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AT
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA.
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PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER !?, 1875.
VOLUME XI.
NUMBEIi 25.
THE HERALD.
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in advance.
Kitra ropi-t of the IIcitAi.n for mle ty It. .1.
Strcirht, at the Penmtflre-, and O. F. Jutjiieon, cor
ner of Main and h'ifth alrvuta.
HERY BCECK,
DEALER IX
U'mrnituLie,
SAFES. CHAIRS,
Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads,
nv., arc, etc..
Of All Descriptions.
METALLIC BURIAL CASES.
w p, '
Wooden Coffins
Of all iizc, ready-made, and told cheap far eaafc.
With many thanka for pait palr.naf e, I invite
!l to call and examiii. my
LA RGB STOCK OF
Fiuiiituro ncl Collins.
nvs
MEDICINES
AT
J. H. BUTTERY'S,
On Main Gtreet, bet. Fifth and Sixth.
Wholesale m..l K.-tail Df nle-r in
Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils,
Va.rnish.eK. Patent Medicines,
Toilet Articles, etc., etc.
tTTTIKSCKUTIOXS carefully compounded at
all hour. lay nl night. 35-ly
Feed, Sale and Livery
Main Street, Plattsmouth, Neb.
I am preparrd to accnmntni! at the p'lhlicwith
Carriages, Buggies, Wagons,
AND
A Ho. f Hearse.
On Short Notice and Reasonable Tarmi.
A. HACK
Will Run to the Steamboat Land
ing, Depot, and all parts of
the City, when Desired.
jii!-:f
First national Bank
Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska,
i;ccfsor TO
Tootle, I Iiiim.'i Clnrlt.
1'ini Vtrr.'tr.KKi.n
K. l'"VKY
A. V. M- I.1'.1I!.1N
JollN U'KlH'UKK
President.
....Vice-President.
Cashier.
.AtsiRtant Cashier.
This I5n.nk i now op"Ti for bnitie at thi-ir new
nwim. corner Msin and Sixth urecti", aud are pre
p;ired to trantacl a gcuiTul
BANKING BUSINESS.
Stocks, Bor-ds, Gold, Government
and Local Securities
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
Deposits Received and Interest Al
lowed on Time Certificates.
DRAFTS DRAWN,
Available- in anv p:irt of the United State ar.d in
alJ tho Vrincipal Town ami Cities of Europe.
Call and See Boone, Gents,
And get a hoon In a
CUE .A. UNT J3
n41-ly
AGENTS FOR THE
CELEBRATED
IHMAH LINE lli ALLAN LIKE
Persons wishing to hrlng out their frienda from
Europe can
PrBCHAK TICKETS FROM T
TJwon;li to rlt turnout li.
Excelsior Barber Shop.
J. C. liOONE,
JCJain Street, opposite Sannders House.
HAIR-CUTTING,
Shaving and Shampooing.
ESPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO
Cutting Children' and Ladies'
Hair.
GO TO TUB
Tost Office Book Store,
H. J. STREIGHT, Proprietor,
FOR TOt'K
Bocks. Stationery, Pictures, Music,
TOYS, CONFECTIONERY.
Violin Strings,
Newspapers, Norels,
Song Books, etc., etc
FOST OFFICE BUILDIG,
O. F. JOHNSON,
DEALER UX
Drugs, Medicines,
' -a- fit t,J- -3
WALLPAPER.
AHPaper TrimmeiFree of Clarne
ALSO. DEALER IN
Books, Stationery
BIAGAZINES
AND LATEST PUBLICATIONS.
i.v PrescriptJona carefully compounded hj an
experienced Drnggiat.afl
REMEMBER THE PLACE
Cor. Fifth and Main Streets,
PLA.TTSMOTJTII, NEB.
THOS. W. SHRYOCK,
SEALER Ilf
Main St., bet. 5th and 6th,
PLATTSMOUTH, - 1ST E 33.
ALSO
UNDERTAKER,
And aia on hand a larg. stock of
INIetallio Burial Cases,
Wooden Coffins. Etc.,
Of all sizes, cheap for cash.
Funerals Attended on Short Notice
II. A. WITERSUX & SON,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
PINE LUMBER,
Lath, Shingles.
SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, ETC.,
On Main St., cor. Fifth,
PLATTSMOUTH, - - - NEB.
FOR YOUR GROCERIES
J. V. Weckbach,
Cor. Third and Main Sts., Plattsmoath.
(Gnthmann's old stand.)
E keeps on hand a lare. and well-eelected stock
f
FANCY GROCERIES,
Coffees, Teas, Sugar, Sirup, Boots,
Shoes. Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc.
Also, a largs stack of
Dry Goods; Boots and Shoes,
Crockery, Queensware,
Btc, Etc., Etc
Ta connection with th Grocery is a
! BAKERY and CONFECTIONERY.
Highest Prlrs Paid for Country Prodnre.
A fall stock at all times, and will not he undersold.
Tak. notlct ef the Sign:
"EMPIRE BAKERY AND GROCERY."
nljl
WILLIAM STADELMANN
Has on hand ons ef ths largest stocks of
CLOTHING
AND
Gents' Furnishing Goods
FOR SfRINO AND SUMMER.
I inrit. sveryhody in want of anything In my
line to call at m; store.
South Side Main, bet. 5th & b'th Sts.,
And convince themelves of the fact I have as a
specialty in my Retail Pepartuenis a stock of
Fine Clothing for Men anil Buy., te which we in
vite those wbe want 'ooils.
I also keep on band a large and well-selected
Stock ef
Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Etc.
larlyl
PHILADELPHIA STORE
SOLOMON & XATIIAX,
BEALXRS I!f
Fancy Dry Goods,
Notions, Laiies' FurnisMng Goods.
Larcest, Cheapest, Finest and Best Assorted Stock
in the city.
We are prepared sell cheaper than they can
be purchased elsewhere.
GIVE TTS -A- OALL
And examine oar Goods.
3Store on Main St, oetween 4th and 5th Sts.,
Plattsmeatk, Neb. ltf
PLITTSMOlTir MILLS,
PLATTSMOUTH NEBRASKA.
Cos bad Hbisel, Proprietor.
FLOUR, CORN MEAL. FEED.
Always as hand asd for tale at lowest cash prices.
The Highest Prices p:d for Wheat aad Cora.
Partkalar atteiiUoo xlvea t 010K work,
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Bryaxt, the Democratic candidate, is
elected Mayor of San Francisco, by a
small majority.
The Chicago and Cincinnati Industrial
Expositions were opened on the 8th, to
continue one month.
Finxis II. Little has been nominated
for Con.sresa by the Republicans of the
Third Mississippi District.
President Grant has appointed Virgil
D. Stockbridge, of Maine, Examiner-in-
Chicf of the Patent Office.
The American Cardinal McCIoskey ar
rived at Rome on the 7th and met with a
cordial reception by the Pope.
At the election in New Jersey on the
7th all the State constitutional amend
ments were adopted except the clause re
pealing the " Five-County act."
A max by the name of John C. Jones,
of New York city, recently committed
suicide by jumping into the rapids and
going over the American falls at Niagara.
The Governor-elect of California, Wm.
Irwin, is a native of Butler County, Ohio,
but has been a resident of California since
18 )2, and has been prominent in the poli
tics of the State since 1861.
The Democratic-Reformers of Wiscon
sin have renominated the present State
officers by acclamation and adopted a
platform indorsing the reform resolutions
adopted in 1873, including the declaration
in favor of a sound currency in coin or
its equivalent.
Mrs. James Shambaen, of Fond du Lac,
Wis., attempted the other .day to light a
fire by the aid of kerosene and was burned
to death. Mrs. C. II. Young, of Kansas
City, Mo., was also fatally burned a few
nights ago by the explosion of a lighted
kerosene lamp which she was carrying
from one room to another.
Ix the case of a colored man in Brook
lyn, N. Y., who applied for a mandamus
to compel the Board of Education to ad
roit his son to a school set apart for white
children, Judge Gilbert, while reserving
his decision, said on the 7th that the sys
tem of common-school education was estab
lished for the public and all persons had
access to it. The Board of Education had
no power to exclude any.
A young man named William Dagle,
engaged with a circus as an aeronaut, and
styling himself Prof. Ariel, recently made
an ascension in a hot-air balloon at Jac kson,
Mich. After reaching an altitude of alnut
1,000 feet the balloon rapidly descended.
When within fifteen or twenty feet of the
ground the professor, anticipating that
the basket Mould strike upon the railroad
bridge at the Fort Wayne Railroad cross
ing, jumped from the basket into the
river and started to swim ashore, but sank
to the bottom and was drowned.
The Farmers' and Mechanics' Confer
ence, recently in session in Cincinnati,
passed resolutions demanding the repeal
of the National Banking law and the
issue of paper money directly by the Gen
eral Government, to be made a legal
tender for all debts, public and private,
including duties on imports, and to be in
terchangeable for registered interest
bonds. Anti-monopoly resolutions, and
one favoring the limiting of the President
of the United States to one term of office,
were also adopted.
A kecent Washington special telegram
states that the Secret Service authorities
in that city had information that a com
pany of Italians had gone West with a
large amount of the counterfeit $ 10 bills
of the First National Bank of Philadel
phia. These counterfeits are said to be ex
ceedingly dangerous, the face side being
a perfect imitation of the genuine notes,
but they have a few defects on the back.
One of them was recentl received at the
Treasury cash-room and exchanged by the
experts for small money.
The recent Pennsylvania Democratic
State Convention adopted resolutions on
the currency question similar to those in
the Ohio Democratic platform. They de
mand that the policy of contraction be
abandoned and that the volume of money
be made and kept equal to the wants of
trade; favor the extinction of the National
Banks and the retirement of their circula
tion, to be replaced by full legal-tender is
sues by the Government, and the estab
lishment of a system of free banks of dis
count and deposit under State regulation.
Judge Cyrus L. Pershing, of Cambria
Count', was nominated for Governor on
the eleventh ballot, and his nomination
was made unanimous.
The ticket nominated by the recent lie
publican State Convention of New York
is as follows : For Secretary of Slate, F.
W. Seward; Comptroller, F. E. Spinner;
Treasurer, Gen. E. A. Merritt; Attorney
General, Geo. L. Danford; State Engineer,
O. II. P. Cornell ; Canal Commissioner,
Wm. E. Tinsley ; S'.ate Prison Inspector,
Rev. Benoni T. Ives. The platform adopt
ed declares against further currency infla
tion and in favor of the speediest possible
return to specie payments; recognizes as
conclusive President Grant's declaration
tLat he is not a candidate for renomina
tion, and declares opposition to the elec
tion of any President for a third term; in
dorses the Administration of President
Grant, etc.
Two St. Locis editors, Col. E. S. Foster
of the Jiuriutl, and Maj. J. N. Edwards
of the Times, fought a duel near Rockford
111., on the 4th. The difficulty grew out
of a newspaper quarrel over the Jeff. Dav
affair in connection with the Winuebajru
County Agricultural Society, in the course
of which ioster called Edwards a con
teinptible liar. The latter was the
challenger. By the agreement each
party was entitled to one shot,
ami were not to have a secoud
one unlesjoth parties demanded it The
distance selected was twenty paces. The
firing was biniultaneous, both shooting
over. 3Iaj. Edwards demanded a second
tire, but Col. Foster decided he had ren
dered the satisfaction required aud de-
! clintd to join in the demand for a bec
G-d ire. Thii dL-ci&ioa kittled. Any fu
ther difficulty tlic parties ad tbtlr
friends le! f'.i r.t-Ul ami rettirred to St.
T . - -
Lotiis.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
CONDENSES TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
A Beklix dispatch of the 4lh says the
Sclavcnic papers had announced that the
leaders of the insurrection had agreed
upon a manifesto demanding the inde
pendence of Bosnia and Herzegovina un
der a Christian Prince, to be chosen from
one of the European dynasties. Servia
had undertaken to restrain her subjects
from participating in the affairs of the in
surgents. Sexer Pasha, in a telegraphic
dispatch dated at Mortar on the same day,
says that the trouble was nearly allayed,
and that the imperial troops had been
able to traverse the country without re
sistance. On the 5th an insurrectionary
movement was reported in the neighbor
hood of Gradatschatz, in Bosnia. Sexer
Pasha had been authorized to propose a
limited form of autonomy for Ilerzego.
vina.
The alleged negro insurrectionists in
Georgia were all discharged on the 4th by
recommendation of the Grand Jury of
Washington County, who also commended
the Judge and counsel for the faithful per
formance of their duty.
Mr. Mills, former President of the
Bank of California, is said to be authority
for the statement that the late President
Ralston was a defaulter to the bank in the
sum of between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000.
It is also alleged that Mr. Ralston raised
money upon an over-issue of bank stock,
which money he used for his own personal
schemes.
A Shanghai dispatch of the Cth says
the difficulty between England and China
had been adjusted on terms satisfactory to
both Governments.
Recent Madrid telegrams announce
that numbers of Carlists in all parts of
Catalonia, Navarre and the Biscayan
provinces have given in their submissions
to the Government of King Alphonso and
asked for amnesty.
At the Westervelt trial in Philadelphia,
on the 6tjj, a number of letters written to
Mr. Ross offering to return Charlie to his
parents for a reward were identified as be
ing in the handwriting of William
Mosher, the deceased burglar. In an in
terview with a reporter of the Philadelphia
Times Mrs. Mosher is said to have reas
serted that her husband made confession
to her of the abduction of the Ross child.
She said she did not know where the child
was, but that he must be living. Mie did
not think Westervelt had anything to do
with the alnluction.
The Alabama Constitutional Conven
tion met at Montgomery on the fith.
Gen. L. P. Walker was chosen President
by acclamation, Republicans and Demo
crats all voting for him.
A Sax Francisco dispatch to the New
York Herald of the Cth states that Mr.
Ralston's private property, assigned to
Mr. Sharon, would exceed his liabilities
by about $2,000,000, and that the indebt
edness charged against Mr. Ralston was
not personal, but had grown out of aid
which the bank had openly given in the
way of loans to industries throughout the
State. This statement is contradicted by
a later dispatch.
According to a London telegram of the
7th, lo.OOO animals in Dorsetshire were
suffering from the foot and mouth dis
ease. A St. Petersburg dispatch of the 7th
says :0,000 Khokand rebels had been de
feated by Gen. Kaufman.
An Indian outbreak has occurred in
Eastern Nevada and Western Utah. A
San Francisco telegram of the 7th says a
number of settlers and miners had been
killed, and women and c hildren were be
ing removed to places of safety. Troops
and volunteers were going to the scene of
the troubles.
The Central Illinois Fair opened in
Jacksonville on the 7th, with a fine dis
play of horses, cattle and other live stork.
The Wisconsin State Fair was formally
opened at Milwaukee on the 7th, under
very favorable auspices.
Gov. BeveridgeIius addressed a note to
the State's Attorney at Rockford, 111.,
concerning the recent duel in Winnebago
County, and expressing the hope that
prompt measures will be taken to vindi
cate the law.
In the North Carolina Constitutional
Convention, on the 7th, Dr. Edward Ran
som, Democratic nominee, was chosen
President on the fourteenth ballot.
Stephen B. Elk ins (Rep.) has been re
elected Delegate to Congress from the
Territory of New Mexico.
The American Pomological Society met
in Chicago on the 8th. Marshall P.
Wilder, of Massachusetts, was re-elected
President, and W. C. Flngg, of Illinois,
Secretary.
Ax explosion occurred in the celluloid
factory at Newark, N. J., on the 8th, set
ting the building on fire and destroying it.
Of thirty men in the building at the time
some escaped uninjured, but several were
either killed outright or fatally injured.
A Mrs. Peer, of. Brooklyn, N. Y., testi
fied in the Westervelt trial on the bth that
on July 6, 1S74, she saw in a street-car in
Brooklyn a man whom she now recog.
nizes as Westervelt, accompanied by a
little boy about four years old, who
seemed to be afraid of him, and whose
features she recognizes in likenesses of
Charlie Ross.
Detailed accounts of the recent riotous
proceedings near Clinton, Miss., is given
in a Memphis dispatch of the 7th, accord
ing to which about 3,000 people had as
sembled in attendance upon a mass Re
publican convention and barbecue. By
agreement a joint political discussion was
engaged in by Republican and Democrat
ic speakers. During the proceedings a
disturbance occurred on the outskirts of
the crowd, and a general melee ensued ;
firearms were freely used over 5X) shots
being fired in about fifteeu minutes aud
three white and four colored men were
wounded. The dispatch says the
uegroes were mostly " unarmed aud
the difficulty was wholl- unsought by
them, they fighting only in self-defense.
By five o'clock not a colored man was
seen on the grounds. Armed white men
from Clinton and neighboring towns took
possession of the locality, and on the
morning of the oth a general slaughter of
negroes was begun ia different parti of
tho couzty, fifty fceisg iilled ecd 1-irge
numbers fleeing to the woods aad swarap
tur protection. Many binds of ani
wn.tie U'Hii Mppt rvprt-d to be concre-j
gating on the 7th, and on the 8th Gov
Ames made formal application for aid
from the national authorities at Washing
ton.
The steamer Martin Weiner, from
Shields, England, for Hamburg, has been
lost with all on board.
Heavy rain-storms occurred in many
sections of the West on the Oth, causing
considerable damage by floods in some
localities. Three accidents occurred on
the Wisconsin Division of the Northwest
ern Railroad, caused by washouts. At
Lawrence a bridge was washed away and
a passenger train plunged into the stream
at that place and completely wrecked, the
engineer, baggageman, newsboy and one
passenger being killed and several others
injured. Two accidents occurred to freight
trains, causing loss of life.
A mass meeting of the friends of the
late W. C. Ralston was held in San Fran
cisco on the night of the 8th, and was
largely attended. Resolutions were
adopted laudator' of the character of
the deceased, and denouncing the Keening
Bulletin and Homing Call for their alleged
brutal and unjustifiable attacks upon his
private character.
A special dispatch from Vicksbunr,
Miss., on the Oth reported all quiet in
Warren, Yazoo and Hinds Counties,
where disturbances had occurred. A
Washington telegram of the same date
says the President had instructed the
Adjutant-General of the army to direct the
commanding General of the Department
of the South to furnish assistance to the
Governor of Mississippi, to enable him to
maintain order and preserve life, in case
such assistance was necessary.
THE MARKETS.
September 11, 1875.
NEW YORK.
Live Stock. Beef Cattle $11.3013.00. rjoSs
Live, $8.253.50. sheep $.50&6.25.
BKEAUHTurrs. Flour Good to choice, $6.00
6.40; white wheat extra, $ti.45a"-50. Wheat No.
2 Chicago, $1.27(?U.28; No. 2 Northwenturn,
S1.27l.-J8; No. i Milwaukee spring, $1.29
I. S0. Rye Western and State. 95c&$1.0;. Bar
ley I1.85Q1.30. torn Mixed Western, 70
HV4c Oats Mixed WeHtern, 57(l5Hc.
Provihioss. Pork New Mess, $20.9021.00.
Lard Prime Sleam, Wi&c. Cheese G
BlUc.
Woor.. Domestic fleece, 43305c.
CHICAGO.
Live Stock. Beeves Choice, $ VT5 611.25 ;
good, $5.00ao.60; medium, $4.25.,.CO; butch
ers1 stock, $3.004.25; stock cattle, $i.75&3.75.
Hons Live, $7.457.60. Sheep Good to choice
t l.arS4.7S.
Provisions. Butter Choice, 2."'Wc. Egp
Fresh, 13V4Hc. Pork Mess, $30.60a2u5.
Lard $12.!t0ai29".
Breadstuffs. Flour White Winter Extra,
$5.25(3:7.50; spring extra, t5.26..25. Wheat
Spring, No. 2, 51.14(3-1.15. Corn No. 2, 58
r?58?ic. Oats No. 2, 35 V- Kye No. 2,
75(l75Wc. Barley No. 2, $1.11R1.12.
Lumber First Clear, $14 oe.4o.0O; Second
Clear, $43.00(5 4 t.OO; Common Boards, $10. 0t
II. 00; Fencing, tlO.OOffrU.GO; "A" Shingles,
t-2.50-2.90; Lath, $1.7fit-2.00.
MILWAUKEE.
Breabstuffs. Flonr Spring XX, $1.7r(fft5.0O'
Wheat-Spring, No. 1. $l.04M.Vi ; No. 2, $1.14
0.1.15. Corn No. 2, 57W-c. Oata No. 2
344(S.35c. Kye No. 1, 76&77c. Barley No. 2,
t:.uwf?.i.io.
EAST LIBERTY.
Live Stock. Beeven Best, ii.b0Q.C0; me
dium, $5.0535 50. Hogs Yorkers, t7.wa8.10;
Philadelphia, $fl.W'J.10. Sheep Best, $5.25
5.50; medium, $4.75ffJ.0.l.
The Art of Listening.
Con v aits ation is more frecpuently spoiled
and ruined by bad listening than v bad
talking. Two persons, or scvvraT, may
engage in the disc ussion of a subject with
which each is well acquainted, and each
may possess command of language and
fluency of diction, but if one of them is an
inattentive, uneasy, or impatient listener
the conversation becomes confused and
irregular, often irritating, and either of
itself breaks up altogether, or is aban
doned with a mutual or general sense of
relief on the occurrence of any interrup
tion from without. There are various
classes of such offenders, examples of each
of which may not seldom be met with in a
single large "party. The least blameable,
and the least embarrassing, but often suf
ficiently so to distrai t the best talkers,
and to hinder the progress of discourse,
are the nervous and fidgety, who, al
though perhaps desirous and intending to
give attention to the subjec t under treat
ment, are unable to Control physical rest
lessness while others are speaking. This
manifests itse lf in various ways by wan
derings of the
movements of the
limbs, arrangements of the dress, taking
up and putting ttown books and other ob
jects, and often by very Ungainly tricks
practiced by an astonishingly large num
ber of sensible, well educated and other
wise well-conducted people. . . . Th
presence of a single person of this temper
anient in an audience is notoriously suffi
cient to annoy and discompose even emi
nent public speakers, and often spoils a
speech or a sermon. It is not to be won
dered at that, in the closer communication
of social intercourse, it should prove very
frequently the stumbling-block to conver
sation. Leimxre Honrs.
the Presbvterian Church of that place, be
ing absent on Sunday, the Rev. Mr.Soper
'o Singing io That Chtircli.
At Deckertown last Sunday there was
an exhibition of the contrariness of
church choirs that was both annoying and
aimiMng. Kev. ur. nammon, pastor oi
mt plac
iv. Mr.
filled his pulpit. He was ignorant of the
fact that the choir ot the church had
quarreled among themselves the night be
fore, and that not a member was there to
sing on Sunday morning. He gave out
bis hymn selected for the opening, and
read it through. There was no musical
response no sound of praise from choir
or congregation. After a moment's em
barrassing silence a brother arose and,
walking up to the pulpit, w hispered in the
preacher's ear. The preacher nodded his
head and smiled. He thought the broth
er had said the wrong Jiymn had been
read, 6o he turned the leaves again and
gave out another. It was a long one, and
he read it through, closing with " Please
omit one stanza'
A dead silence in the congregation
again. The preacher looked uneasy, was
about to give out smother hymn, when
another brother arose and spike from the
galJcry:
" You see our choir is busted. Some
of 'cm thought the bass sung too lew, and
some of 'e'm thought the sprauny was
too high, and others thought we ought
to hev a better alto, and there wasn't many
that liked the tenor, and so the rest
got mad, and there won't be any singin'
to-clav.'
And so the services were ended without
any " singin'." JV. Y. Star
A writer ia the Jeirish Messenger
urges the establishment ot an efiective or
ganization among American Israelites as
th onlv mparts of making the Jew-jsh
Church take rank with other and show
that its creed and practice are still en
titled to the rtipect of iSiilk'Uid. this
orgacijictioa, he argute, great latitude
ought tu bfe periijitteiJ to religious opin
ions and cuGfurujity f xrti as j -tj-fial
ni.ttter. uulv, . ' " ' ""
SENSE ASD !0NSESE.
A bad side to be on Suicide.
A C-siCK. man One who has been fined
$100.
All money is hard money these times
hard to get.
" Pay Up" is what they call a silver
mine in Idaho.
There are 8,000,000 wages-earning la
borers in the United States.
The tailor is the poor man's best friend,
inasmuch as he settles the rents.
A New Haven boy would have been
killed by the kick of a horse had it not
been for stolen apples in his ockct.
" What do you take for your cold ?"
said a lady to "Mr. . " lour pocket-
handkwrchic-fs a day, madam," was the
answer.
The women of New England arc arm
ing and becoming expert shots, the laws
being ineffectual for protection from
tramps.
Thousands of peoplo in Arkansas, says
the Helena (xVrk.) World, will be out ol
debt this fall who haven't been in a similar
condition of freedom for many years.
ScnnoEDEU and his balloon are things
of the past. The money for constructing
his air-ship to travel l."0 miles an hour
against the wind was not forthcoming.
Since 1870 the numlier of sailing ves
sels lias greatly diminished, steamers at
that date having taken the seas as never
before. England, the United States and
Italy are now the first great sailing powers.
M. Rouixo, a French chemist, insists
that buttermilk will prolong life. The
lactic acid in it clears the cartilages, ar
teries, and valves of the heart of the de
tritus, corresponding to soot, found in old
persons.
Since 18G7 the heathen in California
have consumed 5,890 boxes of opium, at a
cost of $2,421, 7o.). During the years be
tween 1807 and 1870 the amount fell off
steadity, but since the latter date it has
grown to an enormous figure.
Ix Woonsocket, R. I., they have "mos
quitoes of the genuine Demcrara (West
Indies) species, striped like a zebra, with
ears the size of a mule's, and with a bill
two and a half, or two and three-quarters,
or three and a quarter inches long or
thereabouts."
A late issue of the San Francisco
Chronicle contains this item: "A man
possessed of presence of mind, crossing
Market street at the corner of Kearney, on
Saturday, induced the driver of a beer
truck to refrain from running over him
by the prompt presentation of a formidable-looking
piatol."
A Tennessee railway company has
had to pay $2.10 daniages for runningover
a bull-dog which was in the habit of rush
ing at and seizing hold of every passing
train. If it had been a boy engaged in
the same kind of practice the plea of
" contributing negligence" would have
saved the company even the lesser value
of the human animal.
A Toronto (Canada) merchant adver
tised a few clays ago for a boy to run er
rands. Besides a large number of boys,
no less than eighteen middle-aged men were
applicants for the vacant situation ; on lie
ing told that a boy was required, the men
ottered to take the job at the same wages
that would be paid to the youth.
Fkom a paper published by an Austrian
officer it appears that the British Empire
contains a larger population than the Em
pires of Russia, Austria, Italy, France and
Germany combined. The total population
of these is 2:.000.00, while that of Great
Britain is 2'.M 1,000,000. The calculation
is made in reference to the war power.
Speaking of the fast mail train the De
troit AVirasays that it "will be composed
of an engine and tender and four postal
cards, or more if the present or growing
demands of the service require it.'' Now
who hereafter will say that po.-tal cards
are insignificant things. The greater p:rl
of the correspondence of the country wil'
only require fourofthem. Chicago Times.
Bostonians are complacent over the
annual report of the Calumet and Hecla
Mining Company, which has divided
$8,100,000 among its stockholders since
Ma', 1871, on an original cost of $1,200,
000. Its present value is estimated at
$12,400,000, and the solid men of Boston
are well represented among its sharehold
ers. Copper is its product and the north
shore of Lake Superior its location.
Ix St. Louis it is proposed to payoff
the national debt at the expense of the
dogs, which are said to represent a waste
of $80,000,000 that could lie put at com
pound interest, etc. But does anybody
want to buy the dogs at any price? If,
however, Missouri has dog-goncd capital
to the extent of $SO,000,000, perhaps a
few other States will throw in their pups,
and compound interest will scarcely be
iiccessary. X.' Y. Herald.
A Nokhistown man has invented a
shell which deserves the immediate atten
tion of Secretary Kolieson. It ls.niicu
with small shells, and when it bursts
among 10,000 soldiers these smaller shells
arc scattered in all directions, and, burst
ing in turn, send out still smaller shells,
which travel around recklessly, and by the
time the miniature shells contained in the
third size exphxle the army is nearly
wiiied out, and the few men remaining
want to go home.
In Paris there is a very wealthy misan
thrope who never smokes anything but
the vilest cigars those which are sold for
a sou. The other day a friend asked the
cause of this eccentricity. "It gratifies
me in this way: I arrive at the theater in
my carriage." The prancing horses are
pulled up and I alight with dignity, at the
same time throwing away my hall-smoked
cigar." "Well, what then V " I think
how badly sold the fellow is who picks up
the stump, thinking he has hold of a fra
grant Havana!"
A good tramp story comes from Brook
field, Mass. A tramp stopped at Widow
H.'s a few clays ago and asked for fool.
She replied that she had none. Mr. Tramp
went across the road to a neighbor's- and
asked if they M ere aware the woman liv
ing on the other side was starving. He
then requested the loan of a fishing rod
lying close by, which was granted. With
it he went to a pond a short distance off,
fished for several hours, catching a good
string, returned to the Widow II. and made
her a present of them.
A merchant in Indianapolis having
long been annoyed by loafers who per
sisted in lounging on the iron railing in
front of his store recently hit upon a hap
py means of driving them away. Having
obtained a strong electric batten', he
waited until he had the railing fully oc
cupied by the champion loafers of the cily
and then he connected the circuit and
turned on the battery full force. He kept
them howling for about five minutes and
then allowed them to let go and make off.
1 hey think the devil is in that railing
now and not one of them w ill touch it.
V'e have found out what is the matter
with Tice, the St. Louis weather-prophet.
It is the neuralgia a disease which beats
any barometer ever patented for predict
ing the weather. When he feels peace
ful, and pain seems a thing most foreign,
he appears on the -jtreets and smiliDgly
remarks to the first man he meets : " Prob
abilities splendid, sir; good growing
weather fair rising barometer health
ful temperature!' When he begins to
feel a slight twitching in his fce he as
sumes a more serious look, and you may
hear him telling a friend that there is a
prospwt of a slight btorm. But when the
Eeuralgia opens up its batteries i- ear
nest ; w hea it begins to pliy on the ula
man's jaws " lor keeps :" when It geU on
Its nerve lu particular, pet nerve, a it
were then linen to Mli.it U- b to my;
" Men, people, folks and things generally
There's going to be an awfully pronounced
atmospheric perturbation before long!
There will be winds, rains, hail storms;
yea " he will say, as an extra twinge
overtakes a nerve-center "there will be
hurricanes, simoons, tornadoes, cyclones,
floods aud earthquakes!" This was the
kind of an attack he had about three
weeks ago, when he predicted some kind
of an extraordinary agitation in nature
before August went out, but which didn't
come to pass. Chicago Evening Journal.
How the Ladies Fisli.
There's generally alioutsix of them in
the bunch, with light dresses en, and they
have three poles with as many hooks and
lines among them. As soon as they get
up to Mosertown they look for a goMl
place to get down on the rafts, and the
most venturesome one sticks her boot -heels
in the bank jmd makes two careful steps
down; then she suddenly finds herself at
the bottom with both hands in the water
and a feeling that everybody in this wide
world is looking at her, and she never
tells anybody how she got there. The
other girls, profiting by her example, turn
around and go down the bank on their
hands and toes, backward.
Then they scamper over the rafts until
they find a shallow place where they can
see the fish and shout
"Oh! I see one."
"Where?"
" There."
"Oh! my, so he is."
"Let's catch him."
" Whose got them baits?"
" Somebody's got my hook."
" You lazy thing, you're setting on my
pole."
Miow me the wretch that stole my
worm."
All these exclamations are got off in a
tone that awakens every lazy echo within
a mile around and sends every fish within
three acres square in galloping hysterics.
Then the girls by superhuman exertions
get a worm m the hook and "throw in"
with a splash like the launching of a
washtub and await the result. When a
silver-fin comes along and nibbles the bait
they pull up with a jerk that, had any un
fortunate fish weighing less than fifteen
pounds been on the hook, would have
landed it in the neighborhood of the new
church on College Hill. After a while a
feeble-minded sunfish contrives to get fas
tened on the hook of a timid fisherwoman
and she gives tongue:
" Oh ! somcthin's got my hook !"
"Pull up, you little idgzut!" shout five
excited voices as poles and hooks tire
dropped and they rush to the rescue. The
girl with the bile gives it spasmodic jerk
which sends that unhappy "sunny" into
the itir the full length of forty feet of line,
and he cOmcs down on the nearest curly
head with a damp flop that sets the girl to
clawing as though there were bumble-bees
in her hair.
"Ouch! Murder! take it away. Ugh,
the nasty thing!"
Then they hold up their skirts and
gather about that fish its it skips over
the logs, and all the time the one who
caught the fish is holding the line in
botli hands, with her foot on the pole, as
though she had an evil-disposed goat at
the other end, which she expected to butt
her at any moment. Then they talk over
it:
" However will we get it off!"
" Ain't it pretty?"
"Leiejk how it pants."
"Wonder if it ain't dry?"
" Poor little thing, let's put it back."
" How will we get the hook from it?"
"Pick it up," says a girl, who backs
rapidly out of the circle.
"Good gracious! I'm afraid of it. There,
it's opening its mouth :it me."
Just then the " sunny" wiggles off the
hook and disappears between two elogs
into the water, and the girls try for anoth
er bite. But the sun comes clown and
fries the backs of their necks, and tlie-y
get no more bites but fly-bites, and the'
get three headaches in the party, and they
get all cross and scold at t he lish like so
many magpies. If an unwary chubdarcs
to show himself in the water they poke at
him with their poles, much to his elisgust.
Finally they get mad all over and throw
their poles away, hunt up the lunch-basket,
climb up into tliu woods, where they
sit around on the grass and caterpillars
and eat enough of ilried-licef and rusk
and hard-boiled eggs to give a wood-horse
the nightmare, alter which they compare
notes about their beans until sundown,
when the-y go home and plant envy in the
hearts of "all their mouslin-delaine friends
by telling what "just a splendid lime"
they had. Eaxfon Free Prex.
Home Conversational Training.
TnERE is no nation more fluent in con
versation titan the American. The French
are more voluble, perhaps, their language
permitting greater rapidity of pronun
ciation than the English. Our best con
versationalists are not rapid talkers. One
trouble with us is, each one likes to do all
the talking; therefore Americans are not
good listeners. But mere talking is not
conversation. In almost all home-circles
there is much talking done during the
day, but we fear there arc few who elo not
reserve their most brilliant conversational
powers for other assemblages than (lie
home group. Many a father conu-s home
tired ; lie has worked hard and talked a
great deal, told amusing anecdotes and
displayed much wit. He has come home
to rest. He takes out his paper and is
soon oblivious to everything around him.
Wife would like to tell him many of the
little hanissing atilictions of the day, and
would like to hear some of his interesting
experiences, but if he were a deaf mute
he could nt be mote silent, only an occa
sional grunt answering he r many attempt'!
at conversation ; and the children, except
the good night ki.-s, and often not even
that, are iiot noticed. Such a home,
whether the aUideof wealth or otherwise,
cannot be a healthy and happy one. As a
parallax, draw around the evening lamp
of another home circle. The father tells
the anecdotes from the paper as he reads
them; the mother laughs her sweet, low
laugh and the children burst into merry
ha! 'ha's! To watch them as they a-k qii'-s-tiems
and listen to the answers and patient
explanations, the wonderment, interest and
thought imprinted on their young faces is
a picture for an aitist. This home educa
tion is a heritage more valuable than
land or money; and one lxautii'ul recom
pense in life is that in making others hap
'py we bring happiness to ourse lves. Par
en's who 'practice self-denial and en
deavor, by cheerful conversation and play
ful wit. to enliven home life will reap a
rich reward in the lietlcr thoughts and no
bler actions of their children, and will ex
perience the truest and best contentment
themselves. Baltimore American .
one's ow n chil
ard task, rarely
To educate children
el ren is a troublesome, 1
succeeding t our wi-hes, then-fore one
connected with sorrow and care. AM par
ents w ithout exception know this all over
the earth; they have experienced it, sur
vived it. But the ta.-k does not la:-t for
ever: it passes away and dee not claim
everything. With thanks toward God we
see our children grown up, and we rejoice
that there is no more need of education.
Not much of the work, perhaps not the
whole of it, is to be begun again. Ex
change. The School Coinniittee of Berkley,
Ma.. figure in this way: " Three thou
sand ene hundred and fifty days were lost
dit "vtar throcgli absence. Supposing
jch child in tho school gets cue new idea
iu the day, thclt U a lu-- to tljtf town of
M, 150 i'ltas."
PACTS AM) I N.TKh'S.
Ai.Titoueiii in its infancy, the raisin
crop of California is estimated to yield a
profit of $0.XM) annually.
At a laundry near Jersey City ,'iKK)
pieces are washed daily, and 1h) barrels
of soap are used per week. "Big wa-th-ing!"
Twknty-om: cities in England, with a
Hpulation of over OJJOO.OOO, do not owe
as much money as the single t it v of New
York, with a population of less than
1,000,000.
Aciiucyard of sand or earth weighs about
:!0cwt; mud, 2 cwt; marl. cwt: clay,
.'il cwt; chalk, :i(i cwt ; sandstone,;!! cwt;
shale, 10 cw t ; quartz, 4 I cwt ; granite', 42
cwt; trap, 42 cwt; slate, 43 cwt. Scientific
American.
The Silk Association of America have
made up a comparative table el' the im
ports if the manufactures ef bilk at the
pirt of New Yeirk in thu months of
August, from 1H."H to iw;." inclusive,
which shows that the total gold value of
imports during the past month, $2,n'0,
7v".i, averaged well with the last five years,
and is a considerable increase over August
oflN7t. Of the CH2 bales received, 1;.
came from England and the Continent,
:!Ki by the overland route mid four by the
Isthmus of Panama ; and this amount rep
resents nine-tenths of the entire! foreign
silk imports of the United States, from
which the Government' derives about a
million dollars in duties.
At the close of 174 there, wen; in En
gland, See t land and Ireland 1(,4 1! miles
ef railway. Twenty years ago they num
be'red onlv 8,0-VJ miles. The gross cnpital
investe-el m railways in the L'niteel King
dom at present is $:5,01!i,1T'.i,(!.V exceed
ing the elebt of the Uniteel Suites by near
ly' $1,000,000,000. AlM.itt 40 per cent, e.f
the whole is represe-nte-d by various forms
of indebtedness. Thy capital has nearly
doubled in twenty years. In 171, 477,
810,411 passengers were carried, the-total
receipts for such service being $110,071,
5!0. The total receipts during 171 wen;
$2!)."),278,."i7."i. Of these 4:!.01 pe r cent,
were derived from passengers. The Geiv
eminent paid $:i,2o,!)(i. for mails and the
remainder accrued fremi freight charges.
The net receipts were $I:;:5,21."),2I.". The
companies owned 11,!K!!( locomotives and
:571),!)D carriages. If all these loceimo-tive-s
and carriage's were; nuuiu into eine
train it would be 1,H.V5 miles long that, is,
it would extend from New York ciLj' to
Salt Lake and it would carry without
crowding aliout 10,000,000 people.
Lost in a Corn-field.
The Joliet (HI.) Aim of a recent date;
tells the following story. The name of
the individual whose adventure in a corn
field is so graphically described is sug
gestive, and indicate s that ihe writer and
lierei of the steiry are ejuite intimately re
lated: We have received a report this morning
from one of the townships in the eastern
part of the county, ad jeiining the State f
Indiana, and among other items ef inter
est is the lbllow ing, which illustrate s in a
striking niiiiiner not onl v the unce-tiah-d
fe'ililiiy of the seiil of Illinois, but partic
ularly the extreme growth which ci ps of
all kinds have attained this scasem:
A Frenchman by the iifime of Canted
A. Good lie, living in the French settle
ment, having occasion on Saturday last
to visit his brother-in-law , living some
five miles distant on the prairie, h It homo
about five o'clock in the afternoon, and to
save a considerable distance; uttenipteel to
shorten his w alk by taking a cut oil'
through the intervening eorn-fiulds.
To those1 unaccustomed to seeing Illi
nois corn-tields it may b: well ti say hero
that in that section of the eounliy torn is
almost the only crop raise-d ove-r the w hole
extent ef the; country for miles and miles,
and the countiy being comparatively
veiling there; are but few fe-nces, or even
Ledge s, to make the dividing line.
To the eye it is a sea of corn, and to
Mr. Good lie nearly proved a wilderness as
dangerous as the trackless North We me Is.
Shortly after he left hemic a seven;
storm, such as we have had numbers et
eluring the; summer, arose and came driv
ing down upem him, and he; was drenched
to the skin. The walking became; fatiiru
ing at every step; the earth, moistened by
the rain, adhered to his boots in great
quantities until it became imtossibIe- 1" r
him to drag the-m after him. He; took
them off and pushed on the best hceould;
but minute by minute Ihe soil became
softer until he sank nearly to his knees in
the porous black earth. N ighl iipprouchel
and darkness settled elown upem the fields.
He was miles from any habitation; wet,,
tired, and nearly exliaustcd ; unable to
get any landmark, howe-vi-r slight, by
which he; might be guided to homo eir
frientls. The tall corn w aved over him
and its depths were impenetrable to his
eyes, and he realized that he; must pass
the night in solitude as profound as if ho
were alone in the midst of an African
jungle.
As he could no longe r tell the direction
to go, and could scarcely ilrag erne foot iti
advance of the eithe-r, he- gave up the
hopeless attempt, and w ith a clasp-knife
his constant companion cutelown enough
of the waving stalks te make; him a bed
and covering, and, shivering with cold
and exposure, he sank into a heavy sleep.
Night passed, and the; glow ing sun rose
almve the horizon and tmk its slow but
tireless course across the trae kh-ss sky,
and still he slept, profoundly insensible to
the passage of time. The seeond night
sjicel by, and just as the gray light ej
early dawn was lighting up the world he
awoke, (.'em fused by the; light after his
long sleep, altheaiL'h unaware; that meiru
than one night had geme by during his
rest, he stumbled almul in uncertainly for
a few minutes, until, ascending a small
hillock, he cast his eye s about and there
be held his cjw n home w ithin a few min
utes' walk. In the daiknes he had 1m--cotne
confused, and instead of going for
ward had constantly crossed his own
track, finally lying down within a stone's
throw tjf his own fireside.
We can easily imagine with what eager
haste he crossed the dividing space, fr in
his lonely c ondition the sight of a familiar
face seemed an o;isis in the dese rt of life.
And great was his surprise; at his wife and
children greeting him as returned fremi
the grave, for his protractetl stay had
made them fear that the lightning had
struck him in his lonely path, and scare h
had been at once insututed, but w ithout
any result, as they had not thought to
search the adjacent torn-fie ld. All hope
was departing from them when he re
turned. "Papa, elid e ill see theise; nice little
guns down to the store?" asked a little
six-year-old boy. " Yes, Harry, I saw
them. But I have so many children to
feed and clothe that I cannot afford to buy
you erne-," replied his lather, serioit-ly.
Little Harry glauced at the baby iu the
cradle with no loving expressii..n cm hi
face. Finally he said: " Well, papa, I'll
tell you what you can do; you can swap
little Tommy for a gun." Er.
In she mt ing clucks, prairie chickens,
etc., if you do not wish to draw the m,
hang them up By the legs, not by the
neck; they will "keep twice as long ia
warm weather. A1m. w hen vou catch a
large fish, kill him at once by striking
him on the back of the head with a ham
mer or piece of iron ; he will keep as long
a'ain as if left to die gradually. Chicago
FtdJ-
"Can a centleman btV" aiki a cor
respondent of the New York ExeningTost.
He call, but I-) Iim-1 l'ctvr iM. Wo