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PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA.
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VOLUME XL
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1875.
NUMBER 18.
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were listening. The revulsion of hopo
was too much; my faculties all iHcaino
dim and hazy. I fired oil" in succession tJie
two barrels of my gun.
My next recollection is that of u knot of
colliers in semi nudity, w ho hud just left
their workings and mine through tho
brattice which divided their portion of tho
pit from the disused part, and were nUnd
tng around me with their safety lamps.
They had fled, they afterward told me, at
first, thinking an explosion hail taken
place in the Abandoned workings; and it
was long before tho " butty" could per
suade any of them to follow him. But
when they once saw my deplorable con
dition, agonized with hunger and thirst,
grimy from head to foot with coal-dust,
thin and cadaverous with anxiety, no Sis
ters of Charity could have been more ten
der in their ministrations. Warm tea and
bread in spare morsels were given me;
and then I was raised and carried to tho
workings, put in a wagon and drawn by
one of the jut-horses to the pit-head.
Never shall I forget the delight of being
brought up to "bank" and once more
feeling the blessed air of heaven blow on
my haggard checks. And if any day my
resolution not to shoot again on a ork.
shire moor w ere in danger of being shaken
by the hospitable invitation of Willis, my
nightly dreams would soon force me to
abide by my vows.
SENSE AM) X0XSEXSE.
An air of importance One's first
breath.
Vested interest Money in the waist
coat pocket.
Cohtini havingbecn cort, thencxtfhing
is to jiunish him.
At an Elmira (N. Y.) funeral eight la
dies officiated, as pall-bearers.
"China has appropriated 40,000 tacls to
the Centennial. Pig taels, probably."
An "accidental but serious accident"
was recorded recently by a California
paper
The celebrated Sutro tunnel in Nevada
reached a length of exactly 10,000 fect
July 4.
This is the season of the year when in
dustrious housewives can all the fruit they
can can.
The potato Iwetle has appeared in New
Haven, Conn. lie probably wants to cu
ter Yale. -
The drowning season has ltegun in
earnest. Where's Boyton with those rub
ber suits
A Pennsylvania man was mean enough
to hang himself with Lis wife's bilk
apron.
Ask a Milwaukee woman her age, and
she instinctively looks around for a broom
stick. Detroit Free 1'rexs.
Fancy flourishes send many a letter to
the Dead Letter Office, aud many a mortal
to the alms house.
A blind man in Southern Illinois can
play checkers, but can't 13 ml the woodpile
if his wife wants an armful of wood.
The editor of the New Haven Journal
thinks the mosquito is a much-slandered
individual. He ought to have a bile.
A farmer of Hampden County, Mass.,
freed his potato-patch of beetles by
sprinkling them with soft soap and water.
In deciding questions of truth and duty
rememlMT that the wrong hide has a crafty
and powerful advocate in your own heart.
The new motor may be a big thing, but
for an impulse to send a boy oil' to school
give me the slipper from his mother's
foot.
A man fought an army of black crickets
at Miner's Bridge, on the Payette River,
Idaho, and succeeded in driving them
back.
Johnny (just from the fruiterer's)
44 Mamma, if I cat dates enough, will I
grow nj to be an Almanac?" Botton
Journal.
The chief editor of the London Tima is
Mr. Delane. Doesn't that sound like
muzzlin' the press ? JVVe YofkCommercial
Adtertiwr.
A minsthei, manager advertises for a
tenor singer "who knows how to work,
up a laugh when the end man is getting
oil a joke."
"Cheap- laltor" comes up in a new form
in San Francisco, where a Chinese young
lady is an applicant for a vacancy in a
public school.
" For midsummer what could le
sweeter than a linen lawn?" asks an ex
change, and some young ladies will an
swer, " A croquet lawn."
The Peruvian Government has com
missioned the United States mint to " coji
jm t its j)ile'' to the extent of three millions
of one and tw o cent coins.
No doubt the happiest dogs that ever
lived were the two taken aboard of Noah's
ark for they had but one pair of lleas be
tween them . Jrunwich:r.
" Papa, are you grow ing taller all the
time?" "No, my child; why do von
ask?" " 'Cause the top of your head is
looking up through your hair."
A CniCAGO man excuses himself for
not going to some watering-place by say
ing that he fell into the river last May
and got enough to last him for a whole
year.
A Oeokoia Sheriff delayed an execution
fifteen minutes to let the crowd see which
dog whipped, and it is evident lliat human
ity yet holds a tender place in the American
heart.
A Brazilian bank has failed to the
tune of $2,r)00,000, and now where is tho
boasted sujerior civilization of America
that we've all leen talking about so
loudly?
" Garibaldi Rorespierre MtHAT Scp
peta" is the rather hefty baptismal name
which the city of Naples has bestowed
upon a young girl whom it recently
adopted.
An enterprising youth has started for
Harney City, in th Black Hills, with the
material for a newspaper office. The new
venture will be known as the Black Hills
Tribune.
Seven Arkansas Indians are to be hung
in ScptemlKT, and the jailer "hasn't the
heart to go in and separate them when they
get into a heated argument involving hair
pulling. Bismarck wouldn't go a rod to see the
best game of base-ball ever played, but let
a circus come into town and he jumps for
his hat and shouts for the children to
come on.
Mr. John Jay, late Minister to Austria,
favors a postponement of the Philadelphia
Exhibition for one year, in order to com
plete the necessary jreparations for its or
ganization. A sharp-talking lady M as reproved by
her husband, who requested her to keep
her tongue in her mouth. " My dear, '
she said, "it's against the law to carry con
cealed weapons."
TnE Brooklyn Aryva says that a Phila
delphia man can be generally recognized
from the fact that he makes it a joint to
have as many buttons on his coat as there
are letters in " centennial."
"When GOO jeople w ill jiack themselves
into freight cars and ride twenty miles for
the sake of eating a cold lunch in some old
pasture, it is not tor any journalist to fling
insults at the game of base-ball.
At Middletown, Del., an immense peach
refrigerator is to be built, capable ot hold
ing 2U0.U00 baskets of fruit. It is expect
ed that after the Centennial Philadelphia
will rent the place to cord off in.
The Louisville C wrier-Journal tised a
whole column of spare the other day to in
dict that a man has a legal right to marry
his step-daughter. All right, go ahead
with your splicing. Detroit Free rress.
HEINlRY bgeck, ,
DEALER IN
SAFES, CHAIRS,
Lounges, Tables, 'Bedsteads,
ETC.. ETC., ETC.,
Of All Descriptions.
METALLIC BURIAL CASES.
"Wooden Ooflins
Of all ?!, ready-made, an l fold chcup for cash.
With many thanks for pa t patronage, I invite
all to call and examine my
LAUGH STOCK OF
Xiiriiitui'o jumI Collins-.
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O. F. JOHNSON,
MEDICINES
AT
J. H. BUf TERY'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.
rTUESCRIPTION'S carefully compounded at
all hour, day and niht. 35-ly
J. W. SHANNON'S
Feed, Sale and Livery
STArtTiE.
Main Street, Plattsmouth, Neb.
I am prepared to accommodate the pnhlic with
Econsms,
Carriages, Buggies, Wagons,
AND
A No. I Hearse,
On Short Notice and Reasonable Terms.
A II A G K
Will Run to the Steamboat Land
ing, Depot, and all parts of
the City, when Desired.
janl-tf
First National Ml
Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska,
srcrEsoit to
Tootle, Iliiimsv Sc Clarlc.
John Fitzuerald
K. J. Do vet
A. V. Mi L.U';iu.in
John O'Kolkke
, President.
. .. Vice-President.
t'ai-hier.
.Assistant Cashier.
This Bank i: now open fur hUHinct at their new
room, corner Main aud Sixth streets, and are pre
pared to transact a general
BANKING BUSINESS.
Stocks, Bonds. Gold. Government
and Local Securities
UOUGUT AND SOLD.
Deposits Received and Interest Al
lowed on Time Certificates.
DRAFTS DRAWN,
ArailaHie in any part of the 1'nited States and in
a!) the Vriucipal Towns and Cities of Europe.
AGENTS FOR THE
CELEBRATED
IMAM LINE ail ALLAH LINE
OF !STlI.V3IiaiJlS.
reron wishing to brinj out their friends from
Europe caii
rrUCHASE TICKETS FKOM V3
Tlii-oiifjli to PlnttKiiioittli.
Excelsior Barber Shop.
.X. C. EOOXE,
Main Street, opposite Saunders House.
HAIR-CUTTING,
Shaving and Shampooing.
ESPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO
Cnttiii Children and I-swlies
Hair.
Call and See Boone, Gents,
And get a boon In a
CXiEAN SHAVE.
n41-ly
OHO TO THE
Post Office Book Store,
. 3. STKZIGHT, Proprietor,
roa TOUR
Bools. Stationery, Pictures, Music,
TOYS. CONFECTIONERY,
Violin Strings,
Newspapers, Novels,
Song Books, etc., etc
1'OST 0FJFICE BUILDISti,
rLATTSMOUTU, NEB.
DEALEU IX
Drugs, Medicines
v.
WALLPAPER.
All Paper Trimmer Free ofCtarse
ALSO. DEALER IN
Books, Stationery
MAGAZINES
AND LATEST PUBLICATIONS.
J"tF"Prc8cript:on carefully compounded by an
experienced Droggipt.j
REMEMBER THE PLACE
Cor. Fifth and Main Streets,
PLATTSMOUTH, NEB.
ill Jfea
THOS. W. SHRYOCK,
DEALER 1
Iiar-nitTiie !
Main St., kt. 5th and 6th,
PLATTSMOUTH, - 1ST E 23.
ALSO
UNDERTAKER,
And ha on hand a large stock of
Metallic Uurial Cases,
Wooden Coffins, Etc.,
Of all sizes, cheap for cah.
Funerals Attended on Short Notice
II. 1. WATERMAN & M,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
PINE LUMBER,
I.ath, Shingles,
SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, ETC.,
On Main St., cor. Fifth,
rLATTSMOUTU, - - - NEB.
FOR YOUR GROCERIES
OO TO
J. V. Weckbach,
Cor. Third and Main Sts., Platteniouth.
(CJutbmann's old stand.)
He keeps on band a large and well-selected stock
of
FANCY GROCERIES,
Coffees, Teas, Sugar, Sirup, Boots,
Shoes. Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc.
AIho, a large stock of
Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes,
Crockery, Qneensware,
Etc., Etc., Etc.
In connection with the Grocery is a
BAKERY and CONFECTIONERY.
Highest Price Paid fur Country Produce.
A full stock at all times, and will not be undersold.
Take notice of the Sign :
" EMPIRE BAKERY AND GROCERY."
nlyl
WILLIAM STADELMANN
lias on hand one of the largest stocks of
CLOTHING
ANI
Gents' Furnishing Goods
FOR SPRIXG AXD SUMMER.
I invite everybody In want of anything In my
line to call at my store.
South Side Main, kt. 5th & b'th Sts.,
And convince tlientselvee of the fact, I have as a
specially in my Retail Departments a stock of
FineClothin for Men and boys, to which we In
vite those who want goods.
I a'so keep on band a large and well-selected
tock of
Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Etc.
jarlyl
PHILADELPHIA STORE
SOLOMON & NATHAN,
DEALERS IS
Fancy Dry Goods,
Notions. Ladies' FnrnisliiBZ Goods.
Largest, Cheapest, Finest and Best Assorted Stock
In the city.
We are pre oared to sell cheaper than they can
be purchased elsewhere.
GIVE TJS -A. CALL
And examine oar Goods.
rT"Store on Main St., between 4th and 5th Sts.,
Plattsmouth, Neb. ltitf
I'LATTSMOITII MILLS,
PLATTSMOUTH NEBRASKA.
Conrad Hkisel, Proprietor.
FLOUR, CORN MEAL, FEED.
Alwaj s on hand and for sale at lowest cash prices.
The Highest Prices paid for Wheat and Corn.
Particular attention given to custom work.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
The Nebraska Republican State Con
vention -will meet at Kearney on the loth
of September.
L. Q. C. Lamar lias been renominated
for Congress by the Democrats of the First
Mississippi District.
The Supreme Court of Connecticut has
decided the local-option feature of the Li
cense law constitutional.
The St. Louis United States District
Court Grand Jury has indicted Chief Clerk
Avery, of the Treasury Department, for
complicity with the St. Louis distillers in
whisky frauds.
The German Government has ordered
that declaration of submission by the Cath
olic clergymen to the new laws shall be
kept strictly 6ecret, to secure them from
persecution by the Ultramontanes.
IIeru Sigei., editor of the Ultramontane
Valeriana", and Baron Loewe, distinguished
Ultramontane speaker, li'c been sen
tenced by a .Berlin court to ten months'
imprisonment for treasonable utterances.
Jesse Pomeroy, the Boston loy mur
derer, very nearly tueceeded in escaping
from the Charles Street Jail a few days
ago. He was expecting to cut through
the prison walls on the evening of the day
on which his attempt was discovered.
Alexander asd "William Cat.lie
members of a lately-suspended London
firm, hare been arrested on a charge of
having obtained "si, 000,000 under false
pretenses. They were held in . bonds of
40,000 each.
The woman-suffrage question has been
settled in Connecticut for the present by
the indefinite postponement 102 to 82
of the bill giving to women the right to
vote at a Presidential election. This de
cision was reached by the House of Representatives.
Geo. N. Jacksox, the cashier of Col.
lector of Internal Revenue Buckner, of the
Louisville (Ky.) District, died recently
from the effects of poison. Since his
death he has been discovered to Ik? in de
fault in his cash accounts to the extent of
about 75,000.
The Maryland Democrats have nomi
nated John Lee Carroll for Governor. In
their platform they declare against a high
protective tariff and protest against an
increase of the circulating currency, and
demand that Congress shall pass such
measures as will result in a resumption of
specie payments at the earliest possible
moment.
TnE Postmaster-General has confiscated
to the use of the Government three certi
fied checks, amounting to fl,G:JU, depos
ited according to law by Matthew Draper,
a failing contractor. This is the first in
stance in which the department has con
fiscated such checks. The Postmaster
General has also commenced a suit against
the bondsmen of over forty failing mail
contractors.
The Massachusetts boy-murderer, Pome
roy, has written a history of his life. He
retracts his former confession and denies
his guilt. He claims that he was goaded
hy the police into making a confession of
being guilty of the crime for which he
was first arrested, and that he was entirely
innocent. "With regard to the death of
Katie Curran, he says he made a false
confession that his mother and brother,
who had been arrested for the murder and
whom he knew to be innocent, might go
free.
TnE statement of John D. Lee confirms
the previous reports concerning the
Mountain Meadows massacre. He says
thirtj- Mormons, with the assistance of a
large number of Indians, decoyed the emi
grants from their entrenchments by a Hag
of truce ; that all were murdered except
seventeen children; that the deed was done
under orders from the leader of the Mor
mon Church ; that he took the news of the
massacre to Brigham Young, who de
plored the transaction and said it would
bring disaster on the Mormon people.
A Bankers' Convention was recently
held at Saratoga, N. Y., at which resolu
tions were adopted favoring immediate
specie resumption and calling upon every
citizen to hasten the day when every prom
ise of the Government to jjjiy a dollar
should be redeemed in coin ; calling for a
repeal of the war tax on banks ; urging
Congress to issue coupon bonds in ex
change for registered bonds; demanding
the abolishment of the two-cent stamp
tax on checks and vouchers; favoring a
permanent organization of national bank
ers. A resolution opposed to the Usury
laws was also adopted by a close vote.
The Xew Treasurer's Autograph.
Some time ago the Indianapolis corre
spondent of tiie Cincinnati Commercial
furnished that paper with what purported
to be & facsimile of the new United States
Treasurer's autograph, which was ex
tensively copied by Western papers. The
Chicago Timca of a recent date publishes
an altogether different and much better
looking signature, which is probably
genuine, and which we reproduce with
the Timeg' indorsement, as follows :
Now that a new man has taken charge
of Uncle Sam's money-bags and a new
name is to be affixed to the Government's
circulating medium, there is a pardonable
curiosity in the public mind to know how
he writes. To gratify this curiosity the
Time has procured, and prints below, an
exact facsimile of Mr. 2sew's signature.
It is a bold, characteristic "hand," and
will hereafter ornament the greenbacks
and national currency precisely thus :
Treasurer of the UniUd StaU$.
The experiment made by M. Proust,
revealing the fact that fatty matters can be
extracted from cast-iron when the latter is
dissolved in certain acids, has lately leen
tested by M. CUex. On separating these
materials in a pure state their analysis re
vealed the interesting fact that they con
sist of carburets of hydrogen of a certain
series, and presenting the various terms
thereof. This, it is stated, is a veritable
organic synthesis, realized by the aid of
substances purely mineral, and is suscepti
ble, consequently, of important application.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Loedeu, indicted for perjury in connec
tion with the Tilton-Beecher case, was ar.
raigned in the Brooklyn court on the ICth,
and pleaded 44 not guilty." Price was not
arraigned.
Prof. Donaldson, the daring aeronaut,
who has been traveling in company with
Barnum's Hippodrome and making bal
loon ascensions after the conclusion of the
afternoon performances, made his second
U ip from Chicago on the 15th, 'accom
panied by Mr. Newton S. Grimwood, a
reporter of the Chicago Journal, After
ascending into the air the balloon
took a northeasterly course, sailing over
the lake in the direction of Muskegon,
Mich. About seven o'cloc k in the evening
it was sighted by a schooner about thirty
miles northeast of Chicago, at which time
the balloon was skimming the surface of
the lake. The schooner followed after it
until it was observed to rise sud
denly into the air, when the chase
was given up. A very severe gale
occurred on the lake about midnight,
and, as no further tidings had been
received in Chicago from the balloon or
its occupants up to the morning of the
17th, grave apprehensions were felt for
their safety. It was the opinion of ex
perts that the balloon could not possibly
have reached the Michigan shore before
the storm burst upon it, and that the aero
nauts perished in the lake. It is said by
some that the balloon was a rotten, patched
u p affair.
A London dispatch of the 18th an
nounces the death of Lady Franklin, widow
of Sir John Franklin.
A meeting, attended by over 12,000
people, was held in Hyde Park, London
on the evening of the 18th, to protest
against the grant of 150,000 to the Prince
of Wales for his Indian journey.
Emmeline, one of Brigham Young's
wives, died on the 17th".
Mns. Henry Peden, of Indianapolis,
Ind., used kerosene oil to kindle a fire,
on the 17th, and was fatally burned.
Up to the morning of the 19th no defi
nite tidings had been received in Chicago
from the missing aeronauts, Messrs.
Donaldson and Grimwood. A vessel Cap
tain reports having seen something floating
in the water which had the appearace of
being a life-preserver and a basket, and an
other Captain thinks he saw the body of a
man in the lake off Grand Haven. The
report that Donaldson's balloon was a
rotten and poor affair is indignantly de
nied by the managers of the hippodrome
with which Donaldson was connected.
According to a London dispatch of the
19th the American rifle team had decided
not to shoot as a team at Wimbledon.
The ties on the 17th at the same place
were shot off on the 19th, and Fulton, of
the American team, won. In the contest
for the Albert prizes Sir Henry Halford
won the first prize with a score of 105,
and Col. Gildersleeve took the second
with a score of 92. - The dispatch says
the excellence of the Americans' marks
manship caused astonishment.
Commissioners to Herzegovina, sent by
the Porte to tranquilize affairs, reported
by telegraph on the 19th that the whole
country between Mostar and the Austrian
frontier, as far as Ragusa, was in a state
of revolt, and that the insurgents had
threatened death to all who refused to
unite with them.
Prof. Marsh, of Yale College, on his
return from the Indian Territory a few
weeks ago, wrote to President Grant,
charging that supplies furnished to the
various Indian tribes were inferior and
improperly distributed. He also charged
Secretary Delano and Indian Commission
er Smith with being cognizant of these
frauds. In regard to Indian Agent Sa
ville, of the Red Cloud Agency, Mr.
Marsh declared that he was wholly unfit
ted for his position and guilty of the gross
est frauds upon the Indians in his
charge. This letter was accompa
nied with samples of the . goods
furnished. The President called the
attention of the department to the letter,
and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs
straightway came out with a positive
denial of the charge of fraud and corrup
tion, so far as his own department was con
cerned, and said the commission appointed
to inquire into the condition of affairs at
the Red Cloud Agency had completely
exonerated the Agent. A New Haven dis
patch of the 18th sa3's that notwithstand
ing the alove denial and explanation
Prof. Marsh has reiterated his former
statements and charges. A special
commission appointed to investigate
these charges met in New York on the
evening of the 19th. It consists of Messrs.
Faulkner, M. C, of West Virginia; Har
ris, M. C, of Massachusetts, and Fletcher,
M. C, of Missouri. The meeting, which
was strictly private, was organized by
electing Gov. Fletcher Chairman. Prof.
Marsh and Indian Commissioner Smith
appeared before the body, accompanied
by Gen. Fisk, Chairman of the Board of
Indian Commissioners. Mr. Marsh pre
sented his charges in pamphlet form,
which had already been printed. Inves
tigation will take place at the Red Cloud
Agency.
It was officially reported in Madrid on
the 20th that Gen. Dorregaray, the Carlist
chieftain, hail been wounded and had
taken refuge in France.
A cocncil of delegates from all the
Presbyterion churches in Christendom
met in London on the 20th. Many repre
sentatives of American and . Canadian
churches were present.
Thirteen miners and four wagons
were captured forty-five miles north of
Fort Laramie, en route to the Black Hills,
on the lGth, and taken into the fort on
parole.
Preliminary steps were taken on the
20th for the impeachment of Mayor John
son, of Cincinnati. The chief charge
against him is to the effect that he endeav
ored to control the labors of the police
contrary to the law in force when he was
a candidate for re-election.
Maj. Ftltox, of the American team,
won the American cup at Wimbledon on
the 21st. -
Heavy rains and inundations occurred
at Leicester, Greenfield, Forest of Dean,
Godmanchester and elsewhere in England
on the 21st Gathered and growing crops
were destroyed over a large section of the
country.
The Carlists deny the truth of the re
port that Gen. Dorregtiray had been forced
to take refuge in France.
According to a Madrid telegram of the
21st over 4.000 Carlists had been captured
since Julv 1.
A remarkable scene occurred in the
British House of Commons on the 22d
Mr. Disraeli had given notice that the
Government had abandoned the Merchant
Shipping bill for the session, when Mr.
Plimsoll, the humanitarian, arose in his
seat and with violent gestures and
insulting speech declared that such
a course would be the destruction
of thousands of human lives. Being
called to order he repeated his remarks, and
declared that certain members engaged
in the shipping interests were villains.
He was ordered from the House and re
tired sharking his fists at the Government
benches. It was thought that Plimsoll had
become temporarily insane.
President Grant arrived in Washing
ton on the 21st, and at a Cabinet meeting
held on that day the subject of DisL-Atty.
Fisher's official conduct was under discus
sion, and the conclusion was unanimous
ly reached that he should be re
quested to resign after he had been al
lowed sufficient time to complete the busi
ness then pending in his office. It is said
the President in asking the Attorney-General
to suspend his request for Fisher's
resignation had merely desired to
afford the latter an opportunity . to
reply to the complaints against him.
The charges against the Interior Depart
ment were also, it is stated, fully discussed,
the President expressing in strong terms
his confidence in Secretary Delano's ca
pacity, integrity and faithfulness as an of
ficer, and assuring the Cabinet that he
would not allow the attacks on Delano to
injure him the least in his opinion until
the charges of his dishonesty should be
f ully proven. The President returned to
Lon.2 Branch on ihe evening of the 21st.
The confession of John D. Lee, who
was concerned in the Mountain Meadows
massacre, not being satisfactory to the
Prosecuting Attorney, Lee was, on the
21st, placed on trial under the old and
three new indictments. A jury was im
paneled on the 22d, composed of eight
Mormons and four Gentiles.
THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK
Jclt 2:1, 18T5.
Liv Stock. Beef Cattle S1L60O13.50. Hots
Live, $7.503 .6S!4. Shuep Live, $4.T3S6.2',4.
BRBADSTurrs. Flour Good to choice, (6.403
6.f; white wheat extra, $6.8'JS7.b0. Wheat No.
2 Chicaco, S1.31&1.35; No. 8 Northwestern,
$1.341.35; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.39
I. 40. Rye Western and State, SScSSLu".- Bar
ley $1.251.30. Corn Mixed Western, 87
90;4c Oats Mixed Western, 6-Jati3c
Provisions. Pork Mess. $20.90321.00. Lard
Prime Steani, 13?i14c. Cheese 5(&llc
Wooi Domestic Fleec, 50G3c.
CHICAGO.
lav Stock. Beeves Choice, $6.00a6.25;
good, $5.50t&5.75; medium, $1.75(5.25; butch
ers' stock, $3.504.E0; slock cattle, $3,003
4.00. Hogs Live, $7.25&7.65. Sheep Good to
choice, $4.'.'534 75.
Provisions. Butter Choice, 20325c. Egs
Fresh, 13'4HV4c. Pork Mess, S2L0O21.19.
Lard $13.0313.24.
Bkbaustufps. Flour Whlto Winter Extra,
$5.75(37.50; spring extra, $5.12i5.75. Wheat
Spring, No. 2, $1.2jtf31.27. Corn No.2,75
276V4c. Oats No. 2, 51 ,&52c. Rye No. 2,
$1.0231.03. Barley No.2, $1.17(31-20.
Lumber. First Clear, $45.00 16.00; Second
clear, $43.00(343.00; Common Boards, $10.00(3
II. 00; Fencing, $10.0OU.O0; "A" Shingles,
$2.0032.60; Lath, $1.75(32.00.
CINCINNATI.
Brkadstctts. Floor $6 00S8.15. Wheat Ked,
$1.40(31.43. Corn 72374c. Rye $1.15(31.20.
Oats 58361c.
Provisions. Pork $19.75C0.00. Lard 12?
ai4c.
ST. LOUIS.
Lit Stock. Beeves Good to choice, $5.40Q
6.40. Hogs Live, $6.7037.41.
BRAjsTurrs. Flour XX Fall, $4.75(35.25.
Wheat No. 2 Red Fall. $1.34(3135. Corn
No. 2,68i68V4c. Oat No. 2, 60;46lc. Rye
No. 2, 979'Jc.
Provisions. Pork Mess, $20.62'i20.75. Lard
12X13c. .
MILWAUKEE.
BRBABSTtrrrs. Flonr Spring XX, $4.5C4 75.
Wheat Spring No .1, $1.12S31.25V4 ; No. 2, $l.iyi
1.27. Corn No. 2, 71!472c. Oats No. 2, 4954
350c Rye No. 1, 9lV495c. Barley No. 2,
$1.1431-15.
DETROIT.
BRKADSTUrFS. Wheat Extra, fl.4231.42VJ.
Corn No. 1, 76377c. Oats No. 1, 55356c
TOLEDO.
BRBADSTtrrrs. Wheat Amber Mich., $1.354
1.36; No. 2 Red, $1.35H31.36. Corn
High Mixed, 7K371KC Oats No. 2, 543544c.
CLEVELAND.
Brkadstutfs. Wheat No. 1 Red, $1.35l4
1.36; No. 2 Red, $1.30V&1.1. Corn High
Mixed, 77378c. Oats No.l, 6061c.
BUFFALO.
Liv Stock. Beeves $3.0036 85. Hogs
Live, $7.5037.75. Sheep Live, $4.5035.20.
EAST LIBERTY.
Lrv Stock. Beeves Best, $6.75(37.25; me
dium, $5.753t.00. nogs Yorkers, $7,403
7.50; Philadelphia, $7.6037.75. Sheep Best,
$5.0035.SO; medium, $4.50(3.4.75.
Then and 'ow.
One of the most interesting features of
the excavations in the buried city of Pom
peii is the discovery of many homely do
mestic articles, of which we have counter
parts. It is astonishing how many things
in common use now were in use then.
Here you will see almost every kitchen
utensil portable cooking-stoves, jelly
cake and butter molds in the imitation
of birds and bowers, pots, kettles, crocks,
dishes, cups and saucers, spoons, knives
and forks, dippers, skimmers, sauce-pans,
frying-pans, lamps, lamp-stands, fiesli
hooks, braziers for charcoal in a word,
pretty much every kitchen, dining-room,
or chamber article found in modern use
enfeVed into the economy of the daily life
of Roman antiquity. All tlfc articb?s of a
lady's toilet, including jewelry of all kinds,
gold and silver ornaments, corals and
precious stones, were found in the houses
of Pompeii. Taken from the retail shops
were steelyards, balances, weights and
measures. From a doctor's office were re
covered a full set of surgical instruments,
including "pulikins'' for extracting
teeth, and trepans for drilling holes in the
skull. There are any numltcr of shoe
maker, tailor, carpenter and blacksmith
tools, and, indeed, implements of almost
every present mechanical operation. The
collection of articles taken from the dead
city is a surprising revelation toevervone,
showing that the ancienU invented and
perfected 10,000 implements and articles
of common life which we still use with
little improvement thereon, and without
giving them credit for.
It is said that vines and plants are best
protected from insects by applying buck
wheat flour. If sprinkled on cabbage at
the time the leaves begin to curl to form
the head, it will surely protect it from the
cabbage-worm.
The California State Teachers' Asso
ciation have adopted a resolution in favor
of the allition of the offices of State Su
perintendent and of County Superintend
ent, on the ground that they cost more than
they are worth.
MY AXGEL.
BY EMI LV nCNTINGTON MILI.EK.
Slowly the night is falling.
Falling down from the bill,
And all in the low green valley
The dew lit-s heavy and chill;
The crickets cry in the bedsres.
And the bats are circling low,
Aud like ghosU through tho blossoming
garden
The glimmering night-moths go.
Hand in hand through the twilight
Conit the children everyone,
Flushed with their eairer frolic,
Tawny with wind and sun;
Home from the sunny uplands
Where the sweet wild berries grow,
Home from the tangled thickets
Where the nuts are ripening slow.
They mock at the owl's weird laughter
And the cricket's lonesome cry,
At the tardy swallows Hying
Late through the darkeuing sky;
And silently gliding after,
Through the dusk of the shadowy street,
Comes their little angel sister,
fetar white from her head to her feet
Never crossing the threshold,
Come they early or late ;
With her empty hands on her bo3om,
She stops at the cottage gate.
I stretch out my arms hi longing.
But she fades from my aching ight,
As a little white cloud at morning
Vanishes into the light.
And spite of the shining garments
Folded about her now,
And spite of the deathless beauty
Crowning her lip and brow,
I wish for one passionate moment
She sat on my knee again ;
On her feet, so spotless and tender.
The dust and-thc earthly stain.
For missing her morning and evening,
The bitterest thought must be
, That safe with her blessed kindred
The child hath no need of me;
And counting her heavenly birthdays,
I say in my jealous care:
" The babe that lay on my bosom
Hath grown to a maiden fair;
'And now if out of the glory
Her face like a star should shine,
Could I guess the beautiful changeling
Had ever on earth been mine?
I 6bould veil my eyes at her splendor,
But never forget my lack
For the clinging hands of my baby.
And the mouth that kissed me back."
Tet though In my human blindness
I cannot fathom His way
Who counts in His glorious cycles
A thousand years as a day
Whenever the cloud is lifted,
Whenever I cross the tide,
Mine own He will surely give me,
And I shall be satisfied.
Ar. Y. Iiidepcnilerit.
AX ADVENTURE IX A COAL-PIT.
Trifles often lead to great disasters, and
it seemed but a trifle to me when, one No
vember morning, a telegram was put into
my friend Willie's hand as we were pre
paring for a day's shooting. His pres
ence was demanded in London on some
trust business and he had immediately to
give up all idea of sport. He begged me,
however, to take Rover and the keeper
and pursue my recreation as if he were
with me. I was not eager to make a large;
bag, so I determined to discard the man and
take a long ramble on the lonely hills le
hind Bradford, in the hope of picking up
a stray woodcock, as well as a brace or
two of grouse. Perhaps I was a little
tired of partridges among the turnips and
wanted an excuse for a walk as much as
anything. The day was somewhat gloomy.
Torn wisps of dark cloud hurried over the
hills at the back of my friend's house, but
I did not mind a wetting; so started with
Rover, my pointer, who frisked about in
as exhilarated a state as his master. Soon
I gained Baddon Fell, the highest point
in the district, and turned to look on the
tall chimneys and smoky pall of Brad
ford. Thence my course lay over hill
and valley, succeeding one another in
gentle accfivities. Neither grouse, which
were very wild, nor woodcock fell to my
gun. At noon I rested and ate a couple of
biscuits by way of lunch . Then on again ;
aud on a rising slope I beheld a small
scrub of brambles, spruce firs and larch,
with a holly or two intermingled, sur
rounded by a dilapidated fence. It was
about a hundred yards across, and none
of the trees were more than ten feet high ;
but it was a sheltered spot, and was just
the place in which a womlcock would rest
a short time after his flight. Rover
divined my intention and pushed on a few
yards before me. No one was in sight.
A few sheep dotted the face of the opposite
hill. Rain had begun to fall, and the
whole landscape was cheerless to a degree.
I climbed the slight fence and followed
Rover into the brushwood. A dozen steps,
and I suddenly felt rnyself slip forward. I
caught the stem of a larch, and, to my
horror, glided down, with a crashing of
sticks and a howl from the terrified dog
glided down as it might be for a moment
or two, through bush and brake, then,
with an awful plunge, we all disappeared
into darkness, while bushes and earth
rattled over me for another few seconds.
To this succeeded a crash and a stunning
blow, and I knew no more.
After what seemed an age I came to
myself, weak and sorely numbed; even
limb aching and my head splitting with
acrony, but without any broken bones, as
I discovered when able to stand up again.
The fact of my having slid down on the
mass of debris had providentially saved
my life, but the disentangling myself
from the bushes and briers which had al
most smothered me took of itself some
little time. Slowly recollection returned
with the glow of blood in its old channels,
after having liecn frozen as it were by the
shock. It was pitch dark, and awful si
lence reigned around. Higix up I coiuld
discern a patch of gray sky, but it was ev
idently the hour of twilight, and soon it,
too, faded out At length I gathered my
senses and the conviction then flashed
upon me that I had fallen down the shaft
of" a disused coal mine, and that, .too, one
situated in such an out-of-the-way valley
over the bleak hillsides that jescue was
extrcanely improbable. Willis, I now re
meml)ered, had mentioned these old
shafts to me a few days ago and had told
me that scrub and brush wood were usu
ally planted over the site of them on some
rough planks and hurdles loosely thrown
over the yawning mouth of the pit. Alas,
his cautions had lecn thrown away!
Striking a light with a fusee, I found it
was six o'clock, so that I must have been
unconscious for some hours. A few drops
from my brandy flask greatly restored me
and I began to move about, for though
much oppressed with the horror of my
situation I wanted to circulate my blood
and attain my full powers of thought. I
settled at once that it was no use to give
in and lie on the heap which had fallen
with me till death came by inches. Per
haps if I fired a shot it might attract no
tice and enable me, at the same time, to
see for a moment where I was. According
ly, I took aim in the direction I conceived
the shaft was, and drew the trigger. I
shall never forget the result. For an in
stant the vast caverns that seemed to yawn
around me on every side were lit up, and
I could catch a glimpse of huge buttresses
reaching up on high, like the arms of
Atlas. The roof I could not see, owing to
the momentariness of the flash, but The
noise was appalling. The explosion
echoed and re-echoed round the dark
vault, and then fled away in muttering
thunders into the unknown darkness,
seeming to be caught up and buff eted be
tween the buttresses, and, for several mo
ments after these repercussions of sound
had ceased, to linger like the recurring
undertones of some monstrous passing
bell. r am not superstitious, but it
seemed just as well not to le ringing my
own knell, so I determined to waste no
more powder in utterly futile attempts to
make soinclKdy hear.
A low moan of pain at my side now
made me start, but, on calling to Rover, I
found it proceeded from him. He had
fallen with me, but, less fortunate as I
found him while sc rambling to where the
moans proceeded from had broken his
back in the descent. It was piteous to
feel the poor animal licking my hand, and
to know that he was powerless to drag
himself a yard. Even in the upper world
there would have been no cure for him,
and, sorry as I was to lose his companion
ship in the utter darkness which enveloped
us, I knew it was more humane to put an
end to his sufferings. There was agony
in the thought, but what could be done?
Immediately the faithful creature w as no
more, and mw I was left absolutely with
out a friend in the bowels of the earth. I
in a measure encouraged myself, however,
by flunking that after dinner had waited
an hour Mrs. Willis would probably lie
come alarmed and send out to scour the
neighborhood. But who would dream of
looking for me in a deserted coal-pit ? and
who could track my Heps over the barren
moors to the point where the earth sub
sided under me? And then once more
hope awoke strong and irrepressible with
in me.
Being greatly exhausted I could no
longer resist sleep, and when I awoke and
struck a fusee I found it was again six
o'clock; six a. m., I supposed, of the day
after my accident. Shortly after the
watch stopped, and I was for the future
obliged to guess at the lapse of time, as
the watch key had been left on my dressing-table
at home.
Energy returned after my slumber, and
together with a burning thirst, drove me to
leave the mouth of the pit and search for
water. I left my gun and pocket-book be
hind me, having first scrawled a few words
on a page of it, in case rescuers should de
scend in my absence. I walked on loldly
from the mouth, where, high alxive, the
circular patch of sky was once more ap
pearing with dawn and affording me a ray
of hope. When fairly in the darkness 1
stopped to listen, and the silence was
awful. Again I pressed on through what
seemed light sand, but which 1 well knew
was dry coal-dust, which invariably car
pets a pit and extends up to the ankles of
anyone walking in it. At length I heard
the pleasant sound of Mater trickling
down, and immediately I was on the edge
of a rill, at which I had a delicious and
refreshing draught. I lay for sometime
by the rill, and left it invigorated and
once more, strange to say, hopeful.
How to find my way back was now my
difficulty. Hunger admits of no parley
ing, and I was now resolved to appease my
appetite on what had before seemed so re
volting, the flesh of poor Rover. Stagger
ing back to the spot where he lay, there
was a hurried rush past me of an army of
small animals. The truth flashed upon
me. Poor Rover's body was being gnawed
to pieces and devoured by rats.
Strength of mind again almost forsook
me. These frightful creatures, 1 thought,
were waiting in the gloom to pick my
bones as well. Though this were a dis
used working, the presence of rats, I felt
assured, pointed out that there were worked
portions of the mine at no great distance.
If they did not muster up courage enough
to overwhelm me by numbers 1 might yet
be saved. Now 1 took my gun as a pro
tection, and resolving to give up what I
had previously regarded as a treasure of
inestimable value, the rill of running
water, prepared to strike boldly into sin
opposite working and take my chance.
My flask was full of water, and with it I
might support life for a couple of days, if
the worst came to the worst. I tightened
my waistband a plan to appease the crav
ings of hunger which I had learned also
from the Indians and dipping a finger of
my kid-glove in the fla.k, bydint of chew
ing it made a sorry meal, but yet one that
greatly relieved my Jiangs, and opened
the salivary irlands, to my wonderful re
freshment. My new track led to a floor of
very uneven nature, and over which the
root' could be felt. I concluded that this
was rather a forsaken working than a
thoroughfare, so to eieak,of the mine, and
turned to one side where the roof again
rose. This I supposed to be the passage
leading to the abandoned working from
the main adit of the mine. On the more
level and dusty floor, 1 here kicked some
thing which sounded metallic, and picked
up what I made out by reeling to be an old
safety-lamp. The padlock was still on its
siUe, and the ring at tne top was not eaten
aw ay or rendered less easy in its play by
rust. Clearly the pit had not been many
3'ears abandoned. And then a brilliant
thought struck me. With hands trem
bling from excitement I opened my pock
et-knife and forced oil" this little padlock
with some little trouble. Then I drew out
my fusee-liox, scarcely daring to allow to
myscit that there might te suincicnt ou
left in the lamp to admit of my obtaining
a light, if it were but for a short time.
There was but one fusee left. All my
hopes, almost my existence, seemed cen
tered on it. At length I plucked up cour
age to try to strike it. It fized for a mo
ment and then went irrecoverably out.
dashing all my expectations to the ground,
and leaving me once more in utter dark
ness, both outwardly and in my heart.
Worse still, as I turned the lamp I felt the
precious drops of oil pouring over my
fingers. I would then have willingly given
all I possessed for another match.
After this disappointment I once more
legan to despair; and yet, determining not
to give in without another great struggle,
1 went on. blindly hoping to light upon
some clew which might perchance lead me
to a working still actively prosecuted, tor
I knew that much of the distric t underly
ing the hills over which I had wandered
was honeycombed by the operations of the
colliers. At all events, this was my only
chance, and it seemed well to keep up hope
to the last. All at once I fell over a hard
projection, and on stooping down found it
was an iron chair yet in tit". Thouirh the
rails and transoms had ljeen removed, here
was a discovery (though I would not build
too much on it) which kindled hope, and
I felt in front of it till I kicked another,
aud then another. These successive chairs
showed that I was on the track, at all
events, along which I could hasten with
out constant fear of running against the
walls of the pit, and which, so long as 1
was careful to keep touching these chairs,
might lead me to a trequented part ot the
pit The most intense listening disclosed
no sound. It was quite possible, I
thought, if I pursued this track that
it might bring me to a level entrance
into the pit. I must have rambled on
for an hour, pursuing my monotonous
task of kicking these iron chairs, which
regularly succeeded each other at inter
vals of tour yards, till, to my great joy, I
reached a rail fixed on the chairs; and a
few yards further, finding the rail con
tinuous, I began to feel certain that I was
on the right mode of escape. Taking the
last draught of water which remained, I
made a mental vow not to lie down, for I
felt I should never rise again if I
did. Fortunatel-, the end was at hand.
Was I dreaming, or out of the body in
Hades? Did a dull knocking strike upon
my cars, or was it the lalKred thud of my
heart's slow beatingthat I heard? I shook
oil" fancies for a moment, and realized, as
I stood there leaning against the wall, that
repeated blows, smothered bv distance,
were iK-ing struc k before me. The knoc k
ing continued, two or three blows loing
given, and then a momentary halt. I
recognized the sound of colliers' picks, and
manfully strove to penetrate to them, but
my knees would no longer support nie; I
staggered on and fell prostrate. Still it
seemed so awful a death to die within
reach of succor that I shouted as loud as
I could, and was entranced when the
knocking ceased, as though the colliers