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VOLUME XI.
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1875.
NUMBER 19.
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HENRY BCECK,
DEALER I1C
v-ai?iiituLi?e9
SAFES. CHAIRS,
Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads,
BTC, BTC., ETC.,
Of All Descriptions.
METALLIC BURIAL CASES.
Wooden Coflins
Of all sizes, ready-made, and sold cheap far cash.
With many thanks for past patronage, I lnvlts
a'l to call and exainins my
LARGB STOCK OF
Fiirnlturo unci Coflluw.
Jar, 28
AND
MEDICINES
AT
J. H. BUTTERY'S,
On Main Street, bet. Fifth and Sixth.
Wholesale ai.tlltctail Dealer in
Drugs and Medicines, Paints. Oils,
Varnishes. Patent Medicines.
Toilet At tides, etc., etc.
nrrnCSCniPTIONS carefully compounded at
all hour, day and niflit. 35-ly
J. W. SHANNON'S
Feed, Salo and Livery
STArtTiE.
Main Street, Plattsmouth, Neb.
I am prepared to accommodate the public with
Carriages, Buggies, Wagons,
AND
A No. I Hearse,
On Short Notice and Reasonable Terms.
A HACK
Will Run to the Steamboat Land
ing, Depot, and all parts of
the City, when Desired,
janl-tf
First National M
Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska,
SUCCESSOR TO
Tootle, Iltmiia, Ac Clni-lc.
Job Fitzgerald
E. O. Dotet
A. W. McLaughlin
Jon' O'Koi rkb
President.
Vice-President.
, Cashier.
, Assistant Cashier.
This Bank 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, Bonis. Gold. Government
and Local Securities
BOUGI1T AND SOLD.
Deposits Received and Interest Al
lowed on Time Certificates.
DRAFTS DRAWN,
Available In any p.nrt of the United States and in
all the Vrincijial Towns and Cities of Europe.
AGENTS FOR THE
CELEBRATED
OMAN LINE art ALLAN LIKE
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Europe can
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Excelsior Barber Shop.
J. C. BOONE,
Main Street, opposite Saunders House.
HAIR-CUTTING,
Shaving and Shampooing.
ESPECH.L ATTENTION GIVEN TO
Cutting; Children's and Ladies'
Hair.
Call and See Boone, Gents,
And get a boon in a
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OO TO THE
Post Office Book Store,
H. J. 8TKEIGHT, Proprietor,
roa Tom
Boob. Stationery, Pictures, Mnsic,
TOYS, CONFECTIONERY,
Violin Strings,
Newspapers, Norels,
Song Books, etc., etc
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Books, Stationery
MAGAZINES
AND LATEST PUBLICATIONS.
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Cor. Fifth and Main Streets,
PLATTSMOUTH, NEB.
fzqgpt fa
THOS. W. SHRYOCK,
DI1LIS II
IFninit'ai?e !
Main St., bet. 5th and 6th,
PLATTSMOUTH, - NEB.
ALSO
UNDERTAKER,
And has on hand a large stock of
Metallic Burial Cases,
Wooden Coffins, Etc.,
Of all sizes, cheap for cash.
Funerals Attended on Short Notice
II. L WATERMM & SON,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
PINE LUMBER,
Hath, Shingles,
SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, ETC.,
On Main St., cor. Fifth,
PL A.TTS M O UT II, - - - NEB.
FOR YOUR GROCERIES
e to
J. V. Weckbacb,
Cor. Third and Main Sts., Plattemonth.
(Gathmann's old stand.)
H keeps on hand a large and well-selected stock
f
FANCY GROCERIES,
Coffees. Teas, Sugar, Sirup, Boots,
Shoes. Etc., Etc., Etc., Eto.
Also, large ateck of
Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes,
Crockery, Queensware,
Etc., Etc., Etc.
I connection with the Grocery is a
BAKERY and CONFECTIONERY.
Highest Pries Paid for Count rj Prodaee.
A fall stock at all times, and will not be undersold.
Take notice of the Sign:
" EMPIRE BAKERY AND GROCERY."
nljl
WILLIAM STADELMANN
n&s on band one of the largest stocks of
CLOTHING
AND
Gents' Furnishing Goods
FOR STRING AND SUMMER.
I inTite everybody in want of anything in my
line to ca'.l at niy si Ore,
South Side Main, bet. 5th & tilh Sis.,
And convince themselves of the fact. I have as
sprrialtT 'n my K' l.til Departments a stork of
Fine Clothing for Mm ana Uuys, te which we in
yi'e thos b ut .
I also kten on hand a large and wcll-sclectcd
slock of
Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Etc.
Jarlyi
PHILADELPHIA STORE
SOL.OUOX cV XATIIAX,
DEALERS IX
Fancy Dry Goods,
Notions, Ladies' Furnisliiiis Goods.
Largest, Cheapest, Finest and Best Assorted Stock
in the city.
We are prepared to sell cheaper than they can
be purchased elsewhere.
GIVE T7S -A. CALL
And examine our Goods.
Store on Main SU, between 4th and 5th Sis.,
Plattsmoath, Neb. 16tf
PLATTSMOUTH MILLS,
PLATTSMOCTn NEBRASKA.
Cos bad Hbiskl, Proprietor.
FLOUR, CORN MEAL, FEED.
Always n hand and for sale at lowest cash prices.
The Highest Prices paid for Wheat and Corn.
rr(icc!ar Bttst'.oa jirea to cuiwib work,
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Atty.-Gen. Pierrepont lias deckled
against the Cliorpenning claim.
The National Bank circulation out
standing on the 28th of July was $ 0,-
lo2,5y.
Isaac M. Sinc.ek, inventor of the Singer
sewing-machine, died recently in London,
aged f-Lxty-cight.
The total damage to propcity in the
South of France ly the recent inundation
is estimated at $15,000,000.
Maj. Fui.ton, of the American rifle
team, has leen presented witli the cup
which he won at Wimbledon.
Mrs. Celia Bcrleicii, tlie well-known
woman-suffrage agitator, died at Syracuse,
X. Y., on the 27th, aged forty -eight years.
James Gii.fili.an, long an employe in
the Treasury Department at "Washington,
has been appointed to the chief clerkship
in place of Avery, resigned.
A ixaj of $7,000,000 is to be contracted
by the Sjnish Government for the pur
pose of indemnifying the owners of eman
cipated slaves in Porto Iiico.
Avery, Chief Clerk of the Treasury De
parlment at Washington, indicted by the
(rand Jurv at St. Louis for ccnmlieitv in
the whisky frauds, has resigned in compli
ance witu a request oi secretary linstow.
A pedestrian named Hugh Donahue
recently completed the task of walking
1,100 miles in 1,100 consecutive hours,
lie was in good condition at the close.
This remarkable feat was accomplished at
Mystic Park, in Boston.
Tnn Secretary of the Treasury has is
sued a call for the redemption of $14,WJ7,-
200 of 5-20 bonds of 18G2, of which $14,
boO,.V0 are coupon bonds and $()),G50
registered lxmds. These include all the
bonds issued under the act of Feb. 25
18G2, not heretofore callwl in for redemption.
The Centennial Board of Finance an
nounce that, in addition to the collections
and subscriptions already made, $1,000,000
will le required for building purposes
alone in the last four months of this year,
and make a further appeal for aid to the
citizens of Philadelphia and the country
at lar;e.
A terrific and destructive storm of
hail and lightning visited Geneva, Swit
zerland, on the 7th of Jul'. The storm
only lasted about ten minutes, but the hail
stones were so large and fell in such a
compact mass that great damage was done
to roofs, windows, etc. Nearly every gas
lamp in the streets was smashed to atoms
and the lights extfnguished. Three per
sons were killed by the falling of a house.
State elections w
the following order:
California
Arkansas
Maine
Iowa
Ohio
Virginia
Kansas
Maryland
Massachusetts
Mississippi
Minnesota
Missouri
New York ,
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin
Texas
ill occur this year in
. . .Wednesday, Sept. 1
Monday, Sept. t
Monday, Sept. 13
Tuesday, Oet. 12
Tuesday, Oct. 12
Tuesday, Nov. 2
Tuesday, Nov. 2
Tuesday, Nov. 2
Tuesday, Nov. '
Tuesday, Nov. 2
Tuesday, Nov. 2
Tuesday, Nov. 2
Tuesday, Nov. 2
, Tuesday, Nov. 2
Tuesday, Nov. 2
Tuesday, Nov 2
Tuesdav, Doc. 7
Returns of the Department of Agri
culture for July 1 show the condition of
spring and winter wheat together at about
82 per cent, of an average. Winter wheat,
including California, averages 74, and
spring wheat 90. Spring wheat States in
the Northeast and Northwest are generally
in high condition. Of the winter wheat area
the South Atlantic and Gulf States are gen
erally above the average, but in the Mid
dle States the condition is very low, New
York ranging down to 45. West of the
Alleghenies the prospec t is better, the
State averages being between 71 in Ohio
and 05 in Iowa. California reports winter
wheat at 7G and spring wheat at 75.
The Michigan State Temperance As
sociation recently met in convention at
Jackson and adopted a series of resolu
tions declaring that the no-license poli
cy is right in principle and ought never to be
discarded; that no candidate for the
Legislature of 1877 was entitled to the
support of the temperance men of the
State who would not make the enactment
of a prohibitory law a matter of para
mount importance. A resolution was also
adopted declaring that, in their judgment,
44 there is no practical difference between
the present Liquor-tax law of this State
and u license law, which would be clearly
in violation of the Constitution, and merit
the same condemnation on the part of all
friends of the temperance cause.''
The recent Minnesota Republican
State Convention made the following nom
i nations: For Governor, John S. Pills
bury; Lieutenant-Governor, J. B. Wake
field; Secretary of State, J. S. Irgens;
State Auditor, O. P. Whitcomb; State
Treasurer, Win. Pfaender; Attorney-General,
Geo. P. Wilson ; Clerk Superior
Court, S. II. Nichols; Railroad Commis
sioner, Clias. A. Gillman. A resolution
was adopted recommending there-election
of Chief-Justice Gilfillan. The platform
favors that policy of finance which shall
steadily keep in view a return to specie
payment; advocates a tariff strictly for
revenue, but adjusted so as to be the least
burdensome and most favorable to the in
terests of home industry and laltor; de
mands that railway and other corporations
shall be held in subjection to the law-making
power, and approves of the third-term
letter of President Grant.
As Eastern journal says that Mark
Twain, to have the furniture of his house
correspond with its other peculiarities, has
ordered a unique ehamler-set, made of
mahogany with diamond-shaped panels of
blue and white china plentifully bespan
gled, and with heavy blue satin draperies,
the whole, of only three pieces, to cost $600.
Upon which the Virginia (Nev.) Evening
Chronicle remarks: "If Mark had a
proper appreciation of effective contrasts
lie would send out here for the old camp
stretcher and three-legged stool he used to
occupy on tick when he lived in Vir
ginia." It dow turns out that the buzzard Is a
Eoble-hearted. liberal-minded, conscien
tious bird, and Audubon clubs owe him an
apology written on parchment, Detroit
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
A meeting was held at Birkenhead
England, on the 25th to indorse PlimsolPs
course in Parliament. Several thousand
sailors and workingmen were present, and
resolutions were adopted expressing sym
pathy with and pledging support to Mr
Plimsoll.
Another fatal kerosene accident oc
curred at Indianapolis on the 2:5d, a girl
named Mary Frames being the victim.
She tried to hurry up the kitchen fire and
paid the usual penalty for her foolishness.
A Lisbon dispatch of the 2Cth reports a
very severe drought in several districts of
the province of 3Iinho, Portugal. Crops
were destroyed and cattle were dying of
hunger. A famine was threatened, and
the Government had found it necessary to
send relief to the suffering inhabitants.
Information was received in Wash
ington on the 2(!th that the yel low-fever
was raging at Pcnsaeola, Fla., and other
gulf ports, and thedepartment has ordered
the adoption of every possible means to
prevent the spreading of the disease.
Ann Elizaiseth Hoao and Thomas P.
Willis testified in the Mountain Meadows
massacre trial on the 26th, and both con
firmed the statements that the outrage was
committed by Mormons under the imme
diate command of Lee. The former wit
ness was at a meeting called before Lee
and the Indians started for the
massacre. It was stated at the meet
ing that the emigrants should be
destroyed. An express was sent to Brig
ham Young, and Lee, at the head of the
soldiers and Indians, started. The emi
grants were promised peace if they would
give up their arms; they agreed to this
and marched out alongside the Mormon
soldiers, who shot them down at a signal,
the Indians killing the women.
Large numlKTS of cotton mills and
other factories in England are susjending
operations either because the operators re
fuse to comply with a demand for a reduc
tion of wages or because of the refusal of
employers to increase the wages. Thou
sands of working people are thus thrown
out of employment.
It was voted 173 to 19 in the British
House of Commons on the 27th to give the
Government bills precedence over Plim
soll's Shipping bill.
A mixed train of twenty-two cars on the
Northern Pacific Railroad went through a
bridge across the Mississippi River at
Brainard on the 27th, killing five persons
and wounding several others.
One of the oldest and most prominent
banking houses of New York Duncan,
Sherman & Co. suspended on the 27th
Much excitement was produced in com
niercial and financial circles by this fail
ure, which was entirely unexpected. The
suspension was cjiused by large specula
tions in cotton. The liabilities are placed
at between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000.
A report on the 27th that the Union
Bank of London had failed inconsequence
of the suspension of Duncan, Sherman &
Co. was incorrect. Dispatches from Liver
pool and London on the 28th say the fail
ure of Duncan, Sherman & Co. had pro
duced no appreciable effects on the gener
al markets in those cities. A Paris tele
gram states that news of the failure had
spread consternation among the Americans
in that city.
Tiitkty-one cotton mills in Dundee,
Scotland, had been closed up to the 28th,
and over 12,000 operators had been thrown
out of employment.
Gray's cotton mills at Glasgow, Scot
land, have been burned, involving a loss
of over 500,000. Several employes were
severely burned and 300 were with great
difficulty saved.
Avery, ex-chief clerk of the Treasury
Department, was arrested in Washington
on the 28th by a Deputy-Marshal and
taken before the District Court, and ad
mitted to bail in tnc sum of $5,000.
According to the New York Erening
Post of the 28th the losses of Duncan,
Sherman & Co. on cotton exceed $1,000,
000. A slight shock of earthquake was
felt in Connecticut on the morning of the
28th.
John Mason & Co.. sugar-dealers of
Philadelphia, suspended on the 28th. Li
abilities alnuit $200,000. The Commer
cial Warehouse Company of New York
and one or two other smaller institutions
were reported on the 28th as having failed.
The Tobacco Exchange Banking Com
pany, of Louisville, Ky., closed its doors
on the 28th.
The yellow-fever was reported, on the
28th, to le prevailing to an alarming ex
tent at Fort Barrancas, Fla.
3Iu. Pi.imsoll read an apology in flic
House of Commons on the 29th for his
recent violent speech, and he was dis
charged from censure.
The banquet given by the Mayor of
London to the Mayors and Prefects of oth
er cities occurred on the night of the 29th.
Six hundred and fitly persons participated.
The United States was unrepresented.
Workmen to the number of over 2,000
employed on the St. Gothard tunnel struck
for higher wages on the 29th. The Swiss
Government sent a body of troops, who
dispersed the rioters, killing two and
wounding several.
The New York publishing house of J.
B. Ford & Co. has suspended. The fail
ure of this firm does not, it is said, affect
the ChrMian Union, of which they were
the publishers.
The theory of the defense in the Mount
ain Meadows massacre trial is that the
Indians were the perpetrators of the out
rage, having been provoked thereto by the
emigrants themselves, who had enraged
them; that Lee held no military or church
office, and that he tried to protect the emi
grants, and wept when the massacre was
proposed.
A dispatch from Prof. Jenney, in the
Black Hills region, dated July 17, states
that he had discovered gold in paying
quantities in gravel bars on both Spring
and Rapid Creeks, from twenty to thirty
miles northeast of Harney's Peak. The de
posits were the richest j-et found in the
hills and are favorably situated.
The Chicago Times of the 29th has this
to say of the crop prospects: "We have
advices from the States of Illinois, In
diana, Ohio and Kentucky as to the con
dition of the winter vieat crop that aj e
not as encouraging as those previously re
ceived. A week ago there was a crood
prospect of at least two-thirds of a crop
Recent rains, however, have seriously im
paired the grain. That portion of it liar
vested has been wet, and is, in many lo
calities, rotting in the shock. Those
farmers who were fortunate enough to
have their grain stacked will sutler but
little. There is, however, little hope now
for even half a crop of w inter w heat. Un
less the weather should improve there is
likely to be considerable loss iu the spring
wheat crop from the same cause."
THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK.
Jcxr 30, 1875.
Livx Stock. Bcf Cattle $11.75313.37. Hogs
Live. $7.50S7.(i2!4. Sheep Live, S4.502S.50.
Bbiadstuffs. Floor Good to choice, J5.352
6 30; white wheat extra, $b.5tt&o.90. Wheat No.
2 Chicago, $1.3031.81: No. 2 Northwestern,
$1.3031-3; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1,343
1.37. Rye Western and State, $1.1331.11. Bar
ley $1.251.30. Corn Mixed Western, 8JO
8c. Oats Mixed Western, KK361C
Provisions. Pork Mess. $2 .75321.f0 Lard
Prime Steam, VUi,c. Cheese 53110.
Wool. Domestic Fleece, 50303c.
CHICAGO.
Lira Stock. Beeves Choice, f5.90ae.25;
good, $5.4D5.) ; medium, $1.7j35.15; batch
ers' stock, $3.5034.25; stock cattle, $3 003
4.00. Hogs Live, $7.5037.85. Sheep Good to
choice, $4.0034-75.
Provisions. Butter Choice, S025c Eggs
Fresh, 13Hlc. Pork Mess, $20,453-0 50.
Lard $13.253l:-l.
BnBADSTUFFs. Flour Whito Winter Extra,
$6.0037.50; spring extra, $5.0035.75. Wheat
Spring, No. 2, $1.16!4&1.103. Corn-No. 2, 1,9'
70c. Oats No. 2, 61351i4c. Rye No. 2,
97,S0fc. Barley No. 2, $1.2201.23.
Lumber. First Clear, $15.00316.00; Second
clear, $43.00343.00: Common Boards, $10,003
11.00; Fencing, $10.C0lt.O0; "A" Shingles,
$2.5032.80; Lath, $1.T 52.00.
CINCINNATI.
Brsadstufts. Flour $tf.2536 50. Wheat Red,
$1.3S1.40. Corn 72374c. Rye $1.2331.30.
Oats- 63 265c.
Provibioms. Pork $ J0.50i0.75. Lard 12I
013nic.
ST. LOUIS.
Lira Stock. Beeves Good to Choice, $5,733
6.75. Hogs Live, $7.01X37.75.
Brkadstcffb. Floor XX Fall, $4.755.25.
Wheat No. 2 Red Fall, $1.3031.38. Corn-
No. i.eSHSOTc. Oats No. 2, E(i',457c.
No. S,S0fl3c.
Provision s. Pork Mess, $2 1 .003 21 25.
12?il3c.
MILWAUKEE.
Brkadbtdfts. Flour Spring XX, $4.5.(24 75.
Wheat Spring No. 1, $1.211.21 '.4 ; No. 2, $1.19
Qll!t!i- Corn No. 2, t:Vi70c. Oats No. 2.50
350'4c. Rye No. 1, 99c3$l OJ. Bariey No. 2,
$1.1231-14."
DETROIT.
Brkadstuffs Wheat Extra, $1.37 1-3714.
Corn No. 1, 78379c. Oats No. 1, 56357c
TOLEDO.
Brbadstuffs. Wheat Amber Mich., $1.36(4
1.37; No. 2 Red, $1.33 i&1.3. Corn
Hijjh Mixed, 75'4371c. Oats No. 2. 56V4357C.
CLEVELAND.
Brbadstuffs. Wheat No. 1 Red, $1.37'i
1.38; No. 2 Red, $1.3 2', 31. 31. Corn Hih
Mixed, 78370c Oats No. 1, 60361c.
BUFFALO.
Livb Stock. Beeves $5X036 85. Hogs
Live, $7 5028 25. Sheen Live, $5.0035.50.
EAST LIBERTY.
Livb Stock. Beeves Best, $6.7537.50; me
dinm, $5 2335.50. nogs Yorkers, $7 803
8.10; Philadelphia, $S.23Q8.50. Sheep Best,
$5.0035.25; medium, $4.5'Xt4.75.
Rye-Lard
SENSE AMI XOSSEXSK.
He's giving it lo us rather warm just
now, and we call him the summer sols
Tice. Thf.uf. is talk in Wrcstern Texas of es
tablishing a new Sti.te, with San Antonio
as the proposed capital.
Apiarists say they have never known
bees to swarm and leave their hives so
late as they have done this year.
" No, ma'am," said a jeweler to a beau
tiful lady, "I don't trust anybody these
days. 1 would not even trust my feel
ings." WnEX you see a shiftless man j-ou
can be quite confident that at some pe
riod of his life he found a four-leaved
clover.
What is the use of sentencing a man
to prison for life when the Good Book says
that the wicked shall not live out half
their days?
Mrs. SxirE, of Galveston, took her
husband's throat in her teeth the other
day. He'll get a snipe with less bill if he
marries again.
A new brand of cigars is called " The
Charlie Ross," probably because it's hard
out of a good many of "them to find the
one you want.
Why is a church bell more affable than
a church organ? Because one will go
when it is tolled, but the other will be
"blowcd" first.
A Maryland highwayman bought a
revolver of a friend for three dollars. Then
he reeoveied his original investment and
eight dollars beside.
When a young man is far, far from
home, amiil gay company, such a trille as
his collar-button Hying off will hurt him
more than to break a leg.
Canada still sticks to the cat-o'-ninetails
as a punishment for some crimes.
The victim always goes right away from
the neighborhood in disgust.
Only five houses have been erected in
Salem, Mass., during the past eleven
years, and property-owners sigh for the
good old d3's of witchcraft.
The favorite method of detectives is to
find out who are the sweethearts of crimi
nals who are wanted and then watch until
the desired person comes around. Love
leads many a man inlo a trap.
A report from the Link River, Oregon,
states that a few days since, while a party
of men were shearing sheep, they got into
a low, which resulted in the death of five
of tueir number.
New Hampshire people raised a purse
of sixty-five cents for the widow of a man
who was killed while giving a Fourth of
J it ly salute, and she sat up all night to
protect the money.
A young lady in Utica, X. Y., has be
come subject to fits simply because she
saw the man of her choice walking with
another young lad'. She is not a fit sub
ject for matrimony.
A humanitarian friend wonders why
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals does not interfere to prevent
the " bull's eye" from being hit by ambi
tious riflemen. Exchange.
A good deed never goes unrewarded. A
j-oung lady in this city, w ho recently aban
doned the use of chew ing gum, has been
mentioned in a fashion journal as a "beau
tiful creature with blonde hair and scarlet
imagination." Washington Chronicle.
The man with the accordion bears a
charmed life. He fell off a roof the other
evening, then gathered himself calmly to
gether, sat out on the front stoop and
played 44 Old Hundred" until every window
in the neighborhood was violently closed
and the crevices rammed tight w ith cotton
batting. Brooklyn, Argn.
Tecumseh and Red Jacket, the famous
old Indian chiefs whom our fathers and
grandfathers knew rather more iutimately
than we did, had, in addition to their
other virtues, a great love of tobacco, and
the pipes they Ured are still in existence.
Tecutnseh's is BiyW owned by an Ohio
man, while a ffarlf m (X. Y.) resident is
tht proii'l pos,,coi, r,4' Rc'l Jacket's,
TINT TOKENS.
The murmur of a waterfall
A mile away.
The rustle when a robin lighta
. Upon a spray,
The lapping; of a lowland stream
" On dipping" boughs,
The sound of grazing from a herd
Of gentle cows,
The echo from a wooded hill
Of cuckoo's call,
The quiver through the meadow grass
At evening fall;
Too 6ubtle are these harmonica
For pen and rule;
Such music is not understood
By any school;
But when the brain is overwrought,
It hath a spell
Beyond all human skill aDd power
To make it well.
The memory of a kindly word
For long gone by,
The frajrrnnce of a fading flower
Sent lovingly.
The gleaming of a sudden smile
Or sudden tear,
The warmer pressure of theliaiid,
The tone of cheer,
The hush that means, 44 1 cannot speak,
But I have heard!"
The note that only hears a verse
From (Jxi'3 own word;
Such tiny things we hardly count
As ministry;
The givers deeming they have shown
Scant sympathy;
But when the heart is overwrought,
Oh, who can tell
The power of such tiny things
To make it well!
TOM SMITH'S ST0EY.
A curious trade to take to, but then it
has grown to lie profitable. Tilings were
at a low ebb w ith me when I took it up,
while now
There, I won't boast, only say that I'm
thankful for it. Poverty comes in at the
door and love flics out of the window, so
they say; but that's all nonsense, or else
your poor people wou'd lie always miser
able, while according to my experience
your poor man is often more light-hearted
"than the man with thousands.
I was at mv wits' end for something to
do, and sat nibbling my nai's one day and
grumbling horribly.
44 Don t go on like mat, torn,' says my
wife ; 44 things might be worse."
44 Itowv ' 1 said.
44 Why, we might have Luke at home,
and lie is doing well."
Luke s our loy, you know, ana we liad
got him into a merchant's office, where
he seemed like'y to slay; but I was in a
grumbling fit then, and there was ac''ck-
ety-click noise going on in the next room
that -fidgeted me terribly.
44 1 limps can t be worse,'' i said angrily ;
and I was going to prove myself in the
wrong by making my wife cry, w hen there
was a ucock at the loor.
44 Come in," I said, and a fellow-lodger
put in lus Dead.
"Are yoj goou at works, lur. &mitn?"
he said.
44 What works?" I said; 4 fireworks-
gasworks ?"
41 rso,no; I mean works 01 things as
goes wiih wheels and springs."
44 Midd'ing," 1 said, ior I was iond ot
pulling clocks to pieces and trying to in
vent.
44 1 w ish you'd come ar d look at"this sew-
ing-machineof mine, for I can't get it to go."
Sewing-machines were newish in those
days, and I got up to have a look at it;
and after about an hour's fiddling alout
I legan lo see a. bit the reason why the
purpose, you know, of all the screws and
cranks aDd wheels: I found out, too, why
our neighbor's w!Te, who was a dress
maker, and had iiist started one, could not
get it to go; and before niglit, by tuink-
mg, and pu.ting this and that together,
had got her in the way of working it pret
ty steadily, though with my clumsy fingers
1 could n t have uone it nnseit.
I had mv bit of dinner and tea with
those people, and they lorced half a crown
upon me as well, and I went back feeling
like a new man, so refreshing had been
that bit of work.
44 There," said my wife, 44 1 told 3-ou
something would come."
44 Well, to you did," I said; "but the
something i rather small."
But the very next day as we were liv
ing in the midst of people who were fast
taking to sewing-machines if the folks
from the next house didn't want me to
look at theirs! and then the news spread
ing, as news wiH spread, that there was
somebody who could cobble and tinker
machinery without putfmg people to the
expense that makers would, if the jobs
didn't come in fast so that I was obliged
to get fi'es and drills and a vise regular
set of tools by degrees ; and at last f w as
as bury as a bee from morning to night,
and whistling over my work as happy as a
king. -
if course every now and then I got a
breakage, but I could generally get over
that by buying a new wheel or spindle, or
what hot. " Next we got tnsupplyingshut
tles and needles and machine cotton.
Soon after I ltought a machine of a man
who was t; red of it. Next week I sold
it at a good profit. Bought another and
another, and sold them ; then got to tak
ing them and money in exchange for new
ones, and one way and the other became
a regular big dea'er, as you see.
1 1 undred ? Why, new, second-hand, and
with those being repaired up-stairs by the
men, I ve got v.i least o()U on the premises,
while if anybody had told me fifteen
years ago that I should be doing this I
should have laughed at him.
That pretty girl show ing ard explaining
the machine'to a customer ? That's Ruth,
that is. No, not my daughter yet, but
she soon will be. 'Poor gill, I always
think of her and of the bread thrown upon
the waters at the same time.
Curious idea that, you will say, but I'll
tell you why.
In our trade we have strange people to
deal with. Most of 'cm are poor, and
can't buy a machine right off, but arc
icady and w i'ling to p;.y so much a week.
Thf.i suits them and it euits me, if they'll
only keep the payment up to the end.
You won't believe me, perhaps, but
some of them don't do that. Some of them
leave their lodgings and I never see them
again ; and the most curious part is that
the sewing-machine disappears w ith them
and I never see that again. Many a one,
too, that has disappeared like that I do
see again peihap3 have it brought here
by some one to be repaired, or exchanged
for a bigger, or for one by a different
maker ;"lor if you look round here you'll
see I've got al! kinds new and old, little
domestics and big trades there! you name
any maker and see if I don't bring you
om one of his woiks.
Wei!, when I ask these people where
they got the machine for 1 always know
them by the number it turns but that
they've bought it through an advertise
ment or at asalesroom, or maybe out of a
pawnbroker's shop.
But I've had plenty of honest people to
deal with, too them as have come straight
forward and told me they couldn't keep
up their payments, and asked me to take
their machine back, w hen I'd allow them
as much as I thought fair, and 'twould be
an end of a pleasant transaction.
The way I've lcen bitten though bv
some folks has made me that case-harcf-ened
that sometimes 1 ve wondered whether
I'd got any heart left, and the wife's had
to interfere, telling me I've been spoiled
w ith prosperity and grown unfeeling.
It was she made me give way about
Ruth, for, one day, after having had my
bristles all set up by finding out that three
good sound machines, by best makers, had
gone nobody knew where, who should
come into the shop but a lady-like-looking
woman in very shabby widow's weeds.
She wanted a machine for herself aud
daughter to earn, and mUI bhe h?A heap?
that I would take the money by install
ments. Now, just half an hour before by
our shop clock I had made a vow that I'd
give up all that part of the trade, and I
was very rough with her just as I am
when I'm cross and said 44 No."
"lsutyou will it the laily gives securi
ty, says my wile, hastily.
The jxxr woman gave such a woe-le-
gme look at us that it made me more out
of temper than ever, for I could feel that
if I stopped I should have to let her have
one at her own terms. And so it was; for
there, if I didn't let her have a first-class
machine, as good as new, she only paying
seven and six down, and undertaking to
payhalf a crown a week and no more secu
rity than nothing.
To make it worse, too, if I didn't send
the thing home without charge, Luke go
ing with it, for he was back at home now,
keeping my looks, being grown into a fine
young fellow of five and twentj'; and I sat
and growled the whole of the rest of the
day, calling myself nil the weak-minded
idiots under the sun, and telling the wife
that business w as going to the dogs, ami I
should be ruined.
" You ought to le ashamed of yourself,
Tom," she said.
"So I am," says I. 44 1 didn't think I
could le such a "fool."
44 Such a fool as to do a good, kind ac
tion to one who was evidently a lady born
and come down in the world !"
44 Yes," I says, 44 to living in Bennett's
place, where I've sunk no less than ten
machines in five years."
44 Yes," says the wife, "and cleared
hundreds of pounds. Tom, I'm ashamed
of you you, a man with twenty workmen
busy up-stairs, a couple of thousand
pounds' worth of stock and, in the bank,
a "
" Hold your tongue, will you?" I said,
roughly, and went out into the shop to try
and work it all oil".
Luke came back soon after, looking
veiy strange, and I was at him directly.
44 Where's the seven an' six?" I says, angrily.
lie didn t answer, but put three half
crowns down on the desk, took out the
liook, made his entries date of delivery,
first payment, when the others due, and
all the rest of it and was then going into
the house.
44 Mind," I says, sharply, " those pay
ments are to be kept up to the day; and
to-morrow you go to Holly's, who live
nearly opjosite to 'em, and tell 'cm to
keep an eye on the widow, or we shall
lose another machine."
44 You needn't be afraid, father," he
says, cold'y ; 41 they're honest enough, only
poor."
I was just in that humor that I wanted
to quarrel wiih sonielody, and thr.t did it.
44 When I ask you lor your opinion,
young man, you give it me; and when I
tell you to do a tlrng you do it," I says,
in as savage a w:'y as ever I siokc to the
lad. 44 You go over to-morrow and tell
Holly's to keep a strict lookout on those
people do you hear?"
"Father," he says, looking me full in
the face, "I couldn't insult them by doing
such a thing," when wiihout another
word lie walked quietly out of the shop,
leaving me worse lhan ever.
For t'.iat boy had never spoken to me
like that before, and I should have gone
after him feeling mad like only some
people came in, and I didn't see him
again tP! evening, and a good thing, too,
for I'm sure I should have said all sorts
of things to the boy that I shou'd have
been sorry for after. And there I was
fuming and fretting about, savage w iih
everybody, giving siiort answers, snapping
at the wife and feeling as a man does feel
when he knows that he has been in the
wrong and hasn't the heart to go and own
it.
It was about eight o'clock that I was
sitting by the parlor fire, w!ih the wife
working and very quiet, when luke came
in from t lie workshop with a book under
his arm, for he had been totting up the
men's piecework and what wits due to
them; and the sight of him made me feel
as if I must quarrel.
He saw ?t too but he said nothing, only
put the accounts away and began to read.
The wife saw the siorm brewing, and
she knew how put out I was, for I had not
lit my pipe, nor 3'et had my evening nap,
which I always have aiier tea. So shedid
what she knew so well how to do filled
my pipe, lorced it inio my hand, and just
as l wa? going to dash it to pieces in the
ashes she gave me one ol her o!i looks,
kissed me on the forehead, as with one
hand sLe pressed me back into my chair,
and then with the other she lit a splint and
held it to my tobacco.
I was done. She always gets over me
like that; and after smoking in silence for
halfanhourl was lying back, with my
eyes c'osed, dropping oil" to sleep, when
the wife said (what had gone before I
hi'dn't heard) :
44 Yes, he's asleep now."
That woke me up, of course, and if I
didn't lie there shamming and heard all
they said in a whisper.
4- How came you to make him more
vexed than he was, Luke?" said the wife,
and he told her.
"I couldn't do it, mother," he said, ex
citedly. 44 It was heart-breaking. She's
living ii a wretched room there wiih her
daughter; and, mother, when I saw her I
felt as if there, I can't teM you."
44 Co on, Luke," she said.
"They're half-starved," he said, in a
husky way. 41 Oli, mother, it's horrible.
Such a sweet, lieauliful girl, and the poor
woman herself dying almost with some
terrible disease."
The wife sighed.
"They to'd me," he went on, 44 how
hard they had tried to live by ordinary
needlework, and failed, and that as a last
resource they ha:I tried to get the ma
chine." 44 Poor things!" says the wife; 44 but are
you sure the mother was a lady ?"
44 A clergyman's widow," says Luke,
hastily ; 44 there isn't a doubt about it. Poor
girl! anil they've got to learn to use 11 De
fore it . be of any use."
44 Poor girl, Luke"?"' says the wife softly;
and 1 saw through my eyelashes that she
laid a hand upon his r.rm and was looking
curiously at liim, when if he didn't cover
his face with his hands, rest his ellows
on the table, and give a low groan ! Then
the old woman got up, stood liehind his
chair, and began playing with and ca
ressing his hair like the foolish old moth
er would.
"Mother," he says suddenly, 44 will you
go and see them?"
She didn't answer for a minute, only
stood looking down at him, and then said
softly
"They paid you the first money?"
44 No," he says, hotly. " I hadn't the
heart to take it."
44 Then that money you paid was yours,
Luke?"
44 Yes, mother," he says, simply; and
those two stopped looking one at Uie oth
er, till the wife bent down and kissed
him, holding his head afterward for a
few moments between her hands; for she
always did worship that chap, our only
one; and then I closed my eyes tight and
went on breathing heavy, and thinking.
For something like a new revelation had
come upon me. I knew Luke was five
and twenty and that I was fifty-four, but
he always seemed like a loy to me, and
here was I waking up to the fi-ct that he
was a grown man. and that he was think
ing and feeling as I first thought and felt
when I saw his mother nigh upon eight
and twenty years ago.
I lay back thinking and telling myself I
was very savage with him for deceiving
me, and that I wouldn't have him and his
mother laying plots together against me,
and that I wouldn't stand by and see him
make a fool of himself w ith the first pretty
girl lie set eyes on, when hg might marry
Maria Turner, the engineer's daughter,
and have a nice bit of money w ith her lo
put into the business, and then be my
partner.
" No," I says, 41 if you plot together I'll
plot all alone," and then I pretended to
wake up, took no notice and had my sup
per. I kept rather gruff the next morning
and made myself very busy alout the
place, and I tfarc say ske more sharply
than usual, but the wife and Luke were as
quiet ns could lie; and alnuit twelve I went
out with a little oil-can and two or three
tools in my jxcket.
It w as not far to Bennett's place, and on
getting to the right house I asked for .Mrs.
Murray aud was directed to the second
floor, where, as I reached the door, I
could hear the clicking of my sewing, ma
chine, and whoever was ihere was so busy
over it that she did not hear me knock, so
I opened the dxr softly nnd looked in upon
as sad a scene as I shall ever, 1 dare say,
see.
There in the bare nxm sat, asleep in
her chair, the widow ladv w ho came nliout
the machine, and I could sec that In her
latu which told plainly enough that the
pain and suffering she must have been
going through for years w ould soon be
over, and, situated as she was, it gave me
a kind of turn.
44 It's no business of yours," I said to
myself, roughly; and I turned then to
look at w ho it was bending over my ma
chine. I could see no face only a slight figure
in rusty black; anil a pair of busy white
hands were trying very hard to govern the
thing, nnd to learn how to u;e it well.
"So that's the gal, is it?" 1 said to my-
self. 44 Ah, Luke, my 1kv, you've got lo
the silly call age, and 1 dure say
I got no further, for at that moment the
girl staited, turned round, and turned
upon me a timid, wondering face, that
made my heart give a queer throb, and 1
couldn't take my eyes off her.
I lush I" she said, soitiy, Homing up
her hand ; nnd I saw it was as thin and
transparent as if she had Ix-en ill.
44 My name's Smith," I said, taking out
a sciew-diiver. " My machine; how docs
it go? Thought I'd come and sec."
Her face lit up in a moment, ami she
came forward eagerly.
" I'm so glad you've come," she said;
" I can't quite manage this."
She pointed to the thread regulator, and
the next minute I was showing her that
was fx tight, and somehow, in a gentle,
timid wav, the liti'e witch got quite over
me, and 1 slopped iheie two hours helping
her, till her eves ; .park led with delight as
she found out how easily she could now
make the needle '".art in and out of hard
material.
44 Do you think 3-011 can do it now?" I
said.
44 Oh, yes, I think so; I am so glad you
came."
44 So am I," says I, gruffly; "it will
make it a'l the easier for you to earn the
money and pay for it."
44 And I w ill work so hard," she said,
earnestly.
44 That you will, my dear," I says in
spite of myself, for I fell sure it w r.sn't me
speaking, but something in me. "She
been ill long?" I said, nodding toward lu r
molher.
44 Months," she said, with the tears start
ing in her pretty eyes ; "but," she added,
brightly, 44 1 shall have enough w ith this
to get lier good medicines and things she
can fancy;" and as I looked at her some
thing in me said :
i4 God biers you, my dear! I hope you
will;" and the next minute I was going
down stairs, calling myself a fool.
They thought I didn't know at home,
but I did; there was I he w'le going over
and over again to Bennelt's place; it ml all
soils of liille nice things were made and
taken there. I olicu used to see them
talking alxut it, but 1 took no notice; and
that nrlliil scoundrel, my boy Luke, used .
to pay the hall-crown every week out ot
his own jtockel, after going to fetch it
from the widow's.
And all the lime I told myself I didn't
like it, for I could see that Luke was
changed, and a!ways thinking of Hint girl
a gill not half good enough for him. I
remcmlHTed lieing pxr myself, and I
hated poverty, rnd I used to speak harsh
ly to Luke and the wife, aud feel very
bitter.
At last came an afternoon when I knew
there was something wrong. The wife
had gone out direcl!y after dinner, saying
she was going to tee a bick woman I
knew who it was, bless you! and Luke
was fidgeting about, not himself; aud ut
last he iook his hat and went out.
4 They might have confided in me," I
said biMerly, but all the lime I knew that I
wouldn't let them. " They'll be spending
money throwing it nwpy. I know they've
spent pounds on them already."
At last I got in such a wry that I called
down our foreman, left him in charge, and
took my bet and went after them.
Everything was very qu;ct in Bennett's
place, 'for a couple of dirty, dejected
looking women one of whom was in ar
rears to me had sent the children that
played in the court right away lx-cause of
the noise, and were keeping guard so that
they should not conic back.
I went up tiie stairs softly, and all was
very still, only as I got nearer to the room
I could hear a bitter, wailing cry, and
then I opened the door gently and went
in.
Luke was there, stinding, with his head
bent, by the sewing-machine; the wife sat
in a chair and, on her knees, w ith her face
buried in tl j wife's ; p, was the poor girl,
crying as if her liii'e heart would break,
while on the bed, wiih all the look of pain
gone out of i er face, ley the widow gone
to meet her h.usbard, where pain and sor
row are no more.
I couldn't see very plainly, for there
was a mist, like, before my eyes; but I
know Luke flushed up as he took a step
forward, as if to project the girl, and the
wife looked at me in a L igbtcncu way.
But tlierc was no need, for romelhing
that wasn't me spoke, and that in a very
gentle way, as I stepred forward, raised
the g'rl uo and kissed her pretty face be
fore laying her little, helpless head upon
my shoulder and smoothing her soft,
brown hair.
44 Mother," says that something from
within me, 44 1 think there's room in the
nesi at home for this poor, forsaken little
bird. Luke, mv boy, will you go and
fetch a cib? Molher will see Ut what
wants doing here."
My boy gave a sob as he caught my
hand !,i his end Ihe next moment he did
what he had not done for years kissed
me on the cheek Ix fore running out ol
the room, leaving me with my darling
nestling in 111 y bre;'sL
I said 44 my darling," for she has been
the sunshine of our hme ever since a
pale, wintry sun-h're while the sorrow
was fresli, but spriDg and summer now.
Why, bless her! look at her. I've felt
ashamed sometimes to think that she, a
lady by birth, should come down to such
a life, making me well, no, it's us now,
for Luke's partner no end of money by
her clever ways. But she's happy, think
ing her husband that is to be the finest
fellow under the sun; and let me tell you
there's many a gentleman not so well oil
as my boy will be, even if the money has
all come out of a queer trade. Caw.lV
Magazine.
There are two modest men at Point
Isabel. Tex. One says he is God, and the
other says he is his prophet. They will
soon have a chance to try their pow ers on
strait-jackets.
This is what the New York Timet calls
44 the foolish time of year." because, for
want of something else to do. mo- t people
suctffd in making them-dves rM'vulou.i,