fall, $4.75(35.00.
Wheat No. 2RedFall,$1.31U'aL31Ji- Corn No.
2,64K5c. OaU No. 2, 573574c. Rye No.
2, 91&2c.
Provisions. Pork Mess. $30.35320.40. Lard
l312?4c.
MILWAUKEE.
BRBADBTurrs. Flonr Spring XX, $l.tOH4.75.
Wheat Spring, No. 1, $1.151.154; No. 2,
$1.1331.134. Corn No. 2. 66Vic. OaU No.
2,438l4c. Rye No. 2, 92!4393c. Barley No.
2, $1.1431.15.
DETROIT.
BRBAWBTurM. Wheat Sxtra, $1.3031.30'.
Corn 8371c. Oata No. 1, 55!350c.
TOLEDO.
Breadstuffs. Wheat Amber Mich., $1.25
ai.254; No. 2 Red, $l.SI1.24-4. Corn High
Mixed, 73373KC. Oats No. 2, 4i455c.
CLEVELAND.
Brbadstcffs. Wheat No. 1 Red, $1.254
1.2B; No.- 2 Rod, $1.194(31.20- Corn
Iliijh Mixed, 7172c. Oats No. 1, 6J&G1C.
BUFFALO.
Ltvb Stock. Beeves $5.0037.00. Hoge
Live, $7.257.40. Sheep Live. $4.5035.30.
EAST LIBERTY.
Livx Stock. Beeves Best, $fi.757.25; me
dium, 5.75fi.00. Hogs Yorkers, $7.50
7.60; Philadelphia, $7.65(37.70. Sheep Best,
$4.755.00; medium. $1.25(34.50.
FACTS AM) FIGURES.
San Francisco consumes one-third more
liquor than Chicago.
In 1841 the population of Ireland was
8,171,124; in 1871, 5,412,377. In the last
census there were 724 persons returned as
over 100 years of age.
The amount of butter produced in
Minnesota last year was 15,000,000 pounds.
This year's production, it is estimated, will
reach 17,000,000. There were 2,000,000
shipped from St. Paul last year.
The semi-yearly dividends just paid in
Boston are stated at $0,88!),540. This is
$772,162 more than thecorresponding pay
ments of last year, and only ? 240,r.3 less
than those in the flush times of 1873, be
fore the balloon collapsed. The dividends
paid Boston during 1875 may be esti
mated, in round numbers, at $20,000,000.
This represents a capital of at least $320,-000,000.
The aggregate value of local church
property exempt from taxation in jsew
lork city is f :w,l40,00U, ana colleges,
hospitals, schools, etc., swell the sum to
$G4,470,OOO. 1 he value ot property ow ned
by the Episcopalians is $10,700,000 in
churches and $540,000 in schools; the
Catholics have$15,9!M),000 in churches and
$2.47(5.000 in schools, and the Presbyte
rians own $7,0XI,000 in churches.
According to the Woien ne Slwrnil; a
journal published under the auspices of
the Ministry of ar at t?t. I'etersDurg, tne
Russian Empire can bring into the field in
case of war a force of 1,463,000 men, in
cluding irregular troops. The army,
properly speaking, consist of 730,000 men,
and the reserve 206,000. The troops doing
garison duty have an effective of 120,000
men, and those in depots number 250,000.
Local forces, chiefly Asiatic, muster b0,-
000, and the Cossacks 70,000.
The great Astor Library now contains
150,306 volumes, of which 2,((( were
added during the last year by donation
and purchase. The nuinher of readers
has increased largely. In 1873 80,478
readers used 116,094 books, and in 1874
04,854 readers used 197,579 volumes. This
is exclusive of the reading in the alcoves.
The receipts during the past year from all
sources have leen $to,-i.n.bl, and tne ex
penditures $15,159.37, and the endowment
fund amounts to $773,336.65. The orig
inal endowment was $400,000.
The following statement shows the re
ceipts from internal revenue, by months,
tor the fiscal year ending June .;u, ioj-j, as
compared with the fiscal year 18 1 4
BEJTY AND THE DEMI.
In a pioneer's cabin out West, so they Bay,
A big black crizztr trotted one day,
And seated himself on the hearth and began
To lap the contents of a two-gallon pun
Of milk and potatoes an excellent meal
And then kicked about to see what he could
steal.
The lord of the mansion then awoke from
his sleep.
And hearmjr a racket he ventured to peep
Just out in the kitchen to see what was there,
And was frightened to behold a great grizzly
bear.
So he screamed in alarm to his Bluinberlng
j'roic:
"Thar's a bar in the kitchen as blip's a cow!"
"A what?" "Whj-, a bar!" " Well, murder
him then!"
"Yes, Hetty, I will if you'll first venture in."
So Betty leaped up, and the poker she seized,
While her man shut the door and against it
he squeezed.
As Betty then laid on the grizzly her rapid
blows
Now on his forehead and now on his nose
Her man through the keyhole kept shouting
within:
" Well done, my brave Betty, now hit him
attain;
Now a rap on the ribs, now a knoc k on the,
snout,
Now poke with the poker and poke his eyes
out."
So with rapping and poking poor Betty alone
At last laid Sir Bruin as dead as a stone.
Now, when the old man saw the bear was no
more
He ventured to poke his nose out of the door,
And there was the grizzly stretched out on
the floor.
Then oir totheneighbors he hastened to tell
All the -wonderful things that the morning
befell;
And he published the marvelous story afar.
How " vie and my Betty jist slaughtered a
bar!
O yes, conic and 6ec, all tl.c neighbors have
sid it,
Come and sec what we did, me and Betty, who
did it."
Toledo Commercial.
LUMLEY'ft rAKDNEK.
July i
August....
September
October ,
November.......
December
January
rehrnary.
March
April
May
June
Total
1S74.
$fi,Sl 8.0(44 25
8,525,057 2)
8, 13,070 95
6.923. W2 10
6,713,577 79
8.O.7.05J 5tf
9,698,202 52
8.104,174 55
7.781.713 63
8 411.211 50
ll.3-26.a33 04
6,lfc9,6U2 05
1875.
$9,460,940 42
8,50 -.781 85
8,56t,017 4-2
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8.6 0.8 .5 84
8.893.161 11
8,700,134 70
12.604.454 07
8,244.224 83
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11.450. -274 13
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The English North. Pole expedition re
fused to take any women along. In that
frozen country, you know, a liumaa voice
can be heard two miles, and it's a mean
trick not to let the women have a chance
to see if they coulia't be heard twjee as
for,
T1IE MARKETS.
NTEW YORK.
Jcxr 16, 1875.
Lm Btocx. Beef Cattle $11.50(313.75. Hoes
Live, $7.5037.624. Sheep Live, $4.0035.75.
Brbasstvffb. Floor Good to choice, $5,703
R.10; white wheat extra, $6.156.75. Wheat No. 2
Chicago, $1.2331.24; No. 2 Northwestern,
Sl.23ai.24; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1,263
1.27. Rye Western and State, 90c3$1.10. Bar
lay $1.25(31.30. Corn Mixed Western, 77K3
82Hc. Oata Western Mixed, 60362c.
Pbotisions. Pork New Mess, $20 23320.75
Lard Prime Steam, -13'4313?c. Cheese 53
lliic.
Wool. Domestic fleece, 50363C
CllICACrO.
Lit Stock. Beeves Choice, s6.0O36.25; Rood,
$5.50&5.&0; iredlum. $4.?5s35.30; batchers'
stock, 3.5&34.t0; stock cattle $3.0023-75,
Ho Live, good to cLolce, $7-0:i57.5. fcasR
.i?(J ) t&olce, t-K )
SENSE AND NONSENSE.
A host in himself A landlord.
The man who was hemmed in by the
crowd has ltecn troubled with a stitch in
his side ever since.
The man who pronounces " Don Quix
ote" " Donkeyhote" shows a disposition
to intrude his own name that is not com
mendablc.
Somk philosophers were disputing very
learnedly on the antiquity ot the world. A
-i .. , i- . i - i
man OI Wll. llieu oi ineir lonir uiseussion.
said: "Gentlemen, I believe the world
acts like some ladies, and does not choose
to. have her age discovered. '
Yocu true Missourian doesn't utter a
complaint over a drought, flood or whirl
wind, nut let him find irowsy outter on
the table and he at once remarks
" Miranda, from this hour our paths di
verge." Free j'ress.
Tiik "West Point cadet laughs because
the Vassar girl ran screaming from fright
at the recent sham fight. J.et the cadet
marry that timid Vassar girl, and in six
months he will take off his boots in the
hall when he comes in nights for fear she
will tear the scalp oil" him. Brooklyn.
Aryws.
At Cold Spring, N. I ., recently, burg
lars tried to enter the residence of Miss
Clara Louise Kellogg, but were met by her
brother with such a warm "reception" of
repeated " encores," at the mouth of a re
volver, that they retired, after a short but
active 44 run," without having met with
the success they anticipated from their
docra-tions.
The l'enn Monthly protests against our
clumsy five-worded national name. In
stead of 44 The United States of America"
it would have merelv America, or some
other short name. It argues that such
changes are quite common in history, En
gland, France, Germany, Holland and
many other countries having thus altered
their national designation.
The people in the home for old men
and woman at New York, recently estab
lished by the Baptists, seem to fare more
sumDtuouslv everv dav than most other
folks. They have plenty of all that is
$rood to eat and drink, and their rooms are
fitted up with rosewood furniture, ruo
quette carpets, costly paintings, and ah
sorts of imported ornaments.
Ix addition to the numerous adultera
tions found in cheap tea, a discovery has
been made in London which will attract
more general attention to these grades
than they have yet received. It appears
that some samples of cheap tea taken from
a stock which had been some time in
bond was found to be infested with beetles
la both larvae and perfect state. The
child," he muttered presently, less toLum
lev than to himself.
"The words, following that look, were a
whole book of revelation to me. Hap
pily, Lu m ley did not notice. His face
showed some surprise, mingled with that
placidjsati.-faction the successful man al
ways wears.
44 Ah!" he returned, shaking his head
knowingly, 44 is that the way the land lies?
I knew you were alwavs "close-mouthed,
but a disappointment t never suspected
that. She, whoever it was, had precious
bad taste when she looked the other way!"
and he ranB his eye admiringly over the
other's splendid proportions, and manly
handsome f;icc.
. 41 She never refused me," broke in Lum
ley's Pardner, ia a low, smothered tone,
his ej-es still fastened intently on the pict
ure. 44 I never aked her; but she knew
my mind, and I thought I knew hers. I
was sure she would wait for me until I
came back. It was for her I went away."
44 15ut you wrote to her Y" questioned
Lumley, with genuine interest.
44 Not a word not a line. I am a jioor
scribe. IJut she knew me well enough to
need no w ritten assurance of my inten
tions. Every day would be lived for
her. There could be no doubt of that in
her mind."
Lumley made a hasty gesture of dissent.
"And there, old man. was precisely where
you failed to connect! It don't do, you
know, for women to take bo much for
granted. They like to be well fortified ;
and then you are the surest to win if
you take tlicm by storm. Why, my Lu
"lie "
44 She don't look as though she ever
walked over a true heart w ith her dainty
feet and that glad little smile just curving
her lips!" broke in Lunilcy's Pardner, his
while face still bent on the picture. His
deep voice trembled a little over the last
beetles wer chostnut-Prown ia color ana
about t'ujs bf of wue-iS'-a'as, wfejlR the
larvs 'jvorti (,.t a wUitit aw.
I have forgotten the name he brought
w ith him from the States, for nolody here
ever called htm anything else but 44 Lum
lev's Pardner."
"We miners have a familiar knack of re
christening, and a name once altered
sticks to a man as long as he sticks to the
mines; so, even after Lumley had thrown
up his claim and left the diggings, a good
three years ago, Lunilcy's Pardner still re
mained, a fincer post to trace the distance
back. After all, John Jones, or Lunilcy's
Pardner, what mattered it, in that doubt
ful tide of immigration setting in toward
the wild regions," where the first confiden
tial question, after intimacy seemed to
warrant the liberty, was invariably:
44 Saay, comrade, what was j our name be
fore you came here V"
You see, I knew Lunilcy's Pardner
when he first came into the mines. I was
up at Wood's Diggings at the.tiine he and
a party ol two or three more came around
prospecting. I remember I thought what
i hne, stalwart young tcllow, lie was
straight as a young pine-tree, and no tooi-
ishness about him either, for he had been
roughing it a year or two dow n on the
Texas lxrder. I never saw the boys more
dow nright pleased over a new-comer than
when he bought a claim and went in with
us. He was not a man to talk much aliout
himself, nor one you would feel free to
question; but there was honest, square
dealing looking out of his clear, gray eyes,
for all the trouble and unrest laid up be
hind them.
Lumley was as different as a man could
be. I have often noticed that men take to
unlikes in mating among themselves as
well as in choosing mates for lite. He
came into the diggings a week or so later,
and they somehow fell in together. Lum
ley was w hat you might call an extra
clever fellow, ife looked scarcely more
than a boy these fair-skinned people
never show "their age with his handsome,
womanish face, bright blue eyes and trim
built figure; but he had confidence until
you could not rest, plenty of the gilt o
gab, and a someiuing aoom, mm i oc
lievc people call it magnetism at least,
when you were witn mm you neiieteu
just as Jieuid and men wonuereii at out
sell afterward lor doing it.
Lumley alwavs had a knack of twisting
folks round his little finger, for all that the
lines of firmness were quite lacking about
his mouth. Lumlcy's Pardner, now, with
his close-set lips and square, massive jaw
vou miffht as well hone to move a
mountain as mm arainsi ins vwn. iie
would be strong to door to bear; you
could easily see that.
I do not know as it was exactly fair! I
never meant to eavesdrop, but it happened
in this wise: One night I went over to
Lunilcy's shanty it was amazing strange
how sm)ii his name got tacked to every
thing to see abou,t a broken pick he
wanted mended. I used to do the smith
ing in those days. As I opened the door
I saw there was no one in, and, being
tired with my day's work, I dropiK-ddown
on a log just outside, lit my pipe anil sat
leaning back against the pine loards wait
ing for Lumley to come back. I guess I
must have got drowsy and fallen asleep,
for the first thing I heard was voices, and
Lumley's Pardner speaking out bitter and
short, in a way we seldom heard him
speak :
44 I reckon it's of no use in ask if there's
anv letters come to my name," he said.
44 There's no one to w rite to me."
I rubbed open my ryes and saw two
gleams of light streaming out through the
onen dixir and the one lootvhole of a win
dow, and then I knew that Lumley and
his mate must have passed me by and
never seen me in the tw ilight. liaising
myself up I saw Lumley through the
window sitting down to the pine table be
side a tallow clip with two or three letters
lying before him and one open in his hand.
Then it Hashed across my in ind that one
of the boys from a camp beyond had gone
in to the station and was ciue wiui uie man
that night.
Lumley's Pardner sat over the far side
of the table w ith a gloomy look in his eye
Being in the same boat myself, I knew
how lonesome it was never to have news
from home, and wondered to myself how a
manly, fine-looking fellow like him should
be w ithout a w ife or sweetheart waiting
with a woman's pride in him somewhere.
Lumlev was busy reading his letters. I
thought 1 had better stay outside. He was
that intent at first that he seemed not to
have heard the other's words, but after a
moment he lifted his face with one of the
proud, bright looks that were Lumley s
own. 44 Ay, comrade!" he cried, cheerily ;
44 and don t tell me it isn't ail your own
fault. Don't dure to enw me my wife
and child."
There was no reply; but, looking over
I saw such a bitter, sorrow ful look on the
face of Lumley's Pardner that, scarcely
knowinir what"! was doing. I stood and
watched and pitied him. I heard Lumley
read aloud; words of love and trust,
watchintr and waiting, and of happiness
in him and the child. I saw his face as he
read. He might be a weak man, but he
loved the woman and the child, t rom the
last letter there dropped out a csirte de
visile. Lumley caught it up with boyish
eacerness.
44 Old Pard," he cried, 44j-ou shall see
mv two treasures. Here they are Lulie
and the boy!"
He tossed the picture across the table
The other nicked it un. I saw a man die
once, stabbed through the heart. Just
such a look came into the face of Lumley's
Pardner as he fflanced at that picture in
his hand. Lumlev. bendins over his let
ter n-pr saw it. ' When he had finished
reading he held out his hand. The other
did not even' raise his eyes, but kept them
fixed on what he held.
" I. t'X. onca tltougtit to havG ft wifo itaa
words.
44 Lulie is truth itself," answered Lum
ley, quickly. 44 She never loved anylxnly
but me. To be sure, she had admirers
how could she help that and be what she
is? but she loves me truly. You can sec
it in her eyes!"
Lumley's Pardner turned deathly pale.
He caught the table by one hand as if to
steady himself and fairly hurled the pict
ure across to Lumley. It missed its mark
and fell to the floor. As he saw it fall, all
the fierceness died out of his eyes and a
frightened look crept into them.
44 Pick her up," he said, w ith timid ap
prehension, as though it were a human
licing to whom, in a moment of passion,
he had committed some act of violence.
44 1 didn't mean to do that poor little
mother!" that last word seemed to give
him a stronger footing w ith himself. 44 1
w as thinking how my wife married another
man and never let me know."
44 Come, come, old man, don't take it so
to heart," said Lumley, soothingly.
44 There'll be a pleasant home, a dear lit
tle woman, and bright-eyed children in
the future for you yet."
44 Never!"
Lumley's Pardner brought down his
fist like a sledge-hammer; then he leaned
forward in his seat, with u feverish e ager
ness in his manner which he tried hard
to keep out of his voice:
44 Tell me, how would you have given
up your Lulie V"
Lumley laughed with easy, careless
good-nature. 44 You put me in a tight
place," he said. 44 But, supjMsing the
case, the first question I should ask would
be: Did she goovertotheenemv'scamp
in other words, forsake me for an old
rival ?"
44N-n-o!" answered Lumley's Pardner,
slowly. 44 It was some one I had never
seen. I've nothing ag'in the man."
44 Why, then," went on Lumley 44 truth
sometimes cuts hard, old fellow I think
it was your fault, and not the girl's. It's
a man's privilege to speak his mind; a
woman's destiny to fold her hands and
wait. She can never be quite sure unless
he has spoken out. Then perhaps another
who has learned to love her does speak.
She feels the need of love in her lite;
women as often marry to be loved as lo
calise the' love. Then, instead of wasting
her life for that which may never come to
her, she takes up the fate lying at her feet.
Does she go very much astray?"
Lumley's Pardner dropped "lS bf'ad up
on his breast. 44 Poor girl ! I never thought
of that," he said.
I do not know just bow it was that I re
membered all the words so plain. There
was no more said, and, feeling guilty-like
for stealing a mate's secret which was not
meant tor me to know, i crept to my
shanty, bunked in, and let the broken
pick lie over until morning.
I always felt sorry for Lumley's Pardner
after that.
Well, for a time things went on in the
old way. Then Lunilcy's Pardner came
down with mountain fever, and Lumley
nursed him through it. He was as tender
as a woman, was Lumley! When I used
to drop in of nights, occasionally to lend
a hand at watching, the sick man's eyes
would follow him alout the room in a
helpless, lM-seeching way that was pitiful
to sec.
It was only the ghost of Lumlcy's Pard
ner that got up from it, but the two were
always nigher together after that.
When Lumley got back to the claim and
Lumley's Pardner was just able to crawl
about, they came into a wondcrim streak
of luck. Lumley struck into a bigpockct,
and there they were, in the turn of a die,
rich men. Mining, after all, is a game of
chance you buy your ticket, but it does
not alwavs win; there are plenty of blanks
to every prize.
It does not matter the exact amount tins
pri.c netted, if I had remembered it. Lum
ley was lnlulant over ms pnc, anxious
to sell out and leave the mines; so nolxnly
was surprised when his partner bought
him out for a good round sum, saying, in
his quiet way, that he guessed he'd stay
and see the thing through.
It was very quiet in camp the morning
that Lumley went away, lhe boys wen
sorry to lose him, for he had not any but
wt ll-w lsliers among us.
Well, six mouths went by, and then
came a little white letter 44 scribed" in a
daintv woman's hand to Lumley's Pard
ner. The man trembled all over likealeaf
when it was put into his hand, took it
into his cabin and shut last the door.
Within the next half hour he came out
acain in a desperate hurry, saddled his
mule, and rode off down the trail.
44 Unexpected business!" was his'has
tv explanation. Could not say how soon
he niiirht be back.
The news came to us at last by a party
of traders stopping to noon in camp.
Then I knew what 'those marks of weak
ness about his mouth stood for; Lumley
had never left the city at all! He had sat
down to the gaming-table one night and
gotten up from it the next morning
poorer than he had come into the
mines. He had first won. then lost, and
lost and won. and won again ; and then
that last total blank stared him in the
face.
Lumley could never give up at that. He
must win it all back! Luck was surely in
store for him vet! He haunted the gambling-hells,
playing recklessly, desperate
ly, so long as he could win enough to
keep the ball rolling; pawning his watch,
his ring, even his clothing, when other
resources failed.
So Lumley's Pardner found him heavy
eyed, with a seedy llashiness in his dress,
marks of dissipation on his fair, woman
ish face a pretty-narly-played-out indi
vidual. The blood rushed all over his face, for
the manliness yet leftia him could but feel
the shame of that inciting. But there w as
no backing out now. Luaaley's Pardner
took him to one &ido.
" I've li?r4 of j'ou.&H 1 taW
in his matter-of-fact way, 44 and I've como
to see you out of this! How much do
you say w ill clear you up and have a
trifle uhead?"
Lumley never raised his eyes.
"Old Pard," he answered, choking up,
44 you're a iK-tter friend than I deserve.
Don't ask me to take anything from you.
I went in with my eyes open, and, thank
ing you all the same, I'll have nolmdy's
help out."
Lumley's Pardner laid a broad hand on
eac h of the pitifully-drooping shoulders.
"Old man, when that fever had ine
down I'd ha' gone under if it hadn't been
lor vou. So help me God! I'd rather ha
died than have taken what I did at your
hands. Io you dale deny me this small
return now? What's a paltry sum of
money between you and me, and the 14 lit
tle mother' waitin' at home?"
Lumley put down his head upon that
and cried like a baby ; the which, if it bo
not manly, I like him the better for.
There arc tears, I am thinking, that are
far from disgracing even the eyes of a
man.
44 I'm ashamed of myself through and
through for w hat's gone by," were Lum
ley's next words, 44 but I can't give it up
now. Matters can't be any worse and
tin-re's a chance of bettering. Perhaps
to-night I shall win it all back."
There were the old Millfiilncss and
pride and the new fascination of the
gaming table. There was no turning him
back, iio moving him from that resolve.
Lumley's Pardner took him by the arm
44 Either way, I'm louml to see yoif
through," he said. "Come."
So night after night, as Lumley played,
there stood Lunilcy's Pardner looking on,
w ith never a word of that little nhite let
ter, his answering message or the two pas
sengers on board an ocean steamer louiid
for California.
Despite Lumley's hopefulness luck
never turned. It was the same feverish
unrest ami tedious waiting, the sense of
degradation by day and at night the
brilliantly lighted gambling-hell, the ex
citement, the fascination, trembling be
twixt hope; and uncertainty, the Ireqtient
potations to stead- his shaking nerves,
and, as the night wore on, uncertainty
deepening into failure and disappoint
incut; and each morning Lumley's Pard
ner led him slowly and silently away,
until time, wearing on, brought at last
this appeal :
44 For Coil's sake, old man, when will
you let Up?"
44 So help me Heaven, as soon ns I get
back 'J.tMX 1 swear never to touch cauls
or dice airain." And Lumley was dead in
earnest this time. Still, he would accept
nothing from his partner.
The night the Ocean Belle was signaled
into port Lumley's Pardner beckoned
44 Monte Bill" aside (I rec kon you have
heard of Monte Bill, the best brace-dealer
and short-card player west of the old Mis
sissippi), and some secret understanding
passed between them.
In the midst of a game Lumley's Pard
ner left his jwst, which was something un
usual, passing Monte Bill on his way to
the door. It was not generally noticed,
but as he passed he dropped a small, com
pact package into the gambler's hand,
then, slouching his nmnbrero over his eyes,
he left the hall.
Pausing in the street, Lumley's Pardner
looked anxiously down. It would have
been dark but for the street-lamps, for it
was full two hours to moonrise; but dow n
by the wharf shone out the gleam of anew
signal-light which, poised at mast-head,
glowered through the dark like the fiery
eye of a gigantic Cyclops; the Ocean
Belle was in. Ten minutes later, pushing
his way through the. bustling crowd that
thronged the deck, he hurried across the
plank and made his way straight to the
cabin.
The past seemed all a dream as he
stood again with wildly-beating heart be
fore a once familiar form familiar still,
though bearin-r the maturer crown of
motherhood. Her face was even fairer
than of old, blushing w ith its own wild
rose tints of loveliness, her soft eyes shin
ing up in glad expectation. The broad
sombrero, slouched over his ion head,
shaded his features. She saw only bronzed
cheeks and a strong brown In-ard. Tin
tremor in his voice might have; meant
diflidence.
44 Pardon me, madam, you are T be.
lieve that is to say I am Lumley's
Pardner."
She held out a white hand cordially.
44 And my husband?"
44 Is well. I am to take you to him."
He took timidly the hand the extended,
aw kwardly the little woman thought, and
then let it go.
44 Give me the child."
He took the sleeping boy in his arm,
and so burdened piloted the way to a car
riage waiting close U-side the wharf. Put
ting her inside, he laid the child gently,
almost reverently, upon her lap.
44 We're to drive round and take up
Lumley. It is only a few minutes' ride."
One last searching glance from under
the protecting nmnbrern, and he closed the
carriage door, mounting to his place be
side the driver.
Oddly enough, Lnmhy had just finished
a winning game with Monte Bill when
Lumley's Pardner came hurriedly in. As
he slipped quietly back to his post Lum
lev sat cvinir the 41 pile" He
put out his'hand to rake it up, paused,
drew it back, picked up the arI, iiikI
becan to shuffle for (mother Hake; not
that he had forgotten his oath, or the
woman and child beloved, but a long way
ahead of anything else was the thoucht
that luck hail turned that he had only to
follow it. up to win back all tin- pasl.
Lumley's Pardner Hooped to his car:
44 You'd iM-ttcr throw up the game. The,
4 little mother' and your boy are waiting
here, outside."
Lumley started halfrose to his feet,
looked up into his partner's face, then at
the cards, then at the door, then willfully
back upon the cards ami the gold. As
with a heavy sigh he sank into his seat
again, Lumley's Pardner, dashing the
cards from his'hamls, raked up the slakes
and forced the money into Lumley's
pocket.
44 How long will you keep your wife
and child waiting alone, at night, in a
strange city before the dxr of a gambling
house?" The thrust struck home. Like a man
awakening from a dream, Lumley sprang
up, crushed on his hat, and flew to the
door.
Once in the little woman's arms he was
safe. Lumley's Pardner knew him well
enough to. Ik; "sure of that. He never fol
lowed 111 hi but slipped out at the sidedoor
and the next day saw him back in camp
a trifle pale and sterner than was his
wont, but the clear gray eyes dauntlessly
honest and brave.
And I reckon to this day Lumley never
knows how much he owes his old mate, or
that his Lulie had one true lover whom he
once knew and appropriated to himself in
the person of Lumley's Pardner. Over
land Monthly.
44 Who can sound the depths of her
love?" he soliloquized, as he leaned out of
the window while the moonlight brilliant
ly illuminated the white line where her
hair was parted in the middle. She
thought he was talking alxmt another
woman, and for three weeks she fixed the
poultices herself, did everything to repair
the disastrous consequences of her im
petuosity, aud treated him as a penitent
and devoted wife should.
The Congregational Union was found
ed twenty three years ago, and ba agist
ed 025 churches ia thirty-four States and
Territories, at aa esixsnso oi nearly v')00,-000,