THE HERALD. PUBLISHED every tiiuiisday PLATTSMOUTH, NEBKASKA. O ' I" I C W i On Vino St., One Block North of Main, Corner of Fifth St. NEBRASKA HERALD. OFFICIAL PAPKIl Of CASS COUNTY. Terms," in Advance: One copy, one year $2.00 One copy, six month 1.00 Out copy, three month 50 JNO. A. MACMURPHY, Editor. TERMS: $2.00 a Year. VOLUME XI. PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1875. NUMBER 23. THE HERALD. ADVKIITISIXU ItATKS. SI'ACIt. 1 sipiare.. 3 piinrci 'd p(iiiirt.. column. i column. 1 column. 1 w. I 8 w. I S w. 1 m. 3 m. ft m. 1 yr. 1 ( 1 fiO fJOO f 2 5 fHIN) 1 M 8 IK'I i V 3 B fiO 10 0ll Irt a on a ir.l 4 (m 4 ?r h ho n on 5 oil h no' io oo in no cm vh no H OO'l'J 00 Ifi (Ml 1H 00 00 10 (Nil CO tfc. V., (N) 18 00 JJ (10 25 (Ml 1(1 110 Ml (l 10" (10 ffT" All Advertising Mlln duo quarterly. Transient advertisement must bo paidfuf in advance Extra copies of the HiiiALn for sal by II. J. Streitrht, at the I'cwtoince, and O. V. Johnnon, cor ner of Mailt and JrifUi stxwsu. HENRY BCECK, DEALER IX jEiii?iiitiii?e, SAFES, CHAIRS, Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads, KTC., KTC., ItC, Of All Descriptions. METALLIC BURIAL CASES. "' ' "''i'"''- ? "i -S Wooden Coflins Of all sizes, ready-made, and aold cheap for eaiV With many thank for pat patronage. I Invite all to call and exam in my LAUGH STOCK OF Iuriiit 1110 uiid Co 111 ii . AID MEDICINES AT J. H. BUTTERY'S, On Main Street, bet. Fifth and Sixth. Wholesale ai-d Jeofail Dealer tn Drus sine! Medicines, Points, Oils, Varnishes, Patent Medicines, Toilet Articles, etc., etc. ITTRKPCKlPTIONjj carefully componndrd at all hour i. day and night. 35-ly Feed, Sale and Livery Main Street, Plattsmoutfi, Neb. I am prepared to acconunodata 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, jmii-ir First National Bank Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, SCCCESSOB TO Tootle, I In 11 ii n. Ss Clarlc. Jon FlTTOTBALD E. DoTtr A. W. MLroHX-i.N JoilX O ltlHKKE President. Vice-President. t'aohier. ...Assistant Cashier. Tht Bank 1" now open for bnMness at their new rnnm, enmrr Main and Sixth streets, and are pre pared te transact a general BANKING BUSINESS. Stocks, Bonds, Gold, Government and Local Securities BOUGHT AND SOLD. Deposits Eeceived and Interest Al lowed on Time Certificates. DRAFTS DRAWN, Available in any part of Hie- United Statrs and In all the Vnuap.tl Towns and Cities of Europe. AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED INMAH LINE and ALLAH LINE OF M'X,1L,V311I.S&. rcrsons wishing to bring out their friend from Europe cau runcnASB tickets mox rs Tliroiifrli to PI i 1 1 ni o utli. Excelsior Barber Shop. J. C. BOONE, SEain Street, opposite Saunders House. HAIR-CUTTING, Shaving and Shampooing. ESPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO Cutting; Children" and Ladies' Hair. Call and See Boone, Gents, And get a boon In a CJ Tj 33 -A. 3NT SlliVVl!, n41-ly GO TO THE Tost Office Book Store, H. J. STEEIGHT, Proprietor, roa Torm Boots. Stationery, Pictures, Music, TOYS, CONFECTIONERY, Violin Strings, Newspapers, Norels, Song Books, etc. etc TOST OFFICE BUILDIG, PLATTSMOUTH, STEP, . O. F. JOHNSON, DEALER IS' Drugs, Medicines, WALLPAPER. All Paper TriiaMFree of Charce ALSO, DEALER III Books, Stationery MAGAZINES AND LATEST PUBLICATIONS. nonprescription carefully compounded by an experienced IrujiBt.4 REMEMBER TI1R PLACE Cor. Fifth and Main Streets, PLATTSMOUTH, NEB. mm m-- -i THOS. W. SHRYOCK, DEALER IX Main St., bet. 5th and 6th, PLATTSMOUTH, - NEB. AI.JO UNDEE TAKER, And ia on band a larga stock of jMotallio Burial Cases, Wooclon Coffin 3, Etc., Of all eizcp, cheap for cash. Funerals Attended on Short Notice II. A. WATERMAN & SON, Wholcf al and Retail Dealer, in PINE LUMBER, Xtixtii, Shingles, SASH, DOOKS, BLINDS, ETC., On Main St., cor. Fifth, PLATTSMOUTH, - - - NEB. FOR YOUR CROCERIES J V. Weckbach. Cor. Third and Main Sts., Plattemoatn. (Onthmann's old stand.) H tteepl cb Band a larg. and weU-selected stock f FANCY GROCERIES, Coffees, Teas, Sugar, Sirup, Boots, Shoes, Etc., Etc., Etc., Eto. Also, a larga stack mt Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, Crockery, Queensware, Etc, Etc., Stc Im connection with tb Grocery to BAKERY and CONFECTIONERY. Hlghent Prira Paid for Country Prod are. A fall stack at all times, and will not be undersold. Tats Btlc of ths Sign: EMPIRE BAKERT AND GROCERY." nljl WILLIAM STADELMANN Has on hand ana af tha largest stocks of CLOTHING AND Gents' Furnishing Goods FOR grRINO AND SUMMER. I inrita trerybody in want of anything in my line to call at say store. South Side Main, bet. 5th & 6th Sts., And conTlnc. themselves of tha fact. I have aa a ipecialtr in my Retail Departments a stock of Pine Clothing for Men and Boys, to which we in vite thoaa who want ool. I also keep on haad a large and well-selected stock ef Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Etc. Jarlyl PHILADELPHIA STORE SOLOJIOX V XATIIAX, BIA(.BBa IH Fancy Dry Goods, Notions, Laiies' Ymiilm Goois. Largest, Cheapest, Finest and Best Assorted Stock in the city. We are prepared t sell cheaper than they can be purchased elsewhere. GIVE TJTS A OAT-X, And examine our Goods. fPStore on Main St., between 4th and 5th Sts., Plattamoath, Neb. 16tf PLATTSMOUTH MILLS, PLATTSMOUTH KEBRASKA. Co5baj Eiisil, Proprietor. FLOUR, CORN MEAL, FEED. Always en hand and for sale at lowest eaib prices. The Highest Prices paid for Wheal tad Cora. ParUcalar attention given to custom work. CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. Gko. 31. IJrcitANAN is the KcpuMicaa camlidatc for JSUtc Treasurer of .Missis, sippi. Tjik American rillo team arrived at New York on the 21st, from Europ', and met with tin enthusiastic reception. The late Emperor Ferdinand of Aus ri:t Kit, l.y his will, $ O.tXiO.OOO to the Pope, which has already been paid over. The receipts of the New York canals the present season to Aug. 13 were f 704, 217, a falling off, as compared with last year, of $700,8.j0. Official census returns for all the counties in Wisconsin have been received at Madison. The total population of the State is 1,236,CJ0. Pkemdent Nctt, of the Indiana State University, died at Bloomington, Ind., a few days ago, of remittent fever. He was sixty-lour years of age. Tiieke was a decrease of 8G.000 in the number of immigrants to this country dur ing the year ending June oO, as compared w ith the previous year. Ex-Gov. W. K. Marshall las been selected as the Itepublican candidate for Kailroad Commissioner of Minnesota, in place of Charles A. Gilmpu, declined. Vienna official reports of Aug. 23 show that the wheat crop in Austria and Hun gary had fallen in quantity and qualily, and would not yield more than 5,500,000 quintals. Commodore Jas. G. GooDENOCGn, com manding the British squadron in Aus tralia, died a few days ago in consequence of a wound received some time before from a poisoned arrow at Carlisle Bay. News has been received at "Washington of the death at Callao, Peru, of Rear-Admiral Collins, commanding the South Pa cific fleet. lie died of erysipelas after an illness of three days, and was buried with military honors in the Protestant cemetery at Belle Uota, near Callao. Col. D. R. Anthony, who was shot on the 10th of last May by "V. W. Embrey, recently made his appearance on the streets of Leavenworth, Kan., after having been confined to his room for 101 days, lie intended going to Rochester, N. Y., for further medical treatment The English swimmer, CapL Webb has succeeded in crossing the English Chan nel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, a distance of twenty-six miles, without float or life-saving apparatus, lie was in the water twenty-one hours and forty minutes. In a swimming-match at Philadelphia, a few days ago, between Coyle, the Ameri can, and Johnson, the English champion, the former, after swimming six miles, had to be taken out of the water badly chilled. His competitor, who was a mile ahead, finished the course and won the prize. The IxHtittiana Mate Jiegititcr of the 22d gives the population of the city of New Orleans, as shown by the recent census, as follows: White, 115,721; col ored, 57,f17 ; total, 20o,:J8, an increase of 1 1 ,!;! upon the census of 1870. The pop ulation t)f the whole State is: While, 401, otil ; colored, 450,02i, an excess of colored over whites of 45,MS, and total increase of 128,115 over the census of 1870. A decision has been rendered by the Secretary of the Treasury to the effect that the 5-20 ltomls of 1SG5, dated May and Novcmlter, and known as the old C5s, were in reality issued before the January aud July 1805, bonds known as the new 't5s bonds, and must, therefore, be the first called in. The date given on the face of the IkjihIs is not to be taken ns the date of issue, but the fact as established by the records of the department in application of the law. The Department ef Agriculture reports the average condition of spring wheat, Aug. 1, in all the States producing it ex cept California as 87. per cent. The ex tremes are 99 in Wisconsin and Minne sota, and 00 in Nebraska. The condition of winter w heat is not reported, except statements that vast quantities were swept away or damaged in degrees ranging from serious injury to utter ruin. In corn the highest averages- reported arc: Kansas, 110; Tennessee, 111; Missouri, 112; Mississippi, 111; New Jersey and Arkansas, 10J; Virginia, 108; West Virginia, 100; Connecticut, Mary land anil Nebraska, 105; Pennsylvania and North Carolina, 10:J; Kentucky, 102; Oregon, 101 ; Delaware and Alabama, 100; Illinois, W); New York, KG; Ohio, 91, Iowa, 87; Wisconsin, b'.); Indiana and Minnesota, 8'J; Georgia, 85; Texas, 85. Other States range ltctween 83 in South Carolina and !J8 in Georgia. The average condition of oats was 91. potatoes prom ised an extraordinary yield, the average being 101. Tobacco was injured less than feared. In a call recently issued for the fourth session of the National Agricultural Col lege, to be held at Cincinnati on the 22d, 23d and 21th of September, it is specified that " the congress is in no sense a sec tional or partisan organization. Its ob ject is the discussion of questions in which the agricultural class in all sec tions of the country are interested, dis cussing them with a view to securing the best permanent prosperity of the agricult ural interest in all its phases, and hence the prosperity of the nation. In accord ance with this design the approaching session will mainly be devoted to ad dresses and discussions on political economy in its special relations to agriculture the production and dis tribution of agricultural products; education, organization, co-operation and legislation for, by, or concerning farmers and agriculture; transportation, finance and taxation as affecting agricultural pros perity." It is urged that all organizations laboring for the good of agriculture be represented by delegates. "Agricultural and Horticultural Societies, State, District and County Agricultural Colleges, Granges and Firmers' Clubs and other agricultural associations can meet here in an organization designed to advance the common interest without antagonizing any association engaged in kindred work;. EPITOME OF THE WEEK. CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. A c a isle dispatch of the 21st says it was reported in Paris that Turkey had finally accepted the friendly offices of the foreign powers in securing the restoration of icace in her northwestern provinces. Announce ment was made on the 22U of the capture of seven forts near the Montenegrin frontier by the Herzegoviniau insurgents. James II. Nob, Sr., leading member of a brush-manufacturing firm in New York city, while inspecting his store the morn, ing of the 22d encountered a burglar, whom he attempted to arrest, but was himself so badly beaten with an iron' bar as to render his recovery doubtful. lie was bound and robbed by the burglar, who threatened to return and kill him if any outcry was made before the robber had time to make good his escape. Joiln Gokdon, the Black Hills miner under arrest at Omaha, was released tn parole on the 21st. He subsequently sur rendered his parole and then, by direction of his counsel, attempted to escape. He wits again arrested by Gen. Ruggles and confined in the guard-house, when he had the General arrested for false impris onment and also caused the arrest of the General and his clerks for assault and bat, tery. The news from Herzegovina received in London on the 23d was to the effect that the insurgents had massacred the ninety five Turkish prisoners captured at Marsie. Bands of insurgents were reported to be assembling in the mountains of Crete. Quite severe frosts visited portions of Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan and Minnesota on the nights of the 21st and 22d. Considerable injury was done in a few localities to corn and other growing crops, but the damage gen erally is said to have been comparatively slight. i According to an Augusta (Ga.) dis patch of the 23d several negroes connected with the recent troubles in that State had made confessions. Jake Moorman, First Lieutenant of a negro, company, testified that nineteen connties were to have leen embraced in the insurrection Friday, the 20th, being appointed for the uprising. In a speech on the evening of the 23d Gov. Smith said all danger was then over, and that the great mass of colored people really knew nothing of the gravity and danger! of the plot into w hich they were being led by a few bad negroes. A Government detective in Chicago named James E. Miller was shot at, a few nights ago, and wounded in the arm by some one, supposed to be acting in the in terest of parties implicated in the whisky frauds, Miller being an important witness against them. He is an ex-Gauger and had volunteered his evidence in behalf of the Government. A telegram from Constantinople on the 21th says the Porte was concentrating his forces in the direction of Nissa, incon sequence of the position taken b- the Servians in the Ilerzegovinian insurrec tion. It was reported on the 21th that the foot and mouth disease had broken out w ith great violence in Dorsetshire, England, and it M as estimated that 12,000 cattle were down w ith it. The distemper was rapidly spreading. A dispatc h of the 25th from Alexan dria, Egypt, states that the Khedive had dispatched a large force to the Abyssinian frontier with instructions to exact full sat isfaction for recent trespasses upon Egyp tian territory. A National Greenback Convention was held at Detroit on the 25th, about 1, (XX) persons being present. Thomas J. Durant, of Washington, 1). C, was chosen President. Addresses were delivered by Judge W. D. Kclley; James Buchanan, of Indiana; Mr. Daniels, of Virginia; Mr. Mahony, of Iowa, and Mr. Allis, of Wis consin. A series of resolutions were adopted in favor of the Kclley currency plan, and in opposition to the law provid ing for the resumption of specie payments in 1879 as being impracticable and im possible of execution, and disastrous to the business of the country, and demand ing the repeal of the act by Congress. A London telegram of the 20th says 500 Turkish soldiers had recently leen cap tured by the ller.egoviuian insurgents. A Belgrade dispatch of the Panic date says the popular feeling in Servia had become so strong in favor of the insurgents that it was feared the Government would be un able to prevent a conflict with Turkey. The failure of Sterling, Ahrens fc Co., of Baltimore, said to be the largest sugar importing house in the United States, was announced on the 20th. Their liabilities arc about $2,500,000. The Bank of California, the heaviest institution of the kind on the Pacific coast, closed it doors in San Francisco on the 2Gth. It had paid out during the day alxmt $1,400,000 in gold. President Ralston stated there was no doubt that the bank would be able to meet all obligations, but business would not be resumed. The liabilities M ere estimated at many millions of dollars. The excitement in San Fran cisco over this failure M as intense. A run was made on the National Gold Bank and Trust Company, but it continued paying out during business hours. THE 31 ARRETS. August 28, 1ST5. NEW YORK. Livb Stock. Beef Cattle SU.50&l:J .25. Hojrs Live, J3.23&8.50. Sheep Live, t.MKas.'IS, Breadbtuffs. Klonr Good to choice, t6.05 6.50; white wheat extra, $G.5037.. Wheat o. 2 Chicago, $1.3"l.'t; No. 2 Northwestern, $1.3531.36; No. a Milwaukee spring, l 1.37. Rye Western and State, $1.0J1.10. Bar ley fl.o5tJ.1.37!4. Corn Mixed Western, BlU 85c. Oats Mixed Western, B02,63c Provisions. Pork New Mess, $J0 8OJ".20.95. Ijird Prime Steam, lS.SSM'ic Chcest &3 Wool. Domestic fleece. CHICAGO. LOT Stock. Beeves Choice, f5.75JJ6.5 good, $5.005.60; medium. 14.25(25.0); butch ers' stock, f J.75a4.tX); stock cattle, S3 00&4 0O. Hoes Live, t7.658.25. Sheep Good to choice. $I.OO4.rX). Provisions. Batter Choice, 24"228c. Ekss Fresh, 13VJU14C. Pork Mess, S-00&:0 25. Lard fl2.85ai2.90.. Breadstcffs. Flour White Winter Extra, 6.S03.00; eprin? extra. t5.50a5.37H. Wheat Spring, No. 2, S115W(S1.15V. Corn No. 65 b6!-4c: Oats No. 2, 4040 '4c. Rye No. , 8i3s3V4c. Barley No. 2, $1.05G1.C8. Loxbzr. First Clear, $-15.00(346.00; Second Clear, $43.00(45.00; Comrson Boards, 10.003 11.00; Fencing, $10.00311.QO; "A" fhinsles. f-,.:o33.00; Lath, 1.75a2.00. CIWCIXN'ATI. Breadstcffs. Flour fi.7r(rl7.00. Wheat- Red, fl.35fil.10. Corn 74&75c. Kye-S"0ft 88c. Oats 1550c. Provisions. Pork $JO.!&21.00. Lard li''S 13 Xc ST. LOUIS. Livk Stock. Beeves Good to choice, 5.3r.U 6.37H. Ilos Live, $7.2.77.80. Bkbadstuffs. Klonr XX Kali, t5.73&i.25. Wheat No. 3 Red Kail, $1. ISMS'-i. Corn No. S, 67(p.fiSc. Oats No. 2, 38'4l"c. Rye- No. 2, 77&7Xc. PituviHioN8.--l'ork Mess, S21.&0&21.75. Lard 13&14C. MILWAUKEE. Brbadstuffs. Klour Siiriii!? XX, fi. 7535.m. Wheat Spring, No. 1, $1 .2SQ1.2; No. 2, $1.2t)V4 ftl. 21. Corn No. ii, 67S4(.fctc. Oats No. S, 3'.V4!i40c. Rye No. 1, 81&S2c.: Barley No. i, $1.0ft1.10. DETROIT. Breadstuff. Wheat Extra, S1.4J&1.15. Corn No. 1, 7475c. Oats No. 1, 4343tfc. TOLEDO. Breadrtuffs. Wheat Amber Michigan, 1.411.41K; No. SRed, 1.37ViLT. Corn llifh Mixed, T3'4(a74c. Oats No. 2, ljSljJic CLEVELAND. Bueadstuffs. Wheat No. 1 Red, tl.15',4(fj 1.50; No. 2 Red, tl-3-i4&l.S7. Corn High Mixed, 78379c. Oats No. 1, 4!&50c. BUFFALO. Live Stock. Beeves $5.2--l7.0i. VJogs Live, $7.30&8.35. Sheep Live, $4.5025.U). EAST LIBERTY. Live Stock.. Beeves Best, $G.75&7.20; me dinm, f 60036.20. Hos -Yorkers, $7.8K7,.S. 30; Philadelphia, t,S.5038.8. Sheep Best, $5,253 5.50; medium, S1.75C&5.O0. The rrobable Time of the Donaldsea Balloon Disaster. In regard to the hour the fatal accKlent occurred to Messrs. Donaldson and Grim wood, the Chicago Journal of Aug. 20 says : "In speculating upon the probable time the balhton went into the water, the M atch found on the body of Grimwood may furnish very valuable assistance, if indeed the testimony it gives is not almost abso lutely conclusive. Though dumb, it still speaks; and though it has become rusty by lying live M-ccks in the water and on the shore, still it reveals the secrets of the last fearful hour and the struggle with ueatn, upon which so much lias been said and written. It is a small, lady's gold watch, and when found the crystal was gone. The breaking of the crystal, in all probability, occurred at a period subsequent to its going into the water, and quite likely while the body Mas drilling toward the place where it Mas found upon the shore. The hands remain undisturbed, and point to twenty minutes past eleven. Was that the fatal moment when, struck and overcome by the gale, balhist all out, the balloon re fused longer to carry its load of human freight, and gave them over to a helpless and unequal struggle with the waves? The watch was received at this ollice in exactly the condition it was when taken from the pocket of Grim wood. It is important to know, in order to determine the value of the evi dence, whether it M as run doM-n, and if it Mas men Out little or nothing is deter mined by it. This question was deter mined this morning by an examination by Air. J. II. Allison, the experienced watch maker at the establishment of Matson & Co. He opened the M atch, the first time it had been opened since it was closed bv GriniM-oocl himself in the balloon. The examination revealed that the watch had certainly not run more than five hours and twenty minutes after it was Mound up. .mr. Allison states, what accords with rea son and the lielief of everyone, that the watch would stop almost instantaneously alter going into the w ater. The cases he found somewhat loose, which Mould readily admit the Mater to the works. Five hours and twenty minutes before it stopped would le six o'clock, the time when it must have been wound up. The time when the balloon M-ent up, as observed by a Jmirnnl man, M as eleven mimttes to five. So the watch must have been wound while they M-ere in the clouds. The time indi cated by th Match corresjonds to the time they would meet the squall. The gale that night is a known fact. The tes timony of the Match conlinnsthe theory of the disaster generally accepted by the peo ple, which is, discarding all far-fetched and fine-spun theories, that the balloon and its passengers M ere swept into the lake before the fury of the blast." Resolutions Adopted by the Greenback ational Convention. The following is the platform adop'ed by the recent National Greenback Mass Cou enti6n, in session at Detroit: Bt'olrtd, 1. That the pi-ople owe to the Govern ment at all timc and in nil emerenrieK a loan of money adequate to it in-i l, at a rale of interost so low as to le the len.-t posi-ible Imrtlen, and to offer the least possible compensation to private enterprise. 2. The Government oww to the people on abso lutely safe and uniform currency, adapted to their varvins? needs, in amount and of value not mate rially different from that of other civilized nations. 8. That the providing of a currency for 1 tie peo ple is an attribute of sovereignty, and we demand that the Government of the United Slute- r-liall per form this duty in snch manner as to funiUhthc public an amount of currency adequate to the busi ness reiitiisetuetits of the country and iinleiH iiilent of the action of banks or other private corpora tions. 4. That wc are neither repudiiitionists nor inlla-tionii-ts, but the friends of a safe, sound and reli able currency; that we propose to redeem the irreenback rirrillation of the United Slates at the 'pleasure of the holders thereof, in bonds of the United SUites bearing a low rue of interest, con vertible at the pleasure of the holders into green backs, thus redeeming the origiual promise of the Government when it tirt issued greenbacks, to fin d them wheu desired into interest-paying bonds. 5. That we ore in favor of the isne of United States certificates or bonds bearing interest not to exceed 3.6" per cent, per nullum, to an amount equal to the whole Government debt, said bonds or certificates being changeable and interchangea ble with greenbacks at par on demand. 6. That the legal money of the country should be endowed with the power to pay all debts, public and private, except that ortion of the bonded in debtedness secitically made payable in coin. 7. That as the enactment of the last Congress providing for a resumption of specie payments in 187! is impracticable and impossible of execution, and disastrous in its effects upon the business of the country, we demand its immediate aud uncon ditional reeal. 8. That the plan of Government currency pro posed by this convention would, in our opinion, tend to render our Government aud people inde pendent financially of foreign influences or com plications and not subject hereafter, as heretofore, to the disturbing control or influence of foreign onutries. "J. That we recommend the organization of Greenback Clubs in every State of the Union for the purpOM of carrying out the principles and measures set forth in the foregoing resolutions. The receipts of butter in Chicago since Jan. 1,175, may be stated at 10,$50,000 pounds, against 11,025,000 pounds during the same period last year a decrease of 3,075,000 pounds. This does not include the arrivals by express, which aggregate about 20,000 pounds daily. The ship ments since Jan. 1, 1875, aggregate about !),000,000 pounds, against 7,750,000 during the same period last year an increase oi 1.250,000 pounds. Since April 1, 1S75, the receipts aggregate about 0,300.000 pounds, against",y50,000 pounds for the same time 1871 a decrease of 2,50,O0O pounds. The shipments of butter since I : 1 , . . O 7- I U U) n.Miiwtc acrainst 2.850.000 pounds for the corre sponding period last year an increase of 925.000 " pounds. The above statistics show a falling off in receipts and a mate rial reduction in the supply on hand. The decrease in supply is OM ing mainly to the increased manufacture of cheese, the Cali fornia demand and backMard spring. Chicago Times. TnE way they boil rice in India is as follow: "into a saucepan of two ouarts ot M ater, when boiling, throw a tablespoon- iui ol salt; tnen put in one pint rice, nrorirtiiclw -r.H Wttshpd in fn1t"l M'atr Let it boil twenty minutes, throw out in a colander drain, and put back in the sauce pan, which should Btand near the re for several minutes. UONOIi TO OUJl UOA'AMAW. Whom shall wceall our heroes? To whom our praises sing? The piuujHTvd child of fortune, The titled lord or king?. They live by ollier.-s' labor Take all and nothing give; The noblest type of manhood Are thoi-v ho work to live. Then tumor to our workmen, )ttr hardy sons of toil The heroes of the workshop And uioiiarehs of this boil. Who spans the earth with iron And rears the palace dome.? Who creates for Hie rich man The comrorta of a liomu? It is the patient toiler! All honor to him then; The true wealth of the nation Is in her working men. For many barren ages Earth hid her treasure deep. And all bcr giant forces Seemed bound as in a sleep; Then Labor's "anvil chorus" Hrokc on the startled air. Ami lo! the earth in rapture Laid all her riches bare. 'Tis toil that over nature Gives man'liis proud control, And purities and hallows The temple of bis soul. 11 scatters foul diseases. With all the ghastly trains; Put iron in the muscle. And crvstaf in the brain. The Grand, Almighty Ihtililer, Who fashioned out the earlli, Hath stamped His seal of honor On Labor from bcr birth. In every angel llower That blossoms from the sod, Behold the master touches The handiwork of God! Then honor to our workmen, The hardy sons of toil The heroes of the workshop And uionarchs of the soil! SHOOTING-STARS. Tiikise ate probably few persons in the world M ho have not, during their life-time, witnessed the common phenomenon ol a shooting-star." On every bright night numerous bright points of light may be seen to dart quickly across the sky, as though the stars themselves were really shooting from their positions in our firmament. Many of them, if of large si.e, oiten break into fragments lelore they disappear from vicM', and leave taint trains along a portion of their paths for several seconds, while others are so very small that the observer can hardly per ceive them. 15y a single person from seven to ten of these bodies arc observed per hour on an average. Hut moreapiear sometimes than at others, and in certain seasons ol the year they are so numerous, uid follow each other m such rapul suc cession, that the occurrence of a "star shower" is produced. Until near the close of the last century poets dreamed and other men guessed alsntt these remarka ble oniccts, but they knew nothing M liat- ever concerning their true origin. Finally two voting German astronomers ascer tained the fact, and informed the world that those bright points of light Mhich traversed the sky on every clear evening Mere the upper parts of our atmosphere. It is now knoMii that these luminous ob jects are first seen when not less than forty or more than ninety miles irom the earin. "He also know that any shooting- star was a boly of small and unknown size, perhaps not larger than a pebble or grain of coarse sand, even,, undoubtedly solid, M hich has been traveling around the sun in its own independent orbit, like any planet or comet." When one ol" these bodies conies within 1,0(XJ miles of the earth's center it will enter into our atmos phere, and its velocity is then so great fifty or a hundred times that of a cannon ball that even in our rare upper atmos phere an intense light and heat is devel- )ped by the resistance, and the ImmIv' is scattered in poM'dcr or snKrfte. A shoot- uig-star is nevei seen until it enters the earth's atmosphere. The rapid velocity Mhich it had acouned in space is then suddenly arrested and converted into heat by friction, Mlien it begins to glow Willi a faint light, hardly perceptible. If. is only when these objects have reached our at mosphere and are heated to a state of in candescence, or red-hot," that we can perceive them. Previous to this they wcr dark and invisible, nut alter moving rapidly through ine carina ainiospnere they are ignited and, in most cases, entire ly consumed. .Many oi ihcm are so taign that they fall to the ground ln-fore heat can turn their substance into vapor, and are then called aerolites. Several of these have been found and seen to fall on va rious portions of the earth, and in Yale College there is a massive piece of me teoric stone m hich M eighs 2,000 pounds. It miis ascertained by astronomers long since that about five times each year shoot ing-stars could be seen in such unusual numbers and followed each other so rapid ly as to fall almost like hail from the sky. The dates of these dillerent periods were also determined, and among the most conspicuous is that knoM n as the " August epoch," first distinctly announced by I'rot. J homas roster, t l Jjoikhui, in me year !,:, Mitten occurs annually on tu aliout the loth ol tins moniii. ii uus time a remarkable display of shooting- stars is irciicrally perceptible, and the number then seen is live limes the aver age; of the year. Another important shower occurs between the 10th and 1 lib of November, but this one is periodical, and appears most conspicuous every thirty three vears. If one observes the heavens carefully during these two periods large numbers ot shooting-slars can be per ceived, and Oft shalt thou sec, ere brooding storms arise, Star after btar glide headlong down the skies. And, where they sht, long trails of linger ing light Sweep far behind and gild the shades ol niguu There are several instances on record of shooting-stars falling in "showers," when every star in ine nrmaiucni st ems hmisciicu Irom Us sphere and moving in lawless llight from one end of the heavens to the others. The earliest phenomenon of this kind occurred in November of the year 172, when "the sky apx-arcd to be on fire with the corruscations of the Hying mete ors." Hut the most sublime phenomenon of shooting-stars on record Mas witnessed throughout the United States on the morn- inir of Nov. l:;. IW. Frof. Olmsted gives the foiloM ing graphic and eloquent de scription of tins remarkable occurrence: "The first appearance Mas that of fire Morks of the most imposing grandeur, covering the entire vault of heaven M ith mvnadi ot fire-balls resembling skv- rockets. Their corruscations M ere bright. irleaminir and incessant, and they fell thick jLs'thK Hakes in nhe early snows of December. To the splendors of thiscelcs- tial exhibition the most brilliant skv rockets and fireworks of art liear less re lation than the twinkling of the most tiny star to the broad glare of the sun." This remarkable shower of meteors produced feelings of terror in the minds of all persons who M itnessed the phenomenon, and it Mas believed by many that the day of judgment had come A gentleman in South Carolina thus de scribes the eliect Mhich this shOMer pro duced upon his ignorant slaves: " I Mas suddenly awakened bv the most distress- in? cries that ever fell on mv ears. Shrieks of horror and cries for mercy I could hear from most of the negroes ot three pianta tions. amounting in all to about six or eiTht hundred. While earnestly listening for the cause I heard a faint voice near the door calling ray name. I arose and, tak incr mv sword, stood at the dror. At this moment I heard the same voice still be seeching me to rise, and saying: 'O! my God, the M-orld is on fire.' I then opened the door, and it is difficult to say M hich excited me most the uw fulness of th scene or the distressed cries of the negroes; upward of 100 lay prostrate on the ground, some speechless, and some with the bitterest cries, but most with their hands raised, imploring God to save the world and them. 1 he scene Mas tritlv awful, for never diil the rain fall much thicker than the meteors fell toward tht earth." The theory is now generally accepted by astronomers that shooting stars an; frag mentary masses, revolving, like planets. around the sun as a center, m hich, in their course, approach the earth and, drawn by its attraction into our atmosphere, are ig nited by the heat generated through the resistance offered by the compressed air. These ImmIics have been found to move in long, elliptical paths, similar to those of the cometrf, instead of round ones, like those of the planets; and it is also known that some of them tire grouped in long. thin streams, many hundreds of millions of miles long, and that meteoric showers are produced by otircarth passing through them at various times. About the 10th ol August and the 1 Ith of NovciiiImt each year the earth plunges into a mete oric stream and causes the showers of shooting-stars which have al ready been alluded to. The August meteors appear to radiate from the constellation Persaus, and those of the November group have their radiant ioint in the constellation Leo. This is owing to the fact that our earth, at thesy times in the year, is moving exactly toward the regions ol the sky Irom which the shooting-stars seem to dart in every concciva- tlirection. A shooting-star coming to- Miird the observer apears only asa bright. stationary point in the sky. This point is called the radiant, and is a marked one in every star-shower. Other meteors to the right and left of this one are also mov ing parallel in the same direction, but they appear to shoot away from that part ol the skv Mhere the radiant is seen. In other words, the tracks of t bests bodies, produced backward, will all meet in one' point of the heavens. "It will in general rise in the east and set in the west, like the sun or a star, keeping always its lixed place among the stars." l'robably the most startling ami im portant discovery respecting shooting- stars is their associat ion m ilh those won derful objects of space known as comets. though this fact m:is not dreamed of until within the past lew years. I here is now conclusive evidence that meteors are in some manner associated M ith comets, al though their connection is not yet fully understood. It has been ascertained that all the principal meteor systems follow in the train of some known comet. For ex ample, the August stream of meteors has Iteen found to be intimately connected Mith the third comet ol lMi'J, its their ele ments are nearly identical, a circumstance that could not have resulted from mere iccidcntal association. This remarkable comet, discovered by Frof. Tuttle at tht; Cambridge Observatory in July, ls2, is in all probability the origin of those fiery meteors M hich have been seen in the heav ens for ages on or about the festival of St. Lawrence. It circles around the sun in a period of 120 years, and its vast orbit is strewn throughout with little comet ary lragmcnts, Mhich at certain times enter our atmosphere ami become " shooting stars." While dealing with the wonderful phenomena of meteors and shooting-stars we are naturally led to inquire: 44 Do these bodies subserve any useful purpose in the economy ol our polar system, and for what object could they have Ikcii created?" These are surely important questions to ask, but in the present state of astronomical science they cannot oe definitely answered. 41 Some may think the meteors lly athwart the starry concave as a sort of diversion to us poor mortals driven forth into the open air these hot, sultry evenings, while others penetrate deeper into the. mystery for reasons." There is no body in the universe, however small it may be, that M-as made by the Creator in vaiu; anil these little shooting- stars, although apparently so very insig nificant, were surely intended to exercise sonic valuable influence in space, and particularly in our solar system, to Mhich they themselves belong. All arc hut parts of one stupendous whole, Whose bo J j Mature is, and God the soul. It is now generally believed by astrono mers that in the immediate vicinity of the sun there exists myriads of these. I todies, Mhich, by their constant downfall upon his surface, maintain the solar light and heat. If such is the case, shooting-stars arc of immense utility to us terrestrial dwellers, who depend uon the "great orb ol day" lor all the com Ions which we en joy. JJut. very little is Known concerning the purposes which these objects Mere in tended to subserve, and all our knowledge rests upon theory alone. Astronomy in itsonMard march will evidently develop many new ideas respecting them before the close of the present century. A. K. Martlet t, in lktrvit Fixe I' rets. FACTS AMI FIGUKLS. Tut- hmt census reports lO.fi'i.l 41 va grants" in Ireland and 15,59-1 persons of ank. Jlv the last census the total number of hildrcn of school ago () to :) in (J real iiilain Mas 5,:7 . or 2:) per cent, of the total population. Diking the last thirteen years more than li:,0(K) Chinese immigrants have anded in the United Slates. Of tltew, 10S,t)2 Mere males. During the years jy;:;'(;l and lNW;-';7 no Chinese females ime to the country, and only one in 1 ((;.--';(;. Dtkinc the season ending Aug. 1, 175, 11:),!)70 barrels, or :!l ,000,000, menhaden h Mere taken on the Connecticut shore. from Mhich :5,lO0 tons guano and Si:J,0U0 llloni of oil were made. The iruano brings from ten to twelve dollars per ton and the oil from thirty-four to thirty-eight cents a gallon. The Connecticut shore furnishes about one-lilth ol ine supply from the New England and Long Island districts. The returns of the Central Statistical Bureau of St. Petersburg publish the fact that, although the supply is decreasing, Russia maintains a larger stoc k of horses than any other country in Europe. It has almost three times as many in proportion to its population as either Kngland, Prus sia, France or Austria. The number ot these useful quadrupeds owned in its do minions is upward of 20,000,000, or 27 to every 100 inhabitants. Siberia has the best supply, there leing in this district a horse to almost every man of the popula tion. Poland, Finland and Caucasia pos sess but few, while in the south and south western governments oxen take the place of horses almost altogether for agricultural purposes. Vehy few churches in America have a seating capacity of over 1,500. The fol lowing shows the size of some of the largest churches in Europe: St. Peter's Church at Rome M ill hold 51,000 in-rsons; Milan Cathedral, 37.000; St. Paul's at Home, o2,000; St. Paul's at London, !., (i00; St. Pctronio at Bologna, 21,100 ; Flor ence Cathedral, 21,:X; Antwerp Cathe dral, 21,000 ; St. Sophia's, Constantinople, 23 000; St. John Lateran, 22,000; Notre Dame at Paris, 21,000; Pisa Cathedral, 13,000; St. Stephen's at Vienna, 12,400; St. Dominic's at Bologna, 12,000; St. Pe ter's at Bologna, 11.400; Cathedral of Vi enna, 11,000; St. Mark's, Venice, 7,000 ; Spurgeon's Tabernacle, 7,000; Dr. Hall's church, Fifth avenue, New York, seats 2.000. An American is 44 dickering' Egyptians to buy the pyramids. with the SENSE AMI AONSK.VSE. Fa ii k w kll Peh Kim m a M'Kh. G o m I d i ii ners. Heoilak Branch Establishment. Trees. CnxsiiKH Ai:t.Y Pulled Down. Thcly that Mas caught up a neighbor's apple, tree. The genuine-and no-mi dake Colorado xlato-bug has reached Massachusetts on his eastward raid. Tun key's troubles grow daily greater; and, to crown nil, Austria stands ready w ith a carving knife. Come, Old Prob. what arc you there for? Can't you give us your theory on the late protracted rains? They are complaining of the excessive heat in the Eastern States. The West docs not grumble on that score. A Wisconsin fainter has named his pair of refractory mules " Facts," because 44 they are stubltorti things." HomiiNSTOWN, Me., 1 toasts that It is so healthy that within a lew years it has acU ually starved out four doctors. 44 Voir look as fine as a hired girl!" is the compliment a Hudson (N. V.) miss of tender years paid her mother the other day. It has been ascertained by the an thropologists that, as a rule, women nowa days licconie gray earlier than men. Why is it? Sweden won't take our potatoes, eh? Well, we never did think much of Sweden's judgment, anyhow. -V. Y. C'utn iiu rr inl Aitvcrtimr. 44 A MouitNfNU concourse of men, wom en and children, horses and vehicles, fol lowed her to her last resting place," says a Southern exchange. Hei-outs from all the large cities still show a serious mortality- among infants. Th prevailing disease is cholera in fantum, M hich is on the increase. A Mississippi Judge couldn't convince a-lawyer that a certain decision M as con stitutional until after he had knot ked him down. Some people are just that obtuse. PitoK. SilALEU. of the Geological Nchool at Cumberland Gap, Ky., has received some remarkable specimens of litho graphic stones discovered in KowanLotin ty, Ky. The Pittsburgh newspaper reporters Mire beaten at base-ball by lawyers re cently. It has always been apparent that the Pittsburgh paitcrs had a very poor lot of reporters. The miners arc alwavs saving smart things, and one of them has jit said this: Tso young lady M ho values her happi ness will marry a m idowcr until at least his first M ife is dead." Local law at Long Branch, N. J., must be ludicrous, indeed, m hen a prisoner de clines to pay his line, blackguards the Judge, defies the olhccrs, ami finally clears out of the court-rttoiii at pleasure. TiiKitE is one. town in New England that claims to Ikt entirely happy and gtod. It is Eaton, it'. icw Hampshire. I here is not a physician, ditctor, lawyer, drink ing saloon nor pauper in the place. When n person feels disposed lo over estimate his own imjMiitance let him re- member that mankind got along very well Ik-lore his birth, ami that in all probabil ity they Mill get along very mcII after his death. A coitKEsro.NDENT m ants to know why the little pest now threatening the New Brunswick grain crop is called the army" worm? We suppose on account of its in variable readiness to 44 take the field." JV. Y Adccrliifcr. Heiie's a big thing of its kind: A lob ster Mas recently caught off the .Maine coast Mhich weighed nineteen pounds and measured three feet fise inches in length, the claws being eighteen inches long and eight inches across. The English colliers think bathing tends to weaken the system. At h rece nt meeting to discuss the question of provid ing public baths on! of th i.s class mad)', the statement that Id- had heard of a collier who had nt washed for forty years and lxtasled of the fact. ; Postmaster Bi iit, of Boston, has wiili drawn his objections lo the postal cards criticising his management Mhich wens sent out by a Bosbtn publishing -house, but tells the firm that the cards were 41 all mixed up" by the clerks and they must send new ones at their own expense. He hail a very promising Istil between the shoulder-blades, and his Mile, who M-as young and Itcaiitifu! and could play on the harp, but hadn't nursed much in the hospitals, put a mustard-plaster on it. A lawyer subsequently explained to him that they didn't grant divorces for such causes in this State. Theke are at present 2,000 men and (J00 horses and carts engaged on the construc tion of the Southern Pacific Kailroad in the Telegraphic Pass. The work to Ik; done is of the heaviest description of grading and rock cutting. In one place in J Id; pass the road Minds around among the mountains for seven miles, whilst actually making a direct distance of but lilile over one mile. A LITTLE liy Mas sad, bilking of the. death of his lather. The minister said : 4 'beer up, my Isiy, your lather M as a gitod man; you should remember him al ways, and strive to be like him. What was bis la-t word?" 41 Nothing, sir, nothing. You should k now t bat w In n he had strength father M as talking w it h my stepmother, ami he wasinitallowed to have the last word." How kind and accommodating those learned men of sx iem e are, to tell us all altout things wo don't understand and make Ihcm plain! Here comes the great German chemist, Prof. Kolbc, forevainple, and assures us that In: has actually r tained that 44 while sodium salicylate 3 iclds on dry distillation sodium smI'io salicylate, jKitassum salicylate similarly trcab.-d yields potassu 111 panu txy bcn. tate." A witiTEK on the Portuguese says: Tho punctiliousness and formality of their stcial converse exceeds even those of the Castilians. In Spain a man may sat) ly use the title Utl (your moi ship) in ad dressing every class ami rank short of roy alty itself. Not so in Portugal. He show s his ignorance and makes himself simply ridiculous if he failstodistinguish tit least six dillerent classes, m ith their different forms of address. A little beggar-boy ho M ill speak V) impatiently or charitably, as the case may Ite, but always in the second person singular ' Vai tecmltora" (Go th v way), or " Pcga n isto" (Take this). If the same boy has grown to years of dis cretion more ceremony must be employed in bestowing or refusing alms: "Nao podc ser" (It cannot be), " Va com deus" (Pray go oil) in the third person lie it observed. A workingman takes rank Mith our magistrates at. home, and is literally. 44 his wor-hip." A tradesman is "The lord" (Otenlur) or 44 Your lordship." The somewhat novel theory has re centlybeen advanced by M. Meunicr that the planet Mars is much older than the earth, because of the rarification of its at mospheres and the small extent of its seas. The form of the latter, according to M. Meunicr, is exactly that M hich the terres trial oceans would assume after partial ab sorption bv the earth's crust. It, for exam ple, the Atlantic Ocean w ere absorbed so that only that portion included in the con tour made by the uniform depth of l-'.O" feet were lett the shape would be in all respects similar b that of some of the stas recognized in Mars. M. Meunier's theory will hardly be accented, we think, in agro nomical circles. Jv". Y. Sun. 1 Always in love the letttrv.